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Voln^ae 1

February IS, 1923

Number 1

S. H. THOMPSON ELECTED I. A. A. PRESIDENT

\

PE RECORD TO GO
TO I.A.A. MEMBERS
TWICE EACH MONTH

Takes the Place of Weekly
News Letter and Quar-
: terly Publication

_^ This is the first issue of the
niinois Agricultural Association
Elecord in its new form.

After March 15, according to a
decision of the I. A. A. Execu-
tive Committee, The Record will
be sent semi-monthly, if finances
permit, to all members of the
Association.

The Weekly I. A. A. News Let-
ter, which went to about 3,000
f I members of the Association, and
f ^utu'ieriy Keoora, vriii<m v>a8'

sent four times a year to all mem-
bers, will be discontinued. This
publication has taken their place.
Information to Members
The whole purpose of The Rec-
I ord will be to inform the mem-
I bers of the county farm bureaus
I and the I. A.. A. of what has
j been done by their county, state
I and national farm bureaus and
the allied cooperative marketing
organizations.
The Record is your paper.

Not In Competition
The Record is not starting in
any sense of the word as a com-
petitor of the existing county
farm bureau bulletins, county
newspapers »r state farm Journals.
It could never compete with these
publications.

The >ole purpose of The Rec-
ord Is to tell of the work of the
I. A. A. and its allied movements.

Ever since the opening of an
I. A, A. business office in the
EMlson Building, Chicago, with
3ne room, a secretary and stenog-
rapher, there has been some sort
If an I. A. A. publication.

(Turn to PaBe 3. Colunn 3)

/. A. A. To Group
All Marketing
In One Division

. A special co-operative marketing
division of the Illinois Agricultural
Association, with a salaried direc-
tor in charge, is to be created,
according to a decision of the I.
A. A. Executive Committee at the
last meeting.

The co-operative marketing di-
vision will include all the various
departments of co-operative mark-
eting now in the I. A. A. These
departments will not be materially
changed in scope except that they
will be more united in working to-
gether in the one co-operative
marketing divisicn.

The director of the division has
not yet been named.

The I. A A plans to concen-
iratti lis 'energi^ upon* co-opera
tive marketing more than ever in
1923, as the one greatest hope of
the Illinois farmer for economic
advancement

Special Policy
Committee of 4
Named l^ I. A. A

At the first meeting of the new
executive committee was passed a
motion that a special policy com-
mittee of the I. A. A., to weigh
and decide upon the policies to be
pursued in important questions
that may arise, be appointed.

President Thompson appointed
the following men as members of
the committee: Howard Leonard,
Eureka; Dean H. W. Mumford, Dr-
bana; Harvey Sconce, Sldell; H.
W. Danforth, Washington.

Woman On Farm
Shares Benefits
Of Co-operation

'Many a care-worn farm wife t5-
lay enjoys some of the modem

The Record Held
Up By Shortage
Of Print Paper

This first issue of Thfe Record
has been much delayed on account
of the shortage of print paper. It
had been originally planned to get
out the iasoe as soon as possible
after the annual meeting. It was
found, however, that news print

, .^ I luuuu, nowever, tnat news nrint

conveniences by reason of the Lo~>, «# .v L ,J^.

ac, .h», v.„ h' ,. „, ..„- P*P«'' °' «>« 8°^ specified to come

act that yon have met together
ind talked over your problems In

ommon. It is necessary that you
cooperate."

This was the message of How-
ird M. Gore, of the U. S. Depart-
nent of Agriculture, before the
innnal meeting. Mr. Gore cited
nstance after instance of farm
roblems that were solved by co-

within the budget for the publics
tion, could not be secured at any
price before March 10.

It was necessary, therefore, to
get out this Issue on more ex-
pensive paper. This, too, took two
weeks to secure.

The next Issue of The Record
will appear March 16. Prom that

•peratloif rather than blind an- time on the publication will come
•«onlsm,and personalities. | semi-monthly.

During the last two years,
when the farm bureau has at-
tracted the attention of the
world, some of the most promi-
nent men of contemporary his-
tory— President Harding, Ber-
nard Baruch, M. Clemenceau —
have praised the movement. Ar-
ticles have appeared in the most
prominent national magazines
of the country — World's Work,
The Saturday Evening Post,
Colliers' — in praise of the ac-
complishments of the Farm Bu-
reau. Some of the greatest
economists and busine&i men
of the country have landed the
Farm Bureau.

But — with all due respect for
these men and these publications
— there is the opinion of another
man which carries more authority.

And that is the man down on
the farm!

The following are the opinions
of twenty-nine farmers from as
many counties which were written
in letters to their county farm
bureaus and published during the I

8 NEW MEMBERS,
7 OLD, ON I. A. A.
EXEOTVE BODY

Changes Are Made in 13th,

14th, 16th, 19th. 20th. 22nd,

24th and 25th Districts

S. H. THompsotL, of Quitiqy;,
is the new president of the IHi-
nois Aericiultural Association,
elected by jthe unanimous \.i[c
of the delegates. A. O. Eckert, ,
of Bellevitlfi, was elected ^ioe-,
president.

Eight ohftnges were made in
the Executive committee. Tfce
following i^ the niemliership of
the committee as It stands for
1923, the names of new mem-
bers being in boldface type.

nth Disi^ict. ^Henry McGough,
Maple Park, Kane County.

12th District, a. F. Tullock,
Rockford. Winnebago County.

13th District, C. t. Bamborough.
Polo. Ogle County.

14th District, W. H. Moody. Port
Byron, Rock Island County.

16th District, H. E Goerabel.
,Hoopole, Henry Cotnty.

ISth District, a E. Reder. Men-
doia. Bureas County.

17th District, r. O. Barton, Cor-
nell. Livingston County.
[ 18th Distllct, C. R Finley,
Hoopeston, Vermilion County

19th Dlstrfct, D. J. Holterm.n,
Sadorus, Chaonpaign County.

20th Distrfct, Eari ( J> Smith,
Detroit, Pike: Connty. ^— C, C,

2l8t Dlstriot, E. L. Corbin. Car
linville. Macoupin County.

membership campaign of mS: Re^rrS^:,-^ "•'""'-'-•

August Lindgren, Marshall-Put- »,^ m.^rtl; A ..
.i... "M„ ™. —ill I. . ,. ^'™ District, Carlton Trimble,

nam- No one w,ll have to ask Crawford County
me to become a member of the ,i,., r....^_ ^
Farm Bureau tor the coming - ^""i °'"'^'^ *="" *"<'•'«>".
term."

R. E. GifTord, Montgomery — "The
benefits from the Farm Bureau
and allied organizations have more
than paid my annua] dnes."

Pc|er E. Unzicker, Woodford—
"t have often thought what a dif-
ferent country this would be If

Farmers of 29 Counties
Judges of Farm Bureau

every farmer belonged to the
Farm Bureau."

Herman StafFetdt, Will — "Our
only hope lies In the Farm Bu-
reau."

Walter R. KImzey, Wabash—
"No disinterested observer can
compare former condition^ with
those of today without saying:
'Long live the Farm Bureau'!"
'A Step Baekwaid"

Given* Bros., Brown — "It would ~ —-■' -^ "-'

be a step backward, anrelyr mrt^ ^^"***-" ^•'''•'^ ''**° ^ "^ *'"">

to have the Farm Bureau

H. 8. Brown,, Knox — "The slo-
gan, 'Forward, Farm Bureau!.'
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Xenia, Clay County.

2Sth District, Vernon LMSlsy.
Sparta, Randolph County. _ j,
Election Contest ' f
Although the election for presi-
dent was, by a resolution made a
unanimous vote, a contest between
former Pr^ident Howard Leonard
and Vice President S. H. Thomp-
son preceded. >

Dean Mumford
Talks On College
And Farm Bureau

"If the. majority of the farmer*
of the country learn to work to-
gether for the good of agriculture,
almost anything that the farmer*
are Justly entitled to tnay be se-

ford of the College of Agriculture
of the University of niineis. at
the close of his address before the
'. A. A. annaal ineetlnc.

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RECORD

- PuMished twice a month by ,'the
Illinois. Agricultural Association.
608 South Dearborn Street. Chicago.
lUinfiis.

Entry as second class matter Oct.

10. iy21. at the post ofTlce at Chi-
cago. Illinois, under " the act of
March 3. 187^.

The indivfdual membership fee of
Vm Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion is. five dollars a year. This
fee includes payment of ten cents
for 8ut)Scription to the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association Record.

OFFICERS

President, S. H. Thompson. Quincy.

Vlce-P-resident, A. O. Eckeft. Belle-
ville.

Secretary. G«0.' A. Fox. Sycamore.

Treasurer,' K. A. Cowlea, Blooming-
ton. ; ■ ,

EXKCUXnE CO.MMITTEE

By Congressional Districts

11th — Henry McGougU Maple Park-
12th — 'J. 'F. TuUock. Kockford.
13th — C. E. Bamborough. Polo.
14lh— W. H. Moody. Fort ByrOn.
15th — H. E.- Goembel. Hoopple.
16th — O. E, Reder, Mendot*
17tii — F. EM Barton. Cornell.
18th — C. R. Pinley. Hoopeaton.
19th — D. J. Holterman. Sadorup.
2aih — Earl J. Smith, Detroit.
21flt — E. L. Cor.bin. CarlinviUe.
22nd — Fred Baumberger, R,eno.
23wl— ^'arltonTrimble, Trimble.
2iu\'- — <'urt Anderson. Xenia.
2ytii^— ^Vernon Lessley. Sparta.

FARMERS' OPINIONS
OF FARM BOREAU

VOICE FOR Fa..
ON GRAIN BOAtw
URGEDM^MEETINh

Seven Resolutions are Passed

By Detegates to I. A. A.

Convention

February 15, 1923

Sold'

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should be the cry of every mem-
ber until we are one-hundred per
cent members."

D. M. Brubaker, Stephenson —
•The FafB» Bureau is a vital force
tiroikiiis toward the betterment of
this country."

Wm. Grimes, Christian — "Every
farmer ought to become a mem-
ber and take an active Interest-
In the work." /
"Piece of Machinery"

M. E. Lyons, Livingston — "Tte
("arm Bureau is one of- the most
efficient pieces of farm • machinery _ _

ciently." ."

Chas. M. Colburn, Logan — "THe
Farm Bureau wlU help, ta m^e
a beuer communtty in ^ich.' to
lire." ,' /

W. M. Coff, Sangamonr^'At' this
critical time when e^ry «ther
big business is carejilly _.*rgan-
ized, we farmers, unless ,^e are
■ content to be virtuaHy Wbndsmen
to organized Interests, must co-
opera^ and organise."

"The Best ^nUon"

C./E. Wheeloek.^i-ake— "The best
'solution we have now is through
the/ Farm Bureau — make it strong
so /that farming may reach and
' bofd . its rightful place among the
big industries."

'Harry R. Jewell, Warren — "Tie
Farm Bureau at il5 a year is.
about tlra^ best buy I' know any-
thing about."!^^ '

Charles J.' Webb, McOonough —
"It is my lima isonviction that ft
is the duty of every, thrmer to
join the farm bureau."

F. A. Brewer, Wliiteside — "No
farmer can afford not J to be a
member of and a bo^^r for^ the
Farm Bureau."

' Clair V. Golden, Rock Island—
"If' tfie Farm Bureau should cease
to function, the future of the
American farmer wodld be lost."
, Helpinf; Themselves

E.. W. Nevwnan, Union — "The
Farm Bureau is made up, of farm-
ers who have begunj*<r1ook oat
for themselves.^--''^

J. F. Cullisen, Lawrence — "Join
the Farm Bureau and be a booster,
in order t^at the good work may
go on." y-t

F. M. Adamsr Peoria— "The only
way for farmers to get a 'square
deal' is to stand togethee."
Saved His Dues

H. 6. Moffett, Maooupin — "I
have saved through Farm Bureau
wori more than three times the
dues I have paid in."

• A brief but important list of
seven resolutions was passed at
the I. A. A. annual -meeting.
The following men constituted
the Resolutions Committee of
the coiivention : H. E. Goembel,
Carlton Trimble and ,1. R. Pulk-
erson.

The more equal distribution of
the financial burden of the estab-
lishment and support of schools
was urged; legislation which
would prevent discrimination by
the grain exchanges of th^ State
against farmer-owned companies
was recommended; the giving of
greater consideration to rural
communities in road construction
was the subject of another reso-
lution. The passage of laws that
would provide adequate police4)ro-
tection . free from political taint
for rural, people was endorsed and
laws which would protect slate
highways from too heavy loads
were favored.

Here are the resolutions as they
were submitted and approved:
The Resolutions

FIRST: Realizing the economic
loss and the great danger to hu-
man life resulting from the prev-
alence of ^Jii^^dread scourge of
bovine - tuberculosis among the
livestock of the State of Illinois,
we endorse the movement for the
eradication of said disease as car-
ried on by various individuals and
jso-<iiieratitj^ ."Wiith . th*
State and Federal Government and
respectfully ask the LegisliUture
of the State of Illinois' for a$ ap-
propriation of $500,000 per an.
num for the next two years. 1p
forward the movement of rendyr-
ipflT the herds of livestock of |!he
State of Illinois free from /said
(^seas« and remove the m^liiace

to human life. /

• SECOND: We recommend that,
■the school laws of the State of
Illinois be revised to the aid that
the burden of the establishment,
maintenance and support of the
schools of the State be equitably
distributed as to the various
classes of property In the State
and to prevent the imposition of
undue burdeiis upon the farm
lands and rural population.

Oscar T. Engstrom, Kane — "My

advice to farmers is to co-operate
with their Farm Bureau."

F. H. Clapp, Qrundy~"The Farm
Bureau is one of our best com-
munity assets."

D. H. Lewis, Henry— "I think
the Farm Bureau is the best or-
ganizatiofi that farmers have ever
had."

"Owe it to Yourself"

Herbert Seattle, Randolph — "You
owe it to yourself and you owe
it to your children to support the
Farm Bureau."

J. E. Righter, Moultrie — "It pays
to co-operate."

Eliaha Lee, Mercer — "All that
we have gained so far has been
due to organization."

C. P. Mills, Champaign — "The
only working organization which
is UfiSf to better the condition
of the farmer,. financially and oth-
erwise, is the Farm Bureau."

F. D. Lahman, Lee — "With every
line of business organized, down
to the bootblacks, why shouldn't
'he farmer have a solid organiza-
'on behind him?"

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culture . >.,..• .' v.^.

consin, at .

live stock confereu^ . ..-.u at Ur-
bana. "Illinois needs to take hold
Of this problem much more vig-
orously than she has so far. It
will cost millions to do it, but It
will save more millions than it
coats."

These statements are particu-
larly pertinent in view of the reso-
lution passed~at the I. A. A. an-
nual meeting, asking the Legisla-
ture for an appropriation of $500,-
OOO a year for the next two years
for cattle tuberculosis eradication.

The I. A. A. and oounty farm
bureaus have been the foremost
Interests in the State to secure
taxation justice for the farmer,
but. the I. A. A. realized that the
expense in taxes of tuberculosis
eradication was not a mere ex-
pense for the farmer but an in-
vestment that would later result
in a profit. It means, also, the
saving of hiwlaji Ifves.

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■^•-•••nds itself to

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^ promises, but

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THIRD: We r^mmend such
Ijeglslatlon as will prfll|^nt discrim-
ination by the Grain Exchanges
of the .State of lUinoi^ against
tairmer-owned and controlled co-
operative enterprises. ; \
State HtfEbwaj* \

FOURTH: In the constitictiou
and maintenancE of the highways
Of the State of Illinois, we urge
that greater consideration shojiJ
be given to the convenience and
the welfare of rural communities,
and to that en^ we endorse the
principle of state-aid and super-
vision in the ' construction and

maintenance of pur highways.

FIFTH: It is with deep and
sincere regret that we note the
fact that death called from our
midst very suddenly, Mr. Ira With-
row, delegate from Whiteside
County to the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association Convention while
attending the sessions of this
Convention. -We desire to express
our heartfelt sympathy to the be-
reaved family and ask that a copy
of this resolution be sent to said
family,

SIXTH: We point with pride to
the record and the accomplish-
ntents of our i-etiring President,
Mr. Howard Leonard, who has
faithfully and efficiently dis-
charged bis duties as an officer
of this association during the past
seven years, and we desire to ex-
press onr sincere appreciation for
the tireless energy ahd fearless
integrity with which /he has con-
ducted the duties of bla^- office
We express oa]>)nSSrifie8t and most
sincere be^' wishes to him and
bespeak /for him our hearty co-
operation with him in any en-
deavor for the promotion of the
best interests of the agriciilture
of the State and the Nation.
Police Protection

SEVENTH: We endorse the
passage of such laws relative to
police protection as will efficiently
and *eoonomically provide for the
rural people of the State of Illi-
nois, adequate protection from the
depradation of law violators and
require that the laws be so
framed as to furnish such protec-
tion and that they be free from
political system of political pat-
ronage. We further favor such
law as will protect the highways
of the State from the undue bur-
dening of the roads by permitting
the carriage over such roads of
loads beyond the capacity of the
-oads to sustain

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. .xy year the list of accom-
plishments of the I. A. A.
amount in savings in money to
the membership far more than
the amount paid in. This is as
it should be.

But, better, ^et, is the fact that
the I. A. A. doesn't live upon i's
past record — it is always looking
ahead to the future. What will be
the problems of 1925? Whatever
they may be, the I. A. A will be
right on the job, ready to help
solve them.

The following list of accomplish-
ments is a brief one. It doesn't
represent by any means all that
the I. A. A. has done during 19£2.
It is only a part of the results,
but it. serves to show what a great
state-wide farmers' organization,
licied by its county farm hufeaus
and its national farm bureau, can
do with the help of a loyal mem-
bership.

Following are twenty-flve of the
accomplishments of 1922:

Ser\'ice to Members

CLAIMS — $8,794.70 in railroad
claims was collected free of charge
for farm bureau members.

SPEAKERS — Speakers were fur-
nished 165 meeting during the
year.

PUBLICITY — The I. A. A,
brought out, in co-operation with
county farm bureaus and other in-
dividuals, 55 special editions of Il-
linois newspapers, containing over
twelve hundred columns of articles
about the I. A. A., farm bureaus
and the A. F. B. F., and reaching
over 300,000 readers.

' On Results,
On Promises

from one to two dollars a month
to them.

FREIGHT CARS — The I. A. A.
has helped in many counties to
remedy the shortage of cars during
the latter part of 1922^

FINANCE — A reserve fun'd of
more than $50,000 to be placed in
U. S. bonds and laid by for future
emergencies .was saved without in
the least curtailing the work of the
association.

Co.«peratlve Alarketlng

SOY BEANS— The I. A. A., with
county farm bureaus and the A. F.
B. F. testified at Washington and
secured tariff protection which is
enabling the rapidly developing soy
bean industry . of Illinois to com-
pete on equal terms with the Or-
ient.

MILK — The I. A. A. and county
farm bureaus have assisted In or-
ganization of co-operative milk
marketing associations at Quincy
and Rock Island, a bargaining as-
sociation at Benton, and a pro-
ducer-consumer organization at
Waukegan. All possible aid has
been given toward the reorganiza-
tion of the co-operative associations
in the Chicago and St. Louis dis-
tricts.

CREAM — Co-operative cream
marketing associations of proda^
ers have been organized with the
aid of the I. A. A. and county farm
bureaus at Mt. Carroll and Galena,
as well as cream producers' bar-
gaining association in Jefferson
County.

LIVESTOCK^-Co-operating with,
seven county fa^m bureaus, the 1.
A. A. organized the Peoria Live
Stock Producers Association, a
firm which now enjoys thirty per
cent of the business at m -i ,-;

the State an estimated annual to-
tal t)f $750,000. The raise was pre-
vented both years.

LEGAL— The I. A. A, maintains
a legal service which aids in the
drawing up of contracts and the
proper organization of marketing
associations. This legal service
took up electric light Ba.rvice
charge cases for members of two
•county farm bureaus and won a
favorable decision which saved

Una ' wmgB'' -»irt' rertm ■•■ commi.s-

sion funds above expenses of op-
eration to its farmer owners. The
I. A. A. assisted the National Live
Stock Producers Aasociation in the
organization of like firms at the '
Chicago, Indianapolis and East St.
Louis markets.

WOOL— 140,000 pounds of pooled \
wool were sold for prices which
have been estimated by county
farm bureaus as averaging from
four to eight cents a pound abbye
those paid by local dealers.

POTATOES— Eightjf cars of pl-

tatoes were purchased for farmers

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OI^GANIZATION- The I. A. A.
co-operated with 38 county farm
bureaus in putting on reorganiza'
tlon campaigns to resign for the
next three years the memberships
of 1920 which had expired, and to
gain new members. ^ ^

TAXATION — In coK)peration
with county farm bureaus the I. A.
A. made exhaustive investigations
into the farm tax situation which
showed that the farmer bad been
bearing an unequitable and dis-
proportionate part of the Increased
cost of state government during the
last twenty years. These organ-
izations appeared before th^ Illi-
nois Tax Commission in 1921 and
1922 as the only ones i^hlch have
ever represented the farmer, with
a plea for equltsble valuations. The
Commission granted a decrease
which means a saving to farmers
In taxes of $557,500 for 1922.

LEGISLATIVE — The I. A. A.
Legislative Committee kept closely
in touch with the proposed new
constitution during its formation
and carefully analyzed it before
recommending it to farmers. This
document, which would have speed-
ed the way to taxation justice for
the farmer, was defeated by the
town and city vote.

FREIGHT RATES— The I. A. A.
strenuously opposed a raise in live
stock freight rates proposed by the

railroads, both in 1921 and 1922, ,he great organization that it now
which would have cost farmers 0^43." gaid Mr. Leonard. "As I

100 AT BANQUET
OF ANNUAL MEETING

More than six hundred farm
bureau delegates and visitors at-
tended the banquet held on the
first evening of the I. A. A. an-
nual meeting. Every table in the
huge Cameo room was filled.
President 0. E. Bradfute, of the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion, and Ex-Gov. Frank O. Low- ,
den were the speakers. ,

As part of the ceremony of the I
banquet Howard Leonard ten-
dered his ofllce to the President-
Elect, S. H. Thonipson.

"I hav& watched the I. A. A. grow
from a small group of farmers to

Jbb

look into the faces of the people
here tonight, I know that it will
continue to grow."

"I feel keenly the weight of
responsibility that has been
placed upon me," said Mr.
Thompson, in accepting the o(
flee. "I bespeak the co-oi>era
tfon of Illinois farmers to makj
the I. A. A. the greatest orgah
izatibn of its kind in the nnite4
States."

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IS, 1923 f

alts,
nises

ars a month

The I. A. A.

counties to

if cars during

irve tun'd o(
l>e placed in
by for future
Ml without in
e worlt of the

irketing

I. A. A., with
and the A. F.
shington and
ion which la
eveloping soy
nois to com-
wtth tha Op-

L. and county
ssisted in or-
erative millc
IS at Quincy
largaining as-
and a pro-
inization nn
lible aid has
le reorganiza-
e associations
St. Louis dis-

rative cream
IS of prodn^
ized with the
1 county farm
1 and Galena,
roducers' bar-
in Jefferson

>erating with
ureaus, the 1.
Peoria Live
ssociatlon, a
lys thirty per
at ■! "I ■-!■:
"'^ comMls-
enses of oi>-
)wii6rs. The
'ational Live
iation in the
Irms at the
and East St.

ids of pooled }
)rices which
by county
raging from
pound above
ilers.
cars of p^
tor farmers
olumn 4)

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lEETING

ndred farm
visitors at-
leld on the
A. A. an-
table in the
18 filled,
fute, of the
au Federa-
nk O. Low-
rs.

nony of the
onard ten-
President-
>n,

. A. A. grow

farmers to

that it now

rd. "As I

the people

that it will

weight of
has been
said Ml.
ng the of^^

co-opera
rs to n
itest orgai
the nmtetf

Febnwnr IS, 1923

A

TAX SLASH SAVES
HALF A MILLION
TO STATEJARMERS

$557,550 Less 1922 Taxes

To Pay; Cut Follows

I. A. A. Hearing

Decreases in equalized state
land valuations which amount
to a reduction in farm "taxes of
$557,550 for 1922, alone, or ap-
proximately twice the sum
spent during the year by the
Illinois Agricultural Association
for all projects, were announced
in December by the Illinois Tax.
Commission.

The reduction followed a hear-
ing before the Commission at
which the I. A. A. and county
farm bureaus presehted the sta-
tistical evidence gathered during
two years as the foundation for a
plea for reduced taluations.
Appeared jn 1021

The I. A. A. &nd the county
farm bureaus also appeared be-
fore the Commi/^sion in 1921 on
behalf of Illinc^s farmers. They
are the only organizations in the
history of the/ State to represent
farmers before the Commission.

It has been .estimated that the
reductions granted from 1921 to
1922, inclusive, amount to a sav-
ing of approximately five dollars
for the average Illinois farm, or
a total sum in excess of a million
dollars.

A Problem. Bat —

Two years ago the farmer knew
that he had a tax problem but be
didn't know how much of a
problem it was. The I. A. A.
and the county farm bureaus in-

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/ lr!jW,-\s a long, slow, tiresome
jf'i.'v;t; more work than glory
attached to it. It took the efforts
of men trained in finance and
law and statistics.

The evidence of the two years'
investigation, when presented be-
fore the Commission, showed that
the Illinois farmer had been bear
ing the largest part of the in-
creased burden of the ^ost of
State government during the last
twenty years.

The Fitrmer's ^hare
From 1902 to 1»'21 the per-
centage of increase/ in "full val-
uations" per unit/of farm lands
had been more than double the
correspo^ing Increase in town
audacity fets. 4t had been more

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Ail Farmers of State
Gain in 1922 Tax

Cut

Fanners of every county in
Illinois have realized a substan-
tial saving as the result of the
reduction in land tax valuations
granted last December by the
Illinois Tax Commission, after
the appearance of the county
farm bureaus and the I. A .A.
before that body in 1921 and
1922 wiyi' a plea for reduced
land taxes.

Look up your county In the fol-
lowing alphabetical list and see
how much you and your neighbors
have saved in 1922 land ta^es:

Adams. »5,791.68; Alexandtr, Jl.-
002.23; Bond. J2.326.26; Boone, 13.-
096.62; Brown. »2, 401.61; BuDfeau.
»11,320.34; Calhoun, »1,306.87; icar-
rolL J4.419.35; Ca8s/J3,504.1«; Cham-
paign. J18.145.43; Christian. J9.-
423.03; Clark. J3.320.70: Clay, Jl.-
912.39; Crlnton. J2.8o0.92; Coles, J5.-
822.27; Cook. 14.458.85; /Crawford,
13.244.93: Cumberland. J2,«18 00; De-
Kalb. J7.617.89; DeWitt' J6,1J9.88;
Douglas. J«, 986.18; DiiPage. JJ.-
422.89; Edgar. J8.051.O»: EdWarfls.
Jl.287.83; EmnKham. J2.376..'i»; Fjiy-
ette. J3.S20.48; Ford. 17.506.21;
Franklin. I2.716.1S; Pulton. 18.929.89;

Gallatin, $1,579.36; Greene, $4,682.67;
Grundy. JE^992.19: Hamilton. $1.-
619.47; Hancock. J7.232 16; Hardin.
J318.70: Henderson. J3.321.97; Hen-
ry. J9.597.((3; Iroquois. J15.5e«.68:
Jack^oif. J'2,E46.68; Jasper. J2.79i.67;
Jefferson, J2.724.60; Jersey. Jl.-
024.86; Jo Daviess. J4.296.43; John-
son. Jl.024.28; Kane. J3.835.53; Kan-
kakee. J8.588.07; Kendall, 84.486.71 ;
Knox. Jin.OtS.lO; I^ake. J5,230.35;
LaSalle, J18,447.17: Lawrence, Jl,-
272,41; Lee, $9,177.0»; Livingston.
J16,357.16; Logan. J9.549.98; Mc-
Donough. J6.969.68: McHenry. J5.-
599.19; Mcl^ean. JIO.053.72; Macon.
J9, 234.32; Macoupin. J7.664.42: Madi-
son. J5.789.18; Marion. J2.57114;
Marshall, J4.497.29: Mason, 16.130.35;
Massac. $874.33; Menard. J4.08S.12;
Mercer. J5, 123.93: Monroe. J2,195.10;
Montgomery, J5.412.95; Morgan. $6,-
903.31: Moultrie. J4, 942.74: Ogle.
J7,941,37; Peoria, J7,330.10; Perry.
Jl.448.79; Piatt, j;.011.31; Pike. J5.-
792.40; Pope. J834.57; Pulaski.
J750.95; Putnam. J2.064,50: Ran-
dolph, J2,514,58; Richland, Jl,819.87;
Rock Island, J4.615.72; St. Clair,
JC,547,26; Saline. J2.280,16; Sanga-
mon, J8.485.02: Schuyler. J3. 736.73;
Scott. $2,096.34: Shelby. J6.881.30;
Stark. J3.019.37; Stephenson. $5.-
362.13; Tazewell, $9,877.61: Union.
$890.96: Vermilion. $12,512.40; Wa-
bash. $1,636.56; Warren. J6.747.98;
Washington. J2,71S.32; Wayne. J3.-
195.68; White, J3,279.52; Whiteside.
J7.669.31; Will. J8.992.70; William-
son. J2.702.21; Winnebago, $4,162-05;
Woodford. $7,626,99.

TWO AMENDMENTS
TO CONSTITUTION

Two amendments to the Con-
stitution of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association were adopted
at the Wednesday session of the
annual meeting held by the I.
A, A. The amendments were
offered to the delegates by J. M.
Beckett, <}f Blue Mound, Macon
county, as chairman of the
Amendments committee. A. 0.
Bckert, of feellville, and, Geo. P,
TuUock of Rockford, served
with Mr. Beckett hn this com-
mittee.

Collection of Dues

The first amendment was passed^
by a majority vote of more than
two-thirds of the voting delegates
This amendment was an addition
to Article 4, Section 1 of the Con-
stitution. The amendment was
read as follows:

"When any dues from any Joint
membership contracts remain nn-
paid for six months after maturity,
the contracts, together with other
evidence of indebtedness, shall at
the option of the EUecutive Com-
mittee of the Illinois Agricultural
Association, be turned over to
the Treasurer of the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association for collect
tion, and the cost of collecting pro-
rated between the County Farm
Burean and the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association as their inter-
estSi shall appear."

President's, Salarj-

The second amed&ment was also
ah addition. T^ ameajtraent tmt
be added to Articl^^e, Section
/Z i( the Constitution'^nd was car-
ried practically unanimously. The
amendment reads:

"His (the President's) compen-
sation shall be fixed by the Ex-
ecutive Committee not to exceed
$15.00 per diem and traveling ex-
penses."

than five Himea tbe corresponding
increase in faHway matn_^rack
and right-of-way.

From 1902 to 1921, incl6sire<-
the increase in State full valua-
tions of land per acre in the State
as a . whole amounted to 56.26
per cent in the State as a whole
as yompared to an increase of
24.96 per cent in town and city.
lots per unit, a decrease of 23.5?'
p^ cent per mile of railway se<^
ond main track and an increaaie
of 10.11 per cent in railway ma/n
track and right of way, not
eluding buildings.

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"Sam Can't Do It
All," Is Message
Of Cunningham

"Don't look for Sam Thompson
or any other ofiBcer of the I. A.
I A. to do it all in 1923," said E.
A. Cunningham, pr&sident of the
U. S. Grain Growers Sales Com-
pany, in his talk before the An-
nual Meeting. "You'll get out of
the I. A. A. just what you put

to it and no more."

With just such direct frank- 1 sell a bushel there.

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ness Mr. Cunningham outlined
ithe grain marketing situation
from the smashup of last spring
down to the time when the Farm
Bureau took over the wrecked
machinery. He warned that the
creation of adequate co-operative
grain marketing machinery was a
long hard job.

"The Chicago Board of Trade,"
he said, "refused our application
for a seat, even though we com-
plied with their rules. But you
have a right on the Board of
Trade even if you never buy or
You ough*

VICE PRESIDENT

A.O. ECKERT

THE RECORD TO GO
TWIC^ EACH MONTH

(Continued from Page 1)
The fli-st was a one or two page
mimeographed bulletin. This was
later enlarged into a four and five
page multigraphed bulletin.

'Then in June, 1921, came the
printed I. A. A. News Letter.
This was sent tn a list of .2.000
Which was gradually increased to
inore than 3,000. Late that year
It ^a» recognited that there was
an urgSBt,need of a publication to
the whole^tfemj^ship and the
Quarterly Recort^/s^. small, four-
page paper, hrrntv*"*Tti '^fln' sent
four times a year tp thl.meSl

' Saw Greater Need

All during 1922, however, the
need for more information to the
members, more often, was seen.
Demands for it from farmers
came from all over the State.

The Publicity Committee cpnsid-
ered the matter and recommended
a publication similar to this, semi-
monthly. The recommendation was
approved by the Executive Com-
mittee.

Last month the Budget Com-
mittee and the 1923 Executive
Committee put the stamp of their
approval on the project.

to know how your grain is being
sold. You have had the repeated
statement of men on that Board
that they would give us a seat if
we 'came regular.' But we were
refused."

Wants Illinois .
To Be a Leader
In Co-operation

"The Farm Burean Movement,"
said ex-Governor Frank O. Low-
den, speakiQg at the annual meet-
ing banquet, "has progressed tre-
mendously during the past few
years. It has progressed during
a period of greatest distress to
agriculture.

"I am unqualifiedly fo^ co-op-
erative marketing. As a member
of the cotton growers cooper-
ative, I am a thorough believer
in the proposition of one man
pooling his product with that of
another to get the adva'ntage of
prices actually based on supply
and demand.

,^ "I want to see this great state
<St Illinois take the lead this year
in co-operative enterprise."

RESOLTS OF I.A.A.
FOR 1922 ARE DIG

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in ,35 counties at cost plus hand-
ling charges by an I. A. A. buyer.

BLANKETS — A total of 1,641
pairs of blankets, made of 1921
pooled wool, were sold to farmers
at cost plus handling charges.

LIMESTONE— The I. A. A. in-
vestigated 44 sites in 17 counties
and^ reported to farmers on the
possibilities for the. development
of farmer-owned plants; twenty-one
commercial shipping plants were
investigated and reported upon.

SEEDS — Together with six
county farm bureaus, the I. J0 A.
aided in the organization of the
Egyptian ' Seed Growers' Exchange,
which during the first season
pooled more than 1,100,000 pounds
of red top seed to be marketed co-
operatively and which secured a
$50,000 loan from the War Finance
Corporation.

PHOSPHATE — A reduction in
phosphate, freight rates which will
mean a saving of $20,000 to $25,000
a year on a normal year's business
was granted by the railroads, fol-
lowing pleas entered at various
times during the year by the I.
A. A.

EGGS AND POULTRY- The I.
A. A., in co-operation with county
farm bureaus, organized six co-op-
erative egg and poultry marketing
associations which have been do-
ing business during the year, receiv-
ing the top prices and often above
the top prices on the Chicago mar-
ket Fourteen more such associa-
tions are in process of forma0on.

FRUIT — Fruit shipments totaK
ling ST6 acres to 115 points in the
U: S. and Canada were made enur-
ing the year by the Illinois Fmlt
organized in 1921 txti
4ided inl^'bi|2 meeting bytli'e
I, A. A. The I.tA. A. was one of
the prominent t&dkia in the organ-
ization of the Federated Fruit and
Vegetable Growers, Inc., which be-
gan business Jan. 1, 1923, as a na-
tk>nal sal«8 service organization for
the fruit growers of the country.

Special Projects

CHARITY— The I. A. A. co-
operated with the United Charities
of Chicago, the Chicago D^ily
News, county farm bureau and rail-
roads to provide two-week outings service through ten departmeau
In the homes of farm burean mem- ; 1 ■ 1 , —

bers for 456 slums' children
Chicago. ,,'

FLOOD AID — ^The I. A. A. co-op-
ated with the Red Cross and the
College of Agriculture of the State
University to furnish feed to farm-
ers stricken by the spring- floods.

DECENNIAL— The I. A A., in

A.F.D.F. RESULTS
PART OF HISTORY
OF TIKCOUNTRY

Twelve of Accomplishments
For 1922 Mean Advance-
ment oft]. S. Agriculture

The farm bureau, as everj'-
body khows, IE a three-ply or-
ganization for the price of one —
county, ; state and national

The national farm bureau, the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion, ranks as the largest and
greatest organization of farm-
ers ever brought together in the
history of the world. With head-
quarteri in Chicago and Wash-
ington, it includes state farm
bureau organizations in 47 states
of the ITnion.

"Sold" Ml Besnlts

Like t»e I. A. A., the A. F, B. F.
has alwafys gone on results rather
than promises. Its list of acbleve-
menti during the past two years
are a part of the hiatory of the
nation, !

The following is a brief "(ozen"
of the acctmiplisfaments of the
America* Farm Bureau Federation
for 1»S2:

"Got the FacU"

1. Got the facts.

2. Solid agricalture and cooper,
atlve mat-keting to the nation.

3. Maintained the biggest farm-
ers' organizatio* in the wor)d.
, 4. Founded the National Uve,
Stock Prt>ducers' Association,-with
co-opratite commission iioasei at.^
six terminal markets.

5 Founded Federated Fniit and
Vegetable Growers, Inc., which es-
tablished cooperative sales agen-
cies fo^.fler'shj'.hlesjUJSlXj

6. Aid^ in reorganization of the
U. S. Grain Growers, Inc.

XBtloiial Iklarketing

7. , Worked out a new plan for
co-operative marketing of dairy
products and demonstrated its prac-
ticability in the Chicago market.

8. Maiiitained wool pools and se-
cured satisfactory tariff on, wool

9. Relieved car shortage, repre-
sented farmers In flfteea national
transportation oa«es and saved
every fanner in America an aver-
age of twenty dollars in freight
bills,

10. Killed the proposed general
sales tax.

11. Voiced tamers' vlewB in the
national «apitol, maintained effect- '
ive f^m bloc and secured paasage
of laws lejgaiizing co-operative mar-
keting: dltminated «>eculation in
grain futures and esta1)ltshed right
At,, co-operative to a seat on the
grain excfcanges; put dirt farmer
on the Federal Reserve Board:
prevented' shiftinK of U^ birden '
to agriculture: exteiided fun!tir:iS~
of War I^Hnahce. Corporation: pro-
tected fartn interests in the tariff;''*
provided lappropriations for farAi-
to-marfcet roads; -extended finan-
cial relief tp Northwest during
crop tailares: extended time of
payments on irrigated land; se-
cured adequate ftinds foe the De-
partment of Agriculture; provided
deficiency appropriations for tuber-
culosis eradication.

12. Malintained Farm Bareao

of co-operation with the College of
Agriculture, local people of DeKalb,
the farm bureau and the A. F. B.
F., promoted a Farm Bnreau De-
cennial Celebration at DeKalb, at-
tended by, 25.000. to commemorate
the birth lof the Illinois farm tm-
reau movement

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The niinoU Agricultural Association Record

February 15, 1923

THE 1. A. A. ANNUAL MEETING AT A GLANCE

DELEGATES FROM
EVERY CORNER OF
STATE AT MEETING

Program of I.A.A.Annual Con-
vention A Real Message
to FarmeFs

Never was a more representa-
tive group of farmers gathered
together in Illinois than dur-
ing the two days of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association
annual meeting in Chicago last
month. Froih. Lake County to
Union and from Vermilion to
Rock Island, every comer of
the State had its interests rep-
resented. -"'

There were all the way from
one to 53 farmers present from
the various counties which sent
delegates and visitors.

.Address by Mumford"
' The convention opened with the
invocation by the Rev. Mr. Kiest,
of Anna, a member of the 1922
Excutive Committee. The morn-
ing session was taken up by the
reports of the president, secretary,
and treasurer, and the address of
Dean H. W. Mumford, of the Col-
lege of Agriculture of the Uni-
versity of Illinois: "The College
of Agriculture in Relation to the
Farm Bureau-."

During Wednesday afternoon ad-
dresses were given by C. B> Den-
man, chairman of the Board of Di-
rectors of the East St. Louis Live
Stock Producers Commission As-
sociation; Hon. Howard M. Gore,
U. S. ■ Department of Agriculture;
C. Larsen, Dean of the South Da-
kota College of Agriculture, and
up to last Jan. 1 Director of Dairy
Marketing for the L A. A.
Banquet in BvenInK

The election of officers took up

Bradfixte Sees . . I
Marketing As
The Farm Goal

"The American farmer is the
most efficient farmer in the
world," said O. E. Bradfute, pres-
ident of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation, speaking at the
annual meeting, "and the Illi-
nois farmer is a leader In that ef-
ficient class."

Mr. Bradfute stressed the Im-
portance of an Immediate solu-
tion of the problems which cause
'such a great difference between
the farmer's dollar and the dollar
of other manufacturers.

"We ane over-produced," be
said. "We have a surplus."

Co-operativje marketing, accord-
ing to Mr. Bradfute, is the only
way out for the farmer, ind the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion will bend every effort during
1923 to make co-operative mar-
keting mpre successful than It
has ever been in history.

the rest of the afternoon. There
was the banquet in ' the evening,
with addresses by Ex-Gov. Frank

0. Lowden and President O. E.
Bradfute, of the American Farm
Bureau Federation.

On Thursday morning the ad-
dresses of Hon. W. N. Ferris, U. S.
Cunningham, President of the U.
S. Grain Growers Sales Company,
carried the session well into the
noon hour.

Re|K>r€ on Taxation

J. C. Watson, I. A. A. Statisti-
cian gave a detailed report of the

1. A. A. tax investigations. Illus-
trated with charts, to start the
afternoon meeting. Senator H. M.
Dunlap, of Savoy, talked on the
new state police bill which he
is fostering for the coming ses-
sion of the legislature.

Tho convention closed with the
reports or "vimtiittees.

DELEGATES TO I. A. A. ANNUAL MEETING

.(-:.. I,,:,

The following is a list of the
official, accredited delegates to the
annual meeting of the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association:

ADAMS COUNTY— D. H. Myers.
Mendon; Lawrence Randall. Lo-

BOND' county — W. W. Willltord.

qreenvllle; J. B. Walt. Greenville.
BOONE COUNTY — Elmer Hyde.

Ciarden Prairie; A. B, Hammond,

Belvidere.
BROWN COUNTY — Charlie Snyder.

Versailles: Albert Lewis, Mt.

Sterline.
BUREAU COUNTY— D. G. Reder,

Mendota; Wllber Saverhlll, T)s-

kilwa: Simon Albrecht. Tiskilwa.
CARROLL COUNTY— Albert Getz,

ML Carroll; Chas W. Moore, Mt.

Ckrroll.
CASS COUNTY— J. H. Taylor, Vir-
ginia; F. C. Walbaum, Ashland.
CHAMPAIGN COUNTY — Lorln

Clark, Homer; W. H. Jackson,

Fiaher; D. J. Holtermann. Sa-

dorus.
CHRISTIAN COUNTY— Wm. Grimes,

Rosemond; Dwigrht Hart, Edin-

burg.
CLARK COUNTY — T. R. Lovett,

Marshall; Albert WriKht. West

Union.
CLAY COUNTY — Curt Anderson.

Xenla; E. L Sunderman. Louis-
ville. .
CLINTON COUNTY— H. H. Immlng,

Aviston; Peter Bach, Bartelso.
COLES COUNTY — C. S. Hall, Oak-
land: P. P. Homan. Mattoon.
COOK COUNTY — Herman Schwake,

Arlington Heights; Frank Diek-

mann. South HoUand.
CRAWFORD COUNTY — N. F. Good-
win, Palestine; A. York, Robin-
son.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY — A. C.

Gordon. Neoga; A. M. Plngery,

Slsrel. _, ,

DE KALB COUNTY— B. W. Lyon,

Waterman: Geo. S. Hyde, Earl-

vUle.
DEWITT COUNTY— C. 'W. Thorp,

Clinton; Scott Grlirin, Clinton.
DOUGLAS COtlNTY — Prank L.

Reedcr. Tuscola; Chas. McDonald,

Hindsboro.
DUP.VOE COUNTY — C. G. Shoger,

Napervllle; John K. Rathbun,

Lombard.
EDGAR COUNTY— W. G. Tucker,

Horace: Zeiss Gumm,. Paris.
EDWARDS COUNTY — Harry Per-
kins, Albion; Albert LIbkle; West

Salem.
EFFINGHAM COUNTY— F. C. Wa-

chel, Altmont.
FORD COUNTY — F. W. TIeken,

Piper City: A, C. Thompson, Pi-
per City.
FRANKLIN COUNTY— Matt House,

Benton; H, H, Webb, Mulkey-

town.
FULTON COUNTY — J, E, Mum-

raert, Astoria; E. C. Vlttum,

Canton,
GALLATIN COUNTY — Geo. B.

Scherrer, Shawneetown; H. H.

Glasscock. Omaha.
GREENE COUNTY — Glenn Smith,

Greenfield: L R. Lee, Roodhouse.
GRUNDY COUNTY— R. W. Carper.

Coal City: B. 8. Cryder, Morris.

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HANCOCK COUNTY— I. N. Hosford,
Hamilton; w. a. Clark, Carthage:
M. G. Lambert, Ferris.

HB.NDERSON COUNTY — C. W.
Cooper, Little York; C, C, Painter,
Stronghurst,

HENRY COU.VTY — Robert Arm-
strong, Kewanee; J. A. Boomer,
Atkinson; Henry Larson, Cam-
bridge.

IROQUOIS COUNTY — G. C. Honey-
well, Mllford; Chas. Holtz, Bock-
ley; W. A. Ward, Sheldon.

JACKSON COUNTY — W I 1 I a r d
Graves, Murphysboro; Jess L
Klein, Carbondale.

JERSEY COUNTY — James C. Dow-
ney, JerseyvlUe; J, R. Fulkerson,
Jerseyville.

JO DAVIESS COUNTY — John E.
Bonnett, East Dubuque; E. F.
Hunt, Hanover; Willis VIpond,
Scales Mound.

JOHNSON COUNTY— W. L. Owen,
Simpson.

KANE COUNTY — William I. Lye.
Big Rock; D. Craft, Lily Lake.

KANKAKEE COUNTY — L E. Su-

Srenant, Bourbonais; Henry M.
[cLane, Reddlck.

KENDALL COUNTY — E. L Matt-
lock, Yorkvllle; C. G, Ricketts,
Oswego.

KNOX COUNTY — Perry C. Gehrlng,
Altona; C, E. Hartsook. McQuoln;
Elmer L Olson, Knoxvllle.

LAKE COUNTY— H. E. Flood, Our-
nee: E. B. Jordan, Deerfleld.

LA SALLE COUNTY — D. E. Steph-
enson, Streator: H. W. Watts,
Leiand: H. T. Marshall, Serena.

LEE COUNTY— M. J. Fielding. Dix-
on: Wm. Sandrock, Ashton.

LIVINGSTON COUNTY — Geo. L.
Potter. Pontiac; J. W. Porter,
Pontlac; M. C. Fonger, Odell.

LOGAN COUNTY— J. W. Rupp, Mt
Pulaski: Ralph Lanterman, Wll-
liamsville •

Mcdonough county — j, e.

stickle, Blandinsvllle; I. A. Ix
Master, Bushnell.

Mchenry county — H. C. Gllker-
Bon, Marengo: D. L. Thomas,
RIngwood.

McLEAN- COUNTY— S. M. Elklns,
Bloomington; Carl Vrooman,
Bloomlngton; Walter Tenny, Mc-
Lean.

MACON COUNTY — J. C. Batchel-
der, Harrlstown; Henry Shafer,
Illiopalis.

MACOtjPIN COUNTY — H. J. Schnltl,
Shipman; J. P. Enslow. Atwater.

MADISON COUNTY — Stanley Cas-
tle. Alton; H. B. Kocller, God-
frey.

MARION COUNTY — G. R. Williams,
Salem; E. Kinsey, Centralla.

MARSHALL - PUTNAM COUNTY —
L F. Boyle, Hennlpin; Elmer
Hunt, Henry.

MASON COUNTY—

MENARD COUNTY — L V. Samp-
son, Petersburg; J. H. Behrena,
Greenvlew, .

MERCER COUNTY — Scoville Lee,
Aledo; I. F. Ollmore, Aledo,

MONROE COUNTY— Phillip Blckel-
haupt, Renault: Chas. Franklin.
Prairie Du Rocher.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY — John
Foster, Raymond; H. G, Lincoln,
Witt,

COPIES OF A.WUAL REPORT

Copies of the I, A, A. Annual
Report, a 96-page booklet illus-
trated with photographs, will be
sent upon request as long as there
Is a supply. This is the report
given to delegates and visitors at
the annual meeting.

MORGAN COUNTY .;-C. S. Black
Jacksonville; O. A. Rohrer, Wa-
verly.

MOULTRIE COUNTY— J, A. James.

/-.^i?^"SJ.'..'5*0' Fulk. Benthany.

OGLE COUNTY --Joseph Holmes.
Monroe Center; C. K Bam bor-
ough. Polo. *

PEORIA COUNTY— Z. M. Holmes.
MossvlIIe; Chas. R. Ford, Ed-

PIATT COUNTY— M. E. Wise, Cer-
ro Gordo; Hugh Ruddock, Jr.,
Bement.

PIKE COUNTY— Chas E. Dunham,
Griggsvllle; Geo. Stauffer, Jr.,"
Baylls,

POPE COUNTY— Robert Clanahan.
Renshaw. .-

RANDOLPH C0UNTY—J. C. Knott.
Chester: J. V. Lessley, Sparta.

RICHLAND COUNTY— D.H Kink.
Olney.

ROCK ISLAND COUNTY — C. J.
Searle, Rock Island; Homer A.
Dall.-. Hlllsdalf.

ST. C'^AIR COUNTY- H. H. Hart.
™?,"„ Freeburg; Cyril Pfelfer,
O Pallon. «

^'SJ'.L''^ ^COUNTY— Henry Fowler.
Eldorado: C. E. Burkhardt, Ra-
leigh.

SANGAMON COUNTY— John Stout.
Chatam; w. B. HufTaker, New

_ R?,';''":„C. R. Carpenter, Buffalo.

SCHUYLER COUNTY — Fred L.
Camp, Huntsviile; Clarence

^JShSS'P^'"'- Frederick.

SCOTT COUNTY— W. M. Robinson.
Bluffs; Vv. H. Price, Bluffs.

^•if^?^ _ COUNTY— W. H. Boys.
ShelbyvlUe; J. w. McCIo.y, Trow-
bridge.

STARK COUNTY— David Tumbull.

oJ2?A°,W.',l-„*- H. Rennlck, Toulon.

STEPHENSO.N- COUNTY -^ L M.
Swanzey. Preeport: T. F. Ellis,

^hfSJiXJi;^^ Phillips, Lena.

TAZEWELL COUNTT-^. B. Wood.
Deavan; R. c. NIchela, Green
Valley; A. L. Robinson. Pekin.

UNION COUNTY— E w. Newman.

.r^JJI'.^v R^?^^J^°'<'>'- Makanda.
VERMILION COUNTY-1-R L. Wood

Bismarck; J. w. P. Crouch. Che-

neyville.
WABASH COUNTY — John Deputy.

Mt. Carmel,

WARREN COUNTY— M. S. Smith.
Monmouth; Ralph Klrby. Ber-
wick.

^^T'*.^,i^°U=*'"— O- "W^- Talbert.
Fairfield.

WHITESIDE COUNTY— Ira Wlth-

row. Erie, died; T. H. Adams.

Fenton.
WILL COTJNTT— Arthur States, El-

wod; G. L. Francis. New Lenox.
WILLIAMSON COUNTY — Finis

Grain. Carterville.
WINEBMIO COUNTY— L. A. Frisbe

Rock/ord; E. M. Brechenridge

Rockford.
WOODPGrD COUNTY— Maj. Dors

Eureka; C S. Bonar, El Paso.

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lllinoisAgriculturaJAssocialion

April 1, 1923

Number 2

- il

ILLINOIS "CO-OP'

FARM CREDIT ACT
PASSED; PROVIDES
DETTERFINANCING

Maximum Land Bank Loan
Now $25,000; Market-
ing to he Aided

American organized agricul-
ture secured one of its greatest
accomplishments for the farm
industry of the country when,
on the last day of its session,
Congress passed the Agricultur-
al Credits Act, meeting a need
which has heen felt for fifty
years and providing for the
near future more adequate
credit facilitios than the fanner
has ever had before in history.

Not only has the maximum Fed-
eral Land Bank loan been In-
creased from 110,000 to t25,«00
but other proTlsions of the act,
which is a composite of several
bills, insure better financing.

The American Farm Bureau
Federation and the I. A. A. hare
always seen the need for such leg-
islation and have been urging it
for more than a year.

Wallace Statement

U. S. Secretary of Agriculture
Henry C. Wallace recently issued
the following statement in expla-
nation of the workings of the new
act:

"The act la divided into two
parts. In the first. It provides
government agencies for handling
agricultural loans. In the second
it authorizes the organization of
private agencies under government
supervision for making loans on
live-stock security and on farm
commodities on the way to market.

"The government loan activities
will be carried on in connection
with the Federal land banks. At
the present time the country is
divided into twelve districts, and
in each of these districts there is
a Federal land bank which makes
(Tom to Pa«e Two)

/. A. A. Executive
Committee Meets
In Springfield

The Executive Committee of the
I. A. A. held its last meeting in
Springfield on March 20. The
meeting was planned for Spring-
field in order that the members of
the committee might study the leg-
islation backed by the I. A. A. and
county farm bureaus during the
present session of the legislature.

Transportation
Next Farm Issue
Before Congress

Senator Arthur Capper, chairman
of the Farm Bloc, In an interview
given out after the passage of the
Farm Credits Act, stated that agri-
isulluii! traiinportat! in -ntull be a
big issue before the next Congress.

'The farmer will not have all the
relief to which he Is entitled until
freight rates, now too high, come
down," be says.

Conferences of
Advisers Set
For Apr. 2-12

1,000 In Meeting
At St. Paul To
Discuss Prices

Orderly marketing of farm prod-
ucts through well-directed organiza-
tions and Immediate congressional
action to stabilize prices of crops
on a basis of cost of production
were indorsed by delegates attend-
I Ing the recent Northwest Agricul-
\ tural Price Stabilization conference
d m at. Paul, Minn. More than 1,000
U farmers and business men of 12
1 states were present. The I. A. A.
■was represented at the meetingj^^

The spring series of Illinois farm
advisers' conferences have been
announced by the Extension Ser
vice of the College of Agriculture
of the State University as follows:

Southern Illinois Group: Cen-
tralia, April 2 and S.

Northern niinois Group: Chicago,
April 4 and 5.

Central Illinois Group: Decatur,
April 9 and 10.

Northwestern niiaois Oraup:
Galesburg, April 11 and 12.

LET'S JOIN THE PARADE!

BILL BEFORE LEGISLATORE

FARMER MARKETING
IIP TO LEGISUTURE
IN PROPOSED BILL

Measure To Allow Agriculture

Voice 01 6rain Exchanges

Also Introduced

April IS Date
of Next Issue
of The Record

This is the second Isstre of the
I. A. A. Record. It was announced
in the first issue that a second
would follow on March 15. The de-
lay to April 1 came about as the
result of the failure of a three
months' supply of paper stock, or-
dered Feb. 10 and promised for
March 1, to appear before March
16.

It is planned hereafter to Issue
The Record regularly on the first
and fifteenth of each month. Many
changes are being made in tl^e
mailing list, however, as the result
of recent membership campaigns)
and it is possible that mistakes
may be made. If you are a mem-
ber of the I. A. A. and don't re-
ceive The Record, get in touch with
the- News Publicity Department: it
is your paper.

YOUR HIRED MAN!

Of course yeu know what
your hired man on the farm
can do — ^yeu put him ts work
where he can help most.
But—

How about your hired men
In Chicago, the various de-
partments of the I. A. A.7
What can they do for you?
How can you best put them
to work for you 7

The I. A. A. Record will
•tart In the next issue with
a series of articles which will
cover every department In
the association, telling how
It can serve you. This issue
Is beginning a run of articles
to tell the story of the various
co-operative associations In
Illinois. '

Watch for these articles —
they'll be in every Issue.

Farmer of Lee
County Also Is
Rert Cartoonist

The cartoon in this issue of The
Record w. ; drawn by Herbert Con-
ner, a ri -mar "dirt fanner," secre-
tary of itie Lee County Farm Bu-
reau, Mr. Conner does kis cartoons
at homt .lights on {he dining room
table, after finishing his day's work.
He Is one of the strongest farm
bureau boosters In the State and
puts into his cartoons the gospel
of farmer organization which he
practices. The Record will publish
more of his work.

"CO-OPS" AT YARDS
TOPPING THE UST

Five of the seven commlssioD
comi>anies operating under the aus-
pices of the National Live Stock
Producers' Association stood in
first place in volume of business,
handled In their respective markets
during a recent week.

Companies holding first place
and the cars handled were: Chi-
cago, 310; St Louis, 188; Indian-
apolis, 173; Buffalo, 170; Peoria, 40.

The Producers opened at the

Kansas City yards on March 5 and
netted a total of 20 cars as tlieir
first week's business.

Handling an average of over 2S
per cent of the weekly iharket re-
ceipts, the Indianapolis Producers
have stood at first place in that
market each week since January 1.
Their first ten weeks' business of
1923 was 2,055 cars.

Both the Chicago and Peeria
Producers have stood at first place
eight out of the ten weeks in their
respective yards. The volume of
business of the Chicago Producers
was 3,082 cars, while Peoria netted
464 cars.

The St Louis Producers have
handled 1,766 cars since the begin-
ning of 1923, having stood either
first or second each ifsek among
the companies at that market

The Buffalo Producers bandied
1,271 cars during the ten weeks.
No figures are on hand tor the Ft
Worth market

Two bills of great importance
to organized fanaers are up for
consideration at this session of
the Illinois Legfclature; Their
passage v^U do much to safe-
{Tuanl the; interests of producers
all over tke state.

These are the CtxiperaUv^j Mar-
keting Actand the bill designed to
allow admission to membership in
Boards of Trade of farmers' argaa-
l»;.t'aujr , — ~ - *■ . ■ —

M»rk«ang Act

The Cooperative MarkeUng Act
if passed, will permit farmers to
pool and tnarket their products
without fear that tke action will be
considered a cembination In re-
straint of trade. Almost identical
acts, fostered by the Farm Bureau,
have already passed in Texas, Mis-
sissippi, South Caiolina, Virglala.
South Dakota, Arisoaa, Arkaaaas,
AlatHuna, Jfortb Carolina, Kanaas,
Idaho, Tenaessee, Louisiana, Geor-
gia, Kenttcky, North Daktita,
Washington, Montana, and eolo-
rado.

The bill has passed the House In
Missouri, has been reponed favor-
abl]» hi Minnesota, and is making
satisfactory progress in Ohio. It
failed in InUiana due to Oovempr
HcCray'B veto, after passing the
Senate 43 tf> 0, and the House 74
to 11.

ProkiakMM of Ac*

The act a«thorizeS the formation
of non-profit, co-operative associa-
tions, with or without capital sto**
for the purptwe of eooouraglng'£e~
orderly mailketing of agricultural
products thvough co-operation. It
aims "to make the distribution of
agricultural products between pro-
ducer and oonsumer as direct as

(Turn to Pas^ Pour)

Four Advisory
Committees Meet
To Shape Work

%

Meetings of the Phosphate-Lime-
stone, Organlaation-PubUcity, Qalry
.Marketing aad Live Stock Market-
ing advisory icommittoes have been
held duriog the past month.

These .meetings were for the par-
pose of shaping a program of wot%
to be pursued by the various de-
partments with the counsel of ti»
members of the committee.

Page 4

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The niinoU Agricultural Association Record

February IS. 1923

THE I. A. A. ANNUAL MEETING AT A GLANCE

I

I

A

A

DELEGATES FROM
EVERY CORNER OF
STATE AT MEETING

Program of I.A.A.Annual Con-
vention A Real Message
to Farmers

Never was a more representa-
tive <rrou]i of farnu'rs •rathered
tojfellier ill Illinois than (lur-
iiif; the two clays of the Illi-
nois A<rrie\ilt,1iral Association
annual nieetinp i-ii ("hiea<r6 last
inonth. From Lake County to
I'nion and fnmi Vermilion to
KiM-k Island, every Corner of
the^tate had its interests rep-
resented.

There were bll the way Irom
one to 53 fartaers present from
the various counties which sent
delegates and Visitors.

A^ldre^s by ^luiiirunr

The convention opened with the
invocation 1^ the Uev. Mr. Kiest,
of Anna, a nieirtber of the 1922
Excutive Committee. The morn-
iBg session was taken,;'up by the
reports of the president, secretary,
and treasurer, and the address of
Dean H. W. Mumford, of the Col-
lege of Agriculture; of the Uni-
versity of Illinois: "The CoJlege
Of Agriculture in Relation to the
~ Farm Bureau."
.' Diiring Wednesday, afternoon ad-
dresses were given by C B. Den-
man, chairman of tl!6 fioard of Di-
rectors of the East St. L«uis Live
Stock Producers Commission As-
sociation; Hon. Howard ^M. Gore.
V. S. Department of Agriculture;
C Liirsen. Dean of the South Da-
kota College of Agriculture, and
up to last Jan. 1 Director of Dairy
Marketing for the I. A. A.
l(an<|uet in KveninK

The election of officers took up

Bradfute Sees I
Marketing As
The Farm Goal

"Tlie American farmer is the
most efl^cien^* farmer in the
world, "said O. E.,' Bradfute, pres-
ident of the American Farm Bu-
reau Fedpration, speaking at the
annual meeting, "and the Illi-
nois farnjiex is- a leader in that ef-
ficient class.'*

Mr. Bradfute stressed the im-
portance of an immediate solu-
tion of the problems which cause
such a great difference between
the farmer's dollar and the dollar
of other manufacturers.

"We are over-produced." he
said. "We have a surplus."

Co-operative marketing, accord-
ing to .Mr. Bradfute. is the only
way out for the farmer, and the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion will bend every effort during
192 3 to jiiake co-operative mar-
keting more successful than it
has ever been in, history.

rnooi I

the rest of the afternooi. There
was the banquet in the evening,
with addresses by Ex-Gcv. Frank

0. Lowdan and Preside it O. E.
Bradfiite, of' the American Farm
Bureau Federation.

■ On Thursday morning
dresses o< Hon. W. N. Fe'rls, U. S
Cunningham, President cf the U.
S. Grain Growers Sales Company,
carried tbe session well
noon hpur.

1<«|H>rt on Taxation
J. C. Watson. I. A. A
clan gave a detailed report of the

1. A. A. tax investif^atiQns, illus-
trated wfth charts, to start the
afternoon meeting. Senator H. M.
Dunlap, of Savoy, talke^ on the

-new stat« police bill ^hich he
is fosteriiig for the coining ses-
sion of tlie legislature, j

The convention closed with the
reports of committees.

I

the ad-

into the

Statisti-

DELEGATES TO I. A. A. ANNUAL MEETING

The following is a list of the
official, ascredited delegates to the,
annual ifteeting of the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association: .
ADA.MS COCXTY— D. H. Myers.

Mfiulon: Lawrence Randall, Lo-;,

rti i n .

BOND rorxTY — w w. 'wniifrfrd.

<^reenville: J. B. Wait. OreenviUe.
BOpXE COUXTY — Elmer Hyde.

Oarden Prairie; A. B. Hammond.

Ilelvldere.
BRO^V.V COUXTY — Charlie Snyd.r.

V»-rs.iiUes; Albert Lewis. Mt.

.'^tiTling.
BUHEAU COUXTY— D. G. Reder.

.M.ndota; Wilbor Saverhill. Tis-

kilw.'i; Simon Albrecht. Tiskilwa.
CAUnOLL COUNTY— Albert Getz.

Mt. Carroll: Chas W. Moore. Mt.

<\irron.
CAJS COUXTY— J. H. Taylor Vir-

glinia; F. C. Wall>aum. Ashland.
CHHMT'AICX COr.NTY — Lorin

Clark. Homer: W, H. Jackson.

Pisher: D. J. Holtermann. Sa-

dorus.
CHUISTIAX COUXTY^Wm. Crimes.

Ilosemond; Dwight Hart, Edin-

burp.
CLAllK COUXTY — T. R. Lovett.

Marshall: Albert WrlKht, \Vest

Union,.
CLAY COt^NTY — Curt Anderson.

Xenia: E. L. Sunderman, Louis-
vUW.
CHXTON COUXTY— ir H. ImminS.

Aviston; Peter Bach. Bartelso.
COLES COUXTY — C. S. Hall. Oak-
land: F. K. Homan. Mattoon.
COOK COUXTY— Herman Schwake.

Arlington Heights: Frank Diek-

'mnr.n. .'^outh Il.^Uand.
CRAWFORD COU.XTY — N. F. Good-

lyin. Palestine; A. Y'ork. Robin-
son.
CUMBERLAXn COUNTY — A. C.

Gordon. Neoga: A. M. Pingery.

SIgel.
DRi KALB COUNTY — B. W. Lyon.

Waterman; Ceo. S. Hyde, Earl-

vllle.
DEW ITT COUXTY — C. W. Thorp,

Clinton; Scott Griffin, Clinton.
DOU'iLAS COUXTY — Frank L.

Reeder. Tuscola; Chas. McDonald.

Htndsboro.
DUl'.XCE COUXTY — C. G. Shoger,

Naperville; John K. Rathbun,

ljDml>.ard.
EDOAR COUXTY— W. G. Tucker,

Horace: Zeiss Cumm.. Paris.
EmVAUDS COU.STY— Harry Per-
kins. Albion: Albert Libkle; West

Sjilcm.
EFPIXCHAM COUNTY— F. C. Wa-

cnel, Altmont.
FORD COUNTY — T W. Tieken.

PSper City; A. e, Thompson. Pi-
per City.
FRAXKLI.N COUNTY— Matt House.

•Benton; H. H. Webb, Mulkcy-

town.
PULTO.V COUNTY — J. E. Mum-

mert. Astoria; E. C. "Vittum.

canton.
GALLATIN COITXTY — Ceo. B.

Schtrrer, .Shawneetown; H. H.

'Jl.isst-ock. Oin^ha.
OREEXE COUNTY — Glenn Smith.

CCeenfleld: L R. Lee. Roodhouse.
GRrVDY COl'XTY- R. W. Carper.

coal City: E. S. Cryder. Morris.

HANCOCK COUXTY— I. X. IIosfc>r<l.
Hamilton; W. O. Clark. Carthage;
M. <J. Lambert. Ferris.

HB.VDERSO.X COU.XTY — C. W.
Cooper. Little York; C. C. I'ainter.
.Stronghurst.

HEXIIY COU.XTY — Robert Arm-
strong. Kewanee; J. A. Roomer.
Atkinson; Henry Larson. Cam-
bridge.

IROQUOIS COUNTY — G. C. Honey-
well, Milford: Chas. Holtz. Buck-
ley; W. A. Ward. Sheldon.

J.\CKSOX lOUNTY — W 11 lard
Graves. Murphysboro; Jess L.
Klein, Carltondale.

JERSEY COUNTY — James C. Oow-
ney. JerseyviUe; J. R. Fulkerson.
Jerseyville.

JO DAVIESS COUNTY — John E.
Bonnett. East Dubuque; E. P.
Hunt. Hanover; Willis Vipond.
Scales Mound.

JOH.NSOX COU.XTY- W. L. Owen.
Simpson.

iKANB COUNTT — William I. Lye.
gig Rock; D. Crafts Lily Lake.

KANKAKEE COUNTY — L. B. Su-
prenant, Bourbonais;^ Henry M.
McLane, Reddick.
■KENDALL COUXTY — E. L. Matt-
lock. Yorkville; C. G. Iticketts.
Oswego.

K.XOX COUXTY — Perry C. Cehrlng.
Altona; C. E. Hartsook. McQuoin;
Elmer L. Olson. KnoxviUe.

LAKE COUXTY- H. E. Flood, Our
neo; E. B. Jordan. Deerfiel^.

LA SALLE COUXTY— D. E. Steph-
enson. Streator: , H. W. AVatts,
Leiand; H. T. Marshall, Serena.

LEE COUXTY— M. J. Fielding. Dix-
on; Wto. Saniirock. Ashton.

LIVI.XGSTO.X COU.XTY — Geo. L.
Potter. Pontiac; J. W. Porter.
Pontlac: M. C. Fonger, Odell.

LOGAN COUNTY — J. W. Rupp, Mt.
Pulaski: Ralph Lanterman, Wil-
liamsville « ;

Mcdonough county '— j, e

stickle, Blandinsvllle: 1. 'A. Le
Master. Bushnell.

Mchenry cou.xty— h. c. Giiker-

Bon. Marengo: D. L. Thomas,

Ringwood.
McLEAX COUNTT— S. M. BIkins.

Bloom ington: Carl "Vrooman.

Bloomlngton; Walter Tenny, Mc-
Lean.
MACON COUNTT— J. C. Batchel-

der, Harrlstown; Henry Shafer,

Illlopolis.
MACOUPIN COUNTY— H. J. Schnltz.

Shipman; J. P. Enslow. Atwater.
MADISON COUNTY — Stanley Cas-
tle. Alton; H. B. Koeller, God-
frey.
MARION COUNTT — G. R. Williams.

Salem; E. Kinsey. Centralia.
MARSHALL - PUTNAM COUNTY—

L F. Boyle, Hennipin; Elmer

Hunt, Henry.
MASON COUNTT —
MENARD COUNTY — L. V. Samp-

son,; Petersburg; J. H. Behrens.

Greenvlew.
MERCER COUNTT — Scoville Lee.

Aledo: I. F. Gilmore. Aledo.
MONROE COUNTY— Phillip Bickel-

haupt. Itenault: Chas. Franklin.

Prairie Du Rocher.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY — John

Foster. Raymond; H. G. Lincoln.

Witt.

COPIES OF AXXUAIi iSEPOKT

Copies of the I. A. A. Annual
Report, a 96j)age booklet illus-
trated with ikHotographs, will be
sent upon request as long as there
is a supply. This is the report
given to delegates and visitors at
the annual meeting.

MORGAN COUNTY- C. S. Black.

Jacksonville: O. A. Rohrer, Wa-

verly.
MOUL-TRIE COUXTY— J. A. James.
^r~:; '^'^^^i "''° Pulk. Benthany.
OGLE fOUXTV-- Joseph Holmes.

Monrd(» Center;, C. E. Bambor-

ough. Polo. '

''^"'^„™^'^"'^^'— Z M Holmes,
Mossville; Chas. R. Ford. Ed-

PIAT'T COUXTY— M. B. Wise. Cer-

ro Gordo: Hugh Ruddock. Jr..

Bement.
PIKE COUXTY— Chas E. Dunham.

(.riegsville: Ceo. Stauffer Jr.'

Baylis.
POPE l-OUNTY— Robert Clanahan.
I- Renshaw.

RANDOLPH COUXTY— J. C. Knott.
.,.V,,?f''T- •' ^' Lessley. Sparta.
RICHLAND COUXTY— D. H. Kink.

OIney.
ROCK LSLAXD COUXTY — C. J.

Searle. Itock Island; Homer A.

Daily. Hill.^dal?.
ST. CLAIR COU.XTY- H. H. Hart-

jr,a"„ Freeburg; Cyril Pfeifer,

O Fallon.
SALINE COUXTY— Henry Fowler,

Eldorado: C. B. Burkhardt. Ra-
leigh.
SAXGAMOX COUNTY— John Stout.

Chatam: W. B. Huffaker. New
Qcu'Vi'i'J'r-r "■ Carpenter. Buffalo.
SCHUYLER COU.XTY — Fred L

Camp. Huntsviile; Clarence
„ Thompson, Frederick.
SCOTT COUXTY— W. H. Robinson.

Bluffs: W. H. Price. Bluffs,
^'i?''.?^ .COUXTY— W. R. Boys.

ShelbyviUe: J. w. McClory, Trow-
bridge. .
STARK COUXTY— David TurnbuII,
■,™JJf,?,°,'J?,U'„'5 H. Rennick, Toulon.
STBPHENSOX COUNTY -^ L. M.

Swanzey. Freeport: T. F. Ellis,
n,h$!!.^rJi-.^^ Phillips. Lena.
T.VZEWELL COUXTY— C. B. Wood,
. R<' ?■>'»" L "- C. Nichels. Green

\alley; A. u Robinson, Pekin.
UNION COL'NTY— E. W. Newman,
,.^JI'.^V,?.\.''^«'-'"""is. Makanda.
VERMILION COUNTY-^R L. Wood

Bismarck; J. w. F. Crouch, Che-

neyville.
WABASi< COUNTT— John Deputy.

Mt. Carmel.

WARREN COUNTY— M. S. Smith.

Monmouth; Ralph Kirby, Ber-
wick.
WAYNE COUNTT— O W Talbert

Fairfield.
WHITESIDE COUNTY— Ira Wlth-

row. Erie, died; T. H. Adams,

Fenton.
WILL COUNTT— Arthur States, EH-

wod; G. L. Francis, New Lenox.
WILLIAMSON COUNTT — Finis
, Grain. Carterville.
■»!,INEBAGO COUNTT— L. A. Frisbe
liP.ockford: E. M. Brechenpidge

Ttockford.
WOODFORD COUNTT— MaJ Dors

Eureka; C. E. Bonar. El Paso.

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Illinois A griculturaJ Association

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LLJNOIS "COOP" BILL BEFORE LEGISLATURE

FARM CeiT ACT
PASSED; PROVIDES
BEnERFINANCING

Maximum Land Bank Loan
Now $25,000; Market-
ing to he Aided '

American or^anizeji agricul-
ture secured one of its greatest
accomplishments for the farm
industry of the country when,
on the last day of its session,
Congress passed the Agricultur-
al Credits Act, meeting a need
which has been felt for fifty
years and providing for the
near future more adequate
credit faciliti»s than the farmer
has ever had before in history.

Not onlx has the maximum Fed-
eral Land Bank loan been in-
creased from »10.000 to »25,«00
but other provisions o£ the act,
which Is a composite of several
bills, insure better financing.

The American Farm Bureau
Federation and the I. A. A. have
alway* seen the need for such leg-
islatioin and have been urging tt
for mbre than a year. ,

Wallace Statement

. U. s. Secretary of Agriculture
Henry C. Wallace recently issued
the following statement in expla-
nation of the workings of the new
act:

"The act is divided Into two
parts. In the first, it provides
government agencies for handling
agricultural loans. In the second
it authorizes the organization of
l»rivate agencies under government
supervision for making loans on
live-stoqk security and on farm
commoditips on the way to market.
"The government loan activities
will be carried on in connection
with the Federal land banks. At
the present time thg^^untry is
divided into twelve districts, 'and
in /ach of these districts there is
a Federal land bank which makes
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A. A. Executive
Committee Meets
In Springfield

The Executive Committee of the
I. A. A. held its last meeting in
Springfield on March 20. The
meeting was planned for Spring-
field in order that the members of
the committee might study the leg-
islation backed by the I. A. A. and
county farm bureaus during the
present session of the legislature.

Transportation
Next Farm Issue
Before Congress

Senator Arthuf Capper, chairman
of the Farm Bloc, in an interview
given out after the passage of the
Farm Credits Act, stated that agri-
,;ullui,-' trii.^t'.ta*' '11 ■*.'.. u^ I ''v a
big issue before the next Congress.

"The farmer will not have all the
relief to which he is entitled until
freight rates, now too high, come
down," lie says.

Conferences of
Advisers Set
For Apr. 2-12

1,000 In Meeting
At St. Paul To
Discuss Prices

Orderly marketing of farm prod-
ucts through well-directed organiza-
tions and immediate congressional
action to stabilize prices of crops
on a basis of cost of production
were indorsed by delegates attend-

Iing the recent Northwest Agricul-
tural Price Stabilization conference
in St. Paul, Minn. More than 1,000
[ farmers and business men of 12
I states were present. The I. A. A.
Iwas represented at the meeting.

The spring series of Illinois farm
advisers' conferences have been
announced by the Extension Sei^
vice of the College of Agriculture
of the State University as follows:

Southern Illinois Group: Cen-
tralia, April 2 and 3.

Northern Illinois Group: Chicago,
April 4 and 5.

Central Illinois Group: Decatur,
April 9 and 10.

Northwestern Illinois Group:
Galesburg, April 11 and 12.

LET'S JOIN THE PARADE!

April IS Date
of Next Issue
of The Record

This is the second issue of Uie
I. A. A. Record. It was anne^inCM
in the first issue that a second
would follow on March 15. The de-
lay to April 1 came about as the
result of the failure of a three
months' supply of paper stock, or-
dered Feb. 10 and promised for
March 1, to appear before March
16_.

It is planned hereafter to issue
The Record regularly on the first
and fifteenth of each month. Many
changes are being made in the
mailing list, however, as the result
of recent membership campaigns,
and it is possible that mistakes
may be made. If you are a mem-
ber of the I. A. A. and don't re-
ceive The Record, get In touch with
the News Publicity Department: it
is your paper.

YOUR HIRED MAN!

Of course you know wtiat
your hired man on the farm
can do^you put him to wori<
where he can help most.
But— >

How about your hired men
in Chicago, the various de-
partments of the i. A. A.?
What can they do for you?
How can you best put them
to work for you?

The I. A. A. Record will
start in the next issue with
a series of articles which v.ill
cover every department in
the association, telling how
it can serve you. This issue
is beginning a run of articles
to tell the story of the various
co-operative associations in
Illinois.

Watch for these articles —
they'll be in every Issue.

Farmer of Jjee
County Also Is

El"

Cart€>onist

The cartoo' in this Issue of The
RecoriJ v.. drawn by Herbert Con-
ner, ii n ;'iar "dirt tarmef," secri>-
tary of lie Lee County Farm Bu-
reau. Mr. Conner does bis cartoons
at homt .lights on the dining room
table, after finishing bis days work.
He is one of the stronge-st farm
bureau boosters in the State and
puts into his cartoons the gospel
of farmer organization which he
practices. The Record will publish
more of his work.

"CO-OPS" AT YARDS
TOPPING THE UST

Five of the seveB^commission
companies operating under the aus-
pices of the National Live Stock
Producers' Association stood in
first place in volume of business
handled in their respective markets
during a recent week.

Companies holding first place
an^ the cars handled were: Chi-
cago, 310; St. Louis, 188; Indian-
apolis, 173; Buffalo. 170; Peoria, 40.

The Producers opened at the

Kansas City yards on March 5 and
netted a total of 20 cars &a their
first week's business.

Handling an average of over 26
per cent of the weekly market re-
ceipts, the Indianapolis Producers
have stood at first place in that
market each week since January 1.
Their |rst ten weeks' biisiness of
1923 was 2,055 cars.

Both ' the Chicago and Peoria-
Producers have stood at first place
eight out of the ten weeks in their
respective yards. The volume of
business of the Chicago Producers
was 3,0B2 cars, while Peoria netted
464 cars.

The SL Louis Producers have
handled 1.766 cars since the begin-
ning of 1923, having stood either
first or second each week amonc
the companies at that market.

The Buffalo Producers handled
1.271 cars daring the ten weeks.
No figures are on hand tor the Ft.
Worth market.

FARMER MARKETING
UPIO LEGISIATORE
IN PROPOSED BILL

Measure To AlloW Agriculture
Voice 01 Grain Exchanges
Also Introduced | i.<j!

Two biljs of prteat impnrtanoo
to organized farjners are up for
cousideratjon at this sos*ioq of
the Illinois LcgisUiture. Their
p.xs.sage Will do much to safe-
■rtiard th(;Jinf.orests of producers
all over tie state. ';.'?'

These ar^ the Cooperative niu^-
keting Act land the bill designed to
allow admission to nemlwrsbip in
Boards of 'JYade of farmers' orfan-
im.; J., c I '" ~"*" """^

Warfcetinc ^ct
■ The Co-o|)erative .Xflirketlng Act.
if passed, (rill permit farmers to
pool and Inarket their prodacts
without feai- that Ue action will be
considered a combination in re-
straint of irade. Almost identical
acts, fosterid by the Farni Bureau,
have alreadk- pai!8>>d In Texas. Mis-
sissippi, Sojuth Carolina, Virginia
South Dakota, Aricoaa,' Arkanau.
-Mabama. ^ orth Carolina. Kancae.
Idaho. Teni cssee, Louisiana, G«br-
gia, Kentiickj', North Dak«ta,
Washington, Montana, and Colo-
rado.

The bill 1 as pass«d th* House In
Missouri, hiis been reported favor-
ably in Mir nesota. and is making
satisfactory progrets in Ohio. It
failed in In liana dUe to Governor
McCray'e vjto, after passing the
Senate 43 t> 0, and the House 74
ti. u.... ,

l*ro risionn of Act T ' . .

The act ai ithorizee the formation
of Qon-profi . co-optratlve associa-
tions, with or witho)it capita) sto'-'
for the purpose of encouraging ^e "
orderly mai keting of agricultural
products through cb-operation If
aims /tO; make the distribution Of
agriciiltik-al |product|B between pro-
ducer and consumeir as direct as
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Four Advisory I

Committees Meet
Tp Shape Wotk

!-

Meetings of the Ptiosphate-Liaie-
stone. Organlzation-Cublicity. Dakr
Marketing a^d Live Stock .Market-
ing advisory jcommittees have been
beldrduring ^he past month.

These meetings w«r« for the pur-
pose of shaping a prograa) of work ,
to be pursuM by the various xie-
partments wfth the counsel of the
members of the committee

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Ulinoii Agricnltiiral Auodation

RECORD

Puhlishe* twice a month by the
IlIt7T*i8 Ajrrl«ultural Association.
6«8 South Dearborn Street. Chicago.
IHin«la Edited hy News Publictly
•eyartment. !•■ J. Mpntrosa, Director.

Bntry aa second class matter Oct.
!•. 1921. at the post orfice at, Chi-
cago. IlJlnoiB, under the act of
March 3. 187».

The Individual membership fee of
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion is Ave dollars a year. This
fee Includas payment of ten cents
for subscription to the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association Record.

OFFICEltS

President. S. H. Thompson. Quincy.

Vice-President, A. p. Eckert, Belle-
ville.. ♦^

Secretary, Geo. Al Pox. Sycamore.

Treasurer. R. AJ Cowles. Blooming-
ton.

KXECUnV'E CO.>I5IITTEE

By Congressional Districts

llth— Henry McGough. Maple Park'
12th — Q. F. Tullock, Rockford.
Mth— ~C. E. Bamborough, Polo.
14th — W. H. Moody. Port Byron.
15th — H..E. Qoembel. Hoopol^.
16th — G. E. Reder. Mendota.
17th — F. D. Barton, Cornell.
18th — C. R. Pinley. Hoopeaton.
19ih — D. J. HoUerman. Sadorus.
20th — Earl J. Smich, Detroit.
*lat — E. L. Corbin. Carlinville.
;2nd — Fred Baumberger. Iteno.
•3rd — Carlton Trimble, Trimble.
24th — Curt Anderson. Xenia.
25th — Vernon Lesaley, Sparta.

The Illinois Agricultural Asiocilition Record

Aprn 1, 1923

75 to 100 Lots
of Seed Tested
Daily By State

Seventy-five to 100 samples of
seed are being received daily at tbe
laboratory of the Illinois State De-
partment of Agriculture. Tbe anal-
ysis of seed is free to eacb individ-
ual, firm or corporation on five
samples a year. A fee of fifty cents
is charged for each sample In ex-
cess of this amount.

This law was passed several
years- ago, being one of the first
pieces of legislation which the I. A.
A. backed. It has resulted In a
tremendous improvement In the
quality of Illinois seed and the elim-
ination of many noxious weeds that
otherwise would have found their
way to the farm.

I. A. A. ADVISORY
COMMITTEES NAMEO
FOR 1923 PROGRAM

Directors of Departments,

iT^I^^'-J^ A. Office

General Office and Assistant to Sec-
retary. J. D.' Harper; Field Organiz-
ation. J. C. Sailor; Organization Pub-
licity. G. B. Metzger; News Public-

' ity. !/■ J- Montross; Transportation.
L. J. Quasey; Statistics, J. C. Wat-
son; Finance. R. A. Cowles; Fruit

' aixd Vegetable "^larketing. C. E.
Durst; Live Stock Marketing, C. A.
Stewart : Dairy Marketing, A. D.
Lynch ; Phosphate Limestone, J. R.
Ben*.

CONGRESS PASSES
FARM CeiT ACT

(Continued from Page 1)

land mortgage loans, these twelve
banks being directed by a central
y~i — 1 liyitn ^Jla■n BuTeaa In

Wasbington.

Credit Bank

In connection with each of
these land banks there is to be
established an intermediate credit
bank, located in tbe same city with
the land bank and under tbe sup-
ervision of the officers and direc-
tors of the land bank. The Fed-
eral govemjnent supplies each of
these inteiinedlate credit banks
with a capital of not to exceed
15.060,000. These intermediate
credit banks are authorized to dis-
count farmers' notes which have
l>een taken by banks and other
financial Institutions, and then can
carry such notes for a term of
from six months to three years.
The bankai may also loan direct to
farmers' cooperative associations
under conditions set forth in the
act.

- "These intermediate credit
banks may issue del)entures which
will have back of them the farm-
notes which the banks have
The idea is that these de-
bentures may be sold to people
who wish a safe investment. They
are exempt from taxation, Just as
the bonds issued by the Federal
land banks are exempt. The in-
terest charged by the intermed-
iate credit banks may not exceed
by more than one per cent the.
interest paid on the debentures is-
sued, and the farmer who borrows
must not be charged an interest
rate of more than one and one-
half per cent above the interest
charged by the intermediate credit
' bank.

Second Division '

"The second division of the act
authorizes the ^organization, under
a Federal charter, of national ag-
.rtcultural credit corporations,
these to be organized by private
capital. They will be under the
supervision of the Comptroller of

the Currency, Just aa are other
nationa,! banking Institutions.
They must have, a capital stock of
at least ,J250, 000. They may issue
collateral trust debentures up to
ten tinges their capital and sur-
plus. Such corporations will prob-
ably be organized in the Western
States where the live-stock indus-
try is Important and where now
cattle Iban companies are in op-
eration.

"In addition to the provisions
of the act designed to furnish the
farmer much needed ifit^rmediate
credit, certain changes have been
made in the law under which the
Federal land banks operate and in
the Fedleral Reserve A^t. Provis-
ion far the establishment of tbe
so-called permanent organization
of the twelve Federal land banks
is made by providing that three
out of the seven directors for each
bank are to be elected t>y the bor-
rowers from tbe bank and three
fre to be appointed b(y the Fed-
eral Mrm Loan Buteau. The
seventh director, who will be the
president of tbe board, will be
chosen from three persons who
have received the highest nomina-
tion vote for this position by the
borrowers or stockholders In the
bank.

9iS5,MO MMdmam

"Heretofore the maximum
amount which might l>e loaned to
any individual by the Federal land
banks has been {10,000. This has
been increased to $25,000. Also
the purpose for which mortgage
loans may be made has been
broadened to Include tbe repay-
ment of any existing indebtedness.
The Federal Reserve Act is
amended by broadening the defi-
nition of what is called agricul-
tural paper, making it Include the
grading and processing of agricul-
tural products by cooperative mar-
keting associations. Heretofore
the Federal Reserve Banks have
not been permitted to discount ag-
ricultural paper for a longer per-
iod than SIX months. This period
has been increased to nine months.

State Banks

"A large number of state banks
are not now members of the Fed-
eral Reserve System, some of them
because their capital is not large
enough to meet the requirements
of the law. An amendment to the
Federal Reserve Act is carried in
this biU designed to encourage
small banks to Join the system. A
bank which has capital equal only
to sixty per cent of the capital re-
quired of national banks may now
be admitted, if within a reason
able time the capital will be in-
creased to correspond with the
capital required of national banks.

"The life of the War Finance
Corporation is extended up to Feb-
ruary 219, .1924, the expectation
being that by that date the new

President Appoints Farmer
Counselors for Eighth l-J
Projects of Woric ^'

President S. H. Thomp-son
has announced his list of selec-
tions for the various advisorj-
committees of the I. A. A.
These committees meet upon
8all and discuss their various
{)hase8 of the work during the
year, sometimes making recom-
mendations to the executive
committee.

As the result of the advisory
committees each great phase of
the work of the I. A. A. Is given
a maximum of personal study, dis-
cussion and advice. Tbe commit-
tees for 1923 are as follows:

Finance — A. O. Eckert* Belle-
ville; Henry McGough, Maple
ITark; Chas. R. Flnley, Hpopeston.

Live Stock— W. H. Moody, Port
Byron; Vernon Lessley, Sparta;
C. E. Bamborough, Polo; Geo. F.
Tullock, Rockford; C. B. Goble,
Charleston; W. B. Elliott. Wll-
liamsfleld.

Grain Marketing — H. E. Goem-
bel, Hoopole; D. J. Holterman,
Sadorus; Curt Anderson, Xenia;
a. E. Reder, Mendota; W. A. Mc-
Neil], ChandlervlUe.

Fruit and Vegetable— A. O. Eck-
ert, Belleville; Fred Baumberger,
Reno; Senator H. M. Dunlap, Sa-
voy.

Legislative — S. H. Thompson,
Quincy; F. D. Barton, Cornell; A.
C Ererlnsbam, Hutsonville.

Phoaphate-Llmestone — F. D.
Barton, Cornell; Fred Baumberg-
er, Reno; Frank I. Mann. Gilman;
a. 6. Harshall, Serena.

Dairy Marketing — Henry Me-
Gough, Haple Park; Carlton Trim-
ble, Trimble: L. E. Blrdsall, Ster-
ling; H. E. McDonottgh, Hamp-
shire.

Organlzation^ubllclty — Barl C.
Smith, Detroit; E. L. Corkin, Csr-
linviUe; J. H. Checkley, Uncoln;
J. M. Beckett, Blue Mound; W. B.
Elliott, Williamsfleld ; A. C. Page,
Orange Judd Parmer, Chicago; C.
V. Gregory, Prairie Farmer, Chi-
cago.

Walton Peteet,
of A. F. B. F.,
Aids Illinois Bill

Walton Peteet. of Texas, since
taking up bis duties last month
as director of co-operative mar-
keting for the American Farm
Bureau Federation, has been
making addresses all over the
country. He has been active in
support of the co-operative mar-
keting legislation now before the
Illinois, Colorado, Ohio and other
state legislatures similar to tbe
laws which have already been
passed in 18 states.

credit facilities provided for under
this agricultural credits act will
be sufficient to meet the needs.

"This Agrkiultural Credits Act of
1923 Is one of the most important
acts passed by the last Congress.
It marks an earnest effort to pro-
vide the farmer with the sort of
credit he must have to carry on
efficiently. It is not class iegisia-
tion. The results will be helpful
to business In general, because
the effect will be to stabilize agri-
cultural production and market-

injg." , -r

1923 Contract
For Phosphate
Soon to be Let

Negotiations are being made for
letting the contracts for this year's
supply of phosphate for Illinois
Farm Bureau members by the Phos
phate-Llmestoae Department of the

A. A. It Is expected tbat the
contract will be made at as early
date.

J. R. Bent, In tharge of phos-
phate-limestone work for the I. A.
A., recently attended a meeting of
the Ground Rock Phosphate Pro-
ducers at Nashville, Tenn., where
he sounded out present conditions
in the phosphate market and met
loauy of the large producers.

Hearing Before
State Senate

On 'Co-op* Bill

At a hearing before the Com-
mittee of the Whole of the Sen-
ate the day after the meeting of
the Executive Committee i n
Springfield, Walton Peteet, Direc-
tor of Co-operative Marketing for
the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration, made an address showing
the urgent need of a co-operative
marketing law In Illinois. He ex-
plained to the legislators that co-
operative marketing, the farmers'
main opportunity to place his In-
dustry on a par with other great
Industries, was, under present Il-
linois laws, under a tremendous
handicap.

Charles Adkins represented tbe
president of the Illinois Farmers*
Grain Dealers Association and
spoke against the bill. Everett C.
Brown, president of the Chicago
Live Stock Exchange, Lawrence
Farlow, secretary of the Illinois
Farmers' Grain Dealers Associa-
tion, and Secretary Cotbertson, of
tbe Illinois Grain Dealers Asso-
ciation, also gave brief talks in
opposition.

FARM BUREAO HEADS

CONFER WITH I.A.A.;

OISCOSS^POLICIES

Meeting Planned For More
Than Year; All County Pres-
idents Asked To Come

The presidents of all of the
countj' farm bureaus of the
State were asked to come to Chi-
cago on the la.st Monday in
March for an all-day conference
to be held at the I. A. A. offices.
Policies of a state-wide nature
were to be discussed.

It had been planned for more
than a year to call a meeting of
this nature, to get the opinions of
the heads of the various bureaus
and to promote discussion of sub-
jects and policies of a common in-
terest. The size of the conference
and the distance which some of
the presidents would have to
come, however, made it difficult
to select a time satisfactory to all.

Marketing, finance, legislation,
taxes and other subjects were to
be brought up at tbe conference.

Illinois Pastor

Real Worker for
Farmer Progress

The peY. Mr. John Acheson,
pastor of the Presbyterian Church
of Priiicevllle, Peoria County, Illi-
nois, the author of the farm bureaa
sermon in tbis issue of The Record,
is one of the foremost believers in
farm cooperation in the State. In
addition to his pastorate and farm
bnreaa duties, he is also agricul-
taral editor of the Peoria Tran-
script

"Tbe Bible," says the Rev. Mr.
Aebeson, "is full of the greatast
aertcnltural and co-operative mes-
sages ever given."

irasssisiasiaEsissiSQisisisisfSiSisra j
A FARM BUREAU SERMON

Gtm tmt it •halU ir liven »»(o you; tood metimt, prtued dm,

sMken loiether oaid rmnning tver, — LuM 6:38.

B]r the Rev. Mr. John Adieson

THE Idea of "getting by giving" Is generally accepted as a
ehnrchly thoaght, and whea one reads the text he passes it
over to long-faced church folks as a very practical thing for
them; but modem secular life is still so selfish and pagan in
its motives and standards tbat such an ideal cannot apply-
However, to the contrary, let us say tbat the very essence of
the words quoted is practically workable in almost every
phase of life; especially is this idea a practical one tor tbe
farmer who desires success tn his business.

When he sacrifices a heavy crop of clover by plowing it un-
der, he is working out the principle of tbe text — GIVING into
tbe soil nitrogen and hunns material and with the next crop
from that field he G£TS "good measure, pressed dswn, shaken
together, and running over."

He attends a sale in the fall of tbe year where pure bred
bogs are sold. He needs a herd boar. The price runs up on
the good ones to the place where he thinks he can ill afford
to buy, but he GIVES and the next spring and summer he
watches the growth and development of his pigs, and at the
co-operative marketing pens when his car-load tops fhe mar-
ket, he realizes that he GETS in better hogs, "good measure,
pressed down, shaken togethei', and running over."

The farmers' own business organizations, the county Farm
Bureau, the I. A. A., and the A. F. B. F., cost him a little
money. He is asked to GIVE 115.00 eaish year to support his
own program, to work out a solution to the many problems
confronting the business of agriculture — the biggest business
in America. GIVE — he gave, a hundred thousand farmers in
Illinois have given a little money each year for a few years
toward this end and by reading carefully the accomplishments
of the I. A. A. and the A. F. B. F. during the years of their
activity, one can well appreciate tl^e truth of and application
to every phase of farm life of the very practical teachings of
this scripture: "Give, and It shall be given unto you; good
measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over."

I>rn 1, 1923

U HEADS
H I.A.A.I
POUCIES

For More
lunty Pres-
To Come

jf all of the
eaus of the
come to Chi-
Monday in
ly conference
A. A. offices,
-wide nature
d.

Ded for more
a meeting of
le opinions of
lious bureaus
ission of sub-
a common in-
he conferemce
hich some of
lid have to
3e it difficult
factory to all.
3, legislation,
jects were to
e conference.

iter for
Progress

>hn Acheson,
terlan Church
I County, nii-
3 farm bureau
f The Kecord.
t believers in
the State. In
■ate and farm
also agricul-
Peoria Tran-

the Rev. Mr.

the greatest

perative mea-

April 1, 1923

Tbe Illinois Agricnltoral AssodatioB Record

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pted as a
passes it
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ot apply,
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TNG into
next crop
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ns up on
ill afford
mmer he
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the mar-
measure,

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a a little
pport bis
problems

business
irmers in
ew years
ishments

of their
>plication
things of
ou; good
ig over."

Illinois Co-operative Markets 1,052

Cars of Fruit to 24 States in 1922

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One thousand and fifty-two
carloads of Southern Illinois
fruit, representing an aggre-
gate market value of $600,000,
found their way to market in
at least 115 points in 24 states
knd four Canadian provinces
in 1922 as the result of the ac-
tivities of the Illinois Fruit
Exchange.

The Illinois Fruit Exchange
was organized in 1921 by coun-
ty farm bureaus and the Illi.
nois Agricultural Association,
co-operating,

Little fruit was handled during
the first season due to the failure
of the crop, but vastly Increased
growth and activity were manifest
last season. The exchange now
coqiprises 19 local organizations
in 10 counties ot Southern Illi-
nois, with 821 grower members.
This Is an increase of one-third
over the membership in the spring
of 1922.

Conntles Organized

Counties now having locals are:
Adams, St. Clair, Marion, Jeffer-
son, Clay, Jackson, Williamson,
Union, Johnson, and Pulaski.

Peaches, apples, pears, and
strawberries were the fruits han-
dled by the Exchange during the
'year. Apples head the list with
501 cars shipped, closely followed
by peaches with 432 cars. Straw-
berry and pear shipments totalled
76 and 50 cars, respectively. In
addition, three mixed shipments
were made.

Headqiuirt«rs at Centralia

Headquarters of the organiza-
tion are at Centralia and it is
from that office that the work of
directing the car-lot sale and dis-
tribution to suitable markets
takes place. Qeneral manage-
ment of the Exchange is under
J. B. Leeper, formerly connected
with the Adams County Farm Bu-
reau and a man with considerable
practical business and banking
experience.

Fruit growers who Join their re-
spective locals become members
of the central organization at the
same time and their entrance dues
go toward the support of both
bodies. Members must sign a
contract pledging thet all of their
fruit marketed will go to the co-
operative for a period of three
years, after which they have the
option of cancelling their con-
tracts If they see fit.

IjocaIs Assemble Fruit

The work of the local organiza-
tions consists of assembling the
fruit of their members in car-load
lots. The products are standard-
ized under the direction of the
Exchange and every precaution is
taken to see that all fruit is in-
spected and properly graded and
packed. A majority of the locals
have established packing houses
which include in their equipment,
modern sizing machinery. After
the car-load lots are ready for
shipment. It is the duty of the
central exchange to make the
sales and route the shipments.

A national distributing organ-
ization was employedi by the ex-
change during the past year to
find markets for the fruit handled.
■This concern was paid on a brok-
erage basis. The method was
found to be a better and cheaper
service than for the Exchange to
have established its own sales
connections, especially at such an
early period of its career.
••niinl" Brand Respected

Prior to 1922, Illinois fruit had
a rather poor reputation on mar-

WHAT CO-OPERATION DOES

THIS map ahows the 115 paints in tKe United States and Canada '
to which the Illinois Fruit Exchange shipped carlots of fruit in
1922, the first year of active operation, as the result of co-operatio(i.
Prior to the organization of the exchange, most of the fruit was
dumped on the Chicago market.

kets, ^largely due to poor grading
methods of the growers. Through
community packing houses, the
Exchange has brought about prog-
ress in standardizing the fruits.
Apples are graded and packed ac-
cording to Illinois regulations,
while other fruits are prepared
for market in accordance with
government standards. The "Illi-
ni" brand was stamped on the
crates and boxes containing the
best products, and Judging from
reports from the various markets,
the methods of the Elxchapge have
given Illinois fruits a high repu-
tation.

One big reason why the Ex-
change succeeded so well was be-
cause of the wide distribution ot
^products secured. Formerly it
was the practice of the majority
of the growers to consign to Chi-
cago, casing a flooding of that
market and Consequently low
prices.

rin seeking the best markets for
its members, the Ehcchange dis-
tributed Its products over a large
section of the United States and
Oanada. The accompanying map
shows points to which one or
more cars ot "Illlnl" brand fruits
were sold. It is easy to see that
this wide distribution was respon-
sible for th^ good returns secured
for the members. The system
kept the fruit away from poor
and glutted markets and sent
them to the very best ones.
Higher Prices Received

The result wjas that higher
prices were received by the or-
ganized growers than by their un-
organized neighbors. For exam-
ple, in one case the growers of
a community sold their strawber-
ries through the Exchange and
obtained a net average of $2.52
per crate, while a large grower
in the vicinity who did not ship
through the Ehcchange, received
$1.97% or 54% cents less per
crate.

In the case of peaches, It was
found that the organized produc-
ers of one local received from 50
to 75 cents more per bushel on
the average for that commodity
than was the case with those
marketing through other channels.
Stabilized Markets

Many men familiar with the sit-

uation are of the opinion that the
work of the Illinois Fruit Ex-
change was directly reisponsible
tor the holding up of fruit prices
all over the state during 1922. By
not flooding the Chicago market,
that point was kept in better con-
dition. Thus prices were stabil-
ized throughout Illinois and mem-
bers as well as non-members
reaped the benefits of the Ex-
change.

The growers of southern Illinois
are well satisfied with the 're-
sults of the past season. While
the profits were not large, they
believe more thoroughly than ever
in the co-operative idea and stand
ready to see the thing through.

Growing to Increase,

Illinois ranked fourth among the
states in car-lot shipments of
peaches in 1922. It is also one of
the leading early apple states.
With large plantings of peaches
and apples in recent years, the
state promises to occupy an Im-
portant place In the fruit indus-
try. The organization of the Elx-
change is therefore a timely mat-
ter In view of the improved mar-
keting conditions it will bring
about.

It has been estimated that. In
five years the normal peach crop
of Illinois will total from 8.000 to
9,000 cars yearly. The apple pro-
duction gives promise of a pro-
portionate increase.

According to Mr. Leeper, presfent
activities in southern Illinois indi-
cate that the Eixchange will in-
crease greatly In membership dur-
ing 1923. A strawberry growers'
local has recently been formed at
Metropolis, to be known as the
Massac BYuit Growers. Meetings
have been held and formation of

ILLINOIS "CO-OPS"

This is the first of a series
of articles to appear In the
I. A. A. Record on co-oper-
ative marketing organiza-
tions which have been start-
ed by the I. A. A., county
farm bureaus and allied or-
ganizations. The next will
be on the Peoria -Live Stock
Commission Association.

/. A. A. Arranges
For Farm Bureau
Gatepost Signs

"the I. A. A. has ' made arrange-
ments for the purchasing ot "Mem-
ber Farm Bureau" ~8lgns at the most
reasonable prices yet quoted and
counties who desire to furnish these
their members are asked to co-op-
erate by placing orders at once to
insure the lowest quotations on
qua^ntity orders. Communications
shMiId be addressed to J. D. Hari>-
er,' Office Secretary, c/o I. A. A.

Tthere are two styles of signs,
a l^rge one with space for the mem-
bers nam^ and a smaller one with-
out space- for name. Both signs
are blue and white with a small 1.
A. ^. map and .A. F. B. F. map in
either corner with the words,
"Member Farm Bureau" promi-
nently displayed.

rnnsBURGH puis"

UP TO LEGISLATORS
IN WESTERN STATES

Live Stock Men --,^ r -r-
Hold Conference
With the I. A. A.

A meeting of representatives of
the Live Stock Marketing Depart-
ment of the I. A. A. and of the
Indianapolis, Peoria. Chicago and
East St. Louis Live Stock Pro-
ducer's Associations was held in
the I. A. A. offices recently to dis-
cuss the relations between local
live stock shipping associations and
the farm bureaus.

While no definite action was
talien it was informally agreed that
the interests ot both could be best
served by closer working relations
between the shipping associations
and the farm bureaus.

IW»

Fake Freight Charge of Steel
Mills Brings Wave
of Protest ^

"Pittfebnrgh Plus," for some
time an: I. A. A. and farm bu-
reau issue in Illinois, is the sub-
ject of measures for appropria-
tions befing introduced before a
number; of state legislatures in
the mi(^le west, incloding Illi-
nois, j

The term, "Pittsburgh Plus"
means nlerely the practice ot steel
manufacturers of making Pitts
burgh, penn., the base of their
prices f»r various products. For
Instaoeej a man might haul steel
from th0 mills at Gary with his
own trudc, yet he would be charged
the $6.Sf which would have been
the amount of freight from Pitts-
burgh to Gary, bad the steel been
made aQd sent from Pittsiburgh.

This Imaginary freight charge,
ot course, goes Into the pockets of
the steel manufacturers.

Since ithe farmer is one of the
largest consumers ot steel products
in the country — sometimes esti-
mated to be the largest — he is pay-
ing a lasge part of this extertlon.

The I. A. A. has passed a reso-
lution against the "Pittsburgh
Plus" practice and has always uMl
Itsjinfluence against it.

Farm Bureau At: Capital-
Is Making U. 5. History

The Washington oflfice of the
American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration, almost for the first time
since it was installed, is having a
breathing spell, after the ad-
journment of Congress seteral
weeks ago. A breathing spell
at this office merely means, how-
ever, the planning for the next
session of Congress.

It was only several years ago
that this office was opened in the
Munsey Building, with Gray, Sil-
ver, a West Virginia farmer. In
charge. It was but a one-room
office in those days: Mr. Sliver
and bis secretary.

Other "Blocs"

At that time Wall Street, the
manufacturers and other great
lines of Industry had and always
had their "blocs" in Congress.
The farmer had never been ad-
equately represented, in spite of
the fact that his Industry Is one
of the greatest in the country.

more locals seems imminent at
Pulaski, Oblong, Newton, Walnnt
Hill, and Mt Carmel.

Ofllcers Elected

At the annual meeting of the
niiBois Fruit Exchan^ at Cen-
tralia, February 20, officers #ere
elected for 1923 as 'follows: Pres-
ident, W. ■ L. Cope, Marion coun-
ty, (reelected) ; vice-president, O,
V. ■ Cummins, Jetferson county;
secretary, Norman W. Casper,
Johtason county (re-elected) ; Er-
nest G. Kinsey, Marion county,
treasurer.

These officers, together with R.
K. Loomis, Union countji; R. B.
Endicott^ Pulaski county; Frank
Lanter, St. Clair county; and E.
H. Barker, Union county, will
constitute the Board ot Directors
of the year.

One evening, however, rfF»-eral
Congressmen met informally with
Mr. Silver in the A. F. B.'F. office.
There iTas nothing secret about
this meeting — - a few reporters
were present and Joined in the
discussion.

It was agreed that the farmer
was desperately In need of cor-
rective legislation to improve his
condition- He had been made thp
"goat" of the ^nancial let-down
which fsUowed the war.
The "FWm Bloc"

Thus Was the famous "agrient-
tural bloc" bom.

For some time the name "farm
bloc" was used In derisioB and
protest. But the organization,
which Devei^ was political in its
lines, gnew amazingly fast. The
senators and representatives from
the farming -states learned
through information presented by
the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration, ' the I. A. A. an<*
state federations, the desperate
conditio^ of the farmer.

fResnIt b History

The Result will go Into every
history of this . period ot Ameri-
can development: the passage of
more, legislation of benefit to
farmers in 1921 and 1922 than
had been passed in any like pe^
riod since the first U. IS. Qoniiress.

Some of these laws are: the
co-operative marketing act, the
anti-grata gambling act, the pack-
er and stockyards control act. the
tarmer-eimergency tariff, the >ct
giving farmers j^presentatlon on
the Fedpral Reserve Board, ,th«
act extending to agriculthre Ihe"^
flnanciall aid of the War Finance
Corporation, the recent farm cred-
its act and other leeislatioa.

And the Washington office of
the A. FV B. F: is still on the Job!

eiDerate i

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The Iflinob Agricultural Association Record

April I, 1923

Illinois Needs a New "Co-op" Marketing Law!

f

McHENRY FARMERS
GET FACTS ABOUT
LIVE STOCK 'T.B;

County-wide Demonstration

Meeting is Sequel To

Months of Dispute

V

THE T. B.' MAP

The climax of months of bo-
vine tuberculosis agitation in
McHenry county came at a
county-vi-ide meeting recently
when several hundred daily
farmers gathered at Woodstock
to witness a demsonstration and
to hear authorities discuss all
phases of the subject. .

An indignation meeting had been
lield during the few weeks pre-
ceding the demonstration to com-
bat reports that the herds of the
county were badly infected with
tuberculosis.- Farmers and others
interested were divided into two
f camps, one favoring an immedi-
( ate campaign to clean out the
/plague, the other opposing a cam-
paign, saying that It would work
hardship to the farming interests
iif-The district.

Propaganda, lack of understand-
ing of the economic value of erad-
iiation, doubt aa to the reliability
(if the test, and scant knowledge
iif how well owners were indemnl-
I ed for losses, were reasons for
tlie ill Reeling.

r>r. Auapburger, a government
V lerinarjan, eonggcted the dem-
onstration. Five cattle of dlfter-
fit ages, which had" reacted to
the tubsrculin test, were slaugh-
tered. All showed visible lesidns
of tuberculosis.

Several Addresses

Following the demonstration,
several prominent authorities
spoke on tuberculosis and its erad-
iciation. These included A. J.
Glover, editor of Hoard's Dairy-
man; H. R. Smith, national live
stock commissioner; Dr. A. E.
White, assisunt chief of the Bu-
(•eau of Animal Industry; and Dr.
J. J. Lintner. in charge of tuber-
culosis eradication work- in Illi-
nois.

The speakers showed the Im-
mense economic loss to the farm-
ers themselves by tuberculosis. It
was shown that In addition to the
menace to health of people drink-
ing milk from tuberculous cows,
there are important financial rea-
sons for eradicating the dissase.

■ Economic Loss

». .jTOiWi TJoted government
figures to show that 20.3 per cei^
of the hogs coming on the Chi-
cago market last year showed le-
sions of tuberculosis, the result of
infection from diseased cattle. He
stated that cattle coming from
counties known to be badly in-
fected often sold for from 75 cents
to a dollar less than those from
cleaner districts. The packers are
willing to pay a premiiim on stock
from tested counties, he said.

Information that had spread over
McHehry county ^o the effect that
compulsory testing, with no"in-
demnity, was desired, was com-
batted by Dr. Lintner, who ex-
plained the progress of the work
in Illinois and how owners were
indemnified by federal and state
funds. He stated that testing was
optional with owners.

[ir^tiMaL

THE above map shows the
estimated amount of bovine
tuberculosis in the various
counties of Illinois. The coun-
ties in black are those In which
It is estimated that there Is
fifteen per cent or more of the
disease among the herds; the
shaded counties are those In
which from one to fifteen per
cent of the herds are estimated
to be tuberculous; and the
white counties are those which
have only one per cent or less.

Forty Farm Boys
Come To Chicago,
Visit the I. A. A.

C. F. Baumeister, of Freeport,
farm adviser of the Stephenson
County Farm Bureau, brought forty
boys to Cbdcago. for an educational
trip, March 29 and 30, as a part of
his Farm Boys Short Course. It
was planned to visit the Stock
Yards and see tuberculous catUe
slaughtered, also to Inspect the 1
A. A. and A. F. B. F.

With the strong evidence pre-
sented at the deidonstration and
meeting, most of the "anti" prop-
aganda was dispelled and many
of the unbelievers converted to
the cause of cleaning out the
plague from the herds Ot the
county. I -

Two Resolotioiis

Two resolutions were introduced
and adopted unanimously by those
in attendance. The first read as
follows;

"In recognition of the need ot
an appropriation for tuberculosis
eradication, we, the farmers of
McHenry County, 111., at Wood
stock assembled, March 1, 1923,
urge our representatives in the
legislature to make every effort
possible to secure adequate funds
for indemnity to reimlMjrse Owners
for a part of the loss on reacting
cattle slanthtered."

The second resolution called up-
on, the county board of supervi-
sors to appropriate funds for the
carrying oa of a local campaign
of eradication.

Further plans for the cleanup
campaign will be inaogurated at
a public meeting of McHenry
farmers and business men to be
called with)n a few weeks.

'CO-OP' MARKETING
UP TO LEGISUTURE

(Continued from Page One)

can be efficiently done and to sta-
bilize the marketing of agricultural
products."

Eleven or more persons engaged
in agricultural production may or-
ganize an association, which may
engage for its members in the mar-
keting or selling, harvesting, pre-
serving, 'drying, processing, can-
ning, packing, grading, storing,
shipping, or the manufacture or
marketing of by-products.

The act provides that any per-
son who maliciously and know-
ingly spreads false reports about
association affairs shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and subject to
punishment.

No stockholder may own more
than one-twentieth of the common
stock of the association, accord-
ing to the provisions.

Associations are allowed to make
contracts with members to sell
for any period of time not over ten
years, all or any specified part of
their products.

The act is permissive In charac-
ter in that it enables the organ-
ization of/ co-operative associa-
tions but Moes not interfere with
the present law on organization.
It does not Interfere with the op-
eration of elevators or other cor
operatives organized under the
present law.

Any association at present or-
ganized may be brought under the
provisions of the act if It is passed.
Trade Board Act

The Board ot Trade bill provides
that "No associations of persons,
whether Incorporated or unincor-
porated, comprised of brokers, com-
mission merchants, or traders, en-
gaged In buying, selling, dealing in
or exchanging grain, live ^stock,
other agricultural products or the
by-products thereof" shall discrim-
inate in any way in the sale of its
memberships or In the conferring
of trading privileges against any
person or association with adequate
financial responsibility, and who
agree to comply to all reasonable
rules and conditions governing that
association.

It further provides that such as-
sociations shall not make discrimin-
atory rules against co-operative
organizations of producers or pro-
hibit them from returning to bona
fide members, on a patronage basis,
moneys collected in excess of ex-
penses of such cooperative associa-
tions-
Further provisions are made for
tlons who are discriminated
relief in the courts of organlza-
against. Memberships or trading
privileges in Board of Trade must
be conferred within thirty days
after demand, according to the act,
or each day of delay thereafter
shall be considered a separate of-
fense against such associations.
"T. B." Funds

The I. A. A. maintains the posi-
tion on the several road bills which
are to be brought up during this
session of the legislature that It
stands for farm-to-market roads
rather than the use of all funds for
cement city-to-clty highways. Ac-
cording to the resolution passed at
the annual meeting the I. A. A. Is
urging a $500,000 state appropria-
tion for the eradication of bovine
tuberculosis.

New Milk Plant
At Rock Island
Ready on May 1

Construction of the new coop-
erative milk marketing plant Is
under way at Rock Island and the
directors plan to have It- in opera-
tion by May 1. The building is
being erected at a cost ot $20,000,
exclusive of equipment.

The Rock Island project is cap-
italized at $50,000 and is backed
by the local Farm Bureau- A. D.
Lynch, Director of Dairy Market-
ing of the I. A. A., is rendering
assistance In the work.

Contracts for the installation of
strictly modern equipment will be
let at a very early date and a man-
ager will also be appointed.

Two Other Laws
Have R^lation^
To Credits Act

A delegation of senators and
representatives called upon U. S.
Secretary of Agriculture Henry C.
Wallace recently to ask him as to
the relation between the new
Agricultural Credits act and ex-
isting facilities, such as- the War
Finance Corporation and the Fed-
eral Warehouse Act. Mr. Wal-
lace ■ Issued the following state-
ment:

"The Agricultural Credits Act
does not In any way Interi re with
the functioning of the War Fi-
nance Corporation. The life of
the -War Finance Corporation was
extended to Feb. 29, 1924, for the
very purpose of making sure tlut
there should be no restriction of
credit facilities to the farmer dur
ing the period needed to build up
the machinery of the new credits
act. The War Finance Corpora-
tion has ample funds and nothing
has been done to limit its work.

"The United States Warehouse
Act has an important relation to
the new credit system- Origin
ally, the law limited licensed
warehouse commodities to cotton,
wool, tobacco and grain. The
law has been so amended as to
remove limitations. Under the
present act the Secretary of Agri-
culture can license ^a warehouse
for the storage of any products
he considers would constitute
sound collateral. There should be
no difficulty in making advan-
tageous loans based upon such
collateral."

18 COUNTIES HOLIK
MEMBER CAMPAIGNS
SINCEJANUARY

Greatly Hampered By Bad
. Roads; Dates For Four
New Schools Set

Eighteen Illinois counties have
Instituted Farm Bureau member-
ship reorganization campaigns dur-
ing the first three months of 1923.
Only one county, Williamson, has
announced the compieflon of Its
campaign, the remainder not be-
ing entirely cleaned up as yet.

Fulton county stands high in
members secured this year, with a
total of about 1,300 announced and
returns not all in.

The campaigns have been greatly
hampered by weather conditlops
and alibost— impassable roads. In
many counties solicitors have been
obliged to give up their work for
long periods due to the difficulties
In travelling.

Counties which started their cam-
paigns In January and February In-
clude Fulton. Pike, Mason, Union,
Lawrence, McDonough, Lee, Han-
cock, DeWitt, Kendall, Menard,
Williamson, Boone, and Cook.

Ogle, Adams, Morgan, and Cass
counties held solicitors' schools
preparatory to campaigns during
the latter part of March-
Dates for schools in Madison,
Ford, Stark; and Franklin counties
have been set for the spring and
summer months. Several more will
reorganize, but have not completed
the preliminary arrangements at
this time.

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I. A. A. Wool Pool
Gets. Ready for
Shearing Season

"The sheep-shearing season will
soon be upon us and we want to
keep before the members of the
1. A. A. the fact that every effort
is being made to make the wool
pool larger than ever this year,"
says the Livestock Marketing De-
partment of the I. A. A.

"Prices obtained" last year were
gratifying and the service offered
by the National Wool and Ware-
house Storage Company in hand-
ling the clip and making returns
exceeded all expectatlonB.

Montana growers have pledged
75 per cent of the total clip to
this year's pool and the results
obtained In Wyoming are almost
as large.

Serum Purchasing
Committee Makes
Recommendations

The Serum Purchasing Commit-
tee of Five, which was appointed
at the I. A. A. annual meeting, met
recently to consider a contract for
the handling of serum during 1923.

The committee is recommending
a contract with a large serum com-
pany to furnish both serum and
virus at 75 cents per cubic centi--
meter for the year. Based on last
year's contract, this price Is five
cents less per cc, and will result in
an estimated saving of $11,000 to
the counties purchasing serum.

There are 31 county farm bureaus
which have serum depots, and nine
others will order serum through
the contract.

Two Employes
« Leave Service

of Association

Two employes, E. F. Murphy, of
the Poultry and Egg Marketing De-
partment, and A. O. Peterson, of
the News-Publicity service, have
left the I. A. A.; Mr. Murphy to
take up other work and Mr. Peter-
son on account of serious illness.
The tatter's place has been taken
by George Btggar, formerly of the
Mollne Dispatch, an Instructor last
year In South Dakota State College.
J. D. Harper, assistant to the secre-
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Volume 1

April IS, 1923

Number 3

SENATE PASSES COOPERATIVE MARKETING BILL

U.S.G.G. DIRECTORS
APPOINT OFFICERS,
DISCO^EW PLAN

Grain Marketing Program

Going Toward Uniting

of Forces

The Board of Directors of the
U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., held
a two-day session in the Chicago
ofSces of the organization recent-
ly and elected officers as follows :

President, Harry L. Keefe,
Walthill, Nebr., ; Vice President,
Eugene Funk, Shirley, IlL ; Sec-
retary, J. M. Mehl, Chicago, 111.
The executive committee con-
sists of Harry L. Keefe, Chair-
man ; R. A. Cowles (treasurer of
the niinoi") Agricultural Asso-
ciation), Bloomington, 111.; T. I.
Ferris, Pleasanthill, Ind.
O New Board Member

John G. Brown, of Indiana, re-
signed from the Board of Direct-
era in order to devote all of his
time to his duties as president of
the National Live Stock Produc-
ers Association. Marshall P. HIU,
Francisviile, Ind., president of the
Indiana Farmers' Grain Dealers'
Association, was elected in Mr.
Brown's place.

Detailed statement as to the
plans for the immediate future
of the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc.,
.was reserved until later but it
was made known that a working
plan had been agreed upon by
the committee. This plan was
explained to the farm bureau
, presidents of Illinois at their
meeting a few days later by
Secretary J. C. Ceverdale, of the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion.

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Extra Copies of
First Two Issues
of The Record

There are several thousand
copies of the first issue of The
I. A. A. Record available. These
win be sent in any quantity de-
sired to any farm bureau request-
ing them, as long as the supply
lasts. This issue is a resume of
the annual meeting and of the
L A. A. and A. F. B. F. accom-
plishments of 1922.

An over-supply was ordered on
account of the constant changes
in the mailing list, due to mem-
bership campaigns.
' There are also a few hundred
available copies of the April 1
issue for any county farm bureau
which can use them. ' >

There have been several letters
received which noted that the
writer was not receiving The
Record. All these names are
being put on the list as rapidly
as possible. ' /

Demand For Farm
Hands Over 100
Ahead of Supply

According to Chas J. Boyd,
general superintendent of the Il-
linois Free Employment Bureau,
the demand for farm help at this
time is very great and the of-
ficers of the bureau throughout
the state have many orders from
farmers wbich they are unable
to fill.

The Chicago office, 116 North
Dearborn street, reports that or-
ders have been placed there for
over 100 farm hands with pay
from $40 to $6S per month with
room and board. Occasionally
higher rates are offered, states
Mr. Boyd, but the help does not
seem to be forthcoming.

Producers Continue 7b vi
Rank High On Markets

, Continued success of the Pro-
ducers Live Stock Commission
companies on the various mar-
kets was evidenced during the
month of March.

The Chicago Producers stood
first among the companies on that
market for three weeks of the
month and ranked second during
the other week. A toUl of 1.130
cars of live stock was handled.

At Indianapolis, the Producers
handled 740 cars, or 25.4 per
cent of the total volume of busi-
^ neas on that market in March.
The company ranked first each
week of the month.

Handline 762 ears, or 14.9 per
cent, of the Tolnme at the Blast

St. Louis market, the Producers
held first place for three weeks
and second during the fourth
week of March.

At both the Buffalo and Peoria
markets, the Producers held first
rank each week. A total of 570
cars, or 18.5 per cent of the vol-
ume, shows the success at Buffalo.
At Peoria, 156 cars were handled
during the four weeks.

Difficulties peculiar to a new
establishment were experienced at
Kansas City, where the Producers
opened March 5. However, the
company climbed from 26th' place,
with 24 cars, during the third
week,, to I5th with 36 cars, dur-
ing the fourth week of the month.

DAIRY COMMITTEE
SUBMITS PUN FOR
A SALK AGENCY

Representatives of Co-opera-
tive Associations Meet in
Chicago on April 9

Representatives of co-operative
dairy marketing organisations
from all parts of the country
met at the Sherman Hotel, Chi-
cago, April 9, to complete plans
for a'Tiational sales agency to
sell butter, cheese and' con-
densed milk.

J. T. Williams, president of the
Chicago Milk Producers Market-
ing Committee and chairman of
the Committee of Nine, presided
at 'he meeting. Walton Peteet,
director of co-operative market-
ing for the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation, and Aaron Sa-
piro, counsel of the marketing
committee, addressed the meeting,
explaining the plan and citing the
advantages of a national sales
agency for marketing dairy prod-
ucts.

ffnclens of Plan

The plan as presented by the
committee was not complete, but
was put forth as a nucleus upon
which to build a national plan
for co-operative inarketing of
manufactured dairy products.
Consultation was held with repre-
sentatives of dairy manufacti^ring
associations throughout the^giid-
dle west in the formulating; of
the plan. - ;

Important features of the plan
Include the creating of a national
brand for butter, the first step
in a national merchandising pro-
gram. While all the butter sold
will • be stamped with the brand
name, it will also bear the name
of the individual co-operative
creamery manufacturing it.
Through a program of national
advertising, similar to that of the
California fruit growers, the co-
operative sales agency will strive
to put the national brand name
before the consumer to become
as well and favorably known as
the fruit growers' brands ar^ now
known.

Agencies In Cities

Agencies will be established in
the principal cities to gather in-
formation and statistics relative
to the dairy markets to place be-
fore the creameries in the vari-:
ous states belonging to the co-
operative. Aid will also be given
to assist the members in dispos-
ing of surplus milk and cream.
Every effort will be made to cre-
ate a stabilized dairy products
market.

Cass County Does
Fine Work; Other
Campaigns Coming

An unusually fine record was
made by the Cass County Farm
Bureau in its reorganization cam-
paign. One hundred per cent
wai made in the solictors' school
on March 28, when 181 agree-
ments were signed. By March 31,
three days later, 578 memberships
were secured and tamed in to
the state office. This was 86 per
cent of the former membership of
'678. H. C. McCarrel .directed the
Cass campaign.

Ogle county, whose school was
originally scheduled for March
19, was forced to poatpone until
April 4, due to the severe snow
storm in that section of tbe state
previous to the 19th.

Madiison county will hold its
school at Edwardsvillie on April
16, followed by the Bureau county
school at Princeton on May 1.

Holsteins To Be-
Sold At Aurora
April 19 and 20

The Illinois Third Guaranty
State Sale of Holstein-Prieslan
cattle will be held at the Central
States Fair Grounds, Aurora^
April 19 and 20. Twenty breedj-
ers fr^m all parts of tbe state
have consigned about li>0 high
class Individuals of the breed . to
this sale.

The sale is a co-operative en-
terprise on the part of Holatein
breeders and is sponsored by the
Illinois Holstein-Friesian Associa-
tion. Tbe many inquiries com-
ing to the associatioa point to
more interest in the event than
has been the - case for several
years, indicating that improved
milk market and other conditions
are causing a demand for pure
bred foundation dairy cattle.

VOTE IS 34 TO 3
IN FAVOR OF ACT;
ONE AMENDMENT

Resolutioa of Illinois Farm
Bureau Presidents Pre-
sented to Legislature

By a majority of thirtgr-four
to three th« cooperativ* market-
ing bill pacsed the Senate. The
opposing Votes were those of. ;
Chicago setiators. Everj' doipn-
state memher voteid for it.

Six out lof the' nine Chicago
senators, Ihowevier, recorded
themselvea in lavor of the
mea-sure. J

Kit Amendment

The only! ppposiition came two'
days before the passage of the
bill at a hqaring before the Sen-
ate. This opposittbn was in the
form of a proposed amendment
to the bill,; but resulted aliso in
censure of some of tbe provisions
of the measure which were not
up for ameddment. The amend-
ment would have changed the
bill te eoni(iel co-operative mar-
keting associations to release
members from marketiag con-
tracts on a year's notice.

It was d«feated 30 to 6, after
some discusBion:

Adopt Cluuwe

Another amendment from a
Chicago semator which would
have cast out several of the most
vital sections of tbe bill was de-
feated.

The only amendment wtiieb
was finally adopted was one
brought up by Senator Mason,
of Chicago, which would permit
co-operative contracts to be made
for any len^ of time instead of
<Contjnu«^<.n|Bp«« ;>

General Manager Hired
For Chicago Milk ^Co-op^

The Milk Producers* Market-
ing Company of Chicago recent-
ly announced the selection of
Fred Blizzard, West Town^ N.
Y., as new general manager of
the company.

Mr. Blizzard has bad thirty-one
years exj>erience in dairy market-
ing work. He was for several
years with the Borden company
in New Tork as general manager
and more recently baa been en-
gaged in practical dairy farming
in the East. Be has also been
greatly interested io the building
up of the anecessfttl Dairymen's
League, New Tank, bdplng that

co-operative work out many <ot
its problems.

Since taking np bis work with
the Chicago marketing company
on April I. Mr. Blitzard has been
devoting the time to a general
study Of the milk marketing sit-
uation in tbe district and in lad-
ing out plans for the growing
success of tbe company.

With such a maa with proven
business ability at the heul of
the co-operaitive, tbe officers a«d
directors of the company are ask-
ing the whole hearted eo-opora-
tion of every producer member to
roboild tbe oompanr.

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Uliooii AjrkiiltDral AssodatioD

R E C O R D

PuMABh«4 twloe a month by the
IIt4n«<8 ARrioulturat Association.
«©« asuth ^Dearborn Street. Chicago,
Illin*iB. Kdited by News Publicity
department. I^. J. Montross, Director.

Entry as s*cond class matter Oct.
!•, 1921, at the post ofTlce at Chi-
cago. Illinois, under the act of
March 3. 1879.

The Individual membership fee of
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion Is Ave dollars a year. This
fee Inctudsa payment of teji cents
for subscription to the Illinois Agr-
rlcultural Association Record.

OFFICERS

President. S. H- Thompaon. Qulncy.

Vice-President, A. O. Eckert. Bvll*--
ville.
• Secretary. Geo. A. Fox. Sycamore.

Treasurer. R. A- Cowles. Blooming-
ton. -

EXECCTU'E COM>inTEE
' By Coi^resslonal Districts

nth — Henry McGou^h. Maple Park-
12th — O. P. TuUock. Rockford.
13th — C. K. Bamborough. Polo.
14th — W. H. Moody, Port Byron.
15th — H. B. Goembel. Hoopole.
16th — G. B. Reder. Mendota.
I7th — F. D. Barton. Cornell.
18th — C. R. Finley. Hpopeston.
19th — D. J. Holterman. Sadorus.
30th — Earl J. Smith. Detroit.
81et — E. I* Corbin. Carllnvllle.
22nd — Fred Baumberger. Reno.
23rd — Carlton Trimble. Trimble.
24th — Curt Anderson, Xenia.
25th — Vernon Lessley. Sparta.

Mrectors of Departments,

I. A. A. Office

General Office and Assistant to Sec-
retary, J. D. Harper; Field Organis-
ation. J.C. Sailor; Organization Pub-
lioity. G. E. Metzger; News Public-
ity, L*. J. Montross; Transportation;
L. J. Quasey: Statistics. J. C. Wat-
son; Financed R. A. -Cowles; FruiV
and Vegetable Marketing, C- B-
Durst; Live Stock Marketlnff. C. A.
Stewart; Dairy Marketing. A^ D.
Lynch; Phosphate Limeflto»«. J.R.
Bent.

U.S.6.G. DIRECTORS
APPOINT OFFICERS,
DISCOSSNEW PUN

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FaruioTM* Elevators

In general, the plan aims to
make good on the grain market-
ing program and. to that end, to
bring into proper relationship to
one another the existing forces,
including the local farmers' ele-
vators, on the one hand, and
the single commodity marketing
organizations on the other.

The executive comnJtttee of the
organization Is of the opinion
that the local farmers' elevators
must be the basis upon which
to build a grain selling organiza-
tion, including ownership and
conti;ol in terminal elevators and
all handling facilities.

Order!; Marketing

At the same time the commit-
tee recognizes the need for special
commodity organizations to direct
intelligently the flow of grain
through these facilities and there-
by effect orderly and organized
marketing. If modifications are
necessary in the present plan of
the U. S. Grain Growers. Inc., to
_hf|iic this atmut. the Board of
Dirtctors wltl not hesitate to take
the respodsibillty for making
tbem.

The present adfiintstratlon of
the U. S. Grain Growers. Inc., is
adopting the policy of making no
forecasts as to what Is to be
done, but on the contrary trying
to go ahead slowly and steadily
on a firm basis to work out the
problem of the co-operative mar-
keting of the farmer's grain.

The Mcecuttve board of the
Canadian Council of Agriculture
recently visited the American
Parm Bureau Federation in Chi-
cago for the purpose of studying
the farm bureau movement from
top to bottom. Organized farm-
ers in Canada are planning to
model some of their work after
American accomplishments.

Here's a Story of Facts and Figures:

the Statistical Service of the /. A. A.

STATISTICS

Figures and statistics make dry reading — sometimes. But
there ape exceptions : it was largely due to the figures and sta-
tistics dug up by the I. A. A. and county farm bureaus that
farmers of Illinois read last January that they had realized a
saving of more than half a million dollars in 1922 taxes for state
purposes. That wa.sn't dry reading!

The Statistical Service of the I. A. A., or, rather, John C. Watson,
Statistician, furnishes the facts and figures which must generally be
had before a further step can be taken In many phases of taxation,
legislation and marketing. It is no job for an amateur: it is highly
specialized work which demands training and experience.

In 1920, for example, the farmer knew that in many instances he
jras paying too much taxes. But he couldn't prove It! Other business
men could. They had their statisticians. They were able to come
before the Tax Commission with the facts and figures.

But U 1921 the I. A. A. and the
county (arm bureaus started after
the statistics and figures. They
spent two years in research. They
found that for twenty years the
Illinois farmer had been bearing
an unduly large part of the state
tax burden.

Saving of $550,000

In 1921 and 1922 the I. A. A.
and county farm bureaus appeared
before the Illinois Tax Commis-
sion with a plea for lower farm
land taxes. The result was the
prevention of one-half of the con-
templated raise in 1921 and a re-
duction in state valuations In 1922
which meant a saving of 1550,000
in state land taxes for 1922 alone.

But the work of the I. A. A.
In taxes Is by no means ended with
this. The Statistical Service is
making taxation its big project
for 1923.

Revaluation' In 192.1

The revaluation of real estate
which comes every four years falls
this time in the spring of 1923.
Investigations of the Statistical
Service show that in nearly half
of the ladividual counties and in
the state as a whole, land is now
assessed at its highest point — in
spite of the well-known decrease
in actual values during the last
few years. The same Investiga^
tions show that in many counties
average valuations of town and
city lots are lower than they were
twenty years ago in spite of the
well-known raise in actual values
during the last few years.

Land has lost since 1920 from
20 to 6W per cent of Its sales val-
ue. Town and city lots have ad-
vanced enormously in sales value.
Yet — land is assessed at its high-
est point and eighty per cent of
lots at their average pre-war val-
ue. Obviously the farmer is pay-
ing more than his share of the
cost of state government
facts and Figures

Under a plan proposed by the
Statistical Service, investigations
are now tieing made in 20 to 30
Illinois A)untie8 to determine the
exact relationship of land to lots.

It bas b^n found in one of the
counties, of chiefly town and city
population, having one of the
largest cities outside of Chicago,
th|it land is assessed at 58.88 per
ceiit of its sales value, lots at
42.80 per cent.

Translated into cold cash,
land owners in this county are
paying about... 150,000 more than
their sliare. In another county
land owners are paying about
$150,000 a year more for county
and state taxes alone than they
would pay if land was assessed
on the same basis as town and city
1«U.

The Tenant, Too

The firmer who doesn't own
land is also being iQoked after by
the Statistical Service in his taxes.
Records have been secured of sales
which show that live stock and
other farm personal property is

NEXT TIME

Next time — the story of the
Dairy Products Marketing
Department of the I. A. A.
This department la one of
the oldest of I. A. A.
marketing departments. It
has aided producers In the
formation of marketing asso-
ciations In almost every cor-
ner of the State. The ac-
count of its work and of what
it can do for dairymen in the
farm bureau will Interest you.
Wateii for it— In the next Is-
sue.

JOHN C. WATSON
John C. Watson, of tlie I. A. A.
Statistical Service, has been in the
employ of the association for three
years. His life training has been
such as to fit him for his investi-
gations In statistics on behalf of
Illinois farmers. He Is, In addition,
a farmsr and farm land owner of
Champaign County and knows
Just how it feels M send in the
annual check to '^over farm land
taxes.

in some instances being burdened
with a full assessed valuation of
from one-half to three-fourths
and more of its total sales value.

How Abont it?

How do things stand in YOUR
county? If you think you are
paying more than your share, get
in touch with your county farm
bureau and suggest an investiga-
tion In cooperation with the I. A.
A. Statistical Service. This Is one
of the greatest pieces of work the
I. A. A. can do for your county In
1923.

This investigation must be con-
ducted before next summer, how-
ever, or it may be too late. After
the County Boards of Review act
this summer, it will b^ difficult fo
get changes in valuations of real
estate.

How It's Spent

Another service to your county
which the I. A. A. Statistical Ser-
vice plans for 1923 is the start of
an investigation to find what your
local and county tax money goes
for.

. The Statistical Service hopes to
suggest and outline a plan where-
by, without too much expense, an
analysis of local and county ex-
penditures can be made — not at
all with the Idea of seeking out
pOBsible carelessness and dishon-
esty of officials, but to leave to
your Judgment whether or not

your tax money has been spent
economically and wisely. You
should know.

This isn't all

These two great projects do not
in any sense constitute the entire
work of the Statistical Service.
Many other sorts of statistical in-
vestigation— in soy bean produc-
tion, in the tariff, in various
phases of marketing and legisla-
tion— have been made during the
last two years and will be made in
the future.

But during 1923 the I. A.
A. Statistical Service will devote
the greater portion of its time and
effort to the two taxation projeci
outlined in this article. They a.
huge projects. They are probably
too huge to be finished in one year
or in several years. But their
accomplishment, even in part, will
not only let the Illinois farmer
know — for the first time — Just
where he stands on taxes, but it
should also save him an amount a
great deal more In most cases
than the dues he pays for any one
year.

Watch the statistics — they're
important!

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April IS, 1923 ( April

COOP" MMKETMG
ACTIS PASSED BY
VOTE OF 34 10 3

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limiting them to ten years. This
amendment Is of little impor-
tance, however, as contracts sel-
dom run even as long as ten
years.

Chici^o Support
Not only were two-thirds of
the Chicago senators In favor of
the measure, but the two most
prominent newspapers In Chicago
have given the co-operative mar-
keting bill their editorial backing.

F. B. Resolntion

A resolution, which Is printed
in full on page four of this Issue,
in favor of the co-operative mar-
keting bill and the bill to allow
farmers' organizations a seat on
grain exchanges was presented to
every member of the Illinois leg-
islature on the day before the
hearing on the bill. This resolu-
tion was passed by the farm
bureau presidents of the state at
theii" recent meeting with the I.
A. A. in Chicago.

A FARM BUREAU CREED

I am the Farm Bureau. I believe in the happiness, pros-
perity, and general well-being of the followers of agriculture
— the world's basic industry. I am an exponent of all just
methods which will enable the American farmer to jibtain
that happiness and prosperity which are so essential to the
welfare of this great nation.

I am the Farm Bureau. Formed a few years ago, my fol-
lowers now number over a million tillers of the soil in all
parts of America. In my short existence I have made the or-
ganized farmer a power that is respected throughout- the
length and breadth of our land. My Infiuence is felt In the
halls of legislation, the centers of finance, and the nation's
markets. I stand for fair legislation, for alleviation of the
farmers' financial burdens, and for efficient marketing through
co-operation. I strive for the economic betterment of Amer-
ican farming — a factor necessary to the development of all
American industries.

I am the Farm Bureau. I believe' in the sanctity of the
soil, the basis of all prosperity. I hope to see the day when
all men will regard the upkeep of the fertility of the soil as a
sacred trust, i believe in fm^roved methods of farming, bet-
ter crops, purebred live stocK-r-all ;of which stand for com-
mon sense and efficiency. I hai<e faith in the boys and girls
of the farm and through m^f^rogram I am making them
better able to meet the problems of tomorrow. I desire an
organized community life — atTlace where farmers may work,
play, and worship together. I stand for better rural schools
— institutions where the children of the farm will have priv-
ileges .^qual to those of the city.

I am the Farm Bureau. I have a constructive program for
the farmers of America — a program that cannot be accom-
plished in a day. or a year, but which will be developed as
the result of experience, education, co-operation, and hard
work. My basis is sound. My principles are trustworthy.
My leaders are honorable and capable — men chosen from the
farms of America.

I am the Farm Bureau — the hope of the American farmer.

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$25,000 for Cook
County Station
Pauses Senate

A delegation from the Cook
County Farm Bureau appeared at
Springfield recently on behalf of
an appropriation from the legis-
lature for $25,000 for a truck
crop experiment station in the
couuty. The Senate appropria-
tions committee put its O. K. oil
the project.

Cook County is one of the most
extensive producers of truck crops
in the United States.-

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68,035 Head of Live Stock Received *
In 8 Months By Peoria Co-operative

The first result of the ratifiea'
tion of the plan of the Farmers'
National Live Stock Marketing
Committee of Fifteen, appointed
in 1920 by the American Farm
Bureau Federation to work out
a national marketing plan, was
the formation late in 1921 of the
National Live Stock Producers'
Association. This agency, with
headquarters at Chicago, pro-
ceeded early in 1922 to estab-
lish farmer-owned and operated
commission firms on the East St.
Louis, Chicago and Indianapolis
markets. The Illinois Agricul-
tural Association was asked to
set up a like firm on the Peoria
market.

In Marcb, 1922, an inTestiga-
tion of the market was conducted
by the Live Stock Marketing De-
partment of the I. A. A. FoUowt
Ing this, a meeting of representa-
tives of the seven counties prin-
cipally interested in the Peoria
market wascalled for the purpose
of organizing a selling agency.
The Organization

As finally organized, a board of
seven directors, one each from the
seven counties — Peoria, Woodford
Knox, stark, Fulton, Marshall, and
Tazewell — was selected by the ex-
ecutive committees of the various
farm bureaus. Funds sufficient to
establish the selling agency at
Peoria were furnished the board
of directors by the sale of member
ships to individuals and shipping
associations, and by loans from
the I. A. A. and farm bureaus In-
terested.

After selecting an experienced
and capable management, the
Peoria Producers' Commission As-
sociation opened for business, June
26, 1922, the fourth selling ag-
ency operating under the National
Live Stock Producers' Association,
previous agencies being estab-
lished at East St. Louis, Indianap-
olis, and Chicago.

^■_-: Bight Months' Growth

The following table will show
the growth that has been made
during the first eight months of
operation of the Peoria iProduc-^
ers:

■ MvBth Oar* Value '-.

July 61 t si.r.s.i.Iii

August 74 U j.^J.-tilf

Septeiiber 75 I. '3, 788. 43

October 90 ll;i.092.42

November . .• 141 175.977.31

December 165 220.531.89

January 219 301.628.90

February ISO L>36.634.96

Total 1.004 Jl.348.162.67

It will be noted that the only
marked decrease in receipts oc-
curred in February. This was
caused by the almost impassable
condition of the roads, hindering
truck shipments. During the ei^ht
months, 593 cars, or 59.06 per
cent of the total of 1,004 coming
to the Peoria Prodncers, were
shipped by truck. t

, 'Total Receipts

The total receipts during the
period were 68,035 head of live
stock, apportioned as follows:
2,020 cattle, 2,147 calves, 63.460
hogs, and 408 sheep. Commis-
sions collected amounted to a
total of $20,090.17.

For the last four months the
Producers have stood cither first
or second among the seven com-
mission firms operating on that
market. Shipments to the agency
are not entirely from the seven
counties mentioned, some live
stock being received from Mason,
Logan, and McLean counties, Illi-
nois, and from eastern Iowa terri-
tory tributary to the'M. C. and St.
h. R. R.

In accordance with the policy

THEY'RE PATRONIZING THEIR OWN RRM

1-»

This picture shows a line of trucks bearing llllnol* live stock
to the Peoria Live Stock Producers' Association, organized by
the I. A. A. and county farm bureaus. A large share of the
firm's business, which has amounted to nearly a million and a
half dollars In eight months. Is truck receipts. The farmer firm
does the most business on the market.

of the National Live Stock Produc-
ers' Association, the Peoria agen-
cy, while not a member of the ex-
change, abides by all the rules and
regulations of that body, with the
exception that it reserves the priv-
ilege of pro-bating to Its member
ship all the profits that may accrue
from the business.

How to Join

Membership in the Producers
may be obtained in several ways
An individual may make applica-
tion directly to the selling agency,
may join the local shipping as-
sociation which holds membership
on the market, or by becoming a
member of the county farm bu
reau, some of the counties having
organized coi]nty-wide^ shipping
associations and taken out a mem-
bership on that basis.

Members of the Board of Dir-
ectors of the Peoria Producers are
as follows; George Wilson, Tou-
lon, president; W. T. Youle, Dela-
van, vice president; Seaton Moon,
Harmon, secretary-treasurer r Sam
McClugage, Peoria, chairman of
board; J. F. Felter, Eureka, and
B. H. Taylor, Canton.

W. R. Hembrough, formerly in
ti'r livfc stock commission business
at East S. Louis, is manager of
tlio Producers at Peoria, and is
^-alesmah of carlpt shipments of
stock. Eddie McDonough, a bnyer
and trader for several years on
the Peoria market, takes care of
the truck hog sales, while George
Stemm is office manager.

Average Fri4!«a

It is a significant fact that the
average prices received {or hogs
on the Peoria market daring the
period the Producers have been
operating have been much bearer
the average prices on the Chicago
market than previously. This
bears out the contention made re-
peatedly by live stock producers
that a selling agency controlling
at least 25 per cent of the receipts
on the terminal market could in-
fluence favorably the prices re-
ceived for their live stock.

Answers Question

The table above will answer the
question so often asked — Are the
sales made and the services rend-
ered by co-operative selling agen-
cies on a basis with those furnished
by old line firms? Note the grad-
ual increase in the Producers'
business from month to month.
With the live stock producer as
the judge and jury, it can easily
be seen that he is satisfied with
the. Peoria co-operative selling
age'ncy as an efficient and alto-
gether satisfactory medium for
marketing live stock. Otherwise
the Peoria Producers would not.

have experienced the growth so
evident during the first eight
months of existence.

THE GOLDEN EGG

The next cooperative move-
ment of the 1. A. A. and
county farm bureaus to be
taken up in the series of arti-
cles in The Record, will be
the local poultry and egg co-
operative chipping associa-
tions in Central Illinois which
were organized last year.

/. A. A. Endeca)oring
To Help In Labor
Shortage Problem

On another page of The Record
is an item in regard ts the present
shortage of farm help in Illinois.
The I. A. A., with a view of help-
ing farm bureau members who must
have additional labOr, is endeavor-
ing to get in touch with help that
may be available for farms in the
state.

If you are in need of help, fill in
the blanks below and mail to Illi-
nois Agricultural Association, 608
S. Dearborn Street, Chicago, as
soon as possible.

Do you prefer a married or a single
man ? ^ 1

Can you use him the year round?

Is yours a dairy, livestock, or grain
farm T

Would yon prefer men of Scotch,
German, Scandinavian, or Poliab

descent?

What wages will you pay?_

When do yon need help? .

Write plainly your name, address,
and connty.

( Name ) ,

(Address) „

(County)

Milk Marketing
Situation in St.
Louis Improved

The Milk Producers' Advisory
Committee, 'which has been car-
rying on a campaign over south-
ern Illinois and Missouri for over
a mohth, has been meeting a
splendid response from producer-
creditors and stockholders of the
Illinois - Missouri Co-operative
Marketing Company, over 1,400
agreement^ having been signed
up and are in the hands of cred-
itors. ,t,. :, .. _, 1
.: :!-:* ■_>-■ .,"-.- ' "-. -1

Sapiro Is Named
** Co-op" Attorney
FortheA.F.B.F.

Aaiion Sapiro, noted co-operative
marketing attorney, was appointed
at a meeting of the Executive Com-
mittee of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation as co-operative
marketing attorney fOr that or-
ganization.

Mr. Sapiro and Walton Peteet,
Director of Co-operative Marketing
for the A. F. B. F., in co-operation
with the co-operative marketing
committee of the national associa-
tion, will shape imlicies and plans
for the big national program of
farmer marketing now under way.

"BROWN MOUSE" IS

LATEST RElfilSE OF

■OinBTEAD HLMS

Homestead Films, Inc., will
soon have its recently completed
five-reel feature film, "The Brown
Mouse," ready for distribution.
The picture is from the novel of
the same name l^ Herbert Quick,
the well known writer of farm
stories.

Mr. Quick's home county farm
bureau at Berkeley Springs, West
Virginia, has been granted the
privilege of the first public show-
ing at the film, April 18 and .19.

"The Brown Mouse" is a story
depicting the modernizing of rurkl
schoc^s through the introduction
of practical lessons in agricul-
ture. The scene is laid in a typi-
cal Iowa rural school district, all
of the characters being recogniz-
able In the average middle west-
ern community. The difficulties
and opposition encouatered by the
young man who dares to change
the old order of things, his final
success and the happy culmination
of his childhood love affair, all
tend to make the picture very in-
teresting as well as conveying a
valuable lesson.

The Minnesota Legislatiire re-
cently passed a bill appropriating
$10,000 to protect the state
against the Pittsburg-Plus prac-
tice of setting the jirice for steel.

ILUNOIS FRUIT
EXCHANGE JOINS
FEDBtATED BODY

Growers Sign Contract To
Market Through "Co-op"
Sales Agency ,

The directors of the. Illinois
Fruit Exchange, with head-
quarters 6t Centralia, recently
signed th* contract of member-
ship with: the Flederat«d Fruit
and Ve^ttable Growers, Inc.,
the nation{tl co-nperative sbIph
agency f()fined Januarj- 1,"-1923
as the Nsult of the work of
Fruit Marketing Committee of
Twenty-<>ne of the Amoricaii
Farm Bureau Federation.

This step was taken only after
lopg conai4eration on the jiart of
the dire<9tprs of Ithe Illinois ex-
change leading up to a unani-
mous decision f*r membersbip.
In 1922 tfce exchange marketed
its products through a private
sales agebey, and it was only the
obvious- taperiority and .advani-
ages of the I'^derated Fruit
Growers tbat prompted the Im-
portant Otep. j

Cite Adrintaees

Among the advantages of an
affiliation with the national sales
agency cited were the facts that
it was a product of the work ef
the farm bureau and deserrs^ the
support of growers' organizations;
exchaitgei who are members ot
the Fedetated have a voice in its
governing body; and the Fed
erated is en a sound basis, being
formed an a plan similar to the
successful California fruit grow-
ers' co-i^peratives. In addition,
the Federated has taken over'tEe
North Aloerican Fruit ExchaLge
with its !trained sales force and
experience of twelve years.
AO Sales Offices

The Federated Fruit and Veg-
etable Gr6wers. Inc., have already
establisbeld salaried representatives
in over 160 cities reaching 70 per
cent of the population of the
United States, aid have boaded
brokerage service In th» remainder
of the maitkets.

What's the Biggest Farm
Bureau Lie You've Heard?

In every community there is.
out of a thousand loyal farmers,
one "knocker" who is fond of
gossip and who spends valuable
time in spreading aborut the neigh-
borhood some highly imaginary
"fish stories" about state and
county farm bureau work. You've
heard 'em. Yet, ridiculous as
most of these yams are when
compared to the facts, there are
uninformed people who believe
them.

The Record proposes to publish
these whoppers! Sunlight and
air are the best cures for noxious
germs! So send in to The Rec-
ord what you think is the biggest
lie about the farm bureau you've
ever heard. ^

How's This One?

The K<ecord will start the ball
rolling by the following story,
which was told pn himself by
one of the former members of
the I. A. A. Executive Committee:

"I came home from Chicago
after one of the meetings of the
I. A. A. Executive Committee,"
he said, "and attended a meet-
ing of our county farm bureau
the njext evening. While at this

meeting, I noted tbat several
.people glanced ait me curiously
and eved suspiciously. It was
not until a few days later, how-
ever, that I learned the cause.
The rum*f bad started about the
county tllat as a member of the
I. A. A. Executive Committee. I
was beint paid 1^.600 a year and
expenses? The fact is. as every-
body kncrws, that executive eom-
mltteemeb are paid only tbeir
expenses tor the usual one-day
montUy meetings and that all of
them, if tkeir farming operations
are at al extensive, must neces-
sarily losp money every time they
attend a bonferenCe. Yet I found
that a few uninformed ^Xannws
believed tkis yam! ,, -i '

He Denlea Tai4 ' '

"I was unable (or a month or
so to learn who bad started the
rumor. When I finally foand
out, I challenged the man, who.
by the way. was not a member
of the fanm bureau, and he de-
nied the tiory. "Che matter drop-
ped therti.f

How's Ithis for a whopper? Or
do you know a larger one? It
so, send II -in to tThe Record.

T

The Illinois Agrictiltural Association Record

lUinoi* Agricaltnral Association

RECORD

PukUshe^l twice a month b^ the
iHtnwls ARriOultural Associ&tton,
608 3«uth Dearborn- Street. Chiraiyo.
IlUn«i.«. Kdited by News Publicity
department, l* J. Montross. Director.

Entry as second claas matter Oct.
!•. 1921, at the post office at Chi-
cag:o, Illinois, under the act of
March 3. 187».

The Individual membership fee of
the Illinois Agricultural Associii-
tlon is five dollars a year. This
fee Includes payment of ten- cents
for subflcriplion to the Illlnots Ag-
ricultural Association Itecord.

OFFICEItS

Presidents "iJ. H. Thompson. Quincy

Vice-President, A. O. Eckert. Ii.il.-
ville.

Secretary. <leo. A. Fox. Sycamore.

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles. Blooming-
ton.

EXECV'TI\'E COM.MITTKE
By Gongr«ssiona| Districts

11th— ^Henry McGough, Map\e Park-
12th — <J. F. TuUock, Rockford.
13th — O. E. Bam'jorough. Polo,
nth — W. H. Moody. Port Byron.
15th — H. E. Goembel. Hoopole.
16th — G. E. Redfr. Mendota.
17th — F. D. Barton. Cornell.
18th — C. R. Finley. Hoopeston.
19th— ^D. J. Holterman. Sadorus.
20th— Earl J. Smith. Detroit.
2l8t — HI L. Corbin. Carlinville.
22nd — Fred Baumberger. Heno.
23rd — t^arlton Tvimble. Trimble.
24ih — Curt Andf raon, Xenia.
25th — Vernon Ljssley. Sparta.

IMreci<H^ of Departments,

~ , I. A. A. Office

General Offlca and Assistant to Ses-
relary, J. D. Harper; Field Organiz-
ation. J. C. Sailor: Organization Pub-
licity. O. K. Metzger; News lljblic-
.ity. L*. J. Montross; Transportation,
L. J. Quasey: Statistics. J. C. Wat-
aon; Finance. R. A. Cowles; Fruit
and Vegetable Marketing. C. B.
Durst: Live Stock Marketing. C. A.
Stewart: Dairy Mark^lng. A. D.
Lynch; Phosphate Limestone, J. R.
Bent.

U.S.G.G. DIRECTORS
APPOINT OFFICERS,
DISCUSSJEW PLAN

'^ (Continued from Page,!)
Farmers' Elevators

In general, . the plan aims to
make good on the grain market-
ing program and. to tbat en3, to
bring into proper relationship to
one anothsf the existing' torces,
including the local farmers' ele-
vators, on the one hand, and
the single commodity marketing
organizations on the other.

The executive committee ot the
organization is, of the opinion
that the local farmers' elevators
must b<- the basis upon which
to build a grain selling organiza-
'tion. including ownership and
control in ierminal elevators and
All handling facilities.

Orderly .Marketing

At the same time the commit-
tee recognizes the need for special
commodity organizations to direct
Intelligently the flow of grain
through these facilities and there-
by effect orderly and orgaiizcd
marketing. If modifications are
necessary in the present plan of
the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., to
brine this about, the Board of
Directors will not hesitate to take
the responsibility for making
them.

The present administration of
the U. S. ^Grain Growers, Inc., is
adopting the policy of making no
forecasts as to wliat is to be
done, button the contrary trying
to go ahead slowly and steadily
on a firm basis to work out the
problem of the co-operative mar-
keting of Vie farmer's grain.

> The executive board of the
Canadian Council of Agriculture
recently visited the American
Farm Bureau Federation in Chi-
cago for the purpose of studying
the farm bureau movement from
top to bottom. Organized farm-
ers in. Canada are planning to
model some of ^heir work after
American accomplishments.

Here's a Story of Facts and Figures:
Hhe Statistical Sefvice of the L A. A.

Figures and statistics make dry reading — sometimes. But
there aire exceptions : it was largely due to the figures and sta-
ti,stics dug up by the I. A. A. and county. farm bureaus that
farmers of Illinois read last January that they had realized a
.saving of more than half a million dollars in 1922 ta.\es for state
piH-pases, That wasn't drj- reading!

The Statistical Service of the I, A. A., or, rather. John C, Watson,
Statistician, furnishes the tacts and figures which must generally be
had before a further step can be taken in many phases of taxation,
legislatlbn and marketing. It is no Job for an amateur: it is highly
specialized .work which demands training and experience.

In 1920, for example, the farmer knew that in many instances he
was paying too much taxes. But he couldn't prove it! Other business
men could. They had their statisticians. They were able to come
before the Tax Commission with th^ facts and figures.

But in 1921 the I. A. A. and the
county farm bureaus started after
the statistics and figures. They
spent two years in research. They
found that for twenty years the
Illlnots farmer had been bearing
an unduly large part of the state
tax burden.

Having of $300,000
. In 1921 and 1922 the I. A. A.
and county farm bureaus appeared
before the Illinois Tax Commis-
sion with a ,plea tor lower farm
land tates. The result was the
prevention of one-half of the con-
templated raise in 192l'and a re-
duction In state valuations in 1922
which m^ant a saving of 1550,000
in state land taxes for 1922 alone.

But the work of the I. A. A.
in taxes is by no means ended with
this. The Statistical Ser\'ice is
making taxation its big project
for 1923,

Itevaluation in 192»

The revaluation of real estate
which comes every four years falls
this time in the spring of 192 3.'
Investigations of the Statistical
Service show that in nearly half
of the individual counties and in
the state as a whole, land is now
assessed at its highest point — in
spite of the well-known decrease
in actual values during the last
few years. The same investiga-
tions show that in many counties
average valuations of town and
city lots are lower than they were
twenty years ago in spite ot the
well-known raise in actual values
during the last few years.

Land has lost since 1920 from
20 to 50 per cent of its sales val-
ue. Town and city lots have ad-
vanced enormously in sales value.
Yet — land is assessed at its high-
est, point, and eighty per cent of
lots at their average pre-war val-
ue. Obviously the farmer is pay-
ing more than his share of the
cost of .state government.
Pacts and Figures

Under a plan proposed by the
Statistical Service, investigations
are now .being made in 20 to 30
Illinois epunties to determine the
exact relationship of land to- lots.
It has }>eep found in one ot the
counties, ot chiefly town and city
population, having one of the
largest cities outside of Chicago,
that land is assessed at 58.88 per
cent of its sales value, lots at
42.80 per cent.

Translated into cold cash,
land owners in this county are
paying about $50,000 more than
their share. In another county
land owners are paying about
$150,000 a year more for county
and state taxes alone than they
would pay if land was cissessed
on the stme basis as town and city
1»U. ^ i

The Tenant, Too
■ The tarmer who doesn't own
land is also being looked after by
the Statistical Service in his taxes.
Records have been secured of sales
which show that live stock and
other farm personal property is

NEXT TIME

Next time — the story of the
bairy Products Marketing
Department of the I, A. A.
This department Is one of
the oldest of I. , A. A.
marketing departments. It
has aided producers in the
formation of ifiarketlng asso-
ciations in almost every cof^
ner of the State. The ac-
count of its work and of what
it can do for dairymen in the
farm bureau will Interest you.
Watch for it— In the next is-
sue.

JOHN C, WATSON
John C. Watson, of the 1. A, A.
Statistical Service, has been in the
employ of the association for three
years. His life training has t>een
such as to fit him for his investi-
gations In statistics on behalf of
Illinois farmers. He is, In addition,
a farmer and farm land owner of
Champaign County and knows
just how it feels to send in the
annual check to cover farm land
taxes.

in some instances being burdened
with a full assessed valuation ot
froni one-halt to three-fourths
and more of its total sales value.

How Atmot it?

How do things stand in YOUR
county? It you think you are
pdjing more than your share, get
In touch with your county farm
bureau and suggest an investiga-
tion in co-operation with the I. A,
A. Statistical Service, This is one
of the greatest pieces of work the
I. A. A. can do for your county in
1923.

This investigation must be con-
ducted Before next summer, how-
ever, or it may be too late. After
the County Boards of Review act
this summer, it will be difficult fo
get changes in valuations ot real
estate.

How, It's Spent

Another service to your county
which the I. A. A. Statistical Ser-
vice plans tor 1923 is the start ot
an investigation to find what your
local and county tax money goes
for.

The Statistical Service hopes to
suggest and outline a plan where-
by, without too much expense, an
analysis of local and county ex-
penditures can be made — not at
all with the idea of seeking out
passible carelessness and dishon-
esty of officials, but to leave to
your judgment whether or not

your tax money has been spent
economically and wisely. You
should know.

This isn't all

These two great projects do not
in any sense constitute the entire
work ot the Statistical Service.
Many other sorts of statistical in-
vestigation— in soy bean produc-
tion, in the tariff, in various
phases of marketing and legisla-
tioi)— have been made during the
last two years and will be made in
the future.

But during 19? 3 the I. A.
A. Statistical Service will devote
the greater portion ot its time and
effort to the two taxation projects
outlined in this article. They are
huge projects. They are probably
too huge to be finished in one year
or 'n several years. But their
accomplishment, even in part, will
not only let the Illinois farmer
know — for the first, time — Just
where he stands on taxes, but it
shi^uld also save him an amount a
great deal more in most cases
than the dues he payt for any one
year.

Watch the statistics — they're
important!

Aprfl IS, 1923

CO-OP" MARKETING
ACT IS PASSED BY
V0TE0F34T03

(Continued from Pagre One)
limiting them to ten years. This
amendment ' is of little impor-
tance, however, as contracts sel-
dorj run even as long as tea
years.

Chicago Hupport

Not only were two-thlrUs of
the Chicago senatorsin favor of
the measure, but the two most
prominent newspapers in Chicago
have given the co-operative mar-
keting bill their editorial backing.
F. B. Rwmlntion

A resolution, which is printed
in full on page four of this issue,
in favor ot the co-operative mar-
keting bill and the bill to allow
farmers' organizations a seat on
grain exchanges was presented to
every member of the Illinois leg-
islature on the day before the
hearing on the bill. This resolu-
tion ■'was passed by the farm
bureau presidents of the state at
their recent meeting with the I.
A, A. in Chicago.

$25,000 for Cook
County Station
Passes Senate

A delegation from the Cook
County Farm Bureau appeared at
Springfield recently on behalf of
an appropriation from the legis-
lature for $25,000 tor a truck
crop experiment station in the
county. The Semite appropria-
tions committee put its O. K. on
the project.

Cook County is one of the most
extensive producers of truck crops
in the United SUtes.

* A FARM BUREAU CREED %

I am the Farm Bureau. I believe in the happiness, pros-
perity, and general well-being of the followers of agriculture
— the world's basic industry. 1 am an exponent of all Just
methods which will enable the American farmer to obtain
that happiness and prosperity which are so essential to the
', welfare of this great nation. . ,

I am the Farm Bureau, Formed a few years ago, my fol-
lowers now number over a million tillers ot the soil in all
parts of America. In my short existence I have made the or-
ganized farmer a power that is respected throughout the
length and breadth ot our land. My influence is felt in the
halls of legislation, the centers of finance, and the nation's
iharkets. I stand for fair legislation, for alleviation ot the
farmers' financial burdens, and for efficient marketing through
co-operation, I strive for the economic betterment ot Amer-
ican farming — a factor necessary to the development of all
American industries,

I am the Farm Bureau. I believe' in the sanctity of the
soil, the basis of all prosperity, I hope to see the day when
all men will regard the upkeep of the fertility of the soil as a
sacred trust. I believe in improved methods of farming, bet-
ter crops, purebred live stock — all of which stand for com-
mon sense and efficiency. I have faith in the boys and girls
ot the farm and through my program I am making them
better able to meet the problems of tomorrow. I desire an
organized community life — a place where farmers may work,
play, and worship together. I stand for better rural schools
— institutions where the children ot the farm w^ll have priv-
ileges equal to those ot the city.

I am the Farm Bureau. I have a constructive program for
the farmers of America — a program that cannotl be accom-
plished in a day or a year, but which will be daveloped as
the result ot experience, education, co-operation,! a\id hard
work. My basis is sound. My principles are trustworthy.
My leaders are honorable and caffable-^men chosen| fripm the
farms of America. 1

I r ■ \ \

I am the Farm Bureau — the hope of the Americap farmer.

I

April 15, 1923

The Illinois Agricultural Assodatioii Record

4A^

Pa^3

68,035 Head of Live Stock Received

In 8 Months By Peoria Co-operative

': The first result of the ratifica-
tion of the plan of the Farmers'
National Live Stock Marketing
Committee of Fifteen, appointed
in 1920 by the American Farm
Bureau Federation to work out
a national marketing plan, was
the formation late in 1921 of the
National Live Stock Producers'
Association. This agency, with
headquarters at Chicago, pro-
ceeded early in 1922 to estab-
lish farmer-owned and operated
commission firms on the East St.
Louis, Chicago and Ibdianapolis
markets. The Illinois Agricul-
tural Association was asked to
set up a like firm on the Peoria
market.

In March. 1922, an investiga-
tion of the market was conducted
by the Live Stock Marketing De-
partment of the I. A. A. Follow-
ing this, a meeting of representa-
tives of the Seven counties prin-
cipally interested in the Peoria
market was called for the purpose
of organizing a selling agency.
The Organization

As finally organized, a board of
■ seven directors, one each from the
sgven counties — Peoria, Woodford,
Knox, staric, Fulton, Marshall, and
Tazewell — was selected by the ex-
ecutive committees' of the various
farm bureaus. Funds suflBcient to
establish the selling agency at
Peoria were furnished the board
of dirertors by the sale of member-
ships to individuals and shipping
associations, and by loans from
the I. A. A. and farm bureaus in-
terested.

After selecting an experienced
and capable management, the
Peoria Producers' Commission As-
sociation opened for business, June
26, 1922, the fourth selling ag-
ency operating under the National
Live Stock Producers' Association,
previous agencies being estab-
lished at East St. Louis, Indianap-
olis, and Chicago.

Eight Months' Growth

The following table will show
the growth that has been made
during the first eight months of
'operation of the Peoria Produc-
ers:
Month Cam Value

July 61 } Sl.'S'.ys

August 74 !t. i.',/j..r.8

September ".'> li=j.T88.42

October '.I'l 1 l:i,0!)2.42

November 141 175.U77.31

December ,-...!6ri 2:0.531.89

January ;...21!< .101.628.90

February ....ISO ;36.634.96

Total ..1.001 Jl. 348.162.57

It will be noted that the only
marked decrease in receipts oc-
curred in February. This was
caused by the lalmost impassable
condition of the roads^ hinderink
truck shipment4 During the eighl
months, 593 cirs, or i 59.06 pen
cent of the tiital of 1,0!04 cWihg'

I to the\ Peoria. y Producers, ■ were

\shipped\by truipkl

^ Total Rlpoeipts

The total recaj)ts during the
[period were 68,085 head of live
stock, apnortionad\ as follows:
2,\02O cattle. 2.14'1 ialves, 63,460
hd^s, and \0S sbleep. Commis
sibtas collected anfounted to a
totil of »20,X)90.17

fWr the last fouy' months the
Proiuc^rs have stood either first
or second among thie seven com-
miss^n firms operating on that
market. Shipments to the agency
are liot entirely from the seven
counties mentioned, \ some live
stock pelng received trom Mason,
Logan| a|id McLean counties, Illi-
nois, atod from eastern Iowa terri-
tory tributary tb the M. C. and St.
L. R. E. i

In a|«ordance with %b.e policy

THEY'RE PATRONIZING THEIR OWN HRM

This picture shows a line of trucks bearing Illinois live stock
to the Peoria Live Stock Producers' Association, Organized by
the 1. A. A. and county farm bureaus. A large share of the
firm's business, which has amounted to nearly a million and a
half dollars \n eight months, is truck receipts. The farmer firm
does the moist business on the market.

Ithe

of the National Live Stock Produc-
ers' Associatloii, the Peoria agen-
cy, while not a member of the ex
change, abides by all the rules and
regulations of that body, with the
exception that it reserves the priv
ilege of pro-rating to its member
ship all the profits that may accrue
from the business.

How to Join
'Membership in the Producers
may be obtained in several ways
An individual may make applica-
tion directly to the selling agency,
may join the local shipping as-
sociation which holds membership
on the market, or by becoming a
member of the county farm bii
reau, some of the counties having
organized county-wide shipping
associations and taken out a mem-
bership on that basis.

Members of the Board of Dir-
ectors of the Peoria Producers are
as follows; George Wilson, Tou-
lon, president; W. T. Youle, Dela-
van, vice president; Seaton Moon,
Harmon, secretary-treasurer; Sam
McCIugage, Peoria, chairman of
board; J. F. Felter, Eureka, and
B. II. Taylor. C.-inton.

Vv'. It. Hembrough, formerly in
ti <■ i: .<■ stock commission business
Hi i;A.st S. Louis, is manager of
t°i" Producers at Peoria, and is
talesman of carlot shipments of
stock. Eddie McDonough, a buyer
and trader for several years on
the Peoria market, takes care of
the truck bog sales, while George
Stemm is olBce manager.

Average Prices

It is a significant fact that the
average prices received for hogs
On the Peoria market during the
Pteriod the Producers have been
operating have been much nearer
the average prices on the Chicago
market than previously. This
bears out the contention made re-
peatedly by live stock producers
ithat a selling agency controlling
Bt least 25 per cent of the receipts
on the terminal market could in-
^ueno^ favoitably the prices re-
«eived\for thi|ir live stock.

yinswelps Question
i The table above will answer the
question so often asked- — Are the
s^les made^and the services rend-
eited by co-operative selling agen-
cies on a basi^ with those furnished
by old line firpis? Note the grad-
ual increase \in the Producers'
business from ' month to month.
With the live stock producer as
the 1 Judge and jury, it can easily
be seen that he is satisfied with
the I Peoria co-operative selling
ageiicy as an efficient and alto-
gether satisfactory medium for
marketing live stock. Otherwise
the Peoria (Producers «rould not

have experienced the growth so
evident during the first eight
months of existence.

THE GOLDEN EGG

The next co-operative move-
ment of the I. A. A. and
county farm bureaus to be
taken up in the series of arti-
cles in The Record, will be
the local poultry and egg co-
operative shipping associa-
tions in Central Illinois whi^h
were organized last year.

/. A. A. Endeavoring
To Help In Labor
Shortage Problem

On another page of The Record
is an item in regard to the present
shortage of farm help in Illinois.
The I. A. A., with a view of help-
ing farm bureau membe^ who must
have additional labor, is endeavor-
ing to get in touch with help that
may be available for farms in the'
state.

It you are in need of help, fill in
the blanks below and mail to Illi-
nois Agricultural Association, 608
S. Dearborn Street, Chicago, as
soon as possible.

Do you prefer a married or a single
man? _

Can you use him the year round?

Is yours a dairy, livestock, or grain

farm? ___ ^ .. ._ _ -..

Would you prefer men of Scotch,
German, Scandinavian, or Polish
descent ?

What wages will you pay?.

When do you need help?

Write plainly your name, address,
and county.

(Name) „.i —

(Address)

(County) «

Milk Marketing
Situation in St.
Lotas Improved

The Milk Producers' Advisory
Committee, "which has been car-
rying on a campaign over south-
ern Illinois and Missouri for over
a month, has been meeting a
splendid response from producer-
creditors and stockholders of the
Illinois - Missouri Co-operative
Marketing Company, over 1.400
agreements having been signed
up and are in the hands of cred-
itors. \ I \. i I

^piro Is Named
"Co-op ' ' Attorney
For theA.F.B.F.

Aaron Sapiro. noted co-operative
marketing attorney, was appointed
at a meeting of the Executive Com-
mittee of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation as co-operative
marketing attorney (tor that or-
ganization. >'

Mr. 1 Sapiro and Walton Peteet.
Director of Co-operative Marketing
for the A. F. B. F., in ccjoperation
with the co-ORerative marketing
committee of the national associa-
tion, will shape policies and plans
for the big national program of
farmer marketing now under way.

"BROWN MOUSE" IS

UTEST RELEASE OF

HOMESTEAD FILMS

Homestead FUms, Inc., will
soon have its recently completed
five-reel feature film. "The Brown
Mouse," ready for distribution.
The picture is from the novel of
the same name by Herbert Quick,
the well known writer of farm
stories. "

Mr. QuicK's home county farm
bureau at Berkeley Springs, WeA
Virgisia. has been granted the
privilege of -the first public show-
ing of the ifllm. April 18 and 19.

"The Brown Mouse" is a story
depicting the modernizing of rural
schodls through the introduction
of practical lessons in agricul-
ture. The scene is laid in a typi-
cal I6wa rural school district, all
of the characters being recogniz-
able Sn the average middle. west-
em tommanity. The difficulties
and opposition encountered by the
young man who dares to ohani:e
the old order of things, his final
success and the happy culmination
of his child:iood love affair, all
tend to make the picture very in-
terestiAg as well as conveying a
valuajbie iesr.on.

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The Minnesota I^egislature re-
cently passed a bill appropriating
$10,000 to protect the state
against the Pittsburg-Plus prac-
tice of setting the price for steel.

ILUNOIS FRUIT/ 'I
EXCHANGE JOINS
FQERATED BODY

Growers Sign Contract To
Market Through "Co-oj^"
Sales Agency :..|

The dSi^<'tors.of the Illinois
Fniit Efchaqpt, 'with head-
quarters bt Ceiilralia, reeently
signed th^ contract of member-
ship with the Federated FVuk
and Veritable 'Growers, Inc.,
the natit>tial eo-Hiperative siales
agency fbrmed .rsinuary 1, 1923
as the result of the work, of
Fruit MJarketing Committee of
Twenty-OBe of the American
Farm Bureau Federation. ,

This step was taken only aft^r
lorg consideration on the part of
the directors of the Illinois e.-:-
cbange leadinic - Up to a unani-
mous declsiob ftir membership.
In 1922 (he exchange marketed
its ^rodaets through a privat'-
sales agency, arid it was only thn
obvious superiority and advant-
ages of the IVderated FVuit
Growers lihat' pfampted th^>rl^-
portant step. ' ] *

ate'Adrjtntaces

Among the adu-antages of an
affiliation iwith tliie national sales
agency cited wer^f the facts that
it was a product ; of the work of
the farm bureau slnd desened the
support of growerl ' organ iiations;
exj;hangeB who sire members of
the J'edel^ed hale a voice in its
governing; body;! and the l-Vd
erated is ^n a sojlnd basis, being,
formed on a plan similar to the
successful California fruit grow-
ers' co-qperatives. In addition,
the Federated ha« taken over'iflie
North Aiaerican ' Fruit E-vchanK"-
with its trained sales force and
experienop of twelve years. |
130 Sales Offices I

The F«derated Fruit and Veg-
etable Gnoiwers. l»c , have already
established salaried representatives
in over iSb cities reaching 70 per
pent of the population of the
United States, anfl have bonded
brokerage servi'je in the remainder
of the markets.

What's the Biggest Farm -
Bureau Lie You've Heard?

In every community there is,
out of a thousiind loyal farmers,
one "knocker" who is fond of
gossip and who spends valuable
time in spreading about the neigh-
borhood some highly imaginary
"fish stories" about state and
county farm bureau work. You've
heard 'em. Yet, ridiculous as
most, of these yarns are • when
compared to the facts, there are
unintbrmed peOpIe who believe
them.

The Record proposes to publish
these whoppers! Sunlight 'and
air are the best cures for noxious
germs! SO send, in to The Rec-
ord what you (hijik is the bjggest
lie about the farm bureau yoa've
ever heard.!

I}a«r*8 This One?

The Record will start the ball
rollins by the following story,
which wa^ told on himself by
one of the former members of
the I. A. A. Executive Committee:

"I came home from- Chicago
after one of the meetings of the
I. A. A. Executive Committee."
he said, "and attended a meet-
ing of our county farm bureau
the dext evening. While at this

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meeting. 1 notejl that several
people glanced at me curiously
and evea suspiciously. It wa.s
not until ti few 4ays later, how-
ever, that I leatm-d the -cause.
The rumor had started about the
county that as a member jof the
I. A. A. Executive Committee. I
was bein£ paid $3,600 a year and
expenses! The fact is. as every-
body knows, that executive com-
mitteemeti are paid .only tihefr
expenses for the usual one-day
InoMhly rteetings and that all of
them, if their far|ning-«i>eration8
are at all extensive, miist beces-
sarily loae money every Wme they
attend a conference. Yet I found
that a tpw uninformed farmers
believed this yam! J /

He Denl«s Tarn *^'

"1 was unable tor a raont^ or
so to learn who bad started <he
rumor. When 1 .ftnally f-'jund
out, I challenged the man. who.
by the way. was not a member
of the farm bureau, and he de-
nied the ptory. The matter drop-
ped therf.*'

How's !t|iis for a "whopper? Or
do you t|ow a fa'rger one? It
so, send ^^ in to (The'" Record.

Pkge4

The Dlinai* Agricaltural Asaocuttioa Record

April 15, 1923

87 Farm Bureau Presidents Meet With I. A, A,

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PRESIDENTS HEAR
EXPLANATION OF
MARKETING BILLS

Hold Important Conference

of County Leaders;

Pass Resolutions

Presidents or other represent-
atives from 87 Illinois county
farm bureaus met with officials of
the Illinois Agricultural Associ-
ation at the Great Northern hotel,
Chicago, on March 26, to discuss
policies in marketing, legislation,
and other projects of Importance
to organized agriculture in the
state.

The meeting was one which
had been planned for more than
a year and which was called at
the request of the I. A. A. Ex-
ecutive Committee at its March
session.

Peteet Speaks
Walton Peteet, director of co-
operative marketing of the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation,
was present and gave the iSrst
talk of the day, explaining the
provisions of . the co-operative
marketing bill which is before
the Illinois legislation.

"A modem co-operative mar-
keting association," stated Mr.
Peteet, "represents an intelligent
application to farm marketing of
the proven experience of busi-
ness, so thaA is purely and sim-
ply a business agency devised
and designed to serve farmers in
^ iuc ' 'battel marketing of their
products."

ExpUUns Co-op Bill
He told how the proposed law
was based on the experience of
successful American co-operatives
and that the act bad already be-
come a ,law in about twenty
states. The inadequacy of pres-
ent Illinois laws for permitting
co-operative organizations was
outlined, especially in regard to
co-operatlYes to take advantage
of the new Intermediate Rural
Credits Law, which will only
allow loans to farmers' organiza-
tions t^at are formed under laws
similar to the proposed act.

Mr. Peteet explained in detail
the diffei^nt provisions of the
co-operative marketing bill, show-
ing how -each provision was based
upon the experience of successful
/co-operatlve organizations i n
other states. He emphasized that
the act was strictly permissive in
character and did not interfere
with any present farmers' asso-
ciations or hinder the formation
of co-operative organizatirns un-
der old laws.

Board of Trade Bil}
, Following Mr. Peteet's expla-
•atioh. Donald Kirkpatrick qf the
legal 'department of the I. A. A.
informed the conference concern-
ing the provisions of Senate Bill
160 whlcb Would allow farm or-
ganizations in Illinois the right
to a seSit on boards of trada He
told of the need of such a law
and explained that it would be
supplementary to the Capper-^n-
cher Act passed by Congress.

After these explanations of the
proposed laws before the Illinois
legislature. President S. H.
lliompson of the I. A. A. out-
lined the policy of the legislative
committee of the association in
•troBgly backing tbeae two blHs

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Farm Bureau Heads From
87 Counties In Meeting

The fbllowing is the list of
county firm bureau presidents or
alternates from 87 counties in
Illinois Who met in Chicago on
March 2«, for the first time in
the history of the I. A. A., to be-
come more familiar with the
policies of the association and to
express themselves as to the
wishes of their constituents in the
county bureaus:

' Adams. D. H. Myers, President;
Bond, F. Baumt>«rger. President;
Boone, Phil H. Sanford. President;
Brown. R. O. Shields. President;
'Bureau. Pavid G. Reder, Preeldent;
Calhoun, Aug:. Pranke, Jr., Alter-
nate; CaProU. C. M. Kingery; Cass.
J. E. Edwards. President; Cham-
paign. tiOrIn Clark, President;
Christian, W. N. Grimes; Clark,
J. Q. Snedeker, President; Coles. C.
S. Hall. President; Cook. Herman
Schwake, President: Crawford. N. F.
Goodwin, President; Cumberland,
A. C. Gordon, President; DeKalb, J.
J. KingBley, Alternate; DeKalb, A.
tr. Dodge; DeWltt. Claude W. Thorp,
President; Douglas, Chas. McDon-
ald. Alternate; DuPage. A. W.
Fischer, President; Edgar, W. A.
Dennis. President; Edwards. Walter
Tribe. President; -Effingham. L. P.
Mautz. President; Ford. E. W. Tie-
ken, President; Franklin, J. F.
Whittlngton, Alternate; Pulton. R

for passage, rather than a policy
of supporting several measures
and thus dividing the strength of
the organization.

Pass Besolntiona

Resolutions were unanimously
passed by the convention endors-
ing the stand taken by the I. A.
A. in its legislative program and
urging the passage of the pro-
posed acts. It was requested that
copies of the resolutions be pre-
sented to Governor Len Small
and all members of the legisla-
ture.

Other Discnssioiia

In the afternoon, explanations
of the reorgnization plan of the
U. S. Grain Growers were made
by E. H. Cunningham and John
W. Coverdale, followed by a gen-
eral discussion of questions re-
garding the Grain Growers. Other
problems taken up during the
afternoon meeting included a
waterway program discussion led
by R. A. Cowles, treasurer of the
I. A. A., and the report of sev-
eral of the presidents relative to
the work being done in their
counties in the adjustment of tax
valuations under the direction of
the L -A. A. ' <. -

H. Taylor. President; Gallatin, Geo.

B. Scherrer. President; Greene, L. R.
Lee. President; Grundy. S. Fred
Cummlngs, Alternate; Hancock. I.
N, Hoaford. President; Henderson,

C. W. Cooper, President; Iroquois,
R. F. Karr, President; Jackaon,
Fred Dletx, President; Jefferson. J.
H.; Payne. Alternate: Jersey. James
C. Downey, President; Jo. Daviess,
John E. Bonnet. President; Johnson,
W. L. Owen, President; Kane, L R.
Judd, President; Kankakee, J. C.
Cojiier. Farm Adviser.

Kendall. K. L. Matlock, President:
Knox, Henry Gehrlng. President;
Lake, D. H. MInto, President; La-
Salle, O. W. Esmond. Secretary;
Lawrence, J. E. LIngenfelter. Presi-
dent; Lee, S. L Shaw. President;
Livingston, G. L. Porter, Vice Presi-
dept; Logan, Geo. Stoll, President;
Macon, Henry Shafer, President;
Madison, Stanley Castle, President;
Marlon. D. L Boynton. Secretary;
Marshall-Putnam. L. F. Boyle. Pres-
ident; Mason. Chas W. Borgelt.
President; McDonough. C. P. Kline,
Alternate; McLean, Simon C. Moon.
President; Mercer. Scbvllle Lee. Sec-
retary: Monroe, John C. Gummer-
Bhelmer, President; Montgomery, H.
A. Cress, President; Morgan, C. S.
Black, President; Moultrie, T. P.
Ellis. President; Ogle, Joseph
Holmes.' President: Peoria, Chas. R.
Ford. Vice President; Piatt. M. E.
Wise. President; Pike. C. E. Dun-
ham. President; Pope, A. H. Floyd,
President.

Randolph, Chas. McKinUy, Presi-
dent; Rock Island, W. H. Moody.
President; Saline. W. A. Grant.
President; Sangamon. J. P. Stout,
President: Schuyler. W. T. Boyd,
Alternate: Scott. Clyde J. North,
President: Shelby, Isaac P. Wort-
man. President; St. Clair, H. H.
Hartman. Secretary; Stark. David
Turnbull. President: Stephenson.
Arnold P. Karsk. Alternate: Taze-
well, R. B. Orndorff. President:
Union. B. W. Newman, President:
Vermilion, C. R. FInley. President:
Vermilion, W. B. McFarland: Wa-
bash, John Deputy, President; War-
ren, W. D. Rodgers. President;
Wayne. J. K. Bthrldge; White. O.
M. Casebler. President: Whiteside,
R. A. Norrlsh, President; Will, N. L.
Welter. President; Williamson. U C.
Sanders, President; Winnebago.
Geo. F. Tullock, Alternate; Wood-
ford. J. Frank Pelter. President;
Massac, George Arensman; Henry,
Lawrence C. Warner,

Fruit Exchange
Sees Formation
of More Locals

Two new local fruit units of
the Illinois Fruit Exchange are
in process of organization by the
growers at Oblong and Robinson,
Crawford county. Meetings were
held recently in these localities
by the Fruit Marketing Depart-
ment of the I. A. A, with the
almost unanimous endorsement
of the plan by growers present
and the signing of many con-
tracts. Organization committees
were Appointed and are now at
work.

Drowera at each of there places

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CUNNINGHAM TELLS
OF PLJtNS OF U.S.
GRAINGROWERSJNC.

"Cards face up on the table.
No more wild theories,"

This, in brief, was the message
brought to the presidents of Illi-
nois county farm bureaus by E.
H. Cunningham, of the U. S.
Grain Growers' Sales Co., in his
address at the afternoon session.
Mr. Cunningham was given an
informal vote of thanks and con-
fidence at the end of his talk,

"I don't hold out to you that
you are going to solve this prob-
lem in three, four or five years,
but you are going to make a long
step in advance during the next
three, four or five years," Mr.
Cunningham said. "I have no
sympathy with any plan that says
it can set this thing up and ren-
der you a service and make you
money tomorrow. They cannot
do it. It simply is not in the
cards. This is too big a thing
that we are talking about.

"Now, can we get down to
business and try to sell grain?
We think we can, under this plan.
But we don't hold out that we
are going to try to give you any-
thing tomorrow or the next day.
The working out of a plan of
marketing grain for America is
different than the marketing of a
little citrus fruit surrounded and
limited by climatic and soil con-
ditions.

"The committee has never had
any plan suggested that they were
ready to accept if it involved in
the slightest degree the jeopardiz-
ing of the interests of the credit-
ors of this organization. We are
going to try to get them their
money if it is humanly possible
to do so."

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are planning the construction of
packing warehouses when the or-
ganizations are perfected.

Assistance is being asked in
the formation of locals at other
points in southern Illinois, the
success of the exchange last year
and the splendid prospects for a
big fruit crop this year giving
imi>etu8 to the co-operative work.

COUNTY PRESIDENTS
URGE PASSAGED
FARMffiMEASURES

Endorse Stand of I. A. A. in

Supporting Senate Bills

150 and 165

Farm Bureau presidents or al-
ternates from 87 Illinois countlc
assembled in Chicago March 26,
unanimously endorsed and ap-
proved the position taken by the
I. A. A. In supporting Senate Bill
165, providing for the organlzar
tion and incorporation of co-op-
erative marketing organizations,
and Senate Bill 150, providing
for the admission of co-operative
organizations to all public mar-
kets and grain exchanges,

A copy of the resolutions was
placed in the hands of each mem-
ber of the House and Senate at
Springfield, as well as being given
to the Governor.

The following are the resolu-
tions.

WHEREAS, there is now pend-
ing in the Legislature of the
State of Illinois Senate Bill No.
165, providing for the organiza-
tion and incorporation of co-op-
erative marketing organizations,
and

WHEREAS, there is now pend-
ing in the Legislature of the
Bute of Illinois Senate Bill No.
160, providing for the admission
of co-operative organizations to
all public markets and grain ex-
changes, and

WHEREAS, the success of Ag-
riculture is dependent on a more
orderly marketing of its products,
and

WHEREAS, exi>erience has
taught, and reliable authorities
agree, that the marketing of ag-
ricultural products by commodity
through co-operative associations
is sound in principle, and

WHEREAS, the co-operative as-
sociation is as different from the
ordinary commercial corporation
as the corporation is different
from a partnership, and

WHEREAS, laws regulating
co-operative associations must dif-
fer from the laws regulating cor-
porations, and

WHEREAS, Senate Bill 165
and Senate Bill 160 offer the
agencies for the creation and op-
eration of co-operative associa-
tions,

THEREFORE, BE IT RE-
SOLVED, that we, the under-
signed presidents or alternates of
Illinois Farm Bureaus, assembled
in Joint conference this 26th day
of March, 1923, Chicago, Illinois,
endorse and approve the position
taken by the Illinois Agricultural
Association in supporting Senate
Bill '165 and Senate BUI 150, and
that we expressly urge the pres-
ent Legislature to pass and the
Governor of the State to sign
these bills, and further, that this
resolution be conveyed to the
Secretary of the Illinais Agricul-
tural Association, witli a request
that the same be immediately
placed in the hands of the mem-
bers of the Senate, House of Rep-
resentatives and the Governor of
the State of Illinois.

Illinois farm advisers made 48,-
000 farm visits and held 3,4>1
demonstrations during 1922, -<:

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May 1, 1923

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SUPREME COURT 0. K'S CAPPER-TINCHER ACT

SIX-HOUR HEARING
OF CO-OPERATIVE
ACT HnHE HOUSE

President Thompson and A.

C. Everingham of I. A. A.

Speak Flor Bill

Proponents and opponents of
the Illinois Co-operative Market-
ing Bill clashed in the House of
Representatives at Springfield
recently in a hearing similar to
that held in the Senate. The
meeting lasted for six hours.

The chief argnments, like those
advanced in the Senate a few
weeks before, were that the bill
wtu fa^nrable o<-. Inimical to the
farmer* Interests.

S. H. Thompson, president of
the niinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, and A. C. Everingham, of
the I. A. A. Legislative Commit
tee, were speakers tor the bill
They portrayed the need of Illi-
nois farmers for co-operative
marketing and the necessity for a
leglBlatlve measure Uke the pro-
posed bill to facilitate the or-
ganization ot co-operatlva asso-
ciations.

Opponents of the measure pre-
sented the contention that they
were endeavoring to protect the
farmer against himself, that the
co-operative bill would hnrt his
Interests. Representatives of the
Chicago city council expressed the
fear that the passage of the
measure would Increase the coat
ot agricultural products to the
consumer.

CoHtracts Signed
By 26 Counties
For Serum Supply

^caty-six eouatlee have
signed up to seenr* their serum
from the American Serum C!o.,
aioaz Qity, la., in aecordanee
with the recommendations of the
8«ram FSirehasing Committee ap-
pointed at the annual meeting
of the I. I&. A.

An estimated aggregate of

16,000,000 cubic centimeters of

semm and virus will be handled

by the counties at ^e new price

of 76 centf per lOOi ee>, which is

I live cents less per be tliian last

\year. All farm f^nreaua who

ave signed up are! maintaining

iim depcjta tor tUnge ot their

RepGet Indicate
Widespread Demand
For Help on Farms

While there have not been a
great number of replies received
as yet from Illinois farmers by
the I. A. A. in regard to the help
shortage on the farms of the
state, those that have come to
the office indicate a widespread
shortage throughout most of the
counties of Illinois.

According to the answers to
the questionnaire, wages paid
vary from $40 to $75 per month
with room and board. There is
a demand for both married and
single men, the latter being de-
sired in the majority of cases.

While the I. A. A. can promise
nothing definite, it is making an
investigation with a view to help-
ing out In the solution of the
problem. A more definite an-
nouncenfent will t>e made later
after a general survey of the sit-
uation is made and more ques-
tionnaires are answered.

NEARLY $2000 IN
CUmS COUIGTED

Claims numbering 54 and
aqiounting to the total of $1,-
875.39 were collected by the
Transportation department of
the I. A. A. during the first three
months of 1923 and paid to farm
bureau members or live stock
shipping associations of Illinois.

Most of the tosses incurred
come under the following heads:
general loss and damage, freight
loss and damage, and overcharge.

The majority of the claims are
of small amounts, less than $50.
The largest claim was collected
for August Wild, Ronroe county,
being 1200 collected from a rail-
road -from fire loss. Another of
the larger claims was 1160 se-
cured tor C. A. Smith) Knox
county, for cattle killed on a
railroad right-of-way.

Committee Meets
To Consider 1923
Phosphate Supply

Members of (fhe phosphate-
limestone advisory committee of
the I. A. A., F. D. Barton, Cor-
nell, chairman, met with the
phosphate-limestone department
and executive offloers ot the asso-
ciation at the Chicago office,
April 16.

Consideration of the proposed
contract for the remainder ot the
1923 supply of phosphate was
taken up, as well as other mat-
ters of business coneemlng the
detuirtment.

WHY NOT TRY THE SLEDGE?

Outlook For Pool
of 1923 Wool Crop
Very Encouraging

The Live Stock Department of
the I. A. A. is receiving many
orders for sacks of twine from
farm bureaus In Illinois whose
members are planning to con-
sign their wool clip to the 1923
wool pool.

The market outlook for wool
this year is very bright. Specu-
lators are active and are said to
be out attempting to contract for
the product before it is sheared.

It will be remembered that the
143,000 pounds of Illinois wool
consigned to the pool last year
averaged 34.9 cents per pound
as compared with 27 cents paid
locally, resulting in a saving of
about $14,000 td the poolers.
Montana growers are pooling
practically 75 per cent of the to-
tal cUp, or 7,000,000 pounds, this
year.

Wool may be billed at any
time to the pool, the address be-
ing National Wool Warehouse
and Storage Co.J 4300 S. Robey
St, Chicago, Caile I. A. A. '

Leaders of the Minnesota po-
tato co-operative marketing ag-
ency are striving to have 100,000
acres of that commodity under
contract by July 16.

Refund Is Voted
By Directors of
Live Stock Co-opi

At the quarterly meeting of
the Board of ' Directors of the
Chicago Producers Commission
Association in April, it was an-
nounced that the business of the
organization has been so success-
ful daring the past year that a
substantial refund can be made
to all members at the end of the
fiscal year, June 30.

The direotors voted that such
a refund shall be made shortly
after the close of the year's busi-
ness.

This gratifying news will be
more than welcome to members
of the Chicago Producers and
such concrete evidence of suc-
cess should cause many more
live stock shippers to loin the
co-operative.

Continued success is being ex-
perienced during April by the
Producers at all the markets
where they are established, most
of them ranking at or near the
top among the firms doing busi-
ness qn the respective markets.

Kendall county board of sup-
ervisors recently voted $4,000 to
devote to tb« eradication of tuber-
culosis in the county.

SAYS MEASURE IS
CONSTITUTIONAL;
DENEHTSJARMERS

Grain Exchanges Subject To

Regulation; "Co-ops" Get

Board Trade Seats

Ameri^n agriculture scored
another KTeat victorj- when the
United Btates Supreme Court
in a decision handed down up-
held the-oonstitutionaU^' of the
new Capper-Tineher Act regu-
lating grain exchanges and ad-
mitting co-operative associations
to Peats oqkboards of trade.

There were only two dissenting
votes on the decision, those of

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DOldS.

This opinion at the Supreme
Court as handed down by Chief
Justice William H. Taft, com-
pletely ovierrules lihe attack made
on. the «onstitatk>nality of the
Capper-Tineher Act by the Chica-
go Board of Trade and fully up-
holds the contentions of the De-
partment <tt Agriculture, the farm
bloc and the farm bureau.
<tlio<fls Dectska

The decision as read by Chief
Justice Taft is quoted as followa:

"It is Clear from the cltiitiont
in the statement of the case of
evidence before committees of in-
vestigation as to manipulations of
the futures market and their ef-
fects, ^fltywe weuld be unwar-
ranted in nejectlng the findings of
Congress as unreasonable, and
tCdbillnued om pft^e 2)

Co-op Bill Made
Law in Minnesota,
Maine and Ohio

Three more states have passed
the standard co-operative market-
ing act, dmilar to, that which Is
under consideration in the Hoose
at Springteld and was passed by
the Senate with only tl^iee Desa-
tlve votes.

Maine and Oblto 'have botk
passed the bill and it h^ beeaj
signed by the governor in each
state, wfaile in Minnesota, the ^ct
was passed by the legislature and
is awaitii^ the siggnatnre of Oov-
emor .Preus. Governor Donake)
of Ohio siirned the bill in the pres-
ence of agricultural leaders on
Friday, April 13, but Ohio farm
bureau members claim that tbey
are not superstitiosa.

Practically half the sUtes ot
the Union have eaacted the kUl
into a law up to this time.

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The Illinois Agricultural Association Record

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April 15, 1923

87 Farm Bureau Presidents Meet With I. A. A.

I'

PRESIDENTS HEAR
EXPLANATION OF
MARKETING BILLS

Hold Important Conference

of County Leaders;

Pass Resolutions

Presidents or other represent-
atives .frofii 87 Illinois county
farm ffiireaus met with officials of
— the Illinois Agricultural Associ-
ation at the Great Northern hotel.
Chica!;o, on' March 26, to discuss
policies in marketing, legislation,
and other projects of importance
to organized agriculture in the
; state.

The meeting w^fe one which
bai been planned for more than
a year and which was called at
the request of the I. A. A. Ex-
ecutive Committee at its March
session.

Peteet Speaks
Walton Peteet, director of co-
operative marketing of the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation,
was present and gave the first
talk of the day, explaining the
provisions of the co-operative
marketing bill which is before
the Illinois .legislation.

"A modem co-operative mar-
keting association," stated Mr.
Peteet, "represents an intelligent
application to farm marketing of
the proven experience of busi-
ness, so tliat .is purely and sim-
ply, a business agency devised
I and designed to serve farmers In
».l*c^ "fcttv^i marketing of their
products."

Explains Co-op Bill
Be told bow the proposed law
was based on* the experience of
successful American co-operatives
and that the act had already be-
come a law in about twenty
states. The inadequacy of pres-
ent Illinois laws for permitting
co-operative organizations was
outlined, especially in regard to
eo-operatlves to take advantage
of the new Intermediate Rural
CredJte Law, which will only
allow loans to farmers' organiza-
tions that are formed under laws
similar to the proposed act.
, Mr. Peteet explained in detail
•^Jhe different provisions of the
jto-operative marketing bill, show-
ing how each provision was based
upon the experience of successful
co-operative organizations i n
other states. Be emphasized that
the act was strictly -permissiv^ in
character and did not interfere
with any present farmers' asso-
ciations or kinder the formation
of co-operative organizations un-
der old laws.

Board of Tnule Bill
Following Mr. Peteet's expla-
nation, Donald Kirkpatrick of the
legal department of the I. A. A.
inform^ the conference coneern-
' ing the provisions of Senate Bill
160 which would allow farm or-
ganizations In Illinois the right
to a seat on boards of trade. Be
told ot the need of such a law
and explained that it would be
■ supplementary to the Capper-Tin-
Cher Act fassed by Congress.

After these explanations of the
proposed laws before the Illinois
legislature. President S. B.
Thompson of the I. A. A. out-
lined the policy ot the legislative
committee of the association in
stroBgly backing these two btHs

EVERY CORNER OF STATE REPRESENTED AT THIS MEETING

Farm Bureau Heads From
87 Counties In Meeting

The tbllowlng is the list of
county farm bureau presidents or
alternatels from 87 counties in
Illinois who met in Chicago ob
March 26, for the first time In
the history of the I. A. A., to be-
come more familiar with the
policies of the association and to
express ttemselves as to the
wishes of their constituents in the
county bureaus:

Adams. D. H. Myers. President:
Bond, F; Baumbereer. Preiident:
Boone, Phil H. Sanford, ProBident;
■Brown. R. O. Shields. President:
Bureau. Pavid G. Reder, Preeidenl;
Calhoun. Auff. Franke. Jr., Alter-
nate; Carroll. C. M. Kinfrery; Cass.
J. E. E4ward8, President; Chara-
psten. Lorin Clark. President;
Christian. W. N. Grimes: Clark.
J. Q. Snedeker. President; Coles, C.
8. Hall. President: Cook. Herman
Schwake. President: Crawford. N. F.
Goodwin. President; Cumberland,
JC. C. Gofdon, President; DeKalb, J.
J- Klngsley. Alternate: DeKalb. A.
tJ. Dodge: DeWltt. Claude W. Thorp,
President; Douglas. Chas. McDon-
ald. Alternate; DuPage, A. W.
Fischer. President; Edgar, W. A.
Dennis. President; Edwards, "Walter
Tribe, President; Effingham. L. P.
Mautz. President; Ford. E. W. Tie-
ken. President; Franklin, J. F.
Whittlngton. Alternate: Fulton, B.

for passage, rather than a policy
of supporting several measures
and thus dividing the strength of
the organization.

Pa8.s Resolutions

Resolutions were unanimously
passed by the convention endors-
ing the stand taken by the I. A.
A. in its legislative program and
urging the passage of the pro-
posed acts. It was requested that
copies ot the resolutions be pre-
sented to Governor Len Small
and all members of the legisla-
ture.

Other Discussions

In the afternoon, explanations
of the reorgnization plan of the
U. S. Grain Growers were made
by E. H. Cunningham and John
W. Coverdale, followed by a gen-
eral discussion of questions re-
garding the Grain Growers. Other
problems taken up during the
afternoon meeting included a
waterway program discussion led
by R. A. Cowles. treasurer of the
I. A. A., and the report of sev-
eral of the presidents relative to
the work being done in their
counties in the adjustment of tax
valuations under the direction of
the I. A] A.

H. Taylor. President: Gallatin. Geo.

B. Scherrer. President ; t^reene. L. R.
Lee. President; Grundy. S. Fred
Cummtngs. Alternate; Hancock. I.
N. Hosford. President; Henderson.

C. W. Cooper, President; Iroquois.
R. P. Karr, President; Jackson.
Fred Dietz, President; Jefferson. J.
H. Payne. Alternate; Jersey. James
C. Downey. President: Jo. Daviess.
John E. Bonnet. President; Johnson,.
W. L. Owen. President; Kane, I. R
Judd, President; Kankakee, J. C
Collier. Farm Adviser,

Kendall, E. L, Matlock, President:
Knox. Henry Gehring. President;
tiake, D. H. Mlnto, President: La-
Salle. O. W. Esmond. Secrrtary;
Ijawrence, J. E. Lingenfelter, Preal
deht: Lee. S. L. Shaw, President:
Livingston, G. L. Porter. -Vice PresI
dent: Logan, Geo. Stoll, President:
Macon, Henry Shafer, President;
Madison, Stanley Castle, President;
Marion, D. L. Boynton. Secretary;
Marshall-Putnam. L. F. Boyle. Pres-
ident: Mason. Chas V,'. Borgelt.
President: McDonough. C. P. Kline.
Alternate: McLean. Simon C. Moon,
President: Mercer, Scoville Lee. Sec-
retary: Monroe. John C. Gummer-
sheimer. President; Montgomery. H.
A. Cress. President: Morgan, C. S.
Black, President: Moultrie, T. P.
Ellis. President; Ogle. Joseph
Holmes. President; Peoria. Chas. R.
Ford, Vice President; Piatt. M. E.
Wise, President: Pike. C. E. Dun-
ham. President: Pope, A. H, Floyd,
President.

Randolph, Chas. McKinUy. Presi-
dent; Rock Island. W, H. Moody,
President: Saline, W. A. Grant.
President; Sangamon, J. P. Stout.
President; Schuyler. W. T. Boyd.
Alternate: Scott. Clyde J. North.
President: Shelby. Isaac P. Wort-
man, President; St. Clair. H. H.
Hartman, Secretary; Stark, David
Turnbull, President; Stephenson,
Arnold F. Karsk, Alternate; Taze-
well, R. B. Orndorir. President;
Union. B. W. Newman. President:
Vermilion. C. R. Finley, President;
Vermilion. W. B. McParland: Wa-
bash. John Deputy. President; War-
ren. W. D. Rodgers, President;
Wayne. J. K. Ethridge: White, O.
M. Casebier, President: Whiteside,
R. A. Norrlsh. President: Will. N. L.
Welter, President: Williamson. L. C.
Sanders, President: Winnebago.
Goo. F. Tullock. Alternate: Wood-
ford. J. Frank Felter. President;
Massac, George Arensman: Henry,
Lawrence C. Warner,

Fruit Exchange
Sees Formation
of More Locals

Two new local fruit units of
the Illinois Fruit Exchange are
in process of organization by the
growers at Oblong and Robinson,
Crawford county. Meetings were
held recently in these localities
by the Fruit Markeflng Depart-
ment of the I. A. A. with the
almost unanimous endorsen^ent
of the plan by growers present
and the signing of many con-
tracts. Organization committees
were appointed and are now at
work.

Growers »t each of theFe places

CUNNINGHAM TELLS
OF PLANS Of U.S.
GRAINGROWERSJNC.

"Cards face up on the table.
No more wild theories."

This, in brief, was the message'
br6ught to the presidents of Illi-
nois county farm bureaus by E.
H. Cunningham, of the U. S.
Grain Growers' Sales Co., in his
address at the afternoon session.
Mr. Cunningham was given an
informal vote of thanks and con-
fidence at the 'end of his talk.
" "I don't hold out to you that
you are going to solve this prob-
lem in three, four or five years,
but you are going to make a long
step in advance during the next
three, four or five years," Mr.
Cunningham said. "I have no
sympathy with any plan that says
it can set this thing up and ren-
der you a service and make you
money tomorrow. They cannot
do it. It simply is not in the
cards. This is too big a thing
that we are talking about.

"Now, can we get down to
business and try to sell grain?
We think we can, under this plan.
But we don't hold out that we
are going to try to give you any-
thing tomorrow or the next day.
The working out of a plan of
marketing grain for America is
different than the marketing of a
little citrus fruit surrounded and
limited by climatic and soil con-
ditions.

"The committee has never had
any plan suggested that they "Were
ready to accept if it involved in
the slightest degree the jeopardiz-
ing ot the interests of the credit-
ors of this organization. We are
going to try to get them their
money if it is humanly possible
to do so."

are planning the construction of
packing warehouses when the or-
ganizations are perfected.

Assistance is being asked in
the formation of locals at other
points in southern Illinois, the
success of the exchange last year
and the splendid prospects for a
big fruit crop this year giving
impetus to the co-operative work.

COUNTY PRESIDENTS
URGE PASSAGE OF
FARMERMEASURES

Endorse Stand of I. A. A. in

Supporting Senate Bills

150 and 165

Farm Bureau presidents or al-
ternates from 87 Illinois countie
assembled in Chicago March 26,
unanimously endorsed and ap-
proved the position taken by the
I. A. A. in supporting Senate Bill
165, providing for the organiza-
tion and incorporation of co-op-
erative marketing organizations,
and Senate Bill 150, providing
for the admission of co-operative
organizations to all public mar-
kets and grain exchanges. ,

A copy ot the resolutions was
placed in the hands of each mem-
ber of the House and Senate at
SpringSeldv as well as being given
to the Governor.

The following are the resolu-
tions.

WBEREAS, there is now pend-
ing in the Legislature of the
State of Illinois Senate Bill No.
165, providing for the organiza-
tion and .incorporation of co-op-
erative marketing organizations,
and

WBEREAS, there is now pend-
ing in the Legislature of ttie
State of Illinois Senate Bill No.
150, providing for the admission
of co-operative organizations to
allr public markets and grain ex-
changes, and

WHEREAS, the success of Ag-
riculture is dependent on a more
orderly marketing of its products,
and

W B E tt E A S, experience has
taught, and reliable authorities
agree, that the marketing of ag-
ricultural products by commodity
through co-operative associations
is sound in principle, and

WHEREAS, the co-operative as-
sociation is as different from the
ordinary commercial corporation
as the corporation is different
from a partnership, and

WBEREAS, laws regulating
co-operative associations must dif-
fer from the laws regulating cor-
porations, and

WHEREAS. Senate Bill 16S
and Senate Bill 150 offer the
agencies for the creation and op-
eration of co-operative associa-
tions,

THEREFORE , BE IT R E-
SOLVED, that we, the under-
signed iJresldents or alternates of
Illinois Farm Bureaus, assembled
in joint conference this 26th day
of March, 1923, Chicago, Illinois,
endorse and approve the position
taken by the Illinois Agricultural
Association in supporting Senate
Bill 165 and Senate BUI 150, and
that we expressly urge the pres-
ent Legislature to pass and the
Governor of the State to sign
these bills, and further, that this
resolution be conveyed to the
Secretary of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association, with a request
that the same be immediately
placed in the hands of the mem-
bers of the Senate, Bouse of Rep-
resentatives and the Governor of
the State of Illinois,

Illinois farm advisers made 48,-
000 farm visits and held 3,491
demonstrations during 1922.

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SUPREME COURT 0. K'S CAPPER-TINCHER AUT

Miu iiAiin iiranikiA D #.• t I.' «- i ^i M i'

SIX-HOUR HEARING
OF CO-OPERATIVE

ACT IN THE HOUSE

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President Thompson and A.

C. Everingham of I. A. A,

Speak For Bill

Proponents and" opponents of
the Illinois Co-operative Market-
ing Bill clashed in the House of
Representatives at Springfield
recently in a hearing similar to
that held in the Senate. The
meeting lasted for six hours.

The chief arguments, like those
advanced in the Senate a tew
weeks before, were that the bill
WAR favorable o'- inlmiral to the
farmers interests,

S. H. Thompson, president of
the Illinois Agricultural Associa
tion, ' and A. C. Everingham, of
the I. A. A. Legislative Commit
tee, were speakers for the bill.
They portrayed the need of Illi
nolB farmers for co-operative
marketing and the necessity for a
legislative measure like the pro-
posed bill to facilitate the or
eanization of co-operative asso
ciations.

Opponents of the measure pre-
sented the contention that they
were endeavoring to protect the
fanner against himself, tbit the
co-operative bill would hurt his
Interests. Representatives of the
Chicago city council expressed the
fear that the passage , of the
measure would Increase the cost
of agricultural products to the
consumer.

Contracts Signed
By 26 Counties
For Serum Supply

Twenty-six countiat have
■ig^iad up to saeure thair serum
from the American Serum Co.,
Stoux City, la., in accordance
with the recommendations ot the
Serum Purcbasing Committee ap-
pointed lit the annual meeting
of the L A. A. :

An estimated aggregate of
16,000,000 cubic centimeters of
semm and virus will be handled
by the counties at the new price
of 75 cents per 100 cc, which is
live cents less per cc tlian last
, year. All farm bureaus who
^ave signed up are maintaining
r'lm depots for storage ot.their

»iy-

Replies Indicate

Widespread Demand

For Help on Farms

While there have not been a
great number of replies received
as fet from Illinois farmers by
the I. A. A. in regard to the help
shortage on the farms of the
state, those that have come to
the olBce indicate a widespread
shortage throughout most of the
counties of Illinois.

According to the answers, to
the questionnaire, wages paid
vary from $40 to $75 per month
with room and board. There is
a demand for both married and
single men, the latter being de-
sired in the majority of cases.

While the I. A. A. can promise
nothing de^nlte, it is making' an
investigation with a view to help-
ing out In the solution of the
problem. A more definite an-
nouncement will be made later
after a general survey of the sit-
uation is made and more ques-
tionnaires are answered.

NEARLY $2000 IN
CLAIMS COLLECTED

Claims numbering 54 and
amounting to the total of $1,-
875.39 were collected by the
Transportation department of
the I. A. A. during the first three
months of 1923 and paid to farm
bureau members or live stock
shipping associations of Illinois.

Most of the losses incurred
come under the following heads:
general loss and damage, freight
loss and damage, and overcharge.

The majority of the claims are
of small amounts, less than $50.
The largest claim was collected
for August Wild, Monroe county,
being $200 collected from a rail-
road from lire loss. Another of
the larger claims was $166 se
cured for C. A. Smith, Knox
county, for cattle killed on a
railroad right-of-way.

Committee Meets
To Consider 1923
Phosphate Supply

Members of the phosphate-
limestone advisory conimittee ot
the I. A. A., F. D. Barton, Cor-
nell, chairman, met with the
phosphate-limestone department
and executive officers of the asso-
ciation at the Chicago office,
April 16.

Consideration of the proposed
contract for the remainder ot the
1923 supply of phosphate was
taken up, aa well as other mat-
ters of business concerning the
department.

Outlook For Pool
of 1923 Wool Crop
Very Encouraging

The Live Stock Department of
the I. A. A. is receiving many
orders for sacks of twine from
farm bureaus in Illinois whose
members are planning to con-
sign their wool clip to the 1923
wool pool.

The market outlook for wool
this year is very bright. Specu-
lators are active and are said to
be out attempting to contract for
the product before it is sheared.

It will be remembered that the
143,000 pounds of Illinois wool
consigned to the pool last year
averaged 34.9 cents per pound
as compared with 27 cents paid
locally, resulting in a saving of
about $14,000 t6 . the poolers.
Montana growers are pooling
practically 75 per cent ot the to-
tal clip, or 7,000,000 pounds, this
year.

Wool may be billed at any
time to the pool, the address be-
ing National Wool Warehouse
and Storage Co., 4300 S. Robey
St., Chicago, Care I. A. A.

Leaders of the Minnesota po-
tato co-operative marketing ag-
ency are striving to have 100,000
acres of that commodity under
contract by July 15.

Refund Is Voted
By Directors of
Live Stock Co-dp

At the quarterly meeting of
the Board ot Directors of the
Chicago Producers , Commission
Association in AprlL' it was an-
nounced that the business of the
organization has been so success-
ful daring the past year that a
substantial refund can be made
to all members at the end of the
fiscal year, June 30.

The directors voted that such
a refsnd shall be made shortly
after the close of the year's busi-
ness.

This gratifying news wfll be
more than Velcome to members
of the Chicago Producers and
such concrete evidence of suc-
cess should cause matiy more
live stock -shippers to Join t^e
co-operative.

Continued success is being ex-
perienced during April by the
Producers at all the' markets
where they are established, most
of them ranking at or near the
top among the firms doing busi-
ness on the respective markets.

Kendall, county board of sup-
ervisors recently voted $4,000 to
devote to the eradication of tuber-
culosis in the county.

SAYS MEASURE IS
CONSTITUTIONAL:'
BENEFITSJARMERS

Grain Exchanges Subject To

Regulation; "Co-ops" Get

Board Trade Seats

•«■>

American agriculture scored
anotli^ yreat viptf)rj- when the
I'nited plates Supreme Court
in a deepiinn hatided down up-
held the aonstitutionality of the
new Oapper-Tincher Act regu-
lating grain exchanges and ad-
mitting «(M)perative associations
to Keats «a boards of trade.

Thene Were only two diss.-'ntlng
votes on the decision, those of
j-,c..v,.», "k-'^F'"-*''- ,-Ci
nolds.

This a|i|niof) of the Supreme
Court as banded down by Chief
Justice William H. Tatt, com-
pletely oi^eo-rules the attack made
on the e^nstitutlonality of the
Capper-Tlncher A«t by the Chica-
go board of Trade and fully, up-
holds the contentions of the De-
partment of Agriculture, the faiai
Uoc^nd the firm bureau. >

Quotes Derision

The decision as read by Chief
Justice Tiift is quoted ae follows:

"It is Clear from the citations
hi the statement of the case of
evidence before committees o^ In-
vestigation as to manipulation^ of
the future* market and their, ef-
fects, that we woyld' bf unwar-
ranted in rejecting ^be fiiidings of
pongress as unreasonable, and
(Continued <}n.paa« 2)
111 I ' I •

Co-op Bill Made ]'
Law in Minnesota,
Maine and Ohio

Three ipore states have, pasi^d
the standard co-operative market-
ing act, similar ta that which Is
under ooasideratioiD in the' Bouse
at Springfield and wa« passe<f by
the Senate with okly three nega-
tive votes.

Maine and Ohio have both
passed the bill asd it has beenj
signed by the governor in each
state, while in M4nne8ota. the act
was passed by the legislature and
is awaiting the signature of Giov-
ernor Preus. Govern«r Donab«>
ot Ohio sit»ed the bill in the pres-
ence of itricultural leaders on
Friday, April 13, but Ohio farm
bureau members claim that they
are not solperstltiobs. '

Practically half the sUtealeC
the Union have ebacted the bill
iato a law ap to this time. ' ^

(l!l

P««e2

Tlie nHnais Agri nd Associfttioa Record

May 1, 1923

lllinou Agricalbiral Assfdatioii

RECORD

Published twice a month iby the
Illinois Agricultural Association,
608 South Dearborn Street, Chicago.
Illinois. Edited by News Pi«bllclty
Department, I*. J. Hontross, Director.

Entry aa second class matter Oct.
10. 1921. at the post office fit Chi-
cago, Illinois, under the act of
March 3,4879. Acceptance far mail-
ing at special rates of postage pro-
vided for in Section 1103, Act of
October 3. 1917, authorised Oct. 31
1921.

The individual membership fee of
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion is five dollars a year. This
fee includes payment of ten cents
for subscription to the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association Record.

OFFICERS

President. S. H. Thompson. Quincy.

Vice-President, A. O. Eckert, Belle-
ville.

Secretary. Geo. A. Fox. Sycamore.

Treasurer. R. A. Cowlea. Blooming-
ton.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

By Con^esflional DistricU

nth — Henry McGough. Maple Park-
12th — G-. F. TuMock. Rockford.
13th — C- E. Bamborough. Polo.
14th — W. H. Moody. Port Byron.
I5th — H. E. GOembel. Hoopole.
l«th— G. E. Reder. Mendota.
I7th — F. D. Barton. Cornell.
Igth — C. R. Finley. Hoopeston.
19th — D. J. Holterman, Sadorus.
20th — Earl J; Smlttt. Detroit.
21st — E. L. Corbin. Carllnville.
22nd — Fred paumberger. Reno.
33rd — Carlton Trimble. Trimble.
24th-r-Curt Anderson, Xenia.
25th — Vernon Lessley. Sparta.

Directors of Departments,
I. A. A. Office

General Office and Assistant to Sec-
retary. J. D. Harper; Field Organis-
ation. J. C. Sailor; Organization Pub-
licity, G. E. Metzger; News Public-
ity. I*. 3. Montross; Transportation.
L. J. Quasey; Statistics. J. C. Wat-
son; Finance. R. A. Cowles; Fruit
and Vegetable Marketing. C. E.
Durst; Live Slock Marketing. C. A.
Stewart; Dairy Marketing. A. D.
Lynch; Phosphate Limestone. J. R.
Bent. Legal. Newton Jenkins.

CAPPER-TINCHER
ACT IS UPHELD
BY SUPREME COURT

, __ (Continue^ from page 1)

Dairy Marketing
Producers In

Service is the watchword of the Illinois
tion. No department of the association is w
it can show definite accomplishments which
to the farmers of the state. Here's the sto
vice departments of the I. A. A. which has <
Dairj' Marketing Department.

When the Dairy Marketing Department was
l^arsen, director of extension and professor of (
kota State College, was secured to direct th€ wi
cliarge of the work until laftt January when h
the position of Dean of Agriculture at the South
was succeeded by A. D. Lynch, a man with seve
in the practical management of dairy plants.

epartment Serves
n Advisory Capacity

mltural Associa-
V to exist unless
been of benefit
■ one of the 8er-
led results — the

aed In 1920, C.

ng at South Da-
Mr. Larsen had
igned to accept
)ta college. He
!ars' experience

that in our inquiry as to the valid-
ity of the legislation, we must ac-
cept the view that such manipula-
tion does work to the detriment
of producers, consumers, shippers
and legitimate dealers In Inter-
state commerce In grain and that
jt is a real abuse.

Interstate Commerce Affected
"But It is contended that it Is too
remote in its effect on interstate
commerce, and that it is not like
the direct additions to .the cost
(o the producer of markeii<}g cat-
tle by exorbitant charges and dis-
crimination of commission men
and dealers. This is hardly con-
sistent with the afOdavits the
plaintiffs presented from the lead-
ing economists, who say that deal-
ing in futures stabilizes cash
pricea.

"More than this, prices of grain
futures are those upon which an
owner and intending seller of cash
grain is influenced to sell or not
to. sell as they offer a good oppor-
tunity to him to hedge comfort-
ably against future fluctuations.

Prices', Manipulated
"Manipulations of grain futures
for speculative profit, though not
carried to the extent of a comer
or. complete monopoly, exert a
vicious influence and produce ab-
normal and disturbing temporary
fluctuations of prices that are not
responsible to actual supply and
demand and discourage not only
this justifiable hedging but dis-
turb the normal flow of actual-
consignments. A futures market
lends Itself to such manipulation
much more readily than a cash
market."

The Court upheld the govern-
ment's contention that futures
trading affects the cash price of
grain. The relation between cash
grain and future dealing is evi-

The Dairy Marketing Depart-
ment operates on the basis of
service which is largely of an ad-
visory nature. It co-operates with
local farm bureaus in the forma-
tion of co-operative dairy market-
ing associations. When such an
enterprise is contemplated, the
department first makes a field
survey. Local conditions are
studied, existing marketing ob-
served, and a careful analysis of
the situation is made to see
whether a. marketing organization
would be likely to succeed.

Sometimes it Is found Inad-
visable to start a co%>peratlve of
the kind contemplated, when lo-
cal conditions do not point to
success. It is felt that It is better
to have tbe credit of advisin? an
impossible proposition not to go
ahead than to be able to recount
a large number of enterprises
started, all of which may not
prove to be successful.
OrKanlzlng

After the field survey, if con-
ditions se«m favorable for going
ahead, the next step is that of
organization. This may consist
in the signing of a contract or
it may require, as In the case of
a stock company, the sale of
stock.

rollowing the organization
comes installation. A building
must be built or rented, machin-
ery and equipment has to be pur-
chased, by-laws must be provided,
an accounting system set up and
a manager provided. In each of
these phases of the work, the
department attempts to serve.

Often the Dairy Marketing De-

denced by the fact that corners in
grain have resulted from dealings
in futures.

Br(ulfnte Comiiient)i

Presideot O. E. Bradfute, of the
American Farm Burean' Federa-
tion, in commenting upon the Su-
preme Court decision, said:

"The farmecji of America will
recognize In this decision the
establishment for all time of their
fundamental right to follow their
own products as far to market as
they llkev The President of the
United 53tates, and the f'ederal
Congress, have already repeatedly
voiced their interest in and their
support of co-operative market-
ing. Now comes the third branch
of the national government, the
United States Supreme Court, and
upholds "the legality 'of co-opera-
tive marketing. It is a decision of
far-reaching importance and will
sustain the growers of farm crops
everywhere in their belief that
our co-operative marketing pro-
gram is right."

Mr. Bradfute was also very

pleased over the fact that admis-
sion to exchanges will now be
granted to co-operative marketing
associations, by which action the
Supreme Court recognized one of
the fundamental principles of co-
operative marketinlir^the payment
of patropase dlTidapda %o mem-
bers.

DAIRYING

Illinois has 1,148.000 dairy
cows on 237.000 farms, pro-
ducing 2,000,000 gallons of
milk daily. Dairy farms, in-
cluding animals and equip-
ment, represent an invest-
ment of over $100,OOAOOO.
The state ranks third in ice
cream production, fourth in
fluid milk sold, seventh in
and eighth In

milk proC
butter pr

Read
story anc
Dairy Di
A. A. It
dairymen

lon.

accompanying
out what the

nent of the 1.

ig for Illinois

partment i
another de
A., such as
to give the
best of SI
auditing se
vided by
Auditing if
portant es
ness mana;

After th
lished and
tenance se
Is necessar
tion occasi
touch with
of a new
visit to on
and succes
how they
a sort of
between c
operation.

co-operate with
lent of the I. A.
.egal Department,
co-operative the
A competent
may also be pro-
state association,
far the most im-
il to good busl-
it.

tenance

operative is estab-
ctloning, a main-
is rendered. It
visit the organlza-
y and to keep in
Often the officials
■peratlve make a
more of the older
issociations to see
tion and to form
rking relationship
ratives of similar

There a
operative
ciations '^i

d Kinds

veral kinds of co-
■ marketing asso-
stence in Illinois.
This is due to the many degrees
of dairying found in the state.
In some sections, particularly in
the northern part, the number
of cows per farm Is nauch greater
than it is in the central and
southern parts of the state.

Thus locally owned co-opera-
tive creameries are found in the
northwestern part of Illinois, at
Elizabeth, Galena, Mt. Carroll.
and Apple River. Intensified
dairying conditions are found in
the communities surrounding
these towns, and the cream comes
from a s"""" radius, being prac-
tically al vered by the farm-
era them: :.

Bar* le Associations
In th( tion of the state
where da ? is more scattered.
It Is moi acult and often im-
possible farmers to operate
their ow operative creamery.
In orde r them to obtain
enough \ e. It wottld be neces-
sary t<t long distances. In
such ini )B, dairymen find a
means co-operative selling
known t i bargaining associa-
tion. T dnd of organization
Is to be d in EfBngham, Jef-
ferson, Franklin counties.

DAIRY DIRECTOR

A. D. LYNCH

A. D. Lynch, of the I. A. A.
Dairy Marketing Service, is well
fitted to direct the work of the
department. His training has
been altogethei>^ along dairy lines,
both production and manufactur-
ing. He has had several years
experience as manager of dairy
plants and hence is familiar with
the many problems peculiar to
the organization and management
of such enterprises.

Very frequently a town Is found
to be supporting several . cream
stations where one station would
perhaps serve the needs of the
district. Through a bargaining
association, the farmers run their
own station co-operatively, thus
eliminating considerable . buying
cost for which the producer must
ultimately pay. The product is
then sold to creameries for as
good a price as they can obtain.
Usually this is done by bidding.
In some Instances these co-opera-
tive cream stations have netted
the farmers an increased return
of from five to eight and even
more cents per pound of butter-
fat.

A bargaining association re-
quires 'no capital stock and is

therefore not costly. It is edu-
cational In Its nature and it
stabilizes dairy operations, pro-
motes better quality, permits
grading, reduces expense, and
benefits the co-operators. It also
paves the way for larger under-
takings.

Retail Milk Co-ops.

Milk marketing co-operatives
which retail fluid milk In cities
are often advantageous. They
are found to . best function in
cities of around 30,000 popula-
tion. Ventures of this kind are
located at^Wfukegan, Qulncy, and
Rock Isrand. In these places the
producers found, after making a
survey of the situation, that
there was a need for better milk
supply in these cities and condi-
tions generally beckoned them to
follow ' their product all the way
to market. There are perhaps
fifteen Illinois cities with suffi-
cient population to warrant a co-
operative retail milk plant.

In some instances, the produc-
ers are advised not to go into the
retail milk business because local
conditions are not favorable.
For example, a large proportion
of the farmers may be renters
and hence the membership would
not be stable. In one locality,
action Is being delayed because
the city is located on the corner
of four counties, thus complicat-
ing the fituation.

Path Not All Roses

With present day Improvements
in transportation, the potential
area from which milk may be
shipped to a market has greatly
widened. A few years ago, dairy-
men would not have believed
that their milk would be shipped
70. 80, or 100 miles, to market.
At present, much milk is shipped
that far and considerably further.

The proposition of transporta~
tion is constantly starii s the
wholesale milk companies in the
face, especially at Chicago and
St, Louis. The surplus problem
is a big one and a difficult one to
handle.

At St. Louis, the dairymen co-
operated for the wholesaling of
their milk to dealers and others
in that city. Their marketing
program was resisted and fought
rather bitterly by the dealers and
other interests. The company it-
self was new. Co-operation In
(Continued on page 3)

iBBiaiaianaisiaiaiiaijapiiaiyaB

IT ADTT DONi: YET

Hard times has done their worst to us.

We're feelin pretty sad; . I i «
A farmer's livin nowadays 1 «

Is mighty all-fired bad.
We've worked an' slaved to raise our crops.

An a wee sma' price we've bad;
But the Farm Bureau's a workin.

An' it ain't done yet.

We want the kids to go to school,

ll'f bard to let 'em off; ■,

The taxes take tur extra cash.

Our horses have the cough.
The banker charges interest high, ..

To him our hats we doff;
But the Farm Bureau's a workin'.

An" it ain't done yet.

The wifie's been complaimn' that

Her clothes mn't fit to wear;
The kiddies' shoes are clean doru out.

For money we can't spare.
My own clothes are a sight to see,'

With many a patch an tear;
But the Farm Bureau's a workiu'

An it ain't done yet. • |

Somehow I ain't discouraged.

For it really seems to me.
That though the hogs have cholera

An the cows have got T. B.
Dark clouds are hreakin' in the sky.

The sunshine soon we'll see;
For the Farm Bureau's a workin,

An it ain't done yet.

^-C. C.

I

jaasisiaaiaiseisisiaasii

-i(3La^

>y 1, 1923

The minoU

Agricultu^

AMociation Record

P«f«S

t is edu-
and it

>n8, pro-
permits

ise, and
It also

sr undei^

Co-Op Bill Fills Need

In Illinois Agriculture

The Illinois Agricultural A^
sociation and the presidents of

. practically all of the county
farm bureaus of the state have
declared in favor of the co-op-
erative marketing bill which
now is before the House at
Springfield after having been

I passed by a decisive majority in

, the Senate.

The positive need of commod-
ity co-operative marketing if the
farmer is to attain his rightful

; position among American indus-
tries and the inadequacy of any
present Illinois law to facilitate
the organization of co-operative
marketing associations along con-
structive, sane, conservative lines
— this, In brief, is the reason why
the I. A. A. and the county farm
bif'reaus have been from the start
back of the co-operative market-
ing bill.

In spite of the fact that most
of the agricultyral leaders of the
state have shown themselves to
be in favor of the bill, however,
some measure of opposition has
developed since the first bearing
of the bill in the Senate. A
number of objections have been
advanced, chiefly by interests
which are at present profiting by
the present system of marketing
farm products. Following is a
list of a few of the objections
which have been brought up:

Objections

1. Farmers signing a contract
under the provisions of the new
cs-operatlve bill would he re-
quired to live up to their con-

I /tract.

2. The co-operative bill was
introduced to create some advan-
tage to the U. S. Grain Growers,
Inc.

3. The co-operative act of 1915
is good enough.

4. Contracts must be signed for
a period of ten years.

5. Signing of the contract will
tie the farmer up to deliver his
products to others, taking what
they see fit to give him.

6. Persons who infiuence mem-
bers of co-operative organizations
to break their contracts or per-
sons'-who spread false and mali-
cious reports about the co-opera-
tive associations will be guilty of
a misdemeanor and subject to
fine.

7. The blU was brought up
■ecretly and was railroaded
through the Senate.

Real Motive

In the first place it is obvious
that the real motive t>ebind the
objections is for the most part,
selfish, and comes from parties
who have no real interest in
working out a constructive mar-
keting plan to stabilize agricul-
tural prices, eliminate unneces-
sary profit, and bring about
greater elBciency in the distribu-
tion of farm-produced commod-
ities.

The real motive is never men-
tioned. On the contrary, it - is
always carefully stated that the
only motive is to protect the
farmer from himself. The ob-
jectors have no constructive pro-
gram and offer no plan for^ sta-
bilizing prices, eliminating .un-
necessary profit, and bringing
about greater efficiency in the
distribution of farm products.

, Living TTp to Contracts

The first objection, that farm-
ers would have to live up to their
-^contracts, is quite well-founded.
Vlt ii true that contracts under
; tlie' new co-operative act cannot

entered into yolun

be easily broken. In other words,
a man who joins a co-operative
under the new act has the assur-
ance that the other fellow isn't
going to be able very easily to
desert him.

Our whole business and flnan
cial structure depends on the sa-
cred and binding character of
contracts
tarily.

That the bill has any sort of
connection with the U. S. Grain
Growers, Inc., is pnre imagina-
tion. The bill is for the forming
of new associations — entirely.
Cooperative Act of 1915

The Co-operative Act of 1915
good enough? For those who
find it so, the present bill, if it
becomes law, will not interfere
at all. To those who have found
the Act of 1915 inadequate for
organization, the present bill of-
fers other and broader provi-
sions for co-operative commodity
marketing organizations.

Contracts must be signed for
ten years? Again a false objec-
tion. Contracts can be signed for
whatever period of time you and
your fellow producers decide.

Signing Contract

Signing of the contract binds
the farmer to deliver his product
to others? It binds him only to
deliver it to himself, to his own.
organization in whi-h he has a
voice in management, instead of
blindly dumping It on the market
as at present.

No one is compelled to sign a
contract. Contracts can be made
to suit conditions and never can
be secured unless the provisions
meet the genetal approval of
farmers.

HaUcious Statements

That persons who spread ma-
licious falsities about co-operative
associations and who encourage
contract breaking will be pun
ished is true enough. In other
words, the enemies of co-opera-
tive marketing will find it harder
to undermine it.

That the bill was brought up
secretly in the Senate is mislead-
ing. A complete account of the
progress of the measure has l>een
published each issue in The I. A.
A. Record.

CROWDED OUT

Dne to lack of space the
story of Poultry and Rgg
Marketing As80ciation.s
formed by the I. A. A., could
not be printed in this is.sne
of The Itecord, as promised.
It will appear May 15.

DAIRY DEPARTMENT
SERVES PRODUCERS

■ (Continued from page 2)

Dairy Marketing
Directors Meet
At South Bend

A meeting of dairy marketing
representatives of Illinois, Michi-
g'an, Indiana and Ohio met at
South Bend. Ind., April 19, with
E. B. Heaton, Director of Dairy
Marketing, and Walton Peteet,
Director of Co-operative Market-
ing of the A. F. B. F.

General discussion ol th^ dairy
marketing plans of the states
took place, as well as considera-
tion of the efficiency of the vari-
ous forms of co-operative dairy
associations.

Marketing representatives pres-
ent were A. D. Lynch, of the I.
A. A.; B. F. Beach, assistant sec-
retary of the Michigan Milk Pro-
ducers' Association; C. R. George,
Indiana Dairyman's Association;
and E. D. Waid of the Ohio Farm
Bureau Federation.

the district was new. The situ-
ation became further complicated
by the marketing company be-
coming involved . in bankruptcy
proceedings. For the moment,
co-operative marketing in the St.
Louis arez is at a standstill.

But St. Louis dairymen are
not going to give up their co-op-
erative milk marketing any more
than a grain farmer will refuse
to plant after a crop failure
They know that the St. Louis
people need milk; they know that
they are the logical men who
should supply them; and they
also know that the dealers need
them as surely as they need the
dealers for a market.

A plan is now being worked
out in that district to relieve the
situation and it is believed that
from all the chaos and seeming
trouble a plan will emerge that
will serve the best interests of
the dairymen and deilcrs alike.
Protects Dairy Industry

Representatives of the depart-
ment werB instrumental in secur-
ing the passage of the Haugen
Butter Bill at Washington which
now makes it a Federal law that
butter shall contain 80 per cent
fat and no more than 16 per cent
moisture. This resulted in con-
siderable saving to the producers
in the state, inasmuch as Illinois
had enforced an 821* per cent
butter standard previous to the
Haugen law.

The department also supported
the Voigt bill, prohibiting the
interstate shipment of filled milk,
which passed after a bitter fight
in which all dairy interests were
united.

At the present ses:)ion of the
State Assembly at Spr. ngfield, the
Dairy Marketing Department dug
up facts and figures tu show that
the tuberculosis indemnity ap-
propriation should be passed and
represented them to the Approp-
riations Committee. The depart
ment Is also supporting another
bill which will prohibit the use
of dairy terms in advertising
dairy substitutes.

WUl Carry On

During 1923 the work will be
carried on along the same lines of
service as before — the organiza-
tion of new associations where is
advisable, the work of the de-
partment in an advisory capacity
with the co-operatives now
foTmed, and the protection of the
dairy industry. ,

European Crop
Conditions Are
'. Generally Good

Generally good crop conditions
in Europe are indicated in a radio-
gram just received by the United
States Department of Agriculture
from the International Institute
of Agriculture at Rome. The
radio message reads as follo.W8:

"In Belgium, sowing com-
menced in t;he middle of March
with weither' favorable" and no
frost damage to winter crops. Win-
ter crops in Germany slightly
above average; somfe damage by
floods; spring sowings progressing
well. Winter crops in France fa-
vored b^ climate; spring sowing
well under way but slightly re-
tarded by rain. Crop conditions
in Italy good; weather favorable
and sowilig under way. Good
crops are espected in Spain;
spring sowing completed. "

The annual meeting of the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion for 1923 will be held during
the flrst week of December (n Chi-
cago, according to plans made at
the last meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Federation.

Many Newspapers
Publish Special
Bureau Editions

Twenty-four farm bureau spe-
cial editions of newspapers have
been published in Illinois during
the first four months of 1923 in
twenty counties where reorgan
ization campaigns have taken
place.

With several' more counties to
hold campaigns during May and
June, at least thirty such editions
will have appeared by July 1.

Fox Resigns As
President State
H. F. Association

George A. Fox, secretary of
the I. A. A., resigned his position
as president of the Illinois Hol-
stein-Friesian .Association at the
meeting held in connection with
the state Holstein sale 4t Aurora,
April Il9 and 20. Frank T,
Fowler, Lake Villa, was elected
to succeed Mr. Fox to the presi-
dency Of the association.

Mr. Fox gave his reason for
resignation that his duties with
the I. A. A. did not allow him to
do justice to the Holstein asso-
ciation work. However, he will
serve on the board of directors
for the coming year.

At the same meeting, C. M.
Long, Who has been field secre-
tary of the state association, re-
signed to take up similar duties
with the extension department of
the Holstein-Fr<:8ian Association
of America.

The Bale of state Bpisteins was
a succ^s, an average of 1293.60
being secured for the 24 males
and 61 females consigned, the
former averaging $390.60 and
the latter $236.20.

The top of the sale went to
John L. Nicholson and Son, Ingle-
side, when they bought the year-
ling bull. Bell Farm Boech Pride,
from R. N. Thompson, Cowden,
for $$,000.

T. B. EMDOTION
MEASURES HAVE
SENATE HEARINGS

I. A. A. Represented by Lynch;
Dairy Substitute Adver-
tising Bill yp

Both Seiulte bills which refer
to bovine tvberculosis eradica-
tion in Illinois have passed their
first rcadinia; in the Senate.

"Senate BIB 209 would appro-
priate $1,200,000 for the 'next
two years to indemnify owners
of tubercular cattle that h«ve
been destrotyed, and Senate Bill
281 would allow counties to ap-
propriate funds from the county
treasury to use In the snpprec-
sion, eradication, and control of
tuberciulosis In domestic animals.

No one appeared against the
tuberculosis bills at the Senate
appropriations committee hear-
ing. Those who spoke In their
favor were, A. D. Lynch. Director
of Dairy Marketing of the I. A.
A.; H. R. Smith, NaUonal Live
Stock Commissioner: C. M. Long,
Secretary of the Illinois Holstein-
Ffiesian Association; Dr.' Luckey.
St. Louis Live Stock Comin'ls-
sioner; E. M. Davison, Director
of Agriculture; and A. W. Fisch--
er, farm btireaj ir.dmt«r of Du-
Page county.

Dairy Sdbstitate AdvertlslnK

House BUI 223, which would
prevent the illegal use of the
words, butter, cream, and dairy,
in connection with the sale or
advertising of any substance de-
signed as k substitute tor butter,
has l>eeD referred to a special
sub-committee of five of the
House for lurthsr"

Among those who spoke In
favor of the. bill before the House
committee on agriculture were,
Mr. Lynch of the I. A. A.; W. F.
O'Harr, president of the Illinois
State Dairyman's Association;
Dr. G. L. McKay, secretary of the
American Association of Cream-
ery Buttermakers; and E. B.
Heaton. Dairy Marketing Director
of the A. r. B. F.

Attorneys representbig the J.
F. Jelke Co.. Chicago, and the
J. B. Pearsall Butter Co., Elgin,
appeared against the bill.

Let's Have Some Farm ,{^
Bureau Lies; Send *em In!

When The Record started the
ball rolling with a real honest-to-
goodness farm bureau lie in the
April 15 issue, it asked that its
readers from all parts of Illinois
write in a description of the big-
gest "whoppers" that they have
heard in circulation coneeming
the farm bureau.

As this issue went to press be-
fore any choice "fish stories" had
time to arrive at the I. A. A. office,
the editor decided to find out if
Mr. Metzger of the organization
department had discovered any
noxious basteri'a in his travels
abe.ut the state which needed the
application |>f sunshine, via pub-
licity.

"The biggest farm bureau He,
or rather lies, that I have ever
heard," said Mr. MeUger, "came
to light at a farm bureau meeting
which I attended in a certain Illi-
nois county,"

"A farmer arose in the meeting
and said. 'There is a report in
circulation out in my community

that our county farm bnrean pres-
ident is drawing a salary of $30,-
000 a year and quite a few people
out my way actually believe it.'

•' "That's nothing," replied fman
from another corner of the county.
•Some knocker out where I Uve
started the rumor that our county
farm bureau committeemen are
getting $2S per day when they
attend $he executive committee
meeting^.'

"Of course everyone at the
meeting laagbed at the absurdity
of such re|>orts," concluded Mr.
Metzger, "But the pity of ft Is
that there are farmers who are
ready to believe anythiag that
will s^4eT their own organiza-
tion."

I^w Tbe Record wants its read-
ers to se»d in the very "biggVst
ones" they've heard. Do it now —
in time fair the next issue.

In short, you "Tell The Record"
and Tbe Record will "Tell tbe
World."

Pkg«4

The DEnoH i ahiml AModaliaa Rscord

Mv

Tax Statement By I A. A, Statistical Service

L

THE ASSESSMENT OF FARM PROPERTY

A statement by the Statistical Department of the I. A. A.

Both the Constitution of the State of Illinois and the revunuc
laws demand uniform valuationa of all kinds of properjy for
taxation. The general revenue act directs that all property uot
specifically exempted by general law shall be valued by assessors
at the amount it would bring in a fair, volnntarj- sale for cash.
The requirement of "fair cash value" Is usually disobeyed by all
assessors. Under the present maximum tax rate?, which were fixed
by the legislature with full knowledge of the practice of underassess-
ment, it is fortunate for owners of tangible property that it is under-
assessed. But this fact does not relieve- assessors and- equalizing
bodies from the legal obligation of making uniform assessraenta and
of fixing valuations of all property. Including intangible property, at
the same percentage of its fair cash value. A decision of the Supreme
Court of Illinois, handed do»n December 18, 1918, declares: "One
person cannot be com)>elled lo pay a greater portion of taxes, accord-
ing to the valni of his property, than another, a;nd where assessors
have disregarded the injunction of the law and made an assessment
of property far below its real cash value, their misconduct must also
follow the principle of uniformity and .their assessments of all per-
sons must be at the same proportional valuei."

• All available evidence indicates that, in the last two or three years,
at least, farm property has been assessed at a much higher percentage
of Its fair cash value than most' other pr«perty.<. FoUowinc is an
analysis of the evidence.

^ ' ' Personal Property

The tables below give for each of the years, 1921 and 1922, (a)
the, average farm value, as estimated by the United States Depart-
me^ of Agriculture, of each kind of live stock on Illinois farms on
January 1; (b) the average full assessed valuation of each kind ot
live stock in the state as a whole on April I; (c) the percentage of
the average farm value on January 1 used in the average full assessed
valuation on April 1.

VABM VALCBS A>D PVLL, ASSESSED VALUATIONS
OB* LIVK STOCK — ISSl

Ktaid «t
live
•lack

(■>

r. R. Dnx- Acr.

ftvarace tmrm valae
Janaary 1

<b) (e>

ArtntK* fun Fer«etttace of Jan. 1
aa«««aM valna- valve iu«d In Apr. 1
tlon — April 1 TolaaUon

HorH«s. per head

115.00

158.94

4»

All cattle, per heafl

4«.00

11.10

s?

Males and aases, per bead

97.00

K.Ol

StWep. per head

(.»0

1.90

87

Hog*, per head

11.70

I.7*

•4

•-•AlUi TAIiVBS AMD FVLL ASSESSED VALVATIONS
or UTE STOCK — 1912

Kind wt

(a>

v. 8. Dept. Asr.

avcraca farm value

Jamiarr 1

(b) (e>

ATrrace fall Tt ii iiilatii of Jan. 1

aaaeaaM valoa- Talae oaed In Apr. 1
Uon — April 1 Talaatlsa

Horses, per head

$(9.00

t51.28

74

All cattle, per head

39.10

28.(8

7>

Mulefl and asses, per head

76.00

63. «4

73

Sheep, per head

5.30

4.2(

80

Hogs, per head

10.50

J 8.92

K

For the third Item the estimated average farm value is for mules
•lone, while the average valuation Is fer mules and asses, but it is
not believed that this difference could affect averages very much.

\

Under ordinary conditions,
horses, mules, and hogs Increase
in average value per bead from
January 1 to April 1. Cattle and
sheep increase ,■ or -decrease In
average value more or less in
accord with fluctuations of mar-
ket prices for fat animals. In the
three m«nths period tor both
years for which average values
and average assessed valuations
•re given above. It is probable
that horses and mules Increased
moderately In value, and that the
sante«.waartrue of hogs in 1921.
Ill 1922 bot^ hogs and sheep In-
creased largely in average value.
It is not 'prSttable that cattle
changed much in average value
in the three months of either
year, or that sheep changed much
in average value in 1921.

But, even with reasonable al-
lowance for Increases in average
values between January 1 and
April 1, It la (airly cerUln that
farm animals were assessed at
about 60 per cent of their aver-
age value on April 1, 1921, ani
at more than 60 per cent of their
average value on April 1, 1922.
ReiJ Estate
In the last two or three months
a considerable number of couaty
farm bureaus have been investi-
gating the 1912 full assessed val-

V

nations and sales values of all
farm land and town and city lots
recently sold for which the con-
'^eyances g^ve exact information.
In every one of these counties
very wide fiuctuatious were found
in the individual assessments of
both land and lots. The chief
purpose, however, of the investi-
gation was to discover whether
all the land sold was assessed the
same percentage of its sale value
as were all the town and city lots
sold. Average figures have now
been secured for a suSIcie^t num-
ber of counties, (airly represent-
illg the different soil types and
economic conditions of the state,
to warrant a general statement
of what the investigation dis-
closes.

Farm Land

In 1922 farm land. Including
improvements, in the state as a
whole was assessed at the high-
est valuation ever used. The
same was true in a large number,
of counties. In only a few coun-
ties was the great decrease In
the value of farm land which be-
ga? In 1920 reflected in Substan-
tial decreases in assessments. In
ev'.ry county in which asseasmenta
were either practically stationary
or were increased, the decrease in
vales value of land has greatly

Increase ■■ percentage of sales

value \> in the assessments.

Even In of the few counties

in whicl essments have been

substant: decreased, it Is

doubtful >ther the decrease

has kept ' with the decrease

in sales s.

In the ties engaged In the
investigat iescribed above, it
was foun t assessments ran
as high, one county as a
whole, as it 69 per cent of
sales vail In about half of
the count Including one or
two ot th best Central Illi-
nois count! reached or passed
50 per cen . fell to about 45
per cent it ..oeral counties, and
below this figure in two or three
counties. In all of those falling
bellow 45 per cent, and perhaps
some above this Qgure, it Is be-
lieved that a careful checking of
all land transfers so as to ex-
clude thos Ich mei^ly repre-
sent trade the completion of
old contra ould s'-.bstantially
Increase tl rcentages found.
r Lots

In the nation year 1919,
town and lots had not in-
creased I ' in value. Their
values be :o Increase rapidly
In 1920, are now at their
highest p in nearly all parts
of the St Except in compar-
atively fe wna and cities, the
Increase les values has not
been refl in substantial In-
creases 1 3rage assessed val-
uations, proportion of Im-
proved 1 o unimproved lots
Is the g it recorded in the
last twe ears, both fn the
state as hole and In most
counties. the average per lot
assessed valuation for 1922,
In the St 3 a whole. Improve-
ments In d, was lower than
In any y< nee 1915. In Cook
County, 1 Ing the city ot Chi-
cago, It at its lowest point
since 191 a about 17 counties
It was lo ban It was twenty-
one yean

The g increase In sales
values of . and city lots, with
assessed tions either almost
Btatlonar In many counties
actually aslng, has lowered
the perc e of recent sales
values ui i the 1922 full as-
sessed vs )ns. In all of the
counties 3 the farm bureau
determlni > percentage. It was
found to IS than 45 per cent.
In most < es as a whole. It is
less than it cent. In a num
ber of cit Is not much above
30 per ce id In one or two is
less than er cent.

and Lots

In obI e or two counties
diieB It I r that land Is as-
sessed no uicjer than town and
city lots. The difference la us-
ually so ' that th« raising ot
average ' tions ot all the town
and city In a county to the
sam$ bat land would require
an increi ' from 15 to 30 per
cent I e county it would
exceed 4 • cent. A lowering
of land le basis of lots In
most of ountles investigated
would r< I an average reduc-
tion of 12 to 25 per cent,
running 3 more than 30 per
cent in >r two counties.
ST Property

la tt vestigation of sales
values I ssessed valuations of
town ai ;y lots, nearly all of
the lotf 1st of residence prop-
erty, r as business proi>er-

ty can be separated, it Js .usually
found to carry very low assess-
ments. This is probably due In
part to the tendency noted in the
last paragraph for the lots of
highest value to have the lowest
relative assessments. In most
counties Investigated thee can be
no doubt that business property
is assessed at less than most resi-
dence property.

The investigation has not gone
far enough to give any average
figures. Examples, however, can
be given showing the ridiculously
small assessments of some large
properties. In one county a com-
paratively small plant valued by
Its owners at 15,000 Is assessed
for 1686, or one-^eventb of Its
estimated value. 'Another plant
is valued at $40,000 antl assessed
for 11,500, or less than four per
cent of its real value. In another
county, a coal mining company
has property conservatively val-
ued at 12,000,000. Last year it
was assessed at $38,000 or less
than two per cent ot its real
value. In another county a well
known manufacturing company
In its annual report glveb the
value of its physical plant, equip-
ment, materials, and finished
goods at about $3,000,000. l.ast
year it was assessed at a trifle
more than $90,000, or three per
cent of the value claimed in its
annual report.

CoDcloslons Drawn

The information given above,
though drawn, so far as it re-
lates to real estate, from about
one-eighth of the counties of the
state, is believed to be more or
less typical of conditions in other
counties. In any case it is safe
to say that in most counti^ and
in the state as a whole, th<ere Is
little uniformity in assessing dif-
ferent classes of property. So
tar as available evidence is suffi-
cient to warrant conclusions, it
is fairly certain that farm ani-
mals were assessed In 1922 at
from 60 to 65 per cent of their
fair cash value, while It Is prolix
able that land was assessed at an
average ot about SO per cent, and
town and city lots at less than
40 per cent of their fair cash
value. It Is also probable that
mercantile, manufacturing, and
mining properties, on the aver-
age, were assessed the lowest of
any tangible properties in the
state, but it Is not possible to
estimate average percentages.

The Inequalities of assessments
Indicated above have cost farmers
millions ot dollars in taxes paid
in the last two years. In one
county, the county and state
taxes alone collected this spring
on land are $liiS,000 in excess of
what they would be if land were
assessed on the level of lots. In
each of a number of other coun
ties they are from $40,000 to
$50,000.

Remedy Suggested

In most cqunties assessors were
Instructed to value all property
this spring at 60 per cent of (air
cash value. It carried out these
instructions would require an In-
crease In the assessment of land
In most counties of the state. It
would probably mean an Increase
Ifa the assessments of town and
city lota in most counties aver-
aging at least 60 per cent, run-
ning up to 70 or 76 per cent In
many counties, and mounting to
over 100 per cent In certain cities
which were assessed at less than

30 per cent In 1922. It la «v
tren^ely improbable that any such
violent increase In assessments of
town and city lots will be made.
It Is very doubtful If the average
of the new assessments of lots
will prove to be much over 46
per cent ot actual cash values.

It is highlylmportant to farm-
ers and farmers' organizations to
know what the level ot the new
assessments will prove to be for
farm animals, farm land, town
and city lot^and so far as possi-
ble for business, manufacturing,
and mining property. It Is not
enough to have succeeded in hav-
ing instructions given to asses-
sors to lower the assessed valu-
ation of land or farm personal
property. Such decreases are
likely to be made very irregular-
ly in different townships. If Val-
uations are equalized by the
County Boards of Review, as
they should be, the question of
relative valuations of different
kinds of property Is certain to be
raised. The same question is
certain to he raised by the Illi-
nois Tax Commission this fall In
its work of \equalizing the valu-
ations of different classes of prop-
erty between the counties and in
the state. The county farm bu-
reau that knows how different
classes of property are assess^
this year is In a position to se^.
core just assessments. This is no '^
place for guess work or rule of
thumb methods.

The farm bureaus which have
Investigated the 1922 assessed
valuations and recent sales val-
ues ot property are enthusiastic
in supporting this project. They
will continue this work by Invest-
igating the new assessments and
finding out the facts. In order
to help any farm bureaus which
have not made the investigation,
the Statistical Department of the
I. A. A. offers to spend one day
starting the investigation In each
county requesting it, and to hel|>
In analyzing the data when se-
cured. In most counties, records
of 200 transfers should be sulB-
clent. The necessary data can
be secured at little cost, and will
require one person's time (or
only a few days.

Co-operation It
Asked By /. A. A.
Traffic Division

The Transportation department
is asking the co-operation o(
(arm bureau members in recur-
ing information where aervlee
may be given.

Each Monday morning a rep-
resentative of the department
goes to the Chicago stock yards
and checks up en all losses on
live stock ot the week previous
Incurred by Illinois farm bureaa
members or shipping associations.
The- matter is then taken up with
the shipper to get the (acts ot
the' ease and to secure the an-
thority to pursue the claims. The
department is asking that more
prompt replies be made to these
inquiries so that It may know if
adjustment is desired.

Farm bureau shippers o( th*
state are also asked to in(orm
the Transportation department tt
Inadequate watering (acuities or
other undesirable conditions at
live stock loading pens, so that
they may be remedied betore hot
weather.

I

A
A

-/

r 1, 1923^

ice

It u tkr
,t any such
nsments of
1 be made,
he average
tts of lots
over 45

values.
It to (arm-
lizations to
>r the new

to be tor
and, town
ir as posai-
ufacturing.

It is not
led in hav-

to amios
!88ed vain-
personal
eases are

Iri-egular-
>8. If Val-
i by the
cvlew, as
uestion of

different
rtain to be
[uestion la
>y the IIU-
this fall in

the rala-
66 of prop-
tiee and la
' farm bu-
7 different
6 assess^
tion to se^.
This is no \
or rule of

vhich have
assessed

sales val-
nthusiastlc
Ject. They

by invest-
iments and
In order
sauB which
restlgation,
lent of the
id one iMj
on In eaeh
nd to hel|>

when se-
es, records
d be sullt-

data can
t. and wiU

time tor

9

4.i4.
Hvision

lepartment

iratlon of

In pecnr-

« aerrlee

ng s r«p-°
epartment
ock yards
losses on
: previous
m buretui
Bociatlona.
n up with
> facta of
i the an-
lima. The
hat more
I to these
r know It

■s of the
o Inform
rtment of
;iliUes or
itions at
, so that
etore hot

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IIlinoisAgricultumJAssociaiion

Vohnne 1

May 15, 1923

Number 5

I. A. ft. STATE PICNIC AT URBANA, JUNE 29tli

EXECUTIVE BODY
HOLDS SESSION IN
eHKAGO OFFICE

Accept Resignation of Fred

Baumberger; Hear Both

Sides Roads Issue

The regular meeting of the I.
A. A. Executive Committee was
held at the Chicago office with
all members present except Fred
Baumberger, Reno. President
8. H. Thompson presided.

Mr. Pox read a letter from Mr.
Baumberger in which he tendered
blB resignation as a member of
the committee due to conditions
which made it d.iflleult for him to
attend the regular meetings. The
resignation was accepted and a
meetioK of voting delegates of the
22nd district was called at East
St. Louis on Hay 11, to flU the
vacancy.

Regular routine business was
taken up by the committee. R.
A. Cowles presented a financial
statem^t of the I. A. A. for the
first quarter of 1923, which was
adopted. Action was taken by the
committee in clearly defining the
duties of the treasurer. A state-
ment in regard to the progress of
the Co-operative Marketing bill
was made by President Thompson
tor the Legislative Committee.
Hear Roads Qaestion

Both sides of the million dollar
bond issue for roads question
were presented to the members
of the committee.

(Conthuied on pase 2)

Decline of Five
Cents In Price
Wool Pool Sacks

Due to an unexpected decline In
the price of burlap, the Live Stock
Marketing' Department of the I.
A. A. announces that a cut of five
cents each has been made in the
price of sacks for use in the wool
pooL

The new prices went into effect
May 1. New sacks now cost 50
cents each in lots of from one to
24 and 47 cents each In lots of 26
or more. Prices of No. 1 used
sacks remain the same.

The Live Stock Department al-
so wishes to notify wool growers
that a number of companies are
advertising prices of 14 cents per
pound for twine. Such twine is
made of Jute and has the same
effect upon wool as binder twine.
It will only tie about 20 to 25
fleeces per pound compared to 25
to 40 fleeces that may be tied by
standard twine.

Arrangements For
Phosphate Supply
Nearly Concluded

The Phosphate-Limestone De-
partment of the I. A. A. has prac-
tically concluded an agreement
with two of the ground rock
phosphate producers in Tennes-
see for the supply of phosphate
for the balance of 1923.

This fortunate arrangement
gives the department a producer
on each of the two roads, — the
Louisville and Nashville and the
Nashville, Chatanooga, and St.
Louis, which will help In times of
car shortage.

The specifications as to basic
quality are: phosphorus, 13 per
cent; fineness, 95 per cent
through 100 mesh screen; and
moisture not to exceed three per
cent. The price based on this
quality up to and including July
14. ; ?2S. is $5.5« ar<l th»!reafter
till the end of the year, $6.50.
Adjnstmenti will be made either
up or down as the grade varies
in individual shipments from the
specification as to basic quality

Further details in regard to
phosphate selling plans will
made later. .^

AMENDMENTS TO BE
USEDASAHACK ON
CO-OPERATIVE Bill

Next Appearance of Measure

May Be Test of Strength

In The House

be

Will Levy Charge
On Commercial
Claims Collected

At the last meeting of the I. A.
A. Executive Committee, action
was taken authorising the Trans-
portation Department to levy a
charge for strictly commercial
claims which the department col-
lects for individuals or co-oper-
ative associations.

Dnder this ruling, a commission
will t>e charged on all freight
overcharge, freight loss and dam-
age, and general loss and damage
claims collected. The commission
charged will be as follows; for
farm bureau members, 12 H per
cent; for co-operative associations,
15 per cent; and for non-members,
25 per cent.

Charges to members will be the
same as to non-members, subject
to a refund upon certification by
the county farm bureau that the
individual is a member in good
standing. The refund will be 12Vi
per cent less the original commis-
sion charged. This emphasizes
the difference between the rate
charged member; and non-mem-
bers.

Checks in payment of claims
will be made payable to the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association. The
association will then issue checks
In favor of the claimants, less the
amount of commission. The rul-
1ns affects aU claims collected
after May 1.

With the legislative hopper
at Springfield crammed with
hundreds of bills, only a few of
which have a ghost of a show
for passage, the Illinois Co-op-
eratiye Marketing Bill, at the
time The Record goes to press,
is still in the House. It is prob-
able, however, that during the
second or third week in May
the measure wiU be brought up.

It is believed that the opposi-
tion, which consists to a large
eKteat of Chicago represcntdtives.
will concentrate its attack upon
amendments to weaken the bill
rather than votes against It.
There are members of the House
who would not want to be placed
on recortt as voting against the
act yet who would Vote for
amendments to make it worth-
less.

The real contest on the bill,
therefore, will probably resolve
itself into a test of strength
when the amendments are
brought up.

Farmers who are supporting
the bill, including the I. A. A.
and the county farm bureaus^
have 'Willingly listened to and
have answered objections brought
up against the measure and have
always considered any or all
amendments brought up for the
sincere purpose-of Irying-to im-
prove the act. It is probable,
however, that at the next appear-
ance of the bill, a number of
amendments will be proposed
whose only purpose is to indirect-
ly kill the measure.

Cunningham Named :
As Farmer Member
of Reserve Board

President Harding has appointed
Edward H, Cunningham of Iowa
as "dirt farmer" member of the
federal reserve board.

Edward E. Jones of Pennsyl-
vania was named a member of
the farm loan . board. Mr. Jones
is at present connected with the
federal land bank at Bal^more.

Mr. Cutmingham's appointment
fills the vacancy caused by the
death of Milo D. Campbell of
Michigan, appointed after Con-
gress created the "dirt farm-
er" position on the tmard.

Mr. Cunningham's selection is
given the unanimous «proval of
Iowa Republican party leaders
and farm bureau federations of
the middle west.

Mr. Cunningham is well known
to Illinois farmers for his wosh
in the reorganization of the U. S.
Grain Growers, Inc., and as sec-
retary of the Iowa Farm Bureau
Federation.

^Co-Ops' Offer Real Hope,
Says N. C. Supreme Court

The North Carolina Supreme
Court, in upholding the constitu-
tionality of the Co-operative Mar-
keting Act passed in that state,
an act similar to the one before
the Illinois legislature, has de-
livered the following opinion on
the merits of co-operative market-
ing:

The co-operative system is the
most hopeful movement ever In-
augurated to obtain justice for,
and improve the financi^ condi-
tion of farmers and laborers. The
producers are paying all the costs
and assuming all the responslbil-

AU IIUNOIS FARM BOREAU FOLKS
^KED TO JREAT JfNNUAL OUTING

College 6f Agriculture 'Open House" To Be Held At Same
Time, Offering Chance To Take in Two Events;
." I 'i i "Twin Cities" Easily Reached

Champ4ijgW-Urbana on June 29th. i j j
The place and date of the I. A. A. state picnic for 1923 was
thus decided at a meeting of county farm bureaus and officials
of the I. A. A. and of the College of Agriculture at the Twin
Cities reetntly. At another meeting which followed several days
later, committees were named and the m^hinery was set in mo-
tion to prepare for the greatest' state picnic ever held by the
state farm bureau movement.

Crysul Lake Park, in Urbana. is u> be 4^ scene of the blc farm
gathering. This site offers one of the most (iesirable locations in the
state — a large, grassy, wooded plot on the outskirts of tTrbana throogb
which a beautiful lake winds.

^^^^^~—^^^——^— i^g "twin" cities" are *^^

reached both by train an'^'^^
from almost any part" or 17
A more central location would be
hard to And.

Kew Advantace
The 1B23 staU picnic offers ~«
further advantage which has been
enjoyed by none of the three
preceding picnics, held at Cham-
paign, Dixon and Olney in 1920.
1921 and 1922, respectively. This
advantage consists of the co-op-
eration er the College of Agri-
culture of the University of IHi-
nois and the {>laicing of the Uni-
versity ^'Open House." the time
when farmers of the sUte flock,
to the oollege to see the experi-
mental fields, in the same week
as the picnic.

Instructive Trip

Farm Bureau visitors will thus
be enabled to make the occasion
not only a genuine outing . and
good time but also one of the
most Instructive trips they could
possibly take. '

The twbwcities. Champaign and -
Urbana, ,bave made arrangementa
to co-openate to the limit to show
their farmer visitors the best sort
of hospitality.

Wame Committees

At the second meeting, in the
offices of the county farm bureau
in Champaign, the following com-
mitteee Were named:

GENfaiAL PICNIC <:OMMlT-
TEE — t. D. Harper, Illinois As-
ricultnral Association; J. D. Bils-
borrow. Extension Service, Col-
lege of Agricnltore, University of
Illinois : D. J. Holterman, Sador-
us; C. R. Finley, Boopestoa; J.
E. Smltk. Mayor of Urbaaa; Ed
Filson, President Champaics
Chamber of Commerce; C. B.
Oathont. Champaign' County Farm
(OMitinaed oi^ pec* 4)

ities of these co-operative associ-
ations. They are taking all the
risks. They are asking no assis-
tance from the public treashry.
They are forcing no one to Join
and they are exacting no inordi-
nate prices for their product.
They are associating themselves
as authorised by the statute, like
other peiBons, and they have
signed mutual and fair agree-
ments among themselves which
would be futile unless those who
have signed such agreements can
be held to abide by the terms of
such contracts."

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The HliBoi*

ukaral AMOciatioii Record

May 1, 1923

Tax Statement By I A, A. Statistical Service

THE ASSESSMENT OF FARM PROPERTY

A statement by the Statistical Department of the I. A. A.

Both th^\ Constitution of the State of Illinois and the revejiuc
laws demaiM uniform valuations of all kinds of property for
taxation, t^he general, revenue act directs that all property not
specifically ^Kempted bj' general law shall be valued by assessors
at the amount it would bring in a fair, voluntarj- sale for cash.
The requirf^uent of "fair cash value" Is usually disobeyed by all
assessors, tinder the present nxa.\lnium tax »«rtes, which were lived
by the legislature with full knowledge of thfpractice of underasiesi-
ment, it is fortunate for owners of tangible' property that it is undei-
asscBsed. But this fact does not rellev* assessors and equalizing
bodies' from the legal obligation of making uniform assessments -and
of ftxUig valuations of all property, including intangible property, at
the Banie jmrcentage of its fair cash value. A decision of the Supreme
Court of Illinois, handed down December 18, 1918, declares: "One
perejon cannot be compelled to pay a greater portion of ta.xes, accord-
ing to tBe value of his property, than another, and where assessors
have disregarded the injunction of the law and made an assessment
of property far below \t8 real cash value, their misconduct must also
follow the principle of uniformity and their assessments of all per-
sonsi must be at the same proportional value."

All available evidence indicates that, in the last two or three years,
at laast, farm property has been assessed at i^ much higher percentage
of Its fair cash value thail most other property. Following is an
aiialysis of tlie evidence. i L t

Persoiutl Pro|)erty f !

The tables below give for each of the years, 1921 and 1922, (a)
the average farm value, as estimated by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture, of each kind of live stock on Illinois farms on
January 1; (b) the average full assessed valuation of each kind of
live stock in the state as a whole on April 1; (c) the percentage of
the »veragi farm value on January 1 used in the average full assessed
valuation on April 1.

VABM VALVES ASD FCLI. AS!IE.<ISEI> VALrATIONS
\ or LIVE STOCK — 1021

Ktaid at
■lock

(>> (l>) <o

V. s. D«pt. Ait. Aveiucr full Fer«entace of Jsn. 1

avenijre rnrtn v«lti« aj«NMttt«<l vain*. Tftla« uk<4 In Apr. 1

Jaaawr 1 tlon — .4prU 1 Tulaation

Horaes. p»r head $85.00

All cattle, per head 48.0*

Mulos and asses, per head 97.00

Sheerp. per head 6.90

Host, per head 13.70

»58.94

M

31.30

M

6S.02

«7

3.90

67

S.70

64

Utii tt
Ihr* ^

•tock

VAIASSa AND PVLt, AS.<IES»IBO VALUATIONS
OF LIVE STOCK — 1022

(*) (b) (c)

V. S. l>ept. Act. Aventjte fnU Percentage of Jan. 1

aTC«mtf« farm valaa aaiie<iHe«l valua- valoe oiied In Apr. 1

January 1 Uon — .\prU 1 valuation

Horses, per h«ad

369.00

351.28

74

All cattle, per head

39.10

28.68

73

Mulefl and asses, per head

75.00

63.64

7J

Sheep, per head

5.30

4.26

80

Hogs, per head

10.50

8.9! -.^

89

For the third item the estimated average farm value is for mules
alone, while the average valuation is for mules and asses, but it. is
not believed that this difference could affect averages very much.

Under ordinary conditions,
horses, mules, and hogs Increase
in average value per head from
January 1 to April 1. Cattle and
sheep increase or decrease in
average value more or less in
accord with fluctuations of mar-
ket prices for fat animals. In the
three months period for tioth
years for which average values
and average assessed valuations
are given above, it is probable
that horses and mules increased
moderately in value, and that the
same>>v.-aartriie of hogs in 1921
In 1922 both hogs and sheep in-
rreaaed largely in average value.
It ia not probable that cattle
changed much in average value
in the three months of either
year, or that sheep changed much
in average value in 1921.

But, even with reasonable al-
lowances for Increases in average
values beti^eea January 1 and
April 1, it is fairly certain that
Ikrm animals were assessed at
about 66 per cent of their aver-
age value on April 1, 1921, and
at more than 60 per cent of their*
average value on April 1, 1922.
Real Estate

la the last two or three months
a considerable aumber of county
farm bureaus have been investi-
gatinc the 1922 f«ll assessed val-

uations and sales values of all
farm land and town and city lots
recently sold for which the con-
veyances g(ve exact information.
In every one of these counties
very wide fluctuations were found
in the individual assessments of
both land and lots. The chief
purpose, however, of the investi-
gation was to discover whether
all the land sold was assessed the
same percentage of its sale value
SB were all the town and city lots
sold. Average figures have now
been secured, for a sufflcieat num-
ber of counties, fairly represent-
ing the different soil types and
economic conditions of the state,
to warrant a general statement
of what the investigation dis-
closes.

Farm Land

In 1922 farm land, including
improvements, in the state as a
whole was assessed at the high-
est valuation ever used. The
same was true in a large number
of counties. In only. a few coun-
ties was the great decrease in
the value of farm land which be-
gan in 1,920 reflected in substan-
tial decreases in assessments. In
every cbunty in which assessments
were either practically stationary

or were Increased, the decrease in

sales value of land has greatly]

^■tf

increase * percentage of sales

value v in the assessments.

Even in of the few counties

in whici essments have been

substant: decreased, it is

doubtful 'ther the decrease

has kept ' with the decrease

in sales s.

In the ties engaged In the
investigat lescrlbed above, it
was foun t assessments ran
as high, one county as a
whole, as it 59 per cent of
sales vail In about half of
the count including one or
two of th hest Central Illi-
nois counti reached or passed
50 per ceE . fell to about 45
per cent iii oceral counties, and
below this figure in two or three
counties. In all of those falling
below 45 per cent, and perhaps
some above this figure, it is be-
lieved that a careful checking of
all land transfers so as to ex-
clude thos Ich merely repre-
sent trade the completion of
old contra ould substantially
increase tl rcentages found.
r Lots

In the nation year 1919,
town and lots had not in-
creased I • in value. Their
values be :o increase rapidly
in 1920, , are now at their
highest p in nearly all parts
of the St Except in compar-
atively fe wns and cities, the
increase les values has not
been refl in substantial in-
creases i ;rage assessed val-
uations, proportion of im-
proved f o unimproved lots
is the g 5t recorded In the
ladt twe ears, both fn the
state as hole and in most
conntles. the average per lot
assessed valuation for 192.2,
in the St J a whole, improve-
ments in d, was lower than
in any y<' nee 1915. In Cook
County, i ing the city of Chi-
cago, it at its lowest point
since 191 a about 17 counties
it Was lo han it was twenty-
one yean

The g increase In sales
values of . and city lots, with
assessed ' tions either almost
statlonar; in many counties
actually asing, has lowered
the perc e of recent sales
values U! i the 1922 fufl as-
sessed vs >ns. In all of the
counties 3 the farm bureau
determini ; percentage, it was
found to IS than 45 per cent.
In most I es as a whole, it is
less than ^r cent. In a num-
ber of cil is not much above
30 per ce id in one or two is
less than er cent.

and Lots

In onl e or two counties
does' It I r that land is as-
sessed no uicjer than town and
city lots. The difference is us-
ually so ' that the raising of
average ' tions of all the' town
and city in a county to the
same ba: land would require
an incre: ' from 15 to 30 per
cent. I e county it would
exceed 4 • cent. A lowering
af land le baais of lots In
most of ounties investigated
would ri t an average reduc-
tion of 12 to 25 per cent,
running } more than 30 per
cent In ir two ..counties.
5r Proiierty

In tt vestigation of sales

values ) ssessed valuations of

town ai ;y lots, nearly all of

the lotf ist of residence prop- {

erty. r as business proper- 1

ty can be separated, it is usually
found to carry very low assess-
ments. This is probably due in
part to the tendency noted in the
last paragraph for the lots of
highest value to have the lowest
relative assessments. In most
counties Investigated the.-e can be
no doubt that business property
is assessed at less than moat resi-
4ence property.

The investigation has not gone
far enough to give any average
figures. Examples, however, can
be given showing the ridiculously
small assessments of some large
properties. In one county a com-
paratively small plant valued by
its owners at )5.000 is assessed
for $685, or one-seventh of its
estimated value. Another plant
is valued at $40,000 and assessed
for $1,500, or less than four per
cent of its real value. In another
county, a coal mining company
has property conservatively val-
ued at $2,000,000. Last year it
was assessed at $38,000 or less
than two per cent of its real
Value. In another county a well
known manufacturing company
in its annual report gives the
value of its physical plant, equip-
ment, materials, and finished
goods at about $3,000,000. l,ast
year it was assessed at a trifle
more than $90,000, or three per
cent of the value claimed In its
annual report.

Conclusions I>ra\m

The . information given above,
though drawn, so far as it re-
lates to real estate, from abput
one-eighth of the counties of the
state, is believed to be more or
less typical of conditions in other
counties. In any case.it is safe
to say that in most counties and
In the state as a whole, there is
little uniformity in assessing dif-
ferent classes of property. So
far as available evidence is suCB-
cient to warrant conclusions, it
is fairly certain that farm ani-
mals were assessed in 1922 at
from 60 to 65 per cent of their
fair cash value, while it is prob-
able that land was assessed at an
average of about 50 per cent, and
town and city lots at less than
40 per cent of their fair cash
value. It is also probable that
mercantile, manufacturing, and
mining properties, on the aver-
age, were assessed the lowest of
any tangible properties in the
state, but it is not possible to
estimate average percentages.

The inequalities of assessments
indicated above have cost farmers
millions of dollars in taxes paid
in the last two years. In one
county, the county and state
taxes alone collected this spring
on land are $125,000 In excess of
what they would be if Jand were
assessed on the level of lots. In
each of a number of other coun-
ties they are from $40,000 to
$50,000.

Remedy Suggested

In miwt cquntiea assessors were
instructed to value all property
this spring at 60 per cent of fair
cash value. If carried out these
Instructions would require an in-
crease in the assessment of land
In most counties of the state. It
would probably mean an increase
in the assessments of town and
city lots in most counties aver-
aging at least 56 per cent, run-
ning up to 70 or. 75 per cent in
many counties, and mounting to
over 100 per cent in certain cities
which were assessed at less than

30 per cent In 1922. It is ex-
tremely iniprobable that any such
violent increase in assessments of
town and city lots will be made.
It Is very doubtful if the average
of the new assessments of lots
will prove to be much over 45
per cent of actual cash values.

It is highly important to farm-
ers and farmers' organizations to
know what the level of the new
assessments will prove to be for
farm animals, farm land, town
and city lots, and so far as possi-
ble for business, manufacturing,
and niining property. It is not
enough to have succeeded in hav-
ing instructions given to asses-
sors to lower the assessed valu-
ation of land or farm personal
property. Such decreases are
likely to be made very irregular-
ly in different townships. If val-
uations are equalized by the
County Boards of Review, as
they should be, the question of
relative valuations of different
kinds of property Is certain to be
raised. The same question is
certain to be raised by the Illi-
nois Tax Commission this fail in
its work of equalizing the valu-
ations of different classes of prop-
erty between the counties ant^ in
the state. The county farm bu-
reau that knows bow different
classes of property' are assessed
this year is in a position to se-
cure just assessments. This is no
place for guess wotk or rule of
thumb methods.

The farm bureaus which have
investigated the 1922 assessed
valuations and recent sales val-
ues of property are enthusiastic
In supporting this project. They
will continue this work by invest-
igating the new assessments and
finding out the facts. In order
to help any farm bureaus which
have not made the investigation,
the Statistical Department of the
I. A. A. offers to spend one day
starting the Investigation in each
county requesting it, and to helik
In analyzing the data when se-
cured. In most counties, records
of 200 transfers should be suffi-
cient. The necessary data can
be secured at little coat, and will
require one person's time for
only a few days.

Co-operation Is
Asked By I. A. A.
Traffic Division

The Transportation department
is asking the co-operation of
farm bureau members in secur-
ing Information where service
may be given.

Each Monday morning a rep-
resentative of the department
goes to the Chicago stock yards
and checks up on all losses on
live stock of the week previous
Incurred by Illinois farm bureau
members or shipping associations.
The matter is then taken up with
the shipper to get the facts of
the case and to secure the au-
thority to pursue the claims. The
department ia asking that more
prompt replies be made to these
inquiries so that it may know It
adjustment Is desired.

Farm bureau shippers of the
state are also asked to inform
the Transportation department- of
Inadequate watering facilities or
other undesirable conditions at
live stock loading pens, so that
they may be remedied before hot
weather.

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Illinois A gricultuimJ^ssodalicm

Volume 1

May 15, 1923

Number 5

I. A. A. SJATE PICNIC AT URBANA, JUNE 29th

ALL lU »I|M MMI FOLKS
ASe TO GREAT ANNUAL OUTING

EXECUTIVE BODY
HOLDS SESSION IN
CHICAGO OFFICE

Accept Resignation of Fred

Baumberger; Hear Both

Sides Roads Issue

The regular meeting of the I.
A. A. Executive Committee was
held at the Chicago ofBce with
all members present except Fred
paumberger, Reno. President
S. H. Thompson presided.

Mr. Fox read a letter from Mr.
Baumberger in which he tendered
his resignation as a .jnember of
the committee due to conditions
which made it dilBcult for him to
attend the regular meetings. The
resignation was accepted and a
meetine of votin? delegates of the
22nd district was called at East
St. Ix>uis on May 11, to fill the
vacancy.

Regular routine business was
taken up by the committee. R.
A, Cowles presented a financial
st^tem^t of the I. A. A. for the
first quarter of 1923, which was
adopted. Action was taken by the
committee in clearly ^defining the
duties of the treasurer. A state-
ment in regard to the progress of
' the Co-operative Marketing bill
was made by President Thompson
for the Legislative Committee.
Hear Roads Qnestlon

Both sides of the million dollar
.bond issue for roads question
'jrere presented to the members
^of the committee.

(Continued on paffe 2)

Decline of Five
Cents In Price
Wool Pool Sacks

Due to an unexpected decline In
the price of burlap, the Live Stock
Marketing Department of the I.
A. A. announces that a cut of five
cents each has been made in the
price of sacks for use in the wool
pool.

The new prices went Into effect
Hay 1. New sacks now cost 50
cents each in lots of from one to
24 and 47 cents each in lots of 25
or more. Prices of No. 1 used
sacks remain the same.

The Live Stock Department al-
so wishes to notify wool growers
that a number of companies are
advertising prices of 14 cents per
pound for twine. Such twine is
made ot ]ute and has the same
effect upon wool as binder twine.
It will only tie about 20 to 25
fleeces per pound compared to 25
to 40 fleeces that may be tied by
Standard twine.

Arrangements For
Phosphate Supply
Nearly Concluded

The Phosphate-Limestone De-
partment of the I. A. A. Uaa prac-
tically concluded an agreement
with two ot the ground rock
phosphate producers in Tennes-
see for the supply of phosphate
for the balance of 1923.

This fortunate arrangement
gives the department a producer
on each of the two roads, — the
Louisville and Nashville and the
Nashville, Chatanooga, and St.
Louis, which will help in times of
car shortage.

The specifications as to basic
quality are; phosphorus, 13 per
cent; fineness, 95 per cent
through 100 mesh screen; and
moisture not to exceed three per
cent. The price based on this
quality up to and including July
14. '>23, is »5.5fl ar<1 thereafter
till the end of the year, 16.50.
Adjustments will be made either
up er down as the grade varies
in individual shipments from the
specification as to basic quality.

Further details in regard to
phosphate selling plans will be
made later.

AMENDMENTS TO BE
USEDASATTACKON
CO-OPERATIVE BILL

miL Levy Charge
On Commercial
Claims Collected

At the last meeting of the I. A.
A. Executive Committee, action
was taken authorizing the Trans-
portation Department to levy a
charge for strictly commercial
claims which the department col-
lects for individuals or co-oper-
ative associations.

Under this ruling, a comnfissioiv
will be charged on all height
overcharge, freight loss and dam-
age, and general loss and damage
claims collected. The commission
charged will be- as follows; for
farm bureau members, 12^ per
cent; for co-operative associations,
IS per cent; and for non-mem t>er8,
25 per cent. '

Charges to members will be the
same as to non-members, subject
to a refund upon certifieation by
the county farm bureau that the
individual is a member in good
standing. The refund will be 121,4
per cent less the original commis-
sion charged. This emphasizes
the difference between the rate
charged members and non-mem-
bers.

Checks in payment of claims
will be made payable to the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association. The
association w.ill then issue checks
in favor ot tbe claimants, less the
amount of commission. The rul-
ing affects all claims collected
after May 1.

Next Appearance of Measure

May Be Test of Strengtiv

In The House

With the legislative hopper
at Springfield crammed with
hundreds of bills, only a few of
which have a ghost of f show
for passage, the Illinois Co-op-
erative Marketing Bill, at the
time Ths Record goes to press,
is still in the House. It is prob-
able, however, that during the
second or third week in May
the measure will be brought up.
It. is believed that the' opposi-
tion, which consists to a large
o^tent of Cliica,;o leprescnt^Jtives.
will concentrate its attack upon
amendments to weaken the bill
rather than votes against it.
There are members of the Hoiise
who would not want to be placed
on record as voting against the
act yet who would vote for
amendments to make it worth-
less.

The real contest on the bill,
therefore, will probably resolve
itself into a test ot strength
when the amendments are
brought up.

Farmers who are supporting
the bill, including the 1. A. A.
and the county farm bureaus,
have willingly listened to and
have answered objections brought
up against the measure and have
always considered any or all
amendments brought up for the
sincere purpose of trying to im-
prove the act. It is probable,
however, that at the next appear-
ance of the bill, a number of
amendments will be proposed
whose only purpose is to indirect-
ly kill the measure.

College of Agriculture "Open House" To Be Held At Same
Time, Offering Chance To Take In Two Events;
j: ''Twin Cities" Easily Reached i -

Champaign-Urbana on [June 29th. p - .;
The place and date of the I. A. A. state picnic for 1923 was
thus decided at a meeting of county ffarm bur^us and ofi&:ials
of the I. A. A. and of the College of Africolture at the Twin
Cities recently. At another meeting whieh followed se%-eral days
later, committees were named and the machinery was set in mo-
tion to prepare for the greatest state picnic ever held by the
state farm bureau movement. -

Crystal Lake Park, in IJrbana. is to be (he scene of the big fans
gathering. This site offers one of the most desirable locations in the
state — a large, grassy, wooded plot on the outskirts of Crbana throosb
which a beautiful lake winds.

The "twin cities" are e^*-
reacbpdj both by train ani^e^r-
froiA"ilmust ahy^parTTmuBoSr"
A more central location wouM be
hard t» Kind.

Cunningham Named
As Farmer Member
of Reserve Board

President Harding has appointed
Edward H. Cunningham of Iowa
as "dirt farmer" meml)er of the
federal reserve board.

Edward E. Jones of Pennsyl-
vania ■ was named a member ot
the farm loan board. Mr. Jones
is at present connected with the
federal land bank at Baltimore.

Mr. Cunningham's appointment
fills the vacancy caused by the
death of Milo D. Campbell of
Michigan, appointed after Con-
gress created the "dirt fkrm-
er" position on the board.

Mr. Cunningham's selection is
given the unanimous aproval of
Iowa Republican party leaders
and farm bureau federations of
the middle west.

Mr. Cunningham is well known
to Illinois farmers for hie work
in the reorganization of the U. S.
Grain Growers, Inc., and as sec-
retary of the Iowa Farm Bureau
Federation.

'Co-ops' Offer Real Hope,
Says N. C. Supreme Court

The North Carolina Supreme
Court, in upholding the constitu-
tionality ot the Co-operative Mar-
keting Act passed in that state,
an act similar to the one before
the Illinois legislature, has 'de-
livered the following opinion on
the merits of co-operative market-
ing:

"The co-operative system is the
most hopeful movement ever in-
augurated to obtain justice for,
and improve the financial condi-
tion of farmers and laborers. The
producers are paying all the costs
and assuming all the responsibil-

ities of these co-operative assod
ations. They are taking all the
risks. They are asking no assis-
tance from the public treasury.
They are forcing no one to join
and they are e.xacting no inordi-
nate prices for their product.
They are associating , themselves
as authorized by tjle statute, like
other persons, a Td they have
signed mutual and fair agree-
ments among themselves which
would be futile unless those who
have signed such agreements can
be held to abide by the, terms ot
such contracts."

Kew Advantage
Thej 11923 state picnic offers a
further advantage which has been
enjoyed by none of the three
preceding picnics, held at Cham-
paign, Dixon and Olney ^ 1920,
1921 »nd 1922, respectively. This
advantage consists of the co-op-
eration of the College of Agri-
culture of the University, of Illi-
nois and the placing of the Uni-
versity "Open House," the time
when famers of the state fiock
to the oojlege to see the experi-
mental fields. In the same week
as the pitnic. "^

' InstmctiTe Trip

Farm Bureau, visitors will tbas
l>e enabled to make the occasion
not only a geituine outing and
good tiaie but. also one of the
most Instructive trips they could
possibly take. i

The twin cities. Champaign and
Urbana, have nifide arrasgementrt
to co-operate to the limit to show
their fanner visitors the best sort
of hospitality.

Kaine Committees

At the second meeting, in the
offices of the county farm bureau
in Chammign. the following com-
mittlee were named:

GENERAL PICNIC COMMIT-
TEE— J. D. Harper, Illinois Ag-
riculturat Association; J. D. Bils-
borrow, Ext^sion Service, Col-
lege of Af;ric4ilture, University of
Illinois: D. J. '.Holterman. Sador-
us; C. R. Fii]|ey, Hoopestoa; J.
E. Smith, Mayor of Urbana; EkI
Filson, President Champaign
Chaml)er of Commercef C. H.
Oathout; Champaign Count? Fans
(CJcntinued on pace 4)

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The IIS116U Agricultural Atsodation Record

May IS, 1923

Illinois A^coknral AModatioo

RECORD

Published twica a montn by the
Illinois Agricultural Association,
608 South Dearborn Street. Chicago,
Illinois. Edited by Nfws Publicity
Department, L. J. Monfoss. Director.

Entry as sec«nd clans matter Oct.
10. 1921. at the post office at Chi-
cago. Illinois, under the act of
Marah 3. 1879. Acceptance for mail-
ing at special rates of postage pf^-
vided for in Section 1103. Act Of
October 3, 1917, authorized Oct. 31,
1921.

The individual membership fee of
the Illinois Agiricultural Associa-
tion is five dollars a year. This
fee includes payment of ten cents
for subscription to the Illinois Ag-
rfcuUural Association Record.

Need Service In Rail Shipping? r j
j /. A. A. Has Traffic Department

OFFICERS

President. S. H. Thompson, Qulncy.

Vice-president. A- O. Eckert. Belle-
ville.

Secretary. Geo. A. Fox. Sycamore.

Treasurer. R. A. Cowles. Blooming-
ton.

EXECTTIVK COMMITTEE

By Con^cresfiional Districts

llth-*-^Henry- MoGough. Maple Park-
12th^i-G. F. Tullock. Rockford.
13th-i-C- E. Bamborough, Polo.
14th-KW. H. Moorty. Port Byron.
-15th-^H. E. Ooeitibel. Hoopole.
l€th-^0. E. Reder. Mendota.
17th— j-F.' D. Bartion. Cornell.
I'StfwC. R. Finley. Hoopeston.
19thM-D. J. Hoiterman. Sadorus.
20th— i-Earl J. Smirti. Detroit.
2l8t— R L. Corbin. Carlinville.
22nd— Kred Bauml>erger. Reno.*
23rd — Carlton Trimble. Trimble.
24th — Curt Anderson, Xenia.
25th — Vernon Lessley. Sparta.

Directors of I>e])arti»ents,
I. A. A. Office

General Office and Assistant to Sec-
retary. J. D. Harper; Field Organiz-
ation. J. C. Sailor; Organization Pub-
licity. G. E. Met«ger; News PubVic-
ity. li. J. Montross; Transportation.
•U J. ^uasey; Statistics, j. c. Wat-
eon ; tFinance. R. A. Cowles; Fruit
and Vegetable Marketing. C. E.
Durafl: Live Stock Marketing. C. A.
Stewart; Dairy Market ins. A- D.
Lynch; Phosphate Linit'stnne. J. R.
Bent. Leffal. Newton Jenkins.

EXECUTIVE BODY
HOLDS SESSION IN
CHICAGO OFFICE

^(Continued from pa^e 1)

Fr»nk T. Shef.ts. State Sijpertn-

, tendant of Highways, spoke in be-

Ralf lof the million dollar bond
issue,! presenting figures and chart»
to show why the Legislature
should pass the measure. Oppo-
sitioi^ to the measure was repre-
sented by S. E. Bradt, who sproke
ior the Illinois Bankers Associa-
tioa and others ef the opposition.

While no action was taken by
the Executive Committee on the
propdsed bond issue, the members
were considerably enlightened as
. to th« merits ot both sides of the
question. •

Keimrts Submitted

Rej)ort8 were submftted to the
committee by the directors of the
I. A. A. departments. J. R. Bent
of the Phosphate-Limestone De-
partment explained the proposed
phosphate contract to the com-
mittee; C. A. Stewart ot the Live
Stock Marketing Departmpnt otit-
lined a new njembershiix agree-
ment tor shipping associations;
itu<l L. J. Quas^>, Transportation
director, told of some new plans
of that department in regard to
claims.

Near completion in the sign-up
of agreements in the St. Louis
milk ■ territory was indicated in
the report of A. D. Lynch. Dairy
Marketing Department. A major-
ity of all claiitiants and share-
bolders have already signed agree-
ments. In a report by G. E. Metz-
ger of the Organization Depa^p
ment, favorable progress in 1923
reor!;anization campaigns was
outlined.

Decide f>n Picnic

Upon a renewal of an invita-
tion by Mr. Holterman to hold the
annual I. A. A. picnic at Crystal
Lake Park, tTrbana, the commit-
tee decided to accept and left
plans 'for other arrangements with

Secretary Fox and Champaign
county people.

Before adjournment, the Exec-
utive body decided to hold its next
meeting on June 6.

Practically all great industries whose welfare Jb bound up
with railroad shipping have transj)ortation e.xpert.s on the job
,to protect their interests, Agricultiire, the largest shipper of all
Illinois industries, was not represented in transportation until
the organization on a business basis of the I. A. A.

Today the organized farmer of Illinois has in the Traffic Depart-
ment of the Illinois Agricultural Association, handled by Lee J.
Quasey, director and G. W. Baxter, assistant, a service which takes
care of all important phases of transpprtation for him.

Work of the department may
be grouped into several divisions,
as follows: 1. Freight rates, rules,
and regulations. 2. Car supply.
3. Shipping facilities. 4. Freight
train service. 5. Railroad claims,
including freight and general loss
and damage claims. 6. Miscel-
laneous.

Freight Kates, Rules and
Regulations

Hundreds of tariffs containing
information on freight rates of
all commodities in which the
farmer is interested, as well as
rules and regulations affecting
shipping on all railroads In the
state are kept up to datd. The
farmer contemplating a shipment
and desiring to know the correct
rate and routing can get all the
details from the department.
Rules and regulations which are
not cleai^ understood, are inter-
preted.

Another service under this di-
vision is the appearance of the
department before the Illinois
Commerce Commission or the In-
terstate Commerce Comtnisslon
to protest unjust rates or rules.
Surveys are made of freight rates
on: all farm products in order to
(ortai a basis for guidance.
_ • Car; Supply

One of the difficulties experi-
enced by farmers of late, espe-
cially during the last tour months
of 1922, is the severe car short-
age. Indications point to even a
greater sliwtage during 1923.
The department is on the job to
remedy such situations. It goes
before the railroads with infor-
mation showing the shortage in
a particular locality aiul strongly
urges action.

' At the last lueeiingl of , the I.
A. A. E.xeeutive ConJmittee, a
resolution was passed, at the sug-
gestion ot the Transportation De-
partment, that each county farm
bureau appoint transportation
committees to consist ot two or
more members to repreSeijt the
interests of the various special
agricultural interests of the coun-
ty. These committees, working
in co-operation with the Traffic
Department, will make its work
much more effective in car short-
age complaints.

Shippin); Facilities

Often there are cases when
shipping associations complain ot
lack of shipping facilities at thoir
local point. Sometimes a side
track is needed or a site for
stock scales. When they cannot
get prompt action locally, they
appeal to the Transportation De-
partment.

The department investigates
and ascertains if the complaint is
justified. If a suivey shows that
the condition should be remedied,
the department takes it up with
the railroad or tells the shipping
association whom to take the
matter up with.

An e.xample of action secured
is the case in DeKalb county

LEE J. QUASEY

wh«re a shipping association
complained ot the discrimination
ot llocal buyers who had leased
a scale site. The complaint was
investigated by the railroad at
thei request ot the Transporta-
tion Department. The local buy-
ers were found to have mistaken
their privileges. Their lease was
tak^n away and the scale site
turned over to the shipping asso-
ciation.

Freight Train Service

A common cause of complaint
on the part of shippers is lay-
ovek- delay in shipments. For in-
stance, a carload ot live stock
may be delayed so long en route
that serious loss is incurred by
the shipper.

In such cases, the Transporta-
tion Department investigates the
matter with the operating de-
parfment ot the railroad and
urg^s improvements of copditions
if i^hysically possible.

Claim Prevention

gelieving that "an ounce of
pretention is worth a pound of
cure," the Transportation Depart-
ment aims to reduce shipping
losses to a minimum. Especially
is this the case with live stock.

Proper bedding of cars,, parti-
tions for mixed shipments, suit-
able pens, shelter and adequate
watering- facilities in the yard?
are all factors which the depart-
ment deals with to prevent loss.
In & typical instance, service was
giv^n to a live stock shipping as-
sociiation in Iroquois county in
getljing watering facilities in-
stalled by the railroad.

Railroad Claims

The department deals with
freight claims, and general loss
and. damage claims.

Ii> taking up freight claims,
overcharge complaints are com-
mon and the shipper has no
way of determining the justice
of bis claim. By taking it up
witlk the traffic service of the
I. A. A., his claim in investi-
gated with the railroad. All
that is necessary is for the de-
partment to have a copy of the
account sales in the case of live
stock shipments and similar evi-

MOR^ SERVICE

Another example of I, A.
A. service is the Transpor*
tatlon Department. Just as
it would be impractical for
the individual farmer to ap-
pear before the State Tax
Commission on his own be-
half, so it is with the prob-
lems of transportation which
affect the farmer in all that
he buys or sells. Read the
accompanying story and find
out how this department
serves the farmers of Illi-
nois in their individual and
coK>perative efforts. '

dence or a paid freight bill in the
case of other shipments.

Man}' controversies arise be
tween shippers and railroads over
freight loss and damage claims.
These cases are handled by the
traffic service, but must always be
properly supported by evidence,
such as tho original bill ef lading
or copy thereof, the paid freight
bill, a copy of the account sales
or Invoice, and a statement by an
individual who has knowledge of
the tacts ot the case which teSd
to show that the railroad was
either directly or indirectly re-
sponsible tor the loss or damage.

Loss and Damage
While general loss and damag'e
claims are not transportation
claims, the department renders
service' in handling such cases,
which includes loss by Are or
killing of live stock in cases
where a railroad company is in-
volved. When individuals4or as-
sociations present such claims, it
is necessary that the date and
place of accident, a list ot the
items of loss and damage and
basis therefor, together with in-
formation showing how the
amount was arrived at and a
statement of the circumstances or
conditions surrounding the case,
be presented to the department.
J The collection ot such claims
is the only instance in which a
charge is levied by the depart-
ment, such action having recently
been taken by the I. A. A. Exec-
utive Committee, as the work is
mainly for the benefit of individ-
uals. "' •

Aliscellaneous
Miscellaneous matters handled
by the Transportation Depart-
ment include assistance in secur-
ing farm crossings, repairs to
fences along right-of-ways, and

MILK PRODUCERS
OF BENTON FORM
NEW M>ERATIVE

Dairy Department of I. A. A.

Aids in Organization;

Officers Elected

Leading dairymen supplying
the city of Benton with milk
have formed an organization to
be incorporated as the Benton
Co-operative Milk Producers as-
sociation. Final steps were tak-
en toward organization at a
meeting held in April. with the'
Dairy Marketing Department of
the I. A. A.

Officers elected to lead the new
association are as follows: iiresl-
dent. Earl Seever; vice president,
W. C. Hobbs; secretary-treasurer.
Earl Doty.

About a year ago the Dairy
Marketing Department helped to
organize a bargaining association
of milk producers at Benton,
which was more or less of a tem-
porary organization. Its success
led to the desire for a permanent
incorporated association.

Objects

The new co-operative will striTO
to improve the milk marketing
conditions of Benton 'by stabiliz-
ing the city milk market, giving
the consumers better service and
a more standard quality of milk,
and by encouraging more efficient
methods ot dairying in the vicin-
ity.

other problems of a varied na-
ture, in which the individual can-
not secure justice alone.

An instance of miscellaneous
service was the case in an Illi-
nois county where a court decis-
ion was cited by the Transporta-
tion Department to prove that a
farmers renting land traversed by
a railroad, had the legal right to
a crossing to get to that land.
The crossing was built.

Justifies Existence

It would be a difficult task and
it would take up much more space
than this entire issue of The Rec-
ord to narrate in detail the work
of the Transportation Department
of the I. A. A. The service that
it renders on behalf ot the farm-
ers of Illinois in represenMng their
interests in problems of transpor-
tation by "■ the adjustment of
claims, the securing of just rates,
and the protection of'fhe farmers'
interests in general well justifies
its existence as a service depart-
ment of the I. A. A.

HARD KNCX:KS FROM GREAT KNOCKERS

400f B. C. "Bah!, The apple won't hurt you!"— Eve.

.3500 B. C. '.'Look at Noah's big boat! It will never rain
enough to float it."

1492 A. D. "Naw! Columbus, the world ain't round!"

1807 A. D. "Fulton, you're crazy. . You'll never make a boat
run with steam!"

1S65 A. D. "A threshing machine better than a flail? Prepos-
terous ! "

1900 A. D. "A man fly like a bird? Idiotic!" .; -

1923 A. D. "Farm Bureau succeed? Never!" * '

OmCIAL BALLOT

Of the election held in Illinois counties every three years.

O Booster
For Progress. !

Abolish the
□ Farm Bureau p Farm Bureau

Which Ticket Will You Vote?.

O Knocker.
Against Progress.

J

May IS, 1923

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Page 3

Illinois Poultry Products Amount To j
Total of Over $60,000,000 in One Year

The lowly hen is not consid-
ered an especially important
factor in agricultural produc-
tion in Illinois, yet the value of
poultry and egg products in
the state was $63,771,952 in

1919, the last year when a com-
plete census was taken.

In the country as a whole,
poultry and egg products in 1920
contributed almost seven per cent
of the nation's agricultural
wealth, or $1,225,000,000, a sum
not to be "sneezed" at by any
means. And this has been done in
the face of the tact that poultry
production on most farms is con-
sidered of very minor importance
and little attention has been paid
to poultry marketing by the pro-
ducer.

Much is heard of the virtues of
California as a poultry and egg
producing state and doubtless
many have taken it for granted
that the Golden Gate state is the
leader in that phase of agricul-
tural production. Yet Illinois, ac-
cording to the 1920 census, pro-
duced in 1919 nearly twice as
many eggs as did California.

While California's hens may
cackle more loudly than the bid-
dies of Illinois, the real secret of
California's success lies in co-
operative marketing of eggs.
This product has made the Peta-
luma district in that state espec-
ially noted and the eggs from
that section have attained great
fame on the New York market,
d;ie to more efficient marketing
methods brought about by co-op-
eration.

niinois Ranks Third

In cold figures of egg produc-
tion, Illinois ranked third in 1919
with over 100,00k),000 dozen pro-
duced. Iowa and Missouri stood
first and second with over 114
million and 112 million dozen, re-
spectively. California placed sev-
enth with somewhat over 57,000.-
ftOO dozen as her production.
- New York and Chicago natur-
ally take the lead as the nation's
principal egg markets. The egg
receipts at the New York market
in 1920 were 5,157,535 cases,
while Chicago received 4,153,584
cases.

Strange as it may seem, Illi-
nois furnished almost 20 per
cent of the New York receipts for

1920, being the leading source of
eggs for that market. Her con-
tribution was 1,006,440 cases.
Iowa was second with 616,130
cases, while Indiana and Cali-
fornia stood third and fourth.

Chicago Market

Market figures ;for' 1921 show
Ibat Missouri led on the Chicago
market, having shipped 825,912
cases of eggs. Iowa was second
with 705,995 cases, and Kansas
third with 481,684 cases. Illi-
nois only supplied 205,178 cases
to Chicago, being eighth and fur-
nishing only about five per cent
of the eggs on the market.

The accompanying map portrays
the distribution of egg production
among the counties of Illinois and
ithe "egg belt," or area of great-
:«Bt production, is outlined.

Wayne County In Lead
j According to 1920 census fig-
ures, Wayne county led in egg
production in 1919, having pro-
duced 2,247,180 dozen, with
Shelby and Iroquois counties
closely following at second and
third places.

McLean county is credited with
producing the most poultry in
1919, with 585,420 head, Shelby
being second and Iroquois third.

ILLINOIS AND THE GOLDEN EGG

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Map showing distribution of ega production in Illinois. Each dot
represents 15,000 dozen eggs. Note "egg belt " in south central part of
state or the area where greatest production in indicated.

Bradfute Calls
Conference of
Research Men

President O. E. Bradfute of the
Amtrican Farm Bureau Feder-
ation has called a conference of
agricultural economists of twelve
middle western states to meet in
Chicago, May 18, at the Sherman
hotel.

The object of the meeting is to
talk over the research work which
is now being done by various or-
ganizations and to consider the
desirability of organizing a Mid-
dle West Agricultural Economics
Research Committee. A similar
group functions in New England
successfully, serving as a clearing
house for economic information.

Stimulation and co-ordination
of research activities bearing
upon agriculture in the fields of
taxation, central market distribu-
tion, transportation, market and
mortgage financing, farm Income
and production would be among
the, duties of the committee.

Invitations have been sent to
state colleges of agriculture, state
departments of agriculture, state
bureaus of markets, state farm
bureaus. Federal Reserve Banks,
Federal Land Banks, Chambers of
Commerce, as well as to many
miscellaneous organizations allied
to agricultural economics, to at-
tend the conference.

STRONGER LOCALS
ARE PLANNED FOR
STEPHENSON 'CO-OP'

^ In response to a request from
the Stephenson Couiity Farm Bu-
reau, the (. A. A. Dtf ry Marketing
Department has been devoting
some time recently in supplsriog a
stronger type of organization to
locals of the SteQhenson County
Co-operative Marketing Company.

The plan will give each of the
12 locale of the co-bperative a
stronger organization with officers
and enable them to function better
in carr)'ing out the plana at tbe
marketing company.

Each local may elect one repre-
sentative from each 60 meiub^h*s
to serve on an advisory council
composed of representativas from
all the locaJs. This advisory icoun-
cil participates in each meeting of
the board of directorsjrf the mar-
keting coiipany. Thus each local
is given a more direct ' voice in
the affairs of the co-operative. ,

T4ie Dakota Local Branch has
adopted ttie new plan and other
locals have expressed a desire to
use the plan to strengthen their
organizations and to give them
more responsibility , in the govern-
ing of the association.

Producers^ Board Hears of
Great Growth of Movement

The production figures of these
three counties do not vary
greatly.

I. A. A. Investigates

In 1922 the Poultry and Egg
Marketing Department of the I.
A. A. made a careful study of
market methods as affecting
poultry products. Investigations
were made as *to the advisability
of forming co-operative poultry
and egg marketing associations
and a start was made in the
formation of some associations,
notably in Shelby county. In
some localities where such co-
operatives were contemplated, the
department advised against or-
ganization, due to the fact that
there was not a sufficient volume
of business to indicate success.

Associations were formed in
Oconee, Tower Hill, Shelbyville,
Westervelt and Stewardson, Shel-
by county, and at Flora, Clay
county.

Resnlts Secnred

As a result of careful grading
and standardization of the poul-
try products handled, every ship-
ment made by these associations
sold for at least half a cent prem-
ium, and many shipments com-
manded as hifeh as five cents
premium on the Chicago market.

Economy In marketing costs
was also evident. For example,
one association which transacted
$4,410 worth ol- business in a
month, did it at a total cost of
only $158.00.

One result of the formation of
associations was the fact that in
pommunities where co-operative
marketing associations were
formed, the prices of eggs rose
from three to eight cents per

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dozen and poultry from four to
eight cents per pound in the im-
mediate neighborhoods. This
boost in price naturally caused
farmers in outlying districts "to
bring eggs and poultry to the
town where the prices had been
boosted. This brought about a
raise of about three cents in egf
and poultry prices in these out
lying districts. Thus the effect
of farmer marketing reached ,,out
far beyond the territory in which
the associations were located.

Educational Value

The educational value of the
associations was also great, in
that the farmer members have
learned bow to standardize, grade,
and make their own individual
shipments to market at proper
times. They also learned how
to study market conditions and
market trends.

'it may be said that, among
other things, the verf existence
of the poultry marketing asso-
ciations formed by the I. A. A.
had its effect upon- poultry and
egg dealers all over the state.
Prices were kept up to discour-
age the forming of co-operative
associations. This is emphasized
by the following statement made-
by a member of an egg dealers*
organization in 1922:

"While dealers will be • in-
clined to pay lower prices for
poultry and eggs this year in
order to make up some of the
losses suffered in the industry by
readjustment, we would advise
yon to pay as much as possible
because the lower prices will tend
to stimulate the springing up of
co-operative marketing associa-
tions."

■ Approximately 100,000 farm-
ers are marketing their live
stock through' eight agencies of
the National Live Stock Produc-
ers Association at the rate of
$100,000,000 annually, aqcord-
iug to the report of President
"John G. Brown at the regular
quarterly session of the board
of directors held in Chicago a
few days ago.

A steady gain in volume of
business is being experienced
each niottth by the Producers.
For instance, a report showed
that the total value of live stock
handled in February was $5,455,-
090.12 on 194.138 head, anid for
March, $5^63,683.08 on 2616,203
head. Or these about 4)0.000
were cattle, calves, and sheep,
hogs making up the bulk of tlie
live stock handled. An increase
in sales accounts from 6,809 in
February to 8,250 in March was
noted.

.Amount of Business

In Mr. Brown's quarterly re-
port, he showed that 15 to 20
per cent of the total live stock
shipped to Buffalo is sold by .the
Producers: 5 to 8 per cent at
Chicago, or more than 1,000 car-
loads per month; 25 to 30 per
cent at Indianapolis; 15 to 18
per cent at East St. Louis; and
25 to '30 per cent at Peoria,

Kansas City, which opened in
March, has progressed from twen-
ty-sixth place during an early
week after opening, to tenth place
during the last week in April.

The Peoria Producers have
voted- to return to members 10
'per cent of the commissions as
patronage dividends after May
31. Fifty> per cent of the mem-
bershijf fee will also be returned.

The Chicago agency- has repaid
its membership fees in full and
will pay a substantial patronage
dividend after the ' close of the
first year's business, June 30.
E\|iansion I'rowded For

The board of directors in ses-
sion voted to invest complete
executive authority in President
Brown and requested that he der

vote as tuuch of his time as
necessary to the executive affairs
of the ort:anization. Mr. Brown
has established headijuarters in
the executive offices ot the na-
tional association, 608 S. . Dear-
born Si., Chicasu, aUJ^l.i d'l^
the work from thfcre.

This. ,bfrangemeih was found
expedient ^cause the opening of
new branches of ihp Producers
at various markets requires G^-n-
eral Maaafer F. M. Simpson' to be
absent ilmost continuously from
the Chicago offlce to overw^ th«
details ot jstarting new terminals.

;Mr. Simpson opened up a Pro-
ducers agency at Sjoux Falls, S.
D., May 3J and has Wenjflevoting
his time more recently, to work
at Clevelafud and Oklahoma City
where ugiencies will be estab-
lished.

TraisC Wurk of Brown ,.

The national board declared
that President Brown had shown
unusual genius in harmonizing
the various elements of .the live
stock indsstry. Effective co-op-
eration has been made poBsible at
the terminals and the organiza-
tion has b^en built constructive-
ly upon* at sound foundation for
I the ordeiHf marketing of live
stock. -

Addresses were made at the
directors' meeting by President
Bradfute of the, A. F. B. F. ^nd
Walton I'eteet. director of co-op-
erative niarketiiK?. Mr. Bradfste
congratulated the Producers upon
their splendid knd sound growth
and named, the organization as
one of the outstanding examples
of co-operation. Mr. Peteet
especially Urged a simultaneous
development of the sales depart-
ment and field service work.
First on Four MarkeLs

Tile Producers were first on
four markets, Bnrfalo. Indianap-
olis. St. l-9>^is. and Peoria, during
the last two weeks of ApYil. '-The
Chicago agency stood secong both
weeks, while Kansas City ^wung
from ele^•e•lfh to tenth plac* dur-
ing the seventh and ^eigbth Veeks
of business.

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The OliBoU Agricultural Asaodation Record

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May 15, 1923 , ^y ^^'

iniDou Agriciiltiiral Association

RECORD

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Puhlislied twic« a muntn by the
' IlliiiotB Aericultura) Association.
608 South Uearbprn ^trt'et. Chicago.
^Ihnois. Edited by Sewa Publicity
Department, L.. J, Montroas. Director

Entry as net'on^ class matted Oct
10. l»;i. at the post office at Chi-
cago. Illinois, tinder the act of
Ifan-h 3. 1979. .4(ec»*ptanre for malN
ing: at Kperial rit.'s of postaee pro-
vided for in S^i-tion lios. Act of
October 3, 1917. lauthortzcd Oct. 31
l&Jl., ; ^

The lndi\-ldual membership fee of
the Illinois Af^rirultural Asso<-ia
tlon Is five dollars a year. Thi:
fee includes payment of teen cents
for 'Biitisrription tn the IIliQoia As
rlouUpral Association Record.

OFPICKRS

President. S. H. Thompson. Quincy
. Vice-President. A- O. Eckert. Belle-

e-tr

vijll.

Secrettary^ (ieo. AL Fox. Sycamore.
Treasurer. It. A. ,Cowles. Q^ooming-
tcjn f

EXKCl'TIVri rOM^IITTKE

By ('oiigresj^pnal Districts

nth— (Henry ^I.-Oough. Maple Park-
l^th — <;. F. TuII*ck. Rockford.
13th— ^. K. Pamtorouph. Polo.
14th— W. H Moo<y. Port Byron.
15th— H. E.-(;oeinl>el. Hoopole. ■
16th — *;. E. Redet Mendota.
17th — F. r>. Rartrtn. Cornell.
l»th— C H. Finl«b'. Hoopeston.
19th — r> J- Ifoltt't'man. Sadorus.
:oth — Karl .1. Smijth. Detroit.
21st — K. I- OorKih. f*arlin\ille.
22n<l — Frt-d RanmperKcr. Reno.
23rd— Parlton Trimble. Trimble. ^
24th — Tiirt Anderfon. Xenia-
25th — Vernon LeateleH. Sparta.

eatel*

Directors of tDepartnients.

^ I. A. Ai Office

Genen^l Office and! Assistant to Sec-
retary.. J. D. Harpipr; -Field Organis-
ation, i.e. Sailor: Organization Pui»-
' lioity. li. E. Metzfer; News Public-
ity. la-lJ. Montroaf; Transportation.
L. J. Quasey: Statistics. J. C. Wat-
son; Finance, R, A. Cowles; Fruit
aad Vepetatde Sforlcetins. C E.
D,urst;TL've fitockj Marketing. C. A.
Stewart: Hairy MarketinB. A. I>.
Lynch; riuisphate l.imefitnne. J. K.
Bcht. L.'u'al. N'ewiton Jenkins.

EXECUTIVE BODY
HOLDS SESSION IN
CHICAGO OFFICE

Continue. 1 irfim jiaKf 1)

Frfiak T. Sheets,' State Superin-
tendent of High«r»ys, spoke in be-
Vhalf of the miltion dollar bond
fssue. iwesentinp figures and charts
to show why the Legislature
- t^honld past the ipeasure. Oppo-
aition <o the nVeaBure was repre-
..,_, sented bi^ S. E. Bradt. who spoke
(of Ihel Illinois Hankers Associa-
tion and others 00 the opposition.

Whilfe no actioti was taken by
the Kx^cytive Cojnmittee on the
proposed bodd isstie, the members
were considerably enlightened as
to the sierits of bpth sides of the
qiiestioli. i

!lte|>orts Sifbnifltol
' He^olfts were submitted to the
committee b^^ the jdirectors of the
I. A. Aj departments. J. R. Bent
of the I Phospha(ei-Limestone De-
partment ex^ainep the proposed
phosphate contraqt to the com-
mittee; iC. A. Stewart of the Live
Stock iiarketing department out-
lined a| new nieiiibership agree-
ment fbr shippin^p associations;
\_ «iiu L. l*. Qjase>;' Transportation
directory told ,a( '^i^ne new plans
of that, department In regard, to

claims. I
^ Near Co

completioif In the sigo-up
of agrepmsnts in the St. Loui.s
miJk territory was indicated in
the repiirt of A. D, Lynch, Dairy
, Marketing Department. A major-
ity of nil claimants and share-
holders bavc already signed agree-
' m<H)ts. In a" report by G. E. Metz-
ger of the Organization Depart-
• ment. fajv-orable prtogress in 1923
■ reorganisation cafnpaigtis was
outlined..;

k>ecicle on Picnic
Upon, a renewal of an invita-
tion by J(r. Holtcrnian to hold the
annual I. A. A. picnic at Crystal
I.ak<' Pat'k. tlrbani, the cqmmit-
ytee MMijted to aecept and left
plans fori other arrs^sements with

Need Service In Rail Shipping?

L A. A. Has Traffic Department

Practieally all great indastrios whose welfare i.<! bound up
with railroad shipping have transportation e.xperts on the job
to protect their interests. Agriculture, the largest shii)per of all
Illinois industries, wa.s not represented in transportation until
the organization on a business basis of the I. A. A.

Today the organized farmer of Illinois has in the . Traffic Depart-
ment of .the Illinois Agricultural Association, handled by Lee J.
Quasey. direcfor and G. W. Baxter, assistant, a service which takes
chre of all Im^rtant phases of transportation for him.
Work of the department may

be grouped into several divisions,
as follows; 1.; Freight rates, rules,
and regulations. 2. Car supply.
,31 Shipping facilities. 4. Freight
train service. 5. Railroad claims,
including freight and general loss
and damage claiiug. 6. Miscel-
laneous.

Freight Kntes, Rules nnd
Hemilation.s

Hundreds of tariffs containing
information on freight rates of
all commodities in which the
farmer is interested, as well as
rules and regulations affecting
shipping on all railroads in the
state are kept up to date. The
farmer contemplating a shipment
and desiring to know the correct
rate and routing can get all the
details from the department.
Rules and regulations which are
not clearly understood, are inter-
preted.

I Another service unde^ this di-
vision is the appearance of the
department before the Illinois
Commerce Commission or the In-
terstate Commerce Commission
to protest unjust rates or rules.
Surveys are made of freight rates
on all farm produ<?t3 in order to
form a basis for guidance.
Car Snpply

One of the difficulties experi-
enced by farmers of late, espe-
cially during the last four months
of 1D22. is the severe car short-
age. Indications point tp even a
greater shortage during 1923.
The department is on tlie job to
remedy such situations. It goes
before the railroads with infor-
mation showing the shortage in
a particular locality and | strongly
urges action.

At the litst meeting of the I.
.•\. A. Executive Committee, a
resolution was passed, at the sug-
ge.stion of the Transportation De-
paitment, that each county farm
bureau appoint transportation
comniitlees to consist of two or
more members to represent the
interests of the various special'
agricultural interests of the coun-
ty. These committees, working
in co-operation with the. Traffic
Department, will make its work
niudi more effective in car short-
age complaints.

Shippin); Facilities

Often there are cases when
shipping associations complain of
lack of stiipping facilities at their
local point. Sometimes a side
track is needed or a site lor
stock scales. When they cannot
get prompt acticui locally, they
appeal to the Transportation De-
partment.

The department investigates
and ascertains if the comiflaiDt is
justifiecl. If a survey shows that
the condition "should be rranedied.
the department takes it up with
the railroad or tells tire shipping
association whom to take the
matter up with.

-An example of action Secured
is the case in DeKalb county

Secretary Fox and Champaign
county people.

Before adjournment, the E.xee-
utive body decided to hold ^ts next
meeting on June 6.

TRAFFIC

LEE J. QUASEY

where a shipping association
complained of the discrimination
of local buyers who had leased
a scale site. The complaint was
investigated by the railroad at
the request of the Transporta-
tion De|)artment. The local buy-
ers were found to have mistaken
their privileges. Their lease was
taken away and the scale site
turned over to the shipping asso-
ciation.

Freight Train Ser\ice

A common cause of complaint
on the part of shippers is fly-
over delay in shipments. For in-
stance, a carload of live stock
may be delayed so long en route
that serious loss is incurred by
the shipper. .^

In such cases, the Transporta-
tion Department investigates the
matter with the operating de-
partment of the railroad and
urges improvements of conditions
if physically possible.

i'lniiii l*reventioii

Believing that "an ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of
cure," the Transportation Depart-
ment aims to reduce shipping
losses to a minimum. Especially
is this the case with live stock.

Proper bedding of cars, parti-
tions for mixed shipments, suit-
able pens, shelter and adequate
watering facilities in the yards
are all factors which the depart-
ment deals with to prevent loss.
In a typical instance, service was
given to a live stock shipping as-
sociation in Iroquois county In
getting watering facilities in-
stalled by the railroad.

- Itailroatl Claims

The department deals with
freight claims, and general loss
and damage claims.

Jn taking up freight claims,
oTercharge complaints are com-
mon and the shipper has no
way of determining .the justice
of his claim. By taking it up
with the traffic service of the
I. A. A., his claim in investi-
gated with the railroad. All
that is necessary is for the de-
partment to have a copy of the
account sales in the case of live
stock shipments and similar evi-

MORE SERVICE

Another example of I. A.
A. service is the Transpor.
tation Department. Just as
it would be impractical for ,
the individual farmer to ap-
pear before the State Tax
Commission on his own be-
half, so it is with the prob-
lems of transportation which
affect the farmer in all that
he buys or sells. Read the
accompanyina story and find
out how this department
serves the farmers of Illi-
nois in their ind^ividual and
co-operative efforts.

dence or a paid freight bill in the
case of other shipments.

Many controversies arise be-
tween shippers and railroads over-
freight loss and damage claims.
These cases are handled by the
traffic service, but must always be
properly supported by evidence,
such as the d!figinal bill of lading
or copy thereof, tlie paid freight
bill, a copy of the account sales
or invoice, and a statement by an
individual who has knowledge of
the facts of the case which tend
to show that the railroad was
either directly or indirectly re-
sponsible for the loss or damage.

Loss ami Damage
While general loss and damage
claims are not transportation
claims, the ' department renders
service in handling such cases,
which includes loss by fire or
killing of live stock in cases
where a railroad company ts in-
volved. When individuals^ or as-
sociations present such claims, it
is necessary that the date and
place of accident, a list of the
items of loss and damage and
basis therefor, together with ■ in-
formation showing how the
amount was arrived at and a
statement of the circumstances or
conditions surrounding the case,
be presented to the department.

The collection of such claims
is the only instance in which a
charge is levied by tixe depart-
ment, such action having recently
been taken by the I. A. A. Exec-
utive Committee, as the work is
mainly for the benefit of individ-
uals.

Miscellaneons
Miscellaneous matters handled
by the Transportation Depart-
ment include assistance in secur-
ing farm crossings, repairs to
fences along right-of-ways, and

MILK PRODUCERS
OF BENTON FORM
NEW CO#ERATIVE

Dairy Department of I. A. A.

Aids in Organization;

Officers Elected

Leading dairymen supplying
the city of Benton with milk
have formed an organization to
be incorporated as the Benton
Co-operative Milk Producers as-
sociation. Final steps were tak-
en toward organization at a
meeting held in April witn the
Dairy Marketing Department of
the I. A. A.

Officers elected to lead the new-
association are as follows: presi-
dent. Earl Seever; vice president,
W. C. Hobbs; secretary-treasurer.
Earl Doty.

About a year ago the Dairy
.Marketing Department helped to
organize a bargaining association
of ■ milk producers at Benton,
which was more or less of a tem-
porary organization. Its success
led to the desire for a permanent
incorporated association.

Objects

The new co-operative will strive
to improve the milk marketing
conditions of Benton by stabiliz-
ing the city? milk market, giving
the consumers better service and
a more standard quality of milk,
and by encouraging more efficient
methods of dairying in the vicin-
ity.

other problems of a varied na-
ture, in -which the individual can-
not secure justice alone.

An instance of miscellaneouB
service was the case in an Illi-
nois county where a court decis-
ion was cited by the Transporta-
tion Department to prove that a
farmers renting land traversed by
a railroad, had the legal right to
a crossing to'; get to that land.
The crossing was built.

Justifies Existence

It would be a difficult task and
it would take up much more space
than this entire issue «f The Rec-
ord to narrate in detail the work
of the Transportation Department
of the I. A. A. The service that
it renders on behalf ot the farm-
ers of Illinois in representing their
interests in problems of transpor-
tation by the adjustnient ot
claims, the securing of just rates,
and the protection of the farmers'
interests in general well justifies
its existence as a service depart-
ment ot the I. A. A.

HARD KNOCKS FROM GREAT KNOCKERS

4004 B.'C. "Bah! The apple won't hurt you!" — Eve.

3300 B. C. "Look at Noah's big boat! U. will nerer rain
enough to float it."

1492 A. D. "Naw! Columbus, the world ain't round!"

1807 A. D. "F^ilton. you're crazy. You'll neoer make a boat
, run with steam!"

1865 A. D. "A threshing machine better than a flaii? Prepos-
terous!"

1900 A. D. "A man fly like a bird? Idiotic!"

1923 A. D. "Farm Bureau succeed?. Never! "

OPnCIAL BALLOT

Of the election held in Illinois counties every three years.
O Booster
For Progress. • -

Abolish the
n Farm Bureau O Farm Bureau

Which Ticket Will You Vote?

O Knocker.
Against Progress.

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The lov
ered an
factor in
tion in 111
poultry
the .state

1919, the
plete cens

In the
poultry am
contributec!
of the
wealth, or
not to be
means. Ant
the face ol
production
sldered of
and little
t poultry
ducer.
^- .Much is
California
i producing
many have
that the Gc
leader in
tural produ(
cording to
duced in 1
many eggs

While C
cackle more
dies of Iliin
California's
operative
This produc
luma distric
ially noted
that section
fame on th
due to moi
methods bro
e ration.

Uiinoj

In cold fli
tion, Illinois
with over 1(
duced. lowi
first and sc
million and
spectively. '
etith with so
000 dozen a:

New York
ally take the
principal egi
receipts at t
in 1920 wi
while. Chicai
cases.

Strange a
nois furnisl
e'ent of the I

1920, being
eggs for tha

I tribution w
I Iowa was e
I cases, while

fdrnia stood
I Chi^

! Market fls
I that Missour
' market, hav
i cases of egg

with 705,99
' third with
I nois only su
j to Chicago, 1
1 nishing only
' of the eggs (
I The accom
I the distribut
I among the cc

the "egg bel
I est productic
I Waj-ne

I According
I nres, Wayne
' production i
I duced 2,24

Shelby and

] closely folio

t third places.

McLean ca

I producing t

1919, with S
, being second

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May 15. 1923

The Dlinoit Agricuitiiral AModation Record

Pace 3

Illinois Poultry Products Amount To
Total of Over $60,000,000 in One Year

I The lowly hen is not consid-
I ered an especially important
factor in agricultural produc-
tion in Illinois, yet the valiie of
poultry and egg products in
the state was $63,771,952 in

1919, the last year when a com-
plete census was taken.

I In the country as a whole,

I poultry and egg products in 1920

contributed almost seven per cent

of the nation's agricultural

wealth, or $1,225,000,000. a sum

not to be "sneezed" at by any

means. And this has been done in

1 the face of the fact that poultry

production on most farms is con-

j sidered of very minor importance

! and little attention has been paid

I ^ poultry marketing by thn pro-

I ducer.

,'■• .Much is heard of the virtues of
I California as a poultry and egg
I I producing state and doubtless
, many have taken it tor granted
I that the Golden Gate state is the
I leader in that phase of agricul-
tural production. Yet Illinois, ac-
cording to the 1920 census, pro-
I duced in 1919 nearly twice as
many eggs as did California.

While California's hens may
cackle more loudly than the bid-
1 dies of Illinois, the real secret of
California's success lies in co-
operative marketing of eggs.
I This product has made the Peta-
I luma district in that state espec-
' ially noted and the eggs from
I that section have attained great
fame on the New York market,
due to more- efficient marketing
methods brought about by co-op-
eration.

Illinois Ranks Third
In cold figures of egg produc-
tion, Illinois ranked third In 1919
with over 100,000,000 dozen pro-
duced. Iowa and Missouri stood
first and second with over 114
million and 112 million dozen, re-
spectively. California placed sev-
e'nth with somewhat over 57.000,-
000 dozen as her production.

New York and Chicago natur-
ally take the lead as the nation's
principal egg markets. The egg
receipts at the New York market
In 1920 were 5,157,535 cases,
while, Chicago received 4,153,584
cases.

Strange as it may seem, Illi-
nois furnished almost 20 per
c'ent of the New York receipts for

1920, being the leading source ot
eggs for that market. Her con-
tribution was 1.006.440 cases.
Iowa was second with 616,130
cases, while Indiana and Cali-
fornia Etood third and fourth.

Chicapro Market

Market figures for 1921 show
that Missouri led on the Chicago
market, having shipped 825,912
cases of eggs. Iowa was second
with 705,995 cases, and Kansas
third with 481,684 cases. Illi-
nois only supplied 205,178 cases
to Chicago, being eighth and fur-
nishing only about five per cent
of the eggs on the market.

The accompanying map portrays
the distribution of egg production
among the counties of Illinois and
the "egg belt," or area of great-
est production, is outlined.
Wayne County In Lead

According to 1920 census fig-
ures, Wayne county led in egg
production in 1919, having pro-
duced 2,247,180 dozen, with
Shelby and Iroquois counties
closely following at second and
third places.

McLean county is credited with
producing the most poultry in
1919, with 585,420 head. Shelby
being second and Iroquois third.

ILLINOIS AND THE GOLDEN EGG

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Map sfiowlnp distributioix of egg production in Illinois. Eacb dot
represents 15.00Q.d<tzen e^gs. Note "egg belt" in sputh central partot
state or the area Vhere greatest production in indicated.

Bradfute Calls
Conference of
Research Men

President O, E. Bradfute of the
American Farm Bureau FJeder-
atioh has called a conferen|ce of
agricultural economists of tVette
middle western states to meet Id
Chicago, May 18, at the Sherman
hotel.

The object'of the meeting Lis to
talk over the research work Vblch
is now being. jione by various or-
ganizations and to consider the
desirability ° of organizing a Mid-
dle West Ai;ricultural Economics
Research Committee. A similar
group functions in New EnflaDd
successfully, serving as a clearing
house for economic information.

Stimulation and co-ordinfetion
of research activities bearing
upon agriculture in the fields of
ta.\ation, central market distribu-
tion, transportatioa, market and
mortgage financing, farm ineome
and production would be among
the duties of the committee..

Invitations have been sent to
state colleges- of agriculture, state
departments of agriculture, state
bureaus of markets, state farm
bureaus, Federal Reserve Banks,
Federal Land Banks, Chambers of
Commerce, as well as to many
miscellaneous orfanizations allied
to agricultural economics, to at-
tend the conference.

I ^^

STRONGER LOCALS
ARE PLANNED FOR
STEPHENSON 'CO-OP'

In respoqse to a request (rom
the Stepitaeneon County Fari^ Bo-
reau, the I. A. A. Dairy Mar|etiilK
Department has Seen detotitag
some time recently in supplying a
stronger type of organization to
locals, ot the Stephenson COivitT
Co-operative Marketing Coiilpa)ir.

The*plaa will give each of tbe
12 locals of tbe co-operative a
stronger organization with 'oilBcbra
and enable them to function better
in carrying out the p^ns df tbe
marketing rompaoy.

Each local may elect one ijepm-
sentative from each 50 nieiitbera
to serve on an advisory cduneil
composed of representatives 'froca
all the locals. This advisory .Coun-
cil participates in each meetiJiK,of
the board of directors of tbe mar-
keting company. Thus each local
is given a more dir/fct voi«« In
the affairs of the coHlperativ0.

The Dakota Local Branchj baa
adopted the new plan and 4>th«r
locals have exnressed a desire to
use the plan to strengthen their
organizations and to give ibem
more respoasibility in the goTCra-
ing of the association. I

-Ui , 1

Producers* Board Hears of
Great Grou^th of Movement

The production figures of these
three counties do not vary
greatly.

* I. A. A. Investigates

In 1922 the Poultry and Egg
Marketing Department of the I
A. A. made a careful study of
market methods as affecting
poultry products. Investigations
were made as to the advisability
of forming co-operative poultry
and egg marketing associations
and a start was made in the
formation of some associations,
notably in Shelby county. In
some localities where such co-
operatives were contemplated, the
department advised against or-
ganization, due to tbe fact that
there was not a sufficient volume
of business to indicate SDfcess.

Associations were formed in
Oconee, Tower Hill, Shelbjrvilie,
Westervelt and Stewardson, Shel-
by county, and at Flora, Clay
county.

Itesnlts Secured

As a result of careful grading
and standardization of the poul-
try products handled, every ship-
ment made by these associations
sold for at least half a cent prem-
ium, and many shipments com-
manded as high as five cents
premium on the Chicago market.

Economy in marketing costs
was also evident. For example,
one association which transacted
$4,410 worth of business in a
month, did it at a total cost of
only $158.00.

One result of the formation of
associations was the fact that in
communities where co-operative
marketing associations were
formed, the prices of eggs rose
from three to eight cents per

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dozen and poultry from four to
eight cents per pound in the im-
mediate neighborhoods. This
boost in price naturally caused
farmers in outlying districts to
bring eggs and poultry to the
towii where the prices had been
boosted. This brought about a
raise of about three cents in egg
and poultry prices in these out-
lying districts. Thus the effect
of farmer marketing reached out
far beyond the territorj' in which
the associations were located.

Educational Value

The educational value of the
associations was also great, in
that the farmer members have
learned how to standardize, grade,
and make their own individual
shipments to market at proper
times. They also learned how
to study market conditions and
market trends.

It may be said that, among
other things, the very existence
of the poultry marketing asso-
ciations formed by the I. A. A.
had its effect upon poultry and
egg dealers all over the state.
Prices were kept up to discour-
age the forming of co-operative
associations. This is emphasized
by the following statement made
by a member of an egg dealers^
organizatioil in 1922:

"While dealers will be in-
clined to pay lower - prices for
poultry and eggs this year in
order to make up some of the
losses suffered in the industry by
readjustment, we would aovise
yon to pay as much as possible
because the lower prices will tend
to stimulate the springing up of
co-operative marketing associa-
tions."

Approxiin^-ply 100.000 fann-
ers are marketing their live
stock throiiph eipht a'pcncies of
the National Live Stock Produc-
ers Asso<-iati<)n at tlie rate of
$100,000,000 annually, arcrird-
ing to tilt- report of President
John G. Brwii at tlie regular
quarterly se.ssion o.f tlie bojird
of directors fccld in Chieag( a
few days ago^

A steady gain in volume ot
business is being experion :ed
each month ty the Producers.
For instance, a report showed
that .it>e total lvalue of live sti ick
handled in February was $5.4£ 5.-
090.12 on' 194(158 head, and [or
March. $5,863J683.-08 on. 266. i 03
head. Of thlese about 40. ( 00
were cattle, 4alve^, and she»p,
hogs making up the bulk of i he
live stock handled. .An incre|i8e
in sales '^accouhts from 6.809
February to 8j250 in March \lfaa
noted. " i

.%niouht of Business

In Mr. Brown's quarterly
port, he showed that 15 to
per cent of the total live stcjck
shipped _,toiBuf(alo is sold b.v- qlie
ProducerBTTi' to 8 l>er cent
Chicago, or more than 1,000 cir-
loads per month; 25 to 30 per
cent at' Indianapolis; 15 to IS
per cent at Ealst St. Louis; akd
25 to 30 per cent at Peoria.

Kansas City. Which opened in
March, has progressed from twe n-
^ty-sixth place Iduring an early
w^e'k after ooenSng. to tenth pla :e
during the last week in April.

The Peocia Producers ha' "e
voted to return to members ] 0
per cent of the commissions lis
'patronage dividends after Mj ,y
31. Fifty per fent of the .mem-
bership fee will also be returnel;

The Chicago ^gency has repaid
its membership fees in full aid
will pay a substantial patronaj e
dividend after the close of tie
&r«t year's business. June 30.
t^xiianslon IVovidetl For

The board of directors in se«-
sion voted to invest comple^
executiv.e authority in Presidet^t
^rown and requested that he de-

[ vote as nisfh pf- his tiraei a*

necessary to the executive affatra

I of the organization. Mr. Briawa

: has establidiied headquarters ii

the executive offices of the*nai-

tional association. 608 S. Diear-

born St.. Ciil«a^u7 a?n^V

1 the work from there. ' . 1 .

This arralmgcment was folund
j expedient bet.'iuse the opening ot
] new branches of the Produtei-l
at various nliArkets requires Cen-
era! .^lanager ^. M. Simpson to be
absent alinott continuously from
the Chicago lOfflce to over^e itWf*
details uf fti^t'Dn ■>*'*' lernMnUls.
yr. Sjm|)st>h opened up a Pro-
ducers agdnity at Sioux F'allsl S,
D.. Muy 'i, a^h halB been devoting
his tinn' ai'^^ recentjy. to wwlc
at Clevelabdj |ind Oklahoma <;i1y

f.-enfjji-s

will be eslalH

where a^e
lished. i

I'niiNe ^ork: of itntwa

The tiatinbal board deflakvdj

that I'resideillj lirowu had sh< wn!

unusual geni$s in liariiioniilnKi

the variout elements of the Ih'e*

stock indtietti) Effective cooip-l

eration has bk-f'n taade ptissibU fit|

the terminal^ and the oiTaolza-j

tion h^ bee(i built construct! ne-l

^1y ut>on a sbi^nd foufidatiou Tor

j the orderly I marketing of live

■stock. , , . I

Addresses jwere jpade at ibe

I directors' ro^^ilig by President'

Bradfute ot ilje A. T. B. F. Jod,

Walton TeCeel, director of co-ep-

erative mark(|tlnc. Mr. Bradfate'

congratulated tiae Producers unon

their splendid! ^and sound gromb

and. named the organization las

^1'

one of the oe^standing examples

'of co-operatUn. Mr. Pel

especially ttrg4d a simultaneolas

I development -^t the sales depi

ment and fipli serVice work.

FicKl on I l*'our Marke^^

Tlie Producers were fir-^t '*n

tour markets,, iBuffalo, Indiana |t-

olis. St. Louls.i fend Peoria, during

the last two wje^eks of April. 'Tie

Chicago agency j stood second bo:h

weeks, while ^ansas-C'ty swuiig

from eleventh to tenth place dufi-

Ing the seveDtb and eighth weO^

of business. -

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Come to Urhana for LA. A. Picnic, June 29th! m

PICNIC AT URBANA
IS 4tl> BY I. A. A.
AND FARM^BUREAUS

Springfield. Dixon and Oiney

Entertain Farmers During
' ; 1 Last Three Years

The state .picnic just sched-
uled by? the county farm bu-
reaus alio the I. A. A. for Cham-
paign-l'rbana on June 29 will
be ftiBj. fourth great state-wide
picnic hfeld by the Illinois state
and county farm bureau orga-
nJMtion. K

Tbe picnics have already be-
come a tradition, iooked forward
to each year. They are more
than a meVe merry-maltijig ; they
are ihe time of the year when
. the farm- bureau meets, shakes
hands, gete acquainted, plays,
learns and unites for a better
agriculture.

KpijuKfleld In 1920
The firsf,; picnic, held in a grove
in Sangamoii County near Spring
field in th^: summer of 1920, drew
a crowd e£{timated at eight thou
sand. The; first state-wide horse-
sh{>e pitctfing tournament was
held at this picnic.

The following year, on Septem-
ber 6. 1921, the state picnic was
held at Dixon, In Lee County. A
crowd of n^rly 10,000 by actual
count, attended.

Olney Last Year
Last year's state picnic, at
piney, in Richland Cotinty. was
given a bad deal by the weather
"clouds loomed the
evt'ning before and descended
upon the crowd on the day of
the picnic. -The result was a
crowd of alwut 5,000 where eas-
ily twice this many would other-
wise have attended, in view of
the tplendid preparations made
by tke. picnic committee, of the
county farm bureaus.

Iteniember the Date!
Bui never have the I. A. A.
and t3ie county farm bureaus had
a more splendid opportunity for
the' state picnic than this year.
The co-operation of the College
of Agriculture and the chance to
Bur\*e&' the fields at the university
Is an attraction to this year's pic-
nic tl^at cannot be over-estimated.
The "twin cities" are easily
reached by road from almost any-
where in central Illinois.

Paste the date in your hat-
band'— June 29, at Urbana!

JUNE 29 THE DATE-HERE'S THE PLACE!

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anx place in the state.

INSPECTION FARM
PRODUCTS IS AIM
OF SENATE DILL

Would Especially Benefit

Fruit Growers; Four

Main Provisions

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\ Alabama Paper
Praises Work of
Peteet In South

In speakiBg of tbe position of
leadership held by Walton Peteet
as Director of Co-operative Mar-
'ketini; with the American Farm
Bureau Federation, the Alabama
Farm Bureau News said in a recent
issue:

"Alabama members have come
In contact with this big and brainy
Texan. He has been in this state
;iSoT s^eral important meetines and
4as. impressed those who met him
as one of the ablest men in the
Farm Bureau movement. He has
beea an outstanding figure in the
Sou^h in cotton marketing, with a
tremendous zeal and energy which
make him the ideal leader in the
new Itold he has t>een called to."

Barnyard GolF' Pitching
Feature of Each Picnic

"It's a ringer!"

This exclamation is one that
was beard time and time again
at Springfield, Dixon and Olney
at the last three L A. A. ^picnics.
For one of the main events of
these affairs was the state-wide
horseshoe pitching tournaments
for the state farm bureau chatn-
plonshlp.

In 1920 a cup was put up to
be kept for a year by the winners
of each tournament. Any team
winning it for three consecutive
years was to keep it permanently.

Ed Torbert and Joe Heskett, of
the DeWitt County Farm Bureau

won the trophy all three years
and now retain It permanently.

At the recent meeting of the
general picnic committee at
Champaign-Urbana, it was the
opinion that the horseshoe pitch-
ing tournament should be con-
tinued at the picnic this year. As
many counties as possible are
urged to enter teams. Only farm
bureau members are eligible to
play.

Another trophy will be put up
for the championship and more
details about the contest will be
given in the next Record.

Writer Says Farm
Bureau Man "Best
Mind" At Capital

What sort of a fellow Is Gray
Sliver, who is tbe head of the
legislative o£9ce of the American
Farm Bureau Federation at
Washington? More than one Illi-
nois farmer has asked himself
this question, when he read of
the accomplishments of the Farm
Bloc, which was organized by the
A. F. B. "F. It is answered in
"Judge." the issue of March 24,
By Herbert Corey, celebrated cor-
respondent.

"There' are other organizations
which have agents here (In Wash
ington), of course," writes Mr.
Corey, "but Gray Silver is the
best mind of them all. They
compare with him as a yellow
tulip does with the Aurora t>ore-
allB.

"The only thing that even
sounds phony about Gray Silver
ia his name, and that's real. Be
is the man who made a majority
of the House and Senate deter-
mine to raise whiskers and wear
boots during the summer vaca-
tion. It is not often that Silver
uses hartb measures to carry
through a plan, but when he
does get roUgh a horseehoer's
rasp sounds like velvet. He is
essentially an organizer rather
than an Individualist.

"He became the most powerfnl

individual engaged In molding
legislation in Washington — no
one who knows the situation
would question that description —
because he could not help him-
self. When farmers had no real
organization. Gray Silver was
made a member of every com-
mittee sent to Washington to ask
Congr^s to behave, because he
lived near at hand ' and would
pay his own way . When the A.
F. B. F. determined to take an
active hand he came to Washing-
ton to stay tour years. He has
tried to get back to his thousand-
acre farm in West Virginia and
is not let."

ALL FARM BUREAU
FOLKS ASKED TO
ANNUAL OUTING

(Continued from Paee One)

Over Million and
Half Fleeces Are
Pledged to Pool

According to C. J. Fawcett, as-
sistant manager of the National
Wool Warehouse and Storage
Company, which handles pooled
wool for several states, a total of
1,700,000 fleeces are pledged for
the 1923 wool pool. The contracts
call for delivery of wool immed-
iately after shearing.

Mr. Fawcett states that it is
quite universally recognized by
the wool growers of the west that
the pool has been the means of
stimulating the price paid In a
local way by speculators from 3 to
5 cents per pound. In the seasons
of 1921 and 1922 the wool pools

Adviser; Melvln Thomas, Presi-
dent Illinois Farm Advisers.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE — Geo.
A. Fox, Secretary, I. A. A.; Dean
Herbert Mumford, ^ollege of Ag-
riculture, University of Illinois;
Melvin Thomas; Mrs. H. L. Dun-
lap, Savoy, 111.

PUBLICITY COMMITTEE — L.
J. Montross, I. A. A.; J. A.
Wright, University of Illinois.

GAMES AND STUNTS COM-
MITTEE— J. W. Watson, Farm
Adviser. Piatt County Farm Bu-
reau. (Mr. Watson to select
assistants.)

HORSESHOE COMMITTEE —
L. A. Palmer, Champaign; L. J
Montross, I. A. A.; 1. A. Madden
F^rm Adviser, Sangamon County
Farm Bureau; J A. Wright, Uni-
versity of Illinois.

ACCOXIODATIONS AND IN
FORMATION COMMITTEE — M.
I. Coldwell, Champaign; Lloyd
Rovelstadt, Champaign; Lloyd
Lamkins, Champaign.

GROUNDS COMMITTEE—;!. E.
Smith, Champaign; Ed Filson, C.
H. Oathout; Melvin Thomas.

POLICE, TRAFFIC i5ND PARK-
ING COMMITTEE — John Gray
Champaign.

FEEDS AND FEEDING COM-
MITTEE—C. H. Oathout.

FINANCE COMMITTEE — Ed
Filson, J. E. JcFhnson, R. A.
Cowles, J. L. Ascher, E. J. Holt-
erman.

May be Changes

It is possible that changes may
be made In these committees.

The next issue of The Record
will carry a full report of fur-
ther plans for the picnic. -

were very successful, retiiming to
the growers substantial Increase
above the price obtainable locally
at shearing time.

At least ten states are or-
ganizing for the co-operatlTe mar-
keting of potatoes under the Pe-
teet-Saplro plan.

A bill for an act to authorize
the director of the Illinois De-
partment of Agriculture to es-
tablish inspection and standard-
ization service for all kinds of
agrricuhural and horticultural
products, to standardize con-
tainers therefor, and to employ
inspectors, was recently intro- ' (
duced into the Illinois Senate
by Senator WiUiam S. Jewell,
Fulton county.

This act will enable growers to
take advantage of the Federal
law which provides for shipping
point inspection. It cannot be
used in Illinois with existing ma-
chinery.

The passage' of the bill is
especially desired by Illinois fruit '-y-
and vegetable growers In that It V (•'
is especially applicable to per-
ishable products. In the past,
some unscrupulous buyers have
rejected shipments for unwar-
ranted reasons when they could
profit thereby. Shipping point
Inspection will protect the grower
as it insures the condition of the
products before transportation. •
With this service, the grower will
be protected from unwarranted j
rejections, as previous Inspection
by licensed U. S. inspectors will
make the shipment the property
of the buyer when quotation is
accepted.

Four Main Provisions
There are four main provisions
which characterize the bill. First,
it establishes an inspection divis-
ion under the Department of Ag-
riculture. Second, it provides for
the establishment of standards
for all agricultural products fol-
lowing a hearing and after proper
notice has been given. It also
sets standards for containers.

Third, it authorizes the em- i
ployment of inspectors, the rais-
ing of fees to pay for inspection,
and co-operation with the United '
States Department of Agricultu-e ^
in carrying out the provisions of
the bill. Fourth, It authorizes
the appropriation of funds to
carry out the work. '

Anvend Apple Law
Senator Jewell has also intro-
duced into the Senate an amend-
ment to the apple grading law
'which was passed two years ago.
It will make the law conform to
the grading rules now In use by
the United States Department of
Agriculture.

As it nsw stands, the apple law
allows the grower to grade hla
products in accordance with the
U. 3. Sulzer Act instead of the
Illinois act. If he so desires. Tbe
Sulzer act Is now obsolete and
the department of agriculture is
using another apple grading rule.
The amendment introduced into
the Senate of Illinois will allow
Illinois apple growers to grade
under present U. S. standards If
desired.

The Fruit and VegeUble Mar-
keting Department of the I. A. A.
Is strongly supporting these twoji,
measures in behalf of growers.

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June 1, 1923

Niiitib«r-6

"GO-OP" BILL UP FOR FINAL VOTE IN HOUSE

be bill
lllnois frutt 1.

in that it
te to per-

the past,
lyers have
or unwar-
they could
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the grower
tion of the
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;rower will
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SIDNEY ANDERSON
SLATED TO SPEAK
AT L AJ. PICNIC

Committees Meet To Make

Arrangements For Big

Outing of June 29

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provisions
bill. First,
;tion divis-
ent of Ag-
rovides for

standards
}ducts fol-
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It also
lainers.
the em-
the rais-
inspection,
the United
kgriculttt"^ ^
pvisions of i

authorizes

funds to

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also intro-
an amend-
ading law
years ago.
:onform to
In use by
irtment of

apple law
grade his

with the
ad of the
sires. The
lolete and
[culture Is
iding rule,
[uced into
will allow

to grade
Etndards it

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these two |^'
growera. '

PASTORS INVITED
TO PICNIC

A special -invitation has been
issued to rural pastors of Illi-
nois to attend the I. A. A. State
Picnic at Urbana, June 29, to be
held In co-operation with county
farm bureaus and the College
of AgricuItuKe. A special pro-
gram is to be arranged for the
ministers, according to plans of
the General Picnic Committee.
Many ministers have already an-
nounced that they would attend.

The General Picnic Commit-
tee urges that each county farm
bureau do all within its power
to bring out its rural pastors.
"There's always room for one
more" in the flivver — see to it
that your minister gets a ride to
Urbana on June 29. He'il be
just as interested in us and our
work as we are in him and his.

Sidnoj- Anderson, Congress-
man from Minnesota and kno\vn
country-wide as Cliairraan of the
Comijiission of Agricukural In-
quiry, will be the speaker at the
I. A. A. State Picnic at Urbana,
June 29, if arrangements which
have been made can be later con-
flrnied. While Congressman
Anderson's acceptance of the
date is not yet official, it can be
. announced that he will be at Ur-
bana on "the big day" if there
is any possibility.

For his work in the Commission
of Agricultural Inquiry, especially
(Continued on pa^e 2)

A.'¥. B. F. Calls
Egg Marketing
Meeting May 28

A national egg marketing con-
ference was called for May 28 at
the Hotel Sherman, Chicago, by
the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration. It was planned, accord-
ing to a resolution passed by the
A. F. B. F. at its last annual meet-
ing, tu develop plans for the cen-
tralized marketing of eggs and
poultry.

Representatives of state farm
bureau federations, of agricultural
colleges and of the agricultural
press were invited.

AttLipil^lCri^^Ie Act^l .
With Amendments Faih

w/tli

all unfavorable I almendments killed, the Illinois Co-op-
erati%e Marketing bill wis on the order of final p8.s.sage in the
Hoiise ^t Sprinjjlield at the tinie this issue of The BecorJ went
tojpres^ and will undoubiouly be finally \<oted upon a few days
H-r- '■ '^ I ■ ; ' ■,

"T/- Siip^rters of the measure in the House rolled up a vote which
r^iiltecf in tabling a succession of am<'ndmeiits whicli iad for
their real purpoKe the crippling of the bilL Only cnce wtis a roll
call necessary to defeat aii amendment.

It had been widely predicted about Springbeld that the chief Attack
on the bill would be in the way of amendments, but the 'two-boor on-
slaught on the measure in ttie House found Ht defense invulnerable.

Six proposed amendments, in all, were dt>~tvned

As the sneasure stood after the barrage of amendmeuts ft carried
no feature objectionable to Its backers.

The bill has already 'been passed bj
jority.

9th "Co-op" Yards Firm
. Is Opened At Cleveland

The ninth Producers' Co-op-
erative Live Stock Commission
Association has been "opened by
the National Live Stock Produc-
ers' Association at Cleveland,
Ohio. Farmer-owned and oper-
ated selling agencies are now
functioning at Chicago, East St.
Louis, Peoria, Indianapolis, Buf-
falo, Fort Worth, Kansas City,
Cleveland and Sioux Falls.

Carbondale Milk
Producers Form
New Co-operative

Milk distributors of the city of
Carbondale, Jackson county, met
with the Dairy Marketing Depart-
ment of the I. A. A. in May to
effect the organization of the Car-
bondale Co-operative Milk Pro-
ducers Association.

Officers elected by members of
the new company were Arthur
Parrish, president, and Harry
Atherton, secretary-treasurer.

The association was organized
to bring about a better under-
standing between the distribut-
ors, to advertise the value of
milk products as food, and to
stabilize milk market prices in
Carbondale. .t > . - >. ,

Other agencies are to be .started
soon at Oklahoma City, Cincinnati
and probably other terminal mar-
kets.

On the last week before publica-
tion the Producers' agencies were
first on five markets. Chicago han-
dled 300 cars, or 5.87 per cent of
the total receipts, Indianapolis,
203 cars, or 26.16 per cent of the
total receipts, Buffalo 74 cars and
Fort Worth 100 cars.

The Peoria Producers received
twenty-two cars and .ranked first.
At East St. Louis the Producers
ranked second with 217 cars.

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THE WATCHD

How can a farmer, busy with
his crops and untrained in the
technicalities of transportation
matters, know that he isn't
paying too much freight when
he ships? Unless he it one
out of a million, he can't. But —

Even If he can't, his county
farm bureau and the 1. A. A. are
on the Job with men who make
it their business to know and
to safeguard the member's in-
terests. This story tells how
many a farmer iS' saving the
price of his membership on a
shipment of hogs or cattle be-
cause his bureau and the I. A.
A. were on the job!

Conference Of
Product Heads
HeU May 25-26

A conference of the managers
of the various Producers Co-oper-
ative Live Stock Commission As-
sociations now operated oo nine
markets was called at Chicago,
May 25 and 26 by President John
G. Brown of the National Live
Stock Producers Assooiatiop.
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DID YOU KNOW-?

THAT there are 580 local co-operative live stock shipping
associations in Illinois, many of which are the largest busi-
ness Institutions in the eommunites they serve? Turn to
Page Two and read how the Li.e Stock Marketing Department
of the I. A. A. aims to give the most complete service possible
to these associations and to all farm bureau live stock ||ro-
ducers.

Did you know that at Waukegan Is the only proriucersxin-
sumer co-operative company In Illinois,' doisg a flourishing «nd
profitable business? Read on Page Three about this remark-
able leaf in the history of farmer co-operation and the part
played in It by the I. A. A.

b^the Senate by a declitTe nsr

LIVE STOCK 9K^i^ ,|
REDUCED FOLLOWING
PROIESIJ L A. A.

An average reduction of
$11.25 oti a car of catlleJ$l0.62
on a oar of hogs, and $9.75 on
a e;^r of iflloep from points! on the
Wabash Railroad west bf the
Illinoi$ River to East Stl Louis
has been announced, follcmiag a
protest etitered on t^e lonner
rates !bj' the Transpartalioa
SerWce of the fiUnois 4f?ricul-
tural AsiiOeiation.

Th« roduf-tion is now in efr^ct-

In tht' Spring of 11*21 ih** ^atee on
i-attle ftnd hogs from poinla fi'efit
or the tlliiiols RtTer to ChiciffoJ Pe-
oria alid] East' S^ L.om1b v»8< fn-
crcaaodl ^l|out 2S t>«r ""f-ntj in ac-
t-orUatiCe ^ith an lntrr8i|me dom-
mfTct- ('otnmisaion ordrr.

The W^ltaah iricr^-aafd inc nates
from pointii on thtir Hue ^'c-st of
ih»r ri\i«-r to E:ast St. Ucuia to tVie
samt* bbsl^ as on points *aflt of the
rivtj-. Th* I. -A.- A., on cf*n|>jaint
from tho Hanc<VK Coimty
Bureau. t»»*k up the matter
R. A. A. PkJtr^fB

Not «(ilfr' Hancock Coujfty

«»Kt;

-, Imtall
ntj of 'thp
;ti Ijours

points «ti lh«r Wabash

lUinuis Klver to Kasi

wpre Tn^^lvt-d. It mas /oktnd »'y

the I^ A. A. that the ratt-s o^ raittle.

Bheep and liogs were out ofl line fn

thiH trfritory.

FollowHip the protest of t lie 1. A.
A., the ralkroad made an .ijlji Atment.
r*-ducliitf: . the rates apiu'oii imqtely
"flve ccpta per hundred we Bh^ on
cattle. I*ix -cents on hoprs aqd r '""
cents oti ifceep.

Mid- West States
Hold Economic
Meet At Chictigo

An AvrScuitural Kcononihrs Re-
search Conference for Mldd(e Vest
Statf« was held at the Hot4l Sher-
man. Chic»KO. on Kriday, !I»y. 18.
O. E. Bradfute. president -of the
.'Vmerioan Farm Bureau p«*dier»-
tion, acted as chairman.

Taxatioa was discussed (y J. C.
Watsot. of the Illinois 4«rlcal
tural 4M<icl«tioB.

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Come to Urbana for I. A. A. Picnic, June 29th! k

May IS, 1923 |\ .

29th!h

PICNIC AT URBANA
IS ^th BY I. A. A.
AND FARM^BUREAUS

Springfield, Dixon and OIney

Erttertain Farmers During

Last Three Years

The state ^picnic just sched-
uled l)y the county farm bu-
reaiL'^ ami the I. A. A. for Chain-
paign-l'rbaua on June 2!) will
be the fourth {rreat state-wide
pienie held by the Illinois state
and' county farm bureau orga-
• niziition. '.

The picnics have already be-
conie a' traditipn, looked forward
to «ach year. They are more
than a mere merry-making: they
are* the time of the year when
the farm bureau meets, shakes
■ hands, gets acquainted, plays,
learns and unites for a better
atri^lture,
y K|)rini;fleI<I in 19*20

The fir^t picnic, held in a grove
in SS^ngamon County near Spring-
field in the summer of 1920, drew
a crotrj estimated at eight thou-
sand. The first state-wide horse-
shoe pit<*hing tournament was
held at this picnic.

The following year, on Septem-
ber <. 1921, the state picnic wis
held at Di.xon. in Lee Count,v. A
crowd of nearly 10,000 by actual
count, attended.

Olney Ijwt Year
Last year's state picnic, at
Oiney, in Richland County, was
given a bad deal by the weather
' TtaiTi Clouds loomed the
evening before and descended
upon the -crowd on the day ot
the pici^c. The result ■ was a
crowd of about 5.000 where eas-
iJjMwioe this many would other-
wise iiave attended, in view of
the splendid preparations made
by the picnic committee of the
county farm bureaus.

Keiuember tike Dtit«!
Biiit never have the I. A. A.
and (he county farm bureaus had
a more splendid opportunity for
the state picnic, than this year.
a.e [c,o-operatiop of the College
ofNACTimlture and the chance to
survBv the'^elds at the university
is an aliraction to this y'ear's pic-
tLic tpat Ctthnot be over-estimated.
'•twin\ cities" are easily
\reac>t»d by road from almost any-
>iieri'\in centred Illinois.

ste\tlip dat» in your hat-
■b»^d{\-J"iH 29, at>^Trbana!

JUNE 29 THE DATE-HERE'S THE PLACE!

THIS airplane view of Crystal Lake Park at Urbana gives an idea of
grounds and the trees and grass. The park offers one of the most
any place in the state.

the beautiful, winding lake on the
charming locations for a picnic of

Alabahm l?apc^
Prais^Work of

^In sneaking of th

ijpn <^
leadelrshilKjield by Walton . Pfeteef ■
as" ^irectorNjf Co-operative Mar-
• ketiBp with tfevAmerlcan Farm
Bur(|»u ^K^e^at^on^"A^e ^AlSkbama
FaKdi| Burea^~^ews sauk^na recent
issu^ ■ *-^N^

"Altbami^lnembera have come
in i;d»t^c^>»ru3tjii3 Bis^ijd brainy
T,exai». He has o^Ain this state
for 9«veral linportantmSBtings and
has llnpressed those who met him
as one of the ablest men* In the
Famti Bureau movement. He has
beea^n outstanding figure in the
Soutol in cotton marketing, with a
txemeindous zeal and energy which
mak^ i him the ideal leader in the
new liehl he has been called to."

«

Barnyard GolF' Pitching
Feature of Each Picnic

"It's a ringer!"

This exclamation is one that
was heard time and time again
at Springfield, Dixon and Olney
at the last three I. A. A. picnics.
For one of the main events ot
these affairs was tl>e state-wide
horseshoe pitching tournaments
for the state farm bureau cham-
pionship.

In 1920 a cup was put up to
be kept for a year by the winners
of each tournament. Any team
winning it for three consecutive
years was to keep it permanently.

Ed Torbert and Joe Heskett, of
the DeWitt County Farm Bureau

won the trophy all three years
and now retain it permanently.

At the recent meeting ot the
general picnic committee at
Champaign-Urbana, it was the
opinion that the horseshoe pitch-
ing tournament should be con-
tinued at the picnic this year. As'
many counties as possible are
urged to enter teams. Only farm
bureau members are eligible to
play.

Another trophy will be put up
for the championship and more
details about the contest will be
given in the ne.\t Record.

Writer Says Farm
Bureau Man "Best
Mind" At Capital

What sort of a fellow Is Gray
Slither, who' is the head ot the
legislative office ot the American
Farm Bureau Federation at
Washington? More than one Illi-
nois farmer has asked himself
this question, when he read of
the accomplishments ot the Farm
Bloc, which was organized by the
A. F. B. F. It is answered in
"Judge," the issue of March 24,
By Herbert Corey, celebrated cor-
respondent.

"There are other organizations
which have agents here (in Wash-
ington), of course," writes Mr.
>(3orey, "but Gray Silver is the
best mind ot them all. They
compare with him as a yellow
tulip, does with the Aurora bore-
alis. ■

"The only thing that even
sounds phony about Gray Silver
is his name, and that's real. He
is the man who made a majority
of the House and Senate deter-
mine to raise whiskers and wear
boots during the summer vaca-
tion. It is not often that Silver
uses harsh measures to carry
through a plan, but when he
does get rough a horseshoer's
rasp sounds like velvet. He is
essentially an organizer rather
than an individualist.

"He became th« most powerful

individual engaged in molding
legislatKn in Washington — no
one who , knows the situation
would question that description —
because fie could not help him-
self. When farmers had no real
organization, Gray Silver was
made a member of every com-
mittee sent to Washington to ask
Congress to behave, because he
lived near at hand and would
pay his own way When the A.
F. B. F. determined to take an
active hand he came to Washing-
ton to stay tour years. He has
tried to getr back to his thousand-
acre farm in West Virginia and
is not let."

Over Million and
Half Fleeces Are
Pledged to Pool

According to C. J. Fawcett, as-
sistant manager of the National
Wool Warehouse and Storage
Company, which handles pooled
wool for several states, a total of
1,700.000 fleeces are pledged for
the 1923 wool pool. The, contracts
call for delivery pf wool immed-
iately after shearing.

Mr. Fawcett states that it is
quite universally recognized by
the wool growers of the west that
the pool has been the means of
stimulating the price paid in a
local way by speculators from 3 to
5 cents per pound. In the seasons
of 1921 and 1922 the wool pools

ALL FARM BUREAU
FOLKS ASKED TO
ANNUAL OUTING

(Continued from Page One)

INSPECTION FARM
PRODUCTS IS AIM
OF SDIATE BILL

Would Especially Benefit

Fruit Growers; Four

Main Provisions

Adviser; Melvin Thomas, Presi-
dent Illinois Farm Advisers.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE — Geo.
A. Fo.\, Secretary, I. A. A.; Dean
Herbert Mumford, ^ollege of Ag-
riculture, University of Illinois;
Melvin Thomas; Mrs. H. L. Dun-
lap, Savoy, 111.

PUBLICITY COMMITTEE — L.
J. Montross, I. A. A.; J. A.
Wright, University of Illinois.

GAMES AND STUNTS COM-
MITTEE— J. W. Watson, Farm
Adviser, Piatt County Farm Bu-
reau. (Mr. Watson to select
assistants. )

HORSESHOE COMMITTEE —
L. A. Palmer, Champaign; L. J.
Montross, I. A. A.; I. A. Madden,
Farm Adviser, Sangamon County
Farm Bureau; J A. Wright, Uni-
versity ot Illinois.

ACCOMODATIONS AND IN-
FORMATION COMMITTEE — M.
I. Coldwell, Champaign; Lloyd
Rovelstadt, Champaign; Lloyd
Lamkins, Champaign.

GROUNDS COMMITTEE — J. E.
Smith, Champaign; Ed Filspn, C.
H. Oathout; Melvin Thomas.

POLICE, TRAFFIC AND PARK-
ING COMMITTEE — John Gray,
Champaign.

FEEDS AND FEEDING c6m-
MITTEE — C. H. Oathout.

FINANCE COMMITTEE — Ed
Filson, J. E. Johnson, R. A.
Cowles, J. L. Ascher, E. J. Holt-
erman.

May be Changes

It is possible that changes may
be made in these committees.

The next issue of The Record
will carry a full report of fur-
ther plans for the picnic.

were very successful, returning to
the growers substantial increase
above the price obtainable loctlly
at shearing time.

At least ten states are or-
ganizing for the co-operative mar-
keting of potatoes under the Pe-
teet-Sapiro plan.

A bill for an act to authorize
the director of the Jllinois De-
partment of Agriculture to es-
tablish inspection and standard-
*ization service for all kinds of
atrricultural and horticultural
products, to standardize con-
tainers therefor, and to employ
inspectors, was recently intro-
duced into the Illinois Senate
by Senator William S. Jewell,
Fulton county.

This act will enable growers to
take advantage of the Federal
law which provides for shipping
point iiispection. It cannot be
used in Illinois with existing ma-
chinery.

The passage of the bill is
especially desired by Illinois fruit
and vegetable growers in that it
is especially applicable to per-
ishable products. In the past,
some unscrupulous buyers have
rejected shipments for unwar-
ranted reasons when they could
profit thereby. Shipping point
inspection will protect the grower
as it insures the condition of the
products before transportation.
With this service, the grower will
be protected from unwarranted
rejections, as previous . inspection
by licensed U. S. inspectors will
make the shipment the property
of' the buyer when quotation is
accepted.

Four Matn Provisions
There are four main provisions
which characterize the bill. First,
it establishes an inspection divis-
ion under the Department of Ag-
riculture. Second, it provides for
the establishment of standards
for all agricultural products fol-
lowing a hearing and after proper
notice has been given. It also
sets standards Ht containers.

Third, it authorizes the em-
ployment of inspectors, the rais-
ing of fees to pay for inspection,
and co-operation with the United
States Department of Agricultu"e I
in carrying out the provisions of
the bill. Fourth, it authorizes
the appropriation of funds to
carry out the work.

.\mend Apple Law
Senator Jewell has also intro-
d'uced into the Senate an amend-
ment to" the apple grading law
which was passed two years ago. '
It will make the law conform to
the grading rules now in use by
the United States Department ot
Agriculture.

As it now stands, the apple law
allows the grower to grade his
products in accordance with the
U. S. Sulzer Act instead of the
Illinois act, if he so desires. The
Sulzer act is now obsolete and
the department of agriculture Is
using another ttpple grading rule.
The amendment introduced into
the Senate ot Illinois will allow
Illinois apple growers to grade
under present U. S. standards It
desired.

The Fruit and 'Vegetable Mar-
keting Department of the I. A. A.
is strongly supporting these two t}:
measures in behalf of growers.

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A

IS

, 1923 K ^

Hhm

m
m

\l BILL

I Benefit
Four
ons

) authorize
Uinois De-
ture to es-
[ standard-
1 kinds of
irtieultural
rdize con-
to employ
itly infro-
ois Senate '
S. Jewell,

growers to
lie Federal
3r shipping

cannot be
xisting ma-

he bill is
llinois fruit ,

in, that it Vi*
le to per-

the past,
lyers have
or unwar-
they could
ping point
the grower
tion of the
isportation.
;rower will J ',
^warranted
. inspection
ectors will
e property
lotation is

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ons

rat, 1

vis- i*

^- {

sions

provisions
bill. First
lion divi
ent of Ag-
rovides for

standards
jducta fol-
fter proper
It also
tainers.
the em- i
the ralB-
inspection, I
the United j
^gricultu-e f
ovisions of

authorizes

funds to ,

also Intro-
an amend-
ading law
years ago.
:onform to
in use by
irtment of

apple law
grade bis

with the
ad of the
sires. The
iolete and
Iculture is
iding rule,
luced into
will allow

to grade
andards It

Uble Mar-
ie I. A. A.

these two
growers.

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' Volume 1

June 1, 1923

Nmfebcr 6

"CO-OP" BILL UP FOR FINAL VOTE IN HOUSE

Attempt To CrijipleAct] \
With Amendments Ftit^s

SIDNEY ANDERSON
SLATED TD SPEAK
AT I. AJ. PICNIC

Committees IMeet To Make

Arrangements For Big

Outing of June 29

f '

PASTORS INVITED
TO PICNIC

A special ■invitation has been
issued to rural pastors of Illi-
nois to attend the I. A. A. State
Picnic at Urbana, June 29, to be
held in co-operation with county
farm bureaus and the College
of Agriculture. A special pro-
gram is to be arranged for the
ministers, accoromg to plans or
the General Picnic Committee.
Many ministers have already an-
nounced that they would attend.

The General Picnic Commit-
tee urges that each county farm
bureau do all within its power
to bring out its rural pastors.
"There's always room for one
more" in the flivver — see to it
that your minister gets a ride to
l-rbana on June 29. He'il be
just ag>' interested in us and our
work as we are in him and his.

h^idiioy A-ndcrson,. Con<;ress-
man from Minnesota and known
country-wide as Cluiirmancff the
Coiuiiiission of Agricultural In-
quiry, will be the speaker at the
I. A. A. State Picnic at Urbana,
June 29, if ^arran<;ement.s which
have been niade can be later con-
firmed. While Congressman
An.'lerson's acceptance of the
date is not yet official, it can be
announced thdt h^ will be at Ur-
bana on "the big day" if there
is any possibility.

For his work in the Commission
of Agricultural Inquiry, especially
(Continued on page 2)

A. F. B. F. Calls
Egg Marketing
Meeting May 28

A national egg marketing con-
ference was called for May 28 at
the Hotel Sherman, Chicago, by
the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration. It was planned, accord-
ing to a resolution passed by the
A. F. p. F. at Its last annual meet-
ing, to develop plana for the cen-
tralized marketing of eggs and
poultry.

RepresentatlTes of state farm
bureau federations, of agricultural
colleges and of the agricultural
press were Invited.

HE FEEDS THEM ALL !

AVitli all unfavojjiiblc aini-niluH-irts killwd, the 'IHinois t;Q-i}p-
erative Jliirketing bill was ort the ordtrjof final pas.sai.'e in' the
House at Spriiiglield at Jhe time this ts.*ie of The RVcoid tH-ent
to press and will undoubtedly, be final^- [vested upon a few dnys
later.

Supporters of the measure in the Ildufie rolled up a' voti '.
resultetl ill tablin-.r a stiecf^ion of anf<i(lments which lad

t'leir real jpurpose the eripiilins: of the bilL Only cnce ws
call necesijarj' to defeat an amendiiientj

It had peen widttly predicted about SprijigReld that the chie aVtack
on the bill would IJB in the way of amendbi4nts. but the two-lour ob-
slaughfon the measure in the House founq the defense invulne -able.

Six proposed anjcndmeni.s. in all. werei dptvned

As the [measure stood after the barragb i>t ilmendmeuts It can-ied
no feature lobjectionable to its backers.

The bill has already been passed by tlK {Secate by a deci^ve ! nub-
jority. I

which

for

a. roll

9th ''Co-op'' Yards Firm
Is Opened At Cleveland

The ninth Producers' Co-op-
erative Live Stock Commission
Association has been 'opened by
the National Live Stock Produc-
ers' Association at Cleveland,
Ohio. Farmer-owned and oper-
ated selling agencies are now
functioning at Chicago, East St.
Louis, Peoria. Indianapolis. Buf-
falo, Fort Worth, Kansas City,
Cleveland and Sioux Falls.

Carbondale Milk
Producers Form
New Co-operative

Milk distributors of the city of
Carbondale, Jackson county, met
with the Dairy Marketing Depart-
ment of the I. A. A. in May to
effect the organization of the Car-
bondale Co-operative Milk Pro-
ducers Association.

Officers elected by members of
the new company were Arthur
Parrish, president, and Harry
Atherton, secretary-treasurer.

The association was organized
to bring about a better under-
standing between the distribut-
ors, to advertise the value of
milk products as food, and to
stabilize milk market prices in
Carbondale.

Other agencies are to be started
soon at Oklahoma City, Cincinnati
and probably other terminal mar-
kets.

On the last week before publica-
tion the Producers' agencies were
first on five markets. Chicago han-
dled 300 cars, or 5.87 per cent of
the total receipts, Indianapolis,
203 cars, or 26.16 per cent of the
total receipts, Buffalo 74 cars and
Fort Worth 100 cars. '

The Peoria Producers received
twenty-two cars and ranked first.
At East St. Louis the Producers
ranked second with 217 cars.

THE WATCMtOG"

How earn a farmer, busy with
his :Crops and untrained in the
technicalities of transportation
matters, know that he isn't
paying too much freight when
he ships? Unless he is one
out of a million, he can't. But —

Evefl if he can't, his county
farm bureau and the I. A. A. are
on the job with men who make
it their business to know and
to safeguard the member's in-
terests. This story tells how
many a farmer is saving the
price of his membership on a
shipment of hogs or cattle be-
cause his bureau and the I. A.
A. were on the Job!

Conference Of
Producer Heads
Held May 25-26

A contetence of the manaKers
ot" the various Producers Co<>per-
atlve Live i Stock Commission As-
soclatipna now operated on nine
markets iwas called at Chicago.
May 25 and 26 by President John
G. Brown df the National Live
Stock Producers .\ssociation.

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LIVE STOCK R*l
REDUCED FOLLOWING
PROTEST OFI. A. A.

m.

9WINI

rcdiictini

.Vii average r
!t'11.2.'i <«(i a car of cattle,
(in a qait of hogs, and $'!'
a car (i|f ."ihcep from points
Wabasjh i Uailroad west i
Illinoit; |{iivcr to Ea.st St
has bci'iij tiniotinced, fi "
pnitcst H'tcjred on the
rates bji- tlie Tr
.Serviol' ^ the Illinois
tiiral .|V«>ociation.

... of

$1t).62
.73 on
oiij the
of ; the'
IXiuiii

)lk w

ing a

former

anspt^naltioa

rjcuU

i! gr

Tli» fi-fluclior is now in
' Kabird hi IRSl

In th»- fK-ilK ot la:! tlio
ratlin- liiiii htiKfi from poi
of ihv Iiituoia i;iv*-.r to <;ih
oriH afidl jl'I.ist St. L.ouis

i'r»'aa,»l
I'ortlatU-

Thc

(-mlal e

tl <

DID YOU KNOW-?

THAT there are 580 local co-operative live stock shipping
associations in Illinois, many of which are the largest busi-
ness institutions in the communites they serve? Turn to
Page Two and read how the Live Stock Marketing Department
of the I. A. A. aims to give the most complete service possible
to these associations and ' to «H farm bureau live stock pro-
ducers.

Did you know that at Waukegan is the only producer-con-
sumer co-operative company in Illinois, doing a flourishing and
profitable business? Read on Page Three about this remark-
able leaf in the history of farmer co-operation ,and the part
played in it by the I. A. A. I

4't"Ut 25 per f<-nt
tk ith an - Intt
nnuKBioti ordt-r.
\\\' il>.a8h inor«'-aKod
from poiils'on th-ir line
ihf riv<rl to Knsl St.. IxiiT
canu' ^as s as- on poibtR vat
nvt-r. Tit !• A. A.,*" on. ci
trom <h< HaTieOf K Coitnt;
HurctiiL or-ok up the mattPi
jl, A. A. PtaT.-^fs
Not ♦i»1>" Hancock County
pointi* km rtho Wabash woh)
Hliiioi^ lUvt-r to Kast St
wrro niv wlvid. Tt was"
thi> I. A. V **ifit thf r.-rt.rs
Phoop jin« hoys Wt-rc out
thi« tf*rrit^ry. ^^

Fnllokvliijt-- the ftfolfst o)

A., the. railroad ma«l«' an njjj i
r*ilucinp t*iL- r.T!' « ai-i'i^i
five co»itiiP^>r hundr«-*l
oattle, tBhijceiitP OH ho*r8
rents ofei iheep.

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Mid- West States
Hold Economic
Meet At Chicago

4:

tatra

Ktii or
i.>,the
o( the

ni.1»lnt

t.iil all
oti ino
liou in
lad l-y
<*flttle.
lilje in .

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[. A.

i hf

ni«t>ly
i4^(i on

.\n AfiVlrultural fifonon i.-s Re-
search Conference for MIdd le Vest
States it 4a held at the Hot 1 Sher-
man. GhifcliKO, on Friday, Olay 18.
O. E. IBi>adfute." pre.sident
.\nierioan Farm nur*"au
tion, acted as chairman.

Taxation was discussed ^y
WatsoB. of the lUinoh)
tural .4sf<f«ij»tioB.

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nf Uie
F"e<^era-

tricolr

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nEnou Agricultural Assodation Record

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June 1, 1923

IllinoU Agridiharal Association

RECORD

Published twice a month by the
iliinots Agricultural Association,
608 South l>earborn Street. Chicaffo.
Iltinois. Edited by News Publicity
Pepartment, I*. J. Montross. Director.

; Entry as second clasa matter Oct.
110. I92i; at the post office at Chi-
It-ago. Illinois, under the act of
,Marrh 3. 1879. Acceptance for majl-
i ins at special rates af postai^e pro-
I Virted fpr in Sect ion 1 1 03. Arl of
';October-3. 1917. authorized Oct- 81

'19**: ?- f

.'he individual membership fcf of
he Illinois AKriciiltural Assofia-
lon is five dollars a year. This
'ee includes paynrest of ten cents
'or subscription to the Illinois Ag-
Icultura! AsRO'-iatioii Tlecord

I OFFICERS

President. S. H. Thompson. Quincy.
Tice-President. A. O. Bckert. Ueltt-
/ille.

'ecretary. Oeo- A. Fox. Sycamore. '
'reasurer. R. A. Cowles. Bloomingr-
ton-

EXF(\'TIVF rOMMITTFK
By t'onRressional I>Utricts

tilth — Henry M'^Oouffh. Maple Park-
"th — <;. K. TiiJIock. Rockford.
_th — '.'. K Itarnborouph. I'olo.
4th — W. ir. Moody. Port tJyron-
6tii — H. E. ftoembel, Hoopole.
[kth^r;, E. lt«dcr. Mendota.
[hth — p. T>.' Barton, rornell.
[tath — C. It- Kinli-y. Hoopeston..,
IjPth — P. J T'"lt'rman. Sadorus.
aoth — Earl J. Smi<n. Detroit,
pst— E. L. Cofhin. Ca)*""^'''l«-
nd — Stanley Tastle, Ulton- ■
rd — ("arlton Trimblei Trimble.
!J4th^ — Curt Anderson. Xenla.
th — Vernon Lessley. Sparta.

Pirectors of Deimrtnients,
I. A. A. Office

Qeneral Office and Assistant to Sec-

itary. J. P. Harper; Fi»*Id Organia-

ilion, J. C. Sailor; Organization Pub-

Tclty. e. E. Metzger; News Public-

iy. L.. J. Montrosa; Transportation.

'4. J. Quasey; Statistics. J. C. Wat-

ipn; Flinance. R, A. Towles; Fruit

-.iikid Vegetable Marketing. C E.

^SurstiiLive Stock Marketing. C A.

-atVwart; Dairy Marketing. A. D.

Tiynch; Phosphate I..imePtone. J. R.

Bent . Legal. Newton Jenkins.

SIDNEY ANDERSON
SUTED TO SPEAK
AT I. A. A. PICNIC

"(Oontinued from page 1)

in farm transportation, Congress-
man Anderson has the respect and
admiration of farmers all over the
ciluntry. He is "farmer-minded,"
represents an JKricultural consti-
tileacy and has!an enviable repu-
Ukion as a speaker. He will bring
al jreal ipessage to the picnic.
{Meetings of several of the com-

ttees which are planning for the
pitnic have been held during the
)ut two w«eks:';

Arrangements have been made

devote a part of the program,
possibly on the evening preceding
tie picnic, to the rural ministers
oft Illinois. ' A number of pastors
have already made arrangements
toj come.

The grounds committee has
stirted its work at Crystal Lalie
Park. ■ Arrangements are beiiJfe
mftde^ for the sparking of cars and
fok* the horseshoe pitching courts.

Ui

t»

Cos

tie Is New
Member of I. A. A.
jl Executive Body

I 'Stanley Castle, Alton, president
of the Madison County Farm Bu
TCau, is the new member of the
I, I A. A. ExiiHjutive Committee
fMm the 22nd District to succeed

e<f Baumberger^ Reno, who re-

ned in April.

Castle was elected to the

bition by the voting delegates
ol the district at a meeting at
fiist St. Louis in .May. He is
a prominent grain farmer of
Mfldison county and an outstand-
ing worker for the farm bureau.
Uaaer bis leadership the Madi-
soU County Farm Bureau has de-
veloped into one of the strongest
anit most successful county or-
gattixations in Illinois.

/. A. A. Has Department To Solve

Producers' Live Stock Problems

In keeping with its aim to furnish service to farm bureau
members in all important phases of Illinois asriculturft, the Illi-
nois Agricviltural Association has from the start maintained a
Live. Stock Marketing Department. C'ontinuinfr the policy laid
down durin? tlie first two years of the operation of this depart-
ment, the work hiis been divided into three general lines of ac-
tivities: first, live stock marketing; second, the wool pool; third,
general activities.

Hy far the most important work is In the division of live stock
marketing. Here two aKencles enter largely into co-operative mar-
keting. First, there are the 580 communities of the State which are
served by local co-operative shipping associations. Second, the tour
terminal markets in which Illinois shippers are most interested, Chi-
cago.. East St, I.ouis. Indianapolis and Peoria, are now served by suc-
ressfol producer-owned and operated selling agencies functioning
under a national plan.

The relationship of the .1. A.
A. Live Stock Marketing Depart-
ment to these marketing agencies,
both local and at the terminal
markets, is largely of an advis-
ory or consulting nature and is
maintained by bi-monthly letters
sent to the boards of directors
and managers of all the associa-
tions and also by means of meet-
ings attended directly by C. A.
Stewart, Director of the Depart-
ment.

All possible information is
given both by mail and at meet-
ings and suggestions are made.
Big Baslnes.« Done

Many of the larger local ship-
ping associations of Illinois do
a yearly business of from $100,-
000 to 1150,000. while some of
the largest have handled busi-
ness "to the extent of $500,000
annually. The four terminal
markets in which Illinois is in-
terested receive up to forty per
cent of their total receipts from
shipping associations, fully half
of which comes from this state.

In most communities served by
shipping associations, the asso-
ciation ranks in amount of busi-
ness done as the most, important
busipess in the community. The
I. A. A. Live Stock Marketing
Department, therefore, has al-
ways advocated the use of the
most effective business principles
and methods. The Department
recommends that associations in-
corporate and assist them in that
respfct, as incorporation gives a
standing as an organization and
limits liability of members.

The Department also recom-
mends bonding of managers and
employes handling funds and ad-
vocate* the best methods of ac-
counting. T
Reports Asked

Recognizing that one of the
tremendous problems affecting
the prosperity of the Illinois live
stock Industry is the inability to
stabilize receipts at the terminal
iqarkets, the Department has ask-
ed reports from local shipping as
sociations at frequent intervals, in
order to work toward a program
of preventing fluctuation in re-
ceipts and the accompanying fluc-
tuation in prices.

In co-operation with the Ex-
tension Service of the College of
Agriculture, schools of instruc-
tion for associations are held
from time to time in different
parts of the State. At these
schools the most eflicient methods
of handling live stock, methods
of organization and other in-
formation df benefit is given out.

While the Live Stock Market-
ing Department and the I. A. A.
in general took a prominent part
in the setting up and financing of
the four live stock commission
firms in which Illinois farmers
are mdst interested, no ofllcial
coniiectioa is any longer main-

tained with them. They are dis-
tinct organizations. -Mthough they
•do not place a premium upon
Farm Bureau membership, it is
a recognized fact that most of
their support conies from farm
bureau members and shipping as-
sociations affiliated with the
movement, and it is to the ad-
vantage of both that close rela-
tions be maintained. The De-
partment, therefore, keeps as
closely In touch with the four
selling agencies as possible.

Complaints Filed

The Department, however, is
always representing foremost the
producers and local shipping as
sociations. In all questions which
arise they may depend upon the
Department for all possible as
sistance. This is especially true
in complaints filed against old
line companies or the Producers.
Many times, because of the inti-
mate knowledge which the De
partment has of terminal mar-
keting methods, satisfactory ex-
planation can be offered without
further investigation. At other
times such complaints have led
to an investigation which result-
ed beneficially to all parties con-
ceri^ed.

The Wool Pool

The I. A. A. wool pool, han-
dled by the Live Stock Market-
ing Department, has been in op-
eration five years and has gone
through many of the vicissitudes
which accompany the develop-
ment of any new enterprise.
From this experience an effective
plan has been devised. A con-
tract is now entered into with
the National Wool Warehouse
and Storage Company, of Chicago,
authorizing them to act as de-
pository and selling agency for
Illinois wools. Illinois producers
are thus able to have the advan-
tages of marketing their wool
>wlth the 7,000,000 to 27,000,000
pounds marketed yearly from
other states. This large scate
handling has meant a distinct
saving.

Early each year the Depart-
ment enters Into contracts for
sacks and twine so as not to lose
on a possible rise in the market.

Watch Grading

A representative of the Depart-
ment watches the grading of the
wool at the warehouse as closely
as possible, even though there is
no doubt of the reliability of the
gliders. 1*he Department is con-
sulted before any sale of wool is
made and in cases there is any
doubt as to what decision should
be made the owners of the wool
are consulted.

Despite the fact that the pool
has been operating in the fluctua-'
tions of the post-war fluctuation
period, questionnaires from the
counties have shown that every
year pool prices have generally
been higher than local prices.

.-:;.- i.

C A. STEWART

A rapid advance in wool dur-
ing the fall of 1921, after the
pool had been sold, resiilted in
some dissatisfaction. This ad-
vance, however, was n"t Justified
by prevailing conditions and
there was no way to forecast it.
Sale of Blankets

In 1920 and 1921 the Depart-
ment, in order to find an outlet
for wool at a time of poor de-
mand, had thousands of pounds
made into blankets to be sold to
members at cost. This realized
growers a higher price than they
could otherwise have obtained at
the time and furnished blankets
at a figure comparable to city
wholesale prices, saving the buy-
er, too. Some of these blankets
are still on hand and are being
distributed by the Department.
General I»roJect.<>

The general activities of the
Department include various mat-
ters in which producers over the
State are interested. Live stock
freight rates are handled by the
I. A. A.' Live Stock and Trans-
portation Departments, co-operat-
ing, -"^n active part has been
taken in an attempt to get a re-
duction on mixed shipment rates.

The Department has filed an
application with the Tariff Com-
mission for the reduction of the
exorbitant tariff on Canadian cat-
tle. This move was prompted by
protests from Illinois feeders.

The Department works with
counties which are handling hog
cholera serum and virus for mem-
bers, being represented on the
committee which recommended to
counties the' company best fitted
for handling the Illinois busi-
ness. A number of conferences
have been held with the State
Veterinarian on farmer vaccina-
tion. The Department is repre-
sented, with farm bureaus, the
University and the State Depart
ment of Agriculture on a com-
mittee working out a plan for a
better distribution in Illinois of
serum and virus, especially as to
distribution frcm Jobbing houses.

Work is being done on the
subject of direct contact between
the cattle feeder and Western
producers, as the present method
of dlstributldg feeders is becom-
ing more and more unsatisfac-
tory and losses among cattle pur-
chased at the terminal are in-
creasing yearly. The attention of
the U. S. Department of Agrl
culture has been called to these
problems.

"We are anxiously looking (or

ST. LOUIS DISTRICT

MARKETING PLAN IS

PROPOSED^AT MEET

E. B. Heaton, of A. F. B. F.,

Heads Committee For

Dairy Co-operation

At a meeting of the milk pro-
ducers" advisory committee of
the St. Louis district, held at
East St. Louis, E. B. Heaton,
Director of Dairj- Marketing for
the A. P. B. P., was elected
chairman and A. E. Richardson
secretary. The other members
of the committee are :

Geo. A. Fox, Secretary of ' the
Illinois Agricultural Association;
John L. Boland, President ot the
Missouri Farm Bureau Federation;
Pearlie Haycraft, President ot the
Southern Illinois Milk Producers"
Association.

Mr. Heaton presented the fol-
lowing plan as the basis for re-
organizing the district for the co-
operative distrlbtttton of dairy
products:

fhi' ,?"!""."'« property standing of
MMi, '«""i'° ", Missouri Co-operative
.Milk Marketing Company be main-

i?A?r',''*', ""■ '*'"« "' preferred
3lock to farmer creditors

:;. That all directors of the mar-
keting company submit their reslg-
"", "'„ '" ""= committee.

... "''a' ^h* country receivinB
station property of thj marketinf -
company be sold to local co-opera-
tive associations.

4. That a Held organizer be em-
fo 'l^,^!,'"',,"'^ marketing company
to look after the prop-rty of the
company and to assist in the for!
miition of local associa^tlons, etc.
ateiv ..11." i'"?^''.™'^"* •'e Immedl-
fhe form.,',"' 'r'""S^ forward to
nront T .'T °', ^ non-stock, non-

£t.°''Lo'u?»'^?,'is?rt?-^."7ha't"t'h11

(a) The formation of local co-
eperatlve non-stock and non-prSflt

fn'?hl*"l'^",' ,\' t" Shipping Po"?8
In the district having a minimum

/bi'-rl ."'*';'' pounds of mik
Shall bu5 or K°.f,*' associations
snail buy or build or purchase a

LT.e" S^e*".? property o? suf^i'ent
. '". receive snd In emercencie!.

?^ 'Thi"'!" ".' """■• ^^^b7rl
HI The local association shall

iiri.v.iiz^t ""^"^ *° «--'■<>

ha'.^' .p*'.o!.°a?Urc'^J?i'-'- „«S«'l
hers sign an enforceable conh-art.
J-ong the provisions In whlch*8hali

<1) A provision that when 7^;
per cent of the total milk nro
duced In the St. Louis district °s
wi'^h^'Id^nH '," ""r'"^"- assocra^onS
;. e mMw ^"'. ■'"""■a-;"' the title to
1 Ti "5 '^ '° pass and thfe milk
.'cl vered to the central non-stock
and non-t.roflt association to be
created.

(2) A provision also that when
the central association begins to
function that the local association
must lease the local building and
real estate to the central associa-
tion, the central association to own
all equipment.

(31 A provision that a commit-
tee composed of all the farm ad-
visers and county agents ot the «t.
Louis district. Bhall determine when
75 per cent of the total milk In the
district i« represented by contracts
with local associations. ^

(4) Until a. new marketing asso-
ciation la criated the Southern Illi-
nois Milk Producers Association
shall bargain Vith the dealers for
the sale of the milk in the district.

fS) When the new marketing as-
sociation is created it shall tnter
into contract with the Illinois-Mis-
souri Co-operative Milk Marketing
Company for use of the property of
that company yith the understand-
ing th?t Its property may be ab-
sorbed by the new company or made
a subsidiary.

i

June

suggestions wherein this Depart-
ment may be of benefit to the
producer," says one of the bulle-
tins from the I. A. A. Live Stock
Marketing Department. "If yon
have any problems, send them in.
If this Depai;tment cannot help
you solve them, it may be pos-
sible to place you In contact with
some agency which can be of as-
sistance. We want all the live
stock interests of the State to
realize and appreciate that this
Department has been created for
the sole purpose of assisting the
producer, particularly with h'" '
marketing problems."

./

i

lune 1,1923 ¥ June 1. 1923

The Illinots Agricalturai Aasodation Record

!

ISTRICT
PUN IS
AT MEET

f A. F. B. F.,

littee Fop
)eration

the milk pro- '
committee of :
trict, lield at
!. B. Heaton,
Marketing for
, was elected
K. Richardson
ther members
re: .^

cretary of the
1 Association;
■esident ot the
!au Federation;
resident of the
ilillt Producers"

ented the fol-

I basis for re- !
•ict for the co- H
ion of dairy

rty standing of
•i Co-operative
pany be main-
- of preferred

II tors.

>rs of the mar-
nit their resig--
ittee.
itry receiving
the marketing "jt
local co-opera- f*

Fanizer be em- i

eting company |

rop-?rty ot the (

1st in the for- I

^Ktiona, etc. \

'rrt be Immedl- '

g forward to '
ion-stock, non-

igency for the 1

ind that this .'

;eed along the •

1 of local CO- I
nd non-profit '
ipping points
" a minimum
ids of mlk

associations
" purchase a
of sufficient
emergencies j
-- members |

oclatlon sliall I
to finance lo- I

Ir

iclatlons shall
eers as mem-
able contract.
In which shall

hat when 75
al milk pro-
ns district is
r associations
ts the title to
and thfe milk
ral non-stock
iatlon to be

so that when I

on begins to I

al association I

building and }

ntral associa- >

'iatlon to own I

at a commit- i

the farm ad- l".

nta of the St. ■'.

termlne when »'

al milk In the ]

t by contracts i

B. "

irkcting asso-
Southern Illl-
I Association
»e dealers for
n the district,
marketing aa-
t shall *nter
? Illinoja-Mls-
ilk Marketlns
le property of
understand-
Tnay be ab-
npany or mada

this Depart-
eneflt to the

ot the bulle-
V. Live Stock
nt. "It you
lend them in.

cannot help
may be pos-

contact with
:an be ot aa-

all the lire
:he State to
te that this
1 created for
assisting the
ly with h'

MANY MEMBERSHIP
CAMPAIGNS UNDER
WAY DURING 1923

Thirteen Counties Complete

.Drives; Wabash County

Signs 1+9.4%

Thirteen Illinois county farm
bureaus have completed mem-
be r s h i p reorganization cain-
paifrns since the firetjjf Janu-
ao', 1923. The.se counties -in-
clude DuPapre, Fulton, Kendall,
Lawrence, Marshall - 'Putnam,
Mason, Pike, Sangamon; Union.
Wabash, Will, Williamson, and
Woodford.

Hieh Record

Of this number, Wabash county
made the best record, 149.4 per
cent of the old membership hav
Ing been signed up. J. P. Lyons,
Livingston county,' was manager
ot the campaign.

Counties that started cam-
paigns between January 1 and
May 1, but which have not made
final reports, are McDonough,
Hancoclc, Pike, Mason, Menard,
Cass, DeWitt, Morgan. Mason,
Boone, Lee, Madison, Ogle, Ad-
ams and Cook.

Four schools of instruction pre-
paratory to campaigns, were held
In May. These were held In Bu-
reau, LaSalle, Douglas, and Ford
counties.

June Campaigns

Stark, Winnebago, Carroll and
Marion county farm bureaus will
start campaigns in June, while
Jackson, Franklin, Pulaski, St.
Clair, Scott, Richland, and John-
son counties have schools plan-
ned for later in the season. Sev-
eral other counties will probably
be added to this list when they
complete plans.

$100,000 Plant, $102,000
860 Members— that's

Business,
Co-operation!

*'Co-op" Marketing
Highly Commended
By Henry Wallace

"When we get down to the
principles of co-operative market-
ing," said Secretary of Agricul-
ture Henry C. Wallace recently,
after an extensive trip into the
South to study late developments
in commodity co-operative mar-
keting, "it is simply a matter of
applied Christianity."

"In years past, we have had in
operation a number of what we
call co-operative marketing or-
ganizations. We started out in
the old days with creamery as-
soclations, etc., but we have
learned by the experience ot the
past two years that these old
fashioned organizations were
founded on the wrong principles
ot marketing.

"We know now that we must
improve the economics ot mar-
keting. Where the old-fashioned
organizations saved pennies, the
present organizations are saving
dimes and dollars.

"It is through this kind ot co-
operative marketing that the
farmers of America are to get an
a sound economic footing and en-
Joy a standard of living equal to
that ot workers of other indus-
tries."

Page 3

rrs VALUABLE!

DONT misc the K A. A.
State Picnic to ba held at
Urban*. June 29. It is more
than a mere outing. It Is in-
structional and educatlonad.

Fof it offers a chance to
take In 4he University Open
House and see what the Col-
lege of Agriculture Is doing
for the advancement fef far?n-
ing. It presents addresses by
speakers who have a neat mes-
sage for farmers. \

It was almost twelve years ago — the summer of 1911, to be
exact — that housewives in the south side of the city of Wau-
ke^an went on the war-path against private milk dealers, claim-
ing that tht product was of poor quality and too high in price.
Today, as a result of that action, Waukegan has a producers-
consumers eo-oporative association that did a business of over
$102,000 in dairj- products alone in 1922, supplies milk to over
1,200 Waukegan families, handles one-fourth of the fluid milk
trade of the city, and has property valued at nearly $100,000.
The name ot the organization is the Co-operative Trading Com-
pany, one of the best examples of true co-operation in Illinois. It
has nearly 800 consumers and about 60 farmer shareholders at pres-
ent. Organizers of the co-operative were Finns, but the majority ot
the membership is now composed of other nationalities.

-J

A survey made of over 6,000
representative farms by the De-
partment ot Agriculture shows
that a return of $917 was made
for the use ot $16,400 ot capital
and the labor of his family during
the year 1922.

The growth of the company
has been slow but steady. When
organized in 1911 with 120 con-
sumer - shareholders, its begin-
nings were very modest. Milk
was first distributed from the
basement of a residence on Cum-
mings avenue, Waukegan, for
about a year, /when a building
was erected ' on McAllister ave-
nue. A co-operative grocery
store of the company was estab-
lished on the ground floor of the
structure and the milk business
was handled in the basement.

Enlarge .-Accommodations

The addition of a meat depart-
ment and the growth ot business
during the years that followed
the establishment of the co-oper-
ative made an enlargement of ac
commodations essential. For this
reason, a $30,000 addition' was
completed in April, 1922, to
bouse the dairy equipment and
sales department.

Dairy fixtures and machinery
were added to the new addition
at a cost of over $21,000, and
comprise the most up-to-date and
sanitary equipment for the effi-
cient handling of dairy products.
The equipment Includes a refrig-
eration plant, pasteurization and
clarification machinery, bottle fil-
ler and capper, churn, and other
necessities of a modern dairy
plant

I. A. A. Helps

With the enlargement in the
spring of 1922, the consumer co-
operators decided to sell shares
of stock to farmers who supplied
milk to the cOmpany to allow
them to secure the benefits of
co^)peration. The Dairy Market-
ing Department of the I. A. A.
was secured to serve in an ad-
visory capacity when this step
was taken. A satisfactory agree-
ment was reached between pro-
ducers and consumers.
The Plan

The agreement reached stipu-
lated that the farmers should
subscribe tor sufficient capital
stock to cover the dairy invest-

ment. It guaranteed the farmer
a satisfactory basic price for his
milk. It was further agreed that
the profits from the dairj- de-
partment should be pro-rated
back to the producprs and con-
sumers In proportion to the price
received by the producers and
paid by the consumers for milk,
respectively.

The association is capitalized
at $30,000. Members may pur-
chase shares costing $10. No in-
dividual may hold over 10 shares
of company stock. Six per cent
interest was paid on all shares in
1922. Prior to that, five per
cent was the dividend paid. The
present, prosperous condition of
the company indicates that the
higher rat^ ot dividend will pre-
vail henceforth.

*In addition to the dividend,
consumer-shareholders receive a
five per cent rebate on all pur-
chases. For example, if a .mem-
ber purchases goods to the value
of $1,000 during the year, he re-
ceives $50 rebate at the end of
the year. At the present time,
this rebate is given in shares to
members who own less than 10
shares of stock. This is done in
order to provide the company
with sufiicient working capital to
allow expansion.

It is interesting to note that
comparatively little capital stock
has actually been sold to mem-
bers, most of it having l)een pur-
chased through dividing members'
profits into shares. ' :

The general plan of the Co-op-
erative Trading Company is
based upon the Rochdale system
which originated in England

nearly a hundred years ago.

t ■
Farmers* Share

Producer-members who supply
the company with milk receive a
pro rata share in the dairy prof-
its besides their stock dividends.
In 1922, this sum amounted to
$1,000, which, when divided
among the thirty farmer-mem-
bers of last year, added five cents
per hundred pounds of milk sold

np HIS picture shows the head-
* quarters of the Co-operative
Trading Company at Waukegan —
the only producer-consumer concern
in lllinoiB. When first formed in
1911 it was a co-operative buying
association for consumers only.
Last year milk producers in the
Waukegan district were admitted
to share in the benefits of the com-
pany and the Dairy Marketing De-
partment of the I. A. A. helped to
work out the plans for thia.<new
feature of the organization. The
building contains the grocery, meat
market, and modern' dairy plant of
the Co-operative,

during the year. Some rfeceived
as high Its $9 5 in rebate.

In addition to the profit-shat--
Ing- benefits of the company,
farmer-raembers found it to their
advantage to sell to the co-oper-
ative during 1922 because they
were paSfl from 10 to" 15 cents
per, hundred pounds more for
their milk than private dealers of
Waukegan w^re payiBg.

At present the company is pay-
ing five cents more per hundred
than other dealers. At the same
time the retail price for milk is
standard for all dealers in tht
city. The price paid to farmer^
marketing in Waukegan averages
about 50 cents more per hundred
than that paid when delivered at
nearby country bottling works of
Chicago dealers. This higher
prioe in IWaukegan is attributed

in 1921.
pdint to
in 1923

i.irgely to the pros»-nc ' «f the
I'o-oporative Tradinc Company.

nesijlps the fluid milk sold and
cream [ retailed, the co o|i4l'atii'e
soils blatter, cottage chi ese. but-
termilk, and chocolat-d milk
from i|s dairy. Only ah>ut T,,n«0
pound^ bf butter is malce month-
ly, ^ jtbare is little pr[>flt in it
with tlje high fluid milk prices.

Durilif: 1922 the sali;« of tfie
orgahiiation were as fallows:
Dairy department. $102,619.19;
grocerj department, $68,422.99;
and meat department, $! 4,778.81.
The surplus tor the reat was
$8,605.95. The iQcrea8< in dairy
sales from year to yeari is mani-
fest by the sales of 1920 vhieb
were , $72, 631. 38, and
$76,108.94. Indications
a still' greater Increase
dairy s^les, as they promise to
total $70,000 "for the Irst. half-
year alone. |

The co-operative has a b«w ga-
rage and barn for trucks, wag-
ons, and horses under {construc-
tion al this time. It |wlU coat
$7.U*0.

The manager. Jack LItikku, re-
ports a generally optimistic buU-
look for the company. Its.steaily
growth in busipess is' bfTBgiUf.
about- a gradual expaiisi(>n. More
milk t>roducer8 are |>«cbming
shareholders as the increase in
sales warrants a large^ supply.
Both producers and consumers
seem well satisfied witb the co-
operative company. Mr. Liukku
has been manager for nearly flv<-
yeara, having charge of all tli»-
departments ot the "co-« >." jTheM
are 20 employes in all.

Officers and director i 'of the
company selected from ihe ranks
of proHucer and consutner-mera-
bers are as- follows for 1923:
president. Vaino F. I>ekto; vic<>
president, Lincoln Egbert; secre-
tary, J. N. Hautala; Elmjer Erick-
son, Richard Maki. P^rt kik
kinen. Mike livarinen, latt Mar-
ti la ant Karl Helander.

J 'I ^ It

Tliki to think of the work of tbe^Farm Bureau Fm-

■* eration as a national undertaking. — as a natioi^l

bletsing. I hortestly believe that by giving agrict^-

ture ne-u; hope and new z'igor we are regenerating tpe

republic. Our work restores the fair trade^balance

between the country and city an4 they prosper po-,

getter. But, most important, perbafyf. from a nattoiial^

point of i'iew, is the 'putting of agriculture on fiiw

business foundations and improxitg the standards

of farm life and thereby insuring the perpetuity of\a

strong and happy rural population in .America. Tve

country will forever feed the city; and the sort pf

people tlte country sends to the city determines life

.kind of a city life we are to have. So, m reviving ai^

invigorating American farm life vie are regeneraiiig

and preserving the Sation. Tbettfore. our watcl

word should be organisation and service.

. ■ — Oray Silver. Fann Bureau repre«^ativ« I
■ - - Washinston, In report to Executive (""oip-
' ^ iTiittee of American Farm Bureau Fed.e
tion.

J.

Page 2

I

« lUinoIs Agricultural Association Record

IlliDoi* Agricultural Association

RECORD

Piihlishfd iwic- a month by .tllP
IliirioK^ AKru-ultunil AasO'-iation.
6'»Jt >onth l'-.irl>orn Sir-i-r. fhj.-;iK".
Iliuiois." KOilt'ti l.y N.-WS f'ljl.ln'ity
Dvpartmt-lLt. L. J. Moiitr<»H4. l>irri-tor.

Entry as, 9*m;oiii( i-^-Sits iiTatt^r <>ft
l'». iy21. at *t1i»- I'osi offi<'-'-' ;.i <;iii-

"■aKO. ifllJlOi*. UIMltT thf ii*-t of

Mnr.-li 3. 1»7d.. Ai'Oiptnnii' for rnnil-

:iiii>if.rlz..l 0.-r. 31

r>< fc.l,.r Tl. M)17.

}i-i>^ '___ ,; ._ _ __ .

KtT«» intliv.'lu.'tl m» nit't-rshj'i* ff- nf
';>»■■ nljiMii^ \i:r,i -i;;! ural A.'iso-ri-
rtoti is-Ji\«- .U'rlrir- a yt-ar. Ttus
'i-p i:'<>hi.l.-i I ,(>T»i • T or tt'i» (.tiTs
■er siihS'Tii"! fi t * 111- illinois Ai;-
•truU-ira A!<?o-;i'i"i. fl.-.'T'l

OKi-'ici;i:s

?fslA.'pV S- H, T!i"n>1-so.j'. Aiii^-y

Mm at sjif'-irrfl'j-at.-S' ni postaK*' pro-
vi'I«hI for iii'.<»!..l).'r. 11";;. \.l

,V.V.-t:.ry ').
rr<-*asui ■•V. U

•..vi;fi TIM <(>M>ii-nKi;

It;' r •imif>-i"ti.il I'i-lrirls

i:i- jirr.rv _M.'i., inii, Mapl'- I'.irk-
th-i'. ^" T- llo. K Uo.kror.!.
.►,— !•. f >■:..•). I-. ro'.ith- l'o;.>,
'I'. ^ «■.'*;. 11 ■(■■ly. r-Ti Uyron.

.ti.-Vi. 1-; <'.,.■■■•,::' u.M'P-'i''-

■'.111 — i;. ':. '-.■•'^r. M-li.Jola.
7l'i — F n ^:t?-t"-'. <'orii*-H-
^th- V. i: .K,r%\- II..f.i>.-st"ii.

lli--T». J I' .^T. rwii->. Satlorus.

th— Karl J. .-iiiKh. l>-tr"it.
Idt" I-:. U (•■iri.'ii. Carl'iu iti'-.
;?t.<l — St-.iiil.-v I'-isti.'. AIto.B.
Tlr>l— >:arlto^i Trill I'll-. Trimbl".
4tli -*"(irl An.i*-rsoM. Xi-T.ia.
5th — V.TTion L»-snlfy. Sparta.

Direrfnr* i>f nci>ariiiienls,
I. A. A. Ofllre

ti**noral Om.-e an.i Assistant to h'-'--
loturv J. IV M.vriMr. Ki- M Oreani::-
tt J «'. Sailor: < irnan ization >*u'>-
iji.-ity '';. K M.-4ZKfr. N»-ws I'liMn--
itv. I- J. MoTitr.fcs; Tr:niSi>orl:a i'»n.
, J <J«as.-y; Statist!, s, J C. Wat-
son KtnaM''*. K. A ("owlcs: Kriiil
[111 WicftaM** MarkttiiiK <" , K
! inrst : Liv.- Sti»ck Market :ns. C. A.
:t<-w;irt. Hairy M:»rk»-t inii. A. I>.
jLvii'!! : Phosphatr l.init <t«.iif. J. U.
B',-nt T.« .inl. .N>wtnn J.-nkin!*-

SIDNEY ANDERSON
SLATED TO SPEAK
AT I. A. A. PICNIC

<».'ontiP(i«'i trinii

",<

farm transportation. Concrpss-
illan A-tui.Tsoii lii'.s tli«' ro^^P'fi ami
dlmiralion of (arim rs all «v.<r the
iDunirVj, He is,"fariiier-iiiindoil."
iiprosvnts an ai;jiciilniral foiisii-
tiiency anil !'.a"s an <n\ iablo n pu-
t^tion as a speaker. He will, brius
real niesaa!;e to the picnic.
Meetings of several of tlio com-
I litters wliicli are planning for the
icriic liu'vi' bPin held litirins; the
1 1 St lwi> we«'ks.

■\rranj;enients have beea^mado

devote a part of the proipram,

IHSsihly on tlie evenins; prededin--

picnic, to the rural iHinisters

Illinois. .\ nuhilw^r of pastors

riive already niydo arrangenients

conie.^ 1

The* ;;rounds ooir.nii|teft has

irted ii.s work at Crystal Lake

irk'. , .Vrran^ements are hein^

ttadP for the parking of cars and

£[r the ljorseslic>e piteliini.- courts.

Castle Is New
Member of I. A. A.
Executive Body

'Stanley Ca-stie. .-Mton. president
.the Madison County Kami Hu
fjau, is the liow niemb--r of the
A. .\. Executive Coniitiltlee
itti (>«• 22nd District to succeed
P' i-d yauinberi-'er. Fieno. wh^h re-
si ;ned in .\pril.

.Mr. Castle was itlected, to the
psitiiV w the voting dpietates
o' the district at a meetins: at
Eist St. l.ouis in May. He is
a prominent grain farmer of
IHiidison county and an out.-itand-
; irj: worker for the farnx bureau.
L':d-n his leaddrsliip the lladi-
scii County Farm Bureau ha.s de-
\, v« oped into one of the strontest
aifil most 'successful county or-
S;l lizations Ud lUinois.

/. A. A.^ Has Department To Solve
1 Producers' Live Stock Problems

Trt keeping with iit.s aim to liiriii><h .sorviop to farm Imreaii

meirtliers'in all iiiiportaiil

iioi

|)liases--iif Illinois airric-iiltiiie. Hie [11
Ai.'i'iei:ltiiral Assdciatiiiiu lias fi'oin tlie start iiiaiiitaiiieil a
LiviJ Stock MiirUetii'iir l)i'| urtiin'iit. ('uiitiiuiiii;: the policy laid
iliiwli iliiriii^' ♦lie tirM t.wo. .vears of the operation of'tliis depart-
miiil. the work liasliee^ iliviileil into tliree <:eiieral lines of ae-
llvillies :': tiV't. live shick Uii rketini;: seeoipl. tlie wool iiool ; thii'il,
•_'ein ral iietivities. I

li> far ihe most ilnpoiMant work is in the division of live stock
ilKuketini:. Here tvii aueucies eiili-r lar.i-'ely into co-operative niar-
ketiij-. ;"irs1. tlierp i(rB irte •*■'''» cotinminities of the State which are

June 1, 1923

S4'rv(|d .by loeiil co-op<*rativi>

terininal inarLkeis in vthi^h II linois shippers are most interested. Oii-

ei'ssf.i! prothirerowin
under a natimial pkiii

Tti.
,V. I.
nior.t
both
laaik
ory
main
sent
and
tion
iims

l!.i-i .'^1. I.imis, Imliaika

I Iliad

hipping associations. Second, tlu- four

olis and Peoria, are now served by suc-
op, 'rated Selling agencies fmictiouiii,.

[. A.

lip of: l|l,1

vo .Slock .Markeljijit; f)ijpart
toiliese nip.rketink a^ei^cies,
I

oeal and at . tpe tqriliinal
Is. is l:ir:;ely of an' ;«ilvis-
^ir c'lnsiillinu n:i|ure iand is
lined b> bi-morithly bitters
ro 1,1, e boards Of directors

::ivenl

inus

inin.u

;)f which Ci
It). pii»st

i.jiiKi:.! IS ef all the asaocia-
and '-ilso by meajus of i^ieet-
alt' iided direotit by C. A.
Stewirt. Director of the' pet>art-
mentl I .1

.Ml possible info^-matiloil is
botli by mail aid at' ilieet-
and sucttcstio a are i«ade.
Itiu lliisiness |><>iie
Mapy of the larger local tehip-
associations of !lllin(>i;f do
a yeiirly business of from $pnn.-'
01)0 lo $150,000. while somje of
tlie 1 arrest have handled busi-
ne.sB |to the extent olf $50i).iiOll
annuilly. The four ti-niinal
marki;ts in which HHnois i4 in-.
terest|cd reci'ive U|i ti) forty[ per
cent i)f thejr total re^ieipts from
shippinu associations. ' fully ihalf
conies from this utiite.
communitiei seryefi by
shippijni; associafions, ' the .isso-
riatio^i ranks in amount of busi-
ness (lone as the most important
businiss in the comm(inHy. The
I. .\. A, Live Stock i MarkeitinK
Departi^ent. thereforo. has I al-
ways advocated the ijse (if ^ ^he
most riffective business! principles
and ttiPthods. The Oepartitient
reconi nends that assooiailonsi in-
corporate and assist thpm in that
respect, as incorporation syives a
standi iK as aii orj-'anization and
liability of 'members, ;
Department alBo ' re<feni-
bondini; of niana.qern and
einploi-eB handlinK funds and ad-
vocatep the best methods of ae-
countift.c. ■;

iteiioris .Asked
Ueosnizinj; that one of the
trenieudous problems, affectine
the juosjierity of the' Illinois live
industry is the inabilitT to
EC receipts at the terminal
markets, the Department has ask
ed reports from local shipping as-
sociations at frequ»-nt intervals. iVi
order to work toward a program
of preventing.' fli^ftuatlon in re-

limits

The

liieads

stock
stabil

ceipts

and the accompanying fluc-

tuation in prices.

In "o-operation with the Ex
tensioi Service of the College of
.\griciilture. schools oif instruc-
tion for associations ' are held
from ;iine to time iii difterent
parts of the .state. " At these
.school; the most efBcient methpds
of hai dling live stock, methods
of (^r; aiiization and !other in-
iformat on of benefit is given out.

Whi « the Live St-ock .Market-
ing Department and thi .1. A. A.
in general took a prominent part
in the lettin.g up and financin-. of
the foir live stock conirais.slon
firms in which Illinois fan.<er:,
are most interested, no official
connection is any longer main-

tained with them. Thi»y are dis-
tinct organizations. .\llhoU'-li they
do ^ot place a premiiini upon
Farm fSureau membership, it is
a recognized fact tkat most of
their support conies from farm
bureau members and shi|iping as-
sociations alliliated with the
movement, and it is to the ad-
vantage of both that close rela-
tions he maintained.* The De-
partment, therefore, keeps as
closely in touch with the four
sellin.g, agencies as possible.

<\>iiiplaints Filed

The Departnient. however,
always representing foremost the
producers and local shipping as
sociations. In all questions wliicli
arise they may depend U[)on the
Departnient for all possible as-
sistance. This is especially true
in complaints filed ngaisst old
line companies or the Producers.
Many times, because of the inti
mate knowledge which the De.
jiartment has of terminal mar
kitting methoits, satisfactory ex
plaiuition can be offered without
further investigation. At other
^tiines such complaints have led
to an investigation which result-
ed beneficially to all pailies cod-
o'rned.

The \V<KiI h'ool

The I. A. A. wool pool, han-
dled by the Live Stock .Market-
ing Department, has been in op
eration live years and has gone
through many of the vicissitudes
which accompany the develop
ment of any new enterprise
From this experience an' effective
plan has been devised, A con
tract ii now entered into with
the National Wool Warehouse
and Stiu-age Company, of Chicago
authorfting them to act as de-
pository and selling agency for
Illinois wools, Illinois producers
are thus able to have the advan-
tages of marketing their wool
with the 7, 000, 000. to 27,000,000
pounds marketed yearly from
other states. This large scale
handling has meant a distinct
saving.

Early each year the Depart-
ment enters into contracts for
sacks and twine so as not to lose
on a possible rise in the market^,-

Watch Gratline

.\ representative of the Depart-
ment watches the grading of the
woo! at the warehouse as closely
as possible, even though there is
no doubt of the reliability of the
graders. The Department is con-
sulted before any sale of wool is
niade and in cases there is any
doubt as to what decision should
be made the owners of the wool
are consulted. ^

Despite the fact that the pool
has been operating in the fluctua-
tions of the post-war fluctuation
period, questionnaires from the
counties have shown that every
year pool prices have generally
been higher than local prices.

ST, LOUIS DISTRICT
MARKETING PLAN IS
PROPOSED AT MEET

E.

C, A, STEWART

A rapid advance in wool dur-
ing -jfhe fail of 1921. after the
pool had been sold, resulted in
some dissatisfaction. This ad-
vance, however, was n"t Justified
by iirevailing conditions and
there was no way to forecast it.
Sale of UlaiikeiM

In 1920 and 1921 the Depart-
ment, in order to And an outlet
for wool at a time of iioor de-
mand, had thousands of pounds
made into blankets to be sold to
members at cost. This realized
growers a higher Hrice than they
could otherwi.se have obtained at
the time and furnished blankets
at a figure comparable to city
wholesale prices, saving the buy-
er, too. Some of these blankets
are still on hand and are^being
distributed by the Department.
(ieneral rr(>.iecls

The general activities of the
Department include various mat-
ters in which producers over the
State are interested. lAvi stock,
freight rates are handb d by the
I. A. A. Live ' Stock and Trans-
portation Departments, co-operat-
ing. An active part has lieen
taken in an attempt to get a re-
duction on mixed shipment rale«.

The Department has filed an
application with the TariH Com-
mission for the reduction of the
exorbitant tarjft on 'Canadian cat-
tle. This move was prompted by
protests from Illinois feeders.

The Departpient workf with
countii s which! are handling hog
cholera serum and virus for mem-
bers, being represented on the
committee which recommended to
counties the company best fitted
tor handling the Illinois bust
uess. A number of conferences
have beeii held with the State
■Veterinarian on farmer vaccina-
tion. The Departnient is repre-
.sented, with farm bureaus, the
University and the State Depart
ment of .V^riculture on a com
mittee working out a plan for a
better distribution in Illinois of
serum and virus, especially as to
distribution from jobbing houses

Work is being done on the
subject "of direct contact between
the cattjie feeder and Western
producers, as the present method
of distributing feeders is becom-
ing more and more unsatisfac-
tory and losses among cattle pur-
chased at the terminal are in-
creasing yearly. -The attention of
the U. S. Department of Agri
culture has been called to these
problems.

"We are an.\|ousIy looking for

■ ' i >.

B. Heaton. of A. f . B. F.,

.Heads Committee For
Dairy Co-operation

At a nieetin? of the iiiHk pro-
iliieers' advisory comiiiittee of
the St. Louis district, lu-ld at
Kiist St. Louis, E. B. Heatoiij,
Dui'-luf of Dairy .Markelinn f(,r
the A. V. B. F.. wa.s cleeted
eliairnian and A, K, liidiardson
seeretar-y. Tlic otlhT ineniliers
of tlie eominiitee are :

Ceo. A. Fox, Secretary of the
Illinois Agricultural Association;
•lolni L. liol.ind. President of the
.Missouri Farm Hureau Fcileration;
Piarlic Hayoi-aft. President of the
Sonihein Illinois .Milk Producers'
.\ssociation.

'ilr. Heatoii presented Ihe fol-
lowing jilan as the basis tor re-
orgunizing the district for the co-
oiierativ'e distribution of .dairy
liroducts:

,i'' ,?!''^'. """ property standing of
vVIi, ■'',"";'" -. ■'^''ssourl Co-operative
.v.ilk Mark.[i„K Company 1.,- maiii-
..iiriiil l.y 11,,. Issue of preferred
.-lo.-k.to laniier ereditors.

-'- riial all lUreetors of the mar
k-liiim lotnpany sul.mit their rosiir-
iiajioM.s to th,- eommiltee.

■'.. Tiiat the eoutilry rert.jvine
.-'atioti property of the markctiiiS
■ompaiiy l„..aold to local eo-opt-ra-
I.V.- a.saoclatjong.

i.i.tv .,''"'',■■'' "', "el'l- organizer he em-
.lo>,.,l l.y the niarketine .-ompnny
looK.atl.-r the proji-rty of the
'on.pany ami to Ji.ssisl in the for-
mation of loial assoeiatlons. etc

ateiv stall '■'i"'?'''w""' ''^' 'mnieili-
ai. l> start.-.l looking forwanl to

,-ri, "■"'"?;""!' "'■ ■■'■ non-stoek. noa-
S I o'n'ii-""".'- r".'"-" "Kcney for Iho
'n nv, ,'o I "s riel and that this--

••'.lloul'ng IhlV^'s: '"■'"'''"•' ^'"""^ "■«.:
lai Th.i formation of local ro- "
• litr.ative non-stoek and non-profit
issm-latmns at all shipping points
^ the ., strut having a minimum

, I ;■ '^i ""*"";'' pounds of mik
Phall iTll''^" 'ocal asso,riation»
r, '?l,ii, ' * "r '■"'"' "■" Pur!-h.aj,e a
si. o*",""'-' '^rop^rty of sumrient

istLe i.ri.r"... '"V. "^''O'-iation shall

-.i-fn!-'."::,™?;;;'. ""•■'' "■ «"»"« ■»•

h-i'v'e ih'",.'"i.,''^'i*' =>»S''clations shall
i.ne the lo.al prodnrera as mpni-
l.ers sien an enforreal.le eontraet
(■p. "»^ the provision.s In. which shall
III A provision that when -I
i eevi" !'„' ::' 'J'.'' ,"""' "'ilk pro-

v h 'li „i 1 »™"="- associations
mil iri.nti.-al contracts the title to

■•.iiK"r'ea ;^ ',", ^'""' ""'' 'h'- "lilk
-1 1 nnn i^ofl '* central non-stock
.11111 iion-profli assoeiatlon to be

iTe.atefl.

(2) A provision also that when
till- central association hoBins to
1 unction that the local association
niii-jt base the local liiiildlnc anij
r.-al estate to the central .associa-
tion, the central association to own
all etiniptnent.

(■<< A provision that a commit-
tee conipoacd of all the farm ail-
viscrij and county asrents of the St.
l.ouis district. Bhall dctcrnirnc when
.1 per cent of the total milk in the
ihstrict is represented by contracts
with local associations.

14) Fntil a new markotinff asso-
ciation is created the Southern Illl-
nriis Milk iVodiicers Association
■iliaM liari-'am with the dealer!! for
tlie sale of the milk in the district.

iro When the new marketing as-
sociation is created it shall enter
into contract, with the Illinois-Mis-
souri Co-opurjitlve Milk Marketlne
Company for pse of the property of
tliat companyiwith the understand-
ing: that its property may he ab-
sorbed by the new company or made
.a subsidiary.

suggestions wherein this Depart-
ment may be of benefit to the
producer," says one of the bulle-
tins from the I. A. A. Live Stock
Marketing Department. "If you
have any problems, send them in.
Jf this Departtaent cannot help
you solve them, it may be pos-
sible to place you in contact with
some agency which can be of as-
sistance. We want all the live
stock interests of the State to
realize and appreciate that this
Department has been created for
the sole purpose of assisting the
producer, particularly with h''
marketing problems,"

MA
it

Tlii
bure;
h.

p;ii-i

arv.

clnde

Laui

Ma

Walii

ft'.

>une 1, 1923

IISTRICT
I PLAN IS
AT MEET

f A. f . B. F.,

littee For
|)eration

the iiiHk pro-
coiiiiiiiltce of
•tiiit, held at
^. n. ll.'atoii,
Mjirli.'iiiijr fur
.. was clci-tiMl
v.. liic-liiirdson

itlltT nU'llllllTS

ro:

eretary of the
il AFscoiation;
rcsid' nt of the
•uu Fdleration;
'resident of the
Milk Producers'

iented ihe fol-
3 basis for re-
riet for the co-
tion of dairy

rty stanilinc of
ri ro-oiH-rativ.'
ipiiiiy 1.1- maiii-
•■ of prifprnd
ilitors.

urs of Iho mar
nit thfir resitr-
itti-...

ntry ri'D'ivine
till' niarlO'tini;
local fo-op*'ra^

ganizpr I.e em-
:«'tiin? comt^iiy
Top'-rty of ttie
'St in the for-
fiatlons. etc.
"nt Ipf imnu-ili-
ifr forward to
non-stork, non-
nnoniy for the
an.l tliat this^
feed along the

n of J.>c al ro- "
and non-profit
hippipK points
ip a minimum
■ nds of mlk

asso,ciation«
or purcha^ti a
y of Hufflclpnt
n t-mcrprncies
*\r mombers.
i'oriation aliall
to finance lo- .

fioiations shall

irira as mem-

^ahlt' rontrart

in which shall

Ihat when 75
tal milk pro-
"Is district in

r associations
■ts the title to

and thl- milk
tra! non-stock
fiation to be

Iso that -when
on bef^ins to
al association
buildlne and
ntral associa-

ciation to own

lat a commit-
the farm ad-
epts of the St.
rmtno when
al milk in the
1 by contracts

IS.

arketinfir asso-
Southern 1111-
I Association
I'- dealers for

in the district.

marketinpr as-
it shall enter

Illinois-Mis-
ilk Marketing
he property of

understand-

may be ab-

mpafty or made

this Depart-
eneflt to the
of the buUe-
A. Live Stock
'nt. "If you
send them in.
cannot help
may be pos-
contact with
can be of as-
all the live
the State to
tte that this
I created for
assisting the
ly with b'' ■

June 1, 1923

The niinoU Agricultural Association Record

MANY MEMBERSHIP
CAMPAIGNS UNDER
WAY DURING 1923

Thirteen Counties Complete

Drives; Wabash County

Signs 149.4%

Tliii-tw'i Illinois cniint.v farm
buivaiis have iMiiii|ili'ti'il iiviii-
hirrship n'Ori.'iiiii/iiti(in cam-
paiL'ii>; since the first of .laiiii-
ar.v. 1:12:!. Tliese I'oiinties iii-
cliiil.' Diil'affe, Fulton. Kenilall.
Lawrenee. Mai-shall - I'litnani.
Mason. I'ilie, Saiij;ainon. t'liion.
Wabash, Will, Williamson, nnd

iV:.o,ll-.)r<l.

Ilich liet'ord

Of this nuiiibor. Waliasli county
made the best record. 149.4 i>er
cent of the old membership liav-
int .been signed up. J. P. Lyons.
LivinKston county, was manager
'of the campaiKn.

Countie.s that .started can>
pai.^ns between January 1 and
May 1, but which have not made
iina! reports, are McDonough.
Hancock, Pike, .Mason. .Menard,
Cass, DeWitt, Morgan, . Mason.
Boone. Lee, Madison, Ocle, Ad-
an>8 and Cook.

Four schools of instruction pre-
paratory to campaigns, were held
in .May. These were held in Bu-
reau, I.aSalle, Douglas, and I'ord
counties.

4une Campaiuns

Stark, Winnebago, Carroll and
Marion county farm bureaus will
start campaigns in June, while
Jackson, Franklin, Pulaski, St.
Clair, Scott, Iticbland, and John-
ton counties have schools plan-
ned for later in the season. Sev-
eral other counties will probably
be added to this list when they
complete plans.

"Co-op" Marketing
Highly Commended
By Henry Wallace

"When we get down to the
principles of co-operative market-
ing," said Secretary of Agricul-
ture Henry C. Wallaci^ recently,
after an e.xtensive trip into the
South to study late developments
in commodity co-operative mar-
keting, "it is simplv a matter of
applied Christianity."

"In years past, we have had in
operation a number of what we
call co-operative marketing or-
ganizations. We started out in
the old days with creamery as
sociations, etc, but we have
learned by the experience of the
past two years that these old
fashioned organizations were
founded on the wrong principles
of marketing.

"We knoy now that we must
improve the economics of mar-
keting. Where the oW-fashioned
organizations saved pennies, the
present organizations are saving
dimes and dollars.

"It is through this kind of co-
operative marketing that the
'farmers of America are to get an
a sound economic footing and en-
joy a standard of living equal to
that of workers, of other indus-
tries."

A survey made of over 6,000
representative faYms by the De-
partment of Agriculture shows
that a return of $917 was made
for the use of $16,400 of capital
and the labor of his family during
the year 1922.

$100,000 Plant, $102,000 Business,
, 560 Members — that's Co-operation!

Page 3

ITS VALUABLE!

DdlWT miss the
ptate Picnic to b ^
UrbaLa. June 29. It

thin

-fi:

struc tonal and educa

Fo'l it ofTffrs a c lan^ to
tHkt tt> ' the Univers ty I Open

Hau^ and see what
bf Agriculture
l^e advancement

It was almost twelve years rtpi — the sniiinier oi 1:')1, r.o !"•
<-\aet — that housewives in the sontli siil.- of tlie eit.\^ of Waii-
ke^'an went oir the war-path airaiiist private milk dealers, claim-
ing' that the product was of poor (iiialit,v and too hijrh in price.
Toda.v; as a result of that action. Waiikciran has a prodiicers-
consuiiiers co-op, rat ive association that did a husiness' of over
>^l(l"J.(l!in ill dairy products alone in l!t22, siijiplies milk; trii over
l.".^()0 Waukef-'an families, handles one-t'ourll! of the Htiid inilk
trade of the cit.v. aiuf has projiert.v valued at nearly IJ^IW.IKK).
The name of the organization is the Co-operative Trading Com-
iiany, one of the best examples of true co-operation in Illinois. It
has nearly SOO consumers and about 6<i farmer shareholders at pres-
ent. Organizers of the co-operative were l-^inns, but the majority of
the membership is now- composed of other nationalities.

TH
QL

The growtli of the company
has been slow but steady. When
organized in ftl'll with 120 con
sumer - shareholders, its begin-
nings were very modest. Milk
•>va.. flrst di.Htributed fronj the
basement of a residence on Cum
niings avenue, Waukegan. for
about a year, when a buildinf;
was erected on McAllister ave
nue. A co-operative grocery
store of the comi>any was estab-
lished on the ground floor of the
structure ahd the milk business
was handled in the basement.

Kniarge .Accommodations

The addition of a meat depart-
ment and the growth of business
during the years that followed
the establishment of the co-o|>er
ative made an enlargement of ac
commodations essential. For tlnJ
reason, a $30,000 addition w.as
completed in April, l!i22, to
house the daiiy equipment and
saica department.

Dairy fixtures and machinery
were added to the new addition
at a cost of, over $21,000. and
comprise the most up-to-date and
sanitary equipment for ^he effi-
cient handling of dairy products.
The equipmeiit incl-udes a refrig-
eration plant,^ pasteurization and
clarification njachinery, bottle fil-
ler and Capper, churn, and other
necessities of a modern dairy
plant.

I. A. A. Helps

With the enlargement in the
spring of 1922, the consumer co-
opt^rators decided to sell shares
of stock to farmers who sujiplied
milk to the compan.v t.o allow
them to secure the ' benefits of
co-operation. The Dairy .Market-
ing Department- of the I. A. A.
was secured to serve In an ad-
visory capacity when, this step
was taken. .\ satisfactory agree-
ment was reached between pro-
ducers and consumers.
The Plan

The agreement reached stipu-
lated that the farmers should
subscribe for suQicient capital
stock to cover the dairy invest-

ment. It guaranteed the farni'T
a Satisfactory basic price fpr h\i
milk. It was further agret^i tliat
the profits from the dairy de-
partment should be pni-rated
hnek to th,e produe*-r* nrd con-
sumers in proportion to thq price
received by the producer!! I and
paid by the consumers for^ jiillk.
resj>ectively. ] ' »

The association is- capijajlized
at $30,000. Members ma^ lUir-
chase shares costing $10. Kt» in-
dividual may hold over 10 shares
of company stock. Six per cent
intt.'rest was paid ctn.all shares in
1922. Prior to that, fivie per
cent was the dividend paid. Th<-
present prosperous condition of
the company indicates th^t the
higher rate of dividend will pre-
vail henceforth.

In addition to the diviidend,
consumer-shareholders receiive a
five per cent rebate on al| pur-
chases. For example, if a mem-
ber purchases goods to the ' value
of $1,000 during t^ie year, |ie re-
reives $50 rebate \at tlie eind of
the year. At the present time,
this rebate is given in isharos to
members who own less thlin
shares of Mock. This is dom
order to. provide the coitipany
with sulhcient working fcapiital to
allow expansion. ■"

It is interesting to noto that
comparatively little capital *«ock
has actually been sold to mem-
bers, most of ir having been Jiur-
ch.ised through dividing memb<rs'

profits into shares.
. I
The genera! plan of the Co-op-
erative Trading Company is
based upon the Rochdale sy.4tem j*'
which originated in Eii.gla'iid
nearly a hundred years agot I

Farinei^' Share
Producer-members who supply
the Qpmpany with milk receive a
pro rata share in the dairy prut-
its besides their stock dividends.
In 1922, this sum antounted to
$1,000, which, when divided
among the thirty fa^-mer-mcm-
bers of last year, added five cents '
per hundred pounds of milk sold 1 1

IS 'Picture snows the nead-
quariers of the. Co-operative
Trading Company at Waukegan —
the only producer-consumer concern
in lllino s. When first formed in
1911 it was a co-operative buying

I association for consumers only.

I L.ast ye*r milk producers in the
Waukegan district were admitted
to share in the, benefits of the com-
pany^ ani the Dairy Marketing De-
partment of the I. A. A. helped to
work out the plans for tihis new
feature O.f the- organizatiDn. The
building icontains the grocery, meat
market, end modern dafry plant of
the Co-operative. r

duVint; (he year. Suifle received
n^ hit'li »s S*!* in rehat**.

In addition to th<' pro6t-shar-
ng l)ei; {tit^. of the company,
tarhier-n emhers found it to th.-ir
lidAiantatc to s«'ll to tin- ca-op»r
atiVe during 192i Ix'cause they
wer.- pad from 30- to 15 Cents
per hutdn-d pounds morv-* for
their mlk than private dea^i'rs of
Wauk>-i.'4n were paying.

ing five

than otii -r deah'

time tht^ retail

standard

At lire Bent tpe company

f pa:

f<nts more i>er luimired

rs. At Xh>\ siini'

price for lailk'is

for all dealers i|ii the

city. Tie price paid to 'farnn rs

marketing in Waukegun ;t\erages

tl cents iiiore |H>r hunitreil

tha,n that paid when d'I:ver*'<l at

nearby cpuntry bottling w<'l"ks of

dealers. This '(iigliei

Waukiegan is attributed

I I

DJrr

org:jni|t^li

Daiij:
giddr '
atid 'ni

Til
$S.«i!ii3

fest I
wert

$T<;jiii

a still

dairy

total

k mere outing.

th4 Col

doing
of Ifarm-

presents add! essfs by

i^rs who have
lor farmers.

a eal mes-

"I

1M-. <.ti<

il'vc Tr.:t!:li:- C.
'L-^ ilie lllll.l' mill

r.ii.lh-d. III.- •-(
tt*T. Vol ;.!;:•* rll
and < ho/-olii^>d
.nt

a I

lt(-s

. niil

J t'lu i Is n;i;r,\ , Oiily i<}

"uil of butf. r is n..t

c-r.
hi;;li

s lili;--; je
flili.l-^'iTll

J^un^'U" <><er sk; AUt

I'l'.'.' rill sal

III

If-'--
d.

111 III. -in.
iiarti:.<nl
dt d.-partnu'iit,.$L^-(J
s^uri.lus for th'
ii>. T*lie increas

sale* Irriiii .vear to yeai

h«ld art
is ' more
It lis -in-
on^l.

If tl--
ni*any.
.sijlil an.l
;i1ive
but

nijlk

Homii
It

ifil m
jitie. .".

$11 !,')

. $1 K

Ihe sab^s of i;
2.5S1.3S. and

jn

i:i|.94. Indications
reat^-r incr.-as«
skiles, as they pl-oir
:u,O»0 tor the prsi
'ir a)9ne.

Tlie|<to-oi.erative has k n*-w ca-

wag

coistr^C'

viji cost

ons,' anjri hoKses under

tion
$7,000.

Tl.
IKirtf
look, r<
gro^tl
abouft
milk
sharl'h
sales
llotti
S"eiq
op<-rtitki

lanag.'r^ Jack L
generally «jptiiii
tile roiupany.'
in Ijusinwsrf* is
i\ gradual expansi^a

roduc<-r» aje
>|tl.-rs a
rraiits

oduc'rs and jiSit
11 satisfied wit: 1 tli
ciimpany. Mf. I

y.-ari

dep

are

Of:

romtiai :
of in i u

h.-rs qit

,presld

^.re.-^UI.

tar.\

SOTj^

kin I

tila k

4d barn for tru -ks

this <inie.

It

has |i"-|i , manager fry i early tiv

aviiif charge
t^i^-tits of the"C<»-o|

mploves in all
lc|-t-s and directorji
l.'cted froui

cer and consiJaKif-iieni

«.s roiuj

r^t, Vaino K. l^^xut

rt, Lincoln y.Jb<
N. H^utala: Klu
l;1rhard Maki.

Mike livarim-n,
nil Karl Helander

r.r th..

f<4l.iws:

i9.ir»:

2i;99;

'a)r< Wits
it) dairy
inani--
which
19tl.
I>^nit to
I5i2:;.
.• to
liair-

ukku, n

istif out-

ts steady ^j

Bi|lllKTi.i. 1

Mor*. I

bedoiuiQg i

the in 7re, ise- in i

a largt; r liupply.

■■i;
er
ri

all th-.
V Thei*.-

<if ih-i
ranks

192:;

\ ic.'
«**cr'-
Kf irk _
' kik-

; lati Mar-

umMA

tSS/Ht;. /| /lOMiNf/f fci'/lVtV thlt

lure ncv hofe and »i<-v vi%iir 0.1 1 ;
reftil>lu' Out z<ork rrfti>ri-i tl\f
ht'lut-cit the ctmnlry ami eil
i^'ther. Rut. most HKi^orlant. f^rHf:
po.nt of' riezi-. it thj futtiiti; <>■'
bii inesi tontidalion$,-and imfriK
oi- liirmiiie and thereby inuinnt:
striDv^ and hapf'V Tttt^l populatU'r
cot{ntr\' uill jorever feed .'.'■<• ^j/i
f'e^ple tffe country sendi to iht
ku^ of d, eity life ue are to kavt
lui^^orjtiiif: Amerieatt farm life

ani preieninf; the Nation.
OTsatiuJJion

void

.ray

Hi or, F:l

V"

Washlnfftou. .Ill r.-; rtj .

initie* of Amoru-ii

ruitio\ .al
>n- ■Rtvin-^ azriril-
I e refreKeyatina J ft'
, an trade haU:^t e

t be\ pro.

'■arm Hwfju lu J-

•iO-

irom ji naii.yi a!

.'.'vrc .(i; fr

ihi,' the utanJaf

■e' ferpetuUiy ol ,1

': .1 tuertea 7 ' e

ttr.J '7e irtrt ^t

'.-. dtlerfr.inei / ^^

. IK ft" .'tIir'.; a id

'Ji are- rr;,e7urati

T fv •■ -Tore o'ur -jsate e-

i. I viee

I i rn. Ituriv&u Fcd« a

■■■-~t

Page 4

The Illinou Agrictiltural AsaodatSon Record

Jane 1, 1923

Two -Week Farm Outings For the City Tots

\

F. B. FOLKS ASKED
TOPLAYJIOSTTO
KIDDIES OF SLUMS

I. A. A. Co-operates For Third

Year In Providing Farm

Outings For Children

' It| mijdity hot down on
Soutl Hhlsted street, in Chi-
casro^ iliirin-r •July and August.
One I lias only to walk through
fhf isnenieiit district thcry on
a s^illry aCternoon to understand
Mhyj io many hahies of the cit.v
die I efore they've ever had a
thanie at life or why so many
ofheif; f»n>w up «tiuited to a life
of pi^ierty or worse.

Bu^ out~ in the country, out in
the ♦;)eu air — even two weeks a
year i if eSuntry life offer a chance
to\otie of these unfortunate "kids
of th(«i slants.

j I. .V. A. Heliiins

The Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciatio 1 has tor the past two years
co-opi rated with the fnited Chari-
ties ff Chlchgo, the city's largest
non-si ctariUn charitable organiz;
tiou, I uid the Cliicago Daily New
tha lirgest i evening newspaper ui
the < ty. to provide two-week out-
ipgs on the (^rm tor as many
jioor i nd destitute city children a.s
lK>asiqle. ■

IB ^he summer of 1921 more
than 800 children were given two-
week outings in the homes of
members of the farm bureaus ind
,'t'^\^. .V, 4- L-ast )eai 500 were
receiv ed. j

Selects Children

Th( United Charities selects the
chjldren and make^ sure that they
art ijorthy. Tljey are given new
clothi^s, carefully examined by a
physician and generally made
brlghi and shining — and sanitary —
for tielr outing. The railroads of
Illinois furnish free fare within a
radius of two hundred miles of
the city.

Th0 mem^^rs Of the 1. A. A. apd
the cjounty (arm bureaus are in-
vited I to take one or more of
these I kiddies, who range in age
from :4 to 14. of both sexes, into
their i homes for two weeks, If
they tare to do so and are Itt-po-
sitioni There is no expense at-
tached and no reward except the
feeling tliat one has been a "good
fellow" <o a child who was starv-
ing for Qod's fresh air and trees
and Crass.

I Assumes Liability
Thi United Charities assumes
tlie liability for injury and sick-
ness and conducts the children to
the station where they are met by
the {arm folks. With more than
800 tots giveii outings during the
last two summers only three com-
Idaints have been received. A
number of people, on the other
band, have put In requests to get
back the same children this year
that they had last summer and
have said that they gained as
much from the experience as their
xneste.

I The Daily News contributas
money and publicity to the cause.

Within 200 Mfles?

EHsewhere on this page is an
application, blank which may be
conveniently filled in if you care
to b* host to one or more sluids

WHEN A FELLER HAS A FRIEND!

l-lere art three of the 50O Chicago slums kiddies who were giyen
two-week outings in the country last summer in homes of I. A. A. and
farm bureau members. The same project is being carried on this
summer. An article telling the details of the plan and an application
blank will be found elsewhere on this page.

FARM OUTINGS

If yow live within two hundred miles of Chicago (the railroads
furnish free transportation only within this limit) and, wish to
be host some time during July or August to a city boy or girl
fcr a two-week outing, the blank below may be filled out. E\se-
where on this page will be found an article and a picture giving
furtherj details.

i I

l"o Ontlnur S*-m*tary.

lllilioiM AKrit-ultiirkil ANHOi'lutlon.
<M»N S«iuth DenrhnrB Ntrc^t,
('hh'tlKO. IlllnoiH.

w,' a
rhicagc

It is

the lia
))ren s<
in the

•f in position to bIVc -a fwo wfiks" xai^ation to

children dotnt* tli^e in i July or An^^ust. prtferably.

■■" > i ' il

re uf ae*^ and iif>x is ak Ifollow

t\

Our neur6»t railway utatijon Ih, a|.

*_'ounty ^ . . .. i . j.

, . ' ' \ \

uren al :.....■. .\. .

.I>ut Wf i-oulil meet the rhi!-

(I'lease nam-- at least two optional, a tat ions)

understooJ that the United Charities of Chicago assumes
•llity in the case of ac^Hdent or illness to any of the chil-
erit to us; however, -we pledge to exercise proper precautions
»are and treatment of tjiese children.

Name- i.

Rest offlec . ■. _; ,

Rural Uoute No..

Telephone N'o.

children this summer. The United
Charities allows, so far as possible,
you choice of age and sex. It is
urged, however that applications
be sent ia^ if possible, before June
15 or at the latest before July 1.

The railway offer of free trans-
portation, however, is extended
only wlthi|n a radius of two hun-
dred mile(i from Chicago, so ap-
plications cannot be received from
pointa farther than 20^^ miles from
the city.

The organization committee of
the Minnesota Potato Growers Ex-
change has decided that it will not
be possible to perfect an efficient
marli^ting organization in time to
handle the 1923 crop, which will
begin to move to market on July
15.

It is necessary to provide ade-
quate storage and prompt financ-
ing before effective merchandising
can be maintstined. All plans will
be complete to handle the 1924
crop, It is announced.

Will Your County Have '
a'* Barnyard Golf' Team?

The Oli'iieral Committee fur
the 1. A. A. 'State Picnic to be
iield at Urbana, June 20. urj^es
that every comity fartu hurea\i.
if possible, be represented in
tlic big horseshoe pitoliintr con-
test to be heirt at the main
sports fcatiife of the day. Will
vonr coiii.'ty be represented?

It is realized that the I. A. A.
picnic this year precedes most of
I lie county farm bureau ^picnics
:iik1, tlierefore, that mi>st cumnties

URBANA TO HAVE
MANY JUNE EVENTS
BESIDES PICNIC

Farm Advisers Will Meet;

Boys' and Girls' Clubs

To Visit U. of I.

will have no opportnnity to select
^ county team at their picnic. It
is suggested, however, that last
year's ch.uHpicns be seat to Ur-
bana or that a team he selected
hj' farr.i bureau officials.

The only requirement is that all
contestants must be county farm
bureftu 'members. A handsome cup
is to be presented to the coaiJtjr
farm bureau winning the tourna-
ment.

•narnyarir golf" is thoroughly a
farmer's game, although today )t
is popular in eve^ city in the
country.

See to it that your county is
represented in the tournament.

The annual I. A. A. Picnic,
•Tune 29, will be a grand and
litting elimax to a series ot
several important agricultural
meetings in Urbana during the
month.

^rom June 12 to 14, Illinois
farrii advisers' T#ill hold their
annual meeting at the University
of Illinois. County home advis-
ers will meet in conference June
14-15. _

On itrtie 22 and 23, a meeting
of national importance will be
held at the university when tha
summer meeting of the American
Society of Agronomy will be held.
This society includi»B all the In-
structors and reseai^ch men in the
agronomy departments ot all state
agricultural colleges.

Another event of jjune 22 is the
staging of grain ajnd live stock
judging contests it which high
school boys from alii over the state
will take part. Many boys' and
girls' club members from Illinois
counties will meet I at Urbana in
the annual club tot^r on the same
day. , I

"Open House" week, ending
with the I. A. A. Picnic ftn the
29th, will be featuiied by visits to
the university by farmers from all
over the state to inspect the 'e.x-
periment work l>eing carried on
by the agricultural division of the
institution.

Meat-for-Health
Campaign To Be
Observed In June

In order to bring to the atten-
tion of the public the wholesome
qualities of meat as well as the
relative economy of flesh for food,
all organizations interested in the
packing industry are sponsoring
a Meat-for-Health Week through-
out the nation, June 25 to 30,
1923.-

Producers, packers, live stock
commission men, butchers, and
consumers are co-operating to
make the campaign a success.
Among other thhigsv one of the
purposes of the campaign is to
bring about a closer understand-
ing between the producer and the
consumer of this basic food sup-
ply.

Dairy Interests
Busy Preparing
For Expositiorts

October will be a banner month
for the dairy industry in the
United States according to plans
being made by dairy interests all
over the nation.

The First World's Dairy Con-
gress will be held at Washington

D. C, October 2-5, when world
problems relating to dairying will
be considered. Representatives
from practically «very civilized
country in the world will attend
this exposition, many of them
bringing exhibits with them. H.

E. Van Norman is president ot
the Congress.

Immediately following the Wash-
ington ev?nt. the .Vnnual National
Dairy Show will be held at Syra-
cuse. N. Y., October 6-13. It is
expected that the display w(ll be
the greatest in the history of, the
show, owing to the holding of the _
World's Dairy Congress, and also
the determination cf eastern
dairy interests to excel the middle
west in staging the big event. The
National has been held at St.
Paul, Mi^i^., during the past two
years. , ;

Oleo Production
Declines; Butter
On the Increase

Oleomargarine production fell
from 212 million pounds in 1921
to 185 million pounds in 1922,
while the production of creamery
butter increased about 100 million
pounds at the same time, accord-
ing to figures just issued by the
United States Department of Ag-
riculture. Oleo production had
reached the great heighth of 370
million pounds in 1920.

Complete figiires of increased
dai[y production are as follows:
creamery butter, 1921 — 1,055,000,-
000 pound4; 1922 — 1,153.515,000
pounds; cheese: 1921 — 356,000,000
pounds: 1922; 370,000,000 pounds;
ice cream: 19 2 1 — 148,000.000
pounds; 1922—161,000,900 pounds.

Education of the consumer as
to the great food value of dairy
products as well as the bettering
ht economic conditions are mainly
responsible for the increased dairy
consumption.

Fruit growers of western and
southwestern Michigan recently
organized the Michigan Fruit
Growers, Isc, to co-operatively
ntarket their fruit products.

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lllinoisAgricuitun

Volume 1

June IS, 1923

Number 7

CO-OPERATIVE BILL PASSES HOUSE 99 TO 4/

PROGRAM OF STATE
PICNIC AT URBANA
NEARSWLETION

Speaking, "Barnyard Golf,"
Music, Sports, Boating-
Plan To Come June 29!

ter

urease

tion fell

in 1921

in 1922,

creamery

0 million
'., accord-

1 by the
t of Ag-
ion had
h of 370

increased

follows:

1.055,000,-

;3.51S,000

iO.OOO.OOO

pounds;

18,000,000

pounds.

umer as

of dairy

bettering

e mainly

led dairy

ern and
recently I
1 Fruit 1
sratlvely
cts.

Last call for the I. A. A.
Farm Bureau State Picnic at
Urbana, June 29th!

The committees in charge of
the event have been hard at
work for. the last two weeks and
have shaped a program which
will insure everybody a good
time and a valuable outing. It
is hoped to have the largest
crowd ever tnmed out at an I.
A. A. picnic.

Knral Pastors

The program for the meeting
of the rural ministers on the eve-
ning of June 28 has also been
developed. The Rev. Mr. W. W.
Diehl, of Albion, Mich., an author-
ity on rural church problems, will
speak.

• Rural pastors from all over Illi-
nois have signified their intention
of attesding. Many farm bureau
folks, too, will be at the confer-
ence of the 2gth.

The "Open House"

Plans for the "Open House" of
the College of Agriculture of the
University of Illinois, to be held
on June 2S, 29 and 30 indicate
that this event will furnish valu-
able Instruction and will attract
farm folks from all over Illinois.

Urbana will be the Mecca of
organized Illinois Agriculture of
the State on June 29 — and no
mistake!

BRING THE FAMILY AND COME!

I. A. A. FARM BUREAU STATE PICNIC, CRYSTAL
LAKE PARK, URBANA, ILL., JUNE 29

SPEAKING^

Address by Sydney Anderson, U. S. Congressman from Mjnne-
sota. Chairman of Congressional Committee of Agricultural In-
quiry,

Address by Mrs. A. E. Brrgden, Rochester. N. Y., President
New York State Federation of Home Bureaus.

GAMES AND SPORTS— '

Horseshoe Pitching Tournament for the Farm Bureau Cham-
pionship of Illinois.

Basehall Game Between Two Country Farm Bureau Teams
To Be Arranged.

Apple Grading
Law Amendment
Passed In Senate

The State Senate has passed
the amendment to the apple grad-
ing law, introduced by Senator
W. S. Jewell, Fulton couilty, and
strongly supported by the Fruit
and Vegetable Marketing Depart-
ment of the I. A. A. It will now
go to the House.

The bill will allow Illinois
apple growers to grade under
present U. S. Department of Ag-
ricultural standards instead ..of
grading under provisions of the
Illinois apple grading law passed
two years ago.

i

The Indiana Farm Bureau Onion
Growers Association was organized
In May at Kendallrille, Ind., the
first step toward cooperative mar-
keting of the nation's onion crop.

ooaiing ^ S£unts

SUPERVISED PLAY FOR CHILDREN—

Contests

Children's Play Will be Supervised by Instructors of Depart-

ment of Physical Education of University of lllinoit.

MOTION PICTURES—

Free Showing of the six-reel farm drama, "The Brown Mouse."

BAND MUSIC—

A splendid band furnished by the Chambers of Commerce of
Urbana and Champaign will play during the day. i

ALL CONVENIENCES—

Plenty of water and shade— in ease of sickness or Injury a
Red Cross tent with a nurse In charge — If the car balks, a trouble
shooter on the grounds — a fried fish dinner served at reasonable
pricet.

Peoria Producers Pay

Ten Per Cent Dividend

Reports from the various com-
panies operating on the mar-
kets under the auspices of the
National Live Stock Producers'
Association show that the farm-
er-owned companies are continu-
ing the progressive stride which
they have maintained in the
past.

Success of the Peoria company
is evidenced by the fact that it
declared sT 10 per cent patronage
dividend to be paid after May 31
and It was also voted to return
50 per cent of the cash member-
ship fees. Peoria Producers stood
first in receipts on the market
each week In May except the last,
when they stood second. An av-
erage of about 30 cars of stock
weekly was handled.

Two new agencies opened up
during May, one at Sioux Falls,
S. D., on May 6, and the second

at Cleveland on the 15th. Sionx
Falls held third place on ''that
market during the first week of
operation and advanced to first
place during its third week, being
second the other two. It bandied
about 17 per cent of the receipts
each week.

The Chicago Producers Com-
mission Association has installed
a sheep-selling department with
Ernie Belfus in charge. The agr
ency held first or second rank each^
week of the month and handled
an average of about 280 cars
weekly.

As has been its custom, the
Indianapolis agency maintained
first place on that terminali.each
week of the month ai^d bandied
an average of 27 per cent of the
receipts weekly. The growth of
the agency has necessitated the
(Continued on psffe 4}

Sydney Anderson

i.A.A. HELPING TO
FORM PRODUCERS'
'CO-OP' IN INDIANA

The Live IStock Marketing De-
partment of the I. A. A., C. A.
Stewart, director, has been._giving
some help in the organization of
a new selling agency of the Na-
tional Live Stock Producer's As-
sociation at Evansville, Ind.

Evansville is a market in south-
western Indiana which secures
about 20 per cent of its receipts
from southern Illinois counties.
The remainder of its receipts
come about equally from Indiana
and Kentucky counties.

White and Gallatin counties are
the principal Illinois counties
shipping stock to this market, al-
though Edwards and Wabash are
also patrons. L. L. Pinnell, Ex
ecutive Committeeman of the
Gallatin County Farm Bureau, is
representing the I. A. A. as one
of a committee of five in makio):
arrangemeats for the opening of
the "co-op.*' )

Prese'ntsl plans indicate that
the Farmer's Commission Com-
pany, a stock organization which
has been operating on that mar-
ket, and which is dissolving will
be taken over by the new Pro-
ducers company. No definite date
of opening has been announced.

Homestead Films, Inc., recently
moved its headquarters from 7510
V. Ashland Ave. to 732 S. Wabash
Ave., Chicago. The new location
of the farm bureau motion picture
company is a prominent one on
Chicago's fiotion picture row

MEASURE IS SENT {
TO SENATE; IS IIP
TO GOVERNOR NEXT

Act Carries No Ainendmienls

Not Admitted To It By

Its Proponents

By a vote of 99 to 47 the Illi-
nois Co-ope rati ve Itarketing
Bill has passed the House of
Represenutives at Springfield,
and has been returned to the
Senate for concurrence in
amendments. It is probable that
the measure will go up to Gov-
ernor Len Small for his signa-
ture before this issue «f The
Record is 'mailed. "" -^•— <? —

The inassjBe of the Oil ki the
House was no surprise either to
its adberetls or its opi onents. as
it had been freely* pi! tdictEd at
.-Springfield that the rh ef conten
would come on the an endtients.

The bil( lias shown surprising
strenjrth bbth in the Sel ate tnd in
the House. Only three ^pte$ were
recorded algainst it wheli it passed
the Senate. When it cime up for
amendments in the l^ous*. the
most critical time of |5ts earoer,
its supporters were ab(ie to down
niosftlf the ^hostile adkendments,
which had as their rafcl purpose
the cripplUg of the bil, without
a roll call. li •

Not an amendment wis Ad-
mitted to tht' bill whith wKs not
acceptable to its proponents.

Sock Island Milk
* Co-op ' Opens Soon;
Manager Employed

Jln'rirf of the Kocly IsiSiiU t"
operative Milk Markjcting Com-
pany's plant will takej, placie early
in July, according to piesenjt pljans.
Some delajr has been fexpariesi^
in opening due to in|taliatioa uf
equipment and the seiect:»n of a
manager.'

Lrf>uis A. FinBen, a man with
wide experience in matiaeetnent of
dairy plants and in merchandising
of dairy products, hs^ been em-
ployed as manager and recently as-
sumed bis duties. He comes to
the "eo-op" from tlje Nordiem-
Milk and Ice Creai^ Compaay,
Minneapolis. _, i,

Thfe Rock Island Co-opersllve,
formed by milk producet-s who
supply milk to that city, is cap-
italized at 150.000. Advisori- aid in
organisation is tieing given by the
Dairy Marketing De^artmeat of tbe
I. A. A. I I ,

Page 4

The Illinois Agricultural Association Record

June 1, 1923

T\Wo-Week Farm Outings For the City Tots

F. B. FOLKS ASKED
PUY HOST TO
(lODIES OF SLUMS

I. A. A. Co-operates For Third

Yijar in Providing Farm

)uiir.tjs For Children

WHEN A FTXLER HAS A FRIEND!

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t;<i Iho Ciii.aj;!. Iiajly News
m. M <v.;ni!is ne\\.-[>!ipiT •'
I.'. pi'ovi.Je Iwii-wpt'k oi
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Sc4eri» (^lijlcli-«''ii

Tlij l"iiiti-ii ChaViti.'s self'il
eiiild;' 'II aiui Miukes surf tliaj
.are "lurlliy. Tlli'y are u-hi-ii lu
eiuth s. i-arefully exiilili;,fi! by
l*ys:iiaii ami gt'iiiraliy ma
brigj'.i and sjliiiunp— au.i sauitai'y —
for t eir imliLK. The railroads
lllin"ia*tur»ish fr.'e fare wiihin
lit" iwo- hiiii.Ireil miles

ini'ufbirs of (lit I. A. A. aad
niiitjf farm bureaus are >i-
iO lake one ,or nu^re bf
kiiliiies. wlui raltge in a^e

the .
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the .
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i lo 14. of holh s.'xes.. iut
homes for two week*, -if
lire to do so and ar« in po-
.Tliere. is no expense '^t-
and no r?W'ard except t^e
'II a "KUlid
was starv-

?wa

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lo a child who

llor Cods fresh air and trees
and f :ras:{.

.VKsuiiie> Liability

I'hiUiii Chariii.'S assumes
ability /i>r iniury and siak-
md eunducls the children to
fdtiop where they are met by

Th
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the
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last t
Plaints
minil>
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back
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have
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Will Your County Have
a ''Barnyard Golf Team?

'I'll" (o-mrill ( 'iiliilililtrr i'l'l'
the 1. A. A. state l"i. ii-.- lo I .■
!ii'lil ill ri'Tiiiiia. .Iiiiii' "J'.l. iir^\
I hat I'vi'iy ciniuty t'iinii bur' \v.i.
if. |iossilili'. he fe;>r"-i'Mli .1 in

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llle liitr llofs.-sho.' I
test III hi' jlrl.l ;
spiiVIs fe.'ililfi' oi' tl
\iilti ii::'\ I..' )■■■

_lt is r.'-.l.ied thai
pienie l!:;s y.i';ir prei
111.' louuly farm li

lid. lli.T.liiri;. tliat

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IHere ard three
tw.o-week oucin
farm bureau
summer.

blank will

firm folks. With mure than

! lis Kiven outinfis during the]

rto summers only thre.* copi

■received

liave lieen
r of people, on the olh?r
have put in requests to get
thi- saute children this yeter
Ihey had last summer and
said that they gained is
from tlie experience as their

I>u)ly News eonlribute's
moD^f and puh'iciu' to the cau^e.

Within aO« Mile.*? ,

where on this page is

appliciition blank Which may be
conviiie.ntly" filled In if you caee
to be host to one ofr more slums

^ -^j-

of the 500 Chicago slums kiddies who were given

n the country last summer in homes of I. A. A, apci

members. The samei project is being carried on this

.\n article tilling the detbils of the, plan and an application

ewhere on ihis psge.

l:e found

if yoi
furnisla
be host
fcr a U
where (
further

FARM QUTINGS

live within twj ki..iidre4 miles of ChtcaBO (the railroads

free iransporiacion only
some time during July

within th s limit) and wirh to
pr August to a city boy or girl
0-week outing, the blanW below n.ay be filled out. Elss-
n this page will tie found an article and a picture giving
details.

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i;ns SiMiih ll«-:irlM>r» -^Irt-t^l
( hi •:it74>. llliiMii..

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this sumiijer. Th
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The I'nited

s possible.

^>f age and sex. It. is

'rev.T that aiiplications

if possible, liefore June

15 or at tie late.st liefore July 1.

Kay offer
however.

of

free trans-
exteivded

only withi 1 « radius of two hun-
dred mile; from Chicago, so uji-
plirations ;annot he received from
points furtper than 20fl miles from
the city.

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.1 I'haritii.-* <if Ctiii-aR'i assunjc:*

It ur iHiit'Ss lo any i>I' tlu- <-l)il-.

kre,tn .-\.. ri-isf propt r i>r- cautions

fhildr^ii. •

The orKunizalion committee of
the -MiiiiK-sofa I*otato Growers Ex-
change has decided thai it will not
be possilde In pprfet't an efficient
■inurke.tinK orKanization in time to
handle the 1923 crop, which will
begin tb move to market on July
15.

It is necessary to jirovide ade-
quate storage and prompt tinanc-
ing before effective merchandising
can be maintained. All plans will
he complete to handle the 1924
crop, it is annouDced.

URBANATOHAVE i
MANY JUNE EVENTS
BESIDES PICNIC

Farm Advisers Will Meet:

Boys' and Girls' Clubs

To Visit U. of I.

■ to sel.rt
pirnii-. ii
that last

..!• t . iT-
L' s.'l.'Cied

Till' ainiiiiil 1. A. A. I'iiiii.-.
•Iiiiie I."', will III' a vt'I'k' '"*<'
tittill^' eliiiiax to. a series ,1.1
MVii:i| ii.ipin-laiit a^'riiMtlniml
111.', tiiisrs ill rrliaiia ihiriiijr till'

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f'Y.ihi June 12 to
^lariii advi.vj.rs .Will
annual, mi'elin.i; kt th

14, Illinois
hold, tiieir
VniVersity
f Illinois. County home advfs-
. rs will meet in conf. ren're June

14-ir,. ■ - ,

On Jiin.' 22 and 2'^■, a met tiny
of aaiional iiiip.irlanrg will ^e
In Id at. the university when the
sumnur meeting of the ,\meriran
.'<o<'i.'tj>' of A4;roiiomy M'iH be hehl.
This soeitty inclnd"S all t!i.' Iji-
structors and resi^arch men in the
agronomy deiiartihents of all st:Ur
ai^ricultural collei;es.

,\noth. r .'V.-nt of Jun*- 22 is the
sta.-iUp of ;;;rain and liv.' st.XJk
.iutluiii;; c.mtests in which liiph
school boys from all over tile state
win '"''i' I'lirt. .Miiny boys' and
Lirls' club menihcrs from Illinois
counli.'s v,ni tat. t at I'rbana In
th.' aktntial club tour on the same

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"Opep House" week, ending
with the I. .\. .\..ricnic on the
2!Uh. will be featured by visits to
the university by farmers from all
o\.r the. state to inspect the exr
p.'rinienf work belli;.; carried oa
hy the agricultural division ol th*
institution. ' ■ i

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jiave lo I'pporinn
ii I . -.u.ly t.'am al th.-.
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ye-ir'.-^ ell •li.;::;-tis lie
ha":i IT th.ii :■ l.'aiii
ly f;.ri.i |.:ir.'::u ..lirial.i.

Tin' only re lain nil lit is that all
eo:::: slants iiiusi lie c.Hiiity f.irin
hiti'cau nieniliers. -\ hands.. me cup
is lo he prisi'iiu;! lo tin; county
t.'ri'.i Imi-eau winiiiii;; the tiiiirna-
111. "ll.

■"lNirny;.r.r pi If is tlior.'iiKlity a
I.iuai:''s faille. alihou;;h to.lay it
:.■: |ni|iular in every city in the
I'i'iintry.

Se.'^ to it' that yonr c.iuniy is
n.'i.resent.v! in the lournainent.

Dairy Interests
Busy Preparing
For Expositions

October will b.' a.'h;;nn.r month
lor tl.i dairy iudusiry in the
rni^t.fl .stales ;:ccordiii,u to plans
I., iiju mad.' by dairy inter.sls all
over' tile nation.

The lirst World's Hairy Con-
!;lis.s will be li.ld at Washinjton
IJ. C;. October 2-5, when world
I'ldhUnis r.'latin.i; to dairyini; will
1..' f onsid.'r.'d. Uepr.'s.'iitatives
from practically -every civilized
i;iintry in the world will attend
ihis .y-\r'osiii.)n. many of them
liriiiKin.i; ••xhiliits with them. H.
i;. Van Norman is president of
the Con;;re3s.

l::iniedi:il.ly followini; th.'VVash-
inston "V.'ht. tiie .\nnual .National ■
Ihuvy Show will b. h.'lil i.t Syra-
cus.-. N,. Y., OctolMT II-l n. It is
.xpecteii iliat til" di.':pl.'iy will be
111.' ii.atest in the hislory of the
show, owinj; to liic lioldjll^ of the
\\'.»rtd's Daii-y Cvu^rt^s^, -^nd also
the ■ d.'terinination cf 'eastern
►dairy int.'rests t.> excel the piiddl*^
W.St in stairin;; the biK event. The
National has lieVn held, at St.
I'aul. Minn., during the past two
y.-ars.

Meat- for-Health
Campaign To Be
Observed In June

In order to brinK to the atten-
tion of the public, the wholesome
qualities of meat as well as the
relative economy of flesh for food,
all orsaniaations interested iti the
packing industry are sponsoring
a Meat-for-Health W.-ek through-
out the nation. June 25 to JO.
1923.'

Producers, packers, live stock
commission men, butchers, and
consumers are co-operating Jo
make the campaign a success.
Among other things,, one of the
purposes of the canipaign is to
bring about, a closer understand-
ing betw^een the producer and the
consumer of this basic food sup-
ply.

Oleo Production
Declines; Butter
On the Increase

Oleomargarine prodtiction fell
froni' 212 million pounds in 1921
to Iho million pounds in 1922,
while the production of creamery
butter increased about 100 million
pounds al the same time, accord-
ing to figures just issued by the
United States Department of Ag-
riciiltur.'. Oleo production had
reached th.' great heighth of 370
million pounds in 1920.

Complete ligures of increased
dai;'y iiroduetion are as follows:
creamery butter. 1921 — 1.053.000,-
iiOO pounds; 1922- 1,153,515.060
pounds; cheese: 1921 — 356.000.000
pounds; 1922; 37i>^^000.000 pounds;
ice cream: 19 2 1 — 148.000.000
pounds; 1922 — 161.000.000 pounds.

Education of the consumer as
to the great fqod value of dairy
products as well as the bettering
M economic conditions are malply
responsible for the increased dairy
consumption.

Fruit growers of western and
southwestern Michigan recently
organized the Michigan Fruit
Growers, Inc., to co-operatively
market their fruit products.

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lllinoisAgriculturdlA

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Volume 1

June 15, 1923

r Number 7

CO-OPERATIVE BILL PASSES HOUSE 99 TO 47

PROGRAM OF STATE
PICNIC AT URBANA
HEARS COMPLETION

Speaking. "Barnyard Golf."
Music. Sports. Boating— i
Plan To Come June 29!

Last call i'ln- tlic 1. A. A.
Farm Hurcaii Slalr I'icnie at
Urbana, .liiiic 2IMh!

The I'limmittces in tliarjic of
.the event liave lieeii liani at
work tor the last two weeks and
have sliupeil a j)r<>).'rani wliieli
will insure everybody a <ro(id
time and a valiialile outing. It
is hoped to have the lar^'est
«Towd ever turned oiit at an I.
A. A. pienie.

Kural Pastors

The program for tlie meetins
of tlie rural ministers on the eve-
ning of June 28 has also been
develoiied. The Ilev. Mr. W. W.
Dielil. of .41bion. Miclx., an author-
ity on rural church problems, will
speak.

Rural pa.stors from .ill over Illi-
nois have sit,'nified their intention
of al tending. Many farm bureau
folks, too, will be at the confer-
ence of the 28th. i
The "Oiwn Hon.se"

Plans for the "Open House" of
the College of Airriculture of the
I'niversity of Illinois, to be held
on Jane 28, 29 and 30 indicate
that this event will furnish valu-
able instruction and will attract
farm folk^ from all over Illinois.

Urbana will be the Mecca of
orpanized Illinois Acriculture of
the State oo June 29 — and no
mistake!

Apple' Grading
Law Amendment
Passed In Senate

The State Senate has passed
the amendment to the apple grad-
ing law, introduced by Senator
W. S. Jewell. Fulton county, and
strongly supported by the Fruit
and Vegetable Marketing Depart-
ment of the I. A. A. It will now
Bo to the House.

The bill will allow Illinois
apple growers to grade under
present U. S. Department of Ag-
ricultural standards instead of
grading under provisions of the
Illinois apple grading law passed
two years ago.

The Indiana Farm Bureau Onion

Growers Association was organized
in May at Kendallville, Ind., the
first step toward co-operative mar-
keting of the nation's onion crop.

BRING THE FAMILY AND COME!

I. A. A. FARM BUREAU STATE PICNIC, CRYSTAL
LAKE PARK, URBANA, ILL., JUNE 29

SPHAKING—

- f.
Address by Sydney Anderson. U. S. Congressi^an from Minne-
sota. Chairman of Congressional Committee of Agricultural In-
quiry.

Address by Mrs. A. E. Brigden. Rochester. N. Y., Pres'dent
New York State Federation of Home Bureaus.

GAMES ANl>'. SPORTS— ^

Horseshoe Pitching Tournament for the F.arm Bureau Cham-
pionship of Illinois. •

BaseHjII Game : Between Two Country Fapm Bureau Teams
To Be Arranged.

ooaiHiy Har.th Co.'.^c&t^

SUPERVISED PLAY ■FOR CHILDREN—

Children's Play Will be Supervised by Instructors of Depart-
ment of Physical Education of University of Illinois.^

MOTION PICTURES— . -

Free Showing of the six-reel farm drama. "The Brown Mouse."

BAND MUSIC— '

% i

A splendid band furnished by the Chambers of Commerce of i
Urbana and' Champaign will play during the day.

ALL CONVENIENCES—

Plenty of water and shade — in case of sickness or injury a
Red Cross tent with a nurse in charge — if the car balks, a trouble ,
shooter on the grounds — a fried fish dinner served at reasonable
prices.

Peoria Producers Pay

Ten Per Cent Dividend

Reports from the various com-
panies operating on the mar-
kets under tlie auspices yf tlie
National Live Stock Producers"
As.sociati<ni show that tlie farm-
er-owned companies arecontiiui-
insr the pnjgressive stride which
they have maintained in the
past.

Success of the Peoria company
is evidenced by the fact that it
declared a 10 per cent patronage
dividend to be paid after May 31
and it was also voted to return
50 per cent of the cash member-
ship fees. Peoria Producers stood
first in receipts on the market
each week in .May e.vcept fhe last,
when they stood second. An dV-
erage of about 30 cars of stock
weekly was handled.

Two new agencies opened up
during May, one at Sioux Falls.
S. D., on May 5, and the second

MEASURE IS SENT r II
TO SENATE; IS UP
TO GOVERNOR NEXT

Sydney .liuler-ioti

at Cleveland on tlie l.'.th. Sioux
Falls hi'ld third place on that
market during the first week of
operation and advanced to first
place during its third week, being
second the other two. It handled
about 17 per cent of the receiiUs
each week.

The Chicagg Producers Com-
mission .\ssociAlion has installed
a sheep-selling department with
Ernie BeU'us in charge. The ag-
ency held fiVst or Sfcond rank eacti^
week of the month and handlecl
an average of about 280 cars
weekly.

As has been its custom, the
Indianapolis agency maintained
first place on that terminal eax-h
week of the month and handled
an average of 27 per cent of the
receipts weekly. The growth of
the agency has necessitated tie
(Continued on page 4}

I. A. A. HELPING TO
FORM PRODOCERS'
'CO-OP' IN INDIANA

The JLlve Stoick I Marketing' !De-
partninnt ofi the I. .\, A., C. .V.
Stewar|t, director, has bi-t-n giving
some llW)i in the kirganizalion «f
a new selling agepcy <jf the N4-
tional Live ;Stock rroduccr's .\e-
sociation atl Kvanl<villc. I^id.

Evansvill^ is a itiark>ti in .soiith-
w*.-st«-rn Inliana whicbi s*>rures
atuiut 20 per cent (if its n-c.ipt*
from southrrn Illinois rountits.
The remainder of Us r<\C'i\its
come about •■((tially from Indiana
arvk Kentucky counties.

White an 1 €all^lin counties are
the princi )al -Illinois rounrie...
sliipping stick to this market, al-
though Edvards jind Waliash are
also .patrp'fis. \..] I,. I'iniiell. T-Zs
ii'Utive Ci niniiliteemau of the
iJallatui Cthnty Farm liurejiu, is
r.pr.-s.iitjff ; the [l.; A
oil a coiiiM ttee of ftvi

.\. as ime
in making
rrangeinj)i|ts foij the tiiieuiti- of
the "co-ojt.
Presentii
the I'anni

plaii^ iniiicai- that
r's C(^m^li•i^ion Co;ji-
pany. a stpck or|:ani/.ation which
ha* been -cperatiiig on that mar-
ket, anil which is di.s.solviui: will
he taken over Ij|> . the new Pro-
ducers company. ! No definite date
of openina has be«n announced.

I ' <"

* Homestead Films, 'Inc., r«cently

moved its headquarters from TSKt

-V. Ashlandi Ave. to 7.^2 S Waliash

.\ve.. Chicdgo. 'The new loratijin

of the farm bureau motion picture

company _i^ a prominent one on

Chicago's ibotioQ picture row

hts

ActiCarri^S No Amendmeh
Not Admitted To It By
Its IPropon'ents |

By a To^fl of 99 to 47 the Illi-
nois CD-«perative Marketing
Bill has passed the Hoi«ste cf
Representatives at Springtield,
and has keen returned to the
Senate fior concurrence in
amcndmenitfi.- It is probable -that
the measure will go up to Gov-
ernor Leaj :Sma!l for his sijTils-
ture befo« this issue of, The
Kocord is Wiied. ■'H-

The piissige of tl,« hill ih fte
H.iiii.^.- vfa^j {no siirprise eitH. r |lo
its

it had I
.•^I.Mngfinld
w<rtl id Wn4*

JThe liil

s adli'-tei (is or its upimneiits.

■ : i....» k I •■_ ._ .■.!■.

till Hou^-

thf .<elia«

atil'-nihivt-rk

■it fni-ly |iredieti-d at

that llle'chief r|>nlln

on th" aiinndiujnp-

has shown. suriiri»i

stil.ii^th hiiUi in the ."Jehai.' i nd

Only thi.

vm» 1 wi T'

r-itoriii J aijinsi it when it lajti-d

When it came (p
> in tiny Hfiuss,

Tiii>.-^t rritii-iirtinie of its care

its! sup|i)r)<rs were abW to.JoiiJ

•} hoslile anien.d({i«T, t:<

is (heir real pi

lll^st of. (li
wttich. bai
(hj- rrippl
a ^oll call
I Not tin
milted to
adcei)^tl<

or

(he

g of

leir real pnr;*
the bilt o'lith

am* utlni*-nt Was
tfhi Uiit| which was
to. its proponent^.

hi lUt

Rock hland Milk
'Co-op ' Opens Soon;
Manager Employed

l:a I I

.r..ii.

•I" ivi>-

pli:;*.

i*-iei ce-i

|ut>

OpefllliiJ ol tie- liiH k IM
ojieratife .Milk MarketiiiK
;i)iiiy'8 |)li lit wi|i luke plac
ii| .lul.v, ae iOniiiiK i.i'iu.-s'en
Siimo dell-- tiii^ hei-n cxjk
iii .ipetiig due 'to in-tallaiioi
••iliiipmeii and the" seler! ;( n ,i ;
iifciitaRer-

I.fui8 \ Fiiisi'n. a man
wiiW ej,i4-i je-Tii e :ti manage; iiei t c:
lUiiry plah s an-l m nierchi i.ili :iisc
of dairy iirndMits hu^ hi-n • hi
li)oycd as iiyinager and re.Jinl; a>
.sjuniHil hSi duiles. -He tnmci i,i
the ■•eo-<i|>"' from tiie- N,.i;i Wu
Jjtilk jinfllilce t-rea.'ii '(.^mi^Bv.-
>(Iiniieap(jlW ' '

The l««B Isiand Co-ii.era iiv.
formed by milk |>rodueer« who
supply nJHk to thai city, is i*r
ilalized at ir.n.f.oii .\dvi..ory aij iq

ulrgacijat dn is beir.g given by
I>airy !^a rk«ting Deparlnieut ol

A

tlie

Pat«l2

•1

'f-'i- ^^ ■'

lUiaoU Agricultaral Association

RE C O RD

FubliShtid twice a month by the
Illinuila Agricultural Association.
"iOS SAuth Dearborn Street, Chicago.
Illinois. Edited by News Publicity
Depalltment, L.. J. Montrosa, Director.

' The niinoit AgricuhunJ Atsooation Record

i

Jwe IS, 1923 f J*"* *S, IS

Knlryj as sec6rfd class matter Oct.
10. ito. at the post office at Chi-
caRo.: I Illinois, under the act of
March 3. 1879. Acceptance fjor mail-
ing: at special rates of postage pro-
vide(|| ft>r in Section IlliS. Act o(
October 3, 1917, authorized Oct. 81,
1921. I *

The

the ., --, ,^,_.

lion lis five dollars a year. .This
fee Inlcludes payment of ten cents
for slihscription to the Illinois, Ag
rlcultyral Association Record

IMividual membership fee of
Illinois Agricultural Asg,ocia'

Iti^r

OFFICERS

PresHlent. S. H. Thompson. Quinoy.
Vice-President, A. O; Eckert. Belle-
ville. _
Secretary. Geo. A. Fox. Sycamore.
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles. Biooming-

[ECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Congressional Di-stricts

lenry McGougH. Maple Park*
\i. F. Tullock. Rockfco-d.
E. Bamborough. Polo.
. H. Moody. Port Byron.
E. Goembel. Hoopole.
fE. Reder. Mendota.
D. Barton. Cornell.
R. Finley. Hoopeston.
J. Holterman. .Sadorus.
fcarl J. Smi<n, Detroit.
L. Corbin. Carllnville.

Stanley Castle. Alton.

23r(»-»Carlton Trimble. Trimble.
24th-.3/-uxt Anderson. X^nia.
26th — Vernon Lessley. Sparta.

/. A. A. Maintains Legal Service

To Protect Interests of Farmers

ny«ctors of Deimrtiiients,
[ I. A. A. OfflcCj

Q^nerail Ofllce and Assistant to S'^o-
retaryj J. D. Harper; Field Organiz-
ation, J. G. Sailor; Organization Puli-
llcltv. G. E. Metzger; .News Publi.:-
ity 'L.iJ. Montross; Transportation.
L. J. Quasey; Statistics. J- *'. Wat-
son; Ffinance, R. A. Cojiles: Fruit
and Vegetable Marketing. C.,,a,
Durst;! Live Stock Marketing. C. -A.
Stewart; Dairy Marketing. .V D.
LynchiPhosphate Lim^ptone. J. K.
Bent. Legal. Newton ■ .rtnikins.

Algonquin Milk
Shippers Saved
$45 Everyday

■ In tl recent letter lu (be I. \. .\

ranstgrtatlon DepartMieiit. B.

Stewart, \lgonquin. MvHeiiry coun-
ty, mi^de this statement:

"About 18 months ago: I wrote
ton fiDOut our niilli rate to Chi-
cago.) Our mileage to Chicago was
figured via West Chicago, 52 miles.
where«» we have a line via Crys-
tal laht *^ miles. There was talk
of pajfing for the milk by zones
and w^ were to be outside of th«
50-mll» zone. You got us inside'
that zclne and we get- eight cents
more jier 100 pounds than if we
were t|utsiae. We are shipping
56,000 iiounds of milk a day from
this station. This iliakes a daily
saving

One .01 the nwyst recent and
one of tht most effective depart
ments of the I. A. A. working
today for the benefit of the Illi-
nois farm bureau member in the
business of agriculture is the I.
A. A. Legal Service, with New-
ton Jenkins as director. This
division of the service of the I.
A. A, was established to give
organized farmers of Illinois the
advantages of legal counsel on
a par with that employed by
the great firms representing
other industries.

The work of the Legal Service
may be divided into the follow-
ing four groups:

! — Assistance to the varipus
other departments of the
Assotiation.
2 — Business of the Association

itselt
3 — Service to Connty Farm

Bureaus.
4 — Special matters.
AM Vm> It
Every ^partment of the As-
sociation i^ in constant need of
the Legali Department. When
Mr. Durst of the Fruit and Veg
etable Marketing Department,
wishes to help organize a local
fruit exchange in Union County,
for instance, it becomes necessary
to incorporate the organization,
draw up appropriate by-laws tor
the organitation, pass upon crop
contracts fo be signed by the
members, ate. This is the proper
function c|t the Legal De1)art-
ment.

What is true of fruit and veg-
etables, is also true of dairy
-{•pdHet^- Mr,. loEch is "called
upon constantly from the dairy
districts of; the state, to assist in
forming da^ry organizations. Mr.
H. A. DeWerff, Farm .Vdviser
in Franklijn County, wants to
organize tli(? milk producers in a
locality in . his county. The in-

times prepares a bill for the
committee. It analyzes bills in-
troduced by interests other than
agriculture to determine how it
may affect Illinois farmers. It
performs the same service with
reference to national and state
legislation.

Mr. Quasey frequently is con-
fronted with questions of law
involved in transportation claims.
These are taken up with the
Legal Department. Matters of
transportation ahd claims, are
very closely related to legal ser-
vice.

Tax Question

The taxation of farm lands
has been a live question in the
state during the past few years.
The ta.v work of Mr. Watson
brings in numerous questions of
legality in certain practices pur-
sued in- the various counties.
When tlip County Clerk of Ma-
cjiupin County, for instance, ex-
tended the taxes improperly, an
opinio,n as to the law was ren-
dered by the Legal Department
to that County. The matter was

of about »45.'

Anotiber concrete example of I.
A. A. service! Mr. Stewart is
well Btttisfled with the saving
brougbl to Algonquin milk ship-
pers byj the Transportation Depart-
ment And in his letter he was
•sking lor more service — this time
in secuHng action by a railroad in
cleaning out Canadian ttustles
^rom me right-of-way.

'Moral — If you want service write
to the 1. A. A. Don't expect I. A.
A. departments to know your'
grievances unless you "put thent
wise" 1 o your wants.

Producers Will
Open Agency At
Cincinnati, Ohio

Representative live stock pro-
ducers of OhiOi Kentucky, and
Indiana in a meeting in Cincin-
nati, tpok preliminary steps to
establiah' a producers live stock
commi^ion agency at that mar-
ket, "hey will organize under
Ohio's new co-operative market-
ing iaiji and be a member of the
famil.v )f co-operatives malfing up
th? Nilitnal Live Stock Produc-
er'* A^fo elation. Operations will-
until July.

not staot

corporation papers aro obtained |^,^^^„ ^^ ^ourt and the farmers
tor the B«nton -Milk I'roducei

.Vssociation and it is now a poin^'
concern. The work of incorporat-
in.ar and organizing creameries and
milk marketing companies is
done by the Legal Department.
Live stock Work

When J. K. Shinn, Adviser in
Fulton County, calls upon Mr,
Stewart for assistance in the or-
ganizatioii of a Shipping Asso-
ciation, he takes it up with the
Legal Department, *hich pre-
pares incorporation papers and
attends to the legal aspects of
the matter and the Fulton Coun-
ty Farm Bureau Live Stock ship-
ping Association is the i:esult.
These shipping associations have
been organized all over Illinois
during the past year. They are
uniform in character and have
all been set up in accordance
with, and have become affiliated
in the marketing plan of the
National Live Stock Producers
Association.

Before Mr. Bent of the Lime-
stone-Phosphate Department, en-
ters into contractual relations
with the Rubra Phosphate ■!&
ClJemical Co. in Tennessee, he
goes over with great detail, the
subject matter involved in the
contract, with the Legal Depart-
ment of' the Association. In this
way he safeguards the Associa-
tion and rights of the members
in Illinois, who buy phosphate
through the Association.
liegislative Aid
The Legal Department works
in close cf>njunction with (be
legislative tommittee. It some-

won the suit.

Thus it may be seen that each
department, in a sense, has its
legal counsel to consult upon
Jegal matters affecting its work.

An organization as large as
^he I. A. A. dealing, as it does,
with many interests and maintain-
ing many contacts, has a good
deal of legal business pertaining
to the organization itself. Matters
of this kind are often very close-
ly related to questions of* busi-
ness policy.

I. A. A. as Whole

Any matters involving financial
responsibility on the part of the
Association come in this cate-
gory. In this sense, the Legal
Department represents the Inter-
fct of the Association against
the world. In all legal matters
touching upon the business of
the Association, the Legal De-
partment assists the officers of
the Association.

The County Farm Bureaus
make use, to a considerable ex-
tent, of the Association's Legal
Department. When Fred J.
blackburn of Marlon County,
wants to advise one of his mem-
bers what the law Is with refer-
ence to division fences, he gets
In touch with the Legal Depart-
ment.

County Service

A perplexing school question
confronts certain of the farmers
in Madison County and Alfred
Raut communicates with the
Legal Department to determine
That right the Superintendent of

Schools has, with reference to
boundaries of the School District.

Some of the farmers around
Magnolia in Putman County,
want to form a co-operative ele-
vator. F., E. Fuller, the Farm
Adviser, sends for Mr. Jenkins to
come down to discuss with them,
the forms of organization and
the necessary steps to be taken
in the form,a_tion of an elevatot-.

Mr. M. L. Hunt, Treasurer of
the McDonough County Farm
Bureau, wants to know what the
law is as to the liability of bis
Farm Bureau for the payment of
taxes on personal property. And
t)ius it goes. Hundreds of these
legal inquiries come in from all
over the state and are given at-
tention by the Association's Legal
Department.

General Strlva

Certain special matters come
up from time to time, which in-
volve -a great deal of attention
by the Legal Department. An
example of this is the Illinois-
Missouri Milk Association matter
at East St. Louis. This Com-
pany was thrown into bankrupt-
cy last January. Mr. Kirkpat-
rick has acted as legal adviser
for the reorganization committee.
The matter was carried by Mr.
Kirkpatrick to the higher court
and in the meantime the Commit-
tee lias worked out a settlement
which has been accepted^'by near-
ly all of the creditors.

Another similar matter which
the Legal Department has been
working ujion for a long period,
is that of rural light and power.
The matter first was raised by
the member^ in a group of
Northern Illinois Counties. Whei%
rates for electrical energy had
been boosted by .th'e Illinois
Northern Utilities Company. The
matter was taken up by the Le
gal Department with the Illi-
nois Commerce Commission and
the rate boost was cut in half.

Overhaul Rules

Following this first complaint,
others were made from Bureau
County and later from Tazewell
and other -Counties. It became
necessary to overhaul the entire
rules in Illinois for electric light
and power used on the farm.
The old rules were abolished and
Frank L. Smith of Dwight, Illi-
nois, Chairman of the Illinois
Commerce Commission, has had
a Ccmmittee working for several
months on the question, with
committees representing the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association and

FARMWOMEHTO {Mt C
ENTER FIELD OF S

'CO-OP' MARKETING

Conference Held To Consider

Egg Merchandising; Pass

Resolution

As the result of the nationiil
egg marketing conference held
in Chicago by the American
Farm Bureau Federation, farm
women of America are to under-
take the organization and con-
trol of their first national co-
operative marketing association,
that of egg marketing.

Mrs. W. C. Martin; Texas, chair-
man of the Home and Community
Department of the American Farm
Bureau Federation, was elected
chairman of the meeting, assisted
by Mrs. H. W. Lawrence of Ohio.

Aaron Sapiro, co-operative coun-
sel of the A. F. B. F., was the
principal speaker at the confer-
ence. He recommended that the
farm women of the middle west,
instead of "trading $2 worth of
eggs at the cross-roads grocery for
50 cents worth of canned goods"
adopt the co-operativ9 sales plan
of the Pacific Coast Egg Produc-
ers which has brought them a
premium of two to four cents per
dozen for their eggs on the New
York market.

The conference instructed the
chairman, Mrs. Martin, to appoint
a general committee to woi'k out
a standard plan for co-operative
egg marketing. This committee
will select state organization com-
mittees to initiate campaigns to
organize farmers and the families
of farmer? to merchandise eggs
in an intelligent and orderly fash-
ion.

Walton Peteet summarized the
conference results by stating that
the new committee would prepare
definite plans for co-operative
marketing of eggs; the egg pro-
ducers would organize local as-
sociations to assemble and grade
their eggs; the locals would fed-
erate into state selling agencies,
and' the state associations would
be co-ordinated into a great na-
tional egg producers marketing
association.

the Utilities. The case has just
recently been closed and the
Commerce Commission will short-
ly promulgate its General Order.
These are some of the things
which keep the firm of Jenkins
& Kirkpatrick busy in behalf of
organized agriculture in Illinois.

Watchful of your interests
in freight rates

Traiuportatk» Department
lUinois AgricuItiiraJ Association

"When fam
ganize a co-o
with a good :
from the Daii
in the fall of
opened for b

When stock
pany met to c
they found tha
business durini
dend on all pa

That's parti
were, satisfied
pleasing thing:
shown.

In the orga
Carroll Co-oi
shares of stoc
per share, the
italized for $1
Is allowed to 1
shares. Most
one share as i
that there are
ers owning 14'
"cbnsiderabie
sary before esl
ing 1922, the (
equipment. A
purchased at a
repairs and ad
ment during t
expense of ovi

Pla

During the f
the plant was
delivered crea
gradually Incr^
as 210 produc
the co-operati
' eht flush seaso

A total of i;
ter v.'as made
ter-maker G. '
assistant, Joe
the largest pa
in prints to
larger Illinois
shipped to loi
shipped went
sion houses.

Premiu

It is interest
high quality oi
it to command
market. Print
cent over 92 s
market, while
one cent undei
ter on the Chi

A short sura
ery receipts to
various sourct
lows:

Commission He
Retail Merchan

Patrons

Buttermilk ...
Sundry Items
Butter Inventoi

Total

Disburgemei
From the pn
aside for stoc
the purchase (
leaving a ha
$997.63.

Poultry

Besides its I
op" handled p
its patrons o
margin of one
eggs and one
poultry. This
usual margin

Only the sm
was shown tc
the poultry pr
of course, to t
which they w
ceipts -for egi
totalled $10,3(
were sold to tl

The Mt. Car
that handling :
patrons workei
with its dalrj

1923 I J«n* IS, 1923

The niinau Agricultur*] AnodatioaReoord

.1

tA

P*t«3

TO (Aft. Carroll Producers Pleased With

I OF Success of One Year of Co-operation

(ETING

Consider
i: Pass

national
;nce held
American
ion, farm
to under-
and con-
:ional co-
sociation,

When farmers in the vicinity of Mt. Carroll decided to oi>
ganize a co-operative creamery company to supply the locality
with a good market for dairy products, advisory aid was asked
from the Dairy Marketing Department of the I. A. A. That was
in the fall of 1921. The aid was given and a new co-operative
opened for business, January 2, 1922. i

When scockholders In the Mt. Carroll Co-operative C'-eamery Com-
pany met to consider their first year's results on January 27. 1923,'
they found that their company had transacted nearly $88,000 worth o(
business during the year, was able to declare a seven per cent divi-
dend on all paid up stock, and had $1,442.65 balance on hand.

That's partly the reason why the dairy producers of, the territory
were, satisfied with their first year of business. But thefe were other
pleasing things too, about this first year of co-operation, as will be
shown.

of poultry products would not be

so great as to warrant the estab-
lishment of a separate co-operative
shipping association. Added con-
venience to patrons is given by
making it handy for them to de-
liver their cream, eggs, and poul-
try to the oT>e station.

What Are Benefits?

In the consideration of the suc-
cess of a year's operation of the
Mt. Carroll Co-operative Creamery,
the question might naturally arise,
and justly, too: "Outside of the
stock dividends paid, what actual
benefits did the co-operative cream-
ery bring that would not have
been received by patronizing local
dealers ?"

Probably a study of the accom-

In the organization of the Mt.
Carroll CoKiperative Creamery,
shares of stock were sold at $50
per share, the company being cap-
italized for $10,000. No member
Is allowed to hold more than five
shares. Most members hold but
one share as is shown by the fact
that there are now 135 stockhold-
ers owning 147 shares of stock,
"considerable expense was neces-
sary before establishment and dur-
ing 1922, the cost of building and
equipment. An old creamery was
purchased at a cost of $6,010, whUe
repairs and addition of new equip-
ment during the year incurred an
expense of over $3,000.

Plant Opens

During the first two weeks after
the plant was. opened, 108 patrons
delivered cream. This number
gradually increased until as many
as 219 producers were patrons of
the co-operative creamery during
eht flush season of the year.

A total of 186.424 pounds of but-
ter v.'as made during 1922 by But-
ter-maker G. W. Messner and his
assistant, Joe BowmaTi. Py far
the largest part of this was sold
in prints to retail merchants in
larger Illinois cities. Some was
shipped to Iowa. The tub butter
shipped went to Chicago commis-
sion houses.

Premium on Butter

It is interesting to note that the
high quality of the product caused
it to command a premium on the
market. Print butter sold at one
cent over 92 score on the Chicago
market, while tub butter sold at
one cent under 92 score print but-
ter on the Chicago market.

A short summary of the cream-
ery receipts for the year from the
various sources of accounts, fol-
lows:

Commission Houses $18,705.40

Retail Merchants i 47.018.72

Patrons 3.005.85

Buttermilk ...; 631.47

Sundry Items 20.45

Butter Inventofy 696.33

Total J70.078.22

Disbursements totalled $68,085.59.
From the profits, $550 was ^et
aside for stock dividend, $445 for
the purchase of a creaifi vat, and
leaving a balance on hand of
$997.63.

Poultry Products Too

Besides its butter trade, the "co-
op" handled poultry and eggs tor
its patrons on the very narrow
margin of one cent per dozen for
eggs and one cent per pound for
poultry. This is less than halt the
usual margin of buyers.

Only the small balance of $393.06
was shown to the credit side of
the poultry products handled, due,
of course, to the narrow margin at
which they were purchased. Re
ceipts -for eggs during the year
totalled $10,365.52 and chickens
were sold to the value of $7,131.19.

The Mt. Carroll Creamery found
that handling poultry and eggs for
patrons worked in very well along
with Us dalrj trade. The volume

panying table showing the price
paid for cream during each month
of 1922 by the Mt. Carroll Co-op-
erative Creamery, the Elizabeth
Co-operative Creamery, and a
neighboring cream station, will
help to answer that question.

As can be seen from the table,
an average of about five cents per
pound was paid all through the
year by the Mt. Carroll Co-oper-
ative Creamery over that of the
neighboring cream station. The
"co-op" purchased 152,375 pounds
of butterfat during the year. At
five cents per pound difference, it
paid farmers $7,618.75 over what
a neighboring cream station paid.

At the same time. It is estimat-
ed. Judging from the prices paid
during other years, that the neigh-
boring cream station paid at least
lour cents per poiMd more than
if there had been no co-operative
creamery in Mt. Carroll. This
brings an estimated increase of
$13,713.75 which producers received
over what they might have, had
there been no "co-op."

The fact that the Elizabeth Co-
operative Creamery paid more
than the Mt. Carroll Creamery did
during 1922 was possible because

IN THEIR WORKING CLOTHES

The Mt. Carroll Co-operative Creamery wa.-! undergoing repairs
when The Record visited it and we were unable to get a good pic-
ture of it, so we "snapped" two of the officers who happened to be
present, Charles W. Moore, president, (left) and H. P. Hostetter,
secretary (right).

Other officers are, Jasper Schamberger, vice-president,- and S. A.
Keim, treasurer, who, with Sherman Gillespie, John Elliott, Frank
Vanderheyden, ."W. J. Hartman, William James, George Fulrath, and
President Moore, constitute the Board of Directors.

CQinparative Cream Prices (1922)

teo. of ceikt4 per lb. paid for bntterfat.

. . ' , Mf. Carroll

Cooperative
Creaaiery

Jan 31 & 34

Feb. 35

March 36 & 35

April 36 & 34

May 32 & 34

June 36 & 35

July 38

Aug 32 & 34

Sept 40 & 42

Oct. 45 & 47

Nov., 49 & 62

De*. , 55 & 50

■.J-.

Ellxaketik NelKklKiHas

Cooperative Cream

Creamery Statloa

J614 25

39 30

3714 35

36 W 30 ■
37^ 30
38H 30

37 30
36 30
42 34
47% 40
62 -143
54 48

33,8

41.16

HoUtein "News"
To Make Debut
Early In June

The Illinois Holstein-Friesian
Association is starting a new pub-
lication to appear this' month,
"The News," ,wjilch Will appear
monthly. The following are the
new oflicers of the Association:

President, Frank T. Fowler,
Lake ■V'Hla; 'Vice-President, C. J.
lindley. Greenville; Treasurer, A.
S. Benton, Chicago; Oineral and
Field Secretary^ E; G. Thiem;
Directors, H. W. Allyn, Byron; W.
H. Fitch. Aurora; Geo. A. Fox,
Sycamore; L. M. Gentry, Oregon;
H. M. Wood, Delavan; W. W.
■yapp, Urbana.

of longer establishment of the

former concern and the probable

better quality of cream received.

Increase Tkis I'ear

Judging by the business of the
Mt. Carroll "co-op" so far this
year, it appea#» that 1923 will
easily see a great increase over
1922 in total vofiime. During the
first four months of this year, an
average of 600 pounds more butter
has been made each month over
the corresponding period last year.
Much more poultry and egg busi-
ness is evident this year also.

The creamery is beiag consider-
ably improved this year. A new
cream var'amJ a refrigeration sys-
tem have already been installed.
In addition, the plant will be paint-
ed and otherwise improved during
the year.

Officers PleasM

Statements made by Chas W.
Moore, president of the Mt. Carroll
Co-operative Creamery Company,
and H. ' Hostetter. secretary, in-
dicate that lthe> , are pSeased with
the results of co-operation as it
has worked out In the enterprise,
but there are some trials and trib-
nations also.

As Mr. Hostetter expressed it:
"Co-operation is the only thing. It
can work wonders it farmers will
only 'stick ' Too many forget,
however, that the creamery is
their own enterprise and they will
desert it if some competitor olters
them a cent or two more in order
to win them away from their own
concern. They forget that the co-
operative is responsible i for the
higher prices and that if it is
killed, competitors wljl pay the
same old prices.**

PITOURGHPLUS
PRACTICE IS HIT
HARDJY HOUSE

fake Steel Freight Charge Is

Target of Unanimous Vote';

Bill To Governor

By a unanimous vote of 108
to 0, the 'Illinois House of Rep-
resentatives li«4 declared against
"Pittsburgh phis," following,
the lead of the Benate which had'
already voted to take steps to
abolish the steel industrj' prac-
tice which adds the Pittsburgh
freight rate to the price of steel
products in tnidwestern mills.

The bill would create a coittmit-
tee of seven members apppinted bj
the Governor: two from the Sen-
ate; two from the House; one
from the Farm Bureau; one from
the Western Association of Rolled
Steel Consumers: and one, a man-
ufacturer. The committee is auth-
orized to prosecute legal actions,
to co-operate with a similar body
of another state, and to inform the
public generally for the purpose of
bringitig about the abolition of
"PitUburgh Pins."

Provision is also made by the
bill for the appropriation of $25,-
000 tor the cotnmission appointed.

The bill is now subject to action,
by the Governlor.

"Pitsburgh Plus" abolition .is
backed by the American T'ami Bu-
reau Federation. ■ TlJe I. A. A.
passed resolutions against it at
the last annual meeting.

The praciiceadds gr<"'.-'<<— '-^.ithe
cost of farm im?l**nier , .,, - -Ijp
farmer is one of the largest — if ^ot
the largest— uaer of steel prodncts
in the countty. The imaginary
freight charge |s of course pock-
eted, by the etiel ' manufacturers.

Charities Send ■ U '
Folder Telling
Of the Outings

The United Charities of Chica-
go is sending te la list of I. A. A.
and Farm Bureau members thia
month an Illustrated folder de-
scribinp the Outcngs for Children
Project. Ihis tollder tells graph-
ically what is II^Bg done tor the
youngsters. ; '

Ground Rock Phospnate-

You Know What You're Getti4t| >
I You Pay Only For Quality Yo« <!;et

Phosphate is a profit maker. It cuts down your
labor cost per bushel of yield — increases quality and
selling value of the graun.

The I. A. A. has a shipping office in Tennessee to
insure you prompt service and accuracy of weight
and qucJity— every carload is sampled and analyzed
and you are billed on the basis of the analysis.

The buying power of the I. A. A. insures you
the lowest price consistent with high quality.

Your Farm Ad'viser hais the information and or-
der forms. Get your orders in early through your
County Bureau. The price is lower now than later.

Phosphate-Limestone Department
^ i ' Illinois Agricultural AssociatioD

T^

r+K-

Pa««2

lUinou Agricaharal Association

RECORD

Puftliihca twice a month >>y 0)e
lUinJs ABHtulturai AsaoeiatiSn,
608 South' |)tai-l>orn Street. Chieato.
Illin<J 3. IfcUtta by News I'ublielty
Depa^tmeBt, ti J. Montross, Director.

as iseciml class matter Olt.

EntrV i

10. i|j;i

'■aeo.l

Mar<'

inp * .'•pecial

vIcKilf for

Oitnii

ISL'l

itt
mill'

_ post office at Cfti

nnrter the act of
Acceptance for ma^l-
ratcB of postage
Section nnj. Acr of

ge ppo-

_ .. . . Acr oi

r 3. 19l|". authorlzeil Oct. ll.

The thdi\-1Htial membership fee of
till- I linois .ipricultur.-tl ^asocin-
tion 'i^ tUe clotlars a year. THis'
fee tticlM<Ii-s (iayment of ten cents
for 3iil>scri!nian to tiie Illinois Ae-
rlcuUl ral .Association Itecoril.

OFFICERS

S. H. Tliompson

Quinoy.
Kckert. Uelli-

President.

Vlcc-t "S'dent; A. O.

v| le..

Secret ij-y. Oeo, A. Fox. Sycamore
Treaskirer. R. A. Cowies. Hlooming

t4

The Illinois Agricultural Assoaiatioii Record

June 15, 1923 ' J^J^^

I. A. A. Maintains Le^al Service

To Protect Interests of Farmers

EpIECt'TIVE «0»I.MITTEK '

Br- Congressional Districts .

Utlj-^Henry McGoUKh. Maple Parlt-
12th-+:. F. iTulloclt. l:.jckfT>ril.
I3th-^''. E. Haml»orouph. I^olo.
14th-; V. H. Mbody. Port Byron. 1
isth— 4 I. K. Colembel. Iloopole. n
16th — f'5. E. Uenler, Mendota.
171 h — ,'^. P. Barton. Cortiell.
18tlt — ^'. -Tt. Finley. Hoope.ston.
Ijth^). j; Holterman. .Sjidarus.
;nth-4 Carl J- fmitn, Detroit.
2lst — a:. L. Corbin. CarlinviUe.
2Jn.l-f Stanley :"astle. .\lton.
23rd— I "Jirlton Trimble. Trimble.
24th — furt Anf erson. X'-nia.
25lh — Vernon ]-essley. Sparta.

ctors pt Depai-Inients,
I. Aj .\. Offlre

Genertll OfBce in'' A.isistant to Seij-
retarjfl J. P. Hirpcr; Field OrKanijj-
atlon. J. C. Salldr; Organization Pub-
licity. I O. E. Mitzger; .\ev.a Publi.l-
ity. UjJ Monttosa;' TransiMirtatioii.
L..J. Quasey; Statistics. .1. <'. \\ at-
son; Plliance. R. A.. Cowl-s; FruU
and vWetablq Marketing
Dui^t Live Stick Mark.ti
Stewarjt: ■ Dair* MarketiM
Lyncbri^PhosphJite l.irn--
Bent. rtLeiral. Newton J

(.'.

K.
. -„. C. A.
ii,ir. A. 1>.
Mone. J. K.
■rkins.

Alglonquin Milk
Shippers Saved
II $45 Every Day

■In 4J recent letter' to ihe I. .\. -i

art.

: coui]-

One 01 the most receat and,
one of tlik.inost eft'eojive tiepart
lUfnts of tjie I. A. A. workingi
tmlay forjtljie botiotit of tlio Illi-
nois fanuill|urfau member in the|
bu-sinoss 'm\ aKrienltiire is the- I.j
A. A. I>wjl Service, with New-;
ton Jenldnp as director. This
division (|f;the service of the I.
A. A. wisi established to give
onraiiiztvl' farmers of Illinois the
ad.vantajreii of lejral eouasel on
a par-, wiltili that employed by
the cr'reat' firms rep.resentiiip;
other indji^tries.

The wotW of the Legal' Service
may be tlivlded Jnto the follow-
ing four t;il«ups:

! — As.sl^l^nce to' the various
other j departments of the
.-^ssotl^tion.
2 — nusineiss of the Association

'itsellj.
3 — Service to Count.v rami

Bureaus.
4— Special matters.
: All Vse it
Kver>' (lebartnient of
spciatioui 1b! iff constant
the Legal! Department.

Mr. Durst

etable

wishes

the As-

need of

When

of the Fruit and Ves-

.Mhitketing Department,

to hielp organize a local
fruit exch4h|ge in Union County,
for instancje. it becomes necessary
to incorpolrilte the organ izfttioi)
draw up appropriate by-laws for
the organifajtion, pass upon crop
be signed by the
This is the proper
the Legal Bepart-

Ste\vart, ilgon^uin. .McHenry i
ty, md'le this ttatcment:

t IS nloYiths ago I wrote

out ourl milk rate to Chi-

Our mil«age to Chicago was

via Weit Chicago. 52 miles,

we h^ve a line via Crys-

', 47 milfes. There was tallt

nr for ^he milk by zones

were t^ be outside of the

zone. You got us insid^

50-miI|

this sliijtion.

saving

Another concrete e.^ample of I,

A. A
well

s^vicej! • Mr.
datlsfied kwith

ne and We get eight cent*
er 100 pounds than it wj
otside.
: tounds

Of about >45.'

ortalion! nei)ari':i'

contracts ;o
members, t t<t
function qf
i.icnt.

What is
1 tables, is
-i^'dH^ts.

We. are." shippin.g
it milk a day from
his makes a daily

Stewart is
the saving

broughl to Algonquin milk ship-
pers by the Trainspejtatiou Depart-
ipent. And* iU; his letter he was
'asking for.mor^ service — this time
in securing actjon % a railroad in
cleanii? out I Canadian thistles
from W^e rightjof-way.

want service writ^
Don't expect I. X

—If yoiJ
I. A. .\, I

Mora ■
to the

A. dtjiartments to know your
grievaces unless you "put tlient
wise" I o your [wants.

Producers Will
Open Agency At
'Cincinnati, Ohio

\ Repi esentatite live stock pro-
ducers -of Oh(o, Kentucky, and
Btdianji, in a jneeting in Cincin-
dati, ^aoI( preliminary steps to
eetablii h a producers live stocU
.ciinimi^sion agency at that maiv
ket. "liey will organize undeD
Ohifc's a^w coope.rative market-
ing la' I and be a member of the
family >[ co-operatives making up
the N4 lonal Ljive Stock Produce
er's -\9iiociatior. Operations willj

not sta

until July.

tfue of fruit and veg-
also true of dairy
Jlr,. Ljncli is Cvi!,-;!
upon con.sta itly from tlie [dairy
districts of t lie state, to as.-iist,in^
forming dajiry organizations, Nlr.
H. .\. DeWerff. I-'arni A^viner

Franklin County, wants to
orianize i^he :milk producei-.s in j*-
iocalitv in , his county. Tlft» in-
corporatioji- paiiers are ohila-;m-i'
for the Denton .'.'ilk Vrotjucci."
.\ssociation aliui it is now a ^>oin^
concern. Tlu work of incorporat-
ing and orda lizing creainei-io.-? and
milk niaricting conipanies is
done b.v the ^eiral Department.
Live .st'iick Work
WheiL J.iiil. fehinii. Adviser in
Fulton Cfcirity,'; calls upon Mr.
Stewart foif^ssiitance in the or-
ganization |ot a\ Shipping Asso-
ciation, he j takes' it up with the
Legal Dep|iittraeiit, which pre-
pares incorporation papers and
attends to j the legal aspects of
the matter and the Fulton Coun
ty Farm Bijrean Live Stock ship-
ping Association is the result.
These shipiiiiig associations have
been organized 4 all over Illinois
during the jpast year. They are
uniform inj character and have
all, been sjet up in accordance
with, and h^ve become affiliated
in the marketing plan of the
National Live Stock Producers
Associationj

Before Mr, Bent of the Lime
stone-Phosplhate Department, en
ters into contractual relations
with the Kuhm Phosphate &
Chemical dot. in Tennessee, lie
goes over wiith great detail, the
subject majtter involved in the
contract, wlt^i the Legal Depart-
ment of th4 Association. In this
way he safeguards the Associa-
tion and rib'lits of the members

llinois. I who buy phosphate

through th^ Association.

Legislative Aid

The Legii; Department works

in close cDiijunction w*ith the

legislative iofcamlltee. It some-

(o^n

times prepares a bill for the
committee. It analyzes bills
troduced by interests other than
agriculture to determine how it
may affect Illinois farmers. It
performs the same service with
reference to national and state
legislation.

Mr. Quasey frequently is con-
fronted with questions of law
involved in transportation claims.
These are taken up with tie
Legal Department. Matters Of
transportation and claims, are
vet}- closely related to legal ser*-
vice.

Tax Question
The taxation of farm lands
lias been a live question in the
state "during tlie past few years.
The tax work of Mr. Watson
brings in numerous questions of
legality in certain practices pur-
sued in the v.ir'ous counties.
When tlie County Clerk of Ma-
coupin County, for instance, ex-
tended the taxes improperly, an
oitinion as to the law was ren-
dered by the Legal Department
to that County. The matter was
fiken to Court and the farmers
won l!ie suit.

Thus it may be seen that each
tlepartment, in a sense, has its
hegal counlel to consult upon
ial matters affecting its work.
An organization as large as
the I. A. A. dealing, as it does,
with many interests and maintain-
ing many contacts, has a good
^eal of legal business pertaining
to the organization itself. Matters
pf this kind are often very close-
ly related to questions of busi-
hess policy.

1. A. A. as Whole
Any mattfers involving financial
responsibility on the part of the
Association come in this cate-
gory. In this sense, the Legal
Department represents the inter-
est of the Association against
the world. In all legal matters
touching upon the business of
the Association, the Legal De-
partment assists the officers of
the Association.

The County Farm Bureaus
niake use, to a considerable ex-
tent, of the Association's Legal
Department. When Fred J.
Blackburn of Marion County,
Wants to advise one of hia mem-
bers what the law is with refer-
ence to division fences, he gets
In touch with the Legal Depart-
ment.

County Service
A -perplexing school question
confronts certain of the farmers
in Madison County and Alfred
Kant communicates with the
Legal Department to determine
That right the Superintendent of

Schools has, with reference to
boundaries of the School Districts

Some of the farmers around
Magnolia in Putman County,
want to form a co-operative eiie-
vator. F. . E. FiiUer, the Farm
Adviser, sends for Mr. Jenkins to
come down to discuss w^ith them,
the forms of organization avd
tHe necessary steps to be taken
in the formation of- an elevatof

Mr. M. L. Hunt. Treasurer ci|t
the McDonough County iFarnl
Bureau, wants to know wh^t the
law is as to the liability df his
Farm Bureau for the payment of
taxes on personal property. \ .\nd'
thus it goes. Hundreds of flhese
legal inquiries come in froni all
over the state and are givenl at-
tention by the Association's L^gal
Department.

General Strive

Certain special matters coine
up fj^m time to time, which
volve ti^reat deal of attentitn
by tlie L^al Department,
example of this is the lilinoii-
Missouri Milk Association matt
at East St. Louis. This Ccyu-
pany was thrown into .Jbankrubt-
cy last January. Mr.' Kirkpkt-
rick has acted as legal adviapr
for the reorganization committae.
The matter was carried by 4^.
Kirkpatrick to the higher couH

FARM WOMEN TO
ENTER FIELD OF
'CO-OP'JMRKETING

Conference Held To Consider

Egg Merchandising; Pass

Resolution

Mt C

As the result of the national
egg marketing conference held
in Chicago bj- the American
Farm Bureau Federation, farm
women of America arc to under-
take the organization and con-
trol of their first national co-
operative marketing association,
that of egg marketing.

Mrs. Wi C. .Martin, ♦Te.xas, chair-
man of the Home and Community
Department of the American P'arm
Bureau Federation, was elected
chairman of the meeting, assisted
hy Mrs. H. W. Lawrence of Ohio.

' Aaron Sapiro, co-operative coun-
sel of the A. F. B. F.. was the
principal speaker at the confer-
ence. He recommended that the
farm women of the middle west,
instead of "trading $2 worth of
eggs at the cross-roads grocery for
50 cents worth of canned goods'."
adopt the co-operative sales plan
of the Pacific Coast Egg Produc-
ers which has brought them a
premium of two to four cents per
dozen for their eggs on the New

and in the meantime the Conimii- York market,
tee has worked out a settlement The conference instructed the
which has; been accepted by near4L„,,^i,„^„_ ^,^^ jj^^j;^ ^^ ^.^^^j^^
ly all of the creditors. ]\ ^ ^.^„^^^, eommittee to work out

Another similar matter which! a standard plan for co-operative
the Legal Dei.artment has been L^g marketing. This committee
working upon tor'a long Period. pwiU select state organization com-
is that of rural lisht and nower.
Tlie matter first was raised by
the members in a groirp of
Northern Illinois Counties, whejre
rates for electrical energy -htd
been boosted by the Illinois
Northern Utilities Company. The
matter was taken up by the Le-
gal Department with the Illi-
nois Commerce Commission and
the rate boost was cut in half.

Overhaul Rules

Following this first complaint,
others were made from Bureau
County and later from Tazewell
and other Counties. It became
necessary to overhaul the entire
rules in Illinois for electric light
and power used on the farm.
The old rules were abolished and
Frank L. Sniith of Dwlght, Illi-
nois, Chairman of the Illinois
Commerce Commission, has had
a Committee working for several
months on the question, with
committees representing th,e Illi-
nois Agricultural Association and

•;iitteofi to iuitiatc lamjiaigns to
organize farmers and the families
of farmers to merchandise eggs
in an intelligent and orderly fash-
ion.

Walton Peteet summarized the
conference results by stating that
the new committee would prepare
definite plans for co-operative
marketing of eggs; the egg pro-
ducers would organize local as-
sociations to assemble and grade
their eggs; the locals would fed-
erate- into state selling agencies,
and' the state associations would
b& co-ordinated into a great na-
tional egg producers marketing
association.

the Utilities. The case has just
recently been closed and the
Commerce Commission will short-
ly promulgate its General Order.
These are some of the things
which Iteep the firm of Jenkins
& Kirkpatrick busy in behalf of
organized agriculture in Illinois.

Watchful of your interests
in freight rates

Traiuportation Department
Illinois Agricultural Association

*, When fam

.■- ganize a co-o

■ with a good

t from the Daii

S in the £<ill of

opened for b

When stock

. pany met to c

. they found tha

i business durini

i dend on all pa

That's parti

' were satisfied

pleasing thingi
f shown.

In the orga

Carroll Co-01

? shares of stoc

• per share, the

; itaiized for $1

is allowed to !

shares. Most

^ one share as i

, that there are

j ers oWning 14

' "considerable

sary before esi

ing 1922, the 1

equipment. A

purchased at a

repairs and ad

ment during t

expense of ovi

Pla

i ' During the I
A the plant was
', delivered crea
,. gradually incr
/ as 21D produc
. the co-operati
. eht flush seaso
1 A total of II
'i ter v.-as made
-" ter-niaker G. '
^y as.^lstanf Joe
.' the largest pa

in prints to

, larger Illinois

i shipped to loi

shipped went

sion houses.

Preinin

It is interest
high quality ol
it to command
market. Print
cent over 92 s
market, while
one cent undei
ter on the Chi

A short sun
1 ery receipts fo
various sourct
lows :

CommissHJtelHc
Retail .Me>Wian
Patrons .......

Buttermilk . . .
Sundry Items
Butter Inventoi

Total

Disbursemei
From the pn
aside for stoc
the purchase 1
leaving a ba
J997.63.

Poultry

Besides its 1
op" handled i
its patrons o
margin of one
eggs and one
ppultry. This
usual margin

Only the sm
was shown tc
the poultry pr
of course, to t
which they w
ceipts for egi
totalled $10,3(
were sold to tl

The Mt. Car
that handling :
patrons workei
with its dairy

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Consider
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Ml Carroll Producers Pleased With

Success of One Year of Co-operation

When fanners in the vicinity of Jit. Carroll decided to or-
piUiize a co-operative creamery company to supply the locality
with a good market for dairy products, advisory aid was asked
from tlw Dairy Marketing Department of the I. A. A. That was
in tlie ii\\\ of 1!)21. The aid ^-^s given and a new co-operative
opened for business, January 2, 1922. :

When siockhoUlcrs in the Mt. Carroll Co-operative Creamery Com-
pany met to consider their first year's results on January 27. 1923.
they found that their company had transacted nearly $88,000 worth of
business during the year, was able to declare a seven per cent divi-
dend on all paid up stock, and had $1,442.65 balance on hand.

That's partly the reason why the dairy producers of the territory
were satisfied with their flrst year of business. But there were other
pleasing things too, about this flrst year of co-operationi as will be
shown.

In the organization of the Mt.
Carroll Co-operative Creamery,
shares of stock were sold at $50
per share, the company being cap-
italized for $10,000. No member
is allowed to hold more than five
shares. Most members hold but
one share as is shown by the fact
that there are now 135 stockhold-
ers oWning 147 shares of stock.
""Considerable expense was neces-
sary before establishment and dur-
ing 1922, the cost of building and
equipment. An old creamery was
purchased at a cost of $6,010, while
repairs and addition of new equip-
ment during the year incurred an
expense of over $3,000.

Plant Opens

■ During the first two weeks after
the plant was opened, 108 patrons
delivered cream. This number
gradually increased until as many
as 219 producers were r.trons of
the co-operative creamery during
eiit flush season of the year.

.4 total of 186,424 pounds of but-
ter was made during Vyl2 by But-
ter-maker G. W. Messner and his
as.^istanf Joe Bowinpn, Ry far
the largest part of this was sold
iu prints to retail merchants in
larger Illinois cities. Some was
shipped to Iowa. The tub butter
shipped went to Chicago commis-
sion houses.

Preminni on Butter

It is interesting to note that the
high quality of the product caused
it to commaniT a premium on the
market. Print butter sold at one
cent over 92 score on the Chicago
market, while tub butter sold at
one cent under 92 score print but-
ter on the Chicago market.

A short summary of the cream-
ery receipts for the year from the
various sources of accounts, fol-
lows :

C'otnmisslfikHouses $18,715.40

Retail SiSWants 47.018.7^

I'alroii.s 3.005.85*

Buttermilk 631.47

Sundry Items *.,... 20.45

Butter Inventory 696.33

Total

$70,078.22

Disbursements totalled $68,085.59.
From the profits, $550 was set
aside for stock dividend, $445 for
the purchase of a cream vat, and
leaving a balance on band of
j $997.63.

Poultry Products Too
ji Besides its butter trade, the "co-
I op" handled poultry and eggs tor
its patrons on the very narrow
margin of one cent per dozen for
eggs and one cent per pound for
ppultry. This is less than halt tbe
usual margin of buyers.

Only the small balance of $393.06
was shown to the credit side of
the poultry products handled, due,
of course, to^he narrow margin at
which they were purchased. Re-
ceipts for eggs during the year
totalled $10,365.52 and chickens
were sold to the value of $7,131.19.
The Mt. Carroll Creamery found
that handling poultry and eggs for
patrons worked in ver^ well along
with its dairy trade. The voltftnte

of poultry products m>uld not be
so great as to warrant the estab-
lishment of a separate'jco-operative
shipping association. jAdded con-
venience to patrons i^ given by
making it handy for tbem to de-
liver their cream, eggs4 and poul-
try to the o"e station. {

What Are Bene^ts?

In the consideration ctf the suc-
cess of a year's operatfpn of the
Mt. Carroll Co-operative Creamery,
the question might naturally arise,
and justly, too: "Outside of the
stock dividends paid, what actual
benefits did the co-operative cream-
ery bring that would not have
been received by patronizing local
dealers?"

Probably a study of the accom-
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panying table showing the price
paid for cream during each month
of 1922 by the Mt. Carroll Coop-
erative Creamery, the Elizabeth
Co-operative Creamery, and a
neighboring cream station, will
help to answer that question.

As can be seen from the table,
an average of about live cents per
pound was paid all through the
year by the Mt. Carroll Co-oper-
ative Creamery over that of the
neighboring cream station. The
"co-op" purchased 152.375 pounds
of butterfat during the year. At
five cents per pound difference, it
paid farmers $7,618.75 over what
a neighboring cream station paid.

At the same time, it is estimat-
ed, judging from the prices paid
during other years, that the neigh-
boring cream station paid at least
four cents per pound more' than
if there had been no co-operative
creamery in Mt. Carroll. This
brings an estimated increase of
$13,713.75 which producers received
over what they might have, had
there been no "co-op."

The fact that the Elizabeth Co-
operative Creamery paid more
than the Mt. Carroll Creamery did
during 1922 was possible because

IN THEIR WORKING CLOTHES

HoHein "News'*
, To Make Debut
Early In June

The Illinois Holstein-Friesian
Association is starting a new pub-
lication to appiear this month,
"Tbe News," wtiich Will appear
monthly. The lollowing. are the
new officers of the Association:

President. Frank T. Fowler,
Lake Villa; Vicf-Presidcnt, C. J.
Lindley. Greenville; Treasurer, A.
S. Benton, ithictpo; General and
Field Secretary, E. G. Thiero;
Directors, H. W. Allyn, Byron; W.
H. Fitch. Atirora; Geo. A. Fox,
Sycamore; LrM. Gentry, Oregon;
H. M. Wood, Delavan; W. W.
Yapp. Urbana.

0f longer estatilishment of the

former concern and the protjable

better quality of' cream received.

Increa.>ie This Tear

Judging by the business of the
Mt. Carroll "co-op" so far this
year, it appears that 1923 will
easily see a great increase over
1922 in total volume. During the
first four months of this year, an
average of 600 pounds more butter
has been made each month over
the corresponding period last year.
Mtich more poultry and egg busi-
ness is evident tJliis year also.

The creamery is beiag Consider-
ably improved this year. A new
cream vat and a retrigi^ration sys-
tem have already been installed.
In addition, the plant will l)e paint-
ed and otherwise improved during
the year. |

Offirers'i Pleased

Statements made 'by Chas 'W'.
Moore, president lot tbe Mt. Carroll
Co-operative .Creamery ConipaiiV.
aan H. Hostetter, -secretary, in-

dicate that the.v

are pleased with

the results of fo-operfttion as it
has worked out lin the enterprise
hut there are sqine trials and trib-
uations also.

As .Mr. Hostel tcr -eitpressed it:
"Co-operation is Iheionly thing. It
can work wM>nders if farmers will
only 'stick.' lioo many forget,
however, that the creamery is
their own enterprise and they will
desert it if some competitor offers
them a cent or tw-o more in .order
to win them away from their own
concern. They florget tllat the co-
operative is respohsTble. for the
higher prices and that if It is
killed, competitors will -pay the
same old prices."

The Mt. Carroll Co-operative Creamery was undergoing repairs
when The Record visited it and we were unable to get a good pic-
ture of it. so we "snapped" two of the officers who happened to be
present, Charles "W. Moore, president, (left) and H. P. Hostetter.
secretary (right).

Other oAcers are, Jasper Schamberger, vice-president, and S. A,
Keim, treasurer, who, with Sherman Gillespie, John Elliott, FraiLk
■Vanderheyden, 'W. J. Hartman, William James, George Fulrath, and
President Moore, constitute tbe Board of Directors.

Comparative Cream Prices (1922)

No. of centa per lb. paid for buttrrfat.

Mt. Carroll

Cooperative

Creamery

Jan 31 & 34

Feb 35

March 36 & 35

April 36 & 34

May 32 & 34

June ., 36 & 35

July 33

Aue 32 & 34

Sept 40 4 42

Oct '. 45 & 47

Nov • 49v& 52

Dec 55 & 50

Elisabeth NriKhborinK
Cooperative Cream

Creamery

36>.i

39

37%

36 '.J

3714

38 v..

37

36

42

4714

52

54

38.5

41.16

Station

25
30
35
30
30
30
30
30
34
40
43
48

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PITTSBURGH PLUS
PRACTICE IS HIT
HARD BY HOUSE

Fake Steel Freight Charge is

Target of Unanimous Vote;

Sill To Governor

By B unaniuoiis vote of 108
to 0. the IHiiB) s lIoifM> of R<>p-
resentativcs Imi ilcclan-d against
"Pittslmrph ^lus," following
the lead of the fik'.iiatf which had
already voted ito take jitcps to
abolish the stjefl industrj- -prac-
tice wliich adklffl the Pittsburgh
freight rativ t* the priw of steej
prodtlcts in laidu'estern miUs.

The bill w'oi^J create a conimit-
tee of seven m«i|ibers api>ointed by
the Governor; two from the Sen-
ate; two from the House; vae
from the .Farm Bureau ; one <Tom
the Western .^ESociation of Rolled
Steel Consumers; and one, a man-
ufacturer. The committee is auth-
orized to prosH'Utc legal actions,
to co-operate with a similar boiy
of another state, and to inform the
public generally tor the purpose of
bringing about tbe, abolition ot
"Pittsburgh Plug."

Provision Is also made by the
bill for the appropriation of $25,-'
000 for the coinraission'appointed.

The bill is noir subject to action
by the Governor.- .»

"Pitsburgh plus" aborrtipj^: is
backed by the |/^merican Farni Bu,-
reau Federatiii. The I. A. A^
passed resolutions against tt at
the last amiUBl' iie^tlnp

The pracliuejadds gr<" "•>'•■•♦'<. the
co«t of farm ^rinleme?- ... ■ '!:ift .
farmer is on© it tjio largest -if noli
the laitgest— n^r of steel products
in tho coun't). "'^'•^ imaginary
freight chapgei s of course pock- ,
eted by th^ '»t*< 1 manufacti^rers.

Charities, Send -■•■ \
Folder Telling
Of the Outings

The I'nUfed '(hiarities of Chica-
go is sinding Iti a list of I. A. A.
and Farm Btj|rt"au. members this
month an "HlikatratPd folder de-,
scribing the Okitings for Children
Project. This! 'older tells graph-
ically what Ib telng done for the
younirsters. -

Ground Rock Phosphate-

You Know What You're Getting "" .
You Pay Only For Quality Yo« Get

Phosphate is a profit maker. It cuts down your ,
labor cost per bushel of yield — increatses quality- and
selling value of the grain.

The I. A. A. has a shipping office in Tennessee to
insure you prompt service and accuracy of weight
and quality — every carload is sampled and analyzed
and you are billed on the basis of the analysis.

The buying power of the I. A. A.Minsures you
the lowest price consistent with high Quality.

Yolir Farm Adviser has the information and or-
der forms. Get your orders in early through your
County Bureau. The price is loww now than later.

Phosphate-Limestone Department
Dlinois Agricultural Association

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OUTINGS REQUESTS
FOR CITY CHILDREN
BEGINJO^COME IN

I.A.A. ReceivingApplications;
Third Year of Project Prom-
ises Good Record

The first reffue its for Chicago
slums children for two-weelf
outiucTs in the hdmes of county
farm biireau i^: embers began
coming itj to th^ Outing Secre
tary of the lUinc) s Agricultural
Assoriation durirg the first few
da^"s in ^une. '. ndications are
that lastjj'ear's reccird of five
hiuidred laddies ifiven vacations
iuliomes >f Illincis farm bureau
members: will b; equalled or
even excesded.

The applicatipi blank which
was printed in tie last issue of
The Uecond will bie found on this
S^ge. If j you wi^h to take one
^r more fchildren^ for an outing
' some- time this Rummer, fill it
out and sbnd it it> to the Outiag
Secretary *bf Ihe 1. A. A.

Thlnl (year

Althou^li the I. A. A. is first
and alws^s a business organiza-
tion, it has always interested it-
self in some project for helping
others eii)Bh yeaij. This is the
third yeitt of the Outing For
g^roject, carried on in

■tea-.^iV ilnitfiii

Children

ijharities, of Chickgo, The Daily
News, of ■ Chicag^ and Illinois
railroads. : .

The Unijted Chanties, the city's
largest n6n-8ectartan charitable
organlratiftp, seleats the children
from the ^ost worthy and needy
of homes. ! So destitute are these
homes thiiit an oiitlng means al-
most life![ltself tb the children.
The chariiable orjganization out-
fits the Children wtth clothing
ai>(>ropriatje to tMeir outing, has
thtm etamined I carefully to
guard agH.inst any possibility of
contagious <i>seate and sends
them oil their vacations spotless-
ly clean, in charge of - competent
women directors, j

From 4 to 14

PICNIC SPEAKER

Madison County
Melon Growers
May Organize

Cantaloupe growers in the vi-
cinity of Poag, Madison county,
recently held a meeting with C. E.
Durst of the Fruit and Vegetable
Mariieting Department of the I. A
A. to consider the formation of a
co-operative melon marketing oi-
gBnlzation.

The growers present seemed f;i
vorably impressed with the ad
vantages of such an association.
Last year 15 cars of melons were
tuarketed from the locality and
this year's crop ' will be the big-
gest yet with more than 250 'acres
under cultivation.

Formation of two more locals of
the Illinois Fruit Exchange at
Grafton and Jerseyville, Jersey
county, seems imminent, as much
enthusiasm toward co-operative
marketing was manifest at meet-
ings addressed by Mr. Durst.

Peoria Producers Pay

Ten Per Cent Dividend

(Continued ffrom page 1)
erection of a new addition to the
Exchange office building for more
office space. New weighing facil-
ities and sort&ig pens have also
been provided jby the stock yards
company. ; \

The E. St. Louis Producers ag-
ency held first or second Aik each
week bt May.' ' ii' nauaita aoffuT
It per. cent of the total receipts
each week with an average of ap-
proximately 240 cars.

This agency also gives a good
cjample of how Volume cuts costs
of operation. For the first quar-
ter of 1922, It had receipts of
1020 cars and tof the same period
this year, 2381 cars were handled.

an Increase of 133.5 per cent. The
average expense of selling was
$15.50 per car In 1922 and this
was reduced to $11.17 this year.

The Kansas City Producers
took rapid strides in May. From
sixteenth place with 40 cars dur-
ing the first week, this agency
took rapid bounds each week un
til it stood in fourth place with
lT5*car5~6s^rSCeitIlS- aln-Tirs" vliu-
Jast week of May.

Tfie Buffalo selling agency held
first place at that market each
week In- May, handling an average
of about 17 per cent of the re-
ceipts weekly.

The tenth Producers agency, it
is announced, will open soon at
Oklahoma City.

The children a^e of both s
» to 14 In

sexes
and range from I to 14 in age.
. The railroads furnish free fare
Within a limit of 200 miles from
Chicago. ! The Daily .News con-
tributes money and publicity.

Jitsnmes Liability ' ,

The firm buk-eau folks are
asked onlj* to tate one or mwi
Of the children into their homes
for two weeks aid treat them as
they would their own youngsters,
fhe United Char ties assumes all
liability for injuries.

The families which entertained
the fl»« hundred children given
oiftisgs last summer had onl.v
praise fer the brojfect. Several
of them declared that they got
as much out o,f tlieir contact with
their yodjthful guests as the chil-
dren cdAld possibly have re-
eeivsd from the outing. A large
number of families who took
children last year requested that

FARM OUTINGS

they entertain
this summer, as
attach meat and

the same ones
many a warm
friendship was

formed during tie outings

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WANT one or more city youngsters for tf two*week OQtlng
some time during July or August? If so this blank may
be found convenient. It should be filled out and sent In.
If possible, before July 1. On account of the fact that the rail-
roads offer free transportatidn only within a two-hundred mile
radius of Chicago, applications can only be accepted within such
territory. ,' . :

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IlllnoiM Aerlrultural AsaovlatloK,
turn MoulH l>earborB Street,
f'hleaK4. IIUhoIm

We are iS bosltion to give k tWo ifeeks* vacation to.
Chicago ch^dren some time lit July dr Augusf., preferably.

Our choice jol aee and sex la

fflve a

Our nearest Railway station 1|B at..
County. . . .;
dren at. . . i

wbut we could meet the chll-

(fP ease name at least two optional sta(ions)

It Is undbrlstood t^at the itnited Charities of Chicago assumes
the liability to the case of aocldeat or illness to any of the chil-
dren sent to us: however, we pledge to exercise proper precau-
tions in the care and treatment of these children.

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Ten De'piirtmentM Working For You

The Illinois AgricultursJ Association Is Pre-
pared To Serve You In Any .Important Busi-
ness Phase of Illinois Agriculture. [■ 5 ;

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"MEAT FOR HEALTH
WEEK,"JUNE 25-30,
AIMS ATMNSOMER

Vigorous Campaign To Tell

Of Live Stock Products

In Diet

As a means of calling the at-
tention of consumers every-
where throughout the Unite^
States to the high value of meat
as a food, its wholesomeness and
healthfulness, as weU as its im-
portance to Agriculture, the
National Live Stock and Meat
Board requests the observance
of the period of June 25 to June
.3.n,jj* ' '.mm J'ji'-J.tfiaUH Week. ' '

Until the National Live Stoclt
and Meat Board came into being,
there was no effective medium
through which all factors in the
meat industry, from the man on
the farm who produces the live
stock to the man in the retail
shop who sells the meat, could
co-operate in the common cause
of promoting a better knowledge
of the food value and healthful-
ness of meat. The board is now
functioning vigorously, and with
the support of the producers and
others, will be able to do effec-
tive work in restoring meat to
the place which it deserves in
the American diet. The "Meat
For Health Week" will be the
Board's first important step
toward this end.

Use of Poster

Tentative plans tor "Meat For
dealth Week" call for the dis-
tribution and posting in a wide-
spread fashion of the meat poster
receully issued by the United
States Department of Agriculture.

This poster bears the message:
"Meat is Wholesome — For Health
and Vigor Eat Well Balanced
Meals — Use A Variety of KiLds
And Cuts Of Meat."

Recipe Booklet

This poster will probably be
supplemented by colored posters
bearing various meat, dishes
which will be in season at the
time, as well as by recipe book-
lets, which will be issued wide-
ly, and by demonstrations, in the
, larger cities of the country, at
which the proper methods of se-
lecting and preparing meat will
be taught. -^

Through these various activi-
ties, and with the cordial co-op-
eration of live stock producers
and tlieir associations, breed as-

Havc You Consigned
Your Wool To The
1923 Pool?

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Your Lot Will Incfeate
The Volume of Wool In
The Pool.

Volume Spellt Efficiency
T In Marketing.

Efficiency Meant Greater
Net Returns To The

Grower. _

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Fourteen Teart Out of
Seventeen The Wool Mar-
ket Advances With The :
Season.

Live Stock Marketing Dep't.,
Illinois Agricultural Ass'n.

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NATIONAL I
TO BE RE
WHEATN

Delegates Con
Industry;
Co-ope

Milk Producers
.. At Decatur May
A Orgcmize Company

At the request of the Macon
Couptf Farm bureau, a meeting
was fceld at Decatur recently when
122 niilk producers supplying milk
to that city met to consider the ad-
visability of forming a co-operat-
ive milk marketing company. A. D.
Lynch, of the I. A. A. Dairy Mar-
keting Department, addressed the
conference.

Explanation was made of tfae
principles of co-operative dairy
marketing, its advantages and pit-
falls, and the experiences of simi-
lar projects that are proving sac-
cessfui in Illinois were related.

The presence of many small
milk dealers, the wide range in
the retail price of milk, and the
tack of facilities for conforming
to the new compulsory pa^euriza-
tion ordinance passed in Decatur,
seem to indicate that cooperative
effort would greatly improve the
milk supply of that city.

Wblle no definite action was
taken toward orKanizing, a com-
mittee was '' appointed to investi-
gate the practicability of the step.

sociations, live stock shipping
associations and other factors in
the industry, the Board hopes to
make "Meat For Health Week'«
an unlimited success.

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Decision to st
Council of the
in which al^ in
represented, wa
main accomplish
National Wires
held in Chicago
by governors o
headed by Gov.
of Minnesota,
gates were pres

This council, i
resolutions, "will
ough, scientific st
problem and enlis
efforts of all it
publicity in every
ings and to develc
proved methods 1
brium • between d
•nd consumption
Jlshed and p r i i
^American price 1

Such a council
be necessary to
forts possible to
sumption of whe
the part it plays
nation, and to s
wheat which will
lean wheat farm<
standards of livi
has b'^en accustc
titled.

Qomn

The personnel
tion committee v
the Wheat Coun<
States 13 as folio
fute, Chicago; CI
Georgia; S. J. Lo
(Continued

BEFC

The organlz
ty farm bure£
linois Agricul
tlon, the farir
had little me
the law-maker
know Just w
wanted and w
they didn't wi
organization,
pointed a Le
mittee to inf
lators jost ho
feel about tl
Springfield,
of the work
tive Committe
this issue.

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July 2,1923

Number 8

ilLLINOIS CO-OPERATIVE BILL IS NOW A LAW

NATIONAL COUNCIL
TO BE RESULT OF
WHEATMERENCE

Delegates Consider Ills Of

Industry; Endorse

Co-operation

Decision to set up a Wheat
Council of tlie United States
in whSch al^ interests will 6e
represented, was one of the
main accomplishments of the
National Wheat Conference
held in Chicago in June, called
by governors of seven states,
headed by Gov. J. A. 0. Preus
of Minnesota. Over 400 dele-
gates were present.

This council, according to the
resolutions, "will make a thor-
ough, scientific study of the wheat
problem and enlist in co-ordinated
efforts ot all interests to give
publicity in every way to Us find-
ings and to develop and apply ap-
proved methods by which equili-
brium - between domestic products
and consumption can be estab-
jlshed and price stabilized on
^American price level."

Such a council was declared to
be necessary to use all the ef-
forts possible to increase the con-
sumption of wheat, to emphasize
the part it plays in the life of the
cation, and to secure prices for
wheat which will allow the Amer-
ican wheat farmer to Justify the
standards of living to which he
has b-en accustomed and is en-
titled.

Committee

The personnel of the organiza-
tion committee which will- set up
the Wheat Council of the United
States 19 as follows: O. E. Brad-
fute, Chicago; Charles S. Barrett,
Georgia; S. J. Lowell, New York;
(Continued on page 4)

BEFORE^

The organization of coun-
ty farm bureaus and the Il-
linois Agricultural Associa-
tion, the farmers of Illinois
had little means of letting
the law-makers of the state
know just what laws they
wanted and what legislation
they didn't want. Now, with
organization, they have ap-
pointed a Legislative Com-
mittee to inform the legis-
lators jost how the farmers
feel about things down at
Springfield. Read the story
of the work of the Legisla-
tive Committee on Page 2 of
this issue.

Executive Body
Changes Ruling
On Claims Charges

Some changes were made at
the last session of the Executive
Committee ot the I. A. A. In regard
to the collection of claims handled
by tfie Transportation Depart-
ment.

The department Is authorized to
rebate the entire amount of com-
mission charges for transporta-
tion claims to farm bureau mem-
bers in (good standing, who'se
claims come to the I. A. A.
through the county farm bureaus.

Non-members of the farm bu-
reau will be charged 25 per cent
commission on all transportation
claims handled through the Trans-
portation Department.

In handling the claims of co-
operative shipping associations,
full rebate of commission will be
made to associations with 100 per
cent farm bureau membership
and which are under agreement
with county farm bureaus and
the I. A. A. A commission of 15
per cent will be charged associa-
tions whose membership is not
100 per cent farm bureau.

Resignation of
C. E. Durst On
July 1 Accepted

C. E. Burst, Director of the
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing
Department of the I. A. A., tend-
ered his resignation at the last
meeting of the I. A. A. Executive
Committee. The resignation, which
was accepted by the committee,
takes effect on July 1, when Mr.
Durst will take up his new work
with the Federated Fruit and
Vegetable .Growers,-Ine.

Mr. DuVst has been director ot
his department with the I. A. A.
for nearly three years, having
formerly been adviser of Union
and Cook counties and connected
with the State University.

He took a prominent part in
the organization of the Illinois
Fruit Exchange In the spring of
1921 and in its later organization
and marketing this season and
last. He aided in co-operative
fruit and vegetable organization
in Tazewell and Cook Counties,
as well as in the preliminary work
of organizing the Egyptian Seed
Growers Exchange. He was a
member of the National Fruit and
Vegetable Marketing Committee of
21 and is secretary of the Feder-
ated Fruit and Vegetable Grow-
ers, Inc., which grew out of the
plans of that committee.

GOVERNING BOARD
OF I. A. A. HOLDS
JUNEMNFERENCE

Hear Reports of Work ; Discuss

New Form of Membership

Agreement

A new form of farm bureau
membership coutraet which
would do away with much "of
the expense nccessarj' %vith the
present plan of campaigns
every three years was one of
the most important matters dis-
cussed at the June meeting of
the I. A. A. E.xecutive Com-
mittee.

With the plan presented, farjn-
c^t -*•?•:!(' z'.'^z "p !r. t^eir o»*gan.
izs^tions, the county farm bureiu.
the I. A. A. and the A. F. B. F.
for a period of thr^e years and
their membership would continue
from year to year thereafter un-
less the farm bureau or the mem-
ber terminated the contract, ■ in
writing, within 60 days after the
close ot the three-year period or
at a like date any year after that.

Other plans were submitted to
the committee but action was de-
ferred until a later period.

Reports were made to the com-
mittee by the various departments
of the state association which
showed a healthy condition pre-
vailing in general. R. N. Clarke
made a report on the Egyptian
Seed Growers Exchange, which In-
dicate4 plans for further expan-
sion during the season. Donald
Kirkpatrick, Attorney for the I. A.
A., reported the progress of the
Illinois-Missouri milk marketing
situation.

GOVERNOR SIGNS MEASURE LEGAUZING
ORDERLY MARKETING OF FARM PRODUCTS

Opponents Fail In Effort To Bring About Veto of Act;

Considered Great Victory For Farmers in Struggle

For Improved Economic Conditions

Combine Effected
Between "Co-ops"
At Sioux City, la.

Affiliation of the Nebraska
Farmers' Union Commission Com-
pany at Sioux City with the Na-
tional Live Stock Producers As-
sociation is the latest evidence of
the trend toward amalgamation
of organized agriculture.

According to an agreement
reached in June, the Farmers'
Union will appoint two live stock
producers living in the Sioux
City territory and the National
Live Stock Producers will appoint
one producer from the same ter-
ritory to compose a committee to
supervise the affairs of the com-
mission company, subject to the
approval of the presidents of the
Farmers' Union and the National
Producers.

Illinois has a Co-operative Marketing Law!

Signature of the bill by Governor Len Small on June 22 gh'es
Illinois farmers a law similar to that passed in over half fth?
states of the Union which legalizes the marketing of agricultural
prfxlucts on a eo-operati\'0 basis. ~ j

■ All other states were watching Illinois in its fight for the passage
of the law. It was considered a real battleground bttween the 4<trm-
ersin their struggle for' an orderly marketing system and the strongly
intrenched marketing interests which center in the state. Passats of
the law was a signal vietory for organized agricultiif*. '■ ,

Many attempts irere mifli to
make the *ill ineffective by
.-.,.._ .....i.t-n^ u^i^ ;jy bi. .iLiu.^- -Ob,
important sections In its passage
throiigh the Senate and House.
However, the efforts -of oppon-
ents failed and proponents of the
bill liad control «f tne Muation
at all times. Backed by the loyal
support of the organized farmers
of IIIinoiEi, it went through the
Senate by a vote of 34 to 3' and
the House passed the measure
100 to 47.

In the final hearing of the bill
before the Governor, opponents
again appetired, thts time t<t urge
the veto of the act. Vhose attack-',
ing the measure irere J. E. Poole,
Chicago Liv^ , atock Exrhange;
W. G. Caxmichael, St. Louis Live
Stock Exchange; L. N. Mcintosh,
Chicago Milk pealers Associa-
tion; and R. E. Little, of the QU-
nols Milk Producers.

RED W GROWERS
TO HEAR PETEET
AT ANNUAL MEET

Walton Peteeti Director of Co-
operative Marketing" for the A. F.
B. F., will address the annual
meeting of the Egyptian Seed
6rowers Exchange at Flora, July
10. Mr. Peteet will tell the red
top growers something of the op-
eration of co-operative associa-
tions.in other sections as well as
describing the A. F. B. F. plans
for promoting co-operative mar-
keting.

Local meetings tor the ^teetion
of delegates were )ield in June.
The one man. one vote system
is provided for in the by-laws >rf
the exchange, each member hav-
ing B vote in the election of the
delegate and each delegate at the
annual meeting casting one vote
for each n^ember of his local unit.

A large attendance is expected
at the meeting. Special invita-
tions have been sent to all county
farm bureaus in the section as
well iis to bankers and business
men.

Tenth Agency of
Producers To Open
At Oklahoma City

Plans are arranged for the open-
ing of the tenth selling-~agency
under the Natioital Live Stock
Producers Association at Okla-
homa City, Okla., on July 2. Prac-
tically all farmers' organizations
in the state are backing the new
producers' commission company.

Business of the well-established

--Senators L»ntz (Woodford).
Turnbaugh (Carroll), and Cnth-
bcrtson (Macoupili), together with
President S. H. "Thompson and A.
C. Everinghatn, jof the t. A. A.
Legislative Committee, defended
the Co-operative Bill.

Signature of the bill (nakes It
become a law on July 1. '

be on the increase in the major-
ity of cases. -<' ^

The Chicago Producers ranked
first on that msrket during the
first two weeks of June, handling
377 cars from June, 2 to 8.. and
306 cars from June 9 tb 15. The
agency' is handling about tlx per
cent'Of tlie business weekly. ,

At Indianapolis, the percentage
of business done by the farmers'
agenry is on the increase During
the first week Of June. S17 cars
or 31.54 per cent of the live stock
shipped on that market, -went to
the Producers. The second week
saw the Producers handle 231 cars
bnslne^

cles contiim^ to | or 27 pez cent alt tke bnslne«a

Page 4

The Dlinoi* AgricoltaraJ AssodatioD Record

Jiin« IS, 1923

Come to the State Picnic at Urbana, June 29 1

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OUTINGS REQUESTS
FOR CITY CHILDREN
BEGIN TO COME IN

I.A.A. Receiving Applications;

Third Year of Project Prom-

\se^ Good Record

!i|TIe it

The fii^t reii
slums cHitdn'
outiiiL's in tlif 1;
farm bi|ri'iiu' i
I ^omiiif.' ill to tin
^ry of t lie Illim
A.ss(ii-iiiti;n tliirii
daVs ill iluiip.
tlijit liixt yvAr's
Ifnaidred ddiiics
ill homes of IlliiK
members ^ will
even exceeded.'

Tlie ^iplicatioii
was primed in
The RecOTd will
pjige. . in you
or morp 1 children
some tinte this
out and ^nd it
Secretary] [of the

its for Chicago

for two-weulj;

lines of county

embers began

Outing Secii-

is Agricultural

5. the first few

ndieations are

recoi^d of five

riven vacations

is farm bureau

e<iualled or

te

tl
le

wish

blank which

e Inst issue of

found on this

to take one

for an outing

summer, fill it

to the Outing

A. A. ;

j Thlrrf

Although the

and always a business organiza-
tion. It bas al^a .s interested it-
self in sbiiie project for helping

others egch yea: '.

thirrf year of the Outing For

C'lildren

[iroject,

Charities.! Of Chicago. '*rhe Daily
News, of Chicagjo and Illinois
railroadsvj

The c4ked Chatities^the city's
largest ■ ' ion-secta -ian charitable
oreanizatloii, selei ts the children
from the most wcrjhy and needy
of honles^ So destitute are these
homes tJiat an ciiting means al
mo«t lif" itself to the children
The chanitable oi ganization out
fits the ch^^Idren with clothing
appropriaite to tteir outing, has

them esamined

Year

A. A. is first

This is tlie

carried on in

.r'v I'll i red

Madison County
Melon Growers
May Organize

Cantaloupe growers in the vi-
cinity of Poag, Madison county,
recently held a meeting with C. E.
Durst of the Fruit and Vegetable
Marketing Department of the 1. A.
A. to consider the formation of a
co-operattTe melon marketing or-
ganization.

The growers present seemed fa-
vorably impressed with the ad-
vantages of such an association.
Last' year 15 cars of melons were
marketed from the locality and
tliis year's crop will be the big-
gest yet with more than 250 acres
under cultivation.

Formation of two more locals of
the Illinois Fruit Exchange at
Grafton and Jersey ville, Jersey
county, seems imminent, as much
eiuhusiasm toward co-operative
marketing was manifest at meet-
ings jddressed by Mr. Durst.

Peoria Producers Pay

Ten Per Cent Dividend

(Continued

erection of a new addition to tihe

Exchange office

building for more

^carefully to

guard aMainst any possibility of
contacioU» dlseaee and sends
\them on their vacations spotless-
ly clean, in charge of competent
women directors.

I From 4 to 14

The children are of both se.ves
and- range from 4 to 14 in age

The Railroads : urnish free fare
within a llinit of 200 miles from
Chicago. The Daily News eon
tributes ifaoney and publicity.

Liability

The iiirm bureau folks, s
asked o»ly to take one or more
of the children nto their homes
for two Iweeks and treat them as

they would their

own youngsters.

The Inited Chaitties .tssumes all
liability for injuries.

The -rallies vhich, entertained
the five' bundrei children given
outings last su nmer had only
praise for the i ►reject. Several
of theiiii declarefl that they got
as much out of t^eir contact with
their yoi^thful gilests as the chil-
dren could po! sibly 'have re

ceived from the

anting. A large

number of families, who took
Children last year requested that

they entertain
this suiaiiier. as
attachment and

formed during tlie outings.

\

the same ones
,maaiy a warm
friendship was

from page 1)

qfflce space. N(w weighing faoil
ities and sorttnE; pens have also
been provided by the stock yai|ds
company.

The E. St. Lduis Producers Ag-
ency held first or second ifkik eajch

WeeK' ot ;vlay.'

16 per cent of ^he total receipts
each week with m average of ap-
pfo.ximately 240

This afrency; also gives a good
example of how p'olume cuts coats
of operation. For the first quar-

ter of 1922. It

had receipts of

1.020 cars and for the same period
this year, 2381 ctirs were hapdigd.

an increase of 133.5 per cent. The
average expense of selling was
$lS.50 per car in 1922 and this
was reduced to $11.17 this year.

The Kansas City Producers
took rapid strides in May. From
sixteenth place with 40 cars dur-
ing the first week, this agency
took rapid bounds each week un-
til it stood In fourth place with
aooU t'lTB*' csir^lis" rSCeilnS" irin-Tlrg' tlie'
last week of May.

The Buffalo selling agency held
first place at that market each
week in -May, handling an average
of i^bout 17 per cent of the re-
ceipts weekly.

The tenth Producers agency, it
is announced, will open soon at
Oklahoma City.

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VARIETY OF SERVICE T

Ten Departments Working For You

The Illinois Agricultural Association Is Pre-
pared To Serve You In Any Important Busi-
ness Phase of Illinois Agriculture.

"MEAT FOR HEALTH
WEEK,"]UNE 25-30,
AIMS ATCONSOMER

Vigorous Campaign To Tell

Of Live Stock Products

In Diet

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FARM OUTINGS

WANT one or more city youngsters for a two-week outing
some time during July or August? If so this blank may
be found convenient. It should be filled out and sent in,
if Bossible. b)!fore July 1. On account of the fact that the rail-
roads offer f^ee transportation only within a two-hundred mile
radius of Chi|cago, applications can only be accepted within such
territory.

To Outlnic H«|rre«
IllinoU'

arj-.
.^Vrleuitural AaaQcla^lsa

Dciirhttrn Ntr»flt,
lUfnoiN I

We are i

position to give a. two

('hicago rhilixen some time in Jqly 6r August, preferably

Our choiee

Our nearest
<?ounty-
' ilren at.

o ' age antl sex is

It is unde
the liability
dren sent to
tions in the

'eeks* vacation to.

railway station 8 a:

riease name at least Itw^ optional stations)

but we could meet the chll-

tood that the tJnlt^d Charities of Chicago assumes
in the ease of accident or illness to any of the chil-

us; however, we pledge to exert^e proper preeau-
care and treatAi^nt »C tticse children.

As a means of calling the at
tent ion of consumers every
where throughout the United
States to the hiph value of meat
as a food, its wholesoineness and
healthfiilness, as well as its im-
portance to Agriculture, the
National Live Stock and Meat
Board requests the observance
of the period of June 25 to .lune
.3n..fl>! ".«Wft+.Fnr.H,iaUli Week."

Until the National Live Stock
and Meat Board cam<r into being,
there w^s no effective medium
through which all factors in the
meat industry, from the man on
the farm who produces the live
stock to the man in the retail
shop who sells the meat, could
co-operate in the common cause
of promoting a better knowledge
of the food value and healthful-
ness of meat. The board is now
functioning vigorously, and with
the support of the producers and
others, will be able to do effec-
tive work in restoring meat to
the place which it deserves in
the American diet. The "Meat
For Health Week" will be the
Board's first Important step
toward this end.

Use of .Poster

Tentative plans for "Meat For
Health Week" cafl for the dis-
tribution and posting in a wide-
spread fashion of the meat poster
recently issued by the .United
States Department of Asrieulture.

This poster bears the message:
"Meat is Wholesome — For Health
and Xigor Eat Well Balanced
Meals — Use A Variety of Kinds
And Cuts Of Meat."

Reci|>e Dooklet

This poster will probably be
supplemented by colored posters
bearing various meat dishes
which will be in season at the
time, as well as by recip.; book-
lets, which will be issued wide-
ly, and by demonstrations, in the
larger cities of the country, at
which the proper methods of se-
lecting and preparing meat will
be tfught.

Through these Tarions activi-
ties, and with the cordial co-op-
eration of live stock producers
and their associations, breed as-

Hai'c Voii Consigned
Voiir Wool To The

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lour Lot K'ill IncTfote
The Volume of Wool In
The Pool. J.

Volume SpelU Efficiency
In Marketing.

Efficiency Means Greater
Net Returns To The
Grower. \ i

Fourteen Years Out of
Seventeen The Wool Mar-
ket Advances Jl'ith The;
Season. '.

Live Stock 'Marketmg Dep't.,
lUitwii Agricultural Asin.

i

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Milk Producers
At Decatur May
Organize Company

At the request of the Macon
County Farm Bureau, a meeting
was held at Decatur recently when
122 milk producers supplying milk
to that city met to consider the ad-
visability of forming a co-operat-
ive milk marketing company. A. D.
Lynch, of the I. A. A. Dairy Mar-
keting Department, addressed the
conference.

Explanation was made of the
principles of co-operative dairy
marketing, its advantages and pit-
falls, and the experiences of simi-
lar projects that are proving suc-
cessful in Illinois were related.

The presence of many small
milk dealers, the wide range in
the retail price of milk, and the
lack of facilities for conforming
to the new compulsory pasteurlza- ■
tion ordinance passed In Decatur, |
seem to indicate that co-operative |
effort would greatly improve the I
milk supply of that city., -

While no definite action was ■
taken toward organizing, a com-
mittee was appointed to investi-
gate the practicability of the step.

sociations, live stock sfaipping
associations and other factors in
the industry, the Board hopes to
make "Meat For Health Week"'
an unlimited success.

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ILUN

NATIONAL I
TO BE RE
WHEATS

Delegates Cor
Industry;
. Co-ope

Doeision to si
Council of the
in whidi all ii
represented, w;
main aecomplis
National Wire
[held in Chicago
by governors c
headed by Gov.
of Minnesota,
gates were pre;

This council,
resolutions, "wil
ough, scientific si
problem and enli:
efforts of all ii
publicity in ever;
ings and to devel
proved methods
brium between t
and consumptioi
lished and p r i
American price I

Such a council
l>e necessary to
forts possible to
sumption of whe
the part It plays
cation, and to s
wheat which will
lean wheat farm
standards of liv
has b">n accust
titled.

Comi

The personnel
tion committee i
the Wheat Coun
States 13 as folio
fute, Chicago; C
Georgia; S. J. L(
(Continued

BEF(

The organ):
ty farm burei
linois Agricu
tion, the farn
had little
tT>e law-make
know Just w
wanted and
they didn't w
organization,
pointed a L(
mittee to inf
tators just he
feel about tl
Springfield,
of the work
tiVe Committe
tfiis issue.

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Volume 1

July 2,1923

Number 8

ILLINOIS CO-OPERATIVE BILL IS NOW A LAW

Me
In

icy

ter

■he

Of

ar-

'he-

NATIONAL COUNCIL
TO BE RESULT OF
WHEATMERENCE

Delegates Consider Ills Of
Industry; Endorse
. Co-operation

Dpcision to set up a Wheat
Council of the United States
in whicli all interests will he
reprpsent('<l, was one of the
main accomplishments of the
National AVlitat Conference
held in Chicago in June, called
by governors of seven states,
headed by Gov. .1, A. 0. Preus
of Minnesota. Over 400 dele-
gates were present.

This council, according to the
resolutions, "will make a^ thor-
ough, scientific study of the wheat
problem and enlist in co-ordinated
efforts of all interests to give
publicity in every way to its find-
ings and to develop and apply ap-
proved methods by which equili-
brium between domestic products
and consumption can be estab-
lished and price stabilized on
American price level."

Such a council was declared to
be necessary to use all the ef-
forts possible to increase the con-
sumption of wheat, to emphasize
the part it plays in the life of the
cation, and to secure prices for
wheat which will allow the Amer-
ican wheat farmer to justify the
standards of living to which he
has b-^oa accustomed and is en-
titled.

Committee

The personnel of the organiza-
tion committee which wilt set up
the Wheat Council of the United
States 13 as follows: O. E. Brad-
tute, Chicago; Charles S. Barrett,
Georgia; S. J. Lowell, New York;
(Continued on pape 4)

Executive Body
Changes Ruling
On Claims Charges

Some changes were made at
the last session of the Executive
Committee of the 1. A. A. in regard
-to the collection of claims handled
by the Transportation Depart-
ment.

The department is authorized to
rebate the entire amount of com-
mission charges for transporta-
tion claims to farm bureau mem-
bers in good standing, whose
claims come to the 1. A. A.
through the county farm bureaus.

■Non-nienilrers of the farm bu-
reau will be charged 25 per cent
commission on all trajisportation
claims handled through the Trans-
portation Department.

In handling the claims of co-
operative sliipping associations,
full rebate of commission will be
made to associations with 100 per
cent farm bureau membership
and which are under agreement
w^ith county farm bureaus and
the X. A. A. A commission of 15
per cent will be charged associa-
tions whose membership is not
100 per cent farm bureau.

BEFOREr—

The organization of coun-
ty farm bureaus and the Il-
linois Agricultural Associa-
tion, the farmers of Illinois
had little means of letting
the law-mal«ers o^f the state
know just what laws they
wanted and what legislation
they didn't want. ,Now, with
organization, they have ap-
pointed a Legislative Com-
mittee to inform the legis-
lators just how the farmers
feel about things down at
Springfield. Read the story
of the work of the Legisla-
tive Committee on Page 2 of
this issue.

Resignation of
C. E. Durst On
July 1 Accepted

C. E. Durst, Director of the
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing
Department of the 1. A. A., tend-
ered his resignation at the last
meeting of the 1. A. A. Executive
Committee. The resignation, which
was accepted by the committee,
takes effect on July 1, when Mr.
Durst will take up .his new work
with the Federated Fruit and
Vegetable Growers, Inc.

Mr. Durst has been director of
liis department with the I. A. A.
for nearly three years, having
formerly been adviser of Union
and Cook counties and connected
witk the State University.

He took a prominent part in
the organization of the Illinois
Fruit Exchange In the spring of
1921 and in its later organization
and marketing this season and
last. He aided in co-operative
fruit and vegetable organization
in Tazewell and Cook Counties,
as well as in the preliminary work
of organizing the Egyptian Seed
Growers E.xchange. He was a
member of the National fruit and
Vegetable Marketing Committee of
21 and is secretary of the Feder-
ated Fruit and Vegetable Grow-
ers. Inc., which grew out of the
plans of that Committee.

GOVERNING BOARD
OF I. A. A. HOLDS
JUNE jONFERENCE

HearReportsofWorkiDlscuss

New Form of Membership

; Agreement

A new form Trf farm bureau
meinlM'rship contract w h i c. h
would do awa.v with much of
tlie expense necessary witli the
present i)laii of campaigns
i-very thri'c years was one of
the most important matters dis-
eussed at the June meeting of
tlie I. A. A. Executive Com-
mittee.

With the plan presented, farm-

c v---;-; r'-r. up 'r. their oi-gan-

izations, the county farm' bureau,
the 1. A. A. and the A.F. B. F.
tor a period of thrr,e years and
their membership would continue
from year to year thereafter un-
less the farm bureau or the mem-
ber terminated the contract, in
writing, within 60 days after the
close of the three-year period or
at a like date any year after that.

Other plans were submitted to
the committee but action was de-
ferred until a later period.

Reports were made to the com-
mittee by the various departments
of the state association which
showed a healthy condition pre-
vailing in general. R. N. Clarke
made a report on the Egyptian
Seed Growers Exchange, which in-
dicated plans tor further expan-
sion during the season. Donald
Kirkpatrick. Attorney for the I A.
A., reported the progress of the
Illinois-Missouri milk marketing
situation.

GOVERNOR SIGNS MEASURE LEGAUZIN6
ORDERLY MARKHING OF FARM PRODUCTS

Opponents Fail In Effort To Bring About Veto of Act;

Considered Great Victory For Farmers i* Struggle

For Improved Economic Conditions

Combine Effected
Between "Co'ops"
At Sioux City, la.

Affiliation Of the Nebraska
Farmers' Union Commission Com-
pany at Sioux City with the Na-
tional Live Stock Producers As-
sociation is the latest evidence of
the. trend toward amalgamation
of organized agriculture.

According to an agreement
reached in June, the Farmers'
Union will appoint two live stock
producers living in the Sioux
City territory and the National
Live Stock Producers will appoint
one producer from the same ter-
ritory to compose a committee to
supervise the affairs of the com-
mission company, subject to the
approval of the presidents of the
Farmers' L'nion and tlie National
Producers.

Illinois has a C>operative Marketing Law!

ffignatiire of thi' bill by OoT^hior Leii iHmall ai June 22 gives
Illinois I'armirK s law similait .fo that pBss<-<t ii> ov.r lialf- the
stales of the rtrioli whifh legali^.es the marketing of agriculttiral
prodiict.s on a ep-opcrative Ijiksis.

All other states trerc Watching Iflinois in jts fl^t tor the paasage
of the law. It wa^ conisidered ajfeul battl^Tcrouud between the farm-
ers in their struggl* for au orderly marketing system ;and the stru'ngly
intrqnched marketing interests whjch centei' in the state. Passage of
the law was. a signal victory for 'organized agricultt^.

-Many attempt* were made to

RED TOP GROWERS
TO HEAR PETEET
Ar ANNUAL MEET

Walton Peteet, pirector of Co-
operative Marketing for the A. P.
B. F., will addreiss the annuaf
meeting of the Egyptian Seed
Growers Exchange at Flora, July
10. Mr. Peteet wjill tell the red
top growers sonietiiing of the op-
eration of co-opeirative associa-
tions in other sections as well as
describing the \. F. B. F. pl^s
for promoting coHoperative m«r-
keting. ]

Local meetings for \be election
of delegates were held in JuBe.
The one man. one vote system
is provided for in j the by-laws of
the exchange, eacj member hav-
ing a vole in the j.election of the
delegate and each idelegate at the
annual meeting casting one vote
for each member of his local unit.

A large attendance is expected
at the meeting. .Special invita-
tions have been sept to all county
farm bureaus in jthe section as
well as to banketjs and business
men. y

Tenth Agency of
Producers To Open
At Oklahoma City

Plans are arranged for the open-
ing of the tenth selling agency
under the Nationial Lire Stock
Producers Association at Okla-
homa City, ,Okla., on July 2. I'racj
tically all farmer*' organizationf
in the state are blocking the new
producers' commission company

Business of the well-e*tablished
producers' agencies continues 'to

make the bill , ineffective by

important actions !n its passage
through th« Senate and House.
Howevf r. the efforts of oppon-
ents failid Imd proponents of the
bill had control of the situation
at all times. Backed by the loyal
support of the organized farmers
of Illinois. ' it went through the
Senate by « vfte of 34 to 3 and
thp House (passed the measure
100 to 47. f ■

In the fiial hearing of the bill
before tire Governor, oppon«'nt8
again appeared. th.is time to urge
the veto of thp'adt. Those attack-
ing the nu-4sure were J. E. Poole.
Chicago IJvf Stock Exchange:
W. G. Carn»ichael, St. Lojiis Live
Stock ExchRnge; L. N. Mcintosh.
•Chicago Milk Dealers Associa-
tion; and U E. I.lttle, of the Illi-
nois Milk Producers.

Senators! Lonili (Woodford >.
Tumbaughj (OarrblI^. and C'lth
bertson (.Micottpjn i, toc«'ther with
President i H thompson .ind A.
C. Everingbanf. jof the i. A. A?
lyegislalive ; Committee, defended
the Co-opedativ.

Sitnalure of t.^ ...
lM-com<- a law on July 1.

makes it

be on the increase in the major-
ity of caset^.

The Chicago Producers' ranked
first on tliat market during the
first two ««ekis pt June, handling
377 cars ffom Jiine 2 to S. and
306 cars from Jiine 9 to-H. The
agt>ncy is handli^ip aboiit six per
cent of th^ busiii^as weekly.

At Indiavapoli*,! the percentage
of business donq iby the farmers'
agency is c^ the; iicrease During
(he tirst «ieek H/t June, 317 ears
or 31.^4 pet cent: of the live etook
shipped on that market, went to
the Producers. Tlie second week
saw the Producers handle 2S1 gars
or 27 per oent of the buiiness

^^

Pag^2

The blinoi* Agricohnral Astociation Record

nUnou •Agricultural AtsodafioB

R E C Q RD

Published ti^ice

Jtdy2 1923

2,192

month by tha
Illinois Agrjlcultural Association.
«Q8 South Dearborn Street. Chicago.
iniB«ls. Edited by News Publicity
Deviutment, u J- Montross, Dfrector.

Encry aa seoond class matter Oct.
10. 1921. 'at the post ofTice at Cbi-
oa«<Ot lUinoif,. undor the act -«f
Maaali 3, 1879. Acceptance for mtm-
Ing at .special rates of postage pro-
vided fur ml Section 1103, Act- of
October 3. 13tl7. authorized Oct. 31,
19!l.i

I. A. A. 'Bats' 100 Per Cent In Ugislative
program In S3 rd General Assembly

The Indlviduil membership fee of
the Illinois jA^ricultural Associa-
tion is five Dollars a year. "Oiis
fee Ihcluiles payment of ten cesits
for aubsrriptson to the Illinois A.e-
rlcnllnral Association Record.

President. S
VIce-Presiden

irSlle.
Treaaurer. R.
»ecre]tary. Ge<

ton

iFFlCERS ,

I. Thompson. Quliicy
A. O, EckerV.'TJeile-

' ■ J*-" ;

Cowlea. Bloomi^K'
A. Fox, SycanlArS..

-»- ^

fBKCirmK COMMITTEE

tty ('^»nKi-essi4mal District*

11th— H*nrV MiC.oueh. Maple Paflc-
12th-^i. K Tullork. Kockforil.
13th— K". E. - Daml'oroUKh. f'olo.
nth— W. H. iloody. Port Byron.
l6th-rH. E. Ooenibel. Hoopole.
»6th-i-0. B. Heder. Mendota. >
17th-.^F. D. Barton. Cornell, i
18th-«4-C. R. Finley. Hoopeston
19th-i-I> J. Hblterman. Sadorus.
jnth-t-Earl J. Smitn. Detroit.
21st — T.. L. Oorbin. Carllnville.
22*id — Stanley! Castle, Alton.
23r*— <'arltonl Trimble. TrlroJjIe.
J4th-rt<."urt A»derson, Xenia.
fSth-^Vernon Lessley. Sparta.

directors of Departments,
j| " I. A. A. Office

retarii

Offlc^ and Assistant to Sec-
J. D. Harper; Field Organil-

>tarSL - - -- -
^tioniV- C. SaBor; Organization Pun-
llcltjivi!. B iletzB

lyyn.. ^- .j.^.*...-.. News F'ubliC'
tty 1*. I. Moitrorfy; Transportation.
L. J. Quaseyi Statistics. J. C. Wat-
son; Finance] R. .\. I'Dwles; Fruit
and VcBetahle Marketing. C. E.
Durst; Live 3tock Marketing, C. A.
Stewart. Dairy MarketiiiK A. D.
Lyncn; ThosiUjafc I.imt-stone. J. R.
Bent. \Legal. Newton Jenkins.

Co'Operative

History Told
i |/n New Book

The Pifty-ThirtJ General Ag-
serably of Illinois has passed
into histo^^-. Several lawi of
interest ajid importanee to the
farmers ol the state have been
pa-ssed. VIost notable of all
farm legislation acted upon wfts
the pa.ssage'of the Co-oi)orative
Marketing' Bill, acclaimed by
many to bs one of the most im-
porta^it pieces of leijisration
p.-ussed in Illinois for several
years. There were *ther con-
.striictive ilieasures, too."

The I. fik. A. lias been risht
behind tbe bills which it consid-
ered to be for the best interest*
of Illinois farmers. It has acj-
lively supi orted some measures^
it ' has leas actively urged the
passage of others, and it has been
on the vi a t c h for nijeasure3
which wot Id be detrimental to
the agricultural well-being of the
state. ^ J I

The L*gl8lative Watch-dogii' o^
the I. A. Ji. are the members of
the Legi»lutive Committee, com-
posed of President S. H. Thomp^
son, Quincy, chairman; A. C.
Everinghaili, Hutsonville, and
Frank D. Barton. Cornell. Jijst
rj big business and manufa<3turt-
ing interests keep their eyea oB

the doings

of the Legislature, so

does Illino^ agriculture, through

' "Co-operative Marketing — The
Gol^i^tul^in Agriculture

the latest book upon organized
agricwUure tq appear. Taking as
its theme th« history of the pr-
ganixiitioD oi co-operative asao-
riatlMis ail [over America, the
book is sponsored by the Ampri-
cani..y«rm Buk-eau Federation aad
publiabed by |Poubleday Page and
Co., «t New ^ork. ' It retails tcir
one dollar- I

Where O. ^. Kile's book, "The
Farm BureatJ Movement," which
has beetx wildely read by farm
bureau folks; portrayed the rise
of the count^f, state and national
farm bureau organizations, "Co-
operAive Mkrketing" tells the
later organization of the co-oper-
ative marketing "movement. Her-
man Steen, of Prairie , Farmer,
Chicago, is tHe aatbor.

The Record will publish a re-
view of the »ook later.

Farm Bureau Is
Heard In Packer
Merger Hearing

Newton Jenkins of jhe I. A. A
Lesal DepatMB«IfCrepraeented thC;
AmeirtfcayTaim Bureau ft'ederatlon
at thr Armour-Morri9\ merger
ha^iTOgs held before Chester 1.
iforrell of the Packe/Stockyatds
Admlnistratian at^tJ>« UnioivSrOck
Yard*, Chicago.'

The economic tacta of the patk-
er merger as affecting the pro-
ducers of live stock was the T)ig
aim of the kearlng. C. W. H«nt;
Prealdent of the Iowa Farm Bu-
reMi Federation, teetifled that he
keliaved the absorption of the Mor-
ris iBterests by Armour & Com-
paHjr "would have a bad effect
from the feeders' standpoint" and
if helld legal might lead to still
further concentratloa of packing
loduatries.

11; ^■■-

8. H. TlTompson
S. H. Thompson. Quincy, Presi-
dent of the 1. .-v. A., who heads
the Legislative 'Committee of the
Rssoelation.

Frank O. Barton ^
Mr. Bartt^n hails from Cornell
and has been doing his share in
letting the jlegislators know what
the "folks liack home" want.

the Legislative Committee of the
I. A. A., make a study of law-
making, j
Well Snpported I
Right behind the Leglslaiiva
Committee were the loyal farm
bureau presidents of the state
and the membership which re-
sponded so heartily whenever
called upon to Snd out the senti-;
ments of the "folks back home,"
The' Legislative Committee woufd
have been almost helpless with-
out this support anct-'little would
have beey accomplished.

And then there was the active
co-operation and aid given to
agricultural interests by many
members of the Senate and
House. Senator Simon Lantz,
chairman of the Senate Commit-
tee on Agriculture, and Repre-
sentative Homer Tice, Chairman
of the House Committee on Agri-
culttire, were especially interested
in tbe passage of beneficial farm
legislation.

Bills which the I. A. A. most
actively supported, each of which
passed, were the Co-operative
Marketing Bill, bovine tubercul-

•;,|':>i;:.:..-r'^i|:

m

osis bills, dairy advertising bill,
flUed fnilk aniendnient, and fruit
inspection and grading acts.

The "Co-op" Act

S. B. 165 to proride tor a Co-
operative Marketing Law, intro-
duced by the Committee on Agri-
nilture, was one of the most bit-
ti rly contested measures brought
up during the session. It easily
jias.sed the Senate In final vote
hy 31 to 3 and the House agreed
K 't» passage J;..-.,a.„vg|e, of lfl.<

to 4

But the final votes do not tell
the tale. The struggle to pass
the bill was a fight to the finish.
Every effort was made to kill the
bill or to render it ineffective. In
the House, especialls", were strong
efforts 'wade to strike out im-
portant sections and to amend the
bill. However, during the entire
progress of the bill, in eiery roll
call, its proponents had control of
the situation.

"Now that it's passed, let's see
it work," seems to be the general
challenge of those who opposed
the "Co-op" bill. In passing the
measure, Illin is has fallen in
line with over haU the states In
the Union who have enacted a
similar law. Inasmuch as so
many farm marketing interests
are centered In Illinois, and par-
ticularly Chjcago, it was espeoial-
ly needed in the state and the
fight against it has been more
bitter than in most other states.

^ What It Will Do

The Co-operative Marketing
Law will legalize co-operative
marketing. It clearly defines
who may organize such associa-
tions and how they may be or-
ganized. It enumerates the ac-
tivities and powers of a co-oper-
ative. The legality of a com-
modity marketing contract is pro-
vided for. Co-operative market-
ing organizations are protected
against false reports and ma-
licious statements.

It "provides an injunction
against persons who knowingly
solicit or persuade a Inember of
an association to breach his mar-
keting contract. Through the re-
quiring of bonds and the submis-
sion of regular reports from em-
ployees of co-operative associa-
tions, the membership is protect-
ed from mismanagement Exist-

ing associations are allowed to
reorganize under tU* law.

In short, the Co-operative '■ Mar-
keting Act gives Illinois farmers
a law which will allow them to
organize co-operatively for the or-
derly merchandising of their prod-
ucts without fear of their organ-
ization or membership contracts
being called' illegal. It seeks to
do for the marketing of farm
products what corporation law
does for other business activltlis.
Tuberculosis Bills
Three acts were passed' by the
Legislature which will do much
to clean up bovine tuberculosis
in the stale. These were strong-
ly supported by the I. A- A.

.S. B. 209 provides for the ap-
propriation of <1, 000,000 for the
next two years for the purpose of
indemnifying owners of tubercu-
lar cattle which have been de-
.stroyed. '

A provisibn of S. B. 348 makes
it legal for ' counties to appro-
priate funds from the county
treasury for the eradication of tu-
berculosis in cattle.

S. B. 37 7 provides that the
state of Illinois shall indemnify
the owners of cattle destroyed for
tuberculosis to the extent of two-
thirds of the appraised value In
case the Federal Government fails

Crawford County
Apple Growers
Join Exchange

Apple growers In the vicinity,
of Oblong and Robinson, Craw-
ford county, signed up 100 per
cent for membership in the Illi-
nois Fruit Exchange in June or-
ganization meetings held by Farm
Adviser H. F. Crosby and -C. E.
Durst of the I. A. A. Fruit and
Vegetable Marketing Department.

'gyp

A, C. Everingham

Mr. Everingham, whose home is
in Hutsonville, is one of the mem-
bers of the committee who did
much to put across Its Legisla-
tive program.

to appropriate funds or withdraws
indemnity funds from the state.
In no case shall the state reim-
burse the owner' more than $50
for a grade or $100 for a pure

bred animal in the event that
Federal ftinds are withdrawn.

Dairy Advertising *"

A law passed which will serve
for the protection of dairy inter-
ests of the state was H. B. 223
which prevents the illegal use of
the words butter, crellm, aiMl
dairy in connection with the sale
or advertisement of any butter
substitute. Penalties are provid-
ed for violations.

House Bill 122, adding a sec-
tion to the Pure Food Act of
1907, nAikes it illegal-'to manufac-
ture or sell any food derived from
milk to which has been added
any fat or oil other than milk
fat. This is similar to the "filled
milk" bills passed in other states.
Shipping Point Ins|iectldn
A law which will be of especial
advantage to prc«iuCors of fruit
aiKl other perlsJiablea 's S. B.
460 which authorizes the state
Department of Agriculture to ftx
certain standards for grading an^d
classifying any or all agricultural
products produced in the state.
It appropriates )l5,00O for the
carrying out of the act.

An especially desirable feature
of the law is the provision for
shipping point inspection of farm
products. Such inspection nrill
protect shippers of perishables l^y
insuring the condition of tbe
products before shipment. There
has been some loss in the past
when t<nscrupulous dealers mis-
represented the condition of ship-
ments upon arrival at their des-
tination or rejected them for
unwarranted reasons.

Another law of Interest to
fruit growers it the amendment
to the Illinois apple grading law.
S. B. 469 gives Illinois apple
producers the right to grade .
their product under the provisions
of the present U. S. Department
of Agriculture grading rules in-
stead of under the Illinois law,
if they so desire.

Other Legislation
Besides very actively support-
ing the measures just named, the
I, A. A. has lent support to sev-
eral other laws which were passed
by the Assembly.

(Continued on page 3)

How are the five stock pens and
watering facilities?

Transportation Department,
Illinois Agricultural Association.

Organizal

Seed Growe
io-operative
bop .seed ^
lunmer anc
farm burea
Marion, am
issisted by
kural Asso
Cl&fke repi
n directin
KTork.

Practicall;
red top seed
States is pr
the southe
named. In
crop by Indi
fully. IneBlci
one upon wl
lar market
tary pool ol
largely by t
Bureau in 1
effect upon
Incentive fo

Before tl
harvest sea!
red top of
contract. J
growers ha
through the
of five year
Due to t
of organizs
to build wa
the crop, c
into with t
Flora, Clay
at Cisne, W
warehouse,
for markei
ceived 1,20
into the po
L
The seed
warehouses
linois ware
liable w^are
issued 'to s
tain funds
bers. Loa
24 differen
district, ra
$1,650 to i
An adva
pound, or
paid to all
For those
advance, i;
their acco
which the

Owing
seeding se
not yet dis
Ings, alth(
not consic
large, as
heretofore
the memb<
Isfied.

Po
Local bi
market a
last year,
to 10 cent
son began
solicitors
dealers wt
their pric<
close of tl
their req
was purcl
16% cent
It is rec
non-memt
by severs
the pool,
would ha'
cents per
1
Plans 1
the past r
son's cro
new ware

Jy2 1923

ty
oen
change

he vicinity.
Bon, Craw-
P 100 per
In the IIU-
June or-
Id by Farm

and -C. E.

Fruit and
>epartment.

event that
hdrawn.
Ing

will serve
airy inter-
H. B. 223
gal use of
!Ain, and
> the sale
ny butter
re provid-
ing a sec-
5d Act of
manufac-
rived from
een added
than milk
the "filled
her states.
lectlon
of especial
s of fruit
is S. B.
the state
ture to ftx
rading aiid
griculturti
the state.
0 for the

2,1923

The minob Agricaltoral AsxxaatioaRcoard

Pac*3

Egyptian Seed Growers

Increasing Facilities

ble feature
^vision for
on of farm
action itrill
ihables bv
I of the
It. There
the past
liers mis-
n of ship-
their d^s-
them for

terest to
iiendment
iding law.
ois apple
to grade
provisions
spartment
rules in-
nois law,

n

support-
imed, the
■t to sev-
re passed

•■ 3) •

id

■1

\

Organization of.the.Egj'ptian
eed Grovpers Exchange for the
lo-operative marketing of red
op .seed was eflf acted in the
summer and fall of 1922 by the
farm bureaus of Clay, Wayne,
Marion, and Jefferson counties,
jssisted by the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association. Robert N.
Clartfe represented the I. A. A.
n directing the organization
work.

Practically 92 per cent of the
ed top seed grown in the United
States is produced by farmers in
the soutliern Illinois counties
named. Individual sale of the
crop by Individual farmers is woe-
fully, inofflcient, the product being
one upon which there are no regu
lar market quotations. A volun-
tary pool of 45 crops, conducted
largely by the Clay County Farm
Bureau in 1921, showed a healthy
effect upon the market, hence the
incentive for a larger pool.
680 Members

Before the close of the 1922
harvest season, one-fourth of the
red top of the section was under
contract. A membership of 680
growers had signed up to sell
through the exchange tor a period
of five years.

Due to the tact that the work
of organization started too late
to build' warehouses and to handle
the crop, contracts were entered
into with two seed firms, one at
Flora, Clay county, and the other
at Cisne, Wayne county, to clean,
warehouse, and prepare the seed
for market. The exchange re-
ceived 1,200,000 pounds o.f seed
into the pool after harvest.
tioans Secared

The seed was handled by these
warehouses to comply with the Il-
linois warehouse act so that nego-
tiable warehouse receipts could*t>e
issued 'to serve as security to ob
tain funds to pay advance to mem-
bers. Loans were obtained from
24 different banks in the red top
district, ranging in amount from
$1,650 to $7,500.

An advance of eight cents per
pound, or about 60 per cent, was
paid to all members who desired it
For those who did not draw their
advance, interest was allowed on
their account at the same rate
which the exchange paid at banks.

Owing to the uj»satisfactory
seeding season, the exchange has
not yet disposed of its entire hold-
ings, although the carry-over is
not considered any larger, if as
large, as the normal carry-overs
heretofore. With few exceptions
the membership hajB remained sat-
isfied.

Pool Boosts Prices

Local buyjers opened the red top
market at '12 cents per pound
last year. Some of tbein dropped
to 10 cents after the harvest sea-
son began. Due to the activity of
solicitors for the exchange, the
dealers were compelled to advance
their prices materially toward the
close of the season in order to fill
their requirements. Some seed
was purchased as hifih as 16 to
16^ cents late In the season.

It is recognized by members and
non-members, alike, and admitted
by several dealers that, without
the pool, practically all the seed
would have sold at from 10 to 12
cents per pound.

New. Warehouse

Plans have been made during
the past month to handle this sea-
son's crop. The contract for a
new warehouse at Flora has

PRESIDENT

J. S. McDonald ^

J. S. McDonald, Jefferson county,
heads the Egyptian Seed Growers
Exchange, the organization which
is getting better prices for red
top seed through co-operative
marketing.

let and the work started June 11.
It will be completed by August 1.
Necessary machinery and .equip-
ment has been ordered so that it
will be on the ground in ample
time for the harvest season. The
warehouse, 50x100, is being built
of concrete and tile with asphalt
roof and made as nearly fire-proof
as possible. ^

To avoid long hauls by team or
extra freight charges, the plant
belongiug to T. C. Hambleton, at
Jeff, Wayne county, has been pur-
cliased. With this plant and the
new warehouse at Flora, the ex-
change will have sufficient clean-
ing dnd storing capacity to handle
the seed of the present member-
ship and to take csire of "a moder-
ate increase.

Although some increase in mem-
bership is expected by the ex-

Curt Anderson
'Mr. Anderson, 'who lives in
Xenia, Clay county, is secretary-
treasurer and acting manager of
the Egyptian Seed Growers Ex-
change. He is also the member of
the Executive Committee of the
I. A. A. representing the 24th dis-
trict.

change this year, no intensive
campaign is planned, as the di-
rectors are of the opinion that it
will be advisable to complete their
arrangements for the handling of
tbe present amount of seed rather

I. A. A. "BATS"
100 PER CENT
IN LEGISLATION

•

(Continued from pa^e 2)

An important bill approved by
both Senate and House was S. B.
346 which provides for the crea-
tion of a Tax Investigation Com-
mission to investigate the entire
subject of taxation and to report
tOf the Governor and the next
General Assembly with recom-
mendations of legislative changes
The commission would consist of
11 members; three from the Sen-
ate, appointed by the President;
three from the House, appointed
by the Speaker; one from the Illi-
nois Bankers' Association';* one
from the Manufacturers' Associa-
tion; one from the Illinois A.gri-
cultural Association; one from the
Coal Operators' Association; and
one from the Federation of Labor,
the last five named being ap-
pointed jointly by the President
of the Senate and the Speaker of
the House.

As passed, appropriation of
$10,000 was made for the com-
mission.

School Laws

Support of ^the I. -A. A. was
given to several school laws
which were passed. Some good
legislation was put through which
will tend to eliminate some of
the worst evils of the present
legislation and a foundation was
laid for more action.

S. B. 28 provides a method of
organizing contiguous territory
bounded by school district lines
into community ctmsolidated
school districts oa petition and
submission to elections.

S. B. -220 provides that the
common school fund shall be dis-
tributed affording to the number
of days school is in session, the
amount of assessed valuation of
property, the standard of training
of the teaching staff, the number
of teachers and the numbers of
pupils in each district. It de-
fines more clearly the dnties of
the State Superintendent of Pub-
lic Instruction.

A clearer deflntion of thte pow-
ers and duties, of school boards is
made in S. B. 440. More power
is placed in the hands of th* peo-
ple. It also makes provislo«j_ f or
the sale of pchool sites or build-
ings when such are unnecessary,
unsuitable, or inconvenient for a
school.

IUhuI Le0sIation

While some beneficial road leg-
islation was passed, it is general-
ly agreed that there is still much

than to undertake, too rapid ex-
pansion.

Officers

J. SL. McDonald, Jefferson
county, is president of the Egyp-
tian Seed Growers Exchange. The
vice-president is J. N. Embser,
Marion county, and Curt Ander-
son, Clay county, is secretary-
treasurer and also acting manager
of the exchange.

Other members of the board of
directors are S. S. Hardin, Clay
county. George Orr and J. B. At-
teberry, Wayne county, and Carle-
ton Trimble, Crawford county.
Mr. Trimble was nominated by the
I. A. A. and elected to tbe ex-
change so that the board would
have a cloeer association with the
I. A. A. and have the unbiased
judgment of one board member
who was not a piodacer at
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Nine Exchanges
Now Designated
Contract Markets

Since the constitutionality of
the Capper-Tlncher Act was up-
held by the U. S. Supreme Couh
in April, all of the nine principal
grain markets on which there has
been future trading have revised
their by-laws to conform to the
provisions of the act and have
been designated as contract mar-
kets by Secretary of Agriculture
Henry Wallace.

more to be doae in that phase of
law-making. ' I

A section ofS. B. i43t provides
an additional tax of one dollar
per 100 pounds, gross weight, on
motor trucks and busses which
are used for hire on regularly
established routes.

Several other acts were passed
mainly providing for the valida-
tion of various tax levies for road
construction. S. B. 311 was
passed, which provides for the
maintenance of a force of 100
motorcycle offlcers on highways.

"Pittsburgh Plus"

The appointment of a commis-
sion to help bring about the abo-
lition of "Pittsburgh Plus " and
appropriating $25.ft00 for the
commission is the aim of S. B.
139 which easily passed both
houses.

Wateh for Harmful liswg

The Legislative Committee of
the I. A. A. was always on the
alert for laws whici would be of
harm to fanaing imprests. One
e.xample of an incident of this
kind was the attempt to pass a
law changing the date of assess-
ment from April 1 to January 1.
Pas8ac<» of this hill would hav(y
increased farmers' . taxes greatly
because of tbe tact that he has
a much larger inventory at the
first of tbe year than on April 1.
The I. A. A. opposed tills bill
and it was tabled.

Another eKampIe of law pre-
vention was an .Insurance bill
which appeared to |he Legislative
Committee to threaten the exist-
ence of fat-mers' mutual com-
panies. It was not passed.

In summarizing, it may be said
that the I. A. A. was on the job
all the time on behalf of Illinois
farmers' interests at tbe Fifty-
Third General .\ssembly. Several
excellent lawB were passed largely
through its efforts, notably the
Co-operative Marketing Act. Oth-
er good lawis had I.' A. A. sup-
port. Legislatign which m<ght
have worked ham to farmers
was prevented. In short, the
Farm Bureau was on the job.

PACKERS SEEKING
CHANGE IN RATES;
OPPOSQIJY I.A.A.

Declare Proposed Action

Would Lower Live Stock

Pricey, Paid Producers

The petitkai of interior Iowa
packers belpre the Interstate
t'ommerce (Sjmmission to secure
a readjiistmpnt <if rates on fresh
meats; and packing house" prod-
ucts from shipping points* west
of the Mississippi to eastern
markets, is being xipgosed by the
\. A. A. as well as the American
Farm Bureau Federation, live
stock shipping associations, and
live stock ekfhanges.

The case vas filed in the name
of John Monrell & Co. ot Ot-
tumwa, la., versus tlie New York,
Central Hallway, asking for re-
adjustment Of ratas on fresh
meats and jAcking house prod-
ucts from Interior Iowa points to
points in the eastern part of the
country. It is asked that the
rates on mfmufaclured products
do not excee4 the rates in effect
on live stock-
Other Cpniplaints F1l«d '

Separate Cbmplalnts asking for
the same changes were msde by
Swift & Company and Wilson ft
Company, ^'iho desire readjust-
ment from (jth^'r points such^ as
Kansas CitJ-J Sioux City, St. Jo-
seph, South! Bt. Paul, and Albert
Lea, .Mtna. ' |

The comi^llainants contend that
the present 'spread between the
rates on fr^di meats and packing
h'ouse proda^tB one one hand and
live stock ion the otner is roo
great and fQsults in a dlsadvant-'
age to their interests, v

I t. j%l. \. P|-otests

The I. A|.|A. in protesting tlie
granting of jthe packers' petiti<^
in an inten'ening petition, al-
leges that ^he rate , charges. It
granted, wotild be detricfental to
the interests of Illinois live stock
producers.

"This is considered the most
important case involving rates on
live-stock, ffesh meats, and pack-
ing hous« products iB the history
of the cefntry," declares the
Transportation Department \>f tbe
I. A. A.

"If the petition of the comr
plainants is 'granted it will enable
the interior Iowa packers to ship
fresh neat* and packing house
products to eastern markets at
the same 'er lower rates per ban- '
dred than live stock on the hoof.

Phosphate Insures You

; Highest Quality Grain I _:
' - j Maximum Crop Productioa

I Surest and Greatest Profits

I

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Prtxnpt Service
Accurate Weight
Dependable Quality

Order through your Farm Bureau.

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Don't Forget the Outings For Slums

CITY m GIVEN
HOME FOR SUMMER
IN HENRY COUNTY

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Little Girl Happy As Result

«f I. A. A. Project; Get

Applloations In

The other day "a young lady
from Henry : county dropped
into the I. Ai A. office in Chi-
cago to spe-^he Outing Secre-
tarj-. She eiplained that her
mother; was t)ne of . the farm
wives U'ho riave a little grrl
from^the slunjs a two-week out-
ing last snmi^er in their farm
home.

"We would J like to ihare the
same girl again." said the young
lady, ^itnd I ain sure she,«'ill be
to us. Only, this
to keep her all
take her home
She's a little

glad to come
tjme vie warn
anmmec. I can
with Oiie tonight.

' / tot of Seven aid last summer dur-

ing hrt^ two

week^'

stay with ui

Bife" xaSned five pounds and was
so hapjpy on tl e (arm."

j j Takes (iirl Home

■Thelli A- A. (luting Secretary ira-
medialjely ■ got in touch with the
United Charitits, the agency which
selects the nroat worthy and needy
childrOQ tor outings. The little
girls mother, | a factory worker,
was seen and ihe was very happy
to haTB the child offered the op-
portunity of another summer oa
the farm. Arrangements were
*

" quicklj^ made and little .Marion
(for thai was hpr name) was on
her way to Hflnry county that
night. I

That's last one example of the
results of ,the ^tuti^igs for Chil-
dren' pft>Ject ofjth'e I. A. A. It
is a' plan which' transfers kiddies
from their miiierably hot and
dangeroos playgrounds on city
streets into the
bureau member^

out-of-dloors

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Last yfear nearly

homes of farm
in God's great

I. A. A., co-op-
United Charities,

500 children
we,nt ■ ^<»i fasin homes under the
auspice^ of- the
crating j*(ith the
Chicagd Dally news, and Illinois
'/ailroads.

IMore .iMiItcations

This yvar it is desired to place
even mc(ife child rem Applications
arecontapg to the I. A. A. daily,
but marij more ire wanted.

. It is very noticeable that f&rm
bureau Imember) who took chil-
dren las|t year v ere tlie very first
to appty this ^ear^ It is quite
erident that st-ong attachments
have b«ien mad ?. Many ask to
have th4 same kiddies back again.
"We waiJt thi same four chil-
dren that we hid last summer,"
reads a Mercer county letter,
, which names the two l)oys and
girls desired. "They are surely
dandy youngsters and we would
like to have the|n again if it is at
all possible." I

Deservlnii Children

The tipplicatibn blank is re-
printed for you^' convenience in
this issnf of Tiie Record. Re-
quests way be ff'nt in until July
i5. Remember jthat the children
sent are deserviit; hoys and girls

SOME VIEWS WHERE THE PICNIC
WAS HELD

pARW Bureau folks from all over Illinois gathered at Crystal Lake
^Park, Urbana, June 29, for the Fourth Annual I, A, A.-County Farm
Bureau Picnic. Due to the fact that The Record went to press sev-
eral days before the big event «ie could not tell you about It this
time. The story will appear in the next issue.

FARM OUTINGS

Ci send in requests to provide a two-Week outing for city
youngsters during July or August has been made until July 15.
This blank may be found convenient to fill out and send in.
On account of the fact that the railroads offer free transporta-
tion only within a 200-mile radius of Chicago* application* can
only be accepted within such territory.

ttoi.

To Oattns;: Seer^tmry,

IlllnoU AKrlealtnral AvaocUtto

608 Mouth Dearborn Street. ^

Chicago, Illtaoia

We are In position to fftvej a two weeks' vacation to.

Chicago cfhlldren some time

Our-choic^ of Age %nd sex Is as fallows:

in July or August, preferably.

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Our nearest railway station is &t..|.

Ceuntyi.

i.but we could meet the chll-

. [(Please name at least; twio optional stations)

It Is understood that the United Charities of Chicago assumes
the liJibility in the case of accident or illness to any of the chil-
dren sent to us; however, we pled^re to exercise proper precau-
tions in the care and treatnaehtj of these children.

Name

Ifural Houte No.

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'the Railroads fur-

nish free transportation within
200 miles from Chicago. The
United Charities assumes all lia-
bility for injuries and sends them
to you with fresh clothing, tree
from contagious disease, and spot-
lessly clean.

Just put ytourself in the place
of a slum kiddie and imagine
what a farm, outing would mean
to you!

One of the most enthnsiastic

schools of Instruction for so-
licitors held for a loijg time was
the one in Carroll county in June
in preparation 'for the reorgan-
ization campaign. Out of an at-
tendance of 171, of whom 161
were eligible for membership, 163
agreements were signed. A bank-
er-farmer signed three agree-
ment% — one for each of bis (arms. {

Odds Against City BoyS"
Girls In Popular Favor

"Nobody wants a boy!"

strange as that statement may
seem, yet it eppears to be the
case In reading the majority of
applications from farm bureau
folks who are willing to give
Chicago slums kiddies a two-
week outing.

In fact in the applications so
far received, the demand for girls
outnumbers the call for boys Just
four to one.

Several are quite emphatic In
their demand for girls, others give
the lasses as first choice but will
take boys, while the small ma-
jority are requesting boys only.

What's the reason? It can't be
because of last summer's experi-
ences with boys because the odds
favored the girls then also. Then
again, the I. A, A. has had no
complaints from farm bureau
families who did "put up" wjth

NATIONAL COUNCIL
TO BE RESULT OF
WHEAT CONFERENCE

(Continued from page 1)

.\lexander Legge, Chicago; H. S,
Helm, Minneapolis; F. B. Wells,
Minneapolis; Juiius Fleischmann,
New York; A. I,. Taggart, Indian-
apolis; Sydney Anderson, Minne-

city laddies for the two weeks
last year.

In fact, it is a rather queer
proposition.

To be frank, the Outing Secre-
tary of the I. A. A. doesn't like
It. When she saw little boys cry-
ing last summer because their sis-
ters went to the country while
they bad no chance, she decided
the boys were getting the worst
of the bargain.

Now, to be truthful, does It
look to you as M it's Just ex-
actly fair?

"Let's give the boys a chance!*'

TTXTENSION of the time in whir.ii farm ii»r,.a.i fatlrt n]:iv-j^aQta:-_Genrge-C- >«€,«•-... M'JW-

apolis; Harvey Sconce, Illinois;

Dan Wallace, St. Paul; Judge
Bingham, Loaisville; T. Gdson
White, Chicago; and H. E. By-
xam, Chicago.

Endorse Co-Oi)eratlon

The conference went on record
in support of co-operative grain
marketing but split on the ques-
tion of governmental price fixing.
Representatives of the American
Farm Bureau Federation voted
against any attempt to fix a defi-
nite price on wheat through gov-
ernmental agencies.

Speakers

There were several prominent
speakers during the two days'
sessions. O. E. Bradfute, presi-
dent of the .^werican Farm Bu-
reau Federation, urged one great
national 'body of farmers to bring
about regulated production and
better distribution of wheat, to-
gether with a campaign tor in-
creased consumption.

President Samuel Gompers of
the American Federation of La-
bor, made an especially strong
address, emphasizing the necessity
for farmers to lay more stress on
organization.

Advisers In June
Meeting At U. of I.;
Club Tour Held

Illinois farm advisers met at
the University of Illinois, Urbana,
for their annual June meeting,
Melvin Thomas, farm adviser of
Coles county, presided at t*e
sessions. He is president of the
state association of advisers.

The conference opened with an
address, "Co-operative Marketing
as Demonstrated by Actual Expe-
rience," by Dr. Theodore Mack-
lin, ot the University of Wiscon-
sin. He described the advantages
and pitfalls of co-operation and
stated that the ultimate aim in
co-operative marketing is to make
happier rural communities and
general improved conditions of
farm life.

Tours and inspections of the
agronomy plots, animal husbandry
and dairy departments, and ani-
mal pathology and hygiene lab-
oratories were made by the ad-
visers to learn the latest results
of experimentation. Several talks
were delivered by members of
the College of Agriculture faculty
and others.

The annual boys' and girls' club
tour was held at Urbana on June
22 when club members from a
wide area of the state assembled
with their leaders to visit the
university and especially the va-
riqus departments ot the College
otiAgriculture.

Volume 1

NEW

Supervision Brings
Cleanup At South
St. Paul Market

As a result of ^deral supervis-
ion under the stockyards control
act, nine out of the 30 firms op-
erating on the South Sit. Paul
Live stock market have been fined
or suspended during the last two
months. Twenty-two out of the
30 firms had had their books
audited when this report was
made.

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QUALITY OF SERVICE

Your State Association Gets Resalts

Investigations of the I. A. A. Statistical Ser-
vice presented before the State Teuc Commis-
sion last December resulted in a decrease of
$557,217.65 in land taxes for 1922 alone.

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FORM PRO

"COOP"

MILK_A

I. A. A. Advis(

After Findin

Favi

Formation o
Co-operative E
capitalieed at
place at Decatu
250 milk pro(
milk to that c
bers of the nev
was formed
County Farm
eration with tl
Marketing De]

Dissatisfactio]
ent milk distri
the city led up
lion. Produci
been getting
per quart for
been retailing f
new company
cure a higher
ducer and at
greatly better t
product for the

An organizat
nine with L. I
man, was appo
board of direc
ization is comi
form a stock
Shares of stocl
a par value of

Before advis
the Dairy Mark
conducted a bt
the retail millc
catur and foun
were favorable
company, to 8<
providing it is
iied and prope

Judging froD
manifested by
ers, the latest
I. A. A. family
shows every pi

Pen Whicl

Co-oper

Presente

At the July t
ecutive Commi
H, Thompson
with whfch Gov
the Co-operatii
to the committf
mendation that
one of the val
the association,
place the pen i
:o hang it on 1
A. A. offloew

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DEAN H. W. MUlfPOaD.
COLLEGE OF ACRICULTUHE,
UNIVERSITY OF ILLWOIS,
UEBASA. ILLWOIS. IO-H.L-7-aa

IIlinoisAgriculturaJAssodalion

Volume 1

July 16, 1923

Number 9

does It
Just ex-

:hancel-'

NEWU.$. GRAIN GROWERS, INC., PLAN ADOPTED

Held

met at

Urbana,
meeting.
Iviser of

at tbe
t of the
rs.

with an
arketing
al Expe-
! Mack-

Wiscon-
vantages
ion and

aim in
to malie
ies and
Jons of

FORM PRODUCERS
"CO-OP" TO RHAIL
MILKAT^DECATUR

I. A. A. Advises Organization

After Finding Conditions

Favorable

of the
bandry
id ani-
le lab-
be ad-
results
.1 talks
ers of
faculty

Is' club
D June
rom a
embled
iit the
he va-
[^ollege

r5

1th

irket

pervis-
control
ms op-
. Paul
D fined
.St two
of the
books
t was

Formation of the Producers
Co-operative Dairy Association,
capitaliKed at $40,000, took
place at Decatur, July 2. About
250 milk producers supplying
milk" to that city will be mem-
bers of the new ''co-op," which
was formed by the Macon
County Farm Bureau in co-op-
eration with the I. A. A. Dairy
Marketing Department.

Dissatisfaction with the pres-
ent milk distribution system of
the city led up to the organiza-
tion. Producers have lately
been getting only three cents
per quart for milk which has
been retailing for 12 cents. The
new company will strive to se-
cure a higher price for the pro-
ducer and at the same time
greatly better the quality of the
product for the consumer.

An organization committee of
nine with L. E. Bear as chair-
man, was appointed to act as a
board of directors until organ-
ization is completed. They will
form a stock sales committee.
Shares of stock will be sold at
a par value of tlOO each.

Before advising organization,
the Dairy Marketing Department
conducted a business survey of
the retail miik^situation of De-
catur and found that conditions
were favorable for a producers
company to sell market milk,
providing it is efficiently capital-
ized and properly managed.

Judging from the enthusiasm
manifested by the milk produc-
ers, the latest addition to the
1. A. A. family of dairy "co-ops"
shows every promise of success.

Pen Which Signed
Co-operative Act
Presented to I. A. A.

At the July meeting of the Ex-
ecutive Committee, President S.
H. Thompson presented the pen
with whfch Governor Small signed
the Co-operative Marketing Act,
to the committee with the recom-
mendation that it be preserved as
one of the valued possessions of
the association. It is planned to
place the pen in a glass case and
to hang it on the walls of the I.
[A. A. offle*.

Red Top Growers
First to Apply Under
New "Co-op" Law

Only the fact that there were
no application blanks available
at the office of the Secretary of
State prevented the Red Top
Growers' Warehouse Association
from filing its application to re-
organize under tbe provisions of
the new ■ Illinois Co-operative
Marketing Law which went into
effect July 1. This subsidiary
of the Egyptian Seed Growers
Exchange was the first to apply
under the act. The Exchange
had made plans to apply im-
mediately after its annual meet-
ing, July 10.

MANY COUNTIES TO
REORGANIZE THIS
SUMMER AND FAIL

Many Illinois counties will
stage membership reorganization
campaigns within tbe next few
weeks to renew the three-year
membership contracts. Most of
the campaigns are in the south-
ern part of the state.

Only one school of Instruction
will be held in July, that of Jack-
son county on July 31.

In August the following
schools are scheduled by the I.
A. A. Organization department:
August 7, Franklin county; Au-
gust 8, Pulaski county: August
9, Edwards county; August 14,"
Greene county; August 15, St.
Clair county.

In September, Piatt county has
its school planned for the fourth,
followed by Bond, Sept. 12; Jo
Daviess, Sept. 13; Scott, Sept.
IS; Henderson, Sept. 18; and
Richland, Sept. 25.

Johnson county will hold its
school October 9, tE"e only one
thus far scheduled for October.

Chicago Producers Vote
Thirty Per Cent Refund

The Board of Directors of thp
Chicago Producers Commission
Association has voted to refund
to its shipper members 30 per
cent of all commissions paid in
during the year which closed
June 30. The refund amounts
to approximately $70,000.

It will be remembered that
the success of tbe company led
to an announcement early last
February that cash membership
fees would be dispensed with.
A total of 110.176.06 was re-
turned to shippers shortly after
that date. -

During its first year of oper-
ation, the Chicago Producers
handled 11,742 car loads of live
stock which sold for a total of
»19, 828.033. 54.

Starting with a manager, two
cattle salesman, three hog sales-
men, a cashier and small office
force, the farmers' concern has
expanded with growth of the
business until the office now has

FundamenUJ Principles of Marketing

IT COSTS MORE—

A — To tell at lono distances thaiL^at short. -^ v. '.. ;

B — To sell unstandard than standard products. ...

C — To sell perishable than unperlshable. '■!••■■■ ~--

D — To sell small quantities than large quantities.

E — To sell many varieties than few varieties.

F — To sell products with a seasonable demand than with an

unseasonable demand.
G — To sell products not widely known than those widely

known.

Hon. Sydney Anderson,
I. A. A. Picnic.
June 29th, 1923.

three cattle salesman, three hag
salesman, one sheep salesman
and also a well trained oCqce
and yard force.

The Chicago Producers tojok
the lead in number of hogs hi n
died among commission firms
that market early in July, 19l2,
and has held the lead nea ly
tvery week since then. At pr w-
ent t)etween 12 and 15 per c<nt
of bog receipts in Chicago go
the Producers. An average
ahout 6 per cent of the total live
stock receipts is handled by tbe
"co-op."

Producers Will
Open Agency at
Pittsburgh, Pa.

Live stock producers tributary
to the Pittsbt^gh market recefat-
ly held a meeting which resulled
in tbe decison to establish an
agency of the National Produc ^rs
Commission Associatioa at tlat
market. Committees were choten
to arrange details of establinh-
ment. Harry G. Beale, Mt. Stir-
ling, O., heads the new "co-oii."

The Producers opened an
agency at Oklahoma City on^Jiily
2. Dan Gaumnitz, St. Pa|il,
Minn., wsts employed as man
ager and hog salesman of ijhe
Oklahoma company.

C. C. Bums, for three years fd-
viBor In Jo Daviess county, Will
succeed C. H. Oathout as fatm
adviser of Champaign county, nn
Sept. 1. Mr. Oathout recently l-e-
signed after 10 years aervlce
tbe c<HM>t7. !f; -

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MID-WEST CHIEFS
APPROVE; REQUEST
MARKETING POLICY

Direct Funding of Debts and
Setting Up of Sales Agen-
cies at Terminals

(On Page Two of this issue will
be found the complete report of
the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc.)

At a mectii^ of l^presenta-
tivcs of the ftirm bureau fed^
orations of Illinois; Ohio, Indi-
ana, Michi^o, Iowa, Minne-
sota, Missouri, Nebraska, Kan-
sas and North Dakota, compos-
ing the Mid-West p^e8ident«
and secretaries, a new" plan for
the future oounse of action of
the r. S. Grain Growers, Inc.,
was adopted.

The plan provides for the
funding of debts by the U. S.
Gi'ain Growers, tac, and tbe set-
ting up of sales agencies in the
various {erminal markets under
the Capper-Tiacher act. The
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion will formulate a national
grain marketing policy based on
organization of producers by
states, with long-term contracts,
pooling by gradec on the basis of
milling values," corn to be han-
dled separately.

The following is the resolution
adopted unanimously:

"Resolved by this meetlnir of
President and Sacretaries 6f Mid-
west Farm Hureaufl in session at
Chicago. July 3. UZS:

"1. That the Arserican Farm Bu-
reau Pederatiaffi tK- ref|ue«tod
through its Co-operative Market-
ini? Pepartmenl, to formulate a
national grain marketing policy,
based on organ itation of producers
by states. with ionp-term con-
tracts, pool Ins by E.iOc. v., I barlk
of milling valu^ corn to be dealt
with separately and that appropri-
ate action be taken to conduct or-
eanization caminlgns. In the sev-
eral grain growing states' in the
order of their readiness to begln^
suci) work.

"2. That we request the Execu-
tive Committee of Jhe V. S. (.rain
Crowers to co-Ojperate with th*
American Farm Bureau Federation
in carrying out thi program out-
lined above.

"3. That pendiSK the organization
of state <-o-oper4tlve grain marltet-
ing: organiration^ as above, we ap-
prove the plan ojf the Board of tfi-
recnors of the Vl S. 'irain firowefa.
Inc., to engage In grain selling on
the plan submitljfrd to us today, tbe
same fto be merged into or sup-
planteu by the lorganlEationa con-
templated in pat^graph 1 hereof at
such time as the latter are ready !•
begin operationsj"

The above resolution was ap-
proved by the J. A. A. Exerutive
Committee in its meeting on July
6.

The Supreme Court of Texaa
recently sustained the co-opera-
tive cotton market contract in aU
its parttcnlars. ''

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Page 4

The Illinois Agricultural Association Record

July 2 1;923

Don* I Forget the Outings For Slums Kiddies h

CITY TDi; GIVEN
HOME F(|R SUMMER
IN HENRY COUNTY

Littl^, Girl Happy As Result

of I. A. A. Project; Get

lAppliqations In

, fron^

into

lot he

lad:

Klad

time

Buitini

with

ther ^ay a young lady

t-ouuty dropped

A. office in Clii-

he Out ins; Soero-

i])li<inpd that her

ont! of tlip farm

jave a little. ?irl

Lj'^lie slums a t«n-\rprk out-

uiniiier in their farm

irv

\. M
capo Itii see

tarA-j;|[She
motli^P <vas
wivis|l ■\vliii

home. '

"Wyiwould Iik«; to have the

lli'l ai;a.iti.'" said the younE

d 1 aj> sure she will be

come to' «s.^- Only this

^ wan to keep her all

I cm lake her home

J(o toni! h(. She's a little

ai d last snninier diir-

two \ eekHj stay with U6

)^|ne<l fi\ p iioiinds and wae

1 le Tarm.'

Takes <iiVl Home

v. A.'^*"'!"- -Seoretaryjiin-
in touch with .the
Charitids, the asency wljiel.
i]lh( most worthy and n^edy
[j4 for 1 utiVi-s. The Bttlt
piys jkiother, a factory worker
wasa^njn and he was very l^ipjiy
to hatiq the cl ild offered the op-
portuilify o£ j nt)ther summer on
the flat'm. J rraneenients ' wcrt>

\

have til
"We
dren t
reads

Ker ember

quickf.v niade : n'd little Marion
(for that wasv^'r name) was on
her way to Hi nr>' county that
night. ^

That'll juat 01 e example of Jh
results of tha .<)utiucs for Ctyl
dren ■j>r<)teot' of the K A. A. It
is a plap which transfers kiddies
from t% "ir mi ierably hot and
danverdtia playirounds on city
streets }|pto th( homes of farm
bureai^jjijiemberi in God's great
oat-of-dp jr?.

I^st [siear nearly 500 children
went tfl farm ( lomes under the
auspiciij of tife I A. A., co-op
eratinsjv ith the United -Charities.
ChicagJ Dally "Ifews, and Illinois
caiIroa4^

lore \\ iplications
This ipar it ij desired to place
even nine children. Applications
are cort
but mat

ipg to Ihe I. A. A. daily
more ire wanted.

It is Mery noliceable that farm
•buieati iiienibefj who took chil-
dren la-l year v ere the very first
to appjj- this 3 ear. It is (luili-
eTident] t'tat strong attachments
have bttt^n inad^ .Many ask to

{same kiddies back auain.

rant th? same four chil-
we hid last summer."
Mercer, coiunty letter.

whicl^^imes t le two boys and
girls d^fpjrpi>d. , 'They are surely
dandy ^(^ung»{e :s and we would
liHe to ^ive thejii a^ain if it is at

ervini; Chlfiln

'tHicatiJn blan^ is re-

IJor yiiur convenience in

T lie Record. Ite-

he fpnt in iintil July

SOME VIEWS WHERE THE PICNIC
WAS HELD

pARM BU|reau folks from all over Illinois gathered at Crystal Lake
* Park, Ur()ana. June 29,' for the Fourth Annual I. A. A.-County Farm

Bureau Pietiic- Due to the tact thpt The Record v»ent to press sev-
eral days Before the big event, we could not tell you about it this
titne. The story will appear in the next issue.

-TrxT^fi

FARM OUTINGS

provide a two-week outing for city

send in requests to
youngsters during July or August has been made until July 15
This blank may be found convenient to fill out and send in.
On account of the fact that the railroads X)ffer free transporta-
tion only within a 200-mile radius of Chicago* applications can
only be accepted within such territory.

To Oatln|c| Nerretnry. I' 'I

lllln»it« -\fcricpltDral Aaiioclatlotl. '

<M>S s««ufh Ocarhorn SlrtN-f,
I'hlcnito. llllnuiM

We are till position to give a two ! weck.-i*, vacation to..

Chieago c(iildr*'ii some time in Julji or Ausuat. rreferahty.

Our choice of ay^ and sex )s a« fcUows

Our. )ifatt.^t railway station

t is unleratood that the

Iial)ili:y in the *.-as«- of a<citl(-iit

<lr**n went
lions in t

ie care and treatiiicnl of

(Please name at I ^ast two optional stations)

United

I'ost ortice

]:ural Koute No.

.but we could meet the ehlJ-

Charities of Chicago assumes
or Illness to any of the ehil-

to lis: hnwev* r. ^e pledkre to .'Xenlrte proper preeau-

these children.

Hint tho childroD

tmya and ^irls

(rom 4 tt< 14. ^ he railroads fur-

nish free t 'ansportation within

200 miles I rom Chicago. The
United Charl|ties assumes all lia-
bility for injuries and sends tliiem
to you with fresli, clothiup, free
from contatri^us disease, and st)Ot-
It'ssly clean

Just put >ourself in the p(ace
of a elum kiddie and imaSine
what a farm outing would mjeah
to you!

One of the most enthilsiastic

schools of instruction for so-
licitors held for a long time was
tlje one in Carroll county in June
in preparation for the reorgan-
ization campaign. Out of an at-
tendance of 171, of whom 161'
wpre eligible for membership. 163
agreements were signed. A bank-
eij-farmer signed three agree-
mients — one for each of his farms.

Odds Against City Boys— i
Girls In Popular Favor

"Nobody wants a boy!"

Strange as that -statement may
seem, yet it appears to be the.
case in reading the majority of
applications from - farm bureau
folks who are willfng to .gire
ChlcaKo slums kiddies a two-
week outing.

In fact in the applications so
far received, the demand for girls
outnumbers the call for boys just
four to one.

Several are quite emphatic in
tlieir demand for girls, others give
the lasses as first choice but will
take boys, while the small ma-
jority are' requesting boys only.

What's the reason? It can't be
because of last summer's experi-
ences with boys because tlie odds
favored the girls then also. Then
asain. the I. A. A. has had no
complaints from farm bureau
families who did "put up" with

INATIONAL COUNCIL
TO BE RESULT OF
WHEAT CONFERENCE

(Continued from page 1)
.Mexander Legge, Chicago; H. B,
Helm, Minneapolis; F. B. Wells.
Minneapolis; Julius Fleischmann,
New York; A. L. Taggart, Indian-
apolis; Sydney Anderson, Minne-

apolis; Harvey Sconce, Illinois;
Dan Wallace. St. Paul; Judge
Bingham. Louisville; T. Edson
White. Chicago; and H. E. By-
ram. Chicago.

Endorse Co-Operation

The conference went on record
in support of co-operative grain
marketing but split on the ques-
tion of governmental price fixing.
Representatives of the American
Farm Bureau Federation votfd
against any attempt to fix a defi-
nite price on wheat ttirough gov-
ernmental agencies.

Speakers

There were several prominent
speakers during the two days'
sessions. O. E. Bradfute, presi-
dent of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation, urged one great
national body of fafiiiers to bring
about regulated production and
better distribution of wheat, to-
gether with a campaign for in-
creased consumption.

President Samuel Oompers of
the American Federation of La-
bor, made an especially strong
address, emphasizing the necessity
for farmers to lay more stress on
organization.

city laddies tor the two weeki
last year. 1

In fact, it is a rather queer
proposition.

To be frank, the Outing Secre-
tary of the I. A. A. doesn't like
it. When slie saw itttle boys cry-
ing last summer l)ecause their sis-
ters went -to the country while*
they had no chance, she decided ^
the boys were getting the worst j
of the bargain.

Now, Jo be truthful, does It
look to you as if it's just ex-
actly fair?

"Let's give the boys a chance!"

{•.

Advisers In June , i
Meeting At U. of I.; \
Club Tour Held

Illinois farm advisers met atj
the University of Illinois, Urbana,
for their annual June meeting.
Melvin Thomas, farm adviser of
Coles county, presided at tht
sessions. He is president of the
state association of advisers.

Tlie conference opened with an
address, "Co-operative .Marketing
as Demonstrated by Actual Expe-

Volume 1

FORM PRO

"COOP"

MILK A

sin. He described the advantages ;
and pitfalls of co-operation and ;
stated that the ultimate aim

|l. A. A. Advisl

After Findir

Favi

its i.feuiuuaii-uieu uy Actual ii;xpe- j ^ r- t-

rience," by Dr. Tlieodore .Mack- | Co-operafive L
lin. of the University of Wiscon- , capitalized at

' place at Decatu
250 milk pro(
milk' to that c

co-operative marketing is to make . ''^'^ °^ *^* ^*'
happier rural communities and i '^^ .J^
general improved conditions of ■ o""ty t arm
farm life.

Tours and inspections of the
agronomy plots, animal husbandry
and dairy departments, and ani-
mal pathology and hygiene lab-
oratories were made by the ad-
visers to learn the latest results
of experimentation. Several talks
were delivered by members of
the College of Agriculture faculty,
and others.

The annual boys' and girls' club
tour was held at Urbana on June

22 when club members from a ;
wide area of the state assembled
with their leaders to visit the
university and especially the va-
rious departments of the College
of Agriculture.

Supervision Brings
Cleanup At South
St. Paul Market

As a result of federal supervis-
ion under the stockyards control
act, nine out of the 30 3rms op-
erating on the South ;?t. Paul
Live stock market have been fined
or suspended during the last two
months. Twenty-two out of the
30 firms had had their books
audited when this report was
made.

V_/S^

.5^ ^i?.a.a.—

QUALFTY OF SERVICE

Your State Association Gets Results

Investigations of the I. A. A. Statistical Ser-
vice presented before the State Tax Commis-
sion last December resulted in a decrease of
$557,217.65 in land taxes for 1922 alone.

i.

eration with tl
Marketing De

Dissatisfactio
ent milk distri
the city led up
tion. . Produc
been getting
per quart for
been retailing I
new company
cure a higher
ducer and at
greatly better 1
product for the

An organizat
nine with L. I
man, was appo
board of direc
Ization is comt
form a, stock
Shares of stocl
a par value of

Before advis
the Dairy Mari
conducted a b'
the retail milk
catur and four
were favorable
company to si
providing it is
ized and prope

Judging froi
manifested by
erg, the latest
1. A. A. family
shows every pi

Pen Whia

Co-oper

Presente

At the July i
ecutive Commi
H. Thompson
^ith which Gov
the Co-operatii
to the committi
mendation that
one of the val
the association,
place the pen i
hang it on i
A. A. office.

-•'■' . .-"'

■:" S

2 1)923

i

[/

l7._

DEAN H. 1. UUVFORD.
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE),
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS,
UBBASA. ILLINOIS. ID-».L-7-22

sr queer]

ig Secrl-
sn't like
)oys cry-
their sis-
:y while -i

decided
le worst

lllinoisAgriculturdAssoddion

Volume 1

July 16, 1923

Number 9

does
just ex

A

ihance!'' ,

Held

met at

Urbana,

meeting.i

Iviaer of

at th<

t of til'

witli an
arketing
al Expe-
e Mack-

Wiacon-
vantages
ion and

aim in
to make
ies and
tions of

of the 5
bandry .■
Id anl- '
le lab- :
he ad- -,
results
il talks
ors of
faculty .

Is' club
n June
rom a
embled
iit the
;he va-
CoUege

xth
irket

pervis-
control
ms op-
. Paul
n fined
ist two
of the
books
t was

NEW U. S. GRAIN GROWERS, INC., PLAN ADOPTED

FORM PRODUCERS
"COOP" TO RETAIL
MILK AT DECATUR

'X A. A. Advises Organization
; After Finding Conditions
Favorable

Formation of the Producers
Co-operafive Dairy ASsociatipn,
capitalized at $40,000, took
place at Decatur, July 2. About
250 milk producers supplying
milk" to that city will be mem-
bers of the new "co-op," which
was formed by the MaCon
County Farm Bureau in co-op
eration with the I. A. A. Dairy
Marketing Department.

Dissatisfaction with the pres-
ent milk distribution system of
the city led up to the organiza-
tion. Producers have lately
been getting only three cents
per quart for milk which has
been retailing for 12 cents. The
new company will strive to se-
cure a higher price for the pro-
ducer and at- the same time
greatly better the quality of the
product tor the consumer.

An organization committee of
nine with L. E. Bear as chair-
man, was appointed to act as a
board of directors until organ-
ization is completed. They will
form a. stock sales committee.
Shares of stock will be sold at
a par value of $100 each.

Before advising organization,
the Dairy Marketir ^ Department
conducted a business sur^'ey of
the retail milk situation of De-
catur and found that conditions
were favorable for a producers
company to sell market milk,
providing it is efficiently capital-
ized and properly managed.

Judging from the enthusiasm
manifested by the milk produc-
ers, the latest addition to the
I. A. A. family of dairy "co-ops"
shows every promise of success.

f

Pen Which Signed
Co-operative Act
Presented to LA. A.

At the July meeting of the E.\-
ecutive Committee, President S
H. Thompson presented the pen
Ylth which Governor Small signed
the Co-operative Marketing Act,
to the committee with the recom-
mendation that it be preserved as
one of the valued possessions of
the association. It is planned to
place the pen in a glass case and
to hang it on the walls of the I.
[A. A. offlce.

Red Top Growers
First to Apply Under
New ''Co-op" Law

Only the fact that there were
no application blanks available
at the oRite of the Secretary of
State prevented the Red Top
Growers' Warehouse Association
from filing its application to re-
organize under the provisions of
the new Illinois Co-operative
Marketing Law which went into
effect tfuly 1. This subsidiar.v
of the Egyptian Seed Growers
Exchange was the first to apply
under the act. The E.xchange
had made plans to apply im-
mediately after its annual meet-
ing, July 10.

STILL HOLDING THE SACK

MANY COUNTIES TO
REORGANIZE THIS
SUMMER AND FALL

Many Illinois counties will
stage membership reorganization
campaigns within the next few
weeks to renew the three-year
membership contracts. Most of
the campaigns are in the south-
ern part of the state.

pnly one school of instruction
wi41 be held in July, that of Jack-
son county on July 31.

In August the following
schools are scheduled by the I.
A. A. Organization department:
August 7, Franklin county; Au-
gust 8, Pulaski county: August
9, Edwards county; August 14,
Greene county; August 15. St.
Clair county.

In September, Piatt county has
its school planned tor the fourth,
followed by Bond, Sept. 12; Jo
Daviess. Sept. 13; Scott. Sept.
15; Henderson, Sept. 18; and
Richland, Sept. 25.

Johnson county will hold its
school October 9, the only one
thus far scheduled for Octoberi

Chicago Producers Vote
Thirty Per Cent Refuni

The Board of Directors of the
Chicago Producers Commission
Association has voted to refund
to its shipper members 30 per
cent of all commissions paid in
during the year which closed
June 30. 'The refund amounts
to appro.ximately $70,000.

It will be remembered that
the success of; the company led
to an announ(?ement early last
February that cash membership
fees would be dispensed with.
A total of $10,176.06 -was re-
turned to shippers shortly after
that date.

During its first year of oper-
ation, the Chicago Producers
handled 11,742 car loads of live
stock which sold for a total of
$19,828,033.54.

Starting with a manager, two
cattle salesman, three hog sales-
men, a cashier and small office
force, the farmers' concern has
expanded with growth of the
business until the office now has

Fundamental Principles of Marketing

IT COSTS MORE—

A — To sell at long distances than, at short.

B — To sell unstandard than standard products. «

C — To sell perishable than unperishable.

D — To sell small quantities than large quantities.

E — To sell many varieties than few varieties.

F — To sell products with a seasonable demand than with an

unseasonable demfind.
G — To sell products not widely known than those widely,

known. ">

Hon. Sydney Anderson,
* * I. A. A. Picnic,

June 29th, 1923.

throe cattle salesman, three Ijog
salesman, one sheep salesman
and also a well trained
and y:^ force.

The Chicago Producers tdok
the lead in number of hogs han-
dled among conimlH^ion firms
that market early in July, 19^2
and has held the lead nearly
every week since then. At pres-
ent between 12. aiid 15 per cent
of hog receipts in Chicago go to
the Producers. An average of
about 6 per cent of the total live
stock receipts is handled by ^he
"eo-op." I

Producers Will
Open Agency at
Pittsburgh,

Pit

Live stock producers tributary
to the Pittsburgh market recept-
ly held a meetinjr which resul ed
in the deci.son !tc Establish
agency of the National. Productrs
Commission A.ssocialioo at that
ir.yTket. Committees were choi en
to arrange details of establi ih-
nient. Harry Q. ifiealo, Mt. Stir-
ling, C, heads the new "co-op.

The Produceta opened
agency at Oklahotaa City on Jily
2. Dan Gaumtiitzj St. Paul.
Minn:, was employed as ml in
ager .and hog s^esnian of ihe
Oklahoma conii>any.

C. C. Burns, for three years

visor in Jo Daviess county,
succeed C. H Oathout as
adviser of Champaign county.
Sept. 1. Mr. Oathout recently
signed after 10 years servlee
the county.

Id-
ill
fahii
on

re-
in

MID-WEST CHIEFS
APPROVE; REQUEST
MARKETING POLICY

Direct Funding of Debts and
Setting Up of Sales Agen-
cies at Terminals

(On Page Two of this issue will
be found the pomplete report . of
the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc.)

At a mrttiiifj (i£ l^prwenta-
tives (if the (Htm bureau fed-
erations of Illiiioi:;. Ohio. Indi-..
ana. Michigan, Iowa. Minne-
sota. Mi.ssouri. iNebraska. Kan-
siis and \(ir1h Dakota, compos-
ing 'the Mid-\K'.-'-t presidents
and .secret.arieH. a new plan for
the future ciiuifsi- of action of
the I". S. Orain Cirowers. Inc.,
wa-s adopted. '

The plan >i|ovides for the
funding af, defctis by the V.' S.
Grain Growers. Inc.. and the »et-
.ting up of sales agencies in the
varfous terminal markets under
I he Capper-Tinther act. . The
.American Farm ' liureau Federa-
tion will forin4late a national
grain marketingj policy 6as»d on
organization of] producers by
states, with long-term contracts,
pooling by gradds on the basis of,
milling values.: torn to l>e han-
dled separately, . " '.

Th»- following

adopted unaniniiiisly;'

•■I£.solv..<l l.y

frt'Sidt'irt aii'l ft( <T»-tari€-i> of MI4-
west Farm liurf-iius (n st-flyion at
<Thi«'aK»>, July 3, \y2S.

"1. That the Ar Kfii-an Fa»-m nii-

K<'<l(>r.ilion

throUKh .its <'o..< pcrativ*- .Market

ing I>f|>artmeni;

national gr.-iiit ; 1 nf<rk«'ttne, poliry.

bas*-<l <in organifci tion c»f i.ro'lur-er*

by Ftatt'R. with Jnn;.--t«rm ■ ct

tracts, poujinf; hi

of milling valud,

with Pfpapat«-ly ;anH that Appropri

atf a<-tioii In- lak
Kanir.atio!i carnpa

n to lonHin-t or-
ig'lrs itl ' tht' B^-v-

• ral grain KTovinn stafw l-i the
uril.r <.r thi_ir ^-adimss lo liegln

sut'h work.

\-t f*

ttvt- fommlne*' r*

* qiK-Ht Ihe Exeru-

i;nj>»ir.« lo ro|(ii.rat>- with the
Ainirii-ati KarlTi i.uriMii K.-d^-ration

arryiiiK tnit
lllii-d al.i.v

proved by the 1.
Committee In i
6

nin Hi

The Supreme
rerenily susta
five cotton inarkH
Its parttcalai*.

is the resoIutioB

this meeting «f

rt-qin.atftd

lo fortnulalt-

(•Oft-

■orri lo *<*■ (Ifalt

)^<. I'tocratn out-

3. Thaljpewliiii : tlio or>;;atii>.a<ion
of sl.1t*- iA-npf-rat}vc irrain Tmark**t-
itig ore.»ni8atii.T)k
provi' th.- i.:an di
r.*«torK «.t ti»o i:l
Inc. to fiicag^ , It
th»- plan Hul-mitlJ.

fatnt' to I,, rn,*l.'i-l lt!t« or FUp-
{»l.-iiite<l I'.v th.- I' rrsnirat lOiiS con-
li'mplnt,-.» in paitu^raph I h.-rrof-at
»tii h titn. as tJi. iatLr ar.- r^aily t*
be^in oprnil lonaj'

The above rp ^ojutiun was ap-

as ai.nv4.. V ,, .ip-

th. Hoard of Di-

lorK «.t ti»o i:[ |R. tjraiii <:r"W.'r».

era ill x.-Mlii;; on
J lo tl.« Io<lay_ th*»

4. .\. Executive
meeting on July

Court of Texas
the co-opera-
contract in all

^'^i^-^'

The nCiioi* Agricnltaral AsaodatioB Record

Blinois Agricnltaral As»^tioa

RECORD

published twice a n^onth by th«
Illinois AgriculturaU Association.
$08 South Dearborn Street. Chit-ago.
nilnois. Edited by News Publicity
Department. L- J. ttontross. Director.

Entry as second class matter Oct.
10, 1921. ftt the post office at Chi-
cago. Illidois. under the act of
March 3. 1879. Acceptance for mall-
Ing at special rates of postage pro-
vided for in Section 1103. Act of
October I. 1917. asthorised OcU II,
1921.

The individual membership fee of
the Illlnala Agricultural Associa-
tion Is ftye dollars a year. This
tee includes payment of ten cents
for BubscriptLOn to the lUinoJs Ag-
ricultural- .A.s8oriation Record.

OFFICERS '~'
President, S. H." Thompson, Quincy.
Vice-President, A. O. Eckert. Belle-
ville. „,
Treasurer, R. A. dowles, Blooming-
Secretary. Geo. A. Fox. Sycamore,
ton. . ^_

EXECcrm; committee

By Congressional Districts

11th— Henry McGoligh. Maple Park-
IJth — G. T Tullook. RockforU.
IJth — C. E. Bamberough. Polo.
14th— W, H. Moody. Port Byron.
ISth — H. H. Ooemttel. Hoopole.
l»th — G. E. Reder, Mendota.
17th — F. D. Barton. Cornell.
llth — C. R. Finley. Hoopeston.
19th — D. J. Holterman. Sadorus,
20th— Earl J. Smien. Detroit.
21st— E. L Corbin. CarlinvlUe.
22nd— Stanley Castle. Alton.
2ard — Carlton Trimble. Trimble.
'24th — Curt Anderson. Xenla.
25th — Vernon Lessley, Sparta.

Directors ot p«p«rtm«nts,

1. .\. A, Offlco

General Offlce and' Assistant to Sec-
retary. J. D. Harper; Field Organlj-
ation. J G. Sailor-. Organiiatlon Pub-
licity G.^E. Metiger; News Publlc-
Uy L,. J. Montrose; Transportation.
L. J. Quasejr; Safistics. J. C. Wat-
Son; Finan<fe. pi A. Cowles; Fruit
and Vegetable Marketing. C.. B.
Durst; Ulve Stock Marketing. O A.
Stewart; Dairy Marketing. A. D.
Lynch; Phosphata Limestone. , J. R.
Bsnt. L*«:al. Newton Jenkins.

Loss Caused by
Delay in Transit;
Adjusted by I. A. A.

Delay in transit ot a c»r ot
cattle shipped ^y F, W. Case.
DeKalb. caused heavy shrinkage,
extra feed expense, and loss due
to a drop in the market^

Mr. Case took the matter up
with the Transportation Depart-
ment of the I. ^. A. An investi-
gation followed) the claim was
found tcu be jUstifled. and the
complainant wa^ mailed a check
of J82.d2 to caver his loss.

In acknowledging receipt of
theVheCk. Mr. Case concluded as
follows,"- "The I. A. A. is doing
great -work for the farmers along
this line (transportationV as well
9B (nanpf others."

Just another sample of I. A. A.
service

4:

Fruit Marketing
Plans Placed in
Charge of Leeper

A. 9f Leeper. manager of the

Illinois) Friiit Hxchange, has been
hired By the !(. A. A. to devote
three fbart.'is tiine to the comple
tlon ot\ fruit and vegetable mar^
ketiBg j plans which C. E. Durst

' had under way at the time of t)iti
resignajion on July l-.

The ^ork will include furthei'
organittation in the Illinois Fruit
Exchailge during the supimei| ai
well ail a thoroush sur\*ey of the
fruiit situation in- Illinois to aid ii|
the reorganization of the Ex
chang4| whosQ contracts expire

^this y«ar, • ,

An assistant will'be secured pj
the Enrhange to handle the frtait
8hipm«Dts during the time that
Mr. Leeper is out of the oCBce.

Jnly 16, 1923

Report of U, S. Grain Growers, Inc,

The World's Dairy Congreu
will hold Its opening sesaioDs at
Washington on Oct. 2 and 3, will
ad)ourn to Philadelphia {or Oct
A, and then continue at Syracuse.
N. Y.| with t^e National
c^ow. Oct ^ICL ;

M

'acuse.
Dalr^

The board of directors of the
0. S. Grain Growers, Inc.. sub-
mitted to the Mid-West States
Committee the following report,
Which was accepted:

Qentletnen: ' •

Your Board of Directors of the
O. S. Grain Growers. .Inc.. reapeCt-
fully present h«rewlth its statement
and repbrt.

HlNtonr. Briefly reviewing the
events which lead up to the forma-
tion of the U. S. Grain Growers,
Inc.. probably the ereatest under-
taking in national co-operative
marketing: by any orKanlzation. and
the events that have transpired
Since the prsatU^ation: On July 23
and 24. 1920. at the suggestion and
invitation of the American Farm
Bureau Federation, a representa-
tive group of Krain producers, rep-
resentatives of farmers' organtxa-
tions from many parts of the
United States, met at a national
get-together ntarketing conference
at Chicago. 0*t of this conference
there canje into being the Farmers*
Marketing Committee of Seventeen.
This committee was selected and
appointed by the then president of
the American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion. James R. Howard, and was
composed of representatives from
various ' farm organizations, the U.
S. Department of AjfricuUure, and
others Interested in the stihject.

During the proceeding of the Sec-
ond Annual Meeting of the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation held
In Indianapolis. Indiana, in Decem-
ber. 1920. the following endorsement
was given the* Farmers' Marketing
Committee of Seventeen:

^tV'e endorse the work being done
by the Farmers* .Marketing Commit-
tee of Seventeen and approve the
demand which they have made that
the grain exchanges he opened to
co-operative commission companies,
and demand a similar privilege for
the live stock co-operative commis-
sion companies from the live stock
exchanges."

Nearly seveh- months were spent
in an exhaustive study and survey
of co-operative grain marketing by
this committee. Statisticians and
Investigators from ] the Federal
Trade Commission anid the "V. S. De-
partment of Agriculiure assembled
and compiled valuable data that
might be relUd upori for the ready
information of the wsmmittee.

Months of careful^tudy and effort
gradually, developed the marketing
plan of the Committee of Seven-
teen— "a National Farmers' Co-op-
erative Marketing Company." rec-
ognizing capital only as a servant,
remunerating it for its service value
only and proposing to return to the
producers the proceeds of his toll in
proportion to his patronage.

The matter of drafting by-laws
and preparing membership con-
tracts was left in the hands of a
committee of lawyers who were re-
tained t>- draw up these documents
in accordance with the plan which
the. committee had formulated.

On February 17. /l921, the plan
of the Committee of /Seventeen was
announced. Then followed the na-
tional ratification conference at Chi-
cago, April a. 7. and 8. at which
time and place were called pffictal
delegates from farmers' organiza-
tions in the 23 grain states. The
original report and plan of the
Farmers' Marketing Committee of
Seventeen was in that meeting
unanimously Adopted. The delegates
immediately .thereafter elected a
board of twedty-one (21) director^,
who proce'e^fld with the organiza-
tion of the I national co-operative
marketing cqmpany. and on April
16. 1921. the U. S. Grain Growers.
Inc., was duly incorporated under
the laws of t>elaware.

On Jnne 2>, 1921. the Executive
Committee of the American Farm
Bureau Federation In regular meet-
ing further approved and endorsed
the U. S. Grain Growers- Inc.. in a
motion carried approving U". S.
Graia Growers. Inc., and urging the
members of the American Farm
Bureau Federation, the County and
State orgapiKations to get behind
the movement.

Again, ai Atlanta. Georgia, dur-
ing the proceedings of the Third
Annual Meeting of the American
Farm Bureau Federation held in
November. 1>21. a motion was oT
fered and carried in a meeting ot
the Executijre Committee of the
American Farm Bureau Federation
ri^ftffirming the motion made in the
June -meeting, re- pledging confl
dence in the' plan of the U. S. GraJn
Growers. Inc.. and pledging the
best efforts of the organization in
aiding U. S. Grain Growers. Inc.,
In every legitimate way financially,
and. furt!icp. directing that the
Pr«sidept bQ authorized to appoint
.•^ comm'ttea to assist in working
oui V. ith tha Grain Growers, plan of
imfnediate financing.

The first annual convention of
th4 U. S. Gilaln Growers. Inc., was
held in Chicago. March 21, 32, 23
ana . 24. It developed during the
meeting from the reports offered
by Its office™ that thQ corporation's
business affairs were financially in-
volved. Its then current bills pay-
able were discovered to be greatly
out of line with current receivable,
and with over $200,000 of the cor-
poration's notes maturing in tlte-
ne'Xt approaching months. Its sole
source of income was derived from
membership fees, with fixed heavy
overhead charges to be met cur
really.

The efforts of the corporation to
actually begin marketing grain for
Its nytnbership were blocked by the
unfr/endly attitude of the grain
tra(^ generally and the exchanges,
ther with its approaching in-
•ol/vent condition.

So that up until the enactment
Into law of the new Capper-Tincher
Bill and subsequent decision of the
U. 3. Supreme Court sustaining that
law," has it been possible for U. S.
Grain Growers. Inc.. as such, and
In Its own name, to attempt to
carry out its marketing program.

V«-orvaBt>ed. After its notes had
matured and were past^ due. and
the corporation became insolvent,
because of Its inability to meet
these and other obligations, and or-
ganization work had practically
ceaaed. again, the Farm Bureau
Fe»Ieratlons sponsored the U. S.
Grain Growers, Inc.. in effecting its
reorganization. A special meeting
of the Mid-West State Farm Bu-
reau Federations~was called at Chi-
cago on May 13, 1922. for the pur-
pose of considering the condition
of the U. S. Grain Growers. Inc.
At that meeting, a committee from
the group, consisting of E. H. Cun-
ningham. W. S. Hill, and JoMn Cov-
erdale was selected and appointed,
and was authorized and empowered
to assemble the claims of the cred-
itors— arrange, if possible, by agree-
ment with the then present officers
and directors of U. S. Grain Grow-
ers, to reorganize and save the cor-
poration. To' this committee was
pledged Individually and collect-
ively the support of the Farm Bu-
reau Federations present. It is
well known to you that this com-
mittee's efforts were successful.* The
claims of the creditors of U. S.
Grain Growers, Inc., were In great-
er part assembled, its commercial
claims were compromised and set-
tled, and its overhead and operating
expenses were reduced to the min-
imum. Its offlce has been modestly
maintained, partly through securing
liquidation of membership notes
owing the corporation and pai;tly
through the financial support given
it by the American Farm Bureau
Federation.

Its Board of Directors and Ofn-
cers. with one exception (the va-
cancy filled In the board) today are
the same men whom you selected
and appointed — drafted to the cor-
poration in the name of organized
agriculture — In the hope of making
good the promises and obligations
of V. S. Grain Growers, Inc., made
to its members and its creditors
(largely composed of Farm Bureau
members. Farm Bureaus and Farm
Bureau Federations) ; also in the
name of organized agrlculure.

Your Committee invited and re-
quested Mr. Frank Wetmore of Chi-
cago, Mr. Bernard M. Baruch of
New York and Mr. Alex. L.egge of
Chicago, to serve U. S. Grain Grow-
era. Inc.. in an advisory capacity, as
membars of a regularly constituted
committee for that purpose. These
gentlemen accepted the earnest re-
<iuest of your committee to serve
organized agriculture and so asso-
ciated themselves in that capacity
with the insolvent corporation—
also in the name of organized agrl-
culure. The Advisory Committee
have, without reservation, al'-eady
given of its services and have re-
affirmed their desire at this time to
continue to serve organized agri-
culture in this capacity.

Again, during the meeting of the
executive committee of the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation held
in Chicago on December 5th, 1922,
the following motion was offered
and carried:

"Mr. Smith moved: That we re-
a0irm our support of the U.S. Grain
Growers. Inc., and direct the oIH-
cers to assist it in every way with-
in our means. Seconded by Burton.
Carried."

Had It been, deemed possible at
tbe time of the reorganization of
the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., to
market gmin directly In the name
of "U. S. Grain Growers, Inc.." in
the then Immediate future, no doubt
yhur committee would have care-
fally' considered at that time the
fi^nding of the floating debts. Such
action was deferred for the time
being.

Grata Fntar«fl Act Sustained.
liowever. since the Supreme Court
ojf the United States has sustained
by decision the new "Gapper-Tln-
cher Bill" or "Grain Futures Act."
the subject of funding its debts
ajnd rendering solvent the corpora-
tion has received active attention.
. Careful study of the "Grain Fu-
tures Act" discloses the fact that
U. S. Grain Growers, Inc.. conforms
tixactly to the requirements of the
law as to a co-operative marketing
Organia»tion— *en organization law-
fully fonjjed of producer members
and aftirmatively that "any duly au-
thorized representative of any law-
ifully formedjijind conducted co-op-
erative association of producers
having a'iequate financial responsi-
bility, which is engaged in cash
grain liusiness — shall be admitted
to membership on the Exchange of
any contract market." It is, there-
torer agreed by the Executive
Cohimittee. its advisory committee
of the corporation and its counsel,
that if the debts of the U. S. Grain
Growers, Inc., can be funded and
a reasonable amount of Initial
capital subscribed. conditioned
Upon the funding of the corpora-
Lion's debts, and thereafter paid in
to the corporation, that the corp-
oration may become solyent there-
by and capable of doing a general
grain marketing business, and as
such, may be admitted under pro-
visions of /the Grain Futures Act
and the rytes of the Jlxchange. to
market grain, through its duly
authorized representatives.

With this view in mind, the
Executive Committee of the U. S.
Grain Growers, Inc., and Its Sec-
retary, have been permitted and
have carefully surveyed and
studied, through association with
their adjrisory committee and legal
counsel, the immediate problems
Involved, which are reported here-
with.

r-

The Advisory Committee select-
ed by your Mid-West States Com*
mittee has been consulted with and
their advice accepted on all mat-
ters and the problems Involved
pertaining to policies of business
and finance. General counsel for
the (corporation, Fred S. Jackson of
Topfka. Kansas, has been, conferred
with personally and through cor-
respondence, as well as the general
counsel for the Corporation Trust
Company on legal matters pertain-
ing to the immediate problems pre-
sented, and In the absence of Mr.
Jackson, at the request of the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the corpora-
tion, and through mutual arrange-
ments with Mr. Jackson, Mr. Don-
ald Kirtpatrick has rendered the
committee an Invaluable service.
The Executive Committee have tak-
en the precaution to send Mr. Kirk-
patrlck, acting as their legal coun-
sel, to the State of Delaware, in
order to ascertain definitely and
fully the necessary legal require-
ments to bie complied with and the
changes contemplated.

The proposed changes herewith
presented have 'the full and final
approval In principle of ta>th our
Advisory Committee referred to and
our legal counsel.

Fandfng- the IndebtrdnciM. V. S.
Grain Grower^ Inc. It is proposed
that U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., avail
itself of exactly the same means, of
funding its indebtedness as em-
ployed by industries in re-organiza-
tion: namely, that it offers In ex-
change or substitution, certain is-
sues of Debenture Bonds for claims
held by creditors against the cor-
poration. This involves preferably
the amending of the charter of the
corporation In certain minor .de-
tails, so as to permit the Issuaince
of bonds— which may be done with
perfect propriety.

The -proposed bonds are to be is-
sued In such form or forms, and
amount or amounts, and upon such
terms and conditions finally, as Tip-
proved by the Board of Directors
of the corporation. A statement
covering the proposed bond issues
is presented in greater detail try
counsel, and made a part of this
report.

The Indebtedness of the corpora-
tion when so funded would remove
it from Its present situation of in
solvency an(j render it capable of
functioning and earning profits, so
.that It might pay the interest upon
Its Debenture Bondte, and from time
to time call and redeem a part •t
such issues; finally retiring all of
the bonds In their entirety — ^Is
charging In full the obligations of
the corporation, made in the name
of organized agriculture to»its cred-
itors.

**lBdactnc New Cnpltal lato the
Corporation. It is further proposed
that new capital be induced to in-
vest In certain other Issues of De-
benture Bonds of the corporation,
for the purppse of rendering the
corporation financially responsible
in its conduct of , a general grain
marketing business for Its member-
ship. Further reference to this
^particular bond Issue is included in
the report of counsel, to which ref-
erence has alreatly been made.

It should be stated that subscrip-
tion to this class of Debenture
Bonds would be conditioned strictly
upon the funding of the debts of
the corporation, and with other
proper protective measures provid-
ed,

Chlcasro Board of Trade Ooafera
H^'lth. The Executive Committee of
the corporation have conferred per-
sonally with representatives of the
Chicago Board of Trade, and sub-
mit for your proper information a
letter, under date of June 16, 1923,
directed by your Executive Commit-
tee to Mr. John J. Stream, Presi-
dent of the Chicago Board of Trade,
propounding to that body certain
questions relating to meeting the
requirements of the Exchange, not
in conflict with the Grain Futures
Act. as to financial responsibility,
as follows:

"June 16, 1923.
"Mr, John J. Stream.
"President. Chicago Board of Trade,

Chicago, Illinois.
"Dear Sir:

"At the direction of the executive
committee of the U. S. Grain Grow-
ers- Inc.. and in line with sugges-
tions niade at our conference with
your Messrs. Mauff and Fones on
June 14, and I am suUmitting our
request jn writing for information

as -to the desired course of proced-
ure to secure membership repre-
sentation on the Chicago Board of
Trade in behalf of the U. S. Grain
Growers, Inc.

"The U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., Is
a non-stock, non-profit association
of producers, organized under the
laws of Delaware for the purpose
of marketing the grain of its mem-
bers co-operatively; that is, the cor-
poration is without capital stock
and its non-profit character is In-
tended to limit it to the handling
of grain originating from Its own
membership.

"Being without capital stock we
would like particularly to know
how your requirements as to finan-
cial responsibility should be met.
We. of course, want to make such
financial .arrangements as will
leave no ground for doubt in the
minds of Board of Trade members
and in the minds of our own cus-
tomers as to financial responsibil-
ity and would undertake to make
available such amount of cash cap-
ital and place it In such form as to
guarantee our credit and perform-
ance of contracts made on the Chi-
cago Board of Trade to the same
extent that would be furtiished by
unimpaired capital stock if we were
a capital stock corporation.
• "Assuming that we should em-
ploy as our representative some
person who is now a member in
good standing of the Chicago Board
of Trade, or Should employ some
person able to qualify for member-
ship on the Exchange, could we be
perrhitted to use our name as a
principal In trades by either one of
the following suggested arrange-
ments:

"1. The underwriting of our con-
tu,ct8 made on the Chicago Board
of Trade by some other member.
fittti or corporation having financial
responsibility adequate to cover
both their own volume and ours —
or the undertaking on the part of
such other member, firm or corpo-
ration to finance our grain handling
operations.

"2. By causing to be placed in
escrow with some responsible bank
or trust company In the city of Chi-
cago a sum of money in Liberty
Bonds or like securities guarantee-
ing our credit and financial respon-
sibility for contracts made on the
Chicago Board of Trade.

"3. The undertaking by a respon-
sible surety to insure and guaran-
tee our credit and financial respon-
sibility for grain transactions and
contracts made on the Chicago
Board of Trade up to some stipu-
lated amount. »

"We are unable at this time to
furnish any reliable estimate of the -
number of. cars of grain we would
handle In this market during the
course of a Tear. However, we
would be glad to have you consider
our possible maximum volume of
business at twenty-flve cars per
week, it being understood that in-
creased business will be met with
increased finances from _tim.e to
time. ^

We appreciate greatly your ex-
pressed desire to have this letter
m such form that you could take
early action on our proposal, and
we would request that If you should
note any particular matters of in-
formation that are not covered by
this letter you will call our atten-
tion to them at once so that we may
furnish additional data.

"Very truly yours,
U. S. GRAIN' GROWERS. INC.
By J. M. Mehl.
Secretary and Acting Treasurer."

Our communication was Immedi-
ately referred to the Board of Di-
rectors of the Chicago Board of
Trade; by the Board of Directors
jointly to the Executive. Member-
ship, L.egal Advice and Rules Com-
mittees; and by this Joint commit-
tee to their attorney. The opinion
of the attorney was not received
in sufficient time to enable action
by tlie Board of Directors at their
last meeting. We hav^ been as-
sured, however, that the attorney
definitely approved"^ our proposition
No. 1 above and we have assurance
that the corporation can be admit-
ted to membership representation
under the (.rain Futures Act.

Departmeat of Agrtenltnre Con-
Malted. On May 24, our secretary
submitted to the Department" of Ag-
riCBlture a letter Requesting the De-
partment's view on a number of
(Continued on'page 3)

We can quote you rates on a&
farm products to any point ,

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Tramportation Department,
Illinois Agricultural Aasodatioa.

ly 16, 1923

tYoVL C
Tha

Among the c
marketing as.<»(
the I. A. A. ha
ganizing, then
has served the"'
it is located t
tage than has
County Co-opei
Company.

When produce
the fact that ;
densary is payic
hundred for mi
paid (before the
established witl
;ondensed milk
same level, you
that co-opcratioi

Likewise whe
near the markei
cal unit of Dak'
they were paid I
tor milk at that
dealer in Febru
one year latei
$2.10 from theii
pany. they are ••
to co-operative i
Serves C

The Stephens
IP" has prove
things, that the
operative markc
cially to allow
stock dividends
profits, but it hs
big thing in tar
to create a m
farmers thems€
serve a comm
bling a large qi
modify, grading
it. and putting
market that th(
the time that I(

Where there
ket for milk
Freeport co-ope
factured the su
sweet cream, cl
other dairy
mous "Vita
ing 90 and be
premium of
over the Chicaf
because the
.enough butter-
good enough —
mand for it

Orga

The Stepher
operative ^Mar
was formed
County Farm
Dairy Marketii
the I. A. A.,
after several
inps. It openf
August 15. 19

Building an
company are v
000. It is
000 and share
ot $50. No
more than flv
ent there are
holders in ih
the close of 19
Ydend of si.\ P'
on all stock
1922
A brief stat
business of th

Butter

Milk

Cheese ....
Cream (sweet)
Butter and. Sk
Miscellaneous

DISBt

Total t)al(J pati
Butter and C

chased
iRjinnins expen
Miscellaneous
Sinking fund

. The averag
for 1922 was
XaX ot 13,129.

P
G<

b

923

oced-
epre-
rd of
Grain

ic. Is
lation
r the
irpose
mem-

cor-
stock
8 in-
ndllns

own

16, 1923

The DEbom AgricnltiinJ Associatioa Record

Peg* 3

You Can't Tell Stephenson Co. Farmers
That Dairy Co-operation Doesn't Pay!

Among the co-operative dairy
marketing associations, which
the I. A. A. has assisted in or-
ganizing, there is none that
has served the' district in which
it is located to better 'advan-
tage than has the Stephenson
County Co-operative Marketing
Company. ' •

When producers can point to
the fact that a Freeport con-
dfnsary Is paying one dollar per
hundred for milk over what it
paid Ibetore the "co-op" was well
established witl) the price of
ondensed milk it practically the
same level, you can't tell them
that co-operation doesn't pay.

Likewise when farmers living
near ttie marketing company lo-
cal unit of Dakota consider that
they were paid $.90 per hundred
for milk at that point by a local
dealer in February, 1922, while
ne year later they received
2.10 from their marketing com-
pany, they are willing to "stick"
to co-operative marteting. '
Serves Conununity

The Stephenson county "co-

" has proved, among other
things, that the big idea in co-
operative marketing is not espe-
cially to allow producers to get
stock dividends or a share of the
profits, but it has shown that the
big thing in farmer marketing is
to create a market which the
farmers themselves r'^ntrol, to
serve a communii;- ,y assem-
bling a large quantity of a com-
modity, grading it, standardizing
it, and putting a product on the
market that the public wants at
the time that it wants it.

Where there was a poor mar-
ket for .milk and creami the
Freeport co-operative has manu-
factured the surplus into butter,
sweet cream, cheese, casein, and
other dairy products. Its fa-
mous "Vita Gold" butter, scor-
ing 90 and better, commands a
premium of at least one cent
over the Chicago market, simply
because the compiwiy makes
enough butter — and makes it
good enough — to create a de-
mand for it.

Organizadon

The Stephenson County Co-
operative _^ Marketing Company
was formed by the Stephenson
County Farm Bureau and the
Dairy Marketing Department of
the I. A. A., February 3, 1921,
after several preliminary~ meet-
ings. " It opened for business on
August 15, 1921.

Building and equiptfient of the

000. It is capitalized at $75,-
000 and shares have a par value
of $50. No member may hold
more than five shares. At pres-
ent there are nearly 1,000 stock-
holders in the co-operative. At
the close of 1922 lousiness, a div-
idend of six percent was declared
on all stock.

1022 Statement
A brief statement of the 1922
business of the company follows:

SALES

Butter $263,661.75

Milk 145.929.25

Cheese 46.082.49

Cream (sweet) 61.522.69

Butter and. SklmmUk 4.693.47

Miscellaneous 16.474.90

'518.364.55
DISBrRSEMENVS

Toul fiald patrons (411.164^6

Butter and Cream pur- ,

chased 21.48134

Riinning expense* 61,742.57

Miscellaneous purchases . 11,268.36
SinklnB fund 12.705.72

1518.364.55

■ The average monthly business
for 1922 was $43,197.05. A to-
tal of 13,129,766 pounds ot milk

HERE'S one of the illuminated signs of the Stephenson County Co-
operative Marketing Company on display at Rockford. This "co-
op" made 631,597 pounds of butter in 1922, which sold for $253,661.75.
A large part ot this was print butter, advertised and sold under the
brand name "Vita Gold." They're making nearly twice as much this
year. - - .

was handled, together with 1,-
704,606 pounds of cream. The
total amount of butter made was
631,595 pounds out of 518,948
pounds of fat. The overrun,
which amounted to 112,649
pounds, represents $42,919.26 at
38.1 cents per pound. The aver-
age overrun was 21.7 per cent.

The average price paid for fat
was 40.4 cents per pound and for
milk was $1,627 per hundred.
The plant manufactured 169,626
pounds of cheese from 1.865.886
pounds of milk, receiving an,
average of 22>4 cents per pound
for the product.

Volume Increasing r

May. 1923, saw the biggest
volume of business transacted by
the company in any one month,
when $62,818.42 in sales came
to the organization. With this
big volume the expecse was only
9 per cent of the total sales, the
lowest yet secured by the co-op-
erative.

In May, also, 88,542 pounds of
butter were made, an increase
of 15 ^r cent over the corre-
sponding month of last year and
18 per cent over the 52,633
pounds average monthly produc-
tion of 1922. The last report
from the plant shows that over
108.000 pounds of butter was
made in June. From these fig-
ures it can be seen that the corn-
company are valued at over-^Tfrrtpany is doing a greater business

with longer establishment.

Equipment for manufacturing
the skimmllk product, casein,
has been added this y«ar. There
is a good market for casein at
present and an average of about
$1,200 worth is being sold
monthly.

Has Ten Locals

The Stephenson County Co-op-
erative Marketing Company, with
its main plant at Freeport, has
local units at Dakota, Damascus,
German Valley, Egan, Bailey-
ville. Pearl City, Lena, and Wad-
dam? Grove in Stephenson coun-
ty; at Shannon, iU; Carroll coun-
ty; and Forreston :in Ogle coun-
ty.

Producers bring their cream
to these locals, where it is col-
lected before shipping to Free-
port. Each planl has its branch
manager. Steps have been taken
this summer to organize the lo-
cal units more strongly on a

business basis. Advisory — coun-
cilmen from the locals are elect-
ed to represent them at each
meeting of the board of directors
of the company.

Dakota, Pearl City, and Egan
have already organized on the
strong unit basis. ■ ■- '. .

Officers

The officers of the company for
192 3 are, Wm. F. Brown, presi-
dent; Wm. Frank, vice presi-
dent; J. A. Phillips, secretery-
treasurer, who with C. Maize, T.
F. Ellis. D. M. Brubaker. Wm.
Sieferman, H. M. Phillips, and
Tohn Kachelboffer, constitute the
board of directors.

The directors' board is on the
rotating plan, and the term of of-
fice is three years. The officers
are selected within Aie board.
Directors are chosen at the an-
nual meetings from the mem-
be rship-at-large.

Management

The general management of
the marketing company is under
A; V. Ahrentzen, a man w^ith
many years experience in the
creamery business. The com-
pany, in addition to its regular
staff, has a fleldman who spendf^
most of his time visiting locals,
instructing in the care of milk
and cream, and otherwise adding
to the efficiency of the concern.

A mopthly house organ. "The
Co-op." is published to inform
the membership concerning the
affairs of their company.

Until recently the co-operative
has maintained a warehouse to
handle feeds, tankage, seed, bin-
der twine, etc., at a small mar-
gin of profit to the membership.
However, it was found that with
the greatly increased volume ot
dairy products handled, the cap-
italization of the company would
not permit the financing of this
subsidiary, so it was disposed of
in June.

An increase of nine tenths of
one per cent in the number . of
nigs saved frnn^ ^Xa^^"winga in the
sis months Snded June 1. 1923.
as compared with the number
saved during the same period la«t^
year, is indicaie^i in reports gath-
ered by rural mail j:arrlers for
the D. S. Department of Agri-
culture from 140.000 hog' raisers
in all parts of the country.

REPORT OF 0. S.
GRAIN GROWERS,
INC., S06MITTED

(Continued from p&ff« 2)
matters Involved -in connectioni ■wit i
grain exchangre repreaenfatioi .
AmoDg others was incorporate I
specifically the three propose I
methods of qualifying as to finan-
cial responsibility contained in th;
letter to PreeUient Stream. The fol-
lowing^ paragraph from the lette r
of Mr. Chester Morrill to Mr. Me^ 1
under date of June 18 is in apecifip
replv to the questions stated:

"The Solicitor Is of th^ opinion
that your suggestion as to the dif-
ferent methods hy which non-stock
membership corporajtions may meat
the requirements -of the Act ane
sound andthat the. Board of Tradje
would not be justified in denying
membership to an assooJatioh
which had adopted any one of i^iA
methods; that is to say. the idesis
set forth in para^rraphs (a), {b>.
(c), and <d) just preceding the la4t
paragraph of your letter."

Ser^le*" Paclllrteiu We also re-
port informally for your proper in-
formation that resttlts of the sev-
eral conferences held with Mr. <*.
W. Hales of Hales and Huntet.
Chicago, in which have been oui-
lined in detail arrangements for
financing and handling any part
or all of the grain of our member^.
This, large and successful concerfi.
friendly to the co-operative mov»-
ment. controls a larse amount, ♦f
surplus capital in addition to ele-
vators and plants whereby it wfll
assume to underwrite our contracts
made on the Chicago Board Jf
Trade and will furnish all the $-
nances needed in the movement 6f
grain. This finaacial assistante
will carry -with it certain account-
ing service enabling us. with tbe
employment of one man to actu-
ally sell our grain on the floor, io
carry on our graUi selling oper|i-
tions at a nominal 'cost per bush*l.
thus avoiding the necessity fbr
building immediat€4y an office per-
sonnel and force of our own. but
leavlne us free to ase our own cap-
ital to the extent that w« have Jto
do our own financtng and handle
our own force as soon as we a^e
in a position to flo so. The ar-
rangement carries with It the uBe
ot all classes of terminal elevatbr
service, including storage space,
and for which service we will pty
certain stipulated and agreed p^r
bushel charges. The services ile-
ferred to are offered without limi-
tations-— for our immediate neefs.
and are available in a manner sin^i-
lar to the services offered by a
bank or trust company. Neither
would our business be restrictied
exclusively to the acceptance a*id
employment of the services offered.

It seema possible to commence
operation In the Chicago market
almost at once — if desired.

!3t«teme«t of CamAltloa* We also'
report for your proper information
and purposes herein set Yorthj a
general statement of conditions | of
the corporation's Tlnances. The , U.
S. Crain Growers. Inc., at the pres-
ent time is owing creditors of lall
classes approximately $350,000, In-
cluding interest accrued on npte
obligations. Of thus amount ».p-
proximately J86.0#0 is d»e solici-
tors and about $42,000 due old (di-
rectors and others; $191,000 wjlth
about $30.<^00 in accrued InteresO is
due note creditor*, most of wtom
are Farm BureauB antl Farm Bu-
reau members. It Is estimated that
$100,000 in new capital will be ad-
equate to start operation In at lejast
fiv* of the principal markets. This
capital may not be 'immeUiatjcly
necessary. It is estimate<l that
about $20,000 should be provided
immediately and budgeted for jthe
special purpose of consuming and
seating in operation the pre^nt
proposed plans.

FuMdii Repaired. In orderj to
cnrry out anil put into execution
the plans contemplated, it becoiies
absolutely necesnary that Sfme
funds be made Immediately ftnd
definitely available for the purposes
of: ]

1st. Carrying On .^ the ordinary
affairs of the corponation.

2nd. Arranging » thie contem-
plated changes looking to the filnd-
ing of Its debts.

Place ofL A. A.
Annual Meeting
To Be Chosen

Choice of the place at which
the 1923 annual meeting of the
Illinois Agricultvral Association
will be held wiD be decided Mt
the next meeting of the Execu-
tive Committee ot FYiday. Aug-
ust 3. The annuad meet is dated
for the third we^k in Januarr*
1924.

3rd, Securing an
ing the funding of its debtt.

4th. Securing Jsubscription of
necessary funds tO provide Initial
capital.

Sth. Organlxincr | the ' market lac
of praln.

HvwMarS. Two brlnclpal cauaea.
and only twa. hqve In the paat
prevented C . S. lOraln Grower*.
Inc.. from mit^tiiw) Into effect ita
marl^etlng plan. >

1 sf . I ts form ojr organ iaat Ion —
having membership contracts and
providing for patfonage dividenda
has furnishe4 thfl excuse to bar
the corporation fra^ the grain ex-
changes of the cofntry and there-
by deprived the Corporation from
marketing any »art of Its grata
desired, through Uuit outlet.

2nd. Its flna-nttal condition-*
lacking adequate Iflnances orlffln-
ally to function as a going con-
cern, and finally becoming Insolv-
ent— has rendered, the corporation
dormant for the tfcne being. '

The first ottstatae has been' re-
moved by legittatif'e act.

The second obstkcle is going to
be removed , throagh your active
financial support knd Indorsement
— if your Federations are ao
pleased. I

The Grain Grower Plan In Itself
has not defeated the putting of tfta
plan Into operation. The plan haa
never liad a fair orlal. It seems It
would be unsouaa to repudiate It
before giving it a fair trial be-
cause of repeated' indorsements by
the Farm Bureaoland other farm-
ers* organtxatlons.; The Farm Bu-
reau or the leademhip of the Farm
Bureau cannot repudiate this plan
and ever hope ti make good oa
another grain marketing plan. ^

The present Bodrd Qf V. S. Oraia
Growers. Inr.. In accepting thfiM* re-
spective positions to which ^ they
were drafted on jthat Board stTb-
scribed to a soleain oath of ofTlce
to faithfully and {well, and to the
best of their a^l^ty carry- out the
trust and confi*ei|ce so reposed In
them by the memlfership of tbe cor-
poration— and by^ your committee.
They have kept faith with the mem- *"'
bership of V. S. ©rain (irqwers. to
the >est of their |abllity.

Ne*^i*^ ftnRn*^es'and active unKod
support is now o\mr Inunediate « "enoV

Yonr substantial and deflnlt.
financial support to this program ia
required at onde and most earneatljr
solicited. !

There is neede<^ according to the
estimates of the Kxecutive Com-
mittee of the (."pi-poratibn :

For carrying On the ordinary Af-
fairs of the Corpt ration

the contemplated
Lo the funding of .

For arranging
changes looking
its debts.

For securing ^nd accomplishing
the funding of iti debts.

For securing
necessary funds
capital, and

For organizing

grain. th<« sum oT twenty-thousand

($20.noO) Dollars,
of as may be min
present time and

Said fund
through and wit

The sums thai
and'''paid by the
eralions for any
eral purposes al^i
to be received
as advances and
bonds or debt-ntt
amounts of the
tcmplated to be
tors of ihe

subscriptions of
to provide initial

the marketing of

or as much there-

e available at the

Immediate fulitt'e.

be admtntsJVred

the advice of

properly eonatituft^ed Finance' (Com-
mittee.

may bi»- pledged

^arm ^ureau Fed-

or all C^ the sev-

>"e set Jorth are

ly the Corporation

)e later secured,*y

res in the -sevt^l

me class a4 con-

SNued to Ihr cred-

iorporation wt^oae'

claims are projio i^d to be funded.

Very respt-ctully submitted,

U. S. ORAt: GROWERS. INC.

By Ita toard of Directdra.

pefTf'tnrv.

Phosphate Insures You

Highest Quality Grain

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Maximum Crop Productioi
Surest and Greatest Pro6tt

We Insure You

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Accurate Weight \ :
Dependable QuiJtty' «>

uh-der through your Farm Bai

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lent, 1* J. Morvlroa*, Director.

^^try a«"-«»<>lnd~dhis8'"'w»Her OcV
' 10. 1>21. aO t»e p»st offteie at Cbl-^
caKo. Illinois, iiader the act or
March 3. 1879. Acceptance loi mail-
ing at special rat^ of postage pro-
vided for in Section 1103. Act of
October 3^ 1917, authorlied Oct >1,
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The Individual membership fee -tit
the nilnois Agricultural AsM<!Ia-
t.on la Ave dollars a year.^'^Thla
fee Includes payment of tort cents
fo. elibacription to the Illinois Ag-
rlcultnral Association Record.

OFFICERS

President, S. H.' Thompson. Qnlncy.
Vice-President, A. O. Eckert. Belle-

Treamrer, R. A. Cowles. Blooming-
Secretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore.

ton. '

EXECtrm-fe COMMITTEE
By Congressional Districts

11th— Henry McOough. Maple Park-
J2th — a. F. Tttllock. Rockfortl.
13th — C. E. Bamborough, Polo.
14th — W. H. Moody. Port Byron.
15th — H. E. Goembel. Hoopole.
ISth — G. E. Kedei:, Mendota.
17th — F. D. Barton, Cornell.
Igth — C. R. Finley. Hoopeston.
15th — D. J. Holterman. Sadorus.
JOth— Earl J. Smith, Detroit.
21rt — E. L. Corbin. CarllnvlUe.
22nd — Stanley Castle, Alton.
2lrd — Carlton Trimble. Trimble.
S4th — Curt Anderson. Xenla.
JSth — Vernon Lessley, Sparta.

Directors of Departments,

I. A. A. Office

General Offlce and" Assistant to Sec-
retary. J. D. Harper; Field Organlj-
atloo. 1 C. Sailor; Organization Pub-
licity, a. E. Metzger; News Public-
ity U J Montross: Transportation,
L. J. Qilasey; Statistics, J. C. Wat-
son; Finance. R. A. Cowles; Fruit
and Vegetable Marketing. C. B.
Durst: Live Stock Marketing, C. A.
Stewart; Dairy Marketing. A. D.
Lynch. Phosphate Limestone, J. K.
Bent. Legal. Newton Jenkins.

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Loss Caused by
Delay in Transit;
Adjastedby I. A. A.

Delay in transit of
cattle shipped by F.

a car of

■W. Case,

.' DeKalb, causad 'heary sbrinkage.

extra feed expense, and loss due

to a drop in th& marltet.

Mr. Casi took the matter Up
with the Transportation Depart-
ment of the I. A. A, An investi-
gation followed, the claim was
found to be i justified, and the
complainant vfas mailed a check
'of J 8 3. 3 2 to cover his loss.

In acknowledging receipt of
tbe cbeck, Mrl Case concluded as
follows, "The I. A. A. is doing
great work tot the farmers along
this line (tranisportation) as well
»s many otheBs."

Justi anotheit sample, of I. A. A.
■aenric^! ' ]

Report of U. S. Grain Growers, Inc.

The board of directors of the
TJ. " S. Grain Growers, Inc., Bub-
miUed to tbe Mid-West States
Xlomniittee the following report,
w^ich was accepted:

Gentlemen: '

Your Board of Directors of the
U. S. Grain Growers. Inc.. respect-
fully present herewith Ita statement
and report*

Himtory- Briefly reviewing: the
events which lead up to the format'
tion of the X3. 8. Grain Growers,
Inc., probably the greatest under-
taking in national co-operative
marketing by any organization, and
the event* that have transpired
since the organization: On July 23
and 24. 1930, at the suggrestibn and
invitation of the Anwrican Farm
Bureau Federation, a representa-
tive group of grain producers, rep-
resentatives of farmers' organiza-
tions from many parts Of the
United States, met at a national
get-together marketing conference
at Chicago. Out of this conference
there came into being the Farmers'
Marketing Committee of Seventeen.
This committee was selected and
appointed by the then president of
the Americftji Farm Bureau Federa-
tion. James. R. Howard, and was
composed of representatives from
various farrti organizations, the U.
S- Department of Agriculture, and
others interested In the subject.

During tike proceeding of the Sec-
ond Annual Meeting of the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation held
In Indianapolis, Indiana, In Decem-
ber. 1920. the following endorsement
was given the Farmers' Marketing
Committee of Seventeen:

"We endorse the work being done
by the P'armers* Marketing Commit-
tee of Seventeen and approve the
demand which they have made that
the grain exchanges he opened to
co-operative commission companies,
and demand a similar prtvll«^ge for-
the live stack co-operative commis-
sion companies from the live stock
exchanges."

Nearly seven months were spent
In an exhaustive study and survey
of co-operative grain marketing by
this committee. Statisticians and
investigators from the Federal
Trade Comttilssion and the TJ. S. De-
partment of Agriculture assembled
and compiled valuable data that
might be relied upon, for the ready
information of the committee.

Months of careful study and effort
gradually developed the marketing
plan of thfe Committee of Seven-
teen— "a National Farmers' Co-op-
erative Marketing Company"," rec-
ognizing capital only as a servant,
remunerating it for Its servlcs value
only and proposing to return to tlie
producers the proceeds of his toil in
proportion to his patronage, i

The matter of drafting bjr-laws
and preparing membership con-
tracts was I left in the hands of a
committee 6t lawyers who were re-
tained to dr.aw up these documents
In accordance with the plan which
the committee had formulated.

On February 17. 1921. tiie plan
of the Committee of Seventeen was
announced. Then followed the na-
tional ratification conference at Chi-
cago, April 6, 7. and 8, at which
time and plac^ were called {ifflclal
delegates from farmers' organiza-
tions in the 23 grain states. The
original rebort and plan of the
Farmers' Marketing Committee of
Seventeen was In that meeting
unanimously adopted. The delegates
immediately thereafter elected a
board of t^Menty-one (21) directors,
who proce'eded with the organiza-
tion of the national co-operative
marketing Company, and on April
16. 1921. the U, S. Grain Cirowers.
Inc.. was duly incorporated under
the laws of Delaware.

On June !23. 1921. the Executive
Committee of the American Farm
Bureau Federation In regular meet-
ing .further< approved and endorsed
the IT. S» Grair. Growers; Inc., in a
motion carried approving U. S.
Grain Growfcrs. Inc.. and urging the
mem^bers of the American Farm
Bureau Federation, the. County and
State organizations to get hehlnd
the movemq^l. "^

Again, at Atlanta, Georgia, dur-
ing the proceedings of the -'Third
Annual Meeting of the American
Farm Bureau Federation held in
November, _J921. a motion w»s -of

FruiY Marketing
Plans Placed in
Charge of Leeper

A. |B- .Leepsr, manager of the

Illinol* Fruit Exchange, has been

hired by the 1. A. A. to devote

thre» !!o'.;rtl!s time to the comple- , ^.. ^„.., .

tion of fruit and vegetable mar-f fered and carried In a meetinsr ot
' • the Executive Committee of the

keting plans which C. E. Dural^

had uBder Way at the time of hia

resignation on July 1. j

The work will include further
organisation in the Illinois Fruit
Exchange during the summer as
well as a thonough survey of the
fruit situation , in Illinois to aid in
the reorganization of the Ex-
change, whose contracts . expire
this year.

An assistant will be secured by
the Exchange to handle tbe fruit
shipments during the time that
Mr. Leeper is out of the offlce.

The World'* Dairy Congress
will hold Its opening sessions at
Washington on Oct. 2 and 3, will
adjourn " to Philadelphia for Oct.
4, and then continue at Syracuse,
N. Y. with the National Dairy
cJhow

. ,pct. B-xa

American Farm Bureau Federation
reaffirming the motion m^de In the
June meeting, re- pledging confi-
dence in the plan of the U. S. Grain
Growers. Inc., and pledging the
best efforts of the organization In
aiding U. S. Grain Growers, Inc..
in every legitimate way financially,
and, further,' directing- that the
President be authorized to appoint
a committee to assist In working
out with the Grain Growers, plan of
immediate ftnancing.

The first annual convention of
the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., was
hel4 in Chicago. Jtfarch 21. 22,-''23
and 24. It developed during the
meeting' frein the reports offered
by its officers that the corporation's
business affairs \vere financially In-
volved. ■ Its then current bills pay-
able were discovered to be greatly
out of line with current receivable,
and with over $200,000 of the cor-
poration's aotes maturing in tl»«-
next approaching months. Its sole
source of income was derived from
membership fees, viitli Axed beavy
overhead charges to oe piet cur-
rently.

The efforts of the corporation to
actually be^in marketing grain for
Its membersnip were blocksd by the
unfriendly attitude of the grain
trade generally and the exchanges.
together with its approaching in-
•oW«nt coiiditlon.

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So that up until the enactment
into law of the new Capper-Tinchec
Bill and subsequent decision of the
U. S. Supreme Court sustaining that
law.' has it been possible for U. S.
Grain Growers. Inc.. as Such, and
In Its own name, to attenipt to
carry out its marketing program.

Rfr-organlscd. After its notes had
matured and were past^ due. and
the c(>rporation became insolvent,
because of its inability to meet
these and other obligations, and or-
ganization work had practically
ceased, again, the Farm Bureau
Federations sponsored the U. S.
Grain Growers, Inc.. in effecting Us
reorganization. A special meeting
of the Mid-West State Farm Bu-
reau Federationswas called at Chi-
cago .on May 13. 1922. for the pur-
pose« of considering the condition
of the U. S. Grain Growers. Inc.
At that meeting, a committee from
the group, consisting of E. H. Cun-
ningham. W. S. Hill, and John Cov-
erdate was selcted and appointed
and was authorized and empowered
to assemble the claims of the cred-
itors— arrange, if possible, by agree-
ment with the then present officers
and directors of U. S. Grain Grow-
ers, to reorganize and save the cor-
poration. To this committee was
pledged Individually and collect-
ively the support of the Farm Bu-
reau Federations present. It Is
well known to you that this com-
mittee's efforts were successful. The
claims of the creditors of U. S.
Grain Growers. Inc., were In great-
part assembled, Its commercial
claims were compromised and set-
tled, and Its overhead and operating
expenses were reduced to the min-
imum. Its office has been modestly
maintained, partly through securing
liquidation of membership notes
owing the corporation and paqtly
through the financial support given
It by the American Farm Bureau
Federation.

Its Board of Directors and Ofla-
cers. with one exception (the va-
cancy filled in the board) today are
the same men whom you selected
and appointed — drafted to the cor-
poration in the name of organized
agriculture — In the hope of making
good the promises and obligations
of U. S. Grain Growers. Inc., made
to its members and Its creditors
(largely composed of Farm Bureau
members. Farm Bureaus and Farm
Bureau Federations) ; also in the
name of organized agriculure.

Your Committee invited and re-
quested Mr. Frank Wetmore of Chi-
cago, Mr. Bernard M. Baruch of
New York and Mr. Alex. L.egge of
Chicago, to serve U. S. Grain Grow-
er*, Inc., in an advisory capacity, as
members of a regularly constituted
committee for that purpose. These
gentlemen accepted the earnest re-
quest of your committee to serve
organlzeu agriculture and so asso-
ciated themselves in that capacity
with the insolvent corporation —
also' In the name of organized agri-
culure. The Advisory Committee
have, without reservation, already
given of Its services and have re-
affirmed their desire at this time to
continue to serve organized agri-
culture in this capacity.

Again, during the meeting of the
executive committee of the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation held
in Chicago on December 5th. 1922.
the following motion was offered
and carried: ■•

"Mr. Smith moved: That we re-
affirm our support of the U. S. Grain
Growers. Inc., and direct the offi-
cers to assist it In every way with-
in our means. Seconded by Burton.
Carried."

Had It been, deemed possible at
the time of the reorganization of
the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., to
market grain directly in the name
of "U. S. Grain Growers, Inc.," in
the then Immediate future, no doubt
your committee woyld have care-
fully considered at that time the
funding of the floating debts. Such
action was deferred for the time
being.

Grain Fntarea Ai^t Smtahied.
However, since the Supreme Court
iof the United States has sustained
by decision the new "Capper-Tin -
Cher Bill" or "Gi^ain Futures Act,"
the subject of funding Ite debts
land rendering solvent the corpora-
tion has received active attention.
Careful study of the "Grain Fu-
tures Art" discloses the fact that
U. S. Grain Growers. Inc. ._ conforms
iexactly to the requirements of th*'
law as to a co-operative marketing
organization — >en organization law-
fully forqjed of producer members
and affirmatively that "any duly au-
thorized representative of any law-
fully formed and conducted co-op-
erative association of producers
having adequate financial responsi-
bility, which is engaged In cash
f^rain business— ^shall be admitted
to membership on the Exchange of
any contract market." It is, there
fore, agreed by the Executive
Committee, fcts advisory committee
«f the corporation and its counsel,
that if the debts of the U. S. Grain
Growers. Inc., can be funded and
a reasonable amount of Initial
capital subscribed. conditioned
upon fhe funding of the corpora
tion's debts, and thereafter paid in
to the corpdration. that the corp
oration may become solvent there-
by and capable of doing a general
grain marketing business, and ai
such, may be admitted under pro
visions at — the Grain Futures Act
and the rules of the Exchange, to
market grain, through Its duly
authorized representatives.

With this view in mind, the
Executive Committee of the U. S
Grain Growers, Inc., and Its Sec
retary, have been permitted and
have carefully surveyed and
studied, through association with
their advisory committee and legal
counsel, the immediate problems
Involved. Which are reported here

The Advisory Committee select-
ed by your Mid-West States Com-
mittee has been consulted with and
their advice accepted on all mat-
ters and the problems isvolved
pertaining to policies of business
and finance. General counsel for
the corporation, .Fred S. Ji^ckson of
Topeka, Kansas, has been conferred ,
with personally and through cor-
respondence, as well As the general
counsel for the Corporation Trust
Company on legal matters pertain-
ing to the immediate problems pre-
sented, and In the absence of Mr.
Jackson, at the request of tbe Ex-
ecutive Committee of the corpora-
tion, and through mutual arrange-
ments with Mr. Jackson, Mr. Don-
ald Ktrtpatrick has rendered the
committee an in Valuable senrlce.
The Executive Committee have tak-
en the precautiOin to send Mr. Kirk-
patrick, acting as their legal coan-
sel. to the State of Delaware, in
order to ascertain definitely and
fully the necessary legal require-
ments to be complied with and the
changes contemplated.

The proposed changes herewith
presented have the full and final
approval In principle of tooth our
Advisory Committee referred to and
our legal counsel.

Pandlng the IndebtmiiMs. U. S.
Gmin Growers, Inc. It is proposed
that U. S. Grain .Growers. Inc., avail
itself of exactly the same means, of
funding its ' Indebtedness as em-
ployed by Industries In re-organisa-
tion; namely, that It offers in ex-
change or substitution, certain Is-
sues of Debenture Bonds for claims
held by creditors against the cor-
poration. This involves preferably
the amending of the charter of the
corporation In certain minor de-
tails, so as to permit the Issuance
of bonds — Which may be done with
perfect propriety.

The proposed bonds are to be Is-
sued In such form or forms, and
amount or amounts, and upon such
terms and conditions- finally, as ap-
proved by the Board of Directors
of the corporation. A statement
covering the proposed bond issues
is presented In greater detail l!>y
counsel, and made a part of this
report.

The indebtedness of the corpora-
tion when so funded would remove
it from its present situation of In-
solvency and render it capable of
functioning and earning profits, so
.that it might pay the interest upon
its Debenture Bonds, and from time
to time call and redeem a part
such Issues; finally retiring all
the bonds In their entirety— dis-
charging in full the obligations of
the corporation, made In the name
of organized agriculture to.»ita cred-
itors.

**lmd«clBK New Capital Into the
Corpormtton. It Is further proposed
that new capital be induced to In-
vest In certain <ather issues of De-
benture Bonds of the corporation,
for the purpose of rendering the
corporation financially responsible
In Its conduct of a gener3-l grain
marketing business for its member-
ship. Further reference to this
^particular bond issue is Included in
the report of counsel, to which ref-
erence has already been made.

It should be stated that subscrip-
tion to this class of Debenture
Bonds would be conditioned strictly
upon the funding of the debts of
the corporation, and with other
proper protective measures provid-
ed.

Chlcairo Board of Trade GoMfers
With. The Executive Committee of
the corporation have conferred per-
sonally with representatives of the
Chicago Board of Trade, and sub-'
mlt for your proper Information a
letter, under date of June 16. 1923,
directed by your Executive Commit-
tee to Mr. John J. Stream. Pre»i -
dent of the Chicago Board of Trade,
propounding to that body certain
questions relating to meeting the
requirements of the Exchange, not
in confilct with the Grain Futures
Act, as to financial responsibility^
as follows:

"June 16. 1923.
"Mr. John J. Stream,
"President, Chicago Board of Trade,

Chicago, Illinois.
"Dear Sir:

"At the direction of the executive
committee of the U. S. Grain Grow-
ers Inc., and in line with sugges-
tions made at our conference with
your Messrs. Mauff and Fones on
June 14, and I am sutmntfting: our
request In writing for infprmation

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as -to the desired course of proced-
ure to secure membership repre-
sentation on the Chicago Board of
Trade in behalf of th^ U. S. Grain
Growers, Inc. *

"The U. S. Grain Growers. Inc.. is
a non-stock, non-profit association .
of producers, organized under the
laws of Delaware for the purpose
of marketing the grain of Its mem-
bers co-operatively; that Is. the cor-
poration is without capital stock
and Its non-profit character Is In-
tended to limit it to the handling
of grain originating from its own
membership.

"Being without capital stock we .
would like particularly to know
how your requirements as to finan-
cial responsibility should be, met.
We, of course, ■want to mak« such
financial arrangements as will
leave no ground for doubt In the
minds of Board of Trade members
and in the minds of our own cus-
tomers as to financial responsibil-
ity and would undertake to make
available such amount of cash cap-
ital and place tt in such form as to
guarantee our credit and perform-
ance of contracts made on the Chi-
cago Board of Trade to the same
extent that would be furnished by
unimpaired capital stock If we w^ere
a capital stock corporation.
' "Assuming that we should em-
ploy as our representative some
person who Is now a member In
good standing of the Chicago Board
of Trade, or should employ some
person able fo qualify for member-
ship on the Exchange, could we be
permitted to use our name as a
principal In trades by either one of
the following suggested arrange-
ments:

"1. The underwriting of our con-
tracts made on the Chicago Board
of Trade by some other member,
firm or corporation having financial
responsibility adequate to cover
both their own volume and ours —
or the undertaking on the part of
sueh other member, firm or corpo-
ration to finance our grain handling
operations.

"2.. By causing to be placed in
escrow with some responsible bank
or trust company In the city of Chl-
^go a sum of money In Liberty
Bonds or like securities guarantee-
ing eur credit and financial respon-
sibility for contracts made on the
Chicago Board of Trade.

"3. The undertaking by a respon-
sible surety to insure and guaran-
tee our credit and financial respon-
sibility for grain transactions and
contracts made on the Chicago
Board of Trade up to some stipu-
lated amount. •

"We are unable at this time to
furnish any reliable estimate of the
number of cars of grain we would
handle In this market during the
course of a year. However, we
would be glad to have you consider
our possible maximum volume of
business at twenty-five cars per
week, it being understood that in-
creased busines* will be met with
increased finances from time to
time. .

We' appreciate greatly your ex-
pressed desire to have this letter
in such form that you .could take
early action on our proposal, and
we would request that'lf you should
note any particular matters of In-
formation that are not cp.vered by
this letter you will call our atten-
tion to them at once so that we may
furnish additional data.

"Very truly- yours,
U. S. GRAIN OnOWERS. INC.
By J. M. Mehl.
Secretary and Acting Treasurer."

Our (;ommunica.tion was immedt-
aCely referred to the Board of Di-
rectors of the Chicago Board of
Trade; by the Board of Directors
jointly to the Executive. Member-
ship, Legal Advice and Rules Com-
mittees, and by this Joint commit-
tee to their attorney. The opinion
of the attorney was not received
in sufficient time to enable' action
by the Board of Directors at th£ir
last meeting, '"^'e have been as-
sured, however, that the attorney
definitely approved our proposition
No. 1 alcove and we have assurance
that the'corporation can be admit-
ted to membership representation
under the Grain Futures, .Act.

DeparttBFHt of AgricaJture Con-
united. On May 24, our secretary
submitted to the Department" of Ag-
riculture a letter Requesting the De-
partment's view on a number of
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TIm DEnow Agricultanl AModation Record

P«««S

You Can^t Tell Stephenson Co. Fatmers
That Dairy Co-operation Doesn't Pay!

AmoHg the co-opCTative dairy
marketing associations, which
the I. A. A. has assisted in or-
ganizing, there is none that
ha^ served the~ district in which
it is located ' to better 'advan-
\^' tage than has the Stephenson
:iV County Co-operative Marketing
'^ Company. ,' *

When producers can point to
the fact that a Freeport con-
dfinsary is paying one dollar per
hijpdted for milk over what it
paid before the "co-op" was well
established with the price of
condensed milli at practically the
same level, you can't tell them
that co-operation doesn't pay.

Likewise when farmers living
near the marketing company lo-
cal unit of Dakota consider that
they were paid $.90 per hundred
for milk at that point by a local
dealer in February, 1922, while
one year later they received
$2.10 from their marketing com-
pany, they are -willing to "stick"
to co-operative marketing.
Serves Conunnnlty

The Stephenson county "co-
op" has proved, among other
things, that the big idea in co-
operative marketing is not espe-
cially to allow producers to get
stock dividends or a share of the
profits, but it has shown that the
big thing in farmer marketing is
to create a market which the
farmers themselves control, to
serve a community by assem-
bling a large quantity of a com-
modity, grading it, standardizing
it, and putting a pr9duct on the
market that the public wants at
the time that it wants it.
■' wSere there was a poor mar-
ket for .milk and cream, the
Freeport co-operative has manu-
( factured the surplus into butter,
sweet cream, cheese, casein, and
other dairy products. Its fa-
mous "Vita Gold" butter, scor-
ing 90 and better, commands a
premium of at least one cent
over the Chicago market, simply
because the company makes
enough butter — and makes it
good enough — to create a de-
mand for it.

Organization

The Stephenson County Co-
operative ^Marketing Company
was formed by yie Stephenson
County Farm Bureau and the
Dairy Marketing Department of
the I. A. A., February 3, 1921,
after several preliminary meet-
ings. It opened (or business on
August 15, 1921.

Building and equipment of the
company are valued at over $70,-
000. It is capitalized at $75,-
000 and shares have a par value
of $50. No member may hold
more than five shares. At pres-
ent there are nearly 1,000 stock-
holders in the co-operative. At
the close of 1922 business, a div-
idend of six percent was declared
on all stock. ~

1922 Statement

A brief statement of the 1922
business of the company follows:

SALES

Butter J253.661.75

Milk 145.929.25

Cheese 46.082.49

Cream (sweet) 51.5^2,69

Butter and. Sklmmllk 4.693.47

Miscellaneous 16.474.90

111 518.364.55

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Total ttiald patrons $411,164.56

Buttei\ and Cream pur- ,

chas^ 21.483.34

Runnint expenses ...... 61.742.57

Pv'\f Miscellatieous purchases . 11,268.36
V .'I Sinking Yund 12.705.72

$518.364.5,

The avd^age monthly (lusiness
for 1924 whs $43,197.05. A to-
ial of 13,12^^766 pounds of milk

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TELLING THE WORLD ABOUT "VITA GOLD"

HERE'S one of the illuminated signs of the Stephenson County Co-
operative Marketing Company on display at Rockford. This "co-
op" made 631,597 pounds of butter in 1922, which sold for $253,661.75.
A large part of this was print butter, advertised and sold under the
brand name "Vita Gold." They're making nearly twice as much this
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was handled, together with 1,-
7M,606 pounds of cream. The
total amount of butter made was
631,595 pounds out of 518,948
pounds of fat. The overrun,
which amounted to 112,649
pounds, represents $42,919.26 at
38.1 cents per pound. The aver-
age overrun was 21.7 per cent.

The average price paid for tat
was 40.4 cents per pound and for
milk- was $1,627 per hundred.
The plant manufactured 169,626
pounds of cheese from 1,865,886
pounds of milk, receiving an
average of 22% cents per pound
tor the product.

Volume Increasing r

May, 1923, saw the biggest
volume of business transacted by
the company in any one month,
when $62,818.42 in sales came
to the organization. With this
big volume the expeese was. only
9 per cent of the total sales, the
lowest Tet secured by the co-op-
erative.

In May, also, 88,542 pounds of
butter were made, an increase
of 15 per cent over the corre-
sponding month of last year and
68 per cent over the 52.633
pounds average monthly produc-
tion of 1922. The last report
from the plant shows that over
108,000 pounds of butter was
made in June. From these fig-
ures it can be seen that the com-
pany is doing a greater business
with longer establishment.

Equipment for manufacturing
the skimmilk prodijct, casein,
has been added this year. There
is a good market for casein at
present and an average of about
$1,200 worth is being sold
monthly.

Has Ten Locals

The Stephenson County Co-op-
erative Marketing Company, with
its main plant at Freeport, has
local units at Dakota, Damascus,
German Valley, Egan, Bailey-
yille, Pearl City. Lena, and Wad-
dam^ Qrove in Stephenson coun-
ty; at Shannon, in Carroll coun
ty; and Forreston in Ogle coun-
ty.

Producers bring their cream
to these locals, where it is col-
lected before shipping to Free-
port. Each plant has its branch
manager. Steps have been taken
this summer to organize the lo-
cal units more strongly on a

business basis. Advisory coun-
cilmen from the locals are elect-
ed to represent them at each
meeting of the board of directors
of the company.

Dakota, Pearl City, and Egan
have already organized 09^ the
strong unit basis. ■ - H

Officers n

The officers of the company for
1923 are, Wm. F. Brown, presi-
dent; Wm. Frank, vice presi-
dent; J. A. Phillips, secretery-
treasurer, who with C. Maize, T.
F. Ellis, D. M. Brubaker, Wm.
Sieferman, H. M. Phillips, and
John Kachelhoffer, constitute the
board of directors.

The directors' board is on the
rotating plan, and the term of of-
fice is three years. The officers
are selected within Aie board.
Directors are chosen at the an-
nual meetings from the mem-
bership-at-large.

Manaeement

"the general management of
the marketing company is under
A. V. Ahrentzen, a man with
many years experience in the
creamery business. The com-
pany, in addition to its regular
staff, has a fieldman who spends
most of his time visiting locals,
instructing in tlie care o{ milk
and cream, and otherwise adding
to the efficiency of the concern.

A monthly house organ, "The
Co-op." is published to inform
the membership concerning the
affairs of tlteir company.

Until recently the co-operative
has maintained a warehouse to
handle feeds, tankage, seed, bin-
der twine, etc., at a small mar-
gin of profit to the membership.
However, it was -found that with
the greatly increased volume of
dairy products handled, the cap-
italization of the isompany would
not permit the financing of this
subsidiary, so'Jt was disposed of
in June.

REPORT OF 0. S.
GRAIN GROWERS,
MC^MITTED

/ (Continued from v&ge 2)
matters InvolvecHn connectioa with
grain ^ exc'hange reprp8enw.tion.
Among- others was incorporated
specifically the three proposed
methods of qualifying as to finan-
cial respohsibility contained in the
letter to President Stream. The fol-
lowing paragraph from the letter
of Mr. GherfTcir Morrill to Mr. Mehl
under date of June 18 is In specific
reply to the questions staited:

"The Solicitor is of the opinion
that your suggestion as to the dif-
ferent methods hy which •ort-stock
membership corporations 'm&y meet
the requirements -of the Act .are
sound and that the Board of Trade
would not be justified l« denying
membership to an association
which had adopted any one of said
methods; that is to say. the ideas
set forth in paragraphs (a), (b),
(c). and (d) just preceding the last
paragraph of your letter."

Sert-ire KarfUtlrw, We also re-
j)ort informairV for your proper In-
formation that resillts of the. sev-
eral conferences held with Mr. G.
^V. Hales of Hales a^d Hunter.
Chicago. Id which have* l^een out-
lined in detail arrangements for
financing and handling any part
or all of the grain of our members.
This, large and successful ^concern,
friendly to the co-operattfre move-
ment, controls a large jrmount of
surplus capital in additfon to ele-
vators and plants whereby it wlU
assume to underwrite our contracts
made oo tire Chicago Board of
Trade aad will furnish all the fi-
nances needed in the movement of
grain. This financial asslgtance
will carry with it certain account-
ing service enabling ua. with the
employment of one man to actu-
ally sell our grain on the floor, to
carry on our grain selling opera-
tions at a nominal cost per bushel,
thus avoiding the necessity for
building immediately an office per-
sonnel and force of our o**n. but
leaving us free to use our own cap-
ital to the extent that we have to
do our own financing and handle
our own force as soon as we are
In a. ^Bitlon to do mt. The ar-
rangement carries with it the use
of ^11 classes of terminal elevator
service, including storage space,
and for which service we will pay
certain Stipulated and agreed per
bushel charges. The services de-
ferred to are offered without limi-
tations— if or our immediate needs,
and are available in a manner simi-
lar %o the service offered by , a
bank or trust company. Neither
would our business be restricted
exclusively to the acceptance and
employment of the services ofTered.

It seems possible to commence
operation in tlie Chicago .market
almost at once — if desired.

KtateMMit ^ C€mdltl»», We also,
report for your proper informatiprL
and purposes herein set forth 8
general statement of conditiops -*f
the corporation's- finances. The U.
S. Grain Growers. Inc.. at the pres-
ent time is owing cre<lilor% of all
classes approximately $350. oOO, in-
cluding interest accrued on note
obligations. Of this amount ap-
proximately $8«.000 is due solici-
tors and about $42,000 due old di-
rectors and others; $191,000 with
about $30,000 in accrued interest Is
due note creditors, most of whom
are Farm Bureaus and Farm Bu-
reau members. It is estimated that
$100,000 In new capital will be ad-
equate to start operation in at least
five of the principal markets. This
capital may not be 'immediately
necessary. It is Estimated that
about $10,000 should be provided
immediately and budgeted for the
special purpose of consuming and
setting in operation the present
proposed plans.

Fonda Rvqalred. In order to
carry odt and put into execution
the plans, contemplated, it becomes
absolutely necessary that some
-funds be made Immediately and
definitely available for the purposes

ist. Carrying on=**fhe ordinary
affairs of the corporation.

2nd. Arranging the contem-
plated changes looking to the fund-
ing of its debts.

Place of I. A. A.
.^jnnual Meeting
VU To Be Chosen

Cboll«e of the place at wbiek
the 1933 annual meeting of the
lUiQOiB Agricultural As80Ci»tiOft
will be held will be deeded at
the next meeting of the Sfeca-
tive Committee on Pr!d«y7 illi>N
nst 3. : The annual n^eet is datad
for tbQ third week in January,
1924.

3ntl, ; Securing and ^ecomplish-
ing the funding of its debts.

4th. ' Securing subscription of
nocessaipr funds to proviaci initial
capital, r -■

6th. Organizing the ' marketlMC
of graia

y two, iiave in tke pH^
_jd V. 8. Grain Orowerft.
Ifrbm. putting Into effect lt»

1*mmmtmrj, Two principal va.
and only two, have In
prevented V. S. Grain Orowi
Inc. frbn
marketing plan

Ist. Dts form of organ txatloq—
having [membership contracts and
providing' for patronage dividends
has fseniished the excuse to bar
Hie corpoiratlon from the grain ex-
change« of the country and there-
by deptived the corporation from
marketing any part of its grata
desired, .through that outlet.

2nd. Its financial condition —
lacking t 8dequ«4.e finances origin-
ally t« function as a going con-
cern, aid finally becoming tnsolT-
^nt-~ha< rendered the corporation
dormant for the time being.

The irst obstacle has been re-
moved ty legislative act. *

The second obstacle is going to
he remioved tl. rough your actWo
financial 'support and indorsement
— if jiour Federations are ao
pleased.

The (Jrain Grower Plan ki Itself
has not defeated the puttina of tho
plan into, operation. The plan has
never had a fair trial. It aeems It
would pe unsound to repudiate It
before teivlng it a fair trial be-
cause of repealed indorsements by
the FaiTm Bureau and other farm-
era' oraanizations. The Farm Bu-
reau olrrthe leadership of the
Bureau i cannot repudiate this plan
and evtr hope to make good on
another grain marketing plan.

The present Board of U. S. Oraln
Growers. Inc.. In accepting theiK re-
spective positions to which tnfly
were fli-afted on that Board sdo*
scribed to a solemn oath of oflloe
to faitWfuUy and well, and to the
best ofltheir ability carry out. the
tfTust aad confidence so reposed m
them by the membership of the cor-
poration— and by your committee.
They haK-e kept faith with the mem-
bership,of U. S. Grain Growers, to
the b*«t of their ability.

NeeJeB finances iw>d active united
.^supporctis now our lloroediate pixttfic)'
lem. . " .

Your ' substantial |b«d definite
financial support to thisNpro^ram la
required at once and most earnestlir
solicite4-

"Thenei Is needed, accordltrg to tbe
estimates of the Executlva Com-
-mittee ef the Corporation: ,

For carrying on the otdinMjt^ nf-
fairs of the Corporation. "^

For arranging the contemplated
chb-ngesr looking to tlte fundiniKVaf |. \>
its debtfe. I ■ V ■ ^- 1^ '

For securing mtd accompnab
the- fuh^lDg of Us deHts. \

For ksecuring suhscMptionQ
necessary funds to provide ifil^
capital. Land

For organizing fhe marketing
grain. tjh« sunt of twenty-thoua
($20.noin) DoJIars. or as much there-
of las may be made available at the
pr^aent [time and immediate futn're.

Said fund to be administercNt
througli! and with the advice of a.
properljf constituted Finance Com-
mittee. \ - -

The sums that may be pledg«d
and'paia by the Farm Bureau Fed-
eratlorta for any or. all of tihe sev-
eral put-poses above set forth are
lo be rtec^ved 4>y the Corporation
as adva lOies and be later secured, by
bonds ar/debentures in the several
amount! of the (same class as con -
templajt >d to be issued to the cred-
itors cf the corporation whoae
claizns j ,re proposed to be funded^
VefT f' respectfully submitted.:
U.I i. GRAIN GROWERS. IXC.
By its Bpard of Dlr«ctoT«,

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Secretary.

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An increase of nine tenths of
one per cent in tlie number of
pigs saved from farrowings in the
six montliB €nded June 1, 1923.
as compared with the number
saved during the same period last
year, is indicated in reports gath-
ered by rural mail^ carriers for
the U. S. Department ~ of Agri-
culture from 14ft,000 hog""raiser8
in all parts <rf the country..

Phosphate Insures You

Highest Quality Grain
Maximum Crop Production
Surest and Greatest Profits <l>

We Insure You

Prompt Setarice
Accurate Weight
'^^Dependable Qualit]

Order through your Fann Burean.

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July 16, 1S23

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Without Confidence, There Can Be No Peace, No Prosperity, and

FARM FOLKS MAKE
THE I. A. A. PICNIC
SENUINE SUCCESS

Lu^e Crowd Hears Speakers

and Sees Barnyard Golf

Tournament at Urbana

The Fifth Annual I. A. A.
.Farm Bureau State Picnic, at
Crystal Lake Park, Urbana,
Jane 29, was voted, Jiy aH who
atteoded as an overwhelming
8ncc«BS. A crowd estimated by
Champaign and Urbana news-
papers at from 7,000 to 10,000
filled the grounds all day and
made it a ^int to inspect the
iJniversity larm before going
home.

The speaking, by the Hon. Syd-
ney Anderson, U. S. Congressman
from Minnesota, and Mrs. A. E.
Brlgden, president of the New
YttrkSsgtate Federation of Home
Bureaus, the" horseshoe pitching
tournament and the University
Open House events held the in-
terest ot the crowd during the
day.

' Congressman Anderson si^ng-
ly advised the formation of^co-op-
erative associations, - emphasizing
the value of good management.

Lands Ck>-operatlopi'

"It the farmers {prtn thelj- ot-
•" Kanizations and plaCe g^fm men
at the head ol them, ^y»«^ will smr-
c^d." he said. "In Wllforoi^co-
ji»eratiofi has bega'a succ^».-^Be-
fore it ca,me/the fru*f^%Tpwer8
were raising more than flfty vari-
eties of oranges and losing^^oney.
Now they gpoW only three or four
kinds and are prospering.

"After you have organized do
' not withdraw from your associ-
' Mion.'tBeeause you can momentar-
ily get a better price for your
products elsewhere. Stick- .to your
association and it will prosper."

Speaks on Home

Mrg. Brigden spoke for the "^^VrT^TDtbert basXtrain-

home and happy farm families.

"There never was a civiUiatiocr -Jjmjrtng. *!*fty.^e cool

that became decadent that had
prosperous agricultuf^iajitl happjU-ency.

homes'," she said.

In summarizing~^1tni^' Brigd.en

gave as her creed; "To laake th"«

home and com'munity .the ^^Vt wa

._ can, «e cannot pitt>pttr oinl^l^tp

"^^"^^"^ tt«r use." -^..^^ '"-^; -><^ "^ 7

De\f itt WUyi -"X^

-'- — .;^^.]t^h|i|goe j)it5b'lng contest

waswbn by^'RlU^^ bft>»bers, ' the

DeWi^t County PSrm^ Bureau

Team,' after-, attracting a large

croti^ nearly! all th><4ay.

^>5R>ti .JOan^gBment of the picnic

was''TWlootir i»n<i efficient. " The

grounds^^*«^»i5d "fexery possible

, sort of accomnlodatioB: re^ tents,

^ play gffeunds-<*r .children, \Iunch

Btands.^hijatingS^d shade, all of

whic*S?er&«pjoyeifll by .the crowd.

Kearly evwyfibdy, madb>^a trip

to the-Universttyvfarpi sqme time

or ojtlftn. during the day. y''

.This ' year's" trop will 't>e worth
' ov«r $I,eOO,000,000 more than iW
]*7gear's On tli« bitsis of farm prices
on Jf^lr 1, ■ 1923, compared with
■riws -a 7ear a^o, according to a
. Tectat^l^ecast of the U. S. De-
^ pailtment of Agricultare.

WINNERS OF TOURNAMENT

Walter and Harry Torbert

Brothers, IS and 17, Win
orseshoe Cup for DeWitt

Walter and Harry Torbert,
15 and 17 years old, are the
farm but^e«)i "barnyard golf"
champipns of Illinois as the re-
sult of defeating every team
^ 'pitted against them and emerg-
ing as the only 100 per cent
victors' among nineteen county
farm bureau entries-at ,the I.
A. A. Farm Bureau State Pic-,
nic, Urbana, June. 29.

The youthful champions rep-'
resent the DeWlJt County FarSj
Bureau a,n'd were presented a
handsome cup as Ih^tr^t^ophy of
victory, engraved with the r^^rd
of their conquest.. This i? *the
fourth successive <, year that the
honors have gone to|^ De'wkt
Cotinty. . tije ."present chankpionV
fatii^ BM foibert. «^d/ Joe Hes^
kett having compoXe^- a tearij

farmers" and real farm bureau
boosters.

In the finals Logan de^feated
McLean 30 to 2$ and DeWitt
trimmed Rock Island 80 to 17.
Tfren McLean downed Rock Is-
land 30 to 24 .while DeWitt beat
Logan 32 to 15.

In the next round DeWitt took
the long end^of a "30 to 16 score
with McLe'ah while Logan de-
: feil^ ^ock Island 32 to 24.
--.This left LogWn and DeWitt
for {^e last game, the litter
witiniiig SI to 18, The last four
^oe» pitched were ringers.

Whlci w*n''at all tjifee previous* \ Thomas Watkinsi 96, Chand

state Nplenks,

tW8' \»oys •toi^ a) yean for tB

and at^tn.r'^'^al to any emerg-

Both boys are regular "dirt

* 'Shipping Fever * *
May be Prevented
. By Vaccination

The Bureau »f Animal Indus-
try of the United; States Depart-
ment of Agriculture has made ar-
rangement's to treat all cattle by
the vaccination method for
hemorrhagic septicemia (some-
times erroneously ' called * "ship-
ping fever") that will be shipped
from the Chicago Stock Yards
for Stocked and feeder purposes.

Tbis treatment is optional with
the purchasers ot cattle and the
vaccine will be furnished at
cost, which will be appro.ximately
10 cents per head. An addi-
tional charge will be made by
the Stock Yards Company for
handling stock to and from vac-
cinating pens.

While the vaccination method Is
still fn the experimental stage, the
Department believes it has consid-
erable virtue and advocates it for
all stocber and feeder cattle.

Nineteen Counties
in I. A. A. **Bamyard
Golf" Competition

The following horseshoe pitch-
ing teams represented the 19
county farm bureaus who com-
peted for tbef state championship
at the I. A. A. Picnic at Urbana,
which was won by the D6Witt
county team with Logan county
as runners up:

Bureau, Butts and Walters: Casi^
Sfhneppep' and Opper: Cumberland.
Easton Bt-other«; DeWitt. Torbert
Brothers: Ford, Gee and Carr; Hen-
ry. Papenfhien and Peterson; Iro-
quois. SeiJrBrebrnch Brothers; Kane.
Warner and Peece; lObndall, Ptjce
and M^tT»ck; . Lak^r' Fenlon and
Brazke; Ixtean, *UeutchJer and Wad.
dell: CilYlnKston, Mertes and Nor-
Kaard; McLean.^ Humphries and
Kruse; Varshalv.' J'^tcrso^ and
Buck; Richli»«r^^limi and Bunn:
Rock Island. Wirtis Brothers; San-
gamon, Fry and Christopher;,
Stark, Screeton and Reece: White-
side, Irion and Nice.

^Mn

Pleat Formation
of Centralize^ >
at Mt. Vernon

The Jefferson County Cret^m
Producers Association, composed
of member locals of that ebnnty,
pasled a resolution to lay plans
^t /once for the f oAnation of a
farmer-owned ';and, controlled oen-
trallaer at Ml. 'Vermon to be put
in opeiatlon \ when the product
from aKleast S.OOO cows is', put
under d^vtact. •

'i'bts ' \qrsanization has been
functioning as a bargaining <
sociation tfr.sell the cream of its
members to private centraliiers
after competitive bidding. Re-
fusal of the centrallzers to bid
on the product controlled by the
association, led up to the action
to form a co-operative central-
izer.

"ROUGHER THEY MIE,
THE BETTER!" PLIA
FOR BOYSOFSUIMS

More Than 250 Requests For
City Children Come To
I. A. A. ,. ;■ (

I

The boys do get their inning
sometimes in the farm bureau
outings for slums children of
Chicago.

"I'd like two boys about seven
or eight," requested Mrs. C. F.
Welty, of Amboy.'.on a recent
call to the offices of the Illinots
Agricultural Asoclation. "And
the more rough and frolic^me
they are, the better we will like
to have them for a two-week
outing."

The Outing Secretary of tHfl
I. A. A., got In touch with the
United Charities, there was a.
hurry-up call into the slums ot
Chicago's West Side and within
a few hours twa happy and aur-
prise4 youngsters, all slicked up,
were on the ' Lincoln Highway
witb Mr. and Mn Welty in the
car, bound for an unexpected
outing.

More than 250 children have
BO far been applied for by farm
bureau folks of a score of coun-
ties and the requests are coming
in every day.

The children are already be-
ginning to go out niKut their '''^
cations, i'^-'l-, .'S;.!' "■; I ' -

Farm Bureau is Praised I
by Oldest Member, 96

*«rvllle. 111., of the Cass County
Farm Bureau, is the oldest farm
buVeMi. member in Illinois. In
^^oSniti&B^ ef this he has been
presented a «old medal by the
executive Committee of his coun-
ty erganizal^on.

Mr. Watklns owns and lives on
t 240 acre farm in Richmond
Precinct, Cass County. He has
lived in the same precinct for
more than seventy years.

When John Lucas, the farm
bureau solicitor, asked Mr. Ws^t-

Thomas Watklna
kins to become a farm bureau
member, bis signature was im-
mediate.

"It is probable that I am too
old to get all of the direct bene-

fits of the farm bureau^" said
Mr.' WatklM, "but I h^ve lived
just long enough and seen
enj^ugh phases of American agri-
culture to realize the value of
real farmer organization. I will
consider my membership well
worth while if it helps to make a
good organization and benefits
to some ^xtent the agriculture of
the county." ■

Mr. 'Watklns wa^ bom in Ken-
tucky *nd camd to Illinois with
his parents at two years of age.
He ha^ voted at seventy-^x gen-
eral elections, all but one in his
home precinct.

"I have voted for only two
Republicans,"- said Mr., Watklns,
laughing, "and <»ne turned .out to
be a drunkard, the- other a
forger." i

±

Growers *' Co-op**
Resumes Business;
Outlook Promising

Prospects are very bright for a
successful season for the Alfalfa '
an^ Truck Growers Association
of Union and Alexander Coun-
ties, accordtng to L. M. Mathews,
manager of the organization, Mc-
Clure, III.

"Our first year, 1921, was vot-
ed a success apd the members
were well pleased with results,"
states "Mr. Mathews. "pi the
spring of 1922, aii overflow of the -
Mississippi ' River destroyed the
main crop, alfalfa, and the activ-
ity of the association was dis-
continued for the year.

"This year we find that the al-
falfa has been re-seeded and the
harvest Is very good, in fact, bet-
ter than du;iring previous normal
years. Wheat has had in-uausu-
ally favorable spring and it has
been predicted that there will be
more No. 2 wheat here than ever
before. Corn is doing fine ar i
tjie prospects point to a big
yield."

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ECONOMY or ^»VICE

Money Saved For You '

The Operating Ejipanses of the I. A. A.
for the First Six Months of 1923 Were $26.-
748.7i Less Than in the Same Period of 1921 ,
While Every Effort Has Been Put Forth to
Maintain Quality and Extent of Service.

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lllinoisAgricultural

Volume 1

August 1, 1923

Number 1<>

WHEAT COUNCIL OF THE U. S. IS ORGANIi

PinSBURGH PLUS
FIGHT BEING LEB
BY MIBWEST BODY

PresMent Thompson of I.A.A.
Represents Farming In-
terests of Illinois

• Important steps toward the
abolishment of '.'Pittsburgh
Plus," the fake freight charge
placed on steel products, were
taken in July by the -Mid-west
Committee appointed to lead
the fight. .Illinois, Iowa, Wis-
consin, and Minnesota are rep-
resented on the eommittej.

The Illinois Commission to in-
vestigate •'Pittsburgh Plus" is
composed of Senator John T
Denvir, Chicago, chairman; Sen-
ator P.andolph Boyd, Galva; Rep-
resentatives Robert E. Scholes,
Peoria, and X. E. McMaekin, Sa-
lem; B. F. Bakery Kewanee, rep-
resenting the Western Associa-
tion of Roiled Steel Consumers;
B- F. Peek, Moline, manu^:^c-
turer; and President S. \ H.
Thommon, Quiney, representing
the" I. A. A.

Appoihtment

This commission was provided
tor in a bill passed at the recent
session of the Legislature and
the members were appointed by
Governor Small. The sum of
^25.000 was Appropriated to fi-
nance the work of the committee

Reports on 'economic phases of
the problem were made to the
, inter-state commission by a com-
mittee of experts from the four
. states who have been making
investigafiors.

° Execntive Committee
' Three members were appointed
to. serve ou the, executive com-
mittee to carry on the . flght for
the Mid-west CommissioB when
the most important round of the
effort to abolisb the- unjust
freight charge comes up before
the Federal Trade Commission.
The s1%el manufacturer* of the
Pittsburgh district have already
put in their case. It is likely
that B. F. Peek of Moline will
represent Illinois as chairman of
the executive committee.

Over. 7fi00 meinber- farm- bu-
reau gatepost signs were .sent
out early in July to 11 counties
of Illinois. These signs were
or<fered by county farm bureaus
through the I. A, A-, which had
made special arrangement with
the manufacturer for a special
discount on quantity lots, j

WANTED— A STRONGER ROPE

OVER $19,000,000

Quite a neat little sum I
Yet ■■ that's the amount . of
busii^ts that the Chicago
Producers handled during
the first year of operation.
They made a 30 per cent re-
fund tool Illinois shippers
gave the "co-op" 52 per
cent of its business. Read
the' xrhole story on Page 3
of The Record.

Milk Contracts-
Are Upheld By
McHenry Judge

Judge Edward D. Shurtieff, of
the Circuit Court of McHenry
County, Illinois, has handed
down a decision In the case of
the Milk Producers' Marketing
Company of Chicago vs. Arthur
L. Bell, in which th^ co-operative
marketing contract is completely
upheld. The court grants the
application of the Milk Market-
ing Company against its member
to compel him to specific per-
formance of contract. The de-
cision is regarded as an epoch^

Illinois on the Saplro colttra<Sr~

COUNTIES MAY
APPROPRIATE T.B.
FIINBS^LEGAaY

County Boards of Supervis
ors are entirely within their
powers in appropriating funds
for the eradication of bovine
tuberculosis w'thin the county,
according to the provision of
S. B. 348 passed at the 53rd
General A.ssenibly, which sa^s
that "each county, shall htve
power to appropriate funds from
the county treasury to be ufeed
In any manner to be determined
by the board tor the suppres-
sion, eradication, and control of
tuberculosis among domestic an-
imals in each county."

Doubt has been prevalent in
many counties of late in regard
to the legality of such appropria-
tions due t6 the decision handed
down by Attorney General
Brundage, which stated that such
appropriations are illegal.

As the new statute expressly
prOTides for the lawfulness of
county tuberculosis appropria-
tione^ the decision of the attor-
one, Eince.lt is the first time-i<L jje^' general has been pointed out
court ruling has been had in ^6 tiMa error as affecting such

APlfrm^tiobb,.

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Producer-Heads
Meet At Chicago^^^
Report Progress

The Board of Directors of the
National Live Stock Producers
Association met in the ,, Hotel
Fort Dearborn7~6hicago, ori"*Hly
23rd, for a three-day~~se8SI0B.
President John' G. Brown, who
has Just completer a personal
survey of the rivei markets, re-
ported on the progress of the or-
ganization.

Fruit Meeting
Is Called For
C^tradia, Aug. 7

The Illinois Asricultural As-
sociation is calling a fruit and
vegetable marketing cojiference,
in co-operation with the Illinois
Fruit Exchange, /tX^ Centralia,
August 7. Waltbn Peteet, Di-
rector of Co-oper»ti^e Marketing
for the American farm Bureau
Federation, is to be' the speaker.

There is to be • free, open
discussion of marketing prob-
lems. The purpose of the . con-
ference is to study fruit and
vegetable marketing problems; to
make a sur\'ey of . past ' experi-
ences and present CODditionr;
and to formulate a program
comprehensive of future needs.

All members of. the exchange
are urged to be present, if pos-
sible. It is not in any «ensp a
membership meeting, but one
which will help io shape the fu-
ture of co-operative -frsit mar-
keting in Southern Illinois.

SYBNEY

NAMED
OFFICE£CHICAI^

tarie Program For Relief «f

Grain Grower Set Forth'

By Organization

(Civ,: Page tvo will he ioumd a
ftite statement by the dirtct^s.
he Wheat Council ol the ^V^d
Staief as Jo tlyeir objecti.) |

tie -Wheat Council of the
Tln^'d, States, has been fcjra^y /
(irdii)ized -'with the foUowii^
oftiters : S.vdney Andersqii.
preisS.d<-nt : Harvey —J. -Sennoc .
Viofe-President r-^Q^E. Braji-
fute, treasurer; Jr^-GroKvei^)!
Dawp, exectatji-e vite-presiaraL
C. K. Chatfieia. s*?etar>-. J

With offices at 7? West Wmii-
ington St., Cteicago. the orga|>-
itSition plaMJtp make alt ,:r>os
slble efforts Sod to po-operai > >
fafas possible with all Intel- -.:
for the eeniral welfare af~Ub(
wheat producer, whose pres^tit
ISw prices have arouse^ the at-
tention of the nation.

The Wheat Council of Amerlta
is the outgrowth of a meeti^K
calleil in Chicago in June by
Gov. y. A. O. ri*U8, of Misnl
sota. and attende<S by more thsr
400 delegates from seven midd|*-
west states. The Illinois A^ti-
cttltural Association was repi^
sentad at this meeting.

TTiis conffrence went on reeotd /'
in sap»ort of co-operafire mar-
keting. .KZ ^ i

File Claims Promptly/', ^.l
Says Traffic Department

"All shippers should file claims
promptly," advises the Transpor-
tation Department of the I. A. A.
"It operates to their own advan-
tage, as well as to that of the

carrier. When claims are filed, sosahlc^time for/ delivery h«f

promptly, the facts and circum-
stances' surrounding a case are ..-,..-, -, _. ^. •^

... ., .. ,.,,»•- Th> Transportation Dei

much more readily recalled thUFf^^. ^.f^,_ k_.v V.^. ._.. .

vthen they are allowed to ruit ^or
a considerable length — aXn^^e."'

The Diepartment states that
many have lost their rights In
the- collection of^'loes asd danu.
age claims by reason oT negli-
gence or ignorance of the limita-
tions in such -matters.

The terms uf ^im jjniform
livestock shipping 'eontrsct and
the bill of lading provide tHat
claims for loss, damage, or in-

jBry to property most tM^ jQade

in writing to- the origiacting «t
delivering carrier -within bI\
months after delivery, or in caSt-
of fan»Te to make delivery, Hic^
witMa six months^ after aret-

elapsed. •< <

pay-
ment handles l>oOi,\ws and dan^-
age and overe)larg% claims as-
part of its ssniee. The legill.
limit ioT filing overcharg* clainas
is tw» years, ij .— ^^>-_/l

Other 8er|^~ni«' tie D( -
partment giyte Ihclndes quoting
of rates, ii^omaiticn 'concerning
correct routini;,~..issistance la se-
curing various shipping oonvenl-
«ocei^^^id other wbrk looking to
the iiib>ces.ts «( Illinois farmers
in freieht and traffic matters.

1

P«c«S'

The niiaois Agriculturml AModatiooReeord

Ai«. 1. 1923

niinoit • Agvicnkiiral AsscdatioB

R E CO R D

Publuh«4 twice a month by tha
Illinois Agricultural ABSOClation.
608 «outl> Dearborn Street. Chicago.
IllifSoia Edited by NeWa Publicity
Department, 1* J. Montrosa, Director.

Entry as second class matter Oct.
10, 1921, at the »ost ofTice at Cht-
cago. Illinois, ttnder the act of
Maro4i 3, 1879. -Acceptance for matlx,
InK a^ necial rates of postage pctf-
vided 'T*- In Section 1103. Act- ot
October 3, 1917, authorised Oct. 31,
1921. , * . 7

The individual membership H^ of
the Illinois Agricultural ^v^socla-
'tion IS flv-e dollars a ye^r. This
fee includes payttient of**teB cents
for subscription to the Illinois Ag-
ricultural AS8<>ciat(on Record.

Qulncy.
rt. Belle-

OFFIC1SR9

President. S. H. Thompso:
Vloe-PregWent, A.X). Ec"
' • ville. • vf

Treasurer. R. AT Oo^
Secretary, Geo. ^ Fox, Sycamore
ton.

r --^^^CongressJonal Districts

11th — Henry McCough. Itaple Park-
12th — O. F. TRnock. Rqckford.
ISth— J5 E. Bimboron^h. Polo.
14th— W. H. ftlStxJy. l"ort Byron.
ISth^H. E. /GoeiiiScI. .Hoopole.
Ji— 6. --1 -

Jtedtr. sHndtota.

I6tJ\- „. _. i- _-

17th — F. p. BartorT Coniell.
18t-h.^-C. R. Flnlcy. Hoopeston.
19th — D. J. Tlolterman. Sadorus.
20th — Earl J. Smifll. Detroit.
21st — B/ I. CorMn. CarlmvlUe.
22nd— ^Stanley Castle. . Alton.
23rd-/Carlton Trimble. *jMmble.
24th-— Curt AndersOjr Xenla.
2Sth — Vernon Lesat^, Sparta.

,.-filrec<€*» of DeimrtiijenU,
^ I. A. A. Office _y

'General Office and Assistant to Sec-
retary. 3. V. Harper; Field ;9rsaniz-
»tioo..J C. Sailor; Organliatipn Pub-

»U<-lff. G E. Metzger; News Public-
M^rij- J Montross; Transportation.
L. J. Quasey; Statistics. J. C. Wat-
son; Finance. R. A. Cowles; Fruit
and Vegetable Marketing. C. E.
Durst; Live Stock Slarketing. C< A.
Stewart; Dairy Marketing. A D.
Lynch; Phosphate Llipestone. J. R.
Bent. Legal, Newton Jenkins.

Objects of Wheat Council

statemeritTBy the Hon. Sydney Anderson, presi-
eat Council, of America, and authorized by the
direetoVs-af- i|ie organization, gives,- briefly, an account of the
causes, scope and^ plans of the movement :

"A surveV ,of domestic and world conditions In the production
and marketing ot wheat demonstrates that the stabilization of the
djpmestic price at'a profitable level and the consequent improvement
|0t the epndition of the wheat farmer is dependent upon bringing
the control of the domestic wheat price within the borders of the
United States. For this three things are necessary. Reduced acre-
age and production, orderly mEulteting and increased consumption.

"Under the stimulation of tte world war the wheat acreage of
the^ Unite* States was enormously extended. For the past three
y^ars wheat acreage in the United States has exceeded the average
wies. Bioon(lng-j8<^''**8e, 1909-1913, by more" than 13,000,000 acres. This is equiva-
lent to an excess production of froon 160,000,000 to 200,000,000
■fiushels annually. The exportation of wheat before the war aver-
aged 15 per tent of the crop. For the Past three years it has beeD
in excess of 25 per cent of the crop.

"Since the world war there control ot domestic prices of
■bas been a gradual recovery ot

Interested hi

Feeder Cattle?
JVrite To I. A. A.

It will be to the advantage of
Sy cattle feeder' who desires to
purchase feeder cattle direct
from the ■ range to communicate
with the i^ive Stock Marketing
Department of the I. A_ A. The
Department is in communication
with several parties who can fur-
Dish feeder cattle and will be
g)ad to put Illinois feeders in
touch wltb them. '.

August Is Picnic
Month For Farm
Folk of Illinbis

At least 23 county farm bu-
reaus ot Illinois Will hold their
annual picnics during the month
of August, according to the
Speakers' Bureau of the I. A. A.

This bureau k«leps a list of
all avaHakle speakers a^ ar-
ranges with Uie cbiinties to fur-
nish them-^with inen to speak
who hafe a wide . understanding
of agriculNwal prbblems «f the

A. E. Ewrlngham, Hutsonville,
of .the I. A. A. L«iglslatiTe Com-
Biittee, is one of the most popu-
lar speakers, judging from the
large number of picnic dates
that he will fill iti all parts of
the state. Others who will ad-
dress farm gala Day throngs in
elude J. D. Harper, F. M. Hig-
glns, S. Fred Cummlngs, Frank
O. Lovden, Howard Leonard
J. R. Howard, Senator Cuthbert-
son, and S. H. Tbompson.

Picnic dates scheduled are as
follows: Pope, August 4; Rich-
land, 8: St Clair, 9; Franklin,
10: Edwards, 11; Lawrence, 14;
McDohougb, 14; .ToUnson, 15;
Calhoun, ■K; Wbodford, 16;
Cass. 16; -Wayne, 17; Greene,
18; Monroe, 18; Henderson. 22;
Knox, 22; Menard. ^2; Lake, 22;
' ■•, 23;'0oles. 23; Macon, 26;
'«. 29; Oallatlb, 29.

the wheat producing countries.
These countries in the main by
reason of cheaper lands and la-
bor produce at less cost than we
do. The greater competition ot
these countries in the worj^
wheat- market defines the ptice
of ^e whola domestic crop so
long as we eontinue to produce
a surplus of ionsiderable propor-
tions.

Redncetl Acreage , "^ .

"The directors ot the Wheat
Council after full consideration
of these tacts are fully convinced
that a reduction in the w^eat
acreage and wheat production in
this country Is absolutely essei^
tial to a profitable price for
wheat to th4 American wheat
grower.

"While the influences of the
World War were working to
produce an increase in the acre-
age and prodaction of wheat In
tlie United States, these influ-
ences as well as the organized
efforts of the government, were
working to produce a reduced
consumption of wheat in ^be
United States, and these influ-
ences are still being felt. Wheat
products constitute a healthful,
wholesome food, which is the ba-
sis of all meals. Greater con-
sumption of wheat by the people
of the United States at this time
would not only be a healthful
and wholeBome thing tor- them
but a patriotic ser^-ice to the
wheat growers ot the United
States in the emergency by which
they are now confronted.
Vast Volnmes

"The distressed conditions ex-
isting in many wheat growing
sections of the country, which
are having a tendency to force
into the market vast volumes ot
wheat which cannot be readily
absorbed, must inevitably tend
to produce lower price*,- which
more orderly marketing might
avoid.

"The Council desires to call
attention to the new credit facil-
ities now being furnished under
Federal direction through the In-
termediate farm credit banks,
which are available to meet these
distressed conditions."

Objects of Conncil

The objects of the Wheat
Council of America have l^een
outlined by the directors as fol-
lows:

A. To advance the interests
of the producer, by developing
and promoting Uirough voluntary
action, the application of meth-
ods of organizing the production
and marketing of wheat in the
United States, la order to estab-
lish or approximate a balance
between domestic production and
consumption and to bring the

, -dustry.

wheat within the Uplted States
instead ot abroad; 'and to de-
velop profitable outlets for such
surplus as may exist.

B. To advance the general
welfare ot the producer by any
and every means deemed advis-
able and especially by promot-
ing more eflficient and effective
marketing methods and systems.
To interest agriculture, In-
transportation, finance,
commerce, labor and consumers
in the economic phases ot the
prdduction, distribution, manu-
facture and consumption of
wheat and wheat products and
Nassociated commodities.

D. To increase the consump-
tion ot wheat and wheat prod-
ucts by informing the consumer
of the advantages to be gained
by such increased consumption,
an^ by such other means and
methods as may be deemed ad-
visable; and to co-operate with
the producers of wheat and, the
manufacturers and distributors
of wheat products to tljis end.

E. To offer co-operation with
every existing agency, national,
state and local, working for im-
provements in methods of pro-
ducing, storing, handling, mann-
tacturing, marketing and distrib-
uting wheat and wheat products.

F. To aid in co-ordinating, or
If deemed necessary, to conduct
scientific research into the pro-
ductioB, manufacture, distribu-
tion and consumption ot wheat
and wheat products.

G. To perforin the functions
of a Clearing House in the field
of advertising, publicity and gen-
eral business endeavors that are
aimed ^t accomplishing any and
all of the foregoing objects.

New Issue of
' Federal Bonds

Being Floated

A new issue of Federal Farm
Loan bonds of 45 million dollars
now being floated should result
In more money being available
before long to be lent thrquan
co-operative farm loan »s0<na-
tions to farmers wishing to place
long term mortgagee on their
farms. These bonds will yield
4.45 per cent to the redeemable
date 1933 and 4H per cent
thereafter to redemption or ma-
turity. They may be purchased
in denominations running from
$40 to m.OOO. ' ■

Chicago Prqflucers* »
Patrons Urged To
Consign Correctly

Live stock shippers who con-
sign their stock to the Chicago
Producers Commission Associa.-
tion, the agency ot the National
Live Stock Producers Associa-
tion, at Union Stock Yards, are
requested to use more care in
billing their shipments, as con-
siderable confusion has arisen in
thfe past when cars have come
to the yards consigned to "Na-
tional Producers" Instead ot
"Chicago Producers." ^

Some shipments billed in this
manner^ have not reached the
"co-op" firm at all, the word
"national" being connected with
a private commission company
in the yards.

"To Chicago Producers, Union
Stock Yards, Chicago, 111." is
the carrect way to consign live
itdck to the fanners' flrm.

Red Top\Growers
Hold Annual Meet;
Orr Is President

George Orr, Wayne county,
was elected president ot the
Egyptian Se^d Growers Exchange
to succeed J. S. McDonald ot
Jefferson county, at the annual
m*ti[ng of the red top "co^op"
held at Flora in July. S. S.
Hardin, Clay county, was made
vice president.

Other changes includ^ the elec-
tion of George McElyea ot Xenia
to the Board of Directors to suc-
ceed Curt .\nderson, who re-
signed to accept the position as
full time general manager ot
the exchange. Mr. Anderson Was
also re-elected secretary-treas-
urer. I

Walton Peteet, director of Co-
operative Marketing of the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion, made the principal address
at the meeting. He gave a most
interesting and practical talk on
the fundamental principles of co-
operative marketing.

"The aim of co-operative mar-
keting," said Mr. Peteet, "is to
substitute orderly marketing ot
farm products "for the old, waste-
ful practice ot dumping and
blind selling. Wealth; culture,
and power were on the farm two
generations ago — now they are
In the cities. The change hits
been brought about by the prod-
uct of combination ot group ac-
tion in industry against individ-
ualism in agriculture. The great
hopes for agriculture are more
economical production and a bet-
ter marketing system. Organiza-
tion Is the bedrock foV advance-
ment of both of these."

Prospects for the exchange
this year are very encouraging.
With the new warehouse at
Flora practically completed, fa-
cilities for handling the red top
pool are much Improved.

EUROPE INCREASES
FOOD PRODUCTION,
ECONOMISTS AVER

Lessened Demand For Amerf"
can 'Farm Exports Is Pre-
dicted At Conference

European nations are gradu-
ally catching up in food pro-
duction and will have less and
less demand for American agri-
cultural products, according to
a survey of the foreign situa-
tion made by a committee of
farm economist* meeting in
Washington at the call of Sec-
retarj' of Agriculture Heary
C. Wallace. The farm bureau
was represeu^d by H. C. Moor-^,'
house, of the American P^fA
Bureau Fede^tiQn. .-^

Issae Statement
' The statement which came
from the conference is in part as
follows:

"The European nations are
gradually approaching their "pre-
war level in agricultural produc-
tion, especially importing nations
which are endeavoring to make
themselves independent ot out-
side ftood supplies. Twenty-one
countries that 4n 1909 to 1913
harvested an average of 67,000,-
000 acres of wlieat decreased to
58,000,000 acres in 1920, and
then rose again to 00,060,000 in
1922. Eleven countries that
haveated* 48,000,000 acres in
1920 and • 51,449,000 acres in
1922 have reported 52,180.000
acres Ibr 1923. Moreover, crop
conditions are much more favor-
able this year. Revival ot pro-
duction in Europe is much more
tianitest in agriculture than li^
manufacture.

Other Regions

"During the World War agri-
cultural production in Europe
was reduced while the output in
several other countries was in-
creased. 'For example, the total
wheat area in the United States,
Canada, India, Australia and Ar-
gentina was 116,000,000 acres
In 1913 as against 137,000,000
In 1923.

"Increased production in these
regions has more than offset the
decline of production In Russia.
There is no evidence to show
that the competition ot these
areas will be less this year than
last."

-fc

[Aug. 1,

Eve

■

There
Skeptics
, couldn't
V National
tf^Associatio
K 1921, for
.pushing
'.^'live stock
vijt the pr
' fiaeta of t'
had no bi
live stock
I .place and
If. fizzle of
»;did establ
Then
8ouldn> >
■of .'<£»-opci
, ^iarket^

' most pow
' ""when the
.<,,.the Chicai
slon Asso
" , ' Stock Yai
^'s watched v
y, over the c
',« ^ that here
, ^struggle w
( attion.

Now foi
; history — r<
■ progress o
If ing in An
. its first fi
l>;^. June 30, :
ducers sel
, , a gross val
828,033.54
'! date, June
1^ 30, 1923.
4V showed th
'sentlng 71
i ,^ock had

A total of 11,534 farm bureau
meetings were held in Illinois
last year with an attendance ot
543,000.

'Si

4

^ ,.

File Your Loss and Damage
- V. Claims Promptly. | g
Time Limit Six Months.

.:..-'r. •"■ •; v ■■■-•' ^■

Tranaportation Department,
lUin^ Agrictihural Aatodaiioii.

Thirty
i At the s;
' Otrectors 0
Jja. 30 'per c
Jslons and c
approximat

t^ack to m(
(in the tor
dends.

When.tl
established
lit was the
'under ~thei
ali^ady op
and Indii
Sfarm bure;
4 nois, Iowa
_ ' nesota, W
j i Missouri ai
j 'if ant co-op
»'•'( urging liv(
l>^o.'ations t
, ships.

Snc

*\

^^Within

establishm

•ducers C

Iwas ruhni)

' -'expenses.

, membersh

and later

' membersh

\;the count!

Membei
, now free
f and to
, applicatiO!
out to C(
• /|r ulatio'ns.
' stock to
take out
Y be eligibl

The Be
Chicago
'of seven
(I Iowa, tw<
^each fror
t ^ .Dakota.
''• \|torate.
'♦\)ij)jr the It

w \

V' n^^Tv-wT. ,V|5(af»^

lAnK. 1, 1923

Tlie Illinois Agricnltiiral Astodatioo Record

P>C*3

tEven Knockers and^ Skeptics Are Impressed \ ^ ^ i^
I By First Year's Record of Chicago Producers

f There were the knockers— the

TSkeptics — those who said it
^couldn't be done — when the
N National Live Stock Producers
i'VVssociation was formed late in
l|'^1921_for the purpose of estab-
J.rlishing farmers' co-operative
^^live stock commission companies

J.VHf the principal terminal mar-
' jtets of the country. Farmers
I had no business to. follow their
live stock to market ii( the first
'place and they would make a
',i, fizzle of it anjTvay, after they
•/■did establish soling agencies.
■^"# Then agiin. the farmers
. Souldn> >ope to Inake a success
of .-<p-operation on the Chicago
', ^^^arket, the world's largest and
^Xt-most powerful term'inal. And
'■ '^when the Producers established
, « ^.the Chicago Producers Commis-
slon Association at the Union
' , ' Stock Yards, the venture was
4* watched with great interest all
J, over the country, for all realized
*.< *" that here would be the hardest
, ^ struggle with the strongest oppo-
sition.

Now for a little more recent
history — real history, too, in the
progress of co-operative market-
[C ing in America. At the end of
' its first fiscal year of business,
p^. ^une 30, 1923, the Chicago Pro-
iducers selling agtency announced
> , a gross value in business of $1^,-
828,033.54 from the openiiy:
'S date, June 19, 1922, until Judt;
^^ 30, 1923. The company's books
^f showed that 11,742 cars repre-
'senting 751,985 head of live
stock had been bandied.

if Thirty Per Cent Itefnnd

3y At the same time the Doard of
' directors of the "co-op" declared
^a 30 'per cent refund in commis-
^sions and ordered that an an^ount
approximating /WO, 000 be paid
|y.^ack to members of the company
iuin the form of patronage divi-
I' dends.

When , the National Producers
established an agency in Chicago,
.JVit was the third put into motion
'under 'their plan, others having
alieady opened at East St. Louis
and Indianapolis. • The state
Sfarm bureau federations of lUi-
'i nois, Iowa, South Dakota, Min-
\ nesota, Wisco*nsin, Indiana, and
■i Missouri aided in putting the in-
1 fant co-operative on its feet by
'{ urging live stock shipping asso-
>^c.'atlons to take out member-
ships.

I Snccess from Start

Within less than a month after

establishment, the Chicago Pro-

,>ducers Commission Association

l^ras running smoothly and paying

'expenses. In the fall of 1922,

membership fees were a'bolished

and later more thai; $10,000,.in

membership fees wsi returned to

jthe country.

Membership in the agency Is

now free to shipping associations

••'and to individuals. However,

'^application blanks must be filled

out to conform to Federal reg-

' ^r Illations. Anyone may consign

f stock to the Producers but must

] take out membership In order to

fi be eligible to the annual refund.

The Board of Directors of the
Chicago Producers is composed
'of seven members, three from
I Iowa, two from Illi;)8is, and one
ft each from Wisconsin and South
If .Dakota. It is a rotating direc-
y«4torate. Members are appointed
' J|J>y the state farm bureaus In the

TO MARKET WITH THE CHICAGO JJVE STOCK "CaOP'

respective states to serve
three-year terms.

Board of Directors

The present Board of Direc-
tors is composed of Frank Coyne,
Montrose, la.; M. Sar, Essex,
la.; A. Sykes, Ida Grove, la.;
J. W. Crabb, Delavan, 111.; W. B.
Elliott, Williamsfleld, 111.; George
McKerrovf, Pewanketf, Wis.; and
W. S. Hill, Mitchell, S. Dak.

The Chicago Producers Com-
mission Association has experi-
enced a steady growth since
establishment. The hog business
has developed exceptionally well.
Taking the lead in hog receipts
among the commission compa-
nies on the market in July, 1922,
the agency has held this lead
practically every week since that
time and at present handles be-
tween 12 and 15. per cent of the
weekly receipts of hogs.

In total receipts of all live
stock, the company usually stands
first or second each week and
handles an average of from five
to six per cent of the business on-
the market. Until recently all
sheep consigned to the Chicago
Producers were handled by an-
other firm by special arrange-
ment. However, a sheep selling
department has been added with
an experienced salesman in
charge. ■

Growth In Force

The agency started with a
manager, two cattle salesmen,
three hog salesmen, a cashier,
and small office force. The per-
sonnel has beeif enlarged by an
assistant manager, a third cattle
salesman, a sheep salesman, as
well as additions to the office
and yard force. Plans are being
made to employ an ' additional
cattle man to -buy stockers and
feeders:

"The members of thfi entire
working force of the Producers
have been chosen for their abil-
ity and experience in their spe-
cial line of work. Their fitness
is shown by the remarkable
growth of the coi^oany which
would not have ueen possible

H

ERE'S

scene in the chutes

showing a bunch of porkers just
unloaded and being handled by
employes of /the Chicago Producers
Con^lsslon Company. This "co-
op'* has an efficient force of sales-
men to care for a big volume of
live stock. The man at the ^ex-
treme right is George Parmenter,
head hog salesman, and the other
two men are assistants in the
hog alleys of this successful farri-
ers* commission firm.

without, general satisfaction on
the part of shipper patrons.

Illinois lioads

It Is interesting to note that
Illinois live stock shippers have
steadily held the le^d in volume
of business consigned to* the Chi-
cago Producers. Fifty-two per
cent of the live stock handled by
the "co-op" was shipped by Illi-
nois farmers. Iowa easily ranked
second by shipping 42 per cent
of the "co-op's" volume.

The following table showing
shipments by states very clearly
portrays the increase in car re-
ceipts each month by the agency,
as well as showing the sources of
receipts.

SHIPMENTS BY STATES
Months III. Iowa Ind. Wis Others Total

June '/,

Ill

60

4

2

0

177

July

26S

264

7

9

4

549

\at.

325

211

8

9

8

561

Vpt.

2J3

177

11

11

7

'439

Oct.

29S

192

23

n

S

541

Nov.

436

298

13

^37

16

800

Dec.

482

411

20

«S

.15

963

Jan.-

682

569

24

24

33

1,332

Feb.

604

570

23

16

19

1,323

March

6«4

506

28

19

16

1,253

.\pril

548

548

IS

34

28

1.176

May

.688

483

21

24

50

1,266

Jine^i

3S4

386

18

13

18

789

ToUl

5.797

4.675

218

259

219

11.168

.%

S2<S,'

42% 1.9%

1.2%

.9%

100 <7t

From June 19, 1922, until
June 30, 1923, the books of the
J'roducers show that 1,144 indi-
vidual live stock shippers of Illi-
nois patronized the Producers in
Chicago, while 191 live-stock
shipping associations in the state
held memberships in the "co^
•op."

-The following are the tofSis. of
each class of live stock handleU^
doting the year: -Attle, 59,639;
hogs, $29,024; calvea- 18,202;

sheep, 45,030; making a total of
751,895 head. •

Support .Appreciated

"We greatly appreciate the
loyal support given the Chicago
Producers by Illinois live stock
shippers," states S. W. - Doty,
manager of the agency. "With-
out it, we conid not have reached
the success that has been oars
during the first year of opera-
tion. 1

"We hope that oar efforts to
establish a real service in selling
live stock cc-operatively during
the past year will bring us still
greater patronage during the
coming year. Although an or-
ganization as large as we have
built up is bound to make some
mistakes, our records show that
the percentkge has been very
small in proportion to the busi-
ness hamlled. Each shipper
should place complaints as soon
as they arise and we wtH do: all
in our power to adjust them."
VoJume Increases Profits

The well known tact that
volume of business decreases
handling costs is well exemplified
in the records of the Chicago
Producers. For instance, when
4 39 cars of stock were handled
last September,

Cow-Testing Is
The Subject of
New Farm Movie

"Jonathan Barr's Conversion"
is the latest picture turned otit
by ilomestead Films, Inc. Tile
picture, originally taken for Itke
Holstein-Frfesian Association of'
America, concerns the cow-test-
ing campaigns and the develop-
ment of disease-free herds.

It is announced that prints are
available from Homestead Films,
Inc., ^32 South Wabash Aveane,
Chicago.

ceiitts of any month, a profit per
car of only two per cent was
realized. In the month of l^k-
est recelptSv January, with 1,336
cars, the profit per car was 48
per cent.

"We cannot too strongly em-
phasize the necessity of a large
volume of business in order to
obtain the best reeults," states .
F.. M Simpson, fiemral manager
of the Natiional Live Stock Pro-
ducers Association. "Volume
helps to control the market fs
weil as greatly decreasing i/Ute
handling ooiEts. ' '

"On the Indianapolis market.

whete the Producers' agency ceo-

trols around 30 per cent of libe

receipts each week, the aveniglp

market prices Have more nearlT

approached Chicago prices than

ever 6efore, . . .

r
"The big. aim of the Produce^'

agencies is not only to maka ro-
tunds to shippers but to imprc^ve
marketing tonditions in genef^l
and to give better service to thk'
farmer.'* . ' • j 1,

^plendid Record ', | },r

.\ stlsy of the growth and ie-
eompIishm»ii's o' t^» C'liiuarA.
Producers Commission Compaligr
after one year "of business show^
that the confidence which i Uiire\
stoct producers have placed in \
it has not been unfoun^i^.

Having successfully bandied '
over 19 million dollars ^rth df
live stock, declared a 30 p«r cent
refund to patrons, sent back to
the country- more than $10,000
in membertj^p fees, and buUt Wp
a service tttst. has commanded
the respect of bbth 'shlp^rs and
competitors, the CtHcago Produc-
ers' selling agen^' "{laa accom-
plished no small tksk. Aad
when all this has been\done in m
little over one year in tne worjd'a
largest and most powerful Hre
stock marketing termina^, it may
be considered a still greater ac-
complishmeot. v

of KankakMi

Business men
county have put up JIO each and
have gone into partnership with
the lowest re- i 249 pig clab boj'S and girls.

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Hm niinaia Agricnltaral AModation Record

A«B. 1„'1923'

400 Children of Slums Get L A, A. Outings

PRODUCERS' HEAD
ANSWERS CHARGES
OF OlMINE MAN

leavy Receipts, Not "Co-ops"

Responsible For Hog

Market Decline

The charge of Everett C.

: Srown, president of the Na-

ikmal Live Stock Exchange,

hat th^ decline in hog prices

8 due jto. the success of pro-

( luce^-o^i^ned co-operative com

1 nissioa i companies in securing

iiuch laijge volumes of business,

las hein well answered py

:*resideit John F. Brown

• he National Live Stock P

ilucers Association.

"Everttt C. Brown's opinion
i«garding the low hog market |i»
■^Bolly at variance with {he
^acts which he has at handL'
itates J*hn F. Brown. "Market
•tatistic^ show that local cattle
Receipts I for the month of Juae
irere tUe smallest since 191*7.
Light receipts make for higher
(rices. Likewise the receipts «>f
sheep tor June were the ligiUeSt
In oiore^ than SO years. ThMe
good prices^ were due to sensav.
tipnally light ruijs and not (o
the fapt that tfee. .'co-Om' have-
BOt yet invaded tfittsij^aepart-
ments of the'Tsarket as n>Uy as
y have the hog "department.

Hog Ron Excessive .

The sJillu^UilAll«t "Statistics

t

show that more . hogs were o(n
ttie Chicago market this June
than eveff before_ln the hlstoiiy
of June markets. AT!aitl»»-.fipit

Chicago To Home
Federated Ftuit
Meeting, Aug. 13

The Board of Directors of the
FrJcrated Fruit and Vegetable
GroWers, Inc., will meet in the
La Salle Hotel, Chicago, on Au-
gust 13th. Invitation has been
extended to all member associa-
tions to have one or more repre-
sentatives present for an infor-
mal gathering of members in
conjunction with the board meet-
ing.

By-laws of the Federated
Growers provide that the annual
meetiag of members shall be in
February each year. The mem-
bership has increased steadily
and is still increasing. Rapid
development makes desirable the
opportunity for members to get
together before the date of the
next annual meeting.

Freeport '* Co-op"
Loses Services
of A. V. Ahrentzen

• A. V. Ahrentzen, who has been
manager of the Stephenson
County Co-operative Marketing
Company since early in 1922, re-
signed in July and has, entered
another field of wotk. The busi-
.ness of .the'-, company doubled
o'^ing the time he was man-
age*. ''

Pending the selection of a suc-
tcs8or> J. A. Phillips, secretary-
treasurer of the company, is
taking charge of the business af-
fairs of the company.

The Stephenson "co-op" re-

pdrts the destruction by flre of

the creamery at Damascus, one

of the local stations. Loss was

dition occurred In 1911, wltfrj-jiMyaUy covered by insurance.

A new and mo^ernly equipped'
structure will replace the old
building.

CANADIAN CAHLE
GOING TO ENGLAND;
U. S. ISJHE LOSER

I. A. A. Is For Reduction of

High Tariff On Stockers

and Feeders

similar effect, and that was long
before co-operative marketing Of
hogs' waa under way. Too manl^
hogs for! the entire market an^
not Just too many bogs for thje
competitor of the National Live
Stock Exchange -fr^s the true
\cause of the break In prices.
"Between November and July,
seven wqstern markets received
5.000,0901 more hogs than in
tee same period in_ji;llliMi nt Mil'
two years just preceding. Hog courts; and why, after its valid-
sbipmentt from eleveiL-eombelt 1ty"was sustained, they boycotted

John F. Brown.

"Instead of n 'king loose and
unfounded accusations, the Ex-
ichange potentates would better
tell why they so vigorously op-
posed the Packer and Stock
Yard ' Control Law and fought
It umuLcesttfully through all the

states to all markets increase^
32.2 per ; cent this year as conj-

p«red wiih the year precediaff-tfc jtoisg by the United States De-
tlie period from November 1 -t«- pai Iment of Agriculture.

J^ne i. ;

' ' P^odncers Capable

John i*. Brown also pointed
«at -that the managers of the
Producers' agencies are well ac-
quainted . with live stock mac-
keting and are making a success
of it. tie maintained that by
oentroUing an enormous amount
of live 8t*ck offered for sale, that
the Producers stabilize the price
much more than would be the
case if IS firms were doing one<*
flfteentb of the business now be-
ing done.' The' Producers handle
from IB— to— SS"*^?^ cent of th«
total recQipts «B markets where
they operate, states Farmer
Brown. 1 —

"InsteaA^t pointing out to us
the dangers fit onr success, tba
National Live Stock Exchanga
would be more to the point in
explaining to us why it is that
the old-ltne commission firms
hsfve always discriminated against
tbe stock raisers in favor of the
country speculator," concludes

the stock raisers' own selling
agency until ordered to cease so

Last winter the Live Stock
Marketing Department of the
Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion took the lead in filing an
application with the Interstate
Commerce Commission for an
investigation of the .Canadian
cattle tariff. It was the con-
tention of the I. A. A. at this
time that the tariff was so high
as to materially affect Illinois
farmers and industry in general.
It was also contended that tbe
tariff would have a tendency
toward keeping Canadians and
Americans residing in Canada
out of our markets.

That these contentions were
correct is shown by the fact that
already 10,000 bead of Canadian
cattle have 'been shipped to Eng-
land land 50,000 more will go
before September 1.

Canadian Program

The Canadian Government is
putting into effect a program of
fattening Canadian cattle in the
B]asfern provinces for export.
Every pound of Canadian beef
that goes across the ocean les-
sens the demand in our markets.

Every stocker and feeder
shipped across curtails the al-
ready limited supply of high
quality stockers and feeders to
which our Corn Belt feeders
have access. Already the shift-
ing of Canadian buying from the
United States to Great Britain is
having a noticeable effect upon
some of our Industries.

"Illinois farmers hope that the
Tariff Commission can see its
way clear to recommend to the
President a reduction in the tariff
on Canadian cattle, whichi at the
present time is from 1% to ' 2
cents a pound, based upon the
weights of the animals," says a
statement from the I. A. A. LJve
Stock Marketing Department.
"The President has authority to
reduce this rate 50 per cent.
Such a reduction would bring
Canadian cattle back into our
markets."

TO THE VICTORS

Here is the eup presented by
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion to Harry and Walter Tor-
bert, of the DeWitt County Farm
Bureau, winners of the state
horseshoe pitching tournament
for the farm bureau champion-
ship, at the State Picnic, Urban
June 29.

Farmers May Gain Much
ByOrganization-'Gompers

Labor has long since aban
doned any hope of salvation
through politlcianer said Sam-
uel (Jompers, president of the
American Federation of Lajijor,
in his National Wheat Confer-
ence address. "If the wage
earners of our country had not
the sense and courage to organ-
ize, nobody would have much
sympathy for them and nobody
would take their complaints very
seriously.

"Gentlemen, the temptation to
say 'Go thou and do likewise' is
almost beyond my power to re-
sist. Organization will enable
th« farmer to pop! tHe thought
and the power of _the (vming
Industry for a single purpose. .

Wherever -t^ere is organltl-

tion there is a center, a clearing
house, for tbe gathering and dis-
seminating of Information of
economic experience within your
occupation. The records so. ac-
cumulated will serve to disclose
the wisdom or unwisdom of con-
templated policies and undertak-
ings. Something like scientific
procedure then becomes possible.
The recorded experiences of
mankind is the olily thing that
enables us to avoid mistakes that
were made a century ago. It is
the basis of progress.

"Organization is a means of
bringing to a central point tor
common use the experience of
all. Talk and live organization
and thus do your bit to.***-*"*""
niailBn7 OS ■ plane Jrtth
other industries of our laiDV"

E. L. Bill Hired
As Director of
I. A. A. Publicity

L. J. Montross, present Direc-
tor of News-Publicity for the
I. A. A.,' has accepted a posi-
tion as special writer for a New
York City advertising agency. He
will leave for New York early
this fall.

E. L. BUI, Wheaton, 111., at
present Director of Publicity for
the Holsteln-Frlesian Association
of America, has 1>een employed
as Director of News-Publicity to
succeed Mr. Montross. The date
upon which he wTll take up his
new duties has been announced
as August 1.

Mr. BHl will work with the
present personnel of the depart-
ment until' Mr. Montross leaves,
making a special publicity sur-
vey?

Mr. Bill was the first director
of publicity for the I. A. A.,
from ISig to 1921. He re-
signed in March, 1922, to become
secretary of Homestead Films,
Inc., and later became a member
of the national Holsteln-Frlesian
organization.

FJUIMROREAO FOLKS
PROVIDE VACATIONS ^

FOR 400 CITY 'KHIS''

r

Outings Project Receives Fav* *: .

orable Comment From 'l

All Over Country *

I

A

Volun

't

Again the members of the
Illinois Agricultural , Associa-
tion and Illinois county farm t
bureaus have shown that time*.^
can never be sr hard down on
the farm but what the farmer '• |
can extend a helping hand to.,^
the "less fortunate. More tjian
400 requests for children of the
Chicago slums for two-week
outings in homes of I. A. A.
and farm bureau members
have been received this sum-
mer, according to a recent J
check-^. i' ' '

The project is carried on in
co-operation with the United
Charities of Chicago, and the
Chicago Daily News. The charit-
able organization supervises the
"^^ ^ildren and makes them readgr, j Every
■ the railroads fimlteh free fare, - - public a
the Daily News provides money I of the
and publicity, while the farm bu-
lean folks have acted as hosts.
The generosity of Illinois
farmers in this 'project has
aroused newspaper comment all
over the country, not only this
year but during the last two

)

EXCE

FOR

HI

FInanc
Ja

The forecasts of wheat pro-
duction for 16 countries in the
Northern Hemisphere is about
1,878,000,000 bushels compared
to 1,754,000,000 for 1922, ac-
cording to the International Tn-
stitute of Agriculture at Rome.
This is a 7 per cent increase.

the Aug
utive Co
ert Cow
for the
year.
The a

,_. „ $176,601

years, when it was in operation J[ ending
One of the most remarlcable / The

features of the project is the fact i
that most of the people whol
took children last year havet
called for the same ones this
summer. The following are
few of the communities to which
parties of children have gone inV

r

the last week or two: Viola,
Aledo, Seaton, Joy, GehAeo,
Cambridge, Hopedale, Shellv-
vllle, Tower Hill, Kirkwood, _
Monmouth, Ktokena, Joliet, Union I o( \^ls
Hill, Bonfleld, Lomax, Galesbnr^ , fj^^ in
and Oneidft. ^ >u^"

same ti
an exce
come o\

The
sheet ol
ponds t(
tioil_ wit
533.30.
are liqu
can be t
to the

Too Many Food
Dealers In U. S.,
Says B. F. Yoahim'

The United States has 'a. 19,- .
000,000 foo4-dealer population to
a 33,500,000 farm population, or
one food dealer to each one and
three-fourths of the €,500,000
farms, according to B. F Yoak- '
um. Market Commissioner of New
York.

This is one reason why the
farmers are not sharing to a -
larger extent in the general pros-
perity, points out Mr. Yoakum, m '
it is "too great a burden for any <
business to carry."

!

Looking Into The Futwrm^ ' •? .
RELIABILITY OF SERVICE I

Whatever the problems of Illinois agriculture
"Tor 1 925 and 1 926 may be, the Illinois Agricultural
Association is here to meet them and to cope with
them for the b^t interests of its membei .

i

i}.

186,928.

ment B<

In tfee

"Durii

aminat lo

and we

that tbe

in unus

cash on

count ai

more Ni

died wit

petty cas

to be Jn

Busin

Fi

The 1
reau pla
way of
picnic h(
the Gale
merce.

"It is
Marcham
both far
will, prol
standing,
good tin

J. R.
dent of 1
^well, c
Horsesho
baseball
of tbe pi

[Mg. 1„'1923 '

ings:

u folks;

CATHmS^
TY'KllB''/

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ent From 'I
ountry

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IllinoisAgricultul^A

Volume 1

t EXECUTIVE BOARD DISCUSSES WHEAT SITUATION

nbers of the ,
iral , Associa-

coant.V fann g;
vn that timeai""
lard down on
it the farmer
ping hand to
. More t;Jian
hildren of the
for two-week

of I. A. A.
au members
ed this sumr
to a reqtnt ^ 1

carried on In
the United
ago, and the
J. The chafit-
supervises the
s them readgr, i Every six months a certified
iah free fare, • ■ public accountant makes an audit
rovides money I of the Association finances. At
» the farm bu- " .. . .^- t,

cted as hosts,

August 20, 1923

Number 1 1

EXCESS OF $14,953,
FOR I. A. A. DURING
RRSTSMMONTHS

Finances of Association From

January to July Are.

Audited

of Illinois
'project has
comment all '
not only this ,
the last two .
I In operation if
8t remarkable /
lect is the fact i
I people who!
t year have >
me ones this '

L

lowing are a
ities to which
have gone inV
two: Viola. ^
oy, GenAeo,
lale, Sheltv-
Kirkwood, ^
JoUet, Union f
.X, Galesburg

ood
U.S.,
Yoahiim

!S has 'a 19,-
population to
population, or
each one and
he 6,500,000
B. F Yoak-
sioner of New

son why the
iharing to a
general prOB-
. Yoakum, as
iirden for any

the August meeting of the Exec-
utive Committee, Treasuier Rob-
ert Cowles presented the audit
for the first six montl^s of this
year.

The audit shows an Income ot-
$176,608.20 for the six months
ending June 30, 1923.

The total expenses for the
same time totaled $161,664.27,
an excess of $14,953.93 of in-'
come over expenses.

The figure on the balance
sheet of the audit which corres-
ponds to net worth of a corpora
tiwj^wlth capital stock is $198,-
■533.30. Of this amount there
arc liquid assets, or assets which
can be turned Into cash any time,
to the amount of $109,061.89.
Of this amount ^22,033.32 is
cash in bank or on hand, and
$86,928.32 is in U. S. Govern-
ment Bonds and securities.

In t»e audit report it is stated:
"During the course of our ex-
•mlnat Ion no errors were found
and we are pleased to report
that the records are being kept
in unusually good order. The
cash on deposit on regular ac-
count as reported by the Syca-
more National Bank was recon-i
died with the general books. The
petty cash was counted and found
to be Jntact"

Business Men,
Farmets Plan

Joint Picnic

•iculture
cultural
pe with

2'i

The Knox County Farm Bu-
reau plans an innovation in the
way of a picnic on Aug. 23 — a
picnic held in co-operation with
the Galesburg Chamber of Com-
merce.

"It is our belief," said L. R.
Harchant, farm adviser, "that
*oth farmers and business men
will, profit from a closer under-
standing, as well as having a
good time together."

J. R. Howard, former presi-
dent of the A. F. B. F., and Mrt.
Sgewell, of Indiana, are to speak.
Horseshoe pitching contests c-and
baseball games are to be a part
of the program.

ANNUAL MEETING
AT GAI.ESBURG

The next annual meeting
of the Illinois Agricultural
Association — the ninth — will
be held in Galesburg.

This decision was made at
the meeting of the I. A. A.
Executive Committee at its
session, Aug. 3. The exact
date was not set but It was
determined that January
would be the month.

The county seat and met-
ropolis of Knox County,, In
northwestern Illinois, Gales-
burg is well situated to take '
care of the big convention.-
The city was the only con-
tender for the meeting be-
fore the executive committee.

SEEING THING3

450 OUTINGS GIVEN
AS SEASON CUKES;
REQUESTS COME YH

A few reqUests for children for
outings in the homes of farm bu-
reau members are still coming
in, but the project is nearly fin-
ished now for this summed on ac-
count of the nearness of the time
when the youngster w^ have to
return to schoyl; .Praeticany
every county within two hundred
miles of Chicago, however, is en-
tertaining young vacationists at
this time. -

The total number of outings
provided, according to present In-
dications, will fall not far short
of 450.

"For the third summer," says
Secretary Jones, of the United
Charities of Chicago, "members
of the I. A. A. and county farm
bureaus have contributed nobly
to this cause. They have the un-
dying gratitude of hundreds of
Chicago families to whom these
outings have in many cases meant
almost life itself." .. ;.

Carroll County-
Plans Pageant
At Fair, Aug. 29

A pageant to portray the last
hundred years of the history of
Carroll County is planned for the
county fair of August J8, "8^ and
31. with officers and people of the
Carroll County Farm Bureau tak-
ing an active part. Miss Nina B.
Lamkin, who directed the I. A.
A. Farm Bureau Pageant at the
Farm Bureau Decennial Celebra-
tion, DeKalb, June 30, 1922, Is
pageant director.

A great parade will conclnde
the three-day program.

16,500 lb. Hog Minimum
Case WoTvby A.F.B.F.

The Farm Bureau has won its
hog mininium case.

The Interstate Commerce Com-,
mission has ruled that, beginning
October- 13, 1923, 16,500 pouads
shall be the prescribed minimum
for the loading of hogs.

Seventeen thousand pounds in
the present minimum. The Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation was
able 4o, establish the fact that
the *1 7,000 minimum Increa-ied
the risk from overloading to a
costly degree.

Federation officials state that
wilh the new minimum savings
in freight plus reduction in risk,
the saving will average more
than $1.50 a car.

In 1922 on twenty markets
there was received 402.000 car-
loads of hogs. From these fig-
ures it is estimated that a yearly

Producers ' Main
Office Moves;
More Business

The National Live Stock Pro-
ducers Association has moved
their office from the twelfth floor
to room 1976 of the Transporta-
tion Building at 608 South Dear-
born Street, tJhicago. This move
was made necessary by the growth
of the business.

saving of $603,000 has been
made for farmers who ship hogs.
This saving amounts to more
than three times the annual cost
■at running the American Farm
Bureau Federation.

'CO-OP' MARKETING
OFFERS ULTIMATE
SOLUTION, BEUEF

Illinois Seen As One of Of-
fenders in Keepinjg up an
X' Extended Acreage

I

To relieve the wheat sittiaition
comes the siipfiestious that farm-
ers withhold wheat from the
market by warehoosiog on the
farm, that a reduction ^Iw made
in acreage, and that thi Govern*
raent take a hand in the situ-
ation.

The Illinois Agrieultoral As-
sociation Executive Committee
discussed these qiiesjiops at^its
August meeting, to determine if
the basid princip'r, cj"e correct.
I'>uin Warehoastmc

It is tibe opinion of the oom-
mlttee that warehousing wheat
on the tilrm In Illinois could not
carry an} degree of guarantee of
safe storage for the reason of the
hazards of wheat weevil and keat
in the bin. Farm granaries do
not have the necessary facilities
fpr moving and turning wheaV
in the bia. -Further on this sub-
ject is the (adt that lUiDaib w||eat
is now going to market, a late
date to carry on an effective cam-
paign for farm warehousing.
. Acreace RedactloD

On the questions of a campaign
to reduce acreage and .of hold-
ing vbeai on the farm for a set
price on [certain date, the com-
mittee concluded that it would not
be wise. |to advise members to
carry on 4 campaign, for the rea-
son therei is no jirotection or as-
surance of gptting the desired 're-
sult. 8(iai1ar camtiaipnft^'C'vfo-
f ore have jnoj proven eucce^sfuL

Howevqr, it was brought out
that on tHe basis of pre-war acre-
age, Illiniis is one of the chief
offenders jin pialntainlng an: ex-
tended acreage of wheat. It is
the belief; of the committee that

frvtitlTjuc/l oTi pnpc S>

Executive Board
To Spend One Day
With Departments

The next meeting of the Execu-
tive Committee of the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association will^ be held
at the dfUces of the organization
in Chicago on September 7 and 8
One full day of ,the two-day ses-
sion will be devoted to the visit-
ing of the various departments of
the I. A. A. by memhers of the
committee.

Members of the committee plan
by this means to keep in^clofter
touch with the details ^f the
worK than would etherwise be
possible. Directors of the vari-
ous departments will give halt-
hour talks, explaining Just how
the duties of their various de" ■♦•Me Grp
partments are carried on. *o have be

The same plan was carried out ^**- ^^■
with great success late ip July
b^^k-mee±lng_Qf the I. A. A. so- ^^^ ^*** *** made in order that
llcitorg who^are working In con- directors. might attend the anneal
_ne£tlo^^^ivith^55ity farm bureau meeting k>t the InternaUoMl
campaigns. I APPle Shippers In Detroit

■^ -

Federated Holds
a Conference in
Detroit Aug. 9 -10

The meeting of the directors

of the Fedjeratlon Fruit and Vege-

rerg, Inc., which wms

en held in Chicago, on

was held in Detroit.

Aug. 9 aijd 10. The change in

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Tbe minoM Agricnltand AmocmUjoq R(«^

Umoi* Apricnitwal Assodatioa

R EC O R D

^Co-op' Marketing Seen As

r,?.^j±'''4izi':f,.Lr''^}^.^K.s'A Wheat Problem Solution

60S SoMth Dearborn Street, X^hlcaKO,
Illinois. Edited t>y N«w« Pdblielt)
D^attDlAilt. L. Ji'Montross, Director.

Bntryv^ 8econ4 class matter Oct-
10. 19ai. at theipost Kirice ae> Chi-
cago. Illinois. V"^*er the act of
MSTrch t. 1879. Acceptance for mail-
ing at l|p«ciAl ra^es of postage pro-
v^tded f4t in Se<ltion 1103. Act of
October «k,1917, jauthoriied Oct. M.
I»21. •. ■'■' ■• .-

The tndi^dual n^embership fee of
the Illlnt>l8 AgrlcDltural Associa-
tion Is fl^e dollars a year. This
fM Includes payment of ten cents
for subscription to the Illinois Aff-
rtcultural Association Record.

OFFICERS

President. S.' H. Thompson. Quincy.
Vlce-Preslde«t. A. O. Bckert, Belle-
ville.
Treasurer. R.. A. Cowles. B16o*ilnB-

ton.
Secretary. Geo. A. Fox. Sycamore.

KXiScrm'E CO.M3IJTTBB

By ConKrt»«lonaI Districts

llth— Henry McGough. Mable Park-
12th — G. F. Tullock. Rockford.
13th — C. E. Bamborougrh. Polo.
14th — W. H. Moody. Port Byron.
15th— H. E. Goeinbel. Hoopole.
llth — G. E. P.eder, Mendota.
17th — F. D. Barton. Cornell.
18th — C- R. Finlfy. Hoopeston.
19th — D. J. HoUerman. Sadorus.
loth — Earl J. Smith, Detroit.
Slst — E. L Corbin. Carllnville.
t2nd — Stanley Castle. Alton.
tSrd— CaVIton Trimble. Trimble.
■t4th — Curt Aaderson. Xenla.
15th — Vernon Lessley. Sparta.

' Directon of Departments,

I. A. A. Offlc«^

Qeneiral Qfllce and Assistant to Sec-
retary. J. D. Harper; Field Organis-
ation. J. C. Sailor; Organization Pub-
licity. G. E; Metzger; News Publip-
Ity. L. J- Montross; Transportatioa.
L. J. Quasey; Statistics. J. C. Wat-
son; Finance. R. A. Cowles; Fruit
and Vegetable Marketing, C. E.
Durst: Live Stock Marketing, C. A.
Stewart; D^iry Marketing. A. D.
Liyijch; Phosphate Limestone. J. R.
Bent: Legal. Newton Jenkins.

ORGANIZED EFFORT
SEEN TO DISCREDIT
. CMERGMIN ACT

Misleading- Statements Aboutj
Law Are Spread— No Basis
for Accusation

I There appears to be an or-
ganized effort by the grain
trade to discredit the Capper
Tincher Act. la numerouB
pres-s statements the grain trade
blames the Capper Tincher act
for the low price of wheat. The
contention is that the new law
has festrietetrspeculation which
,1|^ resulted in a decline in the
price of fwhfttt.

The CtwA' Ti^vher Act does
"1^ any waKrestrict legitf-
niate qjpeculation, according to
tie "nSrnt statements of theT)e-
PBrtgAA- of .\gricultute, which

iSfnisters the act. It does re-
strict manipulation of cornering
ot the market. It Speculation

EEs decidased it is reasonable to
Bfe^eve that heretofore there has
lieen speculation not legitimate.
- I
^ ^ iTrmde CUtals

Claims ' of the grainj trade have

^ siii^ays contended that it is sup-

„' -ply and demand that makes '^e

• market. Now tbe grain trade

says it is a lack ot speculation,

and not supply and demand. If

this is true, it is time tbe farmer

was finding out the truth about

itl

[Again It Is a fair question to
ask why the claimed decline in
syeculatioa caused by the Cap-
per Tincher .\ct has not had the
same effect on corn and it is
claimed to have wl)eat jrices. Ac-
cording to the word of T. J. Duvel,
Supervisor of the Chicago Grain
B^change under . the Capper
Tincher Aet. th^ act does not
bfire anything in it that the

i(ContItiued from pagre 1)

every member should take this
tact into consideration in plan-
ning the 1924 crop program. To
advise a twenty percent reduc-
tion by every wheat grower would
not be wise for the.e are a num-
ber ot factors on every farm that'
rightly enter into the decision ot
amount of reduction. *

Government Partidpatibn

Government participation has
t>een suggested by setting a mini-
mum^guaranteed price, and by
setting up a wheat corporation to
buy wbea- of farmers and sell ft
to foreign nations. All of the dis-
cus»ion on this Lubject was op-
posed to asking the U. S. Gov-
ernment to participate on any
basis so Tar suggested.

Chief among the arguments op-
posing Government taking action
are:

It Will mean an expenditure ot
money that willjater rebound to
t^e farmer in the ^rm of taxa-
tion. '

It vould set a further precedent
for all other industries to call
on the Treasury when in trouble.

It Is dangerous to put the Ax-
ing of wheat price into the hands
of tfee public, giving opportunity
ot less control by the producer
than he now has opportunity far.
Information Lacking

The discussion broughf out the
fact that at best, comphste and
reliable Information on the tacts
ot w^eat production, consump-
tion, demand and surplus, is lack-
ing, ^he fact remains that wheat
is in the neighborhood of 85 cents
a Bjjshel, at the country'' ©levator
aiill^the wheat dollar is- worth
about' 69 cents when it comes to
tiurchaslng the things the farmer
uses, as compared with full value
in 1913.

Meeting Crises V

Vartous means are bgWg used
by th* farmer to-Kieii this crisis.
Already there' has been an un-
heard ot economy.

Any considerable amount ot
further economy will have a very
definite effect on the value of
the farm dollar. On this side of
the question are other protections
every Individual ,'an make use of
for himself, thone ot diversified
farming and economical produc-
tion. Illinois is especially well-
adapted to diversification. To
have a variety ot crops prevents
a total loss when one crop does
nc>t pay. Surely the man who
produces' wheat at the cost ot

board of trade rules do not al-
ready require.

Fair Trial "

The Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation used its influence to se-
cure the Capper Tincher Act and
it now wishes to see the Act
given a fair trial.

In answer to a St. Louis
banker who asked that the De
partment of Agriculture not re
strict _the volume ot trading so
speculators would be encouraged,
Assistant Secretary C. W. Pugs-
ley has this to say. "Continued
agitation by the grain' trsfde in
regard to these reports exposes
it to the suspicion that there is
something to conceal which might
result in increased criticism and
even further legislation of a more
drastic character before the actu-
al tacts regarding futures trad-
ing can be assembled by this ;de-
partment"- ii

11.00 a bushel is hotter off than
the man who produces wheat at
the cost ot tl-25 a bushel. Eco-
nomical production Is a factor.

In discussing economy, diversi-
fication and economical produc-
tion, it was realized that they
are but fragments of the real
problem, but it is the belief that
their practice will be helpful in
the presenf situation.

Co-operative Marketing

The whole problem was recog-
nized as an economic problem
which will be solved primarily
by self-help through organized
agriculture and through the ap-

J. D. Harper, Assistant to the
Secretary of .Illinois Agricul-
tural Association has been ap-
pointed a' member of the
National Egg Marketing Com-
mittee by Chairman, Mrs. W.
C. Martin. This Comiiuttee is
the result of an egg marketing
conference called by the Ameri-
plication of business principles toj^Q ^3^^ Bureau Federation.

Illinois Progress ,

Mr. Harper says that Illinois is
one of the mid-west states that
has demonstrated co-operative
marketing ot eggs in a limited
way. Experience in Shelby and
Hancock counties points to the
tact that the successful marketing
of eggs co-operaMvely, depends
in a large measure on high qual-
ity and a suSlcient quantity ot
standardized grades.

Plans are under consideration
to co-operate with all agencies to
put a higher grade of eggs on
Illinois farms by working under
Senate Bill 460. the new stand-
ardization law. Mr. Harper states
that Wisconsin has placed 4,000,-
000 standard baby chicks from
standard inspected , flocks under
state supervision on 'Wisconsin
farms under a similar law. The
new Illinois law will benefit pro-
ducers in the way of Increased
price for better quality of eggi,

marketing as well as production. >

In the opinion of the commit-
tee co-operative marketing otters
more fo' ultimately solve the
problem than any other one thing
in slgtit. At the same time it
was recognized that this remedy
is not a quick relief measure, but
Just because It Is a fundamental,
will require considerable time to
get results.

PRODUCER EARNINGS

REACH $140,000 FOR

FIRST Fiy[M0NTilS

Total earnings of the Live
Stock Producers Commission
Companies for the first five
months of this year were $140,-
000, according to a report re-
cently made by F. M. Simp^n,
general manager of the Nation-
al Live Stock Producers' Asso^
ciation.

The report continues:

"During 1922, producer agen-
cies afllliated with the National
Liire Stock Producers' Associa-
tion,^ handled 18,590 cars, which
were valued at more than J26,-
000,000, and represented 6.6 per
cent of the total receipts handled
by the six markets inhere our
offices were operating.
Gain In 192S

"For the first five months of
1923, the Producers handled 20,-
719 cars, which was more than
they handled during the entire
year of 1922, having a value ot
over $37,000,000. This business
represented ^.5 per cent ot the
total business of the markets
-where Producer agencies are op-
erating.

"In the eighteen months ot
operation three Producer agencies
have refunded In commissions
more than $170,000 and more
than J17,000 in membership fees.
Three offices have abolished the
membership fee entirely and five
have started without and mvn-
bership tee.

Big Increase

"The six months' period end-
ing June 30 shows an 83 per
cent increase In business over the
first six months in 1922 tor the
St. Louis Producers. Further,
thls>83 per cent increase In busi-
ness shows a 114 per cent iii-
crease in savings. Evidence that
the greater the volume the great-
er the saving.

"St. Louis Producers are aver-
aging 14 per cent ot all live
stock consigned to that, market.

"A report f ro n Indianapolis
shows 1.219 cars handled in June
by the Producers at- that market.
In June. 1922, the Indianapolis
Producers handled just halt that
number.".

I.A.A. REPRESENTED
ON EGG COMMITTEE
TOFORMUUTEPLAN

J. D. Harper Named On National

Body; Progress Already

Made in State

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CROWDED^ OUT ,

ON account of the Import-
ance of the conferenca
held at Centralia, an account
'of which Ik contained in thia
Issue, and of .the wheat m^
.ketin'a situation, the' 'u»ial
articles, about a co-op^atlve
marketing associatloii and a
department of the I. A. A.
are omitted in this issue, ~-

Thls serle*, however, will
be contipued m» before.

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and may easily change completely
the poultry population of
state in five years.

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Other Members

Other members of the National
Committee are as follows:

James L. 'Whetsel, Vineland, N.
J., President, Atlantic Coast Egg
Producers Association; L. R. Sim-
ons, Ithaca, N. 'V., Secretary,
Marketing and Transportation
Committee, N. Y. State Farm Bu-
reau Federation; Mrs. H. W. Law-
rence, Monroeville, Ohio, member
Executive Committee, Ohio Farm
Bureau Federation; C. R. George,
Indianapolis, Ind., Director Dairy
and Produce Marketing, Indiana
Farm Bureau Federation; Robert
W. Bingham, member Executive
Committee, Kentucky Farm Bu-
reau Federation; A. S. Chapin,
Cookesville, Tenn., poultryman;
C. E. Hearst,! Cedar Falls, la..
President Iowa Farm Bureau Fed-
eration; J. S. Jones, St. Paul,
Minn., Secretary, Minnesota Farm
Bureau Federation; Benjamin
Brown, Salt Lake City, Utah,
President, Utah Poultry Produc-
ers, Inc.; J. H. Barber, Petaluma,
Cal., General Manager, Pacific
Coast Egg Producers' Association.

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f Maximum Crop, Productitm

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Overloading Live Stock May
Cause Heavy Losses

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Transportation Department,
niinoi* Affricultiiral Associati

1923

the Import-
I conference
, an account
lined In thta/

wheat m«f-
, the' 'i^al

co-op^f^tlve
atlon and a
he I. A. A.
his iiaue. *-

owever, will
efore.

Aqg.

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AgricuIUirAr

RMord

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Policies of lUinois Fruit Marketing
^re Discussettir^lifi^eting at C^ntrdlia

CHAIRMAN

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lation ot tAe

nberg

>f tbe National
Follows:
1, Vineland, N.
itlc Coast Egg
on; L, R. Sim-
iT., Secretary,
Transportation
tate Farm Ba-
rs. H. W. Law-
Ohio, member
ee, Ohio Farm
C. R. George,
Director Dairy
eting, Indiana
ration; Rol>ert
il)er Hxecutive
ky Farm Bu-
A.. S. Chapln,
poultryman;
lar Falls, la.,
m Bureau Fed-
les, St. Paul;
innesota Farm
a; Benjamin
> City. Utah,
(ultry Produe-
ber, Petaluma,
lager. Pacific
8' Association.

What shall be t£e fut«re policy of co-pjwrative marketing of
fruits and vegetables t That was' the stAject of di^ussion at a
marketing conference held at CentraJitC^ August 7, called by the
Illinois Agricultural Association. .In approaching this question,
the past and present conditions, &nd factors were reviewed by
growers and representatives of, the Illinois Horticultural Societj^
Horticultural Department a? the University of Illinois, Depart-
ment X)f Agriculture at Sprjngfield and Illinois School Exchange.

Seventy fpjit growers from sixteen covmties attended. A.* O.
"Eekert, ehairman of the Fruit and Vegetable. Marketing Depart-
ment of the I. A. A. acted as chairman.

The discussion was with particular relation to the Illinois Fruit
Exchange, a going co-operative marketing organization with head-
quarters at Centralia. The Fruit Exchange has a membership of
about 900 and 21 tully formed local organizations, 12 of which have
their own packing houses. Last ^ear 500 carloads ot apples, 450
cars of peaches and 100 cars of miscellaneous fruits and vegetables
were sold through the Exchange.

M

ment,
on.

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Vlay

Surveying production of fruit
in southern Illinois, Prof. W.
S. Brock, representing the Il-
linois Horticultural Society, stat-
ed that the production of early
apples is now nearin^ the sat-
uration point. Observation and
the figures of nurserymen indi-
cate to Prof. Brock that the plant-
ing of early apple trees is going
on at a rate that will be hard to
keep up ^ith in marketing.

^ 'No Statistics

"There are not reliable statis-
tics on this question," stated Mr,
Brock. "The production bf late
apples Js not alarming and if in
any direction, is on the negative
side," said Mr. Brock.

Last year southern Illinois ship
ped out between 2,500 and 3,000
cars of lieaches. A few years
back this figure was in the neigh
borhood of 500 cars. Mr. Brock
concludes from his survey and
observation that the peach crop
is liable to reach -t, 000 or more
cars next year if there is a full
crop. The cause is an enormous
Increase in planting of trees in
the past several years

"This increased production
means that our present manner
of distribution will fall down,"
he said. "Care in distribution is
needed."'

" Self Help V • J .

Telling of the work and prob-
lems of the Fruit Exchange, Man-
ager A. B. Leeper said that it is
< problem of fruit growers them-
aelves. "Nobody is going to im-
prove marketing conditions but
yon."

Several times in the conference
It was expressed that standard
'grades and rigid inspection is one
of the first principles that co-
operative marketing m'ust put in-
to effect. H. W. Day, of thie De-
partment of Agriculture, explain-
ed the new Standardization and
Inspection law. In co-operation
with the U. S. Government the
Illinois Department ot Agricul-
ture will inspect and issue a
Government Certificate on carlots
of fruits and vegetables. Mr.
Day explained that a certificate
will be an insurance ot grade
and quality to the prospective
purchaser, and thus Would act as
a silent salesman. It would act
as a protection to the grower
when his produce got Into the'
hands of unreliable 'buyers who
wanted to doubt the quality or
grade of produce.

The Department of Agriculture
has already employed two men to
do inspection work. The Fruit
Exchange has stated >its intention
to makfi. mm ut Ihlij

Ipping peaches. A

~9e«^ce in pr
charge"~3t "fr

• IB.OO a car Is made for this serv-
ice by the Department. There
J[8 notMng in tbe law that com-
pete growers to have their prod-

ucts inspected. It is a service
ottered to them.

PeMet Talks
"The aim of co-operative mar-
keting is to substitute merchan-
dising ot farm products for the
old practice of blind selling and
dumping," said Walton Peteet,
Director ot Marketing for the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion. "Dumping means giving the
markets more than they can con-
sume. • It means forcing the sale
of products. Blind selling is the
selling without knowledge of
supply, demand, absorbing power
of the markets - and grade and
quality of products.

"As long as we continue to
dump our products and to sell
blind, we cannot expect to sta-
bilize our markets. Stabilizing
means selling lijce the .grocfer sells
— He doesn't try to sell his sum-
mer goods in the first ten days
ot summer weather. The fruit
grower must merchandise his
products.

First Principle
"Standardization is the first
principle to merchandising or sell-
i«g ' through co-o()erative organ-
izations. There will never be a
profit in selling ungraded, bulk
products. . Second tomes the
proper package. A study must
be made of commercial practice
and consumer demands."

Other principles outlined by
Mr. Peteet are the extending of
demand, handling of surplus and
to sell at the point ot consump-
tion rather than at borne.

To carry out this program Mr
Peteet rec'ommended a strong lo-
cal organization' of growers ot
one commodity or closely related
commodities, as the first step.
Second, a state or district organ
ization of the locals, and ulti-
mately a coordination of all
state or 'district associations into
a national federation.

Contracts and Pooling
: Binding members to sell
through their organization by
contract and the pooling of prod-
ucts were both recommended as
basic principles of success. Con-
tracts to insure the organization of
produce to market and furnish
a basis for financing, M^. Peteet
stated: * ."There can be no in-
telligent merchandising ot prod-
ucts without pooling." ^

Farm Adviser E. W. Rusfc, ot
Macoupin County, asked what ar-
guments could be used to con-
vince large growers to 40 to 150
acres who have developed into
salesmen and are satisfied with
their results. Mr. Peteet said
that the satisfactory'' price or
premium price that the large
srower is receiving is based on

the present market, which is set
by the many little growers. Mr.
Peteet believes it Is to the Interest
of th» larger grower to get into

A. O. ECKERT

the co-operative organizations and
help get a better market price.
He said it is 'not the only duty
of the co-operative marketing or-
ganization to sell well on a bad
market. The large grower is now
carrying most of the cooperative
marketing associations.

Perfect — ^Expand

The suggestions of Mr. Peteet
for the improvement ot the Fruit
Exchange were to perfect and ex-
pand the present organization by
all organizations represented at
the conference working together.

Mr. Peteet further recommend-
ed that the Illinois Agricultural
.Association help and assist in fi-
nancing co-operative marketing
organizations until such time as
the co-operative can stand on its
own feet. At that time the co-
operative marketing ' association
should repay the State Associ^
tlon, in the opinion ot .Mr. Peteet,
so that the same money can be
used to foster other organiza-
tions.

Secretary George A. Fox, of the
Illinois Agricultural Association,
approved this plan in the main,
however, added that sbmetimee the
•plan ot organization offered by
co-operative associations had not
warranted the association lend-
ing its assistance.

Rock Phosphate
Sales For July
• Make a Record

Sales ot rock phosphate for
July were higher than for the
same month ot the past two years,
says the Phosphate-Limestone De-
partment ot the I. A. A. The use
of rock phosphate at this time is
more with the idea ot more pro-
duction per man which means
production at less cost, than with
the idea of increasing production.

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A FARM BUREAU SERMON

Farm Editor of

By the Rev. John AcheeotC Princevlll4 III,
the i|eoria Traneeiipt

In tbe ninth chapter of First Corintbuins jPaid says:
as one that beateth the air" '

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This expression in the oldest book ^n all th^ wotld oppM
up an interesting trend ot imagination jfor p^oi^le who oppo<4

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present-day boxing" methods.

There ig efery reason to JjeHeveTE R^PauTVas piferriis
to some kind of a boxing bout when \ le wrote kbit letter to
the church at Corinth. True he wa< pointing^ a leSson in
Christian method when he O'eferred o the - mODner of his
fighting; he also hinted that he ktlew quite a lot about the
ringside vernacular ot that time. It n ust have been honest-

qot as one that beatetb
he landed bis punch
b><9a M

to-goodness boxing, too, for he says,
the air." In other words, he means
whenever he could, and there may ha' 'e
the knockout type, too.

We are all in a fight of one kind or another, and there Is

a lesson for all of ua -hi the referent^ from Paiil's writing.

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■ T^Sre-aheilfd 1^ aim. Little Wioje Green can p^t the

gloves on and awing his arms about like an old dilapidated'
windmill wheel in a March ^le and ge|t no place. in the bout,
while a skilled boy in the use of the gloves will accept every
opening with a punch and win .the d^ision of the- referee
and the applause of the crowd.

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Here we'are, farmers and all othei' < tlaaatlt, floni« are bMt>

, ing the air, and at the end of each yet.r have made no p'n>g'
ress, and wonder what the trouble is, apd become disgruntled

~^ith themselves and every one else
opening and get along in the game at

Farmers need to fight right. When

ing his own way, without an organiza< iont letting tbe winds

of chance drive him every way, he was

are still swinging without aim, but the <

today are fighting their, battles with u well organized- plan.

The A. F. B. F. and the I. A. A. for I linois, with vslse lead-

eHhit), is. iielping bim t«i bit.^iK'muk pf swccew i» his Vtatj ,

ness. ?~F^~~-.J . ^ ■

There never was a time in tli« histoir ^ aKricDltnre when
fannisrs needed orfcanizatioii so inucbr^ at present. It Voold
be a sham fieht, tlie pity of the atafc, in see tiie greatcKt in-
dustry in America swinging its anus las "one ttiat beatetli
tlie air." /•■■:• -I . ' ■ .. "'i-, . ; '^ '■■■ " 'i'l

J-t-Tht Peoria Transcript.

Others spar for every
life.

every tarmsr was \

beating the air. Soinf
great mass *f far^re

r

Th^re's^a LongWayTq Go

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Yet in 'CoAop'

Marketing

Overloading -of :
Live Stock May.
Cause Big Loss

In many instances the Trans-
portation department of the I. A.
A. has found erroneous freight
charges on mixtures of calves
with other species ot live stock.

The department urges livestock
shipping association managers and
others interested to submit copies
ot accounl sales on shipments
contaiaing mixtures of calves
with other* kinds of livestock in
order that the freight charges on
such shipments may be verffled.

Wh^n' the livestock marketing
work first started several years
ago the ultimate goal was to sta-
Siiize markets. The co-opei^ative
shipping association was recog-
nized as the first step and the
co-operative commission company,
second, and before stabilizing
markets it was said that a vol-
ume bt business must be had.

We are in the second year of
the program.. There are 11 co-
operative commission companies
in operation, three of thom in Il-
linois. The first year the Na-
tional Live Stock Producers did
a business ot 2S millions 6f dol-
lars. The first five months M
the second year it did a business
of over 37 millions of dollars.

tt sou'nds big but it is only
8H percent of the whole business.

This pe-cent is a little higher in

Illinois
kets on

There remain 52 raar-
which there are ne co-

operative commission companies.
It is very plain that before
startfbg a program to stat>illze,
our "duty is te perfect our pres-
ent ori:anizatious, widen tlieir
business and enter nther markets
as the time is opportune. TGis
is the Drogram of the National
Live Stock Producers. , It is not
spectacular and it will be harder
to follov than^the period of or^
ganizafion. Some will Tct.omt of
patience^ and may condemn the
work toir not reaching tlie ulti-
mate goal sooner. The real
friends of «b-operation will recog-
nize thf problem and will do-
their skare in this period of
growth ^nd perfection. ,

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iP . • Persistency of Service
KEEPING ON THE JOB i Jfi ■

For three years the Illinois A^cultural As80ci«
ation has given constant, untiringleffort to problems
of our Eigriculture-^marketing alid taxation being
prominent examples. ■ ^\ ' - '

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The Olinou Agricuhoral Association Record

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20, 1923

New State Departmefif of Standards

ILLINOIS TO HAVE
NEW DIVISION OF
STANDARD GRADES

Office Credited By S. B.460;

H. W. Day To Head

Viork

You didn't hear so much
about Senate Bill 460 when the
Illinois Legislature was in ses-
sion. It is now a law and it
saj-s that the Department of
Agriculture can fix standard
grades and standard packages
of fairm products.

Director B. M. Davidson of tlie
Department of Agriculture has
estat>li<iied a new division in his
department to have charge of
the inspection and standardiza-
tion service authorized under tlie
law, and a Farm Bureau man
has b«en named to head this new
work.

. Day Employed
H. W. Day, for three years as-
sociate Farm Adviser in Cook
county, has been employed to
bead this work. Mr. Day was
raised in Sbalby county, Illinois
and Is a gradukte of the 17
vergity of Illinois. Later' he was
on the staff of the Horticultural
Department of the College for
several "years.

Let's see what this means to
Illinoig agriculture:

One of the first things that
the fruit exchange found out
MAS lUAi'ii. wao necessary to have
a standard product before a repu-
tation and name could be gained.
It was not profitable tor every
grower to have his own standard
for grading and for every fellow
to put up the kind of package
that looked best tq him. It
meant that when the commission
man found a consignment on the
door step from Illinois, there
was no way of telling just what
quality it was. There was no
standard, and no guarantee, of
reputation for the package. Of
course the result was in terms of
less money to the grower.
Other lines, too
If Illinois enters poultry or
egg marketing work, the first
questioo up will be a standard
grade and any kind of package
aad here is a law that will take
care of it. The new law takes
In all hind o* farm products.

Before standard grades or
packages are determined upon
the Department makes an investi-
eation »t"? holds public hearings.
Several conferences of growers
were held at Carbondale, Cen-
traiia and Quincy by Director
Davidson to explain the new law
and to secure the advice and Co-
operation of growers for putting
the new law s*rvice into opera-
tion. I

Both (he Fruit and Vegetable
Marketing Department and Leg-
islative QommittSe of the I. -A. A.
had a b^g hand in securing the
new law, .\ standard product is
one of the very first business
principlea in cooperative market-
ing. Thib is a very definite for-
ward step.

New York farmers who pooled
wool this fall will receive far
higher • prices than those who
didn't, according to F. E. Rob-
ertson, manager of the New York I presided over Iby Enos Lee, presi-
State Sheep Growers' Co-opera- 1 <lent of the New York State
tlve Association. Y ■ I Farm Bureau i Federation,

I. A. A. MEN APPEAR
BEFORE 16 COUNTY
BOARDS OF REVIEW

J. C. Watson, Statistician for
the I. A. A., has appeared before
Tax Boards of Review in thir-
teen different counties, assisting
County Farm Bureaus to get ad-
justments on valuation of farm
lauds and farm animals. G. E.
Metzger, of the Organization De-
partment, has appeared before
three additional counties, mak
ing a total of sixteen.

Doing this work in cooperation
with County Farm Bureaus, in-
formation was presented on the
levels of the different classes of
property «9ed in assessments for
tax purposes. In most cases, Mr.
Watson states, land was assessed
considerably higher in relation
to Its value than town and city
lots. In some counties all prop-
erty was assessed higher than
the general average of property
in the state.

All of the facts presented were
based on sale value and full
valuations of real"* estate sold
within th« last few months and
upon a comparison of average
full valuations and average De-
partment of Agriculture esti-
mates on values of farm animals.

Counties in which hearings
have been held with Boards of
Review are Champaign, Shelby
Clinton, Cass, Macoupin, John-
son, DuPage, Kane, Marion, Clay
Montgomery, Franklin, Richland
Lawrence and Stark. Hearings
are scheduled in several other
counties.

East and West
Hold Big Group
F. B. Conferences

Two state federation group
meetings were a part of farm
bureau: national: activities during
Augusti In the West represehta-
tiyes ^rom six states met at Salt
Lake City. Eleven states were
represented at the annual east-
ern get-together, held at Albany,
N. Y., on tke same two days,
.\ug. 2 and 3.

J. W. Coverdale, A. R. Simp-
son and E.- P. Taylor, of the
.American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration, were present at the
western meeting.

The meeting at Albany was

ANALYSIS MADE OF
MILK SITUATION IN
CHICAGO^MSTRICT

Prof. H. A. Ross Carries On
Dairy Research Author-
ized By I. A. A.

More than a year ago the Ex-
ecutive committee appropriated
$750 for the purpose of helping
pay the -expense of carrying on
some special dairy research work.
At that time it was the opinion
that more facts and information
were needed to go forward with
cooperative marketing in the
most intelligent manner.

This belief was sustained at
the Executive Committee meeting
held August 3, when Prof. H.
A. Robs, of the University of Illi-
nois who was employed to carry
on the work made a preliminary
report to the committee. Only a
few fragments of information are
ready for announcement. A full
statement of Prof. Ross's findings
win be in the hands of the asso-
ciation later.

The study aims at a thorough
analysis of the milk market situ-
ation in the Chicago dlstr.ci.
Prof. Ross declared that the big
problem centers around the sur-
plus supply of milk.

His Statement
Following is the statement:
"The Chicago dairy district has
grown rapidly in the last few
years, extending further and fur-
ther into Wisconsin. Here is
found a tremendous reservoir of
milk that is now made into but-
ter or cheese or is condensed. A
difference of only 5 cents cwt. in
the transportation rate makes
this great supply of milk avail-
able for the Chicago market. Tois
difference in the cost of trans-
portation is not sufficient to
counterbalance the lower cost 'of
production of the Wisconsin farm-
ers, which is due .to lower wages,
cheaper land and higher produc-'
ing cows.

"The tank car system which is
already being used by two Chi-
cago dealers makes economical
the bringing of milk from long
distances. Milk is shipped in
this manner a distance of 118
miles at a cost of 27 cents cwt.
The rate for milk shipped in ten
gallon cans from the same point
is 46 cents cwt. Handled in
tank cars milk can come great
distances at lower cost than it
can be shipped in eight or ten
gallon cans from points compara-
tively near the city.

Have .Advantage
"On the other hand Illinois
dairymen have the advantage of
a large investment in country
plants, the successful competition
of motor trucks with the rail-
roads and a more uniform sea-
sonal production of milk. These
will tend to keep dairying in
Illinois.

"The surplus production in one
season and the shortage in anoth-
er increases the cost of handling
milk and necessarily increases tfte
margin between the price paid by
the consumer and that received
by the farmer. Consumption var-
ies from month to month and
even from day to day, but this
variation Is less than the vari-
ation in production. By adjust-
ing production to demand, prices

Offer $900,000
In Prize Money
To Boys, Girls

Nearly $900,000 is being ot-
tered in prize money by all
agencies in the support of boys'
and girls' club work in the
United States in 192 3. The
amounts range from a few hun-
dred dollars in some of the
smaller or more sparsely settled
states to as high as $75,000 in
the larger and more thickly pop-
ulated states.

This total exceeds considerably
the amount offered last year,
$734,000, and is an Indication
of the increased Interest in the
club movement.

Out of thirty-five states re-
porting, sixteen - have state club
builjii*gs7most 'of them located
eh the state fair grounds. The
best of these buildings cost from
$15,000 to $35,0«0.

A number ttl' the expositions
have provided space in their reg-
ular buildings to care for club
members, exhibits and demon-
strations, while a number fur-
nish tents.

Five Counties
Start Drives
During August

Five counties are scheduled to
start reorganization campaigns
during this month.

Piatt and Monroe County
Farm Bureaus will lead off with
drives on the same day, August
13, proving that they're not su-
perstitious.

Schuyler, Scott and Jo Daviess
counties have arranged for their
campaigns on Aug. 20.

New Hampshire
Celebrates Its
Tenth Birthday

The Decennial Anniversary of
the Farm Bureau in New Hamp-
shire was celebrated 'in connec-
tion with the annual Farmers'
and' Homemakers' Week at the
University of New Hampshire,
August 14-17.

Aug. 17, Friday, was cele-
brated as Farm Bureau Day.

will not only be stabilized, but
the dealers' margin can be de-
creased. This means lower
prices to the consumers, greater
consumption of milk and higher
prices to the producers."

Too Many Dealers

Another point brought out by
Prof. Ross was the fact that
there are too many milk dealers in
Chicago. He said that a few
companies could do -the same
work of the many and do It
more efficiently and at less cost.
The small dealers must travel a
loqi; way to sell bis milk and
must "kid" the house wife to
keep her in good humor. This
makes his cost more and it makes
it possible for the larger com-
panies to charge more.

Several times in the commit-
tee meeting, members commented
on the t&tt that this basic re-
search work, getting at the real
facts of the situation, was needed
for all commodities. Secretarj'
Fox expressed the opinion that
the University should supply this
sort of information.

A.O.ECKERT NAMED
AS A DIRECTOR OF
FEDERATEDGROWERS

i.A.A. V. President Appointed

At Deth>it; Represents

Illinois Exchange

A. 0. Eckert, Vice-President
of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation, was elected to the
board of directors of the Fed-
erated. Fruit and Vegetable '
Growers, Inc., at the meeting
in Detroit, August 10. Mr.
Eckert will represent the Illi-
nois Fruit Exchange on the
bo^rd.

A. B. Leeper, manager and
Loomis, Vice-President of the
Illinois Fruit Exchange, both at-
tended the Detroit meeting. These
men state that the Federated
Fruit and 'Vegetable Growers Is
now doing business far in ad-
vance of expectations. Manager
Leeper says the Illinois Fruit
Exchange Is well pleased with
the selling service it has re-
ceived from the Federated.
"At 160 Markets

The Federated has sales repre-
sentatives in 160 markets of the
United States. In fourteen of
these markets the J-ederated has
its own ofllce and representa-
tives. To the fruit grower of
southern Illinois who has a car-
load of peaches or apples to sell,
this means he has the advantage
of the salesmen of all of these
markets, says Mr. Leeper.

Other Members

Other members elected to~the
Board of Directors of the Fed-
erated Fruit and Vegetable
Growers, Inc., are J. A, Worman,
representing the Wenatchee-
Okanagon Cooperative Federation
of Okanagon, Washington, and
John Walangdon, representing
the Inland Empire Cooperative
Association of Walla Walla, Wash-
ington.

E. T. Early, representing tte
Mutual Orange Distributors of
Los Angeles, California, was
elected to the Executive Com-
mittee to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of C. E. Durst.
Mr. Durst was recently employed
as Secretary for the association.

Live Stock and
Meat Board To
Continue Work

The National Live Stock and
Meat Board, at a meeting held
in Chicago, organized a compre-
hensive educational program for
the coming year. This program
is^ designed to promote knowledge
of the food value of meat and to
teach how to select and prepare
it. .

R. C. Pollock, secretary of the
board, reviewing Meat for Health
Week, declared that more than
four million pieces of educational
literature had been distributed.
Howard Leonard. President.
Thomas. E. Wilson, Vice Presidont
and E. C. Brow^n, Treasurer, Were
reelected unanimously.

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The American Farm Bureau
Federation urges shippers to
load promptly and load to ca-
pacity in order to avoid another
car shortage thia (alL

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Volume 1

Sept. 5, 1923

NunlKT 12

"FOILOWTAXUW,"
'' SAYS FARM BUREAU
TO VERMILION BOARD

Danville Taxed 36 Percent-
Farm Lands 52 Percent
Of Sales Values

"We want you to carry out
the spirit of the law," John
Watson was saying. "We insist
on equalization in Vermilion
County. Farmers are asking no
favors. They will gladly bear
their share of the tax burden."

Mr. Watson, in charge of tax
work for the I. A. A., was talk-
ing to the Vermilion County
Board of Review at a public
hearing. About fifty people
were in the room ; farmers, real
estate men and representatives
of the Chamber of Commerce.
On the table was a stack of 226
cards, evidence on the tax situa-
tion, which the County Farm
Bureau bad gathered.

"The U. S. Government says
land values are lower this year
than last year or any other year
since 1916," Mr. Watson said.
"At the same time city property
has increased In value. On these
cards is the actual selling value
of city and country real estate,
and on each is the full assessed
value for the same piece of prop-
erty for this year. We don't
care anything about individual
cases, but we are mighty inter-
ested In the averages. You are
welcome to take ihese cards and
verify the information on them.
We know that this is not a per-
fect method to find the value of
property, but it is tlie beat way
there is. It the Board of Review
waits luitil it finds a perfect
method jit will never make any
change.

Mr. ""^atson proceeded, to tell
the rcsu'lts of the Farm Bureau'
investigation.

Farms Assessed Highest

The city of Danville is in two
townships. Twenty-one sales of
, real estate in Danville in Newell
township proved to be assessed
at 33.8 percent of their actual
sales values. Danville in Danville
township is assessed at 36.1 per-
cent of the actual sale values,
based on 98 sales.

Georgetown is assessed on 43.6
percent of the actual sale val-
ues, based on 32 sales. In
Hoopestown, 36 sales showed that
real estate is assessed at 46 per-
cent of their sale values. Thirty-
nine sales in other towns and
Tillages of the county showed
that real estate is assessed 43.4
percent of their sale values.
Farm land is asseaaed 62.7

No Wheat Price-Fixing,
Say L A. A. Delegates

Voting Delegates at the 1923
annual meeting of the I. A. A.
were invited by the Record to
express their opinions on the
wheat situation. Letters have
been received from three. Here
is what they say :

L. M. Swanzey, President of the
Stephenson County Farm Bureau,
says, "We believe the production
scare has been overdone. There
was too much paper publicity.
We feel the Government fixing the
prices is wrong either for the farm-
ers or for the railroads because
other evils are invited. We advise
holding reasonably. Also market-
ing sympathetically and to keep
out of politics."

TariCr and Leaders

Matt House of Franklin County
says, "Wheat is a crop that can
be held on farms for long pe-
riods and should be the esisiest
to market at satisfactory prices.
Farmers had in their possession
all the wheat except the carry-
over. With the co-operative laws
we now have and loans from Fed-
eral banks on warehouse certifi-
cates, all we need as farmers for
any price we ask is a tariff suffi-
cient to keep out foreign grown
wheat and a leadership that can

Free Live Stock
Shipping For
Bureau Members

By a new ruling made by the
Adams County Live Stock Ship;
ping Association, members of the
Farm Bureau are not charged a
fee for shipping. Shippers who
are not members of the Farm Bu-
reau are charged five cents a
hundred pounds in addition to
the regular local rate. Formerly
all shippers paid a membership
fee of $l!*0 a year.

F. A. Gougler, Farm Adviser,
says this ruling is not having a
material effect on the amount of
live stock shipped, by non-mem-
bers.

organize the farmers who grow
wheat. To market it collectively
through their marketing associa-
tion and the same tactics applied
to other crops may be equally
successful it we control produc-
tion."

Pooling

"I am opposed to any kind of
price fixing by the Government.
Price fixing of wheat and failure
to restrict the prices of other
commodities has already cost the
farmers untold millions of dol-
lars," writes F. W. Tieken, Presi-
dent of the Ford County Farm
Bureau. "I believe pooling is
the only satisfactory way to con-
trol the marketing end of our
bu^ness. We should have a cor-
poration to handle our grain in
an intelligent way. not depending
on the refined system of gamb-
ling called speculation to make a
market for us. Such an organ-
ization could keep posted on the
food situation all over the world
and use this information for the
benefit of the farmer instead of
the speculator.

"Some industries sell their
products at a loss in foreign
fields but by the protection of-a
tariff are able to make up for
it at home.

"Labor has an absolute mo-
nopoly. Barring imigration re-
moves competition to almost noth-
ing. Grain prices are down to
practically pre-war levels while
freight, labor and the things we
buy are at a war time level and
in some instances more. I be-
lieve this is because we do not
have the same facilities for mar-
keting our products."

AT THE FAIR

When you attend the IIM-
nois State Fair at Springfield,
September 15-22, look for the
large tent facing on the main
avenue where the t. A. A.
and county farm bureaus
will provide a rest room and
free ctiecking facilities for
Farm Bureau folks. The Na-
tional Live Stock 4>roducer(

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will b* associated with the
I. A. A. with an exhibit and
representatives In this tent.
Look for it I

Red Top Growers
First To Apply
Under Credits Act

The Egyptian Seed Growers Ex-
change was the first Illinois co-
operative organization to apply
for a loan through the workings
of the new Intermediate Credit
Act. A loan of )40,000 was asked
for to finance the red top- pool
through the Federal Intermediate
Credit Bank at St. Louis.

Over $J, 000, 000 has already
been advanced through the new
credit system. Banks have been
established in the same 12 cities
as the present farm land banks
to lend for periods running from
six months to three years on
warehouse receipts representing
agricultural commodities or dis-
count aprioultural paper from reg-
,ular banking institutions.

The money thus far loaned has
gone largely to farmers' co-oper-
ative associations in difTeotnt
parts of the country <m Such
comoiodities as wheat, in Kan-
sas; cotton, in South Carolina;
fruit, in California; aad live
stock, in I{ebraska.

percent of the actual sale, values,
based on 69 sales. Farm land is
assessed on about fifty percent
more of the sale .lues than
property in Danville.

"Are you going to allow one
class of property to pay fifty
percent less than another?" Mr.
Watson asked the Board. "If so,
why did you take the oath of
oflBce?"

There wasn't much left to say
when Mr. Watson finished. Or
at least there was little said.

President C. R. Flnley says the
Farm Bureau is going throagh to
the end to get results.

THE FARM BUREAU HOPE OF SOLVING PROBLEMS

There has been some rrlticism of the work of the Ro«k /
Phosphate Department, chiefly from outside sources. Some /
~have accepted this criticism at face value and with other* it<
has raised an honest queston mark. / ,

This Department tnvited Farm Bureau Presidents and Farm
Advisers to meet with it to talk over the tituatioh. The attt
tude of the Association was to get full criticisms and sugges-
tions. The result was a frank discussion of the problems in-
volved. It concluded with a unanimous vote of confidence in
the work of'this Department.

Here Is what President S. H. Thompson haici to tell tkat
gatheving:

"The Illinois Agricultuial Association ani all of its deoart-
ments invites constructive criticism and suggestions, but I do
not believe it Is a good idea to take outside oritlcism fon the
truth, without knowing the facts. '

"Understand I do not ask you to always follow your leaders
on all of._the policies laid dewn, but 1 do ask you to stick.close
to the principle that organized agriculture is .our hope of solv.
ing problerns. The principal of the farmer trying to solve his
problems through orgaiilzation Is absolutely correct, and this
method should not be departed from."

ROCK ISLAND 'CO-OP'
OPENS TO RETAH.
DAIRYTOODUCTS

I. A. A. Assists- In Orsanizmg;
Company Has Capitalized
i At $50,000

Opening of the new 'R/o/fk
Island Oo-operative 'Dairy Com-
pany plfnt took place on Sat-
urday, August 25, when •▼«•
1,500 pelople of that city aad

vicinity
sampled
were

distributed
the day,
operative

visited the plant and

dairy products wkieh

free during

farmers

tributary
contract
op
four

"The new dairy oo-
was organized by

of the Rock Island

County ]^arm Bureau, assisted .^
by the I ~

A. A. Dairj' Mart»t-
inft Department.

The mi k fmin »J^ tfir^ ts'Z.'
to Rock Island is under
1 o supply the new "co-
Wigons were started on
retail milk routes in the
city on' the opening day and ^ore
will be ailded as the business of
the comp my expands. A retail
room in tile plant dispenses fluia
milk, ice cream, cr«am, soft
cheese, bi tt,ermilk, aiW butter./

|(S0.000 (apital
. Capital i cation of the new dairy
co-oper»ti ^e is $50,000, and
shares, se ling St $100, are held
by oJ-er 200 farmers of tbe
counts- aad citizens of R«c|c
Ol Beers are Fred Sche»er.
pr ?sident; John Sierers.
ice-presi4ent; C. A.
Rpck Island, eecretarj'-
who with John C.
Baker. Tbi-lor Rid^e; .'Arthur Van
^ale. T&5Jlor Ridje; John Tin-
and Cha% Siaaer.

Islaifd.
MiWn.
Milan.
Be^rs.
treasurer;

/dall, MiUn

Directors,
ager of
years of

equipment,
investment
structure
and has
feet. It
handle a

recording

th«^mometer«. cooling

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and refris^ratian.'ayatem.

Milan; coostitute the Board of

L. A. Finson is man-
he "co-op." His IT
I Mierienoe in tHr-Tniik
trade in > inneapolis gi^-^s him a
good background fof ^lis new
worki

The hoi^e of the company is
splendid n»w brick boilding with
the latest ind most modern dair>'
It represents a total
of »55,000. Tbe
s 40x60 feet in size
floor s^ce of 6,400
is now equipped to
^paeity of t.OOO gaN
ions of mllli dally, but is built so
that 11 cai be easily enlarged if
the. vblum< of business demands
it.

The «otilpany is stressing the
food value of milk in building
up its tra4e. The «^itation ot
its product is Insnrad 'by its most
modem pasteurization machinery.

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The Dinois Agricnltaral Atsodatioa Record

Sept. S, 1923

SepL S

Illinois Agricultural Association

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iXhibllshed twice a month by the Illinois Agricultural
; lAssociation, 608 South Dearborn Street. Chicago. lliinoiB.
: iSdlted ky New»_ Publicity Department. E. L. Bill. Director.

V I Enny a^ iecond. class matter 0«. 10. 19tl. at the post
Sffflce at Chicago. Illinois, under the act of March 3. 1879.
Ac^ptance for mailing at special rates of postage pro-
Tived (or in Section 1103. Act of October 3, 1917. author-
bed Oct. 31. 1921.

The Individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association ra five dollars a year. This fee Includes
payment of ten cents for subscription to the Illinois Ag-
TicuLturul Association Record.

r OFFICERS

President. S. H. Thompson. Quincy.
TIce- President. A. O. Eckert. Belleville.
Treasurer *R. A. Cowles. Bioomington.

iecretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore.
'~^- n EXECUTIVE co.M.MrrrEBJ '.
[ By Congreaslonal Districts |
1th Henry McGough, Maple Park

»h G. F. Tullock, Rockford

Sth C. E. Bamborouih, Polo

W. H. Moody, Port Byron

A H. E. Goembel, Hoopole

.i.,,A.', Qv'E. Rcder, Mendota

.(,,..' ....• F. D. Barton, Cornell

.^h : C. R. FInley, Hoopeaton

tBth.. Vr.D. J. Holterman, Sadorus

2pih Earl J. Smith, Detroit

2l»t :..r E. L. Corbin, Carllnville

a2nd , , Stanley Castle, Alton

23i(d ,./ J. Carlton Trimble, Trimble

2«th i. (..... I Curt Anderson, Xenia

26th 1. !....,• .Vernon, Lessley, Sparta

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Directont of De|>artnienta
i| >. I. A. A. OfBce I
Oeneral Office and Assistant to Secretary, i. O. Harper;
Field Organization, J. C; Sailor; Organization Pub-
licity, G. E. MeUger; News Publicity, L. J. Montross;
Transportation, L, J. Quasey; Statistics, J. C. Watson;
' Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
C. E. Durst; Live Stock Marketing, C. A. Stewart;
Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R. Bent. Legal, Newton Jenkins.
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50 CO-OP'S INCORPORATED

Fifty co-operati ve live stock shipping assoeia-
iipna have incorp< rated in the past year.

In many cases the shipping association is the
largest busing concern in the commtmity. In-
cdirporation isjone of the first principals of busi-
ni^. Without ihcorporation the association can
---a4t-SH»-c«v>he sued. OflScers and members of the
association are liable and responsible, collectively
and individually for debts and claims against
the association.

Out of the 585 co-operptive live stock shipping
ciations in Illinois, about 125 are ineorporated.

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MR. HILLMAH'S SOW

A purebred Duroc Jersey sow owned by J. W.
HOfanan, of Farmington, walked through the rail-
road fence, got on the right-of-way and was killed.
The sow was valued at $300. Mr. Hillman took
up the matter with the railroad company but
failed to get an answer. He then took the case
to\the Fulton County Farm Bureau and it was
foUVarded to the Transportation Department of
the\l. A. A. ••

^ Aifter considerable diflSculty in getting the rail-
hMdj to answer, an offer of $100 was made to settle
the ]case. Later the offer was raised to $150.
AfteV more letters from the Transportation De-
partment a settlement of $200 was made.

The Transportation Department untdertakes to
««>ti^l» >M>ilmaH )os« damape and freight overcharge
claims for all members. Although this is a very
small part of the work of this department, 352
claims have been settled this year.

This is a free service to every member.

! FOR EGYPTIAN SEED GROWERS

A storage and re-shipping privilege for Flora
has been secured by the Transportation Depart-
ment on red top seed. It means the seed can be
shipped by freight to Flora from surrounding
counties, 'can' be stored at Flora for as long as a
year and later shipped to its final destination, at
about the same freight rate as if it. had not
stopped at Flora at all.

On a carload of red top seed shipped from
Carmi to Flora and later shipped to Chicago, the
storage and re-shipping privilege means a sav-
ing of $39. If thc'final destination was Buffalo,
the saving in freight would be $43.

FARM LAND TAXES

The lUinois tax law says that all property must
be valued at a price that it will bring at a fair
voluntary sale for cash. In ease of underassess-
ment, which is almost universal in the State, the
Supreme Covttt declares that all assessments must
be uniform.

The sales value of farm land has decreased in
the past three year%, while the value of city prop-
erty has increased.!

An investigation of the I. A. A. in fifty counties
showed that farm land was assessed in 1922 at an
average of about 50 percent of its selling value,
while city property was assessed at less than 40
percent of its selling value.

There is no public body specifically directed by
law to find out facts about the valuation of differ-
ent classes of property for tax purposes. /

With this background, a large number of
County Farm Bureaus in co-operation with the
Illinois Agricultural Association, have carried on
investigations to find if farm land was paying
more than its share of taxes. Pr^m the records
in the county recorder's office, a card catalogue,
has been made of all sales of real estate for a
period of several months prior to or including
the assessment date. The full assessed values of
the same properties were copied from the 1923
tax books. These figures have been used to find
what average percent the full assessed values were
of the actual sales values.

Here is an example to illustrate the point: In
Macoupin County the card catalogue showed that
city property was^ assessed at 31 percent of its
actual sales values. Farm lands were assessed at
49 percent of their actual sales values.
I In some counties there was not enough differ-
ence upon which to base a case. In many counties
the figutes showed that farm lands were paying
nore in proportion to their sales value than city
property.

The Constitution of Illinois directs that, "The
General Assembly shall provide such revenua as
may be needful by levying a tax, by valuation, so
that every person or corporation shall pay a tax
in proportion to the value of his, her or its prop-
erty." The Illinois Supreme Court has inter-
preted this to mean, "One person can not be
compelled to pay a greater portion of taxes, ac-
cording to value of his property, than another."

It is the duty of the County Board of Review to
carry out the law to the best of their knowledge
and ability, and in taking their oath of office they
pledge themselves to do so.

With a full understanding of the law and the
facts about sales values and assessed valuations of
both farm lands and city property, eighteen
County Farm Bureaus have held hearings before
their Boards of Review.

In some counties the Farm Bureau was wel-
comed with its information. In a few counties
the Boards of Review have resented the present-
ing of information by the Farm Bureau. In sev-
ertti piactib tiio I'cpitweunttrvxS xA vA/ |j»opcii.j

and corporations were present to protect their
interests.

\\ I RESULTS

In counties where the facts did not warrant a
hearing, the information compiled placed - the
Farm Bureau in a position to protect the inter-
ests of land owners in any contemplated change,
either by the Board of Review or by the Tax Comr '
mission.

Six counties have secured results at this writing. •

In Macoupin County a reduction of 33 percent
was made in valuations of farm lands.

The Champaign County Board of Review has
stated that they will increase city property in
Champaign ten percent and decrease farm lands
ten percent. A decrease of ten percent in land
vahMitions was made by the assessors last spring.
However, investigation proved that city property

bad also been decreased nearly ten percent at the
same time.

The Clay County Board, of Review has planned
a 25 percent roduction^ in farm lands and a ten
percent increase in Flora real estate.

In Scott County all real estate is assessed at
50 to 55 percent of its value, which is at least ten
percent higher than the average of the State. The
Board of Review has decreased all real estate ten
percent as a result of the Farm Bureau hearing.

Valuations were increased 50 percent in the
city of Mt. Vernon, Jefferson County. In five
townships, village property w^s increased 10 to
25 percent — in one township lots were' reduced
10 percent and in the other ten townships, town
and village property remained stationary. Valua-
tions on farm lands were not changed.

In Peoria County the hearing was intended to'
convince the Board that^he 25 percent averaga
reduction made in valu^ions of farm lands last
spring by assessors was fair and just. No further
change has been made /to date.

Refusals to equaliisel are expected in two or
three counties. In iuany other counties a partial
adjustment at least is expected. Boards of Re-
view cl6se their books in September seventh.

For two years the Illihois Agricultural Associa-
tion has been working on the state tax problem.
This is ■ the first time the county and local tax
question has been approached by the Farm Bu-
reau. Ninety percent of the taxes are paid for
local and county expenditures. - -a '' -"iu.,.

"WHY I DIDN'T RENEW"

A letter was sent to sixty former Farm Bureau
members asking them why they did not renew
their memberships in the campaign this year.

Ten days after this, letter was mailed, eight
ansjvers were received. Here are the answers :

"The reason I did not renew my membership
in the last campaign, I did not think it was worth
the money." — W. O., Mercer County.

"In reply to your letter of the seventeenth, will
say the reason that I did not renew my membefc
ship in the county, I was not farming, although I '
know it is a good thing and before I would see
them vacate this county, I would gladly renew if
I thought that would keep them in the county. ' ' —
J. D., Cass County.

"I am in favor of the Farm Bureau, but am ,
not actively engaged in farming." — H. Z., Pike
County.

"I did not renew because I did not see any of
your solicitors, nor did they come to see me, but
I will see our County Advisor just as soon as I get
a chance, to renew." — ^M. J. K., Putnam Countjr.

"I think if you will examine your records yon
will find that W. D. Perry of Table Grove is a
member of the association. He and I are in part-
nership and I was a member of the Bureau for
three years and he was not. Now he is keeping up
the membership for me the next three ytflirs. That
is the reason I did not belong to the Farm Bu-
reau."—P. B., Fulton County.

"1 ■tiHVe-BD'iilnfiOF"^*Tm^Tid ■talken Mp clS^^iTt
so do not think it to my advantage to hold mem-
bership in the association." — 6. M. W., Lake
County.

"The only reason is that I quit fanming." — J.
W. G., Mercer County.

"I have quit farming and am working in •
store." — E. R. W., Christian county. ,

A new cooperf^tive, the Rock Island Cooperative
Dairy Company, started business in Aug^t.

Is farm land in your county assessed a higher
proportion of its real value than other classes of
property t

Is your live stock shipping association sending
its business to one of the Producers' Cooperative
Commission Companies 1

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Result of Reciting Facts and Law

John Watson, in charge of tax investigation .work for the
I. A. A., says the way most of us express our iWotest against
high taxes is by cussing out the collector when we pay the bill
"Might as well teU the cat," says John, "for all the good it
does. " '

The Farm Bureau has another way of tackling the tax prob-
lem. With columns and yards of figures in one hand and the
law in the other, Mr. Watson has made a good many Boards of
Review sit up and take notice.

For two years this department
has been working on the prob-
lem of state taxes, and this year
(or the first time, the Farm, Bu-
reau has approached the county
tax problem. In eighteen diOer-
ent counties hearings have .eeen
held before Boards of R/view.
At this writing six of thecii have
secured results.

In general, the facts are these:
City property Is assessed lower
than farm lands. However, this
is not Invariably true. Village
property is usually assessed high'
er than city property. Farm
lands have been going down In
value and at the same time city
property has been increasing in
value. There has not been suf-
ficient adjustment to malce an
equal t asis of taxation.
Getting Facts

"The facts of the case within
the county, is what counts," Mr.
Watson says. So the first tlfing to
do is to make an investigation.
To get the sale value df city
property and farm lands, the ac-
tual sales are taken froim the
books of the county recorder.
These figures are compared with
the actual full assessed values of
the same properties, taken from
the books for the same year.

Many of the Boards of Review
Invited and welcomed Farm Bu-
reau arguments. Others seemed
to resent the fact that farmers
are taking an Interest in tax prob-
lems. In several places there
has been some warm battles. But
' the Farm Bureau policy of havlog
the amunition, the facts, before
going to battle has made it nec-
essary for the opponents to do
most of the looking on.

Watch Dog Needed

Some of the discoveries made
go to show that it would be a
pretty good thing to have a
watch dog on the ]ob all of the
time. In one county it was found
that a very large business was
assessed for 1200,000. It didn't
look just right, so the case was
foUoweS up. The balance eheet
of thiat corporation showed that
It owned property in the county
to the value of 13,200,000. In
another county, several small cor-
porations were assessed for less
than ten percent of their value.

The whole story cannot be told
in this issue. We are going to
do a lot of talking on this sub-
ject from now on. This fall the
question of state taxes will be
up again, and we hope there will
be more to talk about.

Let's see what results the conn-
ties, are getting:

In Macoapin County

Last spring the Macoupin Coun-
ty Farm Bureau made a thorough
investigation of their tax situa-
tion. They found out that (arm
land was assessed at 49 percent
of its transfer value and city
property at less than 31 percent.
Farm land was carrying the heavy
end of the tax burden.

The Farm Bureau executive
committee and tax committee met
with the assessor of the county
and pointed out that the law re-

quired all classes of property to

be assessed on an equal basis.

In July another investigation
was made. The actual sales of
farm lands and city property
since January 21 was compared
with the new assessed value. It
was found that city property had
been assessed 32.1 percent of its
transfer value, while farm land
was assessed at 32.6 percent of
its transfer value.

Lawrence Is EqnsUzed

The Farm Bureau Investigation
in Lawrence County showed thart
real estate in the city of Mt. Ver-
non had a full assessed^ value
amounting to 29.1 percent of the
actual sales value. The actual
sales value was determined by
taking the average of 102 sales
in the city.

In other towns and villages of
the county, real estate was as-
sessed at 4 3.2 percent of the
actual sales value.

The investigation covered the
sale of farms comprising 1,950.84
acres. The total transfer value
was $105,484 or $54.07 per acre.
The total full assessed valuation
of this land is $46,624 or $24.41
per acre. The ratio of full as-
sessed valuations to actual trans-
fer values is 44.2 per cent.

The Board of Review was told
that it would be necessary to de-
crease the present assessed val-
uation on farm lands about 33
percent or increase the full as-
sessed valuation on city real es-
tate by 48.8 percent. In order to
place the assessments on the same
basis.

Mt. Vernon Increased 50 Percent

Here is what happened: Real
estate in the city of Mt. Vernon
was increased to 60 percent on
full valuations. In five other
townships, town and village real
estate was Increased from 10 to
25 percent. In ten townships
village and town lots remained
stationary, and -in one township
village real estate was decreased
10 percent. Valuations on farm
lands will remain the same.

This change in valuations prac-
tically evens up the situation in
Lawrence County.

Good Case In Clay
The Clay County Farm Bureau
has a good case. The investiga-
tion disclosed that Flora real
estate and Improvements was as-
sessed 36.9 percent of actual sales
values. Towns and villages in the
county were assessed 50.6 per-
cent of actual sales value, and
farms were assessed 63.6 per-
cent of actual sales value.

Farm Adviser W. E. Hart says,
Our Board of Review is working
on a reduction on farm lands
amounting to something like 25
percent. Flora real estate has
been brought up something like
nine percent and they are plan-
ning to increase it still further.
It may be that the percent sug-
gested will be approximated at
least. So far as I know there Is
no serious opposition being made
to the changes requested, al-

though the board was very slow
to make any decision."

Scott Decreased
The Scott County Farm Bureau
Investigation showed that farm
lands and city property was as-
sessed at about the same percent
of its real value. There was no
problem of equalization, but the
figures of tile Farm Bureau proved
that Scott County real estate
was being assessed at a much
higher percent of Its sales value
than the average for the whole
state. This meaat that it was
paying more tbaii its share of
state taxes. : 1

As a direct result of the Farm
Bureau hearing, the Board of
Review has decreased ail real es-
tate ten percent which means a
saving of about $4,000 in state
taxes. A large share of the real
estate In the county Is In farm
lands. !

Indnstries Hlrri Best Attorneys

Farm Adviser Alden Snyder, of
Montgomery County, writes:
"Glad to say that we were able to
get two members of our tax com-
mission on the County Board of
Review. Their plan Is to cut
farm lands 15 percent. This, no
doubt, will make considerable dif-
ference in the reduction of taxes
on (arm land.

"There has been some increase
on the value of city property,
however, we did not have much
success In getting an Increase In
the valuation of industries, such
as the smelters, coal mines, etc.,
as these Industries in all cases
are represented by a firm of the
best lawyers In the county."

Trouble In Kane

"We obtained the record of all
sales (or both farm land and
town real estate from January 1
to June 1," says W. B. Richards,
Farm Adviser of Kane County.
"We also secured the amounts
these properties were assessed
for from this year's books. This
investigation shows that farm
lands have been assessed at 45.7
percent of the sale value. The
town real estate was assessed at
34.6 percent of Its sale value.
These facts were presented by
J. C. Watson at a hearing before
the Board of Review on August 6.
To date we have not been ad-
vised what action the board is
going to take as a result of this
hearing. It has come to me in-
directly that they do not intend
to take any action.

I am very much disappointed
with the attitude of the Board of
Review toward the work we are
doing. They sefem to resent the
fact that we are investigating
these matters. This is not to be
wondered at, considering that
heretofore no one has ever at-
tempted to get an equalization
between different classes of prop-
erty.

"In this county it is very Im-
portant that real estate be as-
sessed on an equal basis of farm
land, inasmuch as It represents a
large amount of property in the
county. I do not doubt but what
we will get a decrease on farm
land in some townships as a re-
sult of this hearing."

Champaign Checks Up

In Champaign County the as-
sessors were instructed to reduce
land valuations ten percent. C.
H. Oathout, Farm Adviser, says
this was done approximately, but
the assessors in the towns of
Champaign and Urbana also did

Cat Price On^"
Phosphate 50c;
$1.00 To Elevators

A reduction in price of 50
cents a ton, from $6.50 to $6.00,
is announced by the Phosphate-
Limestone Department for raw
rock phosphate containing 13
percent phosphorus. This price
reduction Is retroactive to July
15.

To encobrage elevators and
dealers to carry a supply of rock
phosphate on hand, the depart-
ment announces a price of $5.00
a ton. This concession is made
by the production conapanies and
is for a limited time ^My.-

"Accounting Records and Busi-
ness methods for Live Stock Ship-
ping Associations" is the title of
a new bulletin announced by the
U. S. Department of Agriculture.

*'Our Farm Bureau"
Is Latest Movie
Release of A.F.B.F.

"Our Farm Bureau," a one-reel
feature, is the latest release of
the Motion Picture Department
of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, 58 E. Washington
St.. Chicago.

While not long enough for an
evening's entertainment, it fits
in well with any other picture.
It contains a bit of good acting,
some animated cartoons, beauti-
ful (arm scenery and good com-
mon sense most happi'y blended
into a happy presentation of the
Farm Bureau idea.

P««*3

the same thing, so It left the
farmer In the situation as before.

"We had a bearing with the
Board of Review on July 29,"
says Mr. Oathout. "They received
us very pleasantly and favorably
and told us they were glad to
get all o( the Information that
we could give them because so
many complaints were made with-
out any grounds.

"The facts as we presented
them to the Board of Review
showed that farm land in the
county is being taxed upon ap-
proximately 40 percent of its
real value, property in Urbana on
37 percent of its real value, small
towns In the county on 42 per-
cent, and the city of Champaign
on only 24.1 percent of its real
value.

"The committee seemed In-
clined at first to simply reduce
farm lands 10 percent more. I
do not know whether It was this
investigation or not that stirred
up the people In Champaign. At
any rate, we furnished there fig-
ures to the City Board of Com-
missioners and a number of citi-
zens of Champaign have lieeome
considerably stirred up because
they found that the taxable prop-
erty in Champaign was decreased
more than one-half million dol-
lars in the face of the fact there
has been a great deal of build-
ing here for some time and is
still going on. They have taken
up the matter with the Board
also. D. J. Holterman, a mem-
ber of our committee, was told
that they would decrease land
another ten percent and increase
Champaign ten percent.

"I think that eventually these
investigations will bring about
much good, as they show people
what grest inequajlties and in-
justices there are in the whole
taxation system."

*i.

RED TOP GROWERS
GET STORAGE AND
RE-SHjP RIGHTS

Means Freight Saving of $39

On Carload From Canni

I To Chicago;

A stot^ge and re-shipping
privilege, goes into effect at
Flora on red top seed on Sep-
tember i^t, which will mean a
verj' de$nite saving in freight
costs. ,()n- a carload of seed
from Ca^ to Chicago with a
stop-oflf Bt Flora, the saving
will- be $B9 on a carload.

The EJgypUan Seed- Growers'
Exchangiel with headquarters and
waretinuB^ at' Flora, had a prob-
lem in trinsportaUon. All of the
red to ) Bfed in the eight coanties
which th^ associsjtion is market-
ing n usi go to Flora to be
cleanel &nd stored. A large
share of this see4 is shipped in,
and liter it is shipped on to its
desiinitioki. The sho^ freight
haul 1^ a I high rate, and l^e long-
er treighk haul, from F'fva to
the i^ark^t. is a much lower Vate.

The problem was taken to the
Transportjation Department of the
Illinois Agricultural Association.
The wholfe facu ot the case were
presented to ■ the railroad. The-,
case later went before-the Illi-
nois Frelj ht Association with the
result, that the privilege of stor-
ing tind re-shipping of red top
seed and other related . products
was granted, to go into effect
Septembeij first.

This mians that seed may be
shipped in carloads from , anv
point in Illinois to Flora, (or
cleaning ^nd storing, to be re-
shipped laker to some other point
of final destination In lUinoU,
Wisconsin! Michigan, Indiana.
Ohio. " ant a portion of New
York, on the basis of the through
rate fr^n the point of origin to
final (esiination plus a .small
transit privilege charge.

The Answer in Dollars

At thei present the freight
charges «n a carload of seed
from Cai^i to Flora is 16 ^
cents a hundred pounds or $49.60
a carload. If this seed should be
re-shipped from Flora to Chicago
the rate Would b« 26 ^ cent* a
hundred i^ounds or $79.50 a ear-
load. The total freight cost from
Carml to {Chicago with the stop-
ofT at FlD^a, would be $129.
Sav^s 999 on Cariowi

Under ttie new transit arrange-
ment the seed can be shipped
from Canal, In carloads, to Flora,
and later jbe shipped to Chicago,
at the tbBough ratejn effect be-
tween Cai^il and Chicago. This
throagh rjtte is 30 cenU a hun-
dred pouqds or $90 a carload.
On this Idstance, there is a sav-
Ing of $3^ on a carload. '

The new arrangement will not
make a 4aving ia cases where
there is a back hanl to Flora.

July Business of
Uoe Stock "Co-op**
Shows Big Gain

An increase of 137 percent in
the bnslnees of the Chicago Pro-
ducers CoAimission Company waa
shown for] July, 1923. compared
with the kame month last year.
A total of 1,303 cars of live stock
was bandied in Jjily this year,
compared with 550 during July,
1922.

Page 4

Th« OlmoU Agricultural Association Record

Sept 5, 1923

Rock Phosphate Problems Discussed By
Farm Bureau Presidents and Advisers

At the JIcLean County Farm Bureau office, Bloomington, on
Auguat 17tB, 40 Farm Bureau Presidents and Farm Advisers
' met oil invitation of the Illinois Agriculttural Association, to
discuss the problems involved in the phosphate supply and the
relation of'the Work of the I. A. A. Phosphate-Limestone Depart-
ment tlo those problems.

The wqrk of this 'Department

has Ueenl attacked repeatedly
during the last year or two,
Chiefl> by ono of the phosphate
producing companies that has not
been contracting its product
throiugb this Department.

Some have been disposed to
take these criticisms at their full
value or as having some founda-
tion, w'hile in the minds of others
the criticisms have raised hon-
est question marks.. The meet-
ing was called with the hope of
bringing out the facts; making
clear the policies and methods of
the Department and securing all
possfble criticism and suggestion.
.\ Dependable Snpply

H. T. Marshall, of LaSalle
County, first chairman of the
Phosptiate Advisory Committee,
told briefly of the conditions
leading to the establishing of the
Department nearly four years
ago. At that time there was
much trouble io securing satis-
factorily prompt deliveries. Often
shipments were delayed several
months after the time they were
desired. The quality could not
be depended upon. There was
no satisfactory way of securing
fair analysis. In short, there
was nd depend.ible and reliable
supply. The price at that time
was, temporarily at least, inflated
out of : reason.

The Phosphate Department con-
tracted for a large tonnage at an
improvenitnt in lirice and an of-
fice and laboratory were estab-
lished til the phosphate fields In
TennesMe so that the many de-
tails oC s lipment, sampling, and
- accurate \i nalysis would be taken
care of oil the ground at the time
of shipmeit. ,

Several times during the meet-
ing toDiwents were made from
the flopi^- which conceded that
the work of the Department had
solved t;he problem of prompt de-
livery and icorrect analysis.

Tke Present Situation

In' discussing the present sit-
uation, Mr. Frank- D. Barton of
Livings^n County, present chair-
man of the Phosphate Advisory
Committee, stated that the finan-
cial coadition of the farmer dur-
ing the last couple of years had
* seriously reduced the demand Jor
^ rock ptjosphate and that the de-
'■mand Has not been sufficient to
ketp the mills running economi-
cally. Mr. Barton stated that
there ia danger that the big com-
mercial fertilizer interests will
gradually absorb the better
properties of the weakened in-
dependent producers of ground
rock phosphate. He stated fur-
ther th«t the Department has en-
deavored to keep the phosphate
bpsinesa going as much as pos-
sible in order to preserve a source
of supply for the future need.
The demand in July of this year
was greater than that for the
same month in either of the past
two years.

Fotnr« Snpply Important
"There is great opportanity for
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-

tion to preserve an adequate sup- .the Department. Will these prob-

ply of rock phosphate for Illi-
nois fsrmers," sa^id Frank I.
Ifann of Iroquois County, a mem-

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ber of the Phosphate Commit-
tee. He went on to say — "The
farmers must get down to brass
tacks in economical production.
The Illinois System of permanent
agriculture including the use of
limestone, the growing of le-
gumes and applying phosphate, is
the key to .such economical pro-
duction. The application of raw
rock phosphate is the cheapest
and in the end the most satis-
factory way of supplylqg the
phosphorus which is needed in
our soils." ' •

Phosphate Quality

Talking On the subject of the
measure of quality in raw rock
phosphate, t)r. F. C. Bauer of the
University of Illinois said that
rock phosphate should be pur-
chased on the basis of the total
phosphorus it contains as deter-
mined by the accepted laboratory
methods and that the product
sboul^ be ground finely enough
so that BUbstantVlly all will pass
through a 100-i^esh sieve. The
fine grinding makes the phos-
phorus more easily available to
the plant roots. He said that
these two determinations are the
major considerations and that the
quantity of iron or aluminum is
of no consequence so tar as raw
rock phosphate is conoerned. He
pointed out that the manufac-
turer of acW phosphate finds it
necessary to use only material
which is low in iron and alu-
minum for the reason- that they
effect his chemioal processes.
Sondes of Supply

Speaking of the question of
supply, J. 8. Bent, Director of
the Phosphate Department, men-
tioned the various major sources
and markets throughout the
world and -particularly this coun-
try, and summed up the situa-
tion by stating that Tennessee
must continue to be relied upon
to take care of Illinois- needs.
Competition and freight rates
eliminate other fields of produc-
tion so f^r as we are concerned.

Secretary Geo. A. Fox said that
the I. A. AJ would like to make
the phosphate supply work of the
Phosphate-Limestone Department
as nearly s^lf-supporting as pos-
sible. On account of the small
business thejpast two years.it has
not been quite sejf-supporting.
Naturally, t|ie cost of this serv-
ice depends largely ^pon the
volume of business done. The
Association has found it neces-
sary to subsidize the work thus
far. Mr. tox stated that the
Association has determined that
it is not proper for It to carry
sales of phosphate to its members
on open account, thus absorbing
large amounts of funds and tak-
ing some risk, and that therefore
the method now being used is
that of shipping on order form
bill of lading with sight draft at-
tached.

Permanenty LarKCfit Interest

"At one time prompt delivery
and accurate quantity and qual-
ity of the product was a real
problem," said Mr. Fox. "These
problems have been solved by

lems rise again If thib work is
discontinued? Or are they per-
manently in, the past? That is

one of the questions facing us.
Our largest interest in this prob-
lem is bound up with the per-
manency of our agriculture— that
of an adequate future supply.
The effort is worth while if there
is anything we can contribute
toward the safety and economy
of this future supply."

Pro<lncer Finds Fault

The head of one of the Ten-
nessee phosphate companies that
has been bitter in his attack upon
the Association, was present ^t
the meeting and he was invited
to state bis criticisms and to
make - suggestions before the
meetinai He accused the De-
partment of selling an inferior
and unsatisfactory quality of
rock. A major project of the
Department has been to secure
that grade which gives the maxi-
mum amount of phosphorus for
the minimum amount of cost to
the farmer. Several Farm Advis-
ers expressed their satisfaction
in the results of this work and in
finding that they can depend up-
on the Phosphate Department for
quality and delivery.

This Phosphate producer said
that the I. A. A. largely con-
trolled the business in Illinois and
that it would neither push sales
itself nor allow other companies
to go into the field and do so.
His suggestion was for dealers
to handle phosphate on a mar-
gin of profit and to act as sales-
men in pushing Its use.

Sales CamiiaiKn

"Shall the Department enter a
sales campaign to increase the
demand?" was one of the chief
subjects of discussion. One Farm
Bureau representative expressed
the opinion that the Phosphate
Department had little grounds
upon which to ask for support
unless it carried on as active a
campaign for sales throughout the
counties as would be done by
the producers themselves. The
general opinion of the meeting,
however, was' to the effect that it
would not be wise, especially at
this time, to allow indiscriminate
and promiscuous sales effort. The
chief reasons expressed for this
opinion were that many farmers
might be induced to purchase,
the condition of whose soil or
whose method of farming or crop
rotation were not as yet such as
would Insure satisfactory results.

Another criticism which this
producer made was that the low
I)rice at which the Department is
distributing phosphate will have
the effect of driving the producers
in Tennessee out of business. He
named several companies which
had already discontinued and oth-
ers that are in bad financial
shape. Director J. R. Bent an-
swered this point in detail. One
after another, he named all of
the leading companies — told the
history of each and the conditions
which have led to the suspension
of operation or financial trouble
of those- that have gone down or
quit. He showed that the effect
of the business secured through
the Phosphate Department had
been to preserve and encourage
the producers who had been will-
ing to contract through the Asso-
ciation and not to discourage Or
hurt, and that the difficulties
which faced the industry aS a
whole find their origin in the
general economic situation^and fi-
nancial inability of the farmer,
which has resulted in small ton-

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nage. Mr. Bent emphasized the
point that in his opinion the
phosphate industry needs volume
of business more than it does im-
provement in price. He stated
that the companies with whom
the Association has dealt, endorse
its work and Mr. Marshall con-
firmed this statement of Mr.
Bent's.

Vnder-SeUini; I. A. A.

One Farm Bureau President
asked why other Independent
companies could sell phosphate
cheaper than the I. A. A. The
criticism of producers has l)een
that the I. A. A. price is too low.
Mr. Barton answered this by
saying that it Is the same ques-
tion that comes up every time a
farmer's organization attempts to
go into business in competition
with others. The companies or
concerns whose toes are stepped
upon retaliate by cutting prices
to a point even of serious loss
in order to discredit and elimi-
nate. If possible, the work of the
farmers' organization. Often the
price-cut Is at the Sacrifice of
quality.

At the close of the discussion
Mr. Fox summed up the matter
by saying that the accusations
against the work and the per-
sonnel of the Departmeit have
been without facts or proof. He
invited any further statements for
discussion which might prove
these accusations and told the
audience that if the work of this
Department is not being conduct-
ed along the most effective lines,
or is not important enough to be
worth while, it is an easy matter
to change its character or abolish
it altogether.

The meeting concluded by a
motion giving a unanimous vote
of confidence lo ths Phosphate
Department and urging it .to cpnf-
tlnue.

The DnPoirr Comity Farm Barea*
offf-rs a reward of $1^5 to anyone
who will pive information that will
arrest and i-onviot any person steal-
in K, from a Farm Rureau members
farm or place of business.

Little Chance
Sefti For Price-
Fixing Schemes

"I see nothing to encourage
the belief that Congress will pass'
legislation which will fix the
price of wheat or that Congress
win go into the business of buy-
ing and~ selling wheat or in any
statutory way do anything to
put the Government in the wheat
business," stated Gray Silver,
Washington Representative of the
American Farm Bureau, recently-

In speaking of the same pro-
posed plans. Secretary of Agricul-
ture Henry C- Wallace, said, "I
am not hopeful of good results
from either of these plans. How
would the Government dispose of
the surplus accumulated? What
effect would either action have
on wheat acreage? What effect
would it have on the aci-eage and
price of other, grains and of
livestock?- Would .^he same pol-
icy be adopted in case of ruin-
ously low prices for other farm '
products?

LOOKING FOB FEEDEHtS?

If you are in the market for
feeder live stock of all kinds —
cattle,' hogs, or sheep, write to
the Live Stock Marketing Depart-
metit of the I. A. A. which can
furnish names of parties who
can supply the needs of Illinois
farmers in feeder stuff.

POOL YOrK WOOL!

The Live Stock Marketing De-
partment of the I. A. A. an-
ilounces that all who have wool
to consign to the pool should do
so as soon as possible as the first
pool win close at a very early
date.

The rlinton Coimtr Farm Bnreaa

held a public auctign of 75 feeder
hogs on August 27.

The Adamir Conaty Farm Bareao

picnic. August 27. included a trip
!)y steamboat up the Misstssippi
river to the Keokuk dam.

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S«pL 20, 1923

Number 13

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VALUATIONS COT
IN CASS COUNTY
AFTBi^HEARING

Farm Lands Get 10 Percent

Reduction; Beardstown

Increased $226,000

As a direct result of the hear-
ing before the State Commis-
sion in Springfield, the Cass
county Board of Review has an-
nounced a fl&t reduction in val-
uations of farm lands and in-
creases in duck lands and
Beardstown, township.

"The Tax Committee of the
' farm bureau In a meeting with
the Board of Review, secured a
flat reduction of 10 per cent on
farm lands of the county, with
an increase on duck land, and an
Increase on Beardstown township
of |tS6,000, over the aaseas-
menta of 1923." writes Vice-Pres-
ident J. H. Taylor, who presented
the farm bureau case at the
Springfield hearlns.

Further Cat Promised

"They also promised us an
- additional decrease of five per
cent on farm lands, providing the
tax committee of the farm bureau
can present figures to show that
the best farm lands of surround-
ing counties, and counties of cen-
tral Illinois are not assessed at a
valuation over $85.00 an acre."

A full account of the situation
in Cass county is given in another
story in this issue of the Record.

Large Supply of
Limestone Makes
Lower Quotations

Now is an excellent time to
buy agricultural limestone, ac-
cording to the Phosphate-Lime-
stone department of the Illinois
Agricultural Association. Owing
to the fact that the demand has
been below normal for the past
three j.ors, due to the farmers'
financial condition, the quarries
have a large supply on hand and
the price now In many quarries
is at a point below its relative
share in the cost of production.

The heavy demand for com-
mercial crushed stone for con-
crete purposes, bard road making,
and building construction has
kept the limestone quarries busy.
The specifications call for the
elimination of all fine material.
It is this by-product, known as
limeetone screenings, which is in
most cases well adapted for agri-
cultural purposes and la sold for
agricultural limcatoiM.

GETTING THE CHORES DONE

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LandValuations Decreased
In Seven More Counties

Seven more county farm bu-
reaus have been notified of
changes in valuation of real
estate for tax purposes which
equalize or partly equalize the
inequalities in assessments.
They are Franklin, Richland,
Lawrence, Stark, Christian,
Clinton and Kankakee.

The counties of Randolph and
Monroe have held hearings before
the Boards of Review since the
last issue of the Record. No
changes in valuations have been
announced in these counties.
Franklin Equalizes

Cuts of ten to twenty per cent
were made in full valuations of
farm lands in all but one town-
ship of Franklin county. In that
township land was raised 15 per
cent to place it on a level with
the other townships. Valuations
of city property were increased
from 10 to 20 per cent. Mr.
Metxger. of the I. A. A. ofllce,
who assisted in this hearing, says
that these— changes come very
near equalizing the situation.
Cities Raised in Clinton

The full valuations on farm
lands in Clinton county proved
to be about 50 per cent of the
sales values, and the full valua-
tions of city property about 40
per cent of the sales values. Be-
fore the farm bureau made an
investigation last spring, the as-
iMs^on were tnstracted to make

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a cut of 10 per cent on land. The
result' was that a number of as-
sessors also made a similar cot
on city property.

The Board of Review has noti-
fied the farm bureau that an in-
crease had been made in every
city except New Baden and Tren-
ton. The reduction of 10 per
cent niade in land last spring was
left the same.

In Richland

In Richland County the farm
bureau investigation gave a basis
for the Board of Review to make
changes, however. Farm Adviser
W. B. Bunn states that the Board
was rather favorable to the farm-
er. "It was found that the as-
sessed value in eaeb case was
practically equal, it b^ing approxi-
mately 63 per cent of the actual
sales values," writes Mr. Bunn.
"Mr. Metzger thought that this
county was perhaps paying an
excessive state tax. He recom-
mended that the assessed value
of farm lands be cut to aproxi-
mately $20,000 in this county.
They were reduced from a gen-
eral average of aproxlmately
)25.00 to a fraction over $22.00
bj^the board."

^~~~~I^wrence Gets Ont

In the S^tember 6 issue of the
Record it was stated by mistake
that Lawrence county was equal-
ized. The figures used for Law-
(Continued on page <>

Exchange Sells
Peaches Higher
Than Growers

Manager A. B. Leeper reports
that the SoDthem IllinoiB Fruit
Growers' Bxehange sold sixty car-
loads of peaches this year. Last
year the Ebuhange sold 400 eai^
loads. The explanation of this
big difference is in the sise of the
crop, says Mr. Leeper. He states
that the crop wss very light;
bowever, the Eixehange had the
same number of shippers as last
year.

Prices secured by the Bxehange
ranged from $3.00 to $3.40 a
bushel at the shipping point-
Speculators or track buyers of-
fered $1.75 to $2.75 a bushel,
reports Mr. Leeper. Ttie selling
charge to members was 15 cents
a bushel. The bulk of the crop
was sold in Kentucky, Tennessee,
Indiana, Illinois and Ohio.

SERES DISTRICT
CONFERENCES Will
STARTJINSEPT. 2S

Farm Bureau Policies To ••

Discussed By Officers

and Advisers

FEEDIN8 TRANSIT
RATES SECURED BY
I.A.A. DEPARTMENT

After the request had b«en
made by R. Q. Hinch, Marseil-
les, representing sheep feeders
of that locality, that the I. A. A.
Transportation Department
take action to secure a feeding
transit rate on the Chicago,
Rock Island, and Pacific Rail-
road on feeder sheep shipped to
that point from western states
the Department secured a spe-
cial rate, not only to Marseilles
but to all points on the Rock Is-
land in Illinois, intermediate to
Chicago.

The rate applies to both feeder
sheep and cattle and will result in
a saving of 13 cents per hundred
or approximately $15 per ear on
single and $28 on double deck
shipments of live stock fed In
transit. The total savlqg wlB
amount to quite a large sum, as
5,000 feeder sheep will be pur-
chased by Marseilles farmers
alone, It la stated.

Feeder stock may now be rated
from point of origin to Chicago,
unloaded on Illinois points on
the Rock Island In IIUboIs Inter-
mediate to Chicago, ted for the
period of 4k year or less, and re-
loaded for the market at an addi-
tional charge of 8% cents per
hundred, which covers transit
pririleges. Prevlone to the re-
duction, farmers would have had
[to pay iiyk cents per hundred
for .reloa^nc . '

A series of district conler-
cnces to ettaWish a better un-
derstanding of the problems
confronting farm bureaus aiul
the I. A. A. wili-be held in
each of the Fifteen Congres-
sional Districts starting Septera
ber 26 and ending October 26.
These meietings will be in
charge ofi President 8. H.
Thompson,! Secretary George A.
Fox, and o^her I. A. A. officials.

Policies, Relationships, and pro-
gram of w*rk of the county bu-
reaus and Istate association will
constitute (he scope of the ooa-
ferenees. frhe marketing prob-
lem and th4 relation of both farta
bureaus an|l the I. A. A. to co-
operative Commodity marketing
enterprises iwill receive major at-
tention on ieach day's program.

Walton i>eteet. Director of Co-
operative llarketing for the A.
F. B. F., Mil attend the meet-
ings to l^ad marketing discus-
sions. It Is likely that Aaron
Sapiro. CJ>-operative Marketing
Counsel fok- the A. F. B. F., will
speak at 4ae or two of the as-
semblies.

All cotti^y farm bureau offleers
and execuiive committees, voting
delegates, Ifarm advisers, co-oper-
ative marketing organization of-
ficers andi managers, and others
interested jwill attend the confei^
enoes in tleir respective districts.

The vaHous district meetings
will be h41d at the farm bureau
offices in the respective places
designated at 10 a. m. of the
days scbe<^uled. except at Carbon-
dale, whe^e the' conference will
be at' the INormal School, and at
Centralto ju the Pittlnger hotel.

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PUBLlCrrV CXJXFKRHNCK

State tttrm bureau publicity di-
rectors ii,\\\ meet at American
Farm" Bateau Headquarters, Chi-
cago, September 20, 21, and 22,
primarily to establish poBciea of
the farm! bureau in relation to
motion pictures. , Other matten
of bnreati publicity work wUI be

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The Oliiioi* Agricultoral Aasociation Record

Sept. 20, l«a ¥ S^iiOjJ!

Illinois Agricultural AssociatJog^

BOX SCORE ON TAX RESULTS
^Champaign:

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PubUah»a twice a month by tiie lUln*fa Asrioultarat
Aasociation. 688 Soutb Dearborn Street, Aioaso, Illlnolo.
Editea by News Publicity Departnrent, a L. BiU, Directors

ESiltry as second 61ass matter Oct. 10, 1921. at the poat
office at Chicago. Illinois, under Ute aot of Maroh i, 187|,
Acceptance for mailing at special rat^ of postAge pro-
vided for in Section 1103. Act of October 8, 1917. author-
Ized Oct. 81, 1921.

The individual membership fee of the nilnola Agrloal*
tural Association is Ave dotlana a year. This fe« indludes
paysBent of ten cents for subsoription to the Illinois PkJt-
rjgultural Association Recttrd.

I ofpicbr;

I Prai4emt. 8. H. ThompMB. Qataey.

TIee-PrealdeBt, A. O. Belacrt, B«ll«TiII&
Tr««sar«r, R.- A. CowlMi, BloomlHstoB.
■egretary. Ceo. A. F<ni, »yaf Of.

' 1 EXECUTIVE CX»BnTTBB

Hj Congressional Districts

lUhL Henry McQough, Maple Park

12thL e. F. Tullock, Rockford

13thL C. E. Bambopough. Polo

14thf W. H. Woody, Port Byron

15th). . . , H. E. Qoembel, Hoopole

16th[....,' D. G. Reder, Mendota

17thL . . , T F. D. Barton, Cornell

IStflL.....^ C. R. FInley, Hoopeston

19th. O. J. Holterman, Sadorua

20th. ,Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21iti .> E. L. Corbin, Carlinvill*

22nd ; Stanley Castle, Alton

23rdt ^ Carlton Trimble, Trimble

24th. .......; .Curt Anderson, Xenia

26th, Vernon Lessley, Sparta

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V ^ Directors of Departments
] I. A. A. Oace

Genaraf Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. 0. Harper;
^ield Organization, J. C. Sailor; Organization Pub-
licity, G. E. Metzger; News Publicity, E. I_ BIH;
Transportation, L. J. Quasey; Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, C. A. Stewart;
Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R. Bent. Legal, Newton Jenkins.

, HERE'S CO-OPERATIVE JtARKETHTQ

sixty carloads of peaches were sold by the
''. Southern Illinois Fruit and Vegeteble Growers'

Exchange this year for prices ranging from $3.00
to'^$3.40 a bushel. The charge to members was
15 oents a bushel
■^ y^ Track buyers or speculators o£fe«d $1.75 to
^3.75 a bushel.

The Exchange knows today how many peaches
» and what kind will be ready to start to market to-
morrow. This kind of a wire goes out to 20 or
30 saiet-nen of the Federated Fruit Growers, with
wltic|i the Exchange has a contract: "Oflfer tea
cars number one Albertas, Government Inspected,
three dollars and half f . o. b. " Answers will come
t)ack in the evening or in the morning. If suffi-
cient orders do not come in, the Exchange gets
\ busy on the phone with these salesmen on,' the dif-
ferent markets, and closes a sale.

Tie Exchange member has the selling ability
of these salesmen on all of tke different markets.

The individual growers can sell to the track
buyer at the price ottered, or start his cars rolling
to market and take the price that is offered on
the.^isrket when they arrive.

♦•STEAL" DOLLARS

Every time you buy a keg of nails or a Spool
of barbed wire, you pay 46 cents of "Pittsburg
Plus," even though the sted is manufactured in
Illinois.

A corn cultivator costs you $l'.23 "Plus," a
rfower $1.28, disc harrow $1.89, $6.88 fsr a com
binder and $19.80 for a tractor. These are the
■figures of the Deere Company at Molime.

The American Farm Bureau Federalid« says
"Pittsburgh Plus" costs farmers of the Vnited
States $75,000,000 each year. The Westwn Asso-
ciation of Rolled Steel Consumers sajB the 237,181
farms of Illinois pay an average of $10.00 "PlusJ^
a year, or a total of $2,371,819.

"pittsbUrg Plus" is the practice of charging
for freight on steel from Pitteburg to the point of
consumption, regardless of wfcether it is produced
in Pittsburgh, Gary, Indiana, or anywhere else.
The Illinois Agricultural A«ooiation is represented
on committees which are working to abolish this
prwrtiw.

Christian:

ClintMi:

Franklin:

Jeffi

Kankakee:

Lawrence V
Macoupin

Peoria: .

Richland:

ScottS,

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Stark:

Farm land valuations reduced 10
per cent. City of Champaign in-
creased 10 per Cent.
Farms reduced 10 per cent. This
is in addition to a 15 per cent cut
made last spring by assessors.
Board announced plan to reduce
farms 25 per cent and increase
Flora real estate 9 per cent.
Decrease of 10 per cent made by
assessors last spring will stand.
Board announces increase in lots
in all but two towns.
Farms reduced 10 to 20 per cent
- in all but one township. Increased
15 per cent in one township.. City
property increase 10 to 2)0 per
cent.

Mt. Vernon increased 50 per cent.
Town and village property in-
creased 10 to 25 per cent in five
townships, remain stationary in 10
townships, reduced 10 per oent in
one township. Farms remain sta-
tionary.

Reduction of 15 per cent on full
valuation of farm lands.
Reduced farms 10.7 per cent. \
Reduction in farm lands of 33 per
cent
' Reduction of 25 per cent in lands
made last spring still stands.
Reduced farms 12.5 per cent.
Ten per cent reduction in valua-
tion of all real estate in county.
Farm lands reduced 10 per cent.

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[I THE BATTING AVERAGE '

County farm bureaus and the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association held hearings before 24 county
Boards of Review. Evidence was presented to
show the facts a1>out valuations and real values
of different classes of real estate. In most counties
the evidence showed that the full valuations on
farm lands this year is a much higher per cent
•f the real sales values, than are the full valua-
tions of city property of the actual sales values.
The farm bureau asked for equalization.

In twelve counties definite results were secured:
In six counties where wide inequalities existed,
and the Boards of Review refused to equalize,
the farm bureau asked the State Tax Commission
to order reassessments. The State Tax. Commis-
sion has promised that if these counties do not
equalize, it will order a reassessment.

Bqnalization is expected in three additional
counties. In one county there was not much need
for equalization. One county, where wide in-
equalities were found, will be called before the
State Tax Commission for a hearing.
WHAT IT MEANS
In counties where reductions have been made
and there is no increase in the tax rate on farm
lands, the decrease in dollars and cents will be
,the same per cent as the reductions. Where tax
rates are raised there may not" be any difference
in the amount of taxes, but farm lands will pay
less of the total amount of county taxes. It is be-
lieved that the per cent of reduction on farm
land taxes will be 50 or 60 per cent of the per
cent of reduction in valuations of land. The
I. A. A. will report the actual savings in money
later..; I - -■

FOR FEEDERS ON ROCK ISLAND

Special feeding transit rates have been se-
cured by the Transportation Department on all
stations b'itween Chicago and the western Illinois
line, on the Rock Island railroad.

It means that feeders can ship cattle and sheep
to these towns, hold and feed them for as long as
a year, and ship them on to the Chic«wo market.

at about the same rate as the through rate from
original point to Chicago. Before the special feed-
ing transit rates were secured, feeders paid one
rate from the original point to their farms, plus
the local rate from the farm to the Chicago market.*
The saving in freight cost varies with the dis-
tance of the town from Chicago. In the case of
TMarseilles, which is in a large sheep feeding terri-
tory, the saving will be 13 cents a hundred pounds.
The carload saving will be $15.00 for single deok
and $28.00 for double deck carloads of sheep.

S. B. 460 IS WORKING
Senate Bill 460 is the new grading and inspect-
ing act passed by the last State Legislature. Gov-
ernment inspectors working under this act in-
spected a large share of the peaches sold by the
Fruit-Growers' Exchange at Centralia this year.

The words "Government Inspected" carry
weight with buyers. They have faith in Govern
ment inspection. When. .several quotations come
to a buyer on the same day and at' the same price,
he picks the one that is inspected, -for it is insur-
ance to him. The Exchange is using S. B. 460
to good advantage. o. ' .

SERVICE AND QUALITY

The old idea of a quality product and service
has been adopted by the Rock Lsland Co-operative
Dairy Company as a principle to get and hold •
business. "Make one quart of milk sell another,"
is the motto of the employes of the coinpany.

The contract with producers states that milk
.-*iust be cooled to 60 degrees on the farm. Col-
lections start at six o'clock in the morning. At
nine o'clock all milk is in the .plant. It is all
pasteurized and on'the ice at 11 :30 o'clock.

The delivery wagonp are white and are washed
every day. Employes in the plant wear white
suits, clean every day. Sixty per cent of the
labor in the plant is to clean and sterilize equip-
ment.

The Rock Island Company preaches and recog-
nizes that quality Tind sei^ce is one way to in-
crease consumption.'

A CHANGE OF HEART ' -

The Cass County Board of Review, one of the
six Boards called before the State Tax Commis-
sion at the request of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation to explain why it had not equalized val-
uations of different classes of property, has
changed its mind.

The_Cass County Farm Bureau has been noti-
fied that a flat decrease of 10 per cent will be
made in valuations of farm lands and possibly an
additional 5 per cent. Real estate in Beardstown
township will be increased $226,000.00 in full
valuation.

FIFTEEN DISTRICT CONFERENCES

To find the weak links in farm bureau work,
to glean the ideas ahd suggestions of leaders, an^
to determine policies, relationship and a program
of work, is the purpose of fifteen conferences
throughout the state, scheduled to start Sept 26.

The selling agencies of the National Live Stock
Producers Association handled 7.3 per cent of
the business in the markets on which they were
operating, during the first six months 'of last year.
In the sa^e months this year, the selling agencies
handled '^ per cent of the business in the mar-
kets on which they are located. The i Producers
Association has commission companies on eleven
leading markets of the country.

The Indianapolis Producers handled 835 cars
of live stock in August. This is 23.24 per cent '
of the receipts on the market for the month. The .
neare^ old line firgi handled 377 cars.

■^:::ry I. -^ '■|;-i.-i.;.-.

The T. Al A. Transportation Department offers
to help you in your problem of securing oars.

State

Reassess!

Tax Commii

ize valuatioi

. That is

/after a.heai

' at which co

/ their cases.

\ said they w:

iare Cass, Di

(In 24 CO!
reaus and III
aociation hel
local Boards
suits of lonj
presented, fil
valuations o
^uch higher
tual sales v
valuations o
of the actus
in each case
was Kjld tl
that valuatlc
between cla<

Tl
In a large
ties the Ca
were taken <
of them adj
to equalize
least partly
counties nan
of Review d:
in the farm
and they re
are already i
of weak exc
by the Boar
time." was
are: "It wi
"It's not ft
high as fan
cems becau
come."

But there
law that mt
a valid exc
County Bo
there was
farm bpreati
of the'feamt
mission wa:
of the cases
The <!ount]
were called
mission ani
were on hai

One by >
bureau re
called on
their case a
view were
defend theii
son, in ch!
the I. A. A.
Jenkins w<
{naking t:
Boards of 1

The folic
facts of th
county as ]
bureau. 1
the per een
tion is of 1
for each cl
towns or c

Kind of Prti

Farm l8
All towi
Nokomii
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Martin E
Of the farir
of the Boa
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The two
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presented <

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Tbe Illinois Agricultural Auodation Record

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State Tax Commission Upholds

L A. A. In Demand For Equalization

Reassessments will be ordered in six counties by the State
Tax Commission if the County Boards of Review do not equal-
. ize valuations of different classes of property.
■» That is what the Illinois Agricultural Association asked for
'after a, hearing before the State Tax Commission September 5,
■at which county farm bureaus and Boards of Review presented
/ their cases. The counties .in which the State Commission ha.s
1 said they will order reassessments if valuations are nol equalized
Ijire Cass, DuPage, Kane, Marion, Montgomery and Vermilion.

In 24 counties tbe farm bu-
reaus and Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation lield hearings before the
' local Boards of Review. The re-
sults of long Investigations were
■presented, showing that the full
Valuations of farm lands was a
jnacb higher per cent of the ac-
tual sales values than the full
valuations of city property w*re
of tbe actual sales values. And
In each case the Board <>f Review
was ^Id that the^ law directs
that valuations must be equalized
between classes, of property..

The Excnses

In a large share of these coun-
ties the farm bureau hearings
were taken seriously and in many
of them adjustments were made
to equalize valuations or at

) least partly equalize. In the six
counties named above, the Boards
of Review didn't -take much stock
1—

vestigation. Following are the

figures showing what j.. per cent

the fult'\valuatlons a^ of the

actual sale\ values :

Klad at Pro^Frtr ^al. Ratio

. Farm land 45.7

•^■.Aurora .-. .' . J2.1

Xisneya ... .t .......... -38.

ScLtavla .....V 69.

Dundee 29.

Elgin .• .S5.6

St. Charle* SO.?

J. W. Winterhalter and H. O.
Peterson, two members of the
Board o'f Review, who appeared,
tried to excuse their refusal to
equalize among the citios, towns
and villages and betweei. lots of
land'by the usual argument\>f in-
Jury to sbme property owners.
One member of the Board argued
that homes could not be assessed
as high as farms, but later admit-
ted that there was no warrant In
the law for such action.

Vermilion Board Split
A former member of the Board
of Review, H. L. Bracken, pre-
sented the farm bureau case for
Vermilion county. Following are
the valuation ratios for different

In the farm bureau information,
and they refused action. "Taxes
are already too high" is the brand
of weak excuses that were made
by the Boards. "We haven't got classes of property and towns
time," was another, and others
are: "It will cost money," and
"It's not fair to tax homes as
high as farms and business con-
cerns because they have no In-
come."

But there was nothing in the
law that made any one of these
a valid excuse. So tar as tbe
County Board was concerned,
there was nothing left for the
farm bpreau to do. At this point
of the'feame, the State Tax Com-
mission was asked for a hearing
of the cases in these six counties.
The bounty Boards of Review
were called In by the Tax Com-
mission and the farm bui:eaus
were on hand with their facts. .

i

One by one the county farm
bureau representatives were
called on to give the facts of
their case and tlie Boards of Re-
view were given opportunity to
defend taeir position. John Wat-
son, in charge of tax 'work tdr
the I. A. A., and Attorney Newtpn
Jenkins were there to help in
{naking the charges against
Boards of Review.

The following table shows the
facts of the case in Montgomery
county as presented by tbe farm
bureau. The valuation ratio is
tbe per cent which the full valua-
tion is of tbe actual sales values
for each class of property or for
towns or cities named.

Ktald »t Proprrty Val. RaMo

Farm land 49.9

All towns 17.6

Nokomls 40.(

LItchfleld «e.7

HlUaboro 40.9

Martin Bray, a farmer, member
of the farm bureau and a member
of the Board of Review, testified
to the effect that there were in-
equalities in valuations and it
was his opinion that they should
be corrected.

The two members of the Board
who refused to equalize classes
of property did not appear to de-
fend their position.

Kane County Fights
W. C. McQueen, Vice-President
of the Kane County Farm Bureau,
presented the resnlts of their In-

Klnd of Propprtr Val. Ratio

Farm lands 62.

Danville M.l

Hoopestown 46.0

Georgetown 4S.8

Small towns & vtllases. 43.3
Two Board members appeared
before the Commission — one in op-
position and one in favor of equal-
ization. Chairman Snyder, who is
an attorney in Danville, had re-
fused to equalize. He said that
the Board had considered the
matter and that there was not
time to do it. He stated that tbe
Board would be glad to "pass the

to thd state commission if
wanted to talce some ac-

buck
they
tion.

Sam Pumell, a second member
of the Board, strongly supported
the farm bureau contention.

The assessor of Danville ad-
mitted having received instruc-
tions which implied a 60 per cent
level of valuations In assessments,
yet he lowered assessments on
property already assessed last
year, making a total decrease of
^388,000 in full valuations of
town and city lots in his portion
of the city.

In Marion-
Two hearings were held before
the Board in Marion county. In
the second, the assessor from
Centralia, afte^ receiving Instruc-
tions, with other assessors, to
fix full valuations of all property
at 70 per cent of the fair cash
value, acknowledged that he bad
tried to fix them at one-third, or
less than half the percentage
named in the instructions given
by the supervisor of assessments.
A wide variation of valuation
rates was found in Marion. Tbe
figures for different classes of
property and for cities follow:

Ktod of Property Val. Ratio

Farm land 69.6

Centralia 26.6

Salem 46.7

San'ioval 69.2

Patoka 41.4

All otI»er towns 42.7

The Board of Review has unan-
imously agreed to equalize land
among the several townships, but
two members inconsistently re-
fused to take similar action on
equalizing among the cities, towns

and villages. The same two men
refused to equalize between
classes of property. The third
man of the Board heartily fa-
vored equalization both among
cities, towns and villages and be-
tween classes of property. He ex-
pressed his belief that the farm

Farm Bureau To
Broadcast Weekly
Programs By Radio

The American Farm Bureau
Federation installed a regular
weekly radio service on Wednes-
day night, September 5. at Station
KYW. Chicago, when President
O. E. Bradfute spoke on "The
Voice of the Farmer." followed
by Secretary J. W. Coverdale,
talking on th^ theme, "Together
We Win."

On each Tuesday night follow-
ing this, the Farm Bureau pro-
gram will be broadcasted at 8:01
p. m., standard time. Broadcast-
ing is made possible through the
courtesy of the Radio Corporation
of America and the co-operation
of Westinghonse.

Farm Bureau leaders and oth-
ers with real messages for facm-
ers will speak on the new radio
service. Farm Bureau news bul-
letins will be broadcasted from
Station KYW every day as they
occur.

JOHN C. WATSON

bureau figures w*re a substan-
tially accurate measurement of
the inequalities existing.

DnPage Stayed Home

The DuPage County Board of
Review was not present to explain
its action; but the Assistant
States Attorney of the county was
there to represent the Board, but
when the case was called, there
was no States Attorney in sight.
President Fischer, Farm Adviser
E. A. CamcroBS and several oth-
ers were on hand to tell their
story.

Here are the figures:

KiBd or Property Vat. Ratio

All city property 34.7

Downers Grove 41.22

Wheaton 15.

Glen Eaiyn «I.

Hinsdale 27.6

Elmhurst 32.6

One member of the DuPage
County Board of Review admit-
ted in the Farm Bureau hearing
that for years he had known of
Inequalities in assessments of dif-
ferent classes of property and
had not corrected tbem. His
chief defense in refusing to rem-
edy the Inequalities of present
valuations was the lack of time
and the cost it would involve.

a Cass Refuses
The three members of the Cass
County Board of Review refused
to equalize between classes of
property. Their only action has
been to make some adjustments
of individual properties and to

The NcLeaa Connty PanM Barca«

has ordered 14 cars of rock phos-
pliate for distribotion thus f.ir in
1923.

reduce valuations of a compara-
tive small amount of farm land.
At the Springfield hearing their
excuse was that equalization
would do injustice to some prop-
erty owners.

Following are the ratio figures
for -Casb county:

Klad of Property Val. Ratio

Farm land 43.46

Swamp or duck land. . .29.46

Beardatown 35.22

Other cities and towns. 59.11 '

It was way past milking time
when all of this Information was
presented.

At ten o'clock the next morn-
ing Mr. Watson and Attorney
Jenkins appeared before the com-
mission to sum up the case and
ask for action.

Mr. Watsoa named the facts
in each case and accused the
Boards of Review of evasion of
their sworn duty to observe the
law. Mr. Jenkins followed with
an interpretation of the law show-
ing that tbe State Tax Commis-
sion not only has the power to
call for a reassessment in coun-
ties, but that it Is its duty to
do so. Mr. Jenkins stated that
there was not an iota of evidence
given by any of the counties that
was defensible and not a single
Board of Review questioned the
power of the State Tax Commis-
sion to demand reassessment.

Reassessment was asked for in
all of tbe counties and without
any hitch the State Tax Commis-
sion gave its answer. It stated
to the I. A. A. representatives
that It would immediately inform
tbe Boards of Review in the six
counties that equalization between
classes of property must be made
or a reassessment would be or-
dered.

MADISON WAITS
TO TEa BOARO
I lOFTWFACTS

Livingston IValuation 78.1
PerCMt;|Worden, Zl.i.-
Both in| Same Twp.

Another cli aptcr' is written in
the tax sitilation in Madison
county. The Farm Bureau fiist'f
had trouble ia gettii% access to
the ta.x book; so it could make
an investiga ion. After that
trouble was roned out and the
cas' was reidy to present, a
date was ma ie with 'the Chair-
man of the I oard by; Farm Ad-
viser Alfred Raut, ^ he states.

But when tbe Farm Buretia
Committee aiid Jo\pi Watson of
tbe I. A. A went to see the
Board, the el airman appeared at
the door and iiaid that no arrAge-
mei^s had be?n made for a Farm
Boreau heari ig and It wou^ 4>e
impossible to bear the Farm bu-
reau before September T, which
happens to lie the last day, by
law, on wbic i the board may Ibe
in session wi h pay.

The Farm Bureau did not want
to run the rii k of losing its le(al
rights by baling the informatloa
reach tbe Beard later, than ttie
seventh of September, so, it put
the facts of ^he investigation on
paper and bahded it tc the chair-
man.

The invec^atlon ehows that
tbe full valuations of farm lands
are a much |igher proportion of
the actual sajles val^lM than tbe ,^
full valuations of cit^ property
are of tbe aciual sales values. ,

The following tabl%~ shows what
per cent the ^nll valuations are of
tbe actual sales values, for tbe
principal towtis in the eonnty sad
for farm laa4s.

r

Ptoav

Altoa

Colllniville .
E:a«t Altoa .
Edwards villa
Uraaltr City
Madla«i

4-

Maaiami ., .i.i a

Vraleo \. i.. d

Wood River ( >•• *

I.lvlaKatom .JL i T

Wordea ....1 1....;. ..1

.411 other t«4'Ba I ■

LiVingstoq, with a full valuation
of 78.1° per, cent of the actval
sales vaiuea,4ia in tbe same town-
ship with V^orden, which baa a
full valuation of 2L4 per cent
of the actukl sales valnes In
only a few tastances city property
is assessed as high a per cent of
tbe actual sales values as is farm
lands, and In several cases the
ratio for city property Is lea^
than half that of farm lands. \

WOOt RLAIOCRTS

The I. A.j A. Live Stock Mar-
keting Departmebt has several
hundred wciol blankets for sale
to farm buneau members at III
and at $13 ko non-members.

WHITE wagons, drawn by well-sraotned gray
horses and driven by gray-uniformed drivers,
carry milk and other dairy products to the doors of
customers of the recently opened plant of the Rock

Island Dairy Company. This "co-op" It making the
attractiveness and cleanllncis of its wagons and
other equipment speak of the quality of It* prodaets.

I

The DEnoH AtriculhiwJ AMociatioii Record

Sei*.20,

L^. LOUIS CIMIP
DISCHARGED FROM
BiUIKRllPTCY COURT

Coinii|iitte« Assembles Claims

of Creditors to Effect

Composition

Thel United States District
Ck)urt of East St. Louis has dis
charged the Illinois-Missouri Co-
operative Milk Marketing Com-
pany from bankruptcy and has
restortd full property rights to
the cimpany as the result of
a healing before special Master-
in-Chineery Thomas on August

28.

Dl8<iiarge from bankruptcr was
brougUt about through the ef-
forts 3f the Milk Producers' Ad-
visory (Committee. The advisory
committee assisted In assembling
claims! of creditors in elTecting
an artangement which was ac-
cepted j 1)y the court. The Illi-
nois Agricultural Association,
througti the services it rendered,
made |t possible for the assets of
the company to be preserved and
tbrougji advances properly se-
cured, court charges have been
paid, i

Plan0 tor the reorscnlzation of
the company are In the hands of
the Milk Producers' Advisory
Committee, composed of E. B.
HeatOB. Marketing Director of
the A. F. B. F', Chairman; Asa
B. Richardson, Secretary; 0«orge
A. Fox, Secretary of the I. A A.;
John L. Boland, President of the
Missouri Farm Bureau Federa-
tion; and Pearlle Hajcraft, Presi-
dent 9t the Southern Illinois
Milk Producers Association.
^ Treasurer R. A. Cowles, of the
I. A. A., is trustee to secure ad-
rances made by the I. A. A. and
eonnty Farm Bureaus.

READY TO SERVE THE PUBUC

Why I Did Not
\ Renew Membership
In Farm Bureau

Here Is another, "Why I didn't
renew my membership," which
the Record asked sixty former
farm bureau members for. This
makes nine answers.

M. B. Z. of Hancock county.
#HteS: ■

"My reasons for not renewing
my membership In the farm bu-
reau and I. A. A. are numerous.
I believed I could Invest $45.00
where I could see returns. I
don't approve of the large sal-
aries (arm advisers and others
are receiving. The three years I
was a member I never saw the
(arm adviser in our locality. I
could gt) on and give other rea-
sons I have, but will stop.

"I don't wish to be misunder-
stood. I am not a knocker on
the farm bureau or I. A. A. I
think there Is a great work ahead
to be done and I hope ta see the
day when American farmers are
ao stroQgly organized that they
will be rewarded for their labor.
I have talked with hundreds of
farmers over all the central
sUtes who feel that the small
fanner and renter pays the same
dues as the big fanner, who think
they get the attention.

"I am wishing the whole I. A.
A. success and expect to t>ecome
a member again as soon as a few
oblectlonal features have been
eliminated, and when I am sure
I can make a net profit of $15.00
a year, to pay does, on an 80-
mcre fanB."

THIS n^w dairy plant, the home of the Rock Island Co-operative
Dairy Company, is open to the public for inspection at all times.
With Its/ modern equipment for handling dairy products, it represents
an inve^ment of about $55,000. The structure is 40x80 in size and
has a floor apace of 6,400 feet. It is now equipped to handle a capacity
of 2,000 Ballons of milk dally, but can be easily enlarged If volume of
business demands it.

UNO VALUATIONS
CUT IN SEVEN
MORE COUNTIES

(Contfhued from paffe 1)
rence county belonged to Jef-
ferson couUty.

A cut of 23 per cent was asked
for in valuations of farm lands
in Lawrence county, figured on
the basis of the 1923 figures of
the assessors. The Board of Re-
view has made a /eduction of
10.7 per ceht.

Stark Cut 10 Per Cent
"I am glad to say that a 10
per cent reduction in the valua-
tion of farm lands was secured
as a result of the bearing and
facts presented by Mr. Watson."
writes E. E. Brown, Stark County
Farm Adviser. "The Board re-
ceived Mr. Watson and our tax
committee in a very friendly and
courteous manner, and they were
seemingly impressed by the facts
and data presented."

10 Per Cent In Clinton
The Christian County Board of
Review has announced a ten per
cent cut in land valuations. This
is In addition to a cut of IS
per cent made by the assessors
last spring. The farm bureau
figures showed that lands bad a
full valuation of 46.8 per cent of
their sales values and city prop-
erty 37.4 per cent.

Our Farm Bureau Executive
Committee is satisfied with the
decision as made by the Board
of Bevlew," writes C. E. Hay,
Farm Adviser. The local tax
committee will check up to see
that this reduction is made."
15 Per Cent In Kankakee
Real estate in the city of
mnkakee has a full valuation
of 34.4 per cent of the actual
sales values, according to the
farm bureau Investigation. Brad-
ley has a valuation of 34.2 per
cent of the actual sales value and
all other towns and villages have
a valuation on property of 40.6
per cent of the actual sales val-
ues. Farm Adviser John Collier
and Mr. Watson, of the I. A. A.,
presented these facts to the Board
of Review on August 29. The
Board has announced a reduction
of 15 per cent on the full valua-
tion of farm lands.

New Hearings
The Randolph County Board of
Review was so eager to get the
Farm Bureau Information that it
waited until nine o'clock on the
evening of August 30 for the fig-
ures to be completed. Sparta real

Sangamon Bureau
Reports Tax Cut
of 32.5 Percent

The Sangamon County Farm
Bureau has secured a total re-
duction of 32.5 per cent in (arm
land valuations, writes Farm Ad-
viser I. A. Madden. "Last spring
our Tax Committee requested
the supervisor of assessments to
recommend a reduction of one-
third in valuations of farm lands.
He recommended a cut of one-
fourth. When the assessors'
books were turned In, the farm
bureau Tax Committee went be-
fore the board and requested a
further reduction in order that
the total of one-third reduction
would be made. The Board ot
Review agreed to make another
cut of 10 per cent."

From 4.9 to 9.2
Percent Shows
GnAloth of Co-ops

The gradual growth of the vari-
ous agencies of the National Live
Stock Producers Association As
demonstrated by the following
percentages of the total stock
yards receipts handled by all
agencies on the markets where
they are operating:

Percentaere of

Month — total receipts

July. 19S2 4.9

August. 1922 5.4

September. 19tl 6.1

October, 1922 C,C

November, 1922 7.7

December. 1922 I.i

January. 1923 ...i 8.7

February, 19:s ..: (.4

March, 1923* 7.7

April. 1923» (.1

May. 192J t.*

June, 1923 9.2

■Declines In percentages durlna
these months are due to the start-
Inff of the Kansas City office. The
Producers have found that starting:
on a large market like Kansas City
always lowers the percentages, but
that within a short time an increase
la acaln shown.

A. F. B. F. Research

Traffic Dep't Is
Ready To Assist
In Securing Cars

Individual Farm Bureau mem-
bers or farmers' co-operative as-
sociations who have difllculty In
securing freight cars should no-
tify the Transportation Depart-
ment of the I. A. A. as it is
ready to assist shippers in every
way possible. Telegraphic com-
plaints receive special attention
from the department.

'It seems hardly possible that
this year will go by without a
car shortage, according to the
department, and all shippers are
urged to load and unload cars as
promptly as possible and to order
only the number of cars 'actually
needed.

estate has a full valuation of
30.3 per cent of the actual sales
values, according to the Investi-
gation. In Chester, real estate
has a full valuation of 45 per
cent. In other towns and villages
of the county, property has a
valuation of 48 per cent of the
actual sales values. Farm lands
in the county have a full valua-
tion of 54.6 per cent of the sales
values. The Board stated their
Intention of making changes that
would equalize classes ot prop-
erty..

In Monroe :. . - '
In Monroe county the Farm Bu-
reau survey showed that farm
lands are assessed on 52 per cent
of actual sales values while city
and town real estate Is assessed
on 49.8 per cent of the actual
sales values. No change has t>een
announced by the Board.

Prices of eighteen important
farm products were higher than
a month ago and six are lower,
according to the Department of
Research, American Farm Bureau
Federation, in a September 4 re-
port. Compared with a year ago,
twenty-one are higher and three
are lower.

Wool, flax, potatoes, hides, and
sugar were lower on ^ September
4 than a month before, while
wool, kaflr, and hides are the
only products lower than a year
ago.

1923 Farm Income

Estimates based, on the latest
production reports and recent
market trends Indicate that farm-
ers' cash income, from sales, for
the crop year 1923-24, will be
about $200,000,000 greater than
In 1922-23, according to the De-
partment of Research, American
Farm Bureau Federation.

This contradicts the enrrent
statement that the farmers' in-
come will be one billion dollars
greater than last year. The lat-
ter figure was derived from an
estimate which assumes that all
farm products will be sold for
cash value. The A. F. B. F. con-
siders cash Income as more slg-
niflcent. For instance, only about
20 per cent of the corn will be
marketed as corn, while the rest
will be sold as pork, beef, etc.

The Department of Research
estimates that corn In all forms
will yield the fanner practically
the same Income this year as last,
with the pork and beet price
trends taken Into consideration.
The difference between the two
methods of computation in the
case of this one crop is, therefore,
$600,000,000.

>. lag

WHYIJOOe

THE FARM BUREAU,,,

MEMBERS EXPiADi:

Organization Is Best let
For Solving Problems '^
of Farm a\

"The greatest reason is tluU|>
it binds the farmers In one grear
organization," writes I. A. B., o^
Crawfjrd county, in answer t(|
the question why he Joined Uki
farm bureau. The Record asked
sixty members to answer this>'
same question. Here is what
some of them say:

"If we ever get anywhere we
have got to stick together." write«|
T. O. H., of Pike coanty.

"I joined the farm bureau witbj
the thought that co-operatloa]
would bring better prices for out^
products, which I think musG
come or farming must stop," li]
the answer of P. O. L., of McLeanj
county.

Chinch Bogs to Taxes

"Organization is the only thini
left for us to do," writes R. L. B
of Cass county. "The (arm bu
reau has been a great benefit t<
all members in the way of culling'
chickens, spraying orchards, com-i
bating chinch bugs and otberr
things. And also our taxes art)
going to be looked after." S

C. A. P., of Marion county.;
owns a farm and runs a business |
In town. He says, "I am for ourj
county, state and national organ-;'':
izatlons, strong, and I am Just |
half a farmer at that t renewedj.
my membership because I thoughti^
It was vtorth more nan it cost.i|
Since all classes are organizeiifr-
there will be slim picking for^
the farmers antil they do Uke^'i
wise." I

Good Farm Adviser

"Our farm bureau agent is a^
great man, always kind, helpful,
and a man who knows his busl-I
ness. I find him a friend ill''
trouble," writes C. F. N., of Ken- 1
dall county. "I can do my vac-',
clnatlon for nearly half the cost:
of previous years and Just as^V
satisfactory. I hope to have my
cows tested through the bureauil
and have applied for a chicken
culling demonstration In Septem-
ber at my home." •'

"In unity there is strength.;
We farmers must stick together If^
we expect to accomplish things."^
— L. M., Vermillion county. /

I. A. A. AT TAX CONFERENCE

John C. Watson, in charge of.
tax work for the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association, will attend the

National Tax Conference at White.
Sulphur Springs, Wast Virginia,
September 24 to 28.

TRANSPORTATION DEEARTMENTi

:fm^ -

-'.(

[0-n

Load and Unload Cars Prompt-
ly. It Helps to Prevent Car
Shortage.

Volume 1

RATES RE

UNMIX

UF

Saving Will

I 45,000 I

lllin(

The new
mixed carloa
which the 111
Association h(
for over a y(
with the Am
reau Federat
encies, went i
ber 28.

Under the o

on mixed ship

in carloads we

basis ot the

highest minim

We on any sp«

car. In other

shipment cont

tie, the rate

\aeC because

rate and th<

on cattle woul

also the higbi

the best comi

Under the

Interstate Coi

the freight cl

pnted on the

weight of o

stock in the

not use the i

stock and th

of another kl

niln

The four

nols feeders

Peoria, East

dianapoUs, r<

45,000 mixe

from Illinois,

Director of I

keting Depar

the average i

new ruling i

load.

Start Re
Memi

'■l '4 ■ 5

Piatt, Mod
Jo Daviess,
Richland an
started reori
during Sep
direction of
partment of

Jefferson
have made
during the 1
plete the I
memberships
bureaus will
tng tbe reoi
Biderably 11
year.

A

•V

IB th«^'

ne great'

B., oV

8wer t(|

Ined thff

"vS-.

"DEATr K. r. KUMPORD, 11
OOLLFGE OF AGRICin.Ti;RS,
JNIVFRSITY OF ILLINOIS,
JRBANA, ILLINO'IS, ^0-lI.L-7-g2

lUinbis Ag^riculturaLi^ Association

l*K

a

Volome 1

OcL 5. 1923

Number 14

RATES eiiCED
ON MIXED LOADS
OF JIE STOCK

Saving Will Be Made On
■ 45,000 Carloads of
Illinois Stock

The new freight rates on
nuxed carloads of live stock,
which the Illinois Agricultural
Association has been working on
for over a year in cooperation
with the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation and other ag-
encies, went into effect Septem-
ber 28. r

Under the old rule, the charges
on mixed sbipmenta ot live stock
in carloads were computed on the
basis ot the highest rate and
highest minimum weight applica-
ble on any ppecies of stock in t£e
car. In other words if the mixed
shipment contained hogs and cat-
tle, the rate on hogs would be
use<l because it vas the highest
rate and the minimum weight
on cattle would be use^jis it was
also the highest. Railroads used
the best combination they could.

Under the new ruling of the
Interstate Commerce Commission
the ' freight charge must be com-
puted on the rate and minimum
weight of one species of live
stock in the car. Carriers can
not use the rate on one kind of
■lock and the minimum weight
ot another kind.

Illinois SJAving

The four markets which Illi-
nois feeders patronize: Chicago,
Peoria, East St. Louis and In-
dianapolis, receive approximately
45,000 mixed carloads a year
from Illinois, says C. A. Stewart,
Director of the Lire Stock Mar-
keting Department. He estimates
the average saving caused by the
new ruling will be 16.00 a car-
load.

Start Renewal of
Memberships In
Seven Counties

Piatt, Mon»oe, Schuyler, Bond,
Jo Daviess, ' Scott, Henderson,
Richland and Johnson counties
started reorganlzattbn campaigns
during September under the
direction of the Organization De-
partment of the I. A. A.

Jefferson and Clinton counties
have made plans to reorganize
during the fall. They will com-
plete the list for 1923. The
memberships in only six county
bureaus will expire in 1924, mak-
ing the reorganization work con-
■iderably Ushter (or the next

year.

KU

THE SLUMS KIDDIES

A total of 2,342 children of
Chicago slums had vacations
on the farm this year,
through the efforts of the
United Charities. This nuni-
ber Is more than double
that of last year.

The I. A. A. placed 391 of
that number, and the Prairie
Farmer, cooperating on this
project, placed 358. Let's
help double it again next
year.

Action Is Taken
Toward Violation
T. B. Regulations

Northern Illinois farm advis-
ers, officers of the Illinois Hol-
steln-Friesian Association and
others interested held a confer-
ence in the I. A. A. offices in Sep-
tember at which resolutions were
passed that everything possible
be done toward apprehending vio-
lations of the rules and orders
regulating tuberculosis eradica-
tion.

Recommendations were made
that farm advisers, herd owners
and county breed associations do
their utmost to expose all unlaw-
ful introduction of untested cattle
from without the state into Illi-
nois and to apprehend the vio-
lators.

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Co-op Spuds

Beat Price of
Local Market

sixty carloads of potatoes sold
by the Illinois Fruit Exchange
shipped out of Jelleville, Mas-
coutah and Qulncy, netted grow-
ers from 26 to 75 cents more per
hundred pounds than the local
wholesale prices, according to A.
B. Leeper, Manager of the Ex-
change. This is the first year
that the Exchange has marketed
any large amount of potatoes.

Prices received for Early Ohios
ranged from 11.65 per hundred
to 11.90, and Irish Cobblers
ranged in price from |1.90 to
12.40 per hundred. The large
share of these potatoes were sold
in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Mr.
Leeper states that Illinois pota-
toes were outstanding in quality
this year and for that reason
sold at a minimum of about 25
cents a bushel over potatoes from
other states.

"One of the lessons learned in
marketing potatoes this year,"
Mr. Leeper says, "is that our
quality and neatness of pack is
not as good as it might have
been." The Exchange is pro-
moting the use ot modern grad-
ing machinery at local packing
sheds to overcome this dUOcuIty.

KEEPING 'EM AWAY

Inspection Plans To Be
Considered By Poultrymen

CONFERENCES OPEN
WITH CAKBONDAII
MEETING, SEPT. 26

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Essentials Fior Success In
I n Co-op Matiteting
M Eniilasized \^

i;

"A sound program, sooniS
management, and a sound fi-
nance plan ar: the three eskea.-
tials of every co-operative mar-
keting project," said Geo. A.
Fox, Secretar; • of. the 1. A. A.
at the close of the conference of
farm bureau and co-operative
marketing association leaders
for the 25th E istrict at Carbon-
dale on Wednesday, September
■26.

"The ups axii downs of co-op-
erative marke ing organizations
vary with th««« thre« tbln?s "

stated Mr. Fox

tlie

The Carbon(Iale
the first of
ences cilled bj
cultural Assoc
weak links in
bureau and

meeting waa

district confer-

the Illtnois Agri-

ation to find the

the work of farm

cd-operative dxarket-

A state-wide meeting of poul-
try breeders and hatchery own-
ers wiU be held in Springfield
on October 10 to consider a
plan of inspection ot fann poul-
try flocks and hatcheries," The
purpose of the plan is, to insure
that they are purchasing eggs
of the breed represented and to
guarantee purchasers that baby
chicks from itate acci^dited
hatcheries will mature true to
breed.

For several months, J. D? Har-
per, Assistant to the Secretary
ot the I. A. A. has studied the
Wisconsin plan of accredited tarm
poultry flocks and hatcheries. At
his suggestion a meeting was held
at Springfield attended by C. P.
Scott, chief Poultryman for the
Illinois Department ot Agricul-
ture; A. D. Smith, assistant to
Mr. Scott; Dr. Leslie E. Card,
Head of Poultry Department, Uni-
versity of Illinois; H. W. Day,
Supervising Inspector, Illinois De-
partment of Agriculture; and
representatives of several large
hatcheries of the state.

This body unanimously en-
dorsed the Wisconsin plan and
decided to call a meeting of all
poultry interests in the state to
consider eetablisbing a similar
plan in Illinois.

Under the new inspection act.
Senate Bill 460, which farm bu-
reau interests were instrumental
in passing at the last legislature,
it is planned to inspect farm
flocks for purity of breed and to
place them on a certified list.

Following certification of flocks,
hatcheries will purchase eggs only
from flocks on the certified list.
Hatcheries will also be subject to
inspection by the Illinois Depart-
ment of Agriculture. The ones
that pass the requirements de"-
manded will be placed on an ac^
credited list. This list will be
made public.

Wisconsin Snccess

Under a similar plan in Wis-
consin, four million certified baby
chicks were placed on Wisconsin
farms this year, Mr. Harper
states. He also says that there
has been a phenomenal growth
in the hatchery business in the
past several years. In his opin-
ion there is a tendency to abolish
the old setting hen and home in-
cubator and to purchase baby
chicks. A large share of the
business done by hatcheries is
with farmers. Not all hatcheries
have been al)Je to get the quality
of eggs for Incubation they de-
sired and as a result, black
feathers in White Leghorns when
(Continued on pa^e 4)

ing organizations and to define
future policiee

Seventy \i ricultural leaders
from seven c( unties in the di*-
trict attended :he meettng. There
are 15 local c a-operative associa-
tions in the ( istrict. mainly live
stock and fnii^ marketing organi-
zations.

The second meeting of the ser-
ies was held for the 22nd Dis-
trict at Belleville on September
27 but no details we^e availalBe
when the Record went to press.

The following is the schedule
of meetings following those at
Carbondale aild BeUeViUe:

Dsti
Get. 2
Oct 3
CM. 4

Cot 16
Oct 17
Oct. IS
Get. 19
Get 23
Oct. 24
Oct. 25
Get M

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I2tk
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201k A 2llt
23rd, 1. 24tll

17tll

I6tk
Stk

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St. Louis "Co-op"
Seeks 20% Cut In
Commission Hates

Filing of h new schadule of
livestock commission rates ap-
proximating eo per cent redac
tion from present charges has
been made by the Paoducers Live-
stock Commission Association at
National Stt4\s. Yards. 111. Tfce
proposed schedule, if approved
by the Packdrs and Stock Yards
Administratiop. was to be 4**
clared effecuie October 1. f

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The IBiBOM AgriwJtmml Awociatioo Record

Oct S. 1828

Illinois Agriculturad Association

Pubilshed twice a month by the Illinois Aerricultural
Association. 608 South Dearborn Street. Cbieago. Illinois.
EMited by NewsPublicity Department, E, L. Bill. Director.

Entry as second class matter Oct. 10. X92X. at the post
office at Chicago. Illinois, under theaci_At..Ua£cta 3, 1879.
Acceptance for mailing at apeciat-Tafes of postage pro-
viided for in Section 1103. Act of October 3. 1917. author-
Ued Oct. 31. 1921. .

The Individual membership ice of the llliaois Agricul-
tural Association is five dollars a year. This fee includes
PAyveaf of ten cents for subscription to th* Illinois Ag-
rlruTtural Association Record.

OFPICERS
Prenldent, 9. H. Thompaon, Qabitry. j
'Tlre-rrMldent. .*. o. iVkrrt, Beilevm«kP»-
TT«asarer. R. A. Cowled, BloomlngtoB. '
8*ergtary^ Geo. A. Fox, Sycaaaore.

11th.
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Bj Congressional Districts

Henry McGough, Maple Park

G. F. Tullock, Rockford

C, E. Bamborough, Polo

W, H. Moody, Port Byron

H. E. Goembel, Hoopole

D. G. Reder, Mendota

F. O. Barton, Corned

C. R. Finley, Hoopeston

O. J. Holterman, Sadorus

, Eart C. Smith, Detroit

, E. L. Corbin..Carllnville

, Stanley Castle, Alton

Carlton Trimble, Trimble

Curt Anderson, Xenja

Vernon Lessley, Sparta

! Directors of De|>artments

- ' I. A-.\. OlBce

Qeneral Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. O. (Harper;
Field Organization, J. C. Sailor; Organization Pub-
licity, G. E. Metzger; News Publicity, .E. L. Bill;
Transportation, L. J. Quasey; Statistics, X C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fr|ult and Vegetable Marketing,
W. B. Leeper; Live StocK Marketing, C. A. Stewart;
Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R. Bent. Legal, Newton Jenkins. ,

FOR ALL SHIPPING ASSOCIATIONS

A new freight rate on mixed carloads of live
stock went into effect last week; |

Two factors make up the freight chiarge in live
stock. One factor is the rate per hundred pounds
which is different with each class of stock. The
other factor is the minimum , weight of the car-
load which shippers must pay on. On mixed car-
loads of live stock the practice of the carriers has
hieen to charge the whole load at the highest rate
for any one kind of stock in the car, and charge
for the highest minimum weight represented in
the car. The combination that made the charge
highest was used.

The rate from Galesburg to Chicago on cattle
is ISVi cents a hundred pounds, and the minimum
weight per car, 22,000 pounds. The hog rate is
SI214 cents a hundred and the minimum weight
JT.OOO. The rate on sheep is 29 cents « hundred
and the weight minimum, 12,000 pounds. If all
tfai«^ kinds of live stock were in a mixed carload,
•flie rate would be based on the sheep rate and the
eattle minimum weight under the old ruling. The
charge on thi^ basis from Galesburgi to Chicago
Would be $63.80 per carload. '

The eew rule of the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission says that both rate and weight minimum
must be used on one class of live stock in the c$ir,
the one that, figures the most freight cost. In the
ease of the Galesburg example the sheep rate and
minimum weight would be used which would make
the freight charge $49.30 a car. On this case the
saving would be $14.50 the car. It is esti-
mated that 45,000 carloads of mixed livestock are
diipped from Illinois in a year. The Live Stock
Marketing Department has estimated the saving
at $6.00 a carload.

The Illinois Agricultural Association has been
working with the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration and other agencies for over a year to se-
•ore the new mixed carload rate.

BIG ORCHARDISTS JOIN FRUIT

EXCHANGE

i Within the last month, five large orchardists

have joined the ranks of the Illinois Fruit Ex^

change, largely of their own accord.

A problem and admitted weakness of the Ex-
change has been the lack ofr big growers in its
membership. At a marketing' conference a month

ago this subject was discussed. It was said that
big growers have developed into salesmen and
were fairly well satisfied with the results they
were getting.

In the meantime the Fruit Exchange has been
selling the products of its members. It is not
very proud of the prices received for early apples
this year but claims that it sold for higher prices
than individual growers or other organizations.
This claim is not disputed. The last issue of the
Record told how it sold peaches higher than
others. This month the Exchange reports the sale
of sixty carloads of potatoes at prices from 25 to
|75 cents higher than local wholesale prices. In
'the same paragraph it gives the prices received
for different varieties so comparison can be made.

The problem of getting the big grower to sell
through the Fruit Exchange is dwindling.

I ' WATCHING FOR LEAKS

A packing company over in Iowa asked the
Interstate Commerce Commission that freight
rates on dressed meats to New York be decreased
to the same rate as live stock, and that the rate
for other packing house products, such as cured
meats, be decreased to three-fourths of th^ live
stock rate. Other western packers joined in on
the request. It doesn't sound so bad on the face.
But such a reduction would make it cheaper to
. ship dressed and cared meat than to ship stock on
the hoof. To do that would deprive the Chicago
market of twenty per cent of its business which
now goes to eastern buyers. It would eliminate
competition and work to the disadvantage of live
stock producers. The Chicago market is the lead
for all other markets of the country and thus the
effect would be felt by all live stock producers.

In the interest of live stock producers the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association has taken' a hand in
the matter. It is presenting the producer's case
at hearings before the Commission.

' THE LITTLE RED HEN

At the suggestion of the Illinois Agricultural
Association a meeting will be held in Springfield
on October 10, to consider a plan of inspecting
farm poultry flocks for the purpose of supplying
certified eggs to hatcheries, which in turn will be
inspected and placed on an accredited list. The
purpose of the plan is to improve the quality of
poultry products in Illinois. A quality product is
recognized as the first step in successful co-opera-
tive marketing.

Illinois stands second in the United states in
number of farm fowls. The 1919 census gives the
value of Illinois poultry and eggs as $69,000,000.
The value of dairy products is only $72,000,000.
The value of fruit and vegetables is $45,000,000.

. FOR SUCCESSFUL MARKETING

A sound program, sound management, and a
sound finance plan as the three essentials for co-
operative marketing projects are being empha-
sized at the series of district conferences being
held by the I. A. A.

Two years ago farmers of Stephenson county
began marketing dairy products co-operatively.
They organized as the Stephenson County Co-op-
erative Marketing Company.. In order to build
and equip their rapidly growing business, it was
necessary to use $80,000. Only $55,000 of stock
was sold. This proved a handicap and money had
to be borrowed.

Too much attention was paid to doing a large
volume of business; too little to costs of various
operations.

The I. A. A. was asked to help analyze the sit-
uation. It conducted a business survey and the
recommendations included :

1. A marketing agreement to be entered into
between milk producers in the county and the co-
operative association for the orderly marketing
of the commodity.

2. That new, money, through stock sale, be got-
ten into the biisiness sufBcient to handle it effec-
tively.

3. That the company come under the provisions
of the new co-operative marketing act.

4. That an appropriate and adequate system of
records be installed.

5. That reserves, exclusive of overhead and ex-
pense, be created and maintained to t^ke care of
emergencies that may" arise in business and to
provide a basis for obtaining credit if needed.

These recommendations were approved by the
company and they have placed organization men
in the field to put the new program into operation.

CONCERNING THE PRODUCERS

With the opening of the Producers at Evans-
ville, Ind., in September, Illinois live stock ship-
pers now have the service of co-operative selling
agencies .at practically all markets to which live
stock from the state is consigned.

The Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Peoria,
and Evansville markets all have agencies operat-
ing under the plan of the National Live Stock
Producers Association. There is no membership
fee in any of these "co-ops" to farm bureau mem-
bers. Anyone may ship to them, but under the
ruling of the Packers and Stockyards Administra-
tion shippers must be members in order to par-
ticipate in the refund.

Thirty per cent refund was sent back to ship-
pers by the Chicago, Indianapolis and St. Louis
agencies. Peoria refunded 20 per cent. Approxi-
mately $32,500 was mailed back to Illinois ship-
pers by the Chicago Producers alone.

The Producers are proving that farmers can
successfully see their live stock to market. The
larger volume of business they handle the cheaper
it can be done and the larger the refund to pa-
trons. For instance the St. Louis Producers re-
port net earnings of $43,398.51 or 32 per cent of
the commissions charged during 1922. During the
first six montha of 1923, total earnings were $52,-
303.02 or over- 40 per cent of the commissiow
charged. 1 4 . ' / . >

TRUTH THROUGH RESEARCH fV' r"

A summary of the agricultural and business
situation from the monthly review of the Depart-
ment of Research, American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration, appears on Page 4 of the Record under
the heading "A. F. B. F.' Research."

Each issue of the Record will contain a brief
summary of the agricultural situation as deter-
mined by the Department of Research, These
statements represent a great amount of study and
work in searching for the truth in figures from
many sources such as the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture, United States census, mar-
ket reports, and economic bureaus.

At an early date the Department of Research
will have figures which apply to Illinois 'agricul-
ture alone and the Record will publish the find-
ings.

This department of the American Farm Bureau
has made perhaps the most thorough investigation
of actual facts concerning sales of farm products
of any agency. It secures the facts for the farmer.
Never before the farm bureau was formed did
farmers have in their employ statisticians to secure
up-to-date economic truths.

This research work is being done primarily for
the use of farmers so that they maj' know the
facts of the agricultural situation and probable
trend of prices. Large banks, mail order houses,
implement firms and railroads all realize the value
of the published figures from the Department of
Research. '■ i >-■■'.■■

THE SLUMS KIDDIES

In the sinms of Chicago, right here in our own
state there are hundreds of little mouths that
know nothing about the taste of oatmeal and
cream, bacon and eggs, or even a red apple. The
glory of sunshine, green grass and the orchard is
not to be founij in their world.

A. farm vacation for 391 of these slums kiddies
is the contribution made by the Illinois Agrieul-
tiiral Association, through its members this year.

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Oct S, 1923

The DKnoit AgricnhiBwl AlMxaalioa Record

Evans-

I

No Action By Commission
As Tax Situation Gets Hot

The Madison county Board
of Review confesses that valua
tjons on farm lands are higher
than on city and town proper-
ty, the Montgomery Board uses
the argument that it can not
reduce valuations of farm lands
for the reason that it promised
large corporations it would not
make a reduction of over fifteen
per cent, and in the mean time
the State Tax Commission has
not announced what it intends
to do.

In short this brings the tax
situation up to date.

Three weeks after the hearings
beforak the State Tax Commission
at Springfield, September 5 and
6, no action has been announced
bT the Commission.

At that time ;he Illinois Agri-
cnltural Association aslied (or ro-

I assessments in ,the seven counties
o( Kane, DuPage, Madison, Ver-
milion, Cass, Montgomery and
Marion. The Commission pro-
mised that it would order reas-
sessments in all of these counties
if the Boards of Review did not
equalize valuations of city and
farm property of their own ac-
cord.

Following is the letter sent to
the county Boards of Review by
the Commission following the
Springfi^d hearing:

CoatmlAalon Letter

"Complaints having been filed
witli the State Tax Commission by
the Iliinois Agricultural ASBOCla-
tloki. and a hearing held thereon,
we desire to call your attention to
the matters presented. Upon the
hearing of this complaint, it was
charged that in^ualities in val-
uations for assessment between
classes of property in your county
existed, with special reference to
the valuations of real property in
your county, which it is charged
are not properly equalized with
other classes of property and as
between different taxing districts.

"Section 1 of Article 9 of the
Constitution of Illinois and the
Statutes passed in pursuance there-
of, require that all property shall
be so valued for assessment as to
equitably distribute the tax burden.
,The fourth and fifth paragraphs of
Section 35 of the Revenue Act of
1898 direct and empower the Boardv
ot-Jteview in each county to equa-
lise individual assessments and also
equalize classes of property in their
respective counties, so that the rule
of uniformity of assessed values
prescribed by the Constitution may
be obtained.

"Subdivision 1 of Section 2 of the
Act creating the Tax Commission
is mandatory and directs that the
Tax Commission "Shall direct and
supervise as provided by this Act,
the assessment for taxation of all
real and personal property in this
State to the end that all assess-
ments of property be made rela-
tively just and equal."

"Considerable evidence was in-
- troduced at the hearing in support
of the complaint of the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association and their
representatives requested that the
State Tax Commission issue an
order for the reassessment of the
real property in your county.

"Realizing the burden -of expense
which would be imposed upon the
taxpayers of your county and the
consequent delay which would re-
sult from an order for reassess-
ment as outlined above, we urge
you to malce every possible effort
to adjust such Inequalities as exist
between individual properties in
your county and between classes
of property and especially the real
property, to the end that your final
certification of values may repre-
sent as nearly as possible an equit-
able distribution of assessed val-
ues as between the several classes
of property in your county.

"It is neither the desire nor the
purpose of the Tax Commission to
attempt to Invade the province of
your duties, or the exercise of your
Judgment under oath of office in
the performance of your duties, but
we respectfully urge your co-op-
eration to the fullest extent in con-
sideration of these complaints that
they may be equitably adjusted and
further action rendered unnecss-
sary."

The Cass county board of Re-
view immediftely made adjust-
ments 'in valuations. Since that
time, no other one of the seven
counties has announced any ac-
tion, and Tip to the time of going
to press, the State Commlssinn
has not intimated how soon it
would take action.

IWadison Confessas

The Madison county Board of
Review did not show up at the

first bearing, however, made ar-
.rangements for a later hearing,
Thomas Williamson, IT. S. Attor-
ney for the southern Illinois Dis-
trict represented the Madison
Board.

In that hearing Chairman Pearl
Smith of the Madison Board ad-
mitted that valuations on city
and town property are no^as high
aa,„^luations on farm lands. He
saidthat the tax rate is so- high
in towns and cities that it would
be an imposition to increase the
valuations on a level with farm
lands. He stated that farm lands
were valued at about 60 per cent
of their real value while city and
village property was valued at 40
to 45 per cent of their real value.

State Commissioner Malone
asked Mr. Smith If any consid-
eration bad been given to the
reason why the tax rate was so
high in cities. The question was
not answered) .

The other two members of the
Madison Board stated they agreed
wi^ Chairman Smith that farm
land valuations are higher than
city property.

Montgomery Comes Back

At this second hearing, two
members of the Montgomery
Board of Review, who did not
come to the first hearing, ex-
plained their reasons (or not
equalizing. A letter was read
into the record written' by the
Mayor of Litchfield in which he
said that Litchfield property Is
inflated from 25 to 40 per cent.
It was stated that the Mayor is
also in the real estate business.

Promised Corporations
A second argument used by the
Montgomery Board for not equa-
lizing (arm land -values was the
fact that the Board had agreed
with the large corporations of the
county that it would not make a
greater reduction in farm lands
than fifteen per cent.

Clay Changes Mind

In the last issue of the Record
It was stated that the Clay Coun-
ty Board of Review bad an-
nounced their intenton of reduc-
ing farm land values 25 per cent
and increasing Flora real estate
nine per cent. The cut made by
the board on farm lands amounts
to 8.6 per cent and the increase
on Flora real ^estate 6.5 per cent.

With this change farm lands of
Clay county are valued on a basis
of 50 per cent of their actual
values and Flora property at only
40 per cent of Its sales value.

'Co-op Marketing— The Golden
RuU'oj Agriculture"

That Is tke name of the aew
book pnhllnhed under the la-
■IkbU of the .American Farm
Bureau Pederatitfa.

It tells the atory of the de-
velopment of growers* co-op-
eration in Americn. It Is a
picture bobk of the eo-opcra-
tlve niarltetln^ moTement. It
presents the farts sn they ex-
ist. Every person interested
In co-operative msrketing will
flad value In this new book.

In sise and material con-
tslBed, It Is e^aal to hooks
selllBK for tvrlee the eost,. The
price is «1.4>0 -ponf-pald. Head
your order to the Aiherleaa
Farm Bnreaa Departlnent of
laforalatloa, S8 K. ^frashlac-
ton St- Chleasoi or to f^ablle-
Itr Departneat. tlllaols Afri-
ca Itnral Assoclatloa.

Overcharged On
Freight Bills?
Write To I. A. A.

Farm bureau members are re-
quested to send any freight bills
on .which they feel they have
been overcharged to the I. A. A.
Transportation Department. This
applies to both carload and less
than carload shipments of inbound
and outbound shipments.

The department finds that many
farmers have been incorrectly
charged. This is particularly true
on shipments of ground phos-
phate rock and agricnltural lime-
stone. In a great many Instances
the agents at smaller stations are
unfamiliar with the freight rates
and in many cases do not have
the proper tariff to determine the
correct rate.

All freight bllU sent tn wUl be
handled promptly.

A.F.B.F. Committee
To Work Out 1923
Program of Work

A Steering Committee charged
with the duty of working out a
program of work for the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation for
next year, was elected at a meet-
ing of the Executive Committee
held in the A. F. B. F. offices,
September 22. This Committee
will report back to the Executive
Committee and to the annual con-
vention to t>e held in Chicago,
December 10 to 13.

The Committee is composed of
Wm. H. Settle of Indiana, Frank
App of New Jersey. John K. Or*-
of Texas and John F. Burton of
Utah.

P««e 3

AT EL PASO

UERE'S the new phosphate
*^ storage plant of the Ei Paso
Co-operative Phoaphate Company
In Woodford county. It hat a ca-
pacity of. 600 tons. The picture
shows the plant In process of con-
struction. ~
I lili

EtPaso Farmers'
Phosphate Plant
Near Completion

The new phosphate storage
plant at EU Paso, Woodford
county, is practically completed,
states J. R. Bent, Director of the
I. A. A. Phosphate-Limestone De-
partment. It has a capacity of
600 tons and is the property of
the El Paso Co-operative Phos-
phate Company, an association
composed of leading farm bureau
members in the vicinity of El
Paso.

Both of the Tennessee phos-
phate quarries under contract to
supply rock phosphate through
the I. A. A. are running at fall
capacity, according to Mr. Bent.
The department Is keeping abreast
ef all orders and can fill new
orders promptly.

Heary Coaaty Live Stoek Shipper*

received 12,187.24 as their share of
the 80 per cent refund declared by
the Chicago Producers.

Producers Report
Success At New
Evansville Agency

The Evansville (Ind.) Produc-
ers Commission Association, the
twelfth agency to open under the
plan of the National Live Stock
Producers Association, is hand-
ling a proportionate share or
about one-third of the business
on that market, although it only
opened fol' business on September
1, states F. M. Simpson, General
Manager of the National Lire
Stock Producer's Association.

The Evansville market is a
small gne. serving nearby coun-
ties in Indiana, Kentucky and
Illinois: There are three com-
mission firms operating on the
market now, including the Pro-
ducers. !

Membership is free to live
stock shipping association or
(arm bureau members. Others
may obtain membership by pay-
ing' a five dollar fee. Anyone
may consign to the agency, but
only members are eligible to the
refund.

Formation of the' new co-op-
erative was made possible by the
backing of state and county farm
bureaus of Indiana. Kentucky and
Illinois. The principal Iliinois
counties tributary to the market
are White, Gallatin, Wabash and
Edwards. ' L. L. Pinnell. New
Haven, Gallatin couQty, repre-
sents Illinois on the board of
directors of the agency.

DANGER AHEAD IN
PACKER REQUEST
FDR mm CUT

Would Eliminate Eastern
Buyers From Chicago
Market ^

MORE MEMDERS
GIVE REASONS
FORJENEWING

"I renewed my membership in
the farm bureau because I believe
that it is slowly but surely bring-
ing good results to the farmer."
states J. a G. of Menard county.
"If we do not stand by the bu-
reau in its struggles, we cannot
expect it to succeed."

This !( one of the replies that
the Record received from farm
bureau members in many counties
of the state as to their reasons
(or renewal of men^bership.
Here's some more of them:

"I consider it a farmer's duty
to join an association that is try-
ing to help him in his dally tasks.
It be will seek the assistance of
his farm adviser along with the
corps of assistants of the state
university and the benefits of
legislation secured by the state
and national farm bureaus, and
will make use of the same, the
money paid for membership is
well invested." Thus writes E.
T. B. of Marion county.

Two Big Reasons

R. M. G., Winnebago county,
has many reasons for supporting
organized agriculture and he tells
the Record two which he consid-
ers sufficient to warrant his mem-
bership.

"First, I want to be identified
'With any movement which aims
to uplift and advance the farmers'
interests, and second, I believe
that indirectly I more than re-
ceive the amount of my member-
ship fee," says Mr. G.

Monay Well Spent

"Every farmer should be a
farm bnreau member," states J.
E. H. of Sangamon county, "be-
cause it is money well spent and
It comes back tenfold. Where
there is union there Is power!"

F. B, of Coles oonnty sees in

Oh thje grounds that eastern
live stock buyers will be forced
out of Chicago and other western
markets,! which ■ will ; eliminate
competitjon to tke disadvantage
of live ^tock producers, the Illi-
nois Agncuitural Association has
interveoid against interior Iowa
packers in a case before the In-
terstate I Commerce Commission
asking r^r freight rate rejections
on- freahj meats and other pack-
ing hott^ products moving east.
Interirfr Iowa packers asked
for an jeastem freight rate on
dressed jmeats the same as the
nve stotk rate, and on other
poking house prdducts, 75 per
cent of I live stock rate*. Swift
and Wilson packing companlee
filed a ^parate complaint asking
for similar reductions which Iowa
packers jmay receive. Other big
packers ; intervened along with .
smaller |companies, some on be-
half of |the original complainants
and soc^e on behalf of the de-
fendants^

Eastern packers oppose the
freight reduction, western pack-
er6 favor it and packers doing -
business in both east and west
are taking a neutral position.
Objtwtloas
The flutstandlag contention of
the IlUnlolB Agricultural Associa-
tion is that these reductions
would njake it impossible tor the
eastern packer to buy In the Chi-
cago mai-ket and would thus elim-
inate colmpetitioa. That the ac-
tivity of eastern packing interests
is a v<ry desirable competl^ve
factor In Chicago, is shown by the
fact th4t an average of 20 per
cent of live stock on the Chicago
market goes east. Lower prices
to the Producer caused by elimi-
nating ^is competition would re-
flect to all markets of the coun-
try. '

A. A. at Hearings
Qnasey. Director of the
Transportation Department, says
that packers have not asked for
increases in rates on live stock
rates. However he Is ' not sure
that ai increase would not be
asked Tor if organized agrit^l-
ture was not represented. The
Transpi irtatlon Department ap-
peared at hearing June 14 and
Septem >er 12. and again at New
York, October 8.

L. J. I

The

RADIO PROGRAM

Farm Bitreau radis pro-
fram ir>m Sution KYW, Chicaeo.
8:61 P. M. is as follows: on Sept.
9: "Tlie Farmer's Wagon," by
James |l. Howard, former presi-
dent oi the A. F. B. F. and talk
by A. H. Simpson of the Relations
Departiient, A. P. B. F. On Sept..
16, C.| V. Gregory, editor of
Prairie Farmer, will speak, ^v..

organized agriculture the only
hope tpT farmers but be desires
more pt-ogress it his sapport is to
be secured again.

Saysl Mr. B.: "I renewed my
membet^hip in the agricnitaral
organisation because I was for it,
knowiqg that it is our only hope.

but if

it doesnt make more pro-

gress I y the time my three years

are up
again.:

•-•r

ilv-:il

I don't think I wUi renew

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The minoU Asricaltimd AasodatioD Record

Oct 5. 1923

URGE GROWERS
SIGN UP WITH
FRUIT EXCHANGE

Five iiarge Orchards To

^rket Through

Cooperative

Snedelier Brothers, owners of
200 acres of orchard in Macoupin
county aod four other large or-
chards in Jersey and Bond coun-
* ties have signed contracts with
the Illinois Fruit Exchange for
the marketing of their produce.

The Shackelford orchards, lo-
cated at Grafton, one of the larg-
est orchards in Jersey county, is
also a new member of the Ex-
change. The three largest com
merclal growers of Bond county
have recently become members of
the Exchange. Thay are Arthur
lierrill and Son located at Mul-
berry Grove, Dr. L. A. Floyd
whose orchards are located at
Keysport, and Talmage Defrees
of Smithsbbro.

At a marketing conference in
Centralia a month ago. Manager
A. B. Leeper stated that one of
the handicaps of the Exchange
was the fact that few large grow-
ers were selling "their produce
through the Exchange.

Co-op Gets Price."!

Mr. Leeper states the Exchange
has sold^ ' early apples, peaches
and potatoes at higher prices
than individual buyers secured.
Peaches and potatoes sold at very
satisfactory prices. The price of
early apples wis not very satis-
factory, Mr. Leeper slates, chiefly
for the reason that there was a
targe amount of poor grade fruit
on tbe market which hurt prices.
However, Mr. Leeper says the Ex-
change price for early apples was
better than the price received by
Individual growers or other or-
ations.

-FOR RED TOP STORAGE

"T^HIS vyarehouse, located at Flora, Clay county, is the property of
* the Red Top Growers 'Warehouse Company, a subsidiary of the
Egyptian Seed Growers Exchange. The Exchange stores a large part
of its pooled red top seed in the structure. It Is 50x100 feet In size,
has 14-ft. eaves and Is constructed of red tile, covered with steel
sheeting. Three large clipper mills clean the red top before storage.

fo

Ask Commission
To Cut Canada
j Cattle Tariff

"write to the Tariff Commis-
sion 'in Washington if you are in-
terested in reducing the tariff on
Canadian cattle," says C. A. Stew-
art, Director of the Live Stock
Marketing Department.

This department of the Illinois
Agricultural Association was in-
strumental in the filing of an ap-
plication with the Tariff Commis-
sion asking for an investigation
of the sitiiatioD. The Association
contends that the tariff resulted
in Canadian cattle going to Eng-
land which worked a hardship on
American live stock producers by
curtailing our supply of feeders
and by hurting our export de-
mand.

The preliminary investigation
has been made and the commis-
sion will probably report soon.
The President has the power to
reduce the tariff up to the amount
of SO per cent if the Commis-
sion's report appears to Justify It.
Mr. Stewart says that now is the
time to get our arguments to the
Commission.

The Canadian cattle tariff
amounts to 1 H cents a |X)und on
all cattle weighing up to 1,050
pounds and 2 cents for cattle
oxer that weight. Up to this
date over 60,000 Canadian cattle
have been sliipped to England.

Cleaning Red Top Seed
' \ Keeps Exchange Busy

Three large clipper mills are
running ten hours a day in the
big new warehouse of the Egyp-
tian Seed Growers' Exchanga at
Flora, and they will continue to
run for the next three months
cleaning red top seed for the 800
grower members of the associa-
tion. A second warehouse and
cleaning establishment owned by
the Exchainge is located at Geff.

A little group of counties in
Southern Illinois including Clay,
Wayne, Marion, Jefferson, White
and small portions of several
others produce 9? per cent of all
the red top seed in the country.
Growers say that the buyers were
well organized. They had their
meetings and even divided terri-
tory in which each would buy.
Whether this is true or not indi-
vidual growers had little oppor-
tunity to know the size or worth
of the crop. The buyers named
the price.

Must Stick Together

It was to overcome this diffi-
culty that the Exchange was or-
ganized. "The idea of all grow-
ers uniting together, doing their
own cleaming and selling looks
right to most all of the growers,"
says Manager Curt Anderson, "but
not all of them are ready to ride
the road that is necessary to get
there. The buyers are not giving
up their business without fighting.
The E.xchange has made some
mistakes which it is best for us
to admit to our members, ai^l it
will probably make more. The
success of the Exchange depends
upon horw well it is managed,
how efficient the organization can
be In all of its dealings' But if
we ever expect to market our
seed we have got to go through
the first stages of opposition and
getting experience."

The Exchange started in late
last year. It did not have its own
warehouses or cleaning plants.
The warehouse with which the
Exchange contracted to do its
cleaning did not start work until
November.

Rather than doing its own sell-
ing, a contract was made with
one of the largest seed dealers in
the United States to sell the seed.
The Board now believes that was
a bad mistake. Mr. Anderson has
reason to believe that the Ex-
change was boycotted in its sales
work. ^

Crop Short

The orop of red top seed was
short and prices were high. The
Exchange sold eight carloads at
high prices. Thirty-two carloads
were liqld over. When the con-

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tract with the large seed com-
pany expired July first, other
companies ' started to purchase
and considerable seed has moved
at very satisfactory prices.

"If growers are willing to base
their Judgment of the exchange
over a fire year term, I am sure
it will be a winning game," said
Mr. Anderson. "The dealers
laughed at us at first, but they
are active fighters now. The Ex-
change is a factor in affairs of
red top seed now and we have a
voice in the market. I'll say
again that success depends upon
the faith of members and the
management of the Exchange."

The Exchange has applied to
the St. Louis Intermediate credit
bank for a loan of )100,D0O to be
used as advance on seed in their
warehouses. It secured a loan of
{40,000 on last years seed, but
used only J4,800 of it.

MEET TO CONSIDER
POULTRY PROBLEMS
ATJPRINGHELD

(Continued from Pagre One>
the chicks matured has not been
uncommon.

"This plan," states Mr. Harper,
"will insure farmers when buying
chicks that they are getting the
breed that is represented. It will
weed out the unscrupulous hatch-
eries and will protect the large
majority who desire to carry on
an honest business. It will make
t higher quality product which in
time will make a reputation for
the state that will bring greater
profits. A quality product is the
first step of importance in mar-
keting."

White Diarrhea Control

The control of bacillary white
diarrhea, one of the worst ener
mles of the poultry industry, will
be discussed at the Springfield
meeting. Dr. Robert Graham,
Veterinarian at the U. of I., has
made blood tests for white diar-
rhea in a large number of fiocks.
He states that infection ranges
from two to 80 per cent. Tne
estimated loss to Illinois pouii.ry-
men amounts to over a million
dollars per year. The disease is
preventable and can be eliminated
from a flock by the blood test.

Thv RlphUmil CAitiitT Farm Bo-

mm secured reduetiona from lime-
stone coinpanles which lowers the
price of limestone to $1.90 per ton
to any railroad point In the county.
Previous to .July It was 12.20 per
ton to B. & O. points and (2.0Q to
I. C. points in the county.

Decision Gives
Co-ops Exemption
From Income Tax

A statement has recently been
issued by the Internal Revenue
Department showing how co-op-
erative associations may be ex-
empt from income tax. This
clears up a question which has
been asked by many co-operative
buying and selling organizations.

In avery case where exemption
is given, the organization will be
required to show that the owner-
ship of capital stock has been re-
stricted as far as possible to act-
ual producers and that the asso-
ciation has not voluntarily sold
or issued stock to non-producers.

A. F. B. F. Research

According to the monthly re-
view of the agricultural and busi-
ness situation published Septem-
ber 20 by the Department of Re-
search, American Farm Bureau
Federation, a very favorable
trend is shown in the general
economic situation of the nation.

Out of 24 agricultural com-
modities, 14 are above a year
ago, nine are below, and one re-
mains the same. Compared with
last month, 14 are higher, seven
are lower and three are un-
changed.

Total cash income gives pro-
mise of being greater this pres-
ent crop year than last for the
following commodities: corn and
other cereals except wheat, xot-
ton, potatoes, dairy products and
poultry products. Hogs will prob-
ably yield less income. Tobacco,
cattle, sheep and wool should
bring about the same gross re-
ceipts as last year.

Wheat

Wheat, JFrom its low point last
month rebounded nine cents per
bushel and then began to decline
when the larger crop estimates
from Canada were published. Fig-,
ures of exportable surplus for
the United States and Canada,
now current In the grain trade,
range as high as 650 million
bushels cdtnpared with around
500 million bushels last year.
There appears to be no founda-
tion for this present high esti-
mate of surplus in face of a tptal
supply for the two countries, in-
cluding both crop and carry-over,
of 1369 millions bushels this year
compared with 1360 last year.

Industrial

Industrial production showa no
let-up.' Manufacturing output
which was 28 per cent below
normal in the middle of 1921,
the period of low activity, is now
about 15 per cent above normal.
Building operations which gave
some sign of slumping two and
three months ago, are nojir show-
ing a greater gain over last year.

NEW CO-OP LAW
BASIS FOR VITA-
GOUUOMPANY

Stephenson County Producers

Organizing Under New

Contract

After a financial survey had
been made by the I. A. A. for the
Stephenson County Co-operative
.Marketing Company, Freeport,
formation of a new non-profit,
non-stock organization to come
under the provisions of the new
Illinois Co-operative Marketing
Act was decided upon. This new
company was incorporated on
September 17 as the 'Vita-Gold
Dairy Products Company.

The old marketing company
will be re-financed to be used as
a holding company to hold the
physical assets and property and
the issuiifg of stock to increase
its capital. The financial survey
showed that the old "co-op" was
under-capitalized, the amount in-
vested in plant and equipmeht
exceeding the amount of capital
stock by almost 130,000.

A contract will be entered into
between the old company and the
new one to use the facilities of.
the old company and to handle
and prepare the milk and cream
for market.

The active campaign for mem-
bership in the Vita-Gold Dairy
Products Company has started
with Robert N. Clark in charge
of organization.

The producers' contract for the
new company is the standard one
worked out by the I. A. A., and
contains several new and desir-
able features. It is already being
used by the Rock Island Co-op-
erative Dairy Company.

Freight car leadings continue at
record levels.

Prices
Central market prices of farm
products as reported by the U. S.
Department of Labor, are three
per cent above last month and six
per cent higher than last year.
Decline from last year in prices
of non-agricultural commodities
came exclusively in the fi>el and
lighting group. The gain over a
year ago in farm purchasing
power in terms of the price ratio
is therefore largely theoretical as
the farmers' purchases of these
items are comparatively small.

Trendy covering the last three
or four months are more favor-
able and are slowly narrowing
the gap between farm and other
prices at points that will jrield
practical benefits.

TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT

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5, 1923

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for the
operative
Freeport,
on-profit,
to come
the new
Marketing
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Volume 1

Oct 20, 1923

Number 15

! IMPROVED QUALITY
IS AIM OF POULTRY
INSPECTION PLANS

Y Pl^ns Launched To Certify
!< Flocks and Hatcheries;
I. A. A. Backs Move

For the purpose of improv-
ing quality and building a rep-
utation for Illinois poultry
products, a plan of inspection
and certification of farm poul-
try flocks and hatcheries was
inaugurated at a meeting of
fifty poultry breeders and
hatchery men at Springfield,
October 10.

The Division of Standardiza-
tion and Inspection of the State
Department of Agriculture will
inspect farm poultry flocks for
purity of, breed, production quali-
ties and disease. There will be
*a further inspection service for
hatcheries which will use eggs
from inspected farm flocks only.
Hatcheries passing the required
standard 'will be placed on an
accredited list and their products
will carry a state accredited
label.

Gnarantees Chicks

"This plan will not only insure
hatcheries of quality eggs, but
will be a protection against un-
scrupulous hatcheries and will be
a guarantee of quality baby
chicks to the purchaser," said
Lyle Funk of Bloomington, chair-
man of the meeting.

A second part of the plan Is
to test farm flocks for Bacillary
White Diarrhea, the most dan-
gerous disease to poultry, and
placing disease free flocks on a
state accredited list similar to
state accredited herds of cattle
free from tuberculosis. State
Veterinarian, Dr. F. A. Laird
will supervise this work. Ac-
credited veterinarians will take
blood samples and tests will be
made by the University of Illi-
nois.

To Appoint Committee

The meeting directed D. E.
Hale of Chicago to appoint a
committee composed of repre-
sentatives of breeders, hatchery
, owners. University of Illinois, Il-
linois Agricultural Association,
State Department of Agriculture
and Illinois Poultry Breeders As-
sociation to promote and carry
out the plan. Representatives of
- these associations were present
at the meeting.

At the close of the general
meeting, hatchery owners formed
a state association and voted to
a. ate With the International
Baby Chick Association.

OVERLOADING THE BOAT

Important Facts Revealed
At District Conferences

That many co-operative live
stock shipping associations are
standing still and some are fall-
ing off in business, was one of
the outstanding things disclosed
at the first five district confer-
ences held at Carbondale, Belle-
ville, Freeport, DeKalb and
Wheaton.

This is not true with all asso-
ciations, but judging from discus-
sions, it is a real factor to be
faced. Another weakness is that
not all shipping associations are
shipping to the Producers' Com-
mission companies.

As these things were discov-
ered, the conferences proceeded
to the cause for these conditions.
Here are the reasons:

Discre«llt Co-operation

Stock buyers and old-line com-
mission companies are spreading
false stories to discredit co-operat-
ive effort.

Farm bureaus and shipping as-
sociations are doing little to over-
come this opposition.

The only meetings of shipping
associations are annual meetings
and they are poorly attended.

No remedies were discussed for
these conditions.

On the question x)f increasing
the business of Producers' Com-
mission Companies, .It was sug-
gested that salesmen be placed
In the fleld. C. A. Stewart. Live

Stock Marketing Director of the
I. A. A., announced that definite
arrangements had been made with
the Producers' Companies for em-
ploying three fleldmen to work
with Illinois shipping associations.
Farm Bureau Relation

On the question of farm bu
reau relation to shipping asso-
ciations, the trend of discussion
was to the effect that there would
be some definite relations. How-
ever, it was not expected that a
relation could be maintained
unless some definite service is
rendered the shipping associations
by the farm bureaus. Secretary
Geor^ Fox said that farm bu-
reaus cannot afford to talk co-
operative marketing unless they
continue a lively interest in it.
Fmfts and Potatoes

Local units of the Illinois Fruit
Exchange are doing a satisfactory
business, it was stated at Carbon-
dale and Belleville. Education
and increased membership are,
needed. Manager A. B. Leeper
announced that a campaign has
been planned for this winter,
need and desire for co-operative
marketing of potatoes was ex-
pressed at Belleville.- This dis-
trict produces one-fifth of the po-
tatoes of the 8tat«.

Over-production of milk loomed

op as a problem at Wheaton and

(Continued on pase 4)

National Judging
Contest Won By
Whiteside Team

In competition with teams from
many other states, the Whiteside
county daicy Judging team, con-
sisting ofaPonald Williams, El-
wyn Folkers. and Harold Gaul-
rapp, captured first honors in the
National Boys' Dairy > Judging
Contest at the National Dairy
Show at Syracuse, N. Y.

This year's team, coached by
Farm Advi»er L. O. Wise, is the
second team from Whiteside
county to win the national con-
test, a team frpm the county win-
ning last year. at St. Paul.

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Jefferson and
White Counties
Sign With I. A. A.

Jefferson and White county
farm bureaus have joined the
Illinois Agricultural Association
and American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration. This leaves only two
county organizations in Illinois
that do not have a joint member-
ship in the state and national as-
sociations.

White county starts a member-
ship campaign next Monday and
Jefferson county started on Oc-
tober 10. The two counties which
are not members of the I. A. A.
are Calhoun and Massac. Cal-
houn county is considering join-
ing when ^heir organization work
starts thitr fall.

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Field Men Will
Be Employed For
Producer Co-ops

Authority was piven the 1. A. A,
Live Stock Marketing Department
at the last meeting of the Execu-
tive Com,Biittee to make arrange-
ments With the Chicago, St. Louis,
Indianapolis, and Peoria Produc-
ers' agencies to employ field men
who will devote their entire time
to work for the Producers.

These men will be emplof^es of
the I. A. A.^to work under *the
direction of the Live Stock Mar
keting Department, but will be
financed exclusively byithe'selling
agencies.

They Will devote their entire
time to calling on managers,
boards of directors of shipping as-
sociation, straight load shippers,
attending live stock meeting!,
shipping association meetings, and
will assist in organizing shipping
associations.

Arrangements have already been
made with Chicago, Peoria, and
St. Louis agencies and the act.vity
will start by November 1 if capable
men can be found to fill the posi-
tions.

WHEAT MARKETMG
ON NATION-WIDE
BASIS jSJ>LANNED

Ex-Goveifnor Lowden Heads

Committee To Formulate

Plan of Action

At the call of Judge Robert '
Bingham of Louis\'ille, Ken->.
tucky, a meeting of men identi-
fied with cooperative marketing
movemends of the,United^Stat«s
and other* met in Chicago, Octo-
ber 8, and formulated plans ior
a nation-wide organization of
wheat growers into standard
commodity markMing a.ssocia'-
t ion.s.

According to the statement is-
sued, state associations will be
organized along the lines simi-
lar to cotton and tobacco ji^>eo*ii>a
lives and to the wheat marketing
associations In the] Dorthwem aad
southwest states. !

Execative ConnnMiee

An executive committee was
formed headed b>' Ex-GoTem*r
Frank O. Lowden of Illinois. Other
members of the committee are
Robert Bingham, W. H. Settle of
Indiana; Geo. C. Jewett of Minne-
sota, Carl Williams of Oklahoma,
Dan Wallace of Minnesota, and
Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas.

Eugene Meyer. Jr.. Managing
Director of the War Finance corp-
oration was a visitor at the con-
ference. He pledged the support
of the War Finance Corporation.
Frank W. Monddl of the War
Finance Corporation assured the
confernce that their work would
have the approval of President
Coolidge and the national a4mliiv
istratioa.

Walton Petpet, speaking for the
American Farm Bureau pledged
the support of that organization.
Mr. Jewett, representtng nine
northwest cooperative wh«aU mar-
keting associations, pledged their
support.

Aaron Sapiro was employed as
council.

Each state will direct its own
caitipaign with the general ap-
proval and support of the NatioiuU
Committee, according to the state-
ment. The national committee
was not named.

Others Preaeat

Others present at the meeting
named in the statement are Geo.
A. Buis of the American Wheat
Growers Association. J.. C. Chap-
pelle of KansaJ", Alexander Legse
of Chicago. Bernard Baruch -of
New Yerk. C. V. Gregory and Her-
man Steen of Chicago, and H. S.
Yohe of the U. 8. Department of
Agriculture.

Pace4

The minots Acricaltaral AModation Record

Oct S, 1923

URGE GROWERS
SIGN UP WITH
FRUnjXCHANGE

Five Large Orchards To

Market Through

Cooperative

Snedeker Brothers, owners of
200 acres o( orchard in Macoupin
county and four other large or-
chards in Jersey and Bond coun-
ties have signed contracts with
the Illinois Fruit Exchange tor
.the marketing of their produce.

The Shackelford orchards, lo-
cated at Grafton, one of the larg-
est orchards In Jersey county. Is
also a new member of the Ex-
change, ^he three largest com-
mercial growers of Bond county
have recently become members of
the Exchange. They are Arthur
Merrill and Son located at Mul-
berry GroTe, p'r. L. A. Floyd
whose orchards are located at
^eysport, and Talmage Defrees
of Bmithsboro.

At a marketing, conference in
Centmlia a montl) ago. Manager
A. B; Leeper stated that one of
the handicaps of the Exchange
was the fact that few large grow-
ers were selling their produce
through the Exchange.

Co-op G«ts Prices
Hn Leeper states the Exchange
has sold, early apples, peaches
and potatoes at higher prices
than individual buyers secured.
Peaches and potatoes sold at very
satisfactory prices. The price of
early apples was not very satis-
factory! Mr. Leeper states, chiefly
tor the reason that there was a
large amount of poor grade fruit
on tlie market which hurt prices.
Howeverj_ Mr. Leeper says the Ex-
change price for esrly apples was
better than the price received by
individual growers or other or-
ganizations.

-FOR RED TOP STORAGE

'T'HIS waKhouse, located at Flora, Clay county. Is the property of
^ the Red Top Growers Warehouse Company, a subsidiary of the

Egyptian Seed Growers Exchange. The Exchange stores a large part

of Its pooled red top seed In the structure. It Is 50x100 feet in size,
has 14-ft. eaves and Is constructed of red tile, covered with steel

sheeting. Three large clipper mills clean the red top before storage.

Ask Commission
To Cut Canada

Cattle Tariff

"Write to the Tariff >mmis-
sion in Washington it you are in-
terested in reducing the tariff on
Canadian cattle," says C. A. Stew-
art, Director of the Live Stock
Marketing Department.

This department of the Illinois
Agricultural Association was in-
strutnental in the filing of an ap-
plication with the Tariff Commis-
sion! asking for an investigation
of tke situation. The Association
contends that the tariff resulted
in Canadian cattle going to Eng-
land which worked a hardship on
American live stock producers hy
curtailing our supply of feeders
and by hurting our export de-
mand.

The preliminary investigation
has been made and the commis-
sion will probably report soon.
The President has the power to
reduce the tariff up to the amount
of EC per cent if the Commis-
sion's report appears to justify it.
Mr. 'Stewart says that now is the
time to get our arguments to the
Commission.

The Canadian cattle tariff
amounts to 1 ^ cents a pound on
all cattle weighing up to 1,050
pounds and 2 cents for cattle
oreir that weight. Up to this
. date over 60,000 Canadian cattle
havie been shipped to England.

Cleaning Red Top Seed
\ Keeps Exchange Busy

Three large clipper mills are
running ten hours a day in the
big new warehouse of the Egyp-
tian Seed Growers' E^chang« at
Flora, and they will continue to
run for the next three months
cleaning red top seed for the 800
grower members of the associa-
tion. A second warehouse and
cleaning establishment owned by
the Exchange is located at Geff.

A little group of counties in
Southern Illinois including Clay,
Wayne, Marion, Jefferson, White
and small portions of several
others produce $5 per cent of all
the red top seed in the country.
Growers say that the buyers were
well organized. They had their
meetings and even divided terri-
tory in which each would buy.
Whether this is true or not indi-
vidual growers had little oppor-
tunity to know the size or worth
of the crop. The buyers named
the price.

Most Stick Together

It was to overcome this diffi-
culty that the Exchange was or-
ganized. "The idea of all grow-
ers uniting together, doing their
own cleaning and selling looks
right to' most all of the growers,"
Bays Manager Curt Anderson, "but
not all of them are ready to ride
the road that Is necessary to get
there. The buyers are not giving
up their business without fighting.
The Exchange has made some
mistakes which it is best for us
to admit to our members, and it
will probably make more. The
success ttt the Exchange depends
upon how well it is managed,
how efficient the organization can
be in all of its dealings' But if
we ever expect to market our
seed we have got to go through
the first stages of opposition and
getting experience."

The Exchange started in late
last year. It did not have its own
warehouses or cleaning plants.
The warehouse with which the
Exchange contracted to do its
cleaning did not start work UtiUI
November.

Rather than doing its own sell-
ing, a contract was made with
one of the largest seed dealers in
the United States to sell the seed.
The Board now believes that was
a bad mistake. Mr. Anderson has
reason to believe that the Ex-
change was boycotted in its sales
work.

Crop Short

The crop of red top seed was
short and prices were high. The
Exchange sold eight carloads at
high prices. Thirty-two carloads
were held over. When the con-

tract with the large seed com-
pany expired July first, other
companies* started to purchase
and considerable seed has moved
at very satisfactory prices.

"If growers are willing to base
their judgment of the exchange
over a five year term, I am sure
it will be a winning game," said
Mr. Anderson. "The dealers
laughed at us at first, hut they
are active fighters now. The Ex-
change is a factor in affairs of
red top seed now and we have a
voice in the market. I'll say
again that success depends upon
the faith of members and the
management of the Exchange."

The Exchange has applied to
the St. Louis Intermediate credit
bank for a loan of $100,000 to be
used as advance on seed in their
warehouses. It secured a loan of
$40,000 on last years seed, but
used only $4. SOD of it.

MEET TO CONSIDER
POULTRY PROBLEMS
ATJPRINGFIELD

(Continued from Pase One)
the chicks matured has not been
uncommon.

"This plan," states Mr. Harper,
"will insure farmers when buying
chicks that they are getting the
breed that is represented. It will
weed out the unscrupulous hatch-
eries and will protect the large
majority who desire to carry on
an honest business. It will make
a higher quality product which in
time will make a reputation for
the state that will bring greater
profits. A quality product is the
first step of importance in mar-
keting."

White Diarrhea Control

The control of bacillary white
diarrhea, one of the worst ene-
mies of the poultry industry, will
be discussed at the Springfield
meeting. Dr. Robert Graham,
Veterinarian at the U. of I., has
made blood tests for white diar-
rhea in a large number of flocks.
He states that infection ranges
from two to 80 per cent. Toe
estimated loss to Illinois pouitry-
men amounts to over a million
dollars per year. The disease is
preventable and can be eliminated
from a flock by the blood test.

Tke RlchlaB<l Cojmtr Vmrm Bu-
reau secured reductions from lime-
stone companies which lowers the
price of limestone to $1.90 per ton
to any railroad point in the county.
Previous to .luly It was $2.20 per
ton to ft. & O. points and $2.00 to
1. C. points In the county.

Decision Gives i
Co-ops Exemption
From Income Tax

A statement ha^ recently been
issued by the Internal Revenue
Department showing how co-op-
erative associations may be ex-
empt from income tax. This
clears up a question which has
been asked by many co-operative
buying and selling organizations.

In every case where exemption
is given, the organization will be
required to show that the owner-
ship of capital stock has been re-
stricted as far as possible to act-
ual producers and that the asso-
ciation has not voluntarily sold
or issued stock to non-producers.

A. F. B. F. Research

According to the monthly re
view of the agricultural and busi-
ness situation published Septem
her 20 by the Department of Re-
search, American Farm Bureau
Federation, a very favorable
trend is shown in the general
economic situation of the nation.

Out of 24 agricultural com-
modities, 14 are above a year
ago, nine are below, and one re-
mains the same. Compared with
last month, 14 are higher, seven
are lower and three are un-
changed.

Total cash income gives pro-
mise of being greater this pres-
ent crop year than last for the
following commodities: corn and
other cereals except wheat, cot-
ton, potatoes, dairy products and
poultry products. Hogs will prob-
ably yield less income. Tobacco,
cattle, sheep and wool should
bring about the same gross re-
ceipts as last year.

Wheat

Wheat, from its low point last
month rebounded nine cents per
bushel and then began to decline
when the larger crop estimates
from Canada were published. Fig-,
ures of exportable surplus for
the United States and Canada,
now current in the grain trade,
range as high as 660 million
bushels cdnpared with around
500 million bushels last year.
There appears to be no founda-
tion for this present high esti-
mate of surplus in face of a total
supply for the two countries, in-
cluding both crop and carry-over,
of 1369 millions bushels this year
compared with 1360 last year.

Indastrial

Industrial production shows no
let-up. Manufacturing output
which was 28 per cent below
normal in the middle of 1921,
the period of low activity, is now
about 15 per cent above normal.
Building operations which gave
some sign of slumping two and
three months ago, are no<r show-
ing a greater gain over last year.

NEW CO-OP LAW
BASIS FOR VITA-
GOIKOMPANY

Stephenson County Producers

Organizing Under New

Contract

After a financial survey had
been made by the I. A. A. for the
Stephenson County Co-operative
Marketing Company, Freeport,
formation of a new non-profit,
non-stock organization to come
under the provisions of the new
Illinois Co-operative Marketing
Act was decided upon. This new
company was incorporated on
Septeml>er 17 as the Vita-Gold
Dairy Products Company.

The old marketing company
will be re-financed to be used as
a holding company to bold the
physical assets and property and
the issuing of stock to increase
its capital. The financial surrey
showed that the old "co-op" waa
under-capitalized, the amount in-
vested in plant and equipmeht
exceeding the amount of capital
stock by almost $30,000.

A contract will be entered into
between the old company and the
new one to use the facilities of
the old company and to handle
and prepare the milk and cream
for market.

The active campa.ign for mem-
bership in the Vita-Gold Dairy
Products Company has started
with Robert N. Clark in charge
of organization.

The producers' contract for the
new company is the standard one
worked out by the I. A. A., and
contains several new and desir-
able features. It is already being
used by the Rock Island Co-op-
erative Dairy Company.

Freight car loadings continue at
record levels.

• Prices

Central market prices of farm
products as reported by the U. S.
Department of Labor, are three
per cent above last month and six
per cent higher than last year.
Decline from last year in prices
of non-agricultural commodities
came exclusively in the fuel and
lighting group. The gain over a
year ago in farm purchasing
power in terms ot the price ratio
is therefore largely theoretical as
the farmers' purchases of these
items are comparatively small.

Trends covering the last three
or four months are more favor-
able and are slowly narrowing
the gap between (arm and other
prices at points that will yield
practical benefits.

\

JiMntilii" Till

Baby

S. 1923
I

ITA-
IPANY

'oducers
New

rrey bad

(or the

■operaOye

Freeport,

lon-proflt,

to come

the new

Marketing

This new

rated on

Vita-Gold

company
used a>

hold the
perty and
increase
iai survey
o-op" was
mount in-
equipmetat
ot capital
0.

itered into
ly and the
iciiities of
to handle
ind cream

for mem-
old Dairy
IS started
in charge

ict for the
indard one
k. A., and
and desir-
eady being
tnd Co-op-

ontinue at

3S of farm
r the U. S.

are three
ith and six

last year.
r in prices
ommodities
e fuel and
;ain over a
purchasing
price ratio
ioretical as
8 of these
iy small.

last three
lore favor-
narrowing
and other
will yield

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Illinois Agricultural Association

dMQ

VoiiBne 1

Oct. 20, 1923

Number 15

IMPROVED QUAUTY
IS AIM OF POOLTRY
INSPECTION PLANS

Pl^ns Launched To CBrtify

Flocks and Hatcheries;

i.A.A. Backs Move

For the purpose of improv-
ing quality and building a rep-
utation for Illinois poultry
products, a plan of inspection
and certification of farm pioul-
try flocks and hatcheries was
inaugurated at a meeting of
fifty poultry breeders and
hatchery men at Springfield,
October 10.

The Division of Standardiza-
tion and Inspection of the State
Department of Agriculture will
inspect farm poultry flocks for
purity of breed, production quali-
ties a^d disease. There will be
•a further inspection service for
hatcheries which wilt use eggs
from inspected farm flocks only.
Hatcheries passing the required
standard 'will be placed on an
accredited list and their products
will carry a state accredited
label.

Guarantees Chicks

"This plan will not only Insure
hatcheries of quality egg(, but
will be a protection against un-
scrupulous hatcheries and will be
a guarantee of quality baby
chicks to the purchaser," said
Lyie Funk of Bloomington, chair-
man of the meeting.

A second part of the plan is
to test farm flocks for Bacillary
White Diarrhea, the most dan-
gerous disease to poultry, and
placing disease free flocks on a
state accredited list similar to
state accredited herds of cattle
free from tuberculosis. State
Veterinarian, Dr. F. A.. Laird
will supervise this work. Ac-
credited veterinarians will take
blood samples and tests will be
made by the University of Illi-
nois.

To Apiioint Committee

The meeting directed D. E.
Hale of Chicago to appoint a
committee composed of repre-
sentatives of breeders, hatfhery
, owners. University of Illinois, Il-
linois Agricultural Association,
State Department of Agriculture
and Illinois Poultry Breeders As-
sociation to promote and carry
out the plan. Representatives of
^ these associations were present
at the meeting.

At the closa of the general
meeting, hatchery owners formed
a state association and voted to
affiliate ^ith the International
Baby Chick Association.

OVERLOADING THE BOAT

Important Facts Revealed
At District Conferences

That many co-operative live
stock shipping associations are
standing still and some are fall-
ing off in business, was one of
the outstanefing things' disclosed
at the first five district confer-
ences held at Carbondale, Belle-
ville, Freeport, DeKalb and
Wheaton.

This is not true with all asso-
ciations, but judging from discus-
sions, it is a real factor to be
faced. Another weakness is that
not all shipping associations are
shipping to the • Producers' Com-
mission companies.

As these things were discov-
ered, the conferences proceeded
to the cause for these conditions.
Here are the reasons:

Discredit Co-operation

Stock buyers and old-line com-
mission companies are spreading
false stories to discredit co-operat-
ive effort.

Farm bureaus and shipping as-
sociations are doing little to over-
come this opposition.

The only meetings of shipping
associations are annual meetings
and they are poorly attended.

No remedies were discussed for
these conditions. i

On the question of increasing
the business of Producers' Com-
mission Companies, It was sug-
gested that salesmen be placed
in the field. C. A. Stewart, Live

Stock Marketing Director of the
I. A. A., announced that definite
arrangements had been made with
the Producers' Companies for em
ploying three fieldmen to work
with Illinois shipping associations.
Farm Bnreaa Relation

On the question of farm bu-
reau relation to shipping asso-
ciations, the trend of discussion
was to the effect that there would
be some -definite rielations. How-
ever, it was not expected that a
relatioii could be maintained
unless some definite service is
rendered the shipping associations
by the farm bureaus. Secretary
Georgfe Fox said that farm bu-
reaus cannot afford to talk co
operative marketing unless they
continue a lively interest in it.
Pmits and Potatoes

Local units qf the Illinois Fruit
Exchange are doing a satisfactorj-
business, it was stated at Carbon-
dale and Belleville. Education
and increased membership are
needed. Manager A. B. Leeper
announced that a campaign has
been planned for this winter. A. .
need and desire for co-operative
marketing of potatoes was ex-
pressed at Belleville.- This dis-
trict produces one-fifth of the po-
tatoes of the 8tat«.

Over-production of milk loomed
up as a problem at Wheaton and
(Continued on page 4)

National Judging
Contest Won By
Whiteside Team

In competition with teams from
many other states, the Whiteside
county dairy judging team, con-
sisting of Donald Williams, El-
wyn Folkers. and Harold Gaul-
rapp. captured first honors in the
National Boys' Dairy Judging
Contest at the National Dairy
Show at Syracuse, N. Y.

This year's team, coached by
Farm Adviser L. O. Wise, is the
second team from Whiteside
county to win the national con-
test, a team from the county win-
ning laat year at St. Paul,

■yt

Jefferson cmd
White Counties
Sign With I. A. A.

Jefferson and White county
farm bureaus have joined the
Illinois Agricultural Association
and American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration. This leaves only two
county organizations in Illinois
that do not have a joint member-
ship in the state and national as-
sociations.

White county starts a member-
ship campaign next Monday and
Jefferson county started on Oc-
tober 10. The two counties which
are not members of the I. A. A.
are Calhcrun abd Massac. Cal-
houn county is considering join
ing when their organization work
starts this fall. -l'.

T.

WHEAT MARKETINIi
ON NATION-WIDE
BASIS IS PLANNED

Ex-Governor Lowden Heads

Committee To Formulate

Plan of Action

Field Men Will
Be Employed For
Producer Co-ops

Authority was given the J. A. A.
Live Stock Marketing Department
at the la^t meeting of the Execu-
tive Committee to make arrange-
ments with the Chicago, St. Louis,
Indianapolis, and Peoria Produc-
ers' agencies to employ field men
who will devote their entiije time
to work for the Producers. '

These men will be employes of
the I. A, A. to work under 'the
direction of the Live Stock Mar-
keting DJepartment, but will be
financed txclusivety by the'selling
agencies. \

They will devote their entire
time to I calling on managers,
boards o^ directors of shipping as-
sociation, straight load shippers,
attending live stock meeting!,
shipping association meetings, and
will assidt in organizing shipping
associations.

Arrangements have already been
made with Chicago, Peoria, and
St. Louis agencies and the aet.vity
will stwt by November 1 if capable
men can be found to flU the poel-
tions. I

At the call of .Tudpe Robert '
Bingham of Louis\-iile, -Ken-
tucky, a meeting of men identi-
fied with cooiwrative marketing
movements of the I'nited States
and others met in Chicago, Octo-
ber 8, and formulated plans for
a nation-wide organization of
wheat growers into standard
commodity marketing aSsoeia-
tions.

AccordBng to tk'e statement is-
sued, stati^ associations will lie
organized along the lines simi-
lar to cotton and tobacco tocp'ras
lives and to the wheat macketing
associations in the' northwest and
southwest states.

Executive CommtttM '

An executive committee was
formed headed by Ex-GoTem«r
FVank O, Lowden of Illinois. Other
memt>ers of the committee sre
Robert Bingham. W. H. Settle of
Indiana, Geo. oAewett of Minne-
sota, Carl Williams of Oklahoma.
Dan Wallace of Minnesota, and
Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas.

Eugene Meyer, Jr.. Managing
Director of the War Finajice corp-'
oration vpas a visitor at .the con-
ference. He pledged thf support
of the War Finance Co^pora'tion.
Frank W. Mondell of the War
Finai^ce Corporation assured the
confernce that their work would "
have tke appro\-aL of PrMident
Coolidge and the national ladndn-,
istratioD.

Walton Peteet, speaking for the
American Farm Bureau pledged
the support of that organization.
Mr. Jewett. representing nine
northwest cooperative m'h*»at mar-
keting'associations, pledged their
support,

Aarop S^piro wa* employed as
councilj

E^acbi state wijl^ direct .Its o««
campaign with ^the general ap-
proval and suppofl of the National
Committee, according to the state-
ment. The national committee
was not named. _

Others 1

Others present at the meeting
named in the statement are Geo.
A. BulB of the American Wheat
Grower» Association, J. C. Cbai>-
pelle ot Kansas, Alexander Legse
of Chicago. Bemrfrd Baruch of
New York, C. V. Grego^ and Her-
man Steen of Cbirago. and B-. 8.
Yoht of the V. S. Department of
Agriculture.

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The nimoM AgriiailtiirmI A»»<aci«tioii Record

Oct. 20, 1923

Illinois A^icultural Association

Published twice a month by the lUipola Xsrlaultural
Asaociation, 608 South Dearborn Street, Chtca^o, lUinola.
Bdited by News Publicity Department, B. U Bill, Director.

E^try aa secoivd clasa matter Oct. 10, 1921, at the post
offlce at Chtcaffo, Illinois, under the act of March X, 1879.
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of poata^e pro-
vided for in Section 1103. Act of October S, 191T, author-
laed Oct. il. 1921.

Th«c Individual memberahip fee of the lUinolfl Affrlcal-
tural Association is five dollars a year. Thia fee Indudea
payment of ten cents for subscription to the Illlnola Ag-
ricultural Association Record.

OPFirBRit
PrcnMent, S. H. Tkom|i»«m, 4^Blacy. . j
Vlre-PrnidrBt. A, O. Bckert. BeileTtll«k
Treaanm>, R. A. Cowlea. Blaoaatestaa.
geentary, Geo. A, Fa^ >ye«aa— ^,

, EXECUTIVE OOKIMnTEB

^ By Congressional Districts

t^tti Henry McGough, Maple Park

12th a F. Tullock, Roclcfard

13ttt; C. E, Bamborough, Poto

14th... W. H. Moody, Port Byron

IBth H. E. Goembel, Hoopole

leth. . ....,.,-k O. G, Reder, Mendota

17th F. D. Barton, Cornell

ISth C. R. Finley, Hoopetton

IMh I D, J, Holtertnan, Sadorua

20th ,,Eari C. Smith, Detroit

2lbt E. L. Gorbin, Carlinville

22M ,; Stanley Caatle, Alton

23W Carlton TrimMe, Trimble

24|h ,/ Curt Anderaon, Xenia

M|lh .1 Vernon Laaatey, Sparta

Directors of DeiMutments
I. A. A. Office
Oan^rat Office and Aaaistant to Secretary, J. D. Harper;
Field Organization, J. C. Sailor: Organization Pub-
lldity, G. E. Metzger; News PublicKy, E. I_ Bill;
TranaportatiOD, L.. J. Quasey; Statlatlcs. J. C. Wataon;
^ance, R. A, Covvlea; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A. B. Le«per; Live Stock Marketing. C A. Stewart;
Olairy Marketing, A, D. Lynch; Phoaphate-Llmeatone,
J. R, Bent. Legal, Newton Jenklna,
I,

I. A^A. STAND ON GRAIN MARKETOfG

The Illinois Agricultural Association is in fa-
vi>r of co-operative grain marketing.

The Association has deiftonstrated this fact by
appropriating large sums of money and spend-
ing much time and effort in perfecting and ear-
ring out plans.
'' t he Association has not endorsed any one plan
of co-operative grain marketing since the start
of the U, S. Grain Growers, Inc. Its policy on
grain marketing is expressed in a resolution
unanimously endorsed by Mid-West State Farm
Bureaus, and' subsequently approved by the E!x-
flcutive Committee of the I, A, A,

The resolution follows:
i. "Reaolved by this meeting of Prealdent and
j Secretarjea of Mid-West Farm Bureaus In aes-
aion at Chicago, July 3, 1923:

"1. That the American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion be requested through its Co-operative Mai^
keting - Department, to formulate a national
grain marketing policy, based on orga'hizatlon
of producers by states, with long-term con-
tracts, pooling by grades on basis of milling
value, corn to be dealt with separately and
that approfiriate action be taken to conduct
organization campaigns in the several grain
growing states in the order of their readiness
fo begin such worl<.

"2. That we request the Executive Commit-
tee of the U, S. Grain Growers to co-operate
-with the American Farm Bureau Federation in
carrying out the program outlined above.

'^, That pending the organization of atate
co-operative grain marketing organizations as
above, we approve the plan of the Board of
Directors of the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., to
engage in grain selling on the plan submitted
to us today, the same to be merged into or
supplanted by the organizations contemplated
in paragraph 1 hereof at such time as the latter
are ready to begin operations," ,

In this re.solutioii a definite plan of co-oper-
ative grain marketing is asked for. It states
that the plan devised shall carry provision for
merging or supplementing the U. 8. Grain Grow-
ers, Inc. The Illinois Agricultural Association
believes the plan expressed in the mid-west reso-
lution to be correct and fundamentally right,
! The new national plan of wheat marketing, an
Inounced in this issue of the Record, has not been
submitted to the Association otherwise than in
the form of a press statement. It is the desire
of the Illinois Agricultural. Association that the
plans of the new association will carry out the
principles expressed by the mid-west committee.

LET'S FACE THE FACTS

The district conferences were scheduled pri-
marily for farm bureau and co-operative market-
ing association leaders to tell about their troubles,
to find the weak links in their work. Here are
some of the troubles and weak links disclosed at
the first five conferences that must be faced and
solved,

A few live stock shipping associations are fall-
ing off in business and many are standing still.

Local stock bi:^ers and old-line commission
companies are working hard to get business, even
going to the extent of spreading false stories to
discredit co-operative effort.

Farm bureaus and shipping associations are
doing little to overcome this opposition, or to in-
crease or hold business.

Many co-operative shipping associations are
sending only a part of their business to co-oper-
ative commission companies.

The manager is the leading spirit in many
shipping associations, little part being taken by
officers or executive committees.

These weaknesses were reiterated • by live stock
shippers at several meetings. In the same dis-
cussions where these faults were told, opinion was
unanimous in favor of co-operative marketing of
live stocC and many experiences were told of the
good work of shipping associations and Produc-
ers' commission companies. ^

One remedy has already been started to over-
come these weak links. The Illinois Agricultural
Association has perfected arrangements with the
Producers' commission companies at .Chicago,
Peoria, St, Louis and Indianapolis for paying the
expenses of three men to work in the field with
local shipping associations, under the direction of
the I, A. A. Live Stock Marketing Department.

A big part of the problem must be solved by
the local association. There were no discussions
,or suggestions how shipping association associa-
tions or county farm bureaus could overcome
these problems, at the conferences. In counties
where these conditions exist these problems must
l)e faced with action,

LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM OF A. F. B. F.

At a luncheon with President Coolidge, mem-
bers of the American Farm BureaVi Legislative
Committee outlined the legislative program of the
Federation for the next session of Congress,

It is restricted to eight general points, as
follows :

1, Immigration.

Favors further restriction; '

2. Price Fixing.

Opposes governmental price fixing,

3. Taxation.

Opposes sales tax,

4. Consolidation of Railroads. '

Decision held pending referendum,

5, Merchant Marine.

Wants Jlerchant Marine without subsidy,

6, Crop Insurance.

Desire government to investigate,

7, Truth-in-Fabric.

Insists goods to be labeled^sh^ing per-
centage of virgin wool, -C

8. Muscle Shoals. /

. Favors original Ford offer and amortiza-
tion plan. ' f ,

' S. B. 460 AGAIN J

Senate Bill 460, passed by the last State Legis-
lature comes into swing again on the program
of inspection, certification and state accrediting
of farm poultry flocks and hatcheries.

The work of inspection will be carried on by
the Division of Standardization and Inspection,
created by the new act. It is the machine that
makes it possible to carry out the poultrj' pro-
gram,

S. B, 460 is one of the several bills which the
I. A. A. worked for in the last legislature.

CO-OP MARKETING RESULTS

Co-operative fruit and vegetable marketing
saved the situation at Quincy.

There was practically no market for strawber-
ries at Quincy this year. The Quincy local '•f
the Illinois Fruit Exchange sold 8,320 crates of
strawberries at a net average of $2,10 to growers.

At the same time Quincy dealers were offering
75 cents per crate for cabbage, the Exchange
sold carloads at a net average to growe'rs of $1,04.

Local dealers offered from 50 to 60 cents a
bushel for potatoes. The Exchange sold 26 car-
loads of potatoes for 78 cents net to growers.

These are the facts that can be proved by fig-
ures. What would have happened to prices of
strawberries, cabbage and potatoes, if all the
business of the Exchange had been damped on
the Quincy market?

FOR POULTRY BREEDERS

Problems arose with the passing of the setting
hen and with the coming of the baby chick busi-
ness. One of them was the unscrupulous hatch-
ery which sold White Leghorn /shicks that ma-
tured with a few black feathers. Another was
the problem of hatcheries getting eggs that «euld
be relied upon.

The Illinois Agricultural Association studied
this problem, visited other states, found that Wis-
consin had a plan of inspection, certification and
accrediting that is working. Poultry interests of
Illinois were called together and the problem was
talked over.

All forces joined together at Springfield, Oc-
tober 10, and inaugurated a program to overcome
these problems and will improve quality and
build a reputation for Illinois poultry products.
This is progress for the poultry industzy of Illi-
nois. Let's make it work. '. ' ■ I '■ -if ;. :■.' .'"-

; : FACTS ON SALES

Last' year Illinois farmers sold almost $469,- -
500,000 worth of farm products; in 1921, $386,-
000,000 worth; in 1920, $564,000,000 worth; in
1919, $770,500,000 worth; and in the pre-war
year, 1909, sales totalled $381,400,000,

Corn and hogs brought Illinois farmers 34 per
cent of last year's cash receipts; cattle supplied
12 per cent ; dairy products, 18 per cent ; and
poultry, 8 per cent.

These are facts derived from an exhaustive
study of sales of Illinois farm products over a
period of several years, by the Department of
Research, American Farm Bureau Federation,

These facts, together with more detailed ones,
are told on page 4 of this issue of the Record.
Study them,

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NO REASSESSMENT DECISION "^^

The I. A, A, has no information from the State
Tax Commission as to any steps taken to correct
the inequalities of valuations between city and
farm real estate in the counties on which hear-
ings were held before the Commission,

We hope to give this information in the next
issue of the Record,

TUNE IN ON THE FARM BUREAU

Every Tuesday night at 9:01, standard time,
the farm biirean's voice is "in the air" from Sta-
tion KTW, Chicago. Wave length is 536 meters.
At that time the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration presents two, speakers with a worth-while
message fo» farmers. Fifteen-minute talks are
given by each individual.

Announcements of programs are given in the
Record as they are available in advance. Have
you tuned in yetT

The unanimous sentiment of delegates at the
National Tax Conference in West Virginia was
that a comparison of actual sales values is the
most practical way to determine real values of
real estate for tax purposes. This upholds the
method used in tax wor^'of the I. A. A, and
county farm bureaus this year.

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Apple Marketing and Transportation
Are Big Problems of Ccdhoun County

the levee at St.
lison said.

Louis," Mr. AI-

The party will visit the cider mill first, Farm Adviser J. H.
Allison announced, and there was a scramble to find jugs.

The Calhoun County Farm Bureau had invited a little party
to tour the county and see the apple industry. In the party
there were Professors Lloyd and Brock of the University, Man-
ager Leeper and A. O. Eckert, of the Illinois Fruit Exchange,
Walton Peteet, Marketing Director of the American Farm Bu-
reau, and from the Illinois Agricultural Association, President
S. H. Thompson and Earl Smith, executive committee member
from the district.

After ^he cider mill raid, the party drove for nine miles up and
down crooked, narrow roads from Hardin to Hamburg, and every
foot of the way within a stone's throw of heavy-laden apple or-
chards.

A half million barrels of ap-
ples wlU go to market from Cal-
houn this season. That comes
close to being half of the apple
production of the state. When
the young orchards of the county
get Into bearing, that figure will
reach. th« million mark on good
productloA years. Mr. Allison
told the party.

No Better QnaUt/
On the question of quality all
of the horticulturists agreed
there Is nb better to be found
any place than in Calhoun. No,
not even in the far northwest.
Growers opened up barrels to
show the quality when we vis-
ited packing crews and some Of
~ them took out a stave to prove,
that the middle of the barrel
was the same as the ends. There
was no question about quality.

Mr. Eckert compared methods
with St. Clair county and dis-
covered that it takes about half
of the spraying In Calhoun that
it does in other southern Illinois
apple districts. Part of the rea-
son for that is because there
are no apple orchards full of
disease. Mr. Allison thinks. He
does not know of an orchard in
the county that is not sprayed.

It' was about noon when the
party reached the top of the
ridge with a view of the Missis-
sippi in the valley. The old
gentleman on the ferry boat had
told US' there was a ridge from
one end of the county to the
other. At sdnie points the Illi-
nois river can be viewed on one
side and the Mississippi on the
other. In his description of the
county he said there was not a
railroad or negro in the county.
He might have added, not a
half-mile of road without a
crook.

A Marketing Problem

Down a winding road the
party drove, headed tor the river
town, Hamburg. Three teams
with sixty barrels of apples
pulled to a siding to let the
party pass.

On the streets of Hamburg
there were six thousand barrels
of apples, stacked up in front of
business houses right out to the
wagon path. "I have apples here
on the streets that have been
here a week," said Banker
Spencer Waldron. Mr. Leeper
added that 24 hours In the sun
would ripen the fruit as much as
thirty days in the cooler.

With all of the wonderful qual-
ity, color and enormous produc-
tion, Calhoun county has some
problems. Those 6,000 barrels
were waiting for boats. The big
boats can make only two trips
to St. Louis a week and there
are more apples than they can
carry. The party was told that
conditions are better this year
than last. "But it they don't
stack up here, they stack up on

by farmers within that county
alone. "Marketing is one of
those problems," he said. "Trans-
portation is another and taxation
is a third."

Mr. Peteet carried a gallon
jug of cider with him when the
party was loaded Into an auto,
ferried across the river and
taken to railroad towns. It is
said that the cork blew out of
the jug while he was in a res-
taurant in St. Louis that even-
ing.

APPLES, APPLES EVERYWHERE

HERE'S a scene at the pier on the Mississippi at Hamburg, Calhoun
county, showing hundreds of barrels of apples from that county
ready for shipmenr by boat to the St. Louis market. Hamburg is one
of the chief shipping points- for apples In Calhoun county. The
county has no raUroads>

Dump On Market

"The trouble is that we mar-
ket the whtfle crop in a very few
weeks," stated Mr. Allison in
telling about marketing methods.
"We dump them on the market.
Close to a hundred thousand
barrels are shipped out of the
county every week for six weeks.
Most all of them are consigned
to commission men in St. Louis.
Only a few are sold In the or-
chard or put in the cooler. The
buyers take advantage of our
dumping and they buy them at
their own price."

The party hurried back to
Hardin for a meeting with the
executive committee of, the farm
bureau. On the way, Mr. Alli-
son told about the Farm Bureau
Federal Farm Loan Association
in the county, the Farm Bureau
Mutual Fire Insurance Company,
about pruning and spraying dem-
onstrations and the purchase of
spray material, and he wound up
by saying "The future work of
the farm bureau must be to im-
prove our marketing methods."

Calhonn Sets Price

The question was faced square-
ly at the farm bureau meeting.
Transportation and marketing
are the big problems of Calhoun
county farmers. Mr. Peteet talk-
ed about co-operative marketing
for a little while and he promised
to come back, and tell the whole
county about it. Manager Leeper
of the Fruit Exchange said it
was a purely selfish mission that
brought him there. "Calhoun
county apples set the price that
we sell on, and we are anxious
to see you tackle the marketing
problem," he said.

President Thompson told the
Elxecutive Committee that the
Illinois Agricultural Association
was organized upon the principle
that there are problems in every
county that can not be solved

Big Increase In
Use of Phosphate
Among Producers

Phosphate shipments over Illi-
nois showed an increase of 75
per cent in September. 1923, over
September last year, according
to J. R. Bent, Director of the
I. A. A. Phosphate-Limestone De-
partment. Limestone shipments
show a big increase also.

Mr. Bent attributes this in-
crease to better financial condi-
tions among farmers and to the
fact that many have learned the
value of the use of phosphate and
limestone through actual experi-
ence.

A.F.B.F. Receipts
Show Illinois
At Head of List

The Illlhois Agricultural Asso-
ciation led all other state farm bu-
reaus 1ft Amount paid in to the
treasury «f the American Farm
Bureau Federation from January
1 to Septetnber 1, 1923.

The |. A. A. bad paid in |2S,-
562.40. Ipwa ranked second with
125,304.70, while Ohio was third
with $17,176.29. Illinois headed
the list In amount paid in for 1920
and 1922. and was third in 1921,
being surptissed by Iowa and Ohio.

GROWERS NET GOOD
PRICES THROUGH
FRUjTJXCHANGE

Quincy Organization Beats

Offers of Local Deai^;

Makes Market

Illinois Broom
Com Growers In
Plan To Organize

Broom torn growers in the dis-
trict of which Coles county is the
center hare appointed a commit-
tee of seven to formulate plans
toward the formation of a perma-
nent orgabization for the orderly
marketing of the crop raised in
that section.

This is the outcome of a tem-
porary organization formed last
year for the growers to better
Inform themselves on market
condiiionS. acreage, and other fac-
tors affecting the price received
(or the broom corn crop.

Some ^ery well attended meet-
ings hav# been held In Mattoon
by the Ifarmers interested, as
many as '400 to 600 being in at-
tendance., Frank Harry, Mattoon.
is chairmkn of the temporary or-
ganization, and H. Z. O'Halr,
Bushton, is secretary.

Illinois^ Oklahoma, and Texas
are the leading states for the pro-
duction bf broom com in the
country. Oklahoma growers al-
ready have an organization and
are co-operatively marketing this
year's crop.

STEERING COMMITTEE

A mistake was made in naming
the American Farm Bureau Steer-
ing Committee in the October 6
issue of Ithe Record, the name of
President O. E. Bradfute as chair-
man, being omitted. Mr. Brad-
fute, together with Frank App,
New Jersey; W. H. Settle. Indiana,
J. T. OrB. Texas, and J. F. Burton,
Utah, constitute the committee
which will make plans for 1924

Legislative Committee
Outlines Plans ofA.F.B.F.

Members of the American Farm
Bureau Legislative Committee,
composed of O. E. Bradfute, presi-
dent; General E. H. Wood, Ken-
tucky; Frank App, New Jersey;
W. G. Jameson, Colorado; and
Edward B. Reid, assistant Wash-
ington representative, luncbed
with President Coolidge on Oc-
tober 4 and discussed in detail

with him the farm bureau legis- 'ers warlt a merchant marine and

lative program for the next ses-
sion of Congress.

Eight Points
Here are the eight general
points of the program:

1. Selective immigration as at
present, but that the passports
should be vised at ports of em-
barkation and that the quota
should be based upon the num-
bers of foreign born in this
country as reported in 1890 In-
stead of 1910.

2. Opposition to price fixing
and such legislative panaceas, the
price fixing position to be further
established by referendum.

Oppose Sales Tax

has to be raised, the farm bu-
reau faTors an excess profit tax
and will' fight a general sales tax.

4. Decision on the proposed
plan for consolidation of rail
roads is to be reserved until a
reterendlum is taken and further
studies made by Transportation
Department of A. F. B. F.

5. While believing that farm-

believe in co-operative effort be-
tween t|he government and ship-
ping intjerests in keeping our flag
on the I sea, the farm bureau is
opposed to a direct subsidy.

6. Favor crop insurance and
want Federal Government to make
available such information as is
now being obtained upon which
reliable crop actuarial tables can
be formed.

y^iit Tmth-in-Fabric

7. Will fight for Truth-ln-Fab-
ric legislation.

8. I'armerB favor Henry Ford's
Muscle , Shoals offer — the manu-
facture of cheap fertilizer and
amorillation of hydro-electric

3. On taxation. If more money power.

The Weste^ lUinola Fmtt Ex-
change, Quincy, a eubsidi4ry of
the Illinois Fruit Exchange, has
secured very good results in ship-
ping fruits and vegetables (or Its
members during the summer and
fall. It has viriiially "made"
a market for some product and
has beaten the prices ofj loeal
dealers In handling others. '

The Exchange handled 216 ears
or 12,810 bushels of potatoes,
receiving $12,780.81 In gr^ re-
ceipts or an average of 99 cents
per budhel. The net price t«-
turned to growers was 78 cents
per buskel, compared with Hi av-
erage «f between SO aAd 60
cents per bushel paid by{ local
dealers in Quincy !

During June and earlyi July,
the Exchange handled 2t cars
of ttrawtterries, two of cherries,
and several smaller shipments of
peas and beans. Sales of these
commodities toUUed 121.(97.46,
and 120,116.67 was returned to
growers. A net price of $2.10
per trate was paid te growlers for
8,320 crates of strawberries. Ac-,
cording to A. R. Waite, Manager
of the Exchatage, there wa* prac-
tically ao local market torjatraw-
berries.

Sells OsblMCM

The "co-ot" sold 28 ^ars of
crated and three cars o( bulk
cabbages for members. AiT av-
erage of $1.71 gross per orate or
tl.04 aet-to-grower was neceived
for the cabbage crop. ^t the
same time QuiMy dealens were
offering an average of ?( cents
per crate for cabbages.

Tbeile was hardly iaf local
market for black raspt>er#les. ac-
cording to Mr. Waite, and the
Exchange shipped out setten cars
which^ returned $7,731. 8t net tb
groweik.

"While we beat the prices of
local dealers in handling potatoes
and cabbages by a considerable
margin," states Mr. w4ite, "it
must be kept in mind thfct with-
out tbe Exchange, these 26 cars
of potatoes and 31 cars of cab-
bages would have been idumped
on the Quincy market abd local
markets for these pr«duc^ would
have keen much lower tl^an Omj
were."

Tax Conference
Upholds Farm
Bureau Method

On the question of ho» to find
real values of real estat^ for tax
purposes, the - unanimous sentl-
ment of tbe National Tai Conteii-
ence held at White Sulphur
Springs, West Virginia, was for
comparison of actual s^les val-
ues, John Watson of the! I. A. A.
states, upon his return from tbe
conference. i

"Tbe conference disclosed the
ver>' method that the I. A. A. and
country farm bureaus i^seil this
year," says Mr. Watson: "and it
upheld that method. Ajny num-
ber ot states and even state eom-
missions are using this same
method. I only wjsh Ithat tbe
cotmty boards of review that ob-
jected to ottr plan, and the State
Tax Commission could b*ve heard
this diseussiod."

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Oct 20. 192S

FAC1S GIVEN ON
SAIfS OF ILLINOIS
FARM_PR0OUCTS

Sources of Income Listed;

Coiiparison By Years

Made By A.F.B.F.

PrOsiecU for the new crop
year, 132?-1924, are somewhat
better in Illinois than for the
countr^tj as a whole, according to
the riepartment of Research,
Americiin Farm Bureau Federa-
tion. I

Corn and oat crops are espe-
cially large compared with last
year and ' the general price ten-
denciea for these grains have
been u|iward. The Income from
the lar^e cattle and hog feeding
and dajry industries promises to
be at lAast no less than last year,
states Ithe Department of- Re-
search.

Last jyear, Illinois fanners sbld
H70,0i0,000 worth of products.
There Are 237,181 farms in Illi-
nois aii|d the gross sales receipts
were therefore }2.066 per farm.
The value of all farm property
in Illiniiis in 1919 was $6,667,-
000. Ood and the sales turnover
was' 1]|.6 per cent of this cap-
ital sum.

Sources of Income.

Furtler research shows that 38

T •

per cent of the cash income of
Illinois {farmers last year was de-
rived Irom sales of crops, 35
per ceiit from live stock, and 27
per cent from animal products.

The leading items were hogs,
of whicii J89, 000,000 worth were
sold; (lairy products, furnishing
185,00(1,000 cash return; torn,
)71,00(1,000; cattle, 155,000.000:
wheat, 1*47,000,000: poultry and
eggs, tiT.SOO.OOO; and oats, $24,-
000,00(l|.

Obm 4nd Hogs Lead.

Cornjand hogs together brought
in tl6At000,000 or 34 per cent
of the Itotal cash receipts. Cat-
tle supplied 12 per cent of the
gross ^receipts; daip' products,
18 perjcent; and poultry, eight
per ce4t.

Faroi income in Illinois the
past <lft|een years has shown some-
what different trends from that
of the country as a whole, which
is attrif)uted to the fact that the
(tate has long been a highly de-
veloped! agricultural region..

I ^Comparison.
At t^e present time, income
from s^les in Illinois is 123 per
cent otjthfe 1909 receipts; for the
United JStates it is 157 per cent.
From 19Q9 to 1919 the increase
in Illinois was 100 per cent; for
the coQntry as a whole, 150 per
cent. Illinois farm sales declined
50 per?ce t from 1919 to 1921,
which was somewhat greater than
the avtrage of all states. The

Traffic Dep't Can
Secure Lowest and
Best Rail Routings

The I. A. A. Transportation De-
partment states that it can aefre
farm bureau members through the
correct routing of shipments so
that the lowest rates and quickest
service can be secured.

An example of incorrect routing
was the complaint received by the
department tiom Paris, 111., when
the freight charges on a car of
cattle shipped there from Wauke-
sha. Wis., seemed excessive:

Investigation by the department
disclosed the fact that ihe ship-
ment was badly misrouted, going
from Waukesha to Leithton, 111.,
to Coster, 111., to Indianapolis,
Ind., and then to Paris. The
through rate on this routing is
67 54 cents per hundred.

The shortest routing would
have been from Waukesha to Chi-
cago to Danville and then to Paris,
the through rate being 43 cents
per hundred for this routing.

Nothing could be done by the
Transportation Department as the
shipper had accepted the bill of
lading with the specific routing
and 80 signed his name to it. In
cases of this kind if the consignee
is in doubt as to the best routing,
the information jrill be given by
writing to the department, which
should be done, of course, before
the shipment leaves its shipping
point.

Farm Bureau Radio Program

Every Taecdiiy eve«iBiE the
Farm Bureau Kadi* pro^rmn
In broadcanted from KY1V,
Chleafco. alarttiiK at l»t01 P. M.
The time haif been temporarily
ehhnsed to thla hour.

"From Orehard To Table,***
will he the Mubjeot of V, E.
llnrat of the Federated Fruit
nud Vegetable Urowera on
Tueaday. Ortober sa. At gi20
P. M.. A. P. Taylor of the
American Farm Bureau nrlll*
npeak on, **A Little Group of
Famt Folka At The Croaa*
lloada.*'

On Tueadny eventnfr. Oeto-
ber .til, J. I>. Harper of the
llllnolM Affrlenltnral Aalioelii-
tlon apeakM on. **Farni V^'orker
and WaKe Worker," at »i01
P. M. H, X. Noble, Herretary
of. the National Committee on
Boya and Glrla Club Work
will follow on the anbjeet,
"Our Farm Doya and Glrla."

More Opinions Received
From Voting Delegates

Illinois figure for this year was
barely above the 1909 level,
whereas the total for the country
remained 30 per cent above 1909
figures.

Severity of Depression.

Deflation of wheat prices, low
prices for corn and oats, and
the short crops of oats in 1921
and 1922, made the severity of
the depression intensified in Illi-
nois.

The increase in whoat grow-
ing was made largely at the ex/
pense of corn. Wheat in 1909,
furnished but eight per »cent of
the farm income «tnd corn 22 per
cent. In 1919, wheat had risen
to 17 per cent in the sales ac-
count and corn had declined to
18 per cent. Wheat acreage has
remained large since that date,
but price declines have reduced
its relative standing, wheat sales
supplying but 10 per cent of last
year's receipts.

Hogs Gain.

Hogs have gained substantial-
ly in relative importance since
1920. while horses, which in 1909
were an important sales item,,
have fallen to a position of minor
significance.

Dairy and poultry products
about held their own between
1910 and 1920 in relation to
total sales, but have gained rela-
tively since that time as a result
of the severe deflation of crop
farming.

SU»OL*RY OP S.lIiES — ILLINOIS

(In millions of dollars)
1909-1910 1919-1920 1920-1921 1921-1922 1922-1923

Corn . .1 t S2

Wheat Iv ,., S2

Oats . . I ; .'. 36

Hay ..[ S.*

Fruits J S

Ve^etaBlea C.5

Mtocelltlneous 4.6

>i3e

t 83

t 49

t 71

130

81

43 ■

47

53

se

•-'2

24

10.6

10

6.5

6

7.6

8.5

3.5 '

8.5

9

11.5

7.5

8

18

16

10

12

Totkl I1U.4

Livc^ackl '■

Cattle [ 49

Hoga 1 6(

Sheep, fete t.S

Horses 26.6

liules .. ., 7

I364.0

1265.0

6140.6

6176.6

»3 66 38 65

136 14 <3 89

8 4 3 3.6
16.5 12.6 11 11

9 7 5.5 ' 6.5

Toll

Aula ,

Dairy 46

PoultrsI . . .' 61

If iscellatleous . . ■. 7

6261.6 6160.6

6120.6

6164.0

90 60 62 85

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Grain Growers
Funding Debts
With Debentures

Deljentures have been tend-
ered to the creditors of the U. S.
Grain Growers, Inc., to fund the
debts of the organization and ac-
ceptance hafl been general when
this issue of the Record went to
press.

The I. A. A. is recommending
to its members this step of the
Grain Growers, T-hich includes,
in brief, the pledging of all pres-
ent tangible assets (except need-
ed office furniture) to creditors
and in addition is making pro-
vision . whereby its debentures
may sometime be paid in full.

Xhis is being done in such a
manner that the obligation to
such future payment will not
prejudice its admission , to mem-
bership privileges on contract
grain exchanges and will not
jeopardize future operations.

A. F. B. F. Research

"Prices of fifteen important
t&Tta commodities are higher than
a month ago, eight are lower, and
one is Unchanged. Compared with
a year ago, seventeen are higher
and seven are lower." This is the
summary of the report of the
American Farm Bureau Depart-
ment of Research on October 2.
Hogs

Hog price decline is partly sea-
sonal as spring pigs are arriving
in large numbers. Receipts con-
tinue abnormally heavy compared
with previous years. Neverthe-
less, the stocks of hogs in storage
are being distributed at a satis-
factory rate. Domestic consump-
tion remains high and exports con-
tinue to run ahead of last year.
Foreign countries purchased about
one-third more hog products dur-
ing the first eight months of 1923
than in the same period of 1922.
Cattle

An increase in receipts of short-
fed cattle has caused a decline in
prices on practically all grades.
Total arrivals have been in excess
of the corresponding time a year
ago and well above -the seasonal
average. Stocker and feeder ship-
ments into the main feeding
states have been heavier than in
the corresponding period last year.
Sheep and Lambs

A heavier market supply of
sheep and lambs than last year
has weakened prices somewhat.
Shipments of feeder lambs and
sheep from the leading markets
liave been about 60 per cent heav-
ier than last year.

The wool market, while lower
than a year aso, is beginning to
show more firmness and activity.
Foreign markets are strong at
prices above an importing basis
so that but little wool Ys coming
Into this country. Consumption
by domestic mills continues at a
fairly high rate.

Expressions of their opinion on
the wheat situation have been re-
ceived from more voting dele-
gates of the Illinois Agricultural
Association. Letters were sent
by the News-Publicity Department
to all voting delegates to get
their opinions on the solution of
the wheat situation after the I.
A. A. Executive Committee issued
its wheat statement in August.

"I am heartily against price-
fixing by any political organiza-
tions," states T. R. Lovett, Clark
county, "I am strongly in favor
of co-operative marketing of any
or all farir products and I feel
that I speak for the more pro-
gressive body of our farmers
here when I say that we are sure
that such marketing will be the
only salvation from the present
condition.

Better Marketing

H. B. Koeller, Madison county,
sees more common sense in mar-
keting as a great aid to the sit-
uation. He says, "Farmers as a
rule are poor business men. Very
few pay much attention to that
end of farming — the most im-
portant. We don't market pro-
duce today; we dump it at the
consumer's door as fast as we
produce it and nearly always at
a loss — then raise a big howl the
way they treated us. It's up to
us to help ourselves and we c^
do it. We need a marketing sys-
tem that starts right _ on the
farm."

Mr. Koeller urges warehousing
on the farm if a certain standard
type of warehouse can be agreed
upon. Then a marketing system
built with townshiif county, state
and national units could be built
up. —

World Market

Fixing of a minimum price oa
wheat by law would cause more
vexing problems than it would
solve, according to George Fulk,
Moultrie county. He sees the
farmers' big difficulty caused by'
selling his products on a world
market.

'The truth that hurts is that
we are selling on a world market
and being denied the privilege. of
buying on this same market. It
we wheat farmers, after selling
on the world market today were
allowed to turn around and buy
on this same market, we should
all have a balance left in our
bank accounts," writes Mr. Fulk.

Mr.' Fulk says it woujd be
hopeless to try to force the
prices of grain far above the
world market prices but thinks
that a lowered tariff will com-
pel the manufacturer to lower
his prices through competition
with lower-priced goods from

abroad. Farmers could buy on
a world market.

Eliminate Cbmpetltlon

"I believe that we should prac-
tice efficient farming, diversified
farming, and co-operative mar-
keting," writes John P.- Stout,
v6ting delegate of ' Sangamon
county, "but until we, as farmers,
are/ relieved of world competition
just as the manufacturers- and
the laborers have been relieved
of it, we will never find farming
a profitable business.

"Until our leaders are willing
to take some aggressive action
toward solving this big problem
of world competition, wp may ex-
pect to donate our labor and that
of our families to produce food
for those who are protected from
world competition."

Mr. Stout thinks that the next
16 or 20 years will decide
whether American agriculture is
to be maintained on the standards
o( today or whether the standards
wil} be those of farming in
Europe. ^

MANY IMPORTANT
FACTS REVEALED
AT CONFERENCES'

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DeKalb. Many carloads of dairy
cattle are coming into the dairy
district. This district is not sup-
porting the Chicago Milk Market- -
ing Company, it developed. ■ At
Belleville a plan for reorganizing
the Illinois-Missouri Milk Market-
ing Company was announced.

Bnslness Methods Needed

A need for better business
methods In all co-operative jnar-
keting assdbiations was outstand-
ing in the discussions. In all of
the conferences co-operative mar-
keting was looked upon as tie so-
lution of the economic problem
facing farmers.

President Si H. Thompson, Sec-
retary George Fox, and Walton
Peteet, Marketing Director of the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion, are attending all of the con-
ferences.

This week conferences were
held at Danville, Tuscola, Spring-
field, and Centralia.

On October 23, a conference
will be held at Bloomington for
the seventeenth district; Octotwr
24, at Peoria; October 25, at
Galesburg; and 9n October 26 at
Monmouth.

The Pike County Farm Bureau

collected 6200 rain Insurance for
which It paid |15 premium when a
heavy rain the night before and
threatening weather during the pic-
nic caused a small attendance.

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Not. S, 1923

Number 16

WATERWAY CILL
SHOULD PROTECT
FARMSJIN RIVER

I. A. A. Takes Stand On Bill

To Open Waterway From

Chicago To Gulf

"The development of water
transportation must come and
the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation is for it," President S.
H. Thompson told U. S. Sena-
tors at a hearing on the Mc-
Ckirmick waterway bill in Chi-
cago, "but while you are pro-
Adding for this public improve-
ment you must also protect
farm lands along the Illinois
river from an increased flow of
water. ' '

The McCormick bill provides
for an uppropriation of $5,700,-
Wti to be expended under the
direction of the war department
for making a nine foot navigable
. channel from Utica, Illinois, down
the Illinois and Mississippi rivers
to a point below the mouth of
the Ohio river. There is already
a $ foot channel from that point
to the £ulf, and an Illinois ap-
propriation provides for the com-
pletion of a navigable channel
from Utica north to Lockport.
From Lockport to Lake Michigan
at Chicago there is a navigable
channel which is controlled by
the Chicago Sanitary district.

In th'e bill the Chicago Sani-
tary District is authorized to
withdraw water from Lake Mich-
igan. This is for the purpose of
taking care of Chicago sewerage.
The I. A. A. Stand

The I. A. A. takes the position
that the Sow of water out of the
lake should be controlled by the
Government rather than by Drain-
age District, and that the bill
should carry provision to protect
farm lands against the increased
flow of water. These provisions
would protect land owners and
would make the Government re-
sponsible.

The association also contends
that Chicago sewerage should be
purified before dumping in the
river, as a health precaution.

Railroads Grant
Reduced Fares To
A.F.B.F. Meeting

Arrangements have been made
with the railroads for reduced
round trip passenger fares apply-
ing from all points in the United
States to Chicago for the annual
convention of the American Farm
Bureau Federation which will be
held December 10-14, Inclusive.

Pass Resolution To
Support I. A. A. In
Co-op Marketing

The following resolution was
passed by representatives of the
15th district in conference at
Galesburg on October 25:

"Resolved that we, as" mem-
bers of the Conference on Mar-
keting Problems for the Fifteenth
Congressional District, do heartily
endorse and pledge our support
to any program backed by the
Illinois Agricultural Association
for the marketing of farm pro-
ducts. We do this with the full
knowledge that the farmer will
only come to his own when he
properly organizes for market-
ing."

/. A. A. Taking
Part In Better
Sire Campaign

The I. A. A. is co-operating
with agricultural departments of
railroads. University of Illinois,
Illinois State Dairy Extension Di-
vision, dairy breed associations
and dairy manufacturing associa-
tions in a campaign of dairy
improvement work under the
name of the Illinois Allied Dairy
Interests.

Placing of better dairy sires on
Illinois farms is the main purpose
of the campaign. Dairy trains
will be chartered to stop in towns
throughout the state. The work
will extend over a period of sev-
eral months and will start at
once.

/. C. C Announces
General Inquiry
Into Grain Rates

A nation-wide inquiry into
rates and charges on grain and
grain products has been an-
nounced by the Interstate Com-
merce Commission to begin short-
ly. This will apply to rates on
common carrier shipments on rail
and by water and by rail and
water.

This action follows requests by
the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration and Secretary of Agricul-
ture Wallace that reductions in
export rates be made. The A. F.
B. F. asked a cut of 20 per cent
on export wheat, while Secretary
Wallace has suggested 25 per
cent reduction on all agricultural
commodities.

The Transportation Department
of the I. A. A. expects to take
part in this investigation as af-
fecting Illinois farmers.

AT THE CONFERENCES

Conference Sidelights^

"It is no reflection if a co-op
goes bad now and then, if we
profit by their experience." — Pe-
teet.

Two shipping associations in
Knox county are trying out the
idea of having signed contracts
with members.

"Some times our own folks ac-
cept the criticism of outsiders
without first finding the facts." —
Secretary Fox.

"There is too much tendency
to leave the whole work of the
shipping association to the man-
ager."— McLean Co. man.

"Send the best man you have
in the district to the I. A. A. ex-
ecutive committee, regardless of
what county he is from." — Fox.

"Our big trouble is that there
is too much sentiment and not
enough business in a lot of our
cooperatives." — President Thomp-
son.

"Every shipper wants to see
the cooperative commission com-
panies tried out. but they want
the other fellow to do the try-
ing."— At Peoria meeting.

"The way the truck haulers
pull business for the old-line com-
mission companies, it looks like
they might have a personal inter-
est in it." — Fulton Co.' man.

"Half of our stuff is going to
the Producers and it is increas-
ing. We have got to talk to some
of our managers." — Putnam coun-
ty man. j

"We have monthly meetings of
the Board and direct the business
of our shipping association, r^her
than leading it all to the' Man-
ager."— $oles county man. ' '■

"The Chicago Producers need
to tighten up on their cattle
sales. They have done so well
selling bogs that they almost
have a imonopoly on our busi-
ness."— farm Adviser Allison.

"The diass of service performed
in your organizations will be no
better tHan the men you have.
This is a fundamental question."
— Secretary Fox.

"Ther^ was. only one case of
propaganda against the Produc-
ers in Ford county and we got
the facts and nailed it in a hurry.
That wa^ all that was necessary."
— Farm lAdviser Swaim.

"You red top men must control
the large part of the crop in your
marketing association. It is bet-
ter to wait a year than to start
without St. Then you must know
more about red top than any one
else In dhe world." — Peteet.

CO-OP MARKETING
DECISiON MADE BY

mmm men

Peteet Spealts At Mittooii
Meeting; Committee To ■
Work Out Plan

A meeting of 200 broom com
growers at Mattoon, OctoW 19,
instructed an organization com-
mittee to go forward wi .h the
organization of a coop< rative
marketing association oi the
commodity basis with fivo year
binding contracts and fooling
by grade and quality.

Growers in the Mattoon i listrict
have a verbal agreement tj hold-
for the price of $300 u ton.'
Weekly meetings are bein ; held
to Sod crop conditions and price*
offered in the different ssctlona
of the district. At the October i>
meeting it was^agreed to c<ntinae
the holding policy.

Walton Peteet, Director of Co-
operative marketing of the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Fedclration,
explained the commodity tflan at
the meeting. He. advised gjrowers
to dp ttie work of soiicit^ig for
contracts rather than hiring ex-
peru, and to sign up a . least
sixty per cent of the crop before
permanent organization. 'If yon
can't do this you had bet er not
start at all," he said.

Secretary George A. Fox
I. A. A. told the growers
meeting that the Commodity plan
is sound and the best ttat bu
been worked out.

The new association Kill not
attempt to market the 1S13 crop.

The counties of Coles, Cumber-
land, Douglas, Shelby, Jasper and
Moultrie produce 15,000 acres of
broom com which is prtctically
all of the Illinois crop, ae:urding
to Helvin Thomas, chain nan of
the organization eommittoe Other
members of committee ar^ How-
ard Barker. Areola; Erne it Hog-
land, Mattooii: W. A^
Oakland ; Charles Lucas
van; C. J. Fearda, Neoga;
Brewster, Mattoon.

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Red Top Exchange
Sends Out Final
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The Egyptian Seed
Excbaage, Flora, closed
red top pool on October
has been busy of late
out final checks to memb
average of 13% cents
was received for the pool,
growers 10. S cents. An
of 8 cents 0er pound
when the crop was delivered.

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The llKnob Agricultural AnocUtion Recerd

Nov. S, 1923

Illinois Agricultural Association

Publislt'ed twire a month by the Illinois Agricultural
Association. 6u8 South Dearborn Street. Chicago. Illinoia.
Edited by News Publicity Department, E. L. Bill, Director.

Entry as second class matter Oct. 10, 1921, at the post
office at Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage pro-
vided for in Section 1103. Act of October 3. 1917, author-
Ued Oct. 31. 19Z1.

The individual membership fec2 of the JUinols AgrlcuN
tural Association is five dollars a year. This fee includes
payment of ten cents for subscription to the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association Record.

OFPICERS
Prcsldevt. S. H. Thompcon. Qniaey.
Vl«re-Prealdent. A. O. Eokertt Believm*.
Treasurer. R. A. Cowlea, Bloomlnstoa.
I Secretary, tSeo. A. Fo^, Sycamore. ^

I I ■ B-XECtlTIVE COMMITTEE i

I . I By Congressional Districts «

I tith Henry McGough, Maple Park

12th. .\ G. F, Tullock, Rockford

13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron

15th H. E. Goembel, Hoopole

16th D. G. Reder, Mendota

17th I. F. D, BartoB, Cornell

I 18th 4 C. R. FInley, Hoopeston

I 19th , D. J. Holterman, Sadorus

20th Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21st E. L. Corbin, Carlinville

22nd Stanley Castle, Alton

23rd Carlton Trimble, Trimble

24th Curt Anderson, Xenia

25th .^ Vernon Lessley, Sparta

j . — , ' Directors of De|>artments t

! , I. A.-A. Office t

I General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. D. Harper^

Field Organization, J. C. Sailor; Organization Pub^

llclty, G. E. Metzger; News Publicity, E. L. Bill;

Transportation, L. J. Quasey; Statistics, J. C. Watson;

Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,

A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, C. A. Stewart;

Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone,

J. R. Bent. Legal, Newton Jenkins.

I THE DISTRICT CONFERENCES

I I At thirteen district conferences representatives
' of the Illinois Agricultural Association, county
farm bureaus and cooperative marketing associa-
tions gathered to talk over their problems, to dig
into th« troubles and to find the reasons for the
weak links in the work of organized agriculture.

Certainly there is great encouragement in the
fact that we are facing the problems. Because
there are problems is no reason to be discouraged.
We should not he ashamed to admit our weak-
nesses, nor should we shrink from them.

The chief topic of discussion at all of the meet-
ings was cooperative marketing, and many prob-
lems and weaknesses were found. Criticisms were
made by friends of the movement and .in a con-
structive way, rather than destructive. A hopeful
angle of the question is that there are organiza-
tions in every district that have avoided many
mistakes and are successful. From these organiza-
tions, others can learn.

If the conference idea is worth while, the idea
of talking problems together, swapping experience
and admitting faults, why not have county con-
ferences t Why not make it a year around affair
by visiting successful organizations, studying their
methods and profiting by the experiences?

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' IF IT HAD BEEN IN COURT

At several of the district conferences, officers
and directors of cooperative marketing associations
were asked when they first found out that the
association was in trouble. The usual answer was
at the end of the year when the books were
audited and a statement of the financial condi-
tions made out, long after the mistake had been
made.

This question followed : Do you have a financial
Statement once a month, analyzed in such a way
that you can tell what part of the business is mak-
ing money and what part is losing money ? ' Many
times the answer is no.

The lesson in the questions and answers is very
apparent, but for the sake of clinching the lesson
let us imagine that the scene had been in court
before a jury, and attorneys were doing the ques-
tioning.

Question : Then you admit that you served as 8
director for a year without knowing the financial
Qonditions of your organization?
': Answer: Well no, we had a statement evi
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month, but it was so complicated that I could not
understand the meaning of it.

Question : You were aware then, at every meet-
ing during the year that you did not know the
financial conditions of your company?
Answer: Yes Sir.

Question: Being conscious of the fact that you
did not know the financial condition of your com-
pany, did you ever admit it to the board of direc-
tors, or did you ever demand or ask for an expla-
nation of the statement?
Answer : No sir.

A lawyer could make a pretty good speech to
the jury on these questions and answers, couldn't
he? Let's not give the lawyer a chance to make
that speech. — o —

TAX COMMISSION FAILS TO ACT
After waiting six weeks for the Illinois Tax
Commission to take action toward equalizing val-
uations of farm and city real estate in six counties
where wide inequalities were admitted by the Com-
mission, the following letter was sent to the Com-
mission under the date of October 20.
The Illinois Tax Commission,
Hon. Percy B. Coffin, Chairman, ',

Springfield, Illinois.
Sirs:

On September 8, following the hearing given
by the Illinois Tax Commission to the complaints
filed by the Illinois Agricultural Association, the
Commission unanimously sustained the conten-
tion of the Illinois Agricultural Association and
the County Farm Bureaus participating in the
hearing that gross Inequalities still existed In the
assessment of farm land In six counties as com-
pared with the assessments of ^town and city
lots. At that time, also, against the protests of
the representatives of the Illinois Agricultural
Association, you asked that the Boards of Re-
view be given further time In which to correct
the Inequalities of assessments of the different
classes of property, with clear expression of
your Intention to order reassessments if the In-
equalities complained of were not corrected. You
assured us that the delay would not be permitted
In any way to prejudice the complainant's case.

On September 12, your honorable body gave a
hearing to the Board of Review of Madison
County and to two members of the Board of
Montgomery County. In this hearing the mem-
bers of the Madison County Board of Review,
though not admitting the comparative figures
submitted by the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, did, however, admit that farm land in that
county was assessed, full valuations, at 60 per
cent of their fair value and that town and city
lots were assessed at 40 or 45 per cent of their
fair value. The arguments presented by the
^wo members of the Montgomery County Board
of Review 'also clearly Implied that they were
setting up mere speculation as to the course of
future values as the basis of 1923 valuations.
They also testified that certain corporation law-
yers had aided them not only in fixing the val-
uations placed upon the corporate property in
the county but upon that of farm lands as well.
The Illinois Agricultural Association has In-
formation that the inequalities complained of In
Cass County have only partly been corrected.
It has no information about any action or refusal
to act in Marion County. In the other five i
counties it is certain that nothing has been done. ;
In fact, two Boards of Review, though they knew
that a decision was pending, aUjourned on Sep-
tember 7, before they could receive any official
notice from the Tax Commission.

More than a month has now passed since the
hearings were held. There is widespread com-
ment on the delay of the Tax Commission in tak-
ing action toward correcting the inequalities of -
assessments which were admitted, either openly
or by implication, by the Boards of Review. The
delay of the Tax Commission has seriously pre-
judiced the complainant's case, if the Commis-
sion refuses to correct these flagrant inequali-
ties in valuations. The land owners in the coun-
ties affected, together with the farmers all over
the state, are wanting to know why the Illinois
Tax Commission has failed to act in this im-
portant matter.

I am writing, therefore, to ask that the Tax
Commission give me a statement of what it has
done Ar why it has failed to act, or of what it
proposes to do to correct the Inequalities com-
plained of. Respectfully yours,

Newton Jenkins.
Legal Counsel, Illinois Agricultural Ass'n.

Copies of the above letter were sent to all mem-
bers of the State Tax Commission. As we go to
press a week after this letter was mailed, no ans-
wer or explanation has been made by the Commis-
sion. 0 —

HALONE FLAYS THE COMMISSION
Wm. H. Malone, member of the State Tax Com-
mission forwarded the Record copy of a letter
which he sent to Chairman Percy B. Coffin of the
Commission. The letter follows: ^

Colonel Percy B. Coffin, Chairman,
Illinois Tax Commission,
306 South Wabash Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois. . 1 C.

My dear Colonel Coffin:

I have just been advised by Mr. Newton Jen-
kins, who represented the Illinois Agricultural
Association before our Commission, that you had
not ordered the local assessors in the counties
complained of to make a re-assessment. ThI*
information was indeed a surprise to me for you
will recall that It was understood and unani-
mously agreed upon by our Commission that In
all of the counties where the testimony cleariy
proved the law was violated to the detriment of
the farmer, a re-assessment would be ordered.

The Commission agreed that the element of
time or expense could not justly be raised by
the various local assessors as an excuse to avoid
the work of re-assessing In their various dis-
tricts.

The witnesses representing the farm bureau,
as well as the members of the various Boards
of Review, established very definitely the fact
that the local assessors did not comply with
the law to the end that the farmer in the dis-
tricts complained of is carrying more than his
fair shareof taxation.

The various Industries of the country are In-
deed prosperous, work plentiful, wages good and
most of odr industries running overtime. This
prosperity, however, is unknown to the farmer.
All the goods which he buys are at peak prices,
and yet he is compelled to sell everything he pro-
duces at a much lower price then for years past.
Coupled with this is the fact that his taxes are
higher than ever In the history of our nation.
SOMETHING MUST BE DONE FOR THE
FARMER. Particularly do I believe that we, as
Tax Commissioners, ought to do everything In
our power to protect him.

The great industries of the nation are not
paying their Just share of taxes in spite of the
fact that they are enjoying an unusual run of
prosperity, and when these large industries,
railroads and public utilities escape paying their
just part, the burden fails upon the shoulders
of those less able to pay. The corporations of
the State, as you know, employ the best legal
talent money can afford to watch and protect
their every Interest. The farmer has no such
talent at his disposal. This bejng true for so
many years, tho burden has been skillfully and
deliberately shifted to those who can least af-
ford to carry it.

I am one of those who believe that the very
foundation of our government rests upon the
great open fields of farm land, and that it is the
duty of every patriotic public servant to direct
his attention toward the protection of this foun-
<latlon. With this thought in mind I urged a
re-assessment in all of the assessing districts
complained of by the representatives of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association- I recognize the
weaknesses of the law under which we operate
and realize that even though a re-assessment Is
ordered the same assessors will do the work.
However, that does not relieve tbe Tax Com-
mission from its responsibilities, and I know of
no better way to make the weaknesses of a law
apparent than by its enforcement

The law under which the Tax Commission is
operating stipulates that "whenever it shall ap-
pear to the Tax Commission that the real or
personal property in any county or any assess-
ment district thereof has not been assessed in
substantial compliance to the law, or has been
unequally or improperly assessed, the Tax Com-
mission may^ in its discretion in any year order
a reassessment for such year of ail or any class
of the taxable property In such county or as-
sessment district thereof."

I urgently- request that we notify at once all
the assessors in the districts complained of to
re-assess with the hope that the farmers may
receive some relief from a condition which I
believe to i>e unfair.

Very respectfully yours,

Wm. H. Malone.

J

S, 1923

Nov. 5. 1923

The IIEnou Agricnltaral AwodatioB Record

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Here Is Aim and Plan of
Commodity Marketing

It was the same story, the
story of commodity marketing
that Walton Peteet, James Stone
and Aaron Sapiro told at the
district conferences.

Mr. Peteet, Marketing Director
of the American Farm Bureau
Fe d e r . t i o n
spoke at all but
one conference
and led the
marketing dis-
cussions. A t
Springfield and
Centralla, M r.
Stone, President
and Manager of
the Burley Co-
operative Asso-
ciation of Lex-
ington, K e n-
Walton Peteet tucky, told how
commodily marketing is solving
the problems of tobacco growers
of the south.

At the Peoria conference.
Aaron Sapiro, Attorney (or a
number of organizations, includ-
ing the marketing department of
the American Farm Bureau re-
lated the results of commodity
marketing in California.
To Merchandise
The aim of cooperative market-
ing is to merchandise, the three
speakers said in one way or
another. It is to stop dumping
crops en the market without
knowledge of the supply, demand,
absorbing power of markets, and
grade of product.

The first of the six steps in mer-
chandising is to grade and stand-
ardize the product. In the next
issue of the Record will be a story
about what standardization has
done for the Quincymilk coopera-
tive. Manager Leeper of the Illi-
nois Fruit Exchange says grading
is one of the most important things
in fruit marketing. Mr. Sapiro
says we sell wheat on Govern-
ment grade while the miller buys
on its gluten content.

To have the right kind of pack-
age is the second step. This
point don't mean so much when
it comes to grain and live- stock,
but it has significance in the mar-
keting of eggs, fruit, butter and
other products that go direct to
the consumer.

Extend Markets
The third step of merchandis-
ing is to extend the market. The
Fruit Exchange is selling apples
in many states where they never
gold before. The Quincy milk
company extended its market by
Belling milk to factory workers
and to the schools.

To get people to cat more is
the next thing. That means we
should be interested in selling
two bottles of milk in the place
of one to a family.

Control Flow of Product
We must control the flow of
the product so no market will be
glutted and no market will have
a famine. In other words we
don't want a big run of livestock
on the market today that breaks
the price and a famine tomorrow.
Mr. Sapiro said 70 per cent of
the wheat crop is sold in 60 days
,and he added that it is rotten
merchandising.

The last of the six points of
merchandising is to make the
price at the point of consumption
and not at the point of produc-
tion. We should our own grain
until we sell it to the miller
rather than selling at home.
When we sell at home it goes in-

to the hands of other, people and
the opportunity of merchandising
is lost.

These six things are the aim of
cooperative marketing. Mr. Pe-
teet said the aim of cooperative
marketing is not intended to fix
prices or hold for high prices.
Binding Contracts
A long time binding contract
with growers calling for the de-
livery of their crop to the asso-
ciation is the very heart of the
plan all three men stated. It
holds the man that might sell for
a few cents higher to a competi-
tor who is trying to break the co-
op. It makes possible the borrow-
ing of money so growers can be
advanced a share of the .price
immediately. It gives the asso-
ciation title of the product so it
can merchandise. It assures the
organization that it will have the
Ifroduct to do business witii.
How To Do It
The first principle of organiza-
tion is to organize by the com-
modity and not by locality. If we

are ever going

to sell grain so
we will not
have gluts and
famines, all the
growers of
grain in the
country must
be organized or
tied together
in one organiza-
tion. Now every
grower sells
when he gets
AaroB Sapiro ready. All of
the farmers' elevators sell with-
out knowing what other elevators
are doing. One little elevator
for one little locality cannot mer-
chandise grain. When the whole
commodity is organized together
there is opportunity to merchan-
dise.

Cooperative association should
be organized not for profit with
democratic control, all three men
said.

Pooling

Pooling by grades and quality
is another principle of organiza-
tion. In the burley tobacco asso-
ciation all the tobacco of one
grade is pooled together, and
every man in theDool will get
the same price. Without the pool
the problem arises of whose to-
bacco will be sold today on the
good market and whose a month
from now on a poor market.

This is the commodity plan of
cooperative marketing and is the
plan used by burley tobacco grow-
ers, by cotton growers and by
practically all of the Cooperative
associations of California.

Tunt In On These!

Here are the Farm Bareaa
Radio programs (or the aext
three Taeadar evenlaira. The
tlaie has been aet peraiameat-
Ijr at 8i01 p. at., (roiB Statioa
KYW, Chleaso.

Tnradaj, >'ov. 6, Joha G.
BrowB. prealdeat of the Na-
tioaal Live stock Prodncera.
will apeak oa "Orderly Mar-
ketlagr of I.lve Atoek.** fol-
lowed hr E. B. Heatoa. Dairr
MarketlaK Speclallat of the '
A. F. B. F., with the aaHleet,
"A Bottle of Milk."

E. C Thleat. aeeretary of
the IlllBoU Molatela-Frlealaa
Aaaoelatloa, will be the llrat
apeaker Taeaday evealafr,
Nov. 13, with the anbject,
"Exit the Serah." laaaiedlate-
17 followlBS. H. W. Moor-
koaae, Reaeareh Director of
the A. F. B. F., will talk oa
"Price FlalBS.**

Ob IS'ov. 20, C. B. RBtehlaa.
of the Natloaal Traaaporta-
tioa laatltBte, aad R. C. Pol-
lock. maBajrlBpr director of
the National l.lve fftocfc aad
Meat Board, will talk. Their
aubjecta have aot beea aa-
Boaaeed ret.

APPOI.VTED FIELD MAN

F. H. Kelley, farm adviser of
Edwards county, will take up his
work as field man for the St.
Louis Producers on Nov. 5, hav-
ing been hired by the I. A. A.
Live Stock - Marketing Depart-
ment. He will be financed by
the selling agency and will travel
in all the Illinois territory which
is tributary to the St. Louis mar-
ket.

GALLATIN TO REORGANIZE

The Gallatin County Farm Bu-
reau has made arrangements with
the I. A. A. Organization Depart-
ment to start its three year reor-
ganization campaign on November
10. The township unit plan will
be used.

RULES JkNNOUNCEO
FOR CERTIFICATION
OF FARM FLOCKS

At a meeting in Springfield,
Oct. 27, the committee in charge
of poultry flock and hatchery
certification formulated rules
specifying requirements which
flocks and hatcheries must meet
in order to be accredited.

This committee is composed of
D. E. Hale, Chicago, chairman; J.
D. Harper, assistant secretary of
the I. A. A.; C. P. Scott, chief of
poultry department, Illinois De-
partment of Agriculture; L. E.
Card, head of U. of I. poultry de-
partment. Miss Dorothea Rainey,
representing the hatcheries; and
Lyle Funk, representing the
breeders.

Rules

Any poultry flock supplying
eggs to an accredited hatchery
must meet and maintain the fol-
lowing standards and require-
ments w>hich are hereby officially
prescribed.

1. No breeding birds other than
those passed by an authorized in-
spector shall be Icept in these flocks
during the hatching: season.

2. All birds must be pure bred.

3. Only one variety shall be al-
lowed on a farm, unless, where
more than one variety is kept, am-
ple provisions have been made to
keep these varieties and their eggs
separate.

4. Each bird must conform in a
reasonable degree to the standard
for the breed and variety as set
torth in the American Standard
of Perfection. This shall be con-
strued as meaning that no birds
decidedly off type or color or dis-
qualified specimens shall be al-
lowed to remain in the flock.

Egg ProdaetloB.

5. Each bird must conform in>a
reasonable degree to the standard
for high egg production as set
forth by the Poultry Division- of
the College of Agriculture of the
University of Illinois. It is sug-
gested that every flock owner keep
a record of the daily egg produc-
tion of the flock.

For the season of 19S4 this shall
be construed as meaning that fe-
males shall have medium length
heads, prominent eyes. deep, rec-
tanguar bodies, soft and pliable in
the abdominal region. No extreme-
ly small or unusually large coarse
birds or those lacking in strength
and vitality shall be passed. Males
should be quick maturing, medium
size for the breed and show vitality
as indicated by the head and body
shape.

Diaeaaed Birds. ^

6. Tf disease should develop dur-
ing the breeding season, the affect-
ed birds shall be immediately re-^
moved from the flock.

7. Each male bird ;and female
shall be sufficiently matured at
the time of inspection to reach'
with reasonable care full growth
and maturity by January 1. preced-
ing the hatching season.

8. Close i-ntireedlne: shall not be
practiced and a statement of the
name of the breeder and the known
blood lines of all males shall be
/nade to the inspector.

9. Each bird passed by the in-
spector will be banded with a
sealed numbered lee band fur-
nished at cost by the r>fvlsion of
Standardization and Markets.

10. When the flock meets the

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Stone Tells of
Co-op Tobacco
Merchandising

"I was a speculator for twenty-
five years," said James C. Stone,
President and
Manager of the
Burled Tobacco
Growers' Coop-
erative Assocta-
t i o n , at the
Springfleld and
Centralia c o n-
ferences.

"In 19 19 1
sold 4 2 acres
of tobacco for
$46,000 and the
next year that
Jamr* stoae g^me 42 acres
lost me |14, 000. It was too much
for me. No business can stand up
under such fluctuations. It is
the thiAg that brought coopera-
tive marketing of burley tobac-
co."

FVoni 12 to 21 Cents
"In 1920 the price of tobacco
was approximately 12 cents a
pound. The first pool of the as-
sociation in 1921 averaged ap-
proximately 21 cents a pound.
Of the BOO million pounds in the
1922 pool, 155 million pounds
have been sold and my judgment
is that the average price to grow-
ers will be twice as high as the
1920 price. The whole overhead
cost of the association in the
first year was $1.55 per hundred
pounds. Of that amount 30 cents
was for the purchase of irare-
houses and is an investment
rather than a cost."

"The greatest thing we have
in the Burley Association is the
Social Service Department which
works with the growers in the
field. The aim of cooperative
marketing is to first get a fair re-
turn for the product, but after
all the final result is in bow that
money is spent.

The Valley Cabin

"On the hill there is a mansion
and there lived the landlord fami-
ly with all the refining influences
that money could buy. In a cabin
in the valley the tenant family
lived, toiling out a meager .4ivlng
in the tobacco fields — mother,
kids aad all. It |s wrong. You
can't make good citizens out of
that condition."

P«t*S

NO RAISE WANTED
IN FRUIT RATES,
DECLMS I.A.A.

Traffic Department Enters

Protest In Complaint

Made Before I.C.JC.

The I. A. A. Transportation De-
partment is representlirg , the in-
terests of Illinois shipper^ in pro-
testing a possikle raise |in fruit
and vegetable rates in the sute
as a result of the c^inplaint
brougkt before the Itterstate
Commerce Commission i by the .
Indiana Public Service Oommla-
sion against the Baltituore ft
Ohio and other railroads,

The complaint charges that
rates on fruits and vegetables
from points in Indiana 1)0 Chica-
go are unreasonable and unduly
indiscriminatory to shippers from
that state in comparison with
rates paid by Illinois shippers.

"We are trying to prel^ent any
raise in rates for fruit a(nd vege-
table producers of sotittiem Illi-
nois," states L. J. Quase^-, Direc-
tor of the Transportatioa Depart-
ment. "We do not obje«;t if the
Indiaaa rates are lowered, but we
do protest any raise in otir rates.
Although the railroads are de-
fendants in this case, they would
welcome an increase in Illinois
rates, be<;ause , they hate made
attempts in the past to b^ve them
raised." j

Mr. Quasey says thatj present
economic conditions amoilg south-
ern Illinois fruit growers 90 not
warrant any increase in rates on
fruits and vegetables and would
hinder development of tke indus-
try.

Ite also states that ^t present
rates have l>een in ^«et (or
many years.

above requirements an inspection
certiflcite Is Issutd to the flock
owTier.

Trade-Mark
The Illinois Department Of Ag-
ricultulre has designed ant will
furnisi a distinctive trade-mark
to be Used on Illitiois chides pro-
duced j by accredited hatcheries
subject to the following regula-
tions i which are' hereby pre-
scribe!^:

1. Oiily chicks hatched from eggs
produced by accredited hatchery
flocks rnay be sold under the State
Trade-Mark.

Oraoes of chirks shall be recog-
nized as follows;

Oracle A: Chicks from flocks
meetinfe the foregoing - require-
ments.}

Grade AA: Chicks from flocks
that ill addition to meeting the
foregoing requirements have been
accredited by the State Veterinar-
ian aS being free from Baciliary
White IDiarrhea. Additional grades
based on production records will be
recognised later.

iBSveet Chlcka.

2. Chicks must be carefully In-
spected at the tlTne of shipment
and viust be normal. Delayed
hatch^. "helpouts." premature
hatched, partially absorbed yolk-
sacs, weak, deformed, crippled, fed.
waterSd. chilled, or chicks Inpured
in anjj other way -eball not be sold
under J the State Trade-Mark.

3. Chicks over forty-eight honrs
old slnll not be sold under the
State fTrade-Mark.

4. Off-color chicks not represent-
ative [of the varletv shall T>ot be
sold tinder the State Trade-Mark.

5. Nio chicks shall he sold for
resale as dav-old chicks under the
State Flrade-Mark.

s frr

Inspection Law
Backed By I. A. A.
Is Working Well

That the grading 'and inspec-
tion service of the Illinois De-
partment of Agriculture is func-
tioning well for the keneflt of
growers is shown in the follow-
ing examples oited by H. W. Day,
Supep^ising Inspector ot the Di-
visiob of Standardization and
MarkeU.

In one case, two growrers who
lived 10 miles apart eadh shipped
15 to 18 cars of peacfaies during
the season, the quality being ap-
proximately the same. Both sold
throtigh the same broker. One
used the state grading and in-
spection service. The other did
not. ^

Tke grower who used the ser»
vice averaged about 20 cents
more per bushel for his entire
crop than the other grower. The
reason was, states Mr. Day, that
the graded and inspected ship-
ments were sold on the basis of
government inspection certificates.

In another case, a grower
shipped a car of peathes from
Centralia to Memphis. Tenn. The
car Was inspected at the shipping
point. The market on peaches
dropped while the car was en
routfe and the buyer wired back
on teceipt of the shipment that
it was not up to grad% and asked
for disposition of car.

The shipper ordered the car
reinapected in Memt^hls and it
was found up to grade as, re-
ported. The bhyer took the car
witkout further argument.

Il-

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The DlinoU Agricultural Attociation Record

Nor. 5. 1923

Here^Jire Youyt Answers ^To * The
I' Problems of Illinois Agriculture

To begin with, it was the first time the Illinois Agricultural
Association and county farm bureaus have deliberately faced
their troubles. At every one of the thirteen district conferences,
a large part of the day was spent in digging into the troubles of
farm bureaus and cooperative marketing associations.

Next comes the fact that our greatest problem is with market-
ing and distribution of crops. Cooperative marketing was the
taajor subject at every conference. This question was discussed
up to the very last hour of the day, and even then it was hard
to get away from it.

Not once In any one of the conferences was there an expression
of doubt about cooperative marlceting being the way to solve the
problems of selling and distribution. At four of the meetings, the
questions of political action, tariff, and price-fi.\ing were introduced,
but with very little discussion or support. Over and over there was
very defiuite e-xpression showing that you are expecting to go for-
ward on a program of cooperative marketing.

The whole question was recog-
nized very definitely as an eco-
nomic problem which must be
solved by an economic remedy,
-and by farmers themselves if it
is to bt solved at all.

Uve Stock Marketing

Cooperative live stock shipping
associations and producers coop-
erative commission companies
were discussed at every meeting.
The sum-up of the evidence on
shipping associations points
straiglit to the conclusion that
where there is a board of direc-
tors wko are meeting regularly, a
good manager has been employed,
and all work together on the job,
at that point the shipping aaso-
ciation is successful and growing.
The only exception to this is
where there is not suflScient busi-
ness to support an association or
trucking has taken the place of
■hipping by rail.

Let's take a look at some of
the admissions made. Some testi-
monials were made that boards of
directors do not meet more often
thaa once a year, some not more
than two or three .imes, and
some Just when they have to.

Some of you stated that your
managers, the men you hired, are
not sold on cooperative market-
ing.

Many of you declared that old
line commission companies and
local stock buyers are fighting
you and a few said that not much
is being done to overcome this
opposition.

Many of you stated that your
association is not incorporated.

Practically all shipping asi
ciations were organized by farm
bureaus. In the majority of
cases the farm bureau has a re-
lation to the association and is
h-elping to work out its problems,
but in. a few txutances this is not
true.

Cooperative Commission
Companies

Not all associations are con-
signing all of their shipments to
Producers' cooperative commis-
sion companies at Chicago, East
St. Louis, Peoria, and Indianapo-
lis, but all of them are hoping
that the commission companies
will grow to such an extent that
they will be the dominating factor
and can stabilize live stock prices.

After all, the manager of the
association has more Influence in
determining the place where
stock shall be shipped than any
other person, according to all of
the evidence presented. In a few
cases the boards of directors have
passed a resolution to the effect
that all stock is to be shipped to
the Producers' companies.

If there was one outstanding
criticism of the Producers' Com-
panies, it was that there is need
of % field service to go into the
country and explain the whole

thing. All evidence pointed to
the fact that the confidence of
shippers in the Producers' com-
panies is growing and a larger
percentage of shipments are going
to them. Several times it was
said that farmers want the Pro-
ducers' companies to have the
most expert salesmen there are
to be found.

Grain Marketing
A discussion of farmers' ele-
vators in several districts revealed
the fact that many concerns are

There Is a Bright Side

Y««, thrrr la n woaderfal
mtorj •( achlevemrnt of tke
work of oncaolsed aarlcnltare
■■ IlllBOla, bnf at this partic-
ular aerlea of roBfereBcra, th*
w««k llBka wore belnx kaat-
«l,

Joat keep la Mind f kat omlj
12 7rara afro the flrat faraa
biLrr«u ^na orjcanliedt tkat
todar there are 05 of the 103
ronntlea that have orfraniaa-
tloBa and that all have eoai-
hlned toaether In a bnalBeaa
orvaalsatlOB.

DoB't fonret tkat tke live
atoek niarketlna plan - |ltarted
leaa thaa two years aao. and
that today there are 535 co-
operatleve ahlpplnff asaocla-
tloaa In the atate haadilBjr
approximately ISO.OOO car-
loada of live atockt that the
ProdDcera Co-operatWc Coat-
mlaaloB compaalea on tke
foor Biarketa to whlck vre
aklp are anbataatlal, aobljr
eoBcema.

There la a briaht aide, bat
looklas at tke brlsbt aide all
of tke time will Bever make
botk aldea brickt, wUI Itf

stock companies rather than co-
operative elevators. Several ele-
vators paid dividends in the face
of the fact that they had not
earned the money. An outstand-
ing weakness, according to many
men, is that they do not have an
analyzed statement of the finan-
cial affairs of the elevator oftener
than once a year. Mistakes usu-
ally happen because they do not
have the facts.

At all of the conferedces in the
grain section, Robert Cowles,
Treasurer of the I. A. A., speak-
ing tor the U. S. Grain Growers,
Inc., explained that every effort
is being made to get the financial
affairs of the organization in
shape so it can sell grain on the
Exchange.

It w^as explained that officers
of mid-west State Farm Bureaus
requested the Marketiug Depart-
ment of the American Farm Bu-
reau to form a national grain
marketing plan based on con-
tracts with growers and pooling
by grade. In the same resolution
the officers approved the plan of
the U. S. Grain Growers. Inc., to
sell through the Grain Exchange,
with the idea of later merging
the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc.,
with the national plan when it
was approved.

Walton Peteet, Marketing Dir-
ector of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation, stated that the
new national wheat marketing
plan recently announced waa in-

tended to fulfill the first clause
of the mid-west resolution.

The new national wheat mar-
keting plan has not yet been sub-
mitted to the I. A. A.

The Fruit Exchange

The Texico unit of the Illinois
Fruit Exchange is functioning
one hundred per cent and grow-
ers are well satisfied. The Alma
unit is handling about 50 per
cent of the produce of the dis-
trict. There, many growers have
not kept their contracts. Repre-
sentatives of locals said they are
well pleased with the sales work
of -the exchange, but more mem-
bers are needed and there are
several production centers that
want organization. It is proba-
blt that the Exchange will carry
on. a campaign this winter to in
crease membership and organize
new local associations.

Confidence In Co-ops

"The confidence of men of ma
ture judgment in cooperative mar
keting is the thing that im-
presses me," President S. H
Thompson says about the district
conferences. "Poor management
and the lack of an accounting
system has caused more failures
than any other thing. No, the
directors can not blame the man-
ager, it is their own fault."

"The need of leadership is ap-
parent," Mr. Thompson says.
"There is too much of the 'let
George do it,' idea in our orga-
nization after they are started."

The Next Step

"The time has come for the
next step in live stock market-
ing," said Mr. Peteet in summing
up the conferences. "Shipping
association do not have the feel-
ing of ownership of the commis-
sion companies, which they must
have. After all it is their com-
mission company. Our organiza-
tion is too loose.

"Where the board is active,
the organization is uniformly
good and growing. Where the
whole thing is left to the man-
ager, it may be good and it may
be bad."

THE UTEST DEVELOP-
MENTS IN TAXATION

Greene County
Man Tells What
Bureau Means

"What is the Farm Bureau?"
asks L. R. Lee, Roodhouse, 111.,
in the Green county newspaper
Farm Bureau special edition. "It
is not our office at Carrollton. It
is not our farm adviser. It is not
our executive board. It is an
organization of farmers, tor farm-
ers, and run by farmers. It has
saved the farmers money directly
through their taxes, shipping as-
sociations, farm loan associations,
legislation, and in many other
ways.

"But its greatest good is done
Indirectly, which we can see if we
look deep into the very points
that I have mentioned. Every
other industry seems to realize
what the Farm Bureau does
better than the farmers does him-
self," concludes Mr. Lee.

Mr- Lee is president of the
Greene County Farm Bureau.

Since the letters on page 2
were put in type, the press has
carried an account of the resig-
nation of Col. Percy B. Coffin,
Chairman of the Illinois Tax
Commission. In some quarters
his resignation has been ascribed
to charges brought against him
by the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation. Whatever the reason
for Colonel Coffin's resignation,
the Association wishes it under-
stood that it has made no charges
against any individual on the Tax
Commission. It has charged the
Tax Commission with breaking
its promise and with failure to
do its lawful duty. Before
Colonel Griffin's resignation the
Illinois Tax Commission was -on
trial before the farmers of Illi-
nois. The resignation of the
chairman of the Commission, and
the appointment of a new mem-
ber have not changed the situa-
tion in the slightest degree. The
Tax Commission is still on trial
before the farmers of Illinois.
One member of the Commission
has declared himself ready to
carry out his promise and per-
form the duty laid upon the Com-
mission by the law which created
it. What are the other members
of the Commission going to do?

FOORFONDAMENTALS
FOR COOPERATIVES
BY SECRETARY FOX

Correct Organization-Proper

Finance- Good Management

and Accounting

A. F. B. F. Research

The Knox CovBty Farm Bnrcan

reports the strongest demand for
limeBtone in the history of the
county bureau. Several elevators
and shipping associations are now
handling the product at the request
of the farm bureau.

Under date of October 23, out
of 24 farm commodities, 9 are
above a year ago in price and 15
are below. Compared with last
month, 13 are higher. 9 are lower,
and 2 remain unchanged. Cattle,
bogs, and sheep are under last
month and last year. Corn is the
only grain above a year ago.
Dairy and poultry products are
running about the same.

Com Higher

Corn production is forecast at
a trifie over three billion bushels.
About one-fifth will be sold as
corn. Price at Chicago is now
14 cents higher than last month
and 31 cents above the same date
last year. The average price for
this crop year . promises to be
enough above last year to yield
at least ^100,000,000 additional
income.

>VIieat Situation

Wheat is six cents higher at
Chicago than a month ago and
10 cents above three month ago,
but five cents under one year
ago. Wheat shipments abroad
since July 1, have been 40 per
cent less than the same period in
1922. Foreign demand yet to be
exerted, coupled with low supply
east of the Rockies, and the
thirty cent tariff give hope for a
rising wheat market.

"There are four fundamentals
that we must carry out in our co-
operative marketing associations,"
said Mr. Fox. "The first one Is
to be organized right. The direc-
tors have a proper function in
the management of the organiza-
tion that can not be carried on
in any other way. The manager
can not afford to do without the
judgment of the directors.

"The second point is that you
must be properly financed. Better
not start until yoa are financed
right.

"You must have good manage-
ment and that means the direc-
tors of the association as well as
the hired manager.

"Next comes a good accounting
system. If at the end of every
month your board of directors
could have a financial statement
analyzed so that it shows the
profit or loss of each department
of work, I would trust their
judgment in directing the affairs
of the association. But the trou-
ble is that the Boards of direc-
tors do not have such a state-
ment.

"We consulted one of the fore-
most accountants in Chicago and
he told us how the books of 127
elevators in Minnesota are kept
in one office. Every night that
office knows the exact standing of
every association. Cooperative
associations are not now getting
that kind of service, but they
must get it. We are studying a
plan to do that thing now."

Big Gain Shown
In Receipts and
Profits of Agency

The Indianapolis Producers
Commission Association received
3,217 cars of live stock during
June, July and August, 1923, as
compared with 1,682 cars for the
same period last year. This is an
increase of 91 per cenl.

At the same time, the profits
for the period showed an increase
of 170 per cent this year over
1922. Profits for June, July and
August, 1922, were $7,449.81;
for the same months this year,
$20,480.84.

This example illustrates how
handling costs are reduced with
volume of business and larger
refund is assured to member ship-
pers.

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Nov. 20, 1923

Number 17

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J. A. A. ANNUAL
MEETING TO BE
HELD JAN. 16-17

Sessions At Galesburg; May Hold
State-wide Markets Con-
ference Jan. 15

The ninth annual meeting of
the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation will be held in Gales-
bnrg on January 16 and 17.
These dates were set by the
executive committee at their
meeting November 9.

A meeting tor managers,
bbards of directors and officers
at marketing organizations is
planned tor January 15, tbe day
prior to tlie annual meeting
proper. Definite announcement
will be made later.

Commktees Appointed.

By motion of the committee
the president was asked to ap-
point a committee on constitu-
tion and by-laws which will make
a study of the constitution and
will review all changes suggest-
ed. The motion carried the sug-
gestion that proposed changes
be sent to this committee thirty
days prior to the annual meet-
ing date.

Budget Committee.

A committee to prepare tbe
budget for next year, composed
of President S. H. Thompson,
Secretary George A. Fox and the
Finance Committee, composed of
Charles Flnley, Henry McGough
and A. O. Eckert, was elected
by the executive committee. Tbe
report of this committee will l>e
in the form of a recommendation
to the new executive committee
elected at the annual meeting.
New FVnit Committee

An advisory committee of six
for the Fruit and Vegetable Mar-
keting Department was appoint-
ed upon the recommendation of
A. O. Eckert, chairman of that
committee. Tbe new members
of the committee are Prof. W. S.
Brock and Prof. W. H. Ll6yd,
both of the Horttcditural De-
partment of the University, I. D.
Snedeker, Jerseyville; Willis Se-
ward, Quincy; Robert Endicott,
Villa 7idge: and Frank Lanter
of BelleTille.

Co-op Marketing
Day To Precede
A. F. B. F. Meet

A co-operative marketing con-
ference has been called by Wal-
ton Peteet, Marketing Director
of tbe A. F. B. F. for Saturday,
December 8, which precedes the
four day annval meeting of tbe
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Reward Offered
For Bootleggers
ofT.B. Cattle

To stop the bootlegging of
T. B. cattle into the state, the
Illinois Agricultural Association
offers », reward of 1 100 on the
first conviction in each county
for violation of state or national
law or regulation, prohibiting
the importation of tut>erculous.
cattle into the state.

The I. A. A. offer Is made on
the provision that the farm bu-
reau within the county offers a
similar amount for first convic-
tion, making a total reward of
$200. The conviction must be
for a violation committed after
this reward offer is made, and is
not retroactive.

Numerous reports clearly indi-
cate to I. A. A. officials that
tuberculous cattle are being
smuggled . Into tbe state without
regard for law. This is especial
ly true on the northern border
line of the state.

An urgent demand by many
interested in eradicating tuber-
culosis in the state has resulted
in this action.

PULL OUT, PLOW AROUND, OR TURN IN
TOR THE DAY?

Many Poultrymen
Apply for Use of
Inspection Plan

A large number of poultrymen
and hatchery owners have ap-
plied to tbe I. A. A. and th°
State Department of Agriculture
at Springfield for Inspection of
flocks and hatcheries under t.'ie
new plan of state-certified flocks
and accredited hatcheries, ac-
cording to J. D. Harper, assis-
tant secretary of the I. A. A.

An examination for Inspectors
to work under the plan was held
at the University of Illinois on
November 13, and subsequent
examinations will be held as
men are needed for the work.

Trip To Europe
Is Planned For

Illinois Boys

Plans were made for sending
the Whiteside county dairy cat-
tle judging team, champions of
the United States, to tbe Royal
Stock Show in England to com-
pete for world honors, at a re-
cent meeting of farm organiza-
tion and dairy manufacturing in-
terests.

Secretary George A. Fox of
tbe I. A. A. was appointed chair-
man of a committee to flnance
the trip and Mr. L. P. McMillan,
Banker of Rockford was appoint-
ed secretary-treasurer.

It's at Galesburg,

Jan. 16 and 17!

At Galesburg, January IS
and 17, the ninth annual
meeMng of the I. A. A. will
be held. Save these dates
and make plans to be on
hand. Make a vacation out
of it and bring your wife
along; It will help to make
the work eaaler all year.

The program In the mak-
ing promises to be one of
the best, A previous one
day meeting Is planned for
executives and manager* of
marketing companies, a new
feature for the annual meet-
Ing.

Send your hotel reserva-
tions to the 1. A. A. office.
Other definite announce-
ments ef the meeting will
appear in the next Issue of
the Record.

More Than 165,000
Pounds of Wool To
1923 Illinois Pool

Illinois farmers have consigned
approximately 165,000 pounds of
wool to the 1923 wool pool which
is about 20,000 pounds more
than last year, according to C. A.
Stewart of the I. A. A. Lire
Stock Marketing Department.

The wool market is very slow
at present, says Mr. Stewart, and
it is not likely that conditions
will favor movement of the
pooled wool in the near future.

TO USB NEW LAW

Officer* of the Ozark unit of
the Uliaois Fruit Exchange, tn
Johnson county, are making plans
to reorganize soon and to in-
corporate under the Illinois Co-
operative Marketing Act which
went into effect July 1. This
unit will be tbe flrst to come un-
der the {act. All other units are
expecting to reorganize during
the winter.

Fruit Interests
Asked To Fight

Freight Boost

Effort] is : being made by tbe
I. A. A. Transportation Depart-
ment to get all fruit and veget-
able interests of the state to
assist in the flght against an in-
crease In freight rates.

The Indiana Public Serriee
Commlseion complained before the
Interstate Commerce Commission
that frdigbt rates on fruits and
vegeubles to Chicago are out
of line with Illinois rates to
Chicago. A "hearing was held
March 1, at which time tbe fruit
and vegetable interests of Illinois
were ndt represented.

The L A. A. and Illinois Com-
merce Commission have petitioned
the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission I for a rehearing of tbe
case, tbe I. A. A. is inviting
al interests to work with tbe
Transportation DepaitM€ttt on
this problem. •. • r'

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FARMERS NOT OUT
OF THE RUNNING
ON TAX PROBLEM

All Illinois Knows That State
' Body Has Broken Its
Promise

The State Tax Commission
knows that the farm bureau is
able to sit up in bed even if
vaUuations of farm land are not
of line with city real estate in
seven' counties.

At the same hour the last
Record was going to press,
I. A. A. Information Depart'
released a story to the press
charging, the ^Commission with
evading their lawful duty as laid
down by the act that created tbe
Commission and of breaking their
promise made to the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association to order
reasaeaements in seven counties
where wide inequalitiee of as-
sessments existed.

In the

The next morning the Chicago
Tribune carried a front page
column story telling all about
the I. A. A. charge and printing
part of tbe letter Attorney New-
ton Jenkins sent to the CommU-
slon. All of tbe Chicago papers
carried the story, the preia wire
associations ticked the charge
off to papers all over the state,
and a few days later tbe Orange
Jndd Farmer and Prairie Far-
mer both carried flrst page
storiea.

The Chicago American waited
a few days and came out with
an editorial warning the power*-
that-b« that it would be a good
idea to play aqnare with the
farmer crowd.

Bat No Answer.

But no answer or excuse has
come from the Tax Commission
to the I. A. A. office, in the face
of this barrage.

A few days after the news-
paper* carried the story that
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A.F.B.F. Meet
To Hear About
I. A. A. Tax Work

"The taxation work aeoom-
plished by the I. A. A. Is the best
project carried on by a state
farm bureau that I know of,"
says BeereUry John Coverdale
of th^ American Farm Bureau
Federation.

Mr.^ Coverdale has asked John
C. WaUon, in charge of tax
work for the I. A. A., to tell
about his work at the annual
meeting of the FedetmttM .!■
Deeember.

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The niinoit AgricultimJ A»»ocUtion Record

Nor. 20, 1923

Illinois Agrlcultjiral Association

Published twice a month by the IlIlNola Affrlcuttural
Asflociatlon. 608 South Dearborn Street, Chicago. Illtnola.
Edited by News Publicity Department, B. U. BUI. Director.

Entry as second class matter Oct. 10. 1921. at the post
olSce at Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March 3, 187>.
Acceptance for mailinflr at special rates of postage pro-
vided (or in Section llOJ. Act of October 3. 1917. author-
lied Oct. 31. 1921.

The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association is five dollars a year. This fee Includes
payment of ten cents for subscription to the lUlnola Ag-
ricultural Association Record.

OPFirERS

I PrMidmt. S. H, TIWHpaoa, anlaey.

I . Vlre-rre«Meat. A. O. Brkert, BeHerlUab

TT«aa«rer. R. A. Cowles. BloosalBstoa.
geCTetary, Geo. A. Foa« Sye««s»y.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEB
By Congreaaiooal Districts

11th Henry McGough, Maple Park

12th Q. F. Tullock, Rockford

13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron

1Sth...i h. E. Goembel, Hoopole

16th D. G. Reder, Mendota

17th rf.../. F. D. Barton, Cornell

18th C. R. Finley, Hoopeston

1$th D. J. Holterman, Sadorus

20th Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21st E. U Corbin, Carllnville

22nd Stanley Castl«, Alton

23rd. .rr; , Carlton Trimble, Trimble

24th Curt Anderson, Xenia

ZSth Vernon Lesaley, Sparta

Directors ot Departmenta
I. A. A. OIBce
General Office and Aatlatant to Secretary, J. D. Harper;
Field Organization, J. C. Sailor; Organization Pub-
licity, Q. E. Metzger; New* Publicity, E. L. Bill;
Transportation, L. J. Quasey; Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowlea; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A. B, Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, C A. Stewart;
Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Llmeatone,
J. R. Bent. Legal, Newton Jenkins.

I THE REAL TAX PROBLEM

Not a word from the State Tax Commission.
No answer to our letter asking what it has done,
why it has failed to act, or what it proposes to do.

This is after the Commission agreed with us
that our contentions are correct. , This is after
the Madison County Board of Review admitted
to the Commission that farm land valuations are
higher than city real estate. It is after the Mont-
gomery Board of Review testified to the Commis-
sion that it could not reduce valuations on farm
land because it had an agreement with corpora-
tions of the county. The State Tax Commission
has not answered our letter after 23 days of wait-
ing, even though it promised us that it would
order reassessments in seven counties where there
are wide inequalities of assessments, if the county
Boards of Review did not correct the inequalities
of their own accord.

The Commission, has not offered an argument
why it cannot do the thing it promised. It has
not offered an excuse. It has not refuted an
argument.

That is where we are in this question of re-
assessments in seven counties, but the immediate
question begins to look like the small end of the
real problem facing Illinois farmers. With the
I. A. A. Tax Department on the job, and with
plenty of ammunition left, let us leave that ques-
tion for a moment to look at the big problem.

The State Tax Commission is created to carry
out a state' law. The; members take an oath of
office, swearing they will do their duty.

County farm bureaus and the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association have presented a problem to
this Commission. The farm bureau has spent
much time and money on getting facts and truth
to present to the Commission. The farm bureau
presented hard, cold facts to the Commission, not
bunk, not half truths. It has steered clear of
politics, wire-pulling and trickery to win its case.
It has played a clean, square game. It has not
had to back up on any point. And up to this
date the Commission created to carry out a state
law has not shown the courtesy of an answer.

If this is the kind of treatment that organized
farmers will continue to get, the big problem is
not the reassessments in these seven counties.

While we are on the subject, let ns not forget

that it is organization that has made the whole
work on the problem of farm taxes possible. It
is not a mere "happen-so." It is self-help.
Illinois farmers are paying the bill through their
membership fees to county and state farm bu-
reaus. The tax work started three years ago.
This is the first year that the county tax prob-
lem has been tackled.

If we are going on and solve the tax problem,
get the final answer to it, it will be accomplished
by self-help, by organization. Mere promises
will not solve the problem. The right kind of
laws may have a part in it, but the real answer
is organization. We are down the main highway
to another crossroad on the tax problem.

CO-OPS AND FARM BUREAU

What relation should the county farm bureau
have to co-operative marketing associations with-
in the county! That was one of the questions
up for discussion at the district confeirences.
Prom the evidence presented, not many county
farm bureaus have a very definite relation to
the marketing associations. The general trend
of thought leaned toward the idea that, the county
farm bureau must have some kind of interest in
marketing organizations if they foster their or-
ganization. Several times it was stated that a
few farm bureau members said they did not need
the farm bureau after the live stock shipping
association was organized.

In this issue of the Record Farm Adviser Ey-
man tells how Jersey county has solved this prolv
lem. The Jersey county plan is working well
under the conditions of that county.

Let's make the Record a clearing house of ex-
perience on this question the next several months.
Write us the experience you have had in your
county. Will the Jersey county plan work in
your county, and if not, why nott Should there
be a relation between farm bureau and marketing
associations t Send the Record your ideas.

CLEAN MILk INCREASED DEMAND

The experts say that a standard, quality prod-
uct is the first thing for cooperative marketing
organizations to strive for. Is it all theory and
bunk or is there some truth in it T

Here are some cold facts bearing on the subject
that come from a year and half of exi>erience of
the Quincy Cooperative Milk Producers' Associa-
tion.

In 1921 fifty-five milk dealers of Quincy were
charged with selling unsanitary milk. There was
more milk than there was demand for.

The Quincy co-op produced a clean, standard
product and advertised it. Mjlk consumption has
increased 25 per cent in the past year and th» de-
mand is greater than can be supplied. The City
Health Department is a real friend and help to
the Quincy cooperative association.

Quincy consumers used good judgment in not
drinking more milk when 55 dealers were charged
with selling unsanitary miUc. The wonder is that
they drank any milk. No, the idea o^ a standard
quality product is not theory or bunk. City folks
are not much different from farm folks. If we go
to town and get in a dirty restaurant, we don't
eat much, and we don't go back, and we warn our
friends to keep away from that place.
' Ask your wife if she ever got a bad sack of
flour, and if she has, ask her if she still buys that
brand of flour. Her answer will be the answer to
the question of standard and quality in the prod-
uct that we sell through cooperative marketing
associations.

A standard, quality milk produced by the Quin-
cy association has given city consumers faith and
confidence in milk, with the result that they buy
more.

An increase of 29,099 paid up members is the
record of the American Farm Bureau Federation
for 1923 oyer last year.

LIVE STOCK MARKETING

During the week of November first, the saviilgs
of the East St. Louis Producers' Live Stock
Commission Company was 40 per cent of the total
commission charges. This is in the face of the
fact that the Producers' company has a commis-
sion rate 20 per cent lower than other commis-
sion companies at that yards. The Producers
handled 295 carloads of stock that week which
is 14 per cent of the business of that market.

This is a fine showing and it denotes efficiency
but according to the things sftid at the district
conferences it is not the answer to the live stock
marketing problem. What do you fellows ex-
pect this live stock marketing plan to do for
you anyway! That was the Question put up to
the audiences at most of the meetings. The
unanimous answer was that it is expected to go
on and grow to the point that it will dominate
the market so that it( can be in a position to
stabilize prices. It is to stabilize prices, to cut
out gluts today and famine tomorrow, that the
live stock marketing plan is expected to accom-
plish.

ORGANIZATION LESSONS

The organization department points out three
significant findings in its work this year.

Community organizations within the county
are a big help in organization work. Where the
shipping association is going good and is tied to
the farm bureau, there is little organization trou-
ble. A definite program mapped out and car-
ried out by the county farm bureau is a real
asset in organization work.

All over the state there are cfbunty organiza-
tion chairmen, township and community chair-
men, farm advisers and others who have been
through organization work this year. You men
can add to this experience and all counties can
profit by it.

The Record will hold some spaee opeb for your
letters on this question in the next several is-
sues. Come on with your organization experience.

LIKE THE RECORD?

At several of the district conferences it was
stated that there is need for more information
about what the I, A. A. is doing. The Record,
going to all members twice a month is our chief
means of telling you what is going on.

How do you like the Record! Do you stop
everything to read it through when it arrives,
and do you know any more about what is going
on after you have read itt Do you find what
you want to know about the I. A. A. in the
Record! We would be very glad to have your
criticisms and suggestions. | ■ ,' »

GOOD MANAGEMENT
How often does the board of directors of your
cooperative marketing association meet! At the
district confei«nces several members of shipping
association boards said that they did not meet
oftener than once a year. Others said they did
not meet more than two or three times a year.
One said the board was calle4 together when there
was trouble.

Good management is held up as one of the es-
sentials of success in cooperative marketing asso-
ciations. Sure that means to have a good man-
ager, but doesn't the direction and responsibility
of management rest with the board!

FOR FRUIT AND VEGETABLE. SHIPPERS

There is a move on foot to increase freight rates
on Illinois fruits and vegetables. The Transpor-
tation Department of the I. A. A. is watching this i
problem and fighting to prevent an increase.

The experience of the Cass County Faritt Bu-
reau points to the fact tjiat farmers must be
interested in how theii* tax money is spent as
well as in knowing that they are paying th^
just share of taxey.

tior. 20. 1923

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') Qualify Plus Co-operation; That's :;. ;-
;; ;/ : ^ What Turned the Trick at Quincy

"The present rate of milk consumption is fully 25 per cent
fpKsAeT than it was a year ago" — so reads the annual report of
the Quincy, lU. Board of Health of April 1, 1923.

In an adjoining paragraph we read : ' ' The development of
the Quincy Cooperative Milk Producers Association by upwards
of 75 of the former raw milk producers and its increasingly
successful operation as a milk pasteurizing plant during the
past eight months, has not only greatly reduced the number of
raw milk distributors but has materially aided in raising the
general standard of purity of milk throughout the city."

To find the "whys and wherefores" of such statements as the
above, we visited the city of Quincy early in October to get this
story of "quality" through co-operative marketing, tor such it
seemed to be.

butter, and the chocolated drink,
"400." Only sweet cream is pur-
chased for the manufacture of
butter. The high quality of that
product is attested by the fact
that It commands a premium of
from three to five centa per
pound over the market price of
butter in Quincy. And still they
cannot secure enough cream to
supply the demand for quality
butter.

Business Has Grown
The growth- in sales of the

We found the home of the
Quincy Co-operative Milk Pro-
ducers Association on east Broad-
way. The building was a large
battery shop when taken over by
the farmers' company. Some
changes and the addition of up-
to-date dairy equipment fitted the
structure into a first class milk
plant. ,

J. A. Connery, manager, and
E. L. Selhaver, superintendent,
showed us through the building.

Home of the "Co-op"

The business ofllce and retail
room of the "co-op" are located
In the front of the plant. Direct-
ly behind the retail room is the
refrigeration room, where all the
milk and other products are kept
cool before going out to custom-
ers.

Patrons unload their milk on
the receiving platform in the rear
of the plant, where it is weighed,
samples are taken, and the test-
ing is done. From the receiving
rat, most of the milk is pumped
through a filter up into the pas-
teurizer which is on a platform
raised about ten feet from the
floor. Correct pasteurization tem-
perature is assured by a recording
thermometer, which records in
red ink on a chart both the
temperatures and time of hold-
ing.

After pasteurization, the milk
flows by gravity over a brine
cooler before being bottled on the
rotary bottling machine.
Everything Clean

A cream separator, cottage
cheese vats and churn comprise
the major portion ot the remain-
der of the equipment. We noticed
that the plant was well-screened
and that the floor, walls, and all
equipment seemed scrupulously
clean. Even the basement, which
contains the ice machine and pro-
vides room for storage, was well
swept.

In remarking eoneemlDg this
tact, Mr. Selhaver said: "We al-
ways try to keep everything look-
ing clean and in such condition
that we are never ashamed to
show our enstomera or other visi-
tors through our plant. Since
our opening day, when we had
'apen house' to the people ot
Qnlncy, we have aimed to be al-
ways ready tor Inspection."

Mr. Selhaver and Mr. Conner;
gave us some facts concerning the
organization.

How It Wm Organiaad

Plans were started toward the
formation ot the association in
1921 through the Adams County
Farm Bureau. Advisory aid was
given by the Dairy Marketing De-
partment ot the I. A. A. The
plant was capitalised at $S0,000.
After the stock sale and other
preliminary arrangements, the
company opened tor basiness on
May 30th, I92t.

"Open House" to the people ot
Quincy featured the opening ot
the new plant. Over 1500 gal-
lons ot milk was given away dnr-

QUINCVS QUALITY DAIRY PLANT

THIS Is the home of the Quiney Cooperative Milk Producers' Aaao-
clatlon, an organization formed through the efforts of the Adami
County Farm Bureau and the illinels Agricultural Association. The
compan/ "has materially aided in raising the general standard of
purity of milk throughout the city," says the Quincy Board of Health.
Milk consumption increased fully 25 per cent in the city since the "co-
op" opened for business, states the Board,

ing the day. Two movie films
from the National Dairy Council
were shown. Everything possible
was done toward Interesting folks
in quality milk and other dairy
products.
Milk In Schoob and Factories

"We have introduced milk Into
the schools and factories," stated
Mr. Connery. "Each noon we take
cases around to thirteen factories
to supply the employes for their
noon lunch, one factory alone
taking from 7 to 14 cases each
day. Last year 'co-op*^ milk was
used in several schools ot Quincy
and the demand has increased
materially this year. We cannot
get enough milk to supply the de-
mand."

Further Insight into the "sup-
ply and demand" problem dis-
closed the tact that whereas
farmers near Qutncy seemed to
produce more milk than the city
could consume before the coming
of the "co-op," now the producers
cannot keep up with the con-
sumption. The association is re-
ceiving milk trucked in from 30
to 40 miles away from Quincy.
Pays $2JS0 per Hundred

At no time has the company
paid less than 12.40 per hundred
for 3.S milk we learned. When
we made our visit, )2.S0 was
being paid, with five cents added
or deducted for each point above
or below 3.5 milk.

One remarkable fact Is that
milk in Quincy retails for only
10 cents per quart, which is said
to be the lowest priee tor any
dty in the country ot the sise.
"Creamy Prodnets"

The association is now operat-
ing eight retail and three whole-
sale milk routes. The wagons,
drawn by gray horses, display
the "Creamy Products" brand
with "The Taste That jWins" as
the slogan.

Besides selling milk, the Quin-
cy co-operative handles enltarc
buttermilk, cottage cheese, cream.

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Quincy Co-operative Milk Pro-
ducers Association is shown In a
comparison ot the first year's
business with the second. For
the first seven months that the
company operated — June through
December, 1922, the average
monthly sales were $11,979.87.
For the next eight months, from
January through August, 1923,
sales averaged 115,007.38, an in-
crease of 13,027.51 per month.

ProdncOTS Get 81 Per Cent
July and August business state-
ments of the association show
that members of the company
were paid approximately 61 per
cent of the consumer's dollar.

In July, the total sales were
115,194.99 and the amount paid
patrons was $9,323.03. In Aug-
ust, out of sales totalling $15,-
4,91.84, patrons received $9,-
307.93. Deductions included sales
expense, operating expense, de-
preciation, dividend reserve, and
general reserve fund.

Six Per Cent Divided

At the close of its first year's
business, six per cent dividend
was paid to stockholders of the
association.

Noting the good volume ot
business of the "co-op" as well
as the increase in dairy products
consumption, we>interviewed other
milk dealers in Quincy to find
out what had been th^r experi-
ence since the co-operative or-
ganization had become a factor
in the milk market.

"It has not hurt our business
in the least," stated George
Durst, ot Durst Brothers, who
wholesale milk and ice cream.
"We have been on the most
friendly terms with the 'eo-op' at
all times and believe that such
relations are best between com-
petitors."

Compedtor la Boostar

When we met E. H. Hodgdon,
proprietor ot Hodgdon's dairy, we
found an enthusiastic booster tor

Riadio Programs! **

As tke Rw*Td B9tm to »r«as, tkc
A-tacTicaB Wmnm Kmrvnm radio serv-
ice wma mhc*rt«lm «■ to whofher
tmtmr* prograia* waald ke broad-
tmmt9* at 8i*l aa TaeadaT or
Wcdataday oveaiaira, aa Statloa
KVW, rhiease, waa »akla» a
chaaffc- la Its achedalo.

Ob Not. eo <or 31>. at SMI V, at,
C R. Hat^hlaica. aecretarr of Ike
Natlaaal 'Traaaportatloa laatltatc
will apeak oa tke aubjert. "The
Traas^>rtatioa Kaot.** followed by
K. C. ■■olloek, direetor of the Na-
tlaaal Live stoek aad Meat Board,
OB "T'ke .NatloB'a Foad Sapply."

For Not. 27 (or K>. at the ror-
■lar hoar, Waltoa Peteet. direetor
of aiarketlBa tor the A. F. B, F.,
will diaraak "Co-operative Market-
lax of Wheat." He will he fol-
lowed hr n. O. Thompooa of Hoaie-
•tead FIlBBh lac, who wlH apeak
•B ,aaaae phaae of turm mOTle
work.

Da yoa taae la aa the FVirai
■reaa pMcraBiar u vea do,

write the Rceord ahoat M aad teU

aa how raa Ukc theak

the produ^rs' association instead
of a disgrilntled competitor, vhich
one so often finds.

"I really don't know how to
express my gratitude to the 'co-
op' for the way It has helped
me," declatred Mr. Hodgdon. "I'll
admit that when it started up I,
thought it was going to hurt my
business. Instead, my business
has increased my milk trade at
least 35 per cent.

"I was the first dealer to pas-
teurize milk in Quincy," be con-
tinued, "but somehow people
didn't know what it was and
seemed prejudiced against it.
Along came the 'co-op' and gave
pasteurized milk a lot of adver-
tising wUich helped me greatly.

Qnality Did It

"And When they stressed qual-
ity and Sold milk that wouldn't
sour over night, all other dealers
in the city commenced to take
better care of their milk, to ice
it, and the result has been a
higher quality of milk throughout
-the city with the resultant in-
creased consumption."

A short history ot the milk
situation in Quincy was related
to us by Dr. J. W. H. Pollard,
Public Health Ofllcer ot the city.

Health Ofllcer's Statement
"We have never had a city
ordinancA requiring pasteurization
ot milk," said Dr. Pollard. "Most
of the milk sold up to the Jorma-
tlon of the co-operative organiza-
tion was raw milk. It was not
satistactery.

"During 1921 we had 55 milk
dealers Who were charged with
selling Unsanitary milk. I made
a visit to several grocery stores
and fouad that people were buy-
ing hundreds of cases of 'canned'
milk. 'They were afraid of our
raw milk supply. Thus yon can
see why the Health Department
backed the establishment of the
co-operative association to better
Quiney's retail milk snpply. And
the result is stated in onr last
anntial report." /'

Ninety Meafbeft

There are about SO members
under contract in "the Quincy Co-
operative Milk Producers Asso-
ciation at this time, according to
Mr. Cannery, manager of the
company. John B. Peters is pres-
ident; Joe Bockhold, vice presi-
dent; Albert Hecke, secretary;
and Wilbur Coe, treasurer. These
men with Anton Boeblng, Hugh
Reeder, William Boge, George
Wissman and John Hemme, con-
stitute the Board ot Directors.

He's From Bfiaaoari, Too
Let C. M. Gray, who lives over
the river near Palmyra. Mo., ex-
press tke sentiment of patrons ot
the Qnltiey "co-op:" "The Quincy
eo-oper*tlve milk plant has been

DELEGATES CHOSEN
FROM ILLINOIS FOR
A.F.B.F. MEETING

Five WiR Serve As Voting, Di-
rectors From Illinois;
Dates Dec. 10-14

S. H. Thompson. Quincy,
president of the I. A. A.;
Henrj- McGough, Maple Parkj

C. R. Pinley, Hoopeston; Curt
Anderson, Xenia; and D. J.
Holterman, Sadonis were elect-
ed as members of the House
of Directors of the American
Farm Bureau annual meeting
by the executive committee at
their monthly session, Novem-'
ber 9.

Earl C. Smith. Detroit, was
elected first alternate and Frank

D. Barton. Cornell, second al-
ternate. All of the directors
were chosen from the executive
committee. - ,

Meretinx in December.

The A. F. B. F. annual meet-
ing will be held in Chicago, De-
cember 10-14.

According to the constitution
of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, each state is entitled
to one voting director and one
additional director for each
20,000 paid up members or ma-
jor portion thereof. The paid
up members are counted from
December 1 to December 1.

OUiers as Delegates.

The remaining members of the
I. A. A. governing committee will
attend the A. F. B. F. annual
meeting as members ot the
Bouse of Delegates where they
will have all the privileges ot
directors except the right to
vote.

E^ch state is allowed one dele-
gate for every 10,000 paid np
mem bets.

Wa/ifon Gives Aid
To Cass County In
Examining Records

John C. Watson, SUtlstlcian
for the I. A. A., was called to
Cass County by the farm bu-
reau n^cently to examine county
records and to make a report
showing how the taxpayers' money
is being expended in malBtalning
the county offices.

The township plan of govern-
ment for Cass county waa up to
the people for vote In the No-
vember 6 election and farmers
and most of the people In towns
outside of Beardstoi^^n were for
its adoption, as they believed
that t| would make fairer rep-
resentation for the Board of Su-
pervisors and would help to
make more economical coun^
government.

Mr. Watson's finding eon-
firmed previous showings of ex-
travagance in county expendi-
tures and the existence of a much
larger floating debt than was
generally known. His report
waa given much publicity and in
the election the township plan
carried five to one.

a help in makiqg better market
tor us. We have received quite
an advance in price tor our milk
— peiliaps aa asnch as 15 per
cent.

"Tke feeling ii very favorable
indeed tor co-operative milk mar-
keting among pirodncers aromnd
here."

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The DBaow Agricaita»ml AmocuUiob Record

Nor. 20. 1923

All Co-ops in Jersey ; I
i County Linked To Bureau

When the Jersey Connty Farm
Bureau started co-operative mar-
keting worlt, action was taken
right then and there to see that
a worliing relationship was main-
tained between the organizations
formed and their 'daddy," the
Farm Bureau. So today Jersey
county farmers find it well worth
while to tie up with the bureau
if they expect to marlcet live
stock through the shipping as-
sociation, fruit through the Illi-
nois Fruit Exchange, or pur-
chase serum through the Jersey
County Farm Bureau.

There were two big reasons
why the action was taken, ac-
cording to Farm Adviser, R. L.
Eyman.

"First, we wanted everything
that we did tied up with the
fatm J>i*reau Iwcause without
counsel and our help the thing
might ^ wrong." he states,
"and second, l>ecau8e if it was a
success we wanted it to strength-
en the organization. We didn't
want to trust "to luck that the
fellows whom we were helping
would, out of gratitude hold up
the hands of the parent organi-
zation. We just expected that
human nature wasn't that way."
Fifty Cents Per Hundred.

A man must be a farm bureau
member to ship through the Jer-
sey County Shipping Association
at its regular charges. If he
is not a meml>cr, he must pay
60 cents per hundred extra for
the privilege of the service.

This results in most live stock
shippers joining the farm bu-
reau, states Mr. Eyman. Once
in a while a man who has only
a little stuff ships it through, but
whenever his extra costs are go-
ing to amount to as much as
$15.00. right away he joins the
farm bureau, "and when we
get him in we can do a lot of
things for him other than ship-
ping his live stock."

Pmlt Bxcliange.

The farm bureau has made it
a ruling that it a man belongs
to and ships through local units
of the Illinois Fruit Exchange,
he will l>e charged a sum great-
er than his membership in the
bureau if he is not already ■ a
member. They naturally take
the option that is. cheaper, says
Mr. Elyman. However, it is not

compulsory that farmers be farm
bureau members in order to be-
long to the fruit exchange.
Senun Purchasing.

Another activity that the Jer-
sey County Farm Bureau con-
trols is serum purchasing. It
makes arrangements with a lo-
cal dealer to handle serum, dic-
tating to him where it shall be
bought, the price paid for it,
and the margin of profit. Un-
der the terms agreed upon, the
dealer cannot sell to anyone ex-
cept farm bureau members or
the agency is taken away from
him.

The result is that maa)r far-
mers just naturally cqme in and
join the farm bureau because,
in their mind, the organization
is greatly strengthened and is
doing much for them.

Farm Bnrean at /Head.

"Farm bureau leaders in Jer-
sey county are very anxious at
all times that organized agricul-
ture, and especially the farm bu-
reau shall have complete control
of organized activities of our
county at all times," declares
Mr. Eyman, "and this is the rea-
son why we have everything
sewed up in the farm bureau."

THREE FIELD MEN
ARE EMPLOYED FOR
PRODUCERS' CO-OPS

Kelley, Grimes and Omdorff En-
gaged Through Joint Agree-
ment With I. A. A.

FARMERS NOT OUT
OF THE RUNNING
ON TAX PROBLEM

Series of Farm
Bureau Business
Meetings Are Held

R. A. Cowles, Director of the
Finance Department of the I.A.A
is holding a series of farm bu'
reau business meetings over the
■tate at points to serve the best
convenience of all county farm
bureaus.

The purpose of these confer-
ences is to provide opportunity
for offlcers and farm advisers of
each county to discuss the busi-
ness problems of the farm bu-
reau, particularly collection prob-
lems. The I. A. A. collection
plan is being fully explained at
the gatherings.

Meetings have been held re-
cently at Kankakee, Blooming-
ton, Tuscola, Taylorville, Belle-
ville and Murphysboro. One is
scheduled for today at Harris-
burg; Olney, Nov. 21; Jackson-
ville, Not. 22; and Qaincy, Nov.
23.

(Continued from Par« One)
Chairman Percy Coffin had re-
signed from the commission, a
second announcement appeared
stating that James Telford, mem-
ber of the Commission from
Marion- county had been appoint-
ed chairman. The story carried
the intimation that this move
was made to please the farmers.
"Whether there is any truth
in that or not," says John C.
Watson, in charge of tax work
for the I. A. A., "the only thing
that is going to please the far-
mers is for the Commission to
act, to carry out the law and
their promise."

''We Want Action.''
"I want it understood that
the Association is not attacking
any individual member of the
Commission. We have tried to
steer clear of wire pulling and
political angles of the whole
question. We based our argu-
ments on facts, facta that took
long hours and hard work to
get.

"And these facts have not
been questioned by the Com-
mission. The Commission as a
whole agreed with us and made
us a promise, . and we have not
even bad the courtesy of an an-
swer. No, any changes which
have been made in the personnel
of the Commission is not going
to satisfy. What we want is
action by the Commission. We
want the Commission to live up
to its oath of office."

The three fl61d men, whose
appointment was authorized by
the I. A. A. executive committee
about two months ago, have been
employed by the Live Stock Mar-
keting Department of the I. A. A.
to work for the Producers' com-
mission companies at Chicago,
Peoria, and East St. Louis.

F. H. Kelley, formerly farm
adviser in Edwards county, start-
ed work November 5, for the St.
Louis agency. He will cover all
southern Illinois territory from
which shipments go to that com-
pany.

Grimes Continues

I. C. Grimes, who has been
doing field work for the Chica-
go Producers Commission Asso-
ciation, started work November
19, to cover the Chicago terri-
tory in Illinois, exclusively, un-
der the agreement with the
I. A. A.

To work for both the Chica-
go and Peoria Producers' agen-
cies, R. B. Omdorff, president
of the Tazewell County Farm
Bureau, has been employed.

Duties

These three field men will be
financed exclusively by the Pro-
ducers' agencies. They will en-
deavor to strengthen the relation-
ship existing t>etween the agen-
cies and the farm bureaus;
make personal calls on managers
and directors of shipping asso-
ciations, individual live stock
feeders, and all others interested
in consignment of live stock to
terminal markets; assist in or
ganizing shipping associations
and attend meetings of associa-
tions; and, when requested, aid
in adjusting complaints.

J. C. Sailor Wiil
Retire On Dec. 1st
From I.A.A. Work

Our John Sailor, who has been
tazellSC tbe state ever since the
I. A. A. was
first organized
on the five
dollar m e m-
bership t>asis,
handling o r-
ganization
crews and
preaching the
gospel of or-
ganized agri-
culture, told
the Executive
Committee that
J. a Saner he will retire
from active service December
first.

Mr. Sailor was one of the ear-
ly leaders of th farmers' eleva-
tor movement and later was
president of the state organiza-
tion. With the coming of the
Farm Bureau he first tied Into
the county organization work
and in ,1919 took charge of or-
ganization work for the I. A. A.
Under Mr. Sailor's direction
a farm bureau membership of
a hundred thousand was rolled
up in Illinois. Mr. Sailor gave
all that he had in him to this
big work and he put it over.

"We appreciate your faithful
work," the Executive Committee
told Mr.' Sailor. "Good-bye and
good luck to yon."

A. F. B. F. Research

45 COUNTIES HOLD
MEMBER CAMPAIGNS
DURING THIS YEAR

Four Bureaus Affihate With

I. A. A.; Gain Lessons From

Organization Work

Forty-five county farm bureaus
have carried on reorganization
work this year, reports the Or-
ganization Department.

Johnson, Clinton, White and
Jefferson counties are winding
up campaigns now and Gallatin
county has just started. Eleven
other counties are doing clean-
up organization work.

Four New Counties

During the year four connty
farm bureaus have affiliated with
the state and national organiza-
tions. They are Lawrence, Pu-
laski, White and Jefferson. Cal-
houn and Massac counties are
the only two not affiliated with
the I. A. A. and A. F. B. F.
Organization Lessons

"Where the live stock ship-
ping Association is functioning in
good shape and is closely tied
up with the county farm bureau,
we have little or no trouble in
organization," says G. E. Mets-
ger of the Organization Depart-
ment, in commenting on the
work of the year.

Conunnnity Organizations

"Another outstanding thing,"
says I^r. Metzger, "is the fact
that not in a single county have
we had any particular difficulty
in organization work where com-
munity organizations have been
developed.

"Where the county farm bu-
reau has mapped out a definite
program of work and has car-
ried out that program, it has
been of great help in organiza-
tion work," Mr. Metzger says.

MEETINGS WEIXi .ATTENDED

G. E. Metzger of the I. A. A.
Organization Department, who
has been addressing many an-
nual meetings throughout the
state this fall, reports that there
is a larger attendance and more
interest displayed on the part of
the farm bureau membership
tlian ever l>efore.

Feeding- Transit
Rates Granted On
C.&N.W.Railroad

Feeding-in-translt rates on cat-
tle and sheep to apply at points
in Illinois directly intermediate
to Chicago have been announced
on the Chicago and Northwes-
tern railroad, according to infor-
mation received by the I. A. A.
Transportation Department.

The Transportation Depart-
ment will be glad to advise any
shippers along the C. ft N. W.
who contemplate bujrlng feeders
in the West, as to how the rates
apply and what advantages they
may have in its use.

Of date November 6, 1923,
prices of seven farm products
were higher than a month pre-
vious, fourteen were lower, and
three were unchanged, accord-
ing to the Department of Re-
search, American Farm Bureau
Federation. Compared with a
year ago, thirteen were higher
and eleven were lower. I

Cattle, butter, eggs, rye, bar- Junior Winners

ley, kafir and cotton were higher
than a month ago; hogs, lambs,
sheep, cheese, poultry, wheat,
corn, rye, hay, sugar, apples,
onions, beans, and flax were low-
er; while hides, potatoes,, and
wool remained unchanged.

Compared with a year ago,
sheep, butter, cheese, eggs, corn,
kafir, barley, hay, cotton, pota-
toes, onions, sugar and apples
were higher than a year ago;
while hogs, cattle, lambs, wool,
poultry, wheat, oats, rye, flax,
beans, and hides were lower.

It is interesting to note that
26 per cent more hogs were
slaughtered at markets tiniSer
federal Inspection in the first
eight months of 1923 than in
the same interval of 1922. Av-
erage weights were practically
the same both years.

WANT A WOOL BLANKET?

On these cool and shivery fall
nights with winter coming on
soon, just think how much more
"comfy" you'd be after you
crawl into bed if you had one
or two of those virgin wool blan-
keU which the I. A. A. Live
Stock Marketing Department has
for you. They are double blan-
kets, 72x84 inches in size, and
weigh six pounds. Only blue
and gray colors are left. They're
going fast so you'd better get
your order In soon. Remem-
ber the price is $11 to farm
bureau members and .$13 to non-
members.

To Banquet With
I.A.A. Officials

Two hundred farm boys and
girls, winners of county club
work, will be entertained by the
I. A. A. on the evening of De-
cember 6, during their rliit to
the Internatioaal Live Stock
Show.

The full executive committee
and all employees of the Asso-
ciation will banquet with the
club winners, after which there
will be entertainment given by
both the boys and girls and
I. A. A. officials. Six thousand
boys and girls took part in club
work in Illinois this year. This
number exceeds last year by
600, according to E. I. Pilchard,
in charge of junior club work
at the College of Agriculture.

mm

20. 1923

iOLD
'AIGNS
IS YEAR

iliate With
ns From
fork yr\^,

rm bureans
irganization
ru the Or-
t.

White and
re winding
nd Gallatin
ed. Eleven
oins dean-

intles

rour eonntjr
Dilated wltb
al organixa-
wrence, Pu-
erson. Cal-
ounties are
aiiated with
F. B. P.
eaeona

stock ship-
nctionlng in
Closely tied
arm bureau,
I trouble in
3. E. Metz-
tlon Depart-
ng on the

lizatioiis

ling thing,"
'is the fact
county hare
lar difficulty
where com-
, have been

ty tarm bu-
it a definite
nd has car-
ram, it has
in organiza-
sger says.

irs

tWith
Ojficials

m boys and
county club
lained by the
ening of De-
:beir Tliit to
LiTe Stock

re committee
of the Asso-
let with the
which there
ent given by
id girls and
Six thousand
\. part in club
is year. This
last year by
S. I. Pilchard,
3r club work
Lgriculture.

♦

Illinois Agricultural Association

Volume 1

Dec 5, 1923

Number 18

MARKETING, TAXES,
TRANSPORTATION--
AT I.A.A. MEETING

Expert Authorities Will Lead

Discussions At Galesburg,

January 16-17

Co-operative marketing, farm
taxes, and transportation will
be the chief subjects of discus-
sioo when delegates from every
Illinois county farm bureau get
together at the ninth annual
meeting of the I. A. A. at Gales-
burg, January 16-17.

Marketing problems will oc-
cupy the major part of the first
day's program. There will be no
special marketing day on January
15 as previously announced.
Stone to Speak

James C. Stone, President and
General Manager of the Ken-
tucky Burley Tobacco Growers
Association, will be the principal
speaker on cooperative market-
ing. Mr. Stone is well known to
farmers who heard his talks at
the Springfield and Centralia dis-
trict conferences in October.

George E. Frazer, Chicago, a
national authority on accounting
and business methods, wiU speak
upon the necessity of sound busi-
ness methods for successful mar-
keting associations.

Tax Speaker

Richard T. Ely, Professor of
Economics at the University of
Wisconsin, has been secured to
discuss taxation. He is consid-
ered a national authority on the
subject.

Other speakers who will appear
on the program willl>e announced
later.

niiii

Talk Limestone
Situation At

Six Meetings

A series of six meetings are
being held by the Phosphate-
Limestone Department of the I.
A. A. to discuss the agricultural
limstone situation and problems
The first of the meetings was
held at St. Louis for a group of
nine counties in that territory
supplied with limestone from
East St. Louis quarries.

I Other meetings are planned
for the extreme southern Illinois,
for western Illinois which gets
its supply of limestone from Buf-
falo, Linwood and Bettendorf,
Iowa; for the southeastern sec-
tion depending on Greencastle
and Mitchell, Indiana, for their
supply; for the Chicago territory
supplied by quarries at Chicago,
Kankakee and Joliet; and for the
extreme north group of counties
supplied by Roekford quarries.

If You re Going!

If ybu're planning to attend
the I. A. A. Annual Meeting
at Galesburg, Jan. 16 and 17,
better send in your reserva-
tion* immediately to Reser-
vation Committee, Knox
County Farm Bureau, Gales-
burg, saying for what night
or nights you desire rooms.

/. A. A. Employs
Accountant and
Finance Expert

In recognizing the need for
more knowledge on the technical
and practical side of finance and
accounting problems of coopera-
tive marketing association, the
Illinois Agricultural Association
has employed George E. Fraser
of. Chicago as consulting account-
ant and financial adviser. Mr.
Frasfer will be at the call of the
association on these problems.

Mr. Fraser is one of the out-
standing men in his line of work.
He was Professor of Public Ac-
counting and Comptroller at the
University of Illinois from 1913
to 1915. He devised the Illinois
state financial system in 1917,
and he acts in an advisory capac-
ity to several large organizations
in Chicago.

OPEN SEASON IS HERE!

Hearing Secured
Before Tax Body
On December 6

The Illinois Tax Commission
has granted the I.. A. A. an all-day
hearing in Springfield on Decem-
ber 6, to take up the question of
equalization of valuations for state
tax purposes.

This will be the third year that
the I. A. A. has appeared before
the State Commission with the
question of state taxes. John C.
Watson, in charge of tax work
for the association figures that
the reductions in valuations of
farm land the past two years,
caused by the interest of the
farm bureau, has saved Illinois
farmers $1,070,000 in state taxes.
It is the hope of Mr. Watson that
every county in the state will be
represented at the hearing.

Although valuations of farm
lands have been equalized for
state tax purposes by the Com-
mission, city property has not
been touched since 1917, Mr.
Watson states.

MARKET CONFERENCE

A general marketing confer-
ence has been called by the A. F.
B. F. in Chicago, Dec. 8. It will
convene at the Sherman Hotel.

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War Is Declared in Five
Counties on f. B. Outlaws

Five county farm bureaus have
matched the $100 reward offer
of the I. A. A. for conviction of
the first offender of laws and
regulations forbidding trafficking
of tuberculous cattle within the
county. Several other counties
have stated their intention of ac-
cepting the offer, but have not
taken formal action.

The five counties offering re-
wards in cooperation with the I.
A. A. are Whiteside, Boone, Du-
Page, Will and Rock Island. De-
Kalb and McHenry counties have
signified their intention of accept-
ing the offer, according to M. H.
Peterson, who is assisting in this
work for the association.

Six counties have formed local
associations for the purpose of
carrying ont a pro-am of clean-
up. These six countties are White-
side, McHenry, lAiPage, Cook,
Lake and Boone.

Following is the reward offer
being published by the five coun-
ties:

The Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation will pay $100.00 and in

adiHtion thereto, the County

Farm Bureau will also pay $100
for Information and evidence
which will be the basis for the

first arrest and conviction In „

County of any person violating
the law of the State of Illinois

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or of the United States forbidding
the transportation or disposition
of tubercular cattle into or with-
in the State of Illinois for a vio-
lation on or after the day

of 1923.

Information and evidence of
violation must be furnished to

._ of , Illinois, who

shall have the conclusive right
to determine as between inform-
ants the first and best evidence
upon which to base a prosecu-
tion.

SUBJECTS NAMED
FOR DISClJSSIOfI
ATA.F.B.F. MEET

Tax Commission
Still Marking
Time-No Answer

Nothing new on the county tax
situation except that the State
Tax Commission has let another
fifteen days slip around without
giving Illinois farmers an answer
to their letter. It is now 37 days
since the Commission was asked
what it was going to do.

In the meantime both Orange
Jndd Farmer and Prairie Farmer
have continued their exposure of
the State Commission. A long
editorial in the Chicago American
quotes from both farm papers
and the I. A. A. Record, 'showing
the feeling of Illinois farmers on
this question.

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Nationally Known Speaiters To-

Talk On Leading Farming

f robleras. of Today

Wken the fifth annual meet-i
ing of the American Farm Bu-;
reau Federation convenes ini
C!hic&go, December 10, 11 and
12, legislation, marketing, trans-
portation, taxation, community
development and program build-
ing will be the outstanding sub-
jects of discaasion. '

Several nationally known speak-
ers will address the sessions
which' will be Beld In the Hotel
Sherman.

Herbert Hoover Speaks

Herbert Hoover, Secretary of
Commerce. Is on tlie program tor
the first day and will speaik on
the eubject of commerce miil its
relation to agriculture.

Gray Silver, tarm bureau Wash-
ingdb% representative, will lead a
discussion on agricultural legis-
lation the first d^y. ^nd D. H.
Hibbard, Professor of Agricul-
tural Economics at the University
of Wisconsin, will talk" on basic
agricoltural economics.

Sapiro and Howard

Aaroo Sapiro, co-operative mar-,
keting Counsel of the A. F. B. F.,
will discuss marketing on the
second day. while James R. How-
ard, former president of the A.
F. B. F., will present a national
picture of the farmers' transpor-
tatioa problem. .

John C. Watson of the I. A. A.
will talk on a uniform taxation
program and Mrs. H. W. Law-
rence of the Home and Community
Committee of the A. F. B. F..
will talk on her subject as othfer
features of the second day.
Farm CredlU

Farm credit will be the chief
subject for the third day of the
annual meeting. E. H. Cunning-
ham of the Federal Reserve
Board, will tell of the functions
of that board, and W. L. Corey
of the Federal Farm Loan Board
will explain how organized farm-
ers can use intermediate credit.

The 1924 executive committee
of the A. F. B. F. will go into
session immediately after the ad-
journment of the annual meet-
ing.

TO TAKE REFERENDUM

The American Farm Bureau
Federation is planning to take a
referendum to get the opinion of
farmers on the American Mer-
chant Marine tit an early date,
from which the Federation's leg-
islative policy on that ineatloB ,
wilLbe based. "|

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TTw IlKnoM AgricohnwJ AasodatioD Record

Illinois Agricultural Association

Published twice a month by the lUinola Agricultural
Asaonation. 608 South Dearborn Street. Chicago Illinola
Bdited by Newa Publicity Department, E. L. BiU, Director!

Entry as second class matter Oct. 10. 1921. at the post
office at Chicago. Illinois, under the act of March 3. 1879.
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage pro-
vided for in Section#1103, Act of October 3. 1917 author-
Ixed Oct. 31. 1921.

Th» individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association is five dollars a year. This fee Includes
payment of ten cents for subscription to the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association Record.

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Pre«Me«t. S. H, Tkoasyavm, <^vlHe7.
VIrv-Prealdeat. A. O. E:cker<. BellertllCk
Treasnrer, R. A. Cowles, Bli>omlafft*a*
Seeretary,- Geo. A. Foa, gycaiore,

E.\EC«Tn'E COMMITTEE
By Congressional Districts

Henry McGough, Maple Park

G. F. Tullock, Rockford

• C. E. Bamborough, Polo

W. H. Moody, Port Byron

'-t H. E. Goembel, Hoopole

O. G. Reder, Mendota

F. D. Barton, Cornell

C. R. Fintey, Hoopeston

D. J. Holterman, Sadorus

Earl C. Smith, Detroit

E. L. Gorbin, Carlinville

Stanley Castle, Alton

' Carlton Trimble, Trimble

Curt Anderson, Xenia

Vernon Lessley, Sparta

Directors of DeiMirtiiients •

I. A. A. Office

'General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. D. Harper;
Field Organization, J. C. Sailor; Organization Putv
llclty, G. E. Metzger; News Publicity, E. L. Bill;
Transportation, L, J. Quasey; Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, C. A. Stewart;
Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R. Bent, Legal, Newton Jenkins.

62,000 MEMBERS

Maybe you have heard the story already, that
the farm bureau is going to the dogs, lost most
iof its membership, won't last much longer. One
story that is going the rounds is that the big loss
in membership is a demonstration of farmer opin-
|ion against the passage of the Capper-Tincher
Act, the Board of Trade regulation law, and the
Stock Yards Administration Act, Looks like
these two laws are drawing a little blood. One
thing sure they would never be on the statutes if
it hadn't been for organized agriculture.

Next we are liable to hear that the work in re-
ducing farm taxes is the reason.

Ther« are. 62,000 meqibers of county farm bu-
reaus, Illinois Agricultural Association and Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation in Illinois. It is
not a paper membership. Every member is signed
up for three years on a post-dated check. The
whole family isn't counted.

This record of membership was made at the
bottom of a financial depression, as against a
period of prosperity in the first round. Just a
lot of men have said they are in sympathy, with
the farm bureau but could not take on the addi-
tional debt of $45.00 for three years dues.

In the first round of organization there was a
lot «f good-will membership. Often business
houses took out several memberships to get the
work started, business men joined in many coun-
ties and both land owner and tenant joined in a
good many cases. The need of economy has cut
a lot of this good-will membership.

On the first round of mamDership campaign,
the soliciting for members was done largely by
men employed to do that work, with experience in
their line.- Farmers themselves did not take a
big hand in it.

Quite different this time. The large share of
this membership was signed by farmers, the or-
ganization department say^four-fifths of it. It
means that the membership was interested enough
in the organization to do this work. It is the first
time this plan has been tried out. This has re-
sulted in much good to the men that sold the
membership too. It has made them realize how
much or how little their organization is doing. It
has made them more interested men, made that
many more leaders in the work.

There is no need to be ashamed or to make ex-
cuses for a membership of that number. It may

be a greater achievement than a membership of
100,000 three years ago. The man that must look
for excuses is the man that is not a member, the
man that wants to ride on a free ticket. There
are some that want taxes reduced, want fair rail-
road rates, want better prices for products and
all the other things that come with organized ag-
riculture but don't want to join.

The testing- time comes in hard times doesn't
itt Many times the argument comes in that the
62,000 membership is a real one, one that under-
stands and believes, one that will help in the pro-
gram, one that doesn't need to be bolstered up
every week, one that will speak out when a false
tale is told on the farm bureau.

There is no use trying to "kid" ourselves into
believing there are no troubles in organization
work, for there are. Sure, the farm bureau should
have a membership of a hundred thousand or more
in- Illinois. It must aim at that membership and
work for it. There is no stronger way to do it
than for every member of the organization to sell
his neighbor. ■ '

THAT'S THE SPIRIT, ROCK ISLAND

There was some sad talk and long faces as mem-
bers of the Rock Island Cooperative Dairy Com-
pany filed into a meeting a few nights ago. You
know a hundred and ten dairj'men started to re-
tail milk out there on September 25. Everybody
was happy at the end of the first month for the
milk check amounted to $2.67 a hundred. But
the check for the second month was for only $1.09
per hundred pounds.

If that little crowd of dairymen was like all
other crowds, among them were some who saw the
new little brick building, the fine equipment, the
new white delivery wagons, go floating off to be
added to the list of dead co-ops.

No one was dead anxious to have the first crack
at the meeting. What were the facts about it
anyway T Well, the first month, to tell the truth,
the company didn't earn $2.67 a hundred. In
fact the income just paid for the labor and that
is all. The $2.67 was taken out of the capital
stock. It sounded bad.

But you know all the milk was given away on
the opening day. Yes, and there wasn't a cus-
tomer on the list next morning when the company
started business. A lot of the skim milk was re-
turned to members, wasn't it? Well, that's true.

The bookkeeping and accounting system was a
good one. The answer to a penny was there in
black and white at the end of the month. Couldn't
stay in business long at that rate. The thing to
do would be to pay what the company earned.
That is exactly what was done the second month.
You mean to say it earned $1.09 per hundred the
second month and did not pay more than the
labor the first month? Yes, that is right. Well,
that looks like we are going up hill.

There is a little more explanation to that. You
know the company has a bonded indebtedness of
$15,000 that must be taken care of by paying one-
tenth of it a year. The share for the month was
taken out before paying $1.09. And the share
of interest on that debt was taken care of. The
amount for dividends for the two months was
taken out too. In addition to that the insurance fund
decided upon at the start, was taken out. That
amounted to three per cent. Then the answer is
that all of these things were taken care of, all
overhead and other expenses were taken care of
and the company still paid $1.09 per hundred?
Certainly. Not so bad.

And how are things going now?

The company started without any customers
and you will remember we decided not to buy any
routes. Now there are four good routes and 750
quarts of milk a day are being retailed. The
routes are worth money. The first month the
company handled the milk of only thirty members.
That is all it could take care of. Now we are
handling the milk of all 110 members. The whole-
sale business is growing fast. It was necessary to pat

Dec. S, 1923

on another truck. Listens pretty good, doesn't it?

And something else. Our sales in September
brought us in about $85 per day ; in October, $146
per day ; and this far in November we are getting
an average of $231 in sales daily. That's not so
bad either, is it?

And then some one got up, pulled an I. A. A.
Record out of his pocket and read the story of the
Quincy Cooperative Milk Producers Association,
how they had increased consumption of milk 25
per cent, how they claim that quality counts, that
producers are receiving $2.50 per hundred and
that the company is 18 months old.

The crowd had full faith in their cooperative
organization. It was about ten o'clock and time to
get home. But wait a minute. There is a motion
to be made. I move you that when the Rock
Island Cooperative Dairy Company receives 18
cents a gallon for milk, that all over that amount
be laid aside to pay back what the thirty men
lost on last month's milk check. The motion
carried and the meeting adjourned.

There are a dozen good lessons in that little
meeting of dairymen. One of them is that the
laws of business must be followed when farmers
start in business. Another is that the value of an
accounting system that will tell the exact standing
of the company at the end of every thirty days.
A third lesson is the necessity for having full and
complete information about every detail of the
business and giving that information to members
of the association.

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BUSINESS METHODS

The existence of cooperative marketing asso-
ciations in Illinois has clearly demonstrated the
need fqr an accounting system that would give a
clear and simple statement of the standing of the
association, a statement that would tell at the end
of every month which parts of the business are
making money and which are losing. More re-
cently the district conferences showed that few
cooperatives have such an accounting system.

Probably more cooperative organizations have
failed because they disregarded the fundamentals
of business and finance than for any other reason.
There has been a feeling that cooperative business
is peculiar and different from other forms of
business. But we are beginning to learn that
co-op business is not much different from other
business. The rules of the business game are
the same in cooperative business as in business
run by a corporation or individual.

Finance problems come up m cooperation as
well in the corporation. Accounting is as im-
portant to co-op marketing organizations as it is
in the grocery business. Organized agriculture
is awakening to the realization that the business
world has a long and wide experience that is use-
ful to cooperative marketing organizations. The
lesson of instituting business principles into co-
operative marketing organizations has been costly.
It has cost the life of many organizations.

To help solve this problem the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association has drafted a man. from the
business world, a man with technical training and
a volume of practical experience in the business
world. In this issue of the Record the employ-
ment of a consulting accountant and financial ad-
visor is announced.

ATTEND THE HEARING!

The Illinois Agricultural Association will hold
a hearing before the State Tax Commission on
Thursday, Dec. 6, at Springfield. Facts and fig-
ures will be presented to prove that there should
be further equalization of valuations between farm
lands and city property for state tax purposes.

At similar hearings held in 1921 and 1922, a
large ntunber of farm bureau members, repre-
senting many counties, appeared to strengthen the
I. A. A. stand. It is hoped that one or more men
from every county in Illinois will be present at
this hearing to back the I. A. A. case for fair
taxation. ' • •'■. •

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Fourth Year of A.F.B.F,
Completed in December

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Prcaldeat

The annual meeting of the
American Farm Boreau Feder-
ation in Chicago, December 10-14,
winds up the fonrth year ot onr
national organization.

The fifty cent membership
dues of Illinois farm bureau mem-
bers, along
with the dues
from 43 other
states malces
the American
Farm Bureau
possible. Our
representatives
along with
tho s e from
other states
determine the
policies of the
national asso-
Inltatck elation. . Let's
look back over
the year and see what the re-
sults are.

From a list of 44 accomplish-
ments, we have picked those ot
greatest Importance to Illinois.
In addition to these, many other
worth while things were accom-
plished, laying a foundation for
the future protection of agricul-
ture.

Ckmperative Marketing
Cooperative marketing has
been a major project of the Fed-
eration this year. The big work
of this department has been to
build a national program of com-
modity marketing, a program
for each commodity made so that
all growers of the country can
work together. In doing this it
has helped many states in secur-
ing uniform cooperative market-
ing laws, and has given 21
states direct assistance in mar-
keting projects.

62 Days in Illinois
The men in this department
spent 62 days in Illinois, at mar-
keting conferences and helping
fruit, red top, and dairy market-
ing organizations and assisting
with the Illinois cooperative act.
This department developed a
national potato marketing plan
and helped in eight state cam-
paigns. It developed a national
onion marketing plan and helped
the first state to organize. Illi-
nois growers of these commodi-
ties may want to join with these
agencies. It fostered the nation-
al live stock marketing plan
which is in operation to a large
extent in Illinois. It backed up
tbe Federated Fruit and Vege-
table Growers, Inc., through
Which the Illinois Fruit Ex-
change is now selling.
Legislation.
Probably more worthwhile leg-
islation for farm people was
passed by the last Congress than
all the farm legislation of the
last decade. The American Farm
Bureau Federation initiated or
championed 26 laws passed by
the Sixty-seventh Congress.

Of very direct help to Illinois
farmers is the amendment to
the Federal Farm Loan Act,
which increases the amount that
an individual can borrow from
$10,000 to |2S,000.

Onr National Federation was
tbe outstanding champion ot the.
Intermediate Credits act written
into the laws ot the nation.
Through the twelve Federal
Farm Loan Banks this act gives
farmers an ultimate credit reser-
voir of $660,000,000. An Illi-
nois law does not make this act
ot great raise to indiridnals in

this state, however, \\ can be
used to good advantage by co-
operative marketing associations,
and is being used by the Egyp-
tian Seed Growers' Exchange.
Capper-Tincher Act.
The Federation worked tor the
Capper-Tlncher Act placing the
grain exchanges under the super-
vision of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture for the prevention of
injurious speculation in grain.

Other outstanding laws secured
are the Warehouse Act amend-
ment which increases facilities
for borrowing n.oney on farm
products stored in licensed ware-
houses; the revival of the War
Finance Corporation tor the
year; a flexible tariff provision;
a law protecting dairymen against
adulterated milk products ^y
prohibiting interstate shipment
of filled milk; and an act estab-
lishing an 80 per cent butter
standard.

Transportation Work.
The Transportation Depart-
ment helped to secure a cut of
»1, 000, oca in
the farmers'
freight bill
through a fa-
vorable ruling
of the Inter-
state Com-
merce on mixed
carloads of live
stock, a fight
waged since
1920. It means
a very definite
saving to ev-

J. W. coverdale. ^^ Illinois
SecretavT fa r m e r who

ships live stock in mixed car-
loads.

This Department helped to
lower the minimum weight on
single deck loads of hogs upon
which freight must be paid in
ten states, however, there is a
chance that Illinois shippers will
be allowed this decrease later on.

A booklet on the pros and cons
of the transportation act was is-
sued by this department, giving
full information on this national
question.

Research Work.

Research is a high sounding
name, but tbe big idea of this
work sounds practical.

This Department recognizes
that there are two fundamental
factors, in profitable farming.
The first Is production in the
volume for which there will be
a demand at a price that will
yield a profit, and second, mar-
keting when and where the prof-
it will be the greatest.

Reason for Research.

It is the work of the Research
Department to give ns all of the
facts and figures Involved in
these questions, so we can act
with knowledge. For instance,
ot how much importance is the
income from wheat in Illinois
as compared with the total in-
come? Do the facts of the last
twenty years show that it pays
to hold or sell wheat at thresh-
ing time? What do all the con-
ditions of business and agricul-
ture point to for the next tew
months? Is there likely to be a
large foreign demand for onr
grain in the next few months.

The Research Department has
issued regular reports on agri-
culture and business conditions.
In the last several issues of the
Record, a sum-up ot these re-
ports has been printed.

PROGRAM STARTED
TO STOP TRAFFIC
OF T. B. CAHLE

Committee of Five Named To

Recommend Program of Action

To Executive Committee

A committee of five to study
the problems of enforcing laws
an^ regulations pertaining to the
importation of tuberculous cattle
has been named by President S.
H. Thompson.

This committee has been asked
to recommend a program of ac-
tion to enforce laws and regula-
tions, to the I. A. A. executive
committee at the December 5th
meeting. The committee is com-
posed of Henry McGough, Kane
county. Chairman; George Hunt,
McHenry county; Harry Wood,
Tazewell county; Carlton Trim-
ble, Crawford county; and C. E.
Bamborough of Ogle county.

T. R. Association asked Help

This action was taken after
the Illinois Anti-T. B. Vigilance
Association asked the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association to take
charge of the problem of law en-
forcement.

M. H. Peterson ot Lake county
who has been working with the
Vigilance association has been
employed temporarily by the I.
A. A. to assist the committee.
Other Associations Favor

Secretary George A. Fox talked
the proposition of enforcing tu-
berculosis laws and regulations
with the Illinois Bankers' Asso-
ciation and Illinois Chamber of
Commerce. Secretaries ot both
organizations stated that they are
ready to go along on a program
of law enforcement.

Grain Committee
Will Make Study
Of Wheat Growers

It is probable that the new
National Wheat Growers organiza-
tion will be discussed at the De-
cember 5th meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee. The grain
marketing committee of the I. A.
A. will meet on the day previous
to the executive committee meet-
ing to discuss this and other sub-
jects.

The grain marketing commit-
tee is composed of H. E. Goembel
of Hoopole, Curt Anderson of
Xenia, D. J. Holderman of Sador-
us. G. E. Reder of Mendota and
W. A. McNeill of Chandlerville.

Lynch Advises

Milk Producers
At Mt. Carmel

A. D. Lynch, Director of Dairy
Marketing for the I. A. A., made
a survey of the milk situation at
Mt. Caramel in November at the
request of the Wabash County
Farm Bureau. At a meeting with
dairymen furnishing: milk to that
city, Mr. Lj-nch advised the pro-
ducers upon methods for improv-
ing the quality of milk, increas-
ing its consumption in the city,
and standardizing prices.

Definite decision was reached
to test all herds so that the milk
supply of Mt. Carmel will be
from tuberculosis-free herds only.

In a visit to Granite City, Mr.
Lynch assisted Farm Adviser Raut
and a Madison County Farm Bu-
reau Committee in a study of the
milk supply of that city with
special reference to the possibili-
ties of increased use in schools
and factories.

62,000 MEMBERS
IS NEW RECORD
OF FARM BUREAU

Four-fifths By Neighbor-Sign-
Neighbor Method; The Tide
Has Turned

Leadership and Clubs .
Are Organization Helps

The local community club and
local leadership are great helps
to the farm bureau at the time
ot organization, according to let-
ters from several counties.

The community organization is
the very heart and soul of the
farm bureau, John Conrad of
Whiteside county, tells the Rec-
ord. The community club unifies
the community and makes it
possible for all to work together
on their problems, he says.

The township is divided into
school districts and every dis-
trict has a chairman in Whi>.e-
side county. The township club
meets every two weeks in the
winter at one of the schools. The
school teacher is held responsi-
ble for a social program put en
by local talent. There is a talk
and discussion on some problem
of the farm.

"This kind of organization has
made it possible for us to use the
farm bureau and it has made us
of use to the farm bureau," says
Mr. Conrad.

Leadersliip

Marrobone township, Moultrie
county, has one-fourth of the
farm bureau membership in the
County. Farm Adviser Allen Hig-
gins was asked the reason for it.
Here is what he says: "I believe
that local leadership is the big-
gest factor in successful organiza-
tion and I believe that the same
results can l>e obtained in almost
any township where a few loyal
members will give as freely "of
their time and effort as they did
in Marrobone township.

"A successful farmers' elevator
at Bethany has been of consider-
able Influence. The men who
have been the backbone of the
elevator and are responsible for
mufh of its success are largely
the men who have been active in
supporting the farm bureau and
making it a success. "

\ Church Conmninlt]'

"You ask if we have any com-
munity that is stronger in mem-
bership than another, and the
reason for it," writes Farm Ad-
viser L. E. Marchant of Knox
county.

"We have one community with
a rural minister as director," Mr.
Marchant says. "That commun-
ity leads in membership. In this
particular case every member of
this church is a member of the
farm bureau."

Hog Vacdnatioa

"We found that the hog vacci-
nation program has added mem-
bership to the farm bureau and
made old members stronger
boosters," writes L. S. Griffith,
Farm Adviser of Lee county.
"Soil testing by the new method,
ordering limestone at a saving in
price, and our eight-page publica-
tion going out twice a month are
other services ot special interest
to membership."

A membership ot over 62,000
with the prosp«cts of adding sev-
eral thousand more before the
end of the year, is the record for
the second three-year period ot or-
ganization of county farm bureaus
and Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion.

During the paat two years all
but seven of the 92 county farm
Ifureaus affiliated with the I. A.
A. have conducted reorganization
campaigns. Forty-five of that
number carried on campaigns this
year.

"An outstanding feature ot thla
second round of membership cam-
4>aigns, is the fact that about
four-fifths of the members have
t>eeu signed up. by neighlxtr sign-
ing neighbor," states G. E. Met*-
ger. Director of Organization
work.

Going Up HiU

"Conditions are getting better
all of the time," Mr. Metzger
states. "State solicitors were sign-
ing up from 8 to 10 members a
week a few months ago and now
they are signing up from 8 to 20
meml>ers a week, and in ^ some
cases more. It looks as if tbe
bottom of the depression is over.

"I attended 16 annaal meet-
ings in Octot)er and nine in No-
vember, and only two of them
had an attendance of less than
100. At some of the meetings
there were as many as 600 pres-
ent."

White Going Good

Word from the White County
FaiVn Bureau states that 200
members have l)een signed up in
four townships. There are four
townships left to work. Gallatin
countf signed up 4 3 members the
first day of its campaign.

THE ADAMS COITKTT PARM

Bureau Executive Commiltee re-
cently took action authorizing the
offer of $50 reward for the arrest
and conviction of a person stealing
chickens from a farm bureau mem-
ber. Preliminary atepa are belnc
taken for the orffanixation of local
protective units tn each townshlpb

Baby Chicks looked
Like Cross Between
Leghorn and a Crow

Experience has led Mrs. Guy
Smith of Shawneetown to believe
that the new plan of inspecting
and accrediting farm poultry
flocks and hatcheries is a good
thing. Mra. Smith writes the fol-
lowing :

"I wanted to get some new
blood ii^ my flock so I ordered
100 baby chicks of the best qual-
ity from a hatchery. They all
looked like Barred Rocks until
they feathered. Some looked like
A cross between a Leghorn and
a crow after they feathered Jont.
I wrote the hatchery asking It
they guaranteed their chicks and
I never heard from them, ao yon
see, I believe in inspected flocka."

A.F.B.F. Steering
Committee To Meet
For 1924 Program

The A. F. B. F. steering com-
mittee, composed of President O.
E. Bradfute; Wm. H. Settle, Indi-
ana; Frank App, New Jmey;
John K. Orr, Texas; juki J. F.
Burion, Utah; will meet at the
Chicago ofllce December 4 to
work out an A. F. B. F. program
ot work for 1924. It will report
to the final general meeting ot
the 1923 exlKutlre eommittee on
t>eeeml>er 8.

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The Olinois Agricnltural Assooalioii Record

Dec. S. 1923

Many Counties Secure Tax Cuts -'

During 1923 Through Self -Help

While John C. Watson of the
I. A. A. Ttix Investigation de-
. partmeM. has been busy in
aboiit 50 rtHnois counties getting
facts and figures to find out if
.fanaers ware paying more than
their just share of taxes and
presienting these findings in
hearings before Boards of Re-
view, many county farm bu-
reaus have, of their own aecord,
made an investigation of local
taxes this year and secured sub-
stantial reductions , in farm
taxes, where justified.

From Macon county comes
word that last spring the oounty
farm bureau tax committee recom-
mended a general cut ot 25 per
cent in farm valuations. Farm
Adviser E. H. Walworth states
that the Board of Review fol-
lowed this out for the most part
and that land valuations were
pretty well equalized throughout
the county.

A memt>er of the Board of Re-
view was chairman of the farm-
ers' tax committee in Macon
county.

Gnmdy Gets Reduction
The farm bureau tax committee
was on the job in Grundy county
and was able to secure a general
reduction of 12 H per cent in
land valuations. There was no
change In town property valua-
Uon.

Two meml>ers of the farm bu-
reau executive committee were
on the Board of Review in that
county.

Cnt in Jersey
The farm bureau cooperated
with the supervisor of assess-
ments and the Board of Review
in Jersey county, according to
Farm Adviser R. L. Eyman. A
blanket cut of 10 per cent In land
valuations was made in compari-
son with 1922.

Much work was done by the
farm bureau to get a uniform
valuation on properties for all
townships in the county. This
was the first year that the super-
visor of assessments has given
out instructions to his assessors,
states Mr. Ejrman.

Livingston cuts 10 per cent
In Livingston county, Farm
Adviser H. O. Allison appeared
before the Board of Review and
was instrumental in securing a
cut in valuations of 10 per cent
in farm lands, compared with the
1919 basis. There was no re-
duction in city pi-operty valua-
tions.

In Cnmberland
Chas. B. Price, farm adviser
in Cumberland county, writes
that the president of the farm
bureau and other farmers met
with assessors last spring and
made recommendations.

The result is expressed in a
statement whicU shows that farm
lands have been reduced approxi--
mately 29.S per cent in assessed
valuations, compared with 1922,
There was a very slight reduc-
tion in town and city lots.
15 per cent in Coles
The Coles County Farm Bu-
reau recommended a cut in land
valuations to the supervisor of
assessments. A general reduc-
tion of 15 per cent on farm lands
with little or no change in city
property assessed valuations was
secured, states ^arm Adviser Mel-
vln Thomas.

In Pike County
The Pike County Farm Bureau
was denied the right to appear

before the board of assessors by
the county treasurer, writes Otis
Kercher, farm adviser. However
the farm bureau made known its
wishes for a reduction in valua-
tions en farm lands before the
board through one of the assess-
ors.^

A committee of farm bureau
members in each township offered
its services to local assessors in
equalizing valuations. About 50
per cent of the assessors accepted
the services of these committees.
After these equalizations were
made, the 1. A. A. checked over
the figures from the county and
found that town lots and farm
lands were assessed on the same
basis.

Reduce in Warren
In Warren county, average as-
sessed valuations on land were
reduced 15.6 per cent while town
and city lots were decreased only
2.9 per cent this year.

Farm Adviser A. A. Olsen,
states that the farm bureau does
not claim any credit for this re-
duction but thinks that perhaps
the work that the I. A. A. has
been doing in other counties did
influence the Warren county
Board of Review.

Equalize in GslUUn
Farmers in Gallatin county
brought pressure to bear upon
the Board of Review which re-
sulted in equalization of assess-
ment between townships in the
county, states Farm Adviser
Simpson.

There was little difference
found between the assessed val-
uations of farm lands and town
property, he says.

In Jo Daviess
Two members of the farm bu-
reau executive committee upon
the Board of Review in Jo Daviess
county have taken care that no
unjust discrimination has been
made against farm property,
writes Farm Adviser Banter. In-
vestigation by the farm bureau
has disclosed that valuations are
equitable there.

Decrease in Henry
Comparison of land valuation
in Henry county with that in
surrounding counties helped a
great deal in securing reduction
in land valuations of 4.6 per
cent, according to J. W. Whise-
nand, farm adviser.

At the same time, city lots
were increased very slightly, .03
per cent. Farm anima^ were de-
creased in this county; horses,
19.3 per cent; cattle, 6.2 per
cent; hogs, 8.8 per cent. Per-
sonal property was decreased 12.7
per cent.

Wliite rednces lands
In White county, assessed val-
uations on lands have been de-
creased S.3 per cent for 1923
while town lots have been in-
creased 1.6 per cent, states Farm
Adviser Creighton.

In commenting on the reduc-
tion, Mr. Creighton says that it
cannot be directly attributed to
farm bureau work, but that in-
directly, the I. A. A. tax work
was responsible.

Decrease in Woodford
Last January the Woodford
County Farm Bureau appointed
a tax committee which gathered
facts concerning farm land val-
uations. This committee and the
farm adviser met with the Board
of Assessors when it received in-
structions. The bureau also se-
cured the appointment of a farm-

er on the Board of Review.

To this activity on the part of
the farm bureau is attributed
the decrease of 29 per cent in
land valuations and the increase
of 9 per cent in town and city
lots, the comparison being made
on the 1922 basis.

In Mason County

Farm Adviser Isaacs writes
that in Mason county, the farm
bureau had a tax committee
which met with the assessors and
also with the Board of Review.
The result was that a reduction
of a little over 10 per cent was
made on farm land valuations.

At the same time, town and
city lots were increased in val-
uation. In the city of Havana,
the increase was 7.4 per cent.
20 per cent in Henderson

In Henderson county. Farm
Adviser Bane reports that the
farm bureau executive committee
met with the assessors early last
spring and secured an agreement
whereby the assessed valuation
of farm lands would be reduced
20 per cent and the valuation on
town and city lots not changed.

A check-up by the L A. A. late
In the summer indicated that this
agreement was carried out very
effectively. The reduction left the
assessment of town property on a
basis of 46.3 per cent of Its actual
sates value and reduced farm lands
to 51.5 per cent, which the farm
bureau decided was not sufficient
difference to make further chanae
this year.

AdaMs cats 15 per cent

Adamr county farm lands are as-
sessed at 15 per cent below 1919
valuations, due to farm bureau ac-
tivity. Quincy property was left on
the old basis.

In Bond county the bureau was
on the Job and farm lands were
reduced approximately 9 per cent
In valuation with no change In
town property.

DeWKt CoBBty

A reduction of from $90 per acre
on prairie land to $60 with poorer
land In proportion was secured In
De Witt county, with no change In
town and city assessments.

Both town and city property have
been reduced 15 per cent In Effing-
ham county this year.

Redae« In McLcaa

The average reduction secured In
McLean county on land valuation
is 9% per cent, compared with
1919. and town and city lots re-
main unchanged.

In Marshall county, land assess-
ments are 10 per cent lower than
those of 1919.

Mercer d«c* well

The Mercer County Farm Bureau
was on the job last year to reduce
county taxes and secured 17% per
cent decrease in valuations which
means a saving of about $80,000 In
taxes both last year and this year.

Sangamon county assessors cut
land assessments 26 per cent this
year and the Board of Review took
off 10 per cent more, making 32H
per cent in all. The farm bureau
was active in this reduction.

Bis Cmt t> WlKBCbago

After facts and figures were pre-
sented by the Winnebago County
Farm Bureau, assessors cut land
valuations 40 per cent which was
approved by the Board of Review.
This Is one of the largest cuts se-
cured in the state.

Farm property In Will county
was reduced 10 per cent in valua-
tion while values of town and city
lots were left standing. The farm
bureau had a hand In securing this
reduction.

I. A. A. !■ WmiaaiMB

Williamson county was one of
those not previously reported In
the Record where the I. A. A.
helped to get the facts and figures
and the farm bureau held a hear-
ing before the Board of Review.
The result ^vaa a reduction of 18
per cent In farm land valuations
and an Increase of 3.4 per cent in
city property.

Tm otber covatic*

With some activity on the part
of the farm bureau, the: assessed
valuations of farm lands were de-
creased by 10 per cent lit Iroauolg
county, states Farm Adviser Wise.

The Pulton County Farm Bureau
was on the job. and while finding
that assessed valuations of farm
and city property were practically
"r. ' P"*"' " helped to secure con-
siderable adjustment between the
different farm lands In taking care
or the equalisation of property
valnes between the townships.

Halnh B Arnett. Farm Adviser
of Tazewell connty, writes that In
response to a rennest from the
farm bureau, the Board of Super-
visors asked the assessors to make
a 10 per cent reduction In farm
land valuatlop. He ears, "Tt Is my
opinion that there would have been
no redtictlon this year had pot the
farm bureau heep on the job."

Town and city lots were also de-
creased 10 per cent In Tazewell
county.

For Radio Fans!

On November 26, the Amer-
ican Farm Bare* a ntarted
broadcaatlng: proirraina '' t rom
Station WRC. WaHhinston.
D. C. witb a fifteen -mtaote
talk b7 Eklw7 B. Reld, asslat-
•nt WaabtnKtea rcprcaenta-
tlve of tbe farm bnrean. Pro-
Krams will be broadcasted
from thU atatlon re^alarlT
each Monday nlsht- at S
o'clock, Washington time, un-
der farm bureau auspice*.

Aa the Record vrent to
preaa, the only fntnre pro-
lirrama available from the A.
F. B. F. for Ita radio aorvlce
tk\ KVW, Chicaico. at RiOl
'Pneaday nlKhta, were an fol-
lownt Dec. 4. **The Farm
Problem an International
Problem," by C. T. Oofton,
State Speaker, llllnofn Fnrm-
ena' Inatltute. followed by Ar-
thur Pose, ECdItor, Orange
Judd Farmer, n^ho will have
the anbject. ***The Farmer,
Bnllder;** and on Dec. ' 11.
«*]VewB on the Fifth Annual
Meetlnic.** by S. !«. StrlvInK*.
New York, cz-meniber of the
A. F. B. F. Executive Com-
mittee.

A F. B. F* Research

BROOM CORN MEN
"READYTOGO"ON
CO-OP MARKETING

The new corn crop, together
with the carry-over of old corn
will furnish a busbelage approxi-
mately one per cent greater than
last year but less in feeding
value, according to a recent re-
port of the Department of Re-
search, American Farm Bureau
Federation. The quality of the
new crop is 79.4 per cent com-
pared with 85 per cent in. 1922.

The number of hogs, cattle and
sheep to be fed is greater than
last year but the present tend-
ency is to use corn more frugally
and larger crops of oats, barley,
grain sorghums and. the use of
more low-grade wheat will take
care of part of the increase in
feeding requirements.

Sell More Com

Due to the unfavorable feeding
ratio between prices of hogs and
corn, the present tendency is to
curtail hog production and to
sell mere corn. Furthermore,
corn prices may have some stim-
ulating effect on acreage next
spring. The outcome is likely to
be lower prices for corn and a
higher hog market ultimately but
it will take some time to bring
this readjustment about.

Based on present indications,
corn prices until well along in
1924 should remain as high or
higher than in the corresponding
months of last year. It is not
likely, however, that the ex-
tremely high prices which pre-
vailed in October this year will
be duplicated.

Receipts Small

Receipts of corn at primary
markets have been small during
the last six months. Reserves at
terminal points accumulated dur-
ing the winter were practically
used up by midsummer so that
arrivals have commanded good

New Feature in Agreement; Will

Organize Under Five-Year

Contract With Pooling

A meeting of broom corn grow-
ers at Mattoon on tbe night of
November 21, donated $200 to
pay for printing contracts and
marketing agreements for their
proposed coot>erative marketing
organization. ' At a second meet-
ing, November 28, plans for a
membership ca^npaign were made.

An unusual feature of the mar-
keting agreement, which outlines
in detail how the association
shall be organized, is a clause
calling for three outside men on
the board of directors. The
agreement calls for 12 members
on the board, qne of which is to
be nominated by the Bankers'
Association of the district, one to
be nominated by the Dean of the
College of Agriculture and one
by tbe President of the Illinois
Agricultural Association.

Represent Public

The primary purpose of these
three men on the board, accord-
ing to the agreement, is to repre-
sent the interests of the public.
The membership fee will be |10,
and the association will market
broom corn only and for mem-
bers of the association only.

Must Sign Half Crop
The agreement stipulates that
an acreage equal to one-half of
the 1923 crop in the counties of
Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Jas-
per, Mogltrie, Shelby, Clark and
Edgar n^st be signed up by con-
tract btfore May first. It also
provides that legal organization
must be made before July 1.

The contract binds growers to
sell their broom corn through the
association for five years and
provides for pooling. Both the
agreement and contract have the
full approval of the I. A. A.

Adams Co. Wants
Live Stock Loan
Equal To Grain

In view of the movement on
foot for Government, appropria-
tions to extend loans to foreign
nations for the purchase of grain,
the Xdkms County Farm Bureau
has asked that similar considera-
tion be given to live stock prod-
ucts.

prices. The market has declined
to some extent as the new crop
reached a better condition for
shipment und a further moderate
decline may take place during
the heavy winter movement.

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nent; Will

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:om grow-
night of
$200 to
racts and
for their
marketing
:ond meet-
ns for a
ere made.
( the mar-
outlines
association
a clause
le men on
ars. The
members
hich is to
Bankers'
ict, one to
ean of the
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Volume 1

December 20, 1923

Number 19

GRAIN MEN WANT
ACCOUNTING FOR
FARM ELEVATORS

Farmers' Grain Dealers Ask Com
mittee To Make Plan of
Co-operative Accounting

Meeting at the invitation of
the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation, officers of the Farmers'
Grain Dealers Association of
Illinois and managers of several
elevators asked a committee of
four to outline a definite ac-
counting and auditing plan for
fanners' elevators.

The Committee is composed of
President Fred A. Mudge of Peru
and Secretary Lawrence Farlow,
of the Grain Dealers' Association
a,nd President S. H. Thompson and
Secretary George A. Fox of the
I. A. A. Tbii committee will work
wOb Coorge E. Fraze/', consulting
accountant of the I. A. A.
Recognize Problems

Recognizing that farmers' mar-
keting organizations hare a very
definite problem in accounting
bookkeeping and auditing, the
I. A. A. made a study of this sub-
ject and recently employed Mr.
Frazer to advise and assist in the
work. Presidents of several suc-
cessful elevators were asked in to
talk over the relation of the prob-
lem to their organizations. Later
a second meeting with both presi-
dents and managers was called.

It was the opinion of these
meetings that standardized ac-
counting and centralized book-
keeping would be an advantage.
With each organization doing
(Continued on page 3)

Incorporate New
Producers Dairy
Co-op at Decatur

Articles of incorporation have
been received by the Producers Co-
operative Dairy of Decatur, the
newest cooperative dairy company
started with the help of the I. A. A.
Dairy Marketing department. It is
capitalized at $75,000.

The Macon County Farm Bureau
with E. H. Walworth, farm adviser,
was instrumental in starting this
organization. Plans are being laid
at present for the sale of stock
afld the purchase of a business lo-
cation.

Incorporators of the new associa-
tion are: John A. Record, Guy E.
Hockaday, Lewis Bear, James F.
Watkins, Guy Meckel, Valentine
Cravens, C. E. Weikel, L. V. Wheel-
er, J. E. Underwood, Howard A.
Beverly andH. L. Butt. All except
the last two named are members
of the Board of Directors.

Three More Added
To Budget Committee

Three additional members were
elected to the I. A. A. Budget
Committee for 1924 at the Decem-
ber meeting of the Executive Com-
mittee. They are C. E. Bambor-
ougb, W. H. Moody, and Vernon
Lessley.

Other members of the commit-
tee, chosen in November, are Pres-
ident S. H. Thompson, Secretary
Geo. A. Fox, Chas. Finley, A. O.
Eckert, and Henry McGough.

'''^ Eradicate T.B."
Aim of County
Farm Bureaus

Logan, Ogle, and Marshall-Put-
nam counties have recently hired
veterinarians to start area testing
for bovine tuberculosis, according
to reports coming to M. H. Peter-
sen, in charge of tuberculosis eradi-
cation for the I. A. A. Adams
county has secured an appropria-
tion to hire a county veterinarian.

Educational campaigns toward se-
curing county appropriations have
been started by the Washington,
Henry, Carroll, and DeKalb county
farm bureaus, states Mr. Petersen.

Grain Committee
Making Study of
Marketing Plans

Pending a thorough understand-
ing and working agreement be-
tween the National Wheat Growers
Advisory Committee and the U. S.
Grain Growers, the I. A. A. grain
marketing committee recommend-
ed to the executive committee at
the December 5 meeting, that ac-
tion or endorsement be deferred.

The grain committee considered
the recent report of the U. S.
Grain Growers announcing that
the organization is ready to sell
grain, and it tnet with representa-
tives of the National Wheat Com-
mittee, who offered a plan for
starting an Illinois wheat growers'
organization and working relation
with the Grain Growers.

The grain committee asked that
it be given more time to study
the plan submitted. In its report
the committee stated that the
I. A. A. should do everything with-
in its power to aid co-operative
marketing and to encourage co-
operation between farmers' organ-
izations engaged in co-operative
marketing. In making the report.
Chairman H. E. Goembel stated
that the committee is just as anx-
ious as all others to see a plan
started, but he thought it best
to haveta thorough understanding
first.

HE IS GOING TO SOLVE IT

STATE TAX BODY
PRESS STATEMENT .
IS NOT CORRECT

Commission Figures Reduction
Made in 1922 Twice;;
Failed To Equalize ~

(This cartoon first appeared In 1921. It Is reproduced by r«QU6at.)

''Give Us Equal Values,"
Forty Co. Bureaus Ask

"■We ask you to place valua-
tions of all classes of property
on the same basis in the counties
where the facts prove that farm
land valuations are high, and we
ask .you to treat all classes of
property alike in raising or low-
ering valuations in the counties
where valuations are now on an
equal basis," John C. Watson
of the I. A. A., told the State
Tax Commission at a hearing in
Springfield, December 6.

One hundred representatives
from 40 county farm bureaus were
there to present the facts in theii
counties. The hearing was on the
question of state taxes. The final
figures of county boards of review
are taken by the Commission as a
basis for state taxes. It is the
duty of the Commission to equal-
ize for state tax purposes, to see
that valuations of all classes of
property are on the same basis.
City Values Same

Mr. Watson was first on deck.
He told the Commission that the
figures from 99 county boards of
review showed that the average
valuation of ' city real estate is
somewhat lower this year than
last. "We know that there has

been a big increase in building,
yet we find no real increase in this
class of property," Mr. Watson
said.

Lands Bednoed 10.0

"The figures from the same 99
counties, not including Cook, Lake
and LaSalle, show that farm land
valuations were reduced 10.6 per
cent under the valuations of
1922," Mr. WaUon told the Com-
mission. "This reduction is about
half as much as it should be to
be on the same basis as city real
estate. Our investigation shows
that farm land valuations average
45 per cent of their real values
and that city real estate is valued
at less than 40 per cent of their
real values. It will &ke another
reduction of ten per cent to equal-
ize farm lands for state tax pur-
poses." ' ■

Connties Testified

In support of this argument
represenUtives of 10 counties told
how they had carried on investiga-
tions to get the facts on valuations
of different classes of property,
and they presented evidence show-
ing that farm lands are valued
higher than city real estate.
{Continued on page S)

According to a press state-
ment made by the State Tax
Commission, the Commission has
approved the ^valuations made
by county boards of review in
99 counties of the state for state
tax purposes. The counties not
included are Cook, JjaSalle and
Lake.

In the statement the Commis-
sion says, "There was a decrease
of $105,894,378, or 10.6 per cent
under the valuations of 1922."
It further states that "the total re-
ductions of land valuations in the
state tor state tax purposes by the
Commission in the years 1921 and
1922 amounted to $12ftt23S,708:
adding this to the reductions made
by the boards of review in 99
counties this year, we have a total
reduction of land values in three
years, under 1920, tor state tax
purposes of 1288,130,086.

Is Not True

The figure $288.1 30. 08£ is an
error, says John C. Watson of the
I. A. A. The reduction of 868.-
922,086 made in valuation of land
in 1922 is included twice in the
total figure, Mr. Watson states.
It is first included in the reduc-
tion made by the State Commia-
sion in 1922 and again in the coun-
ty valuations of land for asseaa-
mcnt purposes this yeaJT

The total reduction for state tax
purposes is about 8220,000,000 as
compared with 1920. rather than
8288,130,086, Mr. Watson sUtes.

RefONed In 7 Coantles

The Commission's acceptance of
the valuations of land placed by
county boards of review for stale
tax purposes means that it has
refused to equalize valuations in
the seven counties discussed at the
Sept. 6 hearing for either county
or state taxes.

A complete statement of the ro^
suits of the tax work will be made
in the next issue of the Record by
Mr. Watson. \

ASKS FX>R HEi^knu'G

The I. A. A. Transportation de-
partment has asked for a bearing
before the Illinois Freight Associa-
tion for the purpose of securiac
the co-operation of the railroads
in the obsen-ance of tlie strictest
sanitary precautions in loading
pens, cars. etc.. to aid In the tu-
berculosis eradication campai^.

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OFFICERS
PrMldmt, S. H. Tkompsoa. dnlney. i

Vie^Presldeat, A. O. E^kert, BelleTllle.
Tmanrer. R. A. CoTrles, BlaostlactOB.
g««ret«ry, Geo. A. F»x, gyeaiw.

EXECUTIVE COM.MITTEB
~^ By Congressional Districts

11th Henry McGough, Maple Park

12th G. F. Tulloek, Roelcford

13th C. E, Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron

ISth H. E. Goembel, Hoopole

16th. D. G. Reder, Mendota

17th F. D, Barton, Cornell

18th C. R. FInley, Hoopeston

19th D. J. Holterman, Sadorus

20th... Eari C. Smith, Detroit

21at E. L. Corbin, Carlinvillo

22nd Stanley Castle, Alton

23r<k Carlton Trimble, Trimble

24tir Curt Anderson, Xenia

2Sth Vernon Leaaley, Sparta

Directors of Departments
I. A. A, Office
General Office and Aaalatant to Secretary, J. D. Harper;
Field Organization, J, C. Sailor; Organization Pub-
licity, Q. E. Metzger; New* Publicity, E. L. Bill;
Transportation, L. J. Quasey; Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and VegeUble Marketing,
A. B. Laeper; Live Stock Marketing, C. A. Stewart;
Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R. Bent. Legal, Newton Jenlclns.

A. F. B. F. PROGRAM

Pollowing is a digest of the chief resolutions
passed by the voting directors at the fifth annual
meeting of the American Farm Bureau Federation,
signifying the trend of thought for the program of
work next year : j , h .. -[

. Organization Work.
. We urge throughout the coming year that organi-
zation be made a major activity of the A. F. B. F.
National Taxation,

We re-affirm the three principles adopted last
year as the basis of our tax work. These principles
were stated as- follows :

The measure of ability to pay taxes for the sup-
port of the national government is net income.

The tax should be progressive ; that is, the greater
the income the higher the rate.

Insofar as it is practicable, taxes should be so
laid as to tend to the equitable distribution of
wealth.

We re-afSrm our objection to a General Sales
Tax.

We recommend that the issuing of all tax-free
securities be stopped.

We recommend that all deductions allowed in fig-
uring income taxes first be set-off against tax-free
income.

We urge that steps be taken to stop the leaks in
the 1921 tax law, including an amendment where-
by profits derived from the sale of stock, received
as stock dividends, shall be taxable at the regular
surtax rates.

We urge upon the President and Secretary of the
Treasury the necessity of speeding up income and
profits tax adjustments and of securing a more
efficient Income Tax Bureau to the end that these
forms of taxation be not brought into disrepute
by poor administration.

We oppose any reduction of income taxes. We
believe that the excess of national income over ex-
penditures should be applied toward^ reducing
national indebtedness.

We recommend that federal statute number 5219
be so amended so all states can tax national banks
as other business and farmers in the locality are

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Price Fixing.

We believe government price fixing for agrical-
tursl commodities to be unsound and that it has

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December 20, 1923

heretofore failed to serve the purpose for which
it was intended.
Truth in Fabric.

We reaffirm our stand in favor of the tmth-in-
fabric bill which merely calls for common honesty
in the labeling of woolen goods.
Foreign Marketing.

We commend the Department of Agriculture
and the Department of Commerce for the work they
are doing in the foreign marketing field and urge
that it be continued.
Transportation.

We urge upon Congress the great importance of
establishing a co-ordinated policy of transport^
tion involving farm-to-market roads, the railrpads,
the construction of the Qreat Lakes-St, Lawrence
and Lakes to GuU Waterways, and an American
Merchant Marine so that the products of the farm
may be moved to the consumer rapidly, cheaply,
and efficiently.

All facts incident to costs and division of costs
should be investigated by Congress. Not only
should it look into the basis upon which the Inter-
state Commerce Commission has arrived at the
valuation of railroads, but it should determine
carefully what revenue the railroads require in
order to obtain a fair return on a fair investment
valuation. It should indicate the proper distribu-
tion of this revenue as between passenger and
freight and as between different kinds of freight.
It should go into the situation thoroughly as re-
gards possible consolidation and indicate a policy
for further governmental dealing with the rail-
roads.

Further immediate action should be taken by
the Interstate Commerce Commission to reduce
freight rates on agricultural products which are
sold at low prices.
Standardization and Grading.

We favor the further study and development of
grades of agricultural commodities, the improve-
ment of present grades, and promulgation of laws,
rules and regulations as rapidly as feasible.
Immigration.

We favor a limitation of the number of immi-
grants permitted to enter this country to approxi-
mately the present total.

We recommend that all immigrants be selected
after physical, mental and other tests, in the land
of their nativity by representatives of our GJovem-
ment and that the Congress take proper steps to
put such plan into operation.
Intermediate Credits. -

We urge an amendment to the intermediate cred-
it act changing the minimum loan period from
six to four months. ^ i

Federal Reserve Rate.

We favor an amendment to the eligibility clause
of the federal reserve act to limit aU rediscounts
including commission and brokerage, to 2 per cent
above the base federal reserve rate.
Tuberculosis EradictOion.

The present excellent progress in the eradication
of bovine tuberculosis should be continued and
accelerated.
Merchant Marine.

We favor a well balanced and properly equipped
merchant marine for carrying our goods by the
most direct route to the principal distributing ports
of the world. We are opposed to subsidies or other
gratuities.
Tanff.

We believe that the making of tariff schedules
is of such great importance that the United States
no longer can afford to permit it to be subjected to
political determination. We urge a vigorous, con-
tinuous study by the Tariff Commission with au-
thority to change schedules as i^banging conditions
warrant.
Flood Control Bill

We urge Congress to appropriate annually the
full amount authorized under the Flood Control

Act for levee construction and channel improve-
ment along the Mississippi Kiver and its tributaries.
Licensing of Commission Men.

We recommend the adoption of a plan for the
licensing of all commercial dealers and shippers
engaged in interstate shipments of agricultural
products, by the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
Purnell Bill.

We favor the Purnell Bill caUing for additional
appropriations for agricultural research in the
State Experiment Stations under a stipulation that
the additional funds be designated for research in
marketing, finance, and betterment of conditions
of rural Kfe.
Truth in Seeds. ..' . j 8 ■"■"..•.

We favor the enactment of a federal truth-in-
seeds law to the ends that purchasers may be pro-
tected against adulteration and false labeling.
TUuscle Shoals.

We reaffirm our advocacy of the Henry Ford
offer relating to water power, steam i>ower and
nitrate plants at Muscle Shoals and urge Congress
to give us a vote upon this matter without farther
delay.
Cram Futures Act.

We confirm our endorsement of the grain futures
act and packers and stockyards control act.
Marketing.

We reaffirm our endorsement of co-operative
marketing as offering the most practical means of
stabilizing agriculture on a profitable basis and urge
universities, colleges, public schools and high
schools to establish regular courses in co-operative
marketing based upon successful experience.
Livestock Producers.

We endorse the work of the National Live Stock
Producers and recommend a closer co-operation
with the farm bureau. ., -

State and County Recommendations. |

We earnestly urge that every county and state
farm bureau adopt such methods aa are neeeasary
to bring about a full transmission of membership
dues regularly every month.

We suggest that states still relying upon the
General Property Tax undertake a careful study
of State and local tax methods. A tax committee
should be formed in each state federation for the
study of state taxation, and in each county farm
bureau for the study of local tax problems.

We recommend that state farm bureau officials
in co-operation with the counties, actively partici-
pate in the promotion of a comprehensive program
of vocational education in agriculture adapted to
the needs of rural communities with proper com-
mittees in each county which shall co-operate with
teachers of vocational agriculture.

We recommend a full development of the home
and community program and urge that the county,
state and national organizations place women on
their governing boards so that the whole program,
social, economic, legislative and marketing may be
worked out by men and women together.

We believe that a liberal interpretation should be
placed upon the powers of the county agents, home
demonstration agents and boys and girls club agents
in lending assistance to farmers in the building
and maintaining of co-operative and general farm-
ers' organizations.
Super Power.

Super power, hydro-electric development and
the storage and utilization of water for electrical
purposes should be synonymous terms in America.
The cost factor as regards power must be decreased,
and the price of hydro-electricity must be such as
will permit and encourage its use for agriculturitl
purposes.

Waterpower resources should be developed so
as to provide cheap power for all, when used for
production purposes, in large or small amounts.
Foreign Relations.

We urge the immediate adoption by the Amer-
ican government of a vigorous foreign policy de-
signed to carry out America's obligations resulting
from her war aims and the terms of the armistice.

mm

December 20, 1923

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ff.

500 At Fifth Meeting of .
American Farm Bureau

O. E. Bradfute of Xenia,
Ohio, was tmanimonsly. re-elect-
ed President of the American
Fafm Bureau Federation at the
fifth annual meeting in Chicago,
December 10, 11 and 12. J. F.
Reed of Minnesota was elected
Vice-President. President S. H.
Thompson of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association was elected
a member of the executive com-
mittee from the central section.
Nine new members were elected
to the executive committee of

twelve.

About 500 peo-
ple were present
at the meeting,
rhirty-four states
«rere given voting
privilege, based
on the paid up
membership. II-
linois and Iowa
I stood highest in
I number of voting
I directors, each
' having five. Ohio
_ was entitled to

Re-elected *our voting di-
rectors and all other states bad
three or less.

nUnois Active
On two difflerent occasions IIU-
noia took part in the national
convention. On Tuesday after-
noon John C. Watson of the I.A.A.
addressed the meeting on the sub-
ject of taxation a« a farm bureau
project. On Wednesday evening
voting directors of Illinois made
a plea for passing a resolution en-
dorsing the National Wheat Grow-
ers' Advisory Committee of which
Frank O. Lowden is chairman.

The resolution also endorsed
the work of the A. F. B. F. co-
operative marketing department In
the formation of the National
Wheat Committee and instructed
the marketing 'department to work
in close harmony with the wheat
committee. The resolution was
reported to the convention without
recommendation.

Thompson For Actton
Walton Peteet talked in favor
of the resoln-
tion. S. H.
Thompson made
a motion that
the resolution
be adopted. In
talking tor the
resolution M r.
Thompson said
that mid-west
farm bureaus
and American
Farm Bureau
had been work-
ing on the grain
marketing prob-
lem for three
years. He said that the resolution
adopted by the mid-west commit-
tee and approved by President
Bradfute had been accepted as the
grain marketing policy, for the
A. F. B. F.

The mid-west resolution called
for a national grain marketing
plan, based on state organizations
with contracts and pooling. Pend-
ing the organization of the na-
tional plan, the resolution commit-
tee approved the selling plan sub-
mitted by the U. S. Grain Growers,
Inc., the same to be merged into
or supplanted by the national
plan when it was ready to begin
operation.

Most Go Forward
"Our people expect us to go for-
ward on the problem of grain mar-
keting," Mr. Thompson said. "We

cannot continually pass up <this
important question."

Secretary George A. Fox of the
I. A. A. stated that he wished
those who objected to the resolu-
tion would take the responsibility
of offering a substitute resolution
that would settle the question of
grain marketing.

The resolution was referred to
the new executive committee with
power to act. Immediately after
this action, Mr. Peteet resigned
as marketing director.

New Board

The executive committee is
made up of three representatives
from each of the four sections,
west, south, east and central sec-
tions. Following are the mem-
bers of the new executive commit-
tee by sections:

Weetera Itettea

A. C. Rardlaon California

Frank Evans Utah

C. E. Gibson Colorado

• SoHthent 8cjetl«m

E. P. CohlU Maryland

E. O. O'Neill Alabama

W. D. Ferris Texas

Baatera Sectfoa
Q. M. Putnam . . . New Hampshire

P. M. Smith New York

S. M. Buckingham. .Connecticut
Ccmtial SceUvB

C. E. Hurst Iowa

8. H. Thompson Illinois

Ralph Snyder Kansas

O'Neill, Putnam and Smith are
the only members of the commit-
tee re-elected.

Secretary Asked to Quit
At the December 8 meeting of
the A. F. B. F. executive commit-
tee. Secretary John Coverdale was
asked to resign.

The new executive committee
meeting on December 13 had not
employed a secretary ,up to the
time of the Record going to press.

COUNTIES ASK FOR
EQUALIZED VALUES

(Continued from pace 1)

Speaker Points

Out Economies of
Deep Waterway

"It costs 25 cents per hundred
pounds to ship grain by rail from
St. Louis to Baltimore, 18 cents
per hundred to ship from St. Louis
to New Orleans by rail, and 11 H
cents from St. Louis to New Or-
leans by water."

This statement was made by
Theodore Brent of the Mississippi
and Warrior Service, a govern-
ment agency. He was speaking
at a luncheon for those Interested
in the Chicago to the Gulf water-
way project, at the A. F. B. F.
annual meeting. It was attended
by several I. A. A. leaders and
Geo. A. Fox presided at the meet-
ing.

S. H. Thoapsoa

On Committee

producers Make
$84,000 Profit
First 11 Months

Joe Fulkerson, former execu-
tive committee member of the
I. A. A. and now director of the
East St. Louis Producers' Com-
mission Company, tells the Record
that the earnings of the agency up
to December first of this year is
about $84,000, twice as much as
the full year of 1922. "Be sure
to tell your readers that this earn-
ing will not mean a larger divi-
dend than last year," Mr. Fulker-
son said, "because business of the
company is nearly double the last
year!"

This earning is in the face of
the fact that the Producers' com-
mission charge was 20 per cent
lower than other firms on the mar-
ket, during the last two montlia.

Following are listed the coun-
ties where wide inequalities of
valuations between classes of
property exist. The figure oppo-
site each county is the per cent
of reduction necessary to place
farm land valuations on the same
basis with city and town lots.
These reductions are necessary on
the present valuations of farm
lands within the county.

RcdvctloB
Camtr Mtcessary

Cass 15%to20%

Clay 10*

Champalcn 10%

DuPace 10%

Kane >0%

Madison »%

Marlon *0%

Montgomery !'%

Peoria H*

Vermilion 10*

The Cass county reduction is on
farming land only. Land belong-
ing to duck hunting clubs is val-
ued even lower than city and town
lots.

Many other counties testified
that farm land valuations now on
an equal basis with city property,
or close to it, and they asked that
all classes of property be treated
the same if the State Commission
raised or Ibwered the values set
by county* boards of review, tor
state tax purposes.

In 54 counties there has been
no change in valuations of city
property for 21 years, Mr. Wat-
son told the Commission. "For
six years you have not touched
the values of city property. We
maintain that it Is not fair where
all classes of property are assessed
on the same basis to equalise one
class of property without equallx-
Ing all."

Bailroads liOw

A valuation of only 28 per cent
is made on the 1500 miles of rail-
roads on the lines of the Nickel
Plate, Lake Erie and Western, and
Toledo, St. Louis and Western in
Illinois, Mr. Watson said, based
on the appraised value placed on
these roads by engineer's employed
by the Guarantee Trust Company
of New York for the purpose of
issuing securities on the proper-
ties.

In answer to this argument, Os-
car Carlstrom, acting chairman of
the Commission, said that it was
his belief that some allowance
must be made when railroads are
in a bad financial condition or
are on the verge of bankruptcy.
He said that if railroads had to
discontinue business it would
mean a loss to every community
through which the road runs.

"What are you going to do
about the valuations on these
farms where their owners are go-
ing bankrupt?" asked Mr. Wat-
son. Mr. Carlstrom said that he
did not know.

Conntiea Represented

The counties represented at the
hearing were Monroe. Livingston,
Taxewell, Macoupin, Franklin,
Adams, Kendall, Coles, Mason,
Woodford, Morgan, Henry, Clay,
Winnebago, Pike, Marshall, Stark,
Rock Island, Johnson, LaSalle,
Putnam, Gallatin, Effingham,
Brown, Randolph, McDonough,
Moultrie, DeWitt, Will, Sangamon,
Kane, DuPage, VermilioB, Cass,
Montgomery, Madison, Peoria, St.
Clair, Champaign and Christian.

On

Z. R. Bent, director of the
Phosphate-Limestone department,
has called a state-wide meeting at
the Chicago office, Jan. 9 and 10,
to discuss the agricultural lime-
stone situation and problems.

II I - -^

U.S. Grain Growers
Handling Grain 0)
The Chicago Market

The U. S. Grain Growers, Inc.,
announced on November 28 that
it was ready to handle grain on
the Chicago market. Since that
date several cars of grain have
been consigned to the concern.
Officials of the organization report
that the grain which has come in
has been unsolicited, no active
work having been done to date
to secure shipments.

The co-operative has filed an
application for membership on the
Chicago Board of Trade, which
had not been acted upon as the
Record went to press. With the
application, a surety bond of $50,-
000 was filed, guaranteeing integ-
rity of its contracts made on the
Board. A one million dollar line
of credit has been contracted for
by the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc.

Pa«*S

GRAIN MEN WANT
ACCOUNTING SYSTEM

(Continued from page 1>

business its own way, an advan-
tage was seen in comparing costs.
There was need for strengthening
the weaker elevators.

This body was convinced that a
worthwhile plan could be worked
out. However, it wanted to get
the support and co-operation of
the Farmers Grain Dealers' Asso-
ciation.

Commltteee ' ' ■ •

The original committee of presi-
dents and managers of elevators
is composed of Homer W. Bell.
Manager of the Watseka i^armers'
Elevator Company; G. E. Mellen,
Manager of the Mason Farmers^
Elevator Company; D. J. Holter-
man. President of the Sadorus Co-
operative Elevator Company; and
L. A. Null, President of the Blan-
dinsville Farmers' Elevator Com-
pany.

This group asked in the follow-
ing representatives of the Grain
Dealers' Association to consider
the project: President Fred A.
Mudge of Peru; Secretary Law-
rence Farlow of Bioomington; Di-
rector Herman Danforth of Wash-
ington; H. M. Wood of Delavan
and Fred Stout of Ashkum, Presi-
dent of the Managers' Association.

Homer Bell Says
Accounting Will
Give Protection

Hdmer W. Bell, Manager of Wat-
seka Farmers' Grain C^ompany, is
of the opinion that something along
the line of a uniform system of
accounting and auditing as recom-
mended by the Illinois Farmers'
Oraln Dealers Association and the
L A A, for- co-operative elevators
ta absolutely necessary to the per-
manent success of the moveiqent

"It should give the same means
of protection to the investors in
stock of these companies and their
patrons that the state bank exam-
ination gives to banks,*' writes
Mr. Bell. "The very fact that ele-
vators belong to this branch of the
association and have an audit at
least four times a year and supers
vision at all times, should give
them financial standing in their
communities equal to that of state
or national banks.

'No co-operative elevator in the
state can afford to be without this
service. The cost of this senrlce
should be slightly more than that
of a prolonged audit at the end of
the fiscal year."

WALLACE FAVORS
BOARD OF TRADE
AND PACKER LAWS

If Their Claims of Efficiency

Are True, Official Confirmation

WiH Help, Not Hinder

Henry Wallace. Secretary of Ag-
riculture, had many good things
to say about the packer and stock-
yards act and the futures trading
act, designed to regulate the big
packer and the board of trade, at
the fifth annual meeting of the
A F. B. F.

"Producers and conaamers should
have the opportunity te know abont
these agencies." said Mr. Wallace.
"Nobody knew the amount of fu-
ture trading going on. The C^p-
per-Tlncher act is giving ns the
answer and In a few years we will
know if thad is a fair way to deter-
mine grain prices.

"The packer stockyards act for-
bids unfair practices, unfair to pn>
dacer and consumer. Among other
things it requires packers and oth-
ers to keep Jieir books and records
In such a way as to fully and coi^
rectly disclose all transaction*.
The packers seem to think it is
none of our business how their
books are kept Now they propose
to appeal to the courts to keep us
from knowing the truth. What is
there they do not want ns to know?
If what they have claimed in the
past as to their efficiency of their
methods, and the reasonableness of
their costs and profits is true, tlren
official confirmation would help
them, not hurt.

"(Congress has deemed the pack-
ing business vested with public" in-
terest and subject to ■upervisioB
as such. The packers' books are no
more sacred than the books of
iHtnks which we examined in the
most thorough way."

The farm bureau worked bard
for these two regulation laws.

Central Illiriois
Bureaus Organizing
For Baseball

At a wild duck supper given at
Virginia by the Cass County Farm
Bureau basel>all team, November
27, ftepe were taken toward the
formation of a county farm bu-
reau baseball league in central
Illinois. Representatives from
Morgan, Sangamon, and Macoupin
counties were present and indi-
cated their support , while farm
advisers of Mason, Menard, and
Logan counties have given approv-
al.

A committee was appointed to
make plans tor organisation and
eligibility rules and as soon a*
various counties have organized
teams and selected managers, a
meeting will be called to make a
schedule of games for next sum-
mer.

This committee is composed of
Geo. R. Cline, Virginia;' E. W.
Rusk, Macoupin county adviser:
E. L. Corbin. I. A. A. executive
committeeman from Macoupin
county; I. A. Madden. Sangamon
county adviser; and J. H. Check-
ley, Logan county adviser.

Interest in farm bureau base-
ball teams was started when games
were played in connection with
the farm bureau picnics of Menard
and Cass counties in 1920 and
1921, according to Farm Adviser
Dickenson, Cass county.

During the summers of 192S
and 1923, Cass county farmers had
A team which played other teams
In the vicinity.

PfeC«<

XIm nifaiois Agrieoltaral AaaocSaiioa R«eor(I

December 20, 1923

ST. LOUIS MILK
CO-OP TO REOPEN
PLANT, JANUARY 1

Will Receive Cream and Make

Butter; Lynch Aids In

Re-establishment

The plant of the Illinois-Missouri
Co-operative Milk Marketing Com-
pany at E. St. Louis will resume
cream shipments and begin to man-
ufacture butter on January 1, 1924.
according to an announcement of
the Farm Bureau Advisory Commit-
tee appointed by President O. E.
Bradfute of the A. F. B. F. last
spring to assist the dairymen In
freeing themselves from bankrupt-

cy.

A. E. Richardson, secretary of
the committee, has been vigorously
carrying out the liquidation pro-
gram since the company has been
out of court and states that enough
funds have been collected from out-
standing accounts and sale of prop-
erty to make available immediate
cash payments for cream claims,
to reduce substantially the indebt-
edness to the I. A. A., and to have
left a working fund sufficiently
large to handle daily cream re-
ceipts and to pay spot cash for all
•nch shipments.

Lynch Gives Help

A. D. Lynch, director of Dairy
Marketing for the I. A. A., has
spent some time recently at the
plant making suggestions pertinent
to -the operation of the plant as a
butter factory. He reports that
the plants back in good shape tor
that pnr^se.

"As high a quality of butter as
possible will be made under a brand
name," states Mr. Lynch. "Distri-
bution is contemplated, as In the
past, among retailers In St. LodIs,
E. St. Louis, and surrounding
towns. Prior to closing about a
year ago the plant was turning out
about 1,000 lbs. of butter dally and
had a ready market for it."
Has Good Name

The company has already estab-
lished a reputation among cream
shipiiers for square and honest deal-
ing. Mr. Lynch says. It is general-
ly believed that many of the former
shippers will return, once they are
assared of the company's readiness
to resume handling their business.

"A large cream business means
not only a better market for cream
shippers but in due time, with good
management, should assure earn-
ings to apply on the funded indebt-
edness of the marketing company,"
declares Mr. Lynch.

A meeting of dairymen of the
district to explain the reopening
plans was b«U December 18.

Macoupin Claims
Largest Annual
I . Meet Attendance

"Yoa should have be^ down
to the Macoupin county annual
meeting," said E. L. Corbin of
that county and member of the
I. A. A. executive committee.
"Ov«r 1,200 people were present
and we had a flue time. We claim
that's the record for any county
bureau annual meeting in the
TTnited States."

Macoupin county has 1178 farm
bureau members. There are 26
organized communities. "These
community organizations are re-
sponsible for much of the interest
in the farm bureau," Mr. Corbin
declared. "You're not in the swim
at all it you don't belong to the
bureau in Macoupin county."

WHEN ILLINOIS CLUB WINNERS WERE ENTERTAINED

/. A, A. Banquet Best Event
Of Week y Say Club Winners

"Say, is this the fourth or
fifth banquet we've been to since
we've been in Chicago f" said a
club boy from Ford county to
another from Marshall county
just before the I. A. A. banquet-
ed the youngsters at the Lexing-
ton hotel, Chicago, on Wednes-
day evening, Dec. 5.

"Gosh! I can't remember.
We've been on the go so much
that I haven't tried to keep track
of all the banquets we've eaten
or all the sights we've seen up
here at the International," re-
plied the Marshall county boy.

Anyway, they were all there,
the 150 Illinois boys' and girls'
club champions and their leaders,
the I. A. A. Executive Committee,
and the entire I. A. A. office force.
All were determined to have the
best possible time at this get-to-
gether of the present and future
leaders of organized agriculture
in Illinois.

Everybody Sings

The banquet was served and be-
tween courses E. I. Pilchard, club
work specialist from the U. of I.,
led in community singing.
'Smiles," "There's a Long, Long
Trail," "L'il Liza Jane," and lots
of other familiar tunes were sung
with farm bureau and club work
variations.

"I'm mighty proud to speak in
behalf of the Illinois Agricultural
Association in welcoming the boys
and girls who are champions in
the club work in Illinois," said
President Sam Thompson of the
I. A. A., who presided as toast-
master. "The association is in-
terested in you and we want you
to know that we're back of you in
the splendid piece of work that
you are doing."

Introdnces I. A. A. Family

President Thompson introduced
Secretary Geo. A. Fox, who spoke
a few words before introducing
the entire I. A. A. family of
'bosses" and employes.

"You've probably heard about
many of the members of our fam-
ily before," said Mr. Fox, "and
now I want you to get personally
acquainted with them."

Several of the club winners
were introduced by President
Thompson. Arthur Manock, Pe-
oria county, who is 1923 state
champion in pig club work, made
the first talk. Arthur lives with
his aunt on a Peoria county farm
and takes an active part in the
farm operations. He << president

of his local pig club. His win-
nings this year included first on
Chester White litter and second
on gilts in the club class at the
Illinois State Fair and first, sec-
ond, and third on boar, first on
gilt, and first on litter at the Na-
tional Swine Show In the club
classes.

Club Work Valuable

"Pig club work is certainly in-
teresting as well as educational,"
Arthur said. "Last spring I be-
came a little discouraged and
didn't go into the work at first.
However I finally joined the club
again and helped increase its mem-
bership. I certainly wish I had
started when I was younger. Next
year I will be too old to Join the
pig club, but I am going to en-
courage every boy and girl that
I can to get into club work."

Donald Williams of the nation-
al champion dairy judging team
from Whiteside county spoke. "We
sure felt our responsibility at the
National Dairy Show in represent-
ing the boys' and girls' clubs of
all Illinois, and we determined to
do our best, not for selfish rea-
sons, but for those whom we rep-
resented," he said, "and when we
get to the Judging contest In Eng-
land next spring we are going to
do our best for Illinois."

Winning Whiteside Team

Donald introduced the other
members of his team, Harold
Gaulrapp and Elwyn Folkers, and
also the coach. Farm Adviser
"Dad" Wise. "It's an honor to
stand up with such boys as these,"
said "Dad."

Other club champions spoke.
There was Dorothy Basting, Mc-
Lean county, state champion in
girls' work, Geneva Smith, Wood-
ford county, member of the win-
ning agricultural demonstration
team, and Helen Wade, member
of the Rock Island county home
economics demonstration team.

"We certainly appreciate this
entertainment by the I. A. A.,"
said Helen Wade. "When we go
home, we boys and girls are go-
ing to Interest other boys and
girls in club work and soon we
will have a much greater army
of coming leaders for the farms
of Illinois."

Six Thousand Enrolled

Mr. Pilchard, club work special-
ist from the university, spoke.
"Six thousand Illinois boys and
girls have been enrolled in Junior
club work this year," he declared.

IT was a happy event when 150
boys' and girls' club winners and
their leaders were entertained at
a banquet by the I. A. A. executive
committee and entire office force
on Wednesday night Dec. 5, during
the International Live Stock Expo-
sition. Everyone enjoyed it.

"Next year we are going to work
for an enrollment of 10,000."

"Not many years hence these
young folks who are here tonight
will be the leaders in the I. A. A.
and county farm bureaus," stated
John W. Coverdale, secretary of
the American Farm Bureau. "In
the place of these men who are
sitting around this table tonight
will be these boys — trained for a
better ' agriculture through club
work."

"Finish WeU"

H. W. Mumford, Dean of Agri-
culture at the university, was a
speaker. "Finish well," he said.
"After you have completed your
club work, enroll at the university
of Illinois to further fit yourself
as leaders in agriculture."

Howard Leonard, former presi-
dent of the I. A. A., and D. O.
Thompson, former secretary, also
spoke words of greetings to the
club folks. Then the tables were
cleared away and lively games
were entered into under the lead-
ership of Nina B. Lamkin, well-
known as the director of the Farm
Bureau Decennial Pageant at D«-
Kalb last summer.

"The kids voted the I. A. A.
entertainment the best of the en-
tire week's program," declared Mr.
Pilchard the next day. "They're
strong for the I. A. A. Watch for
us next year."

Ff^rmcm "Week at the Univerfllty
of Illlnofs is scheduled for January
19-26, and an open rate of tare and
one- half has been granted by the
railroads from Illinois polnta.

VIGOROUS ACTION
AGAINST T. B. IS
VOTED BY I. A. A.

Farm Bureau Will Co-operate With

All Agencies in Fight; Ask
^ . Budget of $7,000

Action was taken at the Decem-
ber 5 meeting of the Executive
Committee authorizing that the
I. A. A. assist in every way pos-
sible to make the campaign for
the eradication of tuberculosis
more effective and to do every-
thing in its power to aid both fed-
eral and state authorities in en-
forcing the law.

A recommendation was made to
the budget committee that the
sum of $7,000 be provided tor the
work. It will be handled Jointly
by the I. A. A. Live Stock and
Dairy Marketing departments.
M. H. Petersen, who was employed
temporarily to start the work, will
continue in charge of it.

Endorse I. A. A. Action

Since the I. A. A. took over the
work, a few weeks ago, a large
number of counties have asked
that the association continue its
activities.

Iroquois, DeKalb, DuPage, Mc-
Henry, Rock Island, Will, Jo Da-
viess, Crawford, Boone, Kendall
and Whiteside counties have
matched the 1100 reward offer of
the I. A. A. for the first arrest and
conviction of T. B. cattle bootleg-
gers within the counties.

The association has helped to
organize vigilance committees in
nine counties and 14 more have
stated that they desire help in
forming such organizations.
Much Interest

Two counties not now doing tu-
berculin testing have asked tor
help in planning a campaign to se-
cure an appropriation to help tbem
carry on the work. Several coun-
ties desire help toe an educational
campaign with a view of obtain-
ing an appropriation from their
board of supervisors during the
coming winter.

Program

In its program for the eradica-
tion of bovine tuberculosis, the
I. A. A. will carry on an education-
al campaign to give the tacts re-
garding the T. B. situation and
will coordinate the efforts of all
counties in uniform methods of at-
tack.

It plans to co-operate with state
and federal authorities, medical
associations, chambers of com-
merce, women's clubs, bankers'
associations, milk dealers, rail-
roads and other forces which can
help to bring about tuberculosis-
free herds in Illinois.

The MaeOM CovHtr Farm Bnr«a«

has opened a public market in the
farm bureau building in Decatur.

Volume 2

January 5, 1924

Number I

AU ABOARD FOR
ANNUAL MEETING
i JAN. 16 AND 17

ElecAn of ORicers and Banquet First
Night— Complete Program

Junes C. Stone

AU aboard for the ninth an-
nual meeting of the Illinois
Agricultural Association ! This
year it .will be at Galesburg,
January 16 and 17. Another
year has rolled around and it is
time to get together to discuss
problems and elect officers.

The large part of the first morn-
ing will be spent in reports of the
Secretary, Treasurer and the Presi-
dent's Address.
The program
calls for the ap-
pointment of
committees a t
that time.

Co-op
Marketing
Co-operative
marketing will
take up practic-
ally all of the
first afternoon.
O. B. Goble of
Charleston, Di-
rector of the Indianapolis Producers
will talk on livestock marketing.
Two angles of the financial control
of co-operative associations will be
discussed, one by George Wicker
of the Minnesota State Department
of Agriculture and one by George
E. Frazer, Consulting Accountant
to the I. A. A. On the same pro-
gram, James C. Stone, President
and Manager of the Burley Tobacco
Growers Co-operative Association
of Kentucky will talk about the
managerial control of co-operatives.

Nominations
At the close of the afternoon ses-
sions, voting delegates from the dis-
tricts will caucus to nominate mem-
bers of the exec-
utive committee.
The election will
be held at the
end of the eve-
ning program.

Banquet

At 6:30 P. M.
the whole meet-
ing will banquet
together fol-
lowed by ad-
dresses from Dr.
Tilden, Presi-
dent of Lombard
Camlin, President

This.Edition

With this issue the Record is
summarizing the work of the
I. A. A. for the past year, relat-
ing some of the more important
accomplishments of each depart-
ment of work as secured from
the annual reports of each direc-
tor. The only report omitted is
the 1923 financial statement,
which will appear in full in the
January 20 issue.

ANOTHER ILLINOIS TON LITTER

He Got Results

fThen the I. A. A.
,j Got After 'em

R. E. Fildes, Farm Bureau mem-
ber of Wayne County, sent a check
to a poultry farm for four cockerels
in September, asking for prompt de-
livery. By November 26 he had no
cockerels and no reply to three let-
ters which he had written to the
poultryman. So he wrote to the
I. A. A. to take up the matter to
see if action could be secured.

Here's what Mr. Fildes wrote to
the I. A. A. in December: "Will
say that I received my cockerels
within about four days after I got
your first letter informing me that
you had taken the matter up with
the poultry farm. This proves to
me that the I. A. A. can get results
after individuals fail. I thank you
for your services."

WHAT'S COMING IN .
NEXT FIVE YEARS
FOR FARM BUREAU?

SmlVT Fox: "Orfarizerf Agriolbn
WiU Be EstaUisiKd"

George E. Praxcr

College, John
of the Illinois
Chamber of Commerce and James
C. Stone. Election of officers will
conclude the evening program.

Second Day

Richard T. Ely, Professor of Eco-
nomics, University of Wisconsin,
outstanding authority on farm land
taxes will speak at nine o'clock.

New Directors of
Chicago Producers
Will Be Elected

The election of three directors
will be among several important
considerations at the first annual
meeting of the Chicago Producers
Commission Association at Chicago,
January 8.

Directors will be chosen to suc-
ceed W. B. Elliott, Williamsfield,
111., and Frank Coyne, Montrose,
la., whose one-year term of office
expires at this time, and the third
member will fill the vacancy made
by J. W. Crabb, Delavan, 111.

EaA member is entitled to one
vote at the meeting.

Congressman C. A. Newton of Mis-
souri will follow on the subject of
transportation. A round table dis-
cussion will be conducted after each
address.

Community Centers
Benjamin H. Darrow, Secretary
of the County Y. M. C. A. at Re-
venna, Ohio, will talk on the organ-
ization of community centers at
1:30 P. M. Reports of the com-
mittees on resolution and constitu-
tion and by-laws will follow. The
remainder of the afternoon will be
devoted to round table discussion.

Stewart Reports Growth
in Shipping Associations

C. A. Stewart

at $25,000,000,

The livestock shipping associa-
tion movement has continued to
spread, says C. A. Stewart, Director
of Live Stock
Marketing for
the I. A. A., in
his annual re-
port.

Judging from
reports from
one-fourth of
the shipping as-
sociations, Mr.
Stewart esti-
mates that 20.-
000 carloads of
livestock, valued
have been shipped to terminal mar-
kets. All but ten counties of the
State are served by shipping asso-
ciations.

Some Failures
Yes, there have been some fail-
ures, but not many. Not more than
50 associations can be classed as
inactive or defunct, Mr. Stewart re-
ports. The outstanding reason, he
says, is that some organizations
were organized before there was
real need or demand for them by
the livestock producers of the com-
munity. Poor management and
lack of business methods contrib-
uted to the downfall of some and
the fact that others accorded their
managers the privilege of buying

livestock caused the reorganization
of several.

I. A. A. Help
'The department has attended
meetings in 38 counties, assisting
shipping associations. It has helped
with the incorporation of 38 asso-
ciations. Four shipping association
schools were held in different Sec-
tions of the State in co-operation
with the Extension Department of
the University.

A number of associations adopted
the accounting system recommend-
ed by the department and others
have patterned after it. The mem-
bership agreement drafted by the
department has been placed into ef-
fect by three associations and two
county organizations have adopted
it as part of theif constitution.

Farm Bureau Relation
Sixteen local and three coUnty
shipping associations have amended
their constitutions to accord retog-
nition to farm bureau members and
there is increased interest in this
form of organization in other Sec-
tions of the state, Mr. Stewart spys.
Three counties are now being
organized on the county basis and
there is a growing tendency on the
part of local associations in a num-
ber of counties to fomt county fed-
erations.

The next five years of farm
bureau work should build much
more rapidly and more substan-
tially than the past five years
during which time leaders were
pioneering their way to practical
lines of work, states Secretary
George A. Fox in reviewing the
past and looking into the future.

"The I. A. A. begins 1924 with
confidence and assurance. The past
yeai- practically closes a two-year
period of membership reorganiza-
tion. The renewals and new mem-
bers represent a stronger member-
ship personnel than ever before in
the history of the institution," Ur.
Fox says.

"■' Notes Progrew

"The farm bureaus and the
I A. A. started with ideals and
without a well defined program or
a background of actual experience.
Today both have a wealth of ex-
perience, both good and bad, suc-
cessfnl and otherwise, from which
to draw valuable lessons for future
guidance.

Substantial Uembenhip
"The I. A. A. has a substantial
solid membership. Its financial con-
dition is sound, and it has well
defined lines of service with many
substantial accomplishments to its
credit. The future was never
brighter. Another five years should
thoroughly establish organized ag-
riculture in Illinois."

Secretary Fox will give a report
of work for the year at the open-
ing session of the annual meeting
at Galesburg.

hike Backing

Winning Horse,
Sweetnam Says

*It makes a fellow feel good to
hew that the orgairfcation he be-
longs to is goin^ strong," writes
R. L. S»?«etnam of Sweet Clover
Stock Farm, Lee County. "It is
like backing the winning horse.

"It is sure amusing to hear peo-
ple stand around and tell how Uttle
they know about what the _Fann
Bureau is really doing. Most of
those birds are too cheap to belong
to anything. When yon do con-
vince them to join, they want their
money back the next day.

"The I. A. A. is doing good work.
More power to its efforts."

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P—e 2 The

4IILILn MODQS Z^
ClJLTIUa^AlL ASS®CflMi®N
"RECORPr^lr-

Published twice a month by the Illinois Axricultural Association,
608 South Dearborn Street, ChicaKO, Illinois. -Edited by Depart-
ment of Information. E. L. Bill, Director. '

Entry as second class matter Oct. 10, 1921, at the post oflice at
Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for
mailing at special rates of posuge provided for in Section 1103,
Act of October 3, 1917, authorized Oct. 31, 1921.

The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation is five dollars a year. This fee includes payment of fifty
cents for subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Association Record.

OFFICERS
j President, S. H. Thompson, Quincy.

Vice-President, A. O. Eckert, Belleville.
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomington.
Secretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
By Congressional Districts

11th Henry McGough, Maple Park

12th G. F. Tullock, Rockford

13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th ;. W. H. Moody, Port Byron

ISth H. E. Goembel, Hoopole

16th. D. G. Reder, Mendota

17th... F. D. Barton, Cornell

18th C. R. Finley, Hoopeston

19th D. J. Holterman, Sadorus

20th Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21st E. L. Corbin, Carlinville

22nd Stanley Castle, Alton

23rd , . . -^ Carleton Trimble, Trimble

24th Curt Anderson, Xenia

, 25tfa Vernon Lessley, Sparta

Directors of Departments
I. A. A. Ofice
General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker: Organiza-
tion. G. £. Metzger; Information, E. V. BUI; Transportation, L. J.
Quaisey: Statistics, J. C. Watson; Finance, EL A. Cowles; Prmt
and Vegetable Marketing, A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketinc,
C. A. Stewart; Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Poultry and Egg
Marketing. J. D. Harper ; Phosphate-Limestone, J. R. Bent ; Legal,
Newton Jenkins.

DOLLARS IS NOT THE ONLY MEASURE

All of us like to see the results of the farm bureau
set down in terms of cold dollars and cents saving,
but the projects that can be figured in money saved
are not always the projects that mean the most for
agriculture.

There is the packer control law and the grain
exchange futures act, both designed to make fair
play for the producer, with the government as
referee. Your officers believe they mean much to
agriculture, but there is no way of measuring the
benefit in money saved.

The new filled milk law prevents the manufacture
and sale of milk substitutes in Illinois. Illinois
dairymen do not compete with cocoanut milk now.
The truth-in-advertising law put a stop to butter
substitutes sailing under the flag of the dairy cow.
It prevents the use of dairy terms and names in
advertising substitutes for dairy products.

The Illinois wool pool is another example. Our
pool along with the pools from other states has
helped to bring about orderly marketing of wool.
It has prevented a break in wool prices, the Live-
stock Marketing Department says. It would be a
guess to try to determine the value oi this work in
doUars and cents.

The advice given one county by the Limestone-
Phosphate Department on the question of opening
up a local limestone quarry, saved farmers of that
-county from going forward on a project that would
ultimately fail.

The very fact that there is a farm bureau looking
out for agricultural interests has a moral effect,
or at least many believe that it has, but there is
no wayrto measure the value. !

Illinois Agricultural* Attsoci>t'ion Record

January 5, 1924

THE COMMUNITY CLUB

The local commimity club and local leadership
are two great helps to the farm bureau, several
.counties say in telling about their reorganization
experience. Leadership is responsible for one-
fourth of the membership of Moultrie county being
in Marrobone township. W'e are told by a White-
side county man that the local club is the very heart
and soul of the farm bureau. In Knox county the
largest membership is in the neighborhood of a rural
church where the pastor is the leader of the
community.

Is it true that the farm bureau is going good in
the community where there is a good community
organization ? Does a commimity club help to
develop leadership? In what townsliip do you have
the largest membership and what is the reason for
it? Tell us about your commimity club and what
•t has done for the farm bureau.

WATCHING FARMERS' TRAFFIC
PROBLEMS

You know there is a continual change going on
in freight rates and rulings. Hearings are going
on before the Interstate Commerce Commission and
state commerce bodies. Every week or two a new
tariff schedule is issued showing the changes made.

Practically every interest has a department watch-
ing every change, studying its particular problems
and plugging for its side. A change in the brick
freight rates in Iowa may mean all the difference in
the world to cement interests of Illinois. Their
transportation department knows all about it the
minute a change is mentioned, and is right after it
with all the facts and arguments.

In the scramble of interests to protect themselves,
you can guess what happens to the interest that is
not continually studying and working on the prob-
lem. That is just what has happened to farmers
for a long time. Outside of hollering pretty loud
when we get hurt, not much work has been done
on the freight rate problem until the last few years.

The purpose of the I. A. A. Transportation
Department is to be on deck where there is an issue
that affects Illinois fanners. This year the depart-
ment attended some eighty hearings, conferences
and various meetings concerning traffic matters. On
another page the result of this work is told about.

The new lower rate on mixed carloads of live-
stock is an outstanding example. A lot of time was
put on the case to lower the minimum weight of a
carload of hogs necessary to pay freight on, but
Illinois did not get the decrease in this instance.

A reduction was obtained from the Wabash on
cattle and hogs from points west of the Illinois river
to East St. Louis. A grazing-in-transit privilege
was obtained from the Rock Island railroad for all
points on that road in Illinois oh stock shipped from
Montana. A transit privilege on red top seed was
secured at Flora. Four East St. Louis terminal
roads sought to relieve themselves of the provision
made for icing service. The department took up the
case with the Interstate Commerce Commission and
Illinois Commerce Commission and the case was
dismissed. ,

Right now the department is fighting a proposed
increase in fruit and vegetable freight rates, and
also working against a proposed decrease in rates
of dressed meat products, which would drive east-
em buyers out of our livestock markets, the
department maintains.

These are a few of the outstanding examples.
The problem is not always in lowering rates. Some-
times it is in preventing a higher rate, sometimes
it is checking up on a road that has not put a new
rate or ruling into practice, and often it is securing
a so-called privilege on a certain product for a
territory.

ORGANIZATION IS THE ANSWER

"If agriculture is ever to accomplish anything
either in shaping revenue laws which will be
fair to farmers, or in securing an honest and
effective administration of fair revenue laws, it
can only be done by organization."

That is what John C. Watson told the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau annual meeting in Chicago.
And further on this subject he said:

"Legislation nearly always operates to the
advantage of those who are least able to resist.
The administration of the law is subject to the
same influences. It is entirely proper and neces-
sary, therefore, that farmers' organizations should
make taxation one of their projects. It is the only
way by which farmers can find out the facts,
give them the necessary publicity, formulate
sound policies, secure fair legislation, defeat
unfair legislation and establish efficient admin-
istration.

"The program is not a temporary one, but a
continuous performance. It will cost money to
maintain the program, but it should save farm-
ers a hundred times, perhaps a thousand times,
as much as it costs."

NO LUCK ABOUT IT
The total assessed valuation of farm land for
tax purposes in 99 counties was decreased
$106,(XX),000 in 1923, as compared with valua-
tions of 1922.

It is estimated that this decrease in valuation
will make a reduction of at least $2,000,000 in
taxes paid by land owners.

There was no good luck about it. It is the
result of hard work by many people, the result
of organized effort of farmers. It first started
three years ago when the I. A, A. began to study
taxation, thinking there might be some need for
farmers to spend some time on this problem. At
the beginning of 1923 it was apparent that
assessed valuations of farm lands were higher,
according to their real value, than assessed valua-
tion of town and city lots.

Then the work of getting the proof started.
Dozens of farm bureau people spent weeks in
county court houses making inviestigations to
get the actual figures. The assessors were first
approached. • Then the question was " taken up
with county boards of review and later with
the State Tax Commission. The proof of a real
case was made by the farm bureau. Often the
farm bureau men had more facts at hand than
the tax bodies, both county and state.

More than the reduction of $2,000,000 is the
example of what is possible to do through organ-
ized effort. It is a starter, just half the reduction
which should have been made this year, and it
is only one of several problems connected with
the whole taxation question. It is reason to be
encouraged, to go forward and finish the job.

PROVIDING FOR THE FUTURE

Every month the Rock Island Co-operative Dairy
Company deducts three per cent of the net amount
. due to the producer-members to place in an emer-
gency ftmd. This fund will be kept growing until it
reaches an amount equal in volume to the largest
previous month's volimie of business. While it
remains the property of the producer, it is the inten-
tion of the company to invest the money for him in
good bonds or liquid securities.

Why do^this ? The president of the "co-op" says,
"It is because we are not building for today alone
but for the future. We want a good reserve just
as a bank or^any other sound business institution
has a reserve."; '

For example — if there are bad accounts or some'
calamitous emergency arises, this fund is available
without causing undue burden upon the producers
who are selling at the time. When a producer goes
out of the milk business or withdraws from the com-
pany for any reason, his pro-rata share of the
emergency fund is paid him as soon as it has reached
its required volume. In addition to this emergency
fund, the company has its other reserves, for depre-
ciation of plant and equipment, interest, taxes,
insurance, dividends, and other overhead items.

$115,000 IN COMMISSIONS RETURNED

Illinois farmers shipped approximately 19,000
carloads of livestock to the four Producers Com-
mission Companies at Chicago, Peoria, East St.
Louis and Indianapolis, in 1923.

The rebates on commission charges to Illinois
farmers for the year will be in the neighborhood
of $115,000.

$67,000 SAVED ON LIVESTOCK FREIGHT

The new lower freight rate on mixed carloads
of livestock was in effect the last three months
of 1923, After considerable figuring it was esti-
mated that the reduction is saving Illinois
farmers $6.00 per carload. Illinois farmers ship
in the neighborhood of ^5,000 mixed carloads of
livestock per year.

If one-fourth of the livestock was shippet
during the last three months of the year, the cash
saving was $67,000. If the ruling remains in
effect all of this year, the saving will be $270,000.

lanury 5, 1924

■IT

){ farm land for

was decreased

red with valua-

ase in valuation
ist $2,000,000 in

ut it. It is the
;ople, the result

It first started
. began to study
e some need for
lis problem. At

apparent that
ds were higher,
1 assessed valua-

e proof started.

spent weeks in
iviestigations to
;ssors were first
1 was ' taken ui)

and later with
; proof of a real
eau. Often the
ts at hand than
tate.
12,000,000 is the

through organ-
ilf the reduction
his year, and it

connected with

is reason to be '
nish the job.

CK FREIGHT

mixed carloads
3t three months '
ring it was esti-

saving Illinois
)is farmers ship
ixed carloads of

was shippei
le year, the cash
ing remains in
mil be $270,000.

PUTURE f

■-operative Dairy i
: the net amount ;
lace in an emer- 1
growing until it
le to the largest
ness. While it
^r, it is the inten-
loney for him in

January 5, T924

The Illinois Agricultural Association Record

Pace 3

the "co-op" says,

for today alone
ood reserve just
iiness institution '

ccounts or some'
und is available .
in the producers
a producer goes ;
ks from the com- ]
;a share of the
as it has reached j
) this emergency ;
erves, for depre- ]
interest, taxes, j
rhead items.

RETURNED

mately 19,000
Producers Com-
'eoria. East St.

irges to Illinois
e neighborhood

forward Farm Bureau— A Year of I. A. A. Work

OVER 31,000 SIGN
DURING YEAR IN 45
FARM BUREAUS

Organization Department Sells Bureau

Accomplishments to Farmers

of State

G. E. Metzger

"No apologies need to be offered
for the work of the farm bureau,
county, state and national," says
G. E. Metzger in making the an-
nual report of
the Organiza-
tion Department.
"Their accom-
plishments are
plentiful," he
states.

"The big work
facing the de-
partment in the
future is to sell
the accomplish-
ments to the
ments to the farmers of the state,"
Mr. Metzger says.

Signed 31,000

J!)uring the year organization
work Jias been carried on in 45
counties and membership cam-
paigns have been completed in 33
counties. Some clean-up member-
ship work remains to be done in 12
counties. In addition to work in
these 45 counties, clean-up work
carried over from last year has been
completed in II counties. In these
campaigns over 31,000 members
have been signed up for a three-
year period.

Township Unit Plan
Toward the close of the year a
new plan of organization was tried
out in seven counties. Instead of
having one county school of in-
struction for local solicitors, three
such meetings were held in each
township, teaching from 7 to 15
men in each community how to
solicit membership. After three
days of teaching the fourth day the
men attending the three township
meetings are called together for
final instructions and are assigned
territory to solicit.

The township membership is then
cleaned up before the county or-
ganization director and I. A. A.
man leave the township which docs
away with the long drawn-out
clean-up campaign which accom-
panies the county unit plan of re-
organization.

In discussing the neighbor-sign-
ueighbor method of campaigns Mr.
Metzger says that it has trained
from 50 to 300 men in each county
to sell the farm bureau to their
neighbors and to meet opposition
in quite an eflfective way.

Community Clubs

Without exception the cost of
reorganization is lower in counties
where community organizations
have been developed, Mr. Metzgtfri
states. Through community meet-
ings a connecting link is established
with the membership.

"We observe that where the
membership is meeting regularly in
community meetings, studying the
V problems of agriculture and prob-
ably not devoting all of their time
to hard work, but spending some
time socially, the leadership has de-
veloped so that it is a comparatively
easy task to carry on work in that
community/' Mr. Metzger says in
his report.

Recommends Local Clubs
"We recommend local commu-
nity organization as one of the
projects which should be featured

THEY GOVERNED THE I. A. A. IN 1923

S. H. Thompson

Lots for L A, A.
to Do Yet, Says
Pres. Thompson

"We don't need to be discouraged
because all of our problems have not
been solved this year," says Presi-
dent S. H. Thompson. "Of course
we would like to be strong' enough
to be a real factor in marketing, but
after all the I. A. A. has had only
four years of real organization
work, and in that time we have had
difficulty in finding ourselves.

"There is one thing sure — organ-
ization of farmers is the way to
^olve our problems. We can't do
without it. It is common talk that
if this thing fails, the effects of it
will be felt for twenty-five years.

"This organization has got to go
on and stabilize prices. There is no
sfnse in hogs being worth fifty
cents more today than yesterday.
The grain market is so sensitive that
it is subject to a telegram or a
drought scare. The organization
is a fizzle if it does not solve this
big problem."

/. yi. A. Seeks Equal
Distribution of T. B.
Indemnity Funds

Approximately 75 per cent of the
state and federal indemnity appro-
priation of over $700,000 yearly i~
l>ein(r used in the 43 counties Avliicli
have employed area veterinarians,
while the remaining 25 per cent is
spread over the 59 counties which
have made no appropriation, states
M. H. Petersen, in charge of tu-
berculosis eradication wrork for the
I. A. A.

"The amount of tax<^ contributei
to the indemnity appropriation is
proportionally the same in everv
county in Illinois," he declares,
"but the farmers in counties whicli
have not appropriated money to
hire an area veterinarian are payin:;
for the reactors found in the herds
of farmers who live in counties that
have."

To correct this state of aflfairs. the
I. A. A. is giving help to many
County Farm Bureaus to aid them
in securing appropriations from
their Boards of Supervisors ft*r
funds to hire area veterinarians.

during the present organization
period. It is the belief of the de-
partment that if community organ-
ization can be developed and a good
program worked out which will fit
the needs of each community, the
cost of organization in the future
will be materially reduced."

Lawrence, Pulaski, Jeflferson and
White counties, not heretofore af-
filiated with the I. A. A., were re-
organized durinc the yew under the
joint mm'bership plan. ; .

I. A. A. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR 192$

Top row: A. O. Eckert, Belleville, vice-president; Henry McGough,
Maple Park, 11th district; G. F. Tullock. Rockford, I2th district.

Second row: r p Ramhornii^h Polo, 13th district; W H Mo^dv.
Port Byron, 14th district; H. E. Goembel, Hoopole, 15th district; G. E.
Reder, Mendota. 16th district. '

Third row: F. D. Barton, Cornell. 17th district; C. R. Finley. Hoo|>cs-
ton, 18th district: D. J. Holterman, Sadorus, I9th district; E^rl Ij. Smith.
Detroit. 20lh district.

Fourth row: E. L. Corbin,Carlinville, 21st district; Carleton Trimble,
Trimble, 23rd district; Curt Andersqn. Xenia. 24th district; X'ernon Less
ley.__Spaita, 25th district. : ■ I

Not in picture : Stanley Castle.l Alton, 22nd district. I

FARMERS SECURE
BENEHCIAL LAWS
AT SPRINGFIELD

Co-op Ad, T. B. Measires and

Inspection Laws All Sectin

Passafe

The Co-operative Marketing Act
stands out as the big piece of state
legislation passed at the last session
of the Illinois Legislature at Springs
field. From the time the 4)ill was
introduced early in the session until
it was passed in the closing days,
the I. A. A. Legislative Committee

Legal Department Doesn\t
Bring $$ But It Saves

em

You can't always figure up the
value of an I. A. A. department by
the amount of money it saves the
^^^^^^ farm bureau

^Pl^^^k membership i n

I j^^^ ^°''' cash. Such

^^^^^^L true the

|?^B^^H Legal Depart-
\ "^^^^W ment of the as-
\*''^^^H^ sociation, com-
N||^^^^^^ posed of Newton
^M^^^^l Jenkins. Di-
^^^^* ^^^^^* rector, and Don-
Newton Jenkini aid Kirkpatrick.
But whenever another department
desires assistance in legally setting
up a co-operative association, or a
co-operative organization wishes to
reorganize, or a county farm bureau
wishes to incorporate, all find that
lawyers are pretty handy to prevent
possible legal pitfalls which would
be disastrous later on.

Bureaus Helped
The work which the Legal De-
partment is doing for county farm
bureaus is each year becoming more
extensive, says Mr. Jenkins in his
annual report. Legal assistance has
been given to 64 county bureaus,
this year. Fifteen have been incor-
porated with help from the depart-
ment. Some have had their char-
ters amended so as to broaden their
powers. Personal matters efTectini;

members have often been referred
by farm advisers to the depBrtmenr:

Aids Tax Work

When John C. Watson wished to
find out just how far the I. A. A.
could legally go in its tax investiga-
tions, he consulted the Le^al De-
partment, which also assisted, in
presenting evidence before the Illi-
nois Tax Commission.

Thirty-eight shipping associations
have been incorporated during 1923
with the aid of the department, co-
operating with C. A. Stewaft of the
Livestock Marketing Department.

Assists with Legislation
"Thefe was more legislation of
interest to agriculture secur«d at the
last session than has been i>btained
in many pilcvious sessions of the
General Assembly," states Mr. Jen-
kins in his report. "The Legal De-
partment rendered some alsistance
to the Legislative Committee both
in the preparation and interpretation
of various measures considered dur-
ing the session." :

Every other department of the i
I. A. A., Finance, Limestone-Phos-
phate, Transportation, Fruit and
Vegetable Marketing, Dairy Mar-
keting, have all received legal aid
from Mr. Jenkins and Mr Kirkpat-''
rvk

was on hand to see it through. Al-
ready a number of co-operative mar-
keting organizations ^avc found it
to their advantage to organize un-
der the new act and several others
are planning reorganization under
the act.

Three T. B. Laws

Three laws with the aim of eradi-
cating bovine tuberculosis .were
passed, all championed by the Farm
Bureau. First came the appropria-
tion of a million dollars to assist in
payment for condemned cattle.

K law was passed permitting the
stpte to pay out money up "to ^he
limit of tlie appropriation to the felt-
tent of' two-thirds of the appraised
value of animals condemned, in case
the Federal Government should
withdraw its support or its funds
be inadequate. The third law per-
mitted county boards to appropriate
money t'o carry on eradication work.

Inspection Law
A law making possible standard
grades of farm products and inspec-
tion by the state at local shipping
points was enacted. The Illinois
Fruit Exchange made good use of
the inspection service this year, and
the poultrymcn found that it was
just the legislation needed in setting
up their new hatchery and farm
flock inspection plan.

For Dairymen

The committee hen>ed dairy in-
terests to secure the Truth in Ad-
vertising Law, prohibiting the use
of dairy terms in advcrtifting dairy
substitutes, and the Filled Milk
Law which prohibits the manufac-
turc_and sale^of fake milk products.

Newspapers Serve
Farm Bureau with
Special Editions

\A.Wj;1

That Illinois newspapers, both
daily and weekly, are fully alive to
the importance of the Farm Bureau
is shown by the fact that 36 special
Farm Bureau Editions of newspa-
pers have been published during
1924 in every part of the State in
connection with reorganization cam-
paigns.

Preparation of these editions,
which varied in size from 8 to 38
pages, shows what can be secured
through co-operation, for newspa-
per.s county farm bureaus, the
I. .\. A. Information and Organiza-
tion Departments, and tfce .American
Farm Bureau Information Service
co-operated to make the editions
tell the Farm Bureau etory

Pm* 4

The Illlnola Afrlcultural Ataoclatlon Record,

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JatauHif 8, 1K4 January 5

r

AGLIMPSEATFARMBl

I m ittvjp.;. 'Miff

, ., J i.» ^^ iiBSfS

Intninr i-i>:v af the
Ml Carndi Cooperative Creamery
which the I. A. .1. helped /.
to establish V

^. ;. . ^ I I I I I I I

The •cd.x^l kiJdici (if (^.incy
»fc K4pp\- -nnw, for ihev'fe drijAing
tlUility milk pTodurcd by the Qnincy
ro'>|)c«nivc Milk Prwiuicrj Asswm
linn. Miik pUtit of coiujjanv i

The niinoit Missouri Cooperative Miik Maikciinj Company. E. Si. Louis, wh
cream and mnnufjiturc butter »n January I, 1924. Ic has not been in operation for <
Creditors. The I. A. A/ heipcri to iBjke it possible for the plant to open again.

I I I [ M I I I I i I ' ' ' ! '

"Hey! Skinney! I.nok zi'hat tee got!" The i. A. A. hdicvcs in cooperation
in alH::l(is lo make lives happier so it has cooperstcl with United Chttritiei for the
pait three yrars in placing Chicaen slums children into the h< rncs of Farm Bureau
members foi two weeks oulings. This year 391 kiddici were sent out ihroiigh the I. A. A.

■ 11 1 I ill in I ■

It

"Vita (ht id" dairy products arc made in this plant, the home tif the Vita Gold Dairy
f*n^Mcts Company at I'reeport. This company was /f/r^med during the summer under the
fllinois Cooperative Marketing l.axv to take over the business of the Stephenson County Coopera-
five Marketing Company, ichich remains as the holding company. This plant u-ashuHlin 1^21.

illlf III IIIIK

Here wc have the home of the Piatt County Cooperative
Soy E)ean Milting Association, only one of the iiiany enter-
prises started in Illinois through Farm Bureau work.

T(tr Farm Bureau belicvn in plavt
too. This is the chkinpion "barnyard
(oir* tram tif lllinotv. Ha[r>- and Watlvr
Torbclt of DcWitt Cotint)!, who won
the cup offered h\ the I A, A. at the
annual picnic at Urhana. June 29. They
won over 18 nihcr Farm Burcauf lesmv
in pitching Stirt«hoev

11 I j Waiting in line at the Peoria Produc
I I I I I I I I I ' I I ■ t 1 ■ I .« -

The four Producers Livestock Commissi
at Chicago. Peoria, East St. Louis and Indian
ized bv Illinois farmers, received 47,390 carloa
in the first two months of 1923. This is
the business of 1922. There are 585 loc
livestock shipptng associations in the state.

Most recentto start among the coops helped by the l.A.A. is the Rock Island C . ; () i i Company, which began

distributing Riverside milk and other dairy products on August 25. Pictured abovt is ilic plant ami lineup of the delivery
wagons of the co-op.

Many Illinois Farm Hureatts have spienilid homes,
the McLean (nanty luirm Bureau, Bloominglon. Il
kureau market pla^e.

:^^ ::A-:

1924 January 5, 1924

The Illinol* Agricultural Association Racorif

n.. |.

n«.t

iRM BUREAU ACTIVITIES

i:^^

r%*... • ■ l» mmjig

cting Company, E. St. Loois. whose home is fhown above, started to \mj
It Kai not been in operation foi over a year, being forced into bankruptcy by !
for the plant to open again.

> 1 I I I I

> i I I I f r M ( 11

Ye««. the i.A.A.m:ps m iiiaikcting prol
of rhciu. Were arc pifiurcs ttf wagun loa<i
top pool which is slortd in the warehouse r
Exchange at Flora. The two jjciitlcincn in
president, and Curt Anderson, manager of

!■ 1 J I I 1 1 1 i I

1 ilc-iiiti. Rrd tx^p seed is one

; of scid ready lor the red

thcK(!V[)tirin Seed Growers

tlic ceiiltr aic George Orr,

the cvchangc.

r^^^."

l^»

I I I I H I I I I I I

i In the

Chicaso Producers Callle Pens I

In line at the Peoria Producers J I I I 1
I ii'iii iiiti-flj 111

iucers Livestock Commission Companies
, East St. Louis and Indianapolis.'patron-
ners, received 47,390 carloads of livestock
lonths of 1923. This is nearly double
922. There are 585 local cooperative
associations in the stale.

1 ^

All aboaiil for the n!inoi\ Vt\o\ Pool! Lo»ding Sangani' »n Ccunf. wool
Springfield consigned lo ihc' Naii.-mal Wool W;irchouse an>) Storage Company.
Chicajfo Farm Ad%i:icr I. A. Madden i\ at ^tceiMig whrcl. IHin an fvrmcii shipped
■ nearly 200.000 pounds of wo«l tothr faim bureau pool in 1923

« i i M n ii M

LIMESTONE NO LIMESTONE

Results of a(>plying limestone on sweet
clover in Stark County

NO PIIOSPHAIE

Results of apriymg rock pho
wheat m Livingston

HOSPHATE

>h#teon

A. Limestone -Phosphate department is to ajssure Illinob
farmers an adequate and economical supply ojf agricultural
limestone and raw rock phosphate, the two important
mineral elements called tor in the Illinois system of
permanent agriculture. - - . -

1 Hureaus kat-e splendij homes. This is headquarters fur
■arm Bureau, Hloominnlon. It also contains the Farm

us 'Illini" brand of fruit?
il of the ilriDoiK Fruit E.Ychdn2c.
nd pjkiV fruit . lot H:siribunnn
rf NortK America. The Olarlf
puthrrn llliDoi^~ha& a capacity

J

Pag^ fi

The Illinois AgricU'ltural Association Record

January 5, 1924

Transportation Dept, Is
I JVatchdog for Farmers

The new lower freight rate on
mixe4 carloads of livestock prob-
ahly bncans more in direct saving
than any other
■ one project
worked on by
the I. A. A.
Transportation
Department in
1923. However,
it is only one of
a long list of
similar problems
L. J. OuaMT which the de-

partnunl has solved or had a big
hand in. '

It is estimated that the new
mixetj carload freight rate will save
Illinois farmers on the average of
$6 a parload. Illinois farmers ship
about: 41.000 mixed carloads of live-
stock a year.

A Cut on Wabash
As a result of negotiations ex-
tending about a year, a reduction
in rates was obtained from the
Wabash Railroad on cattle and
hogs from points ^est of the Illi-
nois Itiver at East St. Louis.
' Roc^ Island Privilege
A girazing-in-transit privilege was
obtained from the Rock Island
Railroad for all points on the road
in Illinois intermediate to Chicago
on stock cattle, calves and sheep
from Montana.

Taking Marseilles, 111., as an ex-
ample, the arrangement would re-
sult in a saving of 13 cents a hun-
dred pounds, or about $15 for a
single car and $28 for a double
deck car of sheep. Previously a
feeder was required to pay the rate
from. Montana to Marseilles and
later the rate from Marseilles to
Chicago. Now the sheep may be
fed for a period of a year or less
and reshipped to Chicago at the
through ra^e from Montana plus a
small additional transit charge.

Mr. Quasey reports that similar
action is being taken with other
roads. \

Red Top Privilege
A similar transit privilege on red
top seed was secured at Flora, 111.,
for the Egyptian Seed Growers'
Exchange. The privilege applies .on
seed moving from points in Illinois
to Flora, to be cleaned, graded and
stored, and then reshipBed to other
points .in Illinois, Wisconsin, Mich-
igan, Indiana, Ohio and New York.
For ^ruit Shippers
Of particular interest to fruit
aixl vegetable shippers of southern
Illinois is the (^se of four railroads
of Eas» St. Lo^is which sought to
relieve themselves of the provisions
made for icing service. The depart-
ment objected to the Interstate
Commerce Commission and IlUnois
Commerce Commission -and a hear-

Producer Agency

Buys 600 Cars of
Feeder Live Stock

Lee [Divine, formerly with the
I. A. A. Live Stock Marketing De-
partment and now in charge of the
stocker and feeder division of the
East Et. Louis Producers Commis-
sion Cojmpany, tells the Record that
600 carloads of sto^ were pur-
chased for feeders by the Producers
this year. It's going fine, Lee says.

Last year the stocker and feeder
divisicjn: purchased 345 carloads of
stock for farmers. The idea of hav-
ing a farmer representative on the
market every day in the year, a man
who knows cattle and market prices,
is apparently gaining headway fast.
Mr. Divine says that 90 per cent of
the cattle purchased! for' feeders
came b«ck to the Producejts to be
told.

ing before the Interstate Commerce
Commission was granted. At the
hearing a representative of the lines
informed the commission they
would drop tiie matter.

Algonquin Saved $45 a Day

Considerable survey work was
done on milk and cream rates by
the department. This was largely
supplementary to work done in
1922. The principal purpose of
these surveys was to get complete
information about rates in various
sections of the state.

Mr. Quasey points to a case of
milk and cream shipment from Al-
i;onquin to Chicago, to show what
was made possible through the rate
survey. Algonquin is sb situated
that the mileage to Chicago can be
figured two separate routes. The
rate in question was figured on the
longer route and of course at a
iiigher rate. The matter was taken
up with the railroads and adjust-
ment was made. Here is what
B. B. Stewart of Algonquin wrote
to the department:

"You secured the lower rate for
us and we get 8 cents a hundred
pounds more than before. We are
shipping about 56,000 pounds a day
from this station. That makes a
daily saving of $45."

BfG GAINS SHOWN
IN BUSINESS OF
PRODUCER COOPS

Farm Bureau Support Is Great Help

to Agencies; I. A. A. Starts

Field "Service

In 1923 the Chicago Producers
Commission Association gained 117
per cent in business as compared
with the same months it was in
business in 1922. The Producers
at the National Stock Yards gained

7Z per cent, the Indianapolis Pro-
ducers gained 67 per cent and the
Peoria Producers gained 100 per
cent. These are the four Producers
companies patronized by Illinois
farmers.

"No one recognizes better than
the National Live Stock Producers
Association that this growth is the
result of support given by the Farm
Bureau," says C. A. Stewart, Live
Stock Marketing Director of the
I. A. A.

Field Service

This department has devoted
much time to the promotion of
these selling agencies. Among other
things, it recognized the need of a
field service and worked out a plan.
Three field men are already at work,
financed by the selling agencies but
working under the direction of this
department of the I. A. A.

F. H. Kelley represents the de-
partment in the St. Louis territory,
R. B. OrendorflF is the representa-
tive in the Peoria and Chicago ter-
ritory and I. C. Grimes in the Chi-
cago territory. No one has been
engaged for the Indianapolis terri-
tory.

Mat.e Personal Contact

These men make a personal con-
tact for the selling agencies with
shipping associations and produc-
ers. They attend meetings of farm
bureaus, shipping associations, ad*
just complaints and call on associa-
tion mamtsers.

1923 WOOL POOL
CONTAINS OVER
WOO POUNDS

Beats 1922 Pool by Over 50.000

Pounds; Pooiing Has Stabilized

Market Prices,

The 1923 Illinois wool pool, with
198,283 pounds to date, beats the
pool of 1922 by over 50,000 pounds.
LaSalle County is the leading con-
signor with over 18.000 pounds from
73 individuals. In all 7S6 individ-
uals consigned to the pool. The
average amount pooled is 258
pounds, 36 pounds abov^ the aver-
age of 1922.

To date the National Wool Ware-
house and Storage Company has
disposed of the following grades of
Illinois wool at the prices quoted:

H Blood Staple 49c

fi Blood Clothing 46c

Va Blood Staple 46c

y» Blood Clothint . .' 41c

H Blood Semi 43.5c

% Blood Semi . .■ 40c

Low ^ 4U

Braid 36c

Medium Burry ft Seedy 37c

Cotts 3Ic

Dead 33c

Murraine Dead 19c

Taga 14c

These prices are all f.o.b. ware-
house and may be subject to slight
change. Because these sales were
made recently, the Live Stock Mar-
keting Department states that re-
turns cannot be made for a short
time and it may be necessary for
those having fine grades of wool to
wait somewhat longer.

Orderly Marketing

The average price paid in the
country was ZZ cents a pound, Di-
rector C. A. Stewart of the depart-
ment states, six cents higher thatr
local prices paid in 1922. Many in-
dependent dealers became over-
zealous in their efforts to prevent
wool from being consigned to the
pool and paid higher prices than the
market justified. Much of that wool
has already been sold at a loss,
Mr. Stewart states, and the pools
now control quite a percentage of
the wool yet unsold.

"By marketing wool only as fast
as the trade could absorb it, the
pools have prevented a decline in
the market which the independent
system of marketing could not have
prevented," Mr. Stewart states. "In
other words orderly marketing has
prevailed."

Cowles Helps You
To Remember Your .
Membership Dues

You know there are bound to be
a few among the 62,000 members
that will forget all about the Farm
Bureau member-
ship dues.

But if there is
to be a Farm
Bureau there
must be mem-
bership dues.
When the prob-
lem of collecting
dues arose, Rob-
ert A. Cowles,
lU A. Cowiea treasurer, fig-

ured out a scries
of reminder letters and other sug-
gestions. Mr. Cowles held a series
of meetings over the state at which
he invited Farm Bureau officials and
Farm Advisers. The problems of
collecting dues and other business
problems of the county organiza-
tions were discussed at these meet-
ings.

Mr, Cowles has assisted co-op-
erative marketing associations in
their problems of bookkeeping and
financing. He says co-operative as-
sociations must play the game of
business according to the rules of
the game. A complete financial re-
port of the I. A. A. will be given by
Mr. Cowles in the next istne of the
Record.

ILLINOIS IS GOING
STRONG IN PROGRAM
OF T. B. ERADICATION

Geo. A. Fox

LIMESTONE SURVEY
MADE DURING YEAR
BY ASSOCIATION

IIHnois Fanners Used 300,000 Tons in

1923; Give Help in Phosphate

Purchasing

J. R. Bent

Where is the best place for our
county to purciiase limestone, taking
into considera-
tion the quality,
price and freight
cost? To answer
^^^^"^^v^H questions of that
T^^^BW kind, the Phos-
Y*' **^B^^ phate-Limestone
I ^^^H Department

made a survey
of practically all
(^f tlie commer-
cial quarries in
Illinois and
neighboring states. The survey
covered 31 plants in Illinois, three
in Indiana and six in Iowa.
Helps with Problems
The department has acted as rep-
resentative for many county farm
bureaus and individuals in dealing
with producers in the interest of
improving service and making ad-
justments on quality, weight and
price. It has assisted nine counties
in the problems surrounding the
possibility of starting local lime-
stone crusher and storage plants.
At the present time the department
is holding a series of seven district
meetings to make further study of
the limestone problem.

Probably 300,000 tons of agricul-
tural limestone have been used by
Illinois farmers in 1023. Director
J. R. Bent states in his annual re-
port. Practically every county in
the state is now a user of lime-
stone and a future greater user.
Rock Phosphate
The department has continued to
serve as the purchasing agent for
the collective buying of raw rock
phosphate for members of the farnj
bureau. The branch office at Co;
lumbia, Tennessee, has sampled and
analyzed every shipment and has
supervised shipping, billing and ac-
counting. The tonnage for the
year, as in 1921 and 1922, has been
below normal. However the oom-
missions earned in this business have
been more than enough to pay all
the cost of shipping office and lab-
oratory in Tennessee.

Hatchery ff^ork
Is Progressing,

States Mr. Day

Eight hatcheries have sent ap-
plications to the Illinois Department
of Agriculture for inspection undftr
the new- accredited hatchery plan,
according to H. W. Day, Supervis-
ing Inspector. Two or three othe/s
have stated that they want inspec-
tion.

Mr. Day itstes that inspector*

A. A. and County Farm Bnreaus
Cooperating in Campaign of
Education and Action

Illinois now has the largest pro-
^'ram for the eradication of bovine
tnht-rculosis of any state in the
Union, accord-
ing to M. H.
Petersen, in
charge of eradi-
cation work for
the I. A. A. A
total of 44 coun-
ties either have
county veterina-
rians employed
M. H. Petersen q|. have appro-

priations for their hire to test herds
in the county for tuberculosis.

About the middle of November
the I. A. A. offeced a reward of
$100 for the fir^t arrest and convic-
tion of a bootlegger of tuberculous
cattle within the county, with the
provision that the county match
with a similar sum, making the re-
ward total $200.

Fourteen Make Reward
To date, , 14 counties have
matched this reward, states Mr.
Petersen. These counties are, Iro-
quois, DeKalb. Dupage, McHenry,
Rock Island, Will, JoDaviess, Craw-
ford, Boone, Whiteside, LaSalle,
Kendall, Peoria, and Cook.

"Sixteen counties are now co-
operating with the I. A. A. in con-
ducting educational campai^s to
secure county appropriations from
boards of supervisors," states Mr.
Petersen. "And eight have defi-
nitely formed vigilance committees
working to stamp out T. B."
Committee Takes Action
At its December meeting, the
I. A. A. Executive Committee
passed a resolution stating that the
association would go forward on a
vigorous program to make the pro-
gram for the eradication of T. B.
more cffectj^ve. It will co-operate
to the fullest extent with state and
federal authorities.

Recommendation was made that
the Budget Committee provide
$7,000 to carry on the work in 1924
under the direction of the Livestock
and Dairy Marketing Departments,
with Mr. Petersen in charge.

New Farm Bureau^ -
' ; Markets Doing

a Lively Business

The . Producers' Market which
was opened by the Logan County
Bureau at Lincoln, November 27,
is doing a fii^e business, according
to J. H. Checkley, farm adviser.* He
reports that average sales each
Saturday from 26 booths are $600.
The Farm Bureau Seed Depart-
ment last year cleaned and found a
market for $30,000 worth of clover,
timothy, and soy beans, he states.

In Decatur, the Macon County
Farm Bureau started a producers
market; in the farm bureau building
on November ^.0. Average returns
each Saturday are around $500.
Most of the farmers holding booths
come from 10 to 25 miles from De-
catur, Farm Adviser Walworth
says.

are now at work inspecting farm
flocks. Quite a large number of
applications are coming in from
flock owners, notably in Mont-
gomery and Wayne counties. "It
is c^ur desire to develop the work
slowly during the first season -and
to give service rather than to have
more hatcheries accredited than we
can efficiently take care of,** de-
clai«t Ur. Day.

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The Illino'ia Agricultural Association Record

Page 7

A. A. HELPED TO
DEVELOP HATCHERY
INSPECTION PLANS

HH^ fivper Predicts That Higlier Quality
of Poultry and Eggs Will
Result

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1' The -I. A- A. took a very active
A4 part in sfartiiig the plan of farm
poultry flock inspection and accred-
iting of hatcher-
ies which was
put into opera-
tion in the fall.
Machinery which
made the plan
possible was af-
forded through
the farm prod-
ucts inspection
^. and grading law,

j' J. D. Harper passed by the

♦% 1923 General As-

f sembly, and actively sponsored by
lithe I. A. A. Legislative Committee.
•t.l In his 1923 annual report, J. D.
^ J Harper, in charge of egg and poul-
/try marketing for the association,
• »lhas the following to say regarding
1 the poultry improvement plan.

"Early in the year complaints
! and several claims against hatch-
eries for misrepresentation of baby
chicks called my attention to the
fraudulent practices in the baby

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chick business," says Mr. Harper.
"This was connected with the fact
that the quality of Illinois eggs
was below that of some adjoining
states on the terminal markets.
Studies Wisconsin Plan

"A trip was made to Madison,
Wis., early in the summer to study
their accredited hatchery plan. H. M.
Lackie, Chief Hatchery Inspector
for the Wisconsin Department of
Agriculture, gave me the plan of
their state inspection of flocks and
accrediting of hatcheries.

"Mr. Lackie consented to come to
Chicago and discuss the whole sub-
ject with a committee selected to
hear him.

Adopt Plans

"As a result of a conference on
this subject in June plans have been
developed in co-operation with the
Univei-sity of Illinois Poultry De-
partment, the Division of Standard-
ization and Markets, and the Poul-
try Division of the Illinois Depart-
ment of Agriculture until at this
time inspectors are at work and a
number of hatcheries will be avail-
able on the list to furnish state-in-
spected standard Illinois baby
chicks this coming season.

','The accredited hatchery will be
a guarantee to farmers and others
buying baby chicks that they are
getting chicks true to variety and
name from state-inspected breeding
stock.

Will Help Egg Marketing

"Improvement of the quality of
farm flocks of the state will surely
follow the breeding-up of flocks
supplying baby chicks which are
being sold in increasing numbers
annually," predicts Mr. Harper.

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CONSTITUTION COMMITTEE

1 i A committee of five has been

named to review all proposed

ji changes to the constitution and by-

i_« laws, and to make a report to the

I annual meeting. Members of the

^' committee are: Frank Barton, Earl

C. Smith, Carlton Trimble, H. E.

Goembel and C. E. Bamborough.

Annual Meeting Program

OPENING SESSION 10:00 A. M., JAN. 16

Invocation ^ Rev. M. Guy VanBuskirk, Oneida

Addreis of Welcome Ray Arnold, Galesburg

President's Address S. H. Thompson

Treasurer's Report R. A. Cowles

Secretary's Report George A. Fox

Appointment of Commttteea.

AFTERNOON SESSION 1 :00 P. M.

Accomplishments in Livestock Co-operative Marketing

O. B. Goble

Illinois Director of Indianapolis Producers

State Financial Control of Co-operatives Geo. Wicker

Department of Agricultiu'e, State of Minnesota

Self-Imposed Financial Control of Co-operatives Geo. B. Frazer

Consulting Accountant, I. A. A.

Managerial Control of Co-operatives James B. Stone

President and General Manager of Burley Tobacco Growers'
Co-operative Association
Nonaination of Executive Committee Members by Districts.

EVENING SESSION
Banquet— 6:30 P. H.

Address Dr. Tilden

President o( Lombard College

Organized Co-operation in Community Improvement . . John Camlin

President of Illinois Chamber of Commerce

Merchandising a Farm Crop for Three States James C. Stone

Election of Officers.

MORNING SESSION 9:00 A. M., JAN 17

Music.

The Taxation of Land Richard T. Ely

Professor of Economics, 'University of Wisconsin.

Transportation Problems of the Mississippi Valley

'. Hon. Cleveland A. Newton

United States Congressman, Missouri
Discussion.

AFTERNOON SESSION 1:30 P..M.

Organizing Community Centers Benjamin H. Darrow

Secretary of County Y. M. C. A., Ravenna, Ohio
Report of Resolutions Committee.
Report of Constitution and By-Laws Committee.
Round Table Discussion.

Fruit Exchange Has Good
Year Says Manager Leepe?

The average prices received by
the Illinois Fruit Exchange during
1923 were quite satisfactory, ac-
cording to A. B.
Leeper, Centra-
lia, manager of
the organization.
This is particu-
larly true of
strawberries, po-
tatoes, cabbage
and peaches, he
states.
"In the case
A. B. Leeper of peaches the

average price
net-to-growers was the highest we
have heard of in 1923," declares
Mr. Leeper. "The apple and pear
prices were the exception. The
apple prices were not satisfactory
in a good many cases but when
comparative prices received by the
exchange and prices received in
other apple-growing sections of the
United States are considered, in
almost every case we find a very
favorable margin in favor of Illinois
fruits.

Apple Crop Large
"The enormous apple crop which
was moved during the year was one
of the largest ever moved in the
same length of time and it was
only by distributing apples in car-
lots to practically every small town
in the country that they were able
to be sold at any price in the short
period in which they were forced
on the market.

600 Cars Volume
"Last winter the weather man

dealt roughly with the southern
Illinois fruit growers and the early
apple and peach crops throughout
most of the section were badly in-
jured or killed," states Mr. Leeper.
"The falHng-off of these two im-
portant crops reduced the tonnage
of the Illinois Fruit Exchange by
practically 50 per cent.

"However, there was a consider-
able gain in the late apple crop and
the exchange will finish the season
having marketed around 600 cars of
fruit."

Shipping Point Inspection

The establishment of government
shipping point inspection during
1923 has been a decided step for-
ward in the marketing of Illinois
fruits, Mr. Leeper says.

"The Exchange was the first to
call on the Illinois Department of
Agriculture for this service and it
was used on practically all the
peaches shipped and also on a great
many of the apples.

Insures High Grade Fruit
"There is considerable sentiment
among the members of the ex-
change to install government in-
spection on every car of fruit
shipped by the organization next
year," declares Mr. Leeper.

He predicts that if this is done,
added to the general supervision of
inspection already in use by the
exchange, the co-operative will put
on the market a product of uni-
formity and also of superior grade
to that of any other growers or
shippers in Illinoia. . - i

Annual Reports

The annual report of the asso-
ciation for 1923 will be ready lor
distribution in booklet form at
the annual meeting at Galesburg.
Detailed summaries of the work
of each department are included
in the annual report. If you want
a copy, secure it at the annual-
meeting or send your name to
the I. A. A. and one will be
mailed to you as soon as they are
off the presa.

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HAVE ANY TROUBLE !
WITH RAILROADS?
I WRITE THE I. A. A.

Transportation Department Helps With
: Fences, Urestock Pens and
Loading Platfornis

H. K. Ripling of Galena wrote
the Transportation Department say-
ing that the railroad fences adjoin-
ing his property had been bad for
a numl>er of years and he was not
able to get in touch with anyone
locally who could take care of jthe
matter for him. j

Upon taking up the case, ]the
railroad informed the departn<ent
that instruction had beep given to
put the fences in first class condi-
tion. Later Mr. Ripling thanked
the I. A. A. for securing a t^w
fence. •■!

The Dahinda Livestock Shippitg
Association, Knox County, asked
that watering facilities and shelter
be provided at the local stock ptns.
The railroad did not respond favor-
ably at first, contending that Ithe
volume of business did not warttant
any improvements. They st^ed
that there were a number of titees
around the yards to give sufficient
shade. Photographs of the yards
revealed a different situation, how-
ever. After submitting the matter
to the management again, word was
received that the division superin-
tendent had been authorized to pro-
vide water and shade at the stbck
pens.

Bad-Acting Buyers

Another shipping association ide-
sired additional pens and wanted to
lease a piece of ground for scales.
Investigation disclosed that local
buyers were not friendly to Ithe
shipping association and they t^ied
to hinder it in its operations.

Buyers endeavored to gel tlkeir

cattle to the pens first and tb lis

tribute them in as many pens as , farmers will avail themselves of the

I. A. A. DEPARTMENT
COLLECTS NEARLY
$10,000^ IN CLAIMS

Trafiic Department Represents Farmers'
ioteiests in Railroad

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A total of 519 claims were filed
:iiid jji were collected to the
amount of $9,457.98. during 19iJ,
by the 1. A. A. Iransportation De-
ijartnient, according to the aiiuual
report of L. J. Quasey, director of
the department.

1 hese were all strictlji, railroad
claims and those .filed included 161
freight overcharge claims] 325 loss
and damage claims, and ii general
loss and <i-ainage claims.

Freight ;Overcharge Esamfde

"Under (he first group | we have
claims that are occasioiijed either
ilirough the application ii an im-
proper rale or improper rcjuiing and
an overcharge is the reiilt," Mr.
iJuasey states. "In many cases
where errors were founili claims |
were filed and money tecovered.

"A member of the j McLean
<-ouuty Farm Bureau ha^ a ship-
ment of slock cattle moving from
South St. Paul to his loctl station
on which he was charged $106
freight. ' He suspected tijat some-
thing was wrong and referred the
matter to us. Upon checking the
rate, we found that he |iad been
cliarged the fat cattle raie instead
of the stock cattle rate. The cor- •
reel charge should have be|en $80.80.
Hie difference of $25.20 was re-
funded by the railroad dompany."
Live Stock Delayed

Loss and damage claims often
arise .from loss and damage to ship-
me«ts en route, states Mr. Quasey's
report. In the case of live stock it
may be due to delay in arriving at
the market thus causing a shrinkage
or drop in the market. An example
is cited of C. B. Watson, o( DeKalb,
who shipped a carload of! cattle to
tlie Chicago yards which i was de-
layed in getting to market

The claim was placed -with the
department for handling and in-
cluded shrinkage, drop in 'the mar-
ket, and extra feed, the total amount
of which was $8-».lo. This settle-
ment was obtained for Mr. Watson.
In acknowledging it, he ••rote:

"1 received check for $84.16, set-
tlement in full from the C. & N. W.
railway for claim on loa4 of cat-
tle, I appreciate your efforts in this
and the other claim adjusted. It is
excellent service you are fendering
the farmers of Illinois in getting live
stock and other claims adjusted. I
hope the time will come when more

possible The scale owned by the
local buyers was in poor shape fnd
led to much trouble.

The Transportation DepartnUent
took the matter up with the railrtiad
company with the result that |he
lease for the scale site was cancelled
and given to the shipping associa-
tion. The railroad promised i to
make necessary changes in the p^ns
to accommodate shippers. '

416 Like These j

The Transportation Department
has handled approximately tid
matters similar to these instances,
Director L. J. Quasey states in |his
annual report.

NOT WHO, BUT HOW

The question is not who, but now
and when, President Bradfute said
at the annual meeting pf the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation, fit
was discussing politics, of the cbn-
vention and his meanftig was tliat
how and when the needed wOrk
was to be done is more itnportfint
than who is 'to have the glory ^nd
profit in doing it.

Our own annual meeting is ccm-
ing in two waeka.. , : :

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service which the I. A. A. i^ giving."
Loss by Fire

"Under general loss anj damage
claims are the fire losses 4nd stock
killed along railroad right-of-ways,"
says Mr. Quasey. • "The iclaim of
Mr. J. C. McWhinney series as an
illustration of this class C|f claim.
Mr. McWhinney sustainedja loss of
17 acres of meadow and length of
fence. The damage amounted to
$100. The railroad offered to pay
less than half that amount, stating
that according to. their records th«t
amount covered the loss.

"We made further investigation of
the matter and insisted tha« the full
amount of the claim be paid. The
claim agent then informed us tliat
he could not pay more than that,
whereupon we asked him for evi-
dence to back up his contention. He
then sent us the report of the sec-
tion foreman which he relied upon
in making the settlement. This
.disclosed that the section ftoreman
had greatly underestimated the ac-
tual damage. Our evidence was
comprehensive and compile and
after taking the matter up with the
railroad company again, they passed
y^ for payment in the fall amount."

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Th« IlTinois Agricultural Asaociation Record

January S, 1924

$2,000,000 Cut in Taxes Through Organization

TAX VALUATIONS
GET GENERAL CUT
OF JEN PER CENT

1 «. A. wni Continue Tax Work

in Many Other Tasks to Be

Done, Says Watson

id spite of the fact that equaliza-
tion of valuations of farm land in
I 1923 has not

I ^^^^^^ gone more than
' ^^^^^^^k' half as far as

^^^H should have

^^^^^^^^, gone, is prob-

m^^^^m able that the de-

fJK^^^^r crease taxes

^^^^^^P^ on land owners

TT^^^^^^L this winter will

^^Ak ^^^^m amount to

^■k-^^^B least $2,000,000,

Ij: C. W.BOB according to

John C. Watson,

Ditector of Taxation and Statistics

for the I. A. A.

This is the encouraging news that
comes at the end of a year of hard
work on the farm tax problem.
10 Per C^nt Decrease
The total reduction in assesi^ed
valuations of land from 1922 to 1923,
is nearly $106,000,000, or about a
10 per cent decrease, Mr. Watson

states in his annual report. If this
reduction were all reflected in de-
creased taxes, it would mean a cut
of $4,000,000, Mr. Watson states.
However, increased tax rates, par-
ticularly for schools, are likely to
oflfset the effect for 40 or 50 per
cent of the reduction.

Most all of Illinois knows the
story of how investigations were
carried on in 56 counties to find the
actual values of farm lands and
city property and how the assessed
vaiues were compared with the ac-
tual] values to see if they were as-
sessed on the same basis. And then
how this information was taken
first to county boards of review
aVid later to the State Tax Commis-
sion.

Fatore Program

"The department proposes to con-
tinue its efforts to secure equaliza-
tioA in counties where any serious
ineqiialities throw an unfair burden
on farm land," Mr. Watson says.
"In many counties assessments of
farm animals are at a much higher
percentage of their actual values
than is true of city property, or in
a g6od many cases even of farm
land. Some very substantial de-
creases in such valuations have been
made this year. Further adjust-
ments in the valuations of personal
property should be secured through
the assessors next spring. Unless
it is made by assessors, it is not
likely to be made at all.
Tax Laws

"Questions of constitutional and
statirtory changes to make the rev-
enue laws fairer to farmers and
other tax payers are becoming in-
creasingly important in Illinois
The department proposes to give
careful consideration to such ques-
tions, and to continue gathering in-
formation on the working and ad-
ministration of our present revenue
laws..

Tax Expenditures

"Taxpayers of the state are en
titled to information in a form they
can understand about expenditures
of tax money. At t)resent they do
not have such information. Where-
ever public funds are spent ineffi-
ciently, extravagantly or dishon-
estly ,| high taxes will be. levied.

Just Like Pulling
iTeeth!

No, the farm bureau doesn't
claim all the credit for the
decrease of $2,000,000 in farm
taxes of 1923. It is possible
that some decrease might
have been made without or-
ganized agriculture taking any
hand in it at all.

But a large nnmber of
county farm bureaus and the
I. A. A. Taxation Department
knows that a lot of that reduc-
tion came like pulling teeth.
Do your own guessing of how
much reduction farmers
would have received if con-
tinual study and work had
not been centered on this
problem by the farm bureau.

ISSUE TAKEN WITH
PRESS STATEMENT OF
TAX COMMISSION

Watson Says Body For(ot AU About

Ciiy lot Increase; Count

Reductions Twice

Mr. Kelker Is

New Assistant

to Secretary

The I. A. A. office has handled
18,000 outgoing telephone calls,
1,250 long distance calls and has
sent out 1,400
telegrams in the
year 1923, re-
ports J. H. Kel-
ker, Assistant to
the Secretary,
who was em-
ployed by the
Association No-
vember 1.

During the
J. H. Kdker year, 19,602

typewritten let-
ters were sent out and 27,788
pieces of first class mail received.
The addressing section which keeps
up the list of 70,000 names and mails
the Record, the multigraph section,
the stock room and filing work all
come under the direction of Mr.
Kelker. There are 1 1 persons em-
ployed in these lines of work. The
real truth of the matter is that this
department does everything that
does not come under some other
department of the .\ssociation, in-
cluding everything from making ar-
rangements for meetings to order-
ing Farm Bureau signs.

Arthur Says Club
IVork Is Great;
Enjoyed Banquet

"1 am writing to thank you for
the fine banquet that was given to
us boys and girls," says Arthur
Manock, Peoria County, boys' pig
club champion of Illinois, in a let-
ter to the I. A. A. "It sure was a
fine get-together. I enjoyed hear-
ing our I. A. A. leaders speak and
also to meet them.

"We belong to the 1. A. A. and
the Peoria County Farm Bureau.
This is an organization that every
farmer ought to belong to. If it
had not been for the farm bureau,
1 expect I would never have heard
of club work until it would have
been too late. As it is, I have had
three successful years. It is work
that has been an education in itself.
I am a club booster forever and
ever."

'A proper system of checks on
expenditures, of auditing, and of
analyses promotes efficiency, econ-
omy and honesty in handling public
funds. There can be little doubt
that the greatest opportunity for
reducing tax levies lies in this direc-
tion. The department proposes to
give this subject as much attention
is its other duties permit."

In his annual report, John C.
Watson, of the I. A. A., points to
more holes in the press statement
issued by the State Tax Commis-
sion, in which they tell about de-
creased valuation of farm land.

In addition to the error, as Mr.
Watson calls it, of counting the
$68,000,000 land reduction made in
1922, twice, the Commission forgot
all about the increased number of
lots and new buildings when telling
about the big increase made in val-
uations of city property.

In explaining increases in town
and city lots the statement released
by the Commission reads:

Statement of Commission

"During the same period of two
years (1920 to 1922), town and city
lots have been increased $28,173,463
by the boards of review, and this
year the increase in town and city
lots has been $7,960,416, making a
total increase in the valuation of
town and city lots of $36,133,879.
This increase fairly represents the
normal increase on the number and
value of town and city lots."

In reply, Mr. Watson says, "Any-
one who knows anything about the
great increase in the value of city
real estate in the last three years
will take issue with the deductions
in the last sentence quoted above.
The number of new lots assessed in
the state increased 56,706 from 1920
to 1922. The value of new improve-
ments on lots is not known but
it ran into hundreds of millions of
dollars. In Chicago alone, the esti-
mated cost of buildings for which
permits were issued in 1920 and
1921 was more than $204,000,000.

Does Not Consider Value Increase

"The increase in assessed valua-
tions of town and city lots in the
two years was a very small fraction
of the value of new property. It
takes no account whatever of the
enormous increase in the value of
lots and improvements already as-
sessed in 1920. The same comment
applies to the assessments for 1923
of 29,752 new lots and new improve-
ments on lots in the 99 counties,
exclusive of Cook, Lake and La-
Salle. The increase of $7,960,591, in
assessed valuations of all lots and
improvements thereon in these
counties* is inadequate to represent
the increase in new property alone."

/. A. A. Has Standard Milk
Marketing Contract in Use

Much Serum Secured
Through Purchasing
Committee Contract

C. A. Stewart, Director of Live
Stock Marketing Department, served
as secretary of the Illinois Serum
Purchasing Committee during 1923.
Others on the Committee were
Farm Advisers J. H. Lloyd, L. R.
Marchant, J. R. Shinn, and F. E.
Fuller.

As a result of the committee's
work, 31 counties contracted for
18,000,000 CCS. of serum and virus
from a commercial serum plant at
75 cents per hundred ccs. Up to
December 1, a total of 17,117,000
ccs. of this contract had been con-
sumed. Several other counties were
also given aid in serum purchasing.

A standard milk marketing con-
tract for use when Illinois dairy-
men desire to form co-operative
dairy market-
ing associations
has been
worked out by
the I. A. A. this
year, according
to the report of
A. D. Lynch,
Director of
Dairy Market-
ing.

It is iY>w be-
ing used by the
A. D. Lmcb Rock Island

Co-operative Dairy Company and
tlie Vita Gold Dairy Products Com-
pany, Freeport.

"This marketing contract departs
from others chiefly in that provision
is made to penalize the man who
produces a surplus as against the
man whose production is uniform
by paying a less price for the excess
production than the fluid milk
price," states Mr. Lynch.

"The period of low production is
determined conclusively by the com-
pany and is based upon its period
of least receipts. The provision is
intended to influence production
toward more uniformity with more
equity to individual producers than
usually provided for. This con-
tract was worked out after consid-
erable discussion with officers of the
I. A. A. and with the advice and as-
sistance of the association's attor-
neys."

Investigational Work
The Dairy Marketing Department
finSs that a very important step in
the organization of a co-operative
dairy enterprise is the pre-organiza-
tion or investigational work to find
if there is ample demand for its
services and a reasonable assurance
that it will succeed, states Mr.
Lynch.

"The department finds it neces-
sary at times to advise dairymen not
to begin the business they might
have in mind and for which they
believe a need exists," Mr. Lynch
says.

Examples Given
"In Union County, for example,
a survey with the local farm bureau
was made in the interests of get-
ting a condensary into the county.

After an investigation of the coun-
ty's dairy development and future
possibilities, cow testing associations
and cream shipping organizations
were suggested as the present need."

However in Decatur, Macon
Coiinty, the department found a city
of nearly 50,000 of good purchasing
power without a dependable milk
supply. Over 100 individuals and
siuall dealers were found to be ped-
dling raw milk. The conclusion
was reached that there existed on
this market an opportunity for a
co-operative milk distributing asso-
ciation on the part of dairymen who
deliver milk and others in order to
standardize their product and mer-
chandise it according to approved
business practice.

Good Year for Dairymen

"The dairy industry has gone
through a satisfactory year in many
ways," concludes Mr. Lynch in his
report. "The price of butter has
ruled from 8 to 10 cents higher than
In 1922. The market has been par-
ticularly free from excessive fluctua-
tion. There is indication of a larger
disappearance of dairy products into
consumptive channels judging from
repbrts of the large primary and
consuming markets.

"The price of fluid milk around
the large population centers is gen-
erally lower throughout the country.
High prices for fluid milk evidently
have stiijiulated dairymen to patron-
ize such markets more extensively.
It is apparent that production Jias
increased in the Chicago territory
and some dairymen already feel
that lower prices will be in order
unless they associate more effec-
tively in an orderly marketing plan. "

ll

Fruit Co-op mil
Reorganize Under
Marketing Act

Officers and members of the Illi-
nois Fruit Exchange are looking
forward to the organization of a
number of new units this winter,
states A. B. Leeper, Manager.
Never has the interest of the grow-
ers in co-operative marketing been
as great as it is at present, he says.

Decision has practically been
reached that the fruit exchange will
get a new charter and incorporate
under the new Illinois Co-operative
Marketing Act. This will mean
that the reorganized exchange will
take over by contract the crop the
present organization will have and
will organize all new units under the
co-op" act.

As soon as arrangements are
made for such incorporation, the ex-
change expects to engage in an ex-
tensive membership campaign under
the direction of the Fruit and Vege-
table Marketing Department of the
Illinois Agricultural Association.
Many requests are already on file
for this organization work wSich
will be started early in January, Mr.
Leeper states. \

it Pays to Check

Over R. R. Rates,
Department Finds

All railroad tariffs on agricultural
products are kept on file in the
office of the Transportation Depart-
ment of tl^e I. A. A. Every time
there is a supplement or a reissue,
the department carefully checks
them over to ascertain any changes
in rates that concern the farmer.

In an instance that took place the
latter part of the past year, the de-
partment found that the new ruhng
on mixed shipments of live stock as
ordered effective by the Interstate
Commerce Commission on Septem-
ber 28, had not been made effective
by the Chicago, Burhngton &
Quincy Railroad on IlHnois traffic
until November 1.

The matter was taken up with the
management of the railroad. It ap-
pealed to the Illinois Commerce
Commission for authority to refund
all overcharges on mixed shipments
that moved between September
28th and November 1st.

Up to the present time, the

f'ransportation Department has filed
ver 40 claims amounting to ap-
proximately $300 with the C. B. &
for these overcharges.

f

EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

, The I. A. A. Dairy Marketing
Department conducts an employ-
ment service for organizations de-
siring managers, superintendents, or
other employes, says the annual
report of A. D. Lynch, director. A
list of available or prospective men
is kept on file and from it' boards
of directors get in touch with pros-
pects and the department aids them
in conducting interviews with men
in whom tiiey are interested.

5

i

A.

try 5, 1924

lion

n Use

of the coun-
it and future
g associations

organizations
present need."
atur, Macon
it found a city
3d purchasing
lendable milk
dividuals and
nd to be ped-
le conclusion
re existed on
rtunity for a
ributing asso-
lairymen who
s in order to
uct and mer-

to approved

'airymen
y has gone
year in many
Lynch in his
if butter has
s higher than
las been par-
!ssive fluctua-
}n of a larger
products into
judging from
primary and

milk around
:nters is gen-
t the country,
lilk evidently
en to patron-
: extensively,
oduction Jias
igo territory
already feel
be in order
more effec-
keting plan. "

Rates,
nt Finds

agricultural

file in the
tion Depart-

Every time
sr a reissue,
ully checks
any changes
le farmer,
ok place the
fear, the de-

new ruling
live stock as
Interstate

on Septem-
adc effective
rlington &

inois traffic

up with the
oad. It ap-

Commerce
:y to refund
i shipments

September

time, the
ent has filed
ing to ap-
he C. B. &

s.

5RVICE

Marketing

1 employ-
zations de-
endents, or
the annual
director. A
lective men
it boards

with pros-
t aids them

with men
sted.

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Jwrawy 21, 1924

NnndMr 2

I ORGANIZATION IS
ESSENTIAL, SAYS
PRES. THOMPSON

:ient Production Alone Will
Not Solvejarm Problems Is
Opinion of I. A. A. Chief

i

"Future progress of agricul-
ture depends today more than
at any time in the history of our
country on strong organization
of farmers," said President
S. H. Thompson in his address
at the opening of the ninth an
nual meeting of the I. A. A. at
Galesburg, Jan. 16. "EfScient
production alone will not solve
the present day problems.

"We must put agriculture on a
■ound basis, on equal footing with
every otber sue-
cessful buBineaa
ot our conntry.
It we would
keep onr chil-
dren on the
farm and con-
tinue tlie busi-
ness, we must
put agriculture
on a substantial
paying basis
that will brinx
returns that are
a. H. TkoBpwm aaUsfactory so
that tbey can make the home and
farm attractive and really worth
while for the best uf men.
Farm Bureau Worn Toiee.
"We have through the efforts
ot the farm bureau, won a voice
in the affairs of county, state, and
nation and have been instrumental
In securing the passage ot con-
■tmctive legislation that will help
the farmer to get his business on
an equal basis enjoyed by the
other businesses of the country
and thus have opened the way for
cooperative effort, making it pos-
■ible for him not only to produce
efficiently, bat also to Join with
(Continued on par* i)

John Had Talk All
Ready But Censors
- Didnt Approve It

John C. Watson, Director of
Taxation for the I. A. A. was
■diednled to teU the world abont
"Taxation as a Farm Bnreau Pro-
ject," over the American Farm
Bureau radio from Station KTW,
Chicago, January 4, bnt his man-
uacript, prepared in advance, was
rejected as "polltlcar by KYW
censors. SUUon KTW is owned
and controlled by the Westing-
house corporation. If you w|ant
a copy of John's "censored" talk,
write the I. A. A.

^lE

Aimuat Metting Jieport

As the itecerd gees to
press on tHe eve of the
ninth annual meeting, ad-
vance copies of several ad-
dressee have been secured
and are summarized In this
Issue. The next Issue of the
Record will contain further
report of this meeting.

Series of Shipping
Association Schools
To Start on Feb. 12

Farm advisers, directors, mana-
gers, and members of livestock
shipping associations are invited
to attend one-day shipping asso-
ciation schodls in their districts,
which will be held ' starting Feb-
ruary 12, by the I. A. A, College
of Agriculture, and National Live
Stock Producers Association, co-
operating.

The discussions will be led by
C. A. Stewart and L. J. Quasey
ot the I. A. A.; E. T. Robbins and
V. Vaniman of the College ot Ag-
riculture; and F. M. Simpson, gen-
eral manager ot the National Pro-
ducers. The managers of each of
the four Producers selling agencies
at Chicago, Peoria, E. St Louis,
and Indianapolis will attend the
schools in their respective terri-
tories and the three I, A- A. field-
men, F. H. Kelley, R. B. Omdorff,
and I. C. Grimes will divide their
time between the meetings.

The schools are scheduled as
follows: Olney, Feb. 12; Carbon-
dale, Feb. 13; Centralia, Feb. 14;
Springfield, Feb. 19; Decatur, Feb.
20; Oilman, Feb. 21; Galesburg,
Feb. 26; Dixon, Feb. 27; and Chi-
cago, Feb. 28.

UP TO BAT WITH 1924

I.A.A. NET WORTH
TOTALS $214,293
START OF NEW YEAR

$150,000 In United States Bonds

And Cash— Treasurer R. A.

Cowles Commeits

Uniform Purchase
Plans Being Made
For Limestone

Two more district meetings have
been held to discuss plans tor the
future purchase ot limestone on a
uniform basis among the county
farm bureaus, according to J. R.
Bent, Director of the Phosphate-
Limestone Department. A meet-
ing was held at Joliet on January
9, and one was planned for Gales-
burg on January 17 in connection
with the annual meeting.

One is planned for Sonthem Il-
linois on February 6, at Centralia.

Mr. Bent sUtes that the state-
wide conference which representa-
tives selected at the district meet-
ings will attend, will probably be
held at Springfield, February 20
and 21. ,

"The meetings are evidencing
that the use of limestone is rap-
idly increasing in all parts ot the
state, especially in tie northern
and central parts," Hr. Bent says.

Secretary Fox Charts New
Year's Program of Work

In his address at the ninth an-
nual meeting. Secretary George A.
Fox reviewed and discussed the
work ot the past five years. He
pointed to the failures and strong-
holds, and made recommenda-
tions tor the future.

Following are a few outstand-
ing tUngs said by Hr. Fox:

Cooperative MttAMiag
"We have had tour years ot in-
tensive experience with marketing
problems, some satisfactory and
some not. We may become dis-
couraged and overwhelmed ot we
may capitalize upon our mistakes
and make them serve us. The
greatest obstacle to overcome at
this time is the strife over lead-
ership.

Livestock Mart^etiiig

"Where possible livestock ship-
ping associations membership
should be confined to farm bureau
membership and a differential
charge be made for handling in
favor of meml>ers. Each associa-
tion would profit by requiring Its
members to enter into a binding
agreement which will be Just and
fair and at the. same time secure
the maximum effleleney. Boards
of directors need control. Mana-
gers need not fear this control.
The members do need to fear the

lack ot control by a board of di
rectors. Well-established locals
are the guarantee ot successful
terminals.

Grain Marketing

"If nUnoU U willing to accept
U. S. Grain Growers' obligations in
Illinois as Illinois obligations, and
no longer regard them as obli-
gations ot the national institu-
tion, then Illinois may contemplate
a state grain marketing program.
The resolution passed by the mid-
west presidents and secretaries in
July and later approved by the
A. F. B. F. Executive Committee
is the best expression of a nation-
al policy that has been put for-
ward.

"The National Wheat Commit-
tee and the U. S. Grain Growers
have not defined their position
with reference to this resolution.
Until the policy of these two or-
ganizations are made clear and
points ot antagonism between the
two removed, there can be no na-
tional program upon which Illi-
nois can embark with safety with-
out first accepting that the C. S.
Grain Growers obligations in Illi-
nois are state obligations, and
thereby assuming the hazard of
Impairing, it not destroying, the
(Ceatlnned ob pace 4)

With a net worth of $214,293,
of which $150,000 is in Govern-
ment bonds and cash, the Illi-
nois Agriculttir&l ABsociation
starts the year 1924

On another page is printed the
balance sheet of the association,
certified by public accountants,
and following are comments by
Treasurer Robert A. Cowles;

"The balance sheet of the asso-
ciation shows its general fund re-
serve balance at December 81,
1923 to be $214,291.64. Thtae
figures represent the conservative
net worth' of the aasodatflfli,
after having made dednctions in
ample amount tor probable losses,
donbttui accounts receivable and
advances to affiliated organisa-
tions, and reserves tor deprecia-
tion, and, having listed under it*
liabilities all accounts pafable and
other obligations, ot every nature.

Other Pmpertj

"There might have been listed
with some propriety among the
assets of the association as a de-
terred eliarge, an additional item
of suiwtaatial amount represent-
ing prepaid organization riTprnsns.
since during 1922 and 1923 the
greater part of the membership in
the farm bureaus and thf Illinois
Agricultural Association has been
signed to new three year eontracta.

"The item listed under aoeonnts
receivable, tl8.409.93, represents
membership dues collected by the
farm bureaus and unremitted at
December 31, 1923. A snbetaa*
tial part of these nnremitted bal-
ances were received during the
first days of January following.

tiae.000 In IT. S. Baoks

"The association has been able
daring the year to Increase its
(Continued on par* t)

Chronic Kickers
Past Redemption
Says Rlpllnger

"That banqnet given to the
boys' and girls' dub winners waa
a hundred per cent good act."
writes Henry N. Riplinger ot Ga-
lena. "The young Americans oa
the farm are the people (hat wm
make America worth while.

"The old chronic kickers are
past redemption. They should
keep quiet. Keep going and all
wUl be well before tone."

Page 8

The Iirinois Agricultural Association Record

January S, 1924

$2yOOOyOOO Cut in Taxes Through Organization

TAX VALUATIONS
GET GENERAL CUT
OF TEN PER CENT

I. A. A. Will Continue Tax Work

in Many Other Tasks to Be

Done, Says Watson

n spite of the fact that equaliza-
tion of valuations of farm land in
1923 has not
gone more than-
half as far as it
should have
gone, it is prob-
able that the de-
crease in taxes
on land owners
this winter will
amount to at
least $2,000,000,
according to
John L". Watson,
Diijector of Taxation and Statistics
for! the I. A. A.
, ' This is the encouraging news that
. comes at the end df a year of hard
wok-k on the farm tax problem.
r 10 Per Cent Decrease
■fhe total reduction in assessed
valuations of land from 1922 to 1923,
is (learly $106,000,000, or about a
10 per cent decrease, Mr. Watson

C. Wattoa

states in his annual report. If this
reduction were all rcHected in de-
creased taxes, It would mean a cut
of 1^4.000,000, Mr. Watson states.
However, increased tax rates, par-
ticujlarly for schools, are likely to
offset the effect for 40 or 50 per
cenf of the reduction.

Most all of Uhnois knows the
stot;y of how investigations were
cariiied on in 56 counties to find the
acttiat values of farm lands and
city; property and how the assessed
values were compared with the ac-
tual values to see if they were as-
sessed on the same basis. .\nd then
how this information was taken
tirst to county boards ui review
and later to the State Tax Commis-
sion.

. j Future Prograju

"The department proposes to cou-
tinut its efforts to secure equaliza-
tion in counties where any serious
inequalities throw an unfair burden
on farm land," Mr. Watson says.
"In many counties assessments of
farm animals are at a much higher
percentage of their actual values
than is true of city property, or in
a good many cases even of farm
land. Some very substantial de-
creases in such valuations have been
made this year. Further adjust-
ments in the valuations of personal
property should be secured through
the assessors next spring. Unless
it is made by assessors, it is not
lively to be made at all.
Tax Laws

"Questions of constitutional and
statuitory changes to make the rev-
enue laws fairer to farmers and
other tax payers are becoming in-
creaslingly important in Illinois
The department proposes to give
careful consideration to such ques-
tions, and to continue gathering in-
formation on the working and ad-
ministration of our present revenue
laws.

Tax Expenditures

"T>.xpayers of the state are en-
titledi to information in a form they
c4n ijnderstand about expenditures
of tax money. At present they d-i
not have such information. Where-
ever public funds are spent ineffi-
ciently, extravagantly or dishon-
estly, high taxes will be levied.

Just Like Pulling
^Teeth!

No, the farm bureau doesn't
claim all the credit for the
decrease of $2,000,000 in farm
taxes of 1923. It is possible
that some decrease might
have been made without or-
ganized agriculture taking any
hand in it at all.

But a large number of
county farm bureaus and the
I. A. A. Taxation Department
knows that a lot of that reduc-
tion came like pulling teeth.
Do your own guessing of how
much reduction farmers
would have received if con-
tinual study and work had
not been centered on this
problem by the farm bureau.

ISSUE TAKEN WITH
PRESS STATEMENT OF
TAX COMMISSION

Watson Says Body Forgot All About

Ciiy Lots Increase; Count

Reductions Twice

Mr. Kelker Is

New Assistant

to Secretary

The I. .\. A. office has handled
18,000 outgoing telephone calls,
1,250 long distance calls and has
sent out 1,400
telegrams in the
year 1923, re-
ports J. H. Kel-
ker, Assistant to
the Secretary,
who was em-
ployed by the
.Association No-
vember 1.

During the
J. H. Kdker year, 19,602

typewritten let-
ters were sent out and 27,788
pieces of first class mail received.
The addressing section which keeps
up the list of 70,000 names and mails
the Record, the multigraph section,
the stock room and filing work all
come under the direction of Mr.
Kelker. There are 11 persons em-
ployed in these lines of work. The
real truth of tlte matter is that this
department docs everything that
does not come under some other
department of tlie .\ssociation, in-
cluding everything from making ar-
rangements for meetings to order-
ing Farm Bureau signs.

Arthur Says Club
Work Is Great;
Enjoyed Banquet

"I arr^ writing to thank you for
the fine banquet that was given to
us boys and girls," says Arthur
Manock, Peoria County, boys' pig
club champion of Illinois, in a let-
ter to the I. A. A. "It sure was a
fine get-together. I enjoyed hear-
ing our I. .A. A. leaders speak and
also to meet them.

"We belong to the I. A. A. and
the Peoria County Farm Bureau.
This is an organization that every
farmer ought to belong to. If it
had not been for the farm bureau,
I expect I would never have heard
of club work until it would have
been too late. As it is. I have had
three successful years. It is work
that has been an education in itself.
I am a club booster forever and
ever."

"A proper system of checks on
expenditures, of auditing, and of
analyses promotes efficiency, econ-
omy and honesty in handling public
funds. There can be Httle doubt
that the greatest opportunity for
reducing tax levies lies in this direc-
tion. . The department proposes to
give this subject as much attention
as its -other duties permit."

In his annual report, John C.
Watson, of the I. A. A., points to
more holes in the press statement
issued by the State Tax Commis-
sion, in which they tell about de-
creased valuation of farm land.

In addition to the error, as Mr.
Watson calls it, of counting the
$68,000,000 land reduction made in
1922, twice, the Commission forgot
all about the increased number of
lots and new buildings when telHng
about the big increase made in val-
uations of city property.
.In explaining increases in' town
and city lots the statement released
by the Commission reads:

Statement of Commission

"During the same period of two
years (1920 to 1922), town and city
lots have been increased $28,173,463
by the boards of review, and this
year the increase in town and city
lots has been $7,960,416, making a
total increase in the valuation of
town and city lots of $36,133,879.
This increase fairly represents the
normal increase on the number and
value of town and city lots."

In reply, Mr. Watson says, "Any-
one who knows anything about the
great increase in the value of city
real estate in the last three years
will take issue with the deductions
in the last sentence quoted above.
'i'he number of new lots assessed in
the state increased 56,706 from 1920
to 1922. The value of new improve-
ments on lots is not known but
it ran into Hundreds 6f millions of
dollars. In Chicago alone, the esti-
mated cost of buildings for which
permits were issued in 1920 and
1921 was more than $204,000,000.

Does Not Consider Value Increase

"The increase in assessed valua-
tions of town and city lots in the
two years was a very small fraction
of the value of new property. It
takes no account whatever of the
enormous increase in the value of
lots and improvements already as-
sessed in 1920. The same comment
applies to the assessments for 1923
of 29,752 new lots and new improve-
ments on lots in the 99 counties,
exclusive of Cook, Lake and La-
Salle. The increase of $7,960,591, in
assessed valuations of all lots and
improvements thereon in these
counties is inadequate to represent
the increase in new property alone."

/. A. A, Has Standard Milk
Marketing Contract in Use

Much Serum Secured
Through Purchasing
Committee Contract

C. A. Stewart, Director of Live
Stock Marketing Department, served
as secretary of the Illinois Serum
Purchasing Committee during 1923.
Others on the Committee were
Farm Advisers J. H. Lloyd, L. R.
Marchant, J. R. Shinn, and F. E.
Fuller.

As a result of the committee's
work, 31 counties contracted for
18,000,000 CCS. of serum and virus
from a commercial serum plant at
"5 cents per hundred ccs. Up to
December 1, a total of 17,117,000
CCS. of this contract had been con-
sumed. Several other counties were
also given aid in serum purchasing.

A standard milk marketing con-
tract for use when Illinois dairy-
men desire to form co-operative
dairy (Market-
ing associations
has been
worked out by
the I. A. A. this
year, according
to the report of
A. D. Lynch
Director of
Dairy Market-
ing.

It is now be-
ing used by the
A. D. Lynch Rock Island

Co-operative Dairy Company and
the Vita Gold Dairy Products Com-
pany, Freeport.

"This marketing contract departs
from others chiefly in that provision
is made to penalize the man who
produces a surplus as against the
man whose production is uniform
by paying a less price for the excess
production than the fluid milk
price," states Mr. Lynch.

"The period of low production is
determined conclusively by the com-
pany and is based upon its period
of least receipts. The provision is
intended to influence production
toward more uniformity with more
equity to individual producers than
usually provided for. This con-
tract was worked out after consid-
erable discussion with officers of the
I. A. A. and with the advice and as-
sistance of the association's attor-
neys."

Investigational Work
The Dair^' Marketing Department
fin3s that a very important step in
the organization of a co-operative
dairy enterprise is the pre-organiza-
tion or investigational work to find
if there is ample demand for its
services and a reasonable assurance
that it will succeed, states Mr.
Lynch.

"The department finds it neces-
sary at times to advise dairymen not
to begin the business they might
have in mind and for which they
believe a need exists," Mr. Lynch
says.

Examples Given
"In Union County, for example,
a survey with the local farm bureau
was made in the interests of get-
ting a condensary into the county.

Fruit Co-op Will
Reorganize Under
Marketing Act

OflScers and members of the Illi-
nois Fruit Exchange arc looking
forward to the organization of a
number of new units this winter,
states A. B. Leeper, Manager.
Never has the interest of the grow-
er's in co-operative marketing been
as great as it is at present, he say;:.

Decision has practically been
reached that the fruit exchange will
get a new charter and incorporate
under the new Illinois Co-operative
Marketing Act. This will mean
that the reorganized exchange will
take over by contract the crop the
present organization will have and
will organize all new units under the
"co-op" act.

As soon as arrangements are
made for such incorporation, the ex-
change expects to engage in an ex-
tensive membership campaign under
the direction of the Fruit and Vege-
table Marketing Department of the
Illinois Agricultural Association.
Many requests are already on file
for this organization work which
will be started early in January, Mr.
Leeper states.

After an investigation of the coun-
ty's dairy development and future
possibilities, cow testing associations
and cream shipping organizations
were suggested as the present need."

However in Decatur, Macon
County, the department found a city
of nearly 50,000 of good purchasing
power without a dependable milk
supply. Over 100 individuals and
small dealers were found to be ped-
dhng raw milk. The conclusion
was reached that there existed on
this market an opportunity for a
co-operktive milk distributing asso-
ciation on the part of dairymen who
deliver milk and others in order to
standardize their product and mer-
chandise it according to approved
business practice.

Good Year for Dairymen

"The dairy industry has gone
through a satisfactory year in many
ways," concludes Mr. Lynch in his
report. "The price of butter has
ruled from 8 to 10 cents higher than
in 1922. The market has been par-
ticularly free from excessive fluctua-
tion. There is indication of a larger
disappearance of dairy products into
consumptive channels judging from
reports of the large primary and
consuming markets.

"The price of fluid milk around
the large population centers is gen-
erally lower throughout the country.
High prices for fluid milk evidently
have stimulated dairymen to patron-
ize such markets more extensively.
It is apparent that production Jias
increased in the Chicago territory
&nd some dairymen already feel
that lower prices will be in order
unless they associate more effec-
tively in an orderly marketing plan."

It Pays to Check
Over R. R. Rates,
Department Finds

.'Vll railroad tariffs on agricultural
products are kept on file in the
office of tlie Transportation Depart-
ment of the I. \. A. Every time
there is a supplement or a reissue,
the department carefully checks
them over to ascertain any changes
in rates that concern the farmer.

In an instance that took place the
latter part of the past year, the de-
partment found that the new ruling
on mixed shipments of live stock as
ordered effective by the Interstate
Commerce Commission on Septem-
ber 28, had not been made effective
by the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railroad on Illinois traffic
until November 1.

The matter was taken up with the
management of the railroad. It ap-
pealed to the Illinois Commerce
Commission for authority to refund
all overcharges on mixed shipments
that moved between September
28th |ind November 1st.

Up to the present time, the
Transportation Department has filed
over 40 claims amounting to ap-
proximately $300 with the C. B. &
Q. for these overcharges.

EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

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The I. A. A. Dairy Marketing
Department conducts an employ-
ment service for organizations de-
siring managers, superintendents, or
other employes, says the annual
report of A. D. Lynch, director. A
list of available or prospective men
is kept on file and from it boards
of directors get in touch with pros-
pects and the department aids them
in conducting interviews with men
in whom they are interested.

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John
Taxatloi
: schedule
' "Taxatlt
J'. Jeet." 0
Bnreau
\f Chicago,
nacript,
i I j rejected
^ . ! censors.
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Hon

n Use

of the coun-
it and future
g associations
organizations
present need."
atur, Macon
t found a city
}d purchasing
lendable milk
dividuals and
nd to be ped-
le conclusion
e existed on
■tunity for a
ibuting asso-
iairymen who
s in order to
uct and mer-

to approved

airjrmen
y has gone
year in many
Lynch in his
if butter has
s higher than
las been par-
issive fluctua-
)n of a larger
products into
judging from
primary and

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Volume 2

January 21, 1924

Number 2

i ORGANIZATION IS

ESSENTIAL, SAYS
A PRES. THOMPSON

icient Production' Alone W

Not Solve Farm Problems is

Opinion of I. A. A. Chief

milk around
inters is gen-
; the country,
lilk evidently
en to patron-
: extensively,
oduction Jias
igo territory
already feel
be in order
more eflfec-
keting plan."

Rates,
nt Finds

agricultural

file in the
tion Depart-

Every time
. reissue

lly checks
any changes
le farmer,
ok place the
'ear, the de-

new ruling
ive stock as
Interstate

on Septem-

de effective
rlington &

inois traffic

■1

1

up with the

oad. It ap-

Commerce

f to refund

shipments

September

time, the
int has filed
ing to ap-
he C. B. &
s.

SRVICE

Marketing
1 employ-
zations de-
endents, or
the annual
lircctor. A
ective men
1 it boards
with pros-
: aids them
with men
sted.

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"Future progress of agricul-
ture depends today more than
at any time in the history of our
country on strong organization
of farmers," said President
S. H. Thompson in his address
at the opening of the ninth an
nual meeting of the I. A. A. at
Galesburg, Jan. 16. "EflScient
production alone wiU not solve
the present day problems.

"We must put agriculture on a
■onnd basis, on equal footing with
every other suc-
cessful business
ot our country.
If we would
keep our chil-
dren on the
farm and con-
tinue the busi-
ness, we must
put agriculture
on a substantial
paying basis
that will brluB
returns that are
8. H. Tiiomp.o. satisfactory so
that they can make the home and
farm attractive and really worth
while for the best of men.
Farm Borean Won Voice.
"We have through the efforts
ot the farm bureau, won a voice
in the affairs of county, state, and
nation and have been instrumental
in securing the passage of con
Btructive legislation that will help
the farmer to get his business on
an equal basis enjoyed by the
other businesses of the country
and thus have opened the way for
cooperative effort, making it pos-
sible for him not only to produce
elBeiently, but also to Join with
(Continued on pare i)

JoAn Had Talk All
Ready But Censors

Didnt Approve It
John C. Watson, Director of
Taxation for the I. A. A. was
■ebeduled to tell the world about
"Taxation as a Farm Bureau Pro-
ject," over the American Farm
Bureau radio from SUtlon KYW,
Chicago, January 4, but bis man-
uscript, prepared in advance, was
rejected as "political" by KTW
censors. Station KYW is owned
and controlled by the Westing-
house corporation. If you want
a copy of John's "censored" talk,
write the L A. A.

Annual Meeting Report

As the Record goes to
pre** on the eve of the
ninth annual meeting, ad-
vance copies of several ad-
dresses have been secured
and are summarized In this
Issue. The next Issue of the
Record will contain further
report of this meeting.

Series of Shipping
Association Schools
To Start on Feb. 12

Farm advisers, directors, mana-
gers, and members of livestock
shipping associations are invited
to attend one-day shipping asso-
ciation schools in their districts,
which will be held starting Feb-
ruary 12, by the I. A. A., College
of Agriculture, and National Live
Stock Producers Association, co-
operating.

The discussions will be led by
C. A. Stewart and L. J. Quaaey
of the I. A. A.; E. T. Robbins and
V. Vaniman of the College of Ag-
riculture; and F. M. Simpson, gen-
eral manager of the National Pro-
ducers. The managers of each of
the four Producers selling agencies
at Chicago, Peoria, E. St. Louis,
and Indianapolis will attend the
schools in their respective terri-
tories and the three I. A. A. fleld-
men, F. H. Kelley, R. B. Omdorft,
and I. C. Grimes will divide their
time between the meetings.

The schools are scheduled as
follows: Olney, Feb. 12; Carbon-
dale, Feb. 13; Centralia, Feb. 14;
Springfield, Feb. 19; Decatur, Feb.
20; Gilman, Feb. 21; Galesburg
Feb. 26; Dixon, Feb. 27; and Chi
cago, Feb. 28.

UP TO BAT WITH 1924

Secretary Fox Charts New
Year's Program of Work

Uniform Purchase
Plans Being Made
For Limestone

Two more district meetings have
been held to discuss plans for the
future purchase of limestone on a
uniform basis among the county
farm bureaus, according to J. R.
Bent, Director of the Phosphate-
Limestone Department. A meet-
ing was held at Joliet on January
9, and one was planned for Gales-
burg on January 17 in connection
with the annual meeting.

One is planned for Southern Il-
linois on February 6, at Centralia.

Mr. Bent states that the state-
wide conference which representa-
tives selected at the district meet-
ings will attend, will probably be
held at Springfield, February 20
and 21.

"The meetings are evidencing
that the use of limestone is rap-
idly increasing in all parts of the
sUte. especially In tje northern
and central parts," Hr. Bent says.

In his address at the ninth an-
nual meeting. Secretary George A.
Fox reviewed and discussed the
work of the past five years. He
pointed to the failures and strong
holds, and made recommenda-
tions for the future.

Following are a few ontstand'
ing things said by Mr. Fox:

Cooperative Marketing

"We have had four years of in-
tensive experience with marketing
problems, some satisfactory and
some not. We may become dis-
couraged and overwhelmed or we
may capitalize upon our mistakes
and make them serve us. The
greatest obstacle to overcome at
this time is the strife over lead-
ership.

Livestock Marketing
"Where possible livestock ship-
ping associations membership
should be confined to farm bureau
membership and a differential
charge be made for handling in
favor of members. Each associa-
tion would profit by requiring its
members to enter into a binding
agreement which will t>e Just and
fair and at the same time secure
the maximum efficiency. Boards
of directors need control. Mana-
gers need not fear this control.
The members do need to fear the

lack of control by a board of di-
rectors. Well-established locals
are the guarantee of successful
terminals,-

Grain Marketing

"If nilnois is willing to accept
U. S. Grain Growers' obligations In
Illinois as Illinois obligations, and
no longer regard them as obli-
gations of the national institu-
tion, then Illinois may contemplate
a state grain marketing program.
The resolution passed by the mid-
west presidents and secretaries In
July and later approved by the
A. F. B. F. Executive Committee
is the best expression of a nation-
al policy that has been put for-
ward.

"The National Wheat Commit-
tee and the U. S. Grain tirowera
have not defined their position
with reference to this resolution.
Until the policy of these two or-
ganizations are made clear and
points of antagonism between the
two removed, there can be no na-
tional program upon which Illi-
nois can embark with safety with-
out first accepting that the U. S.
Grain Growers obligations in Illi-
nois are state obligations, and
thereby assuming the hazard of
impairing, if not destroying, the
(Continued on pace 4>

I.A.A. NET WORTH
TOTALS $214,293
START OF NEW YEAR

$150,000 In United States Bonds

And Cash — Treasurer R. A.

Cowles Comments

With a net worth of $214,293,
of which $150,000 is i» Govern-
ment bonds and cash, the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association
starts the' year 1924.

On another page Is printed the
balance sheet of the association,
certified by public aetountants,
and following are comments by
Treasurer Robert A. Cowles:

"The balance sheet of the asso-
ciation shows its general fund re-
serve balance at December 31,
1923 to be $214,293.64. These
figures represent the coaservatire
net worth' of the asaoclatitlk.
after having made deductions in
ample amoiint for probable losses,
doubtful accounts receivable and
advances to affiliated organisa-
tions, and reserves for deprecia-
tion, and, having listed under its
liabilities all accounts payable and
other obligations, of every natur^

Other Property

"There might have been listed
with some propriety among the
assets of the association as a de-
ferred charge, an additional Item
of substantial amount represent-
ing prepaid organization expenses,
since during 1922 and 1923 the
greater part of the membership -in
the farm bureaus and the Illinois
Agricultural Association bas been
signed to new three year contracts.

"The item listed under accounts
receivable, $18,409.93, repreaenta
membership dues collected by the
farm bureaus and unremitted at
December 31, 1923. A substan-
tial part of these unremitted bal-
ances -were received during the
first days of January following.
«iae.000 In V. S. Banks

"The aasoclation has been able
during the year to increase its
(Continued on pace >)

Chronic Kickers
Past Redemption
Says Riplinger

"That banquet given to the
boys' and girls' club trinners was
a hundred per cent good act,"
writes Henry N. Riplinger of Ga-
lena. "The young An^rieans on
the farm are the people tbat wUl
make America worth while.

"The old chronic kickers are
past redemption. Tbey shonld
keep quiet. Keep going and all
will be well before long.",

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Published twice a month by the Illinois Agricultural
Association. 608 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois.
EMited by News Publicity Deoartment, I:;, t,. Bill. Director.

Entry as second class matter Oct. 10, 1921, at the post
office at Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March 3. 1879.
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage pro-
vided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917. authop-
Ized Oct. 31. 1921.

The indlvldua^I membership fee of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association is five dollars a year. This fee Includes
payment of flfty cents for subscription to the Illinois Ag-
rirultiiral Association Record^

OFFICERS
Preoldnit. S. H. Thomp»o», anteer. | ,

Vlrr-Pmldrnt. A. O. Bekert. BellerlUe. | i

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles. Bloomlmg«o».

g««!rr««rT. C««- *• J*^ gyf—T*. ;

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Bj Congressttmai. Dlstiicto

11th Henry McGough, Maple Park

12th G. F. Tullock, Roekford

13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron

ISth... H. E. Goembel, Hoopole

Itth D. G. Reder, Mendota

17th , F. D. Barton, Cornell

18th.. C. R. Finley, Hoopetton

19th D. J. Holterman, Sadorus

20th Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21it E. L. Corbin, Carlinvlllo

22nd Stanley Castle, Alton

23rd Carlton Trimble, Trimble

24th... Curt Anderson, Xenia

2Sth Vernon Lettley, Sparta

Directors of Departments
I. A. A. Office

General Office anB Assistant to Secretary, J. D. Harper;
Organization, G. E. Metzger; Information, E. L. Bill;
Transportation, L. J. Quasey; Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, C. A. Stewart;
Dairy Marketing, A. O. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R. Bent.

FORWARD! FARM BUREAU!

Five years ago this month, at the reorganization
meeting of the Illinois Agricultural Association
at Peoria, 108 farm bureau leaders each signed
notes of $300.00 to underwrite the organization.

Today the balance sheet of the association, eerti-
fied by public accountants, shows a net worth of
$214,293. Of that amount some $150,000 is in
cash and Government securities.

On another page of this issue is the complete
balance sheet accompanied by an explanation.
Collection of Dues

County farm bureaus collected $353,369 in past
due joint membership due^ in 1923. Past due
membership fees are fees which have not been
paid to the expiration of the membership. Joint
membership means membership in the county farm
bureau and I. A. A. This collection of past due
membership dues in 1923 is $118,000 more than
was collected in past dues in 1922.

The current collections have also improved this
year. In 1922 sixty per cent of the current dues
were paid up. In 1923 the percentage of curr^t
collections reached 78.5.

1923 BOX SCORE .

Here are some of things that the farm bureau,
county and state organizations, have helped to
bring about in 1923:

Over 20,000 carloads of livestock with a gross
value of $25,000,000 were, shipped through Illinois
'shipping associations in the year. The I. A. A.
assisted in the incorporation of 38 associations.
Three field men are working in Illinois for Live-
stock Producers Commission companies under the
direction of the I. A. A. Ninety-two counties are
served by one or more shipping associations.

A law was enacted prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of fiUed milk in Illinois and another law
prohibits the use of dairy terms and pictures in
advertising substitutes for dairy products.

Forty-seven counties purchased rock phosphate
through the I. A. A. in the year.

The Transportation Department handled 431
traffic problems for members in the year, and col-
lected 349 railroad claims amounting to $9,544.
The membership was represented in eighty hear-
ings and conferences on transportation problems.'

The 200,000 pounds of wool in the I. A. A. pool
ia 1923, which is an increase of 52,000 pounds

The nUnoii Agricultural Aiaodation Record

jMMMtfy 21, 1924

over 1922, netted six cents a pound more than
average local prices paid.

Three laws were enacted in the year appropri-
ating $1,000,000 for eradication of bovine tubercu-
losis. Forty-six counties have employed veterinari-
ans for area tuberculosis testing. Ten counties
have tuberculosis vigilance committees and fifteen
counties have offered rewards to apprehend viola-
tors of tuberculosis regulations and laws.

The reduction in taxes on farm land for both
county and state purposes in 1923 as compared
with 1922 is estimated at $2,000,000. The reduc-
tion on farm land taxes since 1920, when the farm
bureau first started work on the problem, is esti-
mated at $3,963,733.

In the year farm bureaus ordered 275,000 tons
of agricultural limestone. The I. A. A. sampled-
and analyzed the product of 31 commercial quar-
ries producing and selling limestone.

Illinois cooperative dairy associations sold $4,-
900,000 worth of products in 1923. The I. A. A.
rendered service to 20 cooperative dairy associa-
tions in the year.

Thirty-one county farm bureaus purchased 18,-
000,000 cubic centimeters of anti-hog cholera
serum in the year, at a cost of 75 cents per
hundred.

ACCOUNTING FOR CO-OPS

"Farmers' cooperatives simply must have correct
accounting and authoritative auditing or their offi-
cers and directors are blindly exercising their
trusteeship." That is what George E. Frazer, a
man of wide experience in the business world,
said at the annual meeting. They must get good
accounting and good auditing for the protecting
of their members or, like other public institutions,
the state must step in and regulate them, Mr.
Frazer stated.

It was the recognition of the need for better
accounting that brought about the legislation in
Minnesota under which an accounting division for
cooperative marketing was established in the State
Department, of Agriculture, said George Wicker
at another time during the Ineeting.

When talking about cooperative dairy organiza-
tions, Secretary George A. Fox made the state-
ment that every failure is traceable directly or in-
directly to faulty accounting and lack of financial
controL

LET'S NOT FORGET TO PLAY

Forget the business problems for a few minutes
and read what Benjamin Darrow said at the
annual meeting:

"There is a crushing poverty in playless lives.
As the relatives and friends have stood in sorrow
on the porch of some farm home, the iron hearse
has crunched the gravel of the driveway loudly
and it has come to carry away the body of a man
who should have given ten or twenty years more
of his accumulated wisdom and ability and love
to his family. He robbed God of many years more
of service on earth. His epitaph should be, 'He
Forgot To Play.'

"Young people are not the only ones who need
more social enjoyment.

"Choring by lantern light has cost the farmer
as much as it has made him.

"Laughter wipes away the worries and music
soothes the heartaches."

It is startling to hear this kind of talk in the
midst of an annual meeting loaded with prob-
lems of cooperative marketing, legislation, taxa-
tion and so on. But it is easy to recognize what
Mr. Darrow is talking about, and if we will admit
it, the most of us are guilty.

Mr. Darrow 's remedy is a commnnity club,
filled with good times. . "

STABILIZING LIVESTOCK MARKETS

The big ultimate aim of the National Livestock
Producers Association is to stabilize markets, to
cat out gluts and lean runs. Before very much can

be done in regulating the flow of livestock to mar-
ket, the Producers commission associations must
have a big volume of the business, and before Pro-
ducers can get a big volume of business they must
sell to the satisfaction of their customers.

A few days ago the Chicago Producers Commis-
sion Association reported an increase in business of
133 per cent in cattle. 111 per cent in hogs and
239 per cent in sheep, for the last six months in

1923 as compared with the same period in 1922.
The Chicago Producers handled 15,855 carloads of
livestock in 1923.

The success of Producers livestock commission
companies cannot be measured by the si^e of the
dividend declared, but a big dividend does denote
efficiency. The association at E. St. Louis an-
nounces a dividend of $80,000i

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^ SANGAMON FIGURES TAX CUT

The Sangamon County Farm Bureau selected
34 farms of 80 acres each at random from 17 town-
ships in the county. It found that the county
tax for the 34 farms in 1923 was $980.46, and in

1924 the county tax will be $816.60 for the 34 farms,
or a reduction of six cents per acre. It concludes
that this reduction applied to the 500,000 acres of
farm lands in the county would make a total saving
of $30,000.

The assessed valuation of these 34 farms in 1923
was a total of $152,230, and in 1924, $107,120, a
difference of $45,110 on the 2,720 acres in these
farms, or about $16.50 per acre. This reduction in
valuation, applied to the 500,000 acres of the coun-
ty would be a total reductiAn in valuation of $8,-
250,000. Applying the 1924 state tax rate of 50
cents a hundred to this reduction makes a saving of
$40,125.

The Sangamon County Farm Bureau concludes
that the saving in county taxes is equal to 2,000
farm bureau memberships of $15.00 each, and the
saving in state taxes is equal to 2,675 farm bureau
memberships.

EGGS ARE EGGS IN ILLINOIS

"With the view of finding out what Illinois farm-
ers can do to better the marketing of poultry and
eggs, the I. A. A. sent one of its men to investigate
cooperative marketing organizations in the west and
south.

After probing into the affairs of marketing or-
ganizations in nine states and asking questions of
their competitors, the investigator comes to the
conclusion that grading of eggs according to quality
and appearance is the most important thing which
cooperative marketing is giving to egg producers.

Eggs are eggs in Illinois. The good ones, often
the bad ones, the white ones, the brown ones, the
speckled ones, the dirty ones, the big ones and the
little ones, are all sold or traded for groceries at
tl ne price per dozen. But before they reach
tb rket, the big eastern market, all of the eggs
ar idled and graded. Country egg shippers
mmission buyers in the terminal markets
nt piles of bad eggs that farmers were paid

an
th
foi

J lont think for a minute you slipped any-
thi..g, uirer on the commission man. As well as
throwing out some bad eggs the commission man
has many eggs that are of the best grade and they
are sold for a whole lot more than the producer
received. Car lot buyers of eggs in the country
have told our investigator that a good share of their
profit is in grading.

The consumer demands uniform grade, high qual-
ity eggs and he gets them and pays for them, but
the producer does not furnish them, nor does he
get paid for them. Most eggs are not sold by grade
and quality in Ulinois. The man who has good
quality eggs has no advantage when selling to his
grocer or huckster over the man who cares little
about quality. There is no incentive to the pro-
ducer to better the quality. The I. A. A. is work-
ing on this problem. .

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stock to mar-
iations must
1 before Pro-
:ss they must
rs.

3ers Commis-
n business of
in hogs and
ix months in
•iod in 1922.
5 carloads of

: commiasion

e size of the

does denote

t. Louis an-

CUT

■eau selected
•om 17 town-
the county
!0.46, and in
the 34 farms,
It concludes
,000 acres of
I total saving

irms in 1923
, $107,120, a
;res in these
reduction in
of the coun-
ation of $8,-
I rate of 50
s a saving of

lu concludes
ual to 2,000
ach, and the
farm bureau

rois

llinois farm-
poultry and

0 investigate
the west and

larketing or-
questions of
omes to the
ig to quality
thing which
producers. >.

1 ones, often
vn ones, the
mes and the
groceries at
5 they reach

of the eggs
igg shippers
nal markets
rs were paid

slipped any-
As well as
mission man
de and they
he producer
the country
liare of their

e, high qnal-
ir them, but
nor does he
jld by grade
10 has good
»lling to his
cares little
to the pro-
A. is work-

jMioary 21, 1924

The Dlinob Agricultural AssodationRecord

P«g«S

I. A. A. NET WORTH
TOTALS $214,293

(Continued from page 1)
holdings In United States liberty
bonds and treasury notes from
180,000 to $120,000, par value.
The item is shown on the balance
sheet as $119,202.82 which repre-
sents the 'book value' or cost to
the association.

"The U. S. government bonds
and treasury notes are 'bearer'
securities, coupon form. They are
held as the property of the associ
ation, in safe-keeping in the vaults
of one of the large Chicago banks,
so appearing on their books. The
bank has issued to the association
safe-keeping receipts for the se-
curities as purchased by the asso-
ciation. The safe-keeping receipts
are in turn deposited in a safe
deposit box by the treasurer of
the association. Access to the
safe deposit box referred to is had
only by your treasurer and in the
presence of one of the several des-
ignated representatives of the fi-
delity and surety company who
have bonded the treasurer of your
association.
, Securities Safeguarded

'The fidelity and surety com-
pany keep an accurate list of the
contents of the box, noting all ad-
ditions and withdrawals. This
protective feature, properly re-
stricting access to the box, is en-
tirely self-imposed by the present
incumbent. It has been accepted
by your Executive Committee as a
permanent policy of the associa-
tion by resolution addressed to
the Safe Deposit Vaults Company.
No deviation in any particular
from this policy in the future
should ever be made except to fur-
ther strengthen its protective fea-
tures, if possible. It Is fully as im-
portant to the membership of this
association, or any organization,
to know that its securities are
properly safeguarded, as it is to
know of what they consist and the
amount thereof. The interest cou-
pons are clipped by the bank as
they mature and its cashier's draft
remitted to the association to
cover.

Ijong Term Loans

"Under 'long term loans,' are
listed advances to affiliated organ-
izations. These advances are evi-
denced by six and twelve month
notes, but in practice must be paid
out of Income or through possible
refinancing. Liberal reserves have
been set up for possible losses in
these items.

"The 'liauid' assets of the asso
elation are represented in 'Cash
on Hand and in Bank' and 'U. S
Government Liberty Bonds and
Treasury Notes' — a substantial
sum, immediately available, and
in very favorable ratio to current
liabillUes.'*

Malone Appointed
Head of Illinois
Tax Commission

Wm. H. Malone, Cook county,
has been appointed as head of
the State Tax Commission by the
Oovemor. Mr. Malone has been
friendly to the I. A. A. and
county farm bureaus in their
flgbt for equalized tax valua-
tions. It will be remembered
that he severely flayed the Chair-
man of the commission in Oc-
tober when the latter failed to
order reassessments in the seven
counties where the local boards
failed to equalize, after the tax
body had promised the I. A, A.
that reassessments would be or-
dered.

E.. St. Louis Co-op
Plans To Refund
$80,000 Earnings

The Producers Live Stock Com-
mission Association of E. St. Louis
will refund more than $80,000
saved this year in commissions on
livestock sales made for its mem-
bers, according to H. D. Wright,
manager, who made his report at
the annual meeting of the associa-
tion, January 15.

This saving is made in spite of
the fact that the agency reduced
its rates during the year 20 per
cent from those generally saved,
thus effecting additional saving.
Approximately 450 shipping as
sociations are members of the
agency.

THOMPSON SPEAKS
ON ORGANIZATION

Metzger and Cowles
To Represent I.A.A.
At Regional Meeting

G. E. Metzger, Director of Or-
ganization, and R. A. Cowles, Di-
rector of Finance, will represent
the I. A. A. at a regional confer-
ence of organization workers at
Lansing, Mich., February 21 and
22. The A. F. B. F. has called
the conference and organization
and collection programs will be
considered.

Representatives from the Ohio,
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and
Wisconsin state farm bureaus have
been invited to the conference.

(Continued from page 1)
his neighbor in the marketing of
farm products.

"Up to the present time, farm-
ers could never conscientiously
say that they have really had any
influence to make a higher or a
lower market for any farm prod-
ucts. The only influence that has
really created higher or lower
markets has been droughts, freeze-
outs, war, failures in other coun-
tries or something over which
they have never had any control
themselves.

All Join Together.

"There is no business that could
successfully thrive if it could not
have anything to say as to what
the price of the commodity or pro-
duction of the factory was to
bring. The time has come when
farmers of this country, if they
are going to put their business on
a substantial basis, must join
themselves together in a strong
organization, thus affording an op-
portunity to study the markets as
to scope and supply and demand,
and to use the same business in-
telligence to the distribution of
the products of the farm<as every
other line of business is doing tS
day.

"The future of our brganization
depends on the hearty and loyal
support of the members back on
the farms."

Start Co-op Accounting Or
State Must Step In--Frazer

George wicker

Illinois now has over 1,000 co-
operatives in active, business and
the time is now at hand for these
cooperatives to organize a central
auditing service
of their own,
said G^o. A.
Frazer, Consult-
ing Accountant
of the I. A. A.,
at the annual
meeting where
he talked on
the subject,
"Financial Re-
sponsibii i t i e s
for Farmers'
Cooperatives."
"These cooperatives should
have established standards of busi-
ness practice set forth in the form
of a uniform bookkeeping system,"
declared Mr. Frazer. "Thet
should also have authoritative
auditing conducted by the leaders
among the cooperatives and not
merely casual and private auditing
under the control of those audited.

. A Business Corporation.

"A farmers' cooperative is first,
last, and all of the time a business
corporation. The fact that it is
cooperative does not change any
of the fundamental laws of econ-
omics and trusteeship that apply
to all business corporations. Farm-

I , EJLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION

! ; BALANCE SHEET— AT DECEMBER 31, 1923

' ■'' ASSETS

Current Assets:

Cash on Hand and in Bank „ . : H 83,704.78

Accounts Receivable: ! '

j County Farm Bureaus for Memberships $18,409.93
County Farm Bureaus for Miscellaneous

j, Items 2,067.47

Phosphate Accounts 852.70

\ Others „ 6.802.69

• \ Total .i

■ Less: Provision for Bad. Debts

Inventories:

Blankets at Warehouse...__

I Blankets on Consignment

Signs

Accrued Interest Receivable

Illinois-Missouri Cooperative Milk Produc-
ers association

U. S. Government Treasury Notes and Lib-
erty Bonds _

Total Current Assets

Long Term Loans:

Due from Agricultural Organizations for

Advances „

Provision for Probable Loss "

$28,132.79
4,625.83

4,964.00

1,502.14

320.40

23,506.96

6,786i54
1,514.58

^31,368.00

lii9.2'02.82

—I

Fixed Assets:

Office Furniture and- Equipment..
Less: Reserve for Depreciation

$25,076.99
11,421.20

Automobiles ....„...„..._„„ .

Less: Reserve for Depreciation...

Deferred Charges:

Prepaid Rent

Inventory of Supplies..
Prepaid Insurance

1.875.97
1.425.97

42.826.47
34.126.47

$ 13,655.79

450.00

8.428.00

1.427.27

300.70

TOTAL ASSETS

$206,083.68

'j r-.i

8.700.00

14.106.79

5rl56.97
$234,045.44

_ LIABILITIES

Current Liabilities:

Accounts Payable | 10.430.49

American Farm Bureau Federation 1.840.99

Accounts Receivable — Credit Balance '. 5,581.63

Accounts Payable — Farm Bureaus , 1,343.69

Total Current Liabilities

RTneamed Membership Income „_

General Fund Reserve:

Balance at January 1, 1923

Add: Excess of Income over Expenses for the Year
Ended December 31, 1923

$172,621.43
41,672.22

19,196.80
S5S.00

214.293.64

'I $234,045.44

We have examined the books of account of the above association for the year
ended December 31, 1923, and hereby certify that, in our opinion, subject to the
comments included in our report submitted herewith, the above Balance Sheet and
accompanying Statement of Income and Expenses prepared from the books of ac-
count and records truthfully show the financial position of the association at Decem-
ber 31, 1923.

John R. Bartlzal . SWANSON OGILVIB OOMPANT

Certified Public Accountant. By A. W. T. OgiMe.

ers' cooperatives simply must have
correct accounting and authorita-
tive auditing or else their direc-
tors and officers are blindly exer-
cising their trusteeskipe.

"The cooperative i( a public in-
stitution in the same category as
the bank or the insurance com-
pany. Banks and insurance com-
panies are under thd strict regu-
lations of state laws. They must
make detailed financial statements
under oath to state officers and
must submit to inquilsitorial state
audits. It is to the credit of banks
and insurance companies {general-
ly that in addition to ttate examin-
ations, they insist upon outside
auditors employed by themselves.

State May Stop In.

"Farmers' cooperttives must
get sood accounting and good au-
diting for the protection of their
members or else. like other public
institutions, the statp must step
In and regulate them. There is
no more reason, for a farmer los-
ing money in a cooperative t>e-
cause of the lack of proper ac-
counts and proper audits, than
there would be for a farmer to
lose money in a savings bank be-
cause of the lack of proper ac-
counts and proper audit."

Mr. FAzer suggested that the
directors and officer* of Illinois
farmers' cooperatives would do
better to organize an authoritative
accounting and auditing service of
their own rather than to depend
upon casual private auditors on
the one band or upon Inquisitorial
state auditors acting under laws
as the other altemattre.

Could Exchange Hxporlenc^
"With an authoritative central
auditing service establisbed by the
cooperatives themselves, the lead-
ers of the cooperative movement
can^exchange comparative statis-
tics as to costs and margins of
savings," declared Mr. Frazer.
"Such informtaion wbuld be im-
mensely valuable to tihe new and
unsuccessful cooperatives and
would be a fair contribution to
the cause from the successful co-
operatives."

Mr. Frazer closed by declarins
that a man has as mnch right to
protection when he invests his
crops in a cooperative elevator or
creamery as if be invested his
money in a savings bank or in buy-
ing securities approved under the
Blue Sky Laws of Illinois. This
can only be assured when direc-
tors and officers of cooperatives
actually put into pmctice good
bookkeeping and accounting meth-
ods, he said.

Wicker Speaks
"In cooperative companies not
large enough to employ a compe-
tent bookkeeper, the manager is
generally required to perform all
the duties." said George Wicker,
who is in charge of cooperative
accounting for the Minnesou De- '
partment of Agriculture. "Often
the manager has no knowledge of
bookkeeping and the records will
be inadequate.

Btate Control In Mlaneaota
"It was the recognition of this
condition that brought about the
legislation under wMch an ae-
eounting division for cooperative
associations was esUbUshed in the
Minnesota Department of Agricul-
ture. The development of coop-
erative business will require man-
agers specially trained in bnslneas
practice, accounting, and a koowl-
•dxe of the essentials of eoopei*-
tloa."

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m_ iijiiiisois jm

Published twice a month by the lilinois Agricultural
Association, 608 South Dearborn Street. Chicago, Illinois.'
BUited by News Publicity Department. £1 L,. Bill. Director.

Entry as second class matter Oct 10. 1921. at the post
office at Chicago. Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage pro-
vided for in Section 1103. Act of October 3. 1917. author-
Ized Oct. 31. 1921.

The Individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association Is five dollars a year. This fee Includes
payment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois Ag-
rirtiltural Association Record.

OFFICERS
Preeldmt, ». H. ThompsOM, a»ta«y.
Tlt-p-Prnldeat, A. O. Eckert, BellerUl*
TreasDrer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomtogtom.
geeyetary, C*«fc A. For, 8ygMi— ^ __^

EXECCTIVK COMMITTEB

By CongresalomJ DiBtiiets

11th Henry McGoubH, Maple Park

12th G. F. Tullock, Roekford

13th : C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron

15th H. E. Goembel, Hoopole

ISth , D. Q. Reder, Mendota

17th 1 F. D. Barton, Cornell

18th i C. R. FInley, Hoopeiton

19th ; D. J. Holterman, Sadorua

20th ^ Earl C. Smith, Detroit'

2l8t 4 E. L. Corbin, Carllnvllle

22nd ; SUnley Castle, Alton

23rd Carlton Trimble, Trimble

24th , Curt Anderaon, Xenia

26th Vernon Letaley, Sparta

Directors of Departments
I. A. A. Office

General Offlce and Atslitant to Secretary, J. D. Harper;
Organization, G. E. Metzger; Information, E. L. Bill;
Transportation, L. J. Quasey; Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowtes; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, C. A. Stewart;
Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phoaphate-Llmeatone,
J. R. Bent.

FORWARD! FARM BUREAU!

Five years ago this month, at the reorganization
meeting of the Illinois Agricultural Association
at Peoria, 108 farm bureau leaders each signed
notes of $300.00 to underwrite the organization.

Today the balance sheet of the association, eerti-
fied by public accountants, shows a net worth of
,$214,293. Of that amount some $150,000 is in
cash and Government securities.

On another page of this issue is the complete
balance sheet accompanied by an explanation.
Collection of Dues

County farm bureaus collected $353,369 in past
due joint membership dues in 1923. Past due
membership fees are fees which have not been
fiaid to the expiration of the membership. Joint
membership means membership in the county farm
bureau and I. A. A. This collection of past due
membership dues in 1923 is $118,000 more than
was collected in past dues in 1922.

The current collections have also improved this
year. In 1922 sixty per cent of the current dues
were paid up. In 1923 the percentage of current
collections reached 78.5. , ,

1923 BOX SCORE

Here are some of things that the farm bnreati,
county and state organizations, have helped to
bring about in 1923:

Over 20,000 carloads of livestock with a gross
value of $25,000,000 were shipped through Illinois
shipping associations in the year. The I. A. A.
assisted in the incorporation of 38 associations.
Three field men are working in Illinois for Live-
stock Producers Commission companies under the
direction of the I. A. A. Ninety-two counties are
served by one or more shipping associations.

A law was enacted prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of filled milk in Illinois and another law
prohibits the use of dairy terms and pictures in
advertising substitutes for dairy products.

Forty-seven counties purchased rock phosphate
through the I. A. A. in the year.

The Transportation Department handled 431
trafSc problems for members in the year, and col-
lected 349 railroad claims amounting to $9,544.
The membership was represented in eighty hear-
ings and conferences on trtmsportation problems.

The 200,000 ponn^ of wool in the I. A. A. pool
is 1923, which is an increase of 52,000 pounds

The IDinob Agriculfairal Astociatioa RecorJ

Jannary 21, 1924

over 1922, netted six cents a pound more than
average local prices paid.

Three laws were enacted in the year appropri-
ating $1,000,000 for eradication of bovine tubercu-
losis. Forty-six counties have employed veterinari-
ans for area tuberculosis testing. Ten counties
have tuberculosis vigilance committees and fifteen
counties have offered rewards to apprehend viola-
tors of tuberculosis regulations and laws.

The reduction in taxes on farm land for both
county and state purposes in 1923 as compared
with 1922 is estimated at $2,000,000. The reduc-
tion on farm land taxes since 1920, when the farm
bureau first started work on the problem, is esti-
mated at $3,963,733.

In the year farm bureaus ordered 275,000 tons
of agricultural limestone. The I. A. A. sampled-
and analyzed the product of 31 commercial quar-
ries producing and selling limestone.

Illinois cooperative dairy associations sold $4,-
900,000 worth of products in 1923. The I. A. A.
rendered service to 20 cooperative dairy associa-
tions in the year.

Thirty-one county farm bureaus purchased 18,-
000,000 cubic centimeters of anti-hog cholera
serum in the yeai^ at , a cost of 75 cents per
hundred.

ACC0U5TING FOR CO-OPS

"Farmers' cooperatives simply must have correct
accounting and authoritative auditing or their ofS-
cers and directors are blindly exercising their
trusteeship." That is what George E. Frazer, a
man of wide experience in the business world,
said at the annual meeting. They must get good
accounting and good auditing for the protecting
of their members or, like other public institutions,
the state must step in and regulate them, Mr.
Frazer stated.

It was the recognition of the need for better
accounting that brought about the legislation in
Minnesota under which an accounting division for
cooperative marketing was established in the State
Department, of Agriculture, said George Wicker
at another time during the meeting.

When talking about cooperative dairy organiza-
tions, Secretary George A. Fox made the state-
ment that every failure is traceable directly or in-
directly to faulty accounting and lack of financial
controL

LET'S NOT FORGET TO PLAY

Foi^et the business problems for a few minutes
and read what Benjamin Darrow said at the
annual meeting:

"There is a crushing poverty in playless lives.
As the relatives and friends have stood in sorrow
on the porch of some farm home, the iron hearse
has crunched the gravel of the driveway loudly
and it has come to carry away the body of a man
who should have given ten or twenty years more
of his accumulated wisdom and ability and love
to his family. He robbed God of many years more
of service on earth. His epitaph should be, 'He
Forgot To Play.'

"Toung people are not the only ones who need
more social enjoyment,

"Choring by lantern light has cost the farmer
as much as it has made him.

"Laughter wipes away the worries and music
soothes the heartaches."

It is startling to hear this kind of talk in the
midst of an annual meeting loaded with prob-
lems of cooperative marketing, legislation, taxa-
tion and so on. But it is easy to recognize what
Mr. Darrow is talking about, and if we will admit
it, the most of us are guilty.

Mr. Darrow 's remedy is a community dob,
filled with good times.

STABILIZING LIVESTOCK MARKETS

The big ultimate aim of the National Livestock
Producers Association is to stabilize markets, to
cut out gluts and lean runs. Before very much can

be done in regulating the flow of livestock to mar-
ket, the Producers commission associations must
have a big volume of the business, and before Pro-
ducers can get a big volume of business they must
sell to the satisfaction of their customers.

A few days ago the Chicago Producers Commis-
sion Association reported an increase in business of
133 per cent in cattle. 111 per cent in hogs and
239 per cent in sheep, for the last six months in
1923 as compared with the same period in 1922.
The Chicago Producers handled 15,855 carloads of
livestock in 1923.

The success of Producers liviestock commi<"sion
companies cannot be measured by the si/e of the
dividend declared, but a big dividend does denote
efficiency. The association at E. St. Louis an-.,
nounces a dividend of $80,000.

SANGAMON FIGURES TAX CUT

The Sangamon County Farm Bureau selected
34 farms of 80 acres each at random from 17 town-
ships in the county. It found that the county
tax for the 34 farms in 1923 was $980.46, and in
1924 the county tax will be $816.60 for the 34 farms,
or a reduction of six cents per acre. It concludes
that this reduction applied to the 500,000 acres of
farm lands in the county would make a total saving
of $30,000.

The assessed valuation of these 34 farms in 1923
was a total of $152,230, and in 1924, $107,120, a
difference of $45,110 on the 2,720 acres in these
farms, or about $16.50 per acre. This reduction in
valuation, applied to the 500,000 acres of the coun-
ty would be a total reduction in valuation of $8,-
250,000. Applying the 1924 state tax rate of 50
cents a hundred to this reduction makes a saving of
$40,125.

The Sangamon County Farm Bureau concludes
that the saving in county taxes is equal to 2,000
farm bureau memberships of $15.00 each, and the
saving in state taxes is equal to 2,675 farm bureau
memberships.

EGGS ARE EGGS IN ILLINOIS
With the view of finding out what Illinois farm-
ers can do to better the marketing of poultry and
eggs, the I. A. A. sent one of its men to investigate
cooperative marketing organizations in the west and
south.

After probing into the affairs of marketing or-
ganizations in nine states and asking questions of
their competitors, the investigator comes to the
conclusion that grading of eggs according to quality
and appearance is the most important thing which
cooperative marketing is giving to egg producers.

Eggs are eggs in Illinois. The good ones, often
the bad ones, the white ones, the brown ones, the
speckled ones, the dirty ones, the big ones and the
'little ones, are all sold or traded for groceries at
tl ne price per dozen. But before they reach
th rket, the big eastern market, all of the eggs
idled and graded. Country egg shippers
mmission buyers in the terminal markets
■ut piles of bad eggs that farmers were paid

ar
an
th
foi

J lon't think for a minute you slipped any-
thi-6 "*^er on the commission man. As well as
throwing out some bad eggs the commission man
has many eggs that are of the best grade and they
are sold for a whole lot more than the producer
received. Car lot buyers of eggs in the country
have told onr investigator that a good share of their
profit is in grading.

The consumer demands uniform grade, high qual-
ity eggs and he gets them and pays for them, but
the producer does not furnish them, nor does he
get paid for them. Most eggs are not sold by grade
and qtiality in Illinois. The man who has good
quality eggs has no advantage when selling to his
grrocer or huckster over the man who cares little
about quality. There is no incentive to the pro-
ducer to better the quality. The L, j^ A. is work-
ing on this problem.

I

ry 21, 1924

stock to mar-
dations must
i before Pro-
!ss they must
ire.

eers Commis-
n business of
in hogs and
ix months in
■iod in 1922.
5 carloads of

: commiasion
e siw of the
: does denote
t. Louis an-^

CUT

■eau selected
X)m 17 town-
the county
10.46, and in
the 34 farms,
It concludes
,000 acres of
I total saving

irms in 1923
,'$107,120, a
!res in these
reduction in
of the coun-
ation of $8,-
£ rate of 50
s a saying of

in concludes
ual to 2,000
ach, and the
farm bureau

rois

llinois farm-
poultry and

0 investigate
the west and

larketing or-
questions of
omes to the
ig to quaKty
thing which
producers.

1 ones, often
m ones, the
mes and the
groceries at
5 they reach

of the eggs
igg shippers
nal markets
rs were paid

slipped any-
Aa well as
mission man
de and they
he producer
the conntiy
hare of their

e, high qual-
tr them, but
nor does h«
>ld by grade
10 has good
filing to his
cares littte
to the pro-
A. IS work*

fcoDuy 21. 1924

The tmnok Agrienltiiral AwodatioB Record

I

I. A. A. NET WORTH
TOTALS $214,293

(Continued from page 1>
holdings In United States liberty
bonds and treasury notes from
$80,000 to $120,000, par value.
The item Is shown on the balance
sheet as $119,202.82 which repre-
sents the 'book value' or cost to
the association.

"The U. S. government bonds
and treasury notes are 'bearer'
securities, coupon form. They are
field as the property of the associ-
ation, in safe-keeping In the vaults
of one of the large Chicago banks,
so appearing on their books. The
bank has Issued to the association
safe-keeping receipts for the se-
curities as purchased by the asso-
ciation. The safe-keeping receipts
are in turn deposited in a safe
deposit box by the treasurer of
the association. Access to the
safe deposit box referred to is had
only by your treasurer and in the
presence of one of the several des-
ignated representatives of the fi-
delity and surety company who
have bonded the treasurer of your
association.
,' Securities Safegnarded

"The fidelity and surety com-
pany keep an accurate list of the
contents of the box, noting all ad-
ditions and withdrawals. This
protective feature, properly re-
stricting access to the box, is en
tirely self-imposed by the present
Incumbent. It has been accepted
by your Executive Committee as a
permanent policy of the associa-
tion by resolution addressed to
the Safe Deposit Vaults Company.
No deviation in any particular
from this policy In the future
should ever be made except to fur-
ther strengthen its protective fea
tures, It possible. It is fully as im-
portant to the membership of this
association, or any organization
to know that its securities are
properly safeguarded, as It is to
know of what they consist and the
amount thereof. The interest cou-
pons are clipped by the bank as
they mature and its cashier's draft
remitted to the association to
cover.

Long Term Loans
"Dnder 'long term loans,' are
listed advances to affiliated organ-
izations. These advances are evi-
denced by six and twelve month
sotes, but in practice must be paid
out of income or through possible
refinancing. Liberal reserves have
been set up for possible losses in
these Items.

"The 'liquid' assets of the asso-
ciation are represented In 'Cash
on Hand and in Bank' and 'U. S.
Government Liberty Bonds and
Treasury Notes' — a substantial
sum. Immediately available, and
in very favorable ratio to current
liabillUes."

Malone Appointed
Head of Illinois
Tax Commission

Wm. H. Malone, Cook county,
has been appointed as head of
the State Tax Commission by the
Oovemor. Mr. Malone has been
friendly to the I. A. A. and
county farm bureaus In their
light for equalized tax valua-
tions. It win be remembered
that he severely flayed the chair-
man of the commission In Oc-
tober when the latter failed to
order reassessments In the seven
counties where the local boards
failed to equalize, after the tax
body had promised the I. A. A.
that reassessments would b« or-
dered.

E. St. Louis Co-op
Plans To Refund
$80y000 Earnings

The Producers Live Stock Com-
mission Association of E. St. Louis
will refund more than $80,000
saved this year in commissions on
livestock sales made for its mem-
bers, according to H. D. Wright,
manager, who made his report at
the annual meeting of the associa-
tion, January 16.

This saving is made in spite of
the fact that the agency reduced
its rates during the year 20 per
cent from those generally saved
thus effecting additional saving
Approximately 450 shipping as-
sociations are members of the
agency. i

l>«ie3

THOMPSON SPEAKS
ON ORGANIZATION

Metzger and Cowles
To Represent I.A.A.
At Regional Meeting

G. E. Metzger, Director of Or-
ganization, and R. A. Cowles, Di-
rector of Finance, will represent
the I. A. A. at a regional confer-
ence of organization workers at
Lansing, Mich., February 21 and
22. The A. F. B. F. has called
the conference and organization
and collection programs will be
considered.

Representatives from the Ohio,
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and
Wisconsin state farm bureaus have
been Invited to the conference.

(Continued from page 1)
his neighbor in the marketing of
farm products.

"Up to the present time, farm-
ers could never conscientiously
say that they have really bad any
influence to make a higher or a
lower market for any farm prod-
ucts. The only influence that has
really created higher or lower
markets has been droughts, freeze-
outs, war, failures in other coun-
tries or something over which
they have never had any control
themselves.

All jTotn Together.

"There is no business that could
successfully thrive if It could not
have anything to say as to what
the price of the commodity or pro-
duction of the factory was to
bring. The time has come when
farmers of this country, if they
are going to put their business on
a substantial basis, must Join
themselves together in a strong
organization, thus affording an op-
portunity to study the markets _bs
to scope and supply and demand,
and to use the same business in-
telligence to the distribution of
the products of the farm as every
other line of business is doina to-
day.

"The future of our organization
depends on the hearty and loyal
support of the members back on
the farms."

Start Co-Op Accounting Or
State Must Step In-Frazer

Oeorye Wicker

Illinois now has over- 1,000 co-
operatives in active business and
the time is now at hand for these
cooperatives to organize a central
auditing service
of their own,
said Geo. A.
Frazer, Consult-
ing Accountant
of the I. A. A.,
at the annual
meeting where
be talked on
the subject,
"Financial Re-
sponsibll i t i e s
for Farmers'
Cooperatives."
"These • cooperatives should
have established standards of busi-
ness practice set forth in the form
of a uniform bookkeeping system,"
declared Mr. Frazer. "They
should also have authoritative
auditing conducted by the leaders
among the cooperatives and not
merely casual and private auditing
under the control of those audited.

A Business Corporation.

"A farmers' cooperative is first,
last, and aill of the time a'business
corporatiob. The fact that it is
cooperative does not change any
of the fundamental laws of econ-
omics and trusteeship that apply
to all business corporations. Farm-

ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION

BALANCE SHEET— AT DECEMBER 31, 1923

ASSETS

(Torrent Assets:

Cash on Hand and in Bank

Accounts Receivable:

County Farm Bureaus for Memberships $18,409.93
County Farm Bureaus for Miscellaneous

Items 2,067.47

Phosphate Accounts 852.70

f: 88,704.78

Others

Total .-

' Less: Provision for Bad Debt8„._

Inventories:

Blankets at Warehouse

Blankets on Consignment

Signs

6,802.69

$28,132.79
4.625.83

4,964.00

1.502.14

320.40

Accrued Interest Receivable ^*

Illinois-Missouri Cooperative Milk Produc-
ers association _ „

U. S. Government Treasury Notes and Lib-
erty Bonds

Total Current Assets

Long Term Loons:

Due from Agricultural Organizations for

Advances '

Provision for Probable Loss.

Fixed Assets: **

Office Furniture and- Equipment $25,076.99

Less: Reserve for Depreciation 11,421.20

23,60S.M

6,786.54
1,514.58

31.368.00

11S.202.8;t

48,826.47
8«,U<'.47

Automobiles ~...__ ,,

Less: Reserve for Depreciation

Deferred Charges:

Prepaid Rent

1,875.97
1,425.97

$ 13,655.78

450.00

$206,033.68

i,7M.M

^.

Inventory of Supplies..
Prepaid Insurance ..«.

TOTAL ASSETS

Current Liabilities:

Accounts Payable

American Farm Bureau

LIABILITIES

3,428.00

1,427.27

300.70

14,106.71

5,155.97
8234,045.44

Federation

Accounts Receivable — Credit Balance...
Accounts Payable — Farm Bureaus

.._ $

10,430.49
1,840.99
5,581.^3
1,343.69

Total Current Liabilities ..

KTneamed Membership Income. .

General Fond Reserve:

Balance at January 1, 1923 _ k „.

Add: Excess of Income over Expenses for the Tear
Ended December 31, 1923

$172,621.43
41,672.22

19,196.80
666.00

214,293.64

$234,045.44
We have examined the books of account of the above association for the year
ended December 31, 1923, and hereby certify that, in our opinion, subject to the
comments included in our report submitted herewith, the above Balance Sheet and
accompanying Statement of Income and Expenses prepared from the books of ac-
count and records truthfully show the financial position of the association at Decem-
ber 31, 1923.

John R. Bartizal SWANSON OOILVIB COMPANY

Certifled Public Accountant. By A, W. T, Ogllvie.

ers' cooperatives simply must have
correct accounting asd authorita-
tive auditing or else their direc-
tors and officers are Iblindly exer-
cising their trusteeships.

"The cooperative it a public In-
stitution in the same category as
the bank or the insurance com-
pany. Banks and insurance com-
panies are under the strict regu-
lations of state laws.: They must
make detailed financilil statements
under oath to state officers and
must submit to inquisitorial sUte
audits. It is to the credit of banks
and insurance companies general-
ly that in addition to state examin-
ations, they insist spon outside
auditors employed b]* themselves.

State May St^ In.

"Farmers' cooperatives must
get good accounting and good au-
diting for the protection of their
members or else.' like other public
institutions, the state must step
in and regulate thei*. There is
no more reason for a farmer los-
ing money in a coqperatlve be-
cause of the lack of proper ac-
counts and proper audits, than
there would be for a farmer to
lose money in a savings bank t>e-
cauae of the lack of proper ac-
counts and proper autHt."

Mr. FAzer suggested that the
directors and officers of Illinois
farmers' cooperatives would do
better to organize an authoritative
accounting and auditifig service of
their own rather tha|i.to depend
upon casual private lauditors on
the one hand or upon (inquisitorial
state auditors acting under laws
as the other altematSre.

Ckrald Exchange Hxportenc-
"With an authoritative central
auditing service established by the
cooperatives themselves, the lead-
ers of the cooperative movement
can exchange compamtive statis-
tics as to costs and margins of
savlBgs," declared Mr. Frazer.
"Such informtaion wbuld be im-
mensely valuable to the new and
unsuccessful cooperatives and
would be a fair contribution to
the cause from the ssecessful co-
operatives."

Mr. Frazer closed by declaring
that a man has as much right to
protection when be Invests his
crops 'in a cooperative elevator or
creamery as if he invested his
money in a savings bask or in Wr-
ing securities approved under the
Blue Sky Laws of Illnois. This
can only be assured when direc-
tors and officers of cooperatives
actually put into pnactice good
bookkeeping and accounting meth-
ods, he said.

VTIcker Speaks
"In cooperative cogipanies not
large enough to employ a compe-
tent bookkeeper, the manager is
generally required to perform all'
the duties," said George Wicker,
who is in charge of cooperative
aeeounting for the Minnesota De-
partment of Asrieolture. "Often
the manager has no knowledge of
bookkeeping and the records wiU
be inadequate.

State Control In Mliimisim
'It was the recognition of this
condition that brought about the
legislation nnder wbdeh an ae-
eounting division for cooperative
associations was esUblished in the
Minnesota Department of Agrienl-
tare. The development of coop-
erative business will require maa-
agers speetally trained In business
practice, accounting, and a knowt-
edge of the esseiftlals of ooopera-

m

mi

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Page 4

PLAY IS MISSING
PART OF FARM
RATION-DARROW

B.H.DMrTOw

Hogs Root For Missing Elements,

So Do Young Folks, Says

Ohio Speaker

The big need of the country-
side today Is play and it Is high
time that we
give the matter
serious atten-
tion, .declared
B e n j a mln H.
Darrow, secre-
tary of the coun-
ty Y. M. C. A.,
Ravenna, Ohio,
in his address
before the I. A.
A. annual meet-
ing. "Organiz-
ing Community
Cepters."

"Hogs root for the missing
elements of food In their ration,"
Mt. Darrow said." Young people,
too, root for missing elements.
If their own community does
not provide a balanced ration,
they go elsewhere for the missing
elements, usually entertainment,
and frequently overeat. Or If
the social events of their com-
munity are weak and uninter-
esting third rate affairs, they
know it.

Older People Too
"Young people are not the only
ones who need more of the fats
of social enjoyment," continued^
Mr. Darrow. "There Is a crush-
ing poverty in playless lives.
Too many folks rob themselves
and their families of many of the
best thing: of lifo because they
.orget to play.

"Why do the young people

FRUIT GROWERS
TO REORGANIZE
UNDER CO-OP ACT

"Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange"
Will Be Name; Member Cam-
paign To Start Soon

^A meeting of the Fruit and
Tegetable Marketing Advisory
Committee of the I. A. A., ofBcers
and directors of thd Illinois Fruit
Exchange, and several large fruit
growers took action to organize
a non-stock, non-profit coopera-
tive organization under the Illi-
nois Cooperative Marketing Act
to be Incorporated as the "Illinois
Fruit Growers Exchange," at
Centralia, January 5.

The new organization will be, in
•ffect, a continuation of the Illi-
nois Fruit Exchange. However,
the latter will not liquidate until
some future date, due to unex-
pired marketing contracts, railroad
claims, and present duties and ob-
ligations to Its members.

Organization under new uni-
form flve-year contracts will be
started at an early date under the
direction of the Illinois Fruit
Growers Exchange and the Fruit
and Vegetable Marketing Depart-
ment of the Illinois Agricultural
Association.

The decision to reorganize the
- Illinois Fruit Exchange has been
the result of much thought and
study on the part of officials of the
exchange. Considerable expansion
of the organization was felt neces-
sary and there are many limita-
tions which prevent the Bxchangei
from expanding as it is now organ-
ised.

Want R. R. Fences
Ref. airedf I. A. A.
Helped This Man

ii

are def< ctlve,

Transpo|^tion

in the

Record

of the

mayer,

the I.

fence

road

badly

wished

at least

set the

The
took the
& St. L.
ccmber
have set
mayer,
and he
work."

And
the I. .
you for
& St. L
repair
I think
and I

The DKnou Agricultural AMOctatioii Record

"Let is know if railroad fences

said the I. A. A.

Department's ad

December 5 issue of the

Immediately on receipt

issue, Chas. R. Birken-

llacoupin county, wrote to

A. and said that the

aling the C. P. & St. L. rali-

adpoining his pasture was

need of repair and he

i|hat the department could

persuade the railroad to

tlosts if he furnished them.

"ijransportatlon Department

matter up with the C. P.

general manager. On De-

!9, the latter wrote: "We

the posts for Mr. Blrken-

ifurnlshed wire and staples

to do the balance of the

Jjir. Birkenmayer wrote to

A.: "I want to thank

four efforts with the C. P.

railroad In having them

ir fence along our land.

t was a nice favor of you

appreciate it."

tliei

trily

desert Iheir community for the
city to set their entertainment?"
asked the speaker. "Because it
is more interesting and, shame
to admit It, sometimes because
their own community offers noth-
ing of a social or entertainment
nature.

It can be done

"To revive enthusiasm in some
communities is like trying to
start a fire with wet wood. But
it can be done. Many a man
and woman has given up the
task in disgust these last few
years. The farm bureau pro-
gram Itself falls far short of its
possibilities because township
meetings are poorly attended.
Leadership in the country is real-
ly good, but the followership is
terrible. There is no question
but that the time is here when
farming must have more brains
and less brawn in the 'brains
and brawn mixture.' And chor-
ing by- lantern light has cost the
farmer as much as it has made
him. _^

Wipes away the Worries

"Laughter wipes away the
worries and music soothes the
heartaches. Three or four times
a winter every community ought
to have a social in which the
feature is music. Stunt nights
as a feature of community en-
tertainment are valuable. I fully
expect to see the time when
farmers generally will play just
as the business man in the city."

FOX CHARTS NEW
PROGRAM OF WORK

(Continued from Page One)
national confidence upon which a
national program must be built.
Dairy Marketing

"Dairymen around both Chica-
go and St. Louis are In need of re-
organization. Dairymen around
these two cities will never be able
to stabilize prices or enjoy the
privilege of permanently being the
dominating factor in price control
until they make adequate provi-
sion for local concentration points
to care for surpluses and until
they are sufficiently well organized
to make an equitable distribution
of the losses over all producers
Involved.

"Dairymen around several other
cities are making progress in co-
operative marketing. Effective
organization around these other

JENKINS RESIGNS
TO ENTER IN RACE
FOR U. S. SENATOR

Restoration of Agriculture
Be the Paramount
Issue

The request of Newton Jenkins,
recently announced candidate for
United States Senator, to be re-
lieved as legal counsel for the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association was
accepted by the executive commit-
tee at the January 11 meeting.

In a resolution to Mr. Jenkins
the committee stated that the
principles of the Association are
such that anyone connected with
its administrative affairs cannot be
a candidate for public office at the
same time. The committee ex-
tended appreciation of the efficient
service rendered to the association
and for the courteous manner in
which all requests have been
handled.

"I am entering the Republican
primaries as a candidate for
United States Senator," Mr. Jen-
kins states in his letter to the
association.

Agriculture Paramount

"While I expect to appeal to
every element of the state's citizen-
ship, Mr. Jenkins continues," the
restoration of agriculture will be
a paramount issue of my cam-
paign. This issue, of course, is
quite non-partisan and I shall do
my utmost to carry my message
to the farmers In every section of
the state."

cities will help in making a suc-
cessful organization around Chica-
go and St. Louis. The most diffi-
cult factor in all of these efforts is
to secure efficient management.
Every failure is traceable directly
or Indirectly to faulty accounting
and lack of financial control.

Poultry.

"Standardizing and grading
should receive first attention in
the poultry and egg marketing
question. If egg exchanges and
buyers do not fall in line by rec-
ognizing grade through prices
paid, cooperative marketing of
poultry products must and will
force the issue.

Fruits and Vegetables.

"The experience of the Illinois
Fruit Exchange points the way
to successful marketing of Illinois
fruits. This institution, while
highly successful, needs to be re-
organized and its operations ex-
tended and improved so as to in-
clude more of the successful fruit
growers of the state."
Taxation.

Secretary Fox recommended
that active work be started in
analyzing revenue expenditures for
both country and state purposes
and he suggested that the project
be taken up by the joint efforts
of farm bureaus, chambers of
commerce, bankers' associations
and other groups of citizens.,

"The purpose of this undertak-
ing should not be to interfere
with the proper functioning of
public offcials, but should be con-
ducted for the purpose of secur-
ing an intelligent understanding
of the use that is being made of
public money," Mr. Fox said.
Legislation.

In discussing the legislative pol-
icy of the association be said that
wuhout facts and careful analysis
farmers can not hope to arrive at
the sound solution of public ques-
tions. "In anticipation of the
next session of the Legislature, a
careful survey and analysis should
be taken of the revenue question.

''We Call Them
Cheap Screws
Down In Egypi '

"I have been reading my I. A. A.
Record and find many good things
in it for me that I have helped to
do by belonging to the farm bu-
reau," writes Arthur J. Casper,
Johnson county. "These things
have helped others that don't be-
long Just as well, and won't be-
long as long as they can reap the
harvest without belonging. We
call them 'cheap screws' down
here in Egypt.

"I am well pleased with what
the I. A. A. has done for us. With-
out organization, we are as far as
we can ever expect to get. With
organization we can adjust the lid
to the lunch box at an^ degree we
desire to fit the agrirultu^ral con-
ditions of our country.

"In our drive for membership
in December, 1923, we lost more,
I think, than we gained. Those
we lost were mostly trouble-mak-
ers. Those we gained were men
that have been reading and mak-
ing a study of the farm bureau.
Not such a bad loss but a- better
gain."

Mr. Casper asked for 50 January
S, I. A. A. Records to hand out to
some of his neighbors.

the road program, the school prob-
lem and law enforcement meas-
ures.

Organization,
"Counties that have well de-
veloped community centers are
maintaining membership at less
cost than counties less thoroughly
organized. If we will study and
develop local community organiza-
tion within the county, the ' next
campaign should cost less. ,Thls
should be undertaken in 1924C"

Jaiwry 21, 1924

CHICAGO LIVESTOCK
CO-OP SHOWS GREAT
GAIN IN RECEIPTS

Handled Nearly 16,000 Cars In

1923; Sykes Says Big Problem

Now Is Orderly Selling

The Chicago Producers Commis-
sion Association handled 16,865
cars of livestock In 1923, over 72
per cent of which came from co-
operative shipping associations,
said S. W. Doty, manager, in his
report at the annual meeting of
the agency, January 8. There are
now over 78.000 Individual mem-
bers of the Chicago Producers.

Big Increase

Mr. Doty's report showed the
following increase in receipts of
the agency from July througn De-
cember, 1923, compared with the
same months in 1922: cattle, 133
per cent; hogs. 111 per cent; and
sheep, 239 per cent.

"The big problem before the
Producers selling agencies is or-
derly marketing," said A. Sykes,
Ida Grove, la., president of the
Chicago Producers, in a talk in
which he traced the entire growth
of the movement. "Refunds are
all right but they are not the big
thing. There should be closer co-
operation between livestock pro-
ducers so that the flow of live-
stock to the market can be regu-
lated."

Re.elect Directors

W. E. Elliott, Williamsfield, III.,
and Frank Coyne, Ida Grove, la.,
were re-elected for three year
terms as directors of the Chicago
selling agency. They were the
only directors whose terms ex-
pired.

Grading Eggs By Quality
Is Essential Says Harper

"Grading by quality Is the
most important service which co-
operative marketing is rendering
to egg producers," declares J. D.
Harper, who has returned from
an investigation of cooperative
poultry and egg marketing asso-
ciations In nine western states
and in Canada with the view of
working out a policy of poultry
and egg marketing suitable for
Illinois conditions.

"Standardized p ;ts are es-

sential to proi marketing.
Marketing associi that are

paying their mc s on the

basis of grade ar ones that

are succeeding a ettlng the

best prices for m rs.

"In Utah, pc men were

paid five cents pe an for eggs

In May, 1922. producers

organized a cooi ve market-

ing association : irch, 1923.

They pay by gr ind (Quality

and sell standa i products.

They now have 1200 members
and sold 160 cars of eggs and 20
cars of poultry in 1923. Nearly
a million dollars' worth of busi-
ness was transacted. In 1922,
Utah shipped out only 17 cars of
eggs. Seven cars were Imported."

Similar success with grading
by quality was found by Mr.
Harper in Washington, Texas,
and British Columbia.

Orderly Marketing

"Cooperative poultry and egg
associations are able to bring
about orderly marketing," de-
clares Mr. Harper. "The great
bulk of eggs is produced during
about one third of the year and
rushed to market and into stor^

age, bringing prices down. By
controlling the product and put-
ting the surplus into storage,
producers' associations are letting
their eggs on the market as they
are needed throughout the fall
and winter months. This is one
of the big services which most
of the egg cooperatives are ren-
dering.

All Get Better Prices

"Producers who belong to mar-
keting associations are not, aa a
rule, getting any more for their
products than non-members are,"
Mr. Harper says. "But members
and non-members alike are get-
ting considerably more than they
did before the association existed.

'^he independent dealers are
paying on a much narrower mar-
gin as a result of the competi-
tion aroused by producer market-
ing. This was especially notice-
able with the cooperative associa-
tions in Washington, California,
and Texas. A manager In Wash-
ington who had been a private
dealer for years said that* It
might be a good thing If the
cooperative ceased to function In
order to make all producers real-
ize what It Is doing for them."

Good Management

Good management was a very
noticeable factor which Mr. Har-
per noted as a prime necessity of
successful poultry and egg mar-
keting associations. Most of the
managers whom he met were
men who were well grounded in
experience and a thorough knowl-
edge of the poultry and egg
market.

-Ol 'SIONmi 'V!:V9Hn

■ aO'^TlI dO AlISHJAIlin-

■ »

Volume 2

February 5, 1924

Number 3

CO-OPS MUST FILE
CLAIMS TO SECURE
INCOME TAX REFUND

I. A. A. Is Handling Exemption

Evidence To Present To

Government

The I. A. A., through Its con-
sulting accountant, George B.
Frazer, Is preparing claims for
Income tax refund for farmers'
cooperative organizations of Illi-
nois upon request from such as*
Bociations. Claims from a dozen
companies have already been
turned in to the I. A. A. for
collection. All must be filed be-
fore March 15. 1924, in order to
be eligible to refund.

Income tax exemption for CO*
operative associations was granted
by a ruling of the Internal Reve-
nue Department last September,
providing such organizations filed
proper evidence to secure refund.

Most File Retnms

Mr. Frazer will be glad to
analyze the claims of any coop-
erative organization which will
send the I. A. A. by registered
and insured mail copies of each
of their Federal income tax re-
turns for the years, 1918, 1919,
1920, 1921, and 1922, and also
copies of their outside auditor's
reports for each of those years,
If there is no outside auditor's
report on any year, the financial
statements and copies of trial
balances should be sent.

Cooperatives are not denied
exemption because they have ac-
cumulated a reasonable reserve
for the retirement of bonds, for
losses or depreciation, or tor the
purchase of buildings and ma-
chinery. The payment of divi-
dends on stock, which must be
held by producers themselves,
does not defeat exemption, pro-
vided it is reasonable and does not
exceed the legal rate of interest of
the state.

Marketing Head
For A. F. B. F. To
Be Chosen Soon

Definite plans to employ a mar-
keting director for the American
Farm Bureau Federation were
made at the January 24 meeting
of the executive committee.

A committee consisting of Pres-
ident Bradfute, A. C. Hardison of
California, George M. Putnam of
New Hampshire and C. E. Hurst
of Iowa, was appointed and au-
thorized to select a marketing
head at once. A release from the
Federation office states that the
selection of a marketing director
is expected within a few days.

Corbin Goes To
Missouri As Head
Of Organization

E. L. Corbin, Macoupin county,
took up his new work in Jeffer-
son City, Mo., Jan. 21, as Direc-
tor of Organization for the 'Mis-
sonrl Farm Bureau Federation.

During 1922 and 1923, Mr.
Corbin served as I. A. A. execu-
tive committeeman from the 21st
district. He has also been in the
employ of the I. A. A. Organiza-
tion Department as county or-
ganizer in several Illinois coun-
ties in 1923.

/. A. A. Asked To
Make Milk Survey
By Farm Advisers

Asserting their belief that any
permanent solution of the prob-
lems confronting dairymen in the
Chicago dairy district is depen-
dent upon the merchnndislng of
milk on a quality basis so that
milk shipped in from a great dis-
tance cannot compete with milk
produced nearby, seven northern
Illinois farm advisers in a meet-
ing at the I. A. A. office on Janu-
ary 26, asked the I. A. A. Dairy
Marketing Department to conduct
a statistical survey of milk pro-
duction in the Chicago district.

This survey will determine the
amount of milk that is produced
from tuberculosis-free herds in
each county, the total amount of
milk exported from each county
for the fluid milk market, and the
amount of this volume produced
from T. B.-free herds.

Appointment of a committee
from the I, A. A. was recommend-
ed for the investigation of a plan
toward the merchandising of qual-
ity milk to come from tuberculo-
sis-free herds only, and to deter-
mine the possibilities of selling
this milk upon the Chicago market
at a premium over the ordinary
fluid milk price.

ANOTHER PROBLEM TO UNLOAD

A. F. B. F. GOVERNING
BODY 0. K.'S FARM
RELIEF MEASURE

McNary-Haugen Bill Like Wallace

Plan — To Increase Buying

Power Of Famier

Exchange Ships To
98 Markets In 20
States During 1923

Approximately 600 cars of Illi-
nois fruits and vegetables were
shipped by the Illinois Fruit Ex-
change to 98 markets in 20 states
during 1923, according to Manager
A. B. Leeper. Distribution was
secured through the Federated
Fruit and Vegetables Growers, Inc.

States to which shipments went
were, Alabama, Arkansas, Con-
necticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi,
Missouri, North Dakota, New
York, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Da-
kota, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.

Fine Spirit Features

Ninth Annual Meeting

The ninth annual meeting of the
I. A. A. was a happy and harmo-
nious gathering in the eyes of
your interpreter. In the neigh-
borhood of 800 were in attendance
representing 91 counties of the
state.

• At the opening session the exec-
utive committee and employees
gathered on the platform. The
report of work for the year in
booklet form was distributed to
all, and on the walls of the ball
an array of charts and maps vis-
ualized the work and activities of
the association.

"Future progress depends large-
ly on members themselves," was
the keynote of President Thomp-
son's address. The Secretary's
report faced issues squarely, and
made definite recommendations.
Certainly there was encourage-
ment in the financial report.
A New Spirit

In the evening over 600 ban-
queted together in the Methodist
church, visited and sang songs.
It was a high spot of the meeting.
Between songs and story telling
there was a hum of visiting con-
versation. It seemed there was
something different in the air that
evening, a new brand of spirit.

Later when the crowd retired to
the auditorium, Benjamin Darrow
called that something, community
spirit.

The Election

The electian of officers came af-
ter the evening program. There
was no hesitation in choosing S. H.
Thompson for president. Outside
of a little contest on vice-presi-
dent, the election was quiet.

The scheduled program contin-
ued on through the second morn-
ing. All of the addresses had
quite a definite relation and bear-
ing to the work of the association,
although there was little time for
discussion. Many people expressed
the belief tkat it was the best
speaking program of any annual
meeting.

Retain Secretary

The new executive committee
lunched tog^her at noon. Their
opinion was^nanimous in retain-
ing Secretary Fox. It was decided
that their first meeting will be
held January 31.

After one address or the second
afternoon, the reports of the con-
stitution and resolutions commit-
tees were accepted with little dis-
cussion. A resolution which the
(Continued on paca 4)

The McNary-Haugen bill, farm- .
er relief legislation, designed to
establish a fair relationship be-
tween what the farmer sell; and
what he buys, was endorsed by the
A. F. B. F. executive icommittee
at its m«eting in Chicago, January
21 to 24.

In endorsing the pairpose and
intent of the bill, a resolution
passed by the committee stated,
"desiring, however, that the bill
be amended in such a iway as to
be more useful in tlme$ of emer-
gency and more available to and
in harmony with the purposes of
farmers' cooperative marketing aa-
sociations."

First Relief Legtetstlon.

The McNary-Haugen ibill is the
first relief legislation to receive
serious consideration by the farm
bureau. It will be remembered
that Congressman Dickinson of
Iowa endorsed the bill Hn his ad-
dress at our annual meeting. Sec-
retary of Agriculture. Benry Wal-
lace urged the enactment of the
bill before the senate agricultural
committee.

The Pnrpoee '

The bill provides for an asrl-
cnltural export commission and an
agricultural export corporation
mth a capital stock of |200,000,-
t>00, to be subscribed by the Kov-
emment j

The purpose of the 'bill is to
promote equality between prices
of agricultural products and prices
of other commodities. As a basis
for comparison the bill istipulates
that the price of agricultural com-
(CoDtinued on parfr l>

as

Voted Yes or No
On Every -Issue
During 4 Years

For four years Henry McGough
of Maple Park. Kan* county,
served on the executive commit-
tee of the I. A. A., a»d durm^
that time he did not miss one
meeUng, was not lata at one
meeting and he voted yes or no
on every questipn before the
committee. ^

Mr. McGough was the unani-
mous choice of the tenth and
eleventh . districts on the commit-
tee for another year, but he de-
clined to serve. In appreciation '
of Mr. McOough's faithful ser-
Tlc*, the voting delegates pre-
sented bim with a gold watch
chain.

Il

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The

AgriqdtunJ Aj>ocMrtion Record

Jmmmt 21. 1924 j

PUY IS MISSING
PART OF FARM
RATION-DARROW

B.H.I>ttrrow

Hogs Root For Missing Elements,

So Do Young Follu, Says

Ohio Speaker

TTie Wg need of the country-
side today is play and it is high
time that we
glTe the matter
serious atten-
tion, declared
Benjamin H.
Darrow, secre-
tary of the coun-
ty Y. M. C. A.,
Ravenna, Ohio,
in his address
before the I. A.
A. annual meet-
ing, "Organiz-
ing Community
centers."

"Sogs root for the missing
elements of food In their ration,"
Mr. Darrow said." Young people,
too, root for missing elements.
If their own community does
not provide a balanced ration,
they go elsewhere for the missing
eivnents, usually entertainment,
and frequently overeat. Or It
the social events of their com-
munity are weak and uninter-
esting third rate affairs, they
know it.

CMder People Too
"Young people are not the only
ones who need more of the fats
of social enjoyment," continued
Mr. Darrow. "There is a crush-
ing poverty In playless lives.
Too many folks rob themselves
and their families of many of the
best things of Ufo because they
^orget to play.

"Why do the young people

FRUIT GROWERS

TO REORGANIZE
• UNDER CO-OP ACT

"Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange"

Will Be Name; Member Cam-
' paign To Start Soon

A meeting of the Fruit and
Vegetable Marketing Advisory
Committee of the I. A. A., officers
and directors of the Illinois Fruit
Exchange, and several large fruit
growers took action to organize
a non-stock, non-profit coopera-
tive organization under the Illi-
nais Cooperative Marketing Act
to be Incorporated as the "Illinois
Fruit Growers Elzchange," at
Centralia, January 5.

The new organization will be. In

^"ilfleet, a continuation of the Illi-
aoia Fruit Exchange. However,
the latter will not liquidate until
some future date, due to unex-
pired marketing contracts, railroad
claims, and present duties aind ob-
Ugations to its members.

Organliation under new uni-
form flve-year contracts will be
started at an early date under the
direction of the Illinois Fruit
Growers Exchange and the Fruit
and Vegetable Marketing Depart-
ment of the Illinois Agricultural

_ Association.

The decision to reorganize the
Illinois Fruit Exchange has been
the result of much tbougkt and
study on the part of officials of the
exchange. Considerable expansion
of the organization was felt neces-
sary and there are many limita-
tions which prevent the Exehafige
from expanding a»it la now organ-
to»d. i

Want R. R. Fences
Repaired? I. A. A.
Helped This Man

"Let us know it railroad fences
are defective," said the I. A. A.
Transportation Department's ad
in the December S issue of the
Record. Immediately On receipt
of the issue, Chas. R. Birken-
mayer, Macoupin county, wrote to
the I. A. A. and said that the
fence along the C. P. & St. L. rail-
road adjoining his pasture was
badly in need, of repair and he
wished that the department could
at least persuade the railroad to
set the posts it he furnished them.

The Transportation Department
took the mattsf up with the C. P.
& St. L. general manager. On De-
cember 29, the latter wrote: "We
have set the posts tor Mr. Birken-
mayer, furnished wire and staples
and he is to do the balance of the
work."

And Mr. Birkenmayer wrote to
the I. A. A.: "I want to thank
you for your efforts with the C. P.
& St. L. railroad in having them
repair their fence along our land.
I think it was a nice favor of you
and I truly appreciate it."

desert their community tor the
city to get their entertainment?"
asked the speaker. "Because it
is more interesting and, shame
to admit it, sometimes because
their own community offers noth-
ing of a social or entertainment
nature.

It can be done

"To revive enthusiasm in some
communities is like trying to
start a Are with wet wood. But
it can be done. Many a man
and woman has given up the
task in disgust these last few
years. The farm bureau pro-
gram itself falls tar short of its
possibilities because township
meetings are poorly attended.
Leadership in the country is real-
ly good, but the followership is
terrible. There Is no question
but that the time is here when
farming must have more brains
and less brawn in the 'brains
and brawn mixture.' And chor-
ing by lantern light has cost the
farmer as much as it has made
him. ,_,

Wipes away the Worries

"Laughter wipes away the
worries and music soothes the
heartaches. Three or four times
a winter every community ought
to have a social in which the
feature is music. Stunt nights
as a feature of community en-
tertainment are valuable. I fully
expect to see the time when
farmers generally will play just
as the business man in the city."

FOX CHARTS NEW
PROGRAM_OF WORK

(Continued from Page One)
national confidence upon which a
national program must be built.
Dairy Marketing

"Dairymen around both Chica-
go and St. Louis are in need of re-
organization. Dairymen around
these two cities will never be able
to stabilize prices or enjoy the
privilege of permanently being the
dominating factor in price control
until they make adequate provi-
sion for local concentration points
to care for surpluses and until
they are sufficiently well organized
to make an equitable distribution
of the losses over all producers
involved. ,

"Dairymen around several other
cities are making progress in co-
operative marketing. Effective
organization around these other

JENKINS RESIGNS
TO ENTER IN RACE
FOR U. S. SENATOR

Restoration of Agriculture Will

Be the Paramount

Issue

The request of Newton Jenkins,
recently announced candidate for
United States Senator, to be re-
lieved as legal counsel for the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association was
accepted by the executive commit-
tee at the January 11 meeting.

In a resolution to Mr. Jenkins
the committee stated that the
principles of the Association are
such that anyone connected with
its administrative affairs cannot be
a candidate for public office at the
same time. The committee ex-
tended appreciation of the efficient
service rendered to the association
and for the courteous manner in
which all requests have been
handled.

"I am entering the Republican
primaries as a candidate for
United States Senator," Mr. Jen-
kins states in his letter to the
association.

Agricnltore Paramonnt

"While I expect to appeal to
every element of the state's citizen-
ship, Mr. Jenkins continues," the
restoration of agriculture will be
a paramount issue of my cam-
paign. This issue, of course, is
quite non-partisan and I shall do
my utmost to carry my message
to the farmers in every section of
the state."

cities will help in making a suc-
cessful organization around Chica-
go and St. Louis. The most diffl-
cnlt factor in all of these efforts is
to secure efficient management.
Every failure is traceable directly
or indirectly to faulty accounting
and lack of financial control.
Poaltrr.

"Standardizing and grading
should receive first attention in
the poultry and egg marketing
question. If egg exchanges and
buyers do not fall in line by rec-
ognizing grade through prices
paid, cooperative marketing of
poultry products must and will
force the issue.

Fmits and Vegetables.

"The experience of the Illinois
Fruit Exchange points the way
to successful marketing of Illinois
fruits. This institution, while
highly successful, needs to be re-
organized and its operations ex-
tended and improved so as to in-
clude more of the successful fruit
growers of the state."
Taxation.

Secretary Fox recommended
that active work be started in
analyzing revenue expenditures for
both country and state purposes
and he suggested that the project
be taken up by the joint efforts
of farm bureaus, chambers of
commerce, bankers' associations
and other groups of citizens.

"The purpose of this undertak-
ing should not be to interfere
with the proper functioning of
public oScials, but should be con-
ducted for the purpose of secur-
ing an intelligent understanding
of the use that is being made of
public money," Mr. Fox said. .
Legislation.

In discussing the legislative pol-
icy of the association he said that
without facts and careful analysis
farmers can not hope to arrive at
the sound solution of public ques-
tions. "In anticipation of the
next session of the Legislature, a
careful survey and analysis should
be taken of the revenue question.

''We Call Them
Cheap Screws
Down In Egypt" '

"1 have been reading my I. A. A.
Record and find many good things
in it for me that I have helped to
do by belonging to the farm bu-
reau," writes Arthur J. Casper,
Johnson county. "These things
have helped others that don't be-
long just as well, and wont be-
long as long as they can reap the
harvest without belonging. We
call them 'cheap screws' down
here in Egypt.

"I am well pleased with what
the I. A. A. has done tor us. With-
out orgtmization, we are as far as
we can ever expect to get. With
organization we can adjust the lid
to the lunch box at an? degree we
desire to fit the agricultural con-
ditions of our country.

"In our drive for membership
in December, 1923, we lost more,
I think, than we gained. Those
we lost were mostly trouble-mak-
ers. Those we gained were men
that have been reading and mak-
ing a study of the farm bureau.
Not such a bad loss but a better
gain."

Mr. Casper asked tor 50 January
5, I. A. A. Records to hand out to
some of his neighbors.

the road program, the school prob-
lem and law enforcement meas-
ures.

Organization.
"Counties that have well de-
veloped community centers are
maintaining membership at less
cost than counties less thoroughly
organized. If we will study and
develop local community organiza-
tion within the county, the next
campaign should cost less. This
should be undertaken in 1924."

CHICAGO LIVESTOCK
CO-OP SHOWS GREAT
J GAIN IN RECEIPTS

Handled Nearly 16,000 Cars In

1923; Sykes Says Big Problem

Now Is Orderly Selling

The Chicago Producers Commis-
sion Association handled 16,855
cars of livestock in 1923, over 72
per cent of which came from co-
operative shipping associations,
said S. W. Doty, manager, in his
report at the annual meeting of
the agency, January 8. There are
now over 78,000 individual mem-
bers of the Chicago Producers.

Big Increase

Mr. Doty's report showed the
following increase in receipts of
the agency from July through De-
cember, 1923, compared with the
same montlis in 1922: cattle, 133
per cent; hogs. 111 per cent; and
sheep, 239 per c^nt.

"The big problem before the
Producers selling agencies is or-
derly marketing," said A. Sykes,
Ida Grove, la., president of the
Chicago Producers, in a talk in
which he traced the entire growth
of the movement. "Refunds are
all right but they are not the big
thing. There should be closer co-
operation between livestock pro-
ducers BO that the fiow of live-
stock to the market can be regu-
lated."

Re-elect Directors

W. E. Elliott, Willlamsfield, IlL,
and Frank Coyne, Ida Grove, la.,
were re-elected for three year
terms as directors of the Chicago
selling agency. They were the
only directors whose terms ex-
pired.

Grading Eggs By Quality
Is Essential Says Harper

"Grading by quality is the
most important service which co-
operative marketing is rendering
to egg producers," declares J. D.
Harper, who has returned ' from
an investigation of cooperative
poultry and egg marketing asso-
ciations in nine western states
and in Canada with the view of
working out a policy of poultry
and egg marketing suitable for
Illinois conditions.

"Standardized [ :ts are es-

sential to proi marketing.
Marketing associi that are

paying their mE 3 on the

basis of grade ar ones that

are succeeding s etting the

best prices tor m rs.

"In Utah, PC men were

paid five cents pe an tor eggs

in May, 1922. producers

organized a cooi ve market-

ing association : ircb, 1923.

They pay by gr iud quality

and sell standa J products.

They now have 1200 members
and sold 160 cars of eggs and 20
cars of poultry in 1923. Nearly
a million dollars' worth of busi-
ness was transacted. In 1922,
Utah shipped out only 17 cars of
eggs. Seven cars were imported."

Similar success with grading
by quality was found by Mr.
Harper in Washington, Texas,
and British Columbia.

Orderly Marketing
"Cooperative poultry and egg
associations are able to bring
about orderly marketing," de-
clares Mr. Harper. "The great
bulk of eggs is produced during
about one third of the year and
rushed to market and into stor-

age, bringing prices down. By
controlling the product and put-
ting the surplus into storage,
producers' associations are letting
their eggs on the market as they
are needed throughout tte fall
and winter months. This is one
of the big services which most
of the egg cooperatives are ren-
dering.

All Get Better Prices

"Producers who belong to mar-
keting associations are not, as a
rule, getting any more tor their
products than non-members are,"
Mr. Harper says. "But members
and non-members alike are get-
ting considerably more than they
did before tb« association existed.

"The independent dealers are
paying on a much narrower mar-
gin as a result of the competi-
tion aroused by producer market-
ing. This was especially notice-
able with the cooperative associa-
tions in Washington, California,
and Texas. A manager In Wash-
ington who had been a private
dealer tor years said that* it
might be a good thing if the
cooperative ceased to function in
order to make all producers real-
ize what it is doing tor them."

Good Management
Good management was a very
noticeable factor which Mr. Har-
per noted as a prim^ necessity of
successful poultry and egg mar-
keting associations. Most of the
managers whom he met were
men who were well grounded in
experience and a thorough knowl-
edge of the poultry and egg
market i

A-Oi 'siONmi 'vi;vaan

■ ;iONmi dO AlISaJAINil

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Vohnne 2

Febmary S, 1924

Number 3

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CO-OPS MUST FILE
CLAIMS TO SECURE
INCOME TAX REFUND

I. A. A. Is Handling Exemption

Evidence To Present To

Government

Tbe I. A. A., tbroagh Its eon-
Bulting accountant, George E.
Frazer, Is preparing claims for
income tax refund (or fanners'
cooperative organizations of Illi-
nois upon request {rem such as-
Boclations. Claims from a dozen
companies have already been
turned in to tbe I. A. A. for
collection. All must be filed be-
fore Marcb 15, 1924, in order to
be eligible to refund.

Income tax exemption tor co-
operative associations was granted
by a ruling of the Internal Reve-
nue Department last September,
providing such organizationa filed
proper evidence to secure refund.

Must File Retnms

Mr. Frazer will be glad to
analyze the claims of any coop-
erative organization which will
send the I. A. A. by registered
and Insured mail copies of each
of their Federal income tax re-
turns for tbe years, 191S, 1919,
1920. 1921, and 1922, and also
copies of their outside auditor's
reports for each of those years.
If there is no outside auditor's
report on any year, the financial
statements and copies of trial
balances should be sent.

Cooperatives are not denied
exemption because they have ao-
cnmulated a reasonable reserve
for the retirement of bonds, for
losses or depreciation, or for the
purchase of buildings and ma-
dilnery. Tbe payment of divi-
dends on stock, which must be
beld by producers themselves,
does not defeat exemption, pro-
Tided it is reasonable and does not
exceed the legal ^ate of Interest of
tbe state.

Marketing Head
For A. F. B. F. To
Be Chosen Soon

Definite plans to employ a mar-
keting director tor the American
Farm Bureau Federation were
made at the January 24 meeting
of the executive committee.

A committee consisting of Pres-
ident Bradfute, A. C. Hardison of
California, George M. Putnam of
New Hampshire and C. E. Hurst
of Iowa, was appointed and au-
thorized to select a marketing
head at once. A release from tbe
Federation office states that the
selection of a marketing director
is expected within a few days.

Cor bin Goes To
Missouri As Head
Of Organization

E>. L. Corbin, Macoupin county,
took up bis new work in Jeffer-
son City, Mo., Jan. 21, as Direc-
tor of Organization for the Mis-
lonri Farm Bureau Federation.

During 1822 and 1923, Mr.
Corbin served as I. A. A. execu-
tive committeeman from the 21st
district. He has also been in tbe
employ of tbe I. A. A. Organiza-
tion Department as county or-
ganizer in several Illinois coun-
Ues in 1923.

1. A. A, Asked To
Make Milk Survey
By Farm Advisers

Asserting their belief that any
permanent solution of the prob-
lems confronting dairymen in the
Chicago dairy district is depen-
dent upon the merohRndlsing of
milk on a quality basis so that
milk shipped in from a great dis-
tance cannot compete with milk
produced nearby, seven northern
Illinois farm advisers in a meet-
ing at the I. A. A. office on Janu-
ary 26, asked the I. A. A. Dairy
Marketing Department to conduct
a statistical survey of milk pro-
duction in the Chicago district.

This survey will determine the
amount of milk that is produced
from tuberculosis-free herds in
each county, the total amount of
milk exported from each county
for the fluid milk market, and the
amount of this volume produced
from T. B.-free herds.

Appointment of a committee
from the I. A. A. was recommend-
ed for the investigation of a plan
toward the merchandising of qual-
ity milk to come from tuberculo-
sis-free herds only, and to deter-
mine the possibilities of sellihg
this milk upon the Chicago market
at a premium over the ordinary
fluid milk price.

ANOTHER PROBLEM TO UNLOAD

Exchange Ships To
98 Markets In 20
States During 1923

Approximately 600 cars of Illi-
nois fruits and vegetables were
shipped by the Illinois Fruit Ex-
change to 98 markets in 20 states
during 1923, according to Manager
A. B. Leeper. Distribution was
secured through the Federated
Fruit and Vegetables Growers, Inc.

States to which shipments went
were, Alabama, Arkansas, Con-
necticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi,
Missouri, North Dakota, New
York, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Da-
kota, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.

Fine Spirit Features

Ninth Annual Meeting

The ninth annual meeting of the
I. A. A. was a happy and harmo-
nious gathering in the eyes of
your interpreter. In^^the , neigh-
borhood of 800 were in attendance
representing 91 counties of the
state.

At the opening session the exec-
utive committee and employees
gathered on tbe platform. The
report of work for the year in
booklet form was distributed to
aH, and on the walls of the hall
an array of charts and maps vis-
ualized the work and activities of
the association.

"Future progress depends large-
ly on members themselves," was
the keynote of President Thomp-
son's address. The Secretary's
report faced issues squarely, and
made definite recommendations.
Certainly there was encourage-
ment in the financial report.
A New Spirit

In the evening over 600 ban-
queted together in the Methodist
church, visited and sang songs.
It was a high spot of the meeting.
Between songs and story telling
there was a bum of visiting con-
versation. It seemed there was
something different in tbe air that
evening, a new brand of spirit.

Later when the crowd retired to
the auditorium, Benjamin Darrow
called that something, community
spirit.

Tlie Election

The election of officers came af-
ter the evening program. There
was no hesitation in choosing S. H.
Thompson for president. Outside
of a little contest on vice-presi-
dent, the election was quiet.

The scheduled program contin-
ued on through the second morn-
ing. All of the addresses had
quite a definite relation and bear-
ing to tbe work of the association,
although there was little time for
discussion. Many people expressed
the belief that it was the t>est
speaking program of any annual
meeting.

Beuin Secretary

The new executive committee
lunched together at noon. Their
opinion was unanlmo.us in retain-
ing Secretary Fox. It was decided
that their first meeting will be
held January 31.

After one address on the second
afternoon, the reports of the con-
stitution and resolutions commit-
tees were accepted with little dis-
cussion. A resolution which tbe
(Continued on pare 4)

A. F. B. F. GOVERN^NG
BODY 0. K.'S FARM
RELIEF MEASURE

McNary-Haugen Bill Like Wallace

Plan — To Increase Buying

Power Of Farmer

The McNary-Haugen bill, farm-
er relief legislation, designed to
establish a fair relationship be-
tween what the farmer sella and
what be buys, was endorsed by tbe
A. F. B. F. executive committee
at its meeting in Chicago, January
21 to 24.

In endorUng the purpose and
intent of the bill, a reaolntlon
passed by the committee stated.
"desiring, however, that tbe bill
be amended in such a way as to
be more useful in times of emer-
gency and more available to and
in harmony with the purposes of
farmers' cooperative marketing as-
sociations."

First Relief LcKtalatian'

Tbe McNary-Haugen bill is the
first rfeUef legislation to receive
serious consideration by the farm
bureau: It will be remembered
that Congressman DI<&iMon of
Iowa endorsed the bill in bis ad-
dress at opr annual meeting. Sec-
retary of Agriculture, Henry Wal-
lace urged the enactment of tbe
bill before the senate agricultural
committee.

The Purpose

The bill provides for an agri-
cultural export comnsissiott and an
agricultural export corporation
with a capital stock of 9200,000,-
000, to be subscribed bf the gov-
ernment. -►

The purpose of the 'bill is to
promote equality between prices
of agricultural products and prices
of other commodities. As a baaia
for comparison the bill stipnlates
that the price of agricultural oom-
(Contlnued on PMds S)

Voted Yes or No
On Every Issue
During 4 Ycar^

For tour years Henry McGongh
of Maple Park, Kane county,
served on the executive commit-
tee of the I. A. A., and during"
that time he did not miss one
meeting, was not late at one
nieeting and be voted yes or no
on every question, before tbe
committee.

Mr. McCoagh was tke nnant-
mous choice of the tenth and
eleventh districts on the commit-
tee for another year, but be de-
clined to serve. In appreciation
of Mr. HcOough's faithful ser-
vice, the voting delegates pre-
sented him with a gald watch
eliain. '

p— a

Published twice a month by the Illinois Agricultural
Association. 60S South Dearborn Street, Chlcaso, Illinois.
Edited by News Publicity Department. E. L. Bill. Director.

Entry as second class matter Oct. 10. 1921. at the post
office at Chicago. Illinois, under the act of March 3. 187»,
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage pro-
vided for in Section 1103. Act of October I, 1917, author-
lied Oct. 31. 1921.

The Individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association is Ave dollars a year. This fee IncludM
payment of nfty cents for subscription to the XlUnoU Ag-
rtcultural Association Record. _^---— --^™^

OFFICERS
President, S. H. Thompson, Qniney. i

Vice-President, C. B. Watson, DeKalb. I

Treasurer, B. A. Cowles, Bloomlngton.

Secretary, Geo. A. Fox. Sycamore.

BXECXmVB COMMITTBB
Br Congcesslonal Districts

11th Jacob Olbrlch, Harvard

12th 1 Q. F. Tullock, Roektord

Ijth C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th - W. H. Moody, Port Byron

15th H. E. Goembel, Hoopole

18th A. R. Wright, Varna

17th 4 F. O. Barton, Cornell

18th"!!!il .' R- P- •<»"■• Inxjuol*

19th .....A. L. WhUnand, Charieaton

20th..' 4 E«ri C. Smith, Detroit

2Ut H Samuel Sorrelli, Raymond

22nd Stanley Castle, Alton

23rd.. J. E. LIngenfelter, Lawrencevllle

24th Curt Anderson, Xenia

29th.'.'.'.'.'..'.' Vernon Lessley, Sparta

Directors of Departments
I. A. A. Office
General Office and Asslatant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker;
Organization, G. E. Metzger; Information, E. L. Bill;
Transportation, L. J. Quasey; Statistics, J. C. WaUon;
Finance, R. A. Cowies; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, C. A. Stewart;
Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R. Bent; in charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, J. D.
Harper.

ARHUAL MEETING RESOLUTIONS

The resolutions passed at the annual meeting
express the •trend of thought on important ques-
tions before us. To an extent they point to the
platform or program of work for the year, although
they were not adopted with that idea in view.

Following is a summary of the resolutions:
Holding District Conferences

Recognizing the importance of establishing 8
closer relation between the I. A. A. and county
farm bureaus, we hereby direct and require that
the executive committee shall direct each member
of the committee to hold at least three conferences
in his district during the year of county executive
committeemen and officers, members of the I. A. A.
board of delegates and farm advisers. The meet-
ing places shall be selected by the I. A. A. dele-
gates within the district. Each county shall bear
the expenses of its own representatives and all
overhead expenses of the meetings shall be pro-
rated among the counties in the district.

To Study School Lotos

The stability of institutions and the welfare of
our people depend largely upon the proper educa-
tion of our citizens. The farmer has always been
and stiU is in favor of adequate school facilities.
The boys and girls of the farm are entitled to as
adequate educational facilities as are the children
of the cities and towns. Farmers are willing and
should bear their just share of the burden. A
study of the school laws and their application reveal
the facts that many gross inequalities and acts of
injustice are possible and have occurred. We there-
fore recommend that a thorough and comprehen-
sive su^ey and study of the entire .school system
and the laws relative thereto be made to the end
that we may give intelligent support to a revision
of the laws relative to education which will elim-
inate as far as possible the injustice which now
exists. j I ,'.-.- I I

Cooperative Marketing

A resolution endorsing the actions of I. A. A.
voting delegates at the American Farm Bureau
annual meeting in their stand for a constructive
program of cooperative marketing and endorsing
the actions of the I. A. A. in upholding the grain
' marketing resolution passed by mid-west farm bu-
reau presidents and secretaries last June. The ex-
ecutive committee of the I. A. A. was urged to take

TIm Illinois Agricultiiral Asaociation Record

Febnyuy S, 1924

immediate active steps to create and put in opera-
tion a comprehensive cooperative marketing plan.
Farm Bureau Relation to Co^ps

We urge the tying together as effectively as pos-
sible the farm bureaus and I. A. A. with coopera-
tive commodity associations.
Loyalty to Co^ps .• • . '

We urge the loyalty of farm bureau members to
the various cooperative agencies to the end that
a greater volume of business handled by such co-
operative agencies may exert every increasing in-
fluence upon the stabilization of prices.

Jtelte/ Legislation

We urge the consideration aad passage of such
laws as are economically sound and that have for
their purpose the relief of agriculture and the sta-
bilization of prices and the re-establishment of an
equitable exchange relation between the products
of the farm and other necessaries of life.

Local Community Clubs ■ '•. , . '

We urge the development of commtmity organi-
zations in the county farm bureaus for the pur-
pose of obtaining a closer relationship with the
membership. We urge the I. A. A. executive com-
mittee to cooperate with county farm bureaus in
establishing community organizations and that it
take such steps to carry forward and develop
our community life as in their judgment may ap-
pear to be feasible.

Balanced Production

We recognize the influence of the production
of farm commodities to the markets and the prices
of said commodities. We therefore urge construc-
tive thought on the part of the farm bureaus and
the members of the association with reference to a
better balancing of their production to the end that
.a more stable supply be maintained, thereby ren-
dering a greater degree of stability to the prices of
farm products. We recommend the increased use
of legumes to supplant a portion of the present
large acreage devoted to grain production to 'the
end that over-production of grain may be elimi-
nated and that the soils may be rendered more
productive in the future.

Water Transportation

We urge the development of the waterways of
the nation wherever development is feasible and
we endorse and urge the early construction of the
lakes to gulf and St. Lawrence river waterway
projects, provided that the rights and interests of
parties directly affected shall be properly safe-
guarded.

Law Enforcement

We urge the rigid enforcement of all laws des-
tined to suppress vice, intemperance and other evils,
and we recommend the adoption of such law en-
forcement agencies free from political control as
will give the rural communities adequate protection
from law violation.

Pure Seed Protection

In a resolution warning the membership against
the purchase of alfalfa and clover seed imported
from foreign countries the delegates recommended
the adoption of such measures as will protect the
purchaser of seed from fraud.

To Consider Office Location

Inasmuch as some difference of opinion may have
arisen with reference to the location of the I. A. A.
offices, and inasmuch as by our constitution the
executive committee is charged with the responsi-
bility of securing the best possible location, we
recommend that the executive committee give due
consideration to all claims with reference to loca-
tion and that they act in the matter as may seem
to them wise and proper.

Illinois farm bureaus and the I. A. A. are carry-
ing on an intense program to free Illinois herds
of bovine tuberculosis. The big purpose of this
work is to fulfill the demand of purchasers and to
make a market for Illinois cattle. Now comes the
idea that milk from tuberculosis-free herds should
be merchandised upon a quality basis.

FARMER RELIEF LEGISLATION

For a long time farmer relief legislation has
been talked of, and now the first measure is before
Congress in the form of the McNary-Haugen bilL
It is explained on another page in this issue.

The purpose and intent of the biU has been en-
dorsed by the American Farm Bureau executive
committee, the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation and
the Secretary of Agriculture.

Our annual meeting failed to endorse the Wal-
lace plan of an export corporation, which is
included in this bill. However, another resolution
urged the passage of such laws that are economi-
cally sound and have for their purpose the relief
of agriculture and the stabilization of prices of the
farm products. In no way has the I. A. A. con-
tended that there is not room foi; constructive legis-
lation to overcome our marketing problem.

A little study of this particular bill shows that
it is more than political campaign medicine. It
drives at the heart of our problem, the buying
power of the farm dollar. The bill delegates broad
powers and would put drastic actions into effect.
It has teeth.
The I. A. A. is making a study of this bilL

A FARM BUREAU RECORD

For four years Henry McGough of Kane county
was a member of the I. A. A. Executive Committee
and during that time he never missed a meeting,
never was late, and on every issue put before the
committee he voted yes or no. It is a record to
be proud of.

There are 1600 county and state officers in farm
bureau work' in Illinois, and there are several times
that number in township and community organiza-
tions. All of us cannot be members of the I. A. A.
Executive Committee but all have the opportunity
and responsibility to do our share in the same
faithful way Mr. McGk>ugh has carried out his of-
fice.

Answer the question of how many officers and
members are carrying their end of the load and
you have the answer to how fast the farm bureau
can make progress.

THAT FARM BUREAU SPIRIT
"After all, this farm bureau thing in which
we are aU so much interested is not a big concrete
structure upon which folks may gaze in wonder-
ment but rather it is a thing cherished in the hearts
and exhibited in the lives of its members." These
are the words of "Farmer" Busk, farm adviser in
Macoupin county, and they express what they call
down there "That Macoupin County Farm Bureau
spirit."

It was that spirit that brought 1,261 farm bu-
reau members and their wives to the Macoupin
annual farm bureau meeting in November. How
did they get that spirit t It was through "con-
scientious, insistent, consistent, continuous com-
munity organization work," Mr. Rusk says. They
have 36 community organizations in the county and
all the way from 150 to 1,000 people gather to-
gether regularly to talk over their mutual problems,
to see some farm movies, and to enjoy some "eats."

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION

Approximately twenty per cent, or $1.00 out of
' each $5.00 paid into the Illinois Agricultural
Association by each member, goes toward the
maintainance of state and county membership.
Fifty cents of the $5.00 membership fee to the L
A. A. goes to the American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion, leaving $3.50 for administrative and other
service work of the I. A. A.

Can the cost of maintaining membership be de-
creased so as to leave a larger amount for other
services t

Without exception, the Organization Depart-
ment states, the cost of maintaining membership
is low in counties in which there are local com-
munity organizations. The department recom-
mends that conuniyiity organization work ba
featured this year.

\

JilM

S, 1924

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The minoU AgriaJtairal Awociation Record

PagaS

Community Organization Puts the

Pep in the Macoupin Farm Bureau

Farm bureau members from
North Otter township were giv-
en the reserved seats on the plat-
form at the Macoupin County-
Farm Bureau annual meeting
and rally day at Carlinville
last November 24, it was re-
TeeJed after aU noses were
counted. Nearly 100 members
with their wives were present
from that township, whose cen-
ter is approximately 30 miles
from Carlinville.

Bat that's not halt the storr-
Exactly 1261 bapP7 farm folk
dined that day
at the expense
o{ the Macoup-
In County
Farm Bureau,
and they were
all (arm bu-
reau members
or their wlTes,
"Altogether it
was an impres-
'sire meeting
and we felt
that it was the
outgrowth of our community or-
ganization work," says "Farmer"
Rusk, farm adviser.

"We had with us that day. Sec-
retary John Coverdale of the
American Farm Bureau, and J. C.
Spltler, assistant state leader from
the University of Illinois, and
both stated publicly that they had
never attended a farm bureau
meeting of its kind before where
the right sort of farm bureau
spirit wtis so evident. We call
it the Macoupin County Farm
Bureau spirit.
Ckimmimity Organization Did It

"In making a sort of an inven-
tory of the work done during the
past three years, we have simply
come to the conclusion that after
all this thing we call the Macou-
pin County Farm Bureau spirit is
the one thing of greatest impor-
tance to all organizations," de-
clares Mr. Rusk. "We believe
very strongly that our success
thus far in this direction has
been due primarily to our con-
scientious, insistent, consistent,
continuous community organiza-
tion work."

The community organizations
are the most important cog in the
farm bureau machinery in Macou-
pin county, Mr. Rusk says. The
idea was not bom with the organ-
ization of the bureau but came
as the need developed for a better
means of contact with the mem-
bership. The plan of community
organization was developed after
the farm bureau was three years
old. The constant working of the
bureau through its many branches
has been the chief cause of the
development of the splendid Ma-
coupin County Farm. Bureau spir-
it existing throughout the organ-
ization today.

Bureau Organized In 1917

The farm bureau was organized
In the "State of Macoupin" in the
fall of 1917 and for two years
the membership was 330. Then
in the fall of 1919, the big drive
was put on and even the farm
hands were signed until the num-
ber reached upwards of the 1600
mark.
Start to Organize Commnnlties

When "Farmer" Rusk got on
the ]ob on January 15th, 1921,
there were ]ust three community
organizations fnnetiontng in Ma-
coupin county. By the middle of
February, H. W. Rice, then pres-
ident of the bureau, bad, with the

Macoupin Is Doing It!

We vrould all like to «ee
the farm bureau so well or-
ganized that It reaches right
down to the everyday life of
the Individual member. That
means not only the county
unit but the township or
community unit as well.
Down In tHfc "SUte of Ma-
coupin" they've got 36 com-
munity organizations and
they call them the moat Im-
portant cogs In the farm bu-
reau machinery of the coun-
ty. The accompanying story
tells how they do It.

approval of his executive commit-
tee, appointed 22 community
chairmen over the county and
community meetings were started.

How to get the farm folks out
to "meetin' " was the next big
problem. H. J. Shultz, now pres-
ident and at that time a member
of the executive committee, sug-
gested "eats", as the best means.
"H. J." was right, it seems, for
from that day to this and for all
time to come, Macoupin county
farm folks are strongly in favor
of "eats."

How They Connected Up

So they began getting in neigh-
borly community groups at the va-
rious community centers over the
county. In each of these groups
they bad their community leader
who was marshal of the day on
these occasions and who at all
times was the connecting link be-
tween the local community farm
bureau group, the executive com-
mittee and the county farm bureau
offlce.

"And It came to pass that the
bureau looked upon its creation
and was pleased," says "Farmer"
Rusk. "Indeed the results of the
work were gratifying. The coun-
ty is large with 500,000 big acres
within its confines. There was
need for more and more commu-
nity organizations and as this
need was recognized, more were
created until by the middle of the
year 1923 there was a total of
36 community organizations mak-
ing up the most important part
of the Macoupin County Farm
Bureau machinery."

Attendance Always Good

The attendance and interest in
the community farm bureau meet-
ings in Macoupin county have al-
ways been encouraging. During
1922, especially, many summer
evening meetings were held on
farm lawns with moving pictures
shown on the side of the house
or bam for a part of the enter-
tainment. Often ice cream and
cake were served.

Attendance at meetings ranging
from 150 to 1000 made these
meetings full of enthusiasm and
enjoyment. In 1921, the farm
bureau held 145 such community
meetings. In 1922, the number
was boosted to the total of 151
and during 1923. the total was
111, aside from 23 demonstration
meetings held during the year.

What "Parmer" Says
What does the Macoupin Coun-
ty Farm Bureau feel has been
gained by three years of commu-
nity organization activity? "Farm-
er" Rusk sums It up as follows:

"The Maeonpin County Farm
Bureau believes that greater suc-
cess Is attained In the solving of
farm problems, big and Uttle,

through community effort than in
any other way, for it has devel-
oped that chief among the bjg
jobs of the farm bureau is the Job
of keeping up the organization
and to keep in close touch with its
membership in order that the will
of the members may be carried
out and that the members may
keep informed concerning the ac-
tivities of the organization.
Offers Best Means

"Community and demonstration
meetings offer the best means of
carrying out this Job. More and
more the farm bureau is taking
on the form of a business-like or-
ganization operating as a big ex-
tension concern, not for the mu-
tual advantage of its membership
alone, but in cooperation with oth-
er legitimate organizations for the
benefit of agriculture and society
in general.

"The farm adviser Is not looked
upon so much as a hired hand as
in the past but more and more as
a general manager under the dl-

ADVISERS

Here are the Macoupin county
farm adviser*, "Cracker" Johnson,
assistant, at the left and "Farmer"
Rusk, adviser, at the right. They
help keep the community work go-
ing in Macoupin county.

rectlon of a board of directors of
a concern of consequence in the
county and state and in which all
members must needs interest
themselves.

That Macoopln Spirit
"Thus the Macoupin County
Farm Bureau spirit Is being de-
veloped, the sort of a feeling in-
side of folks that kindles the la-
tent Interest in one another — a
genuine feeling of hospitality, if
you please."

Gov't Must Deal
With Organi%ed
Bodies — Dickinson

"No government function can
go out and deal with the Individ-
ual direct," said L. J. Dickinson.
Congressman from Iowa and
House farm bloc leader, at the
I. A. A. meeting. "Every plan de-
vised by Congress thus far tor
farm relief implies that it will
work through cooperative bodies."

This makes the need for farm
organization more imperative, he
said. Only by cooperation can the
farmer hope to survive financially.

Congressman Dickinson stated
that he believed that corn growers
of Iowa and Illinois can control
the price of corn by the farmers'
elevators uniting together and
selling through a single selling
agency.

He also gave his indorsement of
the Wallace plan for control of
export wheat.

V.

Water and Rail
Rate Comparison
Made By Newton

Railroads themselves acknowl-
edge that water transportation is
practicable and that it is cheaper
than by rail by the rates which
they establish between water
points, declared Congressman
Cleveland A. Newton of Missouri
at the I. A. A. meeting, arguing
for completion of the river pro-
jects in the Mississippi Talley.

"The rail rate from St. Louis
to New Orleans, a distance of 718
miles, on 100 pounds of first-class
freight Is J 1.7 3^4 because the
Mississippi river flows between
these points," he said, "while the
rail rate on 100 pounds from Ft.
Smith, Ark., to New Orleans, 494
miles, but where no water compe-
tition exists, U $1.94 Vi. The rail
rate on 100 pounds of first-class
freight from Dallas, Texas, to New
Orleans, SIS miles, is }2.0gH.

"From Minneapolis to SL Louis,
586 miles, the freight rate is 96
cents because there is a possibility
of water competition between
these points while the rail rate
on the same freight from Minne-
apolis to Kansas City. 86 miles
less distance and over a more
level haul, is $1.29 V.,."

Mr. Newton stressed the need
of farmers uniting with other or-
ganizations for the improvement
and navigation of inland rivers.

ENDORSES FARM
RELIEF MEASURE

(Continued from P&gre One)
modities for the years 1905 to
1914 inclusive, shall be compared
with the price of all other com-
modities for the same time. The
ratio between any one agricultural
commodity and all other commod-
ities is used for comparison with
current prices.

Conunisslon Directs Selling

The commission makes a study
of current prices of farm commod-
ities with relation to the current
prices of all other commodities.
When the current price of a farm
commodity is below the ratio of
pre-war prices, it makes recom
mendations to the corporation for
purchasing and selling, and It is
the duty of the corporation to
carry out the recommendations of
the commission. When the cur-
rent price of a farm commodity
is more than 10 per cent lower
than the pre-war price, the com-
mission shall make recommenda-
tion to the corporation to purchase
such amounts so as to raise the
domestic price to the level of the
pre-war ratio price. It can also
direct the corporation to sell in
the domestic market, but at not
less than the ratio price.
Prodncers Pay Cost

In order that the producers of
each agricultural product may pay
their share of the expenses of the
corporation, and their share, of
losses sustained by selling surplus
in foreign markets, the corpora-
tion keeps part of the price paid
for an equalization fee and it is-
sues script or a certificate of in-
debtedness for the amount kept
back. Thus the producer of the
commodity bears all expenses of
the corporation.

The heart of the bill lies in the
fact that when the current iprice
of a commodity goes 10 per* pent
below the pre-war ratio, the cor-
poration buys to the extent, at the
pre-war ratio price, that domestic
prices will Vaiae to the pre-war
ratio price.

CO-OP CREAMERY
AT ML CARROLL
HAS^OD YEAR

Sales Over $115,000; Seven Per

Cent Dividend a^d 1-2 Cent

Lb. Refund Declared

The Mt. Carroll Cooperative
Creamery Company closed its sec-
ond year's business on December
31, with toUl sales of $115,307.16
in butter, poultry and e^gs accord-
ing to the report of Secretary H. P.
Hostetter at the stockholders' an-
nual meetlpg, January |6. This Is
an increase of nearly $}0,000 over
gross sale« of the same products
last year.

A dividend of 7 per cent was de-
clared on all stock and In addition,
a patronage dividend bf one-half
cent per pound was voted for all
butterfat delivered to the cream-
ery in 1923, toUlllOg 160.225
pounds. The company added
14,260 worth of new equipment
during the year.

The lowest price pal4 for butter.,
fat was 40 cents per pound and
the highest was 50 ceats, with an
average of 46.8 cents. "This cer-
tainly emphasizes the tact that the
creamery is making a [fine market
for our dairymen," states Farm
Adviser Bliss, Carroll county. "It
also points out bow foolish the
farmers of this vicinity are who
have been bringing this eream to
the stations and selling itifor four
or five cents per pound Ikes than
the creamery is paying.

"Even they, however, have prof-
ited by the creamer}- being here,
as the stations would probably
have paid on the average of four
cents per pound less than they
have been paying, bad there been
no creamery. We piosHiv'eTy" know
this to be true from ipast experi-
ence. We hare the pecOtds back
for six years."

Ely Cites Somt
Startling Facts
On Tax Situation

"If the present movement of
taxatfon on farm land continues
unchecked, taxes will absorb farm
land values and the farmers' land
will be confiscated by the state and
our farmers will bedame tenants
of the state," declared Richard T.
Ely, Ptofessor of Economics at the
University of Wisconsin before the
annual meeting.

The speaker showM ebarti to
prove his statements. He showed
how the total per capita taxes in
the United States bad increased
from about $23 in,j 1112-13 to
around 180 in 1923. The under-
lying cause of increased and in-
creasing public expenditures, be
said, is found in the development
of the state and nation as coop-
erative institutions ffr promotins
the public welfare.

His remedy was for more indi-
rect taxation to supplement direct
taxes.

Fruit Exchange To
Hold Annual Meet
On February 19th

The annual meetinjg of the Illi-
nois Fruit Exchange will be held
in Centralla, February 1$, at
which time the plan, of reorgani-
zation will be fully explained and
definite action taken toward t^e
campaign. It is expected that in-
corporation papers will be in the
hands of the officers by that time.
The reorganized Exchange is to
be incorporated as the "Illinois
Fruit Growers' Exchange."

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February 5, 1924

SEVEN CHANGES IN
OFFICERS MADE AT
ANNUAL MEETING

Pres. Thompson Re-elected; De

Kalb Man Vice Pres.; Six

New Committeemen

President S. H. Thompson of
Quincy was re-elected president
of the I. A. A. for 1924 at the
annual meeting. Frank D. Bar-
ton of Cornell, Livingston county
nominated Mr. Thompson. The
noQiination was seconded by E.
H. Meyers »f Adams county. By
unanimous vote nominations were
closed and the secretary was in-
sttucted to cast the ballot for all
voting delegates electing Mr.
Thompson.

Former Vice-President A. O.
B>!kert of Belleville, St. Clair
county nominated Charles Finley
of Hoopeston, Vermilion county
fo^ that office. H. A. Piatt of
DeKalb county nominated Chaun-
cey B. Watson of Dekalb, and
Howard Leonard of Eureka,
Woodford county seconded the
nomination. The firfet ballot was
a tie, each candidate having 87
votes. A second ballot was
taken and Mr. Watson was elected.
Mr. Watson received 89 votes and
Mr. Finley 83 votes.

Six New Committeemen

Six changes were made in the
executive committee of fifteen
members. In the tenth and
eleventh districts, represented by
one member of the committee,
Jacob Olbrich of Harvard; Mc-
Henry county was elected In the
place of Henry McGough who has
served on the committee for four
years. In the caucus of Voting
delegates,<Mr. McGough was again
chosen to represent the district,
however he refused to acoegt the
nomination.

Other Changes

In the sixteenth district A. R
Wright of Varna, Marshall cpunty
was elected in the place of iD. G.
Reder. R. F. Karr of Iroguois,
Iroquois county took the [place
of Charles F^aley in the tight-
eenth district. A. R. Whisnand
of Charleston, Coles county was
elected in the place of t>. J,
Holterman in the nineteenth dis-
trict

In the twenty-first district,
Samuel Sorrells of Montgomery
county was elected in the place
of E. L. Corbin, and in the twen-
ty-third district, J. E. Liagen-
felter of Lawrence county was
elected in the place of Carlton
Trimble.

A total of 177 voting delegates
were seated in the meeting rei>-
representing 91 counties.

TO L A. A. FIBXDSOSy

Through the columns of the
I. A. A. Record I wish to express
my deep appreciation for the
beautiful remembrance sent by
you. I wish to assure you that
I am unable to express the full-
ness of my feelings to the men
whom, through our associations
together the past few years, I
have had the privilege to learn to
know and to love as , brothers.
You have endeared yourselves to
me by ties that only death can
sever.

The beautiful gold knife, ^Ith
the little chain, shall never be
used by me to cut or to destroy
the relations with you which I
love to think about and to cherish.
My sincere wish is that you may
all enjoy God's richest blessings.
Tonrs sincerely,

J. C. Sailor.

Meef the New Members
z Of L A, A, Committee

C. B* WatMon

Channcey B. Watson, newly
elected vice-president is a cattle
feeder on a 480
acre farm in
DeKalb county.
He is a gradu-
ate of the Col-
lege of Agricul-
ture and was
on the Univers-
ity football
team. Mr. Wat-
son was a mem'
ber of the state
councA of de-
f e n B e during
the war. For six years he served
as appraiser for the St. Louis
Federal Land Bank. He is presi-
dent of the DeKalb county farm-
ers' institute.

With two partners, A. R.
Wright of Varna, Marshall coun-
ty, is farming
690 acres. Mr.
Wright is the
new member of
the executive
committee from
the sixteenth
district. He is
president of the
Marshall Coun-
ty State Bank
located at Var-
na. He is sec-
retary of the

A. B. Wrlcht

R. V, Karr

county farm bureau and is an of-
ficer in the local cooperative ele-
vator. During the war lie served
as county food administrator.

R. F. Karr is a stock fanner
on 350 acres near Iroquois in
Iroquois coun-
ty, new com
mitteeman from
the eighteenth
district. M r,
Karr was pres-
ident of the
county farm bu
reau for four
years. He
served on the
county board of
supervisors for
eight years, one
year of which he was a member
of the county board of review.
He has been secretary of the
local farmers' elevator since 1914
and is president of his local com-
munity high school board.

A. L. Whisnand is the new
committeeman in the nineteenth
district. H 1 B
home is in
Chariest on.
Coles county.
In cooperation
with four ten-
ants he is farm-
ing 725 acres
on the share
system. One of
his tenants has
been with him
for 1 7 years.
Mr. Whisnand
was a member of the Charleston
school board for 15 years and
was county superintendent of
schools for one year. He served

A. L. ^Vhianaad

FOR MR. SAILOR

A happy event at the annual
meeting was when O. L. Hatch,
in behalf of the I. A. A. organiza-
tion force, announced the pre-
sentation of a gold watch chain
and knife to J. C. Sailor, for five
years director of organization
work. Mr. Sailor was not at the
meeting, being sick in a hospital
at Danville. He gave up his
work with the I. A. A. last De-
cember 1.

Samuel SorrcIIs

two years on the county board
of supervisors, one year as chair-
man.

Samuel Sorrells is a general
farmer on 200 acres in Raymond
township, Mont-
gomery county.
Mr. Sorrells is
the new mem-
ber of the ex-
ecutive commit-
tee from the
twenty-first dis-
trict. He is al-
so president of
his county live-
stock shipping
a s B o c 1 a tion.
During the an-
nual meeting he was elected
director of the Illinois Farm Bu-
reau Serum Association.

J. E. Lingenfelter, Lawrence-
ville, Lawrence county is the new
member of the
executive com-
mittee in the
twenty - t h ird
district. He is
engaged in gen-
e r a 1 farming
operations and
has always tak-
en a leading
part in move-
ments for bet-
ter farming. He

.^ . , J. E. LlnfeBfcIter

has been presi-

dent of the Lawrence County
Farm Bureau for the past four
years.

Jacob Olbrich, new committee-
man from the tenth and eleventh
districts, is a dairy farmer near
Harvard, McHenry county. Mr.
Olbrich is a leader in county farm
bureau work. He served as treas-
urer in the county association for
four years and was a member of
the I. A. A. dairy marketing com-
mittee in 1920 and 1921. Farm
Adviser A. J. Gafke says Mr.
Olbrich was the first to Join the
cow testing association, first to
raise legumes and first in all pro-
gressive moves,

Delegates Made
Three Amendments
To Constitution

The most important of three
amendments made to the I. A. A.
constitution at the annual meet-
ing is a change providing for
executive committee members to
serve two years in the place of
one.

In order to make this change
operative immediately, the amend-
ment provides that the new exec-
utive committee members from
even numbered districts serve for
two years and new committee
members from odd numbered dis-
tricts serve for one year. After
this year, all committee members
will be elected for two years,
half being elected one year and
the other half the next.

A second change was made
providing that all proposed
amendments to the constitution
be in the bands of the secretary
at least 20 days previous to
meetings of the board of dele-
gates and that the secretary sup-
ply executive committee members
and county farm bureaus with
copies of proposed amendments
at least 15 days previons to dele-
gate meetings.

The third amendment provides
that no member of the executive
committee may be a regular paid
or salaried employee of the asso-
ciation.

I. A. A. Men On Radiol

G. E. Metjwer, A. C. E:vcr-
Inffham and Robert A. Cowlra,
all well known to llllaola
farm bareau ntembera, are
■ebedoled to apeak upon the
Aiaerfcan Farm Bnreau radio
profrram from Station KYIV,
Cbifairo, wltbla the next three
weeka. Don*t forret t<i ttine
In on theae prosrama at 81OI
Tneadar alshta.

Pebrtiary S — "AnTlcnltnr*
nnder OrsanlaatloB.** by G. BS.
.Metayer. I. A. A. Direetor of
Orranisatloa, followed br V.
A. Wirt of J. I. taae Co., with
the aobjeet, "^Let the Truth be
Known aboat Farm Maehln-
ery."

Febraary 12 — ^t'a -WTiat the
Farmer Sella." by H. W. Haor.
hwune. Direetor of Reocmreh,
A. F. B. F„ and "Balanced
Production and Stable Mar-
t ctN." by A. C. Rverincham of
the I. A. A. LestoUtlve Cam-
mlttee.

Febmary 19 — **Some Baal-
neaa Aapecta of Farm Orfcaal-
satlona.** by Treaanrer R. A.
Cowlea of the I. A. A. and "The
Dairy ladoatry aad Its Rela-
tion to Pnbllc Health," by
l.onUe Fltaieerald, National
Dairy CooaelL

Vision Greater
Than Progress
0. B. Goble Says

"Greater than all the growth
In the business of producers com-
mission companies is the vision
that has opened up to the live-
stock producer as to the possi-
bilities qX having within his own
grasp the power of having some-
thing to say about the price of
his livestock," said O. B. Goble
of Charleston at the annual meet-
ing.

"It has been
proven that bis
own marketing
agency can be
run intelligent
ly, successfully
and economical-
ly under the
cooperat ive
plan. From a
spirit of doubt
and despair he
has gained a
feeling of con-
fidence and an insight into the
value of joining with his fellow
producers to work cooperatively.

Mr. Goble is Illinois Director
of the Indianapolis Producers
Commission Company.

O. B. G«ble

Harper Tells Egg
Men To Purchase
On Quality Basis

In talking before the National
Poultry, Butter and Egg Asso-
ciation in Chicago, J. D. Harper
of the I. A. A. declared that the
time has come for eggs to be
purchased on the quality basis,
just as grain, cotton and other
farm products are purchased.

"When the producer of high
quality eggs gets a premium and
the low quality producer is pen-
alized, it will mean that con-
sumers will get a much more de-
pendable egg supply, they will
eat more eggs, and the producer
will find a better market then at
present," Mr. Harper said.

During the meeting of tbe
national association, action was
taken favoring the adoption of
the government standard of
grades on terminal markets. Mr.
Harper made the point that this
action should be followed up by
introducing the grading system
at country buying points.

I REIAD EVERY WORD

"I consider the Record a great
help to farm bureau work. I read
every word of it. I think it is time
and money well spent, therefore
I say keep tbe good work going."
— Fred Dietz, Jackson county.

SERUM PURCHASING
BODY FORMED BY
COUNTY BUREAUS

Directors Chosen To Head Asso-
ciation Which Will Unify Col-
lective Buying of Serum

At a meeting of over 40 county
farm bureaus Interested in tbe
collective purchasing of serum
and virus, the Illinois Farm Bu-
reau Serum Association was
formed at Galesburg at the time
of the I. A. A. annual meeting.

R. A. Norrish, Whiteside coun-
ty, was elected president of i the
organization and chairman oC tbe
board of directors of seven. The
state was divided into six dis-
tricts and Mr. Norrish represents
the first district.

Directors Chosen

Other directors elected were,
J. H. Lloyd, Hancock county, sec-
ond district; L. P. Boyle, Put-
nam county, third district; Sam
Sorrells, Montgomery county,
fourth district; O. B. Goble,
Coles county, fifth district; and
3. W. GiUispie, Lawrence county,
sixth district. C. A. Stewart,
director of the I. A. A. Livestock
Department, was chosen as direc-
tor-at-large and secretary-treas-
urer of the new association.

Membership in the organiza-
tion is limited to county farm
bureaus or other county or state
organizations whose membership
is limited to farm bureau mem-
bers. The membership fee is
$10.00 with annual dues of the
same amount.

Collective Bargaining
The board of directors la au-
thorized to canvass members to
obtain the quantity and kind of -
serum needed and to collectively
bargain for the purchase of quan-
tity supplies needed.

Over 21,000,000 cubic centi-
meters of serum was purchased
collectively through county farm
bureaus in 1923 at a consider-
able saving to farm bureau mem-
bers. The new serum organiza-
tion puts the purchase of serum
upon a more uniform basis, uni-
'ying collective purchasing under
bne association.

Leaders of 21st
District To Meet
Four Times a Year

During their caucus at the an-
nual meeting, the I. A. A. voting
delegates of the 2l3t district de-
cided that it would be a good plan
to have quarterly meetings of
farm advisers and county execu-
tive committees. A date was set
for this group to meet with the
Macoupin County Farm Bureau,
February 15.

FINE SPIRIT SHOWN
AT ANNUAL MEETING

(Continued from page 1)
committee failed to recommend
was brought before the convention
from the floor, but failed to
pass. The resolution endorsed the
Wallace plan of a government fi-
nance corporation for handling
surplus products, charging the
cost of the corporation to the pro-
ducers of the commodity.

In other columns of this issue
complete reports of committees,
election of officers and summaries
of addresses are given.

Vohime 2

February 20, 1924

Number 4

'IAA.COMMinEE
\ ENDORSES FARMER
': RELIEF MEASURE

' McNary-Haugen Bill Is Designed

To Establish Fair Prices

For Farm Products

The executive committee at Its
meeting, Jan. 31, unanimously
carried a motion made by F. D.
Barton, Cornell, and seconded by

f' Stanley Castle, Alton, that tbe
] committee "concur In tbe resolu-
~ ' tlon passed by the American Farm
Bureau Federation at its last exec-

• utive committee meeting, endors-
!ins the intent and purpose o{ the
', McNary-Haugen bill," an emer-
■Igency relief measure designed to

'equalize tbe ratio between the sell-
ing price of farm products and

'|tbe price of what the farmer must

,'bny.

{ President S. H. Thompson, in

• Bpe«klBg tor the. bill, said, "I teel
as I never felt before that there

lis « real emergency now. There
4 is no doubt about the condition of
; agriculture. Tbe livestock farm-
er today is in a worse condition
•■ than a year ago. I don't believe
>^ in political remedies as a rule, but
this bill looks like an honest ef-
i' fort to overcome the emergency

problem.
' Compnlsory Pool

"Both livestock and wheat
. prices were limited during the
war, and it is these two commod-
ities that are in the worst condi-
■ tion now. The chief purpose of
the bill is to give a bushel of
wheat the same buying power it
' had in pre-war days. As I see it,
. the bill is a national compulsory
) pool with the whole cost of opera-
' tlon on the farmers. It is not pa-
.'ternalism, but does take care of
I the emergency."
I Vice-President C. B. Watson

(Continued on pase 4)

^l^'

1 •

Change In I. A. A.
Office Location
Being Considered

In accordance with the resolu-
tion passed at the annual meeting

that tbe executive committee give
due consideration to a change in
the location of the I. A. A. offices.
President Thompson has appointed
a committee consisting of Earl
C. Smith, Detroit, chairman;
Frank D. Barton, Cornell; and
Stanley Castle, Alton, to Investi-
gate the question thoroughly.

The committee was instructed
to report back at the next meeting
of tbe executive board on Harcb
6 and 6 with recommendations
and reasons therefore. Springfield
la tbe location tb*t U being con-
sidered.

IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY

Frazer Suggests
Co-op Accounting
To Elevator Men

Speaking at the twenty-first an-
nual convention of the Farmers
Grain Dealers Association of Illi-
nois in Peoria, February 7, George
E. Frazer, consulting accountant
for the I. A. A., suggested that
cooperative elevators form them-
selves into regional groups to car-
ry on standard accounting and to
enforce authoritative auditing.

Mr. Frazer referred to the idea
as a farmers' elevator clearing
house association. He said that
there is no reason why a farmer
should not have the same degree
of safe deposit on his grain in
elevator as on money in the bank.
The I. A. A. service of collecting
income tax refunds for cooperative
associations was explained by Mr.
Frazer.

M. F, B. F. Asks
Co-operation In
Egg Marketing

The Missouri Farm Bureau
Federation has invited Illinois
farmers to cooperate with them
in the egg marketing association
to be started with headquarters
at Hannibal.

On Feb. 5 a state meeting at
Moberly determined to organize
an egg marketing association,
the first buj-ing center to be lo-
cated at Hannibal. The new or
jganizatlon will have contracts

1923 Pool of Red
Top Seed Closed;
ly250,000 Pounds

With the exception of about a
carload which is to be kept in tbe
warehouse for sale to members
for planting purposes, the entire
red top pool of 1,250,000 pounds
has been closed out and deliveries
will probably be completed by
March 1, according to Curt An-
derson, manager of the Egyptian
Seed Growers Exchange at Flora.

Workmen have practically com-
pleted cleaning seed In the Flora
warehouse.

"The board of directors of the
exchange are well satisfied with
tbefthe pool this year and are making
plans to increase our membership
in the spring," says Mr. Ander-
son. "Results have been much
better than last year when we or-
ganized too late to take advan-
tage of the early market.

"This year's pool promises to
net our memoership a higher av-
erage than non-poolers received.
However, the average net price
cannot be stated until deliveries
are all made and our returns and
expenses are calculated,"

with its membership and will buy
on the basis of grade and qual-
ity and will pool orders and sell
at eastern markets.

J. D. Harper, in charge of egg
marketing of the I. A. A.,
was present at the meeting and
stressed tbe point of producing
a quality product.

A. F. B. F, Budget
For Year 1924
Totals $160,000

The American Farm Bureau
Federation has adopted a budget
of $160,000 for the year 1924.
This figure was made } 30,000
less than the prol>able income
for the year In order to take
care of a deficit of that'-amount
carried over from last year.

The I. A. A. executive commit-
tee agreed to advance tbe A. F.
B. F. 15,000 of 1924 dues im-
mediately to assist in the present
financial condition. Other states
are making similar advances.
President S. H. Thompson of the
I. A. A., has been appointed
chairman of the A. F. B. F. fi-
nance committee.

' i

ILLINOIS LED ALL
AS PATRON OF LIVE
STOCK CO-OPS IN '23

Grant Re-hearing
In Fruit -Vegetable
Rate Case, March 7

The Interstate Commerce Com-
mission has granted the I. A. A.
and Illinois Commerce Commlt-
sion a re-hearing in the Trult
and vegetable rate case. It wllj
be heard at 10 a. m. on March
7 at the Great Northern hotel,
Chicago. Tbe Transportation De-
partment will represent the I.
A. A.

The original proceedings were
brought by the Public Service
Commission of Indiana, attacking
the rates on fruits and vege-
tables from Illinois points to
Chicago, stating that tbe Illinois
rates are discriminatory.

Delegates From 74
Counties Attend
Limestone Meets

Seventy-four county farm bu-
reaus have been represented by
farm advisers or farm bureau
member^ at the eight limestone
meetings which have been held
this winter at the call of J. ~R.
Bent, Director of the Phosphate-
Limestone Department. Farm
advisers from 32 counties at-
tended tbe last meeting, at Ur-
bana during Farm Advisers'
week.

Mr. Bent announces that 25
delegates from these eight meet-
ings will gather at a state-wide
conference at Springfield, at a
date not yet definitely set, to
effect a program for the stand-
ardization of limestone buying
in the state on a basis that is
fair to both producers of lime-
stone and to farmers. The rela
tion of the county farm bureaus
and the I. A. A. to limestone
purchasing will also be decided,
he state*.

Shippers of State Saved $130,000

In Commissions By Selling

Cooperatively

Illinois shiptwrs consigned 17,-
431 cars or 25.2 per cent of the
livestock handled by all Prodoe-
ers agencies in the United States
in 1923, according to figures of
the National Live Stock Pro-
ducers Association. A total of
69,101 cars, 4,831,17|l head of
stock, with a gross value of
190.073,623.25, was marketed
through the 14 Produoera selling
agencies 'now operating on as
many markets.

Four other states that ranked
high as Producer patrons were
Indiana, with 14,080 cars; Iowa,
8,037 cars; Missouri, $,885 can;
and Texas, 4,58'' etre. tn^-.
meats originating in 29 stat*a
and one Canadian province were
handled by Producers acanclea
during the year.

nilnois SkTinsi

Savings in commissions to Il-
linois fanners who shipped to
Producers agencies were approxi-
mately $130,000 for the calen-
dar year, 1923. This saving in
the form of refunds 'Will come
principally from the Ckicago, E.
St. Louis, Indianapolis and Pe-
oria selling agencies. Illinois
shipments to these agencies were
as follows: Chicago, 8,147 ears;
E. St. Louis, 5,461 cars; Peoria.
2,035 cars; and Indianapolis,
1,739 cars.

Three other agencies received
shipments from the state during
1923. as follows, Evanaville, 38;
Buffalo. 9; and Cleveland, 2.

The Producers Commission
Association at Indianapolis ban-
died an average of 24 per cent
of the livestock upon that mar-
ket during 1923. Peoria han-
dled 23 per cent; E. St. Lonks,
11.7 per cent; and Chicago, 6.S
per cent. '

1928 Comparison

The first Producers agencr
opened at E. St. Louis early In
January, 1922. Six agencies, in
all, opened that year and han-
dled 18.690 cars of Urestoek
valued at $26,688,363.17. Compar-
ing these with 1923 ftgnrea, the
volume of livestock bandied by
these cooperative commission
companies increased 271 per cent
in 1923.

They l^andled 8.4 per cent of
all cars of livestock shipped to
tbe markets where they oper-
ated, as compared with 6.8 per
cent in .1922. Eight nfw acea-
|eie> opetoed in l*St.

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Past 2

CULTURAL, ASSOCl/qBN

"RECORir^V"

Published twice a month by the Illinois Agricultural
Association, 608 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, lUlnola.
Edited by Department of Information, C. L, Bilt. Director.

Entry as second class matter Oct. 10. 1921. at the post
ofBce at Chicago, Illinois, under the act ot March 3, 1879.
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage 'pro*
vided for In Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, author-
lied Oct. 31. 1931.

The Individual membership fee of th* Illinois Agricul-
tural Association Is five dollars a year. This fee InplndM
payment o( fifty centst for subscription to the IlllnoM Ag-
ricultural Association Record. ^^^^^^^

OFFICERS
' President, S. H. Thompson, Qnlncy.

Vice-President. C, B. Watson, DeKalb. I
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomington. '
Secretar}-, Geo. A. Fov, Sycamore.

EXECCnVE COMMl'ri'KE

Br Congressional Districts

11th Jacob Olbrlch, Harvard

12th G. F. Tullock, Rockford

13lh J C, E. Bamborough, Polo

14th J W. H. Moody, Port Byron

ISth I H. E. Goembel, Hoopole

16th A, R. Wright, Varna

17th F. D. Barton, Cornell

18th .! ;R- F. Karr, Iroquola

igth J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

tOth k Earl C. Smith, Detroit

2l8t Samuel Sorrelis, Raymond

82nd J Stanley Castle, Alton

23rd j.J. *. Llngentelter, Lawreneevlll*

24th Curt Anderson, Xenia

2Bth........ Vernon Letsley, Sparta

Directors ot Departments
I. A. A, Office

General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H, Kelker;
Organization, G, E. Metzger; Information, E. L. Bill;
Transportation, L. J. Quasey; Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R, A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A, B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, C. A. Stewart;
Dairy Marketing, A, D, Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R. Bent; In charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, J. D.
Harper; special representative on Tuberculosis Eradi-
cation, M, H. Petersen.

The 1924 Program

The 1924 budget recommended by the outgoing
executive committee was one of the chief subjects
of discussion at the first meeting of the new com-
mittee, January 31. It was decided to defer action
on the new budget until the next meeting, at which
time a two-day session will be held and all depart-
ment directors will present their program of work
for the year. The next meeting of the executive
committee will be held March 5 and 6.

In the meantime the departments are planning
their program of work for the year. On February
18 the departments will present their programs
to the policy committee, and the policy committee
will make definite recommendation to the executive
committee. The policy committee consists of ex-
presidents of the association. Dean Mumford of
the Agricultural College and the President and
Secretarj'.

The President and Secretary were empowered to
employ a man to head the grain marketing work
of the association by the executive committee. The
association has not had an employee to head this
work for two years.

The question of employing a man to head all
marketing work in the association was discussed
but no definite action or conclusion was reached.

ti-'i ''' No Room For Personalities

The I. A. A. has not hitched its wagon tb any
one of the cooperative marketing factions or faction
leaders. It believes that cooperative marketing is
greater than all faction leaders. It believes in
taking the worth-while suggestions and ideas of
all factions and applying them to the extent that
is possible under existing conditions in Illinois.

This statement is made because leaders have
failed to eliminate personal antipathies in the
struggle to put over their ideas.

Only a few days ago Theodore Macklin of the
University of Wisconsin in a series of lectures be-
fore Illinois tgrm advisers, dealt in personalities
in differing with some parts oiE the Sapiro program
of cooperative marketing. Other leaders and men
of influence are guilty of the same thing. The in-
cident has caused a stir in the state. There has
been mnch talk about it. That part of Mr. Mack-

The Mmoh Agricnltursl A«»ociatioB Record

Feb. ao, 1924

lin's teaching has disturbed the confidence of farm-
ers in leaders and in the whole movement.

The farm bureau wants and needs all of the
constructive arguments, fundamental differences
and suggestions that all leaders have to make. In
that way there is hope of finding the right way of
carrying out the big program of cooperative mar-
keting. There is no room for personal scraps be-
tween leaders.

To Help Poor Farmer

A new organization called the Association to
Restore Free and Unrestricted Grain Markets was
recently organized in Chicago. It is composed of
grain men, manufacturers and others and its pur-
pose is to "secure such changes in existing statutes
as will permit of normal operation with assurance
that the necessary speculative and investment
trade for carrying the farmer's surplus of grain
will not be driven from the market by restrictive
laws."

It doesn't say to fight the Capper-Tincher act,
but that is what it means.

We're For Emergency Help

The executive committee endorsed the intent and
purpose of the McNary-Haugen bill, now before
Congress, because it believes it provides a way to
overcome the emergency facing agriculture, the
low buying power of the farm dollar.

The general belief and policy of the association
is that final solution of the economic problems of
agriculture will come through self-help. It has
said that cooperative marketing holds forth more
hope than any other remedy. In general the asso-
ciation has shied at political remedies.

At this particular time the I. A. A. believes that
an emergency exists. Hard working, clear think-
ing, worthy farmers are going broke. After long
waiting and hoping a new year is here with little
relief in sight. That an emergency exists is not
disputed. The President of the United States and
banking and business interests admit it in their
eagerness to loan farmers more money.

It is pretty generally conceded that cooperative
marketing can not at once meet and cope with this
emergency. That does not mean that the market-
ing program should not go on. The loan of more
money to diversify production without better prices
in sight is not a solution for the emergency. The
McNary-Haugen bill deals directly with the prob-
lem. It designs to restore pre-war buying power
of the farm dollar. True, it will increase the price
to the consumer just as protective tariffs increase
the price of many things we purchase, but the con-
sumer will not be paying a greater portion of his
dollar for farm products than he paid before the

Fttture Taxation Program

A saving of $2,000,000 in 1923 taxes sounds big,
but, after all, organized agriculture has not much
more than scratched the surface of the taxation;
problem. One of the big opportunities ahead is to '
secure changes in the constitution and in the rev-
enue laws so that all classes of property will pay
their just share of taxes. Another opportunity is
to see to it that economy and honesty are used in
spending tax moneys.

The resolution passed by the annual meeting ex-
presses the stand of the Association on this ques-
tion. The resolution follows :

"We recommend such changes in the Constitu-
tion and revenue laws of Illinois and in their ad-
ministration as will equitably distribute the burden
of taxation upon the net income of tangible prop-
erty, intangible property, and personal service in
proportion to the ability of such property and such
persons to bear the burden.

"We deplore the issue of tax exempt securities,
as leading to extravagance in public improvements,
diverting vast sums of wealth fromiproductive in-

dustry, and by affording easy means of escape from
taxation, discourages the ownership of real estate.
We recommend, therefore, the adoption of an
amendment to the Federal Constitution at the earli-
est possible moment forbidding the further issue
of tax-free securities.

"We demand the strictest economy and honesty,
with all necessary safeguards therefor, in the ex-
penditure of public money, national, state and
knaL"

A Market All The Year Around

The milk condensary closed at Freeport the other
day and almost immediately the milk received by
the Vita Gold Dairy Products Company doubled
in volume. Quite a bit of this increased volume
came from former members of the farmers' mar-
keting company who went to the condensary last
Bummer because it was overbidding the market on
milk — to get business away from the marketing
company, it is said. Such things are common in
the lives of most co-ops.

During the last three or four months the con-
densary's price on milk dropped below that of the
farmers' company. It is reported that the con-
densary had large stocks of condensed milk on
hand, the market was low, and that the conden-
sary's headquarters in another city ordered the
Freeport plant to close. And then a large number
of the producers turned to their own company for
a market for their milk.

The condensary at Freeport provided a market
for milk just as long as there was profit in con-
densed milk for the manufacturer. Then it closed
down. The same thing happened before the mar-
keting company was started, but at that time the
producers could not turn to their own company
for a market. The lesson is that the cooperative
milk marketing company at Freeport provides milk
producers a market all the year around. It pays
what the market justifies. It manufactures and
markets dairy products in the most profitable form
that it can, depending upon seasonable conditions,
and other factors. It does not close down and
leave the farmer without a market when the
profit in manufactured milk products is not great.

V Progress of Prodadn

Cooperative commission companies operating
under the National Producers plan handled 271
per cent more cars of livestock in 1923 ihan they
did in 1922. Gross value of livestock handled in-
creased from $26,688,363.17 to $90,073,623.25.
The first selling agency opened early in January,
1922, five more opened during that year, and
eight in 1923. There are now a total of four-
teen Producers agencies in operation.

All Producers companies increased the volume
they handled On the markets where they were in
operation from 6.6 per cent in 1922 to 8.4 per
cent in 1923. This also shows growth. Then
there is also the fact that approximately $130,000
in commissions was put aside as savings for
Illinois patrons alone during the calendar year,
1923.

These facts are all encouraging.

An annual meeting speaker said that at Indi-
anapolis where the Producers Jiandled an aver-
age of 24 per cent of the total volume on the
market in 1923, the records of the market show
that violent price fluctuations from day to day
have been largely eliminated. At Peoria, where
the co-op took care of 23 per cent of the 1923
volume, the prices have more nearly approached
the Chicago level than ever before.

These are facts from markets where the farm-
ers' commission companies exert a controlling
influence. They illustrate what must be done
elsewhere. They show that the refund is not the
big thing but that increased volume of business is
absolutely necessary if the Producers selling
agencies are to wield greater influence va live-
stock markets.

X

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b. iO, 1924

{ escape from
if real estate,
ption of an
1 at the earli-
further issue

and honesty,
ir, in the ex-
1, state and

round

)ort the other
: received by
lany doubled
;ased volume
irmers' mar-
idensary last
le market on
le marketing
> common in

iths the con-
V that of the
hat the con-
sed milk on
the conden-
ordered the
arge number
company for

ed a market
refit in con-
iien it closed
3re the mar-
liat time the
vn company
cooperative
ipovides milk
id. It pays
'actures and
)fitable form
i conditions.
; down and
: when the
is not great.

i operating
landled 271
3 .than they
handled in-
),073,623.25.
in January,
year, and
al of four-

the volume
ley were in
to 8.4 per
ivth. Then
ly $130,000
savings for
jndar year,

Feb. 20, 1924

The lIKnoi* Agricultural Auociation Reeord

It

at at Indi-

d an aver-
ime on the
arket show
lay to day
Dria, where
f the 1923
approached

I the farm-
controlling
it be done
is not the
business is
3rs selling
se on Uvs-

Protection Against Purchase of T, B.

Cattle Insured By New Agreement

A o&lform selline contract has
been made between the Illinois
Agricultural Association and the
JetTerson county (Wis.) Holsteln-
Frieslan Breeders' Association to
regulate the sale of grade and
pure bred dairy cattle between
members ot the two organisa-
tions. This action is declared by
I. A. A. officials to be the most
important step that has ever been
talien by the association to In-
sure farm bureau members that
they are purchasing tuberculosis-
free cattle.

This agreement, which has
been signed by President Thomp-
son and Secretary Fox, is the
first one of its kind to be made
in the United States. The I. A.
A. plans to make similar agree-
ments with breed associations,
county farm bureaus, and other
farm organizations in Wisconsin
and other states which have
dairy cattle for sale and are look-
ing, tor a m-jket in Illinois.

What Led Up To It

i Last fall, farm bureau mem-
bers asked the I. A. A. to en-
gage actively in the tuberculosis
eradication program. They

charged that unscrupulous cattle
dealers were unlawfully bringing
tuberculous dairy cattle into the
state and thus were nullifying
the eradication program.

The I. A. A. immediately of-
fered a reward of |100, to be'
matched by individual counties
for the first arrest and convic-
tion of a bootlegger of tuber-
culous cattle within the county.
M. H. Petersen of Lake county,
was employed to take charge of
the work under the direction of
the Livestock and Dairy depart-
ments. -

Since that time, much help
has been given to counties in
their campaigns to secure county
appropriations and everything
possible has been done to en-
courage testing. Now comes this
first sale agreement to protect
farm bureau members from the
purchase of diseased animals.

Provisloiu of Agreement
The sale contract made by the
I. A. A. with the Jefferson county
association is an agreement en-
tered into betweeii the buyer and
the seller, fulfillment of the buy-
er's part being guaranteed by
the I. A. A., and that of the
seller by his local bank.

Tlie seller agrees to refund to
the buyer the purchase price of
any animal which may react to
the tuberculin test within a des-
ignated period, less the salvage
obtained by the buyer, providing
that the seller is furnished with
an affidavit signed by a qualified
veterinarian, stating the results
of the' test and also with a state-
ment from the commission firm
showing the amount received
from the sale ot the carcass.

Smitsry Qiurters

The buyer agrees to keep ani-
mals purchased in sanitary qiiar-
ters and in a herd which the
county veterinarian, working un-
der the federal and state tuber-
culin testing plan, guarantees is
reasonably free from tubercu-
losis. The premises to which
the animals are taken must have
been properly cleaned and disin-
fected since a reactor was found.

The buyer also agrees to no-
tify the seller 16 days before the
retest Is made and allow him the

privilege of having his veteri-
narian present during the retest.
Demand Increasing
"This contract is especially
timely now that niinols has en-
tered into such an extensive tu-
berculosis eradication program,"

berculous cattle within the coun-
ty. A totat of 39 counties have
county veterinarians now in their
employ testing under the area
plan. Seven other counties have
made appropriations for the hire
of a county veterinarian. Twen-

4 COUNTfES WITH

^ ARC* VCTCRlNARIAN^

^ COUNnC* WMlOM-MAVa
9 MADC APPROPfVXTigfM
? POA AHiA WORK

INOAOTWITV

Progress of Tuberculosis Eradication in
Illinois to February 15, 1924

states M. H. Petersen, special
I. A. A. representative in charge
of T. B. work. "Even if the
cattle dealer system had been
satisfactory in the past, it could
not operate successfully with the
large number of cattle that must
be imported to replace reactors.

"In 1922, government figures
show that over 12,000 dairy cat-
tle were brought into the state
from Wisconsin alone. That was
before testing had become very
extensive in the state. For in-
stance, in November, 1922, 485
reactors were tested out of Il-
linois herds. In November, 1923,
the number was 1,B79. Corre-
sponding figures for December
for the two years were 425 and
1,222."

The number of reactors is in-
creasing every month, Mr. Peter-
sen declares, and farm bureau
members must be protected
when they replace these animals.
That is the big reason for the
new selling agreement.

Many Cioantles Testing

It is estimated that at least
25 counties have embarked upon
a tuberculosis eradication pro-
gram since the I. A. A. actively
entered Into the work last No-
vember. At this writing, 75 of
the 102 counties in the state are
either testing or preparing for
It.

Fourteen counties have dupli-
cated the I. A. A. reward offer
of »100 for the first arrest and
convlctioB of bootleggers of tu-

ty-nine counties are engaged In
campaigns to secure appropria-
tions from their boards of super-
visors for hiring veterinarians.
Connty Progress .

Edgar county has completed
its second test of all cattle in
the county and is expected to be
placed on the federal-accredited
list of disease-free counties in
the near future. It is required
that less than one-half of one
per cent of all cattle in a county
react to the tuberculin test in
order to be placed on the federal
list.

Mercer county finished its first
test in December, and Champaign
and McLean counties are now
planning a drive to finish their
first tests.

Clair Hay Chosen
Head of Illinois
Advisers^ Ass^n

Clair Hay, farm adviser of
Christian county, was elected pres-
ident of the Illinois State Farm
Advisers' Association at their
meeting in Urbana. Other officers
chosen were, J. Franklin Hedge-
cock, Will county, vice-president;
L. S. Griffith, Lee county, secre-
tary; and F. A. Fisher, Wabash
connty, treasurer.

Members on the advisers' execu-
tive board are Harrison Fahrn-
kopf, McLean county; E. W. Rusk,
Macoupin county; and 3. H. Lloyd,
Hancock cou&tjr.

Dairy Committee
Chairman Active
Farm Bureau Man

Jacob Olbrich, whose picture
arrived too late to be included
with the other
new members of
the committee
jin'the Jan. 5 is-
ine of the Rec-
ord, is the new
committeeman
from the tenth
,nd eleventh dis-
tricts. Mr. (H-
brlch, who was
also recently ap-
pointed chair-
man ot the I. A.
A. dairy committee, is a dairy
farmer near Harvard, McHeory
county, and a leader in county
farm bureau work. He served
as treasurer in the county as-
sociation for four years and was
a member of the I. A. A. dairy
marketing committee in 1120
and 1921.

Jaesb Olbrick

■I-

Adams Co. Farmers
Sold $1,766,676.21
Thru Co-Operatives

A gross business totalling ap-
proximately II, 7$$, £76. 21 was
handled by livestock, dairj*, fruit
and vegetable, and grain cooper-
ative organizations in Adams
county in 1923, according to
Farm Adviiser Ray E. Miller.

The Adams County Shippers'
Association did the largest busi-
ness, selling 689 cars of live-
stock with a gross value of |9S9,-
068.55. This is one of the larg-
est shipping associations in the
United SUtes;

Farmers' elevators did the fol-
lowing business: Ursa, 1262,-
623.59; Chatten, 1182,920.78;
and La Prairie, $80,000. The
Western Illinois Fruit Exchange
sold 185 ears of fruits and vege-
tables with a gross value of ap-
proximately $100,000. The
Quincy Cooperative Milk Produc-
ers Association had total sales
for the yeai* of $182,063.29, pro-
ducer members getting 53 per
cent of the consumer's dollar on
the average.

j

Conference Names
Curt Anderson On
Executive Body

Curt Anderson, executive com-
mittee member from the 24th
district, was elected to the ex-
ecutive committee of the Na-
tional Council of Cooperative As-
sociations in Washington, Feb-
ruary 8. Mr. Anderson was del-
egated by the executive commit-
tee to represent the I. A. A. at
the meeting.

Walton Peteet, former director
of cooperative marketing for the
A. F. B. F., was employed as
secretary for the National Coop-
erative Council. It was deter-
mined that the major laork of
the organization this year would
be in assisting the Wheat Ad-
visory committee in organizing
a nation^ pool. The organiza-
tion will be financed by a 5 cent
membership fee from the mem-
bers of cooperative marketing as-
sociations. The plan Is to col-
lect this membership fee from
the marketing organizations
rather than from individuals.
Secretary Peteet will have his
oSee in Ohleaso.

COMMITTEE HEADS
OF LA A. NAMED
BY PRES. THOMPSON

Frank Barton Is Chairman of Both

Finance and Legislative Groups;

Special Committees

President S. H. Thompson an-
nounced, in part, the personnel
of the 1724 standing commit-
tees for the association at the
January 31 meeting ' of the ex-
ecutive committee In the Chleaco
office.

Members of the fknanee eom-
mittee are Frank D. Barton, Cor-
nell, chairman; Earl C. Smith,
Detroit; and W. H. Uoody. Port
Byron. Mr. Barton U also chair-
man of the legislatitve commit-
tee. The other members are
H. E. Goembel, Hooppole, and
A. C. Everingham, HutsonvlUe.

The various departmental com-
mltteee of the I. A. A. are bead-
ed as firilows: dairy marketing,
Jacob Olbrich, Harvard; livestock
marketing, G. F. Tullock, Rock-
ford; poultry and egg marketing,
C. E. BambOrough, Polo; fruit
and vegetable marketing. Curt
Anderson, Xenia; 'grain market-
ing, H. E. Goembel, Hooppole;
information, R. F. Karr. Iro-
quois; organization. Earl C.
-Smith, Detroit; limestone-phoe-
phate, Stanley Castle. Alton.

Two special committees were
named, one on schools headed
by J. L. Whisnand, Charleston;
and the other on insurance with
C. B. Watson, DeKalb, chair-
man.

Other members ot these com-
mittees will be announced at
the March 6 meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee. {

I. A. A. Represented
By J. C. Watson At
Washington Meet

The I. A. A. was represented
by John C. Watson in a confer-
ence at Washington, February
8, at which the crop reporting
service of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture was dis-
cussed.

Mr. Watson took part in the
conference at the request of Sec-
retary of Agriculture Wallaoe.
He states that it ie generally
recognized that there are many
shortcomings and flaws in the
present crop reporting servtoe.
and because this service is the
chief source of information, it Is
important that tl)e information
be accurate and reliable.

New Live Stock
Schedule On Rock
Island Railroad

Beginning February 18, 1924,
a new C. R. I. ft T. train for
livestock shipments to the Chi-
cago market will leave Galva at
12 o'clock noon on Mondas's and
Wednesdays and will make pick-
ups at intermediate points be-
tween Galva and Peoria. It will
make connections with M. * St.
L. trains coming into Peoria,
leaving there at 5 p. m., making
pick-ups between Peoria and^^n*- —
rean and arriving in Chicago at
S a. m. on Tuesdays and Thnra-
days. This schedule Is only tem-
porary, but if the business wai^
rants it. the train wBl be mala- .
tatned in the fatare^

^SB.

"n*

DeWin FARMERS
6ET BIG RETURNS
FROM INVESTMENT

Over ^,400 Saved In Land Taxes

In Two Years of Tax Work

By Farm Bureau

Ficarea talk and the larger they
are the louder they talk. That's
what the DeWitt County Farm Bo^
reaui thinks. Figures taken from
the tax books of DeWitt county
■hoi4 that land owners in that
eounty will pay 183,403.81 less
land taxes for 1923 than they
did for 1922. Bat that's only
part of the story.

The reduction in land Taluations
for state tax purposes in 1922 se-
cured by the I. A. A. through its
appearance before the Illinois Tax
Commission clipped |3,0g3.Sl
from DeWitt county land taxes
that year. Adding 1922 and 1923
reductions, the total is )86,4eT.42,
which is eqnlTalent to 37.4 cents
per acre or $63.43 per farm, says
Farm Adviser O. M. Allyn of De-
I (■ i Witt county.

Balance over $81,000

"Since its incepttoa six years
axo, the DeWnt County Farm Bu-
reau, the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation and the American Farm
Bureau Federation has cost De-
Witt county farmers $35,097.65,"
states Ur. Allyn. "Subtracting
this from the amount saved in
1922 and 1923 taxes, it leaves a
balance of $51,369.87, together
with all the other service rendered
In a hundred different ways."

During 1923 the DeWitt County
Farm Bureau made an investiga-
1^' tioa of land tax conditions in the
li county under the same plan that
the I. A. A. Taxation Department
directed investigations in 66 other
counties. Inequalities were found
showiDB that farm land was val-
ued too high for tax purposes. The
facts And figures were presented
to the county board of review and
the reduction, as stated,^ was se-
enred,
f Who Presented Case?

"astne farmers will tell you that
the farm bureau didn't have any-
thing to do with the reduction of
taxes on farm lands and that they
would have been reduced any-
way," says Mr. Allyn. "Simply
.Mk them who presented the fann-
ers' ease before the local board
of review. Ask them who fought
the farmers' case before the state
tax commission."

Agri,

•e To Ship
Livestock Thru
Marketing Ass^ns

Three cooperative shipping as-
sociations have recently adopted
a membership agreement which
calls for the shipment of all live-
stock through the association,
reports 0. A. Stewart of the
Ltrestock Marketing department.

liSwrence county has organ-
ised a county association under
this plan and local OEganizations
at Sycamore and Roekford have
both reorganixed and adopted the
membership agreement. Mr.
Stewart says that the annual
meetings of shipping associations
are attended better and more in-
terest la belnc sho^n than ever

$10,000 MORE SEC'UUITIKS

In January an additional $10,-
000 wu Invested in Government
seevritles, making a total of
<ISO.0O0 la the I. A. A. reaerre

tOBd.

Ohio Is In Same
Boat On Problem
Of Land Values

After speaking at the annual
meeting of the Ohio Farm Bu-
reau Federation, John C. Wat-
son of the I. A. A., made an In-
vestigation of valuations for tax
purposes in Wyandot eounty and
found that Ohio farmers have
the same problems we are con-
fronted with.

Making the investigation the
same as has been carried on In
a large number of counties of
Illinois, Mr. Watson found that
farm land In Wyandot county is
valued at 93 per cent of the ac-
tual sales values, while town
and city lots carry a valuation
of only 72 per cent of their ao-
tnal sales values.

ENDORSES FARM
RELIEF MEASURE

(Contlnned from pace 1)
said, "We have protective tariffs
for industry and immigration laws
to protect labor. This bill Is de-
signed to protect the farmer."
Beadjnst TarilT

The McNary-Haugen bill applies
only to commodities of which
there is an exportable surplus, and
on which the market price Is be-
low the ratio based on pre-war
prices. Since domestic prices can-
not be sustained without a pro-
hibitory tariff, the bill gives fuller
power to the President and the
commission provided for, to make
tariff readjustments with regard
to any commodity which . It has
been found necessary to protect.
The commission also has special
power to "collect and disseminate
information concerning the supply
and demand for agricultural com-
modities throughout the world. In-
cluding the conditions affecting
such commodities, and to advise
producers as to acreage or quan-
tities that it may appear wise to
produce."

Two Bodies Provided For

The United States Agricultural
Ebn>ort Commission and the Agri-
cultural Elxport Corporation, the
two bodies to be created by the
bill to determine the existence and
nature of emergencies and to ar-
rive at what should be fair prices
for farm products, would be main-
tained for ten years. At the end
of that time many of their powers
would be transferred to the Secre-
tary of Agriculture.

Regarding the question of co-
operative marketing being affected
by the McNary-Haugen bill, Mr.
Thompson stated that he believed
it would open up the way if it
demonstrated the idea is right,
and would be of assistance to co-
operatives handling those com-
modities affected by export sur-
plus.

Speed Settlement
When I. A. A. Acted

Three flres in one summer, and
no damage settlement! Pretty
poor — so thought George E. Kite,
of Clark county, after trying vain-
ly for a year to collect from the
railroad that started the fires on
his farm.

Then, in October, 1923, he
wrote to the Transportation De-
partment of the I. A. A., asking
what could be done about the mat-
ter. A letter from the depart-
ment to the claim agent of the
railroad brought prompt action,
and In January- Mr. Kite was
granted a satisfactory settlement.

THE FIRST STEP IN MARKETING

Constitution Approved For
Bureau Baseball League

Illinois county farm bureaus
are "ready to go" for an organ-
ised program of baseball games.
The constitution of the Illinois
Farm Bureau Baseball League,
drawn up by a committee head-
ed by Farm Adviser R. W. Dick-
enson, Cass county, was ap-
proved by farm advisers inter-
ested at Farm Advisers' Week
at the University of Illinois. Mr.
Dickenson will meet with the I.
A. A. executive committee on
March 6 to officially present the
project to the association.

The constitution provides that
any farm, bureau member or
member of a farm bureau fam-
ily whose principal dependence
is on the farm, shall be eligible
to play in the league, providing
that the farm bureau member-
ship shall be contracted for In
the customary way.

Managemesit

Management in the league Is
to be vested In an executive
committee, elected tor one year,
consisting of three men, a presi-
dent, .vice-president and secre-
tary-treasurer. The secretary-
treasurer will be appointed by
the I. A. A. executive committee,
and the president and vice-presi-
dent will be elected by the board
of directors, to consist of one
director from each farm bureau
Joining the league.

Each farm bureau team must
bear its own expenses In the
league and any money received
at games through collection, con-
cessions or otherwise is to be
equally divided between playing
teams at any game.

May District State

The executive committee of
the baseball league will district
the state when enough counties
Join, with district directors.
Games will probably be sched-
uled for championship of bu-
reaus within the districts and
then between districts, the final
game being for the state cham-
pionship.

According to the constitution,
no games shall be played on
Sunday.

Fee for membership In the
league is $10.00, which should
accompany the appUeatlon of •

farm bureau for membership.
Mr. Dickenson, as chairman of
the league steering committee,
requests that applications for
membership be sent to him until
officials are selected.

Cass First to Apply

Cass eounty was the first
county to apply for membership
In the league, action having been
taken at the meetinx of the farm
bureau executive committee on
February 4. George R. Cllne, who
has managed the Cass County
Farm Bureau Baseball Team for
the past two years, was appoint-
ed director from that county.

Macoupin, Logan and Sanga-
mon counties were also active in
starting to organize the league,
and Morgan, Scott, Pike, Mason,
Menard, and Brown counties are
among those who may Join be-
fore spring, as they have shown
interest in it.

Carl Lundgren, varsity base-
ball coach at the University of
Illinois, gave help to the organ-
izers of the league and (he Ex-
tension Department has given- its
approval of the plan as an asset
to the morale an4 spirit of farm
bureau work.

''Illinr Brand of
Butter To Be Sold
By Ill-Mo Company

The "IlUnl" brand of butter
will be put on the market within a
short time by the Ill-Mo Dairy
Company at E. St. Louis, accord-
ing to an announcement from the
concern. The Ill-Mo company was
recently organized with a capital
stock of $16,000 in order to han-
dle the cream business at the
plant of the IlUnois-Uisaouri Co-
operstlre Milk Marketing Com-
pany.

This company started to bny
cream on January 1, and its busi-
ness has been growing nicely since
then. A. E. Richardson, who is
managing the affairs of the com-
pany, announces that the company
is giving accurate weight and test,
prompt payment for cream, and
pays exactly what the market will
permit "A dependable market for
cream shippers aU the year

ftfc-*-'***

TEN HATCHERIES
MAY SELL CHICKS
WITH STATE LABELS

Brttef PouKiy Plen Well Under

Mby; Day Says Public Is

Judge of nan

Tea hatcheries la nUaois Iwt«
met the requirements to sell baby
chicks under the state-accredited
hatchery plan which the I. A. A.
was Instrumental In starting in
1923. They may use state labels
on all shipments of chicks which
they sell. The following is the
list' furnished by the DiTisloa of
Standardization and Maricets of
the State Department of Afrieul-
tute:

Walnut Ridge Hatchery, Mrs.
Dorothea Rainey, Butler; Stouffer
Egg Farm, W. B. Stouffer, Mt.
Morris; O. B. Utech Hatchery, Mr.
0. B. Utech, New Holland; Rock
River Hatchery, Mr. F. W. Reu-
bensaal^ Mgr., Rookford; Metsger
Hatchery, Mr. Alvin P. Hetxger,
Roekford; Chestnut Hatchery,
Chestnut; Lake Fork Farm Hatch-
ery, Linn O. Rau, Kenney; Oolden
Buff Hatchery, Mr. L. A. Werlieb,
Lincoln; Jones * Howard, Arundel
Farm, Heyworth; Mr. George D.
Butcher, Wenona.

H. W. Day, Supervising Inspeo-
tor of the Division of Standardiza-
tion and Markets, says, "The chick
buying public will be the Judge of
the accredited hatchery plan. Oi>-
ponents to our plan have stated
that people do not care for accred-
ited chicks. It remains for the
public to prove or disprove this
argument Already several of tlie
accredited hatcheries have sold
their entire output for this ae»-
son."

According to Mr. Day, a number
of large hatcheries could not get
their flocks In shape tor Inspection
for this season but have stated
that they want to start early next
fall and get on the accredited list
In addition to the flocks inspected
for the hatcheries, the division
has a reserve list of approximately
SO flocks which have been li>-
spected and which will sell hatch-
ing eggs. This list may be secured
upon application to the offiee at
Springfield.

Pay Full Rates
When Shipping In
Single-Deck Cars

The Transportation Depart-
ment advises that when a rail-
road is unable to famish double-
deck cars for the loading of
livestock at country points, and
two single-deck cars are fui^
niahed instead, the shipper is re-
quired to pay charges on the
basis of each single-deck car
used. The information frequent-
ly given by agents at country
points that the double-deck rate
applies when two singles are
furnished is not accurate. Six
days is usually required in ob-
taining a ear, and if a double-
deck is not furnished, the ship-
per may expect to pay for each
single deck he uses.

around" is the aim a(t the eom-
pany. \

It is the plan of the manacs-
ment to build up a market tor the
"IlUnl" brand quality butter in
the St. Louis territory, instead of
shipping it at a distance. Profits
from the cream business will go
toward paying the debts of the old
marketing company, released from
baakraptey ls«t tall.

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Number 5

21st DISTRICT
TAKES A HAND
IN I. A. A. WORK

First Meeting of Series Asks Action

On McNary-Haugen Bill;

Want Office Removed

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A meeting of county farm bu-
reau officers and - farm advisers
of the 21st district at Carlinville,
February 15, asked the I. A. A.
to send a committee of three
men to Washington to support
the McNary-Haugen bill, went on
record favoring the removal of
the I. A. A. offices to Springfield
and set forth their reasons in a
resolution to the I. A. A., and
asked that a survey of the radio
field be made with the idea of
finding out how the farm bureau
ran make use of this medium.
' You will remember that the
annual meeting at Galesburg ex-
pressed the desire that executire
committer members of the I. A.
A. meet with leaders of their
districts several times a year so
that committeemen could become
better acquainted with the needs
of the district and the district
could know more about the work
of the I. A. A.

First Meeting of Its Kind

The Carlinville meeting was
the first of four similar ^leetings
to be held during the year by the
2l8t district. In fact it is the
first time that the district has
met with their I. A. A. commit-
teeman. It was decided that the
next meeting will be held at
HiUsboro on April 24.

The presidents, farm advisers
and a group of county commit-
teemen were present from each
of the four counties in the dis-
trict. The whole group took the
attitude that the I. A. A. is their
I. A. A., that they were responsi-
ble for its success or failure as
far as the district was con-
cerned. "We must take a part
la the work of the I. A. A." said
H. J. Schultz, president of the
Macoupin County Farm Bureau,
who was chosen chairman of the
meeting. "We are not doing our
duty if we don't take a hand.
We must tell Mr. Sorrells, our
committeeman, what the district
wants and needs."

Ask Office Removal

A long resolution directed to
the I. A. A. executive committee
set forth the reasons for moving
the offices to Springfield. In the
discussion of the McNary-Haugen
bill it was stated that if the bill
Is worth the endorsement of the
I. A. A. it is worth working for.

It was decided that the grain
marketing question will be the
Chief subject of discussion at the
next mieting.

Broom Corn Men
Start Campaign
For Membership

A meeting of the organization
committee of the Illinois Broom
Corn Growers Cooperative Asso-
ciation held at Mattoon on Feb-
ruary 20, determined to go for-
ward on a membership campaign
in March.

The I. A. A. Organization de-
partment will assist in the or-
ganization work and the Depart-
ment of Information will help in
carrying on publicity. In order
to make the membership agree-
ment effective, 75 per cent of the
growers of the district must be
members of the association by
April first. The total number of
growers In the district is esti-
mated at about 1,000.

/. A. A. To Fight
For McNary Bill
At Washington

"I'm ready to go to the mat on
the McNary-Haugen bill," safd
President S. H. Thompson as be
left for Washington. "They are
having a good time down there
passing the buck on relief for
agriculture. I am going down
to find out the situation oa this
bill." ,

Mr. Thompson has suggested
to Gray Silver, Washington repre-
sentative of the American Farm
Bureau Federation, that a meet-
ing of presidents and secretaries
of mid-west farm bureaus and
others interested in relief legisla-
tion be called to promote the
McNary bill. He believes that
an organization should be formed
to promote the bill, each state
having a representative in Wash-
ington to assist in a campaign.
The first job, says Mr. 'Thompson,
Is get the bill on Ihe calendar.

Sentiment Grows
For McNary Bill,
Committee Says

The I. Ah A. Legislative com-
mittee meeting at the office Feb-
ruary 25 endorsed President
Thompson's action in going to
Washington to support the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill.

In a report of their meeting to
President Thompson, *he commit-
tee states, "We find a growing and
rather insistent demand on the
part of the members for the asso-
ciation to take some definite steps
toward securing favorable action
on the McNary-Haugen bill. We
have unanimously decided that a
representative of this association
should go to Washington to fol-
low this and other relief leglsla-
UoB."

Nine Schools Thresh Out
Shipping Ass'n Problems

Bookkeeping, claim prevention
and protection, best form of or-
ganization, publicity, farm bureau
relation and terminal commis-
sion companies were some of the
subjects of discussion at the nine
cooperative livestock shipping as-
sociation schools conducted by
the University Extension division
and the I. A. A.

Here is a little glimpse of
what happened at the Springfield
meeting. There were 50 present
at the school, 19 managers. The
boys said it was a fair sample
of the other schools.

Bookkeeping

"You can't be sure you are
efficient unless you have a good
bookkeeping system," said V.
Vaniman of the University, He
exhibited and explained large
charts showing a system of keep-
ing records. The I. A. A. has
the loose-leaf book forms for sale
at cost.

"The aim of the shipping as-
sociation is to get the greatest
return possible to the producer,
but you can't tell when you are
doing that unless you have the
facts and figures. You should
keep records if for no other rea-
son than for self-protection. If
you don't you have no comeback
when some one questions your ac-

tions. Accounting is the founda-
tion of business."

Transportation Problems

"You must, have facts to hitch
to when making a claim," L. J.
Quasey of the L A. A. said. "To
protect your rights count the
stock as it goes into the car.
Your count must be as good as
that of the railroad when it
comes to settling claims. A post
card or some other manner of
verifying your car order when
made over the phone, is good
protection. If you OTerload, yoar
case will be hurt if you have a
loss.

"You have grounds for a claim
if stock is delayed on the road
to market. With certain excep-
tions the railroad is responsible
for delivery in as good a condi-
tion as received. If you think
rates arc out of line, send the in-
formation to some reliable' agen-
cy or to us. If you continually
get cars with several inches of
bedding in them, fet us know
and we will try to straighten the
matter out." ■ H

Pablicltr *

We can tell our story to a
large audience through the news-
papers by furnishing them with
the news that we have, said E. T.
Hobbins of the University, wiio
was chairman of the meeting.
(Continued on pace 4)

AHEMPT IS MADE
TO CURB ACTIVITIES
OF LIVESTOCK CO-OPS

Amendment To Packer- Stockyards

Act Would Harm Producers

Greatly-Stewart

An attempt on the pairt of in-
terests Inimical to cooperatlTe
livestock marketing wfhlch, if
passed, would make it Very diffl-
cult for cooperative commission
companies to operate a« hereto-
fore is seen in H. R. 59^4, a pro-
posed amendment to th« Packers
and Stockyards act. I^ was in-
troduced by Coagressntab Thomas
S. Williams, Louisville. !24th dis-
trict of Illinois, and has been re-
ferred to the House Committee
on Agriculture.

The House committee was
scheduled to take up the amend-
ment on February 28. President
John Brown and other represent-
atives of the National Live Stock
Producers Association a|nd Presi-
dent Thompson of the ; I. A. A.
went to Washington tlo appear
against the amendmentJ

Would Work Great 1 1
"Several sections | of this
amendment wvuld wQrk great
harm to cooperative |narketing
of livestock," declar«to C. A.
Stewart, Director of Livestock
Marketing for the I. A. A. "For
instance, one section makes it
unlawful for cooperative commis-
sion companies to hlmdle the
livecloCk of anyone ^xoept its
own* members.

"Another provision states that
each memt>er of a oooperatire
association of livestock produc-
ers must bind Jiimself by written
agreement to assume, .«s an obli-
gation of membership, the re-
sponsibilities of such a^ociations.
The same provision w«uld apply
to a shipping associatidn member
of a cooperative commission com-
pany, and, in addition, fvery ship-
ping association must flle a decla-
ration with the Secretkry of .Ag-
riculture that each of' its mem-
bers has consented tt member-
ship in the cooperatlije commis-
sion association.'

DeOnitioii of Cc-op.

The amendment would define a
cooperative

of livf
association

association
stock producers as an
'entirely composted of ind wholh
managed and controlled by pro
ducers of livestork

This might be tak< n to mean
that even the manager of a Pro
ducers selling agency rould iiave
to be a livestock prodi cer," states
Mr. Stewart.

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The Dlinob Agricuhnral Awodrtion Recotd

FA. 20. 1924

DeWin FARMERS
GET BIG RETURNS
FROM INVESTMENT

Over $86,400 Saved In Land Taxes

In Two Years of Tax Work

By Farm Bureau

Fisurea talk and the larger they
are the louder they talk. That's
what the DeWitt County Farm Bu-
reau thinks. Figures taken from
the tax books of DeWitt county
show that land owners in that
county will pay $83,403.81 lew
land taxes for 1923 than they
did for 1922. But that's only
part of the story.

The reduction in land valuations
for state tax purposes in 1922 se-
cured by the I. A. A. through its
appearance before the Illinois Tax
Commission clipped $3,063.61
from DeWitt county land taxes
that irear. Adding 1922 and 1923
reductions, the total is $86,467.42,
which is equlTaient to 37.4 cenU
per acre or $63.43 per farm, says
Farm Adviser O. M. AUyn of De-
Witt county.

Balance over $Sl,00O

"Since its inception six years
ago, the DeWitt County Farm Bu-
reau, the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation and the American Farm
Bureau Federation has cost De-
Witt county farmers $35,097.55,"
states Mr. AUyn. "Subtracting
this from the amount saved in
1932 and 1923 taxes. It leaves a
balaoce of $51,369.87, together
with all the other service rendered
In a hundred different ways."

During 1923 the DeWitt County
Farm Bureau made an investiga-
tion of land tax conditions in the
county under the same plan that
the I. A. A. Taxation Department
directed investigations in 56 other
counties. Inequalities were found
showing that farm land was val-
ued too high for tax purposes. The
(acts and figures were presented
to the county board of review and
the reduction, as stated, was se-
cured.

Who Presented Case?

"Some farmers will tell you that
the farm bureau didn't have any-
thing to do with the reduction of
taxes on farm lands and that they
would have been reduced any-
way," says Mr. AUyn. "Simply
ask them wno presented the farm-
ers' case before the local board
of review. Ask them who fought
the farmers' f*ae before the state
tax commission."

Agrke To Ship
Livestock Thru
i Marketing Assorts

Three cooperative shipping as-
sociations have recently adopted
a membership agreement which
calls for the shipment of all live-
stock through the association,
reports C. A. Stewart of the
Livestock Marketing Department.

Lawrence county has organ-
ised a county association under
this plan and local organizations
at Sycamore and Rockford have
both reorganized and adopted the
membership agreement. Mr.

Stewart says that the annual
meetings of shipping associations
are attended better and more In-
terest Is being shown than ever
before.

910,000 MORE SECUUITUJS

In January an additional $10,-
000 was invested in Government
securities, making ' a total < of
$130,000 in the I. A. A. reserve
fond.

Ohio Is In Same

Boat On Problem
I :r Of Land Values

After siwaklng at the annual
meeting of the Ohio Farm Bu-
reau Federation, John C. Wat-
son of the I. A. A., made an in-
vestigation of valuations for tax
purposes in Wyandot county and
found that Ohio farmers have
the same problems we are con-
fronted with.

Making the investigation the
same as has been carried on In
a large number of counties of
Illinois. Mr. Watson found that
farm land in Wyandot county is
valued at 93 per cent of the ac-
tual sales values, while town
and city lots carry a valuation
of only 72 per cent- of their ac-
tual sales values.

ENDORSES FARM
RELIEF MEASURE

(Continued from pace I>
said, "We have protective tariffs
for industry and immigration laws
to protect labor. This bill is de-
signed to protect the farmer."
-Readjost Tariff

The McNary-Haugen bill applies
only to commodities of which
there is an exportable surplus, and
on which the market price is be-
low the ratio based on pre-war
prices. Since domestic prices can-
not be sustained without a pro-
hibitory tariff, the bill gives fuller
power to the President and the
commission provided for, to make
tariff readjustments with regard
to any commodity which It has
been found necessary to protect.
The commission also has special
power to "collect and disseminate
information concerning the supply
and demand for agricultural com-
modities throughout the world, in-
cluding the conditions affecting
such commodities, and to advise
producers as to acreage or quan-
tities that it may appear wise to
produce."

Two Bodies Pr{>vided For

The United States Agricultural
B^port Commission and the Agri-
cultural Export Corporation, the
two bodies to be created by the
bill to determine the existence and
nature of emergencies and to ar-
rive at what should be fair prices
for farm products, would be main-
tained for ten years. At the end
of that time many of their powers
would be transferred to the Secre-
tary of Agriculture.

Regarding the question of co-
operative marketing being affected
by the McNary-Haugen bill, Mr.
Thompson stated that he believed
It would open up the way If It
demonstrated the idea is right,
and would be of assistance to co-
operatives handling those com-
modities affected by export sur-
plus.

Speed Settlement

When I. A. A. Acted

Three fires In one summer, and
no damage settlement! Pretty
poori — so thought George E. Kite,
of Clark county, after trying vain-
ly for a year to collect from the
railroad that started the fires on
his farm.

Theii, in October, 1923, be
wrote to the Transpo^ation De-
partment of the I. A. A., asking
what could be done about the mat-
ter. A letter from the depart-
ment to the claim agent of the
railroad brought prompt action,
and In January Mr. Kite was
granted a satisfactory settlement.

THE FIRST STEP IN MARKETING

Constitution Approved For
Bureau Baseball League

Illinois county farm bureaus
are "ready to go" (or an organ-
ized program of baseball games.
The constitution of the Illinois
Farm Bureau Baseball League,
drawn up by a committee head-
ed by Farm Adviser R. W. Dick-
enson, Cass county, v^as ai>-
proved by farm advisers Inter-
ested at Farm Advisers' Week
at the University of Illinois. Mr.
Dickenson wiU meet with the I.
A. A. executive committee on
March 6 to officially present the
project to the association.

The constitution provides that
any farm bureau member or
member of a farm bureau fam-
ily whose principal dependence
is on the farm, shall be eligible
to play in the league, providing
that the farm bureau member-
ship shall be contracted for In
the customary way.

Management

Management In the league Is
to be vested In an executive
committee, elected tor one year,
consisting of three men. a presi-
dent, vice-president and secre-
tary-treasurer. The secretary-
treasurer will be appointed by
the I. A. A. executive committee,
and the president and vice-presi-
dent will be elected by the board
of directors, to consist of one
d^'ector from each farm bureau
joining the league.

Each farm bureau team must
bear its own expenses in the
league and any nioney received
at games through collection, con-
cessions or otherwise is to be
equally divided between playing
teams at any game.

May District State

The executive committee of
the baseball league will district
the state when enough counties
join, with district directors.
Games will probably be sched-
uled for championship of bu-
reaus within the districts and
then between districts, the final
game being for the state cham-
pionship.

According to the constitution,
no games shall be played on
Sunday.

Fee , for membership In the
league is $10.00, which should
accompany the appUeatlon of a

farm bureau for membership.
Mr. Dickenson, as chairman of
the league steering committee,
requests that applications for
membership be sent to him until
officials are selected.

Cass First to Apply

Cass county was the first
county to apply for membership
In the league, action having been
taken at the meeting of the farm
bureau executive committee on
February 4. George R. Cline. who
has managed the Cass County
Farm Bureau Baseball Team for
the past two years, was appoint-
ed director from that county.

Macoupin, Logan and Sanga-
mon counties were also active in
starting to organize the league,
and Morgan, Scott, Pike, Mason,
Menard, and Brown counties are
among those who may join be-
fore spring, as they have shown
interest in it.

Carl Lundgren, varsity base-
ball coach at the University of
Illinois, gave help to the organ-
izers of the league and the Ex-
tension Department has given- its
approval of the plan as an asset
to the morale and spirit of farm
bureau work.

''Illinr Brand of
Butter To Be Sold
By Ill-Mo Company

The "lUIni" brand of butter
will be put on the market within a
short time by the lU-Mo Dairy
Company at E. St. Louis, accord-
ing to an announcement from the
concern. The Ill-Mo company was
recently organized with a capital
stock o( $15,000 in order to han-
dle the cream business at the
plant of the Illinois-Missouri Co-
operative Milk Marketing Com-
pany.

This company started to buy
cream on January 1, and Its busi-
ness has been growing nicely since
then. A. E. Richardson, who is
managing the affairs of the com-
pany, announces that the company
Is giving accurate weight and test,
prompt payment for cream, and
pays exactly what the market will
permit. "A dependable market for
cream shipper* all the year

TEN HATCHERIES
MAY SELL CHICKS
WITH STATE LABELS

Better Poultry Plan Well Under

Way; Day Says Public Is

Judge of Plan

Ten hatcheries in IlUnola haTt
met the requirements to sell baby
chicks under the state-accredited
hatchery plan which the I. A. A.
was instrumental in starting in
1923. They may use state labels
on all shipments of chicks which
they sell. The following is the
list furnished by the Division of
Standardization and Markets o(
the State Department of Agricul-
ture:

Walnut Ridge Hatchery, Mrs.
Dorothea Ralney, Butler; Stouffer
Egg Farm, W. B. Stouffer, Mt.
Morris; O. E. Utech Hatchery, Mr.
O. E, Utech, New Holland; Rock
River Hatchery, Mr. F. W. Reu-
bensaal, Mgr., Rockford; Metxger
Hatchery, Mr. Alvln P. Hetzger,
Roekford; Chestnut Hatchery,
Chestnut; Lake Fork Farm Hatch-
ery, Linn O. Rau. Kenney; Oolden
Buff Hatchery, Mr. L. A. WerUcb,
Lincoln; Jones & Howard, Arundel
Farm, Heyworth; Mr. George D.
Butcher, Wenona.

H. W. Day, Supervising Inspec-
tor o( the Division o(-Standardlza-
tion and Markets, says, "The chick
buying public will be the Judge of
the accredited hatchery plan. Op-
ponents to our plan hAve stated
that people do not care for accred-
ited chicks. It remains (or the
public to prove or disprove this
argument. Already several o( the
accredited hatcheries have sold
their entire output (or this sea-
son."

According to Mr. Day, a number
of large hatcheries could not get
their fiocks In shape tor Inspection
for this season but have stated
that they want to start early next
fall and get on the accredited list.
In addition to the flocks Inspected
for the hatcheries, the division
has a reserve list of approximately
50 flocks which have been in-
spected and which will sell hatch-
ing eggs. This list may be secured
upon application to the office at
Springfield.

Fay Full Rates
When Shipping In
Single-Deck Cars

The Transportation Depart-
ment advises that when a rail-
road is unable to furnish double-
deck cars for the loading of
livestock at country points, and
two single-deck cars are fur-
nished instead, the shipper is re-
quired to Tfty charges on the
basis of each single-deck car
used. The information frequent-
ly given by agents at country
points that the double-deck rate
applies when two singles are
furnished is not accurate. Six
days is usually required in ob-
taining a car, and if a double-
deck is not furnished, the ship-
per may expect to pay for each
single deck he uses.

around" is the aim of the com-
pany.

It Is the plan of the manage-
ment to build up a market for the
"Illini" brand quality butter in
the St. Louis territory, instead of
shipping it at a distance. Profits
from the cream business will go
toward paying the debts of the old
marketing company, released from
bankruptcy la«t (all.

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Volume 2

March 5, 1924

Number 5

21st DISTRICT
TAKES A HAND
IN I. A. A. WORK

First Meeting of Series Asl<s Action

On IVIcNary-Haugen Bill;

Want Office Removed

A meeting of county farm bu-
reau officers and farm advisers
of the 21st district at Carlinville,
February 15, asked the I. A. A.
to send a committee of three
men to Washington to support
the McNary-Haugen bill, went on
record favoring the removal of
the 1. A. A. offices to Springfield
and set forth their reasons in a
resolution to the I. A. A., and
asked that a survey of the radio
field be made witli the idea of
finding out how the farm bureau
ran make use of this medium.

You will remember that the
annual meeting at Galesburg ex-
pressed the desire that e.^ecutlTe
committer members of the I. A.
A. meet with leaders of their
districts several times a year so
that committeemen could become
better acquainted with the needs
of the district and the district
could know more about the work
of the I. A. A.

Fir.-it Meeting of Its Kind

The Carlinville meeting was
the first of four similar meetings
to be held during the year by the
21st district. In fact it is the
first time that the district has
met with their I. A. A. coiiuuit-
teeman. It was decided that the
ne.\t meeting will be held at
Hillsboro on April 24.

The presidents, farm advisers
and a group of county commit-
teemen were present from each
of the four counties in the dis-
trict. The whole group took the
attitude that the I. A. A. is their
I. A. A., that they were responsi-
ble for its success or failure as
far as the district was con-
cerned. "We must take a part
in the work of the I. A. A." said
H. J. Schultz, president of the
Macoupin County Farm Bureau,
who was chosen chairman of the
meeting. "We are not doing our
duty if we don't take a hand.
We must tell Mr. Sorrells, our
committeeman, what the district
wants and needs."

Ask Office Hemoval

A long resolution directed to
the I. A. A. executive committee
set forth the rea.sons for movinj;
the offices to Springfield. In the
discussion of the -McNary-Haugen
bill it was stated that if the bill
is worth the endorsement of the
I. A. A. it is worth worlting for.

It was decided that the grain
marketing question will be the
Chief subject of discussion at the
next meeting.

Broom Corn Men
Start Campaign
For Membership

A meeting of tlie organization
committee of the Illinois Broom
Corn Growers Cooperative Asso-
ciation held at Mattoon on Feb-
ruary 20. determined to go for-
ward on a membership campaign
in March.

The I. A. A. Organization de-
partment will assist in the or-
ganization work and the Depart-
ment of Information will help in
carrying on publicity. In order
to make the membership agree-
ment effective, 75 per cent of the
growers of the district must be
members of the association by
April first. The total number of
growers in the district is esti-
mated at about 1,000.

/. A. A. To Fight
For McNary Bill
At Washington

"I'm ready to go to the mat on
the McNary-Haugen bill," said
President S. H. Thompson as he
left for Washington. "They are
iiaving a good time down there
passing the buck on relief for
agriculture. I am going down
to find out the situation on this
bill." ,

Mr. Thompson has suggested
to Gray Silver, Washington repre-
sentative of the American Farm
Bureau Federation, that a meet-
ing of presidents and secretaries
of mid-west farm bureaus and
others interested in relief legisla-
tion be called to promote the
McNary bill. He believes that
an organization should be formed
to promote the bill, each state
having a representative in Wash-
ington to assist in a campaign.
The first job. says Mr. Thompson,
is get the bill on the calendar.

Sentiment Grows
For McNary Bill,
Committee Says

The I. A., A. Legislative com-
mittee meeting at the office Feb-
ruary 25 endorsed President
Thompson's action in going to
Washington to support the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill.

In a report of their meeting to
President Thompson, the commit-
tee states, "We find a growing and
rather insistent demand 'on the
liart of the members for the asso-
ciation to take some definite steps
toward securing favorable action
on the McNary-Haugen bill. We
have unanimously decided that a
representative of this association
sliould go to Washington to fol-
low this and other relief legisla-
tion."

SHALL WE LET 'EM DO IT?

Nine Schools Thresh Out
Shipping Ass'n Problems

Bookkeeping, claim prevention
and protection, best form of or-
ganization, publicity, farm bureau
relation and terminal commlk-
sion companies were some of the
subjects of discussion at the nine
cooperative livestock shipping as-
sociation schools conducted by
the University Extension division
and the I. A. A.

Here is a little glimpse of
what happened at the Springfield
meeting. There were 50 present
at the school, 19 managers. The
boys said it was a fair sample
of the other schools.

Bookkeeping

"You can't be sure you are
efficient unless you have a good
bookkeeping system," said V.
Vaniman of the University. He
exhibited and explained large
charts showing a system of keep-
ing records. The I. A. A. has
the loose-leaf book forms for sale
at cost.

"The aim of the shipping as-
sociation is to get the greatest
return possible to the producer,
but you can't tell when you are
doing that unless you have the
facts and figures. Y"ou should
keep records if for no other rea-
son than for self-protection. If
you don't you have no comeback
when some one questions your ac-

tions. Accounting is the founda-
tion of business."

Trans|K>rt«tion Problems

"You must have facts to hitch
to when making a claim." L. t.
Quasey of the I. A. A. said. "To
protect your rights count the
stock as it goes into the car.
Y'our count must be as good &s
that of the railroad when It
comes to settling claims. A post
card or some other manner of
verifying your car order whan
made over the phone, is good
protection. If you overload, yo»r
case will be hurt if you have a
loss.

"You have grounds for a claim
if stock is delayed on the road
to market. With certain excep-
tions the railroad is responsible
for delivery in as good a condi-
tion as received. If you thilk
rates are out of line, send the in-
formation to sonie reliable ag€Vi-
cy or to us. if you continually
get cars with several inches of
bedding in them, let us know
and we will try to straighten the
matter out."

Publicltf

We can tell our story to a
large audience through the. news-
papers by furnishing them with
the news that we have, said E. T.
"Robbins of the University, wtho
was chairman of the meetikg.
(Continued on pase 4)

AHEMPT IS MADE
TO CURB ACTIVfTIES
QF LIVESTOCK CO-OPS

Amendment To Packer-Slbckyards

Act Would Harm Producers

Greatly -Stewart I

An attempt on the pa^t of in-
terests inimical to cobperatiTe
livestock marketing mhich. if
passed, would make it Very diffi-
cult for cooperative commission
companies to operate as hereto-
fore is seen in H. It. 5944, a pro-
posed amendment to th^ Packers
and Stock.vards act. It was in-
troduced by Congressnia i Thomas
S. Williams. Louisville. 24th dis-
trict": of Illinois, and ha« been re-
ferred to the House Committee
on Agriculture. {

The House commiitee was
scheduled to take up tfaie amend-
meot on February 28. President
John Brown and other epresent-
atives of the National I ive Stock
Producers Association and Presi-
dent Thompson of the
went to Washington
against the amendment

I. A. A.
ip appear

Would H'ork Great

"Several sections

amendment would w< rk great

Harm

of this

harm to cooperative
of livestock." declare^
Stewart. Director of
Marketing for the I. \.
instance, one section
unlawful for cooperativ ? commis-
sion companies to handle the
livestock of anyone
own members.

iiarketing
C. A.
Livestock
A. "For

wakes it

xcept its

"Another provision (tates that
each member of a cooperative
association of livestocic produc-
ers must bind him.self jy w^ritten
agreement to assume, i a an obli-
gation • of membershii: , the re-
sponsibilities of such atsociatiotis.
The same provision wciuld apply
to a shipping a.<<sociati< n member
of a cooperative commission com-
pany, and, in addition, every ship-
ping association must I le a decla-
ration with the Secreti try of Ag-
riculture that each of its mem-
bers has consented M meml)er-
ship in the cooi>eratlie commis-
sion association."

Deflnilion of C< -nii. ;

The ataendment w.-ti Id define a
c©operat;\e associaiioi i of liv>-
stock producers as an association
'entirely compo.c'd it ind wholly
managed and controll d by pro-
ducers of livestock.

"This might be take n to mean
that i'ven the manage) of a Pro
durers selling aginry vould have
to be a livestock prodi cer," states
Mr. Stewart.

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The niinou Agricultural Anociation Record

March S. 1324

HiLiLn r^ons

#(CILTILT1U1MIL ASSCDCIIA^

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Published twice a month by the Illinois Agricultural
Association, 608 South Dearborn Street. Chicasro, Illinois.
Edited by Department of Information. E. 1* Bill, Director.

Entry as second class matter Oct. 10. 1921. at the post
office at Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March 3. 1879.
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage pro-
vided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3. 1917. author-
lied Oct 31. 1921.

The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agrlcul-
itural Association is five dollars a year. This fee Includes
\ l>ayment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois Ag-
jricultural Association Record.

~ OFFICERS

President, S. H. Thompson, Qaincy.
Vice-President, C. B. Wat.son, DeKalb. ,
Treasurer, R. .4. Cowles, liloominKton. ', |.
- Secretju-)', Geo. .A. Fo.v, Sycamore. ■

12th.

13th.

14th.

15th.

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17th.

18th.

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20th..

21st. .

22nd.

23rd.

24th.

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EXECUTIVE COIMITTEE
Of Congressional Districts

Jacob Olbrieh, Harvard

G. F, Tulloek, Rockford

C. E. Bamborough, Polo

W. H. (Moody, Port Byron

H. E. Goembel, Hoopole

A. R. Wright, Varna

F. D. Barton, Cornell

R. F. Karr, Iroquois

J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

Earl C. Smith, Detroit

Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

Stanley Castle, AKon

J, E. LIngenfelter, Lawrenceville

Curt Anderson, Xenia

, Vernon Lessley, Sparta

Directors of Departments
I. .A. A. Offlee

General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker;
Organization, G. E. Metzger; Information, E. L. Bill;
Transportation, L. J. Quasey; Statistics, J. C. Watson;
F'msvice, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, C. A. Stewart;
Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R. Bent: in charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, J. D.
Harper; special representative on Tuberculosis Eradi-
cation, M. H. Petersen.

Co-op Marketing Reaultt

We have started out to find what cooperative
marketing is doing for us in Illinois, to find out
if it has increased the price to the producer and
if so, to find just how a better price is secured.

Xccording-to our information the Illinois Fruit
Exchange has increased the price to the producer.
The two chief things which have made i(| possible
for this cooperative to secure higher prices are
standardizing and improving the quality of the
jproducts and securing wider distribution of sales.
•Both of these things are impossible under the
old marketing system, and neither of them have
been attained to the highest degree that is poss-
ible by the exchange.

The greatest obstacle of this particular organi-
zation, is the lack of a large volume of business.
Other obstacles are the lack of interest and loy-
alty of the membership and the failure of the or-
ganization to ke^ its members well informed.
•Rather astonishing, isn't it, to find that the
greatest factor v^ getting a better price and the
answer to the olBtacles of the exchange are to be
found in the growers' own orchard? The grower
himself is the only man who can improve the
qnality and standardize his product, and be is
tiie only man who can overcome the obstacle of
volume of business and interest in the association.

If these things are true, if the answer is up to
4he grower himself, certainly we have no license
to be grumbling about the progress that is being
made. , What do you think about it f

We are going to get* the answers to these same
questions for the other cooperative marketing pro-
jects of Illinois, as near as it is possible, and tell
bbout them one by one in the. Record. - • .

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' A Hopeful Sign \.

Carrying out the spirit of a resolution passed
at the annual meeting, the twenty-first district
lield its first meeting with its member of the I.
A. A. executive committee on February 15. It
'was the first time farm bureau officials of the dis-
trict had met with .their committeeman.

From a list of farm bureau problems the meet-
ing took up one question at a time, faced the issue
squarely, talked it out and in some cases made

recommendation to their committeeman or to the
I. A. A. executive committee. There were about
fifty present and before the day was over most
every person was acquainted with almost every-
one present.

The whole group took the attitude that the I.
A. A. is their I. A. A., that they carry the re-
sponsibility for the success or failure of the I. A.
A. as far as that group of four counties is con-
cerned.

If it is true that the future of the farm bureau
depends on what the membership chooses to make
it, the meeting of the twenty-first district is a
most hopeful sign. This district has planned
three other meetings during the year. Coopera-
tive marketing will be the subject of discussion
at the next meeting.

We Champion Co-op Marketing

Ijast issue we announced the new association
of grain men organized to kill the Gapper-Tincher
act. Now we discover a new bill in congress, in-
troduced by an Illinois man, carrying a number
of vicious amendments to the Packers and Stock-
yards act. The amendments would practically
put the cooperative commission companies out of
business.

The farm bureau worked hard for these two
laws. After a year of operation the farm bureau
believes that both laws are a forward step in our
big task of marketing. The' I. A. A. is a champion
of cooperative marketing. It is one of the out-
standing points of our program and we believe in
it. An I. A. A. representative is now in Washing-
ton to keep an eye on the new bill.

Co-operation and Human Nature

It was an interesting meeting that the Illinois
Fruit Exchange held the other day at Centralia.
It started promptly on time, disposed of its re-
ports, elected officers and made resolutions with
little delay, had no long speeches and set to work
to thresh out the problems of its members in a
business-like way.

All right, let's hear from eich of the units,
said the chairman. Give us the truth. Tell us
about the kicks. If your local -tlon't like the man-
agement, say so. We'll hear from Alma first.

Well, things have never gone smpothly. There's
lots of bunk up there. There wis no interest in
our local annual meeting and the few that were
there wrangled and complained. They have kicked
on the management. JIany of them say they
won't sign up again under the present manage-
ment. They say the manager is to blame because
pears didn't sell well. They sold peaches outside
of the unit. There has been no kick by the big
growers and they say that the fault has been
mostly local.

Here's a representative from the Anna and
Cobden units. He says that some of the members
are not good cooperators down there. They kicked
on prices received from several cars. He says he
believes it all comes back to the members in the
way they pack their stuff. They have no packing
shed. He says he believes that most of the mem-
bers should turn around and kick themselves.

All right, here's Belleville. Nineteen cars of
potatoes were shipped from that unit in 1923.
The majority are well satisfied. No kicks against
the manager heard. The only trouble was that
they didn't sell their potatoes early enough.

Cartter unit is next. Not much to say from
Cartter. Not very strong. Only had 8 members
at the annual meeting. No kicks to speak of.
Centralia, yoij're next. Members are pretty well
satisfied with the exchange. Have had no kicks
except from one fellow who talked of wanting to
get out of it.

Here's the man from Creal Springs. We have
28 memljcrs down there. Half of them were at
the annual meeting. There's general harmony

and no complaints. Everybody seems well satis-
fied, especially with the Jonathan prices.

Here's a man from Carbondale. Nothing to
sa3'. Didn't do any business and haven't had
any kicks.

What's been doing at the Flora unit? Nothing
much. The speaker says he's the only oiie that
has sold through the exchange, and he got better
prices than his neighbors. One of the officers of
the Flora unit calls the Illinois Fruit Exchange a
bunch of grafters.

Here's a man from the Kell unit. Interest is
only luke warm. No kicks. Probably we had
better kick ourselves. We don't cooperate with
the local manager enough. Several members have
used the exchange as a lever to extract higher
prices from the local buyers.

Let's hear from Makanda. Interest fairly
warm. No complaints against the management.
Thinks the local should be more particular with
the grades that it puts up. Shouldn't sell No. 2*8
through the exchange. Biggest objection is that
the contract is too long. Mascoutah, you're next
— 108 members in this unit. Most of them are
not interested. Some of the members have only
about a half acre of potatoes. Shipped three cars
of potatoes. Started to sell too late. Not enough
business to hire a manager and the officers are
too busy with their own business to tend to ship-
ping.

Quincy is next. Have done a big business.
Sold 142 cars. One member trying to raise
trouble. Declares the exchange and Federated
Pniit and Vegetable Growers didn't give them
a square deal. Trying to get the unit to market
through some commission comptfny in Chicago.

Here's a man from Ozark which has the larg-
est packing house of any of the units. Have had
knocks on the officers, packing house, packing and
prices. Says he thinks most of the knocks are
through ignorance. Don't know how they'll come
out in the reorganization. Need some one to ex-
plain the plan to them. Another man from Ozark
explains the use of the packing house for com-
munity purposes. Have weekly movies when
there is^ood weather. Hold good short course
in horticulture. Also have farm and home bureau
meetings in the building. People are getting to-
gether as a result of the meetings.

Here is a man from the Texico unit. Not many
kicks from Texico. Just a few on apples. Sold
16 cars bf peaches. Some of the members took
their peaches to Marion and West Frankfort but
they won't tell what they got for them. It took
the wind out of their sails. Have a good pack-
ing house in Texico. Think it is essential as a
home for the unit. Think most of the growers
want to stay with the fruit exchange.

Lastly, we'll hear from Villa Ridge. The knocks
are mostly local. Some of the members lost 70
to 80 cents a bushel on peaches by not shipping
through the exchange. Main crops are asparagus
and strawberries. Asparagus growers netted 10
cents more than outsiders got.

That finished reports from the units. Mr.
Leeper, the manager, says the reports are just as
he expected. Most of the knocks come from dis-
tricts where there are feW farm bureau members.
The proposition was oversold to men who are not
cooperative. "We've got to have cooperative men
to have a cooperative association," he says.

Other men get in the discussion. One man says
that too many of the members think that coop-
erative marketing is no good if it can't always
get more than they can get locally. Too many
people expect cooperative marketing to revolu-
tionize things in one year. The whole trouble is
often with local management ind leadership.

The meeting discusses various other subjects,
shipping point inspection, restricting membership
of exchange to farm bureau members, etc. Meet-
ing is concluded with reading of an explanation
of the reorganization plan and its unanimous ap-
proval. 1. . .. ,. . i .. _, , .. ;.i(li

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The Illinois Agricultural Association Record

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What is Co-operative Marketing

Doing in Illinois and How?

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What is cooperative marketing
doing for us in Illinois? Is it
getting a better price for our
products, and if so what are the
things that make it possible to
get a better price?

Is it wider distribution that
makes it possible for a coopera-
tive association to sell better, or
is it because a cooperative can
standardize and improve the
quality of the product? Does a
large volume sold through a co-
operative marketing organization
make it possible to get a better
price? Can a co-op sell for less
cost than every man selling his
own product?

The Record will attempt to get
the answer to these questions for
our own cooperative associations
here in Illinois. We are starting
with the Illinois Fruit Exchange
in this story. In the next several
Issues we will take up other or-
ganizations. After this kind of
a survey has. been made of our
leading cooperative marketing
projects it may be that a sum-
mary of facts can be made. Any-
way it won't do any barm to
look for the answer to what co-
operative marketing is doing for
us and how it is doing' it.

The Illinois Fruit Exchange
with headquarters at Centralia
has marketed two crops. In 1922
It sold 1,100 carloads of fruits
and vegetables for members and
In 1923 it sold 600 cars.

Higher Prices

The average price to growers
for fruits and vegetables sold
through the Illinois Fruit Ex-
change has been higher than the
average price received by outside
growers. This is the opinion of
Manager A. B. Leeper and of
many growers interviewed. It is
impossible to get the average
price of outside growers to make
a comparison. The fact that sev-
eral large growers have joined
the exchange of their own ac-
cord in the past year supports
the argument.

We are starting on the as-
sumption that thS exchange has
netted the grower an average
higher price than outside grow-
ers have received. If you differ
with this assumption, let's have
the facts you have.

Standardization

Mr. Leeper placed standac^iza-
,tion and quality at the bead of
the list in the several factors
that made it possible for the ex-
change to get a better price. The
market demands a standard prod-
uct, he says. The better the
quality the better the price. He
thinks it is impossible to get a
uniform product without the pro-
ducers' own marketing associa-
tion. The exchange has pro-
moted standardization and qual-
ity and has attained it to such a
degree that it has been a factor
in increasing the price.

Wilier Distribntinn

Chicago was the chief market
for fruits and vegetables before
the exchange started. The ex-
change is in touch with about a
hundred markets every day in
the .selling season. In 1922 it
sold produce on 115 different
markets snd in 1923 on 98 mar-
kets.

This wider distribution has
been the second large factor in
getting a better price through
cooperative marketing. By avoid-

ing glutted markets and selling
on markets where supply is short
and demand is better, an in-
creased price has been secured.

Less Selling Expense

The exchange has lowered the
cost of selling to some extent.
The usual commission charge for
selling is ten per cent. In 1922
the exchange cost was eight per
cent and in 1923 it was a little
lower. Experience shows that
the cost of packing and grading
is less wh«n done at central
points through the cooperative
association than for every man
to do this work for himself.
Obstacles

The exchange needs more vol-
ume of business. Mr. Leeper
says that volume must be had to
do efficient cooperative marketing.
Without volume it is hard to get
standardization and hard to get
wide distribution which are the
two chief things that have made
cooperative marketing worth
while, according to the experi-
ence of the exchange.

One of the greatest hold-backs
of the work is the lack of inter-
est in the association by mem-
bers. A number of members dis-
regarded their contracts with the
association. They have publicly
criticized the organization rather
than taking the attitude that it
is their own organization.

One reason for this, Mr.
Leeper states, is that the associa-
tion has not given out full infor-
mation about the association. A
field service to keep members in-
formed would help this condi-
tion, he believes.

What Memben Think

What are the biggest benefits
that cooperative marketing has
brought to fruit growers in Illi-
nois? What are the biggest draw-
backs to successful cooperation?
These questions were asked of
several members of the Illinois
Fruit Exchange by a representa-
tive of the Record.

"The biggest benefit from co-
operative marketing thus far is
grading and putting our fruit in
proper shape for the market,"
said W. L. Cope, Tonti. "Und«r
the old system every fellow puts
up his packages as he sees fit
but now the stuff must come up
to quality requirements. This
boosts prices to both tiie oJv-
sider and members of the ex-
change. The exchange practically
sets the price with its quality
product. Marketing is now by
known grades, quality and sizes.

"The biggest draw-back to our
success IS that many of the mem-
bers epcpect too much ■ of coopera-
tive marketing."

What Newman said

E. W. Newman, Cobden, said
that the biggest benefits of co-
operative marketing as he sees
them are grading, orderly mar-
keting and wide distribution.

"Our biggest draw-back is that
the exehangfe was oversold," ho
said. "Members expect too much
of it. If prices aren't always
higher through the exchange than
from local dealers, many are prone
to say that it is a failure. Lack
of interest in the organization on
the part of members is another
draw-back."

Grading Biggest Benefit

"Grading by size and quality is
the main benefit "that cooperative

TAX-EXEMPT BONDS
MENACE TO SOUND
FINANCES-WATSON

I.A.A. Man Tells Farmers' Institute

That Stopping Them Will Help

Remedy Conditions

"The first and most important
step in correcting the present un-
sound tax conditions is stopping
the further issue of tax-free se-
curities at the earliest possible
moment," said John C. Watson,
in charge of Taxation and Sta-
tistics for the I. A. A., in an ad-
dress before' the Illinois Farmers'
Institute at Dixon, February 21.

"If the revenue history of the
United States in the last few
years has demonstrated anything,
it is that high surtaxes are not
compatible with a practically un-
limited issue and supply of tax-
exempt securities. The decreas-
ing receipts from the higher
brackets of the revenue act are
clear proof of shifting of invest-
ments in order to avoid taxation."
Objections

According to Mr. Watson, large
sums of taxable moneys and
credits have been withdrawn from
industry and business enterprises
for investment in tax-exempt
bonds. The difference in interest
rates between taxable and non-
taxable securities is frequently
spoken of as a tax paid by the
owner of the otherwise tax-
exempt security, but such a dif-
ference is inflexible and cannot
be fixed according to the ability
of the owner to pay. It is not
uniform with taxes on other
property of like value. It is not
properly distributed, all the
revenue going to the department
of government issuing the bonds.

"Unless the issue of such se-
curities is stopped," said Mr. Wat-
son, "they will probably destroy
our income tax laws. Payers of
the normal tax and of the low-
est surtaxes are likely to rebel
when they know that men of
great wealth and of high incomes
are escaping the tax."

Most be Done - "I" '

In Mr. Watson's opinion, an
attempt to save the tax-free
feature of the Federal Land
Bank bonds will only delay the
stopping of the issue of other
tax-exempt securities, and in the
long run it will be better for the
farmers to give it up provided it
is eliminated for all other se-
curities. "At the best, an amend-
m e n t eliminating tax-exempt
bonds can scarcely be put into
effect before 1928, but it can
eventually be done because it
must be done. That may be poor
logic, but it states a fact."

marketing has brought to our lo-
cality," said Norman W. Casper,
New Burnside. "It has also
practically made a market for
us, " he declared. "One of the
^easons why we organized at
Ozark was because local buyers
often failed us by not being there
when we needed them. As it is
now, when buyers come in they
come to our packing house to fill
their orders.

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"A good example of how the
exchange practically built up a
market for us was in the case of
Kinna'ird apples. They were
practically unknown on the mar-
kets. We built up a demand for
them and sold them for as much
as $4.50 per barrel While out-
siders were content with 11.50."

Stephenson Farm
Bureau Has Market
Place In Freeport

The latest addition to the list
of farmers' markets under the
supervision of county farm bu-
reaus is the one at Freeport
which was opened February 2 by
the Stephenson County Farm Bu-
reau. It is located on the first
floor of the building in which the
farm bureau office is situated.

There are 11 booths where
farm bureau members display
farm produce to customers. An
average of from »250 to $300
has been done each Saturday re-
cently. G. F. Baumeister is in
charge of the market. The home
bureau cooperates in the project,
a unit of the organization having
charge of a lunch booth each
market day.

Push Farm Relief
Bill Hardy Says
Monmoutlt Man

"Push the McNary-Haugen bill
hard!" is the gist of a letter
from William Beste of Mon-
mouth, Illinois, expressing the
views of the farmer regarding
this legislative measure. Mr.
Beste writes:

"Am just in receipt of my copy
of the Record and note with de-
light that it contains something
relative to the McNary-Haugen
bill.

"What concerns the rural pop-
ulation just now is how their
status in the economic life of the
country can l)est be equalized
with that of the city dwellers.
After the war the farmers' busi-
ness was thrust on the rocks
when the Federal Reserve board,
following a period of propaganda
in which the farmer was made
the goat for the high cost of liv-
ing, instituted a policy of forced
liquidation. Special legislation,
such as the Esch-Cummins act
and the Fordney-McCumber tar-
iff, since enacted has tended to
keep agriculture down. Why
should a policy of protection be
made to work for the benefit of
one class of citizens and denied
to others?

"The McNary-Haugen bill now
before Congress must have the
utmost support from farmers and
farm organizations, and particu-
larly the farm press, if it is to
get very far. What is needed to
put this bill through is a noise
loud enough to t>e heard in
Washington. Only one farm
paper that I know of has given
much emphasis to this bill. A
united campaign of the farm
press and a persistent appeal for
its passage from the farmers
themselves and their organiza-
tions would put the bill over.
Lets concentrate on this thing
and do it quick. I would suggest
that each and every farm organi-
zation ask its members to write
their congressmen urging favor-
able action on this bill."

Fruit Co-op Elects
Board of Directors
To Serve This Year

The board of directors elected
by the Illinois Fruit Exchange
for 1924 were, W. L. Cope, Ton-
ti; O. V. Cummins, Dix; N. W.
Casper, New Burnside; R. K.
Loomis, Makanda; R. B. Enii-
cott. Villa Ridge; Frank Lanter,
Belleville; and .1. D. Snedeker,
JerseyvUle. \

FRUIT EXCHANGE
WILL REORGANIZE
UNDER CO-OP ACT

Improved Pooling, Larger Ipnnage,
And Field Service Seel As
Greatest Needs i

Reorganization of the ; Illinois
Fruit Exchange as the j Illinots
Fruit Growers Exchange under
the Illinois Cooperative Market-
ing act was, unanimousll- voted
by delegates at the third anooai
meeting at "Centralia. I^ebruary
19. As contracts Of mei^l>ers in
the exchange expire, thjey may
join the new organixatioli which
will take over the worU of the
present exchange as its puslneaa
is liquidated. 1

Manager A. B. I.«eper, lin mak-
ing recommendations fo^ 1924,
stressed the following I points:
Fir«, it is important tbat every
member realize that be it a part-
ner in this business and Itake the
same in^rest in its development.
Second, that the flnanciijg of lo-
cal associations is an op^n prob-
lem and must be meti by the
members interested in that par-
ticular locality. Third,-! that in-
creased tonnage will lo» er over-
bead costs both of the ixcbange
and local associations.

Pooling Sliimid lie im[>roved

Fourth, that the poo ing sys-
tem should be improved by ex-
tending over a larger territory
and a longer period. The aver-
age of the season prid « shows
the advisability of largjr pools.
Fifth, that as soon as jthe ton-
nage will justify the exjijense. the
exchange should establish a field
service department, wliich jje-
partment should be bealied ^by a
man competent to adkise the
members in matters o^ prodjtc-
tion as well as grading and pack-
ing. _ I

Mr. Leeper stated that the ex-
change had marketed 1464 cars
of fruits and vegetable^ in 1923
through the Federated Fruit and
Vegetable Growers, Inci Thirty
more cars are now Inl storage.
With cars sold to track buyers,
approximately 600 cirs were
marketed during the yekr by tbe
exchange and its localk. These
shipments went to 98: markets
in 20 states. |

Prices Farorab^

"The prices receive^ by the
Illinois Fruit Exchange| compare
very favorably with tbdse of any
other producing' sebtion of the
entire United States, " ; said Mr.
Leeper. "The year ^923 has
demonstrated more forcibly than
ever before the necessity' of qual-
ity production. !

"Each year intensifies competi-
tion with other prodi^cing sec-
tions and the growers jof Illinois
can no Jonger afford to depend
upon their geological Ibcation to
help them dispose oL qoor grade
products. If the Uliiiois Fruit
Exchange is to succeed as it
should, the members |nust pro-
duce a product that dan be of-
fered to the trade of j«st a little
higher standard than t^e average
that is produced In thi* section."

The report of Normjn W. Cas-
per. New Burnside, ! secretary,
showed that the Illinois Fruit Ex-
change had done a bjusiness of
approximately $1,OOOJOOO since
its organization in 192|1. He de-
clared that the biggest need of
the exchange is more ^onnage of
fruits and vegetables! to lower
overhead costs. M»ny large
growers are ready fo^ eoopera-
tiire marketing now, hi said.

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Page 4

The nBnoM Agricnlhiral Awodation Record

March S, 1924

Red Top Grower Lost $300
By Co-op Marketing, But-

3teve Golden of Flora, Clay
county, says be lost )300 last
year because he marketed his red
top seed through the Egyptian
Seed Growers Exchange. One of
his neighbors, Ray Graham, was
also a nfember of the pool and he
declares that l;e doesn't consider
. he lost any money by pooling be-
cause he says it's hard to tell
what the price would have been
if there hadn't been any pool.

But Steve Golden has not lost
faith in cooperative marketing
simply because it might seem
that he lost money through it.
Instead he told the writer an In-
teresting story of his experience
In the pool. He has been mar-
keting red top seed ever since it
has been marketed in the terri-
tory, probably for 40 years. He
is now retired, lives in Flora,
but Is very actively interested in
bis three farms in the county.

"The highest price that I ever
received for red top seed was 20
cents peyjiound," he said. "That
was in 1921. Early in the sea-
son the price was 12 cents. Then
the dealers dropped down to 10
cents and we growers were pretty
dissatisfied. So 45 of Sis formed
the nrst red top pool with 50,000
pounds of seed. We made ar-
rangements with a local seed
dealer to store the pool,

L'p Went the Prices

"In the meantime, after our pool
was started, priced paid by local
dealers suddenly went up. They
began paying up to 17 cents.
After awhile they got interested
in bur pool and made us offers
for It. Finall/ we closed it out
to a dealer in a neighboring town
for 20 cents per pound which
was just 19% cents net to us as
we paid H t cent per pound stor-
age.

"Results o* the first pooling
attempt encouraged us and many
thought it would be a good idea
to start a big pool the next year,
1922. We got Bob Clarke down
here to help us organize. Well,
I went out and helped with the
soliciting b€k:ause I was in the
first pool and besides I have al-
ways gone In for anything down
here that looked as if it might
Improve farming conditions. You
know we had every fellow that
signed the five-year contract also
sign a note for $100 so as to give
our pool financial backing. That
was a hard thing for a lot of the
fellows to do and many refused
to join for that reason. About a
fourth of the growers joined the
pool.

I Had Some Hard Lack

"Oiir directors made arrange-
ments with a local seed ware-
bouse to store the pooled seed
bat uot long after that the ware-
bouse burned down and it was
some time before we got another
place to store the seed. I think
that It was a mistake not to be-
gin selling the pool right away
in the fall. As it turned out, it
was held too long and there was
not much demand for red top
aa the dealers had about ail they
needed. You know the best red
top market is the fall and early
winter. Fact Is, that us fellows
held the seed tbat wasn't needed
▼ery badly.

"But Curt Anderson, the man-
agier, did his best to sell it last
spring and all last summer and
when the pool was finally closed
out. aJl of us poolers got about
iX cents per pound on our seed

in the final settlement. The out-
siders were paid 14 or 15 cents
on the average from local dealers.
Not very encouraging and the fel-
lows that wouldn't join thought
they had the laugh on us. But
it is hard to tell what the price
might have been if there had
been no pool. That is something
none of us can say for sure."
Lots of Kicks

Mr. Golden related something
of the attitude of members of the
cooperative association. Although
not an officer or a director of the
organization, he hears many of
the complaints of friends who
are In the pool. Being an old
and experienced farmer in the
county and knowing most of the
facts about the exchange, his opin-
ion is highly respected.

"Lots of the members come to
me and ask me about the pool,
things that they won't ask the
manager," he said. "When we
were building the warehouse here
in Flora last summer, now and
then a fellow would come to me
and ask, 'Where's the money com-
ing from to build that building?'
I told them It was borrowed, of
course, where else did they think
we'd get it?

"Then they'd kick to me that
the manager was getting too
much salary and so was the seed
tester. I don't know if they
knew what salaries these men
were getting. I don't myself but
it's because I'm not worrying
about their salaries.

New Contracts Slfoied

"But the kicks have pretty well
died down during the past few
months and things look better
Now if the pool price will net the
members just a little more than
the outsiders got from dealers,
things will be all right and there
will be lots more confidence in
our organization.

"A few men have joined the
1923 pool of their own accord.
One man out) northwest of here
that I didn't sign up when I was
soliciting joined last fall. 1 hap-
pened to meet him on the road
coming from town one day and
saw that he <had some of the pool
sacks in his wagon. I asked htm
bow he happened to have them
and he said, 'Well, I've been
thinking over the proposition ill
summer and I've decided it's the
right thing to do. So I signed
my contract up in the office to-
day.' Quite a few are coming to
that way of thinking."

What Graham Says

Ray Graham, who was a mem-
ber of the pool in 1922 but who
didn't raise any red top in 1923,
voiced sentiments much the same
as Mr. Golden. He said that
there is no doubt but that 1922
seed prices paid by local dealers
were up much higher on account
of the pool.

"One reason for this," he says,
"is because dealers were ap
preached by growers for offers on
their red top and when a high
enough price was not offered, the
growers threatened to join the
pool. Many dealers raised their
prices on such occasions so theiy
could get the seed.

A New Spirit

"A lot of exchange members
are worried that they will lose
the $100 that they signed a note
for when they joined the pool.
One fellow was asking me one
day how he could get out of pay-
ing the note. I told him it

9 SCHOOLS THRESH
CO-OP SHIPPING
ASS'N PROBLEMS

(Continued from paa« t)
The newspapers are a valuable
means of publicity that all ship-
ping associations should make
use of, he said.

Form of Organization

The county livestock shipping
association is more efficient than
the local. C. A. Stewart. Director
of Livestock Marketing of the I.
A. A., said at the series of ship-
ping association schools through-
out • the state. "\ county or-
ganization is better qualified to
get good men. There has not
been a failure of a county asso-
ciation in Illinois."

Shipping associations should
recognize the farm bureau for
the reason that all progress in
Illinois in livestock marketing
has been made possible by the
farm bureau, Mr. Stewart stated.
The membership of shipping as-
sociations should be limited to
farm bureau members, but not
the sen'ice, he said. He recom-
mended that an additional charge
be made for handling stock of
non-farm bureau members.

On the county association
question, Mr. Robbins said that It
is too big a jump from the local
association to the terminal com-
mission company. To him it
seems logical and necessary to
have a county association.

would be very easy to get out of
it. He brightened up and asked
how. I said, 'If you and your
neighbors and every other fellow
in the pool will loyally back it
up and keep working for it until
its success is assured, you'll never
have to pay that note.' "

And the writer believes that it
is just that spirit, the spirit of
loyalty and cooperation, that Is
growing in the red top country
and will make the Egyptian Seed
Growers Exchange continue to be
the biggest and most powerful
factor in the marketing of red
top seed.

Protecting Th* Cow

Mannfactarers can ■till copy
the prodneta of the eow« ao
lonK aa they don*t offend the
pnre food laepeetor, hat they
ean*t nse her portrait or her
name to advertUe their
vrarea. KInee Jaaaary 1, It
has been aitatBHt the law In
IlllBota to nse In hotter anh-
atltnte advertisements the
word "Bntter,** "Creamery"
or **Dalry" or the name or
pletare of any breed of dniry
cattle (Texas Lonshorna not
Inelnded). We want this law
enforced, so If yoo see any
advertisements which you
think In violation of the law.
write to the I, .4. .*. about
It, and we will InvestlKate
the matter.

How Do You Vote —
Baseball Team or
Teams in the Field?

Shall we play baseball? A
baseball team will take several
teams out of the field, but on
the other hand all work and no
play makes it hard to, keep the
boys at home.

The meeting of the 21st dis-
trict discussed the farm bureau
baseball league at their Carlin-
ville meeting. "We have got to
have a little fun In this old
world," said Mr. Moffet of Mo-
desto. "We have been working
sixteen hours a day for six days
a week. I believe a half day off
on Saturday will help."

After quite a long discussion
Editor McCleland of the Carlin-
ville Democrat, one of the real
fans of the county, popped up.
Said he could not sit still any
longer. He believes farm people
must meet the changing condi-
tions. He thinks baseball will
help to solve the problem of
keeping the l)oys at home and
contented.

"But who Is going to pay the
hired man for the half day he
is off playing ball?" asked
another man who proclaimed
himself of the old school.

What do you think about it?
Is the farm bureau baseball
league idea right?

Head of Chick Association
Endorses Hatchery Plan

Harry R. Lewis, president of
the International Baby Chick as-
sociation, has written J. D.
Harper of the I. A. A. heartily
endorsing the accredited hatch-
ery plan which was started last
October by the I. A. A., the Uni-
versity of Illinois and the State
Department of Agriculture. The
plan provides that hatcheries
which agree to sell only state-
inspected baby chicks from state-
inspected farm flocks may sell
their chicks under the brand
"Illinois Standard Chicks."

Mr. Lewis says, "The I. B. C.
A. voted unanimously to go on
record in favor of these activi-
ties at the last annual conven-
tion, and will stand by you to
the fullest to defend the plan.
Offers Best Solntion

"Something must be done In a
definite, organized, official way
to materially improve the quality
of baby chicks. While many
breeders are themselves attempt-
ing to do this, and succeeding in
many cases, yet the accredited
hatchery plan offers the best so-
lution of the problem yet pre-
sented."

Accredited hatcheries, says Mr.

Lewis, have been organized and
worked successfully in Wiscon-
sin, Southern California and
Washington, while Connecticut,
New Jersey and Indiana are seri-
ously contemplating the estab-
lishment of the system this year.

Cost is ZYiC Each
According to H. W. Day, Su-
pervising Inspector of the Illinois
Department of Agriculture, the
cost of inspection averages 3j^c
I)er bird. He has received some
very fine reports from the hatch-
eries tbat are on the accredited
list. One hatcheryman writes:
"Orders are coming in fine and
we give your department credit."
Another writes, "AH our orders
are so large and coming so rap-
idly that we will have to have
larger fiocks in all varieties. It
certainly pays to be accredited."

Fourteen counties have a list
of reserve flocks. Macoupin and
Montgomery counties each report
23 fiocks, Wayne county 5, Cass
county 3, Champaign, Hancock,
Grundy and Menard, 2 each and
Adams, Douglas, Logan. McLean,
.Morgan, Peoria and Sangamon, 1
each. _ .

FREEPORT CO-OP
DOES NEARLY HALF
MILLION BUSINESS

Over Half of 1923 Sales Were

From Butter; Macklin Talks On

Co-operative Principles

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The report of J. A. Phillip^, ,
secretary-treasurer and manager
of the Stephenson County Coop-
erative Marketing Company at its
annual meeting in Freeport. Feb-
ruary 23, showed that the com
pany had done a gross businesi
of »490,418.39 in 1923. The
largest single item of sale was
butter, 1256,089.09 worth being
sold.

"The loyal members who hare
stuck to the boat through thick
and thin are the fellows to whom
credit Is due for keeping our
company together," said Mr.
Phillips. "It takes the full 100
per cent cooperation of everyone
to win in the end. I hope that
every milk producer in the Free-
port territory will sign the new
contract, for only by doing this
can we gpt what we should for
our milk."

About 150 members of the
company were present to hear
the report of last year's business,
to elect officers and to hear talks
by Dr. Theodore Macklin of the
University of Wisconsin and A.
D. Lynch, Director of the I. A.
A. Dairy Marketing Department.

"To cooperate, a man must
know what cooperation is," said
Dr. Macklin. "Cooperatives can
learn only by experience. They
may not make money at first.
Dealers' Profit

"The lekst important reason
for cooperating is the elimination
of the dealers' profit," he de-
clared. "The most important
reasons are that it reduces the
cost of marketing, improves old
and creates new marketing ser-
vices for its members, readjusts
standards of production so tbat
farmers understand what prod-
ucts pay best, gives farmers con-
fidence in the marketing system
that they patronize because they
own it and control its policies,
gives producers confidence that
their products are being mar-
keted as well as they can be. and
lastly, it teaches cooperators the
commercial point of view, whiiUl
is the great ultimate benefit from
successful cooperation."

Mr. Lynch in a short talk
said, "We increase our strength
and our power as we overcome
obstacles. We should always be
sure that we apply our strength
in the right direction."

Directors for 1924

Clayton Malse and William
Seiferman were re-elected- to the
board of directors and William
Roberts was a new member
elected. Holdover members who
will serie on the board for 1924
are William Frank, J. A. Phil-
lips, Wm. F. Brown, H. M. Phil-
lips, John Kachelhoeffer and D.
M. Brubakcr.

WANTS SOY'S AXD COW PBAfi

Robert H. Engle, county agent
Lee County, Donnellson, Iowa,
writes that the farm bureau there
is in the market for soy beans
and cow_peas, and that he would
appreciate hearing from any Illi-
nois counties having these seeds
for sale.

The MrLieaa Toanty Parm Barean

at a recent meeting endorsed the
McNary-Haugen bill for an airri-
cultural export corporation.

I S, 1924
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HALF
SINESS

Sales Were
Talks On
ciples

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1 manager
inty Coop-
pany at its
eport, Feb-
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should for

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limination
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Volume 2

March 20, 1924

Nianber 6

BROOM CORN CO-OP
STARTS CAMPAIGN
FOR MEMBERSHIP

Seventeen Local Meetings Held;
I. A. A. Assisting In Organi-
zation Work

The Illinois Broom Corn Grow-
ers Cooperative Association is in
the midst of its membership cam-
paign. A series of 17 local meet-
ings were held in the broom corn
producing district during the week
of March 10 under the leadership
of G. E. Metzger, director of or-
ganization for the I. A. A., and
F. M. Higgins of the organization
department field force.

Following a school of instruc-
tion for solicitors at Mattoon
which was to have been held on or
about the 17th, the work of sign-
ing membership agreements was
started. The solicitors are all lo-
cal broom corn growers.

The formation of the associa-
tion was started last August when
a committee was appointed to in-
vestigate the cooperative broom
corn marketing association of
Oklahoma and to work out a plan
for organizing Illinois growers.
The committee was assisted by of-
ficials of the I. A. A. and by Wal-
ton Peteet.

Melvin Tbomas, farm adviser of
Coles county, is chairman of the
organization committee and Fred
H. Lebrecht of Mattoon is secre-
tary. "The aim of the associa-
tion," declares Mr. Thomas, "is
to market Illinois broom corn in
an orderly, intelligent and busi-
ness-like manner through a well
organized and efilciently managed
cooperative association organized
under the Illinois cooperative mar-
keting law."

The plan of the committee calls
for a membership representing 75
per cent of the broom corn grow-
ers in Coles, Cumberland, Douglas,
Jasper. Moultrie, Shelby, Clark
and Edgar counties. This mem-
bership must be secured by April
1, 1924.

Baseball League

O. K'dBy I.A.A.

The I. A. A. executive commit-
tee gave its endorsement of the
plans of the farm bureau baseball
league at the March meeting and
voted to' appoint an employee of
the I. A.. A. as secretary-treasurer
of the league as provided for in
its constitution. Farm Adviser
R. W. Dickenson, Cass county,
presented the project to the com-
mittee. He stated that at least
15 counties have signified their in-
terest in the league and several
have joined.

RESULTS ARE WHAT WE WANT

Protest Any Raise
In Illinois Fruit
and Vegetable Rates

Illinois fruit and vegetable
growers were represented by L. J.
Quasey, director of transportation
of the I. A. A., and by the Illinois
Commerce Commission at a hear-
ing before the Interstate Com-
merce Commission in Chicago,
March 7, opposing the proposed
increase in rates on fruits and
vegetables from Illinois points to
Chicago.

The case was filed by Indiana
fruit and vegetable shippers
through the Public Service Com-
mission of Indiana, complaining
that they were being discriminated
against and asking that the com-
mission prescribe rates from In-
diana points to Chicago which
would put them on a parity with
Illinois shippers.

"We do not ojject if Indiana
shippers are given rates similar to
those of Illinois but we don't want
Illinois rates raised," declares Mr.
Quasey. "But ; ny adjustment
that may be made in these rates
is likely to cause a nation-wide
investigation on fruit and vege-
table rates.

"If the rates from Indiana
should be reduced to the same
level as those of Illinois, it would
mean that all eastern shippers
would ask to be placed on the
same basis. This, of course, would
affect the heavy fruit-bearing ter-

1924 Budget of
$300,000 Passed'
By I.A.A. Board

A budget of $300,000 for 1924,
with tlie provision that it may be
changed by the e-vecutive commit-
tee at any time they see fit, was
passed by the committee at its
March meeting. Of this amount,
»46,500 was allotted to the live-
stock, grain, dairy, fruit and vege-
table, and poultry and egg coop-
erative marketing departments.

SeiTice departments, including
legal, taxation and statistics,
transportation, speakers' bureau,
organization, information, legisla-
tion, phosphate-limestone and tu-
berculosis eradication, were al-
lowed $128,000. Much of the
work of the sert'ice departments
goes toward the work of the co-
operative marketing departments
and to service to cooperative mar-
keting associations, as well as to
county farm bureaus.

There is a total decrease of |34,-
247 in the budget this year com-
pared with the 1923 budget.

ritory in Michigan.

"On the other hand, if Illinois
rates are increased to place them
on a parity with Indiana, it will
mean that the western states will
have a lower basis than from Illi-
nois points and naturally it would
lead to a readjustment in western
points which would place them on
the same basis as Illinois."

Write To Washington!

The McNary-Haugen bill
has been reported favorably
out of both the Senate and
House Agricultural Comntit-
tees. If you want copies of
records of these hearings,
write to your Senator or Rep-
resentative. Let them know
that Illinois farmers want ac-
tion on this relief measure
and want it badly.

Lincoln Will Be
Scene of State
Picnic For 1924

After a delegation of lx)gan
county folks bad set forth the ad-
vantages of Lincoln as a suitable
site for the 1924 I. A. A. and
county farm bureau picnic, the ex-
ecutive committee accepted their
invitation. No date was set for
the event. Lincoln has Chautau-
qua grounds that are ideal for
such a picnic, the committee said,
with facilities for handling a
crowd of 20,000.

It is expected that the state
farm bureau championship horse-
shoe pitching tournament will be
staged at the picnic as in the past.
In case it is held late in the sum-
mer, suggestions have been made
tfaat the state championship farm
bureau baseball game be played
there.

Office Location
Not To Be Changed,
Committee Decision

The I. A. A. office will remain
in Chicago, according to the de-
cision of the executive committee
which voted on the proposition of
moving to Springfield at the March
meeting. This was after a com-
mittee of Earl C. Smith, Frank
D. Barton and Stanley Castle had
reported the results of their in-
vestigation of the merits of each
place.

"More prompt and efficient serv-
ice can be rendered to the mem-
bership at large from Chicago than
from Springfield," the report said.
A great saving in traveling time
was shown to the advantage of
Chicago. To attend a one day's
executive committee meeting, it
would take the committeemen a
total of 662 hours and 3 minutes
away from home for the Spring-
field trip and it now takes 470
hours and 39 minutes for the Chi-
cago trip with no saving in travel-
ing costs to the advantage of
Springfield. The same is appli-
cable to I. .\. A. employees. The
financial cost to maintain an of-
fice would be approximately the
same in either location, the inves-
tigation showed.

COUNTY PRESIDENTS
STATE STAND ON
FARM LEGISLATION

Demand Active Support of McNary-
Haugen Bill By Illinois
National Legislators

Resolutions demandint that Il-
linois senators and repreientativeF
actively support the McKary-Hau-
gen bill for an agricultural ex-
port corporation, urging: that they
back the passage of all legislation
which will strengthen the admin-
istration of the Packers and Stock-
.vards act, and stating tbetr, oppo-
sition to the amendmedt known
as the Williams bill, dan^rous tn
cooperative livestock nvrketin):.
were passed by the meeting of
farm bureau presidents fn March
£ in Chicago. !

The resolution on tbej McNat'y-
Baugen bill reads as follbws:

Whereas apriculture has been
reduced to a condition ifhich not
only endangers the future and
permanency of the basic! industry
of the nation, and whict> if con-
tinued, will also demoralize and
destroy the prosperity nbw exist-
ing in other lines of business and
industry and

RCKtarMion ParanMunt

Whereas, the restoration of
agriculture is the paramount issue
before the American people to-
day, it is important tbfit emer-
gency federal relief legislation be
immediately enacted by |the Con-
gress of the United Stated; and

Whereas, the McNarj- >- Haugen
bill as now pending in fhe Con-
gress of the United States, if
passed, would furnish this emer-
gency legislation necessary tn
bring about this relief.

Now, therefore, be it resolved,
that we. the presidents aaid other
npprtsentatives of 85 county farm
bureaus of the state o( Illinois
and the members of the executive
committee of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association in confereno
assembled, hereby endorse and
approve the emergency relief
measure for American agricultur*
as is set forth in Senate Bill 201 :
and in House Bill 5563, l^iown a.-^
the McNary-Haugen Bill, and do
hereby respectfully requast, urge,
insist and demand that our rep-
resentatives in Congress,' earnest-
ly, unqualifiedly and actively
support and vote for thAs emer-
gency relief measure and use all
their influence and power to se-
cure the enactment of this meas-
ure at the earliest possiblp date.
P»ck«>r»-Siockyar<fc

Following is the resolution on
amendments to the Packers and
Stockyards act:

Be It resolved by the presidents
(Continued on pac« S)

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The IHinoU Agricultural Association Record

March 20. 1924

iiLibn MdDns

4CULTUIIAIL ASSOCflAl
"RE(DOR

3^ jA

ociiawSn

Published twice a month by the Illinois Agriculturkl
Asfloctation, ti08 South Dearborn Street, Chicago. lUinols.
t:dUt.'d by Dt'partmenl of Information. K. U tliU. Director,

Entry as second class matter Oct. 10, 1921. at the poat
oflici at Ohicago. Illinois, under the act of March I, 187»,
Aceepta/»ce for mailing at special rales of postage pro-
vide<l for in Seut^on 1103, Act of October 2, 1917 author-
ized (I. I ,11 i":'i.

The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricul-
tural AsRO'-iation is five dollars a year. This fee includes
payment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois As-
rlcuiturn! AjJsociatlon lieoord.

OFFICERS
President, S. H. Thompson, Quinc).
Vlce-PreHident, C. B. \Vat.<i<«i, lleKalb.
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, BlboiiiliiKton.
Secretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore.

EXEcirrn'K sommittek

By CoiiKreKsiohal Districts

Jacob Olbrieh. Harvard

G. F. Tulloek. Rockford

C. E. Bamborough, Po4o

W. H. Moody, Port Byron

H. E. Goembei, Hoopole

A. R. Wright. Varna

; F. D. Barton. Cornell

R. F. Karr, Iroquois

J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

EsrI C. Smith, Detroit

.Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

Stanley Castle, Alton

J, E. LIngenfelter, LawreneevHIe

Curt Anderson, Xenia

Vamon Lessley, Sparta

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I I Directors of De|)artments

I I. \. \. Office

General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker:
Organization, G. E. Metzger; Information, E. L. Bill;
Transportation. L. J. Quasey: Statistics, J. C. Watson:
Finance. R. A. Cowles: Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, C. A. Stewart:
Dairy Marketing, A. O. Lynch: Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R. Bent: in charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, J. O,
Harper: special representative on Tuberculosis Eradi-
cation, M. H, Petersen,

1 THE PROGRAM OF WORK

' A proKraiu of work for the yvav ha,s Iteeii de-
veloped. After working with the policy com-
mittee and e.xecutive committee, each depart-
ment has put down on paper what it hopes to
accomplish this year. The new program of work
outlines a definite course for the as.sociation to
follow, it ,start.s the year with a definite aim and
makes a standard to live up to and to answer
for at the end of the year. The adoption of
tliis program does not mean that changes or ad-
di<lln.s can not be made a.>i emergcnc.x- demands.
Htrewith is a summarj- dl the I. A, A. pro-,
•rram of work for 1924.

Taxation I

Continue the effort to sedore equalization of
valuatioas of different cla.sses of property for
taxation in Illinois.

• .Make a study of constitutional and statutory
changes neces.sary to make the revenue act and
its administration fair to farmers.

Offer services, as far as time permits, in the
analysis of county and local expenditures of tax
funds.

Organisation Department

To cooperate with county fanu bureaus in
maintaining a supporting membership in county
bureaus and I. A. A. There will lie eight re-
organization campaigns in 1!)24.

To train men for organization work.

To gather and summarize information which
will be of assistance to field men in their work.

To cooperate with I. A. A. (h-partment-s in or-
<jaiijzing cothmodity marketing organizations and
furnishing and recommending men well trained
in the technique of organization.

Til council and advise in a general way with
county farm bureaus on questions pertaining to
in-gani^ation, community service and programs of
^ Work.
1-^"=^ has been quite evident in the past that
:. I'liinmunity organization is a great aaset in farm
bureau work and it is the aim of this department
to . inajce a careful study of the community or-
ganization work in Illinois with the idea of offer-
ing Some sort of service to county farm bureaus
for the advancement and development of the
\vorfc

Livestock Marketing

To givi- a.ssistaiu'e to cooperative livestock
shipping associations in organization work, in the
application of husine.ss principles and in opera-
tion. In application of business principles is in-
cluded incorporation, iMiiuliiig of iiianagcrs, fre-
(|Uent meetiiijrs of the b(Mir<l of directors, account-
ing and reports. Assistance in operation includes
advertising, installing own sc-jili-s. pro-rating
where the viilume of Imsiness is sufflcient, and
other similar problems. This part of the program
will be promoted through the field service by at-
tending meetings and writing fre(|uent letters to
shipping associations.

To support and promote Producers' selling
Hgeiicies through field men attending meetings of
shipping a-ssociations, farm bureaus and livestock
organizations and by mail.

To promote favorable legislation, particularly
amendments to the Packers and Stockyards act.

To promote the wool pool through county farm
bureaus.

To give membership information relative to
source of supply of cattle, hogs and sheep.

Dairy Marketing

The dairj- dei)artment will cinitinue- to render
advisory service in the form of field service, or-
ganization and marketing pii)l)lcms of dairj' co-
operatives.

Particular attention will be given to grading
and quality protluctioii. The department is in
a position to locate markets for Illinois dairy
cooperatives, providing there is definite a.ssurance
that the cooperative will furnish uniform and
dependable merchandise.

A special effort will be made in 1924 to < o-
ordinate the efforts of the cooperatives '.irt^rfy
etsablished. The aim is to harmonize business
policies of the cooperatives and promote eflBciency
by group action, especially in accounting and
selling. When the cooperatives begin to work to-
gether there will be developed real leaders from
the ranks who are to take the positions of em-
plo.vees. managers and directors.

Tuberculoeia Eradication

To assist In the Illinois tuberculosis eradica-
tion program along the following lines: educa-
tional, cooperative work, legal and statistical.

Under educational to assist counties in getting
appropriations from boards of supervisors to
earrj- on an-a tuberculosis eradication work. To
'supply B uniform sale contract between county
farm bureaus and organizations which have cat-
tle for sale. To assist in carrying on slaughter
and cleanup demonstratioiLS. To disseminate a
set of rules for. accredited herds and an outline
of proper cleanup and disinfective measures.

t'nder cooperative work to enlist the support
of other organizations in cleanup work. To work
with the Illinois Department of Agriculture in
developing a method of positively identifying
feeders, obtaining more prompt pa.vment for re-
actors and adding men to 'the eradication forces
to aid in cleanup work. To work with the rail-
roads to bring about a proper cleanup of local
loading pens. To help fann bureaus to organize
vigilance committees.

'From the legal standpoint to obtain evidence
of violations of cattle quarantine laws. To offer
rewards for information leading to the convic-
tion of violators. To introduce bills into the ne.xt
legislature to make testing eompulsorj- after 7:')
per cent of cattle owners in a county have tested
their herds. To require a retest of all animals
brought into Illinois and to require the branding
of feeders at terminal markets.

Under statistical work to list the approved vet-
erinarians for Illinois and adjoining states. To
list county breed a.s.sociations with whom the
I. A. A. has completed buying arrangements and
to list tuberculosis-free areas.

Linteatone-Phoaphate

The chief purpose of the Limestone-Phosphate
department is to protect the interests of farm

bureaus and farm bureau members in their pur-
chase of agricultural limestone and raw rock
phosphate by seeing that there is an adequate
and economical supply of these fertilizers avail-
able for the soil of Illinois.

To attain this end, the program of the depart-
ment for 1924 specifies that it will investigate
and study the underlying conditions and develop-
ments which control or aifect the present and fu-
ture supplies o£ agrieultural limestone, and crude
ground rock phosphate. This work covers mat-
ters of the gwnership and operation of the sources
of supply, quality, quantity and price of the
products and conditions and costs relating to
traiLsportation and distribution.

To act a^ a bureau of information for farm
bureaus and their members in relation to lime-
stone and phosphate and to inform the producing
industries when such information will react to
the interest of farmers.

To act as the spokesman for farm bureaus or
individual members in their negotiations with '
the producers for the adjustments and correc-
tion of abuses covering prices, weights, quality,
service, etc. To advise regarding the develop-
ment of local farmer-owned prfnluction enter-
prises, storage facilities, and other problems.

To give information on sources of supply and
cost- of other fertilizers, such as potash, nitrates,
acid phosphate, and bone meal. QuestioiLs in re-
gard to the developing, sellihg or leasing of coal
rights by landowners and collective purchase of
coal by members will also be handled by the de-
partment.

Transportation Department

To represent Illinois farmers in proceedings
before the commerce commissions and railroads.
This work includes filing formal and informal
complaints before the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission or the Uinois Commerce <!!ommis8ion, pre-
senting evidence and giving testimony in pro-
ceedings where the interests of the members are
involved, filing briefs and giving argument in
connection with such proceedings.

To propose matters for consideration of rail-
road rate committees and appear before such
committees when the interests of the membership
is involved. Negotiate with individual railroads
in matters of rates, train schedules and shipping
facilities.

To maintain a freight rate service which will
include the quotation of rates and routing on
agricultural commodities and the making of sur-
vey of freight rates on certain' commodities de-
manding attention.

To assist members, cooperative associations and
county farm bureaus in securing cars.

To assist in securing side tracks and other
shipping conveniences, and in changes and ad-
justments in freight train service.

To help in preventing claims against railroads
by obtaining necessary repairs and improvements
to livestock pens and by giving out information
to shippers on the reducing of losses in transit.

To maintain a railroad claim collection service
for freight overcharge and freight loss and dam-
age claims.

To carry on investigation of highway and water
transportation problems, :\

Information

Continue publication of the I. A. A. Record
and improve it, with the view of making it a
more potent factor in informing and holding the,
membership.

Continue the information service to the public
press, including farm papers, dailies and week-
lies. Improve the quality of material sent out in
thLs service.

Give county farm bureaus more specific help
in their information and publicity problepis.

Maintain a publicity and advertising service
to cooperative marketing associations. To the
extent that this work can be done without addi-

i

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March 21

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The Illinois Agricultural Associatign Record

I

Pace 3

FARM MEASURES .
ARE DISCUSSED BY
BUREAU LEADERS

n

"We Should Study Legislation"

Says President Thompson;

Bills Explained

"I believe that it is important
that we, as farmers, sliould give
careful study to the legislation
proposed for agriculture at Wash-
ington," declared President
Thompson of the I. A. A. an open-
ing the meeting of county farm
bureau presidents in Chicago,
.March 6. "The I. A. A. has al-
ways had a well-defined polic^ on
legislation in Illinois. We must
use our influence to get good and
to kill bad legislation. We must
center our strength on the meas-
sures we want most."

Presidents or other representa-
tives of 85 of the 94 Illinois farm
bureaus were present at the meet-
ing, called two days previous by
the I. A. A. for the purpose of
acquainting them with agricul-
tural measures now being consid-
ered In Congress.

Taking up the McNary-Haugen
bill as the most important piece
of legislation under consideration,
President Thompson aslsed John
Faissler, DeKafb county attorney,
to give an explanation of the bill.

What Can You Buy?

"What can you buy when you
sell a pig or a steer or a bushel
of corn?" asked Mr. Faissler.
"That's what determines the
worth of farm products. Five
years ago five bushels of wheat
would buy a pair of shoes — now
it takes 10 bushels. We are sell-
ing our farm products on a world
market price but for merchandise
and farm labor we pay the home
market price.

"The McNary-Haugen bill would
so arrange it that the prices of
farm products would be In a line
with what the farmer buys," he
e.Yplained. "If the bill was in
force today, wheat would be from
11.40 to $1.50 per bushel instead
of tl.OO. It should be tl.59 to
be on the same level as nob-agrl-
cultural commodities."
Purpose of Bill

The purpose of the bill, as ex-
plained, is to put the purchasine
power of farmers on the same
level as it was in the 10 pre-war
years, 1905-14, thus putting them
on a fair trading basis with other
industries. It proposes to do this
by a government corporation to
buy the surplus of any farm com-
modity when its sales price is 10
per cent below the pre-war ratio.
The cost of this operation would
be borne by ail farmers selling
the commodity below ratio by the
issuing of .scrip for a share of the
commodity price.

For illustration, it was stated
that in November, 1923, with the
price of hogs at $7.05 per hun-
dred, if the price had been on a
ratio with the purchasing power
of hogs in the 10 pre-war years,
they would have brought a price
of $10.85 per hundred.

Kiiierj^ncy Is Great

"The present emergency in
agriculture has had no parallel in
the history of our CQuntry," de-
c I a r e d President Thompson.
"Many say that the same condi-
tions prevailed in 1893. But at
that time the depression hit the
business man. the professional
man and all industry as well as
farming. , Everyone was on the
s.imp basis. But today the farmer

EVERY CORNER OF ILLINOIS REPRESENTED HERE

is not on a fair trading basis with
other ifadustries.

"This hill proposes to put agri-
culture on this fair trading basis
with other business. It will start
men to thinkini; as they have
never thought before. It will give
us the same chance aK industry,
labor and *-vpry other class.
Intelligent I'rniluctlon

"It has been said ttiat the bill
will lead to increased production.
I do not believe that it will. Over-
production will cause a larsre sur-
plus to go on the world market at
a lower price and this lower price
will come right back to the pro-
ducer in a lower value for his
scrip.

"In my opinion, rather than
leading to increased production, it
will lead to intelligent production
and a study of supply and demand
on the part of the farmer. The
bill is the result of the thought of
the best agricultural minds of our
country and it reflects the true
sentiments of those who have the
best interests .of agriculture at
heart.

"While it may not remove all
difficulties it is better than any-
thing else that has been proposed
for the relief of agriculture."
Co-op Marketlnic

Asked what the effect of the
measure would be upon cooper-
ative marketing, Mr. Thompson
said that he could not see that it
would be harmful to its progress.
A free discussion Of the bill was
entered into by the meeting to
clear up questions before the reso-
lution was passed that is printed
in another column of the Record.

A large number of county farm
bureau representatives stated that
their executive committers had al-
ready taken action endorsing the
McNary-Haugen bill.

Packen- Stockyard*

C. A. Stewart, director of live-
stock marketing, was called upon
to discuss the proposed amend-
ments to the Packers and Stock-
yards act. Some of the amend-
ments would strengthen the act
slightly, according to .Mr. Stewart,
but in the main they would have
little effect on Illinois livestock
shippers.

Amendment Dangerous

"However, the amendment
known as the Williams bill is very
dangerous," said Mr. Stewart. "It
would practically put cooperative
commission companies out of busi-
ness. According- to its provisions,
everyone connected with a Pro-
ducers' agency would have to be
a producer, even the manager.

"It provides that each member
of a shipping association that de-
sires to join a cooperative com-

Who Are Fighting It?

The metropolitan press had
been giving the McNary-Hau-
gen bill the "silent" treat-
ment until recently. But now.
especially since the I. A. A.
meeting with farm bureau
presidents came out unani-
mously for passage of the
measure, propagandi against
the bill from the grain ex-
changes, livestock exchanges
and other big interests is be-
ing "played up" and many of
the big city newspapers are
protesting editorially against
its passage.

Committee Gives
Thompsoft Power To
Fight For Bill

After the meeting of farm bu-
reau presidents had stated their
stand on the McNary-Haugen bill
in no uncertain terms, the exec-
utive committee passed the follow-
ing motion: "That President
Thompson be authorized to be in
Washington sufficient time and
further be empowered to call for
or to employ any assistance that
he may deem necessary to safe-
gnard the interests of our asso-
ciation and agriculture in gen-
eral and that everything possible
may' be done to assist in the pas-
sage of the McNary-Haugen bill."

O. K, RRLIBF .MF.ASVHE

Endorsement of the McNary-
Haugen bill was made by the Ma-
zon Farmers' Elevator Company at
its annual meeting March 8, which
was attended by 800 farm folks of
Grundy county. George E. Mellen
is manager of the conipany.

mission company must file his
written application with the Sec-
retary of Agriculture. It would
practically be impossible to get
the written consent of every mem-
ber of a livestock shipping asso-
ciation in order to Join a coopera-
tive commission agency. .-Vgain. it
provideS|that each member of such
a company must assume personal
liability for the association. An-
other clause would make it im-
possible for a non-member to ship
to a Producers' agency."
Has Little Chance
Mr. Stewart said that the
amendment had little chance of
passage out of the House Agricul-
tural Committee. Representative
Williams. Illinois, who introduced
it by request, is now one of its
strongest opponents, stated . Mr.
Stewart. The National Live Stock
Producers appeared against the
amendment at a hearing; on March
8 in which the livestock exchanges
were proponents of the measure.

PROGRAM OF WORK
FOR I. A. A. IN 1924

(Continued from pa^e 2)

tional cost to the association, it
is the intention to do it free of
charge. Serv'ice to cooi»eratlve as-
sociations which calls for addition-
al outlay of money by the depart-
ment will be extended on a cost
basis.

Carry on 6ur\ey to determine
value of radio as a means of pub-
licity and if it is determined a
worth while means, make provi-
sions for broadcasting I. .\. A. in-
formation regularly.

Finance DefMrtment '

To supplement the collection
service rendered farm bureaus
through a field man to go to farm
bureau offices to put in a uniform
collection plan and to unify, as
far as practical, business practices
and methods in farm bureaus,
such as auditing, bonding financial
statements, handling and disburs-
ing of funds and otlier office de-
tails.

To make available to the farm
bureaus an annual audit and ren-
der a report thereof in standard-
ized form to their executive com-
mittees for presenting to memlier-
ship.

To make this service available
first to those county larm bureaus
having smaller memberships.

To render ser\'ice and counsel
upon terms to be mutually agreed
upon to cooperative associations
at the joint request of the coop-
erative and farm bureau or bu-
reaus interested. )
Lec^al De|i«runeat - ' !

To advise the heads of the I. A.
A. departments and the executive
officers on legal matters which af-
fect the association or its depart-
ment activities.

To assist in the organization
and legal setup of cooperative as-
sociations fostered by the 1. .\. A.

To assist county farm bureaus
or their members in legal matters
affecting them.

To serve the legislative commit-
tee and special committees that
have the direction of legislation
affecting agricultural interests.

To act as a clearing house
through which attorneys repre-
senting cooperative associations
shall bo able to receive advice on
the enforceability of producers*
contracts and on the rulings of
courts throughout the state on all
.statutes and questions related to
cooperatives.
PonHry and Kgg Marlcetlnc

The program for the poultry
and egg marketing department
will be to encourage as far as pos-
sible the buying of eggs on a grad-
ed basis at countrA' points. By

22nd DISTRICT T
' LEADERS ENDORSE
FARM RELIEF BILL

Favor I. A. A. Radio From St. Louis;

Meeting Freely Discusses

Farm Bureau Plans

.\ meeting of farm bureau lead-
ers of the 22nd district at Water-
loo on March 9 with 1. A. ^. exec-
utive committeeman, Stanley Cas-
tle, passed resolutions fa\oring
the .McNary-Haugen bill, ctmdenin-
ing the Williams bill amending
the I*ackers and Stockyardf act.
(asked the !. K. A. to help the dis-
trict to get a test plot to try out
the Monroe county' plan of eradi-
cating wild garlic and appointed a
committee to investigate the ad-
visability of organizing a ooopera-
tive produce company in St. Louis.

There was a feeling, Mr, Castle
sa.vs. that the I. A. A. is aoi get-
ting close enough to the farmer.
The suggestion was made at the
meeting that the I. A. A. eadea%-or
to broadcast its infoi4&atien over
the St. I»ui8 radio stations.

In discussing the question of
candidates for public office, Mr.
Castle said that the farm bureau
should not get into politics by en-
dorsing candidates and working
for them, but he believes it the
duty of the farm bureau to advise
the membership to support candi-
dates wlio have supported agricul-
ture and men who know and un-
derstand agricultural problems.

"It was about as free a meeting
as I have ever l>een in." Mr. Castle <
says. "It gave an opportuaity for
all to get acquainted. After a few
meetings like this, they will know
who is the -best man to pick for
the I. \. A. executive committee.
I feel that I am better able to rep-
resent the district."

The next meeting of the district
'Will l>e held the latter part of May
at Greenville.

STATE STAND ON
FARM LEGISLATION

(Continued from'parc 1)
^nd -other representatives of the
county farm bureaus of tiie state
of Illinois and the members of the
executive committee of the IlliDois
Agricultural Association in con-
ference assembled at Chicago on
this 6th day of March. 1924. that
|re urge the senators and repre-
sentatives in Congress from Illi-
nois to actively support all amend-
inents to the Packers and Stock-
yards act which will strengthen
the administration provisions of
the act and hereby declare our
onqualifled opposition to t^e pas-
sage of House Bill 5944, com-
monly known as the Williams bill.

cooperation with the Illinois Poul-
try and Egg Shippers Association
it is t>elieved that most progress
can be made by assisting them in
getting the egg business on a
graded basis at the earlieat pos-
sible moment.

In addition to this the program
-is to be planned from the flacts to
be obtain*^ by a sur\-ey of the
present poultry and egg marketing
machinery. Iieginning with the
huckster and country grocer on
through the list to the commission
fnd storage companies. This sur-
vey is to be conducted in coopera-
tion with the dealers, shippers and
ethers interested along with tb'
University of Illinois Poultrj divi-
sion and the Department of Agri-
culture at Springfield.

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MILK PRODUCERS AT
GALESBURG FORMED
CO-OP ASSOCIATION

WHI Consider Problems In Mutual

Way; Lynch of IL A. A. Helps
I |- In Movement I

Stxty dairymen if the territory
adja«ent to Galealkurg met with
A. D. Lyncli, direct<|r of dairy mar-
keting for tlie I. A. A.. Marcli
11. and voted to organize tlie
Calesburg Cooperalive Milk Pro-
dueea-s Association. It will be in-
corporated under tlje Illinois coop-
erative marketing aict with no cap-
ital Block but with! a small mem-
bership fee. Thel meeting was
called under the a|uspiees of the
Knox County Farral Bureau.

The association ; will be com-
posed of three classes of dairymen,
those (Who retail 4>ilk in Gales-
burg, those who se^l to milk.dis-
tribulors, and thbse who sell
cream. "The menj who attended
the meeting expressed the thought
that a iilairymen's business organi-
sation is something' that has been
needed there for a long time,"
states Mr. Lynch. I

Will Stud)' I»poblem»

"It is not the irjtention of the
association to go in^o the milk dis-
tribution business I at this time.
Rather they intenid to get ac-
quainted, study their mutual prob-
lems and get their; interests har-
moniied.", |

"The spirit of ' the meeting
seemed to be thatj the basis of
competition betweeii the milk pro-
ducers should be qu|ality and serv-
ice rather than price-cutting." de-
clares Mr. Lynch. |"The associa-
tion is planning an advertising
budget to stimulate the consump-
tion of milk."

Choose OfBcers

The ^ew association elected di-
rectors and officers as iollows, for
term* of one to thj'ee years: for
1 year, M. C. Craft. Galesburg,
vice-president; E. !b. Wagoner,
Galesburg, secretarjr; Dr. W. E.
Miller, Abingdon. [For 2 years:
Clyde Olinger. Galesburg; E. V.
Babbitt, Avon; H. e). Rose." Gales-
burg. For 3 year^: Ed Gumm.
Galesburg, preslden^; C. I.. Fair-
childs, Galesburg, treasurer; R. L.
Ooldaberry, Galesbi^rg. , i

Macoupin Bureau

C defines Politics;
Endorses Rinake
olution passed by the Ma-
coupin County Farnk Bureau calls
attention to the netjd for farmers
to pay more attention to the rec-
ords of men running for important
political offices.

"It is not politicsi" the resolu-
tion states, "but sti-ictly a farm
bureau activity for ns and all of
onr members to see \o it that each
political party sele<^ candidates
who appreciate, unjderstand and
win work for the good of agricul-
ture." The resolutiin states it Is
not the business of the farm bu-
reau to help such candidates get
office.

With this explanaition. the Ma-
coupin bureau calls attention of
republican farmers of the county
to the candidacy of Judge Lewis
Rinake, a large farnler and stock-
man of Modesto, who is running
lor Lieutenant-Governor, subject
to primaries April 8, and endorses
his candidacy to republican voters.

It Is understood that the Ma-
coupin executive committee is
about equally composed of demo-
crats and republicans.

E. E. Bill Chosen
Program Director
For Radio Station

Edgar L. Bill, Director of In-
formation for the I. A. A., has
been chosen as director of pro-
grams for 'the Sears It6ebuck Agri-
cultural Foundation broadcasting
station in Chicago. He will take
up the new work on .\pril first.

"I see a wonderful opportunity
to do a great good for agriculture
in this new work," says Mr. Bill.
"Radio is the new means of
spreading information, education
and amusement. Through this
new medium, the best talent in all
phases of th« agricultural field
can be made available to the most
remote farm house."

.Mr. Bill states that be hopes to
make use of much of the talent in
county farm bureaus, home bu-
reaus, community clubs and boys
and girls club work. He invites
the cooperation and suggestions of
the whole farm bureau crowd.

The Sears station, which will
start broadcasting about .\pril 1.
will be the only farm station in
the United States. It will be a
500-watt station with a wave
length of 448 meters, powerful
enough to reach all corners of the
United States.

Mr. Bill was Director of Infor-
mation for the first three years
after the association was reorgan-
ized on a $5 membership basis,
and again last August was asked
to take charge of this work. Mr.
Bill's successor in the I. A. A. has
not been named.

McHenry County
Farmers Secure
Big Tax Decrease

For each of the 2.8 74 farms in
McHenry county there is an aver-
age decrease of J13.S7 per farm
in 1923 taxes due to the work of
the McHenry County Farm Bu-
reau. The total decrease, due to
the decrease in valuations of farm
land, is $39,876.58. McHenry
county made the first complete re-
port to the I. A. A. after John
Watson of the Taxation depart-
ment had asked all counties tor
reports on taxes to be paid this
year.

The valuations on which taxes
were extended on lands decreased
$1.551. 536 from 1922 to 1923.
or 11.48 per cent. The taxes ex-
tended on the valuations for 1923
decreased $38,530.22 or 7.31 per
cent. However, part of this de-
crease, or' $6,411.32 is due to a
decrease in tax rates. This leaves
$32,118.90 decrease due solely to
decrease in valuations.

But there was an increase In
the state tax rate of 42.3 cents to
50 cents per $100 of assessed val-
uations, in no way caused by de-
creased valuations. Had there
been no decrease in valuations, the
state taxes would have been $7,-
757.68 higher than they are. Add-
ing $7,757.68 to $32,118.90
makes a total of $39,876.58
which is the total decrease.

Thomas Watkins
Oldest Bureau

Member^ Dies

Thomas Watkins, oldest citizen
of Cass county and the oldest farm
bureau member in Illinois, passed
away on February 26, at the age
of 96 years, 6 months and 3 days.
Mr. Watkins may have been the
oldest farm bureau member in the
United States.

He was born in Kentucky, Aug.
23, 1827, moved to Cass county

ILLINOIS COnON

GROWERS START
ORGANIZATION PLANS

Cowles Represents I. A. A.; Farm

Bureaus Take Lead In

Helping Growers

Cotton growers of southern Illi-
nois met at .Mound City, March 8,
and took the first steps toward the
formation of a growers' associa-
tion by naming Lee Lingenfelter,
I'ulaski county, as chairman of an
organization committee of 11. Two
representatives from eacli of the
following counties will be chosen
for the committee. Pulaski, Alex-
ander, Massac, l^nion and Johnson.

R. A. Cowles. treasurer of the
I. A. A., attended the meeting and
made a talk in which he stressed
the value of organization and ex-
plained how the I. A. A. would be
able to help. Marketing problems
of cotton growers were discussed
by C. O. Moaer, secretary of the
American Cotton Growers Associa-
tion. At a bankers' meeting at
Mounds the same day, Chas. G.
Henry, president of the Arkansas
Cotton Growers Exchange, told
them how cooperative marketing
improves economic conditions.
Bureau Started It

The meeting was called by the
Pulaski County Farm Bureau
which was largely responsible for
starting cotton culture in southern
Illinois last year. Between 1500
and 2000 acres were successfully
raised in 1923, and prospects point
to planting of over 20,000 acres
this year. There is much enthu-
siasm in the project.

The farm bureaus of southern
Illinois are doing much to assist
growers in securing strains of seed
adaptable to the district and in
helping with proper cultural meth-
ods for cotton.

No Boll Weevil

Cotton has been raised with
profit in southeastern Missouri (or
several years with no appearance
of the boll weevil. It is said to
be too far north in that district
and in southern Illinois for the
weetil. There has been an over-
production of truck crops in that
part of Illinois and producers are
looking to cotton to help the re-
gion through diversification.

Decatur Milk \

Co-op Starting

Sale of Stock

The Producers Cooperative
Dairy of Decatur through John A.
Record, secretary of the organiza-
tion committee, has secured the
services of H. L. Hough of the
I. A. A. organization department
to start the campaign for selling
stock and signing contracts for the
cooperative.

The company is capitalized at
$75,000 and is incorporated under
the Illinois cooperative marketing
act. The management plans to
lease facilities in Decatur as soon
as possible so that the association
can enter the business of merchan-
dising pasteurized quality milk.

when a young man and resided
on a farm there until his death.
When solicited for membership in
the farm bureau last year, he
signed immediately, saying that,
"while 1 may be too old to get all
of the direct benefits of the farm
bureau, I have lived just long
enough and seen enough phases
of American agriculture to realize
the value of real farmer organiza-
tion."

Harper Resigns;
Going With Nat' I
Producers Ass'n

3. D. Harper, for the past few
months in charge of poultry and
egg marketing for the I. A. A.,
has resigned and on April 1 will
take up his new duties with the
National Live Stock Producers As-
sociation, with whom ho has ac-
cepted a position. He will take
over many of the duties which
have been in charge of F. M. Simp-
son, formerly general manager of
the National Producers, but who
is now manager of the Producers'
selling agency at Kansas City.

Mr. Harper has been connected
with the I. A. A. for three and
one-half years. Prior to taking
over the poultry and egg work,
he served as assistant secretary
of the association, having charge
of the I. .\. .\. offices and carrying
on special investigational work.

Last fall he was very active in
promoting the accredited hatchery
plan now in successful operation.
He has also done much to acquaint
poultry and egg buyers with the
necessity of adopting standard
government grades for eggs and
buying them at country points on
the basis of quality. Both the
National Poultry. Butter and Egg
Association and the Illinois Poul-
try and Egg Shippers Association
have passed resolutions favoring
these improved practices in egg
marketing.

T. B. Appropriations
Made By De Witt
-Douglas Counties

The DeWitt and Douglas county
farm bureaus are the latest addi-
tions to Illinois counties that have
secured appropriations for area
tuberculosis testing from their
boards of supervisors. Each of
the counties will start testing soon
after a veterinarian can be hired.

Winnebago county is starting
an educational campaign to secure
appropriations for testing.

EGG SHIPPERS 0. K.
BUYING ON BASIS
OF UNIFORM GRADES

Harper Tells Meeting of Present

Injustices To Producers;

To Help Make Survey

The Illinois Poultry and Egg
Shippers Association at its annual
meeting at Peoria, .March 7, in
resolutions endorsed the efforts
that have been made for the es-
tablishment of uniform egg qual-
ity standardization and the prin-
ciple of buying eggs on a qual-
ity basis at country points in order
to stimulate the production of
higher and more uniform quality
eggs and poultry.

The meeting also asked that a
committee be appointed to formu-
late plans for cooperation with
the I. A. A., University of Illinois,
and State Department of Agricul-
ture to conduct a survey of the
poultry and egg business of Illi-
nois in order to get at the neces-
sary facts on which to base an in-
telligent program for the future.

"The greatest injustice in pres-
ent methods of marketing eggs in
Illinois is the prevailing practice
of buying all classes and grades
on the basis of an average price,"
J. D. Harper of the I. .\. A., told
the convention before the resolu-
tions were passed. "This price,
which does not make for exorbi-
tant profits to dealers, greatly
penalizes the producers of quality
eggs who are, for the most part,
farm bureau members."

The survey to be made with the
help of the I. A. A. will determine
all the facts concerning the mar-
keting of eggs, according to Mr.
Harper. It will give a picture of
the desirable and undesirable
trade practices now In vogue in
the marketing of eggs and will
determine a basis for the intelli-
gent buying of eggs in the future.

Survey Shows
Farmers A

'Between seven and ten per cent
of the farmers in Illinois have ra-
dio receiving sets, according to
the results of a survey just com-
pleted by the I. A. A. Department
of Information. Reports from 74
county farm advisers show a total
of 21,045 receiving sets on farms
in these counties.

The purpose of the survey was
to determine the extent of the use
of radio on farms, the type of pro-
grams the farmers like best, prac-
tical benefits of the radio, and
what features the I. A. A. might
develop that would be of special
Interest to Illinois farmers.

News of pending legislation,
crop reports, cooperative market-
ing talks, farm organization news,
market reports, and short talks on
good farming practices were some
of the main points suggested for
the I. A. A. radio programs. Good
results were mentioned from the
market reports now being broad-
cast by the various stations near
Illinois, and replies from most of
the counties show that many farm-
ers tune in on the weekly farm
lectures broadcast each Tuesday
night from station KYW, Chicago,
under the auspices of the .Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation.

A number of farm communities
have receiving sets installed in

Over 21 MO
re Radio Fans

schoolhouses, country churches or
community houses for their meet-
ing programs. Logan county re-
ports four rural schools having
sets. In Greene county there are
no regular community sets as yet.
but private sets are frequently
loaned and installed for commu-
nity meetings.

The counties near broadcasting
stations show the most sets. Mad-
ison county, in the vicinity of St.
Louis, has 2,550 sets; Rock Island
county, near Davenport, has 900
and in Henry county, also near
Davenport, the report shows that
nearly one-third of the entire pop-
ulation has sets. Coles county
has had 100 sets insUlled in the
last six months.

USING WATSON IN OHIO

John C. Watson, in charge of
Taxation and Statistics for the I.
A. A., went to Wood County, Ohio,
.March II and 12 to work with
Secretary .Murray Lincoln of the
Ohio State Farm Bureau Federa-
tion in a demonstration for county
tax valuation work. •. •

Stanley Castle, Alton, reports
that a farm bureau market has
been opened in Edwardsville sim-
ilar to the markets at Kankakee,
Bloomington, Freeport and other
cities.

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LIMESTONE PRICE
EFFORTS OF I. A. A.
BRING FIRST FRUIT

One Producer Agrees To Farm
Bureau Recognition; Will Re-
bate 10 Cents Per Ton

"One of the large limestone
producing companies has agreed
to the 1. A. A.'s proposition for
recognition of farm bureaus in
the price of limestone" stales J.
R. Bent, Director Phosphate-
Limestone department.

"They quote a price of 50
cents per ton in carload lots at
the quarry to all farmers and
will rebate to each county farm
bureau, once a month, 10 cents
per ton on the orders sent in by
that county. While this is grant-
ed as a recognition of the service
reodored by the county Juirdau,,
it will be permissible for each
county bureau that chooses to
do so, to remit in turn to each
purchasing farmer. It is anti-
cipated that other limestone pro-
ducers will also agree to this
plan."

Ck>mmlttee Negotiated

A committee of representatives
from various parts of the state,
headed by the Phosphate-Lime-
stone department of the Illinois
Agricultural Association, was ap-
pointed and authorized at the
state-wide conference on lime-
stone at Springfield to negotiate
with the various quarry compa-
nies for such recognition of the
farm bureaus and favorable
prices.

The conference urged the
Phosphate-Limestone department
of the I. A. A. to continue its su-
pervisional work on qualito' of
stone furnished and service ren-
dered by the various companies
and that it handle all matters of
adjustment of complaints on
quality, weight and service.

V. of I. to Help

The University of Illinois was
asked to determine more exact
and dependable information as to
the relative value of the different
types of limestone and the de-
gree of fineness economical to
seek in especially pulverized
stone.

A committee consisting of J.
R. Bent of the I. A. A.. Dr. F. C.
Bauer of the University of Illi-
nois and Frank I. Mann of the
Farmers" Institute, was appoint-
ed to carry on negotiations with
the higher railroad managements
for the maintenance and further-
ance of the lowest possible
freight rates on agricultural
limestone. . .... ..... i.

MORE REASONS FOR McNARY-HAUGEN BILL

SUSPENDED ANIMATION
-Harper Id the Birmingham Age-Herald.

— Barding in the Brooklyn Eaftt. —

Trying To Divide
Agricultural Ranks
On Muscle Shoals

"In spite of the determined ef-
forts of those who have spent
hundreds ot thousands of dollars
to kill the Ford offer on Muscle
Shoals, the measure has made
encouraging progress," declares
President Thompson of the I. A.
A. "It has passed the House by a
vote of 227 to 142 and is now in
the bands of the Senate Agricul-
tural Committee."

Mr. Thompson states that op-
posing interests have striven hard
to divide the ranks of those who
seek agricultural relief on the
Muscle Shoals proposition, which,
with the McNary-Haugen bill, are
the two principal planks in the
farm bureau legislative program.

"Of course no legislation affects
or interests all sections of the
country alike," Mr. Thompson
says, "and the opposition soon re-
alized that there were sections
which did not use fertilizer whose
representatives could perhaps, be
brought to oppose the Muscle
Shoals legislation."

The I. A. A. was one of the first
farm bodies to investigate the
proposition of developing the ni-
trate plants at Muscle Shoals for
the benefit of farmers. The Ford
plan was approved by the asso-
ciation in resolutions and there
has been no change In the I. A.
A. attitude since that time.

32 Counties Have
Joined New Serum
Purchasing Ass^n

Membership has been taken
out by 32 county farm bureaus
in the Illinois Farm Bureau Se-
rum Association, according to C.
A. Stewart of the I. A. A., secre-
tary of the organization. The
association was organized in
Galesburg at the last annual
meeting.

Seven other counties have sig-
nified their intention of joining
the organization, giving pros-
pects for a membership of 39
counties out of the 44 which will
handle serum this year. \

Mr. Stewart estimates that ap-
proximately 26,000,000 cubic cen-
timeters ot serum and virus will
be handled by county farm bu-
reaus this year, about two million
more than last year. The asso-
ciation has received bids from
nine serum companies.

Alexander County
Considering Bureau

G. E. Metzger, director of the
I. A. A. organization department,
has been invited to speak before
a meeting of the Kiwanis club
with Alexander county farmers at
Cairo on April 17 to explain farm
bureau work. Alexander county
is considering the organization of
a county farm bureau. It Is one
of the seven ttnor<'"'"'«ed counties
in Illinois.

The I. A. A. Answer

On the four-page insert of
this issue of the Record are
reproduced two letters. One
is from Congressman Rainey
to President Thompson ask-
ing why the I. A. A. has com-
mitted itself to the McNary-
Haugen bill and bringing
in about all the objections
that have been raised against
the measure. The other let-,
ter Is President Thompson's
reply to Mr. Rainey answer^
ing these objections and def-
initely setting forth the rea-
sons why the I. A. A. is de-
manding the passage of thg
bill.

Geugler To Head
Poultry and Egg
Work For LA. A.

F. A. Gougler, Urbana, lias
been employed by the I. A. A.
as director of the Poultry and
Egg Marketing department to
succeed J. D. Harper, who on
April 1 entered the employ of
the National Live Stock Produc-
ers Association. Mc. Gougler is
at present taking advanced work
in poultry husbandry at the
University of Illinois and will be
on a part time basis with the I.
A. A. until June 1, when he Will
be on full time.

Mr. Gougler was farm adviser
in Adams county for about four
years until his resignation l^t
September. Previous to that he
was in county agent work in
Missouri. He completed his qol-
leglate work at the Oklahoma A.
and M. College. . !

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Increased Use of
Limestone in 1924

Is Anticipated

Forty-three counties used more
limestone in 1923 than in any
other year, according to reports
secured from county farm bu-
reaus by the Phosphate-Lime-
stone department. A total of
298.623 tons of limestone were
used in the 95 farm bureau coun-
ties in 1923, an average of 3,-
176.84 tons per county. Much
the largest portion of the lime-
stone bnsiness in Illinois in 1923
was carried on through county
farm bureaus.

However. 1919 was the maxi-
mum year for the use of lime-
stone In Illinois as a whole, as
reports from that year indicate
that over 363,000 tons were used.
I-ast year's volume was second
in tonnage.

"The anticipated tonnace to be
used in the organized counties
of the sUt« in 1924 is mvt 3S0,-

TIME IS SHORT
ON RELIEF BILL
SAYS THOMPSON

Tell Senators and Congressmen

To Act Before Congress

Adjourns, Advice

"The McNary-Haugen bill is
the real rem-
edy for our sit-
uation." sa y 8 I
our president,
S. H. Thomp-
son. "We are |
going through
to the end to |
make It a law,

"Keep In
touch with your
Congressmen,''
Mr. Thompson
asks you. "Not
only ask their g. h.
support but ask them to use their
influence with their fellow mem-
t)ers to secure the passage of this
bill. Talk it over with your
neighbors. Tell your business
men and bankers atmut it. Show
them the fairness and merits of it-

"The time is short. It is now
well understood that Congress
will adjourn in June, which means
that we must put on aU the power
we have to get the McNary-Hau-
gea bill passed during this ses-
sion.

"It is conceded by all that the
present condition of agriculture
justifies the passage of this bill.
It does not add any burden to oar
government or any unnecessary
burden to the consuming public.
The entire cost is charged back to
the commodity.

"If you are for this emergency
measure now is the time for every
farm bureau member to declare
himself tp actively engage in tlM
battle to make it a law. Your of-
ficers are counting on your help."

ENDORSE McNARV-HACGEN
BILL

After the DeWitt Co*inty Farm
Bureau and the Clinton Cham-
ber of Commerce held a joint
meeting, the chamber ot com-
merce passed a resolution en-
dorsing the McNary-Haugen bill
and directed that a wire l>e sent
to 19th district Congressmen
urging them to support the meas-
ure.

000 tons." states J. R. Bent, di
rector of the department. "This
Is an average of 4,21S.61 torn;
for each county."

The report showed that there
are 13S local farmer - owned
limestone crushers In operating
condition In Illlnoi*

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ICVLTUBIAIL ASSOOAmBN

Published twice a month by the Illinois Agricultural
Association, 608 South Dearborn Street. Chicago, Illinois.
likliLea by Department of Information. E, l* Bill. Director.

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OFFICERS
President, S. H. Thompson, Qnincy.
Vice-President, C. B. Wat.son, DeKalb.
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomington.
Secretary, Geo. .\. Vox, Sycamore.

EXECirm'E COMMITTEE
Bj Congressional Districts

Jacob Olbrleh, Harvard

G. F. Tullock, Roekford

C. E. Bamborough, Polo

W. H. Moody, Port Byron

H. E. Goembel, Hoopole

, A. R. Wright, Varna

F. D. Barton, Cornell

, R. F. Karr, Iroquoii

...J, L. Whlsnand, Charleston

Earl C. Smith, Detroit

Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

Stanley Castle, Alton

.J. E. LIngenfelter, Lawrenceville

Curt Anderson, Xenia

Vernon Lessley, Sparta

Directors of Departments
I, A, A. Ofllce

General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker;
Organization, G. E. Met^ger; Information, E. L. Bill;
Transportation, L. J. Quasey: Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance. R. A. Covyles: Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, C. A. Stewart;
Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R. Bent; in charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, J. D.
Harper; special representative on Tuberculosis Eradi-
cation, M. H. Petersen.

Thompson Answers Rainey

Tke full texts of both Cojigres.sniaii Rainey 's let-
ter to President Thompson and our president's re-
ph' are printed in this Record. Read both and
you will find the stock objections to the relief mea-
sure land effective answers to them.

Oar Duty On April 8th

Farm bureau members have an important duty
to perform Tuesday, April 8, 1924, on primary
day. It is more than a duty to self — it is a duty
to agriculture as well as to our country. The re-
sponsibility to vote on primarj' da.v is equally im-
portBiit, if not more so, than to vote on election
daj'. Candidates are to be nominated for United
States Senator, for Governor, as well as other re-
sponsible public ofiSces.

Apiculture needs broad-minded and honest pub-
lic servants. It needs sympathetic friends in pub-
lic office. It is therefore imponant to carefully
scrutinize the character and record of candidates.

The duty of farm bureau members is not only
to vote but also to influence others to vote for able
and friendly candidates. The I. A. A. and farm
bureaus have often asked public servants for their
support of agricultijral measures. Public servants
have been told that their record was being watched.
They have not been promised the use of I. A. A. or
farm bureau organizations for re-election. How-
ever, men in public service who have served faith-
fully and ably have a right to expect every farm
bureau member to do his duty by voting at the
primarj- and using all proper methods to get others
less interested to vote,

Primarj' day not only brings a duty but an op-
portunity to demonstrate our right to demand
faithful and honest Service from men in public
office. Let's work, and vote. It is a sacred duty
we owe to our country, to agriculture, to our or-
ganiiations and to oiy^elves.

Cooperatives and the Farm Bureau

We are trj'ing to find ourselves in the relation
of county farm bureaus and cooperative market-
ing associations. Many county farm bureaus
have a direct tie-up with local livestock shipping
associations, and many more are planning a direct

relationship between the membership of the farm
bureau and the shipping associations.

The Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange ran into
this same problem in discussing the policy in re-
gard to qualifications for membership, and the
following motion was adopted :
, "In counties where there are farm bureaus,
it shall be the policy of the Board of Directors
to require individual members in the Illinois
Fruit Growers' E.xchange to become members
of the county farm bureau and the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association ; and in counties where
there are no farm bureaus, it shall be the
policy of the Board of Directors to require
the members joining the Illinois Fruit Grow-
ers' Exchange to agree to join the farm bu-
reau and the Illinois Agricultural Association
if organized in that county."
The farm bureau in Illinois, both eoun^y and
state organizations, has championed cooperative
marketing. It has worked hard in many different
ways to help cooperative associations over the
rough places. Now the question is whether the
farm bureau shall cut loose entirely from the
marketing associations or shall it have some defi-
nite relationship with them. The action of ship-
ping associations and of the Illinois Fruit Growers'
Exchange throws some light on this question.
Whiat do you say about itt

We Champion Cooperative Marketing

In the March 5 i.ssue under this .same head
we told about the Williams bill, carrying a num-
ber of amendments to the Packers and Stockyards
Act which would practically put the cooperative
livestock commission companies out of business.

The Williams bill is dead n6w. An I. A. A.
representative went to Washington and explained
to Congressman Williams what it would do to
cooperative marketing and Mr. Williams with-
drew the bill

"Strictly Clean" Doesn't Mean Washed Egg*

Following the recommendation of the Illinois
Poultry and Egg Shippers Association, many egg
buyers at country points are now bu.ving eggs on a
graded basis. The I. A. A. wa9 verj- active in pro-
moting this plan of paying a premium lo producers
of quality eggs.

These, buyers are offering five cents per dozen
more for "strictly clean (not washed), fresh eggs;
free from cracks and cheeks: weighing llA pounds
or more per dozen ; no duck, bantam, guinea or
small eggs."

Reports come to the I. A. A. that many people
are washing their eggs and thus losing the advan-
tage of the higher grade.

Most of the eggs sold during this period of the
year are sold for storage purposes and washed eggs
will not keep in storage. Washing removes the
protective covering, permitting germs and molds
to enter very readily, bringing about decomposi-
tion much earlier than otherwise.

Only eggs that go into the retail trade at once
should be washed.

The 1923 Wool Pool

There has b«*n some dissatisfaction with the net
prices received by the wool pool in. Illinois in
1923. Around 200,000 pounds of wool were con-
signed to the National Wool Warehouse and
Storage Company in 1923 as the Illinois share
of the pool.

Poolers with the better grades of wool were as
a whole well pleased with the results of the pool.
They received an average net price of 41 cents
for their wool compared to an average of 36
cents paid by local dealers. Of course there
were some instances where local dealers bid espe-
cially high in order to discourage pooling, caus-
ing complaints in such localities on the pool price.

The fact that wool graded lower than during
1922 resulted in a somewhat lower price. If the
grading had been on a par with the previous year

April S, 1924

the pool would have netted about two cents per
pound more. No satisfactory explanation can be
given for the difference in grading of the two
clips but the fact remains that Illinois wool in
the 1923 pool was as a whole of poorer quality
than that of the previous year.

One big difficulty with last year's pool was
that much of it was shipped in small lots, caus-
ing heavy transportation charges. It cost from
7 to 8 cents a pound to market wool through the
pool when small amounts were shipped hy freight
or express to their destination. Contrasted with
this is the example of a shipment from a western
Illinois county of 17.000 pounds in one carload
with total transportation and handling costs of
4 cents per pound until the wool, was warehoused.

Counties which expect to enter the wool pool
in 1924 must assemble their wool at a definite?
time to ship in carload lots if they expect satis-
faction. Good results cannot be obtained when
small shipments of wool are made indiscriminately
throughout the season. The cost^ are too high.

Jast as in the cooperative marketing of any
other commodity, there must be volume of the
product in order to bring the lowest transporta-
tion and other handling charges.

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Cream Producers' Problems

Figures taken from cream buying stations at
Paxton, Ford county, using the prices paid for
butterfat on the 26th of each month from May,
1923, to February, 1924, compared with prices on
the Chicago market for 92 score butter on the
same days, showed that the fanners received a
variation of all the way from one to seven cents
for their butterfat below the Chicago market
price for 92 score butter. In the ten months, on
the 26th of each month, the prices for fat at
Paxton varied from 32 to 53 cents with an aver-
age of 41.8 cents. The Chicago market for 92
score butter on these same days fluctuated from
4314 to 54 cents, with an average of 49.7 cents.

On March 18 the I. A. A. Dairj- Marketing de-
partment met with an organization committee of
Ford -county farm ibureau members interested in
changing such conditions as the above. On the
same day the cream buyers paid 45 cents for but-
terfat and the Chicago market for 92 score butter
was 43V2 cents, or one and one half cents above
the Chicago butter price.

Wasn't it quite a- coincidence that the cream
bu.vers' butterfat price went above the Chicago
butter market on the same day that farm bureau
members met to consider the proposition?

The 1923 report of the Mt. Carroll cooperative
creamery, which was organized with the aid of
the I. A. A., showed that the co-op paid its mem-
bers from 40 to 50 cents for butterfat' during
1923, or an average of 46.8 cents. That shows
what cooperative marketing can do.

The dairy marketing department did not recom-
mend the organization 01 a cooperative creamery
in Ford county as the amount of cream produced
is not sufficient to warrant a creaMery. How-
ever, the department recommended the organiza-
tion of a collective bargaining association through
which members of the cream producers' associa-
tion will have their own cream-gathering stations
and will contract for cream sales with some large
cream buyer. Their organization will study the
butter market and will be in a position to know
whether or not Ford county producers are receiv-
ing what they should for their butterfat.

Red Top Success

The Egjrptian Seed Growers' Exchange, com-
posed of over 600 red top seed producers in Clay,
WajTie and neighboring counties, sold 1,169,739
pounds of seed last year and members received a
net price of 11.6 cents per pound with the final
settlement that has recently been made. ^ This
beat the average price paid by local dealers in the
pooling district by about one half cent per pound.

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April 5, 1924

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HERE'S WHY WE ARE FOR McNARY-HAUGEN BILL

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This IS the Letter that
Rainey Wrote to Thompson

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I March 12, 1924.

Hon. S. H. Thompson,
Illinois Agricultural Association,
60S South Dearborn Street,- ' : . '■

Chicago, Illinois. '

My dear Mr. Thompson :

I am in receipt of your communication in the matter of this
McNary-Haugcn bill. I am studying the bill now. It contains
many most objectionable features. 1 think if it passes it will be
vetoed by the President.

I am a farmer, and live on my own farm, and farm it my-
self. I am also a member of the Farm Advisory Committee of
fifteen, appointed by our Illinois State University, and am there-
fore much interested in this subject.

I started out with the intention of supporting this bill, if pos-
fiiDle, for the reason that Farm Organizations were endorsing it.
But. the more I study it, the less I think of it. I am assuming that
the Illinois Agricultural Association in a matter as important as
this is to agriculture, has thoroughly studied the question before
committing itself to the proposition, and before the Association
reached the conclusion to "hereby request, urge, insist, and demand
that our Representatives in Congress earnestly, unqualifiedly, and
actively support and vote for this emergency relief measure and use
all their influence and power to secure the enactment of this mea-
sure at the earliest possible date "

Insists on Answers

The Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation, therefore, has so thor-
oughly committed itself to this
measure, that I feel that I am en-
titled to be advised by you repre-
senting the Association as to some
of the proposals in the bill, which
seem to me to be exceedingly ob-
jectionable. I am anxious to have
your views as to the matters
which I will attempt to outline.
Inasmuch as the matter may come
up very soon, and Inasmuch as
you speak for the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association, I am therefore
urging and insisting that you fur-
nish me a discussion from your
viewpoint of the matters I suggest
below at the earliest possible mo-
ment:

L Asks 25 Qnestlons

i. The bill proposes an issue
of "scrip" which will evidently
not be less In amount than |200,-
000,000 or 1300,000,000; and if
the bill is made to apply to all
the commodities enumerated in
the bilt the issue of "scrip" may
amount to several times that
amount. The only thing we know
definitely about this issue, as to
Its value, is that it will never be
worth its face. It will not on its
face purport to be legal tender,
but it can be passed from hand to
band just as a coupon bond Is
passed from hand to hand.

(a) Under the above circum-
stances, will it not in reality oper-
ate to bring about a period of ex-
pansion in our currency?

(b) An issue of "scrip" of this
kind may amount to as much as
one-fifth of our present circulating
medium. Would not its issue in
the amounts I have indicated, or
even in smaller amounts, in effect
increase our circulating medium
without increasing in the least our
gold base?

(c) Do you think farmers would
be satisfied with a "scrip" issue
in part paytnent for their wheat,
which will have an indefinite val-
ue, and which may have no value?

SpecnUitive Valoe
2. Inasmuch as the "scrip" In
question can be passed from hand
to band, and inasmuch as it is re-
deemable In the hands of the ul-
timate bolder when the time
comes to redeem, will it not al-
ways have a speculative value;

and is it not likely to be quoted
in Bucket Shops and similar
places; and will not its vague
and unsettled values have a de-
moralizing effect on agriculture
and commerce generally in the
United States?

What Abont Livestock Industry?
3. When the law is applied to
the Livestock industry, as it will
be, will not the law make It neces-
sary for the Government to go in-
to the business of slaughtering
and packing food animals? Can
you think of any way by which,
under this bill, the entry of the
Government into this great indus-
try— one of the greatest in the
world — can be avoided?

(a) It could be avoided, of
course, by resorting to the primi-
tive methods of long ago and ex-
porting food animals alive. Would
you advise that the Government
resort to this obsolete method?
What would the effect on agricul-
ture be if we turned back the
clock of progress In marketing
and handling food animals and
resort to these methods aban-
doned so long ago?

(b) Have you any idea as to
what Immediate investment the
Government would be required to
make in Packing Plants, Stock
Yards, Terminals, etc.?

(c) What would the effect of
the entry of the Government be
into the packing business upon the
great packing Industry we now
have in the United States?

(d) How would the Govern-
ment's entering into an industry
of that kind, involving perhaps
the expenditure of billions of dol-
lars in railroad switches, termin-
als, yards, packing plants, cold
storage warehouses, refrigerator
cars, ett.. etc., be financed?

(e) Would you finance it by is-
suing "scrip"?

(f) Would you finance it by a
Federal bond issue?

(g) If by a Bond Issue, would
you Issue tax-free bonds?

Asks Abont Bond Issue
(h) What effect would a bond
Issue of this kind have upon our
market at the present time, when
Government 414 Per Cent Bonds
are not yet selling at par? •

(I) Would it not have the effect
of still further depressing on the
market the value of bonds now

I. A. A. A nswers Rainey

Under date of March 12,
Congressman Henry T. Rain-
ey of Illinois, Twentieth Dis-
trict, addressed a long letter
to President S, H. Thompson
of the I. A. A., stating that
the McNary-Haugen bill con-
tains many objectionable fea-
tures, prophesying that it
would be vetoed if passed,
asking 25 questions about the
bill and Insisting upon a dis-
cussion of the bill from the
standpoint of the association.

Mr. Rainey's letter was re-
leased to the public press, it
was broadcasted over the
Chicago Board of Trade Ra-
dio Station and it has been
given wide distribution in a
printed form.

Herewith is the full text of
Mr. Rainey's letter and our
answer.

in the hands of citizens of the
United States?

(j) What interest rate would
you make? If a 4 ^ Per Cent
Government Bond will not sell at
par now, what rate would j-ou ex-
pect to make these bonds in order
to get purchasers to take them at
par?

(k) If you make a higfier rate
than 4 M Per Cent, would it not
still further decrease the market
value of our outstanding itsues?

Escpenses Increasing

4. In view of the fact that the
expenses of the Government are
continually increasing; that all
classes of Government employees
are demanding, and will receive
very soon, largely increased com-
pensation, is It not time to keep
the Government out of business
as much as possible, especially
when that business will involve
an additional Indebtedness of the
Government and more interest tor
tax payers to pay?

5. Do you not think the vague,
indefinite method of maintaining
a price level provided for In this
bill is unworkable and imprac-
ticable, and that in the end tbe
farmer will be the greatest suf-
ferer from its imposition. If It
should become a law?

What About Wool?

6. The bill applies to wool.
When we Import more than half
our requirements of wool, how
can a ratio price affect wool, the
object of this bill being essentially
to take care of our exportable sur-
plus, and by obtaining the very
best world price for our export-
able surplus keep up the domestic
price? In the matter of wool,
however, we have no exportable
surplus. We use twice as much
wool as we produce.

7. Would not the ratio price
of cotton be now below the pres-
ent price? Under these circum-
stances, what benefit would cot-
ton derive from this bill?

8. Please explain how this bill
can be arranged so as to apply to
hogs and cattle in such a way that
the farmer will be benefitted to
any degree by its application.

9. IS it not true that It Is in-
tended that the bill have no real
application, except as to wheat?

10. If wheat Is to be the only
product upon which the law will
operate. Is it not true that the re-
maining products are put Into tbe

(Continued on paie 4)

"And Here is Thompson's
Answer-The LA. A, Stand

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Honorable Henrv T. Rai!*e|, j ■ March 31, 1924.

House of Representative J'Tl . ,
Washington, U. C. I ' '

My dear Mr. Rainey :

Your letter and memoraodum of March 12, 1924, are at
hai^. We are in full concurrence with your conclusion that
' ' farmers of the countrj- are in a desperate condition : ' ' that
■ ''agricultitre is in a deplorable condition." We note your in-
sistence that we reply immediately to your attack »in the Me-
N'ary-Haugen bill, an insisttncc which you base on the assiinip-
tion that we "have studied the question and are expert in these
matters" but qualified by your fears that the eoniBuinieations
.vou have received from farm bureaus are inspire<i by the offi-
cers of this association sincei they are "all couched in practically
the same language."

You further fear that thene farm bureaus who are now writlne
members of Congress in favor of the bill have not studied the ques-
tions involved, haVe not reaiched conclusions for themselves, but
are, on the contrary-, victims ef propaganda, impliedly ours. You
complain that the whole demand for your support reeolves itself
into a wish that you should act as a rubber stamp.

You lay great stress on the similarity of language In all conjraqnl-
cations received by you in favor of this bill.

Is it pertinent to inquire wheth-
er you have seen the letter signed
(and presumably composed)' by
Sydney Anderson to Mr. Sel\ig of
Crookston, Minnesota? That let-
ter also attacks the McNary-Hau-
gen bill and,; as shown in a reply
to Mr. Anderson, seems to be
based largely on the special inter-
ests of millera and grain men and
to be opposed to the Interes^ of
farmers.

Extraordinary Similarity

We ask whether you have seen
this letter l)ecause we, on our side,
wonder whether yon have studied
the question addressed by your
letter or whether you have merely
accepted the conclusion of some
other analyst. It must be remark-
ed that there is an extraordisary
similarity, not only between the
language in your letter and that
of Mr. Anderson's but also in the
general plan, of your letter, its
heads of argument, its conclusion,
its misinformation and its obvious
source of inspiration.

Can It be possible that you. are
consoriing more with the special
interests opposed to the bill tlian
with the basic underlying interest
of American agriculture which is
simply another way of saying" the
interests of the general American
public?

We ask these questions before
we answer yours (and in the same
communication in which we do
answer yours) merely that we may
stand on even ground in this dis-
cussion. There must be some dis-
semination of information and ar-
gument to tbe farmers of this
country In respect of the measnree
being considered at Washington
In their t>ehalf, otherwise their
needs must be left entirely at the
mercy of ' those whose interests
may not In all things lie parallel
with theirs and who have better
methods than they of presenting
to Congress of a particular point
of view.
'Rapidly Crystallizlni; Opinion

But it has not been our olj-
servation that the outstanding in-
divIduallBt of our national com-
munity— the American farmer —
takes his ideas ready made from
the hands of any man. The com-
munications you and other ton-
gressmen are receiving from the
broad face of this country in in-

creasing number reprecent a rapid-
ly cr>*stallizing opinion, based on
the equity of a claim which we
shall attempt to ditciiss more in
detail in the latter paragraphs
of this letter. If this l>e a repre-
sentative government, then we dt>
think that a member of Congress
ought to record the impressions —
not of a particular association
—but of the constituents who
chose him to represent them.

With these few words explain-
ing our general point vf view on
the more critical assertions of your
letter, we will proceed to consider-
ation of its argument.

Qoestlon Alrooat RidtcidotM

You first ask whether the scrip
proposed by the lIcNary-Haugen
bill will not operate to "expand
our currency." If the sense yon
are attempting to import Into the
discussion (that it is a government
issue, not based on gold) the
question is almost rfdiculous. In
the last paragraph of your letter
you make your meaning clear
when you call It "flat money" —
you are dealing in technical terms
with no knowledge of their Intend-
ment. The scrip is only evidence
of a right to participate In a res-
idue, by its very terras of less
value than the face amount of the
scrip.

Currency is an obligation to
pay a stated face amount — flat
money is paper stating: a value
plus a law requiring its acceptance
at that value. This ecrlp is tbe
direct antithesis of either. TTiere-
fore both of your suggestions of
"inflation" and "flat" hardly merit
a serious answer. The scrip Is not
a government issue in the first
prace, l>eing of unnamed and nn-
ceriain value it is not even "ne-
gotiable paper." Specifically the
answer to your ill-considered and
ill-informed question is "No. '
Scrip Offseu Expansion

To an extent, all i-alues upon
which credit is based operate to
"Increase our circulating media,"
which is quite another thing. A
higher price for any agricultural
product would operate, pro toiifo.
to do this. The fact that a portion
of the increase in price is repre-
sented by scrip of less than face
value would tend to offset the ex-
pansldn that would eorur If tbe
entire; price were paid in cash.
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Since It Will Relieve Him —

Rainey Asks 25 Questions
On Farm Relief Measure

J (CoRtinurd from pdjw i)

bill for political purposes only, in
the hope that farmers will be
fooled into believing they are go-
ing to get some advantage out of
the passage of this legislation?
Hns Farmer Itenefilted?

11. Inasmuch as Congress so
far has passed every piece of al-
leged remedial legtslation Farm
Organizations have asked, is it
not time to inquire into what ben-
efits farmers have derived from
the legislation, presumably passed
at the demand of the Farm Bloc
in Congress and Agricultural As-
sociations?

(a I Has the farmer benefitted
by the protective tariff Congress
has given him or practically
everything he produies?

<bl I notice that liogs are now
going up on the Chicago markets.
Is this due to the pre tective tariff,
inasmuch as there is no protec-
tive taritt on hogs?

(c) Would it not be advisable
for the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation to advocate a reduction in
the tar'ff on all articl?s the farmer
buys? I

(4) Is it the poiition of the
lltinoi* Agrlculturall Association
that the tariff does njot add to the
price the faririer pays for things
he is compelled to piirchase?
Wiiy Not Havi Kye?

12. Can you e.\p|ain why the
bill does not includq in its provi-
sions, rye, oats, and, barley?

(a) Is it not true that in certain
countries to which we export
wheat, rye is used interchange-
ably with wheat, and the price of
wheat is affected veify directly by
the price of rye? •

(b) If the above Is true, and I
think you will answjer that it is,
then why not inclu4e rye in the
provisions of this bill?

Raiite Commodity Index

13. If we raise Artificially the
price of all farm prcjducts to cor-
respond with the leivel of prices
of all commodities, ^il' ""^ "<>' ^^
compelled also to raise the all
commodity index, and if we do
that, how in point of fact can we
ever get these prlce» into adjust-
ment with the basic ratio price?

.Vsiu .\bont Ratio Price

14. Where is the ratio price to
be applied? Is it to be based on
New York, Chicago, or some other
point?

(a) Will there be different ra-
tio prices for all theee terminals?

(b) How will the ratio price be
reflected back to the farmer
through the local elevator?

(c) There are a number of
classei of wheat, and a number of
grades within each class, and how
can the intrinsic vftlue of each
class and grade to the miller be
controlled by ratio I prices estab-
lished by the Government?

What Will Milfer Do?

(d) If the miller biiys the grade
which represents the best value
for the ratio price, {what will be
the eBect on the market of the
less ralaable grades^

(e) Will not the n^iller buy only
on a limited basis;: will he not
buy wheat only to fit orders he is
able to get for floUr at a price
which will protect him?

(f) Is it not true that the miller
will be unable to make flour for
the export trade at all unless he
is assured against loes?

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(g) Is there any authority in
the bill by which the miller can be
indemnified against possible loss?

(h) If he is not indemnified
against loss, will he not desert the
foreign field for his products?

(i) What effect would this have
upon the farmer if the miller re-
fuses to take chances and engage
in the business of exporting flour?
.^.•iks .All .\b«ut Wheat

15. is it not true that the con-
sumption of wheat in the United
States fluctuates from one year to
another more than one bushel per
capita — 110,000,000 bushels a
year?

(a) Is it not true that wheat Is
harvested somewhere in the world
every month in the year?

(b) If to each of the above
questions your answer is Yes,
then, how is it possible to estimate
months in advance the questions
of production, exjportable surplus,
or foreign prices?

(c) If it is impossible to so es-
timate in the above matters, how
can a ratio price be established?

What Will lie Kviiense?

16. What will be the expense
of the operation of the agencies
of the Government contemplated
in this bill?

(a) How many employees will
there be?

(b) Will there ,not be many
thousand employees?

Store About "Scrip"

17. Does not the ultimate
value of the "scrip" depend upon
the loss made on foreign sales and
the e.ipense of operating the Gov-
ernment's agencies. If the "scrip"
so issued depends on these un-
certain elements, and if it can be
transferred, does it not present a
splendid opportunity for specula-
tion and fraud?

(a) If it does furnish such op-
portunities, are the penalties pro-
vided sufficient, inasmuch as they
are only civil penalties?
They'd Be Bribed

18. At the present time, there
are frauds in every Department of
the Government so far investi-
gated, and civic honesty seems to
be at a discount. Even Cabinet
Members have been bribed.

(a) When conditions are as
above indicated, is it not unwise
to create another Department such
as is contemplated in this bill,
and with a large personnel of of-
ficials, all of whom would be sub-
jected to unusual temptations in
the matter of bribes, etc.?
LotA of E.v|ierlnienls, He Thinks

19. During the period of the
World War, and since then, is it
not true that every sort of experi-
ment in Government control of
food prices has been tried in this
country and abroad?

(a) Can you point to any
method so far adopted by this
Government in the matter of con-
trolling food prices which has "been
successful?

(b) Has not every method
adopted so far in numerous bills
passed by Congress, all of which
your organization has advocated,
resulted merely in increasing the
overhead of farmers by giving
them more enticing opportunities
for borrowing money?

(c) Wni yon call my attention
to a single instance in the world
of a satisfactory maintenance of

price of food products over a con-
siderable period of time?

20. is it not true that the only
way to maintain a price is to have
a bu.ver willing and able to take
iverything offered at the price
specified?

(a) Will this bill have that ef-
fect?

Will It Increase Acrease?

21. If the fixed price is high
enough to do the farmer any good,
will it not have the effect of in-
creasing the acreage?

(a) Your answer to the above
must, of course, be Yes; and, if
the acreage is increased and the
production of the product is con-
tinually increased will not the in-
creased production make it al-
ways more and more difficult to
maintain a price level?

Okhilionia Wheat Growers

22. In the same mail which
brought me your letter this morn-
ing, I received information to the
effect that the Oklahoma Wheat
Growers Association, consisting of
11,000 producers of wheat de-
nounce the McNary-Haugen bill as
a new and dangerous burden to be
borne by the farmer.

(a) Oklahoma is a great wheat
producing state. They produce
about as much wheat as we do in
Illinois. In 1920 they produced
over 54,000,000 bushels. In that
year we produced in Illinois only
45,000,000 bushels. The 1920
wheat production in Oklahoma is
a larger production than we have
ever attained in Illinois from 1909
to the present time, except in 1922
when we produced slightly more
than this.

Have They Studied It?

(b) Oklahoma farmers are more
vitally interested in wheat than
Illinois farmers. Their production
of corn in Oklahoma is negligible
as compared to our production.
They produce usually about l-5th
as much corn in Oklahoma as we
produce.

(c) It is therefore reasonable to
suppose that the Oklahoma Wheat
Growers Association have given as
much study to the subject as the
Illinois Agricultural Association.

(d) How do you account for the
absolutely different conclusion
reached by the Oklahoma Wheat
experts as contrasted with the con-
clusion your Organization has
reached?

(e) What is a Member of Con-
gress to do when two agricultural
organizations — equally important
and equally interested — reach
such absolutely different conclu-
sions?

(f) Under these circumstances,
do you think you have the right to
demand that a Member of Con-
gress from Illinois shall "unquali-
fiedly and actively support and
vote for" the McNary-Haugen
hill?

Thinks We .Advis«<I liethirtlon

23. Under the advice of Agri-
cultural Organizations in Illinois,
including I think the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association, farmers have
been urged to restrict wheat
acreage and to use wheat land
tor other crops, in order to bring
up the price of wheat.

(a) Acting upon this advice a
great many farmers in Illinois
have sown less wheat. If the
position of the proponents of this
legislation Is correct, and the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill produces a bet-
ter price for wheat, how can you
square yourself with those farmers

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who have accepted your advice
and who have sown less wheat?
(lovernment in Grain Bu.siness

24. Would not the McNary-
Haugen bill put the Federal Gov-
ernment actively into the grain
business?

(a) Your answer, of course,
must be in the aflirmative to the
above question. If the Govern-
ment goes actively into the grain
business, can you think of any
reason why it should not engage in
other kinds of business? And. If
it engages in other kinds of busi-
ness, why not in all other kinds
of business?

(b) Is your proposition, there-
fore, not socialistic? Will it not
lead to the same results it carried
out logically that the movements
in Russia have attained?

Compares It With Bolshevism

(c) But, the Russian Soviets
could not succeed in any measure
until they took over also the land.
Would you not regard this result
as destructive of all our ideals and
of civilization itself?

(d) Fortunately, however, even
in Russia the Government has now^
abandoned the control of land and
has commenced recently to recog-
nize absolute free trade in bread
grains.

(e) Do you not think the Rus-
sian experiment with its dead
numbering over 7,000.000 ought
to dissuade our people from pro-
ceeding in that direction?

(f) Would we not be proceeding
in that direction if we accepted in
this particular the advice of the
Illinois Agricultural Association?

Wonders If We Know What
We* re Doing

25. I have commenced to re-
ceive communications from Farm
Bureaus in Illinois, evidently in-
spired by your letter to me, which
I am now discussing. These com-
munications are all couched prac-
tically in the same language, and
all "insist that our representatives
in Congress unqualifiedly and ac-
tively support and vote for" the
McNary-Haugen bill.

(a) Do you contend that the
Farm Bureau advisers who are
now sending these Resolutions to
Members of Congress have studied
the question; or, have they simply
accepted your advice?

(b) If they have studied this
most important question and
reached these conclusions for
themselves, how does it happen
that in their Resolutions they use
the exact language you use in your
communication to me?

(c) Do you really think a con-
scientious Member of Congress
ought to be influenced by propa-
ganda of this kind; or, do you
think he ought to reason these
matters out and study them care-
fully?

(d) Do you think a Member
of Congress ought to become a
mere rubber stamp to record the
impressions of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association?

MEMORANDA

I have suggested hurriedly
above only a part of the objec-
tions which occur to me now to
the legislation you so enthusiasti-
cally champion; and I am asking
for a full and satisfactory reply
from you before I can consent to
vote as you have demanded that
I vote In this matter. >

You will pardon me I am sure
for imposing upon you the burden
of replying to this communication,
but. Inasmuch as you "demand"
that the Representatives in Con-

gress from Illinois unqualifiedly
and actively support the McNary-
Haugen bill, I feel that I have the
right to demand and unqualifiedly
insist that you, as the head of the
Illinois Agricultural Association,
which stands for this bill, favor
me with a reply to all the above
suggestions, so that I can print in
the Congressional Record, if poss-
ible in parallel columns, this let-
ter of inquiry addressed to you
and your reply to the same. ,■

Deplorable Condition

I realize that Agriculture is in
a deplorable condition, but it can
be made much worse than it is
by the adoption of dangerous
methods of relief. Since the World
War many suggestions have been
made for stabilizing prices, rang-
ing from the commodity dollar of
Irvine Fisher (which seems plaus-
ible and possible), and the "Bar-
ley dollar ' of some of the Balkan
states, to the vague and indefinite
agricultural "scrip" proposed by
this bill. It would be much easier
for me in an agricultural district
like mine, so far as the next elec-
tion goes, to accept your sugges-
tions and avoid the implied threat
which goes with them, than to op-
pose this bill. But, a Member of
Congress is required to take an
oath and assume an obligation in
all these matters; and. therefore,
before making up my mind un-
qualifiedly to support the measure
for which you sta*" x, I am address-
ing this communication to you. It
your answers are satisfactory and
remove the doubts in my mind,
I will support it. If your answer
is not satisfactory I expert to vote
against the bill a;- it stands now.
.Answers Will Have Great Weight

Inasmuch as I have immediately
responded to your letter (I re-
ceived your letter of March 10th
only a few minutes ago), I ant
asking you to show me a like
courtesy by immediately respond-
ing to this communication, so that
in reaching my conclusions I ran
have the benefit of your reply. 1
am assuming, of course, that you
have studied the question, and
that you are an expert in these
matters, and therefore your
answers will' have great weight
with me, and I am sure with many
other Members of Congress.

It has become the habit in this
dangerous period of our economic
life as a nation, for Members of
Congress to vote for a measure
upon the theory that it is the only
relief proposed, and that while it
is not everything that could be
desired, still . it promises some-
thing. This is the excuse many
Members of Congress make for
supporting some of the vague in-
definite propositions now sub-
mitted. The passage of a mea-
sure, howeveiV so revolutionary as
this measure, so destructive of all
our present systems of exchange
and marketing, involving the poss-
ible destruction o^the present pri-
mary markets for farmers is
fraught with grave possibilities,
and may result in untold injury to
an industry which is now almost
Wostrate.
Don't Think "Scrip" Will Help

Farmers of the country are in
a desperate condition. I do not
think you can allay their suspic-
ions nor restore their confidence
by handing to them in part pay-
ment for things they produce a
"scrip" about the value of which
we can know nothing except that
it will not be worth Its face. With

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In short, the effect of the bill
to increase price would increase
the credit obligations in the money
market, but the increase would be
eminently sound because the in-
creased value would proportion-
ately increase the basis of that
credit. The effect of the issue of
scrip as part of the price would
tend .^o limit the increase and
whether it did or did not your ob-
jection is without merit — even al-
most without coherency.

\-a Viiwordiy Ohjeclion
If you object to the raising of
the price of agricultural products
to a fair e.\chanj;e value (no high-
er) and base, your objection on
the ground that it would increase
qlrculative media, then there is no
more to be said. But since we
»11 admit that the present price is
less than cost of production, your
opposition would reduce to this —
that you advocate taking the
farmer's crop away from him at
less than its fair value because.
to do otherwise, would increase
the circulation of evidences of
credit granted. We regard this
objection as unworthy it not im-
moral and we feel sure that, on
careful thought, you will abandon
it.

Mucli Smaller Iliitlo
Regarding the matter from an-
other point of view, the bill es-
tablishes a corporation with power
to buy and sell export products.
It authorizes this corporation to
emit its obligations in a very much
smaller ratio than that employed
by industrial corporations in fi-
nancing their operations. To the
extent that any debtor emits obli-
-gations of such sundries that they
may pass from hand to hand as
negotiable paper, he is increasing
the media of commercial exchange.
Such is the ordinary and salu-
tary customs of the commerce of
the United States. Such, but in
much smaller proportion than is
common jn Industry, would be the
custom of this corporation. This
latter custom is sound commercial-
ly and financially and the objec-
tion to it on the ground that It
"expands the currency" is merely
• brave banner of words signifying
nothing.

Wonld Parmer Object
You ask whether farmers would
be satisfied with a scrip issue in
part payment for their wheat? If
a farmer who now receives $1.00
a bushel for his wheat, for ex-
ample, has the choice of receiving
tl.55, 45 cents of the Increase be-
ing in cash and 10 cents in scrip,
will he refuse the 45 cents because
.the 10 cents is not in cash? We
think the question answers itself.
Speculative Valne
You ask if the scrip will not
have a speculative value. Of course
It will have a speculative value.
Wheat has a speculative value and
the speculation in scrip will have
precisely the range of uncertainty
that wheat now has — no more and
no less. It may be quoted in buck-
et shops and similar places just as
wheat is quoted — no more and no
less.

What boots it to the farmers
or indeed to any other citizen that
this is so and why should it have
any more "demoralizing effect on
agriculture and commerce gener-
ally" than the speculative element

in the value of wheat, corn, cotton,
live stock, meat products, oil, or
any other commodity of com-
merce?

"A Terrifjing Monster"
Your third numbered paragraph
partakes of the method of him
who constructs a terrifying mon-
ster and thpn adds to the gaiety
of the nations by girding on his
armour, attacking it fiercely and
boldly and cutting it to pieces.

You say that when the law is
applied to the live stock industry
it will ffliake it necessary for the
government to go into the business
of slaughtering and packing food
animals and you want to know
how this enormous inv'estment is
to be financed, whether we have
any idea of the amount of the in-
vestment, how the government
could enter into so complicated an
industrial operation.

You advert to this same argu-
ment elsewhere as though wheat
were to be sold to millers only
at Jhe domestic price, thus pre-
venting them from exporting flour,
even as you think the bill would
prevent the packers from export-
ing meat products because they
could not compete with the lower
foreign prides.

>Ii.sconstrue<l Bill
In all this you have simply mis-
construed or neglected to read the
bill. The latter is quite possible
since the objection appears else-
where. The bill would not create
any mechanism at all.

Is there anything complicated
or difficult in commissioning ex-
isting grain, cotton, meat or mill-
ing companies to buy a product
until price reaches a certain fig-
ure? Is there anything imprac-
ticable in commissioning the same
or others to sell to export a cer-
tain quantity of the products pur-
chased? Individual operators do
this daily, single handed and
alone. Is there anything complex
or difficult about allowing the
owners of existing mechanism a
commission to manufacture cer-
tain products for export, a differ-
ential representing the loss in ex-
port sales, and charging same to
the corporation to be absorbed by
the scrip fund?

Not Government Dep't
You seem to forget that it is not
a department of the government
that is entering these operations.
It is only a corporation similar in
nearly all respects to an industrial
corporation which has been per-
mitted by the government — as all
corporations must be permitted by
state or national government — to
carry on certain operations.

You entirely overlook the fact
that it does not have to duplicate
one single bit of existing machin-
ery and that it will utilize exist-
ing machinery with the least dis-
turbance to present methods and
customs that It Is possible to imag-
ine.

\ot Vague or Indeflnite
You ask whether we do not
think that the "vague, indefinite
method of maintaining a price
level provided for in this bill is
unworkable." There Is nothing
vague or indefinite about the
method proposed. Indeed, math
ematlcs could scarcely be more in-
cisive, emphatic and accurate. You
fear that the farmer will suffer by

a restoration of his price levels to
their pre-war exchange values?
He is suffering enough now in all
conscience and if you will be kind
enough to point out one head of
suffering imposed by the bill, we
promise to "consider it with the
greatest care.

You are quite correct in saying

that as long as we import wool, the

tariff alone can be made to give

the wool grower araiile protection.

Hasn't Studied Cotton

We are amazed as to your in-
quiry as to "what benefit cotton
would derive from this bill." We
conclude that you have not given
much time to the study of the his-
tory of cotton. Do you know that
the tariff operates on the producer
of a crop of which we export a
surplus as a subsidy o* industry at
his expense? Do you know that
this tact was the economic cause
of the Civil War inaugurated by
the cotton exporting South against
the protected industrial North?

One need go no further back
than three years to find the time
when the price of cotton was far
below this pre-war exchange value.
If the boll weevil and the parsi-
mony of nature have, for a brief
time, cured this situation, surely
you would not advocate bringing

Congressman Has
Fears that Bill

will be Ruinous

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reference to this method of pay-
ment, the farmer can only defi*-
nitely know that he will never get
the agreed price for his products.
He can never know what the price
will be. It does not appear to me
now from the study I have so far
given the question that this mea
sure will appease the unrest which
prevails today in agricultural cir-
cles, and if it does not have that
effect, it will only increase the
farmers' suspicions and his dis
trust of his Government and its
agencies.

Xeeds Foreign Market
It seems to me that what the
farmer needs most of all are con-
suming units abroad for his prod-
ucts who are able to pay a price
for his surplus, which will enable
the American farmer to obtain a
living wage on his farm. Under
an unfortunate leadership, this
country has abandoned its rela-
tions with other natiotiff and is
pursuing a policy of Isolation.
Whenever we abandon our policy
of isolation and assume those
world responsibilities which are
ours, and do our part toward
quietiiTg the distrust of each other
which prevails among nations
which consume our surplus food
products, then we will have done
much in the matter of restoring
that confidence to food-consuming
nations, which will enable them to
engage again in industry and earn
the money with which to pay the
prices they ought to pay for our
surplus.

It seems to me now the "scrip"
issues provided for in this bill
constitute a "fiat" currency not
dreamed of before- since the
capitalistic period commenced in
the world by any considerable re-
sponsible group in any commer-
cial nation in the world.
Very truly yours,

HENRY T. RAINEY,
Member of Congress.
20th District Illinois.

all other farmers within the pro-
tection of the tariff but leaving
the cotton farmer in his old in-
equitable position. As to any
crop, at any time that its domestic
price is above pre-war exchange
value, the corporation simply
would not function.

Amemis Tariff f<ir Fanner
The bill should be res;arded as
an amendment to the tariff law
acting promptly and effectively for_
the protection of the farmer of
any product whenever he needs
protection and remaining dormant
whenever he does not. At present
the cotton farmer does not need
the protection of the bill but it
will be there for his salvation
when he does.

Hogs and Cattle
You ask us to explain how this
bill can be arranged so-as to ap-
ply to hogs and cattle. We have
already done -So in the answer to
your apprehAision lest the govern-
ment be involved in a Jfreat indus-
trial operation and it you have
paid any attention at all to hear-
ings of the bill you have already
been fully answered.

You ask whether it is not true
that it is the Intention of the bill
to have no real application except
as to wheat. «nd suggest that the
remaining products are put into
the bill for political purposes only.
Bill .Means What It Sayn
The answer is that the bill
means just what it says, and. in-
sofar as it restores equality to ag-
riculture. It will have a most im-
portant political bearing. Con-
cerning your suggestion that other
;product8 were included only to
deceive, you are quite wrong. But
suppose that the bill was intended
onl.v to relieve the wheat farmer
at this time. Since it will relieve
him. why should you object? Why
should anybody object?

Is it not true that the sugges-
tion that the bill would apply only
to wheat cannot honestly be con-
sidered as an objection to the
merits at all but must be branded
tor what it is — a piece of political
claptrap, intended to arouse the
Jealousy, the envy, and the oppoei-
tion of those who. if sufficiently
deceived and Incited, might feel
that, if there were no salvation for
them they would see to it that
there should be no salvation for
anyone else. Is this statesman-
ship? Is t^is your meaning?
Other Legislation
You ask whethenthe farmer has
benefitted from any legislation
thus far passed in his behalf and
especially whether he has benefit-
ted from the higher tariffs on ag-
ricultural products. The difference
between the measures you mention
and this bill Is that they were
not based on economic analysis ad-
dressed to the true cause of the
farmers' trouble.

You will have great difficulty in
demonstrating that such is the
case with the McNar>*-Haugen bill
H Is the only measure yet proposed
which has any bearing on the real
cause of the agricultural depres-
sion which it meets fairly at ever}'
point, effectually corrects and be-
yond any possibility of doubt;
would immediately be effective to
restore the pre-war exchange of,
the products to which it is* applied.
At no place in your argument
do you contest this effect. - In:
other words, here U a bill, the es-
sense and purpose of which i« to
raise the price of farm products
no higher than to an equitable
parity with the price if other,

products, and yet, tn liscussinc
this bill, you eptirely overlook that
fact and content yourstfrVnh a
repetition of the unsOund and
-alarmist objections that fiave thu«

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far characterized the (imposition
to the bill.

Mliy Include R) (T
You ask us to explaii why the
bill does not include ii its pro-
vision ryi-. oats and barley, and
you say that in the cointries to
which we sxport wheat, i ye is used
interchangeably and thai the price
of wheat is affected by the prir.
of rye.

The answer to your question is

tanother question. Why i hould rje

be included? The bill will not

(Change the price of wh< at in the

'foreign market nor wii It affect .

the relative consumptionl of wheat

and rye in that market, j In order

that operations be not tto greatl>

complicated, the bill, mkking us*-

of the knovtJedge that] the price

of rye is a complcMiie|it of ttte

price of wheat, contents ^teelf with

addressing wheat for tite simple

reason that it is unnecessary to

include other small graitis.

"(breaking Old .^rg^menl*^
You a.sk whether by falsing th*-
price of farm products to corr<*s-
{»ond with the price of all com-
liiodities we will not bejcompelled
to raise the commodity inde^ and
if we do that, you assert that we
can never pet prices va^o ahjusi-
nient with the basic r^tio jirice.
We recognize this crefcking old
argument and we know Its source.
A rise of 20 points Intthe wheat
index raises the general priCe in-
dex 1 point, and the lejiser prod-
ucts have a fraction. of |hifi effect.
Considering an examplfl in which
the figures are taken f4r conven-
ience of computation, we shall sup-
pose that the wheat indtx and the
general price index bptli stand
at 100. The bill passes land raises
the wheat index to 1J50 This
would raise the general index 2.6
to 102.5. This would! raise the
wheat price again to 15t.75 which
in turn would raise tl|e general
price index but only a Very small
amount this time— .Ifij'S points
or to 102.6875. I'p I goes the
iWheat index but only by, .28125 on
this calculation. whicl| in turn
raises the general pric4 index^ a«
amount so small that it would not
be considered— .0140 or to 102.7015.
"Silly Galmlatlotis"
On the next calculation the in-
crement in the general |>rice index
would be only .00105 and since
only two decimal point! are com-
puted the terrifying prbcess is at
an end. The argument is scholas-
tic— "how many angels, can stand
on a needle's point?" li one cared
to carry on tliese silly calculations,
he would find that, whereas restor-
ation of wheat to its ilre-war ex-
change value would raile the gen-
eral price index 2.5 joints, ten
thousand subsequent calculations
made on this nonsensical argument
would not raise it ank>ther half
point and every sabseqient calcu-
lation would carry the increment
another decimal point nearer zero.
In other words, the incnement rap-
idly becomes inflnitefimal and
would be disregarded ,)n practice
on the third calculation.

Present Prices Mean Loas
But in order to get a *iew of the
morals of all these arguments,
suppose it were literallt' true that
restoration of fair exchange value
to agriculture would raise the cost
of living salwtantially. Pre-war

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Since It Will Relieve Him—'

Rainey.Asks 25 Questions
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bill for political purposes only, in
the hope that farmers will be
fooled into believins they are go-
ing to set some advantage out of
the passage of this legislation?
Hhs Farmer nenefllteil?

11. Inasmuch as Congress so
far has passed every piece of al-
leged remedial legislation Farm
Organizations have asked, is it
not time to inquire into what ben-
efits fsrmers have derived from
the legislation, presuhiably passed
at the demand of the Farm Bloc
in Conjiress and Agricultural As-
aoeiatiens?

( a I Has the farmer benefitted
by the protective tariff Congress
has given bini on practically
everything he produces?

(b) I notice that hogs are now
going UT> on the Chicago markets.
Is this due to the protective tariff,
inasmuch as there is no protec-
tive tariff on hogs?

(ci Would it not be advisable
for the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation to advocate a reduction in
the tariff on all articles the farmer
bujs? j

(d) Is it the position of the
Illinois Agricultural .Vssociation
that the tariff does not add to the
price the farmer pays for things
he is compelled to purchase?
Why Xot Have Kye?

12. Can you explain why the
bill does not include in its provi-
sions, r>e. oats, and barley?

(a) Is it not true that in certain
countries to which we export
wheat, rye is used interchange-
ably with wheat, and the price of
wheat is affected very directly by
the priee of rye?

(b) If the above is true, and I
think you will answer that it is,
then why not include rye in the
provisions of this bill?

Raise Commodity Index

13. If we raise artificially the
price of all farm products to cor-
respond with the level of prices
of all commodities, will we not be
compelled also to raise the all
commodity index, and if we do
that, how in point of fact can we
ever get these prices Into adjust-
ment with the basic ratio price?

AVks About Ratio Price

14. Where is the ratio price to
be applied? Is it to be based on
New York. Chicago, or some other
point?

( a I Will there be different ra-
tio prices for all these terminals?

(b) How will the ratio price be
reflected] back to the farmer
through the local elevator?

(el There are a number of
classes of wheat, and a number of
grades within each class, and how
can the intrinsic value dt, each
class and grade to the mnler be
controlled by ratio prices estab-
lished by the Government?
What Will Miller Do?

(d) If the miller buys the grade
which represents the best value
for the ratio price, what will be
the effect on the marltet of the
less valuable grades?

(e) Will not ^he miller buy only
on a limited basis; will he not
buy •wheat only to fill orders he is
able to get for flour at a price
whi(^ will protect him?

(f) Is it not true that the miller
Kill be unable to make flour tor
the export trade at all unless he
is usured against lossi

(g( Is there any authority in
the bill by which the miller can he
indemnified against possible loss?

(hi If he is not indemnified
against loss, will he not desert the
foreign field for his products?

(i) What effect would this have
upon the farmer if the miller re-
fuses to take chances and engage
in the business of exporting flour?
Asks All About Wheat

15. Is it not true that the con-
sumption of wheat in the United
States fluctuates from one year to
another more than one bushel per
capita — 110,000,000 bushels a
year?

' (a) Is it not true that wheat is
harvested somewhere in the world
every month in the year?

(b) If to eich of the above
questions your answer is Yes,
then, how is it possible to estimate
months in advance the questions
of production, exportable surplus,
or foreign prices?

(c) If it is impossible to so es-
timate in the above matters, how
can a ratio price be established?

What Will Re Kx|.ense?

16. What will be the expense
of the operation of the agencies
of the Government contemplated
in this bill?

(a) How many employees will
there be?

(b) Will there not be many
thousand employees?

^lore .About "Scrip**.

17. Does not the ultimate
value of the "scrip" depend upon
the loss made on foreign sales and
the expense of operating the Gov-
ernment's agencies. If the "scrip"
so issued depends on these un-
certain elements, and if it can be
transferred, does it no^ present a
splendid opportiinity for specula-
tion and fraud?

(a) If it does furnish such op-
portunities, are the penalties pro-
vided sufficient, inasmuch as they
are only civil penalties?
They'd Be Bribed

18. At the present time, there
are frauds in every Department of
the Government so far investi-
gated, and civic honesty seems to
be at a discount. Even Cabinet
Members have been bribed.

(a) When conditions are as
above indicated, is it not unwise
to create another Department such
as is contemplated in this bill,
and with a large personnel of of-
ficials, all of whom would be sub-
jected to unusual temptations in
the matter of bribes, etc.?
Lots of E\|>erinients, He Thinks

19. During the period of the
World War, and since then, is it
not true that every sort of experi-
ment in Government control of
food prices has been tried in this
country and abroad?

(a) Can you point to any
method so far adopted by this
Government in the matter of con-
trolling food prices ^hich has been
successful?

(b) Has not every method
adopted so far in numerous bills
passed by Congress, all of which
your organization has advocated,
resulted merely in increasing the
overhead of farmers by giving
them more enticing opportunities
for borrowing money?

(cl Will you call ray attention
to a single Instance in the world
of a satisfactory maintenance of

price of food products over a con-
siderable period of time?

20. is it not true that the only
way to maintain a price is to have
a bu.ver willing and able to take
everything offered at the price
specified?

(a) Will this bill have that ef-
fect?

Will It Increa.se Acrease?

21. If the fixed price is high
enough to do the farmer any good,
will it not have the effect of in-
creasing the acreage?

(a) Your answer to the above
must, of course, be Yes; and, if
the acreage is increased and the
production of the product is con-
tinually increased will not the in-
creased production make it al-
ways more and more diflTicult to
maintain a price level?

Oklahoma Wheat Growers

22. In the same mail which
brought me your letter this morn-
ing, I received information to the
effect that the Oklahoma Wheat
Growers Association, consisting of
11,000 producers of wheat de-
nounce the McNary-Haugen bill as
a new and dangerous burden to be
borne by the farmer.

(a) Oklahoma is a great wheat
producing state. They produce
about as much wheat as we do in
Illinois. In 1920 they produced
over 54,000,000 bushels. In that
year we produced in Illinois only
45,000,000 bushels. The 1920
wheat production in Oklahoma is
a larger production than we have
ever attained in Illinois from 1909
to the present time, except in 1922
when we produced slightly more
than this.

Have They Stn<lie<1 It?

(b) Oklahoma farmers are more
vitally interested in wheat than
Illinois farmers. Their production
of corn in Oklahoma is negligible
as compared to our production.
They produce usually about l-5th
as much corn in Oklahoma as we
produce.

(c) It is therefore reasonable to
suppose that the Oklahoma Wheat
Growers Association have given as
much study to the subject as the
Illinois Agricultural Association.

(d) How do you account for the
absolutely dillerent conclusion
reached by thei Oklahoma Wheat
experts as contrasted with the con-
clusion your Organization has
reached?

(e) What is a Member of Con-
gress to do when two agricultural
organizations — equally important
and equally interested — reach
such absolutely different conclu-
sions?

(f) Under these circumstances,
do you think you have the right to
demand that a ' Member of Con-
gress from Illinois shall "unquali-
fiedly and actively support and
vote for" the McNary-Haugen
bill?

Think.s We .Adiise<1 Re<lnction

23. Under the advice of Agri-
cultural Organizations in Illinois,
including I think the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association, farmers have
been urged to restrict wheat
acreage and to use wheat land
for other crops, in order to bring
up the price of wheat.

(a) Acting upon this advice a
great many farmers in Illinois
have sown less wheat. If tbe
position of the proponents of this
legislation is correct, and tbe Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill produces a bet-
ter price for wheat, how can you
square yourself with those farmers

who have accepted your advice
and who have sown less wheat?
<ioveriiinent in Grain Business

24. Would not the .McNary-
Haugen bill put the Federal Gov-
ernment actively into the grain
business?

(a) Your answer, of course,
must be in the affirmative to the
above question. If the Govern-
ment goes actively into the grain
business, can you think of any
reason why it should not engage in
other kinds of business? And. if
it engages in other kinds of busi-
ness, why not in all other kinds
of business?

(b) Is your proposition, there-
fore, not socialistic? Will it not
lead to the same results if carried
out logically that the movements
in Russia have attained?

Compares It With Bolshevism

(c) But, the Russian Soviets
could not succeed in any measure
until they took over also the land.
Would you not regard this result
as destructive of all our ideals and
of civilization itself?

(d) Fortunately, however, even
in Russia the Government has now
abandoned the control of land and
has commenced recently to recog-
nize absolute free trade in bread
grains.

(e) Do you not think the Rus-
sian experiment with its dead
numbering over 7,000,000 ought
\o dissuade our people from pro*
ceeding in that direction?

(f) Would we not be proceeding
in that direction if we accepted in
this particular the advice of the
Illinois Agricultural Association?

Wonders If We Know What
We're Dolni;

25. I have commenced to re-
ceive communications from Farm
Bureaus in Illinois, evidently in-
spired by your letter to me, which
I am now discussing. These com-
munications are all couched prac-
tically in the same language, and
all "insist that our representatives
in Congress unqualifiedly and ac-
tively support and vote for" the
McNary-Haugen bill.

(a) Do you contend that the
Farm Bureau advisers who are
now sending these Resolutions to
Members of Congress have studied
the question; or, have they simply
accepted your advice?

(b) If they have studied this
most Important question and
reached these conclusions for
themselves, how does it happen
that in their Resolutions they use
the exact language you use in your
communication to me?

(c) Do you really think a con-
scientious Member of Congress
ought to be influenced by propa-
ganda of this kind; or, do you
think he ought to reason these
matters out and study them care-
fully?

(d) Do you think a Member
of Congress ought to become a
mere rubber stamp to record the
impressions of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association?

MEMORANDA

I have suggested hurriedly
above only a part of the objec-
tions which occur to me now to
the legislation you so enthusiasti-
cally champion; and I am asking
for a full and satisfactory reply
from you before I can consent to
vote as you have demanded that
I vote in this matter.

You will pardon me I am sure
for Imposing upon you the burden
of replying to this communication,
but. Inasmuch as you "demand"
that tbe Representatives in Con-

gress from Illinois unqualifiedly
and actively support the McNary-
Haugen bill. I feel that 1 have the
right to demand and unqualifiedly
insist that you, as the head of the
Illinois Agricultural Association,
which stands for this bill, favor
me with a reply to all the above
suggestions, so that I can print in
the Congressional Record, if poss-
ible in parallel columns, this let-
ter of inquiry addressed to you
and your reply to the same.
Deplorable (\>n<lltion

I realize that Agriculture is in
a deplorable condition, but it can
be made much worse than it is
by the adoption of dangerous
methods of relief. Since the World
War many suggestions have been
made for stabilizini; prices, rang-
ing from the commodity dollar of
Irvin:; Fisher (which seems plaus-
ible and possible), and the "Bar-
ley dollar" of some of the Balkan
states, to the vague and Indefinite
agricultural "scrip" proposed by
this bill. It would be much easier
for me in an agricultural district
like mine, so far as the next elec-
tion goes, to accept your sugges-
tions and .ivoid the implied threat
which goes with them, than to op-
pose this bill. But, a Member of
Congress is required to take an
oath and assume an obligation in
all these matters; and, therefore,
before making up my mind un-
qualifiedly to support the measure
for which you stand, I am address-
ing this communication to you. If
your answers are satisfactory and
remove the doubts in my mind,
I will support it. If your answer
is not satisfactory I expect to vote
a.gainst the bill a;- it stands now.
-Answers Will Have Great Weight

Inasmuch as I have immediately
responded to your letter (I re-
ceived your letter of March 10th
only a few minutes ago). I ani
asking you to show me a like
courtesy by immediately respond-
ing to this communication, so that
in reaching my conclusions I can
have the benefit of your reply. 1
am assuming, of course, that you
have studied the question, and
that you are an expert in these
matters, and therefore your
answers will have great weight
with me, and I am sure with many
other Members of Congress.

It has become the habit in ibis
dangerous period of our economic
life as a nation, for Members of
Congress to vote for a measure
upon the theory that it is the only
relief proposed, and that while ft
Is not everything that could be
desired, still it promises some-
thing. This is the excuse many
Members of Congress make for
supporting some of the vague in-
definite propositions now sub-
mitted. The passage of a mea-
sure, however, so revolutionary as
this measure, so destructive of all
our present systems of exchange
and marketing, involving the poss-
ible destruction of the present pri-
mary markets for farmers is
fraught with grave possibilities,
and may result in untold injury to
an industry which is now almost
prostrate.
Don't Think "Scrip" Will Help

Farmers of the country are in
a desperate condition. I do not
think you can allay their suspic-
ions nor restore their confidence
by handing to them in part pay-
ment for things they produce a
"scrip" about the value of which
we can know nothing except that
It will not be worth Its face. With

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The Illinois Agricultural Association Record

Page 5

— Why Should You Object? ''-I. A. A.

Thompson Refutes Arguments
AgainstMcNary-HaugenBill

4.

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(Coiitinue<i from page 3)

In short, the effect of the bill
to increase price would increase
the credit obligations in the money
market, but the increase would be
eminently sound because the in-
creased value would proportion-
ately increase the basis of that
credit. The effect of the issue of
scrip as part of the price would
tend to limit the increase and
whether it did or did not your ob-
jection is without merit — even al-
most without coherency.

.\n Viiworlliy Ob.iec(ion

If you object to the raising of
the price of agricultural products
to a fair exchange value (no high-
er) and base . your objection on
the ground that it would increase
circulative media, then there is no
more to be said. But since we
all admit 'that the present price is
less than cost of production, your
opposition w^ould reduce to this —
that you advocate taking the
farmer's crop away from him at
less than its fair value because,
to do otherwise, would increase
the circulation of evidences of
credit granted. We regard this
objection as unworthy if not im-
moral and we feel sure that, on
careful thought, you will abandon
it.

Mnch Smaller Ilatlo

Regarding the matter from an-
other point of view, the bill es-
tablishes a corporation with power
to buy and sell export products.
It authorizes this corporation to
- emit its obligations in a very much
smaller ratio than that employed
by industrial corporations in fi-
nancing their operations. To the
extent that any debtor emits obli-
gations of such sundries that they
may pass from band to hand as
negotiable paper, he is increasing
the media of commercial exchange.

Such is the ordinary and salu-
tary customs of the commerce of
the United States. Such, but in
much smaller proportion than is
common in industry, would be the
custom of this corporation. This
latter custom is sound commercial-
ly and financially and the objec-
tion to it on the ground that It
"expands the currency" is merely
a brave banner of words signifying
nothing.

Would Fanner Object

You ask whether fanners would
be satisfied with a scrip issue in
part payment for their wheat? If
a farmer who now receives $1.00
a bushel for his wheat, for ex-
ample, has the choice of receiving
11.55, 45 cents of the increase be-
ing in cash and 10 cents in scrip,
will he refuse the 45 cents because
the 10 cents is not in cash? We
think the question answers itself.
Speculative A'aloe

Ton ask if the scrip will not
have a speculative value. Of course
it will have a speculative value.
Wheat has a speculative value and
the speculation in scrip will have
precisely the range of uncertainty
that wheat now has — no more and
no less. It may be quoted in buck-
et shops and similar places just as
wheat is quoted — no more and no
less.

What boots it to the farmers
or indeed to any other citizen that
this Is so and why should it have
any more "demoralizing effect on
agriculture and commerce gener-
ally" than the speculative element

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in the value of wheat, corn, cotton,
live stock, meat products, oil, or
any other commodity of com-
merce?

".V TeiTif.vinR Monster"

Your third numbered paragraph
liartakes of the method of him
who constructs a terrifying mon-
ster and then adds to the gaiety
of the nations by girding on his
armour, attacking it fiercely and
boldly and cutting it to pieces.

You say that when t}ie law is
applied to the live stock industry
it will make it necessary for the
government to go into the business
of slaughtering and packing food
animals and you want to know
how this enormous investment is
to be financed, whether we have
any idea of the amount of the in-
vestment, how the government
could enter into so complicated an
industrial operation.

You advert to this same argu-
ment elsewhere as though wheat
were to be sold to millers only
at the domestic price, thus pre-
venting them from exporting flour,
even as you think the bill would
prevent the packers from export-
ing meat products because they
could not compete with the lower
foreign prices. .

Misconstrued Bill

In all this you have simply mis-
construed or neglected to read the
bill. The latter is quite possible
since the objection appears else-
where. The bill would not create
any mechanism at all.

Is there anything complicated
or difficult in commissioning ex-
isting grain, cotton, meat or mill-
ing companies to buy a product
until price reaches a certain fig-
ure? Is there anything imprac-
ticable in commissioning the same
or others to sell to export a cer-
tain quantity of the products pur-
chased? Individual operators do
this daily, single handed and
alone. Is there anything complex
or diflicult about allowing the
owners of existing mechanism a
commission to manufacture cer-
tain products for export, a differ-
ential representing the loss In ex-
port sales, and charging same to
the corporation to be absorbed by
the scrip fund?

Not Government Dep't

You seem to forget that it Is not
a department of the government
that is entering these operations.
It is only a corporation similar in
nearly all respects to an industrial
corporation which has been per-
mitted by the government — as all
corporations must be permitted by
state or national government — to
carry on certain operations.

You entirely overlbok the fact
that it does not have to duplicate
one single bit of existing machin-
ery and that it will utilize exist-
ing machinery with the least dis-
turbance to present methods and
customs that it is possible to imag-
ine.

Not Va«nie or Indefinite

You ask whether we do not
think that the "vague, indefinite
method of maintaining a price
level provided for in this bill is
unworkable." There Is nothing
vague or indefinite about the
method proposed. Indeed, math-
eniatics could scarcely be more in-
cisive, emphatic and accurate. You
fear that the farmer will suffer by

■X.:.

a restoration of his price levels to
their pre-war exchange values?
He is suffering enough now in all
conscience and if you will be kind
enough to point out one head of
suffering imposed by the bill, w^e
promise to 'consider it with the
greatest care.

You are quite correct in saying

that as long as we import wool, the

tariff alone can be made to give

the wool grower ample protection.

Hasn't Sludie<l Collon

We are amazed as to your in-
quiry as to "what benefit cotton
would derive from this bill." We
conclude that you have not given
much time to the study of the his-
tory of cotton. Do you know that
the tariff operates on the producer
of a crop of wiiich we export a
surplus as a subsidy o* industry at
his expense? Do you know that
this fact was the economic cause
of the Civil War inaugurated by
the cotton exporting South against
the protected industrial North?

One need go no further back
than three years to find the time
when the price of cotton was far
below this pre-war exchange value.
It the boll weevil and the parsi-
mony of nature have, for a brief
time, cured this situation, surely
you would not advocate bringing

Congressman Has
Fears that Bill
wilt be Ruinous

(Continued from page 4)
reference to this method of pay-
ment, the farmer can only (Jefl-
nitely know that he will never get
the agreed price for his products.
He can never know what the price
will be. It does not appear to nie
now from the study I have so far
given the question that this mea-
sure will appease the unrest which
prevails today in agricultural cir-
cles, and it it does not have that
effect, it will only increase the
farmers* suspicions and his dis-
trust of his Government and its
agencies.

Needs Foreifni Market

It seems to me that what the
farmer needs most of all are con-
suming units abroad for his prod-
ucts who are able to pay a price
for his surplus, which will enable
the American farmer to obtain a
living wage on his farm. Under
an unfortunate leadership, this
country has abandoned its rela-
tions with other natiofiff and is
pursuing a policy of isolatioa
Whenever we abandon our policy
of Isolation and assume those
world responsibilities which are
ours, and do our part toward
quieting the distrust of each other
which prevails among nations
which consume our surplus food
products, then we will have done
much in the matter of restoring
that confidence to food-consuming
nations, which will enable them to
engage again in industry and earn
the money with which to pay the
prices they ought to pay for our
surplus.

It seems to me now the "scrip"
issues provided for in this bill
constitute a "flat" currency not
dreamed of before since the
capitalistic period commenced in
the world by any considerable re-
sponsible group in any commer-
cial nation in the world.
Very truly yours,

HENRY T. RAINEY,
Member of Congress.
20th District Illinois.

all othef farmers within the pro-
tection t'of the tariff but leaving
the cotton farmer in his old in-
equitable position. .\s to any
crop, at any time that its domestic
price is above pre-war exchange
value, the corporation simply
would tiot function.

.\ineiifls Tal^ff f€»r Fanner

The bill should be regarded as
an amendment to the tariff law
acting promptly and effectively for
the protection of the farmer of
any product whenever he needs
protection and remaining dormant
whenever he does not. At present
the cotton farmer does not need
the protection of the bill but it
will be there for his salvation
when he does.

Hogs and Cattle

Y'ou ask us to explain how this
bin can be arranged so as to ap-
ply to hogs and cattle. We have
already done so in the answer to
your apprehension lest the govern-
ment be involved in a great indus-
trial operation and if you have
paid any attention at all to hear-
ings of the bill you harte already
been fiilly answered.

You ask whether it is not true
that it is the intention of the bill
to have no real application except
as to wheat, and suggest that the
remaining products are put Into
the bill for political purposes only.
Kill Means Wluit It Says

The answer is that the bill
means just what it says, and. in-
sofar as it restores equality to ag-
riculture, it will have a most im-
portant political bearing. Con-
cerning your suggestion that other
products Were included only to
deceive, you are^quite wrong. But
suppose that the ^ill «vas intended
only to relieve the wheat farmer
at this time. Since it will relieve
him. why should you object? Why
should anybody object?

Is it not true that the sugges-
tion that the bill would apply only
to wheat cannot honestly be con-
sidered as an objection to the
merits at all but must be branded
for what it is — a piece of political
claptrap intended to arouse the
jealousy, the envy, and the opposi-
tion of those who. if sufficiently
deceived and incited, might feel
that, if there were no salvation for
them they would see to it that
there should be no salvation for
anyone else. Is this statesman-
ship? Is this your meaning?
Other LefTislation

You ask whether thj farmer has
benefitted from any legislation
thus far passed in ^is behalf and
especially whether he has benefit-
ted from the higher tariffs on ag-
ricultural products. The difference
between the measures you mention
and this bill is that they were
not based on economic analysis ad-
dressed to the true cause of the
farmers' trouble.

You will have great difficulty in
demonstrating that such is the
case with the McNar5--Haugen bill.
It is the only measure v-et proposed
which has any bearing on the real
cause of the agricultural depres-
sion which it meets fairly at every
point, effectually corrects and be-
yond any possibility of doubt
would immediately be effective to
restore the pre-war exchange of
the products to which it is applied.

At no place in your argument
do you contest this effect. In
other words, here is a bill, the es-
sense apd purpose of which Is to
raise the price of farm products
no higher than to an equitable
parity with the price of other

m

.Itroducts, and yet, in discussing:
this bill, you entirely overlook that
Ifact and content yourself »i;h h
fepetition of the unsound and
Alarmist objections that have thus
kar characterized the o4ipositio«i
ko the bill. '

I Wiy Include ISye? j

You ask us to explain why th|e
>ill does not include in its pro-
isi<jn rvf. ofts and barley, and
\tO\i say that in the countries to

trhioli we export wheat, rye is used
n«erchangea*)ly and that the price

f wheat is affected by the pricw

f rye.
The answer to your question is
another question. Why ffiould r>V"
be Included? The bill will not
thange the price of wheal in the
foreign market nor will it affect
the relative coneuniptiop of wheat
and rye in that market. In order
that operations -be not loo greatly
poniplicaled. the bill, making uw
of the knowledge that the |>rip<'
of rje is a complement of ihe
tprlce of wheat, contents itself with
iaddressing wheat for the simple
■reason that it is unnecessary
anclude other small grains.

"t'reaklnd Old .%rKumem*
I You ask whether by raising the
price of farm products to corres-
{l>ond with the price of all com-
jmodities we will not be compelled
tto raise the commodity index and
iif we do that.' you assert that we
lean never get prices into adjust-
iment with ,the basic ratio price.
'We recognize this creaking old
{argument and we know^its source.
A rise of 20 points In the wheal
Index raises the general price in-
jdex 1 point, and the leaser prod-
jucts have a fraction of this effect.
Considering an example in which
fhe figures ariP taken for conven-
ience of computation, we sliall sup-
iiose that the wheat index and the
general price index both stand

ft 100. The bill passes and raises
he wheat index to 150. This
•would raise the general ipdex 2.5
ko 102.5. This would raise the
wheat price acain to 153.75 which
tn turn would raise the general
|)rice index»but only a very small
lamount this time — .1875 points
br to 102.6875. Up goes the
Jwheat Index but only by .28125 on
this calculation, which in turn
raises the general price index an
■mount so small that it «vould not
be considered— .0140 or to 102.7015.
"Silly Calralallons"
On the next calculation the in-
crement in the general price index
•would be only .O0fO5 and since
lonly two decimal points are com-
muted the terrifying process is at
n end. The argument is scholas-
'P — "how many angels can stand
n a needle's point?" If one cared
o carry on these sillv calculations,

te would find that, whereas restor-
tion of wheat to its pre-war ex-
thange value would raise the gen-
(eral price index 2.5 iKJints, ten
thousand subsequent calculations
tnade on this nonsensical argument
^ould not raise it another half
point and every subsequent calcu-
lation would carry the increment
another decimal point nearer zero.
tin other words, the increment rap-
idly becomes infinitesimal and
Would be disregarded in practice
|on the third calculation.

Present Prices Mean Loss
But in order to get a view of the
Imorals of all these arguments.
Suppose it were literally true that
reatoration of fair exchange value
to agriculture would raise the cost
of living substantially. Pre-war

(Contiaufd o* past 61

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Pace 6

The Illinou Agricultural Anociation Record

April 5, 1924

"No Shadow of Evidence'*— S. H. Thompson

f

Export Plan is Simply j
I Justice for Farmer— LA A.

(Continued fmm page 51
exchange value means, only- cost
plus a very small profit or no pro-
fit at all. Present prices mean a
loss to the fanner on every pound
and bushel sold.

Argument for maintenance of
the present condition is simply ar-
gument for taking the farmer's
crop away without paying cost for
it^"lustifled" in this case by a
desire to keep the cost of living
down. Nearly every one of these
arguments strips to a similar mo-
tive. The McNary-Haugen bill
will pass not only because it is
sound and right but because the
opposition to it is unsound and
wrong. xo Difflcnlty

Your next question as to where
the ratio price is to be applied we
shall answer simply by referring
you to the operation of the United
States Grain Corporation during
the war. There is no difttculty here
any more than there is in the pres-
ent system under which, as you
know, the farmer farthest from
terminals receives the least for his
crop. Exactly the same answer
applies to your question as to the
grades which represent the values
for the basic ratio price.

Your apprehension about the
miller has also already been an-
swered. Flour or pork are as
much exportable Surplus of wheat
and swine as the raw material
and the bill recognizes this and
provides for it. The corporation
win absorb the difference between
the domestic and the export price
of wheat and swine purchased on
the domestic market and sold as
flour or pork for export.

Nothing to Do with Case

It is quite true, as you say, that
the consumption of wheat in the
United States fluctuates slightly;
that wheat is harvested somewhere
in the world every month in the
year, but like the flowers 'that
bloom In the Spring, these astute
observations have absolutely noth-
ing to do with the case in point
and your remarks that it will no^
be possible to estimate months In
advance the questions of produc-
'io'h, surplus and foreign price and
lerefore that it will be impossi-
ule to establish a ratio price, are
equally inappropriate.

The ratio price of any of these
products is established at any
time simply by determining the
ratio which the price bore to the
general price index before the war
and tlien computing what price
would bear the same- ratio to the
general price indes, at such time.
The questions you ask have noth-
ing to do with this computation.
Doubtless you did not get your
mentor's question and what you
are trying to ask Is how It will be
possible to compute the proportion
of price to be paiid in scrip. It
would be possible,^ for example, to
take the widest jrange of price
variation in experience, though it
will not be necefsary to do so.
Even If that exti!eme precaution
were thought necessary, the net
result would be (hat the farmer
would get a very much greater
price for his product in cash than
he gets now and a considerable
addition to that increase as soon
as the actual loss were deter-
mined.

How Many employees?
You ask how ifany employees

the new corporation will hire and
whether there' will not be many
thousand. There will not be many
thousand. The expense of oper-
ation win not' be great. You are
proceeding on what some one has
told you the bill means. We have
already shown you that the bill
does not put the government into
industrial operations.

Your question as to whether
scrip does not present a splendid
opportunity for speculation, we
have already answered. Your
further question as to whether it
does not present an opportunity
for fraud is not very important
and we doubt whether it was in-
tended to be very helpful. The
question goes to excellence of ad-
ministratifin of the law and not to
the merits of the law. Your only
observation on this head that is
worthy of an answer is whether
the penalties provided are sufli-
cient to prevent fraud. You speak
as though the only penalties
against fraud and crime in the
United States were to be found
under this bill. Of course you
know better.

Most Amazing Observation

Your eighteenth observation is
one of the most amazing that has
come to our attention. You say,
"There are frauds in every depart-
ment of the government so far
investigated, and civic honesty
seems to be at a discount. Even
cabinet members are bribed and
when conditions are as above in-
dicated, is it not unwise to create
another department such as con-
templated in this bill, and with a
large personnel of ofScials, all of
whom would be subjected to un-
usual temptations In the matter of
bribes?"

This objection seems to say that
you are convinced that the whole
machinery of government ought to
be thrown over because it is rot-
ten to the core. Such a sweep-
ing conclusion puts our mind in
doubt as to the conservatism of
the balance of your argument. We
have not seen any evidence of
fraud "in every department of the
government so far investigated"
and we do not believe that "civic
honesty is at a discount."

"You . are Inaccurate"

You are inaccurate when you
say that the bill creates another
department with a large person-
nel of ofSclalS. You are inacur-
ate when you say that the bill
offers unusual temptations in the
matter of bribes. If you mean
that bribery could affect the de-
termination of the ratio price, you
are wrong.

The ratio price is determined
under the bill by a mathematical
operation and it is beyond the
power of any person to affect it
by an act of discretion. If you
mean something else, you onght
to say what you mean because the
bill offers no. more opportunity
for bribes and speculation than is
offered in any private corporation
or any other enterprise, public or
private, of which we are aware.
No Attempts to Fix Food Prices

You ask whether, during the
period of the war and since then.
It is not true that every sort of
experiment In government control
of food products has been tried In
this country and abroad. The an-

swer is "No." We would like to
have you give us one Instance of
any such attempt except, perhaps,
the Brazilian coffee valorizations,
some of which have been very
successful. There jvere no at-
tempts by this government to fix
food prices during the war. There
were certain minimum prices
guaranteed to produce production
and we fear that you have com-
pletely contused and misunder-
stood the war-time operations of
this and other nations.

What Alternative Has He?

You ask whether bills thus far
passed have not resulted merely in
"increasing the overhead of farm-
ers by giving them more entic
ing opportunities for borrowing
money." We might ask what al-
ternative the farmer has. He Is
operating at a loss. He has only
two choices — to give up his farm
or attempt to carry it against a
hope in the future. He can do
the latter only by borrowing
money. What do you propose
that he do?'"

You ask us to call your atten-
tion to a single Instance in the
world of a satisfactory mainten-
ance of price of food products over
a considerable period of time. We
gladly hasten to comply — the
American doctrine of protection as
applied to every food product ex-
cept those of which we export a
surplus.

Supply and Demand

You ask whether It Is not true
that the only way to maintain a
price is to have a buyer willing
and able to take everything offer-
ed at the price specified. The
answer is "yes," and the more
supply exceeds demand, the lower
the price. When supply equals or
about equals demand, price is us-
ually cost of production plus a
profit. Supply and demand with-
out some qualification mean noth-
ing or next to nothing. The de-
mand for a product is all that Is
asked for at a certain price. The
demand for a product at a low
price is greater in quantity than
the demand at a high price.

The McNary-Haugen bill re-
moves from the domestic market
by a skimming process, all of the
product for which there Is no de-
mand at the pre-war price rela-
tionship. When this is done, you
will find, beyond any question of
doubt, that the domestic price of
any of the products affected by
the McNary-Haugen bill will bear
the pre-war relationship to the
general price index. The bill does
not suspend the law of supply
and demand. It utilizes it. The
bill will have the effect of creating
a situation In America where we
shall have buyers willing and able
to take everything offered at the
price specifled^that price a fair
one. During these years, have you
heard of anyone refusing to take
or eat our farm prodQCts. Demand
has been avid. It is price that we
lack.

Will It Increase Acreage?

You now ask another question
that amazes us because we do not
believe that you would ask it if.
you had given careful reflection to
Its real meaning and the Inequi-
table position in which it automa-
tically places Its proponent. "If
the fixed price is high enough to
do the farmer any good, will It not
have the effect of Increasing the
acreage?"

In the first place, there Is noth-
ing so attractive about a pre-war

price relation (reduced, be It re-
membered, by the loss on export)
as to persuade anybody to increase
acreage. This Is not a measure to
inflate price. It is only a measure
to stop loss.

Penalizes Overproduction

In the second place, the effect
of increased production to reduce
price will be far more certain and
emphatic than it is now. The
hold-back in scrip will be direct-
ly proportioned to the surplus,
and will be the most significant
warning against inflated produc-
tion that could be well imagined.

In the third place, the pre-war
price relationship crystallized the
pre-war acreage. Only that re-
lationship is proposed. Logically
only that acreage will ensue and.
because we .have a considerably in-
creased population since then, at
least that acreage should be main-
tained. And if the argument be
"Even so; let them keep the pre-
war acreage but do not restore the
pre-war price relation" (and it is
only to this that the argument
can reduce) then it Is a bold, bald
argument in favor of depriving
agriculture of all profit — an ar-
gument Immoral, unworthy and
unutterable.

Who Cares If It Does?

In the fourth place, who cares if
it does Increase production? Not
the American people for, no mat-
ter how great the surplus, price to
them can never rise above the pre-
war relationship by that cause,
and, under the bill, will never fall
below. The only person who Is
Interested in the harmful effect
of increased production is the
farmer. He and he alone stands
the loss on surplus.

But how much is he affected?
Let us take the most extreme case.
Suppose restoration of pre-war
prosperity (scant enough In all
conscience) should raise produc-
tion to the extreme limit of rea-
sonable possibility — 1,200,000,000
bushels of wheat for example.
Suppose we consider 900,000,000
a normal crop and 600,000,000 a
normal domestic consumption.
How does this hellish fault affect
the farmer? He is the only one
concerned.

Today without the bill and the
swollen surplus he would get, let
us say, $900,000,000 for his crop
- — M.OO per bushel.

How It Would Work

With this bill and the increased
surplus he would get $1.50 for
the domestic consumption, $900,-
000,000. For the 600,000,000
bushels of surplus he would get
only $600,000,000 — $1,500,000,-
000 for the whole crop as against
$900,000,000 today — $1.25 per
bushel for 1,200,000,000 bushels
against $1.00 per bushel for 900,-
000,000 bushels — an increase of
66-2-3 per cent in income, 25 per
cent in unit price, and since the
unit cost of the larger quantity
would be far less than that of the
smaller, an increase considerably
above 25 per cent in net profit.
The public would not suffer by
so much as one cent In the price
it paid but It would be gainer by
an increase of some $600,000,000
in national Income and increase in
national wealth.

The whole argument of Increas-
ed production due to the McNary
bill Is a scarecrow. As a matter
of fact the co-relation of American
ycrop quantities would prevent
such Increase In price and the
great good fortune Just related.

The production of a 600,000,000
surplus by reason of this bill is
a Wild dream and It it were not
so, as just shown, it would be too
good to be true.

Argument Reacts

The argument reacts upon Itself
in another way. Every fair person
must admit the farmer should
have a fair exchange value for his
product. If he Is to have it. It
will be a price equal to or greater
than that obtained for him by the
McNary-Haugen bill. On the ar-
gument suggested by the question
you ask, however, If that price is
attained it must increase the
acreage. In other words, you are
in the position of saying that while
you yearn for a fair deal for the
farmer you can't give it to him
because it would increase the
acreage given over.,to the particu-
lar crop in question.

In your next paragraph you
bring forth the arguments contain-
ed in the resolution of the Okla-
homa Wheat Growers' Associa-
tion.

"Truly Pitiful"

It is truly pitiful to read that
resolution because it reveals how
grievously these gentlemen have
been deluded by someone who has
much to answer for. The resolu-
tion starts by saying, "The act
carries with it all of the features
necessary to arbitrary control of
the prices of farm products • • •
The object of said bill Is to flx and
control prices * * • and the act
provides for a small commission
or corporation with complete pow-
er to attempt to set aside the law
of supply and demand."

Of course the gentlemen who
voted the resolution earnestly be-
lieved these words were true, but
some person who advised them
must have known that there is
not a vestige of truth in them.
The proposed corporation would
fix nothing. It can only buy up
the surplus. In doing this It can
continue buying only until the
product in question raises to a
price that bears the same relation
to the general index that the pre-
war price bore.

No Power to Fix Prices

Since the general index fluctu-
ates precisely with the condition
of business In the country, the price
of the product considered will also
so fluctuate and no power is given
by the bill to anybody to fix and
control prices. The resolution
goes 9h to say that the bill would
add to the expense of marketing
and thus to show that whoever
"sold" the idea of these resolu-
tions to this group of farmers led
them to believe that this supposed
added cost would come out of the
already low price they now re-
ceive for their products.

He omitted to show them that
if the added cost of marketing is
anything at all, it comes otat of an
added price of about 50 cents a
bushel for their product. In other
words, the resolutions themselves
demonstrate that the signers
thereof were deluded and cozened
into thinking and saying (hat the
effect of the bill will be to de-
crease the price of their product
to themselves. No wonder they
signed the resolution.
Misinformed

This delusion is further demon-
strated by another amazing sen-
tence, "The public cannot afford
to pay more." When we reflect
that the public is paying less than
cost of production, no fair mem-

(Concluded on page 7)

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April S, 1924

The Illinois Agrieiiltiiral AModation Record

Pte7

T Member of Congress Should
be Equitable, Sound and Fair''

(CoBtiDued from page 6)

ber of the public would be heard
to say that he could not afford to
pay more and no Informed farmer
would make a statement like this.
We can only conclude that these
farmers were not informed or,
more likely, were misinformed as
to the nature, the purpose, and the
effect of the bill.

Should Follow Right Coarse
You ask what a member of
Congress is to do when two agri-
cultural organizations — equally
important and equally interested
— reach such absolutely different
conclusions. We think you are
in no real doubt as to what he
should do. He should follow that
course which is right, equitable,
sound and fair. He should con-
sider the greatest good to the
greatest number so long as that
can be accomplished without in-
justice to a minority. Under these
circumstances, we most certainly
do think that we havq a right to
"demand that a member of Con-
gress from Illinois shall unequiv-
ocally and actively support and
vof| for the McNary-Haugen bill."
ifou ask whether we yill not be
in an equivocal position due to the
fact that we have advised farmers
to restrict wheat acreage, if the
McNary-Haugen bill passes and
raises the price of wheat? We
have given no such advice. The
McNary-Haugen bill is not a law
and it was not a law when such
advice may have been given by
others and if many Congressmen
are minded as you seem to be, it
will never be a law.

We have already answered your
questiop as to whether the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill would put the
government in the grain business.
The answer is "No," and for the
reasons stated.
I Is It a Precedent?

Your next question becomes in-
appropriate since you say that if
It does put the government into
the grain business, should it not
engage in other kinds of business?
We shall not, however, attempt
to escape the query that was in
your mind. You mean that if the
government removes this ancient
l.iequity of the farmer, should it
not, as occasion arises, be ready
to do a similar thing for others?
In other words, is this not a bad
precedent?

The precedent was established
when we enacted the tariff — and
omitted the farmer fro»n protec-
tion. The bill merely rectifies the
omission. It is not a precedent.
It is a sequel. It is not even the
first sequel. The immigration law
gave labor its protection but left
agriculture still out in the blasts
of a wintry world. So far as we
know, this is the last breach in the
protective wall. It is a breach
that must be closed — not in favor
of agriculture but in favor of the

, whole United States, and in com-
mon Justice to the farmer.
Simple Jnstice
But even if there- were other
classes equally prejudiced, is a

r precedent of simple justice some-

. thing to be avoided? If there be
another segment of our popula-

- tion equally sinned against, the
suggestion that their wrongs
should also be righted is no argu-

I' ment against righting this great
wrong.

Not long ago Industry asked
'the right to combine for export
trade. It t^as granted instantly.

It has long been the custom for
industries to sell in export at less
than domestic prices. Agricul-
ture seeks no greater or different
privilege. The precedents are
all behind us. There is no other
class in like case with agriculture.
The McNary-Haugen bill closes
the last gap in our protective out-
works and rights the last great
wrong.
No More Socialistic Than TarUI

You ask if this proposition is
not socialistic and then amuse
yourself with another array of
straw men — this time Russian
Bolshevist. The bill is no more
socialistic than the tariff. Per-
haps that is paternalistic or
communistic but, having thus
launched into Bolshevism in favor
of y^ of our people at the expense
of the other third, what kind of
good faith is it to refuse exactly
the same protection to the other
J4 on the plea of "individual-
ism"?

Who has the cynical audacity
to say that what is the sound
foundation rock of our economic
policy for New England is com-
munism for the agricultural por-
tions of Illinois?

Farmer Bears E.v|>enses

But this bill does not "put the
government into business," it does
not "interfere with business." It
permits a corporation to combine
farm products for export sale just
as the Edge and the Webb bills
now permit industry to combine.
The government then does noth-
ing but give the corporation its
sanction. It creates no govern-
mental bureau or department. It
permits the agricultural corpora-
tion, organized in the only way it
can be organized, to go into the
market and buy and sell, thus cor-
recting an insufferable condition.
The government as such does
nothing. The farmer pays every
cent of expense and bears every
risk of loss.

Scant .Attention to AfBrmative

This completes a categorical re-
ply to every one of your ques-
tions. The aflQrmative arguments
for this bill are doubtless in your
hands but your letter indicates
that they have had scant atten-
tion from you. It further indi-
cates that the arguments of the
opposition have received an en-
thusiastic reception at your hands.
Every one of them that has yet
appeared parades through the
pages of your letter with a great
deal of sound and fury.

Not once in your entire screed
do you refer to the beneficial re-
sult of this bill to the farmer. Not
once do you suggest any alternative
measure to alleviate iiis condition
although you are very emphatic in
your recognition of that condition.

No Argnment or Evidence

You call the McNary-Haugen
bill revolutionary, destructive of
all our present systems of ex-
change, marketing, and involving
the possible destruction of the
present markets for farmers, and
you say it may result in untold
injury to an industry which is now
almost prostrate. Yet you do not
support any one of these conclu-
sions with a shadow of argument
or evidence. Since these are the
only real conclusions we find most
of your letter containing only in-
terrogations— we can not escape
the suspicion that your chief con-
cern is with the system of ex-
change and marketing which have

Edgar County Now
Getting Packers'
Premium On Hogs

Edgar county is now one of the
26 counties in the United States
upon the federal accredited list
as being practically free from
bovine tuberculosis. To get on
the accredited list requires that
all cattle in the county pass two
annual or three semi-annual tests
with less than one-half of one
per cent of reactors.

All hogs from Edgar county
sold on terminal markets in car
lots are now receiving a 10-cent
premium over the selling price, as
promised by the meat packers.
Frank Trogden of Vermillion
shipped the first load of hogs to
Chicago that received the pre-
mium. He received $7.65 percwt.,
the top of the market, and after
the sale he was given a check for
over $15.00 as the 10 cents per
cwt. premium on 60 head of hogs.

It is estimated that the total
cost of eradicating T. B. in Ed-
gar county was $11,500, and this
will be returned by the premium
on about 700 carloads of hogs.
Edgar county started this eradi-
cation work in July, 1921, and
completed it in about two _years.
In the first test on about 14,000
cattle, 2.25 per cent reacted and
in the second test in February,
1923, .2 of one per cent reacted.

brought the farmer to his present
situation.

Ho|>e .\rgnment8 Not Wasted

Perhaps our conviction of the
inequity of opposition to this bill
drives us too far in our thought,
pained from perusal of your letter,
that your mind is no longer open
and that the arguments herein
advanced are wasted on you. We
trust that such is the case. We
haie endeavored to weigh both
sides of this question in a judg-
matical frame of mind.

We have come to the conclusion
that the essential principles of the
McNary-Haugen bill are absolutely
sound In economics and that the
opposition is unsound, that It
springs rather from grievances than
from argument, and that from this
basic fact it results that no man
can advocate the opposition with-
out finding himself mired In a mo-
rass of evasions, sophistries and
deceits.

In conclusion, I Wish to say that
I do not pose as an expert on
technical matters involved in this
bill and I believe it proper to
here acknowledge my indebtedness
for the able and conscientious as-
sistance freely given by those
versed in the technical matters in-
volved and by the proponents of
this measure.
Kesimndlng to Pleas (or Help

I know the condition of agri-
culture and realize my responsi-
bilities well enough to respond to
the pleas for help by men in
this great industry. I would be
derelict in my duty if I ignored
the justifiable and insistent de-
mand for some relief from Con-
gress or any other possible source.
It would be unpardonable if the
Association I have the honor to
represent did not use every means
at hand to give you and others
in positions of authority the com-
posite judgment of agricultural
leaders in the state.

The people of this state expect
from me fair consideration of agri-
cultural problems and proposed
remedies. I am equally as sure
they have a right to expect the
same from you.

Yours very truly,

S. H. Thompson.

All Committeemen

of I. A. A. for 1924
Named and Approvea

The complete personnel : of
standing committees for the asso-^
elation to serve during this year,
as announced by President Thomp-
son and approved by the execu-
tive committee, follows. In each
case, the first-named in each com-
mittee is the chairman.

Finance: F. D. Barton, Cor-
nell; Earl C. Smith, Detroit; W.
H. Moody, Port Byron.

Legislative: F. D. Barton, Cor-
nell; H. E. Goembel, Hooppole;
A. C. Everingham, Hutsonville.

Dairy: Jacob Olbrich, Harvard;
Henry McGough, Maple Park; C.
H. Rehling, Breese.

Livestock: Geo. F. Tullock.
Rockford; Samuel Sorrells. Ray-
mond; J. E. Lingenfelter, Law-
renceville; L. R. Marchant, Gales-
burg.

Fruit and Vegetable: Curt An-
derson, Xenia; J. Vernon L#ess-
ley, Sparta; A. O. Eckert, Belle-
ville; J. W. Lloyd, Urbana; Guy
C. Beauman, Tunnel Hill.

Poultry: C. E. Bamborough.
Polo; Lyle Funk, McLean.

Phosphate- Limestone: Stanley
Castle, Alton; H. T. Marshall, Se-
rena; Frank' I. Mann, Oilman;
Melvin Thomas, Charleston.

Grain: H. E. Goembel, Hoop-
pole; A. R. Wright, Varna; I. A.
Madden. Springfield; W. A. Mc-
Neill, ChandlervlUe.

Information: R. F. Karr, Iro-
quois-; J. M. Beckett, Blue Mound:
L. O. Wise, Morrison.

Organization: Earl C. Smith,
Detroit; J. H. Checkley, Lincoln.

Insurance: CTiauncey B. Wat-
son, DeKalb; R. F. Karr, Iroquois;
Geo. F. Tullock, Rockford.

Educational: J. L. Whisnand,
Charleston; A. C. E>eringham.
Hutsonville; E. W. Rusk, Carlin-
ville.

T. B. Eradication: A.R.Wright,
Varna; Geo. Hunt, Woodstock;
Wm. E. Hedgcock, Peoria.

CREAM PRODUCERS
ORGANIZING ASS'N
IN FORD COUNTY

I. A. A. Advising On Organization;
Also Assisting With Proposed
' Creamery At Prophetstown

Choose Thompson
As Member of Car
Service Committee

President S. H. Thompson of
the I. A. A. nas elected as a
member of the executive commit-
tee of. 17 of the Mid-west Re-
gional Advisory Board of the Car
Senice Division, American Rail-
way .\ssociation, at a meeting of
the board in Chicago, March 27.
With President Hearst of the
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation.
Mr. Thompson will represent the
interests of farmers upon the
committee.

"The purpose «f this board,"
states L. J. Quasey, director of
the I. A. A. Transportation de-
partment, who took an active
part in the meeting, "is to form
a common meting ground be-
tween shippers and rjlilroads for
the better mutual understanding
of local transportation require-
ments, to analyze transportation
needs in its territory and to as-
sist in anticipating car require-
ments."

Mr. Quasey states that farm
organizations are adequately rep-
resented upon the various com-
modity committees, such as live-
stock, grain, fiuits and vege-
tables, and dairy products.

The Mid-west Regional Advis-
ory Board has for its territory,
Iowa, most of Illinois and Wis-
consin and the western part of
Indiana.

Cream producers of Ford coun-
ty are organizing a collective
bargaining association with a
membership agreement submitted
by the I. A. A. Dairy Marketing
department. At a meeting called
by the Ford County Farm Bu-
reau in Paxton. March IS, A. D.
Lynch of the department, met
with the 18 members of the or-
ganization committee to discuss
plans of organization. The asso-
ciation plans to manage its owe
cream bu>ing stations at Paxton
and Gibson City and will con-
tract for cream sales with some
large cream buyer.

."Cream producers have become
dissatisfied with the low and
greatly fluctuating prices paid by
the cream stations in Ford coun-
ty," Mr. Lynch states. "They
want an organization of their
own so that they will get fair
prices. A survey shoi^ed that
local prices paid for butterfat in
Paxton were practically always
below the Chicago butter prices.
They have not, followed the Chi-
cago butter market at all rea-
sonably.

"It was interesting to note
that the day of the cream pro-
ducers' meeting, the stations paid
considerably higher for butterfat
than had been their custom.
\t Pr«|»lietJitown

Mr. Lynch met with farm bu-
reau meml)ers in the vlcinit}' of
Prophetstown, Whiteside county,
oa March 22 to discuss jrith
them the organization of a co-
operative creamery there. He
advised them that the\' should
have the production of at Jeast
l,D0O cows to insure a profitable
enterprise.

Farm bureau officers are now
making a sur\'ey of the territory
to report back at a future meet-
ing upon the possibilities for a
creamery. Marketing of eggs by
the cooperative creamery is also
contemplated.

Twelfth District

Meet Discusses
Relief Measure

Every cousty in the 12lh dis-
trict was represented at a con-
ference called by executive com-
mitteeman Geo F. Tullock held
at Aurora, March 20. The Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill now before Con-
gress was endorsed and each
county was asked to urge Ita
Congressman to support this bill.
This action was taken after a long
discussion. President S. H. Thomp-
sdn of the Illinois Agricultural
Association explained the bill.

A committee of three, consist-
itm of Henry Park of DeKalb
county. H. T. Marshall of LaSalle
county and F. E. Longmire of
Grundy county, was appointed to
otiganize the district more thor-
oughly for the purpose of actinc
as a district unit on 1. A. A.
problems rather than each eoaaty
acting alone.

Mr. Tullock believes that the
district conference Idea is well
worth while. It Is planned to
hold three other similar meet-
ings during the 7ear in the IZtb.
district

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Apia S, 1924

RED TOP POOLERS
, GET HIGHER PRICE
I THAN i OUTSIDERS

Beat Dealers' Average By 1-2 Cent

Per Pound; Expenses Greatly

Lowered In 1923

The net price receiTed by the
members of the Eprptian Seed
Grower.;' Exchange for the 192 3
red top pool was 11.6 cents per
pound. -\n advance of 8 cents per
pound was made at the time the
growers delivered their seed, and
a final return of 3.6 cents has just
boen made.

The e.ichangd sold 1,168.739
pounds of red tpp for a total of
$1.54,699.10. The total e.'ipenses
fop cleanins; and warehousing,
freight, insurande, interest, sales
expense and operating overhead
w^s $18,596.12, leaving a net for
the growers of $136,102.96, or
11I.6 cents per pound. The oper-
ating costs for the 1923 pool
w^re $7,344.85 less than the-
sapie costs in 1923.

Unbailed Seed Sales

Sales of unhulled seed brought
the exchange $16,220.04, within
$2^400 of paying the total operat-
ing expenses of the pool. It is
interesting to note Ihat in the
past, local buyers have allowed
the growers nothing for unbailed
se«d.

".\II red top gfowers will agree
th«t the 1923 poal was a success,"
says Curt .Anderson, manager of

A.F.B.F. Workins
For Regulations
Of Feed Yards

As a result of a series of com-
plaints from livestock shippers in
various parts of tlie country show-
ing that the usual feeding charge
in federal controlled feed yards
varies from $4.50 to $6.50 a car
while the private yar,ds charge
from $20 to $30 a car, the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation has
launched a campaign to obtain
necessary legislation for the prop-
er control of private feed yards.

-According to O. W. Sandberg,
Director of Transportation for the
A. F. B. F.. neither the Depart-
ment of Agriculture nor the car-
riers have control over the charges
at the privatq yards, and the ship-
pers have no recourse whatever
against prices charged at these
yards. If the shippers make a
protest against the charges they
are informed by the railroads that
the charges are what the private
feed yards assessed against the
shipment and as the carriers have
no control over the private yards
there is nothing further that can
be done and the claim is denied.

the exchange.

poolers have rec< Ived is probably

at least one-half

'The price that

cent per pound

higher than that|received by non-
members of thei pool. We find
that there was lot a great deal
of difference in ijhe two prices in
such localities as around Flora
whel'e the pool Is the strongest.
But take it whe^e there are few
or no poolers, asd we find that
the seed buyers Have paid consid-
erably less than the pool price of
11.6 cents.

Paid Only! 7-8 Cents
"We have a reliable report from
Effingham count^f that the price
paid by a local .l^ler at Dieterich
averaged only 7 or 8 cents a pound
for last season. That indicates
what many of the growers in the
whole district might have expect-
ed had there been no cooperative
marketing organization of grow-
ers.

°1

National Egg M^kig
Committee To Work
j Out Co-op Plans

The I. A. A. was represented
by J. D. Haiper of the Poultry
and Egg Marketing department
and C. E. Bamborougb, Polo,
chairman of that committee, at
a national poultry and egg mar-
keting meeting called by the
National Council of Cooperative
Marketing .Associations in Chi-
cago, March 24.

A resolution recommended that
a national advisory egg market-
ing committee be created to con-
aider and formulate plans tor or-
ganizing a national cooperative
egg marketing sales agency and
to consider and deal with all
questions relating to cooperative
egg marketing. The conference
recommended that this sales
ageacy shall be formed when aa
many as 15 state or regional co-
operative egg marketing associa-
tions are ready to become mem-
bers of it. I

I

Radio Makes Money
For Members of This
Shipping Association

From $500 to $700 gain on ship-
ments of hogs from the Montgom-
ery County Live Stock Shipping
Association ' during the months of
December, January and February
is the result of radio market re-
ports received by the First Na-
tional Bank at Raymond, Illinois,
according to Lewis Lessman,
manager of the shipping associa-
tion.

"Frequently," says Mr. Less-
man, "I get out from one to three
loads of hogs after getting the
market report at 9 : 40 a. m. and
get on a good market. For in-
stance, in December I had three
loads of hogs ready to go on a
certain day. The market was
bad— $6.60 per hundred. After
getting the market report at 9:40
I phoned and held back two cars
and shipped one, which brought
$6.60. I held the other two cars
for three days until I received a
favorable market report and then
shipped them. They brought
$7.45, a gain over the earlier
price of $289.00 for the two cars.
"The radio is hard on the trad-
er but fine fo^ the producer."

Play Ball!

Is your county farm bu-
reau going to play ball this
summer? If so, Mr. Metz-
ger of the I. A. A. wants
your application, so that
plans can be laid for sched-
uling the farm bureau league
games. He says that he
wants all applications in
during April, so that the first
games may be started in
May, if passible. Three
counties have joined the
league, twelve more say
that they are interested.
Ten dollars Is the member-
ship fee. l-et's keep the
bail rolljngl

Lynch Meets With
McDonough D^rymen

A. D. Lynch, director of Dairy
Marketing, iflet with farm bureau
dairymen from near Macomb,
McDonough county, to consider
their marketing problems. He
made a survey of the situation
and suggested that the most log-
ical thing to do would be for the
cream producing dairymen to
form a collective bargaining as-
sociation.

Going To Play
Ball? Write To
Metzger of I. A. A.

G. E. Metzger of the I. A. A.
has been named secretary-treas-
urer of the Illinois Farm Bureau
Baseball League and is ready to
receive applications for member-
ship from all bureaus which plan
to put a team in the field. Ten
dollars should accompany the
membership application.

According to last reports, three
counties have formally applied
for admission into the league,
Cass, Sangamon and Logan coun-
ties. Carroll, Jo Daviess, Steph-
enson, Ogle and Morgan counties
say that they will have teams and
favorable comment has been re-
ceived from McLean, Tazewell,
Clark and Pike counties.

I.VCOJIE TAX REFUNDS

George E. Frazier, consulting
accountant for the I. A. A., is
going to Washington in April to
file the briefs of the claims for
refund on inpome taxes paid by
Illinois farmers' elevators and
other cooperative associations.
Thirty-one of these claims have
been filed with the I. A. A.

WOOL POOL NETS
GOOD PRICE FOR
BETTER GRADES

Net Average Price of Pool For
Higher Grades Was 41 Cents Com-
pared With 36 Cents Locally

''It Won't Work With Broom
Corn" Says Mattoon Dealer

Renewal Campaigns
In Tazewell and Clay

The first county farm bureau re-
organization campaign for 1924
will start in Tazewell county,
April 9, with H. L. Hough, Grundy
county, a member of the I. A. A.
organization field force, as local
manager. Clay county will start
its membership renewal campaign
on May 20, with F. M. Higgins,
La Salle county, in charge. Each
of these counties will be reorgan-
ized under the township unit plan
used very successfully by the I.
A. A. in 1923.

Durst Is Editor

Of Fruit Magazine

C. E. Durst, for three years
director of the I. A. A. Fruit and
Vegetable Marketing department,
has accepted a position as editor
of the American Fruit Grower,
Chicago, a leading fruit journal.
During the past year he has been
taking graduata work in the growers joined the association

Cooperative marketing may be
all right • for marketing cotton
and tobacco, but it won't work
with broom corn, according to a
prominent broom corn buyer of
Mattoon, who took the floor at
the booster meeting of the Illi-
nois Broom Corn Growers' Asso-
ciation in that city, March 20, at-
tended by 80 broom corn growers
from the producing district of
Coles and surrounding counties.

"Experience has taught me
that buyers are mighty poor
sources of cooperative marketing
information for the commodity in
which they deal," was the an-
swef by Walton Peteet, Secretary
of the National Council of Co-
operative Associations, to this
statement.

"It's a marvelous thing that
dealers approve cooperative mar-
keting in everything but what
they sell! I hav,e a lot more re-
spect for the dealer who comes
right out and says he is opposed
to cooperative marketing because
it will hurt his business than for
one who says he is doing it to
protect the grower."

Previous to that Mr. Peteet
had spoken on the advantages of
cooperative marketing. The buy-
er, who said that he spoke as a
grower-dealer-banker, then arose
and outlined his stand on co-
operative marketing.

Sign Away Rights
"For 38 years," he said, "I've
been a buyer here, and I'm for
the broom corn grower. We buy-
ers have paid out over $75,000,-
000 to you farmers and have
served you right. There is a
decrea!<.tig demand for broom
corn, and what you growers
should do is to decrease your
production of broom corn. You'll
never decrease your crop under
the cooperative method. You're
only signing away your rights by
joining this cooperative associa-
tion. I'm for leaving the farmer
free and independent to sell his
broom corn as he wishes."

The speaker Implied that if the

cial backing from his bank.
"But," he -stated, "if it is Anally
proved to me that cooperative
marketing of broom corn is a
success, I'll be for it."

Peteet's Reply

"If everyone waited td see if a
project was a success l)efore
they were for it," replied Mr.
Peteet, "the world wouldn't move
ahead very far. Most of you
bankers were against the Federal
Reserve system until you saw
that it was a success.

"You say that cooperative mar-
keting will cause increased pro-
duction. In saying that, you are
admitting that the cooperative
method brings higher price lev-
els. How in the world are the
growers going to bring about de-
creased production unless they
organize and get the facts about
broom corn marketing?

Banlis and Farming

"As for your implication that
it the growers Join the associa-
tion they needn't come to your
bank for money, don't think for
a minute that all the banks are
going to commit such a suicidal
act. Banks are interested In
farming, because they are depen-
dent on it. The practice in all
commodity marketing associa-
tions has been to borrow from
local banks as much as possible
before using governmental credit
agencies.

"Now, Mr. Dealer, we know
how your system works. Certain
ly cooperative marketing can't
work any worse than your sys-
tem."

Bayer Convinced Him

At the close of the meeting
one of the growers said to Mr.
Metzger of the I. A. A.: "Well,
I've just signed the contract.
But it was that dealer and not
you or Mr. Peteet that persuaded
me to do it. When I found that
he was against it I was convinced
that the plan must be right. And
I've got another contract with
me that I'm going to have my

An average of 41 cents per
pound was the net price received
by poolers of the better grades of
wool in the 1923 Illinois pool as
compared with an average of 36
cents paid iiy local dealers, states
C. A. Stewart of the I. A. A.
livestock marketing department.
Two hundred thousand pounds
of Illinois wool was in the pool.

"One of the main reasons why
some were dissatisfied with pool-
ing results in 1923 was because
Illinois wool graded lower than
in 1922," declares Mr. Stewart.
"The pool would have netted
about two cents per pound more
if the grading had been on a
par with the previous year. No
satisfactory explanation can be
given for the difference in grad-
ing of the two clips but the fact
remains that Illinois wool in'tte
1923 pool was as a whole of
poorer quality than that of the
previous year."

Another thing that must be
kept in mind, says Mr. Stewart,
is the fact that the returns of
many poolers were cut down
due to the high transportation
and handling costs caused by
shipment of wool in small lots.
It cost shippers from 7 to 8
cents per pound to market wool
through the pool when it was
shipped in small amounts, while
this cost was reduced to about
4 cents per pound when shipped
in carload lots.

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Volumi

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Wicker I

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The
countinf

Peteet Tells Co-op
Story In Calhoun Co.

Walton Peteet, secretary of the
National Council of Cooperative
Associations, was secured to ad-
dress a series of fruit growers'
meetings in Calhoun county, April
1 and 2, under the auspices of the
Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange.
Calhoun county, the largest apple
growing section in Illinois, may '■*
organize to market through the
exchange.

University of Illinois.

I they need not expect any flnan- neighbor sign on the way home."

Thought Cartoon Hit
Nail On the Head

"I think the cartoon in your
February 20 issue sure locates
the farmer," writes C. M. Els-
berry, Paris. "To diversify and
loan him money won't do him
any good. We pay 10 cents a
loaf for bread, the same as when
wheat was $2.60 a bushel. It
has been proven that if the
farmer gave his wheat away it
would lower bread costs less than
1 cent a loaf. I sold a nice beef
hide this last winter for $1.44
that would make 5 pairs of
shoes. How much cheaper would
the shoes be it hides were do-
nated?

"We can't continue to be the
'richest nation on earth' if we
persist in pauperizing our citi-
zens."

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X

56 IN POtnOTRY CLUB

Fifty-six Adams county boys
and girls have joined Che Adams
County Poultry club, formed by
the county farm burettu. The
Quincy Poultry association is co-
operating in the work by fur-
nishing hatching eggs.

nesota (
the Mi
AgricuK
the I. A
new del

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the org!
of farm
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operativ
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laws fo
stock r
coopera:
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culture
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who is
account
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in the
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)ril 5, 1924

JETS
EFOR
GRADES

of Pool For

I Cents Corn-
its Locally

I I cents per
)rice received
ter grades of
llnois pool as

verage of 36
lealers, states
he I. A. A.

department,
sand pounds

in the pool.

reasons why
;d with pool-
was because
lower than
Mr. Stewart,
have netted
pound more
been on a '
is year. No
tion can be
hce in grad-
but the fact
wool In'tfie
a whole of '
that of the

at must be
Mr. Stewart,
! Returns of

cut down ■
•ansportation ,

caused by
I small lots. *
om 7 to 8 ,
market wool
rhen it was '
ounts, while ^ ^
ed to about <
hen shipped ' <

houn Co. ^

■etary of the
Cooperative ■
!ured to ad-
ult growers'
;ounty, April •
spices of the .
s Exchange,
argest apple
llinois. may '
through the

m Hit '

he Head '

ion in your •
lure locates ^

C. M. Els-
iversify and '
n't do him »4.

10 cents a
me as when

bushel. It . ■
lat if the
lat away it '
its less than ,

a nice beef
• for $1.44 ' :
i pairs of •
;aper would
s were do- *

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irth' it we '
5 our citi- .

CLUB

junty boys
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'NviHVHiin 'Hi:v;A>;K^

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Volume 2

April 21, 1924

Nur^faer 8

I.A.A. LAYS PU\NS
FOR BUSINESS AND
ACCOUNTING SERVICE

Wicker Employed To Head Work;
Effective Accounting and Bus-
iness Control a Necessity

The establishment of an ac-
connting and business service for
Illinois farmers'
cooperative as-
sociations is rap-
idly being per-
fected by the I.
A. A. George
Wicker, who
has had an ex-
tensive and suc-
cessful experi-
ence in develop-
i n g a similar
Georsc wicker service for Min-
nesota cooperative associations by
the Minnesota Department of
Agriculture, has been employed by
the I. A. A. to take Charge of this
new department.

Mr. Wicker has been active in
the organization and management
of farmers' cooperative companies
in Minnesota for years. As a
member of the Minnesota Legis-
lature he wrote the General Co-
operative law for Minnesota and
also prepared and introduced
laws for the regulation of live
stock markets. As director of
cooperative accounting in the
Minnesota Department of Agri-
culture he has built up a, practi-
cal and efficient business service
for cooperative associations.

George E. Frazer, Chicago,
who is nationally known as an
accounting au-
thority, has for
some time been
in the employ
of the I. A. A,
a 8 consulting
accountant. Mr.
Frazer will as-
sist the I. A. A.
in an advisory
capacity in es
tablishing this
new business <j^ e. Pr..er
service.

Must Be Businesslike ■
"The local cooperative asso-
ciation must become a ' modern
business institution, properly fi-
nanced, with effective accounting
service and effective business con-
trol," states Secretary Fox of the
I. A. A. "The I. A. A. has had
consideraljle experience with
farmer-ow*ed cooperative com-
panies and has hkd an opportun-
ity for wide observation as to
their methods of operation.

"These obserrations have led
to some definite conclusions.
Flrtft; -eooiterallve markettig of
■ ■ (Continued (» txife' O:

McNary-Haugen Bill
To Be Discussed at
Rock Island Meeting

Farmers, bankers and business
men of the Middle West will
meet on cofnmon ground to dis-
cuss the provisions, merits and
effects of the McNary-Haugen
bill in an Important meeting
sponsored by the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association at the gym-
nasium of Augustana College,
Rock Island, Thursday night,
April 24, at 7:30.

The meeting will be addressed
by speakers who are thoroughly
informed at first hand on the
provisions of the bill. Its history
and progress to date in Congress.

25th District Men
Support McNary Bill;
Meet at Carbondale

The first meeting of farm bu-
reau men of the 25th district at
Carbondale, April 10, passed reso-
lutions urging the passage of the
McNary-Haugen bill and opposing
a raise in postal rates. A discus-
sion of poultry and egg marketing
was a feature of the meeting.

About 35 representatives of
farm bureaus of the district at-
tended the meeting. Secretary
Fox of the I, A. A. was present.
The next meeting of the district
will be held at Sparta.

Community Clubs
Advocated by 14th
District Meeting

The:i organization of a com-
munity club in each township,
the meetings of which would be
conducted by home people with
the assistance of the county
farm adviser and an occasional
man from the state association
was advocated at the first dis-
trict meeting of the farm bu-
reaus in the 14th congressional
district, held at Rock Island,
March 27.

"The farm bureau must be
built on the efforts i of the in-
dividual farmer," said Judge
Searle, Rock Island, in address-
ing the meeting. "Each com-
munity must study its own prob-
lems and develop its own lead-
ers. In other words, we must
build from the bottom up rather
than from the top down."

The township unit plan of the
organization department of the
I. A. A. for reorganization of the
county farm bureaus was favor-
ably spoken of by the delegates
at the meeting. A resolution was
passed endorsing the McNary-
Haugen relief bill.

Rock Island, Mercer, Warren
and McDonough counties were
repr;esented at this meeting.

Sale Guarantees and : f':
Contracts Now Available

In response to requests from
many northern Illinois counties,
the Tuberculosis Eradication de-
partment of the I. A. A. has per-
fected the uniform guarantee and
sale contract which is now avail-
able for use between members of
farm bureaus and county breed
associations in other states. The
guarantee and contract were ap-
proved at the last meeting of the
I. A. A. executive committee.

The plan is made effective as
follows: If, for example, mem-
bers of any Illinois farm bureau
wish to buy cattle from four or
five breed associations in another
state, the farm bureau, together
with the I. A. A., will sign the
guarantee with the breed associa-
tions from whom its members
wish to buy cattle. After signing
the guarantee, which expresses the
terms and a basis of understand-
ing upon which individnals may
buy or sell cattle, the indi\'ldual
farm bureau member is then in a
position to buy any cattle he may
wish to from the associations with
which the guarantee has been
signed, under the terms and con-
ditions of the sale contracts

"It is the hope of those who
have assisted in perfecting these
arrangements (hat through the

use of these contracts a new spirit
of trust and mutual understand-
ing may he established in the cat-
tle industry," states M. H. Peter-
sen, in charge of tuberculosis erad-
ication for the I. A. A. "We hope
it will Eliminate many of the mis-
understandings and shady prac-
tices of the past."

Jo Daviess Forms
First L,imestone
Crushing Ass^n

The first limestone crushing
association in Jo Daviess county
has been formed by the county
farm bureau in Guilford town-
ship with over 20 members. The
association is being financed by
selling stock at 115.00 per share.
Guilford township has an abun-
dance of high testing limerock
which can easily be quarried and
ground, according to V. J. Ban-
ter, farm adviser. ,

THE 'l'KU'1'H-IN-FABRIC

The I. A. A. has written to
Illinois senators and congress-
men ^eaffirming its poeition in
favor of the Truth-in-F»bfie bjjj
and asking their support of the
measure. i , ' i ; .

COOLIDGE SUPPORT
OF McNARY BILL
ASKED BY BUREAUS

Mid-west PresidentsandSecretariM

Pass Resolution; Thompson

Sends Letter

Presidents and secretaries of
the mid-west state farm bureaus in
conference in Chicago, April 11-
12, passed a resolution asking
President Coolidge to give tis sup-
port to the McNary-Haugen bill.
The text of their resolution is as
follows :

"Recogniztng the critical con-
dition that agriculture in the
United States faces, and believ-
ing that because agriculture is
not on an economic parity with
other industries our whole econ-
omic structure and national wel-
fare are hereby in da"?pr. the
presidents and secretaries of the
mid-west group of farm federa-
tions, including Michigan. Ohio,
Illinois, Indiana. Wisconsin. Min-
nesota, North Dakota, South Da-
kota, Nebraska, Kansas. Iowa
and Missouri, urgently request
that you support the McNary-
Haugen bill and do all possible
in assisting the same to become .
a law."

On April 8, President Thomp-
son of the I. A. A. sent a letter to
the President calling attention to
the'latter's New York speech on
February 12 in which he present-
ed a clear picture of the existing
condition of agriculture. Mr.
Thompson, in his letter, shoved
how the principles of the McNary-
Haugen bill are the hope of agri-
culture and asked the President
to aid in the -lassage of the meas-
ure.

A copy of President Thompson's
letter appears on Page 3 of this is-
sue of the Record.

How Thej-'re Lined Up

It is interesting to note the line-
up for and against the McNary-
Haugen bill.

For the bill are practically all
the national and state farm organ-
izations and marketing associa-
tions of the country, the Amer-
ican Federation of Labor, many
bankers' associations in farming
states, nearly all fanh journals
and many dail.v newspapers in
farming states.

Against it are the grain ex-
changes, livestock exchanges, Na-
tional City Bank of New York,
Chase National Bank of New York,
and the daily newspapers In grain
exchange, packing and financial
centers. The only farm bodies
that have come out against it are
the Ofclahoma Wheat Growers.
Kansas Wheat Growers and ivio-
sai^ Farmer Grain Dealeira.

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The niinois Agricultural Aaaodation Record

■i-iv.%rv;

April 21. 1924

jAci

ICIJLTIJIIAL. ASSOCL^wBn

Published twice a month by the Illinois Asricultural
Auociatlon, *0t South Dearborn Street. Chicaco, IlllnQla.
Eflited by Department of Information. H. C. Butcher.

Dirt^ctor.

Entry as second class matter net. 10. 1921. at tlie post
ofllce at Chicago. Illinois, under the act of March 3. 1»7».
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage pro-
vided for in Section llOS. Act of October 3. 1917. author-
l«ed Oct. 31. 1921.

The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association is Ave dollars a year. This fee IncludM
payment of flfty cents for subscription to the IlllnoM Ag-
ricultural Association Record.

OFFICERS
President, S. H. Thompson, Qolncy.
Vice-President. C. B. Watson, DeKalb.
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles. Bloomlngton.
Secretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore.

EXECXmVE COMMITTEE
By ConKresslonal Districts

11th Jacob Olbrlch, Harvard

12th G. F. Tullock, Rocktord

13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody. Port Byron

15th H. E. Goembel, Hooppole

16th A. R. Wright, Varna

17tf, F. D. Barton, Cornell

18th!!.!!..".'.'..'.'..'.' R- F. Karr, Iroquoia

19th J. U Whlsnand, Charleaton

20th Eari C. Smith, Detroit

2lat t ..Samuel Sorrella, Raymond

22nd Stanley Cattle, Alton

23rd J. E. LIngenfelter, Lawreneevllle

24th ' Curt Anderson, Xenia

2Bth Vernon Leaaley, Sparta

Directors of Departments
I. A. A. Office

General Offlee and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker;
Organization, G. E. Metzger; Information, H. C. Butcher;
Transportation, L. J. Quasey; Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A. B. i-eeper; Live Stock Marketing, C. A. Stewart;
Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R. Bent; In charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A.
Gougler; special representative on Tuberculosis Eradi-
cation, M. H. Petersen.

Good New On "PitUbnrgh Pla$"

I It is reported on credible authority from Wash-
ington that Special Examiner John W. Bennett
of the Federal Trade Commission, who has been
hearing testimony on "Pittsburgh Plus" for two
years, has submitted his report and that the re-
i port is against this false steel freight charge.

This is very encouraging to the I. A. A. as we
have been among the leaders in seeking to abol-
ish the practice. However, the report is "privi-
leged," that is, not released for publication. There
teems to be no sound reason for keeping the re-
port secret. The public is deeply interested in
''Pittsburgh Plus" and should know the facts
about it.

Three Montha in 1924

Looking back over the first three months of
I. A. A. work ih 1924 we find several high points

■ in association accomplishment. It is difficult to
enumerate specifically all that has been done in
January, February and March, 1924. Iir many
cases we have merely laid the foundation for fu-
ture progress in certain lines of work. In other
cases a definite piece of worit has been accom-
plished.

• I The following are 25 of the principal accom-
plishments of the I. A. A. for the first quarter of
1924:

[ 1. Outlined a definite program of work for 12
«ooperative marketing and service departments
for 1924.

2. Assisted in the formation of the Illinois Farm
Bureau Serum Association to unify the collective
purchasing of serum under one head.

3. Cooperated with the University of Illinois and
the National Live Stock Producers' Association in
holding a ' series of nine livestock shipping, asso-
ciation schools to instruct managers, directors and
farm advisers in problems of shipping associations.
There was a total attendance of 558 at these
schools.

4. Formulated a uniform selling contract for
use between county farm bureaus and organiza-
tions in other states with dairy cattle for sale to

protect farm bureau members against purchasing
tuberculous cattle.

5. Directed educational campaigns in 30 coun-
ties to secure county appropriations for the eradi-
cation of T. B.

6. Assisted in the formation of a milk producers
cooperative association at Galesburg.

7. Started a survey to get the facts to aid in
the solution of the Chicago milk situation.

8. Assisted in organization of the Ford County
Cream Producers' Association.

9. Advised farm bureau members in Whiteside
county toward organization of a cooperative cream-
ery at Prophetstown.

10. Assisted the Producers' Cooperative Dairy
of Decatur in organization plans.

11. Assisted in the reorganization of the Illinoi*
Friiit Exchange.

12. Assisted the Illinois Broom Corn Growers
Cooperative Association in its organization plans.

13. Cooperated with the Illinois Poultry and
Egg Shippers Association to push the campaign
for buying eggs at country points on the basis of
grade. Many buyers are now paying five cents
premium for firsts.

14. Represented Illinois fruit and vegetable
growers before the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion protesting a proposed raise in fruit and vege-
table rates from Illinois points to Chicago.

15. Called a meeting of Illinois county farm
bureau presidents to discuss agricultural legis-
lation which endorsed the McNary-Haugen bill.
Sent a representative to Washington to actively
back the passage of this bilL Actively supported
all legislation in the farm bureau legislative pro-
gram. Helped kiU Williams bill which would have
harmed cooperative livestock marketing.

16. Made a radio survey in Illinois to determine
the use of radio among farmers with the purpose
in view of planning programs to disseminate farm
bureau information.

17. Participated in a crop reporting conference
called by the U. S. Department of Agriculture
at Washington.

18. Made analysis of tax figures for 1922 and
1923 in a considerable number of Illinois counties.

19. Furnished speakers for many local meetings
in Illinois and several meetings in other states.

20. Held a series of limestone conferences re-
sulting in the drawing up of a definite list of
recommendations for the standardization of lime-
stone buying in Illinois and determining the re-
lation of the I. A. A. and county farm bureaus to
limestone purchasing.

21. Made arrangements with one big limestone
producer to grant special rebate to farm bureaus
in purchases of limestone.

22. Filed claims for 31 Illinois cooperative mar-
keting association for refunds of Federal income
taxes which they have paid.

23. Made a full investigation into the require-
ments of county farm bureaus with reference to
county organization work.

24. Started definite plans for the establishment
of a business and accounting service for Illinois
cooperative associations.

25. Published six issues of I. A. A. Record go-
ing to the entire membership as well as sending
out the news of the association to the public press.

Another Drawback To Quality Eggt

Last issue we told how the practice of washing
eggs prevents them from grading as firsts as they
will not keep in storage due to the removal of
the protective covering. This is a drawback in
the campaign to have Illinois egg buyers pay on
the basis of grade with a premium of five cents
per dozen for firsts.

Another practice which causes eggs to come out
of storage almost a total loss has been called to
the attention of the I. A. A. This is the practice

of breeders of pure bred poultry to prick a hole
with a needle through the shells of the eggs which
they market to local dealers in order to prevent
their neighbors from buying them at market price.
These needle holes are too small to be detected
in ordinary grading, but they cause the eggs so
treated to decompose rapidly.

Egg buyers state that they would be much more
favorable to paying a premium to the producers
of quality eggs if such practices as the above are
abolished. 1 ., .... :.

Can the Producers Handle Hogs?

Because of the continued increase in the volume
of business handled by the Producers' cooperative
commission companies, reports and rumors have
been disseminated by interests opposed to these
farmers' selling agencies that the Producers are
handling far more hogs than their facilities will
permit and that the salesmen are overtaxed, bring-
ing about poor service to shippers as well as lower
prices. It has also been said that the shrinks on
hogs consigned to the Producers have been ex-
cessive.

What are the facts t The Chicago Producers
Commission Association made a complete investi-
gation of the hog shipments received during the
week ending March 28th to get facts to prove
whether or not this propaganda was true. This
investigation covered the prices received by the
Producers' shippers in relation to the average
received in the Chicago yards. The co-op handled
260 cars of hogs that week, over 100 cars more
than its nearest competitor.

Here are the results : I I* ''i-; •

Yard

Yard

Day

Average

Average

Holdover

Holdover

March 24

$7.48

»7.48

32.000

None

March 25

7.33

7.38

23.000

None

March 26

7.24

7.31

21.000

None

March 27

7.34

7.39

22.000

None

March 28

7.36

7.39

13.800

None

Those five consecutive days' results show that
the Producers sold hogs higher than the market
average four out of five days and they disposed
of all their shipments upon the day 'of arrival.
With a larger number of hogs at their disposal,
the Producers are in a position to demand better
prices, they are able to sell out every day and
they have lighter shrinks.

The average net shrink per head for the Chicago
Producers' hog shipments for December was 2.15
pounds; January, 1.23; February, 1.58; March
2.7.

There are reasons for the continued growth in
the receipts of the Producers' selling agencies.

Just Listen To This!

In a recent issue of the Chicago Journal of
Commerce in the "Board of Trade News and Gos-
sip" column, we find an interesting comment upon
the Capper-Tincher Act, also known as the Grain
.Futures Act, which the farm bureau was largely
instrumental in getting through Congress for the
government regulation of the grain trade.

Now the Journal of Commerce has never been
accused of praising the Capper-Tincher Act or
being at all in favor of it. So the following ob-
servation is worth noting: "This relegation (of
the Chicago Board of Trade) to third place in
the world's grain business is regarded as a result
of curtailed speculation following the endorsement
of the Grain Futures Act by the Supreme Court.
The blame is placed on Senator Capper and Con-
gressman Tincher by most of the members, but
those who are fully acquainted with the require-
ments and provisions of the law are free to admit
that the blame is more on those who persist in mis-
construing the purposes of the law and who insist
on circulating propaganda intended to inflame
sentiment against its administration."

What do you think ol thati And we've been
told all the time that the act itself was to blame
for all our grain marketing troubles.

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Apnl 21, 1924

The PEnoM AgrJcnlhiral A«»€>q«tion Recorci

Pace 3

Thompson Asks Coolidge*s
' Support of McNary Bill

Chicago, 111., April 8, 1924.
The Honorable

The President of the United States.
Dear Mr. President :

In your address to the people of the United States, delivered
at New York on Febroarj- 12, you presented a clear picture of
the existing condition in agriculture and its effect on other parts
of our national structure. You identified the cause when you
said :

"To this depression there have been other contributing causes,
but the main difficulty has been the price of farm products."

The situation unmistakably
.^il^-iSads to this conclusion, and ag-
riculturally minded men endorse
It.

You said on that occasion:

"There Is no sound policy
which Is narrow or sectional
or limited. • • When there
is a difficulty which affects so
large a population, so large an
area, and so Important an in-
terest as that of agriculture,
it is distinctly a national ques-
Uon."

"Real Gleam of Hope"
There is a real gleam of hope
for agriculture In your great dec-
laration in the metropolis of
America :

"The people of these nu-
merous states cast an enor-
mous Influence on the making
of the laws by which you are
governed. * • ThiA problem is
not merely the problem of the
agricultural section of our
country, it is the problem of
industry, of transportation, of
commerce, and of banking."
Your remarkable address from
which we quote lays down before
the nation in language that may
not be misunderstood the con-
dition and the cause, and directs
attention to the common respon-
sibility of applying the remedy.

Substance of Measure

The hope of agriculture centers
upon the principles contained in
the McNary-Haugen bill now be-
fore Congrats. In brief, the sub-
stance of this measure is:

1. To enable the proc^ucers,
through an agency created for
them, to purchase or to con-
tract with others to purchase,
the exportable surplus of cer-
tain basic crops at the same
exchange value compared with
other commodities that ot>-
tained for a normally represen-
tative period prior to the war.

2. To protect that value by
an adequate tariff.

3. To enable^ the producers
to sell this surplus at the best
prices ruling In the world mar-
kets.

4. To collect the loss there-
on and the costs of operation,
from the producer.

5. To return to the Treas-
ury any funds advanced by it.
This measure rests upon the

promise laid down in your New
York address. It prescribes the
remedy for the basic difficulty of
discriminatory price. The ob-
jections that have thus far been
advanced against it rest alsiost
wholly upon misrepresentations
of the plan. They are that this
is price fixing; that It will im-
pair or destroy existing agencies
that perform useful functions;
that a circulating medium of in-
determinate value will ensue;
that international complication
will result; that increased pro-
duction will follow.

Will Not Stand Analysis
° Not one of these objections
will wlthsUnd the test of close

I

.

analysis. They proceed mainly
from one source out of which
the element of selfish interest is
not lacking. It is only fair that
this organization of agricultural
producers be permitted to observe
that Julius Barnes, grain-export-
er, should not be permitted to
write the agricultural policies of
America. From everywhere in-
tellectual assent has been given
to your proposition that agricul-
ture is In distress and that a
remedy is called for.

Have the objectors a better
plan to accomplish the necessary
end? It so, the common interest
demands that they make it
known.

Asks President's Aid

With deepest appreciation of
your great service in calling at-
tention to the critical situation,
we wish respectfully to ask you
for further leadership in aiding
as far as you properly can, the
enactment into law of this meas-
ure that provides equality for
agriculture in the network of
protective legislation that sup-
ports industry, and finance, and
labor, and transportation in our
present-day structure.

Yours very respectfully,
Illinois Agricultural Association.
8. H. Thompson,

President.

24th District Asks
I. A. A. To Establish
Grain M^ktg Plan

A resolution that the I. A. A.
get behind a definite grain mar-
keting program and that it ac-
tively cooperate in establishing
grain marketing work in Illinois
at an early date on a feasible
national plan was passed at the
first farm bureau district meet-
ing of the 24th district, March
24th, at Fairfield.

The I. A. A. was also asked to
make an investigation toward se-
curing a cooperative outlet tor
eggs and poultry. Farm Ad-
viser W. E. Hart of Clay county
told of the experience of that
county with a cooperative egg
shipping association. It was dis-
continued due to lack of contracts
with members, small volume of
business and poor grading meth-
ods.

The meeting requested the I.
A. A. Phosphate-Limestone de-
partment to take immediate
steps to secure a good strong
differential price on limestone
as between farm bureau mem-
bers and non-memi

aq^K

The McNary-Haq^R bill was
unanimously endorsed and an ex-
pression of appreciation was giv-
en to Congressman T. S. Wil-
liams of the district for with-
drawing his proposed amendment
to the Packers-Stockyards Act.

Twenty delegates attended ^e
meeting, representing Wayne,
Clay, White, Oallatin, Johnson,
Saline and Pope counties.

THE McNARY-HAUGEN BILL
An Act to Create Equalitjr

FOR AGRICULTURE — ',. . . '" . j •

In brief, the substance of this measure la—

1. To enable the producers, through an agency created
for them, to purchase or to contract with others to
purchase, certain basic crops until the price thereof
rises to the same exchange value compared with other
commodities that obtained for a normally representa-
tive period prior to the war.

2. To protect that value by an adequate tariff.

3. To enable the producers to sell the quantity so pitr
chased (which constitutes the exportable surplus)
at the best prices ruling in the world markets.

4. To collect from the producer whatever loss there may
be on the exportable surplus and the costs of opera-
tion of the agency.

5. To return to the Treasury any funds advanced by It.

WITH INDUSTRY— LABOR—

Industry controls Its own marketing mechanism, is pro-
tected by the Tariff, encouraged by "legislative enact-
ments" to combine for export trade (Webb-Pomerene
and Edge bills), and stands its own loss of operations.

Labor is protected by "legislative enactment," i. e., the
Adamson law and the restriction of immigration, j

20th DISTRICT MEN
ASK RAINEY NOT TO
HINDER McNARY BILL

Take Representative to Task For

Opposing Relief Measure;

Pass Resolutions

Forty-two representatives of
the nine county farm bureaus
in the 20th congressional district
met at Jacksonville, April 10,
and drew up a letter to Con-
gressman Henry T. Rainey. ex-
pressing their disappointment in
his attitude in opposing the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill and asking
him, if he cannot support the
measure, at least not to hinder
its coming on the floor of the
House for discussion and roll
call.

The letter also made it plain
to Mr. Rainey that they are
supporting the measure because
they understand the bill and be-
lieve in it and it was upon their
advice and request, with other
farm bureau officers of the state,
that President Thompson has
taken such an active part in de-
manding that Illinois congress-
men support the bill.

Chicago Sanitary District

The meeting also went on rec-
ord recommending that the
amount of water dumped into
the Illinois river by the Chicago
Sanitary district be limited by
law and that the Illinois river
should not l>ecome a dumping
ground for all Chicago sewage.

M. H. Petersen of the I. A. A.
told about the tuberculosis erad-
ication campaign in Illinois and
how the association is helping
in Its progress. A motion was
passed instructing the I. A. A.
to appoint a committee to in-
vestigate the present system of
obtaining abstracts for farm
property and, if possible, to work
out some method which would
be less expensive.

The following is the letter sent
by the farm bureaus of the dis-
trict to Congressman Rainey:

Rainey Letter
Our Dear Mr. Rainey: —

We, the presidents, officers,
executive committeemen a.nd farm
advisers of the farm bureaus of
the 20th Congressional District,
in our regular quarterly meeting
assembled at JacksonviIlt> on this
the 10th day of April, ]$24, beg

leave to present to you the fol-
lowing statement of facts; which
after careful preparation and con-
sideration set forth our indi-
vidual and collective feelihgs and
convictions as to what is com-
monly known as the McNary-Hau-
gen bill.

' First, Sam H. Th<impson.
President of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association, has not dictat-
ed to us in regard to this meas-
ure, but we have directed! him in
his former communications to you
and he has acted only upon our
advice and at our request, along
with the advice and request of
the officers of the other farm bu-
reaus of the state of Illinois, es-
pecially at the meeting In Chi-
cago, March 6th.

Have Studied BUI

Second, we have as individ-
ual farmers and meml>ers of the
farm bureaus carefully studied
this bill and thoroughly l>elieve
it is a long step in the tight di-
rection toward relieving the pres-
ent distressful state of Agricul-
ture.

- Third, we felt after your
early endorsement of this meas-
ure that you would support the
same, representing as •yoU do a
large agricultural district; but
we are much disappointed to find
that you have not only ftiiled to
support the measure as written
and have also neglected ito offer
any friendly constructive amend-
ments to same and furthermore
have taken a very leading part
in opposition to this measure.

Fourth, we feel that we have
a perfect right to ask you to
take one of the following posi-
tions; first, support the bill as
written, second, failing in that
assist in a friendly way in mak-
ing constructive amendments
or additions to the bill. Or,
third, at leAst permit the bill so
far as lies In your power, to
come on the fioor of the House
for discussion and roll call.

— 20th District Farm Bureaus.

BIGGAR LEAAIKG I. A. A.

G. C. Biggar, who has served
the I. A. A. as Assistant Director
of Information for the past 14
months, has resigned to accept a
position with the Sears-Roebuck
Agricultural Foundation. He wiU
l>e connected with the agricul-
tural radio broadcast4ng station
which was recently established
His successor in the I. A. A. has
not been named.

SCHOOL SURVEY OF
STATE LAUNCHED
I BY ASSOCIATION

educational Committee Submits

Plans; Farm Bureau Folks

Asked To Help

Plans for investigation of the
school problems of the state with
a view to bettering school con-
ditions were outlined by the ad-
visory educational committee at
the meeting' of the I. A. A.
executive committee April 4.

These plans include a survey
of the state with the help of the
farm bureaus to determine the
attitude of the farmers toward
such educational problems as
consolidation, revenue relation-
ship, enlargement and unification
of administration.

A questionnaire will be suit
to all farm bureau members Itr-
ing in consolidated high schoJI
districu. township high BCbool
districts and community high
school districts to determine
their attitude toward these in-
stitutions.

Encage Supervisor
G. W. Willett, Superintendent
at Schools at La Grange, Illinois,
has been engaged as Supervisor
of Investigations to serve on a
temporary basis during the sum-
mer.

The committee, which consists
of J. L. Whisnand. Charleston.
A. C. Everingham, Hutsonviiie,
and E. W. RuSk, Carlinville, will
make a study of rural school
problems from the standpoint of
rural school teachers and county
school superintendents. It plans
also (o work in cooperation with
J. 0. Watson of the taxation de-
partment insofar as school prol>-
lems are related to tax matters.

Snggentions Wanted

Definite suggestions from farm
bureau members as to needed
changes in school laws will be
welcomed by the committee.

"We believe," said the chair-
man, "that we have an impor-
tant piece of work to do. We
also believe we have a workable
plan that will get for the I. A.
A. and for all cititeos of the
atate, much needed Information."

First Farm Bureau .
Radio Community
Meet Big Success

Farm bureau folks from all
^ver the United SUtes attended
tile first farm bureau radio com-
munity meeting broadcasted from
SUtion KYW, Chicago, under the
auspices of the American Farm
Bureau Federation, Tuesday
night, April 8.

Secretary Coverdale of the
A. F. B. F. was chairman of
the meeting. Songs, reports of
projects, agricultural news and
special talks featured the meet-
ing. It was. without doubt, the
largest attended farm bureau
eommnnity meeting in historj-.

The A. F. B. F. is now Lroad-
eastlng from SUtion KYW at
t:20 on Tuesday and Friday
nights with special features each
time. Arrangements are being
made for the formation of a na-
tional radio forum, composed of
several leading farm organisa-
tions, to broadcast agricultural
programs from Chicago and oth-
er points. Secretary Fox of the
I. A. A. is chairman of the com-
mittee arranging the new plan.

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Pa«e 4

The Dfinois A«iricultiiral A««oci«tion Record

KANE COUNTY MEN
ENDORSE PLAN FOR
MILKMARKETING

County Units at Basis to be Fed-
erated into Larger Selling
Organization

I —

Kane county dairymen, at a
meeting in Geneva, April 4, en-
dorsed a plan for milk marketing
in the Chicago district based on
county units to be organized as
fndependent marketing associa-
tions. Federation of these county
units into a district-wide market
ing company Is planned later.

This plan was prepared by the
I. A. A. Dairy Marketing depart-
ment with the assistance of E. B
Heaton, formerly dairy marketing
director of the A. F. B. F., and
presented to the Kane county men
at their request. With indepen-
dent counftr units, the members
will have confidence in such an or-
ganization* that they would not
have in one covering a larger terri-
tory, it is pointed out.

The Geneva meeting appointed
a committee of W. C. McQueen,
Elgin; Henry McGough, Maple
Park: and G. R. Fox. Hampshire,
to make further arrangements.

The following resolution was
adopted at the Kane county meet-
ing:

whereas; It seems expedient
that gome sort of a pHan be tormu-
lattd on which the dairymen of the
Chicago District can unite for prop-
er merchandislngr of mills and milk
products.

THEREFORE. BB IT RESOLVED:
that this group of Kane county
dairy farmers at the Kane county
court house. April 4. 1924, endorse
and pledge our support to the rot-
lowing principles underlying a mUK
and dairy products marltetlng or-
ganization for Kane county:

1. Mlll« producers form their
own organiiation by attaching a
written agreement to the contract
which Bpeclfles that the follp-wing
conditions must be fulfilled before
organization can be formed:

A. Have local district associa-
tions— preferably about a county in
size. .. ,

B. Must have at least 60 per cent
of the mlHt producers as signers be-
fore district associations can be In-

'> C District associations are to be
organized by a local organization
committee.

D. Membership fee of five dollars
to be secured to pay the cost of
organization campaign.

E. Contract period to be for five
years.

2. Association Agreement to pro-
vide that after marketing associa-
tion is <ormed the following provi-
sions must be carried out:

A. Provides for financing associa-
tions by loans t*iroueli regular de-
ductions from^roducer members.

when ten local

Butcher Is New
Publicity Director
For Association

H. C. Butcher of Iowa State
College, has been employed by the
I. A. A. as Di-
rector of Infor-
mation to suc-
ceed Edgar L.
Bill, who is now
director of the
Sears - Roeftuck
A g r 1 c u 1 -
tural Founda-
tion radio sta-
Oon. WLS.

Mr. Butcher
H. C.BatehpT has been han
dling publicity work for Iowa State
College. During the past year he
has also sep\'ed as editor-in-chief
of one of the student publications.
He was born and raised on a farm
in Iowa and will graduate at Ames
in June in • agricultural Journal-
ism and animal husbandry.

Mr. Butcher has already taken
up his work with the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association.

JASPER GROWERS ORGANIZE

A. B. Leeper. manager of the
Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange,
writes that the peach growers
of Jasper county have voted to
form an organization to market
through the exchange. How-
ever, he states that their crop
this year has been winter-killed
and that the organization will
doubtless be perfected so as to
be ready to market the 1925
crop.

April 21, 1924

Save These Dates!

Mark down on your calen-
dar the dates for two more
important I. A. A. event*.
The executive committee has
decided that the I. A. A. and
county farm bureau picnic,
to be held at Lincoln, will
take place on August 26.
They also approved January
14 and IS, 1925, as the date
for the tenth annual meet-
ing of the I. A. A. It has
not been decided where next
year's annual meeting will be
held.

Metzger To Meet
With So. Illinois
Cotton Growers

6. E. Metzger, director of or-
ganization for the I. A. A., will
meet with the organization com-
mittee of the cotton growers of
southern Illinois at Mound City,
April 22. Plans for organizing
the cotton growers of the dis-
trict for cooperative marketing
of their crop will be discussed.

It is likely that Illinois cotton
growers will not find it advisable
to form a separate marketing as-
sociation as they do not have
enough acreage. Federation with
either the Tennessee Cotton
Growers' Cooperative Association
of the Missouri Cotton Growers'
Association is anticipated.

Representatives from Johnson.
Union. Massac, Alexander and
Pulaski county cotton growers
have been invited to attend this
meeting.

Egg Producers Must Help
In Quality Program-Gougler

F. A. Govgler

B.

ons froni^roduc
Provi^M that \
ct a^ociations

district afsociations are incorpor-
ated that-- a central marketing ex-
change for the Illinois part of the
Chicago territory can be forined.

C. Provides that association can
lease and equip locally owned skim-
ming stations, processmg or manu-
facturing plants as deemed advis-
able by the Board of Directors.

D. ProvKfts the duties which the
exchange and the associations are
to perform.

3. The Producer Contract or Mar-
keting -Agreement which is attached
to the Association Agreement pro-
vides:

A. Delivery of all milk and cream
for market to association.

B. Have one or more pools — fluid
milk, condensed milk, butter and
cheese.

C. Specifies maximum deduction
Of twenty cents per hundred pounds
for milk marketed for -loan to as-
sociation for working capital fund,
called the Specl41 Advance Fund.

P. Method of payment to, pro-
ducers^— 80 per cent net pool price
the month after delivery and re-
mainder on month following.

E. Average monthly production
control with penalty for excess pro-
duction during surplus months and
reward during short period.

F. Liquidated damages for viola-
tion of contract with -right of In-
junction.

G. Date of beginning and ending
of contract period.

B.*CKnirG BVTTEk COMPANY

Farm bureaus (n the St. Lonls
dairy district are loyally backing
the Ill-Mo Butter ■SCompany, a
co-op. It opened on Jan. 2, 1924
and is now malting over 1,000
ponnds o{ butter per

ir da7. I

"Every effort is being made at
the present time to get Illinois egg
buyers to buy-
ing on a graded
basis, so that
the man who
takes good eggs
to market will
get a price com-
mensurate with
their quality
and those who
do not handle their eggs prop-
erly will receive less," states
F. A. Gougler, director of the
poultry and' egg marketing de-
partment in outlining the pres-
ent policy of the Poultry and
Egg Marketing Committee.

This undertaking means more
to Illinois poultry and egg produc-
ers than appears at first thought,
Mr. Gougler thinks. It will pre-
serve for Illinois producers a very
large egg-consuming center which
otherwise might easily be taken
by up-to-date poultry producers
in other sections.

He calls attention to the fact
that California egg producers by
assembling quality eggs have
shipped them across the continent
to New York and have competed
successfully with Eastern produc-
ers who live next door to the mar-
ket.

Mnst Sell Qnality Ekrs
"If we wish to maintain these
large middle west markets we
mnst realize that our quality must
be as good or better than that of
Other producers." states Mr. Goug-
ler. "Many of the large shippers
of eggs have expressed a desire
\o purchase on a graded basis and
they are willing to pay a premlnm
tor quality eggs."
Mt.' 'Oooster' poiAts oat the fol-

lowing precautions that egg pro-
ducers should take in order to de-
liver good eggs to the buyer:
Precautions to Take

1. Provide hens with clean
nests.

2. During hot weather gather
eggs twice daily. ,

3. Keep eggs in cool, clean
place. Eggs absorb bad odors
very readily.

4. Market at ' least twice each
week during summer months.

5. Try to have eggs uniform in
size and color. No. I's must be
1 % inches In diameter or larger.

6. Never wash eggs unless they
are to be marketed for immediate
consumption.

7. For your own use, use odd-
sized, off -color and dirty eggs,

8. Preserve eggs for wintar use
while they are cheap. Then you
can sell your winter eggs for high-
er prices.

9. Keep male birds away from
all hens except the breeding flock
at all times.

Only Fair Method
"The egg trade will probably be
divided on the grading program,"
states Mr. Gougler, "and of course
some farmers may not wish to line
up with the grading system at
first. However, this method is
the only fair method of handling
the egg trade. Illinois producers
must deliver quality eggs or their
competitors will take their busi-
ness away from them.

"The success of this movement
in Illinois rests on farm bureau
members and their wi-ves. Ask
your dealer if he is paying a pre-
mium on qualify eggs and if he
Is not, ask him why not. We urge
all farm bureau members to co-
operate with us In this prosraBt,"- [
jj-'J .-^if} ,i.7WA Hi -«•»• S»«i i-ril

Egg Shippers Are
Pushing Grading
Program in State

Egg shippers from Peoria and
other towns in that part of the
state met in that city, April 9, to
discuss the buying of eggs on the
basis of grade. Mr. Gougler, dl
rector of poultry and egg market-
ing for the I. A. A., was present
and reports that practically all in
attendance were in favor of buy-
ing on grade, and it was voted to
begin buying on Monday, April
14, with standard weight to be
24 oz. per dozen on a margin of
5 cents or more per dozen for No.
1 eggs.

"The I. A. A. and county farm
bureaus are backing you in this
program of paying for eggs on the
basis of grade and will do all in
their power to make the plan a
success," Mr. Gougler told the
shippers.

The Peoria meeting was one of
several being held over the state
by the Illinois Poultry and Egg
Shippers' association to acquaint
shippers with their plans for buy-
ing on the basis of grade.

I.A.A. Gives $200
For Boys' and Girls^
Club Judging Teams

The executive committee at its
April meeting voted to appro-
priate $200 for the purpose of
helping defray th« expenses of
Illinois boys' and girls' Judging
teams to national contests in
1924.

It will be remembered that the
I. A. A. gave $250 for this pur-
pose last year. This money
helped to send the champion live-
stock club Judging team to Sioux
City, the high school Judging
team to the International Live
Stock Show in Chicago and the
state champion dairy Judging
team to the National Dairy Show
at Syracuse, New York.

The latter team, composed of
three boys from Whiteside coun-
ty, carried off the championship
in Judging at the boys' and girls'
contest at the National Dairy
Show.

1. A. A. TO HAVE
BUSINESS SERVICE

(Continued from Page One)
farm crops by farmers is a
sound business policy. There is
enough successful experience to
warrant this conclusion.

"Second, the semi-failures and
deplorable practices prevailing in
many concerns have served to
bring about a clearer understand-
ing of what is needed to make
cooperative companies efficient
business institutions.

Mnst Correct Weak Spots

"To search out the weak spots
and help correct these weak-
nesses is a part of the business
of the I. A. A.." continues Mr.
Fox. "The business methods of
cooperative companies have heen
the subject of careful considera-
tion for some time. Many con-
ferences have been held with
executive officers and managers
of successful companies. The
universal conclusion has been
that there is need for a busi-
ness service to cooperatives of
Illinois such as we are now es-
tablishing."

It will be remembered that
Mr. Wicker was a speaker at our
last annual meeting upon the
sabieot of cooperative aoeoant-
Ing. He will Join th* I. A. A.
fbotft June i:

CUMBERLAND AND
RICHLAND FARMS
PAY LESS TAXES

Calculations From Tax Book Figures

Show Reductions Due To

Farm Bureau Effort

Land-owners of Cumberland
county are paying a total of |26,-
016.61 less 1923 land taxes than
they would have paid had the farm
bureau secured no reduction in
land valuations, according to fig-
ures of John C. Watson, director
of taxation and statistics for the
I. A. A. This is an average of
$13.13 for each of the 1982 farms
in the county.

And land-owners of Richland
county pay $10,514.09 less lS'23
taxes, or an average saving of
$5.45 for each of the 1930 farms
in the county, because the farm
bureau dug out facts and figures
to show that the assessed valua-
tions of farm lands should be re-
duced, as they were too high in
proportion to the valuations of
town and city lots.

Figures from each of these
counties were taken from the
county tax books and the calcula-
tions made in Mr. Watson's ofBce.

In Cumberland

In Cumberland county the total
reduction in assessed valuations
for lands from 1922 to 1923 was
$1,101,556 or 26.3 per cent. The
reduction in taxes due solely to
reduction in valuations was $66,-
728.22, which, added to the re-
duction of $1,054.22 due solely to
decrease in tax rates, makes a to-
tal of $67,782.44. This was off-
set by Increases in tax rates
amounting to $51,070.12, leaving
a net actual decrease levied on
land of $16,712.32.

However, increases totalling
$9,304.29 were made in 1923 over
1922 for certain purposes which,
it may fairly be assumed, would
have been made if there had been
no decrease in valuations, makes
a total of $26,016.61, or the total
saving on land taxes due to farm
bureau activity.

Richland Decrease

The total reduction in the as-
sessed valuations of lands in Rich-
land county from 1922 to 1923
was $512,065 or 16.18 per cent.

The reduction in taxes due sole-
ly to reduction in valuations was
$21,836.40. A further reduction,
due solely to decreases in tax
rates, was $4,331.31, making a to-
tal reduction for, both reasons of
$26,167.71. This was offset by
increases due solely to increases
in tax rates amounting to $18,-
834.11, leaving a net actual de-
crease in taxes ^evied on land of
$7,333.60.

However, as In the case of Cum-
berland county. Increases in
amounts levied for certain pur-
poses from 1922 to 1923 and
which, it may fairly be assumed,
would have been made had there
been no decrease in valuations,
were $3,180.49, making a total
reduction in taxes levied as com-
pared with what would have been
levied with no reduction in valua-
tions, of $10,514.09.

C.UiHOUN FRUIT MEETINGS

During the week of - April 1,
Walton Peteet, co-op marketing
authority, and A. B. Leeper of
the Illinois Fruit Exchange, ad-
dressed a series of five fruit mar-
keting meetings in Calhoun coun-
ty. A large proportion of the
(rowers attended.
t >- : •' ' ■:'- ft«.«<!4«» y»w

for th

•g 21, 1924

I AND
FARMS
5S TAXES

K Book Figures
IS Due To
Effort

Cumberland
total of $26,-
nd taxeB than
1 had the farm
reduction in
ording to flg-
itson, director
tistics for the
in average of
ke 1982 farms

of Richland
.09 less 1W3
ge saving of
le 1930 farms
.use the farm
ts and figures
ssessed valua-
should be re-
B too high in
valuations of

ich of these
en from the
d the calcula-
^atson's office.

land

unty the total
ed valuations
I to 1923 was
per cent. The
due solely to
ons was |66,-
sd to the re-
due solely to
i, makes a to-
This was olf-
in tax rates
70.12, leaving
ise levied on

I totalling
: in 1923 over
rposes which,
iUmed, would
lere had been
ations, makes
I, or the total
I diie to farm

crease

>n in the as-
lands in Rich-
922 to 1923
18 per cent,
axes due sole-
aluations was
ler reduction,
eases in tax

making a to-
th reasons of
fas offset by

to increases
ting to $18,-
et actual de-
d on land of

case of Cum-
ncreases in
certain pur-
) 1923 and
be assumed,
de Ifad there
a valuations,
king a total
vied as com-
ild bave been
lion in valua-

MEETINGS

of April 1,
p marketing
}. Leeper of
xchange, ad-
re fruit tnar-
alhoun coun-
rtion of the

"III •vNtfi::ton

Vohnne 2

May 5, 1924

Number 9

AUDITING SERVICE
PLANS COMPLETED;
TO START JULY 1

Formation Now Up To Locals;

Service To Be Given By Separate

Organization— the "I. A. C.A."

Final arrangements for the new
auditing and accounting service
which has been in the formation
for the past month at the I. A. A.
offices have
been completed
to the extent
that the whole
proposition will
now be laid be-
fore some
group of farm-
er-owned coop-
erativeis that
they may know
all. the details
and scope of
Vernon Vanlmao { jj g organiza-
tion and have a part in the actual
formation. Contrary to the previ-
ous announcements, the service
will not be ronducted as a depart-
ment in the I. A. A., but will be a
separate organization under the
name of the "Illinois Agricultural
Cooperatives Association" with
the office of George Wicker, the
newly hired accounting expert of
the Minnesota state department
of agriculture, who will be gen-
eral manager, occupying a part of
the general I. A. A. office at Chi-
cago.

Mr. Wicker announces that the
auditing service will be available
July 1. He will be on full time
at the I. A. A. office about June
IS.

Mr. Vaninian to Assist
Vernon Vaniman of Virden, will
conduct the work in the field,
meeting with local cooperatives
and explaining the service to
them. Mr. Vaniman has obtained
a leave of absence from the Uni-
versity of Illinois, where he has
been assistant state leader in agri-
cultural extension work. He has
been secretary of the Virden
Grain company since 1909, a
farmer-owned elevator with a
surplus of $36,000 and paying 10
percent dividends, and vice-presi-
dent of the Virden Mutual Aid
Association, a fire and lightning
insurance company. He is How
actively engaged in his work in
the I. A. A. office at Chicago.

I. A. A. to "Mother" the
"I. A. C. A."

The Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation will "mother" the new as-
sociation much the same as it has
other organizations which have
been established by it. The new
association will hold its members
on a contract basis and is designed
to include all cooperative business
organizations. The purpose is to
provide facilities for audits and
accounting, business advisory ser-
vice and statistical data. Districts
are to be organized with an au-
ditor in each district so traveling
expenses will be minimized. Sep-
arate groups of cooperatives, like
the dairy group, the live stock
group or the elevator group, will

(CoDtinued on page 8}

Four-Day Cream

Buying in Egypt

A. D. Lynch, director of dairy
marketing for the I. A. A., was
instrumental toward getting the
new four-day cream purchasing
plan into effect for farmers liv-
ing south of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad which cuts across
the counties of St. Clair, Clinton,
Marion, Clay, Richland and Law-
rence. Cream sold every four
days in this section of Illinois
will receive a premium from the
buyers.

Southern Illinois
Cotton Producers
Plan Pooling Crop

Cotton producers of southern
Illinois are planning to sell their
cotton cooperatively. A commit-
tee, representing the cotton grow-
ers met at Mound City. April 22
and elected J. E. Lingenfelter,
Lawrenceville, executive commit-
teeman of the I. A. A., as chair-
man, with E. A. Bierbaum, farm
adviser of Pulaski county, as
secretary. George E. Metzger,
organizer for the I. A. A., me*'
with the committee and is help-
ing with the organization of the
cooperative.

It is estimated that southern
Illinois will produce around
20,000 bales of cotton this year,
an amount too small to pool
effectively. However, invitations
had been received from both the
Missouri and Tennessee state cot-
ton cooperative associations to
pool the Illinois cotton with
theirs. No final action was taken,
but during the next month the
committe will investigate cotton
organizations, and will be ready
to make a final report some time
in May.

Kane County Milk
Plan Meets Favor
In District 10-11

Milk marketing was the center
of discussion at the 10th and
11th district meeting at Geneva,
April 15. It was expressed by
the meeting that the subject of
milk marketing is their most im-
portant problem, and that it was
that the Farm Bureaus of the
district take definite steps toward
perfecting a more acceptable and
unified plan of milk marketing
than at present exists in that
territory.

The plan for marketing dairy
products which was drawn up by
E. B. Heaton, under the direction
of the I. A. A., and presented to
the Kane county men, was
brought before the district meet-
ing by Kane county representa-
tives and approved. A resolu-
tion was passed asking that the
I. A. A. help with the problem
of organizing the dairy farmers
of the district. The plan is ti be
known, tentatively, as the "Dairy-
man's Exchange of Northern Illi-
nois."

Organization under it calls for
local, community organization,
then expansion into county and
district.

BANKERS AND BUSINESS MEN
^ : FAVOR McNARY-HAUGEN BILL " I
AFTER HEARING FARMER'S SIDE

Rousing meetings^ have been
held for the purpose of getting
bankers and business men to see
the "light" on the McNary-Hau-
gen bill during
the last 1 0
days at Rock
Island, Spring-
field, Danville
and Blooming-
ton. That they
have seen the
"light" is evi-
denced by the
fact that at each
one of the
meetings, reso-
Ponk w. Mvphr lutions were
passed at the close unqualifiedly
favoring the bill and asking Con-
gressmen of Illinois, Indiana, and
Iowa, as well as the President of
the United States, to work hard
for the passage of the measure.
Discussions and frank objec-
tions were voiced in many in-
stances from the floor, but, after
the details and principle of the
bill had been explained and the
questions answered by Frank W.
Murphy, farmer and lawyer of
Wheaton, Minn., who was the
principal speaker at all the meet-
ings, the resolutions were passed
unanimously. George N. Peek,
president of the Moline Plow
fcompany, spoke at the Danville
meeting as did R. A. Cowles.
treasurer of the I. A. A. and who
has been actively in charge of
the arrangements for the series
of meetings upon behalf of the
I. A. A.

Mr. Cowles broadcasted on the
McNary-Haugen bill from WOC,

the Davenport radio station.
Many thousands of radio fane
all over the United States he»rd
"Bob's" voice extol important facts
concerning the bill on that occa-
sion. Over 600 farmers, bankers
and business men wek°e present
at the Rock Island meeting. "00
at Danville, 300 at Springfield
and over 1,000 at Blbomington.
Enthusiasm was exiceptionally
strong at Bloomington. Every
banker in Logan county was
present and other people w^erf
there from over 50 miles aroucd.
A resolution asking Congressmen
to support the mea«ure| went over
with a bang at BIbomington.
S. H. Thompson, president of th«
I. A. A., spoke
effectively a t
all the meet-
ings. "We are
not establish-
ing a prece-
dent," said Mr.
Thompson o n
several o c c a-
sions, "we are
folio wing a
precedent. La- "• A. c»wIm
bor and Industry are especially
benefitted at the expease of the
farmer."

In opening his addrets at Rock
Island, Mr. Murphy said that be
farmed, through tenatts, about
4,000 acres of land in western
Minnesota, but was forced to
practice law to help pay the an-
nual deficit which resulted from
the operation of his farms. Charg-
ing that America- is becoming in-
dustrialized at the expense of the

'Cuncluded on i>ase 8)

LA.A. WINS FIRST
SKIRMISH IN FIGHT
FOR TAX EQUALITY

Legislative Committee Nails Planks

in Both State Party

Platforms

Members of the legislative
committee of the Illinois Asri-
cultural Association measured,
cut. fit and nailed the revenue
ptank for which the I. A. A.
stands into both the Republican
and Democratic platforms when
the state conventions of those
parties were held at Springfield
April IS, for the purpose of adopt-
ing state platforms. .\. C. Evering-
ham. Hutsonville: Frank Barton,
Cornell, and H. E. Goembel. Hoop-
pole, are the menioers of the
legislative committed and were
assisted materially by President
S. H. Thompson. Both parties
gave the I. A. A. legislative com-
mittee hearty hearings, accord-
ing to Mr. Everingham.

The I. A. A. principles on the
matter of equalization between
farm values and intangible prop-
erties were presented before
both parties. The Republican
platform recognized the unfair
condition which exists with refer-
ence to real estate and other
tangible property and favored
such action as would equitably
distribute Xhe tax burden.

The Democratic platform spe-
cifically recommended an amend-
ment to the revenue section of the
constitution for the purpose of
providing facilities for taxing In-
tangible property that is now
escaping taxation. •

Adoption of the I. A. A. principles
in both party platforms is counted
as a valuable victorj- for the as-
sociation since it paves the way
for the fight for equalization
which has been given a strong
impetus by the work of John C.
Watson, head of the taxation de-
partment of the I. A. A.

EXAMINES PHOSPHATE BEDS

J. R. Bent, in charge of the
phosphate-limestone department
of the I. A. A., has been investi-
gating possible sources of phos-
phate and endeavoring to ar-
range sati8factor>- contracts jTor
County Farm Bureaus with com-
panies iU' Tennessee and Florida.
He reports that all persons who
want tests made on fertilizer/
bought in Tennessee, can have
tests made by the branch in
Tennessee. Testing will insure
quality, he says.

/

KEPORTER8 GET STEWART
WRO.\(i

C. A. Stewart, head of the live-
stock marketing department of
the I. A. A., met with the Cham-
ber of Commerce at Springfield
not long ago and told them of
the many difficulties which would
be encountered if a packing plant
were to be established there.
Press reports had it that he said
that Springfield could easily have
a packing plant operating on a
large scale. The reports were in-
correct.

Page 2 ' ' • ' -

CULTURAL ASSOCIAIBn

Publishetl twice a month by the llUnoia Agricultural
Association, 6Q8 South Dearborn Street, Chicaffo, lUinola,
Edited by Department of Information, H. C. Butcher.
Director.

Entry as second class matter Oct. 10, 1921, at the post
office at ChicaKO, Illinois, under the act of March », H7».
Acceptance for maillnB at special rates of postare pro-
vided for in Section llOJ, Act of October 3, 1917, author-
Ised Oct. 31, 1981. ._ ^_____

The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association is five dollars a year. This fee includes
payment of fifty cents for subscrlptiom to the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association Record.

OFFICERS
President, S, H, Thompson, Qnincy.
Vice-President, C. B. Watson, DeKalb. | ■
Trea.snrer, R. A. Cowlea. Hloomlngton.
Secretary, Geo. A. Fox, .Sycamore.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Bj Congressional Districts

nth Jacob Olbrleh, Harvard

12th G. F. TuUock, Rocktord

13th C, E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody. Port Byron

15th H. E. Goembel, Hooppole

16th A. R. Wright, Vacna

17th F. D, Barton, Cornell

18th R. F. Karr, Iroquola

19th J. L. Whlsnand, Charleston

ZOth Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21«t Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd Stanley Castle, Alton

23rd J. E. LIngenfelter, Lawrencevllle

24th Curt Anderson, Xenia

28th Vernon Lenley, Sparta

Directors of Departments
I. A. A. Office

General Office and Asalstant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker;
Organization, G. E. Metzger; Information, H. C. Butcher;
Transportation, L. J, Quasey; Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A. B.-Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, C. A. Stewart;
Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch: Phosphate-Limestone,
J..R. Bent: In charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A.
Gougler; special representative on Tuberculosis Eradi-
cation, M. H. Petersen.

Chicago Producers Going Strong

Continuing its lead, the Chicago Producers'
handled 349 ears of livestock during the week of
April 19-25. This was 7.4 per cent of the total
receipts for the week at the yards after deducting
shipments direct to packers.

The minou Agricnitural Aatodation Record

May S, 1924

Truth-in-Fabric up 22 Year*.

Gray Silver, Washington representative of the
A. F. B. P., reports that after 22 years of "hem-
ming" and "hawing" on the Truth-in-Fabric bill,
there is now a possibility of its paiwage. Mr.
Silver recently appeared before the House Inter-
state and Foreign Commerce committee and told
why producers and consumers want the bill

"Eqaalixation Fee" Instead of "Scrip"

The "scrip" feature of the McNary-Haugen
biU, which caused so many queries and complaints
froitt various groups throughout the United States,
was taken out of the bill by the Committee on
Agriculture and a stronger and more definitely
conclusive amendment added in its place by a vote
of 14-6.

Following is the section of the bill establishing
the ""equalization fee":

Section 202 (c) "The corporation shall ascer-
tain the standard unit of weight or measure
by which each such commodity is commonly
sold or traded in. in the terminal markets
of the United States, and shall determine
the amount to be collected in respect of
each sale or other disposition (as defined
in section 206) of such unit, as hereinafter
provided. Such amount is hereinafter re-
ferred to as. the "equalization fee," The
corporation shall publish, in each terminal
market, the amount of the equalization fee.
at the same time and in the same manner
as it publishes the ratio price for each
basic agricultural commodity."
Receipts to be GiTen
Receipts are to be given to each producer for the
amount which he contributes toward caring for
the loss sustained in selling the entire surplus
abroad. Following is the clause covering that

iKiint : ,

Section 20S: (a) "Whenever a special
emergency in respect of any agricultural
commodity has been ascertained and pro-
claimed and until the termination thereof,
under section 2. the equalization fee shall
be paid, under such regulations aa the
.corporation shall prescribe, by every pro-
ducer (or the person making the sale on
his account) upon every sale or other dis-
position (as defined in section 206) of
such agricultural commodity by or on ac-
count of such producer, (b) The corpora-

tion may by regulation require the pur-
chaser of any such agricultural commodity
to collect such equalization fee from such
producer, and may require such purchaser
to issue to such producer a receipt there-
for, which shall be evidence of the par-
ticipating interest of the producer in the
equalization fund for the commodity. The
corporation may, in such case, prepare and
issue such receipts and prescribe the terms
and conditions thereof — - — ."

What M the McNary-Haugen BiU?

We find that many people do not understand the
McNaiy-Haugen biU. It is often condemned be-
cause it is said to be too complicated. It is not
complicated. Read the following explanation of
the bilL It tells the whole story siniply and clearl}'.
Then write your Congressman and tell him to get
busy and help the McNary-Haugen bill become a
law. If you have written him once, write again.
This is an issue. Will agriculture be recognized
or will it be made subservient to industry 1

Excepting cotton, the crops of which we produce
a surplus for export are selling at less than cost
of production to the profound distress of our farm
population. Cotton, for the moment in a different
case, is usually in the same situation. This re-
sults from a fundamental failure in our economic
system which can be cured by the principles of the
McNary-Haugen bill now before the Congress, and
not otherwise.

When there is a surplus of any product, it is
elementary economic law that the price of the sur-
plus fixes the price of the whole product. We have
to sell our surplus crops abroad, where they come
into competition with the crops of other countrj^
operating on standards of cost, price and living
very much lower than ours. Our surplus (and hence
our whole crop is, therefore, sold at an European
price level well below our own. These crops are the
only American products whose domestic price is
fixed by world conditions at a level far below that
of the home market

Industry Is Protected

On the products of industry, the protective tariff
keeps out cheap foreign competition and maintains
an American plane of prices much above the world
level. These are the prices that make the farmer's
cost — they are the prices he must pay for all that he
buys and a large portion of the population being
dependent on agriculture, he buys everything.
Herein lies a great injustice. Our tariff makes the
farmer buy in a protected market and pay a high
American price for all that he buys. The surplus
makes him sell his whole crop (of those products
of which we export a surplus whether for domestic
or foreign consumption) in a free trade market at
a world price much lower than the general plane of
protected American prices for what he buys.

Before the war this burden was not too heavy
because the world level was more nearly the Ameri-
can level. As a result of the war the markets of
the world were demoralized and depressed by debt,
taxes, and inflated currencies until the spread be-
tween the American and the world price planes
became so great as to make it no longer possible
for our farmer to stand the burden of selling on
the basis of an Argentine peasant and buying on
the basis of an American citizen. No class of our
people should be asked to endure such an inequity.
We cannot help it by giving the farmer a higher
tariff on export farm products because, since we
export more than we import a tariff on export
crops would not cure the ill, even if we raised it
to the point of complete exclusion. There is only
one practicable course and this is proposed by the
McNary-Haugen bill.

Bill to Equalize Buying Power

This bill says: "The farmer's export crops
ought to have a buying power equal to that which
they had before the war, that is, the price of wheat,
for instance, ought to bear at least the same ratio
to the average general price index of all commod-
ities as it bore before the war. ' ' To effect this, the
bill gives the farmers a corporation, authorized to
go into the American market and buy quantities of
such export crops as are selling at less than pre-
war exchange value until the price rises high
enough to bear the pre-war relation to the general
price index. Whenever this happens the corpora-
tion stops buying and it only buys when, and as
long as, the price is below that ratio. When the
price is equal to or above that ratio, the corporation
does nothing. This insures the pre-war exchange
level and permits prices to go freely above that level
as far as economic forces will send them.

Of course, it results that the corporation will
thus buy up all the supply in excess of domestic
demand — which is to say, the surplus at the pre-
war relation. Its sole function is to skim off this
surplus from the domestic market, leaving equality
of supply with demand ta determine price. There

is only one thing to do with this surplus — sell it
abroad and at a price less than the price the cor-
poration paid by just so much as the world general
price level is less than the American general price
level. Who shall stand this loss?

Fanner Himself Stands Loss
The bill charges it back to the farmer by re-
quiring that he accept, as a small fraction of the
much increased purchase price vouchsafed by the
bill, a few cents in certificates like the "partici-
pating certificates" of the cooperatives. It affords
a fund to absorb the loss on the surplus and to
pay the expenses of the corporation. At the end
of the year, when this loss and expense have been
accurately determined, the remainder in the fund
is returned to the farmer by redeeming the certifi-
cates pro rata.

As an example, suppose we raise 850,000,000
bushels of wheat and the domestic demand is 700,-
000,000 bushels. If the Liverpool price is $1.00 per
bushel, the farmer, without the McNary-Haugen
bill, gets $850,000,000 for his crop, notwithstanding
the fact that a price of wheat in America which
would give wheat its pre-war purchasing power
would be $1.50 per bushel. At the latter rate the
farmer should have gotten $1,275,000,000 and.
while he ought not to expect more than the world
price for his- surplus, he has a right to expect pre-
war purchasing power for his domestic crop — that
is what everybody else gets for what they earn or
sell in the domestic market. Exactly this is what
the McNary-Haugen bill gives him. For ever>-
bushel he sells under that bill, he receives the pre-
war exchange rate — now about $1,50 per bushel,
a small frai^tion of which is paid in certificates.

How Corporation Functions
The corporation keeps the price to that figure
by buying up the surplus at that figure. Of this
$1.50 about $1.38 would be in cash — 38 per cent
more than he now gets — and 12 cents in certificates.
But the operation entails a loss to the* corporation
of 50 cents a bushel on the 150,000,000 bushels sold
abroad, amounting to $75,000,000. This loss (ah«ut
9 cents per bushel on the whole crop) is paid out
of the certificates fund and the other three cents is
returned to the farmer by redeeming the certificates.
Instead, therefore, of receiving (as he does without
the bill) $850,000,000 for his entire crop ($1.00
per bushel) the bill gives him $1,050,000,000 for
the portion sold at home (750,000,000 x $1.50) and
$150,000,000 (150,000,000 x $1.00) for the portion
sold abroad or $1,200,000,000 for his whole crop—
$1.41 per bushel as an average price on the whole
— an increase of 41 per cent over the price with-
out the bill. This is all there is to the McNary-
Haugen bill. Exactly the same principles apply
to other export commodities, and in executing its
functions, the corporation sets up no new mechan-
ism and duplicates no existing facilities. The de-
tails of its operation will be more particularly
demonstrated in considering the objections that
have been suggested.

EVERYBODY ELIGIBLE IN
LIARS' CONTEST

Just for fun, the editor is going to start
a campaign to see who's the biggest liar
amongst tiie I. A. A. Record readers.

Here's ours for a starter:

A man got on a crowded elevator at ,the
45th floor and soon after.it started, some-
thing broke and the elevator began a me-
teoric plunge for the bottom. Women
fainted, strong men screamed and the ele-
vator boy died from fright. The one man
who had gotten on at the 45th floor kept
his presence of mind. As the car shot
downward, ever gaining momentum as it
sped toward the bottom past the 30th, 25th,
20th, 10th, and 5th floors, the Irishman
be-thought himself as to how to save his
Ufe. The thought came as the falling ele-
vator zipped by the 3rd floor at a 50 foot
per second rate.

Just as the car struck the cement bottom
and plunged the dozen passengers into
emaciated oblivion, the Irishman jumped
upward with a mighty leap. Being in mid-
air when the elevator crushed against the
cement bottom, he was not killed. In fact,
the only injury he sustain^ was from
striking his forehead on the top of the cage.

Let's see how big a lie you can tell. Send
'em to H. C. Butcher, care of the I. A. A.,
608 South Dearborn St, Chicago. The
biggest Ues will be published.

M

1924

May S. 1924

The nKnoM Agricultural A»iocirtioo Record

Pace S

Mehl Tells of U.S. G. G. Problems in Resignation

Chicago, Illinois, April 17, 1924.
To the Board of Directors,

United States Grain Growers, Inc.
Gentlemen :

"My resignation, effective April 14, was sub-
mitted to President Harrj- L. Keefe, under date
of March 28. I am accepting the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture appointment as Grain Ex-
change Supervisor. My present purpose is to
inform you more fully of my reasons for taking
this step and to outline certain impressions I
have formed concerning your problems. The lat-
. ter will be of value mainly as coming from me at

•■ a time when my strictly personal interest in these

matters has ceased to exist and while certain ex-
perience and information are still fresh in my
memorj'.

I need not remind j-oti of the situation exist-
ing in the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., at the time
the present directors and officers were drafted to
the task of salvaging it. Two major problems
confronted us ; first, the one of treating with
creditors and restoring the organization finan-
cially ; second, the establishment of grain handling
facilities for its members. We were assured that
some promise of success in dealing' with these two
problems would be met with necessary new capital
and support by the Farm Bureau Federations of
the midwest states.

Debentures Satisfied Most Creditors
On July 2-3, last, representatives of the Midwest
Farm Bureaus were presented with a program
which did show some promise of success in solving
the problems referred to. At least they took action
to appropriate $20,000 for the purpose of carrying
it into eflFeet, and the U. S. Grain Grower board
was instructed to proceed with the program pro-
posed. No part of the $20,000 was ever made
available, but the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration, with considerable sacrifice to itself, under-
took to maintain our modest office. With this help
and about $1,000 received from the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association for printing and incidentals,
we proceeded as directed, confident that the appro-
priations voted by the Midwest Federations would
be forthcoming. I do not criticize nor find fault
with these federations, but on the contrarj' shall
attempt later herein to justify and explain why
the appropriations were not made.

On October 1, there was mailed to U. S. Grain
Grower creditors a form of funding debenture
having the effect of full legal composition and re-
lieving the corporation from further obligation ex-
cept as to certain specified sources of future net in-
come. The response by creditors was overwhelm-
ingly one of acceptance. Out of the 800 creditors
less than a dozen objected and most of these for
reasons which are well known to you and which
had no relation to their interests as creditors.
Some personal contact work and a limited amount
of cash would have brought a 100 per cent ac-
ceptance. You will search in vain for a parallel
case in the entire history of industrial reorganiza-
tions, and for a case in which creditors and mem-
bers have shown greater patience and faith in
ultimate result.

Board of Trade a Barrier
By December 1 our grain sales program was
sufliciently far advanced to enable our receiving
grain in the Chicago market. A few cars were
received during the month and handled to the
shippers' entire satisfaction, although the Chicago
market was not especially favorable at the time,
and we were not yet admitted to Board of Trade
representation. Storage and processing facilities
had been provided for our members to accommo-
date several million bushels, and a line of credit
procured of a million dollars. Storage was made
available to our members at practically one half
the regular rates, and we were able to actually
handle grain at Chicago in all positions and fur-
nish practically all of the service provided for in
members' contracts. Still waiting for the prom-
ised fimds to be made available, so that we might
re-establish contact with members and affiliated
elevators in the countrj-, we centered our efforts
on securing representation on the Chicago Board
of Trade under the provisions of the Grain Futures
Act. To this end and as furnishing the necessary
financial responsibility to safeguard our shippers
we filed with the Chicago Board of Trade a cor-
porate surety bond in the sum of $50,000, guaran-
teeing the integrity of our contracts, and in addi-
tion filed a financing contract whereby our credit
and financial resptfnsibility with respect to grain
transactions on the Board of Trade were further

underwritten to the extent of a million dollars.
On this showing and failing to secure any satis-
factorj- answer from the Board of Trade w^e took
our case to the Secretarj- of Agriculture.
Small Point; Big Objectioii

The Board of Trade, when pressed to ntake final
answer, took the position that since our creditors
had not all accepted the funding debentures the
corporation was deemed not to be in a solvent con-
dition, and therefore did not have "adequate fiuan-
cial responsibility" in the sense that this term is
used in the Grain Futures Act. This may have
been a purely technical objection, for the financing
arrangements and bond protectibn referred to" cov-
ered fully our responsibilit.v to shippers. Never-
theless, the point was properly raised and the
Board of Trade was well within its rights in pass-
ing the question to the Secretarj' of Agriculture
and to the courts, if neces.sar>', for adjudication.

The Board of Trade having rested its rejection
of the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., to membership
representation on the single objection that the

About This Statement —

J. M. Mehl, secretary and acting treasurer
of the United States Grain Growers, Inc., re-
signed from that position
recently and has taken a
position in the United
States Department of Agri-
culture as Grain Exchange
Supervisor. In his state-
ment of resignation present-
ed to the Board of Direc-
tors, he gives some pertinent
facts about the U. S, Grain
Growers which will n o
doubt interest you. His res-
ignation statement, which is reproduced on
this page, is a good analjrsis of the situation.

J. M. Mehl

corporation was technically insolvent, we forth-
with offered to qualify the U. S. Grain Growers
Sales company by the same means provided for
the parent organization and showed that the Sales
company was unquestionably solvent.

Subsidiary's Recognition Sanctioned
The Sales company, as a pure subsidiarj-, had
all of the essential requirements for representation
that did the parent organization, and w'as free of
the one alleged objection to U. S. Grain Growers,
Inc. It did not, however, have any considerable
cash capital and the result of our negotiations
with the Board of Trade, assisted by the Grain
Futures Administration, was a proposal from the
Board that upon qualifying the Sales company, as
suggested, and upon a, further showing of $15,000
unimpaired capital, our representation would be
granted. We were ad^^sed, and I believe the Grain
Futures Administration was advised, that this
proposal had the approval formally of the board
of directors of the Chicago Board of Trade and
it was therefore finally and authoritatively sanc-
tioned. »

Whether or not the Board of Trade could be
forced to accept our original application without
the $15,000 of proprietorship capital is not worth
while to discuss. The Board of "Trade made a pro-
posal which I consider eminently fair and for the
cooperatives' own best interests. We of course
must recognize that in the cooperatives the Board
of Trade sees a menace to the business of certain
of its members. It necessarily will look first to
protect those who are already members. I have
no patience with men who even in this situation
find reason for unjustly attacking the exchanges.
Board of Trade Protects Members
Cooperatives must and will rise above this kind
of thing if they seek permanent existence. I have
at times disagreed with some of you. I have never
hesitated to be candid with all of you, and to m.v
way of thinking, the organized grain exchanges
of this country, in their legitimate functions, must
for a long time yet continue to serve the purpose
of show windows wherein is displayed for sale- #
large part of our surplus grain crops, and where
buyer and seller may meet «nder business cus-
toms and trade regulations which insure greatest
facility and ease of business conduct. I consider
it no less "direct dealing" that a representative
of the farmers and a representative of the miller
or consumer meet and make their trades in a spe-
cial market place and exchange hall provided for
the purpose. '•■ ■ i , . i

No Blame on Midwest Farm Bureaus
Reverting to the program appn)ved by ilie Mid-
west Farm Bureau Federations last Jul.v, 1 have
previously said I find no fault with them for fail-
ing to provide the agreed approprialions. A num-
ber of deterring factors have entered into this
situation and under the circumstance^ 1 hardly
See how they could ha.ve done differentfr. In the
first plade, it seems that the L". S. Grun Grower
plan of grain marketing, radical thoi^h it ap-
peared io the beginning, no longer offers quite the
lure and appeal that do other plans .featuring
more speeificall.v the idea of price eontrot .Sincere
friends of the V. S. Grain Growers have said that
farmers *ecentl.vhave been promised so many im-
possible benefits that they will no longer be satis-
fied with the legitimate fruits of cooperative or-
ganization and that it is hn inauspicious time for
effort along this line. While I do not slian- that
view there is more than a small measure of truth
in the suggestion and no doubt the Farm Bureaus
hare sensed something of the kind as affecting the
program t>f U. S. Grain Grower reconstruction.

Hope in CooperatiTe Movement
There- is much in the cooperative movement as
a whole iipon which to build hope of a more pros-
perous and stable agriculture. "There is also much
in the means b.v which cooperative marketing is
being sold to farmers toda.v that startles and
alarms the cooperator of yesterday. He realizes
as well as any one, peAaps. that tfie cooperative
idea has never been put up in the attractive pack-
age that it deser\'ed. Yet, he can not but wonder
what reaction will follow the extravagant claims
of some of the more recent converts who have also
assumed tlhe role of "Medicine Man" to American
agricultune. It is quite certain that to the extent
members of cooperative organizations are led to
expect imjpossible results just to that extent will
they be disappointed and the cooperative move-
ment as a whole suffer relapse. I do not l)elieve
the present board of directors of the II. S. Grain
Growers, Inc., will ever have cause to regret- their
conseijvatitm and refusal to indulge in impossible
promises, but it is not improbable that they will
find it hard for a time yet to secure enthusiastic
support of just an ordinary' "hard boiled" bnsi-
ness program.

The legitimate fruits of :COoperative jnarketing
should be jsuificient in theraBelves to co||mend the
system ani encourage its development, :No better
sj-stem of' marketing farm products cjmiever be
devised than one which gives the producers them-
selves control and direction over the-machiner>' of
dijtributioh. In this direction and control, how-
ever, is contained the whole meat and kernel of
cooperative marketing. Th^ maehinerj' of- distri-
bution in this countrj' has been built up in much
the same wta.v that units of pro<luction and special-
ized functions are introduced and fitted into fac-
tors- operation to meet expanding needs. It may
be necessaly at times to change engineers and to
replace factor}' superintendents with men of
greater \-iion and more modern ideas. It is sel-
dom necessarj' to wreck the factory or even stop
the machiiiery while the change is made.

■janagerial Power Not Supreme \ -•
In the verj- nature of things there ape certain
matters qiiite beyond the control of managerial
power, whether that control b<» vested in private
hands or iti a body of producers. Therefore, we
cannot expject cooperative marketing to solve cer-
tain problems an.v more than they can be solved
by private enterprise. Cooperative marketing will
not of itself enabl? profitable production of a eom-
moditj" foi^ which there is not an absorbing de-
mand at tfce profitable price figure. There is no
known meains of either eliminating the "marginal
pr^ucer" !or of 'enabling the high cost producer
to compete! profitably in trade with the low cost
producer. In a relative sense tiiese two factors
are now and alwa.vs will be at tTie botlpom of agri-
caltural distress. For cooperative organizations
to promise ;more than the benefits growing in the
main' out Of better methods and standards, in-
■ crea.sed volume, more orderly distribution and
elimination of excessive handling profits, is to flirt
with certai|i failure. T can conceive no more use-
ful work on the part of farm organizations at this
time than a carefuU.v planned campaign to#ducate
farmers geBerall.v to a true appreciation of the real
and legitimate benefits of cooperative effort, in
order that fihey ma.v not be disappointed in failing
to receive ^hat they never had a right to expect.

,^^. (Signed^ .1. M. MEHL.

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The niinoM Agricultural AModation Record

May S. 1924

Objections and Answers to the McNary-Haugen

May

Here are the Stock
Objections to the Bill

There is opposition to the bill,
but it seerfis to be based in part
on iDsuffleient information as to
the purposp. principle, and op-
eration of the proposed corpora-
tion, and in part, of course, on
partisan antipathy or individual
interest. It is highly important
that each objection be ^(ated
fairly, an^wpred fully and *thU8
disposed of.

— 1 —
"The bill is ■|>a(enwlistic,' (or
*coinniuniKlic,' or 'nulical,' or
'l>oliticall,r unMmnil.')"

This objection is otherwise
worded "The government ought
not to interfere in business,
especially not In favor of any
class."

The government has already
"interfered" in favor of every
other class^ when it passed the
taritr. Ky that act it insured an
.American price hifther than the
norlil price to every cla-os in
.America except the producers of
ex|»ort cri>ps.

A condition now arrives, due
to world depression and the con-
sentient multiplied spread be-
tween American and other prices
when the burden thus pressed
upon the farmer, of paying a
high protected price for what he
buys and accepting a free trade
world price for what he sells,
becomes too heavy to bear with-
out bankruptcy because it forces
him to sell at a loss. The 'Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill simply removes
this burden and erases this in-
equity. It does not favor the
farmer. It merely brings him to
equality of favor wi^h the re-
mainder of the poptllation. It
does not favor, it abolishes dis*
fan>r and puts him on an equal
plane with industry.

The Tariff wall had two great
breaches. It did not stop the in-
flow of cheap labor and therefore
did not protect labor. We have
cared that by immigration re-
striction. It did not protect the
farmer on export crops. We must
now cure that by the McNary-
Haiigen bill.

This bill should be regarded
simply as an amendment to the
Hamilton Doctrine of protection
rendered necessary by a violently
distorted world condition.

Perhaps tUe Tariff is paternal-
istic but, having afforded this
kind of protection to two-thirds of
our people, at the expense of the
other third, what kind of «ood
faith is it to refuse e.sactly the
same protection to the other
thind on the pleas of "individual-
ism?" Who has the cynical au-
dacity to say that what is the
sound foundation rock of our
ecoaomie policy for industrial
. New England is communism for
Iowa? Are we repentant of the
"political unsoundness" of the
^tariff and the immigration re-
strietion? The pious penance is
to repeal them, It^Hcertainly
not to segregate their ri^ benefit
to two-thirds of the population
and. then flaunt "economic ortho-
doxy" as a reason for refusing
them to the other one-third.
Suck is not piety. It is scurvy
hypocricy. We are not repent-
ant. We adhere to our belief in
the principle of protection. But
so to adhere we cannot apply it
to industry and deny it to agri-
culture — certainly not on the
argument of anti-paternalism.
That would add larceny to hypoc-
ricy and neither can long en-
dure as a national policy.

By this bill the government
does not "interfere In business".

It permits a corporation to. com-
bine fariii products tor export
sale just as the Edge and the
Webb-Pomerene bills now permit
industry so to combine. The
"Government" itself does nothing
but give the corporation a start.
It creates no new governmental
bureau or department. It simply
permits a great agricultural cor-
poration, organized -in the only
way it can be organized, to go
into the market and buy and sell,
thus correcting an insufferable
condition. But the corporation
creates no new mechanism. ' It
utilizes existing agencies for man-
ufacture, storage, transportation,
purchases and sales. It operates
merely as would an individual
buying and selling in the ex-
changes. The farmer's agents
(officers of the corporation! act
for him and at his expense — not
at government expense — in pre-
cisely the same way the ofSclals
of an industrial corporation act
for its stockholders. The gov-
ernment as such does nothing.
The farmer pays every cent of
expense and bears every risk of
loss. He asks neither favor nor
funds of anyone, except the orig-
inal capital of the corporation
which will be returned intact to
the Treasury of the United States
at the expiration of the emerg-
ency.

—2 —
**Economic ills cannot be solved
by Le^slative remedy."
This is almost ridiculous. Leg-
islative enactments affecting com-
merce are nearly all economic
phenomena. If it was an eco-
nomic ill that America, before
protection, was simply a reservoir
of raw material, the doctrine of
protection, expressed as a legis-
lative remedy cured that ill. If
it was an economic ill that hordes
of aliens incapable of absorption
threatened our labor market after
the war, legislative enactment
cured that ill. If it was an eco-
nomic ill that the states under
the Articles of Confederation
could not exist as a Federal unit,
the Commerce clause of the Con-
stitution and the myriad statutes
enacted undei* it stand as refuta-
tion of the objection. As has
been repeatedly stated herein the
.McNary-Haugen bill seeks no new
invasion of the economic field;
it proposes only a restoration of
a nice balance between agricul-
ture and industry which has been
shattered by many prior inva-
sions— the tariff, the Adamson
law, the Esch-Cummins Act, the
restriction of immigration, etc.,
etc.

Such platitudes are unworthy
of consideration unless their ap-
plication to the matter in contro-
versy be shown and there is no
application of this creaking fal-
lacy to the point in question
here.

"The proposetl lncrea.se in price
-. will in turn raise the general
price index. This will auto-
matically raise the price of the
product. This will a^ain raise
the general index and so on.
The bill starts a vicious circle
of price raising until the cost
of livini; will gradually rise (o
inftnity,"

The slightest examination will
show that this terrifying abjec-
tion is without foundation in
practice, though it has actually
been seriously argued by men
otherwise reputed for unusual in-
telligence. Consider wheat as an
example.

A rise of 20 points in the
wheat index raises the general
price index 1 point. Considering

an example in which the figures
are taken for convenience of
computation, we shall suppose
that the wheat index and the
general price index both stand at
100. The bill passes and raises
the wheat index to 150. This
would raise the general index 2.5
to 102.5. This would raise the
wheat price again to 153.75 which
in turn would raise the general
price index but only a very small
amount this time — .1875 points
or to 102.6875. Up goes the
wheat index but only by .28125
on this calculation, which in turn
raises the general price index an
amount so small that it would
not be c<m.sidere<l — .0140 or to
102.7015. On the next calcula-
tion the increment in the general
price index would be only .00105
and since only two decimal points
are computed the terrifying pro-
cess is at an end. The argument
is scholastic — "how many angels
can stand on a needle's point."
If one cared to carry on these
silly calculations, he would find
that, whereas restoration of
wheat to its pre-war exchange
value would raise the general
price index 2.5 points, ten thou-
sand subsequent calculati^ons made
on this nonsensical argument
would not raise it another half
point and every subseqiient cal-
culation would carry thK,^incre-
ment another decimal poinOieac^
er zero. In other words, the
increment rapidly becomes in-
finitesimal and would be disre-
garded in practice on the second
calculation when it becomes less
than one-fifth of one per cent.

But in order to get a view of
the morals of all these argu-
ments, suppose it were literally
true that restoration of fair ex-
change value to agriculture would
raise the cost of living substan-
tially. Pre-war exchange value
means only cost plus a very small
profit or no profit at all. Present
prices mean a loss to the farmer
on the average of every pound
and bushel sold. Argument for
maintenance of the present con-
dition is simply argument for
taking the farmer's crop away
without paying cost for it —
"justified" in this case by a de-
sire to keep the cost of living
down. Nearly every one of these
arguments stoops to a similar
motive. The McNary-Haugen bill
will |>a.ss not only because it is
sound and right but because the
op|>osition to it is immoral, un-
sound and wrong.

— 4—

"The bill Is a price flxinK measure
and the whole history of eco-
nomics stands as an argument
against such 'valorization,' "

"Price fixing" is the attempt
to prescribe prices by an arbi-
trary exercise of human discre-
tion. It is palpably unsound be-
cause the discretion that "fixed"
price has no power over the ele-
ments that make price. Nothing
could be farther from this defi-
nition than the McNary-Haugen
bill. It is the exact antithesis of
price fixing. The essence of the
bill <<s not the clause limiting by
a definition of price relationship,
the power of the corporation to
go into the market and buy. The
essence is the power to buy. If
the power in the latter clause
were not limited in some very
powerful and effective way, the
corporation could continue to buy
until the domestic price rises to
$5.00 a bushel. It would sell
about the same surplus at $1.00
a bushel and raise the farmers'
income to fantastical figures.
The price clause is not a grant
of power. It is a limitation of

power. Its purpose is not to
"raise prices to an artificial
level." It is to maintain them
at an equitable level.

The bill merely says to the
farmer "We recognize that you
are not getting a square deal.
We will give you a square deal.
You can go into the market and
buy till you get a square deal —
and not one Instant longer. The
measure of a square deal is a
domestic price for your product
equal to Its pre-war purchasing
power. Purchasing power changes
constantly In precise relation
with the general price Index.
Therefore you can keep on buy-
ing, at any time, until the price
of your product bears the same
relation to the general price in-
dex at such time as it bore be-
fore the war." Thus far you
may go and no further.

So there is no price fixing.
There is only limitation of power.
Even that is not a fixed limita-
tion and it is as far removed
from human discretion as it
would be possible to remove it.
The general price index fluctu-
ates constantly with the condition
of business in the country and
the limit of the power to buy
fluctuates with it in mathemati-
cal accuracy. Since no man or
combination of nien can control
or affect the fluctuation of that
ndex, no man can control or
affect the limit of that power.

Since there Is nothing remotely
resembling price fixing in the
bill, all the anti-price fixing
arguments must be dismissed as
wholly Inaiiplicable.

— 5 —

"The increased price will prompt-
ly make matters worse by in-
creasing production."

The effect of Increased produc-
tion to reduce price will be far
more certain and emphatic than
it is now. The hold-back in par-
ticipation certificates (scrip) will
be directly proportioned to the
surplus, will be known and will
be the most significant warning
against inflated production that
could be well imagined.

The pre-war price relationship
produced the pre-war acreage.
Only that relationship is pro-
posed. Logically only that acreage
will ensue and, because we have
a considerably increased popula-
tion since then, at least that
acreage should be maintained.
And if the argument be "Even
so; let them keep the pre-war
acreage but do not restore the
pre-war price relation" (and it is
only to this that the argument
can reduce) then it is a bold,
bald argument in favor of depriv-
ing agriculture of all profit — an
argument immoral, unworthy and
unutterable.

There will be no Increased pro-
duction, but to show how shal-
low is the argument, suppose
there were. Who Is hurt? Not
the American people, for, no mat-
ter how great the surplus, the
price will not on that account
rise above the pre-war relation-
ship. Under the bill it will never
fall below. The only person who
is interested in the harmful ef-
fect of increased production is
the farmer. He and he alone
stands the loss on surplus.

The whole argument of in-
creased production due to the
McNary-Haugen bill is a scare-
crow.

"It is bad precedent. If we do
this for farmers we will be
called ni>on to do it for
others."

The precedent was established
when we enacted the tariff and

other economic legislation which
omitted the farmer from protec-
tion. The bill merely rectifies the
omission. It is not a precedent.
It is a sequel. It is not even the
first sequel. The immigration
law gave labor its protection but
left agriculture still out In the
blasts of a wintry world. So far
as we now know, this is the last
breach in the protective wall. It
is a breach that must be closed —
not in favor of agriculture but
in favor of the whole nation, and
in common justice to the farmer.

But even if there were other
classes equally prejudiced (which
there are not) is a precedent of
simple justice something to be
avoided?

Not long ago industry asked
the right to combine for export
trade. It was granted instantly.
It has long been the custom for
industries to sell in export at
less than the domestic price.
Agriculture seeks no greater or
different privilege. The prec-
edents are all behind us. There
is no other class in like case with
agriculture. The McNary-Haugen
bill closes the last gap in our
protective outworks,
— 7 —
"The bill will prevent hedging or

future trading by millers and

grain men."

The ratio price is a minimum
price — not a maximum price.
Any miller making a future con-
tract to sell flour; any grain man
with an eye to future delivery,
will have the same incentive in
principle as he now has to pro-
tect against future price fluctua-
tion, either up or down. Cer-
tainly he will have the same fa-
cilities and opportunities to do
so. It may be true that the lati-
tude of future fluctuation will be
less ample than that of the past,
but 'why should any miller or
grain dealer do otherwise than
applaud? The professional spec-
ulator and the gambler might
complain. This should give agri-
culture and legitimate business
no concern.

—8 —

"The bill will destroy the country
elevator."

The country grain buyer is in-
terested in handling as much
grain as he can at a margin that
includes his handling costs and
profit. That opportunity is not
restricted or changed by the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill. The language
of the proposed law requires the
corporation to utilize existing
agencies in Its operations. The
plan outlined can neither replace
nor tend to destroy the country
elevators which perform a useful
service in our present grain mar-
keting system.

"The bill requires a ponderous
mechanism, very exiiensive and
administratively unworkable."

The bill confers power to ac-
complish its purpose. Is there
anything unworkable in commis-
sioning existing grain or cotton
or meat or milling companies to
buy the exportable surplus? Is
there anything unworkable in
commissioning the same or others
to sell to export the quantity of
the products thus purchased? la-
dividual operators do this daily —
single handed and alone. That
is all there is to the operation.
It involves no mechanism and in-
curs much less expense than that
now incurred many times over
in the repeated commissions
reaped on speculative sales. It
duplicates no facilities and inter-
feres with nobody's business. The
objection is a make-weight, sig-
nifying nothing.

Write Your Congressman Today Urging Him To

M»y S, 1924

The BlinoU Agricultural AwocMiKon Record

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Bill Which Farm Bureau Members Should Know

— 10—

"Coo|>er8tlve marketing will cure
the Ills."

Cooperative marketing will help
but cannot cure the condition.
A cooperative, handling a com-
modity consumed in the domestic
market can affect price, but not
with full effect with a surplus
product. Even it it were possible
to herd all of the skeptical, the
recalcitrant, and the obtuse,
among 6.000,000 farmers into
one great wheat, corn, cotton,
swine, or cattle cooperative, and
it is utterly impossible to do this
in time to do any good, still
that great cooperative could pro-
duce but little effect on the
terminal price of an export crop
unless it had precisely the facili-
ties and powers conferred on the
proposed corporation by the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill. It would not
do so because it would not be
able to address the cause.

The cause is the surplus, the
distressed world, and the Tariff.
It is an extraneous thing. It
cannot be reached by effort here
less than the segregation of the
surplus from the domestic mar-
ket.

The bill does not oppose co-
operation; it fosters, encourages,
and makes cooperation possible.
It interferes not at all with the
benefits derived from cooperation.
By just ■* so much as the cooper-
atives can secure more equitable
grading, reduce the cost of do-
mestic distribution, shorten the
road from farm to market, can
they save for the producer por-
tions of the difference between
farm price and terminal price.
Bat without this bill such is the
limit of their power. They can
do the things above mentioned,
bill or no bill. But they can do
them far better with the bill
than without it and if, during
the five years of the bill's emerg-
ency existence as a law, they at-
tain to a sufficient unity of pur-
pose and quality of efficiency,
they can take over the corpora-
tion and live happily ever after-
ward.

. — 11—
**Di\'ersille<I farming will cure
these ills."

Our trouble is the surplus
product and it applies not to
wheat alone, or corn alone, or
cotton alone, but to any and all.
There are vast areas available
only for wheat farming. It is a
Barmecide feast to proffer the
farmers of these areas "diversi-
fied farming."

Diversified farming means
"Raise more cattle, corn, swine
eggs, poultry and butter fat. '
The consumpti%'e capacity of the
country for these things is not
cosmic. It is being supplied now
Some astute observers believe
that a crisis is not far off in each
of these products. It is already
upon the producers of corn, cat-
tle and swine. If the 20% of
the wheat acreage could and
would turn to these other prod-
ucts, what would happen? We
should have precisely the same
situation with the other products
that we now have with wheat.

To the extent that the market
<lenian<lK a product at a profitable
price, natural laws will supply
that product. The moment we
produce in excess of the normal
demand for that product we de-
stroy the profit thereof. There
is no profit in any of the com-
modities suggested for increased
production by the advocates of
diversification which indicates
that the total supply on the do-
mestic market should be much'
increased. It could not be in-
creased without destroying profit.

Therefore conversion from one
to another of these crops will re-
sult merely in a shifting of the
field of loss and distress.

There is much murky thinking
on this subject and to say that
diversification offers the slightest
help to this grievous situation
addressed by the McNary-Haugen
bill is either inane or immoral
depending on the information of
the person saying it. Diversifi-
cation is a wise counsel for the
individual. It is simply the old
admonition about not putting all
eggs in one basket. But it is
nothing more and It has no ap-
plication whatever to the ba.sic
economic problem addressed by
this bill.

—12 —
"We will cnre the ills by lending
the farmer monej-."
All the projects to finance the
stricken agricultural districts can
not cure the farmers' ills. He
owes too much to the rural
banks, his suppliers, and for
taxes to his state and county
What will it advantage him to
change his creditor and extend
his time when he sees no profit
out of which to pay and no fu-
ture save a deeper debt? What
the farmer must have, is an
eqnalized price for his product,
not a change in the person of
his creditor.

All this is obvious. What is
the purpose of the suggestion?
It can hardly be other than an
attempt to still his clamor by a
deferment of his most persistent
present annoyance — and mortgag-
ing of his future. The only help
that can be held out in this pro-
ject is that he can stay on his
land hoping for some change for
the better. But, if the only pos-
sible solution of his problem is
elimination of the surplus and
the only methods of elimination
are starvation of this acreage oi
segregation of surplus, how does
it help the case to lend money to
perpetuate the acreage? It does
not and cannot do so. The argu-
ment that he can stay, diversify,
and live, has been shown to be
unsound. Whether so intended
or not, the project to extend,
credit is only a soporific to soften
his political protest. It is no
remedy because, far from eradi-
cating the cause of the difficulty,
it simply aggravates and pro-
longs it.

— 13—
"Decrease of e\i>ense and cost^
not increa.se in price is the
remedy. Tlie farmer must get
back to the sturdy self-deny-
ing existence of his grand-
father. Let him give up his
movies, automobiles, radios,
phonographs, electric light.s,
and other fancy contrivances.
He can live."

The world moves on. The
farmer has not nearly so many
of the conveniences ' of modern
living as the common laborer,
the clerk or the city dweller in
any walk of life. But he has
some and of course he has in-
finitely more than his grand-
father. We shall have no more
luck in creating a peasant class
on our farms than we had in
creating a submerged class in
our labor. The benefits of the
industrial age in America are
very great and we have preserved
them by the tariff, restriction of
immigration, and other "legisla-
tive enactments." Restoration of
fair exchange value to the farmer
will not do one iota of harm to
any other class in the country.

of all these things which go to
make life convenient and pro-
gressively easier. This will give
increased employment and profit
to every other class and improve
the general prosperity.

Frugality in the farmer is
necessary and desirable. Denial
to the farmer of a modest share
of the conveniences of our con-
stantly Improving national life is
not only neither necessary nor
desirable— It is lm|iosslble.

r-14 —
"Let the situation alone. It is
very bad but it will cnre Itself."

This is the Manchester doctrine
of Lalssez falre. It is sound in
its economics. The situation will
cure itself by the immutable law
of compensation. "Laissez falre"
does not, however, follow as a
conclusion. Smallpox becomes
innocuous to a race if left alone.
That is no argument against vac-
cination. Let us see how the
situation could be cured or cure
itself. It is due to a combina-
tion of two causes; the tariff,
raising the American price level
above the world price level on
all the farmer buys, the surplus,
importing the world price level
into America for the farmer
alone on every crop producing a
surplus. Therefore, the cures
are these — •

I Free Trade — ■ give the
farmer world prices for
what he buys as well as
for what he sells.
II Curing the demoralization
of the world and thus rais-
ing world prices to the
American plane.
Ill Elimination of surplus by
(a) Its destruction as

such,
(bl Its consumption at
home by a 20% in-
crease in population,
(e) Its segregation as
proposed by the bill,
(d) Its avoidance by
abandonment of acre-
age.

There are no other ways save
these or the combination of two
or more of them. Free trade
may be dismissed. No matter
how ardent a theoretical free
trader might be, he would . jiot.
i>eing an equally ardent Ameri-
can, favor a sudden throwing
down of the dykes and letting in
on our guarded domestic struc-
ture the existing depression of a
world in chaos — an influx of
goods representing the hollow-
eyed labor of gaunt Europe, en-
tailing the sudden destruction of
American living standards. He
would not — at this perilous junc-
ture— toss away, for a beautiful
theory, the relatively happy state
of our whole people. Even the
bankrupt farmer — his home
threatened and the savings of his
life already absorbed — does not
ask this.

The most bloodless Manches-
terian would not counsel the
farmer to wait till the world i;
restored to something approach
ing normal prosperity. The causes
of its depression are too deep — too
menacing of further depression.
We can omit to consider as a
counsel of value, the voice that
tells the farmer "Wait till the
world is restored to pre-war pros-
perity."

Nor would anyone dare sug-
gest that we burn our surplus or
sink it in the seas — not in the
presence of the hungry mouths
that wail across the world. We
are hardly ready to espouse such

It will do great good to all. It sabotage on a scale so vast,
will restore to the market a It is quite true that the time
great block of buyers who have is well within sight when we
long been out of it — purfchasers I shall consume our entire farm

surplus at home. At the present
rate of increase of population
decreased fertility, soil erosion,
and considering the fact that we
are . already near the limit of
practicable productive ' acreage,
that time is perhaps not more
than fifteen years in the future.
But they would be Job's com-
forters who would sit down at
the farmer's barren b*ard and
attempt to console him with the
thought that all. will b^ well in
fifteen years. j i

Now, the "Lbissez taireians"
mean that the sijtuation will cure
itself much quicker thab in any
way yet discussed, by the aban-
donment of, for example, some
20% of our wheat acreage. It is
a pretty theory. It vfill take,
say five years of contipued de-
pression, to beat down tie sturdy
resistance and the griini struggle
of owners and tenants of the
wheat and corn lands to preserve
their homes and the ren^nants of
their forutnes. In five yiears per-
haps only 80% of the fittest will
have survived and the surplus
will have been starved out*. The
"fittest" does not refer to the
most efficient workers. It refers
to the most efficient areas — those
nearest to markets and most fac-
ile. The wrecked homesteads,
and deserted villages, the ruined
fortunes and the scattered fam-
ilies proposed by opponents of
the bill, will not result ■ at once.
Five years at least will be re-
quired. This breed does not quit
in the face of adver*ity. It
sticks. Then we shall : have to
give further years whil^ the in-
dicator needle of domestic de-
mand shivers - nervously and be-
gins the upward swin; which
will restore tenants to those
abandoned lands and sq on for
five further years, up to the limit
of our productive power when
we shall either begin to import
these products or widen our own
borders.

Is this a counsel of sanity?
Build up — destroy— build up — in
alternating periods of half-dec-
ades? Is it not better t» use an
emergency measure to preser\e?
For what will happen tn these
five years of de«tructio»7 Are
our people a race of yellow-faced
economists who will resoect this
scientific reasoning with stoical
indifference behind thei(- horn-
rimmed glasses? They (ire not.
They are freckle-necked, hairy
chested fighters. Such powerful
forces can crush them but not as
one could press the life out of
a sick kitten. They will press
back. There is a social and po-
litical bearing in this economic
problem. .

We know^ whalt repeiKussion,
precisely this situation, once did
bring to the nation. It Ibrought
the bloodiest ci\11 war i in the
history of the world. Beginning
with the South Carolinji erup-
tion of nullification, exactly this
same subsidy of Aortherq indus-
try, by the tariff, ^and at [ the ex-
pense of the eKport-pi^KlucinB
agricultural Soutk — exactly this
was the economic cause of the
civil war and economic causes
are the only real causes ef mod-
ern war. Would it now result
in red revolt? Perhaps not, sim-
ply bec^se it is not suQciently
sectional and more because we
have learned the greater effect
of more peaceful means^ But
it will result in something far
more objectionable than the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill. It is '' result-
ing so. We have here an intrin-
sic inequity — an immoral policy,
a great subversive cause l)ear-
ing bitterly down on one of the]

sturdiest and most indt|i<>ndent
segments of our poTililation. Thai
segment is becoming ' highly ar-
ticulate. If its grievances re-
ceive no mercy at the hands of
the sacred two-party system' of
our political structure, it knows
the power of another way and it
can, should, and will use that
power ruthlessly against oppres-
sion. It has tasted the savor of
"Bloc" control. Washington is
being invaded by strange, new
faces and voices that compel at-
tention if not delight. A general
election is upon us. and. depen-
dent solely on immediate relief
of this oppression.... hangs the
quality of the next congress and
the policy of the next adniinip-
tration. Our business structun-
would do well to give ear to a
measure economically and polit-
ically sound or it may give sec-
tions of its smoking flesh to
measures which are not so.

There is no argument against
the McNary-Haugen Bill which
can be said to go to its merits
There are only grievances. Thes>-
grievances are not for wrongs
done or threatened. They are
for inequitable privileges, accus-
tomed franchises of subsidy and
exploitation, now felt to be
threatened. They are protests
against the cleansing of an un-
just condition. They cannot pre-
vail because they have no right
to prevail and no man can advo-
cate them without miring him
self in a morass of deceits. In-
consistencies and evasions.

"Laissez falre" may be the
answer to a proposal to interfere
with the working of a natural
law in a normal status. But
when natural law has already
been interfered with by the in-
terposition of arificial controls,
such as the tariff, and these arti-
fices create subsidies, oppressions
and rank injustice. "Laissez
faire" of the resulting condition
is a counsel of dissolution. We
can either abolish the old inter-
ference entirely, or we can amend
iU evil. But we cannot leave it
alone. We are dealing with an
American public of the twentieth
century and not with a French
proletariat of the early eight-
eenth.

If we are to retain the doc-
trine of protection (and we are I
there is only on^ practicable way
to restore justice and that is to
segregate the surplus, sell it
abroad and regulate supply to
demand on the domestic market.
Such is the McNary-Haugen Bill.

—15—
"It is improper thai farm pric<>s
should be made by the prices
of other things. The> shouUI
be made by cost of pr<Mlucti<Hi
pln.s a pmflt."

The price t>f every commodity
is made by "the price of other
things. " That is the essence of
the law of barter, the law of
trade, the law of supply and de-
mand. The price of a thing is
merely the measure of its value
in terms of the things for which
it is exchanged. The McNary-
Haugen Bill did not make this
law. God made it. But as far
as export farm products is con-
cerned, man amended the Ijiw or
at least changed the scene of its
operation from Chicago. New
Vork and New Orleans, to Man-
chester, Liverpool. Havre. Ham-
burg, Rotterdam and Genoa.

The price of every other .\mer-
ican commodity is made by the
price of "other things" in Man-
chester. Liverpool, and other
foreign markets where these
"other things" are on a price
level just as mOch lower than

yj^ork for the McNary-Haugen Bill— Write Now!

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May S, 1924

flvery Day Brings More Supporters—Help Push i

f\

the American level as the war- 1 - — 19 —

shattered world outside our "ForeiRn nations will construe

the McKary-HauKen BUI as

tbree-mile limit is lower than
our fenced and guarded condi-
tion within.

The McNary-Haugen Bill mere-
ly brings the outcast farmer
home and permits the price of
his prodi ct to be made by the
price of " other things" in Amer-

! —16—

"Millers and |>ackers will not
manufacture for e\|>ort if they
liare to |>ay a hlKher price for
wheat or swine than their for-
elKn coiniietitors."
This is simply a misconception
of the bill. Flour or pork for
export are as much a part of the
exiportable surplus of wheat and
swine as the raw material. The
bill recognizes this and provides
.for it. The Corporation will ab-
sorb the difference between the
dotnestic and the export price of
wheat and swine purchased on
the domestic market and sold as
flour or pork on the markets of
the world.

— i: —

**li»r:tri|>at:an certificates (scrip)
Would Increa-te our circulatin-x
nieilia and thus inflate tlie cur-
rency."

{Participation certificates con-
stitute the obligation of the Cor
poration to pay residue of the
amounts withheld by it against
loss and e.xpense. As commercial
paper it will increase circulating
media to the exact e.xtent that
the commercial paper of any cor-
poration does so — less rather
than more, because, technically,
it is not even "negotiable paper".
It is ridiculous — mere childish
prattle, — to say that it will "in-
flate the currency". Relatively
this issue of commercial paper
is insignificant compared with the
negotiable paper emitted by in-
dustrial corporations of like size.

—18—
"While the bill ai>|iears to api>ly
to a variety of products It Is
really Intended to apply only
to wheat — not to cotton be-
cause the price Is above pre-
war exchange value — not to
wool because we lni|H>rt nearly
half our consumption, nor to
animal iiroducts because It
could not so apply without put-
tinK the government int<^ the
liackUiK business nor to com
because It Is ex|>arted prlncl-
l>ally as animal products. Com-
mcMlities other than wheat are
iiiclude<l only for jiolitical pur-
|>oses to stay the opposition of
their producers.**

The bill applies to no product
except when, and as long as, its
price falls below the pre-war ex-
change value. ' When that bap-
pens to a product the bill ap-
plies. . It would not apply to cot-
ton today because the boll-weevil
and a temporary shortage of sup-
ply have increased the price.
There have been plenty of times
in the past when it would have
applied. The lack of such a
measure once caused Civil War.
It is true that the bill would
probably never have application
to wool because we import wool
and can protect that price by a
tariff. The assertion that it will
not apply to meat products is
astoundins. Its application is
relatively easy and has no effect
to put the corporation into the
slaughtering and packing of meat.
Its application to corn will be
both direct and indirect through
its effect on swine.

These products are not in-
cluded for political purposes. The

'ilmnpinit' and will retaliate.'*

Here is another objection which
deserves an answer only in def-
erence to the very high authority
who voices it. Not one ounce
greater surplus will reach the
shores of other lands than is
now the case. Nor will the price
abroad be one cent lower. From
without no one will be able to
know -by their own experience
that the bill has passed. It- pre-
vents the price of the surplus
from depressing the price of do-
mestic consumption but it leaves
every foreign nation precisely
where it was before. Foreign
nations can hardly retaliate be-
cause the American farmer gets
an American price for the por-
tion of his crop consumed in
America. The objection is with-
out merit.

Within the last few days Sec-
retary Hoover has complained of
pooled operations by foreign na-
tions affecting our Domestic
prices and has recommended leg-
islative action to cure it. It is
surely a lesser thing to take leg-
islative action to prevent our
own method of selUnK from de-
pressing our Domestic price of
agricultural products.

— 20—
"The Bill Is unconstitutional.*'

This is a smoke screen. Ex-
haustive analyses conducted by
legal counsel of more than one
branch or Department of the
government have not discovered
one clause in the bill upon which
a substantial claim of unconsti-
tutionality can be based. Their
conclusions have been single and
emphatic on the constitutionality
of the bill.

Such is the nature of the ob-
jections to the bill. All will be
found to analyze to the theme of
those stated which may be fairly
regarded as comprehensive of the
entire case of the opposition
voiced by its ablest advocates.
Not one of them goes to the
fundamental basis of the bill.
Not one contests the economic
analysis on which It proceeds.
They are apprehensions rather
than deductions, epithets rather
than arguments, statements of
grievances rather than of wrongs.
They oppose a great construc-
tive measure addressing a funda-
mental fault in our economic sys-
tem and pointing the way at a
critical cross-roads in the devel-
opment of our national policy.
For this purpose they seem
wholly inadequate, inconsequen
tial, almost frivolous, and it is
worthy of emphatic remark that
none attempts to consider the
effect of enactment of the bill.
That tipeculation is worthy of a
thought.

For nearly four years our eco-
nomic progress has been clogged
by the depression of our agricul-
ture. No wide constructive move-
ment in Commerce and industry
has been possible against the re-
sistance of that leaden drag.
Each forward acceleration has
come to a swift and mysterious
stop before it could fairly enter
its stride. Confidence in any
business future more remote than
a few months has been conspicu-
ous by Its absence. The cause is
perfectly obvious. With almost
every other circumstance favor-
able, it goes without saying, that
the integral unit of this nation
cannot move forward with its
basic segment in a ruinous condi-
tion. Through this great gap in

been invaded by the European
malady and our progress has
been frustrated.

The McNary-Haugen bill would
cure this fault almost instantly
Not only would it bring the agri
cultural segment of our structure
promptly abreast of our industry
it would preserve and keep it
there. Never again (if during
the period covered by the bill the
farmers' cooperatives perfect
their own marketing mechanism)
need we apprehend a shattering
of our economic balance in this
grave regard. Fundamental prices
will forever fluctuate but there
will be no paralyzing dispropor-
tions in these movements. The
whole structure will move up and
down In harmony and unison.
The entire pattern will be sta-
bilized and rendered homogene-
ous. It makes no gneat differ-
ence whether prices be high or
low so long as they are fairly
related one to another and the
bill will tend to make and keep
them. so.

Its immediate effect will be to
raise the price of wheat nearly
one-third and the price of corn
and live stock in somewhat lesser
proportion but to an equally just
relationship. The result in terms
of immediate general prosperity
need hardly be dwelt upon. It
is obvious. 1924 would be a year
of wonders in our economic an
nals and business could look to
a sound and equable future with
a confidence it has never dared
to indulge since the fearful erup-
tion of 1914.

2,200 ENLIGHTENED
HEARERS ADVOCATE
IMMEDIATE ACTION

Resolutions Drafted At I. A. A. Farm-
er-Banker-Business Man Meetings
Have Firm Meaning

bill means exactly what it says, our protective barriers we have

Here is the sentiment of over
2.200 farmers, bankers and busi-
ness men, — --""n'ing Illinois
and parts of eastern lowa and
western Indiana, who have heard
the facts concerning the McNary-
Haugen bill. Each one of the
resolutions was passed after ob-
jections had been raised from the
floor and answered by the speak-
ers. That a great deal of oppo-
sition to the bill is founded on
lack of knowledge concerning the
facts, becomes apparent when
one considers these resolutfons.
Rock Island

At a general meeting of over
six hundred farmers, business
men, and bankers from Eastern
Iowa and Western Illinois, held
at Rock Island, Illinois, this
twenty-fourth day of April, 1924,
the following resolution was
adopted:

WHEREAS: There is now be-
fore the Congress a bill known
as the McNary-Haugen Bill, con-
templating immediate relief for
agriculture in its broadest sense,
and

WHEREAS: It is the sense of
this meeting that this is the only
measure now before the Congress
which will bring about the neces-
sary result, i. e., that of raising
the purchasing power of our basic
food products to a parity with
that of those products which the
farmers must buy;

NOW THEREFORE, be it re-
solved that the Representatives
in both houses of Congress, from

their active support and coopera
tion with a view of making this
bill a law during the present
session of Congress.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
That a copy of this resolution be
sent to each member of Congress
and to the President of the
United States.

Danville

At a joint meeting of Farmers,
Bankers, Business and Profes-
sional men from Eastern Illinois
and Western Indiana, held this
26th day of April, 1924, in Dan-
ville. Illinois, the following Reso-
lutions were adopted:

WHEREAS: Basic agricultural
commodities such as wheat, corn,
hogs and cattle are normally
produced by our farmers in vol-
ume over and above the domestic
needs of this country, and

WHEREAS: The existence of
such surpluses, that must ulti-
mately find outlet In the world
markets move in trade only on a
basis of unprotected world's
price, and

WHEREAS: Such price there-
by obtains for the whole of the
commodity as well as for the
surplus, in conformity to eco-
nomic law, and

WHEREAS: The costs of pro-
duction to our farmers are highly
protected by "legislative enact-
ments" such as the Transporta-
tion Act, the Adamson law. Re-
striction of immigration, the Tar-
iff and other acts, and

WHEREAS: Such "legislative
enactments" compel the farmer
to produce at high protected
costs, and the surpluses of such
commodities compels him to sell
in a demoralized unprotected
world's market or upon such
basis the whole of the commod-
ity at correspondingly low prices,
and

WHEREAS, a Bill for an Act
known as the McNary-Haugen
Bill, now before our Congress, is
designed to restore to Agricul
ture equality with Industry and
Labor, by skimming off such sur-
plus, selling it in the world's
market on that basis; so that
the bulk of the commodity mov-
ing in domestic trade, according
to domestic needs, may sell at a
domestic protected price, and

WHEREAS, the Committees on
Agriculture and Forestry from
the respective houses of Congress
have now favorably reported out
«f Committee this Bill, after ex-
traordinary consideration and de-
liberation.

THEREFORE BE IT RE-
SOLVED: By this meeting as-
sembled this 26th day of April,
1924, in the city of Danville.
Illinois, that we urge upon our
Congressmen representing the
great state of Illinois at our na-
tional Capitol, the immediate
need of working for and secur-
ing the passage of the McNary-
Haugen Bill, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
That a copy of this Resolution
be placed in the hands of our
President of the United States
and that additional copies there-
of be forwarded to our Congress-
men from Illinois and Indiana.

Springfield

At a general meeting of over
three hundred farmers, business
men, and bankers from Central
Illinois, held at Springfield, Illi-
nois, on the 25th day of April,
1924, the following resolution
was adopted:

WHEREAS: Agriculture is to-

Illinois and Iowa, be urged im- day and has been ever since 1919
mediately to give this measure sorely distressed, and

WHEREAS: Such distress Is
directly traceable to the fact that
those basic agricultural commod-
ities of which surpluses normally
are produced are exchanging in
trade for commodities and serv-
ices required by agriculture at a
great disparity, and

WHEREAS: There is now be-
fore Congress a measure known
as the McNary-Haugen Bill, de-
signed to segregate such sur-
pluses from our domestic mar-
ket— selling such volume in the
world market as we do not ex-
change in trade in our domestic
market on a parity with the com-
modities and services required
by agriculture, restoring to agri-
culture an equality with industry
and labor;

THEREFORE, be It lesolved
that we endorse the principles as
embodied in the McNary-Haugen
bill, now reported out of com-
mittee, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
that we urge our members in
Congress to work for and secure
the enactment into law of this
bill at the earliest possible op-
portunity, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
that a copy of these resolutions
be placed in the hands of the
president and every member of
Congress from Illinois.

Blooniinf;ton

WHEREAS, a grave national
emergency exists due to the in-
equality of values as between farm
products and other necessities of
life, made possible by conditions
which enable the price of farm
commodities to be fixed by the
comparatively small exportable
surplus;

AND WHETREAS, the establish-
ment of permanent business pros-
perity is dependent upon a restora-
tion of equality In commodity val-
ues;

AND WHEREAS, a bill known
as the McNary-Haugen bill, has
been introduced in Congress, which
has for Its purpose the restoration
of equality of values on a pre-war
basis, and which gives reasonable
promise to accomplish that result;

THEREFORE BE IT RE-
SOLVED, that we endorse the
principles as embodied in the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill, now reported out
of the Ck>mmittee, and,

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
that we urge our representatives
in Ck>ngress and the President of
the United States to work for and
secure its enactment into law at
the earliest possible opportunity,
and,

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
that a copy of these resolutions be
placed in the hands of the Presi-
dent and every member of Con-
gress from Illinois.
/
^lany Indorse Bill

Among the men of high finance
and big business endorsing the
McNary-Haugen bill are the fol-
lowing:

John R. Mitchell, former mem-
ber of the federal reserve board,
and president of the Capital Na-
tional bank of St. Paul.

Louis W. Hill, chairman of the
board of the Great Northern rail-
way.

Ralph Budd. president of the
Great Northern.

George Lrnnelly, president of
the Northern Pacific.

Howard Elllctt, phairman of the
Northern Pacific board.

Bernard Baruch, New York finan-
cier.

Otto Kahn. New York financier.

A. F. Wood, president of the
University of Maryland.

Dr. Coffin, president of the Uni-
versity of Minnesota.

Eastern Interests and Industrialists Oppose It

1924

May 5, 1924

The Dfinou Agricnltural Aworiarioo Recotd

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ORGANIZING CREAM
COOPERATIVE WITH
T. B. COWS BARRED

Li commod- j Prophetstown Farm Leaders To Get
« normally { jqq sjgngrs On I. A. A. Plan;
Lynch Shaping By-laws

Talks

known

Cream producers living near
Prophetstown are planning to
form what will be known
the "Prophetstown Cooperative
Creamery Association" and de-
cided, at their meeting ftt Pro-
phetstown April 25 and 26, to
get a minimum of 100 signers for
their association agreement by
Aug. 1 before flna; action is
taken.

An organization committee was
appointed which consists of the
following: M. F. Bane, chair-
man; J. B. Moser, secretary-
treasurer; F. M. La Due, W. H.
Lament, H. B. Lyon, and Henry
Stewart, all in Prophetstown
township. Farmers will be so-
licited from Whiteside, Henry
and Bureau counties. Plans were
laid for handling eggs and poul-
try in connection with the cream
cooperative.

AUow T.B. — ^Free CatUe Only
Requirements tor membership
In the association state that only
men with tuberculosis-tree cows
can join. According to A. D,
Lynch, director of dairy market-
ing for the I. A. A., who is draw-
ing up their association agree-
ment and by-laws, this is the
first organization in the state to
set up this requirement for mem-
bership.

According to Farm Adviser
"Dad" Wise of Whiteside county,
Prophetstown township has more
farm bureau members than any
other one township in the state.
There are 176 members repre-
senting 90 per cent of the farm-
ers and landowners.

ner mem-
•ve board,
ipital Na-

t of the

sident of

an of the

ork finan-

flnancler.
of the

the Unl-

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Quasey Trying To
Equalize Rates On
Molasses and Corn

In an effort to secure an
eqaalization of freight rates be-
tween Cuban black strap molas-
ses and corn, L. J. Quasey, head
of the transportation department
of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation, met with a joint rail-
road committee in Chicago last
week, and, with their complain-
ants, endeavored to show the
disadvantage of corn.

The need for an equalization
in this instance, says Mr. Quasey,
is that Cuban molasses comes to
New Orleans, and through the
exceptionally low freight rates
on that commodity from New
Orleans to distilleries through-
out the middle west, places corn
at a disadvantage. Molasses and
corn are both being used by dis-
tillers for manufacturing wood
alcohol, a product which has a
thousand uses. With the present
freight rates, distillers can afford
to pay only 33 cents per bushel
for corn, thus cutting corn out of
a large market. A lower freight
rate on corn or an equalization
of rates would place com on a
parity with Cuban molasses. By
enlarging the demand for the
cheaper grades of corn used by
distillers, corn demand in gen-
eral will be increased.

21st District

Grain Marketing^
Schools and Serum

At a meeting of the Farm Bu-
reau directors and voting dele-
gates of the 21st district, at
Hillsboro, April 24, grain mar-
keting was the center of attrac-
tion with Farm Adviser I. A.
Madden of Sangamon county
leading the discussion. It was
broOght out by Mr. Madden that
although there has been consid
erable ups and downs to various
cooperative grain marketing or-
ganizations, the sentiment of
farmers is crystallizing, but is not
unified on any one plan.

If the McNary-Haugen bill
passes, it was brought out, co-
operative grain marketing will
need to be approached from a
different angle than now because
the surplus will be taken off the
market. In case it does not pass,
however, it was said by Mr.
Madden that it would still be
necessary for farmers to take
care of their own surplus and to
develop a system whereby the
surplus may be controlled.
Want School Funds Investigated
Another point of discussion
was that of the relation of rural
districts and the distributive
funds for schools, led by Wm.
Acree of Montgomery county and
E. W. Rush of Macoupin county.
It was pointed out that in practi-
cally every school district, there
is more money sent out to dis-
tributive school funds by rural
communities than was returned.
Likewise, it was said, cities pay
less money to the distributive
fund, but get more bacl^ than
they put In. Suggestions were
made that the I. A. A. investigate
this angle in its survey of Illinois
schools.

Much Serum Used
Progress reports on the serum
projects of each of the counties
represented, Sangamon, Christian,
Macoupin and Montgomery, were
presented showing a large amount
of serum bought and used by
counties in the 21st district. A.
E. Satterlee, Roundtree township,
Montgomery county, led a discus-
sion on Farm Bureau community
organizations saying that they
could be bettered by a diversi-
fied program which would inter-
est all the folks, and one with
plenty of "spice," he pointed out.
George E. Metzger, director of
the organization department of
the I. A. A., talked on "How Best
to Sell the Farm Bureau." George
A. Fox, executive secretary of
the I. A. A., was also present.

McLBAVERS FROLIC AND

FKAST
Two hundred and fifty live
farm bureau people in McLean
county who rent space and sell
farm produce in the McLean
County Farm Bureau building
at Bloomington have time for
social affairs as well as for
work. They put on a spread
in the hall above their mar-
ket place recently that would
make one's mouth water, then
helped digest the food by being
entertained by local talent and
personality rubs of the pious and
near-pious members.

Rgg Buyers Favor
Graded Basis Idea

Meetings of egg buyers have
been held at Quincy. Peoria and
Champaign by F. A. Gougler, in
charge of egg marketing for the
I. A. A., for the purpose of ac-
quainting them with, and deter-
mining their reaction to, the buy-
ing of eggs or a graded basis.
At each of these meetings, ac-
cording to Mr. Gougler, the egg
buyers voted unanimously to buy
on a f;raded basis. In each case
they 'iecided to begin purchasing
on this ba;4ib immediately.

"The basis is of two grades,"
eays Mi. Gougler. "The 'firsts'
are fresh, clean, unwashed, free
of cracks or checks and of uni-
form size weighing not less than
24 ounces to the dozen. 'Seconds'
are dirty and uneven, weighing
less than 24 ounces."

At these meetings, it was voted
to pay a differential of not less
than five cents between firsts
and seconds. Mr. Gougler visits
many buyers who assemble eggs
and says that, generally, those
who have been buying on the
graded basis are highly pleased
with it.

Lynch Helps Ogle
County Dairymen
Start Sales Co-op

In Ogle county, a committee of
12 farmers is working to get
enongh signers for a dairy mar-
keting cooperative so they may
enjoy the higher price of seven
and eight cents per pound but-
terfat which is received by their
Jo Daviess neighbors wh7» have
a cooperative organization. The
Commercial Club of Polo kecame
interested in the difference in
price between the two rather
closely connected counties and iu
specially appointed committee
recommended cooperative mar
keting for Ogle county. ,

At a joint meeting of th« Com
mercial Club and farmers, at was
heartily decided, to organize a

PLAN EXHIBIT TO
PORTRAY PROGRESS,
IDEALS OF I. A. A.

cream selling cooperative
the plan suggested by

along

a: D.

HOLD SCHOOL FOR LE.U>ERS

A school of Instruction for
Farm Bureau community leaders
was held at Busbnell, April 18.
An all day session of round-table
talks on community leadership
resulted in considerable inter-
change of experience, according
to G. E. Metzger, director of the
organization department of the
I. A. A., who spoke on '^What a
Community Organization Will
Do." ..-.,, ..

Stewart Likes New
Calf Grading Plan

"It is extremely gratifying to
note the success with which the
Chicago Producers' is meeting in
its new method of handling
calves," says C. A. Stewart, head
of the livestock marketing de-
partment of the I. A. A. It is
simply the application of the
method which has been found
most efficient and economical in
handling cooperative shipments
of hogs at terminal markets —
that of handling hogs In as large
units as possible.

"It is unfortunate," says Mr.
Stewart, "for the general trade
that the Chicago market recog-
nizes only two grades of calves
which penalizes the owner whose
calves are just a trifle lacking in
finish and quality. Under the
new system of the Chicago Pro-
ducers' the Intermediate grades
are recognized to the same ex-
tent as the better grades."

1

FARMERS TAKE 1,000 TONS
LLME8TONE

One thousand tons of limestone
have been ordered by farmers in
the vicinity of Liberty, Adams
county, according to Farm Ad
viser Ray E. Miller. The ques-
tion which now confronts them is
^Dw to get a «n)sher.

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SCOTT AND .MORGAN TEST

Since Scott and Morgan coun
ties have signed up for the area
tuberculosis testing, the total
number of counties doing testing
has been raised to 48, according
to M. H. Petersen, special repre-
sentative of the I. A. A. on
tuberculosis eradication.

Lynch, of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association, who was at
their meeting.

The Chamber of Commerce
committee reported that. If the
farmers of Ogle county cooper-
ated advantageously, prices would
be more favorable, there would
b^ more money in the c«mmu-
nity, land values would have more
of a tendency to start upward
more legumes would be
because of the better
conditions, and, last, but
important of all, a brotherhood
of,farmers would become etistent
in Ogle county that would later
cooperate on many kinds o( farm
projects. i. ,

raised
dairying
most

FEDER.ATED H.\S GOOD VE-AR

O. E. Bradfute, president of
the A. F. B. F., and Gray Silver
Washington repi>ese](itative of the
A. F. B. F., weje elected to the
board of directors of the Feder-
ated Fruit and VegeUble Growers
at the close of its first year's
business at a meeting bend in
Chicago, April 24 and 25. Re-
ports showed that 33.510 car-
loads of fruit and vegetakles —
over £69 trainloads of 50 cars
to the train — y/^re handled by
the Federated last year. A. 0.<
Eckert of the Illinois Fruit Ex-
change was re-elected to the
board of directors.

Mr. Buyer-Meet Mr. Seller;
Plan of Dairymen 's *' Mixer

M. H. Pctencn

Every time the sun goes down
on Illinois. 58 more tuberculin-
reacting cows bite the dust. Ap-
proximately 1.000 dairy cattle are
being tested in
Illinois every
day, of which
an average of
58 head react
and consequent-
ly meet their
"Waterloo."

With 58 cows
returning to the
Creator every
day in Illinois,
it immediately becomes a p p a r-
ent that Illinois dairy farmers
must refill their dairy barns with
other cattle, tuberculin free, if
they are to keep in the milk pro-
duction game — and it's milk and
cream that has been paying the
Illinois farmer most consistently
these last two or three years,
according to M. H. Peterson, head
of the tuberculosis eradication
department of the I. A. A. Illi-
nois now has the largest tubercu-
losis eradication program of any
state in the Union so far as the
number of counties doing area
testing are concerned, Mr.
Peterson points out, and the
work Is growing each month
with the demand for clean cattle
increasing rapidly.

Replacement » Problem
Now, according to Mr. Peter-
son, comes the problem of refill-
ing the bovine ranks. Fifteen

hundred cattle are brought by
Illinois farmers from outside the
state every month, and 1,400 of
these come from Wisconsin alone.
Many, many times, the unsus-
pecting Illinois farmer buys Bome
dairy cows from outside the
state through a cattle agent only
to find that his mill producers
have been "plugged," that is.
filled so full of tuberculosis
germs that when a few more are
added in making the regulation
tuberculin test for importation
into Illinois, there is no apparent
reaction. "Plugging." according
to Mr. Peterson, is as effective
in the dairy cattle game as
printed-to-order Scotch labels are
to professional bootleggers.

"And," says Mr. Peterson. "'It's
the agents that usually cause
the trouble and generally do the
'plugging.' The farmers of Wis-
consin are
just as hon-
est as those
o f Illihois.
What we
need is clos-
e r contact
between the
sellers of
Wise o n s 1 n
and the buy-
ers of nil- .»- D- »*«*
nols. When a farmer buys
his own cattle himself, he very
seldom gets stung. Let the
farmers of ininois know more
(CoBtinaed oa pafe S)

Twenty Six Counties to Cooperate

and Put on Exhibit Worthy

of Farm Bureaus

Letters have been sent by Sec-
retary Fox to all farm advisei-s
in Illinois asking for their con-
sideration of the proposition that
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion put on a worth-while, perma-
nent e.vhibit of some extent to
be shown at the Illinois Products
Exposition. Chicago; the Illinois
State fair; the Kankakee Dis-
trict fair and the International
Live Stock Exposition.

It is planned to present a pano-
rama of the ideals personified by
the farm bureau. The exhibit is
to be 40 feet long. 10 deep and
8 high. A painting 40 feet long
and five feet wide would form
the background, according to the
plans to date, upon which would
be portrayed a road leadiOK
through a farm bureau commu-
nity and indicating the progress
made in that community over a
period ^ of years. On a hori-
zontal space, probably five or si\
feet deep, in front of tb*^ paint-
ing, would be reproduced in min-
iature such thjngs as a cooper-
ative creamery, elevators, farm
life and a genial portrayal of
what the farm bureau brings to
a community. Then, according
to the plan under consideration,
there will be an endless belt
moving, in front of the hori-
zontal space, so arranged that 26
county farm bureaus can have a
graphic, moving exhibit of their
own to display to thousands
their most important accomplish-
ments.

ThonsMHls Would See It
The exhibit would be a show
window for the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association.- according to its
present scope, and would be seen
by thousands of people. The
plan, if put across, would mean
an exhibit that when once seen,
would be rememt>ered.

The ratification of the plan
and the furnishing of part of the
money for its execution will be
taken up at the next executUe
committee meeting, according to
George A. Fox. The 26 county
farm bureaus which would have
a part in the exhibit are being
asked to pay tlOO each toward
the cost of making, transport-
ing and caretaklng oi Uie ex-
hibit. I .- .

Franklin County
Favors Bill; Plan
Mutual Insurance

The Franklin Coutty Farm
Bureau, through its executive
committee, went on record as
being strongly in favor of the
McNary-Haugen bill and notified
their Congressman of the act|on
takeln. They also took action
aga^st the proposed increase' in
parcel post rates. The commit-
teeman present were: H. H.
Webb* Matt House. E. J. Davis.

C. J. Ketteman. J. R. Kelly and

D. M. Parkhill. The Farm Bu-
reau members present were: J.
S. Webb. J. A. Freeman. Ed
Karnes, G. W. Ketteman and W.
W. Gunter. Insurance to the
extent of tS5,000 has been
vouched for by 2S Farm Bureau
members who are starting a
Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance
Company in Franklin county. B.
A. De Werff Is Farm Adviser.

■>t-

H^„tc

The "long distance" record for
requests was establiehed last
week wben a banker from
Tampa, Florida, wrote tor the
"Record."

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Page 8

The niinou Agricultural Astodatioa Record

May 5, 1924

17th District Commends
I Thompson; Flays Rainey

Representatives of the 17th
Congressional district, which in-
cludes the counties of Woodford,
Livingston, Ford, Logan and Mc-
Lean, met at the McLean County
Farm Bureau building in Bloom-
ington, April 23 with a good
delegation even though field work
was in progress. Frank Barton
of Cornell, executive committee-
man of the I. A. A. from this
district, took a prominent part
in the meeting explaining many
points over which controversy
arose.

George J. Stoll, president of
the Logan County Farm Bureau
was elected cliairman for the day.
Succeeding meetings are to be
conducted by the other presidents
of the districts In order. J. H.
Checkley, farm adviser of Logan
county, acted as secretary.
Letters Express Sentiment

Among many matters consid-
ered, the most outstanding ac-
tion of the day was the drafting
and adoption of three letters —
one to Congressman Rainey mak-
ing it /plain that the 17th dis-
trict representatives were un-
qualifiedly behind their presi-
dent, S. H. Thompson; one to
Mr. Thompson commending his
work for the \. A. A. and of the
work being done by the associa-
tion itself; and one to Congress-
man Frank H. Funk than.ting
him for his e.\pressed intention
to vote for the McNary-Haugen
biU. The letters to Mr. Rainey
and Mr. I'hompson follow:

BIoomiTigton. 111.
April 23, 1924.
Hon. Henry T. Rainey.
House of Representatives,
Washington. D. C.
Dear Mr. Rainey:

We note that in your controversy
with President S. H. Thompson of
the Illinois Agricultural Association
over the merits of the McNary-
Haugen bill that you are Indulging:
in personalities and criticism of
such a character as to sugseat that
your opposition to this matter is
not altogether an Impersonal one.

With reference to President
Thompson's conduct In this matter
we wish to make plain that he is
merely carrying out one of the
many duties of his office and func-
tioning as an energetic and able
executive should.

As active farmer members of the
farm bureaus of the I7th district
we wish to inform you that Presi-
dent Thompson has our whole
hearted support and that your re-
marks will fail to destroy confidence
In him or the organization he repre-
sents.

Very truly yours.
Parm Bureaus of the 17th District.
' Bloomington. 111.

April 23, 1924.
Pres. S. H. Thompson,
Illinois Agricultural Assooiatlon,
€08 South Dearborn Street,
Chicago. Illinois.
Dear Mr. Thompson;

TTe have noted in the farm press
extracts from a vicious attack made
upon you by Congressman Rainey
of the 20th district, in which he In-
sinuates that the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association and you In par-
ticular are guilty of extravagance
in the expenditure of funds en-
trusted to you.

We believe this criticism is the
outgrowth of unreasoning anger on
the part of Mr. Rainey induced by
your able and aggressive support
of the McNary-Haugen bill; and we
are pleased to express herewith our
whole hearted support of your ac-
tion in. this matter and pledge our
encouragement and cooperation In
the furtherance of the same.
Very truly yours.
Parm Bureaus of the 17tK District.

Lincoln Pine tor Picnic

Discussion of the T. A. A. state
picnic which is to be at Lincoln
August 26 brought out from Mr.
Checkley and others from Logan
county that Lincoln has fine fa-
cilities for a large picnic of this
kind and that several thousaod
people can be cared for on their
picnic grpunds with good camp-
ing facilities.

Discussion was taken up of the
work being done by each of the
departments of the I. A. A. It
was pointed out that the De-
partment of Information should
send copies of the I. A. A. Rec-
ord to all the Chambers of Com-
merce in Illinois. A resolution
was presented by P. E. Johnston,
farm adviser for Woodford
county, that endorsed the plan
nf refunding 10 cents per ton on
limestone to the County Farm
Buresns. One of the delegates

brought out for discussion the
attitude that Farm Bureaus
should take in regard to the
teaching of agriculture in grade
and high schools. Although no
action was taken on this point,
all who commented on it were
favorable to such instruction and
believed th^t Farm Bureaus
should encourage and aid this In-
struction as much as possible.

Favor ^McNary-Hangcn BUI

Frank Barton led a discussion
on the McNary-Haugen bill and
said that, in his opinion, the bill
would pass if brought to a- vote.
The bill was endorsed by those
assembled. The next meeting is
to be the last week of June, ac-
cording to the program commit-
tee, and George Wicker, new
head of the auditing and account-
ing service, will be asked to talk
on cooperation lines.

Farm Advisers present were; P.
E. Johnston, Woodford: H. O. Alli-
son Livingston: C. R Hopkins, as-
sociate adviser, Livingston; George
Swalm. Ford; J. H. Checkley. Lo-
gan: and Harrison Fahrnkopf. Mc-
Lean. Delegates and presidents
present were; Woodford — J. Ira
Powell. Louls-.Powell. James Haas,
J. W. Ostler. A. C. Jones. George
Wermsman. Conrad DuBols and
William Beer; Livingston — F. D.
Barton. executive committeeman
for 17th district. William Aspen.
Frank Reeves, Charles Patterson.
Carl Barton and Louis Beeman:
Logan — George Stoll. Edgar Sisson
and D. C. Scheckler: McLean — H.
C. Dixon. John Klnslnger. A. O.
Convls, Allen Mclntyre, John Scholl,
Fred Armstrong. H. E. Hilpert,
Albert Rengel. O. "W. Fuller. E. D.
Lawrence and Homer R. Johnson.
Vernon Vaniman. who is in charge
of the field organisation for the
new auditing and accounting ser-
vice established by the I. A. A.,
attended and spoke briefly and H.
C. Butcher, director of the depart-
ment of Information of the L A. A,
was also present.

BREEDERS' CONGRESS
PLANNED IN I. A. A.

(Continued from page 7)
dairymen of Wisconsin and we
will have cleaner, better cattle
in Illinois."
Cattle Agents Withont Ethics
So, quite largely, according to
Mr. Peterson and Mr. Lynch, the
latter being the head of the dairy
marketing department of the I..
A. A., the matter of buying dairy
cattle from strangers becomes a
matter of faith. Faith and ethics
are closely linked, they say. and
especially in the dairy cattle
game. To build up ethics and
faith between the seller of dairy
cattle and the buyer, they have
proposed, in the name of the
Illinois Agricultural Association,
that there be a "Breeders' Con-
gress" at the next National Dairy
Show, which is to be held at Mil-
waukee, September 27 to October
4.

Plans Breeders' ConKress
According to the two progeni-
tors of the idea, dairymen from
all the states which are in need
of dairy csrttle. such as Illinois.
Iowa. Kansas. Nebraska, North
and South Dakota, Ohio. Missouri
and Indiana, would gather at
the National < Dairy Show next
fall, meet the sellers of the cat-
tle from Wisconsin and other
states, talk over their problems,
go on excursions to visit dairy
farms in Wisconsin and hear a
good program of speakers during
the days of the "Breeders' Con-
gress." W. E. Skinner, gen-
eral manager of the National
Dairy Show, thinks it's a good
idea, and plans are now being
laid whereby representatives from
all the states interested can meet
soon and get the first annual
"Breeders' Congress" under way.
Special trains of Pullmans could
carry and house whole county
farm bureaus and more dairy
knowledge could be obtained by
the participants than could be
preached by exposition in a cen-
tury, Mr, Lynch points out.

HERE'S ANSWER TO
PERPETUAL KNOCKER;
MORE LIKE IT, TOO

Taxation Work Has Brought Laurels

To I .A. A. and Saved Money

For Farmers

There is quoted below an edi-
torial from the "Champaign
County Farm Bureau." the news
sheet of Champaign coimty of
which C. C. Burns is farm ad
viser. In it there is a point
which is well worth the ' consid-
eration of every farm bureau
member. That tho Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association is paying
dividends to its members, both
directly and indirectly, is a bona
fide fact. This is but one of
many instances which can be
quoted. The editorial follows:
The Fami Bureau Never Did
Anythinit!

Here Is a statement that will
raise you several Inches off your
seat, due to the taxation work
taken up by the Farm Bureau
and the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation in Champaign County

Land Valuation

In 1922 $30,986,425

In 1923 25.354.505

Difrerence....J 5.631,920

While this reduction in land
was being secured you and your
representatives in the county
raised the county rate in Cham
paign County 35c and the state
rate was raised 7.7c. Think
what you would have had to pay
with this increase, if the Farm
Bureau had not reduced the land
valuation $5,631,920.

We just worked this out this
morning at the Court House at
Urbana with Mr. John Watson,
statistician expert of the I. A. A.

G. C. Williams of Condit said
that his land tax alone was
160.00 less this year than last,
due to the reduction on his 200
acres of land.

Some of these fellows that
have been talking against the
Farm Bureau get quite aggres-
sive once in a while. It is about
time that Farm Bureau members
begin to defend their own or-
ganization. In fact, it might be
well to use a , few aggressive
tactics in return.

MURPHY HITS HARD
FOR McNARY BILL

(Continued from page 1)
farmer and that farmers as a class
have developed an orgy of bor-
rowing money. Mr. Murphy made
it a point that agriculture is be-
ing held subservient to industry
and labor with the same as a ball
and chain around both ankles.
Farmer Sells at Prices Offered
Him

"Let us start by considering the
present status of agriculture."
said Mr. Murphy in beginning his
address. "The farmer of today
must sell his products at prices
offered him. He must pay for
what he uses in his business prac-
tices, prices that are asked of him.
He has no alternative but to sell
for what is bid and buy at prices
demanded. He has to deliver sub-
stantially two loads of almost
every product of the average farm
for what he secured with one load
of his products in 1913. The e.\-
change value of his products is
but about 50 percent of the pre-
war values.

"Let us then analyze the sub-
ject further and determine why it
is that the farmers' products will
only purchase one-half of what
they did 10 years ago. On the
whole, the farmers of America
are receiving as high a level of
prices as they did In 1913. His
price is not, when considered in

respect to normal conditions, de-
pressed. The answer to this dis-
parity in price is found in the fact
that the price of the things the
farmer purchases has increased
approximately 100 percent. It is
a case of the Inflation of the prod-
ucts of labor and industry.

What Causes This Disiiarity?

"It then becomes important to
ascertain what has happened in
the affairs of the nation that has
Increased the prices of fuel, build-
ing material, machinery, clothing
and the like which the farmer
purchases to carry on his business
and to exist. We find our answer
to this question in the protective
system which the nation has con-
sented to In such legislation as
the Adamson law, the restriction
of immigration, the tariff law, the
Federal Reserve Board, the Esch-
Cummins Act and other paternal-
istic legislation. These laws have
given great disadvantages to the
farmer.

"Labor and industry can and do
pass laws on all Increased prices
and costs, but when the farmer
purchases, he cannot pass on In-
creased costs and Is compelled to
absorb the losses out of his busi-
ness— which is shown by the tre-
mendous increases in mortgages
and other Indebtedness of the
American farmer. He cannot pass
the buck. Under the existing
law-made economic system, the
farmer Is powerless to help him-
self and the basic industry is fac-
ing a complete collapse.

Extend Protective System to
Farmer

"Either the protective system
must be extended under the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill or we will have
a peasantry on the farms of this
country. The farmer is not seek-
ing to tear down the existing pro-
tective system, but asks that the
same coilsideratlon be shown to
him by the enactment of the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill. The protective
system has taken away his pur-
chasing power and he asks that it
be restored to him by law. He
does not ask for favor, but he
does insist that disfavor be abol-
ished. He wants an even break.

"This nation cannot afford to
bankrupt and destroy Its basic in-
dustry through the industrializa-
tion of the country. It is impor-
tant that we continue as an agri-
cultural nation. It Is possible and
necessary that both agriculture
and Industry be given the same
opportunities. We cannot pro-
ceed as a nation 35 percent slaves
and 65 percent free. '

In answering a question after
his address, he said that the scrip
clause had been removed by com-
mittee amendment and that the
provisions of the- bill now called
for the issuance of receipts in
place of scrip which is. he said,
better than the scrip idea.

AUDITING SERVICE
PLANS COMPLETED

(Continued from page 1)
receive a more-or-less uniform
service with special auditors for
each group, but so systematized
that an auditor will be shifted
from district to district periodi-
cally. The control will be in the
membership.

To Furnish Complete Audits

"Every effort will be made,"
says Mr. Wicker, "to build up a
reliable, efficient service on a cost
of service basis. The auditing
service of the Illinois Agricultural
Cooperative Association will dif-
fer from that service rendered by
commercial auditing companies' in
that our auditors will stay In an
office until all the facts are
known. Many commercial audits
are based upon a time limit or a
salary limit, which can, in turn,
be set by the manager of the local
cooperative. Audits made by this
organization will be thorongh.
The fact that a local cooperative
belongs to the "I. A. 0. A." will

FIND FACTS BEFORE
BOOSTING RATES ON
FARMER SAYS I.A.A.

Quasey Shows that New Does Not

Sanction Proposed Raise in

His Own Department

Opposition to the proposed
raise in parcel post rates now in ,' /
Congress is being voiced strenu- i I
ously by the Illinois Agricultural \
Association through L. J. Quasey,
head of the transportation de-
partment.

Mr. Quasey received informa-
tion which states that Postmas- '
ter-General New has made it ,
plain that "no such increases as
are carried in the bills now be- ■
fore your committee are war-
ranted." The letter in which
this statement was made was
sent by Mr. New to the chair- (
man of the Congressional Com-
mittee which was considering the i
proposed raise in rates. Mr. ^
Quasey is of the opinion that the
Postmaster-General knows more
about the needs of his business
than any Congressmen who have i
not his close contact.

These bills, the Paige and
Edge-Kelly, provide for extensive \
Increases In the rates on fourth >
class matter and on parcel post, '
and it is particularly these two
classifications in which the farmer
is vitally interested.

"Several years ago," says Mr.
Quasey, "an appropriation was
made for the study of the cost
of carrying various classes of
mail. Extensive data has been
gathered and it will be several
months before the report Is com-
pleted. If conditions require an
Increase in the revenue, any ac-
tion contemplating any changes
in the present postal rates should
be held in abeyance until the re-
port of the committee that In-
vestigated the cost of the mail
service is available.

"It appears." continues Mr.
Quasey, "that there is a strong
effort on the part of friends and
proponents of these bills to pass
them without considering the
data collected by the especially
appointed committee. We urge
that, if you have not alread.y
done so. to communicate with
your respective congressmen and
representatives voicing your op-
position to these measures."

Large
Ha

mean. In time, that its books are
in good condition and that the
organization is sound. It will be
an iron-clad guarantee of protec-
tioii to farmers."

Members of the committee
which formulated the final plans
are as follows: George A. Fox,
executive secretary of the I. A. A.;
Vernon Vaniman, VIrden; George
Wicker, St. Paul, Minn.; George
E. Frazer, consulting accountant of
the I. A. A.; I. A. Madden, farm
adviser of Sangamon county;
William A. McNeill, manager of
a local cooperative elevator at
Chandlerville, and A. R. Wright,
executive committeeman for the
I. A. A. from Congressional dis-
trict 16. *

Radio Fans Have
Chance To Hear
A. C. Everingham

A. C. Everingham of Hutson-
ville, who has done good work
for the I. A. A. as a member of
the legislative committee, deliv-
ered a series of radio lectures ,
from the Sears-Roebuck Agricul-
tural Foundation during the past '
week. Mr. Everingham speaks
extensively at farmers' Institutes '
and has been on the Chautanqua,-
platform several seasons.

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Volume 2

May 20, 1924

Number 10

EARLY RETURNS FROM

PETITIONS INDICATE

' -dVER 50000 MARK

Large Numberof Signersto McNary-

Haugen Petition Suprising in

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Results of the state-wide peti-
tlon-sign-up for the McNary-Hau-
gen bill had not been tabulated
completely when the REICORD
went to press,
but reports al-
ready in and
tabulated show
that 22,7'27 per-
sons signed the
petitions i n 18
counties. Many
of the reports
, indicate that
from 90 to 99.5
percent of the
people asked to
Frank D. Barton sign actually
signed, indicating a strong desire
on the part of Illinois voters for
the McNary-Haugen bill and re-
futing the recent published state-
ments in Chicago newspapers that
the bill is a "dead issue" in Illi-
nois.

Frank D. Barton, chairman of
the I. A. A. legislative committee,
-spent considerable time and en-
ergy in directing and checking up
on the state-wide sign-up spending
one week of busy farm time In
the I. A. A. office at Chicago. Fol-
lowing is a list of the counties
tabulated to date:

Woodford. 713; DeKalb. 2300;
Whiteside, 2051; Christian. 1568;
Kendall, 1901; Kankakee, 368;
Logan. 1348; Sangamon. 3260;
Macon, 598; Piatt, 837; Monroe.
725; DeWltt 359; Iroquois, 781;
Menard. 564; Livingston, 355;
Ogle, 498; St. Clair, 513; McLean.
3988; Total 22.727.

Only One-fourth Tabulated
With over three-fourths of the
counties yet to report and over
22,000 signatures received a 1-
ready, it appears that the original
mark of SO. 000 will be surpassed
easily. However, a great deal of
difficulty was experienced by those
who got the signatures in the
coui^ies as it meant dropping ur-
gent farm work and driving about
the country interviewing farmers
busily at work seeding corn.

It is thought that Sam H.
Thompson, president of the I. A.
A., will take the petitions to
Washington and deliver them
personally to President Coolidge.
That the great number of names
will have an influence on Illinois
Congressmen In Washington is a
foregone conclusion.

All Classes Sifcn
Examination of any bunch of
petitions from any county reveals
that all classes of people signed
for the McNary-Haugen bill.
Farmers were represented in the
greatest percentage, but doctors,
lawyers, assessors. ministers,
bankers, laborers, plumbers, hard-
ware dealers, garage men and
what-not ;'gned. thus expressing
their belief that the' McNary-Hau-
gen bill will do them some good as
well as for the farmer.

rOWLKS REPORTS
PROGRESS

Following is a telegram
from- R. A. Cowles who i^
representing the I. .*. A. at
Washington, D. C, In be-
half of the McNary-Haugen
bill, which gives the prog-
ress of the bill up to the
time the RECORD went to
Itress:

"Got rule today from
committee so that bill may
come before house for de-
bate Friday morning (May
16). Will be debated Fii-
day, Saturday and Tuesday
or may possibly not come
up before Tuesday (May
20), beginning three-day
debate then. Bill gaining
8upt>orters and progress may
be reported.

R. A. Cowles.

I. A. A. A as Quick
To Stop Possible
T. B. Hindrance

John W. Novak and l5r. Peter
P. Duket. co-partners in the Du-
ket-Novak Stock Farm of Lake
county. Illinois, have tiled suit
against the Department of Agri-
culture of Illinois in the Sanga-
mon county circuit court at
Springfield for a writ of man-
damus claiming that the depart-
ment has not lawfully compiled
with their request ■for a permit
to buy tuberculin re-acting cattle,
and take them to their 250-acre
Lake county farm, there to be
treated with a newly formulated
tuberculin treatment, which. Dr.
Duket claims, makes a cow which
has previously reacted to the reg-
ulation tuberculin test so free
from the disease that she can
easily pass the government meat
requirements.

The case came up May 12, and
was deferred until the week fol-
lowing, according to M. H. Peter-
sen, tuberculosis eradication ex-
pert for the Illinois Agricultural
Association. Both Mr. Petersen
and Donald Kirkpatrick, law
counsel for the I. A. A., are at-
tending the hearings.

In their petition. Dr. Duket
and Mr. Novak say that they are
desirous of carrying on upon their
farm and elsewhere as they may
choose the business of purchasing
and maintaining under legal quar-
antine reacting cattle and treat-
ing them for re-sale for their own
profit.

Both the Illinois Agricultural
Association and the Chicago Live
Stock Exchange are backing the
Illinois Department of Agricul-
ture in its stand.

Shelby County Advertises

The Shelby County Farm Bu-
reau is doing a little direct ad-
vertising. It has had blotters
printed wtlh the names of the
county president and the execu-
tive committee. It also says:
"The only farmers' organization
trying to protect and advance the
interests of the farmer. Are you
a member?" The blotters have
been distributed freely over the
county.

EYES THAT SEE NOT-EARS THAT HEAR NOT

CHICAGO COMMERCE MEN ASK J
I. A. A. FOR McNARY DETAILS;

MURPHY DEBATES DR. BOYLE

Frank W. Murphy, farmer and
lawyer of Wheaton, Minn., who
addressed the farmer-banker-busi-
ness man meetings at Rock Island,
Springfield, Danville and Bloom-
1 n g t o n. was
called upon to
explain the Mc-
Nary. - Haugen
bill to the
Chamber of
Commerce a t
Chicago at that
org anization'e
Stb district con-
ference. M r.
Murphy defend-
ed the bill in Dr. J«mn E. Borle
behalf of the

I. A. A. against Dr. J. E. Boyle,
professor of rural economy of Cor-
nell University, Ithaca. N. Y., who
took the negative orthodox pro-
fessorial viewpoint. No action
was taken by the Chamber of Com-
merce, this being an "Informative
Conference," as they term it.

Mr. Murphy gives this late in-
formation on the McNary-Haugen
bill:

"It was decided that the bill
should come up for consideration
in the House either Thursday,
May 15, or on Tuesday. May 20,"
said Mr. Murphy. "In all proba-
bility the McNary-Haugen bill will
be brought up on the fifteenth.
It is especially significant that this
action should have been taken in
view of the misinformation that
has gone out through newspaper
dispatches to the effect that the
members of the House were un-
willing to bring the bill up tor

consideration until the President
has definitely stated his position
in respect to it.

. No Expression from Coolidge ,
"It is probably true that a num-
ber of the repui^iican House mem-
bers have expressed a wish that
they ^ight have information from
the White House as to the view of
the {Resident respecting the bill,
but there has been no stand taken
to the effect that the bill would not
be brought up until the President
deflnftely stated his position. Many
members of the House and Senate
are in daily communication with
the President concerning agricul-
tural relief and we are convinced
that the President is seriously con-
cerned about the situation of agri-
culture and is determined that
suitable relief shall be provided
by this session of Congress.

Julias Barnes Leads Opposition

"The opposition to the bill is
traceable to Julius Barnte and his
friends and the Boards of Trade.
The opposition is entirely obstruc-
tive, without merit, and Immoral.
It lacks conscience; it offers no
remedy for farm relief. This op-
position is very prominent here
in Washington, and we have qo
hesitancy in attributing to the op-
position much of the misinforma-
tion that has been given out con-
cerning the status of the bill and
the prospects of its enactment. No
one has suggested any other plan
for agricultural relief. It is true
that some cooperative marketing
bills have come forward, but they
are not intended to provide equal-
(Contfliued on pa«|e 4)

UY DEFINITE PUNS
FOR SCHOOL SURVEY;
WILLEH EMPLOYED

I. A. A. to Cooperate with State Ed-
ucational Committee in Inter-
change of School Facts

f *

Plant for the Investigation of
school iroblems are now quite
vl^flnlieiy laid. George W. Wll-
lett, who Is principal of the Ly-
o n s Township
High School at
La Grange, as
previously a n -
nounced. has
been secured to
head up the
work. It is
planned by the |
Education Com-
mittee of the
I. A. A. that I
there shall be
full coo|>eration c— m w. wui«««
between the Illinois Agricultural
Association survei^and the State
Educational Committee in the
exchange^ of facts obtained. A
surrey of 'the state is to be nia4«
to determine, as fully as possible,
the attitude of the farmers with
reference to Important educa-
tional problems, sudi as consol-
idation, revenue relationship, en-
largement and unification of ad-
ministration.

Cooperate nitli State Edncational
Committee

It is planned to work in close
cooperation with the I. A. A.
taxation department in so far as
the school problems are connect-
ed with tax ifaatters. *

"It is apparent." points out
J. L. Whisnand. of Charleston,
chairman of the educational com-
mittee in outlining the surrey,
"that the closest relationship and
cooperation should here exist lie-
cause the solution of some of the
most important school problems
is dependent upon re\'enue mea-
sures. In addition, information
is to be obtained from otber
states regarding school laws,
school government and the best
systems used there to thus de-
termine the relative efficiency of
our school systems. A survey ef
rural school problems is to be
made from the standpoint of the
rural school teachers asd county
superintendents. In addition, full
publicity will be given to the
facts obtained." A. C. Evering-
ham of Hutsonville and E. W.
Rusk of Carlinville are the other
members of the committee.
Willett to Have Charge

George W. Willett will have
charge of the investigatloni dur-
ing the summer vacation and will
be assisted by a field man who
has not yet been -appointed. It
is expected that a large propor-
tion of the survey will have been
completed and summarised by
late fall.

J. L. Whisnand. Charleston, ex-
ecutive committeman from the
19th district, announces that the
next district meeting will be at
Champaign, June 14.

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Pi«e 8

The lUinoi* Ag^ricultural Auodation Record

May 5, 1924

17th District Commends
i Thompson; Flays Rainey

Representatives of the 17th
Congressional district* which in-
cludes the counties of Woodford,
Uvingston, Ford, Logan and Me
Lean, met at the McLean County
Farm bureau building in Bloom-
ington. April 23 with a good
delegation even though field work
was in, progress. Frank Barton
of Cornell, executive committee-
man of the I. A. A. from this
district, took a prominent part
in the meeting explaining many
points over which controversy
arose.

George J. Stoll, president of
the Logan County Farm Bureau
was elected chairman for the day.
Succeeding meetings are to be
conducted by the other presidents
of the districts in order. J. H.
Checkley, farm adviser of Logan
county, acted as secretary.
Letters Express Sentiment

Among many matters consid-
ered, the most outstanding ac-
tion of the day was the drafting
and adoption of three letters —
one to Congressman Rainey mak-
ing it plain that the 17th dis-
trict representatives were un-
qualifiedly behind their presi-
dent, S. H. Thompson ; one to
Mr. Thompson commending his
work for the I. A. A. and of the
work being done by the associa-
tion itself; and one to Congress-
man Frank H. Funk thanking
him for his expressed intention
to. vote for the McIfJary-Haugen
bill. The letters to Mr. Rainey
and Mr. Thompson follow:

Bloomington. 111.

^ April 23. 1924.

Hon. Henry T. Rainey.
House of Representatives,
Washington. D. C.
Dear Mr. Rainey:

We note that in your controversy
with President S. H. Thompson of
the Illinois AgricuUural Association
over the merits of the McXary-
Haugen bill that you are indulKine
in personalitieR and criticism of
such a character as to suggest that
your opposition to this matter is
not altogether an impersonal one.

With reference to President
Thompson's conduct in this matter
we wish to make plain that Hie is
merely carrying out one of the
many duties of his office and func-
tioning as an energetic and able
executive should.

As active farmer members of the
farm bureaus of the 17th district
we wish to inform you that Presi-
dent Thompson has our whole
hearted support and that your re-
marks will fail to destroy confidence
In him or the organization he repre-
sents.

Very truly yours.
Faimi Bureaus of the 17th District.

Bloomington. III.
April 23. 1924.
Pre*. S. H. Thompson.
Illinois Agricultural Assooiation.
€08 South Dearborn Street.
Chicago. Illinois.
Dear Mr. Thompson: i,

We have noted in the farm press
extracts from a vicious attack made
upon you by Congressman Rainey
of the 20th district, in which he in-
sinuates that the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association and you in par-
ticular are guilty of extravagance
in the expenditure of funds en-
trusted to you.

We believe this criticism is the
outgrowth of unreasoning anger on
the part of Mr. Rainey induced by
your able and aggressive support
of the McNary-Haugen bill: and we
are pleased to express herewith our
whole hearted support of your ac-
tion in this matter and pledge our
encouragement and cooperation in
the furtherance of the same.
Very truly yours.
Farm Bureaus of the 17th District.

X^lncoln Fine for Picnic
Discussion of the 1. A. A. state
plcnfc which is to be at Lincoln
August 26 brought out from Mr,
Checkley and others from Logan
county that Lincoln has fine fa-
cilities for a large picnic of this
kind and that several thousand
people can be cared for on their
picnic grounds with good camp-
ing facilities.

Discussion was taken up of the
work being done by each of the
departments of the I. A. A. It
was pointed out that the De-
partment of Information should
send copies of the I. A. A. Rec-
ord to all the Chambers of Com-
merce in Illinois. A resolution
was presented by P. E. Johnston,
farm adviser for Woodford
county, that endorsed the plan
of refunding 10 cents per ton on
li mestone to the County Farm
LvTrouus. One of the delegates

brought out for discussion the
attitude that Farm Bureaus
should take in regard to the
teaching of agriculture in grade
and high schools. Although no
action was taken on this point,
all who commented on it were
favorable to such instruction and
believed that Farm Bureaus
should encourage and aid this in-
struction as much as possible.

Favor McXaiT-Haagen Bill

Frank Barton led a discussion
on the McNary-Haugen bill and
said that, in his opinion, the bill
would pass if brought to a vote.
The bin was endorsed by those
assembled. The next meeting is
to be the last week of June, ac-
cording to the program commit-
tee, and George Wicker, new
head of the auditing and account-
ing service, will be asked to talk
on cooperation lines.

Farm Advisers present were: P.
E. Johnston. Woodford; H. O. Alli-
son Livingston; C. E. Hopkins. As-
sociate adviser. Livingston; George
Swalm. Ford ; J. H. Checkley, Lo-
gan; and Harrison Fahrnkopf. Mc-
Lean. Delegates and presidents
present were; Woodford — J. Ira
Powell, Louis Powell. James Haas.
J. W. Ostler, A. C. Jones. George
Wermsman. Conrad DuBois and
William Beer; Livingston — F. D.
Barton. executive committeeman
for 17th district, William Aspen
Frank Reeves.. Charles Patterson,
Carl Barton and Louis Beeman:
Logan — George Stoll. Edgar Slsson
and n. C. Scheckler; McLean — H,
C. Dixon. John Kinsinger, A. O,
Convis. Allen Mclntyre. John Scholl.
Fred Armstrong. H. E. Hllpert,
Albert RengeC O. W. Fuller. E. D.
Lawrence and Homer R. Johnson,
Vernon Vaniman. who is in charge
of the field organisation for the
new auditing and accounting ser
vice established by the I. A. A.
attended, and spoke briefly and H.
C. Butcher, director of the depart-
ment of information of the I. A. A.
was also present.

HERE'S ANSWER TO
PERPETUAL KNOCKER;
MORE LIKE IT, TOO

Taxation Work Has Brought Laurels

To I .A. A. and Saved Money

For Farmers

BREEDERS' CONGRESS
PLANNED IN LA. A.

(Continu.d from page 7)

dairymen of Wisconsin and we
will have cleaner, better cattle
in Illinois."
Cattle Acents Without Ethics
So, quite largely, according to
Mr. Peterson and Mr. Lynch, the
latter being the head of the dairy
marketing department of the I.
A. A., the matter of buying dairy
cattle from strangers becomes a
matter of faith. Faith and ethics
are closely linked, thej" say, and
especially in the dairy cattle
game. To build up ethics and
faith between the seller of dairy
cattle and the buyer, they have
proposed, in the name of the
Illinois Agricultural Association,
that there be a "Breeders' Con-
gress" at the next National Dairy
Show, which is to be held at Mil-
waukee, September 27 to October
4.

Plans Breeders' Concress
According to the two progeni-
tors of the idea, dairymen from
all the states which are in need
of dairy cattle, such as Illinois,
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, North
and South Dakota, Ohio, Missouri
and Indiana, ' would gather at
the National Dairy Show next
fall, meet the sellers of the cat-
tle from Wisconsin and other
states, talk over their problems,
go on excursions to visit dairy
farms in Wisconsin and hear a
good program of speakers during
the days of the "Breeders' Con-
gress." W. E. Skinner, gen-
eral manager of the National
Dairy Show, thinks it's a good
idea, and plans are now being
laid whereby representatives from
all the states interested can meet
soon and get the first annual
'Breeders' Congress" under way.
Special trains of Pullmans could
carry and boose whole county
farm bureaus and more dairy
knowledge could be obtained by
the participants than could be
preaihed by exposition In a cen-
tury, Mr. Lyncb points out. |

There is quoted below an edi-
torial from the "Champaign
County Farm Bureau," the news
sheet of Champaign county of
which C. C. Burns is farm ad-
viser. In it there is a point
which Is well worth the consid-
eration of every farm bureau
member. That th^ Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association is paying
dividends to its members, both
directly and indirectly, is a bona
fide fact. This is but one of
many instances which can be
quoted. The editorial follows:
The Farm Bureau Never Did
Anything!

Here is a statement that will
raise you several inches oil your
seat, due to the taxation work
taken up by the Farm Bureau
and the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation in Champaign County.
Land Valuation

In 1922 130,986,425

In 1923 25.354.505

Difference....! 5,631,920

While this reduction in land
was being secured you and your
representatives in the county
raised the county rate in Cham-
paign County 35c and the state
rate was raised 7.7c. Think
what you would have had to pay
with this increase, if the Farm
Bureau had not reduced the land
valuation 15,631,920.

We Just worked this out this
morning at the Court House at
Urbana with Mr. John Watson,
statistician expert of the I. A. A.

G. C. Williams of Condit said
that his land tax alone was
160.00 less this year than last,
due to the reduction on his 200
acres of land.

Some of these fellows that
have been talking against the
Farm Bureau get quite aggres-
sive once in a while. It is about
time that Farm Bureau members
begin to defend their own or-
ganization. In fact, it might be
well to use a few aggressive
tactics in return.

MURPHY HITS HARD
FOR McNARY BILL

(Continued from page 1)
farmer and that farmers as a class
have developed an orgy of bor-
rowing money. Mr. Murphy made
it a point that agriculture is be-
ing held subservient to industry
and labor with the same as a ball
and chain around both ankles.
Fanner Sells at Prices Offered
Him

"Let us start by considering the
present status of agriculture,"
said Mr. Murphy in beginning his
address. "The farmer of today
must sell his products at prices
offered him. He must pay for
what he uses in his business prac-
tices, prices that are asked of him.
He has no alternative but to sell
for what Is bid and buy at prices
demanded. He has to deliver sub-
stantially two loads of almost
every product of the average farm
for what he secured with one load
of his products in 1913. The ex-
change value of his products is
but about 50 percent of the pre-
war values.

"Let us then analyze the sub-
ject further and determine why it
is that the farmers' products will
only purchase one-half of what
they did 10 years ago. On the
whole, tke farmers of America
are receiving as high a level of
prices as they did in 1913. His
price is not, when considered in

respect to normal conditions, de-
pressed. The answer to this dis-
parity in price is found in the fact
that the price of the things the
farmer purchases has increased
approximately 100 percent. It is
a case of the infiation of the prod-
ucts of labor and industry.

What Causes This DLsparity?

"It then becomes important to
ascertain what has happened in
the affairs of the nation that has
increased the prices of fuel, build-
ing material, machinery, clothing
and the like which the farmer
purchases to carry on bis business
and to exist. We find our answer
to this question in the protective
system which the nation has con-
sented to in such legislation as
the Adamson law, the restriction
of immigration, the tariff law, the
Federal Reserve Board, the Esch-
Cummins Act and other paternal-
istic legislation. These laws have
given great disadvantages to the
farmer.

"Labor and industry can and do
pass laws on all increased prices
and costs, but when the farmer
purchases, he cannot pass on in-
creased costs and is compelled to
absorb the losses out of his busi-
ness— which is shown by the tre-
mendous increases in mortgages
and other indebtedness of the
American farmer. He cannot pass
the buck. Under the existing
law-made economic system, the
farmer is powerless to help him-
self and the basic industry li fac-
ing a complete collapse.

Extend Protective System to
Farmer

"Either ' the protective system
must be extended under the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill or we will have
a peasantry on the farms of this
country. The farmer is not seek-
ing to tear down the existing pro-
tective system, but asks that the
same consideration be shown to
him by the enactment of the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill. The protective
system has taken away his pur-
chasing power and he asks that it
be restored to him by law. He
does not ask for favor, but he
does insist that disfavor be abol-
ished. He wants an even break.

"This nation cannot afford to
bankrupt and destroy its basic in-
dustry through the industrializa-
tion of the country. It is impor-
tant that we continue as an agri-
cultural nation. It is possible and
necessary that both agriculture
and industry be given the same
opportunities. We cannot pro-
ceed as a nation 35 percent slaves
and 65 percent free."

In answering a question after
his address, he said that the scrip
clause had been removed by com-
mittee amendment and that the
provisions of the bill now called
for the issuance of receipts in
place of scrip which is, he said,
better than the scrip idea.

AUDITING SERVICE
PLANS COMPLETED

(Continued from page 1)
receive a more-or-Iess uniform
service with special auditors for
each group, but so systematized
that an auditor will be shifted
from district to district periodi-
cally. The control will be in the
membership.

To Furnish Complete Audits

"Every effort will be made,"
says Mr. Wicker, "to build up a
reliable, efficient service on a cost
of service basis. The auditing
service of the Illinois Agricultural
Cooperative Association will dif-
fer from that service rendered by
commercial auditing companies in
that our auditors will stay in an
office until all the facts are
known. Many commercial audits
are based upon a time limit or a
salary limit, which can, in tnm,
be set by the manager of the local
cooperative. Audits made by this
organization will be thorongh.
The fact that a local cooperative
belongs to the "I. A. C. A." will

FIND FACTS BEFORE
BOOSTING RATES ON
FARMER SAYS I.A.A.

Quasey Shows that New Does Not >
Sanction Proposed Raise in \ |
His Own Department j i

1,

Opposition to the proposed
raise in parcel post rates now in / /
Congress is being voiced strenu- | i
ously by the Illinois Agricultural :
Association through L. J. Quasey,
head of the transportation de- ^
partment.

\

Mr. Quasey received informa-
tion which states that Postmas- '
ter-General New has made it ,
plain that "no such increases as
are carried in the bills now be-
fore your committee are war-
ranted." The letter in which
this statement was made was
sent by Mr. New to the chair-
man of the Congressional Com-
mittee which was considering the
proposed raise in r^tes. Mr.
Quasey is of the opinion that the
Postmaster-General knows more
about the needs of his business
than any Congressmen who have
not his close contact.

These bills, the Paige and
Edge-Kelly, provide for extensive
increases in the rates on fourth ^
class matter and on parcel post,
and it is particularly these two
classifications in which the farmer
is vitally interested.

"Several years ago," says Mr.
Quasey, "an appropriation was
made for the study of the cost
of carrying various classes of
mail. Extensi\'e data has l)een
gathered and it will be several
months before the report is com-
pleted. If conditions require, an
increase in the revenue, any ac-
tion contemplating any changes
in the present postal rates should
be held in abeyance until the re-
port of the committee that In-
vestigated the cost of the mail
service is available.

"It appears," continues Mr.
Quasey, "that there is a strong
effort on the part of friends and
proponents of these bills to pass
them without considering the
data collected by the especially
appointed committee. We urge
that, if you have not already
done so, to communicate with
your respective congressmen and
representatives voicing your op^
position to these measures."

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mean, in time, that its books are
in good condition and that the
organization is sound. It will be
an iron-clad guarantee of protec-
tion to farmers."

Members of the committee
which formulated the final plans
are as follows: George A. Fox,
executive secretary of the I. A. A.;
Vernon Vaniman. Virden; George
Wicker, St. Paul, Minn.; George
E. Frazer, consulting accountant of
the I. A. A.; I. A. Madden, farm
adviser of Sangamon county;
William A. McNeill, manager of
a local cooperative elevator at
Chandlerville, and A. R. Wright,
executive committeeman for the
I. A. A. from Congressional dis-
trict 16.

Radio Fans Have
Chance To Hear
A. C. E'vering/iam

A. C. Everingham of Hutson-
ville, who has done good work
for the I. A. A. as a member of
the legislative committee, deliv-
ered a series of radio lectures ,
from the Sears-Roebuck .\gricul-
tural Foundation during the past
week. Mr. Everingham speaks
extensively at fanners' institutes '
and has been on the Chautauqua
platform several seasons. /

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Volume 2

May 20, 1924

Number 10

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EARLY RETURNS FROM
PETITIONS INDICATE
OVER 50,000 MARK

Large Numberof Signersto McNary-

Haugen Petition Suprising in

View of Spring Rush

Results of the state-wide peti-
tion-8i«n-up for the McNary-Hau-
gen bill had not been tabulated
completely when the RECORD
went to press,
but reports al-
ready in and
tabulated show
that 22,727 per-
sons signed the
petitions i n IS
counties. Many
of the reports
. indicate that
from 90 to 99.5
percent of the
people asked to
Frank D. Bwton sign actually
signed, indicating a strong desire
on the part of Illinois voters for
the McNary-Haugen bill and re-
futing the recent published state-
meuls iu Chicagu newspapers that
the bill Is a "dead issue" in Illi-
nois.

Frank D. Barton, chairman of
the I. A. A. legislative committee,
spent considerable time and en-
ergy in directing and checking up
on the state-wide sign-up spending
one week of busy farm time in
the I. A. A. office at Chicago. Fol-
lowing is a list of the counties
tabulated to date:

Woodford, 713; DeKalb, 2300;
Whiteside, 2051; Christian, 1568;
Kendall, 1901; Kankakee, 368;
Logan, 1348; ' Sangamon, 3260;
Macon, 598; Piatt, 837; Monroe,
725; DeWitt 359; Iroquois, 78^;
Menard, 564; Livingston, 355;
Ogle, 498; St. Clair, 513; McLean,
3988; Total 22,727. •

Only One-fourth Tabulated
With over three-fourths of the
counties yet to report and over
22,000 signatures received a 1-
ready. It appears that the original
mark of 50,000 will be surpassed
easily. However, a great deal of
difficulty was experienced by those
who got the signatures in the
counties as it meant dropping ur-
gent farm work and driving about
the country interviewing farmers
busily at work seeding corn.

It is. thought that Sam H.
Thompson, president of the I. A.
A., will take the petitions to
Washington and deliver them
personally to President Coolidge.
That the great number of names
will have an influence on Illinois
Congressmen in Washington is a
foregone conclusion.

AU Classes 8i|ni
Examination of any bunch of
petitions from any county reveals
that all classes of people signed
for the McNary-Haugen bill.
Farmers were represented in the
greatest percentage, but doctors,
lawyers, assessors, ministers,
bankers, laborers, plumbers, hard-
ware dealers, garage men and
what-not ;'gned, thus expressing
their belief that the' McNary-Hau-
gen bill will do them some good as
well as for the farmer.

COWLKS REPORTS
PROGRESS
Following In a tele^am
from R. K. Cnwles who U
representing the I. K. A. at
Washington, D. C, in be-
half of the McNary-Haugen
bill, which gives the prog-
ress of the bill up to the
time the RECORD went to
I»re8s:

"Got rule today from
committee so that bill may
come before house for de-
bate Friday morning (May
16). Will be debated Fri-
day, Saturday and Tuesday
or may possibly not come
up before Tuesday (May
20 ) , beginning three-day
debate then. Bill gaining
supimrters and progress may
be re|)orted.

R. \. Cowles.

I. A. A. Acts Quick
To Stop Possible
T. B. Hindrance

John W. Novak and l5r. Peter
P. Duket, co-partners in the Du-
ket-Novak Stock Farm of Lake
county, Illinois, have filed suit
against the Department of Agri-
culture of Illinois in the Sanga-
mon county circuit court at
Springfield for a writ of man-
damus claiming that the depart-
ment has not lawfully complied
with their request for a permit
to buy tuberculin re-acting cattle
and take them to their 250-acre
Lake county farm, there to be
treated with a newly formulated
tuberculin treatment, which. Dr.
Duket claims, makes a cow which
has previously reacted to the reg-
ulation tuberculin test so free
from the disease that she can
easily pass the government meat
requirements.

The case came up May 12, and
was deferred until the week fol-
lowing, according to M. H. Peter-
sen, tuberculosis eradication ex-
pert for the Illinois Agricultural
Association. Both Mr. Petersen
and Donald Kirkpatrick, law
counsel for the I. A. A., are at-
tending the hearings.

In their petition, Dr. Duket
and Mr. Novak say that they are
desirous of carrying on upon their
farm and elsewhere as they may
choose the business 6t purchasing
and maintaining under legal quar-
antine reacting cattle and treat-
ing them for re-sale for their own
profit.

Both the Illinois Agricultural
Association and the Chicago Live
Stock Exchange are backing the
Illinois Department of Agricul-
ture in its stand.

Shelby County Advertises

The Shelby County Farm Bu-
reau is doing a little direct ad-
vertising. It has had blotters
printed wtih the names of the
county president and the execu-
tive committee. It also says:
"The only farmers' organization
trying to protect and advance the
interests of the farmer. Are you
a member?" The blotters have
been distributed freely over the
county. , . . .

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EYES THAT SEE NOT-EARS THAT HEAR NOT

CHICAGO COMMERCE MEN ASK

I. A. A. FOR McNARY DETAILS;

MURPHY DEBATES DR. BOYLE

Frank W. Murphy, farmer and
lawyer of Wheaton, Minn., who
addressed the farmer-banker-busi-
ness man meetings at Rock Island.
Springfield, Danville and Bloom-
1 n g t o n, was
called upon to
explain the Mc-
Nary - Haugen
bill to the
Chamber of
Commerce a t
Chicago at that
org anization's
5th district con-
ference. M r.
Murphy defend-
ed the bill in Dr. j>mM E. ik>)l«
behalf of the

I. A. A. against Dr. J. E. Boyle,
professor of rural economy of Cor-
nell University, Ithaca, N. Y.; who
took the negative orthodox pro-
fessorial viewpoint. No action
was taken by the Chamber of Com-
merce, this being an "Informative
Conference," as they term it.

Mr. Murphy gives this late in-
formation on the McNary-Haugen
bill:

"It was decided that the bill
should come up for consideration
in the House either Thursday,
May 15, or on Tuesday, May 20,"
said Mr. Murphy. "In all proba-
bility the McNary-Haugen bill will
be brought up on the fifteenth.
It is especially significant that this
action should have been taken in
view of the misinformation that
has gone out through newspaper
dispatches to the effect that the
members of the House were un-
willing to bring the bill up for

consideration until the President
hasj definitely stated his :>osition
in respect to it.

No' Expression from Coolidge
"It improbably true that a num-
ber of the republican House mem-
bers have expressed a wish that
they might have information from
the White House as to the view of
the President respecting the bill,
but there has been no dtand taken
to the effect that the bill would not
be brought up until th« President
definitely stated his position. Many
members of the House and Senate
are in^ daily communioation with
the President concernUg agricul-
tural relief and we are convinced
that the President is seriously con-
cerned about the situation of agri-
culture and is determined that
suitable relief shall bf provided
by this session of Congress.

Julius Barnes Leads Opposition

"The opposition to the bill is
traceable to Julius Barnes and his
friends and the Boards- of Trade.
The opposition is entirely obstruc-
tive, without merit, and immoral.
It lacks conscience; it offers no
remedy for farm relief. This op-
position is very prominent here
in Washington, and we have no
hesitancy in attributing to the op-
position much of the misinforma-
tion that has l)een given out con-
cerning the status of the bill and
the prospects of its enactment. No
one has suggested any other plan
for agricultural relief. It is true
that some cooperative marketing
bills have come forward, but they
are not intended to provide eqUal-
(Cbntinued on paae 4)

U\Y DEFINITE PU\NS
FOR SCHOOL SURVEY;
WILLETT EMPLOYED

I, A. A. to Cooperate with State Ed-
U(ational Committee in Inter-
change of School Facts

Platas for the investigation of
school problems are now quite
definitely laid. Georg^ W. Wil-
lett, who is principal df the Ly-
o n 8 Township
High School at
La Grange, as
previously a n -
nounced, has
been secured to
head up the
work. It is
planned by the
Education Com-
mittee of the
I. A. A. that
there shall be
full cooperation r.tj»ni w. wuhjH
between the Illinois Agricultural
Association survey and the State
Educational Cownittee in the
exchange of facts obtained. A
surrey of the state is to t>e aiadv
to. determine,, as fully as' possible,
the attitude of the farmers with
reference ^to important educa-
tional problems, such as consol-
idation, revenue relationship, en-
largement and unification of ad-
ministration.

Cooperate with State Educational
I Committee

It is planned to work In close
cooperation with the I. A. A.
taxation department in so far as
the school problems are connect-
ed with tax matters.

"It is apparent," points out
J. L. Whisnand, of Charleston,
iChairman of the educational com-
mittee in outlining the survey,
"that the closest relationship and
cooperation should here exist be-
cause the solution of some of the
most important school problems
is dependent upon revenue mea-
sures. In addition, information
is to be obtained from other
states regarding school laws,
school government and the best
systems used there to thus de-
termine the relative efficiency o(
our school systems. A survey ef
rural school problems is to be
made from the standpoint of the
rural school teachers and county
superintendents. In addition, full
publicity will be given to the
facts obtained." A. C. Evering-
ham. of Hutsonville and E. W.
Rusk of Carlinville are the other
members of the committee.

WiUett to Have Charge

George W. WiUett will have
charge of the investigations dur-
ing the summer vacation and will
be assisted by a field man who
has not yet^ been appointed. It
is expected that a large propor-
tion of the survey will have been
completed and summarised by
late fall.

J. L. Whisnand, Charleston, ex-
ecutive committeman from the
1 9th district, announces that the
next district meeting will be at
Champaign, Jtine 14.

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Pm« 2

The Illinois Agricultural Association Record

May 20, 1924

May

ILrLiINOIS .1

i^ULTlJRAL ASSOCI/^MPn

Published twice a month by the Illinois Asrlcultursl
AsBoci&tion, 608 South Dearhorn Street. ChlcaKo. Illinois.

Edited by Department of Information, H. C. Butcher,

Director.

Entry ai second class matter Oct. 10. 1S21. at the post
olBce at Chicagro. Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1»7».
Acceptance for mailittv at special rates of postage pro-
vided for in Section 1101, Act of October I, 1917, author-
ls«d Oct. il. 1921.

The IndlTldual membership fee of the Illinois A«rlcul-
tural Association is Ave dollars a year. This fee includes
payment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois A|f-
rlrulturkl Association Record^ ^^

OFFICERS

President, 8. H. Thompson, QtUncy.

Vice-President, C. B. Watson, DeKjdb.

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomington.

Secretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore.

KXKCUm^ COMMITTEE
^, By Congressional Districts

Itdl..'.. .■■ Jacob Olbrleh, Harvard

12th G. F. Tullock, Roekford

Uth •. C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th .■ W. H. Moody, Port Byron

15th H, E. Goembel, Hooppole

16th .; A. R. Wright, Varna

17th F. D. Barton, Cornell

18th R. F. Karr, Iroquois

1»th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th Esri C. Smith, Detroit

21st Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd Stanley Castle, Alton

23rd J. E. Llnaenfelter, Lawrencevllle

24th ,.....Curt Anderson, Xenia

2Sth i .". .Vernon Lessley, Spiarta

Directors of Departments
I. A. A. OlBce

General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker;
Organization, G. E. Metzger; Information, H. C. Butcher;
Transportation, L. J. Quasey; Statistics, J. C^ Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
K B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, C. A. Stewart;
Dairy Marketing, A. D, Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R. Bent: In charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A.
Gougler; special representative on Tuberculosis Eradi-
cation, M. H. Petersen.

Give the Farmer a Jetty

Economic professors are now proclaiming to the
world that the McNary-Haugen bill is economically
un.sound. Their statements have furnished leads
for a multitude of people who would like to find
some good rea.son for not making the McNarj--
Haugen bill a law. The general trend of economic
conditions, if not disturbed in any way, would be
comparable to a great river like the Mississippi as
it flowed along serenely in the days of Marquette,
Joliet, and De Soto.

Civilisation came and stuck in an Adamson law
jetty here, a restrictive immigration jetty there, a
high tariff jetty sticking way out into the j-iver,
and others. The serene waters of the tranquil river
became disturbed by legislation for labor and in-
dustry. The farmer is not complaining because
other cla.s.ses have jetties in the economic flow, but
he would like to have one himself. ;

An Expreaaion From One Farm
Bureau Member

I am writing you why I belong to the Farm Bu-
reau and. how I get service out of it. I am proud
to belong to an organization which represents the
greatest industry in America. I don't see how
any man that lives on a farm and calls him-self a
farmer can refuse to belong to his county Farm
Bureau, after the farmers have gone through what
they have the last few years with everj-thing or-
ganized against them. I do not see how they can
gain their rights unless they too, organize and up-
hold their own individual business. When I need
service from my county Farm Bureau, there is
only one way to get it, and that is ask for it. I
get several times more in a j'ear out of the Farm
Bureau than I put into it. I can save my yearly
dues by buying one ton of oil meal through the
Farm Bureau, to say nothing about buying seeds
of all kinds.

If we will jiLst look over our countrj- we can see
results, such as the alfalfa that has been grown
the last six years, the vaccination of our hogs,
and the soybeans that have been grown for the
benefit of our stock.

We have the shipping associations, we have our
livestock marketing association in Chicago, and the
laws that are being passed in the state legislature
and in Washington, D. C, for the benefit of the
farmer.

We have one of the finest institutions in the
state of Illinois, a farmers' cooperative milk plant
located in the City of Rock Island, all brought
about by the Rock Island County Farm Bureau.
— Fred Saulpaugh, Blackhawk Township, in the
"Rock Island County Farm Bureau."

PtTITIOH TOR IteBABI-IUUCril BILL

OnXTIBOf

Tha undsriigiMd oltliana of tti« 8tat# j)f Illinois,
r«*p«0tf\ill]r r«pr«««Bt to you our Intoroat A t^ o&rlT paasa^
and vprwsi of B.R.Io.5&63, oociaonly kuom aa &.« lloNarr-Hat««ii
Bill, aa raooeaaadad for paaaasa to Coocraaa by tha Oocalttaa ea
a«7leultuTa af tbm Hauaa of Bapraaantatlvaa. m ballava «hla
Maateza elll effort aubatantlal and laaadlata rallaf to acrleultura.

Busimss

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Thla rrprodvrtlon of one petition paite is representative of the
many eUMaea of people who want the MeNao'-Hansen bill to
heeome a law. Iloea thlft indieate that the bill la a "flead iaaue"
in lliinola aa aonie Chicaco newapapera declareT

Merchandising Excel* Monopolizing

The Illinois Agriculture Association has never
waivered in its belief and advocacy of cooperative
marketing of farm products, meaning thereby that
the producer must follow and exercise control over
his product until it reaches the consumer of the
same. The greed and not the inefliciency of the in-
dividual operator who ha.s no producer interest
at stake, has made cooperative marketing a neces-
sit.v. Just as human weakness and selfishness com-
pelled collective action in government to supersede
absolute monarchical government, so it is forcing
collective action by producers to supersede individ-
ualistic marketing.

Grain, because of its non-perishable character,
would seem to offer the least difficulty to the co-
operative. However, the transition from old, estab-
lished methods is slow and has met with great dif-
ficulties. Cooperative effort got a good start at the
local loading station but stalled at the local elevator.
The n. S. Grain Growers planned to complete the
journey to the consuming buyer. Like many of
Uncle Sam's war-time ships, it promised much while
under construction at the dock yards but never put
to sea. Nobody has yet found out what to do with
it or how to use it.

In the meantime, many hard pressed grain farm-
ers are becoming restless and confu-sed. Why
blame anybody when all are to blame! Perhaps
presently we will have exhausted all of the unsound
theories and will begin to see clearly what not to
do as w^ell as what to -^o. Then we shall build a
ship which, when completed, will put to sea and
weather the storm.

Many past efforts were started with the purpose
of creating an absolute monopoly. Why nott We
have learned to envy the individual or company
that succeeds in controlling a market, whether that
market be labor, steel or what not. However, we
overlook the fact that comers on the market are
short lived and end in heavy losses somewhere.
Have we not learned that monopolies have limita-
tions beyond which they cannot got Nearly all
cooperative efforts have been permeated some time
with a desire to hold their product and compel the
buyer to pay the seller's price. Every cooperative
must be a merchandising institution for the purpose
of selling and not holding, e.xcept holding to supply
the market at point^of demand with the quality
and quantit.v of product needed. All efforts at co-
operative marketing which aim at a purely holding
program to compel the buyer to pay the seller s
price are self-destructive and will fail. Surely
thoughtful farmers will soon learn that cooperative
marketing to be successful must be more than a
holding proposition, for holding can only succeed
in influencing the price when accompanied by all
the means and facilities for merchandising a prod-
uct according to the needs of the market.

Think On This

Farm Bureaus and their activities are always
subject to a great deal of criticism whenever they
do anj-thing that doesn't just suit interestia other
than farm interests. The whole category of agents
and officers are subject to this criticism. This
criticism even goes so far sometimes as to say the
whole sj-stem is wrong. A Farm Bureau that
can't stand up under criticism from those who
would like to kill it isn't much of a Farm Bureau.
Occasionallj' enemies of organized agriculture will
succeed in making some Farm Bureau members
believe that the organization is all wrong. A Farm
Bureau member who wants to make hLs dollar
serve him and make his organization better will
bring this criticism to the attention of the officers
or the agent. Every Farm Bureau member is en-
titled to understand everj' detail and everj' act of
his organization. It isn't much use to explain to
the knockers outside of the organization. They
won't believe the explanation and Farm Bureau
members should make it their business to find out
the truth when they hear anything that they feel
is detrimental to their organization. The facts are
obtainable from the OflScers and the Agent. It is
impossibh to answer a lot of criticism in the
monthly letter, or the newspapers. Not only is
it impossible, but it is unwise to do, so. We would
be chasing rainbows all the time. — From the
monthly letter of the Jersey County Farm Bureau,
R. L. Eyman, Farm Adviser..! ' «. ■. ; • •

Dairy Cattle Sale* Contract*
Bring Reaalt*

Here is one example of money-saving results ob-
tained through the I. A. A. Read about it — •

Prank Ehredt of Round Lake recently made
a trip to Barron County, Wisconsin, and
bought over 30 head of springers, which cost
an average of $71, delivered at Round Lake.
This is in line with what we stated in the
March issue of the Diversified Farmer. The
district around Barron has a very low per-
cent of tuberculosis, and any one vvho will
take a trip up there can very likely be well
satisfied if he wants to buy cows. The Illinois
Agricultural As.sociation through Mr. Peter-
sen has completed contracts with the Barron
County folks whereby cattle can be bought
subject to 75 day retest in Lake County.
Copies of these contracts may be seen at the
Farm Bureau Office. Prospective buyers from
that territory should investigate this propo-
sitio.i before going up there. — Lake County
Diversified Farmer.

LIARS' CONTEST GOING STRONG—
EVERYBODY ELIGIBLE

Here's the best lie so far. It's contrib-
uted by Charles J. Robinson, farm adviser
of Shelby county. Everybody's eligible;
let 'em come — the bigger the better, but
it takes a big one to get recognition in this
contest ! This one is a dandy for a starter,
but it's too bad the Methodist preacher
came in when he did.

Here we go — :i> ''JJJ- .

The other day a short distance from
Shelb3rville I met a man who stopped me
and said he had decided to join the Farm
Bureau. Not happening to have any con-
tract blanks with me we drove back and
he signed up, paying three years in lid-
vance in cold cash. After his departure
I again started out and was stopped by
three farmers within two miles travel, all
of whom wanted to join. After signing
them and receiving their checks, which
were bankable, I stopped at a farm sale.
Here I was swamped with requests for
membership blanks and within 49 minutes
three good Farm Bureau members had
signed up 84 new members. Five of these
84 also signed up contracts for their moth-
ers-in-law and paid cash for same. Well
—our Methodist preacher just walked in
the office and said: "Let your conscience
be your guide" — so I must quit. — Chas. J.
Robinson, Shelbyville.

Let's see if you can make the "Liars'
Comer" of the RECORD. All contribu-
tions must be signed, but name will not be
printed if so requested. Let's got Mail
'em to H. C. Butcher, care of the I. A. A.,
608 South Dearborn Street, Chicago. The
biggest liar for the year wins a prize, to
be awarded at the next annual meeting.

May 20. 1924

The Dlinou Agricultural Anodation Record

/

RAILROADS PROMISE
TARIFF REVISIONS
ON FARM LIMESTONE

Farmers to Benefit From 7 to 40

Cents Per Ton as Result of

I. A. A. Complaint

Farmers who buy limestone
from the quarries In the Kast St.
Louis district and who are located
in Southern Illinois will benefit
from a recent conference betwe^en
the crushed limestone producers
of the East St. Louis district, the
transportation department of the
Illinois Agricultural Association
and the Illinois Commerce Com-
mission in Chicago. Promises
were made by the railroads rep-
resented to re-publish their
freight rates on crushed stone and
agricultural limestone during
May with a decrease ranging from
7 to 40 cents per ton.

Quasey Represents I. \. A.

According to L. J. Quasey,
head of the transportation de-
partment, and who represented
the I. A. A. at the conference,
the saving will mean considerable
to down-state farmers who pur-
chase limestone for their sour
lands. From 340,000 to 350,000
tons of limestone is the estimated
amount which will be used by Il-
linois farmers in 1924, according
to figures compiled by J. R. Bent
head of the I. A. A. phosphate
limestone department.

The re-adJustment in rates af-
fects agricultural limestone
shipped from Columbia and Fall-
iDg Springs at the present time,
but, according to Mr. Quasey, a
reduction in rates on limestone
shipped from the quarry at Val-
meyer may also be expected.
17 Cents Per Ton Saving

A saving of 17 cents per ton on
agricultural limestone has also
been effected by the I. A. A. de-
partment of transportation be-
tween the important limestone
center of Greencastle, Indiana,
and Oblong, Stoy, Gordons and
Palestine, Illinois, which will take
effect May 20. The new rates ap-
ply viaHhe Big Four railroad and
the Illinois Central. The former
rate was 11.38 per ton to Pales-
tine hut is now $1.21.

"During April the Ill-Mo But-
ter Company, makers of the "II-
lini" dairy products, received
shipments of cream from farm-
ers at 163 Illinois and Missouri
towns," says A. D. Lynch.

Vaniman Explains
Details of Auditing
Service for Co-ops

The establishment of a cooper-
ative auditing and business ad-
visory service for farmers' ele-
vators, livestock shipping associa-
tions, milk producers' associations
and other similar farmers' organ-
izations is meeting with the ap-
proval of those who have had an
opportunity to consider it, accord-
ing to Vernon Vaniman, in charge
of field organization of the I. A.
A. accounting and auditing ser-
vice.

"This is following the same
plan," states Mr. Vaniman, "that
has been used by the packers
through the Institute of Meat
Packing; by the petroleum peo-
ple through the Petroleum In-
stitute; by the bankers through
their Clearing House organization
and by several hundred trade
associations that might be men-
tioned.

"By the farmers having their
own auditing, accounting and
business service they are apply-
ing the same practices that have
proved successful among other
organizations. This organization,
which will probably be called the
Illinois Agricultural Cooperatives
Association, will be owned, con-
trolled and directed by the co-
operatives themselves. It will
provide authoritative auditing,
comparative analysis of business,
protection to managers and di-
rectors, establish confidence and
loyalty of stockholders, besides
furnishing business advisory serv-
ice for Increasing the efficiency
of the business."

Plan of Organization

"Under the present plan," says
Mr. Vaniman, "each class of or-
ganizations will have one mem-
ber on the board of directors, and
each district will have one mem-
ber on the board.

The cost of the service will be
on a pro-rated basis, based on the
volume of business for each class,
of organization. For instance,
farmers' elevators will have one
rate and livestock shipping asso-
ciations another rate.

Meetings to consider the serv-
ice have been held in McDonough
and Iroquois counties and have
been arranged for in Sangamon.
Morgan, Knox, Bureau, Logan,
Champaign, Macon, Macoupin.
Christian and Montgomery coun-
ties.

Collections so far this year are
coming in better than last year,
according to L. A. Evans of the
finance department.

HERE'S WHAT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
ACCOMPLISHED AT ITS

-^ : V; : *^ MAY MEETING—

May 6th is the date of the last meetlnR of Hie Executive
Committee. The folIowinK decisions were made by the Com-
mittee at that meeting:

1. Accepted Invitation of Dean .Mmnford to hold next an-
nual meeting at Cham|>aifcn as Kuest of the University of H-
linoU. January 14 and 15, 1983.

2. Invited Dean Mumford to outline worli of the CoUetje
of Agriculture, the Ex|>eriment Station and the Extension
Service at the June meeting of the I. A. A. Executive Com-
mittee In Chicago, June 6.

3. Appropriated «300 to the $4,000 financial budget of
Whiteside County dairy Judging team which goes to Europe
this summer to Judge in Royal Live Stock Show in Inter-
national competition.

4. Decided not to have exhibit |iortraylng progress of the
Illinois Agricultural Association because of excessive cost.

5. Heard R. W. Dickensen, farm atlvlser of Cass county,
and John H. Taylor, chairman of the finance committee of
the Board of Su|>erviBors, Cass county, and vice-president of
the Cass County Farm Bureau, tell of valuable work done in
starting clean-up of Cass county finances by John C. Watson,
head of the I. A. A. Department of Taxation.

6. .Motion itassed that Farm Advisers should not receive
per diem compensation from the I. A. .\. for time s|)ent on
Advisory Committees.

7. Dlscus8e<l grain marketing and gasoline tax.

8. Passed resolution urging other state farm bureaus to
give active sup|>ort to .McNary-Haugen bill.

9. .\lccepted resignation of C. A. Stewart, head of the
Live Stock Marketing department, and |>lanned to hire a 8ac-
cessor.

Who*8 Oldest and Youngest
Farm Bureau .Members?

The question came up the
other (Jay in the office as to
who is the oldest farm bu-
reau member. We didn't
get that settled before
someone chlmeil In with the
question, "Who's the young-
est member?" There were
some suggestions, but none
definite. So we are going
to find out.

We would like to have
the names of the youngest
and oldest farm bureau
members. Write to H. C.
Butcher, Director of Infor-
mation, and enter your ohl-
est or youngest contestant.
We'll see "who's who," and
maybe "why" later.

Wants McNary Bill;
Also Amendment to
Packer- Stockyard

Galesburg was the »cene of the
regular <iuarterly meeting of the
15th district on April £9. of which
H. E. Goembel of Sooppole is
executive committeemtin. . Repre-
sentations from Adatns. Henry.
Fulton. Knox and Schcuyler coun
ties were present and passed a res-
olution unanimously fbvA'ing the
McNary-Haugen bill and it was
also resolved in the resolution that
House Resolution 71ll) and R424
would greatly improve tlie Pack-
ers and Stockyards Act and that
the Illinois senators and repre-
sentatives at Washington work to
secure the enactment of the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill and the addi-
tion of the amendment to the
Packers and Stockyards Act.
I

LA. A. Votes $300 For
Whiteside Judging

k

earn

Three hundred dollars was vot-
ed by the executive committee to
go to the Whiteside County dairy
ludging team, which won the trip
to Europe when it placed flr^ at
the National Dairy Show at Syra-
cuse, New York, last fall. The

expression was made by some of
the committeemen that the I. A
A. wtVuld be willing to vote »300
every year if an Illinois Farm Bu-
reau team could win tbe national
honor every year.
. The team, "Dad" Wise and a

Pace 3

Here Is the WliiteHide county dairy Judidnr team m-hk-li mUIa June 7 from
Montreal to represent the I'nited state* in tlie International Juditinc eonte«t at
ttie Royal I-ire Stoek Shoa-, E.^rland. Fro-n left t9 rieht t'le^- arp; l).7na]d
WUIIams, Prof. ('. s. Rhode, Elwyn Feiken, U O. Wine and HiUvM <,aulrapp.

estimated expense of the trip wa&
set at 11,000 a person, with a
representative from Whiteside
county and one from the Univer-
sity acompanying the team.
«4.000 Subscribetl
Geo. A. Fox, executive secre-
tary, read a list of contributions
secured by "Dad" Wise, farm ad-
viser of Whiteside county, who
coached the team and who will
accompany it to Europe, in which
{3,700 was listed as subscriptions
from various commercial agricul-
tural organizations in Chicago.
This amount brings the total to
14,000, which is the goal. The

representative *from- the Cniver-
sity, who will probably be C. S.
Rhode, dairy extension specialist,
as he had considerable to do with
the success of the team, will sail
from Montreal June 7 on the
"Doric." The team will enter the
international livestock judging
contest at the "Royal" in Eng-
land this summer. This contest
was won by a' similar team from
Maryland last year.

Menil>ers of the team will give
a dairy judging talk over the
WLS, the Sears Roetmck radio
station, some time before they
depart for abroad.

WANT McNARY BILL
IN 16th DISTRICT;
WIRE RESOLUTIONS

Representatives Talk Limestone,

Serum, Cooperation, Collections

and Tuberculosis Eradication

At a meeting of Farm Bureau
officers and Farm .\dvisers of the
16th congressional district, April
28, which includes the counties
of Tazewell. Peoria. Stark. Bu-
reau and Marshall-Putnam, a
resolution was drafted and or-
dered to be wired to Illinois sen-
ators and Congressmen at Wash-
ington asking that they support
the McNary-Haugen bill and help
get tt passed this session of Con-
gress. A. R. Wright, executive
director, opened the meeting and
presided.

Joseph Morris, president of
the Tazewell County Farm Bu-
reau, spoke on ways and means
of collecting dues and was fol-
lowed by others in a dlscuMlon.
It fOs reported that collections
for 1924 so far are l)etter than
in 1923. It was indicated b>
those present that service on
limestone and serum should l>e
restricted to paid up members.
The opinion was general that
close cooperation and good feel-
ing betwen bankers and the
Farm Bureau is essential and
that the Farm Adviser* should
keep the banker aad newspapers
completely informed as to what
is going on in the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association.

Farm Adviser W. E. Hedg-
cock df Peoria county told how
Peoria county assisted in getting
the Legislature to pass the bill
allowing counties to make ap-
propriationt to pay county in-
spectors in tul>erculoBis eradica-
tion work." Reports from Taie-
well county showed how the tu-
berculosis testing project was
turned down in that county.' but
that at the same meeting an ap-
propriation had been made for
a tuberculosis sanitarium.

T. B, Work OisruNsed

In the afternoon session. Dr.
Augsberger of the I'. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture, explained
the tuberculosis eradication work
in 'detail, telling of the success
of Hillsdale county. Michigan, an
accredited tH>unty.

Michigan Sees How
I. A. A. Probes Taxes

J. C. Watson, in charge of the
taxation investigation work for
the I. A. A., complied with a re-
quest of the Michigan Farm Bu-
reau Federation recently and put
on a demonstration in Kalama-
zoo, Michigan, to show how he
obtains the levels of valuation of
different classes of properties in
Illinois.

Mr. Watson says that he found
.Michigan in just about the same
condition as Illinois. The dem-
onstration was put on in Kala-
mazoo county, where he found
that land and small town and vil-
lage property was assessed at a
much higher level than real es-
state in Kalamazoo, the county
seat of Kalamazoo county and a
large city. The difference is ap-
proximately 30 percent he says.

The work done iq^ Michigan by
Mr. Watson corresponds with re-
sults found in ^'jiandotte and
Wood counties in Ohio and with
the results of an investigation
made by G. E. Metzgeij.

MONROE VAKi PRODl't'KRS
OR(iAMZI\(i

Since the Mark Twain Egg
Producers Association of Hanni-
bal, Mo., draws considerable sup-
port from the poultry raisers of
Monroe county, Illinois, G. E.
Metzger, or^nizer for ^the I. A.
A., put on a'county-wide meeting
in Monroe county and assisted in
making arrangements for a series
of meetings to be addressed in
Monroe county by local people
This county will put oh its own
campaign to get a large volume
of eggs signed up with the Mark
Twain Association and will hire
its own manager about June 1,
according to Mr. Metzger.

Phosphate Service
Extended by I. A. A.

Phosphate users in IllinolB will
be interested to know of the new
agreement obtained by the phos-
phate-limestone department in
which the I. A. A. extends iu su-
pervision at its Tennessee phos-
phate office to all roducing com-
panies although withdrawing, at
least for the present, from the
iwork of actually buying and dis-
tributing phosphate.

"We will continue to operate
the Tennessee branch olBce," says
J. R. Bent, director of the phos-
phate-limestone department, "and
will continue to follow up matters
at the production end in the In-
terest of the purchaser: will take
samples from each and every car
and make analysis of all shipments
where such service is desired -by
the purchaser whether he is at
I. A. A. member or not and
whether a farmer, dealer, elevator
company or other buyer of phoa-
phate. The producers reoOKnise the
savinK to themselves and the sales
advantage to them In thia plan
and ao have agreed to pay for thIa
servu-e. so there will t»e no extra
charKe involved so far as the pur-
I chaper la concerned. We will alao
continue to folloa' up <-omplalnts
on matters of service, weights
and quality. The producers have
agreed to make us arbitora In the
matters of complaints by purchaa-
era. or disputes betwsen producers
and themselves."

PM!e 4

The niinoU AgricultuwJ Assodation Record

May 20, 1924

1000 MORE ENDORSE
McNARY BILL; ASK
IMMEDIATE ACTION

Everingham Speaks to Farmers,
Bankers, and Business Men
... in Rainey District

Information meetings on the
McNary-Haugen biil have been
held recently in Petersburg, Men-
ard county, and Virginia, Cass
County, for the
purpose of ac-
quainting farm-
^^^^^ ers. bankers
i ^^ ^^^^B i a n d business
) f^'^m^K ' men of the de

tails of the bill.
At the Peters-
burg meeting,
400 men from
a radius of 50
miles unanim-
ously passed a

A < . KvrrinKham resolution f a -

roring the bill and urging the
repr«eentatiTes in feongress to
support it. Over 400 signatures
were affixed to the petition ask-
ing for the passage of the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill, according to
G. A. Hughes, farm adviser of
Menard county. '

The meeting at Virginia was a
dinner given by the Virginia
Chamber of Commerce for the
Cass County Farm Bureau with
about 500 present. Albert H.
Rankin, president of the Spring-
field Chamber of Commerce, spoke
on "The Relation of the Farmer
to the Chamber of Commerce."
A. C. Everingham was the prin-
cipal speaker at both meetings.
He explained the principle of the
McNary-Haugen bill and answered
questions which were asked about
it Both counties are in Repre-
sentative Rainey's Congressional
district.

I. \. \. HELPS .^ITLE
(iROWERS

G. E. Metzger, head of the or-
ganization department of the Il-
linois Agricultural Association,
and E. B. Leeper, manager of
the Illinois Fruit Growers* Ex-
change, met with the organiza-
tion committee of the Calhoun
county apple growers at Hardin,
May 9, and went over possible
plans for organizing the Calhoun
county apple growers with the
Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange.
Mr. Metzger reports a good at-
tendance and says that arrange-
ments were made to proceed with
informing the apple growers of
the county of the contemplated
aCRIiation, then a sign-up cam-
paign will probably be started
early in June.

Baseball Fans

To Read Latest
Dope in Recorfi

Baseball news of the Illinois
Farm Bureau Baseball League
will be printed in the RECORD
in its newly formed Sport De-
partment, which will be instituted
as soon as baseball scores begin
to come in. Team managers and
others in connection with town-
ship or county teams should not
fail to mail the results of games
to the Information Department,
Illinois Agricultural Association,
608 South Dearborn St., Chicago.

M»y .Select .*I1-Slale Te«in

Many possibilities await the
Sports Department. For instance,
it may be possible to select an
All-State Farm Bureau baseball
team from the teams that com-
pete for the state championship
during the annual picnic, which
is to be at Lincoln, Logan coun-
ty, August 26. If you have a
team, want to have a team or
are planning to have a team, get
in touch with R.' W. Dickenson,
farm adviser of Cass county, who
is president of the Illinois Farm
Burean Baseball League, or G. E.
Metzger, secretary and treasurer
of the league, at the I. A. A.
office at Chicago. Many counties
have signified their attention of
joining up and several have al-
ready sent in their $10 dues.

Kendall county already has a
county schedule arranged be-
tween eight teams. It is printed
in big league style in the Kendall
County Farm Bureau Bulletin.

(■alena. Illinois.
-Mr. L. J. Quasey,
Trans|iortation De|»artnient,
Illinois .Agricultural .A.sso-

ciation,
("hicaKO, IlllnolK. . ' '

Dear .Sir:

Mr. Frank Delleballa
asked me to thank you for
eettine him a new fence
along the C. B. & Q. rifcht
of way on his farm. He
was 15 years trying to get
a fence and now, he says,
he haJ4 a koo<I fence at la-st.
It also pleases the section
foreman to build a new
fence an«l not be conifielleil
to try and repair the old
one. The section foreman
will also put tile under-
crossing in projier 8ha|>e.

If farmers would ask
more from the railroad com-
imnies in a good manner,
they would get results. The
object desired is obtained
to the whole satisfaction of
all concerned. .'Again ac-
cei>t our thanks for your
work.

Yours truly,
(.Signed) H. X. RipUnger.

Scores Two More
Victories; Helps
Limestone Users

Two more victories for the phos-
phate-limestone department of the
I. A. A. were recorded when two
more •producers of agricultural
limestone signed the dotted line to
agree to the I. A. A. plan for rec-
ognition of County Farm Bureaus
in the price of agricultural lime-
stone.

"The Lincoln Crushed Stone
Company of Joliet, " says Mr. Bent
in announcing the new contracts,
"is quoting a price of 60 cents per
ton to all purchasers on both their
regular agricultural screenings
and their double-fine agricultural
stone. On the 15th of each month
they wil remit to each County
Farm Bureau at the rate of 10
cents per ton for all shipments
made during the previous mohth
and on which payment has t>een
received.

"The Dolese Brothers Company.
337 W. Madison street, Chicago,
with a quarry at Buffalo, Iowa,
has agreed to a similar commis-
sion of 10 cents per ton from their
present quoted prices on orders re-
ceived througii Farm Bureaus.
Dolese Brothers' present price is
good only until June 30 at which
time some advance may be made,
but It will still retain the 10 cent
commission. Three prominent com-
panies, separately located. have
now subscribed to the I. A. A. plan.
It is Itoped that more will follow."

Cass Benefits From

LA. A, Finance Probe

Something like a bomb broke
when the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation investigated the expen-
ditures of tax money in Cass
county. John C. Watson, in
charge of the taxation depart-
ment of the I. A. A., was invited
to find the relative valuations on
city and farm property by the
Cass County Farm Bureau. Wide
inequalities were discovered
which the Board of Review cor-
rected only in part, reports Mr.
Watson.

bankrupt and for most purposes
has no funds in the treasury
with which to meet its obliga-
tions and pay bills:

.Affairs in Bad Sha|>e
" 'And whereas it has been
brought to the attention of this
board of supervisors through a
partial investigation of the' affairs
of the county and the methods
of conducting the business of the
county by the former board of
county commissioners that money
has been recklessly and illegally

f [)e llepubli^n-g^a^ette

DEAN SAYS, "COME
AND SEE US"; [.A.A.
ANSWERS, "WE WILL"

Next Annual Meeting to Be At
Champaign; Mumford to Out-
line U. of I. Program

CASS OWES «I047G7<

REENpiniRyKHLE
V l»EIHaiBMIMinKH'

HEMKniS

sriHiiimKii
inoFiuuc

This U » r«produrtk>n ot part of tb« front pcnr^ of the Re<|iablU>«ui-<i«aet4e pf
Ylrglnttt, <'aw» coun<>-. »ft*r the 1. A. A. flnanci^ invf»tir»tion.

T.B. Work Planned
In Edwards County

Edwards county is seriously
considering taking up the cam-
paign of tuberculosis eradication
acording to M. H. Petersen, in
charge of tuberculosis eradication
work for the I. A. A., who has
attended two meetings in that
county. He reports that 175 peo-
ple were present at a meeting at
West Salem ajid about 550 at-
tended a similar discussion at Al-
bion. Mr. Petersen spoke at both
meetings,' telling of the necessity
of eradication work and the
methods used in other counties
to raise money. He also visited
Jasper, Cumberland and Effing-
ham counties, visiting with inter-
ested people there.

A second invitation was ex-
tended to the I. A. A. to investi-
gate the expenditures of the
Board of Commissioners and up-
on this occasion considerable ir-
regularities were found in the
finances of the county. Some of
the Farm Bureau people in Cass
county had been trying to put
their county on the board of su-
pervisor system for several years.
The investigation led to the elec-
tion of a board of supervisors
representing the county by town-
ships. At its first meeting, the
board heard the report of the
Illinois Agricultural Association
as determined by Mr. Watson.

A report of the meeting as
given in the Republican-Gazette
of Virginia says that the board
of supervisors cancelled all orders
for supplies for the county, or-
dered an investigation of county
offices, heard a report of the sit-
uation by J. C. Watson, and pro-
ceeded to hire an auditor to go
over the county books. Follow-
ing is a part of the report as
given in the Virginia Republican-
Gazette:

"The fact that Cass county is
at least $104,767 in debt and
that it has already borrowed
through anticipation warrants
more than the legal 75 percent
of the incoming taxes were two
of the important discoveries made
by the board of supervisors Tues-
day in a meeting that was re-
plete with surprises and accom-
plishments. The board began
work at 9 o'clock and except for
one hour and a half taken for
lunch, was in constant session
until 5 o'clock.
Watson Reports Irregnlarities

"Following the report at the
morning session, John C. Wat-
son of the Illinois Agricultural
Association, Chicago, who con-
ducted an analysis of county ex-
penditures at the request of the
farm bureau, and' the statement
by County Treasurer Farrar that
the county has but 74 cents in
the general fund, a committee
was appointed to consider these
facts during the noon hour and
report its recommendation imme-
diately after lunch. This com-
mittee was composed of Super-
visor Springle, chairman, and
Supervisors Schneider and Jones.
The report of the committee
reads: 'Whereas, it has come to
the attention of this board of
supervisors and to the public
that Cass county is practically

expended in large sums and that
no statement of the financial con-
dition of the county can be had.

" 'Therefore, be it resolved,
that this board of supervisors of
Cass county, Illinois, hereby au-
thorizes and empowers its com-
mittee on Judiciary and Finance
to take any and such actions as
are necessary to employ and pay
some reliable certified auditing
company to thoroughly audit the
books and accounts of the sev-
eral offices of the county running
back for a period of several years
as may seem wise in the Judg-
ment of the said Judiciary and
Finance committee and that said
committee be instructed to re-
port the findings of said audit to
this board at as early a date as
seems practicable to it:' "

Secure I. A. A. .Auditor

John Taylor, vice-president of
the Cass County Farm Bureau,
is chairman of the board of su-
pervisors and was instrumental
toward getting the investigation.
Both he and R. W. Dickensen,
farm adviser of Cass county, ap-
peared before the I. A. A. execu-
tive committee 'at its meeting of
May 6 at the Chicago office and
(thanked the I. A. A. for the
services of Mr. Watson and com-
mended his work highly. Mr.
Taylor and Mr. Dickensen secured
the services of the public account-
ing firm of Frazer and Torbet,
Chicago, to do the auditing.
Geo. E. Frazer of Frazer and
Torbet, is consulting accountant
for the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation.

MURPHY SUPPLIES
FACTSfORC. OFC.

(Continued from page 1) '
ity for agriculture, or the removal
of the tremendous handicaps un-
der which the farmer operates
daily.

"There is a firm determination on
the part of those supporting the
McNary-Haugen ^ill'to Insist upon
this legislation being enacted and
they will accept no substitute un-
less it will bring about the same
results. We are told that the op-
position wilt attempt to sidetrack
this bill and substitute some other
measure dealing with cooperative
marketing problems or some other
principle that cannot cure the ex-
isting difficulty of the farmer, but
let it be said for the men who are
representing the forty million peo-
ple back of the McNary-Haugen
Bill that they will not be swerved
from th^ir purpose and will never
give their consent to any sop leg-
islation."

H. W. Mumford, dean of agri-
culture at the University of Illi-
nois, was present at the last meet-
ing of the executive committee
and Invited the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association to hold its next
annual meeting at Champaign on
January 14 and 15, 1925, the
dates previously selected by the
I. A. A. He stated that Cham-
paign is centrally located between
the northern and southern parts
of the state and that it can be
reached without difficulty because
of the hard roads leading into it.
Champaign and Urbana have am-
ple hotel facilities with which to
handle the attendance and there
is an auditorium available tor the
meeting which will accommodate
2,500 people.

Benefit to All

"It would be an advantage to
the student body," said Dean
Mumford in presenting his invita-
tion to the committee, "and espe-
cially to the agricultural faculty
to have an opportunity of seeing
an annual meeting of the Illinois
Agricultural Association in action.
It would be especially advantage-
ous to all concerned to have close
touch between the College of
Agriculture, the Experiment Sta-
tion and the Extension Service.
Everything will be done to give
the I. A, A. a real welcome and
a good time as well as a profit-
able time."

Motion was made by J. L.
Whisna,nd, Charleston, of the
19th district, that Dean Mum-
ford's invitation be accepted. It
was seconded by G. P. Tullock,
Rockford, of the 12th district.
The executive committeemen who
were bidding for the annual meet-
ing graciously withdrew in favor
of Dean Mumford's invitation and
the motion was passed unanim-
ously.

Dean to Outline U. ot I, Program

Dean Mumford also asked that
the Executive Committee hold its
June meeting In Champaign in
connection with the annual Farm-
ers' Week in order that the pres-
ent program of work being car-
ried on by the College of 'Agri-
culture, the Experiment Station
and the Extension Service. The
committee decided that it would
not be convenient to have the
June meeting at Champaign, but
Invited Dean Mumford to appear
before the committee at its June
meeting and outline the program
of work.

KEt^ORD Coming Every
Two Weeks

Beginning with the next
issue, the RECORD will be
published every two weeks
rather than twice a month,
as has been the case here-
to-fore.

From now on you can ex-
pect to receive the latest
news of your association
every other Monday. If
you don't get your copy at
this time, let us know. The
RECORDS will go in the
mall every other Saturday
at Chicago and for that
reason will receive practi-
cally first class service be-
cause the Chicago post of-
fice is not Jammed with
mail over the week-ends.

Your next RECORD will
be dated June 9 and each
issue should reachs you
every second Monday there-
after.

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Volume 2

Usued Every Other Saturday — June 7, 1924

Number 11

SAM THOMPSON TO
REPRESENT A.F.B.F.
WHEN G.O.P. MEETS

I.A.A. President Selected To Guard

Farmers' Rights at Republican

Convention at Cleveland

President Sam H. Thompson's
services are in demand again.
Thl« time he is to go to Cleve-
land to the republican national
convention upon the request of
J. F. Reed, acting president of
the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration in the absence of Presi-
dent Bradfute, who is in Rome,
Italy, representing the United
States at the International Insti-
tute of Agriculture. President
Thompson will be accompanied
by E. B. Reid, assistant Washing-
ton representative of the A. F.
B. F.

It will be the duty of Mr.
Thompson and Mr. Reid to see
that agriculture is not overlooked
in the building of the national
republican platform and that the
agricultural planks in that plat-
form are in harmony with the
wishes of the American farmer.

President Thompson is a mem-
ber of the executive committee
of the A. F. B. F. The ability
shown by President Thompson in
handling legislative problems in
Illinois and his knowledge of the
real needs of American farmers
today make him a valuable repre-
sentative of the American Farm
Bureau Federation.

Representatives to attend the
democratic national convention at
New York will be announced
later, according to American
Farm Bureau Federation officials.

Cass County Probe
Goes to Grand Jury

Cass county continues to be a
hot-bed of official unstability. Re-
ports from that county indicate
that the facts discovered by the
auditors who were engaged after
John C. Watson, the I. A. A.
taxation specialist, had classified
the expenditures of Cass County
upon request of the Cass County
Farm Bureau and found consid-
erable irregularities, have sub-
stantiated the findings made pub-
lic by Mr. Watson.

The auditors have completed
their work and an attorney has
been secured to present the facts
to the grand Jury. The audit
has not been made public. The
Arm of Frazer & Torbet, Chicago,
performed the audit, George E.
Fraier of that firm is consult-
ing accountant for the Illinois
Agricultural Association.

HARPER IS INFORMATION
DIRECTOR FOR PRODUCERS

J. D. Harper, formerly director
of poultry and egg marketing of
the I. A. A., has recently been
appointed director of information
for the National Producers. He
has been with tke Producers since
leaving the Illinois Agricultural
Association.

McNARY-HAUGEN BILL
DEFEATED

Eastern and southern op-
ponents voted the bill down
today in House. Our central
and western members ex-
cepting those from large cit-
ies rallied to the bid's sup-
port solidly. Compromises as
to commodities, duration of
life of board, capital and
other details than principle
were offered to steering
committee yesterday and re-
jected. Motion to recommit
with such amendments failed
to carry. Friends of bill
did everything possible to
secure support. Fought up
to roll call. Am staying
over until Monday watching
relief measure promised by
steering committee presum-
ably satisfactory to adminis-
tration. National meeting of
farm organizations tentative-
ly called Jul/ 17 and 18 at
St. Paul. R. A. Cowles,
Washington. D. C.
June 4, 1924.

Hire Hedgcock of
Peoria County For
Stewards Place

Wm. E. Hedgcock, farm ad-
viser of Peoria county, has been
chosen by officials of the Illinois
Agricultural Association to take
charge of the association's live
^^ stock marketing

^^HB^ department, the

^H^ ■ former director

^KjMJK of which, C. A.
^^^^ J| Stewart, has re-

^^^^9 cently resigned

Jjj^^^^^^ to become e\-
^^^EA ^^^k ecutive secre-
^^^B ^^^^^ tary the Na-
H^HIr^^HIJ^B tional Livestock
Wm. B. H«iK<-o<k Producers* As-
sociation. Mr. Hedgcock has been
farm adviser ' of Peoria county
since May 1, 1916, and is a Uni-
versity of Illinois graduate in the
college of agriculture, class of
1909.

He has been interested in co-
operative marketing of livestock
and other products and has had
considerable experience in agri-
cultural extension work and
taught agriculture in the LaSalle-
Peru Township High School from
1910 to 1912 and in the Albert
Lea State High School, Albiert
Lea, Minnesota, one of 10 high
schools in Minnesota which re-
ceived state aid at that time for
teaching agriculture, until he went
to Peoria county in 1916. Mr.
Hedgcock was interested in dairy
testing associations and dairy
marketing in Minnesota and was
secretary-treasurer of the Pioneer
Cow Testing Association, Free-
born county, Minnesota. Mr.
Hedgcock managed his father's
425 acre Illinois farm during va-
cations of the Plymouth High
School and the University of Illi-
nois. He has been instrumental
in forming livestock shipping as-
sociations in Peoria county and
also assisted with the formation
of the Peoria Live Stock Pro-
ducers' Association. He will be
with the I. A. A. as soon as his
work in Peoria county can be
turned over to a new farm ad-
viser.

THE INVADERS ARE COMING!

CHINCH BUGS BAD
THIS YEAR
Chinch bugs are to be ex-
ceptionally bad this year ac-
cording to reports from the
United States Department of
Agriculture and agricultural
colleges. Illinois loses one-
tenth of its crop to the
chinch bugs every year, the
bugologlsts claim. They also
say that the time to combat
the chinch bug is before he
gets started. **Calcium Cy-
anide for Chinch Bug Con-
trol" is the title of a bulletin
ready for distribution from
the College of Agriculture,
Urbana. This bulletin gives
different methods of using
the cyanide for chinch bug
control and gives complete
directions for the use of the
chemical. See your Farm
Adviser.

Livingston County
Has Serum Schools

A series of demonstrations to
show the methods and benefits
from vaccinating hogs for cholera
were held in Livingston county
under the direction of Farm Ad-
viser H. O. Allison May 27. 28
and 29. The Livingston County
Farm Bureau has established a
distributing point at Pontiac
where it has serum and virus at
70 cents per 100 cc. The schools
were held at 12 points over the
county, according to a program
announcement of the vaccinating
schools, and Dr. Schirmer, repre-
senting a serum company, gave
the demonstrations.

The executive committee of the
Gallatin County Farm Bureau de-
cided to charge non-members 90c
per 100 C. C. for serum and vir-
us, at its regular May meeting.

Lincoln Has Fine
Grounds For LA. A.
Picnic; Good Roads

G. E. Metzger. organization
director of the I. .\. A., has l)een
spending some time In Lincoln.
IvOgan county, Qaving the way
for the I. A. A. state picnic which
is to be held on the Logan county
Chautauqua Association's grounds
one mile from Lincoln, August
26. According to Mr. Metzger,
everything in the way of con-
veniences^ and necessities for han-
dling a large crowd is available:
A baset>ail field and horseshoe
courts are available on the
grounds.

There is an open-air auditorium
ihat will seat over 4,000 people.

Sheds are available for auto-
mobiles in case a shower should
come up. Running water is avail-
able right on the grounds so
there should l)e no shortage of
lemonade. Besides that, Mr.
Metzger says, there is plenty of
trees so the prpverblal shade
which accompanies the lemonade
will be there. There is plenty
of space for picnic luiches with
elbow-room.

Transportation facilities for
getting to Lincoln are exception-
ally good, since two paved roads
touch Lincoln. Speakers for the
picnic have not yet l)een an-
nounced.

George A. Fox, executive sec-
retary of the Illinois Agricultural
Association, has some 70 pure-
bred Holsteins on bis farm near
Syracuse and is an ardent "bet-
ter milk" fan. He is taking a
few days off from his I. A. A.
duties in June to attend the
national Holstein-Frieeian con-
vention at Richmond, Virginia.

BROOMCORN MEN
FIGHT PROPAGANDA
TO ORGANIZE POOL

Organization Committee Have 280

Signed To Broomcom Pool, Need

680; Oklahoma Broomcom

President To Speak

The organ izatioa of a pool (or
marketing broomcom In Coles
and Cumberland counties aiMj
those broomcom growing por-
tions of the adjacent eountiea of
Douglas, Edgar, Clark, Jaspar,
Shelby and Moultrie has l>een
deterred to some extent t>ecaaae
of propaganda and direct opposi-
tion by a 4ew local bankers and
broomcom brokers accordins to
a recent report by the orgaaiu-
tlon committee which was ap-
pointed at a meeting of broom-
corn ' growers mt Mattoon last
August.

Minimum is 75 Per Oeot

According to the committee's
report, the marketing acreeiueiil
which each grower was asked to
sign called for 75' per cent of the
growers to Join by April 1, 1924.'
Because of t>ad weather and poor
roads during the winter months.
this date was extended to June
1. The committee conducted a
series of meetinss attended by
more than 600 growers and
mailed a full explanation of the
contract and general pooling plan
to practically every broomcorn
grower in the area.

Still Waal Pool

"The committee." says the re-
port of that committee, "feels
that in the minds of the growers
there is a desire for a marketing
organization but at this time too
many broomcorn growers are de-
pending upon those who bare
signed to set up the organization
and carry the responsibility, srhlie
they, by staying on the outside
and using the organization as a
tool, obtain for themselves all the
advantages of the cooperative or-
ganization."

imiiort Spealier

The broomcorn |>ool has not
been abandoned, latest reports
from the committee Indicate. In-
stead, the president of the Okla-
homa broomcorn pool has l>een
engaged to speak soon before a
meeting of the growers telling
them of the experiences of the
Oklahoma growers. That there
is a keen desire to market co-
operatively in the broomcom
area Is certain, according to G.
E. Metzger, organisation director
of the I. A. A. who has been
assisting, but tbere is consider-
able need for more of the growers
to get the spirit.

"Two hundred and eighty broom-
corn growers have signed the
association agreement, most of
which are farm bureau mem-
bers." says Mr. Metsger. "Ninety
per cent of those who have not
signed are not members of the
Farm Bureau. The minlmam re-
quirement of 75 i>er cent amounts
to approximately 680 growers."

ftige 2

4IL(L«I NOIS Ji
CULTURAL ASSOCUiBn
"RECQRir^V"

Published twice a month by the Illinois AsricuiturAl
Association, 608 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois,
fidited by Department of Information, H, C. Butcher,
Director.

Entry as second class matter Oct. 10, 1921, at the post
ofBce at Chicago. Illinois, under the act of March 3, 187s,
Accsntance for mailing at special rates of postase pro-
vided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, author-
l»«d Oct. 31. 1921.

Tfc» IndlTldual memberslxlR fee of the Illinois A*rlcul-
tural Association Is Ave dollars a year. This fee Includes
payment of fifty cents for subscription to the IlllnoU Ag-
ricultural Association Record.

OFFICERS

President, S. H. Thompson, Qnlncy.

Vice-President, C. B. Watson, DeKalb.

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, BloominKton.

Secretary, Geo, A. Fox, Sycamore.

EXECUTIVE CXJMMITTEB . '

By Congressional Districts

11th Jacob Olbrleh, Harvard

12th G. F, Tullock, Roekford

13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W, H, Moody, Port Byron

15th H. E. Goembel, Hooppole

16th A. R. Wright, Varna

17th F. O, Barton, Cornell

18th R. F, Karr, Iroquois

IMh J. L. Whisnand, Charletton

eoth Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21«t Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd Stanley Castle, Alton

23rd J. E. Llngenfelter, Lawrencevillo

24th Curt Anderson, Xenia

tsth Vernon Leaaley, Sparta

Directors of Departments
I. A. A. OfBce

General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker;
Organization, G. E. MTeUger; Information, H. C. Butcher;
Transportation, L, J. Quasey; Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, C. A. Stewart;
Dairy Marketing, A, D, Lynch: Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R. Bent; in charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A.
Gougler; special representative on Tuberculosis Eradi-
cation, M. H. Petersen.

The lUiBou Agricultural Ajtodatimi Record

June 7, 1924

— ^

Call Nation-Wide Conference

Following Defeat '■.■ y.. .

Immediately after the defeat of the HcNary-
Haugen bill in the House June 3, the following
fitatement was issued by the farm organizations
■which were fighting for the bill:

"By failing to enact into law the principles of
the McNary-Haugen export corporation bill, con-
gress has refused to concede to American agri-
culture equal opportunity and equal protection
with that which the nation grants to other indus-
tries and institutions.

"Congress has freely admitted the plight of
the farmer, but it has refused to take the steps
dictated by simple justice toward correction of
conditions that have precipitated nation-wide agri-
cultural coUapse.

"We cannot believe this decision of congress is
to be taken as final. Otherwise we should have
no choice except to return to the millions of people
who compose the farming industry of the country
with the word that the American nation no longer
held a place for them, their work, or the produc-
tion of their hands and toil.

"We believe the decision of congress in refus-
ing juKticQ to agriculture is dictated more by mis-
understanding of the underlying causes of present
conditions than by a cold blooded purpose of in-
dustrial Hiul financial aggrandizement accom-
plished through the niin of the farming industry.

"With this belief, we are taking what steps are
Within our power to continue the work for the
principles of the McNarj--Haugen bill. A nation-
-wide conference of farm organizations will meet
in St, Paul July 17 and 18 to perfect arrange-
ments f or ,ezpanding and carr>-ing on the campaign
for agricultural justice and equality,"

What Doea the Farm Bureau Mean?

What does the Farm Bureau mean to agricul-
ture? The above question is constantlj' recurring
to. the mind of the American farmer whether he
gives much time to thought or not. It keeps com-
ing up because every farmer knows that there is
something radicdUy wrong with farming as a
business, and what is more important, if some-
thing is not done and done soon, American agri-
culture will go on the rocks. Now, this is not a
calamity howl, it is a plain truth backed by facts.
When the price received for any commodity is
less than the actual cost of production, the chances
for a solvency for that enterprise are rather re-

ite. This is ttue of farming now.

JjOOl

When the ta.xes on a piece of property operated
for profit are more than the gross returns from
the property, what does it mean? Confiscation.
That is true of many farms in some of our most
prosperous counties. Now what's the answer!
Vou know. Organization.

Solution in Organization

You ask how we know that organization is the
answer? Because we have the organization and
we are already beginning to se*- the effects of its
activities. Already our taxing bodies, state and
county, are responding to the demands of the
Farm Bureau committees regarding the lowering
of taxes on farm lands. Already cooperative live-
stock shipping association in the county, and Pro-
ducers' Livestock commission firms in our great
livestock markets are correcting many evils which
have existed for generations. Legislative bodies,
state and national, have hearkened to the voice of
the farmer coming through the State Farm Bu-
reaus and the American Farm Bureau Federation
to the effect that many comprehensive laws have
been pa.ssed, not as special legislation for the
farmer, but for the purpose of correcting abuses
and givihg the farmer an equal opportunity.
Farmers' Demands Win

Now the farmer lias not been given these so-
called boons because some other agency recognized
his need. Not by any means. He has been recog-
nized because he has demanded recognition and
has an organization strong enough to enforce that
demand. If any one doubts this he has only to
turn to the fight put up by the "Farm Bloc" at
Washington and its results. After one of the
bitterest fights in legislative history, the farmers
won practically evei-y point contested for, and the
reason they won was because their cause was just.

Or, the battle waged by the Illinois Agricultural
Association before the State Tax Commission and
the Railway Commission for tax and rate reduc-
tion. In both of these instanees, reductions were
secured amounting to more than the Farm Bureau
dues to each member of the Farm Bureau.
We Must Not Quit

Well, we say, if we have accomplished so much,
isn't that enough? We ought to feel pretty well
satisfied, and surely have no need to worni-. Don't
think for a moment that the enemies of farm
organization will ever sleep ; they have too much
at stake and are right now at work among the
members of the Farm Bureaus, distributing propar
ganda and trying to create dissatisfaction and
discontent, so that the integrity of the organiza-
tion— the very life of the Farm Bureau — depends
upon the individual member.

Every live, thinking member of the Farm Bu-
reau in every countj', of every state in the union,
should recognize this, should realize that it is not
sufiBcient for him to be just a member. He must
be a fighting member, spreading the truth about
this organisation among his neighbors and ex-
plaining to them the need of united action.

I , 1 — Logan County Reflector,

i*rfce Fixing and the Teeter-Board

The term "price fixing" has muddied the water.
Some people use the term without thinking what
it means. Some people mean one thing and some
another. It has come to be a handy term for
propagandists.

.The merchandising of any commcxlity requires
the fixing of a price. The r-etail or wholesale mer-
chant, the blacksmith, the profes-sioiial man, the
elevator, the creamery, the maiiufactiiri-r, in short,
all trade requires price fixing of some sort. Com-
merce is impossible without prici- fixing.

What does the propagandists iiicaii by price fix-
ing? Time is an element. In c(jiiimcrcial practice,
some prices are fixed for a short length of time —
others for a longer time. What influences changes
in price? The theoretical economist says that sup-
ply and demand regulates the price. The most
casual observation proves beyond doubt that prices
and changes in prices are artificially determined
for selfish reasons. . Supply and demand forces
changes in prices only when other influences are
unable to resist its influence. Supply and demand
is a regulating and not a direct determining factor
in price fixing. As a regulatitig factor, it is irre-
sistible within certain limitations, and, on the
whole, a most wholesome influence.

Some price fixers would attempt to eliminate
the law entirely. They would have a fixed price
for a more or less long period of time disregard-
ing supply and demand altogether. Other clear
thinking and sensible folks know that prices are
not determined, but regulated, and that in only a
limited way by supply and demand. These people
do not object to the introduction of new factors
in fixing prices for either a short or long time but
do recognize as futile every attempt to entirely

eliminate the supply and demand factor as a
regulator.V force.

Some say that cost, plus a reasonable profit,
should fix prices. Cost plus determines whether
or not a business is profitable. Everyone wants
his business profitable; therefore, he naturally
wants to determine prices on a cost-plus basis
wherever possible and naturally will do so when-
ever and wherever possible. Everyone is doing
his best at all times to fix prices on a cost-plus
basis. However, we never have and never will be
able to resist absolutely the regulation of supply
and demand except by regulating supply and de-
mand itself. We have not done enough thinking
about regulating supply and demand as a means
of maintaining a cost-plus price.

There is undoubtedly an irresistible relation be-
tween cost-plus price fixing and supply to demand.
Artificial means are resorted to everywhere by
everybody in fixing prices in an attempt to main-
tain the one and overcome the regulatory force of
the other. Cost-plus and supply and demand are
the two ends of a business equation. They each
occupy opposite ends of a teeter-board. The im-
portant thing is to keep the teeter-board on a
level. A little artificial pressure on one side of
the fulcrum or a little less on the other will often
maintain the equilibrium. The important objec-
tive for farmers today is to obtain and maintain
that equilibrium. \

One, Two, Three, Four

For the past four 3'ears the American Farm
Bureau Federation has energetically represented
American agriculture on every public question af-
fecting the welfare of the farmer. It has been the
farm bureau's aim to secure farmer-minded repre-
sentation on all national boards and commissions
as one step in its program to see that the farmer
is not forgotten when questions of national im- ,
portance are under consideration.

THE LIARS' CONTEST

The Liars' Contest is getting warmer. We
have selected three this week. The question
which now confronts us is what to give as a
prize to the biggest liar at the next annual meet.
Ing. Suggestions will be welcomed. Let 'em
come, lies and all. Someone suggested a gas
mask; what do you think?

Here we go:

A farmer having one acre which he wished to
divide into building lots, decided the land would
sell much better if the weeds were killed out and
the plot sown to bluegrass. Accordingly, he of-
fered the entire crop to anyone who would cul-
tivate the ground and sow it to bluegrass. A
Scotchman who was more frugal than common
and who lived in a shack nearby, accepted the
offer, hired a teamster to plow and prepare the
seedbed at a standard price per hour. The
ground was a mass of sweet clover since it had
been left idle for years, so It took twice as long
to plow the plot as the Scotchman calculated.
After paying the teamster, the Scotchman had 25
cents left to buy seed.

He spent IS cents for. potatoes and 10 for to-
mato seed. He cooked all the potatoes except-
ing the eyes, which he dried in the sun. Having
heard that Luther Burbank had grown potatoes
and tomatoes on the same plant, he went Luther
one better by mixing the potato eyes witli the
tomato seed, grinding them to a fine powder
and carefully broadcasting the dust over the
acre plot, A fine shower fell that night and in
three days the field was covered with as fine a
stand of tomato plants as there had been of
sweet clover. There was no necessity for cul-
tivation. He sold 27 tons of tomatoes to the
local canning factory and then harvested 776
bushels of fine potatoes. — John C. Brissenden,
Hillcrest Farm, Clay City, Illinois. "Where we
groiw them big." (And where you tell 'em
bigger — the editor.)

Mr, Brown had a wonderful, swift team of
horses with which he drove to town in his wagon
one day taking his little dog. A dreadful storm
came up soon after he reached town and he
decided to beat he storm home if possible.
Everyone in town advised him not to start out.
The sky was black with clouds moving rapidly,
but he "allowed as how" he could beat that
storm home with his wonderful team of horses.

Although driving madly, the storm caught
him before he was halfway home. Upon reach-
ing home, he found his wagon bed half full of
rain water caught by moving so quickly through
the rainstorm. The water was piled up in the
back end of the wagen and his little dog was
drowned. The horses didn't get wet. — Mrs. Paul
Wilson, Sullivan, III.

The biggest liar is the farmer who says, "The
farm organizations haint doin' nuthin' fur th'
farmer." Keep smilln'. — C. T. Crofton, Savanna,
III.

Good lies are coming In every day and extra
good ones every other day. Let's see if you
can "make" the Liars' Cornerl

J««e7,1924

The Olinoii Agricultural Association Record

Pa|« 3

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VARIETY IS SPICE
IN 25th DISTRICT
MEET AT SPARTA

Pass Resolution Jogging Congres-
sional Representative To Support
McNary-Haugen Bill

Variety was the keynote of
the 24th district meeting May 22
when farm bureau representa-
tives from the counties of Ran-
dolp, Franlflin, Jackson, Will-
iamson, Union and Pulaski met at
the high school in Sparta in a
regularly scheduled meeting called
by Vernon Lessley. executive com-
mitteeman for the 25th district.

Talks were made in the fore-
noon by J. C. Spitler, University
of Illinois extension man, and by
O. E. Metzger, director of orga-
nization for the I. A. A., who
spoke in place of President Sam
H. Thompson, then in Washing-
ton. An open discussion followed
in which Mr. Metzger answered
questions. Several men expressed
themselves pro and con regarding
the million dollar bond issue to
be voted on this fall. The senti-
ment seemed to prevail that the
southern Illinois farmers would
appreciate the raising of more
moivey so that they might benefit
more quickly from the hard road
program.

Eat with the liadles

Following the short morning
session, the 50 or 60 farm bureau
members present dined at the
First Presbyterian church in
Sparta In true farm bureau style.
Vernon Lessley, executive com-
mitteeman, had arranged for a
demonstration in the afternoon
on the University of Illinois ex-
perimental plots near Sparta,
which were visited by the farm
bureau members. Dr. F. C.
Bauer, soils extension specialist of
the University of Missouri told
of the progress of soil improve-
ment work in Illinois and the
needs of t>oth the state and Ran-
dolph county. A great precent-
age of farms in southern Illinois
need limestone and clovers. C.
J. Badger, the University of Illi-
nois soils specialist who is in
charge of the plots at Sparta
conducted the party, telling and
showing the various advantages
of phosphate and phosphorous.

Favor McNary Bill
Following the soils demonstra-
tionil, the meeting again met in
session in the high school.
Charles McKJnley, president of
the Randolpb-county farm bureau,
spoke on farm bureau activities
-in Randolph county. A resolu-
tion was passed asking Congress-
man Denison of the 25th district
to support the McNary-Haugen
bill. It was understood that he
wafa not in favor of the bin.

' Following is a list of those in
attendance according to a list
taken at the church dinner:

H. A. DeWerir, Benton; C. J.
Thomas, Murphryeboro; W. K. Ga-
leener, Marion; C. J. Badger, Uni-
versity of Illinois, in charge of
Sparta c,experlment field; H. H.
Webb, Mulkeytown; Jacob Krum-
rey. Marlon; E. J. Avla. West Frank-
tort; J. R. Kelley, Benton; William
Ziegler, Murphrysboro; Henry Slck-
meyer, Campbell Htll; Glenn 1..
Hamilton, Ewlng; Theo. Kueker.
Ava: Geo. -A. Bartruff. Jonesboro;
Fred and Phillip DIetz. DeSoto;
Matt House, Benton: Joseph Jac-
quot, DeSoto: A. Zlegler, Murphrys-
boro; H. P. Sauer, Pomona: Z. A.
Robb and E. S. Lindsay, Coulter-
vllle; W. R, Brvln and J. Rupert
Maxwell, Steelevllle; W. C. Patton,
Alert Taylor, L. W. Patton. S. H.
Wasaon, Louis Degener, H. V. Mor-
gan, W. E. Bannister. Ralph Ban-
nister. C. P. Baird. W. D. Murphy.
H. C. Wills Will Bambauer. Paul
Ohms. J. V. Lessley, Charles Me-
Kinley, Everett McDill, R. H. Dick-
son, E. C. Secor. A. J. Stephenson
and N. R. Lessley. Sparta; Herbert
Helneman and H. F. Heineman,
Evansvllle; John K. Little. Prairie
du Rocher; Fred Rehmer, Red Bud;
J. C. Spitler, extension service; Dr.
F. C. Bauer, department of soil fer-
tility. University of Illinois; G. E.
Metzger organization director. I.
A. A.; W. Floyd Keepers, assistant
editor Prairie Farmer; H. C. But-
cher, director of information, I.
A. A.

ThU La hon the "annK" lonkt^ fhat nttpnded tbr N»ef-1 (.|(>« rr and H«ifl UrmuMMtralfon »lil«.b mum a
part of the prosram of the 'intk dlatrlrt mretlnir at S|inrtn. Mmf Z2. Thr> had luiat aniHhrd m dinarr at
the Pint Preabrterian Chareh in .Sparta. It'a to« bad the pletnrv Im mo nmnll uttaervrlae yon (Htnld mrr
the happy expreaalona Trhlch are re<.onimend«tloMw for the ladlea wbo fooked the dlaaer.

Qua/tty Is Basis
For Success Of

Farmer s Market

Wy F. A. GouKler, Director of
Poultry and Egg Marketing

At Bloomington the members
of the McLean County Farm Bu-
reau have undertaken to shorten
the route from producer to con-
sumer by establishing a Farmeis'
Produce Market which has for its
market place the bottom floor of
the McLean County Farm Bureau
building.

Recently. I had an opportunity
to see this market in action.
Early that Saturday morning the
fanners came in from all parts of
the county with their various
forms of produce, fresh meat,
cured meat, dairy products, poul-
try products and vegetables. .\1-
most as early the towns-folk be-
gan to assemble in front of the
McLean County Farm Bureau
building with their market bas-
kets.

Like Farmers' Quality

In answer to the question as
to why they came to the market
to buy their food instead of hav-
ing it delivered by the local
grocer, several customers an-
swered that they liked to get the
fresh products directly from the
farmers because they were fresh
even though sometimes higher.
The quality is better, it was said.

Another thing that makes a
patron, "once a customer, always
a customer," is that this farmers'
market guarantees quality. Any
goods purchased which does not
prove satisfactory can be checked
up with the seller through the
committee in charge of the mar-
ket. This committee is composed
of three farmer salesmen and the
Farm Advisor who acts as chair-
man of the committee, with no
power to vote.

Have Floor .Manager

During business hours every-
thing is under the supervision of
a manager whose job is to keep
prices adjusted and to manage all
details. Booths are provided for
each member of the market at a
set charge per week.

Bloomington housewives are
delighted to be able to purchase
their Sunday dinners direct from
the farm. At the same time the
farmers are glad to sell their
produce in this manner because
they are able to sell their prod-
ucts (or better prices than they
could get otherwise. One farmer
remarked: "This is the first time
in my life that I have had the
pleasure of setting the price on
the stuff I have for sale."

Here Im ««hnl Ilic nioiie cnniera
umvi Mhen senator Mi-Nary and ICep-
reweatatlve HanKen helped Prewl-
rient ThoiupMOn piek dp the famonM
•%7,129 ■Ifcnaturea.

Get Kansas Man

For Information

V. E. Charles, graduate in In-
dustrial Journalism at the Kan-
sas State Agricultural College,
has been secured as assistant in
the Department of Information to
take the place of George C. Big-
gar who resigned in April.

Mr. Charles was born and
raised on a Kansas farm and was
a member of the Kansas dairy
judging team which placed second
last fall at the National Dairy
Show at Syracuse. He started
with the I. A. A. June 2.

Ford County Cream
Producers Organise
Pool on I. A. A. Plan

Ford county dairymen now
have a full fledged cream selling
organization on the I. A. A. plan
of organization since 114 dairy
farmers, representing 496 cows,
signed the pooling contract of the
Ford County Dairy Marketing As-
sociation. They met at Paxton
.May 27 and completed their or-
ganization by electing officers,
formulating by-laws and laying
definite plans for the future. Fol-
lowing are the five members of
the board of directors: Ellven
J. F. Nelson, Paxton, President;
O. O. Anderson, Paxton, Secre-
tary; Geo. L. Stanford, Lota;
James Gourley, Paxton; Nels Han-
son, Paxton. Ellven J. F. Nel-
son is chairman and James Gour-
ley secretary of the Paxton local.

Two of the directors are ap-
pointed from the directorate of
the Ford County Farm Bureau
and three are elected from mem-
bers of the dairy association. All
directors are farm bureau mem-
bers which is one requirement of
the Ford county organization.
Indicates Better Price

Convincing proof that the pool-
ing will bring a better price is
indicated by the fact that four
cream buying organizations have
submitted bids and are compet-
ing for the cream. The directors
are now busy considering these
offers and will soon close with
the highest bidder. Operations
will commence * In about two
weeks in the first branch at Pa-\-
ton. Other buying points will be
established in the county as soon
as the local dairymen sign up In
sufficient numbers to assure a
profitable volume. The financing
has been cared for by arranging
for a loai. at one of the Paxton
banks, which loan will be paid
off from reserves. . There is no
capital stock and each member
has one vote.

Nearly T. B. Free

A. D. Lynch, director of dairy
marketing, states that in three
months Ford county will be free
from bovine tuberculosis, which
will make this organization the
first cooperative marketing asso-
ciation in Illinois that is selling
products from T. B. free cattle
only.

Macoupin Loses To
Cass 9-0 In First
Game of Season

In the first game played in the
Illinois farm Bureau Baseball
[League between Cass and Macou-
pin counties, "Chuck" Houston,
pitching for Cass county, let th-"
Macoupin team down for a no-hit.

-run shut-out. During' the af-
ternoon show Houston struck out
Macoupin county batters.
jwhile his 'team-mates collected
five safe hits off Goode, ' which,
combined with bobbles by Macou-
pin players, netted a total of
nine runs for the, Cass county
players. The fielding of the Cass
'county team was faultless.

Macoupin county had a large
number of plaj'^'rs out but had
not held a regular practice be-
fore the game. Gootle bad plenty
of steam and pitched a good
game for the home teaai but the
visitors coupled their hits with
errors by the Macoupin team
when hits meant runs.

The Cass county tekm made
the trip across country in cars,
arriving In Modesto at noon,
where they were met b^ "Crack-
ei'V Johnson, assistant advisor of
Macoupin county. Tjie home
toaiii had made arrangements at
the hotel and put fortlh an ex-
cellent dinner for-the Cass <M>anty
bo.vs.

Soon aft«T dinner the tfams were
out on the diamond liml>ering up
while an enthusiastic cr^wd gath-
ered to watch the preliminary pra*--"
tice. Promptly at two o'clock the
umpires, one from Cass oounty and
one from Macoupin county, made
agreements as to ground rules and
the, pame was on.

It was a typical farmers' game
and the spirit manifested, was com-
mendable. Macoupin corunty was
extremely 4'ourteous to the visitors
who wore so welcome that "Bob"
Hiermaii. the good natured catcher
of tlic Casa county team, had a
number of small boy admirers hang-
ing on Ills arms (turing the latter
part ol' the game. W. H. AVitte. Sr..
I'ass '-ounty. whose son played
pentcr Held, came all the way to
Modesto to see the game. He was
prnltalily one of the oldest fans in
the rrf)wd. Young and old alike
were in the game. One of the play-
ers who received considerable notice
was P.irdsell Kelthley. lleft fielder
for tho Pass county team. He is
but 14 years old and just out of
Ihi- ,'iB!itb .grade but caught every
bail that came to bis territory and
caught the only long fly "which the
Macoupfn team knocked outside the
infield.

Around the edges of the field, be-
twi'en innings. Cass and Macoupin
county fans exchanged ideas about
rattle feeding, sweet c'*ver. soy-
beans and bther farm topics.

The summary of the game:
MACoiPix oorvrv

AB R H P E

Downs, cf 4 0 0 2 n

Chapman. If ■..4 » 1 I l>

Rogers, tm 4 O " 2 1

Knoll. 2b 4 in 0 3 1

Mansfield, lb > In fl S 2

Hale, Sb 4 K> » 2 1

I.loyd. rf a I" n 2 o

Goode, p 3 kl n 1 <i

Whittler. c .v.S » » 1 (1

Totals « » « 22 5

CAna rorjmr

ABIb H PR

WItte. cf 5 B 0 -n

Herzberger. 3b S p fl fl

Hierman. c 5 11 1 "

Dober. lb . . .S B 1 5

R. Hager. as . ." 5 jl 1 «i

Karl Hager, 2b 4 fl fl 1

Lvnn. rf 3 a n n

Keithley. If 4 S 1 1

Houston, p 3 p 1 fl

Totals 3il B r, 7 fl

Score by innings — t

Macoupin pflfl 000 ftflfl

Oass B3fl ojfl non

Struck out. by Goode. R: by Hous-
ton. 20.

The Kane County Farm Bu-
reau will not contract tor serum
during the year 1924. according
to a decision made by the ex-
ecutive board' at its regular meet-
ing at Geneva, Saturday, May 3.

FARM BUREAU WINS
REPRESENTATION ON
TRADE COMMISSION

C. W. Hunt's Appointment Signif

icant; Victory for A. F. B.F.; Helps

Fight On Pittsburgh Plus

Charles W. Hunt. Des Moine«.
Iowa. Secretary of ttw Iowa Farm
Bureau Federation, bas be^'B ap-
pointed to the Federal Trade
Commission by Presiilent Coolidge
to fill the vacancy t^aused by the
resignation of Victor Murdock.
of Wichita, Kansas.

The appointment of Mr. Hunt
to this important Oomnfisslon is
hailed at farm bureau head-
quarters as another great accom-
plishment in the farm bureau's
campaign to secure farmer repre-
sentation on all public boards.
The appointment of Mr. Hunt to

(. \\. Mum
the Federal Trade Commission
has particular significance at this
time because that Commission
will soon make a decision on the
Pittsburgh Plus case.

In selecting Mr. Hunt for a
place on this ConiBiisslon, the
Federal Government has recog-
nized for the second time within
a year the farm bureau in Iowa,
since Mr. Hunt's predecessor In
the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation.
E. H. Cunningham, was appointed
only a few months ago to the
Federal Reserve Board.

C. W. Hunt has been Intimate-
ly associated with tbe farm bu-
reau since its beginning. Away
back In 1920 when the president
of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federa-
tion was J. R. Howard and the
secretary was J. W. CoTerdale.
C. W. Hunt was eletsted as vice-
president of the stale organlxa-
tion. Then the summer of 1920
when the American Farm Bureau
Federation was organized with
Mr. Howard as president and Mr.
Coverdale as the national aecre-,
tary, Mr. Hunt became president
of -the state organization. He was
president in 1921-1922 and again
in 1923, until E. H. Cunning-
ham, the secretary, was appointed
to the Federal Reser\-e Board
Mr. Hunt then assumed active
control of the state organization
in the position of secretary.

The appointment of a farmar-
mlnded member to the Federal
Trade Commission is of utmost
Importance because of the great
Pittsburgh Plus case involving
the present method of steel pric-
ing by which all rolled steel, no
matter where madk- or shipped
from, is charged for at the Pitts-
burgh price, plus the freight from
Pittsburgh to destination. This
practice bas been in vogue over
twenty years and for the past
four yeara the American Farm
Bureau Federation has been vig-
orously fighting It. The farm
bureau leaders estimate that the
Pittsburgh Plus practice takes a
total of 1.5,000.000 a year from
the American consumer of «te«l.

^mm

PMt* 4

The llKnoi» AgricoltunJ A»»oci«tion RacorJ

Will Slum "Kiddies" Get
I 'Mother Invite to Country f

carefully examined by a pliyal-
ciaD and generally made bright
and shining — and sanitary — for
their uuting. The railruads of
Illinois furnfsh free fare within
a radius of 200 miles of Chicago.
The members of the I. A. A.
are invited to take one or more
of these kiddies, who range in
af!e from 4 to 14, of both sexes,
into their homes for two weeks,
if they care to do so. The Unit-
ed Charities assumes the Habil-
it>' for injury and sickness and

"D'ya ii'poae we'll git "nuther
invite to go out to the country 'n
^It a lot of that fresh air like
last year, Jimmy?" is a question
luany sluni "kiddies" in Chicago
are asking each other these days
when spring is lightly turning
slum "kiddies' " minds to last
. season's summer vacations —
swlmmin' holes, horseback ridin',
puttin' up hay or chasin* the
cows UP from the far pasture.

It's mighty hot down in those
sections of Chicago where the
slum "kiddies " call
"home." And when
summer comes they
will be crowded in
like wee chicks in a
hover with not a
chance to keep cool.
Last year farm bu-
reau members fur-
nished 473 slum
"kiddies" with out-
ings through the Il-
linois Agricultural
.Vasociation. This is
the fourth year the
I. A. A. has under-

k

taken to help the
I'nited Charities, a
non-sectarian organ-
ization, place needy
children In good
homes for a short ^ _. ^.„ ..... . ^

Trn thoaHand <>hlldrFn like lhe«if «vjinl and n
summer vacation, help them icii! *Phone your nelKhhorti mid arrn
The United Charities «•«""— "y

t7, i«a4

et^ to K» t«» lh«* country. Vou ciin.
ice to tnkr a dosen kiddle* In jonr

selects the children and makes
sure they are worthy in every
way. They are given new clothes.

conducts the children to the sta-
tion where they are met by the
farm folks.

ASK I.A.A. TO FORM
MARKETING PLAN AT
13th DISTRICT MEET

Dixon Conference Brings Out

Discussion On Gasoline Tax,

Co-op Marketing, Reports

and I. A. A. Service

The gasoline tax, cooperative
marketing, tuberculosis eradica-
tion, limestone possibilities, con-
atrtictlve criticism of the Illinois
Agricultural Association and a
general interchange of informa-
tion between county farm bureau
presidents and other representa-
tives featured the fir^t district
conference of the 13(h district
held at Dixon, May 29. Stephen-
son, Ogle, Whiteside, Carroll and
Lee counties were represented, Jo
Daviess being the only county not
represented. The meeting was
presided over by C. E. Bambor-
ough. Polo, executive committee-
man of the 13th district, who
called on each farm buerau pres-
ident in attendance to give an
account of the work in his county.

Coonty Presidents Talk

C, R. Morris, Lanark, president
of the Carroll County Farm Bu-
reau, told of the merchandising
adventures of his farm bureau
through Farm Adviser Bliss and of
the saving obtained, and said they
had decided to drop it several
times, but did not. S. L. Shaw,
Lee Center, president of the Lee
County Farm Bureau, said that
his county was iiiterested quite
largely in the vacciaation of hogs
for cholera and that immediate
returns to farm bureau members
were being obtained by buying
serum collectively through the
farm bureau. He stated that the
Lee County Farm Bureau had
saved its membership fSOO on
virus alone this year.

L. M. Swanzey, Freeport, pres-
ident of the Stephenson County
Parnt Bureau, forecast a much

rnt Bure

larger field of service for the
farm bureau organizations of the
future.

Considerable interest was shown
in cooperative marketing, a res-
olution being passed as follows:

"Resolved by this meeting com-
posed of representatives of the
13th district, to urge the Illinois
Agricultural Association to adopt
and put into effect some plan of
cooperative marketing and in that
way put the farmer's product
on an equal basis with other
commodities."

A long discussion on the ad-
visability of a gasoline tax finally
led to a motion for a two cent
tax on all gasoline sold in the
state to be tabled until inore
complete data could be brought
before the meeting.

G. E. Metzger, director of the
organization department of the
I. A. A., talked to the group
telling of the necessity for farm-
ers to organize and pointing to
many of the benefits Which have
already been derived from collec-
tive bargaining on the part of
farmers,

L. O. Birdsall, Sterling, a for-
mer executive committeeman to
the 1. A. A., said that it was his
opinion that farmers should ig-
nore party lines in voting for rep-
resentatives in any branch of
government and that the men
who are for the farmer should
receive unified support from far-
mers, regardless' of his political
party.

Following are the names of
those in attendance at the meet-
ing:

li. U. Hliss. .Mt. Ciirroll; W. I..
Riejfle. Franklin llrove; Johu Mi--
Xell. Rock Falls; Klmer ('line. W'x-
chusa; Albert L. -iJetz. Mt. farroll;
H. A. Stevens. Slillni»ii Valley: Sid-
ney Bishop. Stlllmaii Valley; C E.
Baniboroue:h. I'olo; Herbert Conner,
Amboy; .1. W. Tliitr. West Brook-
lyn: S. Ij. Shaw. Lee t'enter; M.
Sullivan. Rochelle; L. S. Orlffltli.
Amboy: Peter Hoyle. Dixon; L. M.
Swanzey, Freeport; iJ. R. Morris.
Lanark; Vernon S. Todd. MilledRe-
ville: Thos. Cooney. Deer drove;
L E. Birdsall. Sterling: lieo. \V.
Beach. Ashton: Theo. F. Ellis. Lena:
W. H. Robinson. Bradford: Theo.
Frank. Rock Palls; ij. K. Metzger.
department of organization. Chi-
cago; W. Floyd Keepers. Prairie
Farmer. Chicago; H. C. Butcher, de-
partment of information. Chicago;
Philip a. Lyons. Harmon: D. E.
Warren. Oregon; H. C. Scott, Polo.

I. A. A. Get^, Freight
Lowered Op Stacker
and Feeder Cattle

Live stock feeders who buy
stockers and feeders on the Chi-
cago market and who live south
of Peoria at points on the Chi-
cago and Northwestern railroad
will benefit materially from the
decrease in tariffs on that rail-
road recently secured by the
transportation department of the
Illinois Agricultural Association,
according to L. J. Quasey, direc-
tor of that department.

Upon complaint of the Illinois
Agricultural Association, the Chi-
cago and Northwestern railroad
has amended its live stock tariff,
applying from the Union Stock
Yards, Chicago, to points on the
C. & N. W. south of Peoria to
include an application on stock-
ers and feeders cattle to read
75 per cent of fat cattle rates.
This tariff becomes effective June
18. 1924. According to Mr. Qua-
sey this rate has never been in
effect before on this division of
the Chicago and Northwestern
railroad.

WILL YOU TAKE ONE?

You can make the wish of
one or two slum "kiddles"
come true If you will take a
poor boy or girl into your
home for a two weeks' sum-
mer outing this summer.
Talk It over with your neigh-
bors and form a neighbor-
hood committee to arrange a
glorious two weeks' visit"
in your community for a
dozen or more of these needy
little "shut-ins". The Unit-
ed Charities finds it much
more convenient in sending
"kiddies" to the country to
have a dozen or so going to
each station, thus eliminat-
ing the necessity of sending
a caretaker out with every
one or two children.

'Phone or see your neigh-
bors and arrange to take a
dozen or so in your commu-
nity. Fill out the blank on
this page and mail it to the
Outing Secretary, Illinois
Agricultural Association, and
the United Charities will re-
ceive your request. Summer
will soon be herel No time
must be lost! You must be
within the 200-mile radius,
however.

New Co-op Audit Service
Meets General Approval

That there is a vital necessity
for an auditing and business ad-
vis'ory service such as is being
formulated by the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association is the gist
of thoughts e.Ypressed by many
farmer elevator directors aad co-
op managers over the state ac-
cording to Vernon Vaniman who
is presenting the I. A. A. plan to
interested groups over the state.
The reaction in general is that
the plan is fundamentally sound
and that it is Just taking a step
to render a service on a cooper-
ative basis for organizations in-
stead of Individuals.

Many directors of farmers' busi-
ness organizations state that they
should have an organization to
render such an auditing and busi-
ness advisory service to its mem-
bers on a cooperative basis just
the same as farmers' organiza-
tions have their respective combi-
nations with which their grain is
handled, their live stock is
shipped and their members mutu-
ally, insured against Are and
lightning.

V\m\ BIk Xeed

".\ director of a co-op ele-
vator in Champaign county,"
says Mr. Vaniman, who ig pre-
senting the plan to various co-
operatives over the state, "stated
that If his elevator bad had this
service it would have been in a
much better - financial condition
today." Many other expressions
of similar character could be
quoted. We know that classified
accounts will indicate the general
trend of business and what steps
should be taken to regulate that
business.

Following is a stktement pre-
pared by Mr. WJcker In which he
gives details of ' the proposed or-
ganization:

Wicker Kxplalns Plan

■■From time to time the Reiwrd
has presented information regard-

ing the new cooperative auditing
and accounting »ervlce to be known
as the Illinois Agricultural Cooper-
alive Association, the incorporation
plans of which Is to be completed
when the directors meet at the I
A. .\. office, Chicago, June S.

■•For years it has been apparent
that there is a definite need by Illi-
nois cooperative associations for an
authoritative auditing and account-
ing service which would be owned
and managed cooperatively. To
meet this demand the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association is accepting
the responsibility of promoting
such an organiiatlon In the interest
of its members since they consti-
tute a large percentage,of the mem-
bership of the farmer-owned asso-
ciations in Illinois.

Not OTcaaiae< far Proat

"The Illinois Agricultural cooper-
atives' Association is to be a cor-
poration not for pecuniary profit,
without capital stock, the member-
ship of which will be restricted to
cooperative associations, farm bu-
reaus and other agricultural organ-
izations. It will be operated as
a cooperative association and the
costs of the service will be assessed
upon a proportionate basis at a rate
to be determined by its own board
of directors. Its purpose will be to
furnish to its member associations
an official and reliable audit and
accounting service, income tax and
general business advisory service.
Reports anil comparative data wll^
be complied <-overlng the opera-
tions of similar enterprises and
there will be provided an exchange
of experience and information.
MeBkem »lio> «or Three Vrani

"Members will be based upon a
contract for a three year period,
during which the member associa-
tion will agree to accept the serv-
ice and to pay Its proportionate
cost of the same. During this period
each member will receive the bene-
fits of examination at such periods
as may be necessary, and it will be
furnished with suggestions and
recommendations for the Improve-
ment of the local's accounting and
l>usine8s methods, which will be di-
rected toward standardization. Dis-
tricts or groups of similar enter-
prises will be organized in which
the members will receive compara-
tive analyses of their operations
with particular reference to costs
and expenses.

"This is not a new and untried
theory. Minnesota has provided
such a service, which has been con-
ducted by the State Department of
Agriculture on a basis of actual
cost.

"Cooperatives should learn to co-
operate and establish between them-
selves that same community of in-
terest that exists among profes-
sional, financial. Industrial trade
and labor Interests."

Outing Secretary, t I **

Illinois Agricultural Association. ' ! i^ •

Chicago, Illinois. •

192...

We have organized a group of hosts in this

neighborhood who will be glad to entertain —

Chicago poor children for two weeks beginning

Following are the names of hosts, num-

Month and Date
ber and description of children wanted by each host;

Name of Host

No. of
Children
Wanted

Sex

Age

It is understood that United Charities of Chicago assumes the
liability in the case of accident or illness to any of the chil-
dren sent to us; however, we pledge to exercise proper pre-
cautions in the care and treatment of these children.

We will meet the children at _ or

Railway Station

(Please name at least one optional Railway Station)
Remarks

Name of Host Chairman

Post OSace

Rural Route No Telephone No..

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Age

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luaed Every Other Saturday — June 21, 1924

Number 12

AJ.B J. PLANK GETS
POLISHED AND CUT
AT G.OJ*. MEETING

RepoUican* Pledge Many

Points Sngsested; Same

AgTicoltoral Plank

to Democrats

8*111 H. ThMBpaon

That the Republican platform
committee heeded the demand
msde by Ssm. H. Thompson, pres-
ident ot the I. A. A., when he pre-
aented the
I American Farm
1 Bureau Federa-
tion agricultur-
al plank at
Cleveland Is
rather evident
i n spots, and
not so evident
in other spots.
I E. B. Reid, as-
I sistant W a s h-
I ington r e p r e-
I sentative of the
A. F. B. F., who
I was also pres-
lent at the
'Cleveland G. O.
P. meeting, re-
leased the fol-
lowing story telling ot the suc-
cess snd failures encountered by
the farmers' representatives In
getting the Republican party to
pledge Itself to assist In curing
the ills of the American farmer.
The same agricultural plank will
be submitted to the Democrats at
New York. Mr. Reld'a story fol-
lows:

Back to NomuU Plank
The biggest plank presented to
the Republican party by the A.
F. B. F. requested It to "take
what steps that may be neces-
sary to bring the purchasing pow-
er of agriculture back to nor-
mal." The Republican plank on
agriculture includes this general
statement almost verbatim: "We
pledge the Party to take jrhat-
ever steps are necessary to bring
back a balanced condition be-
tween agriculture, industry and
labor."

Other planks and splinters
from the platform which conform
in spirit, if not in wording, to
what the farmers, as represented
by the Federation, requested are
as follows:

"The crux of the problem from
the standpoint of the farmer is
the net profit he received after
bis outlay. The process of bring-
ing the average prices ot what he
buys and what he sells closer
together can be Indirectly expe-
dited by reduction in taxes, steady
employment in industry and sta-
bility in business.

Urge Cooperative Marketing
"This process can be expedited
directly by lower freight rates,
by better marketing through co-
operative effort and a more sci-
entific organization of the physi-
cal and human machinery of dis-
tribution of farm products.

"We promise every assistance
in the reorganization ot the mar-
keting system on sounder and
more ecsnomic lines, and where
diversification is needed, govern-
ment assistance during the period
of transition."

"The Republican party pledges
itself to the development and
enactment of measures which will
place the agricultural interests
ot America on a basis of eco-
nomic equality with- other indus-
try, to insure prosperity and suc-
cess.

(Continued on page 8)

THE WAGON WHICH BLOCKED THE ROAD TO EQUALITY

„^^^]

Lei tn «<r ut
nteaa Mtnal

HATCH NARRATES THE FARM
BUREAU WAY TO PROSPERITY

One ot the easiest things in
the world tor the members of a
community Farm Bureau to do is
to talk about the things they
should have done or the things
they might do but over in El-
mira township. Stark county, in
the vicinity of Kewanee is a lo-
cal Farm Bureau that really does
things. Fifteen years ago, be-
fore the Farm Bureau move-
ment began, progressive farmers
in Elmira township got bit by
the cooperation "bug" and the
etfects showed up in the form of
a farmers' Institute, an alfalfa
growers' association, an experi-
mental farm and other similar
enterprises. This "pull-together"
spirit has never died out in the
community. Today the local
Farm Bureau there is more than
abreast of the times in commu-
nity work.

Have Good Times

Not willing to confine their ac-
tivities to the problems ot grow-
ing more farm crops and better
livestock and believing firmly in
the old saying all work and no
play makes Jack a dull boy, Ke-
wanee farmers and their families
have developed an unusual com-
munity interest In social activi-
ties that finds its outlet through
basket suppers, home talent en-
tertainments and church and
school affairs.

Prominent in the affairs at
Kewanee is O. L. Hatch, ot
Roselawn Farm, whose person-
ality and devotion to the Farm
Bureau is largely responsible for
the success of the bureau work
in Stark and Henry counties. He
is something of a novelist be-
sides being a community builder,
as is evidenced by his account of
the Elmira township Farm Bu-
reau. It took some press agent-
ing to get the story from Mr.
Hatch but this is the way he pic-
tures the Farm Bureau:

Farm Bnresn Plant

"Among the noted men of
America is Luther Burbank, the
great plant wizard. One of the
many miraculous things which he
has done in developing plant
growth was the production ot
the seedless raisin. He took the

(Continued on pas« 7)

C.L&M. To Reduce
Sheep Rates From
Omaha to Bulpitt

Farmers and livestock men at
Bulpitt, Illinois, who buy sheep
on the Omaha market will profit
from a decrease in shipping rates
on sheep from Omaha to Bulpitt,
over the Chicago, Illinois and
Midland railroad, according to L.
J. Quasey, director ot the trans-
portation department ot the I. A.
A. Heretofore shippers were
compelled to pay a combination
rate over Pawnee Junction which
amounted to 46Vi cents per cwt.
from Omaha to Bulpitt. As a re-
sult ot negotiations made by the
I. A. A. transportation department
with the Illinois Central and C. I.
£ M. railroads the C. I. & M. has
granted rates ot 33% cents per
cwt. on sheep from Omaha to Bul-
pitt, which becomes effective July
1, 1924. This reduction means a
saving of 13 cents per cwt. to
Bulpitt shippers.

Many farm bureau members
are already getting in shape tor
the final "barnyard goir' contest
to be held at the annual I. A. A.
picnic at Lincoln, August 26. A
silver loving cup is to be given
to the champion horse shoe
tosser.

Serum Association
Seves Money For
Illinois Farmers

During the year 1923, 22,000,-
000 cubic centimeters of hog
cholera serum was used by Illi-
nois farmers through the Illinois
farm bureau serum association,
which consists of 41 connty farm
bureaus. C. A. Stewart, director
of the livestock marketing de-
partment ot the I. A. A. and also
a director of the serum associa-
tion, estimates that between 25,-
000.000 and 28,000,000 cubic
centimeters of serum will be sold
through farm bureaus this year.
Taking an average per hog ot 60
cubic centimeters, 28,000,000 will
vaccinate 500,000 hogs.

Along with the increase in the
amount of serum used by Illinois
farmers to prevent hog cholera
is the unusual situation of a
general decrease in the price.
Before the farm bureau began
to buy serum the general price
was from 11.50 to $2.50 per 100
cubic centimeters. As a result
of collective buying the Illinois
Farm Bureau Serum association
has been buying semm from sev-
eral companies at prices ranging
from 60 to -75 cents per 100 cu-
bic centimeters and is now fur-
nishing it to farmers at that rate
through the county farm bureaus.

■Goieral Office Of
LA.A. Will Provide
Supplies At Cost

J. H. Kelker, office manager of
the I. A. A. office in Chicago, has
added another activity to his list
ot duties. He has recently insti-
tuted a purchasing arrangement
whereby office supplies such as
stationery, carbon pai>er, stencil
sheets and other office routine
necessities, can be purchased
through the central office at a
considerable saving. Connty farm
bureau offices have been notified
of the service by Mr. Kelker, who
says that office supplies as a rule
are much cheaper in Chicago than
in the other Illinois cities and
that when large (juantitlea are
purchased, a considerable saving
will result both for the I. A. A.
central office and connty farm
bureaus. Quite a tew orders have
already been received, he reports.

AUDITING SERVICE
INCORPORATED AND
BY-LAWS ADOPTED

Temporary Board of Diracton

Elected ; Prodncen Sul»cribe

•ad Reconmend Plan

To Tenniaals

Continued progress marks the
development of the newly formed
auditing and business accounting
service instituted by the Illinois
Agricultural Association. The or-
ganization has been incori>orated
and by-laws have been adopted
by the temporary board ot direc-
tors, who are: Henry McGosgh,
Maple Park, president; L. P Mc-
Millen, Rock Falls, vice-presi-
dent; H. J. Shater, Illiopolis. di-
rector; O. B. Coble, Charleston,
director; Geo. L. Potter, Pontiac.
director. These directors will
serve only nntil the time comes
to elect permanent directors. The
by-laws were approved by Donald
Kirkpatrick, law connsel of the
I. A. A., and have been printed
in booklet form for dissemination
to all local cooperatives in Illi-
nois and others interested.

A membership contract was al-
r-> wr!t*.cr, •••^ »3rrov««l wMrh
does not embody the requirement
ot a $200 payment tor member-
ship as was originally required.
Vernon Vaniman, who has been
meeting with various cooperative
managers over the state during
the last six weeks, reports that
the representatives of the 87 lo-
cal cooperatives whom he has ad-
dressed have practically unanim-
ously favored a (cooperative audit
association like is proposed by .
the I. A. A.

Financed by L A. A.

The by-laws provide that {he
Illinois Agricultural Association
shall present at the annual meet-
ing ot the auditins association
the names of one or more per-
sons for the efe<itlon, by the
directors of a secretary and a
treasurer who it aceepted by the
directors, shall be elected to fill
these offices. Under this ar-
rangement George A. Fox is tem-
porary secretary and R. A. Cowles
temporary treasurer. This elanse
in the constitution of the UDdlt-
ing association was deemed ad-
visable, inasmuch as the I. A. A.
is financing the new organisation
until it becomes self-supporting.

George Wicker is now on the
]ob as general manager and has
several audits to perform and is
laying his plans to accommodate
those co-ops which have asked
tor audits. One assistant is com-
ing down from Minnesota to
help Mr. Wicker take care of the
actual auditing and other audi-
tors will be added as rapidly as
needed.

National Prodnocrs 8i0i

The National Livestock Pro-
ducers' Association has subscribed
to the new organization and has
recommended the Illinois Agri-
cultural Cooperatives Association
auditing service to its 14 ter-
minal markets. The Peoria Pro-
ducers have applied for an audit
and will be among the first to
receive' service. According to C
A. Stewart, livestock marketing
director ot the I. A. A., but who
recently resigned to become ex-
ecutive secretary of the National
Livestock Producers' Association .
there will probably be tour or
five ot the terminal Prodaeer or-
ganizations subscribe, the others
having arrangements for audits.

k

M..V

Th« Dlinott Agricultural AtaodatioB lUecrd

June 21, 1924

4IIiL<IISOIS J^
CPLTUHAL ASSOCX41Wn
""RECORir^y-

Published twice a month by the Illinois Agricultural
Association, SOS South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois.
Edited by Department of InCormation, H. C, Butcher,
Director.

Kntry as second class matter Oct. 10, 1921, at the post
office at Chicago. Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1I7(.
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage pro-
Tided for In Section llOS, Act of October (, 1I17, autbor-
Ised Oct. 81. 1921.

The IndlTldual membership fee of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association Is flve dollars a year. This fee Includes
payment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois Ajr-
rlcultural Association Record.

OFFICERS

Preeldent, S. H. Thompson, Qnlncr.

Vice-President, C. B. WMson, DeKalb.

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomlngton.

Secretry, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore. ^

. •; EXBCrrnVK COMMITTKB

By Congresaioiua Districts

lit* Jacob Olbrloh, Harvard

laui .'...G. F. Tullock, Rockford

18th C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron

15th H. E. Goembol, Hooppole

16th A. R. Wright, Varna

17th F. 0, Barton, Cornell

18th R, F, Karr, Iroquois

1»th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

iOth Eari C. Smith, Detroit

21tt , Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd Stanley Castle, Alton

23rd J. E. LIngenfelter, Lawrencevllle

24th Curt Anderson, Xenia

tSth Vernon Lessley, Sparta

Directors of Departmental .^

L A. A. Ofllce

General Offlee and Asalstant to Secretary, J. H, Kelker;
Organization, G. E. Metxger; Information, H. C. Butcher;
Transportation, L. J. Quasey; Statistics, J. C. WaUon;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A. B. Leeper; Live Stook Marketing, C. A. Stewart;
Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphste-Llmestone,
J. R. Bent; In charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A.
Gougter; special representative on Tuberculosis Eradi-
cation, M. H. Petersen.

Lefa Put the Tail on the Other End

On the next page is the report of R. A. Cowles,
who represented the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion at Washington, D. C. in behalf of the McNary-
Haugen bill. Study the report carefully, then turn
to the next page and scrutinize the map showing
where the opposition came from. Notice the geo-
graphical majority of the agricultural regions. The
tail is wagging the dog, as Mr. Cowles puts it, and
that tail is on the Eastern end of the pup, too.
Study the map. ,.

Moat Illinoii Repretentativet Stand By
Agriculture

It is gratifying to note the support given the
MeNar}--Haugen biU by Illinois representatives.
Every representative from an agricultural district,
including the two representatives at large, but ex-
cluding Henry T. Rainey, representative from the
20th district, voted for the bill. Eight of the ten
representatives from Chicago voted against and
two were not present.

Council of Wat Called

Definite action for the future has not been de-
termined by farm organization in general any fur-
ther than fo set July 17 and 18 as the dates for a
general conference of all farm organizations at St.
Paul, at which time a program for future legisla-
tive action will l^ discussed and some definite plans
laid. ; •

The Republican Pledge to the Farmer

Following is the agricultural plank of the Repub-
lican platform adopted at the Republican Conven-
tion June 14 at Cleveland, which is printed in the
RECORD without political favor whatsoever and
merely to inform the membership of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association what has been
pledged for agriculture by the Republican party.
When the Democratic platform is framed at the
New York convention, those planks pertaining to
agriculture will also be published in the RECORD.
If a third party forms and a platform is formulated
with parts pertaining particularly to agriculture,
that also will be printed.

. Agriculture

"In dealing with agriculture the Republican
party recognizes that we are faced with a fund-
amental national problem, and that the pros-
perity and •welfare of the nation as a whole is
dependent on the prosperity and welfare of our
agricultural population.

' ' We recognize our agricultural activities are
still struggling with adverse conditions that
liave brought about distress. We pledge the

party to take whatever steps are necessary to
bring back a balanced condition between agri-
culture, industry and labor, which was de-
stroyed by the Democratic party through an
unfortunate administration ai legislation
passed as war time measures.

"We affirm that under the Republican ad-
ministration the problems of the farmer have
received more serious consideration than ever
before both by definite executive action and by
congressional action not only in the field of leg-
islation but also in the enactment of laws to
meet emergency situations.

"The restoration of general prosperity and
the purchasing power of our people through
tariff protection has resulted in an increased
domestic consumption of food products while
the price of many agricultural commodities are
above the war price level by reason of direct
tariff protection.

"Under the leadership of the President at
the most critical time, a corporation was organ-
ized by private capital malnng available $100,-
000,000. to assist the farmers of the northwest,
' ' In realization of the disturbance in the ag-
ricultural export market, the results of the fin-
ancial depression in Europe, and appreciating
that the export field would be enormously im-
proved by economic rehabilitation and the re-
sulting increased consuming power, a sympa-
thetic support an^ direction was given to the
work of the American representatives on the
European reparations commission.

"The revival in 1921, of the war finance cor-
poration, with loans of over $300,000,000 avert-
ed in 1921, a complete collapse in the agricul-
tural industry.

"We have established new intermediate
credit banks for agriculture, and increased the
capital of the federal farm loan system. Emer-
gency loans have been granted to drought-
stricken areas. We have enacted into law the
cooperative marketing act, the grain futures
and packer control acts; given to agriculture
direct representation on the federal reserve
board and on the federal aid commission.

"We have greatly strengthened our foreign
marketing service for the disposal of our agri-
cultural products. The crux of the problem
from the standpoint of the farmer is the net
profit he receives after his outlay. The pro-
cess of bringing the average prices of what he
buys and what he sells closer together can be
promptly expedited by reduction in taxes,
steady employment in industry and stability in
business,

' ' This process can be expedited directly by
lower freight rates, by better marketing
through cooperative efforts, and a more scien-
tific organization of the physical human ma-
chinery of distribution and by a greater di-
versification of farm products.

"We promise every assistance in the reor-
ganizatien of the market system on sounder
and more economical lines and, where diversi-
fication is needed, government assistance dur-
ing the period of transition,

"Vigorous efforts of this administration
towards broadening our exports market wiU
be continued. The Republican party pledges
itself to the development and enactment of
measures which will place the agricultural in-
terests of America on a basis of economic equal-
ity with other industry to assure its prosperity
and success. We favor adequate tariff protec-
tion to such of our agricultural products as are
threatened by competition. We favor, without
putting the government into business, the es-
tablishment of a federal system of organization
for cooperative- marketing of farm products.

/« the Republican Platform Right for
Agriculture ?

The Illinois Agricultural Association recognizes
the necessity for party machinery. However, it has
no sentimental relationship binding it to any party.
The allegiance of the Illinois farmer should rest on
the principles for which any party stands and also
on the commitments and character of individuals
who aspire to positions of authority and upon whom
the responsibility for carrying out platform declar-
ations will rest. This applies to all officials from
the President and Congressmen down. The plat-
form of principles should be right. The individual
seeking the support must be right to gain the con-
fidence and support of the farmer.

Will It Help Conditions?

Is the agricultural plank in the Republican party
right t Does it unreservedly commit the Republi-
can party to the stabilization and the preservation
of agriculture, our basic industry t The farmer's
knowledge of his business and his recent intensive
study of existing conditions places him in a posi-

tion to appreciate the meaning of that part of the
platform in which ' ' The Republican party pledges
itself to the development and enactment of meas-
ures which will place the agricultural interests of
America on a basis of economic equality with other
industry to assure its prosperity and success, ' ' The
farmers have never asked for more than this, nei-
ther will they be satisfied with less. Nothing short
of economic equality will save agriculture. This
part of the plank could not have been improved
much if it had been written by the farmers them-
selves.

Promises with Reservations

Our enthusiasm wanes somewhat when we read
in the same paragraph — "We favor, without put-
ting the government into business, the establish-
ment of a federal system of organization for coop-
erative marketing of farm products. ' '- Putting the
government into business is a catch phrase. The
socialist thinks of this catch phrase in terms of
government ownership and operating of packing ,
institutions, mills, etc. The farmer is not a socialist
in any sense. He believes in individual efficiency
but he realizes the necessity for government regu-
lation of certain activities. He observes that the
government has seen fit to extend its activities into
the banking business, the railroad business as well
as other activities. The farmer is determined that
agriculture shall have economic equality and he will
not balk at extending government activities even to
the extent of putting the government into business
the same way whenever and wherever it is neces-
sary for the establishment of agricultural equality.
Slap at UcNary-Haugen Bill

We cannot escape the inference that this phrase-
ology is a slap at the McNary-Haugen bill. The
present leaders of the Republican party could have
passed this bill but did not see fit to do so. What
will be the attitude of the party leaders in the fu-
ture toward any measure which will effectively
bring about equality for agriculture t It is perti-
nent to consider how much this phraseology has
weakened the agricultural plank of the Republican
party. It has been one of the arguments used by
opponents of farm relief. Will these opponents
and the Republican party hide behind this phrase-
ology in the future t The agricultural interests of
America will resist any attempt of the men who
have no sympathy with agriculture to use this
phrase as a smoke screen for their opposition to any
measure extending government activities for the
purpose of establishing agricultural equality.

THE LIARS' CONTEST

SURE. ^VE'HS RIGHT
8b7. lUten, yoa*re risht. I mcaa abovt the Irlsk-
■i«a mmA the elevator, aee, tluit yon was telllafr
■boat la the RECORD. How do I knowr Sar, I
W9a maala* that. elevator at the time. We atarted
fron the top floor at two oVloek. atopped a coapla
doaen tlaiea to take on paaaengrera, and It 'waa two
Ave w^hen we stopped at the 45th floor and took on
thia here Irtahmnn that aaved hlaaelf by n ataadln'
hiflTh Jtunp. Thla la the flrat tine 1 ever aeen It In
print, hut It'a the truest thinv yoa know. — J. E.
Willis. Deeatnr. Illlaols.

COME INTO THE CORNER, EPPIE

Tell Dad to Run for the Senate
- Dear Editor ^-^'onld I qnallfy for the Llara* Cor-
aerf I aln a farm grlrl eighteen yearn old. I have
heen a member of the Pike Connty Plir CInb (oar
ytimm aad the Poultry Club three yeara. Naturally
I am latereated la farm life and all orKanlxatlona
pertnlnlnar to It. I think the Farm Bureau la the
beat thins that ever came to the farmera' aid.

The above Is true. Here Is my entry la the
eoatesti

My Dad Jolaed the Farm Bureaa and learned how
to treat the soil for aweet clover. Then he planted
a fleld of clover. 'When It waa. about a year old be
wanted to see how far down the roots had Kone,
so he chose one of the sraalleat plants, which vraa
only about ten feet hlftrh, and bcKan dlKgins. After
about 200 feet he had to cut the root, because It '
w^ent throngh such a larg^e vein of water that he
'vras almost drowned before he could get out of the
hole. He walled up the hole and now he has a
aplendid well with which he Irrlsatea the whole
farm, which is about 280 acres.

This experience made him aiore earloiis. He
then hired a well driller to come and drill down
by the side of the main root of the larfrest plant,
which measured twelve Inchea In diameter and
flfty fet hlffh. They kept drilling and dHlllnic
until they came to the end of the root, which ended
2.O0O feet down. In the center of the lars«st vela
of oil that haa ever been known. Now Dad haa the
most famous oil well in the world and he la tvrlee
as wealthy as John D. After this happened, all the
farmers of Pike county and all the adjolnlnjc
conntlea Joined their Farm Bnreaua, and now are
planting their farms to sweet clever. They arc all
boosters of the Farm Burean^s^Eflle R. Dorsey,
Grl«eravllle, Illlaols.

THIS SOUNDS REASONABLE
SpeaklBK of apeed, old Haal^ Heaneberry uaed
to have the apeedteat thre«htn|r nsachlne In theae
parts, and some say In the whole slate. Only trou-
ble nas, old Hank was alwaya Itmwsi^K about hia
machine, ao one day Bill Jonea grot tlrod of hearing
him braii: and made a bet that he couldn't threah
all the oata on the back eighty of BIM*s farm la a
day. Course old Hank took him up on It. and he
Rtade pTOOd. too. He threshed ntgrh 8.000 bushels of
oats that day, but as luck would have It there
waa a irrape vine tansled In the last bundle. Well
■Ir. before they could atop that machine, forty
acres of timber bad been dras-fred Into It. ffronnd
oat aad blown clean over to the edK« of Podnnk-
vllle. Bill aold that wood for fuel to the Inhabl-
tanta of the tow^a for more than enough to pay hla
bet aad clear the mortgage on his farm bealdea.—
Wm. T. Laughlln, Massbnch, Illinois.

Come on. Hllaols, with yoar Ilea! It yoo d9a*t,
we're golag to tell some like they tell oat la Kaa-
■as where the flrat aoag the tadpole* Icara after
they grow ap to he froga ta, ''How Dry I A^.**
That*a a threat!

I

June 21. 1924

hat part of the

I party pledges

tment of meas-

ral interests of

ility with other

1 success." The

than this, nei-

Nothing short

iculture. This

been improved

farmers them-

ons '.;■.'.,':.:;.•,
when we read
r, without put-
, the establish-
:ation for eoop-
" Putting the
h phrase. The
se in terms of
ing of packing
is not a socialist
idual efficiency
vemment regu-
serves that the
B activities into
)U8ines8 as well
letermined that
ility and he will
jtivities even to
it into business
ver it is neces-
Itural equality.
BiU

tiat this phrase-
igen bill. The
irty could have
o do so. What
iders in the fu-
will effectively
eJ It is perti-
ihraseology has
the Republican
unents used by
hese opponents
nd this phrase-
ral interests of
F the men who
re to use this
>position to any
tivities for the
equality.

Jane 21, 1924

Tli« niiiiob AfffaJhwJ AmocUIioii Haemr*

- \r

•ST

>omt the Irtsli-

tnowr Sar, I
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Cowles Analyzes McNary - Haugen Bill Defeat

LAJL REPRESENTATIVE TELLS
INSIDE POUTICS AND DETAILS
FOR FARM BUREAU MEMBERS

Cowie* Say* That All Farm OrganLwtioiu

Represented Worked in Hannony and

United Accord; No New Action

Determined.

The McNary-Haugen Bill — its consideration in
the House of Representatives of the United States,
Sixty-eighth Congress, First Session, with brief
comment upon and tome analysis of the vote by
which the bill was defeated.

BY R. A. COWLES.

The purpose of this article is to properly inform ;■,-;
our people, farm folks generally, and all f riendi ;■
who supported the bill "back home" as to its
progress in Congress during the session just closed,
its consideration in the House of Representatives,
its defeat, and some of the causes and forces con-
tributing thereto.

At the outset it should be stated that the Bill
was drafted with the fullest expectation that the
administration would sponsor the measure to the
extent of supporting it; since the principles em-
bodied in the bill had been under favorable con-
sideration by the Secretary of Agriculture, Mr.
Henry Wallace, for more than two years. Fur-
ther, that the flexible tariff provision embodied,
and those other provisions of the bill seeking to
render effective the protective tariff on agricultural
commodities of which surpluses over and above
domestic consumptive demands are normally pro-
duced, were entirely consistent with principles of
the protective tariff. It was also assumed with
pardonable presumption by the proponents of the
bill representing the central, west and northwest
states, having consistently supported the various
tariff bills from time to time, and particularly the
high schedules on manufactured goods appearing
in the present Pordney-McCumber Bill at the urg-
ent request of the New England states and the
East — that the McNary-Haugen bill, because of its
very nature and the present emergency existing in
agriculture, would have the general support of this
group of states.

What actually happened f > .

COMMITTEES FAVORED IT *•'

The bill was introduced in the Senate by Senator
Charles L. McNary of Oregon and in the House
by Representative Gilbert N. Haugen of Iowa and
ordered printed and referred te the respective com-
mittees on Agriculture of the Senate and House,
and by those Committees considered with unusual ^
care and deliberation. The biU was in due course
favorably reported to both houses of Congress. A
minority report was also filed within the limit of
time prescribed by the house rules.

After the bill was reported by the House Com-
mittee on Agriculture, considerable time elapsed
before the proponents of the bill were able to secure
a rule from the Rules Committee under which the
bill might come before the House for consideration.
This fact and other contributing evidences led the
proponents of the bill to the belief that the admin-
istration did not favor the measure.

ORGANIZED AGRICULTURE BEHIND IT

So that you may know something about the
united support of organized agriculture behind the
McNary-Haugen bill, a statement formulated by its
representatives in Washington, after having consid-
ered the subject matter in two conseciitive meetings,
was addressed to individual members of the Con-
gress and released to the press Monday morning.
May 19, 1924, appearing in the newspapers of the
central and western states. Space does not permit
of a repetition of the statement here. It reaffirmed
the united support of agriculture to the measure
and to the principles embodied in it. It was signed
by the following organizations whose representa-
tives were on the ground in Washington at the
time:

T. C. Atkeson. Washington Representatlre, Na-
tional Grange.
John G. Brown, President, National Live Stock

Producers' Association.
Geo. 6. Coale, Knox County, Indiana, Bankers.
Thomas E. Cashman, President, American Here-
ford Breeders Association Director, Minnesota
Farm Bureau Federation.
S. H. Thompson, President, Illinois Agricultural

Association.
R. A. Cowles, .Treasurer, Illinois Agricultural

Association.
Carl Gunderson, Director, South jDakots Wheat
.. Growers Association. '

William Hirth, President, Missouri Farmers As-
sociation.

C. W. Hunt, Secretary-Treasurer, Iowa Farm
Bureau Federation. m

Geo. C. Jewett, (lenerai Manager, AmericacPl
AVbeat Growers Associated.

Fred I. Marshall, Secretary, National Wool
Growers Association.

John D. Miller, President, National Cooperative
Milk Producers Association.

F. W. Murphy, St. Paul Association and North-
west Campaign Committee tor Promotion Mc-
Nary-Haugen Bill.

J. F. Reed, Vice-president, Minnesota Farm Bu-
reau Federation.

J. R. Riggs, Producers Commission Association
of Indianapolis, Indiana.

C. G. SelTlg, President, Minnesota Export Com-
mission League.

Gray Silver, Washington Representative, Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation.

Wm. H. Settle, President Indiana Farm Bureau
Federation.

Indiana Wheat Pool.

Indiana Dairy and Produce Association.

L. J. Tabor, Master, National Gran^.

John Tromble, President Kansas Farmers Union.

During the session there were present for vary-
ing periods of time some seventy-eight representa-
tives of farmer organizations working to secure
the enactment of this legislation. They met on
common ground and worked without exception in
harmony. The bill had the united support of prac-
tically all farm organizations interested in the pro-
duction and marketing of the commodities enum-
erated in the bill and was generally admitted and
recognized to have such support.

ADMINISTRATIOK TURNS ITS BACK

Nevertheless, so far as I am informed no volun-
tary effort at any time was made in behalf Qr in
the name of the administration to consider the bill
or any of its provisions in council with those pres-
ent representing farm folks and their organiza-
tions, and who presumably were informed at first
hand as to the agricultural situation in the United
SUtes.

Under the rule secured for the consideration of
the bill in the House, it was debated for fifteen
hours. After concluding the debate, the bill was
"read under five minute rule," section by section
— during which, members of the House were per-
mitted to offer amendments, speaking for five min-
utes upon each amendment. The entire considera-
tion of the bill was hampered by persistent filibus-
ter and consumed in all much time, parceled out, as
other legislation on the calendar and appropriation
bills came up for consideration, and intervened.
Reading of the bill was finally concluded and all
unfriendly amendments offered were' either voted
down, withdrawn or ruled out on point of order
made. During both the debate and the reading of
the bill it gained strength and support and should
have passed in this session of Congress, nowJ>rought
to a close.

The first real test of strength came when the
reading of the bill was concluded on Saturday
evening. May 31st — ^the oppone".ts forcing adjourn-
ment and defeating a vote on the bill at that time.
Representative Long^orth from Ohio, majority
leader in the House, having given notice earlier in
the day that at the conclusion of the reading of the
bill on that day, vote on the bill should go over
until Monday or Tuesday, such motion was offered
and prevailed.

" -"■':' INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT ONLY

The bill was sponsored by no political party in
Congress, and its only friends in Washington were
those members of Congress who recognized its real
merit and loyally supported it, as (Ud also Secre-
tary of Agriculture, Henry Wallace, so far as his
position in the cabinet permitted.

The bill admittedly had sufficient individual
support so that the administration, had it seen
fit, might have secured its passage in the House
and final enactment into law, as a great piece of
constructive legislation for the immediate benefit
of the people of the whole United States.

Its defeat cannot be justified upon any grounds
and can only mean a continuation of subsidy to
industry under prevailing Fordney-McCumber high
tariff schedules at the expense of agriculture.

The representatives of the several farmers' or-
ganizations/ in Washington, by appointment at
their request, met Mr. Longworth, the Majority
leader in the House, and other administrative lead-
ers— the Steering Committee — and discussed possi-
ble compromises that might be made in the bill, as
to commodities, maximum duration of the life of
the corporation, and authorized capital ; so that the
administration might get behind such a bilL Noth-

ing was accomplished, and no compromise of the
principles of the McNary-Haugen Bill were enter-
tained by its friends.

BIG BUSINESS OPPOSES

The National Chamber of Commerce,' headed by
Julius Barnes, the American Bankers Association,
"Widl Street," the Grain Exchanges and other
large business and financial interests speaking
through these organizations and their associated
and federated groups in the larger cities, covered
the Country, directly and through tlieir metropoli-
tan press, with propaganda against the bill — un-
ft>unded and unsupported by the provisions of the
measure. Let the whole countrj- know and realize
that an organized group of the great city financial
and business interests, solely in the selfish interest
of a relatively very small number of their people,
blocked the passage in Congress of our bill, in which
the well being and living of hundreds of thousands
of farm people was at stake. Surelj' there should be
no underestimation or misunderstanding of the sit-
uation now. The record is before j'ou. The vote by
which your bill was defeated — your anslj-sis mutt .
bring you to the same conclusion, all.

On, the other hand, large numbers of our ' ' down
state" bankers, business and professional men and
others, and their organizations and the down state
press in Illinois, and in the mid-west. west. n<»rth
.and north-west sections supported the bill and
urged ita passage in Congress. Rural America
with its friends from those sections of the country,
in a united effort must carry the fight to a finidL
The fght must be carried to Congress. Relief must
come through corrective legislative enactment; be-
cause a great defect is apparent in our economic
structure, directly attributable to and growing out
of legislative enactments secured through the ef-
forts and in the behalf of Industrj' and Labor —
favoring these groups to the great disadvantage of
Agriculture.

The Agricultural situation in this country is
fundamentally and immediately due to this defect
— whatever minor causes may be thought to exist.

It must be equally obvious that favorable con-
sideration at Washington, of the problems of agri-
culture can only come from an administration re-
liably informed, conscious of the fisting emerg-
ency— actually solicitons. Those engaged in Agri-
culture, as producers, speaking as they must
through their active representative organizations,
can be presumed to know best the condition and
present situation in their industry — and not a mere
handful whose sole interest in, agriculture is cen-
tered in the revenue to be derived to them from
handling and dealing in the commodities of agri-
culture, and in which costs of production and fair
exchange values are entirely disregarded — under
the present order of things.

PRINCIPLES WILL NOT DOWN

The principles, embodied in the McNary-Haugen
bill, will not down. Agriculture demands equality
with industry and labor under our protective sys-
tem which so operates under prevailing conditions
as to favor other major classes at the expense of
agriculture.

It is too early for us to make definite recommen-
dations for immediate procedure. We shall wait
until the platforms of the major political parties
are made public. We desire now to assure our
members and friends that we are in the fight to
the finish to secure for agriculture equality with
Industry and Labor.

During the interim members and friends are
urged to a-scertain the attitude of candidates for
public office toward our basic industrj- — Agricul-
ture.

Following is an analysis of the vote by states,
and by groups of states :

VOTE ON THE BILL BT STATES

ALABAMA

DMrieS

1

10

McDuAfl

BUI

StracKll

J«ffer«

BowUns

Ollnr

Allcvod
Buddl0«toii

Monroe Till*

Montffomorr

Osark

Annlston

lAfarett*

Tuvcaloooa

AI1S004

Tuaculnbla

BlnnlBffhun

Hajden

I

1 TlUmu

4

s RacoB

< RMd

7

ARKAXBAS

DriTor
OldScM

j :h

Parka

<Cestla««« M wmm* <>

Ovcvelm
I F»r«tt«Ti]i«

TlMllliaoi»Acriealtina AMwaatiaB R««ard

21, 1«a4

Here's How McNary-Haugen Bill Was Defeated R

21, ia24

21, 1»24

The maois Aciinltwd

RiBCCMrd

9

led Red— For; Blue— Against; White— Not Voting

P>«J4

The Illinois Agricultural Association Record

June 21. 1924

June

Here's How McNary-Haugen Bill Was Defeated R

21, 1924

June 21, 1924

The Illinois Agricultural Association Record

P«lfe5

led Red— For; Blue— Against; White^Not Voting

'U-

P>8«

6

The IlfinoM Auriealtival AModation Record

JiMe2I. 1924

(Continued from pare 3)

MICHIGAN

nKI.ABOMA

CALIFORNIA

District TsM

Nays

Not VoUnc

Bestdencs

IHstlict Ysu

Nays

NotVotlns

RMldeiMW

Mstetet Tm*

Nagra Mot V«tl^

Clancy

Detroit

1

Howard

Tulsa

1^,

Lea

Santa Rosa

Mlchener

Adrian

2

Hastings

Tahlequah

Alturas

WUIlama

Battle Creek

3

Carter

Ardmora

Curry

Sacramento

Ketcham

. ■ >'*.._

Hastings

4

McKeown

.f^ta

' " '*^"

^9'

Ada

Kahn

San Francisco

Mapes

Grand Rapids

e

Swank

Norman

Nolan

San Francisco

Hudson

East L.an9ing

s

Thomas *

■■" '

UedlclDe Park

_

MacLafferty

Oakland

Crampton

Lapeer

7

McCUntic

■ -U

Snyder

B

arbour

Fresno

Vincent

_^_^

Saginaw

8

Garber

«

Enid

Free

San Jose

McLaughlin

'■ ■' : ■ -■ .

Muskegon

■-» "■.■.*j-".»-^

Llneberger

Long Beach

Woodruff

Bay City

OREGON

s

Fredericks

Los Angeles

Bcolt

Alpena

1

Hawley

- f

Salem

Si

rlnff

COLORADO

El Centro

Jamea

McLeod

Hancock
Detroit

2
3

Sinnott
Watklns

J

The Dalles
Portland

T

mh^rlftV*

Valle

Denver
- Sterlltw

Canon City
Glenwood Springs

MINNESOTA

Anderson

Lanesboro

PENNSYLVANIA

H^rdv

Clague

Redwood Falls

1

Vnre

Philadelphia

T<

lylor

CONNECTICUT

Davis
Keller

St. Peter
St. Paul

2
3

Graham
Ranalef

Philadelphia
Philadelphia

Fenn

^Vethersfleld

Newton

Minneapolis

4

Edmonda

Philadelphia

Freeman

New London

Knutaon

St. Cloud

S

Connolly

Philadelphia

Tllson ,

New Haven

Kvale

Benson

8

Welsh

i

Philadelphia

Merrltt

Stamford

Larson

Duluth

7

Darrow

Philadelphia

O'SulUvan

Derby

Wefald

Hawley

8

Butler

^ .

West Chester

Schall

Excelsior

•

Watson

; **■*

i

Langhorne

DELAWARE

'" '. * ■.■

MISSISSIPPI

10

Orlest

Lancaster

At Large

Rankin

Tupelo

11

Wat res

Scranton

Boyce

Dover

Lowrey

Blue Mountain

12

Casey

Wllkes-Barre

; ...

FLORIDA

Humphreys

Greenville

13

Brumm

Mln«r8vllle

1

Drane

Lakeland

Busby

Houston

14

Croll

Readlac

1

Clark

GainesviUe

Collins

Meridian

IS

McFadden

Canton

s

Smith wick

Pensacola

Wilson

Laurel

1<

Kiess

■ . ,*

wnilamsport

4

Sears

KIsslmmee

J

Quin

McComb city

17

Cummlngs

: ■■■>■■■."•;

"-;«

Sunbnry

.1

GEORGIA

Collier

VIcksburg

18

Beers

• ' *'

Mount Union

1
1

a

--;

Moore

Statesboro

MISSOURI

18

Sltsa

■S

Harrlaburg

Park

Sylvester

Romjue

Macon

. 20

Wertx

. j|

Johnstown

Crisp

Amertciia

Losler

t Carrollton

21

Kuns

Altoona

4

■Wright

Newman

Mllllgan

Richmond

22

Olatfaitar

'

•*^

York

5
•

7

Upshaw

Atlanta

Faust

St. Joseph

23

Swops

Clearfleld

Jost

Kansas City

24

Kendall

Meyersdale

Lee

Chlckamauga

Dickinson

Clinton

35

Temple

Washington

8

Brand

Athena

Major

i . , '^'i-

Fayette

28

Phillips

, . .

Butler

9

Bell

Gainesville

Roach

«•

Linn Creek

27

Strong

■■ '■ ■ ' ■

Brookvlll*

10

Vinson

Mllledgevllle.

Cannon

Troy

28

Bixler

■•r^-',.

Johnsonburg

11

LanKlora

Etauglaa

Nswton

St. Louis

88

ShrsTS

Brie

Larsen ' . ■■

Dublin

Hawes

St. Louis

. 34

Kent

Bangor

1

IDAHO

Dyer

St. Louis

31

Wyant

Greensburg

French

Moscow

Wolff

Festus

32

Porter

Pfttsburgb

t

Smith

Twin Falls

Fullbrlght

Doniphan

38

Kelly

Swlssvala

ILLINOIS

Manlove

Joplln

34

Morln

Pittsburgh

1
>

Madden

Chicago

Rubey

^.* / Lebanon

35

Mages

Pittsburgh

Hall

Chicago

MONTANA

38

Campbell

Omttoa

2

Sproul

;' Chicago

E:vans

. 'yv Missoula

4

Doyle • ' . .

1 Chicago

Leavitt

■ *^: Great Falla

RHODB

ISLAND

5
«

7
8

Sabatti

Buckley

Michaelson

■A Chicago

V Chicago

. Chicago

Morehead
Sears

NEBRASKA

Falls City
Omaha

1
2
3

Burdlck
Aldrich
O'Connelt '

.• ■■#>'4j:.

Newport

Warwick
Provldenc*

Kuns

Chicago

Howard

Columbus

t
1*
11
11
13

R<

Fu
M<

Id

ner
Kenzte

Britten
Chindblom

Chicago

Chicago

Aurora

Belvldere

Elizabeth

McLaughlin

Shalienbergor f^ ••

Simmons

NEVADA

At 1 .artra

York

' - Alma

ScottsMua

1
2
I

- * V • .">

SOUTH CAROLINA

Logan

Byras*

Pomlnlck

Charleston

Aiken

Newberry

14

Graham

'- - " - ■'; * -. ' ■

Aledo

RiohjtrdH

■ ^^^,

4

McSwaln

OreenvUla

IS
11
1?

King
Hull
Fank

Galesbnrg

Peoria

Btoomington

1
>

4fra^ sa^ 8 uo

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Rogers
Wason

Sanbornvllle
Nashua

S
8
7

Stevenson

OasQue

Fulmar

Cheraw
Florenoa
Norwar

18
18

Htfladay
Moore

Oeorgstowti
Hontlcello
Carroll ton

Hlll«bOT«

B. St. Louis

NEW JERSEY

SOUTH

DAKOTA

20

Ralney

1

■• ''

Patterson

Camden

1

Chris topherson

Sioux Palls

21

Major

. '■•■ -

>

■ ■■' •" .

Bacharach

Atlantic City

1

Johnson

Aberdeen

22

MUler

1

.^

Oeran

Mattawan

1

Williamson

Oacoma

21

Arnold

RoblllMAD

4

It'

Browns

Princeton

24

wiiiiama

f . . -

T^ul'ivllle

8

Ackerman

PlalnHeld

TENNESSEE

28

DoBlaon

At Lars*

A4^r^ain« ativ

Marlon

8
7

^j\ -. ■■

Perkins
Soger

. ■'

WoodcUn Lake
Passaic

1

1

Rsses
Taylor

Butlar
La PoUetta

Tatea

Sprinfffleld

8

■ ' ■

McNulty

' i Nswark

2

HcReynolda

Chattanooga

Rath bone

INDIANA .

Kenllwortb

9
10 ■
11

Minahan
Lehlbach
Eagan

; Orange

Newark

Wsehawken

4
S
8

Hull

Pavls

Byrna

Carthage

Tullahoma

NashTlUs

WilBOn

Eranavllle

11

%.'■ -

O'Briea

• ' Jersey City

7

Salmon

Columbia

Greenwood

* Waahlnstoa

NEW MEXICO

8

Browning

Huntingdon

Gardner

ScottaburK

At

Large

?w* ■"

8

■»;i'i v*-*"

Garrstt

Dresden

Canfleld

i

BatesTllle

Morrow

'' Raton

10

f ■:-!'.■■ A.

^lahar

Memphis

Sanders

Terre Haute

NEW

YORK }

El

lot

Connersvllle

1

Bacon

\ 1

Wsstbnry

TEXAS

Moores

Indianapolis

2

Kindred

Astoria

t

Blank

ClarksTlUs

Ve

■tal

mell

Anderson

1

Lindsay

* : ■• Brooklyn

1.

Box

JacksonvlUe

Pu

• i .* '- ■ ■

Attica

4

Cullen

." ■ :- Brooklyn

1

Sanders

Canton

w«

K>d

l^fayette

i

Black

■-

Brooklyn

4

Etayburn

Co<

[>k

■\ :.*' -

Huntington

8

Stengle

, -/ Brooklyn

5

lummers

D«llaa

Fa

IrBeld
Ckey

Angola

7

Qaayl*

Brooklyn

8

OoralcaMi

HI

' t

La ports

8

Cleary

Brooklyn

7

Brlsss

OalTeston

IOWA

8

O'Connetl

Brooklyn

8

•amtt

Houston

Kopp

1

Mount Pleasant

10

a

Cellar

Brooklyn

9

MansSsId

Columbua

Hall

j

Wllllamabarg

11

Prall West New Brighton -

1*

Bnohanaa

Brenham

Rofclnsoa

■ <

Hampton

11

DIckstelo

New York City

Ooaaally

Marlln

Hausen

Northwood

11

Sullivan

New York City

LAnham
Williams

Port Worth

Cole

14

Perlman

New York City

11

Decatur

Ramaeyer

Bloomflsid

IS

Boylan

New York City

14

Wurxbach

Seguln

Dowell

' \ *

Des Moines

18

O'Connor

New York dty

IS I

Garner

Uvalde

Evana

Corydon

17

Mills

New York City

18

Hudspsth

EI Paso

Gr

een

Council Bluffs

1>

Carew

New York City

17

Blanton

Abilene

Dl<

klnson

Algona

1»

Bloom

New York City

18

rones

Amarlllo

BW

lea

Sheldon

20

LaGuardla

New Tone City

KANSAS

21

WsUsr

New York City

VTAII

An

thony

l^avenworth

21

Griffln

New York City

1

Colton

TeniAl

Sp

tie

Kansas City

21

•

Oliver

Bronx

2

Leatherwood

iBalt Laka City

"oul

Sedan

24

Falrchlld

Pelham

«o

«tr

ch

Marlon

28

Walnwrlght

Rye

VERMONT

■on« ' ;■

Btue Rapids

28

Fish

Garrison

1

neetwood

Morrisvflls

Wl

lite

Mankato

27

Ward

Debruce

2

"

Blbson

Brattleboro

Til

Cher

Medicine L^dge

28

1

Corning

Albany

An

res

WlchlU

28

Parker

Salem

VIRGINIA

10

11

Bal

Th
Jol

vin
Ro

rkley

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21. 1924

TheObiou Agricultnral AMocwtiaa Record

HATCH TELLS ABOUT
FARM BUREAU PLANT
IN STARK COUNTY

' (Continued from page 1)

thorns oft the cactus. And he
produced a combination plant
that grew spuda on Its roots and
tomatoes on its top.

"Science has taught us many
lessons about the requirements
for good plant growth. As a re
suit of the Smith-Lever Act
passed by Congress in 1912
leaders of advanced thought in
agriculture in DeKalb and Kan-
kakee counties produced another
combination plant. The seed was
sown in all parts of these coun-
ties and soon other counties took
up the work until now some two
thousand counties in our United
States are growing and ripening
the fruits of this plant, which in
time was called the Farm Bu-
reau. Its tremendous growth has
extended Its main roots into
every state in the Union. Its
enormous and sturdy trunk, the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion, is spreading its protecting
foliage over all humanity.

Tnbers Represent AcUvitiee

"The tubers upon the roots
represent the county and state
activities; the foliage represents
projects under a given activity,
county, state and national.

"It was soon discovered that
our great plant did not thrive in
some particular localities and
the men most interested in its
success began to study this Farm
Bureau plant. They found it to
be in the legume family. And
legumes, we know, do not thrive
In acid soils. They found ithat
the most successful and vigorous
growth was in sections where
there had been community activ-
ity.

Farm Bnreaa Parasites

"This plant, like all plant
growth, is subject to attack of
parasites; some working alone,
others In groups and each prey-
ing upon the activity most suited
to its taste. This is our plant
and we can cultivate and train
it to produce fruit of untold good
to present and future genera-
tions. We must spray with
truths to counteract the para-
sites and keep the minds of our
members sweetened by active
community work. It has been
my observation in organization
work that this picture holds true.
In localities where community
work has been active our Farm

Bureau lias thrived with profit
and pleasure to its members.

"Leading in a community is
something like running a large
farm. With plenty of efficient
help the crops can be taken care
of easily; but if help is scarce,
weeds will grow and parasites
can get in their deadly work.
Sowed Good Seed

"Our own community began
sweetening and inoculating its
soils some fifteen years ago when
our first Farmers' Institute was
started. It sowed the seed of
desire for further advancement
in agriculture, and out of this
sprang our Alfalfa Growers' As-
sociation and our Experimental
Farm, which have resulted in
soil improvement and the pro-
duction of tons of alfalfa in the
vicinity of Kewanee.

"Our Round Table meetings,
fostered by Professor Hamilton
and myself with other help, were
held in country school houses.
These meetings brought out many
valuable thoughts and discus-
sions. Out of all this came the
desire to try out the new plant,
the Farm Bureau, which in due
time was organized in Henry^
county and a short time later in
Stark county.

Ooonties Well Organized

"Both counties organized into
community Farm Bureaus. I
happen to be president of the lo-
cal Farm Bureau and a board of
nine directors work with me.
The rest of the county is organ-
ized in this way. In Stark county
there are several active commu-
nity clubs centering around rural
churches. So you see the soils
were ready to produce whenever
adequate cultivation was made
to grow better community life.

"There is no question in our
minds as to the value of our or-
ganization to agriculture, but you
are wanting to know just what
we are doing to get this across
to our neighbors and associates.

"We have no set schedule of
meetings and no set program.
We decided a few years ago that
the place for these meetings was
the lawn of some prominent
member's home. We agreed that
all work and no play made Jack
a dull boy,' and we believed the
little girl was right, who, when
asked by her grammar teacher
to define man, stiid, 'A little boy
grown up.' Accordingly, our pro-
grams have included some play
along with the serious facts
brought out.

MINIMUM WEIGHT
RULING WILL SAVE
SHIPPERS' MONET

Deosion of DKnois Commeroe
Commission Reduces Pos-
sibility of injury to
Stock

HERE'S WHAT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
ACCOMPLISHED AT ITS JUNE MEETING

June 6 is the date of the last executive committee meet-
ing. Following are actions taken and problems discussed:

1. Heard progress report On the new auditing service cor-
poration, the "Illinois Agricultiiral Cooperatives Association"
and passed resolution endorsing all work done on it and also
nominated Geo. A. Fox ws recording secretary and R. A.
Cowles as treasurer in acieordance with the by-laws of the

I new incorporation.

2. Heard and sanctioned financial report.

3. Dean H. W. Mumford, College of Agriculture, Univer-
I sity of Illinois, explained the program of work being carried

on by the Extension Service, Experiment Station and College
I of Agriculture.

4. The following resolution was presented and passed
I unanimously:

"The Illinois Agricultural Association is proud of the stand
I It has taken on the McNary-Hbugen Bill and offers no apol-
ogy for its course in the recent campaign in behalf of the
I Bill.

"KBSOLVEa): That we commend the work of our offi-
cials who so efficiently conducted the campaign for the
McNary-Haugen Bill and the hearty support given by the
County Farm Bureaus to their State Association in this
fight.

"BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That we continue our
efforts and unite with other farm organizations in a de-
termined effort to secure some kind of agricultural re-
lief that will place this basic Industry on a parity with
other Industries of this country."

We view with alarm the fact that the 6.8th Congress,
after acknowledging agriculture as the btsic industry of
this country and also acknowledging that a real emerg-
ency exists in this industry, failed to enact any agricul-
tural relief legislation.

We therefore call upon all who are interested in agri-
culture and the future prosperity of this country to
study the vote as registered for and against the farm
relief measure of the present Congress with a view
toward supporting men who will pledge themselves to
principles that will restore the value of the agricultural
dollar so that the standards of living of those engaged
in agricultural pursuits be comparable with those en-
joyed by labor and industry.

"BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That we commend the
action of all the members of the 68th Congress who sup-
ported the principles advocated by our farm organizations
and especially those of our own State."

5. Heard reports from organization and poultry and egg
Imarketing departments.

Mr. Hatch's IcranM, wUck Ulwbmtoi the rabw •! foi, blcadlr, Mlshbortr
commluUttea Mid the tmm Imrcsm.

Come Miles For Picnic

"Our programs vary, but I will
try to descril>e some of them. In
1922 we held seven meetings in
the two communities under our
jurisdiction. The first one was
held on the lawn at the home of
a farm bureau member. His de-
sire to have all his friends enjoy
a good time at his place stimu-
lated him to put forth a great
deal of personal effort. We
called twelve or fifteen men at
different points and urged them
to ask people to come to this
Farm Bureau meeting. Cards
were mailed to some, a detailed
account of the plans was pub-
lished in the local paper ten
days before the meeting, and lat-
er the program was announced
through the same channel. All
this got it before the people.
Then a good account of the af-
fair as published in the local pa-
per made splendid advertising
for the next meeting, which had
already been planned and an-
nounced. The farmers and their
families began coming before five
o'clock and the program of fun,
games, music, readings, speeches
and moving pictures continued
until ten o'clock.

Stndy Aims of Farm BnreMi

"About the same procedure
was followed at each meeting,
but always with different sub-
jects for discussion. A great
many people followed these
meetings through. It gave us
the chance to get over the work
and aims of the Farm Bureau.

"Last year we held one of
these meetings at my farm dur-
ing July and close to a thousand
people attended. They came
from four different counties,
some driving as far as thirty
miles. Our program started at
five o'clock with horseshoe games
for the men and volley ball for
the women. At half past six
the women folks spread the bas-
ket suppers and everyone stopped
their games to eat, some in caf-
eteria style, others in family
groups. They met old friends
and made new ones until eight
o'clock, when the program be-
gan. There was singing by a
local quartette and a soloist, mu-
sic selections by local saxophone
talent, readings by a little girl
from our school and an address
by our city editor, who put his

personal influeiice, as well as that
of his paper, back of the Farm
Bureau. Then came the movies,
a comic and 'The Yokd of Age.'
The program was a little too
long, but several hundred peo-
ple stayed until it was complet-
ed. They all enjoyed it and
wanted another one this year,
which we will have on June 20.

Everyone Works

"The point we want to make
Is to have the Farm Bureau a
leading organization in the com-
munity. A little help by many
hands makes the thisgs come
"easy. What we must do is de-
velop local leaders and confi-
dence in these leader*, and it
can be done by stimulating a de-
sire among young folkt to take
part in such programs. Readings
along Farm Bureau lines should
be provided. I would suggest
such subjects as, 'Signing up
Dad,' 'Ma's Trouble wi^h a Sit-
ting Hen,' 'Johnnie Feeding the
Prize Pig,' 'Alfalfa and the Pic-
nic,' and any others which can
tie made funny and at the same
time carry a moral.

"We believe that we Should be
closer to so-called business men,
that is, we should know their
problems as well as make known
to them our problems. So we
Invite our town folks, bankers,
lawyers, doctors, and merchants
to our meetings. This gives
them an opportunity to learn the
vital points of our movement.
A good live time is oiir motto.
A chairman who can keep things
moving is half the battle.
C. of C. Helps

"Some time ago w« held a
farmer-banker meeting in Stark
and Henry counties with farmers
and bankers in the ratio of two
to one, with" each bank repre-
sented by one man. We had a
supper, a good address by Geo.
A. Fox, executive secretary of
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, some music and a discussion
of farm questions by farmers
and bankers. We believe we
sold to the bankers the high
ideals of the Farm Bureau lead-
ers that evening and it has been
worth a lot to us. The banker,
editor and minister are three
city men who must cooperate
with the Farm Bureau.

"The Chamber of Commerce
returned the favor by promoting

Illinois farmers and livestock
shippers will benefit by a recent
decision of the Illinois Commerce
Commission reducing the mini-
mum weight on bogs in standard
36 foot cars from 17.000 pounds
to 16,500 pounds on intrastate
traffic. This decision is the re-
sult of a complaint filed by the
transportation department of the
Illinois Agricultural Association
against the railroads which trans-
port livestock between points in
Illinois and the commerce com-
mission has ordered the 63 rail-
way companies involved to ad-
here to this new ruling on or be-
fore July 1, 1924.

Avoid Injury to Stock

It has been the rule of rail-
roads in Illinois to charge freight
on hogs and mixed livestock on
a minimum weight basis regani-
less as to lactual weight of the
livestock transported, according
to L. J. Quasey, director of the
I. A. A. transportation depart-
ment, who filed the complaint,
and this practice has worked a
hardship on the farmer who ships
during hot weather when over-
loading in order to load up to
the minimum weight require-
ment results in injury or death
to stock.

Lowers Minlmnm Welfcht

The new ruling on minimum
weight will also be of advantage
to shippers of mixed carloads of
Jivestock, especially on calves
and hogs where the hog mini--
mum and hog rate is applied, as
this makes 500 pounds difference
in the rate. With the minimum
weight now set at 1C.500 pounds
the shipper can load lighter with-
out paying any excess freight.
Some adjustment has also been
made on cars over the standard
36 foot length but the most sig-
nificant change Is on the stand-
ard car. The saving under the
new ruling will be aiiproximately
a dollar per car. :,

Producers Equipped
To Handle Orders
For Feeder Cattle

"Farm bureau memtiers who
feed cattle should bear in mind
that there is a Producers Commis-
sion Association operating in the
Kansas City market," says C. A.
Stewart, director of livestock mar-
keting of the I. A. A until July 1
and newly appointed secretary of
the National Livestock Producers
Association, "and when buying
feeder cattle remember that this
erganization is well equipped to
handle orders for all classes of
feeding stock and any order which
is placed with them will be given
the best attention."

"In addition, by purchasing your
feeders through them, you are
assisting in developing livestock
marketing work. If you happen
to be in that market in person,
call on the Producers and get
acquainted. If Kansas City l» a
market which you patronise for
feeder cattle and you cannot find
the time to visit the market, do
not hesitate to place an order
with the Producers by mail"

and paying the expenses of a tri-
county picnic at Kiewanee last
September. Farmers and town
folks alike were there and took
part in the games and entertain-
ment features. J. R. Howard
spoke to the crowd of 5,000 peo-
ple who stayed throughout the
day in spite of a drizzling rain.
Had the weather been favorable
I think there; would have been
20,000 people there.

'"That is the way^we see our
Farm Bureau -plant liere at Ke-
wanee. It Is a legame that we
can cultivate so that it will pro-
duce the kind of fralts we want
It to produce. We think we have
gone a long way in our county
and local commualty toward
sweetening the soil tor this plant,
the FARM BUREAU."

1r:

1. -.,:■■

P>1«8

TALKS, DISCUSSIONS,
MUSIC AND DINNER
FEATURE MEETING

Sixty-five Fanners And Bum-

net* Men Attend Champaign

Conference To Connder

Problem*.

The nKaoh Aciicohwal AModation Record

Sixty-five farm bureau repre-
sentatives and business men from
the counties of Champaign, Macon,
D« Witt, Piatt, Moultrie, Douglas,
Coles and Shelby, constituting the
19 th Congressional District of
which J. L. Whisnand, Charles-
ton, is executive committeeman,
met at the Inman hotel in Cham-
paign, June 14, for a regularly
scheduled meeting. Short talks
were made in the morning ses-
sion by V. Vaniman, of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association and
John C. Watson, taxation spe-
cialist of the I. A. A.

Give. Business Advice

Mr. Vaniman explained the
auditing, accounting and busi-
ness advisory service of the newly
incorporated Illinois Agricultural
Cooperatives Association, showing
that the purpose of this new as-
sociation is not to spy and check
up on the managers of coopera-
tive concerns but la rather to
give sound business advice, pro-
vide against mistakes and mis-
management and furnish infor-
mation on a cooperative basis.
He outlined the development of
all business dividing its growth
into the three stages of promo-
tion or organization, the stage
of efficiency or improvement of
bniiness and the final stage in
which business firms unite to
solve their problems cooperative-
ly. Mr. Vaniman reminded the
farm bureau members that big
business firms have long ago
reached the third stage in this
business development while farm
ers' cooperatives have been con-
tent to stand by and look upon
cooperative auditing and account-
ing with aloofness.

The Illinois Agricultural Co-
operatives Association iff de-
signed to prevent bsinkruptcy of
cooperatives in this state and al-
though it was instituted chiefly
by the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation, it is now incorporated
under the laws of the state and
is independent of the I. A. A.
Mr. Vaniman expressed the opin-
ion that the auditing service will
put farmer-owned cooperatives
fire to ten years ahead of what
they would otherwise have been.
Watson Explains Taxes

J. C. Watson made a short talk
on the tax situation in Illinois
both at present and in the future.
Be offered the income tax as the
solution to the problem of tax-
ing Intangible property. "The
first thing that should be done
is to secure an e<iuallzation of
the tax burden," said Mr. Wat-
son, "giving the farmer, the la-
boring class and the home own-
ers, both in the city and in the vil-
lage, a fairer tax law." He showed
how an unjust tax situation has
existed and does now exist be-
cause a large amount of personal
property is not at present taxed
due to the fact that it is intang-
ible. "Diamonds and musical in-
struments are good examples of
intangible property," said Mr.
Watson. He answered questions
put to him by the farmers pres-
ent and predicted that Illlnoia
tax-payers would pay higher taxes
before they ultimately become
lower.

Talks Farm Itegislatlon

D. J. Holterman, of the 19th
district, made a short comment
upon matters of farmer legisla-
tion taking issue with the state-
ment that agricultural interests
cannot be helped by legislation
and the establishment of an ag-
ricultural policy. "The big
trouble with us farmers is that
we haven't gone after legislation
which ,we wanted." stated Mr.
Holterman. "It is not our idea
to promote unfair legislation but
simply to get a square deal in
legislative matters."

A farm bureau dinner at the
hotel followed the morning meet-
ing. Group singing, led by Lloyd
Lamkins of Champaign, was a
prominent feature of the dinner
boor.

At the afternoon meeting Mr.
George W. Willett. principal of
the Lyons township high school
at La Grange and who Is dlrect-
lax the I. A. A. school survey.

spoke on, "The Farmers' Side
of the Rural School Question
He pointed out that rural schools
have been too much adapted to
city conditions instead of rural
life. "The biggest mistake In
our rural school system," said
Mr. Willett. "is that we have
tried to put too many new-
fangled ideas into our rural
schools instead of developing the
natural advantages that already
exist there."

Make School Snrvej

Under Mr. Willett's direction a
rural school survey, which was
sponsored by the educational
committee of the I. A. A., is
being made with the idea of
getting definite information which
will be helpful in enacting school
laws at the coming legislature
that will be more beneficial to
farmers and their children.

Following Mr. Willett's talk,
Fred Jorgenso^, manager of the
Pioneer Creamery Company at
Champaign, reviewed the egg-
marketing situation during the
last decade, presenting the prob-
lems of buying and handling
eggs. He expressed the opinion
that consumers are now getting
far better eggs than they did
several years ago, due chiefly to
egg-candling laws and cold stor-
age facilities.

Several five minute reports
were made by representatives
from the various counties outlin-
ing the activities of the local
farm bureaus. The next confer-
ence of the 19th district will be
held at Decatur some time in
September.

Pass Resolutions

The fallowing resolutions de-
signed to help solve serious mar-
keting problems were presented
by D. J. Holterman of Sadorus
and passed on by the meeting:
To the Nineteenth Congressional
District of Illinois. Farm Bureau
Conference.

Gentlemen:- Whereas. The farmers
of this country as time goes on and
their financial condition ^rowa
steadily worse, are recognizing the
value of business cooperation and
the necessity of owning and control-
ing their own marketingr systems,
and

Whereas, the attempts to estab-
lish a national farmer-owned grain
marketing system In the past, have
not been successful, more for lack
of cooperation of our different farm-
ers' organizations, than to either
plan or principal. Therefore be it

Resolved: That this meeting re-
quest the Illinois agricultural As-
sociation to use its best efforts and
influence to cause the asaembllnK
of a national conference of repre-
sentatives of all of our farmers' or-
eranlzatlons whose membership Is in-
terested in the production of small
grain such as wheat, rye. oats, bar-
ley, flax, and soy beans, for market,
for the purpose of bringing out and
establishing a farmer-owned and
controled marketing system for
small grain, and further be It

Resolved: That this meeting re-
quest the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation to use its efforts and In-
fluence to secure the assembling of
a national conference of representa-
tives of all farmers' organizations
whose membership is engaged with
the production of corn for market,
for the purpose of creating a farm-
er-owned and controled marketing
system for corn, and further be it

Resolved: That a copy of these
resolutions be sent to the Illinois
Agrfcultural Association requesting
action at the earliest possible date.

Following is a list of those
who attended the meeting:

Chas. MIttendorf. LAwrence Mc-
Connell. A. R. Grimdley. J. A. Hos-
sack, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Lamkins.
J. E. Johnson. P. A. JorK«nson. all
of Champaign: F. A. Oouerler. I. A.
A.. J. T. Smith. P. W. Jordan, tJr-
bana; J. C. Watson, I. A. A., Chi-
cago; F. E. Charles, I. A. A.. Chi-
cago; C. C. Burns, farm adviser,
Champaifrn county; Wm. Blue. Ma-
homet: Wm. Odell. D. J. Holterman,
Sadorus; J. N. Caslet. L. K. Irwin.
F. W. Garrett. Tuscola; L. 'W. Bra-
ham. Hlndslraro; Chas. L. Meharry.
Attica. Ind.; G. A. Smith. Seymour;
J. 1,. Whisnand. Charleston; C. B.
Althaus. a. W. Willett. La Grange;

E. G. Thelra, Prairie Farmer. Chi-
cago; Vr. B, Rlegel. Tolono; G. E.
Ewlng. Areola; Chas. McDonald.
Hlndsboro: S. S. Davis, farm adviser,
Monticello; O. • M. Allyn. Edwin
Blue. C. W. Thorpe, Clinton; Chas. J.
Robinson. Shelbyvllle; Henry M.
Dunlap, Savoy: M. E. Wise. Cerro
Gordo; T. W. Lamb. Bement; M. I.
Goken. Lane; D. M. Black. Kenney;
C. D. Raves. Webona; W. Z. Black.
St. Joseph: E. F. ^Tebster. Rantoul;

F. E. Jackson. Fisher; E. P. Imbo-
den. Decatur; Henry Shafer. lUlop-
oli».

Hundreds of little ulani kiddles
Uke this one ar« hoplni: that some
rood hearted farm bare«il mem-
ber wlU take them into the countrv
for a two weeks ontlnff. Hot
weather. wUl soon he upon us;
Sive tJiese poor children mi op-
portunity to see irhat (>«d mode
for His peopl».~the rreat ont-of.
doors. Manj of them don't know
a cow from a horse; they're lots
of fiui, too. The children are be-
Inir sent oat in rroaps of one
dozen or more to distances wttliln
a 200-mlle radios of Chlcaco.
Write todar — do a good torn.
Yonll enjoy their outing, tool

REPUBUCANS CUT
AND POUSH PLANK
AT G.O.P. MEETING

Ground hogs have become such
a menace in Stephenson county
that the farm bureau Is conduct-
ing a county-wide ground hog
extermination campaign. J. Fred
Smith, a Stephenson county far-
mer who has waged an Incessant
war against the pests, has offered
a prize of (25.00 to the boy who
makes the most catches by Sep-
tember 1.

(Continued from p&se 1>

"We favor adequate tariff pro-
tection to such of our agricultural
products as are threatened by for-
eign competition.

"We favot, without putting the
government into business, the
establishment of a federal system
of organization for cooperative
marketing of farm products."

The latter goes somewhat fur-
ther in the matter of federal as-
sistance In cooperative marketing
than the farmers requested, since
they confined their request to
"the active aid of all of the gov-
ernment departments having to
do with agricultural production,
particularly the Department of
Agriculture which should include
a branch devoted to cooperative
marketing that is in keeping with
the needs and importance of this
work."

Federal Aid For Roads

The farmers were assured of
the continuance of federal aid in
the building of farm-to-market
highways as provided in the "sev-
en per cent system" enacted in
1921. Likewise the party pledged
itself on the railroad problem in
conformance with the Federa-
tion's tentative plank. "We fa-
vor a careful and scientific read-
justment of railroad rate sched-
ules," says the platform, "with
a view to the encouragement of
agriculture and basic Industries,
without impairment of railroad
service." The request for a plank
asking for a speedy completion
of the valuation of the railroads
so the Interstate! Commerce Com-
mission may have a more Intelli-
gent basis for determining rates
was Ignored. However, the plat
form, if weak in that particular,
can be tread upon safely by the
agriculturists when it comes to
merchant marine and the devel
opment of waterways. After en
dorslng the merchant marine and
the sale of government-owned
ships when propitious, it neglect-
ed to advocate a method of mak-
ing the merchant marine profit-
able. The farmers told the plat-
form carpenters that we need
more freight and passengers on
our incoming ships and that an
inducement to our business men
to designate our fiag ships should
be held out in the form of a
treasury certificate, based on the
freight charge on Incoming com-
modities. They also advocated
reduction through rail and water
rates.
Approve Reclamation Projects

The convention approved the
study of the reclamation proj-
ects made by the committee ap-
pointed by the Interior Depart-
ment for the purpose of relieving
the distress among the farmers
on these projects and putting the
whole reclamation work on a
business basis.

An effort was made on the part
of the farmers to get the party
to recognize the need for a gen-
eral plan of comprehensive wa-
terpower development, based up-
on the conservation of our water
resources by storage develop-
ments where feasible, thus in-
creasing the country's waterpow-
er from 66,000,000 to 200,000,-
000 horsepower or more. Such a
plan, they maintained, should
take Into consideration the need
for the development of air ni-
trates for war and for fertilizer,
and power should be reserved for
the purpose. Muscle Shoals was
suggested as an outstanding op-
portunity to inaugurate such a
policy, and the plank makers
were told that this plan should
be followed in the disposition of
the property. The platform,
however, merely lauds the water
power.

Start Baseball In

Galesburg District

Another farm bureau baseball
league has been organized in the
Galesburg district with six mem-
ber teams from Bureau, Warren
Knox, Stark, Whiteside and Mar-
shall-Putnam county farm bu-
reaus. Representatives from the
farm bureaus in this district met
at Princeton recently and made
arrangements for farm bureau
baseball games this summer. G.
K. Metzger, organization director
of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation, outlined the plan by
which all farm bureau district
leagues in the state are governed.

According to the schedule of
games drafted at the meeting
every team in the district plays
one game with each of the other
teams. The champions of the
district will be eligible for the
state farm bureau baseball tour-
nament to be played at the an-
nual I. A. A. picnic at Lincoln,
August 26.

T,he Springfield district league
with teams from Cass, Macoupin
Sangamon, Logan, Menard, Mor-
gan, Mason and Tazewell coun-
ties, was the first to organize
with a definite playing schedule
Local farm bureau teams In Ken-
dall county are also playing on a
fixed schedule with the intention
of developing a county team to
enter the final tournament at the
Lincoln picnic.

Jane 21. 19Z4

WILLETT TO MAKE
EXTENSIVE SURVEY
OF SCHOOL PROBLEMS

Will Conduct Investigation in
nUnois and Other State*.
Ahhaua Secured as Re-
search Assistant

Farmers Will Get
Fair Shake, Says
Fox to Advisers

"We are proud of Uie stand we
have taken on the McNary-Hangen
bill," said Geo. H. Fox, executive
secretary of the Illinois Agrlcul
tural Association, when' he spoke
to the farm advisers In their
annual conference at the Uni
versity of Illinois, June 10, 11
and 12. "Agriculture is not get-
ting a fair shake with other in-
dustries, and the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association Is here to see
that the farmer gets his due con-
sideration."

Continuing, Mr. Fox told of the
fine fight made by organized farm-
ers, especially in Illinois, for the
McNary-Haugen bill and that even
though the bill lost, the efforts
put forth had not gone in vain.
Hel. said that no definite action
had been mapped out for the fu-
ture excepting that a general con-
ference of all farm organizations
has been called at St. Paul, and
that the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation would be represented.
Mr. Fox touched lightly upon the
numerous projects underway by
the various departments of the
I. A. A.

The investigation of rural
school problems, instigated by
the Educational Committee of
the I. A. A. in cooperation with
the Illinois State Bducatlonal
Committee is progressing rapidly
under the direction of George W.
Willett, principal of the Lyons
township high school at La
Grange, who was secured to su-
perintend the ii)vestIgatIon. An-
ticipating the passage of school
laws at the coming legislature, it
is the aim of the Educational
committee of the I. A. A. to ob-
tain facts directly from educators
throughout the state and from
farmers so that any changes that
may be made In the management
of rural schools may be made
consistent with the wishes of the
farmers and their children, in so
far as they are affected.

Send Oat 10,000 liCtten

Responses exceeding all expec-
tations have been received from
400 letters sent out to school
principals and superintendents
asking questions which will give
Mr. Willett important facts and
information upon which to base
conclusions regarding the actual
conditions of rural schools over
the state.

Ten thousand letters each em-
bodying some 40 definite ques-
tions have been sent out to far-
mer tax-payers of the state, the
results of which are expected to
furnish detailed information on
taxes and assessed valuation of
farm lands. The aim of the In-
vestigation Is to combine the best
judgment of farmers with that
of teachers in the state toward
securing legislation which will
improve existing school conditions
by giving the rural districts bet-
ter schools in return for the
taxes paid for their upkeep.
Get Farmers' Viewpoint

During the summer Mr. Willett
will be In Michigan and other
jttates making a study of similar
- educational problems in those
states and gathering Information
which will aid in solving the
problems of Illinois. C. B.
Althaus, of La Grange has been
secured as field man to help In
the survey. He will go through
the school records in various
counties of the state classifying
the results both good and bad,
of school practices used in the
past. The questionery sent to
farmers calls for complete facts
regarding the tax situation as
well as for the farmer's personal
viewpoint upon pressing school
problems.

That the survey being made
by the Educational Committees
is attracting widespread attention
is shown by the large number of
replies to letters sent out and by
the Interest taken in the subject
recently when Mr. Willett out-
lined his program of Investiga-
tion before the 19th congressional
district conference at Champaign.

Mason County Beats
Cass In Baseball

Baseball continues to occupy a
position of importance in the
Springfield district. The Mason
county team defeated Cass county
in a loosely played game last
Saturday. Both teams hit fre-
quently but Mason county batters
garnered their hits at opportune
times and scored a total of 12
runs on 14 hits. Cass batters were
able to hit consistently but their
safeties were scattered. Errors by
Cass county players were respons-
ible for several Mason county
scores.

The contest with Cass county
is the first of the season for
Mason county. They have a

bunch of hard hitters and reports
indicate that they frill develop
into strong contenders for the
state championship. Following is
a summary of the game:

Masom Coeaty Faras Barcaa

AB R H O B

Thomas, c 6 2 2 10

Krause, p 6 1 1 1 0

C. Sarff. 3b 5 2 "

Sears, rf S

Huber. rf t

E. Sarff. 2b S

Lutes, ss S

Lofton, cf 6

■Winsdor, If 5

Blakely, lb 6

Niederer, p 0

1 1«
0 0

Totals 48 12 14 21 S

Caaa Coamtr Fana Borean

ABR H O B

Wltte, cf 6 1 1 0 0

Herzberger, 3b 6 12 11

Hierman, c. lb S 113 0

R. Hager, ss. c 8 0 1 1 3

L. Burns, ss 3 0 10 2

H. Hager. 2b 4 10 3 0

Blohm, rf 4 1 0 0 0

Lynn lb 4 0 1 18 t

Keithley, If 4 0 1 X 0

P. Burns, p 4 0 1 0 0

Huston, p 0 0 0 0 0

Totals 40 5 1122 i

Struck out; Krause 6; Burns 5.
Score by Innings; Total

Mason 01It0002 2 — 12

Cass 000000320 — B

Volnme 2

Issued Every Other Saturday, July 5, 1924

NunJi>er 13

1 13
1 1
1 0
0 0

DEMOCRATS PLEDGE
PLANK DEMANDED BY
ORGANIZED FARMERS

I

Bradfute and Silver Represent
A.F.B.F. at Big Convention;

Cowles' ' Presence
^ • . Requested

Tlie Democrats pledged tliem-
selves to adopt an international
policy of cooperation to re-estab-
lish the farmers' export market:
to adjust the tariff so that the
farmer can buy again in a com-
petitive manufacturers market;
to readjust and lower rail and
water rates to make the farmers'
market national and international
instead of regional and local; to
bring about the early completion
of Internal waterway systems for
transportation and to develop our
water-power for cheaper fertil
izer for use on our farms; and to
estAbllsh an exfrart marketing
corporation or commission in or-
der that the exportable surplus
may not establish the price of
the whole crop last week at their
New York convention.

Adopts A. F. B. F. Planlc

O. E. Bradfute and Gray Sil-
ver,- the American Farm Bureau
Federation president and the
■Washington , representative, were
delegated by the A. F. B. F. ex-
ecutive committee to present the
demands of organized agricul-
turalists to the Democrats. The
plank submitted by these repre-
sentatives was adopted almost
verbatim according to R. A.
Cowles, treasurer of the Illinois
Agricultural Association and its
special representative at Wash-
ington during the recent McNary-
Haugen bill battle who was re-
quested to attend the convention
by Democrat friends of agricul-
ture and who helped while there
to draw up the organized agri-
cultural plank which was adopted-

The full text of the Democratic
agricultural plank appears on
page 2.

1200 Attend Elmira
Farm Bureau Picnic

The farm bureau in Elmira
township. Stark county, held its
annual community picnic June
20 at Eoselawn Farm, the home
of O. L. Hatch, pioneer in farm
bureau work in Illinois. Twelve
hundred farmers and business
men and their families from Ke-
wanee and surrounding territory
turned out for the picnic. This
was a record crowd for the El-
mira farm bureau picnic. Last
year between five and six hundred
attended.

During the late afternoon and
early evening volley ball, horse
shoe games and general farm gos-
sip were the most popular sports.
Interest in the horse shoe con-
tests in preparation for the state
tournament at the I. A. A. pic-
nic in Lincoln, August 26, was
running high among farmers
from Stark, Henry and Bureau
counties.

A basket supper under the big
trees of tlie Hatch lawn followed
the athletic contests. Talks, mu-
sic and readings of particular in-
terest to the farm bureau mem-
bers and a five reel comedy mo-
vie put on by Stajk county Farm
Adviser, E. E. Brown, completed
the program.

'1-

LA.A. WiU Award
Trophy to Winner
Of Loading Contest

The transportation department
of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation in cooperation with the
National Livestock Producers As-
sociation has instituted a safety
loading contest between farmers'
shipping associations which ship
to the terminal agencies of the
Producers. The I. A. A. will
offer a trophy to the shipping
association which sustains the
least loss on the basis of volume
of business to any of the Produc-
ers commission companies. The
Producers association is conduct-
ing a similar contest between its
patrons.

-The purpose of the contests,
according to L. J. Quasey, direc-
tor of the I. A. A. transportation
department, is to stimulate care-
ful loading and handling of live-
stock, especially during hot
weather. The railroads of Illi-
nois will be asked to cooperate
toward better handling of live-
stock enroute to market.

The contest being started by
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion will be confined to shipping
associMtions -within the s.ate "of
Illinois. The producers' contest,
and a trophy which they will
award, will be entirely separate
from the I. A. A. fontest, but
will be governed by ^milar regu-
lations.

Following are the terms and
conditions under which the as-
sociations will operate in the I.
A. A. contest:

1. The contest will cover only
shipments to the Producers be-
tween July 1 and December 31,
1924.

2. A minimum of 20 cars for
the six months period will be re-
quired to qualify a shipping as-
sociation for the contest. (This
means a total of 20 cars to any
one or more of the Producers
commission companies.)

3. Shipping associations will
not be required to keep any rec-
ords in connection with the con-
test. Such records as are neces-
sary will be kept by the terminal
agencies of the Producers com-
mission companies and the de-
partment of transportation of the
Illinois Agricultural Association.

4. The rating will be on the
basis of percentage of loss or
damage, of the net value of the
shipment.

5. The progress of the contest
will be announced from time to
time through the I. A. A. Rec-
ord and other publications.

The Kansas Cooperative Wheat
(irowers pool has just completed
its second year of business with
highly satisfactory results. Farm-
ers who pooled their wheat with
the association report gains of
from 9 to 17 cents per bushel
over the price they would have
received by selling individually.

Announcement coming from
Berlin indicates that a German
scientist has discovered the hoof
and mouth bacillus. Confirma-
tory tests have not been made
but various authorities are en-
thusiastic about the discovery.

The chinch bug is making a
serious assault upon the winter
wheat crop in southeastern Iowa.

THOMPSON SENSES
GOOD AND BAD IN
GRAIN MERGE PLAN

I.A.A. President on Cointnittee

To, Consider $25,000,000

SdJe to Fanners; Wants

Farmers to Control

Farmers' Union
Organizer Claims
I.A.A. Indorsed It

The report got out in Danville
and that vicinity that the Ver-
milion County Farm Bureau and
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion had endorsed the Farmers'
National Union of .\merica. The
feourcd of the rumor w^as in a
statement by a Mr. R. P. Adler,
a representative of the Farmers'
Union, which was recorded in a
newspaper story published June
15 in Danville concerning a
Farmers' Union meeting to be
held in Danville.

In the article Mr. Adler was
recorded as saying that "the
new organization (meaning the
Farmers* Union) in no way con-
flicts or competes with other
farmers' organizations such as
the Farm Bureau or the Illinois
Agricultural Association. It has
the indorsement of both these
organizations."

The Illinois Agricifltural As-
sociation has never in'dorsed the
Farmers' Union. Following is a
statement sent to the newspapers
by the Vermilion Cointy Farm
Bureau and R. A. Cowles,, I. A.
A. treasurer, who happened to
be in Vermilion county at the
time:

"On account of confusion in
the minds of many farmers in
regard to the new organization
which held a meeting in Danville,
June 21, under the name of the
Farmers* National Union of
America and due to the state-
ments which appeared in some
newspapers of the county which
have led some of our members to
believe that the Farm Bureau and
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion had indorsed this new or-
ganization, we feel it necessary

Milk Producers at
Sandwich Organize
Selling Association

Seventy-flve milk producers at
Sandwich. DeKalb county, met
June 25 with A. D. Lynch, dairy-
marketing specialist of the I. A.
A., to discuss milk marketing
questions. A contract was drawn
up whereby the producer may sell
his milk at a price previously
agreed to by the buyer. The
price of 92 score butler and the
cash corn market enters into the
price which is to be named for
milk in advance.

Heretofore the producers have
never had a stabilized market and
have never been able to make
any definite calculations on what
to expect for tJieir milk. They
have organized with the hope of
avoiding this difliculty hereafter.

The organization haa recently
applied for a charter and perma-
nent officers will be etlected soon.
A milk marketing sales commit-
tee was appointed at the meeting
in Sandwich to act for the organ-
ization. T. H. Roberts, farm ad-
viser of DeKalb County Farm Bu-
reau, is ex officio member of this
standing committee.

at thi£ time to issue ' the follow-
ing statement:

"The new organization does
not have the indorsement of the
Vermilion County Farm Bureau
or the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation nor has it asked for in-
dorsement to our knowledge. It
is a separate and distinct organ-
ization and its plans, purposes
and leadership have not been dis-
cussed, by them with us."

Farmers who follow the news
of the realm know that in the
last few years, particularly the
last few months, wherever coop-
eratively minded men happened
to gather, grain marketing with
its thousand and one angles
whitli convert int( a half dozen
fundamentals, has taken the
front of thf stage and held its
audience in hope, tears, laughter
and chagrin at various intervals.

At several 1. A. A. district
meetings held so far this year,
grata marketing, its sore thumb
failures in the past, its apparent
possibilities in the present, and
its necessity in the future, has
been brought to the attention
of officials of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association.

I>ur|«<i^ Sale

Now comes a proposal from
font of the. largest old line ooni-
mission* companies in Chicago to
place their entire organizations,
representing about 70 per cent
of the terminal facilities for
handling grain in the United
States, under the control of farm'
ers for a consideration of approx-
imately $25,000,000. The pro:
posal was presented fo the Amer*
ican Farm Burea>i Federation at
its N-gular quarterly meeting the
middle of June and is to be pre-
sented to all other agricultural
organizations interested.

The American Farm Bureau
Federation executive committee, of
which President Sam H. Thomp-
son is a member, authorized O.
E. Bradfute, president of the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion, to appoint a committee with
himself as chairman, to investi-
gate and consider from every
angle the grain marketing pro-
posal laid before them by repre-
sentatives of the Armour Grain
Company, the Rosenbaum Grain
Company, Rosenbaum Bros, and
J. C. Shaffer and Company.

The members of the committee
appointed are: O. E. Bradfute.
chairman: Sam H. Thompson,
president of the 1. A. A.; J. F.
Reed, president of the Minnesota
Farm Bureau Federation; Mur-
ray D. Lincoln, secretary of the
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation,
and Frank D. Evans, attorney for
the Utah Farm Bureau Federa-
tion.

rian Consiilered B«»(ore

"The plan has been- under con-
sideration for some time, " said
Mr. Thompson previous to the
first meeting of the special coni-^
mlttee at Chicago, "in fact, a"
similar proposition was up a year
and a half ago. The compaBles
which have presented this plan
represent about 70 per cent of
the terminal grain marketing fa-
cilities in the United States.

■We have given the representa-
tives of these grain companies a
hearing. The .\merican Farm
Bureau Federation was given first
consideration by the grain men
because they realize<l that their
plan would not carry through
without the approval of the A. F.

(Cuatiliued on pagr i)

T^>

Page 2

The miiioM Agriculti»«l Aj»ociatioH Record

Jqly

5. 1924

#IIjL<HNOIS ^m
€3JLTIJIKAL ASSOCIAIPn

Published twice a month by the Illinois Agricultural
Association. €08 South Dearborn Street. Chicago, Illinois.
Kdited by Department of Information, H. C. Butcher.
Director.

Kntry as second class matter Oct. 10, 1921. at the post
office at Chicago, niinois. under the act of March 3, 1879.
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postagre pro-
vided for in Section 1103. Act of October 3. 191T. author-
iied Oct. 31. 1921.

The individual membership fee of tt^ Illinois Arfficul-
tural Association is Ave dollars a year.' This fee includes
payment of fifty cents for subscription to th« Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association Record.

OFFirERS
I*resi<lent, S. H. Thompson, Qnincy.
Vice-President, V. |). Wataon, DeKalb.

j TreaKurer, It. .\. C<(wles, BIooininKton.

! Secretary, Ueo. A. Fox, Sycamore.

E.YECUrn'E CO.MJIITTEK

By Congressional District-s

11th Jacob Olbrich, Harvard

12th G. F. Tutlock, Rockford

1 3th C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron

15th H. E. Goembel, Hooppole

16th A. R. Wright, Varna

17th F. D. Barton, Cornell

18th R. F. Karr, Iroquois

19th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21»t ...Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd Stanley Castle, Alton

23rd i, E. LIngenfelter, Lawrencevliie

24th Curt Anderson, Xenia

26th Vernon Lessley, Sparta

Directors of Departments
I. .\. .\. Office
General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker;
Oragnization, G. E. Metzger; Information, H. C. Butcher,
Transportation, L. J. Quasey, Statistics, J. C. Watson:
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, C. A. Stewart;
Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R. Bent; in charge Poultry iind Egg Marketing, F. A.
Gougler; special representative on Tuberculosis Eradi-
cation, M. H. Petersen.

Th» Democratic Pledg* to Agriculture

During the four years of Republican government,
the economic condition of the American farmer haS
changed from comfort to bankruptcy, with all its
aittendant miseries. The chief causes of this are :

(a) The Republican policy of isolation in
international affairs has prevented Eurdpe
from getting hack to its normal balance,
and, by leaving unsolved the economic prob-
lems abroad, has' driven the European cit.v
population from industrial activities to the
soil in large numbers in order to earn the mere
necessaries of life. This has deprived the
American farmer of his normal export trade.

(b) The Republican policy of a prohibitive
tariff, exemplified in the Fordney-McCumber
law, which has forced the American farmer,
with his e-xport market debilitated, to buy
manufactured goods at sustained high domes-
tic levels, thereby making him the victim of
the profiteer.

•(c) The Republican policy of high transpor-
tation rates, both rail and water, which has
made it impossible for the farmer to ship his
produce to market at even a living profit.
To offset these policies and their disastrous re-
sults and to restore the farmer again to economic
equality with other industrialists, we pledge our-
selves:

(a) To adopt an international policy of such
cooperation by direct official instead of indi-
rect and evasive unofficial means, as will re-
establish the farmer's export market by re-
.storing the industrial balance in Europe and
the normal flow of international trade with
the .settlement of Europe's economic problems.

(b) To adjust the tariff so that the fanner
and &\\ other classes can buy again in a com-
petitive manufacturers' market.

(c) To readjust and lower rail and water
rates, whjich will make our markets, both for
the buyer and the seller, national and inter-
■national instead of regional and local.

(d) To bring about the early completion of
internal waterway systems for transportation
and to develop our water-power for cheaper
fertilizer and for use on our farms.

. I (e) To stimulate b}- every proper govern-
mental activity the progress of the coopera-
tive marketing movement and the establish-
ment of an export marketing corporation or
commission, in order that the exportable sur-
plus may not establish the price of the whole
crop.

(f ) To secure for the farmer credit suit-
able for his needs.

(g) By the establishment of these policies
and others naturally supplementary thereto.

to reduce the margin between what the pro-
ducer receives for his products and the con-
sumer has to pay for his supplies, to the end
that we secure an equality for agriculture.

Agriculture and the Dentoeratie Platform

The original draft of the Democratic agricul-
tural plank, which underwent some changes in the
Resolutions Committee, was prepared in counsel
with representatives of organized agriculture and
others who are prominent in the party and who
are acknowledged students of the agricultural sit-
uation. O. E. Bradfute. president, and Gray Sil-
ver, Washington representative, respectively, of,
the American Farm Bureau Federation, were pres-
ent and actively participated in the conference
and presented the proposed plank to the Commit-
tee. Also, Robert A. Cowles, treasurer of your
Association, was present, at the request of Mr.
Bernard M. Banich.

Mr. Baruch is a ■staunch advocate of the prin-
ciples that were embodied in the McNary-Haugen
bill, recently defeated in Congress, and affirma-
tivel.v supported the bill. His s.\Tnpathetic and
thorough understanding of the agricultural situa-
tion in this country was generally recognized in
the Democratic Convention, .so that the plank re-
sulting, now submitted to the voters of the country,
may be said to be constructive and fairly definite
as a basis for adniini.stration and future legislation.

Chicago Producers Cut a Melon

The Chicago Producers will split their annual
melon soon, returning 30 per cent of the commis-
sion charges of the last year to the shippers. Fine
stuff. They report a 60 per cent growth in business
over last year. The cattle department increased
in activit.v 62 per cent ; hogs 70 per cent and sheep,
a newh- created department, increased 200 per
cent. Fine stuff.

On one of the recent Illinois days the Chicago
Producers handled 12 per cent of the yard run —
biU that's not unu,sual for them. Fine stuff. The
Producers handled 85 cars that day and the near-
est old line firm handled 28. Fine stuif. There
are over 100 others competing.

Illinois farmers will get 52 per cent of the melon.
Finer stuff.

Orgiadxation Wine Again

The fact that the minimum weight requirement
has been reduced on hogs in standard .36 foot ears
from 17,000 pounds to 16,500 pounds in interstate
traffic represents a fine victorj- for the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association.

This decision by the Illinois Commerce Commis-
sion is the result of a complaint filed some time
ago by the transportation department and took con-
siderable perseverence to push it through. Sixty-
three railroads were ordered to comply with the
new ruling.

How far would an individual farmer get if he
asked the Illinois Commerce Commission to order
6:5 railroad companies to let him ship fewer hogs
per car during hot weather? You know.

When 63,000 farmers work together with the as-
sistance of trained specialists, results are obtained.

We Should Get Together

It's an ill wind that blows no one good, the old
sa.ving goes. And it was a strong vote that killed
the McNary-Haugen bill, but though it lost, there
may be a gain resulting from its defeat much more
valuable to farm organizations than we realize.
Agricultural organizations are about to become
banded together to fight for the principle involved
in the McNary-Haugen bill or some similar kind
of agricultural relief. July 11 and 12 are the dates
set for .a conference at St. Paul of the several or-
ganizations which fought for the recently defeated
measure.

If nothing else comes out of the effort put forth
to put the McNary-Haugen bill across than to unite
the various farmers' organizations, the time, en-
ergy and money spent will not have been in vain.

For the Fellow Who Will Not Read

Our Farm Bureau was never in a better working
condition. There are more dependable men who are
behind the organization now than at any previoas
time. We showed that in getting over 2,200 signa-
tures in about three days' time. Over a hundred
loyal men left their plows and planters to act when
called. We hope that the farmers' plight is im-
proved soon or there will be many who will become
radical.

It is a disgrace that a farmer has to work 16
hours a day to make the living he is getting. There
has been too much work below the ears and not

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enough above. It is your business to see that your
indifferent neighbor does some reading, comes to
meetings and asks for service. Only a few are
hopeless. A farmer in Hopewell recently came in
lamenting about his indifferent neighbor, saying:
"An organization cannot do that fellow any more
good than it can help a fence post." It is not the
fellow who is like that that we have to watch. It
is the one who would destroy the organization in
order to again graft off his neighbor's helplessness.
There is nothing as bad as "active ignorance." —
Marshall-Putnam Farm Bureau.

Extra Dividends to Cat* County

When John C. Watson, head of the 1. A. A. de-
partment of taxation, investigated the Cass county
finances and found evidences of gross irregularities,
he started a log rolling which has gained momen-
tum with ever}' turn. Now it seems to be rolling
straight toward several county officials who were
connected with the finances. The official auditor
hired by the Board of Supervisors of (^ass county
has reported his findings to the Board. It reads
like a Diamond Dick novel with a dozen or so vil-
lains and Miss(ed) Cash, the hotly pursued heroine.

Probably the real hero is a collective one — the
Cass County Fanii Bureau. It instigated the in-
vestigation. Mr. Watson is accustomed to doing .
services like that, so we can't call him a hero. Any-
way, Farm Bureau members in Cass count.x, .you've
got a few extra dividends from the Illinois Agri-
cultural As.sociation — and dividends have been
tossed out to every person in Ca.ss county, member
or not, excepting the villains.

THE UARS' CONTEST

A LITTLE PERSONAL,, BILL

Dear Mr. Bdltoft I kave ben watrhlnjc with In-
terent Tonr llara'. eonlMt and aeelnic that there are
ao entrleii from Xefsjcer or youmelf 1 have ron-
oladed that prof««Miloaala are barred.

Slaee the oflire force there han bren no llhtral mm
to donate a medal to the t'hnmplon I.lnr. I here-
with enrlone a draft for 9100 to be uned nm a further
first priae and alao a tlvr dollar bill for HmokeN for
rouraelf and the rent of the force. Farmtar han
been ao profltable the paat three yearn, erap pron-
peeta ao irfM>d aad the fatare !■ ao bright aow alare
t'oolldice alK-aed the MeXary-Haniren bill that ao
amall a matter aa the above doean't mean aaythinK
to the averaire farmer. At nnj rate 1*11 never mlaa
the above amonata becanae It'a part of the federal
caak Buldler boaaa we received laat year.

Yon fellewB la the I. A. A. oSlee mlirht Juat aa
well take it eaay for a while atnce the t'hicaico
Board of Trade, other "blic bualneaa" Intereata and
aneh publleatloaa aa the Packer are ao dlllfcently
Kuardlnic the farmera' riarhta. It waa mlichty fine
of the foree there to refnne the aiv montha* vn-
eatioa on foil pay offered by the dlreetom. e«pe-
elally alare the blfr battle* have all been won aad
there la aothlas: for you to do till aomethlair aew
cornea up. If yoa Inalat on aot taklafc a vacation
I auKiceat that yau at leaat take a trip down to
Muacle Hhoala ao that yoa caa arlve ua a icood
write-np on how the project haa become auch a
Kreat fertlilaer produeins plant. 1 would alao like
to leant Jnat how much the Lake Krte t« Hlaala-
alppl waterway haa aaved the people of the cea-
tral atatca. '

Then after yoa have laveatljrated theae varlona
polata of latereat I aufTfceat that throuKb your col-
nmaa yoa collect a contribution frnm the fnrnierM
for the parpoae of relmbnralna: auch of our publtc
offlclala who have beea ao abaorbed In looklnK
after pablic latereata that their owa affalra have
anVered. auch aa Pall. McCray. and othera, laclad-
laic thoae war contractors who loat ao heavily on
government contracta aad who have not yet re-
ceived their Jiiat dues from Mr. Doanrherty'M de-
partment of charity.

HoplBf; you all enjoy the amokea aad that you
Had a champion liar worthy of the name. I remain,
rrateraally youra,

— BUI Williaaia. Orchard Farnia. .\lnia. Illlnola.

HKRR*1I 0\'E PI T TO RHYMI-:

*'It*a In the moon you'll plaat your «*ora.

If yon waal It all to grow."
That*a what my aelirlibor aald t'other morn.

A leanln' on hla hoe.

Well, methlnks. now I'll be bright i

Mo I planted aa acre workia* early 'till late.

The corn came ap all rljcht.

But aay. It waa too darn cold to cultivate.

The atuir It icrew and rrew and grew

\\ Itbont ao 'tentloa at all.
It kept It up the whale anmmer through

'Till alonic la early fall.

But now it'N time to ahuck the Ntnff—
There'a a thauaaad buabel or more.

Aad that'a what I call dowarlicht tonich,

't'auae the moon's an l«>eberir clear to the core.
— Lowder. Illlnola R. It.

HARD TO BKLIEVK THIN

Nome yeara umo we farmed aonie bottom land
which waa undoubtedly the wettest piece of aoll
not lylnir ander> the threat Lakes. Even la hot
weather we never needed to carry a Jujc of water
to the field with ua. Bach fellow waa provided
with a four foot lenirth of one-half lacb rubber
tublnK. Whea we were cultlvatlnir aad waated a
drink, we*d kick, the castle off a crawflah hole,
drop the hoae la the hole and anck out water like
a railroad locomotive.

About all we could raise was crawOah holes aad
froar hops. We had a tw^o year rotation i Craw-
flah holes one year and frog hops the next. Well
cultivated frofc hops weot from 2.% to 34> feet to
the hop but by adding n little fertlilaer we were
able to fret some ."lO-foot hops.

We Kot to cultivatlnir the crawflsh holea and
when they irot bl|r enonsh we'd harvest 'em and
sell *em for peat Irolea. Post holea sell like hot
doira for about 25 cents a hole. The crawflah hole
harvester which we Invented was quite a curiosity
la the aeljchborhood. — Klmer Waddcll. Taylorvllle.
rhrlstlaa county. Illlaols.

J.

county
»tional

0

With
. tuberculc

came
I along
ated wit
i ins cow
state ass
with th.
T. B.
Numerou
of the 81
laws hav
ly thru
stood ba
order,
last 10
clal inst
which
on all
brought
. enforced,
that an
regulatio
d|of cattle
rresulted
number.

t

« i)uly S, 1924 — -^ -

if ONE FOURTH OF AU
4 FEDERAL T.B. CASH
^ COMES TO ILLINOIS

The niiiMi* Agncalhvml AwocMiHon Reoard

M. H. PMcv««n

nlty payments.

67 Counties Now Testing;
I.A.A. Directly Helpful in
47; Seveml Other* Con-
sidering Area Testing

Editor') Xott: Thit it thf firtt of
II ttriet of rimitar artieht to he
vrittun hy /. A. A. departmental di-
^ rertort telling of the iroric done in
' each department.

B. M. H. PETERSEN,
> Director, T. B. BrtuUcatlon

Department
" One-fourth of the entire fed-
,eral indemnity appropriation
iwhich in apportioned among all
>the states of the Union has been
allotted to Illi-
nois because Il-
linois farmers
have demon-
strated that
they want their
cattle tested
and have gone
out to get all
the help they
can obtain. The
state has made
available ample
funds to take
care of indem-

. , The large pacl<-

ers are paying a premium of 10
.cents per 100 pounds on all
hogs bred and fed in a county
'Which has been declared an ac-
J credited area, and Edgar County,
'Illinois, farmers, and those in
.27 other counties in the United
States are now getting that pre-
■mlum. Tuberculosis-free cattle
command a higher price than un-
tested cows. Dr. J. W. Pettit,
.President of the Illinois Tubercu-
losis Association, says, "It we
'•will pay more attention to the
i,prevention of tuberculosis by test-
' ing our cows and by using other
(■preventative measures, we will
'have little need for sanatoriums
fin the future."
; Work Advanced Rapidly

i I That the requests of the Illi-
>nois Agricultural Association,
county farm bureaus, the Na-
^"•tional Livestock Exchange and
L other Illinois farmers' organiza-

Jtions for a state appropriation of
»1,000,000 dollars for tubercu-
losis eradication indemnities for
a two year period were wisely
made, is best evidenced by the
remarkable advance of area test-
I ing within the last two years.
When the present funds for
indemnities became available
there were few counties which
, had seriously considered the erad-
ication of the white plague from
"the cattle within their borders,
but with the large funds avail-
able since last July, Illinois has
indeed made rapid strides in
cleaning up the disease which is
, costing farmers of the country
140.000,000 a year.

At the time this article goes to
press there are 57 of the 102
counties in Illinois which have
made appropriations to be placed
on the list. These counties com-
prise over one-half of the area of
the state and boast of two-thirds
of its cattle population. With this
rapid growth in our testing pro-
gram, Illinois has more counties
J doing area testing than any other
state in the Union.

Backed State Laws
With the rapid expansion of
tuberculosis eradication work
came a demand for assistance
along many lines closely associ-
ated with the actual job of test-
ing cows. This demand your
state association has tried to All
with the establishment of the
T. B. Eradication Department.
Numerous reports of violations
of the state and federal sanitary
laws have been made; and large-
ly thru our efforts the state has
stood back of its 60 day retest
order, the Governor within the
last 10 days having given spe-
cial instructions that this order
which requires a 60 day retest
on all dairy and feeding cattle
brought into Illinois be rigidly

f enforced. Our constant demand
that an adequate and enforceable
regulation governing the testing
d|of cattle for feeding ^>urposes has
"^resulted in the issuing of order
number- 16, which requires that

;

•no ACTivrry

Abore l8 Khown thr proir^ss of talteiYDloais c*«dic«tkon woifc im nUaote
to July 1, 1924, Hit »ho«m by M. H. Pei*nten In the afrirmimnrlnf procTcm
reportofhJadfpaHmwitj^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

feeders be both injected and ob-
served at quarantine until the
test has been completed.

One-third of the counties in the
state have been assisted in put-
ting on educational campaigns to
explain the advantages of clean
ing up tuberculosis on the county
area plan and secure an appro-
priation from their Boards of
Supervisors to make this work
possible: and each month brings
additional recruits to the ranks
of the counties which have se-
cured appropriations to enable
their farmers to have cattle test-
ed free and obtain Indemnities
for those which are found to
have tuberculosis.

Work In 47 Counties

That tuberculosis eradication is
a subject of vital interest the
length and breadth of our state
is best shown by the fact that
the director of this department
has- assisted with various phases
of this work in 47 counties since
the first of the year. It is
perhaps a growing realization
that most of the tuberculosis
among people comes as a di-
rect result of tuberculosis in cat-
tle that causes the phrase "Get
Tuberculosis Before It Gets Us"
to be the slogan of an Increasing
number of farmers who also real-
ize that it is the healthy ani-
mal which produces the greatest
returns at the least cost^

As an increasing number of
counties enter into this coopera-
tive plan in which the federal
government, our state and the
counties cooperate with the farm-
er in cleaning up his herd the
demand for tuberculosis-free cat-
tle will naturally increase, tested
cattle will bring more money
than those of questionable health
and untested cattle will find their
market constantly shrinking. Al-
ready there is great demand for
tested dairy cattle and since II-
Inois cannot take care of all of
her own buyers this department
is making arrangements with a
growing number of Wisconsin
breed associations which make it
possible for farm bureau mem-
bers whose herds are under state
and federal supervision to buy
tuberculin tested cattle subject
to a sixty day retest with a guar-
antee that their money will tie
refunded in case a reactor is
found on the retest. Farm Bu-
reau members who have bought
cattle directly from breeders un-
der these arrangements report ac-

tual savings of from thirty to
60 dollars per head on their
local prevailing prices.

Can your county satisfy some
of our own Illinois farmers who
wish to buy T. B. free cattle? A
virgin field lies open to counties
which will step forth and develop
breeding centers from which the
rest of Illinois can draw good
cows to replenish its herds. The
sale of surplus healthy cows each
year from our own herda would
prove a profitable sideline to the
whole milk or cream protiucer.
Which county will be the first to
start on a 10 year program to
develop its cattle breeding indus-
try, and become one of the cen-
ters for good, healthy, profitable
cows in Illinois? We most earn-
estly wish to see our Illinois
farmers spend their money with
their Illinois neighbors. Can we
help you get your neighbor's
business?

I. A. .\. Ready to Help

With these facts before us and
successful operation of the area
test already in progress in over
one-half of our counties let us
take our opportunity to rid ottr
herds of this costly disease white
our city cousins and governmejit
are willing to cooperate in shar-
ing a part of the farmers' bur-
den.

How can the 1. A. A. best
serve you in this problem? The
T. B. Eradication Department Is
at your service any time to take
care of your interests and assist
in the solution of your problems
in the best way possible.

Dean H. W. Mumfonl of the

College of Agriculture, Univer-
sity of Illinois, picked out an
average day and tabulated tlie
activities of all the farm advisers
in Illinois for that day. He
found that 94 advisers had 1,115
office calls, wrote 1.174 letters,
distributed 11.440 circulars en
various agricultural subjects,
wrote 59 articles for publication,
made 99 farm visits, held 40 con-
ferences with a total of 4t9
farmers present, held 53 meet-
ings with 5.153 attending and
conducted 36 demonstrations.

Tlie Seward Farm Bureau
baseball team in Kendall county
is leading the other seven teams
in the county league with four
games won and none lost.

GRAIN MERGE PLAN
BROUGHT TO AJ.B.F.

( Continued f mm pur 1 1
B. F.. although all other farmers'
organizations interested will be
consulted. The committee ap-
pointed by Mr. Bradfute Is to be
added to later with representa-
tives from the other farmers' or-
ganizations which are interested.
Thi^ committee is to investigate
every angle of the plan before
taking favorable or unfavorable
action. It is realized that many
things could l)e gained, but there
could also be many pitfalls.

"The price, " said President
Thompson, "would be seitled by
disinterested parties after a
thorough appraisal of the prop-
erty. This would be one plan, if
we were truly ready for it.
whereby we could immediately
start to handle grain on a real,
nation-wide basis, ^arm^rs have
been ready for some tinje for a
grain marketing scheme of any
worthy, practical kind. In the
past, there have' been too many
obstacles — internal strife has
probably been our biggtst bar-
rier; the inability of the leaders
to get together. 1 would be fa-
vorable to some such plan as this
providing that the contnol were
in the membership rigllt from
the start. Who will cooltrol the
company will be one of the big-
gest bones of contention for the
committee to thrash out. The
producers must have the. control
througJti their elected representa-
tives."

Involves S.OOO ('o-n|Hi

The plan contemplates the ac-
quisition of the mechanical and
managerial facilities of four large
grain concerns and 5.000 coop
erative elevators and proposes
that the resulting .international
grain marketing sales agency be-
come grower owned, financed
and controlled, .\fter a four day
discussion by the executh'e com-
mittee of the American Parm Bu-
reau Federation, a resolution was
adopted authorizing the president
to appoint a committee to com-
plete the study and analysis of
the proposition for the purpose of
determining the practicability of
the producer undertaking to own
the marketing facilities for grain
and the practical method by
which it may be successfully ac-
complished to the best advantage
of the proiducer.

The prd^osal contemplates us-
ing the facilities of existing ex-
changes and operating in accord-
ance with their established rules.
The company formulated by the
merger, the plan stipulatts, would
be at the service of state cooper-
ative pools, elevator exchanges,
farmer-owned elevators and indi-
viduals as a grain merctiandising
agency. J.

P—e 3

AUDIT SYSTEM AND
TAXES DISCUSSED
AT DISTRICT MEET

Fanners Say Limestone Prices

Are too High; Consider

Gasoline Tax and

Other Problems

Five Adams County
Co-op Associations
Want Audit Service

Farmers' cooperative associa-
tions continue to subscribe to the
Illinois Agricultural Cooperatives
Association, according to Vernon
Vaniman. who is manafing the
membership campaign under di-
rection of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association. Farmers' ele-
vators, county farm bureaus,
livestock shipping associations
and milk producers* associations
are signing up to receive the au-
diting and accounting service of-
fered by the cooperatives associa-
tion.

At present Adams couaty leads
in membership with the Ursa
Farmers' Elevator Company. La
Prairie Farmers' Elevator Com-
pany. Adams County Shipping
Association. Quincy Milk Produc-
ers' Association and the Western
Illinois Fruit Growers' Associa-
tion using the auditing and busi-
ness advisory service of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Cooperatives
Association.

Seventeen other counties have
one or more organizations repre-
sented in the accounting associa-
tion. At their next roetting the
directors of the Adams County
Farm Bureau will consider sub-
scribdng to the auditing service
and indications are tkat they
will apply for membership, there-
by bringing the total nomber of
member associations id Adams
county up to six.

Threatening weather, bad roads
and the "busy farm season were
responsible for Mie small attend-
ance which marked the first
meeting of the 22nd district in:
Greenville. June 17. Frank Pott-
hast, president of the Bond Coun-
ty Farm Bureau, presided at the
meeting. The present lax situa-
tion and the prtce farmers from
this district are required to pay
for the limestone they buy were
the chief topics of discussion.

Speaking of the activities of
Madison county. Farm Adviser.
Alfred Raut. brought out the
fact that there exists wide differ-
ences in the assessed valuation of
city and country proi>erty and
that the difference in valuation
of livestock in different sections
of the county is great. It ia
these inequalities which the farm
bureau will attempt to remedy.
As a result farmers have with-
held one third of their real es-
tate taxes.

B. W. Tillman, farm adviser of
St. Clair county, and Paul Ewald.
adviser of Monroe county, ex-
plained that the tax situation in
these counties is very similar to
that of Madison county.

The gasoline tax was discussed
by Stanley Castle, 1. A. A. execu-
tive committeeman from the 22nd
district. He stated that the I. A. A.
takes a favorable stand toward
this tax if Uie funds are to be
used solely for the upkeep of
sute aid roads. He also pointed
out that in other states having a
gasoline ta.\ provision is made
whereby farmers can obtain a re-
fund on gasoline used on the
farm for tractors and stationary
engines. The I. A. A. would also
have the gasoline tax take the
place of some other tax now in
effect rather than be inaugurate!)
as an additional tax.

DlnrasK Prices-
Mr. TilUnan showed that the
price of limestone in this district
is higher than in any other part
of the sUte in spite of the fact
thft the farmers in this district
use more limestone than those
in other districU. The demand
for limestone In this section has
become so general that farmers
regard it as a necessity and it
is their opinion that the produc-
ers of limestone are purposely
holding the price up.

J. R. Bent, director of the
phosphate - limestone department
of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation, was expected to be pres-
ent but in his absence Executive
Committeeman Castle explained
how the I. A. A. is attempting
to solve the farmers' limestone
problems.

Farm Adviser Raut brought up
consideration of the Illinois
\gricultural Cooperatives Asso-
ciation, stating that none of the
farmers' organizations in this
section have had an auditing
senioe. He spoke with favor
toward the system and suggested
that the farmers' organizations
should ^et together upon the
proposition.

No place or date was set for
the next district meeting.

Every state in the union, Can-
ada and even South Africa has
shown Interest in the Mcl>ean
countv svstcm of sanitaUon in
pig raising. Even the Naval
Academy at Annapolis has adopt-
ed the system in raising the pigs
used to clean up ,the garbage
ihere. „ „_

KstabliNhiiienI of a l-ami Bu-
reau gasoline and Oil supply com-
panv at Carthage is proving a
profitable investment for Han-
cock county farmers.

In Missouri 60,000 slitnatureii
have been secured to iietitions
asking that the proposition of a
two per cent tax on gasoline and
a 50 per cent increase in auto-
mobile registration fees for road
maintainance be put on the bal-
lots in November. ' ,

\eari> 700 boys and ifiris at-
tended the second annual Junior
Club University Tour held June
12 and 13 at the College of Agri-
culture..

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Page 4

The nfiaou AgricuHyl Awodation Record

July S, 1924

BLOOMINGTON MEET
GIVES I.A.A. CLEAR,
, CONSTRUCTIVE TIPS

Seventeenth Diitrict Men Want

Harmony Among Farm

Organizations ; Research

In Grain Marketing

Ohi the chairman o' this here meet-
in'
IB Mel'4-an's Prexy Moon.
If he ain't aslfed you to do some
speakin'.
He'll do so prety soon!

J. H. Checkley, farm adviser
of Logan connty and a "Jim
Dandy" community singing leader,
sounded the "keynote" of the 17th
district meeting at Blooqiington,
June 24, when he composed the
above verse to "It Ain't Gonna
Rain No Mo" and sang it. among
many others, to the 65 farm bu-
reau representatives present who
also joined in on the choruses.
McLean, Ford, Livingston, Logan
and Woodford counties were rep-
^ -resented.

Foremost among the construc-
tive projects considered was a
thought concentrated in a resolu-
tion passed asking that steps be
takea by the Illinois -Agricultural
Association to bring forth greater
harmony between it and the Far-
mers' Grain Dealers' Association,
both of which are working tor
the farmers' interests, the latter
. representing many Farm Bureau
members but some of its leaders
indicating jealousy toward the Il-
linois Agricultural Association.

A general discussion of local
live stock shipping association
problems featured the morning
session. J. 0. Harper of the
National Livestock Producers As-
Eiociation and formerly head of
the poultry and egg marketing de-
partment of the I. A. A., answered
questions regarding the work of
the Producers. It was pointed
out by Mr. Harper that the ex-
ecutive committee of the National
Producers consider the present
progress of the terminal agencies
about right for a healthy growth.

Considerable comment was mside
praising the Illinois Agricultural
Association for its energetic, thor-
ough flght for the McNary-Haugen
bill. A motion was passed asking
that the principles embodied in
that bill should be upheld when
the nation-wide meeting of all
farm organizations is called at St.
Pawl, July :i and 12.

Study Grain Marketing

Discussions of grain marketing
by several representatives brought
out the fact that the 17th dis-
trict would like to see the I. A.
A. put in considerable energy and
research investigating grain mar-
keting. The fact that President
Thompson had been appointed on
the A. P. B. F. committee which
• is to consider the giant proposal
of Ave old line commission Com-
panies in Chicago to sell their
organizations to farmers, indicated
.that the I. A. A. is connected
with the biggest proposition yet
conceived for a farmer-owned
national grain marketing system.
F. D. Barton, Cornell, executive
committeeman of the 17th district,
said that the I. A. A. executive
committee talks grain marketing
every time it meets but there are
many hurdles to clear before a
grain marketing plan that will
suit the majority of farmers is
definitely decided upon. Grain
marketing research is to be pushed
by Mr. Barton at the next meeting
of the state executive committee.

Mr. Checkley told of the plans
being made by Lincoln and Lo-
enn county to entertain the Farm
Bnreau members when the state
picnic is held at Lincoln, .August
2S. He said that Lincoln is pre-
paring to handle the largest I. A
A. state picnic ever staged.

SimoA C. Moon, president of
the McLean County Farm Bu
reau, was elected chairman of the
day. Mr. Barton led discussions
and will present the ideas of the
17th district Farm Bureau people
to the executive committee of the
I. A. A. at its next meeting in
Chicago.

George Wicker, general man-
ager of the new auditing and
business advisory service insti-
tuted by the I. A. A., talked to

C A M A O A

OlSTRIBUnON OF PKOOUCTS, 1923
BY

ILLINOIS FRUIT EXCHANGE

CENTRALIA.IU,£XCHANfiE HEADQUARTERS
• MABKITS TO WHICH CAOIOAO SHIPMEMTS
. WtRt MADE. TOTAUSa

J

The IlllnoU Fruit Kxrhnniee il\irlii|c the yeiir lOl^'t Hhi|i|>ed ItH produi-e to IKS dilTerent iiiarketii an U lU
JuMtrnted In the map above. Alth«ug;h thiM In a Mllffht deereuMe In number of ninrkelH rearhed In <*ompnrl-

, Mon with the 19'2'2 mnrketa, .V. B. Leeper. director of the fruit and vegetable murketlnie deiMirtment and
AiunaKcr tor the Illlnoln Frutt Exchantce. thlnkM that the 102:1 shipments were placed much better ireo-

. Kraphicallj. He points out that a iarfce number of tovi~nM were reaoheil eloser to home than in the
previous year, which Is Kood marketing techntgue.

The lIllnoA FmIt Kxchanftre in a partlelpatlnK unit of the Federated Fruit and Vesetable throwers
which last ^ear handled a:t.SOO ears of fruit and vegetables representlne' a money value of about $S;^iOOO,-
OOO. The Illinois Fruit Exehange has riosed Its second marketing season.. The tonnnse epibraced a wide
variety of fruit and vexetables. The result on peaches was extraordinarily Kood since the Illinois peaches
received the highest averase price obtained by any other aHSoclatlon In the Vnited States.

Gougler Studies

Farmers' Markets

F. A. Gougler. director of
poultry and egg marketing, is
spending considerable time inves-
tigating farmers' markets where
the farmers bring in poultry,
eggs, butter, cottage cheese,
cured hams, fresh meats and nu-
meruos commodities produced by
the farmers on their own farms
and sell them on a market con-
ducted by themselves on certain
days of each week. The purpose
ot the investigation, Mr. Gougler
says, is to furnish all necessary
information for persons who wish
to start similar markets.

the group in the afternoon, tell-
ing that the purpose of the ser-
vice is to make cooperative mar-
keting organizations safer for
farmers. The new auditing asso-
ciation has recently audited the
books of the Peoria Producers,
they having subscribed to the
service along with the National
Livestock Producers Associa-
tion, and found them in good
shape. He pointed out that the
Illinois Agricultural Cooperatives
Association, which is the incor-
poration name of the auditing
service organization, will be def-
initely connected with the I. A.
■V. because in the by-laws of the
new incorporation it is definitely
stated that the executive com
mittee of the I. A. A. should sub-
mit two names of men to act as
I. A. A. secretary and treasurer,
respectively, have been already
named and elected.

Following are the names of ttjose
in attendance: E. F. Toolidge. 'n . D.
Brickiey. A. J. Johnstone. Alvin B.
otto. O. C. Johnstone, F. J. Basting.
F. W. Bill. R. O. Benjamin. Bloom-
ington: Harry C. Dixon. Covell: O.
T.. Votter. W. C. Asper. C. H. Patter-
son. Walter Springer. Pontiae: M.
K. Lyons. Odell: Asa B. Culp. Panl
E. Johnstone. Eureka; U I. Harris,
f'.raymount; "Wm. Krauae. Iv. Ft.
Parka. A. M. Armstrong, J. H.
rheckley. Wm. J. Houston. D. C.
Shepler. Lincoln: Chas. M. Colburn.
Season : C. E. Hopkins. Pontiae: T.
Ralph Miner. Mt. Pleasant. Town;
Walter Nichols. Heyworth: J. W.
Kirkton. Normal; L. V. Husted. F.
W. Reeve. F. D. Barton. Corneil:
Homer Caton. J. T. Freitag. Carl
N. Freitag. Stanford: T>. H. Kent.
J. W. McCulIough. A. O. Convis.
leo. T. Swalm, Olbson City: Earl
Henry. Paxton: Aura Johnston.
Hudson; George Wicker and H. C.
Butcher. Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation; J. D. Harper. National Live-
stock Producers' Association.

Fruit Producers
Reorganize on a
Five Year Plan

The members of the Ozark
Fruit Growers' Association are so
well satisfied with their cooper-
ative selling through the Illinois
Fruit Growers' Exchange, that
they met June 17 and reorgan-
ized their association, signing
new contracts under which they
will operate for a period of five
years. The contract which the
fruit growers first signed was
binding for only three years and
has just recently expired.

Those who patronize the fruit
growers' exchange are members
of the farm bureau, membership
in the exchange being declined
to those who do not belong to the
farm bureau. The exchange
markets in car lots all kinds of
fruits and vegetables for its pa-
trons and handles such supplies
as spraying equipment and ma-
terials, fertilizers and fruit pack-
ages, which it is able to furnish
at a considerable saving to its
members. The O^sark association
has one of the finest packing
sheds in that section of the state,
adequately equipped to handle
the business of its patrons.

Brown County Has
New Shipper Co-op

The livestock producers of
Brown county have recently re-
organized their shipping associa-
tion and effected what promises
to be an efficient marketing as-
sociation, according to G. E. Metz-
ger. organization director of the
Illinois Agricultural Association.
The new organization will work
under the name of the Brown
County Shippers' Association and
aims for closer cooperation be-
tween the farmers, the local ship-
ping associations and the Pro-
ducers in the terminal markets.

Under the new organization
the board of directors is required
by the by-laws of the association
to meet regularly ea<;h month to
consider shipping problems and
other business pertaining to the
association.

METZGER TALKS ON
CO.OP MARKETING
TO RADIO AUDIENCE

"Farmer Must Get Broader

Viewpoint and Understand

That Sound Bunne**

Must Prevail"

Eighty-six head of Holsteliis

in the John Erickson herd dis-
persal sale at Waupaca. Wis.,
sold for an average of $1,138.

The Columbia Qiiarrj' Com-
pany will give away a carload
of limestone as prizes at the
Randolph County Farm Bureau
picnic Atlgust 21.

F. A. Ciougler, I. A. A. poultry
and egg marketing specialist, is
making a ten-day trip through
Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan,
studying the egg-marketing situa-
tion in these states.

William E. He<lgcock, form-
erly farm adviser of Peoria Coun-
ty Farm Bureau, will become
director of the I. A. A. livestock
marketing department July 1.

During the month of June the
I. A. A. transportation depart-
ment collected slightly, over |1.-
300 on overcharge and loss and
damage claims for Illinois farm-
ers and shippers.

The McHeni-y rount.v Farm
Bnreau offered prizes to rural
school children for the best es-
says upon the subject. "Why
McHenry County Should Do Tu-
berculin Testing?"

Final liearings on the Pitts-
burgh Plus case have been held
before the federal trade commis-
sion, which is expected to hand
down its final decision some time
during the coming fall.

The keynote ot the farmers' co-
operative marketing situation was
struck by G. E. Metzger, director
of the I. A. A. organization de-
partment, when he spoke over sta-
tion K. Y. W. at Chicago, July 1.

"The real essence of the situa-
tion is that the average farmer's
viewpoint of cooperative market-
ing of his own products is not yet
broad enough to enable him to
understand that his concern is a
regular business institution," said
Mr. Metzger in speaking of the
lack of real cooperative manager-
ial ability in this country at the
present time. "Neither does the .
farmer realize that cooperative in
stitutions are governed by human
beings and that they are not
empowered to do miraculous
things. On the other hand, he
must understand that sound busi-
ness practice must prevail, that
his concern can be expected to
render real service, that it must
do It efficiently and if it does
these fundamental things, loyalty
on the part of the membership
should enable the cooperative to
return the highest price for farm
products."

Expressing the belief that many
midwest farmers have not yet
caught the cooperative spirit in a
big and effective way Metzger
said, "The average farmer when
asked what he expects of coop-
erative marketing will tell the
inquirer that he expects a higher
price for his products. 'How
much higher?' I ask. Many have
no idea but ordinarily farmers
will say that they would be sat-
isfied to get the middleman's
profits. Th^ average farmer-
owned elevator in Illinois, it is
estimated, makes the farmer
about four cents per bushel. This
might be a fair portion of the
local margin which the producer
might expect but that will not
put him out of the present seri-
.ous economic difficulty. The lo-
cal farmers' elevator company
does not go far enough. Local
plants must be combined and
consolidated into terminal sales
agencies large enough to be a
market factor and control In part
at least the so-called exportable
surplus of various farm - com-
modities."

Adams county has organlzeil a

baseball league with at least
four township teams. The county
championship will be decided
September 20 at the Adams coun-
ty farm bureau picnic.

>Iarshall-Putnam county farm
bureau baseball team recently de-
feated Stark county 4 to 0 and
Knox county 12 to 3.

Severe outbreak.s of army
worni.s are reported from at least
25 Illinois counties.

28 TO ST. ANNE IS BIGGEST
"KIDDIE" ORDER OF SEASON

Mr. A. Mailloux of St. Anne.
Kankakee county, has a heart.

Here's why.

He rounded up enough peo-
ple in his community
to take 28 slum kid-
dies and sent in his
"order" to the Out-
ing Secretary at the
I. A. A. office, ask-
ing for a July 1 de-
livery. Twenty-eight
slum kiddies all in
one group going to
one chairman is the
largest "order" re-
ceived at the i. A. A.
office yet this year.
The cool weather A.M.m«M

this spring is responsible for a
comparatively slow response to
this humanitarian business of
sending poor, needy slum kid-
dies into the country to good
farm bureau homes for a two-

weeks outing. But vacations
for many children have already
been arranged for and the out-
ing secretary has high hopes
of beating the last
year's number o f
473.

Mr. Mailloux said
that all he had to do
was to telephone and
see some of his neigh-
bors and it wasn't
long until he had or-
ders for 28 poor kid-
dies.

The United Chari-
ties of Chicago fur-
nishes the kiddies,
cleans 'em up in
every way and delivers 'em
in groups of a dozen or
more any place within 200
miles of Chicago. Just drop a
line to the Outing Secretary
and you can get all the details.

. i

.. .i-.L

;t

ASON

vacations
Lve already
id the out-
ligh hopes
the last
imber o t

lloux said
had to do
vphone and
f his neigh-
it wasn't
he had or-
l poor kid-

ited Chari-
licago fur-
e kiddies,
n up in
livers 'em
dozen or
vithin 200
ust drop a
Secretary
the details.

ly S, 1924

:soN

•TING
UDIENCE

et Broader
ndentand
SusbieM
ul"

farmers' co-
situation was
ger, director
inization de-
)oke over sta-
cago, July 1.

of the situa-
age farmer's
live market-
cts is not yet
able him to
concern is a
Itution," said
iking of the
ive manager-
untry at the
ler does the .
ooperative in
led by human
ley are not
miraculous
er hand, he
I sound busi-
prevail, that

expected to
that it must
if it does
lings, loyalty

membership
3operative to
rice for farm

ief that many
ive not yet
re spirit in a
vay Metzger
farmer when
cts of coop-
urill tell the
ects a higher
ucts. 'How

Many have
.rily farmers
rould be sat-
middleman's
age farmer-
;ilinoi8, it is
the farmer
bushel. This
rtion of the
the producer
hat will not
present seri-
Ity. The lo-
tor company
ough. Local
imbined and
^rminal sales
igh to be a
>ntrol in part
id exportable

farm - com-

I orgnnize<l a

Xh at least

I. The county

be decided

Adams coun-

lic.

county farm

1 recently de-

4 to 0 and

4 of anny
from at least

Volume 2

Issued Every Other Saturday, July 19, 1924

Number 14

I. A. A. Awaits Detailed Proposal on Grain Merger

STAND URGED THAT
FARM ORGANIZATIONS
RETAIN OPEN MINDS

A PROGRESSIVE STEP

Grain Marketing Company

Incorporated To Take (>ver

Five Elevator Companies;

$26,000,000 Involved

For some weeks a special com-
mittee from the American Farm
Bureau Federation with O. E.
Bradfute as chairman, has been
giving consideration to tentative
proposals made by the Armour
Grain Company, the Rosenbaum
Grain Corporation, Davis-Nolan-
Merrill ,'^-and Company, J. C.
Schaffer and Company and Ro-
senbaum Brothers' Company for
the taking over of the physical
facilities of these old line grain
companies.

This committee on Monday,
July 14, believing the proposals
merited further consideration, au-
thorized that steps be taken to
form a corporation under the
Illinois Cooperative Marketing
Act with capital to acquire mar-
keting and^erminal facilities and
a common 'stock issue of l.Ouu,-
000 shares with a par value of
II a share; 1,000,000 shares of
"A" preferred stock at $25 a
share and 500,000 shares of "B"
preferred stock with a par value
of $50 a share.

It's Already Incorporated

Articles of incorporation have
been issued by Louis J. Emmer-
son, secretary of state. The fol-
lowing men are the incorporat-
ors: Millard H. Meyers, spokes-
man for the cooperative elevator
people: O. E. Bradfute, president
and J. W. Coverdale, secretary, of
the American Farm Bureau fed-
eration; Gray Silver, Washing-
ton representative of the farm
bureau; Fred A. Mudge, Peru,
111.; Louis J. Tabor, Columbus,
O., Oscar B. Ashworth, Mattoon,
111., and J. M. Dyer, Spencer, la.

The incorporation of a com-
pany under the Marketing Act
seems to be only a necessary step
at this time for the purpose of
selecting a representative group
of men who can legally solicit
and receive proposals tor the
purchase or leasing of market-
ing facilities, analyze and digest
such proposals and determine
whether at this time a large
cooperative grain marketing com-
pany should be set up, and if so,
what facilities are required and
whether same can be acquired by
purchase or lease on terms fa-
vorable to the grain farmers of
our country. ,

Position of I. A. A.

President S. H. Thompson is
a member of the American Farm
Bureau Federation Committee,
but was unable to be present
when the committee made final
its recommendations to incor-
porate the Grain Marketing Com-
pany. The lni|>ression gathered
by a ^eat many of our farmers
from the press reimrts Is that
the entire deal has been con-
summated and the new company
will start to market ^ain at
once. Mr. Thompson has made

Arrange Wool Pool
In Attempt To Cut
Marketing Expenses

William E. Hedgcock, who as-
sumed the direction of the I. A.
A. livestock marketing depart-
ment, July 1, has made arrange-
ments with the National Wool
Warehouse and Storage Com-
pany whereby the week of July
21 to 26 has been designated_as
"Illinois Wool Pool Week?*

Instructions have been sent to
farm bureaus recommending the
concentration of as much wool
as possible at one or two central
points in each county where it
will be shipped to the warehouse
by local freight if in less than
carload lots. Where it is not
shipped from a central point it
should be shipped from the near-
est local freight station sometime
during the wool pool week.

At the present time the ware-
house company is busy grading
a large amount of Iowa wool.
They have received a tew ship-
ments from Illinois but in many
instances it is coming either by
local freight or express in small
shipments which makes the
transportation expenses higher
than necessary.

By designating the week of
July 21 to 26 as wool pool week
in Illinois the warehouse can
make arrangements with the dif-
ferent railroads to reload into a
trap car at division points, wool

received over several roads. The
norecommendationto the other '.fap car is provided to facilitate
officers or the executive commit- '*•>« handling of small shipments
tee of the niinois Agricultural '™™ scattered points. By this
Association. Until definite pro- arrangement the I. A. A. market-
l>osals have b^n made to the '°S head hopes to cut down
Uoard of Directors of the new I f '■e'Sht charges on all wool ship-
(Continued on pa(C 3) ImentB.

A second advantage in naming
a specific period for pooling Illi-
nois wool is that it will enable
the warehouse to grade all the
wool before buyers arrive thus
increasing the chances tor better
prices.

Co-ops Celebrate

With Annual Meet

July 8, 1924, was written into
the annals of agricultural his-
tory as a big day down in Little
Egypt. The history making oc-
casion was the third annual
meeting of the Egyptian Seed
Growers' Exchange and the sec-
ond annual meeting of the Red
Top Growers' Warehouse Asso-
ciation, held jointly in the asso-
ciation warehouse at Flora. Two
hundred members of the aasocia-
tions and their families attended
the meeting, some of then! com-
ing fifty miles.

After a short business session^
with John Rogier presiding, the
meeting adjourned to participate
in a picnic lunch provided by
the women and served upon a
sixty-foot table, cafeteria style.
The Exchange furnished plenty
of lemonade and iced tea.

Walton Peteet, secretairy of
the National Cooperative Asso-
ciation, addressed the meeting at
the afternoon session, disoussing
the general conditions of the co-
operative movement, particularly
the financial problems of co-
operatives.

The treasurer's reports of the
two organizations were made by
L. A. Evans, of the finance de-
partment of the I. A. A., who
audited their accounts. These
reports from the treasury of
each organization show that the
year just past has been a very suc-
cessful one for both organisations.

Cotton Produjcers
Meet To Consider
A Marketing Pool

Cotton farmers ttom southern
Illinois met in Moubd City, July
2, with G. E. Metzger, organisa-
tion director of the ]l. A. A., and
considered the fori^ation of an
Illinois cotton growers' pool. A
report from an orgakiization com-
mittee which had Investigated
the possibilities of si^ch a pool In-
dicated that a growers' market-
ing organization wpuld be ad-
visable. Further ^tudy of the
situation is to be piade by the
committee and their; report beard
at a meeting late in July when
final consideration yilll be given
to the proposed mat-keting plan.

Growers in other cotton pro-
ducing states operate pools, all
of which affiliate wiith the Amer-
ican Cotton Growe^' Exchange.
The proposed Illinois growers'
pool would be estsiblished upon
a similar plan.

This season, the first tor many
years, shows a material increase
in the acreage of ootton in Illi-
nois. The latest estimate on the
1924 cotton crop according to
the agricultural statistician at
Springfield, places the acreage at
16,000. Early in dbe season It
was expected there I would be at
least 25,000 acres but bad
weather and unfavprable condi-
tions have reduced the acreage
seriously. >

The directors of several Ford

county cooperatives have recently
considered favorably the Illinois
Agricultural Cooperatives Asso-
ciation auditing service. The
Ford County Farm Bureau has
subscril>ed for membership in the
auditing association,.

"AMERICAN COUNCIL
OF AGRICULTURE" IS
FRAMED AT ST. PAUL

minoi* Agricuhwal Aaaodation

Has Several Representatives

There; Cowlcs Is Elected

Secretary

A centralized body which will
co-ordinate the efforts of all
farm organiza-
1 1 o n 8 toward
securing the
enactment o t
some measure
h 1 c h would
embody the
principles o t
the M c N a r y-
H a u g e n bill
was formed
last week at St.
Paul when 150
represen-
tatives from
approxl-
mately 60 farm organizations met
in conference. It was definitely
and clearly expt^ssed that the
National Conncll of AEricuHure
is to supplement existing farm or-
ganizations, not to re-place them,
and is to concentrate its efforts
upon securing legislative enact-
ment along the lines of the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill. The Council
will devote iu entire energies
to this end. The nation-wide
conference was called immedi-
ately after the defeat of the Mc-
Nary - Haugen
bill in the last
Congress. The
name is "The
American
Council of
A g r 1 c a 1 -
ture." An ex-
ecutive c o m-
mittee was ap-
pointed, c o n-
sisting of IS
members. The
purpose of the
National Coun-
EY«.tasl>.m j[, o, Agricul-
ture is primarily to obtain equal-
ity for agriculture through leg-
islative remedies. The fact that
agriculture has organized into a
central body, one that will speak
for all agricultural organizations
in one mighty, authoritative
voice, is tMiught by farm leaders
to be a progressive step. The
Council is to meet annually and
will probably open an office in
Washington. Temporary head-
quaners will be at our I. A. A.
office in Chicago.

The Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation was well represented at
the conference,
having in at-
tendance the
three members
of our legisla-
tive committee,
F. D. Barton,
Cornell, chair-
man; H. E.
G 0 e m b e 1,
Hooppole, and
A. C. Evering-
h a m, Hutson-
Tille, as well as
R. A. Cowles, „ ^ „ ,_,
director of 11- "" "^ f-"^'
nance, Bloomingto" ; L. E. War-
ner, president, Henry County
Farm Bureau; Ernest D. Walker.
Stronghurst, Henderson county

(CoRtlnufd on pac** *t

A. C.

Page 2

The niinoM Agrtculhiral AModation Record

July 19, 1924

Ililjl NOBS

jAcp^TURAL. ASSOCIA^

RECOR

IS jm

Published twice a month by the Illlnoii Agricultural
Auoclation, (01 South Dearborn Street. Chlcaso, Illinois.
Edited by Department of Information, H. C. Butcher,
Director.

Entry as second class matter Oct. 10. 1921, at the post
office at Chicago. Dlinois. under the act of March 3, 1879.
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage pro-
vided for in Section 1103. Act of October 3, 1917. author-
ixed Oct. 31, 1931. _^_^

The individual membership fee of the Illinois Arglcul-
tural Association Is five dollars a year. This fee Includes
payment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association Record.

\ OFFICERS ~-:-

I PrMldcnt. S. H. Thompson, Qnincy.
i Vice-President, C. B. Watson. DeKalb.
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomington.
[ Secretar}', Geo. A. Fox. Sjcamore.

1 EXEOUnVG COMMITTEE

By Coni^resslonal Districts

11th Jacob Olbrlch, Harvard

12th G. F. Tullock, Kockford

13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron

ISth.... J H. E. Goembel, Hooppole

.16th .A. R. Wright, Varna

17th F. D. Barton, Cornell

18th R. F. Karr, Iroquois

igth J. L. Whitnand, Charleston

20th Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21it Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd Stanley Castle, Alton

23rd J. E. Llngenfelter, Lawrenceville

24th Curt Anderson, Xenia

26th Vernon Lessley, Sparta

I Directors of Departments

I. .'\. .\. Office

General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker;
Organization, G, E. Metzger; Information, H. C. Butcher,
Transportation, L. J. Quasey, Statlatics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, C. A. Stewart;
Dairy Marketing, A. O. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R. Bent; in charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A.
Gougler; special representative on Tubeixulosis Eradi-
cation, M. H. Petersen.

Reaolutiona ot "The American Council of

Agriculture" Adopted at itt St. Paul

Meeting, July 12

Declaration ot Purpote

Be It Resolyed by this conference that there
should be created an American Council of Agricul-
ture. Its chief object shall be to make it possible
for the existing agricultural organizations of what-
ever character and similar organizations which may
be brought into being, to speak with one voice and
through a united leadership wherever and when-
ever the general well being of Agriculture is con-
cerned, whether in the realm of legislation, whether
in harmonizing methods of marketing or other or-
ganized effort, or in militantly championing those
policies and principles which have made ours the
greatest, the best and freest government on earth
and which, as a heritage infinitely precious from
the Fathers, it- is the solemn diitj' of all citizens
to preserve and defend against selfish or misguided
aggression from whatever quarter.

Throughout the centuries the well being of Agri-
culture has been synonj-mous with the well being
of civilization and nations have most frequently
risen and fallen, not through the prowess or weak-
ness of marching legions, but a^'those who tilled the
soil were happy and frugally prosperous, ofcs they
became victims of economic wrong, neglect and dis-
content. From the beginning of our own Republic
it has been freely admitted that Agriculture con-
stitutes its great "basic industry" and not merely
in the light of Worldihistory but from its tremen-
dous contribution to our national wealth in days
gone by, we believe this to be profoundly and in-
controvertibly true — and so believing, it shall be
the purpose of the American Council of Agricul-
ture to promote and defend the broad welfare of
Agriculture under any and all circumstances and
by gnch means as appear to it honorable and effec-
tive. For speaking in general terms, unless the dol-
lar that the farmer receives for his toil shall pos-
sess as great purchasing power as the dollar which
the other organized forces of society exact from
him, then certain ruin will ultimately overtake
Agriculture. And inevitably that ruin will involve
the ruin of industry and seriously menace the well
being of those who labor in shop and factory for
their dail.v bread. And hence the task which the
Council has solemnly undertaken is a beneficent
and unselfish one which cannot succeed without
leaving in its wake a greater degree of assured hap-
piness throughout the length and breadth of the
land.

Therefore and to the end that those who read
may the more fully understand the spirit of its

purposes, the Council desires to here record that
in the days to come it will not ask for any privi-
leges for Agriculture in Congress or elsewhere that
the aggressions of other classes or agencies do not
force upon it. And we give this voluntary assur-
ance, not as a truce to wholesome class rivalrj',
but because in the end the nation must stand or
fall upon the unselfishness of its classes and of its
individuals — upon whether or not all of us, as
classes or as individuals, are willing to "live in the
sweat of our faces" and "do unto others as we
would be done by. ' ' And those who proceed upon
any other theory, whether as a class or as indi-
•v^duals, are but sowing the wind and in the years
to come their children will reap a harvest of drag-
■ o|i"s teeth. For no class or individual can become
the beneficiary of economic wrong or favoritism
without subtracting from the sum total of the Na-
tion's happiness — and the Nation's happiness, the
assurance that the laborer, whoever he may be, is
"worthy of his hire," the safeguarding of this
privilege should be the solemn objective of all gov-
ernments and of all fair-minded citizens. And that
these ideals may ever actuate those who shall be
<-ommi.s8ioned to exercise the authority of this coun-
cil so long as it remains a constructive force, this is
tlie ardent hope of those who have prayerfully
brought it into being. In these premises we should
constantly bear in mind that our task is not merely
to compel even handed justice for those who toil in
the fields and feedlots, but that there devolves upon
us a still higher duty — the duty of so employing
the hosts of Agriculture that those venerable and
time-tried institutions of government which have
served us so well in the past shall be handed down
unharmed to the generations of the future.
Part I ot General Retolutiont

We recommend the creation of a National Agri-
cultural Council to do that which shall be necessary
and advisable to secure the enactment by Congress
of the legislation embodying the principles of the
McNary-Haugen bill and thus secure for American
agriculture equality with industry and labor.

Second : That the delegates present and partic-
ipating in this conference shall act temporarily as
such agricultural council with full power until the
annual meeting of the Council.

Third : That such Council shall be composed
of five (5) representatives chosen by each National
farm or commodity organization and by one (1)
representative chosen by each of all other agricul-
tural associations and agricultural cooperative com-
modity associations in the United States.
Retolutiont

Generally speaking, we desire to earnestly direct
the following statement to the farmers of the
United States:

Profoundly serious as are the existing conditions
confronting agriculture, yet candor compels us to
confess that the farmer shares in the responsibility
for their existence, because in days gone by he
apparently forgot that "God helps him who helps
himself" and did little to protect himself and his
fellow farmers against the forces which determine
his living and production costs. With industry
and labor, organization has always come first, while
with the farmer it has been considered a secondary
matter and it is therefore not surprising that he
should find himself the victim of the organized
forces which surround him on ever}- side.

We heartily endorse the efforts of farmers in
forming cooperative marketing associations and
urge the faithful adherence to their membership
contracts, as they are the essence of cooperation
and bring into being the necessary in.strumentality
for permanent and successful marketing of farm
commodities.

We desire to go on record in favor of orderly
marketing of grain through farm controlled cpop-
erative agencies throughout, and in this connection
recommend that the speculative buying of grain
by farmer elevator companies be discouraged.

We also desire to recommend a greater harmony
of purpose and action in the operation of coopera-
tive livestock commission companies at the various
stockyards in which premises such splendid prog-
ress has been made during the last two years, and
in which activity nothing except needless and fool-
ish friction can defeat our almost complete control
of livestock movements in the near future. In this
connection, we also earnestly urge all carload feed-
ers throughout the country to henceforth consign
all their livestock to a cooperative commission com-
pany, and even so, we recommend the immediate
establishment of a farmers' livestock shipping asso-
ciation at all points where such associations are not
in operation at this time and where the movement
of livestock justifies such agencies. Let us remem-
ber with reference to both grain and livestock that
our first objective should be the undisputed control
at the earliest possible moment, of the central grain
and livestock markets — for this control is over-

whelmingly vital to the successful operation of pro-
ducers' contracts as applied to these commodities.

In the coming national election we recommend
rewarding those who supported the McNary-
Haugen bill in Congress without the slightest re-
gard to the party label and we also recommend that
the following pledge be exacted from all candidates
for Congress, whether in the House or Senate :

In the event of my nomination and election, I
hereby pledge myself to vote for and faithfully
support legislation that will give agriculture equal-
ity with industry and labor and in line with the
spirit of the McNary-Haugen bill.

Supplemental Resolution*

Be It Resolved : That this conference and organ-
ization here represented express their appreciation
of the signal service rendered by the Department
of Agriculture under the sincere and able leader-
ship of Henry C. Wallace.

Whereas: Equality for agriculture with indus-
try and labor embraces all agriculture, and where-
as, in the last Congress, the McNary-Haugen bill
did not receive the support of the cotton states
generally.

Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved : That the Coun-
cil give special consideration to the problems sur-
rounding the cotton producers and to this end in-
vite their friendly cooperation.

Resolved: That this conference and the organi-
zations here represented express their deep grati-
tude to Mr. George C. Jewett for his courageous,
capable and untiring efforts in behalf of the Mc-
Narj'-Haugen bill. '

Resolved: That the Secretary be instructed to
have the proceedings of this conference printed for
distribution among the various farm organizations
and attending delegates.

Resolved: That this conference express to the
St. Paul Association of Public and Business Affairs
and to the Press of St. Paul its deep appreciation
and sincere thanks for the hearty support they
have given the McNary-Haugen bill and for the
courtesies extended to this conference throughout
its session. ; i

State-Wide Projects Take Time

A negotiating committee or individual that deals
with state-wide projects scrapes against many un-
charted rocks and sometimes becomes stranded
along the journej^ to accomplishment. The nego-
tiations which have been under way by the phos-
phate-limestone department and its advisory com-
mittee for several months have been striking ob-
stacles. That department has been serving farm
bureau members, among its other duties, to obtain
recognition of the county farm bureaus by a spe-
cial price from the producers on limestone to
members. This plan, one under which some county
farm bureaus are now furnishing limestone to
members under agreements with two or three com-
panies, provides that each and every company that
agrees to the plan returns 10 cents a ton to the
county farm bureau which sent in the order. This
10 cents a ton is rebated to the county farm bu-
reaus at the end of each month and the county
organizations usually return the money to the
members who bought the limestone, thus lowering
the price of limestone to members by 10 cents a
ton. Non-members that order through the county
farm bureaus do not receive the rebate; it stays
with the county organization. This is the plan
which the phosphate-limestone department has
been attempting to get subscribed to by the lime-
stone producing companies.

There are 15 or 20 limestone producing compa-
nies that are leaders in the production of agricul-
tural limestone. They naturally are competitors;
some are commercial enemies. Here are 94 farm
bureau counties, each with slightly different con-
ditions, some with widely different limestone needs,
and others with wide divergence of viewpoints.
When any state-wide negotiating committee under-
takes to work out a program in the interest of the
state as a wboler-one that is fair to both sides
and still beneficial to the farmer, a gigantic prob-
lem arises.

It takes time, patience, faithfulness and a clear,
unbiased knowledge of facts, both from the con-
sumer and producer viewpoints, and a willingness
on the part of county farm organizations, farm ad-
visers and the members themselves to achieve suc-
cess in any state-wide project. All must stick to
the conceded fundamentals ; some must drop little
and irrelevant personal opinions and others must
see over trivial details in the interest of combined
strength and uniformity of action. But if the
fundamentals are right, any plan eventually will
go across.

Lack of space makes it necessary to leave out
the Liars' Comer this time.

L. J. «

July 19. 1924

The IIKboU Agricultural Aisodatioa Record

P«ge3

I. A. A. DEPARTMENT
OF TRANSPORTATION
REPRESENTS FARMER

88 Counties Reached In Six

Months Through Various

Services; Handles Claims

For Members

Editor's Notei This w the second
of a seriet of sim-Har articleg to be
written btf I. A. A. department di-
rectors telling of the work done in
each department.

BY L. J. QUASEY

Director, Transportation

Deoattment

L, J. Quwey

The work of the Transporta-
tion Department is divided into
> a number of classes of service.
Some of these concern the in-
terests of tlie whole state, others
i, only certain localities while still
others concern only certain indi-
vidual members.

The accom-
panying map
shows counties
to which serv-
ice has been
rendered dur-
ing 1924. This
may consist of
service upon
the request of
the Farm Bu-
reaus in the in-
terest of a large
number of
members in the
county or a
service to one or more livestock
shipping associations, elevators or
individual members.

Serve 88 Ck>iintles

Service has been rendered to
88 out of 102 counties, of which,
nine are unorganized, so that ac-
cording to our records all but 5
of the organized counties have
been served.

The map does not show service
to the state as a whole.

The following outline shows
the principal divisions and sub-
divisions of the work of the de-
partment:

Prove^dlnK" Before rontnteree
CommlMslona and lUlllroiidM:

1. Filing formal and informal com-
plaint^ before the Interstate Com-
merce Commission or the Illinois
Comm.erce Commission; present-
ing evidence and giving testi-
mony In proceedings where the
interests of the members are in-
volved and filing briefs in con-
nection with such proceedings.

2. Propose matters for consideration
of the railroad rate committees
and appear before such commit-
tees on occasions where the in-
terests of the Illinois farmers are
involved.

3. Negotiating with individual rail-
roads in matters of rates, train
schedules and shipping facilities.

FreUcht Rate Servleei

1. Quotation of rates and routing
on agricultural commodities.

2. Rate survey work on agricul-
tural commodities.

3. Agricultural limestone rate
service to county farm bureaus.

4. Maintenance of a file of tariffs
and classifications.

Car DlHtrtbation and Supply:

1. Assistance to county farm bu-
reaus and local associations in
securing cars.
ShlppfniT ConvenleBceH:

1. Assistance in securing side
traclts and other conveniences,
<'haiigrea and Adjuatnienta in Freight
Train Servieet

1. Schedules of livestock trains.

2. Schedules of fruit and vege-
table traiA aervice, etc.

<*ialm Prevention I

1. Obtaining . necessary repairs
and improvements at livestock
loading pens.

2. Giving out information to ship-
pers on the reducing of losses
in transit.

Railroad Ciaimat

1. Freight overcharge claims.

2. Freight loss and damage claims.

3. General loss and damage claims.

Represents Members

The Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation, through its Transporta-
tion Department, represents its
members and their interests in
formal proceedings before either
the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission or the Illinois Commerce
Commission.

The Interstate Commerce Com-
mission has jurisdiction over mat-
ters pertaining to transportation
rates, serVice, etc. between states.
The Illinois Commerce Coangiis-
sion acts on matters cohcefmng
transportation within the State.

Action is brought before these
bodies either by direct compteint
or by intervention Hi a complaint
brought by others in which our
.interests are involved.

The Indiana Fruit and Vege-

table Case in which extensive in-
creases in Illinois rates were pre-
vented and the Hog minimum
case in which the minimum
weight on hogs intrastate was
reduced from 17,000 to 16,500
pounds are some of the more re-
cent cases in which we partici-
pated.

The Railroads are organized
into Freight Rate Associations
for the purpose of handling rate
matters between themselves and
the shippers. Most of the sub-
jects we handle are taken up with
the individual railroads them-
selves. We have contact with
all the principal departments of
the majority of the Illinois' rail-
roads, so that any particular mat-
ter is quickly brought to the at-
tention of the proper depart-
ment.

SnppIieR Freisht Rates

Many of you know how diffi-
cult it is to determine what the
correct freight charges^ are on a
particular shipment. The tariffs
are complicated and changes in
the rates are being made con-
stantly, so that it is important
for a farmer to be able to get
correct rate quotations. We
maintain a tariff file on all the
principal commodities in which
farmers are interested, so it
makes; no difference what coni-
"indity it is or what railroad it
moves over, we can not only give
Tou the correct rate but advice
as to the best route also.

We keen constantly in touch
with the freight sitaution on farm
commodities so we may know
what changes are being con-
templated and be in position to
nrotect the interests of our mem-
bers whenever necessary.

A special service is now being
rendered to county farm bureaus
in supplying rates on agricultural
limestone from several quarries
to all points in a county.

Very few complaints have been
received regarding car supply.
This is due to the fact that the
railroads have had a very large
percentage of their cars and en-
gines in working order and have
been able to keep the equipment
distributed so as to better meet
the shippers needs.

Helps Furnish Cars

The activities of the Regional
Advisory Board, consisting of
shippers' representatives cooper-
ating with the Car Service Di-
vision of the American Railway
Association, are in a large mea-
sure responsible for the ' good
condition in the car supply situa-
tion.

The Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation is represented on the
Board of Directors and Agricul-
ttiral Commodity Committees of
the Midwest Regional Advisory
Board which includes Illinois ter-
ritory.

Advice and assistance are given
to shippers regarding side tracks,
installation of stock pens. leases,
for stock scale sites on the right
of way. etc.

Shippers often dd not get mat-
ters placed before the proper rail-
way officials and much unneces-
sary delay can be avoided by re-
ferring them through the proper
channels. '

Requests R ranted

.Several months ago some of
the live stock shippers at points
on the Chicago & Alton Railway
asked for an additional shipping
day to Chicago and East St.
Louis. A survey was made to
determine the volume of live
stock traffic from various points
and to determine which day
would be in accord with the de-
sire of the majority of shippers.
Wednesday was preferred, with
the exception of one or two in-
stances. So in handling the mat-
ter with the Chicago & Alton
Railroad Company's officials we
asked for Wednesday and the re-
quest was granted.

There is now under way with
the railroads a proposition for
repairing, cleaning and maintain-
ing in a sanitary condition the
livestock loading pens at county
points. In this we have two ob-
jects in view. One is the preven-
tion of claims and the other is
to stimulate tuberculosis eradica-
tion.

Poorly drained stock pens,
knee deep in mud, are anything
but conducive to the proper and
safe handling of live stock. In-

ri)*- HiMMe map rfprt**nti> the senKe of lite traiutpor
latiiHl depurtment from ifanuary 1. 19S4 to July 1. 19^1.
.sha4le4l iiortioiHi are roat)tic« served', a-hlte coonties not
wne*! luul blaek eoantie* not eryanixed or alllliated a-itli
the Illinois .Xerii-alturai Aiwoclation.

sufficient water supply is v«ry
detrimental, particularly during
hot weather. 'The railroads shottld
supply water at livestock pens.

We are working with the T. B.
Eradication Department in an
effort to get the railroads to
maintain tlieir stock pens in a
sanitary condition so as to re-
duce possible sources of infection.
A survey was made of hundreds
of stock pens at stations in Illi-
nois and any deficiencies in the
physical condition of the yards
and pens have been reported.
These matters are now being
handled with the freight claim
prevention and other railroad
officials.

Safety Contest Started

The purpose of tiie safety con-
test announced in the July 3th
issue of the RECORD is to stitu-
ulate interest among livestock
shipping associations in reducing
losses. Livestock shippers oan
do a great deal toward reducing
losses by exercising care in feed-
ing, watering and loading live-
stock at country points.

The department handles
large number of railroad claiilis.
Shippers are urged not only to
use every reasonable precaution
in the safe handling of live stcick
but to be sure to count the stock
as it is loaded into the cars. : A
claim for shortage cannot 'be
made good unless it is supported
by proper proqf. This can ^ best
be obtained by having at legist
two persons, po'ssibly three, coifnt
the animals as they are loacled
into the car.

<'lierk Freight Bills

We check over a great ma^y
freight bills and if any ovfr
charges are found to exist, claims
are filed. Send in your In-
voices on livestock shipments ajid
your freight bills on other ship-
ments and we will gladly check
up on them for you.

Claims due to fire, or for liye-
stock killed on the right of wiay
are also handled. Much of tihe
livestock that is killed or injuned
on the right of way is because
the railroads fail to maintain
their fences in suitable repair.
Write us if your livestock fence
is in poor condition. Getting the
fence fixed will not only benefit
you but the railroad as well.

I

AWAIT DETAILS ON
PROPOSED MERGER

(Continual! froin p;^g«- li
company, and a niosi careful can-
vass of the whole situation cota-
|ilele<l, the Illinois .\i;ricultural
.Association is in no position to
form a definite opinion as to
the nierit-s of the |>rof>o«ed nier-
ger. Tiie olBcers of the Illinois
.Agricultural .Association believe
that a iKilicy of open mindedness
should be adopted by all farm
organizations toward the new
company' and what it may recom-
mend and request.

The American Farm Bureau
Federation lists the following
nen as having been invited, elect-
'd and hitring accepted places on
he temporary board of directors
)f the Grain Marketing Com-
pany; O. E. Bradfute, Ohio, presi-
dent of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation;. W. J. Brown,
Minnesota, president of the Amer-
ican Wheat Growers, Inc.; Harry
L. Keefe. Nebraska, president of
the U. S. Graiin' Growers, Inc.;
Fred A. Mudge, Peru, III., presi-
dent of the Illinois Farmers' Ele-
vator Association; J. M. Dyer,
Spencer, Iowa, president of the
Iowa Farmers' Elevator Associa-
tion: Millard Meyers, Illinois
Farmers' Elevators; J. F. Reed,
Minnesota, vice-president of the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion: Oscar Ashworth, Mattoon,
III.. Illinois Grain Farmers; Gray
Silver. West Virginia and Illinois
Grain Farmers; J. W. Coverdale,
Iowa G rain Farm.ers.

Partners In Mount Hope town-

*hlp in Washington state have
organized a better stock associa-
tion and have selected one breed
for each class of livestock which
they will breed. Belgian horses,
Guernsey cows and Duroc Jersey
hogs have been chosen and with-
in a year each member is to have
at least one purebred animal of
some one of the- breeds chosen.
Only purebred sires will be used.

Marshall-Putnam Farm Bureau
baseball team continued its
steady march toward champion-
ship in the northwest district
league, defeating Bureau county
recently by a 12 to 4 score.

CHICAGO PRODUCERS
REFUND $55,000 TO
ILLINOIS SHIPPERS

Show Increase of 58.5 Per

Cent In ToUl Volume of

Butineu for Last

Fiscal Year

Something of the possibilities
open to actual livestock produc-
ers through close cooperation on
a marketing program can be
seen in the report of the busi-
ness done by the Chicago Pro-
ducers Association in the last
fiscal year.

For the second successive year
Illinois stockmen have led in the
number of cars shipped to the
Chicago Producers. Within the
last year a total- of 9.070 cars
of stock were shipped to them
from Illinois, 51.5 per cent of
the total receipts. Aside from
these shipments to the Chicago
Producers Illinois shippers sell
a large per cent of their stock
to the Producers at St. Louis,
Peoria and Indianapolis.

.Mthough the exact figures on
the refund paid to Illinois ship-
pers are not yet ready, a rough
estimate will place it at t5S,-
000.00 out of the total refund
of (103.461.55. This enormous
refund effected an average saving
of JB.84 per carload to the ship-
pers. Livestock men recognite
it as proof of the financial suc-
cess of cooperative livestock mar-
keting.

Make Big Gains

The cattle department of the
Chicago Producers showed a gain
of 47.8 per cent; the hog de-
partment 51.2 .per cent; the
sheep department 199. S per cent,
while the receipts as a whole
were 68.5 per cent greater than
last year. The feeder depart-
ment which is a new service just
added during the last fiscal year
purchased over 200 loads of cat-
tle and 315 decks of sheep. One
order alone was for 32 cars.

The shipping association at
Rockford led all associations in
the number of cars shipped with
211. The refund paid to this as-
sociation alone was $1,245.02.
The Warren County Farm Bu-
reau Shipping Service followed
the Rockford association with
175 cars and the Victoria Ship-
ping Association in Knox county
was third with 101 cars. Over
20 association bave the record
of consigning every animal to
the Producers. Shipments were
received from 416 associations.

Seventyreight out of the 102
Illinois counties shipped stock to
the Chicago Producers during
the year. Following are the 25
counties having the largest num-
ber of cars shipped: -

Henry 566. Knox SJ2. HeKatb J7S.
Mercer 324. Warren 31T. I.jtSalle
2!';. McOonough 290. Bureau 285.
McL,ean 278. llock Island 275. l^e
260. -Hancock 253. Stephenson 287.
Winnebago 224. LlvlnKBton 216.
Kane ISO. Marshall 187, Og-le 174.
Iroquois 16S. Carroll 167. Whiteside
163. Kendall 155, Ford 14S. Peoria
140. I'utnam 138.

More Kiddies Get

Country Vacation*

. Interest in the problem of giv-
ing short country outings to un-
der-privileged kiddies of Chicago
bas increased with the coming
of July and warmer weather,
judging by the requests for chil-
dren that have come to the Out-
ing Secretary of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association, which is
working with the United Char-
ities of Chicago on the poor chil-
dren problem.

Up tc July 14 requests for
191 children to be sent out to
farm homes had , been received.
A large order came from Rock
Island county where Miss Leila
Walker, Hillsdale, as hostess,
asked for 25 kiddies to be dis-
tributed there. T|iree of the re-
quests from Miss Walker were
tor permanent adoption of chil-
dren.

As a companion enemy to the

army worm the familiar cutworm
is appearing in many sections of
the middle west, doing much
damage in alfalfa fields.

Ixtean county farmers are de-
manding a IS per cent reduction
on farm land values.

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The Ofinou AgricoHar*! Ajtodation Record

July 19, 1924

Illinois Boys Defeat English In Dairy Judging

MURPHY KEYNOTES
CONFERENCE; PEEK
MADE PRESIDENT

Committee Representing All
Major Rural Organization*
Will Direct Campaign
I For Equality

(Continued fron

parfp 1 )

farm adviser; Hugh H. Hastings,
ChlJlicothe, vice-president, Mar-
shall-Putnam County Farm Bu-
reau; Simon C. Moon, Towanda,
president. McLean County Farm
Bureau and Charles R. Finley,
Hoopeston. president, Vermilion
County Farm Bureau. Mr. Bar-
ton was chairman of the creden-
tials committee and Mr. Ever-
ingham was chairman of the
steering committee.

R. A. Cowles, the I. A. A.
treasurer, was elected tempo-
rary secretary of the organiza-
tion meeting and was later made
secretary of tte American Coun-
cil of Agriculture. George N.
Peek, formerly president of the
Moline Plow Company, Mollne,
and a member of the Rock
Island County Farm Bureau and
our Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, was elected president and
Carl Gunderson, Mitchell, South
Dakota, vice-president. John R.
Mitchell, S t .
Paul, a former
member of the
Federal Re-
serve Board,
was made
treasu r-
e r. Frank W.
I M u r p h y ,
Wheaton, Min-
^^^ ^^1 nesota, whom
' .^^HA ^^H many Illinois
I f a r m bureau
members will
remember a s
Kobnt A. cmtIm j ,, ^ speaker

tor the McNary-Haugen bill at
meetings held at Rock Island,
Springfield, Danville and Bloom
ington..was made chairman of the
executive committee. He deliv-
ered the keynote address of the
confer-
ence. George C.
J e w e 1 1, Spo-
kane, Washing-
t o n, general
manager of the
American
Wheat Grow
e r s" Associa
tion. Inc.. who
was 'chairman
of the confer-
r i n g leaders,
and who was
the uno6f1cial

leader in t h e ^""^ *• '«■"''"'
recent McNary-Haugen bill fight
at Washington, D. C.. is ex officio
member of the executive commit-
tee, as is also R. A. Cowles, the
members of which follow:

L. J. Tabor, master, National
Grange, Columbus, Ohio; Chas.
Barrett, president. Farmers' Edu-
cational Cooperative Union of
America, Georgia; O. E. Brad-
fute, president. American Farm
Bureau Federation, Xenia, Ohio;
John G. Brown, president. Na-
tional Livestock Producers Asso-
ciation, Monon, Indiana; Wm.
Hirth. Missouri Farmers' Asso-
ciation, Columbia, Missouri; Chas.
E. Hearst, president, Iowa Farm
Bureau Federation. Des Moines.
Iowa; Mark A. Woods, chairman.
State of Nebraska Committee for
Promotion of the McNary-Haugen
bill, Lincoln, Nebraska; C. H.
Hyde, vice-president. Farmprs'
Union, Alva, Oklahoma; John D.
Miller, New York; Wm. J. Brown,
president, American Wheat Grow-
ers, Inc., Minneapolis, Minn.;
George E. Lambert, Equity Co-
operative Exchange. St. Paul,
Minn.; Frank W. Murphy, Com-
mittee for Promotion of the Mc-
Nary - Haugen bill, Wheaton,
.Minn.; George E. Duis, president.
North Dakota Wheat Growers,
Grand Forks. North Dakota. The
above list Is incomplete, chairman
Jewett having not completed the
appointment of the full commit-
tee as this RECORD goes to press.
] George N. Peek, as president
of the American Council of Agri-

address of 1

m

culture. made the following
statement for the RECORD at
Chicago the first of the week:

"The purpose of the American
Council of Agriculture is to se-
cure the enact-
ment by Con-
gress of n^ces-
s a r y remedial
legislation t o
create equality
for agriculture
with industry
and labor un-
der the princi-
ples of the Mc-
Nary - Haugen
bill defeated in
the last Con-
gress.

"The subject f^"' ^- »*•**
is fundamentally economic rather
than political and we are deter-
mined it shall not become the
football of partisan politics. Re-
publicans, Democrats and Pro-
gressives have all included agri-
cultural planks in their platforms
which ostensibly propose to se-
cure equality for agriculture
The Council, in its St. Paul meet-
ing, passed a resolution urging
reward to those members of the
last Congress who supported the
McNary-Haugen bill without re-
gard to party label and urged
that the following pledge be ex-
acted from all candidates for
Congress whether in House or
Senate:

" 'In the event of my nomin
ation and election, I hereby
pledge myself to vote for and
faithfully support legislation that
will give equality to agriculture
with industry and labor in liner
with the spirit of the McNary-
Haugen bill.'

"The Council further went on
record that it would not ask for
any privileges for agriculture
from Congress that the aggres-
sions of other classes or agencies
do not force upon it, believing
that in the end the nation must
stand or fall upon the unselfish-
ness of its classes, and of its in-
dividuals.

"The Council fully appreciated
the possible effect of its action
upon political parties but agri-
culture is determined to have
equality with industry and labor
and we are therefore rather fol-
lowing than creating precedent.

"The Council will make its
temporary headquarters with the
Illinois Agricultural Association,
Transportation building, Chica-
go."

Although all the farm organ-
izations represented had many
points in common, and although
in general harmony was para-
mount, in some instances, espe-
cially when the resolutions com-
mittee was in session, there was
evidence of considerable back-
bone among many of the repre-
sentatives, all of which was said
to be indicative of healthy
thought.

Secretary Wallace was com-
mended for his earnest and per-
sistent support of the McNary-
Haugen bill. Also, a resolution of
sympathy was sent to President
Coolidge in condolence over the
loss of his son.

Following is a partial list of
the more important national or-
ganizations which were repre-
sented and the corresponding
representatives:

American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration by Gray Silver.

American Wheat Growers As-
sociation. Inc.. by William J.
Brown, President, and George J.
Jewett, general manager.

National Live Stock Produc-
ers Association, by John Brown,
l^resident, and James R. Riggs.

National Producers Alliance,
by O. P. Reese, special repre-
sentative.

National Grange, by E. A. Ec-
kert, executive committee.

Farmers Educational and Co-
operative Union of America, W.
C. Landson, natibnal lecturer.

LONG FIGHT OVER
PITTSBURGH PLUS
NEARS A VERDICT

One of the Longest Cases in
History; Expect Final Deci-
sion From Commission
ThU FaU

Since January 3, 1924 the Ill-
Mo Dairy Company at East St.
Louis has received cream from
829 patrons at 243 shipping
points in Illinois and Missouri. '

The final argument in the five-
year fight over the Pittsburgh
Plus controversy was reached by
the Federal Trade Commission
when it met June 23 and 24.
The concluding stage in this long
drawn out law suit marked the
ciimax of one of the most re-
markable economic investigations
ever conducted in this country.

Farmers, manufacturers and
other business interests look now
to the final decision of the com-
mission, expecting a report fa-
vorable to western business in-
terests. Much of the testimony
and argument against the Pitts-
burgh Plus steel pricing system
was furnished by the counsel
for the Commission, of which
Sam H. Thompson, president of
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion is a member, and the Asso
elated States Opposing Pitts
burgh Plus, which is a group of
western states whose legislatures
have appropriated funds amount-
ing to 155,000 to fight this prac-
tice. The Illinois Agricultural
Association has taken a stand
against "Pittsburgh Plus" be-
cause its practice costs Illinois
farmers thousands of dollars
each year.

Argued In 1919

A formal application for a
complaint against the U. S. Steel
Corporation and the so-called in
dependent companies was made
in September, 1919. The case
was argued in December, 1919,
and by a vote of three to two the
uomniission denied the applica-
tion the following June.

In September, 1920, an appli-
cation for a rehearing was grant-
ed ana the case was argued again
in December, that year. In
April. 1921, the commission
granted the application by a vote
of three to two, thus reversing
its first decision.

Since then John W. Bennett,
special examiner for the commis-
sion, has been taking testimony
In the Pittsburgh Plus case.
Scores of cities have been visited
and hundreds of business men^
both In and out of the steel
industry have been questioned on
the matter. The examiner's re-
port containing over 350 pages,
strongly denounced the Pitts-
burgh Plus practice and upheld
the stand taken by the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation and
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, both of which have been
active in the fight against the
Pittsburgh Plus practice of pric-
ing steel.

Price DLscrimination

The report was submitted last
March, following which volumi-
nous briefs and arguments were
offered by counsel for the com-
mission. Karl E. Steinhauer; H.
G. Pickering, of Superior, Wis-
consin, counsel for the Associat-
ed States Opposing Pittsburgh
Plus and George H. Spear and
Charles P. Craig, on behalf of
the city of Duluth. Comprehen-
sive briefs were also filed by the
counsel for the U. S. Steel Cor-
poration.

The case was argued in the
recent trial by Steinhauer and
Pickering against the Pittsburgh
Plus practice and for the cor-
poration by Richard V. Linda-
bury and W. E. Corlett, of New
York.

Decision In Fall

The attorneys for the corpora-
tion denied the charge that the
famous Pittsburgh Plus practice
of pricing steel involves price
discrimination against customers
or that it is economically or le-
gally unsound. Their argument
was almost entirely a technical
legal defense. attempting to
prove that Section 2 of the Clay-
ton Act, and Section 5 of the

Federal Trade Commission Act,
which are the statutes relied
upon by the defendants, are not
applicable to the case.

Argument for the commission
and the Associated States Op-
posing Pittsburgh Plus main-
tained that existing laws are suf-
ficient to remedy the injustice
cauKd by the present system of
steel pricing. They insisted that
discrimination against eastern,
western and southern manufac-
turing centers results from the
practice while the steel corpora-
tion Interests near Pittsburgh
are thereby safeguarded.

It is considered likely that the
Federal Trade Commission will
hand down the final decision
parly this fall at the latest. The
vote of Charles W. Hunt of Iowa,
who was recently appointed to the
commission, may have a deciding
influence In the outcome of the
case. He has been aligned with
ai,rirultural Interests and is ex-
pected to vote against the Pitts
burgh Plus system since it is
represented that this practice has
resulted in excessive prices of
farm implements.

WHITESIDE COUNTY
BOYS WIN CONTEST
OVER BRITISH TEAM

Defeat English Dairy Judges
By 96 PoinU and Get
London Daily Mail
■ Trophy

\ thousand Kendall county

people attended the annual sum
mer picnic of Kendall County
Farm Bureau at He^gren's Park,
June 26. BasebaS games in
which Lisbon Center walked on
Big Grove and Kendall defeated
Bristol, and horseshoe contests
won by Wilbur Harnly and Ed
Frlce were the big athletic events
of the day.

Sam H. Thompson, president
of the I. A. A. and Senator H
C. Kessinger spoke In the after-
noon urging closer cooperation
and predicting more prosperous
times for the agricultural Indus
try.

The United States Department
of Agriculture has recently cre-
ated a Bureau of Dairying to
handle all dairy problems relat-
ing to the government.

According to a govemment sax-
vey the number of pigs in the
United States now is 20 per cent
less than a year ago.

The Chicago Producers Com-
mission Association is offering a
125 bonus to Boys' and Girls'
calf club contestants who market
through their association before
January 1. 1925, a calf weighing
1,000 pounds or over. This
means an additional 2H cents
per pound besides the usual high
price paid for such calves. The
Chicago Producers are also going
to give a banquet to all calf
club winners who attend the In-
ternational Livestock Exposition
next fall. The St. Louis Produc-
ers are promoting a similar con-
test for boys and girls who mar-
ket 1,000 pound calves through
their association.

Anticipating a recommenda-
tion by the Tariff Commission to
reduce the duty on sugar the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion passed a resolution at its
meeting last month urging that
tariff on sugar beets be not dis-
turbed. This action was taken
on the grounds that it would
work a hardship on western su-
gar beet growers and prove to
be a handicap to southern cane
growers. Similar action was tak-
en by the Minnesota Farm Bu-
reau.

Tlie recent appropriation for
T. B. testing by Hancock county
brings the total to 58 counties
in Illinois.

The Pro<lucers' Commission
Comimny of Indianapolis recent-
ly held an "open house" for the
farm advisers In their Illinois
territory, showing them through
the packing plants and explain-
ing how the livestock is handled
nt the terminal markets.

The iHipulation of the United
States increased 1.943,000 in
192 3, making a total population
of 112,826,000 on January 1,
1924.

The Wliiteside county boys'
dairy judging team, representing
America, triumphed over the
British team in the International
contest at Hayward Heath, Eng-
land, July 11. The American
contestants — Harold Gaulrapp.
Rock Falls; Donald Williams,
Sterling and Elwjm Folkers, Ster-
ling— won over the team from
England by 96 points and were
awarded a gold trophy by the
London Daily Mail. Last year
the trophy was won by high
school boys from Maryland.

The Whiteside team earned the
right to represent the United
States when they out-judged 20
other teams in the National
Boys' Dairy Judging contest at
Syracuse, New York,, last fall.
They had previously won the
state championshp at Springfield.

During the six-weeks trip,
which the boys have taken with
their coaches, L. O. Wise, farm
adviser of Whiteside county, and
C. S. Rhode, dairy extension
specialist at the University, they
have visited the best dairy herds
in America and England, as well
as points of historical interest.
They will visit the livestock
breeding districts of Scotland,
England, France and Jersey and
Guernsey Isles before returning
to America.

Tendency of Prices
Is Back To Normal

The discrepancy existing be-
tween the prices of farm prod-
ucts and general commodities has
been gradually growing less for
almost a year, according to a
price review prepared recently by
the research department of the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion. Farm prices for the past
two months have on the average
been steady to strong while the
general price level has declined
slightly.

. The general trend of prices on
farm products has been upward
since last Deceral>er, the index
number In May being 121 on
the 1913 base compared to the
December number of 116. Whole-
sale prices have in general de-
clined, the figure tor last Sep-
tember being 154 compared to
147 for May, 1924. The spread
between farm products on the
farm and at the terminal mar-
ket has also narrowed percept-
ibly.

Listen In!

A. A. Radio Program
For August, Over
K. Y. W.

Central Standard Time 7:20

August 1 — "The Agricultural
Situation and the Farm Bureau
Program," by R. A. Cowles,
treasurer of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association.

August 19 — "What's Doing in
Illinois," by H. C. Butcher, Di-
rector, I. A. A. information de-
partment.

August 26 — "Eradicating Tu-
berculosis in Illinois." by M. H.
Petersen, Director, I. A. A. tu-
berculosis eradication depart-
ment.

August 29 — "The Farmer and'
Rail Transportation," by L. J.
Quasey, Director, I. A. A. trans-
portation department.

Jy 19, 1924

ng

UNTY
ONTEST
ISH TEAM

>airy Judges
and Get
y Mail

county boys'
representing

1 over ttie

International
Heath, Eng-

he American
Gaulrapp.

Id Williams,

Folkers, Ster-
team from
nta and were
•ophy by the
Last year

on by high
laryland.
im earned the
the United
)ut-]udged 20
the National

g contest at
rk,, last fall.
sly won the
at Springfield,
c-weeks trip,
re taken with
Wise, farm
e county, and
iry extension
liversity, they
St dairy herds
gland, as well
rical interest,
the livestock

of Scotland,
id Jersey and
ore returning

Prices
b Normal

existing be-
>f farm prod-
mmodities has
)wing less for
ccording to a
ed recently by
rtment of the
ureau Federa-

for the past
in the average
ong while the

has declined

d of prices on
been upward
er, the index
being 121 on |
apared to the
f 116. Whole-
n general de-
for last Sep-
compared to
. The spread
ducts on the
terminal mar-
owed percept-

io Program
, Over

V.

Time 7:20

e Agricultural

Farm Bureau

A. Cowles,

Illinois Agrl-
1.
lat's Doing in

Butcher, Di-
[formation de-
radicating Tu-
is," by M. H.

I. A. A. tu-
ition depart-

3 Farmer and ^
a," by L. J.
.A. A. trang-
nt.

t
1

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Volume 2

Issued Every Other Saturday, August 2, 1924

Number 15

POSITION TAKEN ON
MERGER IS APPROVED
BY EXECUTIVE BODY

I.A.A. Maintains Open Mind-
ed Attitude Toward New
Company; Thompson
Declines To Serve

The executive committee of our
I. A. A., in session July 25, offi-
cially expressed" its approval of
the open-minded stand taken re-
cently by officials of the associa-
tion regarding the Grain Market-
ing Company, newly incorporated
$26,000,000 merger of five old
line grain companies of Chicago
and Kansas City.

Since this action was taken by
the executive committee the di-
rectorate of the new company
has been elected with Millard R.
Myers, spokesman for cooperative
elevator people, as president.
Gray Silver, grain grower of
West Virginia and Illinois and
Washington representative of the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion, is president of the new
Grain Marketing Company and
J. W. Coverdale, Chicago, secre-
tary-treasurer.

Board of Directors

Other members of the board
of directors are:

M. D. Lincoln, Columbus, O.,
secretary, Ohio Farm Bureau
Federation.

J. W. Coverdale, Chicago, sec-
retary of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation, and wheat grow-
er, Ames, la.

Oscar Ashworth, Mattoon, 111.,
grain grower.

A. L. Middleton, Eagle Grove,
la., farmer.

W. E. Gould, Kewanee, Jll.,
banker.

L. J. Tabor, Columbus, O.,
master of the National Grange.

Gray Silver, Chicago, grain
grower of West Virginia and
Illinois, Washington, D. C, repre
sentative of American Farm Bu-
reau federation.

J. F. Reed, Gary, S. D., grain
grower, vice president of Ameri-
can Farm Bureau federation.

C. M. Dyer, Spencer, la., presl
dent of Iowa Farmers' Elevator
association.

O. E. Bradfute, Xenia, O., pres-
ident of American Farm Bureau
federation.

W. J. Brown, Thief River,
Minn., president of American
Wheat Growers, Inc.

Fred A. Mudge, Peru, 111., pres-
ident of Illinois Farmers' Ele-
vator association.

Harry L. Keefe, Walthill, Neb.,
president U. S. Grain Growers,
Inc.

94,000,000 C»|>ital

The company will open its ac-
tivities with J4,000,000 paid in
capital with no outstanding in-
debtedness, according to an an-
nouncement made July 26.

The developments of the Grain
Marketing Company since the
executive committee meeting has
not altered the position taken by
I. A. A. officials.

The executive committee also
ordered the grain marketing com-
mittee of the Illinois Agricultural
Association to investigate care-
fully the proposal for the benefit
of the association's 63,000 Illi-
nois farm bureau members. The
association defines its position as
follows:

"Until definite proposals have
been made to the board of di-
rectors of the Grain Marketing
(Continued on (■act t.> 1

THE LATEST REPORT ON THE GRAIN MARKETING COMPANY

Late Wrdnmdar, Jaly 30, tkrirrala
marketlBK and flnanor committer*,
after ronferrfas with Prealdeat
Thompaon, Secretary Fox, Treaanrer
Covrlea. Lecral Conaiiel KIrfcpatrIck
and Anditlnr C'onaael Fraaler of
Framler Jk Torbet, Chlcairo. deter-
mlaed the nature and acope of the
inveatliratlon to be made Into the
already completed fcrain mernrer. F.
D. Barton. Cornell, and W. H. Moody.
Port Byron, of the llnanee contaalt-
tee were preaent aa were H. R.
Goemble, Hctoppole. and A. R.
Wriirht. Varna, of the sratn atarkct-
Inv eonimlttee.

The determlnatloa of the smln
marketlnfc and finance committee*
came as the , reiinlt of a motion
paaaed by the Kxecntlve Commit-
tee. In scffMlon Vriday. July 25, or-
dering an invcNtliratlon into the
srala merirer and tornlny It over
to the Krain marketing committee
and I. A. A. otBcem to ontline the
inveatlcatlonal procedure.

The Grain Marketing Company U
belaic aaked to fomUk complete,
detailed Independent anditora re-
port* for each of the oompanlea In-
volved for each of the past five
year*.

Conalderable reaourcc* will he
thrown Into the laveatlffatlon pro-
cedure a* It I* dcfflred by all the of-
ficial* and cum m It teem en to deter-
mine truthfully and from an nnbl-
n*ed fltandpoint the real value of
the merfcer to farmer*. It I* reallaed
that Illlaol* farm bureau meaBber*
will no doubt be a*ked to buy stock
In the Grain Marketing Company,
the Incorporated company under
which haa been mei^ed the Armour
Grain Company, Roaenbaam Grain
Corporation and Roaenbana* Broa.
I. A. A. ofllrlolN vrlMh to be In an
authoritative poMltlon to advise Illl-
aol* farui bureau people.

Competent profesaloual uien will
be ensaired to carry out the provl-
■lou* of the outlined tuveatlffatlou.
Following !■ the outline for the in-

vent licatloa of the irraln mrrs^r
ahowlnv the facta which will he
*ouBhtt

(1) \atlonal Public Policy t

<at A atatement of the lesal re-
quirement* to be naet. If nUy. to
■ecure the upproval of the
rnlted State* Departmeut of
Ajrricaltnre and of the Hutted
State* Federal Trade Commla-
*lont toffctber 'vrtth an Indica-
tion of the procedure thnt ninat
be followed In securlnic auch
Federal approval*, and the ap-
proxlaiate time that will ordi-
narily elapse In the proceaae* of
Federal Inveattratlon.

<b> A atatement of the Icval Mepa.
If aay. for the approval of thla
merger by the authorltle* »f the
State of Illlnel*. e. m^ the Secre-
tary of State and the Illlnoia
Couimeree Conamtaalon.

(2) Place tu the Cycle uf Grain Mar-
ketlnst

Opinion* ahonld be aecnrcd froui
competent airrlrultural rconomlata
and *tatl*tlclan* a* to the place of
the facllltle* which arc t* be
merned. eonatdered a* part of the
irraln nkurfcetinic fncliltle* of the
I'nited State* and Canada.
(a> The relation of the merged fa-
cilities In aoope and volume ^vlth
other Rrraln marketing fn<'lliHe*
in C'hicaso, Kansaa City and
•ma ha.
(h> The relatlonahip to other Krnin
marketing facllltlea In Mlnne-
apolla, Duluth and Buffalo with
particular reference to the lai-
provcmenta In facllltle* within
the past five ycnra at Duluth
aad Buffalo.
<ct A statemeat of the existlufi: re-
lailonahips between the compa-
nlea that are to be merued and
Fanners* Co-operative Elevators
la the territory aerved. For ex-
ample, what percentage of Far-
mers* Elevator Contpanlea are
now marketlug; thronarh these
three compuuie* that are to be
merged r

(S> Valuation and Barulnic Capacity i

(a> Value* IndleatM by ludepeudeut
certified audit report* I Balance
aheets and profit and loss state-
ments » for each co*>|»any for
each of the last five years.

(b) A statement of the properties
aecBred and alienated by each
of the three companies durluflr
each of the last five years, to-
irether with their earnlnirs.

<c) A atatement of the depreciation
accounts mnlntnlned by each of
the three coaapanles for each of
the laat five years.

<d) A atatement of the eurnlusa of
each of the companlea for each
of the Inat five years, classified
as bet ween < 1 > profi t or loss
front future or speculative
trauaactleusi t2i profit or lo**
from warehoualnu and commis-
sion transactloa*.

<4) laveatlaration of Proponed Eeon-
omleoi
The statistics presented by the
vendors as to proposed economics
should he compared vHtb earnings
and expenae account* for each of the
laat five year*,

<5> Inventlcatlou •t PropMBcd Plant

<a> ComputatloB of data neces*arT
to act up e*tlmatcd balance
aheet aad eatlmated eamlnic* re-
quirement* nece**ary In making
the Investment of farnter* In
atock aafc a* to prlaclpal aad
Inferest on farmern* Inveatmcnt.

(b> Analyal* of learal feature* of
proposed by-law* and contract.

fc) Analyal* of experience, reliabil-
ity and coat of auiuaveuieni
personnel that 1* to be taken
over from the former companle*.

Produce Fanners at
Prophetstown will
Sell Cooperatively

Details of organization and a
membership drive for a produc-
ers* market will soon be started
by the executive committee of
the producers* association at
Prophetstown, III., according to
plans worked out with Donald
Kirkpatrick, legal counsel of our
I. A. A., at a recent meeting of
the committee.

The movement for a produc-
ers' market, through which poul-
try products, dairy products and
other farm produce will be sold
direct to the consumer, wa£ start-
ed some months ago but thor-
ough consideration of the advis-
ability of establishing such a
market and care in drawing up a
contract has wisely prevented a
hasty beginning for the market.

The Prophetstown producers*
market will be established on a
purely cooperative, no-capital, no-
profit plan and except for small
expenses connected with opera-
tion the proceeds of sales will go
directly to the sellers. The mar-
keting contract is being given
further study by our I. A. A. le-
gal counsel to eliminate all flaws
or defects.

A. D. Lynch, our I. A. A. dairy
marketing head, with the aid of
the executive committee of the
Prophetstown market will super-
vise the campaign for member-
ship and work out details for the
permanent administration of the
produce market.

The Stephenson County Farm
Bureau, one of the largest county
farm bureaus in Illinois with
around 1.400 members has begun
a reorganization upon the town-
ship plan.

County Farm Bureau Chair-
man L. M. Swanzey appointed a
committee of three to redraft the
county constitution so as to pro-

vide for the creation of 17 county
township units and the election
of the township officers at annual
township meetings. The town-
ship presidents elected will be-
come the directors of the county
farm bureau.

Heretofore, the county farm
bureau board has been appointed
by the county chairman. This
plan has not developed as many
nor as active community leaders
as wafi desirable and has lacked.
It is thought, the democratic
bpirlt which the election of the
U-aders and selection of local
I'roprams of work in the com-
munities will give.

Farmers' Markets
Don't Need License

Farmers' cooperative markets
that are not organized for profit
and collect no commissions for
sales of commodities of its mem-
bers or shareholders, but make
only such reductions from sales
as are necessary to defray the
expense of operating the market,
do not have to obtain a license
under the Cooperative Marketing
Act of 1923, according t» an
opinion coming from the State
Department of Agriculture at
Springfield to our I. A. A.
through Donald Kirkpatrick, le-
gal counsel for the Association.

The statement lo the effect
that farmers' cooperative markete
need not comply with the Com-
mission Merchants License Act
was the result of many inquiries
coming to our I. A. A. from
farmers' cooperatives requesting
information in regard to license
for operating markets.

F. A. GouKler, director of our
I. A. A. poulty and egg market-
ing departiQent, has just com-
pleted a three weeks* trip
through Iowa, Minnesota, Wis-
consin and Michigan, where he
studied pruduce marketing prob-
lems in many local markets.

Cotton Growers In
Cooperative Move
To Sell 1924 Crop

Cotton growers in southern Ill-
inois met in Mound City, July 22,
with G. E. Metzger, our I. A. A.
organization director, for the sec-
ond conference relative to the
formation of a cotton growers'
association.

An organization committee
which has for several weeks been
studying the possibilities of a
cooperative marketing organiza-
tion made a report favorable to
effecting such an organization.
According to the plan outlined
at this meeting a minimum of
1,500 acres of cotton must t>e
signed up by the owners to be
sold through the cotton growers'
association.

Four hundred acres were signed
up at the meeting and during
the next few weeks the commit-
tee will sign up the balance of
the 1,500 hundred acres. Soon
after the minimum is reached,
the organization committee will
conduct primaries for the elec-
tion of directors who will meet
and effect a cooperative cotton
marketing association which will
handle the 1924 crop.

i.A.A. DOING REAL
BUSINESS.'J-STATES
SECRETARY WALLACE

Executive Committee and Di-
rectors Hear Secretary of
Africukure Outline Chal-
lenge CoafrootinK Us

Milk prodncers In nilnoU and
.Missouri are watching with grow-
ing interest the Ill-Mo Creamery
Company at East St. Louis. The
company began buying cream laat
January 3 on a cooperative ba-
sis and has shown a marked up-
trend in volume of business done
each month. In May 43.000
pounds of butter were manufac-
tured by this company, which is
considerably above the average
privately owned creamery com-
pany.

Mamhall-Putiuun iMsebitil team
defeated Knox county July. 18,
4 to 3. making them leaders of
the Galesburg district with Ave
games won and none lost.

K(litiiT'» \'„tn Stern ary of Aiiri-
rullure. H. C. Wallare. rrrojimiztd at
oftrial iftomiir uf Ikr Mr\ary-Ham-
(/»» bill, nlo/iiiKt of at rhirano July
^, tkt iatr 'of tht toMt txtrvtivf rom-
mittff mrrtimg. ami look timt lo tpeak
brUfltf to omr eifritlivf rommiittemfti
and drpartmfntal dirrrlort. Altkimpit
not hrrrin rerordrd ofciallg, Srcrr-
laty Wallare If ft the imprtftion that'
he it by no meanti difkrartrned orrr
tkt dtfeat of tke MrSary-Hanprn bill
m the lait Conprrtt, and. at aill hr
notnd vhrn kit tprrrk wkirk follow^,
it rrad, hr tkinkg fat do many of our
agricultural Itadrrt) tkat agrirulturr
it faring a ckallrngr in tkt ittur :
"ShouU tke vorld't crop irl tke prirr
of tke domrttir rrop^" Hit anim • •
it, "Xo." So it 0ur». Tkat it on* r<
ton teky our Attoriation it etrong {■"
Ike prinriplet of tke MrXary-Haugrn
bill. Tke .\ational Counril of Agri-
rulture. rerentJy formed at St. Paul,
witi kave more lo tay ab(*ut tkit later,

Follmcing it tke talk gix^en by Ser~
retary Walltire at reeord*d by a t1*n-
ograpker:

"I have been kept fairly well
informed concerning the work of
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, and you have been doing
real business for the farmers of
your state.

"You know that during every
other period of depression there
was a tremendous stimulant to
farm organizations. It is easy to
organize wl)en things are going
hard with fhe farmers. My ob-
servation is that in those periods
the organization goes through
three stages:

"First, through agitation when
the evangelist goes out and helps
cr}-stalize sentiment and vocalizes
the farmers' own feelings. This
is an easy period.

"Second, the period of orga-
nization— when you go out and
get memberships. This is rather
an easy pertoi.

"Then you come to the time of
administration. That is the test.
Organization is not an end in it-
self, although sometimes I have
felt that some of our folks were
inclined to thiak It »-aa; but I
guess you people have learned
differently, and they have in a
good many other states.

"Organization is simply an im-
plement, a thing to be used on
behalf of the members, and that
period of administration deter-
mines whether the organization
is going to live or die.

The Third Defiremlon

"This is the third depression I
have been ffirough. and the third
that a number of you men have
been throagh. I look back to
the time when we had the West
organized almost as well as it
has been during the past three
years. And then the organiza-
tions gradually soaked amav in
the ground like a rain in July
because they had not got to the
point where they say the pur-
pose of an organization is to do
certain things for iu members.

■'Now, the Illinois Agricultural
Association has stood out as one
of the relatively few organiza-
tions of Its kind which has been
functioning as it ought to func-
tion, and I want to congratulate
(Continued on pac« 4.)

Page 2

The niinoi* Agricuhural Auociadon Record

AugiMt 2, 1924

CULTURAL. ASSOCMWiN

"RECORPny-

Published every other Saturday by the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association, 608 South Dearborn Street, Chicago,
Illinois. Edited by Department of Information, H, C.
Butcher,' Director.

Entere<I as second class matter Oct. 10. 1921, at the post
ofllce at Chicago, nUnoia, under the act of March 3, 1878.
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage pro-
Tided for In Section 1103. Act of October 3. 1917, author-
l*ed Oct. 31. Ifil,

The individual membership fee of the Illinois Arglcnl-
turml Association Is Ave dollars a year. This fee Includes
paymenf of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois Ag-
rlcultural Association Record.

OFFICEBS
President, S. H. Thompson, Quincy.
Vice-President, C. B. Watson, DeKalb. ;

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomington. I

Secretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore. '

EXECCTIVK COMMITTEE
By Congressional Districts

11th Jacob Olbrlch, Harvard

12th G. F. Tullock, Roekford

13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14«h W. H, Moody, Port Byron

18th H. E. Goembel, Hooppole

16th A. R. Wright, Varna

17th F. D. Barton, Cornell

18th R. F. Karr, Iroquois

inh J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

SOth Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21*t Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22«d Stanley Castle, Alton

23rd J. E. LIngenfelter, Lawrenceville

24th Curt Anderson, Xenia

25th Vernon Lessley, Sparta

Directors of Departments
I. A. A. Office

General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J, H. Kelker;
Organization, G. E. Metzger; Information, H. C, Butcher,
Transportation, L. J, Quasey, Statistics, J. C. Watson;
iFinance, R. A, Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A. B, Leeper: Live Stock Marketing, Wm. E. Hedgcock;
Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R. Bent; In charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A.
Gougler; special representative on Tuberculosis Eradi-
cation, M. H. Petersen; Legal Counsel, Donald Kirk-
patrick; Cooperative Accounting. Geo. R. Wicker.

Our Grain Merger Stand

The position of the Illinois Agricultural As.socia-
tion on the recently completed grain merger is one
of open-mindedness. ,

It has been neither indorsed nor condemned by
our association. When complete and definite in-
formation as to the ultimate channels of the grain
movement have been a.scertained, when past and
present earnings of each of the five merging com-
pianies have been determined, when legal questions
have been carefully scrutinized, and, probably most
fimdaraental of all, when the general marketing
policy of the I. A. A. is set in regard to control of
markets or control of product, then our officials will
be in a positioa to advise with weight as to the
merits of the merger.

At the present time, considerable time and effort
is being expended in an endeavor to find the truth.

It is realized that the merging with ultimate
farmer-control maj' be the greatest opportunity for
farmers of the present generation. But should the
attempt fail, cooperative marketing would likely
receive a set-baok for a generation. When one cor-
poration buys another, months and sometimes years
are consumed in reaching a definite and clear basis
by which the seller and buyer may dicker.

There are so many angles" that should be con-
sidered that the men investigating the merger and
its value to our members have a gigantic task
— and an important one.

Business-Like Methods Increase Collections

Jlembership dues have rolled in much faster so
far in 1924 than in 1923.

Many of the counties which experienced greatest
difficulties with collections la.st year are turning in
the highest percentage of collections this year.

We wondered why, so we went to the finance de-
partment to find out.

The answer is given in this short statement :
"Those counties which ex|)erienced difficulty in
collecting dues last year and have come to the front
this year discovered that it is as necessary to apply
busine.ss-like methods in collecting dues as it is for
the United States government to apply business-like
methods in the collection of taxes."

Business-like methods are essential to farm bu-
reau success. We need it in all branches — commu-
nity, county, state and national. Some have it :
others are getting it and still others are in dire need
of it, but do not realize their predicament.

Five years ago Sunday schools were universally
regarded as unbusines^-like and sloppy in keeping
accounts, in keeping contact with their membership
and in receiving contributions for the church. To-
day successful Sunday schools are highly organized
with business-like methods supplementing and pro-
gressing arm-in-arm with the Golden Text.

In a detailed analysis of the 1924 status of col-
lections of farm bureau dues, L. A. Evans, auditor
of memberships in the finance department, shows
that the geographical position of a county — whether
it lies in "Little Egypt" or along the Wisconsin
line — -makes but little difference in the rate the
members pay their dues. And it's not the size of
the county, the number of members or the month
of the year the memberships fall due or the kind
of crops grown; it's business-like procedure.

He finds that business-like methods are used in
the counties where collections are the best; Busi-
ness-like methods go hand-in-hand with a successful
farm bureau.

Organization Points the Way

By C. E. Mfttgrr, Dirtctor ol OrgtmitatioH.

The farmer's problems can only be successfully
solved in a straightforward business-like way. The
solution of these problems is difficult, however,
when such a comparatively few farmers know what
the agricultural problems are and how to approach
them in the way of a solution. The problems of
the farmer are not all within the boundary fences
of his farm, so a decent understanding of farm
relationship demands that the viewpoint of Mr.
Average Farmer must broaden.

The principal handicap is the low average price
level of agricultural products as compared to the
general price level of most non-agricultural com-
modities. Four principal problems are to be met
before that handicap is overcome. They are:

1. Close attention to legislative affairs.

2. Distribution of his own products.

3. Taxation.

4. Economy in production.

Not until the last few years has the farmer's
voice been heard in a very forceful way before the
law making bodies of the State and Nation. Up
until a comparatively short time ago the farmer
was not in a position to handle his legislative af-
fairs in the way that it is generally done in this
day of organization. Some very definite results
have been obtained, but the legislation secured so
far at the hands of Congress has "not given the
farmer much relief. The principal reason for the
defeat of -proposed legislation, which strikes di-
rectly at ihe farmers' trouble, can probably be
pretty Avell summed up in the old familiar phrase :
namely, "The farmer is not well enough organ-
ized."

It is a common expression among opponents of
the McNary-Haugen bill that the farmers were
not agreed on the measure. It was pointed out
time and again that only about one-fourth of the
farmers of the country are in organizations. Then,
evidently, one of the matters which has to do with
the farmers securing legislation of the type that
will enable him to work out of his difficulties, is
the problem of organization. In other words, one
farmer in the organization, supporting it morally
and financially, with three on the outside desiring
in their hearts to ride free, can hardly carrj' this
load in addition to that of the opposition.

The second problem involves a great many
things, chiefly among them is cooperative market-
ing and transportation. Many railroads during
the past j-ear have reported big earnings. With
sufficient volume of business and efficiency in man-
agement it might not be unfair to assume that
still some future reduction might be made on
freight rates of agricultural commodities. Trans-
portation is a big item of expense to the farmer.
It has been clearly worked out by the National
Live Stock Producers Association that out of an
actual operating expense of the Producers Com-
mission Companies in 1923, totaling $4,987,900, as
much as $3,142,500 went for freight. All of which
means that 63.02 cents out of each dollar which
the American farmer expended in marketing his
live stock was paid out for transportation. Prob-
lem number 2 on distribution involves the con-
struction and maintenance of Deep Water Ways,
which, again is linked up closely with legislative
affairs. Cooperative marketing of farmers' com-
modities is making headway. It will not, however,
solve all of the farmer's problems. Most of the
work done so far has been confined to handling
the commodities locally. It must be expanded
into the 'terminal markets. To handle many of
these commodities in a big way involves the use
of great sums of money. Inasmuch as the agri-
cultural industry at this time is not in a position
to put very much money into a marketing organ-
ization it behooves the leaders to work out some
.sort of plan whereby operations can be financed
largely- on borrowed money. Organizations of the
non-profit, non-capital stock type, are therefore be-
ing recommended. In order to obtain the neces-
sarj' credit it is often necessary to use a long time
binding contract covering the commodity which

the individual has to market thru his association.
Farmers are slow as a rule to grasp the impor-
tance of a contract or to turn over evejj_lo their
own sales agency their products to be jMrketed in
a collective way. This again is a matter of edu-
cation and organization. '

Taxes on farm property have been increased
largely in the last few years and seemingly little
is being done to check the expenditure of immense
sums of money in governmental affairs. This
statement in itself outlines a problem which has
hardly been touched upon by any sort of civic
organization. The matter of equalization of val-
uations between various classes of property has
been studied quite extensively by this association
and has brought out some very striking facts.
Farm lands as a rule have been valued higher in
proportion to actual sales values than other classes
of taxable property for taxation purposes. Much
work has been done along that line and the results
are gratifying. Total reductions in farm land
faxes this year approximate $2,225,000. This work
must be continued, and it will again involve the
support of the individual thru his fanners' or-
ganizations to maintain and extend this work.

Economy in production of farmers' commodi-
ties is a problem which will always confront every
farmer. No matter how efficient a farmers' mar-
keting organization might become there will al-
ways be some fanners who go broke for the rea-
son that they- are not efficient producers. An or-
ganization such as the Farm Bureau can point out
the problem and it can pretty largely point out
the best practices known today, but if real econ-
omy in the production of agricultural products is
to be brought about, each individual farmer is
going to do that job on his own fann. There are
matters in economy in production, of course, such
as the buying of supplies, seed, etc., which can
only be handled efficiently thru organization.

Much time could be spent in the discussion of
each of these problems but it is our aim here only
to point out what the farmer's problems really
are, and to emphasize the fact that the solution
in all of these cases is organization, and that the
necessary organization of farmers to handle these
gigantic problems will only be perfected when the
men who are now members boost night and day
for the organization to which they belong, and
make every effort to educate neighboring farmers
who have not yet caught the vision of the prob-
lems of today.

THE UARS' CONTEST

*RAY FOR KA\HAN!
Editor, Llara* Contratt

I read w^lth mach Intrrent the eoMtrlbutlonn of
>-oar Illinois Liars— and then with dliiBii*>t your
threat to Import some Men from Kaniiaa unless roar
vontrlbutors did better.

I want roa to know that Kannns pei>ple do not
tell lies. The Ilea that emunate from thU land of
BunahtncH annflowera and annH-of-wlmrda. come
from the llllnola people who have emlKcated to
thia wonderfnl state and who have become vIctlmM
of temporary mental aberration by the sadden
emergence from darkneaa to Ilicht. The>- yet all
rlffht after having become acclimated.

It Yvaa an Illinois man who, having been In Kan-
sas bat a abort time, wrote to bis brother who wan
to follow later: **Don*t come! Thia Is the oioat
Hellacloas climate yon ever saw. As I was driv-
ing to town yesterday one of my O-ien died from
aunatroke. Before I could s^t him aklnned the wind
turned to the northwest and froze the other one
to deatliu**

I think It was another llllnola man who upon
his arrival in the state heard a KanHas man make
a perfectly truthful and reuNonnhle Mlatenicnt about
his milk cow havinic been in heavy flow of milk
for aonte three years without hnvlnfc freshened.
He batted in with the atatemrnti "That's nuthin.'
My father had a cow that ffive three sullons of
milk ■ day far two years, and she never did have
a calf, and her mother before her never had a
calf."

Mr. Editor. yOD*re rlieht. If you want aome biK
stories follow aome of your Illinois men to Kansas.
But do It before they have attained the rights of
eltlaenshlp here. Don't wait for their return, either.
They never come back.

Yours In the Interest of truth,*^Ralph Snyder,
President Kansas State Farm Bureau. Manhattan.
Knnaaa.

WE ARE NOT SURPRISED AT ANYTHING FROM
MIZZOL' .NOW

Dear Rdltort

In Phelps eounty, Missouri, before sei-arlng- the
NfKnaturrs of 09 44/ lOO per cent of the farmers to
the producers* contract, we obtained the slirnatures
of 100 per cent to the Community Promissory Note
which followai

••I promise to pay a regular .attendance to my
community farmers' niectinfCN at the time and place
dealRnated, the intercMt rate to be ltN» per cent ;
and the note nut nesutlable, hut renewable on any
meeting: date by proper payment of Interest) It
belnjc understood that failure to pay either Interest
or principal means that I am to receive with all
courtesy a friendship committee whose duty Is to
help me receive the true eooperntlve spirit, and.
should 1 prove to be such a contrary person that 1
cannot receive sach a thluK. I further promise to
leave the community to Join my own kind and
make room for a person with an nnderstandins
heart and forKlvlnfc spirit— the two requirements
necessary to solden rule cooperation."

■*Lleindy** yours,— kS. H. Ilesa, Rolla, Missouri.

How about It, lUinolsf Are there any Sucker de-
fenders t

Ls. vre spent our vacation In the MInsourl Osarks.
The ilrst mornlnsr we were there, we were wakened
by a series of blood-curdlluK shouts from the tim-
ber. "What," we cried tremlillnKly. rfi-iillinit; tales
of deadly mountain feuds. "In thntf "'i'hat yel-
lln'f" calmly replied our boat, "Why. that's l.ute
Simpson's oldest boy. Wolf. He's «1 years old to-
day, and they*re puttin' clothes on him.**— Mary
Zirkle, 1. A. A. ofllce^ Chicago.

I

!

Auguit 2, 1924

The nUnois Agricultural AuocUtion Record

Pace 3

ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN
TURN TO MARKETING
END OF MILK GAME

Getting $80,000,000 Worth

of Producto to Consumer

Is Big Job; Dairy k

a Factory

Editor'! Note: Thu u the third
of a series of similar articles written
by I. A. A. department directors tell-
ing of the work done in each depart
ment.

By A. D. Lynch

Director, Dairy Marlteting
Department

Tlie problems connected wltlj
getting $80,000,000 wortti of Illi-
nois dairy
products each
year from tlie
cow to tlie coU'
sumer in tlie
best possible
condition are
the chief con-
cern ot our I.
lA. A. dairy
I marketing de-
I partment. The
I dairy farmer is
'a manufacturer.

A.D. Lnch Hig far„j ig ^

factory and his cows are his ma-
chines. He is in business to
malte money. The dairy depart-
ment is to help him make it.

That dairymen are giving the
matter of merchandising their
products serious attention is evi-
denced by increased requests tor
service. The department during
the first half of 1924 has been
called upon for advice on dairy
marketing problems by 61 County
farm bureaus for a total of 24 3
requests. Eighty-seven problems
on how best to organize a co-op-
erative dairy selling institution
have been handled by the depart
ment in 26 counties up to June
30. Nine new counties this year
have asked the director to visit
communities within their borders
to make a field survey in order
to get first hand at the actual
problems and difficulties. Some-
times conditions are found to be
unripe for the dairymen to pro-
ceed with an organization.

The department has no hesi-
tancy in advising dairymen not
to form an organization if it is
not needed. In fact negative re-
ports on field surveys and orga-
nization demands are frequently
made. Often the problem is not
one of spending some money in
order to sell dairy products, but
a problem that suggests a cow
test association as a better step.
There is no use organizing to sell
until there is really something to
offer on the market.

Sell Ckraperatirely

In several counties the dairy-
men have found that they were
not getting all the market af-
forded for their cream. In these
communities there was not suffi-
cient volume to warrant invest-
ing in a creamery. In such cases
the department worked out a
plan for selling the cream co-op-
eratively thru a farmer-owned
association to the highest bidder.
A pool of this kind offers a par-
tial solution to local cream buy
ers. On such markets the re-
turns for fat are apt to be low
unless the dairymen pool their
product . and, by large volume,
operate their own cream station
at a saving which means that
much added returns.

The I. A. A. dairy department
has no quarrel whatsoever with
the proprietary creamery inter-
ests for they are an important
and necessary service organiza-
tion for the dairy industry of the
state. Only when their service
in a community is faulty and bet-
ter service can be rendered to
all thru cooperati\'e effort, does
the department suggest to the
dairymen that they get into this
marketing field themselves.
Learn to Stick

Pometinies dairymen who have
embarked in a cooperative dairy
organization for marketing their
products find aftef they ;get going
that their neighbor who is not in
the organization is getting as
good a price as the cooperator.
This is the disheartening stage.
Right here is where the directors
or managers must give the mem- 1

bers the facts about
their institution. If con-
centrated competition is
allowed to break up the
organization, it means a
return to the old unsat-
isfactory prices which
originally prompted the
venture.

Illinois dairymen are
learning to stand by their
guns. One organization
didn't stick. They were
getting increased returns
thru cooperative effort.
Then they said: "We've
got what we went after.
Let's disband." They
did. After a year of
spanking with low prices
they recently asked the
department to help them
reorganize their cream
selling. They are going
to stick this time, unless
they let themselves for-
get their former rough
treatment.

While cream prices in
Illinois are improving,
they are still about 3 to
5 cents lower per pound
of butter fat than in
Ohio where dairymen are
exceptionally active in
pooling their cream and
letting the buyers bid
for it thru their organi-
zation.

The cooperative mar-
keting of milk in Illinois
has so far been most suc-
cessful when the product
was not only pooled, but
distributed as well.

Retail cooperative
milk plants are in sue- — -— —
c e s s f u 1 operation in
Lake, Rock Island and Adams
counties. Similar institutions,
but manufacturing butter, are
rendering dependable service to
their members in Stephenson, Jo
Daviess and Carroll counties.
The Ill-Mo Dairy Company is the
first farmer-owned creamery to
operate as a centralizer in Illi-
nois. Although only a half year
old it has become well estab-
lished in the St. Louis territory
and has the patronage of over
800 cream shippers in southern
Illinois and in Missouri. The
department renders advisory serv-
ice of various kinds to all of
these older business institutions.
Confidential Servire
Much of the service rendered
is of a confidential nature. It
is not a policy of the department
to divulge the trade secrets of
its clients. To do so would di-
rectly violate the principles of
good business ethics and destroy
the close cooperation existing be-
tween these cooperatives and the
department.

There is a friendly spirit be-
tween Illinois dairy associations
with but few exceptions. Several
of these institutions have already
become members of the Illinois
Agricultural Cooperatives Asso-
ciation for their auditing and ex-
change of information pertinent
to greater effectiveness and de-
velopment.

People are consuming dairy
products in greater quantities
each year. Prices on dairy com-
modities have held up well.
Money is being made and some is
being lost in the dairy business.
What are your problems? Tell
us. Maybe we can help each
other.

DAIRY
COOPfWVTWES
IN
ILLMOS
O RETAIL M/LX'
•CREAMERIES
©CHEESE FACTORY
AMiLK BARGAINING
ACREAM BARCAINIKC

The map iihown here rrprearntN Kraphlmlly the
pla4*e« whrrr oar I. .4. .1. dairy marketlaiE dr-pnrt-
nirnt haa aaalatrd fn aolvinK Ihr prublrma of HelllBfr
dairT* prodopta.

appointed to finally ap
prove or reject the plan
ultimately developed, and
also as president of the
Illinois Agricultural As
sociation whose Execu-
tive Committee will be
called upon later to con-
sider and render a deci
sion on the proposed
merger, and. further-
more, bearing in mind
clearly the official re-
sponsibility to the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Fed-
eration and the Illinois
Agricultural Association
as an executive, I think
it best that I not accept
a place on the Board of
Directors of the Grain
.Marketing Company. I
I'eel that there would be
less embarrassment to
the Illinois Agricultural
Association and the ex-
ecutive committee of the
American Farm Bureau
Federation, of which I
am a member, if I 8er\'e
them in an official ca-
pacity only, in the dis-
charge of my duties. ,

"We should continue
our policy of open-mind-
edness until the new
company has fully devel-
oped its plans and com-
pleted its investigation
' thorouebly appraising all
properties involved so
that a definite conclu-
sion clearly stating the
merits and demerits of
the whole proposition
can be presented to us
in detailed, concrete
form."

Due to lack of snlBclent «|>are

for individual items concerning
county picnic dates we are print-
ing the following dates of picnics,
together with the principal speak-
ers wherever possible:

stark county. Aug. 15, A. r. Kver-
Ingham, spealter.

Montgomery county. Hlllshoro.
Aug. 19. S. H. Thompson, speaker.

Saline county. Aug. 22. G. E. Metz-
ger. speaker.

.„,^i?°A ^"S'"- *"K. 20. at Oales-
uurg. A. C. Everingham. speaker.

Randolph county, Aug 21 <; K
Metzger. speaker.

Oeorge
Win-

AWAITING DETAILS
ON GRAIN MERGER

(Continued from page 1.)
Company, which was specifically
formed to negotiate officially with
the five grain companies, and a
most careful canvass of the whole
situation completed, the Illinois
Agricultural Association is in no
position to form a definite opin-
ion as to the merits of the pro-
posed merger. The officers of the
Illinois Agricultural Association
believe that a policy of open-
mindedness should be adopted by
all farm organizations toward the
Grain Marketing Company and
what it may' recommend and re-
quest."

Thompson Declines Offer

Sam H. Thompson, president of
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, announced Friday that he
had declined to become a mem-
ber of the board of directors of
t h e $26,000,000 - incorporated
Grain Marketing Company.

President Thompson, In re-
porting bis declination to the
executive, committee of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association,
stated : »

"That ' as a member ot the
E.xecutive Committee of the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion, to whom the plan was orig-
inally submitted for considera-
tion, as a member of the special
committee which was thereafter

Audit Association
Offers Tax Service

One of the services which the
Illinois Agricultural Cooperatives
Association offers to its members
is the filing of returns for capital
stock tax, as required by all
corporations by the Federal Reve-
nue Act of 1924.

Under a recent order of the
Commissioner of Internal Reve
nue the time for fUing returns
has been extended to September
30. 1924. due to the fact that the
regulations relating to the ad-
ministration of the capital stock
tax are being revised to conform
to the provisions of the Revenue
Act of 1924.

Forms' for filing the returns
are not yet ready for distribution
ani for this reason no penalty
will be asserted on returns that
are in the hands of the Commis-
sioner of Internal Revenue by
September 30. .i

Filing returns is a special ser%'-
ice offered to cooperatives who
have subscribed to the Illinois
Agricultural Cooperatives Asso-
ciation and will be charged on
the basis of actual cost, accord-
ing to George Wicker, general
manager of the auditing service.
Inquiries should be addressed to
him at the I. A. A. offices, 608
South Dearborn, Chicago.

MURPHY WILL SPEAK
TO FARM PEOPLE AT
ANNUAL I.A.A. PICNIC

Mrs. Sewell To Talk To
Women ; Committee Will
Provide Entertainment for
Everyone Who Co

Woodford county. Aug. 21
A. Pox. speaker.

Scott county, Aug. 21 a
Chester, P. D. Barton, speaker.

Marshall-Putnam county Aug '>''
at Henry, W. K. D. Rummell. si.eak-

Monroe county, at Waterloo. Aug.
J4. (,. K. Metzger. speaker.

<^al]atfn conntv Aug '»7 A t'
Everingham, speaker.

Warren county. Aug.
Everingham. speaker.

Brown county, at Mt Sterling.
Aug. 30. A. C. Everingham. speaker.
.„^,?y"' county, at Pairfleld, Aug.
30, George A. Fox, speaker.

C.

HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED AT THE EXEtUTIVE
COMMITTEE MEETING, JULY 25

1. Report of the general condition of Egyptian Seed
Growers and renewal of their note for J6.000.

2. Investigation of Parmer* Terminal Elevator and Com-
mission Co. at Peoria.

3. Grain merger discussion. Mr. Thompson's statement.
(Mr. Smith moved that the grajn committee and

officers of this association be instructed to make an
investigation of the proposed grain merger and tiring
all the facts disclosed before the Executive Committee
so that they may intelligently -define their position
as to the same. Motion seconded by Mr. Bamborough.
and carried.)

4. Motion by Mr. Barton instructing officers of this
Association to sign agreement between I. A. A. and Illinois
Agricultural Cooperatives Association.

5. Report of St. Paul meeting given by Mr. Barton,
Chairman of the Legislative Committee.

6. Officers of this Association authorized to represent
Illinois Agricultural Association in conference oii ways and
means for financing the American Council of Agriculture.

7. Plan discussed under which an exhibit representing
the work of the Illinois Agricultural Association might be
worked out.

8. Report of live stock marketing department.

9. Report of A. E. Richardson, secretary Milk Produc-"
ers Advisory Committee, St. Louis district.

10. Next meeting of the Executive Committee to
September 5.

11. J. C. Watson's report.

12. Special meeting of Executive Committee to be held
at Lincoln, III., August 26, at 8:00 o'clock a. m.

13. Motion authorizing poultry and egg marketing de-
partment to draw up resolution reaffirming approval of the
I. A. A. of the accredited hatchery plan.

be h^ld

STOI' ALL WORK 0.\ TIKS-
D.»V, A It; 1ST ae. That is the
commanding headline on 2,500
big posters scattered all over Il-
linois ibis week-. Those who don't
beed the command and come to
our I. A. A. picnic, at Lincoln,
may spend many da.vs nursing a
grouch because they didn't.

G. E. Metzger, our .1. A. A. or-
ganization director, lias just an-
nounced that Frank W. Murphy.
Wheaton, Minn., will make the
principal address at the after-
noon session of the picnic. Mr.
Murphy will be remembered by
many farm bureau members as
the speaker at meetings held at
Danville. Springfield, Rock Island
and Bloomington in behalf of the
McNary-Haucen bill. He was re-
cently elected chairman of the
board of directors of the Ameri-
can Council of Agriculture at the
St. Paul ineetjflg.

1. A. A. ''picknickers" who
have set down that day for our
annual picnic wont have to wor-
ry about bad weather or bad
roads spoiling their trip to the
Logan County Chautauqua
grounds, where -the picnic will be
held.

TransporUtion facilities for
reaching the grounds are good
both by rail and paved road. Two
main highways touch Lincoln so
that those who drive in cars will
be assured of good roads. Rail-
road facilities aiv also conveni-
ent for coming to Lincoln from
all parts of the state.

Sherix for .tntni
Once o"n the picnic grounds no;
ne need worry about the weath-
r. If It rains there are plenty
if sheds for automobiles and
other buildings where the pro-
gram can t>e followed out wlth-
lut a hitch. If it is hot there Is
plenty of shade, running water
and a big swimming pool. More-
over, hot weather is baseball
weather as well as "horseshoe"
weaither.

3. H. Checkley. farm adviser of
Ixtgan county, who is in charge
of the local arrangements for the
annual farm bureau holiday, has
ulans completed for the enter-
tainment of ever^■one. He has
arranged to have supervision for
the little fiddles so that the-
women folks can turn them loose
and let 'em go. There will be
slippery slides, teeters-totters and
a swimming pool wbere ihev can
wade. E. I. Pilchard, of the
UnlverRit> of Illinois, has been
secured to supervise the play and
gamet of all the little folks.
'. Tafk by Mrx. Sewell
Mr«. C. W. Sewell, Otterbein,
Indiana, widely known In the
middle west as a home bureau
and community speaker, will talk
to the women at a morning meet-
ing. Her suhiecl. "The Nation's
Debt to the Farm Home," will in-
terest everyone.

Almost every farm bureau
county in the state will be rep-
resented in the horseshoe pi(ch-
ing contest, according to the
number of entries coming to
Farm Adviser Checkley.

The di«trict teams that will
compete for the state farm bu-
reau baseball championship have
not yet been decided. There
will be a team from the Gales-
burg district and one from the
Soringflpljl distriot fighting for
the state title.

KMKMItKK TBR DATR, \V-

<;i"sT a«.

The aerirnltnml coiiimldee of

the Danville Chamber of Com-
merce, in Vermilion county has
cooperated with the farm bureau
•n a Boys' Alfalft Club pooject.
Fifty business men are barking
the enteri)ri8e whereby any boy
between the ages of 10 and 20
may put in an arre of alfalfa,
the seed and limestone to be sup-
plied by a Danville merchant.
Next year the boy is to return
one ton of hay to the business
man who financed him in the
proiect. ^

<^r€>f» reiMirlN are i«»w sent by
air mail from California to Wash-
ington in two days. U formerly
took nearly a week.

Pa^e4

The lUinou Acricukuml AModalion Record

AuKwt 2, 1924

'PinSBURGH PLUS"
GETS DEATH WALLOP
AHER LONG BATTLE

AboUtion of " Phantom '

Freight EvU by Federal

Trade Comniaaion Saves

Farmers Money

Pittsburgh Plus is doomed. If
not actually ended. If the Vj S.
Steal Corporation, does not ap-
peal a decision rendered last
Tuesday. •>"•>• ^L •>>• the Federal
Trafle Commission, this iniquit-
ous" practice, which cosU the
?ar,i.e?8 of the midwest »30,000,-
UOO annually, and is estimated to
cost) the farmers of Illinois not
less than 13.500.000 each year,
will be ended for all time.

II the corporation does appeal
to the federal courts, the final
vlct&ry will only be delayed for a
short "me. for the dec sion of
the I Federal Trade Commission is
sweeping and comprehensive and
there is no question as to lU Jua-

With the information afforded,
as the result of the commission s
careful and painstaking Investi-
gation, covering about five years,
the

ratt

public will never again sub
to "Pittsburgh Plus" or any

similar practice, either in steel or

f"

ny other commodity

j Charged ' Phantom' Rate

Pittsburgh Plus, as all farmf"
now know. Is the practice of the
ste*l mills of charging for all
«te*l as if it was made and
shipped from Pittsburgh, no mat-
ter where the steel was actually
made and shipped from. That Is.
ste^l produced at Chicago, or any
other steel producing town in II-
linSls, or in Gary. Indiana, was
charged to the consumer at the
I'ittsburgh mill price plus
freight, not from the mill which
actually produced the steel and
from which it was shipped, but
from Pittsburgh. Therein lay an
unearned freight charge of over
15 per cent of the actual price of
the steel and this charge the con-
sumer paid and the mills pock-
eted.

The farmer, as a class, is the
laiftest consumer of steel. There-
fore, the farmer was the one who
was principally affected by this
device of the steel mills.

Four years ago the American
Farm Bureau Federation, and
our I A. A. joined whole-heart-
edly in the fight on Pittsburgh
Pins and since that time have
been leading factors in that flght.
It took a great deal of money
to fight the U. S. Steel Corpora-
tion, whose resources are practi-
cally unlimited. Therefore, last
year the legislatures of Illinois.
Iowa. Wisconsin and Minnesota
were appealed to tor aid in this
flght. Illinois appropriated $25.-
000 and the other three states
} 10.000 each. The farm bureau
In each of these states aided ear-
nestly in procuring these appro-
priations.

In Illinois a commission of
seven was created by the legisla-
ture to administer the appropria-
tion and direct the flght on this
evil. Sam H. Thompson, presi-
dent of the Illinois Agricultural
Association, was made a member
of this commission by the gover-
nor, and has taken an active part
in the fight.

States Joined FIftht
As a result of these legislative
appropriations, an organization of
32 states was formed to flght
Pittsburgh Plus. this being
known as The Associated States
Opposing Pittsburgh Plus. Mr.
Thompson is a director of this
association, and a member of its
executive committee.

The victory assures the con-
sumers of the country relief from
an exaction of not less than 175.-
000.000 a year, of which the
farmers bore the major part. An
appeal to the courts may delay
tl^e final victory but It will only
bi delay. Even should the courts
oVer-nile the commission, there
will be final victory, and In a
short time< for Congress, in view
of /the ^^cts brought out. will
h^rdlK^delay In altering the law
ro flr this situation.

Thompson made the fol-
Ij^ing statement to the press,
thlch was carried by all the

leading press associations, and
widely distributed throughout the
country, upon the news of this
great victory:

"The decision of the Federal Trade
commission outlawing Pittsburgh
Plus constitutes a well-earned vic-
tory for American farmers in gen-
eral and our Illinois farmers In par-
ticular. It Is also a fine victory for
the Illinois Agricultural Association
since the state and national units
of the farm buxeau started and fur-
nished the Impetus for the flght In
lil20 and have been actively oppos-
ing both financially and physically
the principle of Pittsburgh Plus
ever since. Many other organiza-
tions in the Middle West Joined
hands with the farm bureau and de-
serve credit for their initiative and
support.

"It is conservatively estimated
that the abolition of Pittsburgh
Plus will save the farmers of Illi-
nois over 13.000.000 each year, and
approximately the same result will
apply to the other great agricultu-
ral states. The Federal Trade com-
mission In rendering the decision,
states that Pittsburgh Plus specifi-
cally adds 130.000.000 annually to
the coat of steel products bought by
farmers In 11 western states, which
Include Illinois. Our farm bureau
Investigations show that approxi-
mately i55. 000,000 is the amount of
annual saving effected for American
farmers In the aggregate.

Benellts Taxpayers

"This decision, insuring lower
steel costs, will also benefit the tax-
payers of the state, inasmuch as
hard roads consume vast quantities
of steel. The superintendent of
highways of Illinois several years
ago estimated that the additional
cost of Illinois roadways in the state
roadWay construction program ot
that time due to Pittsburgh Plus
was over half a million dollars.
Since then, with constantly expand-
ing roadway construction programs,
this cost would be Immeasurably
greater. If the Pittsburgh Plus addi-
tional charge were made,

"Another important effect of this
decision to the farmers is the assur-
ance of more stable nearby markets,
due to greater industrial activity in
Illinois towns that have potent'all-
tiea for steel fabrication. With
Pittsburgh Plus abolished these
towns will come Into their own, and
the farmers in their Immediate vl
ctnlty will feel the benefit of thjs In
a better nearby home market for
their products, which will serve to
stabilize farm prices and enable the
nearby farmers to obtain a greater
proportion to-themselves for what
they produce.

"This victory Is conclusive proof
that organized and united effort on
the part of the farmers is necessary
to overcome some of the difficulties
which confront the american farmer.
This decision could not have been
accomplished without the united ef-
fort and Influence of strong organi-
zation,

"It also demonstrates the wisdom
of having farmers on the federal
boards and commissions; men that
can be depended upon as having the
interests of America's basic Industry
at heart."

SAYS FARMERS ARE
FACING REAL TEST

(Continued from page 1.)
you on that. You have had good
representation from the country
and you have got to have that If
you are going to do business for
your people.

I "To me. It seems that agri-
culture of the United States is in
the time of a real test. We have
practically got through with the
exploitation period. We have oc-
cupied the land. Not that there
is other land that is to be brought
in. but what is left is the sort of
land that has to be brought In
under high prices, land that you
have to • put water on or take
water off. and that all costs
money. We have occupied easily
tillable land. During that period
of exploitation, a man. and a
good wife, who did real work
and got a small start could get
ahead only by long hours of
hard work. We are through
with that period. Most of the
proflt in that period came through
increased land values.

Nee<l Brain Work
"Not that we are going to have
advance In the land but land Is
not going to advance consider-
ably. Our present period brings
wholly new problems. We have
got to have brain work to work
with the hand. We have new im-
provements in labor saving ma-
chinery. We figure in the Depart-
ment that in a relatively short
period of time the efflclency of
the Individual has increased about
18 per cent and on the other
hand, you farmers have substan-
tial Increases in your fixed liabil-
ities, your taxes, your Interest.
The mortgage debt on the farms
of the United States from 19.10
to 1924 is nearly double, taxes
on roads and Increased cost of
government brings wholly new
problems before the farmers of
this generation and the coming
generation. Now the question is
whether the people of United
States are willing to pay the in-
creased price which comes to the
agricultural industry to maintain
our sort of agricultural civiliza-
tion. That we have all been
striving for. Whether they are
going to do that depends on t}ie
intelligence and the vigor with
which the farmers of the United
States see it. Thf rerf map in the

Outing Secretary.

Illinois Agricultural Association,

Chicago, Illinois.

.192

We have organized a group of hosts In this

neighborhood who will be glad to entertain

Chicago poor children for two weeks beginning

Following are the names of hosts, num-

Month and Date

ber and description of children wanted by each host:

Name of Host

No. of
Children
Wanted

Sex

Age

y«n€ Jo RECORD ikowt the vigor
trith whirh three-fourths of the
United States saw it. — Editor.

Foreifn>e>*8 Study Our Markets
"The week before I left Wash-
ington, delegates from New Zea-
land, sent over here by the New
Zealand government to study how
they could enlarge th$ market
here for their butter, came to my
office seeking information regard-
ing their United States outlet.
And not long ago delegates came
from Australia and from Argen-
tina seeking how they can get

nto the United States with their
chief products — thus meeting us In
the market of the world. These
delegattons are all fgolns to the old
country. We know Danish butter
has been coming in here.

"All those thing^s are going to
make organization more necessary-
The individual isn't going to count.
He has to cooperate with his fellow
farmer. Farmers must work through
their organizations such as this.
Through systematic study of the
problems and the adoption of the
same sort of business principles
used in business, we are going to
maintain our basic Industry — Agri-
culture.

A Blv Chall«BKe

•r want to tell you that It is the
biggest challenge that ever came to
any generation of this country. It
is the testing time whether America
la going to be kept up on Agrtcul-
ture's expense and whether the
stream of potency which has been
going into the situation from the
American farms Is going to be kept
up or going to break down until w«
have the peasant system of farm-
ing.

"If this nation had to depend on
the children born In the cities for
the Increase in population our popu
'atlon would not come up to Stan
,lard. The Increase in population li
'■oming from the farm and from the
foreign element. During the last
hundred years a constant stream of
fresh blood comes Into the cities,
educated at the expense of the farm-
ers without cost to the city-
grown up from 18 to 25 years of age
nnd then turned over free of charge
to the cities. If cities did the fair
thing they would pay 40 per cent of
the cost of education of the country
people. Now if conditions such as
have existed In the past three years
'ontlnue we are going to drive off
the farm the very best blood. In a
general way, the best blood of the
farm is going to be driven off the
farm because there Is no man but
who wants his wife and children to
have a fair chance. We. as farm-
ers, are not going to stand ■ such
conditions. We have got to become
alive to the big necessity of the sit-
uation we are now confronting. And.
Juat as you men are doing here,
study the situation as it affects you.

RfHder (ireater Servlee

"See how you can render greater
service to your members. Improve
their systems of marketing. Im-
prove the whole mechanism of the
farm. More than that, study the big
national movement that affects farm
prices. We have to produce for
dollars as well as bushels and
pounds. You have to look into the
national centers of growth to see
what Is going on there; that has
its influence on the crops. You can
produce to the limit. You can dou-
ble your production. If J^ou please.
If the population grows to consume
it. but until you pay attention to the
matters of large national policy
which, without your realising It-
send your dollar down in purchasing
value to half of what It is or 75
per cent of what It was or send It up
the other way.

"Your production Is going to be a
rather hard task. You have to em-
ploy men who are capable of think-
ing in those larg^er terms. Have in-
telligence of what they want to do
and how to do it and then go at
it and do it.

"This is not only your own indi-
vidual job. but it is a duty which
has been laid upon you. Don't think
the fight Is over. The contest Is be-
tween the industrial East and the
agricultural West. We have a big
job of education on our hands.'*

12TH DISTRICT MEN
HEAR AIMS OF NEW
FARM ORGANIZATION

Cowlet Outline* Purpose of
AgricultunJ Council; Com-
mittee Takes No Action
On Reorganisation Plan

It is understood that United Charities of Chicago assumes the
liability in the case of accident or Illness to any of the chil-
dren sent to us; however, we pledge to exercise proper pre-
cautions In the care and treatment of these children.

We will meet the children at or

Railway Station

(Please name at least one optional Railway Station)

Remarks:

Name of ^ost Chairman..
Post Office

Rural Route No. Telephone No..

Discussion of the Grain Mar-
keting Company, as recently In-
corporated under the Illinois Co-
operative Marketing Act of 1923
and explanation of the American
Council of Agriculture by R. A.
Cowles. treasurer of our I. A. A.,
occupied the center of the stage
at the 12th district meeting at
De Kalb, July 23. Thirty farm
bureau members attended the
meeting in spite of the pressing
farm work.

G. F. Tullock, Rockford, exec-
utive committeeman from the
12th district, presided at the
morning session. A report was
made by the organliation com-
mittee which has been consider-
ing since February the drafting of
a new plan of organization for
the district. No definite action
was taken due to the absence of
several members of the commit-
tee. A tour of inspection to
the experimental plots ot the De
Kalb county farm bureau ended
the morning meeting.

Discuss Grain Merger
Sam H. Thompson, our I. A. A.
president, was to have explained
the grain marketing merger and
the aims of the American Coun-
cil of Agriculture but In his ab-
sence Mr. Cowles. who was elect-
ed secretary of the Council at
the St. Paul meeting, July 12.
thoroughly discussed the two or-
ganizations.

He told of the purpose of the
American Council of Agriculture
as determined at the St. Paul
conference. It Is a centralized
body of agricultural organiza-
tions which will coordinate the
efforts of all farm Interests
toward, the enactment of legisla-
tion embodying the principals of
the McNary-Haugen bill, recently
defeated In congress. "The
American Council of Agriculture
has nothing to do with partisan
politics," Mr. Cowles explained.
"All we want is equality for agri-
culture with Industry and labor."
In his explanation of the Grain
Marketing Company as it was
recently incorporated Mr. Cowles
showed that such incorporation is
a necessary step to make legal
any further consideration of the
proposal for farmers to purchase
the terminal marketing equip-
ment of large grain,' firms. He
repeated the statement made by
President Thompson that our I.
A. A. had up to that time re-
tained an open mind on the plan
of the Grain Marketing Company.

There are handredii of little Chlensco ■lam klddlen who are hop-
Ins aome Kood-hrarted farm bnrMm member will irlve them n
two weeks* vacatloB la the eoaatry. fan joa take onet Yoa*ll
eaJOT their vaeatloa, ti>a! Pill In the above blank and mall It In
to the Ontlnf Meeretnrx.

Tariff Agreement

To Favor Shipper*

An agreement reached recently
by the transportation department
of our I. A. A. and the L. & N.
Railroad, as to the exact inter-
pretation of tariff rates on mixed
shipments of livestock over that
road, will reduce charges on such
shipments along the L. & N.

The litigation in regard to the
tariffs arose, after L. J. Quasey.
director of the transportation de-
partment of our I. A. A. filed
claims for overcharge made on
several shipments from Carml.
White county, to East St. Louis.
The case has been before the Illi-
nois Commerce Commission for
more than a year.

The method of applying
charges used by the L. & N. was
held unjust, unreasonable and ex-
cessive by the complainant and
the case was to have been given
a hearing before the Commerce
Commission July 22 but after ex-
tensive negotiations the L. & N.
admitted the error of wrong in-
terpretation of the tarills and
agreed to make the necessary ad-
justments.

Logan County Gets
Land Valuation Cut

As the result of petitions circu-
lated by the Farm Bureau and
signed by more than 50 per cent
of the land owners In the county,
the Logan County Board of Re-
view last week ordered a 16 per
cent reduction in the assessed
valuation of farm lands. The
petitions were signed by over 800
land owners representing more
than 250.000 acres of land.

Last year the taxation depart-
ment of our I. A. A. co-operating
with the County Farm Bureaus
and county boards of review de-
creased the taxes of Illinois farm-
ers approximately two and a half
million dollars. But Logan coun-
ty made no reduction In the land
valuation uhtil the present time.

The final assessed valuation for
1924 will be about $3,073,000
less than in 192 3 following the
15 per cent reduction. The re-
duction will also lower the tax
valuation in overlapping school
districts along county lines, where
favorable valuations have already
been effected in adjoining coun-
ties.

The Quiiicjr btuikers Clearing
House Association is offering to
Adams county farmers several
prizes of purebred boars and
good seed corn to be awarded on
the basis of township attend-
ance at the Adams County Fair.

1

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MION

rpote of
; Com-
Action
I Plan

rain Mar-

cently In-

lUnols Co-

t of 1923

American

by R. A.

r I. A. A.,

the Btage

leeting at

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inded the

e pressing

tord, exec-
from tlie
d at the
■eport was
ition com-
1 conslder-
drafting of
ization for
aite action
absence of
le commit-
pection to
of the De
reau ended

lerger

)ur I. A. A.

e explained

merger and

rican Coun-
In his ab-

) was elect-
Council at

5, July 12.

the two or-

pose of the
Agriculture
e St. Paul

centralized
1 organlza-
irdlnate the
n interests
t of legisla-
)rinclpals of
)ill, recently
BBS. "The

Agriculture
1th partisan
3 explained.
Ity for agri-

and labor."
of the Grain

as it was

Mr. Cowles
arporation is

make legal
ition of the

to purchase

!ting equip-

flrms. He

■nt made by

that our I.
lat time re-

on the plan
ng Company.

GeU
ition Cut

■tltlons clrcu-
Bureau and
50 per cent
a the county.
Board of Re-
red a 15 per
the assessed
lands. The
by over 800
enting more
Qf land,
ation depart-
co-opcrating
arm Bureaus
jf review de-
Illinois farm-
o and a half
Logan coun-
n in the land
present time,
valuation for
$3,073,000
following the
on. The re-
ower the tax
ipping school
y lines, where
have already
joining coun-

M V I avail n ' Hsv/;.cf a

is

Lers Clearing

offering to

■mers several

boars and

_„ awarded on

Dsbip attend-

County Fair.

Volume 2

Issued Every Other Saturday — August 16, 1924

Number 16

PRESIDENT COOUDGE
ASKED FOR A STUDY
OF FARMER'S NEEDS

Letter From Council To Insure
For Its Product "An Amer-
ican Price for American
Requirements"

Stating that the current in-
crease in the price of certain farm
products promises only Immediate
relief, with no assurance for the
future, and that the fundamental
causes of the agricultural depres-
sion have not been removed, the
American Council of Agriculture,
in a message sent recently to
President Coolidge, petitioned the
President to have appointed by
the Secretary of Agriculture "an
extraordinary commission" to
study the situation and needs of
agriculture and recommend defi-
nite remedial legislation to Con-
gress with a view to its enactment
during the coming short session.
Unified AKriculteire

The American Council of Agri-
culture was formed at St. Paul,
last month, as a result of the uni-
fication of agricultural interests
during the period of activity in
behalf of the McNary-Haugen
bill. Pledging itself to safeguard
American agriculture, its first def-
inite move to that end was the
communication of the following
letter to President Coolidge:
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF
AGRICULTURE
Organized to Secure

"Equality for Agriculture"
July Thirty-first, 1924.
Headquarters:
1200 Transportation Bldg.,
608 South Dearborn St.,
Chicago, Illinois.
The Honorable Calvin Coolidge,
President of the United States,
The White House.
Dear Mr. President: —

The American Council of Agri-
culture was formed at St. Paul,
Minnesota, July 11th and 12th,
1924, by 150 accredited and au-
thorized representatives of ap-
proximately 50 farm organiza-
tions comprising practically all
national, state and principal local
organizations in the United States.
The Council is a central body de-
puted to speak for these organiza-
tions on the subject^ of this letter
by their unanimous mandate.
The authoritative expression of
'its purpose is:

"To secure the enactment by
Congress of the necessary reme-
dial legislation to create equality
for agriculture with industry and
labor under the principles of the
McNary-Haugen Bill."

The Council regards the subject
as essentially economic rather
than political and it therefore re-
frains from making any compari-
son between the respective plat-
forms of the Republican, Demo-
cratic and Progressive parties.
The Council's prime purposes are:
To define and make certain the
demands of agriculture, to pre-
vent those demands from becom-
ing the football of partisan poll-
tics, and, with no attempt to in-
fluence the election in favor of
any party, to hasten and insure
effective and definite action at the
short session of Congress.

The Council does not regard
the current Increase in the price
of farm products as fundamental-
ly meeting the requirements of
the agricultural situation, hut on
the contrary believes that these
requirements can be met only by
definitely and permanently estab-
lishing agriculture on a parity
with industry and labor by ex-
tending to it the principles of the
(Continued on paee S)

VIEWS AT LOGAN COUNTY CHAUTAUQUA GROUNDS

KliTT-n P«IkerM, Harold Gnulrnpp and Donald ^%~llllamn ^ Junior chaaiplon dairy Judfcm of Ike
world— with thrlr coach. "Dad" \\ Inc. nlll he In Lincoln for our 1. A. A. picnic. The? will kavr with
them the beantifal London Duil>~ ^liill trophy which they won at Hn^nnrdisheath. Knfcland. <kne of the
boyn will tell about club work and their trip abroad.

Courts Hold Co-op
Marketing Contract
To Be Elnforceable

In a decision handed down re-
cently the Appellate Court of Il-
linois for the second district sus-
tained the Circuit Court of Mc-
Henry county in its holding that
a marketing contract in Illinois is
enforceable, both by way of spe-
cific performance and by an in-
junction against the producer
from selling outside the coopera-
tive to which he has contracted
to sell his produce. The order
for specific performance would re-
quire the producer to carry out
the terms of the contract and
compel him to sell his milk
through the milk marketing com-
pany.

The case was one in which a
producer, Arthur L. Bell, had
signed a contract to sell all the
milk and cream from his cows
through the Milk Producers Mar-
keting Company, a cooperative,
non-profit corporation. The con-
tract was signed in December.
1923, according to which Bell was
to deliver his milk and cream to
the cooperative to March 1, 1924,
and thereafter, continuously, un-
less the contract was cancelled by
a written notice from the milk
marketing company.

The company alleged that Bells
cows produced 47,700 pounds of
milk from January 1. 1923, to
April 17, 1923, which he sold to
parties other than the Producers
Company. The latter took the
case to the Circuit Court which
held that the contract was bind-
ing. The defendant carried it to
the Appellate Court which sus-
tained the opinion of the Circuit
Court.

The marketing company in this

instance was organized under the
old membership act and not under
the Cooperative Marketing .\ct of
1H23. Copies of the written opin-
ion of the Court are available by
application to our I. \. \. legal:
department.

Wicker Will Study

At Co-op Institute

GeoFKe R. Wicker, general
manager of our cooperative ac-
counting service, will represent
our I. A. A. at the International
Institute on Cooperation, which
is to be held in 1925. at »everal
points in the United States.

The plan for creating an Inter-
national Institute on Cooperation
was originated at a meeting of
agricultural o r g a n i z a tions at
Washington, D. C. last February.
The purpose of the institute is to
correlate and assimilate th» prin-
ciples of cooperative marketing.

A temporary organization meet-
ing was held in Washington in
April at which arrangements were
made for a conference of the or-
ganizations represented at the
first meeting and other organiza-
tions of a bona fide cooperative
character. This conference meets
in Cleveland, August 11, the
deadline date for this RECORD,
and continues in session until
August 1 7. Mr. Wicker will at-
tend the conference and give us
further information for the next
RECORD.

.\ new motion piclare storj-

showing the work of the farm
bureau in Illinois is in the mak-
ing by our I. A. A. and the
Homestead Films Company. It
will be shown throughout the
state this fall.

School Commission
Asks I.A.A. Officials
To Serve on Council

J. C. Watson, director of our
I. \. A. taxation department, and
J. L. Whisnand. executive com-
mitteeman from the 19th District
have been appointed by H. E. Kel-
ly. Chairman of the illinbis Edu-
cational Commission, to serve on
the Advisory Council to the C(M|i-
mission.

The Educational Commission,
created by law for the purpose of
reporting to the next legislature
on the problems affecting the pub-'
lie schools of Illinois, has asked
the assistance of civic organiza-
tions throughout the state. The
appointment of the Advisory
Council was authorized in Chica-
go recently.

One of the poignant questions
relating to the public schools
problem is that of taxation, which
centers around'the equalization of
the tax burden by modernizing
the present lax system. In the
capacity of adviser on taxes Mr.
Watson is qualified to assume an
important responsibility as a mem
ber of the Council.

Mr. Whisnand, as chairman of
our I. A. A. educational commit-
tee, has pushed the rural school
survey, being made by George W.
Willet and C. B. Althous for the
committee. He has t>een associat-
ed with the schools of Illinois In
various capacities, having been
Superintendent of Schools in
Coles county at one time.

LINCOLN WIU BE
MECCA OF ILLINOIS
FARMERS ON 26TH

Holiday WiU Hare No DuU
Moments ; Baseball, Horse-
shoes, Junior Sports, Swim-
ming and Speaking

Last call for our I. A. A. pic-
nic at Lincoln, August 26!

Illinois farmers who heard I>o-
gan county Karni Adviser. J. H.
Checkley. tell about the planx
for the picnic, over station WLS.
last Wednesday noon know that
he -has arranged a "hum-dinger"
of a program and they are get-
ting ready to "pack up their
troubles in their old tin Ford"
and drive to the Logan county
Chautauqua grounds the 26th.

Beginning in
the morning
with ba/eball.
horseshoes and
other sports
and winding
up in the after-
noon with a n
address b J' F.
W. Murphy of
Minnesota, the
program isn't I

going t o have |

a dull moment Kraak w. Marnky
in it.

Mr. Murphy, who is well post-
ed on agricultiiral legislative
needs, will discuss the agricul-
tural situation as it is today and
»^11 tell our farmers about the
American Council of Agriculture

Without wanting to over-do a
good thing and yet desiring that
our I. A. A. members get ac-
quainted with Mr. Murphy, we
are reproducing ' his portrait in
this issue of the RECORD, the
third time within a very short
period.

Special supervisors will take
care of tBj" little children while
their mothers listen to a special
program for the women folks in
the morning. Mrs. C. W. Sewell
of Indiana will talk at this meet-
ing on the subject. "The Nation'^
Debt to the Farm Home."

One of the biggest attractions
will be the baseball game for the
state farm bureau championship.
The title will be hotly contested
for by the winning teams in the
Galesburg and Springfield dis-
tricts. The pennant winners in
th>8e two leagues will l>e decided
shortly before the 26th.

Hot Horxendioe Battles

The battle for the state horse-
shoe championship will be equal-
ly as hot as that In baseball. Sev-
er»I weeks ago Farm Adviser
Cl»eckley reported that farm bu-
reau communities from all parti
of the state have entered in th<
horseshoe contest.

A later report says there will
be a four passenger, Italian-
built, cabin type airplane near
the picnic grounds to ,take up
a -limited number of passengers
during the day. The plane is
equipped with card tables, buffet
and radio like a small boat
cabin.

Just take a look at the base-
ball and horseshoe trophies In
the RECORD and picture the ex-
citement you will have at the
Liscoln picnic! .We make a
statement similar 40 one made
before our annual I. A. A. picnic
\uk year — "Lincoln will be the
Mecca of organized Illinois agri-
culture on August 26 — and no
mistake!"

In Effiniiltam county petitions
are being circulated to put the
tuberculosis eradication question
on the ballots at the November
election.

In IMM^thr flmt car of lime-
stone was purchased In Illinois
for agricultural purposes. Last
year 400,000 tons were pur-
chased.

Pace 2

The DlinoU Agricultural AMociation Record

Angurt 16, 1924

Published every other Saturday by the XlliQOiB Agricul-
tural Association. 608 South Dearborn Street. Chicago.
Illihols. Edited by Department of Information, H. C.
Butcher. Director.

Entered as second class matter Oct. 10, 1921, at the post
office at Chicago, Olinols, under the act of March >, 1179.
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage pro-
vidwd for in Section llOS, Act of October >, 1*11, author-
lied Oct. »1, 1»81.

The Individual membership fee of the Illinois Argicul-
tural Association is Ave dollars a year. This fee includes
parment of fifty cents for subscription to th« nilnols Ag-
rlcpltural Association Record.

?-

OFFICERS
Preeident, S. H. Thompson, <iaincj.
Vice-President, C. B. Watson, DeKalb.
Treasnrer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomington.
fieeretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore.

EXUCUTIVE COSDIITTEB
By Congressional Districts

lllh Jacob Olbrlch, Harvard

12th j G, F. Tultock, Roclcford

13th { C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th J. W. H. Moody, Port Byron

1Sth.,..t. H. E. Goembel, Hooppole

16th....;.; A. R. Wright. Varna

ITlh I F. D. Barton, Cornell

iath.....j..> ..., R. F. Karr, Iroquois

IMh J J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

2(Kh Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21st Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd : Stanley Castle, Alton

23rd ] J. E. LIngenfelter, Lawrenceville

24th J Curt Anderson, Xenia

2Sth Vernoa Lesstey, Sparta

Directors of Departments
I. A. A. Office

Gsneral Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H, Kellter;
Organization, G. E. Metzger; Information, H.C. Butcher,
Transportation, L. J. Quasey, Statistics, J. C. Wstson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A, B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, Wm. E, Hedgeock;
Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Ph6sphate-Llmestone,
J. R. Bent; in charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A.
Qeugler; speciat representative on Tuberculosis Eradi-
cation, M. H. Petersen; Legal Counsel, Donald Kirk-
patrick; Cooperative Accounting, Gee. R. Wicker.

Coopetat

=f=

Don't Forget the Picnic

Don't forget that our I. A. A. state picnic is
Tuesday. August 26, at Lincoln. Arrangements
h»ve been made so that everyone, from young to
olid and from frivolous to pious, will hove some
kjnd of entertainment.

' We Await the Fact*

The public, through farm paper editors, news-
paper men, and farm bureau officials from many
states, has been invited in to see just what happened
in the publicity turmoil during the formation of
tke Grain Marketing Company. Questions were
asked by farm paper editors, newspaper men, farm
bureau people and whatnot during a week in which
a series of three meetings of two days each was
hpld and were answered by officials of the Grain
>farketing Company and of the vending companies.

J Gray Silver, Washington representative of the
American Farm Bureau Federation and president
of the Grain Marketing Company, took the lead in
. all the meetings explaining the farmer's side. He
piointed out many savings through cutting over-
head expenses and through the farmer partially
controlling his grain market. His points had been
conceded by nearly everybody who had followed
the undertaking.

I The grain marketing man's- side was explained
h|>- E. F. Rosenbaum of The Rosenbaum Grain Com-
pany, one of the firms taken over by the Grain Mar-
k|eting Company.

I Questions that were asked officials of the Grain
^llarketing Company were answered by them in the
light of their existing information and upon which
tpe gigantic deal was consummated.

1 But did officials of the Grain Marketing Com-
pany have sufficient authoritativfe information be-
fbre going into the deal T Did the officials have the
information on the points enumerated in the Au-
gu-st 2 RECORD? Will the developments in the
formation of the Grain Marketing Company com-
rtiand sufficient confidence on the part of recog-
nized farm leaders to insure ultimate success?

I Our Illinois Agricultural Association has indi-
dated no specific approval of the new Grain Mar-
l^eting Company. It has made preparation for a
thorough investigation and will proceed with dis-
patch a.s soon as the information to be furnished by
the Grain Marketing Company is made available.
In the meantime, our association is maintaining
an independent attitude and re^rving judgment.
The investigation will be made for the benefit of
producers who may be called upon to become mem-
bers and stockholders. It will not be influenced by
propaganda or publicity either for or against the
new company. Our association recognizes that
individuals who have associated tllemselves with the

new movement may be over zealous and private in-
terests who stand to gain or lose may be tempted
to make claims that cannot be substantiated. Our
association has a duty to its members; namely, to
make a calm and deliberate appraisal by competent
and impartial authorities. This will' be done as
soon as information is made available and in the
shortest possible time. If an honest effort is in-
tended by the promoters, they will be given an op-
portunity to demonstrate their honesty of purpose
as well as prove that there is no selfish ulterior
purpose to which producers would not knowingly
and willing become a party. The open-minded at-
titude is retained.

1 - Farm Women, Please Note

Farm Bureau folks, on the back page is your
last chance to get a little parcel of humanity to
make happy.

The United Charities has set August 19 as the
last day they can send poor little Chicago chil-
dren into the country for outings. There are hun-
dreds of little tots that have been left behind this
year because the country folks all over seem to
have been too busy this year to give outings to the
usual number of kiddies. Last year we placed
463 ; this year it 's only 206 to date.

Hundreds of the little duffers have been disap-
pointed this year. Three brothers and two sisters
happily trudged to the station where they were
to meet the United Charities worker and be taken
to the eountrj-. But there were places for only
fouE. The fifth had to stay back in hot, grinding,
Chicago all alone. His disappointment was great.
You can change at least one or two of these disap-
pointments to happiness by filling in the blank on
the back page.

The Agricultural Situation

- By R, A. Cowtmm, S^erttary,

Ammrican Comncit of Amricatturm ■ \

The condition of agriculture, the country's basic
industry, is generally admitted and understood by
all who are really informed.

The condition is the result of the position or sit-
uation in which agriculture finds itself, in our pe-
culiar American economic structure — out of bal-
ance. The defect is now apparent, forcing the
farmer to produce at high costs, both of commod-
ities and services, reflecting American standards of
living, and to sell such coinmodities as wheat, corn,
hogs and cattle in competition with the world's
lowest standards. He is competing with Argentina,
Australia, Russia, India, and all other countries.
He is forced to meet the competition of rich new
soils, of cheap water transportation rates, or peon
and peasant labor— all because of the tyranny of
the surplus created in an unorganized indpstry —
agriculture.

In practical operation, our American protective
tariff system operates to the benefit of the producer,
as to commodities of which exportable surpluses are
produced, only when the industry is organized to
the extent that the surplus may be segregated from
that portion of the commodity required for domes-
tic consumption — a process that results in the ad-
vantageous sale of the major portion, at an Ameri-
can protected price and the lesser surplus, selling
in the world's market at lower world's price levels.

Industrial America has long since recognized
this principle, and through its organizations, under
legislative enactments passed by Congress in its
interests, operates accordingly.

Industry has been enabled to organize for export
trade with comparative ease. It has involved the
formation of voluntary organizations in which a
comparatively few men were readily in accord or
who could mutually adjust their differences for
common good.

Agriculture, on the other hand, is carried on in
rural America by many millions of our people who
are widely scattered into every state of the Union.
It is an industry of as man.v individual plants out
of communication with each other. It is utterly
impossible for its individual proprietors, either as
such or through its voluntary organizations, with
limitations, to organize for an,v such purpose al-
though there maj- be complete unanimity of desire
to do so.

Let the farmer observe the many organized drain-
age and irrigation districts over the country which
were organized under provisions of legislative en-
actment. Our legislative bodies have recognized in
this case the necessity of forming, in the interests
of the public, a "public" (involuntary) corpora-
tion for the benefit of the majority. No voluntary
organization was possible, a fact proven over and
again. The human element present precluded it.

The tyranny of the minority prevailed. The lands
before inclusion in the organized drainage districts
were either unproductive or produced in part only,
under favorable conditions of rain faU. The pro-
motion of such organized districts has been a sta-
bilizing process. It has stabilized production in the
areas organized.

The precedent is already established — years ago.
Its beneficial results are proven. The country has
been the beneficiary. Not one of the manj- who
have had experience in such matters would venture
that the results could be obtained under any pro-
cess of voluntary organization.

The broad principles, and the recognition of the
human element underlying these cases, are equally
applicable to the problem of segregating the sur-
plus of our major agricultural commodities, so that
the greater portion consumed in domestic trade
may exchange generally on a stabilized approxi-
mate price parity with the commodities and serv-
ices required by the farmer.

The basic principles embodied in the McNarj--
Haugen BiU were these — nothiiig more. The bill
was merely an adaption of these same principles to
the problem confronting, not only agriculture, but
the whole country. The bill as such is dead; de-
feated in Congress. The principles live on, sound
in their economics and now thoroughly recognized
over the country by farmers and their organiza-
tions.

Quite recently, current prices of certain grains
and fat live stock have advanced substantially on
the markets. This improvement in prices has been
the occasion for widespread, well organized propa-
ganda on the part of the inspired metropolitan
press. It would seem to have been rather over-
done, but nevertheless the real issue — the disad-
vantageous position occupied by agriculture due to
a fundamental defect in our peculiar American
economic structure — is being rather adroitly cov-
ered up.

It must be perfectly obvious to the friends of the
farmer, as it is to the farmer, that the same forces,
both economic and man-made, to which the current
advance is attributable promises at best improve-
ment only in the immediate condition of agriculture
and do not address its fundamental defect —
wfth no assurance whatever of permanency or sta-
bility for the future. Further, that current prices
exist today not as an accomplishment of agriculture
or its organizations, directly, but on the other hand
are quite beyond its control. This is particularly
true with production.

Agriculture, unorganized as it is, and through
its many millions of individual plants, scattered
throughout rural America, incapable of "combining
for export," as organized industry does, remains
subject to the tyranny of the unorganized sur-
pluses of those commodities produced in volumes
over and above domestic consumptive needs, as has
already been pointed out. Is "big business" advo-
cating, as a sound policy for the farmer, a contin-
uance of this policy? Or rather is it this; that a
continuance would leave entirely undisturbed the
system and those dealing in the commodities of
agriculture 1

THE LIARS' CONTEST

H«re are Home Kood lies from oar oivn lUlnolii,
the stale where everythlngr fcrown tall— «orn, men
and storieti. .^ead uh Rome more. We've had aoaie
bl|r ■torniH lately, by the way, but some of the old
realdentB have doubtlesM seen bisser ones. Tell ns
about *em— ^ind the more yon send the better we
like It.

YOr SHOL'LD START AN' S. P. C P.

(Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Fllv-vers)

Theae folk* that are complalnla' about hard
timea and all thut— they mnat be cobTvebby. I bin
makin money band over flat.

I've firot a lot or ronsrh frraaa Innd. Alons late
winter I go to ChlcaKO and buy three, four ear-
loada of poor, run down flirvera that alnt come
through the winter well, and turn 'e«n out on Krnaa
In the Hprlnx. 1 take theae crippled up and run
down fllva and with the Judieloua uae of a little
balin wire and chewln fcum I aoon have them
climbing theae hllla on hls^h and puttiu on flniah
off their chenp Nunimer pnaturc.

I set *rm for about $10 a car. and set *em all
ahaped on pnature about vacation time when the
market ia tip-top. I fumiah free air, free water
and icraaBolene, and Kenerally set 975 to flOO apiece
for *em.

Home of the fllva I f^^t are ao ma down there*a
nothin to 'em. I have a bunch of icoata I feed the
careaaaea to, aud %^cy pick 'em clean to the akele*
ton. I've known a Roat to eat four tlrea ofTen a
flivver and nrain 00 pounda. Henry aald he didn't
like to aee the akeletuna Inyin nroundt aald a Ford.
like a mule, waan't anppoaed to quit; ao I fot a
contract out of Henry for akeletona F. O. B. De-
troit, «10 per car.— Elmer Waddell, TaylorvUle. II-
llnoia.

AND, SPEAKIXG OF HILLS—
Dear Mr. Ltart

My dad doeaa't like to raiae potatoea becauae It
ia auch hard work to dl^ them, ao laat year I per-
auaded him to let me ralae the apuda. I planted
them on a ateep hill on our farm, with the furrowa
rnnninK up and down the alopc. When they were
ready to diic, I duK a hill at the bottom of the' row.
and had dad hold a aack at that hole w^hlle I
walked up the furrow with a aledge hammer and
hammered on each hill of apuda in turn. JarrtnK
them looae ao they rolled down the hill Into the
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The Illinois Agricultural Association Record

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GOUaER REVIEWS
WORK OF POULTRY
AND EGG MARKETING

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Outlines Aims of Department;

Illinois Poultrymen Face

Long Time Program of

Standardization

p. A. Oonsl^r

Editor'i Ifote: Thit U tht fourth
of a teriei of thnilar articUi to be
Turitten by I. A. A. departmental dir
rectort telling of the work done in
e<ich department.

By F. A. Gougler

Director, Poultry u»l E(k Marketing

The Poultry and Egg Market
Ing department of our I. A. A. has
been asked tor a report of prog-
ress, plans and policies of this de
partment. Being so new on the
job, I hesitate to respond to the
requests made. Nevertheless, it
is due the member to know where
the poultry department stands on
this vital subject and what sug-
gestions we have to offer.

The progress made to date
means what we have to point to
in the way of accomplishments
since this department was created.
With the pres-
e n t director,
the third one
on the job in
less than 3
years, it is an
easy matter to
explain why
nothing of a
permanent n a-
ture in the way
0 t cooperative
poultry and egg
marketing has
been done.

This is not meant to insinuate
that my predecessors did not do
their duty and do it well, but
rather to state that it takes one
considerable time to get his bear-
ings on so comprehensive a proj-
ect as our poultry and egg mar-
keting problem is.

Two Major Projects
After taking up the work in
this department in June, 1924,
the first thing we did was to find
out what Mr. Harper had outlined
in the way of a program and it
was learned that two major proj-
ects were under way, namely;
first, establishing accredited
hatcheries in Illinois, and second,
getting the egg trade to buy eggs
on a graded basis.

Both of these projects have
been followed up to the present
time. About 15 of our largest
hatcheries came under the accred-
ited plan this year and we antici-
pate double the number will come
over to the accredited plan next
year. From the market point of
view accredited hatcheries mean
more standard flocks and this In
turn means standard market poul-
try and eggs, which in turn with a
market buying on grade should
mean more money to the good
producer.

Getting the egg trade to buy
eggs on graded basis has met with
little success, except here and
there in the state. It has resulted
in a great deal of publicity and a
better understanding of the im-
portance of establishing uniform
egg grades and establishing price
quotations on well established
grades.
1 To Develop Plan

X For the next year it is our plan
"if to continue on these two impor
Ik tant projects. Farm bureau mem
f bers will hear more about them in

I. the future.
We are also mindful of the fact
• that many members as well as
farm advisers are wondering what
'X this department has to offer in
I the way of a plan for marketing
'» poultry and eggs cooperatively.

With this in mind we are study-
.ng and collecting information as
rapidly as possible with the hope
it developing during the next year
1 plan suitable to Illinois condi-
.ions. Organizations that are
now operating in other states are
being studied and data collected.
Study Minnesota Plan

Recently I made a trip to Min-
nesota to collect information on
their plan of organization and
business methods. Their plan
provides for dividing the state in-
to districts and each district must
secure not less than 1,000 mem-
bers who shall market their pro-
duce through their cooperatively
owned market house. At the pres-
ent time Minnesota has seven dis-
tricts completely organized and
selling eggs, or are nearly ready
to sell for their members.

Within two years they hope to
have the entire state completely
organized into districts, probably
30 altogether and a single state
agency selling for all of them.

During July it was our good

Trophln Ihnt will b» Klvra to tl>»
n-lnnliiK bniirball and horaenhoe
teantM In the I. A. A. oontesta at
Lincoln.

BigasvMIe, til.
Aug. 6, 1924.
Illinois Agricultural Ass'n:

Dear Sirs: — Yours of July
31, In regard to Biggsville
stockyards; will say that
they have them clean. The
agent at Biggsville and I
have tried for 8 months to
get them cleaned. Just three
days after you took this mat-
ter up they had men in clean-
ing them. We. appreciate
your service very much and
many thanks.
(Signed)

Paul Stevenson, Mgr.,
Biggsville Shipping Ass'n.

fortune to study three of these
districts, one which had begun
handling eggs a month before, an-
other had three months' experi-
ence and still another about a
yeai of business to its credit.

From these we collected a lot
of valuable information. Minne-
sota has worked out a wonderful
system, but with it they are hav-
ing their troubles. We had the
pleasure one evening of sitting in
a meeting of the Board of Direc-
tors of a district and it soon de
veloped that they had problems
which were giving them consider-
able concern, all of which led the
writer to conclude that a great
deal of preliminary work must be
done in a district along educa-
tional lines and surveys before the
district is ready for its member-
ship campaign.

Consider Missouri Co^op
Readers of the RECORD and
farm papers have noted that at
Hannibal, Mo., a cooperative poul-
try and egg marketing association
is being formed which is called
the Mark Twain Poultry Market-
ing Association. Missouri organ-
izers for the past six months have
been trying to interest three or
four Illinois counties in joining
them in this movement, but re-
centlv a joint meeting was called
at Pittsfleld, III.

Farm advisers Ray Miller. Ad-
ams county, Guy Hustead, Scott
county and Frank Barrett. Pike
county, as well as farm bureau
presidents and others including
Earl Smith, chairman I. A. A
Committee of Organization, at-
tended for the purpose of decid-
ing whether or not they should
join the Missouri poultrymen in
this campaign.

Develop Definite Procram
After an all day conference it
was voted that we are not ready
to undertake such organization.

This action was not taken with
the idea of jeopardizing the cam-
paign in the least on the Missouri
side but merely for the purpose
of waiting until Illinois formu-
lates a poultry and egg marketing
plan and develops a definite pol-
icy covering these points.

Our I. A. A. members can be
assured that at this time the fol-
lowing department heads includ-
ing myself are developing a pro-
posed poultry and egg marketing
plan for Illinois: L. J. Quasey.
Transportation; G. E. Metzger,
Organization; Donald Kirkpat-
rick. Legal Aspects; Geo. R. Wick-
er, Accounting.

When this plan is finally com-
pleted it will be submitted for
criticism to a committee of mar
ket experts of the College of Ag
riculture, government poultry
and egg marketing experts and a
large committee of farm advisers.
It will probably be six months or
a year before this plan is in final
form.

Quality Ls Obstacle
In the meantime those counties
or communities that are eager to
do cooperative poultry and egg
marketing can very profitably de-
vote their time to studying the
production of quality eggs. There
is no greater obstacle to coopera-
tive marketing than the question
of producing quality eggs. It is
the one thing even in our highly
developed commercial poultry dis-
tricts, that requires coLstant agi-
tation on the part of managers, to
get their members to produce a
standard product.

Here in Illinois with 95 per
cent of our poultry producers on
farms that look upon pouItr7 as
a side line in farming, it will ne-
cessitate a long time program of

County farm bureau picnics

ind their speakers as they are
cheduled in Illinois:

Montfiromery county. Hillsboro. Aug.

19. S. H. Thompson.
St. Clair county. Belleville, Aug, 20.

W. A. Foster.
Knox county. Galesburg. Aug. 20. A.

C. Everingham.
Woodford county. Aug. 21. George A.

Fox.
Scott county. Winchester. Auff. 21.

F. D. Barton.
Randolph county. Aug. 21. G. E.

Metzger.

Saline county. Aug. 22. G. E. Metz-
ger.

Marshall-Putnam. Henry, Aug. 22.
W. E. D. Hummel.

Peoria county. Aug. 23, H. C. Kes-
Binger.

Monroe county. Waterloo. Aug. 24.

G. E. Metzger.
Gallatin county. Aug. 27, A. C. Ever-

ingham.

Coles county. Charlestown. Aug. 28.
S. H. Thompson.

Livingston countv. Falrbury. Aug.
28. W. G. Calderw-ood.

■\\'arren county. Aug. 29, A. C. Ever-
ingham.

Brown county. Mt. Sterling. Aug. 30,
A. C. Everingham.

Wayne county. Fairfield. .Vug. 30.
George A. Fox,

r.ce county. Sept. t. Sam-Crabtree.

Hancock county, Sept. 6. A. C. Ever-
ingham.

Christian county. Sept. 13. G. E.
Metzger.

Cumberland, Aug. 21. A. C. Evcrlng-
ham-

Jackson. Aug. 28. A. C. Everingham.

Henderson, Aug. 23. A. C. Evering-
ham.

Menard. .\ug. 22. A. C. Everingham.

.Stephenson. Aug. 31. A. C. Everinp:-
ham.

Moultrie, Aug. 27. O. E. Metzger.

Effittgham, Aug. 20. F. D. Barton.

Lawrence, Aug. 27. C. B. Watson.

Whiteside. Aug. 21. S. H. Thompson.

L.ike County. Libertyville. Aug. 20.
C. G. Holden.

itol, at Springfield; Transporta-
tion building, which houses our I.
A. A. in Chicago; a livestock ex-
change building, ware house,
creameries and farm bureau
oBices. Miniature farm animals
grazing in the pastures portray
the livestock producing sections of
the state.

Display of Co-ops
In addition to the map, exhibits
are on display showing the Im-
mensity of the agricultural in-
dustry of Illinois and its relation-
ship to other industries. The
importance and number of farm-
ers' cooperative elevators, the dis-
tribjition and service performed
by shipping associations, the pro-
ducers terminal agencies, the
farmers' interest in transportation
by rail and water and other in-
teresting phases of farm life are
shown.

The huge representation of the
state and the other exhibits of our
I. A. A. are located in the center
of the agricultural exhibit hall,
serving as a nucleus around which
are displayed some 20 county
farm bureau exhibits.

The counties having exhibits in
the panorama are Boone, De Kalb,
Du Page, Grundy, Henry. Kane.
Kankakee. Kendall. Lee. Mc-
Henry. Mercer, Ogle, Stark,
Stephenson, Whiteside, Will and
Winnebago.

Raleiish's Torono's Mrme, a

Jersey cow owned by Sherman
Xursery Company. Charles City.
Iowa, has just completed a 365
day record which makes her
world's champion two year old
Jersey for l>oth milk and butter
fat production. Her record is
16,000 pounds of milk with 902
pounds of butter fat

J. R. armt

Fair Vi»itor8 Will
See Work of Our
I. A. A. On Big Map

ASK FOR A STUDY
OF FARMER'S NEEDS

(Continued from page 1)
protective system in a manner

On display at the Central States
Fair and Exposition at Aurora.
Aug. 15 to 23. is a gigantic rep-
resentation of Illinois, showing
graphically the activities of the
several departme'ats of the Illinois
Agricultural Association and the
influence this state farm bureau
organization has in state and na-
tional affairs.

The huge map is 10 feet wide
by 2« feet long and lies flat like
a table. It is being shown at the
Aurora Fair for the first time but
will later be on exhibition at the
Illinois Products Exposition, in
Chicago and again at the Spring-
field State Fair.

The entire state' appears green
with a crop of imitation grass cov-
ering the meadows and fields; the
rivers and lakes are represented
by real, flowing water and the hills^
of southern Illinois and other
topographical features are graph-
ically illustrated.

A model farmstead is shown
with the map, equipped with a
farmhouse, a barn and other build-
ings and farm equipment. Other
larger buildings in the exhibit ajre
the Illinois Fruit Exchange build-
ing, at Centralia; the State cap-

standardization in egg marketing
to bring about material imprm-e-
raent In the production of first
quality eggs.

In conclusion permit me to say
that no commodity produced on
Illinois farms will be so difficult
to market cooperatively as poultry
and eggs because of their wide
distribution, few commercial
flocks and lack of understanding
on the part of farmers' wives and
farm leaders on the importance of
quality production.

Until all this is fully appreciat-
ed no effort should be made to
market these products coopera-
tively in this state.

which will insure an American
price for the American require-
ments independent of the world
price for the surplus.

To make certain the accom-
plishment o( itsi purpose, the
Council by unanimous resolution
at its meeting in St. Paul, pledged
itself to use its utmost proper in-
fluence to withhold and divert
farm support from any candidate
for Congress, whatsoever his
party affiliation may be, who
omits or declines to commit him
self to its purpose, as defined
herein, or who attempts to oh'
scure his conimitments by equivo-
cal language, or who openly op-
poses that purpose.

The Council specifically affirms
that, in speaking for the organ-
ized and unorganized farmers of
America, it seeks no ill considered
action by Congress, nor any legis-
lative privilege for agriculture
not required to remove from and
equalize t o i a n impoverished
American agriculture, the insid-
ious and none the less effective
subsidies assessed against it by
the aggressions of other groups
and the legislative privileges hith-
erto granted to them at the ex-
pense of agriculture.

To this end, and as a means of
clarifying all included questions
of economics, practicability, and
urgency in an atmosphere purged
of the elements of partisan and
other selfish controversy, and to
do so in ample season before the
next convention of Congress, the
Council, speaking in its proper
right for the farm population of
the United States, respectfully
and earnestly hereby petitions you
to direct the SECRETARY OF
AGRICULTURE to immediately
appoint and convene an extraor-
dinary commission to study the
situation and needs of agriculture
and to recommend definite reme-
dial legislation to Congress with a
view to its enactment during the
short session. To be consistent
with the spirit of these purposes,
such a commission should ob-
vioiisly be non-partisan, should
fairly represent agriculture, and
should not comprise spokesmen
for interests whose circumstances
or conduct shows them to be in-
herently obtuse or selfishly inimi-
cal to the project of securing
equality for agriculture under our
protective system.

■Very respectfully,
(Signed) Geo. N. Peek.

President.
R. A. Cowlea, Secretary.

F. W. Murphy,
Chairman o( Exec. Com.
GSfP— IMS

FARM BUREAUS ARE
RECOGNIZED BY BIG
QUARRY COMPANIES

Plan of I. A. A. Agreed To By

Limestone Producers; Save*

Illinois Users More Than

$60,000 AnnuaUy

Afier a long period of negotia-
tion, ibctween the Limestone quar-
ries pf the state and the phos-
phate-limestone department of our
I. A. A., representing the county
farm bureaus of Illinois, the
quarBy companies have recognized
the firm bureaus in an agreement
which will save Illinois farm bu-
reau imembers mdre than $60,000
annulilly.

A i>lan drawn
up by J. R.
Bent.; director
of our I. A. A.
phosphate-lime- I
s t o * e depart-
ment, and a c-
cepteo recently
by mlpst of the
largei quarry
compimi e s o f i
the Mate, has I
put the county
f a r 4i bureaus
of Illinois in the best sitnation
they have ever been in on the
limestone problem.

The plan advanced by the phos-
phate^limestone department gives
recognition to county farm bu-
reaus and provides aa inside price
by means of discount certificates
Issued by the bureau to each pur-
chasing farm bureau member at
the time he places an order
tfaroueh the county farm bureau.
Under this plan farm ^ureau
members will receive from the
farm adviser when placing an or-
der, discount certificates ' which
will >e accepted by the cojoperat-
ing quarry companies as paylnent
to the extent pf 10 cents ier ton
againBt the bill for the linjestone.
Set Xew Record
Our phosphate-limestonie de-
partment will centinue to tumish
order forms in quadruplicilte and
will furnish the blank fortns for
the cfrrtiflcates. The quarry- com-
pany will bill the material at the
regular price to the farm bureau
IHirchaser, allowing him to ideduct
10 celnts per ton when remitting
by including (he certificate M part
payment.

It is consen'atively estimated
that the annual sa\'ings to farm
bureau members, through the re-
ductions that have been secured
tl»e general , price level and
through the special discount made
available to them, will amount to
more tlian $60,000 as a direct re-
sult at the plan.

With the relationship, in gen-
eral, between the quarry com-
panies and the farm bureaus the
best it has ever been and with the
price of limestone in most parts
of th« state at a favorable figure
for the farmer, it is predicted that
1924 will break the record for
the amount of agricultural lime-
stone used In Illinois.

.Marshall-Putnam farm bnreao

will have a "bomliest man" con-
test. (Farm Adviser Fuller al-
ready entered), a bog-calling con-
test for men and a chicken-call-
ing contest for women. The
homliest man wins three dollars
worth of toilet articles, the cham-
pion hog-caller an automobile
spotlight and a linen table cloth
will be given to the winning
chicken-caller.

FARM ADVISEES—
. ATTENTION

The committee arranging
for sports at the annual I. A. A.
picnic has set 6:30 P. M.
Monday, August 25, as the
deadline hour for entries in
the State horseshoe pitching
contest. Counties expecting
to have teams in the contest
must have entered names of
their contestants and the
farm adviser must certify to
their eligibility by that time.
This is the latest possible
time at which entries can be
received and Is sufficiently
late to allow farm advisers
to wire the entry to Farm
Adviser, J. H. Checkley, at
Lincoln, in case the contest-
ant's county championship Is
decided the afternoon of the
2Sth.

Phge 4

The niinou Agricultural Association Record

August 16, 1924

LEADERS IN 25TH
DISTRICT MEET TO
DISCUSS PROBLEMS

Variety of Practical Topics

Features Meeting; Indorse

Stand Taken By I.A.A.

On Grain Merger

Leaders in Pulaski, Union,
Jackson, Randolph, Williamson
and Franklin county farm bu-
rqaus, ineeting in Benton, Aug.
6,, for the third 25th district con-
tdrence, passed a resolution ap-
• proving the stand taken on the
gfain merger by our I. A. A. ex-
edutive committee in demanding a
thorough Investigation of the
Grain Marketing Company.

[The grain merger was a secon-
dary topic of discussion, however,
in the variety of practical farm
problems which the conference
considered. Fruit and vegetable
mfarketing, egg marketing, the
American Council of Agriculture,
the tax situation and mutual fire
and lightning insurance were dis-
cussed thoroughly by farm ad-
visers, farmers and I. A. A. offi-
cials.

Three Franklin county girls,
tl^e McCoUum sisters, or better
ktiown there as the West Frank-
fort Vocal Trio, provided a novel
feature in the farm bureau con-
ference world by singing groups
o( old familiar songs. They
oSened both the morning and
alteraoon session of the meeting
with songs which brought un-
usual applause.
I Unite Farm Organizations

In the morning meeting, R. A.
Cpwlea, treasurer of our I. A. A.,
discussed the American Council
■ot Agriculture and the Grain

Miarketing Company. "The Amer-
ican Council of Agriculture is aftive and to the West Frankfort trio

single purpose organization," he
said. "Its aim is to unite farm
organizations in order that we
can enact legislation which will
eSibody the principles of the de-
feated McNary-Haugen bill.

"Agricultural o r g a n i zations
h»ve been speaking in several dif-
ferent tongues and they must
leiarn to speak with one voice.
The Council aims to speak for the
principal farm organizations on
the subject."

A. B. Leeper, director of our.
I. A. A. fruit and vegetable mar-
keting department and manager
ot the Illinois Fruit Growers' Ex-
cfeange, outlined briefly a new
plan of organization which the
Ebicbange has adopted. The new
plan centralizes the management
and operation of the marketing
problems and thus far has been
vtry successful, Mr. Leeper
stated.

A general round table discus-
silon resulted from an egg cand-
ling and grading demonstration
by F. A. Gougler, of our I. A. A.
poultry and egg marketing de-
partment. He illustrated the
wlay eggs should be graded and
ut-ged the sale _of eggs on the
seven-grade basis advocated by
tile United States department of
agriculture.

"We wouldn't think of dump-
iig our entire wheat crop on the

local market and receiving what-
ever we were offered for it, yet
that is just what we do under the
present system of marketing our
eggs," Mr. Gougler said. "The
graded system of egg marketing
is coming sooner or later. The
farmer should learn now how to
produce eggs on a graded basis
so he will be ready for it when
it comes."

Every farm bureau county in
the district was represented in
the group of 60 who attended the
meeting. The 4th meeting of
this district will be held in Ma-
rion, Williamson county, during
Otiob^.

Approve I. A. A. Stand

The following resolutions
passed at the close of the con-
ference summarize the general
sentiment of those who attended
the meeting;

Resoflved. that the various farm
bureaus in the 25th district . lend
their E^ctive support to a campaign
to establish gradins of egps, as the
Urst step in better marketing.

Resolved, that it is the sense of
this meeting that ive express our
approval of the stand of the I. A. A.
regarding the grain merger as ex-
plained by Mr. Cowles.

Resolved, that our vote of appre-
ciation be extended to J. R. Bent for
liis services in connection with the
limestone producer.s of Illinois and
the farm bureau and it.s members.
and that eacli county farm bureau
Blake a special effort to put on a
limestone campaign at the present
lime.

Resolved, that a letter be sent by
this conference to Congressman K.
E. Dennison. expressinB our appre-
ciation for his support of the Mc-
Xary-IIaugen bill.

Resolved, that it is the opinion of
this assembly that the American
Council of Agriculture has a field of
nsefulness which cannot be filled by
the .American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion and that we look with favor
npon the new organization.

Resolved, that this conference ex-
tend a vote of thanks to our district
representative. J. V. Lessley. and to
the Franklin County Farm Bureau
and its officers for their efforts in
arranging this conference which has
been both interesting and instruc-

that has entertained us so well. .

Whiteside county's j n n i o r
cliaiiipion dairy judging team,
which defeated their English op-
ponents at Haywardsheath last
month, thereby winning the gold
trophy given by the London
Daily Mail, did so because In-
dividiial members of the team
won first, second and fourth in-
dividual honors In the contest.
America's team scored 1,590
points and England's 1,484. Don-
ald Williams, of Sterling, was
the highest scoring individual of
the contest with 645 points to
his credit, while Harold Gaul-
rapp, of Rock Falls, was second
with 540. Elwyn Folkers, the
third member of the team, scored
605 points.

B.V processing explosives left
on hand after the World War, the
federal government has made
available 100,000,000 pounds of
pyrotol, an explosive which is
used in clearing lands and build-
ing roads.

Over i>,0<M> liogs were vacci-
nated during June and July by Pe-
oria county farm bureau mem-
bers.

The production of milk in the
United States was 110,000,000,-
000 pounds last year.

Outing Secretary, , ..

Illinois Agricultural Assoclatioii, 1 ■■ . ;

«08 .<?. Dearborn St., Chicago.

I will give poor Chicago children a 10-day vaca-
tion starting as soon after August 19 as the children can be
got to me. It is understood that the United Charities of
Chicago assumes the liability in case of accident or illness;
however, we pledge to e.xercise precautions in care and treat-
ment.

Description of children wanted (sex and age);

We will meet the children at or

(Railway Station)

(Please name one optional station)

Remarks;

(Name)

(Town).

(County)

(Rural Phone No.)

WATS' TALKS TO
MIDWEST FARMERS
ON TAX PROBLEMS

Investigations Made Decrease

of Hundred Million Dollars

in Assessed Viduation of

Farm Lands

J. ('. WntMon

"I hope none of you have the
mistaken notion that you pay no
ta.xes and so are not interested
in taxation," John C. Watson, our
I. A. A. authority on taxation, told
an audience of WLS radio fans
recently. "Do not think that the
only people who pay taxes are
those who pay money to the coun-
ty treasurer and get tax receipts
for it. Do not forget that you
also pay taxes in the costs of near-
ly every article or service you buy.
When you pay the rent for your
room, or for your house or apart-
ment, or for
your office,
^ -j^^^K your rent 1 n-
/ j^^^H eludes some-
[^^^^^^B thing for taxes
[^^^^^^m Oh the proper-
^^^^^^^ ty. When you
pay for the coal
for heating
your property,
your coal bill
has something
for taxes on the
property of the
dealer who sold the coal, the rail-
road that hauled it, and the mine
that produced it. So with your
bills for gas, electric power, gro-
ceries, clothing, and nearly every-
thing else you buy. You get only
a receipt for the payment of rent
or other bills. But you are pay-
ing ta.xes on the property of most
of the people who sell to you or
serve you, because they are able
to include the cost of taxes on
their property in the prices of the
articles and services they sell.
Reasons for High Taxes
"There are two principal rea-
sons for the jireat increase in
taxes in recent years," explained
Mr. Watson. "The first is the de-
crease in the purchasini; jiower of
the dollar to about Bfi per cent of
its purchasing i>ower before the
war. It now requires about 50 per
cent more money than it did be-
fore the war to buy the same ser-
vices or the same articles, except
most farm products and some
mining products. The second im-
portant reason for the great in-
crease in taxes is the -notable in-
crease in the number of purposes
lor which taxes are levied. For a
longer time than most of us will
live this country will be paying
for the cost of the great war. We
ale also asking the federal, state
and local sovernment to do many
things which we did not ask them
to do only a few years ago. We
may have gone too far in this di-
rection."

Mr. Watson outltned bripfly the
tax situation in Illinois as it es-
pecially aflects farmers, home
ownei's and city tenants. He re-
viewed tor his audience the plan
adopted by many farm bureaus in
correcting unfair property valua-
tions.

Investigate .'>« Coanties
The results of the investigation
in 56 counties were interesting.
In about halt of the counties it
was found that in spite of wide
variations in individual proper-
ties, city and country real estate
was assessed with fair uniformity
between the two classes. In about
one-half of the remaining coun-
ties or one-fourth of the total
number land was found to be as-
sessed at a higher percentage of
its actual value than lots, but the
differences were not, large. In
the remaining one-fourth of the
counties the differences were larg-
er; farm land in a few counties
running as much as 40 per cent
or 50 per cent higher than lots.

"The result of our tax investi-
gation in Illinois last year was a
decrease of over one hundred mil-
lion dollars in assessed valuation
of farm lands," Mr. Watson said
in concluding his talk. "If half of
this decrease was reflected in de-
creased taxes, Illinois land owners
paid about $2,000,000 less taxes
last winter than they would have
paid, had the high valuation of
past years remained.

"What has been done by the
farmers of Illinois this year can
be done by the farmers of any
other state. Organization, how-
ever. Is necessary for individuals
cannot get very far with this
kind of work."

Our 1. A.^ A. transportation

tiepartnieiit received a letter last
week from Otto Heuer, a Du-
Page county farmer, acknowledg-
ing receipt of a check for JlOO
in settlement with a railroad
company for loss of a cow killed
on the right of way. Damages
were collected through our I. A.
A. because the railroad fence
along Mr. Heuer's farm was in
such condition as to allow the
cow to get out on the right of
way.

The claim had previously been
declined by the railroad company
before our I. A. A. filed a claim
for Heuer. The railroad com-
pany also repaired the fence.

"The Farm Bureau has
brought more returns to the mid-
dle west than the members will
pay out in dues in the next 25
years," said L. J. Dickenson,
Iowa congressman, in a recent
picnic address.

Congressman Dickenson also
stated, his belief that the prin-
ciples of the McNary-Haugen bill
will be enacted into law. "The
fight is still on," he declared,
"and with the active support of
the farmers, through their organ-
izations, success is certain."

Checkley Explains

Horseshoe Rules

The state farm bureau horse-
shoe pitching championship will
be played off at Lincoln, at the
I. A. A. picnic Tuesday, August
26.

In order to eliminate down to
the contenders for the champion-
ship in the limited tiine, the fol-
lowing rules have been adopted:
The preliminaries will start
promptly at 9 A. M. All county
teams entered will draw for
places at court and play one
game. The winners of this game
will draw for places pitching
against winners and the losers will
pitch in a similar manner against
losers. The same method of win-
ners playing winners and losers
pla.ving losers will be used until
a total of four preliminary games
have been played. The eight
highest scoring teams in points
won will be chosen to go through
a similai' semi-final contest and
from the highest point scorers
two teams will be chosen, and
they will i)Iay the three best out
of five of games won and lost.

This system we believe will be
more satisfactory than one where
a team is eliminated when they
have lost one game, as it may
happen that the two best teams
would accidentally draw one an-
other at the start of the elimina-
tion. In the above system of to-
tal points won in preliminary
^mes good consistent players
will sift out to the top of the
contest.

J. H. Checkley, Farm .Adviser,
Logan County Farm Bureau.

Preniiuiiis totaling; more than
iMiOOW aie being offered this year
by the Illinois State Fair in its
junior department for club and
school exhibits.

.A report of tlie executive coin-
niittoe meeting shows that Clark
county is checking up on delin-
quent farm bureau members.

BOARD OF REVIEW
OF PEORIA COUNTY
PONDERS PROTEST

Expect a Later Hearing for
Consideration of Figures Pre-
sented By Our I.A.A.
Offidal'

Following a hearing on August
6. before the board of review of
Peoria county by the Peoria
County Farm Bureau, the board
decided that it would be well to
consider the figures compiled by
the taxation department of our
I. A. A. which showed that city
property was assessed on valua-
tions at least 11 per cent below
that of country property In Pe-
oria county.

Last year figures were com-
piled by the taxation department
which indicated a 25 per cent dif-
ference between valuations on
city and country property. As-
sessors made their assessments on
the 25 per cent reduction basis,
but the board of review allowed
only a cut of approximately eight
per cent.

It is probable that another
hearing will be called to consider
further the figures presented in
the first hearing by J. C. Watson,
director of the taxation depart-
ment.

Considerable feeling had been
aroused in Peoria county between
the board and the farm bureau
before the first hearing. The
board claimed, through the city
papers, that it had been treated
with "scant courtesy" by the
farm bureau when it sent out
1,200 tax complaint blanks 'to its
members without first consulting
the board.

In the hearing Chas. R. Ford,
president of the Peoria County
Farm Bureau, pointed out that
in 1923 the farm bureau had sub-
mitted a tax protest, but the ap-
pearance of the farm bureau rep-
resentatives before the board had
not even been recorded in the
minutes. There are three city
men on the board.

To Winneb»BO county,- Iow»,

goes the honor of being the first
county in the state to be classi-
fied as a modified-accredited area
with reference to tuberculosis
eradication. The order confer-
ring this classification to the Iowa
county came from the Bureau of
Animal Husbandry at Washing-
ton, D. C, July 25.

Farmers living in Winnebago
county who ship hogs to the vari-
ous markets will now receive a
price of 10 cents per hundred
pounds more than those coming
from counties that do not have a
modified-accredited classification.

.August 26 is a holiday for Illi-
nois farm bureau members. Plan
now to go to our annual I. A. A.
picnic.

The Illinois .Agriculttu^ Coop-
eratives Association now has a
membership of 47 organizations.

Seventeen cotuities are now
carrying on educational cam-
paigns through our I. A. A. tu-
berculosis eradication project.

Whit«side county farm bureau
members have used 3,250 tons of
limestone since February 4.

Last Chance To Buy

WOOL BLANKETS

Only 500 Left

These blaid<ets, made up for the I. A. A., are pure
wool, 6-lb., double blankets, 72 x 84 inches.

Colors — Gray and White checks. Blue and White
(diecks.

These same blankets woidd cost $3.50 more if made
up under present wool and manufacturing prices.

TO FARM BUREAU MEMBERS $11.00

to NON-FARM BUREAU MEMBERS. $13.00

Order early, through your County Farm Bureaa
Cash must accompany order. Blankets will be closed out
during the summer and early fall; no more blankets will
be manufactured for the I. A. A.

I. A. A. LIVESTOCK MARKETING DEPARTMENT
608 South Dearborn Street, Chicago

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THOUSANDS HERE FOR PICNIC

PLEAS FOR AGRICULTURAL EQUALITY

SHEPLER WINS
"BIGGEST LIAR

SO mr;' title

Three Lincoln Ministers Pick

Local Man's Entry In

Liars' Contest

DAINTY MEDAL

GIVEN BY RECORD

BULLETIN
We are very sorry to (earn, just
as the Record goes to press, that
Mr. Shepler had the misfortune to
get run over by a car at the pic-
nic. His arm and leg were in-
jured l)ut no bones were broken.
Po&sibly the injuries are not too
serious to keep him from accept-
ing the medal. Durn it all, Mr.
Shepler, us guys fiamed up a big
joke on you. and here you go and
get hurt! We trust it is not ser-
ious, 6hep!

iMENRY C WALLACE

•'The HigKest l.iar So Far'* is the
honorary titlt* bestowed loilay uium
D. ('. Shtplrr of IJncoln t<ir his hich
ifnalUy contribution to thr IJars* Con-
test \vhi<h has h.'t'ii rimninj; in thr I.
A. A. Record since spring and which
will continue until the annual Itli-
ds Agritultural Association motMint;

ToTh#

Biggest

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WALLACE WIRES
GREETINGS TO
I. A. A. MEMBERS

r:iusin.ir from his niulIifariouR
duties at th<^ capitol of our na-
tion, Henry ('. Wallace. Secre-
tary of Agriculture, loday wirod
hfs ^jrootiuRS and felicilations to
members of tlif Illinois AKricnl-
tnral Association as tlu*y Kulhcr-
ed for the iiicnic festivilies at
Lincoln. Th' telegram follows:

Greetings to members of Illi-
nois Agricultural Association.
Congratulations on good work
already done and more power to
you in task of promoting needs
of pgriculture and voicmg the
mind of the farmer and stimulat-
ing good farming, clear thinking
and right living.

Henry C. Wallace.

Will Kin of Torberts ;
Become Farm Bureau
"Golf" Champs Again?

Tlip Farm Hurpau "barnyanl RoU"
champion.s of 1^24 will have to riiiK
up an unuHiial record in I. A. A.
horsoshoo hislory if tln'y Ijpat or im-
provo npnn the one whicli now stands
in the .Association's athletic annals.
\Vlu'n last year's winners, Walter and

a handsome silver lup as their trophy
of victory, engravcMl with the record
of their porforniance.

For three y.ars previous to the
time when thi^ DeWitt "Rolf" experts
annexed the cliampiouship title, their
father, Ed Torborl. and Joe Heskett.

ED TORBERT and J(1E HESKETT won the State Farm Bureau Horseshoe

Chaiupionship in "10. '21 and '22.

FAMOUS DAIRY

JUDGES HERE

Till' team of dairy jiiiIkos from
Wliitt'Side <'ounly that lllinuin and
tlu' world has heard considerablt'
about before and since iu winning of
tht^ intt rnational judging contest in
Enpcland July U. was on the grouiids
today.

The lioys came as guests of the Lo-
gan County Farm Bureau and were
invileil especially so that Farm Hu-
reau folljs could have a chance to
meet them.

The Illinois AgiicuUural Associa-
tion helped defray their expenses
while abroad, as did several commer-
<ial companies.

Harry Torbert. won from Loj;an coun-
ty after several sru^dlin;? rouiid.s of
horseshoe tossing, they took the eliani-
l)ionship into the HeWitt County
Farm Bureau fold for the I'onrlh sui-
eessivc year.

The Torbert boys, l.'i ami 17 years
old when they won the honors of the
statu las'l yfiar. were the only 100 per
cent victors in a class of nineteen
teams at the 1. A. A. picnic at Hrbana.
The youthful i hampions were pivin

representing DeWitt county, won the
honors at all three annual I. A. A. pic-
nics. .Mr. Torbert, it seems, is some-
tliing of a horseslioi" pitching mentor.
He (rained hiH two boys tor a year be-
fore the contest at I'rbana last year.
In the contest they were cool and
steady, unusually so tor two ama-
teurs.

Both the boys arc real "dirt farmers"
•TUil real l*''arui Bureau boosters. Who
will be cl)ampit»ns after today?

Farm Advisers Hunt

! Scandal For Record

The Logan County Farm Bureau

hich will be at the I'niverstiy of

f nois during Farmers' week in Jan-

l.-y. The supreme champion of the Rasehall team must have thought they.
lar will be crowned at that time, i were participating in a track meet in-
I The winner, Mr. Shepler, is a mem- ,.,pa,| ^f a l)all game this morning
[•(vo) I when they beat Menard M-2.

(Cimlinued on I'age

,incoln Says '^Glad

To Have You With Us

To the Members of the Illinois Agri-
.ultural Association:
mere is nothing which can please
li:an county more than to have this
endid opportunity to entertain the
.1 of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
Jtion. Your association has coinpli-
fnted us greatly by choosing Lin-
In as its place to entertain. As Lin-
In is the heart of Logan county and
J the heart is the seat of all the
Iter sentiments of human nature.
1 t.iilay the hi'art of Logan county
tills with pleasure in welcoming

i;-

such men as you who are the backbone
of these great United States.

Perhaps we cannot convey as noisy
a welcome as a great multitude might,
but whatever number there are of us
we {■■el the responsibility of such a
momentous day and extend to you a
thrice warm welcome in which there
is sufficient sincerity to equal the
heartiest welcome the greatest multi-
tude could extend to you.
Hospitality for Farm Bureau FolK^.

We are not ignorant of the fact that

(Continued on Page Two)

(Farm Advirwrs in c^ountios .AOjueent to Loean County Contributed Scandal to
I'iciilc IMltlon of IIIOCORD.)

Ci. E. MetKger. the energetic I. A. A. organization director, boarded an
early train for Lincoln Monday morning about 3:30 to get here in time to
set up the exhibit.

Tlie coach was crowded. Only one seat had less than two occupants and
this one contained a female. He genlly but firmly reijuested her to get her
feet off the seat so he ct)uld sit down. She moved 'em, and he sal down.

She was sleepy and she was of the clniging vine type, .she .seemed to
be looliin.^ for a sturdy oak. She ro<!e two hours with her head on Metzger's
shoulder.

This is all truth beiause he let it out in a cleaner's shop yesterday when
he asked:

"If anybody here knows how to get this red paint off the shotilder of my
coat, 1 wish they'd t<'ll lue how."

Farmers in Menard County Have a Nev* Worry.

Mrs, Sewell y
Eulogizes
Farm Women

Praising the agricultural industry as
the basic avocation of America and
farm life as the most wholesome va-
riety, Mrs. C. W. Sewell, talking to
the special meeting of women this
morning, eulogized the farm wife and
mother as a :figurc of genuine national
importance and the one who h*s really
seen life, i|

"She it ll who is upholding the
morale of tit farm family todxiy and
bolstering u|p the tired faith of the
farmer," saH Mrs. Sewell, referring
to the farm wife as 'the presiding
spirit of this' farm home. She is pray-
ing like the Italian mother who carried
heavy burdens up the steep mountain
on a weary .iourney, where the tatnily
went to pray at the shrine of the Bless-
ed Virgin. 'I will pray that my little
daughters need not carry as heavy
burdens as I bear today."

"The farm woman does not under-
stand bridge or golf, but the world's
problems cannot all be lifted by the
daintily manicured hands of women
who have never lifted anything heavier
than a bridge card or a golf club. And
this plain country woman, with sun-
bonneted little lassies or blue over-
allod lads on either side of her. is a
figure of national importance. She is
the woman who has trudged across the
ploughtid f^d some stormy winter
night to help her sister in the hour of
trial. She has tenderly dressed the
new born babe or silently, reverently
composed the limbs of the dead. She
has harnessed horses, milked cows,
learned the rude surgery of the farm
or carried baby lambs and baby pigs
into her clean, warm kitchen to save
them from perishing; .she it is who h;^
really seen life."

Farm Develops Leaders.

Mrs. Sewell pointed to the fact that
S7 per cent of those rated in Who's
Who in Aiierica today were born in
farm homt s. "There seems no de-
nying the truth of the statement that
these lead* rs were not the result of
accident, lick or magic," she stated,
"but it wai the result of certain con-
ditions and environments that mould-
ed the chai acters of these individuals.

"The foo of the ladder of success is
always crowded with those who will
always be followers. Rural life de-
velops leat ership in the character of
the boy seit half or quarter of a mile
from all ailwijh three or four horses
and soiraa pore or less complicated
piece 7MM|bjll7<^y' ^'^ ^^ plows row
after rov^B«ve tar-reaching battalions
of corn' hBVs time to think untram-
meled by ^Hipanion or distracting in-

iiu estii'.aliou of the

II Is reported that tli^

(The Oiain Market-
ing Company) has

brought out that

menihers of the

Farm Bureau are

responsible for the

debts of the llew

mergers wl^ ether

they want to be or

not. They are liable

to the extent of the

value of their pro|)-

erty. real and ccui-

cealed, hut not sub-
ject to jail sentence

so far as has been

leaini d. To give

the rumor a kick, it

is said that the new

i , . , ,

Why not at the next annual picnic stage an old fashioned debate as an
added attraction to those who don't enjoy baseball .'ind horseshoes. We have
plenty of mnti'rial to tlraw from and suggest the following subjects and de-
baters:

Farmer's Crain Merger
company is Insolv-
ent to the extent of
$60,00(1,000. Wotta-
life, wottalite!
* *

Our President,
Sam Thompson,
had the luiafortune
to drop the Republi-
can plan on his toe
when he was before
the Republican c6n-
.vention at Cleve-
land in June. We
wonder if the plank
hurt him; it was
pretty heavy with
ises.
agricultural prom-

nRSOLVKD: That it is better
Affirmative.
A. C. Kveringham

V. Vaniman j '

Bob Cowles ■ '

t;po. Fox , \

Sam Thompson I

to be bald headed than handsome.
Negative.

C. K. Metzger
i; Ji.lin C. Watson (undecided)

Win. E. Iledgcock
j, Frank Barton

A. I). Lynch

Just refer your friends to the Liars' Contest if you ever doubt 'em.
Political speakers barred to giVe the rest of us a chance.

* * * •

Farm Adviser Hughes of Menard County has a fishing camp on the
Illinois river this summer. The fi.sh stories he could tell would be scandal-
ous, but he's too modest. If ne started anything, we'd enter him in the
Liars' Contest.

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First

baseball
Chi mpionship
Hayed Today

settlement
the picnic e

Although
ties were

Base ball tans were in their natural
element toi »y when Marshall-Putnam
and Morgai county tangled horns this
afternoon li an effort to determine the
championsh P nine of the Illinois
Farm Buret n Base Ball League. Great
interest au ged under the skins of
farm burea i members from both of
these count es as the hour for final

same on. Unfortunately
lltion of the RECORD had

to go to pi fss before the game was

finished.

J\nox and Warren coun
heduled to put on thr

exhibition g inie this nioniing. Warren
county wire 1 Farm Adviser Checkley
Monday tha threshing was upon them
and it wool 1 be Impossible for some
memljers of ^he team to get away. The
game was t i have been between the
two countie! with second high .stand-
ing in each of the two divisions of
the Illinois Farm Bureau Base Ball
League. Fa forable weather and pre
viously deli yed threshing kept the
Warren cou ity boys away. Menard
and Logan c ounties agreed at the last

MURPHY STIRS
AUDIENCE IN
MAINADORESS

Great Crowd Hears Speaker

of the Day Recite

Farmers' Status

'SHOULD KICK LEGS
FROM UNDER TABLE"

Shooting straight from the shoulder.
Fraiik \V. Murphy of Wheaton, Minn.,
the speakin:; attraction of the I. A. A.
State Farm Bureau picnic at Lincoln
today resonrcefnlly aimed his addres:>
at the ineiiualily existing between the
prices of the commodities which the
farmer sells and those he buys, before
Farm Rureau members gathered for
the annual I. A. A. gala day.

Kven though there has been an in-
crease in prices on wheat, corn and
fat livestock, Mr. Murphy stated that
the fundamental trouble still exists
and ,lhat united action by all farm or-
gani/alions through the American

I. A. A. ANNUAL
FROLIC STARTS

OFF WITH BANG

I—

Clear Weather Causes Much
Speculation As To
i Crowd

LINCOLN DECORATES
FOR ITS VISITORS

FitA.N'K \V -MUKPHY
of Whi'aton, Minn.. Speaker of the Day

Council of Agriculture is absolutely
necessary if agriculture is to be plac-
ed on an economic level with industry
and labor. Mr. Murphy is chairman
of the board of directors /of the .Amer-
ican (ouncil and became Widely known
to Illinois fanners when he spoke at
farmer-banker-business men's get-to-
gether meetings at Kock Island.
Springfield. Danville and Bloomington
in the spring. He was active in the
fight for the McNaryHaugen bill, hav-
ing spent considerable time and en-
ergy at Washington endeavoring to
get the bill passed.

Pleads for Equality.

"Industry and labor are now glut-
ting themselves at their well laden
table," said Mr. Murphy. "Agricullnre
is eating on the floor. But I want you
to see that Agriculture is gradually
awakening to its unfortunate position
in which it finds itself. Unless in-
dustry and labor give it a place at
their table, it is likely that Agriculture
will kick the legs from under the
table bringing all down to the same
level. We would rather not do it that
way; we wish to come up and eat with
them in a"BCTrtlrmanly manner.

"We are here in peaceful assembl-
age. Farm Bureau folks," said Mr.
Murphy- ".Many of you have come long
distances today to add your presence
to the dignity and strength of this Illi-
nois Agricultural Association picnic.
We are in solemn conference this day
because your inalienable rights have
been invaded. Not only you, but all
agricultural people find themselves to-
day in economic bondage by reason of
the projection across the current of
the natural flow of economic law% of

Farm Bureou iiicknickeri) from all

over the state, Ijat more especially
from (he central part i>f Illinois around
Lincoln, flocked to the annual Illinois
Agricultural Association picnic today
for one short sijell of "entertainment
for everyone."

"Entertainment for everyone" h.is
been the slogan of the lA>gan Coun'y
Farm Bureau ever since It contemplat-
ed putting (»n a state-wide picnic with-
in the boundaries of its lounty for jill
Illinois ^arin Bureau members.
' How Many Here?

Speculation ai< to the number of
people who wiuiM be here today was
running rainpant this morning among
Lincoln Iblks. It had lieen estimated
by J. H. Checklfy, Logan County
farm adViser, who has be** nnHrlnj;
in making prej)aration for the crowd,
that from lO.iioO to 13,000 people would
be here. L

.As tht" wea'ther cleared Monday for
what lo<>ked like a nice, long stretch
of good threshing weather, it became
apparnt that many farmers would not
be able to leave their shocks and
tlireshiug machines.

Many Threshing

However, others pointed otit that il..
is still too wet in nuitiy places for^
thrishing, so there was imssibility for
a great frowil.

Autoint)biles from various counties
began to <lritt into ihe grounds early i
this morning. As many as IS coun-
ties wer^' rejirescnted by the time
many Lincoln folks were eating their
breakfasts.

Lincoln. Is Host

The city of Lincoln was host of tho
day. The Chamber of Commerce ex-*
tended a royal welcome to the Farm
Bureau folks, li has been active in
advertising the picnic and in helping
make arrangements for carrying out
the slogan 'entertainment for every-
one." Flags were hung out early to-
ilay by local merchants.

The picnic has been widely adver-
tised. Stories about it appeared In
over fifty per cent of the papers of Ihe
state.

Farm papej* reporters were on hand

(Coutinni'd on Page Three)

Golf Contest
At Picnic Is
Biggest Ever

With 20 teams entered, the 'Ibarn-
yard golf" contest surpasses all pre-
vious battles heUl under the auspices
of the I. .A. A. picnic committees. At
exactly 44 minutes and 32 seconds af-
ter nine o'clock this morning 40 fla.shy,
clear-eyed, steady-nerved artists of
horseshoe tactics tooV the courts, each
delermined to take the handsome sil-
ver trophy victoriously Into his farm
bureau fold.

Gradually two by two these brilliant,
seasoned, polished mentors of golf
artistry have succumbed to the su-
perior pitching of their competitors.
As the Picnic Special goes to press
only ten teams remain in the thick of
the fray.

After the final coniest'is played off
this afternoon, determining the state
farm bureau championship horseshoe

Contlni ed on page seven.)

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Picnic Edition I. A. A. Recoid-

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state Farm Bureau Picni.', Ljueohi, 111., Aug. 26, 1924.

Everything In School Needs

Counters are loaded down with the biggest stock of school sup-
plies you ever saw. Everythino from a pen point to a complete outfit.
COURTEOUS SERVICES

LOW PRICES {

BIG .STOCKS

NEW GOODS

Come and look at our window. It shows some of the things you
will need.

I The Quality Shop

GIFTS AND STATIONERY
! 524 Broadway

Lait Year's Champs

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Office of

Wm. E. Hodnett

Welcomes

The Illinois Agricul-
tural Association.

WALTER and HARRY TORBERT, DuWitt County Farm Bureau and sons
ut Ed Torbert, shown above, wure winners of the Horseshoe Chanipionship

last year.

LINCOLN SAYS iSHEPLER WINS

''GLAD TO HAVE ! "BIGGEST LIAR
YOU WITH US" SO FAR" TITLE

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The New
Commercial Hotel

The Best Place in the City to Stop. Effi-
cient Service.

VISIT THE COFFEE SHOP

Next Door Commercial

Regular Meals and Short Orders

A visit will make you a regular patron.

your eomiug together here cnhuneos
I the prospects of future prosperity of
this eoinniunity and enthuses us to at-
tempt to improve our lands and busi-
ness and citizenry to the limit of hu-
man possibility. We hope that in re-
turn for the value you h|-ing us we
can impress you iwilh the liict that we
deeply appreciate your coming and are
only sorry that you cannot linger with
us a greater length of timei

You know, and we know, that not-
withstanding the fact that the city
men and the. farmer criticize one an-
other for shortcomings which neither
understand, the farmer depends upon
the city to market his crops and the
city man depends upon the farmer for
his very life and for his institutions.
\Vc believe that such meetings as this
will help remove the misunderstand-
ings and will smooth the paths by
which the city communicates with the
farmers and the -farmers with the city
' to the benefit a^d prosperity of both
business men and the agriculturist. We
cannot but here express our hope and
trust that both you and the men of Lo-
iian county, no matter in which busi-
i ness we may be engaged, will continue
in greater aiul greater peace and pros-
I perily. '*

I C. of C. Realizes Farmers' Needs. .
The Lincoln Chamber of Commerce
especially realizes the need of broad
and souiul legitjative and commercial
considerations to the men |your asso-
ciation represent and we idedge our
word most heartily that wl alever can
be done to further just returns for the
f.fl-mers of this ^'reat count: y for their
all important work of fun ishing the
necessities of life will be d )ne.

As we feel proud in extenling to you
tile freedom of this, our < 'ly, which
ill our loving eyes appears uost beau
tiful, we arc even filled ivith m'>'-»
pride that you have exten ed us the
compliment of paying this visit here

WiM. E, HOD ^'BTT,
President. Lincoln Chambif- of Com
merce.

Difference in Charkcter

Tlie brave and bolil pc sist even
iignlnst fortune, the timlj ai U coward-
ly rush ti) despUlr through 4'af nlohe.
—Tacitus.

Emerton in

Emerson, »he AmerlcaV
1st, was no odmlrer of i^iti
patron of Engl
low Impost

'"Icllln," who for bis _
"lynctied by an angry mo
361."

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In extending to you a hearty
welcome to the State Picnic, "

E LINCOLN STATE BANK

''The Bank That Service Built'' ' •.

ber of the Cogan Counly Farm Dureau
Showed Superior Progress.

ny reason of his superior prowess
in the now famous contest. Mr. Shep
ler was awarded a pure galvanized
iron medal this afternoon by J. 11.
Checkley, Logan county ^jrm adviser,
was never printed since it was
thought by the editor of The llecoril
that no other lies would be submitte
by Farm Bureau members if Mr. Shep-
ler's was publishe<l. It was a simple
honest lie; it said: "I never told a
lie."

during the community singfest. The
nu'dal was of dainty proportions, be-
ing only l.S inches wide and weighing
slightly more than five pounds. The
medal was awarded for the superiority
of a lie consisting of five short words,

Three yards of brilliant purple rib-
bon draped from the medal called the
world's attention to the noble inscrip-
tion on the bronzed face of the medal
which read: "To the Higgest Liar So
Far in the I. A. A. Record Liar's Con-
test."

Shepler Pleased.

Bowing and nodding to his many
friends who went wild with glee when
they heard of the fine victory won by
the local man, Mr. Shepler accepted
the coveted honor and thanked the
management of the 1. A. A. Record
for its overwhelming generosity.

Tlie selection of "The Biggest Liar
So Far" was a tedious task for the
three good men who were cfioscn to
make au unbiased study of tlie large
bunch of lies submitted in the con-
test.

Three Ministers Pick Best Lie.

Three local spreailers of the gospel
— the Rev. tJeorge Sutton, pastor of
the Presbyterian church; the Kev. A.
It. Crummon, pastor of the Methodist
church, and Father Leo P. Ileiikle of
St. Mary's church — all of Lincoln, com-
prised the coinmlltee named to make
the award. '

"There was considerable apparent
and intentional lack of honesty in tiie
batch of falsehoods." declared one
Id' the ininislors. ' The winning lie
was selected for its simplicity and
honesty.

Shepler for Stumping.

It was thought by several farm bu-
reau folks in the crowd today that Mr.
Shepler would be sought by Uepub-
licans. Democrats and LaFollettes to
make' campaign speeches this fall. It
was said that his success in the con-
test would bring him national renown
since i)oliticians the country over have
been attempting to gain his ability for
some years.

"t felt 1 had a fair chance for vie
tory when i entt-red the contest," said
.Mr. Shepler today after receiving the
medal. "Honesty is my watchword
1 applied my slogan to this contest and
as you see, 1 have been ac<-laimed 'The
Biggest Liar So Far.' However, 1 do
not wish to claim all the glory. There
are men in my own community who
would beat me sixty ways from Sun
day if they would enter some of their
.dories. Tliey arc' good at telling 'em,
but they can't write 'em."

The entry in the Liars' Contest
wliich bruv.ght renown to Mr. Shepler

PROGRAMS AND

TAGS FOR ALL

Five thousand red. blue, pinii, yel-
low, orange ami green programs tell-
ing the events of tlie day were di.s-
triimteil to Farm. Bureau picnickers
us tliey came in tlfc grounds today.

Another 5. Mint tags bearing the in-
scription: "Boost Farm Bureau Base
Ball" were to be disposed of today. It
had not been decided whether the lags
Ehould be sold or given away. It was
thought that by selling the tags, a part
of the base liall team's traveling ex-
i:enses would be defrayed.

Lincoln College Sixtieth Session

Opens Wed.. September 10. Regislralion Monday afUrcctn £iid licii) [i«idiE g.

Tile "Premier Plan" for instruction of childrin in music will be put in ef-
fect by Miss Cox who has carefully investigated thi- system during the
summer. She will be assisted by Miss Braueher, Miss Heaton, and Mr.
Paul Merry. Ditails will be found in the August Bulletin to be had free
upon request. Those interested may telephone H96 or L-110.

A NEW DEPARTURE

DRAMATIC ART

This dnpartnient has been fully organized and will be in charge of Mrs.
Ilennie Dunaway Koch, who is an honor graduata of Park College where
she specialized in Public Speaking and English. She has given private
lesions in the University of Oklahoma and in Lincoln College. A four-
year course is outlined and every branch of Dramatics will be effectively
tivciv treated either in classes or in private lessons.

tre;jlid either in classes or in private lessons. Tliose who are interested
should telephone X-SS4.

Mai ;aret A. Huntington. A.B.. A.M. (Illinois) Knglish. j
Rev. Ueorge S. Sutton, A.M., Ph.D. (Chicago) Bible.
Norman H. Anderson. B.S. (Kansas Agricultural College) Agriculture and
Biology. 1

Cori'ine K. Houston. U.S. Lincoln) Home Ek'onomlcs.
» Wilbur T. Woleben. D.S. (Illinois) Physical Direcbpr and Assistant In

History. j

The facilities, instruction and e<iuipment now offered are the best in the history of the College. I

H. L. RICKERT, Dean. 'i A. E. TURNER, President.

NEW INSTRUCTORS

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EXECUTIVES MET

THIS MORNING

It's a wrong road that has no turn-
ing.

Most of the members of the exevu-
tive committee of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association arrived late Monday
nij'.ht so as to be oil hand for a sjie
eial executive committee meeting
sclieduled at 8 A. M. this morning

The executive committee had a
short session. The next regular meet-
lug of the committee is scheduled for
Friday. Sept. 5.

BET THIS IS

NEWS, EH JOSIE?

Miss Josie Caldwell of New Hollaiid
prc'sidcd over the women's program in
the auditorium this morning.

And a very able presiding officer is
Miss Caldwell. Maybe she will be fol-
lowing the footsteps of Mrs. Fergu-
son, the Texas woman who won the
Democratic nomination for the gov-
ernorship of Texas.

Miss Caldwell" will have to change
her name to a "Mrs." before she can
have a plank suth as Mrs. Ferguson
campaigned on.

Foretelling the Weather

The weather bureau says that the
forecasting of weather for more than
a few days In advance is attended with
great uncertainty. For this reason the
national weather bureaus In various
countries do not attempt detailed fore-
casts of the weather for more than
a week In advance. Beyond a week
the condition of the weather cannot be
foretold according to reliable aud
scie*illc principles.

COOGAN'S

Transfer & Storage Company

Best equipment in

the State of Illinois

for Moving.

Phone 901 - Lincoln, Illinois

Rogue's Compliment

When a rogue appears In a com-
munity with 111 Intent he professes to
be an honorable man; he knows that
only such are esteemed. It is a irreat
comiiliment to morality that those who
do not practice it, yrofess to.— Kansas
City Times.

Pride of Ignorance .

Emerson once said, "There Is culd
ance for each of us. and by lowly Ul
tenlnj we shall hear the right wordJ

/Jreat minds are apt to he humble.
Is the second-rate Intellect that is
full of pride that It sneers at the veJ

, idea of guidance.

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Picnic Edition I. A. A. Record — State Farm Bureau Picnic, Lincoln. I 1.. Aug. 26. 1924.

CO-OPERATION

GETS RESULTS
f |,FORJFARMERS

Picnickers Read Story of
LA. A. Activities In
^ Huge Green Map

BUT EXHIBIT LEFT
OUT PART OF STORY

Farm bureau picnickprs whD hnve
bfi n iri the admhiiHtnition building of
th' Dionic grounds ti)day studyinR tli(>
bir. groen map wliich illuslrati-s I. A.
A. activities have seen how th<'ir state
farm bureau unit has .been doins real
bu-^iness the last few years.

Tlie plain, graphienl representation
of the muj) shows what co-operalion
benvcen the I. A. A., county farm bu-
reau, The National I.,ivestoek Produe-
er^. dairymen. Rrain growers, live-
slork men and others have h^en aide
to do throuEh cooperation.

In the upper end of the t;iant exhibit
a Miiuiature co-operative ^eieaniery
only parlially tells ilie story of eo-opei-
alive markeiiuK of dairy produrts in
Illinois. In reality ihe <lairy indus-
try stretches over a penernus portion
of Ihe state in every direction of
which Iho- I. A. A. dairy nitirkeliuK
and tuberculosis eradication depart-
ments are workins to solve the dairy-
man's problems.

Shows Co-op Marketing
ThrouRh co-operative dairy niarket-
iuK fanners are able to get more sta-
ble organization of the market, pro-
tective legislation, statistical and ac
counting inforinatioii, eff.-ctive adver
tising, whbh has .already increased
dairymen's returns millions of <bdlars
annually.

The little rrodn<ers commission
house which is located at Peoria on
the exhibit serves only as a gentle ri-
minder of what the f. A. A. livestock
marketing departnieni, tin- !*rodn. ■<■'■«
and shi|>ping associations have done
f<ir Illinois livestock proiliicers. Ouv
I. A. A. works with the Producers
through the cininly and local shipping
associations, practically every constv
in the state bavins one or more ship
pers organizations.

Anothrr project of the liveitock
marketing department is an annua'
wool pool which has been promotid
slpee 1919. .- . ,*^ ^_»

Not Much About PoulVry
Aside from the sliiiiping association
work the exhibit makes no reprerfenta-
tions of the I. A. A. poultry and egg
marketing departmint which is at
present laying the foundation for one
of the most comprehensive poultry
ami egg' marketing systems ever
launched.

Under the direction of John ('.
Watson, the I. A. A. taxatiim and
statistics cU-partment in 11*2:^ savi-d
Illinois fanners two and a fourth mil-
liim dollars in taxes tiirough the e(iual
ization of valuations on r-ity and farm
real estate.

The taxation departimnt director
makes nnalysos of the .various classes
of proi)erty and represents farmers
before c'ounty and state tax officials.
$60,000 Saved
The phosphate-limestone department
which co-operates with the cotinty
farm Inireatis by pooling limestone or-
ders has made it possible to. save Illi-
nois usiTS fCO.flOn annually as the re-
sult or an agreement with leading
^tone quaririeB,
Vnder the agreement farm bureaus
their limest7)ne at the (pjotcd price
lilt by applying to Ihe farm bureau
Iffice for certificates an- able U) oh-
:iln a discount of 10 cent.s per ton by
iiesenting tlie certific.ites as part pay-
lent.

|Tbe I. A. "A. transportation depart-
. lit in IDL','! filed r.n claims, ,149 of
liich wore <'ollectc'd for a total of
r.4.:!l. Of these cljiiins 17,". were
light overchargi' claiuis. S3 loss anil
[iiage claims and !3.'i general loss
damage claims. Claims for 19'21
l*e already siiriiasscd tliis figure.
The transportation departnieut se-
ed a reduction in the minimum cav-
il weight requirements on hogs
|ch saved livestock producers $100,
I per year and assisted in .sec iiring
inges in livestock mived car re-
(■enients which saved farmers $27il,-

per year.

pie latest service established by

I. A. A. is the co-operative audit

anil accounting project whicli is

|»e partially under tin; direi'tion of

I. A. A. until it becmnes entirely

fsupporting and self-governing.

auditing service is known as

Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives

ociation with the special purpose

|)rovlding expert auditing and ac-

nting to farmers' co-operatives.

hie audit a.ssociation is under the

pral management of Geo. R. Wi'

who has managed a similar audit

fice in Minnesota when' co-opera-

Ibs are compelled liy law to have

accounts audited.

Membership in the audit associa-

has been under the -direction of

Irnon Vaniman, a stockholder in

Farmers' Elevator at Verdun. Sev-

y farmers co-operatives have asked

for membership to date. By Sept. 1
there will be at least 75 in the asso-
ciation, according to Mr. Vaniman.

Otiier departments and special pro-
jtcts of the I. A. A. perform numer-
ous services for I. A. A. members. The
finance department keps the* records
straight and checks up on expendi-
tures. The legal department investi-
gates every case which involves expert
legal counsel. The department of in-
IViriiiation is Ihe middie-niun between
till' activities of the other depart-
ments, the county farm bureau and
the individual members,

Thesi' are a few of the nccomplisb-
menls of 6:!,(I00 thinking Illinois far-
mers which the makf-rs of the exhibit
forgot.

FRANK BARTON

PRESIDES TODAY

Frank D. liarton of rornell, execn-
ive committeeman from the 17th dis-
trict of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation, prcsideil in his own quaint
style today over liie mamniuth pic-
nic speaking program.

."Mr. Harton has been noticeably ac-
tive in Farm liureau work. During

KUA.Nl'C I). iiAlil(J.\, t'urneil

Kxecutive Committeeman Trom lt7h

Distrii-t

tlie .Mc.N'ary Uaiigen bill <ampaigii in
the Stiring, h^' spent coiisideraliletime
in the I. A, A. office at Chicago dire<-l-
ing the sign-up of the petitions for
the bill which were signed by nearly
lill.lHIO peopli>,

Vp at St. Paul when the Council
was organized he was chairman of
a very important committee — the
steering committee, it was a part of
Iiis job to litdp keep bolshevik farmer-
lalior leaders from sidetracking the
Council. ' Put they didn't! '

Durlm; spare moments he attends to
his farm duties. And then he finds
time to do Sunday school work in his
county. Mr. Uarton's a pretty busy
man, folks, and it's because he's use
iul that he's wanted so much.

And now he is official host of the
I7th district, it's a fine picnic, Mr.
Parton. Thank yon.

FARM ADVISER
FINALLY SAVES
f SMITH'S LIFE

University Bugologists Mysli-
titied By Strange Specimen;
■:y Pass Bucic

READ STORY AND

GET THE MORAL

THOUSANDS HERE
FOR i.A.A. ANNUAL
PICNIC TODAY

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(By a Farm Adviser)

John, Smith is a farmer living in
(^hampaign county within sigAj of Ihe
agricultural i ollege. His wife found
a small bug in the garden ajid told
liiin to go forth to the college to have
it identified by the college gray-
beards and to obtain a prescription
that would cause the; bug's' demise
(death, folks, plain death i.

Smith took the bug to Ileaii Mum-
ford, he being the boss of the farm-
ing coll.ge, ought to know what kind
of bug it was. The Dean allowed
that the bug should be refernd to
Professor Husk's deparlinent, since it
was an animal. Professor Rusk asce;--
tained that the bug lived on vegeta-
tion (possibly) and should be taken
to Dr. Uurlison. The latter decided
after a few hours of research that the
l)ug did not live on crops and might
even be a cow tick.

Bugists Go Buggy

The following morning Smith retui'n-
ed with the bug, which lie presented to
Professor Frazier. The latter concliid-
I'd it Iind mouth parts for gardtui
crops, after carfeul dissection.

Smith went home to get a fresh bug.

Tills one was taken to Professor
HIair, who rci-ognized the lieast as
having an entoinoligical name which
no one knew but Professor Falsom.
.\fter Professor I'alsom had stndieil
the poor bug his conclusion was that
tlie hurt was a bumbleheo.

Theri.'upon Smith made haste (o
carry Mr. Hug to Professor Flint, a.'^
the only livln' man who could clas-
^■■ify the bug where it properly belong-
ed. It happened that the professor
was in southern Illinois and would be
gone for a week.

The Mystery Deepens!

In despair Smitli went up town to
see if Farm Adviser Biirns could get
\ man who would lielp him catch up
with the work vhich had piled up
wliib.' a name hatl been sougiit for the
Img. Smith got his man and asked
llHrn.ii: "Did you ever see a bug lik«
this?"

*'Sure," fiay.-5 Burns. "It's a potato
bug. Kill "em with paris green."

Moral — The farm adviser has to tell
'em something. (Didn't believe it un-
less yon want to, folks.)

Farm J- dvisers
Write Gossip
On jEach Otherl

Colby Be«kma

^5

flerc are the base ball and liorse-
lioe championship cups to be award-

d todav.

Sam Thompson
Awards Cups
to Champions

Nono otlior llian Ihe cloar tlunkiiiK,
iianl liittinf; Ram H. Thompson, prps-
i'U'nt of our own Illinois Agricultural
Association, was to prosont tho Ijoau-
tiful trophies ro the Flatc farm bureau
i>aKe bull and horseshoe championship
i<ams alter they haU been rtelermined
today.

Sam hns a hank iti Quincy. but his
customers Iiardly ever see him be-
cause he's away on business for his
CS.OOi) farmer-constituency. And he's
luid a lot of business of late! lie has
:; fnrm or two. too.

There's his tilt with Congressraan

uiity Kiirm is irtjiu, lias a i^cw j-;!* u.«

unly sup<;rvii -r of hij^Iiways

umiiy. lie ha i not aiy use<l lo l.fnit;

I u.*t-td that he >

}leres .sijme
uji t'losf so no
(;uwleK, our i. J
lAiis to deliver a_
lull when the dl
.li^! julvanco cop;
ud ii. 'Joo bad.

l-'riend; "We
;:oc>'! talk you n

rU tiw^ar I didn

. proFident of the Menard I

his

anis more of it, he says.

* * *
eep Htyiiidal. folks. <jt't

lic t'Lse V. Ill hi-.u*. HiU]

A. director of finance, |

Lalk over Kl'W Aunust 1.

■ector of the .statiftri m^w j

he iiuinediaifly ct-nsoi-l

Hluo bad. . I

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1. Cheekley, that was a i
de over w Ijft ine

iKhl- I've liea. d yuu .several times and

that good a tal i,"

(-'Iieekiey: "Y !a,h. I r^ad it off.'

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The

iK-feat: •T

spirit Caus Co

^iinie with I*'

iVat: 'What

Defeat; "Oh

l^n^aii County (

Lost : Farm
County — left ho
Auk. :i4. L^ite
looking for him ^

C. \V. Brown
niari-ifrl. Mian
\\h<i promised u
.\uil. just tliiiik,
iiiK school,

T. P.. IsaacP.
visor, has iner
dition of one

t helieve you could niudi

rit That Wins,
it was certainly fine
ly showed after the la^l
I County, wasn't it?"
do you mean?"

that bottled si)irit the
tcher got for them."

, kdvlser Hushes of Menard
ne early Sunday morninn.
ug. 25 — Mr.*i. llUKhe» still

assistant to ChorkJey. is
Lucille Sutll was Hit- f-'i'l

I.e his lawful di.shw;.H)i.r,
■ihe quit a t^ood jo\t teach-

Vfason County's Farm Ad-
the force Ity the ad-
rioy to his housfcliold.

Th**..!. A. A. 's charity wofk is commend-
able. .'Many sluim kiddies have been ^iven
outiuRH. corn ifhlpped lo Kurope'H refu-
gees, etc. Only last winter an apidicant
.soujrht A. 1). Ljynch, dairy marketing di-
rector, late one iilKht. in his office where
he was workiijg all by liini.self.

The janitor lame to Lynch 's df»or ami
-•^aid, "A womi n waits without for you,
boss." ' - ^la

"Without whit?" came tlie reply.

'Without foo 1 nor elotliintr." said the
janin»r.

•■(jivf her fn»d and cloihinp and send
her in." was tjhe answer.

(We doubt t\in. Lynch never worl-
nielli, folks.)

(llenn Rowel, and Ford Hush, the tw<

WLS radio sin
Hureau folks

\V.

buck stuff loo

Jers who entertained Farm

this afterncKtri with their

..tty songs aid charming voices, have

evelo|)ed a c -eat following among the

:idio fans of { he country.

Today they (ang songs that have met

with favor in roadcasting. Did you. Air.

Mrs. or M\t i Radio Fan. reiro>uiize the

you he ,rd today as ilie ones you

njoyed > ver the radio in the iiasi?

M. it's tri^ anyway, lint Sejirs-ltu*--

different clo.se ui».

my

today to j;et news from and get ac-
(juainled with Kami Bureau folks. J.
H. Cbtc-kley gave a talk over WLS.
Chicago radio station, lelling the
world about the picnie.

Local people have been busily en-
gaged in making Linctdn a jovial host
for tho day. Committees were aj)-
pointed t\i/o nionthH ago by the Logan
County Farm Hureau.

The general executive eomntittee
consisted of G. K. Metzger, director
Of org;Miizati(»n of the I. A. A.. D. C.
Shepli-r, Lincoln; John Lutz, Jr.. Lin-
coln; Will Gardner, Beitson; C!eo. J.
StoM. Chestnut; K. K. Sisson. Lincoln;
Cluus WiK.icers. HartsbnrK. and J. H.
Cherkley. Lineoln. D. (', Shepler was
in clKirge of eonec^sions. John Sclimuf
Lincoln, W. C. Coe, Atlanta and Os
ear Kchultz. New Holland, supervised
llic horseshoe pitMiIng tournament.

The base Iml] games were under the
care of Hoss Quiscnberry, Rmden. and
Oscar Mounljciy of Atlanta. Junior
siK>iis were supervised by E. I. Pil-
chard of the University of Illinois, Al-
vin Kentschler of Chestnut and Clair
W. Brown of Lincoln.

Chas. Sohaffer of Reason and Merle
Houston of Lineoln had eharge of
making anuigement for the airplane.
while Will (Jardner of Beason took
e;u-f <tf the musical program.

Olfieiiil grcefcrs were Levi !leaver._
Xi'w Htdland; Wm. Krau.se, Lineoln;
11. C. Sheiiler, Lincoln; A. M. Arm
strong, Lincoln. These men wolcom-
fd individual Farm Bureau members
at the gate.

Superttition Explained

Tl;e superstition connected with
lighting three cigarettes with one
match has its oii^rin In the fact that
In tJie old Russian funeral ser%*ice
three altar candles were lighted from
one taper. It was considered nn net
of impiety to make any other lights In
groups of three and. therefore, ill luck
ntould follow such an act.

All Wear Homemade

Rendy-mnde clotldng Is unknowTi fn
Venezuelii and there are 40.000 sew-
ing ma-hines, one to every 100 Inhab-
itants, in use there.

Famous Mount

Slount I'arna^sns is in ancient
Phocis, G.'t miles northwest of Athens.
It is celebrated lis one of llie i>rinci-
pal -seats of A!>oH-,i und the Muse.-*, juid
as an inspiring S'»urre of ixM-try ivnA
song. The Deliihic oracle and the Ca.s-
tali^ spring were on Its southern
slo|>e. The- expression "to climb Pur-
nassus." meaning to write poetry, Js
an exiiresslon once in vogue. — Kansas
City Star.

SAM H. THOMPSON'. Our President

Big Noise, Little Cause

Ttie noise in the receiver of the
telephone apparatus is made by the
vibration of a diaphragm, hut it is
hard to conceive the minuteness of
this vibration. A scientific person
has recently undertaken to measure
this agitation of the dluphnigrn and
has arrived at the conclusion that It
is no more than one thirty-fifth part
of tin? millionth of an inch.

!{;iiney — that v.us a good one. Sam
stated the funnel's position in that
•ase. all right, all right.

Tlien there Wii.^ that trip to Wash-
ington with the r.7,i)ftO signatures all
signeil to petitions asking President
Coolidge and Congress in general to
do their best on tlie MeNary-Haugen
hMl. The potitions had consiilerable
weight tm congressional opinion, but
there's a h>t of people in Washington
who did not do their best for the hill.
in fact, we suspect some people were
"agin it."

Th'Mi. if you remember, lie was in
the moving picture business with Mr.
McN'ary and Mr. Haugen on the cap
itol steps at Washington. Like a real
inovi*^ hero. Sam mr'tle a elipiax to the
picture. He dropped the dnrn peti
tions right wliile" the camera was
grinding.

JlM'd no more than got a loan or two
out o^ his Quincy bank when this grain
merger business came up. And he's
l)een on the jump ever since trying
to find a few facts to put his fingers
on. The I. A. A. ordered an investi-
gation of The Grain .Marketing Com-
pany and until the results are ob-
tained Sam says the best thing to do
is wait.

"Tim" Hard n of West Lineoln lown-
sliij. attended the I. A. A. meelinL; at
<;alest)urg last whiter. -

While up tl ere "Tim" lost hi.-* shirt
iind had lo gt around witli his overcoat
on aiul the collar of it turned up. lie
Idanifd everybody he knew up there for
Ihe theft of bis shirt.

1>. C Shepler, former I^ogan ('ounty
I'.'impaign manager and othej-wise famous,
.says he knows who got his shirt. He
chiiins he has been up to Galesburg sin<'e
"Tim" lost his shirt .nml saw a Swede
Kirl who worked in the hotel, wear-ing
"Tim's" iihlrt.

What we want to know is ho\v Shepler
new it was 'Tim's" shirt the girl had
on. -ShepItT c<iukln't renienituT a i-eri;nn
shirt that long and why should he even
remember the Swede girl? Then at'ain.
wii> Would a Swede girl steal an Irish-
man's shir-t? The world sure are goiiu;
to the dawgs anyhow!

• • « •
(If nil Ihe s:id wc>rds of tongue or i)eii:
the saddest are these: "We won't n-t
the rhanipionship."

.Sadly sing.' Filrm .Advi.sor r>ickenson
ofCass I'ouniy and iHxl laureato of ihe
Farm liureau movement. I>ickenson's
wife and Kte'togmpher i« trying to j^et
him to give up buKeball for lighter anuise-
nietds— <IaiiciiiiT, for instance.

(Continued on page T»

' VAN ESS

THREE BOTTLE MONEY BACK GUARANTEE

Van Ess usually .stops falliiie Iiair in a few
wofks. But it };eii('ia]Iy takes alinut !«l days t<» start
new growth <»f' liair. One Ixitllf i.i' \i\i\ Kss, used 1
minute jwr day, lasts about '■',() days. That is wliy
we cannot f^ive you a .ti'Ua ranter- e.\<-(])t on llic ))tif-
'rliaise of tiii'ce Ix^ttles.

Buy 11 nee bottles at one piuviliase. Tliis is H^o
quantity for a 00-day treatment. 'I'iieii use all three
bottles on yoiu' own sealj) as ])er directions. Tliat's
all you need to do. If you ai'c not satisfied with the
results, your money will be lefunded.

This suavantee comes with a three-bottle pur-
chase of Van Ess Liquid Scalp MaHsa^e. For saJe at

PFAU'S DRUG STORE

This Space Reserved
for I

EVERETT SMITH

Candidate for j

STATES ATTORNEY

What to Take for
CONSTIPATION

Tfeke a gcod dose fl{ Carton litde liver POli

— tiien take 2 or 3 for a few nighta after. ThcT
deanse your system of an waste matter add
Begidate Toar Bowels. Mild— as easr.to

&nanFnL SmallDose. &saIIPrioe.

An.vthing can happon now. Insiir-
anco men licld a (-onvcnlion in Chica-
so witliout talkinj? off a single arm.

English-Born Presidents

FA'^ht I'ro.sulents wore l)nrn British
subjt'ots: Waslilncton, ,Tohn Adams,
.TefTcrson, MaJi.siin, Slimrop, John
Quincy Adams, Jacksnn and William
Ileniy Ilanlsiin. Marlin Van Buren
was the tirst president born an Anier-
tean citizon.

tilii'HiiUli.i

MOTOR CAR

Constantly improved —
but no yearly models

Stallings Auto Sales Co.

Sales, Service, Oil and Greases, Storage,
Tires and Tubes

Terms if Desired

Phone 350 and 777

TUESDAY, AUG. 26th

All Lincoln Welcomes You I. A. A.

Every employe of our company at

your service.

You will see ana hear new and better ways
^^ of operating your farms. v «

We invite the ladies to see the many modern
la )or Saving Household appliances to be had,
on display at our office. |

H )over Sweepers, Thor Washing Machines,

Eljectric Irons, Gas Ranges, Electric Fans,

all for your comfort.

Take advantage of this opportunity' to visit

Lincoln, the only City in the United States

named after Abraham Lincoln before He

became great.

\ ■ '
At Your Service

Lincoln Water & Light Co.

Phone 3— 1103

^^MAi^^^MMitoAi^ittirtiAiftia^ittMi

mrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Picnic Kditioji.l. A. A.

Record— >>tate Fann Bureau Pienif, Liucoln, Hi., A'ujj. 26, 1924.

^^••Kt.-.

I

miB(D(DIRIID

I'uhlished every other Satunlay by the lUlnoIs Agricul-
tural Asuociation. 608 South Dearborn Street, Chicago.
Illinois. Kdited by Department of Information. IL C.
Fulclier. Director.

Entered as second class matter Oct. 10, lli2l, at the poet
omce at Chicago. Tlllnols. under the act of March 3. 1879.
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage pro-
vided for In Section 1103, Act of October 3. 1917, author-
Ized Oct. 31. 1»21.

The Individual memberahlp fee of the Illinois Argicul-
t^ral Association Is Ave dollars a year. This fee Includes
payment of llfty cents for subscription to the Illinois Ag-
rleultural Association Record.

ofticehS

l*resi<lent, S. H. Thompson, Qnlncy.
Vice-rresident, C. U., Watson, DeKklb. *

Trea.siirer, I(. A. Conies, BIoominKton.
Secretary, Geo. A. Fo.x, Sycamore.

EXEC€TI\'E COSniITTEB
By Congressional Districts

11th. Jacob Olbrich, Harvard

12th G. F. Tullock, Rockford

13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron

15th H, E. Goembel, Hooppcle

16th A. R. Wright, Varna

17th F. D. Barton, Cornell

18th R. F. Karr, Iroquola

19th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th Earl 0. Smith, Detroit

21st Samuel Sorreils, Rayhiond

22nd '. Stanley Castle, Alton

23rd J, E. LIngenfelter, Lawrenceville

24th Curt Anderson, Xenia

25th Vernon Lessley, Sparta

Directors of Departments
I. A. A. Office

General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker;
Organization, G. E. Metzger; Information, H. C. Butcher,
Transportation, L. J. Quasey, Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A. B. Leeper; Live ^ock Marketing, Wm. E. Hedgcock;
Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R. Bent; in charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A.
Gougler: special representative on Tuberculosis Eradi-
cation, M. H. Petersen; Legal Counsel, Donald Kirk-
patrtck; Cooperative Accounting, Geo. R. Wicker.

SPECIAL PICNIC EDITION
SCANDAL REPORTERS

r. A. IIUKlifs. I'dcTKburs. Menard county.

I. .*. .Miiildt'u, SaiiK'Miion county. yprinRfii'ld.
I-;. II- \V':il\vorth. Macon- ctninty. I>ec-alur.

II. Kahrnkopf. McLean county. IllDuniiiigton.
Ifalph K. Arnctt. 'lazeni'Il cutily. I'ckin.

T. It. I.saacs. AIuKcm county, lliivuna.
O. M. Allyii. UeWitt county, OeKulb.

<<

I Send Greetings To

You'^ Wires Bradtute

O. E. Bradfute, president of the American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion, this morning wired the Picnic Edition of the Record the following
greeting Xa members of the Illinois Agricultural Association:

**l send greetings to you as a fellow farmer as well as President
of your national organization. I would like to be with you in person
but a regional conference of the Farm Bureau executives of The
Pacific Northwest takes me to California. We have much the same
problems, I find, in every part of the country. Such conditions go to
prove the sanity and wisdom of these who first sav/ the vision of the
local Farm Bureaus Joining into a state Farm Bureau and the states
in turn to Jfederate into The American Farm Bureau Federation. Fly
by night or emergency organizations of one kind or another usually
are futile and do not leave a record of accomplishment.

The record of your own county Farm Bureaus, of The Illinois Agri-
cultural Association and of The American Farm Federation prove that
Agriculture cannot build and progress properly on the theory of "any
old port in a storm." Neither can we delegate to other organizations
that which we should do ourselves. Agriculture must stand four-
square and at no time should there be a break in the lines. We cannot
aid in solving our difficult problems, and we have many of them, by
shirking our responsibility. No one ever gained anything for him-
self or those to whom he is directly responsible by not seeking out the
right and then aiding to put it over. Boost for Agriculture with your
right hand unless of course you are naturally left handed."

O. E. BRADFUTE,
* President, American Farm Bureau Federation.

W. J. Bryan Keeps Youngish With
Third and Fourth Generations

William J^nningt Bryan, veteran condidate/is a proud grc»t-
granddaddy. He is keeping yo^ng at his home in Afiami, Fla.,
with the aid of his great-granddaughter, Ruth Br^an Meeker, and
(left), his granddaughter. Ilcien Itudd (hvf»

mm STARTS

NEXT TUESDAY

SEPTEMBER 2

f

AR E YOU READY

An Opportunity To Get The Children Ready For School At Great Savings

Sale of Girls Gingham School Dresses

Very Specially Priced at

D/Y

EVERY

ne:

Libera:
PENCIL

5c

SCHOOL
DS

Count
IT ABLETS

10c

Plain or Ruled Ink Tablets

5c t 1 Oc

standard! Crayolas

Box of 6 Box |of 8 Box of 16

5c 10c 17c

Companion Sets

15c 25c 48c

iSIue, black or reU ink

Sanfords Mucilage,

bottle

Library Paste

bottle ....„J...

Library Paste — Tubes

lOe and ^^^

Lv Page's Glue ' . '

bottle

Thumb Tucks, 25 in box

Pen or Pencil Clijis

m

Single Slates, a.\!» .

15c and

Double Slates. 6xU

Pen Points, assorted

« for • • . . . r

Comp.osition .^ |-

books . ... —
Notebooks. Asst.

sizes .-

Spellinf! Hooks

each .

10c

10c

10c

15c

19c

5c

5c

25c

49c

5c

\ 5c

5c

5c

Free — Free
THURSDAY

FRII AY

SATURDAY

"^'oiir clinic of aii\' ^n-
jM-iicil ill stocl witii a jtiir-
<'lmt^(' of ^K^W iiioi'c of
aiiv of tlu^/#c items.

$1.25 and $1.48 Values

All Sizes 7 to 14 years

Here are diossos that will appeal t(» m<)thoi-.s because of the -extreuiely low pru-xi aii8 to the littl"
miss because of their beaiitiiiil styles. lOvery dress is well made of i;oo(l <(iiality liiii^iham in plaids,
checks and in jilain colors — many have sashes, some trimmed in contrasting colors— otiiers are effec-
tiveh- embroidered.

BLACK SATEEN BLOOMERS

39c

Childreirs bloomers, sizes 4 to 14 years, well
made (if i^dod ((iiality black sateen, with elastic at
wai.st and knee. A i^rade Ihat sells reiiularlv at 4!)c

BOYS' SCHOOL BLOUSES

59c

Sizes () to 12 yeai-s, shown in fancy stripes and
checks, as well as in plain blue chanibray and tan
poiiiice. Kennlarly priced at 7i)c.

CHILDREN'S COTTON HOSE

2 ^^^^ 25c

Children's tirsf quality cotton hose, rein-
forced lieel and toe. blaik only, siz«'s 5',i
to ii't.

MIDDY BLOUSES

At Reduced Prices

Every one well made of good (luality Jean,
effectively Irinnned with braid and cin-

hlenis.

$1.69 Value

$1.25

$1.98 Value

♦1.49

FINE RIBBED COTTON
HOSE

25c

Children's first q\iality fine ribbed hose,
durable heel and toe, black and cordovan.

si'-ies 5^^j to ItVi.

Hickory Hose

Supporters

Misses' Waist

Union Suits ,

Hoys' Waist Union

Suits '.

2<|t. Covered Tin Lunch

pails

Waxid Paper,

per roll

Pocket Combs, with

case

25c
50c
50c
15c
5c
10c

BOYS' OVERALLS

98c' *1.25

Sizes ;» to 18. These coine in plaiu blue.
JL'O wliite back blue demiii, 4 pockets, bib,
also wat<-h pocki't. , . • , ,

Loo.se Leaf Hinders

10c and

Fillers for above binders,

:;4 sheets, '

Ink or Pencil ■

Eraser . 1c to

Double Mesh Nets for

bobbed huir . ..••....
iiook Strap^, &0-in.

lung ;

School Scissors, blunt

ends. KIc and

25c
5c
5c
10c
10c
25c

S

PURGEON'

S

POPULAR PRICE STORES

Phone 279

Lincoln Store - Broadway & Chicago St.

5c HANDKERCHIEFS

3 10c .

Our entire sttck ot 5c handkerchiefs
on sale at 3 fur 10c during tiiis school
sale. Among tOc lot arc haOTKencntcrs
with embroidered corners as well as plain
hemstitched handkerchiefs.

Kathryn Browne, Chicago C
star, the only opera star w
iluiighbbys in France, wl
soloist at the State Conyen
American l..eKion at C

Aug. 31 to Sept. 3rd

Matter of Bu$in '•*

vie Opera
lo sang to
1 be the
ion of the
haml'aiKU, 111.,
1924.

Mr. Flubdub was a trifle c
ever, lie fell In love with i
persuaded her to marry him.
said to be a very capable
The honeymoon being isomc
she approached her husbaii
with extended hand, lie se

ose. Uow-
ludy and
. She was
manager,
time over,
i one day
zed It and

attempted to kiss It. "N "*''• J"''°.
don't try to dodge the issue " ^»''l t*"*
lady firnily. "I want $10.'

i*MMi«^

BOB COWLE'S RED

MAP IS FAMOUS

Every state in the Union has had
a glimpse ot the red map which din-
plays the support given the .Mt-Nary-
Haugen bill during the spring. Re-
quests for extra copies of the mail
liave been so numerous that about 15,-
1100 extra copies were distributed.

R. A. Cowles. director of finance,
drew up the map. He had an inter-
esting time in Washington during thi;
tight. He knows more polities th^ii
\uu could shake a stick at. He's also
secretary of the American Council of
.\griculture.

After drawing up the map, I3oh.
whose native home is in Klooniiugton
and who is acquainted with lots of
IMjople in tlip Hloomington and Lincoln
territories, had a hit of calls to tell
about the political significance of the
map. So he has been a busy man —
hut not to<i busy to buy, try and di.s-
eard all the standard, non-standard
and maverick brands of pipe toliacco
he can liud. Did you notice his brand
today?

GOLF CONTEST
AT PICNIC IS
BIGGEST EVER

(Continued from Page One)

Among the important things going
on now are straw hats.

Xo'body on earth knows aii much as
a telephone girl iu a small town.

pitching team. Sam Thompson. 1. A. A.
president, will present the large sil-
ver loving cup to the winners.

The following counties and contest-
ants are represented on the horseshoe
courts: Schujier — Harold Hightow-
er. Linn Eaton; Sangamon — L. T.
Kopp, J. R. Christopher; Randolph —
AUi'imI Smiley, Lester Holmes; Stark
— Providence Wall, Hracek berry;
Whiteside — Lewis Abbott. David Stu-
art; .Menard — L. E. Heflin, G. G.
Welsh; Peoria — .M. C. Kown, Wm.
Carter; Casi — Herman Schnepper,
Carlos Opper; Coles — Geo. and Chas.
Temjiles; Green — N. L. MeQuerry, El-
mer Garrison; La Salle — A. G.
Wheatland. .Martin Yocum; Knox —
Olaf Oleson, Wm. Kldert; McLean-
Samuel G. Smith, 11 G. Urighl; Henry
— Olireclii Brothers; Logan — lientscli-
ler, Stoll.

Lake. Marshall-Putnam and Ford
counties entered hut no names avail-
able.

.\ow we will sec it Babe Ruth has
a steady job as home run king.

There is a difference in Meat. Have you noticed if

EWING^S MARKET

Specializes in the Better Grades of Meat. Phone

$5.00 Labor Day Excursioj
, Chicago & Return

;.;■; ■ \ -via-, I . _. !. V I

C. & A. R. R. y\

SATURDAY, AUGUST 30th

Special No feto]) Traill will leaVe Liueolu at 1 :|
A. M. or G:4:5 A. M.

lieluniiiifr tickets will be •-•ood on 1 rains leavii
Chicago 12:10 Xuoii. 4:15 P. M., fJ:tlO P. M. and 1:<|
A. il. Saturday, Sunday and Monday. La.st trai'
leaves Ciiicaf;o 1:(X) A. \\. Tuesday, Septwubor 2\\\

For further ]iarticulai's phoiio C. &ij^. Tickt^
office.

"THE ONLY WA^"

,^tt^tt»l^^taauaaamaa»m

Picnic Edition I. A. A. Record

MURPHY STIRS
PICKNICKERS IN
MAIN ADDRESS

(Continued from Page One)

iirtlticial obstruetions and inlerler-
encea which have resulted in material
advantage to labor, industry and com
merte, and to corresponding disadvant
ages to the nation's basic industry
Our agricultural purposes are peace
ful, but at the same time determined
and just.

Farmers Not Radicals.
"Many people have found it an in
teresting pastime to charge groups of
farmers in America with being radical
with not knowing whul they wanted,
and Willi, being chronic malcontents.
No right-thinking citlien of the United
States should have such a short mem-
ory as not to be fully cognizant of the
fact that the most conservative class
under the flag are our farmers. One
who lives close to nature as the farmer
does; one who holds daily communion
with the flowers and birds and matches
his wits against the forces of nature,
and lives out in the open with God
must be conservative. If you would
understand the soul of America— It
you would catch the fire of that great
spiritual force that keeps tne flame
of patriotism burning in this land of
ours — if you should know the source
from which flows that great current of
fine purposes, high resolves, courage-
ous, clean, Christian citizenship, visit
the shrines of American farm homes
and there you will find it all.
"By the rude bridge that arched the
flood.
Their flag to April breezes furled
Here once the embattled farmer stood
And fired the shot heard around the
, world."

"It is well that this inspirational and
Sever to be forgotten verse should re-
kindle the fires on the hearthstones of
our lives this afternoon. Many in this
presence have devoted several months
to the great cause of American agri-
culture. In the long annals of time
no more glorious contest has ever been
waged for equal rights than many of
you have just emerged from. Peace
has its conquests quite as much as
war.

Progressiva Called Radicals.
"In common with you I have been
called a radical and a demagogue, but

I can say with you that we have had
an abiding conviction in the rectitude
of our intentions and purposes.

"We. sought through legislation —
through the .McNary-Haugen bill — a
s(iuare deal for America's agriculture.
Through this legislation w;e did not
"ask for favor nor for «ny^6vantage
that we were not justly entitled to.
Neither did we ask the government to
take away from labor, commerce and
industry the advantages enjoyed by
them through national legislation. We
did not ask for alms nor for anything
that we would not gladly grant to
others were they similarly situated.
We urged that disfavor be abolished.
If ever a group of citizens of this or
any other republic in all tJod's tmie
made a fair, unprejudiced, impassion-
ed appeal for that which was justly
their due, it was those men who dur-
ing the last session of congress plead-
ed the cause of America's agriculture
and requested the enactment of this
legislation.

"Karmers have always stood for
equal rights for all people under the
flag through the demand that the pur-
chasing power of the farmer's ser-
vice, which was taken away from him
by national legislation, be restored, are
radicalVand demagogues, then Patrick
Hinr^ was a demagogne and radical
Ben he said 'Give me liberty or give
te deftth.' It, in our determination to
reserve for future generation — to the
I honor and glory of this republic — the
(ascrert shrine of liberty — the American
Ifarm home, we are called radicals and
|demagogues, then those men of long
pgo who wrested the Magna Charter
loin over-lords were rarlicals and deni-
KOgues: if we who are heer insisting
|ith Koosevelt that 'all men should be
not some up and some down, but

II up' are radicals and demagogues,
lien Abraham Lincoln was a radical
■id demagogue when he freed the
laves.

1 40,000.000 People Wearing Chains.
l"lf you, 'representatives of forty inil-
people who are today wearing
I'onomic chains and are the victims
tyranny of law inflated prices and
le demanding that you be given the
line advantages that others are en-
lying— if you who insist that Inas-
lueh its more than one-third of our
lople depend upon agriculture are
laring the common burdens but are
]it enjoying the common benefits.

Iiich indefensible situation you here
lek to correct, are radicals and dem-
logues, then those patriots who
Irow the tea overboard in Boston har-
Ir and those who at Concord fired
lu shot that was heard around the

prld. w(ue demagogues and radicals.

"And for you. as for myself. I am
leaking out that the world may hear
Id understancf that we have no apol-
ly to make to any citizen or group of
for the contest which we have
InducKHl as best we could to restore
Irfculture, labor and industry to an
Jen keel in the life of the nation.
Jid on this occasion 1 want to say in
le teeth of certain individuaU in high

places who by reason oj a selfishness
so engrossing — so sordid and so un-
sympathetic that they could find noth-
ing in the situation of agriculture that
called for relief, notwithstanding the
(act that the condition of the men and
women of America's farms is upon the
whole 30 distressing, so pitiful and so
unjust, as to invoke and command the
sympathy of every honest citizen in
the nation — that the McNary-Haugen
bin went down to defeat by reason
of the contemptible misstatements cir-
culated by the board of trade, big busi-
ness Interests and others who were
opposed to it. This legislation was
not defeated because it was bad, but
because unknowing people said it was
bad. It was not defeated because it
was unworkable in fact, but because
its opponents falsely said it was un-
workable.

Opponents Made Misstatements.

"Everything they said against the
bill was unjust. They deliberately put
into circulation through the length
and breadth of the land infamous false-
hoods in respect to this legislation.
And as was to be expected, this ready-
to-wear, seclsndhand, canned Informa-
tion, which l^a^ altogether misinfornia.
tion, was spread throughout the na-
tion because they were in a situation
to put into circulation. They realized
our helplessness and made the most
of it. They knew that we lacked or-
ganization and finance and took ad-
vantage of it. They knew that we were
down and in great distress. They
knew that the exchange power of the
products of the American farms had
been deliberately cut in two by the di-
rect and indirect effect of national and
state legislation. They knew that the
farmer had to deliver twice as much
of the products of the soil for fuel,
clothing, farm machinery and building
material as he did ten years ago. They
knew that this condition was the re-
sult of a policy of protection tor labor,
industry and commerce that had I>e
come a permanent policy and that the
farmer was the unwilling and unwit-
ting victim of it. They knew it was
not just for any group of our citizens
to have their service measured by a
different yardstick than the other
groups. They knew that it was un-
just, indefensible and stupid to de-
liberately take away the purchasing
power of the farmers of America and
knowing that they were submerged and
in an unequal situation they used their
influence and power to keep them sub-
merged.

Cannot Submerge Farmers.

"Wo are here today to give notice
that no man or group of men — no in-
terest or group of interests — no po-
litical party or combination of parties
— no power on tlod's earth can keep
in economic bondage — can submerge
and reduce to a peasantry more than
one-third of the population of the Unit-
ed States. That day-has passed. The
affairs of the nation cannot function
safely with thirty-five per cent of the
I>eople slaves and sixty-five per cent
free. The world is to witness today
.1 co-ordination of the forces of agri-
culture in this Republic.

"We exceed any other group. Farm
wealth constkufes nearly one. fourth of
the nation's total, nevertheless, labor
and industrial groups have by or-
ganization comi)elled recognition
through radical legislation of demands
resulting In material advantages to
their groups with corresponding disad-
vantages to ours. \ It is because we
have jiist come through a bitter experi-
ence in our endeavor, without being
properly oHganized to make the fight,
that we are so deeply conscious of
what has relegated us to a position of
pitiful helplessness. Heretofore, that
is. prior to the contest for the enact-
ment of the McNary-Haugen hill, in
which national farm organizations join-
eil .and worked in harmony, the forces
of apriculture have been scattered —
nay more, they have had a divided
leadership and a disorganized, broken
battle front. It is because of this that
we are today standing at the open
grave of agriculture's first born, and
in this solemn presence we are making
high resolve that never again shall
;iny legislative child of our meet with
a similar fate.

Needed Common Voice.

"If at the opening of the December,
V2?,. session of Congress America's
agriculture had been represented by
an American Council of Agriculture as
we now have, would there have been
any doubt about the enactment of the
.McXary-Haugen hill? Positively not.
Look at this map! (Here Mr. Murphy
indicated the map that was reproduc-
ed in the UECORO.) No more strik-
ing bit of evidence has ever been pre-
sented in support of a great cause in
all history than this graphic picture
of the glorious fight waged by agri-
cultural America for even-handed jus-
tice and of the failure on the part of
those portions of this country designat-
ed in blue on that map to recognize
what was honest, fair and just. What
an indictment of the statesmanship
of a great nation that map isl What
an evidence of blind and stupid
selfishness: What a pitiful picture
that is of the failure of a few men in
the great agricultural states of this na-
tion to recognize their plain responsi-
bilities and duties!

Some Leaders Saw Light.

"Some of the leaders in Congress,
both on the Democratic and Republi-
can side, liad the intelligence to realize
that the great oppressed giant. Amer-
ican Agriculture, was arousing. Dur-
ing the months of conre.'-'t there was
plenty of danger signals flying all
about which intelligent Congressmen
were wise enough to observe. Mur-
murs of discontent throughout the
agricultural states swelled into tre-
mendous rumble as otslistant thunder
presaging the coming of a great storm.
Other Congressmen contented them-
selvis by saying: "Well, my part of
the country is prosperous; my constitu-
ents are enjoying advantages under the
protective system, and there are not
enough of you to enact a law that will
bring the farmer into the protective
system. Stay where ypu are and ab-
sorb out of your capitaf the disadvant-

ages that come to you by reason of
our advantages.'

"The red mark of guilt is upon the
brow of many men in both the great
political i)arties. The McNary-Haugen
bill was not sponsored by either of
the great parties nor by any party
group. It was supported by Republi-
cans, Democrats and Progressives.
Why McNary-Haugen Bill Failed.
""Many of the leaders among all po-
litical parties and factions realizing
that during the past session of Con-
gress agriculture was not organized —
(hat its forces were not co-ordinated
that it could s<>eak with one voice,
and that agriculture in its pitifully
weak, disorganized condition could not
punish or reward at the polls. That
is the (iismal. but frankly told story
of our failure — but again I repeat —
that will never be true again. Agri-
culture, properly organized and co-
orilinated in a great, national, legis-
lative force, has and controls four
times as many votes as labor or any
other group in America. It has enough
strength when exerted through a def-
inite, intelligent, leadership as a bal-
ance of power, to control political elec-
tions In America.

"Again, this is to make it definitely
plain that we have no thought, either
of organizing agriculture into a great
directing force in matters of legisla-
tion with a view of imposing upon any
other class or group or encroaching
upon the inalienable rights of others,
hut it is our solemn purpose and duty
to so co-ordinate the great forces of
American agriculture that from this
day agriculture will not only be in a
position tb prevent injustices and en-
croachments upon its proper rights,
but that it will be in a position to de-
mand and back up such demands by
its own irresistible forces, that agri-
culture shall be restored to an equal-
ity with labor and industry.

Sincerely in the Cause.

"And that there may be no room tor
doubt as to the sincerity of our pur-
poses nor as to what agriculture pro-
poses to stand for, we are making no
attack here upon the protective sys-
tem under which through state and na-
tional legislation labor, industry and
commerce are enjoying advantages
which have resulted in the highest
prosperity to them that they have en-
joyed in many a long year. Agricul-
ture has no thought to enter upon a
process of throwing down the citadel
of strength and advantages held by
others providing, after a fair and de-
termined effort it is enabled to secure
the same advantages others enjoy.

"It must he remeifibered that in
common with industry the farmers of
America incurred a tremendous debt
during the years of the World War.
This debt was incurred when the price
of farm products was high. That debt
is still unpaid and though it was in-
curred at li time when the price of
farm jiroducts was from lOO to 200
per cent higher than they are today,
the farmer is required to go about tlie
undertaking of paying that debt with
prices on the' whole about the same
level as they were in l!iI3 for the
products of the farm. Industry and
labor is retiring the debt it incurred
during a period of high prices by re-
turns which they are receiving on a
high price level. Labor and industry
retires its debt by paying one dollar
for each dollar of obligation, while
agriculture is retiring its debi by pay-
ing two dollars for every doll.ir of
obligation.

Should state Case Clearly.

"Tlid cast- of tiu- .Anu-ricuii faniuT
.'-liould in: fairly .stated, understood clef-
loncl.v aiirl dealt with accordlnKly, Car
uiiM]o«-, V<\vi\el ehair. and proimtrutidist
fHrniers — of whom we have a verv con-
siderable iiuniber tii .\merlca— have for
years Hpreaii, anil ihey arc still spiead-
iriL; throughout the nation niisleadiiii;: and
* 'HitemiUlhle stories, niisf-taliiu; anri ini.s-
repres^minK the situation of the man on
the farm. They have t-one about this
cloDherately. They occupy |>ositions which
entitle them to their opinions and state-
iiH'iitK eonsidered by the c-i-eat consum-
niK iiul'iie. .Vo more delilii-ratu attemlit
\ft misstate the situation of a irreat
uroup of our |>eopIe has ever been made
iTi the history of the Ilepulilic than lias
been and is beiiiK made at this time to de-
eei\e the coiisumiiiK liubllc in resia-et to
the actual status of the man on the farm
Two matters stand out prominently in
re.spe(."t to the situation of acrieuliure
l-"ir.sl, Ihne is thi.s untruthful propa-
tanda to which I have already called at-
tention and whiyh is damnine and de-
moralizin;.' in its in<luenee. Second, we
lia\e Hddressed to the solution of the
prnhlenis of ihe fanner the least intel-
llKenee that has heen addressed to the
.-iolutioii of any Kreat national problems
in all the history of the Republii-
People Want the Truth.

"I .im firmly convinced— and this con-
^■Icfl^n is Ihe result of personal experi-
ence In addrestina many audiences upon*

i^Mi«iaaMa*iaa

this subject- that the American iieoplc'Tbe sltu.itiob is beinE mi.orepresentcd to
want to know the exact truth about the the public tithe end that the prolilem of
situation of the farmer and understandinB the farmer snail not be understood. There
it. have a definite desire to settle it is a short world crop of wheat and rye.
utterly repardless of whether it would re- The prospeJ^.s for a corn croi> in this
suit in dtsadvantaKes to them or whether country ha\4.;never been so unsatisfactory
it would increase the cost of food. Every at this seaJii of the year, I he crop is
riBht thinkinK American citizen ouEht to i very b.ickvArd and lacking in promise,
vv'unt to lend his influence to abolishinir I -Vatural causes can never Influence llli-
disfavor ami brinBinE the farmer into natural caultes. The sale of farm nia-
a proper relationship with lalior and In- ' twines in lil2t is only about 2n or ..0 per
dustry. And the solution of this problem cTnt of what it was before the World
of agriculture is not one to he .solved by j War.
any particular political party. I Farmers Pay, an d Pay.

•■We have prided ourselves throiii-hout ..vntu-ithsfntidinir this fact— ilotwitb-
our ElOriou.s hi...torj- upon being able )o\^.^^^^f.^,^''^^^'f",^^^l^ Xr ^^^^^^^^
declare that no wrons exists lonK In .'^'J' fVned with plows and drills, a farmer
.\merica withou beinR righted < 'ne of »^« ^'^'/'-n^^* '^'J ' j,,,^ of these articles for

cannot buy any one

a cent less than if sales were Km lier

I^alior and industry

latural coii-

tlie fundamental Jdeals of our govern-
ment makes it a part of the creed of our i , ^ „„ti)ut I^lior
everyday life that every citizen shall he- J^. their mice re^ardl^s of
permitted to so about his daily business ; Jj?''*''''^ l"'Sf/'y7„'f^-;"afp„„
without bearing the burdens of others f''""^^^*^/''^."'^^^^^^^
and without wearing shackles that are J^'^-'^J" l^o^fon'^lfTlEh at"the present
imposed ui«n h,m hy •;«"'"" "'"O.^"".- hecwe ther^ have been three short crops
.?,'^^r. V° °L'''^[.'„i,' k'„"^,° jr' ",[,,i'V'';lof cotton in succession. The farmer's

icas creed, .sociab husmessiKim^^^^ °J ■business cannot eo along with labor and

ntherwise. that the purohasinR power
the service <if _ '
ln' much less than that of others.
Fault of Nation's Statesmen.
"TliP (iisiiarity in price between what
tlie farmer receives for his jiroducts and
pays for wliat he uses is an indictment
against the inleHiirenre and pf :■♦*«:"■ --i.
siiip of our leaders. It is indefensible.
It cannot lonRcr exist without liie "'u.-i , -rce'-of Vheat"atid' rye is ah

■Tir"?orT;"m^ni'.?n ^'^f ";V,;."'';:l,r^T''ii[^: -"^ «^ ^^ "^'^ f Procluclion,

trlcts exert suoh a tremendous political ^ ;:ARricuHure is today carrymKjhe com

farmer is subject to weather and other
croi) conditions throughout the worhl.

'Hut while wheat, corn and r>e are
some hiKher. a farmer today is receivinK
onlv one-half the cost of jiroduction of
pork and about *>0 per cent of the cost of
the production of his cattle. The present
' '- about ti5 per

If you have something to sell, you have a story
to tell. Tell it. That means Advertising. It Pay&

and social influence in this UepuJ>iic that
their submerRenoe for anj' extended period
ijf time would be fraupht with tho ^ivavest
daiiper to the national welfare. Not only
the business structure of the nntinn

btned burdens of labor, industry, trans-,
portiition-jmd commerce. J':xi>orls of farm
products have made us the creditor na-
tion of Iht' world. Beautiful crops have
been the pride and plory of the Kepublii

zen an<l pvory eroui> of citizens in the
country. Ihe flau of the Republic should
be planted, and in its name and in Ihe
name of everythinc we hold dear in
America, we should po about our plain
duty of restoring agriculture to a situa-
tion of e<iuality.

Cannot Control Farmers' Production.
■'I'lxportable surjilus of food products is
.1 national ciononiic necessity. 'I'o lon-
Irol the luoduction of meat and ffrain
on farmers of America to the point of
consum|)tion is humanly imiwssiMe
Moreover, it would be inadvisable. We
shctuld have on hand at all times several
months supply of foi)d. It would be a
serious mistake in this treat Tiation of
ours to have our food su]>plies at any
time in danjurer. For years foreljiu coun-
tries have consumed our surplus n>eat
and irrain products. The supply of food
in the world today is rather limited. Lean
yejtrs offset the fat years. Kor e\ery
pounti of meat and every bushel of grain
exi>orted from the L'nited Stales, new
wealth is broujrht into the country. But
since the price of the surplus of farm
products fixes the domestic i»rices. the
farmer Is in a situation of such irross in-
equality that his problem cries aloud
for immediate solution.

"The farmer is compelled — he has no
alternative, but to buy what he requires in

ma'^ker^'iT' prl?ef ran^'h^B 'fron,'''i«r'p5? "iiiE fur the music" and furnishing the baii-
;.ent''on an Cvertge'-'aboye the"li.Ki le'S ! u,"_^'..!?r.„',''?„.^.?'«,?'.V^M!>."i...\i<^„i»ir. ^l!;'"

\\hen agriculture asks for etiuality
met with the ory that its demands are
nneconomi.-. How absurd! Any leRisla-
tion that interferes with the natural flow
uf the curi'-nt of economic law is properly
chargeable with being: unsound. It just
depends on what we nie.an by unsound.
If l)v law the farmer can be compelled,
as he is today, to i)ay about $15 additional
by reason of the tariff on an ordinary
suit of clothes ! if. hy law. a farmer is
<-omiielled. as he is today, to pay nearly
twice as much freight ujwn what he pro-
duces and purcha.ses: if. by reason of law.
a farmer is compelled, as he is today, to
l>av twice'^as much for coal and buildliijr
nuilerial then does it lie in jtnybody's
mouth to say that throufih the enactment
into law of the same principles which
have increased these other prii-es the
farmer can gel a better price for what he
jiroduces and sells in America, that such
liiw is unjust and because the farmer asKs
for it. it is uneconomic? Wh.v make the
farmer the goat? AVhat offense has he
committe.I that he shoul<l be so unjustly
discriminated against? If labor and In-
dustry are to receive l(»i per rent inore
for their services than they did in 1^13,
make no mistake al>out it. they are Koini:
to have to ay what it costs the farmer
to have to pay wh:;t it costs the
farmer to produce the food they eat.
The farmer is throu^rh behiK the Wiill
flower at the dance; he is all throuph pay

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of prict

At the same

[>elled— he has no alternative — but to Bell

at j)rk'es that are offered ium on tne oa.-- .<
of :, world market in competition with
tlu> i>eon and peasant of other lands on
a level of i>rices substantially the same
as those prevailing in 1H13. He must pa^
taxes, support scljools, churches, build
roads, and bear all other burdens com-
mon to other citizens, and at the same
time contribute to the maintenance of a
law stabilized, protected, domestic market
and at the same time sell the proiluct of
his toil not only abroad but domestically,
on the basis of the iwwresl pajd labor of
the whole world. Such a situation is iutt
o|iIy intolerable, but it is .so manifestly
unjust that it challeiij.'es the purpose and
soul of the American people to conxxt
this abuse and injustice.

Adamson Law Protects Labor.

■"K\*cry eiy:ht-hour day law. whether
stale or national, every regulation of
leicwrapli. telephone, electric llKht and
Km* rate, the restrictive imminTalion act.
(and we favor the re,striction of Immiprra-
tlon) the Adam.^oii law. the tariff law.
the transportation act. the lalK>r board.
coal board, and all other interferences
with nattu-al economic laws by such leKis-
lation places a burden upon America's
farmers. These burdens have become in-
■toleral)le. The farmer is bearing injus-
tices without proper representation or
advantaKes. It is just such situations as
these that have caused people throughout
all a^es to rise and assert themselves.
The existence for a period of more than
four years of such an unjust situation in
this tfreat Uepublic of the West is the
most terrific indit-tmenl ever laiti ay^alnst
the ability of the American people to
Ko\erti themselves.

'■Inasmuch as the farmer is comttelled
to pay twice as much for clothing, fuel,
buildinp material, machinery and other
farm equiinnent as he did in JftlH. liecause
of the cost of the nation's jprotectlve
policy, and is compelled because he is
outside of the i»rotcclive system to sell
all of his pividucis on the basis of the
world market, labor and industry is en-
abled to t>ass on all increase in price
which it has to pay by adrlintr to its
product, each additional cost item, and
when these products reach the farmer ho
must pay the jtrlce asked and cannot pass
on the Increased cost to Hn> one. Op-
erating as he does without protection on
the basis of the world market, he is com-
pelled to al)sorb the loss, in increased
cost of wh«it he buys, out of his capital,
and' that Is why today America's farm
homes, as well as the chattels of the
farmer, are bearinc the crushing burden
of billions of dollars of indebtedness. But
the |>oint of absorption of the ability of
the farnier to ab.sorb out of his capital
Ihe.'-c in<'reased costs and losses has been
passfd anri the nation is confronted with
a serious biNiness situation.

Present Prices No Permanent Relief.

"The increase, during recent weelc*. in
the ]irice of wheat and rye is due to a
situation which propagandists outside of
the agricultural industry do uot concede.

. ithe serviie part just as Ions: as he is go-
ins to do it and just as Iohk Jis anybody

should

ect him to do it. He wants
le. He inslBts on the
: opened uji. Klther
.., protective wall throuyh
it;n food submerjres him
d. or the entire protecti\e
ne down. What is the sen-
Brinp the farmer into
liip with labor and industry
. a square Aeal or throw down
HOtective svsteni and dilut*'
trength witli the weakness
Td world? We Ijelieve that all
1^ treated alike, and that under
conditions the farmer should be
ecisely the same consideration
t ]jresent sliown to others.
Xa]K:>|eon said that God was on the
ide ha' in;-' the heaviest artiuery. iie
also sail that his streuKth lay iti the
co-ordin; tion of his forces. This is the
hour of mobilization. All of our aiete
;,'uns are tu be moved into position. >Ve
are to ) o forward under ne command.

There i;
jective.
with no

. . be no doubt about our ol

\\'e are no longer to be charged

knowing what we want. All

of the fa ;'m organizations of America are
to be bri raded witii otlrer forces in a com-
mon off' Msive. We ai'e to be in a posi-
tion to r ward our friends and punish our
enemies. We are forced to take this
position by reason of the acti\ ities of
other pr mps which have resulted in ad-
vaiitaKC.' to them and corresponding <lis-
advantaj es to us. We will only ask foi"
uur riKh s, and all the^ forces, desirin;.' to
keep us in a situation of inequality and
servltudt shall never prevail a^'ainsl us.
The HI bject is fundamentally economic
rather thafi political. Certainly it

should n .t become the footliall of partisan
jiolitics. Republicans. OemocrKls and
I'roKress ves have all included aj?ricultural
planks i: i their platforms which promised
to securt equality for aKricuUure. But we
have bet n well fed up on promises. It is
now our solemn duty to carefully endorse
candidal -s for public office, who. rey^ard-
less of partisan poHtiea. pledge them-
selves t' secure equality for afiriculturo
with inci ustry and labor at the next ses-
sion of ,'onfiTess.

T aok Ptxrrot'M Advice

It \va 3 close and sultry, a storm wae
coming up, causing ray rheumatic
pftlns { > make me groan. I was alone.
From b ehlnd a voice said, "Forget It."
I looke 1 and saw no one. The voice
repeate 1, "Forget It" In the transom
of the loor opening on the rear porch
Bat a p irrot, which belonged to a lady
across the alley. It had flown away
when it s cage was being cleaned. When
juy rht umatism pains me I think of
the pai rot and forget it.— Exchange.

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WCAY .Milwauk*"!'. Wis. (Central,
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VVDAK- Kansas City. Mo. ((Vntral,
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11:00, "Anniversary of the Battle of
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WOAW -Omaha, Neh. (Central, T,26]
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Wednesday, August 27.

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KDZE— Seattle, Wash.— 45.';. 10:20-
12:30 A.M.

KFl— Los Angeles, Cal.— 4fi9. 8:45-
2:00 A.M.

KGW— Portland, Ore.— 492. !':30 1
2:00 A.M.
A.M.

KH.T— Los Angeles, Cal.— 395. 8:45-

KPO— San Francisco. Cal. — 42.'!. 10-
12 midnight.

K«D— St. Louis, Mo.— »46. 8:00-1
A.M.

KYW— Chicago, III.— 530. 8:00-12.30
AM.

Radio, Va.— 435. G: 25-7: 40 P.M

PWX —Havana, Cuba.— 400. 7:30-10
PM.

WBAP— Ft. Worth, Te.t.— 476, 7:30-
10:45 PM.

WUZ- -Springfield, Mass.— 337. 6:00-
11:00 PM.

WCAE— Pittsburgh, Pa.— 4C2, 7:30-
830 PM.

WDAF-Kansas City. Mo, —411. 8
-1 AM.

WDAP— Chicago, III.— 360. 7:001:00
Ai.I.

WDAR— Philadelphia — 395. 6:30-10
PM.

WEAF— New York City— 492. 6:30-
9:00 PM.

W^GR— Buffalo, N. V.— 3r». 6:30-11
PM.

WHA— Madison. Wis— 360. 7:30-
8:,'!0 PM.

WHAS— Louisville, Ky. — 400, 7:30-
9.0O PM.

WHL— Kansas City, Mo.— 411. V:00-
7:45 PM.

(Meveland. 0.,--2S3. 5:0(1-5:30 PM.

WJAR— Providence, R. I.— 260. 6:00-
11:00 PM.

WAJZ— Chicago, 111.— 488. 10:00-2
AM.

WKAtJ— San Juan, P. R.— 360.6:00-7
PM.

WNAC— Boston, Mass.— 27S. 5.00-
9:00 PM.

woe— Davenport !a.— 484. 8:00-11
PM.

WOR— Newark. N. J.--405. 5:1.5-10
PM.

V.OS— Jefferson City, Mo.— 441. 8-

30 PM.

WRC— Washington, D, C— ^69. 7-
9 P.M.

WSB-Atlanta, Ga.— 429. 10:46-12
midnight.

GOLF

AS CHAMPIONS PLAY IT

BUIX3ER PACFD

AHt DRIVER
tV\S SLISHTLY
trOUNPCO ««£

euLQeff /i«cf 50SS aot a/d

IN HirtINQ BAJ-L . aUT IT

QNBS seTTEfi Pipiixiriort

TH/^N %TR/V<SHT ^Mitr tVITM

pf^GPAtN^r^iT Meet,.

GOLF,
What is the advantage or disad-
vantage of using a bulger face
driver?

.'Vnswered li.v

BOB MacDONALD

Winner of •the Metropolitan open

championship, 1921, and 1923. One

of the longest drivers in the game

though using only a 12 1-2 ounce

driver,

* * «

There is no advantage in a liulger
face as far as helping the player to
hil the ball is concerned, as, in f:ic',
all faces of wooden clubs are slinhtlv
rounded. Even the face that luolis
perfectly straight on tV' ground
would lie slightly bulged if a str;iiglit
edge were used. One can always gel
belter direction with a slightly bulg-
ed face wherein I he heel of the cbib
Is filed aw-ay. giving the face a round-
ed appear;ince. than with the strair^hi
face with the heel sticking out prom-
inently.

CLUB STANDINGS

(WALTER P. CHRYSLER'S

TRAFFC ^^
TALKS

SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR
WIDE STREETS

With enough room, traffic will turn
left of center obstruction. Wrong
turn W()uld be blocketl out if tluTe
were center curbiiifjs, as shown. Thij
is usually impractical.

Administrator's Notice.

Estate of Mary J. Patterson. De-
ceased.

The undersigned having been ap-
pointed Adnilnistratri.x of the Estate
of Mary J. Patterson, deceased, here-
by gives notice sh« will appear before
the County Court of Logan Coun-
l.v, Illinois, at the Court House
In I^incoln, Jllinois, at the Sep-
tember Probate Term, on the first
Monda.v in September,, A. D. 1924,
next, at which time all persons hav-
ing claims against said Estate are
notified and requested to attend for
the purpose of having, the same i'.
justed. All persons Indebted to sa:d
Estate are retiuested to make imme-
diate payment to the undersigned.

BIRDIE M. COX, Administratrix.
Robert R. Humphrey. Attorney.

Dated this 26th day oC June, A. O,
1924,

AMERICAN LEAGUE

W. L. Pet.

New York 69 51 .57'.

, Washington 70 52 .574

Detroit 66 55 ..541

St. Louis 61 59 .50.S

Cleveland 66 (!»! AVJ

Boston 54 66 .4,-.4

Philadelphia 54 (!7 .416

Chiciigo 51 Gfi , .4;!G

Results Monday,
Washington. 2: St. Louis, 0.
New York, 8: Cleveland, 3.
Boston. 4; Detroit. 3.
Chicago at PhlladBlphia — R;nn.

Games Tuesday.
Chicago at Philaiblphia.
Iielroit at Boston.
St. Louis at Washington.
Cleveland at New Y'ork.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

W. L. Pet.

New York 74 46 .617

Pittsburgh 69 4S .5'10

Brooklyn 68 ' 54 .557

Chicago 65 .53 .551

Cincinnati 64 60 .uu;

St. Louis 52 69 .130

Philadelphia 43 7! .371

Boston 44 76 .:!67

Results Monday,
Chicago. 3-7; .N'ew York, 2-11.
Chicago. 3-7; New York. 2-11.
Pittsburgh, 7; Philadelphia, 4.
Boston, 6; Cincinnati, 5.
Brooklyn, 5; St. Louis, 3.

Games Tuesday.
New ^'ork at Chii-ago.
Boston at Cincinnati.
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, (2),
Brooklyn at St. Louis.

Want to sell .something
verlising will do It.

Logan County (Mupa,
Get one of the Logar County Maps,
wall .<!lEe, for 50c, worth $2.50, at the
Star office while they last. A small
pocket map for fifteen cents, also' a
plat book showing the farm owners
and roads and sections In each town-
ship of the county for 25 cents City
maps for 10 cents each. Ofi sale at
the office of the Star Publishing Co.

Star ad- Want to sell something? Star ad-
j vertisiug will do It. t

AT THE THEATRES

**-»-»»-«-»*-»«-»-«4t-tl«

•»>
■tr

WEEK OF AUGUST 25TH.
Lincoln Theatre,
Tuesday, only — E. K, Lincoln in
"Women Men Marry. "

Wednesday and Thursday- "Freddy
(Trained Seal) in "The (lalloping
Fish."

Friday — Ilodnett Si.sters, uoder the
auspices of K. of C.'s.

Saturday — frank Mayo in "The
Plundei'er." ^

Sunday and Monday — Gloria Swan-
son in "Society Scandal."

• Lyric Theatre,

Tuesd.iy — Rodolpli Valentino in
"The Y'oung Rajah."

Wednesday — "Gloria Grey in "Bag
and Baggage."

Thursday — All star case in "Cause
for Divorce."

Friday— Special case in "The Criti-
cal Age."

Saturday— Rill Patton in "Fighting
Odds."

Sunday — Bebe Daniej5_jj|J^^p\vl.s
Stone In "World's Appl^,

"THE GALLOPIN
GIVES RIOTOUS

The "seal walk" is the late;
hit in Hollywood.,

"Freddie" the trained sea
plays the title role in Thoma
ce's new comedy special "The
ing Fish.'.' a First National rei
morrow at the Lincoln theatr
sponsible for the innovation,
he taught the step to Louise
and she laught it to Syd Chai
Ford Sterling and now all tl
celcbrllies are doing it.

He had a wiggle all his own that
goes like velvet to jaiz music. He
k'-eps tliem roaring frnin the time be
M.ikes his initial bow. sliding from a
ten foot spring board into a glass
tank at the same moment that his mis-
tress, the Diving' Venns, does a swan
dive Into the tank.

The story of "The Galloping Fish"
is as original as the star which plays
the title role. A tiiivd little briile-
groom, played by S.vcl Chaplin, drifts
into a theatre seeking oblivion from
the pangs of agony of his first quar-
rel with his bride. He is just In time
to be collared Into assisting the
"Diving Venus" and her manager who
sneak their seal from the theatre to
avoid a sheriff who is trying to at-
tach it for an unpaid bill.

From the time that "Freddie" the
seal comes to life in an ambulance
and gallops off after a fish wagon
with tlie other timid little "Freddy"
in mad pursuit until the last lap of
a spectacular flood from which the
timid one emerges triumphantly with
the seal collared and his bride doing
the adoring hero-worship act, there
isn't a (lull moment in the production.
Tlie cast, which was tlirected by Del
Andrews includes Louise Fazenda,
Syd Chaplin, Ford Sterling, Chester
Conklin, John Steppling, Lucille Rick-
sen and Truly Sliattuck.

70D TREATIES ARE
FILED WITH WORLD
LEAGUE REGISTRAR

Kitchen Floor

If wood is used for tlie kitchen floor
a hard, close-grjiined luuitter should be
chosen. A lumber of this type will
give longer service. Is touglicr and will
resist water better than one which
is softer and bus more open pores.
Maple Is one of Ibe best lumbers for
this purpose.

Rollers Numerous

There are more than thirty species
ni' rollers, tlie birds so-called from
thfclr habit of turning somersault*
in flying through the air

"The Galloping Fish," at th

Geneva. Aug. 26.— With the meeting
ot the fifth annual assembly of the
Li ague of .Nations on September 1.
this year, the latter will be able to
ascertain that one of the most impor-
tant and successful fund ions of the
League is the registering ot interna-
tional treaties and agreements.
""The" annua! report of the secretar-
iat to the assembly of the League will
.show that to date over 620 treaties
have been registered with the secre-
tariat for publication to the entire
world.

This provision of the covenant,
whiah was inserted for the purpose
of hre.-iking up secret diplomacy, se-
cret treaties, and secret alliances, has
been lived up to in the most rigid
manner not only by members of the
League but by non-members as well.

Germany, for example, in the period
between May 19. 1923. and May 19,
1924, has registered 12 treaties with
the secretariat.

While the United States has not
felt called upon as a non-member of
the League to register her treaties for
publication, nevertheless the object of
this clause of the covenant is fully
attained by reason of the fact that
virtually all of the states with which
the United States has concluded
treaties or agreements since the close
of the war are members of 4he League
and the latter have filed with the sec-
retariat all treaties concluded with
the United States.

File U. S. Treaties.

In fact several have gone so far as
to file their treaties with tly United
Sillies that were concluded before the
war.

The loyalty with which, the Leag-
uers are carrying out this obligation
with the League of Nations is indi-
cated by the fact that the number of
treaties registered has increased
sleadlly ever since the League was
organized.

During the first year of the
League's existence a total of 112
treaties were registered. During the
second year, 151; during the third
year, 161, and the year just closed.
1,S9.

Leaguers have shown themselves
especially sincere in registering their
treaties of defensive alliance which
in the past were always guarded with
Ihe utmost secrecy and which were at
all times looked upon as a constant
menace to the peace of Europe.

Now, thanks to the League's obliga-
tion to register treaties, the world has
the full text of such agreements as
t h e France-Belglan-Polish-Slovakian
defensive alliances; the Little Enten-

te's various treaties; the Italian-Ser-
bian treaty of mutual defense ami the
Italian-Slovaklan treaty of cordial
collaboration.

Washington Pact.

Even the treaties conr-liided at the
Washington conference for the lim-
itation of naval armaments have all
been registered at the secretariat by
the various signatory powers, other
than the United States.

Besides these great political treat-
ies, the other treaties registered arc
of Ihe most varied character with the
result that the treaty registration de-
Itortment of the League can very apt-
ly be termed the clearing house of in-
ternational governmental activities.

Amongst tlie varied tre,i*,ies regis-
tered are those for the protection of
industrial, literal and artistic rights;
for the suppression of the white slave
traffic; for the suppression of traffic
in opium; for the transportation of
merchandise by international rail-
ways; the various conventions of thi'
Madrid international postal confer-
ence: the various conventions of the
Bar ellona transportation and com-
munication conference: commercial
and navigation treaties; extradition
conventions; frontier delimitations;
liinilations of armaments; economic
and financial agreements; treaties for
the protection of minorities; treaties
regulating aerial navigation sanitary
conventions; arbitration treaties and
a score of other objects.

Arbitration Treaties.

In the domain of arbitration alone,
there were filed during the past year
treaties of arbitratiim between Aus-
tria and Hungary, between England
and Italy, between Chili and Peru, be-
tween Hungary and Roumania. be
tween the ITnited States and England,
between the United States and Nor-
way, and between Spain and England.

During the past year the number of
treaties filed by Individual states was
as follows: Australia. 4; Austria, 2;
Belgium, 3; Bulgaria, 3; Chili, 1;
China, 6; Denmark, 25; Esthonia, 1;
Finland. IS; France, 2; England, 39;
Greece, 1; Hungary, 5; Italy, 7; Jap-
an, 1; Latvia, 9; Norway, 5; Holland,
16; Peru, 1; Poland. 8; Portugau, 3;
Roumania, 2; Serbia. 6; Sweden. 21;
Switzerland, 4; Czechoslovakia, 14;
Germany, 12.

As regards classification, the treat-
ies registered with the League since
its organization are divided as fol-
lows: General international agree-
ments, 27; arbitration treaties, LS;
commercial and navigation treaties,
96; extradition conventions, 21; pos-
tal and telegraphic and telephonic
agreements, 68; frontier delimita-
tions, 12; limitation of armaments, 1;
economical and financial agreements,
33; protection of minorities, 13; ae-
rial navigation, 19; bilateral sanitary
agreements, 1 ; agreementa relative
to aliens,* 18; transit agreements, 9
political agreements, 10; peace treat-
ies, 15.
J Irish Free State,

One of the latest treaties to be reg-
istered with the League was the one
under which England granted the
constitution of the Irish Free State.

in this case a* in the case of all
tre.aties to be registered with the
League was the one under whiittj

Want to sell something? Star ad-
vertising will do it.

DR. T. R. COOPER
Foot Specialist
Office in Lincoln Tlieatre BIrtg.
Hours: It to 12 a. m. 2 to 6 p. m.
Other hoars by apptjintinents.
Phones: Office X1070: res. L-852.

J

WIDER STREETS PERMIT
CENTER INSTALLATIONS

Signalized obstructions must be de-
signed so that traific cannot disregard
or pass over them. Tliey must make
the right path easiest to follow and
wrong patlis difficult.

Sell it through a Star Ciassltied Ad.

RADIUM

Scientltlcally B;<plied In treat-
ment ot Tumor, Cancer, Goitre
Md chronic skin diseases.
F. M. HAGANS, M. D,
400 Broadway
Lincoln, lUlnola.

Complete in Itself

sharpens chc blade in the
ta:or without removing ir.
Quick. Convenient. £asy ,'
to clean. Compkt<- sets — •
ta:or, with stro') cnj extra"
blades, $1.00 and up. ;

\^eu4ul(^Strop Razor

SEW AND SAVE WITH

Best Six Cord Spool Cotton
DRESSMAKING HliVTS

For a valuable book on
drcsunakiDgi •cod 4c. to

THE SPOOL COTTON CO„ Dept. C
315 Fourth Ave. N«w York

HEADACHES

caused by Indlfcentlon. rolds, erlppe.
fetitue or periodic exhaustion Pim-
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They bring Instant relief, stomach

Bf-ttles, nerves relax, entire system
repponda. Ptrfect medicine for man
or V'omen. prevents nearly all aick.«
tie89. 10c. All druKeists. MtlUona I
us4h1 yearly. They neve
niula on every jikg. Ft*r
write Thr Orangflne C

tts. MtlUona I
er fall. For- I
•r a tree trial 1
'hemlcal Co. I

!

i Ji

ashamedj

It brought him untold
misery; yet only he
himself, was to blame

HE had ne^ected his teeth to]
long that he was actuallyl
ashamed to visit his dentist. Andf
like flo many people, he icept put-
ting it olT.

Finally he became so sensttivj

0 about their appearance that in conJ

vtrsation he habitually distoned hif

mouth in an effort to hide then

from view.

A reasonable effort on his ow
part— -consulting his dentist, cot
scientious use of his tooth brush anJ
the right dentifrice — might havd
saved him this humiliation. But ha
even neglected these things. He wa^
uncomfortable wherever he went.

Ltstltin* Tfth Pan* eUamt Imtk a ml
may. A t last aar ektmittt kat^ dttctvand a\
pohsUmt ingnjiami Ihal natty etaamt m4lk- 1
ami acfalchimt itu anamat—a digiealt traUam I
pamUj sahad. I

Vou will notice the improvein«it|
even in the 6rst few days. And yoi
knoto it is cUjining lafdy.

So the makers of Listerine, thq
safe antiseptic, have found for you
also the really safe dentifrice.

What are your teeth saying ahoii
you todiy'—U.VBERT PU.ikA
UACAL CO., Samt Louis, U. S. a\

i USTERINE
TOOTH PASTE

Large Tube— 25 cents

jHcnic Itjdition 1. A^A. llcconl^i^tatp Fiirin Hiur.ui Picnic J.iiicdln, ]\\., A

us,'. 26, 19L>4.

LINCOLN'S ANNUAL FROLIC

ELKS

NIVAL ISEPT.

BENEFIT BUILDING FUND LINCOLN LODGE NO. 914 B. P. 0. E.
To be held In Washinglon Park one block south ol Courthouse

I

Celebrate

i

LABOR DAY

I Here '

I*! One Big Day - Six Big Nites

Organized Labor Parade opens celebration at 9:30 A. M. on
i I Labor Day, next Monday, Sept. 1st. ' i |

Band Concerts - Free High Dive
Dancing - Riding Devices

ATTRACTION BOOTH

FLOOR LAMPS
HOSIERY
BLANKETS
DOLLS

ELECTRICAL
ALUMINUM
COUNTRY STORE
CAKES

AND MANY OTHERS

y-- i-

$1800~Yoi]rs for a HalfyDollar

Grand Award SjBcial Studebaker Six Touring Car— and other gifts
i Secure Tickets from Elks ,

.^••^t:

a:

LINCOLN THEATRp
^ LINCOLN PRIDE ■■-•

! I The Palace of Silent Art I

-SEPTEMBER SPECIALS-

THREE DAYS ONLY, COMMENCING SUNDAY, SEPT. 7— ONE OF THE GREATEST PICTURES
EVER MADE— .

The Hunch Back of Notre Dame *

Admission Price in Reach of All. Mat., Children, 15c. Adults 35c; Night: Children 25c; Atlults 50c.

PROGRAM FOR THIS WEEK

— : TODAY. AUGUST 26 ^

E. K. LINCOLN

i II

"WOMEN MEN MARRY"
A Photodrama of Single Women who would be
married and Married Women who would be single.

WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY
August 27 and 28
Boy, they haven't missed a thing that spells
laugh from start to end in —

THOMAS H. INCE'S PRODUCTION
'•GALLOPING FISH-
FRIDAY, AUGUST 29
HELEN AND BLANCHE HODNETT
DUET CONCERT
Under Auspices of K. of C.'s

SATURDAY, AUGUST 30
The\ drama of a friendship greater than Oie
love of gold.

•TH.E PLUNDERER" With FRANK MAYO

-NEXT WEEK'S PROGRAM-

PARAMOUNT WEEK SPECIALS

SUNDAY AND MONDAY, AUG. 31 and SEPT. Ist

GLORIA SWANSON

i 11

'A SOCIETY SCANDAL"
One of Miss Swanson's Latest Pictures

TUESDAY .Tnd WEDNESDAY, SEPT 2-3
RICHARD DIX and LOIS WILSON

i n --—

"ICEBOUND"
A Story of New England Life

THUR3DAY ONLY, SEPT. 4
THOMAS MEIGHAN

i 11

"BACK HOME AND BROKE"

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. SEPT. 56
BEBE DANIELS and RICHARD DIX in —

UNGUARDED WOMEN" I

Supported by MARY ASTOR. '

NOTE — The Management is more than pleased
to offer to the people of Lincoln and the sur-
rounding towns such a splendid program for
PARAMOUNT WEEK

WBHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS? IT SURE IS COMING FOR FOUR DAYS ONLY, COM-
MENCING SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14— . i

THE COVERED WAGON ^

5d WILL BE SHOWN FOR THE SMALLEST PRICE OF ADMISSION EVER IN THE HISTORY
'OF THE COVE'REO WAGON — JUST LOOK—

kTINEEa CHILDREN ,1Sc; -ADULTS 3&;

NIGHTS'. CHILDREN 25c; ADULTS 50q.

Make ,

Lincoln Fdling Station
Headquarters

Rest Rooms, Free Battery and Crankcase
Service, Parking Space, etc. Courteous at-
1/ tendants. .

.1 '

Central Illinois Oil Co.

Kickapoo & Pelcin Sts.

■$^

FARM ADVISERS
WRITE GOSSIP
ON EACH 'OTHER

(Conlinued from pago 3)

Kinil Sandfl of I.,o^'an (_'ounly. lueftU-r
of imror .Ier.*«;y hatzn. is in truuble. at-
rortliit^ to H«rt HarthploiiiC'W of I'eoria.
also a ?>tjro»- faiuii-r. Tl't- whv \vf u'hI

it. Karlholoniew w«nt to Sandel's to pet

;. i-<.ui>lf of iMiars. Hf pickt-d out two ( ?)
ill oTH- ]K-ii thai ju.sL suited lilii) u»d paid
;i.^-ri<lcl for tlie twf. (V). A f^w days I«Ut
whi-ri iIk- hws (V) arrived tliuie was only

ilu wired Saiidt-I, who claimed there- was
oniv (,iK- lioK in tin- |ien at tlit- lime Ktri
boiiuht the hop (?).

We have Just received some light on
th*-- nituatioii from a liifiid. ll st-tJios
that Saiidi'l iriakes some very fiiu^ t>ot-
1 !(■'( t:oods— some <-herry, somo peacli.

Sim *,' i;raii»;, fte.

i;\ iileiitly HartlKdomfw had iiiildlicd t'>f,
fri'i-iy of th>- •liMUid then-of and did
iictually soe two hotfs.

• • • *

.\m iiiiutu-tiou has Iteeti issued aMuinst
T^o^ati (^'ouiity AdviHcr Checkley i)reyeiu-
iTip liim from "slnKl'is. ouusimr to be
huuj; or iiislruetiuL' others to slm.'" a cerl
tain fit}iii: "Oh, it ain't a ^oniiK rain
nn mo", no mo* "; Inasmuch aK it has
ijiiried, sumned. f!'>odo«l and otherwise
damat't'd ihr erops of Illinois fwrm'^rs
ever rli:c" Checkley started sintrinir li?s
dariU'd old ^ollK at Farm tiureuu rneet-

'. l)ahy at h'Uiie. Wv claim to have the
iHtj.st fffecliVf t'Xli'iisioii sorvitv in lltinois
and Thtmias is on the job all riKht.
* « • •

For three years. Frank liarrelt, I'ikc*
County adviser, lias tried to find a wife.

He .MO thoroUM:hly sold himself in a
y«»unK lady rut-ently that she dt-cided to
take him for heller or for worse i)rob-
ably for wrose). The Farm Bureau is
jdeased with results, for, mouths before
it liaiii>ened, Frank s^eemed dazed. L:iter
rciM>rtB are that he has settled down to
work very Hatisfaetorily.

« a « *

y. Vuniman has been very much excited
about a slateiiieiit from a so called faini
periodical sayinu that he was rf^oin;^ to
co)ie«-t $1.50M.oiMJ from farmers for his
auditing servlee.s.

We believed in j'ou Van. but siuee we
(earn that you are Imildniy; a new house
we' are of llie oidiiion thai the 1. A. A.
twtter invcpti}.'»te.

Anylmdy needing the Services of a e<i-
uperative liriM>niei»ru marketing expert
should call on MeKlu Tlionnts. adviser in
Cidcs County. We M'e sorry Alelvin. but
wei»' in the C. S. l>. (i.. too. (Say.s a
Farm Adviser m-andril looii^er.)
• « • •

W. II. Smith, state leader fnun t!ie
I'niversity. reiiuested F. \V. (Jarrutt uf
liiiii:lass county to i*epoi-t 1h>w he was
^;ci!'ji; atom;. The latter repoi-ted- "i>r.-
iiii; ■ftiie. Wei!,:h L'fiS." Another lat job!

How these ol.I l»aUl headed fellows do
;'.et when they j;et away from lioTiiel \\e
li-arn iroiii Hertram Abiiey, adviser at Ml.
Venifiii. that .1. C. .-^.lilor and .1. C. Spil-
ler leceiitly Weill with him to .i iMiardin;;

liou.se to u.-l suiip<r.

A very pretty younM; thint- waited on
the table. They talked and she talked;
llii-y lau;:hed and she Kot tickled; tbev
kidded h*'r and she liked it: they waited
lor on the iH)rch and— (deleated by the
cent^or).

FIRST BASE BALL
CHAMPIONSHIP
PLAYED TODAY

the Ca.ss County Farm Huri'ati to a
bast' ball game to be played at their
annual tikiii?. It was 9S in tlio shade
that day and the older members ^ery
soon surremlered their-ilbsitions to
their sons and to younger farmers
present. Cass county got a pretty
good team together the next year and
beat all the adjoiuing counties. This
Spring, in looking for new worlds
eontiiier, Cass county gave a dui
dinner to neighboring couutieij in the
district and at this meeting a league
was organized.

The trophy to the champions is a
silver ball supported by a tripoil of
three bats. It is a trophy worthy of u
CJreclan honrof-old.

De Bergerac Real Person

Savlnier Cyrano de liergorac was n
I'rench author who was born In 1U18
and who died In 1U05. Edmund Kos-
land wrote a drama In which De Ber-
gerac was the hero, and the play Tas
in many ways true to facts. The real
Ue Bergerac was distinguished for his
courii;;e In the field and for the duels
he fought. These numbered more than
a thousand, most of them fought on
account of his monstrously large nose.

Spellman & Co.

LINCOLN, ILLINOIS

Lumber - Feeds - Flour

(C'ontinuod from Page One)

minute to put on the exhibilion game.

Visitors at the slate picnic today
had the oiiportunity lo witness the
first farm bureau baseball chiuuiihm-
Bhip ever played in Illinois and pos-
sibly in the United States. It is
hoped to make base ball for farm bu-
reau members a p<irmanent and annu-
al event In Illinois At the c^hauiau-
(lua grounds today, immediately after
the speaking program scheduled at
'2::',ft. the i-hampionship game got uu-
ilerway.

The championship event has b(-eii
looked forward to all season as loc;il
farm bureau teams played out their
schedules for the district ^hainpion-
ships.

For the 1924 .season, the districts in
Illinois were formed into what was
termed ilistrict leagues. FtdloHins
are the games played by the counties
participating and their pereentag(?s:
Galesburg District

W. L. I'ct.

.Marshall-I'ninam 4 i) l.iioo

Warren 2 0 l.oiio

Knox 1 2 .1100

Stark 1 2 .aa;i

Whiteside 0 2 .(lOU

liureau <) 2 .0110

Carroll 0 0 .OUO

Prejudice Grows

Prejudice Is a rank weeil of rapid
growtli. Lei yourself dislike a person
and you wlli shortly find that It Is im-
possible for that person to do anything
that Is right or reasonable. — Kxcliange.

We are at your sei-vice in these three
leaders, and can supply youi" wants. Phone
34, 234.. We are glad you came to the Pic
nic day. Come again.

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teTtneriEifeiJaTSiIaiEniatJaTla^

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Springveld District
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Smitli of lielniit. Mke <''ounly

-ommltleeman. is ci-riiiinl>

state picnics and txci^uii. <

meetings. tU- rej-orted on

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div eiiriy hot since his wife is with hitn
we are not Buspiclnus-.

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T. A. Madden, diphified adviser of San-
KHmon t^'niniiy and of the .sjo innrti-M
Chamber of Commerce, is takin'.; an un-
usual inlereit in the trrain merjrer. '■|n«h"
is noiim to .«e(- that alt his Black Hill
wheat trels fcafely arnl proj.erly jiiarKeie.l.

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Cass 4 2

Logan 1 3

.Menard X "

Sangamon 0 0

.Mason 0 0

Thus the state championship lays
iMtween .Marshall-Putnam and. Mor-
gan tounties. bpth having crack teams
of fanner bo.vs. The hull game will
go down in lUiiiois AgricuUliral Asso-
ciation history, as tlic lirst champion-
ship game initiating a new order of
rural sportsmanship.

Farm Hureau base ball began hack
in 1921 when the executive committee
of the Menard County Farm liureau
challenged the uxucutive committee of

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0 The Memhersiand Guests of the
I. A, A. Picnic

August 26, 1924

Hope you have had a good time and
will carry with you pleasant memories
of Lincoln and Logan County. The
Lincoln National Bank extends its
:. best wishes to all. Come again. \ \

Lincoln National Bank

Lineeln, Illinois

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LINCOLN, ILLINOIS

-DAY OLD CHICKS IN TEN VARIETIES-

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White W'yaiidnttes Wiiite Oriiiiii^tous

Aiiciiiias W'hiti' Iji'sihoriis

MS Assorted fur Bioilei-s

'i'iiis is a i;(iod time
your e,i;u;s disjiosiMl of
prices. We will ari-aii:

to en II y
diirint;' tli
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flocks and yet in line 1o liave ^

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iuii' of \onr flocks.

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SIEB'S HATCHE

MRS.

ily itj ciaployt'd outside. This condi-
tion makes ideal lainily life well nigh
impossible. On the farm, the hiisIHess
is such that wife and children are
junior partners, all working together
in healthful invitinp: surioundinRs and
sharing equ.illy in tlie returns.
Make Own Fun.
"Roys* and (Jirls* clnh work i.q con-
statuly showing the achievements of

of the grooiii or the cost of tlie wed-
ding gown, breakfast or gifts. Instead,
they are more likely to ask. 'Is he in-
ilnstrious? Is she economical? Is he
clean and honest? Is she skilled in
housework on the farm?' And so our
young people go out to build new
homes with little pomp or ceremony
or money.

"They are still willing to begin, not

"The liigli type standard farm home
can only be readied and maintained
by a prosperous agriculture, for wa-
ter systems, heating and lighting
plants, paint, paper, new furnishings
can only be purchased with money;
our corn, oats, wheat or porkers will
nqt be accepted in barter or at an
equivalent rate of exchange. Sad mis-
understandings have crept in between

these country lads and lassies in corn, | „. here grandfather and grandmother ' town and country people, because the
potatoes, pig. calf. coll. poultry, sew- i^.ti off the day before yesterday, but ! former often do not understand thai
iug or liaking clubs. The father must ^.|„,rf. father and mother started thirty | of the exce.ssively high price, they

years ago. They see a hm-d lime very 'have paid for meal, eggs, fruit, veget-

needs be industrious, frugal and honest
and early at the fireside int-ulcates
these prineijiles in his growing chil-
ilren. Help in the farm house is well
nigh unprocurable so llie mother
must be resourceful, a good manager,
a producer as well as a c-onsumer: a
woman who is hot like the lily, 'toils
not, neither does she spin,' but who
renders each day an honest day's toil
for an honest day's living.

"After supper all are tired from a
long, hard <lay so they gather around
the library table well supplied wtih
good books, daily papers and current
niaj;azines or i»eriiups enjoy a concert
via radio or vietrola. They are far
from the amusements of the city and
must make their own, but in so do-
ing, another sirong link is inevitably
formed in the chain of character.

"The farm family liv
ture and nature's God. No strikes or

often, hut in the lean years they grow-
closer together, more sympathetic and
tol(*rant and it is infinitely more fun
to lay plans to buy a second-hand Ford
than to riile away on the honeymoon
in a Rolls-Royce, the gift of the
groom's father.

"Agriculture today is far from be-
ing in a pleasing and profitable con-
dition. We are (old that 40 per cent
of our land is farmed by tenantry; 41
per cent is mortgaged to the limit.
.\dded to this, the deflation of the
farmer's purchasing dollar makes

aides or butter, the producer received
but a pitifully small amount, -often not
the bare cost of pro<luction. The
farmer's problem of today is of utmost
importance, from the president of the
United States down {o the poorest
paid employe of contract labor.

"The farmer has been ridiculed and
cartooned as an uneducated, unshaven,
grasping, stingy individual, who wants
everything his own way. On the con-
trary he is quite likely a refined, re-

tiring, suitably dressed business man.

condition that renders it almost impos-' ''*''" works long, hard hours and pays

sible, for a young man to acquire a "''f '"«'' t"''™ "'"' «uPPorts his church

farm of any considerable acreage un-r"''' community enterprises to the best

: less he inherits it. This is driving our of '>!« ability, who asks no exorbitant

cultured educated young people to »"'■'''"'»''''■'">'=»«« ""''s government or

I towns and cities and rendering a seri-'his fellow men. He is a true Amer

close to na- ons <leficit in the establi.shing of the '"^"u and he has certain rights. He

new homes that will furnish the lead- furnishes food and raw materials that

tht.' cost of production plus a fair
profit, as any other manufacturer. He
is entitled to a comfortable home with
the refinements of Itooks. magazines
and music and the luxury of a bath
tub. to the actiujring of a competeno'
for old a^e, and to give his children,
whose efforts are capitalized in the
farm business, an education and the
advantages they so richly deserve."'

EVERYBODY GET

ENOUGH TO EAT?

Ixits of Farm Ituroau folks neglect-
ed (u briag picnic dinnerH of iheir own
today. That tncant that thf church
ladie» of Lincoln were needed to sup-
ply ipore food. . If anyone went hun-
gry today, it was his own fault. Mr.
("heckley says, because he warned *eni
that Lincoln would be a crowded city
today and there wouldn't be much ex-
tra food.

You can depend upon Cheokley to
watch out for the food. Ask Mrs.
Chockley.

SEWELL
EULOGIZES
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fluence and a future stal !sman or
captain of finance is in tli e making
out there on a corn belt fa I'ni.

"There is mucli hard work that can't
be done on paper and he le; .rns to do

his despised chores quickly,
and efficiently, developing

industry, patience, punctu Uity and

above all, the sympathy
lowly creatures, that is so

ing in many of the youth toe ay. There

are no eight hour days on
The cropping season is. in
a rush season and he does ni
listen for a whistle to begin

day's toil. No captain of fie ance eTer

regularly
traits of

or God's
ely lack

the farm.
Ihe main,
t learn to
>r end his

came from the boy who laid down his
tools on the stroke of the houf ' and
this fact alone explains ma ly of the
S7 per cent.

"In few cases is there al foreman
employed on the average fai m and so
each employe is on his owi . thereby
rendering highly necessar f self-re-
liance and initiative that ave invahi
able attributes.

"In many of the homes of
ing people, ev^ry member oi

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strikers in their record, but in the fall ership of tomorrow,
of poor markets, faulty '"■""■"""""
and overproduction, each succeeding!
spring sees tlie farm family bej^inningl
anew, tfieir partner.'ihip with' ^^od in
sowing 'an<i planting' in the hope that
they may later reap. It is a highly-
comforting thought that the Master.
.uQilAr«t«o^l the farnjcr's !ife and prob-
lems. Recall the parable of the sower ,
and you will readily see that he un- ,
derstood the principles of scientific
agriculture. Poorly chosen, carelessly
sown seeds returned no harvest, but
that which was skillfully selected and
planted and tended reHirned 'some
thirty, some forty and some an hun-
dred fold.'

"As ^ nation we are charged with
reckless expenditure, waste and lack
of thrift. Where a weekly or semi-
monthly pay envelope is available, it

is harder perhaps to resi.st the tempta-
tion to 'buy now. pay later' signs dis-
played in cunningly arranged shop win-
dows. Indeed, it somehow seems thai

all forces are in league to separate the

laborer from his hire.

"In the country there are generally

two and not offer more than three

times a year when there are substan-
tial returns, the sale of grain and live

stocks. The cream check and the sale

of eggs and poultry generally buy the

major part of the provision, which

must be purchased outside the home

so they learn to buy for cash, buy only

what they need and how to do withottt

many things that, while pleasant, are

after all non-essentials. If we could

some way teach thrift to the youth

of America, halt our problems would

be more easily solved.

Real Democracy.
"Bolshevism does not flourish in a

community of property owning, tax

paying, law abiding citizens. We are

very democratic in the corn belt. When

our daughters marry, the neighbors

and i)ress do not comment or inqttire

are indispensable. He has a right to

Be$t to Forget Wrong»

To revenge a wrong is easy, usaal
and natural, and, as the world thfnVs,
savors of nobleness of mind; but re-
ligion teaches tlie contrary, and tell»
us it Is better to iie;,'lect tlitn to re-
quite it. — J. Beaumont

Nelson & Finch

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the fam-as to the size of the dowry, the wealth

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and vegetables we are here to

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Volume 2

Issued Every Other Saturday, Aug^mt 30, 1924

No. 17

12,000 ILLINOISANS
FLOCK TO UNCOLN
FOR ANNUAL PICNIC

Carry Out "Entertainment For

Everyone" Slogan ; Get

Special Picnic Edition

of I.A.A. Record

Twelve thousand Farm Bureau
picknickers from all over Illinois
flocked to the annual I. A. A.
picnic, held at Lincoln, Aug. 26.
to find that the slogan "enter-
tainment for everyone" had been
carried out by J. H. Checkley,
Logan county farm adviser, who
made arrangements for the pic-
knickers' fun.

Speculation as to the size of
the crowd varied from eight to
twenty thousand, with a con-
servative average of around 12,-
000 people.

Had Good Weather

As the weather cleared Mon-
day for what looked like a nice,
long stretch of good threshing
weather, it became apparent that
many farmers would not be able
to leave their shocks and thresh-
ing machines.

However, others pointed out
that it was still too wet in many
places for threshing, so there was
possibility for a great crowd.

Automobiles irom various coun-
ties began to drift into the
grounds early on the day of the
picnic. As many as 18 counties
were represented by the time
many Lincoln folks were eating
their breakfasts.

Lincoln Played Host

The city of Lincoln was host
of the day. The Chamber of
Commerce extended a royal wel-
come to the Farm Bureau folks.
It had been active in advertising
the picnic and in helping make
arrangements for carrying out
the slogan "entertainment tor
everyone." Flags were hung out
by local merchants.

During the early forenoon
most of the picknickers milled
around over the spacious Chau-
tauqua grounds, shaking hands,
discussing crop conditions or pol-
itics. A little later, with ten
horseshoe games under way at
the same time, there was enter-
tainment for a large crowd who
watched these events.

The exhibition baseball game
in the morning between Menard
County Farm Bureau and the
Logan county team was almost as
big an attraction as the headliner
between Marshall - Putnam and
Morgan Farm Bureaus.

Women folks found ample
shade underneath the giant trees
Of the park. The little folks
played on the slippery slide until
they were worn out and ready to
go home.

Picnic Edition of RECORD

By four o'clock farmers from
a distance rounded up their fami-
lies to call it a day and start on
the long road home. As they
left the picnic grounds they were
given copies of a Special Picnic
edition of the I. A. A. RECORD,
just off the presses of the Lin-
coln Daily Star.

The paper was an eight page
edition published the afternoon
of the picnic by the 1. A. A. with
the help of several farm advisers
so that those who failed to see
everything that happened on the
grounds might read about it at
leisure.

The Boys' Alfalfa Club, organ-
iied by the Vermilion County
Farm Bureau and the Agricul-
tural committee of the Danville
Chamber of Commerce, now has
S3 boys enrolled with 53 busi-
ness men flnancing the project.

Henry C. Wallace, secre-
tary of agriculture, was in-
vited to come to the state
picnic, but he couldn't get
away from Washington long
enough to come. However,
he didn't forget the Farm
Bureau folks in Illinois for
he sent the following greet-
ing to them at the state pic-
nic:

Greetings to members of
Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion. Congratulations on
good work already done and
more power to you in task
of promoting needs of agri-
culture and voicing the mind
of the farmer and stimulat-
ing good farming, clear
thinking and right living.
Henry C. Wallace.

FIRST FARM BUREAU BASEBALL CHAMPIONS

Smith and Bright
Win Horseshoe Title
For McLean County

Samuel G. Smith and Reuben
G. Bright, renresentlng the Mc-
Lean County Farm Bureau, won
the state Farm Bureau horseshoe
championship title at the I. A. A.
picnic. Aug. 26 in competition
with 19 other county teams and
with it they won the I. A. A.
silver loving cup.

The McLean county pair won
two straight games of 50 points
each from Leinweber brothers,
the Mason county team, in the
final match for the state title.
In the first game between the
two teams McLean won 51-28.
throwing 22 ringers to the Mason
team's 17. Double ringers were
five for Mason and three for
McLean.

In the second tilt of the finals
McLean also won with a score
of 51-40, the champions threw
three more ringers than their
opponents, getting 27, while both
teams scored six double ringers.

It was notable that the two
DeWitt county boys, Walter and
Harry Torbert. last year's champ-
ions, were defeated. These boys'
father, Harry Torbert. and Joe
Heskett, were title holders in
'20, '21 and '22.

Ten of the twenty teams en-
tered were eliminated by the
first set of preliminaries, in three
games of 50 points each. The
next tangle eliminated all con-
testants except Mason, Tazewell,
McLean and Knox counties.
Tazewell and Knox were crowded
out in three 30 point games,
leaving Mason and McLean for
the final best two out of three.

After the state honors were
settled Mrs. Laura Lanham.
Bloomington, national womens'
champion Horseshoe pitcher,
played an exhibition match with
Smith, the McLean champion,
who placed 4th in the state tour-
nament at Aurora.

The following counties and con-
testants were represented on the
horseshoe courts: Sohuyler — Har-
old Hightower. Linn Baton; Sanga-
mon— L. T. Kopp. J. R. Christo-
pher; Randolph — Alfred Smiley.
Lester Holmes: Stark — Providence
Wall. Brack Berry: Whiteside —
Lewis Abbott. David Stuart: Men-
ard— L. E. Heflln. G. O. Welsh;
Peoria — M. C. Kown. Wm. Carter;
Oass.— Herman Sehnepper. Carlos.
Opper; Coles — rjeo. and Chas. Tem-
ples: Green — N. I.,. McQuerry. El-
mer Garrison: La Salle — A. G.
Wheatland. Martin Yocum : Knox —
Olaf Oleson. Wm. Eldert: McLean —
Samuel G. Smith. R. G. Bright:
Henry — Obrerht brothers: Logan —
Rentschler. Stoll; Mason — Leinweb-
er brothers.

Lake. Marshall-Putnam and Ford
counties entered but no names
were available.

PICKNICKERS HEAR
MURPHY OUTLINE
FARMERS' STATUS

Main Speaker Raps Economic

Structure That Shields

Everybody But The ,

Fsumers

( oHiiilrlr trxta of Mr. Mar-
|>h> *N and M r M. K^'wrll'M
Hp«-f-i-hr«i «( tlir I. 4. \. plf-

I'Iralc F:dltl«a of «br RE« -
(»RI> wkloh wa« »rlat^ at
l.lat^lH aad 4l«trM>at«^ l«
Karat Bart-nu mt-aibc-rK av
lh<-> left lor liiiair. Aayaar
«^ li» nanfN thr fall t«*\t »f
Ihr «!>«•«'<■ livN n%my liavr a c«p>
of thr Pirate l-i^dltloa b>
wrltlKir thr lafarmatlnH rfr-
parlMrat. Tkr Happly oa haa4
!•• mtit lnr|c<*. hovirver. It In
rt-crrtlt-d that all af botii
H|i«-<M-h«>M rnnnot l»r roataianl
la ihU KK< OKU.

AdWser Davis, Piatt county,
says farmers there have ordered
a trainload of limestone. Be-
tween 25 and 30 carloads will
make up the big shipment.

Here Is the Marahall-Pataaai Karm Barean baNeball teaai. the
flrat team ever to vrin a »lata Farm Barrau haaehall chaaiploa-
ahlp la llllaolH. ThU pletare wnu taken Jnat after ther defeated
Morfcan eountr at thr I. A. A. pirnlo. Marahall-Pvtaaai'a vrlde-
awake farm advlaer, F. E. Faller, la ahovin In the laaert.

Colleges of Middle
West Ask For First
Co-op Institute

The agricultural colleges of
Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio,
Indiana and Wisconsin have ail
invited the Institute of Co-opera-
tion for its first meeting, which
will be for four weeks in July,
1925. Some otters with each
subsidies have been made by col-
leges in the East.

Plans for organizing the Insti-
tute were made recently at a
Cleveland meeting at which 50
leading co - operative thinkers
were present.

Leaders in the co-operative
movement in England, Scotland.
Italy, Germany, Russia and other
countries where cooperation has
become advanced to permanency
will be secured to speak at the
Institute during its four weeks'
session. Cooperative managers
and all persons interested in co-
operation can enroll for the
course. A small tuition will be
charged.

The location of the 1925 ses-
sion of the Institute has not been
determined yet, according to
George Wicker, director of the
co-operative accounting depart-
ment of the I. A. A. and secretary
of the organization committee of
the Institute. He says that an
estate near Cleveland has offered
a $3,000,000 farm as a perma-
nent home for the Institute, but
it is likely the offer will be re-
jected since it Is not desired to
locate the Institute permanently
because some sessions will be
held abroad.

county boy, was the highest scor-
ing individual in the contest.
Allen and his two team mates.
Joseph Dachman and Reuben
Carlson, won second in the con-
test.

The contest was larger this
year than last year, according to
E. I. Pilchard, state boys' and
girls club work specialist of the
rniversity, who managed the con-
test. Each team placed and gave
reasons for 'their placings on one
ring each of hogs, horses and
sheep.

Bureau Team Wins
Trip To Sioux City

The Bureau county junior live-
stock judging team composed of
Gilbert Carver, Wilmer Drepian
and Lawrence Carper, won ' 1st
honors in the contest held at the
Central States P'air and Exposi-
tion tor boys' club members.

The victory of the Bureau
county boys gives them the state
junior championship in livestock
judging and the right to repre-
sent Illinois in an interstate con-
test to be held at Sioux City.
Iowa, Sept. 15. The expenses of
the team on this trip will be
paid by the I. A. A.

William Allen, a Sangaimon

Quasey Tells Radio
Farmers Ho'w I.A.A.
Cuts Shipping Costs

Radio fans who listened in on
the farm radio program broad-
cast over KYW, Aug. 29, heard
L. J. Quasey, the I. A. A. trans-
portation department director, re-
view the farmer's railroad trans-
portation problems.

"The railroads are organized
into associations and rate com-
mittees to permit the more effi-
cient solving of problems be-
tween themselves am} the ship-
pers." explained the I. A. A.
director. "From this it can be
seen that it is Just as necessary
for the farmer to have efficient
and adequate representation in
problems pertaining to railroad
transportation as it concerns
him."

Mr. Quasey described how his
department looks after the farm-
ers' loss and damage claims, right
of way privileges, overcharge
claims, matters of routing and
other technical problems.

"It is the purpose of the de-
partment to make every effort
to see that the Illinois farmer
does not pay any more than his
fair share of the transportation
costs," he stated in closing, "that
he may meet the competition of
producers of the same commodi-
ties in other states shipping to
the same markets; that he is
given the benedt of his advantage
o( physical location with refer-
ence to markets and that he is
accorded the same consideration
as other interests in every phase
of transportation."

The C. S. D. A. .tutnist com
prospect of 2.576,000,000 bushels
is 490,000,000 bushels short of
the 1923 production.

Shooting straight from the
shoulder, Krank W. Murphy of
Wheaton, Minn., the speaking at-
traction of the I. A. A. State
Farm Bureau picnic at Lincoln,
resourcefully aimed his address
at the inequality existing between
the prices of the commodities
which the farmer sells and those
he buys, before Farm Bureau
members gathered for the annual
I. A. A. gala day.

Even thousl. there v,-vri men*
rivalling attractions atid the audi-
torium in which he spoke was
uncomfortably warm. .Mr. Mur-
phy held his audience through a
full hour and a half of stirring
oratory.

He was introduced to Farm
Bureau folka by President Thomp-
son. Frank D. Barton, executive
committeeman tor the L7th dis-
trict, presided. '

After Mr. Murphy's speech,
Geo. N. Peek, president of the
American Council of Agriculture,
told of the single purpose of the
Council — to secure equality for
agriculture by means of the prin-
ciple of the McNary-Baugen bill.
CurreiH IVicesi Only • Veil
Even though there Ims been
an increase in prices on wheat,
corn and fat livestock, Mr. Mur-
phy stated that the fundamental
trouble still exists and that united
action by all farm organizations
through the American Council of
Agriculture is absolutely neces-
sary if agriculture is to be placed
on an economic level with indus-
try and labor. Mr. Murphy is
chairman of the board of direc-
tors of the American council
and became widely known to
Illinois farmers when he spoke at
farmer-banker business men's get-
together meetings at Rock Island,
Springfield, Danville and Bloom-
ington in the spring. He was
active in the fight for the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill, having spent
considerable time and energy at
Washington endeavoring to get
the bill passed.

Plea<ls for Ktiuallty
"Industry and labor are now
glutting themselves at their well
laden table, " said Mr. Murphy.
"Agriculture is eating on the
floor. But I want you to see that
Agriculture is gradually awaken-
ing to its unfortunate position
in which it finds itself, t'nless
industry and labor give it a place
at their Uble, it is likely that
Agriculture will kick the legs

i from under, the table bringing
all down to the saiae level. We
would tatber not do it that way;

^ we wish to come up and eat Willi

j them in a gentlemanly manner.
"We are hefe in peaceful as-
semblage. Farm Bareau folks "

iSaid .Mr. Murphy, "Many of you
have come long distances today

' to add your presence to the dig-
nity and strength of this Illinois
(Coatinued « pafc 4)

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AugtMt 30, 1924

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4IliLiINOIS m
CULTURAL ASSOCIA'WBW
""RECORir^V"

I*ublishe<l every other Saturday by the IlllnoiB AgrlcuJ-
tilral Association. (08 South Dearborn Street. Chicago,
Illinois. Edited by Department of Information, H. C.
Butcher, Director.

Entered as second ciaas matter Oct, 10, 1921, at the post
ofDce at Cblcaco, Illinois, under the act of March S, 1171..
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postac* pro-
vided for in Section 1103, Act of October i, 1117, author-
ixed Oct. 31, 1»21.

The IndlTldual membership fee of the Illinois Arfflcul-
tural Association is Ave dollars a year. This fee includes
payment of fifty cents for subscription to the lUlnola As-
ricultural Aasoclation Record.

OFFICERS
I Pnsldeqt, S. H. Thompson, Quincy.

Vice-President, C. B. Watson, DeKalb.
Treasurer, R. A. Oowles, BIoomingt<Hi.
Secretary, Geo, A. Fox, Sycamore.

B2CEOIJTI\'B COMMTTTEB
By Congressional Districts

1th Jacob Olbrlch, Harvard

2th ...> G. F. Tullock, Rockford

13th C. E, Bamborough, Polo

14th '. W. H. Moody, Port Byron

15th H. E. Goeinbel, Hooppole

16th A. R. Wright, Varna

17th F. D, Barton, Cornell

18th R. F. Karr, Iroquois

1»th J. L. Whianand, Charleston

ZOth Earl C. Smith, Detroit

Z1st Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd Stanley Caatle, A'lton

Z3rd J. E. LIngenfelter, Lawrencevllla

24th Curt Andersen, .Xenia

Z6th Vernon Leaalsy, Sparta

Directors ot Departments
I. A. A. CMBce
General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H, Kelker;
Organization, G. E. Metzger; Information, H.C. Butehsr,
Tranaportation, L. J. Quaiey, Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A, B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, Wm. E. Hedgcock;
Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R. Bent; In charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A.
Gougler; special representative on Tuberculosis Eradi-
cation, M. H. Petersen; Legal Counsel, Donald Kirk-
patrlek; Cooperative Accounting, Geo, R. Wicker.

Equalization ot Land Valuation* in 1924

Vermilion, McLean and Ford counties stand in
one, two, three order at the top of the heap of Illi-
nois counties as having the highest assessed ralua-
tions per acre on farm lands. Logan county held
the top position until recently when a 15 per cent
reduction in its farm land valuations was granted
by its Board of Review after the Logan County
Farm Bureau had vigorously campaigned. for the
reduction.

The relationship of vauations on city and coun-
try property has been determined and re-deter
mined in 16 counties so far this year by the I. A, A,
department of taxation and statistics. Four of
these have made reductions wholly or partly in ac-
cordance with protests made by the County Farm
Bureaus.

Following is a summary in alphabetical order of
the present status in each of the 16 counties :

Cass county had a reduction in 1923 of
somewhat more than 13 per cent. This
year it got a further reduction of 10 per
cent. This makes a little over 22 per cent
reduction in land valuations since 1922.

In Champaign county, a reduction of
over 18 per cent was obtained in 1923, This
year the Champaign County Farm Bureau
asked for more complete equalization. The
Board of Review is giving a partial equal-
ization by increasing valuations on prop-
erty in the business district of the city of
Champaign,

"This will help the situation," says Mr.
Watson, "but it will not fully remedy the
inequality. ' ' ^^_^_^

Clay county had a reduction in 1923 in
farm land valuations of a little less than
20 per cent, which was not sufficient to
remedy the wide inequality in that county.

"The Clay County Farm Bureau asked
again for equalization, but the Board thus
far has refused to act further," states Mr.
Watson.

Fifty-one land owners have filed formal

complaints against the assessments of their

_ property, with the possible purpose of test-

' ing the right of the Board of Review to

leave the present inequalities uncorrected.

In 1923, Clinton county had a reduction
of nearly seven per cent. Since this was
Clinton insufficient to equalize valuations, further
reductions were asked for this year by the
Clinton County Farm Bureau, but it has
been refused by the Board of Review.

Very slight changes were made in valua-
tions in DuPage county valuations last

Chont*
paign

Clay

year. In order to remedy the inequality
between real farm land and city property,
the DuPage County Farm Bureau gave its
land-owning members a statement of the
facts and an opportunity to file formal
•• complaints against the assessments on their
property. If more careful consideration
of the facts justify such action, DuPage
county also may have opportunity to find
out whether land taxes can be collected
an the wide inequalities existing,

^ . Investigation in Edgar county disclosed
that real estate valuations of county and
city property are substantially fair and
EJgar that both are not far from the average of
the state, Edgar county had a reduction
last year of about 10 per cent in valuations
of farm lands.

Investigation in Hancock county also

disclosed fair uniformity in valuations in

Mneoe* f^^^ g^j gj^y j,ggj estate, Hancock county

had a reduction last year of about 14 per

cent.

In 1923, Kane county, farm lands were
reduced nearly seven per cent. This re-
' duction was inadequate to produce uni-

formity between city and country real es-
tate. As in DuPage county, the Kane
County Farm Bureau gave its members a
statement of facts and an opportunity to
Kant file formal complaints. This action had
some effect since the Board of Review has
announced that it is ordering a reduction
.practically equal to the amount made last
year. Even though substantial equality of
the two classes of property has not been
secured, the result in Kane county is a
notable victory for the Farm Bureau.

Lake county lands had a reduction last
j'-ear of nearly seven per cent. Because of
the large amount of lake shore, industrial
and resort property which is classified as
lands, it is extremely difficult to determine
whether assessments of farm lands and city
property are fair in Lake county. More
time has probably been spent in this county
by the department of taxation and statistics
'than in any other county in the state and
the question is still under consideration.

. Farm lands in Logan county had prac-
tically no reduction in 1923 thus leaving
this county as the highest assessed per acre
of any county in the state. Led by the
Logan County Farm Bureau, and with the
active assistance of the county treasurer, a
campaign to secure reduction was started.
The Farm Bureau filed petitions from a
large number of landowners in the county
protesting against valuations which forced
them to pay for state taxes an amount esti-
mated from $12,000 to $15,000 more than
their share each year.

The Logan County Farm Bureau asked
•- for a 15 per cent reduction in valuations
which has been granted by the Board of
Review. ^

Marion county lands were reduced about
18 per cent in valuations in 1923, This
was insufficient to restore equality in that
county, especially with property in the city
of Centralia, The Marion County Farm
Bureau again asked for equalization and
the Board of Review now has the matter
under consideration, ;

In 1923, Montgomery county land was
reduced in assessed valuations about 13
per cent, an amount which was insufficient
to equalize valuations of farm land and city
property. The Montgomery County Farm
Bureau took the matter up this year with

,^ the Board of Review which has since grant-
ed a 10 per cent reduction in addition to
that made last year.

Morgan county is one of the few counties

of the state in which land valuations were

increased last year. An investigation of

the relative valuation of city and country

UoTtan property has shown that there is not much

, inequality between the two classes. Both
are assessed higher than the average of the
state. Both might well be reduced some-
what if the city of Jacksonville could get

I sufficient tax income from lower valuations.

In 1923, the assessors of Peoria county,
on the recommendation of the county treas-
urer, reduced valuations of farm lands an
1 average of 20 to 25 per cent. Investigation
by the Peoria County Farm Bureau showed
that this reduction was justified. This in-
formation was given to the Board of Re-

Logan

Mariom

Mont-
gommry

Fmoria

Rock

Safins

Vmr-

i view. Over the protest of the Farm Bu-
reau, the Board of Review increased the
assessors' figures more than 15 per cent,
leaving a net reduction of less than seven
per cent.

Similar investigation this year by the de-
partment of taxation and statistics of the
I, A. A. has confirmed the figures secured
last year and has shown that city property,
chiefly in tie city of Peoria, is assessed 11
per cent lower than the average of farm
'ands. This information was given to the
Board of Review in a hearing at which the
Farm Bureau asked again for an equaliza-
tion. The Board of Review is rel.ving in
part upon the county treasurer, who now
says that he recommended a 25 per cent re-
duction not believing it justified. Thus far
the Board of Review refuses to act. All the
members of the Board of Review are from
the city of Peoria. The farmers of Peoria
county are not represented on the Board of
Review, '

In 1923, the valuations of farm lands in
Rock Island county were reduced less than
three per cent. Because of the fact that
property in the city of Rock Island was
as.sessed on a much higher level of valua-
tions than was true of the city of Moline,
the valuations of farm lands as a whole
were not much out of line with the valua-
tions of city property as a whole. Late in
1923, however, the Board of Review made
a heavy reduction in valuations of Rock
Island city property. Investigation this
year shows that farm lands are now as-
sessed at somewhat higher valuations than
is true of the average city property.

The difference, however, does not seem
sufficient to warrant action at this time.

In 1923, the valuations of farm land in
Saline county as a whole were slightly in-
creased. Investigation this year disclosed
the fact that valuations of city and coun-
try property were relatively fair, except
that the city of Harrisburg is assessed on
a much lower basis than either farm lands
or other city and village property. Upon
a statement of these facts, the Saline Coun-
ty Farm Bureau asked for equalization and
the Board of Review has the matter under
consideraition.

Farm land valuations in Vermilion coun-
ty were reduced less than five per cent in
1923. This result came about largely be-
cause of the illegal interference of the
county treasurer with the assessors in the
performance of their duties. The Board of
Review refused to correct the inequalities
which were then disclosed between city and
country properties. Similar investigation
made this year confirmed the figures se-
cured last year. The Vermilion County
Farm Bureau again presented these facts to
' the Board of Review and again asked for
equalizaition.

The recent reduction of 15 per cent in
Logan county has left Vermilion county
farm lands assessed at the highest average
per acre of any county in Illinois. The
Board of Review still has the matter under
consideration.

THE LIARS' CORNER

TRAVEL IS BROADEMNG. WE HEAR

Dc^ar Bdltori— A few ynru ago while travellni:
thronKh the state o( Kansaa, 1 ■aw an Intereatlns'
deiuonatration of corn hnaklngr. The hosker waa a
mtrong, mancnlar fellow and. as the sarlnRT voea.
quite a local relebrltr. I happened by the farm
where he was worklns earlT- one morning, and so
got a flae view of his method of procedure.

The husker wore a snit of asbestos clothe*, which
vras quite a noveltr to me. PoUowIbk him closelr
was a one-horse wagron driven by a man aad bOT-,
and cuntainlnK food und n ketc of ti*e water for
use as the work prOKressed. .\round the husker*s
body was a revolvlne belt contalnluK the husking
pins. These pins, owlnff to their rapid use. soon
became so hot that the husker had to drop them
from time to time and take another from his belt.
The boy- would pick them up. Immerse them in the
Ice water and return them to the revolving belt.
It took about one dozen pins to do the work. Two
or three wagons followed the husker to take care
of the corn as It came with llsbtnlUK-llke rapidity
from his hands.

I didn't tarry long In the vicinity, because I saw
a number of men, members of the Corn buskers'
Union, and the nicly Iftoks on their faces led me to
believe that trouble was brewlnfc for the com
hnsklnir prodixy. However. I learned before leav-
ing thnt N.OOO bushels of corn whh nn nveraice day's
work, but with a favorable wind this man-machine
would some days have lO.OOO bushels to his credit.
Great dlfflcalty was experienced In icettlnir teams
enoufch to take care of the corn as It came from
the nimble llnicers of the husker.

I haven't been In the state of Kansas since.
However, ivhen I was about half way across the
state of Iowa, a man dropped saddeniy from a
dark passlnir cloud. Much astoalshed, 1 asked him
where he came from, and he replied thnt be blew
over in a cyclone from Kansas. "Well,** 1 ex-
clalnicd, "the Lord must have been with you." "If
he was he vras BOlnfc some," the fellonr retorted.
and as he spoke I recORrnlsed him as the marvel-
ous corn hmsker. I drove on^fled, as It were, for
the prairies of irbod old Illlnols.-~Tom Johnston
Morrlsonvllle, llllnoU.

It is
was a
culture,
ings ha
uatloDs
have
ly. Tax
ticular
As a r
day l8
cent 81
farms o
ratio ol
almost
1923.

Valua
propert;

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Pace 3

U.S.D. A. RESEARCH
, REPORT JUSTIHES
f I.A.A. TAX PROGRAM

Government Study In 26 State*
' Show* Taxes Have Generally
Increased While Rents
Decrease

Complete justification of the
taxation program of the Illinois
<{ Agricultural Association is shown
I by the following summary of a
j long study of the farm tax situa-
' tion recently given out by the
United States Department of Ag-
riculture covering all agricultural
states.

State and county real estate

(taxes since 1920 have absorbed
a large proportion of the income
from rent on farms in various
parts of the United States, says
the United States Department of

• Agriculture. There is reason to
i believe, indeed, the department
i says, that taxes on many of the
' less favored farms have absorbed

• all the income from rent.

This conclusion is based on a
tax study made in 26 states for
the year 1919 and on the fact
. that since that year taxes have
generally increased while rents
have been reduced. Local rather
than State taxes are held respons-
ible for the greater part of the
burden.

Affects All Farmers
It is believed the general out-
line sketch of the tax situation
revealed by the study throws
light on the tax problems as it
.; affects farmers in all parts of the
j country. In the southern areas
u studied, real estate taxes were
j found to have absorbed about
A 10 per cent of the net cash rent
' from farms in 1919. In 9 North
Central States property taxes
consumed from 12 to 25 per cent
of the net rent in the same year.
In Macoupin County, Illinois,
. property taxes consumed 18.2 per
cent of the net rent in 1919.

In Western States the ratio
varied from less than 10 per cent
in California to 38 per cent in
one county in Oregon. Tax ratios
were higher in some States where
no ad valorem taxes were levied
for the State purpose than in
other States where such taxes
were levied.

Cash Rent Basis

Taxes are compared with cash

rents by the department because

cash rents are the best available

, index of the earning power of

■ farm real estate. Land values
alone, the department points out,

■ are not reliable indexes of tax-
•; paying ability because they are
: based not only on present earn-
, ing power but on anticipated in-
creases in earnings. Current
farm land earnings, in fact, are
usually the basis for only a small
part of the farm land valuation.
On the farms in this study the
rent in most cases accounted for
less than half the census valua-
tion. The rest of the valuation
was attributable to other factors,

) the chief of which In most cases
; probably was the expectation of
increased future earnings.

Present taxing methods which
take land valuations without con-
sidering farm earnings as the
basis of taxation are objection-
able, says the department. Land
values, it points out, include an-
ticipation of future earnings
which may never be realized.
Such anticipations in any case
add nothing to the farmer's pres-
ent ability to pay taxes. Annual
income is usually the only source
from which taxes can be paid
As average cash rents are the
best index of the earning power
of farm real estate, the truest
measure of the tax burden the
farmer is carrying is the ratio
between average taxes and aver-

• age cash rents.

Hit Indiana Hard

It is pointed out that 1919
was a favorable year for agri-
culture. Since then farm earn-
ings have declined, but land val-
uations on which taxes are based
have not declined proportionate-
ly. Taxes are levied without par-
ticular reference to land income.
As a result the tax burden to-
day is heavier than ever. A re-
cent survey of more than 100
farms of Indiana showed that the
ratio of taxes to rents increased
almost threefold from 1919 to
1923.

Valuations for tax purposes, of
property other than real estate,

Tlk« above facsimile of the new Itacatoac dlacovat certlfleate
repre«entH a aavlnic to farm barean mcaibem of at l«a«t SUO.OIMI n
year a<>c>ordlnKr to J. R. Beat, direetor of tke phoaphate-llmeatone
department, and who. In ru-operutlon with the ndviniiry committee
to that department conalatinfc of Stanley Caiitle. Alton, chairman;
H. T. Mnmhall. Serena; Frank I. Mann, t-llmnn. and Melvln Thom-
as, Charleaton, have succeeded la irettlns: prnctlcally all of the
principal limestone quarries which supply Illinois farmers to dis-
count limestone 10 cents a ton to farm bureau members. Rach
certlfleate means a 114 cash savlnic when filled la at the county
farm bureau ofllce and enclosed with the check to the quarry
company for the limestone. Illinois farm bureau meaibers are
now able to pocket 960,000 annually that was formerly koIum to
limestone producers. Orgranlaatloa ivlas airain!

the department notes, are usually
based primarily on annual earn-
ings. Farm real estate taxes
which are not related to annual
earnings, therefore, put the farm-
er at a distinct disadvantage.
Moreover, the department found
that in 10 counties where taxes
on farm property were compared
with taxes on urban property, the
assessed valuation of urban real
estate was less than the capi-
talized annual income from that
property, whereas In 8 of the
same counties farm real estate
was assessed at a higher rate
than the capitalized annual in-
come.

This fact appears to indicate
that farm real estate in 1920
bore heavier taxes than most
urban real estate in the counties
covered by the study. It is not
Icnown how much anticipated in-
come figured in the valuations of
the urban land. That they ^g-
ured to some extent, just as tl^ey
did in the case of farm land,
seems probable in view of the
fact that most cities are increas-
ing in population. Farm lands
apparently paid taxes on this ele-
ment of anticipated future in-
come, while urban land did not.

AVatson Explains Situation

Referring to the conclusion of
the Department of Agriculture
stated above, that farm real
estate in 1920 bore heavier taxes
relative to rental income, than
most urban real estate, J. C.
Watson, director of taxation and
statistics of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association, points out that
the comparison relates only to
the gross rental income of the
two classes of property. There
is every reason to believe that
the conclusion stated was true
of most counties in Illinois in
which there Are cities ■ of con-
siderable size.

If it was true in 1920, Mr.
Watson states, the fall in values
and rentals of farm lands and
in prices of farm products, con-
trasted with the sharp increase in
values and rentals of city proper
ty, has made the tax burden sub-
sequent to the year 1920 rela-
tively heavier on farm lands than
it was in that year. If the
amount of taxes levied on lands
and city property could be re-
lated to net rental income or to
net income. Mr. Watson points
out, the contrast would be much
worse.

The facts brought out by the
Department of Agriculture amply
justify the taxation program of
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, which is, first to secure uni-
formity in valuations of farm
and urban real estate on the basis
of fair cash selling values, as
required by present laws, and,
second to secure such changes in
the constitution and revenue laws
of the State as will relate taxes
to net income, whether from real
estate, intangible property, or
personal services.

MRS. SEWELL LAUDS
AMERICAN FARMER
AS REHNED CITIZEN

Eulogizes Farm Wife As The

"Presiding Spirit of Fama

Home — ^Wfao Has Really

Seen Life"

Emphasizing the fact that 87
per cent of those mentioned in
Who's Who today were born on
farm homes, Mrs. C. W. Sewell,
of Indiana, in her talk at the
I. A. A. picnic, praised the farm
home and the agricultural indus-
try as the basis of American
prosperity.

"There is no denying the truth
of the statement that these lead-
ers in Who's Who were not the
result of accident, luck or magic,"
said Mrs. Sewell. "Agricultural
conditions and environment
moulded the characters of these
individuals."

Fami Develops Leaders

"The foot of the ladder of suc-
cess is always crowded with those
who will always be followers.
Rural life develops leadership in
the character of the boy sent half
or quarter of a mile from all aid
witli three or four horses and
some more or less complicated
piece of machinery. As he plows
row after row of the far-reach-
ing battalions of corn he has
time to think untrammeled by
companion or distracting Infiu-
ence and a future statesman or
captain of finance is in the making
out there on a corn belt farm.
Hard Work on Farm

"There are no eight hour days

on the farm. The cropping sea-
sen is. in the main, a rush sea'
son and he does not learn to
listen for a whistle to begin or
end his day's toil. No captain
of finance ever came from the
boy who laid down his tools on
the stroke of the hour and this
fact alone explains many of the
87 per cent.

"Let us not forget the presid
ing spirit of the farm home, the
wife and mother," Mrs. Sewell
appealed to her audience as she
eulogized the fami ■ wife and
mother. "She it is who is up-
holding the morale of the farm
family today and bolstering up
the tired faith of the farmer.

Praises Country Wonutn

"The farm woman does not
understand bridge or golf, but
the world's problems cannot all
be lifted by the daintily mani-
cured hands of women who have
never lifted anything heavier
than a bridge card or a golf
club. And this plain country
woman, with sun-bonneted little
lassies or blue overalled lads on
either side of her, is a figure of
national importance. She is the
woman who has trudged across
the ploughed field some stormy
winter night to help her sister
in the hour of trial. She has
tenderly dressed the new born
babe or silently, reverently com-
posed the limbs of the dead. She
has harnessed horses, milked
cows, learned the rude surgery of
the farm or carried baby lambs
and baby pigs into her clean,
warm kitchen to save them from
perishing: she it is who has
really seen life."

The Indiana woman pointed to
the fact that agriculture today
is far from a profitable condition,
that 40 per cent of the farm land
is tilled by tenantry and that this
condition is driving the best
young men and women from the
farm to the city with the result
of a serious deficit in the estab-
lishment of the jjew homes which
are to provide the rural and city
leadership of tomorrow.

Have Ridiculed Farmer

"The farmer has been ridi-
culed^ and cartooned as an uned-
ucated, unshaven, grasping, stingy
individual, who wants everything
his own way," said Mrs. Sewell
as she defended the farmer. "On
the contrary he is quite likely a
refined, retiring, suitably dressed
business man, who works long
hard hours and pays his high
taxes and supports his church
and community enterprises to the
best of his ability, who asks no
exorbitant unfair advantage of
his government or his fellow
men.

Farmer is True .American

He is a true American and he
has certain rights. He furnishes
food and raw materials that are
indispensable. He has a right to
the cost of production plus a fair
profit, as any other manufac-
turer. He is entitled to a com-
fortable home with the refine-
ments of books, magazines and
music and the luxury of a bath
tub. to the acquiring of a com-
petence for old age, and to give
his children, whose efforts are
capitalized in the farm business,
an education and the advantages
they so richly deserve."

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wool, 6-lb., double blankets, 72 z 84 inches.

Colors — Gray and White checks. Blue and White
checks.

These blankets cannot be duplicated oi^ the open
market today.

TO FARM BUREAU MEMBERS $11.00

TO NON-FARM BUREAU MEMBERS . $13.00

Send your order early, through your county Farm
Bureau. Cash must accompany order. These blankets
will be sold out inunediately. No more to be ntade by
the I. A. A.

L A. A. LIVESTOCK MARKETING DEPARTMENT
608 South Dearborn Street, Cfaicaco

MARSHALL-PUTNAM
BEATS MORGAN IN
CHAMPIONSHIP TILT

Galesburg District Winners
Tromce Morgan County
Baseball Team After An
All- Victorious Seaaoa I - ak I

Visitors at the I. A. A. picnic in
Lincoln had the opportunity to
witness the first Farm Bureau
baseball championship ever played
in Illinois and perhaps in the en-
tire United States.

In the morning an exhibition
game was scheduled between Cass
and Logan county Farm Bureau
teams but Menard county substi-
tuted for Cass and took the small
end of a 14 to 2 score. The game
was one-sided but seired the pur-
pose of warming up the rooters
for the afternoon tussle.

Baseball fans were in their nat-
ural element in the afternoon as
they watched Marshall - Putnam
Farm Bureau give Morgan county
a drubbing to the tune of 6 to 0
and walk off with the Illinois
Farm Bureau Baseball champion-
ship, after an all-victorious sea-
son.

Ideal ItaaebaU We«thw

With an ideal baseball setting.
90 in the shade and the Kun burn-
ing down with Intensity, l)oth
teams got warmed into form early
in the game. The Morgan boys
batted first and threatened to score
after a combination of two bungles
by .Marshall-Putnam inflelders and
two scratch bits but Halblibe and
his team mates settled down and
worked out of a hole.

Again in the second inning Mor-
gan got a runner on third only to
have him die there as the result
of a fast double play, Halblibe to
Clausen to W. Griffith.

The first three innings the
Marshall-Putnam batters faced
the Morgan county pitcher they
walked quite regularly back to
the bench. They bit the ball but
it always landed in a Morgan
player's hands. But true to the
prediction of s Marshall-Putnam
player the champions of the north
end of the state opened up a
barrage of hits and base running
in the fourth inning that resulted
in 3 runs.

Score in Sixth

After that inning the game be-
longed to the champions. Their
hits came again in the sixth inn-
ing when safeties meant runs.
The scoring ended after the sec-
ond onslaught of the winners
and for two and a half innings
both teams exhibited good base-
ball for the fans.

MAUSHAU--1'LTXAM

AB R H P A K

Litchfield, of < (1 (I « 0 0

Glenn. SB 4 0 16 4 1

W. Griffith, lb 4 2 I 1« (I 11

Wallace, c 3 2 0 2 1 n

B. Criffltii. ir 4 1 1 t 0 0

Clausen. 2b 1 1 2 2 s l

Thompson, rf 2 0 n i n ii >

Seibert. tb > 0 1 4 o 0

Halblibe. p. 3 0 0 0 S 0

Total 30 C 8 27 14 2

MORGAN

AB R H P A E

Daniels, e 4 0 1 6 S 0

Anderson, of 4 0 0 0 0 1)

H. Jewsbury. If .. . . 3 0 0 2 0 0

C. Jewsbury. 3b.. 3 0 1 0 1 l

Fox. ss 3 0 0 0 0 0

CI. Jewsbury. p... 3 0 1 2 f o

\V, Jewsbury. lb.. 3 o o 12 o ii

Hohnian. 2b 2 0 0 2 4 0

Kumley. rf ■ ■ ■ 3 0 0 10 0

Total 2! 0 J 24 14 I

Score by Innings: R H R

Marshall-Pufm ..000 303 OOx « 8 "

Morgan 000 000 000 0 3 1

2b hits: C. Jewsbury. B. Grlffth.
Sfibert; Struck out by Jewsbury 8-
Hiises on balls, off Jewsbury. 1; Dou-
bl'- Playt B. Griffith to Wallace. Hal-
blibe. Clausen. ^V. Griffith; Hit by
pitched ball. Fox: Stol.n bases w
Griffith. 2; Passed ball. Daniels; 8»c-
rlflce hits. H. Jewsbury. Thompson
Lmplre, Jacobs. Jordan.

Dairymen Getting

Less Than In 1923

Illinois dairymen, on the aver-
age, are receiving six cents less
per pound for butter this August
than they did in August, 1923
according to A. D. Lynch, direc-
tor of the I. A. A. dairy market-
ing department. Each week 120
dairy farmers in 44 Illinois coun-
ties report by mail the current
price of butter fat In their lo-
calities. This dau gives Lynch
a check on the effectiveness of
the 15 co-operative dairy aeen-
cies in Illinois and shows what
various cream buying companies
are paying in different localities
Farm bureau members receive
this information through their
county farm advisers.

Page 4

The niinoU Agricultural Association Record

AuKwt 30. 1924

FAIR VISITORS SEE
ARRAY OF EXHIBITS
BY FARM BUREAUS

First Prize Goes To Wills

County; Grundy Second;

Kendall Third ; Some

nJob To Pick Winners

Thousands of visitors at the
Central States Fair and Exposi-
tion, at Aurora, who studied the
exhiljtts of 12 county farm bu-
reaus, came away convinced of
the linvaluable worth of the
county Farm Bureau unit.

The 12 Farm Bureau exhibits
arranged in a group in the wom-
en's building made up a display
reprflsentatiTe of Farm Bureau
workl in Illinois aad furnished
farml^rs and their families a
bird's eye view of constructive
farnii practices and activities.

wills County Farm Bureau,
with an exhibit showing the com-
parison of corn produced from dis-
ease free seed and disease fret-
soil, took first prize. The display
showted the results of careful se-
lection ^r disease free seed, both
as to quality of corn produced
and as to yield per acre. Methods
of conducting germination tests,
keeping of records and samples i
of corn root rot and other dis-
eases were included in the blue|
ribbon exhibit.

j Exhibit in Motion

Gtundy county which styled it-i
self as "The Sweet Clover County |
won, 2nd on a unique exhibit dis-j
Dlaving sweet clover as the "key
to 'soil fertility." A miniature
threshing outfit which was actual-
ly l3 motion added reality to the
array of pictures, signs, samples
and banners.

Kindall county took 3rd place
on its exhibit showing the effect
of using limestone in building up
soil and producing crops. In com-
parison to the wise use of lime-
stone the disastrous effect upon
the soil of not using limestone to
produce legume crops was shown.

Telling the story of the largest
cow testing association in Illinois,
the Boone County Farm Bureau
took 4th prize. The display showed
the equipment, methods of sam-
pling and weighing, organization,
wavs of shipping and other details
in testing association work.
Champaign Cleans Up

Champaign county, the home of
the original certified Manchu va-
riety of soy bean seed, cleaned up
1st 2nd, 3rd and 4th on certified
seed- Ist. 2nd and 3rd on uncerti-
fied seed and annexed 5th prize
among the county exhibits. Paul
Butlin of Seymour, who won
sweepstakes last fall in competi-
tion with samples from all parts of
the United States and Canada, got
Ist prize on the certified samples.

Kane county, the county of
community clubs, displayed an ex-
hibit which illustrated the four
objects of a community club: De-
velopment of local talent for lead-
ership, a community spirit, an
agricultural program and a com-
munity social life.

Real samples of ideal poultry
raising practices were on display
in the DuPage county booth. Sam-
ples of unbalanced rations, mon-
grel fiocks and inadequate housing
facilities were compared to model
methods of poultry production.

The Bureau county exhibit was
another that showed by picture
and banner how the Farm Bureau
and home bureau works through
boys' and girls' clubs to develop
the four objects of community
clubs.

The DeKalb booth was another
that emphasized the importance
of using only pure, clean seeds.
Samples of hay crops and grain
crops made up the exhibit.

An exhibit portraying the dan-
gers to human health from bovine
tuberculous, the methods of erad-
ication and the progress made in
McHenry county was displayed
by the McHenry County Farm
Bureau.

The LaSalle county corner dem-
onstrated the road to profit in hog
production by vaccination to pre-
vent cholera.

The Whiteside county booth
told the world that its county
l>elieves "it pays to advertise."
The exhibit was a small school in
journalism, telling the story of
the Whiteside County Farm Bu-
reau through its weekly paper,
The Whiteside County Farmer.

Nam (>. Nmlth, .\nchor, and R
horaeHhor pitehera of McLean eou
Bureau chanplonalilp cup.

aben G. Bright, HudNon, orack
ntr. wlnnera of the atnte Farm

MURPHY OUTLINES

FARMERS' STATUS

(Continued from page 1)

Agricultural Association picnic
We are in solemn conference this
day because your inalienable
rights have been invaded. Not
only you, but all agricultural
people find themselves today in
economic bondage by rea.son of
the projection across the current
of the natural flow of economic
laws of artificial obstructions and
interferences which have resulted
in material advantage to labor,
industry and commerce, and to
corresponding disadvantages to
the nation's basic industry. Our
agricultural purposes are peace
ful, but at the same time de
termined and just."

McXary-Haugen Bill Sound

Continuing, Mr. Murphy stated
that the principle of the Mc
Nary-Haugen bill was sound and
that the American Council of
Agriculture is going to keep the
principle from becoming the foot-
ball of partisan politics.

Under the present economic
structure of our country, he said
that 40,000,000 farmers, 35 per
cent of the nation's population,
is wearing economic chains. He
gave his reasons for the failure
of- the McNary-Haugen bill; told
of the sincerity of the funda
mental cause; pointed out that
the case of agriculture should be
stated clearly, that the people
want the truth, and that the
fault with our economic structure
should be attributed to the na-
tion's statesmen. He said that
the farmer's production cannot
be controlled but that industry
and labor have means of con-
trolling their production.

At the Whiteside County Fair
a Better Baby Conference will be
conducted by the Whiteside Coun
ty Tuberculosis Society. Empha-
sis is placed upon the fact that
this is a conference, not a con
test, and that children not so
strong will Be as welcome as the
stronger ones.

Toll.*

BIGGEST

LMR^r

Marshall-Pntnam Farm Bureau

recently conducted a boys' and
girls' calf club tour. Several
farms in the two counties were
visited where cattle judging dem-
onstrations were made.

Several limestone com|Minies are

giving free, aside from freight
charges, five tons of limestone to
each of 65 Montgomery county
boys who belong to an alfalfa club

Ftirni AdvUer ('heokl^r of
|j«Kun county, n heel home on
the Htnte picnii' eommittee,
appointed three mlnlaterii In
Lincoln to pick out the "Bls-
areMt L,lar No Far** In the I.
A. A. RK<'ORD Llara* Con-
teMt. It waM decided that D.
<'. Shepler, a real, honeiit-to-
KoodneMM, public aplrlted

Morker of the I.OKran CoontT'
Farm Bureau, ■hould have
the IN-lneh tin medal with
the adorning thr^e yards of
purple ribbon (ahown above)
aH his award for the entrrt
*'I never told a He."

Adviser ('heckle^ made the
award during: the comntaBlty
■Iniclnic and the Picnic Edi-
tion of the KKCORU con-
tained a bl|c Htory about it.
The Mtory quoted one of the
nilnlHtera a« foilowsi **There
was coHMlderable apparent
and Intentional lack of dls-
hone«ty In the batch of falae-
hoodn.**

I nfortunatelr. Mr. Shepler
frot run over by an auto dur-
ing the mornlna: and nearly
fcot laid up In the hoapltal.
HIa mlafortnne nearly

wrecked the conaplracy.

Listen In!

PAUM PROGRAM RADIO

Over KYW — Wave Length 536
Central Standard Time 7:20
On Sept. 5. J. L. Whisnand.
I. A. A. executive committeeman
and chairman of the I. A. A. edu-
cational committee, will talk on,
"The Farmers' Educational Pro-
gram." Mr. Whisnand is ex-
perienced in Illinois school prob-
lems, having taught school and
once serving as county superin-
tendent of 8Cl\pol8.

C. V. Gregory, editor of the
Prairie Farmer, talking on the
I. A. A. program the night of
Sept. 16. will tell of. "School
Days."

On the last I. .A. A. program
for the month will be Arthur C.
Page, Editor, Orange Judd Illi-
nois Farmer, who will review.
"What We Saw at the State Fair
This Week."

September 2 — "I. A. A. News Re-
view." by the Department of In-
formation of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association.

■What the Colt Clubs are Doing^."
by Wayne Dinsmore. Secretary,
Horse Association of America.

September 5 — "Farmers Educa-
tional Program." by J. L. Whis-
nand of the Executive Committee
of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation.

"First Live Stock Shlpplng^ Asso-
ciation in Illinois," by Paul A. Pot-
ter, Assistant Editor, Orange Judd
Illinois Farmer.

September 9 — 'A Hint to the
Housewife." by Miss Gudrun Carl-
son. Institute of American Heat
Packers, under the auspices of tiie
National Live Stock and Meat
Board.

"Vour Community," by J. W.
Coverdale, Secretary. American
Farm Bureau Federation.

September 12 — "How My Boys
Profit by Club Work," by J. R.
Howard, former president of the
American Farm Bureau Federation.

"What to Do With Soft Corn."
by L. C Brown, of Cook County
Farmers' Institute and Editorial
Staff of the Orange Judd Illinois
Farmer.

September 16 — "With the Farm
Bureau East of the Alleghenles,"
by E. P. Cohlll. of the American
Farm Bureau Federation Execu-
1 i \ e Committee and president of
i])t> Maryland Farm Bureau Federa-
tion.

■School Days." by C. V. Gregory,
l-Mitor of Prairie Farmer.

September 19 — "Boys' and Girls'
I'lub Work in the South." by H. J.
Sr hwiet*Tt. General Development
AK^t'nt. Illinois Central Railroad.

■What We Saw at the State Fair
This Week." by Arthur C. Page.
Editor, Orange Judd Illinois Farm-
er.

September 23 — "Monthly Analysis
of Farm Markets." by H. W. Moor-
house, of the Howard -Moorhouse
Agricultural Business Service.

"Vocational Agricultural Train-
ing." by Dr. C. H. Lane. Chief.
Agricultural Education Service.
Federal Board for Vocational Edu-
cation. Washington, D. C.

September 26 — "Transportation of
Farm Products," by O. W. Sand-
berg. Director of Transportation,
American Farm Bureau Federation.

Talk on Vocational Education by
Dr. C. H. Lane. Chief Agricultural
Education Service. Federal Board
for Vocational Education, Wash-
ington. D. C.

September 30 — "Please Help Your-
self." by John A. tCotal. Secretary,
United Master Butchers of Ameri-
ca, under auspices of the National
Live Stock and Meat Board.

"Observations -of the Growth of
Boys* and Girls' Club Work." by
John W. Coverdale. Secretary of
the Grain Marketing Company.

RAIN DIDNT KEEP
FARMERS AWAY FROM
21ST DISTRICT MEET

r

Algonquin, III.
August 27, 1924.
The III. Agricultural Att'n.,
608 South Dearborn,
Chicago, III.
Dear Sirs: —

The Canada thistles that
I wrote you about on the
C. a N. W. Ry. have all been
cut and they made a clean
Job of It.

Am very much obliged for
your prompt action In this
matter.

Yours truly,

(Signed) B. B. Stewart.

John C. Watson, I. A. A. direc-
tor of taxation and statistics,
will attend the national tax con-
ference in St. Louis, Sept. 15 to
19. This meeting is attended by
taxation administrators of vari-
ous states and cities and by
teachers, students and professors
of economics. It has been an
annual affair for the last 15
years.

Dick Denzlg won the homely
man contest at the Marshall-
Putnam Farm Bureau picnic. The
pig-calling prize went to Louis
Boyle.

Seventy - two Farm Bure*u

Representative* Discuss

Various Problems; Bos«t

Area Testing for T. B.

A downpour of rain wasn't
enough, to prevent farm bureau
executive committeemen and dele-
gates from attending the 21st dis-
trict conference at TaylorviUe,
August 20. Seventy-two farmers
from Macoupin, Montgomery.
Christian and Sangamon counties
plowed through mud in their cars
or came by train to TaylorviUe
for the meeting.

R. A. Cowles, treasurer of the
I. A. A., made a short talk in the
forenoon explaining the present
status of the Grain Marketing
Company and the position of the
I. A. A. toward the big merger.
To safeguard its 63,000 Illinois
farm bureau members, the I. A. A.
has maintained a neutral and
open-minded stand on the new
grain company, he said. A thor-
ough investigation by the best
legal counsel available is now be-
ing made by the Association. This
investigation is made as a matter
of sound business practice and not
particularly with the intention of
prejudicing I. A. A. members
against the grain company.

Eat Free Dinner

After the morning meeting the
slxty-flve farm bureau boosters
were treated to a real farm bu-
reau dinner in the Methodist
church. The meal was "on" the
Christian County Farm Bureau,
smokes and all.

Variety was the spice of the af-
ternoon meeting. Mr. Cowles re-
viewed the organization of the
American Council of Agriculture,
giving as the purpose of the
Council, "to secure economic
equality for agriculture with cap-
ital and labor." The widely scat-
tered character of the industry,
the millions of individuals In-
volved, and the impossibility of
limiting production were given by
Mr. Cowles as the reasons why
agriculture has not been unified
as have labor and capital.

The Council aims to overcome
this natural obstruction to unifica-
tion by legislative protection for
farmers such as labor and capital
have enjoyed from laws which
allow them to compete in Ameri-
can protected markets.

Want Kfflcient Service

Sam Sorrells, executive com-
mitteeman for the 2 Ist district,
reviewed the activities of the I.
A. A. as they affect farmers of
central Illinois. The sentiment
of the general discussion which
followed was to require more
efficient service from the I. A.
A. and its several departments
without establishing additional
departments or projects.

Short talks on area testing for
tuberculosis were made by county
veterinarians Hess of Montgomery
county and Montgomery of Chris-
tian countj^. Farmers who took
part in the discussion of the
tuberculosis eradication problems
were united in endorsing a con-
tinuance of the campaign against
bovine taberculosis.

The following names were
taken in answer to the roll call:

Macoupin County: J. F. Leeper, C.
H. Leeper. E. L,eeper, J. P. Enslow.
L. C. Bates, Dale Dewii, G. W,
Wrightman, H. J. Shultz, C. M.
Shultz. W. A. Shultz. H. W. Reis,
E. W. Rusk and Roy Bates. Total IJ.

Montgomery County: R. E. Gifford.
A. E. Satterlee. H. G. Lingle. Walter
Satterlee. Alden Snyder. W. H. Turn-
er. Lewis Lessman. Howard Turner,
Sam SorrellB, H. A. Cress, Dr. Geo.
Hess. Geo. C. Simon and wife, M. E.
Roberts and wife. Total IB.

Sangamon County: John Stout, F.
L. Stout. I. A. Madden. A. D. Van
Meter, J. F. Greenwood and wife,
Fred Darcy. Total 1.

Christian County: Glenn Hunter.
C R. McCloskey. G. A. Wacker. M.
C. Durbln, Dwight Hart. T. A. Os-
termeier, Harold Gordon. Elmer
Waddell. Bart Hall. Wm. Pearson.
George Spates, Elmer Gebiiart. Nel-
son Waddle, Chris Munzenmaler,
Fay Hubbard, C. W. Rayhill, C. B.
Norris. Frank Kincaid. Wm. Shan-
non. Frank Garwood, E. E. McVick-
er. T. H. Langen, Ray Beaty. Wm.
Palmer H. E. Kendle. Andrew Bur-
gess. J. H. Gebhart. C. E. Hay, L. E.
Naah, R. R. Shepherd, H. S. Arm-
strong. Henry Kessler, Wm. Engel-
man. Con Curtin. W. A. Mateer. Wm.
Shaw and Dr. R. S. Montgomery.
Total S7.

t 30, 1984

EP

TFROM
CT MEET ^1

Bureau (
i ( c u I *
k;Boi«t I

•T. B.

•ain wasn't
irm bureau

n and dele-
he 2l8t diB-
TaylorvlUe,
wo farmers
ilontgomery,
[on counties
n their cars

Taylorville

surer of the
talk in the
the present
Marlccting
ition of the
big merger.
000 Illinois
, the I. A. A.
leutral and
)n the new
id. A thor-
the best
_ is now be-
eiation. This
as a matter
;tice and not
intention of
I. members
apany.

meeting the
au boosters
al farm bu-
! Methodist
as "on" the
rm Bureau,

ce of the at-
. Cowies re-
tion of the
Agriculture,
lose of the
economic
re with cap-
widely scat-
he industry,
liTiduals in-
>088ibility of
ere given by
reasons why
been uni&ed
ipital.

to overcome
on to uniflca-
rotection for
r and capital
laws which
!te in Amerl-
U.

Service

jcutive com-
21st district,
es of the I.
t farmers of
le sentiment
ission which
equlre more
n the I. A.
departments
; additional
ects.

•a. testing for
.de by county
t Montgomery
ery of Chris-
rs who took
sion of the
ion problems
trsing a con-
paign against

names were
the roll call:

. F. Leeper, C.
J. P. Enslow.
Dews. Q. W.
ihultz. C. M.
H. W. Rels.
iates. Total 13.
: R. E. Glfford.
Lingle. Walter
r. W. H. Turn-
oward Turner,
resB. Dr. Geo.
nd wife, M. E.
tal 15.

John Stout, F.
in. A. D. Van
}od and wife,

r.

31enn Hunter.
^. Wacker. M.
art. T. A. Os-
ordon, Elmer
Wm. Pearson,

Gebhart. Nel-

Munzenmaier.

Rayhlll, C. B.
d. Wm. Shan-
E. E. McVlck-
y Beaty, Wm.

Andrew Bur-
. E. Hay, L. E.
i, H. S. Arm-
r, Wm. Ensel-
^. Mateer. Wm.
Montgomery,

■^^I 'vNT&yn
' SI owmi do i.xi s-di Aiwn . ..,.

Volume 2

bsued Every Other Saturday — Septonber 13, 1924

Number 18

FARMERS PAY 70
PER CENT SCHOOL
TAX, SURVEY SHOWS

I. A. A. Investigate* 200 Du-

tricU; Send 10,000 Que^

tionaires To Determine

Rural Viewpoint

That fully 70 per cent of the
community and township high
school taxes in Illinois is paid by
farmers is information disclosed
by a. report covering an all-sum-
mer sur\'ey of the Illinois farm-
ers' educational problem made by
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion in co-operation with the Illi-
nois ESducational Commission which
was created by the Illinois legis-
lature to go over the entire school
situation, make investigations,
formulate recommendations and
report its findings to the next
meeting of the General Assembly.

The report, which draws this
particular information from the
books of county clerks in 35
counties, further shows that al-
though Illinois farmers pay 70
per cent of the community and
township high school taxes, they
furnish but 40 per cent of the
high school pupils. The 35 coun-
ties where investigations were
made represent fully one-half of
the community and township high
schools in the state.

Survey Not Complete

Out of the 100 school districts
reported upon, three districts
showed that city people paid more
than their proportionate share of
the taxes. Only three showed ur-
ban and country folks paying
equally. In the 94 remaining dis-
tricts, the farmers paid much
more than their share as is indi-
cated by the 70 per cent average
for the 100 districts reported
upon. Further information will
be available when data is sum-
marized on another 100 school
districts investigated this sum-
mer, although the first 100 is
taken as representative of the
entire state.

It was the aim of the Illinois
Agricultural Association, through
its educational committee consist-
ing of J. L. Whisnand, Charles-
ton, chairman: A. C. Everingham,
Hutsonville and E. W. Rusk of
Carlinville, to determine where
and bow the farmer stands on the
school question.

Use 10,000 Questionaires

Ten thousand questionaires
were mailed to Illinois farm bu-
reau members in 94 counties of
the state by Dr. G. W. Wlllett,
superintendent of the Lyons
County High School at La Grange,
111., who was employed to manage
the investigation in connection
with certain research work of his
at the University of Michigan. In
addition, a University of Chicago
student in education, C. B. Al-
thaus, was engaged to investigate
personally the farmers' angle by
visiting as many school districts
as possible during the summer.

He investigated nearly 200
school districts in 35 counties
ranging from Pulaski in the south
to the Wisconsin line in the north.
With his personal invesfigatlons
plus a htgh percentage of returns
from the 10,000 queries to farm-
ers furnishing authentic data, the
report is given high praise by W.
W. Lewton, chairman of the Illi-
nois Educational Commission, as
being the most complete and ob-
viously valuable information ever
obtained on the Illinois educa-
tional situation.

Problems Interest Farmers

In summarizing the informa-
tion revealed by the questionaires
sent to farmers. Dr. Wlllett set
down the following points:
(Continued on pftge 4)

HOW THE I. A. A. PROCEEDS

Farmers' Auditing
Co-op Establishes
Spring^eld Branch

On Sept. 1 the Illinois Agri-
cultural Co-operatives .Association,
the farmers co-operative audit-
ing company, opened in the Sang-
amon County Farm Bureau office,
in Springfield, the first of several
district offices which are to be
established throughout the state.

The opening of the branch office
in Springfield is in keeping witli
a plan to c<>ntralize activities of
the auditing association by dis-
tricts, according to Geo. R.TVick-
er, general manager of the co-op.
Organization by districts will also
minimize traveling expenses in-
curred in the routine of making
audits for farmers' co-operatives.

The I. A, C, A. headquarters
will remain permanently in Chi-
cago. Since its organization the
association has directed opera-
tions from its central office with
the I. A. A.

With the membership of the
auditing co-operative now past 60,
more farmers' organizations are
making application for the serv-
ice. As development makes it
necessary other district offices will
be established, until every section
of the state has the services of
expert auditing and accounting,
according to Mr. Wicker. A
branch office will be opened in
the northwest district sometime
this fall, probably at Ro«kford or
Freeport.

F. .*. Gougler, director of the
poultry and egg marketing de-
partment is the proud father of
Mr. Gougler, Jr., a recent arrival
at the Gougler home. Thanks for
the cigars, old top!

Four and one-half per rent is

the new rate that intermediate
credit banks will charge co-op-
erative marketing associations.

I.A.A. SPEAKERS HND
FARM BUREAU SPIRIT
RUNS AT HIGH LEVEL

Thompson, Everingham, Bar-
ton and Metzger Talk At i
Many Meetings; Baseball :
Is Feature

Four speakers. President Sam
H. Thompson, Quincy: Frank D.
Barton, Cornell; A. C. Evering-
ham, Hutsonville; and G. E. Meti-
ger. I. A. A. organization director,
have spoken at more Farm Bu-
reau picnics than any other fox^r
men in the state, judging frofti
the I. A. A. speakers bureau date
list.

Farm Bureau picnic attendanoe
has l)een larger this year, on tlie
average, than tor any year ac-
cording to A. C. Everingham.

"Baseball has been a popular
feature this year," said Mr. Ever-
ingham. "The crowds, taken as
a whole, have been the largest; I
have ever had.

•'I don't think tlio spirit and morale
of the Farm Bureau was ever bet-
ter than was indicated at the pic-
nics at whicli I Bpolte," he said, i

Mr. Everin.gham has spoken at 12
county picnics and has three still
on his list.

His picnics have l>een as follows:

Ettiaiatad

Date Caunty Town AtttntfauM

Jul.v 4— La Salle— Ottawa J.OtO

Aueiiat 14 — Calhonn— Hardin 2.r*o

ir — Greene— Whitehall l.SBO

in— Knox— Galeaburg (S.OiM

cars) SO.OpO

21 — Cumberland — Greenup . . . wn

»!— Menard— Old Salem 1.3)0

£3 — Henderson— Burlinftton,

Iowa l.-TDC

27- Gallatin— Rldjrway :!.C|00

28 — JaclEson — Murphy8lK>rt> . . 3.000

29— Warren- Monmouth a.dOO

3fl — Brovn — Mt. Sterling i.m

Sept. li — Hancock — Carthase — |—

17— DeWltt— Clinton

27 — Mercer— Aledo i

rresident Sam H. Thompson has

spoken at three county pl<-nic8 as

follows: EatiiaatM

Data Couaty Taoa AttM<a«e«

August 20 — \S'hlteslde — Morrison S.iJOO

27 — Lawrence — ^Bridgpolt . . -.»—

28 — Coles — Charleston — , —

(Continued on page 4)

Springfield Milk
Co-op Prepares For
Marketing Contract

At a recent meeting of the
organizing board of directors of
the Springfield Co-operative Milk
Producers Association a set of
by-laws and a marketing agree-
ment were considered and adopt-
ed. A. D. Lynch, director of the
I. A. A. dairy marketing depart-
ment met with the board and
assisted in analyzing and explain-
ing the practical working princi-
ples of a marketing agreement.

The association is not yet in-
corporated and will not be chart-
ered until a certain number of
producers, representing a major-
ity of the milk tributaries to the
Springfield market, have signed
the association agreement and
taarketing contract.

The milk producers at Spring-
field lia\e been organized in-
foniially for the last five years,
according to Mr. Lynch, who be-
lieves thoroughly in the princi-
ple of "looking before leaping" in
organizing co-operative associa-
tions. In this time they have
learned to work together, have
developed leadership and have
learned that their organization
was not quite solid enough to
give the best results. With the
period of experimenting safely
passed, Mr. Lynch believes the
Springfield dairymen are ready
for a new, closely unified co-op-
erative under the co-operative
marketing act.

PEORU couimr tax

HGHT RAGES WHILE
CUT IS "PENDING"

City-Manned Board of Review

Distrusts Watson's Figures;

He Offers to Leave Data

With a Conunittee

The Twin City Milk Prodncers

Association, a farmers' coopera-
tive which pools more than 80
per cent of the milk produced in
the Twin City section, recently
made contracts with all the dis-
tributors of St. Paul and Minne-
apolis, under which the pool will
supply all ' the milk used by the
distributors.

The battle between the Peoria
County Farm Bureau and the
Board of Review wages merrily
on. The Board of Review has
fired a volley at the Peoria County
Farm Bureau in the city newspa-
pers in an effort to win public,
and especially city, favor. The
Peoria County Farm Bureau, in
turn, has stated its position
through the newspapers of the
county; but the 11 per cent re-
duction on farm land valuations is
still "pending." The Board of
Review consists of three city men.

Auk 11 Per Cent Cut

Following an investigation by
John C. Watson, I. A. A. statisti-
cian and authority on taxes. In
which careful comparison of sales
values of city and country real es-
tate in Peoria county were made,
the Peoria County Farm Bureau
asked the Board of Review for an
11 per cent average cut IVi the as-
sessed valuations on farm land£.
This reduction in rural land val-
uation was calculated to equalize
taxes on town lots and countrj'
lands.

ElBht)-flve members of the
Farm Burea*i filed legal com-
plaints against' the unjust differ-
ence in real estate values and were
later called in before the Peoria
County Board of Review for hear-
ings. In the hearing before the
Board these men stated that their
complaint was that the scale of
valuations between city real estate
and farm land was not equal for
taxation purposes.

The Board of Review challenged
the difference of 11 per cent as
stated in the complaints filed bv
Farm Bureau members and asked
Mr. Watson to return and explain
his method of measuring the dis-
parity. On the first available date.
Aug. 15, he returned to Peoria for
this purpose, but found that the
Board of Review had arranged to
be in the country that day. He
appeared again on Aug. 19, which
was the first of- two days when
land owners who had filed com-
plaints Were called in bv the
Board.

Watxon Exidains Method

In showing how he arrived at
his conclusions, Mr. Watson cited
opinions from leading authorities
on property tax, and the practice
of tax administrators in Connecti-
cut, Wisconsin, Kansas and other
states. The same method was in
use in Illinois under former Gov-
ernor Lowden's administration.
Mr. Watson contended that the
method used by the Farm Bureau
was the only one which avoided
estimates of values by persons
who were thinking of tax valua-
tions when they made their esti-
mates, that if fairly used it would
disclose the facts with approxi-
mate accuracy, and that the Farm
Bureati. and the Illinios Agricul-
tural Association had used thip
method fairly.

SavlBK of •le.SOO

The fact is that for stale ai..
county taxes alone, allowinir for ai
increaae in county rates sufflrient t.
produce the same amount of t«v
Ll!r '!*'' ,'''^";f "' >*'"■' to land own-
t^Ll",^""''''^ county which would
come from an average reduction of
11 per cent in valuation, of farro
lands would amount to more tkVl^

*,l*JZi.'^l. "*»■• •" P^rTa-'coin"

farmera. Nor would savlnr h« «

.trlcted to Stat. and"cou„'ty'";.rd;

(CoDtiQuftd on pafa s>

PMe2

The IDinott Asrncultural AMOciadon Record

Septendier 13, 1984

\^m iiiiiiNOis m
^▼"RECORPPV"

Pablished every other Saturday by the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association. 608 South Dearborn Street. Chicago.
Illinois. Edited by Department of Information, H. C.
B«tcber, Director.

Entered as second class matter Oct. 10. 1921. at the post
office at Chicago. Illinois, under the act of March 3. 1879.
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage pro-
vided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, auttaor-
lied Oct. »1. 1981.

Tke indlTldnal membership fee of the Illinois Arglcul-
turml Association is fire dollars a year. This fee Includes
payment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois Ac-
rlcultural Association Record.

OFFICERS
Preaident, 9. H. Thompson, Qaincf. I I

Vice-President, C. B. Watson, DelUlb. ' '

I Treasurer, B. A. Cowles, Bloomlngton.

i Secretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore.

I BXECCTrVECOMMTPrKB , I 1

I By Congressional Districts ' '

lltb {... Jacob Olbrlch, Harvard

13th j. ,... G. F. Tullock, Rockford

13tli C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron

ISth ' H, E. Gocmbel, Hooppole

Kth i , A. R. Wright, Varna

17th ...P.'D. Barton, Cornsll

18th.... .1...' R. F. Karr, iroquola

19th J. L. Whisnand, Charlsston

aoth Eari C. Smith, Detroit

21st Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd Stanley Castle, Alton

23rd J. E. Llngenf alter, Lawrencevlile

24th ..Curt Anderson, Xania

2Sth ...Vsman Leaalsy, Sparta

I Directors of Departments

! I. A. A. Office

General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker;
Organization, G. E. Metzger; Information, H.C. Butcher,
Transportation, L. J, Quasey, Statistics, J. C. Watson;
FInsnce, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, WM. E. Hedgcock;
Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R. Bent; In charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A.
Gougler; special representative on Tuberculosis Eradi-
cation, M. H. Petersen; Legal Counsel, Donald Kirk-
Patrick; Cooperative Accounting, Gbo. R. Wicker.

An Explanation

The American Farm Bureau Federation News
Letter, which goes to county agents or fann ad-
visers and Farm Bureau workers all over the na-
tion, carried a statement in its issue of last week
tfcat "the chairman of the Illinois Grain Market-
ing Committee, H. E. Goembel, sent his wheat to
this company", meaning The Grain Marketing
CJompany.

J Mr. Goembel states emphatieallj' that he did not
ship his grain to The Grain Marketing Company.
He states that he shipped to .James E. Bennett &
Oo. and The Grain Marketing Company bought the
carload on the Chicago Board of Trade.

As chairman of the I. A. A. Grain Marketing
committee, Mr. Goembel wants if understood that
hj» is in full accord with the st$nd taken by the
Illinois Agricultural As.sociatinn in ifs demand for
essential facts before attempting to determine the
Association's attitude toward the promotion of The
Grain Marketing Company in the state.
! "I had a conference with Mr. Coverdale cover-
ing certain phases of the I. A. A. investigation,"
(>Kplains Mr. Goembel. "Durilig our conversa-
tion, Mr. Coverdale mentioned that The Grain
Marketing Company was haiuHiii^ considerable
wet grain and that it was being processed at a low
cost. I was interested in what It would cost me
to get my grain processed. He said that if I would
give him the number of the car, he would have it
traced and a check on the various costs made.
But I did not ship to The Grain Marketing Com-
pany— the car was bought by them on the Board
of Trade."

{-\

Driving Around

! G. E. Metzger, organization director, tells the
following story:

"I sometimes feel that a great many farmers get
to the point where they do a great deal like a
friend of mine who bought a new Ford. I met
t^ friend some time ago, and I asked him:

"How is the new Lizf"

" 'Oh, just fine,' he said.

"How far have you driven itf " I asked him.

" 'Four thousand miles.' j . ,

"How long have you had itT ( : j j:

" 'Four months'. '

' "You must have been on a long trip to have
4riven your car 4,000 miles in four months.
1 " 'No, I haven't been on a trip. I haven't been
4nywhere. I have just been driviag around.'
' "I sometimes think that quite often we farmers
(iperate for a period of weeks, or months, or some-
tiines years, and suddenly wake up to the fact that
we have just been driving around."

We're Starting Something

In the column to the right and under the head-
ing "The Voice of the Members" are a few let-
ters from members and former members telling
their views.

"The Voice of the Members" column is new with
this issue of the RECORD. Maybe we are start-
ing something we can't finish, but we don't think
so. We think Farm Bureau folks will make good
use of the column.

The membership is cordially invited to express
opinions in this column. And it is not our inten-
tion to censor the material printed under its head-
ing. Constructive criticism is best. Destructive
criticism helps get a load off somebody's chest, but
.it does not build. The I. A. A. needs builders, and
the builders are the members.

Let us call a spade a spade, and take the opin-
ions for what, they are worth. What do you think
of Mr. Wienecke's suggestion in his letter? Let
us have YOUR opinions.

I Vote or Shut Up ';

A LTniversity of Chicago professor who has just
returned from a trip in Europe, where he made
observations along lines of political economics, re-
ports that the ideal republic of today is Czecho-
Slov.akia.

And the reason for this is that every voter must
vote or pay a fine, he tells us.

Here in the United States we would not miss
the revenue we lost when the Volstead act went
in if we collected a dollar from every eligible voter
who failed to vote.

Every person who has the right should vote.
And this applies to Farm Bureau members par-
ticularly. As recognized leaders in agriculture,
Farm Bureau members should make it their patri-
otic duty to "have a say" on election day.

Vote or shut up'.

Be Ready To Antwer

Get ready to answer questions on the Farm Bu-
reau, folks! For there's an essay contest coming,
and when the school students start writing essays,
they'll be prodding all of us for "dope". The
subjects for this nation-wide contest are: "Why
dad should belong to the Farm Bureau" or "Why
dad is a Farm Bureau member."

Get ready to answer questions, folks, for we will
all be in this contest. The kids will be in the front
line trenches and parents, school teachers, farm
advisers and the rest of us re-inforcing them with
ammunition.

Keep your powder dry by being ready to answer
questions.

Getting Together

To bring about better co-operation and under-
standing between the leaders in the Illinois Grain
Dealers Association, representing the farmers' el-
evators of the state to which many Farm Bureair^
members are associated, and the leaders in the Il-
linois Agricultural Association, an all-day confer-
ence between the two groups is being called jointly
for October 2, the day preceding the next regular
T. A. A. executive committee meeting.

A more complete understanding, which is con-
ducive to whole-hearted co-operation, should result
from this meeting. The personal contact between
the two bodies of men, plus an airing of views by
both, will do much to bring the farmers' elevators
and the Farm Bureau where they belong — closer
together. j • . ' • •- ;

I The Voter's Yardstick

Farm Bureau members ask the I. A. A. WHO
they should vote for. The I. A. A. is absolutely,
definitely and infallibly non-partisan. Let that be
understood.

But, WHAT Farm Bureau members should vote
for is different. Every candidate for state or na-
tional oflSce should be measured with the yard stick
of equality for agriculture.

The American Council of Agriculture is taking
steps to see that candidates for such offices are
pledged to help agriculture obtain equality with
industry and labor. Equality for agriculture is an
economic question and it is the intention of the
Council that it shall not become the football of par-
tisan politics.

Stand your equality for agriculture measuring
stick up alongside your candidate. Is he a friend
to agriculture, and will he remain a friend after
he gets your votet

But vote, by all means, vote!

The Voice of the Members

Members are invited to speak their minds in this
column. As many letters from members will be
printed each issue as space will permit. Letters
should be short and snappy; tUl must be signed to
be printed. All constructive criticism of the Farm
Bttreau— county, state or national units — is welcomed.
If you have any grievances^ praise or suggestions,
here is the place to tell them. lt*s your column,
make it wh4U you will. Address letters to H. C,
Butcher, I. A, A. Record, 608 S. Dearborn, Chicago.

Carlrle, III, An*. 10, 19J4.
Mr. H. C. BiAcher. Director of Information.
D«ar SIrt In regard to the merKer of the Ave Mm vrala
rompanlea. In my opinion thU t« meant to mifllead the
farmer*. I believe In orKanlxatlon and co-operatlTe bny-
Iniic and nelllnB. bnt I have no faith In an or^anlKatlon
irotten np by theae Mpeoulatorn for the "Rood** Of the
farmer unleas the farmers have abHOlute eontrol.

I believe In the Farm Bureau and I think It wlae that
the Farm Bureau laveMtisate before glvlns their opinion
on the merger. The plan seema anaplelona to me, aa in
the paat theae apeenlatora oppoaed all farm orffanlsa-
tlona. and now they are wanting to fornt an organisa-
tion "for the good of the farmer.**

I believe their aim la to aell ua farmer* aonie vrorthleaa
Mtoek or Home unprofltable rlevatora. I honeatly believe
the mergrer la to be of more benefit to the apecnlator
than to the farmer. It will only be koo4 for the few
at the head that are on the pay roll.
Sincerely yonra*

NIC laaafc.
We're After the Facts, Nic,

(Fifty letters to p&sons who had dropped their Fann
Bureau memberships during the summer were mailed out
a few days before the RECORD went to press. These fol-
lowing replies had been received.)

Tlakllwa, 111.. Scvt 8, 1924.
Dear .Mr. Batchert

My reaaon for not renewing my membcrahip In the
Farm Bureau la that I am not farming »»r more. Of
eourae It la all right to he a member, but I cannot afford
to apend the money for the aame while not farming.

Yonra truly,
I^onla E^ Gingery.
He Quit Farming.

Aahmorei 111.. Sept. 5. 1924.
Dear SIrt

In reirard to why I did not renew my membcrahip In
the Farm Bureau. 1 have moved to town. Am now in
n meat market, and don*t feel that It would pay me to
ntay In any longer.

I.. R. Miller.
And So Did Mr. MUler.

Barrlnston. III.
Dear .Slrat

Per requeat on the other aide, all I can aay la, I do not
feel aa though I get flCteen dollara, value received, per
year, from the Farm Bureau. My ausKcatlon la that yon
aend a asan, who la well Informed In farming: In general*
and have him vlalt the membera oecaalonally. ao if they
have a queatlon they can aak him about it. Yon know a
farmer will not take the time or trouble to write to yo*.
I refer to the majority.

Reapectfnily.

Chaa. Welneck&
P. S. f he re«t of the family are through with dinner?

while I wrote thla.
Sorry You Missed Your Dinner, Chas.

Macomb. 111.. Sept. 7. 1B24.
Dear HIrat

In reply to your qneatlon w^lU aay that the reaaon I
did not renew waa beeanae I loat all I had on the farm
with bad loek, and moved to town, and felt I did not
need It any more. I waa nnable to keep np the expenae.
But I will aay that I think It a fine thing.
Yonra reapeetfuUy.

F. L. Lcftrldffe.
Hard Luck, Mr. Leftridge.

THE LIARS' CORNER

WHBRB IS THIS MELON PATCH?
Dear Sirt

I hBven*t Imagination enough to tell lies, bnt here
la an nbaolntely truthful happening that I have
a hard time getting people to believe.

I waa working for a fellow one time who ralaed
very flue wntermelona. One day he aent me to the
patch to get n melon, nnd an I waa going to help
eat It, of rourae 1 picked one of the largest melons
I could And.

I tried to carry the thing home, bat I could net
lift It. So 1 got a pole nnd pried It loose from the
vine and atarted It rolling down hill toward the
house. The hill waa pretty steep, and the melon
got to rolling ao faat that It dldn*t atop when It
reached the bottom, but rolled on agalnat the honae
and tore off one room. The blow cauaed the melon
to break open, and the Juice of It drowned 22 dncks
and 14 gecNC^-tiuat Hesa, Teutopolla, Illlnola.

he:re?s onk from Colorado

Dear Eldltort

Our neighbor, Mike B.. la a small man. weighing
only about 135 pounds, but we must nil admit that
he la, as he modestly aaya. "Hell for stout.** To
prove hia proweaa, he tella of a time when he and
a companion were herding a thoaaond aheep. ishen
a terrible bllBaard atrack them. They auccecded
In getting the abeep to within half a mile of camiy,
but the poor things could get no fnrther, so each
man gathered up a sheep under each arm, carried
it to camp, and returned for t'wo more. By mom«
Ing they had carried the whole thousand head to
camp.

On another occasion, Mike went Jack rabbit bant-
ing with aome of his friends, and he got so far
ahead of them that he thought he would atop and
count the rabbit* he waa carrying. He bad 411, and
the rabbits averaged 8 pounds aplece.~-Mrs. Pearl
Underwood, New Castle. Colorado.

SOHe GUN!
Dear Kdltort

One day recently I was oat hunting with a friend,
when he made a allghtlBg remark about my gna,
ao of eourae. I had to ahow him what a good gun It
waa. I noticed n cro^iT on a fence poat near a
aehoolhonae, about a quarter of a mile down the
road, ao I took aim carefully and ahot at It. The
bullet killed the crow, went through both aides of
the brick aehoolhonae nnd went down a row of po-
tatoea on the other aide of the houae and plowed
them out better than breaking plow. All we had to
do waa walk down the row and pick up the pota-
toea.<^Ralph Faul. Route No. S, Lincoln, Illinois.

Not so bad. eht But we need some more yarna
to swap. Come on-^iend ns in your tallest ones.
Yon may w^ln the plntlnum lee pick when w^e de-
cide on the winners at the Annual Meeting next
January. Fish stories are not barred.-~Eklltor.

I

September 13, 1924

The niiaoM Asricultnral AMocMttJon Record

;i:-^.-.-:lf.:^-- lilH^

Pai* 3

KANKAKEE FARMERS FIND
^ PROFIT IN CITY MARKET

Several links in the cbaiu of
middlemen, wtio each adds an
"expense plus" profit to the ulti-
mate cost of most every man-
made commodity, have been re-
moved by the farmers around
Kankakee who make up the farm-
ers' market of that city. And,
in doing so, they have put a "big
business" practice into effect;
that Is, "the customer is always
right," the maxim upon which
Marshall Field built up what is
probably the world's greatest
link of the chain of middlemen.

The removal of those links
seems to hav^ resulted in more
cash to the farmer-marketer with-
out causing strife or friction
with the city merchants — a point
worthy of some consideration.
Those merchants who have been
more-or-less displaced by the
direct-to-the-consumer farmers'
market apparently look upon it
In a broad sense.

On the last Saturday of August,
44 farmer-salesmen who had com-
modities to sell that day, took in
over their booth-counters an av-
erage of $48.20 each. About
1,100 people visited the market
during the day; Kankakee is a
city of around 17,000 population.

Fonr Years Old

How the farmers around Kank-
akee got Into the direct-to-the
consumer marketing business Is
almost a yarn in itself. Four
years ago, several farmers got
together and were selling along
the curb, but curb markets are
unsatisfactory for several appar-
ent reasons. There is the dirt,
the ever-flying dust, the flies, pub-
lic handling — and other condi-
tions which are not conducive to
the selling of produce in a sani-
tary manner.

There came an offer by a local
merchant to sell his three-story
brick building to the Kankakee
County Crop and Soil Improve-
ment Association, in other words,
the Kankakee County Farm Bu-
reau under a name of 1912 vint-
age. The merchant wanted $18,-
000 and he got it. Not long ago
the Farm Bureau was offered
$27,000 for the building.

It was a surprise to the mer-
ebants when the farmers bought
the building. Seventy-two booths
approximately six by six feet
■quare were divided off and an
Indoor farmers' market was be-
gun. The farmer-merchants pay
50 cents for a booth on Wednes-
days and $1 on Saturdays. None
but Farm Bureau members can
participate.

The two upper floors were
rented out for storage and the
basement was converted Into stor-
age spaces for the farmers who
had some products left over from
time to time. Then, too, the
storage space made It handy for
farmers to haul In their stuff
any time during the week and In
large loads.

Brings Out Co-K>peratton

Last year, 1923, an average
of 94 farmers sold produce on
the market each week. In 1920,
the first year of operation, an
average of 18 sellers constituted
the market. In 1921. there were
40 and in 1922, six more per

week availed themselves of the
selling advantages offered by the
market. Now the building is
paying for Itself and a nice reve-
nue comes to the Kankakee Coun
ty Crop and Soil Improvement
Association.

"We have found that this mar-
ket is a good place to bring out
the co-operation there is in a
man or woman," said John S.
Collier, the farm adviser, and
who has been therei in that ca-
pacity for 13 years — the longest
continuous period of service of
any county agent In the United
States. "For example, one farmer
voluntarily helps sell a dozen
pounds of his neighbor's butter
who Is in another booth doWn
the aisle. In return, the neigh-
bor takes a few dozen eggs and
each man is sold out sooner.

"Customer Is .Always Right"

"Our market is meant to func-
tion on the principle that the
customer is always right," he
added. "We keep a set of scales
in the center of the market floor
where anyone who pleases can
weigh what he buys after he
buys it."

"Who establishes the price for
each day's market?" he was
asked.

"The evening before each mar-
ket day," he replied, "a range of
prices on the commodities in sea-
son is compiled in accordance
with general market conditions.
It is merely a suggested range for
prices — nothing compulsory. But
we try to sell within that range.

"Last Saturday, 1,100 people
visited the market. Cars were
Jammed iu the streets; they al-
ways are on market days. But
August Is not our busy month;
from November to .\pril Is our
busy season.
They Have Their Troubles, Too

"But don't get the Impression
that everything is always lovely,"
he said. "We have our troubles.
Any group of farmers planning to
start such a market should make
a careful survey of local condi-
tions. They should. And out from
first hand inquirie(( from buyers,
sellers and competitors Just what
each thinks of the farmers' mar-
ket."

They sell almost every con-
ceivable product grown by farm-
ers. One lady, Mrs. Wm. E. Tan-
ner, happened to bri«g in a bou-
quet of flowers from her garden
one day, and someone offered her
a quarter for it. That gave her
an Idea. Now she bring* in 18 to
20 bouquets and sells them all.

Lots of pies, cakes and other
home-baked goods are brought In
for sale. Besides the usual mar-
ket offerings of fresh vegetables
and such stuff, several farm wives
have developed a paying clientele
among the city-folks for country-
made cottage cheese, butter and
buttermilk. Fresh country milk
and cream sell well. Honey,
quartered beeves, mutton, pork,
dressed chickens, cooking apples
and what not make up the aggre-
gate offerings to the buyers. The
dairy products all come from
cows declared free from bovine
tuberculosis. None other is al-
lowed.

And the customers are loyal.

TAX HGHT RAGES

IN PEORIA COUNTY

Last Chance To Buy

WOOL BLANKETS

Going Fast

Only 280 left

These blanket*, made up for the 1. A. A., are pure
wool, 6-Ib., double blanket*, 72 z 84 inches.

Colors — Gray and White diecks. Blue and White
checks.

These blankets cannot be duplicated on the open
market today.

TO FARM BUREAU MEMBERS $11.00

TO NON-FARM BUREAU MEMBERS . $13.00

Send your order now, through your cotnty Farm
Bureau. Cash must accompany order. Tliese blankets
will be sold out inunediately. No more to be made by
the I. A. A.

I. A. A. LIVESTOCK MARKETING DEPARTMENT
608 Sooth Dearborn Street, Chicaco

ThlH trvphy la t* be vlvc« hj the
I. \. A. to thr rarweni* ahlpplM* ■*-
dorlatlon In llllmotii HOBtalnlMir tke
nninlleiit Iomn on live Mtork Im tranalt
durlnfc thr mIx niuntliN' period from
July I to Dec. :tl. 1»1M. Uarlnur thin
lime a minimum of 20 parm of Mtoek
mumt be shipped to Prodttrer* to
qnallfr a nhlppera* awioclatlon for
the eontent.

One iady has about 25 pounds of
her own makt^ ufi butter to sell
each Saturday. It's so well liked
that it's ^oue iu practically no
time. They line up for it! Two
thousand pounds of butter are.
sold there every market day, ac-
cording to Mr. Collier.

One man grows broomcorn on'
his farm, harvests his crop, makes
brooms and sells *em on the
Kankakee farmers' market. He;
sold 900 last year.

Another man. Armand J. Pal-
lissard of St. Anne, has developed
a small packing plant on his
farm because he sells so many
butchered hogs. He sold 102
last year. He did his own butch-
ering, too.

Meat Market Like* It

A talk with variouH tUy mer-
ohnnta indlcatt-d that moat of them
think wt^li of tht- farmtra' market.
Many of them think U'h an asset to
their business.

A meat market man with whom
the farmers' market t*omp**t«*(i quite
keenly, looked at the proposition
broailly. He said he was in favor
of the market, although it actually
competed witli him.

•"Farmers have a riicht to sell that
way. why should I ohject?" he said.
"Kven if I do lose some tra<l*-. I
have the satisfactioh of knowing
that farmers hereabouts are fretting
a taste of the problems of butcher-
ing and sellinK meat. They trust
me more; they understand my trou-
bles more, st-e? That's something.
Then, too. when more people are In
town, we get ours. In fact, we look
forward to Wednesdays and Satur-
days as better business days than'
the others.

A groceryman was not so favor-
able toward it.

*'Olu the farmers* market, you
mean? Oh. yes." the Rroceryman
said, "Ix)ts oC farmers have started
in on It. but when they find out
about all the detail work they drop
out again. They have to buy wrap-
ping pappr and string and be on the
job and do a lot of things they never
thought of before. Then they have
to do something with their perlsh-
ahles. you know. That's the trouble
of it. When they soo they ean't sell
all their stuff, they begin to cut
pric-es. That's wliat hurts us. And
it hurts them. That's had stuff, you
betcha. Yeah, it hurts my business,
all rlfpht. And my vepetablea are
Just as fresh as theirs, but people
won't believe it. Ain't that funny?"
Hardware Man Hay" It*« FIb'

The hardware <Iealer was sure it
brouKht more trade to town.

"We get our share, and that's all
we ask." he said. "More people
come to town and up town on mar-
ket days and when they come to
market, they're in a buying mood.
It's all right with us. My mother
buys over there. She likes the fresh
cream and vegetables. But she sayfl
she's got to watch her step, or the
first thing she knows she'll be buy-
ing last week's cream.

"I think the market's O, K.." the
hardware man continued, "because
it brings me more business. Of
course, it doesn't compete with hard-
ware selling much anyway. But
bore's an illustration of how we get
our trade from it. That man who
sells so many hogs over there, Mr.
I'tllissard, has bought about $50
worth of butchering equipment from
this store. I wouldn't have had this
business if all the people in the city
had bought meat butchered In Chi-
cago, would I? It makes more local
trading, see?*'

A harness dealer said that th*
market brings more people to town
and he couldn't sell harness with
the farmers out in the country.

"I notice a little better business
on market days." the harness deal*
er said.

And so the queries went; where
the goods sold by the farmers com-
peted directly with the city mer-
chant, excepting In the case of the
meal market man. there was som*
little feeling. Otherwise, there was
universal acceptance of the fann-
ers' market as a good thing for
business, the city and the farmers
participating.

(CoQtInued fron PM* D
tavfB. though jnost of it would come
in such taxes.

In view of the obvious fact that
his figures were in question, and of
the equally obvious fact that the
Farm Bureau would question the
purpose of the Board of Review In
checking over his figures. Mr. Wat-
son withdrew his offer, which had
stood until that time, that the
Board of Review could examine all
of th»* material and data whi<h had
been compiled by the Farm Bureau
and the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation.

('•mmlttee «• (-et Facta

PointiufE out that the Board of Re-
view ought to desire to get the facts,
regardless of what they are. he sub-
mitted a new offer which would
avoid questions of motiv»-8 and would
secure substantial agreement as to
th*- far!:*. His offt-r was that the
Boanl ol' RfVi*-*- ask the Peoria
Association of Commerce to appoint
a rfprest-ntative. the Farm Bureau
to appoint ont-. and that the Board
itstir appoint one. thf thret- repre-
seniativts thus t-hosen to dt-termine
und«-r ruli'H of thfir own choosing,
adopted before beginning their
work, the average percentage of
actual selling values of farm lands
and town and city tots now used In
valuations of the same for taxation
purposes, and that all elements rep-
resented in the investigation agree
to abide by the result.

The chairman of the Board of Re-
view. Mr. Klrcher. whose fairness
throughout the controversy la rec-
ognized by the Farm Bureau, re-
plied that the Board would consider
the offer. As yet the Board has not
state<l its decision.

Want n%mmr* Deal

The Farm Bureau has no desire
to increase taxes on city property.
It asks for no advantage or favor
for farmers over other people, but
it demands and will continue to de-
mand that any disadvantage suf-
fered by farmers In the assessments
of their property be removed. It
asks that the facts be determined
in such a way as to convince all
elements of Peoria county peei>le.
and that any corrections be made
which may be necessary to put all
property on a substantially uniform
basis of valuations, as the laws of
the state and the courts require.

Such a program will secure justice
for smaller, property owners in the
city of Peoria and In the smaller
towns and villages for their prop-
erty also, as the investigation re-
veals, and is admitted by the Peoria
County Board of Review, is assessed
at a much higher average percent-
age of selllnfc values than larger
and more valuable properties.

Tri-Party Parley

To Be In Chicago

On Sept. 2fi there will meet In
Chicago in Joint conference repre-
sentatives of the .American Farm
Bureau Federation, the AKrlcul-
tural Service of the Federal Board
for Vocational Education and the
Extension Service of the United
States Department of Agriculture.

The idea of calling this confer-
ence originated at a Joint confer-
ence between the heads of the
.\erieultural Division of the Fed-
eral Board for Vocational Educa-
tion and the department heads of
the Farm Bureau. .\t this meet-
ing ways and means of co-ordi-
nating the efforts of the two
groups were formulated and the
coming conference was suggested.

The purpose of the meeting
on Sept. 26 is to more closely
correlate the work of the three
groups so that each may have an
intimate understanding of the
work of the other two.

Present Directors
Ask Old Timers In

All ex-executive committeemen
of the Illinois .\gricultural Asso-
ciation are invited to attend any
executive committee meetings.
Whenever any of the 29 old ex-
ecutives happen to be in Chicago
during a meeting, they are cord-
ially asked by the present execu-
tives to come into the meetings.
The date of the next meeting is
set for Oct. 3.

This year the rhanipioa cora

buskers of the corn belt are to
have a chance to win their spurs
in a state and an Interstate con-
test. The contests in Illinois and
Indiana will be sponsored by
Prairie Farmer. Wallace's Farm-
er will conduct a similar contest
in Iowa, Nebraska Farmer in Ne-
braska, and The Farmer in Min-
nesota and South Dakota.

The winners in these state con-
tests will fight It out In a big in-
terstate contest, with liberal
prizes, moving picture machines
grinding away, and perhaps with
a running story of the contest
broadcast by radio.

U. 8. D. A. I *mmt !■ f Ar Jmir show
>t,4Jl cattle In 4.041 Illinois herds
were given the test for tuberculo-
sis, with U!I2 reacting.

"SPEND A WEEK IN
DAIRYLAND," IS CRY
OF SHOW MANAGERS

Annual Ezpodtiaa b Witbin

Readi of Illinois Farmers;

Plan Trip* Into Wiaconain

Daily Refioiu

If 'present plans materialize
there will be a general exodus of
Illinois dairymen into Wisconsin
for the National Dairy Exposition,
the annual premier event in dairy
circles of NortB America, which
is scheduled for Sept. 27 to Oct.
4. at the state fair grounds in
Milwaukee.

This is the first time in several
years that the Dairy Show has
been held within reach of Illinois
farmers, and with this fact In
mind the dairy marketing depart-
ment of the I. A. A. and other
organizations are making special
arrangements for Illinois Day at
the show, Wednesday, Oct. 1.
Farmers and dairynen from all
over Illinois are arranging to
make the trip to Milwaukee In
groups with their farm advisers,
either by train or automobile.

The dairy cattle show will be
the headliner attraction.- Illinois
farmers who attend the show will
see there the best the United
States and Canada have to offer
in beautiful and productive dairy
cattle of the five major dairy
breeds. The dairy Industry In
America is comparatively new but
in the few decades that dairymen
of this country have been breed-
ing they have developed many
qualities in dairy animals that
their fellow breeders in Europe
have failed to bring out in cen-
turies.

One of these qualities is refine-
ment and beauty. A second is
excessively high production. At
the National Dairy Show these
two qualities in dairy cattle can
be seen, combined, in the b^t
show herd animals in the world.

Other major attractions will be
the National Dak-y Catrlemens'
Conference: the National Dairy
Judging contest for college stu-
dents; a conference for creamery
men: a Farmers' Dairy Judging
contest; National Junior Dairy
Judging contest and a grade cow
Sale.

lisaders to Cipeak

The National Conference of
dairy cattlemen is to be held on
the Exposition Grounds. Wednes-
day. Oct. 1. This conference is
to disseminate and develop a na-
tional understanding of sanitary
requirements for moving cattle
between states and to develop
rules of integrity governing ex-
change and sale of dairy cattle.
Every state wherein dairying is
now an important branch of agri-
culture will be represented at
this conference.

Some of the leading dairymen
who will be on the dairy confer-
ence program are: Ex-Gov. Frank
O. lyowden, who will talk on cow
testing records and how they
affect permanent records of the
dairy industry; J. R. Mobler,
Chief of T. B. Education Division.
Washington, D. C, who will ex-
plain federal rulings on cattle
transportation; Prof. H. H. Kll-
dee, Iowa, speaking on uniform
Judging of dairy cattle; and sev-
eral others prominent in state and
national dairy work.

The contest for national dairy
Judging honors among colleges Is
an old, well established event and
will be hotly contested for by
teams from 30 colleges and uni-
versities from the United States
and Canada.

Have Fanners' Contest

The farmers' contest this year
is a new one in which only farm-
ers and dairymen actually en-
gaged in production of dairy-
products may enter. Teams will
be entered by counties from many
dairy sections.

Arran(:ements are being made
for special cars from Chicago tor
those who wish to go by train
From all points in Illinois fare
and a third rates will prevail.
Those who prefer to drive will
find excellent roads all the way,
not only to Milwaukee but into
the heart of all Wisconsin's dairy
regions.

"Spend a Week In Dalryland"
has been the slogan of the man-
agement of the Dairy Exposition
I and nothing has been left undone
I to make the week a profitable
one. Those who are planning on
the trip into Dalryland shoald
I see their farm adviser for tDtor-
i mation regarding reduced rates.
I routes to take and other details.

PaC«4

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The DliDoif AgricnlturaJ Aaaooalkm Record

S«pte«ri>er 13, 1824

•

LA. A. Boosts ^^ Why Join Farm Bureau^^ Contest

FARMERS IN 20TH
DISTRICT ASK FOR
HARD ROAD FACTS

Conference Requests Informa-
tion On $100,000,000 Bond
Issue and Approves Grain
Merger Probe

Farm Bureau representatives
(ro4h Mason, Menard. Cass, Mor-
Kan, Scott, Greene, Jersey. Pike
and Brown counties met at Jack-
sonville, Aug. 29, for a district
conference on farm problems.

Discussion of the Gratn Mar-
keting Company, the American
Council of Agriculture, legisla-
tive problems and the tlOO.OOO,-
000 bond issue for bard roads
occupied the major portion of
attention of the 50 farmers pres-
ent. An inspirational address by
Frank J. Kernel, farmer-banker
of Jacksonville, on the "Future
of Agriculture" and local prob-
lems made up the balance of the
program.

Discnss Grain Meriicr

Earl C. Smith of Detroit, dis-
trict committeeman, after calling
the meeting to order and enumer-
ating the questions to be consid-
ered, explained his position in
asking for the I. A. A. investiga-
tion of the Grain Marketing Com-
pany, which is being made.

R. A. Cowles, I. A. A. treasurer
and secretary of the American
Council of Agriculture, explained
the Grain Marketing Company
question from its beginning, with
the initial proposal of several
larga grain companies to sell
their marketing facilities to farm-
ers' organizations, up to the pres-
ent time.

Referring to the giant merger
as an "innovation of the grain
trade to dispose of their busi-
nesses." Mr. Cowles stated that
one of the principal objects of
the I. A. A. investigation, now
being made, is to locate the exact
seat of control of the Grain Mar-
keting Company, and emphasized
that the open-minded attitude is
being maintained by I. A. .V. of-
ficials.

A motion was passed commend-
ing the action of the I. A. A. for
investigating The Grain Market-
ing Company.

Investigate Rosd Bonds

A request for expression of
opinion on the question of secur-
ing Information on the $100,000,-
000 bond issue for hard roads was
made by Mr. Smith. The meeting
vote^ to instruct Mr. Smith to
ask the I. A. A. department of
statiistics to furnish the desired
information on the subject.

Mr. Cowles outlined the aims
and purposes of the American
Council of Agriculture in a dis-
cussloa of the effort which the
Council, is making toward equality
legislation for agriculture. He
stated that equality for agricul-
ture is fundamentally economic
and not political.

Each of the nine County Farm
Bureaus were represented among
the 50 officers and farmer mem-
bers! who attended the meeting.
Oct. 24 is the date set for the
ne.\t meeting.

FARM BUREAU SPIRIT
RUNS AT HIGH LEVEL

<CoBilnur4l from p«Kr 1)
Ptesid^nt Thompson is also sched-
uletl to RpeBk at the Piatt County
Fartn Bureau picnic and at the Ad-
ams County Farm Bureau picnic at
Camp Point.

Frank D. Barton of Cornell. I. A. A.
executive, has six picnics on his
scalp belt, as follows:

Emnfcham county at Effingham;
Scott county at Winchester, esti-
mated attendance 2.000; Cass county,
at Vlrg:inia, 2,000: Edwards county,
Albion. 1.000; Marion county. Salem.
200;j DouKlas county. Areola. 2i>n.

G< E. Metzgrer. I. A. A. org^aniza-
tlon director, is always on the jump
flllihg speaklnar or meeting engage-
ments. Here is his list of picniiH:
Eitinatt^
Oati C«uaty Town Atttnrfaaei

JuM »— DuPage — Roselle (Farmers'

Elevator) 600

10 — Ogl« — OreKon (Annual

meeting) 3(M>

AOffist 1 — Rock— BransTllle, Wis.

(County fair> 8M

2 — D«K« lb— Sycamore (Fann-
ers' Elevator) 3(N)

14 — Ptt*^\ew Canton S.OM

21 — Randolph — Sparta 2.5(H)

22— 8allne— Eldorado 6(H)

24— Monroe— Columbia 800

2T— MoultHe — Sullivan 4.4A0

8<«>t^ 13 — Ckristlan — Taylorrllle . . .
30 — Jefferson — MC. Vernon . . .

Listen In!

FAKM RADIO PIUXaiAM

Oter KYW — Wave Length 536
(>ntral Standard Time 7:20

I. A. A. radio followers will
find September a much better
month than August for receiving
our farm programs since there is
likely to be less static in the air.
Better throw a little more wood
on the fire these frosty evenings,
lay in a supply of pop corn and
tune in on KYW! There will be
five more farm radio programs
sent from KYW before the end
of September. I. A. A. people
will appear on WLS programs
from time to time. too.

The information department
woQld like to know how many
I. A. A. members are getting the
farm programs. Do you tune in
on KYW programs Do you like
*em when you do get 'em? Write
and tell us what you think of the
programs.

September 18 — "With the Farm
Bureau East of the Alleghenles," by
E. P. Cohlll. of the American Farm
Bureau Federation Executive Com-
mittee and president of the Mary-
land Farm Bureau Federation.

"School Pays." by C. V. Uregory,
Editor of Prairie Farmer.

Sleptember 19 — "BoyM* and Oirls*
Club Work in the 8ou<h." by H. J.
Schwietert. I'tcneral Development
Ag«nt. Illinois Central Railroad.

What we Saw at the Stat* Fair
Tills Week." by Arthur C Page.
Editor. Orange Judd Illinois Farm-
er.

Slept ember 23 — "Monthly Analysis
of Farm Markets." by H. W. Moor-
house, of the Howard-Moorhouse
Agricultural Business Service.

"Vocational Agricultural Train-
ing." by Dr. C. H. Uane. Chief. Agri-
cultural Education Service. Federal
Board for V€>cational Education.
Washington. D. C.

September 26 — "Transportation of
Farm Products." by O. 'W'. Sand-
berg, Director of Transportation.
American Farm Bureau Federation.

Talk on Vocational Education by
Dr. C. H. I-ane. Chief Agricultural
Education Service, Federal Board
for Vocational Education. Washing-
ton. D. C.

September 30 — "Please Help Your-
self." by John A. Kotal. Secretary.
United Master Butchers of Ameri-
ca, under auspices of the National
Live Stock and Meat Board.

"Observations of the Growth of
Boys' and iJIrls' Club Work." by
Joton W. Covcrdale. Secretary of the
tJrain Marketing Company.

File Complaint Of
Overcharge Against
C. P. & St. L. Road

Charging the Chicago, Peoria
& St. Louis Railroad Company
with misinterpretation and wrong
application of rules on mixed
shipments of live stocK, our I. A.
A. transportation department has
filed an overcharge complaint
with the Illinois Commerce Com-
mission.

The complaint covers three
mtxed shipments of live stock
from Hettick. III., to East St.
Louis, two consisting of a mix-
ture of cattle and calves and the
other consisting of a mixture of
cattle, calves and hogs.

On one of the first mentioned
shipments the C. P. & St. L. as-
sessed and collected charges on
the basis of cattle minimum
weight of 22,000 pounds and the
cattle rate of 14 cents, making
the charge $30.80, which covered
the cattle only. The calves, al-
though loaded in thei same car,
were charged on the basis of
5,630 pounds, less carload rate,
making a charge for the calves
of $33.22 or a total charge on
the shipment of 164.02.

The transportation department
contends that the proper and rea-
sonable charge to cover both cat-
tle and calves in this shipment,
under the tariffs then in effect, is
on the basis of cattle minimum
weight of 22,000 pounds and cat-
tle rate of 14 cents, making a
total charge of $30.80, with simi-
lar charges on other shipments.

The case is very similar to one
recently decided against the L.
ft N. railroad after a litigation
with the I. A. A. for a two-year
period. No date has been set for
a hearing before the Commerce
Commission.

Popster •plalas predicts a seed
corn shortaKe next sprlnff.

RADIO FANS HEAR WHISNAND
TALK ON SCHOOL PROBLEMS

"Public schools are predomi-
nantly community institutions, lo-
cally supported, locally conducted
and controlled," said J. L. Whis-
nand, I. A. A. executive committee-
man from Charleston, in a radio
talk on the Farm Bureau program
over station KYW recently. "It
has been left to the states to exer-
cise their pow-
ers over educa-
tional matters.
Each state has
developed and
built up its own
School system,
with its own
good points and
Its own short-
comings."

Mr. W h I s-
nand, who Is
J. u -i«-hi>nan4. Chairman of the
I. A. A. educational committee,
was speaking on the subject,
"The Farmers' School Problems."
Although he has now retired to
the management of his farming
interests in Coles county, his ex-
perience in educational problems
has been as a teacher and county
school superintendent.

"The states have copied each
other's good poiqts and profited
by each other's mistakes." con-
tinued Mr. Whisnand, "and while
standing out individually we are
surprised and even amazed to
know how closely related they
are to each other fundamentally
after a century and a half of de-
velopment.

""The educational committee of
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion is making a careful and com-
prehensive snr\'ey of the rural

school situation in Illinois upon
behalf of the farmers' school in-
terests. The principal angle of
this survey is nearly completed
It has met with a hearty response
from rural folks. A rather super-
ficial examination of the survey so
far shows that the farmer heart-
ily endorses education, is willing
to contribute his share to the
cause, is on the square in matters
of taxation, willing to pay (or
what he gets, and wants the other
fellow to do the same. It further
shows that the farmer is not par-
ticularly educating his children to
stay on the farm, but to take
their places in life along with
other folks wherever they may
be' thrown.

"One point brought out in the
answers to the questionaire Is
that the farmers want better
teachers in the rural schools. Be-
fore this can be brought about a
great many changes must be made
in school matters, chief among
which Is the enlargement of facil-
ities in our teachers' colleges and
universities.

"Since a large per cent of our
farmer boys and girls go on
through high schools, teachers'
colleges or universities and since
as large a per cent of country
boys and girls as any other group
are honor students, and since such
a large per cent of farm boys and
girls succeed on the farm, in
business. In professions, in art
and in trades, I feel that the
technique of the rural schools
is the technique of our high schools
and universities," Mr. Whisnand
said in closing. -\ll the country
boys and girls need is a fair
chance with other boys and girls
and you will see them give an ex-
cellent account of themselves."

HERE'S DOPE ON EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE'S MEET, SEPT. 5

1. Hrnrd ananolnl report on I. A. A. .Accepted and approved.

2. In order to lirtnir about better feellnir and eo-operation between
leader* of lIllnolM l^mln Dealern .\iHioctetlon and of the 1. .4. A., a
Joint conference for the esecotlve eomnltteCM of the two orKanlaations
In beins called for Thoradar, Oct. 1, at t'hieaico, which In the day prceed-
Ins the regular 1. A. A. esccntlve committee meeting. The nteetlnK will
be called Jointly by the two orKanlBatlonn.

3. Decided that I. A. \. Hhoiild InveHtiitate the farm Inanmnce fleld
with a view toward anaemblinK valuable data on general farm Inaumnee
ratea In llllnola.

4. Ordered an Inveatliratlon Into the fncta eoncernlnic the propoaed
9100.000,000 bond laane which comcM up for votlnfc thin fall. The facta arc
to be icotten by John ('. WatNOn, director of taxation and atntlMtlca, and
L. J, Quafiey, director of trannportatlon. and publlHhert In the REt'ORD.
The InveatlKatlon la to be atrlctly non-polltlcnl and the facta found are to
be compiled Moleir aa a baala for latelllarent cnalderatlon of the bond
laaae by Farm Bureau membcra.

5. Heard report of educational committee on ita achool laveatlsation,
a detailed report of which la In thia RECORD. Report accepted.

U. Decided that the I. A. A. ahoold pay for aa much aa 50 per cent of
the Urat nudltlnK coat of nny county farm bureau when done by the IIU-
nolN Airrlcultoral Coopcratlvea .Aaaoclatlon. Where there nre numerona
commercial acllvltlen of a county farm bureau, Much audltlnic coat thereby
Incurred Im to be borne wholly hy the county orKnnlsatlon. The finance
committee la to determine the extent of which I, \. A. will help bear flrat
andltluK coata In Individual cnara.

7. Net date for next annuni meetlna: aa Thuraday and Fridny. Jan. 15
nnd 111. liKS.'S. at the I'nlveralty of llllnola, which la dnrlnK Famtera* Week.
Place of meetlnit had been determined prevlonalj'.

8. J. P. .Stout, rhatham. prenldent of the Nnnaramon t^onnty Farm Bu-
reau and on the adviaory committee to the farm meehanica department
of the 1 niveraltr of llllnola. nnd Prof. B. W. Lehman, head of that de-
partment. Informed the executive committee of the proirreaa mnde by the
■tate committee on the "Relation of Rlectriclty to .4srlculture** In llllnola.

0. An a Kood citlaennhip movemeat. and to be entirely divorced from
polltica, the executive committee urged that nil farmera vote. **Get out
the vote** waa the theme.

Farmers Purchase

Electric Railway

Five farmers' elevators and the
County Farm Bureaus in Kendall
and Grundy counties have formed
a stock company and purchased
the Fox & Illinois Union Electric
Railway which was to have been
junked by its former owners.
Operations under the new man-
agement started Sept. 8.

Because the line hasi been op-
erating unprofltably for the last
several years the Illinois Com-
merce Commission granted per-
mission to junk it. This action
was regarded as a disaster for
farmers along the road since it
would have left over 1.000 farms
in the richest agricultural sections
of Kendall and Grundy counties
with no railway service within 12
miles. The management of the
five farmers' elevators took the
lead in organizing the farmers'
company to purchase the railway,
without which thfeir elevators
would have l>een isolated from all
railroads and totally useless.

Protest aimlnst placing a 26
per cent ad valorem tax on ni
trate of soda, which is largely
used in the fertilizer industry
and purchased for fertilizer pur-
poses direct by the farmers, was
made to the customs division of
the U. S. treasury department re-
cently by the A. F. B. F.

The Iowa Farm Bureau Fed-
eration has wired President Cool-
idge asking that Secretary Wal
lace be instructed to appoint the
agricultural commission which
the President promised in a re-
cent speech.

The De Witt County Farm BO'
reau sold advertising slides to 20
business concerns and purchased
a new movie outfit with the pro-
ceeds, agreeing to show the
slides every time the machine is
used. The De Witt Bureau is
now showing, "Out of the Shad
ows," a T. B. eradication film.

There are over 10.000 agricultural
ro-operatlves in the United States
<lolnK an annual business of over
$2.noo.ooo.ooo.

I.A.A. WIU AWARD
13 CASH PRIZES IN
BIG ESSAY CONTEST

Local Butinew and County
Farm Bureau* Will Co-op-
erate On National Eaaajr
Competition

Every boy and girl in Illinois
who goes to school In any grade
up to the second year in high
school Is eligible to enter a na-
tion-wide essay contest which is
to be conducted between Oct. 1
and Nov. 10, by the American
Farm Bureau Federation.

Already a lot of farmer boys
and girls have donned their think-
ing caps and are "on their marks"
awaiting the final shot which will
tell them to "go." They have
their choice of two subjects for
their essay. They can write on
"Why Dad Should Join the Farm
Bureau" or "Why Dad is a Farm
Bureau .Member."

I'Yee Trips to Chicago

The American Farm Bureau
Federation is offering as prizes a
tree trip to Chicago for the con-
test winner in each of "the na-
tional farm Bureau regional dis-
tricts. But before Illinois boys
and girls get to that they have
many chances to win prizes in the
county and state contests.

The Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation is going to give 13 cash
prizes for the best essays written
by boys and girls In Illinois. The
writer of the best essay will get
$25 in cash. The second best
will win $15 and the third $S.
The next 10 best essays will win
$3 cash prizes for the boys and
girls who write them.

OlTer Local Prizes

Every County Farm Bureau In |
the state is considering offering 1
prizes for the best essays in the !
county. The complete list of |
County Farm Bureaus offering |
prizes will be announced later. I
County Farm Bureaus, co-operat- |
ing with local banks and other I
local business firms, will give I
prizes of $10, $5 and $2.50 for J
first, second and third places. In I
addition five $2 and five $1 cash ?
prizes will l)e offered for those
essays coming after the first three
prizes.

After the contest winners are
picked from the various counties
and states the American Farm
Bureau Federation will award. In
each of the four regional dis-
tricts, one national prize, the win-
ner to get a free trip to the
annual meeting of the Federa-
tion, which will be in Chicago
Dec. 8, 9 and 10.

Essays will be Judged on the
following points: 1. Facts on the
subject. 2. How the story is told.
3. English, spelling and punctua-
tion. 4. General appearance and
neatness.

For additional information, see
your Farm Adviser or county
superintendent of schools and
watch the RECORD for develop-
ments.

FARMERS PAY HEAVY
TAX, SURVEY SHOWS

(CoDllnued from pa^ 1)

1. Universal interest is being
shown by Illinois farmers in their
educational problems.

2. Practically all farmers who
answered the questlonalres intend
to send their children to high
school.

3. A majority of farmers are
opposed to consolidated schools
under existing conditions.

4. A majority favor the contin-
uation of the one room school.

One phase of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association Investigation
dealt with the quality and train-
ing of the rural school teacher.
Taking the 70 questionaire replies
received from rural school teach
ers in Whiteside county. 111., It
was found that 66 of the 70 re-
porting were high school gradu-
ates; about one-third had never
attended a country schooh two-
thirds preferred to teach in the
city or town schools; 17 were
teaching for their first year and
47 were teaching for their first'
year at their present school.

Tho

rado;

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test

^ARD

[ZESIN

CONTEST

■d County
III Co-op-
al Euay
>n

-1 in Illinois
n any grade
ear in high
enter a na-
3st which Is
ween Oct. 1
le American
ition.

farmer boys
1 their think-
their marks"
it which will
They have
subjects for
an write on
in the Farm
id Is a Farm

Chicago

irm Bureau
; as prizes a
for the con-

of 'the na-
reglonal dis-
lUinois boys
t they have
prizes in the
itests.

iltural Asso-
;ive 13 cash
isays written
Illinois. The
!say will get

second best
le third »5.
ays will win
he boys and
n.

•rizes

tn Bureau in |
ring offering I
'ssays in the d
ilete list of |
aus offering |
lunced later. I
18, co-operat- |
;s and other
3, will give
Id »2.50 for
d places. In
five $1 cash
;d for those
he first three

winners are
ious counties
erican Farm
rill award, in
regional dis-
rize, the win-
trip to the
the Federa-
in Chicago

dged on the 1
Facts on the
story is told,
and punctua-
pearance and

ormation, see

p or county

schools and

for develop-

HEAVY

:y shows

rest is being
•mers in their

B.

farmers who
>nalres intend
Iren to high

farmers are
lated schools
tions.

or the contin-
-oom school.
Illinois Agri-
investigation
Ity and train-
;bool teacher,
ionaire replies
school teach-
ounty. 111., it
of the 70 re-
school gradu-
rd bad never
schooh two-
teach in the
als; 17 were'
Irst year and, ^
'or their first"
It school.

Volume 2

Issued Every Other Saturday — September 27, 1924

Number 19

COVERDALE, SILVER
TAKE GRAIN JOBS;
A.F.B.F. OX'S DEAL

President Thompson Against

Indorsement; Awaits Final

D icision of I. A. A.

Investigation

The resignation of John W.
Coverdale as secretary of the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion and of Gray Silver, Wash-
ington representative, who have
both been with the American
Farm Bureau Federation since
its inception in 1920, was pre-
sented to and accepted by the
executive committee of the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation in
its regular session in Chicago
Sept. 15-17.

Both men stated in their resig-
nations that they wished to de-
vote full time to their duties
with the Grain Marketing Com-
pany of which Silver is president
and Coverdale secretary-treasurer.
A resolution of indorsement of
the Grain Marketing Company
was also passed by the executive
committee.
Thomtoson Against Indorsement

Sam' H. Thompson, Quincy,
president of tue Illinois Agricul-
tural Association and a member
of the executive committee of the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion, stood solidly throughout the
three-day session as being against
indorsement of the Grain Market-
ing Company at this time. He
voted against indorsement.

President Thompson, who was
originally appointed on the spe-
cial committee created in the
spring to consider the proposal
of the five old-line grain com-
panies, did not help prepare or
concur in the report of the spe-
cial committee which recom-
mended the Grain Marketing
Company to the Executive Com-
mittee.

When the Illinois Agricultural
Association investigation was an-
nounced, Mr. Thompson asked to
be relieved as a member of the
special grain marketing commit-
tee of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation pending the in-
vestigation which has not yet
been completed.

Reid Succeeds Silver

Following the resignation of
Mr. Coverdale, Gray Silver, who
has guided the legislative activi-
ties of tha A. F. B. F. for four
years, presented his resignation
in order to devote entire time to
his new job as president of the
Grain Marketing Company. Mr.
Silver's resignation was accepted
upon his agreeing to act as coun-
selor to the Legislative Depart-
ment.

E. B. Reid was named as act-
ing director of the Washington
office. Mr. Reid has been assist-
ant Washington representative
for three years.

The executive committee went
into session at ten o'clock at the
general offices of the American
Farm Bureau Federation in Chi-
cago, on Monday morning, Sep-
tember 15, 1924. Roll call
showed the following present;

President O. E. Bradfute, Vice
President J. F. Reed, Secretary
John W. Coverdale; Members
George M. Putnam, New Hamp-
shire; S. McLean Buckingham,
Connecticut; Ralph Snyder, Kan-
sas; S. H. Thompson, Illinois;
C. E. Hearst, Iowa; A. C. Hardl-
son, California; Frank Evans,
Utah; Chas. E. Gibson, Jr., Colo-
rado; E. P. Cohill, Maryland.
Others present were L. G. Michael,
(CoDtlDued oD pate 4)

THOMPSONIGB A»IS :

Agriculture today must be
placed on a business basis.

increased land value is un-
dependabie; profit must now
come from the product of
the land.

The farmers' dollar is now
worth exactly 83 cents.

Farmers do not want spe-
cial legislation, but some-
thing must be done to place
farming on a more sound
basis.

Farmers should be sure of
some returns the same as
people in other lines of busi-
ness.

In these five terse sen-
tences, President Sam H.
Thompson, in an address
before the Quincy Rotary,
summed up the present ag-
ricultural situation and
urged every possible means
to put farming on a firmer
basis.

Lynch Furnishes
Butter "Hoopla"
For Radio Fans

Many of our I. A. A. membem
may have heard A. D. Lynch,
director of the dairy marketing
department, when station WLS
broadcast five minutes worth of
his merry, rollicking "hoopla"
from their Springfield station dur-
ing the fair.

Lynch started out by trying to
decide why a black cow could
eat green grass and give white
milk and finally decided that the
reason a red cow could eat green
grass and give white milk was
the same rule working backwards
— like when a white man is
kicked by a cow, and gets 'black
and blue spot# be gets so mad he
sees green.

"All dairy sections have had
plenty of rain this last summer,"
Mr. Lynch's voice carried out
seriously after his hilarious be-
ginning. "As a result the pas-
tures have been regular banquet
halls for the cows. The sum-
mer has been cool and the flies
weren't bad. In the northwest
many grain farmers .turned to
milking cows to make back some
of their losses in grain farming.
The result is that we now have
a surplus in storage holdings of
156,000,000 pounds of creamery
butter.

"That looks like enough to
keep our waffles and pancakes and
bread buttered for a long time
but it is customary to have a
surplus of about 102,000,000
pounds of creamery butter on
Sept. 1. That has been the
average for the last five years.
But that still leaves a surplus
of 54,000,000. It it isn't eaten
before next May it will mean
lower prices and losses in the
whole dairy industry."

Calculating on the increase in
population, which will consume
35,000,000 pounds and allowing
6,250,000 for a running surplus,
Mr. Lynch managed to cut the
surplus down to about an even
13,000,000 pounds.

"When you think of it that is
only a drop in the bucket or
about two ounces per person.
Why not every farmer eat a
little more butter? At least
every farmer who has been de-
feating his own dairy industry by
eating butter substitutes should
cut them out and eat real dairy
products. Thank you," Lynch
said and his "hoopla" ended.

FARMERS' CO-OPS
CONTINUE TO SIGN
FOR AUDIT SERVICE

Essay Contestants: Write the information department of
the I. A, A. for "dope" for your essays, and see or phone your
Farm Adviser.

Farm Taxes Cut In
Whiteside County

The Board Of Review in White-
side county joined the parade of
"farm tax slashers" when they
granted the request of the White-
side County Farm Bureau for a
cut in the valuation of farm
lands. The reduction, effective
in next year's taxes, amounts to
an average of 12 per cent for the
entire county. Cuts varied from
five per cent in Portland town-
ship to 20 per cent in Clyde
township.

Last May the Whiteside County
Farm Bureau appointed a com-
mittee to go before the Board of
Review and present a petition
asking for a reduction in taxes
on farm lands. The committee
appointed was R. A. Norrish.
chairman; Harry Rowland, New-
ton; H. C. Hull, Prophetstown;
A. S. Durward, Ustlck; J. W.
Johnson, Tampico.

The committee decided to go
before the Board of Review with
the facts pertaining to taxation,
valuation of farm property and
earning power of farm lands.

Each member of the committee
secured a number of affidavits re-
garding the income of farms and
the taxable valuation. With this
information in hand the commit-
tee from the Farm Bureau met
with the Board of Review.

The Board considered the re-
quest, went over affidavits taken
from a number of farms in all
parts of the county, and after
considerable deliberation and
study on the assessed valuations
of land in the various townships,
made a report to President R. A.
Norrish of the Farm Bureau .offi-
cially announcing the requested
reduction.

Only 14 per cent of the alfalfa
acreage of the United States is
found east of the states trarder-
ing on the Mississippi river.

Watson Speaks At
National Tax Meet

J. C. Watson, director of the
department of taxation and sta-
tistics,' attended the national tax
conference -held In the Chase
hotel in St. Louis last week at
which 400 tax administrators and
students in taxation from over
the United States were gathered.
Mr. Watson was appointed as 'the
representative of Illinois on the
resolutions committee and was
also made one of seven members
of a sub-committee appointed to
pass on resolutions for recom-
mendation to the full committee.

In a round table discussion of
"Methods of Improving Property
Tax," Mr. Watson spoke on: "Sug-
gestions for Improving the As-
sessments of Agricultural Lands."

Sell Reactors On

Open Market No'w

As a result of a change in the
method of selling reactors to the
tuberculin test, the average sal-
vage value has been increased
$7.85 per head, according to rec-
ords kept by the Chicago Pro-
ducers since the new method of
selling went Into effect Aifi. 1.

Under the plan of sale now
used, reactors are sold on an
open market subject to a post
mortem examination. Formerly
all reactdrs were purchased by
the Chicago Packing Company.

The open market plan was
first suggested last January by
M. H. Peterson, director of the
I. A. A. tuberculosis eradication
project. Since then the Live
Stock Exchange has promoted and
finally adopted the plan.

The Ursa Farmers' Shipping
.Association, Adams county, has
shipped over 20 cars of stork
without a loss since July I, mak-
ing it a strong contender for the
I. A. A. safety loadins trophy.

LAXIA. Membership Reaches

70; Collection Counsel To

Be Inaugurated; 20

Audits Completed

The latest additions to the
membership roll of the Illinois
Agricultural Co-operatives Asso-
ciation,, which already nural)er8
70, are Madison County Farm
Bureau, Brown County Shippers'
Association, Mt. Sterling Co-oper-
ative Company, Hartsburg Grain,
Coal and Lumber Company,
Atoona Co-operative Grain Com-
pany, Godfrey Farmers' Elevator
Company and Scott County Farm
Bureau, according to V. Vaniman,
organising director for the audit-
ing co-op.

For the past four months Mr.
Vaniman has been meeting with
farmers' organizations throughout
Illinois, explaining the co-opera-
tive nature of the auditing and
accounting service which is pro-
vided at cost to the member as-
sociations.

"I find that the decision of tte
I. A. A., at its last executWe
meeting, to pay SO per oent uC
the auditing expenses of Farm
Bureaus, except in counties where
subsidiary activities of the Farm
Bureau make an unusually ex-
tensive audit necessary, is caus-
ing Farm Bureaus to send in the
signed membership contracts, '
said Mr. Vaniman.

"Our organization proposes to
render an auditing ser^'ice to co-
operative associations and will
give expert advice on a system of
accounting. The plan will bring
about a tendency for a uniform
classification of accounts and a
comparative analysis can be made
with other similar businesses over
the state."

The auditing association will
operate very much like the Bank-
ers' Clearing House Association
in the large cities where auditors
are maintained to check affairs of
members. Farmers are being
shown that the audit of accounts
will be as beneficial to them as
the plan is to bankers.

Mr. Vaniman has been working
in Stark and Mason counties in
the interests of the I. A. C. A.
since Sept. 23.

The comparative anals'sis fea-
ture of the audit service is still
expected to be one of the most
valuable benefits to its memt>ers
The real value of comparative
analysis will increase with the
number of audits.

One of the new ser\'icee which
Geo. R. Wicker, general manager
of the audit association, expects
to establish soon is a collection
service for the co-operatives for
which audits are made. A system
of letters will be supplied, by the
I. A. C. A. as a part of the regu-
lar audit service, to help in the
collection of outstanding accounts.

Twenty audits have been com-
pleted to date by Mr. Wicker and
his assistants, F. E. Ringham and
J. W. King. The Marshall-Put-
nam County Farm Bureau ac-
counts have been audited this
week by Mr. King and those of
the McHenry County Farmers'
Co-operative Grain Company have
been examined by Mr. RIngham.

Goat raising interests of the

southwest have adopted the
name "chevon" as a special name
for goat meat. It Is comparable
to pork, beef and mutton and is
a contraction of two French words
meaning (oat mutton.

P.ge 2

The niinoU Agricultural Anodation Record

September 27, 1924

ILtLiI NOIS

^Acp^TVItAL ASSOCIA1

RECOR

IS ^

PubliBhed every other Saturday by the Illinois Agricul-
tural Aaeociatlon. 608 South Dearborn Street. Chicago,
llllnoia. Edited by Department of Information, H. C.
Butcher. Director.

Entered as second class matter Oct. 10. 1921. at the post
office at Chicago, nUnois, under the act of March S. 1871.
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage pro-
Tided tor In Section 110}, Act of October I, 1817, author-
ized Oct. 81, 1881.

The IndlTldnal membership fee of the Illlnoi* Arglcul-
tural Association ti flre dollars a year. This fee tocludra
' payment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association Record.

Postmaster: In returning: an uncalled-for or mis-sent
cop.v. please indicate key number on address as is re-
quired ^ by law. ^^

OFFICERS
FNaldent, S. H. Thompson, Qnincy.
' Vice-President, C. B. Watson, DeKalb.
Treasnrer, li. A. Cowles^^Ioomiagton.
Secretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore.
— — ^ — _ . — , , —

EXEOCTIVB OOMMITTEB

By Congressional Districts

11th.-. Jacob Olbrlch, Harvard

12th G. F. Tullbck, Rockford

13th.. ......,, C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron

15th H. E. Qoombel, Hooppole

1Sth..« A. R. Wright, Varna

17th... F. D. Barton, Cornell

18th. .i.. R. F. Karr, Iroquois

19th.. I .J. I_ Whlsnand, Charieaton

20th. .j ; Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21st..,
22nd..
23 rd..
24th..
2Sth..

Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

Stanley Castle, Alton

J. E. LIngenfelter, Lawraacevllle

Curt Anderson, Xenia

VemoB Lesslsy, Sparta

Directors of Departments
I. A. A. Offlce

General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker;
Organisation, G. E. Metzger; Information, H.C. Butcher,
Transportstlon, L. J. Quasey, Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, Wm. E. Hedgcock;
Dairy Marketing, A. D, Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R, Bent; In charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A.
Gougler; special representative on Tuberculosis Eradi-
cation, M. H. Petersen; Legal Counsel. Donald Kirk-
Patrick: Cooperative Accounting, Geo, R. Wicker.

The A. F. B. F. Grain Marketing Reaolution

WHEatE.tS, The Farm Bnreao's leclslative progTaai
on co-operative aiarketlaK darlag tke past fear year*,
reaoltlaa la the paaaaae of the Capper-VolsteaS act,
which authorlaea the farmera to get together la a co-op*
erative way far the marketing of their prodaetal the
paNaaae of the Inlrrmediate t'redlla act, provldlag fl-
nances for co-opernlivr marketlnai the anteadmeat to
the FeSerni \Varrh«uNina art nuthnrlxing the develop-
meat of public wnrehouNen from the largeat warehouse
doira'to the farm granary, vve Sad the grain growing
latere*! la need of » farther step In the marketing pro-
gram, which will allow them to more fnlly avail them-
■elvea af these various legislative provisions and pro-
vide a merchandising organiaatlOB for the parpoae et
better Sad more economical diatrlbatloa of their grala,
aad

^'Hli^iEAS, A proposal to establish a co-operative
grain sales agency which would eoatraet with fonr of
the leading grala companies (or the necessary phyalcal
e^Blpment amfi the services of their managers and neeea-
sary eMployeea, was placed before the Rxecntlve Com-
mittee «( the .\merlean Farm Bureau Federation laat
June, and

WMimE.AS. The special Crain Marketing Committee
appolated by the A. P. B. P. haa made Its report to the
ExecuIKe Committee, wherein It Suds the Grain Mar-
■ ketiag Company to be duly set up aad established ac-
cording to the sentiment expressed by the Executive
Committee laat June, which "carries out the policies of
protecting the Interests of the consnnier as well as pro-
viding advantages for the prodiicerw." nnd

WHEKEA!), It has studied fhoroiiKhly the orgaa-
laatloa of the company, Ita purposes and accompliah-
ments to date as preaeated by the (irain Comaklttee. be
It thelrefore

RE.saLVED. That the Executive <*ommlttee also does
hereby endorse, commend aad urge the use of the Grain
Marketing Company to farmers everywhere, either
through their co-operative elevators, pools, agenclea,
private elevators, or directly, and that they may partici-
pate In the patronnge divldeads aad thus asarket their
grain at cost.

Our Position ' | '

The Illinois Agricultural As-sociation respect-
full}' recognizes and respects its relationship as a
unit of our national organization, the American
Farm Bureau Federation.

In questions which are particularly vital to Illi-
nois farm bureau members, the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association has in the past raised a question-
ing voice when necessary which usually has led to a
better Solution of those vital questions. "With the
sting ojf the well-known failure of the United States
Grain Growers burning extra deep in Illinois, is it
to be wondered at that the Illinois Agricultural
Association is proceeding with extra caution when
another grain marketing problem comes up for
considciration t

In itp grain marketing resolution, printed above,
which was not passed unanimously, th^ executive
commilltee of the American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion 'indorses, commends and urges the use of the
facilities of the Grain Marketing Company every-
where I — ."

It isl well known that the Illinois Agricultural
Association is investigating this grain marketing
step albng unbiased business, legal and economic
angles. This investigation has been carried on with

diligence. Those having the investigation in hand
will make a report at the earliest possible moment.
Certain important data has not been furnished our
Association by the Grain Marketing Compan.v, al-
though specific request has been made for it.

As a matter of accepted business prudence, such
a large venture should not be gone into hastily.
The facts on the business side in particular should
be delved into deeply for herein may lie the suc-
cess or failure of any business enterprise.

The investigation is being continued and a full
report will be given to Illinois farm bureau mem-
bers just as soon as it is completed.

That Fight'* Over— Where' t the Next One?

Pittsburgh plus is no more.

There will be no long drawn out legal battle as
many people expected. The dominating steel com-
panies have cried quits. They've cried quits, but
in doing so they've crossed their fingers, if one
looks closely.

Crossed fingers, the framing of a legal loophole,
is seen in a part of the phraseolog>- of the United
States Steel corporation compliance : "In so far as
it is practicable to do so" and "without admitting
the validity of said order or the jurisdiction of the
commission to make the same,"

At the federal trade commission, the belief is
expressed that the case is now entirely closed. It
is recognized that Pittsburgh plus has not been in
practice for some timi? — especially since the fight
against it became so hot,

• Close co-operation in the Middle West has made
it possible to carr.v the Pittsburgh case to a victori-
ous close. The Farm Bureau, through the American
Farm Bureau Federation and the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association, has devoted considerable time
and energy in the fight. It has worked shoulder
to shoulder with all interests knowing that victory
would benefit all in the Middle West,

Looking to the future — looking for another fight
equally as great — the Farm Bureau will have to
devote even greater resource to get a useable water-
way to the Gulf and to the Atlantic. That is the
next major problem.

Why Howl!

The food-consuming East set up a fearful howl
during the recent McNary-Haugen bill campaign.
They said its enactment would increase the cost of
living to the serious detriment of the East.

Just how much the raising of the price of a
bushel of wheat affects the cost of a loaf of bread
is now shown by authentic government figures.

The Bureau of Agricultural Economics made an
investigation into the retail price of bread in seven
cities and kept careful records on bread prices in
these cities from October, 1922, to March, 1923.

In the report on the investigation which has been
made public recently, the cost of a one-pound loaf
of bread bought in New York during the period
cost on the average 9.75 Cents — retail. Of this total
cost, it was found that the wheat which went into
the one-pound loaf cost a cent and a half. And in
Minneapolis, one of the seven cities investigated,
the wheat cost 1.53 cents and the one-pound loaf
9 cents. In Kansas City it was 1.43 cents, in Chi-
cago 1.53 cents, in New Orleans 1,43 cents, in San
Francisco 1,41 cents and in Boston 1,50 cents.

This investigation shows that the farmer who
produces the wheat gets only 15 to 18 per cent of
the retail price of bread. The value of the flour
in a loaf of bread is entirely submerged in the
service cost of getting that loaf to the consumer,

"It is apparent from these figures that to in-
crease the price of wheat to the ratio price pro-
posed by the McNary-Haugen bill would have in-
creased the cost of living verj-, very little," says
George N. Peek, president of the American Council
of Agriculture. "An increase of 25 cents a bashel
in the price of wheat would increase the cost of
producing a one-pound loaf of bread about three-
tenths of one per cent (.003 per cent),

"This would impose no hardship on any one.
On the other hand, it would mean an annual in-
crease of $200,000,000 in the buying power of the
farmer. ' '

Our opponents who lambasted the McNarj--Hau-
gen bill behind the smoke screen of "higher food
costs" are now predicting better business and gen-
eral industrial prosperity because wheat has risen
to around $1,29, "They have been active through
the city papers in claiming that the farmers are
now able and ready to buy and that industry will
awake from its semi-dormant life and will hum
along, cog meshing into cog, with the increase in
the wheat price.

What if the McNarj--Haugen bill had been en-
acted! The ratio price for September wheat would
have been around $1.53, Would not have the in-
dustrial sections enjoyed even more activity than
the $1.29 price is bringing?

The Voice of the Members

Membfn art invittd lo Ipeak thfir minds in Ihis (olmmn. As
many Utters jrom members viU tie printed each issue ts space
wilt permit. Letters should be shnrt and snappy; all must be
signed to be printed. Alt constructive criticism of tke Farm Bu-
reau— county, slate or national units — is welcomed. II yen kave
any grievances, praise or suggestions, kere is tke place to tell
tkem. It's your column, make it wkat you will. Address letters
to H. C. Butcker, I. A. A. Record, hoS S. Dearborn, Ckicago.

Dear Editort That fellow Chas. AVelnecke of Barring-
ton. III., who wrote la tiw Record Inst time that he missed
his dinner while he wrote you that he did not get his SI5
worth out of the Knrni Blirenil must hnvr missed a lot
of other thlnas bcMldcs his dinner. I think the way t»
get my Sl,% worth out of the Farm Bureau Is to get right
Into thlugil, 1 limed my upper Mi two years ago upon
the advice of the Farm Bureau, and 1 have been more
thein repaid from the better yields. As for a man to
come around to see each one of us farmers, that's the
Fnrtn Adviser's Job and we can make It easier for him If
we'll go half wu>. The I. A. A. Is O. K, We must admit
our sh€»rtcomlngM nnd try to repair them, 'i'he farmer
must be organised,

G, B. B, Mrl.eaa roanty.

That's the way we feel, C, B. B. — Editor,

How would you sell the Farm Bureau if you were to go
after a flood neighbor tvho does not belong? Following are
some letters from members telling their ideas. Write and
tell us yours.

I>ear HIrt If the farmers don't organise and work as
oae maa they will heconie the same ns the peasants of
Europe.

W. Kern, Bristol, III,

Hear Nirt la reply to your tiuestlon. what would I like
to liave the Farm Bureau do for me. I will say. flrat, that
the tiuestion might be more enNlly answered hy asklnat
"What C.W the Farm Bureau do for mef" I have always
been of the opinion that the Farm Burenti could not ac-
complish very much by working with farmers Individual-
ly, but I thlak much caa be done working with the^ as
a unit.

Coming bark to your question of "What would I like
for the Farm Bureau to do for me." The Farm Bureau
working as a unit Is In n position to do thlst they rep-
resent me before all national and state legislative bodies
that enact measures that affect my welfare, such as tar-
iffs, taxes, trauNportation, highways, etc. .\m a unit they
do not only deninnd but conininnd recognition relative
to rights and privileges that ivould place agriculture on
an equal basis with all the other great Industries of our
country, j I'uless the Farm Bureau Is backed up by the
men and women, who not only till the soil but who owrn
It as well, little will ever be ncconipllshed. We must
give the Bureau our Individual niipiiort if we expect any
beneflts from It. In short, my answer to your question Is
thist Work to complete the orgnnlxntlon as fully as pos-
albleft work with It as a nail.

J. Jay Owen. Laeau, III.
Good letter. Jay. — Editor.

Dear sir: lu selling a Farm Bureau memberahip to a
nelghlior who Is not a naember, I would t

First, appeal to him for the need of an organisation.

Second, tell him some of the things the F'urm Bureau
has done, such as getting farm land value reduced, etc.

Third, talk to him about co-operation, the need of every
farmer backing his organisation, team worlE. etc.

Foiirth. tell iilm or remind him wrhat otller organiaa-
tlons are doing to get things in the way of legislation
and the nt^ed of the farm Interest being looked after,

Maay other things could be said,

.4. A. Hill. Decatur. III.

Another good one, A. A. — Editor.

Dear Sirt Practically ail other tradea, biuiaeas aad
profeaatons have their associations nnd organlaations.
why not the farmer have the Farm Bureau f

J. J. EIred, Carrollton. III.

Here are some answers on "If/iy did you quit the Farm
Bureau?** All the replies received from the 50 letters sent to its
m4my former members were tmswered by men who had
quit farming. This leads tis to believe tlutt farm bureau
cttsualties are largely those who quit farming.

Dear Editori Down aad out. Quit farming — nothing
to It. . Wm. DarllUKton. Graftoa, 111.

Illiaola Agricultural .Association i

I was compelled to quit farming on acconat of III
health. Thia is my only reason for dropping out of the
Couaty Farm Bureau and the 1. A. A, I believe In both
and wiah them success.

Eh Henderson, \ew Lenox, III.

Dear SIrt 1 am very much interested In the County
Fnrm Bureau work, and have done quite a lot of work
In getting Farm Bureau memberships In the campaigns.
I had to quit farming on nccount of my wife's health, and
moved to Tucson. Arizona. Me are now doing nicely
out here.

W. A. HIsetter. Tucson. Aria.

Dear Sin In regard t» me not renewing my member-
ship In the County Fairm Bureau. I have moved from
Illliiols to Cass County, Indiana, and will have my mem-
bership In this state.

Hoping this will answer your question all riaht.

Floyd Boldry. Twelve Mile, lad.

THE LIARS' CORNER

WE'VE HRARD K.\>SA«( IS A r.RKAT NTATR
FOR BXPKRIKXCK.H
D«ar F^dttori

I am mow n rltlaen of llllnolH. but while vre
llvrd In (be atate of KaimaH we had Home pretty
tonich expeiienreH trrlnfr to farm. \%'e tried dif-
ferent kladH of icrain hut It waM alwayii a failure.
Finally we concluded to put the whole farm Into
popcorn. We bad an enormouH crop which, when
pirked. flUed our crlba. The children playing with
matchea around the cribit MPt them on Are, The
heat popped the cora. leavlnx n buR-e white drift
where the erlbn bad been. We bad an old blind
horae out In the yard, and when he na'vw that blfc
white pile he thoufcht It waa a anow bank nnd lay
down by It and froae to death. — Levi .\. Martin.
at. Anae, III.

A WINDY 0\i:

Dear Strt ftpenklns: of bl|r atorma. we had a
wind atorm thla aumraer that waa pretty acvere.
It may BVt have been the moat aevere we have
had. but It eauaed ua aome concern. It waa a
wind atorm, ^vblcb came up ho anddenly that even
the anlmala In the barnynrd didn't hnve flme to
And abetter. We bad a flock of line cbickena. and
thla wind waa ao violent that It blew the feathera
off of them $nmt like an ordinary wind blowa
leavea off of treea la the fall.

A ehlcken-eatlnir aow^ bad evidently been roving
around In the nelichborhood of tbe chicken yard.
and ahe wan blown mo full of featheri* abc looked
like a portmplne. She waa mo aHtonlahed and
frightened at her appearance that It waa three
days before we eonid catch her and de-feather
her. The experience eomplelely cured her of

chicken eatlnjc.

After the atorm we gathered up aeveral dry-
plrked chlckena. Belns both modeat and humane,
we made clotbea for them to wear until they feath-
ered out aaraln.— Elmer L.. Waddeli. Tnyiorvilie, 111.

HtwBber 27, 1924

The niinoU Agricultural A»»oci>tion Record

ri 11

ADAMS COUNTY FARMERS

OPERATE A $1,000,000 CO-OP

A farmers' shipping association
hat does ai)| annual business of
$1,000,000 for its members is un-
usual, even among those operat-
ng on the county plan. But over
at Qulncy, 111., the Adams County
Shippers' Association actually
does it. Last year, 689 cars of
stock were shipped through the
association.

Volume of business alone
doesn't make a shipping associa-
tion successful. But in this asso-
ciation of Adams county shippers,
the large volume of business
seems to have followed in the
wake of good service and sim-
plicity of organization, coupled
with the fact that Adams County
Parm Bureau members are auto-
matically members of the ship-
pers' association.

Started iii 1919
The plan of organization of
this association may be of more
than ordinary significance. Its
origin was only the natural out-
growth of a long felt need of
Adams county live stock men for
closer co-operation in their mar-
keting problems. A small group
of them got together back in
September, 1919, and from their
number elected the following men
as the board of directors for the
j first Adams County Shipping As-
I sedation; L. F. Allison, presi-
|dent; G. J. Bockbold, vice-presi-

(dent; L. O. Grieser, secretary-
treasurer; all three of whom have
held these offices continuously
since that time; E. 1.. Anderson
and Fred Uhland.

This board was given full power
to direct the activities of the
association. It selects the county
manager, fl.xes his bond, stipu-
lates his commission and directs
the expenditure of all funds. It
meets regularly each month or
more often if necessary. Today the
association operates under, prac-
tically the same plan.

It works on the county plan,
which means there is a county
manager in the central Farm
Bureau office in Qulncy and local
shippers or managers who handle
shipments from points through-
out the county while the county
manager takes care of shipments
from Quincy.

Farmers Select Managers

When a community decides to
establish a local shipping unit,
those who are interested meet
and select a committee of three
who appoint a man for the work
in that territory.

The appointment of a local
manager must be endorsed by the
board of directors of the county
association, which is composed of
one bona fide farmer elected from
each local shipping point.

The duties of the local man-
ager are to list live stock for
shipment, notify farmers when a
shipment is to be made, and to
mark load and bill out the stock.
He makes out invoices of each
shipment in triplicate, one copy
going to the county manager,
one to the commission company to
which the stock is consigned, and
the other to his own records.
Carry Own Insurance

After the local manager gets
the stock in the car and billed
out, bis responsibility for the
shipment ends and settlements of
losses or other troubles become
those of the county manager.
However, the Adams county asso-
ciation has a scheme for effect-
ually covering their losses in
transit. For a few months after
the association began to ship, in-
surance was carried in a com-
mercial insurance company. But

the managers soon found tbat the
premiums amounted to more than
the losses so the board of direct-
ors decided to furnish their own
insurance by a sinking fund col-
lected along with the general
shipping charge.

"We charge three cents per
hundred for insurance on hogs
and sheep and one cent on cattle
in shipments containing stock be-
longing to more than one per-
son," explained county manager
C. C. Mast, who has held that
position since the shippers or-
ganized. "Then we collect an as-
sociation fee of eight cents per
hundred after freight, insurance
and Inspection charges and yard-
age and feed charges have been
deducted."

In carload lots of one man's
feeding the insurance is one-half
that for mi.xed shipments and the
association fee is three cents per
hundred. They have found that
this arrangement is only fair to
the carlot shipper because there
is less work in figuring up the
accounts and the danger of loss
in transit is only about half as
great as when several bunches
of strange stock are shipped in
the same car. Carlot shippers
also have the privilege of can-
celing the insurance.

Managers Get Honus

"We off«r a bonus of a dollar
a car to local managers for every
car they ship without a loss,"
Mr. Mast explained in telling
how they cut down their losses.
"Right now we've got one man,
W. A. Hill, shipper at Ursa, who
is out for the I. A. A. Safety
Loading Cup. He's shipped about
twenty cars and hasn't had a
loss."

"I don't have much trouble
with losses," 'Mr. Mac' McNeal,
manager for shipping stations at
Paloma and Coatsburg, said.
"You've got jto be careful in
handling stock in the pens and in
loading. Most losses are on mixed
shipments where you get a lot
of strange animals in the same
car. They fight and tear around
more than when all the load is
shipped by one farmer."

"You bet I like it best," 'Mr.
Mac' said when asked if he liked
the county plan of shippers' co-
operative. He likes it because it
relieves him of the detail work
and centralizes farmers' iitarket-
ing powers. "But business fell
off a lot when we changed from
the old $1 membership plan to
the 'every member a Farm Bu-
reau member' plan. I think the
next step the Producers must
take is to do order buying. As
long as the packers do their
buying on order we can't do
much to fix the prices." he said.
Non-Members Pay Fee

Of the eight cent association
fee one cent is used to cover
office expenses and the remaining
seven cents is divided between
the local manager and the county
manager. Three-fourths goes to
the local manager as a commis-
sion for arranging cars, calling
shippers, weighing, loading and
billing out the shipments. An
excess fee of five cents per hun-
dred Is charged to all shippers
who are not Farm Bureau mem-
bers. This is in addition to th€
regular eight cent fee.

"We don't really make any
attempt to grade stock when we
ship, " said Mr. Mast. "We ship
almost entirely to the Producers,
mostly at East St. Louis and
they do all the grading that has
to be done. I don't think five
cars a year that are shipped

AGRICULTURE NEEDS LEADER
LIKE GOMPERS, SAYS WATSON

WOOL BLANKETS

Six Weeks Ago We Had 500.
Now We Have Only 50.

Greys with White Checks
Unexpectedly found one box ol Pink and White Blank-
ets. In ordering:, give second choice of color.

TO FARM BUREAU MEMBERS $11
TO NON-MEMBERS $13

Send your check now, through Farm Adviser, to

I. A. A. UVE STOCK MARKETING DEPT.

608 South Dearborn, Chicago

<_'. C. Maxt. nianaser of the Adama
County Shipper** Aaaoeiation. lowcr<
Inic nith one flnycer, one of the bandy
londlng^ HhateK whirh they UNe in
AdaniM countj. A Kand h**\. which
t*an barely be seen dotvn behind the
fenee. keeps the Hhute in perfeet
balance.

through the association are con-
signed outside the Producers."

After the stock is sold at the
market the buyer mails a copy o(
the account sales to the local nian-
a^fv and one copy to the county
office. The county manager fig-
ures the home charges on each
lot shipped and issues a check to
the owner for the amount.

"Some farmers don't believe in
the county plan." the manager ol
one local shippers* unit said in
answer to how the shippers liked
the scheme. "They think tht
accounts and checks ought to
come hack to the local managers.
They don't want their money to
get any further from them than
absolutely necessary.

Likes County Plan

"Hut I think the whole success
of the co-operative livestock ship-
ping business depends upon thai
very thing," this particular ship-
per continued, "It does away
with petty squabbles and relieves
the local manager of the detail
work. If pro-rating the returns
on a carload of stock was left up
to the local manager, he wouldn't
do it. H**^d leave it to the com-
mission (om-pany and they'd
charge the' farmer their price for
the service. As it is, the county
manager saves enough on the ex-
pense of pro-rating to pay the
salary uf the clerk who does it.

"And pro-rating the receipts
doesn't take up all his time,
either, for he keeps all the rec-
ords of the county association."

All the money received for
shipments through the Adams
County Shippers' Association is
deposited at the stockyards bank
to the credit of one bank at
Quincy for the use o£ the asso-
ciation, it takes about a week
for the checks to make the
rounds. "This makes our daily
balance stand ai-ound $8,000,"
said manager Mast. ".And we
collect a nice piece of interest
from it. Sometimes our balance
runs a little low when shipments
are not heavy. We get around
that by borrowing a little from
our savings account at three per
cent so as to keep up our bal-
ance."

I'se llA4lio \oH

The local managers used to get
daily market reports by wire but
tliis year the county association
purchased two radio sets which
they installed for the local man-
agers. 'Mr. .Mac' has one of these
in his own home. About jioon or
a little before lie gets the market
quotations, although he misses
them sometimes because he can't
tune in right.

During the five years that the
Adams County Shippers' Associa-
tion has been operating it has
gradually purchased many local
ma^'I'eting facilities. At L'rsa.
Paloma and Coatsburg. the asso-
ciation owns its scale*. At sev-
eral statiouLS it has made improve-
ments in the stock • yards, built
loading chutes and installed en-
gines and pumps to improve the
watering service during hot
weather. Most of this work has
been done to protect the insur-
ance fund, since the association is
responsible for the stock from
the time it is unloaded at the
yards and pays all claims in full
when loss occurs.

Solve ShrinkaKe Problem

*A\'f find a great deal of <oni-
plaiiit in regard to shrinkH ifi due

Denouncing the present agri
cultural situation as a "deplor
able condition" and advocating
economic protection for agricul
ture by applying the principles
of the McNary-Haugen bill, C. B.
Watson, vice-president of the I.
A. A., speaking at their annual
Farm Bureau picnic recently, told
Stephenson county farmers that
the greatest need of agriculture
today is a leader of "the Samuel
Gompers type."
"AgHculture
needs a man
who will fight
with all his
heart and soul
for the best in-
terests of agri-
culture," d e-
clared Mr. Wat-
son. "A man
who will even
fight selfishly
as Samuel
Gompers has

fought with all r. b. Wataaa
his heart and soul for the best
interests of labor in the L'ofted
States.

"I '.u t that If adtr has not <ome ;
that It-adcr has yei to iV developed.
i;m some day. and I ho|H- it will lit-
soon, lie will conif forth ami lift
airrii'ulture to a position equal with

lomiiwrfi" and InduHtry. T'nder th«>
U'Hdership of such a one. the Amer-
ican farmers will stand shoulder to
shoulder and forge to that plare
wh.-re they may aecure Just returns
l<tr their effortit."

In his talk Mr. Watson advocated
•levelopmeni of waterways, especial-
ly the St. Lawrence water route, to
cut the cost of transportinft our
mid- western afrrlcultural productn
to the Atlanti<- coa«t.

Nli*aM DtatHba«e Ta«r«

Touching on the problem of tax-
ation, the I. A. A, exec^iiive stated
that taxes would never be reduced
very much, "rublic Improvetnenta.
and there are more of them now
than ever, muxt be k«pt up." he
said. "We want them kept up. but
I l»elieve they can be more evenly
distributed.

"More property should he made
taxable. Intangible property Khould
be taxe<) along with real eelate. It
should lie arranged bo the burden
will fall on all instead of those who
ca n 1 east sta nd it.

"We must know more about leg-
islation. W* must have a greater
voice in our KoVemm^nt. Manv\
laws have come Into conflict with
the old natural law of nupply and
demand. We have protected com-
merce and industry with tariffs, and
We have, protected labor with Im-
migration laws: bu>'-rt»ere has been
Hit If or no r^nsidrt'atlon shown for
agriculture.

■The others are esiablinhed on a
donii-.-ttk- basis; agriculture still op-
erates on the unprotected world
basis, ii must be equalized. Agri-
culture must be raised to their level,
or jiitflligent fartnertf will -quit the
buNiiifss. and American aicricultiir-
ii'tf w HI lif reduced to a pfasaiitry."

Ht 1 areless weighing at home." said
the county manager. "As an illus-
tration, at some of our stations we
nearly always have a gain, at others
the stock holds Us weight, while at
others we practically always get
from medium to heavy shrinks. In
t'hfclving up for over a year or so
we found that this was largely due
to homo weighing of stock. That is
one reason why we were compelled
to l)uy our own scales a,t several,
stations. .

"We should be glad to go ope step
further and have our hogs weighed
together, especially by grades, at
the marltets in order to save excess
shrink and br^ak of the scales, by
sorting in a mixed lot containing
numerous shippers. We are doi^g
this some now, but as a rule fne
farmer objects to this method un-
iest* he thoroughly understands the
saving."

Have' Their Trovklea To*

But things don't always go just
right with the Adams county stop-
pers. They have .their ups and
downs as all farmers' co-ops do. L/O-
r-al grievances sometimes stir up a
little mud in the pool. The commit-
tee of three, selected by the local
members, settle minor grievances. If
the trouble can't be smoothed out by
the local committee It is taken to
the county office.

Then there are the Independent
buyers that shipping associations
have always to contend with. Some
farmers break away and sell out-
side the association occasionally. "I
tell my shippers that they are cut-
tiim their own throat when they
sell through individual buyers." 'Mr.
Maf' explained his views of holding
h's shippers together. He believe^
alisolutely in sticking together on
their marketing problems.

■Well, sometimes I think it pays
to ship throuprh them." replied one
farmer, who was asked for his opin-
ion of the shippers' association.
Then sometimes I think it doesn't.
It's about a fifty-flfty chance
wht-ther you ship through the as-
sociuilon or through one of these
l)uyer8. If you ship through the as-
sociation you have to stand the
freight, and feed, and yardag^e and
all such costs. But if you sell to a
l»nyer he pays you a little less right
on the spot and stands shipping ex-
pt-n.'*es himself. I ^uess there's a
lot of luck, on "how you hft the mar-
ket too."

PlmreM Tell Rtory

.*<ome carlot shippers wonder
whether Chey can afford to ship
Uiruugh the Adams County Ship-
pers' Association. The association
manager gives them a comparison
of shipping expenses throuKh and
around the association showing' tbat
a varload "of stock can be shipped
tbrough the association at a saving
of »*t.!tO .\t the sfime time th^ ship-
per has the advantatce of insuran<-e
1 li:il protects Ids stock from the
li-nr ii is unloaded at the local
yitrds until it is sold on the central
market, has been saved the trouble
<»f loadieg. billing and caring for
I he fiioik until departure of the
train and has co-operated on the
farmers" stock marketing program.

K\i n with their difhculties. ttie
Adams <'ounly Shippers have an or-
Katiization that has gone a long way
tdward solvlne their live stock riiar-
k-lii!g problems. It has gone be-
yond I he first stages of co-oper-
ation and attained that degree of
su<'<ess which is the result of a
loiiK-tiine program. c a r e f u 1 ly
planned -and carried out.

Such organizations do not spring
up mushroom fashion. They come
only after years of persistent co-
'►peratiftn to realize a worthy pur-
pose.

Ill EivingNton count}', the first
"once over" test for tuberculoels
in cattle was completed last
month, after two years of con-
tinuous testing. Out of 3,598
herds containing 26.326 head of
cattle, $59 were condemned. The
county veterinarian has started
the second test in an effort to
speedily make Livingston an ac-
credited county.

Farm Bureau Spirit
Splendid; Rummel

"There has been a splendid
spirit indicated at all the Farm
Bureau meetings d have attended
this summer." states W. E. D.
Rummel, editor of the community
senice department of the Change
Judd Illinois Farmer, in talking
of the general Farm Bureau mor-
ale recently.

Mr. Rummel is an old hand in
Farm Bureau work. He has
spoken in most of .the counties
in Illinois and is well acquainted
with Farm Bureau work in other
states, especially in Vermont,
New Hampshire and Maine where
he was a leader in organixatlon
work for the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation. He is a middle-
west man, however.

A large number of Farm Bu-
reau meetings, including county
Farm Bureau picnics, have been
addressed by Mr. Rummel during
the summer. As head of his
community service department
Mr. Rummel says:

"We have done our best to help
all who have asked for help, and
the response of the Parm I»ureau to
our community work has tieen most
gratifying.

"I am glad that the l>usinee« men
of the state are co-oper«' ' rr ■■• ■
the farmers in many aneetlnrs i^id
picnics, which is as It ttiiuu>t< •--
The times point to a greater need
than ever for civic consclousneAS
and community building.

"In these meetings I have sought
to dwell upon the need of more
thinkinf? and better onganttstlon
among farmers. Farm life and farm-
ing as a ttusiness will not rise to the
h>KheRt point until farmers all put
their shoulders to the wheel and
•hea ve-o-heave.' I have met a large
number of the old wheel horses of
(irKanized aKriculture. and I have
found them taking a lively Interest
in Parm Kureau work this year.
The one safeguard for indepen-dence
and personal )il>erty for farmers la
the ilevelopmenl of a healthy com-
munity spirit throughout the length
and breadth of the land."

Following are the farm burejiu
gatherings addressed by Mr. Rum-
mel :

May :. 8. 9. IS. 20. 21. 22. 21
Warren County Farm Bu-
reau meeting IJSo

Ma.v 26 Klizabeth Jo Davl«ii8

County JOn

May 27 Menominee. Jo Daviens

t'ounty 27S

May 28 ilalena. fhamber Of
C«nimeree and Farm Bu-
reau Ranquet 20ft

May 2» Warren. Jo Daviess Co. 275

May so I'leasani Valley. Jo Da-

vifss Co ' too

June 11' I'aris. hMgar County

Annual Farm Bureau Picnic ISOO

June 20 Community Farm Bu-
reau meeting at residence
of O. L. Hatch. Stark Co... 1250

June 28 KIgin. Annual Farm

Bureau picnic. Kane Co... 1S»0

July 12 Kaneville. Community

Farm Hureau picnic ...... 800

Auk. !!♦ Palestine. Annual Farm

Bureau picnic. Crawford Co. 1000

Atig. 22 Marshall-Putnam Co.
.\nnual Farm Bureau picnic
Campus John 8waney High
School 700H

Sept. 13 OkU- Co. Annual Farm
lUiTfau picnic

lOtlgar counter, the only «ccr«dlt«d

tuberculosis free county In Illi-
nois, has appropriated funds to
continue eradication work. Farm-
ers there don't believe in quit-
ting the job even if the coanty
is practically free of bovine
tuberculosis.

I*;S5_

The IMInoU Agricnlhiral A«»odation Record

September 27, 1924

FARMERS OF 13TH
DISTRICT MEET IN
LIVELY CONFERENCE

Ducuss Community Problems;

"Dad" Wise Tells of Trip

Abroad; Cowle* Explain*

Grain Merger

Farmers from Lee, Ogle. White-
side, Stephenson, Jo Daviess and
Carroll counties assembled for a
district Farm Bureau conference
at Freeport, Sept. 16, with C. E.
Bamborough, I. A. A. executive
committeeman, presiding.

R. A. Cowles, I. A. A. treasurer,
who spoke at the conference de-
scribed it as, "one of the best I
ever attended" and Mr. Bambor-
mugh characterized it as a "crack-
erjack."

The discussions were confined
chiefly to the farmers' problems
within their own respective com-
munities. Mr. Bamborough had
previously arranged tor the fol-
lowing short talks:

"The Farmer as a Citizen,"
W. L. Reigie, Lee County. "The
Farmers in Unison or Organiza-
tion," L. R. Birdsall, Whiteside
County. "The Farmer in Busi-
ness," Albert L. Getz, Carroll
County. "The Farmer in Poli-
tics," T. F. Ellis, Stephenson
County.

The High LighU

The following high lights from
tkese addresses show the trend
of the speakers' minds:

■ "The farmer is an outstanding
example of Loyalty." "The farm-
er is more ready and willing to
respond to worthy calls than
others." "A satisfactory and
profitable agriculture stabilizes
Kood citizenship." "Home influ-
ence, good reading, examples set
by parents, an economic condition
ii good citizenship." "Mark of
good citizenship is expressed by
the use of the ballot." "It be-
hooves the farmer to vote at
every opportunity he has." "Vote
intelligently," "Vote for the one
that is pledged to safeguard your
special Interest, Agricoltare. That
i% the reason organized capital,
organized industry and organized
labor have been 'sitting pretty'
while the disorganized farmers
have been compelled to take what
He other fellows were willing to
Klve to us."

Farm Adviser "Dad" Wise,
Whiteside county, told very in-
terestingly of the experience of
tke world's champion dairy judg-
ing team as they visited places of
interest in England, Scotland,
France, Switzerland and the
Islands of Jersey and Guernsey
Find WeU Bred Stock

Their chief interest was, of
course, in the agriculture of these
countries. In telling of his im-
pressions of European farming
Mr. Wise stated that one of the
most noticeable things was that
the livestock was all well bred
and well cared for in all of the
places they visited.

Mr. Cowles was called upon
for information regarding the
drain Marketing Compitny and
I He attitude of the I. A. A.
toward it. Stating that the in-
vestigation by the I. A. A. com-
n(itee is still proceeding, he ex-
pressed his disappointment that
the vender companies who are
eatering this co-operative enter-
prise are very slo*r about sub-
mitting to the investigating com-
mittee such figures as would be
required by the stock exchange if
the stock were listed with ' them
tor sale. He believes that any
Individuals or associations con-
sidering investing or entering in-
to co-operative relations with
such an organization should be
entitled to such information.

Whether these elevator properties
eife really worth the amount they
:»!ti' 'held at and whether it is really
I't'-essary for the farmers to pur-
<■ lase them at all and how the man-
;>rtfment of the business may he de-
veloped and controlled are problems
i"i which more information must be
olitained before the I. A. A. will in-
flfirse the org:anization.

'•■Wh'le it may be embarrassing,"
.*<iiid Mr. Cowlea. "to hold off while
[-lime others are entering into the
t'ltin. yet it migrht be much more
,-mbarrassinK to indorse somethlngr
tttat would prove detrimental later."
.Ity otficial and unanimous vote the
ilitjtrict conference resolved to en-
ilOrse the policy of the I. A. A. in
thoroughly investigating and with-
holding its decision until that In-
v,t«tigation is complete.

Extract from Letter from
Knox County Farm
Bureau
Galnknrg, III.,
Aoanut 19, 1924.
^', D. Perry of Hermon, 111.,
reporta that the M. A St. L..
Railroad got busj and rut the
thlatlea along the right at
war before they weat lato
blooBt.

<siKaFd> h. R. Marrhaat.
AdTtaer.

Here Is the Final Settlement
of -Another Case

Sept. 18, 1924.
Mr. Fraak Butxovr,
Chenervllle. III.
Hear Stri

REt Claim agalnat i\
M. Jt St. P. Fire Dam-
age.
la aeeordanee vrlth our let-
ter of Aug. IS aad your repir
thereto, we have obtalnmi the
railroad conipany'a eheek In
the antonnt of 9130 In pay-
meat of thia claim aad attach
name hereto.

1%'e traat thIa matter has
heen handled to 7oar entire
aatlafactloa.

Yoora very trtily,
TRANSPORTATION DEPT.
!<. J. (laaaey. Director

Eighty farmers imd adTisers

attended the first of several seed
corn selection meetings being
held by the University of Illinois.

Listen In!

Tune in on KYW the evening
of October 3, Farm Bureau folks,
for that is the night when two
I. A. A. executive committeemen
put forth their views on two vi-
tally important phases of farm bu-
reau work. Here is the rest of
the September program and the
October list:

.September 30 — "Please Help Vour-
aelf." l)y John A. Kotal, Secretary.
United Master Butchers of Ameri-
ca under auspices of the National
Live Stock and Meat Board.

"Observations of the Growth of
Boys' and Girls' Club Work" by
John AV. Coverdale, Secretary of the
Grain Marketing Company.

October 3 — "Rural Community
Building." by Franlc D. Barton. Cor-
nell. Executive Committeeman of
the I. A. A.

"Putting Business In Farming."
by chauncey B. Watson. De Kalb.
Vice-President of I. A. A.

October 7 — American Farm Bu-
reau Federation feature.

"Vocational Agriculture in Twelve
Xorth Central States." by J. A.
Linke. Supervisor of Vocational Ag-
riculture. Xorth Central Region.

October JO — "Better Boys and
Better Calves." by Earl Cooper. Hol-
stein-Friesian Association of Amer-
ica.

".«!tunt.>i for Tour Evenings' Pro-
grama." by Paul A. Potter. Assistant
Editor, Orange Judd Illinois Farmer.

October 14 — "Painting and Hous-
ing of -Farm Machinery." by F. A.
Wirt. Editor. Case Eagle, Racine.
Wis.

American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion feature.

October 17 — Boys' and Girls' Club
Feature, by A. D. Polker.. Mont-
gomery Ward & Co.

"What Cattle Feeders Are Talk-
ing About." by D. C. Waterman.
Editorial Staff of the Orange Judd
Illinois Farmer.

October 21 — .American Farm Bu-
reau feature.

"Plugging Tweaks in Co-ops." bv
George R. Wicker. Mfer.. lilinoi's
Agricultural Co-operatives Associa-
tion and Director of the Illinois
•-Agricultural Association Dept. of
Co-operative Accounting.
• October 24 — "What the National
Roys' and Girls' Club Congress
■\Teans to America." by G. L. Noble.
Secretary. National Committee on
Boys* and Girls' Club Work.

"Farmers' Produce Markets," by
Arthur C Page. Editor. Orange Judd
Illinois Parmer.

October 28 — "Monthly Analysis of
-Farm Markets." by H. W. Moor-
house. Howard-Moorhftuse Agricul-
tural Business Service.

American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion feature.

Oi^ober 31 — "Farm Juniors at the
International Live Stock Exposi-
tion." by B. H. Helde. Gen. Mgr,
International Live Stock Exposition.

"What the Illinois Farm Bureaus
Are Doing." by H. C. Butcher. Di-
rector of Information. I. A. A.

One of the many activities of

George H. Crawford, an Iowa
cow tester for a two-county as-
sociation, is the regular Job of
weighing babies and judging bible
reading contests. He says the
life of a dairyman isn't all
drudgery.

Marshall-Patnam Farm Bureau

ordered another 350 tons of lime-
stone last week.

In A'emillton county over 16,-
000 cattle have been tested for
tuberculosis.

Half of the farm homes in

Sweden are equipped with elec-
tricity.

A. F. B. F. OFFICULS
TAKE GRAIN JOBS

(Continued from page 1>
U. S. Department of Agriculture;
Murray D. Lincoln, secretary of
the Ohio Farm Bureau Federa-
tion; Gray Silver and E. B. Reld
of the Washington office.

Following the president's re-
port came the report of the
treasurer, which ^ave a digest of
the financial situation. In this
report It was shown that the
Federation had been operated
some 110,000 under the total
budget set at the first of the year
and $14,300 of the Federation's
indebtedness had been liquidated
this year.

For Farmers' Bill
A general discussion of pend-
ing farm legislation was carried
on by the executive committee
following the report made by
Gray Silver on Monday afternoon.
During this discussjon a resolu-
tion made by C. E. Hearst was
passed by the committee, which
empowered the legislative com-
mittee to make a draft of the
bill which is to be presented in
the next Congress. Mr. Hearst's
resolution called for a re-draft by
the A. F. B. F. legislative com-
mittee of the McNary-Haugen bill
along such lines that would more
likely insure its passage.

Following the report of the Fi-
nance Department showing: several
states delinquent in matters of ac-
counting to the national office for
membership dues collected, the fol-
lowing report was made by the Fi-
nonce Sub-Committee of which Pres-
ident Thompson is a member:

Tour Finance Committee has ex-
nnilned the preiient Ktatna of the va-
rlouB atateii with respect to their II-
nnn4Tlni obllfcationM to the American
Farm Bnrenu Federation, and we
hes leave to call the board*a atten-
tion to the fact that a number of
atateH are In arrenra. aome hnvins
wholly failed to make any paymenta
of duea to the A. F. B. F. for the
present year.

We call the board's attention to
th4* provision In the constitntlon
which empowers the board to sus-
pend such atntes, and we nrfce that
appropriate action be taken to the
end that it may be speedily deter-
mined w^hat states may properly
participate In the ensnlns conven-
tion of the American Federation.
And we suKKCSt that the board em-
power the president to commun-
icate with the Mcveral delinquent
states on behalf of the board and to
call attention to their delinquency
and to the penalty which la provided
by the constitution.

In view of the fact that our con-
vention will be held In less than
three months from the present date
we urse that this matter be acted
upon promptly and that the several
delinquent states be communicated
vrlth at once.

Ii^'e further smtmreat that the pres-
ident compile a report of his flnd-
Ingrs respectInK the delinquent states
■o that the same may be available
to the credentials committee of the
convention when appointed In order
that such committee may act In-
telilffently upon the credentials of
the several delfgrates.

Child Labor Bill

Following the discussion of the
amendment to the Constitution.
which gives the Federal Govern-
ment power to prohibit the labor of
persons under the age of eighteen
years, the executive committee of
the American Farm Bureau Feder-
ation passed the following resolu-
tion :

**Whereas. Conirress has passed an
amendment to the t'onstitutlon
which would (cive that body 'iiower
to prohibit the labor of persons
under the aice of IN years and to
prescribe the conditions of such la-
bor and ratification of this action Is
now before the state Icfclalntures,
and

**Whereas. The opportunity to dls-
conraice or prohibit this sort of fed-
eral interference— making a farm
mother of Congress— has pasfted for
the moment beyond the activities of
the American Farm Bureau Feder-
ation and has become almost en-
tirely a state question, and

"Whereas, The proposed amend-
ment will give Congress blanket au-
thority to pass stringent and far-
fluufr laws on this subject which la
already covered adequately and ac-
cording to local conditions In a ma-
jority of states.

"We urare the Ntnte Farm Bureau
Federation to Impress upon their
leglHlatures the desirability of de-
feating the ratification of the child
labor amendment."

At this meeting of the executive
committee the Farm Bureau went
on record along with other organ-
izations urging that every American
citizen vote at the coming fall elec-
tions. The form of the executive
committee's mind went on record In
the following resolution:

"Whereaa. The reeorda of the poll
books at the varloua rural voting
prei'InctH show on the average a
light representation of farm vote,
and

"Whereas, It la highly Important
that agriculture expreaa Itaelf at the
polls,

"Therefore, be It Resolved, That
the A. F. B. F. urge the rural people
to attead the elections this year and
»xpress themselves by ballot In the
selection of all the offlclala regard-
leas of party nlHIIatlon.**

Details for the final arrangement
of the program for the sixth annual
meeting of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation, which will be held
in Chicago, December 8. 9 and 10.
were left in the hands of President
Bradfute.

^EVBR SAY DIEt

Two frogs fell into a bucket
of cream
And must paddle to keep
afloat;
But one soon tired and
drowned to death
With a gurgling sigh in his
throat.

The other paddled away all

night

And not a sigh did he utter;

But with the dawn of the

morning light

He rode an isle of butter.

The flies came thick to his
island home
And he gobbled a breakfast
snappy;
The milkmaid, scared, upset
the bucket
And the froggie hopped
away happy.

A mora! we all can learn
right now
And hasten at once to ap-
ply;
Success will come in difficult
times
If we paddle and never say
die.
— By A. D. Lynch.
Director of Dairy Marketing.
I. A. A.

Valuation of Farm
Lands Cut 10 Per
Cent In Vermilion

Farm land valuations in Ver
milion county got a 10 per cent
slash when the Board of Review
met in Danville, early in Septem-
ber, to consider the equalization
of real estate valuations between
city and country property as re
quested by the Vermilion County
Farm Bureau.

The 10 per cent reduction fol-
lowed a hearing of the case, be-
fore the Board, of Review, on
Sept. 3. Previous to th^t time,
John C. Watson, I. A. A. repre-
sentative on taxation matters, had
appeared before the Board with
data showing the unfairness of
the valuations of farm lands.

In 1923 the Board of Review
did considerable equalizing on
tax valuations which, however,
made no material change In the
cut of about five per cent In total
valuations by assessors. The re-
cent reduction of 15 per cent in
Logan county had left Vermilion
county farm lands assessed at the
highest average per acre of any
county In Illinois.

The late cut by the Board of
Review places Vermilion county
farm lands in more favorable
circumstances, according to Mr.
Watson. Although still some-
what above the average level of
the county, the disparity between
urban and rural lands is consid-
erably reduced.

Farm Folks Hear
Editor of Prairie
Farmer On Radio

"A good teacher backed by a
community that Is Interested in
its schools will make a good
school anywhere." This funda-
mental statement, heard by thou-
sands of farm folks as It was
carried along the ether lanes
from station KYW, Chicago,
came from W. Floyd Keepers,
assistant editor of the Prairie
Farmer, as he talked about
"School Days" on the I. A. A.
farm program recently.

Mr. Keepers spoke with author-
ity on school problems tor he
was substituting on the KYW
program for C. V. Gregory,
Prairie Farmer editor, and presi-
dent of the grade school board
at Wheaton, 111., whose knowl-
edge of school questions comes
from a long study of farmers' ed-
ucational difficulties. At the last
minute Mr. Gregory was called
to Springfield to attend a Farm-
ers' Institute meeting, and Mr.
Keepers was called on to give
the talk. Could you tell by their
voices?

"It Is rather astonishing to
read of college-trained teachers
teaching in one-room country
schools," the Prairie Farmer rep-
resentative told bis audience.
"Yet there are a number of such
teachers in the country schools
of Illinois. Trained teachers cost
more, of course. But a good
teacher is always worth more
than she costs. Every country
district should keep Its teacher —
If she Is a good teacher — even
at an Increase In salary.

"I wonder how much a good
school means to a child? And
what a vast difference there is
between a good school and a

ILLINOIS AND IOWA
LEAD OTHER STATES
IN ESSAY CONTEST

New York i* Close Sec<Hid;

Boys and Girls From 19

State Farm Bureaus

Are Entered

With 11 counties entered from
each state, Illinois and Iowa were
in the lead among the states en-
tered in the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation essay contest on
Sept. 23.

Up to that time the following
Illinois counties had notified H.
R. Klbler, at the American Farm
Bureau Federation offices in Chi-
cago, of their entry into the con-
test, which is open to all boys
and girls of the public schools
up to and including the second
year in high school;

Shelby, Clark, Whiteside, Ver-
milion. Ogle, Johnson, Henry,
Lee. Cass, McLean and Hender-
son. In each of these counties,
either the Farm Bureau or co-
operating business firms are offer-
ing prizes (or the best essays on
either of the two optional sub-
jects, "Why Dad is a Farm Bu-
reau Member" or "Why Dad
Should Join the Farm Bureau."
.Many States In

The contest has assumed siz-
able proportions with counties
from 19 State farm Bureaus en-
tered and the probability of many
more joining before the contest
closes. New York is running
Illinois and Iowa a close second
with eight County Farm Bureaus
in the contest.

Broom County Farm Bureau
(New York), which has the dis-
tinction of being the first County
Farm Bureau ever organized. Is
into the contest to stay 't% the
last, according to Mr. Klbler.
The entry of Harrison county,
Iowa, was the first to be re-
ceived at A. F. B. F. head-
quarters.

Throughout Illinois, in the
counties that are conducting essay
contests, county superintendents
and public school teachers are
promoting the contest along with
their regular school work.
Ten From Elach County

"There should be at least 25
Illinois counties in the contest
when it opens on October 1,"
Mr. Kibler stated. "And there
must be at least 10 contestants
entered from a county to make
it eligible for the regional prizes."

The first prize essay in each
Illinois county will be considered
by the I. A. A. committee of
judges for the state champion-
ship, after the contest closes
Nov. 10. Immediadlly after the
close of the contest a local com-
mittee will choose the prize win-
ners in the counties and forward
the names of the winners to the
I. A. A. and the American Farm
Bureau Federation.

The judges for the latter orga-
nization will then select the win-
ners in each of the four national
regional districts from these
county winners, regardless of
how the state championship has
been decided. The four regional
winners will be given a free trip
to the annual meeting of the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion in Chicago, Dec. 8, 9, and
10. A national sweepstakes win-
ner may be chosen from the
regional champions at that time,
according to Mr. Kibler.

poor or an indifferent one — if we
deprive our children of the best
school opportunity we can give
them, we have taken something
out of their lives that we can
never replace. The best is none
too good for your children and
for the children of your neigh-
bors. Let's make the children's
school-days days of real oppor-
tunity, every one of which will
count in glvfng them the best of
preparation for leading a happy,
successful lite."

The number of counties in

Illinois now doing organized
tuberculosis eradication work has
advanced to 61 with the addition
of Fulton and Marlon counties
when they recently appropriated
funds for the work which will
begin as soon as veterinarians
can be secured.

During the first year of op-
eratlon, the gasoline tax in Indi-
ana yielded 14,500,000 with a
total collection expense of {6,046.

mber 27, 1924
DIOWA

ER STATES
^Y CONTEST

Close Second ;
rls From 19
n Bureaus
ntered

ies entered trom
is and Iowa were
ig tbe states en-
>rican Farm Bu-
essay contest on

ae tbe following
had notified H.
American Farm
in offices in Chi-
try into the con-
pen to all boys
i public schools
ding tbe second
Dol:

Whiteside, Ver-
ohnson, Henry,
an and Hender-
tfaese counties.
Bureau or co-
is firms are offer-
e best essays on

0 optional sub-
is a Farm Bu-

or "Why Dad
Farm Bureau."
ates In

as assumed siz-
with counties
irm Bureaus en-
bability of many
'ore the contest
3rk is running
a close second
y Farm Bureaus

Farm Bureau
Ich has the dis-
the first County
er organized, is
to stay "t* the
to Mr. Kibler.
[arrison county,
first to be re-
. B. F. head-

llinois, in the
conducting essay
superintendents
3l teachers are
ntest along with

001 work.
lach County

be at least 25
in the contest
on October 1,"
1. "And there
10 contestants
;ounty to make
regional prizes."
essay in each
11 be considered
committee of
itate champion-
contest closes
iatfly after the
>st a local com-
3 the prize win-
ies and forward
winners to the
American Farm
n.

the latter orga-
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regardless of
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iven a free trip
neeting of the
Bureau Federa-
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weepstakes win-
osen from the
IS at that time,
Kibler.

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ren of the best
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00,000 with a
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Volume 2

Issued Every Other Saturday — October 11, 1924

Number 20

INVESTIGATION ENDS
IN REPORT AGAINST
BIG GRAIN MERGER

I.A.A. Executives Have Busy
Three Days; Meet Fanners
Grain Dealers'; Hear Re-
port On Big Bond Issue

After hearing the report of the
all summer Investigation Into the
consolidation of the tour old line
grain companies Into tbe Grain
Marketing Company, the execu-
tive committee of the I. A. A.
last Friday unanimously voted
against It.

The chief objections to the so-
called co-operative which has
been incorporated for $26,000,-
000 are contained in the report
of the grain marketing committee
which was accepted by the unan-
imous vote. The members of the
grain marketing committee, H. E.
Goembel, Hooppole, chairman, A.
R. Wright, Varna, I. A. Madden,
Springfield and W. A. McNeill.
Chandlervllle. were in session all
day Wednesday, Oct. 1, going
over the comprehensive investi-
gational survey which had been
assembled by experts in grain
marketing, in the legal phases
and in the financial side.
Hold Evening Session

The following report, the one
given by _the grain marketing
committee, was adopted by the
executive committee in an eve-
ning session Friday, October 3,
after both bodies had carefully
considered all the facts that had
been gathered.

Following is the resolution:

"The minois Agricultural As-
sociation is not in a, position to
express an opinion as to tiie val-
ue and utility of the warehousing
facilities which the Grain Mar-
keting Company has under con-
tract to purchase. The officers
of the Grain Marketing Company
have not made available the rec-
ords and data necessary to deter-
mine the exact or even approxi-
mate values even though request
has been made therefor.

"The facilities now under lease
and to be purchased by the Grain
Marketing Company in the Chi-
cago district have in our opinion
been acquired by the old line
grain comiHuiies for the purpose
of speculative control of grain.
The need and location of facilities
for such control is substantially
diiferent from the requirements
of an association organized to co-
operatively merchandise grain.

Bu}-tng Is Speculative
"The Grain Marketing Company
. has and proposes in the future to
buy the grain of members and
non-members and sell such grain
to the best possible advantage.
Such a plan subjects the company
to the possibility of loss as well
as profit and is therefore specula-
tive. True co-operative merchan-
dising of grain or any other agri-
cultural commodity will seek to
eliminate speculation and avoid
the hazards thereof. We believe
that the Grain Marketing Com-
pany in its plan of operation vio-
lates this cardinal principle.

"Such a grain marketing pro-
gram as is proi>08ed affects the
virtue and security of the pre-
ferred stock which is proposed to
bts offered to the farmer produc-
ers. The common stock issue,
one million one dollar shares. Is
comparatively small and if issued
in full could not absorb all pos-
sible losses in which event the
preferred stock contribution of
capital would be called upon to
absorb such possible losses from
such speculation. It appears to
us, therefore, that such a plan of
financing is unsound.

"The method of grower-control
(Continued on pase 4) i

Grun Dealers And
I.A.A. Get Together

How the farmers' co-op-
erative elevators and the
Farm Bureau could work
together better was the
chief topic of discussion at
the joint meeting of the
executive committees of the
I. A. A. and the Farmers
Grain Dealers' Association
of Illinois, representing over
500 Illinois farmers' eleva-
tors.

A committee on mutual
relations, the purpose of
which is to co-ordinate as
much as possible the agri-
cultural betterment work
under way by both organi-
zations, was ordered ap-
pointed by unanimous vote
of the two committees dur-
ing the joint session. Sam
H. Thompson, president of
tbe Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation, and Fred A.
Mudge, Peru, president of
the Illinois Grain Dealers'
Association, were empow-
ered to appoint two commit-
teemen from their respec-
tive organizations to act on
the mutual relations com-
mittee. Both presidents are
to be ex-offlclo members of
the committee.

AT THE HELM OF THE I. A. A.

The film tchich is being made to show the activities of the /. A. A.
would never be complete unless it had an action picture of the ex-
ecutive committee. Here we have one of the snaps from the movie
film (much enlarged, of course) which shows President Thompson in
a characteristic posture.

Shippers Making
Records in I.A.A.
Safety Contest

Farmers' live stock shipping as-
sociations in Illinois are making
records in the I. A. A. safety load-
ing and shipping contest, accord-
ing to an official report from L.
B. Mann, assistant manager for
the Chicago Producers. The re-
port includes records on the 20
associations highest in number of
loads shipped to the Chicago Pro-
ducers from July 1 to Sept. 27.

A comparison of losses sus-
tained by local and county asso-
ciations on these shipments to the
Chicago Producers shows that
shippers at Victoria, Sheffield and
Mt. Morris each have 100 per
cent clean loss and damage rec-
ords. These local units have
shipped 15, 14 and 12 car loads
of stock with no losses.

According to unofficial reports,
the Ursa shippers, in Adams
county, have consigned 25 cars
to the St. Louis Producers with
no losses.

The largest number of ship-
ments to the Chicago Producers
have come trom associations at
Mt. Carroll, Rockford and Warren
counties, which have shipped 37,
36 and 29 car loads. While their
losses are large, the percentage
of loss is not necessarily greater
than many other associations.

The 21 inch silver trophy be-
ing offered to the winning asso-
ciation at the end of the year
will be awarded on the basis of
the least percentage of loss or
damage on a total of not less
than 20 cars shipped by the com-
peting association.

Starting down the table at the left
is Earl C. Smith, Detroit; G. F. Tul
lotk, Rockford; Curt Anderson,
Xenia; R. F. Karr, Iroquois, J. E.
I.ingenfelter, Lawrenceville; (Samuel
Sorrels of Raymond is just beyond
Mr. Lingenfeher and cannot be seen) ;
President Sam H. Thompson, Quincy
(standing); Secretary George A. Fox,
Sycamore; A. R. If right, Varna; J. L.
Whisnand, Charleston; C. E. Bambor-
ough. Polo; Stanley Castle, Alton; H.
E. Goembel, Hooppole; and Frank D.
Barton, Cornell. Just over Mr. Smith's
head at the left is a bit of C. E. Hay,
TaylorvUle, presideiu of the Associa-
tion of Farm Advisers of Illinois. The
white face way down in the left corner
is W. H. Moody of Port Byron, C. B.
Watson, vice-president, is next the
wall back of President Thompson.
R. A. Cowles, treasurer, is back in
the right corner. The wee portion
of a head in front of Mr. Cowles is
Miss Grace Schecter, secretary to Mr.
Fox, who takes down considerable of
all the conversation in shorthand.

No More Blankets

"Te«, we have no more
blaBketa,** thU from the irate
■eeretarr to l^m. E. Hedr-
cock, director of the llveatoek
marketlna: department, both
of whom besKed the I. A. A.
informatloB department to
»end brondcast the annonnce-
nient that the 1. A. A. haa no
more wool blankets for sale.
"It aure paya to. advertlae.**
aara Hedscock. **We*ve re-
turned, to date, S578 on or*
dera ive couldn't ftlL**

New Tariff Rule

Granted On Stone

As the result of an exception to
the class rate tariff, recently ob-
tained by the transportation de-
partment of the I. A. A., Illinois
farmers along the C. & E. I., Wa-
bash, C. B. & Q., I. C, and other
roads from Greencastle, Ind., will
be able to get stone shipped in
much cheaper than heretofore

The exception, effective Oct 25,
1924, will permit the application
of combination rates over various
junction points on railroad lines
that do not now participate in any
through rates on agricultural lime-
stone..

The new rule will doubtless stim-
ulate competition for farmers'
trade in limestone, according to
L. J. Quasey, director of the I.
A. A. transportation department,
by farmers near the source, of
supply.

Farmers' Auditing
Company May Open
Campaign Branch

With the applications oi the
Athens Farmers' Elevator Com-
pany, the Livingston County Farm
Bureau and the Pike County Farm
Bureau for membership in the
Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives
Association, Geo. R. Wicker, gen-
eral manager of the association,
announces a total membership of
72 farmers' companies.

Since the opening of tbe branch
office in Springfield, early In Sep-
tember, responsibility for much of
the detail work in that section of
the state has been assumed by J.
W. King, in charge of the branch,
according to Mr. Wicker. This
arrangement makes it possible for
the Chicago office to devote more
time to auditing and examining
co-ops in other sections of the
state.

F. E. Ringham, assistant to Mr.
Wicker, has just completed audits
for farmers' elevators in Iroquois
and McHenry counties and is be-
ginning an audit tor the Chicago
Producers.

With a steady increase In mem-
bership from fanners' companies
in the east central part of the
state, it is possible that a district
office will be established in Cham
paign.

Hold Conference at Peoria

Every county in the 16th dis-
trict was represented at the Farm
Bureau district conference held
in Peoria, Oct. 7. Live stock
marketing problems, seed corn se-
lection, and the Grain Marketing
Company were the chief topics of
discussion. The conference voted
endorsement of the conser^-ative
stand taken by the I. A. A. on
the grain merger and particularly
commended President Sam
Thompson for his action. The
conference was too late to get a
full account of it in this Reoobo.

TWENTY ILUNOIS
COUNTIES ENTERED
IN ESSAY CONTEST

Maay Letters Requesting In-
formation Indicate Unusual
Interest ; Prairie State
Z..«a(ls; Iowa Second

Midwest Officials Meet

Midwest Farm Bureau presi-
dents and secretaries were sched-
uled "to meet in Chicago, Oct. 9
and 10. A report on tbe legisla-
tive outlook was to be made by
R. A. Cowles, I. A. A. treasurer
and secretary of the American
Council of Agriculture.

Development of the Grain Mar-
keting Company, a study of the
constitution of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, rela-
tionships between the Farm Bu-
reau and co-operative marketing
and the Farm Bureau and exten-
tion work were' other chief topics
to bp considered.

Kibler Attends Radio Meet

H. R. Kibler, director of in-
formation for the .\merican Farm
Bureau Federation, served on the
advisory committee at the Third
National Radio Conference in
Washington, D. C., this week.
Herbert Hoover, who called the
conference, asked Mr. Kibler to
attend because he has beeli in-
strumental in developing farm
radio programs.

"Will sou please send me in-
formation concernlns the Farm
Bureau that will help me with my
essay on 'Why Dad Should Join
the Farm Bureau.' " and "Please
send me 'dope' for my essays on
'Why Dad Should Join the Farm
Bureau,' or 'Why Dad is a Farm
Bureau Member.' " — these ex-
tracts from actual letters are
fair samples of the dozens of let-
ters that have been coming to
the I. A. A. information depart-
ment since the Farm Bureau es-
say contest was launched.

The letters come from boys.
girls, school teachers, farm ad-
visers, office secretaries and Farn'
Bureau presidents requesting in-
formation as to the sources of
material for use in the essays and
indicate a lot of Interest in the
contest.

Iowa Is .Second
Illinois can now boast of being
in the lead ampng the state Farm
Bureaus with the most counties
entered. With the entry of Jo
Daviess County Farm Bureau in
the contest Illinois takes the lead
with 20 counties entered. The
nearest competitor is Iowa with
15 counties.

The American Farm Bureau
Federation headquarters have
been swamped with hundreds of
letters requesting material about
the Farm Bureau and in all cases
a limited supply of information
has been sent in reply. But the
essay contest director has been
impressing on county Farm Bu-
reaus and contestants that t|)e es-
says should be written largely
from the local viewpoint.

While the boys and girls com-
pete among themselves to write
the best essay, a keen rivalry is
being developed among the coun-
ty Farm Bureaus to see which
one can get the most publicity on
the essay contest.

Bach county Bureau is filing
with the department of informa-
tion of the American Farm Bu-
reau a complete set of clippings
fronti the local papers. These
clippings are to l)e measured up
and honorable mention will be
given the county showing the
greatest total of column inches of
space.

The Octol)er issue of the Mc-
Lean County Farm Bureau News
came out with a complete descrip-
tion of how the contest will bo
conducted and published five
prize-winning essays written in a
similar contest several yeai% ago.
Schools Hel|i Too
Over in Whiteside county, H.
B. Price, county superintendent of
schools, is boosting tbe contest
through the local schools. The
teachers in Henry county are like-
wise pushing it.

In Ogle county the Farm Bu-
reau got back of the contest as
soon as it opened. Vermilion,
Clark and Johnson county Farm
Bureaus jumped at it. and so on
down the list of 20 Illinois coun-
ties.

Many inquiries have been re
ceived by the I. A. A. regardlns
the length of essays, size of paper
to be used, whether essa.vs should
be written with a typewriter and
whether city school children are
eligible for the contest.

H. R. Kibler, essay contest di-
rector for the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation, says in answer
to tbe first question that neither
a maximum nor a minimum has
(Continued on pa^e S)

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The Dlinou Agricultural A«»oci«tioB Record

October 11, 1924

ILiLilNOIS

rCVLTVBAL ASSOCIA

^RECORD

'nblished every other Saturday by the Illinois Asrlcul-
ural Association, 608 South Dearborn Street, Chicago.
Ulnois. Edited by Department of Information. H, C.
3utcher, Director.

Bntered as second class matter Oct. 10, 1921, at the post
offlce at Cbicaso, BUnolB, under the act of March i, 1S7I,
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vided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1>17, autbor-
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OFFICERS

President, S. H. Thompson, Qnlncy.
Vice-President, C. B. Watson, DeKalb.
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomington.
Becretary, Geo. A, Fox, Sycamore.

EXECUXrVE COMMITTEE

By Congressional Districts

11th Jacob Olbrlcli, Harvard

12th G. F. Tullocic, Rockford

13th C. E. Bamborcugh, Polo

14th. ...i W. H. Moody, Port Byron

18th ..H. E. Gocmbel, Hooppole

16th A. R. Wright. Varna

17th F. D, Barton, Cornell

18th.....:... R. F. Karr, Iroquois

IHh J. I_ Whianand, Charlaiton

20th Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21st Samuel Sorrel Is, Raymond

22nd Stanley Castle, Alton

23rd J. E. LIngenfelter, Lawrencavllle

a4th Curt Anderson, Xsnia

2Sth Vsmon Lesslsy, Sparta

Directors of Departments
I. A. A. OiBce

General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker;
Organization, G. E. Metzger; Information, H. C- Butcher,
Transportation, L, J. Quasey, Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, Wm. E, Hedgcock;
Dairy Marketing, A, D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R. Bent; In charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A.
Gougler; special representative on Tuberculosis Eradi-
cation, M. H. Petersen; Legal Counsel, Donald Kirk-
Patrick; Cooperative Accounting, Geo, R. Wicker.

To Find Profits in Grain Marketing
Since 1920

The Federal Trade Commission is continuing its
investigation into the- margins and profits of term-
inal grain middlemen in the principal markets in
the United States upon request of the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association.

When investigating the Grain Marketing Com-
pany, it was found that the Federal Trade Com-
mission had ascertained the profits — w h i c h
amounted to from 3 to 8 cents per bushel for wheat
on the Chicago market — on grain down to and in-
eluding the year 1920. The I. A, A. asked that
these figures be brought down to date and the Fed-
eral Trade Commission has agreed to do so starting
with the Chicago market.

We Need Strong Cotnmunitie*

Frank D, Barton of Cornell, Livingston county,
in talking on the Farm Bureau radio program Oc-
tober 3, emphasized the value of good, strong com-
munity organizations as the greatest factor toward
a successful Farm Bureau. Here is the way he
puts it:

"It is found that in the counties where rural
communities are organized, the program of the
Farm Bureau is more nearly carried out than in
communities where the individual member is left
to work alone on the program.

"The greatest source of dissatisfaction arising
among the members is because they do not avail
themselves of the many helpful activities that are
theirs for the asking.

"Community organization with good live com-
munity meetings affords the opportunity for the
farm adviser to meet the Farm Bureau member-
ship in groups and take up the farm problems com-
mon to the community and also a chance for the
individual member to take up his individual prob-
lem with the adviser after such meeting."

The Council Reports Progress

Although we haven't said a great deal about the
McNary-Haugen bill recently, we have by no means
forgotten it. The executive committee reiterated

its stand for it in the meeting of October 3.

The American Council of Agriculture reports
that a large number of senators and representatives
have been pledged for the bill. All those who voted
for the bill when it was defeated have already
pledged their continued support of some measure
which would carry out the "spirit" embodied in
the McNary-Haugen bill.

The "spirit" of the McNary-Haugen bill is — an
American price for the American consumption, in-
dependent of the world price for the surplus.

"Qualit^t Members" t

Give this a thought :

Is the Farm Bureau gradually resolving itself
onto a "selective membership" basis t

In many Illinois counties a committee goes over
a prospective list of farmers before a re-organiza-
tion campaign and culls off the "undesirables" —
those kickers and chronic. knockers who can't push
an ounce but can drag back worse than a balky
mule.

Will it be customary to vote on prospective mem-
bers as is now the custom in lodges T

Advanced Farm Bureau thinkers are talking of
"quality members" these days.

Here's Another Thompsonigram

It's President Thompson talking:

"We can't wait for Moses to come out from
somewhere and do the things we (the farmers)
want done. A lot of hard work must be done and
you are going to know how it is done. The hardest
thing in the world is to get people engaged in the
agricultural industrj- to see their opportunities, I
feel sorry for the man who apologizes because he
belongs to the Farm Bureau. I wish he didn't be-
long." (Picked up by Adviser Fahmkopf at 17th
district meeting at Bloomington,)

The Farm Bureaus Are True Representatives
of Agriculture

Perhaps you saw the I. A. A. exhibit sometime
this summer. It has been shown at the Aurora
fair, the state picnic and the state fair at Spring-
field. It is estimated that about 20,000 people saw
it at Aurora, most of those who attended the state
picnic saw it — that's about 12,000 more — and we
think at least 75,000 people saw it at Springfield.
A conservative estimate would be that 100,000
people have seen it — and they usually stopped to
study its message once it attracted their attention.

The exhibit was a huge map of Illinois, 10 feet
wide and about 20 long. The Wabash, Ohio,
Illinois and Mississippi rivers were shown by act-
ually running water. Lake Michigan, the part that
bites out a chunk of Illinois, was also shown with
real water. The whole map was covered with grass,
and, while it was not exactly true as to the topo-
graphical features of all parts of the state, it made
a pretty sight and attracted a lot of attention be-
cause of its naturalness.

On the grass were placed a number of miniature
buildings representing the Illinois co-operative
organizations. The model home and farm build-
ings of "Mr, Farm Bureau Member" were in
a prominent position. The services of the I. A. A.
were chief features.

The Illinois Chamber of Commerce asked the Il-
linois Agricultural Association to bring its exhibit
to the Illinois Products Exposition wherein the
wonderful resources of Illinois will be on display
from October 9 to 18, in Chicago. The I. A. A, is
to represent agriculture. ...

Therein lies the point of this editorial.

It is becoming more and more customary for the
Farm Bureau, county, state and national, to be re-
garded as true representatives of agriculture.
When business men want aigriculture represented,
they come to the Farm Bureau organization. This
is especially true in the counties. And it is as it
should be.

The Voice of the Members

Members are invited to speak their minds in this column. As
many Utters from members vill be printed each issue as space
witi permit. Letters should be short and snappy; all must be
siirnd to be printed. All constructive criticism of the Farm Bu-
reau— county, state or national units — is melcomed. It you have
any teievances, praise or suuestions. here is the place to tell
them. It's your column, male it what you uiill. Address letters
to a. C. Butcher, I. A: A. Record, 6ot S. Dearborn, Chicago.

Bow would you "seU" the Farm Bureau if you were to go
after a good neighbor who does not belongi We printed some
letters on this topic last time, but here's another good one:

Dear Friend t Will aaswer your letter received a few
days mgo. Tkaak yoa for yoar questions. 1 don*t want to
■ell my membership In the Farm Bureau, 1 sure think
the farmers are sone without some oraanlsatlon or
means of atlcklna: tosether, We most have an oraan-
Isatlon or sooner or later have the price set down on
what we raise to sell. We are aone until that happens.
I vrlah every land o^ner or renter were Farm Bureau
menshers and would eleave toaether as they should. V\>
oonid then do aaythlna In reason.

L. D, Henard, Buncombe. IlL
Orgontzotion counu, ESPECIALLY ij we all use it, Mr. Hen-
ard.— Ed. ———
Dear DIrectori

1 feel that the farmers need very mneh to eo-operate
or work hand, head and heart toaether In every line not
only la buylna but In selllna farm products. But what
has always puuled me Is how to brlna It about because
so many farmers are so close run flnanclaily that they
cannot hold their crops but must sell as soon as har-
vested. While there are a good many that can bold un-
til they please to sell and I have seen aood business men
hold too Ions and lose much by not anderMtnndlna that
wrhen there was a arent demand for a product that was
the time to sell and not to buy while when the price
waa low and there ivas plenty of a farm product was
the time to co-operate and help each other If possible
ananclally to he able to hold that product from the spec-
ulator and In the farmer's band until nil could set a
price that would pay all expenses and a small profit at
least.

We need co-operation on these lines mentioned but
who will produce 'the remedy for our lllsf

E. E. LInhart, Carrier Mills, IlL

Hand, head and heart — that's a good point, E. E. — Ed.

Dear Sin

Received your letter today and In reply would any
that my personal opinion Is thnt the hish cost of labor,
contpared with the returns we farmers act tor our pro-
duce Is our areatest problem.

We have to pay at least S45 a month for hired man
and from $::o to a24 a month for hired girl. .\nd by the
time the hired help and some extra day laborers are
paid, the renter's profit Is aone. We must pay from 30
to SO cents an hour for common labor and In one case
durlna the winter months I had to pay f3.00 for 7 hours,
nsan Inbor nt shreddlna corn fodder, .From 9 to 4 o*cl<M;k
wns cnlled a day.

Another problem Is the 7 per cent Interest we must
pny for loans.

Another problem hns been buylna com from SS to 85
cents a bushel for corn to feed to hogs and sell for OH
cents per pound, thereby losing about .3 cents a pound
on all hogs fed, HoMrever. this has been proportioned a
little better now by hogs going up a little.

J. B. Lelb, Astoria. Illinois.
And that isn't all of 'em either, eh, Mr. Leib? — EtL

Dear Sin

la reply to your question t '''What has the F'aras Bu-
reau done for youf— so for I cannot see where It has
done me any good and 1 am not for it any more.

When I can ace where It Is helplna nie and 1 can afford
to. I will do all 1 can for It. but I couldn't now It I
wanted to.

Hoping thin srill be the answer you arc looking for
as it la my idea of It, I rcasaia,

Floyd W. Renner, Walnut, III.
Did you ever hear of a doctor alivays saving ALL of his
patients, Mr. Renner? — Ed.

Dear Sin I think the largest problem of agriculture
la to get a fair remunerntlon for Its labor and capital
Invested.

The fact that this government has gone on record de-
nying the American farmer the protection necessary to
give him a fair remuneration seems to me to compel us
to unite along the same lines ss isbor and capital, and
practically all other Indoslrirs are now organised, and
demand for our products a aultable price that will en-
able ua to exist and compare favorably with other lines.

H. H. Uoislnger. De Long, III,
Anather argument for stronger organization— stick and fight,
folks, we're doing our tbsrndest. — Ed.

Dear Sirt As I see it a farmer should expect many
things from co-operative marketing, ^'ot over night or
even In a month or a year, but in time. Of course moat
farmera expect greater prices for their produce, but we.
mnat also decreaac our aelling cost. .\ reduction of
freight, commission, etc., would mesn much toward la-
creased profits.

We should expect to contract to sell all our products
thru this organisation.

We must expect reslstsncc. Old line commission nten
and speculators are now spending large sums to defeat
co-operntlve marketing, Whyt Their fat profits will be
thrown to the farmer.

We can expect recognition from the public If we con-
trol the marketing of our goods,

Nearly all manufncturcrs, wholpsniers and retailers are
members of their renpectlve organisations, whereby they
cnn set s price on their goods. Organised labor says.
"We demand so much — "; why not the former f

W'hnt cnn we expect from co-operntlve marketing? It
la the only way to meet competition, for as long ns we
do not have a voice In marketing, we are competing
with an organised world. We farmers each stand alone
against the various obstacles that arc too great to over-
come unless we use the modern method of getting our
share by co-operative marketing.

Wilbur H, Gehring, Edwardsviile, III.
And here's still another— a clincher.— Ed.

THE LIARS' CONTEST

IT I§I

Dear Sin I kave beva tirtMT <• tcH the truth
for several yeara reKardloK Improved methods of
farming and Farm Bureau activities and hope I
have assisted somewhat In ffettlnv this sreat work
across.

In order to compete In jour colnmn I enter the
following 1

After obaervlns' Farm Barean work frons all
anvies I have rome to the conclusion that It hasn't
done any Kood. Sweet clover will ^ruw well upun
acid soil. There Is no nse In crop rotation as corn
will srow better and blsB^r when planted yenr
after year on the same field. There Is nothlaff to
treating oats for smut or sprayinc fruit trees for
Insects.

The Farm Bureau had nothtnfc to do with legis-
lative work, tax equallsntlon, or railroad rate re-
duction. It has done nothlnic to promote co-opera-
tion or a live stock commission association. It
fought the Capper-Tlncher bill and M<-\nr>--Han-
sen hill, tried to raise railroad rates, worked for
Pittsburirb Plus and asalnst the Deep ^^'aterway.
As a whole it worked asuiust the best latereata
of avrleulture.

If thia ahi*t one, then what laf

O. L. Hatch. Roaelawa Farm. Kewaaee, III.

October 11, 1924

The nKnoU AgricnltnwJ A»»ocIation Record

Pf 3

BOYS FROM BUREAU
REPRESENT ILLINOIS
IN JUDGING CONTEST

Iowa Team Wins; 250 Boys

and Girk Attend Club Camp

at National Dairy

Show

The national junior cattle Judg-
ing team, which goes to London,
England, next June to duplicate
the stunt that "Dad" Wise and
his Whiteside county boys put
over last summer, will not be
made up of Illinois boys. Instead
that team will be composed of
three Iowa boys, Harlan Leonard,
Lester Olsen and Raymond Mona-
han, winners of the championship
junior dairy judging title of Amer-
ica.

These three Iowa lads won the
right to represent the United
States by defeating teams from
19 other states at the boys' and
girls' club judging contest held in
conjunction with the National
Dairy Exposition in Milwaukee
last week.

Illinois state was represented in
the contest by three boys from
Bureau county, Orville Plum, Wal-
nut; Virgil Hurst, Manilus; and
Wendell Keener, Princeton, who
were coached by C. M. Hatland,
teacher of vocational agriculture
at Walnut, and J. B. Haberkorn,
assistant farm adviser in Bureau
county.

Nebraska Was Second

The boys from Bureau county
landed in Milwaukee the forenoon
of Sept. 28, after a frosty 185 mile
drive, with high hopes of repeat-
ing the feat of "Dad" Wise and
his boys at the big show in Syra-
cuse a year ago. But, somehow,
when the smoke had cleared away
after the battle, the Iowa team
walked away with the honors with
Nebfaska mighty close upon their
heels.

Regardless of their winnings the
Illinois boys got a real taste of
what boys' and girls' club work
means during their stay at the
boys' and girls' club camp at the
National Dairy Show.

When they landed at the camp
they were met by Wakelin Mc-
Neel, camp director, a jovial fel-
low who loves boys and girls and
their club work. He made them
at home and helped them get
"thawed out." They couldn't have
been there long without making
friends with "Mack." He made a
hit with every boy and girl in the
club camp as this clipping, from
the 4-H Dairyland S'news, the
daily camp paper, shows:

"Every club member on the
grounds knows and likes Wakelin
McNeel, assistant state club leader
of Wisconsin, who is working day
and night to make them comfort-
able and happy. Three hundred
new friends are his reward for
sinking himself in service."

The Illinois boys hadn't been at
the camp grounds long until they
learned that the "publicity man"
was on the Job. He got the ac-
companying picture of them in
"stock judging clothes" and
pumped them all he could.
Tjpes of Club Work

After that they began to learn
more about how the camp was
managed.

The boys' and girls' club work
at the National Dairy Exposition
embraces four types of activity:
The dairy cattle Judging contest.

Member Writes His
Approval of T.B.Worfc

ProphetHtown, 111.

Srpt. 30, 1924.
I. A. A. BECORD,
Gentlement

M'Uh reference to yonr ar-
ticle recardlngr the chanee In
the handllns of renctora. I
compliment our Mr. Peteraen
for putting: thla over 1 called
hia attention to thla matter
acme time ago an 1 have had
chance of T. B. work in my
township and we are better
than 98 per cent teated and
aa I aaw all of the retarna
from the aale of reactora I
thiulc there waa a plain cane
of atenl. I am aatiafled If we
had handled it thla war at
the atart the farmera would
have received thouaanda of
dollara that went into the
povliela of Stockyard para-
altea.

All the other departmenta
of the 1. A. A. that I have
worked with are renderinr a
real aervice.

Reapectfully yonra,

(SIcned) W. H. Lamont.

^l^

^il>^

I The 4-H embleniy
' official flag that
I floats above all

boys* and girls*

club camps.

the dairy demonstration team con-
test, club cattle exhibit and the
boys' and girls' club camp.

These four branches of the
work are combined to give the
boys and girls an opportunity to
learn more about dairy cattle, to
see the many educational exhibits
and demonstrations which are a
part of the National Dairy Show
and to improve and help develop
the dairy industry of the country.

Any boy or girl under 21 who
is a bona fide member of a club
project in breeding or growing
dairy stock is eligible to enter
any of the several contests.

The camp headquarters, dormi-
tory, kitchen and dining room
were all under the big race track
stadium at Milwaukee. On the
ground floor of the building were
150 calves — Holsteins, Ayrshires,
Jerseys, Guernseys, and Brown
Swiss — on exhibition in the Na-
tional Boys' and Girls' Calf Club
contest.

Alarm Clocks Unnecessary-
Sleeping quarters for the boys
were directly above these 150
calves, a situation which made
alarm clocks altogether unnec-
essary when the hungry, home-
sick, calves began bawling about
three o'clock each morning. The
girls' dormitory was in another
building.

Feeding the boys and girls
three good squares a day was no
small task. With some 75 boys
and girls and their coaches at-
tending the camp for the dairy
cattle Judging contest, an equal
number there for the demonstra-
tions and enough more caring for
the 150 calves to bring the total
to more than 250, the camp cook,
Mrs. George Mason, had a real
sizable family for which to pro-
vide.

"We serve 'em breakfast at
7:30, dinner at 12:00 and sup-
per at 5:30," said Mrs. Mason
who apparently is as fond of boys
and girls as is "Mack" McNeel
and the meals she dishes out are
evidence enough of this fact.

Her "grocery list" for one meal
included 50 gallons of milk, 50
dozen eggs, nine bushels of Irish
potatoes, 50 pounds of rice for
pudding and 60 loaves of bread
to say nothing of correspondingly
large orders of butter, cheese,
meat and ice cream.

LotK of Entertainment

During their stay at the camp
the boys and girls got a lot of
free entertainment outside of the
fair grounds. On Sunday after-
noon they took a trip to the
Washington Park Zoo under the
guidance of T. L. Bewick, state
club leader In Wisconsin. A lot
of them had gone to church that
morning, too. At night they had
their own church at club head-
quarters.

On Monday night Mr. Bewick
took more than 150 of them to
the Rialto theater where they saw
the "Covered Wagon" as the
guests of the Milwaukee Kiwan-
ians. The next night the Rotar-
ians of Milwaukee "theatered"
them at the Palace.

Have Health Contests

In other contests beside the
dairy judging contest which the
Iowa boys won, the demonstra-
tion contest title went to Ray-
mond Nixon and Olin Brown of
Nebraska while a Minnesota girl
and a Pennsylvania boy copped
the prizes for being the healthi-
est individuals.

When the camp broke up at
the close of the National Dairy
Show the 250 boys and girls who
had come from 20 states were
more or less glad to go home —
back to their school lessons and
work — but not a one of them
would have traded his trip for
anything. It was an event in
each of their lives long to be re-
membered— the fine cattle, the
splendid government exhibits, the
display of dairy machinery and
equipment and best of all a bet-
ter understanding of their 4-H
emblem, which stands for train-
ing and development of their
head, heart, hands and health.

FARM BUREAUS IN
18TH DISTRICT OKEY
I. A. A. GRAIN PROBE

Express ApprovaJ of Stand

Taken By Association Offi-

ciak; Watson Helps Discuss

Tax Problems

The Bureau county junior dairy judging team and coaches. These
boys represented Illinois in the contest at the \ational dairy show.
Left to right — Orville Plunv. U alnut: J. B. Haberkorn, coach tu%d as-
sociate adviser Bureau county; Vir^ Hurst, Manilus; C M. Hatland,
vocational agriculture teacher at H'alnut, coach; and Wendell Keen-
er, Princeton.

TWENTY COUNTIES

IN ESSAY CONTEST

(Cinitinued from pas*^ 1)

been set for the length of articles.
The length of essays will depend
upon the individuals writing them.
Those who can express a lot in a
tew words should do so. Those
who need a lot of space to ex-
plain their ideas have the privi-
lege of using it.

There have been no specifica-
tions as to what kind of paper
should be used or how it shall be
written. The contest director
suggests that standard 8^x11 pa-
per, with the essay written either
with typewriter or pen and ink is
desirable.

The subject of the essays,
"Why Dad is a Farm Bureau
Member" and "Why Dad Should
Join the Farm Bureau" makes
the contest open to all school
children up to and including the
first two years in high school
whether they live in the country
or city. The suggestion has been
made that individual counties
might in some cases bar essays
written by city school children.

Illinois counties now in the
contest are: Clark, Whiteside,
Vermilion, Ogle, Johnson, Henry.
Lee, Cass, DeWitt, McDonough,
Macon, Grundy, Livingston, Pope,
Carroll, Kendall. Henderson, Mc-
Lean, Bond and Jo Daviess.

the keynote address of the St.
Paul farm conference. The other
was given by Geo. N. Peek, presi-
dent of the Council, at the Iowa
State Fair. These point out what
the Council believes must be done
before .\merican Agriculture can
stand upon a souad foundation.

Two maps are used in the leaf-
let with very graphic effect. One
shows how members of the House
of Representatives voted on the
.McNary-Haugen farm relief bill,
while the other shows the vote
on the tariff bill of 1922. On the
latter, agriculture is shown to
have stood by the Industrial east,
but the east failed to stand by
agriculture on the farm relief
measure. !

Copies of the leaflet can be se-
cured from secretaries of all farm
organizations or direct from the
Council headquarters at 4>08 S.
Dearborn Street, Chicago.

Inequality Shown

In CouncU's Book

The American Council of Agri-
culture, created at a conference
of national and state agricultural
organizations last July at St. Paul,
has prepared a leaflet pointing out
the inequality that has been im-
posed on American agriculture
through legislative enactments
favoring other lines, and is call-
ing upon farmers and their friends
to help remedy it.

The principal undertaking of
the Council is that of continaing
the campaign which was waged
before the last session of Congress
to secure for agriculture the same
benefits of the American principle
of protection that have been ex-
tended to American industry and
labor.

Candidates for election to Con-
gress are being asked to pledge
themselves to "vote for and ac-
tively support legislation equality
with American industry and la-
bor." The circular being dis-
tributed by the Council urges that
"Men and women alike should
actively support candidates, re-
gardless of their party affiliation,
who do so commit themselves and
should defeat those who do not."

The leaflet contains the princi-
pal points of two addresses on
the agricultural situation. One,
by F. W. Murphy, lawyer and
farmer of Wheaton, Minn., was

25,705,063 Did Not
Cast Vote In 1920.
How About You?

Thf executive couimittee of the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion at its September meeting in
Chitago adopted strong resolu-
tions calling upon all qualified
voters of the nation to vote at
tlie coming election.

The population of the United
States in 1920, twenty-one years
of ape and over, was 60.886,520.
Of this number 26.713.832 persons
voted for president, and 8.467,625
tvere disqualified from voting. The
stay-at-home and absentee voters,
therefore, numbered 25.705,063.

John C. Watson, director of
taxation and statistics for the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association, has
furnished, similar figures for this
state.

In Illinois the total population
in 1920 was 6.485.280. Of this
number 3,944,197 were 21 years
of age or over. Out of these
3.944.197 people eligible to vote
for president that year, 2,094,714
went to the polls. The number of
disqualified voters was 478,482
The stay-at-home and absentee
voters for the state therefore,
numbered 1,371,001.

^^ermilion To Clean Up

It plans for tuberculosis eradi-
cation, laid at a general meet-
ini; in Danville, Oct. 7, are fol-
lowed out. Vermilion county will
soon be in the modlfied-accredited
tuberculosis free list.

Arrangements have l>een made
by M. H. Petersen, director of
the I. A. A. tuberculosis eradica-
tion project. Dr. J. S. Crabtree.
government veterinarian, and Dr.
J. J. Lintner, in tharge of govern-
ment testing in Illinois, to make
a clean-up campaign.

Plans are to get a dozen gov-
ernment veterinarians to dean
up the work in one week's time.

Farm Bureau representatives
from Clark. Iroquois and Vermil-
ion counties, meetiag in district
conference at Danville. Sept. 29.
were unanimoas in approving the
I. A. A. investigation into the
Grain Marketing Company and
praised President Thompson and
other officials of the association
for the stand they have taken in
demanding more complete infor-
mation l)efore voting either for or
against the grain merging plan.

The important e\-ents in the
grain marketing industry, during
the last two years, were reviewed
briefiy by R. A. Cowles. treasurer
of the I. A. A., after which he
went into a thorough discussion
of the whole Grain Marketing
Company proposition since its
formal inception last spring.
Cowles Kaixed QueKtions

He expressed his personal opin-
ion that big financial interests are
back of the merging companies.
"The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion has assumed responsibility
of passing upon the* grain merger
for our County Farm Bureaus," he
said, "but we are not going to
pass on it uatil all questions —
legal, economic and personnel —
can be settled. We want to know
whom the control is vested.
Whether the farmers or someone
else will control it.

•Are the properties of the Grain
Marketing Company located right,
is the volume of storage in ex-
cess of usefulness and are we
going to back a company that
will try to boy grain as cheaply
as it can — which will be reflected
in the price the farmers get?"
These questions were included
among others raised by Mr. Cowles
and which the investigation made
by the I. A. A. has answered.

Following Mr. Cowles' talk the
resolution endorsing the I. A. A.
investigation was submitted and
passed. It jead:

\%'e, the repreaeatatlvea of the
t'onnty Farm Bnre««a of the 18th
CoBKreaaloaai diatrlct, aaaffcled
la a meetins called hy the dlree^or
of aaid diatriet la Danville. 111., do
commend and appro^-r the p€>altloa
taken by the ofllcera and director*
of the IlUnola .\icrlcnltural Aaao-
elation la reqalrlnK before appro\-
Ina or dlaappro%ins the tiraia Mar-
ketlBK Company, aach inter^atioa
aa ordinary bnalneaa pmdenee
woBld re^alre.
Sisaedi

r. R. Plndley, CkainwB. ,
J. «. SHdeker,
G. 'M*. Lenhart.

ReaolatloHa C«HBiltt««.
John C. WatsoD, director of
taxation and statistics for the I.
A. A., talked briefly of the »100,-
000,000 boAd issue for hard roads,
which will be voted on at the
coming November election.

Mr. Watson stated that it was
not his purpose to argue either for
or against the t>ond issue but
rather to furnish facts and figures
on both sides of the question so
that voters might cast their ballot
with a more thorough understand-
ing.

He raised and answered ques-
tions regarding the gasoline tax.
the sums involved in the hard
roads bond issue, methods of pay-
ment and others regarding taxa-
tion matters which farmers want
to know.

tti attendance at the meetinK
were: W. W. Merrltt. farm adviser.
Elder Lee. J. Q Snedeker and J. H
Mauer. Clark county; R. F. Karr.
18th district executive commitlee-
man. L. W. Wise, farm adviser. H
C. renderfcraBs. F. W. Schroeder and
A. J. Gilflllan. Iroquois county: and
J. C. Jones. G. w. Lenhart. Otip
Kercher, farm ad\-i8er. C. R. Ftnley
and Charles Juvenall. Vermilion
county.

In Whiteskle county, over SO
enthusiastic dairymen and their
families recently went on a trip
of inspection to a leading dairv
farm. Judging demonstrations, n
study of the milk plant and a
picnic were the principal feature*
of the oc<»sion.

In Iroqnois coonty, 16,500 cat-
tle have been tested for tuliercu-
losis during the 12-montb period
just ended. County veterinarian
Herron has begun retestlng.

A hen at Purdue University has

laid 1,341 eggs.

II

Pay> 4

The nlinoU Agricultural AMooation Record

I. A. A. EXECUTIVES
GIVE THEIR VIEWS
TO KYW RADIO FANS

WaUon Sayt "Put Business

Int« Farming"; Barton Tells

of Rural Community

Building

Many Farm Bureau members
in flllnois and surrounding states
who tuned in on tlie I. A. A.
farm program over station KYW,
Chicago. Friday night, Oct. 3,
heard C. B. Watson, vice-presi-
dent Jof the I. A. A. and Frank
• D. Bftrton, executive committee-
maa from the 17th district, ex-
press; their views on modern ru-
ral conditions.

Mri Barton put forth bis views
of i'Rural Community Building."

"I believe that the day is past
when agriculture can hope to
succeed with each one interested
in prioduction of foods working
individually, and that we must
work together in organizations,"
he s^id. "I believe that in our
greatj state the Farm Bureau is
the n|ost important factor in farm
6rgaaization."
Need Commiinity Organization

He! described the form of rural
organization in earlier days, re-
lating how the community cen-
tered] around the school and the
community church. He remind-
ed his scattered audience that the
automobile iias revolutionized our
rurall communities and pointed to
the f^ct that many leaders in ru-
ral dommunity work now recog-
nize the need of rebuilding our
rural community life.

"OUr Farm Bureau leaders
have begun to realize as never
before the importance of building
and maintaining our rural com-
munities as a dominant factor in
our reorganization work and in
putting over -the Farm Bureau
program," he continued. "The
county Farm Bureau has in a
goodly number of cases builded
commnnity organizations and in
many instances has helped to
maintain the old community or-
ganisations that have been kept
alive through the efforts of the
ruralj church and leadership form-
erly lleveloped."

Traill Future Leaders

In closing Mr. Barton ex-
pressed the need of rural com-
munljty building in the present
day, i first, "to give our young
people a cleaner and more whole-
some entertainment and recrea-
tion'j and thus "keep them on
our {(arms;" second, to maintain
our community churches and
thirdi, to develop future leader-
ship for our nation as we have
in tQe past.

"Tlhe only hope that I have that
this may be accomplished is
through farm organizations," Mr.
Barton concluded, "aided by and
working with the building of
stronger rural community organ-
izations."

Mt. Watson jumped into the
middle of his subject "Putting
Business Into Farming," landing
with no little pressure on those
forces which have protected or-
ganited labor and industry to the
detriment of agriculture.

The basic weakness in the busi-
ness, of farming, he said, is that
the farmer does not have the ma-
chiniry provided by legislation to

put his industry on an equality
with business and labor,

MuAt Overhaul System

"Putting business into farming
requires a complete overhauling
of our merchandising system,"
Mr. Watson told his audience.
"The farmer must so organize his
business that his products will
meet consumptive demand with
an available supply. The dump-
ing of live stock, grain and other
products on the markets must
cease. We have not yet mastered
the ABC's of co-operative mar-
keting.

"The millions of dollars of
those forces who would keep agri-
culture helpless have made the
farmers' task exceedingly difflcult.
Not only in putting business into
farming must the farmer mer-
chandise live stock, grain and
other products, but he must study
future requirements and world-
wide conditions and so adapt his
business to intelligent production.

"To adjust these conditions we
need business in farming in order
that farming may be put on an
equality with industry and labor."

October 11. 1924

REPORT IS AGAINST
BIG GRAIN MERGER

Listen In!

F.VRM R.\DIO PROGR.\M

Over KYW — Wave Length 536
•Central Standard Time 7:20

Get in tune with these stations
on Tuesday and Friday evenings.
Farm Bureau, folks, and hear
their farm talks. You'll be par-
ticularly interested in hearing
R. A. Cowles, I. A. A. treasurer,
next Tuesday night on "The
Farmer and Legislation," and
Geo. R. Wicker when he talks on
"Plugging Leaks in Co-ops."

Oct 14 — "The Farmer and Legis-
lation." R. A. Cowles. treasurer of
the Illinois AKrlcultural Associa-
tion, from Statlos WI/S. ketwMB
8i00 mad »iOO o'clock.

Oct. 14 — "Painting and Housing
of Farm Machinery, ' by F. A. Wirt.
Editor, Case Eagle. Racine, ^ is.

American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion feature. „, , , „, v

Oct. 17 — Boys' and Girls' Club
Feature, by A. D. Folker, Mont-
gomery Ward & Co. . _ ,,

"What Cattle Feeders Are Talk-
ing About." by D. C. Waterman.
Editorial Staff of the Orange Judd
Illinois Farmer.

Oct. 21 — American Farm Bureau
feature.

"Plugging Leaks in Co-ops by
George R. Wicker. Mgr., Illinois
Agricultural Co-operatives Associa-
tion and Director of the Illinois
Agricultural Association Dept. of
Co-operative Accounting.

Oct. 24 — "What the National Boys'
and Girls' Club Congress Means to
America." by G. L. Noble, Secretary.
National Committee on Boys' and
Girls' Club Work.

"Farmers' Produce Markets." by
Arthur C. Page. Editor, Orange Judd
Illinois Farmer.

Oct. 28 — "Monthly Analysis of
Farm Markets," by H. W. Moor-
house, Howard-Moorhouse Agricul-
tural Business Service.

American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion feature.

Oct. 31 — "Farm Juniors at the In-
ternational Live Stock Exposition."
by B. H. Helde, Gen. Mgr., Inter-
national Live Stock Exposition.

"What the Illinois Farm Bureaus
Are Doing." by H. C. Butcher, Di-
rector of Information, I. A. A.

More than 370.00O radio sets
are in use on farms in the Unit-
ed States today.

Here's another sample of transi>ortation de|>artnient work:

.Vr. L. E. .McKlKXie. Adviser, > <

.tckiirlcr County Farm Burcao, 1

KaskvlllF, Illlaola. '

Dear Sin

\Vc have 7onr letter of AnK. 21 la which 70n racloacd frelakt
bill oB a carload of liaieatoae troaa Coasamcra Contpaay to Mr. C
V. Bader.

We liave checked tkia over and Had that Mr. Bader kaa bcea
avcrcharacd. We will gladly take tkIa up witk tke railroad for
■■UaataieBt.

Very traly yonrs.

Traaaportatioa Departaient.
tSlgacd) Lu J. Qoaaey. Director.
And one of more recent date:
Mr. V. E. McKiaalc. Adviaer, 1 '

Nckaylcr Conaty Farai Bnrcaa* I ;

Raahvllle. Illlaoia.
Dear HlTl

We arc plcaaed to attack draft from the C. B. « 4. Railroad
Compaay for S9.31 la fall acttlcaicat of Mr. C. V, Bader'a claim
flor overcharge oa a aklpaicat of agrlcaltnral llmcateae, Aair. 10,
C. >'. J. ear 8417S.

If we caa he af fartkcr aervlcc to yoa, kiadly adviac
Very traly yoara.
[ ' I . Traaaportatioa Departaseat,

1 (Slgacd) L,. J. dummtj. Director.

And an extract from another:
Mr. E. M. KIrkpatrick,
Raacvlllc. III.
Dear .^iri

We arc acadlaa yoa herewltk tke railroad compaay** ckeck
(or SSS ia fall aettlcmeat for Holalela kcifcr killed oa C B. A ft.
track* oa acconat of defective rigkt of way fcace*.
I <Bla*ed) Traaaportatioa Departateat.

I

(Contiiuu'<l from |»HKe 1)
.set n|> by the (>rain Msrketinf;
Company is in |>art illegal and
ifiipracticabie. These defects can
imssibly be corrected by amend-
ment to the by-laws but no steps
have yet been taken.

"The Illinois .^Kricnltural As-
sociation officers have been hoi>e-
ful that the drain Marketing
Comiiany would provide a co-op-
erative selling agency for co-
operative grain associations and
grain producers who are not In
other associations. We do not
believe the Grain >Iarketing Com-
pany as now set up will meet
these needs.**

Wednesday, Thursday and Fri-
day, October 1, 2 and 3, were
busy days for the I. A. A. execu-
tives and officers. Several were
in Chicago on Wednesday for spe-
cial committee meetings and
many could not get home until
Saturday because of the night
session Friday.

.Meet (irain Dealers*

Thursday a joint meeting of
the executive committees of the
I. A. A. and the Farmers Grain
Dealers' Associatiqn of Illinois,
representing over 500 farmers'
co-operative elevators, was held
in the I. A. A. office. This meet-
ing resulted in a much better un-
derstanding between the heads of
the two organizations. Good will
and a desire to co-operate by both
bodies was expressed. It was de-
cided that a committee on mutual
relations should be appointed to
better co-ordinate the work of the
two organizations. Sam H.
Thompson and Fred A. Mudge,
presidents of the two organiza-
tions, were each empowered to
select two men from his respec-
tive organization with the presi-
dents acting ex-offlcio on the mu-
tual relations committee. Presi-
dent Thompson has not made his
selection as the Record goes to
press.

The regular monthly treasurer's
report by R. A. Cowles was pre-
sented by him and received by
the executives.

Educational Committee Rei>ort

The educational committee,
consisting of J. L. Whisnand,
Charleston, chairman, A. C. Ever-
ingham, Hutsonville and B. W.
Rusk, Carllnville, received more
information from Dr. G. W. Wil-
lett and C. B. Althaus concerning
the school survey conducted dur-
ing the summer. The report of
this committee to the executive
committee states that Dr. Wil-
lett's final report on the 10,000
questionnaires sent out to farm-
ers seeking facts on many perti-
nent school questions will be in
full form within the next few
weeks.

"It will contain some rather
interesting facts and will show
that our reports are based upon
Information gathered from a very
representative group of farmers
from all parts of the stat? and
representing about all possible
contingencies which may arise,"
reads a part of the educational
committee report.

Dr. Willett's survey of the
questionnaires will supplement
the work of C. B. Althaus who
traveled about Illinois from Pu-
laski county in the south to the
Wisconsin line In the north, gath-
ering data from county clerks on
school taxes. Mr. Althaus re-
ported that he has compiled his
findings on 190 township and
community high schools with 35
more yet to complete. This will
give complete information on 225
schools.

Findings Vary Little

The findings on the 190 town-
ship and community high schools
remain practically the same as
the first report which summarized
his work in 100 such schools.
In that report it was disclosed
that an average of 70 per cent of
township and community high
school taxes is paid by farmers
and that the farmers furnish but
40 per cent of the pupils in the
township and community high
schools. The added finding with
the 90 additional schools to the
original 100 shows a variation of
less than 1 per cent from the
original findings which substan-
tiates the accuracy of the survey.

Friday, October 3, was the reg-
ular monthly meeting of the ex-

ecutive committee. The roll call
showed the following committee-
men present: G. F. TuUock, Rock-
ford; C. E. Bam borough. Polo;
W. H. Moody, Port Byron; H. E.
Goembel, Hooppole; A. R.
Wright; Varna; F. D. Barton,
Cornell; R. F. Karr, Iroquois;
J. L. Whisnand, Charleston; Barl
C. Smith, Detroit; Samuel Sor-
rells, Raymond; Stanley Castle,
Alton; J. E. Llngenfelter, Law-
renceville; Curt Anderson, Xenia;
Vernon Lessley, Sparta.

Endorse .\. K. B. F. Action

The report of the legislative
committee — Frank D. Barton,
Cornell, chairman, H. E. Goem-
bel, Hooppole and A. C. Evering-
hani, Hutsonville, — covered three
main subjects. Its recommenda-
tion that the Illinois Agricultural
Association endorse the action of
the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration position on the child la-
bor amendment was received and
passed with full accord. The
text of this resolution is con-
tained elsewhere in this issue.

The Adams County Farm Bu-
reau had brought to the atten-
tion of the legislative committee
the necessity of a change in the
Illinois game laws removing the
protection of rabbits and making
a closed season for a term of
years on quail. The executive
committee favored the action of
the legislative committee in its
report that it would give the game
laws due consideration in the
coming session of the legislature.
Rei>ort on Hard Roads

The third subject reported on
by the legislative committee was
a summary of the findings on the
One Hundred Million Dollar Road
Bond Issue. The text of the reso-
lution adopted is as follows:

"Accepting all estimates of
probable receipts and ex|>endi-
tures directly or indirectly nuule
for road construction, as out-
lined in the latest report of the
Division of Highways, Depart-
ment of Public Works and Build-
ings, of the State of Illinois, we
believe:

"1. That probable motor fee
collections at the present license
fee rates will be sufficient to pay
the interest on the bonds and re-
tire the bonds of both the existing
Sixty Million Dollar Bond Issue
and the proposed One Hundred
Million Dollar Bond Issue.

'•a. That the probable revenue
available from motor fee collec-
tions from the sale of bonds un-
der the proposed law and from
anticipated Federal Aid Appropri-
ations will not be sufficient, after
other expenses are met, to con-
struct the total mileage of roods
projected under the present Six-
ty Million Dollar Road Bond Is-
sue Law and the proposed One
Hundred Million Dollar Road
Bond Issue Law.

"3. That probable motor fee
collections at present rates will
not be sufficient, after meeting
other necessary expenses, to main-
tain the total mileage of roads
which can be constructed with
present contemplated revenues,
especially after payments begin
on the principal of the proposed
One Hundred Million Dollar Bond

"We believe that the type of
road construction now being used
in the Illinois system of high-
ways is the l)e8t and most perma-
nent in the United States.

I. A. A. On Radio

A report by the advisory com-
mittee of the department of in-
formation,— R. F. Karr, Iroquois,
chairman; L. O. Wise, Morrison
and J. M. Beckett, Blue Mound
— brought out that the I. A. A.
will be "on the air" from one of
the St. Louis radio stations begin-
ning in November.

The live stock committee with
George F. Tullock, Rockford,
chairman, Samuel Sorrells, Ray-
mond, A. D. Llngenfelter. Law-
rencevllle, present, reported that
the 600 blankeU on hand the
middle of the summer had been
sold apd that several money or-
ders and checks for blankets have
had to be returned.

ILUNOIS GROWERS
ORGANIZE COnON
MARKETING CO-OP

Secretary Fox On The Air

Geo. A. Fox, secretary of the I.
A. A., was scheduled to speak over
radio station KYW, Thursday
night, Oct. 9. This was too late
to get his talk In the Recobd.
The gist of his talk was to be "Illi-
nois, the Nation's Food Basket."

Incon>orati<m b Final Step In
Forming Non-Stock, Non-
profit Concern at
Mound City

An Illinois Cotton Growers' Co-
operative Association is now a
real going concern with headquar-
ters at Mound City, Pulaski coun-
ty. Articles of incorporation
were submitted to Louis T. Em-
erson, secretary of state, and the
legal set-up has been attended to,
creating the first co-operative cot-
ton marketing corporation in Il-
linois.

From Mound City the new co-
op will conduct its cotton mar-
keting program handling only
cotton grown by members of the
association. The first bale of
cotton was ginned around Oct. 1.
Its purposes as outlined in the
articles of incorporation are:
Non-Proflt Co-op

To be a non-profit co-operative
agricultural association without
capital stock, organized for the
mutual help and benefit of its
members; to promote the general
welfare of its members and to
provide better and more economi-
cal methods of marketing the cot-
ton and cotton products of its
members through co-operation; to
act as agent for its members In
handling and marketing their cot-
ton and cotton products and in
supplying to its members, ma-
chinery, equipment and supplies;
and to co-operate with other as-
sociations or individuals engaged
in similar purposes.

The incorporation of the com-
pany is the final step in an or-
ganization program that has been
developing since early last spring
when an organization committee
was instructed to survey the sit-
uation with a view to determin-
ing whether a need for the mar-
keting pool really existed.

The report of this committee
at a July meeting was favorable
to the organization of a market-
ing pool. Cotton growers decided
at that time to consider more
fully the formation of a pool and
after considerable study of Its
real need and possibility of suc-
cess met in Mound City, July 22,
to take definite action toward in-
corporation.

1,500 Acres In Pool

A minimum of 1,500 acres was
set as the necessary acreage
which should be signed Into the
pool before incorporation would
be advisable. Four hundred acres
were signed up at that meeting
and the balance contracted for
since then.

The Illinois pool will probably
market its product through the
Cotton Growers Association of
Arkansas, which Is a member of
the National Cotton Growers' Ex-
change, according to G. B. Metz-
ger, organization director of the
I. A. A., who has been assisting
in organizing the association of
Illinois growers.

I.A.A.Back»A.F.B.F.
In Child Labor Stand

We. the legislative commit-
tee, recommend that the Illi-
nois Agrricultural AsBociation
endorse the action of the
American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration as expressed In the
following resolution:

passed an amendment to the
Conatltntlon which would
Klve that body "power to pro-
hibit the labor of peraoma un-
der the ase of 18 year* and
to prescribe the conditions of
such labor." and the ratlflca-
tion of thla action la now be-
fore the state leslalatvrea,
and

\%'HE:rEAS, the opportnmlty
to dUcoaraEe or prohibit this
sort of federal Interference

maklnic ■ farm mother of

Congress— has passed for the
moment beyond the activities
of the American Farm Bd-
rean Federation and has be-
come entirely a state ques-
tion, and

^VHBRKAS, the proposed
amendment will fflve Con-
■rress blanket authority to
pass stringent and far-flung
laws on this subject which Is
already covered adequately
and according to local condi-
tions In a majority of states.

"We URGE THE STATE
FARM BIREAU FEDERA-
TIONS to Impress upon their
legislatures the dealrabnity
of deteatlng the ratlfleatlon
of the child labor ameadiBCBt.

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Volume 2

Issued Every Other Saturday — October 2S, 1924

Number 21

BRADFUTE URGES
CO-OPERATION AT
KEWANEE PICNIC

Henry, Stark and Bureau

County Farm Bureaus Rub

Shoidder* With Business

Men For a Day

"He who would co-operate muit first ad-
just himtelj so other men can co-operate with
kimr—Prfsident O. E. Brad/ule.

Talking co-operation is one
thing, and actually doing it is
another.

This, from ©. E. Bradfute, pres-
ident of the American Farm Bu-
r e a u Federa-
tion, was the
core of an ap-
ple of thought
tossed vigorous-
1 y into the
minds of a
grandstand full
o f a part o f
8,000 Henry,
Stark and Bu-
reau county
farmers who
picnic k e d at
the Kewanee
fair grounds in
the second an-
nual trl-counly
O. K. Bradtate farmers' and
business men's get-together at Ke-
wanee, Oct. 15.

While farmers and business men
rubbed shoulders for the day.
President Bradfute made the most
of his opportunity to hurl a farm
organization sales talk and a plan
for co-operation into the thoughts
of both. He used as an illustra-
tion the fact that Kewanee busi-
ness men and the county Farm
Bureaus of Henry, Stark and Bu-
reau counties are sowing seeds of
co-operation in their large com-
munity through such informal
"chin-fests" as the annual tri-
county picnic.

Most Co-operate Both Ways
President Bradfute was intro-
duced by W. E. Gould, local bank-
er, member of the board of di-
rectors of the Grain Marketing
Company, and chairman of the
speaker's committee for the occa-
sion, following an analysis of
farm business trends by Frank
Ridgway, agricultural writer of
the Chicago Tribune.

"Twelve business men can go
into a room with twelve separate
opinions on a common problem,"
said President Bradfute, as be
got into the meat of his talk. "Af-
ter an hour's discussion they can
come out of the room and have
their problem completely settled.
Twelve farmers can sit down like-
wise, but they will come out after
twelve hours deliberation and
have twelve separate opinions.
Co-operation among farmers will
come easier when farmers learn
to co-operate both ways. Too
many of us are willing to co-oper-
ate only when the other fellow
does a thing our way.

"Many of us are groping about
to co-operate, but have different
ideas in our minds as to what co-
operation really is. If I were to
ask 100 men in this audience each
to write on a sheet of paper his
Idea of co-operation, I dare say I
would get 100 different ideas.
Bradfnte's Yardstick
"Let me tell you of my meas-
uring stick of co-operation. It
can be boiled down to this: He
who would co-operate must first
adjust himself so other men can
co-operate with him."

As one of the first steps of co-
operation, he pointed to the ne-
cessity of farmers backing their or-
ganization. Get back of your
county Farm Bureaus and your
state organization, the Illinois Ag-
(Contlnued on page 6)

Vote! Vote! Vote!

On Tuesday, Nov. 4

Political strife has reached
its height The last six
weeks has been a period of
rapid growth for party
claims. The press, as well
as the air, has been fall of
them. Since this is the last
issue of the Record before
election, you will find in
this issue an extensive re-
port by the American Coun-
cil of Agriculture on the
"Equality for Agriculture"
program and a detailed
statement compiled by the
American Farm Bureau
Federation showing the past
vote of all Illinois Congress-
men on paramount agricul-
tural measures.

Of course you know the
I. A. A. is absolutely non-
political; it gets behind is-
sues without regard to party
politics. All Farm Bureau
members, and every farmer
for that matter, should
know the attitude of every
candidate toward agricul-
ture. This information is
in this Record. Read it and
THINK, and then VOTE.
VOTE on Tuesday, Nov. 4.

VOTE FOR AGRICUL-
TURE.

Midwest Officials

Discuss Problems

The presidents and secretaries
from nine state Farm Bureaus
met at the American Farm Bureau
Federation headquarters, Oct. 9
and 10, to consider matters of
special interest to the Midwest
group of states, including Illinois,
Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio,
Indiana, South Dakota and Minne-
sota.

After a lengthy discussion of
the Grain Marketing Company
the delegates voted to endorse the
big merger. However, Illinois,
Indiana and Wisconsin dissented
from the vote of approval.

In addition to the thorough dis-
cussion of the Grain Marketing
Company, the Midwest presidents
and secretaries discussed various
problems affecting the Midwest
state Farm Bureau federation.

Some time was spent in the dis-
cussion of the constitution of the
A. F. B. F. in relation of equitable
representation of members on the
governing body. The idea was ad-
vanced by some that since the
Midwest state federation contrib-
uted the largest percentage of fi-
nancial support to the national or-
ganization that these states be
given greater representation on
the governing board.

R. A. Cowles, treasurer of the
I. A. A. and secretary of the Amer-
ican Council of Agriculture, told
pf the work, purpose and plan of
Ihe Council.

IroqutNS To Reorgamze

One hundred Farm Bureau lead-
ers from all parts of Iroquois
county attended a meeting at Wat-
seka, Oct. 15, to lay plans for the
immediate reorganization of the
Iroquois County Farm Bureau.

Principal speakers at the meet-
ing were V. Vaniman, now organ-
ization director for the Illinois
Agricultural Co-operative Associa-
tion; J. C. Sailor, formerly direc-
tor of organization with the
I.A.A.; H. L. Hough, farmer at
Mazon; and G. E. Metzger, I. A. A.
organization director.

Mr. Hough was made director
of the campaign with Fred Halm,
Peru, and W. D. Owen, La Rose,
as his assistants. Under the man-
agement of these men an inten-
sive reorganization drive by town-
ships will be made. i

THE 63,000 THINKING FARMER EXHIBIT

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Two hundred and seventy'five thousand people, from country and citXt
have seen this display.

City Folks Marvel
At Show of 63,000
Thinking Farmers

Under a canopy emblazoned
around the edge with the letters:
"Illinois Agricultural Association

63,000 thinking farmers," the
vast throngs of city and some
country people, who visited the Illi-
nois Products Exposition' at Chica-
go last week saw how the I. A. A.
represents its 63,000 Mnking
farmers at places where the farm-
er should be represented.

Thirty-three cities of Illinois,
through the Chambers of Com-
merce of each of those cities, put
on extensive displays showing
many products produced and man-
ufactured in Illinois. The I. A. A.
exhibit showed the agricultural
resources of Illinois and the part
the I. A. A. plays in representing
the farming industry.

A painting in which the artist
had depicted a typical Illinois
farming scene — a cozy farm house,
a good barn and silo, chickens,
pigs, beef and dairy cattle, horses,
sheep and all that goes with the
average farm — attracted city and
country visitors alike. In front
of the canvas and lying fiat like
a table was a map of Illinois 10
feet wide and 20 long upon which
were miniature buildings repre-
senting the various co-operative
organizations in which the I. A. A.
is interested. The exhibit occu-
pied a prominent triangular space,
20 feet on a side.

The map is the one shown at
the Aurora fair, the state picnic,
and the state fair at Springfield.
A green-shaded flood light under
the canopy gave an effect of twi-
light which stopped the visitors
and kept them looking.

The Knox County Farm Bureau,
through the Galesburg Chamber of
Commerce, showed the wide va-
riety of products grown in Knox
county. City folks were heard to
say upon several occasions that
they wished such fine vegetables
as were shown in the Knox County
Farm Bureau exhibit could be
bought in the Chicago stores. L. R.
Marchant, farm adviser of Knox
county, spent two days in getting
the exhibit set up.

Co-op Ships 29 Can Spuds

Twenty-nine car loads of Bluff
Brand, Irish Cobbler potatoes were
shipped from Belleville, St. Clair
county, by the Belleville Co-oper-
ative Potato Marketing Associa-
tion from early August to Oct. 15,
this year. This potato co-op is a
local branch of the Illinois Fruit
Exchange. The potatoes were
sacked in bags bearing the brand:
"IHini, St^ Clair County, Bluff
Brand, Gobblers," and were
shipped as far as Mobile, Ala.

Committee of Five
To Choose Winning
Farm Bureau Essays

The five judges who will deter-
mine the prize winners in Illinois
in the Farm Bureau essay contest,
have been named. They will
serve as the official I. A. A. com-
mittee and will choose the state
winners in Illinois.

The committee includes Francis
G. Blair, state superintendent of
schools; C. V. Gregory, editor of
Prairie Farmer; Sam H. Thomp-
son, president of the I. A. A.; Ar-
thur C. Page, editor of the Orange
Judd Illinois Farmer; and C. E.
Hay, Christian county farm ad-
viser and president of the Illinois
Farm Advisers' Association.

After the close of the contest on
Nov. 10, a committee of judges in
each of the 21 Illinois counties in
the contest will choose a first prize
essay for the county. From these
21 prize winners the I. A. A. com-
mittee will pick the state champ-
ions and award the 13 cash prizes
given by the I. A. A.

"The contest in Illinois as well
as in other states has surpassed
all our expectations," said H. R.
Kibler, directing the contest for
the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration. "We had hoped to get.
in all, about 100 counties into the
contest. It looks now as though
we might have 175. They aver-
age about 70 contestants to the
county so far. We didn't expect
tbem to average more than 20 to
the county."

The rivalry between county
Farm Bureaus for first place in
amount of publicity secured on the
contest is mounting. Counties are
commencing to send in large
batches of clippings from their
local papers of stories carried on
the contest. In addition to form
stories sent out by the A. F. B. F.
many counties are building sepa-
rate local stories.

Thousands of requests from in-
dividual farm boys and girls for
material concerning the Farm
Bureau have been received by the
national office and the state or-
ganizations report similar flood of
requests. Several state federations
have published separate booklets
containing just the information the
contestants should have.

Within another week the total
number of contestants by states
and counties will be available and
will be sent out to newspapers.

ILUNOIS HGHTERS
WHIPPING ENEMY,
TEST DATA SHOWS

Executives Meet .

I The next regular executive
committee meeting is set for
Friday, No. 7. The present
executives have a standing
invitation to all ex-committee-
men to attend wtienever they
happen to be in Chicago.

I.A.A. Has First Ficnres IW^

ing Progress in Statewide

Project to Eradicate T3.;

Reactors Decresuiaf

That treacherous enemy of peo-
ple and live stock Is on the retreat
in Illinois.

The enemy has been putting up
a stubborn guerilla warfare against
regiments of trained fighters In
battles all over the nation.

The enemy is bovine tuberco-
losis, the disease which caoaos an
annual stock loss in the United
States of approximately J40.00*,-
000.

The white flag of complete sab-

ission has by no means iMen
hung up by the enemy, altbousb
in some areas in Illinois it has re-
treated 80 far that it is Uktir
never to regain its lost ground.

Kradication Started In 101S

In Illinois, where the enemy
originally gained unchallenged ad-
vancement in the thickly cattle-
populated milk producing areas,
especially before its opponents be-
came aware of its disti (eslng
strength and severe leeching pow-
er upon the farmers" resources,
the first attacks against it becan
after April 1. 1918. when owners
of purebred herds started to test
their cattle under the accredited
plan.

From that starting point until
July 1. 1921 — a little over three
years — an average of slightly more
than Bine out of every hundred
purebred cattle were found to t>e
traitors to the people's cause, not
only concealing the enemy, Iwt
helping it spread its forces to oth-
er strongholds. Those cattle
which reacted were promptljr
weeded out and disposed of.
Ares Testinfc in ISZl

The fighters of bovine tubercu-
losis, beginning July 1, I9tl,
marshalled their forces. under one
supreme command — the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Under this direction, a co-opera-
tive, area testing plan was worked
out whereby the battles would be
directed and waged systemaUcaUy
by trained fighters.

The battle front in Illinois crew
from DO counties conducting area
work on July 1, 1921 to 61 test-
ing on July 1, 1924. The llrst
fiscal year ending July 1, 1122,
brought Edgar (the first IlUaois
county to become accredited). Mc-
Lean, Montgomery, Tazewell, and
Woodford. The next year brought
in Boone, Champaign, Crawford,
Livingston. Vermillion and White-
side counties. By July 1, IS2t,
Adams, Bureau. Christian, Clark,
Coles, Cumberland, DeKalb, De-
Witt. Douglas. Du Page. Ford,
Fulton. Greene. Grundy. Hancock,
Henderson, Iroquois, Jo DsTtess,
Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Knox,
Lake, LaSalle, Lee, Logan, Xaeoa,
Madison. Marion, Marshall, Ho-
Donongh. McHenry. Menard, Mer-
cer. Monroe, Morgan. MonlUie,
Ogle, Peoria, Putnam. Rock Island,
Scott, St. Clair, Stephenson. Wa-
bash, Warren. Will and Winne-
bago counties.

Reactors Decreasiini; Now

During the three-year period
from July 1. 1921 to July 1. HJ4,
instead of nine reactors in every
hundred, there were only slightly
more than five to the hundred.
This means that the enemy is be-
ing pushed back.

M. H. Petersen, in charge of
the tuberculosis eradication prot-
ect of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation, has compiled the ao-
companying tables from data ae-
(COBtlnued on p«a« S)

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The lUinoii Agricultural Asxxaation Record

October 25, 1924

I L.L1INOIS

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OFFICERS

Praaident, S. B. Thompson, Qnlncy.
Vice-President, C. B. Watson, DelOUb.
Treesnrer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomington.
Secretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore.

EXEOmVB OOMMITTEB
By Congressional Districts

lltll Jacob Olbrlch, Harvard

12Ui G. F. Tullock, Rockford

13th r C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron

IMh H. E. Qoembel, Hooppole

18th A. R. Wright, Varna

17th F. D. Barton, Cornell

lath. ...,;... R. F. Karr, Iroquois

IMh J. L. Whianand, Charleston

20th Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21st Samuel Sorrelis, Raymond

22nd Stanley Castle, Alton

83rd J. E. LIngenfelter, Lawrencevllle

24th...... Curt Anderson, Xenia

Vernon Leesley, Sparta

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Directors of Deimrtments
I. A. A. Office

Ceneral Offlcs and Assistant to Secretary, J, H, Kelksr;
Organization, G. E. Metzger; Information, H. C. Butcher,
Transportstlon, L. J. Quasey, Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles: Fruit and Vegetable Marketing,
A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, Wm. E. Hedgcock:
Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone,
J. R. Bent; in charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A.
Cougler; special representative on Tuberculosis Eradi-
cation, M. H. Petersen; Legal Counsel. Donald Kirk-
patrick; Cooperative Accountlna. Gen. R. Wicker.

I A Powerful Organization

The Farm Bureau people of Illinois are welded
^o^ether into what is probably the most powerful
state farm organization in the I'nited States. The
unusual power of the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion is largely due to the fact that each of the
63,000 Farm Bureau members pays $15 dues each
year, of which $4..t0 is retained by the state or-
ganization. That is the reason the Illinois Agri-
cultural As.sociation can take hold vigorously of
iqany things which other state farm organizations
liust sidestep on account of lack of funds.

Outstanding among the services rendered by the
Dlinois Agricultural Association is the fair read-
iustment of farm taxes. In 1923, over two million
dollars were saved to the farmers of Illinois by
taxation alone. This department has started on the
tremendous problem of making a thorough research,
county by county. It has cost money, but the re-

rhave been a hundredfold.
„ live transportation department has been of
great service, especially to live stock farmers, the
savings during the current year being estimated
at around a quarter of a million dollars.

Uany Illinois farmers think that the greatest
Service rendered is the pooling arrangement for
buying limestone and rock phosphate at the lowest
poaaible price. |

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In addition to the services mentioned in the fore-
going, the Illinois people assist in the usual exten-
sion work which characterizes Farm Bureau activ-
ities in the ordinarj- state. These services interest
the average farmer greatly, although in the long
run they tend to benefit financially the people in
the cities as much as the farmers. In our opinion,
the work done by the Illinois people on taxation
and freight rates has been the outstanding contri-
bution. This is the kind of work which so many
state Farm Bureaus overlook because of the fact
jthat they are under-financed or dominated by a
'state extension department which does not always
have the strictly farmer point of view.
^Reprinted from Wallace's Farmer of Oct. 17, 1924.

Two Good Booklets

Two booklets, each of them telling of the accom-
plishments of the Farm Bureau, have been got out
by the Knox and Iroquois County Farm Bureaus.
One, that of the Knox County Farm Bureau, is en-
titled "Record and Some Accomplishments." It is
filled with charts and figures showing activities and
progress. Both books are good ones.

The Iroquois County Farm Bureau booklet is
called "Ten Years of Service," and it opens with
an appropriate moral which we wish to pass on to
you : i

"The Farm Bureau is here to staj-.

"It is as necessary and fills as important a place
in farming as the self binder.

"Our pioneer forefathers had few contacts with
the outside world. Their problem was to subdue
the prairies, drain the swamps, and produce the
bare necessities of life for their families.

"Fortunately, their wants were few and easily
satisfied ; their pleasures were rare and their re-
wards small. It was a case of each man and each!
family fighting to wrest fuel, food and a home
from the forces of nature. They lived in the age
of the cradle, the reaper, the tallow dip, and the o.x
team.

"In the past century, we have passed from a
nation producing food merel.v for ourselves to the
surplus producing nation of the world.

"Everj- farmer in the United States produces an
average of 12 tons of food per year. Farmers of
the rest of the world produce only 1.4 tons of food
per year.

"One-third of our population produces ample
food for our own country with an ample surplus to
export. In India 75 per cent and in Russia 85 per
cent of the people are food producers.

"Improved machinery, improved seed, stock and
methods in farming have been chief factors in this
change.

"When we became a surplus-producing nation,
we not only released half our farm population for
other work, but we came into competition in the
markets of the world with cheap labor living on low
standards in other surplus producing countries,

"It is not mere chance that there are 15,000,000
automobiles in the United States; Nearly a third
of which are on the farms. It is because of those
economies and efficiencies in the production of the
bare necessities of life, which release two-thirds of
our population, that we are able to produce those
things which add to the comfort and happiness of
living,

"With these changes have come new problems^
problems that the pioneer working alone could not
solve. Individual effort must be replaced by co-
operative effort.

"The Farm Bureau stands for progress, for ade-
quate returns for our labor and products in order
that we may maintain an American standard of
living on our farms and in our farm homes."

About the Promite* —

In this issue of the Record, the last one before
the big election, there is extensive information re-
garding the agricultural leanings of the three
presidential candidates as well as of the congres-
sional candidates. Much of this information has
been assembled by the American Council of Agri-
' culture in the furtherance of its purpose of organ-
ization.

The more detailed data in the chart shows whether
the Illinois Congressmen have consistently sup-
ported agriculture.

No eflFort is being made to interpret the informa-
tion herein conveyed. There are many promises.
Read over and study over the information and you
will at least be better informed before you vote.

Better save this issue for future reference. The
chart is specially valuable.

And don't forget to VOTE! .

The Voice of the Members

itembert are invited to speak their minds in tkis column. As
mtmy letters from members will be printed eeek issue as space
wilt permit. Letters tkonld be short and snappy; all must be
stgnei to be printed. AU constructive criticism of the Farm Bu-
rears — tmtnty, state or national units — is welcomed. II yon have
any grievances, praise or tnttestions, here is the place to tell
them. It's your column, mmke it what you will. Address tetters
to B. C. Butcher, I. A. A. Record, 6ol S. Dearborn, Chicato.

Here are two Utters. Feed both of them. Do you get the morale
Dear SIrt

I have beea a laember of the Farm Borcan for ahovt
Ave years and understand there Is a Farm Adviser In oar
roanty, but am not acQualated with htm.

Do not expert t* siara asala.

M. D. Frederick. Mlliedsevlllr. III.

There art two sides to every question. Before printiu^ the above
letter, we frankly ashed the Farm Adviser in Mr. FrederKh's county
(Carroll) to reply. II follows:
Dear Mr. Bvtehert

I have your letter about the copy you received from
Mr. Frederick. Yon can readily naderstaBd, of course,
how It U possible for a man to have this experience.

\%'e have approximately a thousand members and a
county asent always has lots of thlaKs to do aside fro^
visltlns bis naenibernhlp, so I practically never visit nnem-
bera except on request. Since this man has never re-
uuested a visit, and since he doesn't attend our mretlnKS
which we hnve held at MIllcdKCvllle, coaseqnently, he
hasn't «-omc In contact with this ofllce. The Farm Bu-
reau proposition requires co-operation on both sides. The
man who acta acquainted with us, naturally la solas to
set service, while the man who keeps hiBMelt aloof will
Krt little from tlie county orBanisation,

It miaht be well for you to cmpluiBixe these facts In
your reply to Mr, Frederick. I nm slad yon told me of
this Instancei perhaps 1 will have an opportunity to drop
In and see him.

With best wishes, I am

sincerely yours,
G. R- Bliss, county Asrlcaitural Aseat.

Carroll Conaty Farm Bureau.

The Farm Bureau it like a cafeteria; the food is tkere for you, but
you have to help yourself.

We asked a few farmers what they considered the largest problem of
agriculture today. Here are some of the replies:

Dear Sin The larfcest problem of asricalture today is
Insidious competitors.

The farmer has many Insidious competitors. They used
to be Krasahoppers, worms, Ensllsh sparrows, chinch
baaa and other Inaecta which nearly subdued asrlcnltnre,
but today nKrlcuiturc is perpetually menaced on every
aide. When one enemy la overcome, new ones appear.
Since the war the farmer's problem Is Injustice by his
Insidious competitors, which are all claaaes of people
llvinit otf him and irivina him no return for hia labor.

All claasea of people in other occupations are receiv.
init itood waaes and don't slve n tinker's damn for the
nariculturni man.

K. G. Gum. Tnmaico, III,

Dear Sin The hardest problem I have Is the money
part of It, What ever we farmers have to sell we have
to ask some man what he will iclve us and take hIa price.
That price Is whatever he la of a mind to Klve ua — which
aenerally la a Nmnll price. When we so to buy what
we have to buy. auch na fcncina and sraaa aeed, we have
to aak aome man what price he will take. I feel we will
act alona much better If all we farmers would set our
shoulder to the wheel to set to where we can have some
aay-ao about the price of what prodncta we have to aell
— our cattle, sheep. hos;a and mules. 1 have aome mules
now 1 hnve fed two years and can't itet n bid on them.
Sam C. Kelley, Gorrvllle, III.

Dear Sin In anawer to your question "What Is the
Inraeat problem ut aarlculturef" — there are many hnrd
problems. The two lantest In my estimation are how to
secure a profltable production and how to put more busl-
neaa Into mnrketina. *

Dee Walters. Roblnaon. 111.

Denr SIrt Received your letter of the 2eth and will
any In anawer to your queation that co-operative mnr-
ketins: beneflts a farmer in ntany wraya. It aavea pay-
ina aome middle men commiaaions and niao sets the
farmers closer in touch with each other.

R. H. Hawkins, Bowaa, III.

Dear HIri I read the '-Voice of the Members" letters In
the last issue of the HRC'ORD, and will say that amons
them are some Kood thinas to be noted. One thins, to
be remembered Is the necessity of continuous effort. No
oricaaixation ever won the flrat and last victory all at
once.

t'o-operntive marketlna Is aoins to have a lonft, hard
pull, but in time it may win. A national marketlns
machine will solve the problem. One obstacle in the
way of «-o-operative marketina Is that too much knowl-
edae la obtained In advance aa to how much arain la
prfMluced, and hoiv many hoaa and cattle ralaed, fed and
fattened. These reporta niuat be Klven but not brond-
casted to all comers of the earth, Uattl the reports
are resulated, the speculators have the advautase, for
they can buy as they set the reports.

We have been talklna co-operative marketlns. but
whnt has been donef Just as soon as anyone tries to
do somethlna sameone else tries to blow the whole
thlna up. The V. H. Government could set up the ma-
chinery If It would do so and bond olBcers to do blddins
as it should be done. The bureaus are In their infnney
aa yet— Juat bealnnlns to ernwi. Soon they will wnik
nnd talk.

Albert W. Koebrr, Hamilton, III.

A'ow then, Mr. Farm Bureau member, you have read what these men
have written — what da YOU thinkf Write your thoughts on paper and
send them in for this column. We can print a few each time. — Editor.

THE LIARS' CONTEST

SOME MORE OF ELMRR*S IWBNTIONS
Dear Editor t

About a ymr aso, whilp I was at «lir laterma-
tlonal Live Stork Hhovr. 1 vUlted Swl(t*a paeklair
plant. Thr Baperlntendrnt told me they aaved
rverrthlnir of the pis bat hU aqueai and the curl
In hU tall.

I thouKht, **\Vhat an rronomlr loss!** Belay of
a ■fientlllc and Inventljcatlnic tarn of mind. 1 de-
elded to nee If I eouldn't eanh la oa theme br-prod-
art». 1 foand there was a aabstanee la the pis*"
tall which c^naed It to eurl. 1 aaed this extract
of pl|ir*H tall and produced the ^Wonderful PIfftall
Mareeller.**

Now the ladlea. Instead of paylnic S25 for a per-
manent wave, ran baj a 92.00 bottle of "PUrtall
Mareeller." and their hair will have aa many waven
aa the ocean.

A friend of mine aent hla Ktrl a bottle. Aa
they nae their oioek for a medlelne eheat. ahe act
It la the clock nnd It wound ap the clock ao tlffht
It wouldn't ran *tll they took the bottle out. Now
when he waata the clock wound he uneorka the
Plir-taller and It'a wound for elfrht days. He tried
It on hla watch, too, but It put a marcel la the
halr-aprluK And coat him 9& to s^t It flxed.

I next Invest Ifcated the plr'a aqueai. I found
that when a pis fceta hnUKry there la a certain
HTland which aecretea In the atomach and canaea the
pis to aqueai.

A noted crImlnolOKUt aaya thia la the uioat out-
atandlaic dlacovery alnce the flnserprlnt.

Whenever a criminal la captured we put him on
a starvation diet, ahoot aome ^'Squeal Seeretlou**
Into him, and he will Invarlablr aqueai on Jila cont-
radea, and the whole caboodle are aoon put In the
pen.

Elmer ^'addell. Tarl*rTll]«. lit

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(Mr. CooUdge — Continued)

Northwest. The Intermediate Credit banks have
loaned over $86,000,000 to individuals and co-opera-
tive marketing associations, which assisted directly
and indirectly over 500,000 farmers.

Notwithstanding all this, agriculture was subjected
to an era of most serious depression. Several of its
great staples like cotton, cattle, hogs, corn, and wheat,
suffered from low prices, due to overproduction, un-
balanced conditions between costs and sale prices in
agriculture, industry, and labor, and the disorganiza-
tion of the markets of the world. But for the enor-
mous buying power which the high wages of industry
put behind the market for American food products,
especially meat, the agricultural regions would have
experienced even a far more severe financial crisis.

Due to a change in the world supply, prices of prod-
ucts have begun to improve, even so far as to increase
land values. The government rendered a great deal
of assistance and private enterprise co-operated, but
the fundamental remedy was provided, as it always
must be provided, not so much through the enactment
of legislative laws as through the working out of eco-
nomic laws. Because the farmers have thoroughly
realized this, they have on the whole opposed price
fixing by legislation. While maintaining that sound
position, they have seen a partial relief come in a
natural way, as it was bound to come.

We now need in agriculture more organization, co-
operation, and diversification. The farmer should
have the benefit of legislation providing for flood con-
trol and development of inland waterways, better navi-
gation east and south from the Great Lakes, reclama-
tion, and especially relief for.those who can not meet
their payments on irrigation projects. But the main
problen^ is marketing. Co-operative effort, re-organi-
zation of the freight-rate structure, good business,
and good wages in manufacturing, and the settlement
of European affairs will all help to provide better
market conditions.

The Republican platform recognizes that agricul-
ture should be on a basis of economic equality with
other industries. This is easy to say, but the farmers
themselves and their advisers have never been able to
agree on a plan to provide it by law. Now that nature
and economic law have given some temporary relief, I
propose, therefore, to appoint a committee to investi-
gate and report measures to the Congress in Decem-
ber that may help secure this result which we all
desire. I want profitable agriculture established per-
manently. I want to see the dollar of the farmer
always purchase as much as any other dollar.

A wise, skilled, and unselfish leadership can do
more than anything else to rescue agriculture. The
farmer needs leaders who will stay with him, who
have tact and the courage necessary for management,
and who have the fidelity to refuse political prefer-
ment and business opportunity. There are such lead-
ers. In the sacrifices they make to serve the farmer
lies the greatest hope for his salvation.

(Mr. La Follette — Continued)

the appearance laist winter in Washington of the lead-
ers of practically all of the farm organizations of the
country standing together shoulder to shoulder asking
for legislation which would give some measure of
relief to the basic industry of agriculture. I recog-
nized there at that time the representatives of the
great national organizations such as: , , .

American Farm Bureau Federation.

American Wheat Growers Associated, Inc.

Tlie Dlinoi» Agricultural A«»ociation Recofd

(Mr. La FoUette — Continued)

Farmers' Educational and Co-operative Union of
America.

National Grange.

National Live Stock Producers Association.

National Producers' Alliance.

National Co-operative Milk Producers' Federation.

Representatives of the state farm bureau organiza-
tions of the great corn belt states were also on hand
and were unanimous in their support. Progressive
business men who dared to speak in opposition to the
speculative system too were present and gave valuable
aid to the farmers.

It is inconceivable that the matured judgment of
the organized agricultural movement of the country
could have been treated with the utter disdain which
was accorded to the farm relief measures, by both of
the major political parties at the last session of Con-
gress. It is gratifying that the farmers can put the
responsibility for the failure of farm relief legislation
just where it belongs. President Coolidge himself
sounded the death knell of legislation for the relief
of agriculture in his first message at the opening of
the last session of Congress.

The combination of the reactionary leaders of both
parties to defeat farm relief legislation in Congress
furnishes an example of what I mean by the monopoly
control of both the Republican and Democratic parties
and of the government itself. If further proof was
needed to convince the American people that both
parties are in complete control of the monopoly sys-
tem, your experience last winter in Washington should
be sufficient.

We must increase the purchasing power of the
farmers' dollar. The low exchange value of the farm-
ers' products is appalling. My attention has recently
been called to the figures prepared by the National
Industrial Conference board showing the exchanpe
value per acre to the farmer. Articles bought by the
farmers at retail rather than at wholesale prices were
used as the bases of computation. The exchange value
for the last four years compared with 1914, on wheat,
corn, beef cattle and hogs were as follows:

1914 1920 1921 1922 1923 Averas*

Wheat 100 54 41 46 41 45

Corn 100 56 43 63 69T 57 4-Tear

Beef Cattle ...100 60 60 49 48'. 51 average

Hogs 100 76 69 62 51 t 62 53

Such a deep seated distressing condition stretching
over several years is not to be remedied by a tempo-
rary flurry in the speculative market caused by a world
shortage and accentuated by an easy money market
inviting speculation. Farmers are entitled to their
prudent cost of production plus a reasonable profit
tor their products.

Congress would be in session today working for the
relief of agriculture and for the settlers on reclama-
tion projects if the resolution, which I introduced and
forced to a roll call just before the adjournment of
the last session, had been adopted. This resolution
provides that Congress should be called together in
special session and should not adjourn until legislation
for the relief of agriculture and the reduction of
freight rates had been enacted.

You may say to the members of the great farm or-
ganizations which are now banded together to demand
relief to agriculture that if the progressives are in-
vested with the responsibility of administration of this
government that we will do more than enact legisla-
tion such as is contemplated in the McNary-Haugen
and Norris-Sinclair bills.

The Federal Reserve act shall be so amended and

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Octolxr 25, 1924

(Mr. Davis — Continued)

To secure (or the farmer credits suitable lor hia
needs.

This is our platform and our program; and, if
elected, I propose with the aid of a Democratic Con-
gress to put it Into effect.

This program is made up of both administration
and legislation. I am not sure that of these, honest
and effective administration is not the more important.
No law, however beneficial in its purposes, can accom-
plish good results if it is badly administered. It is
quite as important to the farmers of the United States
that existing agencies should be administered to their
interest as it is that new laws should be passed for
their aid and benefit.

While the farmer shares the general Interest of
every citizen in good government he has a peculiar
interest in some of its activities. The Department of
Agriculture, created in 1889 under a Democratic pres-
ident, and presided over in its early days by a great
citizen of Nebraska. J. Sterling Morton, has done moch
for the welfare of the American farmer. XTnquestioix.
ably, it can and it should do more. It has devoted the
larger share of Its activity in the past to problems of
production: it should l>e stimulated now to think in
terms of marketing and distribution.

The farmer should be aided in the study of his
costs and assisted in building up nation-wide systems
of co-operative marketing. The Department should be
rid of political influence, and presided over by a Sec-
retary competent, courageous and loyal to the t>est
interests of agriculture, and care should be taken to
see that its entire personnel Is of the same character.

(Mr. La FoUette — Continued)

administered as to render it impossible for a deflation
policy such as was instituted in 1920 by the Demo-
cratic administration and carried out by the present
Republican administration which paralyzed agricul-
ture throughout the country. Such an infamous crime,
must never again be perpetrated.

Freight costs upon agriculture and upon business
generally will be reduced. The Pro|:ressives are
pledged to the repeal of the Esch-Cummins law.

The Fordney-McCumber tariff which adds millions
to the cost of living of the farmers and the people gen-
erally over and above reasonable protection to Ameri-
can industry will be reduced.

Genuine farmer representation will be given to the
farmers of the United States on the Interstate Com-
merce commission, the Federal Reserve board and all
of the other governmental boards and commissions
which vitally concern the farmers.

The Progressives recognize the great strides which
have been made by the farmers themselves through co-
operative marketing. It shall be our purpose if invested
with power to render every assistance of the govern-
ment during the transition period from the specula-
tive system of marketing to the co-operative system
of distribution of the farm products of the country.
It is in the co-operative system that lies the path to
complete emancipation of the farmer of the countrj-.
The farmers' co-operative system must not fail. With
co-operative marketing organizations financed by co-
operative banks and credit institutions all in the bands
of the farmers themselves, it will not fail.

With kindest personal regards to yourself and to
the members of the great organizations for which you
speak, I am

Yours very sincerely,

(Signed) Robert M. La Follette.

Council Asks: Would You Call Special Session ?

VtuUr date of Oct. 6, igt4. the American Council of Agrictittnrt,
tkrougk R. A. Cowles. secretary, wrote identical letter! to eactt of the
three presidential nominees ashing^ the altitude of each toward the caMini
of a specif ustion of Congress if adequate agncuUural legislation is not
passed in the December session. The replies excepting thai of Mr. La
FoUette which is embodied in his Utter to Mr. Cowtes. beginning in the
middle of page j, column i, to these letters are as follows:

(TELEGRAM)

1924, Oct. 20, P. M. 9:31.
Nashville, Tenn., 20.
Hon. Lincoln Dixon:

Democratic headquarters Auditorium Hotel, Chi-
cago, 111. — You are authorized by me to inform the
American Council of Agriculture or any one else that
If I am elected president of the United States I will
call a special session of Congress for the purpose of
considering the legislative needs of the country and
those questions of pressing Importance. Among the
most vital of these are the steps to be taken on be-
half of agriculture and those engaged in that funda-
mental Industry.

John W. Davis.

THE WHITE HOUSE

Washington, October 13,' 1924.
My Dear Mr. Cowles:

Your letter of October 6th which was sent to the
President by the direction of the American Council of
Agriculture, has been received and noted. In reply,
your attention Is called to the Platform of the Repub-
lican Party and also to the President's Speech of Ac-
ceptance, copies of which I enclose, showing the Presi-
dent's attitude towards agriculture.
Sincerely yours,

(Signed) C. B. Slemp,
Secretary to the President.
Mr. R. A. Cowles, Secretary,
American Council of Agriculture,
Chicago, Illinois.

: THE WHITE HOUSE

Washington, October 20, 1924.
My Dear Mr. Peek:

I have your letter to the President, asking him to

give assurance that in the event of his election, and
in the further event that the next session of Congress
shall fail to enact remedial legislation dealing with
the agricultural depression, he wlR call a special ses-
sion of Congress after March 4th, for the purpose of
dealing with this situation.

While it would be improper to pledge the Presiden-
tial office a long time in advance to the calling of spe-
cial sessions of the Congress, you are at liberty to
say that the President would at all times take every
reasonable government action to promote the welfare
of agriculture. He has every expectation that what-
ever legislation may now be required will be enacted
at the next session of the Congress.
Most sincerely yours,

(Signed) C. B. Slemp,
Secretary to the President.
Mr. (Seorge N. Peek,

President, American Council of Agriculttlre,
Chicago, Illinois.

How Illinois Congressional Candidates Stand

This information has been compiled and furnished by the American
Council of Agriculture to its member organisation, the Illinois Agricul-
tural Associatton, for the information of its Farm Bureau members and
other friends of agriculture.

The following candidates for re-election to Congress
from Illinois supported and voted for the McNary-
Haugen bill, which was designed to give agriculture
equality with industry and labor, in the last session of
Congress and thereby showed themselves as favorable
to the enactment of legislation to place agriculture
on an equality with industry and labor:

Prank R. Held, .\nrora llth'^dl.t.

Cliaa. E. Fuller, Belvidere lath di«t.

Edw. J. Klii|(, <jiale.bnfv IStli dint.

^'un. E. HdII. Feorla leth dlat.

Prank H. Punk, BloomiBKton 17th diat.

W^m. P. Hoiodar, Georgetown ISth dIat.

J. Barl Major, Hlllaboro 2lat dlat.

IVm. M. Arnold. Roblnaon 23rd dlat.

Tkoa. 8. Wllllama. Lonlavllle 24|k dlat.

Ed w. E. DcBlaon. Marion 25tk dlat.

Rich. R. Yntea. Sprlngfleld .^t L«r|re

Hr. R. Rathbone. Kenliworth At Larse

The following candidates for election to Congress
from your state have made formal expression to the
American Council of Agriculture of willingness to
vote for and support legislation that will afford agri-
culture equality with industry and labor:

Elmer Whltmore, Chlcaaro lat dlat.

John P. Reed, Chlcaico leth dlat,

Geo. Chant. Elmharat 11th dlat.

Wm. G. CurtlH, Stoekton 13th dlat.

W. A. Sehnr-lter. Rock iMland 14th dlat.

H. E. .SchmledeHknmp, Qnlney ISth dlat.

Prank H. Punk. Bloomlnstoa 17th dlat.

Harry A. Crawford, Lincoln 17th dlat.

Jaa. P. Miller. Rldsei-llle I8ih dUt.

Bdw. P. Poorman. .Mattoon 19th dlat.

Guy L. Shaw, Beardatown 20th dlat,

Hy T. Hainey, <'arrolton .20th dlat.

J. t^arl Major. Hlllahor* 2l8t dlat.

Ro J F. Bo j-d. Madlaon 22nd dlat.

H. L. BoUinser, Salem 23rd dlat.

D. ^'. Kennedy, DuQaoln 2Sth dlat.

Hy. R. Rathhone, Kemilwarth At Larse

The following candidates for re-election to Congress
from your state opposed the enactment of the McNary-
Haugen bill in the last session of Congress.

XortBB D, Hall. Chlrasa 2iid dlM.

E. W. Spraal, ChleaBo 3rd diait.

Thoa. .\. Doyle, rhlram 4tk «lrt.

A. M. Sabnth. Chleaso : . . Sth dhM.

Jaa. R. Bnekley. t'kleaKa nth dlat.

M. A. MIehaelaon. CkiraB*. . ].. . Tth dtat.

P. A. Britten. < hlraico <.,\J... Mh dlat.

C. R. rhlndblom. < kloasa leih dlat.

Hy T. Ralney. Carrolloa ZMh dIM.

The following candidate'^ for re-election to Con-
gress from your state failed to vote on the enactment
of the McNary-Haugen bill in the last session of Con-
gress and have not otherwise given indication of their
position as favoring the enactment of legislation to
place agriculture upon an equality with industry and
labor:

lat dlat.

Martin B. Maddea. Chleaira
Slaaley H. Kua, chlcas*.

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October 25, 1924

The DlinoU Agricultural A«»oci«tion Record

Pace 3

Council Gives ^^Agricultural Equality Report^^

Tklg rrport is jmryusked by the Amrricvi Council of Agriculture to its
mrmbet orgamjatimt, the lUinois Agricultural Association, lor the in-
lormation of Illinois farm bureau members atul other friends of agricul-
ture, tit vill be remembered by farm bureau members that the American
I'oundii of Agriculture was formed last spring at the St. Paul conference
after 'the defeat of the McSary-Raugen bill. The sole purpose of the
Cnuneil IP«J definitely made to be the obtaining of legislation putting agri-
rultuie on an equality with industry and labor along the lines of the
UiStry-Haugen bilL The Council has been active and has secured
pledges favorable to agricultural equality from Congressional candidates all
over the country. This report covers the Councifs activity in Illinois.)

"Agriculture ashs an American price for the American requieemettt,
indefimdent of the world price for the surplus." is the slogan of Ika
.imericttn Council of Agriculture.

FoUowing are the three party platforms on atncuUmt:

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Republican

l|i dealing with agriculture, the Republican
party recognizes that we are faced with a funda-
mental national problem, and that the prosperity
and welfare of the Nation as ai whole is dependent
upan the prosperity and welfare of our agricul-
tural population.

We recognize that agricultural activities are still
struggling with adverse conditions that have
brobght deep distress. We pledge the party to
takp whatever steps are necessarj- to bring back
a balanced condition between agriculture, industry
and labor, which was destroyed by the Democratic
party through an unfortunate administration of
legislation passed as war measures.

We affirm that under the Eepnblican adminis-
tration the problems of the fanner have received
more serious consideration than ever before, both
by definite executive action and by congressional
action, not only in the field of general legislation
but also in the enactment of laws to meet emer-
ge^icy situations.

The restoration of general prosperity and of the
purchasing power of our people through tariff pro-
tection has resulted in an increased domestic con-
sumption of food products, and the prices of manj'
agricultural commodities are above the world price
leyel by reason of direct tariff protection.

Under the leadership of the President at a most
critical time a corporation was organized by private
capital making available $100,000,000 to assist the
farmers of the Northweist.

Realizing the disturbance In the agricultural export
market, fhe result of the financial depression in Eu-
rope, and appreciating that the export field would be
enormously improred by economic rehabilitation and
the resulting increased consuming power, sympathetic
support and direction were given to the work of the
American representatives on the European Repara-
tions commission.

The revival in 1921 of the War Finance corpora-
tion, with loans of over }300,000,000, averted a com-
plete collapse in the agricultural industry.

We have established hew intermediate credit banks
for agriculture and increased the capital of the Fed-

i I Progretiive j

We favor drastic reduction of the exorbitant
duties on manufactures provided in the Pordney-
McCumber tariff legislation, the prohibiting of
gambling by speculators and profiteers in agricul-
tural products; the reconstruction of the Federal
Reserve and Federal Farm Loan systems so as to
eliminate control by usurers, speculators and inter-
national financiers, and to make the credit of the
nation available upon fair terms to all and without
discrimination to business men, farmers and home-
builders. We advocate the calling of a special ses-
sion of Congress to pass legislation for the relief of
American agriculture. We favor such further
legislation as may be needful or helpful in promot-
ing and protecting co-operative enterprises. We
demand that the Interstate Commerce commission
proceed forthwith to reduce by an approximation
to pre-war levels the present freight rates on agri-
cultural products, including live stock, and upon
the materials required upon American farms for
agricultural purposes.

(Republican — Continued)

eral Farm Loan system. Emergency loans have been
granted to drought-stricken areas.

W.e have enacted into law the Co-operative Market-
ing act, the Grain Futures and Packer Control acts;
given to agriculture direct representation on the Fed-
eral Reserve board and on the Federal Trade com-
mission.

We have greatly strengthened our foreign market-
ing service for the disposal of our agricultural prod-
ucts.

The crux of the problem from the standpoint of the
farmer is the net profit he receives after his outlay.
The process of bringing the average prices of what
he buys and what he sells closer together can be in-
directly expedited by reduction in taxes, steady em-
ployment in industry and stability in business. This
process can be directly expedited by lower freight
rates, by better marketing through co-operative effort
and a more scientific organization of the physical and
human machinery of distribution and by a greater di-
versification of farm products.

We promise every assistance in the reorganization
of the marketing system on sounder and more eco-
nomical lines and, where diversification is needed, gov-
ernment assistance during the period of transition.

We favor adequate tariff protection to such of our
agricultural products as are threatened by foreign
competition.

We favor, without putting the government into busi-
ness, the establishment of a federal system of organi-
zation for co-operative marketing of farm products.

The vigorous efforts of this administration towards
broadening our exports market will be continued.

The Republican party pledges itself to the develop-
ment and enactment of measures which will place the
agricultural Interests of America on a basis of eco-
nomic equality with other industry to insure Its pros-
perity and success.

Democrat

During the four years of Republican government,
the economic condition of the American farmer has
changed from comfort to bankruptcy, with all its
attendant miseries. The chief causes of this are:

(a) The Republican party policy of isolation in
international affairs has prevented Europe from
getting back to its normal balance, and, by leaving
unsolved the economic problems abroad, has driven
the European city population from industrial activ-
ities to the soil in large numbers in order to earn
the mere necessaries of life. This has deprived the
American farmer of his normal export trade.

. (b) The Republican policy of a prohibitive
tariff, exemplified in the Fordney-McCumber law,
which has forced the American farmer, with his ex-
port market debilitated, to buy manufactured goods
at sustained high domestic levels, thereby making
him the victim of the profiteer.

(c) The Republican policy of high transporta-
tion rates, both rail and water, which has made it
impossible for the farmer to ship his produce to
market at even a living profit. j ,c

To offset these policies and their disastrous results,
and to restore the farmer again to economic equality
with other industrialists, we pledge ourselves;

(a) To adopt an international policy of such co-
operation by direct ofllcial instead of indirect and
evasive unofficial means as will re-establish the farm-
er's export market by restoring the industrial balance
in Europe and the normal flow of international trade
with the settlement of Europe's economic problems.

(b) To adjust the tariff so that the farmer and all
classes can buy again in a competitive manufacturer's
market.

(c) To readjust and lower rail and water rates,
which will make our markets, both for the buyer and
the seller, national and international. Instead of re-
gional and local.

(d) To bring about the early completion of in-
ternal waterway systems for transportation and to de-
vt'lop our water powers for cheaper fertilizer and for
use on our farms.

(e) To stimulate by every proper governmental
activity the progress of the co-operative marketing
movement and the establishment of an export market-
ing corporation or commission, in order that the ex-
portable suridbs may not establish the price of the
whole crop, i

(f) To secure for the farmer credits suitable for
his needs.

(g) By the establishment of these policies and
others naturally supplementary thereto to reduce the
margin between what the producer receives for his
products and the consinner has to pay for his supplies,
to the end that we secure an equality for agriculture.

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Mr. Coolidge

(From his address of acceptance, Aug. i4. 1934.)

I am for protection because it maintains Ameri-
can standards of living and of business, for agri-
culture, industrj- and labor. I am in favor of the
elastic provisions of our tariff law. I propose to
administer them, not politically, but judicially. As
the business of the world becomes stabilized, with-
ont throwing all our economic system into confu-
sion, we can raise or lower specific schedules to meet
tke requirements of a scientific adjustment.

I confess that my inheritance and personal ex-
perience have bred in me a keen interest in the
welfare of agriculture. Perhaps the very hardships
that those who have been engaged in it have en-
countered have caused it to be the chief source of
tkat independence and stalwart citizenship which has
contributed so lavishly to the glory of American life.
It constitutes an element in our Nation of such im-
portance as to be worthy of the utmost solicitude and
concern. One of our first thoughts in 1921 was for
its relief and revival. As many as 15 laws have been
passed to assist and support this fundamental indus-
try. Through the War Finance corporation it has
t>een extended credits of between $300,000,000 and
$400,000,000. In addition to this, government activ-
ity provided about $50,000,000 from private sources
for the relief of the cattle industry, and in the early
spring of this year a $10,000,000 corporation was
formed, which it was estimated could furnish $100.-
000,000 for diversification and financial relief in the

(To Mr. CooUdgc— Page 4.)

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I I Mr. La FoUette

' I Sioux Falls, So. Dakota,

October 18, 1924.
Mr. Robert A. Cowles, Secretary,
American Council of Agriculture,
1200 Transportation Building,
Chicago, Illinois.
M}^ Dear Mr. Cowles: —

Your kind letter of October 6th has been re-
ceived, asking if I am elected President whether
I would further the enactment of adequate laws
insuring equality for agriculture, and specifically
in the event of the failure of the short session of
Congress to enact such remedial farm relief legis-
lation, whether I shall call a special session of Con-
gress to enact such legislation.

I have already answered both of your questions.
In my public addresses throughout the country I have
stated, and I now repeat that I stand firmly for the
principle of agricultural equality which underlies both
the McNary-Haugen and Norris-Sinclair bills.

I recognize that the paramount immediate issue be-
fore the people of this country today is the restoration
of agriculture. To that end I shall call a special ses-
sion of Congress to pass legislation for agricultural
relief.

Much has been said by those who have sought to
becloud the issues involved in farm relief legislation
that the farmers themselves were not in agreement on
the subject. During my rather extended service in
the Senate, I have seen nothing more heartening than
(To Mr. La FollMtt— P«»e 4.)

Mr. Davit

» (From his Omaha address.) ^ - --

The Democratic party has a definite program
by means of which we hope to restore the farmer
to the economic equality of which he has been
unjustly deprived. We undertake:

To adopt an international policy of such co-oper-
ation, by direct official instead of indirect and
evasive unofficial means, as will re-establish the
farmer's export market by restoring the industrial
balance in Europe and the normal flow of inter-
national trade with the settlement of Europe's
economic problems.

To adjust the tariff so that the farmer and all
other classes can buy again in a competitive market.

To reduce taxation, both direct and indirect, and
by strict economy to lighten the burdens of govern-
ment.

To readjust and lower rail and water rates, which
will make our markets, both for the buyer and the
seller, national and international instead of regional
and local.

To bring about the early completion of internal
waterways systems for transportation, and to develop
our water powers for cheaper fertilizer and use on
our farms.

To stimulate by every governmental activity the
progress of the co-operative marketing movement and
the establishment of an export marketing corporation
or commission in order that the exportable surplus
may not establish the price of the whole crop.
(To Mr. Davu— Pise 4.)

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The niinob Agricultural A»ioci>tion Record

P«Ke S

FARMERS TAl^ OVER

Various problems

AT DISTRICT MEET

Workman'* Compensatioii

Lsw, Pooltry Marketing and

Live Stock Matters Are

High LighU

Farmers from Clay, Gallatin,
White, Saline, Johnson, Pope and
Edwards counties, meeting at
Shawneetown, Oct. 14, for their
third district Farm Bureau con-
ference of the year, discussed a
variety of farm problems, chief of
which were the Workman's Com-
pensation Law as it is related to
the Farm Bureau, Shipping asso-
ciations, individual farmers and
live stock producers; poultry and
egg marketing, led by F. A. Goug-
ler, director of I. A. A. poultry
affairs; and live stock shipping
association questions of book-
keeping and pro-rating.

At the morning session of the
conference. Farm Bureau repre-
sentatives discussed informally the
Workman's Compensation Law,
which protects employees in case
of injury sustained while discharg-
ing regular duties for their em-
ployer. Questions as to the lia-
bility of individual farmers and
farmers' co-operative organiza-
tions were raised. Thos. A. Daily,
local lawyer, expressed the opin-
ion that farmers are not affected
by the law in their individual
business but become liable when
their co-operatives hire employees.

To Protect Advisers
The delegates suggested that a
blanket insurance policy should
be obtained for the protection of
farm advisers. Such a blanket
policy has been arranged by the
I. A. A. to protect co-operative
shipping association managers.

At the afternoon meeting. Mr.
Gougler talked on several phases
of the poultry business. He first
explained methods of feeding hens
to increase egg production, givlns
several balanced ration formulas
for scratch feeds and bran mashes.
"If you want to make your hens
lay you've got to make them exer-
cise," he said. "That's why a
scratch feed of corn chop, whole
oats and whole wheat should be
fed In a litter of straw where the
hens will have to exercise to get
It."

One-hiiir XOB-larera

In answer to the question of
which is most important — culling:
the laying flock or proper feeding —
Mr. Gougrler said that in the aver-
agre farm flock 50 per cent of the
hens could be eliminated as non-
layers, which makes the practice of
culllnK a very important one.

A dry mash of bran, shorts, corn,
meal and tankage is also essential
for the laying: flock, according to
Mr. GouKier. Skim milk or good
buttermilk can take the place of
tankage.

Mr. Gougler predicted that co-op-
erative egg marketing is coming
within a very few years and de-
scribed a plan for marketing eggs

co-operatively in Illinois. "Three
things are essential for successful
co-operative egg marketing." he
said. "First, volume of business:
second, good roads over which to
haul the eggs to local markets, and
third, good rail transportation to
central markets."

Next Meet at Vleaaa

The next 24th district conference
will be held at Vienna, Johnson
county, Dec. 2.

Included in a set of resolutions
passed by the conference were'the
following:

Be it resolved that the I. A. A. be
vrged to InveatlKate the propoaltlon
of working men's compeasatloa la-
saraare for farm advisers aad ship-
plaic assf>clatloB empiorees.

Be It resolved that the members
assembled go on record as ladors-
lag the plan of ro-operatlve egg and
poultry marketing as laid oat by
P. A. Gongler.

^Vhereas there will eome before
the next session of the Illinois leg-
lalattire for mtlflratlon or rejection
the BO-ealled child labor amendment
to the constitution of the I'nlted
States and whereas this amendment
Is a clear evasion of the rights of
the individual states and even of the
Individual eltlsens of the states and
is destined to train our children for
a life of Idleness rather than a life
of honest labor without which the
business of .\Krlculture ean never
succeed, therefore

Be It resolved that the delegates
to the :!4th District Coafereace of
the Illiaois Agricultural Association
go on record as opposed to this
amendment and urge the loyal Farm
Bureau members to Join with the
1. A. A. in nctiveir opposing the
ameadmeut.

The following delegates and mem-
bers were present; Gallatin County,
Geo. Scherrer. M. Feehrer. L. L. Pin-
nell. Robt. Crunk. Thos. Aud. Geo.
Gabel. Arthur Maloney, R. J. Await.
M. Henson. Thos. Dally. T. C. Dow-
nen. Floyd Ramsey. Preston Elliott,
r. W. Simpson. Harry Scott. M.
Wiseheart. Frank Gabel. Jno. Cole-
man. Chas. Green, Mrs. Chas. Green.

Saline County: P. T. Baker, and
Adviser J. E. Whitchurch.

White County: Ed. Creighton, Otto
Casebler. and John A. Puntrey.

Edwards County: Bert Perkins.

Johnson County: Norman Casper,
Charles Marshall, and James G. Me
Call.

Clay County: Curt Anderson.
Pope County: L. Kimmel and A
H. Floyd.

Chicago Producers

Get More Praise

"Of all the concerns han-
dling live stock on the Chi-
cago market, the returns sent
in by the Chicago Producers
on reacting cattle to my office
are among the most complete
and prompt," says J. J. Lint-
ner, inspector in charge of
tuberculosis eradication in
Illinois. "Such co-operation
makes It possible to get in-
demnity returns back to the
farmer in a short time."

WICKER TELLS HOW TO

PLUG LEAKS IN CO-OPS

Egyptian Seed Co-op Gtomts

"Our membership has voluntari-
ly increased twelve and one-half
per cent since the opening of the
harvest season," says Curt Ander-
son, I. A. A. director from tlie
24th district, in describing the
condition of the Egyptian Seed
Growers association, of which he
is manager.

The Egyptian Seed Growers,
with a membership of about 800,
markets 35 per cent of the red
top seed produced in southeastern
Illinois.

The U. S. de|>artment of agri-
culture is putting on an Intensive
campaign to eradicate common
barberry from Mason county.

Farmers In Iroquois county

have ordered SOO tons of lime-
stone through their Farm Bu-
reau.

Ninety per cent of the cattle
in Grundy county have been test-
ed for tuberculosis.

Agriculture Must
Depend Upon Its
Own Forces, Cowles

"Restoration of agriculture to
a position of economic parity with
industry and labor under our
American protective system — sta-
bilized on a basis of fair returns
and remuneration to those en-
gaged in agriculture — is the great-
est immediate problem of all farm
organizations," R. A. Cowles,
I. A. A. treasurer, aaid in a talk
broadcast from station WLS, Oct.
21.

"Since harvest there has been
substantial improvement in the
prices of small grain," he said in
part. "This reflects direct world
crop conditions as may be noted
from the many reports appearing
in the press. Some European
countries have suffered failure in
their wheat crop as well as in sub-
stitutes for wheat with serious
shortage occurring in exportable
surplus of other countries, notably
in Canada. It appears that our
farmers arc to benefit through the
misfortunes of the European
farmers and not through any hap-
penings over which they, or their
farm organizations, have control.
The same conditions that have
brought ^bout temporary price
Improvement — world's crop condi-
tions— are as likely to bring abqut
the reverse conditions next crop
season. There can be no assur-
ance of a continuation of stability
of present prices.

"There should be no misinter-
pretation by farmers or farm or-
ganizations of existing conditions.

"The problem confronting agri-
culture is the nation's problem.
But the nation — our Congress and
the administration charged with
the responsibility of government
— or any group other than agri-
culture is not going to restore ag-
riculture to stability. Agriculture
must depend upon its own forces
and upon an agricultural-minded
Congress.

"It is the duty of every farmer
to work for and secure the elec-
tion of congressmen, without re-
gard to party label, who have
proven themselves to be sensible
to the serious situation existing in
agriculture."

George R. Wicker, director of
co-operative accounting and gen-
eral manager of the Illinois Agri-

pals are not endowed ^th aqy in
herent assurances ot'tjticemk. Id
co-operatives, as in other privately

cultural Co-operatives Association I owned enterpriseB, sueoen Is de-
pendent upon wise administration
and eiBclent management. I'to^mt
organization ^nd sufficient capital
are only the instrumentalities
through and with wlilch co-opera-
tive associations seek to accom-
plish certain and definite purposes
for which they are organized.

>'e«c More Than High Id«ia><

"High ideals and unselfish pur-
pose constitute a most excellent
background — but business, under
competitive conditions, the succeap
or failure T>f which is measured in
dollars and cents, requires ability,
training and experience, and the
employment of recognized high
standard business methods. It is
encouraging to note that co-opera-
tives have recognized this fact and
that today there is a widespread
and growing interest on the part
of officers, managers and members
to look into better business meth-
ods, better alccoanting practices,
and the study of proper financing

"Some co-operatives have failed
That fact is neither surprising nor
alarming, since bank failures are
more numerous than failures of
co-operatives. On the whole, the
co-operative movement has been
remarkably successful.

"It is my opinion, after many
years of active and varied experi-
ence, that co-operative organiza-
tion, recognizing the reward of in-
dividual effort with a fair return
to capital employed, all subject
to collective control for propor-
tionate ttenefits, offers the only so-
lution to a present problem, and
is the hope of a successful agri-
culture. And so, with faces set
toward the attainment of high
ideals but with our feet planted
firmly on the ground of conserva-
tive, constructive, practical effort,
co-operative organizations will
find a place in the industrial life
and activities of the Nation as suc-
cessful participants of the great-
est business on earth — that of
furnishing the food and clothing

through which the newly creati'd
I. A. A. accounting department
audits and renders business advis-
ory service to 74 organizations, all
of which have joined since spring,
put some of his long years of ex-
perience with co-operative enter-
prises into the air Tuesday night,
Oct. 21, when he told of "Plug-
ging Leaks in Co-ops" over the
KYW Farm Bureau program.

"Inadequate capitalization is
one of the leading causes of co-
op disasters," he said in opening.
"It results in incurring a burden
of indebtedness in the early stages
of the organization which weakens
its structure and is a constant and
often an increasing drain on its
resources. In an enterprl83 re-
quiring facilities or an invostment
in merchandise, adequate capital
should be provided, and further
provision should be made for in-
creasing the investment by retain-
ing each year a portion of the net
income resulting from operations.
The accumulation of surplus is
sound financing for the accommo-
dation of increasing business and
is a provision reserved from con-
ditions of prosperity to meet the
possibility of losses in times of
adversity.

Co-ops Too Ubentl With C«sh

. "One of the most commonly
abused practices by co-operatives,"
he continued, "particularly those
engaged in merchandising opera-
tions, is the indiscriminate exten-
sion of credit. It is a common oc-
currence to find accounts receiv-
able on their books in an amount
greater than their paid in capital.
The percentage of losses from un-
collectible accounts is generally
not large, but the loss of the use
of capital tied up in inactive ac-
counts, computed in terms of cur-
rent rates of interest,, is a drag
upon the Ufe blood of the associa-
tion.

"Probably the greatest and most
direct cause of failure is misman-
agement. There is nothing magi

cal in co-operation. The princi- supply of the humati family."

Com|dete 31 Audits

The Illinois Agricultural Co-op-
eratives Association. the six-
months' old farmers' co-operative
auditing company, has completed
audits for 31 member organiza-
tions, says Geo. R. Wicker, mana-
ger. Five association auditors
have made 31 examinations and
are at present in the midst of 11
more. The accounts of thQ Chi-
cago Producers are among the II
and next month will see the com-
pletion of an audit for the Nation-
al Producers.

.Mason connty fanners ordered
2,000 tons of limestone through
the Farm Bureau during Septem-
ber.

The Collefce of A|!T<rnltar« will
conduct a campaign this winter
to replace scrub balls with good
purebred sires.

The second annual Hwine l>ay

will be held at the rniveraitv of
Illinois. Oct. 31.

Jersey connly (armem sowed
1.500 acres of alfalfa this year.

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McCormick. Medill C. Senator.

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The DBnoM Agricultmral Anocwrion Record

OdoUr 25. 1924

THREE-YEAR CYCLE
OF REORGANIZATION
WINDS UP THIS YEAR

Memberahip Drive* by Local

Fann Bureau People Is One

L A. A.'( best Assets,

Thinks Metzger

Edilorfs Note: This i» tJu fifth of
a »«ri«t of nmiiar article* to be
ipritten by I. A. A. department di-
rectore telling of the work done in
each department.

I By G. E. Metzger,

rtor. Organization
Department

The Organization department oc-
cupies a responsibte position
among the other departments of
the lUilnois Agricultural Associa-
tion. Since the
income' of the
Associaltlon 1 s
dependent e n-
tirely Opon the
m e m 1> e r s hip
dues, the size of
the membership
in the Associa-
t i o n controls
pretty largely
the finances of
the Organiza-
tion, ttie size of
the buldget, the
amount and G, E. Metaser
kind of services and the general
moral strength which every or-
ganization must have to make it
a successful going institution.

The policy of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association is such that
any farmer residing in any county
which has an organized county
Farm Bureau must be a member
of that county Farm Bureau to
become a member of the state As-
sociation. In counties without
county Farm Bureau organization,
or in a few counties with county
Farm Bureau organizations which
are nolt afllliated with the I. A. A.,
a farmer may become a member
of the state Association indepen-
dent <>f membership in a county
Farm Bureau.
Co-operation with Local Bureaus

Such being the policy of the As-
sociation it becomes qecessary and
desirable that the organization de-
partmient in all its membership
work co-operate very closely and
thoroughly with the county Farm
Bureau organizations. In the past
that co-operation has been both
pleasant and fruitful. Joint mem-
berships are written in the county
and national organizations for a
period of three years. In 1922,
39 counties came up for reorgani-
zatioS, in 1923, 45 counties, and
1924 is considered by the depart-
ment as a lean year, as only eight
counlties had to reorganize so that
at this time the three-year cycle
of reorganization Is almost com-
pleted.

The Reorganization Plan

It necessarily follows that where
the reorganization of ninety-two
county Farm Bureaus is involved,
conditions in those counties will
vary somewhat and any plan that
is going to be successful must nec-
essaiiily be general in Its terms and
must be broad enough to be adapt-
ed to fit local conditions. It is
the work of the organization de-
partment to make a survey of the
field and determine as accurately
as posErtCle what the conditions
are in the various counties and,
after the survey has been com-
Plet4d, formulate a plan whioli
can be followed throughout the
Stat* and be workable In all coun-
ties and will meet with general
satisfaction In the north end of
the state or the south end, or on
the east or west sides.

TWo general plans have been
followed during the past six years
in Hhe organization work in this
state. The first plan involved a
number of paid state solicitors
who went out in teams ani} signed
up membership in the county.
This plan was successful in build-
ing a strong organization which
functioned throughout the first
three-year period in a very satis-
factory manner.

Local People Sell Bureau

The second plan, which is now
in ise. in fundamentally different
from the first in that It provides
that the local people in any given
community should take care of the
signing up end of the work. In
:. - ■ {

the first place It places th« re-
Bponsibility where it t>elongs, on
the local community. Secondly,
if properly administered It tends
to bring before the leaders In va-
rious communitios of the state the
active work of the county and
state organizations and get it so
clearly defined in their minds that
these leaders function more or
less in the capacity of a walking
encyclopedia who can give out a
lot of goneral Information to the
inquiring Farm Bureau members,
Non-Farm Bureau members or
business men.

After a three-year trial of this
plan. I consider that the partici-
pation of 3.500 to 4,000 farmers,
who actually put over the mem-
bership drives in this state, is one
of the greatest assets of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association.

I heard a writer of the econo-
mist's column of a great news-
paper say the other day, that it
was largely his business to gather
the information published by other
economists and jazz it up in such
a way that a greater per cent of
the reading public would digest
these facts.

Assembles Selling Points

I believe the position of the di-
rector of organization is some-
what similar to this writer, as It
seems to be necessary that the de-
partment assemble the detailed in-
formation from the other depart-
ments of organization and from
the county Farm Bureaus and put
it in such form that it can be used
as a talking or selling point.

It has been said that to sell
well one must be thoroughly sold
himself. This is exactly what the
department of organization tries
to do at all times and it is the
fundamental principle upon which
the department is based.

To be a good Farm Bureau
member every farmer should at
least have an understanding of the
general problems which confront
him. I believe these problems
can be well sized up under about
four heads:

Legislation -^ One Big Problem

First, is the matter of legisla-
tion. Up until the last few years
the middle west farmer has not
thought much of the importance
of legislation with respect to his
business. Through organization
industries learned this lesson long
ago. It was not until the farmer
attempted to solve some of the
big problems in an organized way
that he conceived the importance
of legislation to his industry.
Many of the failures of farmers'
co-operative organizations in the
past have been largely due to the
fact that they did not have ade-
quate legislation for legal protec-
tion. A great deal of that imme-
diately necessary legislation has
been secured by farmers' organi-
zations presenting such needs be-
fore national and state legisla-
tures.

Distribution — Second Problem
Perhaps the second great prob-
lem of the farmer is the matter of
distribution of his own products.
This matter might be approached
from several angles, the most im-
portant of which perhaps is co-
operative marketing. The trans-
portation of these products is an-
other important phase of distri-
bution. It has long been recog-
nized by asiicultural leaders that
if the farmer is to succeed in sta-
bilizing the commodities of his
own production that It Is KOing to
be necessary that he accept and put
Into operation the principle of other

freat industries — namely, -that he
oUow his commodities at 4ea8t part
of the way to the consumer. Such
Is the aim of co-operative marketing
by which the farmer comes Into In-
timate relation with the problem of
transportation.

The third great problem I believe
to be the matter of taxation. The
percentage of the farmer's income
which is consumed by taxation of
one icind or another has greatly in-
creased during the past few years.
A study of the situation has re-
vealed some important points which
have heretofore been discussed quite
fully through the columns of this
paper. It will always be one of the
problems of farmers as well as rep-
resentatives of other industry to
study the cost of government as It
affects their business and the citi-
zenship of the country In general.
Mast Cnt Prodaetloa Coats

The fourth great problem of the
farmer is the matter of economy In
production. These problems every
producer will always have before
him. There seems to be some rela-
tive standard as to what the con-
suming public can afford to pay and
will pay for a given commodity.
Such standards are not fixing prices
In any sense of the word but they
bear direct relationship to the earn-
ings of labor and other Industry.
Thus It Is important that the lowest

possible cost of production price
prevails on their individual farms.

As I see It. this Is largely the
work of the county Farm Bureau.
Information, which does not neces-
sarily tend to Increase the total pro-
duction but to cut the cost of pro-
duction. Is available at these various
county Farm Bureau offices on the
best systems of farming.

Department Ready for Service

Farm organizations should always
keep In mind that a part of their
work Is a campaign of education
and that the campaign should go
forward in an organized way so
that satisfactory results may be ob-
tained at the lowest possible cost.

The organization department also
functions under the general policies
of the I. A. A. In securing satisfac-
tory memberships In co-operative
marketing organizations after a
proper survey has been made and

g roper forms of organization have
een recommended by other depart-
ments of the Association.

This is a brief outline of the work
of this department and we make It
a point to stand ready at all times
to be at your service.

The Mason Coimty Farm Bu-
reau board has set five cents per
bushel as a fair price for paying
corn buskers. Free board is to go
with the five cent wage.

ILLINOIS HGHTERS

WHIPPING ENEMY

(Continued from pa^e 1)

cured from the books of the U. S.
D. A. inspector in charge of tuber-
culosis eradication in Illinois.
Since grade cattle were not tested
previous to July 1, 1921, no rec-
ord is available on them, but a
comparison of the nun>ber of re-
actors among purebred cattle dur-
ing the two three-year periods
shows that 40.5 per cent less re-
actors were found during the lat-
ter period.

Angus Are Lowest

A study of the accompanying
table reveals for the first time
percentage of reactors found in
each breed. It will be seen that
the Aberdeen Angus have the low-
est per cent of reactors. This is
explained by the fact that most of
the purebred Angus herds were
tested under the accredited herd
plan and got fairly well cleared
up before July 1, 1921.

Holsteins have shown the larg-
est number of reactors, but, ac-
cording to Mr. Petersen, there is
good reason for their leading. He
enumerates the reason for their
leadership as follows: (1) Hol-
steins have been the chief breed
brought into dairy districts where
infestation has been worst; (2)
Cattle bootleggers have made it
a practice of picking up reacting
Holsteins in other states and sell-
ing them in Illinois; (3) Hol-
steins are the most numerous in
the Chicago milk district where
the infestation is the worst. Bad
cattle have been brought in this
area, infesting the cattle already
there.

Mr. Petersen in interpreting his
figures, and comparing the first
three-year period with the second,
points out that as a state. Illinois
is at least well on the way toward
practical eradication of bovine
tuberculosis.

Mississippi Valley
Is America's Food
Basket, Says Fox

Many I. A. A. folks beard Sec-
retary Geo. A. Fox when he spoke
from station KYW recently in be-
half of the Illinois Chamber of
Commerce and told of the Illinois
Products Exposition, the magnifi-
cent industrial show of Illinois
which was on in Chicago, Oct. 9
to 18.

"The basic resources of Illinois
are its splendid people, its natural
wealth and its advantageous posi-
tion in the nation," he told his
distant listeners. "In all three it
is favored beyond estimation. The
Mississippi Valley is the food bas-
ket of America. The possibility
for future development and ex-
pansion of Illinois widens the hori-
zon of present achievement Into
a vision which thrills the active
leadership in all industry through-
out the state."

A Diversified Wealth

The I. A. A. executive referred
to the vast mineral wealth of Illi-
nois, its net-work of railroad sys-
tems, the Immense wealth of its
manufacturing centers and its
ever growing population, each of
which he linked with the impor-
tant agricultural Industry in Illi-
nois, of which he said:

May Produce Indefinitely

"In the past, the farms of Illi-
nois have furnished much of the
food for its people with a sur-
plus of some crops. The 237,000
farm units consume large quan-
tities of manufactured products.
Will the consumptive power of its
farms continue as industry de-
velops?

"The answer is written in the
pages of our splendid educational
institutions and in an intelligent
farm population. Education and
experimentation have discovered a
new resource in these rich lands.
Illinois farm lands may be made
to produce food indefinitely but
not without scientific methods of
production. Without scientific
farming, these lands can be mined
and become waste places as has
been done in many other sections.
Modern education has discovered
how to preserve productivity.

"It is cheering information to
know that intelligent farmers may
perpetuate this source of the
State's wealth. The universities,
high schools, extension service of
the state and nation. Farm Bu-
reaus, through their leaders and
their specially trained Advisers,
are making a substantial program
in maintaining a system of agri-
culture which will perpetuate this
great natural resource and insure
to the State a prosperous, intelli-
gent and contented country-side.
Industry and commerce may well
join hands with the farmer in
building for a healthy, economic
balance of prosperity for all time."

TABLE 1

(Showing record of T. B. tests made in Illinois from April 1.
1918 to July 1. 1924.)

No. Pnrcbrcda Per Cent

Brr«d Teatcd Reacted Rcaetora

Aberdeen-Angus 1.080 S04> 18.50

Brown Swiss 811 M 10.30

Guernsey 1.604 . M 6.29

Hereford-Horned 1.5S0 ' T» 4.65

Hereford-Polled S.27S 18 0.79

Holsteln 8.901 1,G10 16.96

Jersey 2,4*8 181 5.24

Red Polled 679 67 9.84

Shorthorn 9.167 927 10.11

28,470 S,<W3 •.07

Beglnnlg on July 1. 1921. all cattle, whether purebreds or grades
were tested under the co-operative plan. The following table
shows the Increase In testing for the three-year period from July
1. 1921 to July 1. 1924. The average per cent of reactors among
purebreds in Table 1 Is 9.07% and In 'Table 2 Is 5.4%. a reduction
of 40.5% In the number of reactors In three years.

The average per cent of Infection of both grades and purebreds
on July 1. 1924 was 9.1%.

TABL,E a '

Per ceat
rattle Tested Reacted Reactors

Pore- Pore- Porc-

Brccd bred Grade bred. Grade bred Grade

Aberdeen-Angus 3.255 3.685 150 236 4.600 6.40

Ayreshire 587 125 5 9 0.085 7.20

Brown Swiss 2,660 2.917 85 318 3.200 10.90

Dutch Belted 29 19 1 1 8.800 5.30

Galloway .> 1 9 0 0 0.000 D.OO

Guernsey 2.380 4.645 74 412 2.700 9.00

Hereford-Horned . . . 6,574 6.069 122 339 1.800 6.70

Hereford-Polled 1.970 395 10 2 0.050 0.06

Holsteln ..■. 33,730 64.775 2.991 9.369 8.900 14.40

Jersey 7,880 16.924 152 1.266 1.900 7.40

Mixed , 427 63 14.70

Red Polled ...I 1.890 1.115 29 95 1.500 8.50

Shorthorn-Horned ..29.612 60.208 1.307 4.870 4.400 9.70

Shorthorn-Polled ... 104 2.262 2 350 1.800 15.00

Total, all breeds ... 90,871 152,578 4,S28 173,t0 5.400 II.SO

A comparison of the percentage of reactors among the pure-
breds in Table 1 and Table 2 shows the progress made In ridding
these herds of tuberculosis where a systematic, thorough cleanup
has been practiced.

FARM CO-OPERATION
URGED BY BRADFUTE

(Continued from Pace One)
ricultural Association, and push,
push, push, he said.

"Do you know that since the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion has been organized, more fa-
vorable farm legislation has been
passed in Congress than there was
in 20 years previous? And that
farmers are represented on impor-
tant federal boards now whereas
before the farmers had a real
functioning organization the farm-
ers were left completely out?
Bureau Represents Farmer

"The farmer, through the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation and
your Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, has been able to present his
viewpoint in places where he has
never been heard before. And
the other classes want to know
the farmer viewpoint. I, as your
national president, have been in-
vited to speak Iwfore such varied
groups as retail drygoods people,
railroad executives, bankers and
even a marine organization. What
interest can a farmer have in ships
you ask?

"Do you know that right now
10,000,000 bushels of wheat are
leaving the United States every
weak for Europe? And do you
know that the farmer pays the
transportation cost on this wheat
as it goes across the sea? And,
above all, a large percentage of
that wheat is carried in vessels
sailing under flags other than Old
Glory. Surely the farmer is Tital-
ly interested in such things which
seem so distant as sea transporta-
tion. And your county Farm Bu-
reau, the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation and the American Farm
Bureau Federation are the means
of the farmer speaking his part in
the nation's affairs.

Power In United Action

"Last Saturday I sat in confer-
ence with President Coolldge upon
his invitation. He wanted the
farmers' viewpoint, and I told him
what over one million farmer-
members of the American Farm
Bureau Federation had expressed
through their representative or-
ganization. He listened. And
what may be surprising to you, he
talked back. Many call him 'Si-
lent Cal,' but I found him holding
up his end of the conversation.
As an individual farmer from my
own farm near Xenia, Ohio, I
would never have had so much aa
an audience with the President,
much less an Invitation to go see
him. Without the power of united
action behind me, President Cool-
ldge would not have had our view-
point on agricultural conditions.
Presidents Say Co-operate

"Do you know that the last
three presidents of the United
States have said that farmers must
organize and co-operate to pro-
tect themselves? The supreme
court has said so, as have gov-
ernors of many states.

"Since the beginning of the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion, Co-operative organlzationa
have been formed in a national
way to handle such commodities
as cotton, tobacco, wool to some
extent, fruit and vegetables, lire
stock, and our latest venture is in
grain marketing. The Grain Mar-
keting Company is open to criti-
cism by the membership and they
can change it any way they see
fit."

Our agricultural problems will
never be worked out unless the
farmers themselves take an active
part in affairs, both in and by
means of their organization.

Earl C. Smith On RacEo

Illinois Farm Bureau people,
who tune in on station KYW Nov.
7, at 8:20 P. M., will hear Earl C.
Smith, Detroit, III., I. A. A. execu-
tive committeeman from the 20fb
district. KYW will be broadcast-
ing his talk on "Farm Bureau
Loyalty."

The boqrd of supervisors in

Lake county have voted to renew
a $4,000 appropriation to con-
tinue the work of eradicating bo-
vine tuberculosis.

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Schuyler County Farm Bureau

has ordered 730 tons of lime-
stone this fall for farmers in
that county.

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laince the
Federa-
more fa-
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out?
parmer
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to know
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been in-
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liters and
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Volume 2

bsued Every Other Saturday — November 8, 1924

Number 22

ILL-MO CREAMERY
PUTS OLD COMPANY
ON A PAYING BASIS

Farmers' Co-op Now Making

Quality Product — Illini

Brand Butter

What is bettrr than bread and bultrr?

This is the appetizing slogan of
the Ill-Mo Dairy Company of East
St. Louis, a
fanner - owned
co-op erative
creamery and
makers of Illini
brand bntter, a
product rapidly
growing In pop-
ularity among
butter consum-
ers in the St.
I..ouis district.

One year ago
there was, n o

Ill-Mo Dairy . •*■ e. Ric-karii«oii
Company. In its stead was a
bankrupt milk marketing com-
pany, the old Illinois-Missouri
Milk Producers' Association.

How the 6,000 farmer-members
of the Illinois-Missouri Milk Pro-
ducers' Association suddenly woke
up and found that they owed
themselves $130,000 for unpaid
milk shipments has been heralded
the length and breadth of Illinois
and Missouri as an example of
farmers' co-ops that slid into the
chasm of bankruptcy and bad re-
pute.

Co-operation Ijooked Bad
That was back in the fall of
1922 when, to the milk producers
of the St. Louis district, the fu-
ture of co-operative marketing
looked dark. In the face of their
milk co-op failure it seemed that
the hopes of the co-operative ef-
fort were blasted for good.

But the principles of co-opera-
tion are bigger than was this Illi-
nois-Missouri milk association.
An advisory committee appointed
by O. E. Bradfute, president of
the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration, outlined a plan to pay
off the debts of the old company
and, with legal, financial and ad-
visory help from the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association, organized,
to accomplish this, the present
Ill-Mo Dairy Company.

Today the Ill-Mo company, leas
than 12 months old, stands as a
monument to a co-operative mar-
keting spirit that refused to ad
mit defeat.

Took Over Old Company
The Ill-Mo creamery took over
the facilities owned by the old
milk marketing company and
opened its doors to the cream
shipping world Jan. 1, 1924. No
cream came that day, nor the
next, but on Jan. 3, three cans
arrived and Ill-Mo creamery busi-
ness started.

"Maybe you think I wasn't
tickled to see that first can of
cream," said A. E. Richardson,
who was delegated by the ad-
visory committee to manage the
creamery, and he laughed as he
looked back on the incident. "It
wjis frozen hard as a brick and
there was nothing funny about it
then. We'd been operating a
creamery for two whole days
without a pound of cream."

January 4 came and with it
came more cans of cream, Jan. 5
arrived with a further Increase in
shipments and so on, day after
day, business picked up until the
peak was reached in May and
June. The largest number of
cans received in one day was 130.
30,000 Pounds Per Month
Once the cream shipments be-
gan arriving In satisfactory vol-
ume the Ill-Mo dairy company
turned its attention to producing
a quality butter product. The
plant is equipped with every
(Continued on page 3, col. 2)

Late Bulletin:

The r«'tl«etiea of Calvin C«olld|«
to succood hlMsoir as protldent of
the United States and the general
republican landslide places keen in-
terest from an agricultural view-
point, upon the selection of the next
Secretary of Agriculture. The re-
sponsibility for the department of
agriculture rests with the incoming
administration. This department is
one of the most Important from the
standpoint of the country as a
whole. It represents the nation's
largest and most important indus-
try. Recognition of farm organiza-
tions, in conference on the seiertlon
of a new Secretary, appears to us
as entirely proper in order that the
new Secretary shalT have the cen-
Adence and fullest co-operation of
organized agriculture.

A WORTHY COMMENDATION

Essays Pour In As
Contest Nears Elnd

Several hundred boys and girls
in 22 Illinois counties have turned
over, to their respective county
Farm Bureaus, essays on "Why
Dad is a Farm Bureau Member"
or "Why Dad Should Join the
Farm Bureau."

The last week has been the
final and busiest lap of the
whole contest. During the week
hundreds and hundreds of names
of boys and girls have poured
into the ofllce of H. R. Klbler,
director of the national contest.
They came from each of the 27
farm bureau states conducting
county contests.

In Illinois, La Salle county re-
ported 143 In their contest, the
largest number turned in by any
Illinois county so far. Macon
county is one that is running La
Salle a close race and there may
be other counties with large en-
tries, which have not been re-
ported.

Contest Cloees Nov. 10

November 10 Is the last day
that essays can be received as
the contest ofllclally closes that
day. Nearly all counties have
selected their committee of
judges, which will soon choose
the winners in each county.

Copies of the first prize es-
says in each county will be mailed
to the I. A. A. contest director
and to the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation. The I. A. A.
judges, C. V. Gregory, editor of
Prairie Farmer; Arthur C. Page,
editor of Orange Judd Illinois
Farmer; Francis G. Blair, state
school superintendent: C. E. Hay,
farm adviser in Christian county;
and President Sam Thompson,
will pick, from the 22 county
winners, the essays for which the
I. A. A. prizes will be awarded.

D«an and Professor Emcrltiis
College of Agrlrulture
rnlveniil.v of Illinois

THE MAPLES /)* . •;

e. davenport
Woodland. Michigan

8. H. Thompson, President, jj j ,^ . ' '•

Illinois Agricultural Asaociation, '{ I -' . ■'_

Quincy, Illinois. <

Dear Mr. Thompson:

I am writing to express my congratulations and my keen sat-
isfaction that you, as president of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation and an Illinois man, had the foresight and the cour-
age to stand out against tlie grain marketing scheme that took
over a large machine of another's building.

You have done agriculture and your (our) good State a great
service and after the craze passes the reconstruction of sound
agricultural policies will be rebuilt upon and around such wise
men as yourself who refuse to be stampeded.

Faithfully yours,

E. Davenport.

COOLIDGE REQUESTS
FARM BUREAUS HELP
HIM PICK SECRETARY

President Thompson Wants

Time Taken To Get Bert

Man Possible

PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
ARRANGES TO ATTEND
INTERNATIONAL SHOW

To

84 Co-<^>s in L A. C. A.

More farmers' elevator com-
panies have subscribed for the
auditing services of the Illinois
Agricultural Co-operatives Asso-
ciation than any other class of
farmer co-ops, according to Geo.
R. Wicker, general manager of
the audit service. Thirty-eight
of the 84 organizations in the
association are farmers' elevators.

Farm Bureaus are second, 28
county Farm Bureaus, having
subscribed for the auditing and
accounting service. County live
stock shipping associations total
eight. Three live stock terminal
agencies, three dairy associations
and four miscellaneous organiza-
tions complete the list.

Be 25th Anniversary;
U.S.D.A. Will Award
Official Medals

=9=

I.A.A. Annual Meeting
Set For Jan. 16 and 17

Thursday and Friday. Jaa. IS and
17, are the days of the I. A. A. an-
nual meeting. This year's meeting
will be held In eonneotlon with
Farmers' Week at the University of
Illinois. Don't forget the date-
better mark It en the calendar. An
unusual praffaa is already kalag
planned.

The International Live Stock
Exposition will celebrate its 25th
anniversary at the Chicago Union
Stock Yards, Nov. 29 to Dec. 6,
with what promises to be one of
the greatest gathering of agri-
cultural forces ever assembled in
the history of the basic industry.

President Coolidge has con-
sented to attend the International
Show and speak a number of
times during a week's stay in
Chicago. High officials in the
United States Department of Ag-
riculture will be present as well
as many prominent men from ag-
ricultural colleges and universi-
ties.

U. S. D. A. To Award Medals

In commemoration of the im-
portance of this event. Congress
has, by special act, authorized the
United States Department of Ag-
riculture to award official medals
to ail winners of first prizes and
championships in the live stock
competitions at the coming show.
The Department itself will fill an
entire exhibit ball with a display
of its various lines of activity.

The exposition will be inter-
national in character as well as
in name. In addition to the
Canadian exhibits and delega-
tions, several foreign countries
are expected to be represented.
Four famous live stock judges
from Great Britain, four from
Canada, and one from the Argen-
tine are coming to act as arbitors
in the various contests among
breeders and feeders.

Railroads To Reduce Fare

Brilliant evening entertain-
ments will be held each night in
the arena, featuring a society
horse show and a program of ex-
citing and entertaining events.
There will be something of inter-
est and value during the Inter-
national for every member of the
family, both urban and rural
dwellers. Reduced railroad rates
will be in effect during the week
of the show.

The social side, always an im-
portant feature of the Interna-
tional, will be especially stressed
on this quarter-century annivers-
ary with a full program of reun-
ions, banquets and formal meet-
ings. The International offers an
unrivaled opportunity for the
stock men and farmers to meet
their old friends and make new

acqnaintances which will prove
invaluable in the future. Bo|rs'
and girls' club exhibits will be
an important feature for ^be
youngsters.

Advanced indications are t^at
the exhibits of live stock 4nd
crops will far surpass the notable
arrays of former shows. Illinois
farmers, favored by the nearness
of their residence, should take
advantage of the reduced rates
and attend the coming Inter&a-
tional in even greater numbers
than on former occasions. I

Hedg^cock Studies
Marketing Work In
Ohio and Indiana

Wm. E. Hedgcock, director of
the livestock marketing depart-
ment, has made a week's study
of the livestock marketing situa-
tion in Ohio and Indiana. He
has been finding out first hand
the most successful co-operative
practices on various markets with
a view toward applying the more
practical ideas to Illinois prob-
lems.

He visited the Ohio and Indi-
ana Farm Bureau Federations. It
is his opinion that the Producer
live stock marketing work is Well
established in Ohio and Indiana.

Mr. Hedgcock made a sii^ilar
trip to Iowa and Minnesota some
time ago. ,

Mutual Relations
Committee Formed

The committee on mutnal rela-
tions between the Farmers Grain
Dealers' Association of Illinois
and the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation has been appointed.

D. H. Allen of Delvan, 0. H.
Bonnell of Rosemond and Fred
A. Mudge of Peru are to repre-
sent the Farmers Grain Dealers'
and H. E. Goembel of Hooppole,
A. R. Wright of Varna, both of
whom are members of I. A. A.
grain marketing committee, and
Sam H. Thompson, I. A. A. presi-
dent, will represent the Illinois
Agricultural Association.

The first meeting of this com-
mittee will be held Thursday, Nov.
13. The next issue of the Recorb
will carry a complete account of
the proceedings of the meeting.

It is expected that a plan for
marketing grain will be consid-
ered whereby both organizations
can work together. The Farmers
Grain Dealers' have not indorsed
the Grain Marketing Company,
either.

President Coolidge has taken
the farm organizations into conn-
sel for the selection ot a Secre-
tary of Agriculture to fill the
vacancy left by the death ot
Henry C. Wallace.

A telegram from President
Coolidge was received by O. E.
Bradfute, president of the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation,
asking that he get in touch with
the state farm bureau organiza-
tions and get their suggestions
for a new secretary. President
Bradfute immediately relayed
President Coolidge's message to
each state president.

Sam H. Thompson, I. A. A.
president, has replied by wire
from Quincy to President Brad-
fute as follows:

"I wish to acknowledge receipt
of telegram requesting me to
recommend names of men best
qualified to fill position of Secre-
tary of Agriculture. Would sug-
gest time be given for careful
consideration and mature thought
so that this most important posi-
tion to the agricultural interests
of America will be filled by the
very beet man possible."
Exwotires Will Ooniiider Men
Over the telephone from Quincy
Tuesday morning. Nov. 4, Presi-
dent Thompson stated that it is
very essen^al that time enough
be allowed for carefal considera-
tion to be given so the farm or-
ganizations, especially the state
units of the Farm Bureau, will
not be competing against each
other. The recommendation of
the I. A. A. will be taken up
when the executive committee
meets Friday, Nov. 7, whicb Is
two days after the Recobd goes
to press.

The American Live Stock As-
sociation, the National Grange,
the Farmers' Union and the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion are the farm organizations
asked by President Coolidge to
make a suggestion.

Washington Meet Suggested
A movement is on foot as the
Rfxx>bd goes to press to have rep-
resentatives of the principal farm
organizations meet in Washing-
ton, D. C, on Nov. 10 to make a
unified recommendation.

Among those prominently men-
tioned for the post at this time
are:

H. M. Gore, Assistant Secre-
tary, now acting Secretary of Ag-
riculture and candidate for Gov-
ernor of West Virginia: A. W.
Gilbert. Commissioner of Agricul-
ture for Massachusetts; L. J.
Taber, Master of the National
Grange; Frank O. Lowden, form-
er Governor of Illinois; Samuel
Adams, editor of Public Opinion,
Washington, D. C, and formerly
publisher of a fruit journal; J.
W. Coverdale, treasurer of the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion and secretarj'-treasurer of
the Grain Marketing Company;
Murray D. Lincoln, secretary of
the Ohio Farm Bureau Federa-
tion; J. R. Howard, formerly and
successively president of the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion and the Transportation In-
stitute; C. H. March. Litchfield,
Minn., banker and state Republi-
can campaign manager for Minne-
sota; Dr. John Lee Coulter, presi-
dent of the North Dakota Agri-
cultural College.

Ixnrden Says "JTo"
Frank O. Lowden, formerly
governor of Illinois, and a man
(Continuc<t on pace 4, col. S)

Page 2

The IHinoU AgriculhinJ A»«oci«tion Record

November 8. 1924

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I IjIjINOIS

CCLTVKAL ASSOCIA

RECORO^

Published every other Saturday by the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association. 608 South Dearborn Street. Chicago,
IlUnoils. Edited by Department of Information, H, C.
Butcher, Director.

Entered as second class matter Oct. 10, 1921. at the post
office Bt Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March S, 1>79.
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage pro-
vided for in Section 1103, Act of October ». 1917, author-
ized Oct. 31. 1921.

The Individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association Is Ave dollars a year. This fee Includes
payjnent of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association Rzcosd.

I'ostniaster: In returning an uncalled-for or missent
' c^py, iplease indicate key number on address as Is re-
qulret by law.

OFFICEI^
President, S. H. Thompson, Qnincy.
Vice-President, C. B. Watson, DelUlb.
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomington.
Secretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore.

EXECUTIVE COMJIITTEE
By Congressional Districts

11th Jacob Olbrich, Harvard

12th G. F. Tullock, Rockford

13th., C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th. f W. H. Moody, Port Byron

15th. [ H. E. Goembel, Hooppoie

Uth.L A. R. Wright, Varna

17th. [ IF. D. Barton, Cornell

18th. I- R- F, Karr, Iroquois

19th. i J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th. L Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21st. ; '. Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd Stanley Castle, Alton

23rd J. E. LIngenfelter, Lawrencevllle

24th. Curt Anderson, Xenia

25th.' Vernon Lessley, Sparta

Directors of Departments
I. A. A. Office

General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker:
Organization, G. E. Metzger; Information, H. C. Butcher:
Transportation, L. J. Quasey; Taxation and Statistics,
J. C. Watson; Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vege-
table Marketing, A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing,
Wm. E. Hedgcock; Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch;
Phosphate-Limestone, J. R. Beht; in charge Poultry and
Egg Marketing, F. A. Gougler; special representative
on Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H. Petersen; Legal
Counsel, Donald Kirkpatrick; Co-operative Accounting,
Geo. R. Wicker. _====

The Great Leader of Agriculture I* Dead

The death of Henry C. Wallace, late secretary
of agriculture, removes from agricultural leader-
ship! a man who has long been a true and useful
frieid of agriculture. He was a real friend of
farmers and showed it in his work at Washington.

HHs department was charged with great re-
spoijsibilities, the execution and administration of
whieh automatically established precedents upon
whi<{h the Department will undoubtedly be infln-
^encdd in years to come. His handling of the new
legislation concerning live stock and grain market-
ing has established an outstanding precedent which
must be maintained.

The late Secretary was especially close to farm
buriau work. When he was in Chicago only a
littlfe more than two months ago, he talked to and
with the e.xecutive committee and the directors
whoi happened to be in the city. He made friends
of eperj- man of them. Such was his personality.

Tbe Hlitiois Agricultural Association extends
its lleept-st .sympathy to the family of Mr. Wal-
lace

Free Speech at the Annual Meeting

This is u <;i>i>(l time to be thinking about who
should be your delegate at the annual I. A. A.
meeting. He should be a man who has the basic
needs of agriculture well in mind, and one who
can put forth his ideas.

Mjore time is being allotted for open discussion
in tne program of this year's annual meeting than
ever| before. Any man with constructive ideas who
carek to put them forward will have an opportunity
to ^xpress himself. | '

Meet Gas Warfare With Fact*

Someone has said that marketing is war. It
certainly is. It is a war of wits and fists, money
1 and intrigue. When farmers begin to engage in
co-cperative marketing such as has been begun in
of vicinities in Illinois, they automatically
becAme soldiers for their co-operative organiza-
tioES.

yie should qualify the word "soldiers." Some
farmers become true soldieft in every sense of the
word; some become soldiers because their neigh-

bors do; some are "conscientious objectors," who,
after being drafted, upon seeing the first flare of
war, are ready to give up the battle, tell aU they
know to the enemy, or turn traitor helping the
enemy carry on its gas attack.

It is unfortunate that many farmer-co-operators
do not realize when they join a co-op that they
are integral parts of th^ir co-operative organiza-
tion— that they are soldiers fighting in the first
line trenches — and in failing to realize this fact
they often listen to and many times succumb to
vitriolic attacks made by the gas regiments of the
enemy.

The chief attack of the enemy of co-operative
organizations comes through the hiring of paid
fighters with tongues of falsity, spite and destruc-
tion from which shoot pointed gas attacks into
the ranks of the largely unsuspecting army of the
co-operators. The co-operators, not being trained
to be good enough soldiers to meet such attacks
with the true facts, are often repulsed in argu-
ment by the persistent and apparently authorita-
tive assault of the enemy. The enemy gains a
foothold — possibly a traitor or two flops along the
way— and before expert re-inforcements of men
who actually know the facts, and who are pre-
pared to interpret facts in their true meanings,
can arrive to offset the enemy's penetration, con-
siderable harm has been done.

Every; soldier should be armed with the facts
which are, alter all, the most effective weapons
against the enemy because facts label lies in their
true light and establish confidence in the soldier
who bears them. Even if the facts are not favor-
able to his organization, they are then of greater
value, because such facts can be applied to a con-
structive purpose in building the fighting machine
where it is of known weakness.

Arm every co-operator with the facts about iiie
organization, and whether such information is
favorable or unfavorable, if the body of men with
whom he has thrown his energies has set out to
accomplish a worthy purpose, the facts will ulti-
mately become the guiding star toward a success-
ful co-operative marketing organization.

The same logic applies to all farm organiza-
tions, whether co-operative or not. It applies par-
ticularly to the I. A. A. If any member has any-
thing on his chest or would like to have more in-
formation concerning any activity or project of
this association, a letter to the information depart-
ment will bring as complete an answer as it is
possible to give. Farm Bureau members should
keep abreast with the activities of the I. A. A. by
reading the Recom). It is the word-movie of
facts picturing the organization's progress in bi-
weekly intervals. Keep posted on I. A. A. actions
through the Record and be an armed soldier.
Don't be an unarmed gas absorber, ready to run
at the smell of powder.

The Voice of the Members

Memhert wt hnUtd tt tfttk iMr mmit in Ikil cobnun. At
•May UlUri Inrn memitn i»B it prlmUd ach linx w i^en
9at termil. LtlUri slumU t< j*<ir< od SMttj; tB «■>«*•
rirws to ie Pfimttd. AB cmtnuUM trilicum •/ Ike Fwm B»-
retm—ctnauy, aett cr n^loiul Mmitt—a wkamai. II yn MM
any gnevamut, prtite of tuituticnt, ken ii Uu flmee to teB
tkem. tfs y<mr celmmn, mete U mkat ytu WJO. Aiimt letten
te B. C. Buuker, I. A. A. gtcerd, 6ot S. Darbtm, Ckktf.

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Dear SIrt

Co-opermtlOB !■ the word nnder wkleh tke Urvcat prob-
lem ot Ajnerican aarricaltnre can be headed. The Amerl-
cnm farmera can raise the crops and naleaa they are
united they can have their prices dictated to them by
the rralB specntators, the heads of the milk indKStrles.
or the main men who hold positions which enable them
to make the farmers easy prey and add to tkelr own
personal fortunes.

The laborlnc men are united Into unions and so are
all the people of Industry and they dictate their own
terms and set them. Why not the (armerT He Is get-
ting united better every day and In union there Is
strength, but to have this strenyth there must be co-
operation. Did you ever watch an 111 trained team stuck
with a load In a mud holef One horac koes up aud the
other flies back. That's Just what the American farmers
have been dolngr* All are willing to pull but untU they
learn to pnll toKether they can accomplish little. They
must unite and then co-operate to sell their grralui to
market their produce and live stock and to elect a few
**honcst-to-(;od" dirt farmers to run a grent nation of
sturdy "clod -hoppers'* In their ovrn sood w^ay. Let's all
vet together and pull tosether. Then we will hnve suc-
cessful co-operation and a problem solved.

Glenn C. Francis, Altamont, IlL

What do YOU expect from co-operative marketing? Write and tell us.

THE LIARS' CORNER

"Hot for Kansas, land that restores us '*

When homes choke us and big books bore nsl"

—Vackel Lindsay of SpnngfitU, lit.

For the Liars* Comert

Our friend Ralph Snyder, President of the Kansas
Farm Bureau Federation, who made such a noble con-
tribution to the Comer some time aso. must have been
t<»o modest to tell us about the Kentncklan. who, with
his wife and son. ml^mted to Kansas In the early days
when the majesty of the law was upheld witk the rope
and icun.

Soon after the Kentncklan arrived In Kansas, Ids son
Zeke was found in company with a horse that belonsed
to one of the custodlnus of the Imvr, Zeke was promptly
presented with a lariat cravat and elevated to a biffh
position.

His father concluded that a man behind a tree in Ken-
tucky vrith n Winchester was safer than a man on the
open pmlrles of Kansas, with a stmnse horse; hence,
he and his wife returned to their native state.

Being- a modest Kentncklan, he hesitated, upon re-
tnrninic to Keutncky, to spenk of the lofty position his
son had attained In so short a time, so he explained
why his son had not returned by the followlns talei

Soon after the family's arrival In Kansas, they besu*
preparing for their sprlns: planting' Seed com had
been bronsht from Kentucky and Zeke and his father
started to make a comfleld of the prairies that had
known nothlns but buffalo grnmm and Jack rabbits. The
old man led olT with the hoe and chopped a hole In the
sod for the first hill of corn. Zeke followed with the
seed and proceeded to drop and cover the first kernel
while the old man proceeded to prepare for the next hilL

The fM>m plantlnic hnd not sone far, when, upon hear-
luK « y«Il from Zeke, he looked back to see a huKc stalk
of com popplnir from the earth vrlth Zeke astride one of
the leaves. He yelled at Zeke to Jump, but by this time
Zeke was fully 50 feet In air and rising rapidly. Ap-
parently he was afraid to Jump and started to climb
down the stalk but It srew fnstcr than he could climb
and it soon becnme evident to the old man that Zeke
was losing ground.

Realising that an emergency was at hand the old uiau
rushed to the house for his trusty axe to fell the stalk.
The first stroke was a mighty blow and the axe sunk
to the handle In the huge com stalk. The old man
loosened his grip on the handle to spit on his hands but
the nxe traveled out of reach. Frantically he rushed to
the house and called his wife, and together they under-
took to saw down the hnge stalk ivlth the crc»ss cut saw.
but all they accomplished was a slight scratching as the
stalk shoved toward the sky.

Realising that their only hope was that their s«n
might live until the stalk matured when he might suc-
ceed in climbing to the ground, the parents settled dowa
to their long watt thm the hot Kansas summer. Occa-
sionally particles of corn would drop to the ground
which renewed their faith that their son still lived.

As fall approached the stalk ceased to grow ana be-
gan to shovr signs Uf maturity. The huge telescope
which bad been used in the mountnlns of Kentucky to
detect the approach of revenue agents, vras brought out
and trained on the stalk as high as It would reach ai^
an endless watch was set up for the approach of Zeke.

But their Inst hopes were blasted when one day a ter-
rific Kansas tornado came along and twisted the stalk
from the ground. Majestically It spun In the air until
the tornado passed and then fell to the west vrlth a crash
that shook the sod houses to pieces and spread death
and deittructlon wherever it touched.

Abandoning all hope of ever seeing thHr sou alive the
father started - to see If they could find his remains.
Two groups of curious Kansans were organized, one to
■enrch along the north side and the other along the
south side of the mammoth stalk, and the search began.

l*roceedlnK opposite ench other by communicating with
horns the little groups proceeded to the west. ProgresM
was slo^T be4*auNe detours had to be made around the
huge ears. Many of these ears were miles In length
with kernels large enough to supply the entire State of
Kentucky with moonshine. At one place aa entire In-
dian village had been wiped out nnd days were spent
evaminlng the rarcasHes of dead Indians to make sure
that Zeke's remains were not among them. With the
oaly means of Identification a bullet hole through the
Jaw, from n revenue officer's rlfie, progress was slow
and it was well toward spring when the parties reached
the western border of Kansas.

At one place a huge ear of corn had been driven di-
rectly into the ground when the stalk fell; the pith In
the cob had shrunken nnd through the center of the cob
oil nnd gas were gushing out sufflclent to form a good
sised river.

As tbe parties neared Colorado they saw smoke In the
direction of the mountains nnd at night fires were vis-
ible. Fearing prairie fires they camped until the dan?
ger passed, but the fires Increased and it soon became
evident that the huge stslk was afire, and they con-
cluded it hnd fallen across a volcano In the Rocky Moun-
tains. The fire soon reached the points where the
searching parties were encamped and the bent became
so Intense that alt the members of the parties were cre-
mated with the exception of the old Kentncklan who
took refuge in a vase constructed In a huge kernel of
corn. For a while the heat was so intense thst he
thought he must surely perish hut suddenly the huge
kernel popped and he was projected through the air at
a terrific rate of speed, finally falling into a river. As
he came to the surface he saw his wife ou the bank
fishing and he swam for home.

He warned his wife of the approaching fire and they
took to the hills until the conflagration was over. Aa
they were returning to the sod house a Kansas vrlud-
storm arose nnd scattered the ashes of the famous stalk
to the four winds of heaven.

Heartbroken hy their loss and terrorised by the
strange phenomenon they had observed, they aiade haste
to return to Kentucky where philosophers of the hills
assured them that it was a mistake to plant com bred
to produce a crop on the Impoverished hills of Kentucky
ou the fertile prairlca of Kansas.

I. A. Madden, Farm Adviser*
Sangamon County Farm Bureau. Springfield, III.
P. 8. Dou*t ppt this fa the **Llars' Comer.** No real liar
ever ft into a comer.

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NovenAwr 8, 1924

The minoU Agricultural A«»ocu>tion Record"'

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WHISNAND AND FOX
EXPLAIN TWO LA.A.
ACTIONS AT DECATUR

Farm Bureau From 19tli Dis-
trict WiU Meet
Otace More

1. W. WkUuad

The Macon County Farm Bu-
reau was host to the Farm Bu-
r e a u repre-
sentatiTes of
Piatt, DeWltt,
Cham palgn,
Douglas, Coles,
Shelby and
Moultrie coun-
ties, when the
second meet-
ing of the year
for the 19th
district was
held at Deca-
tur Oct. 23.
E. P. Imbo-
den, president
ot the Macon
County Farm
Bureau, was chief receiver for the
host. J. L. Whlsnand, executive
committeeman, presided and led
the talks by explaining the re-
sults of the school survey made
during the summer under the di-
rection ot the I. A. A. educa-
tional committee of which he is
chairman.

The resulU of the survey, Mr.
Whlsnand pointed out. Indicate
that farmers have a big problem
in getting their school affairs set
right. The survey, which was
made in co-operation with the
Illinois Educational commission,
will be used in formulating school
and tax legislation.

Gives Final Survey Facts
"Ten per cent of the 10,000
questionnaires which were sent
to Illinois farmers in the spring
were answered," said Mr. Whls-
nand. "These show that 22 per
cent of the farmers who answered
Hve in township high school dis-
tricts and 32 per cent in com-
munity high school districts.
Forty-one per cent live in non-
high school districts and five per
cent in consolidated school dis-
tricts; 60 per cent had no chil-
dren in high school; 89 per cent
approved the present courses of
study; 88 per cent had children
who went from home to school;
12 per cent had children who
stayed away from home to go to
school; 76 per cent were not in
favor of consolidated schools; 77
per cent favored retaining the
one-room school while only two
per cent favored doing away with
community schools and 96 per
cent of the farmers who have
children are preparing to send
them to high school."
Say Uniform Text Books Needed
J. F. Watkins and L. H. Cassi-
ty, both of Macon county, led a
short discussion on the necessity
for uniform text books in rural
schools.

C. A. Ewing, local lawyer of
Decatur, set the farm bureau
representatives to thinking in
a talk in which he touched on
the necessity for religious instruc-
tion in schools, advocated a code
of ethics for all schools whether
public or parochial, and lauded
the Farm Bureau for its work.
He said that farmers should
realize they have some duties as
citizens and that they should
take a more active part in civic
affairs.

Fox Talks Grain Merger
In the afternoon, George A.
Fox, executive secretary of the
I. A. A., explained the attitude
ot this organization toward the
Grain Marketing Company.

Mr. Fox pointed out, among
other things, that the principal
object of co-operative marketing
is to eliminate speculation and
wide fluctuations in prices. As a
possible alternative plan, Mr. Fox
brought attention to the meeting
of the executive committees of
the Farmers Grain Dealers' As-
sociation of Illinois and of the
I. A. A. at which it was agreed
that the two organizations would
work together as much as possi-
ble in the future. The Grain
Dealers' Association has a grain
marketing plan already partially
in operation which will be sub-
mitted to the I. A. A. tor con-
sideration.

In Coles County Next

It was voted that Coles county
should have the third and last
district meeting at a date to be

determined by the Coles Coontr
Farm Bureau and Mr. Whlsnand.

Group singing and songs by a
Decatur quartette furnished di-
version at ihe dinner under the
genial direction of B. P. Imbo-
den.

Following are the names of those
present at dinner: Macon county—
C A Ewing. E. P. Imboden, E. H.
Walworth (farm adviser). J. F.
Watliins, Decatur; J. C. Batchelder.
Harristown; Henry Shafer. Illiopo-
11s; L. H. Casslty. Oreana: J. M.
Beckett and H. C. Bean, Blue
Mound: Moultrie county — C. C. Tur-
ner (farm adviser), Sullivan: T. P.
Ellis. Lovlngton; J. H. Sharp and
Geo. Falk, Bethany; Shelby county
— Chas. J. Robinson (farm adviser).
Shelbyville; Carl D. Middleton. As-
sumption: I,oui8 Buhler, Shelbyville;
rolea county — J. L. Whlsnand and
Slelvin Thomas (farm adviser).
Charleston; Douglas county — G. E.
Ewlng. Areola; F. W. Garrett and
J. W. Coslet. Tuscola; Champaign
county — C. C. Burns (farm adviser).
Champaign. E. A. Smith. Urbana;
DeWltt county — O. M. Allyn (farm
adviser), Clinton; M. E. Goken,
Lianes; Piatt county — S. S. Davis
(farm adviser). Montlcello: I. W.
(Jantz and Alva A. Reed, Deland.

ILL-MO CREAMERY

ON PAYING BASIS

(Continued from page 1)

needed device for modem batter
making and has turned out, on
an average, tor the last five
months more than 30,000 pounds
of butter each month.

The problem of marketing 15
tons of butter every 30 days has
been no small one in competi-
tion with older and larger com-
mercial creameries. The Illini
carton was adopted last spring
and by June sales under this
brand had increased until they
totaled 11,395 pounos during the
month and have continued to in-
crease until during October, Illini
sales were over 15,000 pounds.

The balance of the output, ex-
cept for 24,000 pounds which is
now on hand, has been sold on
the open butter market at from
1.9 cents to 3.6 under the price
received for that sold as Illini
butter. The total number of
pounds manufactured since Feb.
1 is over 250.000 pounds.

Cater To Farm Market

"Three-fourths of our Illini
brand butter is sold through
country stores in the milk dis-
trict around St. Louis," Manager
Richardson said in describing
how they manage their Illini
sales. "Our motto isn't exactly
'ship us your cream and we'll
ship you our butter' because our
cream comes from beyond the
milk territory which extends
about fifty miles every direction
from St. Louis and we sell most
of our Illini butter in the milk
territory to farmers who market
their whole milk and buy our
butter. That is the market we
cater to.

"One of our men gives all of
his time to getting orders in
towns in the milk district. We've
got a butter wagon now that
keeps busy handling these or-
ders."

Cream shipments to the Ill-Mo
company come from 147 stations
in Illinois and 65 stations in Mis-
souri. Altogether, 1,068 indi-
vidual shippers have consigned
cream to the St. Louis co-op since
February. Several customers ship
their cream regularly, a distance
of about 150 miles by rail.

Keep Careful Records

Check-upa on the number ot
pounds of butter on hand, the
amount churned, amount of but-
termilk sold, pounds of butter de-
livered and other details are
made twice daily, at the begin-
ning of the day's work and at
the end of the day.

This practice of rigid accuracy
in recording sales and keeping,
accounts is one reason why the
IIl-Mo companv is making
money. In the words ot Man-
ager Richardson, "This cream-
ery business isn't all velvet."
Only by hard business prac-
tices can a creamery prosper.

ThiMnpsonigranu :

These four statements were
taken from President Thomp-
son's address in Morris. Grun-
dy county, last week:

Service and personal sac-
rifice by the unpaid mem-
bers of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association are the
forces that have made the or-
ganization a powerful one.

The late Secretary of
Agriculture, H. C. Wallace,
called the I. A. A. the strong-
est farm organization in the
United States, and after
thinking that over to find the
cause, I am convinced that it
is because of our strong
county Farm Bureaus.

The biggest job v»e farm-
ers have before us is to put
agriculture on a business ba-
sis.

The time has come when
someone must speak for the
farmers in an organized way
among other groups. That is
what the 1. A. A. does.

"Co-operate and Be
Loyal to Your Farm
Organization," Smith

Earl C. Smith, executive com-
mitteeman from the 20th district,
speaks from
radio station
K Y W Friday
night, Nov. 7,
on "Farm Bu-
reau Loyalty."
Part of this is-
sue of the Rec-
OBD will be off
the press and
mailed before
he makes his
talk but we got
a copy of Us
Karl <•. Smith "speech," sub-
mitted to KYW, and are giving
you some of the meat of it here.
"Farming is made up of two
fundamental factors, production
and marketing," says Mr. Smith,
in part. "There are many other
sub-factors that enter into the
successful operation of a farm
but all other operations are sec-
ondary or in support of produc-
tion and marketing. Farm orga-
nization is the natural result of
the present day unity of capital,
industry and labor."

Farm Bureaus Xot Itsdical

"Our Farm Bureau program is
not radical as many misinformed
people profess to believe, but is
constructive and beneficial not
only to those whose interests are
from the soil but to all peoples.
Without a successful and profit-
able agriculture our nation can-
not prosper for any length of
time. Since 40 cents of each
American dollar represents the
purchasing power of the Ameri-
can farmer, it would behoove all
persons engaged in industry to
study and become acquainted
with the problems of agriculture
for their personal benefit.

"It would not take a very
close study on any person's part
to reveal that the biggest prob-
lem confronting agriculture to-
day Is the subnormal purchasing
power of the farmer's dollar. One
of the major projects of the Farm
Bureaus, and especially of the
Illinois Agricultural Association
and the American Farm Bureau
Federation, is to endeavor to give
American farmers an American
price for the American consump-
tion of farm products and a
world price for the surplus which
is sold in the world market. That
is the meaning of agricultural
equality — a much used expres-
sion during the recent campaign.

All three presidential candidates
promise, if elected, to give agri-
culture equality with indoatrjr
and labor.

Represent Farm Industry

"Although it is in iU intaner
when compared with other or-
ganizations of like character, the
Farm Bureau stands today reo-
ognized by officials in both state
and nation as the representative*
of the largest industry in our
country when viewed from either
number of population employed
or value of product.

"The Producers Live Stock
Commission Association, a farm
ers' marketing enterprise fostered
by the county, state and national
units of the Farm Bureau, now
is successfully operating on thir-
teen of our largest live stock
markets. This would have been
impossible withoift the support ot
farm organization.

Praises I. .%. A.

"The successful efforts of the
Illinois Agricultural Association,
the farm bureau unit of Illinois,
with respect to tax reduction and
transportation relief are outstand-
ing."

He reviews the accomplish-
ments ot the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation, the I. A. A. and
local units of the Farm Bureau
in stabilizing prices, in establish-
ing co-operative marketing, in
legislative matters, and in in-
creasing the production of out
farms.

Watch for Poison Bait

"All of these achievements
were, and others will be, made
possible only in proportion to the
extent that farmers co-operate
and are loyal to their organiza-
tion," according to the I. A. A.
director. "I would admonish you,
Mr. Farmer, to beware ot all bait
thrown out by the competitor of
any of your co-operatives. Farm
leaders know of such bait, and
it is mighty poison stuff, too.

"Various ways and means are
being employed to break down
the morale of co-operative orga-
nizations. Only to the extent ot
your full co-operation will they
succeed.

Elect Capable Leaders

"Give them your loyal support.
.\ttend your local meetings. Se»
that your most capable men are
elected to represent you. Make
I he farmer who has thus far
failed to join his county Farm
Bureau see how he is standing
in the way.ot your future as well
as his own. Resent all destrue-
tive criticism of your organizsk-
tion as though it were personal,
which, in reality, it is. Couit
constructive criticism and see to
it that your leaders profit there-
by.

"It is my l>elief that only with
the full co-operation and stead-
fast loyalty of the American
farmer to his organization can we
look forward with assurance to ki
profitable and permanent agif-
culture."

BUREAUS ASK TO
CHANGE BOUNDARY
UNE OF DISTRICTS

The Ill-Mo Dairy Company
is making a winning fight in
spite ot a big handicap. But
its managers, who believe in
co-operation and are able to
learn by past mistakes, see the
time not far distant when it
will t>e on its feet as strong as
the Rock ot Gibraltar because
it is operated on true co-op-
erative principles.

The carton in which illini butler
i$ <oM

November 10 to 16 is to 1^

"Boost the Farm Bureau Week"
in Massachusetts and Connectteut.
Special attention will be devoted
to development of local units and
broadcasting the accomplishments
of our American Farm Bureau
Federation.

Would Arrange For Greater

Convenience ; Elndorse The

Packer-Stockyards Act

Farm Bureau representatives of
the 15th congressional district,
called together
i n Galesburg,
Oct. 25. by H.
E. Goem)>el, I.
A. A. director ,
from that dls- '
trict, took a
definite step
toward a gen-
eral revision of
ttoundary lines
of districts
from which di-
rectors of the

Illinois Agricul- H.K.<i.«k»i
tural Association are elected. Ac-
cording to their suggestion redis-
tricting would be effected regard-
less of Congressional districts.

A resolution stating that, "un-
der existing rules of the Illinois
Agricultural Association, many ot
the districts from which state
directors are elected cover coun-
ties brought together from a wide
range, making it inconvenient for
attendance at district meetings,"
was passed and sent to the ex-
ecutive committee of the I. A. A.,
with the request that "district
boundaries be changed to snit
the convenience of Farm Bu-
reaus."
Endorse Packer-Stockyard Act

Mr. Goembel. in discussing the
Grain Marketing Company, ex-
plained the claim ot this company
that they had marketed his grain.
His grain was sold through his
local elevator, shipped to a com-
mission firm in Chicago and pur-
chased from this £rm by the
Grain Marketing Company.

The resolutions committee com-
posed of J. R. Shinn. Fulton coun-
ty farm adviser; John Swarts,
Knox county; and L. C. Warner,
Henry county, recommended tliat
plans be prepared by the I. A. A.
to put grain marketing on an
orderly contract basis.

Want t^o-op Marketing

This recommendation came in
view of the fact that there is a
widespread demand among farm-
ers for co-operative grain market-
ing in Illinois and with the idea
of later affiliating with a nation-
wide grain marketing organiza-
tion.

A brief note of condolence at
the loss of agriculture's faithtnl
friend, H. C. Wallace, was sent
to the late Secretary's family.

These delegates attended the
meeting:

Henry county — <5eo. Hroman. I., r.
Warner. H. E. Goembel. A. A. Nel-
son. Benjamin Downs. Elmer Erick-
son. Martin Rehn. Roy Ferguson.
Heber Smith. Frank Good. Glen
Good. Adviser J. W. Whlsnand';
Knox county — John SwartE. Robi-rt
Gil>bs. C. E. Hartsook. Adviser I.. U
Marchant, Adviser A. R. Kemp;
Schuyler county adviser, I* B. Mc-
Kenzie and Fulton county advisers
J. I(. Shinn and Price.

Many connties in Ohio are

making a systematic "clean-u»"
following the second three-year
organization campaign. The idea
is to sign up as members any Isd-
lated farmers or groups ot farm-
ers who were missed in re-orsa-
nization.

.\ farm wonutn in every school
dlKtrfct in the state, holding a
membership in the Farm Bureau,
is the goal of a membership cam-
paign which is now under way,
launched by the women's commit-
tee of the Iowa Farm Bureau Fed-
eration.

.1 reduction of four dollars a

ton on sheet steel was announced
recently by the Inland Steel Com-
pany, the leading independent
producer in the Chicago district.

Farmers Not Buying
Much New Equipment

That profite on the average
Illinois farm the last few years
have been too small to permit
the owner to buy adequate new
equipment for farming opera-
tions, or even just a few luxuries
in many cases, is a tact revealed
in a summary of 70 letters from
farmers scattered over one-third
of the counties in Illinois.

The letters are from farm own-
ers of radio sets, who are serv-
ing as reporters for the "What's
Doing in Illinois" news talk given
by the I. A. A. information de-
partment from KYW once each
month.

The letters from radio report-
ers show that: Farmers like to
hear radio discussions that will
make them think, they like snap-
py music, want radio market
news on time and weather re-
ports while they eat dinner and
would like to have less static
and less politics.

Farmers in Iroquois roonty

have ordered 800 tons ot lime-
stone through their Farm Bu-

1^-1- I

Fanners all over the country

are being asked to grow trees on
waste land.

Ninety-nine thousand, five hun-
dred and fifty-five pounds ot wool
have l>een sold through the pool
promoted by the I. A. A. lire
stock marketing department and
the National Wool Warehouse
and Storage Compaiij.

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The MmoU Agricuftural AModation Record

November 8, 1924

14TH DISTRICT FARM
BUREAUS EXCHANGE
IDEAS AT MEETING

Shipping Associations, Com-

numity Work and Grain

Merger Discussed

When I. A. A. executive com-
mitteeman W. H. Moody opened
^M^ the 14th dls-

^MPI^ trict Farm Bn-
m '^^m ''®*" conference
A't^f^L at Macomb,
Wl^^^^B Oct. 22, by an-
jlf^^^f nouncing that
,^^^W^r tbe meeting

^^^k^^^^^^ would be de-
^^^H^^^^^ voted largely to
^^^^^^^^^H a discussion
^^^^^^^^^1 local
^^^^^^^^^^B wide '
^^^^^^^^^^ he started
w. H. Moody something, a c-
eording to the report sent in by
acting secretary, L. A. Null, Mc-
Donough county.

The 35 or 40 representatives
present took Mr. Moody at his
word and turned the meeting
into a profitable free-for-all talk
fest. Exchainge of ideas on com-
munity work following a talk by
R. C. Doneghue, McDonough
county advUer, and discussion of
organizatioa work, led by G. K.
Metzger, I. A. A. organization
director, ciime in for a good
share of attiention.

See Shipping Mistakes

Discussion of shipping associa-
tions revealed the following com-
mon weaknesses in management:
L,ax metbo4s of keeping books,
no regular and dependable audits
of official records, little or no con-
trol over (nanagers, failure of
directors to direct and a prevail-
ing rule that the shipper having
the largest consignment desig-
nates the commission firm to
which the load of stock shall go.

To remove these common flaws
in management, to tie the ship-
ping associations and the Farm
Bureau closer together, to ship to
the Producers — these suggestions
formed the substance of recom-
mendations made to improve gen-
eral operation of shipping asso-
ciations in the rich live stock pro-
ducing sections of the 14th dis-
trict.

Vision Feeds F. B. Spirit

In an address that centered
chiefly around the vision that
is necessary to keep the farm bu-
reau spirit alive. President Sam
H. Thompson placed the responsi-
bility for organization and re-
construction of the agricultural
industry squarely on the shonl-
ders of the individual farm bu-
reau members.

The present deflation of land
and agricultural products Is driv-
ing farmers Into organization, he
said. To solve the inequalities
imposed upon them, they must
put farming on a business basis.

Mr. Thompson reviewed step
by step the Investigation made
by the I. A. A. into the Oraln
Marketing Company and explained
his stand all along. The con-
ference voted a unanimous ap-
proval of his action regarding the
merger.

The following^ representatives
were present:

MrDonouSh county— M. L. Hunt.
C. E. Wallaqe. W. a. Clawson. Ralph
t. T» llson^ H. P. Hunter. Frank
Stump. O. a Twaddle. Ja». H. Mul-
len. L. A. Null. R. c. Doneghue, J. B.
Stickle. A, 4. Measmore. C. P. Kline
J. O. Oardner. H. R. Miner, Ellis
t onner.

Henderson county — C. C. Painter,
r. W. Cooper. Ernest Walker.

Hancock county — J, H. Lloyd W
O. Kunkel. W. B. Curtis. Geo. H.
Dobaon.

Rock Island county — W. H. Moo-
dy. P. X. ZelBler.

Warren county— H. R. Jewell. A.
A. Olson. M. S. Smith, J. W. Sprout
Carl Stewart.

Mercer county — C. H. Beltins.

Attention, Comhusker*!
Here's Your Chance

Tord county needs corn
husker* according to a letter
from George T. Swalm, the
farm adviser. Anyone look-
ing for a place to pick corn
should get in touch with Mr.
Swalm at Gibson City.

Dedicate Muscle
Shoals To Farmer
Piuposes, Says Reid

When the Senate convenes In
Washington, Dec. 2, disposition
of the Muscle Soals proposition
Is the first subject to be consid-
ered. The subject was made the
first order of business to be taken
up and nothing can take its place.

The Farm Bureau, during the
last several years, has openly and
actively advocated certain funds,-
mental principles which it be-
lieves should be adopted in the
utilization and development of
Muscle Shoals. "We have no
Idea of abandoning the struggle
to secure the dedication of this
project to farmer purposes along
the economic lines laid down In
the Ford tender," said E. B.
Reid, acting Washington repre-
sentative of the American Farm
Bureau Federation.

"American farmers pay about
112 per ton tax on nitrate shipped
in from Chile and the proper
operation of the Muscle Shoals
project w«uld not only reduce
the cost of manufacturing ni-
trates, but would force the Chil-
leans to remove all or a part of
the tax our farmers pay to sup-
port the Chilean government."

The Kewanee Farm Bureau
roinnmnity Onb, a subsidiary or-
ganization of the Henry County
Farm Bureau, is opening a farm-
ers' produce market in Kewanee.
Selling space is to be limited to
members of the Henry, Knox,
Bureau and Stark County Farm
Bureaus.

Co-operative horse marketing

will be continued by the North
Dakota Farm Bureau Federation
this year. This service has been
provided fer the last three years.
During this time it has built up
strong eastern demand for the
marketable type of horses pro-
duced in North Dakota.

Boys Do Testing

In DeKalb County

At the conference of farm ad-
visers from the northern district
in Chicago last week, Tom Rob-
erts, adviser in DeKalb county,
described a plan recently started
in his county to promote dairy
herd Improvement association
work. This project is commonly
referred to as cow testing asso-
ciation work but has been re-
named to avoid confusion with T.
B. testing.

Under the plan explained by
Adviser Roberts, high school
boys do the testing as part of
their work in high school agri-
cultural courses. A boy, who Is
assigned to test a herd of cows,
arranges to be at the dairy tor
any two successive mllkings. He
weighs and tests the milk and
also weighs and analyzes the
cows' feed.

He is paid for his services
which are performed under the
supervision of Smith-Hughes in-
structors co-operating with the
Farm Bureau. The plan seems
to be proving very satisfactory
after a two-month trial, according
to Mr. Roberts.

A. F. B. F. Annual Meeting

Final details for the sixth an-
nual meeting of the American
Farm Bureau Federation are be-
ing whipped into shape. The
annual meeting this year will be
in the Congress Hotel, Chicago,
on Dec. 8, 9 and 10.

Discussion of organization and
finance, research and transporta-
tion, publicity, legislation and
taxation, co-operative marketing,
rural life and home and com-
munity development along with
boys' and girls' club work, will
be in the limelight. These sub-
jects will be handled by sub-com-
mittees.

The annual farm bureau ban-
quet will also be a leading fea-
ture of the program.

Government veterinarians in SI

Illinois counties tested 43,438
cattle for tuberculosis during Sep-^
tember, according to U. S. D. A.
report. Out of this number,
1,982 were reactors. In Septem-
ber, 1923, only 27,436 cattle
were tested.

The University of Hlinois will
hold a boys' and girls' club lead-
ers' school of instruction at the
University next January. It is to
be held especially for local club
leaders.

Eighty nilnois conntiee had
boys' and girls' clubs last year.

Listen In!

I. A. A. radio patriots will have
a chance to hear many good radio
programs during the frosty eve-
nings of November. Stations
KYW and WLS, Chicago, are
broadcasting regular farm talks
by leading agriculturalists of the
country. Here are their Novem-
ber programs.

From StaUon KYW:

Nov, ll^"Farm L-eases." by D. C.
Waterman, Director of Orange Judd
Illlnoia Farmer Service Bureau.

■'Grain Marketing Review." by J.
W. Coverdale, Secretary-Treasurer.
Grain Marketing Company.

Nov. 14 — Special Program. The
broadcasting of a "Fathers and Sons
Banquet." held under the auspices
of the State Board of Vocational
Education. This program will start
at eight o'clock sharp and continue
for one hour.

Nov. lS^"Review of Live Stock
Markets," by J. D. Harper, infor-
mation department of the National
Live Stock Producers Association.

"Where Our Lumber Comes
From," by Theodore M. Knappen.
Director of Research of the National
Lumber Manufacturers Association,
Washington. D. C.

Nov. 21 — "When the Prairie
Schooners Stopped." by Arthur C.
Page. Editor. Orange Judd Illinois
Farmer.

"All Set for the Third National
Boys' and Girls* Club Congress," by
G. L. Noble, Secretary, National
Committee on Boys' and Girls' Club
Work.

Nov. 26 — "Monthly Analyais of
Farm Markets," by H. W. Moore-
house. Howard-Moorehouse Agricul-
tural Business Service.

"What the Illinois Farm Bureaus
Are Doing." by H. C. Butcher, Di-
rector of Information, lUinoia
Agricultural Aaaociation.

Not. 28— "A. F. B. F. Radio Com-
munity Meeting" — thia will be a
special one hour program starting
at eight o'clock.

From Station WIB:

Nov. 4— "A Brief History of the
Dairy Cow in America" Earl Coo-
per, Holetein-Friesian Association
of America.

"Do You Believe In Price Fixing
of Farm Products." by The inquisi-
tive Broadcaster.

Nov. 5— "Development of Co-op-
erative Live Stock Marketing." C.
A. Stewart. Secretary, National Live
Stock Producers.

"Farm Flickertngs." E. B. Heaton.
Sears Roebuck Agricultural Foun-
dation.

Nov. 7 — "Selling JIBO.OOO.OOO
Worth of Cotton," C. B. Howard,
General Manager. American Cotton
Growers Exchange.

"John Turnlpseed," Prairie Far-
mer Feature.

Nov. 11 — "Growing Into the Dairy
Business." C. M. Long. Holsteln-
Frleslan Association of America.

"Will the Tractor Ever Replace
All Horses on the Farm?" by The
Inquisitive Broadcaster.

Nov. 12 — "Development of Co-op-
erative Live Stock Marketing." C.
A. Stewart. Secretary, National Live
Stock Producers.

"Turkey Talk." Marilla Adams.
Agricultural News Service, Chicago.

Nov. 14 — "The Pencil as a Farm
Implement." M. L. Mosher, Depart-
ment of Farm Organisation and
Management. University of Illinois.

"How Our Co-operativea Help to
Finance Our Members," A. H. BIng.
Secretary, North Carolina Cotton
Growers' Association.

"John Turnlpseed," Prairie Far-
mer Feature.

Dairymen and I,A.A.
To Work Together

In •ccor^ane* with tiic t. A. A.
policy of extondini its icrvicM to
any iroup or orgonlzation of afrl-
cultural pooelt, a joint inootini of
tlio I. A. A. dlroetort and tho ox*
Mutlvo ocnialttn of tho Chicago
Milk Produeoro' Aitociition wot
hold rooontly. How tho two orgon-
izationo can bo«t work togothor for
the bonofit of dairynon In tho Chi-
cago torrltory was tho chlof topic
of discussion.

Farmers Don't Like
Consolidated School,
Questionnaires Show

One thousand replies to the
school questionnaire sent out to
Illinois farm bureau members by
the I. A. A. educational commit-
tee, indicate that farmers are de-
cidedly against consolidation of
schools.

An analyais of the answers
from farmers shows that 76.4
per cent of them object to con-
solidated schools while the other
24.6 per cent favor consolida-
tion.

Classification of the reasons
given against consolidation puts
them ds follows, in order of im-
portance: bad roads, other
schools systems satisfactory, dis-
tance from home is too great,
consolidated schools are too ex-
pensive to maintain, difficulty in
getting children to and from
school, increased taxes, impracti-
cability, buildings not located
right and too hard on little
folks.

Judging by the returns, there
is little difference of opinion in
northern, central or southern sec-
tions of Illinois, all three of
which were touched by the sur-
vey.

FARMERS REQUEST
LOWDEN TO ACCEPT
CABINET POSITION

Debate Farm Problems at Con-
ference; Stun Thompson
Praises Members

COOUDGE REQUESTS
FARM BUREAUS HELP

(Continued from page 1>

who has been very prominently
mentioned for the position, has
declared through the public press
that he will turn down the Job
If it is offered to him because be
feels, he states, that he can do
more good for the farmer outside
the Department of Agriculture
than he can in it. Several farm
organizations h^d urged him to
accept If he were offered the
place.

The county Farm Bureaus rep-
resented in the 12th district meet-
ing at Morris, Oct. 29, passed a
resolution urging Lowden to ac-
cept the post if offered him. The
Indiana Farm Bureau Federation
had also urged Lowden to accept.

Another Claim Settled

Extract from letter to Ar-
thur Butzow. Rossvllle, 111.:

We are sending you here-
with the Railroad Company's
check tor $190 in settlement
of your claim against them
for fire damage to clover
meadow, March 27, 1924.

Trusting this matter has
been handled to your entire
satisfaction and that we may
continue to serve you, we
are.

Yours very truly,
Trattsportation Department.

Com Husking Contest

Prairie Farmer is promoting an
Illinois-Indiana corn husking con-
test to he held in Sangamon
county. 111., in November. Busk-
ers who want to enter should
write to Prairie Farmer for en-
try blanks. These must be filled
out, after a husking trial under
rules specifled in the entry
blanks. From the lists sent In
contestants will be selected for
the contest at Springfield.

Several county Farm Bureaus
are holding local husking con-
tests to determine county cham-
pions. In other states Wallace's
Farmer, Nebraska Farmer and
The Farmer, at St. Paul, are pro-
moting contests. An inter-state
contest will be held later to pick
the grand champion buskers of
the Middle-West.

Ne-w York Seeks Recruits

In New York, county farm bu-
reau members are forming com-
mittees to visit neighbors and in-
vite them to Join the Farm Bu-
reau. Farmers are asked to sup-
port the Bureau not only because
of the facilities which it offers
them for self help on matters of
state and national Importance,
but because the local Bureau acts
as an agricultural service station
for all farmers of the county.

Set Calf Club Record

A new top was reached for the
series of auctions of club calves,
held in Chicago this fall under
the supervision of the Interna-
tional Live Stock Exposition,
Then a purebred Aberdeen-Angus
steer, grown by Ferrel Ogden,
Hindsboro, III., sold recently
for $15 per hundred. His steer
came from the same strains that
produced "Broadus White Socks,"
a grand champion at the 1923
International.

The Vermont Maple Prodncts
Co-operative Exchange, working
with the support of the Vermont
Farm Bureau and through Farm
Bureaus in other states, is to sell
50,000 gallons of the finest and
purest maple syrup obtainable.
The Exchange advises middle-
western farm bureau members to
order direct from the Exchange
at Essex Junction, Vermont, or
better still to pool orders through
their local Farm Bureau.

Taxation problems, the Oraln

Marketing Company and the

$ 1 0 0 ,000,000

bond issue for

hard roads were

three principal

topics that vied

for the atten-
tion of 70 farm

bureau repre-
sentatives who

met in Morris,

Grundy county,

Oct. 29, for

district confer- I

ence, called by Geo. f. T«iiock
their district representative, O. F.
Tullock. Discussions of these
subjects were led in order by J.
C. Watson, I. A. A. taxation and
statistics specialist; President
Sam H. Thompson, and Frank
Barton, chairman of the I. A. A.
legislative committee.

A resolution was passed and
wired to former Governor Low-
den, requesting that he accept the
appointment as successor to the
late Secretary of Agriculture, H.
C. Wallace, in case he should be
asked to serve as the next Sec-
retary of Agriculture.

At the morning session of the
conference, Mr. Watson explained
something of the tax situation
which farmers are facing.
Want Uniform Taxation
"The idea of uniform taxation
is the underlying principle upon
which the I. A. A. tax. work is
being done," he said. "We are
now looking toward the future
and recognize that because lands
are easily taxed they are very
likely to be over-taxed. To pre-
vent this, county Farm Bureaus
should guard their members in
all tax matters.

"1 am convinced that we must
discontinue the Issue of tax-free
securities," he said in discussing
tax-free bonds, "because such a
practice shifts a large amount of
the tax burden on to those who
do not hold the tax exempt
bonds."

Mr. Watson advocated a tax
on net Income based on produc-
ing power of property and on
income from personal services.

Mr. Thompson made an ad-
dress in which he praised the
work of the Farm Bureaus in
Illinois. He paid a tribute to the
social life of rural communities
and credited the Farm Bureau
for the high type of social activ-
ity In our country communities.

Members Make I. A. A. Strong
"Service and personal sacrifice
by the unpaid members of the
Illinois Agricultural Association
are the forces that have made
our organization a powerful one,"
he declared, "and I am proud to
say that in no state will you find
such strong county Farm Bureaus
as those in Illinois."

The biggest Job the farmer
faces is putting agriculture on a
business basis, Mr. Thompson
thinks. In this period of chang-
ing conditions farmers must apply
business methods to transporta-
tion and distribution of their
products Just as other big indus-
tries do.

"The time has come when
some one must s$>eak for the
farmers in an organized way," he
said. "That is what our I. A. A.
is for. Through it the farmers
of Illinois can employ the best
brains of the country to repre-
sent them with other groups."

A vote unanimously approving
his stand on the grain merger,
was accorded Mr. Thompson by
the Farm Bureau representatives.

liess than half the com In

Whiteside county will be dry

enough to crib, thinks Glen L.

Buck, assistant farm adviser
there.

Hillsdale county, Michigan, the

first county in the United States
to undertake eradication of bo-
vine tuberculosis and the first to
receive the 10 cent premium for
hogs from a T. B. free county,
has appropriated money to begin
a systematic campaign for eradi-
cation of tuberculosis In all poul-
try flocks in the county.

In Kendall county, 43 business
men, from towns and cities, are
members of the Farm Bureau.
The list includes men from every
line of trade— -druggists, surg-
eons, bankers, manufacturers,
publishers and others.

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'STOUTITI J° AaiGjaATun

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IIICUL.T

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Volume 2

Ituied Every Other Saturday — November 22, 1924

Nimber 23

4

UKE COUNTY FARM
BUREAU DOES SOME
RIGID RETRENCHING

54 Members Pledged To Clean

Up $3,200 Shortage —

They Did

Three years ago the Farm Bu-
reau in Lake county was In a bad
way financially, in spite of the
fact that it is one of the oldest
farm bureau units in this state.
Today it is one of the strongest
Farm Bureaus In Illinois, and is
financially stable.

The Lake County Farm Bu-
reau is no exception to the rule
that back of most worth-while
institutions there Is a period of
pioneering that has made later
prosperity possible. The story
there centers around 54 members
of the Farm Bureau who had the
faith and confidence to sign their
names on the dotted line of an
agreement in guarantee thereby
assuring the financial security of
their Lake County Farm Bureau.
A Little Past History

It was in the (all of 1921
when they came abruptly up
against a serious shortage of
funds. How it came about that
the Lake County Bureau owed
the I. A. A. $3,200 on unpaid
memberships already collected
isn't of concern now. And
whether the deficiency accumu-
lated through mis-management,
was resultant of the hard times
following the World War or
what not — that is history, long
since set down in the hazy past
by the loyal members of the
Lake County Farm Bureau.

Their signed-up membership
at that time was around 1,250,
the paid-up membership around
600. Therein lay the "why" of
their Inability to meet a $3,200
obligation to the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association. Theirs was
an organization long on quantity
but short on quality. It is far
different today.

"We didn't really have the
membership we thought we had,"
reflected H. E. Flood, who was
president of the Lake County
Farm Bureau back in 1921.
Took Bull By His Horns

Realizing the unfairness of
the 650 signed but non-paying
members in not carrying their
just share of the load in their
county Farm Bureau, as well as
in avoiding payment of dues to
the state association, the execu-
tive committee of the Lake Coun-
ty Bureau "took the bull by the
horns" and determined to wipe
out the aggravating $3,200 short-
age.

A general meeting of the mem-
bers was called by President
Flood and a committee appointed
to confer with I. A. A. officers.
At a Joint conference the situa-
tion was reviewed from the be-
ginning. Together they laid
plans (or making a genuine
clean-up of the entire affair,

"Low as the morale of the
Farm Bureau at that time now
seems," said Mr. Flood, "we had
and still have a lot of mighty
loyal members in our Farm Bu-
reau. Our members now are
quality members."

Dug Into Their Pockets

And to illustrate his point he
related how at one time, during
the war, 24 men attached their
names to three notes of |5,000
each, advanced toward purchas-
ing a carload of sugar, and bow
they dug into their pockets to
square up the $800 loss which
came when sugar dropped 10
cents a pound while they waited
for it to be delivered.

These same loyal members, in
a local way, got behind the
clean-up on back dues. Alto-
gether they collected $1,500,
(Continued on pace 4, column t.)

Beg Your Pardon!

In the last Recoid the dates
of the I. A. A. annual meeting
were printed as Jan. 16 and 17.
It should have been 15 and 16.
Please maice the change on
your calendar if you have
marlced the former ones up.
if not. better Jot down the
correct ones.

In speaking of the annual
meeting, attention should be
directed to the rule passed by
the executive committee In its
meeting of Nov. 7. pertaining
to Section 2. Article III of the
constitution of the Illinois A(c-
ricuitural Association. This
rule was passed to regulate
the number of delegates from
each county Farm Bureau.

The rule follows:

"No credit to be allowed for
collections reported made for
the current year for which
remittances are not made be-
fore the close of the fiscal
year.

"No credit to be allowed, as
heretofore, for amounts re-
ceived between close of fiscal
year and date of annual meet-
ing.

"Credits allowed shall never
entitle a county to represen-
tation in excess of actual
membership,"

I.A.C.A. Membership
Nears Century Mark

The latest membership figure (or
the Illinois Agricultural Co-opera-
tives Association, the farmers' co-
operative auditing company, is now
A^ and promises to go over
U*\ the 100 mark within a few
*'*' days, if Organization Direc-
tor Vaniman's prediction holds
good.

The most recent membership
contract to be received was that
of the DeWItt County Farmers'
Fire Insurance Company, the
first Insurance company to sub-
scribe for the audit service. Since
NoV. 1 seven Farm Bureaus, four
farmers' elevator companies and
one dairy co-op have sent In
their contracts.

Meanwhile the work of making
audits goes on, according to Geo.
R. Wicker, general manager. The
46th examination is now in prog-
ress and a large number of ex-
aminations have been scheduled
for December.

Farm Bureau Prexy
On Farm Commission

O. E. Bradfute, president of
the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration, has been named by Cal-
vin Coolidge, President of the
United States, as a member o(
an Agricultural Conference Com-
mittee o( nine members ap-
pointed to study the questions of
farm legislation. This committee
is to complete its study and re-
port back to the present Con-
gress. The first meeting was
scheduled for Monday, Nov. 17,
at the White House.

Those invited by the President
to serve are:

Robert D. Carey. Careyhurst. Wy-
oming, former governor.

O. E. Bradfute, president of the
A. P. B. P.

Chas. S. Barrett, chairman. Na-
tional Hoard of Farm Organizations,
Union City. Pennsylvania.

Louis J. Taber. Master of the Na-
tional Grange. Columbus. Ohio.

Ralph P. Merrltt, president. Sun
Maid Raisin Growers. Fresno, Cali-
fornia.

R. \V. Thatcher, director of the
New York Experiment Stations, Ge-
neva, New York.

W. C. Coffey, Dean of the College
of Agriculture and director of the
Experiment Station of the Univer-
sity of Minnesota, St. Paul.

Fred H. Blxby. president. Amer-
ican National Live Stock Assocatlon.
Long Beach. California.

William M. Jardlne, president.
Kansas Agricultural College. Man-
hattan. Kansas.

J. C. WatsoM

Watson Represents
Farmers' Interests
On Tax Conunittee

The Illinois Educational Commis-
sion has called together representa-
tives of civic, professional and
trade organiza-
tions within the
state for the
purpose of con-
si d e r i n g the
problems of
revenue and tax-
ation with par-
ticular reference
to the proposal
of an amend-
ment to the con-
stitution of Illi-
nois.

A subcommit-
tee of eight was appointed to be
responsible for a rejwrt on the prob-
lem to the larger group of repre-
sentatives. On this subcommittee
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion is represented by John C. Wat-
son, director of the department of
taxation and statistics.

it Is thought that whatever pro-
posal is made by the subcommittee,
of which Mr. Watson is a member,
will have the general support of
most of the civic, professional and
trade organizations, thus assuring
good possibilities of passage by the
legislature.

Want Wat«on In Missouri
The Missouri Farm Bureau Feder-
ation has requested the assistance
of John C. Watson, director of tax-
ation and statistics, in a tax hear-
ing before the Missouri State Tax
Commission on Dec. 16. Missouri
hopes to follow the trail of the
I. A. A. in tax reduction.

Spread Your Butter Thicur

Preacher For A.F.B.F.

Reverend John Acbeson, well
known farm bureau minister of
Princevllle, Peoria county, has
been invited by President Brad-
(ute of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation to deliver the
invocation address at the annual
A. F. B. F. me«tine of Dec. 8, 9
and 10.

I.A.A.I To Breakfast
Illinois Boys and
Girls In Chicago

"Last call for breakfast!"
This is the call that will usher
about 75 Illinois farm boys and
girls into a breakfast entertain-
ment Dec. 3, given them by the
Illinois Agricultural Association
officials when they come to Chi-
cagOi to attend the International
Live Stock Exposition.

Last year the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association entertained the
70 boys and girls of Illinois who
earned trips ta the big Chicago
stock show as rewards for su-
perior club work.

Souvenirs will be given.

New Members In Iroquois

Under the direction of Fred
Halm and H. L. Hough, the re-
organization of Iroquois County
Farm Bureau Is going forward in
good shape. Old members are
signing up and many new mem-
bers are enrolling.

A series of community meet-
ings have been held in several
townships in the county. Several
reels of farm movies and talks
by Iroquois men and representa-
tives of the I. A. A. feature these
meetings at which no solicita-
tion for membership is made.

The purpose of these meetings
is merely to tell the public the
aims of the Farm Bureau and to
show the past accomplishments
of the organization.

EXECUTIVES PREVAIL
UPON SAM THOMPSON
FOR SECRETARY POST

Illinois now has a 500-pound

butter fat cow club. It was or-
ganized by the College of Agri-
culture co-operating with county
Farm Bureaus and dairy herd
improvement associations.

IJLA. Urge. "Our Sajn" De-
spite Hit Hesitancy —
His Name Up

Following President Coolldge's
invitation to all state farm bu-
reaus asking -*
for each
state's recom-
miendation for
the next sec-
retary of ag-
rifculture, the
I. A. A. ex-
edutive c o m-
ndttee p r e-
vailed upon
President Sam
H. Thompson
fdr his per-
mission to rec-
ommend h i s
name to Pres-
II e n t Coo-
lidge. Kaai Tkeaipwiii

President Thompson hesitated,
and in hesitating, as he, hlm-
seQf. later said, "one who hesi-
tates is lost,"- l)ecame the candi-
date of the I. A. A. for the na-
tion's most important agricul-
tural post.

Unanimous indorsement was
accorded him. The executive
committee then took steps to
bring his name before PreBideni
Coolidge.

The action of the executive
committee urging President
Thompson for the agricultural
post was kept secret for several
days, it being the desire not to
create an impression that the
lUinois Agricultural Association
wishes to force a "favarite son"
into the limelight.

His name has now t>een
brought to President Coolldge's
attention.

Bom On Farm

President Thompson was born
oo a 40-8cre farm in Gilmer
township, Adams county, Aug.
ife, 1863. He was the' youngest
of a family of five children,
tiree girls and two boys. He
grew to manhood on this farm
and was educated in the local
Piiblic school, attending school
until 21 years old. He married
Miss Lemmie Dickhut four years
later and the same year pur-
chased an go-acre farm (or tl6
an acre, going in debt (or the
entire amount. Four boys and
three girls were born to the
Thompsons while on this (arm,
five of whom are now married
and living on farms in the same
tueigbborbood. Two are still at
tUoDie, though the youngest is
now in his last year in the ag-
ricultural college of the Uni-
i-ersity of Illinois.

Mr. Thompson has been OB-
glaged in grain and live stock
ftirming nearly all his life. He
bias acquired adjoining land to
bis first 80-acre (arm until now
be has a SOO-acre farm'.

Tax Collector at 22

Mr. Thompson began taking
part in public affairs when he
became a tax collector at 22
years. He held local, township
and county offices. He was a
commissioner for nine years,
supervisor six years, elected to
the General Assembly in 1916,
kecame active in farm bureau
Irork In 1915. He has been one
Of the state's strongest advocates
(or organization of farmers.
"Sam" was active in the orga-
nization of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association in 191 T and of
the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration a year later. He served
as an executive committeeman
(or the 20th Congressional dis-
trict for three years.

In that capacity he was chair-

(Contlnued on page 4, column 2.)

Poge 2

The HlinoU Agriculhlr*! A«»oci«tion Record

Novwnber 22, 1924

„„ I LiLilNOIS

ccltvual associa
RECORD

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Published every other Saturday by the Illlnol* Agricul-
tural Association, 608 South Dearborn Street, Chicago,
Illinois. Edited by Department of Information, H. C.
Butcher, Director.

Entered as second class matter Oct. 10, 1921, at the post
oftce at Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March a, 18T<.
Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage pro-
vided for in Section 1103, Act of October >, 1917, author-
ized Oct. 31. 1921.

The Individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association la Ave dollars a year. This fee Includes
payment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois Ag-
rieultural Association Rscoap.

Postmaster: In returning an uncalled-for or mlssent
copy, please Indicate key number on address as Is re-
quired by law.

OFFICERS

President. S. H. Thompson, Quincy.
Vice-President, C. B. Watson, DeKalb.
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomln^on.
Secretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
By Congressional Districts

11th Jacob Olbrich, Harvard

12ih ,. G. F. Tullock, Rockford

13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th ■^ W. H. Moody, Port Byron

15th H. E. Goembel, Hooppole

16th J... .A. R, WrlBht, Varna

17th .-'.... F. D. Barton, Cornell

18th R. F. Karr, Iroquois

19th , J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th Earl C, Smith. Detroit

21tt Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd Stanley Castle, Alton

23rd J. E. Llngenfelter, Lawrenceville

24th : „. . .Curt Anderson, Xenia

25lh . . ■ Vernon Lessley, Sparta

Directors of Departments
I. A. A. OfBce

General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker;
Organization, G. E. Metzger; Information, H. C. Butcher;
Transportation, L. J. Quasey; Taxation and Statistics,
J. C. Watson; Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vege-
table Marketing, A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing,
Wm. E. Hedgcock; Dairy Marketing, A. O. Lynch;
Phosphate-Limestone, J. R. Bent; in charge Poultry and
Egg Marketing, F. A. Gougler; special representative
on Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H. Petersen; Legal
Counsel, Donald Kirkpatrick; Co-operative Accounting,
Geo. R. Wicker.

President Coolidge' * Attitude Toward
Farming

I aery citizen among us ha* a pemonal eonrern in the
wrl^are of the fanner.

The foTtanei of all of ue mill <■ the end go up or dawn
mtk hi*.

If we ever permit our farming population to fall to the
level of a mere agricultural peaeantry they will carry down
with them the general social and economic level,

T ie farmer is not only a producer; he is likrwise a mer-
ehatt. It does him no good to get quantity production —
m /far/, it may do him harm — unless he also can have sci-
rntific marketing.— C.\l.\lS COOLIDGE in speech at
Washington to representatives -rtf Land Grant Colleges,

Noi. 13, 1924.

I

The Statu* of Farm Legislation as Seen by
a City Newspaper Writer

Wi'si wU bf Ike status of farm legislation lekfH Congress re-convenes
in December* This is a question being asked by many jarmers. Here it
a diacourv presented by a viU-kno:i'n feature writer of the metropolitan
prrsf—Wiliiam Hard. The artifle appeared in The Daily Neivs, Ckica^u,
and is reprinted through Ike kind permissioH of C. B, Dennis, managtng

•' BT WILLIAM HABD

Toe farmer Is coming back to the corridors of con-
gress next month in the role ot a ruthless collector of
proipissory notes.

His pockets are bulging with Aese notes. They were
giveki to him by the republican convention last summer
in Cleveland and by the democratic convention last sum-
mer In New York.

Tie farmer. It seems, took these notes seriously.
They are numerous and they are large. The efforts of
the ifarmer to collect on them from the approaching
"shojrt session" of congress will give to that session
somt of Its most serious and some of its most ludicrous
mon^ents.

Each party has pledged itself to the hilt to the farmer
on propositions which it will find Itself much embar-
rassed to deliver — or even to try to deliver.

Toe American Farm Bureau Federation nevertheless
is going to demand delivery.

Drama and Comedy Due

Tqe scenes which will ensue when this delivery Is
atteihpted, or evaded, will provide many columns of in-
tens4 drama and also of high and low comedy.

Thje president, it is profoundly believed, is unalter-
ably lopposed to taking the government into buying and
selliikg on behalf of the farmer.

This McNary-Haugen bill for taking the government
into that sort of thing was defeated in the last session
of this congress by a combination, or concurrence, of
eastern republicans and of eastern and southern demo-
crats I

The legislative record of the democrats is heavily
against such proposals as the McNary-Haugsn bill.

Nevertheless, in an interval between fights about the
Ku-Klux Klan and the league of nations In Madison
Square Garden in New York last June, the democrats
managed in their convention platform to indorse the
idea of "an export corporation in order that the ex-
portable surplus (of farm products) may not establish
the price of the whole crop."

Will the democrats in congress now honor and pay
the promissory note thus given to the farmer by the
democratic delegates in New York?

That is the question which the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation is going to explore as soon as congress
re-convenes.

"The resolution of the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration In favor of the principle of the McNary-
Haugen bill still stands and still guides the legislative
policy of the federation," says E. B. Held of the feder-
ation's Washington office.

Federation to Meet Hera

The federation will hold a meeting in Chicago early
in December. At that time it may possibly declare itself
in favor not only of the McNary-Haugen bill once more
but also of the Williams bill for governmental aid in
encouraging the development of co-operative marketing.

It may decide to combine those two bills into one bill
with federation support behind it.

Both platforms of last summer — republican as well as
democratic — promised governmental aid to the farmer
in the matter of co-operative marketing.

It is believed in Washington that the president's
new proposed agricultural commission, when it makes
its report, will stress the need of more and better co-
operative marketing in this country.

The problem is, however: i ' ■

Are we really going to need to pay out governmental
money in this country to hire governmental tutors to
teach persons how to organize co-operative societies
when the colossal co-operative system of Great Britain
came to its present proportions without one trace of
governmental advice and without one pennyworth of
governmental expense?

That is the criticism which numerous democrats and
republicans in congress will launch against the proposal.

In the meantime there will be other proposals equally
controversial and equally difficult to accomplish but all
pledged and promised by the platforms of both parties.

Lower Freight Rates Promised

Both platforms, for instance, promise the farmer that
he will have lower freight rates.

This can be done only by a statute of congress, passed
through both houses and signed by the president, over-
ruling and overriding the present views of the inter-
state commerce commission.

Such a blow to the commission would manifestly to-
tally destroy its prestige and authoiity as a scientific
technical neutral governing body.

Yet that is what both parties are in practice now
bound to do, or else eat the words which they uttered
in the farm planks of their platforms last summer.

The republicans, moreover, are pledged to take ac-
tion to give "adequate" protection to all our agricul-
tural products that may be threatened by foreign com-
petition, and many of them, such as butter and vege-
table oils, are in fact at this moment so threatened.

The republicans are pledged also to give governmental
aid to "diversification" of crops, wherever such "diversi-
fication" is needed, and it is needed in many large spots
throughont the country.

Pledged to Waterway Systems

The democrats are pledged further to bring about new
internal waterway systems in order to carry the farm-
er's products to market more cheaply.

The democrats are also pledged to lower the tariff
for the farmer, while the republicans are pledged to
raise it for him.

Both parties, however, are agreed on one final, com-
prehensive, remarkable idea.

They both are pledged by their platforms to establish
an "economic equality" between agriculture and indus-
try. This means, if it means anything, that there shall
be a consistency and a correspondence between agricul-
tural prices and industrial prices.

But that is just what the McNary-Haugen bill en-
deavors to do by means of its export corporation, and
nobody has come forward with any other thinkable
method for doing it.

Veto by President Seen

Yet even if the democrats should now vote for the
McNary-Haugen bill and put it through congress, the
president presumably would veto it in accordance with
his frequently expressed principles and in defiance of
the worship offered to the word "equality" at Cleveland.

The whole situation then becomes this:

The farmer has the promissory notes in his pocket
and he morally is in a strong position and has the best
of the argument, but in his efforts to cash the notes he
is likely to discover, along with some solvency, a cer-
tain considerable amount of moral and legislative bank-
ruptcy among makers of platform planks and passers
of laws.

(Copyright, 1924, by Current News Features, Inc.)

want to 94* a good fanner on a good farm raise a
crop and secure a good price." — President Coolidge.

The Voice of the Members

lltsnbert en invited to ipett Ikeir minds la lUl column. At
many letlerl frem nm^l will ba printed tack iume u Ipece
will permit. Utter I ikouU be ikon end snappy: sJI mult he
signed to be printed. All coustructivt cnticism al Ike Farm Bu-
reau— county, slate ae national umiti — is uelcomtd. II you keae
any grtevancet, praiM or tuggtstious, kera it tke placa to tsU
them. Its your coimmn, maka It what you mil. Addraa leUen
lo a. C. BuUkar, I. A. A. Record, 6ot S. Daerkeen, Ckk4ts.

A'olce of the Members Colomni Onr Fax«i BnreaB most
exert Itself for membersUp and my opialou la to pay
local mea for their servleea Instead of hiring men from
a distance, for In my coonty the state aoUcitora Tlalted
only good prospects, and the result waa a smaller asem-
berahlp.

Our ofllelaU of the 1, A. A. and the A. P. B. F. have ob-
taiaed mach through leglalatlon but there are not enough
members to co-operate.

M. X. Relnhart. Prraldent,
.\dams County Farm Bureau. Fowler, IIU

Dear Niri In regard to the Farm Bureau, this Is the
best work that has come to this part of Egypt. Our ad-
viser is a hard-working man. He would sooner wvk
than eat. Farmers are mostly all hauling limestone naw.
We all have tet keep onr noses to the grindstone 16 houn
a day to make enda meet.

Jahn H, Huelsmann. President,
Clinton County Farm Bureau, Brreae. III.

Dear SIrt Forward, Farm Bureau! .\nd
every respect is my hope and wish. How to make It more
snci-e«Mful Is now a K:reat question. My idea as vrell as
the idea of some others with whom I have talked Isi
Reduce dues to VIO instead of SIS, thereby increasing our
number of members! let the dues he divided. gO.RO for the
rounty and $3,50 for the 1. A, A. dues or something along
that line. Then place the dues on a sliding scale, each
man paying according to membership and farming Inter-
cnts. 1r et a more even deal would be to place it onto
the regular taxes and have the County .4gent paid like
other county offlcers. If jinch were possible.

W. F. Bngelman. Prealdent,
Chrlatlan County Farm Bureau. >okomia. III.

iDear Memberst The Farm Bureau is looked upon In
a variety of ways. Some look fur the social beneflta
and In ^ measure gnd satisfaction in the picnic, tours,
moving pictures, etc. The educational features, such
as soil and crop demonstration meetings, with good
speakers, appeal to some. Others look for the flnanclai
gain only. The Farm Bureau has several, many of these
through the purchasing of seeds, coal, feeds and apples,
at a great saving. Then there are those wrho look for
.\OTHI.\Ci, and claim they are getting It. We also And
n goodly nuntber of those who s*e all these things, and,
realising the value of united effort and the power of
eo-operntion, see. In the future, the possibilities of the
Farm Bureau.

It shall bring about those conditions which the farm
folk need so much and so sincerely desire. These things,
however, come slowly; it takes time, yes, even years of
ualted effort, to perfect an organisation and unite so vast
an army of people ^vho have iieen laboring single-handed
for so muny years, it will cunie iibuul. Just as the oak
grows slowly, through years of stormy weather, from
the little aeom to the great monarch of the forest.
D, H. Minto. President,
Lake County Farm Bureau. Antloch. IIL

Amboy. Illinois, Oct. 27. 1PZ4.
Dear Mr. Butchert

The stamped envelope adherea to the atamp so closely
that I can't get them apart uo I feel obliged to use this
letter for reply.

I am interested In your deflnltlon of **News** hut since
the eonstruetlon of Route 2 through Amboy commenced
there are so many autos running nround nearly ail the
dogs have been run over nnd killed— ^it least the kind
that bites men and that gets all chewed up by a man
la very scarce. If that was the wrorst that could he said
about the autos It would not be so bad but they not only
run around, they rua over our chickens t they run after
moonshine! they run off with our girlst they run their
owners in debt and they run down so fast the mort-
gagee can't realise much on his security when the notes
come due.

If .\ntboy and Lee county farmers are better off than
some of their neighbors— and we believe this to be a
fact — it may be attributed to the late development of the
dairy industry. Amboy has a flve-year-old, farmer-owned
milk evaporating plant. The maximum capacity of 2.000
cases a day has not as yet been tested but during the paat
aeason there has been a US per cent increase over last
senHun. The men operating the factory know how to
make salable milk and it goes out as soon as it la ready
for shipment — no stock on hand and the farmer geta
his money every month. Having the cash he need not
aak his merchant for credit and the merchant may In
turn pay cash to the whoieaaler. At the aame time the
dairy farmer— or diversified farmer — is maiatalaing the
fertility of his farm asnch better than the **aii grain**
farmer can do.

Youra truly,
W. A. Green, Amboy. Lee county.

Mr. Van Heeren kas written tke letter below in responte to tke gues-
lion. "Wkat benefits skould a farmer expect from co-operative markttingt"
Dear gin

Vou asked me to answer on back of enclosed letter
but tieorge Jr. has made use of It, so will plu this reply
to said letter.

"What benefits should a farmer expect from eo-oper-
ntive marketingf*

One benefit n farmer should expect from eo-operutlve
marketing would be a better market for farm producta.

For exnmpiet I have about 16 acres of potatoea thia
year aad yield la good and potatoea excellent. I have
tried to aell to nearly every hotel, reatauraat and gro-
cery atore In town and no one wants potatoes. The
price is from .15 to 50 cents per bushel.

I paid a hired man to iimcfltone the ground naed for
the potatoes, and puld for clover seed, sown and plowed
under, on ground used for potatoes. Paid 91,50 per
bushel for some of seed potatoes bought from Co-oper-
ative Market company. Paid IJeO per bushel for soase
seed at grocery store, better than seed bought at Co-op
for gl.50. Some of seed. I raised last year and stored
in the cellar and furnished stoves and fuel to keep It
from freesing during the winter, and some I got else-
where. Spent many weary hours cutting over 200 bush-
els of seed. Paid gl.OO per acre for use of planter. After
planting, went over polntoes eleven times, paying a hired
man g40 per month besides his board, room and laundry.
Paid 9120 for a potato digger, besides the work of dig-
ging, pit'king op, weighing and huuling and unloading.

Why nnd how can grocers hove potatoes shipped iB
cheaper than home grown ones, and why should farat-
ers trade at home lastead of mail order houses, when
home folks will not trade with farmers, or, if so, skin
themf Can fnrmers afford such markets for farm prod-
nctsf

1 think the subject of markets for farm products
should recelve'^iueh consideration In co-operative mar-
keting and la one of the beneflta a farmer should expect.
Oeorge Van Heeren. Freeport, III.

Dear Slrt

"What beneflta should a farmer expect from co-opera-
tive marketingf**

He has a right io expect his farm products to be mar-
keted In the best way poasible and on a cost basis.

Herman and Fred Vehslage. Havana. IIL

Dear SIri

1 received your letter in regard io eo-operatlve mar-
keting, and in reply will nay that I think the farmer
would be henefltted by It. Ail other laborers are ben-
efitted by a union and 1 think the farmer would be alao.

He could act a price for his farm producta and get It.
the aame aa other organised laborers do.

William Hays. Peklu. IIL

November 2

ESSAY JUl
NOV. 25
ILLINO

1 Natioaal Co
Nov. 22
Regie

One anxiou
plon In each
- counties ente
reau essay c<
the announce
essays. For
Nov. 25 is
On that day
tee will P'<^
Illinois and
prizes, the
Illinois Agri
November
portant a da
champions, ii
Illinois, who
spective ecu
with prize ■»
day the judg
American F

ition will m«
of choosing
a glonal winn<
' "Why Dad i
Farm Burea

The

This com

F. Harringi

Medill Sch

Northwester

Grace Vlall '

specialist f*

Stock and

Frank Ridg

tor for the

The dlrec

the America

eratlon say:

announced

allow them

free trip t(

of the A.

Dec. 8, 9

in each

regions of

be given si

On the
winners fo
Gregory, ec
er; Arthur!
Judd lUinc
Thompson,
C. E. Hay,
tian county
supervisor
cation. M
place of F
superintenc
was unexp
the state.

Some

Essays '
ing count!
received I
by the I.
partment
state chi
McQuigg,
county; D
Gordo, &
Weathers.
Everett i
Llvingstor
of winner:
not yet b
There ■■
by many
the contei
[ 10. Th€
from 27
got in
Eleven «
more th«
county, 1
the larg
having 2
Macon
entered :
153 led

Wi
Sometl
aroused
by the
clippings
I. A. A.
Bureau
of Ihem
the inft
these t'
than 4,(
on the
ceived 1
director
a propt
came to
boys ai
these II
daily
sheets
mailed
22 Illi
moted
One
been tl
schools
school

"It. At

U 9P0Ct

rean mmmt
ia to pmj
men from
rs TlBlt«d
Ilep meai-

. have ob-
ot eaoovh

f.
rlrr. III.

hUi U the

Onr ad-

ner work

tonr BOW.

16 homrm

November 22, 1924

The nijpott A^cultorml A—ocktion Record

t.

iicceaa Ja

te It Riore
well aa
talked lai

islnc oar
EtO for the
ins alonr
cale, each
lav later.
It onto

paid like

npoB In

beaeflta

itc, toara,

rea. anch

Ith Kood

flaaaelal

of theae

d applea,

look for

alao And

BBa, and,

power of

of the

the farm
« thiBsa.
reara of
« ao Taat
e-handed
the oak
T, from
tor eat.

:.

ch. III.

0 oloaelr
■ue thia

l»«t aince
tnnieaeed
T all the
the klad
T a maa

1 be oald
ttot omlj
an after
^a their
le mert-
he aotea

off thaa
to be a
>t of the
r-owaed
of 2.000
the paat
ver laat

how to
l» readr
^r reta
eed not
mny Ib
Iiiie the
■tiff the

Vraln**

'*« gues-
rkeimgt"

I letter
■ ""eply

»-oper-

eratlre
oducta.
ra thIa
I have
d cro-
- The

ed for
■lowed
M» per
-oper-
•ome

Co-op

■to red

rep It

elae-

buah.

After

hired
uidrr.
f dis-
ndlna:.
>ed la
farm-

whea

akin

prod-

dncta
Biar-
tpeet.
III.

rmer
bea-
alao.
et It,

ni.

ESSAY JUDGES MEET
NOV. 25 TO CHOOSE
ILLINOIS CHAMPIONS

National Committee Convenes

Nov. 22 To Pick Four

Regional Winners

One anxious boy or girl Cham
plon In each of the 22 Illinois
counties entered in the farm bu-
reau essay contest eagerly awaits
the announcement of the winning
essays. For these boys and girls,
Nov. 25 Is an Important date.
On that day the Judging commit-
tee will pick the winners for
Illinois and award, in 13 cash
prizes, the $75 given by the
Illinois Agricultural Association.

November 22 is no less Im-
portant a date for the 156 county
champions, including the 22 from
Illinois, who represent their re-
spective counties from 27 states
with prize winning essays. That
day the judging committee of the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion will meet to begin the task
of choosing four national re-
gional winners In the contest on
"Why Dad Should Belong to the
Farm Bureau."

The National Judges
This committee consists of H.
F. Harrington, director of the
Medlll School of Journalism,
i Northwestern University; Mrs.
5 Grace Vlall Gray, home economics
'» specialist for the National Live
'. Stock and Meat Board; and
i Frank Ridgway, agricultural edi-
I! tor for the Chicago Tribune.
S The director of the contest for
the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration says the winners will be
announced in plenty of time to
allow them to arrange for their
free trip to the annual meeting
of the A. F. B. F. in Chicago,
Dec. 8, 9 and 10. One winner
in each of the four national
regions of the organization will
be given such a free trip.

On the committee to select
winners for Illinois are C. V.
Gregory, editor of Prairie Farm-
er; Arthur C. Page, editor Orange
Judd Illinois Farmer; Sam H.
Thompson, I. A. A. president;
C. E. Hay, farm adviser of Chris-
tian county; and J. E. Hill, state
supervisor of agricultural edu-
cation. Mr. Hill is taking the
place of Francis G. Blair, state
superintendent of schools, who
was unexpectedly called out of
the state.

Some County Winners

Essays written by the follow-
ing county champions had been
received by Monday, Nov. 17,
by the I. A. A. information de-
partment to be considered tor
state championships: LaVeta
McQuigg, Sciota, McDonough
county; Dorothy Heckman, Cerro
Gordo, Macon county; Curtis
Weathers, Ford county; and
Everett A. Sancken, Saunemin,
Livingston county. The names
of winners in other counties have
not yet been received.

There was a last minute rush
by many boys and girls to enter
the contest just as it closed Nov.
10. There were 156 counties
from 27 farm bureau states that
got in under th^ deadline.
Eleven of the counties entered
more than 100 each. Hillsboro
county. New Hampshire, entered
the largest number of names,
having 273 contestants.

Macon county with 130 names
entered and LaSalle county with
153 led in Illinois.

Wide-Spread Interest

Something of the wide interest
aroused by the contest is shown
by the number of newspaper
clippings received by both the
I. A. A. and the American Farm
Bureau Federation. Hundreds
of -them have been pouring into
the information departments of
these two organizations. More
than 4,000 requests for material
on the Farm Bureau were re-
ceived by H. R. Klbler, contest
director for the A. F. B. F., and
a proportionately large number
came to the I. A. A. from Illinois
boys and girls. In answer to
these Illinois requests 1,200 spe-
cially prepared booklets and
sheets of information were
mailed to contest directors in the
22 Illinois counties that pro-
moted the contest. \

One of the valuable helps has
been the interest aroused in the
schools in the contest. Several
school teachers have enrolled I

every one of their pupils. Local
business men have sponsored the
essay contest and many have co-
operated with the county Farm
Bureau in offering county prizes
tor the best essay in that partic-
ular county.

Announce Winners Later

Aside from the tremendous
publicity value to the Farm Bu-
reau, county, state and national,
and the interest which will un-
questionably be aroused among
the parents of the boys and girls
and the subsequent help in orga-
nization drives, is the value which
comes to the boys and girls them-
selves. They are the ones, after
all, who are enjoying the contest
most thoroughly.

The next issue of the Recokd
win carry a complete list of
county, state and national win-
ners in the contests.

Pooled Insurance
Will Save Money
For Shipping Units

Pooling insurance through the
Illinois Agricultural Association
will save con-
siderable mon-
ey for shipping
associations, ac-
cording to Wm.
E. Hedgcock,
director of the
live stock mar-
keting depart-
ment.

An arrange-
ment with the
Fidelity and
Casualty Com-
pany of New
Wm. E. Hcdscork York, through
Fran klin N.
Burns, Chicago agent, has been
completed whereby insurance cov-
ering the liabilities possible un-
der the Illinois Workmen's Com-
pensation law can be obtained by
individual shipping associations
at its exact pro-rate share of the
cost as purchased by all.
Absorbs Liability
The Workmen's Compensation
law provides that if an employe
is injured in the course of his
occupation, the employer is liable
for all expenses and for indemni-
ties as set forth in the law. This
kind of insurance absorbs the lia-
bility from the shipping associa-
tion.

"The plan can be extended to
take in any shipping association
in the state which wishes protec-
tion," Mr. Burns stated, "and
simply by paying the charge
based on its actual payroll for
the year. To make the plan uni-
form, all payrolls are figured
from the time of taking the in-
surance up to Dec. 31, 1925."
How It's Figured
An example of how this plan
works for the Blank Shipping
Association is shown by Mr.
Burns as follows: '

Managers payroll — N6v. 14, 1924
to Dec. 31, 1925 J600

Payroll for other help — Nov. 14.
1924 to Dec. 31, 1925 400

Total payroll 11,000

"In the case 75 per cent of the
shipments are hogs and sheep and
25 per cent of the shipments are
cattle:

1750 payroll @ tO.68 per »100..J5.10
250 payroll @ 1.89 per $100.. 4.72

$9.82
"This J9.82 represents the
cost of insurance up to Dec. 31,
1925, on the payroll as estimated.
To purchase this insurance indi-
vidually would cost the Blank
Shipping Association the mini-
mum premium of $27.00.

"Shipping associations which
take advantage of the I. A. A.
plan not only benefit by thfe low-
est possible cost but relieve their
responsible managements from
trouble and possible financial loss
in case an employee should be
injured."

Six Saved $107.64

Six associations have already
taken protection under the I. A.
A. blanket insurance policy. These
six paid a total of $90.67 through
the I. A. A., whereas under the
old system the same protection
would have cost them $198.31,
according to Mr. Hedgcock. This
means a saving of $107.64 for
the six associations. There are
531 live stock shipping associa-
tions in Illinois, which indicates
that a tremendous saving can be
effected if others sign up under
the new plan.

Application blanks may be ob-
tained by writing Mr. Hedgcock,
care the I. A. A. ^ -

P>i»e3

Montgomery County Owns ^ * *'i =

Its Farm Bureau Building

Not many county Farm Bu-
reaus own their office buildings
and still fewer can boast own-
ership of a building construct-
ed and designed especially for
the convenience of farmers
and the Farm Bureau. Such a
building is owned by the
Montgomery County Farm Bu-
reau at Hillsboro, 111.

A little
over two
years ago the
Montgomery
county Bu-
reau and the
Farmers' Mu-
tual Fire and
Cyclone I n -
surance Com-
pany decided
they could
erect and oc-
c u p y the
s d m e build-
ing to mutual advantage. A
lot was purchased jointly and
a handsome two-story brick
building erected at a total cost
of $10,000. including the lot
It is now known as the Farm-
ers' building.

The street on which the
Farmers' bailding is located is
a real farmers' street, accord-

ing to Sam Sorreils, Raymond,
executive committeeman from
the 21st district, who furnished
the accompanying picture of
their farm bureau building.
You can almost recognize a
figure back of the Ford. That
is Farm Adviser A. E. Snyder.
The Farm Bureau occupies
the entire first floor of the
building. A large reception
room, f u r-
nisbed with
chairs, ta-
bles, desks
and seed
shelves,
where farm-
ers meet to
visit and
transact busi-
ness ; four
offices occu-
pied by the
Farm B u-
reau, a gov-
e r n m e n t veterinarian, the
Farm Loan Board and the man-
ager of the county shipping as-
sociation; and a basement with
plenty of storage space, are
features whi«h make t h e
building especially adapted to
the needs of the Farm Bu-
reau.

Plan Survey of

Chicago's Poultry ,.
And Egg Market

A survey of the Chicago mar-
kets for the purpose of collect-
i n g informa-
tion concerning ^^^^^
poultry and egg ^^^^^ X
marketing, and

with the possi- ._

bility of creat- SPH H^
ing special mar-
kets for high
quality poultry
products, is to
be undertaken
by the poultry
and egg de-
partment, a c-
cording to the
report made by c. E. B.«boroaKb
C. E. Bambor-

ough. Polo, committeeman for
the 13th district and chairman
of the advisory committee for
that department.

"This work should be in the
nature of a very detailed sur-
vey," Mr. Bamborough reported.
"Information thus collected
would be exceedingly valuable
to a marketing association for
poultry and eggs."

F. A. Gougler, director of that
department, has attended the
farm advisers' conferences held
at Centralia, Decatur, Chicago
and Galesburg, where he has
shown the film "Unscrambled
Eggs" which portrays a Minne-
sota co-operative egg marketing
association from hen to house-
wife.

Counties Ask Help

Requests have been coming to
the department asking assistance
to look into the possibilities of
setting up co-operative poultry
and egg marketing associations
in DeKalb, Fulton and Hancock
counties.

The farm-to-farm survey to
dig out the rock bottom facts
which will some day form a basis
for a state-wide poultry and egg
marketing project has been con-
tinuing in Wayne county. Two
townships have been completed
in the survey and two others
are more than half finished.
Wayne county was taken as typi-
cal for southern Illinois. No

work has been

done yet in col-
lecting infor-
mation from
egg dealers,
but it is hoped
by Mr. Gougler
that this phase
of the survey
can be gone
into at an

F.A.G.iWler ^^'■."' ,^"^- .

A bulletin
showing the results of the poul-
try and egg survey will be print-
ed about the first of the year,
Mr. Gougler says.

Producers Pay Best

The Iowa Co-operative Ship-
pers have just recently made pub-
lic the results of a study of re-
turns from 1,010 cars of hogs
showing a comparison of returns
on stock shipped direct to the
Chicago Producers and to old line
commission companies.

Sixteen old line firms received
cars from the Iowa shippers at
the same time as did the Pro-
ducers, with the following re-
sults:

Producers cars secured $7.07
net per hundred weight while the
others netted $6.93. For a load
of 17,000 pounds the owners con-
signing to the Producers netted
$23.49 more returns direct from
account sales and in addition a
refund averaging about $5.34.
This makes an advantage of
$28.83 a car in favor of the Pro-
ducers.

Chicago Producers Grow

The records of the Chicago Pro-
ducers shows an increase in their
business. Comparing, the records
of last year with those of the last
four months the Chicago Producers'
cattle market shows a gain of 22
per cent, the calf department shows
38 per cent gain and the sheep de-
partment a gain of 25 per cent. Due
to the decrease of 18 per cent in
number of hogs coming to market,
this department has not had an un-
usual growth. ,

The Chicago Producers now have
a special "out" hog salesman. This
salesman. Randall Grimes, former-
ly with the St. Louis Producers,
gives all his time to sale of "out"
hogs.

For the week ending Nov. 14.
Chicago Producers handled 74 cars
of cattle, 287 cars hogs, 36 cars
sheep for a total of 397.

Pass 12,000 Car Mark

During the week ending Nov. 14.
Missouri shippers consigned 148
cars of live stock to the St. Louis
Producers. Illinois shippers con-
signed 101 and Iowa 39. Shipments
from all other states totaled 26 for
a grand total of 314, exclusive of
stocker and feeder purchases.

With 44 cars received Monday.
Nov. 17. the St. Louis Producers;
passed the 12.000 car mark for the
year. The goal for this year is
14.000 cars.

S. S. Seller, Wabash county. III.;
topped the St. Louis hog market,
through the Producers. Nov. 12,
with 70 head weighing 230 pounds
and selling for $9.85.

On Nov. 13, Ralph A. Woods,
Fulton county, III., was with the St,
Louis Producers for the hog mar-
ket top of $9.70. His 80 head av
eraged 233 pounds. i

PICK COMMITTEE TO
REPRESENT ILLINOIS
AT AJ3.F. MEETING

I.A.A. To Help Farm Bureaus

File AppUcatioos For

Tax Ezemptioa

At least four and possibly five
I. A. A. executives will repre-
seat the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation at the annual meeting
of the American Farm Bureau
Federation at Chicago, Dee. 8. 9
and 10.

IPresident Sam Thompson.
Quincy; Vice-President Watson,
DeKalb: Frank D. Barton, Cor-
nell, and Earl C. Smith. Detroit,
extcutive committeemen for the
17ith and 20th districts, respec-
tively, were chosen by the entire
executive committee as the 1. A.
A. spokesmen in the national
conclave.

:a. R. Wright of Varna, com-
mitteeman from the 15th dis-
trict, was selected in case the
I. ^A. A. is entitled to five direc-
tors. Wliether or not a fifth di-
rector is required depends upon
the number of paid-up member-
ships yet to be transmitted from
thie I. A. A. to the national or-
ganization. In a report to the
executive committee. Secretary
Fox said that $28,000, represent-
iUK 56,000 memberships, had
been transmitted to the A. F. B.
F. up until Nov. 1. Probably
$}.000 more will be transmitted
by the annual meeting.

I>isru!«i Tax Exein|itions

Treasurer Cowles and George
R, Wicker, director of co-opera-
tive accounting, gave a joint re-
port on the status of tax exemp-
tions for county Farm Bureaus
a|id co-operative associations.
Qoth men, as well as Geo. E.
FVazier, Chicago, audit counsel
f«r the I. A. A., had been to
\i'ashington. D. C, in an effort
ti secure rebates for a number
of county Farm Bureaus and
farmers' elevators which have
turned their collections over to
the I. A. A. Since the proper
pireparing of accounts is neces-
sary before claims can be pre-
fpnted, and expert knowledge of"
presentation necessary, the fol-
Ibwing recommendation was sub-
mitted by the finance committee:

"We, J'our finance committee,
have had called to our attention
the fact that a large majority of
lihe county Farm Bureaus have
tailed to file federal Income and
capital stock returns. The form
Df organization of county Farm
Bureaus is such that they are
exempt from payment of tax, but
(he law requires that evidence of.
♦xeniption be filed with the prop-
er authorities. Failure to com-
ply with these regulations makes
a county Farm Bureau liable to
the imposition of penalties. In
view of the facilities now avail-
able in the offices of the Illinois
Agricultural Association, and
whereas the preparation of the
hecessary documents by the offl-
rers of each individual Farm
Bureau would require a knowl-
edge of law not readily available
ito them, your finance committee
moves the adoption of the fol-
lowing resolution:

" 'Moved, that the Illinois .^gri-
cnltural .^Ksociation offer all affil-
iated Kami Knreaus its Mirviceii
in the prrinration and presenta-
tion of a|>plirations for exemp-
tion aiKi that no charge be made
for representing Farm Bureaus
before the Internal ICev<«ue Bu-
reau; and. further, that charges
be made only in such canes as
require additional e^iiense In se-
curing data and information re-
quired In the preiHtratinn of re-
IiortK and briefs.' "

Ttie resolution was passed.

A budget committee was elect-
ed, consisting of President
Thompson. Secretary Fox and the
members of the present finance
committee, who are: Frank D.
Barton. Cornell, chairman; Earl
C. Smith. Detroit, and W. H.
Moody. Port Byron. This com-
mittee will dictate where the
Farm Bureau members' money
shall be invested for bettering
agriculture during 1925.

Contest Postponed

The Illinois-Indiana corn
shucking contest, scheduled to l>e
staged in Sangamon county. III..
Nov. 14, was postponed on ac-
count of bad weather. The later
date of Nov. 21 was set.

P«g» 4

The DlinoU Agricultuiml Attociatioii Record

November 22, 19U

RADIO FANS! TUNE'
ON WCK, ST. LOUIS,
WEDNESDAYS AT 7:40

I.A.A. Will Provide Farm Pro-
gram For Benefit of South-
em Memben

Raldio fans in southern Illinois
who have experienced dilHculty
in receiving the
Chicago radio
casting stations,
will now have
an opportunity
to hear I. A. A.
speakers and
men who are
interested i n
farming
through the in-
auguration 0 n
Wednesday
night, Nov. 26
at 7:40 of the

tion farm program over WCK,
the Stix, Baer & Fuller station at
St. Louis.

Stanley Castle of Alton, execu-
tive committeeman for the 22nd
distr^t, will officially open the
I. A.iA. program over WCK and
he wkll also tell of how the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association is
helpiag to re-build the southern
Illinois sails. A. D. Lynch, di-
rector of the dairy marketing de-
partment, will talk immediately
after Mr. Castle giving a word-
picture on what he terms: "The
Dairyman's Paradise."

The I. ^. A. radio program
over WCK will be given every
Wednesday evening from 7:40 to
ft: 00 during the winter. When
holidjiy events happen to come
on Wednesdays, such as Christ-
mas Eve and New Year's Eve,
the I. A. A. program will be
shifted to some other night. The
Rcroto will contain full informa-
tion on I. A. A. speakers.

Thb East St. Louis Producers,
the Uissouri Farm Bureau Fed-
eration and the Ill-Mo Dairy Com-
pany of E. St. Louis have been
invited to provide speakers for
the I. A. A. program.

Listen In!

L A. A. Farm Program

FroJn Station WCK, St. I^oois
Time: Wednesday evenings,

I 7:40-8:00

(This program is arranged par-
ticularly for the benefit of south-
ern Illinois farm bureau mem-
bers who have bad difficulty In
hearikig the Chicago stations.
Letters and suggestions would be
appreciated. Address the I. A. A.
department of information.)

Nov. 26 — Official opening of I-A.A.
farm program over WCK by Stan-
ley Cattle of Alton. Madison county.
Mr. qastle is executive committee-
man for the 22nd district and cliair-
man pf the advisory committee for
the phOBphate-limestone depart-
ment. His principal tallt wlU be on
'•Re-bullding our Southern Illinois
Soils'^ with special reference to tile
work done by the phosphate-lime-
stone department.

"Tile Dairyman's Paradise." by A.
I>. Lynch, director of dairy marlcet-
ing of the I. A. A.

Dea. 3 — "What the St. Louis Pro-
ducers Are Doing." by A. D. Wright,
manager of the Producers Live
Stocit Commission Association. Na-
tional Stoclc Yards, III.

"Why Cream Tests Vary." by A.
E. Richardson, general manager, Ill-
Mo Dairy Company, E. St. Louis.

Dea. 10 — Dairy talk by G. Edwin
Popkcss, editor of the Dairyman's
Journal. E. St. Louis. III.

Dec 17 — Samuel Sorrells of Ray-
mond, Montgomery county, execu-
tive aommitteeman for the 21at dis-
trict and chairman of the live stock
marketing committee of the I.A.A..
on the activities of live stock mar-
keting department.

"N'etws About the Nation's First
Live Stock Producers Market." by
W. T. Angle, director of information
Producers Live Stock Commission
Assocdation, National Stock Yards,
III.

This is the last of the Novem-
ber Drofinun over KYW:

Nov. 25 — "Monthly Analysis of
Farm^ Markets." by H. W. Moore-
house( Howard-Moorehouse Agricul-
tural Business Service.

"^Vhat the Illinois Farm Bureaus
Are Doing," by H. C. Butcher. Di-
rector of Information, Illinois
.Agricultural Association.

Nov. 28 — "A. P. B. F. Radio Com-
munity Meeting" — this will be a
special one hour program starting
at eight o'clock.

Attention, Radio
O^mers!

When you hear an Illinois
Agrrlcultural Association man
speak over the radio, please
write and tell us. It takes
considerable time and elTort
to prepare and ^fve radio
talks — much more than the
casual tuner- in appreciates —
and the only way to check up
on whether or not the I. A. A.
talks are reaching: the ffoal —
which is YOU — is by the let-
ters or cards received from
radio owners.

20th District Farm
Bureaus Hold Meet

Sixty-five farm bureau mem-
bers from the 20th Congressional
district met in Jacksonville, Mor-
gan county. Oct. 31, for the last
conference of the year. The meet-
ing was called by executive com-
mitteeman Earl C. Smith, De-
troit, who presided.

At the morjiing session, Geo.
A. Fox, I. A. A. executive sec-
retary, explained the stand taken
by the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation on the Grain Marketing
Company.

A lu^ciieon and round table
discussion of projects that are of
special Interest to farmers fol-
lowed the morning program.
Plans for the coming year were
outlined.

LAKE COUNTY FARM
BUREAU RE-TRENCHES

(Continued irom page I.)

practically a halt of what they
owed the I. A. A.

In the meantime, however, the
I. A. A. was not left holding the
sack. A promissory note was
drawn up for the 13,200 with
two years in which to pay. The
note was signed by President
Flood and Secretary S. B. Jor-
dan. To make the note absolute-
ly good an "agreement in guar-
antee" was executed and signed
by these 54 loyal Lake County
Farm Bureau members:

W E. Watkins, farm adviser
at that time; G. R. White. D.
H. Minto, now president of the
Lake County Farm Bureau; L.
A. Huebach, now treasurer; Ralph
Rouse, H. E. Flood, Elliott P.
Bacon. W. F. Burh, John G.
Wirtz, L. W. Wakefield, R. F.
Rouse, present vice-president; E.
Wilcox, Gordon Ray, Earl H.
Kane, Robert R. Rouse, H. A.
Eggers, Albert E. Dyer, LeRoy
Kane, Arthur Holland, Park
Allanson, R. J. Lill, Paul H.
Allanson, J. W. Cooper, Edward
Gosswiller, H. C. Ames, E. B.
Jordan, Andrew Eflnger, Douglas
V. Wait, A. O. Rockenbach, Les-
lie Bonner, Fred W. Brown, C.
F. Richards, E. F. Clark, Geo.
Koppenhoefer, John Strahan, Em-
met W. King, Henry Olson, F.
H. Faulkner, F. L. Newell, Wm.
C. Dillon, Fred Grabbe, John E.
Barrett, E. J. Giss, R. B. Dixon,
H. K. Vose, Ney Lamb, Wm. F.
Flood, E. Lossman, G. T, Mc-
Cullough, John Thomas. R. E.
Thomas, E. E. Marsh, L. J. Met-
calf, F. Grlpton.

.\ssared Payment of Note

The agreement of guarantee
signed by these men bound them
to the extent of $100 in paying
off the obligation to the state as-
sociation in the event it was not
paid with funds acquired from
other sources. Their confidence
in the principles of the Farm
Bureau was not to be in vain.

Because they got back of their
organization in a business-like
way they were able to meet the
note when it came due. In ad-
dition to 11,000 in back dues
collected by local members,
}1,500 from the same source was
obtained by a lengthy solicita-
tion made by M. J. Wright of
Woodstock, McHenry county, and
E. R. Moore, a booster in the
Lake County Bureau.

Another plan which proved
profitable was the staging of a
"Farm Bureau Day" at the Lake
County Fair. 'The fair was
turned over to the members of
the Farm Bureau for the day.
Their share was to be 25 per
cent of the gate receipts. There
was a big expense in promoting
the affair, as there was in mak-
ing all their collections, but re-
ceipts were nearly $1,000 and
the net profit was $700.

90 Per Cent Paid Up

And then came their first re-
organization in the fall of 1922.

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This picture was taken in the office of the Lake County Farm Bu-
reau at the time of its re-organixation in 1922. Top row, left to right:
Blanche Osborne^ office secretary; L. A. Heuhsch^ treasurer; J. J.
Doerschuk, farm adviser; E. B. Jordan, former secretary; M. J.
Wright. McHenry county, who helped in re-organizing.. Bottom row:
E. P. Bacon, vice-president at time of re-organization; D, H. Minto,
president, and H. E. Flood, former president, who was made honor-
ary member of the executive committee.

It gave them 670 members, ac-
cording to Farm Adviser J. J.
Doerschuk, 90 per cent of whom
have paid their membership fees.

With money acquired from
three major sources, collection
of back dues, holding of a "Farm
Bureau Day" at the County Fair
and a re-organization on a qual-
ity basis, along with organized
and orderly support of its mem-
bers, the Lake County Farm Bu-
reau was able to put itself back
on a substantial basis. The $3,-
200 note was cancelled Oct. 3,
1924.

Stronger Than Before

.\nd with the cancellation of
that note, it might be said that
the Lake County Farm Bureau
came into a new era. Not that
it had been fiat on its back,
busted, broke, stuck in the mud
or crying for help — the situation
was never that. But these Lake
county farmers came out of that
period of hard times not only
free of debt but with a far bet-
ter organization than they had
before they were forced to re-
trench.

With less than half their
former membership, built now on
a 'cream' instead of a 'skimmilk'
foundation, they have one of the
strongest Farm Bureaus in Illi-
nois. The reason is best told in
the words of a Lake County
Farm Bureau member, who said,
"It's because we are determined
that our Farm Bureau shall not
fall down,"

URGE SAM THOMPSON
FOR SECRETARY POST

(Continued irom page 1.)
man of the I. A. A. legislative
committee from the time it was
organized and was chairman of
the finance committee. In Janu-
ary, 1923, he was elected presi-
dent of the Illinois Agricultural
Association and still holds this
position. He is also a member of
the executive committee of the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion.

"Sam" Is a, Methodist

Mr. Thompson is a strong
church man, having been united
with the Methodist Episcopal
church when 12 years old and
having worked actively In the
church and Sunday school ever
since.

In 1918, he gave up his active
farm life to move into Quincy,
where he was elected president
of the Broadway Bank of Quin-
cy, which position he now holds.
He has always been identified
with the improvements and pro-
gressive ideas of modern agricul-
ture, and has been public spirited
in serving his community.

President Thompson is held in
high regard by his associates.
The insistence of the I. A. A. ex-
ecutive committee that he be-
come a candidate for the agri-
cultural post came as a recogni-
tion of bis leadership. It was
the unanimous sentiment of the
executive committee that no man
could be a truer representative
of farming interests than could
"Sam."

Farm Bureaus In
Little Esrypt Hold
District Meeting

Farm Bureaus of the 25th Con-
gressional district met in Marion,
Nov. 14, for
the 4th and
last district
conference o f
the year, called
b y Executive
Committeeman
Vernon Lessley.
Unfortunately,
rain and bad
roads prevented
Mr, Lessley and
many others
from attending
the meeting,
\>r>.. Lesley "ut twenty-five
representatives
from Williamson, Jackson and
Franklin counties were there.

At the morning session, Will-
iamson county adviser W. K.
Galecner, presiding, opened an
exchange of ideas on the use of
limestone and phosphate in build-
ing up the fertility of soils in
southern Illinois. Farmers in
this section generally recognize
the value to their farms in ex-
tensive use of sweet clover and
other legumes.

Talk Grain Marketing
An explanation of the grain
merger, whereby four old line
grain companies merged and
offered to sell their properties to
farming interests, was made by
L. A. Evans, auditor for the I.

A. A. Mr. Evans gave as the
reasons for the refusal of that
association to endorse the grain
merger, the fact that the merging
companies would not provide the
information asked for relative to
the status of their business dur-
ing each of the last five years
and the belief that the Grain
Marketing Company was not be-
ing operated on truly co-opera-
tive principles.

To End Rabbit Menace

The revision of state game
laws got considerable attention
at the afternoon meeting. Farm-
ers generally are disgusted with
the closed season on rabbits.
These pests have increased until
young fruit orchards cannot be
planted with safety because the
rabbits kill the trees by nibbling
the bark off the tender young
trunks.

, The conference voted to re-
quest the legislative department
of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation to secure repeal of the
closed season on rabbits and to
further protect quail.

The following farm bureau
members attended the meeting:

A. M. Spitznass, A. H. Braeking.

B. E. Feurer. F. H. Ruhe. Jacob
Krumrey. R. O. Spitznass. E. A. Pry.
H. C. Klope. W. L Elliott. J. F. Col-
lins. Carl Oeth. H. J. Dahmer. Farm
Adviser, W. K. Galeener, Marlon
county. H. A. DeWerff. farm advis-
er. D. M. Parkhlll, Glen Hamilton.
Matt House, E. J. Avis. J. R. Kelly.
Sam Webb. Franklin county. Fred
Diets, Louis Dietz, Jr.. Philip Dletz.

C. J. Thomas, farm adviser, Jackson
county.

Eat Sukplus. Save Puce

I.A.A- LIVE STOCK ,
DEPARTMENT SELLS
93,637 POUNDS WOOL

Price* Highest In Yean; Ex-
pect Increased Production
Next Year

Four hundred and twenty Illi-
nois farmers have sold wool
through the pool promoted this
year by the Illinois Agricultviral
Association, according to Wm. E.
Hedgcock, director of the live
stock marketing department.

The 93,637 pounds brought a
f^ross return to farmers of $40,-
202.83. Prices ranged from
34.5 to 51.2 cents per pound, de-
pending upon the grade, the bulk
selling between 40.5 to 51.2
cents. In all cases the National
Wool Warehouse and Storage
Company, which handled the
wool, received top prices for all
grades on the day its was sold.
Prices Have Been Good

Most of the clip was sold Sept.
4 to 23, some as late as the first
week In October, at an excep-
tionally good price. Through
the pool, wool sold as high as
15 and 25 cents in some cases,
above the prevailing local prices
at the time it was clipped.

A second pool is now being
made to care for the large
amount of wool yet on Illinois
farms. Consignments for this
second pool must be made im-
mediately, according to the Na-
tional Wool Warehouse and Stor-
age Company's management, who
say the present price is some-
what above the September mar-
ket.

Why Pool Pays

Mr. Hedgcock points out sev-
eral advantages to trie farmer
in pooling bis wool crop: (1)
The pool eliminates the small
local dealer who otherwise would
buy the wool and ship either to
a larger dealer or direct to a
commission firm. In either case
the dealers are eliminated and
their charges for handling saved
to the farmer. (2) "Tags" sold
for 11.4 cents per pound through
the pool. Dealers would have
paid nothing. (3) By selling
through the pool the shipper
gets the mill price less freight,
storage and insurance charges.
It is the most direct way of mar-
keting possible.

First Pool in 1919

The I. A. A. wool pool origi-
nated in 1919 when farmers
were getting as low as 10 and 12
cents per pound for their clip.
The I. A. A. took up the prob-
lem and established a pooling
plan which has been maintained
each year.

In 1921 and 1922 the I. A. A.
had nearly a half million pounds
of wool converted into blankets
in order to improve the market
price of the product. The last
of these blankets were sold early
this fall.

Due to the extremely low
prices of wool in recent years
the production of this staple
product in Illinois has been ma-
terially reduced. With a much
improved price this year indi-
cations point toward a marked
increase in the 1925 wool crop.

Co-op Short Course

Completion of plans whereby
managers of co-operatives can
get a four-weeks' course in co-
operative marketing at low cost
will be one of the major activi-
ties of the International Institute
of Co-operation when it meets in
Chicago Dec. 4. The Institute
was formed by leading agricul-
tural economists at Cleveland
during the summer for the pur-
pose of spreading the gospel of
co-operation to managers and
directors of co-ops and students,
both graduate and under-grad-
uate, who are interested in co-
operative marketing,

Geo. R. Wicker, director of co-
operative accounting, represents
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion. He is secretary of the In-
stitute's organization committee.

Fred Dlehl, farm bureau mem-
ber in Carroll county, has Just
received $25 in settlement for
loss on two young hogs which
were killed on t^ C. M, & St.
Paul right-of-way along his farm.
His hogs got through the rail-
road's fence which was badly in
need of repair. The claim was
collected through the I. A. A.
transportation department.

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22, 1914
CK

SELLS
)S WOOL

Ye»n; Ex-
oduction

twenty Un-
sold wool
>inoted this
Agricultural
to Wm. E.
t the live
tment.
brought a
rs of 140.-
nged from
pound, de-
ie, the bulk
to 51.2
he National
nd Storage
andled the
ices for all
8 was sold.

Good
s sold Sept.
as the first
an excep-
Through
as high as
some cases,
local prices
Ipped.
now being
the large
on Illinois
s for this
^ made im-
to the Na-
le and Stor-
ement, who
e is some-
ember mar-

lys J

ts out sev- %

tne farmer J
crop: (1) T
the small ^

rwlse would

ip either to

direct to a
either case

Linated and

dling saved

"Tags" sold

ind through

would have
By selliag

the shipper

less freight,

ce charges.

"fay of mar-

1919

pool origi-
en farmers
s 10 and 12

their clip.
I> the prob-

a pooling

maintained

:he I. A. A.
lion pounds
to blankets
the market
The last
! sold early

emely low
icent years
this staple
9 been ma-
th a much
year indi-
a marked
wool crop.

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Volume 2

Iwited Every Other Saturday — December 6, 1924

Number 24

COUNCIL CONVENES
TO DRAFT BILL FOR
AID OF AGRICULTURE

Organizatioiu Aim To Prevent
Recnrrence of Farm Prod-
ucts Depremon

G««rve N. Peck

^ourse

8 whereby
atlves can
irse In co-
t low coat
ijor actlvi-
il Institute
it meets in
! Institute
ig agricul-
Cleveland
r the pur-
gospel of
igers and
1 students,
inder-grad-
ted in co-

ctor of co-
represents
il Associa-
of the In-
commlttee.

reau mem-
has just
5ment for
ogs which

M. & St.

his farm.

the rail-
I badly in
claim was

I. A. A.
snt.

By a declaration that the agri-
cultural depression has not been
totally abated
nor the cause
of depression re-
moved through
the c i r c u m
stances of in-
creased prices
on some farm
products, the
legislative .aom-
mittee of the
American Coun-
cil of Agricul-
ture was direct-
ed by the con-
ference of farm
organ Izatlons,
meeting in Chicago, Monday, Dec.
1, to continue its efforts to se-
cure the enactment of national
legislation bill to improve farm-
ing conditions and guard against
the recurrence of depression.

"A depression as extensive and
as serious, or vastly more so."
declared George N. Peek, presi-
dent of the Council In opening
the conference, "is likely to re-
sult again Just as soon as world
crop production conditions become
normal unless action is taken
that will give American agricul-
ture the benefit of the American
protective principle." Confirma-
tion of this statement was made
by practically all subsequent
speakers.

50 Organizations Attend

The conference of farm orga-
nization representatives called
under the auspices of the Ameri-
can Council of Agriculture con-
vened with representatives from
fifteen states and some forty or
fifty farm organizations attend-
ing.

The legislative committee of the
Council, which embraces repre-
sentation from practically all sec-
tions and numerous types of farm
organizations, was instructed to
ask for early conference with the
agricultural commission appointed
by President Coolidge to enlist
the co-operation of that body with
the view of securing Congres-
sional action in the present ses-
sion.

Must Prevent Recurrence

The admission of all three po-
litical parties of the tact that
American agriculture is not upon
an equality with American indus-
try and labor was cited as na-
tional acknowledgement that some-
thing definite and satisfactory
must be developed and put Into
effect if a recurrence of the agri-
cultural depression Is to be es-
caped. Legislation designed to
satisfactorily effect disposal of
surplus crop production without
effect upon the domestic market
is to be the aim, according to a
resolution adopted at the close of
the conference.

I. A. A. representatives at the
conference were F. D. Barton,
Cornell, 17tb district committee-
man and Treasurer R. -A. Cowles.

I. A. A. Backs Census

Many inquiries have come to
the I. A. A. regarding the agri-
cultural census soon to be made.
In answer to these inquiries the
I. A. A. legal department reports:
(1) The census questions must
be answered honestly. (2) Other
business is likewise subjected to
a similar census. (3) The Farm
Bureaus and I. A. A. should back
the census because It will furnish
valuable agricultural statistics

Fare and One-Half
To Annual Meeting

niiBoU pMpU will be abU ta
trmv*l to tba anaiial m««itl»g of
tk* L A. A. at Urbaaa, Jan. 15
and 16, far fare and aaa-ball,
accordUaff to a lata aaaooaea-
■MstnoBt af tha Woatara Paa-
aaajar Asaociatioa.

Open rate of fare and line half
for tba round tHp» with mini-
■ivaa excoraion fare of $1.00, has
bean aathoriaad for tboee attend-
imt the annual L A. A. meetina
and the annual Fannera* Week
proyrajB.

Tbeae rataa will be allowed
from all poiata in niinoia and
from St. Louis, Mo., between
Jan. 10 and 17 with final retara
limit of Jan. 19. No etop-oeera
to be allowed.

''No credentiala are requited to
obtain theae rates," eajrs L. J.
Quasey, director of the I. A A
transportatieo department, who
asked for the cut retes. "Any-
one foinc to Cbampaifu or Ur-
hana that week can aajojr tha
reduced fare.**

Adjust Fertilizer
Troubles Through
I. A. A., Says Bent

One of the principal duties of
the phosphate-limestone depart-
ment is that of providing to the
county Farm Bureaus and the
individual I. A. A. members care-
ful supervision of limestone ship-
ments as to quality of stone and
service rendered by the produc-
ing companies.

Recently several shipments of
bad stone got away from one of
the plants. When complaints
came In through the Farm Bu-
reau. J. R. Bent, director of the
department, got busy with the
sales force of the company con-
cerned. The trouble was located
and satisfactory adjustment made
through refunds and discounts in
weights and payments.

"The producing companies ap-
preciate having these adjustments
handled through one channel,"
Mr. Bent stated. "They feel that
such a method insures uniform
justice and fair play to them-
selves as well as to the pur-
chaser. It is also the best means
of correcting unsatisfactory con-
ditions and lessening their re-
currence in the future.

MACON COUNTY GIRL
WINS FARM BUREAU
ESSAY WRIUNG TILT

Here are the three champion essay writers of Illinois. Abov« — Doro*
thy HecknuuL, first prize winner ; left - Marjorie CUno, winner of second
prize; right — Ruth Kaesebier, third prize winner.

Dorothy Hedanan Gets $25

Prize; MkKrest Honors

To Iowa Girl

Fanners Meet Town Men

About 650 people attended a
farmer-business man's banquet in
Peoria last month, the first occa-
sion of the kind ever pat on in
Peoria. The crowd was so great
that plans to show pictures on
the screen had to be abandoned
because there was not enough
room to erect a screen.

The Association of Commerce
presented a }25 prize to Lloyd
Graham, BUmwood, champion pig
grower. He got a free trip to
the International Live Stock
Show in Chicago this week.

Speeches were made by C. R.
Ford, president of the Ford Coun-
ty Farm Bureau, Eugene Brown,
president of Association of Com-
merce, E. I. Pilchard, boys' and
girls' club leader. University of
Illinois and Dean H. W. Mum-
ford, college of Agriculture, Uni-
versity of Illinois.

iisn

Continue Tax Hearing

The first court hearing in the
Madison county tax litigation, in
which 200 farmers paid two-
thirds of their 1922 land taxes
and refused to pay the remain-
ing one-third on the ground, as
admitted last year by the Chair-
man of the Board of Review, that
real estate In cities and towns
of Madison county Is valued at
one-third less than rural lands,
was held in Edwardsville, Madi-
son county seat, Nov. 21. No
decision was reached and the
case was continued (or a second
hearing on Dec. 22.

1924 Has Been Busy
Year For Fruit and
Vegetable Division

The work of the fruit and
vegetable marketing department
of the I. A. A. during the year
1924 has centered largely around
a survey of the producing coun-
ties, according to A. B. Leeper,
director of the dep&rtment. The
purpose of the study has been
to determine in which counties it
is advisable to set up marketing
organizations.

"We have obtained definite
knowledge of the products, varie-
ties and tonnage at shipping
points in 30 counties," Mr.
Leeper gays in a recent report.
"We have organized seven local
shipping associations, under the
new Co-operative Marketing Act
of Illinois, in Johnson, William-
son. Jackson, Madison, Pike and
Jasper counties and have assisted
in marketing either through local
associations or Farm Bureaus In
17 counties."

Castle and Lyndi
Lead Off On Down
State Air Program

Stanley Castle of Alton, I. A.
A. executive committeeman from
the 22nd Congressional district,
officially opened the series of
I. A. A. farm radio programs
over station WCK, St. Louis,
when, on the evening of Nov. 26,
he told WCK listeners how run-
down farms can be rebuilt through
the use of commercial fertilizers.

A. D. Lynch, director of the
I. A. A. dairy marketing depart-
ment, helped the I. A. A. com-
mitteeman dedicate the first pro-
gram as well as all succeeding
ones to "a better agriculture."

"Farming has been full of.
trials these last few years," Mr.
Castle said. "At times we farmers
have become morally and physi-
cally depressed. Often times a
word of encouragement such as
may come over this radio pro-
gram would be most appreciated."

Mr. Lynch described what he
chose to call "The Dairymen's
Paradise." This land of para-
dise for dairymen would prob-
ably be "a land where milk is
the money standard and where
cows are the idols (or worship-
pers," according to Lynch. That
dairymen cannot think Individ-
ually about marketing their dairy
products apd get very far was
one of th« principal "clinchers"
of his talk.

Wright Outlines

Ultimate Goal of -
Producers' Plan

"The plan of the Producer age«-
cies is to unite the live stock
producers and feeders of the coun-
try into an organization, looking
forward to orderly marketing of
live stock," H. D. Wright, manager
of tlie E. St. Louis Producers, toU
WCK radi9 farmers last Wednes-
day night, Dec. 3. as he spoke aa
the regular I. A. A. (arm program
from that station at St. Louis.

"The only practical way we see
to accomplish this Is to get con-
trol of all the live stock ship-
ments to the terminal markets
now established, so that we will
be able to control shipments and
eventually direct them to the mar-
kets where needed, at a price
satisfactory to the producer.

"Government statistics show
that farmer-controlled live sto4k
selling agencies handled over 15#,-
000 cars of stock during the year
1923," the E. St. Louis Producer
representative said in closii^.
"While there has been a decrease
in volume received at most mar-
kets the co-operative agencies
have shown a steady growth and
1924 will probably be a much
larger year than 1923, with re-
ceipts reaching well over the
200,000 car mark."

LAA. Breakfasts

Club Champions

Some eighty odd Illinois bqys
and girls, winners in various boys'
and girls' club work projects dur-
ing the last year, were break-
fasted Wednesday morning, Dec.
3, at the Great Northern HoKel.
Chicago, by I. A. A. officials and
departmental directors.

These boys and girls cashed in
on free-trip awards to the Iliter-
national Stock Show as rewards
for superior achievement In club
work. During the week in Chi-
cago they followed a social sched-
ule rivaling that of the Prince of
Wales during his recent trip to
the U. S. A.

Last year the I. A. A. enter-
tained the club boys and girls
at an evening banquet but 4ue
to the intensive schedule of their
visit to the Live Stock Show only
a breakfast date could be -squeeced
in. Practically all of the yoong
folks here this year are from
farm bureau families.

The last tartn btire«a confer-
ence (or the 24th Congressional
district has been called by Execu-
tive Committeeman Curt Andereon
for Dec. 2, at Vienna.

As essay writers Illinois school
girls put Illinois school boys to
shame, if the results of the farm
bureau essay contest in the state
are to be used as a basis for
judgment, for out of approxi-
mately 1,000 pupils, mostly boys,
who entered the contest in 23
Illinois counties, 13 girls von
their way to county champion-
ships and three to state champion-
ships.

Dorothy Heckman of Cerro
Gordo in Macon county won the
first prixe and gets the t2S
awarded by the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association. Her essay was
entitled "Why Dad Is a Farm
Bureau Member" and was lees
than 300 words long. The second
prize and the $15 award was won
by Marjorie Cllne of Virginia In
Cass county. Third prixe went to
Ruth M. Kaesebier of Emden in
Logan county, who wrote on
"Why Dad Should Belong to the
Farm Bureau."

In the national contest, con-
ducted by the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation by regional dis-
tricts, honors were more evenly
divided among the boTs and
girls.

Iowa Girl MMweM Winner

In the eastern region, Janien
McCann, Chateaugay, New York.
won first prize. In the southern
region, Wallace Collins, Berlin,
Maryland, won highest honors.
Ellen Edmonds. Birkenfleld, Ore-
gon, was winner out in the great
Northwest and in the Middle
West, the section which inclndes
Illinois, an Iowa girl. Rose Dale
Jackson. Mediapolis, reigns as the
supreme essay writer. As a re-
ward for their winnings each of
these sectional winners will . at-
tend the American Fam- Bureau
Federation annual meeting in
Chicago, Dec. 8, 9 and 10, at the
expense of tbe national organixa-
tion.

There were 23 essays, one from
each county, in the state-wide
contest in Illinois. The ten es-
says which placed 4th to 13th In-
clusive each won a 93 check for
its writer and were not eta^Sed
in definite order. The judsee bad
a hard enough day's work to se-
lect the first three winners in
proper order. The remaining es-
says were each given honorable
mention as exemplifyiag the
high purposes of the Farm Bu-
reau.

Winners Get Ohertcs

Three-dollar checks were
mailed to each of the following
bo}-s and girls whose essays
placed 4th to 13th Inclusive:

Faith Dishong. Lee Center, Lee
county; Wilbur Mclntyre, Bell-
flower, McLean county: Raymond
Markert, Mason county: Herman
W. Dittmar, Jo Daviess eonnty;
Adeline Stevenson, Blggsvllle,
Henderson county; Hazel Wilde,
Oregon, Ogle county; lona Henry,
Streator, LaSalle county: Harold
Kellenberger. Litchfield. Mont-
gomery county: Elbert McCarthy,
Kinsman, Grundy county and Ed-
win Leverich, Danville, Vermilion
county.

Honorable mention was given
LaVeta McQuigg, Scotia. McDon-
ough county; Curtis Weathers,
Ford county; Everett A. Sancken,
Saunemin, Livingston county;
Roberta Zeller, New Douglas,
Bond county; Kirby Todd, Clin-
ton, DeWltt eonnty; Martha Ger-
hardt, Mendon, Adams county;
Oscar Hemllnk, Geneseo. Henry
county; Opal Rixle.. Rosebud,
Pope county; Frieda Hintz,

(Continued on page 3, column 1)

Page 2

The DKnoU AgricuHaral A««ociation Record

December 6, 1924

^ IL.L.INOIS

CVLTUBAL ASSOCIA1

RE CORP'

Published every other SatardAT by the Illinois AsrlcuN
tural Association, <0S South Dearborn Street- Chicago,
Illinois. Edited by Dspartm«nt of Intormatlon, H. C.
Butcher. Director.

Entered as second class matter Oct. 10, 1921. at the post
offlce at Chicago. Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Acceptance for mailing at •pectal ratsa of postaca pro-
Tided for In Section 116>, Act of October I, 1917, anthor-
lied Oct. 31. 1931.

The Individual membership fee of the Illinois Ayrlcul-
tural Association is five dollars a year. This fee Includes
payment of fifty cents for subscription to the nilnola Am-
rlcnltural Association Rxoosd.

Postmaster; In returning an uncalled-for or miasent
copy, please Indicate key number on address mt Is re-
quired by law.

OFFICERS

Pnaldent, S. H. Thompson, Qolncy.
Vice-President, C. B. Watson, DeKalb.
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomlngton.
Secretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore.

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EXECUTIVB COMMmSE
Bj Congressloiial Districts

Jscob Olbrlch, Harvard

Q. F. Tullock. Roekford

C. E. Bamborough^ Polo

W. H. Moody, Port Byron

H. E. Gostnbel, Hooppols

A. R. Wright, Varna

F. D. Barton, Cornell

R. F. Karr, Iroquois

J. L. Whianand, Charleston

Earl C. Smith, Detroit

Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

Stanley Castis, Alton

J. E. LIngenf alter, LawreneevMIe

Curt Anderson, Xenia

.Vernon Lessley, Spsrta

Directors of Departments
I. A. A. Ofllce

General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker;
Organization, G. E. Metzger; Information, H. C. Butcher;
Titansportatlon, L. J. Quasey; Taxation and Statistics,
J. C. Watson; Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vege-
table Marketing, A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing,
Wm. E. Hedgcock; Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch;
Phosphate-Limestone, J. R..Bent; In charge Poultry and
Egg Marketing, F. A. Qougler; special representative
on Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H. Petersen; Legal
Counsel, Donald Kirkpatrick; Co-operative Accounting,
Geo. R. Wicker.

The Slipping Clutch vs.

the Three-In-One Gear

If the McNaryTHaugen bill did nothing more
thjan awaken public sentiment to the fact that there
is a difference in the farmer's dollar and the non-
farmer's dollar, all the time, money and energy
pijt npon it were well invested.

The McNary-Haugen bUl has blazed a trail in the
public's brain. In the wake of the trail there is
common knowledge that the farmer's dollar is
worth less than is right. The fanner's dollar is
something like a slipping clutch on an automobile.
The clutch fails to get the full eflBciency out of the
power expended; the farmer's dollar returns only
87 per cent eflSciency. The non-farmers' dollar
these days is like a three-in-one gear in a Ford. The
engine runs no faster, but the gear brings extra
mileage.

The task of the agricultural commission recently
appointed by President Coolidge is to help tighten
the slipping clutch in the farmer's car so it can
have a fair chance of keeping up with the three-in-
oie gear of the non-farmer. The President went
on record during the recent campaign that the
inequality between the two kinds of dollars must be
equalized. That is an achievement of the McNary-
Haugen campaign in itself.

. This inequality is shown by the chart herewith
reproduced. The chart is a Bureau of Labor Statis-
tics wholesale price index, classified by the bureau
ibto agricultural and non-agricultural commod-
ities. The years 1909 to 1914 are taken as a basis
for comparison. In other words, to use a continu-
ation of the partially drawn figure of the clutch
atd the gear, the basis line of 100 in the chart
could be taken as meaning the average speed of all
automobiles (dollars) from 1909 to 1914. The
li^e labeled agricultural, then, means that the farm-
er's car's clutch has be^ slipping at various
amounts since the beginning of 1922. The three-
in-one gear non-agrricultural car has been ahead
all during the period. The average speed of all
cars (all commodities) is shown by the heavy black
lipe in the middle.

[A minute's study of the chart shows that there
lus been a recent tendency of the agricultural line
to rise toward the non-agrioultural level. This has

been caused by the increase in farm products prices
during the summer and fall, but at the tail end of
the agricultural level we find a sudden downward
trend.

The after-election boom, which came after the
chart was made, is undoubtedly causing the non-ag-
ricultural line to turn upward sharply. From obser-

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ration the indications are that the agricultural line
is running about level with its last point. The re-
sultant widening between the lines means that the
three-in-one geared car is getting way ahead of the
ear with the slipping clutch, and illustrates the
present need for enactment of legislation embody-
ing principles such as underlied the actual mechan-
ics of the McNary-Haugen bill.

Solemn consideration of this chart pictures the
tremendous task of the agricultural commission and
at the same time shows a great field of endeavor for
all farm organizations. The Illinois Agricultural

Association has been in the front trenches battling
to bring these upper and lower lines together.
Even the fortunate occurrence of a world shortage
this year has not brought the lines to equality. As
long as this inequality exists, the I. A. A. will con-
tinue to help tighten the screws on the slipping
clutch. ..

A Warning

Every little while some new promotion scheme
is launched in connection with ground rock phos-
phate properties or operations in Tennessee. Some
of these schemes have not seemed to be based upon
honest objects. Others are honest in purpose but
are founded upon unsound business principles or
form. Nearly always such plans seem to center
around the idea that the Illinois farmer is the big
game to be bagged.

There are indications that promotion projects are
in the making at this time.

Farm Bureau and farm bureau members should
not allow themselves to be tied up at one end of a
contract without knowing that the fellow at the
other end can and will make good and that the
contract will prove to be worth while to the phos-
hate user or investor. This applies whether the
scheme is one of bond or stock selling or one of
phosphate rock selling, especially if the latter is for
future delivery.

The I. A. A. maintains a phosphate-limestone de-
partment whose business it is to keep informed on
all developments in the phosphate field and be able
to give intelligent and unbiased advice to its mem-
bers and the Bureaus. Before being led into any
such schemes be sure and make use of this service
which is yours for the asking. Wild cat schemes
of any kind are not only disastrous to the victim
but are unfair to legitimate, honest producers in
the industry.

An Aeorn Today; An Oak Tree Tomorrow

The essay contest is over. It has planted seeds
of thought in the nimble brains of approximately
1,000 Illinois boys and girls who competed. An
application of the old adage, "From little acorns,
giant oak trees grow*^ is fitting here. The farm
bureau thoughts germinated in the minds of these
1,000 boys and girls will grow into untold value
for the Farm Bureau and its work.

The planting and growth of many of these seeds
of thought has without a doubt caused sprouting
among other members of the families. Some of the
letters from the winning contestants who wrote on
**Why Dad Should Belong to the Farm Bureau,"
reveals that fathers who have been non-members
have seen a little more light and have even signified
their intention of joining.

The Farm Bureau is an acorn today; it will be
an oak tree tomorrow.

The Voice of the Members

Members are invited to speak their minds in this column. At
many letters from members wilt be printed each isme as space
will permit. Utters should be short and snappy: aU must be
tipied to be printed. AU constructive criticism of the Farm Bu-
reau—county, state or national umts — *s welcomed. If you have
amy grievancts. pram or sutgettions, here is the place to teli
them. It's your coUimn. make it vhat you will. Address letters
to a. C. Butcher, I. A. A. Record, 60S S. Dearborn, Chtcofo.

$15
$10

To Voice of Memberm Inntead of mrrslBs 1b boor* of
trade, why not m^rfce nil fnrm ortrniil»ation« Info one oa-
tlOHOI fe4er«tlon bo When ( onKrena and the President
wnnt to know what the (amiers want they eonld apeak
tkrouKh 8aiu ThompHOn like organised labor apeaka
throoBk Sam Gompera. „ ._ ,,,, ,

Helmer Hamaoa. Newark, IHlaola.

Voice of the Meaibcrst

I shall uadertake to set forth wkat I believe U a fair
•and straightforward answer to the letters which were
printed In the Inut Record written by W. F. FnsH>>«>*
president of the Chrlpttlnn <«nnty Farm Boreaa of .Yoko-
nils.. Mr. EnKelmaa's letter referred speclflcally to re-
duction from VIS to $10 of farm hurean dues.

This letter la to point ont the aeveral aaperlor advan-
taffea of the $15 memberablp. It aboald not be constmed
la any way a« being antanronlstlc to Mr. Easel-
man. He has merely broosht up a qaestloa whieh
should be answered for the benefit of all the nscas-
bers.

The oriranlaatlon department has had eoaalder-
able experience working with various county Farm
Bureaus on the matter of the amount of dues. It
eusts about mo much per member to run a County
Farm Bureau and render service. The atse ef the county,
condition of the roads, concentration of the membership,
ctCn •« fuetors refcnlatlnK Ihia cost.

Two tfalniTM Induce a farmer to Join the Farm Bareaui

1. Kno>«ledKe of the need of nitrrtrnltoral economic
and socini life of a Kcneml farm oncantaatloa, and
kla duty to support such an orKanlsatlon both asor-
ally and fluanclally,

::. Individual and collective benefit of the aervlcea
olfered-Jiy the ortrnnlsation.

1 point ,^nt these two matters as a basis for my argru-
ment to 'follow.

A good farm bureau member looks at tke cost of the
aervlec In the light of value received. This, I believe
kas been fully proven In our experience In several cona-
tlcM. There Is also a psychoiofcieal viewpoint w^lth re-
spe<>t to the amount of meniberMhlp fee. Any man with
any business ability would far rather beiOBsr to an or-
fcani/.atiun which has some assets back of It than to an
orennlzallon which is broke, lie would also
far rather Join an organivJitlon which Is well A»mm^»
Axed flnancinlly than to help lift a bankrupt /»••«!»
one "out of the hole.** Hence, the ararument Main
for a membership fee suttclently large to ■*"«»«
properly carry on the work of an organlxa- PrestiPe

For a Farm Bureau to properly hold Ita
membership It Is also necessary that it render real serv-
ice. This service costs money. The wreakest county
Farm Bureaus today In a financial way Hnd It hard to
render the kind of aervlce which their membcrahlp re-
quires.

The argnment, of coarse, always presented In connec-
tion with the reduced ntembershlp fee Is that more men
w^lll Join. There are two viewpoints which may be taken
of that statenientt

In the first place, our experience does not bear out
any truth In that argument. For Instance, In the last
membership campalfcn one county reduced Its duen on
the strength of a feeling that It would get a larger
membership. After a strenuous campaign that county
was only able to sign up 00 per cent of Its former mem-
bership. Hence, the reduction la the daea seemingly
bad no effect whatever.

I'hree other counties Increased their membership dues
from SIO to $IS per year and in nil three cases a greater
percentage of the old membership was signed up thaa did
the county that reduced the dues.

The second viewpoint Is that even should the reduc-
tion in dues Increase the number of members it would
call for Increased service from the county Farm Bureau
ofBce and also the I* A. A. on less funds. It costs more
to serve 1,200 men In a county Farm Bureau than It does
to serve OOO. On the basis of the
division suggested by Mr. Engelmau
a county Farm Bureau with 1.200
members would have an income of
«7,K(>0.no. On the «15.00 basis an equal
amount of Income could be obtained
from 780 members. Certainly a bet-
ter service could be rendered on that
Income to 780 members thaa could possibly be rendered
to IJMO.

From our experience and observation. It Is not the
amount of dues that keeps a ninn out of a county Farm
Sureau In 0.% per cent of the cases. \Ve all recogalae
the fact, of course, that It Is quite often used as a reason
why a man docs not Join, but la reality It Is more an
excuse than a reason.

1 am convinced that a farmer who Is sold on orgaalxa-
tlon will Join a county Fnrm Bureau and the Illinois
Agrlculturnl AsHOclntlon no matter what the dues, so
long as they arc within reason; but If he Is not aold on
orgnnlKatlon It Is a hard matter to get him la even
though the dues be only one dollar a year.

I believe that the membership In general In the Illlnola
Agricultural Association will agree that 91S per year
dues In the County Fnrm llurcnu and the Illlnola Agri-
cultural Association Is not out of line with the duca paid
In other organisations of a similar nature representing
other indastrles. There is no excuse to be made from n
standpoint of service or of dollars and cents saved the
membership of these organizations. . The c<»uiity Farm
Bureaus in Illinois and the Illinois Agrl^-ultural Associa-
tion have paid maay times the annual dues in the aav-
Inga that have been effected through the varlona llaea
of service which the organisation offers.

G. B. Metsger, director*
Organisation Department, L A. A.-

$15 Means

More

Service

Important

"Voice of Members*' Column t The relationship of the
farm bureau member to his Farm Bureau can be ex-
pressed In three words. — he Is It. If the farmer w^ho
becomes a member hy signing the membership contract
fully realises the uecesalty for farmer organisation, and
that the Farm Bureau Is his own organisation. In which
he Is one of the ualts, he will think and apeak of It as
his own.

Too naany members have seen only one or two things
of value In the Farm Bureau, — those things which have
brought them a direct saving of mon-
ey.'—and have failed to see the bene- *« . ,
flts to agriculture as a whole. Ac- UtreCt
compllshments of a general nature n j^. w <
that may be of far greater value DenenlB l^eOMt
than any direct aavlngs arc over-
looked by too many of us simply be-
cause we look only for direct cash
aavlags.

In any co-operative or organised effort It Is easy to
forget that It Is team work that moves the load. In the
old fashioned barn raising when the man in charge aald.
**IIeave Ho,** and all lifted at once. It was their combined
force that put the big tinil»ers in place. Team work did
what no one working alone could liave accomplished.
Each one did his bit when he was called. In the Fama
Bureau the call to defend the organisation against mla-
taken Ideas of service comes in various ways and places.
With the lack of experience In organisation among us
fanners It Is not to be wondered at that some of us are
confused by the enormous strides made In legislation,
tax questions, freight rntes, and co-operative marketing,
and the activities w^tthln the county for more efflclent
methods of crop and live stock production.

This la an age In which agriculture muat be made a
business Instead of Just a means of existence. Aa a
business It should pay Interest on the capital and labor
Inveated, The farmers are the only oaea that can make
It do BO.

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The nBnoU AgJCTiltural A«»oci«tion Record

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6TH ANNUAL A.FJ}.F.
CONVENTION SLATED
FOR DEC. 8, 9 AND 10

Subconunittee* Will Settle

Question*; To Broadcact

Programs By Radio

When the hand of time rings
up Dec. 8, 1924 there will be
convening In Chicago, at the
Congress Hotel, one of the most
important meetings of farmers
America has ever held.

The occasion will be the 6th
annual meeting of the American
Farm Bureau Federation. The
convention lasts three days, Dec.
8, 9 and 10, during which some
of the weightiest problems ever
to face the directors of the Fed-
eration will be threshed out by
agricultural leaders.

Handle Majiy Problems

The complete program for the
several sessions has been an-
nounced by the program commit-
tee. Aside from the regular pro-
gram that has characterized an-
nual A. F. B. F. meetings in
years before, there has been ar-
ranged plans for a detailed study
of the many problems which
should be discussed.

To accomplish the detailed
plan of handling questions tiie
Board of Directors will be di-
vided into six subcommittees. To
these special committees will be
assigned special matters which
they will settle in three periods
set aside for that purpose. Prob-
lems of organization and finance,
research and transportation, pub-
licity, legislation and taxation,
rural life and co-operative mar-
keting are the principal ones to
come up. Community develop-
ment and boys' and girls* club
work will also be included.
Banqnet on Tuesday

On Tuesday evening, Dec. 9,
the delegates and farm bureau
leaders from all over the United
States will lay aside their heavy
and vexing problems while they
attend the 6th annual A. F. B. F.
banquet.

Radio will play its part in this
Stb annual convention. By spe-
cial arrangements with station
KYW. the opening address of
President Bradfute, which will
commence at 10:15 sharp, Mon-
day morning, Dec. 8, will be
broadcast. Arrangements have
also been completed with this
same station to broadcast the
entire program on banquet night.

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MACON COUNTY GIRL

WINS ESSAY TILT

LA.A. ACCOUNTING
DEPARTMENT HELPS
101 MEMBER CO^PS

Make Applications for Income

Tax Exemption; Schedule

S3 Audits

Fourteen of the best essay tcriters in Illinois. Some of them didn't send their pictures in time to get them in
icith this bunch. (I) lona Henry, (2) Curtis Weathers, (3) Oscar Hamlik, (4) Roberta Zeller, (5) Mttrforet
Catharine Schnapp. (6) LaVeta McQuigg, (7) Opal Rixie, (8) Hasel Wilde, (9) Adeline Stevenson, (10) Kirby
Todd, (11) Elbert McCarthy, (12) Everett A. Sancken, (13 J Faith Dishong, (14) Herman DUtmar.

(Continued from page 1)
Prophetstown, Whiteside county
and Margaret Catherine Schnapp,
Talulla, Menard county.

Three Judges, Arthur C. Page,
editor of Orange Judd Illinois
Farmer. C. E. Hay, president of the
Farm Advisers' Association of Illi-
nois, and J. E. Hill, head of vo-
cational agriculture department
at Springfield, spent an entire
day in choosing the best essays.
Immediately after announcing the
results of the contest the judges
issued the following statement;
Statement of the Judges

"We find a great deal of merit
in these essays, and highly com-
mend those boys and girls who
have put in thorough effort to
seek out the facts about the Farm
Bureau.

"We are pleased to see the
breadth of vision concerning the
nature and purpose of the Farm
Bureau as a national, state and
county work, by which It Is
dhown to be not only a means of
Increasing profits In dollars and
cents, but building a basis for
more abundant country life.

"The first and second prize win-
ners particularly bring out an
Idea which is the foundation of
successful Farm Bureau operation
In a county, state and national
way. and that is that after all,
while live stock, crops, soil, laws,
marketing, etc., need careful at-
tention, folks themselves are of
highest value, and the ultimate
Job of the farm bureau Is de-
veloping rural life."

First Prize Paper

Here Is the essay picked by the
judges as the one best typifying
the Ideals and purposes of the
farm bureau movement.

By Dorothy Heckman,
Macon County

The farmers have begun to
tblnk. Thiey think (arming la

equal to any other business. They
want other folks to know this.
So they have begun to organize.
The Farm Bureau Is the result.

The Farm Bureau as it is or-
ganized to-day includes county,
state and nation. These working
together stand for profitable farm-
ing and social welfare. The mem-
bers consist of farmers who look
forward to the future for results,
not only In money, but In de-
veloping a higher type of rural
life.

In Illinois alone there are
sixty-three thousand Farm Bu-
reau members. My Dad is one
of them. He is a booster for the
Farm Bureau, first; because its
program of work has put on a
campaign of education to have
farmers test cattle for tubercu-
losis. It has made possible for
farmers to get free tests under
the supervision of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Also to get pay for two-thirds of
the loss of cattle that prove to
have the disease.

Second; For encouraging the
raising of soybeans as a com-
mercial crop to fight the chinch
bug.

Tblrd; For conducting corn di-
sease plots to make possible the
best choice of seed corn to plant.

Fourth; Because a general
practice has been brought about
in sowing wheat after the fly-
free date, which has saved farm-
ers thousands of dollars.

Fifth; Because co-operative
shipping associations have been
established to Improve the mar-
keting of live stock.

And last; perhaps the best
thing of all the Farm Bureau
is doing is the building of better
community life through co-op-
erating with the Home Bureau
and organizing boys' and girls'
clubs. The Farm Bureau be-
lieves in developing the resources
of the farm. This can be done
by giving higher standards for
rural living. The live stock, the
crops, and the soil all need care-
ful attention but the folks them-
selves are of more value than all.

Because the Farm Bureau Is
doing and believes all these
things. My Dad Is a member and
a booster for the Farm Bureau.

$15 Fee

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I have kad coBsldrrablc experteaee
la ■oUrltfair work and la •omp aec-
lloBii have railed oa far aiore hcb
who fvoBid BOt Jeia thaa who would.
The apposite
was asaallr the ir;-«J«

case, however, rinOS

the aaaaber he-
iBK BOBiewhBt la
proportloB to a w »/„» Hish
desire to do their '* ''•" "«g"
partiathlB

Brent work. In aoine on«e« the
■aeBiberahip fee wan the thins ob-
leeted to, bnt, in mr Judirment. much
the same arisam*'"* woold have been
used iB mOBt oa>*e« reSfardleMU of the
aaaoaat of the fee. I like an orgrnn-
tsatloa Independent of local tax
aopport. aa or(::aBlxatluB flaaaced
by fanaera themnelvea and obll-
irated to BO taxpayer oppoaed tv our
work. A alidinK »t€*ale for member-
ship fees based on land owned or
operated, as sometimes advocated,
would necessitate a revisal of fees
each year, be a aoorce of eternal
dIssatlsfactloB. aad re4|Bire a tre-
nteadous amouat of work. A S19
annual membership fee Is none too
hi^h conslderias the capital and la-
bor invested on the averaire farai.
Other hnainess combines and labor
orKaataatioBS have siicccericd be-
cause of representative nieniherMhip
with fees lar^e enoush to adequate-
ly finance their undcrtnklnKS.

More efflclent production la the
fundamental program of our Farm
nureao, but ne must co-nprrate in
merehaadlsins our products. Co-
operative marketing is not aettiag:
prices OB our commodities, but it
should afford a means of refculatlBir
the flow of our products from the
farai to the aiarkets la accordaace
vrith demaads of time aad place,
aad ahonid eheapea the coat of dis-
trlbullea.

If ail membera of the Farm Bu-
reau tvould co-operate fully, recoip-
Bise and patron-
ise the successful
c o-o perativc
markellasr proj-
e c t s as their
owB, sullicieBt of
the flow of our
products to mar-
ket would be la
our hands where
vre have an ia-
alleaable riKh t
io have it. The
Klutted nsarket
periods would
s o o B disappear
aad we would
come iBto our
OWB irithout any
lajary to the
O. L. Hatch eoaaaailBK puh-

lic.
The Farm BureaD aad Its afllll-
ated orf^anixations are children of
our own production. Let's protect
them, help them to f^row, aad the
farm will be a healthy aad profit-
able abldlBff place In our old mfie.
Yonrs for suecessfai co-operation.
O. U, Hatch. Presldrat,
Stark C'ouaty Farm Bureau.

Vet aaa Vaata

In McDonongh county, shipf
ping associations have (;onsigned
63 carloads of stock to the Chi-
cago Producers Commission Com-
pany since July 1.

Forty boys' and Rirls' in Knox
county begin feeding their baby
beef club calves on Jan. 1, 1925.

At Quincy, 34 business men

are members of the Adams Coun-
ty Farm Bureau.

Seventy-three herds represent-
ing 1,600 head of cattle in the
neighborhood of Waukegan and
Zion were given the tuberculin
test In one week recently.

Richardson Tells
Radio Bugs Why
Cream Tests V»ry

Down In East St. Louis A. E.
Richardson manages the 111-Mo
Dairy Company. Sometimes . Jll-
Mo patrons, like others, kick' on
cream tests. Mr. Richardson, las
do all creamerymen, knows that
there are reasons for variations
in cream tests. When he Was
asked to tell radio fans "Why
Cream Tests Vary" he was glad
to accept. Read, in part, how Ihe
explained the puzzle over WCK
last Wednesday evening, Dec. 3.

"There isn't any secret about
making good butter now-a-days.
with the modem equipment of
the up-to-date creamery." the til-
Mo manager told the listening
dairymen. "To make good buttJer.
start with the cow. Clean udder,
clean flank, dlean hands and clean
clothes. This Is not sentiment, it
is the only way to keep doirn
bacteria, which destroys butter
flavor.

Flavor Counts lUti
"In judging butter, flavor counts
45 per cent, body and grain 25
per cfent, color 15 per cent, salt
10 per cent, and neatness of
package 5 per cent. So you see
why 1 talk of flavor first. There
are other elements which don-
trlbute very largely to the butter
flavorv such as barn odors, metal-
lic flavor and using vessels im-
properly tinned, weedy feed, >nd
many others.

The acidity of cream is cauBed
by bacteria, which multiply rap-
idly in warm weather. Cream
should be kept at about 50 de-
grees. Always properly cool the
fresh cream before it Is put Into
the can with that of previous
days.

"Lots of loss Is , caused by
foamy cream. Extra care for the
cream Is well paid for if a ican
or two foams over and is lost In
transit.

Effect For Every' Cause

"The variation in the test of
cream Is probably the cause of
more misunderstanding between
the producers and the creamdries
than any other one thing. The
causes of the creajn test varying
does not seem to be very well
understood, but remember, 'For
every effect there is a cause.' It
might be the condition of the
cow, condition of the milk, |con-
ditlon of the separator or the
condition <^f the cream." j

The response of co-operative as-
sociations and Farm Bureaus In
Illinois to the
plan of organi-
zation of the
Illinois Agricul-
tural Co-opera-
tives Associa-
tion has been
very encourag-
i ng. according
to a statement
by Geo. R.
Wicker, geaeral
manager of the
auditing coop.
Under the di-
rection of Ver-
n o n Vanlman,
organization representative, the
membership has reached 101
farmers' organiiations, including
42 farmers' elevators, 36 coxrn-
ty Farm Bureaus, nine live stock
shipping associations, Hve dairy
co-operative companies, three live
stock marketing agencies, two in-
surance companies and four mis-
cellaneous organizations.

Up to Dec. 1, 53 examinations
have been scheduled and the man-
agement Is making an effort to
meet the requirements of the vari-
ous organizations at the close of
their fiscal period. With one or
two exceptions this has been
done. Tlie number of examina-
tions which come in January will
not permit examinations and re-
ports to be completed before the
annual meetings of the different
organizations.

Busy With Income Taxes
During the past month, the ac-
counting department has been en-
gaged in securing information
from Farm Bureaus required for
the purpose of making applica-
tions for exemption from income
taxes. A number of such appli-
cations have been prepared and
sent out for signatures of the olB-
cers of the Farm Bureaus and
others are being prepared as soon
as the required Information can
be secnred, says Mr. Wicker.

A bulletin was recently pre-
pared and sent out to all farm
advisers covering quite fully the
provisions of the Revenue Act
and regulations issued thereunder
as applying to co-operative asso-
ciations and other agricultural or-
ganizatioas.

Attention of farm advisers is
called to the fact that this bulle-
tin covers most of the Inquiries
which are being made with refer-
ence to tha requirements of co-
operative associations and farm
bureaus to make returns for in-
come and capital stock tax, un-
less they are expressly exempt.
The balletin also covers quite
specifically the requirements of
the Commissioner of Internal Rev-
enue for the exemption of the
associations and procedure neces-
sary- thereto. Any questions not
answered by this bulletin will be
given special attention if ad-
dressed to the Accoanting Divi-
sion of the Illinois Agricultural
.\ssociatlDn.

Hear \'aninian on Radio
Mr. Vanlman outlined the need
of proper audHing of co-ops to
KYW radio folks Tuesday night,
Dec. 2. He explained that the
1. A. C. A. is to operate on a co-
operative basis for farmers just
as a bankers' clearing house op-
erates ia large cities.

"The value of a good audit in
increasing the loyally of the
stockholders is not to be over-
looked," was one of his state-
ments. "Any number of directors
have staled that it would be worth
t5 to |10 per year, per stock-
■faolder to their association if each
stockholder were loyal to his own
co-op."

Farmers who are looking ahead
and keeping abreast with the
times appreciate the need of bet-
ter business methods for co-o{>-
eratives, he said. They are look-
ing forward to the time when
there will be more co-operation
between co-operatives and they ex-
pect their auditing servitse to
hasten its coming.

The Damille National Farm
Iioan Association has nearly |1,-
000,000 farm loans in fortse in
Vermilion county.

P«ige2

The IlKnoU Agricultural A»»ociation Record

December 6, 1924

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AGBICI'LTIRAL ASSOCIATION

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illslied every other Saturday by the Illlnoia AKrlcuI-
i) Asaoriation, 608 South Dearborn Street, Chicago,
lois. Kdited by Department of Information. H. C.
Cher. Director.

om

ored as second class matter Oct. 10, 1921. at the post
■e at Chlc.ico. Illinois, under the act of March 3. 1879.
eptance for malllngr at special rates of postage pro-
■d for In Section 1103. Act of October J. 1917, author-
I Oct. 31. 1921.

' Iiidividu.al membership fee of the Illinois Agrlcul-
il Association Is five dollars a year. This fee includes
merit of fifty cf>nts for subscription to the Illinois Ag-
iltural Association R£COid.

itmastcr: In returnihg an uncalled-for or misaent
. y. please Indicate key number on address as is re-
red by law.

OFKICEIW
Presklent, S. II. Tlioiiipson, Quincy.
Vice-I*rcsident. C. 11. \Vat.son, DeKalb.
Trea.surer, K. A. C<>«les, Itloonilngton.
Secretary, (ieo. A. Fu.v, Sycamore.

K.VECUTIVE CO.M.MITTKE
Uy Congressional Districts

llllh Jacob Olbrlch, Harvard

12lh G. F. Tullock, Rockford

131h C, E. Bamborough. Polo

14«h W, H. Moody, Port Byron

15lh H. E. Goembel, Hooppole

16th A. R. Wright, Varna

17th F. D. Barton, Cornell

18lh R. F. Karr, Iroquoi*

19th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21$t.,.., Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd Stanley Castle, Alton

23(d J. E. LIngenfelter, Lawrencevllle

24(h Curt Anderson, Xenja

251h Vernon Lessley, Sparta

Directors of Departnients
I. A. A. Office

General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker;
Organization, G. E, Metzger; Information, H. C. Butcher;
Transportation, L. J. Quasey; Taxation and Statistics,
J, C. Watson; Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vege-
table Marketing, A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing,
Wm, E. Hedgcock; Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch;
Phosphate-Limestone, J. R. Bent; in charge Poultry and
Egg Marketing, F. A. Gougler; special representative
or> Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H. Petersen; Legal
Counsel, Donald Kirkpatrick; Co-operative Accounting,
Geo. R. Wicker.

The Slipping Clutch vs.

the Three-In-One Gear

If the MeNiiry-Hangcn bill did nothing more
ithaii .iiwakeii public sfiitiiiient to the faet that there
is a iliirciTiu-e in the farmer's ilollar ami the non-
fa iiiiit"s dollar, all the time, money and energy
pi t upon it were well invested.

The JleNary-lIaiigen bill has blazed a trail in the
piiTilie's brain. In tlie wake of the trail there is
eiiniinon knowledge tliJit the farmer's dollar is
w ^rfh less than is right. The farmer's dollar is
Miinetliing like a slipping eliiteh on an automobile.
T le eliiteh fails to get the full cffieieney out of the
IMwer expended; the farmer's dollar returns only
■S'; per cent effieieiie}-. The non-farmers' ihillar
tl ese days is like a three-in-one gear in a Ford. The
ei giue runs no faster, but the gear brings extra
mileage.

The task of the agricultural commission recently
a|ipi)iiit«'il by I'ri'sideiit Coolidge is to help tighten
tie clipping eliiteh in the farmer's ear so it can
li;iv<' a lair ehaiiil'e of keeping up with the three-in-
<i|ii'> gear of the non-farmer. The President went
on record during the recent campaign that the
ii eipiality between the two kinds of dollars must be
iM iiali/.<<J. That is an achievement of the McNary-
Jlriiigcii campaign in itself.

This iiiec|uality is shown by the chart herewith
ri produced. The chart is a Hureau of Jjabor Statis-
ti-s whiiU-.-iale price index, cla.ssitied by the bureau
ii to agricultural and non-agrieultural commod-^
it es. The years 1!)0!) to l!tl4 are taken as a basis
fir eomi)arison. In other words, to use a continu-
ation of the partially drawn figure of the clutch
and the gear, the basis line of 100 in the chart
c( uld be taken as meaning the average speetl of all
automobiles (dollars) from 1909 to 1914. The
li ic labeled agricultural, then, means that the farin-
ei "s car's clutch has been slipping at various
aiiounts ,'iince the beginning of 1922. The three-
iii-one gear non-agricultural car has been ahead
all during the period. The average speetl of all
i-i rs' (all commodities) is shown by the heavy, black
line in the middled i

A minute's study of the chart shows thatHhcre
hi s been a recent tendency of the agricultural line
In ri.se toward the non-agricultural level. This has

been caused by tlie increase in farm ])roducts prices
during the summer and fall, but at the tail end of
the agricultural level we find a siiddi'ii ilowiiwanl
trend.

The aftcr-elcetion boom, which came after the
diart was made, is undoubtedly causing the noii-ag-
rieultural line to turn upward sharply. Krum obscr-

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1922 1923 I92<t

vation the indications are that the agriculliii-al line
rs running about level with its last point. The r«-
Millaiit widening between the lines means that the
three-in-one gearctl ear is glutting way ahead of the
car with the slipping clutch, apid illiisl rates llir
present need for enactment ot legislation ciiilioily-
iiig prliici]ili's such as underlicd the actual nui-liaii-
ic>i of the McXary-Ilaugen bill.

Solemn consideration of this chart pictures the
trenienilous task of the agriculjjiral commission and
at the same time shows a great field of endeavor for
all farm organizations. The Illinois Agrieiilliiral
Association has been in the front trenches baltliiig
to bring these upper and lower lines tiigetller.
Kveii the fortunate occurrence of a world shortage
this year has not brought the lines to eiiiiality. As
long as this iiieipiality exists, the 1. A. .\. will eon-
tiiiiie to help tighten the screws on tlie slipping
clutch.

A Warning

Every little while .some new pidiiiiitiiiii selieiiie
is launched in connection with ground luek plios-
jihate i)roperties or oi)eralions in Tennessee. Some
of these schemes have not seemed to be based upon
honest objects. Otlicis are honest in purpose but
are I'lPiinded upon iiiisinilid Imsiiiess prineii)les or
form. Nearly always sueli plans seem to center
around the idea that the Illinois fanner is tlic big
game to be bagged.

There are iiidieatiniis that picniiiilidM pnijeets are
in the making at this time.

Farm IJureau and farm biii-eaii iiiemlK rs should
not allow themselves to be tied up at one end of a
contract without knowing that the fellow at tin'
other end can and will make goml and th.it the
contract will prove to |)e worth while to the plms-
hate user or investor. This apjilies whether tlie
scheme is one of bond or stock selling or one of
phosphate rock selling, especially if the latter is for
future delivery.

The I. A. A. maintains a phosi>hate-Iiiiieslone de
partment whose business it is to keej) infnriiied on
all developments in the phosphate field and be able
to give intelligent and unbiased advice to its iiieni-
bers and the IJureaiis, Before being led into any
such schemes be sure anil make use of this service
which is youi-s for the asking. Wild eat schemes
of any kind are not only disastrous to the victim
but are unfair to legitimate, honest producers in
the industry.

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An Acorn Today; An Oak Tree Tomorrow

The essay contest is over. It has planted seeds
of thought in the nimble brains nf approximately
1,000 Illinois boys and girls who competed. An
ap|)lication of the old adage, "Kroiii little acorns.
giant oak trees grow" is fitting lure. The farm
bureau thoughts germinated in the minds of these
1,000 boys and girls will grow into untold value
for the Farm Bureau and its work.

The planting and growth of maii.\ >if these seeds
of thought has witliout a doubt caused sprouting
among other members of the families. Some of the
letters fnun the winning contestants who wrote on
"Why Dad Should Behmg to the Farm liiiri'aii.''
reveals that fathers who have been iion-meinliei-s
have seen a little more ligflit and have even signified
their intention of joining.

The Farm Bureau is an acorn today; it will be
an oak tree tomorrow.

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The Voice of the Members

Mrmhrrs an tnviUti tn

iP'tk thi

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piinl.il ifuh tisur uj i/>«c:

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tttntit. I.iifin th.'i

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tt ami fitJfipy: till *n»-^t be

stRuni to In- pthlliit. All

l.iU'.lfUi'll

;■ tnticism oj Ikr I- arm l<u-

nau-

-count V, Stillr ,'f nut

iilh'l unit

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I'lt yru Jiill. Adilr'ss httrrs

to II

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f>ikS i. Iharf'vrn, Lh>cag>:

oi »» nrK;i..iz«- Prestige

'I'll \ »if«- »f MfiiilXTt: Inwirnil of iiiorKliiK Iti honrd oC
IrjHli-. why ntM iiiriKC :ill Inrm orKiiiif/.:it i«ii«* in(o »im* tin-
lioiinl l(<ilt>r:iliMii >.*» n Urn * uhck-hn iinil I In- l'rff*iil«>ii(
Mtiitl t« kin»« »litit 111*- i:tri.MT« \*»iH thry i-oiihl mjm'iiL
llirniiuli S:.n» I li«>mpsiiii lik«- orn;iMi««>(l liil»or .tiiciikN
tlir«Mi;ili ^.'iiii (•(MiipcrN.

llrliiMT llniiMOii, \«'%«arK. lllini»lM.

\oii C tiM- >l(-mb<r<.:

I Mhiill tiiiil(-rf.-ikf ««• Kcl forth %^tint 1 ItclU'vo Im n fnlr
tiiMl Nlrjiiulitlt*r»;ird :ii»s\*(r It* tin* l«*ltiT« « li*4-h «»Te
|jriiit«-il in l)i<> l:><^1 l(t-<-ortl Kriltfii l>> U. K. i:ne«-lniiiii,
|iri-«iiil*Mit <>l Iho «'liri^liini t fiiiiily Kiiriii ntirrnii »f \<iku-
■iiiH.. Mr. i:iiu«-liii:iir<> IrlH-r rel«*pri'»l K|M>rifl«-iill>- to re-
<liM-tioii friiiii .Sl.'i lo SKI »r rami l*iirf!iii (liifM.

'I'IiIn li-ttt-r iM lo |M>iiil out tli(> N«*\i-ral Mii|i<-rior iiilviin-

laui-N ol' lli«> l|il.% niriMlMTMhiii. It MhiMihl not Im- < NtriiftI

in :in> »»:i> a** Im-iiik aniauonist h' to \l r. i:n(E<*l-
^fp man. Mi- lin«t itMTi-l> ItroiiKlit n|i a Mii«'^lion »liifh
^'*> Mlionht Itr luiMWi-ri'il l«*r llii' iMiii-lit «>!' all the nicm-

, l»l'PH.

*^^* 'I'lif oruanixnlion <li'|iarliii«'ii( liaM li:iil «*4inMiilrr-

Cff\ alil«- cxiK'i-irni'c imrkinu itilli «arioiiN «Mtiiiii> Parni

^ ^ lliir«-ant oa llu* mkiIUt ol tiM* nnioniil ol iIucn. II

4-t)s|<H ahoiil -«• iiiurli IMT iit*-iiift<-r lo nut a ('oaiit>

i'arni lltircaii anti roniliT >.rr%i«-c. 'I'ln- slfv wt I In- foiinl>,

«-oiiilili*Mi <tl Ihr ri»ad*>. «-oiM*rii<ralioii *tf llic ■n«-iiil«TKhiti.

»-l4'.. ar<* f;M-l*»M* rfmtlallntr tliiM i-o-*!.

'li\o thhiKM liiiliH-f a larnn-r lo Join llic Kami lliiri'au:

I. l\nott i«-ilui' of liif ncfil of a^rit-nhiir.-il <M-ononiic
antI H«M-ial lite ol a Ki-ncral tar in orKnni'-nlion, and
hiN <lui> to Nn|t|iorl niicIi an or^^anixa t ton Ititl h nior-
nll> anil llnaii«-lHll> .

'J. Inili\<ilnal and i-itHr'-i ivi* hi'actit ol' Ihf Ni>rvi«-*-M
ofli-ml l»> Ihr ortt:in!/.a<ioii.

I |)'.tiiil oiil Ihi'si- |«\i» inalti-rN »m ii Ita^iN for my nrRil-
iiii-n( to rolloH.

\ uooil farm liiircciii nii-nilM-r Inokw at ttit* i-iiNt of th«*
ik«T^ iiT in llii' litiUt of \:iln«* r<-«M-i« I'll. 'I'hfH, I lM'li«-\i>
li:iN ItiM'ii fijll> iirovrn in our «>\|M'rifii«-t' in f»i-«iTal <-iinn-
tifo. 'I'ltrrr in a I mo a |l>t>i-lioloKi<*al t ii*» poinl «% ith ri'-
i%|(r«*t lo (III* amiMtnt of nii-nt >»*'rslii|i tci'. Any man nilli
an.t hiiMincKN ahllily »oiiIil far rallu-r Iii-Iohk: lo an <»r-
uaiii/alioii » tiii-li h»*i K«»nii* iis>tf-lM liack of It titan to »ii
ofn-ini/alion «tlii«-h i« liroki*. lli* i\oiilil aUo
far ralln'r join an iiri;aiii/a liitti « Ui*'!t i<« «»'ir Accd>ftf
tlvitf linan«iari> lliatt lo hflp Mil a liankr*ipt ^SS€IS
i:tic "oiil of Ilii- Itolr." IIi'Imm-. Ihr ai'unmcnt li/fnin
fur a m<*i«lMrx!.i|» fiM- vittliolf'nl ly larpi* to J"ain
l»ro|ii-rly farr,> un lltr
tlon.

l''or a l-'at'in lliirraM t'* |iro|ii*rl> ho III il<it
i»i'tiihfr*ihi|> it is atMo ni't-fsoart lliat il ri-itil*-r r**al »k€-r\~
ill'. 'I'liiv M4T\ ii-i- fttxiN tiiiincy. 'I' It I' «t *>nki*M| i-ounf y
I '.iria lltiri-aiiH lo<l:i> in a |ln:nii-ial it ay linil it hard lit
n-iiili-r till* kind of Ni-r\ ici- » liii-h I hi-ir iti«*nihi>rNhl|* re-
iluirfM.

'I'hf arK:iinii.-nl, of 4*oiirh*>, al»a>>> i*ri-«i'iil(*d in i-itniiiM*-
li«>tt » itli I hr riMiiMM-il titi'iiilicrsliiit fi-i- \n that tttorc ttii-n
i«ill .l«>in. 'I'lii*r*> :ir«* l»<i \ ii-«« pi>ittl<* » lii<-h may hi* laki'ii
of thai Nlatontont:

In I hf lirsr i»liii-e, itiir «'\piTi«'iti*i' iIocn not lM>:ir out
aii>' truth in that arKumt-nl. l-'or InNtjini-e, in IIh' I:io>I
tiicnihfrNhip «-:inipai|£it oiti* coiiitf y ri'tllifi'd IIm iIiii'm on
th«- Htrcnsrlh itf a fi*flit*U' ^hal il woiiM Kt't a lartci-r
mi-iiihi'i-Mhip. \flrr a *>lri>ntii>«M i-aitt p;ii^'n Ihat i*«»iiiil>
Wixn 011I3 ahli' to *ticn np i;o per i-oiil of its fiiriniT m<'m-
ItfrMhip, llfm-c. the ri*iItii-lion in I hi* iIui'h Mci'minj;!^
hail Mt» I'fffM-l «hat*v4'r. \

'I'liri*!- «tlhf*r «-oiinlifM iit«'r4'aw»-il thi-ir mrnihi-rNlifp iIik'n
from ^l«> lo yir. pi-r >i-:ir atiA in all lhi<>(> 4-aKi*<. a un-ali-r
piTffnlaKi* itf thi* oM nii*ttihiTship %\as siKiird up than did
I hi* ftktinly that rtiliiri'd ihi- iltM-<4.

'lite N4>roiid «ii>t%poinl K lli.-it vwn mIiimiIiI tin* potlui*-
linn in itiii-M infri-a*ir thf nit 111 hi- r of nii-iiihcrs il t\i>iilil
i-all f%*r iii«>ri*a.Ht>d Hrr^ ii-i- front I '\*- i-onnly |'':irni Ihircaii

olllfi- anil aiKo Ihr I. \. A. on Ii-sh fiindK. Il ■■o.oii!<4 ri>

lo hi-rt** I.IIOU mi-ii ill a i-oniil> I'ar-itt llnn-ati than il doi-s

r\4- filHI. I»*i IIm- luf*}** 41 1 thi>

on Muuu4"oi)-(l h> Mr. I':n(£i-ltniin

iiniil> lantt lliirrau iiilh LI'IHI

Mnrt> ntcttilM-rs «\4*iild li.-ni- an iMcitinr ttf

jrjLff c ip; St. i.Mi. On till- .SI.%.IM» ItaxU an <'4|iiat

itiOtM'iil ot iiii-omc fiiiilfl Im- (ihl.-iinnl

f rotii 7>ll 111 flit t*4-iN. I 4-r(aiiil> a hi-l-

»*•;• sir\ii-<' ridiTil hi- rcndirrd on that

ii'4>4> f4» 7NI> nti-iiili4'r>* tliati 4-4iiii4l poMsiUlv lii* rfiiili-ri-d

10 i.::fMi.

l-'ront otir rxprrii-iu-i- anil 4il)N4-rx alion, it is nitl 1 hi*
anioiMit of ilti4-«. that k«-4-|ix a man 4miI i>f a i-oiinty l''arin
lliir«>ati in \*Tt pi-r n-iii i»f Hit- i>as.fx. \\ t- nil r4-c4imilv^i-

tUv f«4*l, of I rst*-. Ihal il i« i|i<il4- 4tf|i>ii iiNi-d »h a riason

»hy n man doi'H nol Join, hnf in ri-nlily It In mori* an
«-\4ii»i* itian a rt-aMtn.

I am 4-on\ in4-i-tl that a farmi-r \i )io [n Nitid i»ii orcanl/a-
llon »i!l join a foiiniy I'arni lltiri-aii and I hi- IIIJnoiN
lurii-tillural \-<.<tflal>on no mailer i\lial t hi- dii4-M. m4i
l*>tiK t\H Ilt4'> Jiri- t^llhiii ri-asi>n: liiil if lie im mo( Nold on
orKaiti/alion il is n liartt matfcr !•> u.vt liini in «-teii
thoiifrh thi- dni-s he only iiiu' t|«»liar a yi-ar.

I hi-lit'Vi* thai lhi> iiM-nihi-rMhip In ui-nrral iti Ihr Illinois
Aurii-nlliiral .\NKocl:itittn »ill aKri-i- fhal yir» \u-r yi-ar
ilid's in Ihf i 4 Italy t'arm Itari-a;! and I hi- lllinoiN .\i;ri-
4-tiltiiral \KMOfiatMin Is no| 4iut i>f lini- »iili tin- «||i«>m paid *!
ill i»lhi-r orKaiiir.:i(ioiis iti' :i k^iniilar naMiri- ri-pri-Ki>n(iiiK,-
ollii*r iiiiliiMlrii-M. Thi-ri* is n«* r\i-iis4- |f> !i4* huhIi- front a
^landpoint of Ni-r> t4-i- fij- ol dollars and rrniM NaviMl Ih4*
iHi-mhfrship i*f tli*^.<- or;:.aiii/nlioiis. . I'hi- fitiinty l-'arm
llnrfaii.s in Illinois aii:l th*- llJIiiois \c>'i<-iiil ttral .tsMoi-la-
114)11 hati- paid m'aM> linti's Hd- anitiiat iIucn in thi* Na«-
inn** Ihal ha\i- In imi i-M'i'4-t4-il lhr4MiKh thi- varintiM llnt-s
4»f M4-r% ii-4- t\ h it'll ibt- i>ruani/,alion niri-rs.

*;. 1:. M*'tyK4-r. diri-t-fnr.
Oruani/iiliiMi ili'parinifiii, |. \. \.

$15 Means *^''lr„
More
Service

••\Hii-o i»f llfiiilMTs"* I'oliinin; 'Ihi- ri*Iallt>iiNhip i>f llu-
farm hiiri-ati nii-nib«-r !*> his l-'arm Itiirf-iiii i-an hi- i-v-
prrsNi-d in lliri'i- «oril,s.— hi- Is it. I) the fartiirr « ho
Ii4-i'iinii-s a nifml»»T hy siunin*^ ih.- uti-inhfr.ship «-iinlrai-l
it)ll> ri-ali/is tl)4- ii*4-4ssily fttr farim-r orKani/.alion. anil
Ihal till- l-'arm lliireati is lits <t\\it oruatii/i(ii4in. in \%hl4-h
III- is on<- 4»f Ihi* uikils. Iti- «\ill thitik mimI Mpcak of || ns
liiM o»n.

'I'oo many ttii'iiihrrs lia\4- M-4-it tml.t on 4- i*r i\\ a thinics
of %alii*- in Ihr l-*arni flori-nti. — I h4iK«- t!iincs t\hich Itavi-
hroimhl lh«-in a dirri-t sai ii>u 4*f nioti-

i-> . — and It .-IX I- faili-d to ki'i- t In- Im-iii-- k . .

Ills l<i a;:rii-iillnri- as ii «\ hiili-. \i-- UtreCt

«'oiiipliptliiiii-nl<« of It u 4* lit* rat nainn- n ca t m.

thai may Im> of far Kr.-ali-r \a!tu- oeTXetltS LeaSt
th:>n atty dim-t M£t« inun ari- ovi-r- r .a

lonkrd l.j «"" many 01 ns Kiinply hi-- iniportant

i-aiisc \i 4> look only lor iliti-i-l i-awlt
KaxInKx.

Ill any i-n-oprr.tHvr <»r iirKaiii/ril rflTiirt U it* r:iNy to
forK*-t Ihal il is ti>ain itorK <hat h:ox<-s Ih*- load. In Ihi-
o!il fasliiiini-il harn raisiiit: xx hi-n llu- man in 4-harKi- Maid.
**lli-a««- Ho," and all lif|i-d at 4iiii-<-. il wah llii-ir f-onihini-d
lori-i- thai put Ihi- hi^' |it.»[n-rs in plai-i-. 'rr:im 4\4»rk ilid
x\hat no oti4- wot-kiii:; atom- i-onM haxi- HC4-oni|»lislt4*il.
i:afli 4tni- iliil his III! \«h4'n hi- was i-alli-d. In Ihi- Farm
lliiri-aii Ihi- i-all itt «Ii>Ii-imI 1 tii- oru.ini/.ation ni-ains| mis^
laki-n iil(-:is i»r M4-r«i4-i- i-ititi*-s in \arioi;N x«:t>i>> and plai-i-N.
With lh<- lack 4>f e\|ii>rii-iH'i- In orKani/a< ion 111110111; n^
fariiM-rM it Im tiiit 1« hi* xx iMiJi-ri-d at tliat hiiiiii- of iix itrt-
i-onfiis4-d liy tht* i-normoiis ntl rtili-N madi- In l<-uislali4>n.
lax «|Ui-Nll4»iis. fri-i^lil rali-s. and 4-o-4i;irr;itiv4- iiiarki-tinK:>
tinil I It I- actix itli-H XX it III n I hi- i-oimty |'4)r more «-l1lt-ii-nt
111 i-fh oils of i-rop an«l Mx i- sloi-k iirtnliifiinn.

ThiM is nn aui* i« xxtiii-h a^ii'Ii'iillni'i- iiiiinI lir inaili- n
husini-sM iiiNti-ail i»r jii^l a iiM-aiiN of <-\i«t4-ti4-t-. An m
husini-ss It should pa> intrrt-Mt on th«- i-apit.'il antI latior
inxi-s|4-d. TI14* ftiria«-rM »rr tht* only niit-N Ihtil t-aii in.*i:.4*

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December 6, 1924

The Illinois Agricultural Association Record

Page 3

6TH ANNUAL A.F.B.F.
CONVENTION SLATED
FOR DEC. 8, 9 AND 10

Subcommittees Will Settle

Questions; To Broadcast

Programs By Radio

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When th<* hand of time rings
up Doc. 8, 1024 there will be
convening in Chirago. at the
Congress Hotel, one ol the most
important meetings of farmers
America has ever held.

Tlie occasion will he tlie fith
annual meeting of the American
Kami IJureau Federation. The
convention lasts three days, Dec.
8. 9 and 10, during which some
of the weightiest problems ever
to f.ice the directors of the Ked-
eration will be threshed out by
agricultural leaders.

Handle .Many Problems

The complete program for the
several sessions has been an-
nounced by the program commit-
tee. Aside from the regular pro-
gram that has characterized an-
nual A. V. it. F, meetings in
years befor<^, there has been ar-
ranged plans lor a detailed study
of the many problems which
should be discussed.

To accomplish the detailed
plan of handling questions the
Hoard of Direclitr.s will be di-
vided into six subcommittees. To
those special committees will bo
a.ssigned special matters which
they will sf^tth' in tli reo periods
set aside for that purpose. Prob-
lems of organizati()n and linanee.
research and transportation, pub-
li<*ity, legislation and taxation,
rural life and co-ojierative mar-
keting are the principal ones to
come u)>. Community develop-
ment and bo.\s' and girls' club
work will also be included.
Hanquet <m Tuesday

On Tuesday evening. Dec. 9,
the delegates and farm bureau
leaders from all- over tho T'nited
States will lay aside their heavy
and vexing problems while they
attend the 6th annual A. V. B. F.
banquet. *

liadin will play its part in this
r.th annual convention. IJy spe-
cial arrangements with * station
KYW. the opening address of
I'resident Itradfute. which will
com monco at 10:15 sharp, Mon-
day morning, Dec. 8. will be
broadcast. Arrangements have
al.so bi-en completed with this
same station to broadcast the
(•ntire program on banquet night.

MACON COUNTY GIRL

WINS ESSAY TILT

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Fmtrtvvn of the brst essay ivritrrs in Illinois, ^ome of ihi'W iVuhi't seitil thi-ir pu-hires in time to iset thi'ul il
uitll //lis bunch. (1) Inmi llvnry, (2J Curtis lleulhers. f.i) l>s..ir lliiiiilih. ill Unhvrla /.//.r. ''<! Murmn
Cutharine Schnapp. Id) LnVrta ilrQuipi!. (7) <*pnl Hixie. HI) llazil » il<h: I'D ithlinr S/,ii«»..«. ' llh Kiih
Todd, (ID Elbert McCarthy. 112) Everett A. Simrkrn, (13* hiiith Dishim.:. ill' Uvrnmn llittmnr.

f''<uitiTHM-'l from pa^r 1)
rroidu'tstown, Wliitosido county
;iiul MjirKiirot Catliorine Sclinapp,
T;ilulla. M<-nard ooiinty.

Tliioo .nKK'i'.s. Arthur C. Page,
cditdr of OrauKP Jurtd Illinois
I- arniir. C. E. Hay. president of the
I''arm .\d\ isers' Assoc-iation of Illi-
nois, and J. K. Hill, head of vo-
ealional at:rirullure department
at .Springfield, s|ient an entire
day in choosini; the b<'.st essays
Ininicdiately after announcing the
resnlls of the e<)nlest the judges
issued tlu> followin;; statement:
Slatenieiil i»f the .lii(lt;es

"\Vi' find a ureal deal Of merit
in these essays, and highly com-
mend tlio.se boys and Kirls who
have inil in thorough effort to
seek out the facts about the Kami
Ilureau.

"We are pleased to see the
breadth of vision concerniiiK the
nature and purpose of the Parin
liureau as a national, state and
count.v work, by which it is
shown to be not only a means of
increasing: profits in dollars and
cents, but building a basis for
more abundant country life.

"The first and second prize win-
ners , i>articularly brinK out an
idea which is the foundation of
successful Karm lUirean operation
in a county, slate and national
way. and that is that after all.
while live slock, crops, soil, laws,
marketinir. etc.. ne<Ml careful at-
tention, folks themselves are of
highest value, and the ultimate
job of the farm bureau is de-
veloping rural life."

Fii'st l»i'i/,e l'a|H'r

Here is the essay picki'd by the
jndj^es as the one best typifyins
the ideals and iiurposes of the
farm bureau movement.

equal to any other business. They
want other folks to know this.
So they have be.i;un to organize.
The Farm Bureau is the result.

The Farm Bureau as it is or-
ganized to-day includes county,
state and nation. The.se working
together stand for profitable farm-
ing and social welfare. Thi' mem-
bers consist of farmers who look
forward to the future for results.
not only in money, but in de-
veloping a higher type of rural
life.

In Illinois alone there are
sixty-three thousand I-"arm Bu-
reau members. My Dad is one
of them. He is a booster for the
I*''arm Bureau, first; because its
program of work has put on a
campaign of education to lia\e
farmers test catth' tor tubercu-
losis. It has made [xissible for
farmers to get free tests under
the supervision (tf the United
States Deiiartment of .\~riculture.
Also to get pay for two-thirds of
the loss of cattle that prove to
have the disease.

Second; For incouraging the
raising of soybeans as a com-
mercial croj) to fight till' chinch
bug.

Third; For conducting corn di-
sease plots to make possible the
best choice of seed corn to plant.
Kourlli; Because a general
luactice has been brought about
in sowin.g wheat after the tl.\'-
free date, which has saved farm-
ers thousands of dollars.

Fifth; Because co-operative
shipping as.sociations h»ve ijeen
established to improve the mar-
keting of live stock.

.And liusl; perhaps the best
thing of all the Farm Itureaii
is doing is the building of b'tter
community life through co-op-
erating with the Home Bureau
and organizing boys' and girls'
clubs. The Farm Bureau be-
lieves in developing the resources
of tlie farm. This can be done
by giving higher standards for
rural living. The live stock, the
ci'ops. and tln> soil all need car<'T
fnl attention but the folks them-
selves are of more value than all.
Because the Farm Bureau is
doing and bi'lieves all these
things. My Dad is a member and
a booster for the Farm Bur.au.

"till

ill. •! Iroiii

Finds

SIS Fee

Is Not High

I hfitr h:td vunsiit«*r:il>l4> «>i|i4Ttcn'
in NttlifiliitK t*<>rk nud in N«>nii- »>(-
lii»ii<4 hnw calU-tl «in tar Hitire nii
»lii» »<*iil4l ni>( i«>in tliun who woul
TIh' o p p " w i t «'
niiN uMiially the
«• a N €'. hit«*'\<T,
tlu' ntimlM'r In- f tr I7-«,

iiiK K».m<-»»li:it ill -^'^ '^^'^

pr4»por(J»ii i*> n
ilfNire tn tlo thi>ir
p n r t i II t h i K

Krt-nl »\«irk. li* mmi*- i:i*«-» Hn-
■iit-nilirrNhip tvt- w.i^ *hi- lUiiiK «»•-
J4'4>l4*il to. hill, in ni> jmiIkmh-hI. nimli
llip siiinr nrKunu-nl «oul«! Ii:i%*- iMM-n
iiMi'il in nM»wl ca*.!-* rt «:inll«»»'* "t lli**
amount «l ll»«* f*'v. I lik«- an ..r»;:iM-
ixalion |nd«*priMlfnl <»l Imal t:»\
Kiippurt. an *»rKaiii/.atit»M tinan.'«'«l
iij ranntTN IlirmscU r^ ami «l»li-
Kntcd to n« ta«|ia>«'r op|MM*vd to Miir
»i»rk. A Nlidinu >.»:ilt- |.«r iim-iiiIi»t-
Mhi|i tevH basfii "»t ian»! M%vufd or
operated, stn NotnctiincK ad»«Mal«-d.
t\«mid n«'«»-j.i^ilalr a r«-»i>>ial of it-e*.
I'at'h year. Ii«* a soiipee of «-l«-riial
disMaticilaelion. and reM"ir«- a ire-
nirnilouM ainoiint ol" «<ti<U. \ Sl.%
annual nn-nilKT-.liip l«*»- >« mom*- loo
IiIkIi eonHidfrint^ Itie rapilal and !»•
hor invcNlcd oii lite a*«-iac«- Inrm
IMher liuNineMs coniliinett and IsiUor
orisaniiKntionN lia*<- ' niMMM-ciN-d Im'-
l-aiiN<> «f represcMtali^e lofiiilM-ixliip
i\ilh fee« l,*ir»sr cHOiiuk t»i atii-r|Ual«'-
l> liniinee their HnderlaUinf.

.More eiri4>ien( prodiiel ii>ii In tlie
I'linilanit'iilal program ol oiir l-*:irni
Ilureau. htll «»* niusl e.»-<i|M-ra«e iu
niereliaiidlKine our |irodii«l->i. lo-
operative innrketine: iw itot hetliiiK
pri«-eK on our «M(itiino<lilie<<>, liiil it
Nhonid aiVord a nieanN ol rr;iiilal Jnt:'
llie Hon **( «uir prodiiol*. I'roin llie
I'arni l«» the tuarkelN in ne«-ordaner
»ilh d>-itiniid!s <tt' titor aod p!-i<-ji-.
and ohoiild iluapt-n iIm- «-om| oi diN-
triliiilion.

ir all nienilMTs of the l-*arni Ilu-
reau »4»ul«l «*o-operale lui:>, r«-*M»e-
ni/.e anil |i

Richardson Tells
Radio Bugs Why
Cream Tests

Vaiy

lEy Dorothy llockiiian,
>lacoii Counly

The farmers have begun to
think. They think farming is

111 McDoiiough ronnty, slii|i-
|)ing associations have consigned
H:: carloads of stock to the Chi-
cag(t Producers Commission Com-
pany since July 1.

Forty boys' and kiHs* in Knox

county begin feeding their baby
beef club calves on Jan. 1, 1925.

i«e th

.ml

I <■ r a t i % e

•tiiiK proj-

iiM ilieir

inflieienl «»f

II o»

pr.Mlu

. l«

i:t r

uld

our Ii.'iihIs \i iH-re
«e ha^e aa i«-
alienahlc r i t: h t

- Do^vn in l-;i>^t Si. I.nniti A.
Itirhandsim m.iii;ig<-s the 111
Dairy (Nimpany. Snmetimes
Mo pat runs, like otlu-i-s. Kii-U
ere;tm tests. .Mr. ki<lKinlson.
ill) all" eream<'ry!iieu. Knows tl
:]iere.are reasftns for variatii
ill ( r»fain tests. Wlieii he v
ask'Ml to leU r;idio fans "\\1i
f''re:im Tests "Vary" ho was ^1
!o aeeept. Ue:id. in part, how
<'\pl:iill«Mi the pUZ7,b' ever \V(
last \Ve.inesday evening. I>ee.
"Thtrc isn*t any s*m W-l ab(
making goocl huller' now a-ihi
with "llie moiU rn «'<pirpiiM'Ut
the up-tci-dale cr'nm'-ry." the
Mo iWMiager loM ihe H.^^iciii
iuiryijifn. "To n;al.»' goiid butt
s.t;ir4 With tho if^w. <*b-an u-ld
(jlt'iii Jlqnk. t lean haiitls and cK

Tills is i!Ol seniitiK'liI
iiily way t^> ke**p di>
which desivt'vs bnl

h:

ri>e

II nr*'

aled i>ruaniy.atlon'
our «>«« n proilurti'
Iheiii. lii-Ip Iht III
I'ariii »ill !•«■ a U'
akie ahidiiiu

1 «Mir'»

(■•-Nxtnl .
, llHleh.
*i|ark t'«»iint> !■'

kIiiIIciI innrkeC
p <• r i «• d •• i\4iuld
»>,o 41 n tiinappeac
and » e » on lit
4-onie inio onr
t»i\fi » (I liout :iii>

■ iijiir.t |o I It 4"

■ ■titisiiiiiiti;.!' p Ilk-
Mr.

:iu and itN ntlill-
ar«- eliiliireu *tf
>n. I.ei'N prolr.-l
o Kr4>«\. anil Ih4*
:itllt\ .-iiitl proUI-
>ld ace

clellH-

is the

l);ir-t. i'i;i

Mavnr. . " '

I ria\4>r f'oiiiMs Itig
f '"In judiring luin-r. Ilav-r eoni
4r. i.eir <enl. hoily and gr;iin
'^Hv' <er)t. color Vi per rcul. .s
Ho per cent, ami neatiess
paeKii}:*' "t p<'r 4-eiil. S(» yiiu i
why I mlk of rta\H>r lirsi. Th
are ^tlier elen^'nis which c
(rihntt' vt*ry largely to tiie hut
;llavor> suih as liarn i»htrs. um'
lie tUv*:r and usinK vessels
i]iro|ie|:ly tinned, wi-eily feed,
im;il(y others.

The :n idily of rr<*ani is.."i;ni
\>y hjH leria. wliiili n.nliiply ■
iilly Ui warm weaiiier. Cr
shouifl he kepi ai ahunt TiH
grefe-i. -Mways prnpcHy eo »l
fr(?i-h cream bi-fnre it is put
ihft c an witli Ihal of ]irev
-htys.

Lois of less 1-5 caus'-d
Kxlia vnrv for
pai4| for if a

•i>-op4-rati4tn.
I'r4*<*i4leiil.
ariti ilureau.

.\l (^iiincy, :M

re menilh rs of ihi
■ Farm Ilur«;au.

Itiisiiioss inon

■ Adams Coun-

Scvenly-tlifM' lici^Is r*preseut
Ing l.'inO h« ad of cattle ia the
neighborhood of Waukegan and
Zion were given the tuberculin
test in one week recently.

oaniy

<-ream.
is well

IM

enj;iin'

or two foams ov* r and

iraaisU,

i l-;iVe<t |V«- lAt'iy TaiiM'

•'Ttie variation in the !<■
<ro;im is |)roh:il>ly th*- ctii
imire, ^nisn!id'-r..::i tiding h'
i1h^ protlucers nml the ere:im<
llian, any oth»'r i>»e Ihins.
eiias«)-p of. the cr<>am l*'.st var
4lnes ; net s<'*'m to Im» very
uiijlerslood. bill remembt-r.
« very tffect tlu re is a cause.
!ni";Iifl b(- tho comlilioii of
loft;. eondttion of the milk,'
ditioii of th«' separator or
condition of thi* civam."

I.A.A. ACCOUNTING
' DEPARTMENT HELPS
i 101 MEMBER CO-OPS

! Make Applications for Income

Tax Exemption; Schedule

53 Audits

Tlw ri-.jjpoli.se ol * o ».|(er;itive as-
sjrieiations, and Kaiin |lur"aus fn
Illinois in Ihe , ._

lltaii <>( ^U'Rani- |

witioii of the, 1

Illinois April lll-l >*• ."Sf*,*

Uiral ("oioiH'ra- • , '
Ifves .\ss<Kia- 1 ..

tl«>n lias been . 1 —

vjery eiinouraK
iiMK. aerprdinc
til a sla(ement
h y -ti .■ <i U
Wieker. kJc neral
i^ianaKer of Ihe
:ilililillK co-op.
i i:iuler lihe di-
r^.eli..u of Ver ^ .,..,„, ......^

It o n \ aliimun,

i»-j;auiztiiion r.i.res.'iiiai n e. ihe
liemh.Msliiip has readied 1"!
llirmers' oiKaliizaliolis. ineludim;
i^ farmers' ■levaiiors. ::« eouii-
U Farm Bureaus, niiie live stiw-k
shiPpinK sissmialiolis. live dairy
,li jperaCJte lompanies. Ihree live
s^.H-Ii tiiaitkeJinK aKen( i)s. two in-
.hraiii •■ i-»uiipaiiies and four niis-

ella neons Ol-Kallizat iolis

I'p to l»ei-. 1. .'►:» e.\aminailons
iBave been silieduhd ;niil the man-
a»:eiueiit Is makiiiK an eflort to
ni.ii Ihi' reiiuir. iiients o< the vari-
ous oiKanizalions al lUe (-lo.se of
ihiir liseal period, with one or
lUo exriipiioiis this has been
(lime. Tbc' number of examina
lions wliii-h eome in .lanuary will
inoi permii examiuatioi'S and ro-
lii.rif lo b- ronipleted before tlif
iUinual meeliiiKs of tine difTerent
(vrj;aili/.atioiis.

llii>-,» Willi liii-oiiie Taxes
DuriiiK Ithe past iiioinli. the ac-
(KuinlinK department liiis Ikk'H en-
Kau'd in sei-uriuK information

ir l-'arlii llureaiis r<-<iuired for

llie piiriKise of niaki»K applioa-
llous for i exemiilion tnun ineome
ifixes. .\! niuiil)'-r of Mi< b appli
Oaii'.ns liive been prepared and
>fent out lor siKuatures of Ihe ofli
eers of the Farm Ilureaus and
others ar<- lieinK pieftited as soon
as lie- r»^Mnired iiitt>rriiaiioii can
l»e serurud. says Mr. Wicker.

.\ bulU-liii was reciMitly pre-
^areil aiiH ^enl out lo all farm
adviser;* coveriiiK quite fully the
girovisioni of the Ueveiuie Act
and regulations issm-d tlwreunder
as applyiJiiK lo <-o-opefalive asso
ciations .(iid oilier aKrieullural or-
gani/atioits.

.\iienti<>ii of farm advisers is
called lo the fail that lhi;i bulle-
tin covers most of Ihe inquiries
wliieh arc bi-im; mad-' wilh refer-
ence lo Itlni ri'tinireiuenis of co-
operative; as.social ions and farm
bnrians io make returns for in
cmiie an^ capital stock lax, un-
less I hey are expressly I'xunipi;
The bi|llelin also <T>vers ([uite
spet ilically llie reiiuireiiients of
llie ('omillissioner of Internal Kev-
t^iiiije for tin; exemption of the
tissoriatidns iiiid iirocedure ntn-es-
sary IheVeto. .Any qileslions not
ansvtei-cd by this bullciiii will he
Civen .peeial allenlion it ad-
dressed «o Ihe .\eeounlinK I'ivi-
hion of the Illinois u\|;ricullural
.Vs.socialiiiii.

Hear \ aiitiiiaii on KaHi**
■I Mr. A'aiiiniaii oulliiied ihe need
iif propiir aiiditin;; of eo-4ips ■ lo
IkVW raiilio folks Tli»sday niKlit,
|l>ec. 2. ' He explaiHOal that the
I. .\. r. l.\ is lo oper*le on a co-
Ki|ieiaiivi( basis lor ftirmers just -
as a hahkils' i li ariiiK house oi>-
irales iii lalKe i-ijies-

■The ialue of a cood audit in
incriMsiiiK the lo.valty of the
st.Kkhol«ers is not to be over-
looked." was <iue of his slate-
iiu'iiis. f'.Viiy numlH-r of diriH-tors
haVe siafi-d thai it w<inld he worth
f.T to $1(1 per yiar, iM-r stiK-k-
X'<i\ in iicildi-r 111 ihiir associ»iion if ea<-li
t(>ikhol|ler were loyal lo his own

loop." I

Faimiijis who aiv bkokiue ahead
nl kei'pinK abreast with the
tims a(iprei iate the ne.il of bet-
ter busfne>^ mi'lhods for co-op-
elative.s, he >aid. 'I liey are look
iiiK for|«aid to the lime when
I here vfill be iiioii' co-opiratiH
bfi W'-eiij CO operation's and they • \-
p.-it tljiir auditing s>>r\ic.- to
tia.--ii-n il^ eoiuini-.

, il

il

im-
nd

^eil

ap-
aiii

de
Ihe
■ III)
litis

the

111

veil

For
It

the

?on-
thi-

Tlic IMlitllle Vtlional Kami
Loan .\t>s<M'ialioii ha* marly _fl.-
iiilo.iio(» farm loans: ia force in
Verniili|>u county, j

1-

P«ge4

The DKnob AfricnlhlwJ A«>ocktioo Ifacawl

6. 1924

FARM BUREAU ESSAY
WRITERS TELL HOW
CONTEST HELPS THEM

Boys and Girb Appreciate

Ti; Believe In Farm
Organizatioas

After the county judging com-
mittee* had announced the win-
ners la each county the I. A. A.
■sent Utters of congratulation to
the winners asking for Jheir pic-
tures and letters telling of the
benefliB they got out of the
essay contest. The letters and
pictures of some of the boys and
girls weren't received in time to
get in this RrxoBD but here are
a few "snapshots" and "cross-
cuts" taken from the replies.
Head what 10 future members say
about the Farm Bureau.

•'I wish to thank you for your
confcratulatlons on my essay. I
looked up some of the things the
Farm Bureau Is doing and this
helped me to remember them. I
learned more about the Farm Bu-
reau ahd more of the benefits It Is
to the farmers. My father Is a mem-
ber of' the Farm Bureau and gets
the I. j\. A. RECotD."

Dorothy Heckman,

Cerro Gordo, 111.

"I received your letter of congrrat-
ulatlon for which I am sending my
thanks and also for the prize I won
in the state contest. I think I de-
rived quite a little benefit by enter-
ing as I think it will be quite an
enrouragement in entering again
some time. I also think it quite In-
terestlhg as well as educational."
Marjorie Cline,
i Virpinia, 111.

Prlie Bays Class Pins

"My jfather not being a farmer or
a farm bureau member. I knew lit-
tle If anything about It. Our class
at school was striving to get some
money with which to buy pina
When we heard of the contest we
decide* to choose some one to take
part. r was chosen. I enjoyed
studying the subject because It was
something new and helpful. I am
very thankful for having won first
in Logan county and third in Illi-
nois because with the prize money
our class is able to pay for the pins
Kindlx send the next issue of the
the I. lA. A. RzcoaD."

Ru<h Kaesebier, Emden, III.

"I c*n assure you that I have ob-
tained, several benefits from this
contest. I learned about the works
of the Farm Bureau of which before
I was not so well Informed. I think
one should know of the great or-
ganization of our country and the
Farm .Bureau Is a great, active or-
ganization. I also learned self-con-
fldenc* which will make me want
to try again. Please send me an
Issue of the I. A. A. Rzcou) because
my father is not a member of the
Farm Bureau."

Margaret Catherine Schnapp.
Tallula. 111.

Shows His Dad

"The prize money made a nice
addition to my bank account, be-
sides I think the practice of writing
essays is a help in school work. I
give »iy Ag teacher credit for my
success, as he explained the subject
so wall. I would like to have a
copy of your paper to show my
Dad. Perhaps all these arguments
will Induce him to become a mem-
ber of the Farm Bureau."
Everett A, Sancken, Saunemin, 111,

"It has been interesting' to me to
know how the Farm Bureau has
benefited my Dad. I have learned
-in writing this essay that the farm-
ers should co-operate and get be-
hind their organization and boost."
Adelipe Stevenson. Biggsville. 111.

His Dad Will Join

"I did learn a lot from writing
my essay. I learned how neatness
countg. I got the benefit of learn-
ing rtiore about the Farm Bureau
because I looked Into 'the subject
more thoroughly. But best of all
I now have the best side of an ar-
gument with my father. He is now
a business man but soon expects to
be a farmer of Michigan. 1 argued
that he should join the Farm Bu-
reau after he becomes a farmer. I
now receive his attention, a thing
impossible before I won the prize of
Jo Daviess county. Please send me
an Isfue of the RECOto."

Herman W. Dittmar.

Woodbine, III.

"Prom this contest I have learned
more-good works that the Farm Bu-
reau has done because I have read
about it. I have got some benefits
from It. My father Is a farm bu-
reau member so we get the Record.
I thank you for your congratula-
tions,"

Elbert McCarthy, Kinsman, III,

Going To Join Farm Bnreoa

"In looking up facts for my essay
I learned that there were more ben-
efits derived from being a farm bu-
reau .member than T realized. I am
only 14 now but wh&n I am a man
I -will be a member of the Farm
Bureau. In writing my essay I find
that I have enlarged my vocabulary
and .Increased my knowledge In
English and spelling."

Klrby Todd. Clinton, 111,

"The farm bureau essay contest
has firoved a great success because
It has stimulated the Interest of
farm, boys and girls in agriculture,
the greatest industry. Please send
me the next Issue of the Rzcobd."

Ofcar Hamlink, 0«Beseo, 111,

Listen In!

WLS Lines Up I.A.A. Men
For Short Course On Air

Radio station WLS, under the
directioiHfbt E. L. Bill, formerly
director ^f the I. A. A. Informa-
tion department, has arranged a
comprehensive farm bureau short
course of 16 farm radio talks to
be given by I. A. A. representa-
tives. The series will start with
a talk on the evening of Dec. 19
by President S. H. Thompson and
close on Jan. 13 with a final farm
bureau address by G. E. Metzger,
director of organization.

President Thompson's opener
will be "A Bird's Eye View of
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion." His talk as well as all
others on the evening schedule
will begin at 8:30 o'clock.

On Dec. 23 at the same hour,
Chauncy B. Watson, I. A. A. vice-
president, DeKalb, III., will take
up the chain where Mr. Thomp-
son left off, telling all radio tun-
ers-in of "The Farm Bureau as a
Cog In the Nation's Mechanism,"
Treasurer Cowles comes along in
3rd place on Dec, 26 with "What
the Farm Bureau Member Gets
for His Money."

Noonday Programs Too

The first noonday program of
the series comes on Jan. 2 when
J. R. Bent, director of phosphate-
limestone problems relates his
experience in "Helping Agricul-
ture to Permanency" via com-
mercial fertilizers. All noonday
programs begin at 12:30.

The same day, but on the eve-
ning schedule, J. C. Watson, tax-
ation and statistics director, talks
on "Saving Money for Illinois
Farmers."

"The Farm Bureau's Milky
Way" subject falls to your dairy
marketing specialist, A. D. Lynch
on the mid-day program, Jan. 5.
The next night, Jan. 6, L. J.
Quasey, transportation director,
tells "What the Farm Bureau
Has Done and Is Doing to Solve
the Farmers' Transportation Prob-
lems."

Fruit Tallu Sclieduled

Discussion of "The More-Dol-
lars-On-The-Tree and Less-Cost-
At-The-Greeks Activity of the
Farm Bureau" falls to A. B.
Leeper, fruit and vegetable rep-
resentative of the I. A. A. His
talk is scheduled for 12:30, Jan.
7.

At the same time, Jan. 8, M.
H. Peterson, In charge T. B.
eradication gets his turn with
"Clean Hearts and Herds."

Donald Kirkpatrick tells about
"Handling the Fanner's Legal
Problems" at 12:30, Jan. 9 and
the evening of that day Geo. R.
Wicker, general manager of the
I. A. C. A. and director of co-op-
erative accounting, describes the
"20th Century Cooperative."

"Farm Bareauitis" Ends Series

On Jan. 12, during the noon
hour, Wm. E. Hedgcock, live
stock marketing, comes in for
his "Shortening the Hoof-to-PYy-
ing-Pan Train via the Farm Bu-
reau" talk.

At 12:30, Jan. 13, H. C.
Butcher, information director,
will talk on "The Farmer and
His Local Newspaper." At 8:30
P. M. the same day the chain
winds up with Metzger's final
"Farm Bureauitls" talk.

I. A. A. Farm Program

From Station WCK, St. Loala

Time: Wednesday evenings,
7:40-8:00

(This program is arranged par-
ticularly for the benefit of south-
ern Illinois farm bureau mem-
bers who have had difficulty in
hearing the Chicago stations.
Letters and suggestions would be
appreciated. Address the I. A, A,
department of information.)

Dec. 10 — Dairy talk by G. Edwin
Popkess. editor of the Dairyman's
Journal, E. St. Louis, 111.

"What the rilinols Grange is Do-
ing at Belleville This Week," by
Paul Potter, Ass't Editor, Orange
Judd Illinois Farmer.

Dec. 17 — Samuel Sorrells of Ray-
mond. Montgomery county, execu-
tive committeeman for the 21st dis-
trict and chairman of the live stock
marketing co'mmlttee of the I. A. A..
on the activities of live stock mar-
keting department.

"News About the Nation's First
Live Stock Producers Market." by

Washington County's Only

LA.A. Member b Basy Man

To Martin H. Schaeffer of
Hoyleton, III., goes the dis-
tinction of belos the only
member of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association in Wash-
ington county. Young Schaef-
fer, he is not yet 22 years
old, paid his first membership
In the I, A. A. when he was
18 and has since kept up his
membership.

If you go Into
Washington county
today and ask who
Martin H. Schaeffer
is, chances are ten
to one he will be
designated as presi-
dent of the Wash-
ington County Farm-
ers' Institute, presi-
dent of the Wash-
ington County Milk
Producers' Associa-
tion, teacher of the
Bend school, offi-
cial agriculture ed- ""rtl"
itor for local papers, chief
poultry culler of the neighbor-
hood or maybe the individual
who you ask will describe him
simply as chief-cook-and-bot-
tle-wasber in all farm Improve-
ment work.

"I was 'bom In a log cabin,
graduated from public school
and went to the normal Uni-
versity at Carlmndale, intend-
ing to leave the farm," this
Washington county leader ad-
mitted. "But after studying
agriculture and finding that it
has such an interesting scien-

tific side It became the most
fascinating thing In the world
to me."

Realizing the disadvantage
to which Washington county
farmers are put without a
Farm Bureau, Schaeffer began
to talk Farm Bureau. That
was previous to 1922 but the
agricultural depression made
such organization unwise at
that time. He thinks
it wont lie long now
until they will have
a Washington Coun-
ty Farm Bureau.

Some of the neigh-
bors made fun of
young Schaeffer
when he went away
to school to study
"book farming" but
they've changed
their minds. Now
they follow his ex-
ample and spread
kaeCer ^ jmig „ore lime,
sow a little more sweet clover
and make their cows glTe Just
a little more milk.

Most of his better-farming
work Is done "after hours" for
he teaches school during the
day and then culls chickens,
writes for the papers, and
makes plans for Farmers' In-
stitute meetings. At the first
Farmers' Institute Schaeffer
attended there were six farm-
ers present Under his direc-
tion this attendance grew un-
til at the last meeting, 2,000
farmers turned out.

Says Talks Were Good

Read what a repreaentative of
•tation WCK write* to the 1. A.
A. about the first air program
over the St. Louis station:

Your two speakers on WaJaes-
day nicht were very cood indeed
and we have received quitei a
few cards about then, which 1
will mail as soon as 1 Keve tWm
sorted out.

Our wave length kas. been
changed to 273 mefcere.
Yours very truly,
Helen G. Hatfield.
Radio SUtion WCK.

W. T. Angle, director of Information
Producers Live Stock Commission
Association. National Stock Tarda.

in.

From SUtioD KYW, Chicago
BroadcMt at 8:20 P. M.

(Incomplete for December)

Dec. 9 — Broadcast ingr entire pro-
gram as It Is given at the annual
American Farm Bureau Federation
banquet. Congrress Hotel. Chicago.
7:30 to 10:30 P. M.

Dec. 12 — "Eleven Thousand Pota-
to Club Boys Triple their Dads*
Yields." by F. C. Gaylord. Associate
In HortkruUure. at Purdue Univer-
sity. La 'Fayette, Ind.

"Review of the A. F. B. F. an-
nual meeting." by A. F. B. F. de-
partment of Information.

Dec. 16 — "The Farmer In Busi-
ness." by C. E. Bamborougfh. Polo.
111.. I. A. A. executive committeeman
from 13th Congressional district.

"How the State Grange Serves
4^rlculture," by Paul Potter. Ass't
Editor of Orange Judd Illinois
Farmer.

Dec. 19 — Program by National
Committee of boys* and girls* club
work. In charge Guy L. Noble, na-
tional boys* and girls' clubs.

Dec. 23 — "What the Farm Bureaus
Are Doing in Illinois," by H. C.
Butcher, director of I. A. A. depart-
ment of Information.

"Monthly Analysis of Farm Mar-
kets." by H. W. Moorhouse. Brook-
meyer Agricultural Business Service.

Illinois Still In Lead

Illinois still refuses to relin
quish its title to Iowa as the
most staunch supporter of the
Chicago Producers Commission
Association, During October they
were in the lead by ninety-nine
cars, their total being 570 cars.

In the county class, Henry
county, last year's champions,
was setting a hot pace. To -date
173 carloads have been received
from this county, 156 from Knox
and 149 from Carroll.

The race of the shipping asso-
ciations is considerably closer
with Mount Carroll shipping as-
sociation's 79 carloads placing

them in first position. They are
at the present time leading the
Rockford Shipping Association by
exactly 11 cars, which shipping
associations until now has always
been in first place since they
have started shipping to the Pro-
ducers.

For the week of Not. 29 the
Producers handled 100 per cent
more hogs than any other firm
in the yards, the total being 2C6
carloads.

Sheep Volame Grows

Chicago Producers are taking
great pride in the record of their
sheep department. This depart-
ment has been in operation little
over a year and a half and dar-
ing that short space of time, has
achieved such success that the
Producers are regarded as one
of <he four leading sheep firms
on the Chicago yards.

Indianapolis Pnxlncers Report

Dnring the last two weeks of
November, Illinois shipping asso-
ciations have shipped 9S carloads
of live stock to the Producers at
Indianapolis, representing a busi-
ness of well over $130,000. This,
of course, does not represent all
the business from Illinois, for in
the twenty-two counties from
which shipments were received
during this time, there were many
men who fed in carlots and
shipped their own stock.

The twenty-two counties from
which shipping associations con-
signed stock during the last half
of November are: McLean, De-
Witt, Macon, Piatt, Champaign,
Iroquois, Eidgar, Douglas, Moul-
trie, Christian, Shelby, Cumber-
land, Clark, Effingham, Crawford,
Lawrence, Richland, Edwards,
White, Coles, Jasper and Logan.

Feeders Are Interested

One of the most noticeable
things at the market at this time
is the number of men who are
coming to market with curiosity
whetted in regard to their own
organization here. They are in-
terested in the success of the
Producers as well as being Inter-
ested in the sale of the live stock
which they bring with them when
they come, - ^

Some of the most recent visit-
ing shippers have been Abe Hess
of Edgar county, Floyd Barbee
and Tonie Tyler of Clark, Oscar
Anderson of Coles, K. O. Woody
of Effingham, Jess Monohon of
Iroquois, R. R. Shephard and T.
W, Simpson of Christian, and
Fred L. Gumm of Edgar.

From St. Louis Producers

The St. Louis Producers Asso-
ciation received and sold 280 cars
of inbound stock Nov, 22 to Nov.
28, more cars than were bandied

RAILROAD TROUBLES
SETTLED FOR BUREAU
MEMBERS BY LA.A.

Service Includes AU Trouble*

Arising Between Fanners

And Railroads

The transportation department
of the I. A, A, collects many
claims for I. A, A. members and
settles many troubles arising be-
tween railroads and farmers
whose land lies along the right of
way. Collection of claims and
settlement of all troubles between
farmers and railroad companies
is one of the principal services
for which the I, A. A. maintains
the transportation department.
This service is free to I. A. A.
members.

It would take an entire volume
to give spaca to all the claims
handled by the department but
three cases Just recently settled
are fairly representative of hun-
dreds of others.

Got Fences Repaired

Late in December, 1923, Otto
Heur of Bensenville, 111., bad a
valuable cow killed on the C. M.
& St. P. right of way. The ani-
mal got through a hole in the
right of way fence during the
night. The transportation depart-
ment collected 1100 damages for
Mr. Heur. But the railroad com-
pany was slow In fixing the fence
and only after persistent efforts
by the transportation department,
were the fences finally put in re-
pair.

Under date of Nov. 27, 1924,
Mr. Heur writes:

The feaee la flx^ on both aide*
or the track now. I thjiak yon very
m«eh for yoMr troahle aad I atlek
to the AaaoelatlOB bow.

Bad Fence For Years

Another case just settled is
that of the Meyer Bros., of Zear-
ing. 111. For several years they
had been trying to get fences
along the C. M. & St. P. repaired
but no steps were taken by the
company to make improvement.
Early this fall Mr. Quasey took
the matter up with the C. M. &
St. P. officials.

This extract from a letter of
Meyer Bros., dated Nov. 25, 1924,
shows that settlement has been
made:

They are novr vrorkJitK om the
fence. I am anre thankfsl for what
yoo have done for nte In grttlnK
this fence fixed. 1 aare will do all
I can to hooat the 1. A. A., aa roit
did me a sood tnrn In celtlnc thla
fence flxed.

Collect $600 Damages

And here is another claim
which involves a fiood gate of
poor construction. A faulty flood
gate of the B. & O. railroad com-
pany gave way to flood waters,
resulting in much damage to Dan
DeLorme'B field crops at Casey-
viUe, III. The damage was done
early in the summer and claim
for loss taken up with Mr. Quasey
through the St. Clair County
Farm Bureau where B. W. Till-
man is adviser.

On Nov. 27, Mr. DeLorme wrote
to Mr. Quasey as follows:

I have received a draft for f.'SOO
and thank 70a very much for the
IntercBt yon ahowed la helplna acl-
tle HBT claim.

These three examples of claims
that have been handled only illus-
trate the services for which the
transportation department is
maintained by the I. A. A., Mr.
Quasey says. The department is
the Illinois farmer's hired hand.
It performs the services requested
by I. A. A. members as regards
collection of overcharges on
freight hauls, fumfehing freight
rates between shippin'g points,
collection of damages from death
of live stock, fire loss, crop losrf
or any difficulty arising between
the farmer and the railroad.

Whatever your difference with
the railroad may be, send in a
description of your trouble and
we will settle it if at all possible,
the department advises. The
only way to realize on your I. A.
A, membership dues is to use the
services provided.

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by any other firm at the yards.

Noon, Thursday, Dec. 4, was
the time set for the Boys' and
Girls' Baby Beef Club of Macou-
pin county to sell their 44 head
of Angus calves at public auction.
This is their first Christmas Baby
Beeves sale.

C. C. Mast, manager of Adams
County Shippers' Association,
Qulncy, 111., sold one load of hogs
through the St Louis Producers
on Nov. 28 at )9.2& per cwt., the
top for the day.

6, 1924

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Vtdume 2

Issued Every Other Saturday — December 20, 1924

Number 25

CHANGE CONSTITUTION;

RE-ELECT BRADFUTE AT

A.F.B.F. ANNUAL MEET

Greater Power Given SUtM

Which Pay Most Money

To National Body

A ■pecial meeting of thm I. A. A.
executive committee has been called
by President Thompson for Friday,
Dec. 19.

Drastic changes in the consti-
tution which have been fought
for by the 1111-
n o i 8 Agricul-
tural Associa-
tion and the
other midwest
f e d e r a t ions
since the Farm
Bureau was
founded six
years ago and
the re-election
of O. E. Brad-
fute of Xenia,
Ohio as presi-
dent were the
blgblights o f
the sixth an-
n u a 1 conven-
t i o n of the
American Farm

O. E. BradfHte

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Bureau Federation at the Con
gress hotel in Chicago, Dec. 8,
9 and 10. Forty-nine voting dele-
gates representing 35 state farm
bureau federationp were seated

The chief cb'ange in the con-
stitution made it possible for the
states which pay the most dues
to have more to say about how
the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration shall aid the farmers.
All amendments to the constitu-
tion were passed with unanimous
votes of the voting delegates
present, but to become oflScially
enacted each amendment must
be ratified by two-thirds of the
state federations. The midwest
group became entitled thereby
to one more director, making
four representatives for the cen-
tral region with the other three
regions — southern, eastern and
western — each retaining three.
Two- Year Terms

Another change was in the
length of term of office for the
president and vice-president to
two years rather than one. This
change will take effect for the
officers who are elected at the
1925 annual meeting and does
not lengthen the term of the
present incumbent. The name
of the executive committee was
changed to board of directors.
Executive committeemen of the
national organization will be des-
ignated as directors in the future.
Provision was made for approxi-
mately one-half of the directors
to serve two years so that better
continuity of work underway
from one year to the next can
be maintained.

Move to Guarantee Daes

Provision was made in another
constitutional amendment for
closer check-up between the na-
tional office and the state federa-
tions in order that all the dues
payable to the American Farm
Bureau Federation shall be paid
over promptly. By this amend-
ment it will be necessary in the
future for treasurers of state fed-
erations to give bond conditioned
upon accounting for and paying
over to the American Farm Bu-
reau the dues payable in compli-
ance with the conditions of mem-
bership. In enforcing the obli-
gation of such a bond, the na-
tional organization will have
authority to audit the financial
transactions between the states
and the members. It is thought
that this amendment will force
payment from some of the state
federations which have not paid
in the 50-cent portions due thp
American Farm Bureau.

In the election of officers,

(Continued on pase 3, col. 2)

PRESIDENT THOMPSON'S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

PHRISTM.IS is almost
upon us once again. The
spirit of the season should
be of special significance
to every member of the

^ Farm Bureau.

i^i As a member of
this great or-
ganization—county, state and na-
tional units — I wonder if YOU
have ever stopped to think of the
great common cause which exists
between the farm bureau move-
ment and Christianity. There is
a great, invisible tie that binds
the Farm Bureau and Christian-
ity together. Perhaps it is wrong
to say that the two are bound to-
gether. Quite possibly it would
be more correct to say that the
two are one — they telescope or overlap each
other.

The Farm Bureau as an organization re-
flects the advanced thought of a Christian civ-
ilization. Christianity is working through

this agency to serve the need;, oi farm |xcple
in building up a better rural life by making
it more profitable through efficient production
and working out a better plan of distribution
which will contribute to the building up and
maintaining of a strong commu-
nity life which is essential to
peace and happiness, both of
which are the basis of content-
ment.

The little folks who gather un-
der the Christmas trees of today
will live to see the time when their
own sons and daughters will ben-
efit from the farm bureau proj-
ects now under way. We must
look to the future to see many of
our most coveted awards. The
older men in the farm bureau
movement will

not live to see the day

when the benefits from

some of our present-day

farm bureau projects have j^'

(Continued on Page 2. Column I)

Sorrells and Ang^le
Furnish Co-op Live
Stock Air Program

Sam Sorrells, Montgomer>'
county, I. A. A. executive com-
mitteeman from the 21st dis-
trict, and W. T. Angle, director
of Information for the Producers
Live Stock Commission Associa-
tion at National Stock Yards, 111.,
were speakers on the farm pro-
gram over WCK last Wednesday
evening, Dec. 17.

In his talk on co-operative live
stock shipping associations in
Illinois, Mr. Sorrells said in part:

"The extensive development of
co-operative live stock shipping
associations is proof of results
that are satisfactory to the thou-
sands of live stock producers,
who now annually market their
stock through their own shipping
associations, and the continual
organization of shipping associa-
tions indicates that the movement
is past the experimental stage."

The work of the I. A. A. live
stock marketing department in
helping associations install the
best systems of bookkeeping, in
obtaining insurance policy for
protection under the Workman's
Compensation Law, in working
with the University and in other
ways was commended and recom-
mended by Sorrells.

Mr. Angle's part of the pro-
gram was a "News Talk About
the Nation's First Live Stock Pro-
ducers Market."

Hold Conferences

In Four Districts

Quarterly farm bureau confer-
ences in four different districts
were scheduled for this week but
came too late for detailed ac-
counts in this Record.

Down in Springfield, on Dec.
17, executive committeeman Sam
Sorrells called farm bureau mem-
bers of the 21st district together
for their last periodical "pow-
wow," while in Edwardsville.
22nd district farmers were hold-
ing one called by Stanley Castle.

Over at Morrison, Whiteside
county, 13th district, farmers
were meeting at the call of C. E.
Bamborough.

H. E. Goembel, called a 15th
district conference for Dec. 19,
in Galesburg.

Resolution Favors
National Unison

At the annual meeting of the Liv-
ingston County Farm Bureau at Poa-
tiac, Dec. 12, two day* aftar the A.
F. B. F. annual meeting, the following
resolution was passed:

WHEREAS, we r«sard the County
Farm Bureaus* State Associations
and American Farm Bureau Feder-
ation as integral and indispensiblc
parts of the whole Farm Bureau
movement, and

WHEREAS, cerUin policies of the
American Farm Bureau Federation in
the past have caused serious dissatis-
faction and criticisms, and

WHEREAS, we believe that the
remedy can and must he worked out
by leaders within the movement.

BE IT RESOLVED, that the Uv-
ingston County Farm Bureau com-
mend the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation voting delegates on their
«tand in the annual meeting of the
American Farm Bur«au Federation
and pledge our full support to the
Farm Bureau movement. County. State
and National.

Farm Bureau Radio
Program Opened by
President Thompson

How farm people may expect
to solve their marketing prob-
lems and put the agricultural in-
dustry on a sound basis was the
substance of President Sam
Thompson's radio talk over sta-
tion WLS, Dec. 19, which opened
the series of 16 talks to be given
by I. A. A. officials during the
next three weeks.

That organization is the major
factor in putting the farming in-
dustry on a more stable basis is
President Thompson's contention,
which he told to WLS listeners
in these words:

"I am 61 years old, have been
engaged in farming all my life,
have been studying the farmers'
problems at close range based on
actual experience which brought
me to the conclusion that through
organization alone could the
farmer ever expect to put farm-
ing on a sound business basis."

I. A. A. I* Against

Child Labor Law

Leading farm orfanizatiotts all ov«r
the country liave declared their op-
position to the so-called "child labor
amendment," which, if passed, would
rive Congress power to regulate the
work which children under 18 years
of aye may do. Readers of the REC-
ORD will remember that the 1. A. A.
is also opposed to the measure and
will fifht for a negative vote on it
at tba coming GaneraJ AaaamUy.

Railroads Offer
Reduced Rate To
Annual Meetings

In the last issue of the Rciobd
appeared the announcement thai
the Western Passenger Associa-
tion has granted a rate of fare
and a- half, round trip, to the
annual I. A. A. meeting and
Farmers' Week at IJrbana an^
Champaign, effective Jan. 10 to
19, inclusive.

The following announcement
from the Western Passenger As-
sociation will give more com-
pletely the conditions under which
these rates will be applicablf.
They will be effective only from
points along roads which are in-
cluded in the Western Passenger
Association.

"rhis reduction will apply from points
in Illinois; also from St. Louis, Ma.,
wlinvver the (Vfular round trip is $1 Ar
more.

No stop-overs will be allowed.

No certiftcatea will he required as the
individual lines will publish tariffs au>
thorizinx agents to sell tickets on t^
reduced fare basis. |

It will be necessary to travnl the saAs
route on the return trip.

For those traveling over lines that arc
not in tile Western Passenger Associatian
territory, it will be to their advantage to
buy a single fare to the nearest junction
point connecting with tlic line offering
the reduced fare, then buy round trip
ticket from that point.

The following is a list of the railroads
on which the reduced fares will appK:
Chicago A Northwestern; Chicago, Iwl-
waukee A St. Paul; Chicago, Rock Is-
land A Pacific; Chicago, Burlington A
Quincy; Minneapolis & St. L.ouis; Soo
Line; Chicago Great Western; lllinais
Central; Chicago It Eastern Illinois; Wa-
baah Railway; Chicago A Alton; Atdb-
iaon, Topeka A Santa Fe.

It may he possible that some of Ac
lines listed above may feel they are not
sufficieatly interested to warrant the Is-
suing of tariffs granting tlie reductian.
It wilt be advisable for those concerned
to inquire of the sUtion agent regardkig
the reduced fares so that in the event
some line has taken no action they dan
purchase a ticket to the nearest junction
point of another line. In this way we
believe the situation can be handled to
the best advantage.

They Like Farm Programs

In a letter to station WCK.
which broadcasts the regular
Wednesday evening farm pro-
gram for the I. A. A., Mr. aind
Mrs. Fred Stillman. New Atheiis.
111., say: "We listened in on the
agricultural program which you
broadcast yesterday evening. It
was just fine; couldn't have b«en
better. Could you please send us
the poem Mr. Richardson recited
at the end of his talk. We en-
Joyed it very much."

THREE LEGISUTIVE •
PROJECTS OUTLINED
BY I.A.A. COMMITTEE

Coastituh'onal Amendmeot,

Gas Tax, and Tuberculocis

Are Main iMoa*

Three m&jor legislative projects
to be supported by the legisla-
tive committee
at the coming
session of the
state legisla-
ture are: an
amendment to
the Illinois con-
stitution t o
make possible
some later con-
structive reve-
nue legislation,
a gasoline tax
on motor driv-
en i-ehiclei in ■*. c. Brrriachaai
lieu of taxes already levied, and
an expansion of the present effort
toward eradication of tul>ercu-
losis in cattle.

These three projects were out-
lined in an announcement made
by the committee early in De-
cember. The members of the
I. A. A. legislative committee are
Frank Barton, Cornell; H. E.
Goembel, Hooppole, and A. C.
Everingham, Hutsonviile.

Want School CluuiKes

"In order to obtaia caai!tR;c "
five revenue legislation," tbe an-
nouncement stated, "it is neces-
sary that there be an amendment
to our constitution. The survey
of Illinois school conditions made
during the summer in co-opera-
tion with the Illinois Ekiuca-
tional Commission revealed that
beneficial school changes hinge
on revenue alterations. The Illi-
nois Agricultural Association is
joining hands with organizations
representing other industries in
the state for th^ drafting of an
amendment which will allow rev-
enue changes.

"The Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation is for a gasoline tax on
motor driven vehicles, provid-
ing the gas tax money is used
in lieu of taxes already levied.
.\. thorough study has shown us
that the gasoline tax is a just
tax. Auto drivers pay as they
ride, and they pay in proportion
to the amount they use the high-
ways.

ContJnue T. B. Eradication

"We are for a continuation and
expansion of the present tubercu-
losis eradication campaign. If
the present work which has al-
ready been started in 58 liiinois
counties is allowed to lull be-
cause of lack of state or federal
funds, much of the money and
time spent in the past by the
counties, the state and the na-
tion, and by the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association, will have
been wasted. A let up now would
allow the disease to regain much
of its foothold."

Shelby County Live
Stock Men Hold 1st
Annual Get-together

Sixty members of 12 local live
stock shipping associations in
Shelby county turned out for an
all day meeting, called by Farm
Adviser C. J. Robinson, to get
acquainted and discuss market-
ing problems.

Wm. E. Hedgcock. I. A. A.
live stock marketing direct9r,
and F. H. Kelley, fieldman for
Indianapolis Producers, both
talked on live stock marketing
problems. Fifty-two live stock
men were present for the free
farm bureau dinner and more
than 60 attended the afternoon
meeting at which they voted to
make the meeting an annual
affair.

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The lUinoU Agricultural A»»ociation Record

December 20, 19Z4

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I LiIjINOIS

CCLTUBAL ASSOCIA

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PQ%llah*d •▼•ry other Saturdar toy th* Illtnola Agricul-
tural ▲■■ociatlon, 60S South Dearborn Street, Chicago.
lUlDoia. Kdlted by Department of Information. U. C
Butcher. Director.

Entered aa second claaa matter Oct. 10, 1921, at the povt
efflce at Chicago. Illinois, under the act of March S, 1I7*.
Acceptance for mailing at apeolal rates of postage pro-
Tided for in Section 1103, Act of October >, 1917, author-
izea Oct. »1. mi.

The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association is five dollars a year. This fee Includes
payment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois Ag-
rlotoltural Association Rwwsa,

Postmaster: In returning an uncalled-for or mlssant
copy, please indicate key num|>er en address as Is re-
quired by law.

OFF1CEB8
Preeldent, 8. H. Thompson, Qnlncy.
Tice-President, C. B. Watson, DeKalb.
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomington.
Secretarj', Geo. A. Fox; Sycamore.

EXBCOnVB COMMITTEE

Bj Congressional Districts

1lih Jacob Olbrlch, Harvard.

12th v-^ P- Tullock, Rockford

13th >.C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron

15th H. E. Goembel, Hooppole

16th , J. ......A. R. Wright, Varna

17lh i.^. .F. D. Barton, Cornell

18th R. F. Karr, Irequola

19th>. J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th. Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21at Samuel Sorrella, Raymond

22nd Stanley Castle, Alton

23rd J. E. LIngenfelter, Lawrencevllle

24th Curt Anderson, Xenia

23th Vernon Lesaley, Sparta

Directors of Departments
I. A. A. Office

General Office and AsslsUnt to Secretary, J. H. Kelker;
Organization, G. E. Metzger; Information, H. C. Butcher;
Transportation, L. J. Quasey; Taxation and Statistics,
J. C. Wateon; Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vege-
table Marketing, A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing,
Wm. E. Hedgcock; Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch;
Phosphate-Limestone, J. R. Bent; In charge Poultry and
Egg Marketing, F. A. Gougler; special representative
on Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H. Petersen; Legal
Counsel, Donald Klrkpatrick; Co-operative Accounting,
Gtoo. R. Wicker.

'resident Thompson's Christmas Message

(Continued from pagre 1)

given maximum retums. But their sons and
dlaughters, and grandsons and granddaughters, will
be reaping much as a result of these activities. If
we of today build and administrate our organiza-
tion well, those who follow will have an organiza-
tion greater than we dare dream today. They, in
turn, can serve for future generations.
1 The movement should be kept national in char-

Eer. In no other way can be attained the results
t are offered through the broader service speak-
ing for American agriculture. We can afford to
ibeet with disappointment and even seeming de-
feat for the time being in our efforts to overcome
obstacles and things that hinder if it clears our
vision and puts us squarely behind the task of mak-
ing it what it should be so that it will function
effectively in the interest of all of its members.
j Henry C. Wallace, our great and sincere friend
who died in the service of agriculture, has often
^id that true co-operation is no more than "ap-
plied Christianity." A cornerstone in the foun-
dation of the Farm Bureau is the whole-hearted
co-operation of neighbor to neighbor. If a farmer
in any community becomes sick and cannot plow
his fields, or needs assistance in any way that is
worthy, who is it that helps him? It is his neigh-
hoTS, of course. I have seen it happen many times.
it is natural that co-operation be a cornerstone of
a great farmers' organization like the Farm Bu-
reau. In performing neighborly acts, we are ap-
plying Christianity. We should co-operate to set
aright things that do not appear right. To break
^way would be un-Christian.
I In the affairs of the various units of our great
farm bureau organization we must not forget that
Christianity can be applied in our relationships
^th other organizations or other units of our big
family. We must look to the future over and
above any obstacles of the present and obvious er-
rors of the past and apply the Christian spirit of
Christmas in our relations with one another. Thus
will the Farm Bureau go on into posterity like
Christianity.

Right Under the Cans

When President Coolidge gave his notable speech
at the International Live Stock Exposition, he was
literally talking into the muzzle of the guns that
have been shooting hell-fire into the co-operative
live stock marketing organizations. Before a large
group of old time commisBion men, President Cool-

idge gave unqualified recognition to co-operative
marketing of an orderly and centralized character
a.s a substitute for the haphazard and wasteful
distribution methods of the past.

President Coolidge showed that he is acquainted
with the present status of co-operative marketing of
live stock. He stated that the principle of co-oper-
ation in producing, financing, buying and market-
ing must be encouraged to the utmost practical
development. He pointed out further that the
farmer must be released from the individualistic
and competitive conditions under which agriculture
has been conducted in the past.

President Coolidge 's good will toward co-oper-
ative marketing should be a great boon to the move-
ment. The National Live Stock Producers Associ-
ation reports that live stock producers and local
shipping association managers who have been at its
office and at the yards are unanimous in their ap-
proval of President Coolidge 's stand.

The growing confidence of the shippers in their
own co-operative commission agency is seen in the
record breaking receipts of the Chicago Producers.
In. the week ending Dec. 5, this organization
handled 573 carloads of stock, a record for the
Union Stock Yards. This figure beat their former
record of 552 cars.

That's getting to be quite a husky farm bureau
baby, folks.

Tune In!

If you are one of those farm bureau folks who
owns a radio, you should not overlook the talks be-
ing given these wintry noons and evenings by I. A.
A. officials and directors. President Thompson will
have started the series off by the time you have
received this Record. He puts forth the larger
viewpoint of the Illinois Agricultural Association,
a thing that many of us need to get. His talk is
followed at later dates by Vice-President Watson,
Treasurer Cowles and Secretary Fox. Then will
come talks by the various departmental directors,
each telling of his awn work. Someone has rather
aptly termed this series as a "short course" on a
great farm organization. Tune in and know more
about your organization.

And while you are tuning, don "t forget that there
is an Illinois Agricultural Association farm pro-
gram broadcast every week from St. Louis over Sta-
tion WCK. There is still another which is handled
in co-operation with the American Farm Bureau
Federation over KYW at Chicago. If you have a
radio, you should know more about your organ-
ization's worth than it ever has been possible
before. The schedules of the talks appear in the
Record.

I A Real Program

The shipping association movement in the I'nited
States during the last 12 years has made rapid
growth, and at the present time the live stock mar-
keting department's figures show there are 3,900
such associations actively engaged in marketing live
stock in the United States.

The percentage of live stock being shipped to the
various terminal markets by the shipping associ-
ations will vary from 15 to 65 per cent, which shows
the importance of the shipping association to the
live stock producer. Itj has been found that the
shipping association returns more net dollars to
the farmer than when he markets his live stock
through the old channels.

The Illinois Agricultural Association, through
its live stock marketing department, is working to
help strengthen the shipping associations of Illinois
as it is believed that the stabilization and success of
our live stock markets depend upon the strength
and co-operative mindedness of our various ship-
ping associations.

With this thought in mind we are endorsing the
resolutions passed by the officers and managers at
the second annual shipping association conference

The resolutions

of Champaign county, Dec. 12.
follow :

The general committee in charge of the second annual
lonference of livestock shipping associations in Cham-
Itaign county matte the following recommendations for
the consideration of the reprea^ntativea of the local live-
stock shipping associations iti tiie betterment uf work
for the coming year;

Things urged:

That officers and directors of local shipping associations
carry on an educational program during the coming year
on the following things:

1. That each local shipping association hold a demon-
tratlon during this winter on grading hogs.

2. That officers and directors of local shipping asso-
ciations hire local managers that are co-operative
minded. That is that the manager have an under-
standing, and sympathy with the larger principles
necessary in advancing co-operative marketing 'of
livestock. If a manager is not in sympathy with
these things it is hard for him to put them In prac-
tice. It is also more probable that he will keep
still when he ought to be of service in explaining.

3. That local carload individual shippers be urged to
ship thru tiieir local co-operative shipping associ-
ations.

4. That shipping association ofllcials attempt to cor-
rect the practice of several men In the community,
making up carloads of their own stock for shipment.
This is not co-operation, but the tack of co-oper-
ation and results in several different forms of evil.

5. Dra^ attention to the fact that shipping associ-
ations should make their reports on capital stock
tax and establish exemption according to the re-
quirements of the Federal Revenue Act for incorp-
orated and unincorporated associations by July 31
of each year. Income tax reports for co-operative
associations establishing exemption must be filed by
the I5th of the 3rd month following the close of the
business year. After exemption is established it
is not necessary to file an income tax return but all
shipping associations must make capital stock tax
report.

6. The committee recommends that there should be
more regular meetings of the l>oard8 of directors
of local associations and greater activity in the
local problems for the betterment of co-operation.

7. It is recommended that boards of directors of local
shipping associations take up the questions of in-
corporation for their consideration.

8. It is recommended that local associations pay at-
tention to planning in detail good annual meetings
for the complete report and explanation of the co-
operative business of the association.

In this connection good dinners and speakers may add
to the attendance and interest.

(Signed) A. O. Peters, general chairman:
B. P. Rayburn. secretary; H, W,
Holl, chairman round table and
\V. H. Odell, reception.

The Voice of the Members

Members are invited to speak their minds in tkis column. As
many letters from members wilt be printed each issue as space
will permit. Letters should be short and snappy; all must be
signed to be printed. All constructive criticism of the Farm Bu-
reau— county, state or national units — is welcomed. II you have
any grievances, praise or suggestions, here is the place to tell
them. It's your column, mate it what you will. Address letters
to B. C. Butcher, I. A. A. Record, 60S S. Dearborn, Chicago.

**Volce of the Members** Colnmnt I have studied the
view points of remedying farm or agrlcaltnmi eondltlonii
and dlfllenltles from every angle, and I believe these

verr COndltlona fma iyr- aoWetl if nmir wlartom or Ih«c1-
li^eace are combined with enerfcy and thrift, backed by
I'^edeml Loan Banks, and proper advUement or super-
vision of Farm Bureaus, and of leading agricultural
papers. But here are the main and foremost problems.
1 think, vrhleh If used at the right time and with the
proper advantage or appllnnce, will do more to beneSt
the farmers of Illinois than all other suggestions com-
|»lned. Here is my suggested program:

1. The «10O,U0<»,00O road bond Issue should be care-
fully and ei'onomlcally planned and exeeuted, and all
county roads, llnklns: with state roads, should be properly
araded and finished off with a thick layer of crushed roek,
which would eventually lift the state of Illinois com-
pletely out of the mud, while at the same time It would
reduce truck transportstlon expenses to farmera Mv<»»— n:
or nenr these hard roads, and would i •.„;■;■.
open markets easily accessible for d

2. A co-operative marketing systei- . ' -g.
and selling Is in direct contact wItL tue consumer 'and
producer, to eliminate handlers* and mlddlemen*s proflts.

3. Immediate redaction on all farm machinery prices,
say to at least one-hnlf, and co-operating farming com-
munities dealing direct with any factories manufacturing
farming implements, to curb the proSts of ageats aad
hardware dealers.

4. Reduction of freight and transportation rates by
the railroads on all large consignments or full car load
lots destined to distant markets, and better service rend-
ered by the railroads to the farmers, when large produc-
tion worrants more cars and quick transportation during
busy seasons.

5. Encouraging farmers to buy and sow only pure
seeds, nnd also buy and raise pure-bred or registered
stock, and advising farmers to rid themselves Immediately
of all Impure seeds and scrubby stock.

6. Proper housing nnd sheltering of all stock nnd of
all farming Implemerfts.

7. Interests of ogrlcultnre should be taught In rural
or district public schools, and the best of educational
facilities made available la well-established farming com-
munities.

8. Advertising, used by the farmers as a sales medium,
and dally market reports by selling directly to consumers
from the farm.

0. Keeping In touch with, or Investigating farming nnd
marketing conditions In other states, or la foreign lands,
thereby possibly solving In helping to remedy existing
home-market difllculties like surpluses, and keeping In
contact with dlstsnt or foreign markets In cases of crop
shortage or In eases of shortage of farm production.

10. General or diveralfled, sclentllli- and economic
farming methods nnd systems, nnd rotating the yielding
farm acreage. The advice of the Farm Bureau as to the
best methods of treating nad building up poor soils to In-
crease the value of unproductive agricultural regloas.

11. Kneouraglag farmers to buy the most neeesssry
up-to-date farming Implements and co-operating (If
necessary thru expense) In buying high priced farm Im-
plements Infrequently used, during all seasons of the
year.

12. Encouraging prospering farmers to utilise farming
Implements (like tractors or trucks) to the best and uuout
necessary advantage to cut operating expenses to a min-
imum. .\lso advising land itwiierN to nsMlNt their tenants
In a most creative nnd benefloini way nnd manner which
will tend to increase the land vnlue, and 10 Increase crop
production wlthoat additional expense In wages for hired
help, or otherwise.

13. Tax should be reduced for all tenant farmers, and
for all land owning farmers, according to the dlstsnee or
accessibility to markets, and according to the nature and
productivity of ngrlcnltuml regions.

14. Complete budget system by all farmers, showing
tnx and Income tabulations, plus agricultural operations
on ssld farms — which would place farmers on an equal
footing like banking debits or credits, or other Industrial
lines.

is. Formntlon of agricultural associations to build and
to malntnln farmer-controlled grain elevators, mills,
warehouses, shipping stntlons. dnlries. etc.. same being
controlled by shares or stocks, and with the aid of Fed-
eral Farm Loans, governed by proper advisement nnd
supervision of nbie. Intelligent and talented farm leaders,
and the full nnd henrty support nnd eo-operation of elear-
visioned members selected from well established farming

nitles,

Adolph OyroS, Dnpo, St, Clair County

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The niinoU Agricultural Aasocuitioo Record

1

FARMERS' PROBLEMS
ARE ECONOMIC, NOT
POUTICAL: BRADFUTE

Leaders See Need of Merchant

Marine; Favor Export

Corporation

Immediately after the opening
invocation by Rev. John Acheson
of Princevllle, III., President O.
E. Bradfute roused the delegates
to the 6th annual American Farm
Bureau Federation meeting Into
action with an address in which
he sketched the principal prob-
lems before American agriculture
and the Farm Bureau today.

"If I might be allowed to sum-
marize the objects of this orga-
nization in one word, that word
would be — service." This was
one of President Bradfute's open-
Ins statements.

Problems are Economic

"I do not doubt that most of
the farmers' problems are eco-
nomic rather than political and
we will make the greatest prog-
ress toward their solution by ap-
plying sound business principles
which have been used by other
industries," he said.

"Agriculture has seen many
depressions and has always come
back. It win again come back
but the supreme question which
we are interested In now is — will
it reach and hold its proper
level?"

"As we now enter 'upon our
work of three days' sessions, we
are depending on each director
to carry his full share of the
load," he concluded. "Let us
tackle all our problems in the
spirit of co-operation, with cool
heads and warm hearts — fully
realizing that unity means suc-
cess, while discord means de-
feat."

Need Merchant Marine

At the afternoon session Com-
missioner W. H. Hill of the
United States Shipping Board
talked on the development of
the American Merchant Marine.
He said among other things, "As
farmers we are interested in
America's extending her com-
merce to the uttermost parts of
the world. Ready markets are
what we need to make the prices
such that we will profit in the
production. Foreign countries
are our competitors in these mar-
kets. If we depend on foreign
shipG to carry our exports, our
products win not be the first to
resch tLo;.o markets. We should
•^.T'e ouf '•vn Merchant Marine
•\ -■:!-' _.k."

Following Mr. Hill, C. W.
Hunt, farmer member of the
Federal Trade Commission, ap-
pointed to this commission as
the result of Farm Bureau re-
quest for farmer representation,
told the purpose of the commis-
sion and described its relation to
agriculture.

The evening of the first day
of the convention was turned
over to the delegates as an open
forum. President Bradfute called
for nominations for chairman of
the meeting. Sam Thompson, our
I. A. A. head, was unanimously
chosen.

Talk of Export Corporation

Geo. N. Peek, president of the
American Council of Agriculture,
was scheduled for an "Equality
for Agriculture" address, the
only portion of the program ar-
ranged beforehand. After his
talk which centered around enact-
ing legislation similar to the
McNary-Haugen bill, the dele-
gates spent nearly three hours
in rapid fire discussion of the
general agricultural situation.
Most of the contributions were
along the line of legislation such
as the American Council of Ag-
riculture advocates, namely, cre-
ation of a farmers' export corpo-
ration, by act of congress, to
stabilize the markets of farm
commodities.

Probably 90 per cent of the
delegates who voiced their opin-
ions are strongly in favor of such
an export corporation. The argu-
ments of those few who dis-
sented from such a policy failed
to alter the opinions of those
who were even only slightly in-
clined toward national legislation
similar to the McNary-Haugen

Dill.

At the morning session of the
second day, just before the dele-
gates separated into sectional
conferences for consideration of
(Continued on page 4, col. 4)

Page 3

A BIG BREAKFAST WITH ILLINOIS FOLKS

One hundred and forty-seven people^ including 81 boys' and girls' club members of Illinois, got in on this break-
fast when the I. A. A. entertained the club folks at the Great Northern Hotel during their visit to the Interna-
tional Live Stock Show. Sam Thompson said the way they work and sing together shows that they are learning
the meaning of *'co-operation.'*

RE-ELECT BRADFUTE AT
A. F. B. F. ANNUAL MEET

{Continued from page 1)
President Bradfute. who had
served two terms, was placed in
nomination by E. B. Cornwall,
president of the Vermont Farm
Bureau Federation. In his nomi-
nation speech. Mr. Cornwalt drew
attention to President Coolldge's
selection of Mr. Bradfute on the
agricultural commission. M. L..
Noon, president of the Michigan
Farm Bureau Federation, sec-
onded Mr. Bradfute's nomina-
tion.

Only One Opposes Bradfute

Geo. C. Jewett of Spokane,
Washington, formerly t>fesident
of the American Wheat Growers'
Association, but now a member
of the Federal Farm Loan Board,
was nominated for the presi-
dency by Ralph Snyder, president
of the Kansas Farm Bureau Fed-
eration. Mr. Snyder stated that
"we have come to a parting of
the ways" and suggested that it
would be worthy of the voting
delegates to put in a president
who had not been mixed up in
the many controversies. The final
vote stood: Bradfute 35, Jewett
11 and three blanks.

**Oar Sam" Refuses

Sam H. Thompson, president
of the I. A. A., was nominated
for the vice-presidency by Edw.
A. O'Neal, president of the Ala-
bama Farm Bureau Federation.
Mr. Thompson immediately arose
and withdrew his name. J. F.
Reed, the past vice-president, had
been nominated. Mr. O'Neal, the
nominator of "Our Sam," was
then nominated by W. T. Harris,
the voting delegate from Ken-
tucky. Mr. O'Neal has been a
member of the executive commit-
tee of the American Farm Bu-
reau and was one of the few
southern farm bureau leaders
who helped at Washington dur-
ing the McNary-Haugen fight last
spring. He was elected.

President Thompson retained
his seat as a director for the
midwest group. Chas. E. Hearst,
president of the Iowa Farm Bu-
reau Federation, was also re-
elected. J. F. Reed, of Minne-
sota, the retiring vice-president,
was put in and M. L. Noon, pres-
ident of Michigan Farm Bureau
Federation, became the fourth
director, pending the ratification
of the amendment which allows
an extra director for each 100,-
000 paid-up membership.

No Secretary Hired Yet

The new board of directors
went into executive session the
day after the convention closed
with the purpose of fixing the
budgets for the various depart-
ments and hiring a secretary to
take the place of J. W. Cover-
dale, who resigned during the
summer to become treasurer of
the Grain Marketing Company.
A. R. Simpson, who had been
director of finance, was made ;
treasurer. Mr. Coverdale had
been secretary and treasurer. It
is expected that action will be
taken by the board when it
meets Jan. 29, 1925.

Below is printed the substance
of resolutions presented by a
committee on resolutions and
later adopted by the voting dele-
gates. These resolutions are im-
portant because they are the guid-
ing hand which is to direct the
actions of the A. F. B. F. officials
and board of directors through
the coming year.
Co-operative Marketing

1. A. F, B. F. pledges continued
support to all co-operative market-
ing enterprises.

2. A. F. B. F. pledges to support
co-operative marketing:, to aid in es-
tablishing: a national wool co-oper-
ative ag:ency and endorses President
(^oolidge's principle of orderly pro-
'luction and orderly marketing.

Department of Agriculture

1. Authorizes A. F. B. F. president
to call a conference to make not
more than thrt-e recommendations to
President Coolidge for the appoint-
ment of Secretary of .\griculture.

2. Approval of government crop
reports.

Legislation and Taxation

Taxation : Keafllmiation of
principles on which A. F. B. F.
(a\ work has been base<l. namely:

1. Income as a basis of ability to
support federal government.

2. Rate should be progressive —
larger the ini-ome the higher the
rate.

3. A portion, not to exceed 25 per
cent, of tax budget should be raised
by consumption taxes.

Other taxation policies:

1. Endorsement of President's
economy program.

2. Favor abolition of federal es-
tate tax.

3. Opposed to shifting tax burden
from income to consumption tax.

4. Deductions and exemptions
should he first offset against tax
free income.

5. Money derived from stock div-
idend sales should be taxed as if
dividends had been paid in cash.

6. Approval of gift tax.

7. Recommend that Congress plug
holes in the income tax law.

8. Amend McFadden bill by strik-
ing out provision legalizing stock
dividends.

9. Restriction on issuance of tax
free securities.

10. I'rge study of state and local
tax methods, state and local com-
mittees.

11. Modification of law so hanks
:ind their stockholders may be taxed
as other corporations and individu-
als.

L^slation : Immediate de-
velopment of Muscle Shoals to
produce fertilizer for farms.

1. Opposition to additional bur-
dens on parcel post system to In-
■ ■rease salaries of postal employees.

2. Opposition to Child l^bor bill.

3. Support of pure seed laws.

4. L.imit bankers' charge to 2 per
cent in addition to what they pay
for federal reserve money.

i. Support o f Vestal Standard
Container bill, to decrease cost of
distribution.

fi. Support o f Truth-In-Fabric
legislation.

7. Favor postal libraries.

8. Opposition to branch banking
as provided in McFadden bill.

9. Recommendation to make pos-
sible loans of four months under in-
termediate credits act and a higher
maximum loan on warehouse re-
ceipts.

10. Endorsement of farmers' ex-
port corporation as described else-
where in this issue of the Recoed.

Transportation and Research

Policies are as follows:

1. Endorse plan of Shippers' Re-
gional Advisory Boards.

2. Urge fullest co-operation be-
tween state and county Farm
Bureaus and the federal government.

3. Favor public representation on
Railroad labor board.

4. Favor development of inland
waterways. (Specific mention given
to Mississippi. Missouri and Ohio
river systems.)

5. Approve reduction of freight
rates on agricultural products.

6. Substitute effective operation
for present state of arbitration of
St. Lawrence-Great Lakes Water-
way.

7. Endorse under joint adminis-
tration of state and federal author-
ities building good roads as an as-
set to farm people.

8. Favor American Merchant Ma-
rine.

Organization and Finance

1. Vigorous prosecution of organ-
isation through state and county
Farm Bureaus.

2. Each state should have an or-
ganization or field service depart-
ment hea.ded by a competent direc-
tor.

3. Recognition of plan getting
members in connection with com-
modity marketing as desirable If
identity of Individual as a farm bu-
reau member is not interfered with.

4. Urge enactment of state laws
making it possible to incorporate all
units of the Farm Bureau.

5. Urge a well balanced agricul-
tural community program to meet
need of the farm bureau family
membership.

6. Regard failure to transmit
membership funds to state and na-
tional organization as a misappro-
priation of funds and officer should
be held accountable therefor under
the law.

7. Urge method to transmit dues
regularly each month and direct
executive committee to bring about
strict compliance with this require-
ment.

Publicity

Marjorie Cline (left) and her aunt,
Lula Case, both membert of the Will-
ing Workers Poultry Club in Ctss
county. Marjorie is champion essay
writer in Cass county and second
prize winner in Illinois. Her aunt
holds a blue ribbon, which she won
on her pen of Barred Rocks at the
B. & 0. poultry club show.

1. Favors appropriation of fund*
to adequately meet publicity require-
ments of state and national organ-
izations.

2. Closer ro-ordination of all
publicity work.

3. Favor making uniform all pub-
1- statements of Farm Bureau Dol-

. ies.

4. Endorse Xational Farm Radio
Council,

Home and Commuiiity

1. Full development of the Home
1" F b""""""^ department of the

2. Urge co-operation of Farm
Bureaus to further: Better citlien-
«nlp. good community music, rural
health, vocational education in agri-
culture and Boys- and Girls- Club
work. .

Other Department*

Appreciate President Bradfute's
appointment to Agricultural Confer-
ence and look for constructive
recommendations from that body

Approve development of econom-
ical electric power on the farm.

Place enforcement of butter stand-
ards in hands of U. S. D. A

Endorse T. B. eradication pro-
gram.

NEW I^GISUTIVE
PLAN SUBMITTED
BY FARM COUNCIL

Would Create Export Corpora-
tion Avoiding Flawi of TTje
McMary-Haure* BiU

FollowinR the conference of
representatives of gome 40 or 50
farm organizations In Chicago.
Dec. 1 and 2. at the call of the
American Council of AKriculture.
steps have been taken to place
before President CoolidRe's ag-
ricultural commission a plan for
stabilization of American agri-
culture by securing for it equal
opportunity with Industry- and
labor.

The American Council of Agri-
culture was created at St. Paul,
last July, by state and national
farm organizations as their ag-
ency of united effort and ex-
pression. In this capacity the
Council is now to present to
Congress, through the lately cre-^
ated agricultural commission, a
plan derised to take the place of
so-called McNary-Haugen legisla-
tion.

Plan Export Corporation

The plan proposes the crea-
tion of a farmers' export corpora-
tion to dispose of surplus farm
commodities. The extent of gov-
ernment participation in the cor-
poration would be limited to the
minimum necessary to a compre-
hensive grant of power.

The export corporation pro-
posal differs from the McNary-
Haugen bill In several respects.
It eliminates the ratio price fea-
ture. It eliminates the i>o\rers
conferred upon the President to
fix tariff rates at will. It aims
to secure benefits of existing tar-
iff schedules instead of creating
new ones. The corporation would
be set up to buy exportable sur-
pluses when the existence of sur-
pluses causes the markets for
domestic consumption to fall be-
low American price levels.

Proponents of the export cor-
poration rely upon this plan to
make it possible for farmers 'to
sell their major farm crops at
American prices rather than at
prices set by world markets.

Would Aid Co-operatiires

The farmers' export corpora-
tion is designed to supplement
co-operative marketing. The
adoption of the plan, those who
have studied it point out. w^ " * '
aid co-operative marketing oi/"
bizations to function eftectlv?'

At present co-operative as:
ciations are not able to opera
effectively because they are m
able to dispose of surplus prod
ucts and assess the losses on thi:
portion of the commodity- back
upon the benefitted producer,
without penalizing organization
members to the benefit of non-
members. Under the proposed
plan these costs incurred in dis-
posing of surpluses would be
automatically and unavoidably
absorbed by all producers.
Plan Goes To CommlSBion

A Council legislative commit-
tee, on which national and state
organizations are represented,
was provided for at the Chicago
conference. The new legislative
program in rough outline was
presented and tentatively ap-
proved and arrangements made
for submitting it to the various
farm organizations for farther
approval. As soon as responses
are received, the proposal with an
accompanying brief will l)e sub-
mitted by the American Council
of Agriculture to each meiober
of the President's agricultural
commission.

It is hoped that when it is
submitted the commission will
recommend to the present ses-
sion of Congress the enactment
of legislation which will prevent
further depression of agriculture
before Congress could again take
action.

I.A.C.A. Reaches 105 Marie

Farmers' co-op organizations
applying for audit service in the
Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives
m Am Association now number
I IIS General manager, Geo.
AW* R -Wicker, with his
staff of accountants have made
SO examinations, more than 60
of which are complete. Grain
elevators lead in membership
with 44 and Farm Bureaus are
second with 39.

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The IllinoU Agricultural AMOciation Record

December 20, 1924

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Mished avery x>tb«r Saturday by tha Illinois A^ricul-
) Asaoclatfon^ 104 South Dearborn Str«et. Chicafro.
loia. Kdtt«d by Department of Information, H. C.
her. Director.

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En ered as second ctaea matter Oct. 10, 1921, at the post
office at rhlrkeo, lllinoie, under the act of March 3. 1879.
Ai:i eptance for mailing at epeotat rates of postage pro-
vidPd for In Section lli)3. Act of October 3, 1917. author-
ir.l Oct 31, 1921.

I Individual membership fee of the Illinola Agrlcul-
il Association is fiTe dollars a year. This fee Includes
ment of nfty cents for subscription ttr the Illinois Ag-
tltural Association

tmaster: In recurnins an uncalled-for or missent
y. please Indicate key number on address as Is re-
red by law. S

OFFICERS

President. S. H. Thompson. Qnincy.
Vice-I>resident, C. B. Watson, DeKalb.
Treojiurer. U. A, Cowles. Bloomini^toii.
Secretary, <ieo. A. Fox, Sycamore.

EXECITTIVE COLMITTEE

By Congressional Di.strict8

1l4h ^jl. Jacob Olbrlch, Harvard

h G. F. Tullock, Rockford

h i> ,C. E. Bamborough, Polo

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15:h,

16:h

17th...

18th

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h I W. H. Moody, Port Byron

.., H. E. Goembel, Hooppole

A. R. Wright, Varna

.,^ F. D. Barton, Cornell

R. F. Karr, Iroquolt

.^. ... J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20(lh Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21|Bt .; Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22|nd i Stanley Castle, Alton

23lrd J. E. Llngenfelter, Lawrencevllle

24th Curt Anderson, Xenia

2^h 1,., Vernon Lessley, Sparta

I Directors i)t Departments

I. A. A. Office

General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker:
Opganization, G, E. Metzger; Information, H. C. Butcher;
xi-ansportation, L. J. Quasey; Taxation and Statistics,
JJ C, WaUon; Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vege-
table Marketing, A. B, Leeper; Live Stock Marketing,
vym, E. Hedgcock; Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch;
Phosphate-Limestone, J, R. Bent; in charge Poultry and
E^g Marketing, F. A. Gougler; special representative
oh Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H. Petersen; Legal
CsunseU Donald Klrkpatrlck; Co-operative Accounting,
Geo. R. Wicker.

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President Thompson's Christmas Message

given maximum return^. But their sons and
daughters, and grandson^ and granddaughters, will
We reaping much as a result of these activities. If
We of today build and idministrate our organiza-
tion well, those who foUiw will have an organiza-
tion greater than we darte dream today. They, in
tjrn, can serve for future generations.

The movement should )>e kept national in char-
acter. In no other way can be attained the results
tliat are offered through the broader service speak-
iig for America.! agr.culture. We can afford to
.licet with disappointment and even seeming de-
fcf.t for the time being in, our efforts to overcome
(b..tac!eb and things thatJhinder if it clears our
vision and puts us squareljf behind the task of mak-
ing it what it should be so that it will function
(fl.ctive:y i.i the interest of all of its members.

Henry C: Wallace, our great and sincere friend
fho died in the service of agriculture, has often
laid that true co-operatfon is no more than "ap-
plied Christianity." A cornerstone in the foun-
dation of the Farm Bureau is the whole-hearted
co-operation of neighbor to neighbor. If a farmer
In any community becomes sick and cannot plow
his fields, or needs assistance in any way that is
Worthy, who is it that helps him? It is his neigh-
pors, of course. I have seen it happen many times.
It is natural that co-operation be a cornerstone of
k great farmers' organization like the Farm Bu-
reau. In performing neighborly acts, we are ap-
plying Christianity. We should co-operate to set
iright things that do not appear right. To break
iway would be un-Christian.

In the affairs of the various units of our great
farm bureau organization we must not forget that
Christianity can be applied in our relationships
with other organizations or other units of our big
family. We must look to the future over and
iibove any obstacles of the present and obvious er-
rors of the past and apply the Christian spirit of
Christmas in our relations with one another. Thus
will the Farm Bureau go on into posterity like
Christianity.

Right Under the Guns

Wlwii l'^l■^illl■nt ( iidliiliri' jjavc liis iiotalile spi'i'di
iit tilt' Intcniiiticiiiiil Live Stix-k Kxpositii)ii. he was
litirally tiilkinj.' into the niiizzli> of tlir jriiii»i that
have l«'i-ii slioiitiiiijr lioU-tire iiitu the co-npeiativi'
live st(ii-k iiiarkftiii!; (irfraiiizatiims. Het'ore a lartri'
i;riiii|i III' iilil tiiiii' ci>niiiiis.sioii men. Pri'sidcnt Cool-

icl>;e ^ave un(|ualified recognition to co-operative
niarki'tiii^ of an orderly and cciitrali/cd character
ii-; a siilislitiitr for tlii' haplia/anl and wastrfiil
ilisti'iliiilioii iiii'llioils of llii' past.

I'rcsiilc-nl ( 'ooiid;.'!' siiowcd lliat he is ac(|iiaiiiliMl
with the pri'-sciit status of eo-opcnitivc markctiiiK of
live stock. lie stated that the principle of co-oper-
ation ill jn'odiicing, financing, Inlying and iiiarket-
iiig must be encouraged to the utmost practical
devcliipnieiit. He pointed out further that the
fanner injist he released from the individualistic
and coiiipclitive conditions under wliii'li agricnltiiri'
lias lieeii conducted in the jjast.

President Coolidge's good will towanl co-oper-
ative iiiarkctiiig should be a great boon to tin' iiiove-
iiKMit. The National Live Stock Producers AssiK'i:
atioii reports that live stock producers and local
slapping association managers who have been at its
otlicc anil at the yards are unaiiiiiioiis in llicir ap
proval of Picsideiit Coolidge's stand.

The growing confidcnee of llie shippers in their
own co-o|)crative commission agency is seen in the
ii'Cord breaking receipts of the Chicago Producers,
In llie week ending Dec. 5, this organization
liandled ^il'-i carloads of stock, a record for the
I'nion Stock Yards, This figure beat their former
record of 'I't'J. cars.

That's getting to lie i|nite a husky farm luiieaii
liaby. folks.

Tune In!

If yon are one of those farm Inireaii folks who
owns a radio, you should not overlook the talks lie
ing given thesi' wintry noons and evenings by I, A.
-V. officials anil <lireetoi's. President Thompson will
have .started the series off by the time yon have
received this Ui.ruKii. He puts forth the larger
.iewpoint of the Illinois Agricultural Associatioii.
a tiling that iiiaiiy of ns need to get. His talk is
followed at later dates liy Vicc-l'rosideiit Walscui.
Treasurer Cowles and Secretary Fo.\. Then will
come talks by the various departmental directors,
each telling of his ojvn work. Someone has rathi'r
aptly termed this .series as a ''short course" on a
great farm organization. Tune in and know more
about j'our organization.

And-while yon are tuning, don't forget that there
is an Illinois Agricultural Association farm pro-
gram liroadeast every week from St. I.oiiis over Sta
tion WCK. There is still another which is liaiidli'd
ill co-operation with the American Farm Hiircao
Federation over KY\V at Chicago. If you have a
radio, yon should know more about your oigaii-
ization's worth than it ever has been possible
lieforc. The schedules of the talks appear in the
l{i;( iiKi>.

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i A Real Program

The shipping associatioii movement in the' I'liiteil
States during the last VI years has made rapid
'.'riiwtli, and at the present time tlie live stock mar-
keting dciiartmcnt's ligiires show there are :!.!MI()
such associations aetively viiigagcd in marketing livr
st<ick ill the riiited States.

The percentage of live stock lieini; shipped to the
various terminal markets by the shipping as.soci-
ations will vary from \'i to Gf) per cent, which shows
the im|)ortanee of the shipping association to the
live .stock prodiieer. It lias been fiuind that tlw
shipping association returns more net dollai's to
the farmer than when lie markets his live slmk
through the old channels.

The Illinois Agrieiiltnral Assnciatiuii. tliroiigli
its live stock marketing department, is working to
help strengthen the shipping assoeiations of Illinois
as it is believed that the stabilization and success of
our live stock markets depend upon the strength
and eo-o|)criltive mindediiess of our various slilp-
]iing jissociations.

With this thought in mind we are endorsing the
resolutions pa.ssed by the officei-s anil managers at
the second annual shipping association conferenec

of Champaigu county, Dee. 12. The resolutions
follow:

'I'Ih' ii.-iior;il roniinltlrT hi chiirK'*' <"»!' Hi-- scroml nniiii;H
. iMi irri'ii«« 'of livi'SlOik sliiiM'iiiK ;isso.-iii i ioiiH in ClKini-
l';i iiiii foiiKly riciK-- ( li- ti»t|Mv\ iim r.-.-..niin.-ii.i;i I inns Ittr
rlf i nri.si.l. r;it ion ..i I li. r.-iir. s^-iti:il i\ .'S «.l thf I0..H liv-
.vt.M k .slii|>|Mtm ;issi.(i:ii ions in I lii luri. ftin 11I "•! w "uk
lor 111. .-omiiiK y.'ar:
'ritinji.s urK'-'I;

Th;il nin.-.Ts ami <lir"-< lors or In. al HhippiiiK :isso.i;i i iotis
'■:trry on an «-(lu' at ifnia I proKii-am tluriii^^ lli.- foniliiK year
I'll thf lollowiiin thiim's:

1. That each iot-al shippinK association hoM a (li-mon-

I rat ion duririK tliis wintrr on Kr.-niinj; hous.
l. Tliat olHctTs ami (lin-ttorH of local .shippii'^ awso-
cialioiis Iiirc local mnnat^crs that are .o-opcratiVf
inirultil. That is that llir inatiaK^T have an uinlcr-
slamlintr. and fynipalliy with llic lar>,'«T principles
necessary in advancing c(»- operative ntarkeiinj^ 'of
li\estu.(k. ir a rnanauer is not in synipalhv with
thcse thinps it is hard for him to put thetn in pia- -
Lice. 11 is alSfi more prol.;iM.- ihat he will kc.p
still when he OiiKlU to l.c i.t service in explaining-.
:[ That lo.al car|oa«l iiiiMvi-iintl shipP'TH '"■ nrn'-'I to
ship thru their local co-operative shipping associ-
at iuns.
I. That sliipiJiii^j association ollieials attempt lo cor-
rect the pracii»-e of Keveral nun in the coninuin it v.
inakiiiK up carloads of their ou n stock for shipni«nt
This is not cn-operalioii. hut the lack of eo-oper-
ation and results in several ditTerc-nt forms of evil.
:-. l>ra\v attention to ilie i:,ct tltat shipi.int? associ-
ations should make tin ir reports on capital stot k
lax and establish exemplion accordtntc to the re-
Hiiirenieiits of the Federal Ucvciuie Act for ineorp-
oraletl and uiiincorporat<d assoeiations l.y July :; I
of t-aih year. Income tax reports for co-oper;itive
associations estaldishini:^ exemption must he tiled hv
tlif liith of the :ird month followin;! the .-lose nf ih','
hiiMinc'Ss year. After exemption is t-slahlislied il
not iieetfs^arii: l»^ti|c an income i;i\ return hul all
iations must make .apitai stock tax

shipping as>

report.

Till- comiFiittc*'

more rejjHlar 1

of local associations and *rr.., ,. . ... t,*,,, ,,. i,,

local prohlems inr the hetternieiit of co-oiipralioi

It is reeomniehde.I that boards of iP -

conimends thai th.-re shoiihl l>.-

tintrs of the lioards of directors

ter activity in the

I) A. n. Peters, R-enoral «'hairman:
M. V. llayl.uMi. sooreiary: H. W.
Moll, cliairmaii round talde and
W H. Udell, r.-e, oiion.

The Voice of the Members

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"\ ti|«'e i>r ihc >Ii*tiilMTH** Culiinin: I bave Htudl^d th**
1 h-»v pointH of renifil.^ iiiK fnrnt or nf;rrli*iiltnral f»ii4lf Iiiiim
iinil ililHrultieN Iruiii <■* ory niiKle. itnil I hellcve ■ the»«*
« frT cniKlltlitiiM o»n l>f H*tlvf-fl ir only >« iMlum or Intrl-
IIk**!!*'!* art* coniliiiieil »iih fneruy nnil thrift, haekrd l>>
l-Vileriil l.onii llankM, niul i»ru|i<'r ailt i-iviiiriit »r Miiiter-
« iNiuii of Kami BiircuiiH. and of IcadiiiK HKrirulturnl
liaiiiTK. Hut here nre the main and foremost probleniM.
I think. »hieh if uMed at the rii^ht time anil nith the
Itroper ail% aiitaee or applianee. will do more to henellt
■ he faniierN of lllinoiM th:in all other NiiKKewtionH vom-
I(in4-d. Here in my Niiefrt'Mteil prof^ram:

I. The 8tHNMNMMHH» road hond iNsne whonld he eare-
fnlly and eeononileally |»launed and exeeiileil. and all
eonnty roadn. linklnK with Klale roadit. Nhould he properly
Kraded and tIniMhed off with a thiek layer of eruKhed roek.
i\hieh would eventually lift the Htate of lllinolH eoni-
l>letely out i>f the niiHl. while at the Name time it tTOuld
reduce truek trauNporlation expeiiMen to farnierM lit'"--

or iii-ar theMe hard riNidK. nnd woillil 1
open niarketn eaMlly aet-eMNllile for t.

'2. \ eo-oprratlve niarketlnp: h>Mlei . .„^-

and MelliuK^ In In direet eontaet witl. ..le eonwunier and
produeer, to elimiaate handlerN* and niiddlemen'M profitN.

:[. Inimediaie reflin-lloii on nil farm niaehlnery prieeK.
Htiy to at lenNt iMie-half. and ei»-opernlinir farmin*? eom-
niunltieM dealinic direet tiilh any faetorie<t iiwinufaeturlnK
rarminK Iniplementu, to eurh the protitN of aicentM and
hardware dealerM.

4. lleduetitMi of freight and tranMpi»rtntitin ratew h>
(he rallroadK on all l:irK«- eonNiKnnienlN or full ear lonil
lotH deMtlned to diMlant markets, and hetter Kerviee rend-
ered by the railroads to the farmerN. t\ hen larice produ*--
llnn WiirraniN more eiir** and <iuiek iraoKportation duriim
liUKy HeaNitHM.

r>. Kneourauinrr l'arm<-rM to liu:r and mow only pure
NeedN, and aKn liii> and raise |>ure-l>red or refclttered
Mtoek. nnd a4lviNiii|e farnierM to riil theiiiNt'lteN Imniedlalel*
of nil Impure Needs and NcruMty sttiek.

It. Proper hoiiMiiiu' anil NhelleriiiK ut all Ht«»ek and **i
all farming Iniplemetrtx.

7. InterestN of aKrieultur«> Nhould he taueht in rural
or diMtriet pulilie sehools. and the flieNt of eduealionai
fneilltleN made a%ailaltle in well-esfal>liNh«'«l farminf: eom-
miinitleM,

5. .AdvertiioinK. uoed hy Ih*- farnierM n
and ilail.t market r<'|>ortN hy seilinu: tlire
from the farm.

U. Keepiiiff in toiH-h with, or in% esiiKaliiiic farming and
mnrketinK 4-ouditiitnM in tither stntes. nr in fitreiKrn lanili.
therehy poMMibly holvinu in helpinu to remedy e\iHlinu
home-market ditHt-iiltieH like NurplnseN. and keeping? In
eontaet with diMtant or foreign markets In eaMeM of er«|*
Hhortiiec or in eaiteN of HliortaKi' **t farm produetion.

10. (General or iliverMified. Helen tiii>* and eeononiie
farming niethtiilM nnd syNtemM. nnd rotating the yieldiUK
farm aereaee. 'I'lie adviee of the Karni llureau an to the
hei*t niethitdN of irentin;? and huildinfi? up poor moIIm to in-
ereaNe the value «f unproduetive aKrieiilliiral ref^ionM.

II. Kneoiiraicinf;: farmern to buy the most necessary
up-to-date fanning; implementN and i*o-uperntine (if
neeeNNary thru expense) in huyinf? hieh priced farm Im-
plementN iiifrei|iien1ly used, during all seasons of the
year.

I-*. hZnvournislmK prosperlnK farmerN m iitilixe farminK'
Implement!! Hike traetorM or iru«-ksi to the hesi and most
necCNMary advantntfe lo cut operating expenseN to a min-
imum. AIno iidvininK land tiwiiers to nNHlMt their teiiantN
in a most erealite and lieneflcjal nny and manner which
will tend to increaNc the land ^alue. and to incrcaNc crop
production wlthoat additional expense in iin;ieN for hired
help, or othcrw ise.

i;t. Tax Nhould be rcdiieci) for all len:iii( farmers, nnd
for nil land owniiiKr farmerN, ae«-ordin^: to the dislanee or
acceNNihflity to niiirkelN. and accordiaur l« (he nature and
|iriMluctivil> of aisrleultural regions.

14. t'omplele buduct M>Nlcni l.j nil fnriniTs, showing
tav and income tnhiilatioiiM. plus nKricnltiiral operalionN
on Naid farniN'— wliieh noiilil place fjirniers on an ct|unl
footing lik«> banking debits or crcdilN, or oMier IndUMlrinl
linen.

ir». Formation of aKricilltural associatioiis to liiiild and
to maintain fiirnH-r-c»n(r«»llcii urain el«-valors. mills.
wnrehoiiHeN, Nhlpiiini? sta I ions. dairicN. el*-., same beiiifT
controlled hy shares or stocks, and t\ith the aid of Fed-
eral Farm l.oanH, Ko«crned by proper aiUisemeat and
NupervlMlon of able. intelliu;ent and talented farm leaders,
and the fu4l and liearty sii|iporl and co-o|»eration <»f clcar-
vfsloned memberM selected from well CNtablishcd farming
eommunitieN.

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FARMERS' PROBLEMS
ARE ECONOMIC, NOT
POLITICAL: BRADFUTE

Leaders See Need of Merchant

Marine; Favor Export

Corporation

Immediately after the openin;;
invocation by I!ev. Jolin Aeheson
of Prinreville. 111,. President O.
K. Ilradfule roused the delegate-
to the (Ith annual American Faiiii
liureau I'ederation nu'etinK into
action witli all address in whifli
he sketched tiie princitint proii
lenis hefore American af-'ricultun
and tile Farm IJureau today.

"If I mi.uht be allowed to sum
marize the objects of this orL-a-
nization in one word, tliat word
would b*^ — servire." TIlis was
one of President I'.iadfute's open

inK statements.

Problonis are Kcononiic

"I do not doubt that most of
the fanners' problems are eco-
nomic rather than political and
we will make the f;reatest pros;-
ii'ss toward their solution by ap-
plying sound business princi[>les
which have been used by other
industries," he said.

"Agriculture lias .seen many
depressions and has always come
back. It will again come back
but the supreme question which
we are interested in now is — will
it reach and hold its proper
level?"

"As we now enter upon our
work of three days' sessions, we
are depending on each director
to carry his full share of the
load," he concluded. "Let us
tackle all our problems in the
spirit of co-operation, with cool
heads and warm hearts — fulli
realizing that unity means sue
cess, while discord means de
feat."

Xced Merchant .>Iarine

At the afternoon session Com
niissioner W. H. Hill of the
United States Shipping Board
talked on the development of
the American .Merchant Marine
He said among other things, ".\s
farmers we are interested
America's extending her com-
merce to the uttermost parts of
the world. Ready markets are
what we need to make the prices
such that we will profit in the
production. Koreign countries
are our competitors in these mar-
kets. If we depend on foreign
sliipr. to carry <iur exports, our
products will not be the first to
-• "" ' markets. We should

vn -Merchant Marine
.k."

Following Mr. Hill, C. W.
Hunt, farmer member of the
Federal Trade Commission, ap-
pointed to this commission as
the result of Farm Bureau re-
quest for farmer representation,
told the purpose of the commis-
sitm' and described its relation to
agriculture.

The evening of the first day
ofi the convention was turned
over to the delegates as an open
forum. President Bradfute called
for nominations for chairman of
the meeting. Sam Thompson, our
t. A. A. head, was unanimously
chosen.

Talk of Kxport Coiiioration

Geo. N. Peek, president of the
American Council of -\griculture.
was scheduled for an "Equality
for .Agriculture" address, the
only portion of the program ar-
ranged beforehand. After his
talk which centered around enact-
ing legislation similar to the
-McNar.v-Haugen bill, the dele-
gates spent nearly three hours
in rapid fire discussion of the
general agricultural situation.
-Most of the contributions were
along the line of legislation sucli
as the .American Council of Ag-
riculture advocates, namely, cre-
ation of a farmers' export corpo-
ration, by act of congress, to
stabilize the markets of farm
commodities.

Probably 90 per cent of the
delegates who voiced their opin-
ions are strongly in favor of such
an export corporation. The argu-
ments of those few who dis-
sented from such a policy failed
to alter the opinions of those
»-ho were even only slightly in-
clined toward national legislation
similar to the Mc.Xary-Haugen

At thi- morning session of the
second day, just before the dele-
gates separated into sectional
conferences for consideration of

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fast ichon the I. A. A. entorlainrd the club folks at thr (irvai \«»rf/i*'r« Uofvl durinfi tht'ir visit to thv Interna-
tional hiie Stark Shon: Sam Thompson said the way they uork and .\in^ to^vthvr shows that they art' learning
thv vit'aninfi uf "co-opvration**

RE-ELECT BRADFUTE AT
A. F. B. F. ANNUAL MEET

( I ''tnl liiiH'"! rr-.Mi p;»ii'' 1 t

I'ltsident Uradluie, who

had

st-rvod two torms, was placed in
nomination by K. H. C()rnwali.
prt^sident of the Vfiniont Kami
lluroau Federation. In his nomi-
nation speech. Mr. Cornwall drew
attention to Tresidenl Coolidge's
selection of Mr. Bradfute on the
agricultural commission. M. L.
Noon, president of the Michi;^an
Farm Bureau Federation, sec-
onded Mr. Bradfute's nomina-
tion.

Only One Opjioses Bradl'ute

Geo. C. Jewett of Spokane,
Washiuston. formerly pre.sidfut
of the American Wheat GrowtTs'
Association, but now a member
of the Federal Farm Loan Board,
was nominated for the presi-
dency by Ualph Snyder, president
of the Kansas Farm Bureau F*Hi-
• ration. Mr. Snyder stated ttiat
"we have come to a parting of
the ways" and suggested that it
would be worthy of the voting
delegates to put in a president
who had not been mixed up in
the many controversie.*;. The linal
vote stood: Bradfute o.'.. Jewett
11 and three blanks.

"Our Sam" Ucl'uses

Sam H. Thompson, president
of the I. A. A., was nominated
for tlie vice- presidency b> Kdw.
A. O'Neal, president of tiie Ala-
bama Farm Bureau Federation.
.Mr. Thompson immediately arose
and withdrew his name. j. K.
Heed, the past vice-president, had
been nominated. .Mr. O'Neal, the
nominator of "Our Sam," was
then nominated by W. T. Harris.
the voting delegate from Ken-
lucky. .Mr. O'Neal has Iwen a
member of the executive commit-
tee of the -American Farm Bu-
reau and was one of the few
southern farm bureau leaders
who helped at Washington dur-
ing the McNary-Haugen light last
spring. He was elected.

President Thompson retained
his seat as a director fc.r the
midwest group. Chas. E. Hearst,
president of the Iowa Farm Bu-
reau Federation, was also re-
elected. J. F. Ueed. of .Minne-
sota, the retiring vice-presid**nt.
was put in and M. L. Noon, pres-
ident of -Miciiigan Farm Bureau
Federation, became the fourth
dirf^tor. pending the ratification
of tj^e amendment which allows
an extra director for each lOU.-
o(fn paid-up membership.

\o Secretary Hiied Vet

The new board of 4li rectors
wtnt into executive se.ssion the
day alter the convention closed
with the purpose of fixing the
budgets for the various depart-
ments and hiring a secretary to
take the place of J. W. Cover-
dale, who resigned during the
summer to become treasurer of
(he Grain Marketing Company.
-A. 11. Simpson, who had been
director of finance, was made
treasurer. Mr. Coverdale had
been secretary and treasurer. It
is expected that action will be
taken by the board when it
meets Jan. 29, 1925.

Itelow is printe<) the snhstanee
of resolutions [tn-senied by a
committee on resoluli(piis and
later adopted by the voting d«le-
uates. These resolutions are im-
portant iM^cause thiy'juv the guid-
ing hand whi<-li is lo dii»ct thf
actions of the .\. F. B. F olficials
and board of directors through
the coming year.

Co-operative Marketing

1 .V {■'. r. l" I'i- -Ik- s . otitiiiut-tl
sii|.i...rl l<» ;ill ...-..).. !;iij\ . tiiarki-t-
iht: <riltri>rists.

1'. .\. K. n. K. pl.«lKes to sMI't">rt

■ i)-i»pi-ralive in;trkflinK. lo ai*l in <'S-
litl'lishuij? a national \vo«»l i-o-"]" r-'
ittivf aK''itcy ami .-inlersts l'r«-nnj<-iit

1 'ouli'lRt-'s priiiciiilc ft\' orHrrly jiro-'
•hntion aii<l or-it-rly nKirk<'t iri;r.

Department of Agriculture

1 ,\iuiiurizis .\. K i;. F pr--si<i.nl
;o .;ill ;( . tiiH' r.-iK't' to ttiak"- inft
i.ior.' tliiiii Uir- •' rf.'OiiuiK'iMliil inns tl<»
I'r.siiieiit ('or.li'lK'- lor lli«- Hppoint-,
iifiit of Seirt-KU'ji- ol' AKrii'ullur--.

.\|>I>r<-\:ii 'it" t:"V'r!.>'.. M( .ion
!■• I'l.ris.

Legislation and Taxation

Taxation: Ikealtiniiation of

priiH'i|il(*s 411) uhieli .\. I-'. II. F.
lav W4Hk ha-* Im-cii baM'd. namely:

1. lnrom>'as a lia.'^is oi ;il'Uii>' to
siiiipr>rl ft-<h-r;i I mivriKin-m.

2 Kate slutiilii Im- proKrt'S.'*i\ «- —
lat«« r tho in- I tint- liw IhkImt the
ra t . .

.'t- A portion, not to »-\. ■.'.-.! L'-"t p-T
i'»-nt. of tax ImhIu'I whoiild hr raiscl
I'V < onsunipt Joii i;i vts.

Odier taxation |M>Hcie»i:

1. Kiolorm-ne'iit of I 'r-s")' iit'n
.'. onomy proRrani,

1', Kavor aU'liii f i.W. riii • s-

t;ti. i;i\.

:'.. I ippns.i! i.t sliiitit'« t.iN. I'lir-l-i'i
IroH. iiM orn.- lo .on.'iMrniM mn t;ix-

1. I »<ihi.lioiis a II ■! . \»nii>i lone^
sImmiM !..■ tir?;t otls. i against ta\
II-'-"' in. otn'-.

.*.. .Moii.-y H. riv.'.j ir.tni s-.., k <li\:
)<|i ml saP-s slioiilil I.I' fi\-'J ;ir^ ,ir

■ lix i«l.ji«ls ha»l Im .11 jiai*! in "ash

*;. Appro\iil of Kift (a\

7- Cf. omm- M'l lli:it <*oiiur<-s>: pln^
hi.li s in ttw- ttH OHM ti« \ Liw .

S. Ain.-nd M.Ka-M«M l-ill l.y slrik-
iiiK "lit provision i«-i:ali/,ii.K .-ilo.-h,
iliviiifnds. !

1'- ll'Stri.lioii on lis»iii;iJnt oi ta\
il'-'- s.'.'iiril ifs, i

1" I'rK'- .-^Iti'ly of Stat.' .aiiil |o.-»!
;■! \ tn. I li«»ds, stalv aiol lo. al • oni-
nc 1 1 .-t-s.

11 Motiitii-nt ion ot' kivv .so l>:itiks
tr..i lit. rr sIoi'|;lii,I.l«-rs tnay I., tax.t.f
^is otli. r .-orpontt ions ;in.l iii.ii\ nfu
aJs.

liegislatitHi: Immediate <le-
\elo|Mn(*iii of >lnsrle Slnuils iu
(troilitet* leiiili/er for lai'ms.

I. <»ppoHiti«Mi t<r a<l'lit iiinal l>iir-

• I' iis on p.-ir.-vl post sysl.-m to in-
■ r-asf ftalarifS of posi:it iTHploy-'.-s

J. <^)pl>f>^itiuii to 4*liil<l Lal'or l.ill.

;i. Support of piiTf s«''''l laws.

I. Limit bankers' . harf to L' p'T
'.-nt ill addition to what tie y pay
ii.r ft-.p-ral reserve nionty

.'>. .Support o f Vestal .•<l«in].»rr)
' '"iiiaiiM-r l»in. to doett-as.' lo.st of

• iistril.iM ion. '

fi. Support oi Trulh-ln-KalTM-
)• uisiat ion.

T. Favor poi^al libraries.

.s. OppoRttiori to liruneli LaiikiiiK
as provided In M.Fadden hiU.

;». Keeommoitdation to itiake pos-
sible loatis of four inotitlis iiiultr Ih-
l.rtnediate rrfdits act ami a hieher
maxinium loan on warfhou.**t- re-

< .'ipts.

in. Kndorsenw nt of farmt-rs' ex-
port lorporaiton «h des.rihed cl«e-
w tu re iti this is.su.- of llie IUcorh.

Transportation and Research

i'oli<ies art* as l(»llou^:

1. Krulorse plan of .*<hip| '-r»' He-"
Clonal .\d\jsory Hoards.

;:. I'rt^e fullest co-op. rat ion l.e-
iw.en state and fount y Farm
IJiireaiis and tho federal Boverniiunt .

;t. Favor puMlc representation on
li;iilroad lal)or hoard.

.4 Favi>r drvelopmeiit of inland
wat.rw.iys. (Spei-iiu- ni<-tition RiTeii
to .Mississippi. Missouri and Ohio
river systenls. t

... Approve re<hirtion of fn-iKliI
r.it.s on ag:rir-ulttiral prodiiets

h, SiibHtjitUte erreetive operation
u»r pr. sent state ol arLilralton of

SuhstjitUte effeetive
Iir. sent
.SI. I,au renee-llreat I^kes Waler-
\\ ;i y.

T. Kndorso under joint admin-ls-
tratiou of state and federal author-
ities I'UilditiB good roads as an as-
set t.. farm people

> I'.iv.r Mii-ri...!: .M. r.-hatil Ma-
rin ■

Organization and Finance

1. X'JKOrous prose.-uiion of oVpan-
iz;(tion throuch state and «'oiinty
l-'a rni lUireatis

2. Kaeh stale sliotild have an or-
jraiiization <ir lield serviee di'r'art-
iiieiit liejid.-d l»y a tonipett-nt diree-
lor.

3. Kecof^niiioii of plan Kettiiig
inemlM-rs in ronnection with 'eom-
niodily ni.arket int- as desirahli* if
identity of imlividuai as a farm bu-
r.aii member is not interfere. I with

4 tVge enaetment ol state Taws
inakinn it ro.ssMde to ineor|»orate ajl
units of the Farm Cureau

.".. \'vK'- a wt II balaneeil auruul-
tural eoniniiinity proRram to me«t
lie, .1 of the larni bureau family
nieinb.-rsliip.

tl. jkertard failure to transniEt
nieinbership funds to state and na-
tional ori;apizat(on as a misappr«-
priation «tf fuTids and oin.-er shouM
be held aeeouiitabje therefor un<l^r
the law.

7. tree method to transmit du*'S
r.-Kularly ea. h month and direii
■ \.-.ulive '-ommittee to brine al'OUl
Mriet eomplianee with this reuuire-

■:.'Ht,

Publicity

I Favors appropriation of funds
■" a-b-.juaiely meet publi.ity rcqmrie-
rn. Its of stale arni tnttiotiul oreat)-
i/...tions. _ * I

( los.r eo-ordlnation of all I
pnbii. iiy work.

:i. Favor makiiiB uniform all puft>-
Ir. statements of Farm bureau p»I -

I'ndors

\",.T

Mnrjorif ('line 'left) and h*>r attnt,
l.ula Case^ both members of ihe WUU
inn W^ orkers Poultry Club in Cast
county. Marjorie i\ chnnifnon esiay
tiriter in Cass county and \fctmd
prize winner in ///tnoi'.s. //er aunt
holds a blue ribbon, ichich \hr won
on her pen of Barred Rocks at the
B. & O. poultry club shuu:

Kami l£a()io

Home and Community

1 Full dfVeP.pmelU Of-tbe Moile

i.i.l^. .jtniminity d. parlinent of tfiie

- t*r*re eo-operatlon of Fafm
l-nreaus to further: Ib-tter eitlzon-
>iiip. Roo.i eomnuiniiy musi.-. ruraL
■i. altii. vor.-it.onal .-dueation in affri-
.jilliir.- ajyi |;..vs- and <:iris' Olful*

Other Departments

Apitreetate President l:radfut(e'>;
iippointnient to .Aerienitural 4'onft-r-
• In e and look for constructive
I ■ < ommondatioiis from that body.

-Xpprove development of e.-oiiom-
.eai t-io^'trif power on th.- farm

1 f:i.'e enforeerneni of butter stand:^,
ar.Is in hands of l"' S r» A

Riid'.rse T. II. eradieation piro
gram.

NEW LEGISLATIVE
PLAN SUBMITTED
BY FARM COUNCIL

Would Create Elxport Corpora,
lion Avoidinr Flaws of The
^ McNary-Haugen Bill

I'rjllowin;^ li- i-i»nl. rfuc« (»I
r»-|tr«*s*'!i|ati\fs i»f s<ittw 4it or T,»
f.itin iirvHiiir.atioiis in Ctiiraco.;
Dcf. 1 .'uiil 2. ;ii tlic cull "f 111''
.\iii> riran Oiuncil of Ai;rirtilturi-,
St. ps liavf li.-.n talcn to plact
Im fort' i'r»*sid>-nt <^ooIidi;«-'K av-
ficulturul cr>iiiiiiissi<>n ;i plan for
si:il>iHzati>>ii of .\iiif'riran airri
fuMiirf l>,v .^cTurin:; for it .-cnial
o|»ii(>riiinit,\- Willi indusir.v and'
lal>'>r.

The .ViiHTiran Counril of Autl
ctiliiir<' was rrraifHl at St. Paul,
last July. I>y slat*- and national
fa rill <iri;aiiizall<>ns as tliilr at
• iipy of unl,t<>d rffort and <'\
pr«'SBion. In tlii;* rapacity tli'-
('ouncil "^s now to prps«'nt to
Concrfs*. tlirouvh the latily rrt-
atcd aurii'Ultiiral coniniission. a
plan dc'Tisi-d to take Ihe place of
so-called .McNary Haus;i^n lecisla
lion.

I*lan Kv|M»rl ('nrtHii-Htion

The plan proposes the erea
tion of a fartiK-rs' evport corpora-
tion to dispose of surplus farm
romniodities. The extent of voy-
ernnient participation in the cor-
poration would be lirtiited to the
ininiinutu necessary to a coinpre-
hensive crant of power.

The export corporation pro-
posal differs from the McNarj'-
Haucen liltl in several respecte.
It eliminates the ratio price fea-
ture. It eliminateB the powers
conferred upon the President to
fix tariff rates at will. If aims
to secure benefits of existing tar-
iff schedules instead nf creatine
new ones. The corporation would
be set up to buy exportable 8ur
pluses wlien the existence of »ur-
[iluses causes the markets for
dome.stic consumption to fall be-
low American price levels.

Proponents of the- exfiort cor-
poration rely upon this plan to
make iit possible for farmers to
sell thWr major farm crops ,it
.\niericBn prices rather than M
prices ptt by world markets.

WiMild .%ifl f*o.O|ieratU'es

The ^ farmers' exp()rt corfiora-
tion ia designed to supplement
co-operative m^irketins. The
adoption of the plan, those who
havi- studied il point out. ww, "
aid co-operative niarketinc
nizations to function effectiv.'

.\t present co-operative as
ciati€>nii are not able to opera
effectively because they are n<
abli' to dispose of surplus proi,
ucts and assess the ]oss*'S en Ihi:
liortioa of the commodity back
ui>on th.- bcnifitted producer,
without penalizinpr or;:anization
members to th.- b<-neftt of non-
nieinl>ers. I"nder the propos>>d
plan tlit^e costs incurred in dis-
posinir of sufpluses would be
automatically and unavoidably
at>sorb*-d by all producers.
I*l«n »;iiev To. r^iniiiiiNKiftn

\ Council legislative commit-
tee, on which national and «tate
ort:anlzations are represented,
was provided for at the Chicaco
conference. Tli.' n<-w legislative
pri>L:iam in rou^h outline was
pres> nt>-d ' and tentatively ap-
(iroved and arranoiiients made
for sabmittine it to the varijiius
farm or;;anization!< for further
approval. .\s sii^ as respons»*s
are received, the. proposal with an
accompanyinu lirief will be sub-
mitted by th.' .\merican CoOicil
of .Vcriculture to each men|ber
of tile President's agricultural
commission.

It Is hop.-d'that when it is
submitted the coniniission will
reeotttmend lo tile present s«.s-
sion of Con-ress Ihe enactment
of let:islation wliicii will prevent
further depr.>.<sion of agriculture
befon- Convres.^ could a»:aiD lake
action.

(.

I.A.C.A. Reaches 105 Mark

l-*aTlii«-ls" *■«. Mi> l.^L;ani2al:..n^
applyiut: for audit s. rvice in tlie
Illinois .\:;ricuitural Co-o|>eratives
« Afa .Vssoeiafiiin now nunib<>r
I IIH le II. ral iiiauaKer. G«mi.
M.V%rm ,( Wicker. With .' his
slal! ol accountants have made
60 examinations, more than 5ii
of which are complete. (".rain
elevators I. ad in meuibership
with 4 4 and Farm liureaus are
secofid with 39.

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P«ge4

The niinoU Agricultural A«toci«tion Record

December 20, 1924

I.A.A. POULTRY HEADS
UY DOWN PRINCIPLES
OF CO-OP MARKETING

Outline Plan* Upon Which

They Believe Combined

Selling Will Work

After B long and careful study
tbe I. A. A. poultry and egK
marketing department has de-
cided tO( give assistance on two
plans for marketing poultry and
poultry products.

Follonring a six-months" in-
vestigation of co-operative mar-
keting methods practiced in other
states, F. A. Gougler. I. A. A.
poultry ;representative. has con-
ferred Vith the advisory com-
mittee of the poultry department
in outlining the best possible
means of promoting and improv-
ing marketing metho<l« (n Illi-
nois. The members of the poul-
try committee are C. E. Bam-
borougb, Polo, chairman; Lyle
Funk, Bloomington. and Frank
Barrett, farm adviser, Litchfield.

Thei_two plans designed by the
committpe, in co-operation with
the transportation, organization,
accounting and legal departments
of the }. A. A., are explained as
followci

;Fir»t, where there is only local
demand! for assistance along this
line. I. A. A. olBcials will gladly
look into the needs to consider
the advlsibility of undertaking
the project.

CondUions favorable to meet-
ing a l()cal situation require that
a largei number of farmers are
eager f«r assistance in marketing
their poultry products, and that
these products can be handled
through another co-operative al-
ready oiperating successfully, such
as a treamery or milk plant,
cheese factory or a general farm
store. By making this kind of a
combination it will be possible
to handle poultry and eggs with
the least overhead expenses. ■

Baslness Can Be Kstimated

For example, under our Illi-
nois conditions, If a co-operative
o' 'his type is organized with one
Hundred members, the amount
of these products that will be
handled yearly can be fairly well
estimated.

On an average, our farms
maintain approximately 125 hens
and seU four dozen eggs per hen.
Thus 500 dozen eggs will be sold
per faffm or about 16 cases an-
. niiivlly. -K hundred farmers then
will sell around 1,600 cases,
which Is four car loads per year.
On the average our farmers sell
about $0 chickens per farm every
year. The one hundred farmers
may be expected to market
through their association approx-
imately 5,000 head of chickens
per year which, is about 500
more than a car load.

The second form of organiza-
tion is one of 1,000 members or
mor« and may cover an entire
county or more. It contemplates
moving these products in car
load lots from a central receiving
point to terminal markets. Fig-
uring on the same basis of farm
sales as above such an organiza-
tion will handle around forty car
loads of eggs and fifteen to twen-
ty cars of live poultry annually.

Involves Capital and Study

In order to set up such an or-
ganlTatlon considerable capital
will be involved and conditions
must he very favorable before
the I. A. A. poultry marketing
department will O. K. such an
undertaking, according to Mr.
Gougler, who said:

"We have had requests to go
into counties to advise on such a
projec^ and after looking the sit
uatlon over have been asked if
it was advisable to undertake the
project. Let me emphasize that
it will take more than a mere
visit to a county before we can
determine when the time is fav-
orable for such an undertaking.
In order that Illinois farmers
may understand what informa-
tion we need to know before we
can advise intelligently the fol-
lowing information must first be
determined for the local com-
munity:"

1. Can 1,000 members be se-
cured within an area of an aver-
age sized bounty?

2. What' will be the volume
and quality of product handled
for these 1.000 farmers?

3. What are the present mar-
keting facilities?

4. Are the farmers demanding

Make Reservations

For Annual Meeting

Reservation! for hotel rooms and
bsjiquet tickets foi- the annual meet-
in| of the I. A. A. at tbe University
of Illinois, Urbana, Jan. 15 and 16,
should be made directly through the
committee on reservations, Champaign
County Farm Bureau. C. C. Bums,
farm adviser. Champaign.

co-op poultry and egg marketing?

5. If 1,000 members are se-
cured what win be the co-opera-
tive spirit among them?

6. What are the transporta-
tion facilities within the county
and to terminal markets?

7. What local factors may pre-
vail that will influence the mar-
keting of these commodities, such
as an unusual local demand,
found near coal mines, near large
cities, heavy demand from hatch-
eries, etc?

8. What co-operation may be
expectM^ frwii.Jocal iB&Ututlsns?

"Considerable responsibility Is
involved when such a project as
we have outljiKd is undertaken,"
states Mt.'^jougler. "No effort
or tinse sbould be spared in ac-
quiring all the facts needed to
answer the question 'Are we
ready to organize?' Our poultry
and egg marketing department
stands ready to assist in making
the initial study with any local
or county groups which are look-
ing toward marketing their poul-
try products along these lines."
naniborongfa Broadcasts Plan

The aboVe poultry marketing
department study was the basis
of Mr. Bamborough's radio talk
over KYW, Dec. 16. He out-
lined the marketing plans as re-
produced above.

"For years we have been pro-
ducing and marketing our prod-
ucts in a disorderly, haphazard,
unbusinesslike manner without
much regard for efficient produc-
tion and distribution of a quality
product," was one of his opening
remarks and another was "We
are learning from big business
the value of working together in
commodity groups, co-ordinating
with other groups, and all In
turn affiliating into a larger and
more efficient group in the pro-
duction and distribution of our
agricultural commodities. This
is co-operation, a term that has
never been fully understood nor
appreciated by American farm-
ers."

Listen In!

1. A. A. Farm Program

Froin Station WCK, ^St. liouis

Stix, Baer & Fuller
Time: Wednesday evenings,

7:40-8:00
(This program Is arranged par-
ticularly for the benefit of south-
ern Illinois farm bureau mem-
bers who have had- difficulty in
hearing the Chicago stations.
Letters and suggestions would be
appreciated. Address the 1. A. A.
department of information.)

Dec. 26 — "Growing Clover O n
Southern Illinois Soils." by Fred
Oexner. Waterloo. 111.. Monroe coun-
ty farm adviser.

Farm talk hy Ti. \V Tillman. Belle-
ville. 111.. St. Clair county farm ad-
viser.

Jan. 2 — "The Limestone Producer's
Side of the Farmer's Fertiliser Prob-
lem." by E. J. Krause. St. Louis, vice-
president of Columbia Quarry Com-
pany.

DID THE JUG DO IT?

Montgomery county's champion corn kuskers. Left to right: Lee Hall,
4th; Earl ISiehaus, 3rd; Henry yiehaus, father of Early 1st; Earl Denney,
5th ; Pearl Mansfield, 2nd. The ^iehauses and Earl Denney belong to the
Montgomery County Farm Bureau. Farm Adviser Snyder says their husking
contests aroused more enthusiasm, than a first class horse rmce or ball gante.

The following is an extract
from a letter to Geo. A. Fox, I.
A. A. executive secretary, writ-
ten by Mary E. Aleshire. Art Ex-
tension Committee, Illinois Prod-
ucts Exposition:

Your display mt the llUnoi* Prod-
ucts Exposition was ono of fourteen
' exhibits selected hy tbe art depart-
ment as altogether suitable for such
an Exposition.

The exhibits in this list were se-
lected from the following standpoints:
artistry, education and accuracy of
the thing to be represented.

Few of the exhibits gave a really
artistic appearance, still fewer were
of real educational merit and 'very
few did tell their own story. Most of
them, unfortunately, were a conglom-
erate mass of things accumulated in
the community represented, but in no
way telling the story to the casual
onlooker.

director dairy marketing:. "The Farm
Bureau's Milky Way."

Jan. 6. 8:10 p. m. — I* J. Quasey. di-
rector transportation. "What the
Farm Bureau Has Done and Is Doing
to Solve the Farmers' Transporta-
tion Problems."

Jan. 7, 12:30 p. m.- — A. B. Leeper.
director fruit and ve§:etable market-
ing, "Th«-More-Dollars-on-the-Tree
and Less-C08t-at-the-Greek8 Activ-
ity of the Farm Bureau."

Jan. 8, 12:30 p.m. — M. H. Petersen,
in charge T. B. eradication, "Clean
Hearts and Herds."

Jan. 9. 12:30 p. m. — Donald Kirk-
patrick, I. A. A. legal counsel. "Hand-
ting the Farmer's Legal Problems."

Jan. 9, 8:10 p. m. — George R. Wick-
er, director of co-operative account-
ing, "The Twentieth Century Co-
operative."

Jan. 12, 12:30 p. m. — Wm. E. Hedg-
cock. live stock marketing. "Short-
ening the Hoof-to-Frylng-Pan Train
Via the Farm Bureau."

Jan. 13, 12:30 p. m. — H. C. Butcher,
director of Information. "The Farm-
er and His LocaP' Newspaper."

Jan. 13, 8:10 p. m. — G. E. Metzger.
director organization, , "Farm Bu-
reaultis."

Dec. 23. from KYW. RtSO p. m.^

"What Farm Bureaus Are Doing In
III., toy H. C. Butcher, 1. A. A. infor-
mation department.

Jan. 9 — "Who's Doing the Chores?"
by W. H. Moody. I. A. A. exe,cutive
committeeman. Port Byron.

I.A.A. Men Lined Up On
WLS Radio Short Coarse

President Sam Thompson on
Dec. 19 started the series of farm
bureau radio talks to be broad-
cast from station WLS, with his
"Bird's Eye View of the I. A. A."
But there are 15 more of these
farm bureau talks to come before
the last one on Jan. 1 3. Here
is the schedule:

Dec. 23. 8:10 p. m. — C. B. Watson,
vice president. "The Farm Bureau as
a Vital Cog in the Nation's Mechan-
ism."

Dec. 26, 8:10 p. m. — R. A. Cowles.
treasurer. "The Farm Bureau's Major
Project."

Dec. 30. 8:10 p. m. — Geo. A. Fox.
executive secretary. "What the Farm
Bureau Member Gets For His Mon-
ey."

Jan. 2. 12:10 p. m. — J. R Bent, di-
rector phosphate-limestone. "Help-
ing Agriculture to Permanency."

Jan. 2. 8:10 p. m.— J. C. Watson,
taxation and statistics. "Saving Mon-
ey for ,Illinoi8 Farmers."

Jan. 5, 12:30 p. m. — A. D. Lynch.

Editors In WCK Mtmopoly

Faroi paper editors had a
monopoly on the weekly I. A. A.
farm radio program from WCK.
Dec. 10, when G. Edwin Popkess,
editor of the Dairyman's Journal
talked on "Advertising on the
Farm" and Paul Potter, assistant
editor of the Orange Judd Illi-
nois Farmer, told "What the
Illinois Grange is Doing at Belle-
ville This Week."

Rocic Island Gets lowan

Warren K. Allen, Is the new
farm adviser in Rock Island
county, succeeding O. E. Acker-
son, who recently resigned to
enter the life insurance business.
Allen's ability to serre the
members of the Rock Island
County Farm Bureau has been
acquired by experience in school
teaching and five year's experi-
ence as county agent in Keokuk
county, Iowa.

Co-op Marketing

Replaces Ox Cart

"The ox cart was a good
method of transportation in its
time," said A. B. Leeper, I. A. A.
fruit and vegetable marketing
director and manager of the
Illinois Fruit Growers' Ex-
change, in a recent radio talk
over WLS. "But in this day
of airplanes it is considered out
of date. The pony express in its
day was considered a wonderful
means of communication, but
folks, compare it If you will, with
the methods of communication
used today. When seated in your
homes, listening to words con-
veyed through the air, you realize
the progress made. Those farm-
ers who say they are individu-
alists and employ the same
methods of marketing used in
the ox cart and pony express
days do not fit In very well with
modern co-operative marketing."

Mary Kopp, Anbum, captured
the blue ribbon in the Sangamon
county calf show with her 1,075
pound steer, which brought 40
cents per pound or a gross re-
turn of $4 30 in the public auc-
tion at tbe National Stock Yards.
Forty-one other Sangamon county
boys and girls sold their calves
in the same sale at an average
of 1140.88 per head.

At the annual meeting, held
in Chicago two weeks ago, the
National County Agents' Asso-
ciation refused to endorse the
Grain Marketing Company.

PROBLEMS ARE NOT
POUTICAL: BRADFUTE

(Continued from page 3)
departmental problems, E. H.
Cunningham, member of the VM-
eral Reserve Board, Washington.
D. C, addressed the entire con-
vention.

Reviewing the economic con-
ditions of the past year, be said,
"The year as a whole will prob-
ably show a good improvement
in the conditions of the farmer.
Final statistics will show that it
has been a year of decreased
production with an increase in
prices that will leave but small
advantage in net returns over
that of 1923."

Credit Is Satlsfectory

He stated that the credit situa-
tion in the country at the present
time is satlsfacory but wm ixO -
against a period of possible spec-
ulation and over-extension not
justified by the present status
of Agriculture.

"Budgets and Taxation" was
the subject discussed by,B. L.
Young, Speaker of the House of
Representatives, from Boston,
Mass., at the banquet Tuesday
evening. He drew attention to
the wisdom of outlining on the
budget plan the expenditures for
a year, calculating the probable
income and estimating the amount
of probable expenditures.

Hear Mrs. Sewell

Mrs. Chas. W. Sewell, well
known chairman of the Indiana
Home and Community committee,
was also on the banquet pro-
gram. She reminded the dele-
gates that the Farm Bureau is a
valuable organization, doing man.v
things to help the farmers, but
also pointed out that as long as
the women are not drafted into
service to the fullest extent, then
Just so long will the Farm Bu-
reau fail to make the most of
its resources.

Howard M. Gore, Secretary of
Agriculture, scheduled to speak
on "Agricultural Progress," was
prevented by illoefs from filling
the engagement but sebt a letter
of greeting.

The entire third day of the
convention was taken up with the
election of officers and considera-
tion of resolutions, prepared in
the several group conferences.

St Louis Malces Record

December 5 was the last day
of the 49th week of business for
the St. Louis Producers during
the present year, and a memor
able one because of the fact it
marked the closing of the largest
week's business ever handled by
the Association, 375 cars.

The 375 cars represented 18
per cent of the total receipts at
the Yards and a larger carlot of
business than the four largest
old line Arms on the market that
week. Illinois led all other states
with 164 cars to her credit, while
Missouri had 147 and Iowa 43
cars, with the truck-in depart-
ment and other states totaling
21 cars.

Adams county. III., led all other
counties with 20 cars and Monroe
county. Mo., a close second with
18 cars. Sangamon county, III.
was third with 16 cars, Fulton
and Macoupin counties tying for
fourth place with 15 cars each.

J. M. Laws, manager of tbe
Lewistown Shipping Association,
with 10 car loads, led all other
organizations in number of cars
consigned for tbe week.

Chicago Hangs Up Record

The 573 cars handled during
the week of December 1st to £tb
by tbe Chicago Producers consti-
tuted a new record for receipts
handled by one commission ag-
ency at the Chicago yards. This
record superceded the record of
552 cars, also made by the Pro-
ducers. This record of 573 cars
is just 100 cars more than were
handled by the next highest com-
mission Arm.

Safety Contest Competition

First place in the shipping as-
sociations' safety contest, spon-
sored by both the National Live
Stock Producers and the Illinois
Agricultural Association, is now
held by the North Henderson
Shipping Association. This as-
sociation, in the 18 loads which
have been shipped to the Chicago
Producers, has experienced the
loss of one crippled hog. Tbe

Lee County Shipping Association
of Amboy is in second place with
two crippled sheep and one crip-
pled hog.

The final award will not be
made until after the first of the
year when the record of associa-
tions in Illinois, which are ship-
ping to the various Producers
agencies are compiled. The win-
ner of the Illinois contest will
then enter Into competition with
the champions of the other states
in order to decide who is to gain
possession of the 18 inch silver
trophy awarded by the National
Live Stock Producers Associa-
tion.

News From Indianapolis

Transportation claims, filed by
the transportation and claim de-
partment of the Indianapolis Pro-
ducers, amounted on Dec. 1 to
$15,043.70 of which $6,809.89
has been collected and $gS9.5^
has been cancelled. These claims
not only reimburse for actual
losses but also stimulate the rail-
road service, according to G. E.
.\yer, director of the transporta-
tion and claim department.

The Indianapolis market re-
quires careful watching from a
transportation standpoint because
of being seired by branch Uiies
through Junction points with
through trunk lines. It la In-
evitable that delays will occur at
these connecting line stations if
a transportation program is not
arranged to promptly move con-
signments through junction sta-
tions.

Ewing On Producer Board

Charles E. Ewing, Decatur,
III., was recently elected by the
Chicago Live Stock Producers
Commission Association, as a
member of the governing board
of seven directors. His appoint-
ment fills the vacancy caused by
the resignatioiv of W. S. Hill,
South Dakota, who accepted a
federal appointment, and gives
Illinois stockmen three represent-
atives on tbe board.

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The Illinois Agricultural A»»ociation Record

December 20, 1924

I.A.A. POULTRY HEADS
LAY DOWN PRINCIPLES
OF CO-OP MARKETING

Outline Plans Upon Which

They Believe Combined

Selling Will Work

llif I. i. A. |..n:llly and .^;-
marki'tiiiL' ili'palltin ill li:i.-.
I'iiliil li>].!;i>" assistalH'i' on
plans fnr inarkt'Iiiiu [nniliry
noiillry Itroihicls.

!-*olh>\Milii; a si\-mnnrhs' in

'Sliuali^Mi of ro-oi'frali\ •■ mar

■llioils in'ai'iiriit in nlloi

A. <:i>lli;l. 1. I. A. A

i'pr»-srnlali\t'. lias roii

two
an<l

liarr. tt.
Tin- t
<-oiuiiiilt^

First,
tliMiiaiul
lint'. I.

Uftini: 111

-lal.'s. I

iMiullry

ii-rri il \iilli tlo- atlvisoiy com

nijtifo or llip poiillry (i«'parlliO'i»t

in oiitliliili;; Ihf . l>ost pos.siblr

iiii-ans of promoting and inipritV

riois. TJio nitiHlxrs of ilio poul
try (•omiiiitli'i- ari' C. K. Itaiii-
lioroutilil I'lilo. cliairniau; Lyl'
l-'unk. Bloomiiii-'ton. and Kriinl\
farm advisiT. Litclili'-ld-
\to plans ilo.sii^nid by llo'
I ro-opfration with
iho trartsjioitalion. orKanixation.
acronniinr4 and h ual dopartnnnts
of the I. A. A., arc ixiilaiii'-d as
follows:

wIhto tin ri> is only local
for assistanco alon- this
A. A. olliiials will :^ladly
took intjo till' no. (Is to ronsidiM-
tlo advisiliiliiy of nnd.rtakint;
tin- pmjoct.

I'ondilions favoralilo to nioot-
ins a ui-al situation roquiri' that
a lar^i'l niimhtT of fariii»M-s arc
'■ai:cr filr assislaiirr in markotin.i^
tlu'ir piiuMry proitiii'ls. and that
llnso vJrodiicls call lie handled
tlir«>ni:lij another co-operative al-
ready ojieialinj; successfully, such
as a <lreaiiiiry or milk plant.
clie.se laciory or a general farm
store. Ily makini; liiis kipil of a
.-(in>l)in;Mioii il will be possible
lo hamll.- poultry and e;;-,:s with
I he lea>jl ov.rlit ad expenses.
' ISiisiiirisK I'aii lt<> Ksiiin.ile<l

Kor (■Nanii'le. iind.'r our Illi-
nois coilUiltons. if a co-operativ«
of 'his |\pe is organized w^lh one
iiunur.-d iiienibers. tne amount
if thesie products that will be
liandlcii' yearly can be fairly well
<.ytiiiiat<*il.

On Ln avora.ue. our farms
maintaili approximately 12."> lions
and s. II four dozen c-.;;;s per hen.
Thus jfin doz.'n ei;^s will lie sold
per fanii or about 1 1; cases an-
""•'.lly. j -V huiidr.d farmers then
will sell arouhd l.BOU cases,
which is four car loads per year.
i)n the averaye our farmers sell
ibout ail chickens per farm every
year. The one hnmlred farmers
may tie exiwcled to niark.-t
ihrousi their a.ssociatiun approN-
imateljl 5. 000 bead of chickens

per

-er >'*ial
lore jtlKI

which, is about 500
car load.

Tht*- second form (>( ort;;iniza-
lion is i one of I.mimi memb.-rs or
more and may co\er an entire
county or nior.-. It cnnteiiii'Iatis
moving thes*. proitucis in cur
load loits from a central receiving
point lo t*'rniinat inark.ts. Kii;-
iirins; on the saiio- basis of farm
sales as above such an or;;aniza-
tion will handle aroiiml forty car
loads of ei;i;s* and fift. en to twen-
ry carij of live poultry annually.

liiVfilves Capital ami Siudy

In drder to set up such an or-
■■:ini7!)tion coiist(!ii-:>bl.' ciiiiilat
will b^ involved and conditions
must jbe very favorable befon
I he I. A. A. poultry markelini^
departpient will O. K. such ail
undortjakinK. aci-ordinj; to Mr,
i;oui;ler. who said:

■■%V8 have had niiuests lo ;
into counties to advise on sucii a
liroject and after looking the sit
iiationi over have lieen asked i
it wast, advisabl.' to undertake tin
I.rojecl. I,*'t no' eni|ihasize llial
It will take more than a nn ri,
visit Ijo a county before we call
ileternliine when the time is fav
.irablei for such an undi-riakini;
In oi^er that Illinois ftirmer
may understand what iiiforma'
lion We need to know before w«
can aidvise intellii:.ntly Uie foli
lowin? information must lirsi bi
detenjiined for the local com
iiiunity:"

1. Can 1.000 members he
i-iired I within an area of an aver
are sized county

2. What will be. the volumr
and quality of product handled
f.ir these 1,000 farmers?

::. U'liat are .the present mac
ketini facilitit's'.'

4. Are the farmers demanditir

I

Make Reservations

For Annual Meeting

Reservations for hotel rooms and
banquet tickets (or the annua) meet-
ing of the I. A. A. at the University
of Illinois, Urb.-inn, Jan. IS and Ifi,
should be made directly through the
committee on reservations. Champaign
County Farm Bureau, C. C, Burn«,
f.irm adviser. Champaign.

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r<i op poultry and t'^u inarkftinj;?

'i. If 1,(100 nieiubcrs are sc-
"iirj'd wliat will bo llif oo-oprra-
tivii spirit amonK tlu'in?

*>. W'liat uro tln' transporla
tiitn farilitios within Hip couijty
aiitl t»i ti-rininal markets *.*

T. What loral factors in:iy pre-
vail tliat will intlucncr tlir mar-
Iti liim of thi'sc commoditifs. ^^ilch
a.-~ an itnu.^iial local tliniand.
found m-ar roal miiifs. near lar.ur
ciiics. Inavy dt^fnand from liaK*!!
t-'ri<'S. etc? ■

S. \Vhat co-operation may hr

*Consitl**rable responsibilit.* is
invidvrd When such a project a--^
we have outlinod is undertaken,"
states .Mr. Goui:Ur. "No Wort
or lime should be spared in ac
quiring all the facts needed l(t
nnnwtr the question 'Are we
ready to organize?' Our poultry
and et;g niarketin,^ department
stands ready to assist in making
the initial ' study with any local
or county groups which are lopk-
ini^ toward marketing their poul
try products along these lines."
lt;iiiilM>roii^li llroadnisls I'laii

The above poultry inarketini:
df'pjirtment study was the basi^^
4>f Mr. Ilamborougli's" radio tiilk
over KYW, Dec. 1 (J. He qui-
lined the marketing plans as .re
produced abov<'.

"Kor years we have been pro-
ducing and murkptinj; our prod-
ui'ts in a disorderly, haphazard.
uh businesslike manner without
much regard for efficient produc-
liDii and tlistribution of a quality
inodiiet." was one of his opoiiing
reniarks and another was "We
are learning from big business
the value of working together in
commodity groups, co-ordinating
with other groups, and all in
lui'n atliliuting into a larger and
more etlicient group in the pro-
dt.ciiun and distrii^ution of our
agricultural commodities. This
is co-operation, a term that has
never bfH-n fully understood nor
appreciated h\ .\inerican farm-

DID THE JUG DO IT?

I. A. A. Farm Program

l-'roi>i sialion \V<K, si. Ltniis

Sti\. llaer k ^ I'uller
Time: Wednesday r\ iiiinus.

7:40-8:00

(This pro;;rani is arranged par
ticularly for the benelit of south-
rrn Illinois farm bureau mem
l)ers wh(» have had dilUcully in
hearini; tin Chicago stations.
Letters and suggestions would be
appreciated. Address the I. .\. A.
defiartnient of information.)

l»«i-. L'ti — ■■< ;rov\ iiiK" t'lovi-r On
.^..Hth.rii liliiiois Soils." I.y -Kif<l
o.xii.r. Wat.-rPm. ni.. .M'»nr<M> .-oiii,-
' V I'urm ;nl vi.»i<r.

K;ir(M t;.lk I.v t; W TiIIiikim 1;.II.-

\ iHr. III.. St. I'laJr cnntity farm a«t-
visir.

J:iii. L' ■Thf LiiiiesifM..' I 'rotluifr's
SsiP- t»f tht' Kannir'j! F'irt ilizt-r Trnlt-
Ifiii." I'V K. .1. Kraii.sc. St. Nnuis. vict-
prt'siili-itt nt' 4 'oltinilija <.^u.i rry * '<iiii -

t'illiV.

I.A.A. Men Lined Up On
WLS Radio Short Course

['resident Sam Thompson on
I>ec. 1 ;t started the series of farm
Idireaii radio talks to be broad-
cast from station WLrf. with his
"Itird's Kye View of the 1. .\. \."
Ilut there are 1.") more of tiiese
farm bureau talks to come before
the last one on Jan. i;i. Here
is the schedule:

I>.-.-. r:t. 8;M p. ni. — C. ii. Watson.
vii«- president. "Tin- Karni lIurt'HU as
:t \'il:il *'oK in tlit- Natiun's il*'fh;tii-
i.sni."

lur. I'rt. Sltt p m. — U. .V. CowUs.
tri'asiircr, "Tlio Karrn liur«-au's Majiir

lTnj,.,t."

I •*■.-. 3i>. S:10 0. ni.— Ceo. .\. Fox.

• \fi-ntivc secretary. "AVhat thi- Karin
Hiireuu Mt-mln-r "ifts For lli.^' Muii-

• .V " '

.Ian. 2. 12:10 p. ni. — J. li. Briit. tli-
rr.-tor phospliatf-lim •■.stone, ■'Ilrlp-
iim .\KrieuMurf to IVrmancncy."

.Ian. -J. 8:m p. in,- .1. C. Wat.snu.
la\:ition ;ind atalisli.-H. ■SaviiiK '.Mun-
iv I'or 1 iditois F;irnu-r«."

Jan. .'.. U' ;:m p. Ml —A. H. f.yn.-h.

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Montfionivry county's rhttm/tion corn huskcrx. Left to rifsht: Lve Hall,
Ith; Karl \ifhnus, Ard; Uvnry Micluius, father of HarU 1st; Earl Denney,
'yth: I'vnrl Mansfield, 2nd. The iMehauses and Earl Denney belong to the
Mttnifntnt-vry C.intniy Farm liuremt. f'ttrni Adviser Snyder says their huskinp
lutntests aroused morv vnihusinstu than a first class horse race or ball fjatno.

The follow hi i; is an »-\i r;nt
from a letter to Oeo. A. Fox. I.
,\, A. I'XtM'iitive secretary, writ-
ten hy Mary ^J. Aleshire. .\rt Kx-
{ elision Committee, Illinois I 'roil -
mis Kxpo.sition;

Your display at the Illinois Prod-
ucts Exposition was one of fourteen
exhibits selected by the art depart-
ment as altogether suitable for such
an Exposition.

The exhibits in this list were se-
lected from the following standpoints:
artistry, educatioi^ and accuracy of
the thing ^o be represented.

Few of the exhibits gave a really
artistic appearance, still fewer were
ot real educational merit and very
few did tell their own story. Most of
them, unfortunately,' were a conglom-
erate mass of things accumulated in
the community represented, but in no
way telling the story to the casual
onlooker.

ilirertor ^airv ma rU<tinK. "The I'arin
Hiir. aiist .Miil^v \\ av."

.Ian. «. S:lo p. m.— L. J. Quasey. ill-
r-'lor (-ran sport at ion. "Wlial tin-
l-'arni OuHeau Has l^one and Is I>oinK
lo Solve the Farmers' Transporta-
lioii Frohlenis."

.Ian. 7. ll':3<t p. m. — A. H. I.eeper.
ilirector fruit an*l vejretable market -
ink'. The- More- nollars-<.ii-t h.--Tre.-
and Less-Cost-at-the-Crveks Ai-tiv
iiv of tlie Farm I'.nreau."

Jan. 8. lL':3ii p. ni.--M. 11. I'etersen.
in charge T. It. e rail i cat ion. ■< 'lean
Hearts and Herds."

Jan. il. l:':;pt p. m.— Oonald Kirk
patriek. I. A. A. PkuI conns. d. "Hand-
ling' the Farmer's l,cp:nl rrohlcnis,"

Jan. V. 8:H» p. m. — Ceorpre U. Wiek
er, direetor of eo-opirative aeeimnt-
inp:. "The Twentieili Tenturv *'o-
o|)erative."

Jan. U'. 12:S0 i> in - \Vm. E. Iledj,--
■ ■oek. live stock marketinpr, "Shorl-
eniiiK the Uoof-to-Frj-iiiK-l^an Train
Via the Farm IJiireau."

Jan. 1.1. li':;!n p. m.— II. C. Ttuteher.
direetor of informafion, '"The Farni-
er and His Local Newsjiaper"

Jan. 13. 8:10 p. m.— <;. K. Meizt^'er.

dirpetor organization. ■■F:irin r.n ■
reanitis."

Vivv. 'IX fnmi KVW, Hi2M p. ni. —

AVhat l-"arrn i:nre;uis An- I>oiim |
III., t.y n. .'. MiiLdnr. I. .\. .\. ml..,
mat ton d.pjirt itLinl.

Jan. f» — "Who'.s Poinj; t he Chores'.'
I.v \V. M. Moody. 1. A. A. eve.i.iiv
■ omnnt te. man. I'nrt Ilvron

Editors In WCK Monopoly

FiiiiU paper rditor,s had :i
iiHinopoIy nn tho weekly 1. .\. A
r.Trni lailio pr<>!--iam fnini \Vf"K.
Di'C 10. when O. F:ilwin ropUess.
editor iif the Dairynian's Jmunal
talked nn ".Vdverlisiiis,' nn the
rarni" and Paul I'nttcr. assistaiil
editor of ilip OratiKP Jndd llli
nois l'"ariner. told "What tlie
Illinnis Cianse i.s Doins at H>ll. -
» ilie This Week. ■

Rock Island Gets lowan

Warren K. .Mien, is the new
farm adviser in Hnek Island
county, succeodin.c O. E. Ack^T-
son. who recently resisned to
intjr the life insurance business.
-Mien's ability to serve the
iiieinber.s of the liock Island
Onunty Farm TSureau has been
aciiuired by experience in school
leachint; and five .year's experi-
ence as county agent in Keokuk
county. Iowa.

.>lnry Kn|i|i, .\iibiirn, captured
the blue ribbon in the .San.Kanion
county calf show with her 1,075
pound steer, which broilKht 40
cents per pound or a sross re-
turn of |4;iO in the public auc-
tion at the National Stock Yards.
I'orty-one other .SaUKamon county
bo.vs and girls sold their calves
in the same sale at an average
of $140. SS per head.

.\t the annual nieeline, held
in Chicago two weeks ago, the
National County .Agents' As.so-
ciation refu.sed to endorse the
Orain .Marketing Company.

Co-op Marketing

Replaces Ox Cart

"The o\ cart was a good
nu'tlind of transiinrlation in its
time," said .\. H. I.ei'per. I. .\. .\.
fruit attd vegetable marketing
director .ind manager of the
Illinnis Fruit Growers' Kx-
iliange. in a recent radio talk
over WLS. "Hut in this day
of airplanes it is considered out
nf date. The iiony exiiress in its
day was considered a wnnderfiil
means of eninmunication. but
folks, compare it if you will, with
tile methods fif communicatinn
used today. When seated in yimr
homes, listening to words con-
vi'.M'd through the air. you realize
tile progress made. Those fann-
ers who say they are individu-
alists and employ the same
iiielhnds of marketing used in
the o\ cart and pony express
da\s do not fit in very well with
modern co-operativi' marketing."

St. Louis Makes Record

December ,'j was the last day
of the 49th week ot business for
the St. l.ouis rroducers during
the present year, and a mcinor-
ahle one because of the fact it
marked the closing of the largest
week's business ever handled by
the Association, ri7r> cars.

The 37.") cars representeil IS
per cent of the total receipts at
the Yards and a larger carint of
business than the four largest
old line firms on the market that
week. Illinois led all other staten
with lt',4 cars lo her credit, while
.Mi.ssouri had 147 and Iowa 43
cars, with the truck-in depart-
ment and other states totaling
21 cars.

.\daiiis county. III., led all other
counties with 20 cars and .Monro*'
e<iunty. Mo., a close second with
IS car;:, i'angar.i'v.i coi::;ty. III..
was third with 16 cars. Fulton
and Macoupin counties tying for
fourth place with 15 cars each.

J. .M. Laws, manager of the
l.ewistown Shipping -Association,
with 10 car loads, led all other
organizations in number of cars
consigned for the week.

ciiicnK<> Hanss l^p iSecord

The i7;i cars handled during
the week of December 1st to iltli
by the Chicago Producers consti-
tuted a new record for receiiits
handled by one commission ap-
eney at the Chicago yaids. .This
record superceded the record of
5f)2 cars, also made by the rro-
ducers." This record of .'i73 cars
is just 100 cars more than were
handled by the next highest com-
mission firm.

Safety Contest Coiniieliti'on

First place in the shipping as-
sociations' safety contest, spon-
sored by both the Nati()nal Live
Stock Producers and the Illinois
Agricultural Association, is now
held by the North Henderson
Shipping Association, This as-
sociation, in the 18 loads which
have been shipped to the Chicago
Producers, has experienced the
loss of one crippled hog. Tbe

PROBLEMS ARE NOT
POLITICAL: BRADFUTE

I I'ont iiiiiod fruiii p.'igc .t 1

departmental problems. K II
t'liiininghani. member nf the 1"-»1-
eral Iteaerve Hoard, Washingtnr..
1). C. addressed the entire con
vent ion.

Reviewing the economic cnn-
dilions of the past year, he said.
"The year as a whole will iirnb
ably show a good improvement
in the conditions of tbe farmer.
Final statistics will show that it
lias been a year of decreased
iiroduction with an increase; in
prices that will leave but small
advantage in net returns over
that ot 1!>2:!."

("riilit Is Satisfactory

He stated that the credit situa-
tion in the country at the present
liiiii' is .suti,-.£av-uty but warn w
against a period of possible spi c-
ulation arid over-extension not
justified hy the present status
nf .Agriculture.

"liudgets and Taxation" was
the subject discussed by H. 1,
Young. Speaker of the House of
lleiiresentatives, from Hoston.
.Mass., at the banquet Tuesday
e\ening. He drew attention to
the wisdom of outlining on the
budget plan the expenditures for
a year, calculating the probable
income and estimating the amount
of probable expenditures.

Hear .Mrs. Sewell

Mrs. Chas. W. Sewell, well
known chairman of the IndiaTia
Home and Community committee,
was also on the banquet pro
gram. She reminded the dele
gales that the Farm Bureau is a
valuable organization, doing mani
things to belli the farmers, bin
also pointed out that as long a^
tlie women are not drafted int"
service to the fullest extent, llien
just so long will the Farm liu
reau fail to make the must nf
its resources.

Howard M. Core, Secretary of
.Agriculture, scheduled to speak
on "Agricultural Progress. " was
prevented by illni" r, t'roiii tuiinv
tlie engagement but sent a letter
of greeting.

The entire third day of the
convention was taken up with the
election of officers and considera-
tion of resolutions, prepared in
the several group conferences.

Lee County Shipping .\ssociation
of .\mboy is in second [ilace with
two crippled sheep aid one crip
pled hog.

The final award will not be
made until after the first of tip
year when the record of assoeiA-
tions in Illinois, which are ship-
ping lo the various Producers
agencies are compiled. The win-
ner ot the Illinois contest will
then enter into competition with
the champions of the other states

in order to d(»cide who is to gain
liossession of the 18 inch silver
trophy awarded by the National
Live Stock Producers Associa-
tion.

\ous From lniliana|Milis

Transportation claims, filed by
;lie transportation and claim de-
partment nf the Indianapolis Prn-
(liicers, amounted on Dec. 1 to
$15,04S.70 nf which $6.809.8!i
:,ar. bcci; collected and ^'!'">.'<
has been cancelled. These claims
not only reimburse for actual
losses but also stimulate the rail-
road service, according to G. K.
.\yer, director of the transporta-
linn and claim department.

The Indianapolis market re
iiuires careful watching from a
transportation standpoiut because
nf being served by branch lines
through junctinn points with
through trunk lines. It is in-
evitable that delays will occur at
these connecting line stations if
a transportation program is not
arranged to promptly move con-
signments through junction sta-
tions.

Ewing. On Producer Board

Charles E. Ewing. Decatur.
111., was recently elected by the
Chicago Live Stock Producers
Commission Association, as a
member of the governing board
of seven directors. His appoint-
ment fills the vacancy caused by
the resignalioiv of W. S Hill,
South Dakota, who accepted a
federal appointment, and gives
Illinois stockmen three represent-
atives on the board.

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Volume 3

Issued Every Other Saturday — January 3, 1925

Number 1

T WILL BE GREAT
TIME AT U. WHEN
DELEGATES TOOT IN

Dran Mumford Will Extend
OfiBcial Handshake of Uni-
versity; A Busy Two Days

'T will be a hot time in the

old town when all the farm bu-

reau folks

f gather at Ur-
b a n a during
Farmers' Week
for the annual
I. A. A. meet-
ing and the
first annual
meeting of the
I. A. C. A., the
organ! z a t i o D
which functions

D... H. w. Mo,„r„rd ^%^ department
of the I. A. A
and furnishes auditing and busi-
ness advisory service to farmers
when they, get in business to-
gether. The I. A. C. A. meeting
domes on Wednesday, the 14th,
while the I. A. A. convention is
the 15th and 16th.

When the delegates get seated
tor the first time in the I. A. A.
meeting on Thursday, Dean H.
W. Mumford will give the official
handshake of the University and
turn over the proverbial keys to
the University to President
Thompson and the delegates.

r^vfiltlc'Li TliOiiipsoii expresbcs
A..e hope that every delegate
fi m ever y
c o u J t y will
bring another
member along
for company so
that as many
farmers as pos-
sible can get
an inside look
at the heart of
his state farm bureau organiza-
tion. President Thompson sug-
gests that every delegate be em-
powered with authority to grab
his neighbor by the heels and
drag him along.

With every station v agent in
the state of Illinois supposed to
have been in-
structed by his
superiors that
any and all
farmers going
to Champaign
or Urbana on
or between Jan.
tU 10 to 19 should
be allowed to
ride at fare and one-half, it is
expected that many who other-
wise would not have gone be-
cause of padlocked purse strings,
will now heed the conductor's
call and get aboard.

Now is the time to make all
your plans for the meeting. You
may be like
this fellow in
the illustration
trying to catch
his train. No
one should
chance running ^^ ,
for a train aDdCt^^^yT
wasting much (. ~ A
needed breath

ATTEND THE ANNUAL MEETING!

just previous to the I. A. A. an-
nual convention. No doubt it
will be needed. However, there's
an Insurance man on the pro-
gram.

A right royal welcome is being
stewed up by President Kinley and
) Dean Mumford
\ at the Univers-
ity. The Unl-
ive r s i t y has
I charge of the
lent ertainment
I during the con-
V e n t i o n and
from rumors
' that have drift-
ed Chicago-way it appears that
special preparations afe being
(Continued on page 3, ooL 4)

QlDct upoM A TiHe A rouNG boo5Tea
WHo»e KNowLCOGE OFTneuMivea«E was
coMPmeo TO HIS own barn yard i«a6

PQOKl^eO By A DKSIRe.TO KNOW MoW
T(4E rest of the WOHtD 010 THlNas.
MOONTIHe THE HIOH .BOARD FINCE
TMATSORROUNOeo HIS DOMAIN HE
WAS eatATi-y subpsiscpto dis-
covee that his next door.

NEISHBORS WERC A PAIR orOSTRlCHeS

DuRlltaHlS INVESTIGATION OP
THE OSTRICH FARM Ht SOON
CAME ACROSS AN IMMCNSE-

a."

Struck by a bright idea
He waited until thc Hen os-
trich WAS NOT LOOK INCjr ANP
QUICKLY ROLLED IXe E 0& INTO
HIS OWN BARN
YAR"

PROGRAM, lOTH ANNUAL MEETING
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION

January IS and 16, 1925

(All general
10:00 A. M.
10:30 A. M.

12:00
1:00 P. M.

2:30 P. M.

4:00 P. M.
6:00 P. M.
6:30 P. M.

9:00 A. M.

10:30 A. M.

12:00
1:15 P. M.

meetings will be in Auditorium. Banquet will be in
First Methodist Church. Champaign. I

Thursday. .Inn. 15 , - . ,

Invocation. _,' ■'- - j

Music. ~

Address of welcome — Dean H. W. Mumford.
President's address — S. H. Thompson.
Secretary's report — Geo. .\. Fox. i

Treasurer's report — R. A. Cowlea. •:
Appointment of committees.
Luncheon.
Music.

"Our Educational System " — Geo. W. W^illett, princi-
pal of Lyons Township high school. LaGrange. 111.,
and director of I. A. X. school survey made during
the summer.

Discussion led by J. L. Wbisnand. chairman, educa-
tional committee, I. A. A.
Grain Marketing.

Address — Hon. T. A. Crerar, president. United Grain
Growers, Inc., of Canada.

Discussion led by H. E. Goembel, chairman I. A. A.
grain marketing committee.
Nomination of executive committee.
Banquet.

Playlet by east from Menard County ?"arm Bureau.
Address — David Kinley, Ph. D., L. L. D., president,
University of Illinois.
Music.

Address — "The Agricultural Situation, Past and Pres-
ent," Chas. J. Brand, Consulting Specialist in Market-
ing, United States Department of Agriculture.
Election of officers.

Friday, January 16
Music.
Reading.

Address — "Problems of Revenue in Illinois," — Walter
F. Dodd, Chicago, chairman of conference on revenue
amendment.

Discussion.ied by John C. Watson, I. A. A. director of
taxation aitd statistics.

Address — "insurance As It Relates to Farmers" by
Erwin A. Myers, insurance cou.nsellor, Chicago.
Luncheon.
Music. .

Discussion of programs of work of departments (Geo.
A. Fox in the chair).
Report of resolutions committee.
Report of other committees and discussion.

INTERNATIONAL CO-OP GRAIN MARKETING
AUTHORITY TO HEADLINE I. A. A. MEETING;
McNARY-HAUGEN POUSHER SCHEDULED, TOO

Hon. T. A. Crerar, President, United Grain Grov-rs Inc. of Can-
ada, Was Formerly Member of Canadian Parliament ; Chas.
J. Brand Was Late Secretary Wallace's Right Hand Man.

A Canadian wheat marketing authority of International reputation
will be the outstanding attraction at the 10th annual meeting ofc>the
I. A- A. when the delegates convene in the Audi-
torium at the University of Illinois Jan. 15 and
16 to shape the destinies of this organization for
1925 and the future. »

Hon. T. A. Crerar, president of the Canadian
Wheat Growers', Inc., Winnipeg, is the authority.
It is expected that he will draw liberally from his
years of practical experience in co-operative grain
marketing in Canada for the benefit of Illinois
farm bureau members. He has been a Member
of the Canadian Parliament from which he re-
tired to go into co-operative wheat marketing.
Following his talk an open discussion wyi give n.it. t. a. onv
opportunity for delegates to express their views as to what the I. A.
.\. should undertake in 1925 and in the future along grain market-
ing lines. .

The farmer's school problems
are also to be in the limelight
this year. 'The I. A. A. educational
committee, headed by J. L. Wbis-
nand, executive committeeman
representing the 1 9th district,
will be loaded with facts which
were obtained in the school sur-
vey made during the summer.
(Ceo. W Wfllet. the direotxw ^
thai survey and who is prlncip^
of the Lyons Township high
school at I..aGrange. HI., will
present the main address.

At the banquet in the evening
of the first day. Chas. J. Brand,
consulting spe-
cialist in mar-
keting of the
United BUtes
Department of
A g r i c u Iture,
Washington, D.
C will present
an address on
■The Arricul-
tural Situation,
Past and Pres-

Delegates to Have

Reports by Jan. 10

I>elegates t<> the anntial
convention shonid receive their
annual re|M)rt» of the 1. .*. .*.
altout Jan. 10. Thin year the
year books are l>elnK printed
earlier in order that each dele-
,Aate rn.i stTi*!; u\\ on t" ti.e
activltieK of the «.ssoclation l)e-
fore the annual iiieellnic. The
book is complete excepliuK for
that of the treasurer wlitch
cannot be made In detail until
after Jan. 1 when the audi-
tors coniplele their work.

The title of re|K>rt was
rhangetl tills year to read
".\nniial Ke|H>rt tor l»iM and
l>r<>|M>Ne<l frogram" rather
than just ".^nniwl Re|K>rt«."
On the co'ver Is printed "an
organizatldb of thinking fann-
ers."

District Meetings

Jerk Members From

Back to Front Seats

When some energetic journal-
ist attempts to write a history
of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation some 25 or 50 years
hence, he will 4ig back into the
archives of the order and And
that it was in 1924 that the
membership pulled up from the
back seats into the orchestra pit
right next the sfenes of greatest
activity".

The year 1924 will go down
in I. A. A. history as the one
wherein the memliership had the
opportunity of voicing its ap-
proval or disapproval, by means
of a constitutional requirement
of three meetings in each district
each year, of projects under way
in the state assocaition or ijie
national organization. It also
will be remembered as the year
in which the members could get
quicker action than they could
in previous years when the an-
nual meetings were the principal
reflectors of the thought of the
membership.

The possibility of having each
1. A. A. director appear t>efore
the members in each district dur-
ing 1925 will be discussed some-
time during the anmial meeting.
It is thought that some pre-ar-
ranged schedule of district meet-
ings for the entire year would be
more satisfactory.

>feetini:s Nearly .^11 Completed

Four district meetings held
during December practically
wound up the required three-to-
a-district per year as decided
upon at the last annual conven-
(Cnrtjnuni on pltc 3, ool. 2)

] ent." It will
J be remeialiered

Chwi. J. nr«tM]

by many farm
bureau folks
that it was Mr.
Brand to whom the late secre-
tary Wallace turned for the pol-
ishing of the framework of the
McNary-Haugen bill.

Taxation problems and revenae
matters are at the top of the bill
of fare for Friday. Walter K.
Dodd of Chicago, chairmaa of a
state-wide committee of tax au-
thorities created for the purpose
of working out and submitting a
revenue amendment to the Illi-
nois constitution, will l>e the
main speaker on this subject. J.
C. Watson, director of taxation
and statistics of the I. A. A., is
also on this committee. He will
l>e on deck for the open-house
discussion on tax matters which
will follow.

T» Talk Insnranre

Probloms of farmers In insur-
ance mt.tters will t>e dealt with
by Vr. Erwin A. Myers of Chi-
cago, an Insurance counsellor ex-
perienced in farmers' mutual in-
surance companies. It is ex-
pected that some action will b^
taken at the meeting providing
for the I. A. A. to formulate some
plan for re-insuranCe for mutuals
during 1925.

Perhaps the most important
session of the two days will be
in the discussion of programs of
work of departments with Sec-
retary Fox in the chair. Dele-
gates will prescribe the definite
lines of work for departments at
this time. Proposed programs
will be offered by each depart-
ment.

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The IlKnou Agricultural A«»ocu>tk>B Record

JanuM-y 3, 192S

I IjLilNOIS

CITLTIIBAL ASSOClAI

RECORP-

Pabll«h*4 (TaiT «th«r Satardar br tb* Illlnola Agrrlcal-
tunil AsaoolatlOD, tOi Sooth Duirborn Stra«t, Chicago,
Illinois. Kdlted bjr Dtpartment of Information, H. C.
ButehT. Director.

Entered aa aecond claaa matter Oot. 10, IMl, at the post
office at Chicago, Illtnoie, under the act of Search 8, 1S79.
Acceptance for mailing at apeolal rate* of ipoatage pro-
Tided for In Section 1101, Act of Octobfer t, 1S11, anthor-
laed Oct II, lltl.

The Individual memberahlp fee of the Illlnola Agricul-
tural Aaaoctatlon la flTe dollars a year. Tbia fee Includea
parment of flftr centa for aubaorlptlon to the Illlnola Ag-
rlcnltnral Aaaodatlon «!«■»,

Poatmaater; In returning an uncalled-for or mlaaent
COP7, please indicate key number en addr^s as is re-
quired by law.

OFFICERS
President, 8. H. Thompson, Qniner.
Tlce-Presldent, 0. B. Watson, DeKalb,
Tratsiirer, R. A. Cowles, Bio
Secretary, O«o. A. Fox, Sycamote,^

BXECCnVli! OOMMITTEB

B7 Oongreaalonal Districts

11th Jacob Olbrlch, Harvard

12th G. F, Tullock, Rockford

13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron

16th H. E. Goembet, Hooppota

16th A. R. Wright, Varna

17th F. D. Barton, Cornell

18th R. F. Karr, Iroquoti

19th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th Earl 0. Smith, Detroit

21st .'Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd Stanley Castle, Alton

23rd J. E. LIngenfelter, Lawrencevllle

24th Curt Anderson, Xenia

28th Vernon Le—ley, Sparta >

Directors of Departments
L A. A. Office

General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker;
Organization, G. E. Mstzger; Information, H. C. Butcher;
Transportatloiv I- J. Quasey; Taxation and Statistics,
J. C. Watson; Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vege-
table Marketing, A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing,
Wm. E. Hedgcock; Dairy Marketing, A, D. Lynch;
Piiosphate-Llmestone, J. R. Bent; In charge Poultry and
Egg Marketing, F. A. Qougler; special representative
on Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H, Petersen; Legal
Counsel, Donald KIrkpatrIck; Co-operative Accounting,
Geo. R. Wicker.

wlio

i Happy New Year!
To every farm bureau member
Record, the officials and directors of
of the I. A. A. extend a hearty and sincere wish
for a happy and prosperous New Year.

gets the
departments

Our Yearly Conclave

Interest is running high in the coning annual
meeting of the I. A. A. This convenjon will be
one of the most important in this organization's
years of active history.

Everj' farm bureau member who can possibly get
away from his farm should attend. E ven though
you are represented by capable delei fates, there
are many, many things in which everj individual
will be interested and in which you will liave a voice.

The eyes of the farm organizations o : the nation
are on the Illinois Agricultural Association.

It» Firtt Annual Meetinif

Probably the reddest ear in the I. 1.. A. wagon
load of accomplishments in 1924 is the (irganization
of the auditing and business advisorj'. service for
farmers' co-operative organizations.
' The first annual meeting of this liody, which
functions as the department of co-o])erative ac-
counting of the I. A. A., will be held at Urbana
on the 14th, the day before the I. A. A. meeting.
An extensive program has been arranged which
should, be iflteresting to co-operative managers and
officers. The meeting will be held in I the Illinois
Students' Union Wilding. A fuU oujtline of the
program appears in this Record.

TAe Go* Tax

As announced in the last issue of the Record, '
the Illinois Agricultural Association will propose
and support a tax on gasoline in the coming ses-
sion of the state legislature. In supporting a gas
tax, the Illinois Agricultural Assoeiatic n is specific
in its statement that revenue derived from a gas
tax must supplant some of the present tax already
levied. The I. A. A. is not\or a gas tax in addi-
tion to present taxes; it is fir a gas :ax in place
of some present property tM. Another plank in
the I. A. A. gas tax platfo -m is that tax should

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be paid on gasoline used on the public highways
and not that used upon the farm.

Many people do not realize the extent of the gas
tax in the United States. The accompanying map
shows this very plainly.

MAP SHOWING STATES WHICH HAVE ADOPTED
GASOUNE TAX LAWS
States shown in white have enacted laws providing for a gaso-
line tax, the proceeds to go for road purposes. The figures in
the states indicate the rate of taxation, from Ic to 4c a gallon.
States shown in black have not adopted a gasoline tax.

Every farmer realizes that it takes money to
build roads, especially when he pays his taxes.
Roads must be built, however, and they must be
maintained. That costs money. The money must
be raised by some form of public license or taxation.

Years Sgo it was just and proper to raise all
road funds by a general property tax — a tax on
the farms and homes. In the days of horse drawn
vehicles the road was a neighborhood road, used
almost solely by the neighbors and paid for by the
neighbors by a general property tax.

Today, with the automobile, the motor truck and
the bus, the road is not a neighborhood, or town
road, but a county, a state, a national highway,
used by everybody, from everywhere.

Under these changed conditions, with the general
property tax at a prohibitive point, it is simply
common sense and common fairness to say that the
people who use the roads and get most of the ben-
efit from them, the motor vehicle owners, should
pay a fair share of the cost.

Getting Together

A large part of the work of the phosphate-lime-
stone department of the I. A. A. has been to bring
the producers of phosphate and agricultural lime-
stone to a better understanding of the needs of
farmers who use such fertilizers and the conditions
under which these fertilizers can be brought into
more general use. On the other hand, this de-
partment has had the responsibility of bringing to
the farmers, through the county Farm Bureaus,
a better understanding of the conditions under
which these fertilizers are produced and the facts
that govern a continuance of an efficient and suf-
ficient supply.

Trying to get buyers and sellers of any commod-
ity to see the problems of the other, it makes no
difference whether the commodity be hogs, beads,
helium or labor, is about as difficult as it would be
for some hardy individual to get out in No Man's
Land and try to stop a war. Buyers and sellers
are, as a rule, two natural, dyed-in-the-wool oppo-
nents.

But in the phosphate-limestone work there are
indications that both sides appreciate efforts de-
signed to bring buyer and seller together. As an
example, the following is a quotation from a letter
received from J. H. Werner, general manager of
the Charles Stone Company at Marion, Illinois.
It is addressed to J. R. Bent, director of that de-
partment.

"Your very interesting talk at the meeting was
a source of much information and enlightenment
for me. I feel that I have gained much in the con-
ference and feel that you, in behalf of the Farm
Bureaus, have brought us (limestone producers) to
a closer and keener interest in the farmers through-
out the state. Your service has been a, valuable
one to us, even while serving them."

For Your Information

The Illinois-Missouri Co-operative Milk Produc-
ers' Association, which was organized by the farm-
ers of the St. Louis district during 1921, had filed
against it but recently, for a second time in the last
two years, an involuntarj' petition in bankruptcy.
The first petition was filed in December, 1922. The
association had a large number of creditors and the
great majority of these creditors agreed to a fund-
ing plan offered by the association. A small group
of creditors, however, refused the funding plan of-
fered, which is responsible for the second proceed-
ing.

Since the first bankruptcy proceeding, a second
company was formed by the farmers of the St.
Louis territory, which is called the Ill-Mo Dairy
Company. This company has been carrying on a
successful creamery business in the territory and
will continue to do so unaffected by the bankruptcy
proceeding against the Illinois-Missouri Milk Pro-
ducers Association.

This second proceeding in the bankruptcy court
will probably clear uj) the situation as to the old
marketing association and give the milk farmers
of the St. Louis territory an opportunity to market
co-operatively the fluid milk and dairy products
through the Ill-Mo Dairj- Company.

In order that any misinformed persons may be
set aright, it shovild be stated that the Illinois-Mis-
souri Co-operative Milk Producers Association was
not an enterprise of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation. However, the I. A. A. had a hand in
the formation of the Ill-Mo Dairy Company and is
looking confidently ahead to its success.

The Voice of the Hemhen >:',V.-n

Members are inviied to speak skew minds m this eohtmu. At
momy letters from members vili be printed each issue as space
wiU permit. Letters should be short and snappy; aU must be
signed t« be printed. AU constructive criticism of the Farm Bu-
reau— county, state or notional units — is welcomed. If you have
any pievances, praise or sugiestions, here is the place to teil
them. It's your column, make it what you will. Address Utters
to B. C. BuUker, I. A. A. Record, 60S S. Dearborn, Ckictgo.

Voice of the Members: We hear so much about what
the Farm Bureau has done, by some, but we also hear
from others lees informed that they can't see where it
has benefited them. This is the common argument so
much discussed by tho^e for and against the farm bu-
reau movement.

In reality there is only one logical side and that is
for the movement. The man arguing against has no
basis for an argument, other than Ignorance due to lack
of information, based on positive facts. Affirmative in-
formation is available in any good farm paper, farm
bureau publication or cooperative literature.

The trouble with the man who argues against the
Farm Bureau Is that he does not read material that
will keep him informed, because he seems to have the
feeling that if he becomes so informed, and his neigh-
bors who are lor the movement And it out, he will be
asked to become a member. This would cost him $15.00
a year I As I see it, the seat of the trouble with the
objectors lies In the pocket book.

A, A. Appel. Cobden, Illinois, Union County.

SIT TIGHT!

A farmer may grin '. ,

Or he may puff and blow , "■ . '■:

If he sells his produce ■■■'-■.■:

At cost, or below. :■ ■'

He may fondly think :•."••

He can go it alone, '■•.'': '■.

But as well swim the ocean \ *■ ■

Tied fast to a stone! , . ; ..

The Farm Bureau transport ' ;

And its swift fleet of boats !

Will pull him across . •'.

As it does all the shotes. . ' '

There is cotton, tobacco ■ ' •■•;

Fruit, 'taters and cream — ■ '

They have reached a safe port

At last, it would seem.

But one ship is floundering ■• -i:
And that is the grain; , V .

It's a shame that the big fish 1 •. -"
Get most of the gain.

Mr. Douljter is here

Altho not very stout.
He likes throwing stones

At co-ops round about. ■■.'-■[

These stones to Sir Doubter •,;■ .■. ;

Appear very neat, •. ; ..■

But when we look close — . ■; . -

They are made by a cheat. ■ '■ ;

iLet's stick to our standard —
^1 The co-ops are right!
HAnd let's all board the Farm Bureau
Ship and sit tight.

O. L. Hatch, president.
Stark County Farm Bureau.

January 3, 1925

The Illinois A^cuhoral Association Record

Pag* 3

products

IMPROVE FARMERS'
ECONOMIC CONDITION,
LIFE STANDARD: FOX

Addresses Nation's Land Econ-
omists; Stresses Co-operation
With Industry, Commerce

Speaking on "The Platform of
Organized Agriculture" before a
group of the
nation's f o r e-
most land econ-
omists in s e s-
sion at Chica-
go, Dec. 29,
under the aus-
pices of the
American Farm
Economics As-
sociation. Geo.
A. Fox, I.A.A.
secretary, first
said that there
are many
abuses to the
term, "organ-

Geo. A. Fox

Ized agriculture."

"Agriculture consists of the
farms and the farmers producing
products," said Mr. Fox. "The
business of each of these units
of production involves many
problems, some of which are
common to all. Many of these
problems can be met more ef-
fectively by collective action and
some of them can only be solved
by united effort. Wherever and
however farmers unite to serve
the interests of these groups by
collective or group action, we
have organized agriculture.

Gives Reason for Organizing

"The underlying purposes of
organized agriculture is to im-
prove the farmers' economic con-
dition and his standard of liv-
ing." said Mr. Fox. "He is not
interested in the higher wages
for labor unless it will result in
better returns for his own labor.
He is not interested in greater
reward for managerial ability un-
less he may also share in pro-
portionately larger returns for
his own managerial ability. He
is not interested in large returns
on capital investment unless he
is included with other capitalists.
The farmer is a laborer, a man-
ager and a capitalist. This com-
bination, plus the environment
with which he is surrounded and
limited, creates a distinct group
interest which is peculiar to agri-
culture and which must not be
compromised, which should never
be confused with the interest of
other groups, or the interest of
the general public."

Mr. Fox suggested to the econ-
omists that the activities of or-
ganized agriculture must of
necessity be limited strictly to
the welfare of the farm group.
These activities will be found to
be largely economic in character.
He stated further that much ef-
fort has been fruitless because of
a tendency of some farm organ-
izations to engage in almost
every activity under the sun, and
to a lack of self reliance, that is,
failure to rely on farmers them-
selves for leadership and finan-
cial support. He stated that
singleness of purpose, develop-
ment of leadership among farm-
ers, and financial independence
are necessary parts of a sound
policy.

He also stated that one of the
largest jobs of farm organiza-
tions today is to co-operate with
industry, commerce, labor and
the general public for the mutual
benefit of all, but agriculture
must be on its toes continually
to guard its own interests.

The program of procedure that
has been found most practical in
the experience of Mr. Fox was
outlined by him as follows:

"Many programs of work of
farm organizations have gone on
the rocks. Many efforts have
been made to correct evils that
never existed. Many attempts
have been made to make gold
out of brass. The basis for any
activity is intelligence. A sur-
vey of every problem and need is
the first step. Formulation of a
course of procedure based upon
facts, experience, and sound rea-
son follows. With this sort of
a background, initiative ahd
freedom of action in the interest
of the group to be served, will
yield results. A part of this
program is well supplied by
other agencies. Our educational

FOUR DISTRia MEETS

(Continued from page 1, col. 4)
tion at Galesburg. These were
held at Edwardsville, Springfield,
Morrison and Galesburg, Dec. 15,
17, 18 and 19, respectively.

At Edwardsville the meeting
was largely devoted to considera-
tion of the annual meeting of the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion and was based upon a per-
sonal recital of events by Stanley
Castle of Alton, executive com-
mitteeman for the 22nd district.
Inter-relation of the Farm Bu-
reau and closely allied organiza-
tions, grain marketing and com-
munity organization were among
the other questions discussed.

Advocate Withdrawal
Sangamon, Macoupin, Mont-
gomery and Christian county rep-
resentatives, the counties which
embrace the 21st district, met at
Springfield. A resolution was
passed expressing that district's
attitude toward the American
Farm Bureau Federation. It fol-
lows:

"Whereas, the American Farm
Bureau Federation has adopted a
grain marketing: policy which Is
contrary to our Ideas of co-operative
marketing:, and

"Whereas, the nilnols Asrlcul-
tural Association has after a thor-
ough Investigation adopted resolu-
tions condemning this grain mar-
keting policy, holding that it is not
only non-co-operative but that it
stands in the way of a co-operative
grain marketing program for Illi-
nois, and

"Whereas, there have been other
evidences that the American Farm
Bureau Federation has not repre-
sented the interests of the farmers
of Illinois, therefore be It

"Resolved, that we do not favor
continued support of the American
Farm Bureau Federation under its
present administration, and that our
support be withdrawn until such
time as the constitution of the A. F.
B. P. is changed so that control of
the organization Is entirely vested
In farmer members who maintain
regularly organized county Farm
Bureaus controlled by their farmer
members, and

"Be it further resolved, that we
direct an executive committeeman.
Sam Sorreiis, to use his best efforts
to secure action favorable to this
resolution by the executive commit-
tee of the I. A. A."

Whiteside, Lee, Ogle, Carroll,
Stephenson and Jo Daviess repre-
sentatives talked over current
problems at Morrison. Legisla-
tion, taxation, co-operative live
stock marketing, local co-opera-
tion and organization were the
high lighU.

At the 15th district meeting at
Galesburg Dec. 19, B. H. Taylor,
president of the Fulton County
Farm Bureau, was supported to
be executive committeeman for
that district when the election
occurs.

institutions and our government-
al departments can and do ren-
der valuable helg. They are
very necessary agencies to the
program of organized agricul-
ure. They are, however, the
creation of all the people repre-
senting the common interests of
all the people. To make intelli-
gence available, to free it from
prejudice, and give it the Im-
petus necessary for practical ap-
plication, is probably the most
important part of the program.
Organized agriculture'' does this
thing."

Economic .Adjustment EssentUl

A third suggestion made by
Mr. Fox dealt with economic ad-
justment. He said that the prob-
lem of agriculture is to perpetu-
ate production on the established
farms of the country and to in-
sure thereon a standard of liv-
ing which will foster and con-
tinue a class of citizenship in
keeping with national security.
The best lands of the nation are
under cultivation. They have an
established investment value to
the owners. The welfare of the
industry requires confidence In
the stability of this capital in-
vestment.

In closing he stated: "If
agriculture's goal is to preserve
and perpetuate the food produc-
ing resources of our agricultural
lands, to sustain the investment
value of our farms and to insure
an intelligent and contented ru-
ral population, the business op-
erations of the farm must be
reasonably prosperous. I am not
willing to accept nor to acqui-
esce in the theory that industry,
labor, and agriculture cannot
thrive and prosper side by side.
If the American people do not
accept the challenge to establish
equality for agriculture and
prosperity foe all its essential
groups, they have met the first
great defeat in our country's
history."

65S832

Membership Is On

Increase In Illinois

Tlie membership of the I. \.
X. which took such a tumble
during the great de])re.ssion
has hit the bottom and i.>< on
the upward swinR. .According
to the figures of G. E. Metz-
ger, I. A. A. organisation di-
rector, farmers are coming
back Into the fold who with-
drew during the depression.
There is a steady trickle of
voluntary memberships all
over the state, mostly from
farmers who drop in the farm
bureau office and sign up with-
out being solicited.

Reveal Consumption
Butter SiAstitute;

Lynch Scores Users

"There is no substitute for
dairy butter."

So declares A. D. Lynch, I. A.
A. dairy marketing director. A
survey just completed under his
direction, on the consumption of
so-called "butter substitutes"
among city and rural families
throughout Illinois, in co-opera-
tion with farm advisers in 33
counties, reveals surprising fig-
ures as to the amount of oleo
and similar vegetable fats act-
ually consumed by city and coun-
try dwellers in these counties.

Farm families are almost as
great offenders in the use of
substitutes for dairy butter as
city people, the marketing expert
discovers. According to the farm
advisers consulted, average esti-
mates indicate that farm people
eat 2.81 pounds of oleo per fam-
ily per year, compared with 2.94
pounds for their city cousins,
over the same period of time.

"The farmer, especially the
dairy farmer, who buys butter
substitutes in place of genuine
butter is competing against bis
own industry," asserts Lynch.
"Every pound of oleo bought
gives a market to the South Sea
Islander for his cocoanuts and
takes the sale of so much butter
away from some Illinois dairy-
man.

"In addition to that the user of
substitutes is deprivng himself
and his family of the health-giv-
ing vitamines which genuine but-
ter alone can yield."

EXECUTIVES DISCUSS
RELATIONS A.F.B.F.

The special meeting of the
I. A. A. executive committee on
Dec. 19 resulted in the appoint-
ment of a sub-committee to
draw up a resolution stating the
administration's viewpoint on the
relationship of the I. A. A. and
the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration.

Due to the storms which
played havoc with train service
and communication, R. F. Karr.
18th district; Earl C. Smith. 20th
district; Stanley Castle. 22nd
district; and Vernon Lessley.
25th district, were unable to at-
tend. J. E. Lingenfelter. repre-
senting the 23rd district, was de-
tained because of sickness.

The meeting was a closed one
and was given over to discussion
of the I. A. A. relationship with
the national organization. The
sub-committee will submit its
resolution to the executive com-
mittee when it holds its next
regular meeting, Jan. 9.

Buys a Newspaper

r. E. Charles, assistant in the
information department since
June, has bought a half interest
in a newspaper in Republic, Kan-
sas, and has left the ranks of
the I. A. A. to take up his own
W. G. N.

Gerald Jenny, an agricultural
graduate of the University of
Wisconsin, took Mr. Charles'
place, starting December 29. Mr.
Jenny has been writing news of
the Badger school for press serv-
ices.

Mercer County Farm Bureau

has been conducting a "rat
drive," distributing 800 pounds
of poison in all parts of the
county free of charge.

PLANNING BIG TIME

(Continued from ptft 1, col. 1)

made for farm bureau folks. The
Champaign County Farm Bureau
and the Champaign Chamber of
Commerce are taking care of all
details.

meet old
convention.

Old friends
friends during
The Inman ho-
tel will be headr
quarters and
the scene of
much farm bu-
r e a u hilarity.
Tiie University
cake-eaters will
have to take a
back seat while
the farm folks are there. "There'll
be a hot time in the old town
tonight" and "Hail, hail, the
gang's all here" will be first on
the song list.

President 'Thompson will open
the convention, and, following
the custom of
other years,
will turn over
the executive
management to
A. C. Evering-
ham of Hutson-
vilie, a mem-
ber-of the I. A.
legislative
committee, and who is right at
home presiding at I, A. A. annual
meetings. Then wil| come Sec-
retary Fox's report telling the
who, what, where, why, , when
and how the I. A. A. did thus-
and-so during the past year.
Then Treasurer Cowles will hold
the floor with his financial re-
port fresh from the auditors.

Following the day's events will
be a banquet in the First Metho-
dist Church.

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HtfUM f,trnft\ «M dtfcri

'4Min the Form Burou lilie'.

,/

Plcntif «1 acti«fi
tnurAcr wcn«s

The Marshall-Putnam bureau

is holding an all day school for
hog raisers Jan. 6. A representa-
tive of the University of Illinois
will conduct the school.

the only hall
large enough to
hold the great
group. A .play-
let by the Men-
ard County
Farm Bureau
will feature the
banquet enter-
tainment. Ac-
cording to the
press agent of
the show, which
is titled "The
Redemption of
Hiram Home-
brew." the stu-
pendous p r o-
duction opens
to the tunes of
"Three O'clock
in the Morn-
ing" and the
actual time is
said to be that
of the organi-
zation of the
Menard County
Farm Bureau
on N o V. 15.
1919. Time of
first scene is
3 A. M. The
playlet goes in-
to, deep^t trag-
edy and Emerges
at spots with
lightest c o m-
edy. Hiram is
"a gin" the
Farm Bureau
and has a hard lot at home.
Romeo, the hired man. fails in
love with Merry Homebrew, the
villian's daughter, and they elope.
There's a hot chase for the
elopers and then — attend the an-
nual meeting and find out.

There will be a fine brand of
oratory when Ckas. J. Brand of
the United
States Depart-
ment of Agri-
culture gives
those present
a practical econ-
omists' V i e w-
point on the
farmers' trou-
bles. Mr. Brand
has the facts as well as the ora-
tory. And after Mr. Brand talks,
there'll l>e t|ie annual election of
officers. 5

After the^tlection the business
of the conv^tion will continue,
problems will^«^ »^ ^j,.
b e pondered «, «^^ W tcsk
and possibly '^^ "* lS?
solved, d i s a- ''^
greements will '^
arise and argu- _::
meots will no ^
doubt ensue,
but when It's
all over, and
ever>'one is off for home, the old
farm bureau spirit of co-opera-
tion will be there stronger than
ever.

FIRST ANNUAL MEET
OF I.A.C.A. SET FOR
14TH, IN CHAMPAIGN

Win Review Growth and De-
velopments of Past Year;
Elect Officers for Next Yesu-

Gm. B. Wkker

The first annual meeting of
the Illinois Agricultural Co-opera-
tives Associa-
tion is to be
held in Cham-
p a i g n . on
We d n e s d a y.
Jan. 14. A re-
view of the
business of the
past year, elec-
tion of ofBcers
and a program
including a d-
dresses by sev-
e r a 1 leading
authorities on
c o - o perative
auditing are
scheduled.

The co-operatives association
was organized last spring under
the direction of the I. A. A. and
has since functioned as a co-op-
erative accounting department of
the I. A. A. The organization
was incorporated early in June
and at that time elected the fol-
lowing officers to serve until the
first annual election: Henry Mc-
Gough. Maple Park, president;
L. P. McMillen. Rock Falls, vice-
president; and H. J. Shafer. Illi-
opolis; O. B. Goble. Charleston,
and Geo. L. Potter. Pontiac, di-
rectors.

The auditing association is the
first of its kind ever organized in
Illinois. Its purpose is to provide
agricultural co-operalives with
expert auditing, accounting and
business advisory service at act-
ual cost. Much of this service
parallels that of bankers' clear-
ing bouses.

Senice Filling A Need

That this service has been wel-
comed by managers and directors
of co-operalives is shown by the
steady growth in membership.
From the start last June it., has
grown to the present membership

mof 117. This growth is
largely due to the field
work of V. Vaniman, who
has been meeting with the di-
rectors of farmers' co-ops since
last summer, explaining the pur-
pose of the ser\ice.

The roll of member co-ops now
includes 53 farmers' elevators.
39 county Farm Bureaus, nine
live stock shipping associations,
three live stock terminal market-
ing agencies, three supply com-
panies, one seed company and
one fruit associatitm.

Sixty Bu8ines.«ei> Audited

The accounts of more than 60
co-ops have been examined by
Geo. R. Wicker, general man-
ager, and his staff of accountants
Fifty of these are complete and
the others are to be finished -at
the close of their fiscal years. To
handle the auditing with greater
efllciency, a Springfield branch
office was opened last September,
with J. W. King in charge.

The meeting at Champaign will
be called to order at 10:00 A. M.
by President McGongh. The re-
port of Manager Wicker covering
operations of the I. A. C. A. be-
tween June 1 and Nov. 30, 1924,
will follow, after which F. ,£.
Ringham, assistant manager, inll
report on the 60 field exaifnhia-
tions that have been made.

To Dig Into Fundjunentals

At the afternoon session. Geo.
E. Frazer, consulting accountant
for the I. A. A., will talk on "The
Status of the Illinois Agricultural
Co-operatives Association under
the Federal Revenue Act." Dr.
C. L. Stewart, professor of eco-
nomics at the University, will talk
on "Comparative Statistics is Op-
eration of Co-operatives Associa-
tions."

The field organization work of
the Co-operatives Association will
be covered by Mr. Vaniman.
Prof. H. H. Baily, of the account-
ing department of the University,
will speak on "Accounting Needs
of Co-operatives Associations."
Election of officers and other
business will follow.

Page 4

The IllinoU Agricultural A»»oci«tion Record

January 3, 192S

NEW EXPORT PLAN
OFFERED TO REPLACE
McNARY-HAUGEN BILL

Coclidge's Coininission Given
Outline of Plan to Divert
Surplus; Body Meet* Jan. 5

rThere is no chance for agri-
culture to rise to parity wim in-
,dustry and labor in the Ameri-
can protective system ualess
steps are talien to maintain an
American price for major larm
commodities that are now held
to I world price levels because a
normal surplus above domestic
nefds is annually produced, ac-
cording to the memorandum on
th^ agricultural situation that
has been presented by the Amer-
icajn Council of Agriculture to
thi President's Agricultural Con-
ference which re-convenes Jan.
5 at Washington.

An outline of a remedial p'^Q
accompanies the memorandum.
Unner it, producers would be en-
abled to divert a surplus to the
world market at world prices at
thair own expense, in prder to
enjoy the domestic market for
the remainder at a price reflect-
ing existing and future tariff
schedules. .\ farmers' export
corporation created by govern-
mwt charter, but financed by all
the producers directly benefited
by it, is proposed as the agency
thijough which this would t>e
do»e.

I Surplus -\lwa.\s With Is
• Robert A. Cowles. treasurer of

thej I. A. A. and secretary of the

Council, points out that the
Council's memo clearly sbows
that a surplus for export of corn,
cotton, wheat and pork is no
new thing in America, — that the
United States has been on an ex-
port basis with these crops since
thej Civil War. Statistical tables
are given showing that produc-
tion of them has declined per
capfta of total population in the
United States below the average
of I several decades before. Dis-
parity between industrial and
agrpcnltural prices since 1920 is
due, it is contended by the Coun-
cil,] to the height of the former
rather than the low levels of the
latter in dollars and cents com-
pared with pre-war.

•Figures are quoted to show-
that the world has absorbed
farm exports from the United
Stajtes in greater volume and at
a higher "dollar" price than in
pre*war years, while prices of
g)onds and services for which
farm crops exchange are main-
taiiied on a level relatively much
higher than before the war. This
thej Council says is in large
measure due to protective legis-
iation in the United States made
effective by the fact that indus-
try and labor are organized to
an extent impossible for agri-
culture without aid.

i 'an't Control .Acreage

he memorandum sets aside a»
"faiitastic and impossible" the
sugkestion that farmers can ren-
der! "'* exportable surplus non-
existent by controlling acreage,
ana supports its position by gov-
ernmental statistics showing U>-
tal lack of fixed relation betweeti
acreage and yield of principal
crops in recent years. It clial-
lenres the wisdom of such a pol-
icy! which would "either involve
wholesale farm abandonment, or
shifts to other lines of produc-
tion that would be seriously em-
bar: 'a^ed as a consequence."

Two important agencies are
nee led to meet the situation, in
the view of the Council; — a
worjkable device to divert the
.surplus, the costs to be borne
by all the producers benefited:
andj co-operative association of
producers which would be effec-
tivej, with the problem of the
surplus removed, in sustaining
nnd| stabilizing the domestic price
to the extent of the tariff. Vol-
untliry co-operatives cannot han-
dle I the surplus unaided, it is
polated out, since they would be
compiled to assess the export
losses upon their membership for
the Iwneflt of non-members, — an
ineduality that would tend to de-
stroy the association that at-
tempted it.

[Eliminates "Ratio Price"

TJhe proposed plan differs from
the McNary-Haugen bill that
waa before the last session of
Con)gress chiefly in the reduction
of the extent to which the gov-
ernment engicges in business, And

McLean flounty Milk

Body Closes Door To

C All Non-Members

Only MqLean County Farm BO-
reau meQibers are eligible to
membership in the McLean Coun-
ty Milk Producers' Association,
organized i and incorporated re-
cently at Bloomington, according
to A. D. Lynch, I. A. A. dairy
marketing (director, who assisted
in setting; up the organization.

At a mating of incorporating
members Dec. 23 at Blooming-
ton the following nine men were
elected directors: E. O. Ropp,
Guy Hilton, Jay Wright, Wm.
Welch, Conrad Schafer, F. J.
Basting, V: U. Crain, W. H. Fos-
ter and H. B. Mason. From
these E. O. Ropp was elected
president. Guy Hilton vice-presi-
dent and Jay Wright secretary-
treasurer. ]

.-\ Barj;^ning Organization

The organization plans to in-
crease its I membership but does
not propose to sign up its mem-
bership on a marketing agree-
ment at ttfis time. It is planned
to use the ; organization as a me-
dium for studying and analyz-
ing the dairy problems of the
membership. Cattle improve-
ment, better quality, and con-
sumer relquirements of the
Bloomingtan market are perti-
nent questions at this time. It
will act as a bargaining or serv-
ice body for its members in sell-
ing to Bloomington dealers.

Some individual members may
pool their feed purchases to ob-
tain car lot price advantages.

HANDLE 28 PERCENT
OF LOCAL BUSINESS

"During the last two weeks thp
Producers lat Indianapolis have
handled 281 per cent of the busi-
ness of thej Yards, " reports D. L.
Swanson, manager of the Indi-
anapolis Producers. "Many visi-
tors arrive every day and almost
without ex;eption they are loud
in praise of the Producers. Be-
low is a list of Illinois counties
and the number of cars of live
stock consigned by Shipping As-
sociations from each to COM-
PETITORS of their own organi-
zation on ({his market.

Piatt 11 Coles 6

Champaign 5 Douglas 5

Shelby j 3 Christian 3
Cumberland 1 Edgar 1

Efflnghaiii 1

".Mr. Farm Bureau Member,
are you ai resident of one of
these coui^ties and does your
shipping association patronize
yojur compfltitor in your effort to
create a better system of live
stock marlfleting? If so, do you
know why?j Does the reason ap-
pear to be legitimate, and if so,
will you wirite the Producers at
Indianapolis the facts as you
have theniT "

Producer Facts

There are 526 shipping asso-
ciations in Illinois. Producer
terminals Ikave handled approx-
imately 90,i000 carloads of live-
stock in 19124. .The total refund
by producer terminals in 192 3
was $350,400; the membership
in producer organizations is
325,000. The approximate sav-
ing in market expense is 35 per
cent.

^

in the elimination of the "ratio
price" features of the former ex-
port corporation plan. Tiie point
is made that existing tariff sched-
ules are in theory intended to
equalize differences in costs of
production between this and
competing foreign countries. The
Council asks the .\gricultural
Conference to devise and recom-
mend a system that shall make
such schedi:les actually answer
this purpose for agriculture.

The viewi and plan submitted
were adopted in principle at the
open meeting of the American
Council of Agriculture held ill
Cliicago on December 1 and 2.
in which representatives of forty
national and state or district
farm organizations participated.
The Council defines itself as a
temporary agency of leading na-
tional and \ state farm organiza-
tions, formed for the single pur-
pose of securing an American
price for i the American con-
sumption or farm products, in-
dependent of the world price for
the surplus.

Listen In!

I. A. A. Farm Program

From Station WCK, St. Louis

Wave length — 273

Time: Wednesday evenings,

7:40-8:00

.Tan. 7 — ""What a Newspaper Man
Knows AI)Out Farmers." by Ira r>.
Mullinax. agricultural editor. Twice-
A-Week Globe Democrat. St. I^ouls.

Jan. 14 — "The Quest of the t"lolden
Fleece." by Oacar White, sheep
salesman for the Producers I^ive
Stock Commission association.

Jan. 14 — "What the East St. I^ouis
Producers Are Doing." by W. T.
AriKle. director of information for
the Fast St. Jjouis Producers.

"What the Illinois Farm Bureaus
Are DoiiiB." by department of infor-
mation. Illinois .Agricultural Asso-
ciation.

Jan. 21 — "The Stocker and Feeder
Cattle Situation." by Lee Devine.
stocker and feeder buyer for the
rrorlucers Live Stock Commission
association.

Jan, 28 — "Some Phases in Farm
Bureau Work in Jersey county." by
U. L. P'yman. county agent.

A.F.B.F. Program On KYW

Jan. 6 — "Electricity on the Farm."
t.y Dr. E. A. White, director, com-
mittee on the relation of electricity
to aR-ricuIture.

Jan. 3— "Who's Doing the Chores?"
I'v W. H. Moody. Port Byron. III..
•Illinois Agricultural Association ex:-
fcutive committeeman.

"Talk on Vocational Education."
I>y Dr. C. H. Lane. Chief Agricul-
tural Division. Federal Board for
Vocational Education. Washing-ton.
TX ('.

Jan. 13— "Live Stock Conditions."
l-y J. D. Harper, director of pub-
licity. National Live Stock Associa-
tion.

"The Shipper's ReaponBibility," by
O. W. Sandberg. director of trans-
portation, American Farm Bureau
Federation,

Jan. 16 — "Agriculture a Decade
Hence," by Frank B. White, Agri-
cultural Advertisers' Service.

"High Lights at Farmers' Week."
l>y Arthur C. Page. Editor, Orange
Judd Illinois Farmer.

Jan. 20 — "What the Illinois Farm
rsureaus Are Doing." by H. C. But-
• ht-r, director of information. Illi-
nois Agricultural Association.

"tn the Grain Markets." by J. W.
Coverdale. secretary - treasurer,
tirain Marketing Company.

Jan. 23 — "The Beef Cattle Situa-
tion in the Corn Belt." by D. C. Wa-
terman, director of the Orange Judd
Illinois Farmer Service Bureau.

"Boys' and Girls' Club Work." by
Walter B. Remley. publicity depart-
ment, extension service. Interna-
tional Harvester Company.

Jan. 27 — "Monthly Analysis of
Farm Markets." by H. W. Moore-
house, director of the Agricultural
Division of the Brookmire Economije
Service.

Talk on "Vocational Education."
by Dr. A. W. Nolan, professor of
agricultural education. University of
Illinois.

Jan. 30 — "What Illinois Produced
and Sold in 1924." by Arthur C
Page. Editor, Orange Judd Illinois
Farmer.

■Painting 'and Son' Signs on Illi-
nois Farms." by H. C. Butcher, di-
rector of information. Illinois Agri-
cultural Association.

WLS Short Course

Jan. 5. 12:30 P. M. — A. D. Lynch,
director dairy marketing. "The
Farm Bureau's Milky Way."

Jan. 5. 8:10 P. M. — L. J. Quasey.
director transportation. "What the
Farm Bureau Has Done and Is Do-
ing: to Solve the Farmers' Transpor-
tation Prolilems."

Jan. 6. 12:30 P. M. — F. A. Gougler.
director, poultry and egg marketing.
"Pioneering in Poultry and Egg
Marketing."

Jan. 7. 12:30 P. M. — A. B. Leeper
director, fruit and vegetable mar-
keting. "The More-Dollars-on-the-
Tree with Less-Cost-at-the-Greeks"
aitivity of the Farm Bureau."

Jan. 8. 12:30 P. M. — M. H. Peter-
st-n. in charge of T. B. eradication.
■'Clean Hearts and Herds."

Jam 9. 12:30 P. M. — Donald Kirk-
patrick. I. A. A. legal counsel.
"Handling the Farmers' Legal Prob-
lems."

Jan. 9. 8:30 P. M. — Geo. R. Wicker,
director of co-operative accounting.
"The Twentieth Century Co-opera-
tive."

Jan. 12. 12:30 P. M.— Wm. E.
Hedgcock, director, live stock mar-
keting. "Shortening the Hoof-To-
Frying-Pan Train Via the Farm Bu-
reau."

Jan. 13. 12:30 P. M,—H. C. Butcher,
director of information, "The Farm-
er and His Local New.Bpaper."

Jan. 13. 8:10 P. M. — G. E. Metzger.
director, organization "■Farm Bu-
reauitis."

All Railroads Grant '■

Fare and a Half To

LA, A, Anniud Meeting

In a letter sent to all parts of
the state, the transportation de-
partment of the I. A. A. recently
announced special rates of fare
and a half to the annual I. A. A.
meeting and Farmers' Week in
Urbana. The reduced rates ap-
ply over all railroads from all
points in Illinois and from St.
Louis. Mo.

"This information serves to
clear up an unsatisfactory con-
dition that has existed previous-
ly on account of only a part of
the Illinois lines originally
granting the reduction." a part
of the letter reads. "No cer-
tificates are required to get re-
duced fares. The reduction is an
open rate. Be sure to consult
railroad agents in your territory
some time previous to the time
of the meeting to find out if
they have received word. The
tariffs may not be received by
them and the agent would be
without knowledge until the day
previous to the meeting, thus
causing a lot of confusion."

Originally the excursion rates
were granted by the Western
Passenger Association, which in-
cludes only 12 railroads operat-
ing in Illinois. The new tariffs
will apply between Jan. 10 and
19 and to either Urbana or
Champaign from all points in
the state.

APPROPRIATE $100,000
TO CURB MYSTERIOUS
POULTRY EPIDEMIC

Congress Moves Quickly After
Farm Bureau and Others
Urge Inunediate Action.

Oongress recently |iaHse<l a bill

increasing the appropriation for
T. B. testing 1150,000 and al-
lowing an additional $40,000 for
operating expenses.

.■\bont 50 boys and Kirls in
Henry county joined the calf
club and began feeding their
calves Jan. 1.

Monroe county begins or|;an-
ized T. B. testing Jan. 1. Dr.
W. L. Boogy is the veterinarian
in cha,Tge.

The 2nd annual Pike County
Poultry Show is scheduled for
Jan. g, 9 and 10.

A. F. B. F. FIGHTS

HIGHER P. P. RATES

That American farmers as a
class are opposed to the proposed
increases in postal rates which
would allow for higher salaries
of postal clerks the country over,
is the statement of the American
Farm Bureau Federation from
its Washington, D. C, head-
quarters.

President Coolidge last spring
vetoed the proposal of Congress
at its previous session to in-
crease postal salaries, and strong
attempts are being made during
the present Congressional session
to pass the bill over his veto.

The American Farm Bureau
Federation objects to the pro-
posed measure on the basis that
the bill is not well considered
and that it is more political than
economic. It is felt that the pas-
sage of the bill would mean dis-
crimination against the fanners,
as the changes In parcel post
rates would be out of proportion
to changes in other classes of
mall, and agricultural business is
one of the heaviest patrons of
the fourth class mail service
The measure suggests no in-
creases in the rates on first or
second class mail. The bill pro-
poses to raise the salaries of post
ofBce employees about $68,000,-
000.

In view of the fact that Post-
master-General New in his re-
port to Congress said that the
■^ost of handling parcel post mail
is much less than is popularly
believed, American Farm Bu-
reau officials point out that in-
creases in these rates would work
additional hardships on the farm-
ers of the nation, who feel that
ihey already are over-taxed,
especially from the standpoint of
local and .state taxes.

Parcel Post the (Joat
"Not only is it proposed to
make the parcel post bear more
than its proportionate increase."
E. B. Reid, Washington A. F.
B. F. representative, declares,
•but the bill would deny the
local county seat or small town
newspaper the right of free de-
livery within the county. These
papers have more rural circula-
tion than anything else. Yet such
a move on the part of Congress
would enable the city dailies to
circulate into the small towns
and country even more than at
present, thus throttling many
more country newspapers which
generally have been a losing
proposition for some time."

Ill Missouri, farm bureau rep-
resentatives recently appeared
before the state tax commission
In an organized way, asking for
relief from their present inequit-
able tax burden.

Even Congress can act quickly.
Within 36 hours from the time
that the American Farm Bureau
Federation, co-operating with na-
tional poultry Interests, appealed
to Congress to remedy the newly-
developed poultry evil in the Mid-
dle West, that legislative body
authorized the appropriation of
$100,000 to fight "poultry flu."
which has spread like wildfire in
the last few weeks.

Illinois is among the 10 mid-
dle western states against which
eastern cities and states have
raised embargoes on the shipment
of poultry. Directors of the Illi-
nois Poultry and Egg Shippers'
association, however, believe that
Illinois was placed on the em-
bargo list largely because of
promiscuous shipments out of
Chicago, coming from the West
and Northwest. H. B. Patton,
secretary-treasurer, is enlisting
the support of his local shippers,
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, the agricultural college of
the University of Illinois, and the
State Department of Agriculture,
in an effort to secure a reconsid-
eration of the embargo.

Disease Spreads Rapidly
"Poultry flu" is a virulent, in-
fectious disease which has ap-
peared in the United States for
tlie first time and has already
killed hundreds of thousands of
fowl. Relief from the epidemic
can only be obtained by following
strictly the rules which have been
issued by the federal Department
of Agriculture in regard to the
interstate shipment of poultry and
the disinfection of coops and
cars. The plague has been defi-
nitely diagnosed by federal au-
thorities and must not be con-
fused with "Canadian flu," a
milder disease from which poul-
try may recover.

The epidemic is very easily
carried from one flock to another,
all classes of fowl, including
pigeons and birds, being subject
to it. Sparrows, robins, and
other common birds take and
carry the pest, thus transporting
the germ from one farm to the
other.

According to the Department
of Agriculture, the fowl pest is
characterized by "its extremely
infectious nature, its rapidly pro-
gressing course, and high mor-
tality. Depression and loss of
appetite, followed by prostration,
are outstanding symptoms. The
comb and wattles usually become
purple and sometimes swollen.
Sticky exudate may paste the eye-
lids together, clog the nasal pas-
sages, and even obstruct the
windpipe, causing labored breath-
ing. A greenish yellow diarrhea
may be present.

Urge Buriilnt; Dead Stock
"Since treatment of affected
birds is futile, the aim should be
to prevent so far as possible the
spread of infection," federal
authorities warn. "The first
fowls showing symptoms should
be destroyed by a method which
would guard against the con-
tamination of the premises. The
carcasses should be burned or
buried deep. The healthy fowls
should be moved to new quarters
if possible and carefully watched
for signs of disease. Houses and
runs should be thoroughly cleaned
at frequent intervals and disin-
fected with carbolic acid in five
per cent solution. The drinking
water may be made antiseptic by
adding one-third teaspoon'- of
permanganate of potash to each
gallon."

John R. Mohler, chief of the
federal Bureau of Animal Indus-
try, who has successfully ridded
this country several times of
foot-and-mouth disease, and Sen-
ator Royal S. Copeland, another
authority on sanitation, state
that this disease of poultry is not
communicable to humans, and
that one's health is not endan-
gered in handling infected chick-
ens. Copeland further asserts
that "cooking the fowl would
kill any of the germs present."
The belief that it is dangerous
to eat such infected poultry and
even eggs has become rather
widely accepted, to the general
detriment of the poultry industry.

uary 3, 192S
$100,000

STERIOUS
EPIDEMIC

Juickly After
and Others
e Action.

n act quickly,
trom the time
Farm Bureau
ting with na-
ests, appealed
dy the newly-
il in the Mid-
rislative body
)ropriation of
"pdultry flu."
ke wildfire in

the 10 mid-
against which

states have

the shipment

rs of the Illi-

Egg Shippers'

, believe that

on the eni-

because of
ents out of
om the West
[. B. Fatten.
is enlisting
local shippers,
tural Associa-
al college of
inois, and the
f Agriculture,
•e a reconsid-
go.

i Rapidly
. virulent, in-
lich has ap-
Bd States for

has already
thousands of
the epidemic
I by following
ich have been
il Department
egard to the
if poultry and
' coops and
las been defl-

federal au-

not be con-

lian flu," a

which poul-

very easily
:k to another,
vl, including
being subject

robins, and
Is take and
I transporting

farm to the

Department
fowl pest is
ts extremely
I rapidly pro-
d high mor-
and loss of
f prostration,
(iptoms. The
sually become
mes swollen. ^
paste the eye-
be nasal pas- i
obstruct the
bored breath- *
How diarrhea ,

ead .Stock |

of affected ,
im should be I
I possible the
on," federal
"The first
}toms should
nethod which
iSt the con-
remises. The
) burned or
lealthy fowls

new quarters
fully watched
Houses and
ughly cleaned
s and disin-

acid in five
The drinking

antiseptic by
teaspoon*- of
tash to each

chief of the
Lnlmal Indus-
sfuUy ridded
il times of
3e, and Sen-
land, another
tation, state
Kiultry is not
lumans, and
i not endan-
ifected chick-
ther asserts

fowl would
•ms present."
is dangerous

poultry and
come rather

the general
Itry industry.

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A®]ttjF€Ul.TUBAL

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■-'• MIS3 KARY G. BUR^AGH. LIPRAEliAN,

• COLLt'GF. C^ AGRICULTUR*;.

' UNIVrRSITY OF ILL1;N0I3..

' URBATiA. ILL. ' ■- j

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Volume 3

IsMied Every Other Saturday — January 24, 1925

Number 2

EXECUTIVE COMMIHEE
GAINS FOUR NEW MEN;
FOUR ARE RE-ELECTED

Inquisitive Reporter Interview*
Committeemen and Learm
Their Achievement Record

Our "63,000 thinking tarmen" will mant
to know something about their newly-
elected executive committeemen. We have
therefore assembled the following facts
concerning them for your information.

William Webb, of Lockport,

Will county, was elected executlre

committeeman for Congressional

^^^^ districts 10-11.

^^^^^k Webb Is known

B^ \ especially for

M^^^Jl the experiment-

f^ffiRl^W al plot which he

^^L^r runs for the
^^^■v govern m e nt.
J^^^K. Pedigreed seed

^^^^^^VW^ corn is his hob-
^^k^^^^^ by. He tills
^^^■^^^^^1 acres. The
^^^^^k ^^H troin
H^I^^^^B has a modern
farm home and

irnilam'Webb he advocates a
wider use of all farm conveniences.
He was director of the 11th State
Farmers' Institute and is now on
the Advisory Board for the Uni-
versity of Illinois.

Canton, in Fulton county, claims
B. H. Taylor, the new executive
committeeman for the 15th district.
Taylor succeeds H. E, Goembel,
the man who was chosen vice-pres-
ident of the I. A. A. He also is
president of the Fulton County
Farm Bureau and a Producers
booster. He must be camera shy;
the photographer couldn't corral
him at Champaign.

An Absentee Winner

W. L. Cope, of Tonti, Marion
county, has the distinction of get-
ting elected to the executive com-
mittee while on his home farm.
He didn't have a picture of himself
when we wired for one. He will
represent the 23d district, succeed-
ing J. E. Lingentelter, Lawrence-
ville. Cope was born on the same
farm which he now operates with
his sons and he says that this farm
has always been his home. Grow-
ing fruit has taken most of his
time, but he is interested in farm
problems and is looking toward
their solution.

The man to succeed Vernon Less-
ley as executive
committe e m a n
trom the 25th
district is R. K.
Loomis, of Ma-
kanda. Union
county. LfOom-
ia's heart lies in
the fruit and
vegetable busi-
ness and Is
strong for ship-
ping a s s o c i a-
tions. He has
been a director R. K. roomi*
in the Illinois Fruit Growers Ex-
change since its organization.

Lay Plans for Second
Farm Bureau Baseball
Season at Annual Meet

Plans were laid by a group of
farm bureau baseball enthusiasts
at a meeting during the I. A. A.
annual convention at Champaign to
continue the scheduling of base-
ball games between farm bureau
teams as was started last year.

It was decided that the constitu-
tion of the Farm Bureau Base-
ball Association should be rewrit-
ten so that all points such as that
of eligibility would be more clearly
defined. G.R. Kline of Cass Coun-
ty was elected president. Infor-
mation can be obtained from either
Kline or G. E. Metzger, I. A. A.
organization director.

THE GRIST MILL

DELEGATES UNANIMOUSLY PICK "OUR SAM"
AS PRESIDENT FOR THIRD TERM; GOEMBEL
CHOSEN AS VICE-PRESIDENT IN CLOSE RACE

Tendi Annual Conclave Hailed as LA.A.'s Most Constructive
Meeting; Treaswer's Report Shows Net Worth $253,910.07,
Gain of $39,189.96 During Year in Spite of More ActivitiM

Sam H. Thompson of Qulncy, farmer and banker, was elected to
his third successive term as president of the Illinois Agricultural
Association by a unanimous vote and without an
opponent at tbei, tenth annual meeting held Jan. 15
and 16 in connection with the University of Illinois
Farmers' Week.

H. E. Goembel of Hooppole was elected to the
vice-presidency by a vote of 76-74 over Earl C.
Smith of Detroit, executive committeeman repre-
senting the 20th district. Mr. Goembel was execu-
tive committeeman representing the ISth district
during the past year. Immediately following the an-
nouncement of the 76-74 vote, Mr. Smith arose and

moved that a unanimous vote be accorded Mr.

Goembel. Mr. Smith's two-year term as an execu-
tive does not terminate until the next annual meet-
ing.

Actions Few, Bat Decisive
The chief official actions taken by the 157 dele-
gates who represented the entire membership were
(1) thanked the Champaign County Farm Bureau,
the College of Agriculture, the Chambers of Com-
merce of Champaign and Urbana and the citizens -o»r «•■§"
of the Illinois Twin Cities for the kind hospitality
extended; (2) directed the officers and executive committee of the
I. A. A. to do everything in their power to secure legislation that will

both in spirit and practice give
equality to agriculture; (3) fa-
vored a gasoline tax providing that
the funds thus secured be used
for the maintenance .of the State
Aid system of roads as provided
by law and that

'Watch the Books" Is
Keynote at Champaign
Annual Meet of I.A.C.A.

Election of oDcers for the com-
ing year, and talks and discussions
on the auditing problems of farm-
ers' co-operatives featured the
first annual meeting of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Co-operative As-
socitaion, held in connection with
the tenth annual I. A. A. meet-
ing during Farmers' Week at the
Illinois College of Agriculture at
Champaign.

The I. A. C. A., as it is known
in co-operative circles, is a sepa-
rate organization set up and put
in functioning order last June by
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, the parent organization.
The I. A. C. A. is operated under
control of co-operative associations
as one of the 12 departments of
the I. A. A. From a no-member-
ship start in June, the I., A.'C. A.
had on Jan. 1, 1925, 112 member
co-operatives, classified intp 49
farmers' elevators, 39 county farm
associations, four dairy associa-
tions, three terminal live stock
bureaus, nine live stock shipping
marketing agencies, three mutual
insurance companies, three farm-
ers' supply companies, one fruit
exchange and one seed growers'
association.

Why Co-ops Fall

"One of the big reasons for fail-
ures in co-operative organiza-
tions," said Geo. R. Wicker, gen-
eral manager, in his report, "is
that the boards of directors have
not been accurately informed as
to the financial condition of their
associations. The I. A. C. A. is
there to provide simple but ef-
fective book systems and to help
the local manager conduct them."
Wicker expressed the sentiment of
the directors of the organization
when he said that the present
membership and status of the
I. A. C. A. exceeds by far the
brightest hopes of a year ago. In-
stead of 50 or 60 member co-op-
eratives as expected by this time,
(Continued on page 7, col. 4)

"Sam" Just Gets His

Hat Hung, Then It's
Time to Hop Again

President Thompson had no
sooner than got bis hat hung on
the hall tree in the Broadway Bank
of Qulncy after the annual meet-
ing when he found that he was
wanted down at Washington, D.
C. to appear before President Coo-
lidge's Agricultural Commission.

He left the I. A. A. office Monday,
Jan. 19 for the capital city where
he will be in the front line trenches
trying to get the Commission to
see the need of equality for agri-
culture. Several representatives of
the American Council of Agri-
culture, the organization formed
last spring to secure if possible the
"spirit" of the McNary-Haugen
bill, will also be there.

The Council has drawn up an ex-
port corporation bill that is draw-
ing considerable comment. It is
along the lines of the McNary-
Haugen Bill, but is much simpler,
the Council states.

Farm. Advisers Pick

J. H. Lloyd for Prexy

The Illinois Farm Advisers' as-
sociation assembled in annual
meeting during
Farmers' Week
a t Champaign.
Election of of-
ficers resulted
in the choice of
J. H. Lloyd, ad-
viser 0 f Han-
cock county, as
president. Har-
r 1 s o n Fahrn-I
k o p f , McLean
county adviser,
was elected vice-i
president, and
B. W. Tillman,
St. Clair county,
secretary. C. C. Burns, farm ad-
viser for Champaign county, was
chosen treasurer.

The farm advisers' president is
invited to attend all the I. A. A.
executive committee meetings.

J. R. Llnyd

Keep

This RECORD;
It Is an Important One
Did yon miss the RECORD
Ust week? Tlie Jan. IT Is-
sue was held over and dated
Jan. iS4 in order that the
news of the annnal meetini;
conid be placed In the hands
of each member as qntckly
as possible.

This Issue contains sum-
marized reports covering the
1924 work and IIOS pro-
gram for each of the de-
partments. Keep this REC-
ORD handy so you can have
it to refer to when joa want
to know what the 1. A. A.
is doing. The next issne will
be dated Feb. 14. We wUl
be back on regolar schedule
then.

Greatest Representation
in History Is Record,
of Delegate Attendance

Delegates, who were entitled to
vote at the tenth annual meeting,
numbered 157 — more than ever
before. The credentials commit-
tee, which consisted of W. H.
Moody, Port Byron, Rock Island
county, chairman; C. E. Bambor-
ough. Polo, Ogle county; and C.
B. Watson. DeKalb, DeKalb coun-
ty, officially approved of the fol-
lowing delegates who were in at-
tendance:

Adams; D. H. Myers. Mendon. and
Perry Journey, Plainvllle; Bond:
Frank Pothast. Greenville; Boone:
Phil. H. Sanford. Garden Prairie,
and Julian L-arson. Poplar Grove:
Brownj Fred SlJC. VersaiUes, R. F. D.
4 and Chas. H. Snyder. Versailles,
R. F. D. 3; Bureau: J. J. Shugart.
Princeton, and Otto Weisenberger.
Zearlng; Carroll: Geo. R. NorrlB,
Tjanark. and Ren WilllaniBon, Ht.
Carroll: Cass: Geo. R. Gline, Vir-
ginia, and W. A. McNeill. Chandler-
ville;' Champaign: G. J. Tabaka.
Ivesdale, and Ira Laverick. Broad-
lands.

Christian: Dwight Hart. Edinburg.
and W. N. Grimes. Rosemond; Clark:
T. N. Wright. Casey, and Geo. Mc-
Elyea. Xenia: Clinton: C. C. Hofsom-
mer. Breese; Coles: O. B. Goble.
Charleston, and Ed. Nlemeyer. Hum-
beldt; Cook: Herman Schwake. Ar-
lington Heights, and D. A. Nietefeld.
Homewood: Crawford: N. P. Good-
win. Palestine; Cumberland: Franlc
Hackley. Trilla.

DeKalb; H. J. White. Somonauk,

and A. J. Plapp. Malta: DeWltt: L.

G. Heller, Farmer City, and M. L.

Pilchard, Farmer City; Douglas:

(Continued on page 7, col. 6)

H. K. G««>ib«I

the gas law tax
be levied in lieu
of the present
tax authorized
by the counties
for the mainte-
nance of State
Aid roads; (4)
recommended
the passage of
such laws and
the making of
such appropria-
tions as will
carry forward
the program of
eradication of bovine tuberculosis
as rapidly as possible; (5) urged
the greatest possible speed upon
the state and federal departments
of agriculture In settling claims
for indemnities and deplored the
apparent delay in the settlement
of Such claims In the past; (6)
endorsed the action of the I.A.A.
executive committee and the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation op-
posing the Child Labor apiend-
ment to the United SUtes consti-
tution; (7) voted to stay with the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion, but sharply criticised it for
the "attempt of those of the pres-
ent and past administration to play
politics or use the influence of the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion to further any commercial or
selfish interest"; (8) favored an
amendment to the Illinois consti-
tution enabling legislatures to
pass such laws as will equitably
distribute tax burden: (9) en-
dorsed the I. A. A. stand on the
Grain >Iarketing Company, the
126,000,000 merger; and (10)
pledged their loyalty and support
to the Illinois Agricultural Associ-
ation. The full text of these reso-
lutions appears on page 2.
Constitution Amended
The I. A. A. constitution was
amended by the delegates to per-
mit more delegates in the future.
Section 2 of Article III of the
I. A. A. constitution had stipulated
that there should be one delegate
for each county having a majority
of the membership dues paid in to
the I. A. A. "and one additionr
delegate for each 1,000 mid--
membera or one-third trac*
(Continued on page S, coL ■,

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Page 2

The IllinoU Agricultural A«»ociation Record

Jannary 24, 192S

IN

I LiIjINOIS

CULTURAL ASSOCIA

RECORD

Publiflhed every other Saturday by the Illlnola Agricul-
tural Association, 608 South Dearborn Street, Chicago,
Illinois. Edited by Department of Information, H. C.
Butcher, Director.

Entered as second class matter Oct 10, 1921. at the post
office at Chicago. Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1879,
Acceatance for mailing at special rates of postage pro-
vided for In Section 1103. Act of October 3, 1917. author-
ized Oct. 31. 1921.

, The Individual membership fee of the Illihols Agricul-
tural Association is Ave dollars a year. This fee includes

'Payment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association Recoml

Postmaster; In returning an uncalled-for or Rlissent
copy, please Indicate key humber on address as Is re-
quired by law.

OFFICERS

President, S. H. Thompson, Qnlncy.
Vice-Presidmt, H. E. Uoeinbel, Hooppole.
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomlngton.
Secret4kry, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore.

EXECUTIVE CO.>IMITTEB

By Congressional Districts

11th William Webb, Lockport

12th G. F. Tullock, Rockford

13th '. ..C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron

15th B. H. Taylor, Canton

16th A. R. Wright, Varna

17th F. D. Barton, Cornell

18th '. R. F. Karr, Iroquol*

19th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21st Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd Stanley Cattle, Alton

23rd W. L. Cope, Tonti

24th Curt Anderson, Xenia

25th R. K. Looml» Makanda

Directors of Departments
I. A. A. Office

General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker;
Organization, G. E. Metzger; Information, H.C. Butcher;
Transportation, L. J. Quasey; Taxation and Statistics,
J. C. Watson; Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vege-
table Marketing, A. B. Leeper; Live Stock Marketing,
Wm. E. IHedgcock; Dairy Marketing, A. D. Lynch;
Phosphate-Limestone, J. R. Bent; in charge Poultry and
Egg Marketing, F. A. Gougler; special representative
en Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H. Petersen; Legal
Counsel, Donald KIrkpatrIck; Co-operative Accounting,
Geo. R. Wicker.

I The I. A. A. Constitation Amended

! Article III, Section 2 of the constitution of the
[Uinois Agriculture Association was amended to
read as follows: '

"Each county Farm Bureau, the majority of the
members of which are also paid-up members of the
Illinois Agriculture Association, shall be entitled
to representation on the board of delegates by one
voting delegate, and one additional voting delegate
for each 500 paid-up members, or major portion
thereof, in the Illinois Agricultural Association."

The Resolution*

Resolutions passed by the delegates assembled
the tenth annnal meeting follow :

Thank You!

We, the board of delegates of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association, assembled at Urbana in our
tenth annual meeting, do hereby express their
hearty appreciation for the hospitality extended
by the Champaign County Farm Bureau, the Col-
lege of Agriculture of the University of Illinois,
the Chambers of Commerce of Champaign and Ur-
bana, and the citizens of the Twin Cities of Illi-
nois and surrounding community and for their
co-operation in making the meeting a success.

Equality for Agriculture

"We believe the paramount issue before the Amer-
ican people today to be the securing of a true
equality for agriculture with industry and labor.
■\Ve, therefore, to do everything in their power to
Secure legislation that will both in spirit and prac-
tice give such equality. 1

Gasoline Tax !

In view of the fact that a tax on gasoline has
been levied by thirty-seven states of the Union
for the maintenance of highways, compelling citi-
zens of Illinois to contribute to the maintenance of
tjhe roads when purchasing gasoline in said states
4rithout receiving in return any contribution from
lion-residents using Illinois highways; and recog-
liizing the fairness of such tax for road purposes
We recommend the levying of a tax on gasoline used
ip motor vehicles upon the highways in Illinois.
However, we favor the levj-ing of such tax only if
tihe funds thus secured be used for the mainte-
nance of the State Aid System of roads as provided
by law, and if such tax is levied in lieu of the pres-
ent tax authorized by the counties for the mainte-
aance of State Aid roads. We oppose the levying
of such tax as an additional tax which would ma-
terially add to the total tax burden already un-
rably heavy upon our people.

T. B, Eradication

We recommend thi passage of such laws and the
making of such appropriations as will cany for-
ward the program for the eradication of bovine
tuberculosis in the State of Illinois as rapidly as
• possible thereby ridding the State, at the earliest
possible date, of the menace to the live stock in-
dustry and to the health of our people, especially
our children.

We urge the greatest possible speed upon the
State and Federal Department of Agriculture in
settling the claims for indemnities for condemned
animals and deplore the apparent delay in the set-
tlement of such claims in the past.

Child Labor Amendment

We endorse the action of the Executive Com-
mittee of the Illinois Agriculture Association, and
of the American Farm Bureau Federation in their
annual meeting assembled in opposition to the
Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution of
tfce United States.

American Farm Bureau Federation

Inasmuch as the Executive Committee have
formulated a policy £is regards their relations to
the American Farm Bureau Federation as follows :

' ' Whereas the initial effort of our government in
behalf of the farmer has resulted in the Cotmty
Farm Bureau movement, and

"Whereas the County Farm Bureaus have been
convinced of the need of State and National As-
sociations to solve the larger problems of organ-
ized agriculture, and

"Whereas we believe the County, State and Na-
tional units to be integral and necessary parts of
the entire Farm Bureau movement, all of which
should function exclusively in the interest of ag-
riculture, and

"Whereas the American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion became recognized as the spokesman in a Na-
tional way for the Farm Bureau movement, and

"Whereas we have grave fear that it is the pur-
pose of the commercial interests of our country to
dominate the policies of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation and use its influence to their ad-
vantage instead of permitting it to function to the
advantage of its membership who contribute to
its support, and

"Whereas, there is agitation in some counties
favoring withdrawal from the American Farm
Bureau Federation, therefore

"Be it resolved that we look with exceeding dis-
favor upon any evidence of the attempt of those
of the present or past administration to play poli-
tics or use the influence of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation to further any commercial or self-
ish interests; that we do not favor disruption of
the American Farm Bureau Federation and the
establishment of a precedent of withdrawal, believ-
ing existing evils may be -corrected to better ad-
vantage from within the organization and that we
recommend continued support to the American
Farm Bureau Federation at this time."

We, therefore, direct the ofBcers and executive
committee to use every prerogative at their com-
mand to the end that the American Farm Bureau
Federation shall purge itself of aU evil influences
that see<n to e^ist at this time.

Constitutional Amendment

Recognizing the limitations imposed upon the
legislature by the present Constitution preventing
adequate legislation to equalize the tax burden, we
favor the adoption of such an amendment to said
Constitution as will enable legislature to pass such
laws as will equitably distribute said burden.

The Grain Merger ,

We indorse the action of the Executive Com-
mittee of the Illinois Agricultural Association rel-
ative to the Grain Marketing Company as em-
bodied in the following resolution:

The Illinois Agricultural Association is not in a
position to express an opinion as to the value and
utility of the warehousing facilities which the
Grain Marketing Company has under contract to
purchase. The oflScers of the Grain Marketing
Company have not made available the records and
data necessary to determine the exact or even ap-
proximate values even though request has been
made therefor.

The facilities now under lease and to be pur-
chased by the Grain Marketing Company in the
Chicago district have in our opinion been acquired
by the old line grain companies for the purpose of
speculative control of grain. The need and lo-
cation of facilities for such control is substanti-
ally different from the requirements of an associa-
tion organized to co-operatively merchandise grain.

The Grain Marketing Company has and proposes
in the future to buy the grain of members and non-

members and sell such grain to the best possible
advantage. Such a plan subjects the company to
the possibility of loss as well as profit and is there-
fore speculative. True co-operative merchandising
of grain or any other agricultural commodity will
seek to eliminate speculation and avoid the hazards
thereof. We believe that the Grain Marketing
Company in its plan of operation violates Jiis
cardinal principle.

Such a grain marketing program as is proposed
affects the virtue and security bf the preferred
stock which is proposed to be offered to the farmer
producers. The common stock issue, one million
one dollar shares, is comparatively small and if is-
sued in full could not absorb all possible losses
in which event the preferred stock contribution
of capital would be called upon to absorb such
possible losses from such speculation. It appears
to us, therefore, that such a plan of financing is
unsound.

The method of grower-control set up by the
Grain Marketing Company is in part illegal and
impracticable. These defects can possibly be cor-
rected by amendment to the by-laws but no steps
have yet been taken.

The Illinois Agricultural Association officers
have been hopeful that the Grain Marketing Com-
pany would provide a co-operative selling agency
for co-operative grain associations and grain pro-
ducers who are not in other associations. We doi
not believe the Grain Marketing Company as now
set up will meet these needs.

Loyalty and Co-operation

Whereas, in any organization of this character
differences of opinion'as regards matters of policy
usually exist, and

Whereas the Illinois Agricultural Association
have obtained their present enviable position in
the agricultural world through loyalty and co-
operation of the farmers of Illinois, therefore
. Be it Resolved that we urge a continuation of
such undivided support and loyalty as will assure
the continued growth and influence for the better-
ment of agriculture in this state.

The Voice of the Members

Mtmb€ri tr* hnited to tftmk Ikek mindM Im tkit column. At
m«ny Uttert from mtmbert wiU bo printed eock iasno « ipaco
wilt tormU. UUori tkonid bo iborl tni tnapfy: oU muit bo
ttptok to bo prmtod, AU conttnutivo criticism of the Form Bn-
room — connty, ttoto or notionoi unitt — u welcomed, II you have
any pintncM, pmu or tMUOSiionj, here it tk* ploco to teU
thim, Jtt yom oobonm, moio it 9kot yon wili. Addreti letteri
It B. C. MmUttr, I. A. A. Stcord, tot i. DeorbOm, CUcoio.

AN ANSWER TO MR. DYROFF

Adolph Dyroft In a recent issue manifests his en-
thusiasm that should be carried in every tanners heart
for his own worlc. However, we cannot agree with
some of the ideas in his article.

His proposal to have consumer and producers come
in immediate contact with each other is impractical
today. The most successful co-operatives in the world
do not deal "directly." Some one must handle the
commodities and to assume that we will gain the great
goal that way might lead to disappointment. The most
successful city marketing place run by farmers handle
only an insigniScant percentage of that produced. If
the farmers wili, the route to the eater can be short-
ened materially, but direct buying is to remain limited.

The suggestion to reduce farm machinery one-halt
is fine, but — until you can show the manufacturer
where he can buy his iron and labor and freight for
half he simply cannot follow the suggestion.

Until farmers are willing to pay more for pure seeds,
some farmer will not take the trouble to produce better
or pure seeds. We need to teach the users of seed to
be willing to pay for the extra work in it.

We agree with most of Mr. Dyrotf's suggestions but
the solution means a lot of hard work for every man
who sees the vision of a. better agricultare. It means
creating a desire in every farmer to co-operate, to
practice the golden rule, to give more of their time and
money to the solution of the problems that single indi-
viduals cannot do alone. The Grange movement built
solidly because they developed that spirit of co-opera-
tion. It is not easy, but we are not asking tor some-
thing easy. The old colored fellow spoke the truth
when he said, "If you is gwine any whare, the only way
is to start from whare you is."

— F. E. Fuller, Farm Adviser, Marshall-Putnam Farm
Bureau.

THE FARMER WALT MASON
My neighbors all say the Farm Bureau of Stark is
a very safe place for the farmers to park. It gives us
the facts on agrarian matter, that it followed will make
our pockets grow fatter. Hog sanitation is one of the
best — If you follow the rules you will not have to guess.
Sweet clover and limestone for soil that is worn, will
fli it up fine for wheat, barley or com; but it you
want weeds or bunch grass to grow — worn soil is the
berries for them, as you know. The Farm Bureau
tells us Just how to spray trees, so we can eat apples
whenever we please. Our boy's and girl's club work
we view with great pride; ^t is making young farmers
wherever it's tried. Tho In testing our cattle we're
lagging behind, we're going to make that all up, never
mind; for we all know Stark county is up and jilive —
Just watch us progress in nineteen twenty-flve!
— O. L. Hatch, president, Stark County Farm Bureau.

.h-\

January 24, 1925

The niinoU Agricultural A««ociation Record

Page 3

ANNUAL REPORTS ON PROJECTS SUMMARIZED FOR ALL MEMBERS

POULTRY DEPARTMENT

URGES EGG GRADING

AS MARKETING MOVE

i^fovie Film and Bulletin to Be
Used in Bringing Work of
the I. A. A. to the Fore

Illinois' egg marketing system
is on the up-grade. Developments
during 19 2 4
point to it, ac-
cording to F. A.
Gougler, I.A.A.
poultry and egg
marketing di-
rector. His pre-
decessor, J. D.
Harper, early in
the year out-
lined a platform
consisting o f
the following
planks:

1. Get all egg
F. A. GonslcT buyers to pur-
chase on a
graded basis.

2. Help Farm Bureaus to set up
co-operative poultry and egg mar-
keting associations where volume
of business and demand warrant
it.

3. Conduct a survey through
the state to get at poultry and
egg figures.

4. Promote the Illinois Ac-
credited Hatchery plan.

5. Co-operate with the Uni-
versity of Illinois on flock stand-
ardization.

Practical Plans Suggested

Careful study of the graded-
egg-buying system has brought
the department to the conclusion
that there are two practical ways
of making egg-trading more pop-
ular— (1) Law enactment; (2) or-
ganize to market eggs co-opera-
tively and provide for their grad-
ing. The latter system is be-
lieved by far the more practi-
cable, and it is felt that the
farmers can handle the grading
problem effectively themselves,
once the start is made.

Gougler has studied co-opera-
tive egg marketing in the Middle
West in an effort to adopt a
policy devoted to the best Inter-
ests of the Illinois poultryman.
Surveys are being continued in
the country, in towns, and in
terminal markets. Educational
work leading, up to organization
also is on the program, in two
plans. One is a two-reel film
which shows every detail of a
co-operative egg marketing asso-
ciation at work and the other is
in the form of a bulletin for use
in organization work.

In co-operation with the State
Department of Agriculture and
the University of Illinois, the de-
partment of poultry and egg mar-
keting succeeded in getting the
accredited hatchery work during
the year.

Adopt Plans tor 1925

Here's the 1925 program:

1. Assist counties desiring co-
operative marketing agencies, by
finding out whether conditions
warrant it.

2. Then help in forming such
organization.

3. Investigate poultry and egg
marketing at our terminal mar-
kets. ^

4. Co-operate with present mar-
keting agencies in Insisting on
more and more purchases of eggs
on graded basis.

B. Work for legislation favor-
able to the industry.

6. Improve farm flock condi-
tions.

7. Select 15 to 20 farm men
and women from the district con-
cerned and school them in mar*
keting methods.

Revenue, Gas Tax,

T. B. Eradication: ^
I. A. A. Projects

Investigating and outlining pol-
icies for the coming year have
taken up the time of the I. A. A.
Legislative Committee, consist-
ing of F. D. Barton, A. C. Ever-
ingham, and H. E. Goembel.
The committee also devoted its
entire strength In co-operating
with other farm organizations in
an effort to secure the enactment
of the McNary-Haugen Bill by
Congress. Though the effort
failed, it nevertheless brought
the Inequality of agriculture be-
fore the mind of the public.

Revenue, a gasoline tax, and
continuation and expansion of
the effort toward eradicating bo-
vine tuberculosis, are the three
major projects upon which the
committee will center its efforts
for legislation during the next
session Of the state General As-
sembly.

The committee seeks legisla-
tion designed to repeal the closed
season on rabbits and to secure
the greatest possible protection
on quail and other game birds
beneficial to farmers.

Revenue reform, the committee
believes jointly with the educa-
tional committee, is essential be-
fore permanent solution of the
school question can be made.
The committee will favor meas-
ures of interest to the public
generally and farmers particu-
larly. It will oppose legislation
against the welfare of agricul-
ture. Ratification of the child
labor amendment will be opposed.

I. A. A. NOW A FORCE
SQUARING AGAINST
STATE INTERESTS

Organization Director Point*
Out That Businesa World
Now Listens to the I.A.A.

BOOKS REVEAL SAFE
TREASURY BALANCE
FOR ASSOCIATION

State Farm Bureau Strength
Due to Recognition of Need
for Funds to Carry on Work

Apply Science to Business

That Illinois farmers are apply-
ing science to their business is
borne out by a report of Illinois
Farm Bureau Serum Association
at its second annual meeting at
Champaign, Jan. 14, when it was
stated that 15,000.000 cubic cen-
timeters of serum for hog vac-
cination were bought and used in
nine months of 1924 by members
through 35 county farm bureaus,
which purchased the serum co-
operatively through the associa-
tion.

The serum association is a sub-
sidiary of the Illinois Agricultural
Association. O.B.Goble of Chariest-
ton was elected president for 1925.

"It is reassuring to note," re-
ports R. A. Cowles, treasurer of
the-I. A. A. and
director of the

finance depart-

I ^^^^H m e n t, "that

\ J^^^^ during the past
^~ year the income

of the associa-
tion has been
well up to esti-
mates and that
expenditures for
all accounts
have been with-
in current in-
come. This evi-
R. A. Cowie« dences the con-
tinuing healthy
financial condition of your insti-
tution, and of the Farm Bureau
in Illinois.

"During the year, added inter-
est and activity among our Farm
Bureaus in the business-like at-
tention given to securing liquida-
tion of current and past due joint
membership accounts, has become
general. Substantial additions to
income have resulted In every
case. It is a pleasure to report
that the activity has been initiated
within the Farm Bureaus, and the
director of this department with
the co-operation of the legal de-
partment, as required, has only
been called upon to give counsel
and advice and has given personal
service where requested.

"The worthwhile program of
work of the Farm Bureau requires
funds in hand and dependable In-
come to assure Its accomplish-
ment. We have early come to
recognize and accept this fact In
Illinois, which may account In
great part for the strength of the
Farm Bureau movement In our
state. Compared to Its program
of work, financial program and
business practices are of secondary
importance. They are, however,
the solid foundation upon which
the superstructure must rest and
relative importance be recognized.
The Farm Bureau, with an eBtab-
lished sound business program,
becomes a permanent super farm
organization that need fear no
competition In its field."

The Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation and the Farm Bureaus are
now well estab-
lished in the
minds of the
farmers and
have a ranking
place among the
business inter-
ests of state
and county. G.
E. Metzger, di-
rector of orga-
nization, says
so. This recog-
nition, he de-
clares, has done
much to main-
tain and in- G.E.Me«»««
crease membership In many coun-
ties where organization campaigns
were carried on over a year ago.
Seven counties were re-organized.

The department has gathered
much information of a general na-
ture for the benefit of the field-
men. County Farm Bureaus, too,
were helped with summaries of
tiie general accomplishments of
the I. A. A., In cases where these
counties contemplated publishing
special bulletins.

The organization department in
1924 helped to put several mar-
keting movements on their feet.
The director co-operated with a
group of cotton men in Pulaski,
Johnson, and Union counties in
making a survey organization and
setting up a co-operative market-
ing organization for handling Illi-
nois cotton.

Co-operated With Other
Departments

The dairy marketing, poultry
and egg marketing, and the live
stock departments have enlisted
the co-operation of the organiza-
tion department on various occa-
sions. The Illinois Fruit Growers'
Exchange, now in the midst of re-
organization, has been given much
assistance through our fruit and
vegetable marketing department.

The craving for a real Farm
Bureau sport last season grew into
a demand for baseball. The Mar-
shall-Putnam Farm Bureau had
the championship team and won
the trophy awarded by the I. A.
A.
To Stress Conuninilty Organization

Metzger counts community or-
ganization an increasingly im-
portant project. He pledges more
attention to it in his program of
work for 1925. A start has al-
ready been made, however. Sev-
eral counties have taken up com-
munity organization as a minor
project.

The Homestead Films Company
is making a new two-reel picture
for the organization department.
This film Is designed especially for
use in re-organlzatlon campaigns
during the next three-year period.
The picture dwells on the general
work of the association and the
county Farm Bureaus.

In co-operation with the de-
partment of information, an ex-
hibit was designed to set forth
the I. A. A. services to co-op-
erative marketing organizations,
county Farm Bureaus, and the in-
dividual farm bureau member.
About 190,000 people saw the ex-
hibit displayed at the Aurora fair,
State fair, annual picnic of the I.
A. A. at Lincoln and Illinois Prod-
ucts Exposition at Chicago. The
department' also engineered the
annual picnic, held August 26.

Furnish Speakers

The Speakers' Bureau has been
active in locating m'en to address
district conference meetings and
has supplied speakers to county
Farm Bureaus for gatherings and
conventions, both business and
social. Demand for this type of
service Is increasing.

The coming year calls for the
re-organization of 40 county Farm
Bureaus.

American farmers should not
be content to be the packhorses
of the American civilization. — R.
A. Hoey, at I. A. A. annual meet*
Ing.

Grain Committee

Refused to Endorse

Old-Line Merger

None of the various proposals
for tiie marketing of grain, as
presented by the many outside
forces, have been endorsed as
practicable by the grain market-
ing committecj which has consid-
ered all plans carefully. It also
was deemed best not to employ
a regular grain marketing di-
rector.

The Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation authorized an investiga-
tion of the Grain Marketing Com-
pany as to the following:

1. National public policy. A
statement of the legal require-
ments to be met for federal ap-
proval; a statement of the legal
steps for the approval of this
merger by the authorities of the
state of Illinois.

2. The place of the merger in
the cycle of grain marketing. Re-
lations of facilities of merger to
marketing facilities in Chicago,
Kansas City, Omaha,, and other
cities; statement of relationship
of merger to farmers' co-opera-
tive elevators in territory served.

3. Valuation and earning ca-
pacity. Values Indicated by audit
reports of each company in the
combine; statement of properties
secured and alienated by each of
the companies in last five years;
statement of earnings 6f each of
the companies in last five years;

4. Investigation of proposed
economies.

5. Investigation of proposed
plan. Analysis of legal features
of proposed by-laws and contract;
analysis of experience, reliability,
and cost of management personnel
to be taken over from the former
companies.

The I. A. A. considers the
method of grower-control set up
by the Grain Marketing Company
in part illegal and .Impracticable.

44,000 PIECES CAME
INTOOmCE; 28,392
LETTERS SENT IN '24

I. A. A. Has a Real Business
Office Handling Business of
Members; Office Manager a
Busy Man

FOX TRACES CONTROL
OF L A. A. TO SHOW
MEMBER'S CONTAaS

District Meetings a Good Thing
and Should Be Continued;
No Place for Petty Jealousy

Gr*. A. F*z

Employment and supervision of
office employes, purchase and
proper account-
ing for supplies
used by the var-
i 0 u s depart-
ments, provid-
ing for efllcient
filing, mail, and
telephone serv-
ice, and direct-
ing the office
routine work
generally, make
up the work
falling to J. H.
Kelker, assist-
ant to the exec- ■•• «- Keik.r
utlve secretary.

Any Farm Bureau member won-
dering how much business is car-
ried on by his state organization
should drop in on the I. A. A.
general offices in Chicago and see
the mail and correspondence re-
ceived and sent out. Last year
the office received a total of 44,-
000 pieces of mall and itself
mailed no less than 2S,392 type-
written letters, to say nothing of
nearly a quarter million sheets
mimeographed for the use of the
various departments in the year's
activities.

The departmeiit has effected
considerable savings in the pur-
chase of paper and other supplies,
for those Farm Bureaus wishing
to avail themselves of the buying
power of the I. A. A.

Here is a list of the more par-
ticular activities of the director:

Auditing of all bills presented.
• Preparation of monthly finan-
cial statements for use of the ex-
ecutive committee in estimating
budget income and expenditures.

Assistance of I. A. A. exhibit at
fairs and expositions.

Arrangements tor the annual
meeting.

Entertainment of the Illinois
boys' and girls' club members at
the International Live Stock Ex-
position at Chicago.

Arrangements for the Presi-
dent's Conference.

Handilng ot misoellaneous cor-
respondence and claims.

"Let me sketch the contact of
the individual member of the Illi-
nois Agrlcultur-
a 1 Association
for the purpose
o f determining
what activities
shall be under-
taken and bow
prosecnt ed,"
said Geo. A. Fox
at the conclu-
sion of his an-
nual secpetary's
report to the
delegates at the
annual meeting.

the gist of which is contained in
the summarized reports printed
herewith. "The members of the Il-
linois Agricultural Association are
all members of county Farm Bu-
reaus. These county Farm Bu-
reaus co-operating with the Illinois
-Agricultural Association select del-
egates to the annual meeting, who.
in turn, select from each Congres-
sional district an executive oommit-
teeman to constitute an executive
committee. The delegates as a
whole select your president and
vice-president.

"The member speaks first
through his Farm Bureau in se-
lecting the delegates. Through
the Farm Bureau and delegates he
speaks to his executive committee-
man and his president. This is
orderly procedure and in the past
five years has worked fairly well
to give expression to the individ-
ual member. It has not worked
perfectly but it has realized for
you a certain stability and
achieved some worthwhile results.

"Last year you recognized the
need for closer contact between
members. Farm Bureaus and your
executive committeemen. You
conducted district conferences to
form a contact with your repre-
sentative on the executive com-
mittee of the state association.
These conferences have been a
good thing. They offer possibili-
ties of an even closer contact. I
hope in the coming year we shall
develop these district conferences
to a larger degree of usefulness.
It must be obvious to everyone
that with over 60.000 members
scattered over the state that only
in this orderly way can individ-
ual members express their needs.

I. A. A. Works nith Groaps

"It is just as true that to render
the best service to the members,
the state association must work
with organized groups. Through
county Farm Bureaus, co-opera-
tive service can and should l>e
made available to other farm
groups, such as shipping associa-
tions, elevators, dairy organiza-
tions, fanners mutual fire insur-
ance companies, community clubs,
etc. Wherever county, district or
state associations are functioning
for any of those other local
groups, co-operation and affilia-
tion is desirable and should be
sought.

No Place for Petty JeaJonsy

There Is no place in the farmer
family for petty jealousy, selfish
ambition or personal aggrandize-
ment. Only through co-ordinated
efforts on the part of individual
farmers and groups of farmers can
the most effective service l>e ren-
dered to the agriculture of this
state.

The Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation was organized to serve the
farmers of Illinois. It must never
lose sight of this fact. However,
a full realization of service to its
members can only be had br co-
operation with similar groups in
other states and with national
units. A friendly and proper re-
lationship must be maintained if
the state association is to meet
the needs of its members in the so-
lution of the wUer than state
problems.

Page 4

The lllinou AgricultunJ Awociation Record

January 24, 1925

I. A. A. REPEATS $2,000,000 TAX SAVING FOR FARMERS IN 1924

CREDITS COUNTY
FARM BUREAUS FOR
CLEAN-HERD DRIVE

Both Farm and City DweDer*
Need to be Sold on PurfMise
of Work, Petersen Declares

ITo foster and encourage the tu-
befculin testing of cattle In Illi-
nois; to help
owners o f tu-
berculosis - free
herds keep their
herds clean; to
improve our re-
1 a t i o n s with
other states ;
and to co-oper-
ate with the
State and Fed-
eral Depart-
ments of Agri-
culture in aerr-
ing the best In-
M. H. r*trn«i terests of t h e
greatest number
of I our members — these are the
purposes to which the tuberculosis
eradication project of the Illinois
Agricultural Association is dedi-
cated. M. H. Petersen, special
representative on the work, de-
clares that "this has been made
possible through the sincere ef-
forts of the directing department
heads, A. D. Lynch of the dairy
maiketing department, C. A. Stew-
art of the live stock marketing-
department and his successor,
Wm. E. Hedgcock, and the advis-
ory committees under whose su-
petvislon the work has been car-
ried on."

The county Farm Bureaus are
responsible for most of the work
done in bringing the need for a
systematic T. B. clean-up home
to the herd owners ' throughout
the state. And men in charge of
the work in the state declare that
the rapid increase in Ijoth the
number of counties doing area
testing and the number of cattle
tested is due largely to the ef-
forts of the Illinois Agricultural
Association. Petersen helped to
prepare the way for area testing
in 49 counties in 1924. Today
Illinois claims one-fifth of all the
counties conducting area testing
^n the United States, with 6 3 coun-

- ties having appropriations.

I Pabllcity Essential
Favorable public opinion, the
department believes, must be
moulded by a properly planned
campaign of publicity. Accord-
ingly, two objects have been kept
in view in releasing information
bearing on the importance of
eradicating the bovine plague.
Testing must be popularized

- among farmers as well as city
dwellers, as both parties are vi-
tally concerned. Farmers, breed-
ers, and officials in other states
must be kept informed as to the
reaJ condition of the health of lUi-
nolB cattle. The aim is to "tell
the world" of the strides made in
cleaning up Illinois herds, so that
by the time we have become a cat-
tle-selling state, prospects will be
sold on the desirability and safety
of buying cattle in Illinois.

It was realized early in 1924
that, the cattle buyer needs a con-
tract for full protection. Accord-
ingly, a contract which fixes the
responsibility in cattle purchases
was drawn up with the help of the
legal department and has been
successfully used for the past
eight months.

Milk Ordinances Demanded

More and more towns want help
in drawing up ordinances regulat-
ing the production and sale of
milk. A number of these ordi-
nances have been formulated with
thQ help of the I. A. A., the most

- important phase being a require-
ment that all milk come from cat-
tle under state and federal super-
visjon for tuberculosis.

Local stock yards in 89 coun-
ties have been surveyed as to sani-
tary conditions, especially with re-
spect tb sources of T. B. infection.
The transportation department is
taking action where necessary to
impiyve existing conditions.

TBe I. A. A. secured indemnity
totaling {9,440 on 124 claims
made by farmers who failed to re-
ceive such indemnity for reactors.
Denuuid Slxty-dajr Retest

Public sentiment now demands
that cattle coming Into our state

be retested. The 60-day rule
therefore applies on all cattle
brought over the line. Illegal
traffic in untested cattle from
other states has largely been
curbed, due to the efficient efforts
of vigilance committees, co-oper-
ating with Petersen.

Much of the routine educational
program connected with the work,
it was felt, should properly be
handled by the State Department
of Agriculture. The I. A. A. has
successfully prevailed upon the
State Secretary of Agriculture to
purchase and distribute the mo-
tion films Explaining tuberculosis
eradication, and to publish pamph-
lets and posters showing the needs
and benefits of cleaning up T. B.
in cattle.

To stimulate favorable senti-
ment, much time was spent in ad-
dressing civic and commercial or-
ganizations, women's clubs, medi-
cal and bankers' associations, and
rel/gious societies, as well as farm-
er^' organizations.

~ Future Full of Work

The I. A. A.'s T. B. eradication
project in the coming year is ex-
pected to see a continuance of ed-
ucational work; an expanded field
of operation; publicity concerning
progress made throughout Illinois;
an Increase in the field service
given In locating sources of sup-
ply of healthy cattle; and special
Emphasis upon keeping clean herds
clean.

RE-ADJUSTMENTS IN
FREIGHT RATES, AIM
OF TRANSPORTATION

I.A.A. Curbs Rate Advances
and Looks Into Road Prob-
lem; Opposes P. P. Increase

L. J. (^naaer

Illinois farmers shall not pay
more than| their fair share of
transportation
costs; and they
must have effi-
cient transpor-
tation service.
These are the
things forwhich
the transporta-
tion depart-
ment, under the
direction of L.
J. Q u a s e y,
stands and
works.

The depart-
ment has taken
an active part
in 10 hearings before several
freight association and railroad
rate committees, concerning the
adjustment of rates on agricul-
tural products. tFifty-seven con-
ferences were heia throughout the
year concerning various matters
— mostly with Individual railroads
or railroad committees.

The department co-operated
with the University of Illinois,
which held a series of nine live
stock shippdng association schools
at various points throughout the
state. Information was given by
the I. A. A. department concern-
ing the many transportation prob-
lems encountered in the every-
day business of a shipping associa-
tion, from the ordering of cars
down to the filing of claims for
loss, damage, or overcharge.

The department took steps in
opposing the proposed increase in
parcel post rates.

Extensive work was done, in
co-operation with the department
of taxation and statistics, in the
investigaticin of the state bard
road construction program, and
report madje of the findings.

Re-adJus^ments of freight rates
have been i proposed by the rail-
roads In territory both to the east
and to the farest of Illinois. These
re-adjustments are for the most
part in the hature of Increases and
although lire stock and grain rates
and export and import rates are
not now directly involved, it is
reasonable to assume that an ef-
fort will be made to increase them
at some later time. Other farm
products will be affected by the
proposed changes. The depart-
ment believes that a re-adjust-
ment downward should be made of
rates on all farm products and It
will endeavtor to work to that end
during the coming year.

SLUM KIDDIES ENJOY
FARM BUREAU HOMES

Two hundred six boys and girls
from the slums of Chicago were
given free two-weeks' outings in
the homes of Illinois farm bureau
members during the summer of
1924. In this project the I. A.
A. co-operated with civic and
semi-public organizations to make
it successful. 1924 was the
fourth year in which the project
has beens run, and about 1,400
children have thus had a chance
to see real farm life with Us in-
vigorating atmosphere — through
Farm Bureau effort.

Miss Grace Schecter, secretary
to Mr. Fox, served as Outing Sec-
retary last year.

J. R. Bent

DROP OLD PLAN OF
BUYING PHOSPHATE;
SERVICE STRESSED

Soil Fertility and ProfiUble
Agricultuial Production Are
the Aims o f Department

Much progress In standardizing
methods of buying limestone for
Farm Bureau
members; clos-
er business re-
lationship b e-
tween limestone
producers and
Farm Bureaus;
and extensive
changes in the
department's re-
lation to the
phosphate sup-
ply — these are
the outstanding
features of the
phosphate-lime-
stone depart-
ment, of which J. R. Bent is di-
rector, for the year 1924.

The functions of the depart-
ment are:

1. Investigation of factors in-
fluencing the present and future
supplies of agricultural limestone
and crude ground rock prosphate.

2. Acting as a bureau of infor-
mation concerning the trade, for
the county Farm Bureaus.

3. Acting as representative for
the county Farm Bureaus and in-
dividual members in negotiating
with the commercial producers of
limestone and phosphate in gen-
eral trade and in correcting abuses.

4. Giving specific advice to lo-
cal units as to advisability of de-
veloping farmer-owned limestone
plants or storage facilities.

5. Assisting where most advan-
tageous in the collective purchas-
ing of crude materials.

6. Keeping public officials and
other necessary agencies correctly
informed about all movements
aimed at better maintenance of
soil fertility and profitable agri-
cultural production.

Need Bureau for Greatest
Limestone Use

District conferences conducted
by the department throughout Illi-
nois revealed the fact that the
Farm Bureaus have been and
must be in the future, the most
effective agency for the promo-
tion of limestone use on Illinois
farms. In view of the fact that
a large proportion of the fertilizer
business is pooled through the
Farm Bureau, many of the con-
tracting companies have agreed
to furnish Farm Bureau purchas-
ers with limestone at special
prices, amounting to a maximum
of 10 cents per ton. The new
plan has proved popular and has
helped to increase the ranks of
Farm Bureau members in the
state.

'New Phosphate Basis

Radical departures were made
in the phosphate purchasing pol-
icy. The plan of collective bar-
gaining as used in the four years
from 1920 to 1923 was abandoned,
and companies were left to do
their own soliciting of business
among the farmers of the state.
At the same time, the depart-
ment's function in supervising the
quality and service rendered by
the producing companies, formerly
limited to but a few companies,
was extended to cover all of the
producing plants and companies
now operating In the Tennessee
field. Bent counts this a distinct
step in advance, although 1924

was a subnormal year In the
amount of crude ground rock
phosphate used in Illinois.
^linois, Indiana, and Iowa lime-
stone fields were visited by the di-
rector from time to time. Quarry
conditions and methods of hand-
ling the fertilizer were Inspected,
and records kept. Limestone de-
posits in Illinois and phosphate
deposits in Tennessee also have
been investigated as to available
sources for future supplies.

The Future

Marked improvements in trans-
portation facilities. Insuring
prompt shipments of fertilizer dur-
ing 1924, have rendered the stor-
age problem a minor one. Bent
points out. It Is becoming more
and more evident, however, that
as time goes on, provision must
be made for distribution of ship-
ments over a wider period of
time. If production is to be made
efficient and economical.

Though it carries its fresh prob-
lems, the outlook for 1925 is
promising. Continued friendly re-
lations, co-operation, and stan-
dardized business methods are nec-
essary to stabilize the traffic in
limestone and phosphate.

CLEARING HOUSE ON
BAR DECISIONS, AIM
OF LEGAL COUNSEL

Service to Marketing Depart-
ments and Farm Bureaus Is
Work Falling to Kirkpatrick

Service to the interests of organ-
ized agriculture in Illinois has
been the watch-
word of this de-
partmentin
1924, operating
under the direc-
tion of Donald
Kirkpatrick, I. ^^^H'f^
A. A. legal ^^^H^
counsel. The
Grain Market-
1 n g Company
was examined
as to articles ot
i n c orporation,
by - laws, and
contracts, and a d. Kirkpatrick
report was

made to the I. A. A. grain com-
mittee.

In investigating the Co-opera-
tive Marketing Act passed by the
Illinois Legislature in 1923, the
department discovered that the
act carries certain provisions of
power which co-operatives might
misuse to their later disadvant-
age. On this basis, recommenda-
tions will be made to the legisla^
tive committee.
Helped Marketing Departments

In co-operation with the live-
stock, dairy, and fruit and vege-
table marketing departments, the
legal department has urged the
use of marketing contracts for all
co-operatives except live stock
shipping associations. Uniformity
of contracts where possible has
been insisted upon, and uniform-
ity of provision has been advo-
cated.

Incorporation of a co-operative
with or without capital stock is
allowable under the Illinois Co-
operative Marketing Act of 1923,
belief to the contrary notwith-
standing. The legal department
therefore has advised the issuance
of preferred stock, limited to the
right parties, where substantial
capital is needed.

Co-ops Need Legal Advice

The legal department points
out that frequent advice on local
legal matters is essential if the
co-operative Is to function prop-
erly. The department accordingly
advises all co-operatives to have
and use legal advisers of their
own, locally speaking. Co-opera-
tive buying enterprises are not
encouraged, as the first function
of the local is to market Its stock
successfully. The department be-
lieves in strict adherence to the
commodity marketing basis.

Helps County Farm Bureaus

The legal department will con-
tinue to give legal counsel to the
association in matters pertaining
to the association's business. And
it wants to serve as a clearing
house for all new decisions hand-
ed down in the courts ot the state,
so as to advise all co-operatives
under its Jurisdiction.

ILUNOIS FARMERS
LAST YEAR SAVED
2 MILUON IN TAXES

More Uniform Assessments
of Real Estate Secured;
Need of Tax Reform Seen

Problems ot taxation, including
the closely related analysis of pub-
lic finances,
took up the ma-
jor portion of
time for the de-
partmentof
taxation and
statistics, head-
ed by J. C. Wat- ^^:
son, director.

Efforts to S6- ■ /;
cure substantial
uniformity i n
assessments of ^^^■•.w
real estate in ^^^BAS'. -j

certain counties . ^

were continued •'■C.w«t.««
from the previ-
ous year. The investigations dis-
closed that in many counties, farm
lands were assessed at a higher
percentage of their selling value
than was true of town and city
lots. Reduction in valuations of
farm lands was effected in several
.counties. Watson declares that
"there can be no doubt that, on
the whole, the two classes ot real
estate are now more nearly on a
uniform basis of valuations than
has existed since the great fall in
prices of farm products and farm
lands began in 1920."

Effected Reduction in Taxes

Farmers were saved $2,000,000
in taxes in 1924 over what they
would have been charged if as-
sessments had been based on 1922
valuations. The department be-
lieves that "nearly all the saving
in taxes last year is likely to be
repeated this year."

Illinois' tax system is antiquat-
ed and inequitable, says Watson.
Substantial progress has been
made by the association, however.
In bringing together representa-
tives of all important organiza-
tions in a common effort to 'im-
prove the system.

The Illinois Educational Com-
mission last summer appointed ^n
Advisory Council of 19 persons
representing various organization^
of the state. The director of the
taxation department, and J. L.
Whisnand, executive committee-
man from the 19th district, also
chairman of the school commis-
sion of the I. A. A., were appoint-
ed to the Council to represent the
association.

Constitution Needs Amendment

Conferences brought out the be-
lief of practically all parties con-
cerned that amendment of the
revenue sections ot the state con-
stitution is necessary before any
great improvement can be made
in the revenue system of the state.
Discussions will continue until the
larger number of organizations in
the state will concur with the
Commission in its campaign to im-
prove the state tax system through
legislative action.

The director of the department
also presented the problems of
taxation before a number of meet-
ings and conferences, including
the annual Farmers' Week, the
Trl-State Development Congress
at Duluth, and the annual conven-
tion of the Ohio Farm Bureau
Federation at Columbus. He also
gave a radio talk on taxation over
WLS Chicago.

Announces Future Program

The department proposes to con-
tinue its efforts to discover the
facts and to secure equalization
of values in any counties having
serious inequalities. It proposes
to continue its analysis of taxes
extended on lands. It will under-
take a limited amount of work in
Farm Bureau counties where de-
sired. And it proposes to give
much of its time to a considera-
tion of legislative matters, and
more especially to work with the
committee of which Watson, rep-
resenting the I. A. A. is a mem-
ber, concerning recommendations
relating to an amendment of the
revenue sections of the State Con-
stitution.

iry 24, 1925

January 24, 192S

The niinou Agricultural A»»oci«tion Record

Page S

1924 NATIONAL PRECEDENT ESTABLISHED IN FORMATION OF L A. C. A.

ERS
SAVED
IN TAXES

AssewmenU
te Secured;
lefonn Seen

ion, including
lalysis of pub-

J. C. WatiOB

Btigations dls-
counties. farm
1 at a higher

selling value
own and city

valuations of
^ted in several
declares that
oubt that, on
classes of real
e nearly on a
iluations than
3 great fall in
nets and farm
I."

n in Taxes

ed ^2, 000, 000
er what they
harged if as-
3ased on 1922
apartment be-
all the saving
5 likely to be

m is antiquat-
says Watson.
IS has been
tion, however,
!r jepresenta-
ant organiza-
effort to Im-

;ational Com-
appointed^n

f 19 persons
organization^

irector of the

t, and J. L.

e committee-
district, also

hool commis-

were appoint-
represent the

Amendment

ht out the be-
1 parties con-
ment of the
the state con-
y before any
can be made
1 of the state,
inue until the
;anizations in
ur with the
npaign to im-
stem through

e department
problems of
nber of meet-
es, including
1' Week, the
!nt Congress
inual conven-
farm Bureau
bus. He also
taxation over

9 Progmin
oposes to con-
discover the
equalization
jnties having
It proposes
ysis of taxes
It will under-
Qt of work in
es where de-
loses to give
a consldera-
matters, and
ork with the
Watson, rep-
\. is a mem-
mmendatlons
Iment of the
lie State Con-

URGES CLOSER UNION
OF FARM BUREAU AND
UVE STOCK CO-OPS

Survey Shows Illinou Shipping
Problem* Similar to Those
Prevailing in Other States

Advisory service for the bene-
fit of live stock producers of Illi-
nois, and pro-
motion of the
co-opera 1 1 v e
marketing o f
live stock
through the
shipping associ-
ations and Pro-
ducers commis-
si o n associa-
tions located on
the terminal
markets, make
up the work of
wm. E. Bedccock the live' stock
marketing d e-
\ partment, o f

which Wm. E. Hedgcock is direc-
tor. This work was divided into
the following branches: Live
stock co-operative shippihg asso-
ciations, producers commission as-
sociations, field service, ^ool pool,
blankets, tuberculosis eradication,
Illinois Farm Bureau Serum Asso-
ciation, and stockers and feeders.
Shipping associations number-
ing 626, well distributed over Illi-
nois, are members of the Illinois
Agricultural Association. The de-
partment's service lies in strength-
ening these and developing the
service which they should be able
to render to their various commu-
nities.

A survey was conducted by the
department during the year to
learn the status of live stock ship-
ping associations and their activi-
ties in the states of Iowa, Minne-
sota, Ohio, and Indiana, as well
as Illinois. It was found that ship-
ping problems in Illinois are sim-
ilar in most respects to those in
other states.

In all the states visited it wsis
the consensus of those Interested
in" the co-operative marketing of
live stock that the shipping asso-
ciations should be organized on a
strong, efficient business basis and
should keep accurate accounts;
that they should be Incorporated
and the managers bonded; that
the board of directors should des-
ignate the policies of the shipping
association and instruct the mana-
ger in regard to the consigning of
the live stock; also that it was a
mistake to permit a shipping asso-
ciation manager to purchase and
ship live stock in his own name,
and that no one should be em-
ployed as manager of a shipping
association who was not in hearty
accord with the co-operative mar-
keting plan. The lack of proper
records is surprising. Indications
are that a large number of ship-
ping associations do not keep any
record of their year's business.

Farm Bureaus Active

"The Farm Bu^aus of Illinois
have been very active in promot-
ing the organization of shipping
associations," states Hedgcock.
"The department has found the
Farm Bureaus to be of great as-
.sistance in promoting the educa-
tional campaign, to build up and
strengthen the shipping associa-
tions and the co-operative mar-
keting of live stock.

"It is our firm conviction that
there must be a definite relation-
ship existing between the Farm
Bureau and the shipping associa-
tion. The department has co-op-
erated with the extension depart-
ment of the University of Illinois
in conducting nine shipping asso-
ciation schools in different sec-
tions of the state, and due to the
interest taken in these schools It
is planned to hold a larger number
of schools In 1925. Through the
co-operation of the extension de-
partment we find it is possible to
promote the accounting work and
develop the business efficiency of
the shipping associations of the
state with greater rapidity."

Three Producers' assocations
and nine shipping associations
now receive the auditing service
of the I. A. C. A.

The low spread obtaining be-
tween the price of feed and of
live stock through the year just

past has kept the outlook from
being very hopeful, the director's
report points out. It is his belief,
however, that the situation "can
be aided materially by helping de-
velop a more orderly system of
marketing.

Want System in Marketing

"We are convinced that any
program which includes a more
orderly system of marketing re-
quires that the live stock be han-
dled by the producer from the
farm to the packer. The most
satisfactory method will be to
strengthen and develop our co-op-
erative live stock shipping associa-
tions and our co-operative live
stock marketing agencies (the
Producers Commission Associa-
tions) and educate the live stock
producer to patronize his own co-
operative marketing agencies.

"In planning our 1925 program
of work we desire to build upon
the work that the department has
been conducting in the past. In
order to strengthen our shipping
associations and co-operative mar-
keting agencies it will be neces-
sary to conduct an educational
campaign in order that our ship-
ping associations may handle a
larger bulk of the live stock pro-
duced in the various communities.
We must encourage the home
grading of live stock by the ship-
ping associations in order to re-
duce the cost and confusion of
marketing. We must encourage
the associations using efficient
business methods, which will in-
clude: Accounting systems; closer
attention given to the shipping
associations by the boards of di-
rectors; incorporating of the asso-
ciations and bonding the man-
ager; and the emt>loying of effi-
cient, co-operatlve-minded mana-
gers. The program of work also
includes the promoting of the
wool pool ; the locating of stockers
and feeders; co-operating with ex-
isting agencies in the eradication
of tuberculosis; encouraging boys
and girls club work; aiding our
Farm Bureaus in purchasing a
good quality of serum at a reason-
able price through the Illinois
Farm Bureau Serum Association;
and the co-operating with other
agencies promoting better live
stock marketing conditions in the
state."

"TELL THE WORLD"
IS INFORMATION
BUREAU SLOGAN

H. C Butcher

Facts, and Not Propaganda,
Is Department Watchword;
Clippings Show the Results

Publication of the I. A. A. Rec-
ord, information service to the
press, advertis-
ing and public-
ity service to
co-op erative
marketing or-
ganizations, and
arrangement of
radio talks,
make up the
work of the de-
partment of in-
formation, o f
which H. C.
Butcher is di-
rector. This de-
partment Is
charged with
the responsibility of keeping the
work of the I. A. A. before 63,000
farmer members, as well as all
Illinois and more remotely, the
United States.

The Recobd circulates among all
Farm Bureau members in Illinois
and is designed to give the news
of the association to its readers,
and to record trends which may
affect the association's policies.

Information service concerning
the activities and developments of
the 1. A. A. goes to the United
Press, Associated Press, United
News, and International News
Service; the farm papers in this
and surrounding states; and farm
pages of dally newspapers. E>ach
week several news stories about
the association's progress are
mailed to each of the 92 Farm
Bureaus in Illinois. These stories
are used with additional local
angles In Farm Bureau bulletins
and house organs, as well as In
the local press.

Grrnld Jennr

The department also edits the
Illinois Fruit Exchange News for
the IlHnois Fruit Growers' Ex-
change, published at Centralis.

F. E. Charles resigned as as-
sistant director at the end of the
year to take up
a paper in Re-
public county,
Kansas. He
was succeeded
on Jan. 1 by
. :^^B Gerald Jenny.

^\ -I^W In 1922, 5,-

lytm^^m 155 clippings
concerning the
I. A. A. were re-
ceived from a
bureau which
covers practi-
cally all of the
daily and week-
I y newspapers
in the state and about one-half
the dailies and weeklies In the
United States. In 1923, there
were 2.813, and in 1924 over
three times as many were re-
turned as in 1923. These -8.582
clippings accumulating in 1924
represent 777,380 stories about
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion which were actually printed.
This increase Indicates that the
I. A. A. is climbing the ladder
into the nation's news and ^hat
its great program of work Is
therefore coming to the attention
of more people more often than
ever before.

The director makes the follow-
ing recommendations for work in
1925:

1. Continually improve the
Record with a view toward making
It a stronger and more Interesting
connecting link between members
and the association.

2. Give county Farm Bureaus
specific help in publicity problems.

3. Assist co-operative market-
ing organizations In publicity and
advertising problems on a cost
basis.

4. .Keep pace with radio devel-
opment.

5. Make the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association the best known
and most admired farm organiza-
tion in the United States, both to
farm and pity people.

FRUIT PROGRAM SEES
GROWER AIDS IF IT IS
PROPERLY HANDLED

Survey Made Last Year Shows
Illinois in Favorable Position ;
also Room for Improvement

A. B. Leeper, director of the
fruit and vegetable marketing de-
partment, locat-
ed at Centralla,
Illinois, opened
up both guns on
the year's work
by developing a
plan for co-op-
erative market-
1 n g of fruits
and vegetables
in Illinois. A
plan which is
believed sound
and workable
was devised
with the help of
leading growers
and the horticultural department
of the College of Agriculture.

The Illinois Fruit Growers' Ex-
change was incorporated under
the new Co-operative Marketing
Act of Illinois on February 29.
1924. This farmer organization
has marketed products from 24
shipping points in 16 Illinois coun-
ties in 1924.

Much time was spent by this
department in making a survey of
the fruit and vegetable producing
counties, with the purpose of de-
termining where marketing asso-
ciations should be organized.
What Survey Showed
The survey disclosed among
other things the following:

1. Illinois is near the center of
population and has better trans-
port facilities than any other sec-
tion producing these crops.

2. Favorable climatic conditions
obtain over almost the entire
state.

3. If proper crops are grown,
the harvest season comes when
there is less competition than in
most other producing sections.

4. Illinois farmers are not tak-
ing advantage of this condition.

5. Perishable crops for local
trade .are produced In every coun-
ty-

A. B. Lecpcr

6. Many sections In the state
produce a surplus, which, however,
is not produced in sufficient quan-
tities to market in carlots. The
grower loses.

7. In such sections farmers
should either reduce their produc-
tion to a local consumption basis,
or increase it to provide for a vol-
ume of business which will insure
proper handling, moving and re-
frigerating.

8. In some sections the crops
are not of the best marketable va-
riety. In others the harvest sea-
son does not correspond with the
seasonal demand for the crops
grown.

Products in Demand
General observations on the
tree fruit status, as revealed by
the same sur\'ey, show that as a
whole, the country is not produc-
ing enough fruits and green vege-
tables to meet the demand. But
no matter what the crop, market
conditions and demands must be
considered if it is to be grown at
a profit. Only eight of the 30
counties surveyed' are producing
small fruits and vegetables in
quantities sufficient to market
them properly. Where the state's
hard-road building program is
working to the disadvantage of
producers, marketing methods
should be changed to meet the
nei» conditions.

^- Keconimendations
Leeper recommends the follow^-
ing program for 1925:

1. Re-organlzatlon of all exist-
ing organizations under the stan-
dard type recommended by the
I. A. A.

2. Organization of other ship-
ping points which can meet the
I. A. A. requirements.

3. Proper supervision of such
new marketing organizations by
the I. A. A.

4. Completion of the sun-ey be-
gun last year.

5. Special attention to roadside
and truck marketing.

6. Greater use of the Informa-
tion and advice coming from the
department, on the part of the
fruit and vegetable growers.

DAIRY INDUSTRY IN
NEED OF ADJUSTMENT
FOR BEST EFHCIENCY

Lynch Sajrs Federate, Watch
Cost of Dairy Production;
Outlines Plans for 1925

The department of dairy mar-
keting has had much grist to
grind, but A. D.
Lynch, the di-
rector, has it
a, 1 1 processed
and packaged
properly. Here's
his program:
1. MARKET-
ING SERVICE.

a. Field serv-
ice.

(1) Investi-
g a t i onal.
Use surveys
to determine a. d. I^jTick
marketing

needs of communities.

( 2 ) Educational. Acquaint
dairymen with the possibilitlee
of co-operative marketing;
formulate policies.

b. Organization.

( 1 ) Work out best possible
plans for prospective institu-
tions.

( 2 ) Assist in acquiring suitable
site.

(3) Assist board in choosing
machinery, equipment, sup-
plies.

« (4) Help locate personnel:
managers, accountants, e m-
ployees.

c. Merchandising.

(1) Particular attention to
grading and to efficient qual-
ity production.

( 2 ) Sales service at terminals,
including the location of mar-
kets and the development of
outlets for dairy products.

(3) Advertising; outline pub-
licity campaigns.

Better marketing methods
is the need for most farmer-
owned Illinois cheese factories.

SUCCESS MARKS WORK
OF CO-OP AUDIT BODY;
NEAR HRST MILESTONE

Member Organizations Get
Books Audited ; Special Help
b Given on Tax Returns

G*». ». Wlckrr

The department of co-operative
accounting. George R. Wicker, di-
rector, was es-
tablished 1 n L

May of 1924, tol

meet a definite |

and general de- L

mand on t h e I

part of co-oper-[

a t i V e associa- 1

tions in Illinois

for improved

accounting!

methods and ]

better business |

practices.

The work of '

the department

includes the au-
diting of ttooks of member organ-
izations; recommendations for the
improvement of accounting s.vs-
tems; appraisals of real estate,
buildings, and equipment; inven-
tories of stock; special ser\-ice as
to income tax returns, capital
stock tax returns, state corpora-
tion tax assessments, and commer-
cial reports; ser^-ice as to federal
income tax exemptions and claims
for abatement and refund; statis-
tics and comparative analysis;
and business advisory 8er>ice.
Any agricultural organization.
Farm Bureau, or co-operative as-
sociation may acquire membership
in the Illinois Agricultural Co-op-
eratives Association Tipon applica-
tion of its officers and the accept-
ance thereof by the properly elect-
ed officers of this association.

The department actively en-
gaged in its work on June 1. 1924,
and so far has completed the ex-
amination of 4 3 co-operative as-
sociations and Farm Bureaus. It
has extended Its services to Illi-
nois Farm Bureaus with respect
to filing returns for income tax
and capital stock tax. and has pre-
sented applications for exemption
in all cases where the necessary
information has been supplied.

Wicker wishes to extend the fa-
cilities of the new department to
the affiliated Farm Bureaus and
Invites their co-operation. The
staff members will be glad to at-
tend district conferences and other
meetings of a general character
when appointments can properly
be made.

In September, 1924, a brancli
office was opened at Springfield In
the offices of the Sangamon county
Farm Bureau. J. W. King was
appointed as resident district ex-
aminer. Branch offices at other
centrally located points are con-
templated as soon as sufficient
membership warrants further ex-
tensions. Closer contact thus •will
be assured.

"Improved accounting systems,
better bookkeeping procedure,
more uniformity, and the recogni-
tion and adoption of more efficient
business methods will do much to
raise the general business stand-
ard of co-operative associations,"
says Wicker in his report. "Along
this line of advance, we propose
to introduce and conform co-op-
erative associations to the clearing
house plan employed by banks
for the protection of their depos-
itors and for mutual benefits.

"We are looking aliead to the
time when co-operative associa-
tions will work together to ad-
vance their common interests."

The problem of marketing Il-
linois cheese Is growing, and
the state now ranks third in '
cheese production.
2. STATISTICAL.: ]

a. Accounting.

( 1 ) Proride uniform accounting
systems.

(2) Formulate summaries and
reports for directors and mana-
gers.

( 3 ) Interpretation, analysis, and
advice on financial statements.

b. Marketing information on but-
terfat, fluid milk, condensed
milk. Including adrtce on which
products are likely to show
largest earnings.

(Continued on p«sr« 7, coL i)

Page 6

The IllinoU Agricultural A»»ociation Record

jMuary 24, 1925 lj^„^ .

BOTH SIDES OF GRAIN MERGER EXPLAINED AT BLOOMINGTON MEET

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH'S REPORT
ON MEETING RE-PRINTED TO PRESENT
L A. A. MEMBERS WITH UNBIASED FACTS

McLean County Farm Bureau Called Meeting After Stodi
Saleameii for Grain Marketing Compimy Had Worked in
County Several Week*.

(In order that all farm bureau membtrs in
lUikoit may know both tides of the meetuig
caUid for Jam. to by tie McLean County
Pahn BuretM for tke purpou ol discutwif Ike
facts concemimi tke Grain Uarfteting Corn-
pan f at tDhich t. A. A. officialt. President
Tkoinpson in particular, and officials of the
Grain Marketing Company were invited, tke
RfCCBD is rc-printing tke reports given OH tke
meeting by tke Bhomington Pantapaph
through its agricultural department. — EMtor.)

GR*Y SIL\-ER AND GEO. A.

FOX PRESEXT ARGUMENTS IN
BIG MERGER CONTROVERSY
(Monday, Jan. 12. 1925.)
Tke Panta^n^ph's Agricnltnral
Department.
Four hundred farmers heard
thej arguments for and against the
Grain Marketing Company and its
plan of buying the facilities of
merged Chicago grain companies,
in the meeting called by the Mc
Lean County Farm Bureau in the
high school Saturday evening.
EaOh one vas judge and jury, the
decision, to be whether or not he
personally will support the mar-
keting concern in its coming cam-
paign to sell stock.

Gray Silver, formerly Washing-
ton representative of the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation and
now president of the Grain Mar-
keting company presented an ap-
peal for farmer support. He was
aidad by Henry S. Ballard (a law-
yer).

Geo. A. Fox, secretary of the
Illinois Agricultural Association,
told w*y the state farm bureau
federation disapproves of the prop-
osition and refuses endorsement.
He was aided by Geo. E. Prater,
Donald Kirkpatrick and Geo. E.
Wldker, all employees of the I A.A.
Started Liast July

Mr. Balfard, first on the pro-
gram, told of the development of
the Grain Marketing Company. He
is connected~with the Ohio Farm
Bureau Federation and has had
experienae in co-operative wool
marketing;. The Grain Marketing
Company was incorporated July
15, 1924. Officers were elected on
July 20. ".'Hie contract between
the merging^grain concerns and
the company -tvas made on July 28.
The Grain Marketing Company be-
gan to function on August 5. The
following points wqre made by Mr.
Ballard:

This plan is fundamentally the
application of business principles
to co-operative marketing by farm-
ers themselves. It Is a corpora-
tion under. the co-operative mar-
keting act of the State of Illinois,
organized so that the producers
may have absolute control of the
corporation, organized in such a
manner that the board of directors
is directly responsible to the stoek-
holdiers, organized so that the
stockholders may absolutely de-
termine the policy of the organiza-
tion.

The contract between the com-
pany and the Chicago grain flrmrf
is such that the company secures
the physical properties of the three
leading grain firms in the coun-
try and expert management of
{hese properties.

Tkere are 1,000,000 shares of
common stock of the value of }1
per share. And 1,000,000 shares
of Class A preferred stock of the
value of $25 each. And 500.000
shares of Class B preferred stock
of the value of )50 each, this class
not lor general sale but to be used
to secure working capital and to
Issue in exchange for the proper-
ties acquired.

Farmers can't control the com-
pany unless they belong, however.
They must become Identified with
the concern to have any voice in
its management.

Every possible legal precaution
that can be taken to set up an or-
ganization that would be Invul-
nerable to attack has been taken.
Gray Sliver Speaks

Gray Silver drew a picture of
the background of events leading
up to the organization of the Grain
Marketing Company. He recalled
the development of Industry by the
protective system, the organization

of the Nati>nal Grange, the awak-
ening of the fact that Industry
had been developed to a high plain
and agriculture had been neg-
lected, the Roosevelt country life
committee, [the organization of the
farm bureau movement and the
American J'arm Bureau Federa-
tion. Through It all was the evi-
dent need on the part of agricul-
ture for greater remuneration.

He recalled the formation of the
farmers' elevator movement, but
declared that farmers' elevators
are today competing one with the
other. That system will never
give the farmers a larger share of
the consumers' dollar, he declared.
What was needed was a central
or keystone organization through
which all the elevators work, and
that keystone organization Is now
perfected.

Grain Men Saw Co-operative
Coming

The grain men saw the change
coming, he said. They knew a
new systeml of marketing would
eventually succeed. They had
watched the legislation for co-op-
erative marketing. They recalled
the loss that the brewing Industry
suffered wihen the prohibition
amendment was ratified and they
wanted to avoid such a loss to
their own iadustry.

One thing Is certain, Mr. Silver
declared, and that Is that here are
splendid facilities, the best of man-
agement, and at a membership
cost of a dollar and at a small cost
per bushel you can buy it all.
Keep In mind that this Is the first
time the farmer has had a chance
of serving hjmself In this way, he
stated.

Report Was Snppregsed

When thej American Farm Bu-
reau Federation was seriously Con-
sidering this marketing plan last
June, John Coverdale, then secre-
tary, mentioDed to officials of the
I. A. A. that a recognized econom-
ist had bee^ employed to make
a survey of 1 the proposition. Said
Geo. A. Fox,J secretary of the I, A.
A., In presenting the other side of
the argument. That report was
received by iMr. Coverdale about
the middle ojf June, but was neiver
made available to the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association. Mr. Sam
Thompson, president of the I.A.A.
and an executive of the A.F.B.F.,
never saw the report until Sep-
tember and then only on direct
request. That report was sup-
pressed, Mr. Fox declared.
No Facts Available

Mr. Fox then read copies of let-
ters between the I. A. A. and Mr.
Coverdale, In which the I. A. A.
asked for Information deemed nec-
essary In arriving at any conclu-
sions concerning the project. Au-
ditors' reports of each of the merg-
ing concerns for the past five years
were definitely asked for, and It
was presumed that these auditors'
reports would Include profit and
loss statements and might be a
means of separating the cash
transactions from the speculative
transactions. The first request
was written July 29, 1924, and
was acknowledged and the audi-
tors' reports promised within a
week. No reports were received.
A second letter was written Au-
gust 15, and It was acknowledged
and the repoorts promised as soon
as the several other Investigations
would permit. A third request
was written August 20, asking
that the audits be made Immedi-
ately available. There was no re-
ply. The reports have not been
received yet.

Tlie I. A. A. Has Not Approved

"We recognize," Mr. Fox said,
"that with $26,000,000 of stock
to be sold, a good portion of It
mnst be sold to farmers of Illi-
nois. We have not, as an associa-
tion, approved of the Grain Mar-
keting company or the sale of Its
stock, and tl4_e reason is that we
do not baTtMn our possession In-

formation that would warrant ap-
proval. We do have a good deal
of Information that would tend in
the other direction."

A Reasonable Request

Mr. Fox used only a portion of
the 45 minutes allotted to the
I. A. A. He then called upon
George E. Frazer, former comp-
troller of the University of Illi-
nois, and consulting accountant of
the I. A. A.

Mr. Frazer promised that his
story would be very short and it
was. He was called in consulta-
tion by the I. A. A. and asked
how he would secure a valuation
of the properties Involved In the
merger transaction. He replied
that the Informatlbn could be se-
cured from the audits of the com-
panies Involved. Such reports for
less than a five-year period would
be useless In determining an ac-
curate valuation, he declared. Mr.
Fox told him It would be a sim-
ple matter to secure the audits,
for' he had been promised all pos-
sible information. But the audits
were not available and the valua-
tion could not be determined. Mr.
Frazer said he had experience In
bank mergers and accounting,
himself a certified public account-
ant, yet In all his experience he
has never known a banker to put
a dollar Into an enterprise unless
the enterprise laid all the figures
on the table.

The Legal Side
Donald Kirkpatrick, legal coun-
sel, was then called. He said that
the set-up of the company Is le-
gally correct with some excep-
tions. The state constitution gives
a vote to each share of stock, and
the Class B stock given In ex-
change for the property, have vot-
ing power. It was agreed, how-
ever, that the Class B stock would
be held in trust and deprived of
voting power so the producers
would control the concern, and It
is quite probable that this Is le-
gally possible, he said. In the
main, the legal set-up cannot be
questioned.

The vital question is whether or
not the organization Is co-opera-
tive In that the grain will be han-
dled to the best Interest of the
producers rather than In the Inter-
ests of returning the utmost earn-
ings on the properties, said Mr.
Kirkpatrick.

Elevators Not Necessary

George R. Wicker, director of
the co-operative auditing depart-
ment of the I. A. A., had ten min-
utes on the program, which he de-
clared entirely Inadequate to pre-
sent all his documentary evidence,
but he did present the conclu-
sions which he claimed are backed
by documentary evidence.

His survey of terminal eleva-
tor and grain storage and hand-
ling in all principal markets has
resulted In nothing that led bim
to believe that facilities such as
those operated at the present Ime
by The Grain Markelng Company
are necessary. Facilities are ob-
tainable In all markets of the
United States with the possible ex-
ception of Chicago, when wanted
and for the period required, and
at less than they can be owned.
That Is quite a general condition,
he declared, a day by day condi-
tion. And he thought that same
condition would be shown by the
audited reports of the concerns
Involved In the merger.

Mr. Wicker also said it Is high-
ly necessary to avoid speculation
In any co-operative marketing con-
cern, for that has ruined more
co-operatives than any other sin-
gle thing.

Qnestlons and Answers

In answer to a question. Mr.
Silver said that the Grain Mar-
keting Company does not specu-
late, but merchandises grain, and
is merchandising more grain than
any other company.

E. J. Carmody, a member of
the McLean County Farm Bureau,
asked why the audit reports were
withheld from the I. A. A. Mr.
Sliver said that the Information
upon which the negotiation was
based were supplied by the U. S.
department of agriculture. Infor-
mation gathered by the goveruy
ment, and those figures have been
free to anybody at all times and
always have been. It was. not a
question tft wtULt those companies

had earned in the past, but a ques-
tion of what they could earn under
the rules and regulations when
filled with grain.

Not Buying Audits
And In further reply to this
question, which was pressed by
several of those present, Mr. Bal-
lard explained that the Grain
Marketing Company contract was
to acquire the elevators of the
firms and the management for a
period of years. That is all that
under the contract the firms In-
volved were required to deliver to
the Grain Marketing Company.
The books and records and reports
remain the private property of the
vendors, they were not passed Into
the hands of the Grain Marketing
Company and never will be. "We
cannot take someone's private
property and give it to someone
else," he said. He indicated, how-
ever that access to these reports
had been permitted the appraisal
committee of the Grain Market-
ing Company. But as far as turn-
ing over the reports to the I.A.A.
it was an Impossibility, he said.

The question was pressed still
further by farmers present, and
Mr. Ballard said that in a confer-
ence with Mr. Fox last fall he was
told that It was Impossible to turn
over the audits, but that he could
get any Information he wanted con-
cerning the finances of the grain
firms from either the tax Income
office or any of the Chicago banks.
Mr. Frazer answered this argu-
ment by saying that the tax In-
come office and the banks will not
give out Information concerning
any firm when forbidden by the
firm to give out such Information.
Storage of Grain

E. D. Lawrence, member of the
McLean County Farm Bureau, re-
called that Mr. Silver had said
that before the organization of the
Grain Marketing Company the Chi-
cago elevators Involved were filled
only 30 per cent of capacity as a
rule, while they have been oper-
ated at 100 per cent capacity since
the marketing company was or-
ganized. "How do farmers bene-
fit by that change?" he was asked.
Mr. Sliver's answer was that stor-
age Is cheaper when the full ca-
pacity of a warehouse Is utilized.

There developed many other
questions and answers and argu-
ments. One was concerning a cer-
tain district in Indiana that Is re-
ported to have been out of line
with seaboard prices before the
merger company started operating,
and Is now back in line again.
This was claimed to be true by
the merger people — they claimed
they did raise the price level In
that territory, but contrary argu-
ments were presented by Clifford
Gregory, editor of Prairie Farmer.
HOW GRAIN MERGER MEET-
ING WAS CALLED; RESULTS

PLEASE I. A. A. OFFICL^LS

Jan 13, 1025
Pantagraph Ag. Department

A combination of circumstances
and direct action on the part of
the Grain Marketing Company
thru Its local representatives and
friends, particularly Mrs. Antoin-
ette Funk, resulted In calling the
grain merger meeting here last
Saturday, a report of which was
given in yesterday's Pantagraph.
The manner of calling that meet-
ing is of as much general Interest
as the meeting Itself. The I.A.A.
officials who took part are well
pleased with the result, altho hav-
ing nothing to do with the ar-
rangements.

Up until about a month ago the
officers of the McLean County
Farm Bureau knew nothing about
the grain merger proposition be-
ing undertaken by the recently or-
ganized Grain Marketing Com-
pany except what they have read
in the news letters of the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation and
the farm and dally press. They
knew Xn a general way about the
plan •aSwfihat the American Farm
Bureau executive committee ap-
proved of the plan, with the ex-
ception of Sam Thompson, the Il-
linois member. And they knew
that the state association with-
held Its endorsement after making
as much of an Investigation as was
permitted it. They knew that the
state association, the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association, bad asked

for Information It consldere* vital-
ly necessary and had not been able
to secure that information. But
they did not know any of the de-
tails.

A strict but publically known
hands-ott policy was maintained
by the I. A. A.

Pressure Is Applied
But the situation In McLean
county changed about a month
ago. Agents of the Grain Market-
ing Company were sent here to
make a survey for a stock selling
campaign. They visited the farm-
ers' elevators, got In touch with
many of the farm bureau members
and officers, called at least one
general meeting. They presented
their arguments, urged that it is
a real co-operative plan and that
It Is a wonderful chance for farm-
ers to perfect the biggest market-
ing agency in America, utilizing
the skilled managerial ability of
expert grain men. They argued
that the plan was properly safe-
guarded In the interests of pro-
ducers. They asserted that all in-
formation had been turned ovier
to the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation and there was no founda-
tion for the I. A. A.'s stand. They
pointed out that the public refusal
of the I. A. A. was substantially
a stand against the merger. Their
arguments were such as to cause
the membership of the I. A. A. to
demand that the I. A. A. either
take a strong stand against or for
the merger proposition.

Confidence In the I. A. A. and
its officers was shaken. Some of
the local farm bureau men were
"sold" on the merger plan and
did not like the attitude of the
I. A. A. In refusing to endorse,
thus handicapping the merger
company by destroying confidence
of the farmers. Letters to the
I. A. A. officers, and even visits
to the I. A. A. office In Chicago,
did not satisfy them.

Their position was that they
saw a big and valuable co-opera-
tive movement in the making,
backed by their national organi-
zation but not by their state asso-
ciation, and they lacked Informa-
tion that they deemed they should
have.

Other local officers and members
were by no means "sold" on the
plan and they were willing to ad-
here to and support the I. A. A.
stand even tho they did not have
all the detailed Information.
Farmers Should Know All

On December 27, In the annual
meeting of the M^ean County
Farm Bureau, a resolution was
passed without discussion which
endorsed the stand taken by the
I. A. A. officials.

The following week, however,
Mrs. Antoinette Funk became a
member of the County Farm Bu-
reau and she demanded the right
to appear before the executive
committee. She argued that the
farmers of McLean county should
have an opportunity to know all
the facts concerning the Grain
Marketing Company and Insisted
that a meeting be called for that
purpose. The directors, them-
selves not knowing as much about
the affair as they would like, con-
sented to the meeting. It was
suggested that the I. A. A. should
be represented in that meeting,
and that was agreed. It was sug-
gested that the I. A. A. should
be asked about it before the meet-
ing was called, but that was
claimed to be entirely unneces-
sary by Mrs. Funk. So the meet-
ing was called without previous
notice or conference with the
I. A. A., and it was widely adver-
tised that the I. A. A. officers had
been especially Invited to appear.
An Unasual Situation

Officers of the I. A. A. found it
advertised that they were Invited
to appear here. They had the
choice of coming out In the open
with all their information or of
refusing to come at all and thus
letting the Grain Marketing Com-
pany present only its side and let-
ting the farmers get an unfavor-
able Impression of the I. A. A.'s
stand. It was an unusual and un-
pleasant situation for them for
they did not want to actively fight
the marketing company which
would mean active opposition to

ary 24, 192S

MEET

[January 24, 1925

Tlie illinou Agricultural A«»ociatioo Record

P«Mre7

e*Ti
een 1

inslderetTital-
l not been able
rmatlon. But
any of the de-

ilically known
IS maintained

Ipplled

n in McLean
out a month
Grain Market-
sent here to
I stock selling
ited the farm-
in touch with
reau members
at least one
hey presented
ged that It Is
plan and that
ince for farm-
ggest market-
rica, utilizing
•ial ability of
They argued
properly sate-
;rests of pro-
ed that all in-
turned ovier
;ultural Asso-
18 no founda-
s stand. They
public refusal
substantially
lerger. Their
h as to cause
he I. A. A. to
A. A. either
igainst or for
ion.

I. A. A. and
en. Some of
au men were
!er plan and
titude of the
; to endorse,
the merger
ng confidence
3tters to the
d even visits
3 In Chicago,

is that they
.ble co-opera-
the making,
;ional organi-
iir state asso-
ked informa-
1 they should

and members
sold" on the
filling to ad-
the I. A. A.
did not have
rmation.
Know All
n the annual
^ean County
solution was
ission which
aken by the

?k, however,
k became a
ty Farm Ba-
led the right
38 executive
aed that the
Dunty should
to know all
; the Grain
and insisted
Ued for that
:tors, them-

much about
lid like, con-
ng. It was
A. A. should
lat meeting.

It was sug-
.. A. should
)re the meet-
t that was
sly unneces-
3o the meet-
)ut previous
e with the
ridely adver-
, officers had
d to appear.
uatlon

A. found it
were Invited
ey had the
in the open
latlon or of
ill and thus
keting Corn-
side and let-
an unfavor-
le I. A. A.'s
sual and un-
r them for
ictivelr flght
?any which
ppositiOH to

'I.A.A. EXECUTIVES
ASK PUBLIC INQUIRY

INTO GRAIN MERGER

•i

^Formal Request Made of IHi-
BoU Commerce Commission
to Determine Their Legality

J A formal request to the Illinois
Conlmerce Commission asking that
a public inquiry be conducted by
that body into the "legality and
public policy" of permitting the
four old-line grain companies to
form the 126,000,000 merger,
commonly known as the Grain
Marketing Company, was ordered
by the I. A. A. executive commit-
tee at its meeting of Jan. 10. It
is known that farm bureau mem-
bers have been solicited to buy
stock in the merger. The formal
request has been made.

BOTH SIDES OF MERGER
EXPLAINED AT MEET

(Continued from page 6)

the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration executives. And they did
not know whether they would
meet a friendly or hostile local ar-
rangements committee, and in a
meeting of this kind much depends
on the arrangements. They came.

They found that it was not the
intention of the local arrange-
ments committe to be hostile or
unfair to the I. A. A., but that
Mrs. Funk was very insistent upon
certain arrangements and that her
wishes prevailed in some impor-
tant matters such as the selection
of the chairman.

', Clifford Gregory, editor of
Prairie Farmer, was advertised as
'one who had been invited to speak,
'but he was not permitted the plat-
form altho he was given an oppor-
tunity to present one small piece
of his evidence concerning the
Grain Marketing Company in dis-
cussion.

Important Question

Men who have read every avail-
able bit of information on the
merger in the American Farm Bu-
reau news letters and in the press
were most concerned over the
facts In the matter of the I.A.A.
statement that audit reports nec-
essary in determining the value of
the properties were withheld by
the Grain Marketing Company.
The agents and friends of the
company have declared that the
I. A. A. was provided with all the
information it needed in arriving
at the true value of the properties,
or that the information was easily
available.

It developed in the meeting that
the audits were not given to the
I. A. A. nor were available to the
I. A. A. from any source, and the
reason was that the Grain Mar-
keting Company itself did not have
audit reports of the concerns
whose properties it has contract-
ed to purchase. That develop-
ment supports the I. A. A. state-
ment, but shows that there was a
good reason why the information
was not turned over. It does
bring up another question, how-
ever, and that is whether or not
the Grain Marketing Company
should have had those audit re-
. ports in order to enter into the
S purchase of those properties with
safety to the producers.

The Net Result

■Whether or not the Grain Mar-
keting Company advanced its
cause at the meeting is anybody's
guess. 'Whether or not the Grain
•Marketing Company is pleased
with the result remains to be seen.

But the Illinois Agricultural
Association officers seemed to be
well pleased as they departed for
Chicago. Local men who, have
stood by the I. A. A., m their
stand seem to be well pleased,
judging from comments made im-
mediately after the meeting and
since then.

Some of thpse who have read
all that has been published in the
A. F. B. F. News Letters and the
press have said that they learned
nothing new concerning the mer-
ger itself, altho they learned many
new features on the I. A. A. side
of the question.

WHAT THE CAMERA GOT

On the eve of the first day of the Annual meeting:, I. A. A. offleial*. execntlTe commttteemen and allreetors.
county Farm Bureau prealdenta and farm adTlaers met at a dinner for a big round-table and free-a>-tbe-
alr-TOu-breathe dlHcuaalon. Prealdent Thompson in opening: the meeting aald that any construrttve rrlticlsnta
of the I. A. A. YTOuld be welcome and that the only 'vray farmers nould ever sret anywhere with their organ-
ization would be by mutual co-operation. Durinip this HPHition, the nctuni temper of the 87 oiiunties nbfch
were represented in regrard to YTlthdrnwinfc from the American Form Rnrcan Federation was shown. A un-
animous vote favored national unison. Spirited talks featured the nieetlnK'* The executive committee liad
voted to "stick and flsrht It out from the inside" at its last refcular meelln^. The opinion was expressed by
many that this round-table meeting: vras the most constructive meeting In the history of the I. A. A.

DAIRY INDUSTRY

NEEDS ADJUSTMENT

(Continued from page 5)

3. PROMOTE WELFARE OF
DAIRY INDUSTRY. .

a. Publicity.

(1) Press articles.

(2) Talks, popular meetings,
clubs, schools, radio.

b. Protectional — Legislative.

c. Correlate work of Illinois Co-
operatives.

(1) Harmonize policies.

(2) Promote efficiency oy group
action, including grading stan-
dards.

4. PUBLIC RELATIONS. Co-op-
eration with other dairy insti-
tutions and agencies.

a. State.

(1) Illinois State Dairymen's
Association.

(2) Allied dairy interests. ]

(3) Butter ImprovemeDt~^s^o-
ciation. A ^

(4) Dairy cattle breed associa-
tions.

(5) Extension workers. Univer-
sity of Illinois.

(6) High school agricultural
teachers.

b. National.

(1) National Dairy Council.

(2) American Association of
Creamery Butter Manufactur-
ers.

(3) Dairy cattle breed associa-
tions.

(4) Dairy marketing specialists
in central west states.

General Dairy Situation

The center of dairy production
is moving westward faster than
the center of population. The
East and the South are demand-
ing sweet cream. At the same
time the Chicago "milk shed" is
becoming more and more an open
market. This means culling the
broader cows, more quality in pro-
duction, more intensive organiza-
tion, and adjustment in market-
ing Illinois dairy products. It
can be done, says Lynch. "The
dairyman who watches his costs
and milks good cows will make
money in 1925. Also, dairymen's
service organizations should be
improved by federating into a
state organization, run on sound
business bases."

I.A.A. Movie Titled:
"Carry On! F. B."

"Carrj- On! Farm Bu-
reau" is the title of the
Homestead Film Company's
moving picture taken during
the summer to show the ac-
t^rlties of the I. A. A.

Dave Thompson announces
that the film is, in his opin-
ion, a "humdinger."

The film is to be released
through the organization de-
partment of the I. A. A. It
will be ready for business
sometime during this month,
Mr. Thompson states.

Union County Bureau
Plans Co-op Manure
Buying; Use 650 Cars

An association to buy manure
on a coKjperative basis from
stock yards is a project of Union
County Farm Bureau.

G. E. Metzger, director of organ-
ization, met with the Union county
folks at Anna, Jan. 20 for the pur-
pose of helpiing lay preliminary
plans for the purchasing group.
Farm Bureau members are the only
ones who will be taken In.

In a preliminary survey made by
L. J. Quasey of the transportation
department, it is estimated that
the average cost for shipping a
carload of manure from Chicago to
Anna is approximately $20. From
E. St. Louis to Anna, the minimum
cost per car is $17.60, he finds.
The difference between the two
points is accounted for in that the
transportation cost from E. St.
Louis is based on weight, and from
Chicago on straight carloads. Ma-
nure prices have advanced within
recent years, Mr. Quasey finds.
An average carload of Manure sells
for around $35.

Approximately 650 carloads of
manure will be used in a year by
the Union county horticulturists, L.
S. Foote, the Union county farm
adviser, estimates.

"WATCH THE BOOKS"
IS I.A.C.A. KEYNOTE

(Continued from page 1)

the present membership, he
pointed out. stands at no less than
125 associations which secure
I. A. C. A. auditing services.

F. E. Ringham, assistant mana-
ger, outlined the method of field
examination in operation in the
I. A. C. A. George E. Frazer, con-
sulting accountant for the I. A. A.
and former comptroller of the
University of Illinois, gave a tech-
nical treatise on the status of Illi-
nois co-ops under the federal rev-
enue act, bringing out the point
that exemptions under this law
could be secured for farmers' ele-
vators, provided the applications
are drawn up correctly.

"lKX>k Ahead," Vaniman Says

Vernon 'Vaniman, dieector of
field organization, issued a clarion
call for the co-operatives to look
ahead. "Co-operatives will be
left behind," he declared, "if they
do not adopt adequate auditing
and business advisory service."

H. H. Baily, univertity account-
ing . specialist, expressed the
thought that co-operative accounts
should above all, be simple. If
farmers' co-operatives really are
to take on big business methods,
he told his audience, they must
keep accurate records." He also
advanced the suggestion that the
central I. A. C. A. otece act as a
clearing house for any informa-
tion concerning the auditing fa-
cilities in other states. Dr. Stew-
art professor of economics at the
Universitv, commended the
I. A. C. A.

Elect Officers

The temporary board of direc-
tors who held offices since the
formation of the service last June,
were all re-elected at the annual
meeting, as follows: Henry Mc-
Gough, Maple Park, president; L.
P. McMlllen, Rock Falls, vice-pres-
ident; O. B. Goble, Charleston,
Henry Shaffer, Uliopolls, and G. L.
Potter, Pontiac, directors: G. A.
Fox, secretary, and R. A. Cowles,
treasurer.

Forty-seven Illinois co-opera-
tives were represented "at the meet-
ing.

YOU'LL NEED GOOD EYES TO SEE YOUR DELEGATE HERE

The camera man got thia plctnre of farm bureau folka irho were atUI on the Job a< tbe but mlaate at the
two-dar aeaaion, -Some of them are not dele^atea, 70a will notice. Secretary Pox and President Thompson
are In the front row at the left. It would have taken a couple ot eameraa to have sottca all the crowd on
Thursday.

EDUCATION IN STATE
NOT AS IT SHOULD BE
SAYS I.A.A. COMMITTEE

Coiutructive Policies to I n>-
prove School System Is Aim
of Elducational Commission.

The educational sitaatlon in
Illinois is not 'what it should be.
The I. A. A. committee on educa-
tion that points this out consists
of the following: J. L. Whls-
nand. Charleston, chairman; A.
C. Everingham, Hutsonville, and.
E. W. Rusk, Carllnville.

This committee early last year
answered the call of the Illinois
Educational Commission to sit in
with it and other organizations
in making investigations. Recom-
mendations are to be made at
the next bi-ennial meeting of the
General Assembly. '

BIG REPRESENTATION
IS DELEGATE RECORD

(Continued from pa^e 1)
Robt. N. WriKht. Tuscola; DuPaae-
P .0 Llttleford, Downers Gr^e!
and Geo B. Goss. Xapervllle; Edear-

S?""; P*""'"; Edwards: Albert Lib-
kle. West Salem; Effingham: C. H
tvans. Mason, and Wood Loy Ef-
^nS c^!rj ^"''^J^ ° Andersoh.' Gib-
son ^}?^ ^"J *= . *"' Duerlneer. Gib-
«,V^'*.'^' '^■•anklin: H. H. Webb,
Mulkeytown; Fulton: F. O. Pitman
^"r^Ut.",^ W. O. McPhetera. ck'n^Sn!
.„H r 'i?' h ^ PI""*" New Haven.
? \r'*r,'\i Lee, Roodhouse: Greene:
L.^ H Raffety, 'WrlKhts: Grundy: R.

2' F^''.'"''"• '^°"' ('"y- and C. A
Hunt, Morris; Hancock: M. G. Lam-
^«"- f "ris. and H. R. OraTS.m.
Denver: Henderson: c. C. Painter
Stronghuret. and C. W. Coope* Ut-'
tie iork; Henry: Roy Persuson.
Orion, and J. Heher Smith, Osco
Iroquois: H^ G. Pendergrast. Cissna
?5'■^ """'J'^? Honeywell. Mllford;
Jackson: H. p. Sauer. Pomona; Jef-
H |.°?^' / ?' McDonald. Mt. Vernon.
K. F. D «; Jersey: H. J.Steinkuehler,
Jerseyvll e, and C. E. Locke. Dow!

s,i°v?''^''*"J „** ■* Goodmlller.
Stockton, and Geo. Curtis. Stockton;
Johnson: O. R. Kerley, Simpson

?.»^t,v/ \/ '*""' Hampshire and
Olenn C. Warren. Sugar Grove; Ken-
dall: Frank R Cram. Newark, and
5-.f J^'"""''*''"- Mlnooka; Knor: J.
S'. ¥'=^"- ^'°' ^n* M- Guy Van Bus-
klrk. Oneida; Lake: L. A Huebsch.
Area, and D. H. MInto. Antloch; La-
Salle: E. E. Stevenson, Streator. and
Harvey W. Watts, Leland.

Lawrence: Ralph PinkstalT. Birds:
Lee: A, H. Montlvan, Sublette, and
W. L. Relgl«. Franklin Grove: Liv-
ingston: G. ,F. Bennett. Chatsworth.
and I J. Gallup. Emington; Logan:
Geo. J. Stoll. Chestnut, and Chas.
Schmidts, Beaaon: McDouough- Fred
Ruebush. Sclota. and Karl McGrew
Adair; McHenry: B. L, Thomas'.
Ringwood. and Geo. A. Hunt. Wood-
stock; McLean: Simon C. Moon To-
wanda. and 'Vaughn Douglass. Shir-
ley; Macon: J. c. Batchelder Harris
Town, and E. L. Daggett. Macon.

Macoupin: H. J. Schultz. Shipman,
and J. P. . Enslow. Atwater; Madi-
son: F. J. Schuerer, Alton. R. F D
and John H. Schafer. Marine; Ma-
rion: John Rogler. I'atoka; Marsh-
all-Putnam: Elmer Quinn. Henry,
and Wm. Downey. Putnam; Mason:
Chas. W. Borgelt. Havana, and Vin-
cent Warren. Bath; Menard: L. V.
Sampson, Petersburg, and C. C. Stler,
Petersburg; Mercer: ScovlUe Lee,
Aldeo. and P. B. Scott. Alexis: Mon-
roe: Fred C. Pieper. Valmeyer:
Montgomery: R. B. Warnsing, No-
komis. and John Foster. Raymond.

Morgan: Chas. S Black. Jackson-
ville, and H. P. Joy. Jacksonville;
Moultrie: J. E. Righter. Sullivan,
and T. S. Sheehan. Lake City, Ogle:
J. E. Meyers, Oregon, and Elmer
Vietmeler, Forreston; Peoria: Chas.
R, Ford. Edwards, and Chas. Gor-
don, Alta; Piatt: C. J. Gross. At-
wood, and T. W. Lamb. Bement:
Pike: C. E. Dunham. Origgavllte.
and Walter Beckenholdl. Rockport;
Pope: A. Baker. Golconda: Pulaski:
M. M. Hartman, Mounds; Randolph:
Aug. Wlnkelman, Steelville. and
Fred Rehmer. Redbud.

Richland: Leo Dehlinger. OIney;
Rock Island: Chas. A. Larson. Mo-
line. Bx. 361, and Hon. C. J. Searle,
Rock Island; SL Clair: H. H. Hart-
man. Freeberg. and J. A. Baer. Tren-
ton; Saline: R. L. Gates. Harrisburg;
Sangamon: John Cooper. Williams-
ville. and Lester Lehman. Pleasant
Plains; Schuyler: M. R. Rtttenhouse.
Rushville; Scott: M. B Murray. Win-
chester, and Herman Kitber. Win-
chester; Shelby: Theo. Roeasler.
Shelbyville. and H. F. Grotte. Oco-
nee.

Stark: Adam McWilliams. Toulon,
and E. K. Willcox, Wyoming: 8te-
pheilson: T. F. Ellis. Lena and L. M.
Swanzey. Preeport; Taseweil: Jos.
Morris. Washington, and L. R. Welk.
Morton: Union: A. A. Appel. Cobden;
Vermilion: ^has. R. Flnley. Hoopes-
ton. and Geo. W. Lenhart. George-
town: Wabash: E E. Schrodt.
Keensburg. and Harve I* Storck-
man. .\llendale; Warren: Roy Stick-
ler. Swan Creek, and Sidney Pen-
darvis. Swan Creek; Wayne: Geo.
Haegele, Barnhlll.

White: W. L. Miller. Carml. and
O. C. Hoskins. Norrls City; White-
side: J. H. Adams. Fenton. and B. F.
Hoover. Morrison: Will; K. L. Wel-
ter. Lockport. and John H. Cryder.
Plainfleld: Wiliamson: A. M. Splti-
nass. Marlon, R.F. D. 2; Wlnntbago:
Dan McCuUoch. 'Winnebago, and L.
A. Frisbie. Rockford. R. F. D. 7;
Woodford: W. 8. Davison, Minonk,
and J. Ira Powell, Secor.

Page 6

The Hlinoi* Agricultural As«ociation Record

January 24, 1925

BOTH SIDES OF GRAIN MERGER EXPLAINED AT BLOOMINGTON MEET

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH'S REPORT
ON MEETING RE-PRINTED TO PRESENT
I. A. A. MEMBERS WITH UNBIASED FACTS

McLean County Farm Bureau Called Meeting After Stock
Salesmen for Grain Marketing Company Had Worked in
County Several Week*.

I't t-'-if 'J.'-' J-J"" f'unnu viii'tl'tTi in
•i^v X '.■!•-' t">tk sUli i Iff the Matting
fiiU d f'f Jan. lo by tkr Mel^att Cpwb/v
Fart but' ait If tkr- fur pose t*t {tiseusrii^ Ikt
fail f-'ti. I rtiiti; tki iiraiA Murkiting )C""m-
/•ii" • '/.' » 'f'' A /. .1. .1, ofliiiah. rrfiifttnt
Tti ^pi-m in pijrtiiufar. anil offiii'ili 01 ikt
(rV'jjfl }f,tfk'tinil Cii'upany virr invilrtti the
is ri printing tke rrports film nw tkr
f :• /*•■ Pto:'ming!nn Pnntiifraph
Ik' t^h it' agrituttiiral ilipurtmrnt. — F.ititi'r.)

<iii.\v sii.vKic .\xi» »;ko. .vI

K >\ l'l!KSi:\r \K<a>IK\Tii IN

!U<; >ii:i{(;i-;ii ( oxriiovKltsv

( \loiiihi.v. .Ian. ];>. I))-J.'>.)
■ raiilimrii|>ir>. Auriciilliit'nl
Ih'iiai'tiiiont.

nir liiiriilncl farimrs lirtaril

n-uiiu'iits for ami arainstjtlVc

in MarkrHim Company and its

f lin\in^ the fai'ilitirs; ^of

~«-(i Cliicaiio prain f^oinpaniVs.

!»■ ini-ctinu imIIkI by tlio Mo-

n ('<ninty Kann Tturrau in the

otiool Saturday rvrnlns:.

Ii oni" was jud^e and jury, tlip

ion to 1k' wlu'tht'r or noti he

maily will sujHtort tlift iiiar-

i: ronofrn in its coininj: c(tm-

pai^n to .mU stock.- '

ray S4\*^r, fornit-rly Washlng-

rj'i>r(fi'ntative of tlip Ain|pri-

Farm liiinau Fed^^ratian Snd

pr.sid^nt of tlip drain Mar-

nc company presptitod an ,ap-

lor fannpr piipport. He *as

111

ti

i;r:

pla

ni*'

in )li

1

liii:

i:a<

d.T
prr
k

I

ton
can
nov
kct

P'

if ilii
r-nini;

N.ii
of

>iial (;iani;p, the akrak-
<lic fait lliat indi.siry

had l>vi>n di'Vidopcd to a hii;li |ilain

and aLTiri

Ifftfd. till

romniitt.'o

farm buroiu moviMncnt and the

Iturr had l)pen |npi;-
Koosovplt c(mnlr>^ liff
tlip ori-'anization of, llip

.\niprican

aidi d l>y IlPnry S. Ballard (a ^aw-

1
( po. A. FoN. spprptary of Jtho
Illinois Ai-'rictiiliiral Apsop|at(on
tiili why tlip statp farm bureau
ffd^ratifin disapproves of tlip pijop
r>n and rffiisps pndorsfm^nt
Up waS'.aidiMl by Geo. E. Fraker,
I lor aid Kirkpatrick and Oeo. E
Wiilker, all employees of the I A-A
Si!irle<I Last .Iul.v !

r. r.allard. first on the pro-
i^ratii. told of the developmentj of
the Ilrain Marketinc Company. iHe
is oonneptid v,ith the Ohio I'arin
Itnrt'aii Federation and has Had
r\p* rienee in co-operative wool
marketing. The Grain Marketing
Con pany was incorporated July
I.'. 1024. onicers were elected on
Jul! 29. The contract between
the nterein:; .;:rain conc-rns nnd
the company was made on July 28
The Grain .MarketinK Comi'any be
san to function on .\u;;ust 5. "the
folhtwin::: points were made tty ^Ir
> Ballard

Tiis idan is fundameiltally ilte
application of business principles
to co-operative marketin-' by farm
themselves. It is a corpora
tion under the co-operative mnr
keti le act of the State of Illinois
or,;:anized so that the producers
may have absr)lute control of the
corporation, ortranized in such a
manner that the board of directors
; directly responsible to the stotk-
holdprs. orsranized so that the
stoc [holders, may absolutely de
tern Ine the policy of the organita
tion

Tie contract between the com
panj and the ChicaKo i-rain flrtns
is such that the company secufes
the physical properties of the three
lead nK grain firms in the coun
try and expert management of
thes( properties

Tliere are l.OftO.OOO shares of
common stock of the value of $1
per share. .\nd l.noO.OOn shares
of Class A preferred stock of the
valu ; of $25 each. And 500.000
shar !s of Class B preferred stock
of t^e value of $50 each, this cl^ss
not lor geDer.ll sale but to be usied
to SI cure working capital and
issu« in exchange for the proper
icquired
F: rmers can't control the cotn
pany unless they belong, however
Thej must become identified wi^th
the concern to have any voice iin
its management.

Eyerj- possible legal pre^raution
thatlcan be -taken to set up an Or-
ganiiation that wrould be inv»l-
neraple to attack has been takdn.
Ora.T SiKer Speaks
Gijay Silver drew a picture of
the background of events leaditig
up to the nrcanization of the Grain
Marketing Company. He recalled
the development of industry by the
protective system, the organization

sufrered
amendment
wanted to
their own i
One thin

'arm Bureau Federa-
tion. Thriiush it all was the evi
dent need pn tlip part of auricul

at'T remuneratioi).
He recallpd tlu' formation of tl
farmers' elevator movpment.! l>ut
declared that farmers' elev^ltor:
are today cnmpetlim one witli( the
other. That system
uive the faimtrs a lar;:er share of
the consnmiTs" dollar, he declared.
What wiis needed was a central
or keystonf organization through
which all tlie t-lpvators w-ork,,and
that keystote oru'anizalion is ^ow
perfected

firrtiii M^n Siiiw <^o-oper.'»tirc

Com! II u

The grair men saw the cbSmge
coni'ini--. he said. They knew
new system of marketin;! would
eventually succeed. They had
watched the leeislation for co-op-
ritive marketing They recalled
thf loss that the hrewin.g industry

hen the prohibiftion
was ratified and they
avoid such a loss to
:idustry.

is certain. Mr. Silver

declared, and that Is that here' are
splendid facilities, the best of man-
agement, ahd at a niemberphip
cost of a dojlar and at a small cost
per bushel i you can buy it all.
Keep in miitd that this is the first
time the fatnier has had a chance
of serving himself in this way^ he
stated.

Report Was Siippresseil
When tho American Farm Bu-
reau Federation was seriously con-
sidering this marketing plan last
June, John Coverdale. then secre-
tary, mentioned to oiDcials of the
I. A. A. that a recognized econora
ist had been employed to make
a survey o^

Geo. A. Fox

formation that would warrant ap-
proval. We do have a good deal
of information that would tend in
the other direction."

\ Keasoiiable lte<|iiest
.Mr. Fox used only a portion of
the 45 minutes allotted to the
I. \. A. He then called upon
<:eorge E. Frazer, former comp-
troller of the University of Illi-
nois, and consulting accountant of
(he I. A. A.

Mr. Frazer promised that his
story would be very short and it
was. He was calleil in consulta-
tion by the I. A. .\. and asked
how he would secure a valuation
of the properties involved in the
merger transaction. He rpplied
that the information could be se-
cured from the audits t>f the com-
panies involved. .Such reports for
less than a five-year period would
he useless in determining an ac-
curate valuation, he declared. Mr.
Fox told him it would bp a sim-
ple matter to secure tlie audits,
for he had bt^en promised all pos-
sible Information. But the audits
were not available and the valua-
tion could not he determined. Mr.
I'razt-r said he had experience in
bank mi>rgers and accounting,
hjniself a certified public account-
ant, yet in all his exjierience ho
has never known a hanker to put
a dollar into an enterprise unless
the enterprise laid all the figures
on the table.

Tlie Legal Side
Bonald Kirkpatrick. l.;;al coun-
spI. was then called. Hp said that
the spt-up of the coni|>any is le-
i:all.v correct with some excep-
tions. The state constitution gives
a vote to each share of stock, and
the Class B stock givm in ex-
change for the property, have vot-
ing power. It was au-reed. how-
pipr. that the Class B stock would
be hPld in trust and deprived of
votinir power so thp producers
would control the concern, and it
is quite prfd>able that this is |e-
u'ally possible, he said. In the
niain. the legal set-up cannot be
questioned.

The vital question is wlnllipr or
not the organization is co-opera-
tive in that the grain will be han-
dled to the best interest of the
Iirodpcers rather than in the inter-
ests df returning the utmost earn-
inu-s on the properties, said Mr.
Kirkpatrick.

Klovators Xot Necessary
George R. Wicker, dirpctor of

the proposition, said ,

secretary oT the I. A. I ""^ co-operative auditin;.- depart-

A., in presenting the other side of 1 "'*'"• "''''<" '• ■*• A., h.id ten min

the ar=:umeit. That report was
received by Mr. Coverdale about
the middle r f June, but was never
made available to the Illinois .Al'-
ricultural .Association. Mr. Sam
Thompson, iiresident of the I.A.A.
and an exec itive of the A.F.B.F..
never saw I he report until Spp-
teinber and then only on direct
request. T lat report was sup-
pressed. Mr. Fox declared.
Xo Facts .\vailnlilp
Mr. Fox tlien read copies of let-
ters between the I. .\. .\. and Mr.
Coverdale. ii which tlip I A. .\.
asked for inlormation deempd iipc-
essary in arriving at any conclu-
sions concerning the project. Au-
ditors' repor s of each of the merg-
ing concerns for the past five years
were definitply asked for. and it
was presumed that these auditors'
reports wou d include profit and
loss statemfnts and might he a
means of ieparating the cash
transactions from the speculative
transactions. The first request
was written July 2!). 1024. and
was acknow'edired and the audi-
tors' reports promised within a
week. No reports were received.
A second le ter was written .Au-
gust 15. and it was acknowledged
and the reprrts promised as soon
as the several other investigations
would perm t. A third request
was written Aucust 20. asking
that thp audits be made immedi-
ately available. There was no re-
ply. The rf ports have not been
received yet.
The I, \. A. Has Not .\piiroved
"We recoi nize." Mr. Fox said,
"that with i;2fi.nnn,nnn of stock
to be sold. 1 good portion of it
must be solfl to farmers of Illi-
nois. We have not. as an associa-
tion, approvf d of the Grain Mar-
keting corapiiny or the sale of itSs
stock, and the reason is that "we
do not tiaTcMn .our possession in-

utes on the program, which he dp-
ilared entirely Inadequate to pre-
sent all his documentary evidence,
hut he did present the conclu-
sions which he claimed are backed
by documentary evidence.

His survey of terminal eleva-
tor and grain storage ahd hand-
ling in all principal markets has
resulted in nothing that led him
to believe that facilities such as
those operated at the present ime
by The Grain Markeing Company
are necessary. Facilities are ob-
tainable in all markets of the
Fnited States with the possible ex-
ception of Chicago, when wanted
and for the period required, and
at less than they can he owned.
That is quite a general condition,
he declared, a day by day condi-
tion. And he thought that same
condition would be shown by the
audited reports of the concerns
involved in the merger.

Mr. Wicker also said it is high-
ly necessary to avoid speculation
in any co-operative marketing con-
cern, for that has ruined more
co-operatives than any other sin-
tie thing.

Questions and .\n.swers

In answer to a question Mr.
Silver said that the Grain Mar-
keting Company does not specu-
late, but merchandises grain, and
is merchandising more grain than
any other company.

E. J. Carmody, a member of
the McLean Co:inty Farm Bureau,
asked why the audit reports were
withheld from tjie 1. h. A. Mr.
Silver said that the information
upon which the negotiation was
based were supplied by the U. S.
department of agriculture, infor-
mation gathered by the govern-
ment, and those figures have been
free to anybody at all times and
always have been. It was not a
question of Wtiat those companies

had earned in the past, but a ques-
tion of what they could earn under
the rules and regulations when
filled with grain,

\ot Rii.vln*; .Audits
And in further reply to this
qupstion, which was prpssed by
sp\'pral of those present, Mr. Bal-
lard explained that tlie Grain
.Marketing Company contract was
to ac(|uire the elevators of the
nrius and the management for a
period of years. That is all that
undpr thp contract tlie firms in-
vohed were required to deliver to
the Grain Marketing Company.
Tlie books and recor.ds and reports
rpiuain the private property of the
vendors, they wpre not passed into
thp hands of tl|p Grain Markpting
Company and npvpr will be. "Wp
cannot take sonipone's private
property and givp it to sonipfinp
pIs4\" he said. Hp indicated. Iiow-
pvpr tlmt access to these reports
had been perniittpd tlip appraisal
conimittpp of tlie Grain Markpt-
:ng Company. But as far as turn-
ing ovpr the rpports to the I..\..\.
it was an impossibility, he said.

The qupstion was pressetl still
furtlier by farmers present, and
Mr. Ballard said that in a confer-
ence with Mr. Fox last fall he was
told tliat it was impossible to turn
over the audits, but that lie could
get any infiu-mation he wanted con-
cprninir the finaiicps of tho grain
firms fr(uii pitlipr tlip tax iiiconip
olTicp or any of the Cliicaiio banks.
Mr. Frazpr answpred this prgu-
ment by saying that the tax in-
come oflice and the banks will not
u'ivp nut information concerning
any firm when forbidden by thp
firm to givp out such information.
Storage of tirniti
K. D. L.-iwrencp. niPinhpr of the
Mel. Pan County Farm Biirpau. rp-
called that Mr. Silvpr had said
that hpforp the organization of the
Grain Marketing Company the Chi-
cago plp%'ators involvpd wpre fillpd
only '10 ppr cent of capacity ,".s a
rule, while tlipy liavp hpen oper-
ated at 100 ppr cent c.'ipacit>- since
the ninrketini; company was or-
ganized. "How do fanners bpne-
fit by that chanire?" he was asked.
Mr. Silver's answer w-as that Ftor-
airp is chpappr when the full ca-
p.icity of a warehouse is utilized.
Tlirre developed many other
qupstif>ns and answers and argii- j
iiipnts. Onp w-as concerning a cer-
tain district in Indiana that is re-
ported to have been out of line
with seaboard prices before thp
iiiprgpr company started operating,
and is now back in- line again.
This was claimed to be true by
the merger people — they claimed
they did raise the price le\el in
that territory, but contrary argu-
ments were presented by Clifford
Gregory, editor of Prairie Farmer.
HOW filJAIX MEKGRft Mni-rr-
I\<i WAS r.AMiKD; IJKSl'I/rs
I'l.KASK I. A. A. OIT-'K'I.II.S

Jan i:s. 102.'>
Pnnlacrapli Xe. Deparliiient
.\ combination of circumstances
and direct action on the part of
the Grain Marketing Company
thru its local representatives and
friends, particularly Mrs. Antoin-
ette Funk, resulted In calling the
grain merger meeting here last
Saturday, a reiiort of which was
L'iven in yesterday's Pantagrnph.
The ni.-iiiner of calling that meet-
ing is of as much general interest
as the meeting itself. The I. A. A.
(dficials who took part are well
pleased with the result, altlio hav-
ing nothing to do with the ar-
ranirements.

Fp until about a month ago the
officers of the McLean County
Farm Bureau knew nothing about
the grain merger proposition be-
ing undertaken by the recently or-
ganized Grain Marketing Com-
pany except what they have read
in the news letters of the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation arid
the farm and daily press. They
knew in a general way about the
plan and that the American Farm
Bureau executive committee ap-
proved of the plan, with the ex-
ception of Sam Thompson, the Il-
linois member. And they knew
that the state association with-
held its endorsement after making
as much of an investigation as was
permitted it. They knew that the
state association, the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association, had asked

for information it considerid vital-
ly necessary and had not hpen able
to spcure that information. But
they did not know any tif the de-
tails.

A strict but puhlically known
hands-oft jiolicy was niaiiUnin.d
by the I. A. A.

Pressure Is .Xpplied
But the situ.ition in .McLean
county changed about a month
ago. Agentfvof the Grain .Markpt-
in.g Company w-ere sent here to
'make a survey for a stock splling
campaign. They visited tlip farm-
prs' elevators, got in touch with
many of the farm biiipau niemhprs
and officers, called at least one
upiieral meeting. They pre.'tpntpd
tlipir arguments, urgpd that it is
a real co-operative jilaii and that
it is a wonderful clianc" for farm-
ers to pprfpct thp bi>;~p.-^i iiKirket-
ing agpncy in Amprica. utilizing
the skilled nianageriiil ability of
expert grain men. "They argued
that the plan was properly safp-
guarded in the interesls of pro-
ducprs. Tiiey asserted that all in-
formation had been tiirtpd ovpr
to the Illinois Agricultural .\sso-
ciation and there was no founda-
tion for the I. A. A.'s stand. They
pointed out that the public r. fiisal
of the I. A. A. was sulistantially
a stand against the merger. Their
arguments were such as to cause
the nipmbprslilp of the 1. .\. A. to
demand that the I. A. .\. Pitlipr
take a strong stand against or for
the merger prop<isition.

Confidence in the I. .\. \. and
its otTicers was sliaki n. Some of
tlip local farm bureau nipu wpre
"sold " on thp nieri:pr plan and
did not like the attitudp of the
I. .\. .\. in refusing to ( iidorse,
thus handicapping the nipri;pr
company by destroying confidpnco
of tlip farniprs. Lpttprs to the
I. A. A. olTicprs. and even visits
to the I. .\. A. office in ChicaL'o.
did not satisfy them.

Their position was that tlii-y
saw a big and \-aluable co-ojipra-
tive movpment in the making,
backed by their national organi-
zation hut not by tli'-ir statp asso-
ciation, and they lacked informa-
tion that tlipy deemed tli' y should
have.

Otlipr local ofiicprs and iiipmbprs
wpi'p by no iiipans "sold" on Ilip
[dan and they wpre williir- to ad-
lipi'p to- and support thp 1. \.^ .\.
stand p\tii llio tie-y did not liavp
all thp dptailpd information.
I'ariiieis Slioiilil Know .Ml
On Ii.cpiiibpr 27, in tlip annual
meetin-'- of the .Mc'Lean Count.v
Fanii Bureau, a resolution was
passed without discussion which
pnclorspil thp stand takpn bv the
I. A. A. ollicials.

The following week, howpvpr,
Mrs. Anioinelte Funk became a
nipiiibpr of the County Farm l:u-
I'pau and slie di.'mandpd thp ri:;Iit
to appi ar beforp the executi\e
commitlpp. Slip argued that tlie
tariiiprs of .McLean county should
liavp an opportunitv to know all
tlip fads concprning thp Grain
.MarkPling Company and insisted
that a nipcting be called for that
imrpose. The directors, theiii-
.selves not knowing as much about
the affair a;- they w-ould like, con-
.sented to the meeting. It was
sug;;ested that the I. A. A. should
be rppre.spnted in that meeting,
and that was agreed. It wtas sug-
gested that the I. A. A. should
be asked about it before the meet-
ing was called, but that was
clainied to be entirely unneces-
sary by .Mrs. Funk. So the meet-
ing was called without previous
notice or conference with the
I. \. \ . and it was widely adver-
tised that the I. A. A. officers diad
been especially invited to apjiear,
.\n I'nusiml Sitiiution '
Ofiiceis of the I. A. A. found it
advertised that they were invited
to appear here. They had the
choice of coming out in the open
with all their information or of
refusing to come at all and thus
letting the Grain .Marketing Com-
pany prespnt only its side and let-
ting the farmers get an unfavor-
able impression of the ,1. A. A.'s
stand. It was an unusual and un-
pleasant situation for them for
they did not want to actively fight
the . marketing company which
would mean active opposition to

ary 24. 1925

MEET

msidfred vital-
i not bton a bio
rmalinn. But
any of tiir- de-

ilically known
IS iiiainI;i!nod

\lipli('4l

n in Mc[,c'an
>out :i month
(Ji-ain Markol-

stMit lipri' to
I storU soiling
itt'd tlu- farm-
in touoli with
roati menih*'ra

at least one
hry pi'o.''fnt.'d
:;cd that it is
plan and that
mc!' for t'arnt-
?;^.sl niarkit-
rica, utilizing
•i^il ahility of

Tlicy aliined
proporly safo-
■rcsts of pro-
ed (hat all in-

tiirntd o\fr
■nllural Asso-
is no foiinda-
s stand. Thpy
pithlii* r« fusal

substantially
ierj;or. Their
li as to cause
he I. A. A. to

A. A. oitlier
isainst or for
ion.

I. A. A. and
< n. Sojne of
au iiien were
;er plan and
tilude of the
: to tiidorse,

the in4'r.uer
ng Ciip.fidenee
;tters to the
d eyi-n yisits
? in ChieaL'o.

IS that they
ble eo-opera-
the niakiuLi,
sional organi-
■ir state asso-
ked inf(>nna-
1 tlwy should

and nienih.rs
sold" on the
villini; to ad-
the I. A.. A.
did not ha\f*
rination.
know .\n
n the annual
.ean County
■iolution was
ission wliioh
aken by the

'k. however,
k became a
ty Farm Un-
led the ritht
le e.xeeulive
lied that tlie
luuty should
to know all
: the ('.rain
and insisted
lied for that
;tors. theni-

mueh about
lid like, con-
ng. It was
A. A. should
lat meetiui,'.

It was su;i-
.. A. should
)re the nieet-
t that was
lly unneces-
So the meet-
jut previous
e with the
.'idely ad\er-

otDcerS'had
d to apnear.
nation '

A. found it
were invited
ey had the

in the open
lation or of
(II and thus
ketini; Coni-
side and lel-
an untavor-
e .1. A. A.'s
sual and un-
r th<m for
ictively flsht
?any which
ppositiOB to

January 24, 1925

The Illinois Agricultural Association Record

Page 7

I.A.A. EXECUTIVES
ASK PUBLIC INQUIRY
INTO GRAIN MERGER

Formal Request Made of Illi-
nois Conunerce Commission
to Determine Their Legality

A ftn-iii;n n-qiU'st In tin' IlliiHiis
('i»iiitiH>rt'" C4H;uiiissi')ii askiir>.' th;if
;i pul>Iic innnjiy b"' nnuhieifd Iiv
ihat body in(i) thi- "b'^ality and
;.lit)lic poliry" of prrmittin.iX Iho
lour old- line iiraiii <-innpani('." to
lorin .tbe $2*">.iM)(i.n(tM iiuT^rr.
ronimonly known as tbc Grain
\Iarkotini: Company, was ordPicd
1p>- tho I. A. A. (xr-ciil ivf coniniit-
{fv at its ntcftin^ of Jan. I 'I. It
is known tbat farm Inut-au ni'-ni-
bi'fs liavo bi'en solicited to buy
stork in tbo nu-r^cr. Tlio f<>rmal
iiMliiost lias hcon uiado.

BOTH SIDES OF MERGER
EXPLAINED AT MEET

(f'onliniud from p.'igo C)
the .\merican Farm Bureau Ked-
f-rati^m e.veoutives. .■\nd tlK-.v did
not know whether they w(mld
meet a friendly or hostile loeal ar-
rangements conynillee. and in a
meetini; of this kind much depends'
on the arrangements. They came.

They found that it was not the
intention of the local aiTanKe-
ments conimitte to t)e hostile or
unfair to the I. .\. A., but that
-Mrs. Funk was very insistent upon
eertaiu "arranui'inents and that her
wi.'dies pr^'vailed in some impor-
tant matters sueli as the selection
of tile chairman.

Clifford Gresory, editor of
I'raiiie Farmer. \vas advertised as
one who had been invited to speak,
but he was not permitted the plat-
form altho ln^ was Ki\*n an oppor-
tunity to present one small piece
of his evidence concerning the
Tlrain Marketing Company in dis-
cussion.

Im|i<>i'tnnt Quosiion *

Men who have read every avail-
able bit of information on the
merger in the Ameriean Farm Bu-
reau news letters and in the press
were most concerned over the
facts in tlie matter of the I. A. A.
statement that audit rejiorts nec-
essary in deti^rminins; the value of
the properti<s were withheld t^y
the Grain .\larketins Company.
The agents and fri<-nds of the
eonipany nave declared that the
I. A. A. was iirovided wiil^all the
information it needed in arriving
■ it the true value of the properties.
"r that the information was easily
:ivailable.

It developed in the meetins; tlu.t
ilie audits were not -Kiven to the
I A. A. nor were available to tne
1. A. A. from any source, and the
reason was tliat the Grain .Maf-
kelinu' Company itself did not have
uudit reports of the concerns
wlin.se iiro|ierlies it has eontrael-
I d to purchase. Tliat develop-
ment supports tlie I. A. A. state-

iient, but shows that there was 'a
- ood reason why the informal ioBi

vas not turned over. It does
!'ring up another qui'stion, how-

^er, and that is whether or not
1^0 Grain .Marketing Ccmipany
si'iiuld have had those audit re-
I'^its In order to enter into tl|i-
1 iiicha.sc of those properties -with
saiety to the producers.

Tlio Not I!e-^iil(

Whellier or not tlie Grain Mar-
' ' ting Company advanced its
'-use at the nieetin- is an\body's
' "ss. Whether or not the Grain
^'I.irki'ting Company is please^l
^ iili the result remains to be seen.

But the Illinois -Agricultural
'i soeiation idlieers seemed to be
" ■ II pleased as Iley departed foi
' licaiio. I.oc;il ui'U who ha\''>

'"d by the !. .\. A., in Ih. ij-
■'.ad seem to be will ph^s.-d.
-i' ilging from comlielits made iiti-
'■'' (liately afhr the meeting ami
• iK-e then.

•Some of those wiio have read
■il that has Ixen ]iuhlisl-..il in the
-\ F. B. F. News l..-tiers and the
■'••ss have said that tlH-y learned
ii'ithing new ciincerning the nier-
-• r itself, altho they learned man,y
ii'-w features on the I. A. A. siije
lit the question.

WHAT THE CAMERA GOT

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H^^1^^^H|Hk,^^^P\^^^JK JII^IHB' ^^Bk

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Oil ilif f'w ttf IIm- firMi il:i> itf Hit* niitiii:il nii-efiiiK, I. \. \. oflifiaU. «-\i-ruiit f 4><»iiiiiiit («-<'nicii iinil •^irtM-liirM.
4-iMiiil.v l'';iriii Kiir<-aii |ii:<'Mitl*>HtN iinil I'.'irm yflt iKierw iiii'l :it a ilitint-r l'<tr a liii; riMind-tiililc .'iikI tri-<--:i«>^th4--
iiir>>«*ii-l>rf:iilM> ilJMi'iiN^tioii. l*ri'Ml<l«'iit 'l'hoiii|i*>t»H in <i|>i-iiiiiK th<- iiM-a-tinu: •taiil ili:i( any 4*»iihlru4*iit <• friii<'i<<»niM
t>l' till- I. \. \. »oiilil lii> m'lri*iHp anil that Ihi* oiil> \^ny larniiTs ^tmild «-\it K«'t aiiv»li«>r<- »ilh tlii-ir itruatiT
jy.atioii »»ulil ■»«■ It? iiiiiliial ■■o-iipfration. I>iiriiiu: thiw «>i-!«>>ii»ii. tin- artiial l*-iii|»«'r t*t' tli«> >*7. «-i>iint i4>*> » liich
t\«-rf' ri-|iri-^i-iili-il in n-KHril (it tt itliilmn inu; friMii thi- \fit«-ri«'aii Fanti Hurra ii l''i>4liTal ion nan Kho» n. \ tin-
aiiiiiHMi*! ^'oti* la\i»r«Ml natiitnat iiniNon. *<>|Mritfil lalkN fcaliiri'ii llii- ini'i-iin;:. 'I'hi> i-\i'i'ii(i% i> i-oiiimitti-i- hail
« iMi-il to "si irk anil tiuitt it (»ut friini t lii' in Kill*-" at it<i last n-tciilar nim inu. I (■«■ opinioti miv i'\|tri-ss<-i| hy
ni»ii« thai I his ri>iinil-tal>l«- nu-rtinK: nas titi- in its I riinst riirli\ <■ ini-i-tin;: in I In- hisiitrt at I ihi- I. \. \.

EDUCATION IN STATE
NOT AS IT SHOULD BE
SAYS I.A.A. COMMITTEE

Constructive Policies to 1 m-
prove School System Is Aimi
of Educational Commission.

The educational sitii.ition i<i
Illinois is nut what it slionld Ix-
The I. .\. .\ committve on <;duca-'
tion ttiat points this run •tisists
of 111.- following: J. I. Whis-
nand. Charli'stoii. chairman;' .A.
C. Kveringh'aiu. lluisonvill. . and
K W. Itusk. Carlinf'ilt--.

Tills conimiit.^. <atly last year
]ans\(-.Ted the call of the Illinois
Kducalional Copimission to sit in
«ith it rrnd oiler or^-anirations '
in niakin;: inv. st)i;.itions. Iteroni-
mendations ar- to h.' nfkd.-., at
the ni'Kt bi epnial mei tijit; of tlic
General Assembly. •. ' •

BIG REPRESENTATION
IS DELEGATE RECORD

DAIRY INDUSTRY

NEEDS ADJUSTMENT

(I 'eiii iiHieil from paKo 'i)
.■!. ri!f1M(bTK W K I. F A I! K OF
nAIHY IXDl'STBY-
a. ruhlicily.
(1 ) Press ai'ticles.
(2 1 Talks, pojmlar meetings.
ciub», schools, radio-
b- I'rotectional — Legislative.
c. Correlate work of .Illinois Co-
operatives^

(1) Harmonize policies.
( 2 I Promote eflieienc.v oy group
action, including grading stan-
dards.
4. PUBLIC REI.ATIONS. Co-op-
eration with other dairy insti-
tutions and agencies,

a. State. ,
(1) Illinois State Dairymen's

.\ssociation.

(2 1 -Mlied dairy interests.

( :i i Butter Improvement Asso-
ciation.

(4) Dairy cattle breed associa-
tions.

(5) Extensioni workers, Univer-
sity (if Illinois.

(CI Hish school agt'icultural
teacjiers. •

b. National.

(1) National Dairy Council.

(2 1 .\merican -Association of
Creamery Butter .Manufactur-
ers.

(Ii) Dairy cattle breed associa-
tions.

(4) Dairy marketing specialists
in Ofutral west states.

(•enei^nl Dairy Situation

The centi-r of dairy production
is mo\iiit,' westward faster than
the center of population. The
East and the South are demand-
ing sweet cream. At the same
time the Cliicago "milk shed" is
becoming more and more an open
market. This means culling the
broader cows, more (|ualily in pro-
duction, nifire inti^nsive organiz.a-
lion. 'anil adjustment in marjtet-
ing Illinois dairy products. It
can lie doni-. says Lynch. "The
dairyman who watches his costs
and milks good cows will make
money in 192o. .\lso. dairymen's
service organizations should be
improved by federating into a
state orL'anization, run on sound
business bases."

I.A.A. Movie Titled:

''Carry On! F. IC

"raii> '>ii! I'aiin l>u-
reau" is Ihp title of (he
Homestead Film ('oin|iaii\'s
inovliiu |itrliire taken duriiit;
the suintner to >h<i»v ifie ar-
tivities of llie I. A. A.

Dave Thoiii|isoii ntinoiuiet^
that the fihii K, in his npiii-
ion. a "hiiiiHlinuer.'*

The fihn is |o l>e reU-ased
throimh the oruaiii/.ation de-
IKirtnient of the I. A. A. It
Mill be ready for business
MMiielhne dtiiiiiu (his-^ikonili,
Mr. Tliotnpson ^lates.

"WATCH THE BOOKS"
IS LA.CA. KEYNOTE

Union County Bureau
Plans Co-op Manure
Buying; Lse 650 Cars

An association to buy manure
on a co-operative basis from
stock yards is a project ot Union
County Farm Bureau.

G. K. Metzger, director of organ-
ization, met with the Union county
foUis at -Auna. Jan. 20 for the pur-
pose of helping lay * jweliminary
plans for the purchasing group.
Farm Bureau members are the only
ones' who will be taken in.

In a preliminary survey made by
L. J. Quasey of l^ie traniportation
department, it is estimated that
the average cost for shipping a
carload ot manure from Chicago to
.Vnna is approximately $20. From
K. Si. Ijouis to Anna, the minimum
cost per car is $17.60. he finds.
The difference between the two
points is accounted for in that the
transportation cost from E St
Louis is based on weight, and from
Chicago on straight carloads. Ma-
nure prices have advancjed within
recent years, Mr. Quasey finds.
An average carload ot Manure sells
for around $35.

Approximately 650 carloads of
manure will be used in a year by
the Union county horticulturists, L
S. Foote, (\\e Union county farm
adviser, estimates.

■ '■•■liiiiiu. U from p.nj^' 1 (^

the pn si-nt meniherstiip, be
lioini. d out. -stands at no 'liss tlian
125 associations whi<-li secure
I. .\. C- .\. audiling services,

F. K. liingham. assisiani mana-
ger, outlined the niith'od'of fi. Id
esaminaticm in oix-raliini In tli'e
I. .\. C. .\. George I-:. 1^'raZ'^r. con-,
suiting aeeounla'nt for the I. .\. .\.
and former .complrtilhr' of the
Universiiy of Jlfinois. i:a\'.' a feli-
nical trealis<^ on the statu* of Illi-
,nois co-ops und' r Ihe f. deraj rev-
enue act. bringing out t!ie point
tliat eveiuptions under fliis law
eouhi be secured for farmers' ele-
vators, pjovid'd the ap(i|ications
are <lrawn up corri'Cily.

"I.iMik .lliead." \ aniiii.'in Says

Vernon Vatiiinaii, dirc<-toT of
field ori;auizatioii. issu.d.a clxirion
eall for the co-oixrative* to look
ahead. "Co-operatives : will be
left behind." he declared; "if they
do not adopt adequate auditins
and biisinesi^ ad\ is(#ry st^rvire."

H. iA Baily. university account-
ing sp'cialist. e^^jiresped the
thotiLiht that co-opcrati\e accounts
should above all. be siitiple. If
fanners' co-op«Ta1i'.«-s r<'aU,v are
to take on biu Imsini-ss jnietliods.
he ti'ild his aiuliouc*'. Iliey must
keep accurate r'l-ords. ' ' Ife al.so
advanced the sui-'L'eslion' lb;it the
central I. .\. C. .\. oflicei act as a
cb'afing house for any informa-
tion roncerning the auditing fa-
cilities in other states. I)r. .Slew-
art, proffssor of economi'ics at the
Cniversilv. ciimmeiidejl '{be
1. A. C. A.

liUft <»niccl-s

The teniiiorary board of direc-
tors who^ held olhcfs since the
formation of the sei-vic.- la;-t June.
were all re-elected at iliki annual
meeting, as follows: H<'nry .Mc-
Goueb. Maple Park. |ire.s|iden1 : L.
P. Mc.Milleu. Bock Falls, tiee pres-
iilenl: O. B. Golilc. CliarUston.
Henry Shaffer, Illio|iolis. kiid G. L,
Potter. Pontiae. dinciors; G. .\-
Fox, secretary, aiid I! .\| Cowles.
treasurer. . !

Forty-seven Illinois! ro-opera-
lives wi-r.' represented ai ilie meet-
ing.

YOU'LL NEED GOOD EYES TO SEE YOUR DELEGATE HERE

l!l

■I lr..n. iMK.

li

•riM* f-niiiorii
lnti-clil> N«-<*
lire In the f
Thurailjiy.

iiiiiii prtt lliin pictnr** of
Mioii. smile III' tlieiii an*
mill rutv at the It'll. It

rnrill bureau folkn nhn ner<* Mtill on the felt nt the lii<<t miiiille nt the
nut (leleiJrateH, you Mill niitiee. StM'retnry Kox and l*rvNiilent 'J'faiini|iii«B
nould have taken a i-ouiile of cniiieraM tu have guttea all the eru»d om

1;<>I-I N', VvriKlit;' Tiis.-..;,, ■ |i„|-,„..

#•••!. '...NS. .Nil,,. rMll. : l-:.lKJ.r'
.[•.111. 11 I10IMI..1.I. K:ins;,s 3„.1 I-,,,,..,

u,""vv''!.','''l' ,':■'»••,';«»: All...rt Lil,.
l-v:ii,-s. .\Ias..r,. arel \V,.,„| |..,v |., .
i:iii:li;.in. K..r,l: o .; .\„,|. rsioV .:,'l..'
"""„' :'> ='.■•' '• I" Iiii.riin:.r i:il.-
.•--.II ( ,ly; Fj-.-tnklin; H.'ll. W.I.I.
Miak.ytow;. Fun,,,,: y. 0 Chniar,

•,,'V"i "I!' ?■ '- '"I'le.-tl -V.W M.IV..I,,
■| I. ,• "rr ••■'^„':""illi..u...,. Greene:

". I . I ri.fr. i-o:il i-jij.. „,,| ,'. ,
Hum M,.,r,s; II..,,.,,. k u .i.'l_nn,-

.;-lro,,^l.,„.M n,.,l .■ w ro..v-r I.T-

"rifcn. aii.l .1. n'. ,,,-r SmI, 1,'Ms. o! .
rn.p,.,,..*: M ,: I-. „.l.rKra»>t. .-iss,,!,

l;irK..:,ii.l ... ■• |, yw.-ll Milf-.r.!.

•I.e ksoii 11. P S:,,,..,-. I-..n|..,i.,; J„f,
e'n'V.-^'? •'''•"■"■•"•I Ml V.rnon.
J. s.. J Mil... a...!-*', i: |,,„.Kr. |.„„

>i..eklon. aii.l .:,•.. .-unls. .>.'t(..klon;
.leliiiaofi; «. It. K.rl.y .Simpson:

,i V ".^ "arr.„. s.icar . ;nc.v, . Kei,-

: •'• 1 I'll r. lull. .Minook.i; K....X J
1 McKee, l:io, .ind M. i;uy Van BUn-
k.rk. I>r._l.la. I.att.-: I, .\. Hi„.|.„,.|,,
.\r.a. an.l l> II M,„i„. .\„ii„.l, l,:,.
Sjille: E K. Sr..v.i,..;r.i,, .v!i rialor. and
Itarv.y W «.i|(.s. I,.|a,id.

Laivnno, lialph Pinksliiff Birds
!;'.', •^; " Munliv.iN. .«iil.l..M.- and
w . I-. l:.'it:U'. KranVIiM ilfov.- I.tv-
li.KSlon: <:. F. I!.i,,!.||. <-h:.tKWorlli.
and 1. J. Gallup. FmlnKtoti. -T.i.Kai.
...o. J .St. .11 .'h.-stiiut. Iii.il I'has
S.-hniidls, ll.asnti: M.-l>f»iioiiKli Kr.-.I
i:iiel.ii.«h. -s. ,..1.1. :,„.l K.iTl .M.ilr.w.
A. lair. .M.ll.nrr l:. 1. Th..nias.
KiiiKwoo.!. and G.-o .\. Ilu»it. W0...I-
stoek: Mrl^nii; .Sini,.i, c M,.on. To-
w;in<la. ail. I V,im;h„ I h.iiuI.isf' .V|,ir-
l.y; .Ma.-oiT: .1, i' l;..i,.li, |.|. r IMrr.a
L.wti. an.l ]■;# 1- l.at-K.tt. M.-,.-..n

.Mu'uupin: II .1 .s.-liiillz- ■«l4,,.nii..\
and. J. I'., Kn.slow, .Mwat.-r, Maill-
.s..ti; K. J. S. liii.r.r. .\lt...,: 1;. K 1...
:.i,.i J>.hn -11. .s.l,ai,.r. Mitrm.-. Ma-
ri..ii: Jnhh l:..(;i.r- l'al..kli- -MarKl.-
aii-l'utnaiii: liltn.-r viuiitri. Henry,
and VTni. Ilown.y. pun. .(in. .Manui..
.'has \V. BcirB.-il. Ih.vaia. and Vin-
.-.Ml Warr.-n. l::ilh; M.iall.J t.. V.
-S;ilnps..n- Petersi.iir^-. an.l < '. f. Slier.
I'.l.rsl.ure: XI. r ■• r ..i.oMile Ije.
.Md.o. and I>. I; .>;.■.. ti. Alexis; Jloii-
rue: Fred C I'e per. V.ilm. yr*.
MfjtilKoniery: 1; it Vlaru-HuilC- N.»-
koniis. and John K.isi.r, K^iymond.

Slnrgan: Cli.ls S l:!ak'. Ja.-k^UT.-
ville. and 11. P. J..y. Ja.-ka..liV)il.-;
Moultrie: .1. K. i;it;l.r,.r. Sullivan
an.l 1-. .S. Slie.han. I...k.- Gin. iiijl.-
.1. i: Mey.rs. <lr.;;..n. atei Kim. r
\'i.Irn.'icr. Korn-s.i..n. P. oria I'lias
U. Fur.l. R.lwar.ls uii.l t'li;.*. ilor-
lion. Alta: I'latt: .' J Gnss. Al-
W00.I. and T. W l.;.tnl.. llTntent :
I'lk" <•. I-: lliiiiliirr, .!ri-'Ksvill.-.
and Waller !!.-,k. nl...|.lt. l:...k|.orl.
P.>|.c: A- Bak.r. .!..!. .in.ki; Pulaski:
.M. .M. Ilarimaii. JIuuii.ls. ji:andul|>li:
.Vuir. Wink. Irnan. SI. .-Iv ill.-. an.l
1-'re(l nehni.T. l:*-.II.ii.l.

Kichlaii.l: l,.-o I.-lilint^r. .'lln.v.
l:.>. k Island: I'has A. l-»rs..n- Mo-
lin.-. Bx. SSI. and il.m. . '. J. S.tirlv.
P.i.k Island; SI I'la.r. PI. ll U.irl'-
liKiii. Kr.-.-l..-tB, and J A I.^;..t. TEr.-n-
ten; Saline: i:. L. .lat.s. Il.-i rrial.urK ;
S:inganioli: J<»lui i'.M.p.r. WllllaIli^-
v:lle. and Leister L.'litnau. Pl.:.s»nl
Plains; S.-|niyl.-r M. It. Kill Aihoiis.-,
KushvilP : S.olt M P. M'lrrav. W.I -
• li.sl.r. and ll.rma:, KilL.r. W.i -
■ li.st.r: Sii.-ll.y. Tie .1 • l:.>. -«sl. r.
Sh.!l.y\ il!e. an.l 11. F, ilroit.- Ii..i-

Siark- A.li.fn M.WiM. :1111s 'r..iil......

I'.'l v.- K Will. -ox. Wy.niinu: Sl»-

l.h. ns..ii: T, K. Kills. L. r.:i. :.i..l L, .M

.-^watiZ. v. Kr.-.i.ori; T;iZ'\.(.. .!■..•-

I -M.rris, Wiisf.lncir.n :ii.l I. I: vv.-,k

;M-rl.>n; I'liion- .V V A;.!..-! »'..l..l. i..

. rii.ili..n .■l::.s I: l--ii.,.y.

:.l,.i .:. .. « I., ni.i.r).

• I.. w:ii.:,si. 1: I-:

■ 1..-I.11IU.. ;.n-l ll;.r\ • I.,
:.. -Ml.n.l:.:. . Wi.rr.M l;.-.v SI 1. k -

Sw.m I'r.'-k :in>I Sidii.y I'.-n-
!r-vis. Stt;.n <'r. .k; Uayn*'. G.-o
] ll.ci:.-!,-. P.anihill.

Willi. \^ I. .Vli(!..r. I'arnii -and

■ •• ilosksns. Norn.- .iiy; Whii. -

:■ .1. II A.l:inis. K. iir..ii. a«..l 1!, F

■ v.r. M..riis..n: Will N. I. W.-i-
T. l.*.--k|..'r! anti .I.iho 11 I'rvd.r,

Piulnlield: Wilianison: A M Spllz-

niiss. Marion- 11. K. 1>. 1:; Winntbaco-

r.an Mf. 'nil. .I'll. Wiiinel.:i4ro, and 1.

A. Krislii.-. po.kford. i;. r ij. "

Woo.lf..rd:

and J. Ira Powc

II..

s.ylir.i.lt

W. S Davison. Mlnoiik.
Powell, Seeor.

Page 8

The niiBoU Agricultural A»»odation Record

January 24, 1925

BALANCE SHEET SHOWS I. A. A. SAVED $39,189.96; RESERVE $253,910.07

"BEST MEETING IN

HISTORY" IS CLAIM

(Continued from page 1)
thereof." This was changed to
allow an additional delegate for
"eaeh 500 paid-up members, or
major fraction thereof."

157 Delegates Oil Deck

The meeting opened in the Au-
ditorium of the University of Illi-
nois on Thursday morning, Jan.
15, with 157 registered delegates
in attendance besides the Farm
Bureau presidents and farm advis
ers, from practically all of the
92 Farm Bureaus, the oCBcials,
and the executive committeemen,
in attendance. With an estimated
attendance of 1,200 at the Thurs-
day morning session, the 1925
convention goes on record as the
largest and most representative
annual meet In the ten years of
the Association's existence.

H. W. Mumford, dean of the
College of Agriculture, in deliver-
ing the address of welcome urged
his hearers to be encouraged by
the accomplishments of farmers'
organizations rather than by their
mistakes. He stated that a revival
of the fighting spirit was one of
the most significant gains made by
farmers during the year Jest
ended.
Preeident Gives Anniul .Address

"Our Sam" H. Thompson, in his
annual presidential address said,
among many other pertinent
things, that because of the present
day rapid transit facilities, the
wholesome community life of
farmers has diminished. "In the
old days, community life centered
around the home, the church, and
the school, and we all gathered
there regularly.

"The heads of families, the
hired help, and practically the en-
tire neighborhood joined in home-
taleat programs entertainment.
This not only brought us together
with the strangers that moved into
the community, but it brought
about that personal touch that is
so necessary for the contentment
and happiness which goes a long
way toward keeping our boys and
girla on the farm."

Need More Community life

"People motor to larger centers
these days, where they get enter-
tainment that is commercialized
for the purpose of making money
rather than for upholding the high
standards of living that contribute
toward building up strong moral
character.

"Every farmer should adopt bet-
ter methods of bookkeeping In or-
der to know just what his produc-
tion costs are in all operations,"
was another of President Thomp-
son's points. He reminded the
delegates and all that "we have
arrived at a stage in the history
of American agriculture where we
can no longer expect to buy a farm
and look to an increase in the val-
ue of that farm from year to year
to compensate us for the loss sus-
tained in its operation." "Our
Bam" commended the College of
JAgritulture and Dean Mumford
lor the work it has done through
its extension department in co-op-
erating with the county Farm Bu-
Ireaus and the Illinois Agricultural
Association. He also pointed to
the need tor continued organiia-
jtion on the part of farmers.
Saved Another $2,000,000

George A. Fox, executive secre-
tary, in his report of the estab-
lishment of the Illinois Agricnl-
tural Co-operatives Association,
the Auditing and business advisory
organization that functions as the
I. A. A. department of co-operative
accounting, as one of the outstand-
ing Bccompllshments of the past
yeari In speaking of the activities
of other departments, he said the
following: "The department of
taxation and statistics saved Illi-
nois: farmers over »2, 000.000 itf
taxe» in 1924 by bringing about
partilal equalization ■ between M-
sess^ valuations on city and couff-
try property. Our live stock, dairy,
and fruit and vegetable marheting
departments have assisted county
Farrii Bureaus in setting up Co-
operailve marketing organizations
Df al( kinds and in drawing up con-
tracts for them. The transporta-
tion department saves Illinois
farn^ers at least »370,000 i year

in freight ijates by securing a re-
duction in the minimum carload
weight requirements on hogs as
well as changes in live stock mixed
car requirements. By pooling
limestone and phosphate orders,
the phosphate-limestone depart-
ment stabilized prices on these
minerals and gained a 10-cent dif-
ferential in favor of farm bureau
members.

Poshed T. B. in 49 Conntles

"The finance department ad-
vised and assisted county Farm
Bureaus and co-operatives In mat-
ters involving finance administra-
tion. The association further
helped to Establish area testing
for bovine tuberculosis in 49 coun-
ties. Estaplishing co-operative
poultry and egg marketing asso-
ciations, and advocating the pur-
chase of egis on a graded basis,
are the outstanding accomplish-
ments of the poultry marketing
department. Publication of the
I. A. A. REcbsn, information serv-
ice to the press, advertising and
publicity service to co-operative
marketing Associations, and ar-
rangement for radio talks make
up the workl of the department of
information.! The legal depart-
ment has uried the use of market-
ing contractj."

It was brought out at the pieet-
Ing that th^re was an increase
In the state membership over the
past year, the figure today stand-
ing at 63,0((0 farmers.

I. A. A. f^tiuuicially Strong
The favorable financial condi-
tion reflected by the association's
balance of J253,910.07 on Jan. 1,
1925, as pointed out by Treasurer
Cowles, meahs "an established in-
stitution, farmer-owned and farm-
er-controlledj, able and ready to
execute with effectiveness any
.worthwhile progress within rea-
sonable possibilities for the bene-
fit of the farmers of Illinois."

George W^ Willett, principal of
Lyons Township high school at La
Grange, Ill.,j and director of the
I. A. A. scllool investigation, in
talking duriing the afternoon of
the first day on "Our Educational
System," reported the findings of
the school sirvey. The following
points, he said, were determined
by this survey: Farmers every-
where are taking unusual interest
in educational matters; practically
all intend to send their children
to high school: the majority are
opposed to consolidated schools un-
der existing conditions; a large
ma/orlty favor the continuance of
a one-room school; most farmers
want their children to remain on
the farm. "The little red school-
house," sai(] Willett, "is not so
bad as it haf often been pictured.
Much depends upon the quality of
the teacher in that school."

Crerar SItli; Couldn't Come

Events of the afternoon also in-
cluded an address on grain mar-
keting by R. A. Hoey, of Spring-
field, Manitoba, and a member of
the Canadian Parliament. He sub-
stituted for the announced speak-
er. Hon. T. A. Crefar, who was
detained because of physicians' ur-
gent orders. Hoey outlined the
successful operation of the recent-
ly organized Canadian wheat pool
serving three provinces with 36,-
000 share-holders. Through the
pool, he said. Dominion farmers
have been aple to get from 7 to
15 cents a bushel more than grow-
ers in the qnited States, for the
first time in history.

In an ope^ discussion from the
floor on co-operative marketing,
S. H. Greeley of Berkeley, Calif,
for many yeftrs a member of the
Chicago board of trade, declared
in reference to the 126,000,000
grain merger, that no terminal co-
operative marketing agency could
succeed at the present time while
warehousing owners continue to
deal in grain. He stated that
farmers should use the terminal
warehouse to store grain and that
warehouses should not have any-
thing to do with the merchandis-
ing of grain,

Following the annual associa-
tion banquet^ David KInley, presi-
dent of the University of Illinois,
t%ld the gathering of 660 Farm
Bureau folks that "it Is the rural
man and woman that tyi^ify the
best in American life. Agricul-
ture must remain prosperous be-
cause on Its success rests the wel-
fare of American lite."

Hiram Gets Redeemed

The playlet on "The Redemp-
tion of Hiram Homebrew" as pre-
sented after the banquet by the
Menard County Farm Bureau was
a slapstick comedy of rare quality,
bringing down the house time af-
ter time and at the same time
driving home farm bureau points.
G. E. Metzger, organization direc-
tor, reports as the Recobo goes to
press that he has received three
letters asking for copies of the
playlet.

Charles J. Brand, consulting
specialist in marketing of the
United States Department of Ag-
riculture, then spoke on "The Ag
ricultural Situation, Past and
Present." While warning his au
dience that this year's Improved
situation in many lines of agricul
ture should not be regarded as
representing a permanent and pro-
nounced change for the better, he
nevertheless emphasized, with
some optimism as to the future,
the improved purchasing power
that has come to the producer
during the pdst six months.

Farm Prosperity? — Nit!

"The past three years have
shown," asserted Brand, "that
general prosperity does not neces-
sarily mean farm prosperity. Yet
it always tends in that direction
and if equality of opportunity ex-
ists, it finally ends in the farmers'
sharing with industry, business,
labor, and transportation in the
good or 111 that prevails in the
nation.

"Four conditions should usually
be sought In appraising the future
outlook. They are sustained or
increasing production, good crops
at good prices In agriculture, sus-
tained or Increasing exports of
both agricultural and industrial
products, and adequate money or
credit at reasonable rates.

"It Is desirable, from the stand-
point of the nation, that the Amer-
ican farmer attain such an econ-
omic position as will enable him,
when conditions warrant such a
course, to carry his crops and
products from the lower priced
to the higher priced seasons of the
year and also from a year of low
prices to later years of better
prices."

Elect Four New Executives

Following Brand's talk, election
of ofllcers and executive commit-
teemen took place. Executive
committeemen to represent the
odd-numbered Congressional dis-
tricts were elected to two-year
terms. They are: districts 10-11
(one representative allowed by
constitution) William Webb, Lock-
port, Will county; 13th district,
C. E. Bamborough, Polo, Ogle
county (re-elected); 15th district,
B. H. Taylor, Canton, Fulton coun-
ty; 17th district, Frank D. Barton,
Cornell, Livingston county (re-
elected); 19 th district, Jl L. Whis-
nand, Charleston, Coles county
(re-elected); 21st district, Samuel
Sorrells, Raymond, Montgomery
count (re-elected); 23rd district,
W. L. Cope. Tonti, Marlon county;
25th district, R. K. Loomis, Ma-
kanda, Union county.

Taxes Hit Farmers Hardest
The morning of January 16 saw
everybody back In the Auditorium
to "finish the job." Walter F.
Dodd, Chicago, chairman of the
Conference on Revenue Amend-
meht, in introducing tils subject,
"The Problem of Revenue in Illi-
nois," said, "The farmer Is the one
person In Illinois Interested In the
fair distribution of the cost of gov-
ernment. Under present condi-
tions he is the hardest hit."

Declaring that the tax system
should treat all classes of property
and income fairly and that the
present system fails to do so, Dodd
said that "it is questionable
whether much substantial im-
provement can be made under ex-
isting constitutional provisions.
Property is not all alike and the
problems of taxation in a growing
and changing world cannot be met
through, detailed provisions of a
substantially unchanging constitu-
tion, as framed In 1870.
Need Constltntional Amendment
"The natural solution is for all
interests to agree upon a consti-
tutional amendment untying the
hands of the legislature. We have
had e'nough experience with a leg-
islature forbidden to make im-
provements.

ANNUAL REPORT OF TREASURER COWLES
SHOWS STRONG nNANCL4L STANDING;
OUTGROWTH OF RIGID BUDGET POLICY

Certified Public Accountant's Statement Says: "3ooks and
Records Truthfully Show Financial Poaition of Assodatioa
at December 31, 1924."

\

ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION
Balance Sheet at December 31, 1924
ASSETS
Current Assets:

Cash on Hand and In Bank

Accounts Receivable:

County Farm Bureaus for mem-
bership dues $14,588.04

County Farm Bureaus for mis-
cellaneous items 1,772.40

Phosphate Accounts 254.70

Co-Operatlve Accounting Accts... 3.681.50
Others 8,997.91 ; *

$ 36,901.51

Total $29,294.55

Less: Provision for bad debts 5,263.41

Inventory of Signs

Advances to employees for travel

(bonded)

Accrued Interest Receivable

Illinois-Missouri Co-Operatlve Milk

Producers Assn. (secured)

U. S. Government Treasury Notes

and Liberty Bonds

Federal Land Bank Bonds

Total Current Assets...
Long Term Loans:
Due from Agricultural Organizations

for advances 38,204.15

Less: Provision for Probable Loss. 33,700.00

24,031.14

167.85

1,950.00
3,166.00

14,168.21

144,308.45
15,131.25

$239,824.41

4,504.15

Fixed Assets: j . ."■

Oflice Furniture and Equipment... 26.341.78 ' '
Less: Reserve for Depreciation 13,677.86 14,663.92

Automobiles ,1,678.54

Less: Reserve for Depreciation 701.18 977.38

Total Fixed Assets 15,641.30

Deferred Cliarges: j. -■■

Prepaid Rent 3.703.32 ] '■'-

Inventory of Supplies 1.256.84 '. *

Prepaid Insurance 404.43 | ■!,^ 5.364.59

• ' I 'IK'^1, $265,334.45

LIABILITIES
Current Liabilities: ' .

Accounts Payable 10,256.31' -:. '

Baseball Fund Collections ' (Fm. ,

Bur) \ I

Total Current Liabilities.. 10,321.91

Unearned Membership Income 455.00

Illinois Agricultural Co-Operative , ,_.

Association Reserve j '' 647.47

i ->-- T

Total Liabilities $11,424.38

General Fund Reserve:

Balance at January 1, 1924 . 214,720.11

Add : Excess of Income over Ex. I • " .

penses for the year ended Decern- ' '
ber 3l8t, 1924 (Exhibit il.) 39,189.96 . " .v'.

BALANCE AT JANUARY 1, 1925 , r, 253,910.07

1 •■■.

$265,334.45
Note — A contingent liability exists revering a probable refnnd t(f
County Farm Bureaus for an amount not to exceed one-half of the serv-
ice charges In connection with their audits as made by the Illinois Agri-
cultural Co-Operatives Association and the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion This refund Is subject to the 'discretion of the Finance Committee
and If fully authorised will amount to $1,667.02.

We have examined the boolcs of account of the above Association for
the year ending December 31. 1924. and hereby certify that. In our opin-
ion subject to the comments Included In -our report submitted herewith,
the above Balance Sheet and accompanying Statement of Income and Ex-
penses prepared from the books of account and records truthfully show
the financial position of the Association at December 31. 1924.

John R. Bartlzal, SWANSON OGILVIE COMPANY,

Certified Public Accountant By A. W. T. Ogilvlo,

Chicago. Illinois, ..,.,.

January 9. 1925. ^ ^. ^q^,^^

Treasurer.

"An outline of a general plan
upon which all groups might agree
would permit classification of real
and personal property with exemp-
tions; Income taxation with classi-
fication as to amounts and classes
of income, and with exemptions;
the combination of classification
of property with Income taxes;
severance taxes and other plans
that the legislature may care to
adopt."

"Insurance as Related to Farm-
ers" was the subject ot an address
by E. A. Myers, Chicago, insurance
counsellor. He stated it as his
opinion that the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association, In sponsoring
the recent movement to Improve
the situation among the farm mu-
tual insurance companies Itr Illi-
nois, "Is beginning one of the
most important activities In Its ex-
istence."

The report of the resolutions
committee followed Myers' talk.

AU of the seven resolutions pre-
sented by the committe were
adopted by the delegates after dis-
cussion and a slight change In one
resolution.

Invited to Come Again

The convention remained in ses-
sion through the noon hour on
Friday and finished all business
by 2. P. M. Thorough considera-
tion ot all matters, coupled with
rabid action at the right time,
marked the final session and made
for the early closing. ^

Both Dean Mumford and the
secretary of the local Association
of Commerce urged the convention
to come back to Champaign In
1926. This invitation will be con-
sidered by a committee later.
President Thompson states. All
committees tor 1925 will be ap-
pointed by President Thompson
within a few days. The first meet-
ing ot the executive committee will
be Feb. 6.

Volume 3

{UNITED

I Ij 1j I

CUl^TUMAL

yiSS MARY G. BUR^ASH. LIDRARIAN,
COLLEGE OF AGRtCULTURS,
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, ivi

m

kiued Every Other Saturday — Febrtiary 14, 1925

Number

i

TED AGRICULTURE
NEEDED FOR BETTER
MARKETING— LOWDEN

OUR LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

Stre«se* Organizatioii of Force*
in Speech to the Chicago
?tc^ tcert; Strike* Keynote

Optimism as to the future of the
[Chicago Producers Commission As-
sociation was expressed at the sec-
nnd annual meeting of the organi-
zation, held at the
Union Stock Yards.
Chicago. January
2 7. Over 200
delegates and visi-
tors attended the
meeting.

A. Sykes, Ida
Grove, Iowa, pres-
ident of the asso-
i ^^m r' ■^^^m elation, opened the
l^^^l ^ y^^^l morning meeting
with an address in
which he pointed
out the growing
Interest in co-op-
erative marketing
among shippers, as evidenced by the
Increased receipts to co-operative
live stock selling agencies on all Pro-
ducer markets, especially Chicago.
He stated that the public was becom-
ing convinced that co-operative mar-
keting held the key to the solution
of the farmers' problems, since Pres-
ident Coolidge himself has recog-
nized the economic functions of the
co-operative type of organization and
its especial fitness to render service
io' fui'ni<3.-.> i& the swlutica of t>ii''
marketing problem.

S. W. Doty, general manager, in
his annual report told what had been
accomplished during the past year.
The title of being the largest agency
upon the Chicago yards was accord-
ed to the Producers on the basis of
the association's last year's report.
In the election of directors which
followed, Pat. O'Donnell. Colo, Iowa;
C. E. Ewing, Decatur, Illinois; and
W. H. Wischow, Winona, Minne
sola, were chosen to direct the poli-
cies of the association lor the com-
ing year.
Dairyman Gives Keynote Speech
Ex-Governor Frank O. Lowden
BOW president of the Holstein-Fries
Ian Association of America and of
tbe American Dairy Federation, In

!the afternoon addressed the assem
bly on "Co-operative Marketing of
HLlve Stock." The need for farmer

'l organization was the theme of his

fctalk. He pleaded for a united agri
culture and urged more efBclency in
the marketing system

Lowden compared the fluctuations
in the prices of farm products with
those of other raw materials like pig
iron prices on which are steadier
He defined normal and market price
and explained the supply which at
tects the market price as that part of
a crop which farmers as a body otter

jon the market at any given price. It
jis this supply, he told his hearers,
which economists mean when speak
Ing of the law of supply and demand
As to a general over-supply of farm
products, he said, "the world never
had a surplus since the time of Pha-
raoh, and it has' always been near

* starvation."

All economists agree that there

I must be equality of Informtalon if
' both parties to a transaction are to
I profit." He reminded his audience
I that there is much information con-
Iccrning periodic world shortages
!| which is wired to big corporation^
but which does not reach the pro-
ducer. "There can be no equ^lty
of Information," he warned, "until
the farmers are organized along all
the different lines concerned. Then
tkey can afford to hire as good brains
as the big corporations. " To do this
will be the cheapest investment they
ever fnade."

The former governor scored the

action of newspapers in playing up

the fact that farm products in the

I'nited States last year had Increased

(Continued on paBe ♦, column 4)

-t '^"i^ifi.OS '^^ FOB
BYSTEM —

i-? SECURE
AO EQUATE
UE&ISLATKX
AMOAr<lPLE
PUNOS TO
ERADICATE
TUBERCU105IS

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Barton

Committees l\amed and
Approved for This Year

County Home Bureaus

Federate and Elect

Officers, Directors

Our "63,000 thinking farmers'
making up the Illinois Agricultural
Association now have a sister or-
ganization — the Illinois Home Bu-
reau Federation.

During the annual Home Econom
ics Extension Conference held at thf
University in conection with Farm
ers' Week, January 14 to 15, twenty
county home bureaus of the statf
formed a federation. A constitution
was adopted, and the following of-
ficers and directors 'were elected:

Mrs. Spencer Ewlng, President
Bloomington.

Mrs. Will Parks, first vice-presi-
dent, Reynolds.

Mrs. H. M. Dunlap, second Hce-
president. Savoy.

Mrs. M. G. Lambert, secretary
Ferris.

Mrs. T. O. Elliott, treasurer, Har-
risburg.

Mrs. J. H. Bliss, director northern
listrlct, Aurora. .

Mrs. F. H. Soldwedel, director cen-
tral district, Pekin.

Mrs. H. J. Fauber, director- south-
ern district, Marion.

Mrs. Albert Mueller, director west-
ern district, Taylor Ridge.

The federation will have no official
headquarters for the present, but
committees will soon be announced.
"The federation," writes Mrs. Ewlng
'feels that the Illinois Agricultural
Association is a sort of big brother
and is looking to them for much wisf
counsel and good advice especially
along the lines of commerce and wc
shall need the benefit of your wis-
dom and experience."

ILLINOIS WINS AGAIN

Slxty-three litters in 27 counties
of Illinois were successful in making
the required weight of a ton in 180
days. This gives Illinois the lead
over all other states for the second
consedutive yfear in the ton litttr
work. , . -

Illinois Fruit Growers
Hire FuU-Time Sales

Manager To Fill Need

Kendall county. Earl Price, farm
adviser, is just three townships
square but there are five community
clubs in it.

That the co-operative selling of
fruit and vegetables is growing in
Illinois is shown by the necessity of
iecuring a full-time sales manager
''or the Illinois Fruit Growers, Inc.

A special committee representing
'he Illinois Fruit Growers, Inc., con-
usting of I. D. Snedeker, Jerscyville,
'^. O. Day, Olney, and Manager Lee-
)er, Centralia, as well as W. L. Cope
ind R. K. Loomls of the Fruit Grow-
>rs executive committee who were
n Chicago for the first meeting of
I. A. A. executives, met at the I. A. A.
>ffice and hired J. O. Lawrence, for-
iierly field manager of the Feder-
itcd Fruit and Vegetable Growers,
Inc., the national selling agency.
\Ir. Lawrence has been in the fruit
selling game some time, and was
ecommended as having first hand
tnowledge of consumer require-
-lents. He has at various times been
tationed at Hastings, Florida; Aber-
leen. North Carolina and Huntlng-
on. West Virginia. In 1923 he was
issistant sales manager at Centralia
under E. C. Albion.

The Illinois Fruit Growers, Inc.
las found a year-around need for a
iales manager, A. B. Leeper, mana-
ger, declares.

To Popularize Illinois Fruits

The new sales manager will d^
lote much of his time to populariz
ag Illinois fruits and vegetables
thru promotion work. It is the de-
sire of the special committee that
tbe new sales manager get acquaint-
ed as soon as possible with every
grower in every producing section
so he will know first hand jrhat he
Is selling and where it will Best suit
market conditions. He will also vis-
it the buyers to. find their likes and
dislikes.

"We are making a special, effort
to sell in nearby markets," Manager
Leeper said. "With a salesmanager
on full time, the Illinois Prult Grow
ers should be able to do even b^ter
than before."

Better schools, better h^mes, and

better children is the aim of- Pulaski
county Farm Bureau.

FOUR NEW COMMITTEEMEN PLUNGE INTO 1. A. A.
PROBLEMS AS EXECUTIVES START INTENSIVE
LEGISUTIVE PROGRAM WITH 3 BIG PROJECTS

Support Ga* Tax a* Means of Reducing Burden on General Prop-
erty; Constitutional Amendment Needed to Permit Equitable
Distribution of Government Costs; T. B. Eradication Laws
Wanted Re-coded with Compulsory Testing When 75 Per Cent
Have Tested

THE four new executive coniniitteemen elected by the delegates at the
annual meeting at Champaign last month plunged into the concen-
trated and state-wide business affairs of the dS.flO"
membership of Illinois Agricultural Association when
the first regular executive meeting was held Friday.
Feb. 6.

After getting better acquainted with he old mem-
bers, the committee got down to work for a busy buei-
ness session during which the legislative brograniof thi-
association received the most consideration. Pre'sident
Thompson presented his selection for the standing
committees for this year, the personnel of which ap-
pears in the adjacent column, and his judgment was
unanimously sustained by motion of the committee.
The standing committees were left largely as they had .
tieen in 1924, thus insuring a continuity of service from
the men who have given lll>erally of their time and
thought to working out I. A. A. problems.

In all cases the farm advisers were replaced by other
farm advisers. In pursuing this policy. President
Thompson said he lielieved that more farm advisers would l>ecome inti-
mately acquainted with the state a-xsociations' problems. Another point

I brought out by President Thompson

Iwas that he and Secretary Fox, In

Personnel of Standing iiaklng up the committees, had en

' '^ Ueavored to sprinkle the represents

[ton into all sections of the state.
However, he stated, careful consid-
;ratlon must always be made for
cnown experience and ability along
'ei fain iiiir-n.

liSgislHtive liines Drawn

No changes were made in the leg
islative committee. .\s a result, tht
I. A. A. legislative program as de-
cided upon by the 1924 executive
committee and endorsed by speciflr
resolutions at the annual meeting,
was presented in tentative-detail
form by chairman Barton for the
(egislative committee.

The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion legislative program, as outlined
a previous issue «f the Rkcubu.
embodies three major projects:

I. .4 11 Htiiendiiienf to the revenue
article of tlie present conHtitution to
[leniiil he < General AKNeinbly to c*i-
tablislt an e4|uitable system of taxa-
tion.

It was declared by President
Thompson, and by John C. )^'atson.
director of the department of Taxa^
tion and statistics, that an equitable
taxation system is impossible under
the limitations imposed by the pres-
ent revenue article of the State Con-
stitution. The burden of taxation,
Mr. Watson stated, is crushing on
real estate, whether urban or rural.
Neither wealth in its intangible form
nor income are carrying their share
of the burden. The only solution
lies in amending the revenue articlp
and until it is amended, the burden
will fall more and more heavily on
real estate.

.\ll Must ('<<>-operate

Mr. Watson pointed out that suc-
cess in any atj,enipt to amend the
constitution requires the co-opera-
tion of the most important organisa
tions of the state.. The constant ain
of the association has been to give
and secure fuch co-operation, and
thus far this purpose has been well
achieved. It is necessary for ever>
organization for the. present to for-
get its jown desires In re%'enue legis-
lation and for all important organi-
zations to u.nite in an attempt to
give the General .\88embly the neces-
sary powers to enact such revenue
acts from time to time as conditions
may require.

II. .* tax on Kasolitie to reidare
the present tax f>n profierl.^ ftu- the
State .\i<1 KoMls.

In support of such a tax in Illi-
nbis is its enactment up to date in
at>out 40 states of tt^e I'nion. Illi-
nois automobile users pay such a
tax vbeo they are in many other
(Continued OB pasr« 4. column 2)

The personnel of standiaj,- con;
mlttees for 1925 was presented tr
the executive committee at its Feb
6 meeting and approved.' In each
case, the first named in each com-
nittee is chairman. The appoint-
nents follow:

OrKiuiization: Earl C. Smith, De-
troit; J. C. Sailor, Cissna Park; L. E.
Rirdsall, Sterling; C. C. Painter
Stronghurst: F. A. Fisher, farm ad-
viser, Mt. Carmel.

Information: R. F. Karr, Iroquois;
J. M. Beckett. Blue Mound; F. E
F'uller, farm adviser, Henry.

Phos|)hate-Linie8tone: Stanley Cas-
tle, Alton; H. T. Marshall, Serena;
B. W. Tillman, farm adviser. Belle
ville.

.^rconntinK: Curt Anderson. Xen
la; Henry McGough, Maple Park; H
Fahrnkopf. farm adviser, Blooniina-
ton.

Taxation and K<luc«tion: J. L
Whisnand, Charleston; B. H. Tay-
lor, Papatee, R. 35; D. J. Hotter-
man. Sadorus.

Trans|>orlation : R. K. Looniis. Ma-
kanda; W.iA. -McNeill, Chandlerville;
W. W. Wilson, farm adviser, Prince-
ton.

Insurance: G. F. Tullock, Rock-
ford; 1. N. Hosford. Hamilton; Otis
Kercher, farm adviser, Danville.

Live Slock: Samuel Sorrels, Ray
mond; J. W. Whisnand. farm ad
viser, Cambridge; Ray .\rnold. Gales
burg.

Fruit and \eKet«ble: W. L. Cope.
Salem; L. L. Heller, farm adviser
.\rlingtofi Hts.; Oscar Plerson, Time-
well..

Goertbel. Hooppole:
Varna; C. E. Hay,
Taylorvllle; M. L.

Grain: H. E

A. R. Wright,
farm adviser.
Hunt, Macomb.

Poultry: C. E. Bamborough, Polo;
R.- C. Doneghue, farm adviser. Ma
comb; Curt Anderson. Xenia.

T. B. Committee: A. R. Wright.
Varna; Samuel Sorrells. Raymond;
William Webb, Joliet, R. 1; Geo
Hunt. Woodstock; J. E. Watt, farm
adviser, Geneva. ^

Dairy: William Webb, Joliet, R
1; Jacob Olbrlch, Harvard; A. E
Snyder, farm adviser, Hlllsboro.

Legislative: F. D. Barton, Cornell;
H. E. Goembel, Hooppole; A. C
Everlngham, Hutsonvllle.

Finance: Wm. H. Moody, P.ort By
ron; F. D. Barton, Cornell; Earl C.
Smith, Detroit.

<)

Page 2

The niJBOtt Agricultural Aj«oci«tion Record

Febrwary 14, 1925 Fefcraar

I LiLilIMOIS

CCTLTUBAL, ASSOCIAI

RECORD-

PubHshecl every other Saturday by (he Illinois Agrleultural
Association. 608 South Dearborn Street. Chicago. Illinois. Ed-
ited by department of Information. H. C- Butcher. Director.

Entered as second class matter Oct. l4, 1921. at the poit office
at ChicaKb. Illinois, under the act of March 3. 1879. Acceptance
for itiailiits at special rates of postage provided for in Section
1103.; Act iof October 3. 1917. authorise* Oct. 31. 1921.

1 1

The Individual membership
soclaition is live dollars a >
fifty, cents for subscription
ciatlfn Rbcokd.

embership fee of the Illinois Agricultutal As-

year. The fee includes payrhent of

to the Illinois Agricultural Asso-

Post^astfr: In returning an uncall*d-for or misseni copy,
pleaae Inc icate key number on address as is required by law.

11th
12th
13th
14th.
15th.
16th.
17th.
18th.
19th.
20th.
21st.
22nd
23rd
24th
25th

OFFH-KKS
President, S. H. Thoiiipsim, Quincr.
Vice-President, H. K. tioembel, Hooppolcj
Treasurer, K. A. Cimies, Blooniington.
Secretary-, (ieo. .\. Fox, Kycaniore.
E.XEOUTIVE COMMITTKE

Ity CnneresMlonal Dlstrict-s ■

William Webb, L*ckport

6. F. Tullock, Rockford

C. E. Bamborough, Polo

W. H. Moody, Port Byron

B. H. Taylor, Rapatee

A. R. Wright, Varna

., F. D. Barton. Cornell

., ....R. F. Karr, Iroquois

.1 .J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

Earl C. Smith, Detroit

Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

Stanley Castle, Alton

W. L. Cope, Salem

Curt Anderson,! Xenia

R. K. Loomis, Makanda

Directors of Departments
I. .\. A. Offlce

General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker; Or-
ganization, G. E. Met2ger: Information, H. C. Butcher: Trans-
portation, L. J. Quasey: Taxation and Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing^ A. B.
Leeptr; Live Stock Marketing, Wm. E. Hedgcock; Dairy
Marketing, A. O. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone, J. R. Bent;
in charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A. Gougler; special
representative on Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H. Petersen;

gal Counsel, Donald Kirkpatrick; Oo-operatlve Accounting,

0. R. Wicker.

PLAThX>K.M '

4dpance\ the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was orMuiized,
.mely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic,
ciai and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the
lion, an4 to develop agriculture.

lO^i

Ano^hmr Advantage of Working Togethwr

Eight ♦erum salesmen waited outside the door to the
Aj A. executive eommittee's nieetiiifr room on I'ebru-
y 2. Inside sat the board of directors of the Illinois
ini Bureau Serum Association representing 48 riounty
: irm Bureaus which were in the market for serum for
. e df th;ir members.

' Oqe by one the representatives of the scrum t'om])anies
Were call !d into conference with the hoard. Eacli sub-
mitted a written bid for his company anil si<riied i con-
tract! bini ling his company to stay with the bid. Three
otbeij companies bid by mail.

The boird of directors, after making necessary inves-
tigations,: will report the bids to the interested counties.
Fron^ thej companies reconimeiided, the county Far ii Bu-
reaus can choose the serum which they think will serve
their farjn bureau members best in the preveiitilon of
hog <)holera.

Quite 4 contrast to the olden days, isn't it?
It'b anbther argument for farmers getting together —
and ^ticking.

Bit of Modern Agrarian History

'Farmers E.\port Bill." which is really a redraft
! original Mc-Xary-Haiigen bill which was del eat ed
steri and southern opponents in the previois ses-
if Cdngress, has been introduced in both the f-enati
the riouse. Quite possibly farm bureau menbers
I net d of some explanation of the development

n the
Hau-

he McNary-Haugen campaign last year.

Mc^t ol us know that the legislation introduced
ast slessidn of Congress and known as the McNary
.:en bill ^as a measure that had its inception in nd par-
ficulir falrm organization. It was proposed by individ-
uals fvhoThad a sincere interest in improving the agri-
ultural situation in America.

The uKft'eme'nt rapidly gained support of various farm
rgai izations as its purpose became recognized. Among
•hese was'the Illinois Agricultural Association whieh be-
ime a recognized leader in the fight thatfoUowec .
Farm Bureau members in Illinois were largely respon-
sible for the strength of public opinion in the Middle
West which favored the bill even though certain inter-
ests lyere] strongly against it. Meetings were held in
sever»l sections of Illinois which gave first-hand knowl-
edge of the situation. Then a huge petition bearing
some 50,000 names of all classes of Illinois citizenii was
taken! by fPresident Thompson doWn to President Coo-
lidge [as aj sample of the sentiment.

In the ^neantime the Illinois Agricultural Association
had sjent ft representative down to Washington — 11. A.
Cowl^_. T her^ were representative* of other states and
orgaaizatipns there, too. They were fighting fo- the

same" thing, but were not bound together in any regular
form other than through the bond of common purpose.
The bill failed to pass in the House of Representatives in
the closing days of that session.

Before adjournment of Congress, the men who had
worked shoulder to shoulder at Washington in this ef-
fort and had done so at all times with complete unanim-
ity, pledged themselves to meet at St. Paul soon there-
after for the purpose of creating a body to deal with
this single subject.

The meeting at St. Paul was well attended. Repre-
sentatives were there from many national and state or-
ganizations. Illinois was represented by several County
Farm Bureau delegations as well as by ofiBcial represen-
tatives of the Illinois Agricultural Association. I. A. A.
men took active participation in the organization of the
Council. A charter member of the Rock Island County
Farm Bureau, George N. Peek of Moline, was elected
president and R. A. Cowles, I. A. A. treasurer, became
secretary of the Council.

The institution was set up in unique form and merely
as a Council representing the farm organizations asso-
ciated and to be associated with it. The American Coun-
cil of Agriculture was deliberately created as a single-
purpose organization. That purpose was to secure na-
tional legislation to bring about the practical disposal
of the problem of surpluses of major agricultural com-
modities— to secure equality for agriculture with In-
dustry and Labor. The Council was given ofBce space
by the I. A. A. and it made its headquarters here.

The Council occupies the field in a political sense, but
is strictly non-partisan. The securing of legislation of
such importance is in itself an undertaking of political
nature.

Perhaps the major project of the Council has been
its educational-publicity effort. The McNary-Haugen
campaign in itself was well worth all the money farm
organizations and individuals spent on it because it
brought public attention to the unfortunately low value
of the farmer's dollar. Considerable work was done by
the Council during the campaign last fall to secure
pledges from candidates for Congress supporting the
spirit of the McNary-Haugen bill.

On December 1, 1924, the Council held an open meet-
ing in Chicago at which many farm org:anizations were
represented which were sincerely interested in its pro-
gram. The meeting was well attended and free inter-
change of ideas and provisions to be incorporated into a
new bill which would embody the spirit of the McNary-
Haugen bill was had by all present. The executive com-
mittee of the Council was instructed to prepare such
legislation as had been suggested at the meeting and to
submit the proposal properly supported by brief and
argument first to the President's Agricultural Confer-
ence and through it to Congress.

On December 17, the Council submitted its prepared
memorandum to the members of the President 's Agricul-
tural Conference and later at the request of the chair-
man, Robert D. Carey, submitted a tentative draft of
the proposed legislation.

January 20 was set as a date for a meeting with the
President's Agricultural Conference at Washington.
The following representatives of the Council, and also
of their respective farm organizations, appeared before
the Conference and presented "the case of agriculture"
in a joint program: Geo. N. Peek, Moline, 111., president
of the Council; Frank W. Murphy, Wheaton, Minn.,
chairman of the Council's executive committee; R. A.
Cowles, treasurer of the I. A. A. and secretary of the
Council ; Charles E. Hearst, presidept of the Iowa Farm
Bureau Federation and chairman of the legislative com-
mittee of the American Farm Bureau Federation; Thom-
as Cashman, member of the executive committee of the
Miunesota Farm Bureau Federation; William Hirth,
member of the executive committee of the Missouri
Farmers Association; William Settle, president of the
Indiana Farm Bureau Federation and of the Indiana
Wheat Growers' Association; S. H. Thompson, president
of the Illinois Agricultural Association; Clifford N.
Strawman, general manager of the American Wheat
Growers Associated, Inc., and Newton Jenkins, legal
counsel of the American Wheat Growers Associated, Inc.

The presentation required the forenoon and afternoon
of the day and, as reported by Mr. Cowles, it is believed
that all statements made were well supported and war-
ranted by facts available and that opportunity was given
the President's Agricultural Conference to have thor-
oughly studied and analyzed the merits of the proposal
presented.

The group also appeared before the committees on
agriculture of both the Senate and House in a joint
evening meeting of these two committees. It is reported
that certain ones of the Senators and Representatives
who were at first critical came to see the merit of the
proposal. The presentation was received with extraor-
dinary interest and lasted well into the night.

The proposal which had been presented was then
drawn up into a bill and became known as "The Farm-
ers Export Bill." On Pebruarj' 3, it was introduced
in the Senate by Senator Chas. L. McNary, a member of
the Senate conimittee on agriculture (S. B. 4185). It
was headed : "To prevent recurrence of agricultural
depression; to place agricultural commodities upon an
equality under the Tariff Laws with other commodities;

to place agriculture on equality with Industry and La-
bor ; and for other purposes. ' '

On the same day the companion bill was introduced
in the House by Congressman G. N. Haugen (H. R.
12127). The outline of the proposed bill as submitted
to the President's Conference and the agricultural com-
mittees of the Senate and House, contained the follow-
ing principal points :

(a) The creating of a Farm Export Corporation with
powers to divert a surplus above domestic needs to the
world market so that co-operative marketing associations,
assisted by the buying activities of the farmers' export
corporation, may be able to make the protective tariff ef-
fective In equalizing differences in cost of production or
major farm commodities in the United States and In com-
peting foreign countries.

(b) Power to collect from each unit of each commodity
handled In this manner as It moves In trade an amount
sufHcient to prevent Impairment of working capital.

(c) The corporation to be composed of 15 Individuals, the
Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Agriculture, and
the Secretary of Commerce, to represent the public interest;
and twelve Individuals appointed by the President, one
from each of the twelve Federal Land Bank districts, from
nominations made In each district by bona flde farm or-
ganizations. The life of the corporation to extend to June
30. 1930.

(d) Fifty million dollars to be advanced from the funds
of the War Finance Corporation (this represents practi-
cally the earnings of this Corporation), returnable out of
the equalization fees which will be collected In the manner
prescribed in (b).

(e) The corporation would have a broad grant of gen-
eral and special powers. Is directed to do business through
existing agencies, but authorized to deal directly. Powers
would Include authority to operate with a premium .or
bounty on exports If desired.

(f) Miscellaneous provisions including power of restric-
tion of imports by proclamation of the President, utiliza-
tion of services of government agencies In collection of
equalization fees, and In other ways: penalty clauses, etc.

We are advised by the Council that the present short
session of Congress, which automatically adjoyims March
4, and all pending measures undisposed of in the ses-
sion die with it, that there is little opportunity in the
short time now available, with the many other measures
pressing for attention, to get the bill passed in this ses-
sion. It lies wholly within the discretion and pleasure of
the administration's "steering committee" to give right
of way or definite schedule to pending measures.

The Farmers Export Bill has sufficient individual
support to secure its passage in this session, we are ad-
vised. The steering committee may or may not elect
to exercise its powers to expedite enactment. The Coun-
cil believes "not."

Representatives of the Council are now in Washington
exerting their utmost effort to properly advance the bill.
In case nothing is secured in this session, the Council
has set as its purpose the preservation and maintenance
of its present support, and be ready to carry the issue
to the next Congress which convenes December 1, 1925.

Cletka At Firtt Feared Cath Regittere'

Modem business practice recognizes the vital need
for accounting records which will accurately and readily
reveal the financial facts of a business enterprise. The
cash register plays an important part in the business of
today. It provides a simplified system of accounting for
many businesses and is a part of a much more complete
accounting system in m^ny others.

However, when the cash register was first introduced
clerks organized against it. They considered it a re-
flection on their honesty to be required to punch a ma-
chine to record the sales. They considered that it had
been invented just to check up on them. The cash regis-
ter is now considered necessary equipment in many busi-
ness institutions.

Improvements are continually being made in systems
of accounting just as there are improvements in radio
and automobiles'. Any system must be adapted to the
business and not the. business to the system. The sys-
tem of accounting must not only be efficient from the
standpoint of giving all the information necessary to
the welfare of the business but from the standpoint of
reducing the bookkeeping and auditing expense to a min-
imum.

There are two theories in regard to auditing. One is
that an audit should simply certify to the correctness
of the accounts and that the correct entries are made
and the accounts properly classified.

Another theorj* is that an audit not only should in-
clude the above but should give facts, based on figures,
relative to the general policies that should be adopted,
point out where the leaks are in the business and also
where improvements can be made.

It used to be that . an auditor was n.ever called in
unless it was thought that somebody had gotten away
with some money or when the business was in a bad con-
dition. Now auditing is considered aS essential for the
protection of the manager and the board of directors. It
has been said that a pedigree is not worth any more
than the man that makes it. Likewise an audit does not
stand for any more than the individual or organization
that makes it.

Directors of farmers' co-operative associations are de-
manding the best in accounting and auditing service.
They are interpreting auditing in the broadest sense.

They want an audit service that will give them the
truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and
also one that will not only protect the board of directors
and the manager but will increase the confidence and
loj'alty of the stockholders.

Such is the service being rendered by the auditing
and business advisory subsidiary of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association — the I. A. C. A. — which functions as
the I. A. A. department of co-operative accounting.

cmcA

Ito Stor
Ute

P««
Gr«

The

story xv}

merger

) is recogi

The art

I' reau me
Sinct
Kane co
investigi
has pnn
to the n
after th
doubt
tvas app
compan
The
now as
I attitude
J A seal
I Illinois '
' the oper

jooo.ooo

jtion bas
( Agriculti
farmers'
learned 1
1 The Ol
I is awalt(
I officers 0
'who haV'
jpeatedly
sponse, 1
jvator me
• The G
' was orgi
' as a co-o]
I for the
farmers,
the propi
company,
company,
the Davii
pany. Si
erations
the high
made re
West Vi
other ofll
I have beei
'those in
[grain slti
Began
I Stock 1
I for the ni
its organ
of the mi
stock, wl
share, mi
year in o
that amc
capital.

The st(
with var:
Indiana,
ers' orga)
the corpi
nlte Info
status of
panics. I
inclined,
stock-sell
in Illinoii
Plan
The pi
corporati
briefly as
■The fo
their ele\
beginnini

(lease the
business
proximat
jbasis of I
lin progr
jonly now
l The CO

! merger a
of manag
ing capil
erations.
tMeann
.corporati
000.000
purchase
land furn
ital. As
»4,000.0(
posed of
Busine
the past,
invested
(bat flgu
eratlng <
members
Hi
i From
foperativt
(the new

nmry 14, 192S

Fthmary 14, 192S

The IlKnoi* AgrioJtund Awociation Record

P^re 3

ustry and La-

ras introduced
augen (H. K.
1 as submitted
'icultural corn-
ed the f ollow-

poratlon with
needs to the
^ asaoctations,
rmers' export
;tlve tariff ef-
productlon of
a and in com-

ch commodity
de an amount
: capital,
idlvtduals. the
^rlculture, and
ubllc interest;
Preaident. one
districts, from
flde farm or-
ixtend to June

rom the funds
eaents practi-
irnable out of
in the manner

grant of gen-
liness through
BCtly. Powers
L premium or

^er of restrlc-

lident, utlUza-

collectlon of

y clauses, etc.

1 present short
djoums March
of in the ses-
rtunity in the
>ther measures
ied in this ses-
,nd pleasure of
' to give right
lasures.

3nt individual
on, we are ad-
may not elect
It. The Coun-

in Washingto.n
Ivance the bill.
a, the Council
d maintenance
;arry the issue
ember 1, 1925.

egittert

he vital need
:ly and readily
terprise. The
he busineffi of
accounting for
more complete

rst introduced
lered it a re-
punch a ma-

d that it had
The cash regis-

in many busi-

ide in systems
aents in radio
dapted to the
em. The sys-
ient from the
necessary to
standpoint of
)ense to a min-

liting. One is
he correctness
ries are made

ily should in-
ed on figures,
be adopted,
iness and also

ver called in
gotten away
) in a bad con-
iential for the
f directors. It
rth any more
audit does not
r organization

at ions are de-
iiting service,
roadest sense.
^ive them the
the truth and
•d of directors
onfidenee and

the auditing
inois Agricul-
1 functions as
^counting.

NEWSPAPER'S STORY INFERS DUSKY GENTLEMAN IN MERGER WOODPILE

CHICAGO EVENING POST OF SAT., JAN. 31,
CARRIES STORY ON PAGE ONE DISCLOSING
INTERESTING NEWS ON $26,000,000 MERGER

It* Story Re-printed to Show Farm Bureau Members Facts as Re-
lated by Newspaper Having Leading Financial and Market
Pages; Refutes Claim of Merger that it Caused the Increase in
Grain Prices; Merged Interests Did Not Answer Questionnaire.

The Chicago Evening Post of Jan. 31, 1925 on page one carried the
story which is re-printed below. It pertains to the $26,000,000 grain
merger and represents the attitude of the Chicago newspaper which

I is recognized as having the leading financial and market report pages.
The article is re-printed verbatim for the information of farm bu-
reau members.

Since this article appeared in the Post, Senator Kessinger of
Kane county introduced a resolution in the Senate asking for a state
investigation of the Grain Marketing Company and Prairie Farmer
has printed the suppressed Livingston report which was unfavorable
to the merger and which President Thompson did not see until long
after the deal had been completed. He was a member, as you no
doubt remember, of the American Farm Bureau Federation which
was appointed to consider the advisability of taking over the old-line
companies and stood solidly against the deal.

The attitude of the Illinois Agricultural Association is the same
now as when the results of its investigation were announced. The

, attitude is one of non-indorsement.

A searching investigation by the

f Illinois commerce commission into

the operating methods of the $26,

1000,000 Grain Marketing corpora
tion has been aslted by the Illinois
Agricultural association, the leading
farmers' group in the state, it was
learned today.
i The outcome of the investigation
I is awaited eagerly, not only by the
I officers of the farmers' organization
'who have asked for information re
, peatedly without satisfactory re-
sponse, but by farmers' grain ele-
jvator men generally.
' The Grain Marketing corporation
was organized last July, ostensibly
as a co-operative wheat sales venture
for the benefit of grain-growing
farmers. The corporation absorbed
the properties of the Armour Grain
company, the J. Rosenbaum- Grain
company, Rosenbaum Brothers and
the Davis-Noland-Merrill Grain com-
pany. Since then claims that its op
eratlons have been responsible for
the high price of wheat have been
made repeatedly by Gray Silver
West Virginia fruit grower, and
other officers of the company, and
I have been ridiculed as impossible by
'those in close touch with the world
[grain situation.

BeKan Stock Promotion Work
Stock promotion work was begun
I for the new corporation shortly after
,its organization. Under the terms
of the merger $4,000,000 in class A
stock, with a par value of $25 a
share, must be sold by July of this
year in order to retire bank loans of
that amount advanced for working
capital.

The stock sales have thus far met
with varying success. The leading
Indiana, Illinois and Kansas farm
ers' organizations refused to indorse
the corporation without more defl
nlte information as to the financial
status of the merged elevator com-
panies. Others were more favorably
inclined. At present an intensive
stock-selling campaign is in progress
in Illinois and Iowa.

Pbm of .Organization In Brief
The plan of organization for the
corporation may be summarized
briefly as follows:

■The four companies after leaving
their elevator properties for the year
'beginning last July, are to sell and

i lease these properties, good will and
business to the corporation for ap
pro.\lmately $16,400,000, on the
« basis of an appraisal which has been
in progress for some time, and is
Jonly now being completed.
I The companies participating in the

(merger also agree to furnish a board
of managers and $4,000,000 in work
ing capital for the first year's op
eratlons.

(Meanwhile, the Grain Marketing
^corporation agrees to dispose of $26,
000,000 in stock in order to ,pay the
purchase price set for the elevators,
land furnish additional working cap-
ital. As stated earlier in the article
$4,000,000 in this stock is to be dis-
posed of by July, 1925.
I Business is to be conducted as in
the past, with g per cent paid on the
Invested capital and all profits above
lliat figure, after deductions for op-
erating expenses-, to be refunded to
members on a patronage basis.

Has Been Storm Center
1 From the outset, according to co-
(operative and grain market leaders
I the new company has been a storm

center of controversy as to its real
nature and purpose.

It has been charged variously thf
plan of organization takes in obso
lete elevators at inflated basis ol
physical valuation and good will
that the corporation is handling fai
in excess of the 50 pes cent inaxi
mum in grain allowed by the Cap
per-Volstead act for non-members
that the insurance rates on grain
stored in the elevators affected art
much higher than in modern struc-
tures and that the corporation a:
now constituted is in reality a bif;
commission house rather than a tru
co-operative venture, which is takiu^
advantage of the privileges afforded
the farmers' sales groups by special
legislation.

Refuses to Comment on Charges

Opportunity to comment on these
charges was offered the corporation
and declined.

The story of the attempt by the ex
ecutive committe of the Illinois Ag
ricuitural association to obtain light
on some of these phases of the raer
ger was told today by George A. Fo:
secretary of the association.

In July of this year the associa
tion's e.vecutlve committee sought in
formation from the Grain Marketing
corporation as follows:

1. Does the financial record of
each of the merging companies jus
tify the conclusion that the merger
will be a successful investment for
farmers over the next five years?

2. Are the by-laws and contracts
of the new company so drawn le-
gally as to Insure full and complete
control of all the affairs by the board
of directors elected solely by the
farmer members?

3. Are the terminal and local ele-
vators owned by the merger so sit
uated that they can successfully
serve the farmers in competition in
all the grain markets in the United
States?

Data Souf;ht Re|ieatedly

This information, according to Fox.
was sought repeatedly in the hope it
would enable the I. A. A. to reach an
independent conclusion on each of
these vital questions.

"In the first place," Fox contin
ued, "no information was given the
I. A. A. as to the financial position
of the merging companies, showing
their profits or losses for the last five
years.

"This was a fair business question
— one any reliable banker would ask
before passing on any investment
propostion. Since no information
was forthcoming, the Illinois Agri
cultural association could get no In
formation as to the merger's possi
bilities for the next five years.
Three Months No Test

"The Illinois Agricultural associa-
tion executives and officios realized
the grain business is subject to wide
fluctuations and feel certain no con-
clusion can be drawn by any refer-
ence to a short term of operation as.
say, the last three months, when,
every grain trading firm has made
great profits.

"If the merging companies have a
satisfactory record on an average
over a five-year period, they have had
ample opportunity to furnish it to
the executive committe of the Illi-
nois Agricultural association for in
formation of its farm bureau mem-
bers whom it is seeking to protect

Refusal to furnish that informa-
rion seems very significant.

I/egai Control in Doubt (

"As to the second point," Fox con-
tinued, "the Illinois Agricultural as-
sociation has been given copies of
the by-laws and contract tor purchase
and lease. From an examination of
the papers furnished, it is quite evi-
lent legal control rests somewhere
between the mergii^ companies and
he board of managers. .\t least it
■an be safely stated full and com-
ilete legal control, such as is abso-
utely necessary in any true co-op-
■rative organization, does not rest
vith the farmer-members or direc-
ors elected by farmer-m'embers.

"In the third place, the Illinois
\gricultural association has made a
■areful survey of grain statistics as
Ificially published by the United
-states bureau of markets, and from
)ther official sources in the grain |
rade. This survey of business indi- 1
^ates the properties of the merged [
nterests operated by the Grain Mar-!
keting corporation are not located or
listributed advantageously under ex-
sting conditions of the grain trade,
ind that the present trend of general
movement of grain points to a rapid !
lecline of the utility and value of
'hese properties in addition to obso-
escence and natural depreciation.

"This business survey indicated
he merged facilities can only be used!
dvantageously where there is a ris-
ng market due to a world-wide grain
atastrophe. Averages determined by
lormal operations over a term of
ears is the only information upon
v'hich a conclusion can be safely
■jased."

The National Council of Farmers'
Cooperative Marketing assocaitione
s the outgrowth of the co-operative
larketing conference called a little
)ver a year ago by former Governor
.owden. From the outset, this or-
ganization, thru Aaron Sapiro and
Hher leaders, has opposed the new
marketing corporation.

Sapiro ridiculed the claims of Gray
Silver, made recently in Washington,
that the marketing corporation was
responsible for wheat price levels.
Holds Claim as Itidirulous

"The claims are ridiculous," he
said. "What do they think they are?
Do they think they created the world
wheat shortage?

"What I object to most is their
posing as a co-operative marketing
association when they're operating
as a straight commission house."

Specifically. Sapiro charged the
marketing company violated the Cap-
per-Volstead act by^ handling grain
at non-members in excess of the 50'
per cent allowed by the federal law,
and in other ways operating just as
any normal commission house does,
and was doing this under cover of
the privileges allowed co-operative
farmers' organizations.

Sapiro's allegations, and those
from other sources, were embodied
in a questionnaire which, among
other things, asked for a statement
as to the percentage of non-member
wheat handled by the corporation if
it is not violating the Capper-Vol-
stead act.

Questionnaire \ot .Answered |

The qnestionnaire was submitted i
at the offices of the Grain Marketing:
corjioration and assurance wa.s given I
that they would be answere<l in writ-
ing b.v the following morning.

The questionnaire was called for
<t the apiiointed time, but a change [
of heart had occurred in the interral
The answers, it wa.s announce<l. could
iiot be given '*now.**

So the farmers' organizations and
the other opponents of the corpora-
>ion are awaiting the inquiry by the
Illinois Commerce commission to as-
■ertain whether the corporation is in
reality a true co-operative organiza-
tion.

DEMAND T. B. FREE

MILK BY JULY 1

The first resolution ever passed by
a co-operative organization of pro-
ducers in Illinois Imposing upop
themselves the strict requirement
that all herds within their organiza-
tion shall be either accredited or on
the way to accreditation by state and
federal authorities was passed at a
general meeting Feb. 9 of members
■y! the Quincy Co-operative Milk Pro-
ducers Association, according to A.
D. Lynch, director of the department
nt dairy marketing, who addressed
the group.

There are 92 herds represented in
the association. Lynch says, and the
restriction is to become effective on
and after July 1, 1925.

Claim Department Makes
Macoupin Farmer Smile;
Strengthens F.B. Sup[>ort

'Twas the tale of a lonesome
shoat. Down in Macoupin
county. Defective railroad
fence. Shoat wiggled through.
Got killed by locomotive, or
otherwise annihilated. Charles
Birkenmayer. Madora. ex-own-
er, demands redress. Wants
market price of porker. Rail-
road turns deaf ear. What to
do; Charles notifies I. .\. .\.
transportation department.
The fun begin."!. L. J. Quasoy.
director, investigates and later
negotiates a five-spot from UR
clain) agent.

Tale tails off happily. Charles
is satisfied. "Writes to Quasey:
"I could not afford not to be-
long to our Jersey county Farm
Bureau, or to the Producers
Live Stock company, and the
bank, the store, and elevator.
I just joined another organiza-
tion in St. Louis recently — the
Missouri Valley Implement and
Hardware, which is $10.00 per
year. The good speeches I
heard by real he-men at their
' convention was worth the price.
'Good equipment makes a cood
farmer better.' Hope you are
going good and have a big year,
and I feel we are. if we only
get good weather.

"Your booster,

"Chas. Birkenmayer."

Have you a tale to tell like
this one? We are in the mar-
ket for it. The RntiRP is here
to serve you.

I. A. C. A. MEMBERSHIP
IS STEADILY GROWING

Knox county leads the state in the
numt>er of farmer co-ops holding
« Op membership >n the I.A.C.A.
I %^ Its sev^n members are the
*•"' Williamsfleld Live Stock
Shipping Association; the Wili%ms-
Held Farmers Co-operative Associa-
tion, Inc.; Altona Co-operative Grain
Company; Gilson Farmers Co-opera-
tive Company; Knox county Farm
Bureau; De Long Live .Stock Ship-
ping Association; and Rapatee Farm-
ers Co-operative Grain Company.

The most recent farmer co-opera-
tive to Join the ranks of the I. .\. C.
.\. is the Savanna. Marcus, and Hick-
ory Grove Live Stock Shipping .\sso-
ciation, in Carroll county. This
brings the total memlwrship up to
135. "Farmers' co-operative associa-
tions, " says Vernon Vaniman. field
organizer, "are explaining one to
another the auditing service and are
appreciating the advantages of co-
operating together."

Colusa Elevator Xot In

It had been stated thru the I. A.
A. information department that the
farmers' elevator at Colusa in Han-
cock county had become a member
of the I. A. C. A. This information
was baaed on a request for an audi-
tor and a definite date was set for
his working on tb+ Colusa elevator's
books. This was taken as meaning
that the Colusa ebevator would sign
the contract. W^en the auditor got
there he found that other arrange-
ments had been made for an aud'it
and the contract h^d not been signed.
Field Organizer viniman states that
he will call on the board of directors
in the near future.

UTAH MAN CHOSEN TO
REPLACE COVERDALE
AS A.F.B.F. SECRETARY

Answers to Call of "Marketing
Counsel;" Was Attorney for
the Utah SUte Farm Bureau

Frank Evans of .Sail Lake Cil.v
Utah, has bees secured as the new
secretary of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation. His lille will b^
that of "marketing counsel." H'
will also perform the secretarial du
ties. President Thompson was on :i
special committee ap|K>inted by Pref
idem Bradfute of the A. I" B. F
which recommended Mr. Evans.

In additipn t<i the selection of Mi
Evans as ceneral marketing counsel
the .\. F. B. F. Kxecutive Board m
its last meeting announced the re
establishment of complete amity b<'
tween the national office and the In
(liana .<iale Farm Bureau office; the
appointment of K. V. Taylor as di
rector of organization; the adoption
of a rfM^olution endorsing bills nou
in Congress which propose amend
ments of the packer-stock >ard ad
ministration act which will prevent
that act from prohibiting certaii
state government services in stoci<
>"ards. and adoption of a- resolution
.-itating the Farm Bureau's (>o8itioii
regarding pending legislation on lh<
disposition of Muscle Shoals.

'This Muscle Shoals resolution
urges "first, thai farni--r board of
control should be provided for; sec
ond. that rf>asonable limitation b«
placed on profits to be realiz<'d. and
that if less power i»er ton of fertilizei
IS found practicable in future years.
such development will be reflected
in decreased tonnage of fertilize!
rather than in sate or rental of tie
power."

E. P. Taylor, who was named di
rector of organization of the A. V
' B. F.. has been in charge of organi
jzation field activities for the Fedei
ation'for the paKt three years and hi-.^
[been actively in charge of the depart
ment of orRanizalion for the past six
months. ^

Frank Kvans, who has b«»4»n named
general marketing counsel, hav
served as the attorney for the Ulal!
State Farm Bureau for thr»H' years,
has been a directoc of the Utah State
Farm Bureau for three years and has
been member of the executive board
of the A. F. B. F. for the same length
of lime. Mr. Evans, who is owi^er
of farming interests in Utah and whu
has actively practiced law in Sail
I^ke City for the past 23 years, has
been closely identified with develop-
ment of co-oiM-rative marketing
throughout the West. He has been
organizing counsel for a great num-
ber of commodity associations in
Utah and Idaho and other western
slates.

FOUR COUNTIES HIRE

FARM BOOKKEEPER

Another step in increasing farm
efficiency has beep taken by farm
bureau members in four progressive
Illinois counties.

No less than 232' farmers of Wood-
ford. Livingston. Tazewell, and Mc-
Lean counties ha\*e enrolled in the
new four-county fprm bureau man-
agemejit service, the first such proj-
ect to be organize! In America. M.
L. Moshcr, extension specialist in
farm organization and management
for the state college of agriculture, is
to be iU fleldman. The project It-
self is the outgrowth of a farm ac-
counting project Mr. Mosher conduct-
ed during the site years that he
served as farm adviser for the Wood-
ford county Farm Bureau.

Presents Resolution

Asking I. A. A. to Have
I. C. C Representative

Samuel Sorpells. executive com-
'mitteeman for the 2l8t district, pre-
sented at the Feb. 6 meeting of the
executives, a resolution passed by the
Montgomery County Farm Bureau
instructing him "to ask the I. A. A.
executive committee to 'secure the
services of a competent man to reji-
resent the farmers of Illinois before
the Illinois Commerce Commission.
His first job is to investigate the
proposed raise in rates of the Illi-
nois Telephone companies and to-6ee
if these companies are eniiiled to the
raise. Secondly, to work to secure a
ruling to compel telephone compan-
ies to transfer messages froiA one
company line to another allowing
them to charge sufficient toll to cov»'r
cost of transfer. Furthermore, thai
said representative be on hand at all
limes to imestigate ^opoB<*d rate in-
creases by public unlity conipanles
and to secure the neissary infonifti-
tion, facts and figures to protect the
farmers' interests."

The executive committee voted to
leave It up to the officers to deter-
mine the advisability of securing
such representation and report back
at the next executive committee
meeting.

CHILD LABOR BOX. FAILS

The child labor amendment to the
Constitution has been beaten. The
measure has fallen short of ratifica-
tion by the necessary three-fourths
of the state legislatures.

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Page 4

The lllinoi» Agricultur*! AnocUtlon Record

Febru«ry 14, 192S

I.A.C.A. HEAD MADE
TRUSTEE OF NEW
CO-OP INSTITUTE

American Institute t)t Co-opera'

tion to Train for Co-op Man-

' ^ement; O.K.'d by Economists

Re(^rd rfadera. who have been fol-
lowing! up the rapid strides made by
the lllinoig Agricultural Co-opera-
tives' Association since the time of
its estkblishnient last May, will be
Klad t* hear that George E. Wicker.
seneraJ mapag'er of the farmers' au-
diting and advisory service company,
has been Elected to trusteeship for
I ne ye»r in the American Institute of
Co-op^ation, recently incorporated
er the ikws of the District of Co-
bi£i, at Washington,
he Insttitute is a unique educa-
al entejrprise and it will train
' Iff menj and women for careers
co-joper^tive business undertak-
It wkll afford a medium IhriTp
■■! -h I co-operative leaders may ex-
ili.viga experiences. It will demon-
' ite I to polleges and universities
I tils nl?w phase of business can
effectively taught in economic
. ■ ■•ses.
.he pro.iect has the backing of
(■' 1 organizations representing over
lO.OOO farmers. Agricultural co-
operative iissociatlons already sup-
!iortin^ it have an estimated annual
turnovier of more than Jl, 000, 000,-
000. In addition it has the official
sanction olj organizations represent-
ing tile st^te departments of agri-
culture, stfcte bureaus of markets,
teachers of agricultural economics
and tUe Uj S. Department of Agri-
culture. I

Ed«4. B. ^eid, representative of the
\. F. b- Fi, Washington, D. C. and
H. C. Taylor, chief of the federal
bureau of ajgricultural economics, are
amongi the incorporators of the
inovenlent

Other national farm organizations
with which! the Illinois Agricultural
.Vssocittioni participated in launch-
ing the Institute are; ' ""^i'^ known as

7'" American Farm Economics As-

tion: ithe National Association of

lisaion^ra. Secretaries and Depart-

^ , of Aj?riculture; The National

K^. Pi^rons of Husbandry: The

ican Farm Bureau Federation;

F^rmeja' Educational and Co-op-

ve Unl0n of America; The National

aerative Milk Producers* Federa-
The Niational Board of Farm Or-

'.ations; National Association -of
^ -;etlnK Officials; The Sun-Maid

in Grdwera of California; The
.-in.^rioan Committee on the Interna-
tional Institute of Agriculture at
Rome; The Federated Fruit and Vege-
table Growers; The Staple Cotton Co-
operative Association of Mississippi;
The National Pecan Growers' Ex-
change; Tlje Pennsylvania Farmers'
(^-operative Federation; The Farmers'
.National Grain Dealers' Association.

EXECUTIVE MEETS

FOR YEAR'S WORK

,^ (Continued from page 1)
states. The numerous tourists who
cross Illinois pay! nothing for the up
keep of Illinois roads. A gasoline
tax is easily collected and adminis
tered. The cost i)f collection In other
states is much lejs than one per cent
of the amounts (collected annually.

It was estimated by Mr. Watson of
the department ef taxation and sta
tistics. that a tax ot one cent per
gallon on gasoline sold in Illinois
would produce about 15.000,000 per
year, and a tax at two cents per gal-
lon would produce about $10.0()0,-
000 per year. These sums are for
gasoline used sqlely for propelling
motor vehicles oti public roads, pro-
vision being ma4e for refunds on
gasoline used far agricultural pur-
poses (tractors and stationary gaso-
line engines), and for industrial or
domestic purposes.

Watson »ys It's Fair
The fairness at a gasoline tax to
replace the propen-ty tax for the main-
tenance and repair of the State Aid
Roads was discussed by Mr. Watson.
Be pointed out the fact that at pres-
ent property carries the entire bur-
den of county aiid local government
and most of the burden of state gov-
ernment. Property is now maintain
ing the State Aid Roads and other
highways not included in the State
hard road systein. Automobile and
truck owners receive all the benefits
of government that other property
owners receive. Through license
fees they are building and maintain-
ing hard pavements on less than 10
per cent of the primary or most im-
portant roads of the state. They are
demanding good roads on the sec-
ondary and othfr highways of the
state, though tlkey now contribute
very little toward the cost ot main-
taining such roatis. If the automobile
and truck owners, through a gaso
Line tax, assum^ the cost of main
taining the secondary system of high

Has Means

Figures were
Watson to show

move nearly all
erty tax of more
State Aid Roads,

State Aid Roads,

DENMAN IS PRESIDENT
NATIONAL PRODUCERS

The National Live Stock Produc-
ers Association, in annual meeting at
Chicaao recently, elected C. B. Den-
man pfesident. Denman is president
of thei St. Louis Producers Commls-
.sion Company and was the first pres-
ident of tWe first Producer Commis-
^{ion Company organized.

A Si^kesJ Ida Grove, Iowa, presi-
dent of the Chicago producers, was
chosen vice-president of the National
Produters. Harry G. Beale. Colum-
bus. Ohio, was made secretary-treas-
urer. New directors elected to the
board are |Scot Meiks, representing
the Cincinitati Producers, and H. H.
Cable, for the Sioux City Producers.

Resolutit^ns were adopted express-
ing appreciation of national and state
Farm Bureku support; endorsing the
administration of the Packer Stock
Yard regulations; opposing country
buying by packers: urging elimina-
tion ol hogj dockage: and urging the
ixtenslon ot the marketing service of
the federal Department of Agricul-
ture.

Delegates at the convetation went
on record as recognizing radio as an
iinporCant fneans to reach live stock
producers

ORDEK MY \AMK

I, A. A. members who wish
copies of some ot the speeches
made at the tenth annual meet-
ing at I Urbana may receive
them byj writing to the I. A. A.
office. One pamphlet contains
the speeches of R. A. Hoey.
S. H. Qreeley. and the grain
marketiitg discussion. The
o t b e r I pamphlet has C. J.
Brand's talk.

property will sti I maintain between
to per cent and 75 per cent of all
the roads in eyery county in the
state

of Distribution
presented by Mr,
that a tax ot two
cents per gallon bn gasoline could be
distributed in su ch a way as to re
5f the present prop-
than $4,000,000 for
and yet give nearly
every county as much money as can
now be raised by a property tax. A
better system ot distribution would
give every county in the state more
funds than it could now raise by the
property tax an4 leave a sum of at
least three million dollars tor meet-
ing the special needs of the State
Aid Roads wherever such need is
greatest, particularly in the counties
having the larger cities ot the state.

Would Itelieve Farm I^o|)erty •

"The tax on Illinois property for
State Aid Roid purposes now
amounts to mor; than four million
dollars a year," said Mr. Watson.
';The lowest tax rates for this pur-
pose or no leviei at all are usually
found in the counties which have a
large amount of :ity property. Max-
imum tax rates or rates approach-
ing the maximuit are found in most
ot the countie^ having relatively
small amounts )t city and village
property. For ttiese two reasons it
is probable that the plan proposed
by the Illinois ./Agricultural Associa-
tion would relie^'e farm property ot
about one-halt ot the total tax sav-
ing, or at least two million dollars
a year. The Slate Aid Road tax
would be paid hy those who use the
roads most and who are most in-
sistent in their demands for good
roads. In considerable measure it
would be paid liy citizens of other
States who use Illinois roads. It
would be paid also by farm owners
ot motor vehicles, but they would
usually gain bcth in the reduced
property tax and in having better
roads. The greater portion ot the
road system, as it present would be
maintained by a property tax. The
larger amount yt money available
under this plan £hould give the state
better roads, an 1 by increasing the
mileage per gallon and decreasing
the wear and tear on motor vehicles.
Should reduce thi! net cost of the sys-
tem to those who pay the gasoline
tax."

llf. Contlnuaition and expansion
of the effort toward eradication of
kovlne tuberculosis.

Legislation pursuits on tubercu-

losis eradication will be along the
line of furthering the good work now
BO splendidly under way in its eradi
cation. The legislative committee's
report on this showed that a general
re-coding of the several acts enacted
at various times to further t. b. erad
ication, some of which are not clear
and specific, will be sought. A bill
will be supported which provides for
compulsory testing, as well as em-
bodying the old acts, when a sub-
stantial majority of herd-owners in
a county have had their herds tested,
probably 75 per cent. Other details
will be sought in order to protect
those who have done their patriotic
duty and suffered their losses.

After Rabbits, Too

A bill has been introduced in the
Honse of Representatives by Repre-
sentative Tice, chairman Barton re-
ported, that provides for a 12 -month
open season on rabbits. The I. A. A.
is also behind this move.

"It ought to be a 13-montb a year
open season," Executive Taylor re-
marked. ""They surely are becom-
ing a pest down-state."

That even closer co-operation be-
tween University extension workers
and I. A. A. directors and officials is
in the offing is shown by a friendly
visit ot H. W. Mumtord, dean of the
College ot Agriculture. The dean
suggested that the I. A. A. program
of work oould be explained first-hand
to all the farm advisers to good ad-
vantage if a representative ot the
association were present at the meet-
ings ot extension workers and farm
advisers. This suggestion was agreed
to.

Invited to University

Further, the I. A. A. directors are
invited to be guests ot the University,
probably next tall, at which time the
experimental and extension work
will be gone over. This is in line
with maintaining close connections
between the two tremendous forces
in Illinois agriculture.

'After all." the Dean said, "the
College ot Agriculture and the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association are
working tor one and the same per-
son— the farmer."

This attitude was heartily agreed
to by the executives. That close co-
operation helps eliminate duplica-
tions ot work, was pointed out in a
discussion which followed.

"We believe," said Secretary Fox.
"that the I. A! A. should do nothing
that the College
ot Agriculture can
and will do. but
of course we real-
ize that the Col-
lege ot Agricul-
ture is supported
by money from all
ttie tax-payers and
of course that money could not be
used to further the farmers' inter-
est in such things as actual market-
ing of farm products, negotiations
for the purchasing of fertilizers or
reduction of taxes. These are econ-
omic problems that the I. A. A. must
work on and which are undertaken
and prosecuted purely In the in-
terests of farmers who support the
organizations."

A two-day session was set tor
March 5 and 6. All the directors
will be called upon to present their
1925 programs ot work to the ex-
ecutive committee. This will take
the whole ot the first day and the
second will be devoted to regular
business.

CO«P"^'-''o^

LOWDEN PLEADS FOR.
UNITED AGRICULTURE

(Continued from page 1>
$750,000,000. He pointed out that
agricultural production in the United
States still is out .of balance and de-
clared the present system of market
ing farm products, where not done
through co-operatives, as desperately
unsound. '"The time should come.'
he said, "when all farmers should
get together in great conventions to
preserve the balance among agricul
tural crops and to determine how
much ot each crop should be grown.'

Lowden showed how the good pas
ture season last summer cost the
dairy farmers of the nation over a
half billion dollars in excess produc-
tion, and how. at the same time, the
drought in the corn belt made for
a smaller but more valuable corn
crop than in 1923. He deplored the
lack of system in agricultural mar
keting and urged the Producers tc
talk over their problems with theii
local business men. He also com-
mended the Producers for the good
beginning they made in the market-
ing of live stock.

"If history teaches anything," de-
clared the farm leader, "it teaches
that permanent prosperity cannot
come without farm prosperity. We
cannot have a balanced agriculture
nor get agriculture back to a state
of balance with other industries,
without organization. This is a busi
ness man's problem as much as the
farmer's. No nation has long sur-
vived the decay of Its agriculture."

At a banquet of the Producers ai
which C. A. Stewart, secretary of the
National Live Stock Producers Asso-
ciation, presided as toastmaster.
Charles E. Bwing, Decatur, Illinois
declared that "never before has thert
been such a group ot leaders and
students in the live stock world af
now." For that reason, he said, the
industry need not be discouraged
over the outlook for the future.

T. J. Ritger. delegate from Dallas
Center. Iowa, commended the Pro-
ducers organization for its efficiency
stating that "the alertness ot the
boys working in the yards gives the
members confidence in the organiza-
tion."

L. R. Marchant, Knox county farm
adviser, in his speech stated that
the Chicago Producers Commission
Association has demonstrated two
things. First, many commission
firms are maintained at the Chica-
ga yards at high expense. The tann-
ers have proved that they can do the
marketing better than these private
companies. Secondly, the marketing
methods formerly used have been
improved through the efforts ot the
Producers. More responsibility if
being borne in the country now, and
less by the selling agencies. The
practice ot grading stock at the lo-
cal stockyards is good policy as it
eliminates much terminal grief.

"Volume and brains will put the
marketing program at the top. I
have confidence in the organization
that it will do the work, and in the
shippers that they will provide the
volume ot business."

/. A. A. Membership
by Belief, Farming
by Choice, He Says

We asked the executive com-
mitteemen, when recently
elected, to give us a brief sum-
mary of their life. Here's how
C. E. Bamborough, Polo, 13th
district, comes back at us:
"Have been in a quandary as
to which part of my life you
wished summarized. Am some-
what reluctant to express my
choice ot an epitaph so early
in the game. Perhaps the less
said the better. As a preface
I submit the following brief
summary:

"A pharmacist by profession
and education, being a gradu-
ate of Northwestern University.
A FARMER by choice. A
member of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association by belief
and an executive committee-
man for some unknown rea-
son."

TWELVE LIVE STOCK
SCHOOLS IN FEBRUARY

Live stock shipping association
schools is the order of the day for
the I. A. A. department of live stock
arketing. Director Wm. E. Hedg-
cock has arranged for no less than
12 schools to be held through Feb-
ruary in various parts ot the state.
During this week just coming to a
close, institutes were held in Carlin-
ville. Carbondale, Fairfield and Ef-
fingham. Next week's schedule in-
cludes the following schools: Ur-
bana, Feb. 17: Decatur. Feb, 18;
Jacksonville, Feb. 19; and Blooming-
ton, Feb. 20. The following week's
schedule will Include Ottawa. Feb.
24; Galesburg, Feb. 25; Dixon, Feb.
26; and Rocktord, Feb. 27.

"The I. A. A. has furnished speak-
ers for a large number of annual
shipping association meetings," says
Hedgcock. "We will be glad to as-
sist any association when called
upon."

ItEEMEX WILL BUZZ

A two-day beekeepers' short course
has been arranged for Carbondale.
Jackson county. February 23-24. It
is believed that the fruit and truck
industry will share with beemen in
the benefits to be derived from the
results of the short course. Promi
nent beemen will address the gath-
ering.

"I congratulate the r. A. A. on the
solidarity it has attained in the hand-
ling of crops." — Chas J. Brand, U. 3
D. A.

PRESIDENT THOMPSON
DATED TO START OFF
FARM TALKS OVER KSD

L A. A. Farm Programs which

Formerly Were Broadcast Over

iWCK Now Changed to KSD

■Radio fans, especially — those -in-
Southern Illinois, who have been fol-
lowing the I. A. A. farm programs
over WCK at St. Louis, have prob-
ably been wondering what became
of it. It was not possible to get an
adequate announcement in the last
Recobd because of it being a special
edition and crammed to the edges.
The developments since the last an-
nouncement have brought about a
?hange from WCK to KSD, the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch station, which
is much stronger and of considerable
more value for broadcasting farm
programs because it has more "clr-
:;ulation." Considerable more farm
bureau members can be reached over
KSD.

The arrangements with KSD,
which have previously been averse
to farm talks other than market re-
ports, were made thru the National
Farm Radio Council, an organiza-
tion ot non-commercial and commer-
:;lal farm organizations, and in which
the American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion has membership. In tact, the
National Farm Radio Council is a
;hild ot the information department
of the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration and was created to make it
easier for farmers to get agricultural
information over the air.

When the "child" grows up. it is
planned to schedule speakers thru
the central body for as many reliable
radio stations as want them. At
present negotiations are under way
with several stations, one ot them
being KSD. Speakers representing
'he Illinois Agricultural Association
will appear on the KSD program at
various times according to the pres-
ent rather tentative arrangement.

President Thompson will, accord-
ing to present plans, lead off the
program with a speech of special
interest to farm bureau members
Wednesday evening. Feb. li, prob-
ably around 8 o'clock. This is a
tentative announcement and may
have to be changed. Watch your
local newspapers for later announce-
ments until the next Re<obd comes
out.

Volumi

MEETS SUCCESS

IN FEDERATION

Adams couny has met with suc-
cess In its co-operative live stock
shipping plan. Analysis of the an-
nual statement of the Adams County
Shippers .\ssociation reveals the in-
teresting tact that $841,045.86 worth
of live stock was shipped by this as-
sociation during 1924 at an expense
of slightly less than 2 per cent. The
gross operating income for the asso-
ciation was $16,098.54, which In-
cludes $5,056.37 paid out to shippers
for insurance. Organized on the
county plan, the association is count-
ed an outstanding example ot the
tendency toward consolidation among
the successful co-operatives through-
out the country, according to R. E.
Miller, farm adviser.

Eari

club effc

Iout the 1
farmers'
But t
the Fo:
I around i
, families
I Progress
' first mac
hart. W
our misi
he got tl
aim, am
the club
The E
out, star
before A
cumbent
strap in
ships
hart sal
or mem
body see
farmer's
mee tinge

I'RODUCEH FACTS

The Chicago Producers ranked in
first place among all sales agencies
at the Chicago stock yards by several
thousand cars for 1924.

The Producers Live Stock Com-
mission Association of the St. Louis
National Stock Yards last year han-
dled around 18 per cent of the total
stock yard receipts at that market.
Most ot its 40,000 members live
nearby in Illinois, Missouri and Iowa

The National Live Stock Produc-
ers Association is handling about 2,
000 cars of live stock per week and
represents the largest live stock mar-
keting agency in the United States

FORMED 389 CLUBS IN 1024

One of the most far-reaching re-
sults of the past year's junior clubj
work on Illinois farms was the for
mation of 38 9 local club organiza
tions. This is the information com-
ing from E. I. Pilchard, boys' club
work specialist of the College ot Ag-
riculture. University ot Illinois. Pil-
chard in his annual report states that
these 389 community organizations,
which are officered by the club mem-
bers themselves, teach the lesson of
co-operation and develop the young-
sters for larger service tn their com
munlties.

sters, th
in short,
long the
establish
its mont

Bii

The cl
usually 1
100, St
cede the
begins,
tion box,
are roun
farm pra
member,
in turnis
ment thi
programi
boasts (
Speakers
often set
is a frf
program!
' A nov«
titudes I
in the E
the homi
customai
held righ
Every m
families

!'the prog
ing, A
committc
expense-!
Il necessan
(Mrs. J. I
I president
' It always
I We are g
J cliques I
take|3 in
ill^s in \
all work

Ta

Whoev
ing, turn
the meetl
Since the
host, eai
about on
only duri
cember, ,
the meeti
with a g(

Each f
(Con

iriMury 14, 1»2S

[OMPSON
TART OFF
S OVER KSD

rogram* which
Broadcast Over
snged to KSD

!e»aHy — rtose -in— -
10 have been fol-

tarm programs
ouis, have prob-
ig what became
}88ible to get an
lent in the last
t being a special
'd to the edges.
Ince the last an-
rought about a
to KSD, the St.

station, which
1 of considerable
oadcasting farm

has more "cir-
•able more farm

be reached over

•ni 'vNVKyn
'sioNmi ^0 AJ,is"a-iAiNri ■ ]

vefc*.-;

^ I li Ij I M
CUILTURAL'

Volume 3

IsMied E^ery Other Saturday — Febnwry 28, 1925

Number 4

ts with KSD.
aly been averse
than market re-
iru the National
il. an organlza-
:ial and commer-
ins, and in which
Bureau Federa-
p. In fact, the
lio Council is a
ition department
rm Bureau Fed-
'ated to make it

> get agricultural

> air.

' grows up, it is
e speakers thru
as many reliable
jrant them-. At
1 are under waj'
IS, one of them
ers representing
tural Association
KSD program at
ling to the pres-

arrangement.
ion will, accord-
ns, lead off the
jeech of special
>ureau members
, Feb. 1*. prob-
ock. This is a
raent and may
d. Watch your
• later announce-
ct Record comes

NINE TOWNSHIPS AND NINE COMMUNITY CLUBS
IN KENDALL COUNTY; THAT'S WHAT MAKES OUR
UFE WORTH UVING, THE MEMBERS ARE SAYING

Inquuhive Reporter Drop* in on Club Members; Finds Happy Farm
Homes and Spirit of Co-operation Everywhere — Also Evidences
of Leadership. Kendall County Is High in Bureau Membership

A day In the country is worth ten in the city. So thought we when
giving Kendall County the once over not long ago.

"Come on down to Yorkvllle and see what our com-
munity clubs are doing," came the call from Eart
Price, farm adviser. To Yorkvllle we went, all keyed
up for a day's treat.

"Our farmers' clubs are live wire organizations,"
Price said as we motored out to visit some of the club
members. "Everyone of them is a credit to its com-
munity, as it brings the people together and gives
them' a chance to talk over common problems."

It wasn't long before we came across farmer club
members. What we had in store for our city-clois-
tered minds was more than a little. Every last club
booster we talked to reflected community spirit — the
joy of living, willingness to co-operate, ambition to
forge ahead, and a rea^iiness to tackle whatever prob-
lems are ahead. If this is the result of community
club effort, thought we, let's get more of these farmers' societies through-
1 out the length and breadth of Illinois. Sociability has few friends like the
j farmers^ club.

But to the day's work. East of

EulPriM

ss

EDERATION

1 met with suc-
ative live stock
ilysis of the an-
e .\dams County

1 reveals the in-
141,045.86 worth
ipped by this as-

4 at an expense

2 per cent. The
me for the asso-
8.54, which m-
d out to shippers
ganized on the
jciation Is count-
example of the

solidation among
■ratives through-
cording to R. E.

FACTS

lucers ranked in
11 sales agencies
yards by several
124.

ive Stock Com-
of the St. Louis
Is last year han-
cent of the total
at that market.
I members live
issouri and Iowa,
e Stock Produc-
indling about 2,-
:k per week and
It live stock mar-
United States.

iUBS IN 1924

far-reaching re
!ar's junior club
ms was the for-
.1 club organiza-
nformation com-
hard, boys' club
le College of Ag-

of Illinois. Fil
report states that
ty organizations,
>y the club mem
ich the lesson of
velop the young-
ice to their com

JTTER iHiCKER

the Fot river" lies Oswego, and

^around Oswego reside 30 or so farm

.families making up the East Oswego

I Progressive Farmers' Club. The

; first man in our tracks was Mr. Burk-

jhart. We cornered him, telling him

our mission. It wasn|t long before

he got thoroughly warmed up to our

aim. and forthwith he told us what

the club was up to.

The East Oswego club, we found
out, started back in 1919, or at least
before Adviser Price, the present in
cumbent, picked up the county halter
strap in 1920. No particular hard-
ships were encountered, Mr. Burk-
hart said. In getting club activities
or membership under way. Every-
body seemed ready for some strictly
farmer's proposition, and to the
meetings they all came — the young-
sters, the old folks, the in-betweens
in short, the whole family. It wasn't
long then before the club got well
established in the community, with
its monthly meetings and programs.

Business Before Pleasure

The club meets once a month and
usually has an attendance of around
100. Short business meetings pre-
cede the programs, and then the tun
begins. Sometimes there is a ques
tion box, in which common problems
are roundly thrashed out, or certain
farm practices are explained by some
member. Home talent is drawn upon
in furnishing much of the entertain
ment through readings and musical
programs. The community also
boasts an orchestra of its own
Speakers from outside sources are
often secwed, and the farm adviser
is a frequent contributor to such
programs, f

A novel way of caring for the mul
titudes month after month obtains
in the East Oswego club. Most of
the homes are spacious and so it Is
customary for the meetings to be
held right In the farmers' own homes.
Every month a committee of three
families is appointed to look after

S'the program for the following meet
Ing. A fund of 17.50 is given the
committee to provide tor whatever
expense-bearing feature is considered
I necessary. "This arrangement," said
I Mrs. J. D. Ebinger, wife of the club
j president, "is very satisfactory, as
' it always brings new groups together.
We are glad to say that there are no
cliques In our society. Our club
takes in practically all the farm fam-
ilies In the neighborhood, and they
all work together splendidly."

Take Turns Entertaining

Whoever plays host to the gather-
ing, furnishes the refreshments when
the meetings are held in the evening.
Since the members rotate in playing
host, each farm family does this
about once every other year. It is
only during the winter months of De-
cember, January, and February that
the meetings are held during the day,
with a generous dinner for a feed.

iEach family member over 18 years

He got Enough Out
of a Dead Claim to
Pay His Dues 4 Years

From ail sections of the
state they come — letters of
recojtnltlon of services rendered
by the I. A. A. through its
transportation dep a r t m e n t.
Here is one from a LaSalle
County Farm Bureau member:

"I want to thank you for your
elHcient work In this department.
I tried throuKh the agent at
Tonlca (who admitted that there
was an overcharge) to get this
refund then later I took It up
with the South Dakota end but
was informed that I was not en-
titled to a refund. I had about
Kiven up when I saw in our
Farm Bulletin what you had
done for Mr. Walcott. I then
called Mr. Cross of our Farm
Bureau. The right man behind
the gun is what counts."
"Very truly yours.
(Signed) J. J. Hornung, Ottawa."

.Mr. HomunK received a
draft for $04JiS, covering two
claims on cattle shipments —
enough to pay his farm biu-eau
membership for the next four
years. Let the I. A. A. know
what it can do for you.

IS IT AN APPLE OR HORNETS' NEST?

WITH THE PATIENCE OF JOE

— Hauny In tbe St. Paul Pioneer Press.

TWENTY-FOUR STATES
REJECT AMENDMENT

Although it is still possible for
state legislatures to reconsider rat
flcation of the twentieth amendment
and to rescind previous action, indi-
cations are that the child labor bill
goes on record as a defeat.

Twenty-nine states have taken leg-
islative action, ratifying or refusing
ratification. Of this numt>er 24, by
various forms of action, have refused
to ratify. Pour have ratified. In
one. New Mexico, action is incom-
plete, one House having approved,
the other not yet acted.

The states refusing ratification
are: Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsyl-
vania, Massachusetts, Georgia, Idaho,
Indiana, Kansas, South Carolina,
Louisiana, Montana, Oregon, Nevada,
North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio,
Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee,
Texas, Utah; Vermont, Washington,
and Wyoming. The states of Ari-
zona, Arkansas, California, and Wis
cousin have ratified. The Senate of
Arkansas the first state to ratify,
adopted January 27, by vote of 30
to 3, a resolution of reconsideration
and rejectioiu

The General Assembly of Illinois is
one of the 14 state legislatures now
in session that have not yet acted
legislatively.

TO BUY MANVM; OO^PEBA-
TIVBLT

G. E. Metzger, director of organi-
zation, reports the -organization of a
farmers' co-operatKve buying associa-
tion at Anna, Union county, which
will purchase manure for fertilizer
purposes. The Union County Farm
Bureau is backing the project.

Farm Bureau District

Meetings Coming Soon;
To Cover Much Ground

Farm Bureau district meetings will
soon be under way. The first one
has already been held in the 11th
district, taking place at Wheaton,
DuPage County, February 26. Wm
Webb, Joliet, is executive committee
man for this district, which includes
the counties of McHenry, DuPage,
Kane, ind Will. The speakers in-
cluded A. D. Lynch and F. A. Goug
ler, of the I. A. A.

Other Farm Bureau district meet
ing dates that have been definitely
settled according to the I. A. A. or-
ganization department, G. E. Metz-
eer, director, are: March 12, Charles-
ton, J. L. Whisnand, Charleston, ex-
ecutive committeman for the 19th
district. The speakers are Geo. R.
Wicker, general manager of the
I. A. C. A., F. A. Gougler, I. A. A.
poultry and egg marketing director,
and R. A. Cowles, I. A. A. treasurer.

March 12: Salem, W. L. Cope, Sa-
lem, executive committeeman for the
23d district. Geo. A. Fox, I. Aj A.
general secretary; A. D. Lynch, I, A,
A. dairy marketing director; and L,
J. Quasey, I. A. A. transportation
director, are the speakers.

April 10: Jacksonville. B. C
Smith, Detroit, executive committee-
man for the 20th district. President
Sam Thompson, A. D. Lynch, and
J. R. Bent, I. A. A. director of phos-
phate-limestone, are the speakers.

Other dates that have been set,
but without definite location, are
March 13 tor the 22 nd district. Stan-
ley Castle, Alton, executive commit-
teeman; and Maroh 27 for the 18th
district, R. F. Karr, Iroquois, execu-
tive committeeman.

The request of the Illinois .\gri
cultural Association of the Illinois
Commerce Commission asking that a
public inquiry into the Grain Market-
ing Company, the t26,000,000 grain
merger, has been received with favor
by the Commission and a hearing was
set for Feb. 25 in Chicago.

The Illinois Agricultural Associa
tion officials presented evidence to
show why the grain merger should
t>e investigated and urged that the
Commission make such investiga
tion for the protection of Illinois
farmers who are being solicited to
buy stock. The Illinois Commerce
Commission has authority to decide
whether itny stock comes under
"Blue Sky" or not. The hearing
came too late to be reported in this
issue.

GRAIN COMMrrTE:E; MEETING

The I. A. A. Grain committee has
been meeting in the general offices
during the past week — behind closed
doors, however. H. E. Goembel.
Hooppole, I. A. A. vice-president and
chairman of the committee, states
that when the committee is ready,
it will report

W. m. JarSin

NEW SECRETARY SENDS
GREETING TO ILUNOIS
FARMERS THRU RECORD

Jardine Fought McNary-Haugan

Bill; Repeat L A. A. Stand

j of "Equality for Agriculture"

Upon learning that W. M. Jardine.
president of the Kansas State Agri-
cultural College, had been picked as
the new Secretary
of Agriculture, the |
information d e-
partment o f the I
I. A. A. wired him
for a statement or
message to t h e |
farm bureau mem-
b e rs of Illinois. |
His greeting fol-
lows:

"I am happy to {
extend my greet-
ings to the farm- |
ers of Illinois, one
of the great agri-
cultural states of
tbe Union. I shall enter upon my
duties as Secretary of Agriculture
with a profound interest in the wel-
fare of American fanalng and of
the American farmer -and with, I
trust, a practical understanding of
his problems, desires, and hopes. I
shall bend every effort In the direc-
tion of constructive achievement for
agriculture. Farming In this country
may be made, I am confident, a
sound, attractive, permanently prof-
itable business such as will retain on
the farms men of managerial ability
and broad rural interests. It will b«-
my aim, with the help of forward-
looking farmers throughout the
country, to do everything possible
toward this end. I bespeak your co-
operation in this work for farming
and for America."
. . (Signed) W. H. Jardine.

Commerce Commission u appears timely, especially since

Sets Feb. 25 to Hear ^■■- Jardine win l>e mailed a marked

14 4 /-■■■# '^"Py °^ tbi' issue of tbe Recobo,

l.A.A. on l^raui AIerger|that one of the resolutions of the
delegates of the Illinois Agricultural
Association, which repeated the stand
for "Equality for Agriculture," be re-
peated here. It follows:

"We believe the paramount issue
before the American people today to
be the securing of a true equality for
agriculture with industry and labor.
We, therefore, direct tbe executive
rammittee of the Illinois Agricultural
Association to do everj-thing in their
power to secure legislation that will
both in spirit and practice give such
equality."

Mr. Jardine was a vigorous oppo-
nent to the McNan-Haugen blll."

Export Corporation
Bill Gets Favorable
Advance in Congress

A telegram from Washington
Just as the Record goes to press
states that the Farmer's Export
Corporation bill (the new Mc-
Nary-Hangen ) has been favor-
ably rejwrted to the House by
the Committee on Agriculture.
The Senate Committee on .Agri-
culture and Forestry- has also
reported the bill out favorably.
A special rule to hnrr)- the bill
w-as also requested by the
House conunlttee. Success or
failure depends niK>n the Kules
Couuultte«. This Is a critical
lime! Write your Congress
iiutn and Senator! !

Report in Which l.A.A.

Had Part Arousing Keen
Interest at Springfield

Keen interest is being manifested
by members of tbe General Assembly
in tbe report of the Illinois EMuea-
tional Commission which is expected
soon, together with a bill providing
for the appointment of a state board
of education, to have general super-
vision over school affairs in Illinois.

The Illinois Educational Commis-
sion was assisted materially in ob-
taining data for this report by the
educational sun-ey conducted by the
Illinois Agricultural Association last
summer. This study of the fanner's
school problem is regarded by W. ■*■.
Lewton of Cicero. 111., chairman of
the Commission, as being one of the
most authoritative studies ever made
into the school problem in this State.

Di>aal«« C*«atr Pav^

series of meetings In Februarr to
study seed corn, with tbe help of th*

farm adviser.

ghelky Caaaty Parm Bareaa has had

eight farm account schools to date.
Four or five more coming.

Kaax C«aaty Pana Bareaa leads the
state in farm bureau paid-up member-
ship— 1.J04 farmers belong to it.

IIaa<a*aBe*T Caaaty Shiyplaa
clatlaa in 1924 handled about too car-
Heary Caaaty ImrorteS 215 acres of! loads of live stock and the Bast St.

limestone last year. The farm bureau L«ula Producers bandied practically all
handled 171 of these carloada of It

Page 2

Febnuury 28, 192S[ Febnau

IPRI

CCLTUBAL ASSOCIA1

RECORD'

Published «very other SaCnrdar by the Illinois Agrloultural
Asaoclatlom. 608 South Dearborn Street. Chicago. Illfnois. Ed-
ited by Department of Information, H. C. Butcher, Director.

Entered aa second class matter Oct. 10, 1921, at the poat offlce
at Chicaga, Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance
for mailing at special rates of postage provided for In Section
1103. Act of October 3. 1917. authorized Oct. 31. 1921.

The Individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation Is five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of
fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation lUCOlD.

» —_

Postm'aster: In returning an un£alled-for or miasent copy,
please indicate key number on adaresa as Is required by law.

11th.

12th.

13th.

14th.

15th.

16th,

17th

18th

19th

20th.

21st.

22nd

23rd.

24th.

2Sth

OFFICERS I

President, S. H. Thompson, Qolncy. '
Vice-President, H. E. Goembel, Hooppole.
Treasnrer, R. A. Cowles, Blomnington.
Secretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore.

EXECUTIVE COMMl'ri'KK
By Congressional Districts

William Webb, Rte. 1, Joll«t

Q. F. Tullock, Roekford

C. E. Bamborough, Polo

W. H. Moody, Port Byron

B. H. Taylor, Rapatee

A. R. Wright. Varna

F, D, Barton, Cornell

R. F. Karr, Iroquota

J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

Earl C. Smith, Detroit

Samuel Sorrellt, Raymond

Stanley Castle, Alton

W. L. Cope, Salem

Curt Anderson, Xenia

R. K. Loomis, Makanda

L Directors of Departments

1 I. A. A. Offlce

General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker; Or-
ganization, G. E. Metzger; Information, H. C. Butcher; Trans-
portation, L. J. Quasey; Taxation and Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing, A. B.
Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, Wm. E. Hedgcock; Dairy
Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone, J. R, Bent;
in charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A. Gougler; special
representative on Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H. Petersen;
Legal Counsel, Donald Kirkpatrick; Co-operative Accounting,
Geo. R. Wicker.

THE RECORD'S PLATFORM
Advance the purpose for lehich the Farm Bureau mu organized,
namely, to promote^ protect and represent the business, economic,
social and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the
juUion, and to develop agriculture.

On«\Y*Jtr'» Tax Saving Would Run the I. A. A.
I for Seven Year*

Tbp feiit of the Illinois Agricultural Association and
the c^unt}r Farm Bureaus of again saving Illinois farm-
ers inother two million dollars on their taxes is one
that has made a significant contribution to the associa-
tion'^ reOiarkable standing among state and national
farmi organizations.

If Illinjois farmers had paid their taxes on the 1922
assessmenlts, they would have paid two million more than
they did.t J. C. Watson, our taxation director, makes
the stateiiient that "there can be no doubt that, on the
whoU, the two classes of real estate, city and farm, are
now more nearly on a uniform basis of valuations than
has ^xisttd since the great fall in the prices of farm
products and farm lands in 1920." Do not overlook the
fact that the two million dollars saved in one year re-
peats: itself so long as the same assessment remains in
force] I M

Twio million dollars spread out over the 237,000 farms
in lUinoi^ means a saving of $8.04 to each one of our
Illinois farms. In other words, every farm in Illinois
was saved approximately $8.04 during 1924 by the Illi-
nois Agrieultural Association and the county Farm Bu-
reaus. TJiis saving would run the Illinois Agricultural
Assooiation and all its many activities for more than
seven yeai«. And the saving is a "repeater"!

Tax reduction is only one of the activities of this asso-
ciation. There are other projects tinder way which re-
tnm great dividends also, but they do not show up so

ill as tbe tax saving.

Ask this fair question of yourself: "Does the I. A. A.

Continatng Our Tax Program

MqpT farm bureau members know that the Illinois
^rioultural Association and the Farm Bureaus began
idying taxation early in 1921, at which time the assess-
Mts of farm lands and farm personal property were
their highest point. Despite the collapse in the value
c farm property, further increases in valuation were
proposed. Believing that the facts would not warrant
any further increases, the I. A. A. and the Farm Bu-
jTeaus opposed such increases. The opposition resulted
nn actual decreases in many instances and forestalled
advances in many others.

Now Illinois farmers are getting more of a square
deal in the matter of land valuation for tax assessment
than they ihave at any time in the last five years, accord-
ing to J. C. Watson, our director of taxation and statis-
tics.

The nest move is to get the lUinois revenue laws

changed through an amendment to the constitution. An
amendment is absolutely necessary for a fair system of
taxation in Illinois. The present constitution is of 1870
vintage and needs to be brought down to date.

If desirable changes can be secured they should event-
ually relieve farm land and urban real estate of the
unfair portion of the intolerable burden which they are
now carrying in some localities. This is one of the three
major legislative objectives of the association.

The gas tax is a second one, and it dovetails well with
the whole program of relieving property of some of its
heavy burden.

Don't let the propagandists confuse you; the I. A. A.
stands for a gas tax in place of some general property
tax. We do not want it as an additional tax; it must
displace, not add.

Thank You!

There is one organization in this country that the
big corporations pay considerable attention to, and
that is the Illinois Agricultural Association. The
time used to be when the farmer had a claim against
the railroad or the express company, that it was a
long drawn out matter to get a settlement started
and finished. Today, through the Farm Bureau
Federation and the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, the claim of the farmer belonging to these
organizations gets prompt attention. The following
story is given as an illustration:

" 'Twas the tale of a lonesome shoat. Down in
Macoupin county. Defective railroad fence. Shoat
wiggled through. Got killed by locomotive, or other-
wise annihilated. Charles Birkenmayer, Madora,
ex-owner, demands redress. Wants pay for porker.
Railroad turns deaf ear. What to do! Charles
notifies I. A. A. transportation department. The
fun begins. Investigation made and the railroad
allows a five spot. Everybody happy."

It is to the interest of every farmer in this land
to belong to the farm bureau organization. The
stronger the organization, the greater the benefits.
— Editorial from the "Rambler," Kewanee Star-
Courier.

Spring Tonic

Here is a diagnosis of one of the ailments that are
sapping the strength of many farmers' organizations
whether local, county, state or nationwide. We of-
fer it as a spring tonic to be taken whether needed or
not :

"Get offended if you are not appointed on a commit-
tee; but if you are, do not attend the committee meet-
ings, f

' ' If you are asked by the chairman to give your opin-
ion regarding some important matters, tell him you have
nothing to say. After the meeting, tell everyone how
things ought to be done.

' ' Do nothing more than is absolutely necessary ; but
when other members roll up their sleeves and unselfishly
use their ability to help matters along, howl that the or-
ganization is run by a clique.

"Keep your eyes open for something wrong, and,
when you find it, resign.

"At every opportunity threaten to resign, and then
get your friends to.

"When you attend a meeting, vote to do something,
and then go home and do the opposite." — The Live
Stock Journal.

Every Member la a Direct Member

There has always been some confusion in the minds of
farm bureau members and even officials as to just how
the county, state and national units of the whole farm
bureau organization are linked together. In Illinois it is
this way: y^\

For example, let us say that John Jones is an individ-
ual member of the Peppy County Farm Bureau. He
pays his dues to the Peppy County Farm Bureau which
is under contract to receive $5 per member and trans-
mit it on to the I. A. A. Mr. Jones' services from the
state association are, in turn, performed through the
Peppy County Farm Bureau. Each farm bureau mem-
ber is a direct member of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation although he cannot belong to the I. A. A. unless
he belongs to his. county Farm Bureau. The I. A. A. is
not a federation of counties.

However, the Illinois Agricultural Association is one'
of a federation of states which form the national unit,
the American Farm Bureau Federation. The I. A. A.
pays dues to the American Farm Bureau Federation at
the rata., of 50 cents for each of its members.

Remember this point : Every farm bureau member is a
direct member of the Illinois Agricultural Association
and it is not a federation of counties.

What't Wrong in This Editorial f

(Answer at bottom of pa«e.)

The Illinois Agricultural Association reports a
membership of sixty-five thousand farmers and a
net worth of fifty thousand dollars. Among other
things, this association is undertaking the organiza-
tion of the co-operative movement among farmers
of the state. Those who are remaining away from
the county Farm Bureaus for one reason or an-
other, soon are going to find themselves isolated
and very lonesome. — Springfield State Journal.

■'■' Are You Cla*»ified Here?

An Attender — One who attends the meetings called
by the Bureau.

Booster — One who speaks well of the Bureau on all
occasions.

Doer — One who tries to follow the suggestions of the
Bureau.

Friend — One who recognizes that the Bureau is try-
ing to help the farmers.

Helper — One who answers the letters of inquiry from
the Bureau.

Pillar — One who calls for help from the Bureau when
he needs it.

Power — One who is the leading farmer of the com-
munity and is a member of the Bureau.

Promoter — One who is enthusiastic in his support of
the Bureau and tells his neighbors of its work.

Server — One who accepts an office and tries hard to
fill it.

Soldier — One who comes out when the Bureau^is try-
ing to show its strength.

Supporter — A landlord who belongs to the BureaiL

Wing — One who has a vision of the future of the
Bureau.

Worker — One who comes, phones or writes to the
office tp give us helpful suggestions.

There with the Goods — One who has faith in the Bu-
reau in face of failures.

Bucker — One who speaks evil of the Bureau on all
occasions.

Deadhead — One who will not try anything suggested
by the Bureau.

Faultfinder — One who finds fault with the Bureau's
efforts to help the farmers.

Plague — One who asks for help when too late to do
anjrthing.

Hinderer — One who does not answer letters of inquiry
frotn the Bureau.

Problem — The leading farmer of the community who
does not belong to the Bureau.

Provoker — One who is indifferent in his support of
the Bureau.

Sorehead — One who refuses to accept any office in the
Bureau.

Slacker — One who will not ttim out to help show
strength.

Sponger — A landlord who does not belong, but whose
tenants do.

Weight — One without a vision of the future of the
Bureau.

— ^Whiteside County Farmer.

Be a Regular Patron

Whenever I happen to be in a city about meal time,
I look for a good cafeteria. At such a place everything
is to be found which tempts the palate. I gather my
tray, necessary eating paraphernalia, and saunter slowly
alongside the numerous palatable dishes. Here I take
a plate of beefsteak, there a dish of salad, a piece of
lemon pie, and so on until I finally round the comer
and reach the teller. He checks quickly my dinner bill
and the cash register emits a figure which startles me.

I glance over my shoulder toward some of the regular
customers to see whether I have an honest to goodness
country appetite or just why my bill should be so high.
The inspection shows that the "regular" has just about
the same amount of food that I have but his dinner bill
is considerably less.

He was on his job and bought more efficiently than I.
WhyT Because he was a regular patron and was ac-
quainted with food values in the cafeteria. I was not,
thus he had me bested.

In the same manner, practically all farm bureau mem-
bers agree that the farm bureau movement is an excel-
lent thing, just as I do a cafeteria. However, some mem-
bers get much more out of their memberships than others
because they are regular patrons. The Farm Bureau is
a farm problem cafeteria. We shall endeavor always
to serve you courteously and efficiently. Strive to be a
regular patron. — W. B. Bunn in Richland County Farm
Bureau News Letter.

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-./ABSwer to «Wkat'a Wroaa !■ TkU EdltcrUlr"— In the tele-
graphic transmission of one of the news stories which went
out from the annual I. A. A. meeting, some of the flerures sot
mixed up. Consequently many newspapers reported that the
"net worth is $60,000." This is an error of 1203.910.07. The bal-
ance of the niinols Agricultural Association on Jan. 1. 1925
as found by Independent auditors, was 1253.910.07. Also, the
membership really numbers closer to 83.000 rather than what is
stated — and besides. Its 63.000 Ikinkint farmers — not ordinary
ones. The "isolated and very lonesome ' part is strictly O K
The spirit of the editorial Is splendid and the errors are not

the fault of lu writer. Thank you, Springfield State JournaL

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The Dlinoit Agricultural Awociation Record

Pare 3

^oriaif ! PREDICT MEMBERSHIP TO JUMP FROM 63,000 TO 75,000 THIS YEAR

n reports a
mers and a
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' away from
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Journal.

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mmunity who
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future of the
>unty Farmer.

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jorted that the
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COMMUNITY CLUBS

SHOW UVE SPIRIT

J. D. Eblnicr
pathy and relief.

(Continued from page 1)
of age pays $1.00 per year to defray
club expenses. The offlcertf of the
East Oswego Progressive Farmers'
Club are: J. D.

SEbinger, Presi-
dent; Zella Sho-
g e r, Vice-preai-
d e n t; Courtney
Smith, secretary;
Mrs. Ed. R i n k,
treasurer; Mrs. Ir-
win Wolf, corre-
sponding s e c r e-
tary.
Cares for the Sick,
Too
The club has a
unique extension
project called the
committee on sym-
Its object is to
ake sick calls among members of
the community.

Ask any member of this club as
to the best thing the organization
(■does for the people and he will tell
you that the sociability fostered by
(the meetings is the big thing they
•all have learned to appreciate. We
(asked Mr. Burkhart what he liked
'best and he said that "the club
meetings knit the farm families to-
Igether and make for better under-
istanding." Coming to Oscar Shoger
'a little later and getting. him started
on the benefits x)t the club to the
community, we heard this: "We all
jfeel like one farm family and we like
'the meetings at the members' homes
jbest. One member who was not a
.Farm Bureau member has dropped
lout. All the rest are loyal I. A. A.
.supporters."

I Plenty of Eats

I When asked what part the women
I play in the activities of the club,
Shoger said, "They do the feeding.
We always make it a point to invite
any new neighbors in the community.
Our programs have included sena-
tors, ministers, farm advisers, and
members of the medical profession.
We really like everything best. And
no matter how rainy it may be, or
what the weather Is, there always is
plenty of interest in the club and its
doings."

I The President Interviewed

We felt our day would not be com
plete without a word from the presi
dent of the Oswego society. Mr.
I Ebinger has resided in the comma
I nity for 36 years. He said that the
' pioneer spirit, the spirit of settler
days, when neighbors worked to-
gether for the common good, is com
Ing back and that the community
club is one of the ways to get this
spirit back. He stressed the socia
bllity feature of community club
work and stated that the young peo-
ple give the club strong support
"The club is a fine thing tor the com-
munity, as it helps to knit together
all the classes. There is no distinc-
tion among us. Rich and poor alike
belong to the club. The ministers
in our community are with us in our
club affairs. The boys and girls, too,
are helped to stay with the farm and
they begin to see the advantages of
farm life."

Another Club Visited

We did not limit ourselves to just

one club in Kendall county but also

got a brief slant at the Fox and

Long Grove Community Club of

I Yorkville. This club was organized
in 1921 and now has a membership
of 35 to 40 families residing around
Yorkville. It includes several re-
) tired farmers in Yorkville. The
: club, we were told, is for young and
I old. Everybody likes it. While it
'had a harder time getting started
I than many other farmer clubs do. the
I group nevertheless soon got well es-
It^blished and is there to stay.
' Each member pays one dollar a

I year to support the organization.
The meetings used to be held In the
members' homes but these later grew
too small to accommodate the gath-
erings— around 100 on the average.
A community hall in Bristol is now
being used-i-an abandoned church —
and meetings are held once a month.
These meetings Include musical pro-
grams, speeches, discussions, and
readings. Home talent is drawn
upon and the development of this
Phase is one of the aims of the group
What They Get Out of It
We asked several staunch support
ers of the Fox and Long Grove Com-
munity Club what they thought was
the big advantage of having a society
like this in their community and in

variably the answer came back, "So-
ciability and understanding among
farm families and townspeople is the
achievement of our club. An organi-
zation like this can do much and is
doing a great deal to create a better
feeling among all people concerned."

E. L. Matlock, president of the
Kendall County Farm Bureau, is a
loyal rooter for the club idea. When
asked what effect the community club
has with the young people, he said,
"Too many boys and girls are leav-
ing the farm for the city and they
don't know the good things they are
leaving behind them. But the com-
munity club is doing much to coun-
teract the influence of the big city,
and to keep the coming generation
on the farm."

Mr. Matlock's Views

Mr. Matlock showed us his newly-
built hennery which we found the
last word in sanitation and chicken
comfort. Then he added, "We need
a higher standard of living on the
farm and a better rural life if we
want agriculture to be what it
should. To get there, farmers must
organize and the community club is
one way to put this across, as it
helps much to keep farm people to-
gether."

That the farm women of the terri-
tory around Yorkville are 100 per
cent with the club Is shown by the
fact that a woman, Mrs. Clara Har-
ris, is president; Ed. Price is vice-
president; and Mrs. Jennie .\ment is
secretary-treasurer.

farm Adviser Price is well satis-
fied with the re.sults accomplished by
his farmer clubs. There are nine in
hi.s county and each of them is a
great help to him. Home ownership
runs high in Kendall county. This,
and the fact that most of the farm-
ers are Farm Bureau members, says
Price, are two good reasons, why the
community clubs havfe prospered. The
county is full of well-kept farmsteads
and comfortable farm homes. The
people mix well as a rule and there
is harmony between farmers and
townfolks.

Lots More, Too

In addition to the two clubs men-
tioned, Kendall County has the fol
lowing farmers' clubs: Bristol Pro-
gressive Farmers' Club, Countryside
Community Club, Grove Road Farm-
ers' Club, Little Rock Farmers' Club,
Na-Au-Say Farmers' Club, Southern
Kendall Community Club, and New-
ark Farmers' Club. Besides these
regular community clubs there are
several parent-teachers' associations,
some of which have spread beyond
the school district limit. These, too,
says Price, are very popular.

Soil improvement is Price's big
project and with it goes the better
crop program. Phosphate fertilizer
has been applied to Kendall county
soils in large quantities. The type
of farming in the county ranges from
dairying in the northern part to grain
farming in the southern part — all
within an area three townships
square.

We left Kendall county with the
thought, "No wonder Kendall county
is full of happy farm homes."

GRADING DEMONSTRATION f^RINGS THE
STOCK YARDS TO THE PRODUCER,"

"t

DOWN-STATE SHIPPERS LEARN AT HOME

ROLL CALL WILL
SHOW BIG GAINS
IN STATE NUMBERS

Mar.haU Co-operative Shipping Association Hold. Successful Live Forty IlEnoi.Cowili« WiUR«ew

Stock Grading Demonstration. Moventent Getting More and
More Popular. Seen as One Solution to Shipping Problems

Membership in 1925; Nine
Countie* Are Now Under Way

Here's Food For

Thought; Get Out

Your Pen and Ink!

Food for thought for farm bureiu
members is contained in the foUow-
inii; booklets which can be obtained
free by writing for them:

"Tke Affrleultural Situation — Paul
and PrMient." an addrms by- Cliaa. J.
Brand, conHnltinf^ speclallat In mar-
ketlnsr. I'. J*, nept. of .\KrI., brfore the
I. A. A. annual mee-tlnp at ('hampalan.
(Write care of Record.)

*'Tlie DUcosalon of Grain Marketlna"
as given at the I. A. A. annual meet-
Inar. (Write care of Record.)

*'AKrieul<ural Relief,'* conalatlnR of
hearlnfrn before the Committee on Aa-
rlcnltare, liouae of Reprenentalivea.
Serial Cf-Part 13. (Write yonr Con-
irrensninn for this one.)

"The McNary-Hangen Bill,** conalat-
Inir of Joint henrlnKH before the Com-
mittee on Aicricultnre and Poreatry,
United Statea Senate, and the Commit-
tee on Agriculture, House of Represen-
tatives, on S. -ISOe and H. R. 12127. Jan.
21, 192.1. (This is the Farmers' Riporl
Corporation bill. Write your Senator
or Consressman.)

The hearing testimony in the lat-
ter immphlet includes the testimony
of the .American Council of .Agricul-
ture. President Thompeon's state-
ment for Illinois farmers is in the
latter. "A^cultural Relier* con
tains the testimony of Geo. X. Peek,
Mollne, ni., presUient of the Ameri-
can Council of .-Agriculture, in which
he charged that Secretary of Com-
merce Hoover has been dominating
the Department of .Agriculture. He
asked for an Investigation.

They (■ra<led the CarliHul at Marshall

Live stock grading at the home
shipping yards is on the up-grade in
Illinois. The movement started in
Champaign county last December.
Since then, about six live stock grad-
ing demonstrations have been held
in various parts of the common
wealth and indications are that the
movement is just beginning to gain
in popularity as more and more coun-
ties are instituting them. Adams
county alone has arranged for four
demonstrations in one week.

One of the most recent live stock
grading demonstrations was at
Marshall, Clark county, W. W., Mer-
ritt, farm adviser. A carload of cat-
tle and hogs was graded at the local
shipping yards, before ofiicers and
directors of the Marshall Co-oper-
ative Shipping Association and the
county Farm Bureau. About 40 to
50 shippers were present to witness
the demonstration, which was con-
ducted by F. H. Kelly and Robert
Oriesser, representing the Indianap
olis Producers Commission Associa
tion. These men pointed out the dif-
ferent grades of stock in the carload
endeavoring to show the men what
constitutes good and poor veal
calves. They also pointed out what
good and bad features to look {or in
hogs and cattle generally, as to mar-
ket grades. '

T. R. Lovett, manager of the local
shipping association, declares the
demonstration very successful, stat-
ing that the plan was an effective
way of "bringing the stock yards to
the producers."

"One- of the problems in shipping
association work," says Wm. E.
Hedgcock, I. A. A? live stock mar-
keting director, "has been the lack
of understanding on the part of the
shippers, of -the grades of live stock
marketed. Now comes the grading
demonstration plan. It is a most
satisfactory Way to show the live
stock producers how stock is graded
at the terminal markets and it helps
them to apply the ' same process at
home — before the stock is in tran-
sit.

"Jhe I. A. A. live stock marketing
department recommends holding live
stock grading demonstrations thru-
out the state, wherever possible. It
has asked the Producers to co-oper-
ate with the county farm bureaus and
the shipping associations in this proj-
ect. Farm Bureau and shipping as-
sociation officers and directors es-
pecially will find these demonstra-
tions of advantage as they then can
assist shippers in their marketing
problems generally."

DAIRY SURVEY SHOWS CO-OPERATIVES

HOLD ADVANTAGE OVER PROPRIETARIES

Results of the butter fat price in-lcream stations operated by proprie-

quiry, carried on by the I. A. A. for
.he first time in 1924, reveal an in
teresting comparison l>etween prices
received by co-operative and n(»n-co
operative dairy concerns. The sur-

tary creameries.

The .data for this comparison lias
been compiled from reports of all
co-operative creameries In the state

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Forty Illinois counties are sched-
uled for renewal of membership in
the Farm Bureau and the I. A. A. in
1925, according to G. E. Metzger.
I. A. A. director of organization. The
task of renewal. Metzger says, is
already well under way in nine (^oun-
ties: Warren, Edgar, Shelby, Knox,
Grundy. DuPiv^e, McHenry, Chris-
tian and Henry.

"Farm bureau membership in the
I. A. A. is sound," the organization
director declares. "By the end of the
year we expect to have 75,000 Illi-
nois farmers on our membership
list."

The list of counties in which farm
bureau membership is to be renewed
this year follows:

Cssntr Mrmbemhip Ka»lre«

Warren June 1926

Edpar July

Loiran Inly "

McHenry July

DeKalb Aus.

Christian .Sept. "

Clarlt .8«pt. ■•

Colea Sept.

Macon Sept.

•Stcphenaon 8e|>t.

McLean Oct.

Moultrie Oct. "

Henry Nov.

LtvinKSton Nov. •'

KfflnEham . . . .' Dae.

Grundy Dec.

Brown Jan. ICt

Champairn .-.Jan.

Crawford Jan. "

DuPage Jan.

Jersey Jan.

Kane Jan.

Knox Jan.

Lake Jan.

Marahall-Pntnaan Jan.

Mercer .* . .Jan. "

Randolph Jan.

Rocic Island Jan.

Saline Jan. "

Shelby Jan.

Vennilioil' '. Jan. "

Whiteside Jan.

Will Jan.

Woodford Jan.

Peoria Jan.

Kendall , ." Feb. "

Union as^**'-

SansamoD March "

Macoupin March

Fulton March

In addition to the above the fol
lowing may possibly come up for re-
newal: DeWItt, I^ee, Macon. McDon-
ough, Menard. Morgan, Williamson,
and Montgomery counties.

In Iroquois county, where the work
of reorganisation has been going on
since October, 1924, and where the
old membership does not expire until
April 1, \A1h members have been
signed up to date.

40
35
30
25
20
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vey was conducted through the de- and from reports received each week

partment of dairy marketing, A. D.
Lynch, director.

The above chart compares the
price paid for butter fat by Illinois
co-operative creameries with the
price paid for butter fat by Illinois

by the Dairy Department from men
who sell their cream to cream sta-
tions in 44 counties.

The five co-operative creameries
studied are the Mt. Carroll Co-opera-
tive Creamery, the Ill-Mo Dairy Com-

Says "ISobody Home" to
Grain Merger Idea;
Likes Farm Bureau

Xlie following vote of confi-
dence was received by Secretary-
Fox from a Jo Daviess rounty
fanner:

**.A8 a member of this great
association, the I. A. A., allow
i»e to give my opinion.

"Ever)' department has done
its duty to Ihe association.

**It is a pleasure to have Mr.
G. E. Melxger outline pr«»granis
for us. We of Jo Daviens coun-
ty should trj' and follow.

"Mr. S. H. Thompson shows
much spirit in taking the stand
against the Grain .Marketing
Com|>any. The old boys of big
Interest are tr>ing to unload
•20,000,000 worth of Junk on
to the farmers. We say *no-
body IVHne' to that.
"Yours,
(Signed) "H. X. Kipllnger."

pany, the Stephenson County Co-op-
erative Marketing Company, the
Elizabeth Co-operative Creamery,
and the Galena Co-operative Cream-
ery.

Farmer-owned creameriea paid
their patrons between 5c and 6c more
per pound of butter fat than the
cream stations. Creamery butter fat
returns were from IS per cent to 20
per cent higher.

"Where l(X^al conditions do cot
justify the formation of a co-opeia-
t i V e creamery," Lynch advises,
"farmers desiring to co-operate can
effect a substantial saving by oper-
ating their own cream station and
selling the cream to the highest
creamery bidder."

P»«e4

The IMinob Agricultural A—ociation Rgcord

February 28, 192S

TWO MILLION DOLLAR TAX SAVING AVERAGES $8.04 PER FARM

INTRODUCE T. B. BILL
TO COVER NUMEROUS
SINS IN CLEAN-UP WORK

Repreaentative Tice Sponsors
Lefislation to Keep Statutes
Abreast with Clean-up Fight

DIFFERENTIAL IN EGG
QUALITY NOW TO BE
SHIFTED TO PRODUCER

A general re-codiflcation of exist
in); Itgisldtion pertaining to the
eradicstionl of tuberculosis in cattle
roveritg a multitude of sins is pro
vided tor lA a bill that has been in-
troduced ia the House of Represent
atives at Springfield by Homer J
Tice 0* Grjeenvlew, Menard county
This hill wjas suggested by the lUi-
nuis Agricultural Association and is
in accordance with the legislative
program which consist of three maj-
or obJtctives, this being one of them
The^ newi bill is drawn to bring
out-of-date I legislation on tuberculo-
sis eradication up-to-date and to keep
the legislative channels abreast with
tlie present day remarkable develop-
ment of the state-wide clean-up work
With approximately 2,000 cattle be-
ing su^jecttd to the test each day in
Illinois, ■it 'is highly desirable that
this great public health movement go
ahead without hindrance, according
to Representative Tice.

"Th* new bill," says M. H. Peter-
sen, inj charge of tuberculosis eradi
cation extension for the I. A. A., "is
a re-codiflc»tion of existing legisla-
tion on this subject with a number of
important additions to cover much-
demamted needs on the part of farm
ers ant live stock raisers from all
over tie state.

Restrict* TnbercnlosU Serum
"Among the new features is a
provision which places the sale of
tuberculin, the serum used in the
testing, in the state under the Juris-
diction of the State Department of
-Agriculture ! and limits its use to
censed veteHnarians. Veterinarians
will also be required to tag and brand
all tubercilous cattle found if
the proposed measure becomes ef-
fective. There has been considerable
laxity on this score."

Closer supervision o f cattle
brought into Illinofs for breeding and
dairy purposes Is also proposed.
While mora stringent requirements
will b« imjjosed on cattle to be
shipped from stock yards to be test-
ed at their destination, care has been
taken to include, nothing which will
restrict the feeding industry in the
state. A 60-day retest is also re-
quired for cattle brought into the
state for dairy and breeding pur-
poses.

The demand for a compulsory test-
ing law froip many counties has led
to the inclusion of a provision re-
quiring all the cattle in any county
to be ttsted when 75 per cent of the
cattle owners in' the county have
voluntarily submitted their herds for
a test.

National Standardization of Egg
Grades Will Prove a Boon to
Fanners, Says I.A.A. Authority

Grading of eggs on a uniform ba-
sis of quality will soon be the order
of things on most egg markets thru-
out the United States, according to
'he I. A. A. poultry and egg market-
ing department, F. A. Gougler, di
rector.

\ practical plan has been devised
by the federal Bureau of -Agricultural
Economics, by which all egg grad
ing systems used are to be adjusted
and aligned into one uniform sys
tern. The new system has been ac-
cepted by the egg trade generally
and will be used as a standard guide
everywhere within a few years.
These grades are: (1) U. S. Special:
(2) U. S. Extra: (3) U. S. No. 1; (4)
0. S. No. 2: (5) U. S. No. 1 dirties:
(6) U. S. No 2 dirties; (7) U. S.
Caiecks.

It will be well for the Illinois egg
producer to get familiar with these
terms and learn their full meaning,"
says the I. A. A. egg marketing de-
partment, "as he will now have the
advantage of getting paid on the ba-
sis of quality. If U. S. Extras are
worth, say, 10 cents per dozen more
on the New York market than U. S.
No. I's, then the producer should
receive the same differential at his
local market.

"Co-operative marketing of eggs
win bring this differential down to
'he producer from the consumer in
the best and quickest possible way,
because co-operatively, eggs will be
handled on the graded basis and pro
ducers will receive pay on a quality
basis."

FOR 63,000 THINKING FARMERS

Cross-Word puzzles. Who doesn't fall for them? Here is the first one
appearing in the Recobd. How many of our readers can solve it? Can
you?

The correct answers will appear in the next issue of the Recobu. Watch
for them.

The white spaces In the puzzle represent words, running horizontal and
vertical, the synonyms and descriptions of which are to be found in the
list below. Each sxnonym is numbered and corresponds to the number in
the puzzle. The black spaces may be regarded as periods.

When completed the letters will spell out recognized words, running
from left to right and from top to bottom. Most of the words in the
accompanying puzzle refer to farming.

DIVIDE THE $2,000,000
BY THE 237,000 FARMS
AND IT'S $8.04, SEE?

Saving Will Be Repeated Until
Valuations Are Changed ; Only
Few Counties Out of Line Now

ILLINOIS VILLAGES
AND TOWNS SLATED
FOR BUTTER DRIVE

STEPHENSON COUNTY
WINS ROAD DECISION

Ridott, atephenson county, will
continub as a railway station. The
Illinois Commerce Commission says
so. A heading was held in which
the Chicago: and Northwestern Rail-
road Cbmpainy petitioned to be al-
lowed to discontinue the station. J.
H. Swahzey, ^presenting farmers in
tiie vicinity of Ridott, and the local
live stock shipping' association as its
president, had his evidence very com-
prehenalivelyt prepared. With the
help of the I. A. A. transportation
department, I this went a long way
toward getting favorable considera-
tion from the Commission in hand-
ing down iljs decision.

I. A. A. Dairy Department Plans
Campaign to Increase Use of
Butter and Reduce Surplus

"Spread your butter a little thick-
er."

That's the motto chosen by the
1. A. A. dairy marketing department,
\. D. Lynch, director, in a campaign
to be started throughout Illinois to
increase the consumption of butter
an the farms and in the centers of
papulation.

And here is the poster!

Spread you
►uttcrtKickc

'HEALTH
GROWTH
STRENGTH

DOW.V

1. The r. .\. A. memlierahip consists of

63.0U0 - ? - farmers.

2. National legislative body.

3. Oh Gee!

4. Father.

5. What the Farm Bureau does for

the agricultural Industry.

6. The farmer's mail service.

7. Abbreviation for earliest American

war.

8. A good sized litter of pigs.
&. What the College ot Agriculture

floes for farmers.

1. Remain.

2. An area of tilled soil.

6. The person you most appreciate.
1. You.

4. Something of which we never get

enough.

5. .\n organization of 63,000 tkutking

farmers.

7. -Adverb, preposition and conjunc-

tion.

8. Adverb, prefix and preposition.

;t. Third person, singular, present In-
ilicative of verb "be."

ACROSS

2. What every farm bureau member
should do.
10. Abbreviation for common place of
learning.

12. A heavy mist.

13. "Al's" full name.

14. Pronoun denoting a thing.

15. Indefinite article.

17. What Edward's boy friends call

him.

18. Abbreviation of Institution of ad-

vanced learning situated at Ev-
anston. 111.

19. Abbreviation of great continent in

northern hemisphere.

20. Abbreviation for football player's
position.

Abbreviation for state where bur-
ley tobacco producers are co-op-
erating to market their products.
23. A title of address for a man.

Obsolete form of word "notice."
30. Noun meaning opposite of net.

The two million dollar tax saving
secured by the I. A. A. and the coun-
ty Farm Bureaus and pocketed bj
the great group of Illinois farmers, if
it were apportioned out among the
2 37,000 farms of the state, would
mean an average saving ot approxi-
mately Jg.04 per farm, ordinary
arithmetical division reveals. How-
ever, this figure is not the actual
amount of reductions per farm — it
is the average tor all the state. The
saving is, as a matter of fact, con-
siderably larger in some counties
than in others.

This saving applies not only to
members of the Farm Bureau who
financed and made possible the for-
tuitous saving, but it applies to mem-
bers and non-members as well. "Lots
of farmers are riding and not paying
for their share of the gas," is the
truth of the situation.

Valuations of different classes ot
property are now on a fairer basis
than they have been at any time in
the past five years, according to J.
C. Watson, director of the depart-
ment of taxation and statistics. There
are only a tew counties left In which
farm property is known i<y be as-
sessed on a much higher percentage
of its value than other kinds ot prop-
erty. •■ i
Saving Will Be Repeated

'The saving of over two million
dollars in the farm property tax bill
in 1923 is likely to be maintained
this year, and this will probably be
true every year until valuations are
changed." says Mr. Watson.

SEVEN FARM BUREAUS
GET EXEMPTION FROM
FILING TAX RETURNS

1. A. C. A. and County Farm Bu
reau Offices Instrumental in
Negotiating Tax Exemption

SUhSUbr
J >'BUTTPH

IDI'CER F.tCTS

$122,507.17 is the total saving
during 1924 to shippers to the Pro
ducers Live Btock Commission Asso
ciation at Nitional Stock Yards, Illi
nols.

The Chicago Producers Commis-
sion Association points out the fol-
lowing as essential features of suc-
cessful co-opterative shipping associa-
tions: First, a co-operatively-minded
board of directors, who actually di-
rect; who meet at regular intervals
and assist tie manager in working
out any problems which arise. Sec-
ond, a capable manager, in sympathy
with co-operative marketing — a real
booster. Th^rd, a membership who
are 100 per cent behind their Or-
ganization ai|d who believe In co-op-
eration.

This poster will soon be seen hang
ing on the walls of stores, farm bu
reau offices, and farmers' meeting
places all over the counties ot Illi-
nois. The dairy marketing depart
ment spent considerable time to get
a real poster, and it now feels that It
has one that will do the Job up
brown.

"A survey made several months
ago through the co-operation ot 33
connty Farm Bureaus," says Lynch,
brought home more clearly than
anything else the observation that
not enough butter was used in the
majority of Illinois counties studied.
The survey also disclosed the tact

Seven county farm bureaus to date
have been granted exemption from
filing income tax returns, following
the I. A. C. A. application for such
exemption.

Hancock county leads the state by
being the first to receive such ex
emption. The other farm bureaus
that have been favorably notified are
Clay, Coles, Ford, Henderson, Iro
quois, and Pulaski counties.

George R. Wicker, I. A. A. co
operative accounting director and
general manager of the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Co-operative Association
points out that this action estab-
lishes a precedent for all similar or
ganizations, as the farm bureaus ex-
empted are saved the annoyance of
making returns on income tax each
year. He calls attention of those
farm bureaus who have not yet filed
application for exemption, and urges
them to take the necessary steps to
do so at once.

This may be done by sending the
necessary information to the head
quarters at 608 So. Dearborn Street,
Chicago, from where application will
be made to the Internal Revenue
Commission.

There have been filed with the
Collector of Internal Revenue appli-
cations for exemption of the follow
Ing additional farm bureaus: Grun
dy, Kane, LaSalle, Livingston, Madi
son. Monroe, Scott. Stark, and Ver
miiion counties. Other applications
are now being forwarded to more
county farm bureaus for the signa-
tures of their officers.

that farmers, including dairymen,
tvere almost as heavy users of oleo
as town and city dwellers."

The poster will have a kid brother
to play sidekick in the campaign
Plans have been drawn for a little
placard which can conveniently be
hung^n the farm kitchen. It reads:
No butter substitute used in this
home. Our family believes In good
butter tor health, growth, strength."
It will be distributed to farm fam-
ilies through the county Farm Bu-
reau offices.

Negotiations Are Under
Way to Buy Fertilizer
1 For Bureau Counties

HOG CHOLERA TO
RECEIVE SERIOUS
SETBACK BY SERUM

The phosphate-limestone depart-
ment of the I. A. A. has been on the
go the last few weeks — hot-footing
it downstate most of the time. Di-
rector J. R. Bent has spent consid
arable time in southern Illinois, call
ng on the Charles Stone company at
Vlarlon, also the Lehigh Stone com
pany at Kankakee, advancing ne
?oUatiODft tor the 1925 limestone
igreement. On February 24 he at
tended a meeting of all the limestone
producers at St. Louis. Business
■ailed him to Peoria following the
?t. Louis meeting.

The phosphate agreement is near
ng its final form and it is expected
'hat there will be a meeting between
he department ^nd the various phos
ihate producers either in Chicago or
tt Nashville, Tennessee, at the first
pportunity in the future.

LISTEN IN!

The Illinois Agricultural Asaocla-
'ion has arranged tor the following
speakers on KYW's evening pro-
<rams for March:

Tuesday, March 3 — Curt Anderson,
Xenta, III., manager ot the Red
Top Growers, Inc., and executive
committeeman ot the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association, on "Co-op-
erative Selling of Red Top."
Thursday, March 5 — W. H. Moody,
Port Byron. 111., executive commit-
teeman ot the Illinois Agricultural
Association, on "Interesting the
Women on the Farm."
Friday, March 31 — Wayne Hummer.
President of the liiinolB Bankers'
Association, ^hicago, on "When
Farmers and Bankers Get To-
gether."

I. A. C. A. KEEPS GROWING

The last co-operative to Join the
Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives
Association, according to Geo. R.
1 OO ^'<^'^^'°' I- ^- -^' accounting
I jX director, is the Farmers' and
**'*' Grange Fire Insurance Com-
pany of Alta, Peoria county. This
brings the total membership in the
I. A. C. A. up to 138 farmer co-ops
within nine months of the establish-
ment of the association.

A reeral fiirin and community meet-
ing in Ogle county had an attendance
of 200 people.

Eradication Under Way as Serum
Companies Confer with Farm
Bureau Serum AssodatioB

Hog cholera in Illinois is under
continuous fire and will be under-
mined from all sides this year, ac-
cording to Wm. E. Hedgcock. direc-
tor of live stock marketing tor the
I. A. A. Serum, it is averred, will
do It.

The board of directors ot the Illi-
nois Farm Bureau Serum Associa-
tion, Including Wm. E. Hedgcock,
I. A. A., met recently with represen-
tatives of eight serum companies to
receive bids for the 1925 supply of
serum for the Farm Bureaus. The
I. A. A. expects to be able to give
the information as regards the price
within a few days.

"The serum companies all showed
a fine spirit and expressed their ap-
preciation for the way the Farm Bu-
reaus were handling the serum con-
tracts," says Hedgcock. "The agree-
ment which the serum companies in
Illinois. Iowa, Missouri, and Indiana,
represented at the meeting were
asked to sign, met the approval ot all
representatives present. The com-
panies agreed unanimously to do no
soliciting in any Illinois county until
after the expiration ot a three-weeks'
period, the date of expiration to be
announced by the board of directors.
This Is done in order to give the se-
rum association officers an oppor-
tunity to present their findings to all
counties interested in serum con-
tracts."

Farmer vaccination of hogs, as
promoted by the county farm bu-
reaus, has proved Itself satisfactory
and successful, Hedgcock declares.

The Farm Bureau Serum Associa-
tion has been inspecting some ot the
serum plants and expects to make a
report soon.

Volume

ACCOl

PRO^

FO

Series of
Febru
L A.

Five h
farm adv
rectors o
ciations V
ing schoo
tlons in
state in
were held
the Colle
sity ot i;
stock ext
A. A. del
keting, V

Sixty-fi
526 live
in llllnoii
meetings,
ment sta
bringing
counting
attending
three Pro
tlons ope
present,
reached ^
came to

Among
the meet
to make
cessful
to meet n
members]
co-operat
ping aasr
the pares
cessful
upon the
brought c
ed, the I
for the ei
shipping

t:

Farstt manageaieMt, the McLean
eounty system of hog sanitation, T. B.
eradication, soli improvement, club
work, farm visits, seed Improvement,
and purebred seeds make up the major
projects for Woodford County Farm
Bureau In 1925.

Pnlasfcl Conntr Farm Bnreaa has a

soil fertility committee. The commit-
tee plans to carry out a sweet clover
campaign In the county, to last over
several years. Already 2,600 pounds
of aweet clover have been ordered this
year as compared with 200 pounds In
ItU.

Po

Fifty d
tlons tall
cernlng t
ance upoi
ership.
the need
sociatlon'
ficers ant
their acti
the work
to the be
tors and
is necessa
Ing servU
stock is
weigh an(
efficient n
should ca
list ot th<
from his

Managt
It was fu
overload
leads to
stock; ai
increases

Anothe
many sh:
their me
members
ot five t
weight li
in most c

Ex

The sh
it was to
healthy
shipping
denounce
operative
work of t
is galnini

Both o
Ing snppl
I. A. A.
Sheets, hi
able ther

SAM Ij

After (
creating
tion at a
Quincy K
son, I. J
honorary
unanlmot
present.

ruary 28, 192S

FARM

!,000,000
)00 FARMS
$8.04, SEE?

lepeated Until
Changed; Only
ut of Line Now

'SlONmi dO AlIS^iAINn

;oIlar tax saving
A. and the coun-
nd pocketed bj
inois farmers. If
out among the
he state, would
Ping of approxl-
farm, ordinary
reveals. How-
not the actual
is per farm — It
the state. The
cr of fact, con-
some counties

'•Mr-

»H ' I li

BJICUL.TU

V

Volume 3

btued Every Other Saturday — March 14, 192S

Ninnber 5

es not only to
m Bureau who
ossible the for-
applies to mem-
s as well. "Lots
and not paying
he gas," is the
1.

erent classes of

a fairer basis

at any time in

according to J.

of the depart-

statistics. There

ies left in which

lown tos be as-

gher percentage]

r kinds of prop- 1

Repeated '

rer two million
iroperty tax bill

be maintained
ill probably be

valuations are
Vatson.

TO

RIOUS
BY SERUM

Way as Serum
er with Farm
1 Association

linois is under
will be under-
1 this year, ac-
[edgcock. direc-
rketing for the
is averred, will

tors of the Illi-
3erum Assocla-
E. Hedgcock,
with represen-
a companies to
1925 supply of
Bureaus. The
)e able to give
gards the price

ales all showed
essed their ap-
r the Farm Ba-
the serum con-
c. "The agree-
a companies in
°i, and Indiana,
meeting were
approval of all
It. The com-
ously to do no
lis county until
a three-weeks'
ipiration to be
rd of directors,
to give the se-
ers an oppor-
' findings to all
n serum con-

L of hogs, as
inty farm bu-
;lf satisfactory
)ck declares.
Serum Associa-
ig some of the
3cts to make a

the McLean
lanitatlon, T. B.
•ovement, club
i Improvement,
[e up the major
County Farm

I Burean has a

The commlt-
a sweet clover
y. to last over
r 2,600 pounds
en ordered this
200 pounds In

ACCOUNTING SCHOOLS
PROVE THEIR WORTH
FOR SHIPPING CO-OPS

Series of Twrive Schools Held in
February by State CcAege and
L A. A. Bring Out DiscaMioB

Five hundred thirty-three Illinois
farm advisers and managers and di-
rectors of live stock shipping asso-
iciations were present at the account-
l ing schools held for shipping associa-
, tions in 12 districts throughout the
I state in February. The meetings
' were held under the Joint auspices of
1 the College of Agriculture, Univer-
I sity of Illinois, E. T. Robbins, live

I' stock extension specialist, and the I.
A. A. department of live stock mar
. keting, Wm. E. Hedgcock, director.
Sixty-five counties and 186 of the
626 live stock shipping associations
I in Illinois we^e represented at these
; meetings, whith the I. A. A. depart-
; ment states were very successful in
i bringing the matter of improved ac-
I counting to the attention of those
I attending. Representatives of the
I three Producers Commission associa
tions operating in Illinois also were
present. The highest attendance
reached was at Galesburg, where 103
came to the meeting.

Among the matters discussed at
the meetings it was pointed out that
to make shipping associations sue
cessful, the boards of directors ought
to meet monthly. Both manager and
membership, it was felt, must be
co-operative-minded. That the ship-
ping aasoclatioB is dependent upon
the parent association, and to be sue
cessful must realize its dependency
upon the parent, was another point
brought out. In Illinois, it was stat-
ed, the farm bureau is responsible
for the establishment of most of the
shipping associations.

Point Out Many Things
Fifty directors of shipping associa-
tions talked at these meetings con-
cerning the need of continued reli-
ance upon the Farm Bureau for lead-
ership. Many of them pointed out
the need for having a shipping as-
sociation's policies directed by its of-
ficers and that the manager needs
their active co-operation in planning
the work so as to serve the members
to the best advantage. Both direc
tors and managers indicated that it
is necessary for managers, in render-
ing service, to be on deck when live
stock is received, and personally
weigh and mark all shipments. The
elBcient manager, it was brought out
should carry a notebook and keep a
list of the live stock to be marketed
from his community.

Managers of shipping associations,
it was further declared, should not
overload their shipments, as this
leads to crippling and killing of
stock; and underloading, similarly,
increases the costs of marketing.

Another fact brought out was that
many shipping associations confine
their membership to farm bureau
members and that a service charge
of five to ten cents per hundred-
weight '8 charged to non-members
in most counties.

Expect Healthy Growth

The shipping association business,
it was foretold, should experience a
healthy growth in 1925. Direct
shipping of stock to the packers was
denounced as detrimental to the co-
operative marketing movement. The
work of the Producers, it was stated,
is gaining.

Both old and new system account-
ing supplies may be secured from the
I. A. A. office, Hedgcock declares.
Sheets, binders, and forms are avail-
able there.

PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES AND SMILE

SPECIAL MEETING OF FARM BUREAU PRESIDENTS,
SECRETARIES AND ADVISERS SET FOR MARCH 17
AT SPRINGHELD FOR BIG HEARING ON T. B. BILL

SAM IS HONOR.%RY MEMBER

After explaining the advantages of
creating a farmers' export corpora-
tion at a Farmers' Day held by the
Qulncy Kiwanis club, Sam H. Thomp-
son, I. A. A. president, was made
honorary member of Kiwanis by a
unanimous vote of the members
present.

Beecher City Wins

Live Stock Safety

Loading Contest

First place in the safety loading
contest for co-operative live stock
shipping associations in Illinois, spon
sored by the transportation depart
ment of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation, L. J. Quasey, director, goes
to the Beecher City Shipping As-
sociation, Effingham county. The
contest was carried on in co-opera-
tion with the Chicago Producers
Commission Association, the Produc
ei^s Live Stock Commission Associa
tion of East St. Louis, and the Pro
ducers Commission Association of In
dianapolis, Indiana, and was open to
all Illinois shipping associations ship-
ping at least 20 cars of livestock to
any of the three Producer agencies
between the dates of July 1 to De
cember 31, 1924.

The Beecher City association won
the silver trophy offered by the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association with s
record of only 11.45 loss, or .004 per
cent of 129,031.84, the value of the
22 carloads of stock shipped to the
Indianapolis Producers agency. Sec-
ond place goes to the Rockport Ship-
ping Association, with a record of
.009 per cent loss, or ^4.00 out of
$40,594.82 in 27 carloads shipped to
the Bast St. Louis market, and third
place to the North Henderson Ship-
ping Association, with a record of
.01 per cent loss, or 13.40, out of
$33,728.67 in 22 carloads shipped
to the Chicago Producers. Other
shipping associations coming under
the .04 per cent loss mark are: Craw-
ford-Jasper, Oblong, Illinois, .015 per
cent loss; Tabor, .025 per cent loss;
Lawrence County, Lawrenceville
033 per, cent loss; and the Martins
ville Co-operative Shipping Associa-
tion, .039 per cent loss.

Seventy-one Co^ps Entered

Shipments of live stock in the en-
tire contest from 71 Illinois ship-
ping asociations qualifying, totaled
13.661,379.60 in value, with .13 per
cent loss, according to the I. A. A.
"The contest," says Quasey, "aroused
great interest on the part of shipping
managers in handling and loading
stock. The matter of good care and
sound Judgment in handling and
loading live stock at the local stock
yards cannot be emphasized too
strongly and the safety loading con-

Radio, Favorite Indoor
Sport, Carries Romance
All its Own — Anderson

"Radio is proving its worth down
in Clay county," Curt Anderson, I. A.
A. executive committeeman from the
24th district, told us when in the
office the other day. "Take It in
just three townships around-, my
home, Xenia. A year ago there were
Just two receiving sets on Ihrms
there. Now there are around 50
farm sets."

Anderson toM us the romance of
his own set, which he acquired last
September. "On the day after I in
stalled the thing, I hauled a truck
load of 14 hogs to St. Louis. Before
I left I told my wife to tune in on
the stock yards for hog quotations
but never thought of my own pigs.
When I got back home I said, 'Bet
you dont know what the hogs
brought.' 'Guess I do,' says my
wife, 'fourteen lights topped the
market at 10.65.' "Them's mine,'
5ays I, 'how did you find out?' 'Well,'
3he comes back, 'what did you put
that radio in here for?'

"Once in a while neighbors call
me up and ask about quotations. I
tell 'em to wait, the loudspeaker is
right handy, and then edge the thing
up to the telephone."

Esecutive Cononittee Has Busy Two-Day Seaaon; Reports of All
Departments Approved ; Much LegislatiTc Work Under Way —
Gas Tax Bill to Displace SUte Aid Road Tax to be introduced

A GOOD Oe(iANiZATI<W6ACI^
Of Yoo 15 Trie. ecBRies-
t WiSM / WAS A ~ ^

Hornet. ->~

liiSTEN in:

The following speakers represent-
ing the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion are scheduled to talk over WLS.

Wednesday, March 25, 8:40 — F. A.
Gougier. director of poultry and egg
marketing, on "Poultry Conditions as
I Found Them in Wayne County."

Wednesday, April 1, 8:40 — Presi-
dent S. H. Thompson on "Changing
Agriculture."

Friday, April 3, 8:40 — Vice-Presi-
dent H. E. Goembel on "What do
Farmers Really Want in Grain Mar-
keting?" Mr. Goembel is chairman
of the grain marketing committ^ of
the I. A. A.

A special meeting of representatives of each of the 92 Farm Bureaus
in Illinois has been called by the executive committee of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association to take place
March 17 at Springfield. The meeting
is called for the purpose of discussing
the I. A. A. legislative program, par-
ticularly as regards the tuberculosis
eradication bill which has l>een in-
troduced by Representative Tice of
Menard county. A hearing on this
bill has t>een set tor the same day.
The executive committeemen will at-
tend the meeting at Springfield.

A busy two-day session marked the
regular monthly meeting of the execu-
tive committee, March 5 and €. On
Thursday, March 5, the executives
heard from each of the 13 department
directors who told of the work that
has been done and that is now under
way or contemplated in these several
departments. In addition, on Thursday evening a "get-acquainted" din-
ner was held for the purpose of making the new committeemen more

familiar with officers, brother com-
mitteemen and directors. On Friday
the executives approved all the work
being done by all the departments.
Following are the high spots of the
two-day session:

Higher Prices Paid
By Co^ps Increased;
Thank You, Mr. Critic!

"Our attention has been
called to the (act by the presi-
dent of the Sngar Creek Cream-
ery Company that one of tlie
creameries Usted In our price
snr\'ey in the REXX>RD of Feb-
ruary 28 is not a co-operative,"
says A.' D. Lj-nch, director of
the I. A. .\. dairy marketing de-
[tartment.

"It is true that the lU-Mo
Dairy Company of E. St. Louis,
the company in question, al-
though the stock is owned by
farmers, is not organized under
Illinois co-oi»erative laws.

"Taking out the average
price paid by Ill-Mo from the
computation, the difference paid
by Illinois co-operative cream-
eries as compared to prices
|Mid by pro|>rletary cream sta-
tions would be ju.st slightly
more than the 5 cents and 6
cenu differential stated in the
article under reriew."

CASS SHIPPERS SAVED
%% FREIGHT PER CAR

An average saving of from $8 to
$8.50 in freight costs on each car-
load of mixed live stock to the E.
St. Louis market has been made by
the Cass County Shipping Associa-
tion, according to W. A. McNeill of
Chandlen-ille.

"This saving is a direct result of
the favorable changes in the rule on
mixed shipments of live stock secured
by the Illinois Agricultural Associa
tion transportation department in the
fall of 1923," states Mr. McNeill.
"The actual difference in freight
rate, as it applies to our association,
is 16.51 cents per hundred. It was
68 cents, but after the change had
been secured by the I. A. A., the
rate became 51.49 cents per hundred
on mixed shipments. It meant a sav-
ing of $784 in 13 months to our as-
sociation:

"There are 526 live stock shipping
associations in Illinois and the mixed
car victory means a tremendous sun;
— and it stays in the farmer's pock-
et," Mr. McNeill asserts.

test is an effective means of bringing
it to the attention- of live stock ship-
ping association managers.

"The contest is another step for-
ward in the marketing of Illinois
live stock," the I. A. A. department
concludes.

FRUIT GROWERS MEET

On March 14 the Illinois Fruit
Growers, Inc., held its first annual
membership meeting at Centralia.
A. B. Lecper, I. A. A. fruit and vege-
table marketing director, is manager
of this association. An executive
committee meeting preceded the
membership meeting.

What They DM

1. Heard of the work of each of
the departments and approved it.

2. Decided to call all farm bureau
presidents, secretaries and farm ad-
visers into a special meeting to be
lield at Springfield. March IT, (or
the purpose of considering first-hand-
ed the legislative program of the as-
sociation. Those interested in tu-
berculosis eradication work will at-
tend a hearing on the Tice bill which
re-codifles and strengthens the bo— •
vine tuberculosis laws of the state.
The hill as drawn will place Illinois

a real business basis and gives
Illinois fanners a tuberculosis erad-
ication law which is superior to any
law that has been enacted in the
rnited States.

"This bill is receiving opposition
from certain indiWduals and groups
nterested in defeating the tubercn-
nsis eradication program in the
>tate," the notice of the special meet-
ng reads.

3. The legislative committee re-
tiorted progress on the three major
legislative desires for which the I.
A. .\. is standing. The bill on tuber-
culosis eradication has t>een intro-
duced by Representative Tice and the
second hearing will be on March 17.

.Amendment Is Brewinic

The revenue amendment is still
brewing and an amendment will bf
ready tor the legislators to work on
in the near future.

As to the gasoline tax in place o(
the State Aid road tax. the legisla-
tive committee reported that this
bill is quite likely to be introduced
the week of March 9-14. The gen-
eral order of gas tax bills which
have been floundering around at
Springfield could not be indorsed by
the I. A. A. The only way the I. A
A. can stand for a gas tax is provid-
ing it displaces some present form of
taxation i^nd the State Aid road tax
seems to 1>e the one that should be
displaced.

Wolves! Wolves!!

Other legislative action by the ex
ecutive committee consisted of re
ferring a communication read by
Committeeman Earl Smith from Pike
county asking for the support of the
Illinois Agricultural Association to
exterminate wolves. The river coun
ties of Illinois, particularly Calhoun
Pike. Adams and Hancock, the com-
munication stated, have absorbed
large numbers of wolves from across
the Mississippi river during the win
ter. Vigorous war on these maraud-
ers of livestock on the western sld<
of the Mississippi has driven the
(Continued on pace 4, col. L)

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The IIMnoi» Agricultural AMOciation Record

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I Li Li 1 N OIS

CfJLTliaAL ASSOCIA

RECORO^

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Published •T«rT othar Saturday by th« IlUnola Asrlcaltnrml
AMOclatlon, •01 South Dearborn Street Chicago, Ilirnol*. Hd-
Ited by Department of Information, H. C. Butcher. Director.

Bntered aa aecond claaa matter Oct. 10, 1»»1, at the poat offlca
at Chlcaco, Illlnola, under the act of March »..li7». Accmtance
for mallbiB at apeclal ratea of poatace proTided for In Section
JJOl. Act of October I. 1»17, authorlied Oct. tV, 1»21.

The IndlTltlual membership fee of the Illlnola Agricultural Aa-
aoclatlon la Ave dollara a year. The fee Includea payment of
nfty cents for subacrlptlon to th* Illlnola Arrlcultural Aaao-
elation RxcoBD.

Postmaster: In returning an uncalled-tor or mtassnt copy,
please Indicate key number on addreaa aa Is required by law.

J OFFICERS

I President, S. H. Thompson, Qnincy.

Vice-President, H. E. Goembel, Hooppole.
Treasurer, 11. A. Cowles, Bloomlngton.
Secretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore.

EXECXmVE COMMITTCE

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By Congressional Districts

William Webb, Rte. 1, Joliet

Q. P. Tullock. Rockford

C. B- Bamborough, Polo

,.■', W. H.' Moody, Port Byron

B. H. Taylor, Rapatee

A. R. Wright, Varna

I*. D, Barton, Cornell

R. F. K«rr, Iroquota

J. L. Whianand, Charleaton

p Earl C. Smith, Detroit

Samuel Sorrellt, Raymond

, Stanly Castle, Alton

W. I_ Cope, Salem

Curt Anderaon, Xenia

R. K. Loomla, Makanda

Director!! of Departmenta
I. A. A. Office

General Office and Atsiatant to Secretary, J. H, Kelker; Or-
ganization, G. E. Metzger; Information, HJ C, Butcher; Trans-
portation, L, J. Quasey; Taxation and Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing, A. 8.
Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, Wm. E. Hedgcock; Dairy
Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone, J. R, Bent;
in charge PouKry and Egg Marketing, F, A. Gougler; ipeelal
representative on Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H. Petersen;
Legal Counsel, Donald KIrkpatrick; Co-oparatlve Accounting,
Geo. R, Wicker.

THE RECORD'S PLATFOHM
Advance the- purpose for which the Farm Bureau wqm organized,
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic,
social and educationul interests oj the farmers of Illinois and the
nation, and to develop agriculture.

Keep the Fact* Straight

The IQinoiB Agricultural Association has not asked
for a hearinf^ on the grain merger before the Illinois
Comnieroe Commission; we aslied the Commission to
investigate. The Commission has set the date of its hear-
ing as April 15. In the meantime, the I. A. A. committee
on grain marketing is working with the Farmers' Grain
Dealers ' Association on a common sense plan. The com-
mittee reports progress, but has no officdal announcement
to make at this time.

About a Letter ||

In glancing through the many fatib papers which
come to the 1. A. A. office, not long ago we noticed a
letter in one df them which had been written by a mem-
ber of the F^rm Bureau in Illinois. This letter con-
tained an intejresting criticisni of the I. A. A. which we
had not heart^ before, so we are passing it along to our
members. The letter follows:

Your trenchant editorial, "Tell the Truth", in your
issue o^ Febl 4. is in a nutshell the chief reason for
the apparent decline of farm organizations. Time was
when the farm bureau had a very definite open door
policy, when I public and press were welcomed to meet-
ings of the gorernin^ board, and when the president
and executivj committee of the American Farm Bureau
Federation as well as most of the state organizations
went on record time and again instructing their pub-
licity departments to tell the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth. It was this policy Which
establislied the farm bureau in such high favor with
. the public aQd its membership.

As a mem|t>er of the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, I think that I have a perfect right to know every-
thing that is going on in the organization. Yet I
scanned the last issue of the Recosd from cover to
cover ini a vain attempt to find who is the executive
officer of our association. Yet I presume that the ex-
ecutive comnlittee must have chosen an executive sec-
retary, c(r at least discussed it.

No faim organization can live and flourish unless it
belongs to it* members. And it cannot belong to its
member^ unless its members are fully informed as to
every pollicy *nd activity.

Whenevp,r the officials of any farm organisation see
fit to suppresp an.v information or record of organiza-
tion activity, that minute they convert it from a dem-
ocracy tb an autocracy, and in order to preserve it-
self, autocratic methods must be used.

The b^ard of directors of the California Fruit Grow-
ers Exctfangei meets in a room banked by a gallery.
This gallery is open to the public and- the press.
"Open covenants, openly arrived at", is fundamental
and it is one of the prime factors in the early success
of the farm bureau.

As a loyal member I shall continue to hope for a
return to the open-door policy on absolutely every
Question that comes within the scope of our organiza-
tion's thought and action.

About Time He Began to Handle Thoae
Levers Hinuelf—By J. N. Ding

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— Courtesy Twice-A-Wp«k Globe Democrat.

From this, criticism, any farm bureau member
who is not close to the actual situation, might be led to
believe that the Chicago office of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association has its entrance guarded with a dozen
six-foot, ferocious, South Sea cannibal guardsmen armed
to the teeth with glistening knives and treacherous dirks,
all waiting to devour any seeker of information.

Any farmer whose belief in the Farm Bureau is like
the ordinary man's religion (needs a revival meeting
once in awhile) could be so misinformed as to believe by
such propaganda that the I. A. A, is governed by an in-
visible sultan of secrecy wlio keeps tlie facts concerning
this association in a sealed vault which can be approached
only after whispering a my.stic password to the glower-
ing guards.

Indeed, we can imagine a suspicious-looking farm bu-
reau member stealthily approaching the I. A. A. office
in the manner of the Human Fly. At the peril of his
life he crawls from window ledge to window ledge from
the sidewalk on busy Dearborn street toward the 12th
floor wherein abides the Empire of I. A. A. Inch by
inch and foot by foot he climbs upward until he reaches
the window of the I. A. A. information department.
; Crashing his fist through the sooty window pane and
' hanging to the sill in irfidair with the other he cries :

' ' How much are my farm bureau dues t "

"What's the password?"' the inforraationist asks cau-
tiously.

"I dunno any," explains the member, peeking over
the window sill, "but being in the city I thought I'd
come up and pay my dues."

"No password — no information, that's our motto —
and take that ! ! " says the official informer as he calmly
kicks the member in the snout, toppling him from the
sill for a 12-story non-stop flight to the cement sidewalk.

"The audacity of anybody trying to get information
from the I. A. A. without the secret password!!" we
could imagine the official informer saying as he leisurely
watches a white clad streetsweeper brushing a grease-
spot off the sidewalk 12 stories below.

Seriously, now folks, your state farm bureau body is
not at all as pictured abeve. This association believes
in and endorses the open door policy. What is more,
it practices it. As much news as it is possible to squeeze
into the Record's limited space is sent to each member
every two weeks — 26 times a year. And this is more
than miiny organizations inform their members.

In addition the I. A. A. sends out an average of at
least one news story a day to the public press. Each
story of average news value is printed in papers having
approximately one million readers. Some stories con-
cerning this association have had enough importance to
be printed from coast to coast. We know because we
have the clippings. And it might be interesting to you
as a farm bureau member to know that your state asso-
ciation is becoming more and more important in the news
of this nation ; it is rapidly assuming an enviable posi-
tion-of authority in its field.

As for the "apparent decline of farm organizations
we effler in rebuttal the fact that' there is a growing
quarter-miUion treasury balance of this association. Also
the prediction that the 63,000 members will be boosted
to 75,000 when about 40 counties renew this year is
ample j evidence that this association is by no means de-

clining. The I. A. A. is growing in reserves, members
and accomplishments. What more do you want!

The specific instance mentioned in the criticism printed
concerning our secretary can be disproved officially
by referring the reader to the upper left hand comer
of this page in the issue in question. The officers are
named there and always have been.

This association is founded upon that solid and 'en-
during basis such as Abraham Lincoln once so ably de-
scribed the secure foundation of the United States when
he said — "A government of the people, by the people
and for the people."

The I. A. A., like the United States government, is
also conducted in democratic fashion and upon the prin-
ciple of a true republic. It is of farm bureau members,
by farm bureau members and for farm bureau members,
first, last and always. *

And, like Senators or Congressional representatives
of the United States, the officers and 15 executive com-
mitteemen (also named in the left hand comer above)
and employed directors often times negotiate biiBiness
of vital importance to all the 63,000 members. Some-
times such business cannot be expo^d at the moment.
Exposing at the wrong time would be like a card player
showing his whole hand to his opponent before the game
is finished.

All thinking members must realize that certain busi-
ness of the association has to he conducted without tell-
ing the world until the results have been accomplished.
However, any bona fide member can get any such infor-
mation by seeing personally or writing the executive
cqmmitteeman representing his district. County farm
bureau presidents and other county officers are also re-
liable sources of such information. District meetings
are good places to get informed. All members are in-
vited to these. Questions can be asked and answered
without getting the facts twisted. Difficulties can be
cleared up.

Furthermore, there is a standing invitation to farm
bureau members to attend meetings of the executive
committee when members happen to be in Chicago at
meeting time, the first Friday of each month. This in-
vitation is also standing for representatives of the press.
The only closed periods are iluring executive sessions.
These are few and short.

Yes, the I. A. A. subscribes to the open door policy
and practices it. However, it does not lay all its cards
on the table where opponents to the farm bureau mem-
bers' interests can see them. And don't forget, Mr.
Farm Bureau member, there are plenty of opponents in
this great game. Arfd oftentimes they would like espe-
cially to see what cards this farm organization is hold-
ing.

The Illino'is Agricultural Association is of, by and for
its 63,000 thinking fanner members first, last and al-
ways.

Whatever the I. A. A. does, it is in the interest of the
members who support it. If we may be permitted to
parallel that famous declaration of Stephen Decatur —
"Our Farm Bureaul In her intercourse with other.in-
terests may she always be in the right; but our Farm
Bureau, right or wrong! !"

Deem Davenport it "For the Farm Bureau"

Eugene Davenport, that great leader of agriculture
who is now on the retired list after many years as Dean
of Agriculture at the University of Illinois, has a warm
spot in his heart for the Farm Bureaus in Illinois and
the Illinois Agricultural Association. However, some-
one of the reporters who "covered" a meeting at which
he spoke during the recent Farmers' Week at the Uni-
versity, got the wrong slant on the former Dean's -views.
This has been taken up by some opponents of this or-
ganization of thinking farmers.

The "Sangamo Farmer," official publication of the
Sangamon County Farm Bureau, reprinted an attack
on the Farm Bureau in which some non-member quoted
the statement Dean Davenport was supposed to have
made. We sent a copy of the "Sangamo Farmer"' to
Mr. Davenport and he replied as follows :

Your marked quotation in the Sangamo Farmer, Vol.
VI, No. 2 in no wise represents either my views or my
expression at the University this winter, except as to one
particular phase of the organization.

In so far as farmers are urged to imitate organized
labor and attempt to control prices and production by
force and starve the public into submission, I said I be-
lieve that the attempt is vicious and will fail as it ought.

As to organization in general and especially for ex-
pression I believe that all the firms of co-operative un-
dertaking have done great good. On the whole I regard
the Farm Bureau as the best and most promising for
local results and the state and the national federations
the most useful and powerful for the larger issues.

If this fails to make clear my unbounded faith in
national organization for farmers, I should be glad to
go further into any particular point.

Sincerely yours,
(Signed) E. Davenport.

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ILUNOIS FARMERS
' BOUGHT QUARTER OF
ALL UME USED IN '24

RENEW DECLARATION OF WAR ON BOVINE T. B. IN ILLINOIS

I. A- A. PhcMphate-Iimettone De-
partment Successful in Secur-
ing Continuance of Ten Cent*
per Ton Discount to Members

I Illinois farmers last year bought
I 500.000 tons of limestone to use on
I their soils. That is one-fourth of all
' the limestone used on farms in the
I entire United States last year (the
' U. S. Department of Agriculture says
the whole country used 2,000,000
tons). And the farm bureaus were
responsible for the larger portion of
Illinois' record, as about 2*0,000
tons of this soil sweetener was pur-
chased through them in co-operation
with the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation.

"From the earliest records In

1911," says J. R. Bent, director,
''when 32,000 tons was used, the
quantity of farm limestone' applied
on the soils of the state has ad-
vanced, much through Farm Bureau
effort, until Illinois farmers last year
established a new record for the
country by spreading a half million
{tons of limestone on their farms.
This is a significant step in the direc-
tion of establishing a sound policy
of soil maintenance and it is some-
I thing the state is entitled to take
great pride in."

' The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
|tion, through the phosphate-lime-
'stone department, has been at work
j since early 1920 endeavoring to
make the available supply as efficient
and economical as possible. Last
year the department was successful
I in negotiating a ten cents per ton dif-
ferential, granted by the limestone
producers as a discount, in favor of
farm bureau members. This advan-
tage has now been in force tor six
I months and has saved the farm bu-
>reau members of Illinois thousands
{of dollars.

I DeiMirtment Kept Bnsy

I "The limestone producers early in
I the winter started a movement to
I abandon this practice and return to
I the old basis of one price to all and
I announced Its decision to the I. A.
A.," says Mr. Bent. "The phosphate-
limestone department has been kept
busy during the last three months
in an endeavor to perpetuate the dis-
count feature in behalf of its mem-
bers and has been rewarded this
past week by victory, — the majority
of the producers having finally
agreed to continue the discount fea-
ture direct to each purchasing mem-
ber by means of discount certificates
issued by the resp«ctive county
Farm Bureaus.

"The large demand in 1924 not
only took care of the current produc-
tion of screenings from the crushed
stone industry but almost entirely
cleaned up the surplus which had
been accumulating during the previ-
ous three or four years. This fact
(led the Producers to feel that they
|could no longer continue a price
I which was less than the pro-rata

i share of the cost of production and
that hereafter they should secure a
price for this material which would
cover the cost of production with
some profit. They claimed that a
[minimum price of 80 cents at the
quarry net to farm bureau mem-
bers would be necessary to accom-
plish this. However, at least two
of the producers have agreed with
the I. A. A. department to hold their
pVice for the present to 76 cents a
ton f.o.b. the quarry with 10 cents
off to farm bureau members, thus
effecting a saving of 15 cents below
the price that at first had been con-
templated by the producers. This

State b Leader in Move
to Stamp Out Cattle
Plague Whidi Brings
Suffering to Mankind
and Losses to Live-
stock Industry

Bovine Tuberculosis
must go!

This is the unqualified
statement of all extension
forces operating in Illi-
nois to stamp out the cat-
tle pest. The Illinois Ag-
ricul t u r a 1 Association,
through its T. B. eradica-
tion project, M. H. Peter-
sen, in charge, is square-
ly behind the efforts made
by the state and the fed-
eral government in their
efforts to rid the coun-
try-side of the plague.

"A survey carried on by
the federal government
shows that 33 1-3 per
cent of the infantile tu-
berculosis in the United
States is directly trace-
able to the presence of
the bovine tubercle bacil-
lus in milk," states the I.
A. A. department. "This
statement is also borne
out in the report of a sim-
ilar survey conducted by
the British Royal Com-
mission.

"The Bureau of Animal
Industry. United States
Department of Agricul-
ture, estimates that the
annual losses from bovine
tuberculosis to the live-
stock industry of the
country amounts to no
less than $25,000,000 to
$40,000,000 and that this
loss is largely prevent-
able.

"Illinois now is a lead-
er in the country in the
anti-T. B. fight, but only
a start has been made.
With Edgar county ac-
credited free from the
disease, testing going on
in 62 other counties, and
educational campaigns in
17 others, the work must
progress until all rural
Illinois, where 135 out of
every 100,000 human be-
ings are victims of the
disease, is entirely free
from every vestige of bo-
vine tuberculosis."

'I'UK map on tAe left shows
the status -of the bovine
tuberculosis eradication cam-
paign on March 1, 1925. Six-
ty-two counties bad area vet-
erinarians working. 63 had
appropriations, and education-
al campaigns were in progress
in 17 others. Illinois had
mere counties working on the
area plan than any other
state. Compare the map at
the left with the one below.
Note the progress made
through all forcas eo-operat-

/^N the right is shown how the
state looked on Dec. 1. 1923.
Twenty-four counties started the
area test In 1924. The one legend
serves (or both maps.

Prepared by

Illinois Agricultural Association u

63,000 Thinking Farmers

APPROVE ACTION OF
THE I. A. A. EXECUTIVE
COMMIHEE ON MERGER

Twenty - first District Meeting
Adopts Res<Jutions Urging
Continued Vigil and Advising
against Purchasing Grain Mar-
keting Company Stock

The first quarterly meeting for
1925 of the executive committees of
the four farm bureaus in the 2l8t
Congressional district, which in-
cludes Sangamon, Christian, Mont-
gomery, and Macoupin, was held at
Carllnvllle, Macoupin county, Febru-
ary 26. Four meetings were held
last year, starting with one at Car-
linvilie a year ago. Sam Sorrells,
Raymond, is executive committeeman
for the I. A. A. from this district.

The purpose of this meeting was
to discuss farm bureau problems of
special interest to the farm bureaus
in this district. The program In
eluded discussion of legislative mat-
ters, membership campaign problems
status of grain marketing, status of
live stock marketing, especially from
the angle of the Producers at East
St. Louis, and the problem of mar-
keting whole milk in this territory
C. R. Martin of the Producers Live
Stock Commission Association spoke
on the Producers' work.

i\pprove I. A. A. Action

Resolutions were adopted appro*'
ing the action of the I. A. A. execu-
tive committee relative to the Grain
Marketing Company and advising ev-
ery farmer in the 21st district
against the purchase of stock In the

doubtless will have some bearing up-
on the price quoted by other compa-
nies, including those that sell on a
delivered price basis."

grain merger. Another resolution
was passed urging the I. A. A. execu-
tive committee to take whatever
steps necessary to remove from the
counties of Illinois the intolerable
situation which now exists by induc-
ing the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration to publicly repudiate all con-
nection with the Grain Marketing
Company to cease carrying propa-
ganda favoring the Grain Marketing
Company in Its official publications,
or by any other means deemed ad-
visable by the executive committee
of the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion.

The next meeting will be held at
Hillsboro, Montgomery county, April
23.

Following: Is a list of those in at-
tendance: From Macoupin — J. P. Ens-
low-. H. W. Rice. J. F. Leefers. W. C
Robinson. John Roblson and Dr. J. P.
Denby. From Christian — W. W.
Grimes; C. G. Curtln. Dwlght Hart. H.
H. Gordon. W. T. Wallace. T. A. Oster-
meier. T. R. Potts. C. E. Hay. From
Montgomery — Sam. Sorrels. H. A. Cress,
R. E. Glfford. Chas. Whitlock. and AI-
den Snyder. Prom Sangamon — J. P.
Stout. J. F. Greenwood. Geo. C. Wash-
burn. Albert Trutter. H. H. Mauer. S. J.
Snell. E. A. Blgler. C- N- Reynolds. I. A.
Madden, and R. KJtfowlan.

PUT OFHCIAL 0. K.

ON L A. A. SLOGAN

The phrase, "63,000 thinking
farmers," has been In use for about
a year — unofficially. From now on,
however. It will be used with might
and main, as the executive commit
tee of the I. A. A. in Its March meet
Ing adopted the term as the official
slogan of the organization.

The slogan has already gained
wide popularity throughout Illinois
and even outside the state. I. A. A.
officials believe this to be the first
case of a general farm organization
to adopt a slogan by which It might
be known.

Official Scribe's Squib
Puts Henry County into
A Grotesque Limelight

Henry county last year "Ini-
|)ort«d 23S acres of limestone,"
according to a stxtrment ap-
|ie&ring in the Kebmary 2H
KKCORD. Quite an order, we
take it, tk» the surface eifcht
inches of soil per acre weigh
only 2,000,000 imunds. to say
nothing of stone.

'Die I. A. A. house organ
does not tell Jnst how tlie stuff
was smuggled Into ttie county.
If by the acre, we are wonder-
ing if much of the mineral,
while iierhaps not broken, did
not get BEXT (J. R.). How-
ever, now that the deed's been
done, we shall e\|»€ct legumes
in Henry county to grow a mile
higti, and we are confident that
sour soils will no longer have
any terrors for the farms of
tMs county.

HEALTHY GROWTH IN
I STATE ACCREDITED
I HATCHERIES, 1924

iState Division of StandardizatioD
and Miukets Tells of Purpose
and Gives List of Farms

CAN HOLD WIFE OF

CONTRACT SIGNER

Can the wife of a contract signer
be held? Persons interested in co
operative marketing are furnished a
precedent In the case of the Califor-
nia Prune and Apricot Growers" As-
sociation vs. William H.AIlenden and
Myhle Allenden. William H. Allen-
den signed a contract with tbe asso-
ciation whilfe his wife owned the
property. It appeared, however, that
she had permitted Mr. Allenden. her

Illinois' Accredited Hatcherj- sys-
tem is on the up-grade. .So says H.
;W. Day, supervlslnB inspector of the
'Division of Standardization and Mar-
kets. Illinois Department of Agricul-
ture, co-operating with the poultry
and egg marketing department of
the Illinois Agdculturai Association.

"In the fall of 1923." says Day.
"the poultry interests of the state re-
jquested a plan whereby hatcheries
and flocks miebt be inspected by an
authorized slate agency and be
placed on an accredited list. By now
the baby chick industry in Illinois is
growing to be one of great impor-
tance and competition is keen among
all those who sell day-old chicks.
All poultry Interests are eager to do
something which will l)etter their
industry."

The Illinois Accredited Hatchery
plan was formulated in the fall of
■1923 Jointly by the poultry and egg
marketing department of the I. A. A.,
the poultry division of the College of
Agriculture at Urbana. the Illinois
Baby Chick Association, and the
state Division of Standardization and
.Markets co-operating. After several
hearings the plan was adopted.

Few Accrrditetl in ll»2»

Due to the late start in the 1923
season, only a few hatcheries could
be inspected. Ten hatcheries were
placed on the state accredited list
for the season of 1923-1924. In ad-
dition, about 150 flocks were inspect-
ed and placed on the reserve list.
Tbe hatcheries and reserve flocks to-
gether totaled 4»,55S birds.

The work was started earlier in
the fall of 1924 and at present. 34
hatcheries have been placed on the
accredited list for the season of 1924-
1925. These hatcheries with all
their flocks and some reBer%"e flocks
total approximately 125.000 birds.

"The .Accredited Hatchery plan,"
declares Day, "is becoming quite pop-
ular and the public is t>eginning to
realize the value of chicks from these
inspected hatcheries. The object of
this plan is three-fold: first, to help
raise the standard of Illinois poultry;
second, to assist in the marketing of ^
baby chicks; and third, to help the"
baby chick buyer secure a better
product for his money."

4'.onld Accredit Many

The State Division of Standardiza-
tion and Markets and the poultry and
egg marketing department of the
I. A. A. are promoting the extension
of the plan, together with other
poultry ipterests. "Some hatcher-
ies." asserts Day, "no doubt are al-
ready selling chicks which meet the
requirements of Grade A and the
Department feels that there are a
great many hatcheries in the state
that might easily t>e placed on the
accredited list. The accredited
hatcheries guarantee that the chicks
which they offer for sale come from
eggs produced by hens which were
inspected and leg-banded by one of
our authorized Inspectors."

"The inspection is not compul-
-sory," the State Department advises.
"No hatcheryman nor flock owner
need feel that he must have the in-
spection. It Is offered to those who
wish to have the approval of quality
placed on their chicks which they of-
fer for sale. Those who want tbe
inspection are requested to write to
the Division of Standardization and
.Markets at Springfield and ask for
an application blank. This blank
should be filled out and returned to
the office and an inspector will be
sent as soon as possible."

UUchstring Is Out

Any hatchery operating within the
State of Illinois shall be published
on the State accredited list, provided,
upon inspection by an authorized In-
spector of the State Division, it is
found to meet and maintain through-
out the hatching season the certain
specified requirements and regula-
tions. The hatchery also must be
open to re-inspection at any time.

The State Division of SUndardiza-
tion and Markets announces the fol-
lowing list of tiilnois Accredited
Hatcheries:

Edgar Brenner.

husband, to deliver prior crops to the Brenner Hatchery

... J .u • 1. u J .J Freeburg. III.

association and that she had accepted cedardale Poultry Farm — Olenn Ran.
the proceeds therefrom. In view of Maroa, 111. .. . ^

.,., - . . .J , iCheatnut Hatcherr — B. N. Myrlck.

this fact, she was regarded as a prin- chestnut. III. '
cipal and judgment was renderedlcorn Belt Hatchery — D. K. Roth. Olb-
against both of them. . ""<conOn"kd on page 4. col. 4)

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Tbe niinolt Agricnifairal AitocMition Record

Mfdi 14. 1921

GROW NEARLY ALL
OF WORLD CROP IN
EIGHT COUNTIES

GAS TAX COUNTED
FAIR IF IT REUEVES
PROPERTY TAX BURDEN

Egyptian Seed Growers Exchange
Handled $150,000 Busineu
for 826 Fanners in Year 1924

"Co-operttive marketing is a busi-
ness updertkliing and not a political
venture." (Jeclared Curt Anderson.
Xenia. in a fecent address over KYW,
Chicago. I

Andersonl is general manager of
the Bgyptjan Seed Growers Ex-
change, a riommodity marketing or-
ganization handling Red Top clover
seed co-opecatively for 826 producers
in Clay county and the seven adjoin-
ing counties. He also is e.xecutive
committeeman for the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association.

The area concerned produces 95
per cent of all the Red Top seed
Krown in tlje world. The Exchange
was inporpqrated in June, 1922. In
1924 It S0I4 over $138,000 worth of
unhull«d 8e*d. This represents about
one-third of the total Red Top crop
produced in this area.

"Co-oper»tive marketing." said
Anderson, *is founded upon human
relatioDshlpts and has for its purpose
human! benefits and therefore it can-
not be temporizing in its character.
To be succpssful. co-operative mar-
keting! must be ninderstood to be a
business undertaking arising from
th^ cobnnion desire of producers of
like agjriculiural products to work to-
gether; in the creation of a business
institution Buited to the commodity
in question., it must be operated un-
der a responsible management whose
sole purpose is to create stanAard-
izationi of tlhe product, economics in
dlstribptioni, and an orderly flow into
the prkctic41 channels of trade."

EXECUTIVE MEETING
COVERS MUCH GROUND

(Continued from page 1)
wolves) to piore protected areas In
Illinois. th« letter 'stated.

Support in securing an appropria
tton for offlcial assistance in riddingr
the cointryj of wolves was requested
The matter was referred to the legis-
lative comqiittee.

Anofher legislative consideration
had tO' do with the fear that the ap
propriation necessary to continue in-
specting work under the farm prod-
ucts iqsp^ction law would be cut oft
This n^atter was also referred to the
legislative committee for action.

To H«lp Appeal Tax Case

4. becided to support the Madl
son County Farm Bureau in Its ap-
peal to the Supreme Court of Illinois
concerjiing the decision of the lower
court In Madison county which or-
dered that the 199 Madison County
Farm bureau members who had held
back a portion of their taxes must
pay with penalty. The final out-
come <it this case Is of so much im-
portante to every farm bureau mem-
ber in I Illinois that the I. A. A. will
furniso both meq and money in the
fight Which is to come.

5. Heard President Palmer of the
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation tell
of good w«rk that is going on in
Ohio. 1 President Palmer stated that
Ohio looks to Illinois for leadership
in majny things in farm bureau
work. I President Palmer was visltin?
in Chiaago.

Faji-or State Police

6. Heard of legislative program
of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce'
from ipdward E. Gore, chairman of
that body's legislative committee,
and Geo. E. Stephens, who is in
charge of He Chamber of Commerce
legislative office at Springfield, iix-
ecutive committee later in the day
voted to support a measure givins
police protection to rural 'communi-
ties. This means Indorsement of
state Dolice, Frank F. Barth of the
Pennsylvania State Police, told of the
success of the plan in his state.

7. President Thompson an-
nounceid that the executive commit-
tee had decided to place the posi-
tions Of secretary and treasurer of
the association on the same basis as
the dinectorB are employed. That is,
there are no yearly contracts, each
man being employed with the mutual
understanding that if he wishes to
resign or the executive committee
wishes him to resign, a 60-day notice
shall be served by the party who ini-
tiates the change. Secretary Fox
and Treasurer Cowles both desired
the 60-day basis and will continue
their offices. *

The date of the next meeting is
April 3.

Proposal If Enacted Would Shift
the Road Tax to Consumption
Basis, Says the I. A. A.

"The fairest tax for those who
u^e the highways of Illinois is the
gasoline tax." So declares the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association,
through its taxation department, J.
C. Watson, director.

The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion is squarely behind a tax on gaso-
line used to propel automobiles and
trucks on the highways of the state,
providing the funds derived there-
from displace and do not add to the
present property tax burden. "The
most insistent demand for Improved
roads comes from those who drive
cars and trucks," says the taxation
department. "They have the most
to gain from improvement of high-
ways. Their loss is greatest when
the highways they must use are
rough or soft, or are not usable part
o( tlie year."

Property owners have every rea-
son to resist any further increases in
property taxes for improving the
public highways of the State, the I.
A. A. director points out. "The bur-
den of improving and < maintaining
the roads most used by motor vehi-
cles must fall upon the users. Only
in this way will they cease paying
for bad roads without getting any
better roads.

"The gasoline tax takes account
of the speed of the machine, its
weight and power, and tbe distance
it is driven. It adapts itself equally
to persons who use the roads little
and to those who use the roads much.
It measures the benefit which the
user receives from the road. Further
more, the gasoline tax is easy and
simple to collect."

The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion is supporting a measure which
provides for a gasoline tax to re-
lieve in part the excessive burden of
taxation now carried by farm lands
and city real estate. The Association
states that it wants the gas tax to
displace and not add to the present
property burden.

It estimates that a two cent tax
per gallon of gasoline would provide
about $10,000,000 annually. Of this
sum, $6,500,000 to $7,000,000 would
go direct to the counties (or con
struction and maintenance of State
Aid roads, and the balance would go
to the State Aid fund, distributed to
the counties where the need is
greatest. A two cent tax, it is be-
lieved, would take $4,000,000 off
the State property tax books and thus
relieve property of part of its tax
burden.

Judging from all the letters that are
have come into the I. A. A. office
from farm folks, including executive
committeemen, in answer to the
cross-word puzzle In the February 28
issue of the Recosd, we discover that
the thing has created a mild tem-
pest— especially with one word.

Look at the solution and compare
it with the one you doped out. How
did you answer 24 down? We were
showered with a wide variety of pos-
sibilities on that one — as might be
expected for the problem under dis-
cussion. "Time," "love," and "kale'

TELLS WHY HOOSIERS
LEAD AS PRODUCERS

"The shipping associations in
Illinois," says F. H. Kelley, man-
ager of the Producers Commission
Association at Indianapolis, "as
whole are still less loyal to
their own marketing organization
than those in Indiana. We attribute
this in part to the fact that the Indi-
ana associations being much closer
to the market, send many more men
to see the actual marketing process
and to investigate their own market-
ing organization first hand. In fact
many Indiana counties have been
sending delegations of from 30 to 80
men from different parts of the coun
ty to market, for a detailed study of
the Producers. Unbiased investiga-
tion has convinced these men that
the way to sell their live stock Is
through the Producers. In Illinois
the average consignor to a shipping
association does not come to market
often, and consequently a manager
who is prejudiced, not having the
Weight of the shippers' first hand
knowledge of the market, can more
easily ship to Old Line firms.

"Through the co-operation of coun
ty farm bureaus and tbe Indianapolis
Producers, local stock yard grading
demonstrations are being held Jn the
Indianapolis trade territory and are
proving popular. Recent demonstra-
tions have been held at Neoga in
Cumberland county, Illinois, and at
Bethany, Lovington and Sullivan In
Moultrie county. Arrangements have
tjeen completed to hold seven of these
demonstrations in Champaign coun-
ty soon."

Omr ksKdred twcatr-ave VemlUoa

county farmers recently met with their
farm adviser to discuss their seed corn
problems for 1925.

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most contestants and according to
our official builder, "kale" is tbe
only right one. These words were
defined as "something of which you
never get enough."

One of the pleasant surprises in
connection with the attempt was the
receipt of a letter from H, Strot-
heide, a nine-year-old farm boy from
Highland, .Madison county. All of
his answers — except "kale" — ^were
correct. From his own testimony
we have it that he worked the thing
with practically no help.

WANT BEHER MILK
MARKETING SYSTEM
IN IITH DISTRICT

Farm Bureau Officers and Ad-
visers Hear Talk* on Co-oper-
ative Problenu a t Wheaton

A more adequate milk marketing
system than now exists was the chief
desire expressed by the representa-
tives of the county farm bureaus of
Lake, Cook, Kane, DuPage, and Will
counties in their first district meet-
ing of the year at Wheaton on Feb
26.

That the representatives are dis-
satisfied with present milk marketing
conditions was expressed in an after-
noon of discussion on their dairy
problems following a talk by A. D.
Lynch, director of dairy marketing.
W. J. Schreck of Waukegan, a dairy
farmer, explained how a group of
dairymen, of which he is a member,
co-operate in furnishing milk to one
buyer.

Considerable Interest was shown in
the possibilities of co-operative poul
try and egg marketing. In the fore
noon, F. A. Gougler, director of the
poultry and egg marketing depart-
ment, discussed the Minnesota plan
of co-operative egg marketing. It
has been working successfully in the
Gopher State and has lessened the
cost of getting eggs from the nests
to consumers' breakfast tables at a
fair saving to both, Mr. Gougler
stated.

Resolutions were adopted declar-
ing: (1) the need for a more ade-
quate milk marketing system than
now exists; (2) endorsing the full
legislative program of the Illinois
Agricultural Association, which in-
clude a constitutional amendment for
revenue changes, a gas tax in place
of some present tax and assistance
in furthering the eradication of bo-
vine tuberculosis; (3) endorsing the
invitation of the Lake County Farm
Bureau's Invitation to the Illinois
Farmers Institute to bring its 1926
annual meeting to Waukegan and
(4) urging lower freights In lieu of
abolition of surcharges on Pullman
fares.

William Webb of Plalnfield road,
Jollet, presided. He is an executive
committeeman of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association representing
Congressional districts 1 to 11 in
elusive and is also president of the
Will County Farm Bureau.

others present from Will county
were; O. J. Luther, Wilmington: Fred
Schwelzer. Elwood; John Cryder Fred
Herath. Guy Herath. Howard Phelps,
Howard Klett and Wm. Cryder. Plain-
field: Geo. Hinze. Belcher: Russel
Webb. Jollet: J. Franklin Hedgcock.
farm adviser, and Roland Clark, as-
sistant.

Will C. McQueen of Elgin, repre-
sented the Kane County Farm Bureau

Lake County Farm Bureau was rep-
resented by Wiliard Darrell. Wau-
konda: W. J. .Shreck, Llbertyvllle: Ira
G. Stephens. Wadsworth. and J. J,
Doerschuk. farm adviser.

Herman Schnake of Arlington
HetshtB. represented the Cook County
Farm Bureau.

The DuPage County Farm Bureau
was represented by Harold C. Vial
George B. Gosa. Wilton B. Lehman. Lee
O. Llttleford. C. R. Wlmpress. Otto
Heuer, Robert Plane, Wm. Rosa and E.
A. CarncrOBS, farm adviser.

EARLY COLLECTIONS
BEST, SAYS AUDITOR

That early collections of Farm Bu
reau membership dues are the easiest
is borne out by the report of L. A
Evans, membership auditor for the
I. A. A. Woodford County Farm Bu-
reau, he points out, was the first to
file returns for 1925 with the I. A
A., reporting a total of 92 per cent
collections by February 5, on dues
payable January 1, 1925. Woodford
county is considered the pioneer
county in farm account work, and
Evans ascribes to its business-like
methods the results which farm bu
reau officials were able to show at
this early date.

On the same day another county
reported 76 per cent collections. On
February 6, two counties reported
one for 77 per cent and the other tor
62 per cent. On February 9, one
county reported for 84 per cent and
another reported a collection of 83
per cent.

"It is this kind of spirit which
spells success in farm bureau work,
says Evans. "It is not surprising to
see why farmers pay their dues
promptly when farm bureau officers
are on the job early. ,

MUST MAKE FARM

HOME ATTRACTIVE _
FOR LASTING GOOD

Farm Wife Wanto Conveniences
in Home to Keep Pace With
Modem Farm Progress

Unless the farm home is made
Just as convenient and attractive as
the town and city home, we cannot
hope to keep the farm wife contented
and happy on the farm.

That is the opinion of W. H. Moo
dy. Port Byron, Illinois, executive
committeeman for the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association from the 14th
Congressional district, speaking re-
cently over KYW, Chicago.

Moody pointed out that time and
labor-saving devices have been ap-
plied to farming operations long
ago, but that the farm home has
not kept pace with the rest of the
farm and has suffered in the general
march of progress. This, he de-
clares, is because farmers generally
have not considered home conveni
ences as indispensable as good equip
ment in farm operations. "The
farmer." he said, "promptly dis-
carded the grain cradle when the
hand rake reaper appeared, and in
turn purchased the self rake, the
Marsh harvester, and finally the mod
ern self-binder, realizing that to Ig
nore them meant to fall by the way
side in the march of progress."

Moody raised the question, "Does
the farm house wife enjoy the mod-
ern conveniences that are found in
the city home? Unfortunately
many do not. He mentions the gaso-
line engine, the pressure tank, the
bath room and the radio as essen-
tial in modernizing the farm home.

"Can you blame the farm wives
tor wanting to leave the farms?"
Moody asked. "The farm home is
repulsive and she longs to have what
can be made the most delightful
abode on earth — the old home with
modern devices at a very moderate
cost. The farm home can be made
as convenient and attractive as the
city palace and when that is done,
the rural dweller is delighted to in-
vite her city friends to her country
home."

HEALTHY GROWTH

IN STATE HATCHERIES

(Continued from page 3)

Earlvllle Hatchery — A. D. Van Ornum,

Mgr. Earlvllle. 111.
Egyptian Hatchery — Ed. T. Herstein.

Mgr.. Summerfield. 111.
Eldorado Hatchery — Charles West-
brook, Eldorado, m.
Fairmont Farm — Edmond Mietzner.

Fairfield. 111.
Farmer City Hatchery — Bieber-Marvln

Co.. Farmer City. 111.
Kretsinger Hatchery — B. R. Kretsing-

er, Egan, III.
Maplecrest Poultry Farm — John Roth,

Morton, Illinois.
Meharry Farm. A. P. — U. E. Barter.

Mgr.. Tolono. III.
Muth, Jas. J. — New Athens, III.
Xew Era Hatchery»— Iva L. Autery,

Pittslleld, 111.
NorrlB. Chas. W. — Montlcello. 111.
Parker Hatchery — Bdw. L. Parker. New

Athens. 111.
Rochelle Egg Farm — Rochelle. III.
Rock River Hatchery — F. W. Rueben-

saal, Rockford, ni.
Saunders Hatchery — Elzo Saunders.

Belleville. III.
Stockey. Chas. D. — Freeburg. III.
Stouffer Egg Farm — W. B. Stoutfer.

Mt. Morrra, 111.
Strlngtown Poultry Yards — A. W. Rez-

nlcek. Belleville. III.
Lake Fork Farm Hatchery — L. O. Rau.

Kenney, 111.
Smith Hatchery — Clyde Smith. Golden

Gate, 111.
^reat Eight Poultry Farm — H. J.

Schlany, Carlyle, III.
Walnut Ridge Hatchery — Mrs. D. J.

Ralney. Butler. III.
Marlon J. Porter — PIttsfleld, III.
Scott's Red Farm — C. P. Scott, Box 702.

Peoria. III.
Butcher's White Orpington Farm — Geo.

D. Butcher. Wenona. III.
Maplewood Hatchery — Lester G. Wlld-

erman, Freeburg. 111.
Pleasant Hill Stock Farm — John L.

Lalrd. Mt. Vernon, rillnols.

Pennington. J. R. — PlalnBeld, III.
Millway Hatchery — J. T. Wills, M«-

Nabb. III.
J. P. Doane. Jacksonville, III.
Henry Zehr. Washington, 111.

FORWARD! FARM
BUREAU

"Tlie most hopeful movement
of modem times In agricttlture
Is the coiuitjr Fami Bnrean. It
Is going to help as to bring ag-
riculture up more rapidly than
any other agency we have had
In the past and that Is because
it gets the farmers to co-oper-
ate with one another idong the
nio«t practical and successful
lines. I know that If is true
in Illinois, and I am quite sure
It is equally true elsewhere. I
have more faith In an improved
and permanent agriculture
through the agency of the
county Farm Bureau than in
any other single agency we
have." — ^Frank O. Lowden.

I. A. C. A. STRONG. IN IROQUOIS

Three farmers' co-operatives in
Iroquois county are the most recent
1 J 1 to join the Illinois Agricul-
■ 4 I t*""^' Co-operatives Associa-
*~* tion, co-operative account-
ing and business advisory service or-
ganization. Geo. R. Wicker,, general
manager of this association and I. A.
A. accounting director, states that
Iroquois county now has seven farm
co-ops that have taken out member-
ship in the organization.

The three co-ops are the Clssna
Park Co-operative Grain and Coal
Company; Farmers' Co-operative
Company, Leonard; and Wataga Live
Stock Shipping Association. This
brings the total I. A. C. A. member-
ship up to 141.

WklteaMe CoaXr F'arm Bvrcao la

urging Ita members to "raise a ton lit-
ter this year, and get your neighbor
to raise one."

liEST WE I'X)RGI7r!
••* • • Xonr therefore be It re-
■olved by the execatlve eommlt-
lee of the llllBols Agrtealtnral
ABSoelatloB that we disapprove
the rralB marketlhg pUm of the
GmlB HarketiBB CompsBr ■■<
■dvljie the members of this asao-
rUttloB agalnat pnrehaslBg Btoek
of the rompamy either aa bb Ib-
veatBieBt or for the purpose of
supportlBg the comp«B7'a pro-
gram for BuirketlBg rralB.**— .
Part of a resolBtlOB passed ob
Jbb. •, 1025 by the I. A. A. execB-
tlve eoBimlttecw

1

[arch 14. 1921

KM

ACTIVE
TING GOOD

Conveniences
ep Pace With
I Progresi

home is made
nd attractive as
ome, we cannot
1 wife contented
rm.

L of W. H. Moo
inois. executive
le lilinois Agrl-
from tlie 14tli
t, spealiing re
licago.

t tliat time and
liave been ap-
iperations long
farm home has
the rest of the
i in the general
This, he de-
rmers generally
home conveni-
e as good equip-
irations. "The
"promptly dis-
:adle when the
ppeared, and in
self rake, the
Anally the mod-
zing that to ig-
fall by the way-
! progress."
question, "Does
enjoy the mod-
it are found in
Unfortunately,
mtions the gaso-
ssure tank, the
radio as essen-
he farm home,
the farm wives
ve the farms?
3 farm home Is
igs to have what
most delightful
: old home with
I very moderate
ne can be made
•ttractive as the
m that is done,
delighted to in-
to her country

FARM

^u

ful movement

In agiicnlture

ni Bureau. It

s to bring ag-

rapidly than

we have had

■at Is becanae

PS to co-oper-

her along the

id successfnl

tat ir is trae

un quite sore

elsewhere. I

I an improved

agriculture

9ncy of the

reau than In

agency we

Lowden.

.IN IROQUOIS

o-operatives in
the most recent
Illinois Agricul-
ratives Associa'
rative account-
isory selrvlce or-
Wlcker,. general
nation and I. A.
tor, states that
has seven farm
en out member-
tion.

are the Cissna
>rain and Coal
Co-operative
nd Wataga Live
lociation. This
C. A. member

ORGET!
fore be It re-
atlve eonuBlt-

AKrtevltnrml
ve dlaapprove

plan of the
Company aad
* of ttala aaao-
-phaalnv atock
ther aa an la-
he pnrpoae of

pan7*B pro-
:lnK Ktaia.**—
Ion paaaed om

A. A. exeev-

■ •■■'■.•}.'.■ /.'sioNmi ^0 AlLIS^^ainh-
%iavayn 'Hsv.v.ynfi -o ahvw ssin

Vauh ,

I

A6IIICUL.T

Volume 3

Istued Every Other Saturday — March 28, 1925

Number 6

ALL FORCES WORKING TO RELIEVE THE FARM TORNADO SUFFERERS

THREE-LEGGED LAW PLATFORM GALLOPS INTO FAVOR

UVELY DISCUSSION
OVER TICE BILL AT
SPRINGFIELD MEET

Keep Babies

Healthy fTith

Clean Milk

1

All Three of I.A.A. Legislative
Desire* Get Hearty Endorse-
ment Fi^owing Explanations

First-hand acquaintance with the
three-legged state legislative plat-
form of the Illinois Agricultural

Association was

acquired by pres-
idents and repre-
sentatives of 89
of the 92 farm
bureaus during
the sessions held
during the spe-
cial meeting on
March 17 at
Springfield.
The three legislative desires of
this organization of thinking farm-
ers were each discussed bit by bit
and segment by segment by those
who know the details as well as a
handy farmer knows the mechan-
ism of his windmill or cream sep-
arator.

What We Want

The three planks nre:

1. Amendment to the revenue
section of the constitution to permit
a more equitable distribution of the
tax burden (covered in joint reso-
lution No. 5 introduced by Senator
Simon Lantz, a hearing on which
is scheduled tor the near future.

2. A two-cent tax on gasoline in
place of the county highway tax
(covered in Senate Bill 165 intro-
duced by Senator Cuthbertson —
hearing Wednesday, April 1).

3. Continuation and expansion of
the effort toward eradication of bo-
vine tuberculosis (covered in Tice
Bill).

Wishes Ail Were There
"We wish every farm bureau
member could have been present to
get the first-hand information about
the I. A. A. legislative program be-
cause it is really a platform of tre-
mendous importance to Illinois agri-
culture," President Thompson stat-
ed after the special meeting.

Frank D. Barton of Cornell, H.
E. Goembel of Hooppole and A. C.
Everingham of Hutsonville, mem-
bers of the legislative committee,
have the three planks of the plat-
form well under their care.

Bovine tuberculosis, that dreaded
disease which lurks in apparently
healthy cows and creeps into bones
of infants, causing human tuber-
culosis of the bone, was the first
one of the three planks taken up
by the farm bureau ofiScers. Their
attitude on this great health ques-
tion was reflected powerfully in the
following resolution:

The Resolution

"We, the presidents and repre-
sentatives of the Farm Bureau of
Illinois, assembled at Springfield,
March 17, 1925, recognizing in the
tuberculosis eradication program of
the state and nation the economic
welfare of the live '^tock farmer
and the protection of the life of
the public and believing that more
stringent laws are necessary to
greater efficiency and economy In
eradication work, hereby endorse,
recommend and respectfully urge
members of the legislature and the
Governor to write into the laws of
the state Tice Bill No. 176; and we
further recommend and urge that
adequate appropriation be provided
to effectively carry on the eradica-
tion work in Illinois."
Resolution Carried Much Weight
Although this resolution was a
repetition of the unanimous in-

(Continued on page 3. col. 1.)

WHAT IF THIS WERE YOUR HOME?

GRUBSTAKING OUR
ILLINOIS NEIGHBORS
IS JOB FOR US ALL

State-Wide Conunittee Repre-
senting All Organizations Is
Formed to Collect Funds;
Need b Great

The top picture is tvhat the tornado left of the residence of E. W. Johnson of Crossville, If bite coimfy, III.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were in the house. The picture below is the farm home of Roy Stokes, south east of
Crossville. Mrs. Stokes was picked up at spot tnarked X. She stands under the other X in the picture. Both farmers
were Farm Bureau members. The pictures were furnished by Ed Creighton, Farm Advisor of White County Farm
Bureau.

tatchstring to I. A. A.
Office Always Out

To Chicago Visitors

The next meeting of the execu-
tive committee Is Friday, April 3.
Farm bureau members and ex-ex-
ecutive committeemen are cordially
invited by the present committee
to attend when they are in Chicago
on meeting days.

The usual meeting date is the
first Friday of each month and un-
less something unusual occurs it is
always held at that time. The
latchstring on the I. A. A. office
door is always out. Whenever farm
bureau members come to Chicago
they should not miss visiting the
office.

Wis Dues Tardy, \

He Pays Interest; '

Vote Hinp -Refund
Farm bureau loyalty was
demonstrated recently when a
Clark County Farm Bureau
member. Who had been in ar-
rears with his organization,
paid his back membersiilp tees
and also remitted interest
amounting to $1.05 to the
treasurer for keeping the farm
burean folks waiting.

The Clark County Farm Bu-
reau executive committee in Its
last meeting voted to refund
the ni&n his interest-

A.F.B.F. Committee On
Boys and Girls Clubs
Aims High for 1925

"One million club members in
1925" is the slogan of the National
Committee on Boys'- and Girls' Club
Work of the American Farm Bu'-
reau Federation, G. L. Noble, direc-
tor. Every effort is being put forth
to enroll farm girls and boys in
junior club work throughout the
country. Indications are that much
will be accomplished this year, Mr.
Noble believes.

There are about 6.000 farm boys
and girls between the ages of 10
and 18 in dubwork in Illinois. E.
I. Pilchard is state leader of this
branch of agricultural extension
carried on by the College of Agri-
culture.

Grubstaking their brother Illi-
nois farmers who are destitute l)e-
cause of the tornado has been and
still is the mighty task before the
more fortunate farmers of Illinois.

A campaign for raising money
for permanent farm relief was
launched soon after news of the ca-
lamity came. All county Farm Bu-
reaus not in the tornado area were
sent the following telegram by Sec-
retary Geo. A. Fox after a meeting
was held in the I. A. A. office and
a course of procedure determined

"Farm damage in tornado area
well over two million dollars stop
Farm organizations and farm pa-
pers co-operating to raise and ad-
minister fund to grubsuke stricken
farmers to raise crop stop Hope to
raise average two thousand dollars
from farmers in each county stop
Take charge and go to it stop Wire
answer."

Response to this telegram was
almost spontaneous. County Farm
liureaus plunged into harness, or-
ganized for the money-raising cam-
paign, and relief for the unfortu-
nate Illinois farmers got under full
steam. All organizations represent-
ing or serving Illinois farmers
joined hands in the grubstaking
campaign.

Money for Permane^jt -KeMef

A central committee r<preRenting
all these interesU was formed Mon-
day, March 23, to raise money for
permanent relief. It was realized
that the immediate needs of the
tornado sufferers were well cared
for by Red Cross and local agen-
cies but who is to help these folks
;et started into business again?
^Who is to help them get a milk
cow to furnish milk and butter
while planting this crop, the grow-
ing season of which is right upo'n
Southern liiinoisr Who is to help
them secure Beed and machinery?
Who is to furnish a plow? Who is
10 furnish a work horse, chickens,
pigs? It must t>e from farmers for
farmers. Permanent relief is the
goal of this central committee,
which is named "The Grubstake
Committee For Farmers of Illi-
nois". All interested farm organ-
izations are represented on the
Grubstake Cotnmittee.

CowlcH Is Chalmuui

R. A. Cowles, I. A. A. treasurer,
was made chairman and treasurer
of it. His flrst act was to make
proper connections with the Red
Cross in Chicago to make certain
that farmers' needs would be cared
for. He dispatched Vernon Vani-
man, field organizer of the 1. A.
C. A., to St. Louis to make connec-
tions with the Red Cross of that
city, which is in direct charge of
the tornado district.

Other members of the commit-
tee are as follows:

C. V. Gre»ory. Editor. Prairie
Farmer: Arthur C- Page. Editor. Or-
Kzige Judd Illinois Farmer: Dean H
\V. Mumford. University of IlUrole.
EUgRT L,. Bill. Sears-Koebuck Aarrlcul-
tural Foundation and Wlfi: E. A
Ecltert. Master. Illinois State GranKe.
H. E. Young. Secretary. State Farmers
Institute: C. A. Asplund. Orion. Pre«i-
dent nilnols State -Farmers Mtitual
Fire Insuranc* Ass'n: Lawrence Par-
low. Secretary, Farmers Grain Deal-
ers Assoclatloa of Illinois: J. D. Phil-
lips, rural banker. Green Valley, Illi-
nois: J. H. Uoyd, Carthace. President
Illinois Farm Advisers Association;
Chas. E. Snyder. Chicago Dally Drov-
ers Journal: Curt Anderson. Xenia.
1. A. A. executive committeeman for
the 24th district and also chairman
of a survey and diBtributlon commit-
tee working In all counties In the tor-
(Contlnued on page 4. col. 1.)

Page 4

The IllinoU Agricultural Astodation Record

March 14, 192'

J

GROW NEARLY ALL GAS TAX COUNTED

OF WORLD CROP IN FAIR IF IT RELIEVES

EIGHT COUNTIES PROPERTY TAX BURDEN

IT WAS "KALE," NOT "TIME" OR "LOVE"

Egyptian Seed Growers Exchange
Handled $150,000 Business
for 826 Farmers in Year 1924

'Til i>|M i\ liM' iiiiiiki'tinc is a husi-
iifss uml>-rt
M-nlurt'." 't
Xenia. ill a
Clii«'a'-n.

.\n<l<TS<.:i
til.' i;:;>|.M
rhanut'. a i
uamzatiun iiainlbni: II-* «i. Tnp rlnvcr

kin: and nut a (Kililiral
rlartd rurt AniltTson,
I'liii a(iilr.:<s <iMr KYW.

is •-■rii- ral iiia!ia-*'r dI

nil Sf. fl ili-Mvvcrs V.\

lllTiil'dit.' l;;a|-k"'IillL' nr-

.-. >-<l r<i ii(M I
n ("lav lull
nu riilllltt>-|<

■ iiinniitliM'iii

.illllllal ^s^
Tl"- al.a
Ij.-r nil!

irriiwii in M

itivily-|iM- N:;ii |ir(i(hi("crs
t\ ami iltt s-'\' II atljoin-
!!•' also is (•\«'i'Uli\»-
an I'lir ilu- Iliiimis .\i;ri-
»riati»»n

.■.,ii,-,rri. il i.n..liici-s Ha

all llir l:. .1 Toll scid

■ ■ wiiilil. Tlir K>oliaIlL;r

iiinir )>i latt'd in Jtim-

riil'il
unliulli'il

-i)l«' piiriKi^
izalinn of I
ilistribiition
I hi* prartic:

In

\tr $l:'.^<.llllli wortli of
il. Tliis r.|if scuts alumt

n- tliird «t 111- total K-d Top crop;
ii-odtlrid il tins ar<a.

"t'o op. r; In <■ inarkt-tint: ." said
\nii'rs<iii. • is toiindiil upon liiinian^
lationsliiiii and lias for its piirposp
.iiniaii In IP Ills and tliip lorf it <-an-
iioi !»' ii-iu 'orizinu- in its cliarai'lor.
To III. siKT ssfiil, co-npi'ratiM' niar-

U.liln; l:ill.- 1>.' lllldrl-slood to I"' a
litlsin.ss 11 id. rlaliilu: arisiiK: trnin
lilt- roMii.io 1 d'sii'f of product rs of
ki' ai:riruli lira) piodnits lo work to-
I'tht-r ill IP' rr.'ation of a business
iustitiiiioi) -iiit.-d to th.' roiiiinodity
in qui'stioii. It must !»»' op. rati-d iin-
i'T a rt'spii isildc mannuiiin nf wlioso
to ri'iair siandai'd-
ln- prodnrt. iTonoinics in
niHf an ordt-rly How into
1 rliaiuuds of trad*'."

Proposal If Enacted Would Shift
the Road Tax to Consumption
Basis, Says the I. A. A.

Till- faiii'st tax for those who!
tip- highways of Illinois is the!
isoliiii- la\-." So dcclari'S the Illl-i
Ids Aurii-iiltural A s s o c i a t i o n.j
iliroii;;li its taxation departjnient. J. I
r Waison. direc'tor. ■ i

TIm' Illinois Au-ricnltuial Associa-
li'in is si(iliii»'l> bi'Iiind a tax on j;aso-(
liii. usid to inoiicl automobiles and
inuks on tile hitiliways of the state.
pro\idinu tlie funds derixi-d there-
ftoiii disidaee and do not add tu the
Ppsi lit |ii(>|ierty lax burden. "The
iiiosi insistent demand for improved
roads comes from those who drive
ejus and trucks," says the taxation
djparltiient. "They have the most
10 iiaiii from iinprovenient of/liigh-
\vtays. Their loss is greatest/ when
tile lii-hways they luuBt use are
rjomli or soft, or are not usabfc part
o) the year." \

i Troperty owners have every! rea-
son to resist any further increaaes in
properly taxes for improving the
public hiuliways of the State, tlie I.
A .\. director iioints out. "The bur-
dn of iiii|>rovin^ and •^naintaining
till'. roads most used by -iriotor Tehl-
c . s iiiust fall uiion the (yers. ,Only

this way will they cease ijaying

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■Juduiim fnnn all the lt'tt< rs that
have conio into tlif I. A. A. office
from farm folks, includlim t'X«'OUtive
commitieeiiien. in answer to the
cross-word puzzle in the February 28
issui' of the liKtuKti. Wf discover that
Ih*' thinu has crfatt-d a niihl tt-m-'
pest especial l> with one word.

Look at the solution and conipar<
it with liie one you doped out. How
did you answer -M down? We wore
showered with a wide variety of pfis-
sibiiities on that one- as mi;: lit he
t'Np.cted for the prohh-m .under dis-
cussion. "Time." 'Move." and "kale"

EXECUTIVE MEETING
COVERS MUCH GROUND

1 I r.tni ^pairt- 1 i '

iiore protei^t4'd areas in

l.tlir slated.

s. ciirint: an approiiria-

al assistance in ridding'

.f wolves was ri-qu.'Sted.

was ri'ferred to the le^is-

ilt.e.

leL'islative consideration
iili the fear that the ap-
ip c.'ssary to continue in-
ik under th.' f.-inii iirod-
ion law would be cut off.
also referred to the
onimittee for action.

|i .\|»|H.al Trtv I'as4»

■d to support the Madi-_
Kami Miireaii in its ap-
^iipr'-iiH' Court of Illinois
tin- d.eision of the lower
iidison county wliii'li or-
tlie Iftfl Madison Tounty
11 m.'mbers who had held
back a portion of their taxes must

wolves to

Illinois. Ilii

i<iipport
lion for oil
The i-ounlry
The niall.r
■lative conn;

.Xnoilor
had to ilo >
propriation
spectini: wi
nets insp.'ci
This mallei
letislatile I

, T.I H.

14. Ilecil

son Cnunly

peal to the
concerning
court in .M
dered that
Kami Hiir.

pay with
come of tlii
porlanci* to
lier in lllin
furnish boi i
ri;;lit whiili

H.-anl Pr

Dhio Kaili

of rood wirk that i:
Dhio. I'r.-sident Pain

Ohio Ujoks
in many
work I'l.'
Ill (.'hicago,

K:l

ti. Healjl
lO' the mini
from Kdwa
til, it body:
and Ceo.
chart'' of til

tii"^.
state

Thi:
liolic

of t
I'r

■nally. The final out-
cast- is of so niui'li iin-

■ver,\- farm bureau liiplil-

s tiiat the I. A. A. will
iiM'U and iiioHe.\ in the

s to come.

in

f^ir had roads without Betting'' anyl

liji'il.T roads. .» ]

I "The gasoline tax takes account!
the speed of the machine, its
L^lit and *power. and the distance'
< driven. It adapts itself equally |
l^> persons who use the roads little!
aiid lo those who use the roads much.]
if iiieasiires the benefit which the
litter receives froui the road. Further-
iijore. the gasoline tax is easy and!
sliupli' to collect."

Th%' Illinois Agricultural A^socia-j
(loll is supiiorting a measure which
Krovides for a gasoline tax to re-
M.'ve in iiart the excessiv*' burden of
tjixation now carried by farni lands
a.'nd cit.v real estate. The Association
slates tliat it wants the gas tax to
iljisplaco jind not add to the present
;«op.My burden. ;

It estimates that a two cent tax
^il•r gallon of gasoline would provide
alliout JlO.nocOOn annually. Of this
slim. Si;,aOrt.O«n lo J7. 000,000 would
140 direct to the counties for con-
struction and maintenance of State
.lid roads, and the balance would go
to the .stale .\id fund, distributed to
counties where the need Is

Ireatest. A fwo cent tax. it is be-
ll, ved, would take $4,000,000 off
tile state |iro|ierty tax books and thus
relieve jiropr'rt.i' of part of its tax
l«iiden.

TELLS WHY HOOSIERS
LEAD AS PRODUCERS

ar«* tin' tlirre words suKj;ested b>
most <-(»nt«'siants and according to
our (dhcial "huildiT. "kale" is the
only ri.i:hi one. These words were!
d»'lin<d as "something; of which you
n.vcr K*t <nough."

On*' of file pli-asant surpriaes in
roniDction with the attempt was the
rect ii»t of a letter from H. Strot-
heid*'. a ni?n' y» m-old farm hoy fromi
Hi;:liland. Madison county. All of
his answers r\cept "kale" — were
rcrrect. Krom his own testimony
we have it that heworked the tiling
Willi practically no help.

WANT BETTER MILK EARLY COLLECTIONS

MARKETING SYSTEM BEST, SAYS AUDITOR

IN IITH DISTRICT That early collections of Karm liu-

r.-au ne'iiibership dues are tlie easiest

c D r\tc. J *j ''"^ borne out by tin' report of I,. A.

harm Bureau Ofhcers and Ad- |.;vans, membership auditor for the

visers Hear Talks on Co-oper-'l. .\. A. Womlford County Karm Bu-

ative Problems at Wheaton' ''''»>'• I'p points oui. was the lirst to

lile returns for i;i2.' with the I. A.

A more adequate milk marketim; -^•:, ■''■l.""""r •',.'"'•'' "' ''- O'T ^ent
svsteni than now exists was the chief;"'"^^*''"^ " ''', 'V!!?- "^■,.?" .^"*!
desire exiiressid bv the representa-l'">''''''''' •'•'""■"■■'. '■ '"^u. Woodlord

counI.\' is considered tin

luoneer

fives of the countv farm bureaus of,

Lake, Cook, Kane, Dul'age, and Wili;""""> '" '""' "'•"Hint work, and
counties in their lirst district meet-!'-''-',"% ■'*'';''''"■'' ''' its bu.siness-like

iiiethods the nsults which farm bu-

ing of the vear at Wlieaton on Keb. ' '^. '." "m,,>s « nir,, laipi i.u-

2,; |ieau ollicials were able to show at

That th.' r.'presenlatives are dis-i"'',"; ''''1''' ''"'''■ {

satislled with present k markelingi "" tliesano day another coumy

conditions was expr.s.s.'d in an after-i",';"''"'' ' '.' '"■'■ '''"'■ ''ollections. On
noon of discussion on tlieir dairv '"'"'"""■l.''' '»" '•'»"H'<'s reported;

^ p |oni> for 1 , iier cent and the other for
■ ■■" per cent. On Kebruary 9, on«

MUST MAKE FARM
HOME ATTRACTIVE
FOR LASTING GOOD

Farm Wife Wants Conveniences
in Home to Keep Pace With
Modem Farm Progress

Inless the farm home is madi
iiist as convenient and attractive as
the town and city home, we cannot
hope to kei'ii 111.' farm wde contented
and happy on the farm.

That is the opinion of \V. H. .Moo-
(Iv. Port liyron, Illinois, executive
.omiuitleeman for the Illinois Agri-
.ultural .Association Ironi the ]4tli
Congressional district, speaking re-
.'.ntly o\er KYW. ('liicago.

Moody point, d out that time ami
lahor-savfng devices have been ap-
pliid to farming oiierations Ions.
ai;o, l.iil thai the farm home ha^
not kept pac with the rest of tin-
farm aijd has sulTered in the general
'march iof progress. This, he de-
clares, (s because tariiprs generally
have not considered home conveni-
ences as indisiiensable as good e(|Uil)-
iiunt in farm operations. "The
farmer." he said, "promiitly dis
carded the grain cradle when the
hand rak.- realier aiipeared, and In
mm luirchased tlie self rake, the
.Marsh harvester, and finally the mod-
ern self-liindev, realizing that to ig-
nore them meant to fall by the way
side in the march of luogress."

.Moody raised the iiuestion. "Does
the farm house wife enjoy the mod-
ern convi'iiiences that are found in
the city home? Unfortunately,
many do not. H.' mentions the gaso-
line engine, the pressure tank, the
bath room and the radio as essen
lial in modernizing the farm home.

"Can you blame the farm wives
for wanting In leave the farms?"
Moody asked. "Tin- farm home is
repulsive and she longs to have what
can be made the most delightful
abode on earth- the old home with
modern devices at a very moderate
cost. The farm home can be made
as convenient and attractive as the
city palace and whin that is done,
the rural dweller is delighted to in-
vite her city friends to her country
liojue."

Iicounty reported for S4 |ier cent and
another reported a collection of 83
per cent.

"It is this kind of spirit wliicli
siiells success in farm bureau work,"

says EA'aiis

"It is not surprising to

see wh,^■ farmers iiay their dues
promptly when farm bureau otBcers

: "The shipping associati
I linois." says K. H. Kelle
ager of the Producers Con

lUir.

id.-nt Palmer of the

an K.'d. ration t.ll

iiig "I! ia

lalid that

lo Illinois for leadership

liilr^s ill farm bun an

Hident Palmer was yisitin*:

III' Stale I'olice

of l.-gislain .' pro:;raiii
.-■ Ciiamb.'r of Comm.-ri','
d '' K. I lor.', eliainiiali of

h'uislati\e committee,

Stejdiens, who is in

t' Chamber of <^»lllmerce

le-ii^lhlive iirtice. at Spriiiutield

eciltive coll '*
vijlei^ to s
polic^ prot

mitf.'e later in the day

1 iM'ort a m.-asuri' gi\ inu

I II ral ■comiiiiiui-

111

,111s indorsemeiii of
Kraiik K. Itarlli i;! tin'

Pennsylvania Slat. Police, told of the

tdall
tent T 11

his state

p

nounc.-d thiit 111'' e\t r'iiti\.' eommit-
tee had d. 'id.'d to place the posi-

tions of
the associati*

'•r.

man being
understanditm that
resign or
wishes him

tiates tlie,
and Trpa."^i^-'
the f.O-day
tli.'ir olfices

The dat
April -i.

tary ami tr'-asur'-r tif
I on ilie same basis as
the director* are emplo.A .-d. That is,
til. re are i o .\earl,\ eontraels. each
iiipioy. d Willi ilie mutual
if he wish.'S to

*'X.clItive C<illimitt* e

to r»'sii:h. a i:0-da.v notice

shall be ser red t>\ th.' i»arty who ini-

cliange. Secretary Kox

Cowles both desired

basis and will continue

of the next meeting is

issociations in
ey, inan-
nimission
.>jssociation at Indianajiolis. "as a
whole are still less ioyal l<i
Hii'ir own marketing organization
than those in Indiana We attribute
tMs in part to the fact that the Indi-
aiia associations being much closer
ti> the market, s. nd many more men
to see the actual marketing process
ahd to invistigate their own market-
idg organization lirst hand. In fact,
iilany Indiana counties have been
sending delegations of from 30 to 80
n en from dilTerent iiarts of the coun-
ty to market, for a detailed study of
tjie Producers. Knbiased investiga-
tion has convinced these men that
tip' way to sell their live stock is
ijirouKh the Producers. in Illinois
tile average consignor ty a shiiiping
association does not come to market
o'len, and consequently a mrfhager
\Mlio is iir.'judiced, not having the
wjeight of the shippers' first hand
Knowledge of the market, can more
. isily ship to Old l.ine firms.

] "Through the co-ojieration of coun-
tt farm bureaus and the Indianapolis
I'rodiicers, local stock yard grading
di Ml. nitrations are lieing held in the
liiilianapolis trade territory and are
pi'oving popular. Uecent|demonstra-
tions have been held at Neoga in
Cumberland county, Illinois, and at
llethany, l.ovington and Sullivan in
Moultrie county. .-Vrrangements have
been completed to hold seven of these
demonstrations in Champaign coun-
ty soon."

problems following a talk by
Lynch, director of dairy marketini
W. J. Schieck of Waukegan, a dairy
farmi'r. explained how a group of
dair>iiien, of which he is a member,
co-operate in furnishing milk to one
buyer.

Considerable interest was shown in
the possibilities of co-operativ<i poul-
try and egg marketing. In tlie fore- ... 1
noon, V. A. Cougler, director of the ■"•' "" "'" J"*' 'ally- I
lioultry and egg marketing dejiart- —
inent, discussed the .Minnesota Phin ■■ r< 4 « .v.|j«r /^nrKiirxu
of co-operative egg marketing. ItntALlrll UKUWIM
has been working successfully in the I\I CTATC || ATCUirDIE'C
C.opher State and has lessened the "' Jli\lC nn I V-OCIMCO
cost of getting eggs from the nests
to consumers' breakfast tables at a
fair saving to both, .Mr. Gougler
stated.

Kesolutions were adopted declar-
ing: (II the meed for a more ade-
fjuatc milk marketing system than
now exists; (2i endorsing the full

itinijc.l from pag.' 3>

KarlviUi- llal.licry— .V. I). Van Oniuin.

.Mgr.. Karlvill.'. 111.
Kgyptiaii llat.'h.ry- Kil. T. H-'rstcin.

Mgr. .-Junini.ill. I.I. ill.
I-:i.)ora<lii llat.-h.'ry — riiarlt-H "W'.'St-

l.rook. Klilorailii. fll.
Fairmont Farm — I'Jdmon.l Mietziier,
legislative program of the lllinois|t...,'';»;;;';-i;'i'j;"j,^,j„,„.^^. _„|.,,„.^_3,,^^^.._,
-Agricultural .Association, which in-' ro.. Farin.r I'ity. ill.
elude a constitutional amendment for Kretsiiiccr Ilai. h.'ry-^i! it KretsinK-
revenue changes, a gas tax in Place ../.'j'JiJsa.,, nL__^_^^ Farm - J.,lin Iiotli.
of some present tax and assistance: .Morton. Illiiniis.

in furthering the eradication of bo- •^'•harry Farm. .\, r- f 1:. Uari.r,
vine tuberctilosis; |3I endorsing tl.elj„^|K.'" jZs^'r-^NVw .Mlu-ns, 111.

invitation of tho Lake County Farm .\\ w Kra Hatrhcry Iva L. Autery.

Itureau's invitation lo the Illinois

FORWARD! FARM
BUREAU

"'I'he iiiosi lio|iefiil iiioveineiit
of iiiodein limes ill agriculture
is the couiily I'anii lliireau. It
is going lo lielp us lo briiis ac-
ricullnre lip more i'a|dilly timn
any otlier aKeliry we liave lyid
in the past iind lliat is liecaiise
il Kels tire fanners to co-o|)er-
ale with one nnollier aloni: the
most practical and successful
lines. I know thai il is true
in Illinois, and I am quite sure
it is p<|iially true elst'where. I
have more faith in nil improved
a n d perinaneiil af^riculture
tliroiigli tlie agency of the
coiinly l-'ariti Hiireau than in
any other single agency we
liave." — I'rank <>. liowdeii.

Karniers Institute to bring its 1926
annual mei-ting to WaukeL'an and
I 4 I urKing lower freights in lieu of
abolition of surcharges on Pullman
fares.

Monticello. 111.
-Kilw. I.. Parker. .N.-w

Pittsfielil. II

.Vorris. Chas. W.

I'arker HatcluTv

.Mliens. 111.
UDiliclle Kgg Farm — Uo.'helU'. IIJ.
Uoek r.iver Hatchery— F. W. Huebi-n-

saal, Rockford, III.
S.'iiinders H.at.'h.ry 3-- KIzo Saunders.

William Webb of Plainfield road.i Belleville. Ill
Joliet presided. He is an executive^^nc^y. ,-y^. {;,^;Krcel,„rg. .1,.^^^^^

eoninntteenian ol th»' Illinois Aun-j Mt. Morris. III.

enltural Association rt'i)resentin^jStrinRto\vii I'miltry Yartla- A. W. ttcz-

Conuressional districts 1 t'i> 11 in- nicok. Hellevill''. 111.

( on^-ressinnai oisuicis i to ii in U^j^ ^^^.^ y^^^^ Hate h.-ry— I.. O. liau

elusive and is also luesuient of the Konney. III. »

Will County Karm Ilureau. [Smith Hatrhery— i'lyil.^ .smith. Golil.n

lilh.r.s i>r.-.s,.|it fr-.m Will couiily '"I.Ttf. III.
\\.Tf: c. J. 1,11th. r. WIUiiiiiKioii; Frt-.l, Jroat Ki^'ht r.>ultry tarni— 11. J
S. hw.iz.r. Kiut.n.i; .i.>iiM Ctv.I.T. Kr.-.l S.-hlafly. Carlyle. 111.
H.rath. (Jiiv H.rath. Flowa'nl ['helps. Walnut liuiK*- llal.-h.ry — Mrs. D .1
Muwarti Khtt aii.i AVni. ('rv.h-r. I'lain- Kainey. HulUr. III..

I. .\. V. .\, STIM)X<i l\ IKOQUOIS

Thret' larnuTs' eo-oiM-ratives in
Iroquois eoniHy are the most recent
1 J 1 to join the Illinois Agricul-
1^1 inral Co-operatives Associa-
» *^ tion. co-operative account-
in;; and husiness advisory service or
f-'anization. (Uo. U. Wicker, general
inanaiier of this association and I. A
.\. accountin^^ dinotor. states that
Iroquois county now has seven farm
co-ops that have taken out member
ship in the ori^anizatlon.

The three co-ops are the Cissna
I'ark Co-operative Grain and Coal
Company; I'ariiiers' Co-operative
Company, LiM)nard : and Wataga Live
Stock Shipping Association. This
hrings the total I. A. C. A. member-
ship up to 141. ■'

field; i;«-<>. Ilitize. lU-icht-r; Ulisscl
Wehh. Joliet; .1, Kraiiklin H»«iK. ork
farm afivist-r. am' lioiaml <''lark. as-
sistant.

Will C. M,<.ju..ii ..r Klk'in. r.-prc-

I'ittsficld. III.

'V 1'. S(ott. Box Till'.

Marion J. rori.r

Scott's K<mI Kami

Pi'oria. III.
Matcher's White Orpington Farm

n. But.htT, Wenoiia. Ill

stntdl tlie

I I <»iir liHHdrcMl Iwrnty-flvr \>rmill<m

. rimiity larmtrs rr«tiitty nit-t with their
fknn a<lvist--r to liiscass their seed corn
' l<roIilfma, for lltllJ.

Lake County Kami Mui-'aii \\as r.p-
roscnteU hy Willar*! Oarrell. Wau-
konda: W. ,r. Shr.-ek. Lihert will.-: Ira
<;. StephPHF. Wadswort h. and J, J.
I locrsfhuk. farm adviser.

Herman Sihtmkc of Arllng'ton
IlflRhts. represented th-' (""ook ''ounty
Karm Biin'aii.

The Pul'aK*' <"f»u?ity Farm Ilnreait
was reprt'Sfiited l>y I laVohl C. Vial.
tJcorp*' It. (Joss. Wiltoiu H, Lehman. Lee
O. LIttleford. *'. It. Wimpress, Otto
IleiuT. Hohert IMane, Win. Ross and E,
A. *'arnrross, farnn adviser.

lint v Far Ml lUirtan.l ilaplewood Hatrhery — Lt-'ster (J. Wild-

crman. Fret-burR:. HI.
Pleasant Hill Stock Farm — John I.

Laird. Mt. Vemon. Illinois, ;

I'.-nninptoii. J. II. — Plainfield. III.
MilUvav Hat.Iu-rv — J. T. Wills, M#-

.Vald). Ill
J, P. I'oane. Jacksonville. 111.
Hi-nry Z.-hr. Waslilnelon. III.

Whltmldr 4'oaN«y Knrm nareau is

urping its memhers to "raise a ton lit-
ter this year, and get your neighbor
to raise one."

••• * ^«^% ih*'ri'f«»ri' he It r*-
^(•U«-d lt> th*- e^et-iltlve <-oniinil-
tt'4> or thf llllnoiN \K>'tt'ulturiil
\NNtM-falioii Ihiit »e ilUnpprove
till' icrain iiinrki'liiiK pliin of the
firnin MnrkctiiiK f'ompany nnd
hiIvIno the iiieniherM of thiM nMMU>
<-inll»n neniiiMt |nir»'h«»liiK Ntuek
of the I'onipiin^ either iim an in-
vCMtmeiit or for the |iurp<»Ne of
NUpiMirtinK the eoinpnny'H pro-
K^ram for innrketlnsT «;rnln." —
I'art *>f a resolution panited on
Jan. », Itt-S hy the I, A. .*. e«eea-
tlve eoniniittee.

^'il

tarch 14, 192'l

RM

ACTIVE
TING GOOD

Conveniences

ep Pace With

Progress

luiino is mad<
ul altractivo as
>iiu'. wp cannol
1 wTlV oontonted
nil.

of W. H. Moo-

iniiis. I'xcrutivr

II- Illinois Agri-

iroiii till- mil

t. spoakint; n'-

lirami.

that tiiiif ami

have bci'ii ap-

ipcratioiis lorn.

anil linmo hat-

I hi' list of till'

1 ill 111*' ;;i'»('iaL

Tills, lie de-

rnii IS j;vnerally

lioiin' conveni-

r- as tood equip-

lations. "Thf

"promptly dls-

adlo when tlu

ipcared, and In

self rake, tlie

finally the mod

zinK that to ig-

fall by tlie way

ln"Oi;ress."
question, "Does
enjoy the niod-
it are found in
rnforlunately.
■ntions the gaso
ssure tank, the
ra<lio as essen-
he farm home,
the farm wives
le the farms?"
' farm home is
>;s to have what
most delightful
old home with
very moderate
lie ran be made
tiractive as the
n that is done,
dell.clited to in-
to her country

! FARM

fill iiioveineiit

II auiieiilliire

Kureau. It

< to briiiK ac-

rapiilly than

we have lu»d

lal is liecause

lo co-o|ier-

lier aloiiK Ibe

siiecessl'ul

at it i.s true

nil quite sure

els*»w!iere. I

I all improved

agriculture

■iicy of the

-eau than in

agency we

Ijowdeii.

I\ IKOQUOIS

i-opi'ratives in
the most recent
Illinois Agricul-
ratives Associa-
rative account-
isory service or-
Wirker. general
iation and I. A.
or. states that
has seven farm
?n out member-
ion.

are the Cissna
".rain and Coal
Co-operative
nd Wataga Live
leiation. This
C. A. member-

IHStiKT:

f«ri' lie It rf-
iitlve 4>»niin|t-
\|ErlfulturHl
«e fliMiipiiriive

IS pllin or the
('imiiiiinr nn<l

* of thiN IIMMU-

'chiiMliiK Mliivk
li«>r iiM nn In-
lie lllirpOMi* of
iii|iiiliy*H pro-
hii; K^riiin." —
i>n iiiiftNrd OH
I. \. .\. eTeco-

'BUtEAU

CHA^n(lD.F^

'A-^

Volume 3

Issued Every Other Saturday — March 28, 1925

Number 6

ALL FORCES WORKING TO RELIEVE THE FARM TORNADO SUFFERERS

THREE-LEGGED LAW PLATFORM GALLOPS INTO FAVOR

LiVELY DISCUSSION
OVER TICE BILL AT
SPRINGFIELD MEET

WHAT IF THIS WERE YOUR HOME?

All Three of I.A.A. Legislative
Desires Get Hearty Endorse-
ment Following Explanations

mi

I'irst-liand acquaintance with th#
three-legged state legislative plat-
form of the Illinois Agricultural

_ Association was

acquired by pres-
idents and repre-
sentatives of 80
of the ;i2 farm
bureaus during
the s«'Ssions held
during the spe-
cial meeting on
M a r (• li 17 at
.^priiigli^-hl.

islative desires of
of lliittkiitfj fanii-

i\ hit by
iienl by tl
^ as will i
1 the median
or cr4^aiii se|i

Keep Uahivs

llpttltliv W ilk

Clean Milk

Tlie three le
this organization
el's wtT*' each discus
and segment b.v sfg
who know the detail
handy fanner know:
ism of his windmill
arator.

Wlial We Want

Tho thr.-,~ r,l..^!;c p,-, -

1. Amendment to th«- revenue
section of the constitution to permit
a more i-quitable distribution of the
ta\ burden ' (covefed in joint reso-
lution Xo. o introduced 1)\ Senator
Simon l.antz. a luaring on wliicli
is sclieduli'd for tin* near future.

2. .\ two-cent ta\ on g.'isnline in
jilaci' of the county higlnvay lax
I covered in Senati' Hill 1i;.". inlro^
duci'd 'by Senator Ciithbenson
iHiiring \Vednesday. .\pril 1).

;!. Continuation ajid exiiansion of
the effort toward eradication of bo-
vine tuberculosis (covered in Tic'
Ililli.

\\'i.slieK .Ml Were There

"We wisli every farm bureau
member could have been present to
.get the first-hand information about
the I. .\. A. legislative program be
cause it is really a platform of tr<-
mendous importance tr> Illinois agri
culture." President Thompson stat-
i-d after the special meeting.

Krank I). Itarton of Cornell. H.
K. Coi nibel of llooppole and .\. C.
Kveringham of Hutsonville, mem-
li'-rs of the legislative committed',
have the three planks of the plat-
form well under tlnir care.

Hovine tuberculosis, that dreaded
disease which lurks in apparently
healthy cows and creeps into bon*'s
of mtanls. causing human tuber-
culosis of the bone, was the tirst
one of the three planks taken up j
by the farm bureau officers. Their j
attitude on this great health ques-
tion was rellicted powerfully in the;
following resolution: |

The Itesolution !

"We, the president.s and repre- ■
sentatives of the Kami Bureau of j
Illinois, assembled at Springfleld. |
.March 17, 1'J25, recognizing in the |
tuberculosis eradication program of |
the stale and nation the economic .
welfare of the live stock farmer
and the protection of the lite of
the public and believing that more
stringent laws are necessary to
greater efficiency and economy in
eradication work, hereby endorse. ;
recommend and respectfully urge
members of the legislature and the;
Covernor to write into the laws of;
the stale Tice Bill No. 176; and we i
further recommend and urge that
adequate appropriation be provided
to elTectively carry on Ibe eradica-
tion work in Illinois." j
Resolution Carried .Much Weight
Although this resolution was a
repetition of tlie unanimous in-
n "fHit iiiii.-.i nil i>;i^-- :; ' "I 1 I

The top picture i.s u/i«t the tornado left of the residence of I
lioth Mr. and Mrs. johnsttn were in the house. The picture Itelou
Crosscille. Mrs. Stokes lia.s picked up at spot marked \. She standi
tcere farm Ittireau members. The pictures tcere furnished h\ /'.»/ t rci-^tttmi. I iir
Itureau.

H . Johnson of (>.i%Mi7<i'. if /i.(. iounl\. III.
i the fiirnt hiinie of Kitvi.stid.f^. \*»utlt enst ttf
llder the other \ in the picture. Itolli turmers

l«/l

itr <»/( II Itifr t'.nmUy ttirnt

Latchstring to I. A. A. |

Office Always Out

To Chicago Visitors

Tho nt'-xt nioetine of tho f\ecu- i
live f'omniittee is P'riday, Aitiil '\. \
Karni bureau mtinbers and »'K-*'x- i
fcuttvo committeemen arc cordially |
invited by the present coniniitlcc I
to alt*'nd when they are in Chicago ]
on meeting days. 1

The usual nuntin^^ date is th<- I
tirst l-'riday of each month and un- ,
!i*ss something unusual occurs it is ;
always held at that lime. The ;
latchstring on th«^ 1. A. A. office |
door is always out. Whenever farm
bureau members come lo ChicaRo
they should not miss visitinK the
orticf .

His Durs Tanly.

He I'avs Interest:

I ote Him Refund

l-'iti-in hiit't'aii h >> alt > \\ av
ilenioHNtrated ri*cciiil> wIhmi a
(lark roun(> rai-iii Uureau
ineiiilH'r. who lia<l Imhmi iti jir-
i-eai's with his ori^aiii/^Uion,
|iai<l his back niciiihersbiit tV<*>
a lud al>o rniiitUMl intei-fst
unioiintin;; to iSl .o^ I <» t li «>
treaMirer lor k(M*|iini; IIh* larin
hiii-etni folks wnitin;:.

The t^lark County Katiii Itu-
reau <'V?(-uli\e roinniittco in its
last HHHi^liim voted lo leliUMl
III** man his interest.

I.F./i.F. Committee On

Hoys arid (rirls Clnhs

Urns Hifih fifr l*K

"On-^ niiilion club ni« fiiin is

1''25" is tbf sioL?.tn <»t Ilic National

' "iiinmittf I- on Boys" and <;iil>' t'hib

Work of th» .AuMncin l';irt.i Uu-

■!.;ni I'- d« ratiijn, C. I.. NobI* . d.n-o-

, t'ir. Kvi ry timrl is b< jn;^ t«ui lorih

I lo (iiroll rariu .uirls and bo\> tn

■ .iiinior eiiib work tbrou;;'hMU» tlie
c'lUnlry. !ndi "aiions an* tiiai much

■ Will b<- a*'coiii;dish»d ibis v* ar. Mr.
Xoblp b»r!i<-\«-; ,

; Tlif-r*' an- a Iwhit ("..uort farm bo>s
I ;ind i^irls bttwtcn \\\v a:;«-s of 10
i and IS In «'liil)Work in Illinois. K.
I I. Pilrbard is. statt- 1« adttr uf this
I branch ol a :riruttiiral '«'\t«iision
j <arrit d on by tht- .Col !»•::»• of Ayri-
' culture.

GRUBSTAKING OUR
ILLINOIS NF.ir.HRORS

IS JOB FOR US ALL

State- Wide Committee Repre
senting All Organizations Is
rFormed to Collect Funds :
Need Is Great

i;!iiiiflal> iig ile-ir lirotlier III
nois tariiit-is wlm ar- d'siiiiitc' b.
rails.- of tb'- tornado has Im-. n ai.-
siill is tb.- iiiight> task li.-l.ir.- tl-
IrH.r. r.dllHnit.' fariiu-rs of lllilioi

.\ eaiiipaigli tor laisinu in. in.
for p.-rniaii.-|il farm r-lief w:i
lanii.'li. d sooij afi. r n.'ws of lb. e.
laniiiy cam.- 1 .Ml e.iiiniy l-'arin I!e
i.aiis not in (he t..rliad.i ai.a w. i
i:.iit tli.> lolloping 111. -lain by S^.-.
iilar.v C.eii. -V Ko\ aft. r a me- iii.
was iield in tllie 1. \ A. olFie.- an !
a eours.;- of proc'diii.- d.-teriiiin. <1

":"arni damage in I.*iiiad". .:p..
w.-l! »i\.-i- iw<" uiillit.ii dollai- sio
arm orgaiiiJalioiis and larin p.i
l»-rs e.iipp. ralmg m rais.- and a<:
iiiliiisl.r luiid to gnibstaki s'irick.
r.iiiii.-rs l.i i;us.- eriip stop Itop.- i-
lai>. a\.-ra-'.- two lliolisalel dollai
Ironi lariii.is in . aeh iniiiiiy sio;
Tak.- eliar.;. and :" lo il sl..p Wll
answ.-r.'

K'-'Spolis.- Ill Ibis t.l.tlalii »a
aliiiesl sliolila.e-iiU- CoiiiU.i IV.n
liur.ails l.iltliv^ed Hit'.' luirn'-ss. te
-Hiii/'d I'M 111. iiom. .» raiMii-' can
lai-ii. and r<M>. f t"i lie iinlorlii
iKii. Illinois li.nii.rs uui iiiol. r ini
,-i. am 'Ml olvanl7.all■lll^ n Tn.-s.-ni
ing or serviii-; llliiens t.irmer-
j.iin.-d li.inds in tb.' irnibsiakin-
• 'Uiupai;:ii.

M<>ii<-> Uw INTinaiMiH ItHi^-f

A .-. lilial •■OiiiMKll.-. r- ;.r.--. Iltlll^

I tli.s.- iliLlTi-sIs was I. n lied Moli
da\. Mar.li 21:. to rais.' iii.Hi. > lor

rmi.ii.iii r.-ji't. It wa> i^:ilize<i
that til.' imniediate n.-. ds of tie
ii.rnado miU' !• is w.-n- »• II car.il
for by Hid ili.'ss and local at.n
.us llUI wll.' l'^ t'l liflp lh.it.' folks
't siari.d iii-io busin.-.ss a-aiii '
Wbo'is 1.1 Ik !■ tliiii g''t a iiiUk
' tiw to luriiis!i . milk and Imit. r
wbib- plaiiiin-' liiis cr.iii; lb-' grow
111'- s.-as.iii .11 uiii.'ii i* right upon
s.nitb.rn llliiio.^' Wlio Is lo b.-lp
ih.lii s.eiir. 1-. • .1 ali.l Jilaehin. r> "
Wll. I is t.i liinii-ii a plow? Who is
ill furnish a moik lior.-. . cbiek.liK.
pi-s? It ii.iisl II.' fnMii farm. r> I<h
riiMii.'is. r.-tiiiaie 111 n li.'f is tie
uiial of Ibis c.iin:il , coliimitt.'.
which is iiailiid "TIk- <".rubsi:ik.'
r.ihiiiiltt...' I>ir rariii.rs of llli
I, .'IS'". .Ml liii. nsi.-d farm ortan
;/:iii'ins ai.' ■ i.'pi'-S' nt.'d
linibsl.ik.' ruiiiiiiti.-".

t <ml<.t> l« < 'liairiiMii

l;. A. Cowlo. I. A A II'
Has mad.- eti(iiriiiaii and ti
..r it Hif linst act wa-- >.■
piiipyr einin.'Ctioiis witl. Hi
I'l'oss in t.'liicago lo iiiak- .
ih.ti farm, rs' :i..-.ds would b.
l.ir. H<' disitii.li. d Verii.ni
ii.an. Ji'ld oif-.iniz.r ol lie
r. .\ . lo Si. le'Uis to iiiak*' .'
lions with il.t- li-'d Cro.'-r
eii,\. wbi.'li i.-t III dir.«"l I
111.' |..in:id'i lUstriei.

Ulh.'i III. iiiSi' rs ot lb' cmiiiiii
I'M- :ii-. a-^ I.iilotts;

in ,- V .;i'»..rv. iM.ior. riutii-

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li. (-: ^ .'iii.g S(-. ^•-l.lr^■. W:at. Kanii.r-
li.sinill.-; 1" .\. .VspUlli'I. Urion. I'l-.M

.|. i.t Iiliti'.is pl.it.- Karni.-ra Muniii
I-'ir. liiMiraiico .\ssiTf: l.airr. :.* e Kai
t.-xt-. S.-'-r.-tary, Fawit.-rs i.Jram fi'.-ii
- IS .\ss"' lali'.n ol Illinois, J. P I'l.'i-
lil-s, rural l-ank-T. i:r.'.-ii V.ill.-y, Illi-
nois. .1- H. I.lnj-.l. i^arlhaK.-. I'r.-M.b nl
llliijois Kami, .\.lvis.-rs .Vsk". .iiii"i';
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ill.- -4th (lisli^i.T .init also cnatrniaii
.if a survey ;it|il .hslnbutioii i-*jinniil
It-.- working In all .-ouiiti.-s in tb.- I'T-
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The Illinoi* AgricnHnral AMocUtJon Record

March 28, 192S

I LiIjINOIS

Ct'LTVBAL ASSOCIA

RE CORP

Pnbllshad ntrr other Smtnrdar t>7 th* Illlnoli A|rrlanltiirftl
AasoelaUOB, (Of South Dearborn Streat, Ctalcavo, UllnoU. Bo-
lted b7 Department of Information, H. C. Butcher, Director.

■ntered u eecond claie matter Oct. 10. 1921, at the poet effloe
at Chleaca Illlnola, under the act o( March 3, 1>7>. Acceptanoe
for matUnr at epeclal ratee of poetace provided for la Section
not. Act of October I. 1»17, authorlaed Oct. 81. 1»21.

The IndlTldual memberehlp fee of the Illlnola Aarlcaltnral Aa-
aoelatlon la flre dollara a year. The fee Includea payment of
flfty centa for aubacrlptlon to the Illlnola Acrlcnllural Aaao-
clatlon Rxooia.

Poatmaater: In returning an nncalled-for or mlaaent oopy,
pleaae Indicate key number on addreaa aa la required by law.

j OFFICERS

President, S. H. Thompson, Qolncy.

I Vice-President, H. E. Goembel, Hooppole.
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomington.
Secretarj, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore.

BXECpnVE CO-MMTTTEai

By Congressional Districts

William Webb, Route One, Joliet

Q. F. Tullock, Rockford

C. E. Bamborough, Polo

.W. H. Moody, Port Byron

11th..:
12th...
13th...

14th ^.

IBth j. B. H. Taylor, Rapatae

16th A. R. Wright, Varna

17th F. D. Barton, Cornell

18th J « R. F. Karr, Iroquois

1»th J J. L. Whianand, Charleston

20th i Eart C. Smith, Detroit

Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

Stanly Castle, Alton

W. L. Cope, Salem

Curt Anderson, Xenia

21st...,
22nd...
23rd...
24th...
2&th R. K. Loomis, Makanda

Directors of Departments
I. A. A. Office
General Offlce and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker; Or.
ganlzatlon, Q. E. Metzger; Information, H. C. Butcher; Trans-
portation, L. J. Quasey; Taxation and Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing, A. B.
Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, Wm. E. Hedgcock; Dairy
Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phospliate-Llmestone, J. R. Bent;
In charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A. Gougler; apeclal
representative on Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H. Petersen;
Legal Counsel, Donald KIrkpatrIck; Co-operative Accounting,
Geo. R. Wicker.

THE RECORDS PLATFORM
Advance the purpose for tchich the Farm Bureau teas organixed,
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic^
social and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the
nation, and to develop agriculture.

®ur Hf arts 90 WvA to (§m

Unfortunate J^eigtjbnr |

iFarmerfi in ti?p ulomabo Area

The Tornado

{"Time and tide wait for no man, and neither does the dead-
lime** it a saying in many newspaper offices. Jt certainly applies
in the office of the information department at this particular mo-
ment, irorfc on the farm relief fund has kept us jumping. The
printer's boy is Tefaiting for his last installment of news for this
ItECoao and we dare not overstep the deadline. 80 with apologies
to our readers we are printing a part of a radio talk given Sun-
day noon, Mareli 22, over WL8, by your editor, with the hopes
that it wMl in some small way help you to picture the^ need
for assisting our brother farmer-neighbors of Illinois. — fl. C.
Butrher.)

This message is a messase to the farmers of IIIinolB. It
is a message to you farmers who are sitting contentedly In
your comfortable homes on this beautiful day of divine
worship — free from harm, secure in your happiness, con-
tent with your well being and happy In your fortitude.

This message is to those good farHiers and their families
who can sit down to their country-famous Sunday dijiners
with a fueling of happiness, pleasure and comfort. All Is
well with you. Even the work horses are enjoying their
day of rest-— possibly this is their first day of green pasture
this spring. You farme^ are usually at peace when your
stock is all cared forr The little pigs are being farrowed
and you are looking forward to a good, profitable year as
a result of a favorable hog marlcet situation. '

You good farmers are perhaps soon to sit down, to your
Sunday dinners with naught but happiness in your hearts.
This is the second day of spring. The call of spring is great-
est in the farm home for it brings the beginning of another

To the Gmbstake ('unimitt«e.

Care of B. A. Cowles, I. .\. .\. Office.

I aa contributini; herewith $ tor help4

ing the Southern Illinois farmers who were left
destitnte by the tornado. This money will be
used for *'(;rubstaking"^-setting them up in
business again.

Signed ,. i

Town County

(Money sent direct will apply to yoor ct>iinty'8 qaot|k)

season of chance. Never are farmers' hopes as blgh as
when spring planting time comes — and pow — this message
is to you farmers who kie in the midst of all this happiness,
this security, ttUs fortitude, this contentment on this day of
rest, and this time of the year when your hopes are high
and the prospects shine as brightly as the glorious sun.

This message is to call you to the consideration of your
fellow neighbor. Is all well with him? Many have already
felt the call to aid but there is still much to do. Imagine,
it you can, your neighbor and brother farmer of the tor-
nado-stricken area in southern Illinois on this beautiful
Sunday. Imagine HIS Sunday dinner. Picture, it you can,
the things which he sees today as he stumbles with be-
wilderment in the ruins of his farm buildings. Picture his
house strewn by the elements across a 40-acre field and
torn into kindling wood. Picture his crumbled barn with
his work horses — his Nell and his Duke — pinioned to death
under the timbers of his once proudly owned barn. Picture
the corn crib — twisted, wrecked and torn. Corn scattered
over the muddy ground for rods and rods. Picture freshly
farrowed pigs squelched to pig heaven soon after they had
first seen the light of lite. Picture motherly sows farrow-
ing amongst the scattered debris with your farmer-neighbor
still too bewildered and stunned to take care of farrowing
problems. Perhaps this farmer has been burying his rel-
atives, his son, his daughter or i>erhap8 bis good wife. Per-
haps HIS Sunday is a burial day. It is not only material
loss that your neighbor farmers of Illinois are valiantly
suffering, Mr. Fortunate Farmer, but it is death and injury
of the dearly beloved ones of his own family. Perhaps
his Sunday is a funeral day instead of a happy day of rest
and wholesome Sunday dinner such as you are having to-
day.

Multiply this picture by a minimum of 100 and you have
the condition in White county — Just one of the several
stricken Illinois counties. Ed Creighton, farm adviser for
the White County Farm Bureau, which is doing all it can
for the farmers in that county, reported to the Illinois
Agricultural Association that at least 100 farms have been
completely or very nearly obliterated by the terrific tornado
which cut a mile swath across White county. Farms were
hit and the cities missed in White county. The damage
to farms alone in this county will amount to between three
quarters and a million dollars, Mr. Creighton reports. For-
ty-nine good farm folks, farmer-neighbors of yours too,
lost their lires in White county. At least one hundred
more are seriously injured.

Now multiply the conditions in White county by the sev-
eral counties which suffered the wrath of the elements.
Then you realize what a gigantic chore there Is before the
farmers of Illinois to help adequately their neighbor and
brother farmers in this time of tragedy.

Many of these farmers escaped with nothing but the very
clothes which clung to their backs. Their temporary needs
are being cared for by such noble agencies as the Red Cross
and local committees. This, however, is only temporary
relief.

How are these destitute farmers to have the opportunity
of growing a crop this year? Their planting season Is al-
most upon them. Their season starts 30 days in advance
of that of Northern Illinois. With no horses with which
to seed their oats, no milk to provide milk and butter for
whatever number of the family remains, with tew or no
chickens, with farm machinery for the most part demol-
ished and broken, with seed for planting lying sprouting on
the moist ground — or with none at all — with all these ob-
stacles to overcome, in addition to the terrific shock of the
calamity, how can these farmers carry on without some as-
sistance from their neighbor-farmers of Illinois?

If one of your immediate neighbors becomes sick and
cannot plant his corn, what do you do? You and the rest
of his neighbors combine your strength and plant it for
him so he'll have a crop. That is the call which the farm-
ers in every county of Illinois must heed if their unfortu-
nate neighbors in Little Egypt are to be grubstaked to
plant and harvest this year's crop.

LET US GRUBSTAKE THEM TO ANOTHER GROWING
SEASON!

A small contribution from each of us will do the Job.
Don't put it off, put it over! !

The Gaa Tax

I\ny farmer who has followed the taxation program of
the Illinois Agricultural Association knows our stand has
always been for lower taxes on real property and for a
more equitable distribution of the tax burden.

Our desire tor a gas tax is in keeping with this stand.
Those people who are close to the gas tax situation admit
that such a tax is inevitable in Illinois. It it is inevitable,
which it is because it Is fair and Just, then the thing to do
is to see that the proceeds from it go in place of some pres-
ent tax and not in addition to the burden property is now
carrying.

Therefore, we are 100 per cent behind the Cuthbertson
bill, which provides for a two-cent tax per gallon on gaso-
line used on the public highways, the proceeds from which
shail go in place of the present 25 cent levy for county
highway taxes.

The main points in this bill, which have been set forth
in a 22-page booklet recently prepared by the department
of taxation and statistics and issued by this association, are
as follows:

1. A tax of two cents per gallon on all gasoline
sold within the state.

2. Provision tor refunding the tax, under proper
safe-guards, to purchasers of gasoline tor agricultural,
industrial, or domestic uses.

3. Substitution of the gasoline tax for the present
County Highway tax on property for the State Aid
roads, subject to the second provision under four (4).

4. Quarterly apportionment to each county of the
gasoline tax in the proportion which its total permis-
sible State Aid road mileage bears to the total permis-
sible State Aid road mileage in the state, provided
that no county can be apportioned a larger amount in
any quarter than it could raise by one-fourth of a 35
cent tax rate applied to the latest assessed valuations
of all property assessed in the county; and provided
that the county board in any county which in the pre-
vious fiscal year shall not have received the equivalent

of the amount which could be raised by a 25 cent prop-
erty tax, shall have the power to levy a sufBcient tax
to make the total amount arallable tor th* State Aid
roads the equivalent ot the amotiat a 2S cent tax rate
would produce.

5. Transfer to the State Highway Fund ot any bal-
ance ot the gaaoUne tax remaining after the quarterly
distribution.

6. Limitation ot the use ot the proceeds of the gas-
oline tax to the State Aid roads not included in the
State Bond Issue System ot hard paved roads.

7. Proper administrative provisions tor carrying
the act into effect.

During 1924, 36 of the 48 states and the District ot Co-
lumbia imposed a gas tax, the rate ranging from 1 to 3
cents per gallon In all states excepting Arkansas, which
levied 4 cents. Nearly $80,000,000 was collected from the
gas tax In these states in 1924. It was used or was avail-
able very largely for road maintenance and construction,
according to the bureau ot public roads of the department
of agriculture. However, since the first ot the year, other

states have adopted the gas tax. The accompanying map
was prepared about two weeks ago tor the booklet, and.it
Is already out <)t date. The states in white have a gas tax,
the figures Indicating the rate ot tax in cents per gallon.
States in black have not approved a gas tax. The shaded
states are favorably inclined. A gas tax was enacted in
Iowa and Wisconsin in 1923, but was vetoed by the gover-
nors. Bills are now pending in these states with support
ot the governors. Minnesota, by popular vote in November,
1924, amended its constitution to permit a gas tax. Mis-
souri approved it.

Since the map was made, Ohio has practically got a gas
tax. There is favorable agitation in Nebraska. The tax is
fair. It is sweeping the country. Illinois will soon become
an island in a whole sea of gas-taxing states. When Illinois
motorists go out of the state, they will help pay for our
neighbor's roads, but when tourists come to Illinois— (and
Illinois catches the great bulk ot East and West an^ North
and South traffic because of our excellent main roads),
the tourists will wear and destroy our roads without bear-
ing their share.

The amount paid by the average motorist where the tax
is collected, including all makes of cars, large and small, is
$10.30 per vehicle, according to the bureau of public roads.

By displacing the county highway tax ot 25 cents per
$100 valuation, the tax saving to all property owners, both
farm and city, amounts to $10 i^ year for each $4,000 valua-
tion.

Mr. Watson, our director ot taxation and statistics, the
authority for the booklet that the I. A. A. has issued, esti-
mates that from $15 to $20 a year could be saved on the
average 160-acre farm in the northern two-thirds ot Illi-
nois. Therefore it can easily be seen that a gas tax in place
ot the county highway tax would be ot financial advan-
tage to the taxpayers as well aa to the adTantoge ot the
motorist who wants good roads.

9^0 ■

ifT ToomsTs m wi

imi WITH A GAS TAX

This is a reproduction of windshield sticker you can obtain at
your farm bureau office or by writing direct to the I. A. A. office.
Put one on your carl

These windshield stickers are red with regular postagt stamp
glue on the front of them. They slick! Get one for your carl

Likee Oar Slogan

In its executive committee meeting for March, the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association officially adopted as its slo-
gan the phrase: '63,000 Thinking Farmers." It's a slogan
that has the right ring.— Rockford (111.) Gazette.

rt!h 28, 1925

:5 cent prop-
lufficlent tax
la SUte Aid
tent tax rate

1 of any bal-
he quarterly

8 of the Eas-
luded m the
■oads.
for carrying

District of Co-
S from 1 to 3
rkansas, which
ected from the
d or was avall-
1 construction,
the department
the year, other

March 28, 192S

The nKnoM Atriciiknral Awociation Record

.■Mi

'■* ■ PmtJ

LOWDEN SPEAKS ON COMMUNITY CLUB PROGRAM APRIL 24 OVER WLS

STATE LEGISUTIVE
PROGRAM GAINS FAVOR

mpanymg map
booklet, and.lt
hare a gas tax,
nts per gallon.
i. The shaded
ras enacted in
i by the goTer-
s with support
e In November,
gas tax. Mls-

cally got a gas
ka. The tax Is
HI soon become
When Illinois
Ip pay for our
I Illinois — (and
Vest an^ North
: main roads),
3 without bear-

: where the tax
;e and small. Is
of public roads,
t 26 cents per
ty owners, both
h M.OOO valua-

1 statistics, the
las issued, esti-
>e saved on the
D-thirds of 1111-
gas tax in place
Inanclal advan-
Ivantase of the

rou can obtain at
he /. A. A* office.

lor poXoge MUmp
e for your cart

March, the 1111-
pted as its slo-
' It's a slogan
Gazette.

(Continued from page 1.)
dorsement given the legislative pro-
gram at the last annual meeting, it
came at' an opportune time. For
at 3 o'clock the hearing on the Tice
bill, which embodies the I. A. A.
requirements, was called In the
House with the committee on agri-
culture in charge.

Never since the days of the Lantz
bill, restraining the board of trade,
has there been such an assemblage
of farmers in the state house, rep-
resentatives remarked. In the
galleries were packed opposing
dairymen from the Chicago milk
territory, largely from McHenry
county. In the seats of the repre-
sentatives who are not on the agri-
cultural committee, sat proponents
of the bin, mostly farm bureau
folks. However, the I. A. A.'s po-
sition being held well In hand by
appointed representatives, the farm
bureau presidents remained in ses-
sion for a time across the grounds
at the Centennial building. .

Several conferences had been
held during the previous week In
efforts to compromise with the Mc-
Henry county dairymen, who, led
by cattle traders and banking In-
terests holding chattel mortgages
on a large percentage of the stock
owned by' the opposing dairymen,
claimed they would be bankrupt if
the Tlce bill were enacted. They
were also confronted with the
Reeves bill, which was considerably
more stringent than the one spon-
sored by the I. A. A.

Vast Majority Want Tlce Bill
There being such an unmistak-
able demand from the S7 farm bu-
reaus as well as by the farm bu-
reaus In the Chicago milk district,
including McHenry county, the I. A.
A. was reluctant to concede all the
demands of such a minority even
though It was insistent. However,
certain concessions were offered but
each time they were received with
a request for more until Unally
after a conference which lasted un-
til 2:30 in the morning on the day
of the hearing, no unified agree-
ment had been reached and the bill
was kept practically in its original
form.

It was in this situation which
Chairman Turner of Livingston
county called the meeting to order
and quieted the
galleries. The
pro and con was
to be discussed
with the pros
leading. Repre-
sentative Tice of
Menard county
presented the
opening a r g u-
ment for his bill.
"This is a health bill for the cit-
izens of Illinois," he said. "It will
further protect human lives from
tuberculosis. It is a humanitarian
measure. It will place Illinois in
advance of other states in testing.
We have a cesspool of infection in
our great milk district.

"It g|ves full return to the tax-
payer for the money he pays in ap-
propriattons for indemnities. For
every four dollars expended by th(
state In paying indemnities we
should have four dollars worth of
progress. Instead we are finding
ourselves slipping back three dol-
lars out of every four. Our duty
to the tax-payers Is to go ahead
with full force on this work so that
which has been gaiaed will not be
lost because of re-infection.

"The bill may work a temporary
hardship on some few, but we have
tried vainly to lessen any hardship
on any locality. Our purpose is to
advance every locality in such a
manner that the whole state will
be clean In as short a time as pos-
sible. That is the only economical
and business-like way to cafry on
this great campaign."

Bert L. Thomas, president of the
McHenry County Farm Bureau and
an ardent leader of the farmers who
favor testing in his county, spoke
next. He prefaced his appeal with
a statement that "here I am, a
farmer, addressing a group of leg-
islators in the House of Representa-
tives. Certainly that is a change
from olden times. I am talking
also to my neighbors in McHenry
county who are here opposing the
thing for which I stand and I ex-
pect I will lose a good many friends
by it, but the right will eventually
prevail."

The Facte

McHenry Slow In Testing
He stated that only 190 herds
have been tested In McHenry coun-
ty, that opposition to the test was
the reason for their delinquency
and that it is the unthinking farm-
ers who will not come to the test
and clean up their herds. The City
of Chicago Is gradually tending to
draw its milk from tested cattle
and farmers who look to the future
will see the handwriting on the
wall, he said. Representative Mc-
Carthy, who led the fight for the
McHenry county opponents, at-
tempted to heckle all speakers fa-
voring the bill.

Thomas' remarks concerning the
Chicago situation dovetailed with
those of Herman N. Bundesen,
health commissioner of Chicago,
who followed in a fiery speech.

"The eradication of bovine tuber-
culosis is of vital importance to us
as health officers," opened Dr. Bun-
desen. "Ten per cent of all milk
that comes to Chicago has tuber-
cular g<erms in It. Pasteurization,
which is required by city ordinance,
kills most of them, but pasteuriza-
tion is not 100 per cent deadly be-
cause the human equation enters
into the operation of the machinery.
Says 8 Ont of 10 Infected
"We also know that 82 per cent
of all the cattle In McHenry county
are positive reactors to the tuber-
culin test. This is a lamentable
condition.

"In Chicago we are encouraging
the drinking of milk. We urge
every person to drink a quart a day.
If we— (and here
Dr. Bundesen
turned to the
press box and
asked that these
alarming facts be
temporized o r
suppressed so as
not to excite the
people o f Chi-
cago)— if we tell
these facts broadcast to Chicago
people they would soon cut down
the consumption of milk. That,
too, would be disastrous because
the increased use of milk through
our encouragement has decreased
the death rate in children more
than any other single factor. We
have increased Chicago's daily milk
consumption from 1,100,000 to
1,250,000 quarts since a year ago.

11.8 Per Cent Deaths by T. B.

"Out of every 10,000 deaths in
Chicago, 11.8 per cent die because
of bovine tuberculosis which ap-
pears in humans in the form of
bone tuberculosis.

"We also know that 37 cities
and towns have ordinances which
prohibit the sale of milk from cat-
tle not under state and federal su-
pervision. This has caused the
dairymen who cannot sell in those
towns to divert contaminated milk
to Chicago. We will not stand for
it forever.

"Chicago has been patient," he
said, "and still intends to be patient
in giving dairymen reasonable time
in which to eradicate tuberculosis
in a hurry. But we are not going
to be patient forever when the dai-
rymen stand idly by and do nothing
to improve their condition, espe-
cially when they have had ample
opportunity to do so."

T. B.-Free Milk Only

Dr. Bundesen also discussed the
advent of the railway glass-lin^d
milk car which enables dealers to
bring milk in from considerable
distances. His efforts to confine the
milk selection from the legitimate
territory around Chicago has kept
these people in a market, and now
they had all better get busy and
clean up or else, he intimated, Chi-
cago will heed a recent request
from 190 representative dairymen
(farm bureau members) from Wis-
consin, Illinois, Indiana and Michi-
gan who asked that after Jan. 1,
1926, all milk sold In Chicago come
from tested cows.

H. R. Smith of the National Live
Stock Exchange, Chicago, was next
on the stand. He -told of the tre-
mendous losses caused by bovine tu-
berculosis.

"Each year in the U. S., 4,300
cars of cattle and hogs are con-
signed to the tanks because of t.
b.," he said. "Six million dollars
is lost each year because of it. In
1908, one per cent of all slaugh-
tered hogs showed evidences of t.
b. It climbed steadily and in 1916
as many as 10 per cent showed It.
In recent years it has been 15 per
cent and today 20 per cent — 20
hogs out of every 100 — of all hogs

BANKERS' 7REXY

Wayne Hummer, La Salle bank-
er. Is president of the Illinois Bank-
ers' Association. March 31 at 7:30
he speaks on the American Farm
Bureau Federation's farm program
over KYW upon invitation of the
Illinois Agricultural Association.
The title is: "When Farmers and
Bankers Get Together." He believes
they should pull together and is
telling why. Tune in.

slaughtered at Chicago show t. b.
Tlce Bill 'So Exiiertment

"Approximately one per cent of
all hogs shipped to Chicago are con-
demned for food purposes.

"The Tlce bill is no experiment.
It embodies the good point', of sim-
ilar legislation in other Ftates. One
of the great troubles in Illinois is
that 20 or 30 herd owners hold up
a whole county from getting ac-
credited. Since the packers pay a
10 cent per hundred premium on
hogs from accredited counties, these
20 or 30 objectors are keeping the
whole county from considerable
money which they could easily get
if all would test."

R. N. Scott, of the Mercer Coun-
ty Farm Bureau, also spoke in fa-
vor. He reflected the great need
for the Tice bill as viewed by 87
bureaus which were represented in
the resolution. A. Thompson of
Ford county ipoke in the same
vein.

Farm Bnrean Men Confer

The meeting was adjourned until
8 o'clock in the evening. The farm
bureau presidents and representa-
tives and some legislators again
met at a dinner at the Elks' Club.
Here the plan of renewing member-
ship now being used by the organ-
ization department was explained
by G. E. Metzger. The legislative
program was also discussed until
the hearing was again in order at
the state house.

Opponents to the Tice bill were
taking their inning. Representa-
tive McCarthy opened by saying
that he favored compulsory test-
ing. Secretary E. C. Rockwell of
the Chicago Milk Producers Asso-
ciation, in a long speech, assailed
the Tice bill as un-American be-
cause it requires compulsory testing
when 75 per cent of herds have
voluntarily come in. He stated that
the bill would bankrupt the tenant
dairymen in the Chicago area and
that steers were exempt from brand-
ing.

And so the fight went far into the
night. Circuit Judge Edward N.
Shurtleff, formerly leader of the
Republicans in the House, talked
against repealing the Shurtleff act
which was enacted in 1911. This
act makes it impossible for any
town or city in Illinois to pass an
ordinance prohibiting milk from
cows which have not been t. b.-
tested.

Jndge Shurtleir For It

The 37 towns and cities to which
Dr. Bundesen referred are getting
around this act by stipulating that
no milk shall be sold in those towns
or cities unless the cattle are under
state or federal supervision.

"I am for the Tlce bill," the
Judge said. "And, further, you
dairymen would be breaking faith
with the people of Illinois unless
you ask for a five-milUon-doUar ap-
propriation for the next two years
to fight bovine tuberculosis."

After his speech, the hearing ad-
journed until 3 o'clock the next
day. The next morning the I. A. A.

legislative committee recommended
rewriting certain sections of the
bill, even though Representative
Tice assured them that he bad plen-
ty votes to pass the bill in its orig-
inal form. The changes were made
in accordance with an agreement i
by Representative McCarthy that he
would line up for anything H. R.
Smith of the NatUpnal '■■ Live Stock
Exchange would recommend. Bow-
ever, when the chuges were made.
Representative McCarthy failed to
accept them. Consequently the bill
went to committee on agriculture,
where it quite likely will have been
voted out favorably and without
material changes by the time the
reader receives this Recobo.

Who Was There

Following are the names of those
who registered at the morning ses-
sion. Others came later whose
names were not obtained.

Adama — John A. Connery. Lewis U
Boyer; Bond — W. F. Foard, Frank
Potthast; Boone — Elmer Hyde. Rob-
ert Cumminss, G. H. Brown, Harold
Lampert. Phil H. Sanford; Brown—
W. P. Miller, Chas. H. Snyder. W. P.
Mobley. R. A. llcCaalclIl: Bureau — W.
R. Soverhill. Geo. Stamberger. Jr.. D.
G. Rader J. B. Habertoon.

Carroll — G. R. Bliss: Casa — Guy H.
Husted, George R. Cline. Harry Crum-
vlne. A. E. Crum: Champafffn — C. S.
Rhode; Christian — C. E. Hay; Cook^
Herman Schwake; Coles — Harvey N.
Ames; Clark — Temple R. Lovett; J.''T.
Snedeker: Clay^-Curt Anderson. Geo.
W. McElyea; Christian— W. N. Grimes.

Clinton — C. C. Hofsommer; Coles —
J. L. Whisnand; Crawford — N. J.
Goodwin; Cumberland— Frank Hack-
ley; DeKalb — John Nelaon. F. C. Love;
DeWItt — Claude W. Thorp. O. U. Al-
lyn. M. E. Turner; Douglas — Chan.
McDonald. J. E. Grant; DuPage — E.
L Gate. Harold G. Vial.

VMgar — Enos Watera. Dr. B. I..
Strohl. .Tohn O. Honnold; Effingham —
H. O. Henry, P. W. Wascher; Pord—
O. G. Anderson. J. A. Barton. Georpe
T. Swaim. M. Malone. A. C. Thompson :
Franklin — Glenn L. Hamilton; Galla-
tin— L. L. PInWell; Greene — L H.
Rafferty; Grundy — B. A. Barker.

Hancock — M. G. Lambert; Henry —
J. W. Whlsenand, W. E. Cardiff. Sen-
ator Boyd Galva, H. K Goembel. L.
C. Warner; Jackson — W. A. Parrieh.
Harry L. Gilbert. Fred DIetl. C. J.
Thomas; Jefferson — Jno. A. Gage:
Jersey — Thomas Cummins; Kendall —
R. J. Churchill. E. U Matlock. I. V.
Cryder.

Knox — H. R- Hornbaker; B. L.
Balrd; Lake — Wra. C. Dillon; J. J.
Doerschuk: Wlllard Rarvell: L. C.
Benwell. John B. Barrett, LIndon R.
Burns. Bob R. Rouse. E. Harris; La-
Salle — E. E. Stevenson. Fred Peck.
Henry W. Watts. H. T. Marshall.

Lawrence — David McClary: Lee —
J. W. Larabee. Chas. E. Tale. F. L.
Riegle; Livingston — F. D. Barton;
Logan — J. H. Clwckley. Thomas Leon-
ard.. D. C. Shepler. Oscar Mountjoy;
McDonough — M. L. Hunt. Ray C. Don-
gehue; McHenry^ — B. L. Thomas, Geo.
A. Hunt. Fred H. Busse.

McLean- — D. H. Stitzman; Macon —
Brlce Martin. E. P. Imboden. Hugh S.
Baker, Frank O. Gullck. Harvey Phil-
lips. Chas. E. Vulgaraott. Jesse I..
Beery; Macoupin — M. E. Rusk. J. P
Denby. H. J. Schults; Madison — Henry
Heepke: Marlon — Fred J. Blackburn.
W. L Cope.

Marshall-Putnam — L. F. Boyle. A.
R. Wright. Harry Blackburn; Menard
— W. B. Sturgls, Herman KoBter. H.

A. Bolls. O. C. Haggard. Chas D.
Becker. C. AT Hughes; Mercer — Sco-
vine Lee. P. B. Scott. C. H. Beltine;
Montgomery — AMen Snyder. A. K.
Satterlee. ^^alter E. Satterlee. H. A.
Cress. W. C. Rebhan. John P. Poster,
Sam Sorrells. Lewis Lessman.

Morgan — C, S, Black: Moultrie— T
P. Ellis, J, H. Sharp. O, E. Lowe. C c
Turner; Ogle — C. E. Bamborough;
Peoria— Wilfred Shaw, W. B. Van
Cleave. Charles R, Pord; Piatt—
Wayne Wlsegarver. S. S. Davis. C, J.
Gross; Pike — J. A. Miller. E. C. Smith:
Pop^ir— James M. Rlger.

Pulaski — E. A. Bierbaum; Randolph
— Logis Gielow. John Uffelmann;
Richland — D. H. King, president;
Rock Island — W. H. Moody. Port
Byron. C. J. Golden; St. Clalr — H. H.
Hartman. David O. Thomas;" Saline —
H, N, Fowler; Sangamon — J. P, Stout;
Schuyler— L. R McKinlle. C. J.
Thompson. Chas. L. Bates; Scott — M.

B. Murray; Shelby — Theodore Roes-
sler. Chas. J. Robinson; Stark — E. K.
WIIIcox; O. L Hatch: Stephenson — I.
M. Swanzey.

Tazewell — Edward T. Conaghan,
Ralph E. Arnett. Joseph Morris; Un-
ion— R. K. Loomls; Vermilion — J. S.
Crobher. Otis Kercher. G. W. Lenhart ;
Wabash — John Deputy; Warren — W.
D Rodgers. F. W. Ferris; White —
Otto Casebler; Whiteside — John Mc-
Neil: Will— J. Franklin Hedgcock, C.
J, Luther, Wm. Webb. 'W, H. Cryder;
Williamson — Jacob Krumrey, W. T
Haescker. W. K. Galeener; A. M,
Spltznass; Woodford — Major Darst.
IIIseell»e«iu

Herman K- Bundesen. Chicago
health department. Chicago; H, C-
Becker. Chicago health department.
Chicago: John H. Hugh, supervisor of
milk surveys, department of public
health, Springfield ; Geo. W. Hess.
Hilsboro: Floyd Keepers. Prairie
Farmer; Dr. J, J. LIntner. In charg*'
federal teating. Union Stock Yards,
Chicago: Wallace P. McKee. commis-
sioner of llv« stock. Union Stock
Tarda, Chicago: F, A. Laird. Spring-
Held; Thomas Parran, M. D., state de-
partment of public health, Springfield;
H, P. Smith, commlsaioner. National
Live Stock Exchange. Chicago; O. U.
Seugo. Sprlngfleld: Earl Swtngly.
Hillsboro, 111.; Albert C. Wilson, chief
seed analyst, Springfield.

I. A. A. officers and directors con-
cerned in -the legislation were also
present.

PROGRAM WILL BE
GIVEN FROM WLS;
I.AJL SPONSORS IT

Ex-Gov. Lowden HeacUiner on
"Co-operative Marketing;"
Midwest Farm Borean Pr^-
dents to Speak

If ail the barns In the larglBst
county in Illinois were put togetfcer
to make one gigantic auditoritim,
quite likely it would not be lafge
enough to house all the people Who
will be listening in the Midwest Ka-
dio Community Meeting, the pt«-
gram of which will be given oier
WLS at Chicago. Friday evenlhg,
April 24, 7*: 30 to 9:30. This meet-
ing is being called the "worl4'6
largest community gathering."

Realizing that farmers of the
middle west have very few oppbr-
tunities of hearing the really pig
men in farm leadership, the IllinDis
Agricultural Association has made
arrangements to bring the foremia*t
leaders in agricultural thought to
the very firesides and platforms of
farm homes and community dabs
in the middle west by. means of the
great informer — radio.

The first of the Midwest Radio
Community Club meetings, which
will be held at various times in the •
future, has Ex-Goverrior Frank O.
Lowden as the headline speaker.
He win talk on "Co-operative Mar-
keting" in a 30 to 4 0 minute ad-
dress. President Thompson will
preside. The editors of the Orange
Judd Illinois Farmer and Prairie
Farmer will also speak.

Community Chibe Urged to Meet

Community clubs are urged to
meet on this night with a high-pow-
ered radio and loudspeaker con-
nected for the occasion. If none of
the community club members have
a radio that can be obtained, it is
suggested that local radio stores be
solicited to furnish and operate *ne
of their sales models. In many
counties, the county Farm Bureaus
have radio equipment for commu-
nity use. Community singing will
be tried out ovemhe radio.

In addition to the community
club gatherings which are urged to
be in session, farmers who have ra-
dios are solicited to invite their
neighbors over for the evening's en-
tertainment. Farmers who do not
have radios are urged to "get in-
vited" over to their radio-owning
neighbors.

Other States Participating

WLS is announcing this program
two or three times a week. The
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, the
Indiana Farm Bureau Federation
and the Michigan Farm Bureau
Federation will be represented by
their presidenu. Full publicity is
being given the Midwest Radio
Community Meeting in these other
states.

The programs for the Midwest
Radio Community Meetings are be-
ing arranged by the Illinois^ Agri-
cultural Association through the in-
formation d^-partment- The com-
plete program for April 24 is as
follows:

The Two-Hoar ProKnun

Singing of -America." Community
Singing lead by X H. Checkley. Logan
county farm adviser.

Opening of meeting by Sam H.
Thompson, president of the Illinois
Agricultural Association. Greeting to
Illinois and midwest farmers.

Treasurer's report on standing of
I A A by R. A. Cowlea. treasurer of
the Illinois Agricultural Association.

Secretary's report on progress of
I. A. A. work for farmers of Illinois.
— By Geo. A. Fox.

Kane County Farm Bureau Quartet.

Greeting to farmers of Michigan
by 11. L. Noon, president of Michigan
Farm Bureati Federation.

Greeting to farmers of Indiana by
President Wm. H. Settle.

Greeting to farmers of Iowa by
Charles E. Hearst, prssident. Iowa
Farm Bureau Federation.

Message from Arthur C. Page, edi-
tor of Orange Judd ILLINOIS PARM-
ER. \

Message from C, V, Gregory, editor'
of PRAIRIE PARMER.

How-Do-You-Do song on speakers
by Ford and Glen.

Introduction of Kx-Governor Low-
den by President Thompson,

Song by Kane County Quartet,

Address by Ex-Governor Lowden on
"Co-operative Marketing." Talk to
last SO-40 minutes.
Community Singing — "Star Spangled

Banner."

Page 4

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The lUinok Agricujtural Auociation Record

March 28, 1925,

GRUBSTAKING OUR

lUINOIS NEIGHBORS

(Continued from pase 1.)

nado district to malce an accurate
survey to determine the actual farm
losses incurred.

Distribution Committee Fnnctlons
Others od this distribution com-
mittee, which was formed in co-op- '
eration with Samuel R. Guard of
the Sears Roebuclc Agricultural
Foundatlao and George Thiem of
Prairie Farmer, are: Ed Creighton,
White county farm adviser; J. M.
Krebbs, head of County Relief,
White county; Fred Deetz, Presi-
dent, Jackson County Farm Bureau ;
Fred Biere, Murphysboro; C. J.
Thomas, Jackson county farm ad-
viser; W. K. Galeener, Williamson
county farm adviser; J. E. Whit-
church, Saline county farm adviser;
President Fowler of the Saline
County Farm Bureau; E. E. Gliek,
Franklin county farm adviser, Ben-
ton; Chas. Crisp, Benton; H. H.
Webb, Mulkeytown. Geo. Thiem of
thP Prairie Farmer and F. A. Goug-
ler of the I. A. A., were made ex-
oQcio members.

Great credit is due the county
Farm Bureaus in the tornado dis-
trict and adjacent to that area for
their quick assistance to the in-
jured and for their business-like or-
ganization for relief.

WIS on llie Job (And Tlien Some)
Appeals for money from farmers
for farmers have been made over
WLS by many persons connected
with the organizations represented
on the Grubstake Committee. That
no discrimination between members
and non-members of the Farm Bu-
reau should be made in collecting
funds and that none would be made
in their administration was the
foundation - thought when plans
were first made in Secretary Fox's
office by him and Editors Page and
Gregory of Orange Judd Illinois
Farmer and Prairie Farmer. The
county Farm Bureaus were asked
to utilize their organization ma-
chinery Id collecting funds for this
general tarm relief.

Frank A. Gougler, I. A. A. direc-
tor of poultry and egg marketing,
was dispatched by Secretary Fox to
the scene of the tornado soon after
the news reached Chicago. He was
requested to make a survey of con-
ditions and report. He found that
practically all of the assistance so
far had gone to city people, yet the
farm suffering was tremendous.
This was no fault of those in
charge, it being only natural that
farm folks would receive attention
last because of the distance factor.
It was felt that it would be up to
farm people to come to the aid of
their neighbor farmers of Illinois.
Other advices from farm advisers
and others in touch with the situa-
tion showed the dire necessity of
grubstaking the unfortunate farm-
ers so they can get their crops in
the ground.

Wliite County An Example

Ed Creighton, farm adviser of
White County, a county in which
the tornado cut a mile wide swath
and was particularly destructive to
farm buildings and farm life, esti-
mated that the farm loss in that
county alone would be from three
quarters of a million to a million
dollars. It was conservatively esti-
mated that the entire farm loss in
Illinois would be well over }2,000,-

000. Forty-nine farmers lost their
lives in White county, 25 or 30 of
whom were farm bureau members,
.Mr. Creighton reported. 100 sets
of farm buildings were demolished
and 100 people were injured. Eight
country school houses were demol-
ished in hie county.

By the time this Recokd reaches
most of its readers practically every
county will have raised its quota
of f 2,004, it is expected. This quo-
ta was set with the thought in
mind that the 230,000 farmers of
Illinois would contribute an aver-
age of at least fl apiece. Contri-
butions may be made direct to the

1. A. A. office and will be credited
to the respective counties. The
blank on the editorial page can be.
used. All will be acknowledged
over WLS.

Following are the telegrams which
have been received up to the time the
RicotD went to press, from the Coun-
ty Farm Bureaus participatiner in the
drive. Other telegrams are arriving
constantly, and it Is expected that all
the counties wHl soon have reported.
. Madison County is with you. — Al-
fred Raut. farm adviser.

Going now on tornado relief. —
Schuyler County Farm Bureau.

Directors have oked plan to raise
money for farmers in the tornado dis-
trict in Southern Illinois. Believe we
can raise two thousand dollars or

more. Will report Saturday amount
raised. Grant Park raised over four
hundred dollars yesterday. — Jno. S.
Collier, farm adviser.

Start campaign for funds Monday.
—J. C. Kline, Boone County Farm Ad-
viser.

Starting relief fund today. — Galla-
tin County Farm Bureau.

Woodford county bureau directors
met yesterday and organized drive
for funds for farmers cyclone victims.
— H. A. DeWerff, Woodford County
Farm Adviser.

Executive comrftittee Is taking up
matter of relief for farmers in tor-
nado area. — E. H. Walworth, Macon
County Farm Bureau.

I am sending out a call for relief
funds to be contributed at my office
and will forward to you. — D. E. War-
ren. Ogle County Farm Adviser.

We will do our part. Send details.
— E. A. Blerbauki. Pulaski County
Farm Adviser.

County dairyman's meeting In ses-
sion when wire reached us. Commit-
tee appointed subscription blanks go-
ing out to township and school dis-
trict chairmen tomight. Will report
on fund Saturday noon twenty-eighth.
— L. W. Wise, Whiteside County Farm
Adviser.

Mr. Wise also Wrote the follow let-
ter:

"Am enclosing sample of material

mailed to each school district chair-
man, township chairman and direc-
tor. Everything was In the mail

In one and one-half hours after the

Committee decided to go ahead.

Big interest in your telegram at

dairymen's meeting."

Greene county will co-operate to
relieve farmers In devastated district.
— E. M. Phillips, Greene County Farm
Adviser.

Will take charfee to raise cyclone
area funds in this county. — J. G. Mc-
Call. Johnson County Farm Bureau.

Will campaign for tornado suffer-
ers. Much soliciting by other organ-
izations.— Marshall-Putnam Farm Bu-
reau.

Will do all we can to raise our
quota. — I. A. Madden, Sangamon
County Farm Adviser.

Executive conimittee today ap-
proved plan to solicit all farmers in
county for relief funds. Will report
Thursday. — Ford County Farm Bu-
reau.

Am litarting campaign today for
tornado relief fund. — T. R. Isaacs.
Mason County Flirm Adviser.

LaSalle County Farm Bureau will
help in collectiner relief fund. We
are asking farmers In each school
district to co-operate.— Walter Mc-
Laughlin, LaSalU County Farm Ad-
viser.

County pretty well solicited al-
ready. Will do what we can. — F. W.
Wascher, Effingham County Farm Ad-
viser.

Will try to arolise Interest In relief
work. — Ernest D. Walker, Henderson
County Farm Adviser.

Meeting last night. Farmer relief
drive Friday.— K. C. Wheeler, Law-
rence County Fairm Adviser.

Win do what we can on storm re-
lief. Believe you. should put out spe-
cial- issue I. A. A. RzcoKft covering
storm relief. Cover the whole situa-
tion thoroughly. Many farmers not
taking city papers have ao Idea of
extent of damage and necessity of
relief. — J. H. Checkley. Logan County
Farm Adviser.

First school district reporting
raised ninety-niae dollars for farm
relief. — H. A. peWerff, Woodford
County Farm Adviser.

Will do what we can to collect for
farmers tornado area. — Stark County
Farm Bureau.

Lee County Farm Bureau Will have
one hundred men on relief fund -work
tomorrow. — W. L. Reigle.

Organlred to raise fund. Planning
county wide drive to help clean work
land in White county. — H. C. Gilker-
son. Edwards County Farm Adviser.

Counties In stricken area organized.
Definite Information being compiled.
Will furnish you with same at early
date. The Illinois committee for ru-
ral relief prepared to distribute all
donations and supplies for rural re-
lief. Give me your suggestions. —
Curt Anderson.

Fund is being raised in Jefferson
county for rural sufferers. — L. R.
Caldwell, Jefferson County Farm Ad-
viser.

V. J. Banter of Jo Daviess County
reports that he was calling his com-
mittee on Monday. March 21. to out-
line a plan of aQtion.

Executive Committeeman R. K.
Loomis of Makanda in Jackson coun-
ty writes:

"I saw Fred Deetz, president of the
Jackson County Farm Bureau and
adviser C. J. Thomas. We can count
on them for anything. Mr. Thomas
said he could name every farmer who
was hit He believes that there will
be sufficient funds, provided we can
get proper distribution. But the
farmers cannot build at this time of
the year.

"We believe that we will have to
stay with these men until Christmas
If we are* going to do this thing up
right. I think nearly all of them own
their own farms and part of the job
is to encourage them to stay and re-
build. They will probably do this It
they Jlo not have to mortgage. Mr.
Thomas thinks the Immediate need of
many is a temporary barn to be made
out of what is left."

"The Winnebago County Farm Bu-
reau Is sending $100 to the I. A. A.
office today." said a volc£ over the
phone from thajt county.'- "More Is
coming." _;

Below is a list of Farm Bureau and
Illinois Agricultural Association
members who ware totally or partial-
ly wiped out by the storm in White
county. The list was furnished by
Ed Creighton. farm adviser.

Sam Orr. Hertnan Frymire, Jerry
Nelson, Ed. McCarty. John Fields.
Eva Williams, £d. Erkman, Marlon
Bleeks, Alex Jordan, John Finney.
C. 8. Conger. J. E. Willis. Adam Lutz.
Chas. Meyers, Henry Gates, Jacob
Mauer, Geo. Speck and Son, C. W.
Seltz, Emanuel ffallenback. Wm. Hu-
■bele. Wm. Moser. A. E. Kuykendall.
Roy Stokes. B. W. Johnson. James T.
Garner. Albert B^amlett, Loren Boult-
tnghouse. Elgin Brltton, George
Brown. Joe Ridetiour, Dr. J. T. Legler.
Scott Furgerson,

HATS OFF TO PAST, COATS OFF FOR FUTURE,
IS SENTIMENT OF FRUIT MEN AT 1ST MILESTONE

Illinois Fruit Grower*' Exchange Hold* First Annual Member*Iup
Meeting at CentraKa. Point to Hiring of Sales Manager and
Adoption of Trade-Name a* Big AchievemenU.

The first annual membership
meeting of the Illinois Fruit Grow-
ers' Exchange is history.

On March 14,
35 men, most of
them members of
the Exchange,
met in Centralia.
Satisfaction over
the accomplish-
ments of the past
year, optimism
concerning the
future of the or-
ganization, good
leadership, clear
thinking on t h e

»,u^mS!!S^ pa" 0' the dele-
gates present, a
willingness to tackle common prob-
lems of marketing and financlQg,
and general good will marked the
entire session of the meeting. It
was business from start to finish.

I. D. Snedeker, president of the
Exchange since the organization re-
incorporated under the present
name on February 29, 1924, opened
the guns on the Growers' fruit and
vegetable marketing problems. He
first expressed the appreciation of
the board of directors for the co-
operation accorded them by the
member associations.

Made Important Step

"During the past fiscal year,"
said Mr. Snedeker, "we decided to
hire a sales manager whose purpose
it would be to get acquainted with
the members and also to boost the
products of Illinois. This will be
done in co-operation with the Fed-
erated Fruit and 'Vegetable Grow-
ers, Inc. J. O. Lawrence is the man
ve hired. We have also arranged
it so that our finances are handled
lirough our own association, and
we have the assurance from the Il-
linois Agricultural Association that
its transportation department will
give us their assistance in the hand-
ling of claims.

"There has been much branching
out last year. Much work has been
done. The prospects for the com-
ing year are even brighter, and we
cannot question the growth of the
co-operative movement."

A. B. Leeper, general manager of
the Exchange, in his report stated
it as his belief that the organization
stands aloBe among members of the
Federated in the matter of hiring
its own sales manager, at the same
time retaining full membership in
the national federation on a three-
year contract.

In commenting on Manager Leep-
er's report, Mr. Snedeker, chairman
of the meeting, said: "I feel great
confidence that our Illinois prod-
ucts will have a more and more re-
liable home market and that for-
eign copipetitlon will grow less."
Adopt Constitution

The entire constitution and by-
laws as framed by the Exchange at
the time of re-incorporatlon under
the new name and according to the
specifications of the Illinois Co-op-
erative Marketing Act a year ago,
was read in full. With a minor
amendment, it was adopted by un-
animous vote.

Elect Board of Directors

The first annual membership
meeting was attended by delegates
from 10 member fruit marketing
associations in southern Illinois

IROQUOIS ENROLLS
STRONG IN I. A. C. A,

To Iroquois county goes the hon-
or of having the largest number of
farmer co-operatives on the mem-
m Mg» bership list of the Illinois
I An Agricultural Co-operative:
^~" Association, farmers' co-op-
erative auditing and business advis-
ory service. They are the Buckley,
Leonard, Crescent City, Watseka,
Goodwine, Claytonvllle, Woodland,
and Cissna Park elevator compa-
nies; the Cissna Park Lumber Com-
pany; and the Iroquois County
Farm Bureau.

"This makes ten farmer co-oper-
atives for Iroquois county that are
members of the I. A. C. A.," says
R. F. Karr, executive committeeman
from the 18th district. "Who can
claim more?"

One hundred forty-six is the num-
ber of farmer co-operatives now
holding membership in the I. A.
C. A.

and five individual member-grow-
ers. The following were elected

I the b'oard of directors for the
coming year: W. L. Cope, Tontl;
L. O. Day, Olney; Willis Seward,
Quincy; Frank Lanter, Belleville:
J. A. Gage, Texico; N. W. Casper,

Jew Brunswick; L. N. Colp, Carter-
ville; H. O. Smith, Newton, and R.
B. Endicott, Villa Ridge.

LanTence Outlines Plans

J. O. Lawrence, who entered the
organization as sales manager on
March 1, 1925, outlined the gen-
eral plan of the work to be followed
by his department, stating that
quality of product would be
stressed in shipping all the produce
of the Exchange. The Exchange
trade-name, "Illini," was the sub-
ject of much favorable comment
and discussion. How to keep it
constantly before the public was
dwelt upon at length.

Pass Resolutions

Resolutions were adopted at the
meeting to memorialize the 54th
General Assembly to appropriate
sufficient funds to the Division of
Standardization and Markets, State
Department of Agriculture, as per
the requests of that Division for the
continuance and expansion of Its ac-
tivities. Another resolution was to
the effect that the gratitude of the
Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange b«
extended to the University of Illi-
nois, the I. A. A., the various farm
bureaus, and to other organizations
for assistance and moral support
during the re-organization of the
Exchange.

Re-elect Officers

In the directors' meeting which
followed the membership conclave,
the old officers were re-elected: I.
O. Snedeker, Jersejrville, president;
W. L. Cope, Tontl, vice-president;
and W. L. Parks, Patoka, secretary-
treasurer. Members of the new ex-
ecutive committee included the
same members as before: R. B. En-
dicott, L. O. Day, J. A. Gage, and
the officers ex officio. A committee
was then appointed consisting of
the chairman and one member of
the board, N. W. Casper, to repre-
sent the Growers at Springfield in
the fight before the Legislature for
appropriations to carry on State in-
spection of fruits and vegetables.
W. L. Cope is executive committee-
man for the Illinois Agricultural
Association from the 23rd CongMs-
sional district.

Baseball Fans Meet to Lay
Plans for Coming Season;
9 Districts for 25 Counties

Knock that pill for a two-bagger!

Balls — and words, too — will soon
be flying through space when Farm
Bureau folks will fight — county
with county — for honors in the Il-
linois Farm Bureau Baseball
League.

Twenty-five counties will be in-
cluded in the league, according to
G. E. Metzger, I. A. A. organization
director. G. R. Kline, Cass colinty,
i^ president of the league. The
counties are divided into eight dis-
tricts for the convenience of the
players in reaching the diamond
and getting back home.

At a meeting of officers held in
Peoria on March 16, where 12 farm
bureau counties were represented,
the committee on constitution and
by-laws gave a report, submitting
the re-written constitution. It was
provided that the directors of coun-
ty farm bureau leagues get together
to work out their own games.

Start Last of May
Festivities will begin about Me-
morial day and last until August
31.

According to the constitution,
which was adopted at the Peoria
meeting of the executive commit-
tee, membership in the Leagife is
limited to Illinois county farm bu-
reaus. Only certified farm bureau
members or farmers on farm bu-
reau farms are eligible to play in
the league games. The teams bear
each its owp expenses. Receipts
are to be evenly divided between
playing teams. The games are fi-
nanced through the sale of reserved
seats at each game.

FARM BUREAUS IN ^
ELEVEN DISTRICTS
HOLD CONFERENCES

Officers Meet With Executive
Coimnitteemen and I. A. A.
ReprtfMntatives to Talk Over
State and Local Problems

The I. A. A. legislative program,
including the Tice bill for re-coding
existing laws governing bovine tu-
berculosis eradication, the Cuth-
bertson gasoline tax bill, and the
proposal to amend the State Con-,
stitution as framed In 1870. to al-
low for needed revenue changes;,
the .grain marketing problem; co-
operative marketing of farm prod-
ucts; the seed corn situation; the
new co-operative poultry and egg
marketing plan — these and other
problems of local importance made
up the discussion in the farm bu-
reau district conferences held at
various places recently.

District meetings of farm bureau
officers and farm bureau advisers
have ao far been held in 11 Congres-
sional districts at the following,
places: 11th district. Wheaton. Du-
page county, Wm. Webb, Joltet, I.A.
A. executive committeeman; 12th dis-
trict. Aurora. Kane county, G. F. Tul-
lock, Rockford, executive committee-
man : 14th district, Bushnell, Mc-
Donough county, W. H. Moody. Port
Byron, executive committeeman; 15th
district. Galesburg. B. H. Taylor, Rap-
atee, executive committeeman.

Slxteentli district. Pekin. Tazewell
county, A. R. Wright. Varna, execu-
tive committeeman; 17th district.;
Bloom Ington. McLean county, F. D.
Barton, Cornell, executive committee-
man; 18th district. Danville. Vermil-
ion county. R. F. Karr, Iroquois, ex-
ecutive committeeman ; 19th district.
Mattoon. Coles county, J. L. Whis-
nand, Charleston, executive commit-
teeman; 21st district, Carllnvllle. Ma-
coupin county, Sam Sorrells, Ray-
mond, executive committeeman ; 22d
district. Belleville. St. Clair county.
Stanly Castle. Alton, executive com-
mitteeman; and 23rd district, Salem.
Marion county. W. L. Cope, Salem.
executive committeeman.

DEFENDS FARMERS IN
TELEPHONE HEARlNGSj

Three departments of the Illinois-
Agricultural Association recently!
represented farmers' interests in '
hearings on 14 applications before I
the Illinois Commerce Commission ?
relative to proposed telephone rate I
increases by companies suffering |
losses from the sleet storm during '
the winter. The finance, account- j
ing, and legal departments ap-'
peared before the commission in|
behalf of farmer patrons. I

FARM ADVISERS TO
ADDRESS FARM FOLKS

Tune in on your farm adviser in
April!

April 7 marks the first of the
farm advisers' radio talks over I
WLS, Chicago. J. W. Whisenand
Henry county, will start the ball
rolling at 12:30 on "Making al
falfa and sweet clover grow in Hen
ry county." At 8:40 P. M. the
same day he will speak on "Saving
live stock dollars in Henry coun
ty."

The special farm advisers' radio
program has been arranged by the
I. A. A. Other radio broadcasts
scheduled in this series for Aj>ril
are:

April 13. 12:J0 P. M.. A. A. Ol'sen.
"Warren County Farm Bur««u livo
stock shipping association." April
1«. 12:30 P. M.. J. H. Checkley, "When
farmers get together in Logan coun-
ty;" 8:40 P. M., "AccompUahmenls ofj
the. ILogan County Farm Bureau."
April 20. 12:30 P. M.. T. H. Roberts.
"Clean farms and high yields." April
21, 12:30 P. M., I. A. Madden, "Testing
seed corn for disease in Sangamon
county;" 8:40 P. M., "Essentials in
grain marketing as the farmer sees
it." April 27. 12:30 P. M., Dan G. Da-
vies, executive committeeman in place
of J. E. Watt, farm adviser, on "Com-
munlty happiness in Kane county.'
April 28, 12:30 P. M., W. A. Herring-
ton, "Our Stephenson County Farm
Bureau limestone project:" 8:40 P. M..
"Co-operative dairy marketing in
Stephenson county."

The farm advisers' program for
May will be announced in another
issue of the Recobd.

"The Tlce Bill was r«port«d
out favorably by the Agricul-
tural Committee with amend-
ment agreed npon and sixty-day
ret«8t on grade cattle made for
July 1, 1927," wired M. H.
Petersen from Springfield as
the RECORD went to press.

OBce employees of the Illinois Ag
rlcultural Association raised $302.5^
for the Grubstake Committee.

THREl
PRC

Ga* Ta
ment
Now

That
platform
sembly d
Stables 1
to bet y
tions of
legs wer
gas tax
do not ti
}oke in 1

Under
Master I
of the
bill tor
proceeds
county h
resolutio
the revei
stitution
the bun
wrapped
upon.'

C<

Groom
vice-pres
of the le
himself 1
tions of
while Jo
Htit3onv
the legis
riding I
quirk pr
eral Ass(
the real
three-leg
Bandage
stood ha
committ*
Gas T«

The C
bodies tl
tax, was
the Coi
April 1.
time of t
number
nents wi
Cuthbert
be had t
mittee o
tlon, the
mittee v
recommc
hearing

Beven

The L
the Gene
in sayin
and whi
I. A. A
Joyed a
also on
resolutio
lowing a
the past
tee repr
organiza
of most
of the II
elation.

John
ation an
was on
Quently
not forge
for an <
section <
make po
able dis
costs.

A 1

It is
reaching
in the i
because
bringing
raising :
are now
tlon ado
resolutic
House,
passed I
effective
(Cont

trch 28, 192S,

IS IN

TRICTS

4FERENCES

ith Executive
and I. A. A.
to Talk Over
1 Problem*

" IjVI'ri'v

CULiTUllAL- A

ILLINOIS FARMERS RESPOND NOBLY WITH CASH FOR NEIGHBORS

PROGRAM CONTINUES
ROMP INTO FAVOR

' Gat Tax and Revenue Amend-
ment Gain Ground; Tice Bill
Now Ready for House Vote

lative program. Volume 3

U for re-coding

ling bovine tu

on, the Cuth

i bill, and the

the State Con-. .

renue changes;.^ THREE-LEGGED LAW

g problem; co-
ot farm prod-
situation; the

oultry and egg

lese and other

iportance made

a the farm bu-

rences held at

itly.

of farm bureau

bureau advisers

i In 11 Congres-
the following,

, Wheaton. Du-

Febb. Joliet, I.A.

eeman ; 12th dls-

ounty, G. F. Tul-

jttve coramittee-

Bushnell, Mc-

H. Moody. Port

imitteeman; 15th

. H. Taylor. Rap-

Tiitteeman.
Pekln. Taiewell

it. Varna, execu-
17th district-,

n county. F. D.

utive committee-
Danville. Vermll-

irr. Iroquola. ex-

in; 19th district

Ity. J. L. Wlils-

cecutlve commit-

. Carllnvllle. Ma-

1 Sorrells. Ray-

nmitteeman; 22d

3t. Clair county.

. executive com-

1 district. Salem,
L. Cope. Salem

man.

Iwued Every Other Saturday For 63,000 thinking Farmers — April 11, 1925

No. 7

MERSIN
• HEARINGS!

ts of the Illinois •
iation recently

RSTO
\ASM FOLKS

the first of the
dio talks over I

start the ball
Dn "Making al-
'er grow in Hen-
1:40 P. M. the
leak on "Saving
in Henry coun-

advisers' radio
arranged by the
adio broadcasts
series for Aj)rll

M.. A. A. Olsen.
irm Bur«au livu
ociation." April

Checkley, "When
-" in Logan coun-
complishments of
Farm Bureau."
[,. T- H- Roberts.
eh yields-" April
Madden, "Testlne
Lse In Sangamon

. "Essentials in

the farmer sees
P- M.. Dan G- Da-
litteeman In place
idviser. on "Com-
Kane county."
W. A- Herring'
on County Farm
ojcct:" 8:40 P. M
r marketing in

program for
need In another

That three-legged legislative
platform entered in the General As-
sembly derby by the I. A. A. Racing
Stables is a good boss upon which
to bet your money. If the indica-
tions of April 1, when two of the
legs were up for examination (the
gas tax and revenue amendment)
do not turn out to be an April Fool
joke in keeping with that day.

Under the command of Stable
Master Frank D. Barton, chairman
of the legislative committee, the
bin for the two-cent gas tax with
proceeds to be used in place of
county highway taxes and the joint
resolution providing for amending
the revenue section of the state con-
stitution to permit a lessening of
the burden of farmers, was un-
wrapped for the legislators to look
uponj

Committee on the Job
Groom H. E. Goembel, I. A. A.
vice-president and also a member
of the legislative committee, busied
himself with bandages and applica-
tions of Farmer Brand Liniment
while Jockey A. C. Kveringham of
HutsoBviUe, the third member of
■s' interests in * the legislative trio, sandpapered his
)iications before I riding breeches and snapped his
rce Commission \ quirk preparing for the great Gen-
1 telephone rate eral Assembly Derby which will test
)anie8 suffering? the real strength of the I. A. A.'s
et storm during' three-legged legislative platform,
inance, account-; Baftdage Boys and Rubbing Doctors
epartments ap-! stood handy to help the legislative

commission in'f committee,
atrons. I Gas Tax Recommended to Pass
^_ * The Cuthbertson bill, which em-
bodies the I. A. A. stand on the gas
tax, was due for a hearing before
the Committee of Revenue on
-April I. Because of the limited
farm adviser in time of the committee and the large
number of proponents and oppo-
nents wishing to be heard. Senator
Cuthbertson asked that a hearing
trr TTTi.- A . be had before the Senate as a com-
^l-^y^'Jt^l'it'l mittee of the whole. Upon his mo-
tion, the bill was voted out of com-
mittee with the formality of the
recommendation that it pass. The
bearing is to l>e April 22.

Revenue Amendment in Favor

The Lantz resolution, which gives
the General Assembly broad powers
in saying who shall pay the taxes,
and which is the third leg of the
I. A. A. legislative platform, en-
joyed a rather one-sided hearing,
also on April 1. The text of this
resolution was decided upon fol-
lowing a series of meetings during
the past eight months of a commit-
tee representing nearly a score of
organizations- It has the support
of most of them with the exception
of the Illinois Manufacturers Asso-
ciation.

John C. Watson, director of tax-
ation add statistics for the I. A. A.,
was on this committee and conse-
quently the farmer's tax plight was
not forgotten. This resolution calls
for an amendment to the revenue
section of the constitution and will
make possible a much more equit-
able distribution of the whole tax
costs.

A Far-Reochlng Measure

It is considered the post far-
reaching of any measure proposed
in the state legislature this year
because it has the possibilities of
bringing Illinois' public money-
raising scheme up to date. Taxes
are now based on a state constitu-
tion adopted in 1870. If the Lantz
resolution passes both Senate and
House, it will then need to be
passed by popular vote to become
' effective.

(Continued on page 3, col. 3.)

1 was reported
the Agrlcnl-

with amend-
1 and gbctf-day
attle made for

wired M. H.
Springfield as
int to press.

i

)f the Illinois Ag

raised (302-61 ■
Committee-

"We All Look to I. A. A.
For Leadership," Says

New A. F. B. F. Secretary

"We look to the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association for leadership in
many things from ail parts of the
United States," said Frank Evans,
secretary of the American Farm
Bureau Federation since February,
in a talk to the I. A. A. executive
committee in Its meeting of April
3. Mr. Evans was invited over to
get acquainted. On Monday he vtas
also the guest at an office confer-
ence of directors and officers.

"However," Mr. Evans stated,
"there are good things in other
states from which you, too. can take
patterns."

Mr. Evans was formerly legal
counsel for the Utah Farm Bureau
Federation and was successful in
assisting with the establishment of
marketing organizations in that
state. His title with the American
Farm Bureau Federation Is "mar-
keting counsel," but he holds the
chair of secretary.

LAUNCH REINSURANCE
BODY FOR PROTECTION
OFALLFARMMUTUALS

Association of Mutual Insurance
Companie* and I. A. A.
Complete New Plan

A plan whereby local farm mu-
tual insurance companies can rein-
sure in a state company has been
worked out by representative lead-
ers of the farm mutual insurance
companies of the state and the In-
surance committee of the Illinois
Agricultural Association.

The Illinois Association of Mu-
tual Insurance Companies approved
the general proposal of a joint com-
mittee at its annual meeting at
Springfield, Feb. 10-11. Numerous
conferences have been held the past
six months considering various
phases of the problem until at the
April 3 meeting of the executive
committee, the plan as agreed upon
was ratified.

The principal object is to provide
means for local mutual Insurance
companies leveling out their risks
in such a way that all companies
will be protected.

Work of Joint Committee
A joint committee representing
the Illinois Association of Farm
Mutual Insurance Companies and
the Illinois Agricultural Association
worked out the definite plans for
launching the reinsurance company
which will function in accordance
with the general principles agreed
upon by the two associations. It
will be known as the Farmers Mu-
tual Reinsurance Company of Illi-
nois.

A teinporary board of directors
has been selected as follows: Wm.
B. McFarland, Hoopeston; Geo. F.
Tullock. I. A. A. executive commit-
teeman, Rockford; C. A. Asf>Iund.
president, Illinois Association of
Mutual Insurance Companies, Or-
ion; E. J. Carmody, Towanda; Ev-
erett H. Tripp, Belvidere; I. N.
Hosford, Hamilton; Otis Kercher,
farm adviser, Vermilion County
Farm Bureau, Danville; Frank
Troeckler, Mitchell and H. A. Cress,
HiUsboro.

Wm. B. McFarland was desig-
nated as secretary-manager and R.
A. Cowles, I. A. A. director of fi-
nance, as treasurer.

I. A. A. Financing Company

The I- A. A. will assist in pro-
moting the new company in much
the same way as the Illinois Agri-
cultural Co-operatives Associartion,
auditing and business advisory serv-
ice for co-ops, was launched and
(Continued on page 4. col. 5.)

FARM REUEF SUPPLY DEPOT

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FARM REUEF SUM
REACHES $103,732.17;
68 COUNTIES ACTIVE

Many Counties Over Quota;
Much Money Being Held Un-
til Drives are Completed

This is the supply depot at Batton, Franklin county, ftnly a feu: miles out
of the tornadoes path, where clothes, food, cooking utensils and the like have
been given out by the Illinois Farm Relief Committee. Several carloads of
things have gone through this depot, most of which has been from If'LS listeners.

Use of Radio on Farm
Doubles in One Year,
/. A. A. Survey Reveals

That radio is getting more
Mixi more ix>|.ti,ui uu the tariu
is shown by a snn'ey made by ^
the I. A. A. in co-operation with
county Farm Bnrean advisers.

A survey conducted by the
I. A. A. in March, 1924, showed
that there were over 20,000 re-
ceiving sets on farms in 73 Dli-
nois counties. A rough but con-
ser^'ative estimate just com-
pleted brings out the discovery
that radicbsets on nUnols farms
Just about doubled since the •
survey a year ago.

"While radio is mostly used
for entertaining," declare the
farm advisers, "it is proving of
great value by way of market
information and lectures on
farm subjects."

TORNADO SWIRLED
$1,338,000 OUT OF
FARMERS' POCKETS

Average Loss Per Farm Is $2,-
330 with luMiranee Dwincted;
Ultra Conservative Fjtimatf

Probe Judge Who

Threw Dairy Co-op

Into Bankruptcy

The dailies have been giving re-
ports of the progress of the special
congressional committee investigat-
ing the office and official conduct of
Federal Judge George W. English
of East St. Louis, for the purpose
of determining whether impeach-
ment proceedings 'should be insti-
tuted in Congress against Judge
English. Evidence of a bankruptcy
ring has been presented to the in-
vestigating committee in the form
of a report of investigators from
the department of justice.

This report indicates flagrant vio-
lations of the law in bankruptcy
proceedings in the Federal Court
at East St. Louis. One of the bank-
ruptcy proceedings which was basis
for severe criticism was the case
against the Illinois-Missouri Co-op-
erative Milk Producers Association.
A few dissatisfied producers with
small claims against the association
got into the hands of those associ-
ated with the bankruptcy ring, a
proceeding was filed, a receiver ap-
pointed with only a $2,000.00 bond
and the going business of the co-op-
erative was closed.

Beside the death blow to the
business and the loss of thousands
of dollars to the dairymen in the
district it cost the company over
120,000 to get the property of the
association back in the hands of the
Board ot Directors.

Six hundred and sixteen "cases"
of farms caught in the tornado
were recorded in a farm-to-farm
survey made by the Franklin. Jack-
son. White and WilUamson County
Farm Bureaus in their respective
counties and by mutual assistance
in Hamilton county, where ther^ is
no Farm Bureau. 'This county was
handicapped in many ways because
it bad no farm organization.

The total net loss by counties,
with collectable Insurance deducted,
was as follows: Franklin. $416.-
22g; Jackson, $224,850; Hamilton.
$221,726; and White, $475,196.
Only six farms were hit in William-
son county. The total farm loss in
the four counties was $1,338,000.
Collectable insurance amounted to
between 20 and 30 per cent. The
average loss per farm was $2,330-

This amount is regarded by the
farm advisers in these counties as
ultra conservative since the farm
canvass could in no accurate way
determine losses on the more in-
tangible properties.

The detailed figures for Jackson
county are illustrative of the rural
conditions in the other counties.
In this county. 107 farms were se-
riously damaged: 506 farm peo-
ple were affected; 23 killed and
104 injured. Ninety-two farm
houses, 29 barns and 91 sets of out
buildings were demolished com-
pletely. Fifty farms had sets of
farm implements totally destroyed-
Thirty-one cows, 26 horses and con-
siderable other live stock was
killed- A great number were in-
jured- Under a miscellaneous
classification, Jackson county also
had losses posted for entire fencing
systems, fruit bearing orchards,
silos and windmills.

Eight farms near Bentoh in
Franklin county were reported as
having no ' owners or relatives of
the owners available from whom
to get information.

"Our farmers are catherlng sup-
plies, such as plows, horses and other
needed farm materials, to help in the
cyclone district. We are planning to
conflne our help to Hamilton and
White counties- If you have any sug-
gestions please let us have them-" —
C. T. Hufford. Wayne County Farm
Bureau.

Farmers all over Illinois are re-
sponding nobly to the call sent out
by the Illinois Farm Relief Com-
mittee for funds with which the
farmers In Ihe tornado area can be
at least partially supplied with ma-
tPrial and equipment so vitally nec-
essary if they are to get back into
business again.

Tuesday morning April 7. the
total amount of money received by
R- A. Cowles, chairman of the com-
mittee representing farmers' ele-
vators, the Grange, farmers' insti-
tutes, insurance mutuals and the
farm papers, had risen to $10S.-
732-17. Sixty-eight counties had
reported some activity or turned in
funds. In some counties, the aw-
fulness of the tornado has not been
realized and the need of money for
permanent rehabilitation has not
been taken seriously. In others, lo-
cal agencies collected money for
emergency relief, which makes
money for permanent relief harder
to get.

Definite arrangements have been
completed whereby all funds placed
at the disposal of the Illinois Farm
Relltf Commitee will btr fcxi>^ndod
through the Red Cross- The money
win be ^en the Red Cross as
neededr*

.4 Humanitarian Project

Some objections have been raised
to the 1. A. A- and the Farm Bu-
reaus losing their identity In ad-
ministering the money, but those
in charge, after careful considera-
tion, point out that this is a hu-
manitarian project of all farm in-
terests in the state- Even if any one
agency, such as the I. A- A-, has the
personnel to actually make the
awards to the stricken families, the
Red Cross can do It much better
because of experience and trained
workers.

An executive committee baa been
appointed from the ranks of the
Illinois Farm Relief Committee
which Is actively supervising the
work. The executives appointed by
the whole committee are: B- S-
Crebs; Dean H- W. Mumford; EM-
gar L. Bill, director, WLS; E. A.
Eekert. master. Illinois State
Grange; R. A. Cowles, chairman;
R. K. Loomis and Curt Anderson.
1- A- A, executive committeemen.

Produce Not Wanted Now

Offers of all kinds of produce
such as seed com, poultry, setting
eggs and the like have been re-
ceived by Chairman Cowles, He
states that the best thing to do
where such things are offered is to
hold a public aytction or ship the
goods in a larg^ Tot where they can
be sold. The cash is much better
than the goo4s, Mr, Cowles states-
The Illinois Farm Relief Com-
mittee will furnish a man to ac-
company each Red Cross case work-
er when the farmers are visited to
make sure that practical farm
points are given the right consid-
eration before actual awards are
made. The farm bureau president,
farm adviser and one other farmer
will act as an advisory committee
in each of the tour counties where
awards will be made-
Following are the contributions
received by the Illinois Farm Re-
lief Committee by Wednesday, April
8:

Adams - I SOO.OS

Bond 1S1.SS

Boons l,4t».t$

Brown !•».••

Bureau »^T4.4»

Cass !.••

Champaign tS.M

M (Contlnyed on page t. col- t.)

Page 2

The Illinoii Agricultural A«»ociation Rtcoti

April 11. 192S

April :

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I IjLiINOIS

rCCXTVBAL ASSOCIA

-RECORD

Published every other Saturday by the Illinois Agricultural
Aasoclation. 60S South Dearborn Street. Chicaco, Illinois. Ed-
ited by Department of Information, H. C. Butcher, Dlrqctor.

Entered as second class matter Oct. 10. 1921. at the post office
at Chicago. Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1S7». Acceptance
for mailing at special rates of postage provided for In Section
1103. Act of October 3. 1917. authorized Oct. 31. IHI.

The Individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation is five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of
fifty cents for aupscrlption to the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation Recokd.

Postmaster: In returning an uncalled-for or missent copy,
please indicate key number on address as is required by law.

' • 1 1

OFFICERS

President, S. H. Thompson, Qnlncy.

Vice-President, H. E. (ioeinbel, Hooppole.

Treasurer, K. .\. Cowles, Bloontington.

Secretary, Gee. A. Fox, Sycamore.

Mor€ on the Caa Tax

^Remember the map we printed last timet
For fear you have forgotten some of its important
details, we are printing it again even if by so doing we
run contrary to journalistic etiquette.

The reason is that some very important changes have
taken place even since the last map was run. The gas
tax is sweeping the country even faster than the Child
I^abor amendment was defeated, and that 's saying a lot.

KXECCrnE CO.MJUTTEE

By ConKressional Districts

11th [ William Webb, Route One, Jotlet

12th ^ G. F. Tullocl<, Rockford

13th r C. . E. Bamborouoh.Polo

14th.
ISth.
leth.
17th.
18th.
1»th.

W. H. Moody, Port Byron

B. H. Taylor, Rapatee

A. R. Wright, Varna

F. D. Barton, Cornell

R. F. Karr, Iroquois

J. L. Whisnand, CharlSston

20th. V . . . . L Earl C. Smith, Datroit

21«t [ Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd SUnly Castle, Alton

23rd L W. L. Cope, Salem

24th '. Curt Anderson, Xenia

25th ► .R. K. Loomis, Mal«anda

Directors of Departments ,

I. A. A. Office I

General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kellcer^ Or-
ganization, G. E. Metzger; Information, H. C. Butcher; Trans,
portation, L. J. Quasey; Taxation and Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing, A. B.
Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, Wm. E. Hedgcock; Dairy
Marketing, A. O. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone. J. R. Bent;
In charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A. Gougler; special
rcpreaentative on Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H. Petersen;
Legal Counsel, Donald Kirkpatrick; Co-operative Accounting,
Geo. R. Wicker.

THE RECORD'S PLATFORM
Advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau teas orgaMixed,
naniely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic,
social and educational interests of the farmers of iUinois and the
nation, and to develop agriculture.

I

A Good Pi€e« of Work

One of the most significant pieces of work done for
the White and Jackson county farmers who were caught
in the tornado's fury was the neighborly pilgrimage of
farmers from Edwards, Wabash, St. Clair and Randolph
counties to clean up debris from the land homesites.

In White county, a strip nearly seven miles long of
the tornado's mile- wide path was covered by 1,400 good
farmers from Edwards and Wabash counties. These
men furnished their own cars and with their lunches
reported for work at the line of duty.

Boards, limbs, posts, barbed wire fence and the great
mass of scattered debris were picked up and hauled oflf.

After the fields were cleaned off, the visitors cleaned
up the building sites, tore apart what remained of barns
and homes, and piled the lumber so part of it could be
used again. Shade trees and orchards that werei de-
stroyed were sawed up and on many farms small build-
ings, such as sheds and bams, were put up. Some fence
was stretched to keep what live stoek was left from jrun-
ning on the crops. [

A report from F. A. Fisher and H. C. Gilkerson, farm
advisers in Wabash and Edwards counties, states that
at least 11,000 hours of work were put in which would
have cost at least $5,000. i

In Jackson county, men from St. Clair and Randolph
counties have been pulling a similar stunt with good
results.

The generalship of the pilgrimages came through the
Farm Bureaus. It is a fine illustration of the advan-
tages of farm orv^^nization.

Nmu* That h Good NewM

The news that Iroquois county has increased its mem-
bership 15 per cent in a renewal campaign that ia not
yet ended is certainly good news, although it wak ex-
pectad. This county now has 1,500 members. !

It is especially good news in view of the fact that
about 40 counties fall due for membership renewals this
year. It bears out the prediction that there will be a
general increase in membership when the 40 counties
have finished their renewal campaigns. The bettS- we
are organized, the better work we can do. 1

In Which We Tost a Bouquet to Ourtelvet

Here's a headline we picked up in the Wall Street
Journal of New York City:
Illinois Agricultural Association opens drive for ga« tax.

Not a bad kind of an organization when its activities
make news in New York City, is itf |

The four shade states in the map, Minnesota, Wis-
consin, Iowa and Missouri, were favorably inclined
toward a gas tax when this map was made a month ago.
(The states in white have a gas tax, the figures indicat-
ing the rate of tax in cents per gallon.) Great changes
have come about recently in these four states.

In Minnesota, the House of Representatives has passed
a two-cent gas tax bill by a vote of 105 to 6. In Wis-
consin, the two-cent gas tax bill has been enacted into
law. Iowa has passed a two-cent gas tax bill in both
houses and it will become effective as soon as minor dif-
ferences are ironed out in regard to distribution of the
funds. Missouri also enacted a two-cent gas tax.

Nebraska, a deathly black in this map, should now
be pure white for the state that William Jennings Brj-an
and his brother made famous now has a two-cent gas tax.
With Minnesota's House of Representatives feeling
over 17 to 1 in favor and Iowa as good as white, the
whole area west of the Mississippi will be white as a
fresh snowdrift before the next Record reaches yon.

There is favorable gas tax action east of the Missis-
sippi, too. Ohio, another black spot on our map, has
passed a gas tax bill in both its Senate and House, but
the Governor is against it and is expected to use his veto
power. However, best advices indicate that the Gov-
ernor's veto will be overridden.

Our own case here in Illinois is regarded with con-
siderable favor, regardless of the frantic shouts of the
motor clubs. Several gas tax bills had been introduced
at Springfield but all of them were added taxes and not
replacement taxes such as the I. A. A. stands for.

This first group of gas tax bills was knocked cold as
a door knob when the Governor's administration de-
clared that no more money was needed for the hard
road program at the present time. Reduction of taxes
is one of the big chores of the legislators and conse-
quently our bill is enjoying a favorable reception.

The Cuthbertson bill is the one covering the I. A. A. 's
stand. In it the proceeds are to be used in place of the
county highway taxes.

How much do you pay each year in county highway
taxes t The average quarter-section farm in the northern
two-thirds of Illinois must stand from $15 to $20 in
county taxes each year. City property is hit likewise.
The gas tax itself, when levied at the rate of two cents
a gallon, costs the average motorist $10.30 a year. This
figure was determined by the Bureau of Public Roads,
which is a part of the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
It includes Fords, Packards and all makes in all of the
35 states which used the gas tax system in 1924.

If you drive a car (your tractor, gas engine and such
are exempt under the Cuthbertson bill), subtract the
$10.30 average gas tax cost from your county highway
taxes. The difference is your saving. If you do not
drive a car, your saving is more. There is the big reason
why the I. A. A. is for the gas tax; it is because the
funds can be used to displace some of the present burden.

Heaviest Tax Falh on Farm»

Taxation based on property values tends to press more
heavily on farm owners than on any other taxpayers
because farm land yields a lower income in proportion to
its value than other land, the U. S. Department of Agri-
culture has found.

This is brought out in a study of taxation in three
counties in Indiana, in which the net earnings of differ-
ent classes of property are compared.

From a fanning: standpoint, Indiana and Illinois are
about as much alike as any two states in the Union.
Therefore the results of the Indiana survey apply very
weU. As a matter of fact, the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation has known this to be true in Illinois for some
time and ha^HSeen vigorously fighting to lower that
burden. / )

to the farmers of Illinois, members and non-members, of
some two million dollars. To re-state that saving in an-
other way would be: a tax saving averaging $8.04 per
farm per year. In some counties it is a great deal more ;
others less.

This fight is being continued in our present state legis-
lative program. The two-cent gas tax, the proceeds • •
from which are to go in place of county highway taxes,
means a reduction of taxes on real property. If it did
not, the I. A. A. would not stand for it. This is another
means of reducing taxes on real property.

Another plank in our legislative program calls for an
amendment to the revenue section of the State Consti-
tution to permit a more equitable distribution of the
tax burden. The form of this amendment must first be
approved by the General Assembly and then submitted
to the voters for approval.

Bringing the Farmers' Side to Bear

Another benefit of farmers being organized is shown
in the report of the Illinois Educational Commission re-
cently filed with the General Assembly at Springfield.

It will be remembered that the I. A. A. went to con-
siderable trouble to find the truth about the farmers'
school problem in order that we might present a clear
picture to the Illinois Educational Commission which
was making a comprehensive study of the whole cata-
log of school problems. The Commission asked the
Illinois Agricultural Association, as the representative of
63,000 thinking organized farmers, to give the farmers'
side of the story. This was done by means of the survey
conducted last summer.

Now the Commission reports its findings to the Gen-
eral Assembly. Here is one of the significant para-
graphs in it :

"Farmers pay more for the high school education of cation c

their children and get less than any other class of citi-
zens in IUinois."

Any action taken by the legislators will be influenced
by this report.

If it had not been that organized agriculture was
on the job to bring the real facts before the right people,
few would have known anything of the farmers' school
problem — and it probably wouldn 't have done any good

if they had. ■

F

basis tt
flock mi
conflden
eventual
flocks w
is stan<
watchwc
For n
organlza
the prob
marketli
an orgai
summer.
County 1
tion. Tl
15 memi

1. Ea.
oughly <
the worl
standpoi
but also

2. Th
white
blood ai

r. B. Work Does Not Stop

According to several resolutions that have come into
the I. A. A. office lately, it appears that many people
think the I. A. A. is quitting its activities in pushing
the campaign to eradicate bovine tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis eradication promotion has been a special
project of the association for some time and it will con-
tinue to be given as much time and energy as is needed.
A great deal of good work has been done as is shown '
by the fact that Illinois is leading in the nation-wide ]
clean-up campaign. I

The executive committee, however, feels that under I
the present conditions this work can be carried on by '
two regular departments. Consequently they have \
turned over the ribbons to the dairy ^and live stock mar- i
keting departments. |

If experience proves that the program cannot be |
handled in this manner and that it is necessary to have ;
a man especially assigned to this work, the executive t
committee will no doubt be disposed to change back to '
the special project means of handling it. '

Midweat Radio Community Club Meet* April IS

That the spacious and intangible galleries of the Mid-
west Radio Community Club will be packed for the
club's first big meeting is shown by the response to the
first announcement of the event made in the last Record.

There is splendid reason for a packed house, if that
be possible to say about a radio event, for former Gov-
ernor Lowden will speak on "Co-operative Marketing"
and this is a subject of tremendous interest to farm folks,
especially when presented by this speaker. It is not
often that farmers get a chance to hear Mr. Lowden,
even over the radio. Presidents of the state farm bu-
reaus of Michigan, Indiana, and Iowa, as well as our
own, and other notables in the agricultural field, will
take part.

The date was first set for April 24, Mr. Lowden hav-
ing agreed to it when written while on a vacation trip in
Arizona. During his vacation, however, fire destroyed
the building in which he kept his records. When he re-
turned to Oregon, 111., everything was in a muddle. In
the jam, he found himself scheduled for a meeting in
Washington, D. C. on April 23. Consequently he can-
not be in Chicago on the 24th, but he will on the 15th.
This is Wednesday evening and the date for which the
program is now set.

Many local community clubs have made arrange-
ments to hold a meeting especially for the radio pro-
gram, but of course these will have to be changed to

April 15. Local radio dealers are in most cases fovind „-

willing to supply powerful radio receivers for this occa- ^'y* <«

sion. Where community clubs are not meeting, farmers "*""

who have radios are urged to invite their neighbors over
for the evening.

3. Th(
averagin
hatched
holding
Is valuec
erty of
known
vent the
the hat
cripples

4. Thi
baby cbi
these
through
try supp
will be
and it
commen
become
tion If tl
sufflclem
volume
prise.

All eg
back to t
came,
pectancy
consigni
at abou
sent off
stock Is

The h
farm bu
on Febi
ment of
hatchinf
member
000 egg
leaves a
the men
hired to
care of i
until de

Paris '

No mi
Parts
brought

dellvere
laid. N<
space ii
rate of

ril 11. 192S

i-members, of
saving in an-
ing $8.04 per
at deal more ;

nt state legis-
the proceeds
ighway taxes,
ty. If it did
his is another

a calls for an
State Consti-
)ution of the
must first be
len submitted

Bear

ized is shown
ommission re-
Springfield,
went to con-
the farmers*
resent a clear
ciission which
e whole cata-
)n asked the
resentative of
the farmers'
of the survey

s to the Gten-
lificant para-
education of
class of citi-

be influenced ^j.

riculture was
i right people,
irmers' school
lone any good

ive come into
many people

;s in pushing

losis.

}een a special

id it will con-
as is needed.

; as is shown

e nation-wide

s that under
airried on by
y they have
ve stock mar-
in cannot be
issary to have
the executive
lange back to
t.

tt» April IS

;s of the Mid-
icked for the
?spolise to the
e last Record.
house, if that
r former Gk)v-
e Marketing"

to farm folks,
Br. It is not

Mr. Lowden,
tate farm bu-
s well as our
iral field, will

, Lowden hav-
acation trip in
fire destroyed

When he re-
a muddle. In

a meeting in
lently he can-
H on the 15th.
for which the

lade arrange-
the radio pro-
be changed to
St cases found
I for this occa-
icting, farmers
neighbors over

April 11, IWS

CO-OP HATCHERY IN
EDGAR COUNTY WORKS,
THE MEMBERS DECLARE

The Ofinoi* Agncultiirml Aaaodation Record

Egg* PaM Through Farm BureMi
liic«d>ator; Baby Chicks Go
Back to Home Farm Brooder

Over in Edgar county, Illinois,
the first county in the state to be
placed under federal accreditation
as free from bovine tuberculosis,
farm bureau members have estab-
lished what is believed to be the
first and only co-operative egg
hatchery in the United States.

In Paris, the county seat, is the
office of Enos Waters, farm adviser,
and the hatchery is located in the
basement of the ofBce. System and
efficiency was the first thing that
struck us as we dropped into the
dug-out. The egg hatchery filled
one room. One hundred eighty
eggs to an incubator, 10 rows of
incubators to the row, two-deep,
and three tiers straight up and
down.

Edgw County Strong In Poultry
The poultry business is one of the
big farming activities in Edgar
county, lining up favorably in value
with the county's hog industry.
But, as in every other county, white
diarrhea has made its inroads on
the flocks. Much progress, how-
ever, has been made in stamping
out the disease through the appli-
cation of the blood test, on which
basis the flocks are culled. And
flock masters in Edgar county are
confident that the disease will
eventually check out, at least in
flocks where good care of henneries
is standard, and cleanliness the
watchword.

For many years the need of an
organization was felt through which
the problems of poultry raising and
marketing could be solved. Such
an organization was perfected last
summer, calling itself the Edgar
County Poultry Marketing Associa-
tion. The program laid out by the
16 members is as follows:

1. Each member's flock is thor-
oughly culled by a man trained in
the work to cull, not only from the
standpoint of breed characteristics,
but also from that of production.

2. The flocks are first tested for
white diarrhea, using both the
blood and the intradermal tests.

Holds 10,800 Eggs

3. The eggs from those fiocks —
averaging 500 to 1,000 — are
hatched in the mammoth incubator
holding 10,800 eggs. The hatchery
is valued at }2,200 and is the prop-
erty of the organization. Every
known precaution is taken to pre-
vent the spread of any disease in
the hatching process. Hatched
cripples are cast out.

4. The excess breeding stock,
baby chicks and hatching eggs from
these fiocks will be marketed
through the organization. All poul-
try supplies needed by its members
will be purchased co-operatively
and it is hoped that the selling of
commercial eggs and poultry may
become a function of the organiza-
tion if the membership is increased
sufficiently .to give the necessary
volume to this part of -the enter-
prise.

All eggs hatching out perfect go
back to the flocks from whence they
came. In normal seasons the ex-
pectancy of matured pullets in a
consignment of 1,000 eggs Is placed
at about 250, the cockerels being
sent off to market. Only purebred
stock is eligible.

The hatchery was installed in the
farm bureau office in January and
on February 1, the first consign-
ment of eggs was received, these
hatching out by February 23. The
members hope to take care of 60,-
000 eggs during the season. This
leaves an average of 4,000 eggs to
the member. A manager has been
hired to spend all his time on the
care of the hatchery and the chicks
until delivered to the owners.

Paris C)onvenlent to All Members

No member is over 24 miles from
Paris and so all the eggs are
brought in by car. A limit of 10
days is set in which eggs must be
delivered at the office after being
laid. Non-members desiring unused
space in the hatchery pay at the
rate of four cents an egg.

Preferred stock amounting to
)5,000 is provided for, on which
six per cent interest is allowed.
Profits accruing in addition are to
be prorated out to members and
others according to patronage.

Co-op Hatchery Stands Alone
Adviser Waters declares that the
hatchery is the only co-operative
one In the state and that it is
booked for success, as indications
already point. The association
hopes to grow in membership and
in volume of business, as the hatch-
ery is to be enlarged when more
space can be provided. Eventually
it is hoped, a separate building will
be erected to house several units
of hatcheries. Officers of the Ed-
gar County Poultry Marketing As-
sociation, which controls the incu-
bator proposition, are: James Scott,
president and manager; C. R. Bo-
land, Secretary-treasurer; and Clin-
ton Delap, Fred Gumm and Harlan
See, directors.

Pages

LA.C.A. NUIMBERS

30,000 MEMBERS

At the beginning of the year,
membership in the Illinois Agricul-
tural Co-operatives Association,
J ^^ farmers' co-operative au-
I Sll diting and business advis-
*"" ory service agency, num-
bered 117. After slightly more
than three months, this figure has
jumped to 160, according to Ver-
non Vaniman, field organizer. .

The last four co-ops to join the
ranks are the Will County Farm
Bureau, Joliet; the Stephenson
County Farm Bureau, Freeport;
the Pearl City Farmers' Graifl and
Coal Company; and the Pearl City
Farmers' Co-operative Mercantile
Company.

"This is the first instance," says
Geo. R. Wicker, the manager,
"where a co-operative store has
joined our ranks, and now we have
every kind of farmers' co-operative
concern in our organization. The
total membership now numbers
30.000 farmers."

Here the eggs — thousands of them — get their airing every day;

MANY COUNTIES JUMP
FARM REUEF QUOTA

(Continued from page 1.)

nark % 95.00

Clinton 800.00

Cook 259.50

DeKalb 20.00

DeWitt 5?9.5»

DuPagre 2.455.S4

Edwards r 1.555.00

Effingham 500.00

Ford , 2.000.00

Gallatin S38.24

Greene 126.00

Grundy 2.8S7.19

Hanrock 2,500,00

Henderson 225.00

Henry .....' 5.00

Jefferson 287,35

Jersey 145.73

Jo Daviess 1.310.42

Johnson 131.50

Kane 3.041.14

Kankakee 3.215.30

Kendall 2.894.05

Lake 2.100.00

LaSalle 2.984.90

Lawrence 2,800.00

Lee 3,107.58

Livingston 1.811.52

Macon 329.54

Madison 1.650.00

Marion ^ 179.10

Marshall-Putnam 574.50

McDonough 562.50

McHenry 597 55

McLean 2,213.22

Menard 689.50

Mercer 503.20

Monroe 24.50

Ogle 2.784.76

Piatt 52.50

Pike 833.50

Randolph 1.00

Richland 2.622.47

Sangamon 3.000.00

Scott 853.10

Shelby 1.222.39

Stark 193.00

Stephenson 1.700.00

Tazewell 1.708.45

Warren 1,854.89

Whiteside 3.562.81

Will 1,946.40

Winnebago 1.000.00

Woodford 4,205.66

Sears-Roebuck 25.000.00

Chicago Drovers Jour 115.90

Porter Co., Ind 5.00

Ill-Mo. Dairy Coop. Assn 17.00

Prairie Farmer 1.205.45

Strauss Bros 160.00

Hoyleton Chamber of Com... 50.00
Misc 17.00

J103.732.l-

The following communications have
been received from counties which
report activity in the drive but which
have not yet sent in funds collected.

"Peoria county grub stake relief
fund now totals $3,289.56. Late re-
ports will probably increase this to
thlrty-flve hundred. Radio certainly
has been large factor In successful
drive in this county." — Wilfred Shaw,
farm adviser, Peoria county.

"At the regular monthly meeting
of our executive committee Friday
night. April 3rd. plans were worked
out to canyasfl the entire county in
behalf of the Relief Fund. A team
captain was selected for each of the
ten townships and each captain will
appoint jfr«m three to five men to
assist hlBi. in making sure no farmer
misses a trance to contribute.

"X believe I am safe in predicting
that Crawford County will exceed
her quota. This coming week wtH be
devoted to thorough preparation and
publicity, the following week will be
spent in solicitation." — Henry F.
Crosby, farm adviser.

"We are working on the grubstake
fund and while the response so far
as we have gone is splendid we, are
not in a position to say how much
money Iroquois county will raisd but
we are optimistic in believing that
we will raise our $2,000. In view of
the fact that other organizations
have made solicitations in a number
of communities this worlc is a little
slow. We have about $400 raised
now and we believe our efforts are
just getting under way." — L. W. Wise,
farm adviser. Iroquois county.

"We have been greatly hampered
in getting the accurate survey com-
pleted owing to the fact that good
men were not available. We are now
compiling the last of the figures and
hope to be able to send you results
tomorrow." — C. J. Thomas, farm ad-
viser, Jackson county.

"We have raised $2,809 here and
sent to the Red Cross at Chicago to
help the unfortunate people who suf-
fered losses and injuries in the cy-
clone. If. after we look the situation
over, we find that we should raise
more money for this purpose, we will
do so." — O. M. McGhee, farm adviser.
Massac county.

'"Moultrie County Farm Bureau has
over fifteen hundred dollars for the
tornado relief fund and Is still go-
ing."— C. C. Turner, farm adviser,
Moultrie county.

The St. Clair County Farm Bureau
is working, according to B. W. Till-
man, adviser.

"Henry county has $264.10 on hand
for the farm relief committee and
there is more than that in the county
that has not been turned in yet.
Tuesday is election day and we ex-
pect to-«et In touch with more people
then." says J. W. Whisenand, farm
adviser..

LAW PLATFORM IN

CONTINUED FAVOR

(Continued from pagre 1.)
The Tice bill, over which legisla-
tors wete treated to first class dairy
arguments as was reported in the
last Record was advanced to third
reading on April 1. The stage is all
set for it to pass. It was amended
considerably in committee, but
mostly to change minor details of
phraseology. One amendment of
importance, however, does not make
the requirement for retests on
grade cattle to become effective un-
til July 1, 1927. Retests on pure-
bred cattle are required when the
bill becomes effective July 1, 1925.
Retests on all cattle will be re-
quired when 75 per cent of the
herds in a county are signed up for
the t. b. test. Retests are also re-

quired in modified accredited coun-
ties. A general recodification of
the old, jumbled laws is also re-
quired, as well as tagging and
branding reactors. The sale of se-
rum is placed under the control of
the state department of agricul-
ture. All herds must l>e tested
when 75 per cent of the herds of a
county have been signed up for
testing.

Need (S.OOO.OOO

Unless sufficient money is pro-
vided for carrying on the campaign
of tuberculosis eradication, this bill
will lose much of its effectiveness.
Senator Barr has introduced a bill
for a three million dollar appropria-
tion tor the two-year period which
is needed badly as a companion
measure to the Tice bill. Senators
and representatives, and even the
Governor, should be acquainted
with the way farmers feel about
this appropriation if it goes through
without being pared down. The
legislative committee urges that
farm bureau members write their
senators and representatives on ail
three of the I. A. A. bills.

The I. A. A. also favors a biH in-
troduced by Representative -Mc-
Carthy of Kane county, which re-
quires milk dealers to be licensed
and bonded for the protection of
dairymen who seli them milk.

PROMISES NEW DAY

IN EGG MARKETING
i I AS PLANS RIPEN

LA.A. Poultry and Egg Market-
ing Director Now Ready to
Project the Proposition

A movement is on foot which it
is hoped will do much to improve
the present system of egg produc-
tion and marketing throughout Illi-
nois.

The I. A. A. poultry and egg mar-
keting department is ready with a
plan which F. A. Gougler, director,
will project to Farm Bureaus
throughout the state. Gougler has
been working for a considerable
time on a plan which would prove
feasible and now be has one that
will meet all needs. Here it is:

The state will be divided up into
shipping districts about the size of
the average county. Where pos-
sible, each district will be deter-
mined by the location of good roads
surrounding it. The district also
will be limited in area to include,
on the average, from 15 to 20 "as-
sembling points" — where eggs are
to be delivered by farmers, and
from where a "district truck" will
gather the cases to haul to central
shipping points.

In each of the communities or
assembling points, a man and wom-
an are to be chosen by the local
farm bureau in the district. The
20 or 30 people thus selected will
meet weekly or semi-monthly for
discussing the outline as planned
by Gougler, and each meeting will
include a discussion on a well-de-
fined project, previously reviewed
and studied by all the parties con-
cerned. These discussions, as sug-
gested by Gougler, will be pursued
in somewhat the following order:
(1) Outline for studying egg
grades; (2) egg packages and pack-
ing eggs; (3) fattening and mar-
keting poultry; (4) including bat-
tery feeding of live poultry; (5)
meeting quality demands by the
producers (eggs and poultry); (6)
important points to know about the
proposed marketing plan for Illi-
nois; (7) collecting poultry infor-
mation from respective communi-
ties; (8) financing a poultry and
egg marketing project; (9) legal
aspects of marketing; (10) history
of co-operatiVe poultry and egg
marketing and of agricultural edu-
cation; (11) cold storage facil-
ities; (12) accounting systems;

(13) transportation problems; and

(14) federating district problems.
This' makes 14 discussObns in all,
and the<.arrangement may be shift-
ed to suit individual districts.

These "schools" will be held with
the assistance of the farm adviser.
When called upon, Gougler will be
available to explain the entire plan.
There are a goodly number of ref-
erences bearing on the discussions,
as prepared by the director. What-
ever texts are to l>e used, will be
held by the Farm Bureau office.
Pamphlets and bulletins will be
made available to each person in
the discussion.

LOWDEN'S SPEAKING
DATES MUDDLED IN
nRE CAUSES CHANGE

Many Local Community Clubs
Report Meeting* to Be Held
to Receive WLS Program

The first meeting of the Midwest
Radio Community Club will be held
Wednesday, April 15 rather than
April 24, as an-
nounced in the
last REroBD.

This change
was found neces-
sary because for-
m e r Governor
Lowden. the
principal speaker
of the^ evening,
got his dates
mixed due to a
fire on his farm
near Oregon, III.,
which destroyed a
PraBk O. Lonilra large part Of his
records. He has found that he will
have to be in Washington. D. C. on
April 23 and of course cannot gel
back to Cbicaco to take part in a
program April 24. Consequently,
the date has been shifted to April
15. the time being the same as be-
fore, 7:30 to 9:30.

No doubt this change will cause
considerable shifting with commu-
nity clubs since many have signi-
fied their intention of holding a
meeting that night with a powerful
radio receiver tuned on WLS to
furnish the entertaintnent. Radio
dealers have been found willing to
loan good receiving sets for the
event to many community clubs
which do not have radios of their
own.

Invite Your XeiKtibor Over
Those farmers who own radios
and who will not be taking part in
a community meeting that night
are urged to invite their neighbors
over for the evening.

An addition to the program has
been made since announced last
time. It is Frank Evans, the new
marketing counsel of the American
Farm Bureau Federation who real-
ly functions as secretary but pre-
fers the other title.

Farmers and others in Illinois'
sister states — Michigan, Indiana
and Iowa will also be in attendance
when the first program of the Mid-
west~Radi« Community Club comes
on the alrij^pril 15. The program
is being announced in farm and
daily papers in these states.

An attempt to lead community
singing over the radio will be made
which is thought to be the first time
ever tried. J. H. Checkley. farm
adviser in Logan county, is the
leader. .

The program follows:

Tlie Tm-o-How Prograai

Singing of "America." Community
sineing; led by J. H. Checkley, Logan
county farm adviser.

Opening of meeting by Sam H.
Thompson, president of the Illinois
Agricultural Association. Greeting to
Illinois and Midwest farmers.

Treasurer's report on standing of
I. A. A, by R. A. Cowleft. treasurer of
the Illinois Agricultural Asaociatlon.

Secretary's report on progress of
I. A. A. work for farmers of Illinois.
— By (Jeo. A. Fox.

Kane County Farm Bureau Quartet.

(Greeting to farmers of Michigan
from M. U .\«on. president of Michl-
pan Farm Hureau Federation.

"Greeting lo farmers of Indiana from
Wm. H. Settle, president. Indiana
Farm Bureau Federation.

•Jreetinir to farmers of Iowa from
Charles E. Hearst, president. Iowa
Farm Bureau Federation.

Mes^ge from Arthur C. Page. «dl-
tor of Orange Judd ILLINOIS FARM-
KR.

Message frcm C. V. Gregory, editor
of PRAIRIE FARMER.

How-I>o-You-Do song on speakers
by Ford an.- Glen.

Introdu .on of former Governor
Ix>wden by President Thompson.

Kane County Farm Bureau Quar-
tet.

Address by Ex-Governor Leirden
on "Co-operative Marketing." Talk '
to last SO-40 minutes.

t^ommunity singing — "Star Si>angled
Banner."

LISTEN' IX!

WLS: April II, 12:J(I P. M. A. A.
Olsen. "Warren County Farm Bureau
live stock shipping association."
April 14. 12:J0 P. M. J. H. Checkley.
"When farmers get together In Logan
county;" 8:40 P. M.. "Accomplishments
of the Ixigan County Farm Bureau."
April 20. 12:30 P. M.. T. H KoberU.
"Clean farms and high yields." April
21. 12:S0 P. M.. I. A. Madden. "Testing
sesd corn for tSisease in Sangamon
county:" 8:40 P. M.. "Basentials In
grain marketing as the fanner aeea
it " May 8. 8:><i P. M.. R. F. Karr.
iroquois. execirtive .-'immitteeman for
I8th district; "The farmer's niche."

Boys and girls club work has been
made a major project In the Adams
County Farm Bureau program (or
1>2S. The goal Is at least IM mem-
bers.

dk

Page 4

Hm Ofinoi* Agiicultnral AaaocSatioB Reeoiid

Apia 11, 192S

FARMERS' ELEVATORS
ARE THE RIGHT BASIS
FOR CO-OP MARKETING

I.A.A. Vioe-Pre*idMit TeU* Why
IDinoU Should Have Grain
Marketiaflr Axociat

H. E. GarmbrI

I on

H. E. Go«mbel of Hooppole, I. A.
A. vice-president and chairman of
the prain committee, recently ad-
dressed WLS lis-
teners on the
subject. "What
do the farmers of
Illinois want in
^^^.„^^ grain market-

"Our commit-
tee," said Mr.
Goembcl, "has
been meeting
with other
groups of grain
men. and in par-
ticular, the offi-
cers of the Farm-
ers" Grain Dealers' Association of
Illinois and also representatives of
the American Wheat Growers in
Montana, North and South Dakota,
and the Indiana Wheat Pool, study-
ing their successes and failures so
that we may formulate a plan that
is workable and will meet the needs
of grain marketing in Illinois. The
Farmers' Grain Dealers' Association
of Illinois and its member elevators
deserve great credit for their good
work in the co-operative marketing
of grain.

"There are a few fundamental
principles to which we all agree,"
said Mr. Goembel. "First, we be-
lieve that the farmers' elevator is
the unit around which to build any
grain marketing program in Illi-
nois. Second, that there should be
formed a selling agency owned and
controlled by member elevators.
Third, that the central selling agen-
cy be fle.\ible in its set-up, so that
it can handle grain for the different
state groups, either by pool or on
consignment, or as a commission
bouse for direct sale."

"Reduce Taxes With

Gas Tax," Is Cry

At District Meets

District conferences throughout
the state are lining up with the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association in its
efforts to secure favorable action
by the legislature on the three-leg-
ged law program of the I. A. A.

This platform, subscribed to by
the county Farm Bureaus through-
out the state, contains the follow-
ing planks: (1) The Tlce bill for
re-coding existing laws governing
the eradication of bovine tubercu-
losis; (2) the Cuthbertson gasoline
tax bill to replace the present coun-
ty highway tax and make for bet-
ter farm-to-market roads in all the
counties; and (3) the Lantz reso-
lution to amend the state constitu-
tion to allow for changes in the
revenue laws providing for a more
equitable distribu4^ion of the tax
burden.

The grain marketing plan of the
I. A. A., relief for the farm sufferers
in southern Illinois, and the police
bill also came up for discussion in
several meetings. The gas tax, how-
ever, occupied the center of inter-
est.

Those representing the I. A. A.
in four of the district meetings held
recently were President S. H-
Thompson, Quincy; J. C. Watson,
director of taxation and statistics;
J. R. Bent, phosphate-limestone di-
rector; F. A. Gougler, poultry and
egg marketing director; .Geo. A.
Pox, executive secretary; L. J. Qua-
sey, transportation director; Geo.
R. Wicker, co-operative accounting
director and Donald Kirkpatrick,
legal counsel. i

President Thompson, spanking at
the 15th district meeting at Gales-
burg, in commenting on the gas tax
bill declared that motorists who are
benefited by the good roads should
take part in paying for their con-
struction aind upkeep. He pointed
out the many advantages of the
road system to the farmer and to
communities as veil and declared
that if this measure is not passed
now it will be, in some other form,
within the next two years. Forty-
one states already have the gaso-
line tax, the speaker declared, and
stated that while many motorists
are opposefl to the bill they would

turn around and support it if they
would make a thorough study of the
proposition and consider that in the
long run they coul4 save money, on
the upkeep of their cars and in
many other ways, through the use
of good roads.

Favors State Police Bill

President Thompson also stated
that he favored the state police
proposition for the reason that the
time has come when the people of
Illinois need more police protection
for the prevention of crime. Crim-
inals do not flourish in states where
police operate, the speaker de-
clared. He stated that a number of
counties turned down the police bill
because they did not really realize
that more protection is needed.

The following were present at the
Kth Congressional district meeting
held at Pekin, March 25:

Ta>«well eovMtrt Ralph E. Arnett.
farm adviser; Wm. Freitaff. O. J. Som-
mer. Chester Peake, A. A. Slpfle. John
Strlckfaden, J. H. Yentes. Joseph
Morris. W. F. Donnelly. S. B. Roth.
L. R. Welk. W. P. Wurmnest, E. L.
l*ug, Gilbert Tounfe, Irvins Welael.
Clarence Damsell.

Peeria roaatyt Wilfred Shaw, farm
adviser; C. R. Fordl w. H. Coultas,
Albert Hayes. Alva Scott. T. H. Was-
son. Charles Gordon.

Bareaa coojitn W. W. Wilson, farm
adviser: Otto Wisenhuger, J. A. Ran-
som, Wilbur Orland, S. S. Hussey, D.
G. Rcder. W. R. Soverhlll. D. W.
Smith. J. A. Habercorn.

Mankall-Pataami F. B. Fuller, farm
adviser: Harold Wright. A.R.Wright.

E. H. Riley, Wm. Drake.

Sfark rovatrt E. E. Brown, farm
adviser: J. I. Colgan. R. H. Jackson.
O. L. Hatch.

Those present at the 17th Con-
gressional district meeting held at
Bloomington, March 26, include:

MeLeaa eouatrt Harrison Fahrn-
kOpf. farm adviser; John Kiaalnget.
J. J. Schweizer, J. C. Nafzlger and
W. E Tenney.

IVoodCard coaatn H. A. DeWerfT.
farm adviser: F. L. Jones. L. M.
Powell. J. I. Powell and J. E. Rocke.

Losaa coaatyt J. H. Checkley, farm
adviser, and D. E. Shepler.

l*lviaaa(oa ooaatyt G. F. Bennett
and F. D. Barton.

Ford caaatyi G. T. Swaim, farm
adviser.

At the 18th district meeting at
Danville, March 27, the following
were present:

Venallloa eoaatrt Otis Kercher.
farm adviser; J. A. Teenan. James
StallinKs. C. P. Weatfall, A. C. Drall.

F. L. Terry, D. W. L.enhart. J. L.
Brown. C. F. Flnley, James Hart, W.
H: Morris. J. W. Johnston. W. B. Mc-
ParlaJnd. C. G. Juvinall. and C. B.
Crawford.

Ir*«aola eaaatri L. W. Wise, farm
adviser: R. F. Karr, F. W. Schroder.
K. W. Sasa.

Caatberlaad eoaatyt E. A. Whalin,
farm adviser.

Clark eoaatyi W. W. Merrltt. farm
adviser: J. Q. Sne4eker. and T. R.
Lovett.

Other district meetings taking
place this week occurred at Albion,
Edwards county, April 9, Curt An-
derson, executive committeeman for
the 25th Congressional district;
Anna, Union county, April 10, R.
K. Loomis, Maknjlfl, executive
committeeman for the 25th district;
and Jacksonville, Morgan county,
April 10, E. C. Smith, Detroit, ex-
ecutive committeeman for the 20th
district. The date and place for the
13th district farm bureau officers
to meet have not yet been deter-
mined.

April 23 marks the beginning of
the second round of district meet-
ings, when farm bureaus of the 21st
district, Samuel Sorrells, Raymond,
executive committeeman, will meet
at Hillsboro, Montgomery county.

Kane County Features
Community Clubs For
Home Entertainment

Coininiinitf Clnbs ar^ Kane
county's strength. There are
14 of them — in a county of 16
townslilps — and they are
strong In farm bureau mem-
bership, too. They are from 2
to 22 years old. The largest
club has 110 members.

W. C. .McQueen, Elgin, presi-
dent of Kane County Farm
Biuvan, Is proud of the coun-
ty's record. Here's the list:
Big Rock Community Club,
Town Line Farmers' Club,
Twentieth Century Farmers'
Club, Sugar Grove Farmers'
Club, West Aurora Farmer.s*
Club, Church Road Oommunity
Club, Bald Mound Conununity
Club, Geneva-Batavia Commu-
nity Club, La Fox Conmiunity
Club, Wasco Community Club,
Lily Lake Community Club,
Little Woods Community Club,
Udina Farmers' Co-operative
Community Club and Rutland
Community Club.

I. A. C. A. HEAD SPEAKS
IN THOMPSON'S PLACE

Called to Springfield on urgent
legislative matters, our I. A. A.
president, Sam H. Thompson, Quin-
cy, was unable
t o deliver h i s
message to Illi-
nois farmers on
"Changing Agri-
c u 1 1 u r e," a s
s c h e d u led for
April 1 over
WLS, Chicago.
In his place, Geo.
R. Wicker. I.A.A.
director of co-op-
erative account-
ing, spoke on the

subject, "Co-op- wi,k,,

erative market- "**• "' W**"
ing of agricultural products."

Mr. Wicker explained the rise of
co-operative marketing as "the re-
sult of the intent of the American
farmer to participate in the market-
ing and distribution of his products
as far as practicable. A changing
agriculture means that the Ameri-
can farmer must take his place in
the biikiness world as a business
man. He must meet the competi-
tive conditions which exist, and he
must solve the problems of market-
ing and distribution to the point
where waste is eliminated and ev-
ery it«m of unwarranted cost is re-
moved.

Sees Safe Growth

In Phosphate Use

For Coming Year

That ground rock phosphate will
continue to be a money maker this
year as in other years, js the as-
sertion of J. R. Bent, I. A. A. phos-

phate - limestone director. Mr.
Bent spent the week of March 30
in Tennessee, negotiating agree-
ments with the Tennessee Rock
Phosphate Association. He signed
up all ground rock companies hoW
operating for the I. A. A. supervis-
ional service, in all essential de-
tails the same as in 1924.

The companies. Informs the phos-
phate-limestone department, will do
their own soliciting and advertising
direct. Consumers may place their
orders with the companies direct, or
through the county Farm Bureaus,
or they may be turned in to the
I. A. A. for assignment to various
companies. Whenever the request
comes with the placing of an order,
the I. A. A. department stands
ready to supervise the taking of a
sample as the car is loaded and sub-
mitting it to analysis by the I. A. A.
chemist.

In every such case a report will
be made to the customer in order
that he will be satisfied as to the
quality of material he is receiving
and as to the correctness of his bill.
The department also will follow up
complaints arising between custom-
et and coinpany, as the companies
have called upon the I. A. A. to act
as official arbiter.

"The volume of business so far
in 1925," Says Mr. Bent, "is very
gratifying. Indications are strong
that 1925 will be the best year since
1920. We urge all purchasers to
get their orders in early to insure
delivery when desired; and we urge
as far as possible that orders be
placed in spring and early summer
instead of later.

Home-Bureau Folks
Appoint Committees

To Carry Out Program

That the Illinois Home Bureau
Federation, the state association of
Illinois farm women, organized at
Urbana in January, 1925, is going
to do a lot of work, is indicated by
the action of its executive commit-
tee in appointing eight committees
to carry out the aims tor which the
organization was effected.

"Our big task is to raise the
standard of living on the farms of
the state and to bring about a more
wholesome home life throughout
the rural sections of Illinois," states
Mrs. Spencer Ewing, Bloomington,
president of the federation. The
following committees have been ap-
pointed:

SPEAKERS' BUREAU: Mrs. H. M.
Dunlap. Chairman. (Champaign) Sa-
voy; Mrs. H. J. Meis. (Livingston)
Pontiac; Mrs. O. C. Baiar, (William-
son) Johnson City; Mrs. T. E. Newby,
(Coles) Charleston, c/o Court House;
Mrs. Milo Powers, (Mercer) Aledo, R.
R. 1.

PROGRAM AND POLICY: Mrs.
Will Parks. Chairman. (Rock Island)
Reynolds; Mrs. M. E. Craig, (Macon)
N. Dennis St.. Decatur; Mrs. Pred
Baler. (McHenry) Woodstock: Mrs.
W. c. Chesney, (Marshall-Putnam)
McNabb; Miss Marilda Zearing. (Bu-
reau) Princeton, R. R.

INTERRELATIONS: Mrs. Thomas
Kirkpatrick. Chairman. (Adams) Ad-
ams County Home Bureau. Clayton;
Mrs. C. M. Wright. (Kankakee) Man-
teno; Mrs. John Calsen. (Rock
Island) Port Byron; Mrs. C. H. James,
(Saline) c/o Saline County Home Bu-
reau. Harrisburg: Mrs. Irvin Cameron,
(Mercer) Aledo.

YOUTH AND ITS PROBLEMS: Mrs.
Herbert Wolters. (Vermilion) Dan-
ville, Chairman; Mrs. Henry Echter-

fir5t(2|e«n (Whe.ar)p;eJA8

= ^Clovor V J

Deeds of mercy folUnced in the wake of the disaster. The area shown on the map, a mile wide and seven miles
long, was cleared of debris by over 1,400 farmers from Edwards and Wabash counties. The numbers refer to the
farms of those who suffered in this section. Their names follow: I — John Butch. 2 — Lewis Moser, 3 — Mr. Clark.
4 — C. C. Hughes. S — John Bennett. 6 — Shelly Stanley. 7- John Lankford. 8— Virge Davenport. 9— Luke Hohn.
lO—E. r. Johnson. ll—Luke Hohn. 12—CUf Priuhard. 13~Lawrence KirkendaU. It— Bert KirkendaU. IS— Bert
Kirkendall. 16— Wm. Davenport. 17— Mrs. Carr. 18— John Brown. 19— Mr. Bramlet. 20— Phillip Fieber. 21— Mr.
Bramlet. 22— Jim Gamer. 23— Roy Stokes. 24— Richard Graves. 25— Pink Young. 26— Wm. Copeland. 27— Joe
Ridenour. 28— Hugh Stokes, 29—Enos Jordan. 30— Jim Stokes. 32— Clarence Stokes. 3}— Henry MoreUmd. 34—
Jasper Brown. 36— Howe Britton. 37 — Chas. Hancock.

DIRECTOR OF GRAIN
MARKETING SECURED
BY I.A.A. EXECUTIVES

nach. (McHenry) Marengo; Mrs. Ralph
French. (Marshall-Putnam) c/o Mar-
shall-Putnam Home Bureau, Henry;
Mrs. Harry Reed. (Livingston) Pon-
tiac. R. R.; Mrs. D. W. Robeson,
(Tazewell) Pekln.

POLITICAL EDUCATION: Mrs.
Melvln Thomas, (Coles) Chairman,
c/o Coles County Home Bureau,
Charleston; Mrs. Freeman Johnson,
(Kane) Elgin, R. R.; Mrs. Edward
Erickson, (Vermilion) Hoopeston;
Mrs. C. O. DuBois, (Saline) Eldorado;
Mrs. Wesley Schaper. (Stephenson)
c/o Stephenson County Home Bureau,
Freeport.

PLAY AND EDUCATION: Mrs.
Homer Johnson, ' (McLean) Covel.
Chairman; Mrs. Herman Douglas.
(Vermilion) Catlitf: Mrs. B. E. Shep-
herd, (Kane) Sugar Grove; Mrs. A. M.
Shaw, (Hancock) Adrian; Mrs. Henry
Gildermaster. (Bureau) Princeton,
R. R.

HOME BUREAU WELFARE: Mrs.
Fred Homann, (Coles) Mattoon, R. R.
4. Chairman; Mrs. Hamill Graham,
(Hancock) Denver: Mrs. Chas. Latnt>,
(Stephenson) Ridott; Mrs. Lewis Klr-
by. (Macon) Ortana; Mrs. Eugsne
Funk, (McLean) McLean.

PUBLICITY: Miss Edith Robbins.
(Adams) Payson. Chairman; Mrs. Oak-
ley Esmond, (LaSalle) Ottawa; Mrs.
Elsa Gregg, (Champaign) Rantoul;
Miss Cleo Lamb, (Stephenson) Ridott;
Mrs. Ballard. (Kankakee) Chebanse.

(Continued from page 1.)
supported. In less than a year's
time, this organization now has 150
members and has rendered 132
audits.

Headquarters of the new com-
pany will be with the I. A. A. J.
H. Kelker, office manager, will give
part of his time to the new com-
pany as will Vernon Vaniman, field
organizer of the I. A. C. A.

It is estimated that working cap-
ital to carry on the company's ac-
tivities for the first year will re-
quire $5,000, which will he fur-
nished by the I. A. A. in order to
protect and further farm mutual
Insurance in Illinois.

When the minimum membership
is secured and operations begun,
a reserve fund of $10,000 will be
required, which the I. A. A. will
provide also.

"If the Cuthbertson bill is passed
by the present General Assembly,
Illinois will have lower property
taxes and better roads." — President
Thompson.

The Farm Bureau is a service or-
ganisation.— use It. It's like a pump.
You can go thirsty leaning on the
handle or you can draw water by
working it.

The directors of Montgomery Coun-
ty Farm Bureau have deckieil to
furnish any boy or girl in the county
with enough disease-free seed corn
to pl,ant one acre.

Former Director of Montana De-
partment of .^Lgricultore Waa
to Woik in the U. S. D. A.

Grain marketing activities of the
I. A. A. have advanced to the place
where a full-time director is need-
ed, according to
H. E. Goembel
of Hooppole,
chairman of the
grain committee,
which r e c 0 m-
mended the hir-
ing of Chester
C. Davis, retiring
commissioner o f
the Montana
State Department
of Agriculture.

At its las t i
meeting, the ex-

ecutlvecommlttee cbemer c. »avu
approved hiring Mr. Davis and he
is now "getting into harness."

As bead of the Montana State
Department of Agriculture, Mr. Da-
vis became an outstanding figure,
his work attracting attention far
beyond that state. When the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill was before Con-
gress more han a year ago, Mr.
Davis went to Washington to urge
adequate legislation for farmers.
Here he became recognized as an
authority and was offered a position
by the late Secretary Wallace as
bead o^ the division of grain stand-
ards and grain futures.

Eat That Bi

UTTER OURPLUS

LAUNCH REINSURANCE l
BODY FOR PROTECTION I

a 11, 192S

RAIN

ECURED

ECUnVES

Montana De-
culture Wm
J. S. D. A.

tlvitles of the
1 to the place
jctor is need-

ruler C. Davia

Davis and he
larness."
:ontana State
[ture, Mr. Ba-
nding figure,
attention far
l^hen the Mc-
; before Con-
ear ago, Mr.
igton to urge
for farmers,
gnized as an
red a position
^ Wallace as
f grain stand-
i.

g:o; Mrs. Ralph
am) c/o Mar-
ureau, Henry;
ineaton) Pon-
W. Robeaon,

.TIOX: Mm.
is) Chairman,
[ome Bureau,
man Johnson,
Mrs. Edward
I Hoopeaton;
[ne) Eldorado:
(Stephenaon)
Home Bureau,

VTION: Mra.
iLean) CoveK
nan Douglas,
E. E. Shep-
ve; Mrs. A. M.
n; Mrs. Henry
i) Princeton,

LFARE: Mrs.

Mattoon, R. R.

.mill Graham.

1. Chas. L<amb,

rs. Lewis Klr-
Mra. EaK«ne

,n.

!:dlth Robbins,

nan; Mrs. Oak-
Ottawa; Hra.

igrn) Rantoul;

enson) Ridott;

26) Chebanse.

[RANGE
)TECTION

page l.>
than a year's
I now has 150
•endered 132

he new com-
l I. A. A. J.
iger, will give
;he new com-
i^animan, field
C. A.

working cap-
company's ac-
year will re-
will be fur-
l. in order to
farm mutual

1 membership
ations begun,
0,000 will be
I. A. A. will

bill is passed
ral Assembly,
wer property
— President

1 a service or-
8 like a pump,
eanlnff on the
raw water by

tgomery Coun-
ve deoideil to
1 in the county
free seed corn

X dUKPLDS

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Volume 3

IsMied Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinking Farmen — April 25, 1925

No. 8

R£UEF FUND NEARS
GOAL AS WORKERS IN
AREA FIND NEEDY ONES

Illinois Farm Relief Committee
Reports Machinery in Action
to Administer Fund; Many
Counties Not Yet Finished

Farm rehabilitation in the tor-
nado area ol Southern Illinois is
well under way, reports R. A.
Cowles, I. A. A. treasurer and chair-
man of the Illinois Farm Relief
Committee, who, with vice-chair-
man Curt Anderson called on the
Red Cross workers and the Farm
Relief people in White, Hamilton,
Franklin and Jackson counties
April 17 and 18.

"The Red Cross has two rural
case workers at Carmi in White
county, one at McLeansboro in
Hamilton county, two at West
Frankfort in Franklin county, two
at Gorham, one at Murphysboro,
and one at De Soto in Jackson coun-
ty and one at Bush in Williamson
county," says Mr. Cowles.

"The Illinois Farm Relief Com-
mittee has representatives of farm-
ers working with the case workers,
assisting and co-operating with
them as needed. The case workers
are engaged now with representa-
tives of the farmers in going over
the area making awards of needed
farm equipment and implements so
that the farmers can begin to help
themselves. Work in the field is
beginning and neighbors are assist-
ins in setting the field work started.
Immediate minimum needs are be-
ing supplied. In Hamilton county
the work has progressed to Ihe ex-
tent that the chairman of the local
committee this week will be in a
position to receive contributions of
commodities and supplies for dis-
tribution to storm sufferers."

Contributions to the Illinois
Farm Relief Fund now total J152,-
980.64 according to Mr. Cowles. In
view of the fact that many of the
counties have not sent in their ttf-
tal collection as yet, and many more
are waiting to complete their drives
before they send in money, the final
total should be well over the )180,-
000 quota set by the committee, he
thinks.

Following is a detailed list of
contributions received.

Adams I 700.00

Bond S58.77

Boone 1,438.95

Brown 602.50

Bureau 1,619.45

Carroll 1.438.00

CaB» 292.00

ChampaiKn 3.1.0(1

Christian 1.577.50

Clark 243.18

Clay 1.311.42

Clinton 800.00

Cook 452.00

De Kalb 1.020.00

De Witt 1.447.14

Doufflas i:'.*- 280.50

DuPage 2.487.34

Edsrar 167.50

Edwards 1.555.00

Effingham 600.00

Ford 2.727.00

Fulton L.'iOO.OO

Gallatin 338.24

Greene 800.00

Grundy 2.887.29

Hancock 3.072.85

Henderson 225.00

Iroquois 2.510.07

Jefferson 388.65

Jersey 224.73

Jo Daviess 1,541.92

Johnson 131.50

Kane 3.606.14

Kankak** 3.215 30

Kendall 3.077.55

Lake 2.413.00

La Salle 4.233.85

Lawrence 2.800.00

Lee J.305.13

Llvingraton 3,354.92

Loaran 1.688.80

Macon 440.79

Macoupin 346 40

Madison 2,?25.00

Marlon 359.30

Marshall-Putnam 579.60

Mason 2.440.00

McDonouKh 1.281.95

MiHenry 769 00

McLean 3.739.7 i

Menard 94!.B0

Mercer 623.20

Monroe 43.50

Montgomery 2.249.08

Morgan 1.338.13

Moultrie 2,030.63

Ogle 8.236.02

Peoria 3.407.40

PlaH .• 77.50

(Continued on page S, col. 3.)

Grain Merger Fights

To Ev€ule State Inquiry
As It Loses First Point

Fighting to ward off an inquiry
by the state, the Grain Marketing
Company (the }26,0O0,OO0 grain
merger), met a reverse on April
15 in Chicago when Chairman
Frank I. Smith ruled that the Illi-
nois Commerce Commission consid-
ers that it has Jurisdiction over the
grain merger interests.

Chairman Smith, however, grant-
ed a two weeks' continuance to
allow attorneys for the corporation
to prepare a more detailed state-
ment of their legal contentions.

A public inquiry into the Grain
Marketing Company was asked by
the Illinois Agricultural Association
in January when it became known
that stock was being offered for
sale to Illinois farmers.

The I. A. A. executive committee
adopted resolutions in January
warning farm bureau members from
buying stock "either for an invest-
ment or for the purpose of support-
ing the company's program of mar-
keting grain."

I.A.A. UW PUTFORM
SCORES AS DISTRICT
FARM BUREAUS MEET

First Round of Conference* b
Over and Second Round

S wi ngs

into

Form

District meetings of farm bureaus
have been thinning out as the first
round of conferences for 1925 has
approached an end. Three confer-
ences were held in the week of
April 6, viz.; 24th district. April 9,
Albion, Edwards county. Curt An-
derson, Xenia, executive committee-
man; 25th district, April 10, Anna.
Union county, R. K. Loomis. Ma-
kanda. executive committeeman;
and 20th district, April 10, Jack-
sonville, Morgan county, E. C.
Smith, Detroit, executive commit-
teeman.

The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion was represented at these meet-
ings by President Thompson, Geo.
A. Fox, executive secretary; F. A.
Gougler, poultry and egg marketing
director; G. E. Metzger, organiza-
tion director; A. D. Lynch, dairy
marketing director; and Donald
Kirkpatrick, legal counsel. E^ch
of these men spoke on the work of
his department, Mr. Thompson tell-
ing of the activities of the I. A. A.
and pointing out some of the prob-
lems confronting ' the organized
farmers of Illinois.

Endorse I. A. A. Stand

The three-fold I. A. A. legislative
program has been endorsed liber-
ally. The 24th district meeting
passed a resolution urging an early
adoption of the bills supported by
the I. A. A. and advising each Sen-
ator of the district of this action.
Senators and Representatives were
urged to do all in their power to
secure the passage of the bills.

The 25th district meeting at Anna
passed a resolution requesting the
Legislature that adequate appropri-
ation necessary for the continuation
and expansion of the Division of
Standardization and Markets of the
State Department of Agriculture be
made. This conference also went
into the matter of standardization
of farm machinery.

April 23 marked the date of the
first district meeting held in the
second round. It took place at
Hillsboro, Montgomery county, <21st
Congressional district, Sam Sor-
rells, Raymond, executive commit-
teeman. Those scheduled to repre-
sent the I. A. A. were J. C. Watson,
taxation director, and G. R. Metz-
ger, organization director.

Farm Bureau officers and farm
advisers in the 11th district, Wm.
Webb, Joliet, executive committee-
man, will hold their second meeting
at Joliet on April 28. Mr. Thomp-
son and Mr. Metzger are slated to
represent the I. A. A.

BALANCING THE SCALES

CaHs I. A. A. for Help
as Railway Continues to
Ignore His Complaints

One request for aid front the
I. A. A., snccessfully negotUted,
led to another. In the ca.se of
C. A. Jackson of Rossville, HU-
nols. Mr. Jackson wrote to the
tran8|>ortatlon department last
August asking help in persuad-
ing the C. M. & St. P. railroad
coin|>any to repair the fence on
their right of way adjoining his
fann. After considerable dis-
cussion, the railroad officials
had the fence reiiaired. Xow
Mr. Jackson writes from Ver-
milion county:

''I am rer}' thankful to jon
for the help you gave me to get
this fence repaired. I am going
to ask another favor of jrou.
Last November the train of the
C. M. & SU P. railroad started
a fire and burnt about 10 acres
of my young clover and killed
It. the section foreman sent
in my claim for 9S0, but they
have not written me or said
anything to me as yet. Si If
you can help me out I would
thank you verj- much.'*

FORTY COUNTIES SEND
CONTRACTS TO I.A.A.

Forty counties out of the 48
county Farm Bureaus that have re-
quested serum service for this year
have so far sent in their contracts
to the -office of the I. A. A. live
stock marketing department. Wm.
E. Hedgcock, director, is turning
these over to the respective serum
supply 'Companies.

Information has also been re-
ceived to the effect that the other
county Farm Bureaus expect to sign
the contract upon meeting of their
executive committees, and to for-
ward these contracts to the I. A. A.
office.

" — I doat luiaw wkat the fanners
are down here, but the farmers up
in Canada I sometimes think are al-
most incurable individualists. In
other words, you need an abundant
supply of glue with you all the time
to keep them sticking together."
(Applause.) — Hon. R. A. Hoey at I.
A. A. annual meeting.

'TWO DOLLAR WHEAT"
CALLED MISNOMER BY
I. A. C. A. DIREQOR

Finds Farmers Received Only
$1.11 Per Bushel for Wheat
and $.88 for Com in 1924

That the talk of two dollar wheat
and dollar torn last fall and winter
was mostly "talk" is shown in fig-
ures Just released by the Illinois
Agricultural Association which were
compiled from comparative business
data assembled by its department of
co-operative accounting in the au-
diting of 23 representative farmers'
co-operative elevators in Illinois
during 1924.

The "two dollar wheat" actually
netted Illinois farmers, after it was
delivered to their local elevators,
11.11 per bushel: corn, 88 cents
and oats 44 cents.

George R. Wicker, director of the
department, feels that these figures
apply with reasonable accuracy to
the prices received by all Illinois
farmers. They cover a half million
bushels of wheat delivered ix> ele-
vators situated at various points in
the state to both large, small, and
medium size elevators. They apply
directly to over two and one-half
million bushels of corn and over
two million bushels of oats.

"There is no doubt that the gen-
eral public has a false impression
as to just what the farmer actually
received for his grain last fall,"
states Mr. Wicker. "We do not wish
to appear to be painting doleful
shrouds on the farmers' situation,
but we are desirous of finding and
telling the exact truth."

The figures as compiled are a part
of the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion's comparative data service ren-
dered to the 150 member co-opera-
tives of the Illinois Agricultural
Co-operatives Association, which
functibns as a subsidiary of the
former, but under its own board
of directors.

•^ke Catkkertaoa kill for a two-
cent gasoline tax is the most con-
structive piece of -legislation before
the Illinois General Assembly in 25
years." declares F. D. Barton. Cornell.
I. A. A. executive committeeman from
the 17th Congressional district and
chairman of the 1. A. A. legislative
committee.

UW MAKERS LOOKING
UPON FARMERS' IDEAS
IN FAVORABLE UGHT

Tice BUI Passed House with Only
Two Dissenting Votes; #3,-
000,000 T. B. Appropriation
Recommended.

The three-fold legislative .pro
gram of the Illinois Agricultural
Association progressed con8iderabl>
during the last two weeks.

Under the guidance of FVank D
Barton of Cornell. H. E. Go. mbel
of Hooppole and A. C. Evertnghan.
of Hutsonville. who comprise thf
legislative committee, as well af
President Thompson and good sup-
port by the county Farm Bureaus
the farmers' wishes in law maklnt;
are being heard with attentive and
respectful ears by the senators and
representative?.

Only Two Against Tice Bill

The Tice, bill, which covers this
association's stand for continuanc-
and furtherance of the present cam
paign to eradicate bovine tubercu
losis, was passed by the House, with
only two dissenting votes. One of
these was by Representative Mc
1 Carthy of Kafie county, who led the
oppositionists from McHenry count>
when the first hearing was held.

This is taken as proof thai the
oppositionists were really trying to
kill the whole bill, but were mas
querading as only seeking amend
ments. With only two negatlvt-
votes against the bill, the true senti-
ment in the Bttite for t. b. er^dics-
tion is expressed as being practi-
cally unanimous for the program
as supported by the I. A. A.
ApprofiriatioB Bill Beoimmended

What is considered as even more
favorable action was the voting out.
bv the committee on appropriations,
of the Barr bill which provides for
a »3. 000. 000 appropriation to pay
•ndemnities for the next two-year
)eriod. It was recommended that
t "do pass."

A great deal of sentiment pre-
vailed among the memliers of this
committee for an even larger ap-
propriation— some wanted 15.000.-

000. Some senators, however, in
the interesu of economy, were de-
sirous of reducing the $3,000,000
appropriation, but when proponenU
of the $5,000,000 sum talked up.
it was agreed to recommend the
$3,000,000 as asked for by the
Farm Bureau.

"Interviews with various sena-
tors." states A. C. Everingham. who
wa8«tatloned in Springfield keeping
tab on farmers' Interests, "leads me
to believe that the tuberculosis
eradication program backed by the
Illinois Agricultural Association, in-
cluding the Tice bill and the neces-
sary appropriation, will be passed
speedily and substantially in its
present form."

Hearing on Cnthbertson BiM

Wednesday. April 22. was the
date set for a big hearing ob the
Cuthbertson bill. »-hich provides
for a two-cent tax on gasoline, the
proceeds from which shall t)e used
in place of present county highway
taxes.

According to the legislative com-
mittee, the Cuthbertson gas tax bill
is in good standing. This is princi-
pally because it is a tax reduction
meaJsure and most of the legislators
are pledged to reduction of taxes.
The other gas tax measures, which
were additional taxes and did not
displace any present tax such as
does the Cuthbertson bill, have been
killed In committee.

Agitation on the part of motor
clubs in several Illinois cities has
livened the issue. The more sub-
stantial legislators are said by the

1. A. A. legislative committee to
view the motor club opposition
lightly. On the other hand, a great
deal of propaganda against any
kind of gas tax has gone to the pub-
lic and this of course weighs to
some extent upon the bill.

(Continued on page ». col 2.)

ik

Pag«2

The IlUnoi* Atricaltwml AModatioa Raoovd

April 2S, 192S

VU\L ASSOCIA

RECORiy

Published evtrr other Saturday bj the IlllnoU Asrlraltunl
Association, sot South Dearborn Street, Chlcaco, nimols. Bd-
Ited by Department of Information, H. & Butcher, Plr«et«r.

Entered as second class matter Oct. 10, 1921, at the post oflk*
at Chicago. Illinois, under the act of March 3. 1«79. AcceptAIies
for mailing at special rates of postage provided tor in Sectloa
nOJ. Act of October S, 1917. authorized Oct. II. 1911.

The IndiTlduaJ membership fee of the Illinois Arrlcultural As-
sociation is five dollars a year. The fee Includes payment of
fifty cents for supscription to the niinols Agricultural Asso-
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OFFICERS

I*re8i<lent, S. H. Thompson, Quincy.
Viice-President, H. E. Cloeiiibel. Hooppole.
Treasurer, K. .\. Cowles, Bluoiiiington.
Secretnry, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore.

ELXECUTIVE COSOIITTEK V

By ("oii):res.<!lonal Districts I

11th William Webb, Route One, Jollet

12th G. F. Tulla«k, Roekford

13th C. E. Batnborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron

15th B. H. Taylor, Rapatee

16th, A. R. Wright, Varna

17th ..P. D. Barton, Cornell

18th R..F. Karr, Iroquoli

19th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th , Ear! C. Smith, Detroit

21at Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd Stanly Castle, Alton

23rd \ W. L. Cope, Salem

Curt Anderson, Xeitla

'25th...Vv^. .J R. K. Lpomit, Makanda

N Directors of Departments
K I. A. A. Office I

General Ofnae\and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker; Cr-
ganization, gI /E. Metzger; Information, l-t. CT Butcher; Trans,
portation, L,Hd. Quasey; Taxation and Statistics, J.C.Watson;
Flnance,.^Hr A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing, A. B.
Live Stock Marketing, Wm. E. Hedgcock; Dairy
Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone, J. R. Bent;
in charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A. Gougier; special
representative on Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H. Petersen;
Legal Counsel, Donald Kirkpatrlck; Co-operative Accounting,
Geo. R. Wicker. i

THE RECORD'S PLATFORM '"

Advance Ui4 purpose for tahich the Farm Bureau wnu organistd,

namely^ to promote^ protect artd represent the business, economic,

social and e€lucational interests of the fanners of Illinois and the

nation, and to develop agriculture.

Another Voice on the Geu Tax

George Wf. Hiiiman, a writer of editorials of the Ar-
thur Brisbane type, and who also enjoys ability which
enables, him to put his thoughts into writing in suchi a
way that bi? city papers from New York to San Frajn-
ci.seo print them, not long ago said some things abo|ut
the gas tax which strike a sympathetic chord for the
farmer. It was entitled : "Why People Want the Glas
Tax." It i'oUows:

In comiuitn with farmers in other states, the Illinois
Agricultural A.ssociatiou is demanding a gasoline tax.
The as.soeiation is to appc^ to the Springfield legisla-
ture tomorrow to enact su<jh a tax into law. That is the
morning's news. [

The idea, of course, is ; that as long as the country
spends five or six hundred [millions a J-ear on autoraob|le
roads, the j) arsons who usel the roads should pay a large
part of the !ium.

This does not look hke a big business proposition, yet
ill a way if is. If all the ga.soliue used in motors tbis
jear were tj be taxed 2 «ents a gallou, the collectioh.s
would come to something I like $l'25,0OO,0OO or perhaps
$150,000,00(^. i

Gasoline Easy to Tax

Xow, perhaps a tliird of the gasoline used in motors
is bought by the farmers themselves. They own mqre
than four inillion of the motor cars, and many trucks
and tractors besides. How does it happen then that they
" ure for a taix that will bear heavily mi them! There is
lid list of reasons, but it is possible to guess a few.

Plainlyj ibe cost of gasoline is not a great burdlen
• .iiipared T^ith other living costs just now. If other
iw -essities df modem life had gone Up in price only as
iirui'h as gasoline since the war. most persons would be
living twice as easily and saving twice as much as now.

While gasoline has risen but 17 per cent since 1913,
wheat has gone up 811 per cent, meats 40 per cent, sh(^e8
80 per cent, coal 100 per cent and the building materials
that help mnki' tlie liigh rents, 90 per cent. j

Gas Tax No Hardship

All together, the things we live by cost us half as milch
again as in 1913, and then some. Meantime, gasolme
shows only a third of this general increase in price.
Therefore, to put a tax of 2 cents a gallon, or even more,
^on gasoline would not cause great hafrdship— that is, as
compared With the other hardships of high prices ahd
high costs of living just now.

That is not a conclusive reason but a fairly popular
one. Anotlker reason is that, if the gasoline tax were
used to build highways, it would come to pass that tjhe

pteople who use the new roads would be helping pay for
them.

Suppose half the families in the United States have
motor cars and the other half have none. That is about
the case. Isn't it fairer then that the half who have
motor ears should contribute largely to the cost of the
motor roads, rather than that all families should -con-
tribute, whether they have cars or not!

Road Users Pay •

By means of the gasoline tax the road users would
be compelled to pay. By means of bond issues and gen-
eral taxes, everybody is compelled to pay, whether he is
a road user or not, whether he rides in a motor car, takes
a street car, or walks.

The fanner thinks he is robbed and oppressed by local
taxes. He is — in most cases, he is. He wants to get out
from under the highway taxes. If he doesn't escape
some of the present tax biirdeus, if he doesn't get relief
soon from the local taxation on his acres, says Dr. Ely
of Madison university, he is likely to be impoverished or
bankrupted. In parts of the Northwest, the farmer pays
III ta.xes nearly two-thirds of what he can rent his farm
for. It is from this sort of wild taxation that the gaso-
line jtax for hard roads would give the farmer some relief.

' Wouldn't a Gas Tax Help?

There are other arguments. Should motorists from
one state use up the roads in another state without pay-
ing a cent for the privilege f And, if they are to pay at
all, what easier method is there than to pay every time
they take in gasoline T

Can there be any end to tax-exempt bonds as long
as states issue such bonds by the ten million for the con-
struction of hard roads t And will such bond issues
be ended unless some other means, like a gaoline tax, be
used to bring in at least part of the money t

Ite Htindi Are Tied

There can be no substantial reform looking to an
e<|ualization of the tax burden while the legislature has
its hands tied as it has under the present constitution
of the state.

The present coiistitution was adopted in 1870, five
years after the Civil War. We are not spending our
money now like we did in Civil War days, even though
we wish we could. Neither are we earning money now
in the same manner as it was earned in 1870.

Things have changed. Bonds and a thousand and
one other intangibles have sprung into great use since
1870. There is a greater proportion of wealth invested
in bonds and other intangibles today than there was in
1870 — or even 10 years ago.

The World War educated people to buying bonds
through the Liberty bonds. They have been buying
bonds like hot cakes since then, and for more than one
reason.

One reason is that they are easier to hide from tax
assessors than investments in real estate and visible
property. That is an illustration of classification of
property according to visibility. Real estate, and es-
pecially farm property, is visible to the assessor, conse-
(^uently it gets caught. It is the visible things that pay

li.OSt.

In the present day. people are coming more and more
to expect no relief from under the present constitution.
The proposed amendment embodied in Joint Resolution
No. 4 introduced by Senator Lantz provides for an
amendment to the revenue section of the constitution
which will make it possible to permit the taxing of in-
comes. If money to run the government can be raised
by taxing incomes, all the better for farmers and other
owners of real property. The proposed amendment does
not in itself establish any new form of tax, but it simply
unties the hands of the legislature and enables them to
I>a.ss laws adapting the levying of taxes to changed eco-
nomic conditions.

Farmers and home-owners should get behind the Lantz
resolution if they expect to have their tax burden prop-
erly distributed. The legislative committee is especially
desirous that farmers write, wire or see their senators
and house members urging them to support this amend-
ment.

' The Foar G'a and the Five M'e

Illinois has a cream marketing problem as well as a
good many others.

Each year Illinois farmers sell about $17,000,000
worth of cream. That is enough money to build a Keo-
kuk dam every year and a half from Illinois cream
checks.

Illinois farmers market their cream manv ways. Some
of them have taken advantage of collective bargaining
methods and have sold together, thereby increasing their
incomes.

A. D. Lynch, our dairy marketing director, says Illi-
nois farmers can save or make a heap of money by form-
ing cream bargaining associations.

The average butter fat price received by Illinois
farmers in October, November and December of 1924,
with both co-operative and private creamery prices
taken, was 34.6 cents, according to Mr. Lynch. This

figure was compared with the prices received in 12 other
states the same date.

In Ohio it was found that the farmers were getting
at private stations 4.4 cents per pound fat more than
the farmers in other sUtes were getting at private sta-
tions during the same period. The reason is that Cttiio
has 88 co-operative cream stations in the state, Mr.
Lynch finds. There are a good many less than that in
/ all the other 12 states which participated in the price
comparison.

The averages paid in the 12 states were brought to-
gether by the dairy department of the Ohio Farm Bu-
reau Federation with results as follows:

Ohio 385 cents Iowa 34.6 cents

Michigan 38.2 Kansas 34.5

Minnesota 37.1 North Dakota . .33.4-

Indiana 35.8 South Dakota . ..33.5

Kentucky 35.5 Missouri 32.8

Illinois 34.6 Nebraska 30.8

Oklahoma 29.3 cents

Illinois farmers could get more money if they were
organized. Where there is not enough volume of cream
in a community to support a farmer-owned co-operative
creamery, it has been found desirable to form a cream
selling organization. About five hundred cows are
needed and it requires very little capitaL

As a rule a building can be rented where the cream
from these 500 cows can be weighed and tested by the
farmers' own man. The equipment required need not
cost more than $300. Mr. Lynch says that some cream
clubs raise this amount by memhership fees, while others
have started off by borrowing money at the bank. This
kind of an arrangement is known as a cream bargaining
association. After the cream from the minimumfH^-
quirement of cows is signed up, the total volume is sold
to the highest bidder.

The Ford County Farm Bureau started one at ^axton
last year. Farmers in it not only received the market
price but at the end of the year paid a patronage divi-
dend of 2.3 cents per pound.

Mr. Lynch says any group of farmers that have the
four G's and the five M's can make a go out of a cream
bargaining association. These are grit, git, guts and
gumption, and men, milk, money, minds and marketing.
To make the score even all around, the editor hereby
adds "glue" to the first set, because they've got to
stick.

The biggest question to settle before starting a cream
bargaining association, according to Mr. Lynch, is "Will
you work with your neighbor?"

The I. A. A. is prepared to help fanners solve their
cream problems. i ,

_^ . I I N 'C.t^

The Ga$ Tax Should Replace, Not Add

Illinois is now the only state west of New York not
having a tax on gasoline.

This statement can be made with the qualification that
Minnesota will without doubt enact some kind- of a gas
tax in this session of its legislature. Both branches of
the Minnesota General Assembly have passed bills, but
in the House it was two cents while the Senators wanted
two and a half cents.

Ohio, which has been in doubt, has definitely adopted
it. The Governor vetoed the bill, but it was passed over
his veto in company with 33 other bills which he wished
to keep from passing.

If all the good points favoring the adoption of a gas
tax in Illinois were cast aside for the moment, should
our legislators leave this state to be overridden by mo-
torists from everj- other state without them paying some
small portion of the road expenses?

And with the insistent demand for tax reduction from
all parts of the state, could the legislators consistently
enact a gas tax as an additional tax?

Illinois will eventually have a gasoline tax, of that
there is little doubt. The question is whether it will
come as an additional tax or as a replacement tax.

As has been stated before, the Illinois Agricultural
Association is for the gas tax in lieu of the county high-
way tax. That is the main requirement in the Cuthbert-
son bill. Are you actively supporting itt

Where They Are Really Uting Lime

Last year the farmers of Illinois used 500,000 tons of
limestone on their soils. This is one-fourth of all that
was used on all the soil of the United States. This rec-
ord doesn't mean that Illinois is a particularly sonr
state, but it does mean the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion has carried on an organized campaign to getiarm-
ers to apply the needed soil correction.' — Pacific Rural
Press, San Francisco, Calif. .

EaMtemera Like Thia Kind '

The Illinois Agricultural Association has taken steps
to help thte farmers of the five counties hardest hit by
the tornado. That's the kind of farm relief with whieh
everybody is in sympathy. — Philadelphia Public Ledger.

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30.8

LOWDEN WONDERS IF
RAINS BRING BENEFIT
OR FAILURE IN TALK

Lettets EndoTM Idea of Having
Radio Bring Farm Leaders
Direct to Home* and CommU'
nity ClnlM

Letters from many parts of the
Middle West tell the story that a
tremendous audience was listening
to the flrst program of the mythical
' Midwest Radio Community Club
given over WLS of Chicago Wednes-
day evening,- April 15.
I All the letters speak highly of
l' the event. These will be mounted
' in a scrap book and presented to
( former Governor Frank O. Lowden
who delivered the main address of
ythe evening, It being on the condi-
tion of agriculture. The purpose
■^of the club is to bring big speakers
Into contact with farmers who
•otherwise could seldom, if ever,
hear the leading agricultural thinks

• era of the day.
Following community singing led

► by J. H. Checkley, farm adviser of
the Logan County Farm Bureau,

t President Sam H. Thompson opened
the meeting with a short talk on

I "Changing Agriculture."

"There has been enough said
about agriculture In the last Ave
years to fill volumes, both as to

• cure and remedy," said President
Thompson. "So when I started to
study what had happened to the
farmer, I started right at home. I

' lived In a country community six
miles from a railroad station on a
good average Illinois farm, in what
, is usually called the corn belt of
' America, and Is well adapted to di-
versified farming and is conceded
to be among the best farming dis-
.1, tricts of the country.

What are Farm Conditions?

"What has taken place here at
'. home? Following the road east and
west six miles across the township
^representing 24 160-acre farms on
' both sides of the road, we find but
u five farm owners farming their own
I farms. All the rest of those farms
J are now operated by tenants. Sur-

t prising as this may seem I followed
the road running north and south
through the center of the township
six miles and found only three own-
, ers living on their farms. Another
'!• six miles streak revealed a similar
j condition with only four owners op-
f erating their farms. This would
' make a stretch of 18 miles repre-
', sentlng 72 16 0-acre farms with only
I 12 owners operating their own
'* farms. There must be some reason
for such a wholesale change taking

♦ place in a few years.

"Farmers have been, and are,
' discontented, and not without rea-
son. Some of these reasons will
t disappear only with lapse of time.
I Others come and are being Im-

* proved, through education, organi-
j^ zation and the reconstruction of ag-
[irlculture. With all the Improve-
ifments that have been wrought, the
T intelligent farmer realizes that hi.i
1 net profits have been growing small-
1 er, while his land has been growing

poorer and poorer and he has not
been able, speaking generally, to
maintain his buildings and equip-
ment. The Individual farmer has
become a more efficient and intelli-
gent producer, while he has been
I forced to admit that his margin of
profit has ^eir^jwvlng smaller and
smaller.

t Losses Not .Mentionetl

he disastrous effects of the ag-
gicViltural depression are immeasur-
able. It is impossible to estimate,
even approximately, the tremendous
losses that have been sustained.
Probably there has been a tendency
to stress these losses too much. I
don't think so. As a matter of fact,
some of the more serious results are
seldom mentioned, and we are at
times liicllned to refer to these
losses as a thing of the past. While,
as a matter of fact, many farmers
are hanging on, hoping against
hope, that in some miraculous way
the tide will turn and bring relief.
Some adopt this point of view be-
cause of a dogged unwillingness to
admit defeat.

"It is proper to deal with the
agricultural depression as an acute
problem, and to do all that can be
done to bring relief. It Is more im-
portant, however, that we under-
stand the causes for agricultural
depression and that we determine
the factors affecting the future of
the farming business. There is a
growing evidence that farmers are
(Continued on pave 4, col. 2.)

EVEN THE DOG WANTS HIS SHARE

SEES NEW DAY IN
FORD COUNTY PLAN
FOR SELLING CREAM

Integration of Effort Will Pro-
vide Volume of BuiineM,
Leaden BcKeve; Henry
County to Follow

fTithin '17 days after the storm, the first relief award in the wind-sicept area u-as made in White county, Illinois.
The check was from the Illinois Farm Relief Committee, co-operating with the /. A. A. and providing permanent relief
to farm sufferers. The photo shows Miss Margaret McGrievy, Red Cross worker; 3. M. Crebs, Carmi banker; Henry
Gates, farmer storm victim of White cotmty; H. M. Baker, national disaster relief director of the Red Cross; anil
E. W. Creighton, White county farm adviser.

New Grain Director

Hits Two Lines of Work

Under Way for Present

Activities in the newly created
grain marketing department, with
Chester C. Davis who has been the
Commissioner of Agriculture of
Montana now in charge, have taken
shape in the form of conferences
by him and the grain marketing
committee with committees repre-
senting National and State Associa-
tions of Farmers' Elevators, and the
Indiana Wheat Pool.

The general aim of the depart-
ment is toward helping establish a
grain marketing system that is truly
co-operative in every respect and
one that will rest on the farmers'
elevators as a foundation. With
this objective, two principal lines
of work are under way in this de-
partment.

The flrst resolves into an investi-
gation to determine whether a true
co-operative, with special emphasis
on the pati;onage dividend feature,
can get onto the Chicago Board of
Trade if the memberships are held
by farmers' elevators organized as
they are at the present time. While
most farmers' elevators are co-op-
erative in spirit, some are not so in
their organization, many being
stock companies supported by farm-
ers. The point of obtaining en-
trance onto the Board of Trade un-
der the Capper-Tincher act rests
with the Interpretation as to wheth-
er these farmers' elevators are co-
operative as defined in the Capper-
Volstead act, which permits co-op-
erative marketing.

To Survey Soft Wheat Area

The second line of work is to
make a survey of the soft wheat
situation in Eastern Illinois in the
row of counties adjacent to the
Wabash river. The purpose is to
determine whether it would be ad-
vantagious to the growers of soft
wheat Jn these counties to develop
a marketing plan along the line of
that of Indiana.

No Reason for Alarm
if Check for Reactor
Indemnity Not Received

There is no cause for worry
if you have waited overlong for
your indemnity checks on re-
actor cattle.

.-\n instance has conie to the
attention of the I.-.\. A. where
a member having a reactor, re-
ceived a check for federal in-
demnity but none for state in-
demnity. The I.A..4. live stock
marketing defiartment took up
the matter with Dr. F. .A. Laird,
state veterinarian. Investiga-
tion dlsclo.sed that a check had
been mailetl several months
previous, and apparently was
lost in the malls.

On the receipt of afflda\1t
from the owner of the reactor
stock, Dr. Laird Issued a dupli-
cate check which was promptly
forwarded to the farmer.

The I. A. .\. announces that
It is ready to follow up any like
ca<tes and that owners who do
not get their Indemnity checks
within reasonable time should
bring the matter to the atten-
tion of the dairy marketing or
live stock marketing depart^
nients.

UW MAKERS VOTE YES
ON FARMERS' DEMANDS

(Continued from page 1.)
Farmers Need Revenue Amendment

The hearing for Wednesday was
scheduled to be before the Senate
sitting as a committee of the whole,
to whom the bill was passed by the
committee on revenue without a
hearing but with the recommenda-
tion that it "do pass."

The third legislative desire of the
I. A. A. lies in the fortunes of the
proposed revenue amendment. This
amendment should have the whole-
hearted support of every farmer be-
cause It Is by this means that he
can get permanent relief from his
present unjust ta.\es. Under the
present revenue section of the Illi-
nois constitution, taxation along the
lines of present-day affairs is im-

REUEF FUND AND

WORKERS NEAR GOAL

(Continued from page 1.)

Pike IIS.SO

Pope (Ind. Contribution)... 1.00

Randolph (Ind. Cont.) 3.00

Richland 2,75«.88

Roek Island 413.50

Sangamon 4.929.00

Schuyler 400.00

Scott 1,028.80

Shelby 1.82J.2S

Stark 328.00

St. Clair 1,0»0.00

Stephenson 2.502.00

Taiewell 2.580.55

Union ...i "... 1.405.66

Wabash 84.50

Warren ,. 2.021.50

Washington SO.OO

Wayne . . .i 445.88

Whiteslcie ' 3.682.81

Will . . .l^r- 2.921.40

Williamsori 623.60

Winnebago 1,810.00

Woodford , 4,355.91

WLS Listeners' Fund 25.000.00

Chicago Drovers Journal... 115.90

Porter County, Indiana 5.00

IIl-Mo Dairy Co-operative.. 17.00

Prairie Farmer 2.247.62

Strauss Bros 16tl.00

Miscellaneous 22.00

National Grange 71.00

A. P. B. F JJ.10

Upper Defer Creek Church

Wellman. Iowa 178.00

Highland U, B. Church.

Tama. Iowa 21.00

Sunshine Circle. Hammond,

Minn 1.00

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possible. By securing an amend-
ment such as is being fostered by
the I. A. A., In company with other
state groups, it will be possible to
get more intangibles taxed, an Im-
portant one being incomes.

Farmer Cant Afford to
Be Without Farm Bureau,
Declares Mr. Johns

Claims against raitroa(ts by Illi-
nois farmers continue to' come to
the attention of the I. A. A. trans-
portation department. One of them,
successfully adjusted by the I. A. A.,
Involved a shortage of six lambs and
a decline in the market due to de-
lay in transit of a shipment to the
Chicago "Producers. The following
letter was received after the nego-
tiations were completed:
Gentlemen: —

This will acknowledge re-
ceipt of your letter of April 9,
file number 2035, with draft
attached in our favor from the
railroad for $200.

We wish to thank you for
your efforts in our behalf in
regard to this claim and to as-
sure you that we are very ap-
preciative of what you have
done for us. Such results as
this, confirm our belief that
the Farm Bureaus and the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association
are organizations that no one
in the agricultural game can
afford not to be affiliated with.
Ewing and Johns,
By Corwin H. Johns,
Forsythe, Macon Co.
The I. A. A. transportation de-
partment also took a hand in the
case of Flagg station on the C. ft
N. W. Ry. in Ogle county. Under
the Illinois law a railroad must have
an order- from the Illinois Com-
merce Commission either to close a
station orl to take off a train.

If the railroad does so without
securing the permission of the Com-
mission, it is a plain violation of
the law.

This happened in the Flagg sta-
tioD< case. In August last year, the
station was closed and the agent
removed.

D. E. Warren, Ogle county farm
adviser, brought it to the attention
of the I. A. A., and the transporta-
tion department promptly went af-
ter both the Illiaois Commerce
Commission and the North Western
line.

Due to the fact that the station
had been closed without the permis-
sion of the Commission, the station
was re-opened by the railroad, and
a station agent re-instated on April
20, without waiting for an order
from the Commission.

A ant mt •M.oaiMM In farm land

assessments is the record of the Mis-
souri Farm Bureau Federation. This
sister organization to the I. A. A.
asked the Missouri Board of Equali-
zation for the reduction and was able
to save Missouri farmers '8302.000 in
taxes for 1925. John C. Watson. I.
A. A. tax director, gave fhem asalst-
ance.

Fana aec««Jita, hoa aaaltatioB. pig

clubs, limestone - legumes - phosphate,
seed corn improvement, and commu-
nity meetings make up the Ford
County Farm Bureau program.

The cream marketing system in
Illinois is taking a turn for the bet-
ter.

Indiscriminate selling and buying
of small and frequent quantities of
cream has not worked to the ad-
vantage of the Illinois farmer, de-
clares the I. A. A. dairy marketing
department. A. D. Lynch, director.

from obsenations extending over
a period of years.

"Our past scheme of marketinie
dairy products has been adverse to
the farmers owning a few cows,
largely because of the larf^e spread
existing between producer and con-
sumer," says the department. "This
spread has been due to the exces-
sive number of middlemen in the
assembling game. "

Better Days t'oining

The almost universal practice
throughout the state heretofore —
except where local circumstances
have warranted the establishment
of co-operative farmer creameries
— has been for the. farmers to haul
their cream to local assemblinfc
points or cream stations where it
was bought by private individuals
or by representatives of centralizer
creameries: or for the farmers to
ship their cream direct to central-
izer plants, not owned by the pro-
ducers. Recently, however, the
sails of co-operative cream assem-
bling and marketing have appeared
on the horizon of a better agricul-
tural system, says the I. A. A. de-
partment.

Mr. Ljrnch points to the establish-
ment of co-operative cream clubs In
various sections of the state, as one
way out of the difficulty, and as a
step In the direction of a more
equitable distribution of income de-
rived from the sale of butter fat in
Illinois. He cites the Ford County
Dairy Marketing Association as a
successful example of what can be
accomplished along the lines of co-
operative effort in the marketing of
dairy produce.

Co-ops Pay Better Prices

The Ford county association so
far has but one unit — at Paxton.
In the 10 months since the associa-
tion was organized and began oper-
ation, it has paid approximately 2.4
cents a pound more for butter fat
than the average price paid by other
cream stations in Illinois in the
same period. In its first nine
months of operation, this co-opera-
tive has sold cream amounting to
»17,989.91 — and $1,672.59 worth
of eggs besides. An average of 34
cents was paid to the members and
patrons per pound fat, besides a
patronage dividend of 2.3c a pound.

Equipment amounting to $306.53
has been paid out of the earnings
of the associatioD, and $50.37 has
been laid aside tor depreciation on
equipment.

"The Ford County Dairy Market-
ing Association so far has Increased
the returns for fat to the members
seven per cent over what they could
have received by selling it by the
old method," says Geo. T. Swaim.
farm adviser. "Our plan is to add
other units and thereby increase the
volume of business. Every new
unit joining the association will be
represented on the board in the
county organization."

lx>oks to Ford County

The I. A. A. dairy marketing de-
partment looks on the Ford county
idea as worthy of repetition else-
where. In Henry county, it states,
farmers around Geneseo. dissatis-
fied with cream prices received in
recent years, are contemplating the
organization of a cream club on the
Ford county plan. Already 50
cream producers have signified their
intention to start the plan in Henry
county.

.Surveys Heveal Plentjr

A recent suirey conducted by the
I. A. A., disclosing a differential of
5 to $ cents per pound fat In favor
of co-operative creameries, has done
much to stimulate desire on the
part of farmers to do their own
dairy marketing, says Mr. Lynch.
Another suirey made by the I. A. A.
in connection with 12 other states
showed that Illinois stands in sixth
place on butter fat prices received
by the producers. Ohio, which has
88 cream clul», was Vrst, the sur-
vey revealed.

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Page 2

The Illinois Agricultural Auodation Record

April 25, 1925

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E»rl C. Smith, Detroit

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l>ii*t*«-l«>i**i')if Il4*|iiti*tiiiet«(>
I. A. i\. Office
General Officje and Assistant^ to Secretary, J. H. Kelker; Oi^
E. Metzger: Information. H. C. Butcher; Trans-
:'Quasey; Taxation and Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing, A. B.
Stock Marketing, Wm. C. Hedgcock; Dairy
D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone, J. R. Bent;
Itry and Egg Marketing, F. A. Gougler; special
representative on Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H. Petersen;
Legal Counsel, Donald Kirkpatrick; Co-operative Accounting,
Geo. R. Wider.

Aih unci' til'
numflv. In
Micinl ami 4>rl
nntiiin, and

THE RKCOHDS PLATFORM

Ifurpose for tr/iic/i the Farm Bureau was organized,
prbmote, protect ami represent the business, economic,
i^tcational interests of tile farmtrs of lUinois and the
develop agriculture.

II

Another Voice on the Gas Tax

li,...)-^,. \\ . Iliiiiiiaii. a Mritii- nf iilituriiils of flic Ar-
tlilli' l!iisli;i ic f.vin-. anil *"liii iil.so iM^jiAs itliility wliirli
iiiiil>li'>. Iilni t'« put Ills tliJni;rlitsjinlii| writiiifr in sitdii a
\va.\ tii.it l)i.' i-itv paiurs fnmi New Vnrlx tii San Kntn-
risiii print lliiiii. nut liiiij{ iii;ip saiil Kmnc tliiii(.'.s alwmt
liv uit^ 'ii'i "liiili xliiki- 11 s\ iiipatlii'tic i-hiifil t'ui- tin-
t:i|-iii.i-. Ilua,- . riiitli-il : ]■■ Why l'i-.ij|ilf Want tlic lias

T.IN.

It !..ll..uv:

In i-iiiiiiiK
-\»ri-iiMil(nra
Till- a— .iicia
t ni-i- toiiiDiif
iiiiiniiiiL'-. I

Tlu- i.l.a.

spflllls ti\W I

i-..a.ls.'tl
part of rill-
Thl- .li...s
III a «a.\ Tl
.M-ar Will' t
woillil ..■nil-
.*l.')fl.lM)0.(liili

=fc

11 «itli farniifs in otlur ;slati's, tin' lllini»i.-i
AsMwialioii js il<'iiian(liii<j: u "rasolini' tiix.
imi is to appeal to tlif $prin!.'Hi'lil liH.'isla-
■« to inai-t MHtli a t;i\ \uU> law. That is tlif
I us.

of 1-oiiisi'. is j I hat as loji;; as tlif country
1- si\ hniiili'i'iliniillioii.s a jfar on aiilonioliili-
i~soi.^ who iisij the mails Ihoiilil pay a lai-fri-

""i- : I

not Inok likf ii hi;.' hiisiiii|ss proposition, \|rt
Is. If all till) ^Msolini' iiki'il in inotors this
' Im- ia\iil ■_' i-i'iits a <ral|on. tin- colli'ctiinis
to -oin. •thill- like *r_'.">.(H)l).0llll ,,r prrhaps

Gasoline

Easy to Tax

.\o«-. i)er lap.s a liiinl n|t' ili,- ^rasolim- nsi-,1 In inoti^rs
IS hoii^'lit hi' the I'ani^i-rs iln-msi'lvi'sj 'I'liry own iiidiv
than four i lillion of tin- Miotor cars, ami iiianv tniijks
a!i;i ti-actiin besides. lIo«| iljns it lia|||ieii then that tliey
IT for .-1 tiix that will hiiir heavily mi thetii.' 'Pliere is
c ' list of nasoii.s. lint it it- posNilih- t > ..:ni-ss a few. '

l'laii|ly, he eijst of ^'iikoliiie is niit a jrrial hiinleii

MP.ii'et] vith other livi lu' io>is jijst now. If iitl|er
-•^sjlies if iriotlern lifeihail ;.'oii.- ijp in pi-iee milyjas
' I li iis L'a.oliiio since the war. iiiosi pei-sons woiitil he
l:\ iH'.'.lwiee as e;isilx ami saMii'.' twiei as niin-h as no\\|

WhiK' L'a.oliiie has ii~.(i Imt 17 pj'r eeiil since l!l|:{,
V. il'ilt has •jo!ii' up sil perjcenl.- Ilfeat4 40 per cent, sll<ies
Ml per cent, eoal Km per eenl ami tliH Iniihlin^' iiialeriiils
that help iMiike ilic liliih ri-nts. IMI pei| cent.
Gas Tax No Hardship

All toeetl .r. the I h MIL'S \\.' Ii\e 1 1_\ ciist iis half as iiiileli
;e.'ain as in 1!»I:;. ami tlilii some. ^leaiitrme. irasoline
sliov.s Lilly .1 thin! of this jriiieral | increase in priee.
Therefore, til put a tax oft' cents a {rifUon. or even iiiinv,
■ •n irasoline woiilil not eaitse ijreat harilship — that is. as
loiiipai-etl vith the other ihardships Jif liifrh i>riees aiul
I iirh costs I f livini; just liow. I

Tliat is not a eonelusivo reason biit a fairly popular
one. .Anotlier rca.sim is that, if the jrasoline ta.x wtfre
used to Imi d liij^hways, il woifjd coiie to pass that the

people who use tht new roads would be helping pay for
them. j

Suppose half tue families iu the United States have
motor ears ami thf other half have none. That is about
the (.'ase. Isn't i^ fairer then that the half who have
motor ears shouldt contribute largely to the eost of the
motor roads, rathtr than that all families should eoii-
mibute, whether they have cars or not?

' • j I Road Users Pay

By means of the jiasoliiie tax the road users would
he compelleil to iiiy. By iiieaiis of bond issues and gen-
eral taxes, everybiily is eompelled to pay. whether he is
a ro(id user or not whether he rides in a motorcar, takes
a street car. or walks.

The farmer thinks he is rohbed and oppres.sed by local
taxes. He i.s — in i iiost ea.ses, he is. He wants to get out
from umler the I ighway taxes. If he doesn't escape
some of the preset It tax burdens, if he doesn't get relief
soon from the local taxation mi his acres, says Dr. Kly
of .Matlison university, he is likely to be impoverished or
liaiikru|)ted. In pints of the .Northwest, the farmer pays
111 taxes nearly two-thirds of what he can rent his farm
for. It is fniiii tl is sort of wild taxation that the gaso
line tax for hard roads would sjive the farmer some relief.

Wouldn't a Gas Tax Help? •

There are other arguments. .Should motorists from
one state use up t le roads in another state without pay-
ing a cent for the privilege? And, if they are to pay at
all, what easier mi'thod is there than to pay every time
the.\ take in ga.so iiie ?

• an there be any end to tax-exem])t bonds as liiii'!

as states issue sue
st ruction of hard
be elided unless si

I bonds by the ten million for the con-
roads'.' And will such bond issues
me other means, like a gaoline tax, be

used to bring in it least part of the money?

/Is Hands Are Tied

I'liere can be iio substantial reform looking to an
ipiiiili/.ation of tli^ tax burden while the legislature has

Its hands tied
of the state.

The present cubist it lit ion was
years after the <
money now lik

Wc wish We could

Tilings have c
one other intaiigi
IhTO, There is a
In Imiids and othi
INTO or even 10

rhe World Wii

like hot cal

lion
reasini

()|ie reason is that they an

laii

assessors tl
property. That

proper

peci(dljf farm pri
i;ileliitiy;it gets ea
Most. '\-

I-ll the present I

to expect no relic
'rhi'i proposed aim
No. ! 4 ititrodii
aliielidnieiit to th!
wliii<-li will inak

it has under the present constitution

idopteil ill 1870, five

ivil War. We are not spending our

Mfe did ill <?ivil War dax s, even though

.Neither are wc earning money now

in the same mam cr as it was earned in IfSTO.

anged. Monds and a thousand and

lis have sprung into great use since

greater proportiiiii of wealth invested

r intaiitrililes today than there was in

ars ago,

educated people to buying bonds

tliniugh the Liberty bonds. I'hey have been buying

es since then, and for more than one

'asier to hide from tax

injifstmenls in real estate and visible

illustration of classification of

crty nccordii g to visibility, Kcal estate, and es-

icrty. is visible to the assessor, conse-
glit. It is the visible things that pay

ly. people are coming more and iiiore
from under the present constitution,
ndnient cmbodicil in .loiiit liesolutinn
b.\ Senator 1-aiitz ||rovides for an
revenue section irTtlie constitution
possible to permif.the taxing of in-
comes, if money I to run the goveriimV'nt can be raised
by liaxiiig ineomeJ. all the better for farmers and other
owiuis of real priipertv. The proposeil amendment docs
lis

not in itself estal
unties the hands
IKiss laws adapt in
niiiiiic conditions.
Farmers and hi
resolution If the\-
rt-ly distributed,
desiriuis that far
and house meiiibe
liiel t.

iine-iiwners should get behind the Laiitz

xpect to have their tax burden prop-

The legislative committee is especially

luers write, wire or see their senatol-s

ging them to support this amend-

The

illinois has a
good many otherj.

Kach year 111
worth of cream,
kiik dam every
cheeks.

Illinois fariiiei>
of them have tal
methods and liavi
ineiimcs.

A. n. Lynch, o
nois farmers can
iiig cream bargai

The average I
farmers in Oetol
vvith both co-opi
taken, was :U.()

1 any new form of tax. lint it simply
f the legislature and enables them to
r the levving of taxes to changed eeo-

F<ar G'« and the Five M't

c ream marketing problem as well as a

nois farmers sell about $17,000,000
That is enough money to build a Keo-
ear and a^ half from Illinois cream

markiif their cream maiiv ways. Some
?n advantage of collective bargaining
sold together, therebv increasing their

sa

ir dairy marketing director, says lUi-
r make a heap of money by form-
iiiig associations,

itter fat price received by Illinois
r. November ami December of 1924.
rative and private creamery prices
eiits, according to Mr. Lvneh. This

Iowa

.:i4.(i

Kansas

. iU.f)

.North Dakota .

.:i:i.4

.South Dakota .

,:i:!.5

Missouri

. :!-J.8

.Nebraska

.:!0.s

. .-J!!.:! cents

the

figure was compared wkh the prices received in 12 other
states the same date.

In Ohio it was found that the farmers were getting
at private stations 4.4 cents per pound fat more than
the farmers in other states were getting at private sta-
tions during the same period. The reason is that Ohio
has 88 co-operative cream stations in the state, Mr.
Lynch finds. There are a good many less than that in
all the other 12' states which participated in the priee
comparison.

The averages paid in the 12 states were brought to-
gether by the dairy department of the Ohio Farm Bu-
reau Federation with results as follows:

Ohio :i8.r) cents Iowa o4.{i cents

.Michigan :i8.2

. Minnesota :!7.1

Indiana :{5.8

Kentuckv :!.■).;")

Illinois '...A...M.(i

Oklahoma. . .

Illinois farmers could get more money If
organized. Whert>Ttlerc is not enough volume of eieam
In a commu«it.v_tDJiupport a farmer-owned co-operative
creamery, it has been found desirable to form a cream,
selling orgauizafion. About five hundreil cows are
needed and it requires very little capital.

As a rule a building can be rented where the cream
from these 500 cows can be weighed and tested by the
farmers' own man. The eiiuipment retpiired need not
cost more than $I!(K(. .Mr. Lynch says that some cream
clubs raise this aimmiit by membership fees, while others
have started iiH' li.v borrowing money at the hank. This
kind of an arrangenient is known as a cream bargaining
association. After the cream from the minimum' re-
i|uiremeiit of cows is signed up, the total volume is sold
to the highest bidiler.

The Ford County Farm Bureau started one at I'axton
last year. Farmers in it not only received the market
price but at the end of the year paid a patronage divi-
dend of 2.3 cents per pound.

Mr. Lynch sa.vs any group of farmers that haVe the
four ti's and the five M's can make a go out of a cream
liargaining association. These are grit, git. guts and
guiuption, and men, milk, money, minds and marketing.
To make the score even all around, the editor hereby
adds "glue" to the first set. because they've got to
stick.

The biggest qui'slioii to settle before starting a cream
bargaining association, according to Mr. Lynch, is "Will
you work with yiiur neighbor?"

The I. A. A. is prepared to help fanners solve their
cream problems.

The Ga* Tax Should Replace, Not Add

Illinois is now the only state west of New York not
having a tax on gasoline.

This statement can be made with the qualification that
Minnesota will withtmt doubt enact some kind of a gas
tax in this session of. its legislature. Both branches of
the Minnesota General Assembly have passed bills, but
in the House it was two cents while the Senators wanted
two and a half cents.

Ohio, which has been in doubt, has definitely adopted
it. The Governor vetoed the bill, but it was passed over
his veto in company with :!:! other bills which he wished
to keep from passing.

If all the good |»oiiits favoring the adoption of a gas
tax in Illinois were cast aside for the moment, should
our legislators leave this state to be overridden by mo-
torists from every other state without them paying some
small portion of the road expenses?

And with the insistent demand for tax reduction from
all parts of the state, could the legislators consistently
enact a gas tax as an additional tax?

Illinois will eventually have a gasoline tax, of that
there is little iloubt. The (|Uestion is whether it will
come as an additional tax or as a replacement tax.

As has been stated before, the Illinois Agricultural
Association is for the gas tax in lieu of the county high-
way tax. That is the main requirement in the Cuthbert-
son bill. Are you activelv supporting it?

Where They Are Really Using Lime

Last year the farmers of Illinois used 500.000 tons of
limi'stone on their soils. This is Triie-fourth of all that
,was used on all the soil of the I'liited Statts. This rec-
ord doesn't mean that Illinois is a particularly sour
state, but it does mean the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion has carried on an organized campaign to get farm-
ers to apply the needed soil correction. — Pacific Rural
Press, San Francisco, Calif.

Easterners Like This Kind

The Illinois Agricultural Association has taken steps
to hi'lp the farmers of the five counties hardest hit by
the tornado. That's the kind of farm relief with which
ever\body is in sympathy. — Philadelphia Public Ledger.

25, 1925

April 25, 1925

The Illinois A^ctiltural Association Record

Page 3

ILOWDEN WONDERS IF
! RAINS BRING BENEHT

OR FAILURE IN TALK

EVEN THE DOG WANTS HIS SHARE

< Letters Endorse Idea of Having
I Radio Bring Farm Leaders
' Direct to Homes and Conunu-
V nity Clubs

inmght to-

1

Farm Bu-

1.

.:i4.(i cfiits

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1

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i

Illl-V WITl-

0 lit' iMcaiii

i-iipcrativr

111 a i-i'i'aiii

I'ows an'

their

r.

Letters from many parts of the
Middle West tell the story that a
tremendous audience was listenin.L:
to the first proKrain ot tlie mythical
Midwest Kadio Community Club
jiiven over WLS of Chicago Wednes-
day evening. April 15.

All the letters sp*ak hl;:hly ot
the event. These will be nutunted
in a scrap book and prt'senled tn
former Governor Frank O. I.owden
who delivert-d th*- main address of
the evening, it beiii^ on lli*- condi-
tion of agriculture. The purpose
of the club is to brin>: bit; speakt-rs
into contact with farmers who
otherwise could seldom, if ever,
hear the leading ai:ricultural think-
ers of the day.

-r- Kollowinj; community sini;ini; led
by J. H. Checkley, farm adviser of
the LoKan County Farm Bureau.
I'resident Sam H. Tlutmpson opened
the meeting with a short talk on
"ChansiUK Agriculture."

"There has bef-n enouyh .'^aid
about asriculture in the last fivf
years to fill voluntes. both as t<i
cure and remedy." said Trfsident
Thompson. "So when I started to

■'study what had happened to the
farmer. I started right at home. 1

i' lived in a country community sin

' miles from a railroad station on a
-j;ood average Illinois farm, in what

1 is usually called tin- corn belt of
America, and is well adapted to di-

^ versified farmini; and is conceded
to be among the best farmiui: dis-

, tricts of the country.

What are F^ariii romliiioiis?

"What has taken place here at

^ home? Following the road east and
west six miles across the township

^representing' 24 IftO-acre farms on
both sides of the road, we find but

g five farm owners farming their own
farms. All the rest of those farms
are now operated by tenants. Sur-
prising as this may seem I followed

.the road running north and south
through the center of the township
six miles and ftmnd only three own-
ers living on their farms. Another

■ six miles streak revealed a similar
condition with only four owners op-

. erating their farms. This would
make a stretch of 1 8 miles repre-
senting 72 IfiO-acre farms with only
12 owners operating their own

• farms. There must be some reason
for such a wholesale change taking
^ place iQ a few years.

"Farmers hare been, and are,
discontented, and not without rea-
son. Some of these reasons will

■ disappear only with lapse of time.
Others come and are being im-

' proved, through education, organi-
zation and the reconstruction of ag-
' riculture. With all the improve-
. ments that have been wrought, the
intelligent farmer realizes that hi.^
, net profits have been growing small-
er, while his land has been £;rowin':
, poorer aiul poorer and he has not
been able, speaking ^en*'ralty, to
1 maintain his buildint:s and 4'<tuip-
^ment. The individual farmer has
I becotne a more efficient and intelli-
j gent producer, while he has been
1 forced to admit that his margin of
profit has been ^rowinj; smaller and

■ smaller,

^ Worst Losse.s .\o( .Mentioneil

"The disastrous effects of the at:-
A gicultural depression are immeasur-
able. It is impossible to estimate.
.- even approximately, the tremendous
I losses that have been sustained.
• Probably there has been a tendency
to stress these losses too much. I
don't think so. As a matter of fact.
some of the more serious results an-

♦ seldom mentioned, and we are at
I times inclined to refer to these

* losses as a thlnn of the past. While.
I as a matter of fact, many farmers
/ are hanging on. hopini; against
^ hope, that in some miraculous way j
I the tide will turn and bring relief.

\ Some adopt this point of view be- j
I cause of a dogged unwillingness to
t admit defeat.

r "It is proper to deal with the
I agricultural depression as an acute
problem, and to do all that can be
done to bring relief. It is more im-
portant, however, that we under-
» stand the causes for agricultural
depression and that we determine
.the factors affecting the future of
the farming business. There is a
'growing evidence that farmers are
ii"onliiiu*'U oil page 4. ool. :i.>

Within 17 tluys nftvr thv •itonn, thf first rvlivj ^mnrd in thf niml-sufitt tireu uits mad*' in U hilt- *inint\. lUtn^ns.
Thf rh*vk u(Vi frttm thv lUin*>is Vnrnt Hvliej i'.ontmitt»'t'. rtt-itprrutin^ ttiith thr i, .4. 1. and /tratidinfi pfrmunvnt r»-Ufj
to farm suffvrers. The photo shous Miss MwrtLttrvt Mctirieiy, Hed i niss w^rket; J. M. i^rebs, Carmi hanker; tlvnry
titiivs. farmvr storm liitim of H hite county; II. M. Itaker. nationtd disastier relief director of the Hed i'.ross; tind
I:. M . C.rvifihton. H hite vounty farm adviser.

I\ew Grain I)in*ctor

Has Two Lines of H ork

Under U ay for Present

Activities in the newly created
Krain markeiinu department, with
Chester C. Davis who has been the
Commissioner of .V^riculturt- of
-Montana now in charge, have taken
shape in the form of ront"«rfnces
by him and the iirain marketing
committee with couimiitees n-pn--
senting National arid State .Associa-
tions of Farmers' Flevators. and the
Indiana Wheat Pool.

The general aim of the depart
menl is toward helpinu establish a
grain marketin;; system tiiat is truly
co-operative in every respect and
one that will rest on tlie farnn'rs'
elevators as a foundutitpn. With
this objective, two i»rim'ipal lines
of work are under wa\ in this de-
partment.

The first resolves into anHnv.-sti-
gation to determine whether a true
co-operative, with special emphasis
on the patt;onaL'e divid«*nd feature,
can get onto tht* Chicatzo Hoard of
Trade if the memberships are held
by farmers' elevators oruanized as
tlH'y are at the i»resent time. While
most farmers" elivators aiv co-op-
erative in spirit, some are not so in
their organization, many being
stock companies support<'d by farm-
ers. The point of oblainint: en-
trance onto the Hoard ot Trade un-
der the CnpiMT-Tincher act r^ sts
with the int'ipnMaiion as to wlu-th-
er these faiiners' elevators are co-
operativi' as defined -in the Capper-
Volstead act, which permits eo op-
erative maikeiinL:. *

To Survey Soft Wlieal A rer^~
The second Pine of work iSzzti)
make a survey of tin- soft w^^Tf
situation in Kaslein lilinoip iiiW^*
row of counties adjacent to the
Wabash rivt-r. The purpose is to
determine whetiier it would he ml-
vantagious to the grow»'rs r)f soft
wheat in these counties t<» develop
a mark'tinu plan aloim the line of
that of Indiana.

LAW MAKERSVOTE YES
ON FARMERS' DEMANDS

(Contimit'il from pag>^ 1.)
Fanners Xeed Keveiiue .-\nietidiiieiil

The hearing for Wednesday was
scheduled to b)^ bi'fon- the Senate
sitting as a committee of the whole.
to whom the bill was passed by the
committee on revenue wittiout a
hearing but with the recommenda-
tion that it "do pass. "

The third legislative desire of the
I. A. A. lies in th.- fortunes of the
proposed revenue amendment. This
amendment should have the wliole-
hearted support of every farmer be-
cause it is by this means that he
can get permanent relief from his
present unjust taxes. I'nder the
present revenue section of the Illi-
nois constitution, taxation along the
lines of present-day alfairs is Ini-

A<> Heason fttr Attirtn \ \
if Check for Reaelor
indemnity \i>t Hert'ivetl

'I'here is no cjiiim* for- worry
if >oii lia\e waiteil oxertou^ for
,\oiit- iiiiliMiiiiJi,\ (-Iiet-k> on w*
artoi catlle.

An iu'^tanre has c<»nie to tho
atfeiili<(ii of tli«> I. \. \. %\here
a inenilier having a reactor, re-
ceivetl a < lufk for f4Nl<>ral in*
ih'innily l>iil hoii<> for stale in-
deiniijty. The I. A. A. Ii\e^ s(m*k
inaiketifig tle|»artinent tiMik i||»
(he matter with l>r. K. A. I.aird.'
>tat4' \<-i4*riaarian. In\e>liga-
(ioii tlisclostMl that a chti-k liafi
ht^'ii inaiU'd several nioiiih*t
|u*4'\ioiis. and a|i|iarently uan
lost in llie mails. *

On the re4-ei|it <»f af1i(la\it
from the owner of the re:i('ti>r
slork. Dr. Kainl issued a diipli*
(-ate (heck which was pr<Mii|illy
fi >rw ii ri led | o the farmer.

The I. \. A. iinnonnees \\\9k.i,.
j( is read> to follow up an> llk^
ras4's and that 4»Hners wlwt d<»
no) g«'t their ind4-innily (Ihh kf
uiihin reasonable lini4' shonhl
bring the nnitler |o th4> atten-
ti4Mi of the 4lairy marketing or
live st<Kk iiiark4'(ing ilepart-
nieiits.

RELIEF FUND AND
WORKERS NEAR

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I'ol-ti-r i'ouilly. Ili'llai.a,
lll-Mo liairy ro-oii.-rat i v.
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possibi*'. Hy st^ouring an amend-
iiicnt sucli as is being fostorfd by
the I. A. A., in company witli biher
stall' groups, it will be possible to
!;et more intanRibles taxed, an Im-
portant one being incomes.

Farmrr Can't Afford Ur

til' H ithout Farm Hurvati.

Dvtinrfs Mr. Johns

C'luiins against raiiiiKnis h\ llli
nois fanners continue in e'»me tn
tlie attj-nlion of tlie I. A. .\ trans
portati'on department. One of them
sucresBfully adjusted by the I A .\..
', invojyed a shorlag*' of six lamlis and
a decline in tie- market due to de-
! lay in transit of a shipment lo the
Chicai.i! Producers. The followiim
! letter was received after the neco ,
' tiation.s were coni|>let*'d:
; Centlemen: -

This will arknowledgt- re-
ceipt of your letter of April :i.
fil.' number ;i)3.i. with draft
attach4-d in ttur fa\<ir from tin-
railroad for $200.

We wish to thank you lor
your efforts in our b<-half in
regard to this claim and to as j
sure you that we are very ap-
preciative of what you have
dtme for us. Such results as
this, confirm our belief that
the Farm IJureaus and the Illi-
nois .\gricultural Association
are organizations t'hat no one
in the agricultural game can
.alTord not to be affiliated with
Ewing and Johns.
Ily Cbrwin H. Johns.
Korsythe, Macon C'l.
The I. .\. .-\. transportation de-
partment also toi)k a hand in the
case of Flagg station -on the ('. ^
N. W. Ky. in Ogle coftnt.v Inder
the Illinoi.s law a railrdad must -Lmu^
an order from the -ftlinois Com*
merce Cti^iitiitssion either to d. >.•<#- a
station oiS-to take off a train.* ^

if the railroad does so without^
securing the permission of the Com-j,
mission, it is a plain violation of
the law.

This happened in the Klagg sta- ;
lion case. In .\ugusi last year, the .
station was clos**d and th»- agent'
removed. •- |

I). K. Warren. Ogl- county farm
adviser, brought it t<' the all'-ntiou
of the I. A. A., and the transporta- ;
tion department promptl.v went at >
ter both the Illinois I'iimnierce
Commission and the North Westi-rn
line.

Due lo the fact thai the statitin '
hud been <'lose(l without the permis-
sion of the (^(iiiimission. the station
was re-op«-ned U\ the railroatl. and
a station agent re-instat*-d on .\pril
2u. without waiting for an order i
from Ilie Commission. i

A »u( vt K:4.0»».IMMI in farm laml
aftflessmcnts is the re< ord of the M:s- I
souri Farm Ilureau Keil«--ration. This ,
sister orf{:inization tu the I A A
a^ked til..- Missouri Board of Gtjuali-
zatioii for tlie rt-tluetion and was able '
to savf Missouri farniera $3*»2.ooo in ,
taxes fouftl'.* :;.-., jQhn c. Watson. 1
A. A tiiT flire.-ior, «ave them assist- l

elulis. limestone - leRumi-s - pliosphale.
Seed < t)rn impruv«'meiit. and «ommu-
nity meetinEs make up the Ford
County Farm Bureau program

SEES NEW DAY IN
FORD COUNTY PLAN
FOR SELLING CREAM

Integration of Effort Will Pro-
vide Volunte of Buuneu,
Leaders Believe ; Henry
County to Follow

The ernani !tia|-k<'linL: s>stem ijt
niinoi.-^ i^ takint: |i turn f4ii Ih*' t>*-l
III

hidiseriiDiii: le f eiljii,^' and hu>iiu
of small and fi->ij;n< ni tjiiatitiii's of

• ream has h'tt Worked it' tli. iid
vantage of tin Illinois larni«-r. th-
(-la[;^ttH- I \ A dair> iiuirk'tiir
depivHiio III. A II l.vnet). dit- < lor.
iunn ohsfr\ at lolls .-M.-iMiin;: ov. i
a period of y4*;irrt^

"Our past scht'ine id iiiarkeinK-
dairy pHwIuets has l»*-. n ;td*«'rst to
ihe rariii<J> ouNinu a feu 4-ii»fi.
uri:ely hi-i-aus> i»| lh«- lar;:*- spn-ad

• \isiin;; Imiu.. n |.i<Klue« i and eon
-unit-r." sa>^ i h< \|. |..irinifni ■Thi.'
spread has h.-in (in. to rh*- •■\f»'>
-ive nuiiilM r ot iiiiiddh-iio-n iii th*-
.iss4'nihlin;: iiaiii**!: "

l&ell«-r OiC\s (iHiiint:

The almost ttniv.rhal prarttc-
throiiuhoui th." State te-n-tof4>r>'
ex04'pi \vhii>- .loi-nl <tirurnstan4"»*s
hav4' Marrani" .1 il-*- •'.-laldislmM-iit
4(1 eo-*»p'"'at\ . la rut 'T 4'r»*ani'-ri« •^

has \n-i-i\ tf»r ili< f:trno-r.- lo haul
ttieir ritaiii to loeal a-.-;' inti'lui-
potnts 4jr (•!< am stations w h»'i'- n
Wits t>4>nuht li> |>rivaJ>' indiviiluab
or liy r4'preMfiiia(J\*s oi 4-fntra1i7.«-r
er»aitieri«*s ; or I'<»r th* larm-rs To
ship ih4'ir rn-am din-el tu Cfntral
TztT plants, not own<-d h> the pro
durers. K4Tfntl>_ how«'ver. ili*-
sails 4>f co-opfra<i\«- i-n-ani as.s. m
hlin^ and mark* litnu liav*- app*'ar*d
on the hririZDh ifl a better auru-ut
tural system. sajKs the I. -A. A. de-
part tnent.

Mr. I.ynrh poiifts tu the establish
rn*'nt of ro-4ipfrati\»- 4Mt-ain rluhs in
various sections of th«- stal*. as orw
way 4iut of till' difTirulty. uimI as a
stt'tt in tht- dirV't-iion t)f a inor»-
4-<]uilahIe distril>iiti4in of inrf>nie d*-
riv«'d from the sale 4»f hutt*-r fat in
Illinois. He rit«* the I^trd County
Dairy Market int: As.so4'iali4in as a
suere.'isful 4-\ampl<- 4if what eati !>•■
acrom|dish4-d alolit: tlif tines of 4*0-
op4'rativ4' fffort ifi the mark* liiu of
dairy pr<Mlur«'.

The I-'ord roulity a>.so4-iali4Mi so
far has hut 4)ii«* nnii at ra\t(Vii
In tin- 1" inonlhR sinre (h»- assoHa
lion was oruani/4^4l atid U-caii op*-r
alion. it has paid appri>\iniat>*l> 2 4
rents a p4»und nior<- lor hutl<'r fal
than Hm* aVMrai:e |irio«- paid by 4>th*'r
cream stations In IMuic^is in the
same p*-ri4>d In its ifirst nine
nir>nlhs of opi-ratlion. this co-4»pt-ra
tivf has sold erfam aniouniini.' lo
$lT.r»K;*,<)l ana $I.ti72.r.!* worth
of e^us b»'sid4s An av4-raKe <if ::4
(■••nts was paid to th*- niemU'rs and
{•atrons per pound fat. h4-si4|cs a
patr4inaL:e di\i4bni| of 2 ''c a t>4»und.
K(|uiptn<-nt aiuj'untm^ tu $:;»tf. T.:;
has IxM-n paid olii <tf rlie earnin;:s
of thf as.sociaii4i|i. 9nd $aO.:!7 has
been laid asid* for depri-ciatmn on
equipment.

"The K«rd f'oann I)air> Mark*-t
ini; .\ssociution st> lar has in4T«*asf4l
the nturns for ftd to tin- memb*-i>
stv. n p4-r cent o\>-r wh;it th»y could
havf r4*C4*iV4-il It3f S4'llint: il by th*-
old nietbc»d," sa^s (W-o. T. Swaiin.
fann adviser "Our plan is tti ad4l
(»ihi'r unils and t|ier»-b> incr'-as*- tli-
volume 4if bus ill) ss Kv»r> ti^w
unit joiniuL' Thi- ):iss4»ciatii»n will b>
repr»s4'nt.d 4»n Hh.- b4>ard in th«-
count> organization "

l.4N*k*> to l'i»nl <'4iiirii>

Th. 1 \ A (Inirv mark-tin;. «1-

partiieiii looks an th<- I'otrd cou(ii>

id4*a as worthy iof r»-p''ition •is.-

■ when-. In H«nrf r4iunt>. it sint. >

' farnuTs anHHid , <ieni-s«'4». diss;tti>*

fled with cream j pric«'s r4'<*.'iv«-d lU

j r»-4-<>nt y»*ars. an*] ennl«-inplatini: i!i«-

1 nr;:anization df 4 cream club on tti*-

IVnd county tflan. Alread> '."

I cnaiii pnHlu<N-rs.1hav.- siunilteil tlieii

int<-ntlon to staii Ihe plan in H<'iir>

eount\ ]

^ur\e>s l||i*\eMl IMtii(,4

A re4-«-iit survi»\ i-4>ndurt*Ml b> tin
I. .\. A.. disdosDim a din«-r»*ntial bf
5 t4i 6 cents p*-r,'pound tat in ta\or .
of c4»-4>perativ4- rj.-am>-ri4's lia> .ditn.
much t4> stinuilnie d'sirt- <mi th*-
par* of -fstmern to do their owti
dairx marketing:. sa>s Mr. I.yncti
.\ni>ther survey niade by Oh* J, A. A .
in C4>nneotion w4ih 12 4>tlier' state^ '
shoW4>d tlial Illinois stands in siMh
pla4'4* on butter tat prices r*-o»-n»'d
by the producer* Ohio. «htcti ha>
S8.cn'ai» clubs, was first. tb»- sur
ve> reveale^.

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Pace 4

The OEaoH AgricuhnnJ Awociation Record

April 2S, 1928|

USTENERS CONCUR IN
VIEWS ON PROBLEMS
VOICED BY LOWDEN

Success Marks First Radio Club
Meeting. Replies Reveal
Thoughtful CcKninent

That the first "Midwest Radio
Community- Meeting" was a success
is attested to by the letters of con-
gratulation and comment received
by WLS after the program in which
former Governor Frank 0. Lowden
was the principal speaker, with his
talk on **Co-operative Marketing.'*

Following are copies of just a
few of the many replies received.
The entire stack of letters will be
bound permanently in a "scrap-
book" andi presented by the I. A. A.
to the farm leader:

"I want to congratulate you on the
Midwest dommunity Club program.
It proves aja Mr. Kvana re*'ently said,
that the I. A. .\. i? looktid to aa a
leader and is a leader in things worth
while. 1 afti proud to be a member of
the Ford I'ounty Farm Bureau and
the I. A. A.— F. W. Tieken. Piper City.
III."

"Heard TOur program "Mid -West
Community Club" last night and wish
to congratplate you on Oie flne ar-
rangement! of your program. Am
thoroughly! In accord with the views
expressed ^y your speakers. Let us
have more of them. Former Oover-
nor L^wdeti certainly knew what he
was talking about and we hope for a
speedy action to bring about co-op-
erative marketing. \VL£ is certainly
trying to improve the situation in
agrlculturet— H. W. Jeske. Batavia.

111." 7

All Agree with Lowden

"It was with a great deal of pleas-
ure I listened in last nighit. I wish
there werei more men likei you.

"I feel that you know and are doing
all one man can possibly dc to set the
farmer right

"It waa almply great. — Dfn O. Dav-
ies. Sugar Grove. 111."

"I listen4d w^ith great appreciation
to the entire speech of Esi-Governor
Lowden last night. It v^a so inter-
esting and informing thai I lost not
a word of it. Congratulations. I'm
not a farmer, but this ape«ch ought
to do a gk*eat^ deal of^'^good. — C. T.
Watson. Brookfleld. III.*"

These from the Ctty

"While as a would-be broad minded
individual I have always respected
the farmer and his calling, giving the
latter its proper niche in importance,
I somehow never visualized in mind
him and his vocation as being gov-
erned by the same economic laws and
methods of development as other in-
dustrial, oommercial and financial
lines of endeavor. Your speech con-
vinced me of the desirability of the
farmers being "like other men" in
their marketing habits, and the ben-
efit to accrue to the consumer there-
by.

"Hoping that very many doubting
or hesltatiag farmers were as easily
convinced as I was in your propa-
ganda, and congratulating myself on
the accidental chance that caused me
to hear your talk. 4tnd thanking you
for my pleasure and profit in it. —
Very truly yours, H. N. Madge. Chi-
cago."

"I enjoyed your R. F. D. program
last eveninig. The address by Hon.
Frank O. Liowden on farm conditions
was a get)!. The deep atudy and
knowledge of farm conditions, no
doubt gained by actual experience,
should be heeded by all fttrmers to
band together and better their con-
ditions through the mediuim of co-
operation.

"I also enjoyed the good points
brought out by Mr. Evans of the A.
F. B. F. In his talk —John Klein,
Chicago."

Farm Bureau Projects
Are Subjects of Talks
by County Farm Advisers

Farm advisers' talks have filled
the air oni the I. A. A. programs
broadcast j over WLS, Chicago.
"What thelFarm Bureau Is Doing"
was the gjeneral subject ^^of these
talks.

J. W. Whisenand, Henry county
farm adviser, spoke on "Saving Dol-
lars for Henry County Shipper's."
He stated that Henry county is the
heaviest shipper of live stock in
Illinois an4 that it has a shipping
association at every one of its 19
shipping points. All of these asso-
ciations, he safa, have been organ-
ized since the coming of the farm
bureau in Ithat county in 1917.

A. A. Otisen. speaking on the co-
operative marketing of live stock
in Warren county, told of the estab-
lishment of the Warren County
Shipping Association, in answer to
the realization that the farmer to-
day needs the best possible market-
ing service. The association ships
live stock from 1 1 points in the
county, alTof th^m being supervised
by a county manager whose head-
quarters are in the farm bureau
office.

J. H. Checkley in talking to his
farmer constituency told of the
many activtties taken part in by the
members of the 70 community clubs

in. Logan county. Boys and girls
club work, he said, is one of the
major activities of the county Varm
Bureau. His clubs are strong on
community singing, too.

DeKalb County Farm Bureau Ad-
viser T. H. Roberts in his talk on
"Clean Farms and High Yields"
stressed the importance of buying
none but weed-free seed. "Contin-
ued cultivation and hard work," he
said, "will clean up a farm provided
you don't re-sow it with weeds
every time you sow your small grain
and grass seed."

I. A. Madden, Sangamon county
farm adviser, voiced the sentiment
of farmers in his county by saying
that "corn testing is one of the most
profitable projects we have ever un-
dertaken. We are lookirig forward
and making plans for the time when
all our members will select, cull,
and test their seed corn. We con-
sider our seed cora testing project
One of the most important services
We have ever offered because corn
Is our money crop.

The gas ta.x problem, so pressing
tight now, occupied the center of in-
terest on Friday evening, April 24.
*vhen WLS broadcast a debate on
the subject, "Shall Illinois Have a
Gasoline Tax?" The affirmative
tvas upheld by J. C. Watson. I. A- A.
director of taxation and statistics.
While Zack C. Elkin, leglslativp di-
rector of the Chicago Motor Club,
took the negative.

The following program Is sched-
uled for the week of April 27 over
WLS;

Monday, April 27 at 12:30^Dan G.
pavies, director of the Kane County
Farm Bureau, on ""Community Hap-
jjiness."

Tuesday. April 28 at 12:J0 — D. C.
Cooke, director of the Stephenson
County Farm Bureau, on "Our Farm
Bureau Live Stock Project;" and at
t;4t> — Lfc M. Swanzey. president of the
Stephenson County Farm Bureau, will
Speak. *

Talks by farm advisers over WLS
for the first half of May are sched-
uled as follows:

Monday, May 4 at 12:3)>^Oeo. T,
Swaim. farm adviser of the Ford
County Farm Bureau, on "How Farm-
ers In Ford County <!et Higher Cream
Prices."

Tuesday, May 5 at 12:30 and 8:40 —
F. E. Fuller, farm adviser pf the
Marshall-Putnam Farm Bureau on the
accomplisments and services of this
Farm Bureau.

Monday. May 11 at 12:30 — C. C.
Turner, farm adviser of the Moultrie
County Farm Bureau on "Moultrie
County Farm Bureau Has the Budg-
ets."

Tuesday, May 12 at 12:30 and 8:40
— Enos Waters, farm adviser of the
Edgar County Farm Bureau on ac-
complishments and services of the
Edgar County Farm Bureau.

On Friday. May 8. at 8:40 P. M..
R. F. Karr, I. A. A. executive com-
mitteeman for the 18th district, will
apeak on "The Farmers' Niche."

LOWDEN SPEAKS ON

CO-OP MARKETING

(Continued from page 3.)
becoming more competent and are
able to understand their difficulties,
and work out methods for their re-
lief. This is as it should be. If it
were not so it would be a sad com-
mentary on the agricultural teach-
ing of the last flfty yearS.
Discontent Is a Protest of Intelli-
gence

"Farmer discontent — I want you
to get this and I want everybody
else, as well as farmers, to get it.
Farmer discontent may ite looked
upon as a protest of intelligence. I
believe, as never before, that farm-
ers have had real grievances, and
they have been increasingly suc-
cessful in getting a larger number
of people to recognize that fact."

Carrying this thought further.
President Thompson stated that the
American public does not fully
realize the actual condition of agri-
culture. They get their ideas from
the unusual reports of individually
Successful farmers who are given
publicity and through the propa-
ganda sent out by interests to whom
It is desirable to make things ap-
pear to be running smoothly.

President Thompson then intro-
duced Frank Evans, general mar-
keting counsel of (be American
Farm Bureau Federa^on, who ex-
tended a greeting to the farmers of
the Middle West, a part of which
is as follows:

"The mission of the Farm Bu-
reau, as conceived by the leader-
ship of the present, is not less — in-
deed, it is much greater In Its scope
and purpose — than it was in its
earlier years. If there are any who
look upon the farm bureau move-
ment as designed merely to meet a
momentary emergency, let them be
disabused of the thought, for it is
00 temporary expedient, but a de-
liberate, determined and ever in-
creasing effort designed to build and
io foster a digniOed, efflcient and

A Short Story On

the Adventures of .
A Motoring Friend

The genial Kentlenutn scoot-
in|: along In the automobile at
th^ left is enjoying the good
roads of Uli.
nols — the
ones which
have been
an4l are he-
Ing built by
fhe two bond
lN.stieN totaling 9160,000,000,

L'nfortunately, our motoring
friiend tume<I onto a state aid
roa<1 which appears to have
been neglected. He is now
traveling the farmers' princi-
pal farm-to-market road. We
hol»e his springs are gcMKl !

Quite likely this fellow will
write his Senator and Repre-
sentative asking tiieni to vote
foit the (^uthbert.son gas tax bill
be^au.«e money from its apply
callon will help make these
faitm-to-inarket roads better.
Hej will tell his legislators that
hi.<j ex|ierience illustrates the
reoent statement of John C.
Watstm, director of taxation
an4 statistics of the Illinois .4s-
.sodiatlon, that Illinois Is rapid-
ly ileveloping the best primary
rowls in the country, but the
worst secondary roads. Our
motorist wouldn't have to pay
as nigh upkeep bills if his roads
we^ kept in better sliai>e.

I Of course, if our hero in the
Rough Riding .\utomobi1e is a
pniperty owner, either in the
cit)- or country, he should write
anyway, because lliis bill saves
him from

pacing his . #%^ M
cointy high- -^.itjJlWrm
wa}' tax. If t^^StSf%'j')
t hie legisla- •JHSPPkJ' ^x

t or s got fL -^"^ "*-

wlilole lot of

let^rs down at Springfield,
they'll be more likely to vote
riight. A letter from you, too,
will help.)

permpnent agricultural policy
throughout the country."

I Lowden Begins

"Itiere is no music sweeter to
my fars than the patter of rain
drop^ upon the roof breaking- a
drought in summer time, and yet,
to saVe my life, I cannot tell wheth-
er toe fain is a sweet and fragant
bearar of benefit or bankruptcy,"
said former governor Lowden.

"I^ it to be wondered at that the
farmers distrust the present meth-
ods Of marketing farm products?"
the farming governor asked. "They
see t^eir 1924 crop of two billion
four hundred million bushels of
corn, [inferior in quality, worth more
by solmething like two hundred mil-
lion ^ollars than their 1923 crop of
thre^ billions bushels of high grade
corn. I

"This, it is agreed upon by all
hands, was due largely to the un-
favorable growing season In 1924.
But Vhile the season, wet and cold
as it was, was unfavorable to com,
it w^s exactly what the grasses
needid. And so, because of the
abundance of moisture, there was a
larger production of milk, with the
resull that this larger quantity
brought five hundred million dol-
lars less in the market than the
smaller production of the year be-
fore.

"Now suppose that the corn grow-
ers and milk producers had been
completely organized during these
vears^ do you believe this depress-
ing ^nd puzzling condition would
have;come about?

I Organization Is \ee<led
"It) is safe to say that the larger
part jof the bumper corn crop of
1923 was sold at a price which did
not cbver the cost of production. If
corn I growers had been organized
and found that the market would
not deceive their corn at what It
cost them to produce it, they would
not have dumped the larger part of
the ci-op upon the market in a few
brief! months. They would have
=ioId Sparingly. They would have
'torei the remainder, knowing full
well ^hat seasons of bountiful pro-
ductibn are always followed by sea-
sons Df low production, and that at
no distant day they would receive a
fair frice for their corn.

"As it was, only a few of the
corn farmers were able to hold their
corn for the higher prices which

they had rightly anticipated and
which were later received. _ Of
course, even if organized, ' they
could not have expected to receive
as much per bushel for a three mil-
lion bushel crop as for a two billion
four hundred million bushel crop.
They doubtless would have asked a
price — and would have received it
— which would have made the three
billion bushels of corn worth more
to them than the very next year's
crop of two billion four hundred
million bushels of poor corn actu-
ally brought on the market.

"In other words, the corn farm-
ers, if organized, would have ad-
justed the supply to the actual de-
mand.

Slight Surplus Depresses Price on
Whole Crop

"Under the present system of
marketing farm products, a surplus,
no matter how slight, seems to have
the effect of depressing the price
with a total disregard for the cost
of production of even the absolute
necessities of life.

"1 have been studying this ques-
tion of surplus, and I have come to
the conclusion that it exists mainly
In the minds of those whose inter-
est it is to depress prices."

In defending the present efforts
put forth by farmers' co-operative
marketing, Mr. Lowden said that
those who oppose the farmers' co-
operative movement seem to think
it Is an effort to arbitrarily fix prices
upon farm products. They assume
that there are only two ways in
which prices are made: first,
through monopolistic control; and
second, by an indiscriminate throw-
ing upon the market, as at present,
of the products of the farm, taking
whatever offered.

Iltere Is a Third .Method

"They say that monopolistic con-
trol is impossible and that there-
fore the present system must con-
tinue to be employed," the former
governor said. "I insist that there
is a third method and that Is co-
operative marketing. No one that
1 know of denies the validity of the
law of supply and demand and its
influence upon farm prices. Some
of us, however, deny that it is self-
supporting so as to preserve nicely
a perfect balance between supply
and demand."

A buyer and a seller must meet to
dicker in order to establish some
price. Mr. Lowden said In carrying
this thought further. The sellers,
in the case of farmers selling in-
discriminately, are at present al-
most entirely unorganized while the
buyers are organized.

Does Rain Bring Benefit or
Bankruptcy?

"These perplexing facts lead me
to wonder whether a rain pattering
on the roof Is bringing benefit or
bankruptcy.

Due to the change of dates, farm
bureau presidents from Iowa, Indi-
ana and Michigan were unable to
be present, but sent messages of
greeting instead.

R. A. Cowles, I. A. A. treasurer,
reported to the unseen audience on
the financial condition of the asso-
ciation, which, he said, is of the
very best in the country, there lieing
over a quarter of a million dollars
of surplus. This reserve, he pointed
out, is earning interest for the or-
ganization and the fact that the
association has it gives a great de-
gree of dignity to the activities and
undertakings.

Takes a Day to Hear of Work

Geo. A. Fox, I. A. A. secretary,
gave a short report on what the as-
sociation is doing. As an illustra-
tion of the great amount of work
under way, he told of the directors
of each of the departments present-
ing their 1925 progrartsN^ work
to the executive committee> Each
took a half hour and the executives
put in a whole day at nothing but
listening to oral tales of what the
I. A. A. is actually doing in serving
the farmers of Illinois.

Arthur C. Page, editor of Orange
Judd Illinois Farmer, among other
things, drew attention to the won-
derful possibilities of radio. In this
instance, he said, it made it possible
for farmers who never before had
heard these agricultural leaders
speak to get almost a first hand im-
pression from them.

John Got Sleepy

John Turnipseed, scheduled to
speak for Prairie Farmer, was on
hand all evening, but got sleepy be-
fore his turn came. He caught the
9:31 train for Wheaton.

Community clubs in many parts
of the Middle West stood at atten-
tion during the final song, the "Star
Spangled Banner." Other big
speakers will be scheduled later, it
was decided following the success-
ful reception accorded this one.

SPREAD THE RISK OF
FARM LOSSES IS THE
AIM OF RE-INSURANCEi

Officers Look to SucccMhil Ez-j
ample* in Other States ilkl
Laying the Olinoi* PlanJ

Plans for re-insuring farm mu-
tual companies in Illinois are get-
ting under way as conferences ar^'|
being held and as similar coqipa-
nles in other states are being in-
vestigated.

Wm. B. McFarland, Hoopeston. 1
president of the newly organized [
Farmers Mutual Re-insurance Com-
pany of Illinois, l^as been studying I
the situation in Indiana, and he and'l
J. H. Kelker. I. A. A. office man- f
agef. Investigated the Iowa situa-"|
tion. '

Both of these state re-insurance'1
co|ipanies are reported as perform- [
Ing much valuable service to the I
farmers of their commonwealths in I
the matter of spreading the risks]
of losses incurred by farm mutuais I
in cases of fire and tornado. It ' ,
is hoped that some satisfactory plan | J
may be evolved whereby farm mu-. I
tual insurance companies In Illinois )|
may pool their losses In a common
state fund such as the re-insurance
company would provide.

On April 21, President McFar- l|
land conferred with Mr. Kelker and- j
E. A. Myers, I. A. A. Insurance
counsel, relative to formulating a'
system which is to be presented to
the executive committee for ap-'
proval. Vernon Vaniman, field or- j
ganizer for the Illinois Agricultural
Co-operatives Association, will pre- ',
sent the state re-insurance plan to'|'
Illinois farm mutuais. There are
2 37 farm mutual insurance com-
panies in the state.

Voli

Here Are the Main

Points in Tice Bill

As Petssed by House

The main points of the Tice bill,
as passed by the House, are as fol-
lows :

(1) Whenever the owners of 75 per
cent of the herds of breeding and
datry cattle in any county operatinflr'
under the county area plan, shall
have signed agreements with the
State Department of Agriculture, the
Department shall enroll the county '
under the accredited area plan and
notify the state's attorney and the
board of supervisors or board of
county commissioners of such county
accordingly.

(2) The sale of all tuberculin in the
state is placed in the hands of the
State Department of Agriculture.

(3) Female cattle used for feeding
purposes must be branded.

<4> All reactors, whether tested by
irivate veterinarians or under the
.^b-operative plan, must be branded
and reported to the State Department
of Agriculture.

(5) A 60-day retest is required on
all dairy and breeding cattle coming
into modified accredited area coun-
ties. It is also required on all dairy
and breeding cattle coming Into coun-
ties whenever the owners of 75 per
cent of the herds have signed agree-
ments to test with the Department of
Agriculture. The 60-day retest; Is re-
quired of pure breds coming Into any
county. The retest is also required
of all grade dairy and breeding cat-
tle coming into any Illinois county
after July 1. 1927.

(6) All breeding and dairy cattle to
be sold or offered for sale at public
auction within the state of Illinois,
unless from an accredited herd or a
modified accredited area, shall be tu-
berculin tested by a qualified veter-
inarian within the 30 days immediate-
ly preceeding the date of sale.

The bill, if passed by the Senate
and signed by the Governor, bot-h of
which are expected, will go into ef-
fect July 1. 1925.

The principal difference between
the bin as passed by the House and
the original as drawn by the*I. A. A.
is in the extension of time until
July 1, 1927 for grade cattle to be
subject to the 60-day retest.

An appropriation of $3,000,000
for paying indemnities during the
next two-year period is deemed nec-
essary to carry out the t. b. eradica-
tion program.

I

PRODUCER FACTS

The Chicago Producers Commission
Association, established in 1922, han-
dled 17.917 cars of live stock carry-
ing 1,240.226 animals In 1924. Total
sales amounted to }27, 225.247. and
1103.461 patronage dividends were de-
clared for the year.

The Producers Live Stock Commls- (
slon Association of National Stock
Yards. Illinois, established In 1922,
handled 14,053 cars carrying 1,036.-
858 animals. Total sales amounted to
$18,977,387. and patronage dividends
to $58,932.

The Producers Commission Associa-
tioii. Indianapolis, established In
1922. handled 902.833 animals in 12.-
782? cars. Total sales amounted to
$16,864,568, patronage dividends to
$77,404.

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ISKOF ' /
nSTHE 1).
NSURANCE (

>acces«ful Ex- {'
ler States ilk }>
linoU Plan

ring farm mu-KV.it
llinois are get-
lonferences ar*''H ^
similar compa- U , v.J™_ •>
are being in- |Kt^ Vo*""* 3

vir.vHi- ■•

UIS3 VJIRY G. BUR'SAGH. LIHRARIAN.
COLL'^.GE 0? AGRTCTILTURh',

UNIVfRSITY OF ILLII.'OIS,

UL.TU

\jftif

bsued Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinking Fanners — May 9, 1925

No. 9

id, Hoopeston,
iwly organized j
nsurance Gom-
been studying!
na, and he and']
A. office man-
le Iowa situa-'l

Le re-insurance'l
ed as perform-
service to the*
monwealtbs in
ding the riskS'

farm mutuals
1 tornado. It
tisfactory plan r'j
reby farm mu-i f
nies in Illinois l]
i in a common
le re-insurance
Ide.

sident McFar-
Ar. Kelker and'

A. insurance
formulating a'
e presented to
littee for ap-'
iman, field or-
is Agricultural
Ltion, will pre-
irance plan to'
Is. There are
nsurance com-

nn

Ice Bill

'A by House

r the Tice bill,
ise, are as fol-

1

wners of 75 per
' breeding: and
lunty operating
-ea plan, Bhall
entB with the
Agriculture, the
oil the county
area plan an«1
orney and the
or board of
of Buch county

jberculln in the
? hands of the ,
Agriculture,
sed for feeding
nded.

ether tested by

or under the

ist be branded

ate Department

is required on
r cattle coming
;ed area coun- ''
ed on all dairy
■ning into coun- ■
ners of 75 per
? signed agree-

Department of
ay retestiis re-
oming into any
3 also required
1 breeding cat-
Illinois county

i dairy cattle to ,]j

sale at public
ate of Illinois.
Ifted herd or a '
ea, shall be tu-
qualified veter- ,
lays immediate-
? of sale,
by the Senate ■
pernor, boHi of
viU go into ef-

rence between '
the House and
by the^I. A. A. '
of time until
le cattle to be '
retest.

of $3,000,000
es during the
is deemed nec-
e t. b. eradica-

FACTS

ers Commission
d in 1922, han-
re stock carry-
in 1924. Total
127,225,247. and
idends were de-

Stock Commis-
N'ational Stock
lished in 1922,
■arrying 1,036.-
es amounted to
nage dividends *

lission Assocla-
established in '1
animals in 12.-
9 amounted to /
^dividends to

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"ORGANIZATION PAYS"
IS LESSON TAUGHT IN
TORNADO RELIEF WORK

Emergency Adviser Appointed
to Help Hamilton County
Red Cr^u with Fann Relief

Within two weeks after the na-
tion's most destructive tornado
swept acress Southern Illinois, re-
lief workers in Hamilton county,
the only one in the afflicted area
not having a farm adviser or a
county farm bureau, found that
they were severely handicapped in
their rehabilitation work by not
having an organization through
which to direct their efforts. Farm
bureaus in the other afflicted coun-
ties— Franklin, Jackson and White
— had benefited from their organi-
zation machinery and within a few
days after the storm had passed
they had plans well under way for
cleaning away the debris and help-
ing farmers get back to normal as
quickly as possible. In White
county, for instance, the clean-up
campaign was stag'^d within nine
days after the storm.

In view of the existing condi-
tions, H. W. Mumford, dean of the
College of Agriculture, University
of Illinois and director of its ex-
tension service, named J. C. Spitler,
assistant state leader of farm ad-
visers, emergency farm adviser for
the county.

Striking Results

Working with the Hamilton
county unit of the Illinois Farm Re-
lief Committee, Mr. Spitler put def-
inite plans for farm rehabilitation
work into operation and within two
weeks the work in the county had
progressed to the point where it
was on a par with that in the other
three counties having farm advis-
ers. What was accomplished was
nothing short of a striking demon-
stration of what can be accom-
plished by even a temporary farm
adviser.

Throughout the work Mr. Spit-
ler worked in close co-operation
with the local unit of the American
Red Cross. Before Mr. Spitler and
the representatives of the Illinois
Farm Relief Committee started
their work the Red Cross had early
met the problem of food, clothing,
shelter, medical assistance and hos-
pitalization. However, when it
came to taking the next steps in the
relief of farmers and their families,
it was evident that Hamilton coun-
ty was handicapped by not having
an organization of farmers, for
farmers, such as existed in White,
Jackson and Franklin counties.

Temporary Farm Organization

The temporary farm organization
committee in Hamilton county was
composed of C. N. Burnett, A. B.
Anderson and Frank Porter. Mr.
Spitler served as emergency farm
adviser for two weeks and at the
end of that time was relieved by
C. E. Gates, club work specialist of
the agricultural college.

The local committee decided that
a clean-up of the debris, such as
had been and was being accom-
plished in the other counties, was
the most necessary thing to do at
that time, and Monday, April 6, was
set when all forces would drop all
else to help clear away the twisted
wreckace

With the assistance of the emer-
gency farm adviser, the local com-
mittee started a five-day campaign
to get the assistance of as many
able-bodied men as possible who
could devote Monday, April 6, to
the huge clean-up of debris.
Organized Farm Clean-up

An article telling of the big day
was placed in each county news-
paper. Personal letters were sent
to 26 men living in the villages lo-
cated over the county asking them
to organize groups of men. Eight
hundred leading farmers of the
(Continued on page 3. col. 2.)

TRYING TO LOOK SMALL

AMENDMENT TO CUTHBERTSON GAS TAX BILL IS
PUT TO SENATE THIS WEEK; ALLOCATION OF
FUNDS IS CHANGED TO FAVOR LARGER CITIES

Big Grain Merger Again
Asks Cohtinuance to Ward
Off Inquiry By State

Continuing its tactics of evasion
to ward oft an inquiry by the state,
the ^26,000,000 grain merger ap-
plied for another two weeks' delay
on its hearing before the Illinois
Commerce Commission which was
scheduled for April 29.

Counsel for the Grain Marketing
Company asked, for a two weeks'
continuance because the lawyer who
was said to be most familiar with
the case was detained in another
court.

Chairman Smitb of the Illinois
Commerce commission granted the
continuance, which is the third one,
and stated that "we'll have to get
down to the facts — we can't post-
pone this thing too long."

The I. A. A. had asked the Com-
merce Commission to conduct a
public inquiry into the grain mer-
ger to protect the interests of Illi-
nois farmers.

Application for permission to sell
Jl, 000, 000 worth of stock in the
Grain Marketing Company was
made to the Indiana Public Securi-
ties Commission at Indianapolis
recently.

Upon protest of the Indiana
Farm Bureau Federation, the appli-
cation was not granted and a hear-
ing was set for May 19. Applica-
tion to sell stock in Michigan has
met a similar reaction from the
Michigan Farm Bureau Federation.

FARM BUREAU OFHCE
BURNED AT DANVILLE

Fire, originating in a photogra-
pher's shop in the downtown sec-
tion of Danville Sunday, April 26,
virtually destroyed a three-story
brick building housing the Vermil-
ion County Farm Bureau, the Red
Cross, and the Chamber of Com-
merce headquarters and damaged
several stores on the ground fioor.
The loss is estimated at 1100,000.

GOAL OF $180,000
FOR FARM RELIEF
NEAR REALIZATION

Cowles and Anderson of Relief
Committee Spend Much Time
on Work in the Storm Area

Illinois farmers have come to ;the
assistance of their unfortunate
neighbor-farmers in the tornado-
swept district of Southern Illinois
so effectively that a total of $167,-
665.30 is now in the hands of the
Illinois Farm Relief Committee, ac-
cording to R. A. Cowles, chairman
of the committee and I. A. A. treas-
urer.

Thirty-three Counties Over Top

Thirty-three counties have ex-
ceeded the $2,000 quota suggested
by the committee and additional
contributions are being received
daily. In all, 86 counties have sent
in part or all of their quotas.

Chairman Cowles and \-ice-chalr-
man Curt Anderson of the commit-
tee have each week spent some time
in the storm area calling on repre-
sentatives of local disaster relief
committees and Red Cross repre-
sentatives, and have reviewed with
rural case workers certain cases
and peculiar problems involved.

"Business rehaljilitation needs in
the country are being determined
as rapidly as possible and immedi-
ate needs supplied as determined,"
says Mr. Cowles. "The mechanics
involved in the work are, determin-
ing needs, making immediate min-
imum awards, selection of vendor,
material, equipment and supplies,
by beneficiary, disbursing the award
and direct settlement with vendor
by the Red Cross.

Award According to Needs

"Awards in all cases are madf
strictly in accordance with needs.
There is no attempt or obligation
on the part of the Red Cross to re-
imburse anybody for iofaes sus-
(Oontinued

Twenty per cent of Revenue Will Go to Highway Commiuion,
20 per cent to Countie* on 1 924 License Fee Basis, and 60 per
cent to Counties on Basb of State Aid Road Mileage.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL., May « — (Special) — An amendment to the Cuth-
bertson gas tax bill which is pending in the legislature with the
Senate revenue committee's recommendation that
it pass, will be introduced by the sponsors of the bill
this week, according to the legislative committee of
the Illinois Agricultural Association and Senator An-
drew S. Cuthbertson (Macoupin) who have been in
conference here.

In an interview Senator Cuthbertson said that the
bill as it now stands provides for division of the gas
tax revenue to all counties in proportion to the per-
missible state aid road mileage in each county. The
amendment will change this allocation of funds so
that 20 per cent of the total contemplated receipts
will go to the State Highway commission, 20 per cent
to the connties on the basis of the 1924 license fees
and 60 per cent on the basis of the State Aid road
mileage in each county.

Allocation Changed

"We are changing the bill in this way," said Sena-
tor Cuthbertaon, "in order to make a more fair return
to the count! »s which have the big cities. This will
permit each lounty to apply its own money where and how it sees fit
with 20 per i ent to be expended by the SUte Highway commission wiiti
a state-wide Jnd county-to-county travel viewpoint.

Broira C«iii^(r 1

first three tnoithf
tons of limeatOB

iAii

I'Vuak ■>. Banna
• kalnaaa
l.«arbilatlve
Cnatailttee

State Comr, verce Commission
Hands Down Decision as to
Telephoi e Rate Increase

The sleet storm which ravaged
central Illinc is late last year has
not yet thaw »d out. as far as tel-
ephone and light service in the
areas afflictei is concerned

According to Donald Kirkpat-
rick, legal ci unsel for the Illinois
Agricultural Association, many of
whose memb rs live in the section
struck by.th< storm last December,
the Bell teli phone companies ap
plied to th ? Illinois Commerce
Commission for permission to in
crease their service rates to their
farmer patrc ns as a result of the
storm, so as to provide for rccon
stniction fu ids. Other indepen
dent telepho le companies also ap
plied for the same permission

"The Com aission on January 15
1925," says Mr. Kirkpatrick,
sued an on er. the substance of
which is to he effect that any tel
epbone com] any receiving injuries
to its proper y in the sleet storm of
December 18, 1924. must file appli
cation to t le Illinois Commerce
Commission for relief, stating
full its pro>erty losses and the
amounts of moneys required for
restoration. On the basis of this
information, specifications for
lief are to b^ made by the Commis-
sion."

The Illinoik Agricultural .\ssocla
tion has the 'ase under advisement

20 Per Cei it Increase
In Meml ership for First
Eight yicLean Townships

Eight towi ships in McLean coun-
ty have beea practically completed
in the rene ral campaign of the
McLean Coui ty Farm Bureau with
an average i icrease of 20 per cent
in membersh p. This county is the
second one o the 40 which fall due
for renewals of three-year member-
ships this yeir. The first was Iro-
quois, which finished 1,501 mem-
bers represetting a 15 per cent in-
crease over i s former membership.

Local lead ^rs in McLean county
report that \ he old members have
been signing up again very readily
and that not -members are signing
easier becaui e they are beginning
to see the li| ht of the need of or-
ganization f( r farmers if agricul-
ture is ever o get anywhere.

«reaa in the
' boucht 700

"The 20 and 60 per cent amounts
returned to each county will, in a
large share of the 104 counties, be
sufficient to replace the present 2S
cent levy for county highways. Bv
replacing this tax, the gasoline tax
becomes a lieu tax and not an ad
dltional tax. Most of the senators
are desirous of reducing taxes so
we anticipate that the bill as
amended will pass the Senate."

t'iles I>euria County as Rxain|ile

Senator Cuthljertson presented
figures compiled by the Illinois Ag-
ricultural-Association which showed
several possible divisions of the ex-
pected 110.000.000 annual gas tax
revenue for the state. Pointing to
Peoria county as typical of the
counties in the state with a large
city population, he showed that this
county would contribute $235,340
in a year if a two cent gas tax were
levied.

This figure, he stated, was ar-
rived at on the basis of the motor
licenses issued in Peoria countv .in
1924. The 20 per cent of this to-
tal which would go to the State
Highway commission, under the
amendment which he is submitting
this week, would be $47,070. The
20 and 60 per cent amounts which
are based on permissible mileaKn
of state aid roads in the county and
the 1924 license fees, respectiveli
would aggregate $165,560. Th'i-
would mean an average of $6ii.
per mile of State Aid roads in IVi.
ria county available for their us.
as they see it.

Reiilares PreNent Tax

Property owners in this countv
are now paying approximately
$100,000 a year for the upkeep of
the same roads, his figures indi-
cated. Under the terms of the
Cuthbertson bill, the $100,000
would be displaced and the burden
on all property thereby lessened.
At the same time Peoria county
would have $165,560 to invest on
its roads. This condition applies
even more favorably in most of the
other counties, lie stated.

Tice RUI

The Tice bill, which provides for
a general re-codification of t. b.
laws and compulsory testing when
75 per cent of the herds of a coun-
ty have signed up for testing, has
passed the house with only two dis-
senting votes, as was announced in
the Reooko last time. From that
stage it was referred to the Senate
Committee on Agriculture, which
passed it out to the Senate with the
recommendation that it pass. It is
on second reading in the Senate as
C^ontlnued on pare 4, rol. l.J

Pace2

The lUinoM Agricultural A»tociation Record

May 9, 192S

„ I li Li I N OIS

CCli-TlJBAl. AS SO CIA

RECORO^

i

Pnbllshad everr other Saturday b7 the Illinois Acrlenltoral
Asaoclatlon. SOS South Dearborn Street, Chicago. Illfnola. Ed-
ited by Department of Information, H. C. Butcher, Director.

Botered a* aeeond class matter Oct. 10, 1921, at the post olBee
at ChleaKO, Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1S79. Aoceptmnoe
for mallfngr at special rates of postage provided for la Seotloa
not. Act of October 3, 1»17, authorlied Oct. 11. Hit.

The IndlTldual membership fee of the Illinois Arrlcaltnral As-
sociation Is flTS dollars a year. The fee Includes payment of
fifty cents for sapsorlptlon to the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
olatlon PT"*f*.

Postmaster: In returning an uncalled-for or mlssent copy,
please indicate key number on address as is required by law.

OFFICERS
Presideiit, S. H. Thompson, Qulnoy.
Vice-President, H. E. Ooembel, Hooppole.
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomlngton.
Secretary, Geow A. Fox, Sycamore.

11th....,

12th

13th

14th

15th

16th

17th

18th

19th

20th

21«t

22 nd

23 rd

24th

25th

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE i

By Congressional Districts I

.William Webb, Route One, Jollet

fl. F. Tuilocl<, Rocl<ford

C. E. Bamborough, Polo

W.jH. Moody, Port Byron

Lb. H. Taylor, Rapatee

..A. R. Wright, Varna

, . F. D. Barton, Cornell

R. F. Karr, Iroquois

.1 J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

.[._. Earl C. Smith, Detroit

^i.. Samuel Sorreiit, Raymond

Stanly Castle, Alton

W. L. Cope, Saiem

Curt Anderson, Xenia

R. K. Loomis, Makanda

Directors of Departments
I. A. A. Office

General O^ce and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Keliter; Or-
ganizatioiv G. E. Metzger; Informationi H. C. Butcher; Trans-
portation, L. J. Quasey; Taxation and Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marl<eting, A. B-
Leeper; Live Stocic Marlteting, Wm. E. Hedgcocl<; Dairy
Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone, J. R. Bent;
In charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A. Qougler; special
representative on Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H. Petersen;
Legal Counsel, Donald Kirkpatrick; Co-operative Accounting,
Geo. R. Wicker.

THE RECORD'S PLATFORM
Advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau UMu organized,
nanteiy, to promote^ protect and represent the businest, economic,
todol md educational interests of the farmers of lUinois and the
nation, and to develop agriculture.

Trying To Ducrmdit U*

An effort to discredit the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation because of its stand against the $26,000,000
grain merger is shown in the stock selling promoters'
public accusation that a legal report on the company
has been suppressed bji the I. A. A.

This le^l opinion is known as tlte Starr report. It is
a lawyer "fe opinion on the legal phase of the grain mer-
ger, only one of several phases studied by the Illinois
Agricultural As-sociatioil before the association's execu-
tive committee decided 1)0 warn the members not to buy
stock. '

It is tiue that the S|tarr report was never released
for publication by this association or Mr. Starr. It was
never thought to be of enough importance- to single it
out of several reports ajid print it in full. The weight
of it was balanced with -the weight of other reports and
the result was a iiegativie decision. However, the Starr
report has been open ^or persualjby members of the
associatioB and has been seen bjf all who desire to
see it. I i

Demanq for its releas|e has come only from the stock
selling promoters of the grain merger, who, it was feared
by the association, would extract only such sections as
would heljp sell stock in the merger. The use now be-
ing made of the Starr report illustrates perfectlj- why
the I. A. A. ofBcials and executive committee did not
release it to the promoters of tl^e Grain Marketing
Company jfor publicatiofi.

*■.

o Ruth and Red Croaa

The title of this poem is rather misleading unless one
knows who "Riuth" and "Red Cross" are in this case.

Ruth is a y(j>ung lady of four years who got blown
about a bit ini the recent cyclone in Southern Illinois
and, in order (jo cheer her up. Miss Ruth's 15-year-old
sister, Bethyl 3. Allardin, wrote this little poem to her.
According to Mrs. James L. Mitchell, the Red Cross
case worker foe Hamilton county and who sent this and
the other poem on page 4, to R. A. Cowles, chairman
of the Illinois i Farm Relief Committee, both girls are
convalescing in a hospital. The poems give a sidelight
on the tornado tragedy reflecting the good spirit being
si|iown in the stricken communities.

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I^m just -a littlje girl; I'm only four years old.
My name is Ri^th Allardin, if you haven't already been
told.

' I live at McLeajnsboro. It 's a long, long way from here.
I wish I was bick home with all my friends so dear.

My leg got hurt badly. I 'm here to get well you see.
I 'm at the Red.1 Cross Hospital, they '11 take good care of
me.

I took Red Cross with me, when I was ready to go.
I have to take good care of her, 'cause she's my dolly,
■ you know. •

A man came td see me this morning. I like him a lot,

you bet.
He brought me some candy and a rabbit, and the rabbit

is a pet.

I play with him and he doesn't try to run away.
He's a great big rabbit, Red Cross rode on his back one
day. j

I play on my little piano, a lady showed me how,
R«d Cross soon! can play, 'cause I'm giving her lessons
now.

We are very happy here, Little Red Cross and I.
We are always laughing, and never have time to cry.

We are going home some day, we '11 surely be glad to go,
TJio we're loat)i to leave our new friends, we miss our
old ones so.'

— Betl|yl S. Allardin, McLeansboro, Illinois.

Want a Good Laagh ? Read This .'

(Reprinted from the Evening Bulletin of
New York City.)

Four states, each in the Ea.st, may be the only sur-
vivors in the battle the farmers have waged against the
iCity automobilists. Today every state in the Union but
Ohio and Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island and New Jersey have adopted the gasoline tax,
and it appears as if Ohio and Illinois would approve
the plan before their Legislatures adjourn.

The gasoline tax is nothing but a new blow aimed by
the farmers against the city dwellers. It is a scheme
by which the cost of building roads is taken from the
general tax and placed exclusively upon the shoulders
of city automobilists.

The unfairness of the proposition may be judged by
two specific facts:

1 — That ;the automobile already is the highest
tax article of personal property. It is taxed by the
Federal government through a war assessment on
purchase of plarts ; it is taxed by the state by a reg-
istration fee land driver's license; it is taxed by
municipal coinmunities by a property tax.

2 — The farmer has profited more from the
automobile than any other individual. Before the
automobile c^e no state in the Union could boast
of good roadp. Farmers had to use many horses
and trucks tc get their produce to market. The
automobile came and registration fees, court fees,

etc., provided

sufficient mcjney to build good roads.

Today the automobilist really needs no more roads.

■" The farmer does. So the farmer intends to get the

roads he needs by taxing the city automobilist.

Only 4 per cent of all the pleasure cars in the United
States use country roads; yet 70 per cent of all the
taxes assessed against city owned automobiles has been
spent building country roads.

The cost of getting farm produce to the market has
been reduced 11 per cent since the automobile tax built
good roads where there were bad ones.

But the farmer is not satisfied.

New York state doesn't need to be told of the greed
and cupidity of the farmer. Lowman's pals gave full
and bold proof of it during the past Legislative season.
But it is remarkable that the nation has been so com-
pletely deceived.

To show how selfish and unfair the farm politician is
one need but know that in almost every state where
the gasoline tax has been enacted farm automobiles have
been made exempt from the tax.

The Illinois Agricultural Association, a bunch of
farmers, arguing for the passage of the gasoline tax in
that state, states:

The tax is about as equitable as it can be . . .

The farmer who still drives a horse . . . saves the

whole amount.

The farmers have expended much eflfort and more
money in attempting to foist the gasoline tax upon the
people. Road building costs were a nightmare to them.
Because of the chronic ignorance which characterizes
so many of the farmers' campaigns the agriculturists
wasted both time and money. To solve the road build-
ing problem one does not need a gasoline tax ; one does
need to remove politics from road building.

Go into any small city or country town and investi-
gate road building costs! Then go to any competent
engineer and get the facts. You wiU find that, allowing
a fair profit to the contractor and paying a fair price
for labor and materials, every community pays about
30 per cent more for its road work than it should.

Where does this money go?

Politics profits more out of road building than in any
municipal activity except the purchase of fire apparatus
— so observers claim who should know what they are
talking about.

Every small town politician welcomes the proposal
that a road be built. Every contractor welcomes it.
And then when the contract is awarded it is bloated
30 per cent to pay the political fare. The result is that
roads which shoidd contain half cement and half sand
really contain one-fifth cement and four-fifths sand. In
a year the road is a wreck ; it cannot withstand a single
winter's storm. Then repairs must come.

It is amusing to note the complaint of the Illinois
farmers that the gasoline tax of two cents a gallon
barely covers the cost of repairs and does not provide
any money for new construction. That is fairly good
proof that all the tax does is pay the high price demand-
ed by practical politics.

It would be interesting and illuminating if one could
ascertain how many selectmen's gartiges, mayor's sum-
mer camps, aldermen's automobiles and councilmen's
shoes have been bought in the cities and towns of the
nation by the contributions of road builders.

The gasoline tax is a political tax. But the farmer is
too thick to realize it, just as he is thick enough to pay
the $10 to the klan and subscribe to the courses which
teach dupes how to become hypocrites. — The Evening
Bulletin, New York City.

"^ Offlc<
I county

The I. A. A. is quite a "bunch" of farmers to be
causing so much editorial comment in the world's larg-
est city a thousand miles away, don't you think t

Our guess is that the gentleman who wrote this edi-
torial knows about as much about farmers as the fellow
who pumped the cow's tail to get milk — and about the
same proportion about the gas tax. Rhode Island has
adopted the tax, as has Ohio.

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INTRODUCING TWO NEIGHBORS— John Thinker and Epidermis Flint. (John's a Loyal Farm Bureau Member. Epidermis Is Agin Itt)

I40WDY • FARM BUREAU FOLKS! MY NAME'S
JOHN THINKER AN" I'M PCOUD TO BE ,
ONe cy THIS OCffANIZATION 0" Tt4INKIN
, FACMEQS '

AN'TWie IS MY NEAREST NE l&UBOB,, MB.
EPIDCBMIS FlINT. HE ISN'T EXACUV
SOLD ON THH FARM BUeEAU BUT HE
MAKES ME eOOD COMRANY^^>£.
WUCN r WANTA BE S: 4^

ENTERTAINED, j (^^M

ENTERTAINED HOTWIN' J 1 M THE SUY THAT
SITS ENTERTAINED BY HE/:«aiN' AU.THIS
FARM SURER DRIVEL naOM YOU! ALL .
ABOUT LIMIN' SOILS AN'TESTlN'CATaE-ITS
BUNK ! MY DADDY A M' ©RAN'DAODY SOT
ALONS WITHOUT LIMES ANTESTS AN'
FARM BUEERS AN' SO
KIN I *,

TALKlN LIKE" TUAT,EPIDERMIS,ALMOST FORCES
ME TO DRAW ATTENTION OF OUR RECORD^
EEADERS THAT YOue FLOSSY FIRST
NAME IS A MISH-HAT VJORDroR"SKI>
UENCE-SKIN FLINT-WUICW FITS *^iT ,
CLOSER TI4AM "lOUR CMIN \AWI9KEGS.''

Viay 9, 192S .May 9, 1925

Th« llliiioi» Agricultural AMorUrton Record

Pace 3

s to get the

lobilist.

in the United

nt of all the

ailes has been

18 market has
)bile tax built

of the greed
pals gave full
slative season.

been so com-

a politician is
T state where
omobiles have

a bunch of
asoline tax in

can be . . .
. saves the

)rt and more
tax upon the
nare to them,
characterizes
agriculturists
le road build-
tax; one does

I and investi-
ay competent
that, allowing
I a fair price
y pays about
it should.

% than in any
ire apparatus
■hat they are

the proposal
welcomes it.
it is bloated
result is that
md half sand
'ths sand. In
stand a single

if the Illinois
;nts a gallon
s not provide
s fairly good
price demand-

t if one could
mayor's sum-
councilmen 's
towns of the
s.

the farmer is
nough to pay
;ourses which
The Evening

CONSTANT PROGRESS MARKS EFFORTS OF I. A. C. A. IN ELEVEN MONTHS

ORGANIZATION, FAIRS,
FARM MART, SURJECTS
AT JOLIET CONFERENCE

Farm Bureau Men From Five
Counties in Two Districts
Talk Problems in Conference

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Officers and farm advisers of the

county Farm Bureaus in the 10th

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^F \ tricts of Illinois

.^BmbmA met in Joliet on

^^WpjF April 28 for the

^■■BV second confer-

j^^^K ence of the year.

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^^^^^^^^Wm. Webb,

^^^^P^^^^H Lockport,

^^^^^T ^^H tlve committee-

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Illinois Agricul-

^■■- ■Wekb tural Association,

50 representative farm bureau

members were present from the

counties of Will, Lalce, McHenry,

DuPage and Kane. A trip through

the new state prison and the dairy

barn at Stateville preceded the

business meeting.

Metzger Tells About I. .*. A.

What the Illinois Agricultural
Association is doing to build the
farm bureau forces throughout the
state, was the subject of G. E.
Metzger, organization director of
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion. Explaining the method used
in organizing the farmers In each
county, he stated that the township
plan was being stressed now more
than ever. Under this plan the
community or township is made the
basis of building the membership,
and local leaders are chosen to line
up the farmers behind the farm
bureau movement.

"The community plan," said Mr.
Metzger, "is working well in all
the counties where it is used. The
Farm Bureaus are now well estab-
lished and are going institutions."

Pushes Agricultural Mart

Mr. Webb, in speaking of the
proposed agricultural mart to be
erected in Chicago, declared that
"agriculture as the greatest indus-
try in the world should have the
best site and the largest building
in the world." He told of the plans
now under way to build and finance
the undertaking, which when com-
pleted is to be the largest fire-
proof building in the world, wiXh
transport facilities and accommoda-
tions for conventions and exposi-
tions unequalled anywhere.

Following Mr. Webb's talk, the
audience heard J. C. Hackleman,
seed certification specialist at the
University of Illinois. Mr. Hackle-
man traced the history of the seed
certification movement from its
start in Sweden and Canada to the
present, and stated that at present
there are 40 seed improvement as-
sociations in the country, including
the Illinois Seed Improvement As-
sociation, which was organized in
1921.

Talks Seed Certlflcation

In 1919, he informed his hearers,
there was organized in Chicago the
International Seed Improvement
Association, with the purpose of
standardizing all seed certifying as
well as the teaching of this subject.
The International association, he
said, now carries all Canada and 19
states ip the Union.

J. E.'Watt, farm adviser of Kane
County Farm Bureau, followed Mr.
Hackleman with a talk on "What
the Rural Fair Can Do for the
Farmers." He stated that the fair
is a big infiuence in cementing the
farm bureau, and spoke of the edu-
cational value possessed by the ag-
ricultural exhibits. He pointed out
that community exhibits are the
promising thing in farm fairs to-
day.

Want I. A. A. to Have Exhibit

It was moved by the assembly
that the I. A. A. be represented at
the Central States Fair, to be held
at Aurora, August 19 to 28. Mr.
Metzger then spoke briefiy on the
legislative program of the I. A. A.

Those present at the meeting are
as follows:

Kane County: John E. Watt, farm
adviser: Glenn C. Warne. E. L. Hoyt.
Dan G. Davles. W. Lloyd Keepers,
assistant farm adviser.

Lake County: J. J. Doerschuk. farm
adviser, and Wiilard Darrell.

Fame of Ceunpaign to
"Spread Your Butter
Thicker" Gain' Some!

News of somethlnK new un-
der the sun travels fast and far.

This is illustrated in a recent
request from the Whatcom
County Fami Bureau in the
state of Washington for a cut
of the "Spread Your Butter
Thicker" poster being used in
Illinois at the Instance of the
I. A. A. dairy department.

Evidently Washington dairy-
men are also interested in cut-
ting down the butter surplus.
A. D. Lj-nch, dairy marketing
director, says that the more
butter they eat out there, the
better the prices all over. Ten
thousand imsters of this kind
have been distributed in Illi-
nois. The Illinois Butter Im-
provenient A$.sociation and I..4.
A. dairy dei>artnient are co-op-
erating in the distribution.

TORNADO REUEF WORK
TEACHES ORGANIZATION

(Continued from page 1)
county were solicited for their help
by means of postal cards. Pastors
announced the plan from the pul-
pits at Sunday services. Mr. Spit-
ler, as emergency adviser asked
the farm advisers in Jefferson,
Wayne, Gallatin and Saline counties
to send delegations of farmers for
the day. A thousand hand bills
were printed and distributed in the
autos and buggies of several hun-
dred people who came to McLeans-
boro because of examination day for
pupils of the rural schools. The
mayor of McLeansboro issued a
proclamation asking all business
places to close from eight to four
o'clock. Superintendents of the
high schools in McLeansboro, Dahl-
gren and Broughton released their
high school boys for the day.

All these things were accom-
plished in preparation for the big
day. The result was that nearly
2,000 people assisted in the work.
The tillable fields over the entire
farm area in Hamilton county were
cleaned of debris as were a large
number of building sites. About
6,000 acres were covered. It was
a wonderful demonstration of co-
operation.

Turned to Other Problems

Following the clean-up the atten-
tion of the local committee and the
emergency farm adviser was turned
to determining the emergency busi-
ness needs of those men in resuming
their farming. Horses, machinery,
feed, seeds, poultry and dairy cows
were items of their first considera-
tion, with consideration of building
requirements to come later.

Full ■ co-operation was accorded
the Red Cross supplementing their
work. Authority was vested in
Mrs. James L. Mitchell in charge of
the Red Cross case work for Ham-
ilton county to issue requisitions
to supply immediate minimum re-
habilitation needs.

Following this conference the
first needs of farmers were deter-
mined and then the Red Cross rural
case worker commenced to issue
requisitions for horses, machinery,
feed and other necessities which
were required in order to make
each one a producer again as rapid-
ly as possible.

Hamilton Now W^eU Fixed

The local committee and the
emergency farm adviser in effect
constitute a temporary farm bu-
reau for Hamilton county. As a
result of this organization, Hamil-
ton county's rural sufferers are be-
ing cared for with dispatch and in
a manner which places the whole
county's farm relief status in a
most satisfactory situation.

Moral: Farm organization pays.

Wiil County: J. Franklin Hedgcock,
farm adviser; Rowland F. Clark, as-
sistant farm adviser: "Wm. Anderson,
l^^mil Deist, Henry Knater. James
Clow, Wm. T. Eldridge, J. C. Hart-
man. C. R. Barr, R. R. Webb, Herman
Teske, John P. Wille, Geo. Hinze, P.
B. Reichert. Ernest Relchert. C. J.
Luther, Wm. Webb, Elmer, E. Barton,
and Henry A. Felton.

DuPaee County: E. A. Carncross,
farm adviser; Geo. B. Goss, Prank
Praley, E. T. Ashbrook, C. C. Wim-
pross. C. C. McChesney. W. B. Leh-
man, August Shillinger. Harold C.
Vial. Arnold A. Kohley, F. C. Landorf,
Leo Paulfngr, Robert J. Plane. B. D.
TImko, Wm. Ross, and P. W. Lam-
bert.

NEW AGRICULTURE TO
BE CHARACTERIZED BY
DIGNITY, SELF-RESPECT

Stephenson County Speaks ;
and Limestone Crushing Co-
op Has Blaxed the Trail

"Agriculture is waking up to a
new,', day." This is the statement
recently made by L. M. Swanzey,
president of the Stephenson County
Farm Bureau, talking over WLS,
Chicago, in the radio series spons-
ored by the I. A. A.

Mr. Swanzey in his talk pointed
to the accomplishments of the farm
bureau in his county as great helps
in the development of the county's
agriculture. "But the real merit
of organized agriculture," he said,
"does not lie in the projects suc-
cessfully carried by the farm bu-
reau, important as these are.

"The new agriculture is to be
characterized by dignity and self-
respect. Again and again, we have
been told that the farmer must help
himself. "Relief must come from
within, not from legislation.'

Fann Bureau the Only tironp

"The farm bureau is the only
national organization uniting the
farmers of America into a position
where they can speak for them-
selves, can defend their rights, and
claim recognition.

"Our social structure has become
exceedingly complex. Our age is
one of specialization and organiza-
tion. Labor, industry, and capital
are organized."

Competition Out of Date

The once popular belief that
competition is. the life of trade is
losing its eminence, according to
Mr. Swanzey. "The farm bureau
movement has t>een the means for
the farmer to find himself in this
age. He no longer believes that he
can succeed alone. He knows that
he must work out his own destiny
with his brother farmers. He
knows that he and his neighbors
have more problems in common
than they have differences. He is
thinking in terms of group action
and leaders are being developed.
He has therefore found himself and
this is the highest step forward in
working out a program for a satis-
factory agriculture. This is the big
thin^ in the farm bureau."

Couifty Wakee to Limestone Sources

The farm bureau limestone
project in Stephenson county was
the subject of a radio talk by E.
C. Goeke, secretary of the county
Farm Bureau. He spoke of the
Stephenson County Co-operative
Limestone .\ssociation, organized in
1922.

A portable crusher, a tractor,
and two dump trucks made up the
equipment of this co-operative, ac-
cording to Mr. Goeke. During the
three-year period, 32 quarries have
been worked by the crusher, and
over 11,000 tons of limestone have
been ground and delivered to 305
farmers.
Eleven Other Crushers Started

As a result of the efforts of the
farmer co-op, several private crush-
ers have been put into operation in
Stephenson county, which is under-
lain by much limestone fit for agri-
cultural purposes. Now there ^re
12 crushers in the county.

"The original purpose," declares
Mr. Goe'ke, "was to sell the lime-
stone idfa to the farmers by sell-
ing the stone in order that they
might see the value of the material
on their own farms." He reports
that one of the important things
that have come out of the crashing
project is the increase in the nupi-
ber of acres of alfalfa.

"An alfalfa campaign worked
with the project helped to sell the
stone. Many farmers have tried to
grow this crop' on sour soil and
failed. Conservatively speaking,
the acreage of alfalfa in the county
during the three-year period in-
creased from 750 acres to over
8,000 acres."

McHenry County: A. J. Gafke. farm
adviser: D. Ross, Leonard Thomas, B.
L. Thomas, Geo. A. Hunt. Ole A. Stal-
heim. Prank M. Barber, and L. K.
Lippold.

dl

Florida's leKislotJr.
asalnst the Chf ! "a-.

ited
-.. -nt.

Quasey Explains $2
Charge ok Stock Cars
Ordered But Not Used

The I. A. 1.4. transportation
de|>artment. L. J. Quasey, di-
rector, poina out that there
has been considerable misun-
derstanding as regards the de-
murrage charge on stock cars
placed at loading chutes bat
not used.

"The railroads make a
charge of $Z when a mr is
ordered placed and not used.

Mr. Quasey says, '"nils charge

starts from the

ment.

actual plafe-

"Cars are required on shoK
notice and, * unless there is
some penalty' for this practice,
it would create a car shortage.
Many shippeiv would order cars
In sufficient quantities to en-
able them to have a supply on
hand at all times, ther^y pre-
venting some other shlpiwr
from getting his share.

"This rule has been In effect
for several years but has not
been enforced."

STEADY GROWTH IS
PROGRESS OF FARMERS'
CO-OP AUDITING BODY

'Under a Year and Over 150"
b Record of the I. A. C. A.
As the Figures Climb

ILLINOIS FARMERS
ARE BUYING MORE
MINERAL FOR CROPS

Limestone Purchases Continue
to Increase, While Demand
for Phosphate Also Improves

Demand for minerals to improve
Illinois soil continues to grow.

According to the I. A. A. phos-
phate-limestone department, J. R.
Bent, director, the outlook for pur-
chases of limestone and phosphate
by the farmers of Illinois is very
favorable. "The demand for lime-
stoae alone," he says, '"'for 1925
to date has been larger than in
1924 for the same period, and in-
dications are that this increase in
demand over last year will con-
tinue through the year, especially
in late summer and early fall.

"The I. A. A. phosphate - lime-
stone department wishes to point
out, however, that limestone is not
l>eing produced in as large quan-
tities as last year, as many right-
of-way problems have been hold-
ing up the letting of contracts for
construction of concrete roads
throughout the state.

Predicts Less Crushed Stone

Only 50 to 70 per cent of the
concrete mileage of last year is
likely to be built this year. This
means less production of crushed
stone, and less by-product screen-
ings for agricultural purposes.
Furthermore, the accumulation of
three to four years' ground lime-
stone in storage was largely used
up in 1924, when Illinois farmers
bought 500,000 tons of limestone,
or one-fourth of all the agricultural
limestone purchased in the United
States last year.

"In that part of the state where
production is heavier and demand
lighter, there may be no shortage,
but in some other sections of Illi-
nois where the reverse is true, there
may be a shortage."

.Advises Ordering Early

The phosphate demand, says Mr.
Bent, is keeping up very well for
this time of year. "It would l>e
well," he advises, "for those de-
siring shipments of the mineral in
August, September, and October to
order their shipments now and, if
possible, to accept these shipments
earlier than fall."

The phosphate-limestone direc-
tor has been spending some time
in Ohio, investigating the methods
used liv the purchasing service de-
partment of the Ohio Farm Bureau
Federation. During the week of
April 27 he was in Hancock and
Warren counties in Western Illinois,
reviewing the situation as to the
possibility of developing local farm-
owned limestone producing pro-
jecU. t

During the six monlihs period end-
ing March Jl, 19J5 the Polo Cooper-
ative Marketing AsA>clation, Ogle
county, did a buaines^ in marketing
cream and eggs amounting to $13.-
«78.83 paid for cream and »2.114 49
paid for eggs or a total of tlS.99S.32.
After paying ail expenses of opera-
tion the association has a balance of
profit of |94t.OO whldh will be re-
tained for working capital.

That the growth of the I. AC. A
has been more than satisfactory in
the 11 months of its existence, is
m p A the statement of Geo. R.
I *\M Wicker, general manager
*•'•' and co-operative account-
ing director for the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association.

"When our work started in June.
1924." states Mr. Wicker, "we felt
that if we had 50 members in the
organization by the end of the >;ear.
we would consider our efforts suc-
cessful. However, we were more
than gratified to see the memt>er-
ship figures reach the 114 mark by
the end of December, 1924. To-
day the roll call stands at 159
member co-ops in the I. A. C. A..
and we are confident Ttiat the fu
ture will see the organization con-
tinue in its healthy state.

Must Kstabtsh Credit Puitry

"One of the outstanding weak-
nesses of co-operative associations. "
declares Mr. Wicker," and more
particularly farmers' elevators and
those engaged in handling mer-
chandise, is their failure to estab-
lish a credit policy with respect to
the extension of credit to their cus-
tomers and also their failure to
consistently follow up collections.
Because of this condition, we have
found it advisable in many of the
examinations which we have made
to analyze the accounts receivable
and classify them by age.

"Letters of verification have
been sent to each customer in the
several classifications with two
.purposes in view; first, to verify -the
accuracy of the account as shown
on the books of the company; sec-
ond, to induce the collection of
past due accounts. These letters
are sent out over our signature and
are followed up by such corres-
pondence as may t>e necessary tcj
effect settlement, if possible.
Manager Ke|K Inforvied

"The manager is kept currently
informed and where differences ex-
ist, or the account is disputed, an
effort is made to get the customer
and the mknager together in a set-
tlement which will be mutually
agreeable. Tbis sen-ice has been
found very effective in reducing
the volume of accounts receivable
and in clearing up some of ihe old
accounts. In one particular in-
stance, with accounts receivable at
{22,082.00, collections in the thirty
days following our letter of verifi-
cation sent out to customers
amounted to over $14,000.00.

"An analysis of accounts receiv-
able, as indicated above, results in
making it possible to establish a
proper reserve to protect the com-
pany against probable losses in the
collection of accounts receivable."

Through the efforts of Vernon
Vaniman, field organizer, new mem-
ber organizations were added to the
I. A. C. A. month after month. The
following shows the numerical
growth by months:

June. 1924 18 members

July 4> members

.\ugU8t' 55 members

September 70 members

CK'tober' 82 members

.VovenjWer .too members

I'l-cember !ll4 members

januar]l|^1925 182 members

February 148 members

March 149 roeaibers

.\prll 1S9 members

Dii-ide State into Five Districlii
With the purpose of establishing
definite districts around branch
offices, Mr. Wicker has divided the
state into five districts, comprising
the following counties:

CHICAGO DISTRICT: Jo Daviess.
Stephenson. Winnebago. Boone. Mr-
Henry, Lake, Carroll, Ogle. DeKalb.
Kane. DuPage. Cook. l.ASalle. Ken-
dall. Will, Grundy. Kankakee. Put
nam. Marshall. Livingston. Ford. Iro-
quois.

SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT: McLean.
Schuyler. Brown. Cass. Mason, Me-
nard. Logan. DeWilt. Pike. Morgan.
Scott. Sangamon. Christian. Macoi..
Calhoun. Greene. Jersey. Macoupin.
Montgomery. Madison, St. Clair. Mon-
roe.

GALKSBURO DISTRICT White-
side. Lee. Rock Island. Henry. Bu-
reau. Mercer. Henderson. Warren.
Knox, Stark. Hancock. McLwnough.
Fulton, Peoria, Tasewell. Woodford.
Adams.

(Continued on page 4. col. 1.)

Y'

Page 4

The Illinoi* Agricultural Awocuttioa Record

*>

First County Dairy
Marketing Body Gets
2,4 Cent Fat prernium

"How Farmers in Ford County
Get Higher Cream Prices" was the
subject of a recent radio talk by
G. T. Swalm, farm adviser of Ford
county. ovBr WLS, Chicago, in the
radio seriee scheduled by the I.^.A.
Mr. Swaim spoke of tbe organ-
ization and plan of tbe Fofd County
Dairy Marketing Association, which,
with its arst unit at Pa^ton, has
become Weill established during the
hrst IV months of its existence.

••Late in May, 1924," said Mr.
Swaim. "& meeting was icalled of
those cream producers who had
.signed the membership Agreement
to pool their produce co-eperatire-
iy. The dairy herds concierned in-
cluded over the prescribed mini-
mum of 400 cows. An incorporat-
ing board was elected and author-
ized to start an association. This
board received bids from several of
the larger centralizer companies
and finally closed a deal with a
centralizing plant in Chicago.
.Sponsored by Farm Bureau
"A special feature of the Ford
county plan is tbe fact that the
voting power is reposed in the farm
bureau membership, and the by-
laws of thej county associajtion pro-
vide that the farm bureau shall
help conduct the management of
the association. The plain is for
a closely knit federation of units
and local boards of directors at
each place where cream producers
decide to organize as a branch of
the county ; association.

••That the organization has al-
ready proved its worth to the mem-
bers is projved by the fact that a
premium ol 2.4 cents over the av-
erage pricei for the state has been
realized on| every pound Of butter
made from the cream pooled by it."

May 9, 192S.

GOAL OF $180,000

NEAR REAUZATION

(Continued from page 1)
ained. In making awards the Red
Cross in each case takes into full
consideration the beneficiary's re-
sources and meets needs beyond
which the beneficiary is unable to
provide. The project is strictly one
of home and business rehabilitation
so these people may be re-estab-
lished so far as possible as self-
supporting citizens."

Tbe I. A. A. has contributed
service in making available as
needed dependable field workers to
assist Red Cross rural case work-
ers in determining business replace-
ment needs of the farm: These
men, who are practical farmers and
know local conditions thoroughly,
have assisted in locating work ani-
mals for purchases and have as-
sisted in other ways, supplement-
ing the rural case workers' service
and working with the case workers
in an advisory capacity.

Following is the detailed state-
ment of contributions to the Illi-
nois Farm Relief Fund.

»

700.00

658.77
1.478.4B

875.74
1.619.46
1.687.90

719.00

35.00

1,577.50

484.13

-^

*

SENATE CONSIDERS
GAS TAX AMENDMENT

(Continued from page 1 )
this is being written (May 5).

The Lant% resolution, which em-
bodies the tjhird plank of the I. A. A.
legislative platform for the farmers
of Illinois, Is in good standing, ac-
cording to the legislative commit-
tee. Action on it is expected to
start soon since the end of this
legislative session is drawing to a
close. Onllr one possible amend-
ment to tbe constitution can be
made each biennium, consequently
the legislators leave all possible
amendments until the last and then
pick out the one needed most.

The legislative committee, which
consists of Frank D. Barton of Cor-
nell (Livingston) as chairtnan, A.
C. Everingham of Hutsonville
(Crawford) and H. E. Goembel of
Hooppole (Henry), has been on the
Job at Springfield, as well as Pres-
ident Thompson and Secretary Fox,
who have assisted materially. Le-
gal Counsel Kirkpatrick and Taxa-
tioft*Director Watson have also been
busy on legislative affairs.

Assisted In Wolf Trouble
The committee was of some as-
sistance recently in assisting the
farmers of the counties along the
Mississippi river to secure an ap-
propriation to fight wolves which
have been causing great daluage to
live stock in that section.

Action has been promised the
legislative committee by leaders In
both houses on securing an open
season on rabbits. This change
will be provided for as an amend-
ment to some bill, according to the
legislative leaders approached by
the 1. A. A. committee:

Adams

Bond

Boone

Hrown

Bureau

Oarroll

ilass

<:tham^aign ....

(Thrlatian

Oark

Clay 1 1.311.92

Clinton 800.00

Coles 2.0S6.60

Cook ' 452.00

Crawford 963.65

De Kalb | 1.020.00

De Witt 1.727.89

Douelaa 280.60

Du Page ! I 2.487.34

EMgar ...(.. 167.50

E3dwards 1,555.00

Elffingham 655.00 I a wholesome farm life, is the opin

— ' " 737 ftn '

AFTER THE CYCLONE

(This poem was written by Miss Bethyl S. Allardin, 15 years
•fid, of McLeansboro, while convalescine in a hospital several
i|reeks after the tornado.)

The eighteenth of March was a very disastrous day.

For our home and all our possessions were entirely blown away.

The cyclone struck our place about half past three

And after it passed, things were a dreadful sight to see.

Not a building was left standing, most of our stock was killed

Bven the crib was torn away, and it with corn was filled.

My mother and sister were missing, and search was at once begun.

They were found beneath some rubbish, far from the light of the

sun.
They were suffering something terrible, no doctor could be found
•iDocs" were all oft doctoring in other parts of the town.
Hong, dark days and nights followed, no hope by the doctors

given.
We thought they'd dwell from that day in the bright and sunny

heaven.
The doctors gave all their attention to the wounded, both old

and young.
They worked shoulder to shoulder together and treated them one

by one.
Then came all of the nurses, and rendered their service to all.
Tfcey came from all over the country, and came at a moment's call.
The Red Cross came to our rescue, in a body great and strong
qiving aid to the distressed and suffering, (they'll be remembered

in our prayers and song).
It I live to be one hundred. I'll never forget the day
Tjhe cyclone struck our place, and blew our home away

Future Field Work of
Chicago Producers to
Be Under Neui System ,

Field work in the future for the
Chicago Producers in the Illinois- •
Chicago territory will be handled
by various men direct from the '
office of the Chicago Producers, ac-
cording to a Joint announcement of ' *
the Chicago Producers Commission
Association and the I. A. A.
stock marketing department.

The former field representative
for this territory, I. C. Grimes,
no longer representing the Chicago
Producers and the Illinois Agricul- ,
tural Association. Field work will ,
be carried out on the co-operative a' *>
plan as heretofore.

mission ,[
A. live ' ,y

-'itive ^ "

s, is /,i

I

FARM LIFE MADE
MORE PLEASANT BY
COMMUNITY CLUBS

Orgwiization Is Great Help in
Foctering Economic and
Social Well ■ Being

Thfet community clubs are a
greati aid to the establishment of

FVird ; 2,727.00

Fulton r. 2,000.00

Gallatin 338.24

Greene 1.000.00

Grundy 2.887.29

Hancock 3.072.85

Henderson 225.00

Henry r -: . . 476.60

Iroquois ; 2.669.07

Jefferson !. 388.65

Jersey i 243.23

JO Daviess : . . 1,541.92

131.60
3.606.14
3.215.30
3.077.66
2.725.10
2,418.00
4.698.70
3.013.27

■J-

Johnson
Kane . . .
Kankakee
Kendall .
Knox ....

Lake

La Salle .
Lawrence

Lee , 3.306.13

LIvingrston I 4,005.56

Logan : J 1.688.80

Macon • 1 500.46

Macoupin j 346.40

Madison J 2.900.00

.Marlon 1 359.30

.Marshall-Putnam .1 638.87

Mason 1- ^.. 2.556.00

McDonough J 1.478.43

McHenry j 960.40

McLean ^ 'j.. 3.739.74

Mtnard 1.066.50

Mercer ,...j 769.69

Monroe j 45.50

Montgomery j ,.y. . 2 249 0

Morgan ^ .-. . . 1.338.1

Moultrie , . . 2.038 1

Ogle
Peoria . . . .

Piatt

Pike ,..

Pulaski ...
Randolph . .
Richland . .
Rock Island
Sangamon .

Scott

Shelby

Stark

St. Clair . . .

Stephenson

Tazewell

Union

Wabash

CO-OP AUDITING BODY
SHOWS STEADY GROWTH

• ContiniitMl from page 3.)

EFFINGHAM DISTRICT: Cham-
paign. Vermilion. Piatt. Moultrie.
Donglus. Coles. £dgar, Shelby. Cum-
berland. Claffk. Fayette. BfOngham,
Jasper, Crawford, Bond, Clinton, Ma-
rion. Clay. Richland,, I^awrence.
Washington, Jefferson. Wayne, Ed-
wards. Wabash.

UNORGANIZED DISTRICT: Ran-
dolph, Perryl Franklin. Hamilton.
White, Jackson, Williamson, Saline,
Gallatin. ITnton, Johnson, Pope. Har-
din. Alexander, Pulaski. Massac.

Membership is strongest among
farmers' elfevators. The I. A. C. A.
has 75 sucb po-operatives under its
auditing wing. There are 44 county
Farm Bureaus, 18 live stock ship-
ping associations, 3 terminal live
stock marketing agencies, 6 dairy
companies, 4 Insurance companies,
and g miscejllaneous organizations
on the membership list.

3.269.52

3,407.46

82.60

944.60

489.50

100.00

2,791.29

1.317.50

5.025.00

1.097.25

2.104.16

3-28.00

1.000.00

2.819.28

2.876.80

1,406.66

84.50

Warren t 2.231.00

Washington : . 60.00

Wayne i. 445.88

Whiteside L........ 3.613:81

Win [ 3.207.75

Williamson I 623.50

Winnebago v [ ;. 2.110.00

Woodford L 4.356.91-

WlS Radio Station lLlBteners.26.000.00

ion Of Dan G. Davies, executive
comi^itteeman of the Kane County
FarmI Bureau, speaking recently
jver ^LS, Chicago.

"A community club is the result
of the combined forces of co-opera-
tive Spirit and co-operative effort
on thie part of the majority of the
peoplfe in a given community," said
Mr. Davies. ••Community organiza-
tion Cannot be built up on the^ ef-
forts and finances of a few. To be
successful, the first prerequisite is
a cbn^munity spirit, and second, a
willingness to work together for
the mutual benefit of others in the
comniiunity." He defined a com-
munity club as '•a group of farm-
ers and their families in a given
locality whose interests are mutual,
organized for the purpose of pro-
viding regular social entertainment,
educational and economic develop-
ment, and working as a unit of the
county Farm Bureau.

••The community club is a great
factor! in making farm lite more
pleasant," Mr. Davies declared. "It
forms a basis for the most whole-
some of social intercourse, thus
makinig the community in which we
live riore desirable and farm life
more ipleasant. The combined in-
fluence of the community clubs
when affiliated with the farm bu-
reau Organization, forms the basis
which in a very large measure is a
solutidn to many of the farm prob-
lems. It means farmers united for
mutuajl economic benefit as well as
social advantages."

Prairie Parmer
Miscellaneous

. 2.247.62
616.76

Total J16

The Hancock County Farm Bureau
Supply: Company at its first annual
meeting showed a net gain of %!.-
617.43 ifor the first eight months of
operation. The association books
were audited by the Illinois Agricul-
tural (fo-operativ^s Association.

|i PLAY BALL!

Schedules are being; determined as the farm bureau baseball sea-
son draws near. The following dates have been arranged among
the counties of Warren, Henderson, Kn(^x, and McDonough:

'Warren

Henderson

Knox

McDonough

Warren

MOBmoath

JniT 11
MoBBtonth

Henderson

Mar 30
BInsvlllr

July 18
-BiSBaville

Jnly 11
Macomb

Knox

ABK. 20
GaleHburg

June 13
Gal««bniT

jBBe 2T
GBleabBiv

McDonough

jBBe 13

MOBBiOUth

Jnae 20
BIcsravliie

May 30
MacOBib

TICE, GAS TAX BILLS,
REVENUE AMENDMENT,
AIRED AT HILLSBORO

Farm Bureau Members From
Four Counties in the 21st
District Hold Conference

Farmers and all property owners
can never hope to pay lower taxes
like in the good old days of 1914
unless the pres-
ent state consti-
tution is amend-
ed to permit tax-
ation of intang-
ible property, ac-
cording to A. C.
Everingham o f
the legislative
committee of the
Illinois Agricul-
tural Association.
TJi e occasion

for this declara-
Sam. Sorrell. (joq ^^g j^g ^^^

ond meeting this year of represen-
tatives of the Sangamon. Mont-
gomery, Macoupin, and Christian
County Farm Bureaus, comprising
the 21st district, at Hillsboro,
Thursday, April 23rd.

.Mr. Everingham spoke of the
progress of the legislative program
of the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion.

'•The Tice bill, which provided
among other things for compulsory
testing when 75 per cent of the
herds in any county have tested for
T. B., ha^ passed in the House with
only two dissenting votes," said Mr.
Everingham. "There is no doubt
that the bill will go through the
Senate with practically a unani-
mous vote. The Illinois AgricuJ-
tural Association is also sponsoring
and very actively pushing the Barr
bill, which provides a $3,000,000
biennial appropriation to pay in-
demnities. This has been recom-
mended to pass by the committee
on appropriations in the Senate.
Talk Revenue .Intendment
A second feature of the farmers'
legislative program is the proposed
amendment to the constitution,
which would untie the hands of the
legislature and permit it to tax all
wealth in accordance with present
day economics.

"Our present constitution was
adopted in 1870, Just five years af-
ter the Civil War," he said. "It is
natural that we should outgrow it.
All the state organizations, except-
ing the manufacturers, are backing
this amendment, which must be
submitted to tbe people for ratifi-
cation if it comes through the leg-
islature."

Another measure in which the
county farm bureaus and their state
association is interested is in the
reduction of taxes by means of dis-
placing the county highway tax.

The Illinois Agricultunal Associa-
tion is pushing the bill of Senator
Cuthbertson of Bunker Hill, which
provides for a two cent tax a gallon
on gasoline. The estimated 12 mil-
lion dollars returns from the whole
state would be used in place of
county highway taxes, which all
property owners, both town and
city, are now paying.

Gas Tax is Fair

••The gasoline tax is the fairest
tax iir the country," Mr. Evering-
ham stated further. "It must be , .
fair, as well as popular, or else /' I
there would not be only 5 states in *'
our 48, which do not have a gas,,
tax. Illinois is now an isolated gas-
tax-free island in a whole sea of ,
gas taxing states. It is the only *
state west of New York that does
not have it. Whenever Illinois mo- '
torists go out of the state, they help
pay for their roads and when mo- '
torists from outside come in,
they ride on our good cement trunk *
lines and wear them out without
bearing their Just share of the "
cost."

He further stated that a gas tax
was inevitable in Illinois and that .
unless care is taken early in the
game to see that the gas tax, if en- J
acted becomes a tax in lieu of some (
present tax, quite likely it will be t
enacted as a strictly additional bur-

den. •«'

A plan for farmers marketing
their poultry and eggs themselves •
with a resulting increase in their
own profits was presented by Frank
A. Gougler, director of the poultry
and egg marketing department.
This plan is growing slowly but
surely over the state, he pointed
out.

Want Fam>er-0»ned Dairy

R. H. Isaacs of Gillespie, acting
President of the Illinois-Missouri
Co-operative, Inc., spoke briefly of a
plan of Milk Producers in the St.
Louis territory and including the
counties in this district, by which
the creamery building belonging to
tbe bankrupt Illinois-Missouri Milk (' I
Producers' Association can be *
bought by the fanners out of bank
ruptcy. Need for a farm owned
plant in the St. Louis market was J
expressed as being great because of *
its influence in maintaining milk J
prices on that market. The belief *
was also expressed that the original i
farmer venture, which was thrown |
into bankruptcy, was done so be-
cause of motives of Federal Judge
English, who is now under impeach-
ment trial.

G. E. Metzger, organization' di-
rector of the Illinois Agricultural '
Association, presented the plan for
the campaigns for renewal of mem-
berships which will take place in
Macoupin and Montgomery counties
this year. A general increase in
membership is expected he said.
Iroquois county, tbe first out of 40
counties to complete its renewal
campaign this year, has a 15 per-
cent increase over its old member-
ship.

LISTBN I.\!

Farm advisers' radio talks sched-
uled for the remainder of May are
as follows:

Monday. May 11 at 12:30 — C. C. Tur-
ner, farm adviser of the Moultrie
County Farm Bureau, on "Moultrie
County Farm Bureau has the Bud-
gets."

Tuesday. May 12 at 12:30 and 8:40
— Enos AVaters, farm adviser of the
Edgar County Farm Bureau, on the
accomplishments and services of the
Edgar County Farm Bureau.

Monday. May 18. at 12:30— H. A.
deWerff, farm adviser of Woodford
County Farm Bureau, on "The Ac-
complishments and Services of Wood-
ford County Farm Bureau."

Monday, May 25 at 12:30 — H. O. Al-
lison, farm adviser of ' ' '
County Farm Bureau.

Livingston

Ten townships in Adams county are
planning corn yield contests for the
coming season. The contest will
serve as a check on the yielding ca-
pacity of strains of corn used by the
farmers of the county.

Marshall-Putnam County Farm Bu-
reau has more than 100 farm boys
lined up in pig. calf, and corn clubs.

••The best community talk we have
heard. Give us another. So reads a
communication to the I. A. A. con-
cerning Dan G. Davies' radio message
on •'Community Happiness In Kane
County," from E. E. Hughes, Elburn
Kane county.

"The
tillable
Illinois
prepari
Cowles
Farm 1
treasur
now m
the ar<
erage
familla
sequem
covery
able."

Mr. (
the COB
the gre
10-16 1
Frankli
canvasi
rural c
tion ol
White
ports w
receive
son Co
Saturds
canvasE
county
Cr«

"Cred

first of

who BU

courage

handica

states 1

to the I

near wl

ing ban

who coi

and to t

actively

these n

the ree

accordii

ual cast

•'Farn

respond

help foi

Illinois

amount

lief Fun

— and \

over ths

1 we aim

! "AH (

■< ' bered, 1

relief li

' ' hundred

story ol

' i tion of

-] tion, sh

' already

"Thro

repairs

building

with so

i The pe(

■T' howevei

fj ley teni

Red C

.'r- "The

1 Cross ai

■ • tiiort)ugl

ease as

• ■ Kanlzati

officer 1

* ' boro, w
, Murphyi

general
"Very
tions ha
Held wo
looked,
recount,
counters
rehabilK
humanls
have be
Just ant
All org
work in
are serl
progress
The vah
been de:
An ai
issue of
(Coni

'/■

.1

(:

r^

M'

May 9jl926

I

k of
icers to
\ew System

Future for the

I the IllinolB-

II be handled
?ct from the <
Producers, ac-
louncement of '
8 CommisBion
I. A. A. live '
irtment. ^
representative
C. Grimes, is «
g the Chicago
inois Agricul- «
eld work will

e co-operative ,

Fair

is the fairest
Mr. Evering-
"It must be ,
lular, or else / ^1
ily 5 states in '" '
t have a gas^'
1 isolated gas-
whole sea of , .
t is the only '
ark that does
ir Illinois mo-
ate, they help
nd when mo-
e come in,
cement trunk *

out without J
ihare of the ~

hat a gas tax
aois and that
early in the
;a8 tax, if en-
1 lieu of some
ely it will be
dditional bur-

'SIONimi ^0 AlISTHHAlNn

':;viyva«in 'Hcviiiina 'o Ab'vw ssiw

I li L 1 M

CIJLTUIIAL A

CIA

Volume 3

luued Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinking Farmer* — May 23, 1925

No. 10

CROP PROSPECTS IN
ST0RM4WEPT AREA
ARE UP TO NORMAL

fl

rs marketing
;s themselves
ease in their
ited by Frank '
)f the poultry
department.
g slowly but
i, he pointed

led Dalr>-

lespie, acting

Inols-Missouri

ke briefly of a

rs in the St.

ncluding the

let, by which

belonging to

Uissourl Milk ^ •

DH can be t

out of bank

farm owned

market was

at because of

taining milk

The belief

the original

was thrown

done so be-

ederal Judge

der impeach-

y.

anizatlon di- ^
Agricultural
the plan for 1
wal of mem- '
ike place in "'
lery counties

increase in '
ed he said.
■St out of 40 '

its renewal
IS a IS per-
old member-

talks sched-
of May are

•'I

30 — C. C. Tur-
the Moultrie
"Moultrie
laa the Bud-

2:30 and 8:40
Ivteer of the

reau, on the
rvicea of the

reau,

12:30— H. A.
of Woodford
)n "The Ac-
ces of Wood-

lO^H. O. AI-
Livin^sion

8 county are
estB for the
contest will
yielding ca-
used by the

ty Farm Bu-
farm boys
corn clubs.

alk we have C

So reads a I

A. A. con- /

dlo messagre \

!S8 In Kane , I

hes, Elburn. <.

t

A

Farm Relief Committee Work-
ers Survey Devastated Region
aa«l 'Ref.ort Guo ^ rt.',.v>i*

"The usual and normal acreage of
tillable land in the tornado area in
Illinois is at this time in crop or
prepared for seeding," says R. A.
Cowles, chairman of the Illinois
Farm Relief Committee and I. A. A.
treasurer. "This statement coming
now means that the field work in
the area is advanced over the av-
erage season. To those who are
familiar with actual conditions con-
sequent upon the disaster, the re-
covery must be regarded as remark-
able."

Mr. Cowles, with vice-chairman of
the committee. Curt Anderson, spent
the greater part of the week of May
10-16 in the tornado district. In
Franklin county a two days' personal
canvass was made of Individual
rural cases, and a personal inspec-
tion of rural areas was made in
White and Hamilton counties. Re-
ports which may be relied upon were
received in a meeting at the Jack-
son County Farm Bureau ofBce on
Saturday afternoon. May 16, and a
canvass of individual cases in that
county was made Monday. May 18.
Credit Where Credit Is Dae

"Credit for the accomplishment
first of all properly belongs to those
who Buttered disaster uad wN) »itli
courage met this "task under severe
handicap and with many privations,"
states Mr. Cowles. "Credit belongs
to the good neighbors from far and
near who came in and provided help-
ing hands. Credit belongs to those
who contributed supplies and funds,
and to the several organizations that
actively assisted in getting together
these necessities and have assumed
the responsibility of rehabilitation
according to needs in each individ-
ual case.

"Farmers all over the state have
responded so heartily to the call for
help for their unfortunate southern
Illinois neighbors that the total
amount contributed to the Farm Re-
lief Fund now amounts to 1173,010.50
—and we hope before the week Is
over that the $180,000 total at which
we aim will be reached.

"All of this, it should be remem-
bered, followed emergency aid and
relief immediately administered by
hundreds of willing volunteers. This
story of first aid in the administra-
tion of surgical and medical atten-
tion, shelter, food, and clothes, has
already been related.

"Throughout the rural «rea today
repairs are well under way and
buildings are beginning to go up —
with some few nearing completion.
The people for the most part are,
however, living In government 'Sib-
ley' tents dotting the area.

Red Cross in Thorough Survey

"The American National Red
Cross are engaged In making a most
thorough survey of each- Individual
•"We as a basis for award. The or-
ganization operates through zone
offlcer located at Carmi, McLeans-
boro. West Frankfort, Bush, DeSoto,
Murphysboro and Gorham. with a
general area oflJce at Murphysboro.

"Very favorable weathpr condi-
tions have assisted In advancing the
field work and should not be over-
looked. Many problems, needless to
recount, have been continually en-
countered by all of those engaged In
rehabiliutlon work. As might be
humanly expected, some mistakes
have been made and some criticism
just and unjust is to be expected.
All organizations engared In the
work In greater or lesser capacities
are seriously engaged In advancing
progress to the best pf their ability,
the value of organization has again
been demonstrated In this disaster."

An article appearing In the last
issue of the REroao In error made
(Contlnatd' on pare », col. 2.)

OH WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE,
WHEN FIRST WE PRACTISE TO DECEIVE!

Illinois farm bureau members should he on their gutrd so they are not de-
ceived into believing that the booklet entitled "A Real Latcyer's Opinion of
Grain Marketing Co." was published by the Illinois Agricultural Association.
The booklet contains the supposedly suppressed Starr report. It is worded so
as to make the unknotoing reader believe that the report was actually printed
and distributed by the I. A. A. The letter reproduced at the right is typical
of the reaction of county Farm Bureau o0iriah upon receiving copies of the
booklet. All farm Bureaus in Illinois received copies and thousands are being

fifmlnt^ l> „4i>j.-, ih, J, ^,..,~t^ -.,-. • ;•: ^ ,.,,_.itr, ^/ ilu i'.-o.'..

■Marketing Company, "The Farmers' Own Company."

May Have Soft Winter
Wheat Pool in Counties
Along Wabash Valley

Possibilities for a southern Illinois
soft red winter wheat pool are re-
flected in a report given to the ex-
ecutive committee In its May meet-
ing.

"Much of the soft red winter wheat
grown hi the southern third of Illi-
nois is In a territory not served by
farmers' elevators. Therefore the
grain marketing committee recom-
mends a marketing program for that
territory that is based on the indi-
vidual producers," states the written
report.

"Studies are under way to deter-
mine the normal movement to mar-
ket of the wheat that is shipped
from the county where it is grown
In this territory," the report con-
tinues. "A great part of each crop
is milled In the counties where It Is
produced, while the shlpment~from
south-eastern counties is mostly to
markets east and south in Indiana
and Kentucky. From the southwest-
ern counties the movement is main-
ly toward St. Louis.
Wheat Now Competes with Pool

The Wabash Valley wheat comes
In direct competition with wheat
handled through the Indiana Wheat
Growers' Association and some de^
mand is apparent for an organization
on the Illinois side to provide for
the sale of the wheat through the
sales agency of the Indiana Wheat
Growers' Association. This organ-
ization might eventually take form
as a Southern Illinois soft wheat
pool closely affiliated with the Indi-
ana organization. For the present
season, if the county Farm Bureaus
and wheat growers of that territory
are favorable, organization might be
conflned to about 10 or 12 counties
bordering Indiana. The study of the
situation is not yet complete, and
there are details yet to be worked
out."

To Go AheMi

The report was adopted by the fol-
lowing motion; "That the grain
marketing department and the grain
marketing committee continue the
study of the soft winter wheat mar-
keting problem in Southern Illinois,
and that the officers of the I. A. A.
(Continued on pa^e 4, col. 4.)

Commission Sets May 27
For "Exhaustive Hearing"
As Merger Asks More Delay

Decision to hold an exhaustive
hearing May 27 into whether it has
jurisdiction of the $26,000,000 grain
merger, the Grain Marketing Com-
pany, was announced by the Illinois
Commerce Commission May 14 after
it heard arguments continued from
the day before.

The postponement was made up-
on application of the Grain Market-
ing Company. Hearings have also
been held in Indiana, but the out-
come is said to be largely contingent
upon the decision of the Illinois
Commerce Commission.

In the hearing of May 13, counsel
for the Grain Marketing Company
contended that the Illinois Com-
merce Commission does not have at
the present time nor will it ever
have supervision over the merger.
It was claimed that the federal sec-
retary of agriculture would have su-
pervision.

Claim Legal Decision Precedent

According to the merger's attor-
neys, the status of the public utili-
ties (public elevators) controlled by
the Grain Marketing Company has
not changed even though there has
been a contract for possible sale to
the Grain Marketing Company, but
If the sale Is successfully completed,
those public elevators under control
would be under the jurisdiction of
the Commission. A decision ren-
dered by the Illinois Supreme Court
was quoted to show that the law
backs up the merger's stand.

It was explained that the Grain
Marketing Company operates these
elevators as subsidiaries of which
the merger Is the stock holding com-
pany leaving the utilities in abso-
lute control of the Board of Man-
agers of the Grain Marketing Com-
pany.

Connection Is Close

"Where the connection Is so
short," said Frank L. Smith, chair-
man of the Commission, "and where
the holding company holds all the
stock, taking all the profits and hav-
ing all control, I don't care whether
it's the law or not, it is evident that
some public body should have jur-
isdiction from a public standpoint."
(Continued on pare 4. col. 2.)

BUTTER SURPLUS
OF WINTER GONE
AS CONSUMERS BUY

L A. A. Educational Campaign
Help* to Reduce Surplm of
Dairy Spread Below Average

What happened to last fall's bat-
ter surplus?

Illinois farmers are cashing in an
extra quarter of a million dollars on
their cream this May. A strength-
ened butter market, due to educa-
tional campaigns characterized by
such slogans as "spread your butter
thicker," and "there is no substitute
for butter," which resulted In an ef-
fective reduction of the butter sur-
plus is held responsible for the
healthy cdndition of the industry to-
day.

Snrplos Is Gone

"The heavy surplus of last fall and
winter," states the dairy marketing
department of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association, "in Octol)er, 1924,
was 50,000,000 pounds of butter in
excess of previous five year averages.
This has been gradually reduced un-
til May 1, 1925, Instead of a surplus
as compared to previous years, there
actually was 3,000,000 pounds of but-
ter less than the customary average.
May 1, 1925, found 5,000,000 pounds
less In storage than May 1 a year
ago."

The current price received by the
farmers for butter fat is four cents
more than it has averaged for any
month of May during the last four
years, states the I. A. A.
V. S. Eating More Dairy Spread

"Butter consumption in the United
States has increased steadily In the
last four months over what It was
a year ago. March, 1925, showed an
increase of 4.9 per cent over March.
1924. The increased use of butter
can be laid largely to good employ-
ment conditions, a slight Increase In
quality of the product, and especially
to the fact that farm organizations
in the principal dairy states have
been active in encouraging the use
of butter and dairy products, for
which there is no substitute."

Using the slogan, "Spread your
butter thicker," the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association, co-operating with
the Illinois Butter Improvement As-
sociation, last winter started a state-
wide campaign to increase the con-
sumption of dairy products. Ten
thousand posters were distributed
throughout the state, urclng farm
and city people alike to use more
butter.

SENTIMENT FOR CUTHBERTSON GAS TAX RISES
AS SENATE APPROVES I.A.A. AMENDMENT; FATE
OF PROPERTY TAX REDUCER DECIDED SOON

Legislative Committee is Pushing: Gas Tax in Place of County
Highway Tax; Registration of All Poultry Received by Dealers
for Protection Against Thieves; Tice Bill and $3,000,000 Ap-
propriation; Constitutional Amendment to Relieve Property
Taxes; Bill Permitting School DistricU More Self -Control ; —
Oppoaes Bill Requiring No Narroiw-Tired Wagons on Roads

PROSPECTS for passing the Cuthbertson gas tax bill which pro
vides for reciucing property taxes by using the gas tax revenur
in place of county highway taxes, boomed skyward when the amend-
ment offered by 'Senator Cuthbertson (Macoupin) and the IIIinoiK
Agricultural Association was approved by the Senate on May 13.

By the time this Record reaches its readers the fat« of the Cuth-
bertson bill may have been decided by the vote of the Senate, for
the bill, after being.amended was placed on third reading, ready for
defeat or passage.

The amendment divides the expected $10,000,000 animal revenue
from a state-wide two-cent gas tax on a 20-60-20 basis. That is, 20
per cent to the State Highway Commission for use upon 4ny roads
upon which it sees fit to spend its share ; 60 per cent distributed back
to the counties on the basis of their motor license fees and the re-
maining 20 per cent also goes back to the counties on the basis of
their mileage of state aid roads. This distribution is more equitable
than the one provided for in the original bill, which was never
claimed to be in its final form when first submitted.

sua a Uen Tax
An amendment to divide the fond
£0-50 with the SUte Highway Com-
mission and the counties was with
drawn by Senator Meents. This
amendment was opposed by the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association becauoe
of the small portion going back to
the counties and also because It did
not require the use of the gasoline
tax revenue to be In place of county
highway taxes, the principal feature
of the I. A. A. gaB tax stand.
No Gaa 'Tax on Tractors
The I. A. A. amendment still leaves
the gas tax as a reducer of property
Uxes. Provision Is made in the bill
for exemption of gasoline used In
tractors, stationary gas engines and
other gasoline not used on the pub
lice highways.

The I. A. A. legislative committee
—Chairman Frank D. Barton of Cor-
nell (Livingston). H. E. Ooembel of
Hooppole (Henry) and A. C. Ever-
Ingham of HutsonvlUe (Crawford)
— is optimistic about the bill as Is
President Sam H. Thompson, who
has also been in Springfield assist-
ing the farmers' legislative directors.
Against Ponltr) ThIeveK
One of the chief legislative side
lines of the committee has t>een In
urging the passage of the bill to re-
quire poultry dealers to keep a reg-
ister of all purchases of poultry. Thr
bill provides a penalty of a fine from
$5 to $50, and would serve as a
damper to the activities of poultry
thieves. This bill, which Is spons-
ored by Senator Jesse L. Deck of
Decatur, has now passed the Senate
and Is in the House. The legisla-
tive committee Is actively sponsor-
ing Its passage in Its present form.
Should a fanner be allowed to
drive a narrow-tired wagon on the
roads on ?IIIInols? The -Senate has
said "no" and the House is now
faced with voting on the bill which
requires that after July 1, 1925, driv-
ing on any paved or oiled highway
with steel tires be prohibited unless
the tires are three Inches wide on
wagons and loads exceeding 2.000
pounds. The penalty for violaUon
is fixed in the bill at a fine from $5
to $10 for each offense.

The I. A. A. attitude on this bill
Is that It wonld be a hardship on the
farmers of Illinois. It would require
a great many farmers to buy new
wheels and In many cases new wag-
ons. In addition, certain road con-
ditions require narrow tires.
I.A.A. GnardinK Farmer's Pane
According to the legislative com-
mittee's report to the executive com
tnittee recently, any kind of law re-
quiring farmers to throw away their
narrow-tired wagons would be noth-
ing less than a severs flnancial hard-
(Continued on pace t, col. 4.)

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The niinoM Agricultural AaMxaation Record

Mey 23, 192S

I LiLtlNOiS

CCL.TIJBAL ASSOCIA

RECORO'

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PabllshMl CTsr/ othtr 8>tordi7 bj th6 nilnela Asrlaaltnral
AsBoclatfon. 001 South D*artooro fltrett, ChloMTO, IlIlBOls. Kd-
Itad by Department of Information, R. C. Batohar, DIraetsr.

Entarad as aacond claaa matter Oot. 10, 19S1, at the poet offlea

at Chloaro, lllinola, under the act of March S, 1179. ▲ooaptmnoa

for nalirnc at apaclal ratea of poatasa prOTidad tor la Saatlos

I ^^ 1101, Aet of Oatober I, 1»H. authorlaed Oct. II. Ull.

The IndlTldoal mamberahip fee of tha nilnola Arrlenltural Aa-
aoelation la flre dollara a year. Tha (ea Inolodea parment of
tttf aanta (or •apaorlption to tha nitnola Acrlcaltural Aaie-
aiatlon

13th..

14th..

18th..

18th..

17th.

1Sth.

19th.

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Poatmaater: In returning an uncalled-for or miaaent oopjr,
plakaa Indicate key number on addraaa aa la requlrad by law.

OFFICERS
Prealdent, 8. H. Thompson, Qnincy.
: ylce-Prwident, H. B. Goembel, Hooppole.
^'^i^', I Traanirar, R. A. Cowles, Bloomlngton.
' Secretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore.

RXECUnVE OOMMl'l'l'UK
By CongraMlonjU Dtotricta

William Webb, Route One, Jellet

Q. F. Tullsek, Roekferd

C. E. Bamborough, Pole

4 W. H. Moody, Port Byron

B. H. Taylor, Rapatee

A. R. Wright, Varna

F. O. Barton, Cornell

R. F. Karr, Iroquois

. . . . J. L. Whitnand. ChartaMen

ZOth 1 .: Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21«t J Samuel Sorrelli, Raymond

22nd i.l , Stanly Castle, Alton

23rd .1 i W. L. Cope, Salem

24th I Curt Anderson, Xenia

2Mh.

.R. K. Loom Is, Makanda

Directors of Departments
I. A. A. Office

General Offlee and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker; Or-
ganization, G. E. Metzger; Information, H. C. Butcher; Trans-
portation, L. J. Quasey; Taxation and Statistics, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing, A. B.
Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, Wm. E. Hedgcoek; Dairy
Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone, J. R. Bent;
In charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A. Gougler; special
representative on Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H. Petersen;
Legal Counsel, Donald KIrkpatrIek; Co-operative Accounting,
Geo. R. Wicker. ^_^

THE RECORD'S PLATFORM
Advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized,
namely, to promote,^ protect and represent the business, economic,
social and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the
nation, and to develop agriculture.

Five Retuon*

FIVE reksons why Illinois should have a gas tax in
place Of county highway taxes are:
1. Reduces property taxes, both city and country.
i. Places cost of road» on autos that use them and
in proportipn to the amount of travel.

3. Lets tourists pay their rightful share.

4. Imprioves farm-to-market roads, not just tnink
lines. j

5. Becatise a gas tax is as popular as any tax could
be, and it is easy, simple and inexpensive to collect.

"Spread Your Butter Thicker"

WHAT*S in a slogan!
Evidently there's a lot of value in a good one.

"The flavor lasts" is a catchy phrase that helps Wil-
liam Wrigley sell his chewing gums to millions of people
the world over. The funnj' part of it is that if he lets
down telling the world about his gum. by means of this
slogan and its brothers, he notices a corresponding de-
crease in gnm sales. One week's let-up makes a notice-
able difference in the world's gum chewing. The more
ads WrigleJ' runs, the more the world smacks its gum.

Henry Ford resorted to advertising by means of joke
books for many j-ears, but with the application of legiti-
mate advertising a couple of years ago he sold more
Fords last year than ever before in the history of his
industry.

The same is true in varying degree with: "The skin
you love to touch"; "Ask the man who owns one;"
"Time to re-tire;" "One of the 57;" "When it rains,
it pours" and many others.

Now we have a demonstration of what a slogan will
do for farmers.

The I. A. A., through its dairy marketing department,
started the slogan: "Spread your butter thicker." This
was given publicity and it spread. Others took it up.
As a slogan, it is catchy. It handles well on the tongue.
But most of all, it says something. It has helped bring
results. We don't say it is responsible for all the de-
crease in that price cutting butter surplus, but it at
least helped.

A

Ldoking Into the Future

WHAT can Illinois farmers expect, in terms of dol-
lars and cents, from co-operative marketing dur-
ing the next five years t

Pew people are in better positioQS to answer this
question than the directors of the co-operative marketing
departments of this association.

Here is what Frank A. Gougler, director of poultry
and egg marketing, has to say about his line for the
future :

About one-fourth of our Illinois counties annually sell
more than one million dozens of eggs per county. Our last
census reports that Illinois now sells $37,864,702 worth of
poultry and eggs each year.

The question asked has resolved itself into: Can these
commodities be soild more eflSciently co-operatively than the
manner in. which they are sold at present?

Within our own state we have no measuring stick with
which to arrive at a satisfactory answer to that question,
since up to date we have no functioning co-operative poul-
try and egg marketing associations of any importance. We
do have, however, figures from nearby states which show
that the members of their co-operative marketing associa-
tions received from 2 cents to 6 cents per dozen more for
their eggs than the average paid tor eggs outside the asso-
ciation.

At first thought 2 cents seems like a small amount but
when thought of in terms of larger volumes than a single
^ozen, its importance is more outstanding. Take a million
dozen egg county tor example and the extra 2 cents amounts
to the neat little sum of $20,000. It ceases to be "pin
money." This is nearly enough to pay dues in the local
county Farm Bureau and tho^Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion for 1,500 members. It is entirely possible to accom-
plish this with eggs alone, to say nothing about QQUitry.

What about poultry anyway? In a survey conducted in
Wayne county, Illinois, 66 per cent of the farmers reported
that they take their poultry to market without first fatten-
ing them. That is just what the poultry fattener wants
for he takes the growthy young birds and milk feeds them
and makes from 12 per cent to 60 per cent gains in 10 to
14 days.

If Illinois farmers would market their hogs as they mar-
ket their poultry, each fall. Just as the new corn crop is
ready to turn into, they would load up all their fine growthy
shoats and cart them off to market and let someone else
fatten them instead of doing the job themselves.

The benefit derived from this feeding stunt is from two
sources, namely, the gain in weight put on the birds and
changing the quality of the flesh from a cheap grade of
ftesh to one of higher price.

Quality in eggs should not be overlooked, particularly
in the co-operative marketing of eggs, for those of higher
quality bring the most money and co-operatively, eggs will
be handled only on the graded basis.

Here's an illustration as it actually worked out in prac-
tice last year through a mid-west co-operative organization.
An egg pool, during the first half of May, was made up of:
50 per cent extras @ 22 cents per dozen (15 doz.) $3.30
40 per cent firsts @ 18 cents per dozen (12 doz. ) 2.16

10 per cent seconds @ 1 5 cents per dozen ( 3 doz.) .45

Value per case $5.91

The average received per case through the pool was
$5.91. Non-members received an average price of $5.31
per case. On the average, association members received
60 cents per case more than non-members.

Now, bow about those above and those below the aver-
age in quality? Here's the way those fared with extra
good eggs:

75 per cent extras © 22 cents per dozen (22 H doz.) $4.95

20 per cent firsts @ 18 cents per dozen ( 6.6 doz.) 1.00

5 per cent seconds g) 1 5 cents per dozen ( 1.9 doz.) .28

$6.23
This producer realized 91 cents per case above current
receipt prices. But the producer of poor quality tares dif-
ferently, as follows:

10 percent extras @ 22 cents per dozen ( 3dos.) $ .66
40 per cent firsts @ 18 cents per dozen (12 doz.) 2.76

60 per cent seconds © 15 cents per dozen (15 doz.) 2.25

$5.67
This member receives 37 cents per case through the co-
operative association less than he would have received had
he sold them as current receipts, which merely goes to show
that a co-operative institution must be built upon quality
if it succeeds.

Application of these, known results, coupled with fair
response from farmers to a sound plan of procedure to
establish co-operatives, will undoubtedly make a big, favor-
able change in poultry and egg marketing during the next
five years.

Wm. E. Hedgcoek, director of livestock marketing,
has this to say :

The potential possibilities of extending the co-operative
livestock marketing field in Illinois are very promising
wheij- we bear in mind that during the last three years
through the establishing of the Producers Livestock Com-
mission associations and other co-operative commission
companies, we have been able to market 14 per cent of the
Illinois livestock at an advantageous price to the farmers
and at a saving of over $110,000 with a possilrility of in-
creasing our saving at the ratio we increase the percentage
of Illinois livestock marketing. This 14 per cent is a good
start toward helping eliminate the radical breaks.

On the basis of the 1924 refund to the farmers, it 100
per cent of the livestock were marketed co-operatively, it
would mean an approximate saving of $785,000.

Through the development of the livestock shipping as-
sociations during the past few years, Illinois farmers in
1924 marketed approximately 35,000 carloads of livestock
at an increased price of 25 cents to $2 per hundred. With
a conservative estimate of 50 cents per hundred, this in-
crease has meant $2,975,000 more income to Illinois farm-
ers. If 50 per cent of the Illinois livestock were marketed
through co-operative shipping associations it would be rea-
sonable to expect an additional $5,500,000 income for our
farmers.

In discussing the' savings to the livestock producers
through co-operative marketing we must take into consid-
eration our wool malketing which, at a conservative figure,
netted the Illinois farmers not less than $10,000 in 1924.
This increased income was based upon the handling of
about 25 per cent of the Illinois 1924 wool clip, which at
the. above rate would have meant approximately $100,000
to Illinois farmers provided all of the 1924 wool bad been
marketed through co-operative channels.

The swine growers, alone, through pooling of serum or-
ders in 1925 will save approximately $50,000. You can
readily estimate what the savings would be to the farmers
if all serum used by the swine growers was purchased
through the same channels.

The above figures indicate a fertile field for those in-
terested in the future developments of co-operative mar-
keting and we should be able to expect, during the next
five-year period, through the co-operation of all farmers, to
be marketing 35 per cent of our livestock through the
Producers Commission associations, 40 per cent through
our co-operative livestock shipping associations, 50 per
cent of our wool through the pool system and the purchas-
ing of 50 per cent of all serum used by Illinois farmers.
When farmers themselves handle as much as 35 per cent
of their own stock, it will go a long way toward eliminating
wide price fiuctuations. To attain this goal will call for
the utmost co-operation and support of all Illinois farmers
interested in advancing their own cause. No one else will
do it, it's up to Illinois farmers.

Later we will hear from the other marketing depart-
ments— dairy, grain, and fruit and vegetable.

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ibers received

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id with extra

>i doz.) 14.95
.6 doz.) 1.00
.9 doz.) .28

The niinoU Agricultural A»»ociation Record

Pe«e 3

16.23
above current
llty (ares dlf-

3doi.) I .66
2 doz.) 2.76
6 doz.) 2.25

15.67
rough the co-
received had
goes to show
upon quality

ted with fair
procedure to
! a big, favor-
ring the next

c marketing,

I co-operative
ry promising
. three years
vestock Com-
commisslon
!r cent of the

the farmers
JiMlity of m-
le percentage
ent is a good
aks.

rmers, if 100
peratively, it
)00.

shipping as-
s farmers in
I of livesfoclc
ndred. With
Ired, this in-
Illlnois farm-
ere marketed
rould be rea-
come for our

;lt pTDducrrs
! into consid-
vative figure,

000 in 1924.
handling of

lip, which at
ely $100,000

001 had been

of serum or-
0. You can

I the farmers
ts purchased

[or those in-
erative mar-
ine the next

II farmers, to
through the
:ent through
ons, 50 per
the purchas-
lois farmers.

35 per cent
i eliminating
will call for
Inois farmers
one else will

ting depart-

ble.

COMMERCE BODY PROMISES MORE ATTENTION TO PROPERTY RIGHTS

UNITY IN FARM LIFE
IS HOME BUREAU AIM
AS PROGRAM DEVELOPS

Federation Head TeUs of the
County Play Day as First Step
Farm Women's Scheme

m

The Illinois Home Bureau Federa-
tion, state association of county
Home Bureaus, now in the fifth
month of its existence, is planning a
"County Play Day" as the first step
in its program to unify farm and
community life.

V, Mrs. Spencer Ewing, Bloomington,
president of the Federation, in com-
menting on the plan, says that here-
tofore in Illinois, Home Bureaus
have had in mind the county as their
largest unit. "Local groups bav«
worked in the township or communi-
ty ^nd have been thrilled and in-
( spired on coming to a county meet-
ing by getting a vision of larger
membership. Now, with the Home
Bureau Federation this county view-
point is still further enlarged to a
state-wide point of view and the In-
dividual member passes on from her
local point of view through the coun-
ty view-point to one embracing state-
wide conditions. She begins to think
m terms of the state, and her idea
of home bureau is correspondingly
changed and broadened."

Unity the Coming Thing
'^V In the past, county Home Bureaus
X h&ve gone their own way and done
/ their work as isolated units, states
.r Mrs. Ewing. "Occasionally news has
I sifted in from other counties, but
J. there has been no feeling of 'to-
I getherness' and working for the same
'' big ends. With the coming of the
Federation, committees have been
appointed of women from widely
separated parts of the state, corre-
spondence has taken place, acquaint-
ance made, mutual aims discussed,
and the county organizations drawn
together by a dozen bonds. Isola-
tion is a thing of the past, unity and
co-operation are the coming char-
acteristics."

The Federation works with the
force of members, the Home Bureau
head believes. "Where the counties
represent hundreds, the Federation
numbers thousands, and numbers
count. When in' army tactics any
big thing needs to be done, regi-
ments, not companies, are used. No
general would think of attacking
with a single company. So the Fed-
eration with its larger membership,
with the momentum of numbers can
do more than a single county work-
ing alone. It is also In a position
to work with other state organiza-
tions; it has a state machinery which
corresponds and fits into that of the
others; it can look them in the eye;
can meet them on equal terms, and
work for proportionate ends. Its
own self-respect and value is en-
hanced thereby.

Let's Play
"As its first piece of work, the
Illinois Home Bureau Federation is
suggesting a County Play Day this
summer. In such a play day every-
body, young and old. takes part, even
the children of kindergarten age.
There is a general assembly in the
morning, with flag ceremonies, fol-
lowed by some special events like
singing, games or folk dances. Then
the crowd separates into various
\j groups for team and individual ath-
•Jr letlcs, games, etc., each with its
\|i group leader. At the end of the day,
*' the crowd comes together again for
some general event like a base ball
* *■ game. Negotiations are on foot for
the co-operation of the farm bureaus
In this County Play Day, and it Is
, hoped that their active assistance
1 will be obuined."

■}

WITH THE PRODUCERS

-» During the fiscal year of April
.1 1. 1924 to March 31, 1925, Illinois

■<V shipping associations contributed
\ 2,521 cars to the Producers at In-

' \ dtanapolis, which represented
.,i75.3 per cent of all shipping associa-

ition business to that market.
The high association in Illinois
was the Charleston Shipping Asso-
ciation in Coles county with 119
cars. This association consigned
-»_iclose to 100 per cent of its live

• Mock to the Producers.

, Y The high county in Illinois was

I Coles with 301 cars. ' Clark was

, >. second with 253 cars. Eleven 1111-

I nois counties shipped 100 per cent

' • °i' "'®*' shipping association con-

I signmentg that came to Indianapo-

. «.^ll8. to the Producers.

CROP PROSPECTS IN
STORM AREA NORMAL

(Continued from page 1)
some references to the "local Illinois
Farm Relief Committee" at McLeans-
boro in Hamilton county. The Illi-
nois Farm Relief Committee does
not function through local commit-
tees and has none. The reference
was to the local Hamilton County
disaster relief committee, upon
which is included tUe emergency
farm adviser furnished to Hamilton
county by the Extension Department
of the College of Agriculture, and
other representatives of the farmers.
The Red Cross functions through
this committee in Hamilton county
and through similar committees in
other counties.

The detailed statement of contri-
butions to the Illinois Farm Relief
Fund follows:

Adams

$ 2.859.98

Boone

1 478.45

Bureau

Carroll

.... 1.657.45
1,745.15

Cass

719.00

Champaign

Christian

Clark

700.70

1.577.50

487.13

Clay

Coies

'i 066 60

Cook

452.00

Crawford

De Kalb

De Witt

963.55

1.020.00

1.760.39

280 .'lO

Du Page

2.487.44

293 .^O

Efflngham

Ford

655.00

2 000 00

1.000.00

Grundy

Hancock

Henderson

2.887.29

3.303.35

3fi2.50

. . . 476.60

. .. 2,699.69

JefTerson

388.65

243-23

Jo Daviess

1.710.42

. , . . 136.50

Kankakee

Kendall

Knox

3.215.30

3.077.55

. . . . 2.750.10

Lake

2.418.00

4.598.70

Lawrence

Lee

3,013.27

3,317 13

Livingston

4.217.03
1.688.80

, . 500.45

Macoupin

Madison

346.40

2.900.00
359.30

638.87

2.556.00

McDonough

McHenry

McLean

Menard

Mercer

Monroe

Montgomery

1.500.43
1.005.40
3.829.24

1,066,50

769.59

45.50

2.249.08

Moultrie

2.038.13

Ogle

3.269.52

3.413.46

87.50

489.50

Randolph

Richland

Rock Island

103.00
2.791.29
1,889.50
5,044.88

484.55

Scott

1.097.25

Shelby

2.114.16

Stark

328 00

1.213.25

Stephenson

... 2.984.28

2.919.30

Union

Wabash

, 1.405.66

84.50

2.33O.O0

Washington ■. . . .

50.00

445.88

Whiteside

3.613.81

Will

3.313.25

623.50

2.110.00

4.381.41

WLS radio listeners . . .

. 25,000.00
2.247.62

438.25

T. A. A. Employees

302.50

. . .1173.010.50

Attorney General Rules
Poisoning of Ground Hogs
Is Legal If Done Right

After fox hunters and game ward-
ens in Tazweli county had opposed
the Tazewell County Farm Bureau's
ground hog poisoning demonstra-
tions, Ralph E. Arnett, the farm ad-
viser^ made a trip to Springfield to
get an interpretation of the law.

His reply from Oscar F. Carlstrom,
attorney general, is of state-wide im-
portance. The attorney general's
opinion is that it is permissible to
poison ground hogs and other pests
of similar nature and that are not
protected as fur bearing or game
animals. However, the poisoning
must be under supervision of some
authority who knows where and how
to place the poison.^ Farm bureaus
are classified as authorities, provid-
ing the adviser has received and is
readily conversant upon animal
poisoning as prescribed by the
United States Department of Agri-
culture. The Tazewell County Farm
Bureau's demonstrations were car-
ried out.

Committee Determines
Taylorville as Scene Of
Year's I. A. A. Picnic

TaylorrlUe, county seat of
Christian county, will be the
scene of this year's annual
I. A. A. state picnic, according
to the decision of the executive
committee at its .Hay meeting.

t'hrlstian and Tazewell Coun-
ty Kami Bureaus sent repre-
sentatives who api>eared be-
fore the executive committee
asking for the picnic. Altliougli
both countie.s have good picnic
facilities, the committee de-
cided to 'accept the Invitation
of the Christian County Farm
Bureau and extended its thanks
and appreciation to tlie Taze-
well County Farm Bureau.
Other counties were Interesteil
also.

Christian county was taken
because It Is slightly farther
from last year's big picnic
which was at Lincoln In Logan
county. Traveling conditions
were described as being of the
best to Taylor%ille.

Pending the selection of
some nationally known figure
as chief s|ieaker of the occasion
the exact date of the i)icnic has
not been set. The time now
ap|>earing most suitable is some
day In the first three weeks of
August, with the second week
preferred. More detailed an-
nouncements will be made
later.

SAVE $20 TO $40 A CAR
ON CO-OP MANURE BUY

A reduction from $20 to $40 per
car is the record of the co-operative
manure buying project of a southern
Illinois county.

Union County Farm Bureau on
February 1, 1925 sponsored a move-
ment to purchase manure from job-
bers in Chicago and St. Louis for
the benefit of fruit grower members.
According to R. E. Blaylock, county
Farm Bureau president, farmers
contracted for 500 cars for 1925, to
be delivered in varying amounts
each month.

While individual farmers formerly
bought manure irregularly and paid
high prices for the fertilizer, they
now have the advantage of orderly
buying and so are able to realize big
savings, according to Mr. Blaylock.

The first shipments were received
on March 1. While most of the ma-
nure is shipped to Union county
points, some of it reaches Johnson
and Pulaski counties, according to
G. E. Eager, Anna, farm adviser of
Union County Farm Bureau.

GAS TAX SENTIMENT
GAINING MOMENTUM

(Continued from pa^e 1)
ship. Consequently the I. A. A. will
fight for the farmers' pocketbooks
by endeavoring to keep the bill from
passing in the House.

If it is necessary to keep narrow-
tired vehicles off the roads, it would
be more fair to require all manufac-
turers to make and sell only the
wider-tired wheels. This requirement
would automatically replace present
vehicles with those having uniform-
ly wide tires and the change would
cause no material hardship on any-
one. Or, as an alternative, the %. A.
A. may suggest an amendment to the
bill deferring the enactment until
1930 thus giving all farmers a chance
to be prepared for the change, which
is only fair.

T. B. .Appropriation In Danger

Obtaining a three million dollar
appropriation for paying t.b. indem-
nities became rather doubtful when
Senator Barr introduced an amend-
ment to his original bill which cut
the appropriation to two million for
the biennium. The three million dol-
lar appropriation is deemed neces-
sary by the I. A. A. if the present
program of eradication is to be car-
ried out with efficiency. Strong sup-
port was accorded the three million
appropriation in the Senate, there
being so much opposition to the cut
that action was deferred. By the
time this Record reaches the reader,
it is likely that the Senate will have
reached a decision.

Constitutional .\mendment

The Lantz resolution, which pro-
vides for an amendment to the state
constitution untying the legislature's
hands and permitting levying of
taxes in accordance with present day
taxing methods, is resting with fa-
vorable support from all state or-
ganizations excepting the Illinois
Manufacturers' Association. Unless
some amendment for a constitutional
restriction upon Cook county's repre-
sentation in the legislature is given
precedence, the Lantz resolution will
be the most favorably considered
when the time comes to consider
which one possible constitutional
amendment shall be submitted to the
voter*.

SuiHiort School BUI

Support is being given House Bill
566 which allows the detachment of
territory from a community or high
school district, and the attachment
of such territory to an adjacent com-
munity high school district or to an
adjacent township high school dis-
trict, when 75 per cent of the voters
SO vote. The legislative committee
feels that this bill. If passed, would
provide means of correcting many
school muddles.

Illinois Fruit and Vegetable Growers

Adopt Indian Name for Quality Products

An Indian tribe is responsible for
the trade name of southern Illinois
fruit and vegetables.

Following the example of the lUini
Indian tribe, whose maneuvers were
the news of the day in pre-WTiitc
Illinois history, the Illinois Fruit
Growers' Exchange, co-operative fruit
and vegetable growers sales agency
in southern Illinois, has adopted as
its trade name, "ILLINI."

A. B. Leeper, general manager of
the exchange and fruit and vegetable

directly from local assembling points
to destination, the exchange does
not act in the capacity of warehouse,
but only as a central agency.
ILLI.VI for Quality
The trade name "ILLINI" will be
used on every package of quality
fruit or vegetables sold through the
exchange. According to Mr. Law-
rence, sales manager, the name was
chosen for its appropriateness. "The
mini Indians." he says, "were 'chief-
of-air when it came to war and they

RIGHTS OF PROPERTY
NOT TO BE IGNORED,
UTILITY BODIES FIND

Right of EmineBt Domain Sub-
ject to Fanners' Inconveni-
ence; DeKalb Case Dropped

The time has passed ^hen public
utility corporations in Illinois can
get right-of-way privileges from the
Illinois Commerce Commission, with-
out consideration of inconveniences
imposed on the farming classes.

According to the I. A. A. transpor-
Ution department, the Illinois Com-
merce Commission has declared that
whenever public untility companies
apply to it for a certificate of con
venlence and necessity, the Commis-
sion will consider the side of proper-
ty owners whose lands are in the
territory to be crossed by the trans-
mission lines. State laws require
utility companies to notify only other
public utiities, and not property own-
ers, of intended action, before ap
plying to the Commerce Commission
for permission to construct tbelr
lines.

"When a public utility company
at Galesburg asked the stale t.'oni-
merce Commission for permission to
extend its power lines over a cer-
tain territory, the farmers concerned
objected to the move." says L. J.
Quasey. I. A. A. transporution di-
rector. "The chairman of the Com-
merce Commission accordingly has
set aside the first week in June for
a conference on the matwr. The
farmers from Galesburg lo Galva '
want the lines to extend over another
route than the one proposed, and
will be represented by a committee
at the conference."

Rate Increase Not Granted

The DeKalb County Telephone
Company Case, in which the com
pany asked permission to increase
its telephone rates to subscribers,
has been ordered dismissed by the
Illinois Commerce Commission. The
increase in toll rates has not been
granted.

The 1. A. A. transportation depart-
ment in behalf of the farmers in-
volved, had filed a brief with the
Commission bearing on the .case,
pointing out that the esublisbment
of further toll rates would fall un-
duly on the rural subscribers, also
that the company had made substan
tial returns and therefore was not
entitled to an advance in rates in
any form.

Rate schedules filed by the DeKalb
County Telephone Company with the
Commission on December 22. 1920
and February 3. 1925, have been de-
clared permanently canceled and an-
nulled.

LiLINI

»H. !/.«. XT. 0.».

SOUTHERN ILUNOIS

smareERRiEs

ILLINOIS FRUIT GROWERS EXCHANGE

CBNTIUIUA. ILUNOIS

marketing director of the Illinois Ag-
ricultural .\ssoclation. states that the
exchange is built on a co-operative
marketing basis and operates on
much the same way as the California
Fruit Growers* Elxchange, successful
western commodity marketing or-
ganization. Contracts are drawn
with brokers throughout the middle
west and the east in the shipment of
its produce. As shipments are made

also were leaders when it came to
sports. At the time of the organiza-
tion of the exchange, it was decided
that this name of 'ILLINI' could very
fittingly be used by an association
which was comiwsed of the better
growers, the chiefs, and the leaders."
The work of the fruit growers in
southern Illinois has progressed un-
til today the label is used on all the

Deferring Peach Rate

Increase Saved Union
Bureau's Yearly Cost

In discussing problems as en-
countered by the transportation de-
partment before the May meeting of
the 1. A. A. executive committee.
R. K. Loomis. the representative of
the 25th district, told of an instance
wherein the Illinois Agricultural
Association had been of inestimable
service to the peach growers of
Union county last year.

"Deferment of a peach rate in-
crease for 60 days." said Mr. Loomis.
"saved enough money in Union coun-
ty to pay farm bureau dues in Union
county for a year. This is an illus-
tration of how farmers can benefit
by working together in a state-wide
way, combining their strength, both
financial and moral, to secure the
best possible representation on our
common problems. This saving is
appreciated in Union countv.

best grade products shipped by the
growers Formerly only tree fruits
were given that name by the ex-
change.
Quality Baaed on HooeKl Puking

"This year." declares Mr. Law-
rence, "due to the progress made
and the success achieved In getting
honest pack and true grading, the
growers have reached their goal and
can now carry out the original idea
of the organizers, which was to use
the 'ILLINI' label on all commodi-
ties of the bang-up quality type "

May 10 marked the first day when
a shipment of strawberries left Villa
Ridge. This is the first shipment of
the fruit from an Illinois point this
season, according to Mr. Lawrence

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The lUinou Agricultural Anodation Record

May 23. 1938

UUNCH INSTITUTE
TO TRAIN STUDENTS
FOR CO-OP LEADERS

I. A. A. Only State Body of 16
National Farm Organizations
Backing World-Wide Study

Two 1 1. A. A. directors have been
honored with the request to Join the
faculty of the American Institute of
Co-operation. They are Geo. R.
Wicker, general manager of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Co-operatives As-
sociation, and A. D. Lynch, dairy
marketing director.

Working together with other lead-
ing fartu organizations in the for-
ward movement of co-operative mar-
keting, the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation is supporting the Ameri-
can Institute of Co-operation. This
body was incorporated under the
laws of the District of Columbia as
an educational institution in Janu-
ary. 1925, and will launch its first
summer session at the University
of Penqsylvania, July 20 to August
15. . j

The Ij A. A. is the only state as-
sociation among 17 participating or-
ganizations that are promoting the
undertaking. Geo. R. Wicker. I. A.
A. co-operative accounting director
Is on the board of directors and ex-
ecutive committee for the Institute.

The Institute is educational, ac-
cording to Mr. Wicker. The found
ers purpose to train students for
leadership in managing co-operative
associations. This, they hope, will
be accomplished by providing
courses on review of the past his-
tory of the co-operative movement
and als0 practical problems from
actual ctl-operative life.

Tackle PrscUcal Problems

The present plan includes special
study o( commodity problems in
seminars as follows: first week —
grain, livle stock dairy products, and
supply-buying. Second week— fruits,
vegetables, poultry and eggs, and
dairying. Third week -fluid milk,
butter and cheese, and manufactured
milk products. Fourth week — cot-
loo, tobacco, and dairy products.

The legal phases of co-operation
constituta only a number of import-
ant aspects of the movement which
will be discussed at the summer
session ol! the Institute.

Both Mr. Wicker and Mr. Lynch
have been granted a leave of ab-
sence from their I. .\. .\. duties by
the I. A, A. executive committee.
They will spend a week to 10 days
at the summer session as leader!) in
round table discussions.

Fayette, Washington

Counties Thinking of

Joining Farm Bureau

Fayette county bankers in a meet-
ing at Vandalia. May 17. adopted
resolutions favoring the establish-
ment of a Farm Bureau and secur-
itig a farm adviser. Financial as-
sistance wBs offered the farmers of
the county if it is needed to estab-
lish a Farm Bureau.

Fayette county is one of nine Illi-
nois non-farm bureau counties, the
others being: Calhoun. Jasper.
Washington. Perry. Hamilton. Har-
din, .Massac and Alexander.

Agitation for organizing a Farm
Bureau _ has also started in Wash-
ington county. Because agricultural
conditions have not been of the best
is the reason why no Farm Bureaus
have been organized in these coun-
ties previously.

F.4R.M 0UREAV PKK.XY DIKS

Clinlon County Farm Bureau suf-
fered the loss of Its president. Geo.
W. Koch, who died May 2. The ex-
ecutive committee passed a resolu-
tion of condolence and extended
sjrmpathy to Mrs. Koch and children.
The vice-president, C. C. Hofsom-
mer, succeeds to the presidency.

District Meetings of

Farm Elevators Resolve
More Against Big Merger

Each of the district meetings of
farmers' elevator executive held
recently in Champaign. Pontlac and
Morris have passed resolutions stat-
ing that the Grain Marketing com-
pany Is in to sense a true farmers'
co-operative enterprise controlled
by farmers; that neither the farm-
ers nor their patrons should sut>-
scribe for stock and that true co-
operators should actively fight
against th^ merger. Tlie merger,
however, was discussed but little,
there t>eing< as one man said, "no
confidence in it."

DAIRYMEN TAKE OVER
CITY MILK CONCERN

Plans for a permanent building
for the newly organized Producers'
Dairy Company, a Springfield co-op-
erative, are under way. The co-op-
erative was organized Jointly by the
Sangamon County Milk Producers'
^Association and the county Farm Bu-
reau as a project to supply consum-
ers in Springfield with the product
of the dairy cow. It is a farmers'
stock company organized under the
Illinois Co-operative Marketing Law.

The dairy plant of a local dairy
concern has been bought. Installa-
tion of an ice machine and a cooling
room are now under consideration.
Operations will be begun at the
earliest convenience, according to
H. H. Maurer, president. Over |10,-
000 worth of stock has been sold
among dairy farmers throughout the
county.

R. P. Karr

Motor Cars, Better Roads,
Better Schools, Vanguards
of Higher Community Life

That the farmer has a very defl-
nitte place in the scheme of things,
and that it is his
duty to find it, is
t h.e statement
made by R. F.
Karr. Iroquois, in
a recent radio ad-
dress over WLS,
Chicago. Mr.
Karr is executive
'Committeeman in
the I. A. A. from
the 18th Congres-
sional district. He
is chairman of the
I. A. A. depart-
ment of Information advisory com-
mittee.

Co-operative effort, declares Mr.
Karr, has only begun to assert it-
self. He believes that no class of
people have made greater strides in
the business world in the last few
years than the farmers. He men-
tions the automobile, better roads,
and better schools as vanguards
in the farmers' march toward a bet-
ter community life.

"Working together is the wise
way of working out individual, mutu-
al, anid industrial problems," he
states, : "That is a matter of growth,
a matter of education — a matter to
be acquired out of abundance of ex-
perience.

"When through organization and
co-operation we have attained to the
fullness and richness of life to which
we are all equally entitled, then will
the farmer have attained to the high-
est possible niche In the agricul-
tural world," Mr. Karr concludes.

MAY 27 IS DATE SET
FOR MERGER HEARING

(Pontinued from page 1)

Donald Kirkpatrick. 1. A. A. legal
counsel, showed that the Grain Mar-
keting Company holds leases for
seven Illinois public warehouses
with a total capacity of approxi-
mately 10.000.000 bushels which is
two-thirds of the public warehouse
space in the Chicago district, and
is paying a rental of eight per cent
of the valuations of these proper-
ties. Evidence was also shown by
Mr. Kirkpatrick wherein the Grain
Marketing Company was advertising
control of those elevators in its cam-
paign to sell approximately sixteen
million dollars worth of stock.

First $100 Award For
Cattle "Bootleggers"
Won in Lake County

The first claimant to the
standing 9100 reward offered
by the Illinois Agricultural As-
s<tclatIon for Information lead-
ing t« the conviction of cattle
"bootleggent" is D. H. MInto,
pr^stilent of the Lake County
Farm liureau.

The executive committee in
II.S .May meeting looked with
favor u|Min .>lr. -Mlnfu's work
and onlered that the award of
9100 be paid him upon receipt
of written data covering the
ca.se. He helped apprehend
and prosecute violators of the
fetleral and state rules for
tran.H|M>rting cattle not t. b.
free. The reward is offered by
the I. A. A. to help protect
farmers who have tested their
cattle from re-lnjectlon by un-
scrupulous cattle traders.

FARMERS HAVE CHANCE
TO POOL WOOL CLIP
IN 1925 AS BEFORE

I.A.A. !• Ready with Plan to
Ship Wool to Bo*ton and
Get the Highest Prices

LIKTICK IX! :

Farm Advisers' radio talks sched-
uled over WT.,S. Chicago, on the

1. \. A. radio program are as fol-
lows;

Monday. May 26 at 12:30 — H. O. Al-
lison. I.,ivinKflton county farm adviser,
on "Buildlni^ a Permanent Agriculture
in Livingston County." Tuesday. May
26 at 12:30 and 8:40 — J. J. Doerschuk.
Lake county farm adviser, on "Farm
Bureau Service to Lake County Dairy
FRrmers." and "Developing Commu-
nity Spirit in Lake County." Monday.
June 1 — F. W. Wascher. EfflnKham
county farm adviser, on the aoom-
plishments and services of Efllnsham
County Farm Bureau. Tuesday, June

2. at 12:30 and 8:40 — F E. Longmlre.
Grundy county farm adviser, on the
accomplishments and services of
Grundy County Farm Bureau.

Wednesday. May 27 at 12:30 — Wm.
K. HedKcock. I. A. A. livestock mar-
keting director, on 'WOOL MARKET
TRE.VDS"

Farmers of the state again will
have the privilege of pooling their
wool co-operatively, according to the
I. A. A. live stock marketing depart-
ment, Wm. E. Hedgcock, director.
Arrangements have been made with
Ihe National Wool Exchange to mar-
ket the wool of Illinois flocks this
year.

"In the last five years," says Mr
Hedgcock, "Illinois and Iowa wool
has been sold to eastern mills in the
Boeton territory, but was first grad-
ed in Chicago. Under the new ar-
rangement, the wool this year will
be shipped to Boston and graded
there, then sold to the mills. This
gives the producers a chance to get
their wool graded and sold at the
largest wool market in America."

Advantage Without Extra Cost

According to the I. A. A. depart-
ment, the National Wool Exchange
declares this arrangement to be to
the advantage of Illinois producers,
as Illinois wool has been sold to
eastern mills In the past. "Handling
charges," states Mr. Hedgcock, "are
not increased under this plan, as
wool growers have always had to
pay the freight of shipments fo Chi-
cago in the past, plus the freight
from Chicago to the eastern mills.

"The Illinois pool in 1924 netted
the farmers from eight to twenty
?ents per pound over what they were
offered at the time of shearing
Fifty-two counties were represented
in the pool and marketed 93,637
pounds of wool. The principle of
pooling wool is right and in line
with the co-operative marketing en-
deavor. The farmer thus gets as
much for his product as the local
dealer would receive, at the time
the wool is sold on the market."

K<<tabll8he<l "Wool Pool Weeks"

Tl>is summer, certain weeks will
be set aside as "Illinois wool pool
weeks " Mr. Hedgcock is looking
for a large consignment of wool
from Illinois farms this year and
urges ill growers to get in touch
, with their farm adviser to insure
prompt, safe, and satisfactory ship-
ment of their wool clip.

COUNTIES CELEBRATE
INDEPENDENCE DAY

A patriotic celebration of the
Fourth of July, sponsored by county
Farm Bureaus, will take place in at
least five Illinois counties this year.

Commemorating the day when,
150 years ago, farmers first answered
to the call of "arms" at Concord
Bridge and "fired the shot heard
'round the world," Wayne, Stark,
Kankakee, Lee and Mercer Farm
Bureaus have decided to hold their
annual picnic on the traditional
Fourth. This is in line with the
suggestion of the American Farm
Bureau Federation, Chicago, to have
county Farm Bureaus throughout
the United States choose July 4,
1925 for their hey-day.

May Shut Down I\ew

T. B. Testing for Lack
Of Appropriations

Illinois' army of veterinarians is
ridding cattle herds of T. B. faster
than ever.

April was a record month for T. B.
testing. Due largely to the agita-
tion leading to the passage by the
House of the Tice bill to re-codIfy
existing laws governing the eradi-
cation of bovine tuberculosis from
Illinois herds, no less that 98,521
head of cattle were tested for T. B.
during April, according to the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association.
Sliip|>ed 4,800 Iteactors

Never before have so many cattle
been tested in Illinois in a single
month, states the I. A. A. dairy mar-
keting department. Of this number,
4,800 reactors were detected and
slaughter.ed. "T h e veterinarians
have been notified by Dr. J. J. Lint-
ner. federal veterinarian in charge
of the work." states the I. A. A.,
"not to take on any new testing and
to limit their efforts only to retest-
ing cases. The reason for this is
that present funds are insulBcient
to carry on the work In accordance
to the increasing demand on the
part of herd owners to have their
cattle tested.

"The past blennlum provided for
only $1,000,000. and April of this
year alone took 1200.000 of this
fund," continues the I. A. A. Dr.
Lintner also states that it may be
necessary to shut down the entire
T. B. testing work until the end of
the fiscal year, July 1, 1925,
.\eed «5,0OO,0O0 Bad

The Barr bill, now before the Sen-
ate, provides for an appropriation of
$3,000,000 to carry on the testing op-
erations during the next blennlum.
Those closely in touch with the work
believe that no less than $3,000,000
should be appropriated to stamp the
cattle pest out of Illinois herds. If
the present rate of testing continues,
it willtake close to $5,000,000 to pro-
vide sufficient funds to carry on the
*'ork another two years.

I.A.C.A. HOLDS SERIES
OF CONFERENCES FOR
FARMERS' ELEVATORS

Farmers' Auditing Body
Announces Plans to Talk
Over Common Problems

Farmers' elevator problems will
be In the limelight when representa-
tives of a number
of elevators gath-
er in district con-
ference soon.

Geo. R. Wicker,
general manager
of the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Co-op-
eratives Associa-
tion and coopera-
1 1 V e accounting
director of the
Illinois Arglcul-
turial Association,
Geo. H. Wlckrr announces that
the Illinois Agricultural Oo-opera-
tives Association is arranging a dis-
trict conference with the farmers'
elevators in Iroquois and Ford and
adjoining counties to be held at Wat-
seka or some other central point In
Iroquois county on May 27. Man-
agers and officers of farmer's ele-
vator companies make up the com-
mittee on arrangements.

At this conference subjects of
common interest with reference to
management problems will be pre-
sented and discussed. The I. A. C.
A. has compiled tables of compara-
tive data which will form another
topic for the conference. The con-
ference is not confined to organiza-
tions which are members of the co-
operative auditing body. The invi-
tation has been made open to all
farmer's elevators desiring to be
represented.

On May 28th a similar conference
will be held by the officers and man-
agers of the live stock shipping as-
sociations in the samA territory.
Subjects to be discussed will Include
particularly the accounting system
recently formulated by the Illinois
Agricultural Co-operatives Assocla-
Uon.

These are the first of a series of
conferences which it is proposed to
hold in the state during the year
wherever sufficient Interest Is Indi-
cated to warrant the time and ex-
pense involved, according to Mr.
Wicker.

Vo

f

No
Its

If yd

piew o|

VOTe I. A. A. SHOW-WINDOW

An exhibit to portray the big rea-
son for the existence of the Illinois
Agricultural Association was auth-
orized by the executive committee
in its May meeting to be made and
shown at the Aurora fair, the state
picnic at Taylorville. the state fair
and the Illinois Products Exposition.

WHEAT POOL CHANCES
LOOM ALONG WABASH

(i'oiitinufd from page 1)
oe authorized to take such action to
issist wheat growers in that section
'M organize for marlieting their crop
IS in their Judgment the situation
Justifies."

The University of Illinois it co-
operating with the I. A. A. in a sur-
vey of the soft winter wheat area.
Meetings are scheduled at Mt. Car-
mel (Wabash) May 21 and at Robin-
son (Crawford) May 22. At these
conferences the advisability 4nd the
form of a soft wheat marketing pro-
ject will be discussed. Notices of
these meetings were sent to Edgar,
Clark. C r a w fo r d, L.awrence, Ed-
wards, White, Wabash and Gallatin
County Farm Bureaus.

Hoys' and Kirls' clubwork in Coles
fouiily has reached 125 members tn
t-iirollmcnt. Forty hoys are In corn
cliihwork.

Randolph County Farm Bureau has
a Jerof'y breeding assoriation which
Will give about 15 farmers joint
ownership of three well-bred Jersey
Hires. The members look on thift as
one atep forward in improving the
quality of dairy breeding animals
used in that section. The Jersey
county group is one of 12 co-opera-
tive bull associations in Illlnoia.

kvtaw&Vf R-4£ir-i • ■

PBPPT COUNTY FAMI BURKAU

I PEP UADER, Proi^Mt UCOKDEK RIGHT, S«c

EAGLE ETED FAINEK. Trui. LOTSA PEP. Far* AivAer

Illinois Agricultural AssocUtion.>> American Rum Bureau Pcdaation

Membership in the I. A. C. A. now
numbers 182 farmers co-ops. The last
^ >• A three to join are the Piatt
I n/ County Farm Bureau, the
* "" Ransom Farmers, Elevator,
LaSalle county, and the Pearl City
Farmers' Grain and Coal Company,
Stephenson county.

Mr. Wicker has been asked, to give
two or three lectures at the Grain
Marketing Short Course to be held
at the Iowa State College at Ames,
Iowa, May 25tli to June 5th Inclu-
sive.

The tentative program for the
course includes instruction on the
elevator business, finances merchan-
dising practice, markets, manage-
ment, co-operation, and accounting.
Mr. Wicker has been asked to speak
on the subject of — "The Federal Rev-
enue Act as it Relates to Farmers'
Elevators" and "Accounting for
Farmers' Elevators."

mmm

Have you feen this iUuUration before? The I. A. A. office is furnishing
quantities of this cut to farm advisers for use in the newspapers in their coun-
ties. Watch for neios concerning your county and state farm organisation under
this head.

BALIi SEASON OPENS

Strike one!

The baseball season is on. Farm
Bureau teams are practicing. Ofll-
cers and direptors of farm bureau
baseball teams in district No. 4 com-
poseii of Peoria, Tazewell, and
Woodford counties have drawn up
the following schedule:

May 21, Peoria vs. Tazewell at
Peoria. May 23. Tazewell vs.
Woodford at Eureka. May 30. Pe-
oria vs. Woodford at Peoria. June
6, Peoria vs. Tazewell at Pekin.
June 13. Tazewell vs. Woodford at
Washington. June 20. Peoria vs.
Woodford at Eureka. „

Other schedules line up as fol-
lows:

June 4, Stark vs. Marshall-Putnam,
Tune 11. Marshall-Putnam vs. La-
salle. June 18, Stark vs. Marshall-
Putnam. June 25, LaSalle vs.
Marshall-Putnam.

Jo«epl
Pre

Ing to
Some
'Possible
service
hers'
against
fate fr(
drivers
This
oped ai
Tazewe
1921 th
sibllitie
hers on
and str;
compan
Farm B
Grew I
It wa
tomobili
From a
upon a
servatis
Imately
well c
across t
consent
reaus,
cars In
Woodfc
reau Is
its met
extensi
t organiz
One
that ni
sured
owner
Bureau
Whe
farm i
' the att
which
rocal <
, ance b
j of m<]
.1 \oard
s^onsll
pany :
dorir (
Ralph
W. F.
Betzel
Under
the a
set up
bureai
compa
is of I
on ki

ivarloii
be rer
tlon t

;■]

;j

J brieflj

* I comp:

, V, Me

y "'

«•■? presei
I. Count

• • J of thi
;■ insun

• 'i you ^

' i and ii

^■- ' SuthlsTi
Marion County Farm Bureau has ^ llp^nrv
declared systematic war against com /^,|^^ '
root rot. Each co-operator has h»d '^ Ithe f
200 ears of culled corn tested by tjhe Isurao

farvi bureau. On each 48 demonstrti- , O «,t
tion farms there will be an average I ^^
of 10 acres of disease-free seed corn ^ as Pr
and one acre of Infected seed. Rec- - 2 stead'
ords of yields will be accurately sc; j bgpgjj'

cured by' weighing. In addition, seed
corn selection meetings will be held
on each of these farms early next
fall, when corn from desirable stalks
will be selected.

A

May 23, 1928 •

>S SERIES

:nces for
elevators

itiDg Body

I ant to Talk
non Problem*

r problems will
when representa-
ives of a number
)f elevators gath-
er in district con-
erence soon.

Geo. R. Wicker,
general manager
>( tbe Illinois Ag-
icultural Co-op-
'ratives Assocla-
ion and coopera-
i V e accounting
lirector of the
llinois Arglcul-
jrial Association,
innounces that
iltural Oo-opera-
arranging a dis-
ith the farmers'
s and Ford and
) be held at Wat-
central point in

May 27. Man-
of farmer's ele-
ike up the com-
3nt8.

ice subjects of
Ith reference to .
ms will be pre-
d. The I. A. C.
lies of compara-

II form another
■ence. The con-
ned to organiza-
nbers of the co-
)ody. The invl-
ide open to all
desiring to be

nilar conference
ifflcers and man-
}ck shipping as-
samA territory,
ised will include
counting system
by the Illinois
ratives Assocla-

t of a series of
is proposed to
uring the year
interest is indl-
e time and ex-
:ording to Mr.

I li L I

ULTUMAL

■HISS MARY G. BURwAGH. LIBRARIAN.
COLL'i:Gt OF AGRICULTURE.
mm'R:^^ OF ILLINOIS,

luaH:.'Ar

Volume 3

luued Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinking Farmen — June 6, 1925

No. 11

[TAZEWELL BUREAU
MAKES SUCCESS OF
CAR INSURANCE PLAN

Jo«epli Morris,
PTcald«Bt

1. A. C. A. now
co-ops. The last
In are the Piatt
m Bureau, the
mers. Elevator,
the Pearl City
Coal Company,

asked, to give

at the Grain

rse to be held

illege at Ames,

une 6th Inclu-

gram for the
miction on the
mces merchan-
kets, manage-
nd accounting,
asked to speak
le Federal Rev-
s to Farmers'
counting for

OPENS

is on. Farm
actlcing. OW-

farm bureau
let No. 4 com-
Pazewell, and
drawn up

^ >*<un>ers' Automobile Ins. Assn.
Now Has 1,075 Cars Under
Its Wing; Spreading Rapidly

It you were to take a bird's eye
piew of a map of Illinois — a map
about as large as
the side of a fair-
sized barn — and
if every county
Farm Bureau
had pinned a
placard to its
county telling Its
services to farm
bureau members,
you would see a
great variety of
activities ranging
all the way from
the distribution
of patent sealers
for home can-
ning to poisoning ground hogs.
Somewhere between these two
■ 'Possible extremes lies that realm of
service where farm bureau mem-
bers' automobiles are Insured
against those unpleasant dictates of
fate from which most automobile
drivers seek protection.

This kind of service has devel-
oped and Is developing further in
Tazewell county, where in April of
1921 the Farm Bureau saw the pos-
sibilities of saving money for mem-
bers on their automobile insurance
and straightway formed a farmers'
company under the wing of tbe
Farm Bureau.
Grew On Ration of Conservatism
It was named "The Farmers' Au-
tomobile Insurance Association."
From a modest start It has grown
upon a ration well mixed with con-
servatism until now it has approx-
imately 1,075 cars insured In Taze-
well county and has expanded
.^across tbe county borders, with the
consent of their neighbor Farm Bu-
reaus, to the extent of about 200
cars In Mason county and 50 In
Woodford. Stark. County Farm Bu-
reau is taking up this Insurance for
its members, which means further
extension for the Tazewell county
t organization.

One fundamental requirement is
that no car or truck shall be in-
sured in the company unless its
owner Is a member of the Farm
Bureau.

When the company started, the
farm adviser at that time became
the attorney-in-fact of the company,
which was Incorporated as a recip-
rocal company upon an Interinsur-
, ance basis which is similar to that
of mutual companies. The first
1»oard of directors and the men re-
sponsible for establishing the com-
pany are as follows: R. B. Orn-
dortf (then farm bureau president),
.< Ralph Boyle, J. L. Schwartzentraub,
W. F. Donley, Wm. Freitag, John
Betzelberger and Geo. B. Muller.
Under the guidance of these men
the attorney-in-fact company was
set up strictly as a service to farm
bureau members. Now that the
company Is over four years old, It
is of Interest to those who are keen
on knowing something about the

-•I

' 'j various kinds of service possible to
I be

Tazewell at
Tazewell vs.
May 30, Pe-

Ju°^af" p'^ui"^ ■' ""^ rendered by a farmers' organiza-
m•,^7„^f^ J ; ' 'l "°° to farmer-members, to survey
n iwhI J """'^"y the status of the insurance

• ^ ^- ' { company at the present date.

I. , t Membership Steadily Growing'
I If you talk to Joseph Morris, the
rshall-Putnam. ''l P''esent president of the Tazewell
tnam vs. La^ * County Farm Bureau and by virtue
*j of that office also president of the
.j Insurance association, he can tell
•j you what the people in his county
I and in the territory acquainted with
Sethis -phase of the farm bureau's cat-
J legory of services, actually think of
•^ 'I the farm bureau's automobile in-
fsurance proposition.
J What they think of it is reflected.
,t as President Morris sees it, in the
I steady and constant growth In mem-
f bershlp. Also the Insurance feature
I (CoDtinued on page 4, col. 3.)

"1

le up as fol-

V8. Marshall-
La Salle TS.

Bureau has ^
r against com
rator has had

tested by tjnf
48 demonatr^- ,

an average
free seed corn
ed seed. Rec- •
accurately se-

addltion, seed
1 will be held
ns early next
esirable stalks ^

"SAM" THOMPSON AND "BILL" JARDINE

f^RESlDE^T THQMPSON was interested in the "omeryness" of the weather when Secretary Jardine visited the
■* /. A. A. office IqsI week and while posing for the photographer told the Secretmy of the heavy damage of the re-
cent frost in Illinois: "Our Sam" is particulwly interested in the region around Quincy, his home, where frost made
it necessary for him to htirry home from legislative work at Springfield to help his sons replant corn. He is shown
pointing out the frost areas.

"The department of agriculture has charge of the weather forecasts," the Secretary said, "but do you know, even
the government can't control it!"

Farmers' Elevator Books
Compared by I. A. C. A.;
Find Common Trend in All

That comparisons of books
of farmers' elevators and other
co-operatives may prove a fruit-
ful source of information to
guide the financial course of new
co-operative organizations, is the
opinion of Geo. R. Wicker, I.A.C.A.
manager and I. A. A. co-operative
accounting director.

The I.A.C.A. has just completed
a tabulation of the financial condi-
tion and operation of 31 farmers'
elevators. Among the significant
facts revealed by the comparison,
states Mr. Wicker, were figures to
show that the cost of goods sold,
including grain and merchandise,
represents |95.29 for each $100 of
sales. The average operating prof-
Its are indicated at 13.25 on each
$100 of sales. Interest and other
Incidental expense show an average
of 68 cents tor each $100, while
the average net profit Is 78 cents on
each $100 of sales.

Data Reveal Much

"Analylsis," says the I. A. C. A.
bead, "shows accounts receivable
to be $31.21 on each $100 net
worth. For the 31 elevator co-opb
studied, 87.12 per cent of the sales
are grain sales while 12.88 per cent
represents the merchandise sales.
The average gross margin of profit
in the grain-trading operations was
shown to be 3.51 per cent of sales,
while merchandise trading showed
an average gross margin of 12.76
per cent of merchandise sales.

"This is the first analysis of its
kind made by the I. A. C. A.," states
Mr. Wicker. "It is hoped that simi-
lar compilations will be prepared
after tbe close of June 30 and De-
cember 31 of each year, covering a
large number of elevators. We
hope, too, that eventually percent-
ages will be established which may
be accepted as standard for the pur-
pose of comparison."

Another Non-Member

Joins Farm. Bureau
On Claim Settlement

What to do when confronted
with overctiarges on railroad
shipments?

Tell it to the I. A. A. trans-
portation department!

The I. A. A. has Just won an-
other loyal memtier to its force
of "63,000 thinking Farmers."
ThU time it is Walter FoUett,
of Tonica, IiaSalle county.

Walt wasn't a (arm bureau
member bnt had two grievances
against as many railroads.
Some thoughttnl (arm bureau
neighlrar, or maybe it was the
I. A. .\. RECORD that (ell into
his luuids — gave him the urge.
He had suffered an overcharge
o( $27.60 on a shipment o(
stock cattle from South Dakota,
and another overchiu^e o(
$5.10 on a shipment o( the hogs
from the same state.

He took it up with the Lia-
Salle County Farm Bureau and
W. W. McLianghlin, the (arm
adviser, promptly re(erred tiim
to the I. A. A. transportation
department. The claims were
filed with the proper railroads
and sncessdiUy negotiated in
lH>th cases. The iS5 per cent
conunlssion due the I. A. A.
would have amounted to $8.17,
but Walt thought twice, Joined
the Farm Bureau, and was
saved pajing the commission.

Walt now wears a big grin,
thanks to I. A. A. efforts. "Vm
(or the Farm Bureau," is his
song.

Ob« kvBdrcd Pike enmmtj farmers
have Binned with the Pike County
Farm Bureau to improve the aeed
corn of the county by the prevention
of stalk, root and ear rot. It is ex-
pected that 150,000 ears of seed corn
will be tested in the Farm Bureau
onlce before plantingr time.

Corn demonstrations will be fea-
tured by Iroquois County Farm Bu-
reau this season.

DaaaM
KIrkpatrIek

Stipulation Before l.C.C.
Slops Merger's Stock Sale
In Illinois 'Till July 28

No stock of the $26,000,000
grain merger, the Grain Marketing
Company, can be
sold npr offered
for sale In Illi-
nois between now
and July 28, in
accordance with
a stipulation en-
tered into In pro-
ceedings before
the Illinois Com-
merce Commis-
sion and signed
June 1 by Don-
ald Kirkpatrick,
I.A.A. legal coun-
sel and Mayer,
Meyer, Austrian
and Piatt, counsel for the Grain
Marketing Company.

Hearings will begin after this
date If the merger goes through,
according to Mr. Kirkpatrick.

Chairman Frank L. Smith of the
Illinois Commerce Commission sug-
gested the stipulation after repeat-
ed continuances had been asked for
by the Grain Marketing Company
and some facts had been presented
by the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
clatiob. July 28 is the date when
the property and leaseholds of the
vendor companies brought into the
merger are supposed to be turned
over to the Grain Marketing Com-
pany in return for $4,000,000 of
cash expected to have been derived
trota the sale of stock to farmers.
Little stock baa been sold in Illi-
nois.

No Farmer Sup|M>rt
Prospects for completing the
merger are considered negligible
since tbe farmers of the country
have not been induced to buy the
stock as. was anticipated by the
promoters. Meetings have been
held in ''Washington in an effort by
Grain r Marketing Company officials
(Cootinued on p»at i, col. 3.)

JARDINE VISITS I. A. A.
' OmCE AND LEAVES
BOUQUETS WITH US

Secretary o f A^culture S a y t
Condition* Have Improved
Over Five Ye«r» Ago, But
There Are StiU Mony Pr«*-
IcoM to Hurdle

-Amt-rica's foremost agricultural
spokesman — Secretary of Agricul-
ture, Wm. M. Jardine — was a visi-
tor at the I. A. A. office last week
when he 8toppe<^ off at Chicago (or
two days as a pnl of bis six-week's
tour of the Middle West and West
Where, as he said, he is "tourioK
his workshop."

After spending tbe better part
of the forenoon at the I. A. A. office
getting acquainted with President
Thompson. Secretary Fox, Treasur-
er Cowles and directors of depart-
ments and inspecting the general
office, he said to an Associate Press
correspondent after leaving, that he
was much impressed with the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association and
that "the personnpl and facilities
of the I. A. A. are of such a char-
acter to make Its service of great
value to the farmers of Illinois.
I have never seen anything like It
— anywhere."

In connection with his visit, the
Secretary made the following state-
ment for Illinois farm bureau mem-
bers:

"For a number of years I have
been following with a great deal o(
interest and approval the excellent
contribution which county Farm
Bureaus and the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association have made to the
welfare of fanners In this state.
We look upon the agricultural sit-
uation today as improved over what
it has been in the past five years.
However, we must recognlie that
there are certain fundamental prob-
lems which must be solved be(ore
agriculture can be said to be on a
satisfactory basis.

"The I. A. A. has an enviable
record in the state and the nation
and is materially assisting In the
solution of these prol>lems. It is my
hope and my feeling that it will go
on and on in the interests o( Illi-
nois farmers."

PROSPECTS BRIGHT
FOR WHEAT POOL IN
SOUTHERN ILUNOIS

Conferences at Mt Carmel and
Robinson Consider Advis-
ability of Marketing Project

Prospects are bright for Illinois
farmers who grow soft winter
wheat in the counties adjacent to
Indiana along the Wabash joining
with their neighbor farmers of Indi-
ana in marketing their wheat co-
operatively through the pool of the
Indiana Wheat Growers' Associa-
tion, according to H. E. Goembel,
chairman of the grain marketing
committee of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association following a meet-
Inc at Kobinson recently.

The meeting in Robiiison was the
second meeting called by the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association for
consideration of the possibilities of
some kind of a grain marketing
plan for this soft wheat area, tbe
first having been at Mt. Cannel the
previous day. Farm bureau repre-
sentatives, many of them the larg-
est soft wheat growers in tbis part
of the state, attended the meetings,
the following counties being repre-
sented: Crawford, I^wrence, W^a-
bash, Edwards, White and Gallatin.

In t>oth meetings, the decision
was made at the close to further
consider the advisability of joining
the Indiana pool by each county
Farm Bureau, several of them call-
ing special board meetings since If

(CoatiDucd on pAfr i, ool. 2.)

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The nteou Atricuhural AMOcutioa Record

June 6, 1925

■ L. li I N OIS

CCLTVBAL ASSOCIA

RECORO'

Published every other Saturday by the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation, 608 South Dearborn Street. Chicago, Illinois. Edited
by Department of Information, Harry C. Butcher. Director,

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OFFICERS
President, S. H. Thompson, Qnlncy.

I Vice-President, H. E. Ooembel, Hooppole.
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomlngton.

'Secretar7, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

I By Congressional Dlstrlcta

11th I William Webb, Route One, Jotlet

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Q. F. Tullock, Rockford
...C E. Bamborough, Polo
,.W. H. Moody, Port Byron

B. H. Taylor, Rapatoo

A. R. Wright, Varna

F. D. Barton, Cornall

R. F. Karr, Iroquois

J. L. Whisnand, Charlatton

Earl C. Smith, Datrelt

t Samuel Sorralla, Raymond

Stanly Castis, Alton

W. L. Cops, Salam

..Curt Anderson, Xonia
R. K. Loomis, Makanda

Directors of Departments
I. A. A. Office

Gensral OfHcs and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kalkar; Or
ganlzatlon, Q. E. Metzger: Information, H. C. Butcher; Trana-
portation, L. J. Quasey; Taxation and Statistic*, J. C. Watson;
Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing, A. B.
Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, Wm. E. Hedgcock; Dairy
Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone, J. R. Bsnt;
In charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A. Qougler; special
representative on Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H. Pstsrean;
Legal Counsel, Donald Kirkpatriek; Comparative Aoeoiwting,
Geo. R. Wicker.

THE RECORD'S PLATFORM
Advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organixed,
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic,
social and educational interests of the farmers pf Illinois and the
nation, and to develop agriculture.

Secretary Jar dine' a Visit

HE friendly call of Secretary Jardine at the office
of the Illinois Agricultural Association is signifi-

T

cant. I

Those who followed closely the strenuous fight to put
over the McNarj'-Haugen bill in the campaign a year
ago will retnember that the present Secretary of Agri-
culture wa^ verj- much against that particular move to
lift agriculture to the economic level of our neighbor
classes.

The I. A- A. was in the front line trenches trying to
put the bill! over, and "Bill" Jardine was there trying
to keep it ifrom going over.

There is Jio need of heckling and stewing over what
has been done; it is the present and future that con-
cerns us. Soth Secretarj- Jardine and the men on his
side of the fence and those on the side of the export
corporation principle agree that there are certain funda-
mental prinpiples which must be solved before agricul-
ture can be said to be on a satisfactory basLs.

How to gelt to that basis is the big problem. President
Coolidge'.s Agricultural Conference said the big thing
to do is to ijiake the tariff apply to agriculture. Secre-
tarj- Jardine was a member of the Conference and is
understood lo subscribe to that idea. As Secretary of
Agriculture 'he has the opportunity of practicing what
he preachedj Making the tariff more effective will help
some, but ndt enough.

In the meantime, he is on the way toward being the
most popula^ member of the Cabinet. That is a good
thing for agriculture. His personality is a winning one.
He made lufuiy friends in Chicago, as he does evCrj'
place he go*s. He told President Thompson that he
thinks Illin'ots fanners have a question mark after his
name. Granted, but it will disappear with the right per-
formance, ^ince both the Secretary and the I. A. A.
agree on thej basic premise that there is need of some
fundamental] patching to re-commission agriculture,
there is notnlng but good results to come from working
together. \

Work together, that's the team — we'll never get any-
where if we (Ion 't. It is better to be friends even though
there- may l^e some differences of opinion. As Ben
Franklin saij: "Tart words make no friends: a spoon-
ful of honey jwill catch more flies than a gallon of vine-
gar." 1 • I

Poms It, Senator* !

PRACTICAtLY all agricultural states in the Middle
West and West have passed resolutions memorializ-
ing Congress to form an export corporation or do some-
thing along that line for agriculture.

We are happy to report that the Illinois legislators
are also of that same mind. A resolution asking Con-
gress to provide an export bounty on wheat, com, hogs
and cattle and their by-products "in order to bring these
items of farmers' produce to a parity with the products
of industrial enterprise" was adopted recently by the
House. It was offered by Representative William
Adcock of Galesburg, and was approved by the House
, Committee on Agriculture. Senate approval is neces-
sary before the resolution becomes an official action of
the General Assembly.

The farmers' fight to get equality is never out and
never over even though the price index shows agricul-
tural prices wofth 90 to 91 per cent of the other fel-
low "s. Such a big howl has been made over the farmers
regaining prosperity during the jump from a 75 cent
dollar to the present "90 center" that if farmers get
•back to normal we judge there'll be a prosperity yodel
from the metropolitan press loud enough to attract Mars.

Pae* the Revenue Amendment

IF the house passes the Lantz Joint Resolution No. 4,
as the Senate did recently, and if the people of Illinois
vote to accept this amendtoent to the revenue section
of the constitution, then Illinois will have a new and
up-to-date means of taxation.

It will take a tremendous amount of work and support
to get the necessary votes to put the amendment across
with the people, for every voter who doesn't vote casts
a negative vote, and that's a tough proposition to over-
come. That task lies ahead.

Anyway, the dope is that the Lantz resolution will
pass the House, as it should, and then it will be up to
good farm bureau members and others who see the light
to get the votes to put it over.

The adoption of this amendment will give Illinois
a system of taxation that will make it possible to relieve
farm property of a portion of its unjust burden which
it now bears. Real estate can not be classified, and that
will meet with approval with farmers as it does with the
I. A. A. Mineral lands and lands devoted to reforesta-
tion are, and rightly so, permitted to be taxed differently
than other real estate. Farmers who own wooded land
and which is bearing a tax equal to that imposed on
good agricultural] land, will appreciate this much classi-
fication. I

\\-'A Victory Won, Though Defeated

BY the time this is read, the Cuthbertson gas tax bill
will have been defeated or at least shelved. That
is the dope.

According to tpe legislative committee, which is, of
course, very close to the situation at Springfield, there is
but a bare possibility of the bill being passed at this
time. Too many Senators were pledged when elected to
oppose any gas tax, no matter what its purpose. Chi-
cago opposition, based on prejudice and not merit, is
largely responsible. At this writing, about 20 votes are
counted as favorable to it and the number needed is 26.
"Even though tli|e gas tax is defeated, there is a great
deal of recompense in the advance made in the principle
advocated by the Ij. A. A. The idea is pretty thoroughly
sold that whenever there is a gas tax, it shall take some
of the burden oft of property. Illinois farmers will
eventually benefit from this principle. If there had
not been so many gas tax bills of little value introduced
in the legislature kt the beginning of the session, there
would 'not have b^en so many hurdles of unpopularity
to overcome. If ^he I. A. A. had been given a start
with no.handicapj quite likely the result would have
been different. i

No apologies are needed for the gas tax showing in
this session of the legislature. In the next session, the
I. A. A. position is likely to be defensive rather than
offensive for there will be a decided move< to get the gas
tax funds applied to hard roads — and with no reduction
of property tar— i

A Little History.

ACTIONS speak louder than words, especially when
words are carefully uttered.

In the case of the Grain Marketing Company, the
$26,000,000 grain merger, the actions speak plainly to
those who have followed the unfolding of the gigantic
plan to unload millions of dollars worth of partially ob-
solete property upon farmers under the guise and label
of co-operative marketing.

Follow the action : When Sam H. Thompson, our
president, was a member of the specially created grain
committee of the American Farm Bureau Federation,
a part of the information available on the then proposed
consolidation was withheld from him. Being a banker,
and also a farmer of good judgment, he knew |hat such
a business deal should not be consummated unless all
the facts on the amount and kind of business done by
the merging companies could be obtained. He stood pat
on this point and all the I. A. A. has backed him up.

When the I. A. A. took its position of making an im-
partial investigation before saying yes or no on the deal,
the Grain Marketing Company was asked to furnish
independent auditor's reports on each of the merging
companies for each of the past five years. This informa-
tion was promised by the buying side of the Grain Mar-
keting Company. If it had been forthcoming, the I.A.A.
would have been able to determine the amount and kind
of business engaged in by each of the companies while
they were individual operators. This would have shown
whether profits came from speculation or from the mer-
chandising of actual grain. Such information would be
vital to the success of any co-operative. These facts were
not forthcoming.

Follow the next step : When the I. A. A. asked the
Illinois Commerce Commission to conduct a public in-
quiry into the merger, the dates for the hearings were
continually postponed upon . request gf counsel of the
Grain Marketing Company. It should^ be made plain
here, too, that it was very evident that the counsel rep-
lesented the selling interest and not the buying interest.
After several postponements. Chairman Frank L. Smith
requested that a stipulation be entered into by the Grain ,
Marketing Company and the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation that no stock be sold in Illinois pending the suc-
cessful or unsuccessful closing of the deal July 28.
Chairman Smith had said that either a stipulation
should be agreed upon or the hearing would go forward.
A hearing would have brought out some interesting
facts regarding actual values of the merged facilities.

All the way through the selling side of the Grain
Marketing Company has refused to come out in the open
with the facts. And at the same time they say they
have nothing to conceal. Thus actions speak louder
than words.

This history illustrates in a negative way the neces-
sity for absolute, frankness in forming a co-operative
association. All the members should know what is go-
going on and why.

The Drama Goes On

SECRETAR'X' JARDINE is going after the Board of
Trade trying to get it to control its wide and rapid
price fluctuations. He told the directors of the board
while he was in Chicago that it is up to them to remedj'
their own disease.

He called fluctuations of 15 cents in one day entirely
unreasonable. Farmers everywhere can be heard saying
"Amen" to this.

"It is such evidences of gambling that makes the
public think the Board of Trade is a damn nuisance,"
he is quoted as saying. Amen again.

The next act of this drama will likely be accompanied
with a general shifting of the scenery as a move to com-
ply with the Secretar.v's suggestions. If it is nothing
more than a gesture, it is to be hoped that the Secretary
will take proper steps within his province to segregate
and put the brakes on actual speculation. Here is a
place where agriculture can be served to great advan-
tage for every rapid change in price catches some farmer
or group of farmers.

V

icompanied
ive to corn-
is nothing

Secretary
I segregate

Here is a
eat advan-
me farmer

June 6, 1925

The llHn<M» AgricultiT«l Anociation Record

Pace 3

SENATE PASSES BILL APPROPRIATING $3,000,000 FOR T. B. WORK

HEALTH OF MOVEMENT
SEEN IN CONFERENCES
OF FARMERS' CO-OPS

Fir>t Meeting of Elevators and
Live Stock Co-ops in Watseka
by I. A. C. A. Organiaation

The first of a series o! confer-
ences of farmers' eleyators and live
stock shipping associations in Illi-
nois is over.

Through the efforts of the Iro-
quois and Ford County Farm Bu-
reaus, co-operating with the farm-
ers' elevators and live stock co-op-
erators in those and adjoining coun-
ties, two conferences were held at
Watseka, May 27 and May 28.

The meetings were sponsored by
the Illinois Agricultural Co-opera-
tives Association, states Geo. R.
Wicker, general manager and I. A.
A. accounting director. Eighty-
three representatives of 23 farmers'
elevators met on the first day, and
the second conference was attended
by 63 representatives of 18 ship-
ping associations.

Talk Financial Problems

Speakers on the program of the
elevators conference included Mr.
Wicker, who spoke on "Financial
Problems of Farmers' Elevators;"
and Vernon Vanlman, I. A. C. A.
fieldman, on "Selling Co-operation
to Co-operatives." A discussion of
comparative data as recently pre-
pared by the I. A. C. A. on the finan-
cial condition and operations of 31
farmers' elevators was presented by
F. E. Ringham, assistant manager
of the 1. A. C. A. Comparison was
on the basis of audit reports for
1924. According to Jlr. Wicker,
this feature aroused particular in-
terest among all present at the con-
ference, and for the first time pre-
sented a means of making compari-
sons of financial conditions and op-
erations of a considerable number
of similar enterprises.

Watseka Has First Conference

This is the first conference of its
kind to be held by the I. A. C. A.
Similar conferences are contem-
plated in other parts of the state,
according to the interest indicated
by farmers' elevators and county
Farm Bureaus.

The conference of live stock ship-
ping associations on May 28, ac-
cording to Mr. Wicker, covered uni-
form accounting systems, group or-
ganization for auditing purposes,
and other coiilmon problems. Mr.
Wicker explained the Federal Reve-
nue Act and its application to co-ops
generally, but more particularly to
the requirements for exemption of
live stock co-ops.

The most interesting development
of this meeting, states the I.A.C.A.
head, was a voluntary action by
those present to endorse the uni-
form accounting system recently
prepared Jointly by the I. A. C. A.
and the University of Illinois. The
plan of group auditing of associa-
tion records was also endorsed,
whereby examinations can be made
at a minimum of time and expense.
Vote Conference a Success

"Officers and managers of the or-
ganizations represented at these two
conferences," declares Mr. Wicker,
"also farm advisers and other rep-
resentatives of farmers in Iroquois,
Ford, and nearby counties, are en-
thusiastic over the results of the
conferences. A close co-operation of
the Farm Bureaus and the co-op-
erative associations points to the
better relationship which is being
established by bringing together
representatives of the various or-
ganizations to discuss their common
problems."

(U.A.MENJOINU.OFI.
i FACULTY FOR ONE DAY

' The College of Agriculture at the
University of Illinois has enlisted
the services of two I. A. A. men.

Both Geo. R. Wicker, general
[manager of the Illinois Agricultural
1 Co-operatives Association, and Ver-
JBon Vanlman, I. A. C. A. field or-
Iganizer, have accepted an invitation
[from the Illinois College of Agricul-
jture to participate as instructors in
I the short course for farmers' ele-
I vator managers to be held at Ur-
" ana, June 16 to 20.

I Mr. Wicker will meet with ele-
vator managers present on June 19
and will discourse on the subject,
^ "Financial Problems of Grain Ele-
' vators." On June 16, Mr. Vaniman
[ will choose for his subject, "Lead-
, ing Problems of Farmers' Elevat-
I ors."

WHEAT FOOL CHANCES
LOOM ALONG WABASH

{Continued from pa«e I.)
organization work is started this
year, it must begin within two or
three weeks, the harvesting being
expected in four or five weeks.
Only .Modest Membership Wanted

Only a modest membership is ex-
pected or even wanted this year, ac-
cording to the Illinois Agricultural
Association, which made its position
on the pooling system of marketing
clear in stating that it is a service
organization ready to serve its mem-
bers upon request from them.

Accortfing to H. E. Goembel,
spokesman for thfe I. A. A., the pool-
ing system is deemed the best for
the conditions which exist in these
counties because there are very few
farmers' elevators. Any marketing
plan must be, therefore, based upon
individual producers in this area,
but in northern Illinois, where
there are about 600 farmers' ele-
vators, the I. A. A. favors working
with the farmers' Grain Dealers'
Association of Illinois to build a
terminal marketing agency based
upon the farmers' elevators.

Since the Indiana Wheat pool has
had one year's experience, the I.
A. A. favors going along with it,
especially since the unorganized
soft wheat of Illinois competed last
year with the pool and the quality
of wheat is practically the same. If
a modest venture this year proves
successful, which is expected, the
Indiana pool plans to change its
name and organization to include
Illinois, with the membership in
Illinois being increased to cover all
of southern Illinois.

(iot $1.25 and More to Come

Representatives of the Indiana
Wheat Growers' Association said
that they expect to handle 50 per
cent of the soft wheat grown in
Indiana this year. Reports on the
pool's operation were everything
that could be expected following the
first year of operation, Mr. Goembel
stated. Approximately 7,000 Indi-
anians Joined the pool last year and
this number has increased to around
16,000 at the present time. Mem-
bers of the pool have already re-
ceived )1.25 per bushel as partial
payment for their wheat, and a sub-
stantial sum remains yet to be dis-
tributed according to James H.
Gwaltney of Poseyvllle, Indiana,
president of the pool. Non-mem-
bers in Indiana received an average
of $1.14 to $1.16 per bushel at the
same time, he said.

Since the meetings, resolutions
have been passed in White, Wabash
and Gallatin counties asking that
the I. A. A. give service in organiz-
ing this territory with the Indiana
Wheat Growers' Association. Or-
ganization work is expected to go
forward very soon.

Frost Which Covered
Middle West on May 24
Nipped Illinois Fruit

There won't be so many folks this
year appeasing their appetites with
Juicy Illinois fruits and vegetables.

Severe damage to the fruit and
vegetable crop of Illinois is reported
by the Illinois Fruit Growers' Ex-
cliange, as a result of the recent
killing frost following the excessive
heat which stifled the Middle West
recently.

According to J. O. Lawrence,
sales manager of the exchange,
which functions as a department of
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, the crop of strawberries is
practically ruined. In Quincy ter-
ritory strawberries are completely
nipped, Mr. Lawrence states.

"The full extent of damage done
by the freeze is not yet known," he
declares. Raspberries, potatoes, to-
matoes, and cabbage are badly in-
jured in the Quincy district.
Ap|>les More Promisine

The outlook for apples is mqre
pron^ising, according to the ex-
change. "Indications are that the
apple crop in the Quincy section
was only slightly injured," states
Mr. Lawrence.

The Illinois Fruit Growers' Ex-
change, with headquarters in Cen-
tralia, is continuing its survey
throughout Egypt to determine the
extent of damage done to the entire
fruit and vegetable crop.

Live Stock Producers
Given Suggestions on
Marketing Their Stock

Watch your shipping facili-
ties when the hot weather
comes!

This is the call going out to
Illinois live stock producers
from the Illinois .Agricultural
Association.

The Chicago Producers' Com-
mission Association and the I.
A. A. transportation de|iartnient
are urging that the folloHing
shipping rules be observe<l;

First — See that the- hogs are
brought in ample time to cool
before loading.

Seo(m(l — .See that the car Ik
bedded with clean sand, which
is moistened.

Third — Give only a light
grain feeding before loading.

Fourth — lioad not more than
an hour before train time.

Fifth — l'.se ice bags Nus|iend-
e<I from the car roof, whenever
I>osslble, six bags to the car and
drench the car at everj- itossible
point.

Sixth — Do not load more
than 17,000 lbs. In a standard
36 ft. car. Compliance with
these rules will mean ligliter
shrinks and losses.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY USTENS TO FARMERS'
CLAIMS AS L A. A. LAW PLATFORM COMES
i INTO THE FOREGROUND IN LEGISUTIVE MIU

Resolution on Revenue Amendment Pane* Senate, a* Does Barr
Bill Appropriating $3,000,000 for T. B. Clean-up in Next Two
Years. House Passes Bill Asking Federal Export Bounties on
Farm Products. Gas Tax Bill Temporariljr Quiescent

I. C. C. STIPUUTION
STOPS MERGER SALES

(Continued from page 1.)

to get Secretaries Jardine and
Hoover to appoint a national ad-
visory committee for the merger.
Failing in this, an attempt to form
a committee to resurrect the mer-
ger and get the confidence of the
farmers has been attempted by offi-
cials of the company, but co-oper-
ative leaders have generally de-
clined to serve.

The stipulation filed with the Il-
linois Commerce Commission in
which it is agreed that no stock
shall be sold in Illinois is consid-
ered an indicator of what will be
done by other states which are
now considering the company's
stock. In some states, notably In-
diana, judgment has been withheld
on the stock pending the outcome
in Illinois. This decision is con-
teidered the death knell to virtually
all stock selling operations of the
grain merger.

It is generally understood that
the vendor companies did not wish
to come into a public hearing since
facts in possession of the Grain
Marketing Company which have not
been obtainable heretofore could
be pried loose in such a hearing.

WILL ILLINOIS join other states in tlie forward march
toward gasoline tax enactment ? Will the state constitution
he amended to allow for revision of the revenue section T Will our
T. T$. laws be recodified! Will enough funds be appropriated to
carrj' on the T. B. eradication work throughout the statet Will the
General Assembly jarrj' the sentiment of Illinois grain growers to
the ^tion's lawmakers as to tariffs on staple farm productst

Tkese were the questions uppermost in the minds of I. A. A.
officijals and others representing farm bureau members. "63,000
thinking Farmers," throughout the state at Springfield the past
two Iveeks.

! See Relief on Property

Prospects for relief from the present exeessive tax on property
are looming larger on the horizon of state legislation. On May 21,
the Senate pa.s.sed the Lantz resolution for submitting to the voters
of thie state, a revision of the revenue section of the state constitution.

Tl^e original resolution, as introduced by Senator Simon J. Lantz.
of Cpngerville, was jirst amended to require a two-thirds vote in
both houses of the assembly for the passage of taxation measures,
accouding to F. D. Barton, chairman of the I. A. A. legislative
committee.

Rock Island County

May Have Federation

Of Live Stock Locals

Rodk Island may be the next Illi-
nois county to form a county-wide i
live stock shipping federation, ac- i
cordinjg to Wm. E. Hedgcock, I. A. |
A. director of live stock marketing,
who attended a meeting of repre- |
sentatives of the six loyal shipping
associations in that county recently.

A meeting was also held in Drury
township during which the need of
assisting individual associations was
discussed with 225 farmers present.
One of the best means of strength-
ening locals is by federating them
into a county unit, Mr. Hedgcock
said.

County federations of local ship-
ping a^ociations have been formed
this spHng, or are considering form-
ing, in the following counties:
IFord, Ogle, DeWitt, McDonough and
Rock Island.

"A county federation is the means
of bringing officers of locals to-
gether for discussion of mutual
problems," Mr. Hedgcock states,
"and helps in establishing a uni-
form accounting and auditing sys-
tem. It also brings the shipping
associaitions and the Farm Bureau
closer together, which is mutually
beneficial."

Farm accounts; ho^ sanitation; pis
clubs; limestone, leg:umes, and phos-
phate; seed corn improvement; and
community meetinss make up the
Ford County Farm Bureau prosram
for l'J26.

1AST year all wool
sold through the
■^LA.A.WoolPool
netted Illinois Farm-
ers an average of 8 to
20 cents a pound
above local prices —
Co-operation

Pays.

June 8 to 27 are
Wool Pool Weeks,

.11;

See or Phone Your Farm Bureau
For Shipping Instructions. '•^~-

1

Can't ClmmHy Real Bstate

In addition, the resolution was
further amended to the effect that
all real estate shall be in one class
t^xcept that mineral land and lands
devoted to reforestation may be in
different classes. "This means,"
says J. C. Watson, 1. A. A. director
of taxation and statistics, "that ur-
ban and rural property shall both
be in the same class for purposes of
taxation."

The purpose of the proposed
amendment, according to Mr. Wat-
son, is to grant the Legislature a
general power with respect to reve-
nue, and to permit the employment
by the general assembly of various
methods of taxation, or combina-
tions of tax methods. "This broad
power may t>e subject to abase,"
he says, "but broad powers are nec-
essary if tax conditions are to t>e
improved."

It is believed in I. A. A. circles
that the Lants resolution will pass
the House with little trouble. It
will then come up for popular vote
for adoption or rejection on a ref-
erendum in the next election of
members of the General Assembly.
Farmers will then have the chance
to voice their approval to a change
in the constitution whereby laws
can be passed to relieve proi>erty
generally of its excessive burden of
taxation.

Senate Passes Barr BUI

The outlook for an eventual state-
wide clean-up of T. B. in IlltDols'
cattle industry was given an en-
couraging forward push when the
Senate, by a vote of 38 yeas, on
May 21 passed the Barr bill, pro-
viding for an appropriation of f 3,-
000,000 to Indemnify cattle owners
sustaining losses in tuberculosis
eradication from their herds.

According to Mr. Everingbam, an
amendment to the Barr bill by its
author, to cut the appropriations by
$1,000,000. was defeated by the
Senate the day previous to the
passage of the Barr bill, by a vote
of 28 to IT. The Barr bill now
provides for $3,000,000 for the next
biennium to pay farmers for losses
sustained in tuberculosis eradica-
tion. The Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation strongly advocated the
$3,000,000 appropriation.

Tice Kill Prafi|iert« C^ood

Mr. Everingbam states that pros-
pects also look bright for early pas-
sage of the Tice bill which privides
for a general recodification of Illi-
nois' T. B. regulations. The Tice
bill has already been passed by the
House, and the Barr bill now awaits
the approval of the House for final
passage.

At the present the only fly in the
I. A. A. '8 legislative ointment seems
to be the Senate's temporary inac-
tivity as to the gasoline tax bill.
The measure is booked for final con-
sideration during this week when
the Rbcokd goes to press and at the
time of writing this, I. A. A. stal-
warts are not in a position to know
which way the legislative wind is
blowing.

House .%alui Ex|iort Bowxtes

Shades of the McNary-Haugen
■% bill, so prominent in the attempts to
(ContlDU*d on pace 4, col. 2.)

Esc

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The Illiaob Agricultural A«»ociation Record

June 6, 1925

MARCH TORNADO
WORST IN HISTORY,
WEATHER MEN STATE

Illinois Farm Relief Fund Has
Grovm Until It Now Reacha
$177,263.40.

"Contributions are still coming
into tha Illinois Farm Relief Fund."
says R. A. Cowles, chairman of the
Illinois Farm Relief Committee and
I. A. A. treasurer. "Since the May
23rd issue of the Record. J4.-
252.90 has been received, bringing
the total now in the fund to $177,-
263.40."

According to Clarence J. Root
and William E. Barron, weather
bureau meteorologists, the tornado
which swept Missouri, Illinois and
Indiana last March, killed 742 per-
sons, injured 2.756 and caused a
total property damage of J16,500,-
000. This includes net farm prop-
erty loss to Illinois farmer alone of
$1,338,648 according to the surrey
made by the I. A. A. This is the
worst tornado history has ever re-
corded, the meteorologists stated in
an exhauBtive report filed at Wash-
ington, D. C, recently.

The St. Louis tornado of May,
1896, wlilch caused a property
damage of $13,000,000, was the
worst previous tornado.

Describe Peculiarities

In several particulars, the mete-
orologists say, the tornado of last
March was peculiar. One remark-
able feature was that its path ex-
tended for 219 miles across three
states. The great area covered by
the storm gave rise to many the-
ories that more than one tornado
passed across Illinois, but the re-
port dispelled this idea, although
testimony obtained by the two
investigators from persons in the
storm area was practically unani-
mous in stating that two "clouds"
hurtled out of the west together,
one smiting the left and the other
the right side of the storm zone.

As a rule, a tornado may be de-
scribed as "lifting" and "skipping,"
but this storm struck the earth
with undiminished intensity along
its path. Its velocity was estimated
at 57 miles an hour across Mis-
souri, 59 in Illinois and 68 in In-
diana.

"The fortitude of the people in
the stricken area was wonderful,"
the report said. "From those who
had lost their homes, property and
even members of their family not
one word of complaint was heard."

Among the "freaks" of the tor-
nado was a rural school carried
away in which the seats remained
fastened to the floor. The pupils
clung to the seats, and none were
seriously hurt.

Following is a detailed list of
contributions to the Illinois Farm
Relief Fund, as of June 1, 1925:

Adams t 2.859.98

Bond , 729.08

Boone 1.481.95

Brown ..: 928.07

Bureau 1.657^45

Carroll . .i 1.771.65

Cass 818.16

ChampaiK* 700.70

Christian L 1.677.50

Clark 487.13

Clay 1.311.92

Clinton ..i 1,021.75

Coles 2.123.22

Cook . . . .1 4S2.00

Crawford ( 1.182.30

De Kalb 1.365.00

De Witt 1.799.64

Douglas 280.50

Du Page 2.487.34

Edgar 293.5"

Edwards .! 1.555.00

Ford County Co-ops

"Whoop 'Er Up" for
Piper City Picnic

The conference of farmers'
elevators in Iroquois. Ford, and
adjoining counties, held at
Watseka on .May 27, had a \erj
"happy ending" when Just be-
fore a motion was made to ad-
journ, J. B. Blissard, manager
of the Farmers' Grain Companj*
of Gibson City, Ford county,
made the announcement that all
the farmers' co-operative asso-
ciations of Ford county and the
Ford County Farm Bureau were
making plans for a big "co-op-
erative" picnic to be held at
Piper City on June 24. In be-
half of these associations Mr.
Blissard extended an invitation
to all present.

Effingham

Ford

Fulton

Gallatin

Greene

Grundy

Hancock

Henderson ......

Henry

Iroquois

Jefferson

Jersey

Jo Daviess

Johnson

Kane

Kankakee

Kendall

Knox

L,ake

La Salle

Lawrence

Lee

Livingston

Logan

Macon

Macoupin

Madison

Marion

Marshall-Putnam

Mason

McDonough

McHenry

McLean

Menard

Mercer

Monroe

Montgomery ....

Morgan

Moultrie

Ogle

Peoria

Piatt

Pike

Pulaski

Randolph

Richland

Rock Island ....

Saline

Sangamon

Schuyler

Scott

Shelby

Stark

St. Clair

Stephenson

Tazewell

Union

Vermilion

Wabash

Warren

Washington ....

Wayne

Whiteside

Will

Wllliatnson

Winnebago

Woodford

Wia Listeners .
Prairie Farmer ,
Miscellaneous . .
1. A. A. Employee^

;:;:::«:;

:::\^::

65'5.00
2.755.00
2,000.00

338.24
1.000.00
2.887.29
3,303.35

362.50

531.10
2.699.69

388.65

243.23
1.721.92

136.60
3,608.14
3.216.30
3,085.65
2,750.10
2.418.00
4.616.70
3.013.27
3.317.13
4,217.03
1,688.80

500.45

346.40
2.900.00

359.30

644.87
2,556.00
1.502.93
1,005.40
3.829.24
1,066.60

769.69
'46.60
2.249.08
1,583.72
2,038.13
3.354.47
3,413.46
87.60
1.011.60

489.60

103.00
2.791.29
1.389.50
1,480.78
6.044.88

484.55
1,125.76
2.114.16

381.50
1,213.25
2,984.28
2,919.30
1.411.66
1,009.91
84.50
2.830.00
60.00

445.88
3,613.81
3,406.25

623.60

2,110.00

4,381.41

26,000.00

2,247.62

438.25

302.50

Total ■ 8177,263.40

ASSEMBLY LISTENS

TO FARMER CLAIMS

(Continued from page 3.)

secure federal legislation for agri-
culture in the last session of Con-
gress, were revived when, on May
20, the Illinois House passed the
House joint resolution No. 37, mem-
orializing Congress to consider ex-
port bounties on wheat, corn, cattle,
and their by-products.

TAZEWEU BUREAU
PLAN INSURES CARS

(Continued from page I.)
has brought farmers Into the farm
bureau and has been found to act
as glue in helping make members
stick. Elghty-flve per cent of the
members In Tazewell county insure
their cars this way.

The reason why so many are in
it, according to Ralph E. Arnett,
the present farm adviser, is because
it is much cheaper than regular old
line insurance. Besides it is farm
bureau-owned and controlled. It Is
the only automobile insurance, they
say, that is confined solely to farm
bureau members. Another selling
point Is that it is run on an actual
cost basis.

Cheaper Than Old-Line

Comparison of insurance premi-
ums paid on old-line policies and
the Farmers' Automobile Insurance
Association, as made by the Taze-
well County Farm Bureau, states
that when a $1,500 full coverage
policy, which includes insurance for
possible loss bj' fire, theft, personal
liability, property damage and col-
lision, is taken out in an old line
company, the average cost Is about
$140 a year. The farm bureau In-
surance is less than $20 a year, in-
cluding assessments of $5 every six
months, or $10 for the year, which
go to build up a reserve.

Furthermore, it is declared that
the farm bureau policy is much
more liberal in Its collision features
than are those of most old line com-
panies, while some reciprocal mutu-
al companies, which are in reality
private enterprises, sell insurance
somewhat cheaper thaii the old line
companies. One does not need to
be i shark at arithmetic to figure
the dollars saved the farm bureau
members from this project.

la explaining the mechanical de-
tails of handling the business, Mr.
Arnett, who served as attorney-in-
fact for 2 H years and until this
spring when an assistant had to be
Secured to relieve him of the load,
points out that at the end of each
six-month period, which terminate
April 1 and October 1, each mem-
ber holding a policy is assessed for
actual losses and expenses incurred
in paying the losses. The $5 charge
which is made each six months for
the purpose of building up a re-
serve continued for six-month pe-
riods, or three years on each car.
Costs Itemized

Books are kept carefully to show
where the money comes from and
how it is spent and from which par-
ticular phases come the heaviest
losses. The six-month period ending
April 1, 1925, showed the following
division of assessments per member:
Fire, none; theft, 58 cents; colli-
sion, $2.12; personal liability, 11
cents; property damage, 24 cents;
lexpflnse, $2.66, which totals $5.71.
The average of all assessments
since the first one which was dated
October 1, 1921, Is: fire, 12 cents;
theft, 57 cents; collision, $1.64;
personal liability, 43 cents; property
damage, 11 cents; expenses, $1.28;
which totals $4.15. To this of

BULLETIN

Secretary Jardlne will speak
at the annual I.A.A. picnic to
be held at Taylorville under
auspices of the Christiaa Goon-
ty Farm Bureau, Thnrsday,
August 27.

While the Secretary was vi-
siting the I. A. A. office last
week, he was invited to address
farm bureau members at the
picnic by President Thompsons
and President Grimes of the
Christian County Farm Bureau.

He accepted on the spot. Au-
gust 27 was found to be the
earliest date he could speak,
which was later found to con-
flict with the Sharpsburg and
Edinbnrg Farmers' Chautauqua
in Christian county, but fortu-
nately this difficulty has been
overcome as Is indicated in the
following telegram received
Tuesday, June 2, from C. K.
Hay, farm adviser:

"Advertise August 27 as pic-
nic dates. Wire Jardlne accep-
tance. Sharpsburg Edinburg
Farmers' Chautauqua Going to
boost. Boost them."

Put a big circle around the
date August 27 on your calen-
dar and come if you possibly
can. Many other big picpic
features are to be announced
in the RECORD later.

MRS. WILLIAM WEBB DIES
The many friends of William
Webb of Route 1, Joliet, were
grieved to learn of the death of
Mrs. Webb, Friday, May 29. Mr.
Webb is a member of the I. A. A.
executive committee for districts
10 and 11.

course is added the $5 charge for
reserve fund, making an average
six-month assessment of $9.16 as
against approximately $70 in an old
line company.

The need for the reserve fund
outside of the needs of a reserve
fund for any sound business is be-
cause of a state law reauiring that
insurance companies must have on
deposit a sum five times that of
their greatest single liability. The
greatest single liability of this
farmers' association is $5,000.
Consequently the reserve necessary
was $25,000. When first organ-
ized, the Tazewell county folks did
not know of this state requirement
and .were perplexed on first thought
as to how to rdise it. It did not
bother them long, however, for the
Farm Bureau itself loaned $5,000,
and the trustees borrowed $10,000
on personal notes, and advance
premiums provided the rest.

The unique point of this com-
pany is that a man has to be a
member of the Farm Bureau In
order to get Insurance on his car
or truck, members of his immediate
family living at home also being
eligible.
910 Permanent Membership Fee
A fee of $10 is required on each
car upon taking out insurance.
This is a permanent membership
fee and is good as long as assess-
ments are paid. Some owners have
three and four cars insured.

The present trustees are Joseph
Morris, president, Wm. I^reltag, E.
L. Robinson, W. F. Donley, Ralph
Boyle, J. H. Warner of Mason coun-
ty, and Geo. B. Muller. These men,
acting as a board of trustees, are
elected at the annual meeting.
They hold control over the attor-
ney-in-fact, who is J. E. Harris, as-
sistant farm adviser of the Taze-
well County Farm Bureau.

Upon the basis of comparative in-
surance costs furnished the Taze-
well County Farih Bureau, every
time a member pays an assessment,
a four-year membership in the
Farm Bureau is saved. Of the

SEES ILLINOIS AS
SOURCE OF DAIRY
STOCK IN FUTURE

PrcMnt Rate of T. B. Eradica-
tion Account* For It, Dedanet
Dairy Marlceting Director

Will Illinois ever become a source
of good dairy cattle?

That question is up to the farm-
ers themselves, asserts the dairy
marketing department of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association, A. D.
Lynch, director.

"At present," says the I. A. A. di-
rector, "Illinois dairymen who wish
to replace reactor cattle with clean,
quality stock, must go to other
states to replenish their herds. Yet
the time may not be far off when
farmers will come to our own state
for good dairy stock.

"At the present rate of T. B.
eradication work in Illinois, indi-
cations are that within the next five
years, this state will be the cleanest
among dairy states. This will mean
that dairy cattle from Illinois coun-
ties will command a premium over
cattle in other states. For this rea-
son it is time for Illinois dairymen
to begin to think of their herds as
sources of stock in years to come."

During the last week in May, the
I. A. A. director visited Clark, Mar-
athon, and Wood counties in Wis-
consin with a view toward finding
reliable sources of good dairy cat-
tie with which to stock Illinois
herds. He consulted county agents
and breed association secretaries,
inquiring about sources of grade
stock.

"The I. A. A. Is not a buyer of
dairy cattle," states Mr. Lynch,
"but the association Is willing to
assist in locating dairy cows, T. B.-
free and of good dairy strains, as
we are in touch with sources in In-
diana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and
Minnesota."

LISTEN IN!!

Farm advisers' radio talks sched-
uled over WLS, Chicago, on the I.
A. A. program are as follows:

Monday, June S at 12:30 (standard
time) — C. B. Hay, Christian County
Farm Bureau adviser, on "Saylnff It
with Soys and Clover In Christian
County." Tuesday, June 9 at 18:J0
and 8:<0 — W. P. Miller, farm adviser
of Brown County Farm Bureau, on
'*Agrlcultural Ills and Farm Bureau
Treatment," and "Community Spirit
Pays." Tuesday, June 23 at 8:40 — H.
C. Vial, DuPage County Farm Bureau
president, on the accomplishments
and services of DuPagre County Farm
Bureau. Friday, June 12, 8:40 — J. H.
Lloyd, farm adviser. Hancock Coun-
ty Farm Bureau, on achievements of
that county's farvi bureau supply
company.

Monday, June 15, 12:30 — O. E. Metx-
Ber and A. D. Lynch, of the I. A. A.,
In a dialogue on "John Smith Joins
the Farm Bureau."

Thursday, June 11, over KTW, Chi-
cago, at 7:30 — B. H. Taylor, L A. A.
executive committeeman from 15th
district, on "Brains Plus Brawn
Equals Good Farming."

960 farm bureau members in Taze-
well county, 85 per cent of them be-
long to the Farmers' Automobile
Insurance Association. Each year,
according to the figures, they save,
in the aggregate, 6,528 annual $15
farm bureau membership fees.
This saving is striking, and it is so
largely because it is possible to fig-
ure it out in a tangible way with
reasonable fairness. Many farm
bureau accomplishments are fts
striking as this, but they are of
such intangible nature that the di-
rect value to members is difficult
to figure.

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June 6, 192S
AS

^ DAIRY
IN FUTURE

B. Eradica-
>r It, Declare*
ng Director

wcome a source

>p to the farm-
erts the dairy
nt of the Illl-
soclation, A. D.

the I. A. A. di-
rmen who wish
ttle with clean,
go to other
leir herds. Yet
e far off when
our own state

rate of T. B.
Illinois. Indi-
In the next five
be the cleanest
This will mean
n Illinois coun-
premium over
For this rea-
inola dairymen
their herds as
ears to come."
ek in May, the
ed Clark, Mar-
unties in Wis-
toward finding
ood dairy cat-
stock Illinois
county agents
on secretaries,
rces of grade

lot a buyer of
Mr. Lynch,

Is willing to
ry cows, T. B.-
Iry strains, as

sources in In-
isconsin, and

N!!

io talks scbed-
:ago, on the I.
! follows:
12:30 (atandard
iristlan County
on "Sayinc It
■■T In ChrUtian
une 9 at I2:tl)
r, farm adviser
rm Bureau, on
i Farm Bureau
mmunlty Spirit
> 23 at 8:40 — ^H.
y Farm Bureau
ccomplishments
:e County Farm
! 12, 8:40— J. H.
Hancock Coun-
LChievementa of
bureau supply

SO — G. E. Metl-
of the I. A. A.,
in Smith Joins

ver KTW, Chl-

'aylor, I. A. A.

lan from ISth

PluB Brawn

nbers in Taze-
!nt of them be-
8' Automobile
1. Each year,
res, they save,
28 annual |15
bership fees,
g, and it is so
possible to flg-
ible way with
Many farm
tents are as
t they are of
•e that the di-
3rs is difficult

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VoIomS

iMued Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinking Farmer* — June 20, 1925

No. 12

U. OF I. AND U. S. D. A.
START GRAIN SURVEY
THRU FARM ELEVATORS

First Part To Be FinUhed This
Season But Study Will Con-
tinue Over a Long Period

Dean
H. W. Mnmlard

A study of grain marketing will
be carried on this summer through

fthe farmers' ele-
vators of Illinois
by the Illinois
Experiment Sta-
tion and the
United States De-
partment of Ag-
riculture, it was
announced f o'l-
lowlng a meeting
at the University
of Illinois, June
12.

This meeting
was called by the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association, after preliminary
conferences with representatives of
the Illinois Experiment Station, U.
S. Department of Agriculture,
Farmers' Grain Dealers Association
of Illinois, and other groups and
institutions. Its purpose was to
define the objectives and consider
the methods of approach for a
study of grain marketing in Illinois
through the farmers' elevators.

Many Notables There

The meeting was attended by
Cbrls L. Christensen of the Division
of Agricultural Co-operation, Bu-
rpau of Agricultural Economics,
Department of Agriculture, Wash-
ington, D. C; Dean H. W. Mum-
ford, Dr. Charles L. Stewart, Prof.
L. J. Norton, Prof. John Pieper,
and Prof. R. W. Stark, of the Uni-
versity of Illinois and Illinois Ex-
periment Station; Lawrence Far-
low of Bloomington, Ralph Allen
and Homer Price of Delavan, rep-
resenting the Farmers' Grain Deal-
ers Association of Illinois; George
R. Wicker and Chester C. Davis,
representing the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association: A. J. Suratt of
Springfield, agricultural statisti-
cian; and Dr. Alva H. Benton of
the North Dakota Agricultural Col-
lege, who was invited to assist at
the conference because of his ex-
perience in conducting similar
studies in North Dakota.

Touches Every Farmers' Elevator

"A complete reconnaissance sur-
vey, covering every farmers' ele-
vator in Illinois, will be made early
this summer and probably finished
this season by the Illinois Experi-
ment Station with the co-operation
of the U. S. Department of Agri-
culture." according to Chester C.
Davis, I. A. A. grain marketing
director.

"This is one of the two phases
of the grain marketing study which
is to be undertaken. It will as-
semble general information regard-
ing the form and method of opera-
tion of the farmers' elevators of
Illinois; the movement of grain to
market from every locality in the
state covering a period of years to
bring out thorough understanding
of the routes used in moving to
point of final sale of grain from
each county of the state; and such
other information concerning the
elevators as can be secured by the
survey method.

"Co-operation of the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Co-operatives Associa-
tion; the auditing department of
the Farmers' Grain Dealers Asso-
ciation of Illinlos; and that of the
American Co-operative Publishing
Company, will be secured In mak-
ing this survey, as thp question-
naire can' be handled by the
auditors working in connection with
every auditing service. Personal
calls on the remaining farmers' ele-
vators will be made by representa-
tives of the Illinois Experiment Sta-
tion thl^ summer to get the com-
plete data."

NO THOUGHT FOR THE SHIP

ftunAal^g

Cooperative Marketing
Invades Realm of Poultry
And Eggs In Ford County

Plans are under way to enroll
1,000 farmers In Ford and adjoin-
ing counties in a new venture
known as the Illinois Poultry Pro-
ducers' Association, No. 1, to be in-
corporated under the co-operative
marketing act of Illinois.

Ford county is the first county
in the state to adopt the I. A. A.
plan for marketing Illinois eggs, ac-
cording to F. A. Gougler, I. A. A.
poultry and egg marketing director.
This is the beginning of a state-
wide plan whereby many counties
can be federated into a central sales
agency.

The contract calls for delivery of
all poultry and eggs by the mem-
ber to the association, exceptions
being made for hatching eggs,
breeding stock, and direct consumer
sales. The association agrees to
handle the produce, grade it, and
pool by grades at a central grad-
ing and shipping plant to be estab-
lished in Gibson City. The mem-
bers further agree to a penalty of
five cents per pound of poultry or
10 cents per dozen of eggs as liqui-
dated damages for any breach of
agreement.

PLAN THAT HAS BEEN
WANTED 20 YEARS AND
TALKED 10 NOW READY

INDIANA BARS SALE OF
GRAIN MERGER STOCK

The Indiana Securities commis-
sion has denied the request of the
Grain Marketing Corporation of Il-
linois for permission to sell |1,-
000.000 worth of stock at (25 a
share in Indiana.

Financlal affairs of the company
were held, in an opinion by Freder-
ick E. Schortemier, secretary of
state, acting as administrator of
the securitfes law, to be unsound.
TlilKjftecision was basAd on evidence
ail{tjimtted.;at a publla hearing on
tafe^j^ompi^y's application before
tu jtommMioh several weeks ago.

The sale' of stock was opposed by
the IndifAa Farm Bureau Federa-
tion. ' ■

Detail* of State-Wide Re-Insur-
a n c e Company to Serve
Farmer*' Mutual* Completed

"This is something we have

been talking about for 20 years,"

^^^^ experienced farm

/4^l||^k mutual insurance

t T^ men said when

1L»,..^M. the I. A. A. of-

i^^H^^HB to be as-

^^H^^^V to them

^^^^^■^ in forming a

J^P^I^^^ state - wide body

^^^^III^^^B to help

^^B' Y^^^^H companies handle

^^^mjm^^^^^ their own affairs.

^^^H^l^^^^^l plan

^^^^^^^^^^H the lines the

B^^l^^l^^l one now

to be projected
ver... V..I... "y both the Illi-
nois Association
of Mutual Insurance Companies and
the Illinois Agricultural Association
has been discussed for 10 years in
meetings of the mutual insurance
companies' state association, insur-
ance officials declare.

As a service organization, the
I. A. A. accepts the invitation for
service in this field, and conse-
quently is embarking upon a proj-
ect of special t- service to farmers
which has never been touched.

\ Temporar)' Officers Selected

Temporary officers who will
serve until the first annual meet-
ing, are as follows: , C. A. Asp-
lund, Orion. Henry county, presi-
dent (also president of the Illinois
Association of Mutual Insurance
Companies); Geo. A. Fox, Syca-
more, DeKalb county. 1st vice-
president (also I. A. A. secretary);
E. J. Carmody, Towanda, McLean
eounty. 2nd vice-president; Wm. B.
MeParland, Hoopeston, Vermilion
county, secretary; and R. A. Cowles.
Bloomington, McLean county, (I. A.
A. treasurer) treasurer. Geo. F.
Tullock. Rockford. Winnebago
(Continued on pare 3, col. 4.)

ALMOST UNANIMOUS PASSAGE BY BOTH HOfUSES
OF LANTZ RESOLUTION PERMITTING AMENDMENT
TO REVENUE SECTION OF STATE CONSTITUTION

Hou*e Makes Minor Change to Clarify Wording Whicb Mu*t be
Concurred in by Senate, Then, After Getting Governor's Sig-
nature, it Will he up for People'* Vote at Nest General Election ;
I. A. A. Baddav It

STANDING head and shoulders above all other legist ition con-
, sidered duiang the present session of the General Ai ^mbly is
the proposed amendment to the revenue section of the st ite consti-
tution, which passed the Senate 44-1 and the House 135 2. and as
soon as a minor House amendment is approved by the S r-nate and
the Governor's signature is affixed, it will be submitted t> the peo-
ple for their approval at the next general election.

It is vitally important to all people in Illinois, but especially
so to the farmers because it permits the levying of taxes In accord-
ance with present-day economics rather than upon the bas s existing
at the time the present revenue section was adopted, whicli was five
years after the Civil War.

These are the thoughts of the legislative committee — t^rank I).
Barton (Livingston), H. E. Goembel (Henry), and A. C Evering-
ham (Crawford) — given in a report to the executive cot imittee at
its meeting of June 12.

Killed Narrow Tire Bill

At the May meeting of the executives, the legislative iMimmitter
was instructed to oppose the bill then in the House, and rhich had
passed the Senate, which would prohibit farmers from ( riving on
the roads of the state with wagons having tires nam wer than
three inches.

"You gave us our inst -uctions on
that narrow tire bill lasi time.'

Select January 21-22
For Next Annual Meet;
Choose Place In July

January 21 .and 2S2 are the
dates of the next annual meet-
Ini; of the IIUdoIs Agriculturml
.AssocljUlon, according to a de-
cision of the executive commit-
tee in Its meeting of June 12.
Selection of the place was set
for special consideration fur tJie
next meeting, which will be
July S. .\U Invitations vtlU be
considered at tliat time.

Farm Bureau Ba»eball
Gaining In Popularity;
Several Games Played

Farm bureau baseball is growing
in popularity, judging from reports
that come in after various games
have been played. The season is
now well under way, and the teams
are fighting to have a chance at the
cup denoting "State Farm Bureau

ported Chairman Barton, "and
tboae instructions were printed in
the REi-oao. That endep it! The
Mil went no further.

The bill of Senator Dl>ck requir-
ing that poultry dealers ceep a reg
ister of all purchases of poultry
h^ been actively favore I and. hav
ing passed the Senate, s awaiting
Its turn in the House, vhere it is
feared the Anal jam n ay keep il
from coming to vote.

.Memorial to Conireiw

The Senate has pat led Repre-
sentative Adcock's reB< lution me
moriailzing Congress to pass iegis
lation embodying a aci -ntlflc plan
or program by which reasonable
export traunties may be provided to
be paid upon all export i of wheat
com. hogii and cattle ai d their by.
product. Although tl is is not
specifically the export »>rporation
idea it is along the sat le line and
is considered as extreme ly valuabli-
support for the equalil v for agri-
culture program of th ■ I. \. A

Champions" which will be given the The memorial now toes

o Congress

nine emerging victorious from the
final conflict at the I. A. A. picnic
at Taylorviile. Thursday, August 27.
Morgan county's team won over
Sangamon
cer su

hands of Henderson on the same ; i.jators ' havine "promlsid "pre"vioJs
day. Henderson had also won over to the opening of th* i pssion thai

as a. reflection of the the light of the
Illinois General -\sseml ly.

Coming to (he Cuth >ertjion gas
tax bill. Chairman Ba ton suted

mon 7 to 4 on June 6. Mer- j that the biggest handicap experi
ffered a 9 to 4 defeat at the | enced by the committee was in le^.

Warren on May 30. 6 to 4.

Other scalps successfully tucked
under victors' belu are as follows:
May 2 3. Woodford beat Tazewell.
4-3; May 30, Woodford over Peoria.
15-11; May 14. Tazewell over Pe-
oria. 20-15.

Following are the list of games
yet to be played in districts that
have reported schedules to the I. A.
A. office:

Dimtrirt \o. 7t SanKSnion vs. Mor-
gan at JacltBonviMe. August 8: San*-
amon vs. Casi at Virginia. Auaust 16.

DIatrlet \m. St Warr«n vs. Mercer,
July 18 at Aledo; Warren vs. McDon-
ou*h. August I at Macomb: Warren
vs. Knox. August 20 at Galeabur*.

Henderson vs. Warren. June 27 at
Monmouth: Henderson vs. McDon-
ou*h. July 25 at Macomb.

Knox vs. Warren. July 11 at Mon-
mouth; Knox vs. Mercer. Aug'ust 9 at
Aledo.

McDbnouKh vs. Henderson. June 20
at BifrKsvlUe: McDonouffh vs. Knox.
June 27 at Galesbura.

Mercer vs. Warren, June 20 at Mon-
mouth: Mercer vs. Knox. June 25 at
Galeaburs: Mercer vs. McDonouah

they would not vote foi a gasoline
tax. While man.x se latont felt
friendly for the I. A. r. gas U\.
which provided for rep srement of
the county highway tax they could
not break their promisi s

"The gas tax is ii a stronK
place." said Mr. Barton. "We have
not lost (ground in our decision to
abandon the bill for t tin session
The Illinois .\Kricultuitl .Associa-
tion campaign has gone a long way
toward establishing the 'gas-tax-as-
a-lieu-tax' idea. A grea' deal of ed
ucational work has bee i done, but
we have much more ^ do. W<
must not let down.

We've JnM Heciui ti l-iahi;

"Two big points havf been made
in this gas tax fight, ' he said.
"One is that the gas ti \ funds, at
least the major portion < r the funds,
shall be used on secon lary roads.
The second is that w lenever a-e
July 11 at Macomb: Mercer vs. Hen- n«*'* » g" tax. and I b -lleve it in-

derson. August 1 at BiggsviUe.

Schedules for semi-finals will be
arranged between Geo. R. Cline.
Virginia, president of the Illinois
Farm Bureau Baseball Association,
and G. E. Metxger, I. A. A. organ-
isation director, in a conference to
be held June 29 at Virginia.

evitabie as do many of the legisla-
tors, the tax shall replao some pres-
ent tax."

"It is freely predict d that the
gas ux will be broui ht up and
passed at the next se islon." Mr
Barton said.

(Continued on pace k, col. I.t

Page 2

The DKnoU Agricultural A»»oci«tion Record

June 20, 1925 J June

I^LLilNOIS

VMAL, ASSOCIAIHPN

ECORD'

Publistied every other Saturday by the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation, 608 South Dearborn Street. Chicago, Illinois. Edited
by Department of Information. Harry C. Butcher. Director.

Entered as second class' matter Oct. 10, 1921, at the post office
at Chicago. Illinois, under the act of March 3. 1879. Acceptance
for mailing at special rates of postage provided for In Section
11U3. Act of October 3. 1917. authorized Oct. 31, 1921.

The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation is five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of
fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation Kecokd.

Postmaster: In returning an uncalled-for or missent copy,
please Indicate key number on address as Is required by law.

OFFICERS

« President, M. H. Thompson, Qulncy.

I . Vice-President, H. E. Uoembel, Hooppole.

j Trea.^urer, K. A. Cowles, Bloomington

Secretary, (jeo. A. Fox, Sycamore.

EXl!|CUTI\^ OOMMrrTEE ~

Uy Congressional Districts

1st to 11th.' \ Wllllain Webb, Route One, Joliet

12th G. F. Tullock, Rockford

13th '. C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron

nth.... B. H. Taylor, Rapatee

16th A. R. Wright, Varna

17th.... F. D. Barton, Cornell

18th R. F. Karr, Iroquois

19th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21st J Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd • Stanly Castle, Alton

23rd W. L. Cope, Salem

24th 4 ....Curt Anderson, Xenia

2Sth... i R. K. Loomis, Makanda

l)irecti>rs of I>e|>artnients, 1. A, A, Office

Co-operative Accounting Qeo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General Office J. H. Kelker

Grain Marketing....! ...Chester C. Davis

I nformation Harry C. Butcher

Legal Counsel Donald KIrkpatrick

Live Stack Marketing: Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organization G. E. Metzger

Phosphate-Limestone J. R. Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson

Transportation L. J. Quasey

THE Recoub's platform
Adi-ance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized,
namely, to '.promote, protect and represent the business, economic,
social and educational interests of the farmers of Hluu>is and the
nation, and to develop agriculture.

Watch For It.

IT has been decided by the executive committee of the
Illiiinis A^rriciiltural Atisociation that before the next
election the Rec(iri) will publish, with appropriate com-
ments, the complete agricultural voting record of each
state senator and representative.

The attitude of our legislators toward agriculture is
of considerable importance to Illinois farmers. The
Record will print an impartial list of their "yeas" and
■"noes" as well as the number of absentees. Appro-
priate comments will be available from the legislative
committee.

The Hkcord will furnish the facts and then it will be
up to you farm voters to say who of the senators and
representatives shall remain legislators and who shall
stay at home. <

-I j Facts, not FancieM j

Ol'lTE a furore was created by the announcement
some time ago from the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation that Illinois farmers actually received $1.11
a bushel for wheat last year rather than what was pop-
ularly supposed to be close to $2.

G»?orge R. Wicker, director of the co-operative ac-

CQunting department, was called upon to substantiate
his figures i<i some instances, but nothing could jar them
since they ^ere taken direct from audits of elevators'
books. ]

One man called on Mr. Wicker thinking the figures
incorrect. Me is an economist for a large Chicago bank.
He had it %ured that farmers received $1.78 a bushel
last year, tlis estimate was made by means of some
theoretical deduction. After seeing the facts, he went
away wondering how to correct his theory.

All of which goes to show that we need more facts
and less fancies.

Agricalture't Battle Cry

EQUALltY for Agriculture !
Someday the children and grand children of the
present gent^ation will read that slogan in their histor-
ies. It is the battle-cry of a peaceful revolution.

The Illinois Agricultural Association is backing that
cry to the litoit. The most recent expression of this as-
sociation's attitude toward national legislation designed
to bring about agricultural equality is this resolution
printed beloV:

"We believe the outstanding need of American agri-
culture from] the standpoint of federal legislation to be
the placing oif agriculture upon the same economic basis
with labor, business, and industry, and we feel that the
whole force Of the American Farm Bureau Federation
should be extrted to secure that end.

"We believe that unless some sound method is devised
for the dispojsal of the exportable surplus of basic farm
products that the price of those commodities will be
fixed by world markets rather than by domestic condi-
tions, that American agriculture will never be able to
avail itself of the advantages of the American Protec-
tive System, and the American farmer will be forced to
compete withj cheap production and peasant conditions
elsewhere.

"We, therefore, believe that the major legislative ac-
tivities of the| American Farm Bureau Federation should
be centered tjoward the enactment of sound legislation
looking to the disposal of such exportable surpus of
farm commo4ities to the end that the domestic price of
such products will be fixed by domestic conditions rather
than by world markets.

"We believje in a domestic price on a basis of domestic
equality.

"We beliewe that the legislative program of the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation as announced in their
resolutions aaopted at their last annual meeting ^ould
be carried oUt.

"We believje that the legislative prestige of the Amer-
ican Farm Blireau Federation would be materially en-
hanced if sucjh activities should be centered largely on
one or two ijiajor projects, lending such co-operation
as may be dteemed proper from time to time to such
measures as are designed to bring about better condi-
tions for the 4^merican farmer and which give reasonable
promise of accomplishing the desired end."

The occasion for this resolution was a request to an-
swer a long qijestionnaire covering every degree of farm-
ers ' ills and their possible remedies, which was submitted
by the Ameri(|an Farm Bureau Federation in its nation-
wide search for the answer to the question : ' ' What does
the farmer want of Congress!" The reply was drafted
by the legislative committee and passed unanimously by
the executive \ committee.

I Warning!

BEING watjchdog over the interests of Illinois farmers
is one of the biggest regular chores of the I. A. A.
And, when so|ne prowler gets nipped by the watchdog,
quite often the owner is told that his dog is a nuisance
and ought to be done away with. That's what some

interests think abput the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion— but a good watchdog stays on the job no matter [
who tries to pet him and make friends with him. If
things look wrong, a good watchdog barks a warning to |
its master. If the I. A. A. sees something that looks
wrong it can bark its warning through the Record to |
its master — the 63,000 thinking farmers.

Here is an I. A. A. warning from J. R. Bent, director I
of the phosphate-limestone department. It speaks for I
itself :

"Don't be fooled by the 'disintegrated phosphate' |
man or by any fanciful claims of concerns attempting !
to sell some freak or extraordinary form of pjiosphate j
rock. Some years ago low grade phosphate-bearing
muck, which had not been purified or grovmd, was sold j
in Illinois to a limited extent under the name of 'dis-
integrated phosphate' with a claim that it did not need
grinding and was immediately or quickly available, j
having been made so by nature's own process. Farm- '
ers who bought this material at that time were turned j
against phosphate through their inability to see results, j

"The phosphate-limestone department has recently
discovered that this 'game' has been revived with other |
states as the victims. Farm Bureaus and farm bureau
members are warned against falling for such eflforts and
are asked to report promptly to the Illinois Agricultural j
Association if they learn of any such efforts being made
in Illinois.

"The I. A. A., through the phosphate-limestone de-
partment, has. studied and keeps in close touch with
the current phosphate situation and in light of this
knowledge has established a standard which should be
adhered to. It is for a basic quality of 13 pec cent
phosphorus ground fine enough so that at least 95 per
cent will pass a 100 mesh sieve and not to exceed 3 per
cent moisture. Individual shipments may vary by being
higher or lower in grade but a sliding scale has been
established to approximately equalize these differences
on the basis of the average value delivered at the Illi-
nois end. The I. A. A. maintains- a branch oflSce in the
phosphate field in Tennessee and takes samples, makes
chemical and physical analysis and sends a report to
the customer in all cases where the customer desires it.
This service is yours for the asking. Simply specify
I. A. A. service when you place your order. The I.A.A.
will tell you what the correction to the basic price
should be due to any variation from the basic quality
of the material which you receive."

Support in the Battle

THE Senate has also passed the resolution memorial-
izing Congress to do something effective about the
exportable surplus. This means that the Illinois Gen-
eral Assembly joins the large group of General Assem-
blies in mid-west and western states which have form-
ally asked Congress to do something along this line.
This puts the General Assembly behind the fight for
equality for agriculture.

It also shows that the state of Illinois ofiicially stands
where the Illinois Agricultural Association has been
standing all the time.

This Slogan Paid

You would imagine that the American public had been "slo-
ganed" to the point of rebellion against all slogans. But the
Illinois Agricultural Association declares in an official biiUetln
that its "Spread your butter thicker" and "There is no substi-
tute for butter." have had the effect of reducing the butter
surplus and putting the industry in a better condition.

The bulletin says the heavy surplus of last fall and winter
has disappeared and that butter consumption has increased
steadily In the last four months over what it was a year ago.

Another iters which pleases the milk producers Is that the
current price received for farmers for butter fat is four cents
more than it averaged for any months of May in the last four
years.

The asso<'iation had 10.000 "Spread your butter thicker"
posters distributed over Illinois. Not a great number for so
large and populous a state. Nevertheless, the results speak
for .themselves — the cashing in By Illinois farmers of an ^xtra
quarter of a million dollars on their cream this month. — Rock-
ford (III.) Gazette.

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June 20, 192S J June 20, 1925

cultural Associa-
le job no matter ,
Is with him. If I
rks a warning to I
thing that looks
h the Record to |

3.

B. Bent, director
. It speaks for

ated phosphate' i
lerns attempting J
rm of phosphate I
hosphate-bearing J
fround, was sold |
le name of 'dis-
; it did not need
lickly available,
process. Farm-
me were turned
;y to see results. *
at has recently J
nved with other |
nd farm bureau •
such efforts and '
ois Agricultural I
orts being made j

te-limestone de-
iose touch with
n light of this
rhich should be
of 13 pec cent

at least 95 per
to exceed 3 per
y vary by being /

scale has been i
hese differences '4
Ted at the Illi- ]
ich office in the ^
samples, makes k
ids a report to I
omer desires it. i
Simply specify I
er. The I.A.A. |
;he basic price i
e basic quality ^

The niinoU Agricultural Attociation Record

SOUTHERN ILUNOIS
DISTRICT MEETINGS
CONSIDER PROBLEMS

Conferences at Carmi and Villa
Ridge Hold Interest of Fiumi
Bureau Folks Gathered There

C«rt ABdersOB

ution memorial-

jctive about the j

le Illinois Gen- j
General Assem-

lich have form- ,

dong this line. :

1 the fight for ''

officially stands (
ition has been

Ic had been "slo-
iloBana. But the
n offlcial biilletln
lere is no substl-
uclne the butter
condition.
: fall and winter
>n has increased
was a year ago.
icers Is that the
fat is four cents
' in the last four

butter thicker"
t number for so
he results speak
mers of an extra
Is month. — Rock-

Standardization of farm machin-
ery and repairs, chicken stealing,
the revenue
a m e n d m ent,
school taxes,
the work of the
I. A. A., the
marketing o f
Illinois grain,
the Indiana
'.vheat pool, and
the work of the
Illinois Fruit
Growers' E x -
change — all
these problems
were matters of
discussion a t
the second con-
ference of the year held in the 2 4th
and 25th Congressional districts.

Farm bureau officers and farm
advisers in the 24th district met in
Carmi, White county, on June 9.
Curt Anderson, Xenia, executive
committeeman for this district in
the I.A.A., presided over the meet-
ing. R. A. Cowles, I. A. A. treasurer,
addressed the meeting on the grain
marketing situation, discussing
briefly on the history of the move-
ment in Illinois, and pointing out
the I. A. A. plans for getting
southern Illinois farmers to market
their soft winter wheat through the
Indiana wheat pool.

The 25th district conference took
place at Villa Ridge, Pulaski county,
on June 10. R. K.
Loomis, Makan-
da, is member of
the I. A. A. ex-
ecutive commit-
tee representing
this district. The
problem of catch-
ing the chicken
thief was dis-
cussed from the
floor, the senti-
m e n t being ex-
pressed that or-
ganized thievery
has grown from
a neighborhood
to a state-wide affair.

Explains Servic^
The work of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association in its various de-
partments was outlined by Mr.
Cowles. He was followed by J. C.
Watson, I. A. A. taxation director,
who spoke on the school tax prob-
lem and of the efforts being made
to equalize the tax burden on a
state-wide scale. Discussion from
the floor centered around the com-
munity high school and the cost
of maintaining several within a
county.

R. K. LooKis

nold!

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LEGISLATIVE BODY
GIVES GOOD REPORT

(Continued from page 1, col. 5.)

"Yes, and it would have passed
this time, if we had condescended
to divide the revenue 60-50 with
the state highway department,"
President Thompson said.

The apportionment bad been
fixed in the amended I. A. A. bill
on the basis of 20 per cent to the
state highway department, and 80
per cent back to the counties.
I. A. A. Stands Pat for 93,000,000

Although the legislative commit-
tee has been constantly pressed by
legislators to agree to a decrease in
the $3,000,000 appropriation for
t. b. passed by the Senate, there
has been no change in the I. A. A.
stand, which has been for the $3,-
000,000 amount.

"We have told them that if they
reduce it, they must bear the re-
sponsibility. We have figured it
out, and we believe three million
will be required to carry out the
present tuberculosis eradication
work for the next two years," said
Mr. Barton.

However, the House committee
on appropriations, upon receiving
the bill from the Senate, recom-
mended a cut to 11,500,000. This
is an unpopular cut on the floor of
the House, and it is expected that
a determined attempt will be made
to increase the appropriation, at
least to $2,000,000.

Tice BUI Amended

Fourteen amendments were
tacked on to the Tice bill after a
flag of truce was supposed to have
been hoisted by both I. A. A. and

Pfg3

r ^.

Cold Figures Tell a Big Story \
For Any Farmer Who Sells Cream

V

COLD figures are poor story
tellers most anytime, and
especially so on hot days, but
the comparative figures presented
here tell a vivid story worth hear-
ing most any day.

The comparison shows how butter
fat prices in Illinois stack up with
those of co-operative creameries
and cream selling associations in
Wisconsin, Iowa and Ohio.

Look at column three and you
will see that Illinois co-operative
creameries paid an average of about
six cents a pound more than the

are nothing to brag about, especial-
ly when compared with similar fig-
ures of Iowa and Wisconsin as are
shown in columns five and six. But
Iowa and Wisconsin co-op creamer-
ies have been in the game much
longer than Illinois. The oldest co-
operative creamery in this state is
only 10 years, while some in Iowa
and Wisconsin are as old as 35
years. Volume of cream received
increases with years of good serv-
ice. The greater volumes going
through co-ops in these neighbor
states Is largely responsible for

in touch with their county Farm
Bureau or write direct to A. D.
Lynch, director of the dairy de-
partment, and he will get in touch
with the county Farm Bureau.

NET PRICES P.AID FOR BUTTBRPAT IN 1924

M lUinol* lUinola Ohio Co- lows WlKonsin

Score Private Co-op- operative Co-op- Co-op-

Batter CreMn ermtlve Cr««m erative ermtive

Month Ciiicaco Stationii Creameries Clubs Creameries Cre*merleit

51.00c

46.a5c

52.12c

53.63c

57.81c

57.60c

49.50

45.00

50.20

49.07

54.24

53.90

March

45.60

41.00

46.40

45.69

47.91

48.30

April

37.40

32.90

17.76

36.85

40.86

40.20

May

. 37.10

32.78

39.00

37.61

42.14

40.80

. 39.00

33.88

40.60

40.20

44.24

43.20

July

. 37.80

33.8U

39.10

37.86

41.74

41.20

August ....

. 36.20

31.60

38.50

39.02

40.84

4t.70

. 35.40

32.30

38.20

36.54

41.22

40.60

October

. 34.80

31.70

38.40

37.46

41.97

41.30

. 40.40

35.00

42.48

40.60

47.45

47.60

December

40.40

38.1U

42.28

40.95

47.21

4«.10

Averages

40.40

42.09

41.28

45.60

45.08

Illinois private cream stations paid
during the same period. Unfortun-
ately, many Illinois communities
produce too little cream to support
a co-operative creamery, but the
Illinois Agricultural Association
has a remedy for this situation and
in such places can render service
by organizing a cream selling club.
Under, this plan no creamery is
needed. The farmers contract to
sell their cream through their own
elected representatives and in this
way are able to sell their com-
bined output to the highest bidder.
In this way farmers can get all the
market affords — and that's only
fair, isn't it?

High Prices In Ohio
In Ohio, with the assistance of
the Farm Bureau, 88 cream selling
organizations of this kind were
funetioning in 1924 and in column
four you will see that the Buckeye
state farmers received an average
of five cents a pound more than Il-
linois farmers who sold to private
cream stations, and only three-
fourths of a cent less than the av-
erage net price of our Illinois co-
operative creameries. On first ap-
pearance, it seems that prices paid
by Illinois co-operative creameries

opposing cattle trading dairy in-
terests in northern Illinois. Many
of these amendments are trivial,
but two, the committee reported,
are absolutely dangerous. One at-
tempts to define segregation of
stock and the other changes the 75
per cent clause to mean "herds
tested" rather than "herds signed."

Under "segregation" comes the
point of requiring double line
fences, which the I. A. A. considers
as wholly impractical and should
not be -included in the bill. Such
a point should be covered either by
regulation or by court decisions. A
blanket law covering all segrega-
tion could very plainly be unfair to
individuals, since double line fences
are not necessary in many instances
for effective segregation.

"We feel that both amendments
should come out," said Chairman
Barton. "If the House non-con-
curs in the Senate's amendments,
the bill will go to conference where
some changes may be made."
Record to Print Dope

The committee also strongly rec-
ommended the publishing in tl^e
Recobo of a full agricultural votipg
record of every state senator and
representative. The motion by
Chairman Barton is as follows:

"I. move that the information de-
partment be authorized by this as-
sociation to publish at the end of
each legislative session, and at such
other times as deemed advisable,
the voting record of all members of
the legislature on all legislation of
interest to our association."

Membership in the Illinois Agri-
cultural Co-operatives Association
now numbers 170.

With a total of $179,82^.08, the
Illinois Farm Relief Fund now lacks
less than $100 of its desired quota
of $180,000.

A male glee club of more than 40
memoers representing most of the
communities in the county has been
organised in Champaign county.

their advantages in price averages.
The greater the volume of a cream-
ery, the less the overhead amounts
to on each pound of butterfat deliv-
ered by its patrons, and conse-
quently the greater the price re-
ceived for the butterfat.

Write If You're Interestetl

Cream selling organizations are
being formed in several localities
in Illinois this year. Others can be
formed where there is local de-
mand and where cream from at
least 500 producing cows can be
signed into one cream club. Farm-
ers who are interested should get

RE-INSURANCE PLAN
TO BOLSTER LOCALS

(Continued from page 1. col. J.>
county, (I. A. A. executive com-
mitteeman for the 12th district),
and all who are named above, ex-
cepting the 2nd vice-president, com-
prise the executive committee. In
addition to the above named, the
temporary board of directors con-
stitutes the following: Everett H.
Tripp, Belvidere. Boone county; I.
N. Hosford, Hamilton, Hancock
county; Otis Kercher, Vermilion
county farm adviser; Frank Troeck-
ler, Mitchell, Madison county and
H. A. Cress, Hillsboro, Montgomery
county.

Vernon Vaniman will serve as
field organizer. He has directed the
field work for the 1. A. C. A., the
co-operative accounting and busi-
ness advisory service established
last year by the I. A. A. and which,
in less than a year, has grown to a
membership of 170 co-operatives
and other farmers' business organ-
izations.

"X'an" Loaned by University

With the auditing service now
growing largely of its own accord,
he will be able to devote practicatiy
fulli time to the re-insurance serv-
ice. It will be remembered that
Mr. Vaniman was "loaned" last
year to the I. A. A. by the College
of Agriculture where he had been
in the extension service as assistant
leader of farm advisers for the
.■state. His stay with the I. A. A.
is being extended so he can direct
the field work of the new re-insur-
ance company.

Here is wh/it "Van" says about
it:

"The Farmers' Mutual Re-insur-

PHOSPHATE, UMElTONE
ARE GOOD INSUKANCE
AGAINST LONG DROUTH

Observatioiu Over Wi^e Aremi
Show Weather Fav*r« Soil*
Which Are Well #ertilized

bell er

sAfegui rd

The farmer has no
thail phosphate -and
their ability to
agaihst adverse condition i
ing to the 1. A. A. phosp
stone department, J. R
rector.

"Weather conditions
are demonstrating the vii
tance of good soil fertiiil v
nance," says Mr. Bent

"G. F. Tullock. execu
mitteeman for the I. A. A
12th congressional distric
into the phosphate-llmeit
partment office recent
spending much of the preip<
with the soil advisory
the University of Illinois,
he is a member, on an
trip through western
portions of Iowa.

"Mr. Tullock stated
dence was very clear an(
ing as to the value of
limestone and phosphate
without excepUon, on
these two minerals have
wheat is coming tbrougl
condition. A very largi
age of fields of small
have not had such tr<
showing partial or oearl]
failure."

friends
liiii|»tODe In
crops
accord -
late-lime-
Benl. di-

thi t

t^is season
1 impor-
mainte-

ive com-

from the

. dropped

one de-

y, after

ous week

committee of

of which

nspection

and

III nois.

the evi-

convioc-

use of

Almost

fields where

>een used.

in good

precent-

that

nent are

complete

t le

I rain

Grain Marketing Activities

Shaping Into 3 Main Channels

^

GRAIN marketing activities of
the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation are shaping them-
selves into three principal chan-
nels, according to Chester C. Davis,
who has been directing the associa-
tion's grain marketing activities
since the first of April when he re-
tired as commissioner of stgricul-
ture for the stscie of Montana and
became affiliated with the I. A. A.
Wluit's Being

Done
These divisions
are: (1), assist-
ing the Farmers'
Grain Dealers'
.Vssociation of Il-
linois in formu-
lating a market-
ing plan that will
be of all-around
service to grain
growers; (2). se-
curing a survey
of t h e farmers'
elevators of Illi-
nois by the Unit-
ed States Etepart-
ment of Agricul-
ture and the
Illinois Agricul-
tural experiment
station and ( 3 ) .
assisting south-
e r n Illinois
wheat growers in
counties along
the Wabash riv-
er s e-1 1 their
grain through
the Indiana
whtat pool.

Mr. Davis out-
lin'*B the farm-
ers'elevator situation in a brief way:
"Over six hundred farmer-owned
grain elevators have been devel-
oped in Illinois in the evolution of
grain marketing from the era of
complete private merchandising
toward one in which farmer con-
trol of his product as it moves to
the consumer shall be the dominant
factor. Most of these farmers'
elevators grew up during the last
20 years in a successful attempt
to improve conditions in the local
grain market. Most of them are
in the surplus corn-producing area
of the state. There are fewer
Farmers' elevators in southern than
in northern Illinois, while the con-

Eterj- blai-k dot Is a fanaerft* elevator —
Note liow few in E^pt.

densation through the central and
north central districts is remark-
able. The number in the south-
eastern and extreme southern por-
tions of the state is relatively in-
significant.

Next Step Developini; Now
"The next phase in the develop-
ment of co-operative grain market-
ing will be toward centralized farm-
er direction of the volume of grain
that moves from
surplus areas to
tlieicentf rs where
it is manufac-
t u r e d or pro-
cessed for sale to
the consumer. As
this develpps, less
grain will pass

along the short-
est economic
path to the final
buyers of the raw
crop.

"T h e accom-
P a n y i n g map
showing the dis-
tribution of the
six hundred-odd
farmers' eleva-
tors in Illinois 11-
lustrates the
ground for the
belief of the Il-
linois Agricul-
tural Association
that: (1), the
major grain mar-
keting program
for Illinois will develop upon the
farmers' elevators as a foundation ;
(2). the next logical step is to
Bring together in a directable chan-
nel, through a central co-operative
selling agency of the local farm-
ers' elevators, as large a part as
possible of the grain that is deliv-
ered to them: and (3), that such
a program would have little bear-
ing on the grain growers of south-
eastern Illinois where farmers' ele-
vators are few, and where co-oper-
ative grain marketing will depend
on organizing the individual pro-
ducers either in district or local
marketing associations."

tal e

ance Company is the nafie
proposed new company
put the local mutual fire
ning insurance compani
nois in a. position to
all the insurance needs of
er. It will not t>e necessi^;
farmer in the future to
old line company to
amount of insurance be
Snpplements
"The re-insurance com
ly supplements the activj
local company and does
into competition with it
tivities of the re-lnsur^nce
pany will depend on the
of it by the local compaky

of the

that will

tnd light-

of Illi-

care of

the farm-

for the

go to the

the

I esires.

Local- (Xi mpany

t an

local company w^ be
ly.

th '

hi'h
C( n

e a

r«

n< rmal

Imprc tsing

the state company.

"It frequently happeni
I local company may have
I losses, thus causing the
to be extra heavy w
members of the local
become dissatisfied, ev
the average losses over
years would be much
other insurance. The
company can agree to
the local for losses in
125 per cent of their
thus providing against
assessments and
members with the stability
tual insurance
Kelnsurance of Indiv
"Many local compai
limited the amount they
on separate risks. Thi >
practice. It frequently
makes it necessary for
to get the insurance
elsewhere. A plan,
insurance company will
the local company for
vidual risks in excess
amounts, would prevent
sessments by the local
in case of loss on large
local company in this
write the policy and ac
surance that should be
re-insure with the re
pany the amount that
company does not desire

"According to the
ship company cannot
$10,000 on a single
county company cannot
over $20,000. The
company in this case
separate policy for the
the local company cann(|t
desires not to carry.

Keeiis It In Farmers'
"The re-insurance coi i
merely supplement the
pany and put the local
tion to take care of all
of its members and provide
best mutual insuranc<
cheapest possible cost.
Vaniman. "It puts
companies on a basis w
can take care of the
members the same as
company can take care
clients' needs for insu

that the

excessive

a48e8sments

causes

pany to

though

period of

ess than

insurance

e-ini burse

excess of

loss,

he heavy

the

of mu-

y mere-

ies of the

not enter

The ac-

com-

use made

as the

agent of

vld^al Kisks

ies have
will carry
is good
however,
farmer
desires
the re-
reimburse
on indi-
jf certain
heavy as-
companies
isks. The
would
of in-
c^rrled and
com-
the local
carry,
a town-
rite over
and a
write one
r4-iDsurance
write a
that
carry or

I He

, wher by

lO IS

c >se

insu 'ance <

;o

la'r

rsk

CI D

ai lount

Hands

pany will

ocal com-

posi-

the needs

the very

at the

says Mr.

mutual

they

of their

old line

all of iU

tl e

b ereby
nee Is

Pt4S*4

The DKiiOM Afficultural Ai»ocMition Record

I'-
"WE WANT TO GO TO THE COUNTRY," CRY POOR CITY KIDDIES V

June 20, 192S

100 Farmers Join Soft

Wheat Pool In Southern

Illinois In First Week

One hundred farmers who grow
soft wheat in Wabash, Gallatin and
White counties joined the soft
wheat growers' marketing associa-
tion during the first week of organ-

Hzatioa effort, according to Chester
C. Davis, director of grain market-
ing, who looks upon this number
as exceedingly encouraging and in-
dicative of no evidences of "over
selling."

"The way was paved during this

■ week for future organization work
in these three counties," Mr. Davis
sayS) "and also in Edwards and
Lawrence counties. Organization
will continue up to threshing
time."

The organization work is directed
by the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion with the county Farm Bureaus
co-operating.'

Five-year contracts are written
with the Indiana Wheat Growers'
Association as the sales agency for
the soft wheat pool, with the un-
derstanding that before next season
necessary changes will be made to
place this association on a district
basis, including the southern Illi-
nois soft wheat territory.

Hanext Is Ettrly

"Jlot, dry weather advanced
harvest fully a week earlier than
expected In south-eastern Illinois,
consequently the organization cam-
paign and wheat cutting came on
the farmers at the same time," says
Mr. Davis. "Interest is keen, and
uniform success is reported by the
two organization crews at work in
the territory under direction of M.
L. Hunt of Macomb and H. E. iic-
Carrel of Nebo, with Mr. Hunt rep-
resenting the grain marketing ad-
visory committee, of which he is a
member."

After preliminary negotiations
between the Illinois Agricultural
Association and the Indiana Wheat
Growers' Association had cleared
the way, and after Mr. Hunt and
Mr. McCarrel had thoroughly famil-
iarized themselves with the first
season's operations of the Indiana
Wheat Growers' association at In-
dianapolis, a meeting at Carmi,
White county, on Monday, June S,
brought together the Illinois organ-
ization workers. The field start
was made the day following. Be-
cause of harvest, some difficulty was
encountered in securing drivers.

Farm Bureau Members Invited To

Offer Outings Again This Season

" fTEY, Spud, I'm goin' to th' country f'r sure. Th' lady said so!
f~| Gee! Say, you goln'?"

"I — I dunno. Say, I don't care — much. She — she said there
wasn't any more people wanted us, so maybe I couldn't go — but — but I
don't care — much. I guess I kin have just as much — fun — here — ".

Have you seen them — the little children of the city slums? Hemmed
in by dingy walls, their little rights ignored in the rush of a vast indus-
trial community, they carry on the age-old games of childhood in lit-
tered alleys or streets made perilous by motor cars and trucks. In their
eyes, behind the eagerness that even the city cannot crush ttom youth,
there is something wistful; something the more pitiful because many
of the children themselves do not know the heritage of 'Which they
have been robbed — the freedom of

Outing Secretary,

Illinois Agricultural Association,

Chicago, Illinois.

We have organized a group of » hosts in this

neigbborhood who will be glad to entertain

Cbica|go poor children for two weeks beginning

J Following are the names of hosts, nura-

Mdnth and Date
ber abd description of children wanted by each host:

1, ' .

Name of Host

No. of
Children
Wanted

Sex

Age

•

•

Very Few Farmers' Jdlevaturs

The Wabash valley counties at
which organization work is directed
this season, are, with a few local
exceptions, without farmers' ele-
vators or other co-operative grain
marketing agencies. The object of
this summer's campaign is to give
the grain producers an opportunity
to market their 1925 crop of soft
wheat collectively and with a suc-
cessfully operating farmer's agency.

Contracts with local mills and
elevators to handle the 1925 wheat
tor Tnembers, are beings signed as
the sign-up of farmers proceeds in
the Illinois territory.

It is Understood that United Charities of Chicago assumes the
liability in the case of accident or illness to any of th« chil-
dren sent to us; however, we pledge to exercise proper pre-
cautions in the care and treatment of these children.

We Will meet the children at .\ or

Railway Station

(Please name at least one optional Railway Statlon|)
Rem4rks:

Nam<f of Host Chairman

i Post Office

Rural Route No Telephone No..

Qu^wy Dairymen Beat

Xheir Time On Pledge To
Deliver T. B.-Free Milk

Members of the Quincy Co-opera-
tive ' Milk Producers' Association
blaz«d a trail heretofore untravelled
by Illinois co-ops or commercial
market milk handlers when, on Feb.
9, lt25, they passed a resolution to
receive no milk after July 1 of this
year] from herds not accredited or
on tpe way to accreditation.

'With July 1 as a starting time,
theyl have jumped their guns by
sevet-al months, according to A. D.
'Lyn«h, dairy marketing director,
for within 30 days after passage
of the self-imposed high-quality
standard, the co-op was selling
nothing but t. b. tested milk to its
patrons.

"The consuming public of Quincy
was pleased with the efforts of the
co-op." states Mr. Lynch. "This was
fully demonstrated by a gain of 10
per j cent in the co-op's business
wltnin three months."

of meadow grass after a summer
shower, and all of the thousand and
one delights that even the poorest
country child accepts as bis natural
right.

It is worst in the summer time
when an unfriendly sun (strange —
how friendly the sun can be in the
country) beats mercilessly onto
treeless streets; when the heat
creeps stiflingly into that land of
cement, brick, narrow stairways
and stuffy, over-crowded rooms.
Milk sours (not everyone can af-
ford ice), the heat aggravates the
tenement odors almost unbearably,
and tired mothers' nerves are
strained to the breaking point.

Then — well, imagine yourself a
child again and think how you
would feel If someone gave you a
free ticket to fairyland. That is
just what two weeks in the country
is. to these poor little heat-torment-
ed urchins. How they look for-
ward to that outing, and how they
remember it all the year long — If
they get to go. And the bitterness
of the disappointment it they are
told that there is no place for them!

Every farmer family living with-
in 200 miles of Chicago can be the
"fairy god-parents" of some little
slum child. It takes such a little

deliver the whole group to any
place within the 200-mile radius.
The outing season begins with the
close of the city schools. June 26.
The farmers who open their
homes to these unfortunate chil-
dren enjoy the "outings." too. The
United Charities report that many
families write back year after year,
requesting the same children they
have had before — which speaks
well for the children.

Last summer, Mr. A. Mailloux of
St. Anne in Kankakee county found
enough people in his community to
take 28 youngsters. He said that
all he had to do was telephone and
see some of his neighbors, and it
wasn't long until he had the "or-
ders."

If you can take one or more of
these little slum children into your
home for two weeks this summer,
for just that brief taste of the joys
of country life, and if you have
neighbors whom you can interest
also, won't you fill in the blank pro-
vided at the l.eft and return It to
our Outing Secretary? This summer
the Record will print tb»? name of
each family that co-oper ;s in this
great humanitarian an^. christian
work.

I.

J

i t

ae 20, 1925 I ^

)DIESj(

To

Season

lady said so!

she said there
a — but — but I '
n — here — ".
ns? Hemmed
a vast InduB-
ildhood in Ut-
ucks. In their
h from yputh,
because many
if Which they

tort Is meas-
iness It gives.
; the children
1 Charities of
it end of it.
lenience, they
ildren in each
charity work-
who are to go.
'ery way, and

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Volume 3

Iicued Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinking Fanner* — July 4, 192S

No. 13

I. A. A. PRESENTS VOTING RECORD OF LEGISLATORS FOR FIRST TIME

IA.A LEGISLATIVF ^Si^~~l~T~ ~~~ PUBUSHING VOTE MARKS BEGINNING OF A kw

COMMTTTEE^ ^HB^^ ^ LEGISLATIVE POUCY WHICH WUl BRING FaCTS

SiSIjfiwS WORK ^W^^W I TO MEMBERS AND STRENGTH TO AGRICULTURE

Pnmk D. Bartoa

group to any
10-mile radius.
egins with the
ools, June 26.
open their
fortunate chll-
ngs," too. The
ort that many
ear after year,
children they
which speaks

A. Mailloux of
e county found

community to
He said that

telephone and
ghbors, and it
? had the "or-

ne or more of
dren into your

this summer.
ste of the Joys
if you have
u can interest
the blank pro-
d return It to
r This summer
t tb»^ name of
)per !S in this

an^ christian

Major Accomplwhineiiit of Gen*
eral Awemlily Was Revenue
Measure Pushed by LAJi.

By the LegisUitive Committee

The General Assembly just closed
was generally conceded to be one
of few construc-
tive accomplish-
ments. In fact
everyone agrees
that the one far-
reaching bit of
legislative action
was ' the submis-
sion to the peo-
ple of an amend-
ment to the state
' constitution, per-
mitting the legis-
lature to pass
tax laws In con-
formity to mod-
e r n conditions.
At present probably more than 90
per cent of the tax burden falls
upon the farm lands, city homes
and other tangible property. This
amendment, if adopted, will enable
the legislature to find means of tax-
ing the intangible wealth thereby
reducing the burden now resting on
the property of the farmer.

This action, before it becomes ef-
fective, must be ratified by the peo-
ple at the November election In
1926. Because of that fact, and be-
cause of its importance, it is being
printed in full on the editorial
page. This resolution had the
whole-hearted support of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association.
Text of Revenue Amendment
The Tice bill to hasten the work
o f eradicating
bovine tuberculo-
sis was seriously
amended in the
Senate. The
House refused to
concur and the
bill went to con-
ference. The con-
ference commit-
tee from the
House was com-
posed almost en-
tirely of men
who had Indulged

A.r.Everta,h.« !.° "O™ <"■ 'f88

destructive criti-
cism of the bill at different times.
In spite of definite promises, none
of the outstanding friends of the
bill were placed on this committee.
Even Mr. Tice, its sponser, was
completely ignored.

Tice Bill A Step Forward
However, the bill came out of
the conference with some of the
most objectional Senate amend-
ments eliminated. While we do not
feel that the bill, as finally passed,
is as good a bill as the one original-
ly presented, we believe it is a
definite forward step. It recognizes
the principle of compulsory testing
when 75 per cent of the cattle have
been tested. It will enable many
counties, where work is now well
started, to very soon become clean
territory and it
clarifies and
gives legislative
sanction to many
practices that are
now merely de-
partment regula-
tions.

The appropria-
tion as finally
passed was J2,-
"00,000. The
committee felt
and still feels
that the amount
appropriated will
not be sufflcient

to carry t; ■ work through the next
biennlum. J4iree million dollars was

(Continued on pa^e 4, col. 4.)

H. K, Gormbel

.i

Executive Committee Ordered Vote Printed in Recckd; Vote
Shown Here on Revenue Amendment, Tice Bill, Baif Bill and
Dunlap State PoUce BiU, AU of Which Were Backed by

I.A.A. ; Comments on Senators
Printed Before Election.

and Representatii

THE record of the legislators who served the state <J uringr th.-
54th (Jeneral Assembly just closed, upon measures o ' vital in

terest to Illinois farmers, is presented herewith by the lUi lois Apri
cultural Association. This is a new departure upon beh ilf of the
association, but it is one that farm bureau members have
many times. At the meeting of the executive committee or
it was ordered that this action be taken.

"How can agriculture have an effective voice in the affttrs of the
state if the farmers do not have the information from wpich they
can learn who are their friends and supporters t" asked

"/)0/VT forget mel" tcreeched Eltore Martire PompUio, 12 years oU. of 811
Morgan street, in the Halsted street district of Chicago, when he wax
asked to say goodby to the folks who had been listening 10 minutes to his
peppy "yes mam*s" over WLS recently. He was interviewed before the micro-
phoite by your editor in behalf of the slum kiddie project. Eltore enjoyed an
outing on a farm in Livingston county last summer. He answered questions
before the microphone in a wo^' that would convince the coldest hearted person
that the poor kiddies of Chicago^s congested districts appreciate and look for-
ward to trips to the country. There are many others like EUore who would appre-
ciate an invitation from some kind-hearted farm bureau member — an invitation
that becomes effective by writing the Outing Secretary of the I. A. A.

Eltore's father is a blind musician and has b^n out qVyvork for some time.
He has a brother and sister, both wishing to go^oo. Eaore wrote the follow-
ing letter relating his experience in the radio studiiiespeJiatly for the RECORD:

RADIO ^^'

The Sharman Hotel
I talked in the radio at the sharman hotel and I told the country man That
1 like to go this year where the radio urns. There were velvet curtain. I saw
a man playing a insttrument he was playing a mouth organ and a bangio and
they took me a picture now I got afraid all at once they burned a big iron
thing and now they going to print my picture. Your very truly. Friend Eltore
Martire, 811 Morgan Street, Chicago.

Barton (Livingston), chairman of the le^ia^tive committe< in advo
eating this change in policy for the I. A. A. " Likewise; it is impor-
tant that farmers know who are against agriculture."

"T<>o many legislators have regarded the farmers' rjghts too
lightly," President Thompson stated at the time.

Comments on various members of the legislature will be made
later. These will be written by the legislative committee, of whicji
A. C. Everingham of Hutsonville and Vice-President H. E. Goembel
iif Hooppole, are also members.

The record, as compiled by the legislative committee from the
iournals of Senate and House, begins on page thn-p.

to be

asked for
June 12

'rank D.

Pool Gets 200 Members
In Southern Illinois As
Threshing Ends Campaign

Growers whose deliveries for the
season will amount to approximate-
ly 150,000 bushels have joined the
soft wheat growers pool in {he cam-
paign Just drawing to a clo*e in
Gallatin, White, Edwards Slnd Wa-
bash counties, according to reports.

Complete reports will be on hand
this week, as the start of thresh
ing will mark the end of the mem-
bership' drive for this year. Two
membership teams of the Illinois
Agricultural Association and county
Farm Bureaus co-operating, headed
by M. L. Hunt of Macomb and H.
C. McCarrel of Nebo, have been
given contracts from over two hun-
dred wheat growers in about two
weeks' working time. Elevator
contracts providing for handling
the wheat, have been signed.
Effort has been made to secure
membership in local groups, rather
than to scatter them throughout the
soft wheat territory, to facilitate
deliveries and shipping.

This year's wheat will be handled

as part of the second year's pool
of the Indiana Wheat Growers' as-
sociation, and will provide a start-
ing point for the general organiza-
tion of soft wheat growers in south-
ern Illinois next season. Most of
the soft wheat comes from territory
not served by farmers' elevators.

/. A. A. Fighting Against
Proposed 11 Per Cent

Freight Rate Increase

An advance of about 11 per cent
in freight rates on all commodities,
and particularly live stock, is the
expressed desire of the railroads
serving Illinois and the West,
according to a report of L. J.
Quasey, director of the transporta-
tion department. This increase is
vigorously opposed by the Illinois
.^[^ricultural Association.

"Recently the lines filed a peti-
tion for an increase in rates be-
tween all points in western terri-
tory, including Illinois," the report
stated. "The railroads contend
that their revenue during the past
several years has not been ade-
quate. It is said to fall consider-
ably below the 5 % per cent author-
ized by the Transportation Act.
Strategy Seen In Petition

"This petition Is particularly in-
teresting in that it comes at a time
when the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission is contemplating a method
of procedure under the Hoch-Smith
resolution, which was passed by
Congress in its last session and
which requires that the subject of
freight rates shall be given a good
airing with a view toward possible
revisions.

"However, the railroads very
strenuously oppose having this pe-
tition considered under the Hoch-
Sraith resolution. The opposite
view is taken by the shippers' or-
ganizations, and the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association.

15 Per Cent IncirMSt
In Membership It.

Counties, Metz ler Says

Farmers are Joining
Bureau in the counties
renewing membersbipe

he Farm
hich are
his year

with a real appreciation i f what it
Is all about, according to G. E.
Metzger, I. A. A. organi nation di-
rector. Six counties are ilready In
their campaigns. In thei > six, the
increases range from 10 :o 25 per
cent of the old members! ip. which
speaks well, he states, for he stand-
ing of the Farm BureauE over the
state. The average incre .se so far
is estimated as 15 per c ;nt.

"From the standpoint
we feel that the action oi

of the Western lines Inv ilves Illi

Six

Illinois,
the part

nois rates on all classes
modities. This action
concern to us in that the
over a period of years, hav ; endeav-
ored to increase Illinois i iteE, and
particularl)> on live stock,
ly as can be determined
crease asked for in the cai riers' pe-
tition would mean an aii vanee of
about 11 per cent on all
ities. This might vary to
tent on one commodity
other."

No definite plan of proc ^dure for
executing the Hoch-Smiti i resolu-
tion has been indicated b ' the In-
terstate Commerce Comml islon. It
has received suggcstionB fi om ship-
pers' organizations from
the country, and will now
late its own plan.

ind com-
of great
-ailroads.

As near-
the In-

commod-
Bome ex-
aver an-

all over
formu-

^HERE teas a good-sized turnout of farm bureau leaders and their wives and children when the second distric,
of the year was held in the 25th Congressiotui district at Villa Ridge in Pulaski county not long ago. Bells w^
dry down in Egypt thert, biu rain has come and the fruit and late vegetables, upon which these farmers bank theii
are doing much better. R.K.Loomit of Malumda is their I. A. A. representative.

meeting

w^e goinf

chance*.

m

n^j/

Page 4

The lllinttii Agricultural Astociation Record

June 20, 1925

"WE^WANT TO GO TO THE COUNTRY," CRY POOR CITY KIDDIES

100 Farkiers Join Soft

If heat Pool in Southern
iilinois In First tleek^

One hu
soft wheal
White
wheat s
tion duri
izatioti I'tf
C. Davis.

Jilt;, who
s fxc**fdi
dicativ
^t-Ilinti."

"The V
v^i-vk for

idred farmers who grow
in Wabash. Gallatin and
nties joined the soft
ers* marketing associa-
the first week of organ-
[)rt. according to Chester
lirector of grain market-
looks upon this number
ugly encouraging and in-
no evidences of "over

cou
rcw

n?

or

in these t
says, "an
Lawrenct
will con
time. "

The o
by the III
tion with
co-opf rati

Kive-ye;
with th»-
Assuciati
the soft
derstandi
necessary
place this
basis, inc
nois soft

ly was paved durint: tlws

future organization work

ree counties," Mr. Davis

also in £dwards and

counties. Organizatii'ii

Qinue' up to threshiiii:

'Hot.

expected

paign and

between

Farm Bureau Members Invited To

Offer Outings Again This Season

HEY. Spud. Ini Koin' m th' countrj f'r surf. Th' lady said so!
(Iff! Say. you ^oin'?"

■I 1 dunno. Say. I don't care — iiiucli. She - sh« said there
Kasn I any more iieoiile wantfd us, so maybe 1 couldn't go — but — but
d'ln't care much. I «Ufss 1 kin have just as much tun here".

Ha\f ,\(>u sfeii" theni - -tlif little children of the city slums'' Heninied
in by diiiwy walls, their little riKbts ij;nored in the lUsh of a vast Indus
trial conim,unit.\ . tln*y carr.\- on the a^e-old sanies of childhood in lit-
tered allf.\s i»r streets made perilous by motor cars and trucks. In their
e.\es. behind tlu* ea.uerness that ^'\*-n the city cannot crush from youth,
therf is someihins wistful; something the more pitiful becayse many
of tile children themselves da not know the heritage of which they

nization work is directed
itiois .\f;ricultural Associa-
;he county Farm Bureaus
s.

r contracts are written
Indiana Wheat Growers'
0:1 as the sales agency for
.•heat pool, with the un-
rg tliat before next season
changes will be made to
association on a district
uding the southern Jill
wh»*at territory.

Harvest Is I'^i-lv

dry weatlier advancetl

harvest fully a week earlier than

n south-eastern Illinois.

cousequenUy the organization cam-

wheat cutting cante on

the farnie s at the same time. " says
.Mr. Davis, "Interest is keen, and
uniform s access is reported by the
two organization crews at work in
the terntciry under direction of .\I
I.. Hunt c( .Macomb and H. E. .\lc
'Carrel of S'ebo, with Mr. Hunt rep
resentiitg the grain marketing ad
visory committee, of which he is a
^ieiuber."

After breliniinar.\ negotiations

he Illinois .\gricultural

.\3soeiatipi and the Indiana Wheat
Growers' Association bad clfared
the way. and after Mr. HiAit and
Mr. McCairel had thoroughly famil-
iarized tl emselves with the first
season's operations of tlie Indiana
Wheat (Jrtiwers association at In-
dianapolis a meeting at Carmi.
White coiJnty. on .Monday. June S.
brought together the Illinois organ-
ization w|)rkers ;Pfie Held start
was made the day f(>llowing Be-
cause of hbrvest, some ditTiculty was
encountered in- secuijing drivers.

Uuti
llli

II S

Secretary,

.Agricultural .-Vssociation.
Chicalgu. Illiuoi!!.

We have organized a group of

Uflghbortiood who will be glad to entertain..

Chicako poor children for two weeks beginning

Following arf tlie names of hosts, nnm-

.XlJiith aiKl I>ut>- '

ber aid description of children wanted by each liost: ■'

\>r.v l''t*\v KHi'iiiers' t^^lcvafoi-K

The Wabash \ alley Counties at
which organization work is directed
this sea.son. are. with a lew local
e,\ceptions. without farmers' ele-
vators or other co-operativ<- grain
marketing agencies. The object of
this summer's cami)aign is to give
the grain producers an opportunity
to market their i;i2r, crop of soft
wheat collectively and with a sue
cessfully operating farmer's agency.

Contracts with local mills and
elevators to handle the l>i25 wheat
for members, are being signed as
the sign-up of farmers proieeds in
the Illinois territory.

1H2

hosts iji this

It is imderstood that I'nited Chanties of (.'hicago assumes the
liability in the ease of accident or illness to an.\ of ttie chil-
dren Bent to us; however, we pledge to exercise proper pre-
eauticns in the care and treatment of these children.

We \Mill meet tli^ children at or

Kuiivvay Stuliun

Keiuarks

Name
Most

liuial

(t'lease nam*- at 1*-Hsl oltr uptiuiiul llailway Station)

J

.J-

of Hlust Cliairm>in

Office

KuUte No -:

.Telephone No..

^>,

.M

live
blaz<
by
mar

!•■ r

rece
year
on t
W
they
seve
Lyn
for
of

Stan
not
pat

was

co-o

fullj

per

witl

!(•> Itairymfti Real
lii'ir Time On I'lodfic I'd
Dclin-r r. K.-h'n-i' Mill,

•mbers of the Ciuiiic,\ Co-opi-ra-
.Milk l*roducfrs' .Vssociation
d a trail heretofore untravelled
tlinois co-ops or commercial
et milk handlers when, on Feb.
25. they passed a resolution to
ve no milk after July 1 of this
from herds not accredited or
e way to accreditation.
Itb July 1 as a starting lime,
have jumped their guns by
:al months, according to .\. D.
h. dairy marketing director,
ftithin 3U days after passage
he self-imposed higli-quality
lard, the co-op was selling
ng but t. b. tested milk to its
ns.

consuming public of Quincy

pleased with the etTorts of the

" states Mr. Lynch. "This was

demonstrated by a gain of lU

cent in the co-op's

three months."

"hi

business

of meadow grass after a summer
shower, and all of the thousand and
one delights that even tile pooffst
country child accepts as bis natural
right.

It is worst in the summer lime
when an unfriendly sun (stralipe --
how friendly the sun can be in the
country t beats mercilessly onto
treeless streets; when tile heat
creeps stitlingly into that land of
cement, brick, narrow stairways
and stuffy, over-crowded riioms.
.Milk sours (not everyone can af-
ford ice), the heat aggravatea the
tenement odors almost unbearably,
and tired mothers' nervfs are
strained to the breaking point.

Then — well, imagine yourself a
child again and think how you
would feel if someone ga\e you a
free ticket to fairylaiid. That is
just wh'at two weeks in the country
is to these poor little heat-torment-
ed urchins. How they look for-
ward to that outing, and bow they
remember it all the year long — if
they get to go. .\nd the bitterness
of the disappointment if they are
told that there is no place for them!

Every farmer family living with-
in 20U miles of Chicago can be the
"fairy god-parents" of some little
slum child. It takes such a little

deliver the whole group to any
place within the 2uu-iiiile radius.
Thf outing sc ason begins with the
close of the city schools, June 2t>.

The farnifis who o1<en their
honifs to tlifse unfortunat*; chil-
difu .hjuy the "outings," too. The
Inited Charitifs ifport that many
families writf back year after year,
reciufsting the same children they
have had before - - which speaks
; wfll for tile children.

I Last summer. .Mr. .\. -Mailloux of
^ St. .\nne in Kankakee county found
enough people in his community to
take 2S youngsters. He said that
^11 lif bail to do was teleplione and
See some of his iifiglibors. and it
wasn't long until he had thf "or-
df rs."

If you can take one or more of
these little slum childifii into your
home for two weeks this summer,
for just that brief taste of the joys
' of country life, and if .vjou have
. neighbors whom you can interest
. also, won't you fill in the blank pro-
vided at the left and return it to
. our Outing Secretary'.* Tills summer
I the llEcoKii will print tL^' name of
j each family that cooper s in this
great humanitarian an, cliristian
1 work.

le 20, 1925

)DIES

To

Season

lady said sol

she »aid there
} — but — but I
n— here— ".
IIS? Hemmt'd
a vast Indus
lillioiid in lit
licks. In their
li from youth.
Ix'caysi- many
1 which they

fort is nieas-
iness \t sives.
; Ww children
I Charities of
it end of it.
I'enience. they
Idreu in each
charity work-
» lio are to go.
ery way, and

H

ou|) to any
u-mile radius.

ins with the
oois, June 2G.

0 o1)en their
ortunat»i chil-
iifis." too. The
ort that many
ear after year.

children they
wliicli speaks

.\. Mailloux of

* c(junty found

community to

He said that

telephone and

iihbors. and it

had tile "or-

e or more of
dreii into your

1 this summer.
te of the joys

if .\jLiu have
can interest
the blank pro-
d i.turn it to
' This summer
t tL*- name of
ipei 's in this
an. rliristian

1

IL;

'BUREAU

CIA^DfJ^

Volume 3

issued Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinhing Fanners — July 4, 1925

I. A. A. PRESENTS VOTING RECORD OF LEGISLATORS FOR FIRST ' IME

I.A.A. LEGISLATIVE
COMMITTEE REVIEWS
LEGISLATURE'S WORK

Major Accomplishment of Gen-
eral Assembly Was Revenue
Measure Pushed by I.A.A.

By the Legislative Coninittlee

The General Assembly Just closed
was generally conceded to be one
of few construc-
tive accomplish-
ments. In fact
everyone aerees
that the one fa;-
reachiuK bit off
legislative action
was the submis-
sion to the peo-
ple of an amend-
ment to the state
constitution, per-
mitting the legis-
lature to pass
tax laws in con-
formity to mod- F,„k D. Barton

e r n conditions.

.\t present probably more than 9u
per cent of the tax burden falls
upon the farm lands, city hoqies
and other taniiible property. This
amendment, if adopted, will enable
the legislature to find means of tax-
ins; the intangible wealth thereby
n ducini; the burden now resting on
I he property of the farmer.

This action, before it becomes ef-
ftcti\e, must l>e ratified by the peo-
ple at the November election in
192G. liecause of that fact, and be-
cause of its imiiortance. it is being
printed in full on the editorial
pai;e. This resolution had the
whole-liearted support of the Illi-
nois .Vgricultural Association.
Text of Revenue .Amendment
The Tice bill to hasten the work
o f eradicating
bovine tuberculo-
sis was seriously
amended in the

Senate. The

& ^^ ^^"^B House refused to
\ ,.,A ^V concur and the
' r ^^ ^^ bill went to con-
ference. The con-
ference commit-
tee from the
House was com-
posed almost en-
tirely of m e n
who had indulged
in more or less
dejitructive criti-
cism of the bill at different times.
Ill spite of definite promises, none
of the outstandiim friends of tli*'
liill wes'e placed on this committee,
fc^ven Mr. Tice. its sjionser. was
completely ignored.

Tice Kill .1 Step KorwanI
. However, the bill came out of
llie conference with some of the
must objectional Senate aniend-
Mieiits eliminated. While we do not
feel that the bill, as finally passed,
is as good a bill as the one original-
ly presented, we believe it is a
il'-finite forward step. It recognizes
thw principle of compulsory testing
«lien 75 per cent of the cattle have
lieen tested. It will enable many
"■unties, where work is now well
^•larted. to very soon become clean
tirritory and it
c I a r i fl e s and
-ives legislative
s:iiiction to many
l"uctiees that are
iiuw merely de- |
f'^tment regula- >jh 01^
111. lis. ' > ~^^

rite appropria-
t'l'i. as finally
I'u.-'-d was $2,-
"iHi iMjO. The
< "'luiiittee felt
•'lid still feels
"lat the amount
•iiipropriated will
'i"t be suHcient

to c arry t .. work through the next

I'i'iinium. .hree million dollars was

K'uiitinufU on pagf 4, col. 4.)

PUBLISHING VOTE MARKS BEGINNING OF A
LEGISLATIVE POLICY WHICH WILL BRING

No. 1.

HEW
ACTS

TO MEMBERS AND STRENGTH TO AGRICLLTURt

IHrrlnehnn

" rjOVT forget me!" screeched Hliore Mariire I'ompilin. V2 yitry ul<l. ul SI I
■^"^ Morgan street, in the Hahteil street district of Chiciifin. nfien hf was
asked to say goodby to the folks ulio had been U\teitinti /'I minittr^ tit his
peppy "yes tnam's" over tf'LS recently, lie tens intercieiced hefon- :he micro-
phone by your editor in behalf of the slum kiddie project. Hhore frtfoyed on
outing on a farm in Livingston county Inst summer. He ansuered iptcstions
before the microphone in a way that would convince the coldest hearted person
that the poor kiddies of (Jiieago's i'oni:i"^ted ifi.-itricls appreciate and look f*tr-
ward to trips to the country. There are many others like Hllore who would appre.
date an invitation from some kind-hearted farm bureau member an invitation
that becomes effective by writing the fluting Secretory of the I. .t. .4.
j KItore's father is a blind m«.siri«n and has been out of witrk for some time.
He has a brother and sister, both wishing to go. too. Eltore wrote the foltott-
ing letter relating his experience in the radio studio espei^ialh for the Hh't t^HO:

R\l)l(>
The .'sliarman Hotel
I talked in the radio at the sharmnn hotel and I told the country man That
I like to go this year where the radio was. There were veil et curtain: I saw
a man playing a insttrument he ivas playing a mouth or;:an and a Iningio and
they took me a picture note I got afraid all at once they burned a big iron
thing and now they going to print my picture, \tiur very truly, trienif Llfoj-e
Mnrtire, 811 Morgan Street, Chicago.

Reccrd

Executive Committee Ordered Vote Printed in

Shown Here on Revenue Amendment, Tice Bill, Bai r
Dunlap State Police Bill, All of Which Were B^ck
I.A.A. ; Comments on Senators and Representat
' Printed Before Election.

> es

TIIK record of the le(.'iKljii.,rs wlio served the slate iliriri'/ tti
.')4tli (ieneral Assemldy juvt eloseil. ii|i'iii iiieji<iiri>« o' vital n
tere.,t to Illinois fanin-rs. !•. in-.-s.-iited liefiwitli li\ llie fill ii .- .\jr\
ctdtiiral Assoeiiitioii. This is ^ ii,.w di|>arHire ii|):.ii heli ilt' ..f ih.
assoeiatii.ii. hut it is on,- thai farm hiireaii iiieiiihers have a^ked I''
Iiiativ times. At the inieiin^ mC the executive eouiinittee ..tl-liwie ll
it. was ordered that this aetimi he taken.

"How can au'riciiltuii' liave an elTeetive voice in the afT^rs of th'
state if the fariiK-rs do not have the infiirniatiini from w lirh th-
■ an learn who are their frieiuls an<l stipporters !'' ' asked •"rank l>
liaiton iLivin<^|iin . .-liairnian of the legislative comniittiv inadv.
eatiiiir this eliaii'.'e in |ii>liey for the I. A. A. "Likewise, it is iuije
t, Hit that fanners know who are a-.'aitist airriciilliiri. "

■Too nianv lejjislaKirs have rejmrdeil the fanners' rf^hts !•
li'/litly." I'l-esijieiii Thompson stated at the time.

fommenls fiii various memhers of the legislature will Im; inad'
later. Tliesi' will he written hy ihi- le'^'islative eomiiiittee. of whul.
A. <'. Kveein^ihain of lliitsonville and Niir-President H. K. Co-pil-ei
'•f lloii|>pol,-, are also memhers.

The re... id. as compiled hy the lepislalive committe.- froii! th-
i..iinials of .s;,iiale anil lions.', h.-.j'itis ..n pa^-e the.-.-

/. f. 1. Fifihtiiiii .4):iiiii.yi
Vrttpttst'd 1 1 I'fr ('.rill

l-'rfifiht Rate hu-reast'

An advanc- ..f ainiut II p. r <■. iit
in freiuhf rates ..n all coiiiiii.»(litj.->,
and iiarlicniarjy live stock, is th.-
e\i)ressed desir*- of tlu* railroads
s. Tying Illinois and th- West,
ai'cordini: to a repfirt i.f L. J.
Qiiasey, director of th4' traiisporta-
ti.in department. This increase i.a
\i.;:orously opposed by the Illinois

Vole

Bill and

5d by

to be

. Vl. <iufnil,fl

Pool Gets 200 Members
In Southern Illinois As
Threshinff Ends Campaitin

Growers whose deliveries for the
season will amount to approximate-
ly 150.000 bushels have joined the
soft wheat srow^rs pool in the cam-
paign just drawing to a close in
Callatin. White, Edwards and Wa-
bash counties, accordinc to reports.

Complete reports will be on hand
this week, as the start of thr<sh-
in^' will mark the end of the in<ni
bership drive for this year. Twn
membership teams of the Illinois
Ajiricultural Association and county
Farm Bureaus co-operatini:;. headed
by M. L. Hunt of ^faconib and H
C. McCarrel of NV'bo. havf been
i;iv* n contracts trom over two hun-
drt'd wheat crowers in about two
wt'Hks" working lime. Elevator
contracts providing for handling
tb*^ wheat, have been signed.
EJffort has been made to secure
membership in local groups, rather
than to scatter them throughout the
soft wheat territory, to facilitate
deliveries and shippiug.

This year*9 wheat will be handled

as part of the seeond y#'ar's pyol
of the Indiana Wheat Growers' as-
and will provide a stari-
the ticniral nru-aniza-
tion 111 soft wheat iirrnv- rs in sonth-
rrn Illinois next season. Most of
th*' soft wheal comes from ttrrii<»ry
not served by farmers' elevators

yoci;i3ion. ant
iii'A |«>int for

\Lrjou!tural Association

'FJfcently the lines filed a peti
iii»n for an increase in rates be
tw^'-n all points in western terri
tory. ineludin^ Illinois." the report i
stated. "The railroads cnnt«-nd
liiat tlieir revenue durine: the past
-■-I wt-ra! y<ars lias not b<'«n ad-'
M'lale. It is sat<I to fall consld^T
;.blv b'low the 5^1 per cnt auHm:
r.'.'d by the Transportation .\et
Strateuv Scm^ii in Petition
"Tliis petition is particularly in
t«'resting in that it comes at a tinif
wlhn tin- Int*'rsiut»- C<>mih<T<^e C<nii-
iiiis.sjon IS riinti-uiptatjn:: a method
nl procidun- under ihf Hoch >:milh
resolution, which was passed by
* 'i»n:rr»^ss in its last session and
which requires that the subject of
lni;:lit rates shall be given a g<n»d
airing with a view toward possible
r"v|sions.

"However, t!ie railroads v^-ry
strenuously oppose haviog this pe-
liiion ronsidt-n d under the Hooli-
Sniitli rfsoluiion. The opposit*-
\i'W is taken by the shippers' or-
uiiuizations, and the Illinois Agri-
<iiliur«l Assoriation-

In MfnihiTsitift I

('onntit*s. Metz :
rarmer." ate joining
\ Itureau in the cttuntles
I nni'Wini; iiifiitb< rs!iips
I with a nal appn-ciatlon
I is all about. a,ecnrdini.'
I Metzger. I. A. A.
I r«'rt<»r. Si\ et»u^ti»-s are
their campaigns. In the:
increas<s ran:.' from 10
rent of itn old m«'mber>lji[i
speaks wejIVhe states, f.
ing of the Kami Uureau^
state. The average iucre
stiiiiated as 15 p'-r^r

f what it

to G. r

organlf^ation di

Iready in

IX. the

25 per

whir!.

^'»Il<l

■■\ 11.-

"Kroiu the siaudpoiut (f lli.ii'n
we f.^l that the a<lion oi t!fe pai
of th. Western iiues inv ihes 111
nfiis rates mi all class4-s tnd com
modities. This artmn is of greai
concern to us in that the -ai!^oad^
o\er a period ctf y.-ars. hav • endt-av
ored to increase iHirioitJ i tifs. and
particularly on ti\e >iock. As n- ai
iy a.*; «an be detenuiu>-d
crease asked for m the <'ai riers* p
ntion would mean au atfianc*
about 11 pt-f rent on «U
iiies. This niit^ht vary to
tent on one rnntti|odiiy
oilier.'

No definite plan of i-rin
eseeutin;: tin
tion has be, u indicated 1

tersiatt- (*oiiuiieu-- I'onli!.^;

[*(>iiiino«l

some e\

)ver an

: durf fo:
Hoch-Sii:ii| re^olu

the It.
lOII I'

<T Says

i« rarm

iiieli art

nt

recei\«-*J sH;.;;^* ^tl■'^*.. i' om yilu

rji

or;:an!/atii»!is ti<
ountry. nnd will
fiwn ptan.

'H:

all ov.-
■ I'irinu

^HERE was a good-sized turnout of farm bureau Ivuders and thrtr win's and children ufien tin v«< ,,/j(i dtsi
of the year uas held in the 25th Congressional district at I ilia Hidfxe in f*ulaski county not hmti uf.'". H #■//]
dry down in Egypt then,but rain has come and the fruit and late lefietabtes. upon uhich these farmers hanh then
are doing much better. K. K. Loomis of MeJcanda is their I. A. A. representative.

■re ^tui

P»ge 2

The DKno}* Atricnhural AModalloB Record

July 4, 192S

„ I El Ei I N O ■ S

CCl.TnAL ASSOCIA

RBCORO^

:4M

Published every oth«r SAtqrday by the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation, 608 South I>«*rll»rn Street, Chicago, Illinois. Edited
by 'department of Infomation, Harry C. Butcher, Director.

Entered as second class matter Oct. 10, 1921. at the post office
at Chicagov Illinois, under the act of March 3. 1879. Acceptance
for mailing at special rates of postage provided for in Section
1103. Act of October 3. 1917. authorized Oct. 31, 1921.

The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation Is Ave dollars • year. The fee Includes payment of
flfty centsi for subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
elation RscOMP.

Postmaster: In returnlBV an uncalled-for or missent copy,
please indicate key number on address as is required by law.

OFFICERS
President, S. H. Thompson, Qnlncy.
Vice-President, H. E. Goembel, Hooppole.
Trea.surer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomlngton
Secretary, G«0. A. Fox, Sycamore.

E.XKCOnVE OOMSIITTEE

By Congressional Districts

1st to 11th William Webb, Route On«, Jollet

12th G. F. Tullock, Roclcfonl

13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th ; W. H. Moody, Port Byron

15th B. H. Taylor, Rapatee

16th A. R. Wright, Varna

17th F. D. Barton, Cornell

18th ', R. F. Karr, Iroquois

1»th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th i.. Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21*t Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd Stanly Castle, Alton

23rd W. L. Cope, Salem

24th Curt Anderson, Xenia

2Sth R, K. Loomis, Makanda

Directors of Departiuents, I. A. A. Office

Co-operative Accounting Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

Finance : R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

general Offiee J. H. Kelker

Grain Marketing Chester C. Davis

Uiformatlon Harry C. Butcher

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organization G. E. Metzger

Phosphate-Limestone J. R. Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson

Transportation L. J. Quasey

'I '

THE Ricosn's PLATFORM
Advance the purpose for which the Farm Btireau was organized,
namely^ to promote, protect and represent the btisiness, economic,
social and educational interests of the /armers of Illinois and the
nation, tmd to develop agriculture.

< Setting a Precedent

SOME legislators whose agricultural voting record is
published in this issue will be surprised ; others will
be pleased, and not a few will sorely be perplexed. Pub-
lishing their record sets a precedent in the life of the
Illinois Agricultural Association that will mean much to
the fanning industry of this state. Nqte the disregard
for party affiliation ; it is the agricultural record, with-
out political favor. ". i - '

Text of Propoted Amendment

THE proposed amendment to the revenue section of
th|e constitution reads as follows: 1

I Senate Joint Resolution No. 4.
Resolved by the Senate of the State of Illinoia, the
House of Representatives concurring therein : That there
shall be submitted to the electors of this State for adop-
tion or rejection at the next election of members of the
general assembly of the State of Illinois, in the mlinner
provided by law, a proposition to amend Article IX of
the Constitution by adding thereto an additional section
to be Itnown as Section 14 of Article IX, as follows :
ARTICLE IX
Section 14. , From and after the date when this sec-

tion shall be in force, the general assembly shall have
authority to prpvide by general law for the levy and col-
lection of tazeet for public purposes upon persons, prop-
erty, and incoiike, free from the limitations contained in
Sections one (1), three (3), nine (9), and ten (10) of
this article. Taxes levied under the authority of this
section shall bt uniform upon all persons, property or
income of the Same class. All real estate shall be in one
class, except that mineral land and land devoted to re-
forestation map^ be in different classes. Exemptions
from taxation may be established only by general law.
This section shall not affect existing exemptions estab-
lished by law (under the authority of section 8 of this
article. Taxes by valuation under the authority of this
section shall b* based upon a value to be ascertained by
some person ojr persons to be elected or appointed in
such a manneij as the general assembly shall direct, and
not otherwise. No act for the imposition, increase, con-
tinuation or revival of a tax under the 'authority of this
section, or for the establishment of exemptions under the
authority of tl is section, shall become a law without the
concurrence ofl two-thirds of the members elected to each
house.

R elief Fund Reachem Goal

OVER the op ! !
That's t le status of the Illinois Farm Relief Com-
mittee's fund : or re-establishing tornado-stricken farmers
in southern I'linois. The latest report shows the total
at $180,105.12. The goal had been set at $180,000. It
was thought tliat if this amount could be raised, it would
be a great sho' ring of generosity and neighborliness upon
the part of 111 nois farmers. Congratulations and thanks
are in order for the thousands of farmers who contrib
utfd.

Dpetn't The Farmer Count?

WHEN a public utility company wishes to build a
line foB transmission of its electricjd energy, it
must apply to the Illinois Commerce Commission for a
certificate of 'convenience and necessity." In applying
for the certilleate, the utility company mnst also give
notice to tele jhone, telegraph and fight and power com-
panies whose lines will be crossed or paralleled. This
is done in orier thafall interested parties may appear
in the heariig where any objections to the proposed
course of the line may be brought out.

But the u' ility companies are not required to serve
notice upon farmers over whose land they propose to
cross!

Obviously, this is an injustice to the farmer. What
usually happ ens is that a representative of the company
privately taL s to each farmer and dickers on the»'«mount
that shall be paid for the condemned areas. The indi-
vidual farmer is practically powerless in the face of the
company's oGBcial certificate of convenience and neces-
sity which hid been issued upon the basis of the rights
of all interests excepting the farmer's.

An illustr ition of this very thing is in the Galesburg-
Galva case, which has been pending some time. Its
history is gi ren by L. J. Quasey, transportation depart-
ment director, like this:

"The lUiDDis Power & Light Corporation made surveys
between Galesburg and Galva for the proposed construction
of a 66,000 volt transmission line between the points
named. The corporation applied to the Illinois Commerce
Commission ind obtained from It, on Feb. 18, 1925, a cer-
tificate of CO ivenience and necessity, and the right of con-
demnation.

"The IlUn >is Agricultural Association was not approached
by the land owners until after that date, when the Knox
County Farn Bureau aslted that we take some action and
assist the la td owners concerned in getting the course of
the proposed line changed if possible.

"It so happens that the course most preferred by the
company runs on an average of three-Kjuarters of a mile
from the Burlington right of way. It necessarily cuts the
farm lands diagonally. Some 62 farms are Involved and
under the proposed plan there would be from two to ten
towers on each farm. Ninety seven per cent of the lands
proposed to be crossed were under crop rotation.

"The Knox County Farm Bureau proceeded with this
matter in a very orderly manner, appointing committees to
act in behalf of those concerned. The company in the
meantime bad written some 19 contracts with Individual
farmers for right of way, and in some instances payments
had been made under the provisions of these contracts.
This gives an idea of the difficult position the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association was placed In when we took this mat-
ter up.

"We made an appeal to the chairman of the Illinois
Commerce Commission for a conference so that we could
present our objections to the proposed course. , At the con-
clusion of the conference the Commission ordered that
further activities on the part of the company toward con-
struction of the line be suspended until further ordered
by the Commission.

"The Commission then. In compliance with our request,
sent out an engineer to checli up the situation in connec-
tion with the proposed course, also to develop alternative
routes. After this was done, an informal hearing was held.
Those present were the interested farmers, the Illinois
Power & Light Corporation and others Interested.

"The route most agreeable to the farmers and which was
one of the routes suggested by the Commission's engineers,
was one parallel to the Burlington railroad between the
Galesburg and Galva. Serious objection to this was made
on the part of the Burlington railroad on the grounds that
Inductive interference from the high power line would crip-
ple their signal devices. The Western Union Telegraph
Company likewise made objections on the same grounds;
a portion of their coast to coast line passes along the Bur-
lington railroad. The Bell Telephone Company was the
most strenuous objector for the same reasons. They also
have lines along a major portion of the proposed route.

"At the conclusion of the conference, the Chairman of
the Commission appointed a committee to represent all the
various Interests in an endeavor to work out a plan mutu-
ally agreeable, and in the event that no mutual agreement
can be reached, the Commission will set the matter for fur-
ther hearing and undertake to decide the matter to the best
interests of all."

While the immediate concern is to see that 52 farmers
are not oppressed, the principle involved is of more im-
portance. Mr. Quasey says that there are already 7,000
miles of transmission lines in Illinois and the industry
is still in its infancy. When we get to a point where
there will be two, three or four times as many miles and
no definite recognition given to the effect upon farm
lands, a great injustice will result to the farm owners
in this state. In working to overcome this possibility
of injustice, the transportation department has set up
four principles, which are as follows:

1. That public utilities shall be mindful in their sur-
veys to transverse plow lands to the least possible extent.

2. That they shall, so far as possible, pursue the right
of way of railroads and highways and endeavor to follow
fence lines.

3. That they conduct their surveys in a manner to pre-
vent the least loss and damage to crops and property.

4. That any resulting damages be properly compensated
for. '

These four points constitute a basis upon which the
I. A. A. stands and will continue to stand in its ever-
lasting crusade of protection of farmers' rights.

"When You Ttute Honey, Remember Gall"

ONE of Ben Franklin's tart sayings is, "When you
taste honey, remember gall."
Apply this to yourself if you ever become dissatisfied
with what your organization is doing for you. Think
back to the days before the Farm Bureauj then you will
appreciate more the benefits of your belonging to an or-
ganization that is working for you,

Dia-
trict

22
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26
32
37
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33 <

18
38
18
28
19
24
49
48
39
40
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10

21

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16

5

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27

3

7

11

25
44

35

24
36
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36

7

JOHN THINKER AND EPIDERMIS FLINT.

nly 4, 192S

'erred by the
iTB of a mile
arlly cuU the
involved and
m two to ten
: of the lands
on.

led with this
committees to
mpany in the
1th individual
aces payments
,ese contracts.
! Illinois Agri-
took this mat-

of the Illinois
that we could
i. , At the con-
ordered that
ly toward con-
jrther ordered

th our request,
;lon in connec-
lop alternative
irlng was held.
■8, the Illinois
rested. '

and which was j
ion's engineers, '
.d between the j

this was made
le grounds that
line would crlp-
nion Telegraph

same grounds;

along the Bur-
3ipany was the
ons. They also
posed route,
le Chairman of
epresent all the
lit a plan mutu-
jtual agreement
I matter for fur-
atter to the best

that 52 farmers
. is of more im-
■e already 7,000
id the industry
I a point where
many miles and
feet upon farm
tie farm owners
this possibility
lent has set up

ful in their sur-

possible extent.

pursue the right

deavor to follow

a manner to pre-
nd property,
erly compensated

upon which the
;and in its ever-
rights.

tmber Gall"

1 is, "When you

icome dissatisfied
for you. Think
lUj then you will
Longing to an or-

July 4, 1925

The DKbom A^cukural Afocwtion Record

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READ NOTES FOR EXPLANATION OF BILLS; MAP SHOWS DISTRICTS

SENATE

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Name Reftldenc* and Coutr OeevpatloB

Bailey, Martin B Danville, Vermilion Lawyer _ ,

Barbour, James J Chicago, Cook Lawyer

Barr, Richard J JoUet Will _ Lawyer _ _

Boebm. John J Chlcasro, Cook Druffffist „ ,

fohrer, Florence Plfer. ..Bloomlnerton, HcLean Housewife
rown. John S Monmouth, Warren Manufacturer

Boyd, Randolph Galva. Henry Retired Manufacturer

BurEesa, H. S Fairfield. Wftyne Lawyer ,

Carlson, Martin R -Moline, Rock Island _. Merchant. — „

Carroll, Patrick J .Chicago, Cook Accountant

Clark. Albert C Chlpaso. Cook Manufacturer _

Cuthbartson. Andrew S..£unker HfU. Macoupin Attorney.

Dailey, John Peoria. Peoria

Deck, Jesse 'L ..Decatur, Macon ....

Denvir, John T Chicago, Cook

Dunlap, Henry M .Savoy. Champaign

Duvall, R. E -Belleville, St. Clair Bond Broker

Emmons. Lyman W LawrenceviUe, Lawrence. ..Automobile Dealer

Esslngton, Thurlow G...-5treator, La Salle Lawyer

Forrester, James H TaylorviUe, Christian Lawyer

Oiberson, Herbert Q _Alton. Madison Traveling Salesman ,

Glackin, Edward J..., Chicago, Cook Secretary

Hamilton, John R Mattoon, Coles _ Merchant

Haenisch, Herman J Chicago, Cook Superintendent. Dept. of

Compensation, City of

..Attorney _

..Lawyer ,

..Builder

..Farmer and Fruit Grower.

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Hicks, H. S -....

Hughes, Edward J..
Jewell, Wm. S...

..Rockford, Winnebago..

..Chicago, Cook

.. Lewlstown. Pulton

Chicago..
...Lawyer-

Engineering Contractor...

Lawyer

Joyce. John "r Chlcajro, Cook Real Estate & Insurance..

Kessinger, Harold C Aurora, Kane Publisher

Lantz, Simon E Congerville, Woodford Farmer & Stock Breeder.

MacMurray, James E Chicago, Cook Manufacturer

McDermott, Frank Chicago, Cook Merchant -

McNay, Charles R Ursa, Adams .-. Dealer in Livestock

Marks, Adolph Chicago, Cook Attorney

Mason, Lowell B Oak Park, Cook Attorney -

Meents, Richard R -Ashkum, Iroquois Banker

Meyers, Joseph L. Sclota Mills, Stephenson... Lumber, Grain & Coal

Piotrowskl, John A Chicago, Cook Pharmacist _

Roberts, Adelbert H Chicago, Cook Attorney

Roos, Frederick B Forest Park. Cook Attorney

Ryan, Frank J -.Chicago, Cook .\ttorney

45 Searcy. Earl B -.Springfield, Sangamon Writer..

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Shaw, John W Harrisburg, Saline ...Farmer

Smith, Ben I*. Pekln. Tazewell Lawyer ;

Sneed, Wm. J Herrin, Williamson -Miner ,

Swift. Rodney B Lake Forest. Lake Retired .;

Telford, Erastus D Salem, Marion Lawyer

Van Lent, George Chicago, Cook Insurance

Webster. Daniel Chicago. Cook Lawyer-.

Wilson. Harry Pinckneyvllle, Perry -Teacher -

Wright. Harry G _D*Kalb, DeKalb Banker _

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Nama Ucaldenee and County Oceapatlan

Abbey, Frank E Biggsvllle, Henderson...'. Grain Merchant..

Acker, John Savanna. Carroll - Salesman —

Adcock, William Galesburg, "Warren Farmer

Allen, Henry C r^yndon. Whiteside J'armer

Anderson, Thompson J Monticello, Piatt Farmer

Arnold, A. Otis Quincy, Adams Publisher

Arnold. Lawrence P Newton, Jasper- Wholesale Hay —

Ashby, James H Springfield. Sangamon...- Printer -s*.

Auth, A. L. Chicago, Cook Printer _

Babb, Alfred S Shannon, Carroll Farmer and Banker

Bancroft, Lincoln - Greenup. Cumberland Real Estate and Investments..

Bandy, Wallace A Marion, Williamson — Real Estate and Insurance Yes

Baxter, Harry - Newman. Douglas Automobiles and Farmer Yes

Bennett. Norman Marshall, Clark Newspaper Publisher.. Yes

Blppus, Frederick J Chicago, Cook .Real Estate and Insurance Yes

Booth, Milton T Atkinson, Henry.- Retired Merchant Tes

Boyle, James P Chicago. Cook _ .General Insurance - Yes

Branson, R. J -Centralia. Marion Attorney-at-Law - Yes

Brown, Edgar B - Paris, Edgar ^Auditor and Accountant. „ Yes

Browne, Lee O'Nell Ottawa. La Salle.- — Lawyer

Bruer, Callstus A, Pontiac, Livingston - Farmer Yes

Bush, Carroll _ Pittsfleld, Pike Newspaper Publisher Yes

Castle. Howard P Barrlngton, Cook- Lawyer Yes

Choisser, Carl - Benton, Franklin Lawyer Yes

Church, Ralph E Evanston, Cook. Lawyer Yes

Chynoweth, W. C - Decatur. Macon - Parmer Tes

Clark, John Decatur. Macon _ Miner Taa

Cola. Charles _ Chicago, Cook - Paving Inspector Tes

Cork, Walter E Marshall, Clark Insurance „ Tes

Curran, Thomas - Chicago, Cook Retired Taa

Cutler, Reed F _ Lewlstown, Fulton. Lawyer -, Tea

Devlne. John P Dixon. Lee Lawyer -.-.». Tes

Douglas, Warren B Chicago, Cook Lawyer - Tes

Durso, Michael R Chicago, Cook Real Estate and Insurance Tes

Eisenbart, Henry Waterloo. Monroe -Insurance No

Elrod, Mrs. Rena Chicago, Cook Home Maker _ Tes

Epstein. Jacob W Chicago. Cook -Real Estate Broker Tes

Pahy, Michael Toluca. Marshall — Jteal Estate - - Tea

Faulkner. H. W Mt. Vernon, Jefferson — .Syrup and Candy Mfr - Tes

Pekete. Thomas L E.St. Louis. St. Clair -Lawyer Tes

Flnneran, Martin H Calumet City. Cook Lawyer 1.

Flagg. Norman G Moro. Madison Parmer Tes

Foster. James H Macomb. McDonough Insurance Yes

Francis. Charles H Woodstock. McHenry Lawyer - No

Franz, Charles D Freeport, Stephenson — Wholesale Beverage Business Yes

Franz. Matt - Chicago. Cook Contractor - - „ Yes

Gibson. John W Chicago, Cook . Author Yes

Goode, Katharine Hancock. .Chicago, Cook Home Maker — Yes

Gormley, Wm. J Chicago, Cook Contractor — —

Green, Leroy Y Rockford, Winnebago -Lawyer Yea

Griffin. Charles A Chicago. Cook -Real Estate and Insurance Yea

Grlffln. John Chicago, Cook Teaming Contractor Yes

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. Tes

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- Yes

48 "Harrell, Jerome L Norris City, White Publisher and Lawyer..

Hennebry, Michael F Wilmington, Will Attorney

Herrin, Earl Edwardsvllle, Madison Auto Distributor —

Hoar, Ralph H Elgin, Kane Insurance

Hoff. Grover C - Clinton, DeWitt Attorney. -.

Holten, Frank E. St. Louis, St. Clair Musician and Merchant.

Hrdllcka, Fred W Chicago, Cook Retired

Hunter, David, Jr — Rockford, Winnebago J'armer

Hutson, A L. — Colfax, McLean Merchant —

Jackson, N. L. - „ Belvidere. Boone Farmer

Jacobson, John Q Chicago, Cook Clerk

Johnson, G. J — Paxton, Ford Real Estate

King. William E -Chicago. Cook Lawyer

Kribs, Charles J Prairie du Rocher, Randolph.. General Merchandise

Krump, Peter S - Chicago, Cook Clerk - Yes

Lager, A. B — Carlyle. Clinton _ Lawyer Yes

LaPorte, Charles W Peoria. Peoria _ Patent Attorney and Mfr - Yea

Lee, John M Chicago, Cook - Real Estate and Insurance Yes

Lewis, P. W Robinson. Crawford Publisher and Lawyer Tea

LIpka, William — Chicago. Cook Clerk

Little, Roger F -— Champaign. Champaign -Lawyer Tes

Lohmann. Martin B — Pekln, Tazewell Insurance and Real Estate.

Luckey. Hugh M Potomac. Vermilion Parmer and Stock Raiser

Lyon. Sidney Chicago. Cook Lawyer

Maher, Michael F - Chicago, Cook _ -Real Estate

Malloy, Charles P. Sorento, Bond .oil. Gas * Coal Leases, R. E..

Marlnler. Chas. E Chicago, Cook - .Master Painter -

Martens, Jacob —.Anchor. McLean....: Parmer and Banker

McCarthy, Frank A Elgin, Kane Attorney-at-Law

McCaskrIn, Harry M Rock Island, Rock Island Attorney-at-Law

McCluggage, David H Peoria, Peoria Hotel Proprietor

McElvain John Broughton, Hamilton .Farmer.

McMackln. J. E - Salem. Marlon Jlerchant.

McSweeney, John R Chicago, Cook Real Estate and Insurance

Miller, Walter R —Chicago, Cook r ..Teacher

Mitchell. Benjamin M — Chicago, Cook — - Jron and Steel

Moore. John Robert Kewanee, Henry Lawyer _.

Mueller. Carl Chicago, Cook Real Estate _;

Myers, Thomas J Benton, Franklin Lawyer

Noonan, George Garry Chicago, Cook'. Cigar Manufacturer

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TiJtAP showing Senatorial districts of Illinois. There are three reprekentativef

IVl to - -

for each district.

Note No. 1 — It was in 1870, Bve years after the Civil War, |
present revenue section to the constitution of Illinois was
Things have changed since then! In 1870, It was fair to makd
property bear the taxes of the state, for most wealth was in I
investments. Today a large portion of wealth is invested In iij
things, and conditions have changed so that the old system of i
taxes works a hardship on owners of property, and especially on J
After a great deal of study and much effort, the Illinois Agriculi
sociation, the Illinois Bankers' Association, the Illinois Chamberji
merce, the Illinois Federation of Labor, the National Board of
the Illinois Teachers' Association and other state-wide orgs
have drawn up an amendment to the constitution which will
nois' tax collecting on a basis in keeping with present-day
None of these groups gain a special favor by the adoption of th«j
ment, it merely giving the General Assembly power to act
thirds favor any changes. This Is the only hope of the fanner
freedom from the present oppressive burden of taxation on gene^
erty. The General Assembly was almost wholly In favor of ill
vote shows. To become effective. It must receive the ma)orit3(
votes cast in the election of November. 1926.

Note No. 2 — The Tice bill, as most farmers know, provld^
general re-codiflcation of existing regulations governing tut
eradication. Chief among its features is a provision that when
cent of the cattle have been tested in any county that li
under the area plan, the test becomes compulsory on the rema

..e cattle.

Note No. 3 — This vote was taken on a motion mad* to

.ble an
for tu-

amendment offered by Senator Barr to reduce the approprlatioi
berculosis eradication from $3,000,000 to $2. 000, 00*. Afflrmatitv votes
on this motion, as are recorded in this column, indicate that senpitors so
voting favored the larger amount.

Note No. 4 — This'^ vote was on the passage of the tS,0004>00 ap-
propriation bill in the Senate.

Note No. 5 — Being unable to get the vote on the Barr appropriation
bill in' the House at the time the REroan goes to press, it cannt^
eluded here. However, this vote is relatively unimportant sino
on the $1,500,000 amount which had been recommended by th^
committee on appropriations. The House vote was practica
'mous. it being known that the bill would be required to go to
•>nce between the two legislative branches. It wM In the co^ferenee
that appropriation was fixed at $2,000,000.

Note No. 6 — The "yes" votes in this column indicate that th ! repre-
sentative favored the Dunlap State Police bill. This record wis made
when the opposition made a motion to table the bin. which terailnated
successfully for them, and meant permanent defeat in this session for a
state police to protect farmers and others from depredations of Lhleves.

be in-
it was
House
unan-
confer-

Joka C. Wataoa. director of taxa-
tion and statistics, showed the Iowa
Farm Bureau Federation how taxes
have been equalized in Illinois, when
he put on a demonstration at their
request in Polk county. Iowa, one
<1ay recently. Now they aae planning
a similar campaign.

T*e larkt of the Madison County
Farm Bureau in behalf of 199 farm-
ers who paid only two-thirds of their
land taxes becausa of Inequalities ex-

isting between the city and [country
valuations, and who were f
pay the full amount by court
Madison county, has been ci
the Supreme court of Illlnol^.
case Is a very Important one.
the first to be carried to the
court. The I. A. A. Is actin
advisory capacity and Is he*^
nance the farmers' fight beci
decision will have bearing
farmers In Illinois.

jrder in
>d to
Thif
t belna
3 pram e
In an
Ing fl-
ise the
on all

Pf 4

BARTON URGES HGHT
START NOW FOR 1927
LEGISLATIVE BATTLE

Bloomingtoa Gonference Hear*
Reports oa LeguUture,
Farm ReUaf, Taxes, Lime-
stone and Discusses Them

The campalfn for the farmera'
legislative profrSm in 1927 should
begin at once, declared Frank D.
Barton, exeeutlt* committeeman
for the 17th d^rict. at that dis-
trlcfs meetlns ' at Bloomlngton,
June 26. He stated that one fea-
ture of the campaign will be a gaso-
line tax measura,deslgned as a lieu
tax, taking the plaee of the present
special tax ussfsments for main-
taining state aid roads. Most coun-
ties of the state have this special
assessment included with their reg-
ular property tax schedules, he said.

Discussion brought out that it
would be adTlsable to carry on a
very thorough campaign on the gas
tax M the farmers themselves in
order that they may be solidly be-
hind It, and can talk It to their
neighbors. In the last session, the
opponenu spread propaganda to the
effect that the gas tax would be an
additional tax aad that It was det-
rimental to farmers, it was said.
Relief Fond Reaches Goal

R. A. Cowles, I. A. A. treasurer,
reported that the farm relief fund
had reached approximately $180,-
000. the goal originally sought.
The fund is to be used to re-estab-
lish the farmers in the stricken
area, building homes and barns and
granaries where they are needed,
re-stocking the county with cattle,
hogs and chickens. This work is
being done, he said, only where it
is essential in order that a farm
family can continue living and
earning a living on the farm. It
is a slightly different class of work
than can -be done by the Red Cross,
which has raised over two million
dollars for the general storm relief
work, though the farm relief fund
is being administered by the Red
Cross after it Is received in mod-
erate amounts from the Illinois
Farm Relief Committee.

One of the most effective pieces
of storm relief work was done by
the farmers living near the stricken
area in organising crews, going In-
to the storm-swept country and
picking up rubbish and wreckage
from the fields, building temporary
shelters and fences and in other
ways lending a helping hand to the
sufferers. This action proved to be
far more than a contribution of so
many hours of labor, Mr. Cowles
said, for this neighborly act re-
stored the morale of the storm vic-
tims, a priceless contribution.
Predicts Llmestane Price Increase

John C. Wataon, director of taxa-
tion and statistics, reported that he
is doing work along equalization
lines in McLean county, but had not
progressed far enough to give any
light on the situation. J. R. Bent,
director of the phosphate-limestone
department, stated that because of
decreased activity in road building
in the state, which has reduced the
quarries' output of the screenings,
and, too, because of greater farm
demand, there will be an increase

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Bcmenee and OMUt^

O'Brien, Lawrence C Chicago. Cook.

O'Gradjr, Thomas J Chicago. Cook —

O'Nell, Lottie Holman Downers Grove, D l Page.

O'Toole, James J Chicago. Cook...

Overland. Ed. M Chicago, Cook..

Pacelll. William V Chicago. Cook L _Real Estate

Peflfera, John M Aurora, Kane „Attorney-at-Law

Perina. Joseph Chicago, Cook Real Estate and Insurance..

Petri. Ed. P : Belleville, St. Clal

Phillips, W. B _ Mt. Vernon, JeSer ion...

Piacek, Joseph ) Chicago, Cook _ Restaurant Owner.-

Powers, William W. .jL__ Chicago, Cook.,

Reeves, James A..„ '. Champaign. Chamfealgn Farmer...

Rellly, Thomas F Chicago, Cook Lawyer.,

Rennick. Frederick W Buda. Bureau .„ Lawyer..

Rew, Claude L „Harrl8burg. Salln ( Insurance and Real Estate,.,.

Rice. M. P Lewistown. Fulto t Lawyer...

Robblns. Rollo R. - Augusta, Hancocl Publisher-.

Tha DKnois AgTciJtesJ Assodntioii Racord

- Mi • •

AmendnwrBt
Tes

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Tea
Insurance. Real Eat. & Loans- Tea

Banker....,^ , Tea

-- : Tea

Insurance _,„. _ Tea

Tea

Tea

Lawyer Tea

■ - - - Tes

Tes
Tes

Roe. Arthur -.. ^ Vandal ia, Fayettel Lawyer „ „. Tes

Rogers. Euclid B Springfield. Sangamon Clergyman _ „ Tea

Rostenkowski, Albert Chicago. Cook Real Estate Tea

Rush, W. V Metropolis. Massa c Farmer and Merchant Tes

Rutshaw. Arthur J Chicago, Cook _ „Real Estate Tea

Ryan. Ed __LawrenceviIle, La wrence Farmer Tea

Ryan. Frank Chicago, Cook -Grain Merchant Tea

Saum, Claude N .^Watseka, Iroquol i Lawyer Tes

Sawyer, C. B Kankakee. Kanki kee Attorney-at-tAW « Tea

Schnackenberg. Elmer J ..Chicago. Cook Lawyer Tea

Scholes. Robert Peoria Hts., Peorl i „,..Lawyer Tea

Shanahan. David E -Chicago, Cook Real Estate. Loana ft Ins «

Slnnett, Thomas P .j.MolIne. Rock lalai id Attorney-at-Law Tes

Smith, Tlieo. D Chicago, Cook Insurance Tes

Snell, Truman A Carlinville, Macoi pin Attorney Tes

Doalap
State
Tie* Police Bill
Bill NetoKo.e

Then. William G _,.Chieago. Cook..

Rushville. Schuyl sr Lawyer..

d..

Tourtillott, Albert T...i «.

Trotter, John

Turner, Chas. M

Turner.- Ernest WT.
Turner. Shreadrick B.

Dixon, Lee

Coal City. Grundj

.^Wenona. Marshal^...
i-Chicago, Cook..
-.Chicago. Cook..

Van Norman. Harry C -Chicago. Cook.

Walker. John L. _Joliet. Will

Waller, Elbert , „Tamaroa, Perry..!..

Weber. Chas. H. -• Chicago, Cook

Welsbrod. Harry 1 1 Chicago. Cook , .

Weiss. William P L .^..Waukegan. Lake ,

West. Owen B :,..J Yates City, Knox

...Deputy Coroner-

WiUlaton. Geo. A Chicago. ( ^

Wilson. Emmet P Rockford. Winne mgo Real Estate and Insurance.

Woodruff. Marion U Ppringfleld. Sangr imon Lawyer..

Wylie, John _: Ottawa. La Salle.

in the price of agricultural lime-
stone of from 10 to 15 per cent
about August. This applies partic-
ularly in southern Illinois, but some
of the companies in northern Illi-
nois have announced that they will
not increase the price, he said.

George R. Wicker, director of
co-operative accounting, told how
his department has proceeded along
almost the Identical lines in analyz-
ing farmers' elevators' books as
have the farmers in Woodford and
adjoining counties in their co-op-
erative farm accounting. As a
whole, the study shows where farm-
ers' elevators are falling down in
good business practice or where
they are above the average.

It was decided to hold the next
conference at Bloomlngton Nov. 27

AwllcatlOB of Grain M^rketlnir
Compaay for permit to sell its stock
In Ohio, which was filed pursuant to
a ruling of the attorney general hold-
ing the corporation subject to the
Ohio Securities law, was withdrawn
by officers of the company not long
after It had been filed, according to
the Ohio department of commerce.
N'o action on the application had been
taken, at the request of attorneys
for th'e stain merger, who expressed
a desire to hold the matter in abey-
ance until' the departments of Indiana
and Illinois had disposed of it. The
withdrawal from Ohio took place the
day before the Indiana Securities
Commission rejected the application
to sell stock in Indiana.

^

Reinsurance Body Needs $500,000 in
Individual Policies ; Will You Help?

The only law under which a mu-
tual fire and lightning company can
operate over the entire state also
requires that $900,000 In Indirldual
policies must be held by the com-
pany before It can receive Its char-
ter.

This is the situation of the newly
organized reinsurance company
sponsored by the Illinois Associa-
tion of Mutual Insurance Associa-
tions and the I. A. A. It becomes
highly important and absolutely
necessary that individual fire and
lightning insurance to the extent of
1500,000 t>e subscribed or else the
new company cannot get Its charter.
Indiana has had a farmers' reinsur-
ance company for eight years, and
Iowa IS.

"With all friends of Farmers Mu-
tual Fire and Lightning Insurance
companies co-operating, each coun-
ty in Illinois should raise at least
20 psiicles of 11,000 each," Vernon
Vanifaan, field representative, says.
"After the charter is received, the
company will be ready to operate.
To enable the local companies to
render greater service and to serve
you better is the real purpose of
the reinsurance company. Which
county will have the honor of send-
ing In 20 policies first?

"Are you interested in Illinois
having a farmers' reinsurance com-
pany? If so, sign your name to
the attached coupon and complete
information will be sent you."

I am Isterested in the Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Com-
pany of Illinois and in order to help it get its charter, I. could

use about t of fire and lightning instirance

on my property. Send complete information.

Name 1 , _ „

.\ddress [ _ County

..Linotype Operator —

Soderstrom. R. G Streator, La Salle

Sonnemann, Otto C. Carlinville, Macoi pin Retired.

Sparks. H. D «ShelbyvlIle. Shelby _ .Business Education.

Springer. Lewis B _.Wllmette, Cook.. "

Stanfleld. Abraham L _Paria, Ed^ar

Steinert, Theodore R Chicago. Cook....

Swanson. David I -.Chicago. Cook

Teel. H. V.. - ■■■■-■

Real Estate..

.Grain Dealer

Chief Clk., Rec. Off., Cook Co..
Lawyer

— Attorney-at-Law-
-Farmer

-...Farming & Fed. Farm Loans..

Farmer and Banker

Farmer

.-.Lather

~-La^vyer

Furniture Dealer

.-..Lawyer

JSchool Teacher

Realtor and Insurance

. Lawryer -

I..awyer

.. , „ „.. .,, Life Insurance

Whiteley, Robert Carlinville, Maco ipin Farmer and Merchant Tes

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Tes
Tea
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Yes
Yes
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Tes
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Yes
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Tes
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— Farmer..

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Tes

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Yes
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Yes

Yes
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No
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No

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No

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No

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No

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No

No

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Tes

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Yes

NOTICE

IT should be borne in mind that the simple record of a
m in's vote on any given measure does not give the com-
pleti inf onnation with regard to the actual attitude of the
member on the measure being voted on. More complete
and specific information relative to the actual position of
each member on farm measures is being compiled by the
legislative committee of the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion and will be furnished each member through the Rec-
ord It such time as that information will be of most value
in d stermining your attitude toward candidates for public
offici \. This information will be made up of a study of all
the activities of the members relative to all agricultural
measures. Be sure and keep this issue in your home for
future reference.

Fox ant Whisnand Tell
Confirring Ag. Teachers
Whtt I. A. A. Stands For

"It Is I . fine thing to teach boys
and girls of Illinois about the In-
tricacies of growing crops on our
farms, bi t it would be a still finer
thing to idd to that kind of teach-
ing couries dealing in marketing
these crops after they are grown,
and to tei ,ch more on business prob-
lems," said George A. Fox, execu-
tive 8ecr( tary of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Vssoclatlon in an address
before tie teachers of vocational
agrlcultu e when they met in their
annual c< nference at the University
of 'Illinoi I recently.

J. L. Whisnand, of Charleston
(Coles), executive committeeman
for the 19th district and chairman
of the standing committee on taxa-
tion and education, also spoke, tell-
ing of the need for an amendment
to the r< venue section of the Illi-
nois coi Btitutlon and about the
school survey made by the I. A. A.
last year. The biggest thing shown
by the s irvey was the need for a
revenue amendment, he said.

Farmer i Around Peoria

May

Dairy
planned

mittee.

Have Own Milk Body;
Visit Detroit For Ideas

Membdrs of the organization
committt e of the proposed Peoria
Association which is being
for Peoria, Tazewell and
Woodforb counties visited the De-
troit Mil c Producers' plant, ofSclals
and dealers at Detroit, Mich, June
Fa m Advisers Shaw, Arnett
and De A ^erff accompanied the com-

A. D. Lynch, director of

dairy nfarketing, conducted the
party.

Since Ithe farmers In the vicinity
of Detr( it have put across a suc-

cessful
tlon. It

milk marketing organiza-
was felt that a trip there

would t ring out Important points.

COMMITTEE REVIEWS
LEGISLATURE'S WORK

(Continued from page 1. col. 1.)
the amount asked for and that
would have furnished sufficient
funds to have done this work ef-
fectively. There was much evidence
that the administration was active
In reducing the appropriation to the
above amount. In fact, men in the
confidence of the administration
predicted freely that the bill would
receive the executive veto if |3,-
000,000 were allowed by the Gen-
eral Assembly. The Governor's po-
sition seemed to be that the federal
government should share fifty-fifty
In the expense of paying for con-
demned cattle. If increased ap-
propriation cannot be secured from
Congress the money will doubtless
be exhausted long before additional
funds can be made available. If
that should happen, then the only
way that the work can be carried
on without interruption will be to
secure an emergency appropriation
immediately upon the convening of
the General Assembly. Although
the 12,000,000 received will in all
probability not carry the work
through until additional funds can
be made available. It should be
borne in mind that the amount ap-
propriated was just twice the
amount appropriated two years ago.

Gas Tax To Be An Issue

The Cutbbertson gasoline tax bill
did not come to the roll call in the
Senate, although it was passed out
of committee with favorable recom-
mendation. Here again, as in the
case of the appropriation Just re-
ferred to, there was much evidence
of administration interference In
the passage of that measure. It is
the belief of the legislative commit-
tee that the administration desires
the gasoline tax in the near future,
probably at the next General As-
sembly and desires to use all the
tnnd aecrulnc from such tax for

Jrfy 4, 1926

14TH DISTRICT MEN
MEET AT ALEDO FOR
FRANK DISCUSSIONS

"Equafity For Agriculture" b
Given Boost; Next Meeting
at Rock bland in October

W. H. Moody

Farm Bureau representatives of
counties of the 14th Congressional
district, compris-
ing Rock Island,
Mercer, Hender-
son, McDonough,
Warren and
Hancock, c o n -
vened in their
second confer-
ence of this year
at Aledo, Mercer
county, June 25,
upon call by W.
H. Moody, execu-
1 1 ve committee-
man.

R e s o 1 utions
were passed fa-
voring the export
corporation idea, the state police
bill as supported by the I. A. A.,
the gas tax as a lieu tax, the forma-
tion of detective associations for
(arm protection, and the amend-
ment to revenue section of the state
constitution.

The I. A. A. was represented by
A. D. Lynch, director of dairy mar-
keting, and Harry C. Butcher, di-
rector of information. Round table
discussion featured the session and
considerable Interest was shown in
projects under way by the I. A. A.,
particularly as regards reinsurance
for farm mutuals, which brought
forth commendatory remarks.

The next conference Is to be held
at Rock Island during the early
part of October.

Following are the names of those
present at the dinner:

Henileraon county — C. W. Cooper.
Little York.

Mercer county — B. J. Longley, Ale-
do; Scovllle Lee, Aledo; C. H. Belting
Aledo; H. L. Thornton, Aledo; F. B.
Wicket. Kelthaburg; Guy Mardock.
Joy; L L. Park. Viola.

Rock Island county — W. H. Moody
Port Byron ; S. S. Carney. Rock Island

^\arren county — W. D. Rodgers,
Monmouth.

the completion of the system of
highways already voted, which
would ignore entirely the secondary
roads of the state.

This bill is not dead, but only
sleeping and will be a live, active
Issue during the next two years.
The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion has insisted and will continue
to insist that the gasoline tax is a
fair tax for road purposes and that
when such tax is imposed It shall
contain the two fundamental princi-
ples embodied In the Cutbbertson
bill, namely: that it shall provide a
fund for the maintenance of the
secondary roads, the roads which
really tie the farmers and the rural
community to the state road sys-
tem and that such tax shall be in
lieu of an existing tax against the
property and not an addition t
the already heavy burden of taxp
tlon against such property. Fan
bureau members should make .
their business during the next tw
years to find out where the candi-
dates for the General Assembly
who ask for their support, stani
on the gasoline tax proposition am
on all other propositions In which
farmers are vitally interested. They
should also find out whether or not
their activities are to be controlled
by the interests of their oosatlti
ency, or are to be dominated by tbt
suggestions of a powerful Individ-
ual or a political machine.

The Adcock resolution, whlc"
memorialized Congress to make
scientific study of the dltCerenc
existing in the exchange value be-
tween agricultural products and tl e
products of industry, business and
labor and to find some means for
adjusting such differences, was
passed without record note and
without any opposition. This reso-
lution recommends an export boun-
ty to be provided by some equitable
excise tax spread over the total
production of the commodity in
question. This backs up the
"Equality for Agriculture" program
of the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion.

The Bill prohibiting the use of
narrow-tired wagons on improved
roads was killed in the road and
bridge committee of the House.
The association stood for the elim'-
nation of the closed season on ra
bits. Several bills to accompli
that failed to pass but a bill w
passed lengthening the open season

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Issued Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinking Farmers — July 18, 1925

No. 14

EVERYBODY OUT FOR
BIG I. A. A. PICNIC AT
TAYLORVILLE," IS CRY

iual and Unusual Stunts Will

Feature State Picnic Aug. 27;

t Secretary Jardine on Program

"Everybody out for the big I. A.
annual picnic at Taylorville,
August 27!"

t Baseball, com-
munity singing,
horseshoe pitch-
in', "stunts" by
the club boys
and girls, "eats,"
hog calling and
chicken call i n g
contests just for
\ fun, and, best of
1 all, a real farm
; message from
Secretary of Ag-
riculture Jardine
[r«. Spencer Ewi»B^th^e are some
of the reasons
hy every Illinois farm bureau
ember wbo possibly can should
an to take in the annual picnic.
The I. A. A. picnic is one of the
ggest events of the farm bureau
■ar. This is the day to run the
1 actor into the shed, turn old Pete
id Barney out to pasture for a
sliday, load the family into the
wer and spend a day Just play-
'g and getting acquainted with
>ur neighbor-farmers in other
>unties and refreshing yourself
ith new ideas from men of note
I the agricultural life of the state
:id nation, it you have attended
le picnic in previous years, you
now its value — and the coming
Icnlc is to be the best one yet. If
ju have never attended, you have
treat coming to you.

Women's Pro«rani Feature
A feature of the picnic which is
ew this year is the women's pro-
ram in the morning, which will
•e conducted by Mrs. Spencer Ew-
ig, president of the Illinois Home
bureau Federation. Boys and girl.°
f the 4-H clubs of Champaign and
lacon counties will entertain the
udience with folk dances, songs
nd stunts. Mrs. J. L. Mitchell, in
harge of the Red Cross tornado
elief work will speak on "Tornado
elief in Southern Illinois." Mrs.
;wing will tell about "The Home
iureau and its work."

In addition to the principal ad-
Iress of the day which is to be
:iven by Secretary Jardine, Dean
rlumford of the University of Illi-
lois will speak.

The baseball and horseshoe
hampionships will start in the
Qorning and will be finished by the
ime the speaking program begins,
'resident S. H. Thompson of the
. A. A. will present the champion-
hip cups to the winning teams in
fi» two sporting events.

"The hog calling contest for men
.nd chicken calling contest for
vomen is another new feature of
he picnic. Each county is urged
0 enter contestants in each event.

Urges Farmers Who
Still Have Wool to
Pool to Ship Soon

"Fanners who wish to pool
wool this year in the I. A. A.
wool |>ool can still get in by
comninnicating with tlietr fann
adviser," states Wm. K. Hedg-
cock, director of live stock
marketing.

"We are urging farmers who
wish to pool wool to ship as
early as convenient in order
that it may be graded and put
in sha|>e to show buyers. "The
wool market is showing an im-
provement. Indications are that
manufacturers are going to be
on tlie market early this year."

5AIRYMEN RUN OWN
UTAGONS IN SPRINGFIELD

The new producers' dairy, organ-
led recently by the Sangamon
llounty Farm Bureau at Spring-
leld. began the first part ot July
^;o deliver milk to patrons. Nine
■etail wagons are being operated
3y the farmers' organization, in ad-
iition to wholesale business to res-
'.aurants, hospitals and grocery
itores.

C. H. Buecker, who has been
nanager of tli<? West Side dairy,
which was purchased by the Pro-
Juccrs' Dairy company, is continu-
ing as manager. On about Oct. 1
the company will be housed in a
new building. On this same corner
a building suittble for the offices
and warehouse for the Sangamon
County Farm Bjreau Is to be con-
structed. •

Here's Gist of What
Executive Committee

Did in July Meeting

Here is a "read-as-you-run" re-
port on the executive committee
meeting of July 3:

1. Treasurer's report read and
approved.

2. Heard report from George
R. Wicker, director of co-operative
accounting, on status of income ex-
emptions for farmers' co-operative
companies. Status is unsatisfac-
tory. Congressional action will be
necessary to clarify and define
what a co-operative is in the eyes
of the law.

.Approve Text ot Amendment

3. J. L. Whisnand, chairman
ot committee on taxation and edu-
cation, recommended continuing
relations with other groups to push
revenue amendment. Adopted.
Text of final resolution officially
endorsed.

4. E. A. Meyers, Chicago, in-
surance counsellor, reported on
progress ot Farmers' Mutual Re-
insurance Company. Three kinds
of policies or contracts are to be
issued by the state company. They
are: (1) direct policies to individ-
ual risks; (2) blanket reinsurance
contracts, and (31 specific reinsur-
ance contracts. Outlook for new
body reported as very favorable.
Expect opposition from old-line in-
terests, some already apparent.
I^et it come. State company as-
sists local company only where
asked to. Not competitive in any
sense. Designed to take care ot
all insurance needs of farmer.

5. Report by R. K. Loomis,
chairman of advisory committee to
transportation department, stated
this department is taking over all
claim and transportation work for
Chicago Producers, at their re-
quest. To get 1250 a month for
service. Requires extra help.

.Annnal .fleeting at University

6. Decided annual meeting will
be at University of Illinois again
this year in compliance with invi-
tation of Dean Mumford.

7. Report on exhibit depicting
agriculture in Illinois to be shown
at Central States Fair and Exposi-
tion at Aurora, Illinois State Fair
It Springfield and Illinois Products
Exposition at Chicago. Received
ind placed on file.

8. Approved report ot legisla-
tive committee on work at Spring-
field.

9. Set date of next meeting as
Friday, August 7.

Legislative Committee
Overlooked a Point in
Its Report Last Issue

In the report made by the legis-
lative committee in the last Rec-
OKD, the activity of the I. A. A. in
securing an appropriation for in-
specting fruit and vegetables was
overlooked.

"The regular list of appropria-
tions did not contain one for in-
specting fruit and vegetables,"
Chairman Barton adds. "Through
the efforts of the I. A. A. this ap-
propriation, which was for $42,000,
was re-instated."

COMMENDS WORK ON TICE BILL

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY

■->.■; •."■^- ?•<■-.;■- ■ i, I LOCAL OFFICE

•...* vlLfcifciss— '-kat-,. 900 Kxchauge An., V. 8. *ard,

Chicago, ni., June 27, 1928.
Mr. S. H. Thompson, President,
niinois .'Vgricnitural Association,
608 S. Dearborn Street, Chicago, HI.

The legislature of Illinois has adjonmed and passed two bills —
House Bill 176 and Senate Bill 1257 — ^whlch are of vital impor-
tance to the agricultural interests and the |>eople as a whole.

I assure you that I a|)preciate the interest and support yoiu*
Association has extended Co-<ii>eratiVe Tuberculosis Eradication
in Illinois. Your .Association is cre<Ute<I with writing the (TIce)
House Bill 176 which I think is the best piece of legislation of
its kind, giving us ways and means to complete this great task
undertaken. The Co-operative Tuberculosis Eradication program
of Diinois is among the leaders in the United States, which fact
is possible only by the loyal supi>ort given it by your .As.sociation
and Farm Bureau organization in Illinois due to your direct con-
tact with the leading agricultural interests.

I wish to thank you for the supiiort given us to make such a
i-eality and especially do we a|ipreriate the services rendered by
your legislative committee in their untiring efforts to secure the
imssage of these bills.

Hoping tliat we may go on and complete this great work, and
with kind personal regards, I retnain

Very truly yours,
. • . I (Signed) J. J. lintner,

'-■:.' -^ Inspector in Charge,

Tuberculosis Eradication.

JARDINE SITS IN WITH
MIDWEST GROUP IN ITS
MIDSUMMER DISCUSSION

Resolution Passed Ur^ng A. F.
B. F. to Fight Protoosed In-
CTMse in Rail RatAs; Sea«-
tary Foot on P f o g r a i

ROADSIDE MARKETING
IS ONE OF PROBLEMS
L A. A. IS STUDYING

Discuss It at District Conference
at Wyoming; Secretary Fox
Urges Farmers to Back Rev-
enue Amendment to Get
More Equitable Taxation

A. R. Wrlsht

Illinois might well be that mys-
terious land of which the nursery-
rhyme says,
"Nobody but
the farmer
knows, where
oats, i p e a 8,
beans and bar-
ley grows," ac-
cording to A. B.
Leeper, direc-
tor of fruit and
vegetable mar-
keting for the
I. A. A., in ad-
dressing the last
meeting of the
farm bureaus of
the 16th dis-
trict at Wyoming.

"The many different kinds of
crops produced in Illinois calls for
much versatility on the part of I. A.
A. officials if they are to serve
every branch of the agricultural in-
dustry in the state," declared Mr.
Leeper.

Committee Is Working

"A committee of the I. A. .\. is
now investigating the possibilities
of roadside marketing in Illinois
and considering some plan of
standardization and inspection
w^hereby those who so desire, and
will meet the requirements, may
obtain standard signs with which
to announce to the public that
theirs is a market approved by the
I. A.' A., the Farm Bureau, or such
other agency as may have super-
vision, the idea being to assist pro-
ducers and protect customers," Mr.
Leeper further announced.

The necessity for more business
in agriculture today was empha-
sized by Secretary Geo. A. Fox.
"The I. A. A. is endeavoring to as-
sist its membership in every way
possible," he said. He touched on
legislative questions, especially the
Lantz revenue amendment, provid-
ing tor more equitable taxation
methods, which is now referred to
the vote of the people of Illinois,
and to the subjDct of a ^a=;oline tax,
which will be pushed vigorously in
the next Genera! Assembly.

A. R. Wright of Varna is execu-
tive committeeman ot this district.*

Chicago Producers to

Refund 25 Per Cent of
Commissions This Year

Patrons of the Chicago Produc-
ers will be receiving a refund chock
amounting to 25 per cent of the
commission charges in the near fu-
ture, it has been decided by the
board of directors.

"As you are all aware," an offi-
cial statement of the Chicago co-
operative live stock marketing ag-
ency reads, "receipts of live stock
this past year have shown a con-
siderable decrease and prospects
are for light supplies for the im-
mediate future. 'The board of di-
rectors, taking these facts into con-
'iideration. voted to return a refund
->t 25 per cent to member shippers
m this year's business and to set
iside another fund in the reserve,
feeling that this is a sound busi-
ness policy.

"The amount of the refund will
not be definitely determined until
after the auditors finish checking
over our books, but it will be ap-
proximately 180,000. The refund
will be handled in the same man-
ner as last year, this office sending
back total refund checks to the
shipping associations and Individual
checks to straight-load feeders.

"If you have not already made
application for membership, do so
at onc«, for we are not allowed to
refund to non-members "

The third year of the Chicago
Producers was closed on June 19.
During the year the co-op handled
a total of 16.734 cars, of which^
95.063 were cattle, 26,074 calves,
S67.29g hogs and 164,152 sheep.

On the opening date in 1922, 15
employes gathered at the desk of
Steve Doty, the manager, preparing
to take care of the six loads which
were received on the memorable
first day. By the end of the week,
the receipts had grown to 97 cars
and the association was in that
short space of time upon a paying
basis. Three years later to the
day, the receipts were 44 cars, or
10 per cent of the entire receipts
at Chicago for the day. Fot^the
week which ended that day, the
Producers' receipts were 244 cars,
exactly 72 more than their nearest
competitor.

More details as to the number
sold for Illinois farmers during the
fiscal year will be given in an early
issue of the Re<'Ord.

The lovra Farm Bareaa Me«aeaa*r*

official oreran ot the Iowa Farm Bu-
reau Federation, recently blossomed
out in eisht paees and with adver-
tising. It presented feature stories
on questions of interest to farm bu-
reau members and considerable news
of Iowa farm bureau events.

A three hour confeicnce with
Secretary of Agriculture Wm. M.
Jardine, brought
to a close a two-
day conference of
Midwest state]
Farm Bureau
presidents and
secretaries o n
Saturday after- |
noon, July 11.

In addition to
expressing the
agricultural
thought of the
Midwest to the
Secretary, the
Midwest leaders
on Saturday 8e«Te«a«r Jar^lae
adopted a resolution uri ently re-
questing the American 1 'arm Bu
reau Federation to use en ery effort
to prevent the proposed f -eight in-
crease in western states.

Present at the regular midsum-
mer meeting of the Midw >st group
were: Chas. E. Hearst, pn sident of
the Iowa Farm Bureau Feleration;
Ray L. Gribben. secretar r of the
Iowa Farm Boreau Feder ition; M.
L. Noon, president of the Michigan
State Farm Bureau; L. B Palmer.
prc3;d< at of the Ohio F arm Bu
reau Federation: W.H. Se tie. pres-
ident of the Indiana Faro Bureau
Federation; S. H. Thompsi n. presi-
dent of the Illinois Agricu tural As-
sociation: Geo. A. Fox. get -etary of
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion; J. F. Reed, presidei t of the
Minnesota Farm Bureau Federa
tion : C. B. Steward, sect etary of
the Nebraska Farm Bureau Federa-
tion, together with the ] resident
and officers and departme it heads
of the American Farm Bur sau Fed-
eration.

Commends Farm Bun an

Meeting with the Seer tary of
Agriculture on Saturday. i he Mid-
west group frankly outli led the
many problems affecting Uidwest
agriculture. The Secretar; of Ag-
riculture expressed the ke< nest ap-
preciation of the Farm Bui eau and
the service It is rendering to agri-
culture. He emphasized the neces-
sity of orderly production [as well
as orderly marketing and insisted
that the farmers themaelv !s must
take the lead ii solving th< Ir prob-
lem. He said, "The Depart ment of
Agriculture and Departnent of
Commerce cannot take tl e lead.
The farmers themselves m st take
the lead and then the gov Tnment
departments will give all of the aid
within their power."

Speaking from his own observa-
tion at the end of an eight weeks'
trip across the continent, I he Sec-
retary said:

"The agricultural situatio i in dif-
ferent parts of the countn varies
materially. The relative i urchas-
ing power of the farm pro< ucts In
terms of non-agricultural [ roducts
stood in March at 91 per :ent of
the pre-war average, which is the
highest point since 1920."

"The conference resultet in a
much better understandin ; with
the Secretary," said Pi esident
'Thompson. "We feel that » e must
pull together if anything worth
while is accomplished."
Transportation Keaolntion fa— ed

The transportation rei }lution
which was adopted after pi >senta-
tion of the transportation si nation
by J. F. Reed, chairman at the
transportation 8Ub-committe< of the
A. F. B. F. executive board, was as
follows:

"In view of the action ta ten by
the railroads in the weste n dis-
trict in asking for an incn ase in
freight rates on all commodi ies In-
(Contlnued on pase 4. cot.|2 >

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The IllinoU A p^cultural AModation Record

Jdy 18, 1925

m ^ILLilNOIS

Ae«JCttt.Tl]'«AL ASSOCIA1

"=%^"^^R B C O R IT

Published every other Saturday by the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation, COS S«uth Dearborn Street. Chicago, Illinois. Edited
by Department of Information, Harry C. Butcher, Director.

1

Entered as secotad class matter Oct. 10, 1921, at ths post office
at Chicago. Illii^is. under the act of March S, 1S79. Acceptance
for mailing at special rates of postage provided for in Section
1103. Act of October 3. 1917. authorized Oct. 11, 1921.

The individual membership f«« of the Illinois Agricultural As-
soclation is five dollars a year. The fee IncluOM payment of
fifty cents for Subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation Recokd. ^

Postmaster: In returning an uncalled-for or misaent copy,
please Indicate key number on address as la required by law.

~T~ OFFICERS

■ '. President, S. H. Thompson, Qnlncy.

Vlce>Fresldent, H. E. Uoembel, Hoonmle.
Treaearer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomlngton
Secretary, Geo. A. Pox, Sycamore.

EXECUTIVE CO.MMITTEa}
By Congressional Districts

William Webb, Route One, Jollet

, G. F. Tullock, Rockford

, C. E. Bamborough, Polo

, W. H. Moody, Port Byron

, B. H. Taylor, Rapatee

A. R. Wright, Varna

, F. D. Barton, Cornell

R, F. Karr, Iroquola

J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

Earl C. Smith, Detroit

Samuel Sorrel Is, Raymond

Stanly Castle, Alton

W. L. Cope, Salem

Curt Anderson, Xenia

> R. K. Loomis, Makanda

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1st to 11th...

12th

13th

14th

15th

16m

17ti

18th..

19th

20th

21st

22nd

23 rd

24th

25th

Directors of Departments, L A. A. Office

Co-operative Aocounting Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing ^ A. D. Lynch

Finance , R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General Office. i ;. J. H. Kelker

Grain Marketing '. Chester C. Davis

Information. ..4 Harry C. Butcher

Legal Counsel, Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Maitketing Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organization G. E. Metxger

Phosphate-Limestone J. R. Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taxation and SUtistics J. C. Watson

Transportation L. J. Quasey

THE Record's PLATFORM
Advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau mu organized,
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic,
social and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the
nation, and to develop agriculture.

Tha Grain Marketing Company

MEMBERS of the Farm Bureau no doubt have been
jftt^ informed as to the announced dissolution of
the Grain Marketing Company by July 28. The public
press has thnfiwn the news to the four winds, and un-
fortunately fir true co-operative marketing, the whole
attempt and flailure has been hooked up as "a failure of
a farmers' cot-operative."

Farmer* wHo have followed the developments will re-
member that jwhen the world was first informed of the
organization of the Grain Jlarketing Company, the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association adopted an attitude of
open-mindednpss and so informed the members and the
public throng li the Record and statements in press.

In order to advise the members, an investigation was
started which resulted in a vigorous disapproval by the
I. A. A. Chief among the factors contributing to the
disapproval vas the fact that, althougk officials of the
Grain Marketing Company had promised the I. A. A.
access to independent auditors' reports on the amount
and kind of lousiness done by each of the four merged
companies foi^ each of the past five years, no such rec-
ords were forthcoming, and were never made available.
A careful survey of the vendor companies' books would
have given thi I. A. A. the facts which any banker would

Thfte Headlines from I. A. A. Record Tell History (Read from 1 to IS)

iMOcd Everr OUmt S«tivtl*7, July 19, 1924

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I. A. A. Awaits Detailed Proposal on GrainMerger

STAND URGED tHAT
^ FARM ORGANIZATIONS
Qj RETAIN OPEN MINDS

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FWc Elevator Compaaioat

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TAKE GRAIN JOBS;
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pTMident Tkotnpaoa Agwast

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DvoHOD of I. A. A.

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MERCERJS APPROyEn,
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INVESTIGATION ENDS
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(O) BIG GRAIN MERGER

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demand before giving advice to his clients or lending his
financial support to any proposition.

This led to a formal resolution of warning passed by
the I. A. A. executive committee on Jan. 9, 1925. It
stated in part "that we disapprove the grain market-
ing plan of the Grain Marketing Company and advise
the members of this association against purchasing stock
of the company either as an investment or for the pur-
pose of supporting the company's program of marketing
grain." The whole history, as far as the I. A. A. is con-
cerned, can be reviewed quickly by following in 1, 2, 3
ordier the above reproduction of headlines of stories
which have appeared about the merger in the Record.

Depends on How You Read It

U

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'HIS is the first time in the history of the state farm
bureau that the record has been made available to
farm bureau members," stated a news story released by the
I. A. A. information department not long ago.
• Maybe it was like the Dutchman — should be taken for
what it means and not so much for what it may be inter-
preted as saying. It was written to mean that this was the
first time in the history of the state farm bureau that the
organization itself had made the legislators' record avail-
able to farm bureau members. And this is true.

Prairie Farmer published the records of the 1919, 1921
and 192 3 legislatures and in doing so performed a real, con-
structive service to Illinois farmers. But this is the first
time the record has been published by the farmers them-
selves, thus applying it to their own legislative program.

JOHN THINKER AND EPIDERMIS FLINT.

(John's a Loyal Farm Bureau Manber. Epidermis U "Agin** It!)

Ep Changes His Mind

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July 18, 192S

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OFFICE
MACHINERY
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FILES

Maybe This Ramble Will Help You
; , . , Picture Your State Office Better

By Harry C. Butcher^ Editor

WHEN you think of the "I. A. A.," how do you picture it in your
mind?
The average farm bureau member's conception of the I. A. A. can-
not help but be hazy because so tew of the 63,000 members ever get
into the office at Chicago to see what is actually going on. Farmers
are always welcome. It is surprising to know the number that visit
the office in a year, but this number after ail is very small when com-
pared with the total membership.

It was to acquaint members with the actual situation that I started
out one morning not long ago to conduct and introduce an imaginary
farm bureau member to each one in the ofBce, regardless of whether
he or she is a director, secretary, mailing clerk, telephone girl or file
clerk, or what he or she was doing at the particular moment my mythical
visitor and I happened to call.

Follow on the Plat
As a guide to my round of visits I have a plat of the floor plan of
the office showing how the office proper is divided into the several com-
partments. If you glance at the plat reproduced herewith, note the
outer row of offices be^nning with the cashier's office and running
around the edge in the direction of the transportation department,
thence, to the secretary's office and back toward the executive committee
room. Offices on the outside are
separated from each other by plas-
ter walls about three feet high,
then with painted glass to a height
of about five feet and from there
to the ceiling is plain window glass
paneled in soft wood stained in a
dark mahogany color. The central
partition marked "Files," "Mail"
and "Insurance" is set off by a
waist-high railing, so for the most
part the office proper is quite open
and not as congested as the plat
. appears.

You (speaking to the reader as
if you were the invisible guest) —
you come along with me and we
will make a round of the various
departments and see what is going
on. This is a Monday morning
about 9 o'clock so we'll find out if
they're on the job.

We Enter

Let's go in the vestibule just
like a stranger, past the rack that
holds all kinds of farm papers, past
the "mourner's bench" and up to
the desk where the telephone girl is
seated who serves as sentry halting
all whom she does not know.

"Good morning. Miss Jennings,
I'm conducting an imaginary farm
bureau member around the office
- "ihowlng him what every individual
vvho is employed in this office by
the farmers is actually doing this
early Monday morning. What are
you doing?"

"Well, I am stamping these
Records that go to Chicago ad-
dresses. You know, we have tt
place a one cent stamp on eacl:
Recobd that goes in Chicago — ."
At the TeIei)hone Desk

She was interrupted by a buzz
at the switchboard, indicating thai
some person in the office wanted tc
get connected with the outside
world. Before she had taken the
number wanted and put in her call
there came another buzz and an-
other light from the outside which
apparently completed a connection
she had been trying to make. She
answered it.

"International Harvester Com-

'.pany? Is this the secretary to Mr.

I.egge — to Mr. Alexander Legge, the

president? Just a minute, please,

Mr. Davis is calling."

But here we left her and turned
the corner into the office labeled
"Cashier, Assistant Treasurer and
Membership Auditor." At the first
desk inside the door and just be-
yond the railing that keeps strang-
ers outside, sat Helen Kummerow.
who, when she started with the I.
A. A. in 1920, signed her name a.?
Helen Jensen. She's a Chicago
girl. I found her busy at her desk
working on her books where she
had just sat down, having just com-
pleted distributing the first mail ot
the morning, a regular duty of Mrs.
Doris King, who holds forth at the
mail desk situated in the central
part of the larger office and who
happened to be taking her vacation.
We Visit Mr. Evans

Crashing the gate, so to speak,
I guided my imaginary visitor over
to the desk in the corner where L.
A. Evans, membership auditor,
watches your membership dues
through the County Farm Bureaus
and very kindly sees that they do
not lapse, a service for which you
have no doubt thanked ( ? ) him
many times.

"I'm just finishing checking
membership records of Tazewell
county and I have entered it in the
books. I find that Tazewell county
has collected and remitted 87 per
cent of dues payable in June, which
is a good percentage."

The desk of Miss Lily Sederholm,
the assistant treasurer, who for a
year has been Mrs. Peterson, but

George R. Wicker, manager ot
the I. A. C. A. and by virtue ot
that office also director of the audit-
ing department of the I. A. A.,
which are really one and the same,
said he was preparing a paper on
hedging and its relation to stored
grain. At the moment he was going
over an audit of the Buckley Farm-
ers' Grain Company in order to
check up on any possible inaccuracy
and to give the audit his final o. k.
before sending it on to the elevator.
Other audits awaiting his o. k. in-
cluded one for the Carthage Live
Stock Shipping Association in Han-
cock county and the Springfield
Dairy Producers' Association. His
secretary's desk was vacant and the
typewriter covered. He said she.
Miss Hilma Johnson, was on her
vacation. She has also been with
the I. A. .\. since the organization
ot the I. A. C. A. a year ago, and
lives at Batavia.

"You see only a very small por-
tion ot the department," Mr. Wick-
er said. "The assistant mantger.

"What will you do in a case of
that kind?"

"First, as in any case, we will
investigate to determine the facts.
We want farmers to have the serv-
ice."

Finds Something InterestinfC

Swiftly running his pen down the
list he came to one wbich he
checked and paused.

"Aha! I see the Illinois Bell
Telephone Company asked for an
increase in phone rates. This is
something we will be interested in."
"How do you tell when a pro-
posed increase is justified?"

"Well, each case must be proven.
We stand, like a stubborn mule un-
til we have to come across and
where the facts are not proven by
the petitioning companies we are
usually successful."

Clara Jacox, the secretary in this
department had not yet returned
from a trip to Michigan tor the
4th of July. She has been with the
I. A. A. since 1920.

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him id come there July 11
kno# h* can't do that because
has another engagement, and
one from Saline county wher<
Whitchurch, farm adviser, sa
Mr. Gates, vice-president <
Farm Bureau, sa.vs a meeti
July 16 at Harrisburg woi
o. k."

"And are all those other tetters
on your desk concerning dat^s

"Yes."

"Well. It looks like Mr. Mfctiger
will be a busy man if he takef
of all ot them."

Bent Was • Busy Man

In the phosphate-limestoije de-
partment, J. R. Bent was busy at his
desk but stopped to meet our imag-
inary farm bureau member.

"I'm planning to meet Dr
ot the University at St
morrow," he said. "Then
going into Missouri to inspecl
lead mines to see it we
their available by-product, w
dolomitic limestone, to help
a pouible shortage ot limestone
southern Illinois. I also
letter from the Missouri Farjn
reau Federation wanting to
how the I. A. A. has handled
pooling of phosphate^ orders
say they are planning to u
the same serv'ice. Today I a
ting out a circular to our
Bureaus telling the policies
limestone companies that co
with us and what prices th<
panics are getting. In addi
am also getting out a circifar
the Farm Bureaus which
affected by certain changes i;
stone freight rates along
bash. I can give you a half
more things it you want th< m

"No, that's enough. W i just
wanted a peep into your aff irg to
see what you are doing at th s par-
ticular moment."

Miss Elizabeth Watts, the secre-
tary, better known as Bett ', and
who has been an employee >t the
I. A. A. since 1923, was cutting a
stencil for one ot the ctrcula -s and
attending to department coriE^spon
dence.

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Lot is to-
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still uses her maiden name officially
to avoid confusion, we found vacant
and Mr. Evans said that she, too,
was enjoying her annual vacation.
Miss Sederholm has been with the
I. A. A. since 1920. She serves as
notary public in addition to her
duties of helping keep a careful
check on where the money comes
and goes.

In the next office, which is
marked "Treasurer" in the plat,
sat R. A. Cowles, the treasurer,
who is better known as "Bob." At
that minute he was checking the
budget preparatory to showing the
directors, who were scheduled to
hold a regular monthly office con-
ference that afternoon, it they had
exceeded their budgets. On Mr.
Cowles' desk I saw envelopes on
business pertaining to the Illinois
Farm Relief Committee, of which
he is chairman and is devoting con-
siderable time. "I am going down
in southern Illinois again this
week," he said.

Next door in the office labeled
"General Office," Edythe Lindquist,
who has been with the I. A. A. since
May, 1924 and whose home is Cor-
nell in Livingston county, sat mer-
rily pecking her typewriter.

Copying Iteinsurance Contract

"I'm copying an application tor
a specific reinsurance contract,"
she said, reading from the copy.
"This is for the new reinsurance
company, you know."

"Where is Mr. Kelker?" I asked.

"He's gone out on an insurance
matter and is also taking $100 to
the post office to deposit tor postage
on the Recoed." Mr. Kelker's
duties are to manage the general
office, hire help and supervise em-
ployment. On his desk 1 saw sev-
eral bills tor the various depart-
ments which must come to him for

0. k. as to details before they go
to Secretary Fox to receive his o. k.
In addition the finance committee
gets the bills later so they are
scrutinized several times very care-
fully. The salesmen who sell Mr.
Kelker office supplies have named
the seat where they wait in vesti-
bule "mourners' bench."

Miss Vega Mekota sat before a
areat wide typewriter in the I. A.
C. A. office, copying a report one
of the auditors had completed on
the Buckley Farmers' Grain Com-
pany of Iroquois county. Miss
Mekota started with the I. A. A.
when the I. A. C. A. was organized,
and is a native lowan, hailing from
Cedar Rapids. She worked tor the

1. A. A. once before, trom 1920 to
1922.

F. E. Ringham, is down at Flora
today where he is doing some work
tor the Egyptian Fruit Growers E.x-
change."

Most of Deiiartinent in Field

Mr. Ringham came to Illinois
from Minnesota with Mr. Wicker.
He was on the faculty ot the Uni-
versity of Minnesota where he
taught accounting, and also had
considerable experience in auditing
co-operatives in Minnesota in the
state department of auditing, which
was under the direction of Mr.
Wicker.

"Our examiners," Mr. Wicker
continued, "are in several places
over the state. They do not get in
the office very often since it is
cheaper to have them travel from
points where they work rather than
back and forth trom Chicago. C.
H. Chilson, one of our examiners,
is another Minnesotan. Today he
is auditing the Milledgeville Farm-
ers' Grain Company in Carroll
county. A. J. Preszler, another ot
our examiners, is in Kankakee
county auditing the Farmers' Grain
Company at Grant Park. Joseph
W. King has two jobs' today— both
auditing. One is the Dietrich Ship-
ping Association in Effingham
county and the other is the Effing-
ham -Equity Co-operative Exchange,
a store."
In the Trans|K>rtation Department

Miss Anna Townsley, clerk in the
transportation department, who has
been an I. A. A. employee for four
years, was busy checking up on an
Illinois Central claim for the Farm-
ers' Shipping Association of E. Du-
buque, Illinois. Two calves had
been lost in transit and the rail-
road had sent a check tor $28,
which was the amount asked for by
L. J. Quasey, the director of trans-
portation, who sat studiously before
a mimeographed packet of sheets
in the corner room.

"What are you doing, Lee?"

"I'm checking a docket ot the
Illinois Commerce Commission."

"That's a regular chore tor you,
isn't it?"
Quasey Checking I. C. C. Docket

"Yes, we keep a watch on the
cases that come up before the Illi-
nois Commerce Commission because
sometimes we find big companies
are asking an increase in rates that
would be unfair to farmers. We
wouldn't be much good to the farm-
ers if we didn't have our eyes open.
In this docket I see that the rail-
roads are suspending train service
in some instances because of bus
competition."

The next partition ot the trans-
portation office is the one where
G. W. Baxter, assistant director, is
usually found, but Miss Townsley
said he had gone out to the Chicago
Producers to make some necessary
arrangements by which the trans-
portation department will take over
all the claim work of the Chicago
Producers. He was investigating
losses which had come to the trans-
portation department from several
states.

Mr. Watson Dictating

My visitor and I paused at the
door ot the taxation and statistics
department because John C. Wat-
son was deeply engaged in dictat-
ing a letter to Miss Josephine To-
bin. (She said: "Print it as 'Jo.' ")
He wound up the letter with a
"Yours very truly" and in response
to my inquiry said he had just fin-
ished a letter to F. E. Longmire,
farm adviser ot the Grundy County
Farm Bureau, about the analysis
Mr. Watson had made of the rela-
tive valuations ot property in Grun-
dy county. It we had stayed longer
we would probably have found a
great deal more which farmers
would have been interested in, tor
who isn't interested in getting taxes
reduced? And that is Mr. Watson's
largest job. Under present condi-
tions he finds that in most cases
farm taxes would be reduced if
there were more equality in the
whole system, so his job is a big
one indeed.

Miss Tobin has been an I. A. A.
employee since April, 1924.
In the Organization Department

Miss Edith Colvin, secretary in
the organization department, was
trying to make E. E. Walworth,
farm adviser of Macon county, St
Decatur, understand what she was
saying over long distance telephone,
and from appearances I judge Mr.
Walworth was trying to do the
same.

"I've got to call Quincy to see if
Mr. Thompson can possibly take a
date in Macon county on July 11,
but I know that's the day Secretary
Jardine is to be in Chicago and Mr.
Thompson has an appointment with
him so I'm afraid it will be im-
possible. It he can't go I will have
to get someone, else. That's one ot
the biggest jobs we have — getting
speakers at meetings. There's al-
ways one or two farmers meetings
in session every day over the state
and to provide speakers sometimes
gets to be a real problem.

"Yes, Mr. Metzger is out on the
road where he spends most of his
time. Here's a letter from Sidney
S. Carney, farm adviser ot the Rock

answei ii

Live Stock Marketing

Miss Willa Nelson
the live stock marketing
ment, was making Fome ch
names of officers on a list
SOO Illinois live stock assoi
when I steered my mythical
into his compartment. Mil
son has been with the I. A. .
since April. Previous to thi
she was employed at the
ton office of the A. F. B.
before that she was in
work in Iowa State College
office ot the well known
Evvard. hog specialist.

The desk ot Wm. E.
called "Bill" for short, was
and upon inquiring I found
had gone to the Chicago
the National Wool Exchange
ing after shipments of woo
Illinois farmers in the Illinol
pool. From the looks of the
ing mail which was stacked
on his desk, I judge that liv
marketing business is much

Miss Schecter Here IXMis

Now to the compartment
to the secretary and
Stopping at the desk ot Mist
Schecter, who series as
the inner portal, she
inquiry saying that she was
up the minutes of the last
live committee meeting.
I have several requests
have just come for slum
That's the nicest work I do.
a lot ot pleasure out ot
ing secretary, because it
an inspiration to help these
children get into the country
here is a stack ot letters
Fox hasn't seen because be
busy on those which came
first mail. Mr. Fox writes a
letters in answer to
to the association, and I
eral on my book already
only 10 o'clock."

Miss Schecter has been
I. A. A. longer than any
other secretaries. She
January, 1920.

It is not difficult to get In
Mr. Fox, that Is, if you hav '.
ness on your mind. He sat
behind his desk, reading
evidently weighing the coi
letter which he held in his
In front ot him on the deal
two piles ot letters, eviden
vided into one class that he
yet considered and anothei '
that he had read

.Mr. Fox Says "Welconi4'

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The Illinob AgritaJtuwJ A«»ocuition Record

July 18,

EVERY FRIDAY NOON
AN I.A.A. MARKETING
DIRECTOR ON WLS

Each Talk to Deal With Market-
ing Problems Met by the S Di-
rectors ;Gougler Started Series

Dirwtoi^ No

"That is, • Mr.

Illinois (arm bureaa members
who have radios and who are with-
in the radius reached effectively by
WLS will be interested in an ar-
rangement whereby one or the five
marketing girectors of thei I. A. A.
will give a 10-minute talk on the
commodity in which he is inter-
ested everjf Friday about 12:30,
standard tine.

First on this schedule was Frank
A. Gougler.i director of poultry and
egg marketing on July 10. Mr.
Gougler spdke first of the purpus*^
of the talks, saying that folks wh j
are acquainlted with the market (i-.
work of thd I. A. A. have told him
that the Ive marketing depart-
ments flu a place not occupied by
any other Agency.

Not Statisticians

Gougler said, "we
are not agricultural statisticians,
although w* deal in some statistics,
dry as they are, neither are we
called salesiien nor buyers of farm-
ers' products. We are in service
to help farmers sell their own prod-
uct to the best possible advantage.
It is of thid phase that we will be
speaking. " ^

Mr. Gougler stated that poultry
production is increasing more rap-
idly than population, in fact 200
. per cent since 1880. During this
period, hogs, cattle and sheep have
increased t^t slightly the nation
over. The Reason for the Increased
poultry population is because con-
sumers ar0 eating more poultry
and poultry: products in proportion
to beef, pork and mutton. This is
caused, he says, because a dollar
will purchase more food when in-
vested in pqultry and eggs than for
the meats. | Farmers themselves
are heavy consumers of poultry
products, a recent survey showing
28.8 dozen *ggs eaten each year by
each farm person.

Herd's tlie Schedule
The following speakers are
scheduled t(> appear on this series
in the near future: July 17, A. B.
i-eeper, director of fruit and vege-
table marketing; July 24, Wm. E.
Hedgcock, director of live stock
marketing: July 31, Chester C. Da-
vis, director of grain marketing;
and August! 7, A. D. Lynch, direc-
tor of dairy I marketing. The spcak-
(.■rs will tUen continue with the
series in tha same rotation through-
out the remainder of 1925.

MIDWEST GROUP URGES
OPPOSING RATE RAISE

(Continued from pa^e 1.)
eluding farm products and because
of the economic condition confront-
ing agriculture in this territory we
believe it unjust and unnecessary
for agriculture to assume this added
burden to its industry.

"Therefore, be it resolved that
the presidents and secretaries of
the Midwest Group, In session this
11th day of July, 1925, most ur-
gently request that the American
Farm Bureau Federation put forth
every effort to combaf^ the action of
the railroads in their effort to in-
crease freight rates in the western
district on agricultural products
and that the individual states of the
American Farm Bureau Federation
be urgently requested to bring to
the attention of their members the
effect of the proposed increase in
agricultural products will have on
the industry of farming in the
states affected.

Urtte Wide Publicity

"In view of the fact that the
western railroads are primarily
granger lines and depend upon ag-
riculture for a large portion of their
earnings, any increase in freight
rates will affect agriculture more
than any other industry.

"We urgently request that this
matter be given the widest possible
publicity, that the attention of all
farm commodity organizations and
individual membership of the Farm
Bureau be thoroughly advised of
this threatened attack upon the
earning capacity of the farmer and
that through their organizations
and individuality they bring to the
attention of their respective state
Farm Bureaus the necessity of defi-
nite and persistent action to resist
this attack."

"Maintaining a strong farm bu-
reau membership and collection of
farm bureau dues" was the topic
o£ an interesting address by Geo.
A. Fox, secretary of the Illinois
Agricultural Association. C. E.
Hearst, president of the Iowa Fed-
eration, told briefly at the value of
the farm bureau day at the state
fair."

Clay County Offers

18-Piece Farm Bureau
Band for State Picnic

W. E. Hart, farm adviser of the
Clay County Farm Bureau has of-
fered the services of a farm bureau
band of 18 pieces for the state pic-
nic at Taylorville, August 2 7.

"One of our communities has de-
veloped a splendid farmers' band
of 18 pieces," he says. "They are
100 per cent from farm bureau
families. The leader is a former
secretary of the Farm Bureau."

27 of 500 Thousand in Individual
Policies Raised; Need Volunteers

Will lUindis have a state-wide re-
insurance company? Indiana farm-
ers have been running one for eight
years, and Iowa farmers for 15.

The answer to the question rests
solely upon the success of the new
company in securing volunteer in-
dividual policies to the extent of at
least $500,0|00. The only law un-
der wtiich alfire and lightning com-
pany can operate over the entire
state requires that $500,000 in in-
dividual policies must be held by
the company before it can receive
its charter. To overcome this sit-
uation, the officers of the newly or-
ganized Fartners' Mutual Reinsur-
ance Company are appealing direct
to farmers who will volunteer to
take out individual policies.
Tliese Have Volnnteered

So far. definite subscriptions, ap-
plications or inquiries amounting to
$27,000 of the $500,000 have been
received. These are as follows:
James Gibbons, $2,000; Oscar Ar-
nold, $4,000j; C. R. Finley, $1,000,
Hoopeston, Vermilion county; J. C.
Jones, Ridge Farm, Vermilion,
$4,000; Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore, De-
Kalb, $1,000; V. Vaniman, Urbana,
Champaign, $2,000; J. Z. Smith,
Itockford, Winnebago, $2,000; W.
A. Lackey, Pulaski, Pulaski, $1,-

000; E. E. Slusser, Martinsville,
Clark, $1,000 to $3,000; Walter J.
Essington, Kempton, Ford, $4,000;
Wm. L. Waters, Godfrey, Madison,
$1,000 and Norman G. Flagg, Moro,
Madison, $2,000.

Mr. Flagg. in his letter says:
"Until the July 4th issue of the
I. A. A. Record came to me, I bad
heard little of the progress of the
newly formed state mutual rein-
surance company, and I enclose
signed slip, as suggested, toward
boosting the matter . . . Send me
information, rules, application,
form of policy, etc., which may
have been adopted to govern our
state mutual, so that I may spread
the word around this county as to
what this company offers to do for
the larger risks. . . I think the
Farm Bureau here will be glad to
help in every way possible to make
the new company a success without
infringing at all upon business of
the local companies as conducted
at present. Command me for any
service you may require here-
abouts."

If you are Interested. Vernon
Vaniman. field representative, asks
that you will fill out the attached
coupon, mail it in. and complete in-
formation will be sent you.

I am interested in the Farmers' Mutual Reinsurance Com-
pany of Illinois and in order to help it get its charter, I could

use about $ of fire and lightning insurance

on my property. Send complete information.

Name ' - —

Address ._

..County

EXPLAINS HIS VOTE

FIFTY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

STATE OF ILLINOIS

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JOHN TROTTER

'; 20TH SENATORIAL. DISTRICT ^ '^^''. :^ ■ ' -'

COAL CITY. ILLINOIS '

July 9, 19iiS.

Editor,

niinois Agrlcnltural Association RBICORD,

608 Sonth De«irbom St.,

Chicago, m.

Dear Sir:

I see by your issue of July 4th, that you have not quoted me
as voting on the TIce bill No. 176. The reason I did not vote on
it, was that I was out of the liegislature for five weeks on account
of severe illness, I worked for the bill for all I was worth,
while there, but was not present at the roll call.
Yours respectfully,

(Signed) John Trotter.

MANY LETTERS FROM
FARM FOLKS OFFERING
OUTINGS TO KIDDIES

There's Pleasure in Taking Chil-
dren, But Tliere's Also Sad-
ness in the Parting, Says One
From Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan

"Outing Secretary —

I read an article from the I. A.
A. in the Freeport Journal-Stand-
ard soliciting for offering two weeks'
outing for the under-privileged
children of Chicago. I wUl gladly
take two or three and I would like
to have them age from five to' eight
years. I thinlj there is pleasure in
taking these children. But there
is also sadness with it. as I had two
for two weeks last year and when
it came time for them to go back
neither one wanted to go and I tell
you it made me sad to see them go.
"Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Sullivan.

Freeport. 111."
This is one of the many letters that
have been received by the Outing
Secretary from generous Illinois
farm folks who are anxious to share
their country privileges tor a little
while with one or more poor
youngsters from the slums of Chi-
cago.

The record-breaking heat of the
past few weeks has been felt most
keenly in the over-crowded tene
ment districts. Imagine, then, the
delight and relief that each letter
offering a vacation in the country
has brought to some heat-ridden
child whose only playground is the
scorching pavement and whose only
retreat from the glare of the sun is
a sweltering tenement room.
.Many Have Written In

The following people have "had
a heart" and offered to take one or
more children for a two weeks' va
cation:

John E. Frazier, Ursa (2): Miss
Louise Jackson, Bradford. (2); H. D.
Tucker, Marshall, (1); Mrs. Joe Pea-
sant, Sandtord. Ind., (2); Charle«^*w.
Carey, Vermont, (t); Mrs. D. H. Wil-
son, Cuba, (1); Mrs. Earl McShane.
Kinsman. (1); Mrs. B. Heap. Media.
(1): Mrs. Jno. Howes, Warsaw, (2);
R. W. Grivy, Lostant, (2): G. H. Ja-
cobs, St. FranclsvUle. (31; Mrs. O. E
Witt, Hetlick. (1): Miss Golda Byram,
Calhoun, (Will make up party); Mrs.
Rathburn. E. Moline, (I): Mrs. Arthur
Lincoln. Dakota, (1); Mrs. B. F. Sulli-
van, Freeport. (3); Mrs. Hans Hilt.
Arthur, (2); Mrs. Nora H. Clair, Clif-
ton, (1); Mr. Joe Schwarzwaltler, For-
est. (2); Mrs. Jesse Perdue. Browninn.
(2); Mrs. P. W. Moore. Bushnell. (2);
Mrs. Julia Walton. Carthage. (2).

Anyone living within a :jOu-inil'
radius of Chicago who is interestei'
in securing a "fresh air" child thi;
summer, may do so by writing tc
the Outing Secretary, care of th,
I. A. A., who works with the United
Charities of Chicago in furnishing
the children.

HOME BUREAU GETTING
UNDER WAY IN FULTON

An "Officers' Training School "
for the newly elected officers fea-
tured the meeting of the advisory
board of the newly organized Ful-
ton County Home Bureau July 2
at Canton. Every unit of the coun-
ty bureau was represented at the
meeting.

Mrs. Spencer Ewing, president of
the Illinois Home Bureau Federa-
tion, addressed the meeting, empha-
sizing the advantages of the Home
Bureau to the individual woman
and to the county. The members
decided on the course of study for
the year.

Mrs. Jeptha Randolph, county
president, presided. Bernice Kirk-
wood, a home economics graduate
of Iowa State College, has been se-
cured as home adviser for Fulton
county.

THIS WILL HELP YOU
PICTURE LAAOFHCE

(Co'ntlnued from page 3.)
members that this is their associa-
tion and that the officers are always
glad to have members drop in for
a visit when they come to Chicago.

The president's office where S. H.
Thompson headquarters while in
the city, was vacant. Mr. Thompson
being In Quincy. Daily letters keep
him in contact.

F. A. Gougler. alias "Frank."
director of poultry and egg market-
ing, was planning a group of dis-
trict conferences with farm advisers
on marketing poultry and eggs, the
purpose of which will be to mutual-
ly map out a program so all farm
advisers in each district will be
working toward a common goal.
Mr. Gougler is a part time man
with the I. A. A., staying half time
at the University where he is tak-
ing his doctor's degree in poultry
husbandry.

"Bert" lieeper on Deck

A. B. Leeper, director of fruit
and vegetable marketing, was also
at a desk in this compartment. He
came up from Centralia, where he
is manager of the Illinois Fruit
Growers Exchange, for the regular
monthly directors' conference. He
was getting some claims in shape
to show Donald Klrkpatrlck, legal
counsel, and the transportation de-
partment. There was no secretary
in this office since the secretarial
duties of this and the grain mar-
keting departments are combined.

A. D. Lynch sat at his desk in
the dairy marketing department
somewhat disguised behind smoked
glasses. He was dictating to Mrs.
Evaline Wiles, who has been with
the I. A. A. since June. 1923.

"What's the need for the smoked
glasses?" I asked. "Did a fire-
cracker hit you on the Fourth?"

"No, this is the result of riding
five consecutive nights on sleepers,
which gave me a summer cold. It
has settled in my eyes." He was
dictating a radio speech which was
to be given at noon over WLS.
Davis Pecks a TypewTiter

Approaching the grain marketing
department's area. I found Chester
C. Davis diligently pecking at a
typewriter. You'd be surprised at
how w^ell he runs one, for lie got his
training as a newspaper man and
as editor of the .Montana Farmer.
He hasn't forgotten the art. For
things which he wishes to express
carefully lie use.s the typewriter.
His typing at that moment con-
cerned some facts he was assem-
bling on the actual number of
bushels of soft wheat that are sold
from each of several southern Illi-
nois counties. Miss Germaine
Smith, secretary to the grain and
poultry and egg marketing depart-
ments, and also for Vernon Vani-
man, field representative of the new
leinsurance association, was tend-
ing to correspondence for Mr. Davis.
Miss Smith has been with the I. A.
A. since November, 1924.

— "Ko<le the 600" —

Clippings to the front of her,
clippings to the right of her, clip-
pings to the left of her, and straight
Into the throes of flling them, sat
Mrs. Mary Zirkle, secretary in the
information department. Mrs. Zir-
kle was managing editor of "Point
of View," a travel magazine pub-
lished in Kansas City before com-
ing to the I. A. A. in February,
1924. The clippings were those re-
turned by a clipping bureau from
papers all over Illinois and sur-
rounding states. Every time the
world says something about the
I. A. A., this bureau sends in the
clipping, which is duly recorded and
filed.

SEVERAL ILLINOIS
COUNTIES ARE CLOS
TO BEING ACCREDI

Jasper County, Iowa, Has Ri
its Hog Earnings About i
000 by Becoming Accrei

Hog raisers In several II
counties who ship to the Ch
market are upon the thresbo
receiving the coveted 10 cent
hundred premium for their poi
according to Dr. J. J. Llntne
spector in charge of tuberci
eradication for Illinois.

The premium t>ecomes ava:
whenever a county becomes (
nated as a "modified accre
area." which means a county
tically free from tuberculosis
designated as such by the fe
and state governments.

The first hogs from such an
to be sold on the Chicago m
caiee from Edgar county. Ill
ov* a year ago. The 10
premium amounted to $17 on
carload. It was owned by F
Trogden of Vermilion. This i
only county accredited In 111
so far, but others are close.
Iowa Ahead of Us

Lately Iowa counties have
come accredited. The latest to
the premium in Iowa was Ht
county. Four loads of hogs ea
the premium, which amounts
approximately $60. All other
marketed at Chicago from thie
other accredited counties wll
ceive the bonus, the packers t

According to Dr. Llntner's
ures, Jasper county, Iowa, hai
ceived $14,000 in 10-cent prcr
money up to three months ago
has not had a report since
but it is estimated in the I. J
office that farmers in this one
county have received approxir
ly $25,000 since the county
been accredited. Six Iowa cou
are accredited.

No one was at the assist
desk, since Gerald Jenny,
former assistant, returned a m
ago to the University of WIscc
to finish his master's degree
new assistant is coming the
of August. James B. White, a
verslty of Illinois graduate am
two years in charge of info
tlonal work for the Kentucky F
ers Union.

In the Stock Room

Walking through the well
nished executive committee
into the stock and mailing r
my visitor saw Frank Schrelber
Casmir Bohanek. mailing room
ists, assembling mimeographed
terial to go out to the county I
Bureaus. Both Frank and "Wh.
are basketball and baseball pla
It is understood they play a ¥
of a game in their church lei

The merry click, click, of
dressing machinery caught our
as we entered the room contai
the office machinery and Ri
files. Miss Nora Mueller has ch
of this branch and has been a 1
I. A. A. employee since earl
192 3. She is assisted by Li
Campbell, who has been dra
I. A. A. pay checks since Septen
1924. Two outside girls were
assisting in the mailing of
Record.

Paper Late This Time

"Usually," said Miss Mue
"We have the Record out by Si
day noon, but the 4th of July c\
this time so we are a little late

Ann Polster, multigrapb open
was absent since she, too, was
ing her vacation. She's a mer
of the 1920 class, too.

Back into the general office
found another mail had comt
which Helen Kummerow was 1
sorting into regular post office c
partments. She was taking
place of Doris King, the reg
mail and flling clerk who was
on her vacation. She has been '
the I. A. A. since 1923. No
was in the section devoted to
surance, for Vernon Vaniman.
field representative, was in
country on business, pertaining
the new reinsurance company.

Then I showed my visitor thro
the vestibule into the corri<
pushed the "down" button for
elevator so he could ride down
12 stories to the street level. .
bade him' goodby and come agi

■(

CoHtmct memberaUps of orsami
tlomm In the I. A. C A., the co-ope
tive audUing: and business advls
service, now stands at a new h

1*rr\ mark — 170. Thirteen orffanl
'*' tions have contracts in ht
which are expected to be signed so
aceordlns: to Geo. R. Wicker, direct

fU,

'111 'VNvaan

'SlONmi dO. AJ,IS^3/.INa

It-

BICUliTIJRAL

>?;:»!■■

li Ij I N OI S

ASSOCIA

Volumes

Utued Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinking Farmer*. August 1, 1925.

No. 15

I« J. (liui«*7

1 OVER 100 PER CENT
[ MORE CLAIM MONEY
I GARNERED THIS YEAR

Getting Money For Bad Claims
b Conspicuoui, But Biggest
Service b Watching Rates

GOT any bad claims you'd like
to get settled? If you
haven't, you're lucky, tor lots
of people haye them. Many of
them who have
had claims set-
tled through the
Illinois Agricul-
t u r a I Associa-
tion's transporta-
tion department
say they're not
so bad after all
when there's
somebody on the
job who knows
how to get the
money.
Proof that the I. A. A. has been
"bringing home the bacon" In its
claim collection service as rendered
by the transportation department
is shown In figures presented here-
with Indicating claims collected
during the six months from Dec. 1,
1924, to July 1. 1925. During this
period, a total of $10,765.14 was col-
lected. This is over 100 per cent
more than was collected during the
same period a year ago, and last
year's claim collections were the
greatest up to that time.

More People Getting Service

"This increase does not indicate
more errors or more losses on the
part of the railroads or shippers,"
says L. J. Quasey, director of the
department. "The reason for the
increase is that our members are
taking more advantage of this par-
ticular service of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association. Farm bureau
members are becoming more ac-
customed to the transportation
service we can render and we feel
that this service is materially in-
creased from year to year."

"Lee" didn't mention that this is
one of the lesser services of his de-
partment. Being on the Job to pro-
test against increases in freight
rates and to be inquisitive about
new schedules of rates when they
are issued is one of the most impor-
tant services rendered by the whole
association, but it's rather intangi-
ble and not as easy to see as the
collection of claims.

Look over this list and see bow
your county Is faring:

IKk DlatTiet

Cook

Namber of
Collected

CUlKS

Co

A

Total

Ilected

mowit

19.80
«1.76

Kane

1

Ljkk*

McHMirT ...

g

925 38

Win

5

110 43

15

Utk Dtotrlct

417.37

326.49
477.20
41.61
204.44
620.51
240.57

DeKalb

2S

3

KendaTl . ...

LaSalle

Winnebago .

i

22

9

V 70
i 1

IStk DIatrlct

Carroll

Jo Daviess .

1

,910.82
44.00

S

Stephenson .
Whiteside

1

5

104.94
197.07

27
... 4

ll^ Dlatrtet

Hancock

509.35
66.64

Henderson

McDonough

Mercer

2

5

... «

110.95

102.22

69.44

Rock Island
Warren

1

100.00

15

IStk DIatrlct

Adams ....

439.25
219.75

Fulton

Henry

Knox

.'.'...■■ 2

«

. 14

88.03
179.79
457.08

Schuyler

4

62.43

S2
on page 3. c<

<Continued

»1.007.0?8
)1. 4.)

PACKllMIN

Thursday, Au^C^y

Wm.MJARDINE. Secretary
of Agriculture, SPEAKING

USUAL A\D UNUSUAL FEATURES'

I.A.A.PICNIC

NATION'S FARM BUREAUS MOBIUZING FOR
HGHT AGAINST 11 PER CENT FREIGHT RATI
INCREASE REQUESTED BY WESTERN RAILROADS

If Increase is Effected, It Will Cost Farmers of Illinois From
Three to Three-and-a-Quarter Million Dollars More in Freight
Each Year, I. A. A. Transportation Department Fftimfittf

THE fighting force of the natiou's farm bureaus will Xnt ;hrown
into the battle of the organized fanners against the i restem
railroiads' petition for an 11 per cent increase in freight rates.

This became known when the American Farm Bureau Fed iration
announced national opposition following the conference of > idwest
state farm bureau presidents and secretaries in Chicago the middle
of July. At this meeting a resolution was passed urging n itional
action and basing the opposition to the increase upon the \ remise
that farmers are not financially able to stand an advance. .♦

The proposed increase, if effected, would cost Illinois farme «, tid-
ing the state as a whole, from three to three-and-one-quarter nillion
dollars a year, according to an estimate made by L. J. Quasey direc-
tor of the I. A. A. transportation department.
22 Sutes Affected
Twenty-one other states affected are : Wisconsin, Minnesota Iowa,
Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota. Missouri, Kansas. Okl khoma,

Colorado, Wyoming. Idaho,| Utah.

ILLINOIS

L .\SSOClATIOP^
FAUMKB-S

I. A. A. REPORT SHOWS
STATE'S DAIRY INCOME
$165 A MINUTE IN 1924

POSTAL ECONOMY IS
DEMANDED BY A.F.B.F.
TO KEEP RATES DOWN

Total Dairy Income Was $84,- I Farm Bureau's Washington Rep-
000,000; Co-operatives Han- 1 resentative Says Postal Service
died 21.4 Per Cent, Increasing Needs Application of Admin-
Return $6 to $15 Per Cow istration's Economy, Program

"The dairymen of Illinois took in
$165 each minute during 1924," flnds
A. D. Lynch, dairy marketing direc-
tor, in a report of dairy statistics
recently completed in his depart-
ment.

"Thi farm value of Illinois dairy
products last year was tS4,000,000,"
he reports. "Farmer-owned dairy
associations marketed 21.4 per cent
of this amount in the form of fluid
milk, butter fat and cheese. So the
cooperative dairy business in Illi-
nois had an $18,000,000 turnover.

"The dairy farmers marketed co-
operatively 26.5 per cent of the fluid
milk and cream; 13 per cent of the
butter fat; and 75 per cent of the
cheese made in Illinois.

"There are over 150 farmer-con-
trolled dairy marketing associations
in Illinois. Some of those do not
market in a commercial fashion, but
serve as collective bargaining insti-
tutions and deal with existing pri-
vate owned companies. The dairy-
men are not anxious to Invest money
in plants and facilities if present
business concerns are able to render
the service. Among the bargaining
associations are 6 which sell butter
fat and 15 which merchandise fluid
milk. The state has 9 co-operative
creameries, 4 retail milk plants, 1
co-operative centrallzer and over 100
local cheese factories.

"The Farm Bureaus with the help
of the I. A. A. assist dairjmien !•

<«

Spokesmen for the farmers of
America demanded on July £2, in
statements to a Congressional in-
vestigating committee, that the pos-
tal service be put on a solid financial
basis by economy rather than by
the imposition of additional burdens
upon the farmer, such as the rate
Increases voted at the last session
and others under consideratioa.

E. B. Reid, acting Washington
representative of the American Farm
Bureau Federation, declared it ridic-
ulous to "fight and snarl over a
penny or half penny increate in
rates" when application of the Pres-
ident's economy program would re-
lieve the situation. He advocated
pruning of personnel and operating
expenses in all post offices, charging
to the respective government de-
partment the 17,000,000 it costs every
year to handle franked mail, reor-
ganization of the rural delivery
service, and reduction of mall de-
liveries in the residential sections
of cities.

studying their marketing problems
and to find the right solution. New
dairy associations are being formed
constantly and sales thru co-operative
organizations should increase in 1925
approximately 10% over 1924. Farm-
ers have found their co-operative
marketing efforts worih while be-
cause the return per cow Is increased
trom $6 to $15 per year."

"First Come, First
Served," is Sales

Order on Tractors

FOR sale:— The Illinois Farm
Relief Committee offers for
cash, subject to prior sale, the
following power farm equip-
ment:

2 I0.2* MrCOHMICK-DEfi:RI>'<i

TRACTORH
a— ENGINE GANG PVOKK
2 — TRACTOR DISK

HARROW!! SI.flM

<Or omr of Bbeve Trnptam wKh
plow and 4Uk at SHOO. I
2 — F^HDSOX TRACTORX
2 — ENGINE GANG

PLOWS »S«N»

(Or onr of above Pordaoa trar-
tora witk plow at *«M.>

The first lot of equipment may
be seen at Benton, and the sec-
ond lot of equipment may be
seen at Carmi, Illinois, by ap-
plying to the respective Farm
Bureaus.

This equipment was used in
the tornado area, purchased
new, and for all practical pur-
poses is as good as new.

Orders accompanied by bank
draft or certified check to cover
full purchase price will be en-
tered in their order as received
by us. The purchaser will be
given the privilege of immedi-
ate examination of this equip-
ment and its acceptance or re-
fusal will be entirely at the op-
tion of the purchaser. — Address:
— R. A. Cowles. Chairman of the
Committee, c/o Illinois Agricul-
tural Association. 608 South
Dearborn St., Chicago, 111.

Says Charter Members
of New Reinsurance Co.
Will Be Proud Some Day

"Everj- friend of mutual insur-
ance should inform himself as to
the merits of the Farmers' Mutual
Reinsurance Company and should
assist in getting the charter for the
new company," states Vernon Vani-
man, field representative for the
newly organized company.

"Every mutual Insurance com-
pany in the state, I believe, will be
proud to have had a part in secur-
ing the charter for the reinsurance
company. It is necessary to get
$500,000 of direct policies to get
the charter. With 240 companies
in the state, and each company as-
sisting to the extent of $5,000, we
would soon reach our goal and get
our charter."

"The reinsurance company will
operate on a mutual basis. We do
not have a mutual assessment law
in this state under which we could
organize, so we had to organize un-
der the uniform mutual law. This
company will operate the same,
however, Us the local assessment
company only the premium will l>e
paid in advance."

Oregon, Washington. Californ a. New
Mexico. Arizona. Texas. A. kansas
and Montana. Approximate y 600.-
000 farm families in the stafies are
members of the Farm Bure

An estimate by O. W. Salidberg.
transponation director of th< Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federatio i. esti-
mates that "this proposed i icrease
would add some $180,000,000 to the
annual freight bill paid in these
states. Of this amount, betv een S5
ind 90 million would l>e paid ( irectly
by farmers in shipping theii prod-
ucts to market. And another large
portion of it would be paid bt farm-
ers in the price they pay for tarions
shipped in' commodities."
Means $l« A Car

Some magnitude of the freii :ht bill
paid by tbe farmers in thsse 22
states was made evident I y Mr.
Sandberg. when he said : " [hiring
the first three months of th s year
there were shipped in this terri-
tory 1,700,041 carloads of igricul-
tural prodace.

"If the proposed increase ha il been
in effect western and midi estem
farmers would have paid an c verage
of about $16 more freight o i each
of the 1,007,041 cars "

Some of the Items making ip this
total for tbe first three moi ths as
given by Mr. Sandberg were; wheat.
85,780 cars; corn. 76.786 cars;
hogs, 143,929 cars; potatoe i. 34,-
059 cars; cattle and calves. 1 i4.527
cars; oats, 38.372 cars, and so on.
First Hearing September 1

Hearings will t>egin in Chicigo on
September 1 before the Int srstate
Commerce Commission, but 1 1 that
time only the carriers' side ' rill be
presented. It Is thought that a con-
tinuance will be set to give oppos-
ing shippers, as typified by tl e Illi-
nois Agricultural Association, an ok>-
portunity to file a rebuttal.

Mobilization of the entire st ength
and resources of the Farm 1 lureau
in 22 states is under way 1 y the
American Farm Bureau Fede -atlon.
Plans for action in states wh( re the
Farm Bureaus ,do not have >erma-
nent transportation departmen a, call
for state committees to een tralize
the fight, and these are to co-op-
erate with a regional commii tee.

These committees which ai t now
being formed are starting a once
building an organized opposil Ion to
the rate increase proposal. A meet-
ing of farm bureau represen atives
from Arizona. California, Co orado,
Idaho, Montana. Nevada, Nei Mex-
ico. Oregon. Washington, Wj oming
and Utah has been called In Colo-
rado to begin July 27.
"Sun" Promtfiew K^ll ro-ap< ration

"I want to say that we are h »rtlly
in accord with tbe position taj en by
the American Farm Bureau I edera-
tion in opposing the 11 pe ' cent
freight rate increase," states Presi-
dent Sam H. Thompson, "a k1 we
will co-operate In every way pisslble
so that the facts regarding the abil-
(Conttnued on pare 4, col. I.)

f»ge 2

The niiaob Agricultural AMociation Record

Awgurt 1, 1925

_ ItLtlNOIS

CVLiTUBAL ASSOCIA

RECORD'

PATIENTLY PICKING PA'S PANTS

PnbllalKd MrarT other Saturday br th« nilnola Acrtonltural Aa-
soclatlon, <DI South Dearborn Street, Chlcaco, ininola. Bdlted
by Departtcent of Information, Harry C. Butcher, Director.

Entered aa aecond class matter Oct. 10. 1921, at the post office
at Chlcagro. Illinois, under the act of March i. 1879. Acceptance
for mallins at special rates of postage provided for In Section
1103. Act of October 3, 1917, authorized Oct. II, 1921.

The IndlTldual membership fee of the Illlnola Acrlcultural As-
sociation la fire dollars a year. The fee includes payment of
flfty cents for subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Aaao-
clatlon RacesD. *_

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please Indicate key number on address as Is required by law.

I OmCEES

president, S. H. Thompson, Qalncy.
I' Vice-President, H. E. Goembel, Hooppole.
<< Treasnrer, R. A. Cowlea, Bloomington
Secretary, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore.

EXECUTTVE OOMMITTEE
By Congressional Districts

William Webb, Route One, Jollet

Q. F. Tullock, Rockford

C. E. Bamborough, Polo

W. H. Moody, Port Byron

B. H. Taylor, Rapatee

A. R. Wright, Varna

.(. F. D. Barton, Cornell

R. F. Karr, Iroquois

J. L. Whianand, Charleston

Earl C. Smith, Detroit

Samuel Serralts, Raymond

Stanly Castle, Alton

. < W. I~ Cope, Salem

Curt Anderson, Xenia

R, K. Loomis, Makanda

1st to 11th

12th

13th

14th... J..,
15th.......

18th.. -v:»,

17th ,

18th ,

19th

20th

21st

22nd

23 rd

24th

2Sth

Directors of Departments, I. A. A. Oflica

Co-operative Accounting Qeo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing j A D. Lynch

Finance ..v...R. A. Cowries

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General Office J. H. Kelker

Grain Marketing 1 Chester C. Davis

Information Harry C Buteher

Legal Counsel Donald Klrfcpatrlek

Live Stock Marketing •., Wm. E. Hedgoock

Organization a E. Metzger

_Piiosphate-Ltmestone J. R. Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Oougler

Taxation and Statistics J. 0. Wataon

Transportation L. J. Quasey

THE RicoM)'i PLATFORM
Advnncm tha purpose for which the Farm Bureau Wat organized,
ttamely, te promote, protect and represent the business, economic,
social and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the
nation, and ta develop agriculture.

R'

Support the Producer*

EAD i the reports of the three Illinois Producer
agencies in this issue. Here is a suceessful venture
in co-operative marketing that deserves your loyal sup-
port. In fact, it is no longer a venture, it's an estab-
lished institution that is doing busines.s of farmers, by
; farmers apd for farmers. Give the Producers your busi-
ness, andjif j'ou haven't business for them, give 'em a
;' go6d™word. The start made toward control is especially
4 encouraging. .

SuccetM to You!

THE dairymen in Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford
couiities who produce milk for the families in Pe-
oria have organized a producers marketing association.

Among I the laudable things they have set out to ac-
complish ire : Penalize the dairj-man who makes a sur
plus, prepiiumize the dairyman who produces uni-
formly, sqll their milk in two packages — fluid and sur-
plus— for! the best the market affords, join hands with
the deale^ in giving Peoria families good milk at a fair
price — and with a smile.

Expretion* are Invited

IN the next issue we will print letters from farm bu-
reau members pertaining to the proposed freight
rate increase. Members who wish to express themselves
on this subject are invited to do so, and as many letters
will be permitted as space will permit. Some letters
have already been received on this subject. Some of
them need asbestos envelopes.

A Perplexing Problent

HOW to measure correctly the quality of the voice
of a hog or chicken caller was a perplexing prob-
lem confronting the committee for the state picnic of
the Illinois Agricultural Association which is to be held
this year at Taylorville, Christian county, on August 26.

County champion hog and chicken calling artists, both
men and women, have been invited from each of the 92
county Farm Bureaus, and now develops the question as
to the right kind of measuring stick for the contest.

Selection of the state champion may depend largely
upon the judge, and the best judge of hog or chicken
calling ought to be the real animals, the committee
thinks, but herein lies many practical difficulties.

With real hogs assembled in an open 80-acre field to
determine the loudest, the most melodious, the most per-
suasive hog-caller in Illinois, and with the aspiring con-
testants arrayed at the other side, the difficulty antici-
pated is that after a few calls have been answered by the
pigs in 40-rod sprints and with any fair degree of ra-
pidity, they will soon register a nonchalant attitude to-
ward the teasing, musical and alluring rural vocalists,
then the remaining callers will call in vain. For this
reason, the committee has decided that animal judges
will not suffice. The same is true of chickens.

The committee has tentatively decided that it is best
to send five impartial human criterions of the art be-
yond a neighboring hill where they can judge "sight
unseen."

More increcue* in Membership

A REPORT from the McLean County Farm Bureau >
■**■ says that 1,238 members have been signed in their j
renewal campaign which is about over. This is 200 I
more members in the same territory than belonged to the '
Farm Bureau before. There are still three townships '
not touched, four others not one-half done and some |
"clean-up" work in three or four other places. j

Other counties are doing well with renewal campaigns, j
too, but because of threshing little activity is reported, 'i
Moultrie, however, reports 432 members as against 398 '
old memberships. Warten county is also over the top.

Most of the soliciting work in McLean county, as in
practically all of the 40-odd counties renewing this year,
is done by the members themselves. This makes a re-
newal campaign cost less and leaves more funds for
carrying on the fight at the battle-front. Besides it
gives many members an opportunity to express, both
in actions and words, their loyalty to the agricultural
industry, their constructive thinking along organization
lines, and their steadfast belief in the Farm Bureau as
an organization for meeting, attempting to solve, and
solving, with favorable outcome, many of the perplexing
problems confronting farmers as a group.

If this continues, we'll have to change the figures in
our slogan. ] . «• , . •: > .. .-.,

Illinois Leads in Limestone Use

MORE limestone for sour soils will be used this year
by Illinois farmers than has ever been used be-
fore, according to a report of the phosphate-limestone .'
department. I

During 1924, lUinois farmers used approximately )

500,000 tons, which was the most used by afly state in i

the Union. This year will likely eclipse last "year's rec- 1

ord, judging from the amount of soil sweetener used |

during the first six months. The 500,000 tons used by j

Illinois farmers last year was one-fourth of all the lime- I

stone used in the United States during the same period. I

This indicates that Illinois farmers are rapidly making r

use of scientific practices. Illinois' 63,000 thinking |

farmers have been largely responsible for this leader- j

ship. I

Exclusion of Middlemen 1

MR. HACHIYA OBAMA, secretary of the Ministry [
of Agriculture and Forestry, and councillor of i
the Japanese Central Co-operative Union, is a polite
Japanese gentleman who visited the I. A. A. office re- '
cently in quest of information concerning the farmers' I
co-operative movement in Illinois and the United States.

He told of the co-operative movement in Japan. The
Central Co-operative Union, of which he is councillor,
is a distributing co-operative on the order of the English .
and Scottish Wholesales. Three million enterprising
Japanese get their food and clothing supplies through '
the Union's 14,000 local associations, he said. It does .
an annual business of one billion yen. A yen is approxi-
mately 50 cents.

Mr. Obama 's knowledge of co-operatives is much more '
extensive than is his command of the English language. ;

"We wish to ex-ex-ex-ex — what you say t— ex-cremate '
the middlemen as far as possible," he faltered. j

He left, and is on his way to Europe for more informa- '
tion on exclusion of unnecessary middlemen.

JOHN THINKER AND EPIDERMIS FLINT.

(Jobn's a Loyal Farm Buraao Member. Epidsnnis Is "Acia" ItO

Freight Rates!

ves AMD twev o beem raised

LOMG> ASO IP THE FARM BUREAO

hadn't BEEW OfJ THE JOB THE.

FAOM BOOEAU GjCT OS THE OWOV
aeisJEQAU REOUCTIOM OJE eOEC UAC?
AtO' BEHeiVe ME THE I.A.A. IS
FI&HrnWG? TM(S \\ PBS CEMT IMCCEAIE'.
SAV. EP, UJHECE OO NOO THltOK. , /
TME F-ACMEOS UJOUUO 86 \P- (

rtMErV didn't UAUt am OCfeAWlliTlONj'

[urt 1, 1925

ip

J'arm Bureau -
gned in their
This is 200
donged to the
■ee townships
ne and some
aces.

al campaigns,
r is reported.
3 against 398
over the top.

county, as in
ing this year,
, makes a re-
re furids for
. Besides it
express, both
I agricultural
organization
■m Bureau as
to solve, and
he perplexing

the figures in

ised this year
)een u.s'ed be-
late-limestone

ppVoximately
any state in
ist "year's rec-
reetener used
tons used by
f all the lime-
same period,
pidly making
000 thinking
p this leader-

the Ministry
councillor of
1, is a polite
. A. office re-

the farmers'
Jnited States.

Japan. The
is councillor,
if the English

enterprising
plies through
>aid. It does
en is approxi-

is much more
tish language.

f — ex-cremate
tered.

nore informa-

1

k

I, 1925

ST. LOUIS PRODUCERS
HAVE DEMONSTRATED
CONTROL OF MARKET

t Rates!

RAISED
JOREAO

i — Twe
z eoec UAq

.A. IS

IT IMCBE/tfE*

THltOWIL ,

ee \P-

2£>AMltATI0NJ

><£ WE'OI
lUJW AT 1
MOUS&
OOT OUR

yx bills!

lOAP!

)t^

:»!.

Letter From Miaasari Pacific
Railroad Pay* , Tribute to
Prominence and Staodirig of
St Loidt Co-op.

"The control of volume in any
line of business spells ultimate con-
trol of that business and in spite of
the fact that many interested par-
ties would have us think differently,
this age-old axiom applies just as
surely to the live stock business as
It does to shoestrings or stovepipes,"
declares the Producers Live Stock
Commission Association of E. St.
Louis, through O. A. White, assistant
manager.

"This idea was the nucleus around
which the various Producers Com-
mission Associations were formed
and placed on the terminal markets,
and the St. Louis house, which was
the first to open, is now half way
through its fourth year of success-
ful operation. Our volume has
steadily increased and with it our
power has grown until we have
reached the stage where almost
everyone connected with the live
stock industry is anxious to be
friends with such a powerful organ-
ization.

Enemies Are Friends Now

"This isl evidenced in many ways,
one of the first of which was in-
creased yard facilities and scales.
These were not given us at first but
as we proved day after day that we
colli* -control a l^f^e volume of the
receipts we soon reached the stage
wtiere we could ■'demand them and
we now have aay^Ie room for hand-
ling all our stock.

"It is shown in another way in
the following letter, written in the
general office of the Missouri Pacific
Railroad Company at St. Louis, Mo.,
which we quote: f

" 'The Producers Commission As-
sociation obtains improved railroad
service. Because of the prominence
and standing of the producers' own
co-operative agency it was possible
for the president, C. B. Denman, in
conference with President L. W.
Baldwin of the Missouri Pacific rail-
road, to work out a plan Whereby
live stock consigned to the Producers
from west of the Mississi^i river
will move through the flt. Louis
terminal and reach the unloading
docks at the stock yards without de-
vlay.

" 'The Missouri Pacific has a man
constaqjtly on the Job whose duty
is to personally follow this stock
through the terminal and across the
river. The plan is now in success-
ful operation and the service is im-
proved and is a soured of satisfac-
tion to Missouri Pacific shippers.'
Tribute to Orguilzation

"This great railroad, one of the
greatest in live stock transportation
in the country, did not make these
concessions to Mr. C. B. Denman the
man, great leader and thinker that
he is, but to C. B. Denman, presi-
dent of the National Live Stock Pro-
ducers Association, the greatest
live stock sellng agency in the world
today.

" 'This delay in transportation has
been the cause of much litigation in
the past and almost every agency
connected with the live stock busi-
ness has tried at various times to
correct it, but without success until
the Producers took it upon them-
selves to remedy the evil.'

"Last but not the least, the effect
of volume is shown in a way that
perhaps lies tfloser to the producer's'
heart than any other. We mean In
the market price paid for his live
stock when it reaches the terminal
market. It was at first thought that
we would have to control at least
fifty per cent to be able to talk
prices with the packers, but events
have proven that it does not take
quite as large a percentage, and that
given approximately thirty per cent
of the receipts, we are able to domi-
nate the market iti so far as possible
under the law of supply and demand.
Forced Market Higher

"This was shown in a small way
on the sheep market in St. Louis
during the week of June 15th, when
the Producers, through ^heir volume
of business, were able to force the
market Into line and cause an ad-
vance in prices of from 75 cents to
$1 per cwt. on the price of lambs.

"Our market had been out of line
for some time and best lambs at St.
Louis were selling almost %l per
cwt. lower than Chicago, but begin-
ning with the week mentioned the

Producers volume increased so that
on the days our run was the heavi-
est, we controlled from 20 to 26 per
cent of the receipts, and on Tuesday
of that week we refused to sell our
lambs at the prevailing prices, which
was from $14.50 to $14.75. By hold-
ing on, $15 was obtained for prac-
tically all the lambs in the Pro-
ducers' alley. On Wednesday of
that week we again had a big per-
centage and again refused to take
steady prices. Others sold from
$14.75 to $15 with very few going
at the latter price, while the Produc-
ers holdings went from $15 to $15.25,
the latter price being paid for four
cars, which was 25 cents per cwt.
higher than any other sales that day.
The market closed up on Wednesday
nearer in line than it had been any
time this summer, and this condition
was obtained simply and solely be-
cause we held and bandied the vol-
ume of the receipts and were in a
position to have something to say
about the prices of our stock. Since
the week mentioned conditions have
been very much the same and
through our volume we have been
able to hold our market well in line
with other points.

lUnstrates Possibilities
"This simply shows in a small way
what can be done with the control
and the same thing will apply to
cattle or hogs. As soon as the pro-
' ducers in the country get this idea
firmly in their minds and market
their stock through their own ag-

The MiiioU AgriciAural AModation Record

I
ctatia

L

OFHCERS OF CHICAGO PRODUCERS

Left to liskti FraMk Coyne, Iowa; W. B. Elliott. Illlaolat R. F. O-DoiibHI.
lowai A. Srkn. lowai g. W. Dotr, aiaBawr; C. A. EwIkk, IlllBOlai H. H.
.J>arkr, IlllnoU, Kad W. H. Wbchow, MlaaoMta.

ency at the terminal markets, they
will be able to take no small part in
fixing the price of their live stock."

r

Illinois Farmers' Loyalty Helps
Chicago Producers Make Success

^

CLOSELY interwoven in the
tale of the successes of the
Chicago Producers is the prom-
inent and loyal part played by the
Illinois shippers and Illinois ship-
ping associations.

For the past three years over 51
per cent of the total shipments re-
ceived by the Producers have been
consigned to them from the state
of Illinois. Furthermore, 30 per cent
of the total co-operative shipments
to the Chicago market from the ship-
ping associations in Illinois have
gone to the Producers, which is an
outstanding fact in itself when it is
considered there are over 126 mar-
keting agencies upon this market.
The Chicago Producers, as was
brought out In the last issue of the
Record, have Just completed their
third successful year, handling 6.9
per cent of the total receipts on the
Chicago market — some 1,152,587
head of live stock. The total valne
of this stock was $31,41g,65(.2g. Dur-
ing the third fiscal year a total of
16.336 cars of stock and the equiva-
lent of 150 rail cars of truck stock
were sold by this association. While
this total was not as great as that
o\ the preceding year, yet it must be
remembered there has been a sub-
stantial decrease in yard receipts,
hogs alone decreasing 14 per cent.

Oomparisons Show Gains
When compared with the total
yard receipts and receipts during the
past year, each of the departments
has shown a healthy increase, the
cattle department having increased
4 per cent, the calf department 14
per cent, sheep department 25 per
cent, and during the past year, 9.3
per cent of the total hog receipts at
the yards were handled by the Pro-
ducers, against 8.9 per cent during
the preceding year. The cause of
such growth may be readily under-
stood when a survey is made of. the
accomplishments and improvements
to the Producers' service which have
taken place during the past year.
Total Refund Over Qnarter Million
The accumulation of $82,540.36, a
25 per cent refund of paid-in com-
missions, has brought the total re-
fund up to $255,086.20. While this
refund is not as great as that of
last year, yet the board of directors
thought it wise to decrease the per
cent, knowing that the receipts of
live stock would be lighter during
the coming months due to decreased
production, and accordingly the
sound policy would be to build up
and maintain a substantial reserve.
Claim Department Added
With a view of still further im-
proving the service, a claim depart-
ment has been added to the organ-
ization. This department, which
functions as a part of the transpor-
tation department o( the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association, is without
cost to the shippers of the Produc-
ers. The services of this depart-
ment, which has heretofore been

rendered by the I. A. A. department,
will be along the lines of collecting
freight loss and damage claims,
overcharge claims, collecting and
verifying freight rates, and assisting
in the bettering of car supply and
train service.

Feeding Operations Financed

In conjunction with the Ihroducer
agencies on the St. Louis and Kan-
sas City markets, the Chicago Pro-
ducers have assisted in the forma-
tion of an organization known as the
Producers Live Stock Credit Cor-
poratioar which is prepared to make
loans on feeding operations for cat-
tle, sheep, and hogs, at the nominal
rate of 6 per cent. This is a serv-
ice given at cost, the actual credit
being obtained from the Federal In-
termediate Bank of St. Louis.
Selling Service Improved

In the hog department, the addi-
tion of a special outhog salesman
has made it possible for our shippers
to get the full market value from
this class of stock. The out hogs
are now collected and as ,^ar as
possible, sold In large units by tkis
special salesman. The prices which
he receives shows clearly tie ad-
vantages of this method.

In the calf department the mark-
ing of each calf on the basis of its
true market value has eliminated an
old complaint and has resulted In
the increase of 14 per cent in this
department.

Henry County Le«ds in Support

A total of 531 carloads of stock
received from Henry county ship-
pers places this county well in the
lead for the second successive year.
Of this number, 62 carloads were
received from straight car shippers,
and 469 frsm shipping associations.

Knox county was fn second place
with a total of 432 cars. lOS of which
were from straight load shippers.

DeKalb county has the honor of
leading in the straight load ship-
pers, 220 being received from points
in this county.

Bockford lieads Shipping Aaaocia-
tion Class

The Farmers' Shipping Associa-
tion at Rockford lead in the shipping
association class, 182 carloads being
received from this association. _The
record for this association for co-
operative marketing has been an en-
viable one. For the past two and
one-half years every head of stock
has been consigned to the Producers
to Chicago.

Second place went to Warren
County Shipping Association which
shipped a total of 168 cars, while the
Farmers' Elevator at Kewanee came
in third with 101 cars. Figures on
the largest straight load shippers
are not available as yet, but will be
out in the next few weeks.

The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion has always been firmly behind
this Producer movement. The
growth has been constant and many'
of their aims have already been at-
tained. However, the bigger things

for which they were established are
still In the distance and will be un-
til the live stock producers support
this agency with all their stock, tor
volume is the big essential neces-
sary for the successful attainment
of their aims.

CLAIM COLLECTIONS
DOUBLED THIS YEAR

(Continued from paere 1. <?ol. 1.)
16tk IHstrlct ^X

Bureau I -V % 47.40

Marshall-Putliani .. 20 419.73

Peoria — —

Stark — —

TaieweU

1 t 2<
ITtk DUtHct I

Ford 13

LtvinKston ........ 11

I..ogan J. . . . 5

McLean . . . .1. . J. . . , 17

Woodford . .1. . J. . . . 2

48

.il4.13

4«S.!)2
764 8li
i:o.6«
3S7.3S
20.79

I

IStk Obtriet

Clark

Cumberland

Edgar i

Iroquoia . . .
Kankakee .
Vermilion .

l»tk DIatrivt

. Champaign

Coles

DeWitt

Douglas . . ,

Macon

Moultrie . . .

Piatt

Shel^T

21
4

5

4.=1!;.«4

>«.15

190.(18

aotk Diatrlct

Brown . . . .
Calhoun . . .

Cass

Green

Jersey

Mason . .^. . .
Menard . . . .
Morgan

Pike

Scott i

t 119.71

558.02

217. SO

106.05

.T4,r.8

198.63

$1,284.61

139.30
22.80

Zlaf Dbkrlpt

Christian 3

Macoupin 1

Montgomery 2

Sangamon 1

2Sa« DiatHct

Bond

Madison . . .
Monroe . . . .
St. Clair ...

S3. 98

5.00

36.53

50.00

XtHl Dtatrlet

Clinton . . . .
Crawford . .
Effingham .
Jefferson . .
Ijiwrence
Marion . 1 . .
Richland . .
Wabash . . .

} 145.51

600.00

24th Dtatrtet

Clay^

Edwards . .

Gallatin ...

' Johnson . . .

Massac . , . .

Pope

Saline

Wayne

WhiuT

ZSth Dlatrl«<

Franklin
Jackson . .
Pulaski ...
Randolph .

Union

Willll

15.90
6571

Miscellaneous 2

810.253.36
511.78

PEORIA PRODUCI
HAVE RAISED PI
AVERAGE IS

This Producers' Agency F
turned a 30 Per Cent
This Year, and is
Good Vohime

Re-
1 tefund
< letting

verai t

thr<e

Peer a

Associa tioD

the
Peoila

th 8

le> els.

tl0.7«t.l4

<f

the

Illinois farmers who s< 1
stock on the Peoria marke :
a market that on the av
to 20 cents higher than th
ago. according to the
ducers Commission
a statement issued by W
brough. manager.

"This is a general av
paring the market with
now and what it was thre ;
ago," states Mr. Hembrougl
reason for the increase Is
by live stock producers to
that on many days the
ducers handle as much as
cent of all stock sold on
ket, thus giving the orgai
some control over price

A total refund of $15
representing 30 per cent
mission charges, has been
be returned to participators
co-operative. This is for
fiscal year, which ended
1925.
Most Business From 7

The seven "charter
counties Of the Peoria
have been the heaviest
of shipments, an analysis
I. A. C. A. audit shows,
funds being returned in th
ties are as follows: Peor^
758..07: Tazewell, $2,052.8
ton, $1,965.14; Stark. $1
Knox, $1,472.10; Mason,^ '
and Woodford, $621.61
$12,149.07, leaving $3.45
turned in refunds to shi
side these seven counties
erable Iowa business comes
M. & St. L. This is a hea*T
ing market.

The five leading shipping
ciations are: Toulon
$246.54; Gilson (Knox), $
Hermon <Knox), $193.34;
Hill (Henry). $159.93;
quon, (Knox), 4144.58.
five in rank are: Mason
Shipping association, Wtareii
tv Shipping association. C
(Henry), Galva (Henry) an
(DeWitt).

"Prospects Bright"

"The prospect for the
Producers looks good for
ture, although we look for 1
ceipts during the balance
summer, and as soon as
run starts we look for a
cent than In the past," Mi
brough concludes

vera( e com-

f hicago

years

The

attributed

07.17,

com-

vfcted to

in the

third

31,

aeti

$)2
ThiB

ipp< rs

and
Tie

^aii

1 live
enjoy
is is
years
Pro-
in
Hem-

fact
Pro-

60 per
mar-

ization

N ay

Ccnntiea

m ember"

Pr Mlucers

contflbutors

of the

The re-

coun-

, »3,-

Ful-

161.37;

7.92;

totals

10 re-

out-

^onsid-

via the

truck-

asso-
(IStark ) .
t25.57;
Bishop
Ma-
next
County
Coun-
bridge
Tabor

Peoria
:he fu-
ght re-
of the
fall

I he

lar ;er

per
Hem-

$40,000 IN PRIZES ^
AT BIG DAIRY $10W

Over $40,000 will be off
cash prizes for cattle at
tional Dairy Show which
held at Indianapolis, Octobef"
17 inclusive. The sum of
is offered in the five cattU
classifications and 13,250
various breed associations
cial prizee. A special $3
offered for prizes on boys' ai^A
club calves.

Various Illinois counties afe plan
ning to be represented.

»red in

Na-

rill be

10 to

34.675

breed

by the

spe-

000 is

girls-

OFFICE VISITORS

ti

Would you be iuteres
knowing some of the callers
I. A. A. oftce? Here are lh«
of some who called during
couple of weeks.

Chester G. Starr. General
Prairie State Farmers' I
Ass'n. Blooming'ton: R. W.
City Freight Aerent, New Y
tral Railroad Company.
Arthur J. Mertzke. Executive
tary. Institute for Research
Economics and Pdbllc Utillti
Ston: J. TT. Brinton. Or9a.n1
rector. Minnesota Wheat Ore
sociation. Minneapolis: J. W.
hill. Secretary. National
Grain Dealers Association
Miss Palnver. Secretary to
dill McCormick; Oeo. N. Peek
dent, American Council of
ture. Moliife: L. A. Finsen, _,
tendent. Concordia Creamer; ,
cordla; Mi*. Waternian of th
more National Bank. Sycania
R. H. Tanner. Kankakee. Ill
Robertson, engineer connect
development of potash d .
Idaho; Issa Tanimura., D. C. L..
Food Commissioner, Prefet
City of Tokyo, Japan; Taut
ma. Graduate Student at the
aity of Wisconsin ; Hachiya
Secretary of the Mlnistcy-of
For. and Councillor of the
Central Co-operatfve Union;
Rees. Manager. Farmers' G
Coal Co., Shirley. III., and M
Congressman Dickenson of
Charles R. Finley. formerlyp;
Vermilion , County Farm Bui

ed in
at the
names
e past

01 k
C hlc

ei.

lar

Mrn.

J.gr

& upor

M anager.

npurance

Bayles.

Cen-

cago;

Sccre-

n l.And

Evan-

Dn Di-

ers As-

Short-

rmTs

L>maha ;

Me-

I'resi-

ricul-

rin-

<'on-

Syca-

^. III.

; J. L

ill with

pcfMits in

Spectil

ttlr> and

onfu ObR -

niver-

Obania.

and

.^panese

"Ir. Roy

in and

. Rees:

Iowa.

I esident

.1 eau.

A rri.

Page 2

The Illinois Agricultural Association Record

August 1, 192S

-n IL.L.IIM01S ^

A6BICl'L,Tl'RAL ASSO«JATS©N

=R ECO M JD)— ^''-

PATIENTLY PICKING PA'S PANTS

rubllahed eVery other Saturday by the Illinois Aerlcultural As-
sociation. 608 South Dearborn Street. Chicago^-- Illinois. Edited
by Deparlraent of Information. Harry C. Hutcher. Director.

Entered as second clasB matter Oct. 10. 1921. at the post office
at Chicago, ailinois, under the act of March 3. 1879. Acceptance
for mailing; at special rates of postage provided for In Section
1103. Act o« October 3. 1917, authorized Oct. 31. 1921.

.The Individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural A«-

' soclatlon Isffive dollars a year. The fee Includes payment of

fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Asso-

ciation Ricqup. __^

Postmaster- In returning an uncalled-for or missent copy,
please indicate key number on address as is required by law.

I8t ttf'llth

12th

13fh

14th. .'

15th

16th

17th

18th

19th

20th

21st

22nd

23rd

24th-..'...
2Sth:

OFFICERS
"resident, S. H. Tlionipson, Qnlncy.
ice-President, H. E, (loembel, Hoop|Hile.
'reasurer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomlngton
ecrelarv, CJeo. .\. Fox, Sycamore.
.^a — —

E.VECXTIVE COM.MrrTEE
By Congression.-U Districts -

William Webb, Route One. Jollet

G. F, Tullock, Rockford

C. E. Bamborough, Polo

W. H. Moody, Poi^ Byron

i B. H. Taylor, Rapatee

A. R. Wright, Varna

* F. D. Barton, Cornell

R. F. Karr, Iroquois

J. L. Whisnand, Charlestoh

Earl C. Smith, Detroit

Samuel Sorreils, Raymond

, Stanly Castle, Alton

W. L. Cope, Salem

Curt Anderson, Xenia

R. K. Loomis, Makanda

RK.\I)
.('.''•in

III i<i.li|MT

l>lll't. Ill
lislii'd iii^
I'ariiii'i-s .-ii
llfNS, ;IM(1
•..'<Mi«l wort
i-ll(Milir;i^'i

Success to You!

Directors of DejKirtnients, I. A. A. Office

Co-operative Accounting Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynth

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General Office , J. H. Kelker

Grain Marketing ' Chester C. Davis

Information. .. .f Harry C. Butcher

Legal Counsel '. Donald Kirkpatrlck

Live Stock Marketing Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organization G. E. Metzger

Phosphate-Limestone J. R. Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing , F. A. Gougler

Taxation ahd Statistics J, C. Watson

Transportaitlon L. J. Quasey

I ., -.

THE Recohdi platform
Advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized,
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic,
social and edtjcational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the
nalion, and' to develop agriculture.

Support the Producers

lln- i'.|iiiil> 111' llif llircc Illinois I'riiituiiiT
ii's ill this issue. IIiTi' isi ii suci'c.ssful vintllji'
itivr niiirkctin}; that ilcsorvi's your loyal siiji-
t'ai't. it is iio longer a vtii)turi', it s an cstiHi-
itntioii that is doin^' hnsincss of farinoi's. In
111 fur faniirrs. (iivf tlif I'linliiccrs your bii-si
if you havi'ii'l hiisini'ss for tliciu, jjivi: Viu a
The start inaili- tciward i-ontrol is csptvia ly

TilK ilain iiii-n in I'c •iii;i. Tazcwi-11 and Woodforil
i-'iniilii's who prodiii'i- milk for thi' j'aiiiiliis in J'l
lO'ia liavi' irijani/.i'd a proiliiccTs iiiai'ki'tinjr sissociation.

.\iiion;; 111.; laiidalili' thinjirs llicy have sit out to iic-
coiiiplisli iirc; I'liializi' the daiiyiiuiii who iiiakrs a siir
|»lns. |>rf uiiliiii/.i' Ihi- daiiv man who prodncrs iitii
fi>nnly. s. II their milk. in. two paekajres-— fluid ami sur-
plus- for the hist the niarkef affords, join hands with
the <leali'r< in jrivin;; I'eorijj families ".'ood fnilk at a fair
priee — an^l with a smile

Exprestiont are Invited

IS the ne.Nt issue we will print letters from farm bu-
reau meiiiliers pi'rtainiiijf to the ))roposed freijrlit
rate inei'ease, Memhers who wish to express theiii.selve<
on this suli.jeet are invited to do so. and as iiian.v letters
will lie permitted as spaee will permit. Some letters
havi- alri'ady heen reeeived on this snh.ieet. Some of
thiMii n I asbestos eiivelopo.s.

A Perplexing Problem

HIlW 1o ineasuri' eorreetly the ipialit.x of the voiee
of a liosr or ehieken ealler was a perple.xins; prob-
lem eonfrontinii' the committee for the state |>ienie of
the IlliiiiiTs Afrrieiiltural Assoeiatioii which is to be held
ibis yiar at Taylorville. Christian eouiity, on Au^rust "Jti.

J County eham))ion lio^' and ehieken eallintr artists, both
jiiien and women, have been invited from eaeli of the 'J'-
eoiint.x Farm Knreaus, and now develops the ((ucstion as
to the ri^lit kind of measuring stick for the contest.

Seh'ction of the state phampion may depend largely
upon the .iiidge. and the best judire of hog or ehieken
lalling ought to be the real animals, the eommittee
thinks, but herein lies many praetical difficulties.

With real hogs assembled in an open SO-aere field to
determine thi' loudest, the most melodious, the mo.st per-
suasive hog-eaUer in Illinois, and with the aspiring con-
testants arra.ved at the other side, the difficulty antici-
pated is that after a few calls have been answered by the
pigs in 4()-rod sprints and with any fair degree of ra-
pidity, they will soon register a nonchalant altitude to-
wanl the teasing, musical and alluring rural vocalists,
ibc'ii the remaining callers will call in vain. For this
reason, the committee has decided that animal judges
will not sufHce, The same is true of chickens.

Till mmittee has tentatively decided that it is best

to .send five impartial human criterions of the art be-
.\ ond a neighboring hill where they can judge "sight
unseen. "

More Increases in Membership

A REPORT from the JleLean County Farm Bureau
■* *■ sa.vs that 1.2-^S members have been signed in their
renewal campaign which is about over. This is 200
more members in the same territory than belonged to the
Farm Bureau before. There are still three townships
not touched, four others not one-half done and some
"clean-up" work in three or four other places.

Other counties are doing well with renewal campaigns,
too, but because of thri'shing little activity is reported,
iloultrie, however. repArts 4'i2 members as against .398
old memberships. Warren county is also over the toj).

Most of the soliciting work in McLean county, as in
|)raetically all of the 40-odd counties reni'wing thi.s year,
is doni' b.v the members themselves. This makes a re-
newal camiiaign cost less and leaves more funds for
carrying on the fight at the battle-front. Besides it
gives many members an opportunity to express, both
in actions and worils. their loyalty to the agricultural
industry, their coiistrnetive. thinking along organization
lines, and their .steadfast belief in the Farm Bureau as
an organization for meeting, attempting to solve, and
solving, with favorable outcome, many of the i>erple.xing
problems confront ing farmers as a gnnip.

If this continues. we"ll have to change the figures in
our slogan. t.

— o—

Illinois Leads in Limestone Use

MdUK' limestone for sour soils will be used this year
by Illinois farmers than has ever been used be-
fore, according to a report of the phosphate-limestone
department.

During l!i24. Illinois fanners used api>ro.ximately
."lOO.OOO tons, which was the most usi'd by an,v state in
the riiion. This year will likely eclip,se last year's rec
ord. judging from the amount of soil sweetener used
iluring the tirst six months. The .KMJ.OOO tons used by
Illinois I'armei's last year was one-fourth of all the lime-
stone used in the United States during the same period.
This indicates that Illinois f;»rin,'i-s are rajiidly making
use of scieiititic practices.. Illinois' (ili.OOO thinkini:
farmers have been largely 1 ivsponsible for this leader-
shi]).

— o —
1
Exclusion of Middlemen

MR. IlAClllYA OBA.MA. secielaiy of llie Mini.stry
of Agriculture and Fori'stry. and councillor of
the Japanese Central Co-operative I'liiim, is a iiolite
Japanese gentleman who visited the I. A. A. office re-
centl.\' in tiiiest of information concerning the farmers'
co-operative movement in Illinois and the United States.

He told of the co-operative movement in Japan. The
Central Co-operative rnion, of which he is eouneillor.
is a distributing co-operative on the order of the English
and Scottish Wholesales. Three million enterprising
Japanese get their food and clothing supplies tlirough
the Union's 14.000 local associations, he said. It does
an annual business of one billion yen. A yen is appro.xi-
mately oO cents.

Mr. Obama's knowleijgi' of eo-operativis is much more
extensive than is his comiiiand of the English language.

"We wish to ex-ex-ex-ex — what you say? — ex-cremate
the middlemen as far lis possible," he faltered.

He left, and is on his wa.v to Europe for more informa-
tion on exetnsion of uiinei-essar\- middlemen.

rust 1, 1925 ] AugtMt 1, 1925

The lUinoU Agriculturml Awociafioii Record

I 'age 3

tP

•'ana Bureau
i;iiod in their
This is 200
IdiiKi'd to the
ec tiivviiships
lie and sonif
ai*es.

il campaigns,
■ is reported,
i against 398
over the toj).

iMjiiiity, as in
iiig this year,
iiiiikcs a re-
re fund.s for
Besides it
'xpress, both
agricultural
organization
Ml Buiean as
to solve, and
le perple.\ing

he figures in

ise

iscd lliis year
leen used lie-
late-liiiiestone

lil>roxiinately
any state in
st year's ree
eetener used
tons used by
' all the lime-
saine period,
jiidlv making
!)0(l ■ thinkin;:
• tliis learler-

the Ministry
eouneillor of
I, is a jiolite
A. ofliei' re-
the farmers'
Jnited States.

Japan. The
is eouneillor.
f the English

enterprising
plies tlirough
aid. It does
■n is appro.xi-

is mneh more
ish language.

? — i>x-eremate
tered.

nore informa-

t Rates!

RAISED
( THE

i eueB WA[>

A. IS

T imccease'.
6e vp-

UJM AT TW
HOOS6
OUT OUC
iT BILL
OAP)

ST. LOUIS PRODUCERS
HAVE DEMONSTRATED
CONTROL OF MARKET

Letter From Minouri Pacific
Railroad Pays . Tribute to
Prominence and Standing of
St. Louis Co-op.

"The control of volume in any
line of busineR.s spells ultimate con-
trol of that business and in spile of
the fact that many interested par-
ties would have us think differently,
tills age-old axiom applies just as
surely to the livt.' stock business as
it does to shoestrings or stovepipes."
declares the Producers I.#ive Stock
Commission Association of E. St.
Louis, through O. .\. White, assistant
manager.

"This idea was the nucleus around
which the various Producers Coui-
mission .Associations were formed
and jilaced on the lenninal markets,
and the St. Louis house, wliioh was
the first to open, is now half way
through its fourth year of success-
ful operation. Our volume has
steadily increased and with it our
power has grown ttutil we have
reached the staj;e i where almost
everyone connected ! with the live
stock industry! is "anxious to be
friends with such a powerful organ-
ization.

h^iieinies .\re Krieilils Now

"This is* evidenced in many ways,
one of the first of which was in-
creased yard facilities and scales
These were no't given us at first but
as we proved day after day that we
could control a large volume of the
receipts we soon reached the stage
where we could demand them and
we now have ample room for hand-
ling all our stock.

"It is showii in another way in
the following letter. wTitten in the
general office of the Missouri Pacific
Railroad O^mpany at St. Louis. Mo.,
which we quote:

" "The I*roducers Commission As-
sociation obtains improved railroad
service. Hecause of the prominence
and standing of the producers' own
co-operative agency it was possible
for the president, C. B. Denman. in
conference with President L. W.
Baldwin of the Missouri Pacific rail-
road, to work out a plan whereby
live stock consigned to the Producers
from west of the Mississi(>pi river
will move through the St. Louis
terminal and reach the unloading
docks at the stock yards without de-
lay.

" 'The Missouri Pacific has a man
constantly on the job whose duty
is to personally follow this stock
through the terminal and across the
river. The plan is now in success-
ful operation and the service is im-
proved and is a source of satisfac-
tion to Missouri Pacific shippers."
Trihule to Oruanizalioii

"This great railroad, one of the
greatest in live st(tck transin)rtation
in the country, did not make these
concessions to .Mr. C. B. Denman the
man. great leader and thinker that
he is, but to C. B. Denman. presi-
dent of the National Live Stock Pro-
ducers Association, the greatest
live stock sellng agency in the world
today.

" "This delay in transportation has
been the cause of much litigation in
the past and almost every agency
conneited with the live stock busi-
ness has tried at various times to
correct it. but without success until
the Producers took it upon them-
selves to remedy the evil.'

"Last but not the least, the effect
of volume is shown in a way that
perhaps lies closer to the producer's
heart than any other. We mean in
the market price paid for his live
stock when it reaches the terminal
market. H was at first thought that
we would have to control at least
fifty per cent to be able to talk
prices with the packers, but eveiUs
have proven that it does not take
Quite as large a percentage, and that
given approximately thirty per cent
of the receipts, we are able to domi-
nate the market in so far as possible
under the law of supply and demand.
Forced .Market Higher

"This was shown in a small way
on the sheep market in St. Louis
during the week "f June l,')th. when
the Producers, through their volume
of business, were .Lhle to force the
market into line md cause an ad-
vance in prices of from 75 cents to
$1 per cwt. on the price of lambs.

"Our market had been out of line
for some time and i"'st lambs at St.
Louis were selling almost $1 per
cwt. lower than Chicago, but begin-
ning with the week mentioned the

Producers volume increased so that
on the days our run was the heavi-
est, we controlled from 20 to 25 per
cent of the receipts, and on Tuesday
of that week v^-e refused to sell our
lambs at the prevailing prices, which
was from $14..=iO to $14.75. By hold-
ing on. $1.") was obtained for prac-
tically all the lambs In the Pro-
ducers' alley. On Wednesday of
that week we again had a big per-
centage and again refused to- take
steady prices. Others sold from
$14.75 to $15 with very few going
at the latter price, while the Ptoduc-
ers holdings went from $15 to $15.25.
the latter price being paid for four
cars, which was 25 cents per cwt.
higher than any other sales that day.
The markrt closed up on Wednesday
nearer in line than it had been any
time this summer, and this condition
was obtained simply and solely be-
cause we held and handled the vol-
ume of the receipts and were in a
position .to have something to say
about the prices of our stock. Since
the week mentioned conditions have
been very much the same and
throii-h our volume we have been
able to hold our market well in line
with other points.

Illustrates Possibilities
"This simply shows in a small way
what can be done with the control
and the .same thing will appiv to
cattle or hogs. .\s soon as the pro-
ducers in the country get this Idea
firmly in their minds and milrket
their stock through their ovrti ag-

PEORIA PRODUCERS
HAVE RAISED PRICE
AVERAGE IS RE »ORT

This Producers' Agency H as Re-
turned a 30 Per Cent i !ef and
Tills Year, and is ( >etting
Good Volume

fariuers who still lii-

be P«orla niarke enjoy

hat on the averse f' if 1'

biuh* r than tbrc ■ ye;^r^

ding to the IV-or a Pro

mmission .\ss*K?ia ion in

Staleme It issued h\ W h1 He

t,rout:h. ti[ana;;er.

;;eneral averat
mark*'t with
what it was thr
slat s .Mr. Henibrou::!

the (iiB-rease IS all
by li\' st^x'k [tr<Mlucers to t i.
that on many da>.< the peo
duf'ers ha^idle us inurb as

Mock snl<l un thftf
ivint the ors-a
control o\»'i" ;irir»- |e\

ntib^

I'eHUKl of
per

$1

' nl

<: I

r

Illinois Farmers' Loyalty Helps (
Chicago Producers Make Success

ency at the terminal markets, theyl for which they w«re establ:sb-d an
will be able to take no small part in still in the distanfe and will be un
fixing the price of their live stock" til the .live stock producers ^upptirt

_^ ( this agejicy with ill their stock, fur

volume lis the bi; essential neces
sary tot Ihe suc{'es.sful altainmeiit
of their aims.

l^ari;<'S, has b«

d u* partiri]"alors

This is lr)r tli

which « tide<i

V It

\ii

<'<

J

CLOSELY interwoven in the ! rendered by the I. A. A department,
tale of the successes of the | will be ilong the lines of collecting
Chicago Producers is the prom- i freight lo.ss and damage claims,
inent and loyal part played by the ^ overcharge claims, collecting and
Illinois shippers and Illinois ship- | verifying freight rates, and as»istjng

the bettering of car suppljv and

CLAIM COLLECTIONS
DOUBLED THIS YEAR

Bs Itiliows: I'eorn

"iazewell. $2.052M :

.!"i5.14: Stark. $1. <

Illinois

ping associations.

Tor the past three years over 51
per cent of the total shipments re-
ceived by the Producers have been
consigned to them from the state
of Illinois. Furthermore. 30 per cent
of the total co-operative shipments
■to the Chicago market from the ship-
ping ass(K'iations in Illinois have
lione to the Producers, which is an
outstanding fact in itself when it is
considered there are over 125 mar-
keting agencies upon this market.
The Chicago Producers, as was
brought out in the last issue of the
Rkcokp. have just completed their
third successful year, handling 6.9
per cent of the total receipts on the
Chicago market — spme 1,152,587
head of live stock. "The total value
of this stock was $31,418,656.28. Dur-
ing the third fiscal year a total of
16.336 cars of stock and the equiva-
lent of 150 rail cars of truck stock
were sold by this association. While
this total was not as great as that
of the preceding year, yet it must be
remembered there has been a sub-
stantial decrease in yard receipts,
ho^s alone decreasing 14 per cent.

Comparisons Slunv (iaiiis

When compared with the total
yard receipts and receipts during the
past year, each of the departments
has shown a healthy increase, the
cattle department having increased
4 per cent, the calf department 14
per cent, sheep department 25 per
cent, and during the past year, 9.3
per cent of the total hog receipts at
the yards were handled by the Pro-
ducers, against 8.9 per cent during
the preceding year. The cause of
such growth may be readily under-
stood when a survey is made of the
accomplishments and improvements
to the Producers' service which have
taken place during the past year.
Total Itefiind Over Quarter Million

The accumulation of $82,540.36, a
25 per cent refund of paid-in com-
missions, has brought the total re
fund up to $255,086.20
refund is not as great as that of

Klfh llti^trlrl

llureau . . .
.M;irsl4ill-I'u

train service.

Fee«linu Operations FinaiK-eil

In conjunction with the Producer
agencies on the St Louis ant) Kan-
sas City markets, the Chicai--a I'lo-
ducers have assisted in the forma-
tion of an organization known tis the
Producers Live .Stock Credit Cor-
poration which is prepared to make
loans on feeding operations fdr cat-
tle, sheep, and hogs, at the nominal
rate of 6 per cent. This is a serv-
ice given at cost, the actual credit
being obtained from the Federal. In-
termediate Bank of' St. Louis.
.Selling Service Improved
In the hog department, the addi-
tion of a special outliog salesman
has made it possible for our shippers
to set the full market value from
this class of stock. The (jui hogs

I are now collected and as far as

I possible, .sold in large units by this
special .salesman. The prices which

! he receives shows clearly llje ad-

i vantages of this method.

In the calf department the mark-
ing of each calf on the basis of its
true market value has eliminated an
old complaint and has resulted in
the increase of 14 per cent in this
department.

Henry County I.ea<ls In Su|t|Hirl

.^ total of 531 carloads of stock
received from Henry county ship-
pers places this county well In the
lead for the second successive year.
Of this number, 62 carloads were
received from straight' car shibpers.
and 469 from shipping associations.

Knox county was in second place
with a total of 432 cars, los of mhich
were from straight load sli,ipi)|ers.

DeKalb county has the hoifor of
leading in the straight load • ship-
pers. 220 being received from jjoints
in this ctmnty. 1

U4ickfor(l Leads siiippiii;; .AwWia-
tiou Class j

The Farmers' Shipping .\asocia- j
tion at Rockford lead in the shjpping j
While this | "ssociation class. 1S2 carloads [being i
received from this associatjon( The i
record for this association f(^r co- I
operative marketing has been Jin en-
viable one. For the past two and
one-half years every head of I stock

i'<'orla
.«tark [ .

T:iz.w..

Tin IIMtrir)

K..r,l I.

I.IMIIliKToll

l...s;!.lJ . .
.M. Lcilli
\V.>.,dfor.|

IKIh nlijirie*

i^larki ...
<'umb*rlaii(I
K"l ija c

Ir-..,

Kank4ke
\'- rliii iio

■ Olh nutrlrt

Chamtiaigii

Ii.Witt . .
t)oUKllis .
M.ieoti ...
.MeiiKfi.- . ,
I'iatl
Stiell,j

20th raxirlrt

I'.rewM , .
<".i!ho^ti

t'lis.-*

Hreen ...
.Ters«*y ....
Masoini ....
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Mniit«om«-ry
SanRainoti

ESnd DUtrlct

lien.l

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arti DIMrIrt

Clinton I .

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I-awrence
Marion . . .
T'.irhlap'l .
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? ! <7.40
It^i.TS

ntission
be return*!
CO -ope rati
fl.scal

r'25.

Mi»Nt liii»,ill€'*>*. l-'roiii

The s.jMn "ibarter ni
I counties ^f the Peoria I'll
■ have IwH nitbe heaviest ctmij
' of sbipnotnis. an analysis?
! I. .\. C. .>. audit shows '
j funds beiu;; returned in the.-^
I ties are ps Itillows: 1

75X.07:

Ion. $1

Kno\. $l,H72.Hi: Mason, $

and W.MMlkord $';21.i.l. Tbi
I $12.14;""^. bavins $:'..45i;
I turned in refunds to slil|ip(

Sid." these s. ven counties.

erable li>^a business comos

M. i- St. I.. This is a b<-«>5

ins mark* t.
' Tlie fivi- leading shippip

eiations tare; Toulon .(

$24r,.5t; li'.ilson (Kno\i.4

Hermon (Kno\ i. $l!":i.34;

Hill iHelryi, tl5!i.;i:;: a
I quon. iKuoxl. $144.58. Tl
' five in rink are- Mason
I Shippitis iLssociation.-Warr-
I ty Shippii s association. VA
1 (Henrvi. lalVH < Henry i aii<

(D»'Witt I,
I "I "riwiterls Itriulil"

j "The 1 rosiient for the
; Producer.-) looks good for
j turt'. althnusli we look for I
! Ceij'ts du -ini: the balance'
j suiniie r. md as soon as t
i run starts »e Imik for n lar
j cent than in tlie past." .Mf

brolluh el] ri'-lud'-S-

III i«**>

•mil' r"

ducers

butors

of the

be r—

coiin-

$3.-

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L'L'liO

$40,000 IN PRIZES

AT BIG DAIRY SllOW

lid

0\.r f
Cash priz
tional I>a
iK-ld ai I
17 inrlnsi
IK on<'n'd
(tlussilioal
various I
rial priz*
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Show whioh
ianaiKilis. Octob*-
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\u- fix. ralth
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t'd a^siM-iations

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rizi'S oii hiiynV an

Illiuoit; coiitMi' s a

OFFICE VISITOIS

last year, yet the board of directors

thought it wise to decrease the per [ "'

cent, knowing that the receipts of

live stock would be lighter during , , . . ,. „ i

the coming months due to decreased | ""*'.'*"" '■"">*'«■"''' "> 'he Protjucers

production, and accordingly the '"*""'''/" ,

- I Second place went to V

County Shipping .Association
shipped a total of 168 cars, while the
Farmers' Elevator at Kewanee came

Warren
1 Which

ound ixdicy would be to build up
and maintain a substantial reserve.
Claim llepartinent .\(ldeil
With a view of still further im-
proving the service, a claim depart-
ment has been added to the organ-
ization. This department, which i out in the next few weeks
functions as a part of the transpor- j The Illinois .Agricultural .A^socia

tion has always been firmly behind

:4fh nhfrtrt

i^lay "

Kdwarws
"lallatin
.Tehnsqu .
MnsRa.«^ . , .

I'opp

Saline

Wayn^ . . .

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in third with 101 cars. FlgufK-s on i KranTtliq

the largest straisht load shippers ■
are not available as yet. but Will be j

tation department of the Illinois Ag-
ricultural .-Association, is without
cost to the shippers of the Produc-
ers. The services of this depart-
ment, which has heretofore been

.tai'kson
Piil.-iski
IlandoJiih .
T'nion ' . . . .
Williafiipon

this Producer movement. The
growth has been constant and many j 1

j of their aims have already been at- Mis.illnJieomi
tained. However, the bigger things I jriotal

\ 1 H

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fact

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totals
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Pace 4

Tbe niinob Agricultural Astodatioa Record

Avyt^ 1, 1925 I

HERE'S REPORT ON
HOW TORNADO FUND
IS BEING APPUED

Dlinou Farm Relief Committee
Has Turned $50,000 of
$181,081.97 Over to Red
CroM, Specifying Use.

By R. A. Cowles, Chaimian.

The accompanying figures are in-
tended to s«rve as a report on th«
progress ot rehabilitation in the
storm areat and particularly in
southern Illinois, in charge of the
American Red Cross. The figures
used, other than those appearing
under the Condensed Statement cov-
ering the Illinois Farm Relief Fund,
were received from the American
Red Cross.

requirements for beneficiaries In this
amount.

AsT««meBt oa How to Be Sp««t
It was also on this' date that the
Memorandum Agreement was entered
into between the Illinois Farm Relief
Committee by its chairman and the
American Red Cross by Its director
of disaster relief, covering the trans-
mittal of funds from the Illinois
Farm Relief Committee to the Ameri-
can Red Cross, and restricting and
limiting the use of all funds so trans-
mitted, according to the purposes and
objects for which contributed by
their donors. The sum shown on the
statement, as having been transmit-
ted and other sums to be transmit-
ted as needed, are to be expended by
the American Red Cross as additional
funds and in addition to actual ex-
penditures, cominltments and appro-
priations to the dale of the Memo-
randum Agreement (June 18. 1925).

48 Per Crot o( Cases Closed

The Consolidated Report for all
areas at July 17. 1925 shows, by
computation, 48 per cent of the total
registered cases in Illinois as closed.
— four months after the date of the
storm.

.'MUsoari-Illinola-lndlana Relief Approprialloaa TotalInK (l.OOO.OOO.OO

Wklrh Plcnre Was R««ehed od Jnae 18th, 1»ZS

.«l«aoarl IlllBola IndUna ''^•■' .„

181.050.00 I $7.13,600.00 1185.350.00 11.000,000.00

Vrei

State of M

.State of II
Bush Area
CarmI A
DeSoto A
Gorham A
Murphysbcjro
McLeansbc
West Fra

MUsonri-IIIIaols-Indlau Toraado Relief

Report Ending June 20, 1925 '

Amount Amount Total

Appropriated Disbursed Appropriated
I . . i 61.090.99

Total
Disbursed
I ia.101.71

r *a

23.519.19
27,817.57
95,507.77
30,758.27

•ea

Area 399.631.33

Area 62.794.45

kfort Area.... 203.518.36

t 12.00e.00
15.269.22
45.544.28
16.916.08

183.639.65
31.100.74

154,585.41

II

State of Ini

To_^
liusineaa Rehabilitation

ijlana 182,460;78

$

076,888,71
10.109.52

8561.131.23
2.902.66

Grand Total.

.. .»1. 086,998.23 >564.033.89

SlasOilrl-llllaals-lBdiasa Torsade Relief

Financial Report Ending June 20, 1925

Relief Funds in hands American Red Cross

Additional amount fpr Relief (Estimated),

.t2,«29,784.27
.00

82.629,784.27

Amount appropriated for Relief i ....'.. .tl,0a6,998.23

Unappropriated Balance i . . 1.542.786.04

»2,629,784.2:

.\sieriraa Red Cross MIssoarl-UllBols-f sdiasa Toraado Relief

Missouri
Illinois:

Bush .

Carml

DeSoto

Gorham

McL.ean8bdro

Consolidate! Report of All Areas for Week Rndlii^ Friday,
Total Registration
* Family Units
435

lllg
Total
Closed

357

IS*
23!

»M
i»»
M7

Murphysbdro t 2,S67

W. Frankfort 1.2TS

Total for Illlnola 4.8SS

Indiana 1,233

S53

Totkll A, »,

M'

IS

Mr

July 17. ll»25
Still

Open

78

4M

MM

Mla**BH-IlltaolB-IadiaaA T*raa«« R#lt*f

R**port Ending July 18th. 1925

Amount Amount Total

Appropriated Disbursed Appropriated

State of Missouri....... I 71.089.19

State of Illlrtola: \

Bush Areai 1 $ 26.478.99

Carml Areft fil.018.01

DeSoto Area 141,287.20

Gorham Area 47,676.44

Murphysboro Area 653,770.39

McL^ansbolro Area 83.712.84

West Fraikfort Area 2*2.991.1^

I 19,040.74
22.826.25
73.764.43
25.737.06

267.361.04
47.679.47

242.304.03

Total
Disbursed
I 30,435.27

f/

1,306.934.97 1. 698.713.02
State of IndUna 245,725.65 , 148.925.25

Totftl $1,623,749.81 ! ^878.073.54

Business Rehabilitation 25.374.58 6,501.22

Junior Red Cross:

Gorham Afea 1.618.71

Grand Total »1. 649.124.39 1886.193.47

MlM«vr|.llltm«la-Indl«Ka Toraado Relief

Financial Report Ending July 18th, 1925

1. Relief fuhds in hands American Red Cross v . .|2,71l. 245.07

2. Additional amount for relief (estimated) .00

12,711.245.07

Appropriated for 'Relief '. , . . 11,649,124.39

Unappropriated Balance ;.062,120.68

$2.711.245.07

Statevtent of R«r«4p4s aad Dlabaraenirata
llllBoUi Farm Relief Fuad

At July 27. 1925
Reeelptai

Total received through Farm Bureaus $152,327.17

Total received fr6m other sources ^ 28.754.80

Dlabaraei

Fencing
Seed ..
Feed . .
Chicks

'aieatat

$181.081.97

material [. | ' i.US.M

!:!';;!;!!;;;;";;!;!;;:;":;;;;; 'uSip

... l.tOl.K

Farm eqfuipment 722.#7

American National Red Cross (transmitted under
specific Memorandum Agreenieni limiting Its

„ ; ua«) 50.000.00

Refund to adjust remittance received, made in error 14.88

PlJWer f4rm equipment for use and re-sale 2.430.00

62.130.98
Balance |n Fund ;..'..-... .^ .$118,950.99

Cewie* OomMeats «a Flc«re«

Some conception of the magnitude
of the undertaking by the American
Red Cross, may be obtained by care-
ful reference* to these reports. Based
upon, actual appropriations to date of
the reports, funds available as of that
date, and member of cases waiting
disposal, some idea may be had of
tim» and funds required to complete
the program.

It will be of interest to note
that on June 18th. exactly three
months after the date of the disaster
(March 18. 1*25) that there had been
set up on th* books of the American
Red Cross actual appropriation of
funds to tornado sufferers In the
an*ount of one million dollars, evi-
dencing the authorized purchase of

• $181,081.97

The disbursements made from the
Illinois Farm Relief Fund other than
the item to the American Red Cross
and the item covering the purchase
of power farm equipment for use in
re-sale, represent direct purchases of
certain requirements for beneficiaries
in the earlier efTortB of the Commit-
tee to place the farmer beneficiaries
and the farms on a producing basis
for the present crop season. The
American Red Cross are required un-
der the terms of the Memorandum
Agreement to segregate and properly
and fully account for all funds re-
ceived from the Illinois Farm Relief
Committee. The War Department fi-
nally audits all books of account and
records of the American Red Cross in
this and all other disasters. The

purchases of power farm equipment
were necessary to assure seasonable
plowing In part of the area. The
proceeds will be returned to the
fund as this equipment is resold.

The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, as its contribution, is taking
care of all administration expenses of
the fund, necessary field expenses,
and other expenses, so that the fund
in tota is available for the relief pro-
gram.

Red CrosH la Cluiive

So that those who are unacquainted
with the Illinois afea may have the
proper information at hand in con-
sidering the reports: The disaster
work In the entire Missouri-Illlnos-
Indiana area is administered by the
American Red Cross from a central
ofBce 'located at Murphysboro. func-
tioning through local area offices in
charge of actual case work. Each
local area office, as the term implies
has charge of the work in a certain
limited immediate territory.

The Illinois area in this manner Is
subdivided into the following local
areas: Gorham. Murphysboro. DeSoto.
all in Jackson county; Bush In the
extreme corner of Williamson county;
West Frankfort In Franklin county;
McLeansboro in Hamilton county;
and Carmi In White county. The di-
saster involved exclusively rural
areas In Hamilton and White coun-
ties. In the other counties In Illinois,
town losses were involved in addition
to the rural losses suffered.
Flmire* Reflect Heavy Urbaa Damnir^

The town of Gorham was practl-
caMy demolished and the storm dam-
age at DeSoto involved all but the
southeastern portion of the town.
The storm damage at Bush covered
the extreme north portion of the
town and adjoining territory. The
terrific and extensive destruction
done by the storm and losses of prop-
erty at Murphysboro an<l West Frank-
fort is no doubt well known to all
and is further reflected in the finan-
cial reports. In Franklin county. In
addition to the extensive losses in
West Frankfort, the village of Piirisii
was completely destroyed.

Both the vKre-ohairman. Mr. Curt
Anderson of Xenia. and the chairman
of the Illinois Farm Relief Commit-
tee have given the work, as required
from time to time, their personal at-
tention, and are continuing to do so.

REPORT SAYS AUGUST
WILL BE GOOD MONTH
TO BUY DAIRY COWS

Your County Farm Bureau Has
Information From I. A. A.
Telling Best Places To Buy.

Where can I get some gqod milk
cows?

This is the question that enters
the dairyman's mind about as soon
as he has disposed of his T. B. re-
actors or culled out his unprofitable
milkers.

"Some farmers may have the im-
pression that milk cows are apt to
be scarce and rather high priced
this fall," states a report sent to all
farm advisers in the state by the
dairy and live stock marketing de-
partments, which are jointly han-
dling the t. b. eradication project of
the I. A. A. In sections where sur-
plus cows can be purchased cheese
making Is the chief outlet for milk.
Cheese has been a good price this
year. Naturally every dairyman will
keep his cows as long as possible,
especially with, cheese milk ranging
from $1.90 to $2.10 per cwt. In such
sections everybody has been hang-
ing onto their cows.

Good Selections In .lufnist

"The question ot feed and hous-
ing for the coming winter will soon
put surplus cows in Minnesota, Wis-
consin and Ohio on the market. Re-
cent Inspection tours by the Illinois
Agricultural Association found that
there will be available a good selec-
tion to choose from the latter part
of August and early September. This
will be a good time to pick up
springers to milk this fall and next
winter. The prices will run quite
consistently with the age and qual-
ity of the cows. *!very Illinois buyer
should be sure that he is buying
cows that are free from tuberculosis
and abortion. It is possible in many
instances to obtain cows with cow
test association records.

"It is a good idea for several
farmers wishing to make up a car-
load of cattle to make the buying
tour together. The I. A. A., through
the county Farm Bureaus, can tell
members where good milk cows can
be purchased. By seeing personally
where your cows come from and
having taken a part in the dicker-
ing, farmers will be more satisfied.
And this direct contact helps shorten
the road from seller to buyer."

FARM BUREAUS HGHT
FREIGHT RATE BOOST

(Continued from paffe 1. col. 5.)
ity of farmers to stand an Increased
freight rate at this time will be
thoroughly understood at the bear-
ing."

Direction of the case for the
American Farm Bureau will be in
the hands of Frank Bvans, secre-

tary and general marketing counsel,
and O. W. Sandberg, director of
transportation of the American
Farm Bureau — together with the
aid and assistance of state farm bu-
reau officers and such experts as may
be called In,

The railroads have not yet speci-
fied the exact percentage of Increase
they will ask. They have simply
filed petition asking that rates be
so adjusted that the railroads will
receive a 5% per cent return on
their valuation. However, the July
11 issue of the Railway Age, of
which Samuel O. Dunn, spokesman
of the railroads, is editor, in an edi-
torial states that the railroads tell
short ot this 5\ per cent by $181,-
000,000 in 1924. To make up this
deficit It is estimated would require
an 11 per cent Increase over present
rates.

Commenting on the action of the
American Farm Burfeau, President
Bradfute said:

"Three years ago this organization
in working to relieve this serious
economic situation confronting agri-
culture discovered that high freight
rates were one of the factors which
were keeping agriculture at the bot-
tom of the pile. At that time we
went before the public and to the
Interstate Commerce Commission
and asked that agriculture be re-
lieved.

".A BaHir IniluHtry"

"We showed to the satisfaction of
the Commission that freight rates
did have an important part in the
economic condition of agriculture.
We established the fact that farm-
ing was a basic Industry and that
unless agriculture was restored to
a prosperous condition, industries
and railroads alike would suffer.

"Some reHef was obtained. Then
the rallro^s came to us. They told
us that nieir properties had been
returned to them by the Government
in a most impaired condition. That
In order that good service be estab-
lished it was necessary that these
properties be put into good shape.
This, they said, could not be done
if rates were further reduced.

"We agreed ' to this and forbore
asking for further reductions. The
farmer was willing to bear his share
of the load of reconstruction. The
railroads did put their property In
good shape and now on the strength
of this improved property and the
outlay which was necessary to make
these Improvemeqts they dare to ask
for increased rates. The Farm Bu-
reau will fight that proposal until
the proposal Is killed."

Annual Meet at Flora
Ends Successful Year
For Red Top Growers

Another successful year of mar-
keting red top seed co-operatively
for appro.Yimately 800 farmers In
southern Illinois through the Egyp-
tian Seed Growers Exchange at
Flora was closed and another one
begun when the annual meeting
was held in the warehouse at Flora,
July 14.

Gross receipts from sales during
the year amounted to $181,415.79,
with total cost ot operations at
$24,399.17, leaving the net re-
ceipts to the growers tor 1,471.726
pounds of seed handled at $157,-
016.62, according to the financial
statement. Advances to growers
upon delivery of seed amounted to
$118,913.26. The remainder,
amounting to $38,103.36, was dis-
tributed to the grower members
shortly after March 1.

The average price obtained by
the members by co-operating, was
above the average level ot prices
received by farmers who sold direct-
ly to private buyers, according to
figures ot the United States De-
partment of Agriculture. The co-
operative handled suflScient volume
to be a strong force in maintaining
a higher general price level than
would exist it there were no farm-
ers' organization in the business.
Raised Price Level

"Since about 95 per cent of the
world's crop of red top is grown in
this eight-county area which is
served by the Egyptian Seed Grow-
ers Exchange," says Curt Ander-
son, general manager, "and the
Exchange handles approximately 60
per cent ot all the red top grown
in the area, it Is In a good position
to exert an unusual influence in
raising the price all farmers re-
ceive."

Selection of directors resulted in
the election of the following new
directors: O. B. Scrivner of Jeffer-
son county, Marshall C. Smith of
Wayne county, and J. M. Luse ot
Clay county. In addition, W. L,
Cope ot Salem, who succeeded J. E.

MRS. JAMES PiaURES
FUN CITY KIDS ENJOY
IN HELPING DO CHORES

Her Letter Like Many Requests
Coming in For Poor Slum
Cluldr«i, But Many More
Needed. Will You Help?

"I imagine feeding the chickens
and cow would be fun for little city
children." writes Mrs. Wm. Pierce
James of Galesburg, in her request
for two youngsters from the Chicago
slums for a two week's outing in
the country. Mr. and Mrs. James
have four children ot their own, so
they know how delighted and "Im-
■portant" the little ones feel when
they are allowed to "help with the
chores" — ■ especially for the first
time. Mrs. James is right in think-
ing that the city children, who
know much of motor trucks and
street cars and very little ot cows
and pigs, would hare fun scatter-
ing grain to the greedy hens and
poking fodder into "bossy's" man-
ger. That would be a vacation and
an education all In one.

Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Jacobs of St.
Francisville, are giving a joyous va-
cation to four children who have
five other brothers and sisters In
the Chicago tenement district. The
father of this family has been out
ot work for many weeks, so, In ad-
dition to the fresh air and sun-
shine and the delight ot fields and
pastures which these poor young-
sters are enjoying, they are no
doubt actually getting the first
"square meals" they have had for
a long time. It is hard for country
people to realize the number of un-
der-nourished children there are In
the city, even in times ot prosper-
ity.

Other Kind Hearted People

Others who have asked that chil-
dren be sent them are:

Mrs. J. P. Leach, Pontlac, 1; Mrs.
Alfred Rohu, Tuscola, 1; Mrs. Haus
Helt. Arthur, 2; Mrs. Gus Engel-
hardt, Compton, 2; Mrs. Jacob
Schilling, Hanna, 1.

Many places have been provided
for outings for the slum kiddles,
through the generosity of farm bu-
reau folks, but hundreds ot the
little folks are still waiting, hoping
that this summer they will have a
chance *to spend two wonderful
weeks in the country. Won't you
folks who read this, and who live
within 200 miles ot Chicago, help
them to realize their dreams by
taking one or more for a two-weeks
outing? All you need to do is to
drop a line to our Outing Secretary,
stating the number you want and
the time it would be most conveni-
ent for them to come. The chil-
dren will be delivered to the station
nearest you. The United Charities
ot Chicago will see that they are
clean and will assume all responsi-
bility.

Remember — Outing Secretary, I.
A. A., 608 S. Dearborn St.

Warns Against Fraud
in Streuigers "Life

Membership" Scheme

A lute membership in a "Better
Farming Association" at the attrac-
tive price ot $8 was the otter re-
cently ot a stranger to several farm-
ers in Woodford county, according
to a report of H. A. deWerlt, farm
adviser, to W. H. Smith, state lead-
er ot farm advisers, at the Univer-
sity ot Illinois,

"We know nothing of a so-called
Better Farming Association, No
one authorized to use name of Illi-
nois Agricultural College In any
such connection. Secure definite
information if possible and assist in
stopping this fraud," wrote W. H,
Smith, state leader to all farm ad-
visers.

And neither are any such persons
authorized to use the name ot the
Illinois Agricultural Association,

Lingenfelter ot Lawrencevllle, was
elected to the board representing
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion.

"We feel that the meeting as a
whole was a real success for the
reason that a great many members
entered into the various discussions,
which resulted In a better under-
standing between members and
Tnanagement," said Curt Anderson,
secretary-treasurer and general
manager. "Although the red top
crop is only about 50 per c^nt ot
normal this year, we expect to car-
ry on in good shape."

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HflCULTUIlAL ASSOCIA

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Vol

Istued Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinking Farmers — Augutt 15, 1925

No. 16

GRAIN MARKETING PROGRAM OF I.AJV. CONSISTS
OF THREE CHIEF UNES OF ENDEAVOR WHICH
CONCERN IMPORTANT PROBLEMS OF GROWERS

Principal Aim Is to Assist Fanners' Elevators in Formation of a
Collective Genera] Sales Agency for the Handling of Their
Grain in All Markets and to Help Strengthen Farmers' Elevators

THE grain progfam of the Illinois Agricultural Association con-
tains three principal phases of endeavor, according to Chester
C. Davis, head of the grain marketing department of the I. A. A., in
his deflnitioB of the grain policy of the association and as concurred
in by the executive flvnmittee.

"Briefly," states Director Davis, "the grain pragram of the as-
sociation aims to assist the farmers ' elevators in the formation «l a,
collective general sales agency for the handling of
their grain in all markets ; to co-operate in the
growth and improvement in service of the local
farmers ' elevators and other local co-opera,tive grain
handling associations ; and to assist the fanners in
districts not served by farmers' elevators along the
path of collective marketing of their grain."

This program covers one of the most important
problems of IlIinoiB grain growers. Illinois farmers
market more grain through their own farmers" ele-
vators than any other state in the Union. There are
about 600 farmers' elevators in the state, mostly in
the northern two-thirds of the state, with the greatest
density in distribution forming a block whose four
corners are at Chicago, Danville, Moline and Alton.
It is with the representatives ot these elevators — the
officers of the Farmers' Grain Dealers' associations of
Illinois and Iowa and their national organization —
that the Illinois Agricultural Association is co-operat-
ing to help develop a central sales agency to serve
these local units, and to be owned and controlled en-
tirely by them.

Such an organization will be co-operative in form
and operation and will provide service for tie farmers
who market their grain through th«lr own elevators,
in all the principal markets. It will be the aim ot this
new company to assist in the movement of grain as
directly ats possible from the points of surplus to
points of manufacture. This new company, known
as the Rural Grain Company, has been incorporated
and application has been made for a seat on the Chi-
cago Board of Trade. The farmers' elevators who are
participating in and directing this development which
shall take them into the terminal
markets, are hoping for a sound,
normal growth into a great and
strong national sales agency for the
farmers' elevators.

There are plen-
ty of KKlnKlng
rings, cross bars
and other play-
ground facilities
o f interest t o
young folks a t
Miuiner's Park,
where the a n-
BluU 1. A. A. pk>
nic will be held
on Th n r 8 d a y,
Angnst 27.

Above at the
left Is a wading
pool for children.

Woold Be Big Project

The magnitude of such a sales
agency for farmers' elevators in Illi-
nois alone, as suggested by the pro-
gram of the I. A. A., is illustrated
by the latest available information
from the tJnited States Department
of Agriculture which credits Illi-
nois farmers' organizations handling
grain with an annual business of
»62,445,000. This figure is 30 per
cent above the amount of business
done by the farmers' grain merchan-
dising agencies in Iowa, whose rank
In this respect Is second. Estimates
.as to the share ot the grain in the
Chicago terminal market that is
shipped there by local farmers' ele-
vators vary from 65 to 80 per cent,
and the truth is somewhere be-
tween.

In regard to the portion of the
state where there are few farmers'
elevators — approximately one-third
in the southern section — the I. A.
A. program has two possibilities of
approach in solving the grain mar-
keting problem. In certain parts
of the southern division of the state
it may prove advisable to follow
the commodity pooling plan in
which the farmer-members of a defi-
nite territory band themselves to-
gether under contract to market
their entire crop of any one grain
through an annual pool. This plan
was followed by the Indiana Farm
Bureau Federation when it organ-
ized the Indiana Wheat Growers
Association two years ago. This
year something over 220 farmers in
four Illinois counties of the Wa-
bash Valley district signed market-
ing contracts and have delivered
over 130,000 bushels of wheat to
the Indiana pool. It is possible that
other counties in that portion of
Illinois may find it advisable to co-
operate with the Indiana wheat as-
sociation in the future.

(Continued on page 3, col. t.)

Install Amplifiers at

Picnic So Voice Can Be
Borne to 75,000 People

"No need staying away from the
I. A. A. picnic because you fear you
can't hear Secretary Jardine's
voice in the big crowd that is ex-
pected," says Billy Grimes, presi-
dent of the Christian County Farm
Bureau.

"We have contracted for the use
of a Western Electric Public Ad-
dress System from St. Louis so that
as many as 75,000 people can hear
all that is being said.

"The manager, Mr. O'Neil, was
in Manners Park recently taking
measurements. He is satisfied that
the acoustic properties of the audi-
torium are good and that there will
be a splendid job of reproduction."

Illinois' Soft Wheat

Being Pooled Is Best
Grade, Official Says

Illinois soft wheat delivered to
the Indiana Wheat Growers Asso-
ciation this year has been of un-
usually fine quality. The bulk of
the wheat has been grading No. 1
and the balance nearly all No. 2,
according to a progress report made
by Herman Steen, secretary of the
Indiana wheat pool, to Chester C.
Davis, director of the I. A. A. grain
marketing department.

This is the first year that Illinois
farmers of the soft wheat district
have marketed their wheat through
the Indiana organization and al-
ready something over 130.000
bushels have been delivered by ap-
proximately 220 members in Galla-
tin. White, Edwards and Wabash
counties.

The Indiana wheat association is
fostered by the Indiana Farm Bu-
reau Federation and, with the I. A.
A. co-operating, provides a co-op-
erative outlet for the soft wheat
growers in southern Illinois where
there are relatively few farmers'
elevators.

TAYLORVILLE CALLS PARK WHERE LA.A. PidNIC
WILL BE HELD "MODERN GARDEN OF EDEN;" IT
HAS 60 ACRES OF PUYGROUND^TUDDED BElAUTY

Taylorville Is Less Than Hour's Rid* Southeast of Springpeld on
State Hard Road System; Christian County Farm Bureau An-
ticipates Record-breaidag Crowd; Special Feature* ylannad

Jardine Sends Word
He'll Sure Be Here
To Speak at Picnic

It la ■■■nred that Mecr«tarr
Jardine will be prment to make
the prlnrlpal addreaa at the I. \.
A. annual plonlr, TaylorAllle.
AoKUNt 27, accordluK to n recent
letter from F. M. KuHHell. per-
aonal aecretary to the Kecretarr
of .^Krlealtnre.

The SecretaiT la now In the
Walter Reed honpltal In ^'nah-
Inrton re«ttn«r front hU recent
trip thron^h the Weat and tak-
ing treatment for atomarh dla-
ordera from which he has anf-
fered allshtlr for the paat few
rcwra. The lllnena la not aerlona
and he la maklnip every- plnn to
he in lUinola on Anirnat 27.

"Tbia information ia ^Iven you
ao that the preaa reporta may
not be diatBrblnr,** wrltea Mr.
RnaaelL

Farmers in DebtUe

Regarding Best Way

To Call Hungry Hogs

Is it "whooey, whooey" or
"pooey, pooey?"

This question is a much mooted
argument among farm bureau mem-
bers throughout the state these
days. Provocation of the discus-
sion came from an editorial of a
Chicago newspaper which com-
mended the idea of a state-wide
hog and chicken calling contest as
a feature of the I. A. A. annual pic-
nic, which is to be held at Ttaylor-.
ville, August 27.

The editorial started, "There are
lots of things prisoners of the city
do not know. But any one who has
ever heard 'pooey, pooey' roaring
across the quarter sections will
know that a hog calling contest can
have its Ravinia or Civic Opera
strain."

Some farmers vigorously deny
that hog callers say "pooey, pooey,"
claiming it is "whooey, whooey."

"What's the difference as long as
the hogs come when called?" Wil-
liam Grimes, president of the
Christian County Farm Bureau
wants to know.

TAYLORVILL& calls it "The Modern Ga.aen of Eden.
"It" Is Manner's Park, Taylorville 't 60 acres of playrround-
stiidded hills and vales, and it has all the eatmarks of being a modem
Garden of Eden far the farm, bmaaw members who attend the an-
nual I. A. A. picnic which is to be held there Thursday, Aui rust 27.
The park is only five blocks from the ceiltral square, abou ; which
the little city is built. Its numerous shade trees promise »mfort
for those who wish to sit jand t«lk : a nestli ng lake
and cement piKiI with batbhouse and suits ; or rent
offer swimming for younff and old ; a ceme it-lined
wading pool of 10 inches depth extendK a s] lashing
diversion for energetic jtiungsters : tennis courts
offer entertainment to ractjuet enthusiasts ; perma-
nent horseshoe courts and baseball diamoii 1 await
their opportunity to say, "A state farm bureau
championship was determined on me;" {ee<.ing fa-
cilities insure sustenance fi>r the merTA'nwk 'rs who
themselves produce the Public Necessity; dingling
playground rings tantalize young and old ti "skin-
the-cat ; ■ ' secluded benches at points ovei looking
the lake and adjacent val*i are irresistible > mticers
to those who, perhaps, may wish to hide ou . a bit :
and its .5,000-capacity auditorium nestles e jrenely
between the trees in anticipation of hous Qg the
I'nited States' oflScial leader of Agricultur ' — Sec--
retarj- Wm. M. Jardine When he delivers a mes-
^alge to the nation's ear through the picnicki iig rep-
rwentalivcs of this urgauitation of 6:),00U t iitkiKg
farmers.

CloM to Springfidd
Tayorville, the county •eat of Christian bounty,
is less than an hour's dri^'e south-east of Spring-
field on the state hard road system. It is pie a-santly
accessible by automobile fhjm all directioni . Is it
not a "Garden of Eden" for picnickers?

These Vales will echo and re-echo

Below Is the
swimminx pool
for yf>unK and
old. It's 2 re«t
deep at one end,
and 9 at the oth-
er, aad there's a
twtii ;houKe with
bathing suits for
rent, too.

.*l>OTe at the
rifcht is a suniple
o ff Itie scener>-
•round the little
lake in the |mrk.

Freight Rate Problem

Given General Airing

By Executives Aug. 7

Consideratibn of the proposed 11
per cent increase in freight rates
took the major portion ot the ex-
ecytive committee's meeting of -Au-
gust 7. The highlights of the day
are as follows:

1. Financial report approved and
placed on file.

2. Report of L. J. Quasey, direc-
tor of the transportation depart-
ment, resulted in resolution being
passed authorizing close co-opera-
tion with the Illinois Commerce
Commission in an effort to forestall
the proposed increase in freight
rates. Full discussion, with lots of
fight. I. A. A.'s major stand is that
farmers can't afford to pay higher
rates.

3. Report by Mr. Quasey on
Gaiesbdi-g-Galva case wherein Illi-
nois Commerce Commission granted
plea of I. A. A. and Knox County
Farm Bureau changing course of
transmission line to one favored by
farmers. Hereafter the Commission
will notify the Illinois Agricultural
Association before granting a cer-
tificate of convenience and necessity
to a public utility for right-of-way.
In the past the farmers have not
been consulted.

4. Wm. H. Malone, chairman of
the state tax commission, addressed
the committee. wFavors tax re-ad-
justments for farmers.:

5. Report of advisory committee
to the fruit and vegetable depart-
ment stated that because of numer-
ous inquiries concerning the possi-
bility of buying potatoes through
the Illinois Fruit Exchange, the Ex-
change would give service if there
is sulBcieot demand. iTbe servitse
in to be given to organisations affil-
iated with the farm bureaus, for the
benefit of members. Report re-
ceived and approved. 1

6. Report of phospliaie-limestone
department told of increased de-

when th« first state-wide I og and
chicken calling contest is pi lied off.
Suitable prizes will be gifen the
winners.

The Christian County Firm Bu-
reau will be host of the da; . Com-
mittees appointed by P^sident
William Crimes Iiave t>een ind will
continue :throughout the pi( nic day
to care fbr all details whic h go to
make the event a pleasant one for
everyone. Clair Hay, fa m Ad-
viser, is generalissimo of fhe ma-
chinery.

The coknmittees charged ♦ith the
responsibility. of making th > picnic
the best and biggest In I
history ate as follows:

Dinner and Concession ( ommit-
tee: Ge4. Spates, chairmai ,
Scott, H. J. Cuttle, Taylonille.
' Music Committee: DwigiitHart.
Sharpsburg; Dwight Maaoi , Edin-
burg: W. J. Palmer. Morris >nvilie:
Glen Hunter. Owansco; Wm
man, Noltomis.

Baseball Committee: M
lor. C. R. McCloskey, Edintafirg: C.
J. Curtin, Pawnee.

Horseshoe Pitching Comknittee:
W. E. Holben. Geo. Wackei .
burg: John Daniels. Blue
H. C. Harf. Palmer; D C. H^ll, Tay-
lorville. I

A. A.

W. S.

Engle-

S. Sad-

Edin-
jound;

Parkins and Policing Com mittee:
Frank Willeg, Taylorville; F. T.
Wallace. Assumption; Chri i Mun-
cenwain, t>ana; Ike Evans, Hillers-
ville; Th«o. Langen, Morrii anvilie.

Hog and Chicken Callin : Com-
mittee: S. E. Gallagher. Taylor-
ville; I. A. Madden, Spring Held.

mand for limestone and phcsphate.
More quarry companies co operat-
ing on rebates of 10 cents per ton
to farm bureau members.

T. Next meeting to be at annual
picnic at Iraylorrilie, but ne:t regu-
lar meeting will be in Chic igo the
first Friday of September ai usual.
Farm Bureau members are always
welcome, i

Page 4

The Illinois Agricultural Asaodation Record

August 1, 1925

HERE'S REPORT ON
HOW TORNADO FUND
IS BEING APPLIED

Illinois Farm Relief Committee
Has Turned $50,000 of
$181,081.97 Over to Red
Cross, Specifying Use.

..U> IC. A. (lowles. ('Ii;«irikiaii.

Til*?, accoiiipanyinj; figures are in-
[f-nded to scrvf as a report on the
[•roerestJ of rHhabilitation in the
storm area and particularly in ■
soutlH'rn Illinois, in charge of the
Vni'-rican Ijjed Cross. The fiuures
than those appearing
nnd>r thi> Condensed Statement cov-
rinu tlie Illinois Farm Relief Fund.;
rec»-ivpd from the American

V* IVr Onl «r <'«Mni ClOMeil

The r..iisulHi;it«-.I K.-pi)rt Inr nil
iirea-x al .July IT. IH:;-'' shows, liy
eomputatioii. 48 per <fiit of Hie total
registered eases in Ulinuis as eloseil.
— four motiliis att*-r tin- Hate o! the
ell Crftss. .slorni

Mlie>u«rl-1llint>i«-lniHiinii Helief \|tpru|>riilll<iii>< Totuliiilt SI.INMMMNI.INI

Uhleh KlKurr W n» Itrarhrd on .lune IMh, ll«.-
■ l»M4iurl llllniii!* liHlinnti Tu^nl

i«i.(i,'.e.'i" .j:':i, >■■"".'■" i\H:,:.::, *i.

-^tatt- .ol' .Missouri
-^l;l1f I'i lllii ois,

itiisli .\r.

t'urnii Ar.'

I'.orlialll .\ ■
.MiirplivsiM 1
.M. 1,1^1
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\V. I-Yaiiklitrt

Tni.i) f.'ii

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Statt- of IlliT
f i'.ush Ar*-;
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Slati- *.f Ind

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1. Uttliff fii
L' AiMilion

lt«rf«-i|itMi

Total

T.>Ial

lkii»burMeiiirii

KfiKin
S.-<-(l .
K.'Pfl
fhuki*
Farm •
Ani«ri.-

SIM

t:**fwiiii

l'ii\v«-r

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th.- tin«I»T

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11 [Kin at'tiiat
ihi r.-port9.
'i.it*-, ami n
*li.i|>(»i«al. s'
lini>- anil fi
lit*- proKtani-
It wtll h
I hnt on .Ml
rnont-hfi aftt>r
(Marcli IS. I:
s. t lip on th
]'.'i\ Cross
fnutls to to
.iinniint t>f (
'U-ui-inK the

requir*-iii'iits lor bfiH-lHiarn-s in this
amount.

Afcrfrnirnt or Hon lo llr ^pent

It was also on this liat*- Aliat tlu-
Memorandum Aprcvmcnt wai| t'littTtMl
into between the lllinoin Farr*i Keliuf
Committee hy its chairman and the
American Keil Cross by Its director
of disaster relief, covering the trans-
mittal of funds from the Illinois
Farm Helief Committee to the Ameri-
can Hed <_*ross. and restrietinK and
limilinK the use of all funds so trans-
mitted, according to the purposes and
objects for which contributed by
their donors. The sum shown on the
statement, as having; been transmit-
ted and other sums to bi- transmit-
ted as needed, are to be expended by
the Amt*rican Ked Cross ai\,addilioiial
funds and in addition to actual ex-
penditures, commitments and appro-
priations lo the dale of the Memo-
randum A^rt-t- nienl i.Iurif 18. ltljr> t.

HiMMOuri-llllnoiN-liidiaRn ToniiHlo Itt^ller

U.-porr Kndiiit; June 2". 1

Amount
Appropriati^d Disburs

Total

Appropriat«d

.Total
1 >islmrse»l

. . .$ :;a..'.i;».itt

. . :::•;*. 6:n a;!
. jn:{.:,iK.:iii

i.fiii

» \-2

l."..:i6'.t.L*L'

»:...'.44.:'H
:ii.n»».T4

I.-.4..-.8:..4I

M:{.:t)ti.!M

ti'ililalion

• Iraji.l To

.*1.<'T«.H8S.71 *:.i!l.i:U,LM

al.

■f

. .$i.t»RS.nn8.L»:i jr)Si.Ma:r>t!'

J

VUMoari-llliMoiM-ln^lnna Tornaili* K^'li^'f

FinaiK ial K, port Kudin^ Jun.- jn, l!tL'.".

nds in hands Ani.ri* aif It.d Cross

r ain*tunt for'il.lief i K)it imalid )

pproprlal.-d fi>r i:.Ii«-r.
Ciia|)pr<>prtat td I'.ahinrt

."*i".ii86.H:'Hr:r:i

$L',fi*.':».7xi.i::

'UN M«mI I'riMH MlMMuuri-lllintilM-lmlinnn 'rwriuttio llfll«-

1 K. port -<l All Areas f«»r Wt-k KndiiiK Friday, .inly I

ro

Toial UeKistration
Family I'niis'

:;32

;.3«7

4.8K.")

Tola
<Mos.

18»

:>.:i.'.H

88M

Hi i 11

107

#f

;»7

4^

^•iMMWuri-llllaolM-lHdlanu T»riui«lu Krlivr

I. It KiKliiiu, July ist II

Are
ro Art-

kiori

liabihtalion
rosa:

.Vinoiiiit
\ppni>priat<-<l

. .»*L'6.4TS.TO

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k:i.71:;.S4

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( 1:>.1H".74

7:i.7S4 43
:.':..7;i7,"ii

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47.H71i.47

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. 2i

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|S7».ii7:)..".l
6..7lil.l'2

l.t!lS.7t

Total

SI 64

.IL'1.3'.'

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MiMMUurl-llllnulN- India nil I'orntiilo Itrllrf

Financial Uej>ort Kndinn July 1.1th. l'.*'2'>

ids in hands Atnt-rican Kfd Cross

I amount lor r«-lief < estimated i

\ppropriat. d lor U. li<-f . , .
I'nappriipriat.-d Italaftc

$i*.7n.ai.v<';

.$l,64!*.t|?1.:i:t

. l.MliL'.lll'ii.BN

7ii.a4.'..

i' kndfliMeil Htnlcmrtil of lleeei|MM iiiid IIUlMirMCiiifiitH
llllnwiM Fnrm llelicf Fund

Al Julv 1'7, lyiT, ■,

■ived through Farm Iturr-auat

•ived from other sources. .;

.|ir.2.|S:'7.i

iimn-nt . -i

National If.d i'ross < iranimiitted und«r
He Mtmoranduni Aereement . limiting its

. .1 i.6.';t.4ii

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:: 47

» adjust. remittant't' recfived. madr in
rni vriuipmeni for use and re-sale.

■rror 1 4. XX

- . . . 2.4:{it.)Ht

.i;iii.rts

^'""■' $li8.!«:.o.;t^

UMimrNlH on KiKurrit

pi ion of the mairnitude
akihR by tin- American
aylif obtained by care-
to ihesH reports. Hast-d
ppropri;itions to date of
unds available as of that
n\ber of rases waitinc
n^e idea may be had of
is 'rtquired lo complete

of iirlerest to note
I- ISth. exactly three
the date of the disaster
L''»i thai there had been
books of the .\merican
dual appropriation of
nado sufferers in the
.ie million dollars, evi-
authrorize<l purchase of

_$18l.f»8rjt7

The disbursements maile from the
Illinois Farm U<Mief Fund other than
the item to the Ameri<an Ked Cross
ai>d the item covering the purohase
of power farm etiuipnient for use in
re-sale, represent direct purchases <>{
certain re(|ulrements for beiu -tl»-iuries
in the earlier efforts of the c<)mmil-
le«- to place the farmer benett. iaries
ami tlie farms on a produciuK basis
for the prest'Ut crop season. Th<'
American Ked Cross are reijuirod un-
der the terms of the Memorandum
Agreement to sepretrato and properly
and fully account for all funds re-
ceived from the Illinois Farm Utlief
Committee. The War I>epartmet|l fi-
nally audits all books of account and
records nf the American Hod Cross in
this and all other disasters. The

purcliases of power farm equipment
were necessary to assure seasonable
plowing in part of the aria. Tin-
jiroceeds will be returned to tlie
lund as this *'(|Uipm<^nt is r'sold.

The Illinois ARriciiltura I Associa-
tion, as its contribution, is lakiiiK
car*' of all administration expenses of
the fund, necessary fit- hi expenses,
and other <*xpens<s. so that the fuml
in ton* is availabb' for the r«lief pr(t-
Kram.

Hed ('ri»SN In Chtine**

So thai those who ar<- unaiMUaint "-d
with the Illinois area may have the
proper information at hand In eon-
sideriuK the reports: The disaster
work in the entire Missourl-Illinos-
iTxliana area is administered by the
American Ue<l Cross from a central
office located at Murphysboro. func-
tioniuB through local area ortic**s in
charRe of actual i-ase work. Kar-h
local area otfice, as the term implies
has r ha rill- of thf work in a ci-rtain
limittd immediatt- t»rritf'ry.

Tln' Illinois area in this manner is
subdivided into thf followinK local
areas; Corham. Murphysborf*. DeStito,
all in Jackson eoiinty: Kusli in the
extreme corner "f Williamson county;
West Frankfort iti Franklin county;
McKeansboro in Hamilton founty .
ana Carmi in Whitf county. The di-
sast«T involved exilusi\ tly rural
areas in Ilamilton und Whit<- cmiM-
ties. In the oth<-r eounlii's in Illinois.
tovi'n losses Were involv-d in additimi
to the rural losses snff<-rifl,
Flicur«>N I<4*fl4>et llfHvy I rlinii llninniei*

The town of Corhitrn uas pracii-
cally dcmoiisheil and tli<' siurm dain-
ai^e at I><-Soto involved all but the
southeastern portion of thi- town.
Thf storm damaue at Kush e.ivere.l
the t-xtrt'me no 1-1 1 1 prirtion ol i h<
town, and adjoininii i.rriIor>. Th-
t.riiln- and .-M'-nsix.- d<sl rnci ion ■
done liy IIh' Storm and loss*-s of prop-
erty al Murphv.vboro antl \\'< st Frank- ,
fort is no doubt wri) known to all
and i.-* furlh.r r.Ile.i.d in lb- linan-
cial reports. in Franklin cMuniy, in ;
adtlition to tin- .-vteiisiVf losses in '
W.-st Franklori. lb.' vitlair.- of |':.risb
Was .((Uipb t. l.\ destroyed. ]

I loth t lo- vii.-ebairinan. Mr. Curt
And. rsoti of N,-nia. and I hf chairman i
of tb. Illinois Farm I:.1t. f Cominil- ,
tc. havf iriVfii tln' work, as fHuirtrl ,
I rom lime l<» tinn-. tloir persoinil at- ,
teiMion. aiifl are .oiittnuiim to do so

REPORT SAYS AUGUST
, WILL BE GOOD MONTH
TO BUY DAIRY COWS

Your County Farm Bureau Has
Information From I. A. A.
Telling Best Places To Buy.

j Whero call I k*'! stmie j^iMul milk

I This is the question that enters

; the (lairyman's niiiul about as soon

as he has (iisposetl of his T. II. re-

aclois or culled out his uiipt'otitable

uiilkers.

■■S<nne fanners may have the ini-
: pression that milk eo\^s are apt to i
j be scarce and rather hii;h priced j
I this fall." states a report sent to all i
I farm advisers in the state by the !
' dairy and live stock inarketinR de-
j partinents. which are jointly haii- '
I dlinp the t. b. eradication project of
I the I. A. .\. In sections where sur- |
j piu.s cows ean be purchased cheese
, making is the chief outlet for milk.
rheese has been a good price this i
year. Naturally every dairyman will \
keep his cows as long as possible,
especially with cheese milk ranging
from ?1.9o t<t $2.10 per cwt. In such
sections everybody has been hang-
ing onto their cows.

<i(mmI Sele<-1i(>ns in .Xii^iist
"The question of feed and hous-
ing; for the coming winter will soon
I put surplus cow.s in Minnesota. Wis-
! consin and Ohio on the market. Re-
cent inspection tours by the Illinois
Agricultural Association found that
there will be available a good selec-
tion to choose from the latter part
of August and early September. This
will be a good time to pick up
springers to milk this fall and next
winter. The prices will run quite
consistently with the age and qual-
ity of the cows. Every Illinois buyer
should he sure that he is buying
cows that are free from tuberculosis
and abortion. It is possible in many
inBtances to obtain cows with cow
test association records.

"It is a good idea for several
farmers wishing to make up a car-
load of cattle to make the buying
lour together. The I. .A. A., through
the county Farm liureaus, can tell
members where good milk cows can
be purchased. By seeing personally
where your cows come from and
having taken a part in the dicker-
ing, farmers will be more salistied.
And this direct contact helps shorten
the road from seller to buyer."

FARM BUREAUS FIGHT
FREIGHT RATE BOOST

(t'ontinued from pa&e 1. ro]. 5.)
ity of farmers to stand an increased
freight rate at this time will be
thoroughly understood at the hear-
ing."

Direition of the ease for the
.American Farm Bureau will be in
the hands of Frank Evans, secre-

tary and general marketing counsel,
and O. W. Sandberg, director of
transportation of the American
Farm Bureau — together with the
aid and assistance of state farm bu-
reau officers and such experts as may
be called in.

The railroads have not yet speci-
fied the exact percentage of increase
they will ask. They have simply
liled petition asking that rates be
so adjusted that the railroads will
receive a 5% per cent return on
their valuation. However, the July
11 issue of the Railway Age. of
which Samuel O. Dunn, Spokesman
of the railroads, is editor, in an edi-
torial states that the railroads fell
short of this '1% per cent by $181.-
000.000 in 1924. To make up this
deficit it is estimated would require
an 11 per cent increase over Resent
rates.

Commenting on the action of the
-Vmerican Farm Bureau. President
Bradfute said:

"Three years ago this organization
in working to relieve this serious
economic situation confronting agri-
cultnre discovered tliat liiflii freight
rates were one of the factors which
were keeping agriculture at the bot-
tom of the pile. .\t that time We
went before the. public and to the
Interstate Commerce Commission
and askeil that agriculture he re-
lieved.

".\ Uasic lli«ill.str>**

"We showed lo the satisfaction of
the Commission that freight rates
did have an important part in the
economic condition of agriculture.
We established the fact that farm-
ing was a basic iiulustry anil that
unless agriculture was restored to
a prosperous i-cmdition. industries
anil railroads alike would suffer.

"Some relief was ohtiiined. Then
the railroads came to ns. They told
us iliat iheir properties had been
returned to them hy the (ipvermnent
In a most impaired condition. That
ill order that good service' be estab-
lished it was necessary tllat these
priipertie.-^ lie put into gol^d shape.
This, they said, cimlil uM be done
if rates were further ri'ihn ed.

"We agreed In this aiid forbore
askin.L; for further reductions. The
farmer was willing to hear his share
of the load of reconstruction. The
railroads did imt their property in
good shaiie and now on the strength
of this improved property and the
outlay wliii'h was necessary to make
these imiirovemenis they dare to ask
for inireased rates. The Farm Bu-
reau will tight that proposal until
the proposal is killed."

Annual Meet at Flora
t'.mls SiuTcssfiil > ear
For Red Top Growers

.\notlier sticcessfiil ,\ear of mar-
kitin;; red topi seed co-operatively
for approNiniatel.N xoo farmers in
southern Illinois through the K^yii-
tian Seeil dowers Exchange at
Flora was closed and another one
be^un when the annual meeting
was lield in the warehouse at Flora.
July 14.

tJross receipts from sales during
the year amounted to $1 S1.41 u.7;>.
with total cost of operations at
$24.:>!i:(.l 7, leavinj; the net re-
ceipts to the .urowtrs. for 1. 471,72*1
poui\ds of seed handled at $157,-
0I(;.H2. according to the financial
statement. .Advances to growers
upon d<'liver\ of seed amoutited to
II lS.!ii;i.2t;. The remainder,
amountiim to $:'iS,lM:{.:[ti, Was dis-
tributed to the grower members
shortly after March 1.

The avera;;e price obtained by
the members by co-operatinii. was
above the a\erage level of prices
received b.\" farmers who sold direct-
ly to private buyers, accordinu to
H.uures of the fjiited States De-
partment of .Vcriculture. The co-
oiierative handled sufiicient volume
to be a stronu foi^e in maintaining:
a hii;her general price level than
would exist if there were no farm-
ers' organization in the business.
ICaisetl IVIce Level

".Since about Uii per cent of tlie
world's crop of red top is grown in
this eight-county area which is
served by the Kgyptian Seed Grow-
ers Kxchang*',*' says Curt Ander-
son, general manager, "and the
Exchange handles approximately. 50
per cent of all the red top grown
in the area, it is in a good position
to exert an unusual influence in
raising the price all farmers re-
ceive."

Selection of directors resulted in
the election of the following new
directors: O. n. Scrivner of Jeffer-
son county, .Marshall C. Smith of
Wayne county, and J. M. Luse of
Clay county. In addition, \V. I,.
Cope of .Salem, who succeeded J. E.

MRS. JAMES PICTURES
FUN CITY KIDS ENJOY
IN HELPING DO CHORES

Her Letter Like Many Requests
Coming in For Poor Slum
Children, But Many More
Needed. WUl You Help?

"I imagine feeding the chickens
and cow would be fun for little city
cliildren, " writes Mrs. Win. Pierce
James of Galesburg, in her request
for two youngsters from the Chicago
slums for a two week's outing in
the country Mr. and Mrs. James
have four children of their own. so
they know how delighted and "im-
portant" tile little ones feel when
tliey are allowed to 'help with the
chores" — especially for the first
tinu'. .Mrs. James is right in tiiink
ins tliat the city children, who
know much of motor trucks and
street cars and very little of cows
and pigs, would ihave fun scatter-
ing grain to the; greedy hens and
poking fodder injo "bossy's" man-
ger. That would be a vacation and
an education all jin one.

Mr. and Mrs. (!. H. Jacobs of St.
Francisville, are giving a joyous va-
cation to four children who have
, Jive other brothers and sisters in
the Chicago tenement district. The
father of this family has been out
of work for many weeks, so, in ad-
dition to the fresh uir and sun-
shine and the delight of fields and
pastures which these poor young-
sters are enjoying, they are no
-doubt actually getting the first
"s(|uare meals " they have had for
a long time. It is bard for country
people to realize the number of un-
der-nourished children there are in
the cin. even ill times of prosper-
ii.\ -

(Mlier Kind Hearleil I'eoplc

Oth' rs who liave asked tiiat chil-
dren tie sent them are:

.Mrs. J. I', l.each, I'ontiac, 1; .Mrs.
.\lfred Kohu. Tuscola, I; .Mrs. Haus
Heit, Arthur. 2; .Mrs. C.us Kngel-
hardl. Conr.iton. 2; .Mrs. Jacob
Schilling. H.inna, 1.

.Man,\' [daces have been provided
lor outings for thi' slum kiddies,
throuuli the Kenerosity of iarni bu-
reau folks, but hundreds of the
little folks are still waiting, hoping
that this summer they will have a
chance to spend two wonderful
weeks in the country. Won't you
folks who read this, and who live
within 2011 miles of Chicago, help
Iheiii lo realize their dreams by
taking one or luor*' for a two-weeks
outing'.' .VII .vou need to do is to
drop a line to our Outing Secretary,
staling the number you want and
tile time it would be most conveni-
ent for them to come. The chil-
dren will he delivered to the Station
nearest you. Tlie I'nited Charities
of Chicago will see that they are
clean and will assume all responsi-
bility.

Ketuember — Outing .Secretary, I.
.\. .\.. t;us S. Dearborn St.

H Virus Against Fraud
in Stranger's "Life

Membership" Scheme

A life meiiibersliip in a "Better
rarming Association" at the attrac-
tive price of $S was' the offer re-
cently of a stranger to several farm-
ers in Woodford county, according
to a report of H. A. deWerff, farm
adviser, to \V. H. Smith, state lead-
er of farm advisers, at the Univer-
sity of Illinois.

"We know nothing of a so-called
Better Farming Association. No
one authorized to use name of Illi-
nois .Agricultural College in any
such connection. Secure definite
information if possible and assist in
stopping this fraud," wrote W. H.
Smith, state leader to all farm ad-
visers.

' And neither are any sttch persons
authorized to use the name of the
Illinois ,\gricultural -Vssociatlon.

I.ingenfelter of Lawrenceville, was
elected to the board representing
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion.

"We feel that the meeting as a
whole was a real success for the
reason that a great man)' members
entered into the various discussions,
which resulted in a better uttder-
standing between members and
manageiuent, " said Curt .\nderson.
secretary-treasurer and general
manager. "Although the red top
crop is only about 50 per cent of
normal this year, we expect to car-
ry on in good shape. '

The

Axn^B^i

' Volume 3

Issued Every Other Saturday for 63,000 ihiiikint: Fanners — Aug^ust 15, 1925

No. 16

4

GRAIN MARKETING PROGRAM OF I.A.A. CONSISTS
] OF THREE CHIEF LINES OF ENDEAVOR WHICH
CONCERN IMPORTANT PROBLEMS OF GROWERS

PICNIC GROUNDS

Principal Aim Is to Assist Farmers' Elevators in Formation of a
Collective General Sales Agency for the Handling of Their
Grain in All Markets and to Help Strengthen Farmers' Elevators

TIIK frraiii |in)jri-iriii of tlic lIliiKiis Airriiiiltmal Assdciiitiuu cdii-
liiiiis tlu'cr |)i'iii('i|><il i)liiiscs (if ciidcavdr. iii'coriliii'; ti> ClicstiT
('. Davis, head of tin' <;raiii inarkctiriy: ili'paiiiiicnl of tlic 1. A. A., in
his (Icfiiiitioii df tlic irraiii imlii-y of the assdciatidii ami as i-diicnri-iM
j in liy till' rxi'cntivi' eommittec.

"Brii'tiy. " statrs Dircctdr Davis, '"tlic [ri"ain i)rd(riaiii df tin- as-
I sdciation aims tu assist tli<' fanni'i-s" I'lcvators in the fciiinatidM df a
\ cdllcctivi' fri'iit'i-al sales agency fur tin' liandlin;; df
! thi'ir jrniin in all markets; to cd-diicratf in tlic
'. trrowth and iniprdvcnicnt in servici' of the Im-al
farnici's" clevatoi-s and other Ideal ed-dperativc (rrain
1 liaiidlini; assoeiatidns : and td assist the farmers in
' distriets not served li\- fanners" elevaturs aldn-r the
path of collective niarkctin'r of their ^'rain '

This jtrofirani covers one ot tlf most important
problems of Illinois grain srowers. Illinois' I'lirincrs
market more j,'rain tlirou^ii tlieir own farmers" ele-
vators than any otiier state in tlie fniiai. Tliere are
about fttHt farmers" elevators in I lie state, mostly in
tile northern two-tliirds of tlie state, witti the J:l■4■at^'st
density in distribution forniinj; a block whose four
corners arc at Cliioauo. Danville, Mpline anil .\ltoll.
It is with the representatives of tliese elevators --the
officers of the Farmers' (irain Dealers" associations of
Illinois and Iowa and tlieir national oriianization -
that the Illinois .Vuricultural .Vssociation is co-iiperat-
iim to help develop a central sales a;;ency to serve
these local units, and to be owned and controlled en-
tirely by them.

Such an organization will be co-operative in form
and operation and will provide service for the farmers i wliece tlie a ii
who mai kei tiieii giain through their own elevators, | "ual I. .». A. |iic
in all the princi|ial markets. It will be the aim of this
new company to assist in the inovetnent of ^'rain as
directly as possible from the points of surjilus to
points of manufacture. This new company, known
as the Hural Grain Company, has been incorporated
and application has been made for a seat on the Chi-
cat-'o Hoard of Trade. Tliei farmers' elevators who are
partici|)atini; in ami direcjlns this develoimunt which
shall take them into the; tertninal , ^^^"^^^^^"^
markets, are liopiiiL; for: a sound,
normal Krowtb itito a^ sj'eat and
strong; nationahsahs auency for the
farmers" elevators.

Tliere are pleii-
f > o r s« iiiuiiiK
I'iiitis, cross bars
anil other play-
Ui'oiiiid I'arilities
o f iiiletvst t i»
yoiiiiu folks a t
.Manner's I'ark.

iiic »ill Ih" lie
oit Til II I- s il a .1.
.\uuiisi :i7.

.\bove at the
left is a wailiiiu
|H>ol t'oi' rliililreii.

Would He Hit rio.iecl

The magnitude of such a sales
agency for farmers' eli'vators in Illi-
nois alone, as sUHKested by the pro-
Ki'am of the I. .\. .\.. is illustrated
by the latest available information
from the fnited .'States Deiiartment
of .Vsriculture which credits Illi-
nois farmers' ori:anizations handlini:
strain with an annual business of
$52.445,01111. This liKUre is 30 per
cent above th.e amount of business
done by the fatiners" urain mcrclian-
disiUM agencies in Iowa, whose rank
in this respect is second. Kstimates
as to the share of the Krain in the
Chicaso terminal market that is
sllipped there by local farmers' I'le-
vators vary from i;5 to Kii per cent,
and the truth is somewhere be-
tween.

In regard to the portion of the
state where there are few farmers'
elevators -approximately one-third
in the southern section — the I. .\.
.\. program has two possibilities of
approach in solving the grain mar-
keting problem. In certain parts
of the southern division of the state
it may j>rove advisable to follow
the commodity pooling plan in
w hich the farmer-members of a defi-
nite territory band themselves to-
gether under contract to market
their entile crop of any one grain
through an annual pool. This plan
was followed by the Indiana Farm
liureau Federation wlien it organ-
ized the Indiana Wheat Growers
.\ssociation two years ago. This
year something over 220 farmers in
four Illinois counties of the Wa-
bash Valley district signed market-
ing contracts and have delivered
over llto.ooo bushels of wheat to
the Indiana pool. It is iiossible that
other counties in that porti.on ot
Illinois may find it advisable to co-
operate with the Indiana wheat as-
sociation in the future.

li'iiiiliiiuecl on ti.iii'' '■>• col. 2.)

Inslfill Amplifiers at

Pirnir So J oice Can Be
Borne to 75.000 People

"No neid staying away from the
I. .\. A. picnic because you fear you
can't hear Secretary Jardine's
\oice in the big crowd that is ex-
pected. " says Hilly Grimes, presi-
dent of the Christian ffounty Farm
Bureau.

"We have contracted for the use
of a Western Klectric Public -Ad-
dress System from St. I.ouls so that
as many as 75.000 people can hear
all that is being said.

"The manager. Mr. O'Neil. was
in .Manners I'ark recently taking
measurements. He is satisfied that
the acoustic properties of the audi-
torium are good and that there will
be a splendid job of reproduction."

Illinois' Soft ff heat

Beinf! Pooled Is Best '
Grade. Official Says

Illinois soft wheat delivered to i
the Indiana Wheat Growers .\s.so- \
ciation this year has been of un-
usually line (luality. The hulk of I
the wheat has bei-n grading No. 1 [
and the balance nearly all No. 2, I
according to a progress report made
by Herman Steen. secretary of the
Indiana wlieat iiool. to Chester C.
Davis, director of the I. .\. .\. grain
marketing department.

This is tile first year that Illinois
tanners of the .soft wheat district
liave marketed their wheat through
the Indiana organization and al-
ready something over 130.000
bushels have been delivered bv aji-
proximately 220 members in (ialla-
tin. White. Fdwards and Wabash
counties. J

Tile Indiana wheat association is
lostered by the Indiana Farm Bu-
reau Federation and, with the I. A.
A. co-operating, provides a co-op-
erative outlet for the .soft wheat
growers in southern Illinois where
there are I'elatively tew farmers'
elevators.

TAYLORVILLE CALLS PARK WHERE I.A.A. PICNIC
WILL BE HELD "MODERN GARDEN OF EDEN; " IT
HAS 60 ACRES QF PLAYGROUND-STUDDED BEAUTY

Taylorville Is Less Than Hour's Ride Southeast of Sprini
State Hard Road System; Christian Cbunty Farm Bu
ticipates Record-breaking Crowd ; Special Features

ri'

Id on
J An-
I 'lanned

'-r-»AVI,<IU\ll,I.K calls II ■ ff. .Mod.rii (ia,.;ei, ,.f I'M. u.

X ' "It"" is .Mannfr s Park. Taylurvillc". lid atres of pla,v .'roiiinl

stiiiUlj'd hills and vahs. and it lias all the ca •iiiark'i of iieiii^' a modern

(iat'<|iin of Kileit for|thi' farm Imrejiii tiiciiiliers »vho iitteiid the an

iiiial 1. A. A. picnic fliicli is to lie held tin re Thiirsda.v . Ail nisi 27.

1' park is only tiKe lilocks from ilii' cei Iral sipiare. alioii 1 ivliieli

i tie cirv is Imiil. Its immerou-. shade ire^ promlsi- 'oiiifdrt

for pilose who wish to sit iiMil tiilk ; a nesti iik lake

aiid|ceiiient piHil witf liatldioiisi^ and suits or rent

olfer s« iiiimiii'.' for .\oiiiii» and i^ld . a ceiiie .it lined

wadiii'/ piHil of \H iin-hes i|eptli txteiids a s| lashlii;;

IVefsloll for elM'r:.'>-tie M>lllll.'S<<'rs ; tellllii

lifer eiitertaiiiiiii'iit fo raiiipiel <iiitlil|siasls
lent lioi'seshoe courts aiiij IniseUall diaiiioi
their opportnnit.^ to >a.\, ""A |slaie farm

1 oil tin-; " fii-

ehaiiipioii^hip was detenu

cilitie^ insure sii«.tenaiice or tin' iiien'Miiiik

themselves priHillee the 1* llllie \" '^sin

|ila\;rroiiiiil riip^'s iaiitali>;i

he-eat : '" seclttded li.'liell

Ii e I <k u is ihe
swiiiiikiliiu |> o o I
I- >i)|itig alHf
ulil. Il'> 2 li'^'l
deep at oiM' ell»[
and t^ At (he otli^
er, anil llieiv*'* a
liatli iHiiise Willi
•Hilling siiilx for
lent. iNi.

\lMite al (lie
I'iulit is a salll|lle
o f till' s« elii"l'>

iiii^ and old ii

It jflolllts oVI

the lake and ad.ii|eeni valifs are IrresiNt ilil.
to those who. perhaps, inaii wislj to hide m
ami its ."i.lMHI ca|iaeily an^litoriiiiii iiisih-s

iH-IweeM the tl'ei'S ill ailt jeipat ilill of hulls

I'nited States' ofliiial leafier of Ajrrii'iiltiiiJ
I'.'tar

courts
pernia-
I auait
liiirejdi
line fa
•rs who

illl^'lilej

"skill
I looking'

'tlticetv

a liil :

renelN

IL' the

S.1'

eil States oftieial leader ot Ajrni'iilt
r.\ Will. M. .lardiiie ^\hell lie delive
i'_'i- to the nation's ear tlij'oneh llo' fiieniek iiir rep

'.seliliii j-.es of tills olL'.lllil'.al loll ill ll.l.llltll I UUKtnt

fariiieisi.

Tayorv
less than an

Close to Springfield

lie, the eoiinty »eai ot' thrisiian
liiiiir's drive south-east of

aioiiiiil ilic little Iteld on Ihe state liard road system. It is ph

lake ill the park, aeeessilile liy ailtniiioliile tyoiii all direction

not a "tiardeii i>f Kdeii "t for pii'tiickers J

iiiinty.
priiiir
I asanttv

Is it

Janline Sentls II oril
Hell Sure Be Here
To Sjteali at I'irtiie

II 1m iiNKiired Ihnl S|.|.rel:ir>
.liiriliiit' will Im> |irei«|.|tl t*» tiiiikf-
Ihe prlneipiil nililr**M<> iit ilie I. \.
\. iiiilliitil |ih*ni«-. "r:i> iiirl illi*.
lucuMl 27. iH-eonliiiu 111 :i r»<'«-iil
l«.||i.r front F. M. llllssi-ll. |mt-
Nonnl nf^Telnrj- lo llii- s«.«T»>i:ir>
**i \|sri|.ullurr.

The ?««*«*retiiry Im n«»w in (hi*
\^nlter ilreil h«iH|illtil in \V]i.«h-
iliicliin reMfillK from hii> riM-eiil
trill Ihmiiich Ih4> \\ ei*l iiiiil laU-
iilK Irriilnienl for stoiiiio.li ili«-
iinlers friiiii w hieh ht* hiiM hiiI-
ferea i»lii£hll.i for the |iji»f t*-\%
>«*«rN. 'ihe illlii*MM Im mil «<-riiiii^
mill he Im niulhinK: t.tfr> pijiii lit
lie ill llliniiiM on \iikiimi 27.

"'i'hlM iiiforniiilioii it* iciirn >on
so Ihnl thr prrNS ri*|*orlM nin>
not lit' (li^turbinK." t«rlt*.» Mr.

ilUNMI'll.

I rrifihl Hate Problem
(^iien (General .4irini:
I By E.m'ku tiles 4 up. 7

Coiisjideration of tie proposeil 1,1
pr r d-fit incniase in freight rates
took (lie major portion of ile e\
ecutivii commUtee's meeting of An
gust r] The ijiehliclits of ih. dav
are ai:]follow|i|

1. I'linajiciail report appro\.d and
idacert ion file, j

2 Itjepori ot; 1.. J (Juas.v. dii-c
(of i>fl the transportation depart-
ment, hsulted' in resolution being
passed ; authorizing close CO o|n-ra
lion Willi till- Illinois Commerce
I'omii^ilisiHn irtlaii edort to forestall
tie prioiiosed I increase in freight
lat.s. ifull d|i|cussio[i, wit

Farmers in Debate

Hegardinf! Best H «v

To Call Hungry Hops

Is it "wliooey. whooey" or
"pooe.v, pooey'*"

This question is a much mooted
argument among farm bureau mem-
bers throughout the state these
days. Provocation of the discus-
sion came from an editorial of a
Chicago newspaper which coiii-
uiended the idea of a state-wiiK'
hog and chicken calling contest as
a feature of the I. A. .\. annual pic-
nic, which is to be held at Taylor
ville. .\ugust 27.

The editorial started. "Thei.. art-
lots of things prisoners of the citv
do not know. Itut any one who has
ever heard "pooey. ptioey " roarini:
across the quarter sections will
know that a hog calling contest can
have its Havinia or Civic ("Ipera
strain."

.Some farmers vigorously deny
that hog callers say "pooey. pooey."
claiming it is "wliooey, whoO'-y."

"What's the difference as long as
the hogs come when called?"' Wil-
liam Grimes, president of the
Christian County Farm Bureau
wants to know. '

light.

farmerif

rale;

lot« of
that

These kales Will eclio am]
when tlll^ first state-wut
chicken tiilliiiu contest is {ii
Suitable ipti/fs will b. gi
winners. ■

The c|iristia» Countx Fi
nau will' be hoiit of the da

lllittees appoilMell b\ I'

William (Iriiies ha\'e bt.en
continue tbrtiuglioiit (he pi< nic dav
to care fin all alftails W'lii< li go t
make lh*l t.\t.|it a pleasant
tveryone. Clair Ha.\ . fa
\ iser. is ;i;t-iieralisMiiui of
.chint-ry. '

The omiiiiitttles i hat'ged 4'i)|i die
rt'spo(isilililit> of making tli ^ pfcnit
the bt St alltl big-esi in I| .\. .\
historv ate as follow .-

Iliiiiien and Conc< ^>itiii ( ominit
let-: Gei^. Siiatei*. chaiMliaq. W.

:: i; •port li>
Gal'sbilrg-GaUk

.\. .\.'* major stand is thi
cant Afford to pai high-

coll. H I J CuttI

Music d'oiiimiltet' llwii;
harpsbut-i;; l>(»igln, Masoi .

.Mr. (Juase> fin 'Imiu; W. J. I'aliiier
case wherein llli ' 'Ibn Hunjler. Owansr

rantt'd man.
"oiini.v '

nois Co|iimerce Conimission
I pl.-a of. I. .\ A and Kn
Farm Itureau |cliaiiging course of i )..
transmission llio (o one faiored by | j
tarmerit. Hereafter the Conimission ;
will iiopfy the Illinois .\gricultural
.\ssocialtion- liedip granting a cer-
tilicat"- |of conVtjiiV iice and necessity
to a imjlili!' utility for riglit-ol way.
Ill iliejpasi tlif' fa nut IS have not
lit ■ II cinisultedi

I WJni. H ilalou. . chairman of
the stale tax ciijmmission. a»l«ln-ssed
till cnilimiltee-! •Favors tax it -ad-
just meilts for Hariners.

.'t Keport of. a*l\isor> coiiinuli- '
to the !fruit anti vtgetable di tmri
nieiit stiated that beiause of tiuuter
ous imijuiries cluicerning the possi
bility <5f buyililg potatoes through
the illii>ois Fiiiit Kxchange. tli. Kx-
change would »:ivt service if tllele
is suni;i< nt detnand. The service
i; t'o be given tti organizations aifil

Nok

Itastliall Ctiiimiittt

I", n
urtin

Worsts
W K
tiiiru; J
H C. HarJ
Itirvil

Parkin
Frank \\
Wallae. .
Kt-nwain.
vill.-: Th

Ho:;

miii-e
till.; I

.\l<'Cii>skt'y. Kdiiiljiiri
Paw IB- .

lie I'itelun;. i'oiiitnilt
Htllbeii. (:-ti w .it-ke . Kdin
lialn'is. Milt' lilouiid;

onus

Wi)

M

iiliip-i .

!*..("

d l^olH'ing Colli
ili'i. Ta>lor\ill
\^"'iim;ptitin . Chr
'ailaf Ike I-;\ali.-.

iiMnfL

and
lied olt

tilt;

rm Hu
Com
ideal

iiid will

one for

111 .\d

he ma-

r.ivlon ille

II Hart

Kdin
Mtirro4iiuil|e;

Kntile

Sad

:; C

Hi II. Ta>

lliilttf
F T

Mun
dillt is

t

l.an-eii.
Chirktn
K Gall.
Madtl. 11.

^lorrii diixill'
Callin

- h.-r.

=f=

1 ,

liiand fori Inn* siktiu' ainl |>tif>>)ilial*
Molt' (ni:irr> t«niiiia1»M*s <•«
ini; cm r.-fiitt* s «l l<t r-nti-
l« t'anu Uiinau tii»-mlM i-»*. .
7. N« \| 111- • tiiii: t4. h. al

» oju-ral

bt n«f»t ■ iif inenibtTs. UiImh! re-
ceived »nd approvt'd. '
ti. U^parl of jili'ispliart-limt'stone j
Id of incn'ast'd d**-

departtiient 191

lar iiieciifii: will t>*
rirsi Kriddx ni .Sepi.-mtMi
Kanii Jtui'-aii iihiiil>»'t> ai
Wflruiii' . i

• Mil

\lor

annual

» I'eLU

('hie^t.'o the
usual.
alwa>b

P«gti2

Th* niiiMM* AgricuhunJ AModatJon Record

AvgaU IS, 192S

AugMt 1

20TH [
OF I. ;
FROM

Meeting i
Bureav
Strengi
These

RE

^1 N Ol S

kJ. ASSOCIAT^.,

LORD ^^^

Published every other Satafi^^B the Illinois Agricultural Aa-
sociation, 608 South DearbA^PWnet, Chtcae:o, Illinois. Edited
by Department of Inforiii*tSBkl)b..Jlarry C. Butcher. Director.

Entered as second claaa matter Oct. 10, 1921, at the post ofBc*
at Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March 3. 1879. Acceptance
for maillnff at special rates of postage provided for In Section
1103. Act of October 3. 1917, authorized Oct. 31. 1921.

The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation is flvs dollars a year. The fee includes payment of
fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ctatton RSCDKD. 1 1 7.

Postmaster: la returning apt ||n|called-for or missent copy.
Indicate key number ob' Hdaress as is required by law.

please

OFPICBRS
: President, S. H. Thompson, Qnincf.
' Vice-President, H. M. Goembel, Hooppole.

Tretkinrer, K. A. Ctawles, Ulootnlngton
r Seeretar)-, fcieo. A. Fox, Sjcamore.

-If

1st to 11th

1«th

13th

14th

19th

16th

17th

18th

19th

20th

EXECUTIVE OOMMTITEE
Br CongreMtomU Districts

William Webb, Route One, Jollet

Q. F. TullocK, Roekford

.,,...C. E. Bamborough, Polo

......'.. I.. W. H. Moody, Port Byroo

; ..J B. H. Taylor, Rapatee

w A. R. Wright, Varna

F. D. Barton, Cornell

.....J R. F. Karr, Irequoli

...J. L. Whianand, Charleston

Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21«t ......Samuel Sorrella, Raymond

22nd Stanly Caatle, Alton

23rd J W. L. Cope, Salem

24th i Curt Anderson, Xenia

2Sth I R. K. Leomis, Makanda

\

Directors of Departments, I. A. A. Olllce

Cooperative Accounting Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

Finance R. A. Cowlea

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General Office J. H. Kelker

Grain Marketing Chester C. Davis

Information Harry C. Butoher

Legal Counsel Donald KIrkpatrIck

Live Stock Marketing Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organixatlon Q. E. Metzger

Phoaphate-Llmestonft. J. R. Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C. Wataon

Transportation L. J, Quasey

THE Rzcosd's platform
Advance (A« purpose for which the Farm Bureau wm organized,
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic
tocial and educational interests of the fanners of Illinois and the
nation, and to develop agriculture.

Quit Kidding Um

EVIDEN'tTLY certain species of the city press are
trying to tickle the agricultural Mid- West in the
ribs in an effort to bring forth a hilarious laugh of pros-
perity. Wei want prosperity, and we want it badly, but
we don't wint to kid ourselves into a situation that is
not true.

FARM PKICES AND WHOLESALE PRICES OF AeRlCULTURAL
n» AND NON-AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS

100- -'

isio till Nia itis itM i«is I9I* 1*17 »M itis itM nil ittz no nut iti*

A true picture of the situation can be obtained in a

"loment if you will study the above chart. It shows the

* of farm and wholesale prices of agricultural

products, wholesale prices 0|f nonagricultural products,
and the ratio of farm prices to wholesale prices of non-
agricultural products, as presented by the United States
Department of Agriculture.

Note that the purchasing power of the farmer's dollar
is at 90. While this is some improvement over previous
conditions, there are still 10 points to go before the
farmers dollar is worth as much in things it will buy
as will the dolkr of other industries.

It's the old story of the farmer's dollar being like a
car with a slipping clutch, while the dollar of other in-
dustries uses the same power motor, but brings in more
mileage because it has a three-in-one gear.

One of the biggest problems of organized agriculture,
_and of the nation (if it will only realize it) is to assist
these dollars to get on and stay on an equal basis.

If the city press would quit trying to kid the public
into believing that all's well, there would be more prog-
ress toward gaining a permanent, stable, well-being for
Agriculture.

What the Mid-We$t Need*

WHAT are the three most important things that can
be done for advancing the Middle WestT
President Sam H. Thompson states his opinion on this
subject in the August issue of Kessinger's Mid-West
Review, which is published at Aurora by State Senator
Harold C. Kessinger.

President Thompson's statement follows:

Quincy, 111., July 16, 1925.
Hon. H. C. Kessinger,
Mid-West Review,
Aurora, Illinois. ( .

Dear Sir: i . ' . : ,

In reply to j'our letter asking me to help answer
Senator Capper's request as to what the three big
things are that would be of
the most benefit to the Mid-
West, I beg leave to submit
the following in order as to
their importance, in my
opinion :

1. More Efficient Distri-
bution. — This applies to
both agriculture and manu-
. faetured products. Not less
efficiency in production,
but more emphasis on dis-
tribution, which will give
the producers who are car-
r>'ing the major part of the
load more of the consumer's
dollar. Especially would we
apply this to the products of the farm, agriculture
being the basic industry of the U. S., the Mid- West,
the heart of American agriculture, and the bread
basket of the world. This makes the subject of more
efficient distribution of tremendous importance to
the prosperity of the whole nation.

2. Taxation or Revenue Reform. — There is tre-
mendous need for a taxing system in the Mid- West
states that is uniform — one that will spread more
equally the burden of government over all the peo-
jjle who enjoy t^ benefits and protection of same,
according to the ability to pay. Progress and pros-
perity await the application of tax reform and ad-
ministration of revenue laws on the basis of a square
deal to all.

3.' Transportation. — That will involve the comple-
tion of the St. Lawrence Deep Water Way, thus
giving the Mid-West a Sea Board in the center of
agricultural production, which will result in a great
saving in transpQrtation cost. It would also offer
opportunities for the development of industry along
manufacturing lines. Freight rates are in need of
adjustment that will insure service at the lowest

Prenldent Thompaon

minimum of cost, which will require a complete sur-
vey of the whole subject of transportation, recogniz-
ing the right of all in a fair and impartial manner.
The accomplishment of these things will bring last-
ing prosperity to the Mid- West.

Yours very truly,

S. H. THOMPSON.

Expresaiona on Freight Rates

Dear Sir: In reply to your letter, 1 would say that I ttitnW
freight rates are too high now, and would like to see the Illi-
nois Agrricultural Assocfation put up a bitter ttgrht against any
Increase. — Daniel McCuUoch, Winnebago, Winnebago county.

Dear Sir: In answer to your letter of the 17th of July in re-
gard to freight rates, we farmers of Lee county think we are
carrying all the load we can at present. While conditions are
some better, they are far from good. Farms are for sale In
numbers, mostly mortgaged for all they are worth.

The boys are refusing to stay on the farms. They say that
they put in too many hours in the day for what they receive,
compared to the city boys. We farmers that have our own
help can make out fairly well, but the ones that have to hire
have tough sledding. — A. H. Montavon, Sublette, Lee county.

Dear Sir: In reply to your letter on the proposed increase
in freight rates. I shall say, as a farmer In this county, I would
like to have you do everything within your pow-er to prevent
this increase for it will mean a lot to the farmers of this
county. We have to pay freight on all of our produce shipped
out of the county and indirectly have to pay freight for wnat
we buy. Our Farm Bureau has shipped out through their Live
Stock Shipping Association 259 cars of live stock during the
past year. We have shipped into the county 15 cars of tank-
age, also 45 cars of limestone and small amounts of various
other things such as seeds. You can see that an 11 per cent
increase in freight rates would mean much to the farmers of
this county.

I am sure that I am speaking the sentiment of all the farm-
ers of this county and we shall greatly appreciate anything
our Association can do to prevent this proposed increase going
into effect. — Herman Kilver, AVinchester, Scott county.

Dear Sir: Replying to your letter of the 17th in regard to
the Western railroads beginning a fight for an increase in
freight rates. I think we should vigorously oppose any raise
in freight rates on agricultural commodities. I consider it un-
just and an added burden that we should not be asked to bear
because of the economic conditions confronting agriculture. It
will be easier to oppose a raise than to wail until a raise has
been made and then get a reduction. I trust that organized
agriculture will be able to put up a strong flght. 1 will be
pleased to give whatever help 1 can. — J. S. McDonald, Mt.
Vernon. Jefferson county.

Dear Sir: lleplying to your letter of July 17, addressed to
the Voting Delegates, 1 assure you that we are very vitally
interested in opposing any Increases in freight rates.

It occurs to us that it would be entirely out of line with the
general tendency of the times tor the railroads to expect any
4ncrea8e8 of tariffs now. Practically everything is on a de-
cline; even labor is very materially reduced; and it would be
most inopportune, In view oT the condition of the farmer now
and for the past five years, to thrust upon him such heavy pen-
alties as an eleven per cent increase in freight rates.

I want to urge the Illinois Agricultural Association to do
everything In Its power to prevent such increases.

The cost of marketing and the cost of other products as
compared to the prices received for farm products has already
forced the farmer to the wall. — G. W. Lenhart. President, Ver-
milion County Farm Bureau. Danville.

"I believe the railroads should have sufficient revenue to give
adequate service, but 1 don't think an increase at this time Is
Justified, considering the farmers' financial condition," stated
Chas. R. Finley, formerly president of the Vermilion County
Farm Bureau, when in the I. A. A. office recently.

Dear Sir: Your letter of July 17 has been gladly received.
I am pleased to do anything 1 can as a voting delegate to aid
the I. A. A.

As to the railroad situation, I have been thinking for some
time that I should tell someone my feelings about this.

The railroads are up against a strong competition with the
automobile and truck. It seems to me that they should meet
this competition in the nitturai way. and that is by reducing
their rates and increasing their service. This seems to be
Just the opposite to what they are doing. For instance, the
passenger train service la getting to be very disgusting to the
traveling public. On the Wabash they used to have a train
that was called the "Accommodation train." It would run to
Chicago In the morning and return late in the afternoon, but
now the train to Chicago leaves Emington at 2:16 P. M. and
a train comes from Chicago arrlvine at Emington about 2:30
P. M. What Is the result? We are 75 miles from Chicago and
can drive it by auto in less than three hours and return the
same day.

Another little lacldeait which occurred on the branch of the
I. C. between Kempton and Minonk. The passenger train had
been scheduled to leave Pontlac going East at 4:30 P. M. This
spring the railroad officials changed the schedule so that this
train would leave Pontlac at 4:15 P. M. Just early enough so
that the student would have to cut the last period of his class
work to make the train. The result was that we drove by
auto and brought our daughter home so she could stay and
finish her class work for the day.

The same competition is going to be met with the auto
truck. If they have rates increased this will make it more
profitable for the truck and there will be more truck service
as the hard roads increase. The natural way for the railroads
to do would be to reduce the rates and the trucks would load
the trains at the most convenient point and all would prosper.

If there is anything further I can do to be of service to our
farm organization. I will be pleased to co-operate with you.— ^
Isaac J. Gallup, Emington.

[ JOtiiN THINKER AND EPIDERMIS FLINT.

(Jokn's a Loyal Farm Bnraaa Maakar. Epiaarmia U "Acia" ItO

Making Ep Ponder,

Earl C. I

ence of th
sonville, J
.delegation
Earl C.
county, (
for the di
sorbed th
desires in i
to the real
committee
ville, pre
County Fs
chairman
■Husted, ti
County Fa
retary.
Menibe

"Farmei
Joining th(
in our rei
better and
before as
stated Geo
of organi
which are
paigns thii
progressed
tell the ex
port increi
10 to 25 p
bership, ai
cent."

"The w<
fertility o
Bent, dire
limestone
farmers a:
fact, and
readiness t
tices to s'
year Illino
limestone
the Union,
that was u
This year
record."

Watson Vi

John C.
ation and
Morgan co
erty is as!
centage of
county in
therefore I
tion of sta
of taxation
state, he s
the outgro
the inhere
to escape
muddle in
state, man:
, era of real
I country, ai
tion, whili
practically
entirely so
He stroi
tion of the
enue secti<
4 tion when
' vote in No
of the am(
not enact i
give the G
sion and p
enue situa

I. A. A.

Harry C
formation,

of the I. A
nation,' wh

I because of
of the Stat

I creasingly

"This wi
mitteeman
"There is
district, v
structive »

Those w
I follows:

TH AMIUMAMS MADE A A/II5TAXE
' am' UEPT SOMETMIW ' HERE TlAeT
BEUJWejS TO OOHW TWlMVCEC — lOAU,

loAu, IP \T aim't a COPV op TMAT

X.A A. BECOCO HE USED -TO GkUE
ME— UXDWDER HOUJ Tw' PCE>©HT^
Gate FlfeWT^ A CK>Ml(0'

HERE IT SAVS'J

NATIOWS FACAA BOCEAOS MOBlUllE IW

pcjtjfr A&AiMST pcoposeo w per cewt
I BOOST IM FCeiem EATes"— tuets eoop-

AMD X HOPE THEV OO SOMETWIw! UJMEM
-TMEV 61T MOeiUZED— UJUOTS THIS".
•OWEB HAL^P OP lUHUOlS' OAlCV CATTUt

TnESTEO poa T. 8*— ojAu, mime

ARE TESTED, BUT THE PARM BOBEAO
OIOnS- OO \T, MY UJiPE
PlMtdEtZV^ PUAe^EO ME 'T>U XOiO-

f 'MOCe &BA(W WAWOLEO BV PAKMECS'
( EUEVATORS 110 lUUlWOtS TUAW lU AKJV
CJTHEC STATE* — ^ HUMPH , T OlOlOT KKIOUJ
jTWAT — THEV'O A WAD MORE \P TWEV'O
14A0 MIWE— 'MEMSEfi SHIP IW PARM euCEAO
IMCCEASES 10 TO 25 PER CEMT QReATEK
SEUeCTlOW FOR OOALITV MEMBEftS- —
AAiAIOV'QHHOWiC' KlOWTERS PASSED BV —
SAVJ^T UOOWOER IPT^AAT'S THE REASOW
X>HM THINKERS COMMITTEE
OiKJMEtil PASSED ME UP THAT OaV''

I

Je

S, 1925

te sur-
20gniz-
lanner.
Lg last-

N.

at I think
•e the Illi-
erainst any
■ county.

July in re-
nk we are
ditlons are
for sale in

y say that
ey receive,
e our own
ive to hire
?e county.

}d increase
ty, I would

to prevent '
^rs of this
ice shipped '
it for wnat

their Live
during the
rs of tank-

of various
11 per cent

farmers of

1 the ta.rm-
6 anythin^r
rease going

inty.

t\ regard to
increase in
e any raise
sider it un-
ked to bear
iculture. It
a raise has
t organized
I will be
Donald, Mt.

.ddressed to
very vitally
tes.

ne with the
expect any
is on a de-
it would be
farmer now
, heavy pen-
:es.
ation to do

products as
has already
^sident, Ver-

enue to give
this time is
:ion," stated
ilion County

Jly received,
egate to aid

ng for some
this.

ion with the
should meet
by reducing
seems to be
nstanee, the
isting to the
lave a train
t-ould run to
ternoon, but
L6 P. M. and
n about 2:30
Chicago and
a return the

ranch of the
er train had
> P. M. This
so that this
ly enough so
I of his class
we drove by
Lild stay and

Ith the auto
lake it more
Lruck service
the railroads
s would load
ould prosper,
ervice to our
; with you.^

Angutt IS, 192S

The IBinoM AgrkiJtaiwJ AweciBtioB Record

Pi re 3

• 20TH DISTRICT HEARS
OF I. A. A. ACTIVITIES
FROM FOUR DIRECTORS

Meeting at Jacluonvflle of Farm
Bureau Leaders Reflects
Strength of Movement in
These Counties.

Ponder.

First-hand information concern-
ing what the I. A. A. is doing In
i t s departments
o f organization,
phosphate - lime-
stone, taxation
and statistics,
and information,
was obtained by
e 5 representa-
tives of the Farm
Bureaus of Cass,
Menard, Scott,
Jersey, Pike,
Greene, Brown
and Mo r gan
counties when
Earl c. Smith the second 20th
district confer-
ence of the year was held at Jack-
sonville, July 30. Mason county's
.delegation was stopped by rain.

Earl C. Smith of Detroit, Pike
county, executive committeeman
for the district, oflSciated and ab-
sorbed the farm bureau leaders'
desires in order to reflect them later
to the rest of the I. A. A. executive
committee. C. S. Black of Jackson-
ville, president of the Morgan
County Farm Bureau, was elected
chairman for the day, and Guy H.
Husted, farm adviser of the Cass
County Farm Bureau, served as sec-
retary.

Membership Increasing Says
Metzger
"Farmers are joining and re-
joining the Farm Bureau this year
in our renewal campaigns with a
better and clearer idea than ever
before as to what it is all about,"
stated George E. Metzger, director
of organization. "The counties
which are conducting renewal cam-
paigns this year, and which have
progressed to a point where we can
tell the extent of membership, re-
port increases. These range from
10 to 25 per cent of the old mem-
bership, and average about 15 per
cent."

"The wealth of nation lies in the
fertility of her soil," said J. R.
Bent, director of the phosphate-
limestone department. "Illinois
farmers are keenly aware of this
fact, and have demonstrated their
readiness to 'take' to scientific prac-
tices to such an extent that last
year Illinois used more agricultural
limestone than any other state in
the Union, in fact, one-fourth of all
that was used in the United States.
This year we will beat the previous
record."

Watson Urges Amendment's Adop-
tion
John C. Watson, director of tax-
ation and statistics, declared that
Morgan county land and city prop-
erty is assessed on a higher per-
centage of valuation than any other
county in the 20th district, and
therefore bears a rather unjust por-
tion of state taxes. A great variety
of taxation conditions exist over the
state, he said, most of which are
the outgrowth of human nature, or
the inherent desire of most people
to escape taxation. With such a
muddle in tax systems over the
I state, many people, especially own-
) ers of real property, both city and
i country, are paying an unjust por-
tion, while intangibles are going
practically free, and in many cases
entirely so.

He strongly advocated the adop-
tion of the amendment to the rev-
enue section of the state constitu-
4 tion when It comes up for popular
J vote in November. 1926. Adoption
I of the amendment, he stated, does
j not enact additional taxes, but will
I give the General Assembly permls-
I sion and power to remedy the rev-
I enue situation of the state.

I I. A. A. Activities Increasing

I Harry C. Butcher, director of In-
formation, told of increased activity
j of the I. A. A. In the news of the
nation,' which, he stated, is largely
] because of the Increasing prestige
of the state association and its in-
I creaslngly greater activity.
I "This was a fine meeting," Com-
I mitteeman Smith said at the close.
I "There is a splendid spirit in this
( district, which reflects the con-
Istructive work being done."
I Those who were present are as
•follows:

Land Valuations Reduced $8,905,88 7

in 6 Counties Within the Last Year

V ^ J

SIX farm bureau counties, with
the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation co-operating, have
brought about a reduction in as-
sessed land valuations totalling ^8,
905,887 within the last year, ac-
cording to J. C. Watson, taxation
specialist. This reduction will save
the landowners of the six counties
approximately $57,888.26 each year
in state taxes alone.

The assessed valuation of the
farm laiids' in many of the counties
in Illinois is based upon the in-
flated values of the world war days,
and it is the plan of the I. A. A. to
assist the farmers throughout the
state to bring about a reduction of
the assessments to amounts cor-
responding to the present value of
the lands. The six counties, where
such reductions were accomplished
in 1924, included Vermilion with a
reduction of J2, 241, 812; Logan,
$2,620,790; Whiteside, $1,749,873;
Kane, $919,175; Montgomery,
$890,717; and Cass, $483,520.

Ford First This Year

The first county to get a reduc-
tion in 1925 was Ford. The
board of revenue made a reduction
in the assessed valuations amount-
ing to nearly $1,350,000 on farm
lands. This, It is estimated will
make a saving to landowners of
approximately $8,200 annually on
state taxes. Ford county lands
averaged $90 per acre in the 1924
valuation, and this reduction will
reduce the value to $81 per acre.

Notable reductions have been
made in other counties, principally
Shelby county with a reduction of
$862,731 and Jo Daviess where the
reduction amounted to $299,385.
In the case of Whiteside county full
credit of the saving goes to the
county Farm Bureau which accom
plished the reduction without any
outside assistance.

At the present time the McLean
County Farm Bureau is requesting
a reduction from the board of re-

Morgan county: C. S. Black. H. P.
Joy. M, Greenleat. E. R. Hembrough.
Austin B. Patterson, F. R. Watson
and G. B. Kendall, farm adviser.

Pike county: Earl C. Smith, execif-
tive committeeman: J. H. Billin§:8,
W. F. Beckenholdt. J. A. Miller and
Frank N. Barrett, farm adviser.

Cass county: Guy H. Husted, R. J.
Meyer and Geo. R. Cline.

Scott county: Fred Booster, Bert
Smothers, J. P. Bunch, Clyde J
North, W. M. Carlton, John C. Moore,
A. F. Morris. M. L. Murray. A. W.
Weeder. B. F. Webster, William Ha-
senkamp and Alfred Tate, farm ad-
viser.

Jersey county: H. J. Stelnkuehler,
Ira Cotingrham, John F. Powel, F. W.
Schultz. C. E. Stanley, Thos. Cum-
mings, M. B. Voorhees, John S. Cum-
mlngs. F. L. Dodge, Chas. Campbell.
Richard Walton and R. L. Eyman,
farm adviser.

Brown county: Chas. H. Snyder. F.
H. Six, Allen M. Ater, W. P. Miller,
farm adviser.

Menard county: C. A. Hughes, farm
adviser.

MARKETING POUCY
OUTLINED BY DAVIS

(Continued from page 1, col. I.)
For farmers In territories in
which neither farmers' elevators
nor commodity associations can be
applied, the I. A. A. grain policy
recommends the organization of lo-
cal grain shipping associations. In
this plan 50 or more members can
organize themselves and arrange to
load their grain into cars on the
track and later If advisable to pur-
chase or erect an elevator of their
own. Such a plan requires neither
a large capital investment nor a
detailed organization and will prove
advantageous in counties where
grain is not the principal marketed
crop.

The grain marketing policy, as
developed by the I. A. A., is inclu-
sive and may be applied to practi-
cally all territories and conditions
in the state. It Is toward a state-
wide service in marketing grain
that the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation is working.

The I. A. A. is preparing an ag-
ricultural exhibit to be displayed at
the Central States Exposition at
Aurora, on August 21-29; the Illi-
nois State Fair, Springfield, Septem-
ber 19-26; and the Illinois Prod-
ucts Exposition at the American
Exposition Palace, Chicago, on
October 8-17. The exhibit will be
a credit to Illinois agriculture and
the State Farm Bureau. Come
around to the booth when you at-
tend the fairs.

views which will amount to a sav-
ing of 10 per cent to the landown-
ers. Other counties including Ogle,
Peoria, Clay and Kane are expect-
ing to ask for a reduction this year.
The reduction made in Kane county
last year was not as large as It
should have been according to the
present land values. Last year the
Peoria Farm Bureau asked for a
reduction in the assessed valuation
of farm lands but was unsuccestful
due to the opposition of the county
treasurer and certain members of
the board of review, according to
the Peoria County Farmer, oSlcial
organ of the county Farm Bureau.
This year, It is understood that the
board admits the fairness of the re-
guest and It is l>elieved that a re-
duction will be accomplished.

Other States Active
Other states, particularly Iowa,
Michigan, Ohio, Missouri and Indi-
ana, are also making efforts to
bring about a reduction on taxation
assessments. Last year, according
to the Missouri Farm Bureau News,
the Farm Bureau Federation In that
state succeeded in getting a reduc-
tion in 13 counties and this year
data is being prepared on 57 other
counties with the hope of bringing
about a similar reduction.

The state executive council of
Iowa, according to news reports, re-
cently fixed a valuation on fkrm
property of $69.45 per acre as com-
pared to $76.66 two years ago. The
decrease on farm lands in that state
in 1926 and 1927 will run from 5
to 15 Per cent as compared to the
1923 assessment, with an average
decrease for the state varying from
9 to 10 per cent, according to a
special correspondent to the Chica-
go Journal. The tax reduction work
in neighboring states was gotten
under way by Mr. Watson's assist-
ance. He has worked in Ohio,
Michigan, and Iowa, and Missouri
used the I. A. A. system.

WABASH REDUCES ITS
PROPOSED LIMESTONE
FREIGHT RATE BOOST

Planned Big Increase to Correct
Error, But I. A. A. GeU Com-
promise Which Will Save
Farmers Many Dollars.

Farmers along the Wabash rail-
road who buy limestone will bene-
fit from a recent negotiation of the
I. A. A. phosphate-limestone de-
partment and Vice-President Max-
well of the railroad.

Earlier in the summer the Wa-
bash officials signified their inten-
tion of advancing its rate on agri-
cultural limestone in order to cor-
rect an error made by its employees
at the time the former low rate was
published. The formjer rate ab-
sorbed a 30-cent-per-t(in switching
charge which is necessary to trans-
port the stone from the quarries
to the company's own line.

Propo«e<l Increase Reduced

"In correcting the error," states
J. R. Bent, director of the depart-
ment, "the railroad proposed an in-
crease which would have placed a
severe penalty on limestone pur-
chases from quarries served by this
line. Naturally it would have de-
creased the use of limestonfe to a
considerable degree.

"I am very glad to be able to
report that Vice-President Maxwell
has agreed to minimize their pro-
posed increase, even though it
leaves the net rate on the Wabash
extremely low for the mileage con-
cerned in view of the fact that
there is a switching charge to be
handled. He promised to get out
a new tariff at once which will ab-
sorb a portion of the 30-cent switch-
ing charge levied by the connecting
line at the shipping or 'origin' end
as follows:

"1. On movements where the main
line haul amounts to $1 per ton or
more freight, the Wabash will ab-
sorb 25c of the switching.

"2. On movements amounting to
90c or more, but less than »1, 15c.

"3. On movements amounting to
80c or more, but less than 9l)c, 10c

"This very favorable action is
good for the balance of 1925 as a
trial matter. I hope that the re-
sults this year will convince Mr.
Maxwell that such encouraging
rates should be maintained perma-
nently."

State Picnic's Still
2 JTeeks Aivay, But
There's Bid for '26

WITH this year's annual
I. A. A. state picnic sUU
two weeks in the future,
the executive committee re-
reived the first Invitation tor
the 1926 plrnic at its meeting
of August 7.

It was from the McDonough
Coimty Farm Bureau. The ex-
ecutives ordereil tlie invitation
placed on file.-

Watch for Chicken

Epidemic Is Warning
Of Poultry Department

The chicken disease which
caused the embargo to t>e placed on
live poultry and the enormous loss
to Illinois farmers last year has be-
gun again to show up in the New
York market, according to informa-
tion received by F. A. Gougler,
head of the poultry and egg depart-
ment of the I. A. A.

To forestall the spread of the
disease and the ultimate embargo.
Director Gougler has issued a warn-
ing to Illinois farmers through
their 92 county Farm Bureaus to,
"Be extra carefnl not to send sick
fowl to market."

"We should not forget the serious
epidemic of poultry diseases that
developed throughout the country
last year and which may appear
again this year," reads the warn-
ing. "Since symptoms of many
diseases are very much alike, every
effort should be made to prevent
sick birds from reaching the mar-
ket which may cause another em-
bargo.

"During the months of August
and September poultry culling will
be done by farm advisers and other
poultrymen and It will be well for
them to call farmers' attention to
the Importance of marketing only
healthy stocks."

Government and state authorities
are working quietly but thoroughly
to stamp out the disease wherever
It appears. By careful Inspection
of the farm flocks and particularly
fowls to be shipped^ to the large
markets, it Is hoped that the disease
may be eliminated and thus prer
vent a recurrence of the poultry
epidemic and financial loss to both
shipper and receiver during the
coming winter months.

Over Half of Dairy
Cows in State Under

Supervision for T. B.

The tuberculosis eradication proj-
ect is more than half completed and
soon there will be enough safe tu-
berculin tested milk for all families
who consume milk from Illinois
herds, according to statistics com-
piled by A. D. Lynch, head of the
dairy department of the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association.

"Already 53.1 per cent of the
cows In Illinois have been placed
under supervision and 2,000 head
of cattle are being tested . daily,"
states Director Lynch. "Farmers
throughout the state are rapidly
showing more interest in getting
their herds tested and Illinois dairy-
men are determined to have healthy
cows, safe milk for their kiddies
and clean tuberculin tested milk for
their city cousins.

"On July 1, a year ago," accord-
ing to the records of the dairy de-
partment, "30.6 per cent of the milk
cows of the state had been tested.
In 1923 only 7.8 per cent were un-
der supervision and three years ago
the number of tuberculin tested cat-
tle was but 3.5 per cent. The Illi-
nois program has been a steady,
sensible progressive plan to rid the
state of bovine tuberculosis in a
co-operative and complete manner
and figures showing the increase in
number of tested cattle from 3.5
to over 50 per cent in only three
years is Indicative of the success of
the project.

"The farm bureaus and the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association have
backed this program and will con-
tinue to assist their members and
their communities in the eradica-
tion of tuberculosis. The Job is
now a little over half done and it
is expected that the remaining por-
tion will be easier. The macbineo'
Is working smoothly. Over 136,-
000 head of cattle are on the cur-
rent list waiting to t>e tested, and
the passage of the Tice bill made
possible an appropriation of $2,-
000,000 for indemnities for the
next two rears."

MARKETING POUCIE$
'biTEN AIRING AT 22M
DISTRICT CONFERQ«

Omuj and Grain Plans for I A.
. Told t o Farm Bureaqi
Waterloo Meeting

Definite brograms for the o-op-
erative marketing of both grai n and
dairy products
were discussed at
the conference of
the 22nd district
of the Illinois ,\g-
rieultural Asso-
ciation held at
Waterloo on
August 5.

Approxir^ately
50 representative
farm bureau
members were
present from
Madison. Bond.
St. Clair and Htaaly Cmm^lr
Monroe counties,
according bo Stanly Castle,
tlve committeeman of that district
The meeting was presided over by
Albert Kolmer. president o the
Monroe County Farm Burej u, as
chairman with Frank Oexnpr of
Waterloo officiatiog as

secret iry
Featare

Tells or Ratio Price

During tile morning session
Di Lynch, director of the
marketing department, reviewed
Illinois dairy marketing plai i
explained how it may be appi ed
the milk tistribution probl^
the 22nd district. The Illinoi l
gram, which is similar to the
keting methods used succet sful
both In Detroit and Philadelphia
is taow being prepared for the
btlreau members in Peoria,
well and Woodford counties,
der this plan the price ratio
ranged according to both a
add surplus production, whici
mtmnlces uniform productioii.

The members of the 2 2 nil
trict have an additional prosp^tive
outlet for tiheir surplus milk
oould be arranged through th^
plus plant in the territory, 11
an avenue should be needei I
cording to Director Lynch. N i
nite steps Were taken In regi rd
the dairy Siarketing at this
ing, but it Is believed that tbejques.
tion will b6 considered more
pletely at a future district mating

for

Rural

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I. A. A. Grain Policy

Chester C. Davls^. grain mjirket
Ing director, addressed the
noon session. In his talk, Dl^-ector
Davis told of the Illinois
marketing Igrain and of the
Grain Marketing Company
been incorporated recently <
die the sale of tho^rain prolluced
by the members la the Chicaejo
trict). Th4 grain program,
viewed by Davis, Includes thr^
jectives. Ttie I. A. A. aims
sist the already existing 600
ers' elevators in the formatloi i
central sales agency for the
pose of disposing of the gral
all markets; to develop a
for the farmers of the state
do not hate the advantages
co-operative elevator; and to
erate in tiK growth and imirove-
ment of the local farmers' ele' ators
and other eo-operatlve grain
dling associations for greate '
ciency and harmony.

The work of the I. A. A.
co-operation with the county
Bureaus of the district
Ing the state-wide programs
marketing Of dairy and grain
ucta was reviewed by Committee-
man CastleJ

f<ir

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MANY SLUM CHILDREN
ENJOYING FARM UFE

Many children of the city klums
are enjoyine these last few reeks
of summer in the homes of Farm
Bureau members near Ch cago
These lucky youngsters will cer-
tainly long remember with jrati-
tude and affection the generoi ity of
the farm fatuilies into whose (nidst
they have been welcomed.

The following persons hai|e re-
cently written to the outing
tary requesting children:

Mrs. A. W. Johnson, Jerseivlll
2; Mrs. William H. Cobra,
wood. 2; Mrs. B. F. Pudicil,
er City, 2; Mrs. Henry
La Moille, 1: Mrs. Emery
heiser, Kent, 1; Mrs. Nels
Walnut, 1 ; Mrs. E. Pierce, De
2; Ifrs. H. I^. McVey. Kirkwoid,

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Page 4

The niiitoU AgricultiinJ AModation Record

AugMt IS, 192S

STATE PRESIDENT OF
IFARMMUTUALS TELLS
OF REINSURANCE NEEDS

. A. Asplund of Henry County
Tell* of Trials of Farm Mu-
t a a I Inaurance CompaaiM

(°. A. AsplsKd

'I am intensely interested in this
uroject. " writes C. A. Asplund, pres-
ident of the Illi-
_^^f^m^ nois Association

^^B>^^ of Mutual Insur-

^^K ^ ance Confpanies,
^^^■^ \ a letter coa-

^^H^P Ji cernins the prog-
^^^^^ ' ress of the newly
^^^1^ formed Farmers'

^^^^ Mutual Reinsur-

^^■^^^^ ance Company,
'^^PPF^^^^^ which has been
^^^^^^>^^^^H organized by
^^^H^^^^^H farm mutuals
^^^^^^^^^H the
^^^^^^^^^^^^ which is now In
a campaign to get
sufficient direct
insurance on Are and lightning
risks to permit a charter from the
state.

"I am anxious to do what I can
for the immediate fulfillment of the
requirements of the insurance laws
to get this reinsurance company in
operation and on a sound footing,"
his letter continues. Mr. Asplund
is secretary of The Svea Mutual
Protective Insurance Company of
Kncfx, Henry and Mercer counties,
which, he states, has over $27,000,-

000 insurance in force. He is also
president of the reinsurance com-
pany.

Pnnds Now Available

"The necessity for an organiza-
tion that will safeguard mutual in-
surance presents itself more and
more forcibly as time goes on, and
it seems that the mutual insurance
fraternity has been lax in negleet-
. ing this important matter all these
years. The reason, however, is lack
of funds for its promotion. It Is a
well known fact that there Is no
business approaching in magnitude
and importance that of mutual in-
surance work that offers as small re-
muneration for the time and efforts
engaged in it. It should not be ex-
pected that they should also con-
tribute cash funds in promoting its
welfare but now that this obstacle
has been overcome by the generous
offer of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation to advance the $10,000
guarantee fund and all of the or-
ganization expenses, it has" left the
comparatively small matter of ob-
taining the $500,000 of direct in-
surance to those interested in the
success of this project and to com-
plete the requirements and launch
a state-wide mutual reinsurance
company In the Seld. This latter
detail can be accomplished In a very
short time if each mutual officer
would take it upon himself to pro-
cure a few applications each. In-
cidentally, on last Saturday I made
it a point to call on some of my
neighbors that I knew should have
more insurance than they were car-
rying, and in less than three hours

1 wrote eight applications for $22,-
650, and could have written consid-
ecably more had I not run out of
application blanks, for not a single
person approached neglected to
take a policy after the object and
purpose of this new company was
explained, and I feel that this con-
rtlHnn obtains everywhere.

BIk Problem

.ness in mutual in-
surance 18 liut tendency to overload,
or carry larger risks than is com-
mensurate with assessment re-
sources. This is especially so with
the smaller companies: out of the
235 inutuals In the state, there are
86 with less than one million dol-
lars of Insurance in force each. It
is very apparent that such com-
panies are not in a position to give
their members adequate protection
and remain within reasonable
bounds of safety without reinsur-
ance facilities.

"It is a regrettable fact that two
mutual companies during the past
three years that have done splendid
work and given their members pro-
tection at a very low cost for many
years past, and operating in the
same territory that our local com-
pany is operating, owing to carry-
ing loads too heavy to be consistent
with safety, have experienced a run
of losses for the past two or three
years which caused their loss ratio
to increase above their ordinary ex-
perience, causing dissatisfaction to
their members, which resulted in a
decision to liquidate and go out of

Conference Meetings

Scheduled for Five

m.slricls Within Month

Kiv<' congressional district con-
ferences of the Illinois Agricultural
Association, that will include 25
county Farm Bureaus, are sched-
uled to be held during the next 30
days.

Those listed according to date
and place are:

August 20: Third conference
meeting of the 2l8t district at Tay-
lorvilie. Counties of Sangamon,
Christian, .Macoupin and Mont-
gomery. Chester C. Davis, grain
marketing director, to talk.

August 25: Third conference
nioeting of the 24th district at
KIcra. Counties of Clay, Wayne,
Kd wards, Hamilton, White, Saline,
Gallatin, Pope, Hardin, Johnson
jnd .Vlassac. S. H. Thompson, pres-
iutnt of the I. A. A.; F. A. Gougler,
dirotor of the poultry and egg de-
partment; and Harry C. Butcher,
director of the information depart-
ment, to address meeting.

September 1: Third conference
meeting of the 11th district at Lib-
ertyville. Counties of McHenry,
Kane, DuPage and Will. Illinois
Agricultural Association to be rep-
resented by J. C. Watson, taxation
specialist, and Donald Kirkpatrick,
legal counsel.

September 2: Second conference
meeting of the 18 th district at Mar-
shall. Counties of Kankakee, Iro-
quois, VeVmilion, Edgar, Clark and
Cumberland. R. A. Cowles, I. A. A.
treasurer, and A. D. Lynch, director
of dairy department, to talk.

September 16: Second confer-
ence meeting of the 19th district a^
Sullivan. Counties of Champaign,'
Piatt. DeWItt, Macon, Moultrlev
Douglas, Coles and Shelby. Presi-
dent Thompson; J. R. Bent, Phos-
phate-Limestone department; and
F. D. Barton, of the finance com-
mittee, to address meeting.

Red Top Growers Win
Decision Against One

Member Who Sold Outside

Contracts of the Egyptian Seed
Growers' Exchange with the mem-
bers, are not cancellable upon the
win of the member utitll after July
1. 1927, when members can with-
draw from the co-operative if they
state their desire in writing, ac-
cording to a decision of the Appel-
late Court of Illinois in the fourth
district, which reversed a decision
of the Circuit Court of Clay county.

The question had gone to court
when D. J. HoUinger, a member of
the co-operative, sold red top seed
outside the pool, thus making him
liable for damages to the co-op to
the extent of five cents a pound.
The resulting litigation was princi-
pally over the literal meaning of
clause 10 of the uniform growers'
contract, which was construed by
Mr. Hollinger's attorney as permit-
ting withdrawal any year after July
1, providing written notice' had
been given the co-operative between
May 15 and 30. The Appellate
Court held that Mr. Hollinger's at-
torney's interpretation could only
be made by completely ignoring a
clause in this section as follows:
"that the contract shall continue to
be In full force until the first day
of July, 1927." This, the written
decision of Judge P. J. Higbee
stated, could by no means be ig-
nored.

This is the only case of this kind.
Manager Curt Anderson states, that
has come up in the three years of
successful operation of the pool.

business. Had the newly organized
reinsurance company been in opera-
tion a few years before this, and
these companies taken advantage
of its protection, they would be in
existence today.

Relnannuice Is A Stabilizer

"Reinsurance is ti stabilizer of all
insurance. While it does not pre-
vent losses it distributes them
among the many to pay in smaller
or more moderate amounts. It is
our experience that it is infinitely
more satisfactory for all concerned
to pay a moderate assessment each
year than to pay a large one one
year and none at all the next. The
average policyholder forgets the
year when an assessment is not col-
lected, but always remembers the
heavy ones which are the ones that
cause dissatisfaction."

Deadline On Horseshoe
I Entries Set for 9 A. M.
of Day of State Picnic

Entries in the state cham-
pionship horseshoe tournament
may be made until 9 o'clock the
morning of the picnic day —
Thnrsday, August 27, accord-
Jlng to Clair Hay, farm adviser
,of the Christian County Parm
jKureau.

Each entry should be made
^by letter to the Horseshoe com-
mittee. Christian County Farm
Bureau, Tayiorvllle, thus estab-
lishing the Identity of the bona
,flde representative of partici|)at-
ling farm bureaus. The earlier
jtlie entries, the better.

L A. C. A. NOW SERVES

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Contracts for membership in the
C. A., the auditing and busi-
ness advisory service co-op-
eratives, now number 173.
The three latest co-opera-
ttves organizations to join the Illi-
nois Agricultural Co-operatives' As-
sociation are the Stockland Live-
stock Shipping Association, Iroquois
cbunty; the Claytonville Co-opera-
tive Oil Company, of the same
county; and the Havana Co-opera-
tive Grain Company, Mason county.
1 The I. A. C. A. now lists organiza-
tions of practically every type of
business co-operative operating in
the state. The membership list in-
cludes 82 co-operative grain com-
panies, 7 milk and dairy associa-
tions, 45 Farm Bureaus, 25 co-op-
erative shipping associations, 4
mutual Are insurance companies, 1
automobile insurance association, 5
co-operative supply companies, 2
seed growers' exchanges, 1 fruit ex-
change, and 1 limestone association.
Other co-operative organizations
in the stat^ have received blank
membership forms and are consid-
ering joining the association, for
better auditing and business serv-
ice, according to George R. Wicker,
director of the auditing department.

Here's Spicy Program
for Annual I. A. A. Gala
Day at Taylorville, 27th

FollonlBa t« dar*« proaram of aplcy
eventn i

9i00 A. M. Horseshoe toarnaineat
arts under way.

lOtOO A. M. Beslnnlnr of 'Women'*
proaram. with Mrs. Spencer Kwina,
preaident of Illinois Home Bureau
Federation, presldlna. Assembly of
ehlldrm. arrompanled by Hnnter*s
Christian County band. .Sinalna of
**Amerlrn** by audience. DIsrusslon
of athletic badKc test for hoys and
alrls with demonstrations of stunts
actually performed by boys sad alrls,
eoadncted by Mrs. Homer Johnson,
former iirealdent of McLean County
Home Bureau.

lOiSO A. M. Baseball same for
champlonahip of state. Folk alnalna
by boys and alrls with Vlctrola ac-
compaalment In charae of Miss Bnch-
aaan or Mrs. t-^^fvlna. Three folk
aames by Champalan County Club
alrls. Stunts and souks by Shelby
County Club Klrls«

llitm A. M. Address, '•Tornado Re-
lief In Southern Illinois," by Mrs. J.
L. Mitchell of the Red Cross.

Ili30 .1. M. Address, "The Home
Bureau and its Work." by Mrs. Spen-
cer Ewtna.

IZtOO-li.'iO Band conrert and time
off tor dinner. (Brlna picnic lunches
but dinner for ."{.(MIO can be secured
at arounds or In business section, Ave
blocks from arounds.)

11.10 P. M. I*eople called toaether
In auditorium by bualer. Community
slnalna led by J. H. Cbeckley, farm
adviser of the Loaan County Farm
Bureau. Slualna and selections by
hand, l

li4S P. M. William primes, presi-
dent of Christina County Farm Bu-
reau, presldlna, ^^111 Introduce Harry
Hershey, mayor of Tayiorvllle, for a
/ihort address of welcome. Mr. Grimes
will then Introduce Snm H. Thomp-
son, president nt the 1. A. A., who vrlll
preside for the sfternoon. Messaae
from Dean H. \V. Mumford of L'nl-
rerslty of Illinois.

2tlS P. M. Main address of the af-
ternoon by Secretary of Aarlculture,
W. M. Jardlne.

3tl5 P. M. ^wardlna of horseshoe
and baseball championship cup by
President Thompson. Chicken callina
and boa calllna contest.

Future talks by I. A. A. directors
every Friday noon over WI^ broad-
castins station include the following
speakers and dates: August 21. A. B.
Leeper. director of the fruit and
vegetable marketing department and
manager of the Illinois Fruit Grow-
ers Exchansre: August 28. Wm. E.
Hedgcock. livestock marketing direc-
tor, on "The Wool Marketing Sttua-
tloti;" September 4. Chester C. Davis,
grain marketing director; September
11. A. D. Lynch, director of dairy
marketing: and September 18, Frank
A. Gougler. head of the poultry and
egg marketing department.

Gougler Finds Active
Interest in Marketing
Poultry All Over State

Active interest in the possibilities
of a state-wide program of market-
ing poultry and eggs co-operatively
is seen by Frank A. Gougler, di-
rector of the I. A. A. poultry and
egg marketing department.

This is indicated; he finds. In the
series of meetings now being held
over the state at which farm ad-
visers gather from a half dozen or
so counties, along with farm bu-
reau leaders keenly interested in
the subject.

The first meeting of the series
occurred at Hannibal, Mo., where a
delegation visited the Mark Twain
Poultry Producers' Association, an
organization that has been function-
ing for several months, and with
good results. ^ ' ^

Other meetings have been held
at Dixon on August 4 and Cham-
paign on August 6. A meeting at
Springfield is set for August 17, and
one at Peoria on August 19. One
will be held at Galesburg the first
week of September, and Effingham
and Ottawa have been picked as
meeting places, but no dates ar-
ranged.

Mr. Gougler is getting up a group
to visit the successful co-operatives
in Minnesota. The first active start
toward forming a poultry and egg
marketing association in Illinois is
in Ford county. Farm Adviser
Swalm of that county recently vis-
ited in Minnesota while on his va-
cation.

Farm Bureau Baseball
Championship of State
A Feature at Taylorville

The semi-final games of the Illi-
nois Farm Bureau Baseball league
are now well along their way toward
the state championship game which
will be played at the 1. A. A. an-
nual picnic, Taylorville, on August
27, according to G, E. Metzger, sec-
retary-treasurer of the league.

The championship game is to be
one of the big features of the picnic
and much anticipation has been
aroused in many of the counties re-
garding who will win the state hon-
ors this year.

When the league was formed
early this spring it Included 17
teams representing the county Farm
Bureaus in Marshall-Putnam, Car-
roll, Knox, Mercer, Henderson, War-
ren, Adams, Brown, Cass, Morgan,
Sangamon, Mason, Menard, Logan,
Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford.
These teams were arranged into
seven districts and the districts into
four groups. In the preliminary
games, the teams matched up to
determine the district champions.
The district champions competed
for group championship and now
the semi-final gam^s between the
group champions are being played
to determine wlio^ shall play at
Taylorville.

PRODUCER AGENCIES
INCREASE BUSINESS

The 1924 earniags of the Na-
tional Live Stock Producers' Asso-
ciation amounted to $424,985.92,
as compared with $407,916.98 for
1923, the association's annual re-
port states. The organization sold
during the year 90,910 cars of live
stock, valued at $199,970,674.58.

During 1924 producer terminals
handled live stock consigned from
twenty-eight states. Illinois con-
tributed the most cars, with In-
diana, Iowa and Ohio following in
order.

The association is now repre-
sented on thirteen markets, includ-
ing Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland,
Evansville, Indianapolis, Kansas
City, East St. Louis, Oklahoma
City and Peoria.

During 1924 the Chicago termi-
nal did more business than any
others, selling $27,995,127.79 worth
of live stock. The East St. Louis
terminal was second with total sales
of $19,496,863.91.

The Producers' Association re-
ceipts amounted to 10.46 per cent
of the total receipts in the markets
in which it operated, as compared
with 9.18 per cent for 1923.

Farmers' co-operative associations
in Illinois in 1924 handled 18.28
per cent of all the livestock shipped
to market from this state. This
amounted to approximately 35,000
cars and had a total value of $48,-
450.000, according to Wm. E.
Hedgcock, director of the livestock
marketing department of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association.

FARMERS MAY KILL
WILD ANIMALS THAT
INJURE PROPERTY

Closed Season Does Not Apply
to Destructive Game, Says
State Conservation Authority

"Farmers may lawfully destroy
In any manner, except with poison
or poisonous substances, any wild
game, except migratory birds, found
destroying their property or their
land only," according to a com-
munication from S. B. Roach, chief
assistant, department of Conserva-
tion in the State Department of
Agriculture.

The question of the legality of
killing wild animals out of season
that are destroying chickens and
other property has faced many Illi-
nois farmers. Inquiries have come
to the office of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association and the depart-
ment of information referred the
question to the state department
for Interpretation of the game law.

"No license is required to kill
such animals found destroying
pwperty on the lands of the owner
oi^tenant. This, however, does not
glue the owner or tenant the right
to hunt fur bearing animals on
their own premises during closed
season, except when these animals
are found to be actually destroying
property," according to the state
conservation department.

Section 28 of the Game Code of
Illinois, which covers this point,
reads:

"Sec. 28. When license not required.
The owners and tenants of farm lands
and their children actually residing
on such lands, shall have the right
to hunt, take and kill, wild animals,
wild fowls and birds of the kind per-
mitted to be hunted, taken or killed
by" the provisions hereof, upon such
landk or waters thereon, of whlcli
theyj or their parents, are bona flde
owners or tenants, during the seasons
when it is lawful to do so. without
procuring hunting licenses.

"The owners and tenants of lands
may destroy any wild animal or wild
bird, other than game bird, when such
wild animal or wild bird is destroy-
ing property upon his or her land,
but no poison or poisonous substance
shall be used as a means of destroy-
ing such wild animal or bird."

New Reinsurance Body
Meeting Good Support
Among Farmer Mutuals

"The Farmers' Mutual Reinsur-
ance Company now has thirty-two
applications for fire and lightning
insurance," states Vernon Vaniman,
field representative of the new com-
pany. "This is a start on the $500,-
000 which iff needed to secure the
charter for the company."

"The mutual insurance companies
of Peoria county met In Peoria on
July 31 and $22,000 worth of ap-
plications for insurance were sub-
scribed for at the meeting. The
mutual insurance companies of
Madison county met in Edwards-
ville last Saturday. They unani-
mously endorsed the plan of the
Reinsurance Company and the men
present subscribed for $20,000 of
insurance.

"When will the Reinsurance
Company get the $500,000 of ap-
plications so it can secure its chart-
er and start operations? I believe
the company will have $500,000 in
applications by September 16, at
the latest.

"If you desire to see the local
mutuals put in a position so they
can handle all the fire and light-
ning, as well as the hailstorm and
Windstorm, insurance needs of the
farmer, then you should be a
charter member of the Reinsurance
Company by making out an applica-
tion for insurance.

"Write the Farmers' Mutual Re-
insurance Company, care of the I.
A. A., and become a charter mem-
ber."

OFFICE VISITORS

Gray Silver. Washiiieton. D. C; Mr.
Winebrig-h*; Mr. Wescott, Decatur;
Geo. McCormlck; Stewart Hyde; Paul
Schmidt. Earlvllle; J. E. Harris; L. A.
Finsen, Superintendent. Concordia
Creamery. Concordia; Mr. Taylor.
Cass county; J. M. Mehl; Mr. John-
•tone; R. H. Taylor, Executive Secre-
tary. Agrricultural Legislative Com-
mittee. Sacramento, Calif.; Chas T.
Peavey, Grain Auditor, Chicago; L. E.
Martin, Chicago; Jas. M. . Hamilton.
Economist, Montana State College,
Bozeman. Mont.: W. Lawrence Far-
low. Secretary, Farmers Grain Deal-
ers Association. Bloomington; Rudolf
A. Clemen. Editor. Illinois Merchants
Review. Chicago; H. J. Albaugh. Net-
par System of Financing Co-operative
Concerns; Colonel Barnes. Chicago;
Paul Theilen. Manager. Farmers Ele-
vator Supply Co.. J. G. Mecherle.
President, State Farm Mutual Auto
Insurance Co.. E. J. Carmondy, Vice-
President. Farmers MutuaJ Fire In-
surance Co., Bloomington. III.

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Issued Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinking Fanners — August 29, 1925

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REINSURANCE COMPANY
MEETING WITH HEARTY
APPROVAL: McFARLAND

Secretary and Manager o t
New Company Writes of
Success o { New Project

you will be interested in what
Wm. B. McFarland, the author
of this article, has to say about
the new reiih-
stirance com-
pany. He has
been in the
farm mutual in-
surantie work
for near I y 35
years, and
therefore knows
the ins and
outs. He it
secretary and
manager of the
new company
«T » u «- . ^ and says he and
his farm mutual
friends have been hoping for
many years to get such a com-
pany on its feet. Read it.

I AM mighty glad to see the hearty
response and encouragement the
Farmers' Mutual Reinsurance
Company of Illinois is receiving
from the local fire insurance com-
panies and from the county Farm
_^ Bu/eaus of the state. Almost with-
out exception wherever it has been
presented it has met with hearty
approval.

Reinsurance has enlisted the best
thought of those interested in farm
insurance both in this and other
states for a number of years. Vari-
ous plans have been proposed and
discussed at length at the state as-
sociation meetings. Forms for in-
terchange of reinsurance among lo-
cal companies have been perfected
and many companies have availed
themselves of this. But a demand
for a larger, more comprehensive,
form or a state-wide company has
been apparent through all this dis-
cussion.

The Farmers' Mutual Reinsur-
ance Company of Illinois is the re-
sult of this demand and has been
made possible by the co-operation
of the Farm Fire and Tornado
Companies and the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association.

.Assi8t LocaIs, Xot Compete
With Them

The object of this company is
only to assist and in no way to
compete, with the local companies.

The laws of Illinois limit the
service of the local companies and
some local companies by reason of
eertain conditions limit the amount
of their own service. Some local
co'mpanies do not insure churches,
schoolhouses, or town halls, al-
though they are largely or wholly
supported by farm interests.

This the state company will be
able to do. It will also, through
its blanket insurance, be able to
help the local companies in years
that its losses are excessive and
will share part of them, thus
spreading them over a term of
years, or In other words, doing for
the local company just what it
does for its patrons. Would it not
be fine for the local company to
say to its patrons that they were
backed by companies representing
50 to 100 million dollars? And
when that time comes the farmers
will be able to insure , whatever
their interest may require and ex-
cessive assessment will not be
heard of.

The number of local insurance
companies and Farm Bureaus of the
same territory have been solicited
and have pledged a given amount
of the required $500,000 necessary
to procure the charter and have ap-
(Continued on page 4, col. 5.)

O/ieration Plus Docs
Orders Causes Jardine
To Cancel Picnic Date

' Due to doctors' orders. Secretary
Jardine cancelled his engagement
to speak at the annual I. A. A. pic-
nic at Taylorville. His message was
as follows:

"The Secretary has been plan-
ning on fulfilling his appointment
at Taylorville, Aug. 27, but it was
found advisable for him to under-
go an operation for the removal of
his tonsils. It will take him several
days to recover from this operation,
but it is quite likely that he will
have to undergo further treatment
and rest before his return to his
duties. His doctors have absolute-
ly refused to allow him to accept
any speaking engagements. There-
fore he will have to cancel his Illi-
nois engagement."

I. A A. Exhibit to be Shown at

Aurora, Springfield and Chicago

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MOVE TO COORDINATE
ALL FARM STATISTICS

Under a working agreement com-
pleted August 1st, 1925, the Illinois
crop and livestock reports will be
issued jointly by S. J. Stanard. di-
rector of the Illinois Department of
Agriculture, Springfield, and W. F.
Callander, chief, division of crop
and livestock estimates. United
States Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C. All reports will
be issued under the head of "Illi-
nois Co-operative Crop Reporting
Service." A. J. Surratt, federal ag-
ricultural statistician, will be in
charge.

"The regular cro+i aud li\estock
reports issued monthly will repre-
sent the result of extensive investi-
gations by the combined state and
federal organizations for gathering
agricultural statistics," states Mr.
Surratt. "Briefly, the object of this
co-operative project is to improve
and extend the use of agricultural
statistics and to co-ordinate, so far
as practical, all the work in Illinois
relating to the collection, distribu-
tion and use of agricultural statis-
tics in such a way as to make the
work more effective and available,
to the farming public and avoid
duplication of effort. "

John Thinker, member "i hh .• ■ ci the world. It displays the
Peppy County Farm Bureau and , spirit and magnitude of Agricul-

neighbor of Epidermis Flint, is now
preaching the gospel of organiza-
tion and co-operation at agricul-
taral fairs. He still retains his job
as chief character of the comic strip
that is published each issue on the
editorial page of the I. A. A, Rec-
OKD, but for the til le being his audi-
ence has been increased.

John Thinker and his farm is the
subject of the e.\hibit that has been
prepared by the Illinois Agricultural
Association to be shown this fall at
three fairs. On August 21-29, the
exhibit was displayed at the Central
States Exposition, Aurora, and will
be shown again at the Illinois State
Fair, Springfield, September 19-26,
and the Illinois Products Exposi-
tion. Chicago, October 8-17.

Kepresent .AirririUtiiral Industry

The exhibit is a large reproduc-
tion of a substantial farm with all^
the equipment and buildings that
are needed in the work of helping

To Be Miss Agriculture |

Will This Young Lady Carry the
Illinois Banner on World Tour?

MISS AGRICULTURE! That's her name in the office. Her real
name is Miss Hilma Johnson. She lives in Batavia, Kane conn-
ty, and is an employee of the Illinois Agricultural Association.

However, the position of secretary of the accounting department
of the I. A. A. does not satisfy
all of Miss Johnson's ambitions
so now she wants to carry the
Illinois banner arqund the
world to represent the grand
old industry that feeds all of
us — Agriculture.

To realize her ambition, she
must sell more tickets than any
other down-state girl for the
Illinois Products Exposition,
which opens in Chicago on
October 8 and shows "Mighty
Illinois on Parade" until the
17th. If she wins she gets a
four-month free trip around
the world.

"It all the farmers who plan
to attend the Exposition would
buy their tickets of me, I'd
have a good chance to win,"
Miss Johnson says. "I am try-
ing my hardest for I certainly
want that trip. I'm most in-
terested in agriculture so I
want to represent agricultural
interests in the campaign."

The I. A. A., Prairie Farmer
and Orange Judd Illinois Fann-
er are supporting Miss John-
son. Tickets are 35 cents each
if bought in advance from Miss
Johnson and 50 cents at the
door. Write the I. A. A., Prairie Farmer or Orange Judd Illinois
Farmer if you want tickets. Let's send Miss Agriculture around the
world!

ture.

It Is'sumnuT time on the farm
and Johin Thinker may be seen mak-
ing hay as he drives a load of al-
falfa to the barn, unloads it and re-
turns to the field again at regular
intervals'. Trucks and wagons can
be seen driving along the road
carrying agricultural products to
the city. On the right of the exhibit
is shown a railroad train loaded
with grain and livestock going to
the terminal markets. Road signs
tell the story of farming and co-
operation to the passersby.

Time and expense have been used
to make this exhibit one that every
Illinois farmer may be proud of as
representing his industry and his
organization. It is to sell the Farm
Bureau and the I. A. A. to the peo-
ple of Illinois. Every farmer who
plans to attend the state fair or the
exposition at Chicago should go
around to the I. .\. A. booth to see
the exhibit.

ONE SPOON'S BEST TO
ADMINISTER POSTAL
COST REMEDY: A-FfB-F.

Board of Directors Decide One
Sutement for 48 States WUI
Suffice in Portal Rate JFigitt

A singi* statement concfrnin*:
the new postal rates present ?d re-
cently to the Joint Congret Bional
Postal Committee in Wash ngton
will repre^nt the concens is ot
opinion of > the American fa 'mers.
This was the decision reach sd by
the board 6f directors of the Amer-
ican Farm Bureav Federation in
session in Chicago, August 19 and
20.

It was felt that a single stal emeni
reflecting the national point o [ view
would be more effective thin 48
state briefs. However, the stat«
Farm Bureaus, where convi nient,
will meet with the postal cimmit-
tee, which is scheduled tc hold
further hearings in various p irts of
the countrtr, and will presen local
testimony ia support of the ni tional
brief.

The American FArm Burea i Fed-
eration argued before the com mittee
in Washington that there is ample
room In the Post Office opei ations
for economy. Gradual reort aniaa-
tlon of th« ser\ice would b« suffi-
cient to wipe out the deficit which
present flgtires seem to indica ^e will
accrue duiting this fiscal yei^, the
Federation declared.

Itiite Increaiies CuttlnK \ ol^mr

Tlie Faflm Bureoc furthc! held
that not sufficient time has « apsed

to show hour much of a deficil
will be nor just where it will

but there s^^ms ample evlden( e that

Miis Hilna JoKrur. SMretary. I. A. A. devftrl-
■ent If t9-*9tr»\i>it antURtilil.

Farmers Like to Hear
Old Time Songs Best,
Radio Survey Reveals

Jazz and syncopation have failed
to lure rural people away from the
old time tunes.

This is conclusively shown by a
radio survey recently completed by
WLS. Old time melodies like "Sil-
ver Threads Among the Gold,"
"Carry Me Back to Old Virginny,"
and "Old Kentucky Home," are
more popular with the country folks
than "Don't Bring Lulu," "Red Hot
Mama" and "That's All There la.
There Ain't No More Blues."

The survey questionnaire was
sent out on the air during the R. F.
D. dinner bell programs. Responses
were received from 681 in the states
of Illinois, Indiana. Michigan. Iowa
and Ohio, the average distance
away of the listener in being 98
miles and the longest distance 400
miles. The total number of homes
included was 2,500. with an average
of four listeners in each home.
Old Time Tuiies I.,ike<l H«k|
To the question "What kind of
music do you like best?" the replies
revealed the following:- old time
tunes, 3^9; popular. 205; classical,
39; all musical programs, 42; sa-
cred, 16; string music. 12; instru-
mental riiusic, 10; Ford and Glenn,
66; Cornhuskers' Orchestra, 43;
harmonica, 44; Hawaiian guitar.
88.

"Yearning" leads the list of pop-
ular old time songs. The others in
the order of their popularity are:
"Silver Threads Among the Gold,"
"When Vou and I Were Young,
Maggie, •< "Old Black Joe," "Oh,
Katerina," "Oh How I Miss You To-
night," "When You and I Were Sev-

there
occur

goes to show that there wil be
falling off lin the parcel post busi-
ness and possibly in the 3r<i class
business

This was predicted by the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation when
the new rstes were being i ritten
and strenuous protest made a gainst
it. The Farm Bureau also ol jected
to the general increase in tl e sal-
j j^ea of postal emgloyees, bel lering
^ «>mh the beads of the Post Office
department and the administration
that there was no necessity for a
60 to 70 million dollar incre ise in
salary and that a few millioni spent
where there was demonstrate I need
would be ample to meet the situa-
tion.

The Federation has sug nested
that there be a gradual reorc anlta-
tion of the rural delivery s 'stem,
lengthenint: the routes. The roates
have not b^en lengthened ma terial-
ly since the automobile and bard
surfaced roads were introduce d and
only a very small percentage of the
routes ar4 classified as ' m«tor
routes" an| yet between 75 i nd 85
per cent of the R. F. D. carrifrs use
automobile^.

KnfERestK Fewer City Dellvi riee
The Federation has also sug seated
possible efconomies througl the
elimination of some of the del veries
in the city, some municicalities
having as high ae seven del veries
in the busilness section and flre de-
livecies in the mixed businei s and
residence Actions. For thi pur
pose of proper bookkeeping al least,
the J7,000i«00 paid from th< U. S.
Treasury to the Post Office depart-
ment for cirrying franked anl pen-
alty mattet should be chare pd up
against thSse who use it, si ch as
the various departments aAd mem-
t)ers of Cohpress.

enteen," "Red Wing," "Carh- Me
Back To Old Virginny," "Hi w Do
You Do," TLet Me Call You Iweef-
heart," "Put on Your Old Grey
Bonnet," 'll'kelele Lady." "I i Sha-
•^owland." "By the Light ot The
Stars," "Uoonlight and Hoses."
"Swanee River," "Turkey i n the
Straw." "Midnight WalU," "J umor-
esque," "Blue Eyed Sally." • Let it
Rain, Let it Pour," and "Oh Ken-
tucky Hoiae." '

Page 2

The IllinoU Agricultural A»»ociation Record

Augutt 29, 192S

I L.L.IlMOiS

CCLTIIBAL ASSOC1A1

RE CORP-

PabUlta*d STtrr other Saturday by th» lUlnola Ajtrlcultural AJI-
••olatloB, .601 South Dearborn Btraet. Cblcaso, iTllnola. Bdittd
by Department of Information, Harry C. Butcher, Director.

Bntered as accond claae matter Oct. 10, ItSl. at the post olBce
at Cblcaco, IlUnoia, under the act of Uaroh I, 1171. Acceptance
for mailing at apeclal rate* of poatase provided (or In Section
lioa. Act ot October 3, 1917, aothorlaed Oct II, IHl.

The IndlTldual membership tea of the nUnola Agricultural Aa-
aoelatlon la llTe dollara a year. The tea Insludea payment of
fifty centa for aubacrlptlon ts the IlUnola Arrleultural Aaao-
elatlon Rmcqmd,

Poatmaater: In returnlns an uncalled-tor or mlaaant copy,
please Indicate key number on addreaa aa l< raqnlrad by law.

OFFICERS
Prosldent, S. H. Thompson, Qnlnc;.
Vice-President, H. E. Goembel, Hooppole.
• " Treasnrer, li. A. Ck>wles, Bloomlngton

Secretarj, Geo. A. Pox, Sfcamore.

EXEXK7TIVI! OOMMIXTEE
By Congressioiua Distrlctt

1»t to 11th William Wabb, Route One, Jollet

1*** a P. Tullook, Rockford

11*'* < C. E. Bamborough, Polo

1**>» ■< W. H. Moody, Port Byron

I*"* < B. H. Taylor, Rapatee

j;*'» i A. R. Wright, Varna

•'*•> * F. D. Barton, Cornell

'«•» I R. F, Karr, Iroquois

iJ*** \ J. U Whianand, Charleaton

5J"> I Earl C. Bmlth, Detroit

'■■* 1 Samuel Sorrallt, Raymond

™»* r Stanly Castle, Alton

«rj I W. L. Cope, Salem

f**" i Curt Anderson, Xenia

'•*•' » R. K. Loomis, Makanda

Directors of Department*, I. A. A. Ofloe

Cooperative Accounting Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

^'"»"" R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vefetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General Office j. h. Kelker

Grain Marketing Chester C. Davis

Information Harry C. Butcher

Legal Counsel Donald KIrkpatrIck

Live Stock Marketing Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organization G. e. Metzger

Phosphate-Limestone j. r Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing ..F, A. Gougler

TaxatioB and SUtlstics j. c Watson

Transportation L. j. Quasey

THE RxcoiD'a PLATFORM
Advance th» purpose for uhich the Farm Bureau teas organized,
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic,
social and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the
nmiom, amd to develop agriculture.

The East Needs A Middle West

WHILE your farm adviser and his feJBJJy were' in
the East during their vaeatiou no other condition
was more oiitstandiug than the fact that it is a mighty
good thing for the East that there is a Middle West.
The East is densely populated. This population is rap-
idly increasing. Real farms are scarce and therefore the
food supply from local sources is very limited. Most of
the farms oonsist of rough, broken land covered with
stones. Dairj-ing is and must continue to be the chief
source of production on these rough farms. Scarcely no
dependence can be placed on these farms for grain, but-
ter and meat and the various other products for feeding
the Eastern United States from local production. These
products must come largely from the great Middle West,
There is an exceedinglj' healthy demand for food in
these big manufacturing centers of the East. The prices
paid by these consumers are very high when compared
to the prices received by Middle West farmers. These
consumers are not objecting to the prices they pay for
food. High wages in the factories, or at the various
trades euabile them to pay these high prices. Further
than this the population of the East is rapidly increas-

ing. ifeflT houses are being built by the hundreds and ;
thousands Hence there will be a greater and increas-
ing deiiiaiul in the future for Middle West farm products.
What should these conditions mean to the Middle
West farmers? If they mean anything at all they should
stimulateiour farmers to the following procedure: First,'
organize to market farm products in order to get the
largest possible share of the consumers' dollar. Second,
niaintain and increase production to cai'e for the future
demand. — ,1. K. Shinn, farm adviser, in Fulton County
Farm Bureau News.

^■' The Freight Rate Situation

THE II per cent increase in freight rates petitioned
for the western railroads has been reduced to about
5 per cent, according to press reports.

h. J. Quasey, director of transportation for the Illinois
Agricultural Association, states that very little can be
done by the farm organizations until the first hearing in
Chicago, the date of which has been changed to Sep-
tember 15 instead of the 8th. , ' .

At present there is no specific brief of "the railroads
upon which a rebuttal can be based, and none will be
available until the hearing, Mr. Quasey states. Chang-
ing the plea from 11 per cent to 5 per cent has further
muddled the situation.

The Illinois Agricultural Association has gone on rec-
ord as being unequivocably opposed to any increase in
freight rates at this time, maintaining that the farmer
is unable to stand higher rates than he is now paying.
The full strength of the association will be thrown into
the fight in an endeavor to defeat the increase.

The Position of Agriculture

THE time has come in the Midwest when adequate
remunerative return to the farmer must come
from the operation of his farm. Dependence on in-
creased value of land holdings will be,
from now on, an uncertain if not in-
deed a negligible factor in farm
profits.

Farm operations must be conducted
more nearly like an industry and the
profits must come from the operating
turnover. The establishment and
maintenance of farm operations on a
prosperous business basis is the most
important economic and social question facing the Amer-
ican people.

The farmers of America have in the past believed in
developing home industries and have subscribed to a
government policy of protecting, encouraging, and de-
veloping our industries against outside competition.
With the development of industry and transportation,
the laboring class was faced with outside competition
from people with lower standards of living. Labor
pressed and secured government protection against
ruinous competition caused by immigration. The farmer
did not object to protecting labor.

Agriculture will decline or develop. It cannot stand
still. Shall the government interest itself in develop-
ing agriculture? Shall the government aid in establish-
ing farming on a business basis? Can the nation afford
to do less for the farming business than it has done to
maintain industry and labor? We think not. Only by
developing all of our resources, agricultural and indus-
trial, can we maintain an economic balance which will
make the nation prosperous and safe for all time. —

Times Have Changed Since 1870

THE present revenue section to the constitution of
Illinois was adopted in 1870. The Civil War had
been over for five years. John B. Pahner was governor.
Gteneral Grant was president.

The world has moved rapidly forward. Great changes
have taken place. Look at this list of noted American
inventions since 1870:

Executive Secretary,

Illinois Ajrrieultural Association.

InvMtlen Invantor Data

Celluloid (Hyatt) 1870

Welt machine (Goodyear) 1871

Block Blsnal for railways (Kob-

Inson) 1872

Automatic car coupler (Jatwey)

Tyiiewriter (8hoie8) 1873

Quadruplex Telegraph (Edison)

1874

Water gas (Lowe) 1875

Mowing machine, differential

gear (Elckemeyer, B.) 1876

Telephone (Bell) 187$

TMlklng machine (Edison) 1877

Incandescent lamp (Edison) . ..1878

Arc lamp (Brush) 1879

Gasoline motor, auto (Helden) .1879
Automatic knot tying harreatlng

machine (Appleby) 1880

Chrome tanning (Schulz) 1884

Trolley car (Van Oepoela &

Sprague) 1884-87

Type-bar casting, linotype <Mer-

genthaler) 1885

Cash register (Patterson) 188D

Electric furnace reduction

(Cowles) 1885

Split-phase induction motor

(Tesla) 1887

lavsntor Data

(imposing machine

Invention

.single-type

(Lanston) »°°;

Kotary converter (Bradley) . . .18».
Kecording adding machine (Bur-
roughs) • • -IsSS

Transparent photograph "^'".QOtf

(Eastman) ■ J»b»

Calcium carbide (Wlllson) 1888

Electric welding ( Thomson U- • 1889
Electrolytic alkali producmin

(Casiner) f ■■!!«;

Carborundum ( Acheson) .... i ... 1891
Harreylzed armor plate (Har-

i

.1892

vey)

Alternate -current motor (Tesla)

T

Motion picture machine (Edi-
son) 1893

Dry-air process for blast fur-
nace (Gayley) 1894

Disk ploughs, modem tjrpe

(Hardy) 1896

High-speed (Taylor A White). 1901

Aeroplane (Wilbur Wright) 1901

Hydro -aeroplane (Glenn H. Cur-

tlBS) 19"

Machine-gun (Isaac N. Lewis). 1912
Gas engine, compound (Erlcke-
meyer, C.) 1921

And here are the noted foreign inventions:
Invention Inventor Nationality Dato

Siphon recorder, Thompson (English) ; 1874

Gas engine, Ot^o cycle. Otto (German)., 187"

Centrifugal cre'amer, DeLaval (Swedish) 1880

Manganese steel, Badfleld (English) 1884

Smokeless powder, Vielle (French) 1886

Mantle burner, Welsbach (Austrian) 1890

By-product coke even, Hoffman (Austrian ) 1893

Wireless teleg., low frequency, Preece (English) .' 1895

Wireless teleg., high frequency, Marconi (Italian) 1896

Electric steel. Heroult (French) 1900

Diesel oil motoK, Diesel (German) 1960

Depth bomb, W. T. Unge (Swedish) 1963

But we still have the same revenue section!

When the present revenue section was adopted in
1870, it was fair, in accordance with the times. In those
days a man paid very near his fair portion of taxes if
he were assessed on the basis of the value of his real,
honest-to-goodness tangible property (the kind you can
kick, hammer, stick a shovel in, plow, get stuck in, etc.).

But back in 1870 there was less intangibles. Intan-
gibles are defined as "evidences of indebtedness," and
are the kind you can't kick, hammer, etc. Since 1870
there has been a meteoric growth in credit, much of
which is non-taxable. Then there are bonds, stocks, notes,
debentures, bank deposits, etc! The greatly extended
use of such implements of finance has changed much of
the wealth of the land from tangibles to intangibles.

But through all this change, the state's revenue sec-
tion has remained the same. Is it any wonder that farm-
ers want the amendment to the revenue section? To
get the amendment passed by the voters in the election
of November. 1926, is one of the big projects of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association. The active support of
every member of the Farm Bureau is needed. Support
it when you and your neighbors *'talk things over."

Another Expression on Freight Rates

Dt-ar Sir: Your letter of the 17th is at hand. In regard to
freight rates, I will say that any raise in rates would work
a hardship on Williamson county farmers. It would also go
just as hard with any other section of the state. Off hand I
am opposed to a raise in freight rates, yet it may be wise to
grant them as long as we huUd and maintain hard roads and
leave them open, free gratis, to the public without any gas
ta.'c or anything of that nature. We are running a great risk
of putting railroads out of business. It Is my opinlpn that
briars and sprouts will soon be growing over some of our
railroads that are now in operation. On the other hand, a
little lesson in economy, such as we farmers- had since the war
depreciation, might cut out some of their wasteful practices. —
A. M. Spitznass, Marion, Williamson county.

JOHN THINKER AND EPIDERMIS FLINT.

(John's m Loyal Farm Bureau Member. Epidermis U '^Agfin" It!)

Mirandi Speaks Her Mind

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AugiMt 29, 192S

SURPLUS OF POULTRY
PRODUCTS ON MARKET
AND IN STORAGE NOW

The Dlinw AgriciJfainJ Attodation Record

INit«3

Gougler Advises Farmer* To

WitUiold Expanding In This

' Line in the Future Months

Should Illinois farmers increase
their poultry and egg production in
the future?

The success of expanding that
phase of farm production would be
very doubtful, it not unprofitable,
stated F. A. Gougler, I. A. A. direc-
tor of poultry and egg marketing,
over WLS on the regular Friday
noon I. A. A. marketing series.

"Competition is becoming mighty
keen in this line" advised Director
Gougler, "and only efficient produc-
ers from now on will be able to
make this business pay. I do think
that those producers of poultry who
plan to expand their business, or
' individuals who now expect to enter
the poultry business should move
cautiously."

Cites Several Factors

When considering poultry and
egg marketing problems and the
future of the industry in the Mid-
West, the poultry director stated
that certain known facts should be
studied carefully. Outstanding
among these are available feed sup-
ply, all cereal grains and what they
will be worth; what has been the
movement of poultry products to
our large consuming centers during
th« past six months; what are our
cold storage holdings of these prod-
ucts now compared to a year ago;
how are our exports of these com-
modities holding up compared to
last year; what has been the out-
come of this year's poultry crop,
were the birds hatched early and
have they been pushed to early ma-
turity for fall and winter egg pro-
duction; and, is the consuming pub-
lic still hungry for our poultry
products, o» since pork and beef
are advancing in price will this
inake the consumer want to change
his diet? '

Regarding the price of poultry
feeds, it is estimated that condi-
tions compare very favorably to
last year. The costs should not ad-
vance to unusual heights, although
the usual gradual increase in price
from the present surplus period to
the period of low grain supplies may
be expected. y

-More Poultry.il Storage

"So-ftir this year," stated Direc-
tor Gougler, "approximately 2 mil-
lion pounds more of dressed poul-
try have been shipped to the large
consuming centers than the total
receipt to August 1 of last year. To
be added to this Is the information
that we now have 37 million pounds
of dressed poultry in cold storage
as compared with 23 millions at this
time last year or aia increase of 14
million pounds,' Thus we find a
large carry-over facing us in the
future.

"On considering the present egg
marketing situation, we find that
there is an increase of 116,000
more cases of eggs in cold storage
than recorded at this date last yjear
and our export in eggs has de-
creased as much as 450,000 cases.
The reduction -in our egg export is
partially due to the fact that Euro-
pean countries, who furnished an
outlet lor our surplus poultry prod-
ucts in the past, are now reaching
the point in production where they
can supply their own needs.
Reports Show Increased Production

"Reports from the mid-western
states indicate an increase in pro-
duction this year resulting from the
favorable spring season. Most oQ
our larger producers hatched early
and on many farms pullets are now
coming into production.

"I have pointed out that egg con-
sumption during the past few years
has been gradually increasing per
capita, but who knows how long it
will continue in this direction. Per-
haps the dreaded poultry disease
scare of last ye^r is responsible for
the extra 14 million pounds of
dressed poultry in cold storage this
year over last. At least, no great
increase in the consumption of poul-
try and eggs should be expected in
the immediate future.

Illinois' present constitutional
revenue section was adopted in
1870 — five years after the Civil
war. Support the campaign for a
new one, which will be voted upon
in November, 1926.

Humboldt Toumship
Holds Record for
Membership Drive

Homboldt township. Coles
county, holds the r«cortl ho far
this year for increftsing its
membership, accordinK to <i. K.
-Metzger, director of the I. \. .\.
organization department.

"Humboldt townsliip U'a.s the
first to complete its member-
ship drive in Coles county,"
states Director Metiger, "and It
now has 30 i)er cent nmre mem-
bers than it had during tlie
past years, and has tlie largest
increase re|>orted this year.

"Thei-e are 47 counties who
have planned to conduct farm
bureau membership drives this
year. Six of tlie Farm Bureaus
have completed their sign-Up,
two are more than half done,
and eight others are well
starte<l. T)iose that have pro-
ceeded far enough to show the
trend of the drives indicate that
there will be from 15 to 20
per cent more Farm Bureau
■iienibers during the next year.

"I have visited 46 Farm Bu-
reaus this year and have talked
with their committees who are
laying the plans for the resign-
up of members. Practically all
feel optimistic and state tli4t
tliey e\|iect to be reporting a
larger membership in the fu-
ture."

Members of the Champaign County 4-H

Club Listed to Dance at I. A. A. Picnic

CHICAGO PRODUCERS'
PATRONS MAY GET FEW
CENTS REFUND ON FEED

Subscribing to Common Stock
Yards Practice in Handling
Feed Led to Mistake in Chmrg-
iag for Feed Used.

LEEPER REPORTS
POTATO FAILURE
FOR THIS YEAR

L A. A. to Assist Fanners In
Buying Potatoes to Combat
the Present Shortage

The Illinois potato crop is the
lightest in years and it is estimated
that farmers in this state will need
to purchase at least 1,000 carloads
to supply their requirements until
the next crop season, according tO;
A. B. Leeper, director of the fruit
and' vegetable marketing depart-
ment and manager of the Illinois
Fruit Growers Exchange. ;

"This crop is reported the light-
est in a number of years over the
entire country," stated Director
Leeper, in his talk over WLS, "and
no doubt the growers in the north-
ern sections which produce late
potatoes for winter use will this
year receive a fair price for their
crop.

"We have received numerous re-
quests from Farm Bureaus, farm
elevators and other farm organiza-
tions to assist them in locating and
purchasing supplies of potatoes for
farmers in their respective coun-
tleg."

To Help Supply Potatoes

The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, in the past, has never encour-
aged farmers' organization in the
buying phase of co-operation. Ex-
perience has shown that co-opera-
tive buying is a considerable hazard
and the saving in this line is usually
small as compared to the risk in-
volved. However, the association
realizes that an emergency now ex-
ists in the potato supply for Illi-
nois farmers and arrangements
have been started to assist farm or-
ganizations and rural dealers,
where they so desire, in locating
and purchasing carlots of potatoes
this fall. The extremely low price
at which potatoes have sold the
last two or three years has dis-
couraged growers and the acreage
has been naturally cut down in
practically all the mid-western pro-
ducing sections.

"We have made a very thorough
survey of the late apple crop in
Illinois and estimate that this crop
will be one-third larger than in
1924," stated Manager Leeper.

"We found very little fungus dis-
ease in the well-kept orchards and
insect injury is less than usual. In
some sections, on account of the
extremely dry weather, the growers
were unable to obtain water at the
proper time and these particular
orchards show considerable injury
from the second brood of the cod-
dling moth. In general, Illinois
will produce this year one of the
best quality crops of flrte^pples in
years.

Ben Davis Variety Leads

"In some sections, on account of
the extremely dry weather, the
growers were unable to obtain
water at the proper time and these
particular orchards show consider-
able injury from the second brood

Here are the girls who were on
the schedule to give the Shoemaker,
Kinderpolka, Chebogar, and Klap-
padans folk dances at the annual
state picnic, Taylorville, last week.
They are members of the Cham-
paign County 4-H Club. i

Their ability is not confined to
dancing only, for we understand
that they supervise agricultural

fairs, programs, social gatherings,
manage food stands and find time
; to go camping, besides their usual
club activities.

These girls are from Rantoul,
Sadorus and Ludlow. Mrs. Blanche
S. Moore, Champaign county home
adviser, assisted by Miss May Craw,
county club leader; Mrs. Charles
Boyd and Mrs. Walter Wycoff were
in charge- of the girls.

of the coddling moth. In general.
Illinois will produce this year one of
the best quality crops of late apples
in years.

"Ben Davis leads the varieties
showing the greatest increase, fol-
lowed by Wincsaps, Jonathans and
Kinnairds. The late apple crop
over the entire country will show
a slight increase when compared
with last year. The most of this
increase is in the northwest sec-
tions, Illinois and New York being
the only barrelled apple states that
will produce an increase crop over

i9y. , ,

''During the las. week in July
anfr-the first week in August, the
summer apple marKet suffered one
of the worst slunips ever experi-
enced. This was due to the large
supply of northern grown apples
forced on the market without re-
gard to price. It was fortunate
that 'most of the Illinois crop was
marketed before this glut.

"IlUni" Brand Sells Good

"Peaches this year sold at a fair
price, but this was somewhat of a
disappointment both to the grow-
ers and the exchange. The Illinois
crop followed closely on the Arkan-
sas shipments and reached the mar-
ket at a time when the shippers
and buyers, who anticipated an ad-
vance in the market, were holding
on track and in storage a large sup-
ply of southern peaches. The ex-
treme carry-over kept all markets
in a draggy condition during the
entire shipping season.

"Illini" brand peaches were very
favorably received on the markets
and in almost every case resulted in
repeat orders.

"The southern Illinois tomato
crop attracted more attention in the
markets than ever before. Many
growers shipped a number of cars
of green wrapped tomatoes which
made a very favorable impression.
This was the first green wraps ever
shipped out of Illinois. A good
start was made and our product
has been established on a number
of markets.

"The pear crop at present is un-
der way and is finding ready de-
mand in the northern markets.
Merchants and Farmers Co-operate

"Business men of southern Illi-
nois are showing considerable in-
terest in the future fruit and vege-
table industry in that section. The
business men's organizations have
in view assisting the farmers in
their vicinity to get larger returns
from their lands, and also to give
the farmers -and merchants an op-
portunity to get together and mu-
tually work out their problems.
Both farmers and business men
realize clearly that agriculture and
business, in general, are interde-
pendent and that neither can suf-
fer financial loss without affecting
the others."

What Vm Happen

November, 1926?

The Gas Tax is Inevitable;

Make it a Lieu Tax.

ANNUAL PREMIUM TO
ACCREDITED COUNTY
ESTIMATED $25,000

Adviser of Jasper County, Iowa,
Writes of the 10 Cent Rev.
enue On AU_Swine

"A premium of 125,000 a year
on hogs is a profit that might well
be coveted by any county whether
it is located in Illinois, Iowa or
any other cornbelt state."

That is the amou'nt that Jasper
county, Iowa, expects to gain dur-
ing its first year las an accredited
area, according to County Agent
Ray D. Lafiin of Newton.

In Illinois there is one accredited
county and several that are on the
threshold of becoming eligible tor
the 10 cent prenuum per hundred
on hogs delivered to the Chicago
and St. Louis markets. Thus, the
extra profits acquired from the sale
of hogs by the county in our sister
state comes as a welcome inspira-
tion to Illinois farmers. The premi-
um becomes available on all hogs
shipped to the Chicago market from
any county designated as "modified
accredited area." By that is meant
that all the breeding cattle in the
county have been tuberculin tested
according to federal and state reg-
ulations and that the hogs have
not been fed unpasteurized milk
from a non-accredited county.
Farmers Getting Premium

Jasper county, Iowa, became an
accredited area on March 23 of this
year and Since that date its farmers
have shipped something over 400
carloads of hogs to market. Of this
number it is estimated that 261
cars were shipped to the Chicago
market in accordance with the
premium requirements and have re-
turned to the farmers of that coun-
ty at least 1 4,264 in additional
profits.

"During the past four years,"
writes Ray D. Lafiin, county agent,
"this county has annually shipped
2,200 carloads of hogs to market.
These hogs were all Raised in this
county. If the entirft crop was to
receive the premiu'Sr it would
amount to about {37,000 a year in
additional revenue to Jasper coun-
ty. However, because all are not
shipped according to the require-
ments, I believe that the annual
revenue will amount to at least
$25,000. I feel that a large per
cent of our fall and winter ship-
ments will receive the premium."

According to the experience of
Jasper county, it is believed that
the additional revenue received
from the premium the first year
will go a long way in paying the
cost of becoming a "modified ac-
credited area." In Jasper county
it required approximately $15,000
of the state and federal funds and
a like amount of the county funds,
or $30,000. If the estimate of $25,-
000 additional revenue for the first
year proves correct, Jasper county
will come within $5,000 of paying
for the cost by April 1 of next year,
according to County Agent Lafiin.

to a

rela-

feed

Prod icers

com-

and

a

Live

SID'S

upon
cers'
govern-
or tbe

i 1

fact

the

up

is a

rben

ojcurs

cha tring

fejd to

Vhicli

load

ih

itock

this

Pro-

thp

»c-

u?
feel

have
set
sub-
to
per-
de
may
Depart -

miiy

"Because they subscribed
common stock yard practice
live to the handling of their
account, the Chicago
found themselves involved in a
plaint brought by the Packen
Stockyards Administration,"
statement Of the National
Stock Producers Association.

"This complaint was based
an audit of the Chicago Prodi}
feed account, made by a
ment auditor at the request
manager of Xhat organization.

"This audit disclosed the
that there htad been a deficit
feed account which been made
In the lollotnng manner: It
practice on the Chicago yards
a deficit in the teed account
to make up eaid deficit by
the owner at live stock for
which bis atock has access
has been lelt by a previous
In this manner no shipper
charged for teed which his
has not received and it was
practice to Which the Chicago
ducers subscribed in making
deficit discOT'ered tn their
count.

»Iay Refmd to Some Shipp^

"The bosrd of directors
frankly admitted that the facts
forth in the complaint were. 1
stance, true and have Indicat^
the Department that they are
fectly willing to abide by
cision which the Department
make in this matter. The
ment has indicated that it
necessary to make restitutldn
some cases; such restitution to
the form of a refund to shippe -s
fected. In practically all casei
will not amount to more
few cents per patron. The
is now investigating the
ascertain to whom such
should be diade.

Bvsnlt of Undercharging

"There is also every
that most ot this deficit was
suit of undercharges to patrofcs
their feed accounts. W^hen thu
ords have been fully scanned
will probably be found that
shippers are indebted to the
cago Produters liecausc of
dercharge. What action tlM
partment will take relative to
undercharges has not been
cated as yet.

"Due to .the way in which
accounts arc now handled
Chicago yards, the Department
ly appreciates the difficulty in
ing a definite balance at th«
of the year to such an extent
feed records out of balance
hundred dollars either way
subject to triticism by the
ment. With some change
method of handling feed
tlons there is every reason
lieve that feed accounts
made to balance accurately,
gestions have already been
the Packers and Stockyards
istration asd to the Stock
Company by the board of
of the Chicago Producers,
will probably result in
changes.
SulMcribed to Stock Vards

"The Chicago Producers can
ably be Justly criticized for
scribing to a stock yard
since one ot the aims and
of this organization is to
practices which are not to th4
interests of the live stock
The Chicago board is olferiijg
excuse when they call to yi
tention the fact that durini:
early period of operation
Producer agencies, it was
to subscrike to some
which might be questioned in
to later eKect the elimination
beneficial ckange In such
Some changes have already
fected. The agency has
been in operation long enough
this time and is so well estab
that further changes might
been made had a more
policy been followed.

"Mistakes can be made
to the organization and the
Producers' board of director
exhaust every effort to see
mistake which has been ma le
the handling ot the teed accoiint
that organization will even
react to the benefit of the live
producers."

tJ
can

bt-

in

take

af

thiF

tUan a

office

recoils to

restil iition

vi lence

tpe re

on

rec-

it

some

Chi-

th^ un-

De

these

indi-

feed

the

(ul-

1 ihow-

end

that

s^eral

aie
Dipart

111

not
art-
the

be-

be

Sup-

mikle to

Afmln-

Yard

directors

hich

these

Prictlce

prob-

sub-

priictlce.

pui poset

elliqlnate

best

pro<)ucer

no

at

the

of the

neo ssary

pra jticeK

order

or

praitlees.

ben ef-

prc bably

bv

Ished

have

aggrfcssive

prol itable

Cljieago

will

a

in

of

ually

stock

^■'.

Page 2

The Illinois Agricultural Association Record

August 29, 1925

— ^ — ^jR E c o R mr — =':?^

Publllhed «,T«r3r other Saturday by the lUlnola AKrlcultural A«-
•eclatlon, SOi aouth Dearborn Street. ChlcaKo, IlUnola. Edited
by .Department] of Information. Harry C. Butcher, Director.

Entered n eecind class matter Oct. 10. 1921, at tlie post office
»t ^hlcaco. IllikQia. under the act of March J. H7}r Acceptance
for mailing at anecial r^ea of postase provided for In Section
1103. Act of Oojtcftcr 3. 1317. authorized Oct. 31,;1921.

The IndiTldualtnemherihIp fee of the Illlnoia A«rlcultural A»-
•oclatlon la flTh doUan a year. The fee Inoludea payment of
nfty cents for leubscriptlon to the Illinoli Acrlcultural Aaao-
oiatlon TCEcoiD. ,

' Poatmaster: Ih returning an uncalled-tor or mlaaent copy,
pleaae indicate key number on address aa la required by law.

OtTICKKS
PretiWcnt, S. H. Thompson, Qulncy.
Vice-I*r«ii(lenl, H. E. Uoenibel, Hooppole.
TreB,>.urer, II. A. Cowles, Bloomiiigton
.Swrelary, Geo. A. Fox, Sjcamore.

1st to 11th.;.

12th ,

13th

14th

15th ,

l«lh ......

17th.... ?J...,

18th L...

19th

20th

2T»t

22n<l

23ril ,

24th....'.

ZSth

E.V*;CCTn'E COSIMI'PrEE
Ujr Congresiiional Districts

■ •'• William Wabb, Rout* One, Joliet

G. F. Tullock, Rockford

C, E. Bamborough, Polo

Wf H. Moody, Port Byron

B. H. Taylor, Rapatee

i^..A, R. Wright, Varna

■ i: fViF. D. Barton, Cornell

R. F. Karr, Iroquois

J. U Whisnand, Charleston

■ ■•■, Earl C. Smith, Detroit

San\uel Sorrel Is, Raymond

Stanly Castle, Alton

W. L. Cope, Salem

Curt Anderson, Xenia

R. K. Loomis, Makanda

Directors of DeiMU-tments, 1. A. A. OSce

Co-operative Accounting Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

''"^"ce R_ A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing j A. B. Leeper

General Office J [ j. h. Kelker

Grain Marketing....' ;.... Chester C. Davis

Information. .

-I-

, J Harry C. Butcher

Legal Counsel... Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing. . .., Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organization ^ q. E. Metzger

Phosphate-Limestone 1 j. r Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics j. c Watson

Transportation L. J. Quasey

THE REcoao-9 PL.\TEORM
Advanct ih« purpose for which the Farm Bureau uas organized,
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic,
social and educational interests of the jarmers o) Illinois and the
nation, aitd la develop agriculture.

Wd

Tile East Needs A Middle West

WIIEl.K \'.ia- lariM .nlvi.-N.i- .nul lii-. riiiiiil_\ \wn in
rill" Ki -vt (liii-iii^' tti.ir Viiiiiliiih iki (itiii'r i-oiiditinii
wiii iimrr 1)1 Istiiiiiliii^lliiiii till' riii-t tliiit :it i.s a iiiiirlily
•."mM tiling' I'm- ilif Kavt lliat tlicii' is it; -MiiUlle West.
Till- Kast i> iluii»i*ly iiDpuiatcd. ■i'lii.> piipulntiim is nip-
iilly Mil nasiiiy. lUal tioruis arc M-alvc ami llRivlnrL' tiic
IViimI Nup|il\ In. Ill Imal .-.oim-i-* is viry limili'd. ^lust iif
Ilu- tariiis .■t.iisi.--i iii' riMi^'li. liroUt'ii land fovoivi,! «illi
Nliiins. i)air\iiiL' is ami must cDiiJiinii' Id be the i-liief
.siiurcc III' piiiilui-i lull 111! llicsr n,H;_'l| larftis. Si-ai-i-<-ly iiy
ilipciuliiiLc 1-1111 111- jiVii-.-ti 1)11 tliisi- faMiis for trraiii. Iiut-
I'l- ami liu-at ami th<- varimis uiIhi- Ipnulik-ts I'ur I'l-iilin^
till- Kasl|irii I'liiliij Slati-s li-uin li)i-i|J ])|-oiliicti<iii. Tlit-si;
pniiliu-i4 nil st i-miie larin-ly Iriim tliji^ },'i'<'''>t -Miildli- Wt-st.
■J'liercj is ill! iM-t-i'tliii^'ly lualtliy jik'niumi for luod ill
llii-si- lii^ hi; iiiilai-liiriiii!: iiiiln-s of tlio Kast. Tlit- priet-ti
Jiaiil l)y tln-f.1- eoiisuiiicrs an- \rry hi^'h wIkii iiiiiipiin-il
111 till- iirii-i|< ni-i-ivctl liy .MiiMli.- West lariiiuis. Tliese
i-i)iisiiiiiii|-s 1 r,- lint iilijii-tiiiL' til lliij [iriees tlu-y pay for
liiDil. IliL'll wa'.'i's in Ilu- faeloliijs, or at tlie varioiiH
ti-aiirs ijniiijlli- tin-Ill to pay tlirst- Jijiirli jiriei-s. Fiirther
iImii tli(s till' p'lpiilatii.ii of tlie Eaf^t is rajiiilly im-n-jiH-

iiig. Xew houses are beiug hiiill by tin- himUrcds ami
thmisiiiiils. Hence there will he a greater ami inereas-
iiiL'' lii-iiiiiiiil ill the fiitun- for Mitlille West farm iiroiluets.
What siioiihl these eomlitioiis iiieaii to the Middli-
West fariiii-rs ' If they mean anything at all they shoiiUl
stiMuilate onr farmers to the following protjediire : First,
orgaiiizi- til niarki-l farm i>ro(lui-ts in ordrr lo gi-t tin-
lai-gcsl possilih- shan- of the i-oiisiiiiiers' dollar. Sii-iiinl.
iiiaintaiii and im-rease prodiu-tion to i-are lor the I'litiin'
ihiiiumi.- •!. I!. Sliinii. lai-iii advisi-r. in Kiilton Cnnnly
l-'ariii ►Jun-aii Xews.

,<«, - o- -

The Freight Rate Situation

TIIK 11 per eeiit inen-ase in freight rates jietitioni-d
fur the western railroads has hreii redui-ed to aboii!
■') prr i-i-iit. aeeurding to jin-ss reports.

|.. .1. (^nasey, dii'eetor of transportation for the Illinois
Affririiltiiral As.soi-iatiou, .states that very little ean he
done by the farm orgiini/ations until the tirst hearing in

• liieago. the ilate of whieli has ln-eii ehanged to Sep-
teiiibi-r ]'> instead' of the fith.

At presi-nt there is no speeitie brief of the rail|-oa<ls
11)11111 uhieh a rebuttal ean be based, and none will be
avuihilih- niitil the hearing. .Mr. tinasey states. Chang-
ing the pli-a from 11 pi-r i-ent to ."> pi-i nt has further

iiiiiddled the situation.

'riie llliiiuis Agrieiiltiiial Assui-iatioii lias gone on ree-
ord as being iiiieipiivm-ably ojiposed to any inen-ase in
freight ratrs at this time, iiiaintainiiig that the farmer
is unable .tu .stand higlu-r rates than he is now pa\iiiL'.
Tije full stn-ngtli of the assoi-lation will be thrown into
till- fijriif 111 an endi-avur to defeat tin- iiieri-asi-.
— o —

The Position of Agriculture

'~r~*llK tiiiii- has i-oiiie in tin- Jlidwist wlini adi-i|uale

I nniniii-ralivc return tu tin- fariin-r iiiiist i-uiiii-

Iruiii the oiK-i-atioii of his farm. Depcndiiiee on in-

^ i-ri-ascd valm- of laud huKlings will bi-.

it '\ from iiuu uti. an iiiii'i-rtain if not iii-

■fc I iIi'imI a iii'L'ligiblr ['ill-tor in farm

(K* .«* «4 pnilits.

Farm opci-atiuiis must In- c-umlin-lrd
more nearly like an industry and the
priitils must i-iime from the opi-rating
luriiuver. The establishiiient and
mainti-iiani-e uf i'arm o])rratioiis on a
pruspen-iis biisiiirss basis is the most

• important, ceonoinic and suiial ipiestion faring the Aiin-r-
ieau people.

■file fariiiiis of Aiin-rii-a havr in tin- past helieveil in
ilevi-luping home industries and have suhseribed to a
giiveriimriit pulii-y of protei-ting. eneouragiiig, and de-
velupiiiL' onr indiisti-ii-s against outside eompc-tition.
Willi tin- development of industry and transportaliun.
tlji- laburiliL' ehiss was faeed with outside eompetition
fmm peopir with loVer standards of living. Labor
pi-cssid and si-eiired governiin-nt |iroti-i-liun against
ruinous eumpi-tition rausi-d by immigration. Tin- fariin-r
did not ubji-i-t tu i)i-otei-tiiig labor.

Agrieiillun- will ilei-lim- ur develop. It i-annol stand
still. Shall tin- guvernment inli-irst itsi-lf iii develup-
iilg a'.'rienltun- .' Shall the govi-rniiieiit aid in establish-
ing farming on a biisini-ss basis.' Can the nation alfonl
h) do li-ss for the farming busiiies.s than it has done to
maintain industry and labor.' We think not. Only by
ill-velopiiig all of our resourees, agrirultiiral and indus-
trial, ean we maintain an i-euiioinie balain-i- whieh will
inaki- till- nation pi-uspi-i-uiis .-iinl <ar.- t'ur all tiiin-.—

Times Have Changed Since 1870

THE jiresent revenue seetion to the eonstitution of
Illinois was adopti-d in 1870. The Civil War had
been over for live years. .John 1^. Palmer was governor,
(ieiieral Uraiit was president. i

Till- world has inov.-d rapidl.^ furwanl. Creat i-liaiig«'s
havi- lakiii plai-i-. l,.iok at this list of not.-d Ann-rii-au
iiiM-ntioiis siiii-i- 1S70 :

Invention Inventor Date

I illului.l llli:ifll niTli

W. It iiiiii'liliii. lIlMoilu-arl l»;i

lll.irii .sliiii.'il l.rr r.illvMiyji (lob-

iii.i..!i) i.i:j

.Vnli-matic i-iir ,-uiipk-r (JoiiSi-y)

l»T:'.

T.i|i.-»riur isiiulfs) Wn

itii;iilriil>l<-K Ti-li-cruiili (KilKiin)

is;»

Uiit.r tin (l.iivwl is;:-

M..«iliU lll.-u-liiiu-. ililTiTfBliat

ti-iir (EUktmi-yt-r, It.) 1876

l.li-lilii.lif I Bill) is.li

T.Hltiiim niiifliim- iKili.s.iiii I^77

liir.ili l.-s.-vtll laiiii' (Kilisiiiil . .. ls7.-<

.\rr l.iiiiip (Uriish) l»7:i

l.asnliiM- iiinlnr. aiilK iSi-Ulcn) . Is7'.i
.\iilMUia(ii- kih.t (.villi: liaru-stiii;;

iiia.hili.- l.M'iil.liy) l""'!

rli'i.m,. t.itmini; ISi-liiilz) 1.HSI

TriII.-\ i-ar IVali IU-|K.i-le &

S|.rai!m-) lS!ll-»7

Till- I'lir i-iistlnii. lin.itiiii; (lliT-

;:,.|UlialiT) If"*7'

Tasli r,.j:isIiT ll'ntti-rsiuil . I. ... !)*)*:■
Kl.rtnr r 11 r ti a I- f ri-diirtioii

11 ..iil.-si issr.

Si.lil -I'liasi- iiiitiirtiiiii 111 lit or

rr.^ini 1»S7

'C^

I'Jxi-eillivi

rn-lai-y. llliiiuis .\L'i'li-iilt iiri

Inventor

.liilii.sill;,- li

Dale

Invention

■Siliul'-I.M" - ---

(UmslMiii l'"*-

Ui.iary i-.iiivirhT lllradlty) . . .ISS.
ICi'i-iiriliiii: ailitiiiKniai-liiiii- (Bur-

- riiuylisi 1'*^'*

•rr.ili.i|iar,lit iilwlosral'li IHm

(Kasilmani . . - J"';

Cali'liiiii .arlildi-- iWillsi.ul IS.'Oi

Kli-i'lric wi'liltnK (TlmniSMli) . . . ISH'.l
F.lirtriilvlli- alkali l.nidiirliiin

' ll-a.stnt-r) I*"'"

rarininiiiilum (.\i-l!i-»Mii) l^'U

HarM-vi/.i-d armor plati- iHar-

v.-yl IK'-'l

.\luriiati' riirniil iiiutiir (Ti-sla)

18112

.Mi4ti-in iiii-tiin- nuu-liilli- (Kdi-

« IK"-

Drv-iiir priKi-ss for blast fiir-

iiaw (Cajli-y) I"'"

nisk iiliuiitliK, iiiiiili-rii typi-

lllarily) IS™

llilili-siniil iTaili.r A: Wliiul . l:'"l

.Xir.jiilalii- (Wilbur WrlillU) l!"ll

IIiilrii.aiTi'plani- nat-nn H. Ciir-

liss) nni

Mai-hliii--i:iin (luaai- X. Ix-wisI . I'.Ui

li.is rll;.'ii:i' ibimpiiiuI IKrii-kf-

m.-MT, e.l I'.'-l

.\nd hen- ai-e tli ti-d fon-ign inventions:

Invention Inventor Nationality * Date

Sipli.iii n-i-.-nlir, TliwiiijiSiili iKii-jIi-^li) 1^71

I. .IS iiiuiiif, on,) cyilt . il!l" Hiirinali) 1)177 _

(■,iiiriliis.'ai rn-iiiiii-r. li.I.aral isivt-ilislii ISKO

.M.iiii;aii,.si. sli-.-l, -llaillu-lil iKliBlislil 18SI

sm.iki-K».s i.-'Wili-r. ViiUi. (Fri.|ii-li) 181WJ

M.iiilK- liiinuT. Wilsbaib (.\u<lrlaul : .1S»0

lii-liniilurt i-i)ki iivi-n, lluffiiiaii (.\iislrtaiii 181):*

Wiri'li-ss ti'k-i;.. Inw rri'i|in^|ii-y. i'ni-i-t- llliinllsli) 18!i5

W!n-lf.ss it-li-i;., Iileli tri-i|iienr> . .Mari-oni iltallaiil IHlili

Kii-i-tii.- st.fl. iiiiMiiit irniii-lu n

1I1..S.I 1.11 m..l..r. llU-si-l «;.IIiialil i:""l

liviilli I ill. W. T. I'll;,-.- (SiMilislil V.<«\;

Itiit wi- still have tin- same revenue se<-tion;

When the present revenue seetion was adopted in
IsTO. it was fair, in iieeordam-e with the times. In those
ila.\s a man paiil very near his fair portion of ta.xes if
he were assessed oil the basis of the value of his real,
huni'st-to-goollness Uiligible property (\\\c kind yon ean
kii-k. hamnirr. stii-k a shovel in, plow, get stuck in. ete. >.

lint baek in IsTtl tliei-e was less iiitangibh-s. Intan-
irililes an- deliin-d as ■■ividiin-i-s of indebtedness, " ami
ail- the kind you ean't kiek. haininer, ete. Sinee 187(1
tlnre has been a uieteiirie growth in eredit, inueh of
whieh is nun-ta.xable. Thru tln-i-e are bunds, stueks. notes,
drbeiiliires. bank deposits, ete. The greatly extended
use of sin-li implements of tiiianee has eliangi-d mueh of
the wealth of the land from tangibles to intangibles.

Hut througli all this eliange. the state's levemie sec-
tion has remained the same. Is it any wonder that farm-
ers want the ameiidment to tin- n-venne seetion? To
gi-t the aiin-ndment jiassed by the voters in the vleetiim
of Xovi-mbi-r. lltL'ti, is one of tin- big pmjei-ts of the Illi-
nois Agrieiiltui-al Assui-iatimi. Tin- ai-tivi- support of
i-vei-y member of the Farm Uun-au is needeil. Support
it when \ on and your in-ighburs "talk things over."'

— o —
Another Expression on Frkight Rates

11. nr .Sir: -i-.ur I. U' r -■! Hi-- 17th is ul liaii-l. In i|.jiarii to
friiliht i-iUis. I \yill Bay tiiiil any rai.if in rati'S wimlil work
a liai.isiiiii on WillKinisun ruiility lariiu-rs. 11 wuulil alsii i^o
jii.si as liaril with any nllitr .s,. ifi.n nl' Itn- slato. Off haiiii I
all! iipniisiil ti) a rai.-'e in trin;;ht |rat..s, yi t it may be wi.si- to
i;!-aiil t)ii-ni as ioiiK :ai \v<- niilhl liml maintain haril roails and
liavi- llii-in iiiii-ii. Ir.-e y:ratis. to! lln; piil.lii- uilliout any k.'ls
ta\ or anythitii; of t'tjit tiatnn-. Wi- ar-- luiiiiinK a grt-al risk .
ot iinttiny raiiroails out nt l.iisiiinss. It is my opinion that
l.riar.s ami -sprouts will soon !■•■ i;rowinK ovir soini- of onr
raiiroails tlial an now in opiration. On tin- ollii-r liaml. u
Intl.. Itsson in .-ronoiny. sinh as uc fartni rs liail sini-i- tin- \v:ir
ilipii riatioti. iiiiKht ' ut out sum,- of lln-ir yyastoful prai-tiei-s. —
.\ .\1 .Sjiitziiass. .Marion. U'iliiamson lotiiily.

I'

Gougler
Withhi
Line i

JOHN THINKER AND EPIDERMIS FLINT.

iJohn'a a Loyal Farm Bureau Membe-r. Epidermia la *'Agin'* It!)

Mirandi Speaks Her Mind!

TMeGs^ B\Ki *>,B-'>JT A
OOZtnj CACo uOlN SOOTH-
JESTi SAlio JOWW TMIWKEP

" PAmI'.UY — AUO TM
ll^Est eiTXiM' DOME

" ' TIME

— ^ IJ"

TWEV CE
OOlMOTO
THE
COMMUWlTV
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I-

SURPLUS OF POULTRY
PRODUCTS ON MARKET
AND IN STORAGE NOW

Gougler Advises Farmers To
Withhold Ejcpanding In This
Line in the Future Months

- - Tj -
Should Illinois fajimis im-n a.-^^-
. their poultry and et'fe pniductidii in

the future?
, Tlie success ot expanding lliat
phase of farm production would Ix'
very doubtful, it not unprontal)!e.

■ stated F. A. Gougler, I. A. A. direc-
tor ot poultry and egs marketing.

■ over WLS on the ' ret-'ular Friday
noon I. A. A. marketing series.

"Competition is becoming inigiiiy

keen in this line" advised Director

Gou.gler, "and only efflcient pioduc-

" ers from now crti will be abli' to

make this business pay. I do think

■ that those producers ot poultry who
plan to expand- their bu.siniss. of
individuals who now espect to enter
the poultry business should move
cautiously,"

Cites Several Factors J

When considering poultry and
egg marketing problems and the

. future ot the industry in the Mid-
West, the _ poultry director stated

. that certai'g known tacts should Ik-
studied carefully. Outstanding

■' among these are available I'e. d suii-
ply, all cereal grains and what tliey

•' will be worth; what has been thi>

" movement ot poultry products to
our large consunring centers during
tlie past six months; what are our
cold storage holdings ot these prod-
ucts now' compared to a year ago:
how are our exports of these com-
modities holding up compared to
last year; what has been the out-

, come ot this years poultry crop,
were the birds hatched early and

■ have they been pushed to early ma-
turity tor fall and winter egg pro-
duction; aud. is the consuming pub-
lic still hungry for our iMiultry
liroducts, or since pork and beet
are advancing in price will tliis
make the consumer want to change
his diet? !

Regarding the price ot poultry
feeds, it is estimated tliat condi-
tions compare very favorably to
last year. The costs should not ad-
vance to unusual h< jghts. aliliough
the usual Kradual increase in price
from the present surplus period to
the period of low grain suppli(>s may
be expected.

-More I'oiiltry in Storage

"So far this year," stated Direc-
tor Gougler, "approximately 2 mil-
lion pounds more of drL'ss'-d {»oul.-
try have been shipped to the large
consuming centers than the total
receipt to August I of last year. To
be added to this is the informatiou
that we now ha\^ 37 million pounds
of dressed poultry in cold storage
as compared with J 3 millions at this
time last year or an increase of 14
million pounds. Thus we find a
large carry-over facing us in the
.future.

"On considering the present egg
marketing situation, we lind that
there is an increase of lUi.tttiU
more cases of eggs in cold st<)rage
than recorded at this date last year
and our esjtort in eggs lias de-
creased as much as 45ii,uiio cases.
The reduction in our egg export is
partially due to the fact tliat Kuro-
pean countries, who furnished an
<mtlet for our surplus poultry prod-
ucts in the jiast. are now reaching
the point in production wltere tliey
can supiily their own needs.
lU'ports show Increased I*i*«Hluclioii

"Reports from the niid-western
states indicate an increase in pro-
duction this year resulting from the
favorable siu'ing season. Most of
our larger producers hatched early
and on many farms pullets are now
coming into production.

"I have pointed out thivt egg con-
sumiition during the past tt'W years
has been gradually incij-asing per
capita, but who knows bow long it
will continue in this direction. I'er-
haps the dreaded jionltry disease
scare of lasjt vear is responsible for
the extra 14 million pounds ot
dressed piuiltry in cohl storage this
year over last. At least, no great
increase in the consumiition ot poul-
try and eggs should be e\|iected in
the immediate future.

Illinois' present constitutional
revenue section was adopted in
IS70 -five years aiti^r the Civil
war. .Snii|iort the caniiiUign for a
■new one. whicli will be voted upon
in November, 192tJ.

Humboldt Toivnship
Holds Record for
Membership Drift'

lllllnlKildt (owiisliip, r<de*i
roiinly. holds tlie record so iar
lliis >ear I'oi- iiutvasing its
iiit*iohci-«Iiip, arcot'diiig tit <;, |.;.
>Iet/ger, ilii-eetol- ol' llie I. \. \,
(»rg;ttii/ation depai'tiiienl.

"Hniiiholdl lounship was tlie
tii-sl lo foniplele its menilMM--
>liip ill-ive ill Coles rt>lllll.\."
elates IHi-ector .Metzuei-. "and il
now has '.Ut |H'i- cent iiior<* iiieiii-
bei's than il liad during the
past >ears. and has the largest
iiK-cease rejiorted (his year.

"'riiere are 47 nuillliil's who
Inn e |>lanlie(l lo condiicl farm
bllieiiu nielillMTsliip ill'i\<*s this
.\ear. Six ol* tlii' I'al-iii Bureaus
ha\e completed liieir sign-up.
two ai-e more lliaii halt iloiie,
aiifl «>jglit others are well
slarled. Those that have prtt-
<-ei*ded far eiioiigh to show the
li'i'nd of the drives indicate tliiil
tlieie will he from !,*> to 24>
pel- ceiil more l''ariii Hiireaii
llieinbers during llie next year.

"I ha\e xisiied AH l-'ariii lEii-
reaiis this >eai'aiid have lalkiMl
-wilh Iheit- coiiiiiiittees who are
l:i.\inu (he plans l'4ii' the resign-
up ot iiiemlH>i-s. I*ractically all
leel oplimisiic and state that
(he.\ expect (o Ih' re|Mirtillg a'
larger iiieiAberslii|i in the tri-
une." ''

Members of the Champaign County 4-H

Club Listed to Dance at I. A. A. Picnic

V.

CHICAGO PRODUCER^'
PATRONS MAY GET FtW
CENTS REFUND ON FEED

Subscribing to Conimon Stock
Yards Practice in Hanalin;;
Feed Le4 to Mistake in Charg-
ing for Feed Used.

"Ihcanse they Subscribed
Coiiiiiiftn sti fk yai*d practice
live to tlie handling »l the!

account, tlie Chicago I'rod icers

Here are the girls wtie w • i e ,,ii

tile schedule to gi\e the Sjloelliak'-r.

KinderiioiUa, Chebogar. and KJap-
padaiis folk dances at, the .ansual
state piinie. Taylorville, lasPwIek.
They ar<' members ofjlie CJ4ani-
paign Connt.v 4-H Club. ';

Their ability is not
dancing only, for we
that they suiiervise

confined lo
umh t'sCand

a-iienlinral

Kiirs. prfi^ranis. sm-ial gatli< rini^s,
manage fijod stands an<] find time
to go' caiupingl iM-.sides ilieir usual
club a«-tiv((ies.

Tliese iirls ap' from Kaiitoul.
Sadorus ai^d l.udlCH*. Mrs lilanche
S. Moore, iChamiiaign contitx home'
ndvjsi r. assisted by .Miss .Ma> Craw,
county cltib |ead<r; Mrs Charles
liovd and I.Mrs. Walter W.vcnlf were
in iharge'of th>- girls. "

deficit ill I

LEEPER REPORTS
POTATO FAILURE
FOR THIS YEAR

I. A. A. to Assist Farmers In
I Buying Potatoes to Combat
I the Present Shortage

I Tlie Illinois potato cro|i is the
I liglitest in years anc] it is estimated
. that farmers in thislstnte will need
to loirchase at least' l.OUO carloads
I tofsupply their reiiuii'ements until
j the ne\t croii season, according to
.\. It. Leejier. director of the fruit
and vegetable marketing depart-
nn 111 and manager of the Illinois
I Fruit C.r<twers Exchange.
! . "This crop is reported the light-
est in a number of years over the
entire country," stated Director
l.eelier. in his talk over WLS.' "and
no doubt the growers in the north-
ern sections which produce late
j potatoes for winter use will this
y*'itv re<'eive a fair price for their
, crop.

i "We" have received numerous re-

(luests from Farm "liureaus. farm

j elevators and other farm organiza-

j tions lo assist litem in locating and

purchasing sujiplies of potatoes for

farnieis in their respective coun-

! ties."

1 To Help Supply rotat<»es

The Illinois .\gricultural .Associa-
tion, in the past, has never encour-
I aged farmers' organization in the
j buying phase ot co-operation.' K\-
i iierience has shown that co-opera-
ti\e bn\iiig is a considerable hazard
j and the saving in this line is usually
small as comjiared to the risk in-
lvol\ed. However, the association
I realizi's that an emergency now ex-
I ists in the potato supply tor llli-
' nois farmers and arrangements
I liave been started to assist farm or-
:;anizations and rural dealers,
xvheri' they so desire, in locating
I and imrchasing carlots of potatoes
I tliis fall. The extremely low price
j at which potatoes have sold the
I last two or tlirei' years has dis-
couraged growers and the acreage
lias been naturally cut down in
practically all the mid-western pro-
ducing sections.

"We hate made a very thorough
survey of the late apple cro|i in
Illinois and I'Stimate that this crop
will be one-third larger tlian in
l'.i24." stated .Manager I.eeper.

"We found veiy little fungus dis-
ease in the well-kept orchards and
insect injury is less than usual. In
sonie sections, on account of the
extreniely dry weather, the growers
were unable to <ibtain xvater at the
proper time and these jtarticular
orcliards show considerable injury
from tlie second brood ot the cod-
dling motli. In general, Illinois
will lu-oduce this year one of the
best iiuality crops of late apples in
years.

IJen Bavis Viu-iety Leads
"lu; some sections, on account of
the extremely dry weather, the
growers were unable to obtain
water at the proper lime and these
particular orchards show consider-
able injury from the second brood

of the coddling moth. In general.
Illinois will produce this year on^- ol
llie best (inality crops of late apples
in years. ;

"lien Davis leads the vari«ties
showing the greatest increa.se. fol-
lowed by Winesaps, Jonathans and
Ixinnairds. The late ap|ile crop
over the entire country will show
a sliglit increase when coni|iaied
with last year. The most of this
increase is in the northwest sec-
tions. Illinois and New 'i'ork being
the only barrelled a|iple states that
will lo-oduce an increase crop jiver
U124.

"During the las. week in July
and the first week in .\ugust, the
summer aiiple mat liet sulfered one
of the worst shin lis evir eM»<>ri
enced. This was due to tie' l»ri;e
supply of northern grown aiiphs
forced on the market xvithout re-
L-ar'a to iirice. It was fortuiuue
tliat most of the Illinois cro]. Iwas
marketed before this glut.

"Illiiii" lllalld Sells <;<kk1
"P. aclies this year sold at a fair
price, hut this was somewliat of a
disappointment both to the grow-
ers and tlie exchange. The lllijiois
crop followed clos<'ly on the .\rkan-
sas shipmi'nts and reacheii the mar-
ket at a time when the shippers
and buyers, who anticipated an ad-
vance in the market, were holding
on track and in storage a large Kup-
ply of soujhern peaches. The ex-
treme carry-over kept all marliets
in a draggy condition during Hie
entire shipiiing season.

"Illini " brand peaches were v.ry

I favorably received on the markets

I and in almost every case resulliid in

repeat orders.

1 "The southern Illinois tomato

crop attracted more atti-nlion in Hie

inarkits than I'Ver before. -Many

I growers jshippeda number of Wirs

I of gr>en wraii|"'d tomatoes wliich

I made a vi-ry favorable imriression.

This was the first green wraps ever

shipiied out of Illinois .\ good

start was made and our product

has been established on a niit«ber

of markets,

"The pi ar crop at lUesent is] un-
der way and is finding ready de-
j maud in tie- northern markets.
I .Mei'cliants xiiid ■•'aniiers Co-op«*atc
j "Business men of s<iuthern llli^
nois are showing considerable in-
1 terest in the future fruit and 'I'tige-
, table industry in that section. The
business men's organizations have
in view assisting the tanner* in
their vicinity to get larger returns
I from their lands, and also to };ive
i the farmers and niercliants an op-
I portunity to get together and mu-
' tually work out their problems.
I Both farmers and business men
! realize clearly that agriculture and
business, in general, are interde-
pendent and that neither can sijt-
ter linancial loss without affecting
the others."

:t

What Wai Happen

November, 1926?

The Gas Tax is Inevitabk ;

Make it a Lieu Tax.

ANNUAL PREMIUM TO
ACCREDITED COUNTY
ESTIMATED $25,000

Adviser of Jasper County, Iowa,
Writes of the 10 Cent Rev-
enue On All SMrine

■ .\ I'leiiiium of *:;.■), ODU a year
on hugs is a luiilit that might well
lie co\eted b> ally county whether
it is located in Illinois, Iowa or
any oih«*r <'ornb«-lt statt'."

That is tlie amount that Jasper
o*»unt\. Iowa, expects to gain dur-
ing its first year as an accredited
area, according Ho County Agent
lia;. II, i.utlin of Newton.

In Illinois there is one accredited
county and .seyeral that are on the
threshold,' ot becoming eligible tor
Hie lo c«iu premium i>er hundred
on hots delivered to the Chicago
and .-^i. Ijouis markets. Thus, the
extra profits acquired from the sale
"I hogs by the ciiunty in our sister
slate eoni^'.s as a welcome inspira-
tioii to Jljim^is fanners. Tin- premi-
um liecoiaes ayailahle on all hogs
siiipiM il to the Chicago market from
an\ muntjy designated as "uiodified
accredited ana." liy that is meant
that all tlie bre.^ing cattle in the
county hiive bi en tuberculin tested
acciutling lo federal and state reg-
ulaiiiins and that the hogs have
not Im en fed unpasteurized milk
trom a non-accredited county.
I'aniiers (>eliini; l*i-eiiiiuni

Jas|ier icounty, Iowa, became an
accredited area on .March '.■:! of this
year and fince that dale its fanners
have shipped .something over 4WU
carloads of hogs to market. Of this
number it is esiimaied that 2<;i
cars Wert} shippiKl to the Chicago
learket in acciwdance with tin'
iireiniiim reuuire'nients and have re-
turned to the larniers of that coun-
ty at least |4,8>;4 in additional
profits.

"Durinar tie- (>.-ist four years,"
writes lUy I). Lallin. county agent.
"this couniy has annually shiiiped
2.200 carloads of hogs to market.
Tbe.-e "hoifs were air raised in this
county, -if the entire croi> was to
receive |he jireiniuni it would
amount to about tilT.OiiO a yiar in
additional revenue to Jasper coun-
ty. H»w<xer. becau.se all are not
shipiieil according to the require-
nients. I believe that the annual
revenue Will amouui to at hast
$2.'i,ii"o. 1 feel that a large i>er
cent of oiir fall and winter ship-
ments wi)l receive tie premium. "'

.\ccording to the experience of
Jasper county, it is believ.-d that
the additional r«'venue received
fiom the iiremiuia the first year
will go a long way in paying the
cost of becoming a "miMiified ac-
credited area." In Jasjier county
it requii'ed approximately $15.00tT
ot the state and federal funds and
a like amount ot the county funds,
or $:iu.One. If the estimate of J25.-
Wiid additional revenue tor the first
year iiroves correct. Jasper county
will come within $5,(iOO ot paying
for the rofit by April 1 of next year,
accordiagj to County Agent Laflin.

lo a
rela

feed

founil thems dves isvolved Ui
plaint hroui: lit by ihe I'ackers
Stockyards .idministration," i
siatenieiit of the National
Stork Frodt cers .Xssociation.
■'This cntrplaiht was based

: audit of llie Clwcaso Prodtlcers

I' 'il account, made by a go ■•■rn

nont auditor at the rmm'!* o

manager of that organization

"This au lit disclosed Ihi

■ at there hid be«-n a defii^t
:e<i accoiin' which iieen niatft'
in tin folio ving manner: It
practice on i li.e Chicago yard

com
and

iSys a

illion

tlv

fact

the
■ UP
IS a
ihen

he feed accouut o curs
to make ui' k*aid deficit by cha ginv
the owner oT live Flock for to -d ti
which his slock has access i bicl.
has l»in let by a previous load
In this ininner not shipp^
charged tor feed -which his
has not reteixed and il »aa
practice to vbich the Chicago
ducers suhsfribed in making u
deBcit discolered in their fee I
count

>la.\ Iti-fukul to S<Hiie Slii|i|i^
The hot rd ot directors

frankly adn itted that the laci s sei
forth in the compUiiit were, ii sub
stance, true and liave iiidicut -d to
the Department that tley ar.i p-i
fectly willirg to abide by an' de
cision which the Deiiartment may

make
iio-nt

III thii matter. Th<- IX part

has iidicate4 that it nii

) make' reslituti'ti
such restitution to
a refuBd to sliippe :
practically all case

ne<'essary I

.'■ooie cas-is;

the form of

UiMed. In

will not aihount «o mon

few Cents
is now inv
asc rtain to
should Im

ICesull

"There

that most o

ords
will

Jia
prohab

method of
lions there
lieve that

gestions hai
the I'ackers
istration at
Company b;

Is
it<H-k
this
Pro

i the

hav.

b'

in
take

s af
tlii-

tli in

|ier patron. The jflice
'tigatint: the ri'coi is t
whom such restitjitioii
i^ad
<ir I'liOenliaritinK:

also every evi iciice
this deficit was t I
suit ot undercharges to patro is on
their feed afcounts. When th rec
been tully scaun d
be found that sone
shipiiers ari indebted to the Chi
cago i'rodu^ers Ix'cause of thi i un
What action th< I><
partiiieni will take relaUv.- to these
undercharges has not In-^^n indi-
cated as ye

"I to

accounts at

Ihe way in which
now handled

a II

Chicago yailds. the IJepartnien| tul

ly appreciai

ing a defin

ot the year

feed rt'Cord!

hundred do

subject to (

ho»
nd

that

the difliculty in i
te balance at th<
ti) such an ext«*ii1 '
out of balance s< iera|
lais eillier way ai > not
riticism by the I> part

nient. With some change ii

lb.

landlthg feed tri nsac
t I be

every reason
feed accounts ca i

made to balance accurately.

already been ma le t
imd Stockyards .V min

d to the Stock

the iMiard of dirl ctor

of the Chicago Producers

will probably result

changes.

SultM'ribetl io StiKk Vard-. IVjrlic

"The Chif ago I'niducers can
ably be justly criticized for
scribing to a stock yard pra ?tic
since one o( tie aims and put lo
of this orgu Dization is to eliiifinal
practices wliich an- not to th<
interists ot the live stock producei
The Chicago board is offerii i.
excuse whe 1 they call to voir al
teBtion the fact that duriui
early p**rio 1 of operation

Ihe

11 rob

sub

best

tie
till
r«>ducer adencies. it was neciksai
lo subscribe to some pra Iici-s
which migh be ouestioned in ud'

later ellect the eliminatii n i
beneficial ciiange in such prai li«i
Some Chang s liav» already be ii el
ficted. The agency has pro lablj
b*i<n in opi ration lonu enoui h b,i
this time aid is so well estab ished
that furihtr changes might ha\'i
been madi' had a more aggr ssix
policy been followed

.Mi.stake: can be made profltal
to the orgai izalion and the CI icag-
I'fMducers' board of director will
exhaust ev» ry effort to see t|iat
mistake wlich has beiu mai
the handlin ; ot tli<- feed accodnt ol
that organ zation will even ualb
react to the benefit of ilie"liveJ<tock
lirodneera."

feed

b'

Yard

id

Page 4,

The Illinois AgricultunJ Association Record

August 29, ld2S

THREE CO-OPERATIVE
PHASES DISCUSSED AT
TAYLORVILLE MEETING

Over 60 Members From Four
Counties Attend 21st ENst-
trict L [A. A. Conference

., Co-operatiie oil and gas
iiution, Diutaal automobile

Sum Sorrrlln

distri-

insur-

ance and srain

t marketing were
the three princi-
pal subjects of
discussion at tli>
third conference
otthf! 21st I. A. A.
district, held at
TaylorvHle. Au-
gust 26.
It is estimated
that there were
at least 60 repre-
sentative farm
bureau members
present at the
meeting from
Sangamon, Christian, Montgomery
and Macoupin counties, according
to Samuel Sorrells, executive com-
mitteeman for the district, who
took particular note of the desires
of the farm bureau leaders in order
to reflect them later to the rest of
the I. A. A. executive committee.
Dwight Hart, secretary of the
Christian County Farm Bureau, pre-
sided at the meeting.

Following the opening of the
conference, Wiley Jones, manager
of the Farmers' Elevator. Company,
and the Farmers' Co-operative Sup-
ply Coinpany of Willeys. addressed
the meeting on the consideration of
the co-operative distribution of oil
and gas. Mr. Jones stated that his
association has handled this prod-
uct for some time with worthwhile
success and saving for the organ-
ization and its members. Many of
the members present showed con-
siderable interest in the discussion
that followed, although no definite
action was taken at this meeting.

Ralph E. Amett. farm adviser of
Tazewell county, then told of the
farmers' mutual automobile insur-
ance cwnpaay that was created and
has bcaa managed by the Farm
Bureau in his county. According
to Mr. Amett, the members of the
Tazewell County Farm Bureau are
well pleased with the saving in in-
surance costs that the company has
made. From the interest shown
at this meeting it is possible that
mutual automobile insurance may
be considered as a new project of
the Farm Bureaus of the 21st dis-
trict at some future time. ,

The grain marketing problem
was discussed by C. H. Bonnell of
Rosemond, vice-president of the
Farmers' Grain Dealers Association
of Illinois, and Chester C. Davis,
director of the grain marketing de-
partment ot the I. A. A. These ad-
dresses explained the principal
phases of the project of joint action
between the farmers' elevators and
Farm Bureaus of the state. In his
talk. Director Davis told of the Illi-
nois plan for marketing grain and
of the Sural Grain Marketing Com-
pany that has been incorporated
recently to handle the sale of the
grain produced by the members In
the Chicago district. The grain
program, as reviewed by Davis, in^
eludes three objectives. The I. A.
A. aims to assist the already exist-
ing 601 farmers' elevators in the
formation of a central sales agency
for the purpose of disposing of the
grain cm aU markets; to develop a
program for the farmers of the
state who do not have the ad-
vantages o£ a co-operative elevator;
and to co-operate in the growth and
improvement ot the local farmers'
elevators and other co-operative
grain banidling associations for
greater efHciency and harmony.

"Moiern Methods of Spreading
Losses of Farm Mutuals Fire Insur-
ance Companies," titles the radio
talk to be given over WLS by Ver-
non Vaniman, field representative
of the Farmers' Mutual Reinsur-
ance Company, Tuesday evening,
September 1, at 8:30 Central Stand-
ard time.

"Shall the Farmer Market Grain
at the Terminal Markets?" This is
the title of a radio talk to be given
over WLS by Chester C. Davis, di-
rector of the I. A. A. grain mar-
keting department, Friday, Septem-
ber 4 at 12:30.

Wicker and Lynch

Tell of Meeting

Of Co-operators

The American Institute of Co-op-
eration, a summer school for oSl-
eers, managers and employees of co-
operative organizations and stu-
dents of co-operation, which held
its first annual session at thb Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, Philadel-
phia. July 20 to .Migust 15. enlisted
I, A. A. men on its teaching
They were George R. Wick-
nager of the Illinois Agri-
,1 Cooperatives' Association,
D. Lynch, director of the
marketing department.
During the third week of the In-
stitute, the school took up courses
tn operating methods and manage-
ment of co-operative organizations
and on August 3, Mr. Wicker ad-
dressed the assembly on "The E^-
(•nul Audit as a Guide to Man-
aiienent." in which he told the ben-
efits Of regular and impersonal aud-
its and reviewed the accomplish-
ments of the I. A. C. A.

Tells Reneflt.i of .%u<lil

"The benefits of an external audit
mr.ti guide to management." stated
BAmager Wicker, "are 'detection
and correction of errors, both in the
records and the principles of ac-
counting: the preparation of an Op-
erating Statement, the results of
which will place before the inter-
ested parties the net results of their
operations; an accurate and imper-
sonal review of the records for the
purpose of presenting a Balance
Sheet which will exhibit the true
financial conditions of the company:
the preparation of an Operating
Statement, the results of which will
place before the interested parties
the net results of their operations;
comparisons with similar exhibits
covering the operations of previous
years; comparisons with other en-
terprises of similar character; and,
closer co-operation between co-op-
eratives for the purpose of the in-
terchange ot ideas and experi-
ences."

In telling of the benefits of reg-
ular and impersonal audits, he cited
Hlustrations in which certain co-op-
erative organizations were saved
from failure by having an audit
made that showed the present con-
dition of the co-operative and
pointed the way to improvement.
Among the causes of failure of co-
operative associations, according to
Mr. Wicker's lecture, may be listed:
lack of sufficient capital, limited
credit rating, incomplete and ineffi-
cient accounting records, inexperi-
enced managers, lack of information
about the business, directors do not
realize' their responsibility, no re-
serve ■ for depreciation, and over-
extension of credit to patrons and
members.

Lynch Tells of New Views

"The newest Idea In co-opera-
tion," states Director Lynch, who
led the round-table discussion of
dairy marketing during the last
week of the institute, "seems to be
to select the members instead of
signing up everybody in order to
pet full control of the product.
Some associations require every
member to get two members to
vouch for him. Instead of enforc-
ing the membetphip contracts most
associations And that if the organ-
ization has the right to kick the of-
fending member out, that it often
has a better effect than suing for
breach of contract. Everybody was
against whirlwind membership
drives because they get in a lot of
people that do not understand what
it is all about.

"The idea ot getting control of
all the product is dead forever.
However, all agree a volume ot
business is essential to success, but
it is better to have a reasonable
volume from a body ot good co-
operators.

"A separate organization for
each commodity is not regarded
any more as essential. Sometimes
two commodities can use similar
facilities which will reduce costs
and overhead for both.

Slow Progress in Buying

"Co-operative buying is making
much slower progress than co-oper-
ative selling, but is proving success-
ful in a number of cases, especially
as an adjunct to co-operative sell-
ing.

"There was quite a bone of con-
tention as to which is best — highly
centralized business management or
democratic control of membership.
This issue will work itself out in
the form of a division of responsi-
bility between the members and the
local and the central management.
Some decisions need to be made
by one and some by the other."

Key of Co-operation Offered Public
by "Uncle Sam" on Farm Float

■■ ■•■. ■ \ ;

=Hi^•ft*t-^^i^^^i^tmw

STAKK COl'NTY FARM BUREAU
crystallized an idea into the
form of un attractive float and
won first prize during the fourtli of
July parade at Wyoming.

Here is a picture of the float
that brought forth so much favor-
able comment. The color scheme
in the decorations was worked out
in the farm bureau colors, green
and white, with the lettering done
in black. During the parade, one

member, representing "Uncle Sam,"
stood on the platform and offered
the key "co-operation" to the mem-
bers and non-members who rode the
wagon wheel that was trailing Xte-
hind the truck.

The float was planned by O. I>.
Hatch,' county president, and Farm
Adviser E. E. Brown. They were
assisted in the decorating by Mrs.
Harry R. Kerns, office secretary, and
Mrs. Brown.

ST. LOUIS DAIRYMEN
LOSE $500,000 DUE
TO LACK OF CO-OP

Estimates Show Southern Illinois
Farmers Lose Because of Ab-
sence of Co-operative Market

Shall the farmers have a market-
ing organization on the St. Louis
milk market?

I^eaders amo'ig tlie milk produc-
ers in the St. Louis territory in
Illinois have sa d "yes" with a firm
determination. Tiiey want to retain
and maintain a farmers" dairy mar-
keting organization on this market
for they realize the hazard which
faces them if they do not Iiave one.

Expression of their financial sup-
port was shown when a group of
the former members of the bank-
rupt Illinois-Missouri Co-operative
Milk -Marketing company got to-
gether under a new body, known
as the Ill-Mo Co-operative. Inc.,
and purchased the physical proper-
ty when it was placed on sale Au-
gust 20 in accordance with the
bankruptcy proceedings. The pur-
chase price was 120,500 and covers
the plant at E. St. Louis, which is
strategically located. anS the ex-
tensive equipment. The Ill-Mo Co-
operative, Inc., is incorporated with
5,000 shares of common stock at
$90 and 2,000 preferred at $50,
making a total authorized capital-
ization of $150,000.

Sufficient funds to make a sub-
stantial payment down on the prop-
erty was obtained by the Ill-Mo
Co-operative. Inc.. through sales of
stock at $10 a sliare to milk pro-
ducers in the area. The terms ot
the sale call for payment of the
balance of the purchase price by
November 1. 1925.

Plan Selling StcM-k

Plans were made immediately
after the purchase to extend the
stock selling campaign into all parts
of St. Clair, Madison, Montgomery,
Bond, Macoupin, Monroe and Ran-
dolph counties, and in other coun-
ties where there is interest. .\ goal
was set tor $25,000 by November 1.
This will provide tor the balance ot
payment and working capital. A.
E. Richardson, who has been serv-
ing as manager for the lil-Mo Dairy-
company, which has been operating
the plant to make butter, was made
director ot stock sales.

The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion was represented at the sale by
Earl C. Smith, member ot the I. A.
A. finance commttee, R. A. Cowles,
treasurer, Donald Kirkpatrick, legal
counsel and A. D. Lyncli, director
ot dairy marketing.
I-Mnds Lack ot OrKanization Costs
Half Million Yearl],

"The dismantled and disorgan-
ized condition of the St. Louis milk
market which has prevailed, is now
prevailing and will continue to pre-

vail unless the farmers get an ef-
fective, conservative organization
functioning upon it, is costing dairy-
men ot southern Illinois who sup-
ply 8 6 per cent ot St. Louis' milk,
approximately $500,000 a year,"
states A. D. Lynch, I. A. A. dairy
marketing director.

"This half million represents the
farmers' rightful share which they
do not get under present unorgan-
ized conditions.

"If a reasonably effective farm-
ers' selling organization ot a con-
servative type were now in opera-
tion, it would place this halt mil-
lion dollars in the farmers' pockets.

St. Louis and Detroit Coni|)ared

"Tiiese figures are based upon a
comparison between St. I^ouis and
Detroit milk markets. At Detroit
there is an effective milk market-
ing organization* serving the com-
munity. The present milk price re-
ceived by farmers at Detroit is 40
cents a luindred higher than in St.
LouiR. The half million quoted
above is based on the St. Louis pro-
ducers getting 15 cents » hundred
more than they are at present, or
in other words, 25 cents a hundred
less than the Detroit producers are
now getting. The leading dairy-
men in the St. I.,ouis district are
well aware of thij condition and ex-
[tress the belief that the IIl-Mo Co-
operative, Inc., can be a valuable
factor in finding the solution.

"A 15-cent-per-hundred increase
in price is an attractive reward for
the farmers in this area to abolish
their petty jealousies and rally
around the gospel . of co-operation
to form an organization that will be
of mutual service » farmers, deal-
ers and consumersV'

The Ill-Mo Co-opeMtlve, Inc., has
the following board of directors:

R. T. Isaacs, Gillespie, president;
Fred Reis. O'Fallon, vice-president;
Frank Oexner, Waterloo, secretary-
treasurer; Fred Taleur. Edwards-
ville: George Mahlandt, Carlyle;
Otto Holle, Okoville; O. C. Lynch,
Robertsville, Mo.; Ross Hendon,
Greenville; W. S. Blackburn, Cot-
teen.

Officers ('(Uiflilent o^ Future

The officers are optimistic al)Out
producers buying the remainder,
tut state that a well-organized, vig-
orous campaign will be necessary
to carry direct to the producers the
full meaning of the need ot the
farmers having their own agency
on the market.

In the meantime, the plant will
continue manufacturing ILLINI
butter until the stockholders decide
what course shall be pursued.

Support the Revenue

Amendment

Let Intangibles Pay, Too

I. A. A. BOOKKEEPING
SET IS TIME SAVER
FOR CO-OP MANAGER

Accounting Systems Prepared
by I. A. A. Department Now
Installed in 34 Counties

"I find it only takes me from 15
to 20 minutes to fill out the com-
plete record for the average load of
stock, and it is well worth it, for I
have the information always at
hand with which to talk to some of
these doubters on the value of co-
operative marketing," writes E. S.
Mumma, manager of the Mt. Morris
Shipping Association, in discussing
the value of the set of account
books prepared for co-operative or-
ganizations by the I. A. A. account-
ing department.

That Is the concensus of opinion
and co-operative organizations are
rapidly adopting uniform and effi-
cient bookkeeping systems so that
they may have l)etter financial rec-
ords and more Information, accord-
ing to George R. Wicker, director
ot the accounting department, when
discussing the above letter,

"It is estimated that there are
more than 100 bookkeeping sets
prepared by our department now in
use by farm organizations and co-
operative business associations,"
states Mr. Wicker, who Is also man-
ager ot the Illinois Agricultural
Co-operatives' Association. "Dur-
ing the past seven months 51 sets
ot uniform accounting systems have
been Installed for livestock shipping
associations located in 34 counties.
Xew System Is Complete

"The old system of bookkeeping
used by many co-operatives is gen-
erally a single entry system and de-
cidedly inadequate. When we are
requested to make an audit we are
often unable to find the necessary
information and very few of the
managers or directors know the ex-
act financial condition of their as-
sociation.

"The new system ot books pre-
pared by the I. A. A. is complete
but simple in operation. The sys-
tem makes It possible to have
monthly financial reports which are
necessary to good management of
any organization or business. An
association with a complete set of
accounts will save time and money
In auditing expense for their asso-
ciations. It usually requires six or
seven days to audit an association
without proper records, while the
operation may be reduced to four
or five days under the new uniform
system ot bookkeeping."

Moscow Professor Says
Russia Will Export
More Wheat This Year

Valerian Obolensky-Osslnsky, pro-
fessor of the agricultural academy
ot Moscow, Russia, is on a trip
through the United States gathering ,
information concerning farmers and
their organizations.

While visiting at the I. A. A.
office recently, he stated that
Russia, in his judgment, will export
200 million bushels of wheat this
year In addition to storing approxi-
mately 180 million bushels to pre-
vent a recurrence of famine. His
report is based on observations
made In June, the time of his leav-
ing Russia. Last year Russia's
wheat crop was only sufficient for
domestic needs.

McFARLAND WRITES
ON REINSURANCE PLAN

(Continued from page 1. Col. 1.)
pointed committees to complete
their pledges.
t^^harter Meiiibershi|>s Available

I hope that each Mutual Fire In-
surance Company in the state will
avail Itself of the privilege of being
a charter member and of having the
honor of having a part In securing
$500,000 in direct fire and light-
ning insurance in order to get the
charter for the Reinsurance Com-
pany. One company has already
sent in eight applications amount-
ing to $22,650, another seven ap-
plications amounting to $13,500
and another five applications,
amounting to $11,500.

With all friends of m'utual in-
surance lending their assistance,
Illinois can take her place in farm
Insurance protection alongside ot
her sister states, Indiana and Iowa,
who have had a reinsurance com-
pany for 8 and 15 years respec- ,
lively-.

Asking

"The
asking an
cent in th
an Increa
cent wou
the roads
they are
by justice
a five per
the emerg
need add
need It n(
by asklnf
essential
obtain mc
opposition
which we

"The w
operated
omy and
the one
alone, tb<
duced eco
had they
(Coi

29, 1926

PING

;aver

ANAGER

Prepared
ment Now
Counties

lie from 15
It the com-
'age load of
■th it, for I
always at
. to some of
ralue of co-
yrites E. S.
> Mt. Morris
1 discussing
of account
perative or-
A. account-

} of opinion
izatlons are
m and effl-
'ms 80 that
nancial rec-
ion, accord-
er, director
ment, when
Iter.

t there are
eeping sets
nent now in
ons and co-
ssociationa,"
is also man-
A.gricultural
ion. "Dur-
iths 51 sets ,.
ystems have
Dck shipping ,
34 counties.
Mnplete
boolckeeping
lives is gen-
item and de-
rhen we are
lUdit we are
le necessary
few of the
enow the ex-
of their as-

' books pre-
is complete
a. The sys-
le to have
ts which are ' '
nagement of
usiness. An
iplete set of
e and money
r their asso-
quires six or
1 association
a, while the I
uced to four 1
new uniform i

Says
Export
This Year

)ssinsky, pro-
iral academy
s on a trip
tes gathering ,
: farmers and

;he I. A. A.

stated that
t, will export
f wheat this
ring approxi-
shels to pre-
famine. His

observations
e of his leav-
ear Russia's
sufficient for

UTES
<CEPLAN

e 1. Col. 1.)
to complete

8 Available
itual Fire In-
:he state will ,
ilege of being
of having the
t in securing
re and light-
er to get the
mrance Com-
has already
ions amount-
ler seven ap-
to $13,500
applications.

'SlOWmi dO AlIS^HAINn i

■NviHvaan 'HSVi\bT.a "O ahvw ssiii I

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Issued Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinking Fanners — September 12, 192S

Nt>. 18

f mutual in-
ir assistance,
place in farm
alongside of
ina and Iowa,
surance corn-
years reapec-

MR. FARMER, ARE YOU
PROSPEROUS? HEADS
OF RAILROADS SAY YES

Opening Statement in Hearing
at Chicago Before I. C. C.
Reveak Plea for Increase

Mr. Farmer, how much prosper-
ity are you enjoying?

Upon the answer to that ques-
tion largely lies the outcome of the
western railroads' request for an
increase of -at least Ave per cent
in freight rites.

The railroads maintain that
you've been restored to prosperity.
The Farm Bureaus maintain that
you've not been restored to pros-
perity. Which is the truth? How
do you answer the question?

Appearances at the first hearing
before the Interstate Commerce
Commission held Tuesday, Sept. 8,
in the Edgewater Beach hotel at
Chicago indicate that the battle
front in the war between shippers
vs. carriers will be arrayed along
lines as pictured above.

Whipsawed .\ffair

The hearing was opened by Chair-
man Clyde B. Aitchlson of the In-
terstate Commerce Commission
with the statement thJEU facts
brought out in the 8es8io|is would
apply to th^ Hoch-Smltll resolu-
tion as well as to the western rail-
ways* request for an increase. It's
a whipsawed affair — the Hoch-
Smith resolution was passed by the
last Congress with the intention of
revising the whole rate structure
of the country with the view of re-
ducing ratee on agricultural prod-
ucts, and on the other hand the
western railroads are asking for an
increase, first of 11 per cent and
later rescinding to 5 per cent.

The position of the railroads was
stated in the opening session by
R. N. Van Doren, vice-president of
the Northwestern Railway Com-
pany and chairman of the law com-
mittee of the railways represented
in what is termed as the Western
Freight Rate Advance Case. The
opening statement, as given the
press at the hearing by the Western
Railways' Committee on Public Re-
lations (publicity bureau), is as fol-
lows:

Tlie Railways' Statement

"Further receiverships will be
forced upon the western railways
unless they have immediate relief
from the present low level of their
earnings.

"Important western railway com-
panies are now in the hands of re-
ceivers, and other companies will
follow unless financial relief is af-
forded them. The present low level
of western freight rates, which are
now only 29 per cent higher than
in 1911, has been far outstripped
by the rising tide of prices, wages
and taxes with which we have been
and are still confronted, and the
western freight rate level is rela-
tively far below that in effect in
the other sections of the country.

Asking Five Per Cent Boost

"The western railways arc now
asking an increase of but five per
cent In their (reight rates, although
an increase of at least eleven per
cent would be necessary to yield
the roads the fair return to which
they are entitled, both by law and
by Justice. We are asking for but
a five per cent increase because of
the emergency of our necessity. We
need additional revenue and we
need it now. We have hoped that
by asking for only an absolutely
essential minimum that we might
obtain more promptly and with less
opposition this minimum of relief
which we must have.

"The western railways have been
operated with the strictest econ-
omy and with high efficiency. In
the one matter of train loading
alone, the western lines have pro-
duced economies since 1911, which,
had they not been effected, would
(Continued on page 4. fo\. 3.)

THOUSANDS FILL PARK AT I. A. A. PICNIC

THRONGS ATTEND GREATEST PICNIC IN

HISTORY OF ILLINOIS FARM BUREAUS;

ATTENDANCE ESTIMATED AT 25,000

Horseshoe Tournament, Hog and Chicken Calling Contests, Base-
ball Game, Wading Pools, Swimming Tank, Playground I quip-
ment. Speeches and Club Demonstration* Were Feature E vents

TWEXTY-FIVE thousand iic<»j>l«"er..wd.1tl MaiiiitTS Park Ta.v
lorville. Illinnis. August 27. for the largest annual picni • ever
held in the 10 years' life of the Illinois ApriciUtural Associat on.

Cars filled with farmers from practically all parts of the state
began to file into Taylorville during the parly part of the mo 'tiing.
and before the afternoon program coninienced it was estimateil that
appro.\iinately 3,060 automobiles were parki-d in (Siristiaii coMnty's
60-aere playground.

Throngs were there. Never had Taylorville set-n such a mob.
Never had it b«en privileged to entertain suiih a crowd. Xevi r had
an outing of the state as.s<K>iafion brought out such a large rcj rcseii-
tatioii of its membership.

.SiirreMh frvHii Kvery ■%n|lle

Kow oa row- fhfj- HtMnd. (.\l,ovi') .\ portion of Mannt-r's park. Taylorville.
showinB the automobiles parkeil durinjir the I. A. A. picnif. II was estimate,!
that api>roximately 3.000 automobiles were used in hringrlnB farm bureau
memliers to llie ffreateat pifnie in the history of the I. A. A.

(Below) MatFhijiir tilr lioic rnliliuc comtmt, I. A. A. plenir, Taylof^-ilte.
.\ug. 27. This and other pictures of the annual pirnlf. used in this Issue,
were taken by Briee Martin. aKricultural editor of the Deeatur Herald, De-
catur: the Information department lieins full of business puttinp out the
Picnic Special.

NEW GRAIN COMPANY
GETS SEAT TO SELL
ON BOARD OF TRADE

Rural Grain Company Will
Represent Farmer*' Elevator*
At Chicago Terminal Market

Entrance upon the Chicago board
of trade was granted to the Rural
Grain Company, an organization
suported by the National Farm-
ers' Elevators Association, repre-
senting approximately 4,000 farm-
ers' elevators in 14 states, on Sep-
tember 1. The Rural Grain Com-
pany is the project of the Farmers'
Grain Dealers Association of Illi-
nois and Iowa, each state having
appro.ximately 600 farmers' eleva-
tors.

The Rural Grain Company is a
subsidiary of the Farmers' Eleva-
tor Grain Company, Co-operative,
incorporated at Bloomington, Illi-
nois, with total authorized capital
stock of $250,000. This co-opera-
tive will act as a central company,
being represented on the Chicago
board of trade and other boards by
subsidiary organizations similar to
the Rural Grain Company. This
company is capitalized at $100,000'
and has $25,000 already subscribed,
with $12,575 paid in. When a ma-
jority of the stock is sold, actual
functioning on the board of trade
will commence. Profits from the
Rural Grain Company will go to
the co-operatives.

Unique Organization

The object of the company, as
stated in the incorporation papers,
is "to engage upon the co-opera-
tive plan in a general wholesale,
retail, commission, brokerage- and
export business in grain, hay, feed,
seed and other agricultural prod-
ucts, and to own, lease and operate
grain elevators and grain ware-
houses of all classes, and all other
facilities necessary or incident to
the business of marketing grain and
other agricultural products, and to
own stock in other farmers' cor-
porations in any branch of the busi-
ness above subscribed."

(Continued on page 3. col. 1.)

Milk Distribution

Project at Peoria

Reports Progress

Plans are getting well under way
for the organization of the dairy-
men of Peoria, Tazewell, and Wood-
ford counties to market their prod-
uct co-operative in Peoria, accord-
ing to the Peoria County Farmer,
the official monthly organ of the
Peoria County Farm Bureau.

It is understood that for several
years, dairymen of the three coun-
ties have not been satisfied with
conditions on the Peoria market
and this year the county Farm Bu-
reau members decided that it was
time to work out a practical solu-
tion for the milk producers' prob-
lem.

At a meeting of 125 representa-
tives from the three counties in
June, all voted to organize and a
temporary committee of seven di-
rectors were selected to investigate
the ways and means for improve-
ment.

"This committee of seven men
coming from Peoria. Tazewell, and
Woodford Counties, has met almost
weekly," states the Peoria County
Farmer. ".\ trip was made to De-
troit, where the plan in operation
there was studied carefully. After
that a plan was worked out with
the assistance of A. D. Lynch of the
dairy marketing department of the
Illinois Agricultural Association
which was presented to a general
meeting of the milk producers in
July. They voted unanimously to
proceed with this plan.

"To date about 95 meml>erBhips
have been signed in Peoria county,
and abovt 15 in the other two coun-
ties. No regular membership cam-
paign has been launched as yet.
The solicitation work has been done
by local men at odd times. The
membership response to the asso-
ciation's effort will determine just
how serious the milk producers are
in refard to the need of an~organi-
zation to better local conditions. "

Jardine Wired Best
Wishes and Regrets
To I. A. A. Picnickers

Due to doctor's 4>r<lers foi-
louing an operation for the re-
moval of his tonsils. Secretary
Jardine was foree^l to CMiicel
hiN engagement to s|>««ik at tlie
annual I. .\. A. stale iiimir,
THylor\'ille, .August 27.

On the day of the picnic the
Secretar) wire«I the I. A. A.
stating ills refjrcts at being un-
able tit attend and extending
his he«rty c<>ngratulatic»ns and
best HiRlieN. The telegram
rea<l:

"I had long anticiiiated roni-
ing to Taylorville today and it
iti a great disap|H»intiiient to
ine that conditions liere niake
it im|>osslble.

"However, I cannot let this
cK-caslon iMuts without extend-
ing to the miijiols .-Vgrirultural
.\wioriatlon my heart) oongrat-
ulatloas and bej<t wishes. In
my contacts with your organi-
zation I have been deeply im-
pressed with the coostrurtive
work It is carrying forwaitl. I
am sure it will continue to re-
flect^ benefit to Illinois farmers."

: The picnic j^'as conceded t j be a
success fnuni ever> anple. Th*
weather \^is clear and pleat int In
true picMc style. Woniei and
yount: pe«ile were conspicu lus in
attendance^ For the luos part
people came in families.-^ The re was
the picnic dinner with smtil iroups
of people Scattered over thf large
t>eautiful park. It was a social
occasion well enjoyed. .Man fam-
ilies brou^t their lunch, bu there
was no Iac4( of ^ppliet^, or d( lay or
overcrowding at the stani s for
those who had to buy tbei| noon
repast .

The pri^gram was arranged to
satisfy the' wishes of all that might
attend. En the morning f ir the
horse-
game,
forms

THOMPSON SCORES
FORD'S FARM PLAN
AT FLORA MEETING

More Limestone Now Used in
Southern Illinois According to
Reports at LA.A. Conference

"Henry Ford's idea of saving
American agriculture by complete-
ly industrializing farms will hold
water no longer than his cars' ra-
diators," declared President Sam
H. Thompson in his speech at the
conference meeting of the 24th I.
A. A. district. Flora. August 25.

Thirty-five farm bureau repre-
sentatives were present at the meet-
ing from Clay, Wayne. Edwards.
Hamilton, White. Saline, Gallatin.
Johnson. Pope. Hardin and Massac
counties. F. M. Yohe, president of
the Wayne County Farm Bureau,
was elected chairman for the day.
with W. E. Hart, farm adviser of
Clay county acting as secretary.
Curt Anderson, district executive
committeeman, -represented the I.
A. A. in summarising the expres-
sions of the farm bureau leaders in
order to present their wishes to the
other members of the I. A. A. execu-
tive committee at its regular meet-
ing.

"I was boiling with rage after I
read Henry Ford's cure-all for ag-
riculture," stated President Thomp-
son, who was the first speaker on
the program. "His theory of larger
units in farming with completely
industrialized systems, strikes at

the heart of the very foundation of j swine. And don't for the oli

tContinued on paB:e 4. col. I.)

men and buys, there was the
shoe contest and tlie baseball
For those who desired other
of entertainment there was tt p band
concert bj- the Christian county
band and |he speaking prog am at
the auditorium which was crowded
to its full4>st capacity

Scattered over the ground i were
swings, rings, cross-bars, slid "S. the
swimming pool, the wadinf pond
and other playground equ pment
doing full duty for the y tunger
but future farmers of Illino^

L«nce itepresentation

-Approxiiiiately every Far4i Bu
reau in the state was repr< sented
at this farm festival. .Many
ties had special representati e* on
some part' of the prsgram. Twen-
ty-four counties were listed in the
horseshoe contest. menil>erf from
18 countiels were registered lor the
hog calling concert, seven ei unties
were repi+sented for the c licken
calling. Tazewell and Hen lerson
counties ^-ere there with their
tttseball trains and rooters. [Cham-
paign county girls gave folk < ances.
Shelby coiinty girls gave songs,
drills and Veils, the Christiat coun-
ty boys' ai^ girls' club gave dem-
onstration.! Farm .\dviser Ct f>ckle>
and his delegation from Ix>gan
county put on an inspirinn com-
munity sinf; and solos by litt » .Miss
-Myrna Brooks, age 3 years. San-
gamon coUnty brought its fl e and
drum corpi and other countie i were
there with carloads of meml ers in
attendancft

Hog ("billing Big Kmiu e

The hog calling contest went
over as one of the biggest fi atures
of the day.

"It was perhaps the firs time
such a stunt had been pul ed on
so large a scale." said the i Iprini;-
fleld .Stat* Journal. "For more
than a mpnth it had been adver-
tised extensively, even i inning
'page one play' and consi erable
editorial cOminent in city an^ coun-
try newsplapers."

Heviewihg further the re .ort of
the contest in the State . ournat
read:

"Whoo-pey! That, desi read-
ers, is thei only proper, ethii al and
acceptable way to suramoi vour
folks'

ffontisued on page 4. eol.

8.)

_ JL<L<INOIS

ICCLTVBAL ASSOCIA

'RECORD^

N

Published every other Saturday by the Illinois Agrrlcaltaral As*
•oclatlon, (08 South Dearborn Street. Chicago, Illinois. Edited
by Department of Information. Harry C. Butcher, Director.

Entered as second class matter Oct. 10, 1921, at the post ofllce
at Chicago. Illinois, under the act of March S, 1I7». Acceptance
for mailing at special rates of postage provided for In Section
llOJ, Act of October 3. 1917. authorised Oct. II. IMl.

Tb* Individual membership fe* of the Illinois Acrlenltural As-
sociation Is five dollars a year. The fee iBcludes paymsnt of
flfty cents for subscription to the IlUneU Avrlsultnral Aaao-
clatlon RscoBi.

Postmaster: In returninc aa anoallsd-for sr mtusat aopy.
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TIca-PrMldent, H. B. Ooanibal, Hooppola.
, I Treasurer, R. A. Oowlw, Blooiiriintoa

8eoretai7, Geo. A. Fox, Byi'wnr».

EIXECCnVB OOMHITTKB

B7 Consreuiooal Dlitrtota

lat ta 11th WIIU«|n Wtbb, Rout* On*, Jollet

Ittk Ok F. Tull»«k, Rookfard

11th C. E. BamborouiK Pols

14th , , W. H. M»o4y, Port Byron

1»th i ■. H. Taylor, Rapataa

1M1 A. R. Wright, Varna

17th F. D. Barton, Comoll

Kth R. F. Karr, Iroquel*

l»th J. L. Whitnand, Chartaaten

20th '. , Eari C. Smith, Detroit

Hat L Samuel Sorralls, Raymend

22n4., J Stanly Caatis, Alton

2tr4..* .L W. L. Cope, Salem

24*h Curt Andereen, Xenia

2Sth ^ R. K. Loomit, Makanda

Directors of Departiiienls, I. A. .\. Office

Ce-eperatlve Aeoounting Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lyneh

Finance R. A. Cowlea

Fnilt and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General Office > J. H. Kelker

Grain Marketing Cheater 0. Davit

Information Harry C. Butcher

Legal Counsel Donald KIrkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organization Ok E. Metzger

Phosphate-Llmeetena J. R. Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Qougler

TaxatloB and SUtlttlea J. C. Wataen

Tranaportatlon < L. J. Quaaay

THB Racsaa's PLATFORM
Aitmea tfc* ftlrpf far mhich th» Fmn Bureaa vat fgamind,
ssaiily. (a rnwtatm, frottct *nd rtprutnt thm tasuuss, acaaaauc
serial tmd tiaeationil intsrestj of (As tmrmert a/ lUmoU imd (ft*
aafsa, amd la Javebp mgrioiUw*.

Justice i$ on the Farmer's Side

IN "The Worlds Work" of September, under the cap-
tion of "The March of Events," which is an editorial
interpretation, there i.s an editorial' entitled "No sub-
sidy for Agriclulture. "

It is an iujerpretation of the federal government's
attitude towaitd placing agriculture under the benefits
of the protective system, or assisting agriculture in some
other way such as was provided in the McNarj-Haugen
bill. The editjorial pictures the general situation faced
by agriculture las regards federal action for the industry.
We pass it on for the benefit of farm bureau members:
NO SUBSinV FOR AGRICULTURE
"Relief for the farmers appeared prominently in
the promisfe of both parties during the last Presiden-
tial election. It has appeared in every general state-
ment of Re])ublican policy since then — and would
have appeared in any general -statement of the Demo-
cratic party had there been any.

The Federal Government, under the Wilson and
the Harding administrations; provided the fanners
with greater 'credit facilities than they had ever had
before.

Special tariff favors have been given to special
branches of farming- — citrus fruits, sugar beets, etc.
But the tariff cannot be made generally profitable to

agriculture. Beyond the tariff favors to specialties,
.political help to the farmers is summed up chiefly
in suggestions about co-operative selling. But this is
essentially a thing the fanners must do for themselves.
The goveniiiient cannot co-operate with the farmers.
The farmers will have to co-operate amongst them-
selves.

What help then can the government give the farm-
ers? The farmers' complaint is something like this:

Whereas, the Republican party bargains to deliver
prosperity through tariff protection to business groups
especially if they vote the Republican ticket, and

Whereas, the Northern and Westjern farmers have
largely voted the Republican ticket, and

Whereas, the tariff protection, which is effective for
other groups, does not help to raise the price of the
.main farm crops, and

Whereas, on the contrary, it is a disadvantage to the
farmer in raising his cost of living, be it therefore

Resolved, that the Republican party give to the
fanner a benefit equivalent to the benefit that the
tariff is to manufacturers.
This means some kind of a subsidy. It may be called
something else. It may look like something else. But
it must be a subsidy. There are only two ways to
give to a particular class money taken from all the
people. One way is by the tariff, the other is by a
subsidy. The Republican party has always believed
in 'special favors by tariff. It has not believed in
special favor by subsidy. Yet the farmer is insistent
that, if favors are to be distributed, he must get his
share and that it be in a form which he can use. And
justice is on his side. Whatever violence a subsidy
does both to the science of government and to the sci-
ence of economics, there is no more reason why the
farmer should not have a bounty on wheat and cotton
than that the American Woolen Company, for ex-
ample, should have a tariff on its products, and pre-
sumably if given a bounty the farmer would behave
better than the woolen company and not cut wages.

But neither justice nor logic is likely to succeed.
Years ago when the farmers were a majority in this
country they might have stopped the tariff or demand-
ed for themselves an equivalent.. But the Northern
and Western farmers supported the tariff then as
maey still do. Now they are in a minority. More-
over, the high tide of their distress is over and with
it the power of desperation.

There is little real benefit that the Federal Gov-
ernment can give them and they are not politically
organized to force a subsidy on an unwilling country.
Whether they can or will organize and join other forces
to beat an outrageous tariff is problematical. That is
the only practical amelioration which the farmer can
achieve politically. In the meantime he must sell the
bulk of his products without any method of stimulat-
ing sales and produce them without any method of
governing production hoping' that Providence and
bad weather will prevent his succeeding so well as to
spoil his success; for it is often that smaller crops
yield more money than larger ones.

We are pleased to note that this magazine, one that
carries considerable editorial weight, states that justice
is on the side of the farmer. Many, and we should say
most, magazines and newspapers of influence are in-
clined to scoff and make light of the demands of agri-
cultiire. The fact that "World's Work" holds out little
hope for our success should serve to knit our fighting
forces closer. Justice will eventually prevail.

Clod-Hopper or Farmer

"Senator Cuthbertson's assertion In his speech at the Farm
Bureau picnic at the Fair Grounds last Thursday that the
farmers are the only workmen In the world who d(> not have
sense enough to stick together for their own benellt. appears
to be true. And it also seems to be a fact that the average
farmer is not Interested enough in his own business to make
any effort to improve his condition.

"At the experiment field meeting here Friday only about
forty or flfty farmers were in attendance. This seems strange
to the coal operator, the laboring man. the merchant, the
banker, and even the newspaper publisher. The information
obtained at the rteld meeting, if applied to a farm, would pay
that farmer a high wage for the time spent at the meet. On«-
little suggestion might mean thousands of dollars to him.

"The banker finds time to attend the meetings. of his county,
district and state association. The laboring man attends thei
meetings of ills local in order to belter himself, the merchant
organizes and conducts schools of instruction, and even the
overworked editor lets other business go in order to attend a
meeting where he mi»?ht learn some new wrinkle to aid iiini
in getting out a better newspaper.

"Yet the average farmer, who conducts the biggest business
in the world, makes no effort to better himself. He sneers at
the new methods of soil treatment, refuses to absorb any
knowledge on the assumption that he already knows all, and
sits idly by while every otlier industry on the face of the earth
organizes against him.

"The farmer who supports the farm organizations ,ind who is
willing to keep up with the times, will be known as a-weil-to-
do farmer a few years hence, while the other fellow will still be
a clod-hopper." — Sparta (Randolph County, 111.) News-Plaln-
riealer.

The Farm Bureau Protest

THE following protest against an iuerea.se in trans-
portation charges on products from the farm has
been filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission by
the American Farm Bureau Federation. It represents
the stand of the national Fann Bureau and of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association.

1. The prosperity of all commercial activities are direct-
ly dependent upon prosperity of the farmer.

2. The government's own agencies, such as the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department
of Labor and others, whose records are available to, and
may be utilized by the Commission, contain ample evidence
of the general farming condition throughout the country.

Still Serious

3. Because the present crop this year in. some sections
promises brighter conditions does not justify ignoring the
situation which confronted our growers and shippers dur-
ing the two or three years immjedlately prior thereto and
the obligations with their resultant burdens, which that
industry was and is carrying. >

4. That the territory lying west of the Mississippi River
is largely agricultural, therefore an increase in transporta-
tion charges in that section which included agricultural
commodities, would in reality be aimed at, and a direct
blow to agriculture and would cause an unbalanced and
unjust tax.

5. That many rates between the western territory and
the sections of the country east thereof are based on the
Missouri or Mississippi River, therefore the petition threat-
ens serious complications and may become so far-reaching
as to involve througti rates to and from all other sections
of the country.

6. That a further general increase in all rates every-
where in the country would bring about a situation which
would react on the commerce of our country and be reflected
In its general prosperity.

7. That the Transportation Act now provides meas-
ures for recapturing from prosperous lines earnings in ex-
cess of certain limits, to be used for their less fortunate
neighbors and we emphasize that in our opinion, the com-
mission and the railroads should worlt out some plan of
carrying out this feature of the law, without Inflicting the
public with further increases in rates.

8. That in ^ years past, certain railroads have earned
substantial returns on common and preferred stock, which
in some cases was re-invested in other properties and as
the public undoubtedly was a recltoning factor in contrib-
uting towards the highly successful years, that those sub-
stantial returns should also be taken into consideration at
this time in determining the propriety of this petition.

9. We do not express an opinion on matters of railroad
consolidations, but if the Commission is of the view that
there is economy through consolidation, then this feature
would also become an important factor in this case in de-
termining if the lines in the western territory have been
as active in this respect as railroads in other districts.

10. The Act also provides that "Efficiency" is an out-
standing item for consideration of petitions for increases
in rates — and while we are expressing no opinion at this
time on this feature, yet since the commission has a depart-
ment for investigating this feature, that we urge that before
placing an additional tax on our products, that this item
will have been thoroughly in\'estigated.

■ September

"WHOO-I
• IS WAY

. SAYSS'

' Hog and C

tesU Fo

' Feature i

It's "who<

oey" and it

, side of the

hanging nati

or without i

That is th
linois Farm
• to the conti
are best call*
in the Middi'
', ments were
hog calling
by the Illinoi
tion.

That is tl:
Robison of I
, ty, who was
pion hog ca
annual I. A.
ville, August
winner was
the form of

Second pli
contest was
Cumberland
tically the s;
ner. but lac
ume. Emery
ty, who wc
"whoo-oey,
with a mixti
. The fourth
Sangamon c<
plain but coi
Thin

There wer
counties and
included:

Morgan (
Jefferson cou
Payne, and V
land county-
G. Brick; I
Rupp, J. W
Gardner; Pik
son; 'Vermilit
thorn; Mario
ton; Cass cc
Christian co
William Krai

Tazewell c
and Jay Groe
— H. C. Be
counties — Eu
Boyle; Gree
Barnes; Sani
Brown, Earl '
Shelby count:
liamson coui
1 and A. M.
I county — Ed
— Emery Irw
— Ed Highfl
The state
' for the won

* other popuiai
I, Mrs. I. N. W(
I was declaret
1 and received

pitcher. Her
ous than sm
calculated

•• by the five ji
The other

' placed were,
Fearn of Ch
Bell of Chris
Frank Potth
There wer
resented in
eluded: Mrs.

> W. L. Feari
Lewis Nash
Christian c
Bourne and
Peoria count;
of Montgome
W. Rupp of

• Frank Potth
I Mrs, I. N. Wo
"and Robert

county.

JOHN THINKER AND EPIDERMIS FLINT.

•EP" JOINS THE FARM BUREAU

Mirandi Wins!

NEW GRA
ONBC

(Continue^

In referrin

' eration of th

pany, S. J.

of the Natio:

Grain Compa

under whose

trade mem be

"The Run

formed to lia

minal comiiii

^National Far

Ipany, a co-o

I'tabllshed by

|of Illinois at

expect the co

kions until it

jthe farmers

Outgrowth (

"This is th

he fanners'

r

.September 12, 1925

The nilnoU Agricultural Association Record

,:i.jx'N"-'v-r

(^H-

Pl«! 3

"WHOO-EY! WHOO-EY!"
IS WAY TO CALL HOGS
SAYS STATE CHAMPION

WINNERS AND CONTENDERS IN I. A. A. STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS

- Hog and Chicken Calling Con-
tests Found to Be Popular
Feature at I.A.A. State Picnic

It's "whoo-oey, whoo-oey, whoo-
oey" and it's delivered from tlie
side ot the mouth with the arms
hanging naturally at the side, with
or without gestures.

That is the answer, as tar as Il-
linois Farm Bureaus are concerned,
to the controversy over how hogs
are best called that has been raging
in the Middle West since announce-
ments were made that- a state-wide
hog calling contest would be held
by the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion. 4:;

That is the style used by V. E.
Roblson ot Morton, Ttlewell toun-
ty, who was crowned state cham-
pion hog caller of Illinois at the
annual I. A. A. state picnic, Taylor-
vllle, August 27. The prize to the
winner was a gold watch fob in
the form ot a hog.

Second place In the hog calling
contest was won by E. G. Brick of
Cumberland county, who used prac-
tically the same style as the win-
ner, but lacked somewhat in vol-
ume. Emery Irwin of Menard coun-
ty, who won third place, used
"whoo-oey, whoo-oey, whoo-oey"
with a mixture of "kip, kip, kip."
The fourth was Henry Brown of
Sangamon couaty. His style was
plain but convincing.

ThlrtA ContestaiKs

There were champions from 20
counties and entries in the contest
included:

Morgan county — Earl Brown;
Jefferson county — I. E. Beall, J. H.
Payne, and W. K. Danner; Cumber-
land county — A. C. Gordon and E.
G. Brick; Logatf county — J. W.
Rupp, J. W. Gardner and T. A.
Gardner; Pike county — Harry John-
son; Vermilion county — J. A. Haw-
thorn; Marion county — W. H. Clif-
ton; Cass county — W. P. Newell;
Christian county — C. M. Brooks.
William Kramer and John Chester.

Tazewell county — V. E. Roblson
and Jay Grosenback; Macon county
— H. C. Bean; Marshall-Putnam
counties — Eugene Stadel and Lew^ls
Boyle; Greene county — Faulkner
Barnes; Sangamon county — Hei)ry
Brown, Earl Coulter and Ed Baker;
Shelby county — Lester Boyles; Wil-
liamson county — Jacob Krummrey
and A. M. Spitznassars; Woodford
county — Ed Barth; Menard county
— Emery Irwin; and Jersey county
— Ed Highflll.

The state chicken calling contest
for the women proved to be an-
other popular feature of the picnic.
Mrs. I. N, Wooley of Marion county
was declared the state champion
and received the prize of a silver
pitcher. Her style was more vigor-
ous than sweet, but nevertheless
calculated tretjjendously eJTective
by the five judges.

The other three contestants who
placed were, in order: Mrs. W. L.
Fearn of Christian county, Evelyn
Bell of Christian county, and Mrs.
Frank Potthast of Boil county.

There were seven counties rep-
resented in this contest which in-
cluded: Mrs. C. A. Hitchcock, Mrs.
W. L. Fearn, Dorothy Dial, Mrs.
Lewis Nash and B\'elyn Bell of
Christian county; Mrs. Ethel
Bourne and Mrs. John Morris of
Peoria county; Mrs'. Earl Campbell
of Montgomery cou^nty; Mrs. John
W. Rupp of Logan county; Mrs.
Frank Potthast of Bond county;
Mrs. I. N. Wooley of Marion county;
and Roberta Keller ot Greene
county.

Peoria County Farm Bureau de-
fejiders. They are Alien and Gerald
Coon, aged 12 and 13. who won the
championship of Peoria county against
much older men and represented
their county in the state champion-
ship game at the annual I. A. A. pic-
nic. Taylorville, August 27. Allen and
(Jerald were strong contenders in the
state match in spite of their young
age.

Illinois Farms Have
More Radios Than Any
Other State in Union

More nuiio sets are on the
farms of Illinois than in any
other state in the Vnion, ac-
cording to a nation-wide sur-
vey recently completed by the
United States Department of
Agriculture.

Illinois farmers have approx-
imately 40,0O0 radios, which
niean.s that about 20 |ier cent
of the farms in this state are
so e<|uip|ied. In other words
two out of t«n farmers in Illi-
nois have radios.

In the United States, aecord-
ing to the survey, there are
550,000 farms equip|)e<I with
radios, comiuired to 365,000 a
year ago and 145,000 in 198.").
Xew York and Iowa each has
30,000, and other states trail
along, scaling down to 200 for
Delaware.

Tlie department's agent.s re-
l>ort that the farmers tune in
iH>t so much for grand opera
or baseball or ]>olitical s|>eeches
as for weather and market re-
ports.

NEW GRAIN COMPANY
ON BOARD OF TRADE

(Continue,^ from page 1. col. 2.)
In referring' to the proposed op-
' eration of the new marketing com-
pany, S. J. Cottington. president
of the National Farmers' Elevator
Grain Company, Co-operative, and
under whose name the board of
trade membership is held, stated:
"The Rural Grain Company is
formed to handle the Chicago ter-
.minal commission business for the
JNational Farmers' Elevators Com-
,pany. a co-operative company es-
['tabllshed by the farmers' elevators
\ot Illinois and Iowa. We do not
expect the company to start opera-
kions until it is amply financed by
'the farmers' own paid In capital,
r Outgrowth of Farmers' Elevators
I "This is the logical outgrowth of
Hhe farn*ers' elevator movement of

the last 25 years, which brought
into being about Ave thousand lo-
cal farmers' grain companies. For
a number of years we have been
planning for the next step which
would place the farmers' elevators
in the terminal markets, handling
the farmers' grain through their
own sales agency.

"The National Farmers' Eleva-
tor Grain company will operate a
general sales and service agency.
Its aim wil be to assist the local
elevators in moving their grain as
directly as possible from the regions
of surplus to the consuming cen-
ters. The terminal branch in Chi-
cago, the Rural Grain Company, is
a subsidiary of this wider cq-opera-
tlve company. Eventually we ex-
pect to join the farmers' elevators
of other states."

1. \. A. Supiioriting It

The farmers' elevator people
asked the United States department
of agriculture for assistance in
forming this co-operative and were
assisted materially with it. accord-
ing to J. W. Shorthill. secretary ot
the National Farmers' Elevator As-
sociation. The Illinois Agricultural
Associaton has served the farmers'
elevators in an advisory and sup-
plementary capacity, and is sup-
porting the movement.

Officers ot the National Farmers'
Elevator Grain Company, Co-opera-
tive, are as follows:

S. J. Cottington, Stanhope, la.,
president; D. H. Allen, Delavan,
111., vice-president; Lawrence Far-
low, Bloomington, 111., secretary;
and F. W. Hill, Leland, 111., treas-
urer. The board of directors of the
national organization Includes the
officers named above and Fred A.
Mudge, Peru, 111.; W. J. Lynch,
Green Mountain, la.; Geo. L. Pot-
ter, Graymont, 111.; W. P. Doderer,
Rockwell, la.; J. G. Merritt, Glid-
den, la.; and G. A. Arnold, Sheldon,
la. These, with the exception of
W. F. Doderer and G. A. Arnold,
also constitute the board of direc-
tors and officers of the Rural Grain
Company. . ' , ,

(Aliove) Male qoartrttr of the I. A. \. icrand opera, Tayiorviile. .Vugust
2~. Tiiey are, left to right, V. B. Robison of Jlorton. "Tazewell county.
K. (». Bi-ick of Cumberland county. Emery Irwin of Menard county and
Henry Brown of Sangamon county, winners in the state championship hog
calling contest. Mr. Kobi.'*on won the minianirc igold hog' for being the
best swine yodeler.

(Below) State ehampioiMklp koneakoe pltrkera: of 1<I24 and -iS. They
are. left to right, Keulten Bright and Samuel Smith af Mcl*ean county, who
won the state championsliip horseshoe tournament at Lincoln last year, and
Walter and Harry Torhert of the t^eWitt county K;irm Bureau, winners at
Taylorville. August 27. Harry and Waller were state champions in 1923, and
their father. Ed Torhert. was a meftnber of the state championship team of
1U2". '21 and '22. ^ , •

'Farm Bankruptcies Cause More
Grief Than War", Says Wallace

^

"The family tragedies caused by
farm bankruptcies are inflnitrfy
greater than the grief caused by
the actual deaths which took place
during the \lForld War, " declared
Henry A. Wallace of Des Moines,
Iowa, editor of Wallace's Farmer,
and son of the late Secretary of
Agriculture, Henry C. Wallace, In
his address to the picnickers attend-
ing the annual I. A. A. state picnic.
Taylorville. August 27.

"With corn at a dollar, hogs at
J12 and wheat at J1.50. times are
not as bad as they were in 1921.
The prosperity artists hail these fig-
ures with joy but the thoughtfiil
farmer knows that all these prices
are due to scarcity and he antici-
pates that the new crop corn will be
around 65 cents on the (arm. that
hogs will be $8 or less in December
of 1927, and that wheat will go
down to a dollar the next time th*
crop in the U. S. and the world at
large is the least bit above normal.
Moreover, in every community are
found men right this minute who
are absolutely ruined through no
fault of their own.

"The day I left Des Moines to
come to Taylorville I heard the
story of an old friend with whom
1 had spent three years at the Agri-
cultural College at Ames. He was
the sort who studied hard and
works with the Y. M. C. A. .\fter
leaving school he became a county
agent but before the war came on
he went to fariujng for himself but
was not in position to make a pay-
ment down on his farm till the time
of the boom. Last week he made
an assignment of everything be has
to his creditors and next March he
and his wife and his small children
will start out in the vrorld with
nothing. A few years ago he was
planning on sending his children to
college; now they will have to work
their own way through. There are
thousands of cases of this sort «s
we all know.

Praises I. A.~A.
"For a time it seemed as though
the pain of the post war farm de-
pression would bring forth effective
(arm organizations but even in this
there has been much bitter disay-

pointment. True it is that the
farmers of Illinois have built the
Illinois Agricultural Association
into a wonderful institution. .\nd
right here I want to say that the
splendid work done by your Mr.
Watson on taxation served as an
example for; our Iowa Farm Bureau
which finally resulted in July of this
year in a cut in farm taxes amount-
ing to over a million dollars. The
taxation work alone has justified
the existence of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association.

"For the next five or ten years
our corn belt agriculture seems to
be at the mercy of the weather.
In years of short crops we may gel
along fairly well but whenever we
put a surplus on the European
markets we are almost certain to
get hurt unless we have the benefit
of the McNary-Haugen principle.
With the'Intemational situation the
way it is. farmers must have the
McNary-Haugen principle to put
them on a position of equality until
such time, as our own population
has increased 15 to 20 millions. A
few farmers have felt apologetic
about the McNary-Haugen princi-
ple when confronted by the subtle
economic arguments of certain big
business mein. They need not be.
Labor has its .\damson act and Im-
migration act. the Railroads have
section 15-v\. and Industry has its
tartff and Webb Pomerene act.

Commends McXary-Haugen Idea

"The McNary-Haugen principle is
simple justice and farmers should
fight for it with an absolutely clear
conscience. When it comes to work-
ing out the details that is another
proposition which will take the best
brains we can get. not only among
farmers, but also among those legis-
lators and business men who have
proved themselves to be true to the
farm point of view. So far as I
know now. the Dickenson b#l will
take the place of the McNary-Hau-
gen bill this next winter. A deter-
mined effort will be made to put it
across. If it fails the next step will
be to open a determined fight on
those tariffs which are keeping out
manufacturad products from Eu-
rope.".

\^wa. W <-hb

WATSON, VANIMAN
AND KIRKPATRICK
TALK AT MEETUIG

Taxation Problems and Ri in-
sorance Discussed at ConI er-
ence Meeting, Liberty^ ille

"Farm ott'iers in counties tear
l.ake .Michigan an- l>»*in.i: la\«*d
assessed valua-
tions based on
I h e speoulativf
values of subdi-
vision pi'operty
and resort slt"s.
which is unjust
to landowners of
liroducine farms."
declartd J. C.
Watson, taxation I
specialist of the |
I. A. A., who ad-
dressed 27 farm [
bureau represen-
tatives of Kane.
l.ake. Will and
DuPlage counties at the confer« nn-
•jf the 1st te Uth districts, i .ib-
Mt.vville, September 1.

William Webb. I. \. A. exi cu-
tive committeeman of the disti let.
opened the meeting and took cha rge
until D. H. Minto was elected er-
:nanent chairman and E. A. Ci rn
cross, farm adviser of Dul jge
.?ounty, nomiSated for secretar; .

""We have fiound considerable lif-
ficulty in determining the pix per
.aluation for kaxation purposes i hat
should be placed on farm landi in
'he counties of Cook. I.4ike. 3u-
I'age. McHenry and Kane. " sti led
Mr. Watson. "In the past, assei sed
valuations have been made at the
average selliSg price of allU ids
in the counties. This is not fai to
the farmers because portions of the
land near th» lake and in the re-
sort sections have been sold for
speculative ptrposes as subdirii ion
property and resort locations ind
therefore sold at figures as higt as
Jl.OOO an acre. Such values if
used for taxation assessments w( uld
be unjust on land used strictly for
agricultural purposes."

KeinMuranre Would Save |tS,000. MIO

"Illinois farmers could save ;3.-
OOO.flOO in insurance every yea • if
there were a reinsurance comp iny
for all local mutual compani s, "
stated Vernon Vaniman. field re ire-
.<entative of |the Farmers' Mu ual
Reinsurance Company of Illii Jis.
who made tlie second talk on the
conference priogram. Mr. Vanii lan
Is representing the Illinois Asso na-
tion of Mutuallnsurance Compa lies
and the I. A. A. co-operating, in the
formation of {the new reinsun ice
company. |

""This new reinsurance compiny
is a mutual brganixation of fa-m-
ers' insuranoe companies in the
state,"" said Mr. Vaniman. "It i up-
plements the activites of the h cal
companies and Puts them in a po-
sition wherebS' they can handle all
insurance ne^ds of the farmers on
a mutual basife. It has three phi ses
of work, specific reinsurance, di: ect
policies, and blanket insurai ce.
Many mutual companies can aot
write insurance for over $10, lOO
on any one risk. By providin ; a
company whijch will operate o rer
the entire staXe. direct policies ;an
be issued to take care of the in
surance that is in excess of w lat
the local comfciany can write."'

Legal Coonsei Talks

The present status and past ac-
tivities of th* dairymen and n ilk
distributors of the St. Louis aial ici
were discusstd by Donald K rk-
patrick. legal counsel of the I. A \.
In telling of the difficulties of co-
operative millc distribution at St.
Louis, Mr. KIrkpatrick emphasi sed
the importance of co-operati les
producing the best Quality pro<J net
and using strictly the best busii ess
methods and imanagtmnt.

Those present were; DuPage cc un-
ty — E. A. Catncross. farm advl ler:

C. C. Wimpreas. Winiam KosB. H <"
Vial and W. It. Lehman. I..ake coun-
ty— J. J. Doerschuk. farm advi ler;

D. H. Minto. Willard l>arrell. J s
Denman, Arthur Leng. tV. J. Schr >ck.
Everett Marsli. R. C. Kent. Spei cer
Wells. Oorm Anderson, and Sil ion
Callagher. Will (■ounty — J K H< Ig-
cock. farm adyiner: H. W. t^lark. as
sistant farm adviser; William W 1>I».
I. A. A. executive committeeman f oni
the tilth and Wth districts: and 1. P
Conant. Kan*- counlv — John W stt.
farm adviser. : Dan ]>avi8 and LI lyd
Keepers.

The next Aieeting was act for
Woodstock, Mf Henry county. Nov *m-
her 24.

What Will Happen
November, 1926?

Page 4

The niinoh Agricultural Aaaociation Record

SeptenAer 12, 192S

Cowles and Lynch

Speak at Meeting

Of 1 8th District

Approxlniatoly 50 farm bureau
rpprespnfativps of the 18th district,
composed of
Kaakakee. I r o-
quois. Vermilion,
Edgar, Cumber-
land and Clark
counties, were
present at the I.
A. A, conference
nieetins held at
Marshall. Clark
county, on Sep-
tember 2, accord-
ips to R. F. Karr
ot Iroquois, I. A.
A. executive com-
mitteeman of the
district, who ab-
sorbed th0 concensus of opinions of
the farm headers in order that their
wishes mty be presented to the
other meknbers of the executive
committea at its next meeting. J.
Q. Snediker, president of the Clark
county F^rm Bureau, presided as
chairman of the meeting,

R. A. Cowles, director of the fi-
nance department of the I. A. A.,
made the first talk of the day. Mr.
Cowles emphasized the ^eed and
importance of having a sound finan-
cial policy for the Farm Bureaus
and other co-operative organiza-
tions. .\n organization to be a suc-
ce^ and accomplish the work that
it Bhould, must stand on a strong
flnaocial foundation, he said.

"Co-operative Dairy Marketing o(
the State" was the subject dis-
cussed by A. D. Lynch, 1. A. A. di-
reoCor of dairy marketing. "The
fartn bureau members of the ItSh
district h<ive two possible ways of
marketing their dairy products,"
stated MrJ Lynch. "In certain parts
of the district, it will be advan-
tageous for the members to organ-
ize cream shipping stations, similar
in operation to the livestock ship-
ping ^ssotiations. Other members
may find it advisable and more
profitable to sell their whole milk
on the Teirre Haute market."

Followibg Director Lynch's talk,
the meeting was thrown open to a
general discussion of farm bureau
problems. I At the present time, the
Clark County Farm Bureau is start-
ing its membership drive and con-
siderable Attention was given to the
campaign.

THOMPSON SCORES

FORD'S FARM FLAN

(Continued from pa^*^ 1. fol. 4.)
rural America — the farm home.
Without good substantial farm
homes, America would be like a
ship without a rudder.

Tiu[atl<>n Iin|K>rtant Problem

"One <^f the biggest problems
confrontidg farmers and city peo-
ple today] is the ever increasing
county akd local taxes. It has
reached a place where there is
doubt in many people's minds as to
the financial desirability of owning
homes and farms. A non-home-
owning I'taited States would be a
bad place to live. High taxes are
causing mpst of this indifference to
home owding.

VHowevjer, I have the good news
to_report ^o you that your present
tax recelpjts have figures on them
higher thin those you will have to
pay in the 'uture. This reduction
comes ' the activity of the Illi-

v^' ..- . Itural Association in
•'[■(■■: •»i»u ilaations on farm and
■' H- .
luiB IB only a partial relief,
however. The amendment to the
revenue section of the state consti-
tution, which was passed by the
last General Assembly, offers a
hope for nelief from the present op-
pressive taxes on real property. .Ml
property owners, whether in city or
country, should support the revenue
amendment when it comes to popu-
lar vote ill the fall of 1926, because
it will m^e it possible to have a
more equijtable taxation system."
Ponltr^ .Markeling I)iscn.s!te<l

The poultry marketing situation
in Illinoia was discussed by F. A.
Gougler, director of the I. A. A.
poultry and egg marketing depart-
ment, who gave the second speech
of the day.

"We have the same possibilities
in co-operative poultry and egg
marketing in Illinois as we had in
livestocK marketing; and, given a
firm foundation, we can carry this
pin-money industry as far along co-
operative marketing lines as has
been donel in livestock marketing,"
I Mr. Gougler said.

TAZEWELL NINE TAKE
STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
BY SCORE OF 8 TO 6

SPECIAL PICNIC ISSUE OF I. A. A. RECORD

Rve Runs in Ninth Inning Fail
to Snatch Baseball Tide for
Henderson Fann Bureau Team

Excitement and an.xiety ran at a
high pitch among the farm bureau
baseball fans at the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association picnic, Tay-
lorvllle, August 27, when the Taze-
well County Farm Bureau team de-
feated Henderson county by the
score of 8-6.

The game was called at 10:30
and the weather was ideal for the
baseball combat. Both teams ar-
rived in automobile busses painted
with signs announcing their deter-
mination to become the second state
farm bureau champions of the
United States. Henderson county
team had a record this year of nine
games with no defeats while the
Tazewell team gave evidence of
practically equal strength with a
record of seven games and one de-
feat.

Teams Have Good Records

To win a place in the final cham-
pionship game, Tazewell played Pe-
oria county two games, Woodford
county three games, defeated Logan
county 4 to 2 and Adams county
5 to 4. Henderson's team defeated
Marshall-Putnam 8-2, Carroll coun-
ty 3-0, Mercer 7-4, Knox 18-0 and
Warren 6-4.

Tazewell county led off with
heavy scoring the first part of the
game, making one run the first in-
ning, three the second inning, one
the third period and two runs in
the fourth, thus leaving the score
7-1 at the end of the fourth inning.
During the next four times to bat.
Henderson held the Tazewell nine
to one run.

Five Runs in \lnth

The exciting part of the game
came in the last inning when Hen-
derson attempted to stage a come-
back and snatch the state title dur-
ing the last time to bat. When Hen-
derson went to bat the score was
8 to 1 in favor of Tazewell. The
count stood two outs and three balls
when the Henderson boys rallied
and the batting begad. The Taze-
well pitcher showed signs of weak-
ening and the next five Henderson
men made runs, bringing the score
to 8 to 6. A substitute pitcher
was placed in the Tazewell box who
fanned out the ne.xt man to bat and
finished the game with Tazewell
still holding the big end of the
score.

Line-ups for the two teams were as
follows:
HE.VDERSON POSITION TAZEWELL

Steffey cf G. Israel

Hartquist ss Haas

i;. Cailbralth. . . 3b B. Israel

J. Gallhralth 2M . . . . (Capt.) Rich

H. Pence p Hlnman

Keener lb ..... ..L. Carius

Ricketts (Capt.). If Blumenshine

E. Pence c J. Carius

Painter rf Graff

Substitutes for Henderson — Pojfue,
Fryear. Clarke. Sardstror^ and Downs.
Managers — W, A. Stevenson and E. D.
Walker, farm adviser.

Subatltutes for Tazewell — Robinson
and Ellison. Managers. J. E. Harris,
assistant farm adviser, and L. R.
Welk. secretary of County Farm Bu-
reau.

"The Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation is taking a higher place In
the news of the nation than ever
before," declared Harry C. Butcher,
director ot the department of in-
formation, who was the; third state
office speaker on the program.
Those I*resent at .Meeting

Those present were: — Clay coun-
ty—Geo. McElyea. Xenia, president.
Clay County Farm Bureau; J. C.
McElyea, Flora; F. W. Logan,
Louisville; Clint Logan, Flora: E.
R. Colclasure, Flora; W. E. Cox,
Flora; Curt Anderson, Xenia; Mr.
and Mrs. J. S. Anderson, Xenia;
John W. Jacobs, Flora; J. L. .Mc-
Daniel, Flora; Harold S. Williams,
Flora; W. A. Karr, Flora; S. M.
Ruckman, Xenia, and W. E. Hart,
Louisville.

Wayne county — F. M-. Yohe. Mt.
Erie, president, Wa.vne County
Farm Bureau; L. M. Ebbourn, Ri-
nard; G. W. Anderson, Flora; Ho-
mer Redd, Wayne City; C. T. Huf-
ford, farm adviser; O. R. Richison,
Cisne.

Edwards county — H. C. Gilker-
son, farm adviser.

Gallatin county — C. W. Simpson,
farm adviser.

White county — WilHam Moser,
and Ed Creighton, farm adviser.

The next meeting was set for Gol-
conda. Pope county, on November
19. A river excursion from Shaw-
neetown to Golconda is being
planned for that time. „

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RAIL HEADS SAY

FARMERS PROSPER

(Continued from page 1. col. 1.)
have increased their operating costs
nearly half a billion dollars in 1924.
The public has had the benefit of
these eflSciencies and economies.
The amount of increased freight
revenue which the carriers are now
requesting is but a small percentage
of the annual savings to the public.

"With regard to the Interstate
Commerce Commission's general in-
vestigation of the freight rate struc-
ture of the country, now being car-
ried on under the provisions of the
Hoch-Smith Bill, and which will be
considered, for the western rail-
ways. Jointly at this time with the
petition for increased earnings, we
shall co-operate with the Commis-
sion fully.

Say Agriculture "Restored tn
Prosperity"

"Whatever may have beeii the
condition of the farmers at the time
the Hoch-Smith Resolution »a.<>
written, whatever depression may
have occurred In a^culture, such
condition and depression have n(»u
been substantially, if not complete-
ly, reniove<l, and aKrIrulture is iioh
restored to prosperity. In fact, the
actual purchaslnj; power of the
western fanner is now f^reater than
In the pre-war days.

"For these reasons, therefore,
we ask that a^culture shall |>ay
Its full .share — no more — of the
western transfiortatlon charges.
Substantially 25 per cent of the
freight traffic of the western rail-
ways consists of agricultural pr<Ml
ucts and Uve stock. We are |ier-
forming a valuable and essential
service to the western farmer. For
this service we are entitled, both
In law and in Justice, to a fair re-
turn, which we are not now rc^
ceiving. Under the present condi-
tions, we could almost ho|ie for co-
operation with, rather than opposi-
tion to, our petition for increased
earnings,"
Statistics Introduced as Kvldenre

Statistics were then introduced
through L. E. Wettling. manager of
the Statistical Bureau of the wes-
tern railroads, from the witness
stand. A printed, 33-page book,
representing the work of his bu-
reau, was the basis for his testi-
mony, several hundred copies being
distributed to the audience. This
was entered as Exhibit 1. A sum-
mary of his statement, which was
hailed as the keynote of the rail-
roads' position, as given to the press
by the publicity bureau, is as fol-
lows:

"This unfortunate situation has
been brought about by the reduc-

tions which have been made in wes-
tern freight rates since 1920, bene-
fiting the shipper at the expense of
the railways. In August, 1920,
western freight rates were increased
approximately 32 per cent on the
average. Immediately after this in-
crease, downward readjustments
were commenced which have con-
tini^d to the present time, aug-
mented by general rate reductions
made by the Interstate Commerce
Commission in 1922. Freight
rates in western territory in 1921
were 2 per cent below the level es-
tablished in August, 1920. Freight
rates in 1922 in the west were 11
per cent lower than after the rate
advance in 1920; in 1923, 15 per
cent lower, and in 1924, more than
16 per cent lower. This means that
railway rates in the west have been
reduced approximately |850,000,-
000 in the past four years t>elow
the level fixed by the Interstate
Commerce Commission in 1920 as
calculated to yield the railways a
fair return. Present rates are now
more than 16 per cent below that
level, and in the past four years
western shippers have been saved
an aggregate of $850,000,000 in
freight charges at the expense of
the railways and their fair return."
ilackson Represents Farm Bureaus
The Farm Bureaus Including the
Illinois Agricultural Association,
have secured as counsel Fred S.
Jackson, former attorney general of
Kansas and who for four years was
attorney for the Public Utilities
Commission for that state.

Those who remember the freight
rate fight of 1921-22 will recall Mr.
Jackson as an associate of Clifford
Thorne, the firm name being at that
time Thorne and Jackson. He was
active in assisting the Farm Bu-
reaus get the 10 per cent reduction
gained at that time.

He will co-ordinate for the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation the
testimony of the state Farm Bu-
reaus. In this capacity he repre-
sents the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation, which will assist him
through its transportation depart-
ment. Although the I. A. A. is
pooling its interest in the fight with
the other 21 western states con-
cerned, its identity is being main-
tained in case anything should de-
velop pertaining to rates within the
state which would call for action
as an individual organization.

The position of the I. A. A. ii ex-
pressed In the protest against any
Increase in freight rates on farm
products recently filed with the In-
terstate Commerce Commission by
the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration. The text of this protest
appears on the editorial page.

TORBERTS AGAIN WIN
HORSESHOE CONTEST

Winning seven out of eight games
again made Walter and Harry Tor-
bert of DeWitt county, the state
horseshoe champions at I. A. A.
state picnic, Taylorville, Aug. 27.

The tournament started with 24
teams representing the best skill
from the same number of counties,
and continued throughout the day
until nearly five in the afternoon,
when the loving cup was publicly
given to the DeWitt boys. These
brothers won the championship in
1923 and their father was a mem-
ber of the championship team of
1920-21 and 22. Last year the cup
went to Reuben G. Bright and Sam-
uel G. Smith of the McLean county
pitchers.

From the ti^me the tournament
started this year, anticipation ran
high regarding whether McLean or
DeWitt county would win the cham-
pionship this year. In the early
part of the contest it happened that
the draw placed the two teams to-
gether in one of the hardest fought
games of the day. In the first game
Walter Torbert had 18 ringers and
35 points, Harry bad 9 ringers and
15 points, while Bright had 10
ringers and 11 points and Smith 14
ringers and 27 points. Following
this game, it was realized that the
Torbert boys were in better form
than the chaifips of 1924.

Three times during the tourna-
ment, these two teams were thrown
together, the McLean pitchers win-
ning the second game and the Tor-
berts taking the final by a score of
46 to 52. The Torbert boys played
eight games during the day and
won seven. The McLean team lost
two out of eight.

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IN I. A. A. HISTORY

(Continued from page 1. col. 5>
sake, let any of these 'soo-oey' gu^s
kid you into believing it isn't.

"For the question, l)e it known,
has been settled once and for all.
following weeks and weeks of bit-
ter controversy. And after ail was
over, Christian county's 'piggies'
nearly killed themselves laughing
at the whole 'soo-oey' crowd.

"A little gold pig, to be worn on
the watch chain, wil be given by
the I. A. A. to V. E. Robison, of
Morton, Tazewell county, Poland-
China breeder, for his perfect ac-
quanltance with and execution of
the swine 'lingo.'

Peppy Chicken Calling

"For the soprano voices, the
chicken calling contest offered an
event for both competition and en-
tertainment. Twelve farm women
tried their voices and the silver
pitcher, which cannot be broken at
the pump, went to Mrs. I. N.
Wooley of Marion county. To win
first place, Mrs. Wooley did not re-
sort to any fancy stuff. She Just
yelled:

" 'Chick, chick, chick," all the
while encircling her head with her
right arm and twirling imaginary
■feed in the direction of the make-
tielieve brood. It is understood
that she is gaining quite a reputa-
tion as a barnyard vocalist for she
has won several contests at local
and county fairs this year, one of
which awarded her with a prize of
fifty cents."

The speeches ot both morning
and afternoon were enjoyed by all
and easily heard either inside or
out of the auditorium due to the
amplifier supplied through the
thoughtfulness of the picnic com-
mittee.

Wallace's speech was hailed by
many as one of the best ever heard
in those parts. He reviewed, as he
sees them, the farm problems of
the past and the prospects of the
future from both the economic and
financial point of view.

Special Edition of Record

The surprise of the day came
when all were ready to start home.
As the cars passed out through the
gates, the picnickers were handed
copies of the special picnic edition
of the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion Reoobp Just oft the Taylorville
Breeze press telling all about the
events of the day. Speeches were
covered in full, ready to be thought-
fully pondered over at home. 8,000
fopies were printed.

The success of the picnic was il-
lustrated by the way people lin-
gered at the park until nearly dark,
even after the program had been
completed. It was a big day and
tbose that were present regretted
t^ see it close.

P. A. G

cient Bvst

"The

.from pou

last year

000 and i

ond in t

country,"

■This im

commonly

of pin mo

of the la

United Sti

.states is

dollar ci-o

"In thl

duction o

exceeds b;

of the to

times the

bacco cro|

the value

and greatf

all cattle

I-»y

"Hens I

,an average

dozen eggf

en per m

or one c

terms of

of eggs pr^

oars annui

income to

$84,975.60

ue ot mor<

"The loi

amount to

veys made

partment

Ihorlties i

mated tha

L^nited St

breakage ,

from the t

I an the fai

consumer 1

liPor the St

S portion of
than four i
larger pou
counties co
at the rat«
each jear.
"It is dii
•esponsibili
^ver. these
bat at lea!
o the con<
ire handle
lext large
his spoila!
>r the firs
Phis is becc
>roperly eq
shable a. ft

I. A. A

"Who pa

•r doesn't,

JUsinesB.

•egs at a 1(

iiit him t(

profits. In

pucer of go

brder that t

tiay receive

lot justly e

' ation whlc

medy by s

"This en

T 12. 192S
N WIN

CONTEST

f eight gamef
i Harry Tor-
y, the state
at I. A. A.
,e, Aug. 27.
rted with 24
le best skill
r of counties,
tiout the day
le afternoon,
was publicly
boys. These
mpionship in
was a mem-
ihip team of
year the cup
ght and Sam-
cLean county

> tournament
:icipatlon ran
er McLean or
»in the cham-
In the early
lappened that
;wo teams to-
ardest fought
the first game

8 ringers and

9 ringers and
ight had 10
and Smith 14
s. Following
Uzed that the
1 better form
.924.

g the tourna-
s were thrown

pitchers win-
! and the Tor-

by a score of
rt boys played

the day and
^ean team lost

'111 'VNVfbT:

'SlONmi dO AlIS^i3Ai.^;n

CIJLTU

1 M OI

A L A

CIA

VohmnS

1 ILLINOIS POULTRY
V CROP TOTALS OVER
$63,000,000 YEARLY

lUinoia Now Ranks Sec<Mul in
Poultry and Egg Production
State* Director F. A. Gougler

IlMied Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinking Farmen — September 26, 1925

No. 19

F. A. tioaal«r

Illinois bens laid $59 worth of
eggs each minute during 1924.
That is the rec-
ord of our bid-
dies according to
F. A. Gougler. I.
A. A. director of
the poultry and
egg marketing
department, who
has made a sum-
mary of poultry
and egg produc-
tion in this state
as well as a
study of the
losses now in-
V o 1 V e d in our
present ineffi-
cient system of marketing.

"The annual income derived
from poultry and eggs in Illinois
last year was no less than $63,000,-
000 and this state now ranks sec-
ond in total production in this
country," statts Director Gougler.
"This important farm enterprise,
commonly thought of as a souTce
of pin money, has now become one
of the largest industries in the
United States and tor the «ntire 48
states is considered as a billion-
dollar crop annually.

"In this country the total pro-
duction of poultry and eggs now
e.xceeds by $300,000,000 the value
of the total wheat crop; is three
times the value of the entire to-
bacco crop; nine-tenths as great as
the value of our swine production;
and greater than the total value of
all cattle raised.

Lay 24 CarkMUIs In Day
"Hens in Illinois last year laid
an average of three and a quarter
dozen eggs each second, 196.7 doz-
en per minute and 11,802 dozen,
one carload every hour. In
terms of income, the 24 carloads
of eggs produced each day or 8,498
cars annually, amounted to a daily
income for Illinois poultrymen of
$84,975.60 or an annual total val-
ue of more than 30 million dollars.
"The losses in this industry also
amount to a large total. From sur-
veys made by the agricultural de-
partment at Washington and au-

esti-
mated that the total loss in the
L'nited States due to spoilage,
breakage and inefficient handling
from the time the egg is produced
.ton the farm until it reaches the
both morning consumer is $45,000,000 annually,
njoyed by all np„^ ,lje state of Illinois our pro-
ber inside or portion of this loss can be no less
m due to the U^^n four million dollars while our
through the bgrggr poultry and egg producing
picnic com- foountles contribute toward this loss

4IC

. HISTORY

Lge 1. col. 5)

'soo-oey' guys

g it Isn't.

, be it known,

le and for all.

weeks of bit-

1 after all was

nty's 'piggies'

Blves laughing

r' crowd.

to be worn on

1 be given by

Robison, of

nty, Poland-

lis perfect ac-

execution of

Calling

voices, the
est offered an
tition and en-
farm women
nd the silver
be broken at
Mrs. I. N.
nty. To win
ley did not re-
a. She just

ick,' all the
head with her
ng imaginary

of the make-
understood _

"'*f. ^ f®P"**' fhorities' in' this state', Jt

is

ocalist for she

■tests at local

year, one of

ith a prize of

hailed by
est ever beard

Ut the rate of $25,000 to $30,000
■ach j'ear.
"It is difficult to place the exact
eviewed, as he •esponsibility for this loss. How-
problems of 'ver, these same investigators state
aspects of the hat at least half of the loss is due
economic and o the condition under which eggs
ire handled on our farms. The
if Record lext largest contributor toward

he day came his spoilage Is the country store
to start home. >r the first receiver of the eggs.
It through the I'his is because these stores are not
were handed >roperly equipped to handle so per-
picnic edition shable a food product as eggs.
Itural Associa- I_ .^_ j^^ SuRKCst.s Keme<ly

•"f, '''t'''"""''' "Who pays this loss? The deal-
all about the .^ (joggn', q^ he couldn't stay in
Speeches were mslness. He is compelled to buy
to be thought- .^^^ ^^ ^ lo^ enough basis to per-
home. »,0UO t,,;^ ^j^, j^ pay this loss out of
broflts. In other words, the pro-
picnic was 11- {lucer of good eggs is penalized in
ly people lin- prder that the producer of bad eggs
11 nearly dark. :iay receive a price to which he is
am had been lot justly entitled. This is the sit-
. big day and batlon which the I. A. A. seeks to
sent regretted iemedy by a marketing program.

I "This enormous waste is due
•' (Continued on page 4, col. B.)

TROPHIES GIVEN AT ANNUAL PICNIC

FIRST HEARING OF WESTERN FREIGHT RATE
CASE FOR FIVE PER CENT INCREASE BEFORE
t I LC.C. ADJOURNED; NEXT HEARING OCT. 26

Railroad Attorneys, Hired Economiats and Representatives of
Security Holders Testify at Hearing Held in Chicago; Farm
Organizations to Defend the Fanners at Second Session

■■ Undoubtedly from the .staiul|xiiiit of the farmers of Ataerii*.
this haK been the most im|>ortaiit lieariiitr eVer held." dcelared h, .1.
Quasey, I. A. A. director of transportation, following the adjourn-
ment of the first hearing of the Western Freight Advance Uase be-
fon- the Interstate Commerce (.'ommission, Chicago.

"At this hearing the representatives of the railroads attemhted to
show that they have been unable to make.Jh<' percentage retiims on
investments allowed public utilities and thm the fanners of tht West
are prosperous and full.v able to stand an increase of at loast five
per cent in freight rates. At the second hearing, which will 1^ held
next month, the Agricultural representatives will attempt to ccnvince
the Interstate Commerce CoinmLssioii that the proposed freicht in-
crease of one cent per bushel on all grains iK of itself an unf tir in-
crease as compared to the five per cent incrt-ase asked for noi-agri-
cultural products, ' ' stated Director Quasey.

"According to the carriers" statements thfy show pn>|>erty nvest
ment for the western railroads to be $9,179,1)81.978 as of l)e< ember
ol, 1924, and on this property investment they have earned m av-
erase rate of return of 3.^2 per

LEFT — Loving cup given by the /. A, A. to the Tazewell Cot^Uy Farm
Bureau for winning state championship baseball game at annual picnic, Taylor'
ville, August 27. RIGHT — Loving cup won by Harry and Walter Torben, De-
Witt county, stale championship horseshoe pitchers.

INSURANCE FOR NEW
COMPANY TOTALS
OVER $300,000.00

Vaniman Asks Local Mutual
Companies and Farm Bureaus
T o Assist i n Si^dtations

"A total of $317,000 of the
$500,000 in insurance needed to se-
cure the charter for the Farmers'
Mutual Reinsurance Company of
Illinois has been received at the
state office," stated Vernon Vani-
man, field representative of the
new company, in a plea to local
mutual companies and county Farm
Bureaus to lend their support in
getting the state mutual under way.
"Thirty-seven counties have sent in
applications and seven counties
have reached their quota of $20,-
000 In insurance applications," he
said.

"Illinois farmers are losing $3,-
000,000 annually on farm insurance
due to the fact that local farmers'
Insurance companies cannot take
care of all farm needs in the ab-
sence of a state reinsurance com-
pany," stated Mr. Vaniman, "and
you can help the reinsurance com-
pany secure its charter and save
this loss by sending in an applica-
tion for insurance immediately.

"The reinsurance company does
not oppose but is a supplement
to local mutual companies. It will
put the local companies of the state
in a position to handle all the fire
and lightning insurance needs of
the farmers on a mutual basis with
greater protection to themselves."
Best Plans at .\iiy State

In referring to the complete or-
ganization and operation plans of
the new reinsurance mutual com-
pany, a prominent mutual insur-
ance man, who bas been in the
front ranks on all progressive
movements, made the following
statement in a letter to William B.
McFarland, secretary of the state
company.

"A pretty careful examination of
the plans of the new company con-
vinces me, and I am of the opinion
that they are good, in fact better
than any other state plans that I
have seen. One practically good
feature Is that they in no way inter-
fere with the present practice of
excbange of reinsurance under the
present law of our state."

Do \ot Carry Enough Insurance

Recent surveys of farm insurance
in this state show that most farm-
ers have neglected to increase their
Insurance to cope with the increase
in value of their property. Many
farmers do not have their property
insured for more than 50 per cent
of its value. An illustration of the
danger of this practice is the case
of C. W. Broughton of Waterman,
DeKalb county. On September 4,
two modern dairy barns owned by
Mr. Broughton were burned down.
His loss was estimated at $34,000
while the insurance he carried was
$8,000.

To begin operation the reinsur-
ance company must have applica-
tions for $500,000 insurance from
individuals. This is required by
the Illinois Law. Mr. Vaniman is
making personal solicitations
through local farmers' mutual in-
surance companies for these sub-
scriptions. "The work is progress-
ing rapidly. To hasten the time
when the company may begin op-
erating, farmers throughout the
state are asked to consider their in-
surance needs and if they can use
more protection to get in touch
with the new reinsurance company
through their local farmers' mutual
representative.

Seien Counties Complete Quota

Counties that have sent in appli-
cations in the new company are:
Adams, Bond, Cass, Christian,
Clark, Cook, DeKalb, Edgar, Ford,
Franklin, Hancock, Hendergoni
Henry, Iroquois, Jackson, Jersey,
Knox, LaSalle, Macon, Madison,
.Marshall-Putnam, Mason, McHenry,
McLean, Mercer, Montgomery, Ogle,
Peoria, Pulaski, Rock Island, Sang-
amon, Schuyler, Vermilion, Wa-
bash, White, and Winnebago.

Counties that have sent in their
quota of $20,000 in applications
are: Cass, Henderson, Henry, La-
Salle, Montgomery, Pulaski, with
$39,000 in applications.

Contmrt mrmbfrskl* Im Ihr Illi-
nois Agricultural Co-operatives' As-
soclatl«B, the co-operative auditing
and bciSiness advisory service, has
now r«a^hed the hi^h mark of 174.

mXhe latest organixatlon to
send in a contract was the
Woodford County Agricul-
tural Association, a co-oper-
ative seed company located at Eure-
ka, Woodford county, according to
George R. Wicker, director of the
association.

Peoria County Farm

Bureau Officer Says

Don't Neglect Your Home

In the September issue of The
Country Gentleman there is an ar-
ticle concerning one of our Farm
Bureaus and I. A. A. leaders. It
reads. as follows:

You will find bigger, gaudier
farms in Peoria county, Illinois,
than the home, at Edwards, of
Charles R. Ford, president of the
county Farm Bureau. But none
breathes a more satisfying air of
home. The bouse is roomy and
cozy, the other buildings neat, the
fields clean and well fenced.

Said Mr. Ford: "I could never
see anything to living in a bare
home and slaving to salt away dol-
lars. That's self-robbery — beating
yourself out of happiness, and a
mean trick for a man to play on
himself and his family.

"There's some sort of relation-
ship between beautifying a farm
and successfully operating one —
so much so that you can come close
to picking out the really good
farmers by the tidiness of their
farms, when driving along the road.

"The farm matter which will l>e
a live issue this winter is the Mc-
Nary-Haugen idea as revived in the
Dickinson bill. Today, because of
the accidents, of weather there is
no great surplus of wheat or pork
but in the normal course of events,
we shall soon again have 100 mil-
lioii surplus bushels of wheat and
one and a half billion pounds of
pork products to send to a Europe
which is unable to pay us anything
which we will take.

Wallace assailed the "commer-
cial" viewpoint taken by Secretary
Hoover and his followers. He said
that the seat of the trouble that
caused the dismissal of Dr. H. C.
Taylor as bead bf the Bureau of
Agricultural Economics was a clash
of viewpoints toward farming. Dr.
Taylor, he said, bas the agricultural
viewpoint while the interests which
unseated bim wish to industrialize
America which can only be done,
under present conditions, at the ex-
pense of agriculture unless protec-
tive measures as enjoyed by indus-
try and labor are extended to the
farmer.

cent," be declared. "TheM have
shown that the cost of labor, equip-
ment and materials has been great-
ly increased and that they also
suffered a very heavy increfMe In
taxes. The railroads' witBesses
contend that the 5 per ceft ad-
vance would not be sufficient |to en-
able them to earn the 5 \ p« r cent
authorized under the Trtiniporta-
tion Act. Their reason for taking
for 5 per cent was that the;- con-
sidered it as an emergency mea-
sure and further that ther an-
ticipated sotne increase in revenue

from other sources, such as

n the

carrying oi mail and ext>reai and
other rate adjustments now pend-
ing.

Says PurchaKin^ Power (irNUer

"Not all commodities are pro-
posed to b4' advanced. It appears
that considerable lumber and coal
traffic will escape any aavance
whatever apcording to the preseoit
plans and there may be furtiier ex-
emptions. ,AI1 this will meat) that
the greater burden will fall I upon
agricultural products. Theael mat-
ters will be gone into completely
when the hearing is resumejl for
the purpose of cross examinat^n of
the railroads' witnesses.

"To show that the farmed ha
recovered from the flnancia de-
pression, they have used th< De-
partment of Agriculture repoits as

a basis, purporting to show

the farmers' purchasing pow< r to
day is greatler than before the war.
They mentioned nothing about tke
increased csst of labor, equipment
and materials . used on the
nor that the farmers' taxes
likewise increased heavily.

"The showing about the farlners
recovery from the financial depres-
sion is purely a paper showing and
in subsequetit hearings the refcords
will be reiilete with evidenqe of
farmers by farmers showing
true financial condition

that

arm,
were

heir

Nevond Hearlim October

The hearing in Ex Parte
which is the petition for advan
rates of the western railroadsj
docket IT,odO, wbicb is the inteati-
gation of tht' freight rate structure
in accordande with the Hoch-amltli
Resolution. Was adjourned at aooa,
September 16. at the Edgewater
Beach hotel, Chicago. The bearinf:
HEB been conducted for more jthan
a week. The railroads made peir
principal testimonies and represen-
tatives of the railroad secprity
holders appeared in support oi the
petition. With few except|onB,

(Contlnu*d on p^^ X. col. h.\
i

m

Page 2

The Illinoi» Agricukural Assooation Record

September 26, 192S

Septe

I LiLilNOiS

CCLTVBAL ASSOCIA

RECORD'

Published every other Saturday by the Illinois AKrIcultural As>
toclatlon, 608 Soutb Dearborn Street, Cblcago, Illinois. Edited
by Department of Information, Harry C. Butcber, Director.

Entered as second class matter Oct. 10, 1921, at the post office
at Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March I, 1879. Acceptance
for mailing at special rates of postage provided for In Section
not, Act of October 3, 1917, aatborUed Oct. II, l»tl.

The individual membership fee of tbe Illinois AjTlcaltaral ▲••
sociation Is five dollars a year. The fee includes payaaeat mt
fifty cents for su.bscriptlon to the Illinois Ajrrleultural Asso-
ciation RSCOBD.

Postmaster: In returning an nnoalled-for or satssent eopy,
please indicate key number on address as is required by lair.

OFFICERS
Preatdent, S. H. Tbompaon, Qnlney.
Vice-President, H. K. Goembel, Hooppole.
Treasnrer, R. A. CowIm, Bloomiactaa r

8«crecai7, Geo. A. Fox, Bjcamorab

EXECmTVE OOMMirrEB

B]r Congresaioiuil District*

1st to Mith Wllllun Webb, Route One, Jollet

IStk..!.. O. F. Tulleck. Rockferd

UtK..I , C E. Bamborough, Pole

14th.. I W. H. Moody, Port Byron

1»th.., B. H. Tsylor, Rapatce

1««i.., A. R. Wriaht, V»m«

17th.., F. D. Barton, Cornell

1tth..L R. F. Karr, Iroquola

1>th. .f J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

aOth..l Earl C. Smith, Oetrolt

21at Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd.. Stanly Castle, Alton

2Srd..l W. L. Cops, Salem

24th. .1 Curt Anderson, Xenia

2Sth..l R. K. Loomis, Makanda

Directors of Depiurtments, I.

Co.operatlve Accounting

Dairy Marketing

Finance

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing

General Office. . ;

Grain Marketing

Information

Legal Counsel

Live Stock Marketing

Organisation j

Phosphate-Llmestsn*

Poultry and Egg Marketing

Taxatiea and SUtlstlcs

Transportation

A. A. Office

Geo. R. Wicker

A. D. Lynch

R. A, Cowles

A. B. Lssper

J. H. Kelker

Chester C. Oavis

Harry C. Butcher

...Donald Kirkpatriok

Wm, E. Hedgcock

, O. E. Metzger

J. R. Bent

....'.... F. A. Geugler

J. C. Watson

L. J. Suaaey

THB Racesa'i FLATFOItM
Advaue* (he purpose for whidi ih» Farm Bwmu ■*•• erfamseA
■— i/j , 10 fnwtof, frouet mid nprmnt th» hrntinm, teouowue,
meial md tiacmtia/ul iMersste of lfc# fmmtn of Ittiaoit wd iho
mmiom, omd to develop egricobare.

The Epidemic of Proeperity Feoer

For the past two months both city and country news-
papers have been publishing news stories and editorials
heraliiiiift the return of prosperity to mid-western farm-
ers. With true newspaper optimism we have read' of
the Ixniiper crops and hifrher prices. It has been said
that the farnicT is now in a better financial condition
than al any time sinee the World War.

It i^^ true that the eeoaomic condition of the farmer is
improieil and it l«riii<rs cheer to all whether they depend
entirely upon the profits of the farm for supfwrt or are
inerchjints or maiiiifactiirers who hope to sell their prod-
ucts tj) the fanner. It is realized that the prosperity
of the| country depeiuls basiely upon the prosperity of
the fat-mer and it is for that reason that the news of im-
pn)Ve4 conditions in rural sections is received so joy-
oiLsU- b.v those who live in the cities.

Hovi'ever. it mast be remembered that although a base-
ball tt^im has a lucky streak and makes several scores in
any one inning, it does not necessarily mean that the
team Will win the game. Every team has its innings but
it is the final score at the end of the ninth inning that
counts. So it is with the farmer. Today is hLs inning.
As compared with the past five years, he is prosperous.
His farm is perhaps producing at a profit. Nevertheless.

if the present income should be averaged with that of
the past half decade, there would .still be a loss on the
books.

A review of the present condition of Illinois agricul-
ture and a warning to farmers against too ready accep-
tance of the prosperity was made by President Sam H.
Thompson, in an interview with the correspondent of the
Christian Science Monitor, in which he stated :

"Economic conditions in Illinois agriculture are
better now than at any time since the war, and the
prospects are even more favorable for the future,
but it will require intelligent marketing and con-
servative spending of the proceeds for the farmers
to secure to thenLselves, and not lose to others, the
benefits of this situation.

"There is a tendency to exaggerate the improve-
ment in the situation of our farmers, and on this ac-
count a warning should be sounded. Farmers are
still faced with the marketing machinery in which
the law of supply and demand works quickly against
them, but mighty slowly in their favor.

"Farmers of this State are being flooded as
never before in their e.\perience by 'high pressure"
salesmen of every description, attracted by rosy re-
ports of returning farm prosperity, attempting to
dispose of investments, building projects, household
equipment, automobiles and machinery, in fact,
everj'thing that is sold.

"The danger in this development, is that the
farmer will be overloaded with things he really
would not buy if guided by conservative common
sense. The tendency with business of every kind
today is to pile onto buyers not only everj'thing
they can pay for, but everthing they can ever hope
to pay for in a lifetime.

"The people, caught in the propaganda of free
spending to make • business good, are showing an
alarming willingness to assume obligations which
they have no right to saddle upon themselves. The
farmer, like everybody else, must fight the tendency
of the age fo live beyond his income. The Illinois
farmer in the present situation should resist the im-
pulse to spend.

"That is the one important thing for the Illinois
farmer to do — ad.iust his buying sensibility to his
income — if he is to secure to himself the benefits of
the present upward trend. He is already heavily in
debt and has made verj- little progress toward liqui-
dation of loans made Xn tide him over the last four
years. Until that condition is changed he will have
little time to listen to the 'high pressure' salesmen
who flock to his gates."

Why Not a Tariff Redaction ?

Farmers in the Middle West are growing thoughtful
oven-the flat declaration of William Green, president of
the ^Iraerican Federation of Labor, that protected in-
i'dustry will not be permitted to retain its tariff favoi-s
if labor can help it, unless labor itself receives what it
considers a proper share in the protection benefits.

A ten per cent cut in textile mill wages provided the
te.xt for the letter which Mr. Green wrote the American
Woolen Company. He said in part : j.

If a tariff wall is built in order to protect special
interests and special industries against competition
from manufacturers, certainly when manufacturers
protected bj- such a tariff wall reduce the wages of
their employees below the subsistence level, the Gov-
ernment, in all fairnes.s, should reduce the tariff
schedjiles and tear down the tariff wall which has
he^>o skilfully built. It is the purpose of the
pl«>sident of the American Federation of Labor to
^"bn^iig these facts to the attention of Congress, and
to fflsi^st in the name of the working people of
America that the textile manufacturers who have in-
augurated and carried out a policy of wage-reduc-

ILLIl
Bl

tions shall be deprived of special privileges and spe- ■ »
cial benefits which they have enjoyed -from high-'
tariff protection.

These are ominous words, viewed from the self-inter-
est of the eastern manufacturer, but no more disturbing
than the mutter of similar opinions arising from the,
great surplus crop producing areas of the corn belt and
the Northwest. Men and women of the farms have a.
clearer view of the tariff and of other devices in the
American protective system than they had a few years-
ago. "They understand them as interferences with tl^
natural economic law in the interest of special industrifr
groups.

The labor leader's letter, with a slight change or two,-
expresses the conclusion which many a combelt farmer
has reached as he has wTestled with his problems since
1920. '

Congress has heard by no means the last of the slogan'
"Equality for Agriculture," as expressing the demand
that if the protective principle is to be maintained ip this'
country, an extension of its effects must be made to.
cover the great surplus crops of the farm.

H. A. W^allaee, editor of Wallace's Parmer and son"
of the late secretary of agriculture, Henry C. Wallace,,
referred to the possibility of forcing a reduction in pro-
tective tariffs in his address at the annual I. A. A. picnic,"
Taylorville, in which he said :

So far as I know now the Dickinson bill will take
the place of the McNary-Haugen bill this next win-
ter. A determined effort will be made to put it
across. If it fails, the next step will be to'open a de-
termined fight on those taiiiffis which are keeping
out manufactured products from Europe,
A fight for the reduction of tariffs on imported manu-
f actuFedTjproducts would be a drastic measure. How- J" that i

ever, -if^the commercial interests of this country willf ^'^'f''?
., .«, , 1... • and m

not recognize the voice of the rural population, it is pos- r ^q 30

sible that such a battle may be wag«d***iing the coming | still it

session of Congress. "^ * \ sbipni<

niinoi
In
sto

Aga
ords ii
_stone.
*■ deced
any p
only 1
recorc
limest
been 1
try fo
Bent,
phate-

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limest
, farmei
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shippe
and ai
on ore

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stone
layed
and 81
at otl
many
mine
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"Fr

Their Beat Defense

"A strong offenseSlIp me best defense" appears to be the
principle that the western railroads have adopted in their
demand for a five per cent Increase in freight rates before
the Interstate Commerce Commission.

It will be remembered that during its last session Con-
gress passed what is known as the Hoch-Smith Resolution
which asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to con-
duct a thorough investigation of the railroad freight rate
structure for all roads in all sections of the United States,
having in mind the reduction of freight rates on certain
agricultural products where such reductions are deemed
advisable. This resolution was the result of a plea by farm »
organizations, representing the American farmer, stating
that many rates were unjust and too high.

time have attempted to increase the freightSrates on cer-
tain products, it would appear that their request for an
increase, at this time, is a strategic move on the part of
the railroads. Railroads' representatives have insisted that y Espial]
the five per cent increase does not cover the entire needs of f
the railroads, and is merely an emergency request. From I

orders
throug
which
shipm€

but gii
The CO
cation
from V

"An(
. been t

this we judge that the railroads believe that by asking for. j^rger
an increase they will counteract any tendency toward a f ment.
reduction in rates, thus holding the structure in its present'^ three t

condition and defeating the agricultural purpose of thek, /'J'
,,._.,,„,.. 't loaded

Hoch-.Smith Resolution. ; ^^^^ ^^

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ed off
been p
of a C(
mixed,
that ch
er sizes

An Expression on Freight Rates

Dear Sir: Relative to your letter of July 7th regarding
taxation, I wish to say that agriculture has of necessity re-
duced itself to economic conditions that hurts productive en-
tarpriae and social conditions on tile farm. Tliis is not of
choice but of necessity from tiie relation of other occupations.

With some prospects of farm markets improving:, it would # hlnckec
l>e disastrous to the morale of the -farmer to have freight
rates advanced before he has recovered from post-war condi-
tions— L. M. .Swansey. President. Stephenson County Farm Bu
reau. Freeport.

i

agricul
are reci
perc«
■ bich I
''•ir, the
this de

'tail as
of the
of and

,was scj
the Shi
one or

Visit(
H. J
teeni^n
reau ar
Farmer
Illiopoli
son; J.
ager, I
change,
E. A. 1
|vator E
the Mi<
'F. Nattl
A. J. Si
clan, Sp:
Obelens
Veadem
Oisen, .
■\gricul(
ashini

JOHN THINKER AND EPIDERMIS FLINT.

*'Ep" Has Joined but Still Kicking.

MIRANDI KNOWS.

' IJVST WEEK I JOINED
THE C^RM BURFAO . N
I'UU XA KE A FEW OF THOS
YOU'VE BCE1S T7M-KIN&

MIRANDI TELLS i^e -rov
<aOT FREE PLANS ON CM
«^°P?- HOW ABOUT- r^,6 BuLLCT-rN
ITf MM (NAHt'P.R1 /MR,CUNTTELL5 ALL
ABotrr IWE BEST KiNO
OF CHICKEN CCOPS ILLSWD
TO vVASH'NOTbN COP-
e>l-u6 PRINTS /«r-:s»''><f *■'-

Bt HERf IN
ITtN DA"(S
^

1 can't MAK6 ANYTHIN&
Otrr OF THIS eOLLiTTIN "THAT
aiRL 6Ave ME , n-'3 A riodlE
TO M» I THOlKiHT THE>
went S.UPPOSCD TO KNONM
CVEUVTWINS , WH>VT THBY
EETJ IS EFFIC(e<<4CV . NOW

IF THEY Ron that Ooinx
Like I RON My parm

TTkEY-'O eCX RE&UL-T&

WHAT DO 1 GET OUT-
OF IT ? MIRANDI ?

I THOOO-HT "H-IAT ADVI
WOULD COME AROUND
ANO HELP ME .
YOU URqBO riE" To O

JUBCrfO You? You SET IDIO.Atit) ITS IMf
BIST THIMfr YOO DID IN YOUR Ufe.DotcU
EXPECT THAT PELLOW To CDMp Hf R£
WITH LUMBER AND NAILS AN* BUILO IT
FOR You.'' TAL»<- ABOUT EFFICirNcY .'.'
TWAT COOP HAS BEEN 5f tARCF' AUOUNO
HERE KOR TEN YFAB& , SURELYa FEW
MORE DAYS won't HOBT ANY-THe/tL
CiFTSTANDAROllEO PtANS FROM WASMlMgTol*

£

mber 26, 192S

leges and spe- ■
d.from high-'

m the self -inter-
more disturbing
rising from the.
he corn belt and
le farms have a,
r devices in the
bad a few years-
srences with tl^
pecial indnstrirfr

t change or two,
combelt farmer
9 problems since^

lUst be made to

■m.

Farmer and son"

snry C. Wallace,.

•eduction in pro-

il I. A. A. picnic,"

1 bill will take
this next win-
lade to put it
e to-open a de-
fa are keeping
rope.

imported manu-
measure. How-
his countrj' will
ulation, it is pos-
itrrng the coming

September 26, 1925

t;l

The lllinoU Agricultural Auociation Record

if --^li-

I
PMe3

ILLINOIS FARMERS
BREAK RECORD FOR
USE OF LIMESTONE

Illinois Exceed* Other State*
In U*e of Agricultural Lime-
done, State* Director Bent

Again Illinois has broken all rec-
ords in the use of agricultural lime-
stone. Farmers of Illinois have or-

* dered more limestone this year than
any previous year in history. Not
only have they exceeded their own
record but they have ordered more
limestone this year than has ever
been used in any state in the coun-
try for any year, according to J. R.

ast of the slogan'| Bent, director of the I. A. A. phos-
iinw the demand f Phate-Umestone department.
,ing tne aemanu « ,.^^^ amount of agricultural
aintained ip tins umestone being used by Illinois
farmers," states Director Bent,
"has increased to such a large
quantity this year-that many lime-
stone plants and , quarries have

► shipped the entire' reserve supply
and are from 20 to 30 days behind
on orders.

"The flood of agricultural lime-
stone orders has resulted in de-
layed shipments from some plants
and serious overloading of orders
at other plants. I have written
many quarry operators to deter-
mine their respective supply on
hand and which plants are required

. to delay their orders.

'From their replies, we found
that many of the quarries have
shipped all of their reserve supply
and must fill all orders within 10
to 30 days while other plants are
still in a position to make prompt
\ shipments. Before placing their

' orders, farmers should determine
through their farm bureaus from
which they can receive the prompt
shipments.

Color Matters Little

"Good limestone may have either
a blue, brown, white, or yellow
character in color," states Director
t Bent, in referring to several in-
quiries that have come from farm

> bureau offices:

'Frequently I have received com-

iroa<i f reiEht rate f Plaints from districts that have been
froao ireignt rate j^^^^gj^^jg^ ^g yg^g ^ white stone,

' especially if such districts have
made purchases from some new or
' different source having a stone of
a different color. There are several
reasons for the color of limestone,
farmer, stating ^ ^^y ^^ jlj^^ jl,g supply has come
from a layer which contains traces
'of iron that are unobjectionable
but give the product a dark color.
The color often varies with the lo-
cation of the quarry and the ledge
from which the limestone is taken,
have insisted thatT g^,^,j^ Reason for- Coarse Stone
he entire needs of I ., . ,^ , , ■ . v

„ I "Another source of complaint has

y request. From » ^^^^ ^^^ presence of coarser or
hat by asking for^jarger sizes of stone in the ship-
ndency toward a 7 ment. This may be due to one of
;ure in its present^ three things:

Duroose of the v The shipment may have been

■^ ^j^ loaded into a car that was not clean

1 and had already some of the coarse

* stone in it. It may have been load-
ed off a stock pile which may have
been piled adjacent to another pile
of a coarser size and the two got
mixed. It has sometimes happened
that chutes or bins carrying coars-
er sizes at the crushing plant have

iproving. it would^blocked up and spilled over into the
n pos^-wlr'co.fdl' aBricultural bin. When shipments
County Farm Bu-f are received which contain too large
I percentage of such coarse stone,
.hich causes trouble in the spread-
W, the facts should be reported to
this department in considerable de-
tail as to the size and the quantity
of the coarse material complained
of and also as to whether or not it
was scattered or mixed all through
the shipment or was found in only
one or two spots in the car."

appears to be the
I adopted in their
eight rates before

last session Con-
-Smith Resolution
>nimis8ion to con

;he United States,
rates on certain
tions are deemed'
of a plea by farm »

•ailroads for some
ghtSrates on cer-
ir request for an
■e on the part of

Rates

uly Tth regarding

IS of necessity re-

rts productive en-

This Is not of

other occupations.

)I KNOWS.

>IO. AfiD (TS IHf

OUR LIFE.Do'teU

tOMp HfRE

an" Buiuj it

tfFICIFNOr.'.'
CARtLP' AROUND

suRei>f A Few

3.T ANt.THevtl.

FRO li WASH iHgroiY

IF VtU.MAD

OFFICE VISITORS

Visitors to the I. A. A. office:
H. J. Shafer, executive commlt-
ti-em^n, Macon County Farm Bu-
reau and president of the lUiopolis
farmers* Co-operative Elevator,
Illiopolis; and W. K. Shafer, his
.-^on : J. O. Lawrence, Sales Man-
ager, Illinois Fruit Growers Ex-
change, Centralia; R. E. Rickheel;

E. A. Duddy; C. D. Stevens, Ele-
[Vator Engineer; Mr. McGann, from
the Michigan Central railroad; C.

F. Nattlehoffer, Naperville, Illinois;
A. J. Surratt, Agricultural Statisti-
cian, Springfield; Professor Valerian
Dbelensky - Ossinsky, Agricultural

Vcademy, Moscow, Russia; N. A.
Olsen, Assistant Chief, Bureau of
•Agricultural Economics, U. S. D. A.,
ashington, D. C; President Set-

L

I. A. A. Committee
Elects Delegates
To A. F. B. F. Meeting

Delegates to represent the I. A.
A. at the annual meeting of Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation to
be held December 7-9 in Chicago,
were elected by the executive com-
mittee during its last meeting.

Those who were elected as del-
egates are: Sam H. Thompson oi
Quincy, president of I. A. A.; Frank
D. Barton of Cornell, executive
committeeman of the 17th district;
Earl C. Smith of Detroit, commit-
teeman of the 20th district; and, J.
L. Whisnand of Charleston, com-
mitteeman of the 19th district. Al-
ternate delegates will be G. F. Tul-
lock of Rockford, committeeman of
the 12th district; A. R. Wright of
Varna, committeeman of the 16th
district: and Samuel *Sorrells of
Raymond, committeeman of the
21st district.

Other principal subjects that
were discussed at the meeting
were:

1. Treasurer's report read, ap-
proved and placed on file.

2. Report on the sale of the 111*
Mo Co-operative Milk Producers'
Association property, St. Louis,
made by R. A. Cowles, director ol
the I. A. A. finance department.
This subject was supplemented by
a report made by Wm. Webb,
chairman of the dairy advisory
committee.

3i Report of L. J. Quasey, direc-
tor of the transportation depart-
ment, on Illinois' interest in the
freight rate increase of 5 per cent
brought before the Illinois Com-
merce Commission by the rail-
roads. Mr. Quasey told of the
means of co-operation with other
organizations. No definite action
was taken by the committee.

4. The subject of farm legisla-
tion to be taken up at the next
congress was discussed and referred
to the legislative committee to be
reported on at the ne.\t meeting.

5. H. E. Goembel of Hooppole,
chairman of the grain marketing
advisory committee, reported on re-
cent de\Telopments in- co-operative
grain marketing, the formatlon^Tof
the Rural Grain Company and its
membership on the Chicago board
of trade.

6. Report of the department of
taxation and statistics was made
by J. L. Whisnand, chalirman of the
advisory committee of U^at. ,4»part-
ment. Mr. Whisnand sfated 'that
J. C. Watson, director of the de-
partment, is a member of the| tem-
porary committee appointed for the
purpose of establishing a large per-
manent committee of all important
organizations in the state tor the
purpose' of urging the adoption of
the proposed revenue amendment
to the state constitution.

7. Motion made that the I. A. A.
give a breakfast to the boys and
girls club members of Illinois who
will attend the club congress to be
held during the week of the inter-
national livestock show, Chicago.

8. Report of the activities of the
department of information made by
R. v. Karr of Iroquois, chairman
of the advisory committee of the
departoient.

9. Report of the phosphate-lime-
stone department made by Stanley
Castle of Alton, chairman of the
advisory committee.

10. Motion made, seconded and
carried that the next meeting of
the executive committee be held on
October 8.

V

Co -Operation is Only Salvation

For Farmers, Says F. (). Lowden

"~^

J

"I cannot tell whether rain is a sweet and fragrant bearer of a bene-
fit or bankruptcy — when the hot summer winds scorch the fields, I do
not know whether to pray for rain or thank the
Almighty for the unbroken drought." declared
Ex-Governor Frank O. Ijowden, when discuss-
ing the fact that a short corn crop has a greater
total value and gives greater returns to the
farmers than a bumper crop, in his address be-
fore 3,500 farmers attending the annual picnic
of the Ogle County Farm Bureau, Oregon. Sep-
tember 16.

"Something is wrong with our method of mar-
keting when the aggregate money value of a
larger crop of a prime necessity is smaller than
the value of a smaller crop. " stated .Mr. Lowden.

"Last winter the Department of Agriculture
issued its statement of the estimated value of
farm crops for 1924. This was heralded as
another proof that agriculture had come into
its own. For it found that the
total value of the farm crops for

Fraak O. l>owd««

tie of the Indiana Farm Bureau
Federation. Indianapolis; J. D. Bills-
borough, Assistant State Leader of
Farm Advisers, Urbana; S. J. Cot-
tington; Henry Wallace, Wallace's
Farmer, Des Moines; Mr. Albaugh
of the Bureau of Agricultural Eco-
nomics, n. S. D. A., Washington,
D. C; Mr. Zealand, President of
the American Council of Agricul-
ture; Mr. Fred Davy, Berry, Illi-
nois; Congressman L. J. Dickinson,
Algon, Iowa; Herman Steen, Secre-
tary Indiana Wheat Growers Asso-
ciation, IndianapoliSr Indiana; Wal-
ton Peteet, Secretary National
Council of Cooperative Associa-
tions, Washington, D. C; E. P.
Taylor, organization department,
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion; Mr. Harvey Hill, Chamber of
Commerce; Dr. H. A. Ruehe; Pro-
fessor W. H. Smith, State Leader,
Farm Advisers; J. W. Lloyd, Chief
Olericulturist; F. C. Bauer, Profes-
sor of Soils; L. E. Card, Chief of
Poultry Husbandry Department,
University of Illinois; B. F. Taylor,
Midwest Crushed Stone Company,
Greencastle, Indiana.

the year was three-quarters of a
billion dollars in excess of the val-
ue of the farm crops for the year
before. .

"This, of course, was welcome
news.

"The report, however, disclosed
some very perplexing facts. To
illustrate, the corn crop was about
20 per cent smaller than the crop
of the preceding year. The total
value, however, exceeded that of
the preceding crop by almost two
hundred million dollars. And
everyone knows that the quality of
the crop was far below the quality
of the preceding . crop. And yet,
under a marketing system which it
is claimed is one of the most note-
worthy achievements of this com-
mercial age, the smaller crop of in-
ferior corn was worth more in the
market than the larger and ' su-
perior crop of the year before.

"Is it to be wondered at that the
farmers distrust the present meth-
ods of marketing farm products?

"Now suppose that the corn
growers had been completely or-
ganized during those years, do you
believe that this depressing and
puzzling condition would have come
about?
SomethinK Wrong With Methods

"It is safe to say that the larger
part of the bumper corn crop of '23
was sold at a price which did not
cover the cost o( production. If
corn growers had been organized
and found that the market would
not receive their corn at what it
cost them to produce it, they would
not have dumped tee larger part
of the crop upon the market in a
few brief months. They would
have stored the remainder know-
ing full well that seasons of bounti-
ful production are always followed
by seasons of low production, and
that at no distant day they would
receive a profitable price for their
corn. As it was, only a few of the
corn farmers were able to hold
their corn for the bighet" prices
which they had rightly anticipated
and which were later received.

"Something is wrong with our
methods of marketing when the ag-
gregate money value of d larger
crop of prime necessity is smaller
than the value of a smaller crop.
There are untold thousands of men
and women and children who need
more cotton to clothe them than is
produced in the world today. To
say, therefore, that twelve million
four hundred thousand bales of cot-
ton are worth more than thirteen
million bales is to condemn a sys-
tem of marketing which so meas-
ures value.

"Agriculture cannot regain its
rightful place in this highly organ-
ized world except through organiza-
tion. Organization is . the most
powerful factor in human progress.
The economists as long ago as Ad-
am Smith found in organization the
key to industrial growth.

IVfMlncer Set.* Pric*

"In the modern world, the farm-
er alone has been the last to realize
the value of organization for its
own sake. Therefore, it happens
that when the farmers in any com-
munity organize for any purpose,
they soon find that there are other
benefits derived In addition to the
one that was their special aim. A
finer community life, a widening
of sympathies With their neighbors
and associates, a broadening of
their outlook upon the world, a
new sense of the dignity and worth
of their calling, an elevation. of the
ablest and worthiest among them
to places of leadership, are among
the by-products of farmers' organ-
ization.

"Agriculture has emerged from'
its primitive state. It must there-
fore conform to those practices
which have been found necessary to
the success of other great indus-
tries. In all other fields of com-
merce, unrestricted, free and open
com-petition in the marketing of
products has been gradually disaj)-
pearing.

In praMlce in every other indus-
try the producer in the first in-
stance makes the price at which he
will sell his product. He usually
arrives at this price by computing
the cost of production and adds
what he considers a reasonable
profit. Of course, he may some-
times err as to what the public
wllj pay and have to revise his
price, downward, but he himself set*
the goal.

St«bilize<l Price is tioal

"In all industries the marketing
problem has been the problem
stressed for a generation. In the
marketing of farm products alone
has the producer been content with
the methods of a century ago.

"In all other industries there has
been a growing tendency to sta-
bilize prices. This has been ef-
fected largely through the organ-
ization of a few great corporations
which have taken the place of in-
numerable smaller indeiioudont
units scattered over the land. Not
only are there fewer manufacturers
relative to production in every line,
but they in turn are organized into
a great national body which meets
usually once a year and considers
500 questions of world supply and
demand and other subjects of com-
mon interest to the industries.
These great companies are there-
tore able to plan the next year's
campaign intelligently and to ad-
jus^ their production to the prob-
able demand. From time to time
they determine the price for their
product, which remains until new
conditions require a change. They
no longer go ahead blindly running
full capacity, putting their com-
modity upon the market at what-
ever price may be offered.

"In agriculture alone have the
methods of marketing made no im-
provement, except as to the sale of
those products which are now being
marketed through co-operative com-
modity marketing associations. In-
deed, while the farmer generally
has retained his old methods, they
have lost much of their original
efficiency because of the tendency
towards organization on the part of
purchasers of his product. The
number of sellers has constantly in-
creased while the number of pur-
chasers has cojistantly decreased.

Intrrest« Oiiimse .Miivement

".Agriculture; therefore, finds It-
self with its 'ii^illions of members
freely competing among themselves
while it is obliged to sell its prod-
ucts in a highly organized indus-
trial and commercial world. Now,
if the farmers are to put themselves
upon terms or equality with the
great industries of the country,
they too must organize. It is not
desirable that they should imitate
the great Industries, adopt the cor-
porate form of organization and op-
erate their farms through corporate
management. It would weaken our
whole social structure if our mil-
lions of farmers were to surrender
their individualism in this way.
Nor is it necessary. While much
improved efficiency in production is
still possible, the farmers have
made and are making constant
progress in this respect. The prob-
lems which press hardest upon him
today are concerned with the mar-

(Continued on Page 4, Col. 4)

FIRST HEARING OIF

FREIGHT CASE ENDS

j fL'oi^tinued from I'ag« 1. Col. i- i
there Mras no cross exan inatiOD oi
the witnesses. This wi 1 be don<
when fthe h«3Bring is reopened on
Octobflr 26. It is exp<'Cl«d that th<
secon<t hearing will take one week
At that time witnesses irill be ex-
amined and shippers who are read\
to givt their testimony will pre
sent eridence.

Previous' to the hearing it wa.-
reported that the weKtern railroads
would ask tor an 11 per cent in-
crease] -After the seafion was
opened an officer of th^ railroads
announced tliat "The western rail
roads ^re now asking an increasi
of but {five \tvir cent in their freight
rates. Jalthough an increas*- of at
least 1 1 pnr cent would be n«ces
saiy tq yield the roads the fair re
turn t)o which they are entitled,
both by law and by justice. W»
are asjciug for but a five per cent
increa^ because of the em«rgenc>
of. our neceacity. We need addi
tional revenue and we ne4d it now.
We ha^e hoped that by taking for
only ati absolutely essential mini
mum (hat we might obttiin mor>
prompcly and with less tippositiort
this minimum of relief which wi
must luave."

It^rden Ik on .tinirultarv
During this hearing it developed
that this proposed five per cent in
crease 'will not effect to any great
extent, many of the important
products, such as lumber, coal, and
manufactured goods. This is par-
ticulari}' true as to lumber and
coal, liar Jt was announced that
there i^iil be no increase from com-
petitive pointK on such materials
from lioutheastern territory into
St. Lovis and Chicago. Likewise
the tht-ough rate to the Pacific
Coast tnd adjacent territory to bi
determined by the railroads will
not be increased.

-As t^ie liearing adjourned, O. W

i Sandbag, transportation director

of the .jVmerican Farm Bureau Fed-

erationt said: "The railroads liav<

drawn i a clear line. They havi

' thrown down the gauntlet to agri

I culture;" This appears to be e«pe

I cially tirue inasmuch as the larger

I share df all freight hauled west ol

the Mississippi River in made up ot

agricultural products.

.^cM*rho«Ne Im WItneMK
A suritrising situation apfteared
during the hearing . when H. W
Moorhfljuse. formerly director of
the research department of the
American Kami Bureau F'ederation.
was called to the stand as a wit-
ness iq support j>f the railroads
The railroads submitted Mr. Moor-
house's testimony as evidence ot
the retarn of prosperity to agricul-
ture antl said nothing either Tor oi
against the proposed freight rat*-
Increase. His evidence was chiefl>
composid of certain farts to show
that thl> purchasing power of thc
farmer jfor the crop year 1924-192f.
was 14 per cent greater than thi
pre-war] level.

More{ tlfan 30 witnesses repre-
senting various vocations, includ-
ing ecohomists. bankers and insur
ance n^eu, testified for the rail
roads. I The last to appear was u
represeatative of an insurance com
pany wpo stat^Hl that his corpora
tion h^ inves4ed largt^ sums ot
money [in the Railroads and that
upon iijve^tigation were confident
that a [rate iacrease was needed
When Oil the stand he was asked:
"If tne commission should find
that a rjtte increase was harmful to
western agriculture, would you
still urce that this inorease b»
granted?"

"Certhinly not." was his reply.

(>^>er HeariniCK in Weot
Further hearings will be held at
St. Paiii, November 9; IVnver, No
vember!l6; San Francisco, Noveni
ber 23;} Dallas, December 2; and
Kansas 'City. December 14. It is
understood that although the car
riers' iietition for advance is beint-
heard at the same time as Docket
17,00(1. (the two will be disposed o:
separately. It is anticipated that
the decision on the five per cent
increase: will be made the lattei
part of tDecemtwr. while it will r«-
quire a( least a year to rearrangi-
tlie preient freight rate structure
which is expected to reduce thi
rate oji certain agricultural prod
ucts wHere reductions are advis
able.

Althoiigh the I. .A. A. is poolini;
its interests in the fight with th<
other i\ western states concerned
its identity is being maintained in
case anftbing should develop per
taining to rates within the stati
which Would call for action as an
individual orgianizatlon.

P«ge 4

The IllinoU AgricultunJ AMOciatioii Record

September 26, 1925

AUGUST BUTTER FAT
PRICE WAS HIGHEST
LAST FIVE YEARS

T

Dairy Marketing Specialist Pre-
dicU Profitable Winter for
Dairymen of This State

Illinois dairymen received the

highest price for butter fat last

month than for

^^^^^^ ' any August dur-

^^Pl^^^ the past five

^^^ ^^H years, according

K^^^^t to A. D. L^nch.

Hf^Pa^H A. A. dairy

Vi^jHP marketing direc-

lEWv «»■■■

^F^^F^^k "Ninety score

^1^^^^^^ butter in Chicago

^^ikL^^^^B during the month
^^^^^^^^^H of August aver-
^^^W^^^^^H aged
^^^H^^^^^H cents."
^^^^^^^^^^^ rector Lynch.
A. D. l.ya<4 "That price was
slightly above
the August price of 1923 and from
si.Y to nine cents better than the
butter market in August for the
years 1921, 22. and 24. July of
this year was also a good month
when prices were 15 per cent bet-
ter than the same period a year
ago.

"The chief factor in the higher
price for dairy products is that
seven months ago dairymen were
forced to sell on a market that was
22 per cent less than the same pe-
riod of the previous year. At that
time many farmers, who produce
dairy products as a side-line, dis-
posed of their cows and devoted
their time to grain farming, which
appeared to be more profitable.
This made the game better for the
dairymen who are in the business
through thick and thin.

Import ttcss Batter
"Another factor that has tended
to make this year's fat price a nick-
el better than last year is the im-
port situation. Up to August 1,
1925, there was imported into this
country a little over 5,000,000
pounds of butter. Last year up to
August I there was unloaded in
this country over 18,000,000
pounds. So up to this time we have
received from other countries less
than ome-third as much butter as
we did over the same period a year
ago. This puts a little more con-
fidence into the market.

"A third factor that has made
this year a better butter fat selling
year is the cold storage holdings.
On August 1 of this year we had
109,000,000 pounds of butter in
the warehouses of this country. Au-
gust 1 a year ago found 134,000,-
000 or 2S. 000. 000 more than this
year. The flve-year average of
holdings for August 1 is 104,000,-
000. So this August shows about
a normal condition as far as stor-
age holdings are concerned.

"During the year 1924 the per
capita consumption of fluid milk,
butter, cheese, and condensed milk
all increased. Because of the cool
and bacl^ard season of 1924, the
consumpnon of ice cream dropped
a least little bit. Industrial con-
ditions in the main are relatively
good over the country. This situa-
tion looks like it will continue well
into the year of 1926. These fac-
tors mean a steady and persistent
demand for dairy products.

Predicted Good Prices

"The dairymen who this fall and
winter milk their best cows, feed
them for economical vProduction,
and market their cream Di the best
condition will be able to put some
profits In the bank. It probably
would be unwise to think about en-
larging the dairy herd right now.
TKsre- is nothing in the cards that
Indicates an undue shortage of
dairy products. But the market
conditions do warrant, more than
ever, strict attention to dairying by
those who have been making dairy-
ing thefr regular business. The
dairymen who have been develop-
ing their herds efficiently will most
certainly have the edge on the men
who milk scrub cows and feed them
hay and grain this fall at the high
prices these foods are worth."

Last spring Director Lynch pre-
dicted that the market for dairy
products would reach a new high
summer level and stated that Illi-
nois farmers should not forsake
their herds due to the then existing
low prices.

Try This Line on

Your Neighbor If

He is Non-member

IF you have a neighbor of the
Epidermis Flint type, just let him
know about this list of achieve-
ments of the Farm Bureau:

More agricultural legislation was
passed after the Washington office
of the Farm Bureau had been es-
tablished for two years than had
been passed by the preceding 66
Congresses.

The original farm bloc was actu-
ally organized and held all of its
original meetings in the Washing-
ton office of the .\nierican Farm
Bureau Federation.

The agricultural legislation which
the Farm Bureau actively sponsored
is continued in the followfng acts
which are now In force: ' ■

The Haugpn billT— Packer-)Bto<*-
yards control.

Capper-Tincher bill — Regulation
of grain exchanges and future trad-
ing.

Norrls-McNary bill — Extension
of war finance corporation power to
lend money.

Kenyon bill — Increase in rate of
interest on Federal Farm Loan
bonds from 5 to 5 ^ per cent.

Curtis-Nelson bill — Increase in
the working capital of the Federal
Farm Loan System by twenty-five
million dollars.

Intermediate Farm Credit act —
Ultimately making available for the
use of agriculture $660,000,000.

Filled Milk act — Preventing the
interstate shipments of filled milk.

Warehouse act — Increasing facil-
ities for securing credit on stored
farm commodities.

Dunn bill — Authorizing the ap-
propriation for (Federal Highway
construction over « three-year
period.

Madden bill — Appropriation for
bovine tuberculosis.

Capper-Tincher bill — Re-enactj.
ment of former bill in con8tit%
tlonal form.

Fordney-McCumber bill — Protec-
tive tarilf giving agriculture pro-
tection under the tariff.

Fordney Tax bill — Preventing
the shift of tax burden to agricul-
ture.

Kellogg bill — Giving agriculture
representation on the Federal Re-
serve board.

McNary bill — Extending War
Finance for another year.

Capper-Volstead bill — Legalizing
co-operative marketing.

Kinkald bill — Extending time of
payment of rentals due on irri-
gated land.

FEDERAL DEPARTMENT
COMPUMENTS I. A. A.

Methods employed by the Illinois
Agricultural Association are de-
clared by the federal department
of agriculture to be popularizing
co-operative marketing among
farmers of that state. The compli-
ment was stated in a recent report
from a Washington news bureau
and published in the Rock Island
Argus as follows:

"Instead of holding to arbitrary
regulations, the Illinois organiza-
tion is said to have adapted its re-
sources to the needs of members
and prospective co-operators, with
results that have been helpful all
around.

"In a recent issue of Agricultural
Co-operation, organ of the bureau
of economics of the federal depart-
ment, the example that is being set
by the Illinois grain organization is
held forth as worthy of adoption by
similar associations in other states.

"In its efforts to serve its grain-
growing members, the publication
says, the co-operative in the south-
ern part of the state where soft
wheat is grown largely, has made
arrangements whereby growers may
become members of the Indiana
Wheat Growers association, Indian-
apolis. Over two hundred Illinois
farmers in four counties are re-
ported as having joined the Indiana
organization and so far this year
have delivered to it more than 130,-
000 bushels of grain.

"Where there is need of local
elevators for handling grain, the
Illinois association is declared to
be assisting producers to form com-
panies for the launching of such
enterprises. With the purpose of
supplying a farmer-controlled out-
let for grain on the Chicago mar-
ket, the association has assisted lii
the organization of the Rural Grain
Company, which has made applica-
tion for a seat on the Chicago
board of trade and plans to func-
tion as a selling agency.

"These projects represent three
distinct efforts to serve farmers
which are regarded by federal offi-
cials as likely to be fruitful in bet-
ter returns to farmers and In-
creased interest in and loyalty to
the co-operative.

"Activities of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association are regarded
as an effort to make its members
independent of outside help in mar-
keting operations, and this is said
to be one of the reasons why the
organization Is forging rapidly
ahead in the field which it hopes
to dominate before long."

^

Hilma Johnson Asks Illinois Farmers
To Assist in Ticket Selling Campaign

Miss Hilma Johnson, secretary of
the accounting department of the
Illinois Agricultural Association,
wants to be "Miss Agriculture" and
carry the Illinois banner around
the world. To do this she must
sell more tickets than any other
down-state girl for the Illinois
Products Exposition to be held at
the Exposition Palace, Chicago, Oc-
tober 8-17. In order to accomplish
this ambition Miss Johnson has
asked Illinois farmers to support
her. The Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation,' Prairie Farmer, and Or-
ange-Judd Illinois Farmer are as-
sisting Miss Johnson in the cam-
paign.

The Illinois Products Exposition
is conducted by the Illinois Cham-
ber of Commerce to advertise Illi-
nois. At the exposition there will
be exhibits representing every in-
dustry and practically every prod-
uct produced in Illinois. It is a
booster project for this state. It
will advertise the enormous amount
of agricultural products grown in
Illinois, its minerals, its manufac-
turing enterprises, its transporta-
tion facilities, its homes. Its mer-

chandising business, its resources,
its future possibilities, in fact ev-
erything about Illinois. Every loy-
al citizen of Illinois wants this ex-
position to succeed and everyone
should help to make it a success.

To advertise the exposition and
to increase the sale of tickets, the
Illinois Chamber of Commerce is
conducting a ticket selling contest
for Illinois girls. As an incentive
for the contest the Chicago girl
who sells the greatest number of
tickets to the exposition and the
best ticket seller downstate will be
given a free four-months tour
around 'the world. Miss Johnson
is a downstate girl and wants to
be one of the two girls to make the
trip.

Tickets are 35 cents each if
bought in advance from Miss John-
son and 50 cents at the door.
Every ticket sold gives "Miss Agri-
culture" ten votes in the world
tour contest. Use the ballot below
and send In your votes to the girl
of your own industry and organiza-
tion. Address the ballot today to:
Illinois Agricultural Association,
608 So. Dearborn Street, Chicago.

•UT OUT .A\D .MAIL-

VOTIN'ii B.'%L.IXyr

Illinois Agricultural Association . .' i

1200 Transportation Building
Chicago, Illinois.

I enclose herewith f for tlcket(s) to the Illinois

Products Exposition to be held In Chicago at the Exposition Palace Octo-
ber 8-17. I want to help Miss .Agriculture make the tour around
the world.

V r •'iA.....i :.....: ; .._ „

Red Top Growers to
Get Highest Prices

In Years, Is Report

Red top growers in Southern Il-
linois who are members of the
Egyptian Seed Growers' Exchange,
located at Flora, will receive the
highest price in years fop- their seed
this year. T

Curt Anderson, matiager and
member of the I. A. A. executive
committee, reports that consider-
able seed has l>een sold at from 20
to 25 cents a pound, and two car-
loads at 27 and a half cents. A
small crop is the reason for the
higher price. Total return to the
farmers will not be a great deal
higher than in normal years.

RECORDS SHOW MANY
FORCED LAND SALES
IN CORNBELT AREAS

Watson Advises Fanner* in
Financial Strait* to Arrange
For Long Time Loan

LOWDEN SPEAKS AT

FARMERS' PICNIC

(Continued from Pafire 3, Col. 4)
keting of his products at a price
which will enable him to live and
to go on producing. He must find
some way to restore the proper re-
lationship betv^een the prices he re-
ceives for hi* products and the
prices he pays when buying.

"There are powerful interests, of
course, which oppose this move-
ment. They are aggressive, for
they think they see large profits
disappearing if the farmers organ-
ize and put their business upon a
modem business basis. Their num-
ber is small compared with the
great army engaged in the produc-
tion, distribution and merchandis-
ing of commodities. With a zeal,
however, which self-interest always
inspires, they are likely to impose
their views upon chambers of com-
merce and other like organizations.
Even though the great majority of
these bodies have a feeling that
agriculture must organize in order
to fit into the modern business
world, they are too likely to yield i
to the insistent and vocal minority I
which feels that its own interest Is \
jeopardized. These organizations
could give a mighty impetus to the
movement if they would. As I have
tried to point out, they are Jkist as
much interested in the progress of
the movement as the farmers them-
selves.

Making Real Progress

"Farmers' co-operative marketing
associations, however, are making
real progress. Some have failed.
Doubtless others still will fail. The
mortality among them, however,
has been no greater than among
new business organizations of any
other kind of which I know. We
have been gathering a large fund of
experience which will enable not
only those already organized, but
new ones yet to be, to avoid largely
the errors of the past. They are
destined one day to occupy the
field, for there is no other way out.
Just when that happy day shall
come no man can tell. It depends
largely upon the farmers them-
selves. I cah foresee the day
though, I think, when everything
produced upon the farm for the
market will be marketed by the
farmers themselves through an or-
ganization of their own creation.

"I like to think of the time when
everything 1 produce upon my
farm I can deliver to my own asso-
ciation In full confidence that as
much intelligence and as large a
bargaining-power shall be exhibited
by those representing me In the
sale as are already exhibited now
on the part of the buyer. I like to
think of the time when the repre-
sentatives of all these great farm-
ers' organizations shall meet In a
congress once a year and shall
there work out a program for the
future, just as other industries now
meet annually for the purpose of
forming an intelligent and co-opera-
tive program for the year. At such
a meeting, if it shall appear that
one branch of agriculture is expand-
ing more rapidly than conditions
warrant, steps will be taken to re-
store the balance as between that
and the other activities of the
farm. In this way we shall achieve
a balanced agriculture.

Even more desirable, we shall
restore the proper balance between
agriculture — the greatest of all in-
dustries— and other business activi-
ties In this organized world In
which we find ourselves. This is
not the problem of agriculture
alone. It is the problem of all
because there can be no enduring
prosperity unless all the principal
Industries which go to make up the
commercial world, keeping step
with one another, shall march
abreast."

More than half of the sales of
Illinois farms, with warranty deeds,
are forced sales,
according to in-
formation c o m -
piled >y the I. A.
A. department of
taxation and sta-
tistics.

"This is espe- M^
c I a 1 1 y true In
good soil sections
of central Illinois
and such sales
are usually made
to avoid the costs
o f foreclosure,"
states J. C. Wat- ■•• •'• w«t«o»
son, 1. A. A,

taxation specialist. "In sales of
this nature, the mortgage often ex-
ceeds, and in many cases greatly
exceeds the equity. A survey of
re<;ent sales in the central cornbelt
shows that in numerous instances,
the equity is no more tlipn $500 or
11,000 and less than from 5 to 10
per cent of the Incumbrance.

"Forced sales of this nature Indi-
cate that Illinois agriculture is still
carrying much of the burden it as-
sumed during the defiation period
following the World War and many
landowners are far from recovered
to a firm financial basis.

.More Sales in Southern niinois

"In the dairy sections of northern
Illinois and thei livestock feeding
counties of the western part of the
state, sales of this character are
found in smaller numbers. This is
likewise true in the southern third
of the state where most farm lands
are sold free from incumbrances.
Sales of farms in southern Illinois
are usually more numerous than in
the remainder of the state. This
fact is probably due to the much
lower selling value of farm lands
In that territory.

"The large percentage of forced
sales of farm lands show that many
landowners who made purchases
during and immediately following
the war have not been able to meet
their payments. Most of the five-
year farm mortgages made during'
the boom years will fall due within
the next few months. It is doubt-
ful if all these obligations can be
met easily. Under such conditions,
landowners should arrange early for
the extejision or renewal of their
loans. In many cases, especially
where the loans are likely to run
for more than five years, this could
best be done by joining a federal
farm loiui association or by bor-
rowing Crom a joint stock land
bank."

Information On Many Sales

Mr. WJtson has on record infor-
mation ni literally thouaknds of
farm antf city properties all over
Illinois. From this Information, it
has b^en found that many recorded
deeds show that only 50 cents
worth of Revenue stamps were af-
fi.xed to the original deed of trans-
fer, indicating that the owner of
the land got $500 or less in cash
for the whole property.

POULTRY INCOME IS
63 MILUON DOLLARS

(Conlhuietl from I'ape 1, Col. 1)
largely to our present inefficient ,
s>'Btem of marketing eggs. Farm-
ers as a rule do not receive pay on
a basis of quality, therefore, there
is no incentive to exercise care in
the handling of eggs on the farms.
It appears that the present agen-
cies who are charged wijth the mar-
keting of this highly' perishable
food produce are not able to put
into practice a system of buying
which will pay for quality. In
tbose states where eggs are mar-
keted co-operatively they are grad-
ed and the producers receive pay
on the basis of grade; thus in a
very short time the lower grades
are largely eliminated.

"From now on Illinois farmers
should and are developing more
Interest in the marketing phase of
their business. It is the greatest
aim of the I. A. A., through Its
poultry department, to bring about _|
as great an improvement in the
marketing of poultry and eggs as
has been accomplished in the pro-
duction of these commodities."

•

nber 26, 1925

WMANY
ND SALES
ELT AREAS

Fanner* in
U to Arrange
me Loan

of the sales ot
warranty deeds,

t

J. C. WatMm

"In sdles of
rtgage often ex-
y cases greatly
A survey of
central cornbelt
erous instances,
re th^n $500 or
in from 5 to 10
umbntnce.
this nature indi-
riculture is still
tie burden it as-
deilation period
I War and many
from recovered <
basis.

uthem nUnols

lions of northern '
vestock feeding
tern part of the

character are
umbers. This Is

southern third
most farm lands

incumbrances,
louthern Illinois
imerous than in
:he state. This
le to the much
: of farm lands

!ntage of forced
show that many
oiade purchases
lately following
pen able to meet
lost of the five-
:es made during'.
1 fall due within *
lis. It is doubt-
ligations can be
such conditions,
arrange early tor
enewal of their
cases, especially
re likely to run
years, this could
fining a federal
;lon or by bor- y
}int stock land

Many Sales
on record Infor-
y thous&nds of
perties all over
I information, it
t many recorded

only 50 cents <
stamps were af-
I deed of trans-
t the owner of

or less in cash
erty.

OMEIS
N DOLLARS

Page 1, Col. 1)
esent Inefficient
ag eggs. Farm-
t receive pay on

therefore, there
exercise care in '
;s on the farms,
e present agen-
^d wi/th the mar-
ghly' perishable
not able to put
stem of buying
or quality. In
eggs are mar-
C they are grad-
;ers receive pay
*ade; thus in a
le lower grades
ted.

Illinois farmers

.eveloping more

'keting phase of

is the greatest

A., through its
:, to bring about .]
ovement in the
try and eggs as
ihed in the pro-
ommodities."

M

ULTUMALr I

=rRE CO

Volume 3

Issued Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinking Farmers — October 10, 1925

No. 20

LOWDEN SUGGESTS FEDERAL BOARD TO HANDLE SURPLUS

Novel on Farm Bureau

Former I. A. A. Director Writes

Book on Illinois Farm Life and

Co-operation.

Lynn Montross, formerly director
of the department of information of
the Illinois Agricultural Association
has written an-
other novel,
"East of Eden,"
lining as a back-
ground Illinois
.^ farm life and

past activities of
farm organiza-
tion work in this
state.

"East of Eden"
is based primar-
ily on the organi-
zation of the U

Lynn Montro.. g q^^j^ q^^^.

ers. Inc., in 1921
and its publishers, Harper and
Brothers of New York, declare that
it is the first novel of importance
dealing with the history of the de-
velopment of cooperative marketing
and the farm bureau movement. It
includes a clash between the Illinois
farm bureaus and the Chicago
board of trade leaders in the legis-
lative halls at Springfield at the time
the Lantz bill was introduced.

The novel has as its principal
characters a typical farm family
during the deflation period follow-
ing the World War. A county farm
adviser is also one of the leading
figures in the story and the county
farm bureau ofEce is the location
of several scenes. Although no defi-
nite statement is made regarding
the location of the farm of Fred
Deering, the principal character, it
is indicated that it is situated in
eastern central Illinois, mention be-
ing made that it is located between
Chicago, Springfield, Bloomington
and Champaign.

The life of the farm family and
the inhabitants of the country town,
th^fr economic and social problems
a»« described in detail. A fued and
love affatr are part of the plot.

The author during the years 1921
to '23 directed the editorial work of
the I. A. A., making many visits
to county Farm Bureaus. He is
known to many Illinois farmers. It
was during these years that he col-
lected the material used in this
book. At present Mr. Montross is
living in New York and has written
pwo former books, "Town and
Gown and "Half Gods."

Limber Up Your Huskin'
Arm Boys, The Annual
Championship's Coming

Prairie Farmer's annual state-
wide com husking contest will be
held this year on the farm of ttarret
Perebcom in Lone Tree township,
Montgomery county, in co-operation
with the Montgomery County Farm
Bureau. The farm is operated by
William Bergman.

Aspirants for the state champion-
ships will do their stuff in 50 acres
of com that will average 60 bushels
to the acre. The date has not yet
been fixed according to C. V. Gre-
gory, editor of Prairie Farmer, but
it will be sometime early in Novem-
ber.

Last year the championship was
won by Henry Niehaus, a member
of the Montgomery County Farm
Bureau.

This year the interestate contest
will be held in Illinois, the Mercer
County Farm Bureau having suc-
ceeded in bringing it into their
county. Illinois, Iowa, (Minnesota
and South Dakota champions are to
compete.

Former Governor Lowden

Illinois* former; governor is a great lover of horses. When not away
talking before some important convention on the condition of agriculture,
he can usually be found at Sinnissippi Farm, near Oregon, Ogle county.

One of Mr. Lowden's gems of farm philosophy is: "For the life of me,
1 cannot tell whether the patter of raindrops on the roof brings beneSt
or bankruptcy." (World's Work photo.)

Charges Against Four
Boards of Review are
Filed By Farm Bureaus

Charges stating the refusal or
lack of proper consideration, re-
garding the reduction or revalua-
tion of tax assessments on farm
lands, have been filed with the Illi-
nois Tax Commission in a com-
plaint against four county hoards of
review, according to J. C- Watson
I. A. A. taxation specialist.

"Farmers in several counties in
this state have had undue diflSculty
in convincing their respective boards
of review that a revaluation or re-
duction in the assessment of farm
property should be made to corre-
spond with the present sale value of
the land," stated Mr. Watson.

"In a number of counties the as-
sessed tax valuation placed on farm
property continues as high, or near-
ly as high, as the assessment made
during the boom years, while the
sale value of the land has dropped
heavily, in some cases as much as
50 per cent. This has caused the
landowners to pay a much larger
percentage of the cost if the state
and county governments than is
their rightful proportion.
Appear Before State Commission

"In cases where a reduction
should have been allowed and the
county boards of review apparently
refused to grant the proposal, the
farmers took the matter direct to
the state tax commission. That was
the case when representatives from
Kane. Peoria, Franklin and Clay
counties appeared before the state
tax commission and filed the com-
plaint charges as a further step in
securing the proper reduction.

In the last three years, farm
bureaus in a number of counties
have called the attention of their re-
spective tax boards to the need for
revaluation and have secured reduc-
tions in valuations ranging from five
to thirty per cent. These reductions,
it is estimated, are saving approxi-
mately $2,000,000 each year to Illi-
nois landowners.

The Per Capita Debt in Ili.i.voib increiiaeri
from t.3.67 to $14.91 betwf^n the fiflcsl years of
1023 snd 1924, according to the United 3 ates
Department of Commerce. Increaaed bond
issues for road building was tlie cause.

Coolidge to Hear
Farmers' Plans at
A. F. B. F. Meeting

Chief Executive Accepts Invi-
tation To Address Annual
Farm Meeting the Day After
His Message to Congress.

On what is thought to be another
attempt on the part of the President
of the United
States to un-
derstand and
acquire the
viewpoint of
American
farmers, Cal-
vin Coolidge
has accepted
an invitation
to attend and
make the prin-
cipal address
at the seventh
annual meet-
ing of the
America Farm
Bureau Federation to be held at the
Sherman hotel, Chicago, December
7, 8 and 9.

It is understood that the reports
of the president's agricultural com-
mission, appointed last year, did not
meet with the , entire approval of
either agricultural leaders or Con-
gress and President Coolidge's trip
to the A. F. B. F. meeting is to as-
sist him to meet and understand the
desires of the rural leaders and to
get their proposed program for de-
veloping a more prosperous agricul-
tural industry in this country.

President Coolidge will journey
to the farm meeting the day after
he gives his message at the opening
of the 69th Congress and the farm
representatives who attend the an-
nual meeting will no doubt get first-
hand information regarding the
President's plans for the agricultur-
al program which will receive con-
siderable attention during the com-
ing session of Congress.

The President's address at the
Chicago meeting will be broadcast
from both the WLS and KYW radio
stations as well as from other sta-
tions in various parts of the country.

Former Governor of Illinois, Writing in
" World 's Work, ' ' Says the Farm Problem is
Not Solved and Nation Should Recognize It

Federal Board Would Function in Syskpathy with Co-oper-
atives; Cites Brazil's Success in Handling Surplus Coffee
Through Valorization Plan and Britain's Remedy for the
Rubber Surplus.

Hon. Frank O. Lowdtn, the author aj the accompanying article, ie a
Member of the Ogle County Farm Bureau and the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association. Be is a leader in the agricultural thought oj the
country. Men of "big busimss" respect his judgment. You should
read carefully and thoughtfully what he has written. The article is
entitled "What We Can Do for the Farmer," and is reprinted from
the October issue of the "World's Wirk." — Editor.

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By FRANK O. LOWDEN

THE farm problem is not solvied. It will be we!! for us if
we recognize this fact.
In the monthly supplement, Crops and Markets, for
July, published by the Department of Agriculture, appears
the statement that the farmer'* net income for the year
1924-25 had increased somewhat over the preceding few
years. This has been heralded as proof that the situation
upon the farm was righting itself. Nothing could be farther
from the truth. As the Department points out, this increased
income nets the farmer but 3.6 per cent upon his capital in-
vestment, after a wage allowance for the farmer's labor
which is less than common labor receives in industry. And
this does not allow for depreciation and depletion. If de-
preciation and depletion had been deducted, as they well
might, the farmer's returns upon his investment must almost
have disappeared.

It is true that this is an improvement over the preceding
four years, when the highest net return was 1.7 per cent,
and the lowest a loss of more than 5 per cent. But it would
liardly be regarded as an evidence of health in any other in-

Ptfofessora Warren and Pearson, of

dastry. And this increase, the Depart-
ment says, is due almost wholly to the
higher grain and meat animal prices,
particularly of wheat and ho^. The
high price of wheat was the result
largely of a short crop in other wheat-
producing countries, and the high price
of hogs was caused in part at least
by our own inferior corn crop of the
year. When the prosperity of the Amer-
ican fanner depends upon the failure of
a crop either at home or abroad, it
hangs by a very slender thread.
Farm«r'a Capital Decreased

There are other interesting figures
contained in the same report. They
show a continuous decrease in the farm-
er's capital over a period of five years.
Zn 1919 and 1920, it is stated, the farm-
ers' combined capiUl was $47,000,000.-
000, which continued to shrink, until
last year it was but 132,000.000.000.
This decline in values is startling
enough in itself. To visualise it, how-
ever, let us assume that all of the prop-
erty of the six and a half million
farmers of America was capitalized upon
the basis of earnings that other busi-
nesses enjoy and see vhat the result
would be.

I have taken the United States Steel
Corporation for comparison, because it
is one of the ablest managed as well as
the largest corporation in the world.
It. too, produces basic commodities, just
as the farmer does. Its securities are
dealt in on the open market. Its com-
mon stock, after depreciation and de-
pletion, earns, according to its last re-
port, about 10 per cent, upon its market
value. -Now, if all the property of all
the farmers, according to the govern-
ment report, was capitalized upon the
same basis, the $32,000,000,000 would
further shrink to about $12,000,000,000!

Economists See Gloomy Future

The economists who have written
upon the subject in recent years, with-
out exception so far as I know, have
painted the future of American agri-
culture in gloomy colors. Professors
Richard T. Ely and Edward W. More-
house, in "Element!) of Land Econom-
ics.'* recently published, aay: "A down-
ward trend of land values during the
next ten yean is not improbable."

Cornell University, in their recent booW
called "The Agricultural Situation.
seem to think that the depression may
last from fifteen to twenty years if
ndthing is conseioosly done to help the
situation.

Another error we are likely to fall
into is to assume that agriculture was
receiving very Urge rewards in the
y«rt before the war. It is true that
frOra the beginning of this century until
the outbreak of the World War. agri-
culture in America did enjoy a prosper-
ity greater than had been its lot in The
pneceding years. Land values steadily
increased throughout this time. It was
from this increase in farm values rather
than from the actual operation of his
f«m) that the farmer's profit* largely
cam*.

Surveys recenUy made of farm opera-
tions in the Central West for the years
preceding the war, show that the actual
returns upon the current values of the
farms did not exceed 3 per cent. In-
deed, the public has grossly over-esti-
mftted the returns to the farmers, even
dOring war times and immediately
after. The report of theT>epartment of
Agriculture, from which I have already
quoted, goes back to the year 1919-1920,
which was a peak year for farm profitc
It discloses the fact that even in that
y«ar the rate earned on the farmer's
n*t capital was but 6.1 per cent., while
upon the capital borrowed, in the form
of mortgage and other indebtedness, he
p«id 6.7 per cent. Tta^t is to say. in a
yfear of great prosperity the farmer
actually earned upon, his own capital
l*s than ho paid for such capital as he
h^d borrowed.

In the early days of agriculture, the
ftrm was really a self-sustaining home
aftd little besides. The pioneer farmer
c^uld sell the surplus of the things he
had produced primarily for his own use
f*r enough at least to meet his small
c«sh outlay. In the evolution of farm-
ing, however, since those early days,
everything has changed. Commercial-
ised farming has taken the place of pio-
neer farming.

There are those who. regret the paa^

i»g of the freedom and independence of

the Hd days. But let them reflect that

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Read Mr. Lowden't Article

IF you have turned thus far and have not
read Mr. Lowden's article, turn back and
read it. His diagnosis of present-day farm
ills goes to the heart of the problem. The
solution of the problem is of-great importance
to you and your farm business. The article
herewith re-printed is causing considerable
comment.

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.Such Confidence Mutt Be Deaerved

SO far this year more than 10,000 Illinois
farmers have either renewed their mem-
ber^ips or have joined the Farm Bureau for
the -first time, according to the records of the
organization department.

W^en 10,000 substantial farmers join and
re-joTn any organization, that body must be
performing some service worth the mem-
bership fee. General increases in member-
ships have been reported by counties which
have completed renewal work this year.
Many other counties are in the midst of re-
newal campaigns now and others are laying

Ui. ;;o Octol--, 20 counties had started
mombership drives, five of which had com-
pleted their campaigns, five had made a gen-
eral once-over canvass, and the remaining 10
were just getting drives underway having re-
ported a few hundred re-signed members in
each county who have visited the farm bureau
offices and renewed their pledge of assisting
agriculture without having to be asked.
About thirty other counties are on the thresh-
old of campaigns.

The result of the membership reports to
date are an indication that the farmers of Illi-
nois, generally, have confidence and hope in
their organization. Thinking farmers do not
join and re-join fly-by-night organizations.

Thinking farmers believe in the fann bu-
reau movement.

Such confidence must be Reserved.

Farm ProRtM and Rail Rate*

From, The Journal of Commerce, New York

THE Interstate Commerce Commission is
at present engaged in taking testimony
in favor of rate increases, and the railroads
have discovered a number of experts prepared
to testify to the increased buying power of
the farmers' net income as compared with its
pre-war purchasing value. One witness has
testified that the average Western farmer is
now able to buy about 14 per cent more of
non-agricultural products with his present in-
come than he could have obtained before the
war, while it is estimated that the purchasing
power of the average Western farm has risen
72 per cent since 1922.

Estimates of this sort, based as they must
be upon averages, are, of course, far from
measuring the changes in economic well-be-
ing of many individual fanners. Assuming,
however, that they reflect or measure fairly
well the general improvement which has re-
cently taken place in Western farm regions,
it does not seem that this type of data ought
to be given overmuch weight in rate hearings.
Why, for example, should a temporaiy acces-
sion of income be urged as a basis tor rate
increases which are to be indefinitely applic-
able? Certainly when the farming income of
the Western States falls again, as it obviously
will, the railroads will not for that reason ac-
cept rate reductions with equanimity. There
is no reason why they should do so, in fact,
if they are not earning the returns on their
capital to which they are entitled. Their
present short-sighted eagerness to demon-
strate that farm prosperity is a good reason
for demanding rate advances is likely to act
as a boomerang at some not very distant date.

Over longer periods of time rate adjust-
ments obviously must be related to and modi-
fied in accordance with changes in the prices
of goods transported, but no one year or sea-
son affords any reliable standard upon which
to base demands for general rate increases.

The roads would apparently be much wiser
to take their stand on the solid ground of ris-
ing costs and lower incomes. They can point
to increasing expenses over a long period of
years for labor and equipment, together with
expanding capital investments and diminish-
ing net returns. These are the relevant fact-
ors that strengthen their case before the In-
terstate Commerce Commission. Fann pros-
perity is, after all, an ephemeral phenomenon.

We Litre Your Book, Monty

LYNN MONTROSS, formerly director of
information of the Illinois Agricultural
Association, saw so much romance in the
Lantz bill fight of 1921 that he has woven it
into his latest novel, "East of Eden." The
book has considerable historical value, espec-
ially to farm bureau members. It's well
worth the reading and we hope the sale is com-
mensurate with the amount of time and
energy put into it. The book deserves a good
sale. We like it, Monty.

The Record Now Printed in Ogle County

WITH this issue jrou will no doubt notice
some changes m the appearance of the
Record for it is now being printed b^ Kable
Brothers Company of Mount Morris, in Ogle
county. Heretofore the Record has been
printed in Chicago,

Changing to Mount Morris results in some
saving to the association due principally to
less overhead costs in Mount Morris than in
Chicago. All editorial work will be done in
the Chicago office as before. Excellent mail
service between Chicago and Mount Morris
makes it possible to maintain the same nar-
row margin between dead-line and delivery in
your mailbox as has prevailed heretofore.

We appreciate having any irregularities of
delivery reported at the office.

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(Congratulations to the New Member)

Ep Has His Own Ideas Alx>ut Service

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The lllinoit Agricnltar*! Anodatiop RECOUP

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Thia picture repr«s«nU a partial panorama of Mr. Lowden*« Sinnistippi Farm on tlie Rock River» near Oregon, Ogle county. Stnniutppi Farm contains 4»S00 acres, one third
under crop, one third pasture, and one third in use in a reforestation plan in which Mr. Lowden is especially interested. (World's Work photo.)

Farmer *s Income 3.6
Per Cent on Capital

0 — Lowden

(Continued from page 1, Col. 5.)

if the olfl methods had continued the
great industrial development of our
country >voutd have been impossible.
Only und4r a system of commercialized
agriculture are the farmers of the coun-
try able to produce enough to feed the
constantly increasing population of our
cities and towns. As a result of com-
mercialised agriculture, the per capita
production of the American farmer has
constantly increased and still is increas-
ing.

Farmers Not Inefficient

We hear much these days of the in-
efficiency of the American farmer. How
far this is from the truth let the figures
attest. The Year Book of the United
States Department of Agriculture for
1921 is authority for the statement that
in America are found less than 4 per
cent, of the farmers and farm laborers
of the world. And yet the American
farmers produce nearly 70 per cent, of
the world's corn, 60 per cent, of the
world's cotton, 50 per cent, of the
world's tobacco, 25 per cent, of the
world's oats and hay, 20 per cent, of
the world's wheat and flaxseed, 13 per
cent, of the world's barley, 7 per cent,
of the world s potatoes.

The average production of cereals per
person engaged in agriculture in the
United States is 12 tons, while for the
rest of the world it is about 1.4 tons
This has largely been possible by what
we call commercialized agriculture, and
this in turn has made possible the
phenominal industrial growth of our
country. It is clear that without com-
mercialized agriculture, the, whole
mighty fabric of our tndustriarand na-
tional life would fall.

In the simpler age. cost of produc-
tion did not concern the farmer much.
When he produced enough to feqd and
clothe his family, he had accomplished
bis main purpose. '

Farmer is a Business Man

To-day all is changed. The farmer is
a business man bound by the laws which
operate in other business flelds. His
cash expenditures are large. If he is to
produce enough of food and clothing for
the teeming millions in the industrial
centers he, too, must employ industrial
means in, production. The scythe has
given way to the mower, the simple
plow to the gang plow, the cradle to the
powerful self-binder, and the flail to the
threshing machine. He must employ
fertilizers if he would keep up the fer-
tility of his soil. Social needs of his
community have required better drain-
age, better roads, and better schools,
and all these have entailed a further
burden upon him in the form of taxes.
He now h^s a large annual cash outlay.
He is a producer no longer for himself
mainly, but to supply the needs of this
industrial ^age. The surplus wh^ch he
produces M now the important thing.

Cost of fjroduction, therefore, has be-
'Come as vital a question with the farmer
as with the manufacturer. And yet
when he complains that he is not receiv-
ing cost of production for the things he
sells he is derided by the economists and
teld by the business world that the
prices of farm products are controlled

Sinnissippi Farm is a home for the finest Holsteins.
(World's Work photo.)

not by cost of production bat only by
the law of supply and demand. It must
be conceded, though, I think, that no
one, farmer or manufacturer, can go on
producing indefinitely in this commercial
world at less than cost of production.
Does it not follow that some way must
be found, if we are to insure future
adequate supply of food and clothing,
by which the producers of these prime
necessities can secure at least the cost
to them of producing those necessities?
Short Crop Worth More Than
Bumper Crop

Under present conditions we have this
anomaly: the farmer is not nearly so
!ikely to suffer from a short crop as
rrom a bumper crop. As Professors Ely
and Morehouse say : "A general good
season may bring a bumper crop, a fact
that is heralded by the metropolitan
press as a sign of the prosperity of the
farmer and of the nation. As a matter
of fact, a bumper crop usually brings
ruinously low prices."

A year ago this summer there was a
drought in the Southwest which was in-
juring the cotton crop. The govern-
ment estimated the crop of the year at
12.400,000 bales. And then the drought
was broken. The goverhment got out
another report and this time estimated
the yield at 13,000,000 bales, an increase
of less than 5 per cent. Prices at once
fell about 20 per cent. If these prices
reflected real values, the loss to the cot-
ton farmers of the South, due to a
timely rain, was something like $300,-
000,000. And yet there was a dearth of
cotton such as had not existed since the
Civil War. The press had been filled
with fears of a cotton famine.

Two years ago there was a bumper
crop of corn. As a result, the price de-
clined so low that it was cheaper in
some parts of the Dakotas and Ne-
braska, and even Iowa, to burn corn for
fuel than to buy coal. Last year, ow-
ing to a cold, wet summer, the corn
crop was small in yield and inferior in
quality. The government estimated the
crop at 20 per cent, less than the
bumper crop of the year before. As a
result, according to the government's
figures, the smaller crop' of defective
corn was worth $350,000,000 more in the
markets than the crop of the year be-
fore. The cold, wet summer which so
seriously injured the com crop was very
favorable for the growth of grasses in
the meadows and pastures, and so dairy
products slightly increased as compared
with the year before. This increase re-
sulted in the dairy farmers receiving
many million dollars less for their prod-
uct than they had received the previous
year. And yet, during this whole period
there was not a Sufficient surplus of
dairy products on hand at any one time
to supply the needs of the people of
the United States for a single month.

Limiting Production

IT IS often urged that the farmer
should avoid producing a. surplus and
should limit his production to the actual
needs of the current year. This cannot
be done with any assurance of a suffi-
cient supply for future years. This
year a largely increased acreage was
planted to cotton. Crops started off
well. Many feared so large a crop as to
demoralize prices. And then came a
severe drought in Texas and Oklahoma,
which had been producing about half of
all our cotton. The government recently
has issued a statement of the probable
production for the
year. If this state-
ment proves correct,
there will be barely
enough cotton raised
this year to meet the
needs of the year.

Suppose now^ that
the cotton farmers
had planned just to
meet the actual
needs. The drought
still would have come
and the world would
be faced with a cot-
ton shortage. And so
with reference to
the cereals. The
farmer cannot know
in advance whether
there will be too
much or too little
rain or too much or
too Uttlt httt, and if

he attempted always to produce just
enough to meet the demand, there
would be years in which our people
would go hungry or import their food.
If, therefore, we would be a self-suf-
ficing nation, we must at times produce
a surplus of the staple crops. This is
for the common good. Under existing
conditions, however, as I have pointed
out, this surplus becomes a heivy bur-
den to the farmer.

Some economists see nothing illogical
or evil in such a situation. They say
that it is an inevitable result — the re-
sult of the law of supply and demand.
I cannot quite accede to this proposition.
It answers itself. For, under that law,
if the world will pay a larger price for
ten bushels of wheat than it will pay
for fifteen, it must be because it pre-
fers ten bushels of wheat to fifteen
bushels, and the supply, therefore, will
adjust itself to meet that demand. This
means a constantly increasing cost to
the consumer.

Surplus ts Inevitable

It is clear, therefore, I think, that a
surplus is inevitable — and desirable if
we would have a nation self-sufficing in
the essentials of life. It, therefore,
should not operate to the disadvantaee
of him who produces that surplus. The
nation now stands, in a sense, in the
same relation to surplus as did the in-
dividual farmer of primitive times. Just
as the flowing barns and bins of that
time were an evidence of the prosperity
of the individual fanner, so now an
abundance of food and raw materials
for clothing ought not to be considered
as impoverishing the nation that pos-
sesses them. The nation, however,
should employ this abundance wisely and
prudently. It should hold sufficient for
its own needs as against a less fruitful
time and it should aim to dispose of
the surplus beyond that in the markets
of the world upon the most advan-
tageous terms possible.

The problem is how to obtain this ob-
ject. It is clear that the individual
farmer cannot do this alone. If the
n-od'icers of any farm commodity were
completely organized, it is conceivable
that they might accomplish this very
end. Their collective credit would en-
able them to store and hold for less
bountiful years such of the surplus as
prudence dictated. They would then
consider collectively the most profitable
disposition in the world's markets of
that portion remaining. However, they
would not permit the exportable surplus
to determine the price for domestic con-
sumption. The domestic price would
then be determined largely in the same
way as is the domestic price of manu-
factured articles. Capital and services
would receive the same reward in agri-
culture as in other fields of production.

The Progress of CO'Operation

ORGANIZATION of the farmers for
the purpose of marketing their
crops collectively is progressing. I be-
lieve that some day it wil] cover the en-
tire field. Denmark has shown how,
under the most adverse circumstances, it
cap transform the agriculture of a peo-
plf. Wherever cooperative marketing
is farthest advanced, either in the
United States or abroad, there you find
agriculture in its best estate; violent
fluctuations in the markets eliminated;
better prices to the producers without
*n increase in cost and sometimes with
an actual decrease to the consumer; an
approach to standardization of product;
a more intelligent effort to adjust pro-
duction to probable demand; a finer and
more satisfying community life.

It will be many years, however, be-
fore the cooperatives of the staple farm
products are sufficiently organized to
take care of this ever-present problem
of surplus. And this is a situation
which, if left to itself, tends constantly
to grow worse. For, as Professor Ely
points out, when a manufacturer finds
that he cannot market his product for
cost of production, he can stop or reduce
production and at the same time reduce
expenses. The farmer cannot do this.
His expenses largely go on whether his
acreage planted is somewhat smaller or
not. Having to meet these expenses
anyway, the lower the price the larger
must his acreage be to accomplish this.

If the producer)* of any farm product
are only partly organized and attempt
to take care of the surplus, the pro-

ducers of that commodity who are not m*re than half of so essential a commo

members of the cooperative receive the
full benefit of the improved price with-
out bearing any of the burdens incident
to the surplus. To illustrate: the to-
bacco cooperatives have been very suc-
cessful in recent years. When farm
prices broke in 1920, the tobacco grow-
ers were among the severest sufferers.
Tobacco was selling far below cost of
production. And then cooperative mar-
keting associations were formed

djty as cot'.on has come to be in the in-
dustrial world. It in it«Hf should make a
nation unique among the nations of the
world. One would suppose that such
an, advantage would confer great pros-
perity upon the cot^n farmers of the
nation. What is the fact? A few weeks
act) I drove for a distance of almost
two hundred miles from Memphis
through the heart of the Miattssippi
delta. We are told by competent au-

Through their largely increased bargain- tharity that there is no like area of
ing power these associations were able fertile lands suHed to the production of

to sell the bulk of their crop at re
munerative prices. To accomplish this,
it was necessary to withhold a surplus
temporarily from the market. That en-
tailed a necessary expense. The non -
member, therefore, was able to avail
himself of the better prices which the
association had established without
^bearing any part of the burden of hand-
ling the surplus. And thus, though the
members of the cooperatives themselves
received much larger returns than if
they had not organized, the non-mem-
bers have profited' even more. It is
difficult to maintain the morale of an
organization when outsiders receive the
benefits of the organization in a larger
measure than do the members them-
selves.

Believes Thorough Organisation
Will Come

Some day the farmers will be so
thoroughly organized. I hope and be-
lieve, that they will be able successfully
to cope with the surplus. But that day
has not come yet. Meantime, are we to
sit idle awaiting the further depletion
of our soils and the ruin of our agri-
culture until we are incapable of meet-
ing the needs of our increasing popula-
tion? For when that time comes, as
the economists point out, there will be
another maladjustment. Then prices of
farm products will be abnormally high.

We are greatly concerned as a people,
and properly so, over the waste of our
riMtural resources. No one not actually
familiar with the farms of America can
know how rapidly we have been exhaust-
ing the fertility of the soil. Improved
methods of farming and improved seed
have tended to counterbalance the de-
pletion of our soil and so have blinded
us to the fact. I think, however, that
most students of agronomy will agree
that at least 25 per cent, of our lands
now growing crops should be either in
pasture or in legumes if we would pre-
vent the furthet depreciation of our soil.
The natural fertility of our com and
wheat lands has diminished constantly
since they were first broken by the plow.
It is only improved drainage, better
seed, and better cultivation that have
enabled the farmers to go on at all.

Let us consider our cotton for a mo-
ment. Last year the world's production
was 24,000,000 bales. We produced some-
thing under 14.000.000 bales The next
largest producer is India, but India
grows an inferior quality of cotton,
which is useful principally in the Ori-
ental trade. Of our crop last year, we
exported about eight and a quarter mil-
lion bales. Without this cotton, the
cotton mills of Europe would have been,
idle and industrial chaos would have
come. Without American cotton, Eng-
land could hardly survive And yet we
have permitted the spinners of Europe
largely to determine the pi;ice for this
prime necessity of life.

American Cotton

Controlled in

England

During a large
part of ^he time in
the last half-centurj*,
cotton planters have
been able to hold on
only, as we are told.
because of the un-
paid labor of women
and children in the
field. And during alt
this time the Eng-
lish Government and
the English spinners
have spent millions
yearly to ^open up
new sources of sup-
ply, with no appreci-
able results. It is a
stupendous thing to
produce considerably

cotton in all the civilized world, not even
extepting ther famous Valley of the
Nile. I was credibly informed that half
of those incomparable lands were in the
hatid? of creditors. Such sales of land
as are being made there are for lesa
than the cost of improvements.

We produce, as I have said, 70 per
cent, of the world's com — hence the
corn lands of the United States jhould
be one of its chief assets. And yet
corn lands have sold in Iowa — the pre-
mier corn state — in the present year for
but little more than the cost of improve-
ments. In the South we say cotton \t
king; in the Middle West it is com we
have crowned. But these royalties are
bdffeted about by the tradem of the
world. They have been made to jrteld
immense profit to every oi.e but those
who produce them.

What Brazil Did With Coffee

OTHER nations have had the prohkm --
of a sur >lus of natural products
and hsve; set about trying to solve it.
A few years »go the coffee growers of
Brazil wee in dire distress, tr-^estrict-
ed competition among them threatened
to bring bankruptcy. The nation saw
that only by centralized selling for ex-
port could they hope to adjust the sup-
ply to the world demand. To effect
this, they adopted a somewhat intricate
plan called valorisation, which has been
in operation for a number of years.
That it has resulted in stabilizing the
cofee markets of the world, with s liv-
ing price to the producer, every one
knows.

A few years ago the robber planters -
in the eastern colonies of Great Britain
were well-nigh bankrupt because of the
low prices they were receiving for their
rubber. They succeeded in interesting
the British Government in their trou-
bles. The Colonial Office of that gov- "
eramen^ worked out what was known
as the Stevenson plan. Under that
plab, though different means were adopt-
ed, the aim was the same, namely to
adjust the supply of rubt>er in the mar-
kets of the world to the actual demands
of commerce. All the world knows the
result The price of raw rubber has
greatly increased and these far-off col-
onies are among the most prosperous
portions of the British Empire. In tho
case of rubber, it is ptobahl*- they have
gone too far, and in any plan which wc
might adopt we would be wise to at'oid
the excesses to which the British Gov-
ernment seems to have gone.

Britain Did It With Rubber

The American farmer is interested in
rubber too. for he is obliged to use auto-
mobiles and trucks in his business. When
he complains of the hich price he pays
for tires, he is told that it is due to
the way in which the British Govem-
metit has interfered with the law of .
supply and demand. He begins to doubt
(Continued on page i. Col. t.)

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(World's Work pbete.) .

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Page 4

The Illinois Agricultural Asaociation RECORD

October 10, 192S

Amendfn6nt to Revenue
Act Would Make Co-ops
Exempt From Taxation

Famten' co-operative associations
and organizations will not be re-
quired to pay an income tax or file
tax return if the proposed amend-
ment to the Federal Revenue Act
drafted by farm representatives is
passed during the next session of
Congress, according to George R.
Wicker, director of the I. A. A. co-
operative auditing department. ,

"Preliminary steps towards draft-
ing the proposed exemption amend-
ment began at a meeting of a num-
ber of representatives of farm or-
ganizations from the East and Mid-
west held at the offices of the I. A.
A. on September 22, and 23," stated
director Wicker.

"For the past five years, farmers'
co-operative associations have been
handicapped by the present interpre-
tation of sections of the Federal
Revenue Act. When the act was
passed by Gongress it was evidently
intended that farmers' cooperatives
should be exempt from payment of
income tax and filing income tax re-
ports. However, that part of the
act has been abridged by the regu-
latioQs of the United States treas-
ury department to sijch an extent
that the intended benefits are no
longer available. This imiendment
is of vital important to an farmers'
organizations."

The proposed amendment, accord-
ing to Mr. Wicker, will be presented
to a joint session of representative."
of all farm organizations at a meet-
ing to be held in Washington, Octo-
ber 19. At that time it will be
drafted in form to fit the require-
ments of all cooperative organiza-
tions and will be submitted to the
ways and means committee of the
House of Representatives where it is
hoped that it will be drafted into
the New Federal Revenue Act
which is to recctve the attention of
the next Congress.

Btown County Adviser
Writes of Service by
Deofi'' u-r t of I. A. A.

"n havr-hxen i»ifi" med that the
■"'^1 .mers C('Op«Tatr. '; Company at
^•luuKeil bow have their lease and
are very grateful to the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association for securing
it," writes W. P. Miller, farm ad-
viser of the Brown County Farm
Bureau. "They have tried individ-
ually for Ave years to get this lease
and when I learned of their trouble
I informed them that our own or-
ganization could put it across for
them, and they are mighty well
pleased."

That is the final chapter of a
service rendered to Brown county
farmers by the I. A. A. transporta-
tion department.

For sometimp the members of the
Timewell Farmers' Cooperative
Company wanted to lease additional
land located adjacent to their ele-
vator from the Wabash railroad. On
this ground they wanted to erect
bins for the purpose of handling
coal, limestone and other bulk mate-
rials on a cooperative basis for their
members. Due to local influence
they were unable to make arrange-
ments for the lease. After five
years of futile attempts, the officers
applied to L. J. Quasey, director of
the I. A. A. transportation depart-
ment. Correspondence was dis-
patched immediately to the proper
railroad authorities with the result
that the farmers now have the lease
and may proceed with the erection
of the building.

NOT A CURE-ALL

IF THE Agricultural Temple
proposed to be erected in Chi-
cago will solve the agricultural
problems of America, as its pro-
genitor, Lawrence Whiting, was
recently quoted in the Chicago
Tribune as having told President
Coolidge, would it not logically
follow that the new $80,000,000
Union Station recently completed
in Chicago will solve the trans-
portation problems of the coun-
try?

While there ii much merit in
the pro|poft«l to house all agricul'
tural organixationa in the Agri-
cultural Temple, let us not be-
come too enthusiastic about it as
a cure-all. Perhaps Mr. Whit-
ing wa^ misquote<l. We hope so.

The former governor supervises the operations on his farm. (World's
Work photo.)

''Farm Board Would
Help Co- operatives * '

(Continued J rom page S, Coi. 5.)
if that law is either so potent or so
universal in i^8 application as he has
been taught to believe. He wonders if
maybe Former President Uadley of Ya!e
was not right when he said in a lec-
ture delivered in England a few years
ago:

"Those of us who were brought up on
the old fasbi'tned textbooks of political
economy can hardly conceive how small
a part of the prices or wages or rents
of the world have actually been de<
termined by comfietition."

I am not advocating either the valor-
ization plan of Brazil or the Stevenson
plan of Great Britain. I do think, how-
ever, that ju?t as Brazil has found a
way by which her coffee surplus is no
longer a menace and England a method
by which her rubber surplus no longer
paralyzes the rubber-growing industry,
SO we in Amerca mhy, if we will, find
a means of tak'ng from the back of the
American farm ir the burden of his sur-
plus.

Leaders in the British petroleum in-
dustry, I am t<ld, are already proclaim-
ing that when America shall have ex-
hausted her supplies of oil. Great Britain
will, by some similar method, lay the
American peop'e under tribute for its
future oil supplies.

The world ha« long been ased to the
advantaf^es of mass production. It now
appears that mass selling is to be given
a trial.

One of the chief reasons for the
formation of the Federal Reserve bank-
ing system was to mobilize the credits
of the country, so that they could be
used at any time at the point needed.
Isn't there some way by which the sur-
pluses of farm producta- can be mobil-
ized and thus be made to serve the fu-

ture? If we could accomplish in point
of time for the farm surpluses what we
have accomplished in point of place for
the credit resources of the country, we
would have largely overcome our trou-
bles.

Suppose We Had a Federal Farm
Board?

Suppose we had a Federal farm
board. Suppose that board found that
the producers of any farm commodity
were sufficiently organized so as to be
really representative of all the pro-
ducers of that commodity. Suppose that
when it ascertained this fact it should
authorize such producers to form a cor-
poration for taking care of the surplus^
either storing it to meet a possible fu-
ture domestic need or exporting it upon
the best terms available, the expenses
and losses incurred for storage or in
export to be borne proportionately by
all the producers of that particular com-
modity.

Such a board could function success-
fully, in my opinion, only if it operated
throueh and in hearty sympathy with
cooperative commodity associations. It
could expect to prevent ruinous over-
production only in cooperation with such
■associations. It is vital to any plan,
therefore, that it should be so framed as
^o strenfthen and not to weaken the
cooperative movement. For in that
movement lies the best hope for the
future of American agriculture.

I throw this out by way of sugges-
tion. I am aware of the practical dif-
ficulties in the way of any plan, but
practical difficulties can always be over-
come where there is a will and where
the principle is sound.

If there is a better way let us find it.
But let us not confess ourselves im-
potent in the presence of what many
Americans deem to be the greatest men-
ace to the future of our civilization —
a decaying agriculture.

FARM FILLERS

Twelve Calves fed bt the 8akoa.mon
county calf club brought this year's record
price wben sold at auction by the Cbicaso
Producers for S19. Coles county had sev-
en head that brought $18.26. Homer Hen-
denhall . of Sangamon county topped the
sale with hip calf that won first and re-
serve champion at the Illinois State Fair,
Asa Ilalsey of Coles county had the sec-
ond highest.

Members or the Fohd Corsxr Fahm
Bureau aro organizing a com growers
association for the purpose of storing
and testing their seed corn on a coopera-
tive ba«is. When completed the organisa-
tion will have a membership of at least
600 farmers. The association plans to
build testing rooms and install wire racks
so that 8,000 bushels of corn can be
tested for germination, freedom from dis-
ease, and vigor of growth, thus giving the
members insured and efficient seed com
service at cfMt. according to George T.
Swaim, farm adviser.

iNBtTtANCE APPLICATIONS tOTALLISO OVEB

$400,000 have been received br the
Farmers' Mutual Reinsurance Company of
Illinois. This Is four-fifths of the $500,-
000 in individual insurance applications
needed to secure the state charter for the
new company. Thirty-seven counties have
sent in applications and seven of these
have reached their quota of $20,000.

The Board of Review of DcKalb county
recrntly cranted ft ten per cent reduotion in the
tax assessment on all farm property of the
cfiunty. This saving to the farmers was accom-
plished throush the efforts of county Farm Bureau
assisted by X C. Watson, taxation specialist of
the Illinois Agricultural Association.

While Illinois Real Estate Constitute*
only 37.4 per cent of the wealth of the state, it
pays 85 per cent of the taxes. This is due to the
fact that when the state constitution was adopte<!
in 1870 practically property was tangible and
rould be assessed ana taxed in the same manner

If the revenue amendment is adopted at Ui<>
pr.lls in November, 1926, further lejrislation can
then be enacted to remedy the situation.

Gold, Silttcr and Bronze Medals authorized
by Act of Conftrese and approved by Presidenl
Coolidge June 5, 1024. for presentation by the
Secretary of Auricilture to the first, second and
♦ hird prize winners of the 25th International Ijve
Stock Exposition held a year ago have been
completed and are being mailed to the winners.
Slany Illinoisans are among the recipients.

A School por Farm Women is being oonduotefl
by the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation during
the N'ational Dairy Exposition at Inrlianartotis,
October 10-17. JThe achool program has been
planned to cover the subjects in which women are
believed to be the most interested, — Home,
Health, Foods, Schools, and Rural Social and
Community Life.

Thanifs I. A. A. for Charity Wori(

United Charitiet of Chicago Writes

Letter of Appreciation For

Slum Kiddie Publicity.

"We wish to express to you our
appreciation for your kindness in
giving publicity to our Summer Out-
ing work," states a letter from the
United Charities of Chicago to the
Illinois Agricultural Association.

"We feel that this publicity has
been very beneficial in furthering
our project, and that it has resulted

Illinois Farmers Lead in Efficiency,

President Thompson Tells Businessmen

DON'T place all your eggs in one
basket," says President Thomp-
son, in an article in "Illinois Facts,"
a magazine concerned with Illinois'
greatness, p u b -
lished in connec-
tion with the Illi-
nois Products Ex-
position, open to
the public from
October 8 to 17.

"That's the gos-
pel of Illinois
Agriculture, and
it's a sound one.
Study the statis-
tics which tell
the annual pro-
duction of farm
products for this
state and you'll
agree that diver-
sification is a
fundamental with the farmers of
Illinois.

"Run down the list of important
Com Belt crops, yes, and you'll find
some crops not ordinarily grown in
Com Belt states, and youTl find
Illinois Agriculture ranking 2nd,
3rd, 4th, 5th, and so on. Just as
divenriflcation pays in investments,
so It pays in farming. Agriculture
in Illinois is not dependent upon any
one single crop ; the eggs are in sev-
eral baskets.

"Illinois' agricultural ranking
among her 47 sister commonwealths
is near the top in all the staple crops.
By her rivers gently flowing you'll
find com proudly waving. And it's
volume and quality places Illinois
second in this respect. Oats are 3rd,
rye 8th, wheat 7th, barley 9th, cot-
ton 18th, sorghum 14th, broom corn
2nd, buckwheat 16th, potatoes 9th,
tame hay 5th, clover seed 2nd, fruits
11th and truck crops 9th. Stack all
these together, figure the value
of them, compare that figure with
that of the other 47 states, and
you'll find Illinois Agriculture rank-
ing 2nd, among the 48 states in
value of farm crops — $520,429,000
(1924).

"Take the livestock. Illinois' milk
cattle rank 5th, other cattle 6th.
Swine have rooted themselves into
3rd place. Sheep are 22nd, poultry
2nd (usually considered the farm
wife's 'pin money,' but in 1924
poultry was valued at $25,234,061),
horses 2nd and mules 14th.

"Illinois dairy cattle manufac-
tured products which sold for $71,-
998,333 in 1924 and ranked the
state 6th. The poultry layed eggs
and produced other products worth
$67,690,085 in 1924 and ranked

ABt)Vk ibi attractive exhibit
• of the Illinois Agricultural
Association shownfi. at the Illi-
nois Products Exposition is a
sign upon which these words are
printed;

"Illinois farmers are the most
efficient in the United States.

"The Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation is created hj them to
represent their interests.

"It is the voice of organized
agriculture in Illinois."

lU slogan is "63,000 think-
ing farmers."

not only in a large number of defln
ite requests for children, but also in
keeping before the minds of the peo^
pie throughout the state the prot-
lems of Chicago's poor, it has matU
these people much more amenable
to requests and pleas.

State Champion Chicken Caller

Farm Adviser Blackburn of the
Marion County Farm Bureau says
this picture does not look like Mrs.
I. N. Wooley of luka, champion
chicken caller of Illinois, because he
rarely sees her without a smile. Per-
haps the sun was shining too bright-
ly when the picture was taken.

Mrs. Wooley was declared winner
of the state championship chicken
calling contests held at the annual
picnic of the Illinois Agricultural
Association, Taylorville, August 27,
and the silver pitcher she holds is
the trophy she received as state
champion. Her style during the
demonstration was more vigorous
than sweet but nevertheless calcu-
lated extremely effective by the five
judges and those who attended the
picnic.

It is said that Mrs. Wooley, in
her spare moments as a farm wife,
attends a switchboard for the tele-
phone lines in her neighborhood.
Perhaps experience in calling "num-
ber please" is good training in the
best method to tempt the barnyard
fowl. This is not the first time she
has been declared the best chicken
caller for it is understood that she
has won several contests at county
and local fairs.

Seven counties were represented

in the contest at the I. A. A. picnic
The other three contestants who
placed were, in order: Mrs. W. L.
Feam and Evelyn Bell of Christian
county, and Mrs. Frank Pottheut of
Bond county.

I. A. A. Conferences Listed

Six District Meetings to Be Held
Within Next Six Weeks

District conference meetings of
farm bureau representatives and
members and I. A. A. officials have
been scheduled for the next six
weelcs with place, date and district
announced as follows:

October 15, 14th District — Rock
Island. Speakers, Donald Kirkpat-
rick, L A. A. legsl counsel, and J.
R. Bent, director, I. A. A. phosphate-
limestone department. '

October 27, 16th District — (place
not determined). Speakers, Geo. R.
Wicker, manager of the Illinois Ag^
ricultural Co-operatives' Associa-
tion ; J. C. Watson, I. A. A. taxation
specialist; and F. A. Gougler, direc-
tor, I. A. A. poultry and egg mar-
keting department.

November 12, 20th District —
Jacksonville. Speakers, Wm. E.
Hedgcock, I. A. A', director of live-
stock marketing; Donald Kirkpat-
rick and George R. Wicker.

November 19, 24th District — Gol-
conda. Speakers, J. C. Watson,
Wm. E. Hedgcock and Donald Kirk-
patrick.

November 19, 25th District —
Murphysboro. Speakers, Sam H.
Thompson, president of I. A. A. and
F. A. Gougler.

November 24, 11th District —
Woodstock. Speakvs, President
Thompson and A. D. Lynch, I. A. A.
director of dairy marketing.

.t

2nd. All in all, Illinois, also ranks
second in livestock.

"About one-third of the total
wealth of Illinois is represented by
Apiculture. I n
this respect it
ranked 3rd
among all states
in 1920, haWng
a total farm
property value
of $6,666,767,235.
The average
farm investment
is well over $25,-
000. Walk down
the street in the
an^rage town.
How many busi-
nesses represent
that large an in-
vestment?

"Dr. Ethelbert
Taylor of the United States Depart-
ment of Labor is authority for the
statement that if the farmers of
America were all as efficient as the
farmers of Illinois, 4,619,000 of
them could be dispensed with and
the total production would not de-
crease.

"Illinois Agriculture leads in adop-
tion of scientific principles of farm-
ing as is indicated by the use by
Illinois farmers during 1924 of one-
fourth of all the agricultural lime-
stone applied on farms in the United
States.

"Another indication of the ad-
vanced thinking of Illinois farmers
is their comparatively general adop-
tion of conservative, sound prin-
ciples of co-operative marketing. In
four years* time farmers' organiza-
tions have developed and are oper-
ating marketing agencies which
handle 10 per cent of all the live
stock of the state and 25 per cent
of all the fruit and vegetables. Of
the dairy products of the state, 21.4
per cent are handled by co-opera-
tive organizations and of the tre-
mendous amounts of grain received
on the Chicago market, approxi-
mately 75 per cent comes from the
farmers' own organizations.

"Still another indication of the
leadership of Illinois Agriculture is
shown by the standing of their state
service organization, the Illinois
Agricultural Association. This is
the Chamber of Commerce for the
farmer. Service on all phases of
the farmers' marketing and legisla-
tive problems arc handled by the Il-
linois Agricultural Association. A
()uarter-million dollar reserve lineSf.
its treasury. And its slogan is 63^
000 thinking farmers."

"Who's Who n Ahxbica" oontains names of
th« nation's most successful people and of these
82 per cent have been found as having beso born
and reared in farm oommunities.

10, 192S

also rankt •

the total
■esented by
ilture. I _n
respect it
ed Srd

all states
20, haWng
;al farm
■ty V a 1 u e
666,767.235.
average

investment
1 over $25,-
Walk down
;reet in the
je town,
many busi-

I represent
arge an in-
ent?

•. Ethelbert
ites Depart-
rity for the
farmers of
cient as the
,619,000 of
d with and
)uld not de-

lads in adop-
les of farm-
the use by
1924 of one-
iltural lime-
n the United

of the ad-
nois farmers
[eneral adop-
sound prin-
arkcting. In
rs' organiza-
nd are oper-
ncies which

all the live

25 per cent
getablee. Of
he state, 21.4
by co-opera-

of the tre-
rain received
tet, approxi-
nes from the
tions.

ation of the
Lgricultui-e is
of their state

the Illinois
on. This is
lerce for the

II phases of
; and legisla-
ted by the II-
sociation. A
reserve lines,
slogan is 63yf

ces Listed

to Be Held
Week*

meetings of
ntatives and

officials have
the next six
e and district

)istrict — Rock
nald Kirkpat-
lunsel, and J. ,
A. pjiosphate-

strict — (place
akers, Geo. R.
le Illinois Ag^
yes' Associa-
A. A. taxation
Sougler, direc-
and egg mar-

th District —
!rs, Wm. E.
rector of live-
nald Kirkpat-
fficker.
District — Gol-
C. Watson,
1 Donald Kirk-

;th District —
cers, Sam H.
)f I. A. A. and

Ith District —
^s, President
Lynch, I. A. A.
keting.

' contains names of
people aod of theae
M havuig been bora

J'

A^atCULTU

/

Volume 3

Issued Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinking Farmers — October 24, 192S

No. 21

RAILROADS AND FARMERS NEED EACH OTHER: THOMPSON

/. A. A. President, Speaking Before Illinois
Chamber of Commerce, Says Trials of One Are
Tribulations of Other; Urges Understanding

Mutual Reinsurance Campaign Completed

Name Adflreas

E. B. Pocorft, N'okomis
Anna Ctesb, Pr., Hillsboro
H.A.Crcsfl.Hill-'boro
.\,T. Strange, hillsboro
R.E.Gifford.Hiilsboro
Frank Fornoff . Mt. Carmel
W.J. Eaeinttton, Kemptoa
John W. Bailpy. Cool Valley
C.L.Cas5idy,Ei.rlrille

Conrad Johnpon. Earlville
F.W.Hi ILLei^nd
J.W.McGary.Earlvflle

0. M. Danielson. Ld&od
W.F.Drewcr.Reno
W.S. Loomia, Mukanda
R. K. Loomia. M [ikands
Martha HiU-hinfi. EarlvUIe
J. Z. Smith, Winnebago

1 . N. Hosford. Hamiltrai
WnL StevcMon, Orion

Insurance Totaling
$681^000 Received
As Campaign Closes

Charter To Be Applied for
Immediately; Directors to
Meet and Place Insurance
in Force by Nov. 2

Jt*8 over the line and plenty to go!

The campaign for half a million dol-
lars in individual insurance applications
needed to secure the charter for; 'the
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Company
of Illinois has been successful. ^ * \.

When the dead-line was reached on
Saturday night, October 17, |681,0i00 in
insurance applications had been re-
ceived by the new company. The goal
has been more than reached and soon
the reinsurance company will be a go-
ing concern.

"When the, mutual insurance compa-
nies. Farm Bureaus and farmers of
Illinois all work together, things are
not done by halves. The campaign was ^.^.^^„,^^ ,„„,,.„„
bound to succeed," declared Vernon4 p. F. O'Brien'. Earlville
Vaniman, field representative of the
state reinsurance company.

Organization to Start Soon

In reviewing the next steps that will
be taken in the organization of the com-
pany M. Vaniman stated:

"The first step of the new company is
to secure a charter from the state so
it can start operations. This will be
done within the next few days. The

'board of cT rectors of thu reinsurance
company will meet Wednesday, Octo-
ber 21 and will determine the date the
insurance will go into force. This will
probably be on November 2. Everyone
who has made application for insurance
will be given ten days notice prior
to the time the insurance will go into
effect.

"Now that individuals have cooper-
ated to get the charter for the company
the next step will be consideration by
officers and directors of the mutual com-
panies of the service to be rendered
by the reinsurance company that will
benefit their local Company.

Three Serrices Offeree!

"One of the principal services of the
new state company will be the ad-
vantage of blanket insuranec. This
will insure the local mutual company
as a whole. If some have excessive
losses for any one year the reinsurance
company will come to their rescue. This
will protect the local company against
excessive losses and will make the as-
sessments more uniform. Experience
tables show that this can be carried
for 8 per cent of the average annual
loss of the local company,

•'Another service of the reinsurance
company will be specific reinsurance.
This will enable the local company to
cede to the state company that portion
of the risk which they do not wish to
carry themselves. For instance, if the
local company writes $10,000 on a single
risk and only wants to carry $4,000 of
that amount, the company can cede to
the state mutual the remaining $6,000.
"A third service is recession insur-
ance. There will be a limit as to the
amount of insurance the state company
shall carry on a single risk. The state
•company must therefore have local com-
panies that they can cede $1000 to
■■S2000 of insurance. This will be prac-
/tically the same as the local company
taking insurance in their own territory
and will increase their local insurance
in force."

Credit Due Farmers

Mr, Vaniman states that the credit
for securing $681,000 in applications for
insurance is due to the farmers of Illi-
nois, who have a vision of the necessity
' of the farmers cooperating together to
solve their problems.

Officers and directors of mutual in-
surance companies, farm bureau execu-
tive committeemen, farm advisers,
farmers, farm papers, state association
of mutual insurance companies, the
Illinois Agricultural Association and all
agricultural forces have cooperated to-
eether to establish the reinsurance
* company.

"Now that the reinsurance company,
after securing 't^ charter, will he in a

position to take care of the needs of
the local companies, the next step is
for the tocal company to give the state
company an opportunity to render serv-
ice inasmuch as the state mutual is the
servant of the local companies," states
Mr. Vaniman. "Many farmers have
stated that the advantage that appeals
to them is that it will put the farmer
in a position whereby he can secure all
of his insurance against fire, lightning,
wind storms and hail on a mutual basis
thus saving him thousands of dollars on
his insurance."

Charter Members Listed

The following is a list of the farmers
in Illinois who have become charter
members of the reinsurance company
by sending in applications for insurance
during the campaign that has closed:

Xame Addresi

C. E. Berglinf , Orion
A, L. Wnterlund. Orion
J. W. Aspiund, Onekd»
C. A. Aspiund, Orion
D.C.Keleher. Orion
Truete«fl. St . Paul Lutberao

Church, Orion
(%C. A. Apitun^)
W. J. Atteberry^ Hillsboro
Geo. N. Allen, Donncllson
H.F.Marshy II. Serena
Chas.E.Loi-k, Dow
Henry C. Gordon, Peoria
E. S. Glasgow, Hanna City
Henrj- L. Larnen. Cambridge
John A. Olson. I*bnd
D.F. Carney, EarlviUe
Norman G.FImb, Moro
W.W.WalkerEarlvUle
W.C. Pratt, Earhille
Ed. Carter, E-rlviUe

Kame Addrea

Frank Haber, Hillsboro
A. F. Loudu. Hillsboro
Frank S. Ware, ButW
Geo. W.Mitta. Butler
Chri. E. Stonbo-R. BisbfH)

HUI
M. I. Soderquist, Biebop

EUl
WW. Hodge, Paris
V. infield H. Scott. Chrisman
School Dist. No. ^ . Paris
I^H. R. Di<k.n*rn)
H. A. Tweedy. Parii
MaxelMares. Paris
Harlan A. See. Paris
H.W.Wriirlt. Paris
George Roll. Paris
Chester Bol- nd, Paris
Olive R. Bel' nd. Paris
W.H.Colwell. Kpnsas
W. M. Ijtlle. Chrisnian
Jennie B. Little. Chrisman
A. C. Brown, Stillman

Valley
John 0. Honnok), Kansas
S. G. VanSicklc. Pans
J. W. RolunsMi. KaosM
J. Q. Snedeker A Son. Mar-
shall
Wm. Buhrmann, Warden
FrFnk Troeckler, Granite

City
Ch:i8. E. Peasley. StrooK-

hurat
D.A.King, Media
D.R.Gibb. Media
Newton Kern, Stronghurat
Fred Ross. Media
E. G. Lewis. Media
Gust A. SwansoD, Strong-

hurst
Th« . Dixon . Stronghurrt
Lnrena Peart Dixon.Slrotig-

hurat
('■J, '.ho«. Dixon)
James W. Dixon, Carman
(Continued on

Name Address

A. rt. Brooks. Stron^hurst
W. fc. Sanderson, BicgsviUe
C. n. Currv, Stronghurst
W. S. McElhiBoey. Stroog-

htrst
Matt Hoose. Benton
Mary Ladd. Edwartkville
J. J.nomung, Ottawa
S. W. ReynoIdB. Utiea
G.M.BevnoHs.rtica
Wm.K.^ute. Ottawa
J.S.Webb.Ewing
Mary E. Murrhy.EarWIle
Eeker R o%-8e Da vej- . Berry
Ch;iS.Hoii.Buckley
J. W. Armstrong. Argenta
J.FredScboll.Pok>
Albia E. Petetwn, New

C. D. Streetw. New Wind-
Mr
(%B. 0. Hickok)
A. J.Str«eter, New Wipdsor
R. a. Streeter, N*ew Wind-

A. V. PetereoL, New Wind-

W. C. Garrett EsUte. Viola
{% M.S.G.»rrett. l.x)
StanloD E. Bosrdmao,

Huel Crest
F. H. Bmman, Oo«b
W. B. Eliioit. WdliuMfield
Edward Siegcl.Otk Hill
WillGieim. Streator
Stanley Castle, Alton,
Geo. R. Smith, Ransom
Frai^ Butwell. Streator
A. J. Gahm, Streator
W. D. Iserman. Stre?tar
A. B. Leeper. Centnlu
F. C. Wells k Sen, Harvmrp
Herman Irrif, ErnH
Howard Jokiwh. Vi-^nia
Howard & Robt. Jokisck.

VVginim

pofft 4, CoL i)

Eggs From 300,000 Hens Are Marketed
Co-operatively by 1800 Ohio Farmers

F. A. Gougler

Early in the year 1924, some of the
progressive farm bureau workers of
Ohio decided to
make poultry and
egg marketing one
of the state's major
projects.

This idea was
backed by the Ohio
Farm Bureau, the
extension service
of the Ohio State
University and the
local farm bureaus
of four northwest
counties, namely,
Williams, Fulton,
Defiance and
Henry. County Agents M. L. Howell of
Henry, Roy Cave of Fulton, Earl Field-
ner of Williams and Jesse Wandsetter
of Defiance got squarely behind this
project. F. M. Glascow of the Ohio
Farm Bureau Federation was the lead-
ing factor in planning the membership
campaign. Farm bureau members of
the four counties who have had an ac-
tive part in this project are E. M.
Fackler, S. G. Daughton and C. E.
Greek of Williams county, Harry M.
Pontioies, of Henry County; W. H.
Pfaflf of Fulton County and E. J. Stock
of Defiance County.

Use Marketing Contract

The first members were secured in
Williams County on April 16, 1924.
From that date the membership cam-
paign continued until the goal of mem-
bership was secured. Before market-
ing was actually to begin the member-
ship signed up must be owners of 300,-
000 hens and must have signed agree-
ments that they would market all their
poultry and eggs through their associa-
tion, except "such poultry and eggs as
the producer may use for home con-
sumption, hatching oz; sell for hatching
or breeding."

This goal was reached after more
than a year's effort and the association
finally began to function in July of this
year. The operating committee select-
ed was composed of E. M. Fackler, H.
F. Schnoble, C. E. Greek and F. M.
Glascow. This committee in turn em-
ployed a manager, Mr. M. L. Howell,
who for six years served as county
agent in Henry County.

Ohio's association started to function
with the enviable record of a clean
slate. To quote from the Ohio Farm

By F. A. Gougler

Bureau Federation News on this point
we read: "The Association starts with
a clean record page, a thing which older
associations may envy. The entries which
will be made on this pa{re will be made
with indelible ink. Th^- will be hard
to remove, it therefore, behooves the of-
ficers and members to see that the
record is kept clean."

Foar Pools Completed
Since July I, at which time the as-
sociation began its operations, four
pools have been completed with a total
of approximately one-third of a million
dozen of egg^ handled. The first pool,
July 10-21, contained 93,214 dozen.
he second pool, August 1-15, sold 86,-
477 dozen; the third pool 83,470 dozen;
and the fourth, dating September 1-15,
handled 89,730 dozen eggs. The follow-
ing tabulation summarises the number
of dozen eggs handled In the four pools
up to September 15 and the number of
dozen in each grade:
GRADES OF EGGS
Hennery Whites
Hennery Browns
Standards
Trades
Checks
Rejects i

Total

NO.

DOZEN
85472
86366
180,6M

£5,105

- 3,615

1,435

'*And Prosperity of One Promotes Welfare of Other/' Says
President Thompson, '*But Common Welfare Can Only
Be Promoted When Each Industry Has True Picture
of Actual Conditions Within the Other. If Facts Are
Ignored, Welfare of Both Is Hindered."

Charges That Railroads Sanction Farm Prosperity Propaganda and

says, "I Want to Suggest That a State of Newspaper

Prosperity Will Not Pay Tour Freight Bills,''

What is the relatiOnsUi}) of the raUroiuU tmd the farmer?

To get the farmer's rietcnornt on this question, the lUinms Cham-
ber of Commerce im^tcd President Thompson to discuss it before
tJiat organization's aTtnual meeting^ t»hieh was held in Chicago this
month.

The fuU text of President Thompson's wpeeeh on this timely sub-
ject is herewith presented for your consideration. — The Editor.

By S. H. THOMPSON

PrcsiiftMit, lUiaikis Affricultural Association «

AS I FACE you men here today to discuss the relationship
of these two great elements vital to our national life—
" the railroads and the farmers — I can
recall no similar occasion in the past when I
was so greatly tempted to send out a cry for
help. Not help in finding things to tell you
— my difficulty will be to compress within
the time assigned me the storj' that must be
told — t but help to make these few words
of mine contribute to a clearer view of our
common ground of interest, without which
mere words will be futile to avert misunder-
standing and great loss.

It is merely stating the obvious to recite
the many interests in common between agri-

culture and

332382

It is interesting to note the per cent
(Continued on page i, CoL S)

Sam Sorrells Subject

Of '^Farmers Who*s Who"
In Montgomery County

"Who's Who Among Montgomery
County Farmers," a' new department
running in the Hillsboro Journal, has
for its first subject Samuel Sorrells of
Raymond, executive codimitteemsn of
the I. A. A. for the 21st district.

"Sam Sorrells of Raymond town-
ship," the article says, ''is one of the
most active farmers in the county, and
his interest in farm bureau work has
made him known in farming circles
over this part of the state.

"Sorrells gives his time to community
and state interests without neglecting
his own farm. He has one of the best
equipped and successful farms in that
neighborhood; and the Raymond neigh-
borhood, as farmers know, is one of the
outstanding farming communities in
this part of thp state.** i

Nearly Two-Thirds
of Illinois Dairy
Cattle T-B Tested

Illinois Dairy Cows Soon To
Be Free of Bovine Tubercu-
losis; 61.8 Per Cent Are
Now Tested.

■ Nearly two-thirds of the dairy cows
in Illinois have been tested for bovine

a tuberculosis and
placed under feder-
al and state super-
vision according to
a report based on
government figures.
•'To be exact, 61.8
per cent, or 730,-
602 milk cows were
in the favored class
on October 1st,"
states A. D. Lynch,
director of the I.
A. A. dairy market-
ing department.
"With only about

S. H. Thompoon

transportation.
They are inter-
dependent mutually essential. The trials
of the one add to the tribulations of the
other. The prosperity of one promotes^ ■
the welfare of the other. But this com- ^
mon welfare cSn only be promoted when
e&A industry has a true picture of tho
actual conditions within the othor.

No Soft Pedal

I am going to talk plainly here this
morning, gentlemen. You asked nw
hetfe today because you wanted to lean
a fbrmer's view of the relations between
transportation and agriculture, and I
am going to give it to you. I find that
my talk Just naturally divides itself,
into two Darts, the first dealing with-
tho view of farming and the farm prob-.
lent which the railroads appear to have^
adopted, ana the second dealing with

A. D. Lynch

what the farmers think of the railroads,
and what they want to know about tlie
trakiBportation business.

I^et me »tat« a& a fundamental pro-
position that nothing else but a
prosperous, stable and developing agri-
culture will serve as a basis of per-
majient prosperity for the western rail-

"With onlv about ' "*^^* "^ ^^ United States. A sUte of

600,000 more cattle I "j^^^"^^ P"'»P«"J>" *=»""?L'^^''*.J!

still to be tested, i^f.^"- ,^l *« witnessing today th«

^.i..r.»^- -« i^u. resSlts of what i

dairymen are look-

appears to be a concert-

ing forward to the not far disUnt day klt^?^„»* P';?P«5»"^^^^ ^h.

when they can tell the world that milk ^JSL' " f f »!, '»>« f«™«" " .»

— - -' - ... whole, and of the corn belt in parti-

cular, are riding on the peak of a condi-
tion of general torosperity. May I sug-
gest thst the rsilroads appear to have
given their sanction to that propaganda.

Fafmor ICnowta Actual Conditions

"Bo the man •ut in the country who
see* the balant^ sheets on his farm's
onet-ations. and who know? bettrr than
the city press vfiiat is wrong with agri-
culture, this is not encouraging as a
b;isls for farmet" and railroad coopera-
tion. It may b^ possible to sell, to the
resl of the country the notion that the
farSiers have toolved their difficulties
and are on a sotnd foundation now. but
if tliis is not triie, it will make matters
woMe. not better.

Vou do not need to bt an economist
to linderetand khat agriculture as a
wh#le has not H<^ived, and is not re-
ceiving today, ^ fair share of the na-
tional income. A casual obser\'er can
s«« evidences of it on every hand. Go
rConiimKoa on page s. Cot. s)

in Illinois is produced from cows free
frotn tuberculosis.

•'In September, 60322 head of csttle
were tested. Indications point to still
greater activity during this month and
November. More dairymen than ever are
signing applications to have their herds
tested. The spirit is to get the job done
as quickly as possible, have the reactors
removed for slaughter and receive the
indlemnity paid by the state and federal
government.

•'Consumer sentiment on many niinols
markets is growing in favor of milk
frotn tested herds that are under federal
and state supervision. Progressive dairy-
men are 'cleaning house" to supply this
demand, insure themselves of an every
day market and receive the benefits that
theiy always obtain when a superior
grade of milk is furnished."

A COBN CLUB EKROLLMCNT SfX TUKS LAaOSB

in ID25 than in 10J4 is ivportpd by l^ 1. Pikhsrd,
■taSB l(«der of bo>'«* ana cirb' «ub work ol tfas
lity of lllitmia.

I.-

ynV»\:y«Y«Y»\i:>8v-..7ivi.>8v]rrti<;r/8\fl.'8\irrifir<gviy«-tiuritif^^

EXECUTIVE COMMTTTEB
(By ConsrcMional Dlstricu.)

tat tor 11th WUliam Webb, Route One, JoUet

12th., G. F. Tullock, Rockford

Ilth
14th
ISth.
16th.
17th.
I8th.
19th.
ZOth.
21st.
22nd.
2Jrd.
24th.
2Sth.

G. E. BatnboroUKh, Polo

. . . . W. H. Moody, Port Byron

B. H. Taylor, Rapatee

A. R. Wright, Varna

F. D. Barton, Cornell

R. F. Karr, Iroquois

. ,J, L. Whisnand. Charleston
...J.... Earl C. Smith, Detroit
...Samuel Sorretis, Raymond

Stanly Castle, Alton

W. L. Cope, Salem

Curt Anderson, Xenia

R. K. Lootnia, Makaiula

OFFICERS

Prcaldent, S. H. ThomjMon

Vice-President, H. E. Goembel

Treasurer, R. A. Cowlea

Secretary, Geo. A. Foi

Quincy .

rlooppole^

. Bloom instoa
.... Sycamore

I li L< I N OIS

ICIJL.TVBAL, ASSOCIA1

^RECORD^

To advance the purpote for which the Farm Bureau was org^n-
ixed^ namely, to promote, protect and represent the busint^s.
economic, social and educational interests of the farmer*^ qr
Ittinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture.

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Co-operative Acoountinfl Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lyndi

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General Office J. H. Kelker

Grain Marketing Chester C. Davis

[nformatlon Harry C. Butcher

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stodc Marketing Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organization G. B. Metxger

Phoaphate-Limestone J. R, B^t

Poultry and Egg Markedng F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistic* J. C. Watson

Transportatl<m L. J. Quasey

Published every other Saturday at Mount Morris, lUinoia, by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Edited by Department of Information, Harry C. Butcher. Director, 60S South Dear-
bom Street. Chicago, Illinois. Application made for transfer of entry from the Poatoffioe at Chicago, Illinoia, to the post office st Mt. Morria. Illini>ia. The individual membership fee of the Illinois
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:>*!.':i8iS!i'.5S«a?y!SMJS'M!«ta«!®JWWWW

t Re- a f firm Stand on Elquality for
Agriculture

EIGHT of the middle west state Farm
Bureaus, representing the midwest
group of the American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion, have pledged themselves to fight with
"unremitting and determined effort" toward
the enactment of legislation in the next Con-
gress tO:. give agriculture equality with in-
dustry and labor. These states are Illinois,
Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Missouri and Minnesota.

Following is the text of the pledge which
was passed unanimously at the regular meet-
ing of ipid-west Farm Bureau officials at
Chicago early in October:

"The effort of the mid-west states Farm Bureaus to im-
prove methods of production and marketing, and to speed
adjustment in farming to meet changing conditions, will
be pushed! vigorously in the future as in the past, but we
insist that in addition to all the savings that can be made
thereby. Agriculture is entitled to and must be accorded the
full bencflf* of protective tariffs if the American protective
system foi* industp' is to be retained.

"We call attention once more to. the fact that world prices
of farm pk*oducts will prevail in Qur domestic markets re-
gardless of tariff schedules since the surplus determines the
price of the whole crop, whether at home or abroad.

"We thfrefnTo -'edge our unremitting and determined

Bureau, and without the Farm Bureau actu-
ally getting into business, which is a practice
with many pitfalls. During the year a $20,-
000 business was done, with an average sav-
ing of about 13 per cent to the participants.

The Farm Adviser tested the soil of 106 of
the 254 members' farms. The result is a tre-
mendous increase in limestone application.

What is regarded with more satisfaction
than anything else is that this was the first
year farmers came into the office and volun-
tarily joined up.

That's a good record, Gallatin, but what
good is a record if you can't have some fun
breaking it?

all the insurance needs of the farmer against
fire, lightning, wind storm and hail on a
mutukl basis, and also protect the local com-
panies against excessive assessments.

In another column are listed the charter
members. Not only should they be desig-
nated as charter members, but also as
pioneer and honor members, for they have
made it possible to obtain the charter for a
farmers' state-wide reinsurance company, a
dream of prominent farm mutual leaders
for over a quarter century.

ajTsuiiX-

;ctment of legislation to give agriculture
IV with .nUu." .y and labor in the American jx'otective

Small but Active

One of the smallest Farm Bureaus in
Illinois, from the standpoint of number of
members, is in Gallatin county, which is lo-
cated in "Egypt" at the junction where the
moonlight on the Wabash joins the commerce
of the Ohio.

For a Farm Bureau with only 254 mem-
bers, the annual report indicates sui-prising
activity. During its last fiscal year, which
closed this month with an annual meeting
at Ridgway, its reserve was boosted from
$160 to $1850.

A service which the members appreciate
is that of assembling orders for seed, lime
stone spreaders, lime stone, phosphate, etc.,
thl-ough the Farm Bureau. The combined
buying power of the members was used with-
out financial risk on the part df the Farm

Re- insurance Company Reaches
First Goal

OVER the top and then some !
That's the record made by the new re-
insurance company organized by the Illinois
State Association of Mutual Insurance •Com-
panies and the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion. To get a charter from the state it was
necessary that at least $500,000 in direct pol-
icies from individual farmers be obtained.
This has been done in a relatively short time.
The total amount secured is over $681,000.

Everybody co-operated practically 100 per
cent to reach this first goal. Local farm
mutuals, county Farm Bureaus, Orange
Judd Illinois Farmer and Prairie Farmer all
gave the project a boost. It deserved their
support as it does of every thinking fanner.

Now that the individuals have made it
possible for the company to get its charter,
thus completing the first step, it remains for
the officers and directors of each mutual
company to consider the further service that
can be rendered mutual insurance for farm-
ers by having blanket reinsurance, specific
reinsurance and recession reinsurance.

The above forms of service rendered by
the Farmers' Mutual Reinsurance Company
of Illinois will place the local mutual com-
panies in a position whereby they can handle

You Know the Answer

THE fai-mers come to bat in the world
series freight rate case on Oct. 26 when
the Interstate Commerce Commission opens
hearings in Chicago to receive evidence show-
ing why the railroads should not be granted
their desired five per cent increase.

E\adence will be entered by the I. A. A.
in co-operation with other farm organizations,
to show the actual financial condition of Illi-
nois farmers. There is considerable differ-
ence between the acttial and that which has
been reflected by newspapers.

President Thompson's speech delivered be-
fore the railroad officials and others gathered
in the transportation conference held in con-
nection with the annual meeting of the
Illinois Chamber of Commerce, and which
is reprinted in full in this Record, reflects
the stand of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation on this important question.

It has been estimated that an increase of
five per cent in freight rates will add from
twenty to thirty dollars a year to the aver-
age farmer's expense wherever the 'increase
takes effect. At first an 11 per cent increase
was asked, but so much opposition developed
from- the Farm Bureau and others that the
request was lowered to five per cent.

Fifteen years ago such an increase could
have been gained by the railroads with much
less effort than now. Why?

You know the answer to this question.

JOHN THINKER AND EPIDERMIS FLINT.

Ep Has a Claim Against the Railroad

IS THE FARm"^

THIS

Bt^REAU OFFICE , MR.

PLlNTT — THE CARLOAD
OF UII^ESTOnE ^OU
OR.DCRED I? ON -WE
TRACK

HOW MUCH IS MY FRE/CrUT
BlLl. ON THAT LIMESTONE- ?

' HUMP '.-that's punny- John

THiNKtR TOUD ME HE NEVER
RonID M0P£ -lHAN*50°-° A CAR.

For frciq-ht and i tdlo the
PARM BUREAU TO GET MINE
WHEfiE He CjOT HIS-" SUP^
THERE ain't something- WBOvg

LATE R. AT FARM BUREA U ]

WHAT KINO OF BUSINESS IS (JOINS
ON HERE" ? I BUY A CAR OF UmE
AND G-ET TEN CeMTSATONOFF
FOR BELONG-IN TO THE FARM BoRtrtf
AND WHEN IT COMK I G€T 57VCK
fZS-" MORE THAN JOHN THINKER,
pays .-. THERE'S Somet

IINKER f

October 24, 1925

The Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD

Page 3

Wicker in Washington
Telling Why Co-op Tclx
Law Needs Some Fixing

Op^ns Campaign to Get Law
ClariRed Regarding Income
Tax Elxempti<Hu for Co-ops.

40,000 Head in Lamb Pool

i-Georpe R. Wicker, manager of

niinois Agricultural Co-operatives'

sociation and

Gm>. R. Wicker

the
As-
di-
rector of the I. A.
A. accounting de-
partment, is in
Washington this
week assisting in
representing the
interests of agri-
cultural co-opera-
tives before the
ways and means
committee of the
69th Congress.

The congression-
al committee is
considering and
drafting the
amendment to the
revenue act which
will exempt agri-
cultural co-operative associations and
organizations from payment of income
tax and filing annual returns. Recent-
ly Director Wicker discussed the pro-
posed amendment with Secretary Jar-
dine and it is understood that every
effort will be made to include the agri-
cultural amendment in the revenue act
which will receive considerable atten-
tion during Jhe next session of Con-
gress. »

"For the pagt five years, farmers' co-
operative associations have been handi-
capped by the present interpretation
of sections of the Federal Revenue Act,"
stated Mr. Wicker. "When the act was
passed by Congress it was evidently
intended that farmers' co-operatives
should be exempt from payment of in-
come tax and filing income tax reporUs.
However, that part of the act has been
abridged bp the regulations of the
United States treasury department to
such an extent that the intended bene-
fits are no longer available. This
amendment is of vital importance to all
farmers* organizations."

To Speak at Cornell

On November 13 Mr. Wicker will ad-
dress the students and faculty of Cor-
nell^4J^iversity, Ithaca, N. Y., ,on "An-
aly^ fof AccorntB of Co-operatives and
Thejr ;ReIationship to Business Prac-
tices," .which is along the line of in-
formation which he gave at the Amer-
ican Institute of Co-operation at Phila-
delphia this summer. "Co-operative
Marketing in the Midwest" is another
talk he will give.

Cornell University, a leader among
educational institutions on subjects of
co-operative marketing of farm prod-
ucts, is reaching into the field of prac-
tice for in formation on how co-opera-
tive marketing is actually done. In
seeking an authority on accounting
methods of co-operatives, and for
specific information on chronic maladies
of co-operatives, the university invited
Mr. Wicker.

St Louis Producer*' Complete

Largest Lamb Pool for Corabelt

F«eclert.

Producers List Eight
Reasons Why Thinking
Farmers Support Them

Eight reasons that thinking farmers
give for shipping to the Producers are
given out by the Chicago Producers
Commission Association in a recent let-
ter to its regular shippers. These rea-
sons are:

1. Producers selling service is the
best to be obtained anywhere.

2. Producers are owned and con-
trolled by the member shippers, and
the policies directed by a board of direc-
tors elected by the members.

3. Producers operate their business
on a cost basis and return profits to
their members — $255,000 saved in three
years.

4. Producers, through their feeding
buying service, connect the range and
feed lots directly; this fall 30,000 lambs
were purchased direct from Montana
ranges and shipped to producer feeders
at an estimate saving of between $25,-
000 and $30,000.

5. PRODUCBais operate a Claim and
Transportation Department which col-
lects losses FREE OF CHARGE.

6. Producers Live Stock Credit
Corporation furnishes money for feed-
ing operations at lowest possible rate, 6
per cent at present time.

7. Producers have successfully in-
augurated new systems of selling and
handling of shipments (such as pooling
and sale of out-hogs, and pigs).

8. Producers are a national organiza-
tion, and due to their large volume of
business are in a position to become a
real factor in the marketing of the
farmers product. ;

II IS BEFTXrrELT DECTDED THAT THE pRESI-

dent'a Agricultural Conference will not meet
before Congress convenes.

.\DVOCATtS OF THE CHILD LABOR AHE.VDUEIfT

•re utartiiiK an aclivc campaign of propsRanda
designed to rn-atc public wnliment in favor of
it in rfa(et« whrrv it »fi*> voted down last year.

The largest lamb pool ever conducted
in the United Stated was completed this
month by the Producers' Livestock Com-
mission Association at the National
Stock Yards, according to H. D. Wright,
manager of the Producers' association.

More than 40,000 head of ewe and
;wether lambs were shipped in from Wy-
oming to fill contracted orders of lamb
feeders in Illinois and other midwestern
states who patronize the St. Louis
market. The lamb pool was conducted
by the Producers' association on a co-
operative basis for the purpose of as-
sisting its patrons to purchase feeder
lambs direct from the western range at
the lowest cost and transportation ex-
pense consistent with the desired qual-
ity.

"This pool," stated Manager Wright,
"saved the lamb feeders of the Middle-
west from $1.50 to $2.00 a hundred
pounds or approximately $270 on each
double deck of lambs purchased. The
feeder lambs that we bought for our
patrons cost on an average of $12.75 a
hundred at the loading point or less
than $14.00 at the point of delivery. To
appreciate the saving it is only neces-
sary to consider the prices of feeder
lambs on the Chicago market this month
which are ranging from $15.25 to
$15.75 a hundred.

Direct to Feeder

"The pool lasted practically one
month. During the latter part of
August we sent four of our men to Wy-
oming to buy the lambs to fill the future
orders we had contracted. The animals
were driven in from all over the
mountain sides to loading points. They
were then graded to comply with the
desires of our patrons and shipped di-
rect to the purchasing feeder. This
also eliminated the usual speculative
factor of former methods of buying
feeder Iambs.

"The pool has been so successful this
year that we are planning to make it
a national pool next year, with all of
the Producers Commission Associations
in the United States pooling their
orders instead of separate lamb pools."

To Have Calf Pool

A fcimilar pool will be conducted next
month on the buying of feeder calves by
the St. Louis Producers* Association.
During the latter part of October,
special calf buyers ynW be sent to the
extreme western part of Texas, near
Marfa and Alpine, wliere they will pur-
chase Highland calves and yearlings
from the Big Bend country for cornbelt
feeders. According to Mr. Wright, in
that part of Texas the production of
feeder calves is an agricultural specialty
and the cattlemen produce the best
feeders that are shipped out of Texas.
Only pure bred stock will be purchased.

It is expected that nearly 10,000 head
of calves will be handled by the pool.
The first consignment will be shipped to
Kansas City where the calves will be
auctioned o^ to the feeders of that ter-
ritory about November 1. Other con-
signments will be shipped to St. Louis
at later dates for feeders patronizing
that market. This is an entirely new
feature in cooperative livestock buying
and is conducted for the benefit of
producer patrons on a cooperative basis.

Corn Borer Dangerous
To Cornbelt Farmers
Says Iowa Authority

Pest ^reading at Rate of 5
to 2P Miles a Year; Cana-
dian Com Destroyed This
Year

There is real cause for Illinois and
other cornbelt farmers to fear the in-
troduction of the European corn borer
into this area, in the opiaion of C. F.
Curtiss, dean of agriculture at Iowa
State College, who has been named
chairman of a special committee to work
with state and federal authorities in
finding control measures.

Cornfields were completely destroyed
in Ontario, Canada, this ^ear and the
pest is spreading at the rate of 5 to 20
miles each year, with no means yet de-
vised for checking it.

So far, western Ohio and eastern
Michigan is as close as the corn borer
has approached Illinois, but since the
peat attacks 200 different food plants
and cotton, there is no tdling when it
may be carried into the cornbelt. Al-
though no important damage has been
done to corn this year, except in west-
ern Ontario, the pest seems to be in-
creasing in severity each year and no
one can forecast when it may reach a
severe stage in the United States, ac-
cording to Dean Curtiss.

Special Committee Appointed

More than 100 representatives from
12 states and Canada were present at
conferences held recently in the infected
areas. So seriously did the men ftom
the cornbelt look upon the advance of
the pest toward this area, that they ap-
pointed a special committee to work
with the state and federal authorities to
find control measures. Dean Curtiss was
made head of this committee.

Strict quarantine measures are being
used by state and federal authorities in
the infested areas. Quarantine officials
in western New York t(Sok 100,000 ears
of corn from automobiles of tourists
and hucksters coming down from Can-
ada this past year and found that 12
per cent of these cars had corn borer
worms. Should any of these ears get by
and be carried to new areas, it would
probably cause a fresh outbreak.

About the only promising means of
combating the corn borer at the present
time appears to be by introducing par-
asitic enemies of the borer. These are
being imported from foreign countries,
but not enough has yet been done to
cause any material effect in control.

"Facts brought out at the conferences
show clearly that all agricultural states
have a vital interest in this problem of
the corn borer," Dean Curtiss asserts.
"If the pest should enter and become as
severe In its injury as it has in Canada,
the loss would be enormovs.**

— From Knox County Fum Bureaa Bulletin.
Is This Team Work?

W. A. McXEILLOrCHANDLERVrtXE, iLusom,
forniprly a member of the I. A- A. grain commit-
tee, was selected to impenM>nat« Abraham Lincoln
ill the Jackaocville centennial pageant.

Evert boy avd oirl who oot a BErrmo or
e«ora last spring through the White Coimty Farm
Bureau must bring a pullet and show it in Carmi.
October 31. Winners in each breed will be given
pri«e« by Carmi merchanta. The Kiwanis club
IS Co-operating.

A SHEET or PAPER MADE rHOM COBV BTALKfl

ifl reported by chemists of Iowa Stale College.

Wfth 1,460 NAMES eiONEO TO FfS HEMBBB8HIP

roll for the three-year period, the McLean County
Farm Bureau closed ita drive. An increase of
26 per cent of the expirinc membership of 1,100
ia recorded.

Thbocqh arra.voemevts made bt the
Mont^niery County Farm Bureau, approxi-
mately 125 farmers of that county are expected
to entrain October 25 on a "Dairy Special" to
Green Countv, Wlscomtin. where seneral dair>-
conditionit will he iiiventigtited.

Women May Have

Program at Aimual
I. A. A. Convention

Plans for the program of the annual
meeting of the Illinois Agricultural' As-
sociation to be held at Urbaija, Janu-
ary 21 and 22, furnished one of the
chief subjects of discussion at the I. A.
A. executive committee at its regular
meeting on October 8.

The consideration of having a special
woman's program for the wixes of the
delegates and other women whp will be
present at the annual meeting was dis-
cussed. A suggestion was made that
the home economics department of the
University of Illinois be asked to co-
operate with the I. A. A. program com-
mittee in arranging this special feature.

The question of co-operative purchase
of farm supplies, chiefly feeds, seeds
and fertilizers, by count/ Farm Bu-
reaus for their members was discussed.
In the past, no definite policy in this
nature had been determined by the ex-
ecutive committee. At the June meet-
ing of the committee, a special commit-
tee was appointed to formulate a plan
whereby a purchasing service could be
furnished by the I. X. A. for its mem-
bers.

The legislative committee of the I. A.
A. reported three major legislative proj-
ects that the association would suggest
to the A. F. B. F. for t6e national leg-
islative program during the next Con-
gress. The committee suggested:

"First, legislation that will put agri-
culture on equality with industry and
labor; second, legislation regarding our
revenue laws establishing proper exr
emptions for co-operative marketing or-
ganizations; and third, legislation .re-
garding Muscle Shoals, looking toward
the manufacture of fertilizers at the
least possible expense."

Other topics of consideration included
a report of the co-operation between the
I. A. A. with other state fiirm bureaus
and A. F. B, F. regarding the present
fight against the 5 per cent freight rate
increase asked by the western railroads.
and a motion to assist the Illinois Milk
Producers' Association of Tazewell,
Woodford and Peoria counties in their
membership drive. The I. A. A. will
underwrite one-half of the cost of an
organizer to assist in the milk pro-
duce rs%.^mpaign.

Member in Stephenson
County Breaks World's
Record for Ton Litter

Having raised the world's record
single litter of pigs is the honor of the
W. T. Rawleigh company, operator of
Ideal Stock Farms, Freeport, a member
of the Stephenson County Farm Bureau.

Not only on one litter was the former
world's record broken, but on two, both
of which were bred, fed and developed
on the same farm, according to official
figures announced by W. H. Smith of the
College of Agriculture, who has charge
of the Illinois Ton Litter contest.

"The two litters of purebred Poland
China pigs entered in the contest by W.
T. Rawleigh have recently come off feed
at the end of the allotted six months
time with respective weights of 4,7S9
and 4,51 m pounds of pork to their
credit. The former world's record, which
was made last month by a Kentucy lit-
ter, was 4323 pounds. The Kentucky, lit-
ter contained 12 purebred Poland
Chinas, while the heavier of the two
Illinois litters contained 16 and the
lighter 15 pigs. Both litters were slued
by the same boar and were fed under
diredtion of Farm Adviser W, A. Her-
ring^n.

Trials of One Are
Tribulations of Other

{Continued fTom page J, col. S)
into any city of the United States.
wherever, you will, and you see feverish
building activity, the development of
great residential districts and the tear-
ing down of old but usable business
blocks to make room for sky-scrapers
to rise in their foundations. Go out
through the country, and obsen-'e the
contrast. There you see unpainted
buildings, a wearing down of the capital
plant and equipment that means an
unbalanced economic life in this countrj*
and nothing else. Over half the farm
sales in this great state of Illinois last
year were forced sales. I could tell you
a story of farm mortgage foreclosures
in tiis state and our great neighboring
stat^ of Iowa that would amaze you,
but lack of time will not permit. I
want to suggest to the railroads that
"newspaper prosperity" will not pay
theiif freight bills, and what is just as
esseitial, will not enable their best cus-
tomers, the farmers, to buy loads of
freight for them to haul back to balance
the freight movement out of the farm-
ing districts.

Surplus Seta Price

I am glad to acknowledge that some
b^etficial price increases have taken
i)lfc« recently, but I ask you gentlemen
to dPstinguish between the actual and
the nominal improvement. The dif-
ficulty that ctontronts the farmer is that
he always has a surplus to sell of that
which brings the lowest price.

Last year the farmers of lUlnoia had
hogS' to sell in great abundance, but the
prictf was below the cost of production,
and they had to be finished on high-

?ricod corn, which was a short crop,
his year hogs are high, but we find
we are short on hogs, and long on corn,
and you know what is happening to the
corn price right now. Oats are selling
at fer below the cost of production.
Last year's wheat price was satis-
factory, but reached its level after most
of the farmers had sold their crop, and
the price increase was abnormal, due
to general crop failures, particularly
severe on our neighbors to the noi^h.
A partial failure in winter wheat start-
ed this season's market off on a satis-
factory level, but it did not last. But
such price for wheat as we do get this
•eason will be due to the f:ict that
drought and winter kill made the year's
wheat production the lowest in decades.

Large Crop — Low Prices

So it has been with cotton. It has re-'
quirad disaster here or abroad to bring
a living price to the American farmer,
and it is unthinkable that we should
consider prices resulting from it as evi-
dence of the fundamental correction of
the iarm situation when norma) corps
next year or the year after will bring
a return of the old disadvantage in i
price: relationships. '^ !

Th4 fixed charge^i of farming are
incla^c and inescapable. Taxes, wages,
interest and the cost of non-agricultural
commodities make a total which has no
relatipn whatever to the price the farm- I
er gtts when he hauls his crop to j
Tparket. His only possible response is
to stk^ive for the utmost production
from his land. If Nature is kind, we
witngss the paradox of low prices and
an uaprofitable year.

Quotes Lowtlen's Article

I know of no better statement on this
question than the article written by our
former governor, Frank O. Lowen, and
publiihed in the October number of
Worlds Work. Every man here who
is sincere in his interest in the welfare
of farming ought to read that article.

Governor Lowden says:

"A year ago this summer there was a
drouflbt ia the Southwest which was in-
juring the cotton crop. The sovemment
estimated the crop of the year at 12,400,-
000 bales. And then the drourht wsk
broken. The government got out another
report and thix time estimated the yield
at IS.DOO.OOO bales, an increase of less than
6 per cent. Prices at once fell about 20
per oent. If l hese prices reflected real
valacs. the l<M» to the rottnn farmert: ni

Watch for Cholera!
States Warning to
lUinpis Stockmen

i i—

loWa Authority Report* In-
crease of Disease This Year;
Illinois Farmers

t'holbra s>iiip-
srning to Illinoih

"Watch your
Toms,"' states \
I farmers sent o(i't
I by Wm. E. Hed
cock,! dirertor \ii
theljvestoclf marl
etinr of the I. A. ^.

-T>is is the tirir
of y^ar when h^g
cholet'a is mofct
likeljf^ to breik
out,'"] states Direc-
tor Hedgcock," a0<J
so fkr this ye*r
more jthan 10 cou
ties pf this stale
have Ireported chol-
era cjases. As >^t
cholera reports

Illinois are not hnduly alarming but
every hog feeder! or breeder should l»e
on tne lookoBt fo^ the disease. If cascK
are Reported inl his community he
shoulfi vaccinate jh is herd immediately.

"Vaccination Ar cholera is not a'
cure but a prevcn|ative. It is the cheap- '
est insurance th^t a hog feeder caa •
procuR. Farmers |who attempt to ca)*ry
hogs ko maturity Without first vaccinat-
ing ak% running, k risk that may prove
very |co«tly. This fcan best be done with
the Ifrast when the animals are young
and light in weight. If the feeder waits
until the epidemic breaks out in his
countlrj* he may b^ forced to spend more
mone^* for varciiation and lose about
two ^-eeks of hi»| feeding period or sell
his htrd at a prcmable l<>ss.

"According to Dr. K. W. Stouder. ex-
tension veterinar^n of Iowa State Col-
lege, Knore hog chk)lera is to he found in
Iowa as a whole tthis year then a year
ago. This is profakbly due to neglect to
immunize the hoes by vaccinat'on be-
cause the diseas* may not have ap-

peared in certain
time. Conditions
genefally similar
nois tend for that
state may
carefbl

symptoms this fall.'

communities for some
in our sister state are
to thoM' found in Uli-
reasnn farmerp of this
II t^ke hood and be extra
watching for hog cholera

the Sioulh, due to fc timely rain, w«)> some-
\ thinir like $}00.0^0.i*00. And yet th«->*
was ^ dearth of cotton Huch ss had not
exist^ since the Civil War. The presK had
been filled wiih fairs of a cotinn famine-
■"Two yeant ago there wat. a bumper crnr
of ecrn. As a rasult. the prico declined
so low that it was kheaiker in Kontc parts of
the Dnkutas and Npbrnftka. and even Iowa.
to bum com for [fuel than tn buy eoal.
Last lyear. owins Lo a cold, wet suinHier.
the rpm crop was small in yivid and in*
feriop in quality.] Th*- irovernment rRti-
mateil the crop a^ 20 i>er crnt l*'^'' than
the bumi>er crop or the year before. Ak a
ro^julti arcordinir tp the eovemment'x flr-
ures. [the smaller Icrop of defe«'tive corn
WR-i 4orth S3&0.00p.00n more in thr nar-
kets ^han Ihe crop! of the y<-«r before. -

"Scne economists soe nothing illoriral
or i-v|l in suck a nltuation. They nay that
it i-i an inevitable re^ul( — the result of the
law of supply and nem«nd. I cannot quite
arced^ to Ihifi pfopotiition. It answers
it--*olf. For. anden the law, if the world
will \^y a larger arire fur ten buiAtel* of
wheat] than it will jpay for fifteen, it must
b.* because it prefars ten husheb* of wheat
to flfieen bushelf. lanA the supply, there-
fore, {will adjust (tself to me^^ that de-
mandj Thin ■neat*' a conxtanily fncrca*-
ins cist to the consumer."

Nornuil Produciion Cannot B* R»-
I <iaced

It ps sometimes bard to be patient
with I the man Fho. recognizing this
problem, says: 'Well, let the farmers
reduc^ their production, and grow only
what our domestif market can absorb."
This pan be donejin a factory. It can-
not be done on a farm where from long
before planting time, until after the
crop Js marketedj elements over which
the farmer has Ino control make or
break it.

Asks Assistance to Secure Equality

Let me quote yiu an illustration. We
cut oar wheat acieage in ll*:;4 by four
and one-hulf milion acre> t<elow that
of 193i, but our wheat i rop was 70,000,-
000 btishels more lin the year with the
smaller acreage. The same is true of
com, lor cotton, or pig*, or calves.

Of kcourse the iarnicru and farm or-
ganizitions want jto muke adjustments
in farming to meet changing condi-
tions; and want tp improve methods o(
growing and selling crops. But there
has been no sigi to thoughtful men
that these improvements can ■ lialanc^
the sctales in a system.where every con-
ceivahPe device In organization and
legislation has be«n employed to stabil-
ize industn' euccisfuHy. This is why
we wflnt the railroads to face this prob-
lem With us squally, and help us to a
place of equality [with other forms of
industry in the i American protective .
system, If we are \o retain that system, f

S«7S Railroajils Ignore True
Situation

You may aide wHat this has to do with
trans|»ortatien, ard 1 repeat that the **■
railroM^ds of the ^ est will be wund and
proftp4^^UK just \n the HeeV#>«> thai

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TTie Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD

October 24, 1925

farroinc ih these preat surplus-produc-
ing districts prospers. Rail income
from farni business during the past five
or six ye^rs has come from ^exhaustion
of farm capital, rather than from farm
net incomie. And as I see on every
, hand the tremendous improTementa in
the city Iproperties of railroads — the
colossal p^sseng^r stations, the electri-
fied, systems built for city comfort out
of earnings, and compare it with what
X know is taking place in my own farm
neighborhood, I wonder if the railroads,
:tft#r all, recoKnize the situation in
urh%h the farmers have been, and I
fear, still nre.

I am about to get over into the sec-
uad part |of my discussion, and prob-
ably is is ftbout time. There is so much
to be said about the post-w«r ajrricul-
tUral condition thiit I find it difficult not
to use up my allotted time on that.
Farmers Clo*e Students of
Railroads
The fafmers, on the whole, are
friendly to the railroads. Each farmer
Is a property owner, a manufacturer,
a laborer [and a shipper for himself.
His contact with railroads is immediate
and personal. Therefore, he is a much
''loser ^^tuoent of railroad problems than
the average man in town. The conflict
which in che past has marked the rela-
tions of agriculture and transportation
has not round farmers fighting rail-
roads in their proper functions, but the
abuse of failroads to foster favoritism
and prese»\'e inequalities.

So it ia now. The farmer favors a
square dfa\ for the railroads. He
* recognizes! his need for ample and ade-
quate rail [service. By nature the farm-
er is" a coaservative. He is an indepen-
dent capitalist with an inbred love of
property i and respect for property
rights. L^t me call your attention to
the fact it hat for several generations
the farmers of the middle West have
be^ voting right along with the manu-
facturers for protective tarifTs, and with
insurance! companies and banking in-
terests fot" financial legislation. But let
me drop d word of warning right here.
The farmer is now thoroughly awake to
the fact that he must compel with (he
world anq see his home markets gov-
erned by J)rices established by the labor
peasants abroad. His conservative col-
leagues have not given him any favors
comparable to the favors they have ap-
propriated to themselves.
Feiirs Railroads Alienating Farmers
If the t^ailroads themselves pursue a
policy that alienates the support of this
great agricultural group whose interests
are so close to theirs, where In America,
T want to a.'tk. An they expect to replace

fosirit-a n general, and, I am

t«Tr-al«(i w biiti, railroad men in parti-
.j.1^1, hffvje exercised freely the right to
criticise bnd advise agriculture con-
cerr.ing readjustments to meet its crisis.
There will be no" objection raised then,
I am sure, when I say that there are
many things in the present transporta-
tion situation with which the farmers
are not satisfied, and many points on
which they want information. They
can be depended upon to make up their
minds fairly if they are given accurate
and trustworthy information.
! Farmers Question Railroads'

Actions

The fairmer wants to know why rate
increases should be made horizontally
and if rail rates are such a jumble that
no more scientific mode of increase is
possihJe. I He wants to know why
promoters are permitted to make mil-
lions through consolidation of broken-
down railroads, and, if that is possible,
why do the railroads need an increases
in rates?

If motor transport companies make
so much liioney that the railroads suffer
great los<, the farmer wants to know
why one( system of transportation
should bej permitted to fasten off an-
other system, and the general public
asked to come to the rescue of the one
thus weakened?

Who fays For New Equipment

What lb the truth about the enor-
mous additions to equipment and rolling
stock which the railroads advertise they
are m^kihg now? Are they paid for
out of current income?

If we glance back over railroad his-
tory, we Viil recall that the Interstate
Commerc* Commission was created to
give the public the facts on just such
questions as the one here raised. Has
the iMetstate Commerce Commission
become merely a court before which
public intfcrest has to fight special inter-
ests? Certainly that is not the function
for which it was established. The Inter-
state .Coipmerce Commission should re-
present t|he public in every rate case,
and by Impartial investigation should
give the ipublic all the facts in matters
of railroad policy.

If the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion will I not help in this way, then it
becomes necessary for agriculture to
conduct its own investigation, and to
co-operate with trade bodies such as the
Illinois Chamber of Commerce in look-
ing aftei the public interest.

Farmers Want the Truth

These questions are not asked In any
unkindly or critical spirit. It would be
possible to raise many others involved
in the modern transportation problem
on which the farmers want the truth.
I assure you they can be depended on
to^udge and art fairly upon it.

In conclufion t am [tpmptpd ^ p«int

Farmers * Poultry
Meeting Holds Up
Passenger Trains

B. Sc 0» Officials Co-operate
With ^Southern Illinois
Fanners in Selling Eggs on
New York Market

Seldom does a farmer's meeting be-
come so important as to hold up a pas-
senger train, but such was the case in
Flora on October 8 when approximately
25 farm advisers, farm bureau officials
and officials of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad met to discuss and study the
packing of eggs and how they should be
loaded into refrigerator cars. Two trains
were purposely delayed over half an
hour because of the meeting.

It was the third of a series of meet-
ings held in Flora on fundamentals of
co-operative poultry and egg marketing
by Frank A. Gougler, I. A. A. director.
Flora is a point that has been selected
after thorough study as being ad-
vantageous for a farmers' poultry and
egg marketing organization.

Not only is it in the heart of a rich
poultry section, but is the junction
point for the B. & O. north and south
and east and west lines. An egg car is
started at E. St. I^uis toward Flora
which stops at various stations along
the way picking up eggs of dealers and
farmers en route to New York and
other eastern points.

Flora is Reloading Point

Similarly, cars are routed toward
Flora from Vincennes, Ind., Shawnee-
town and Beardstown, all scheduled to
arrive there the same day. Here the
partially filled cars are reloaded, filling
as many refrigerator cars as are re-
quired, and dispatched immediately to
the East.

Anyone with two cases of eggs or
more can ship this way, and many far-
mers are taking advantage of it, accord-
ing to Mr. Gougler. He cites one in-
stance in which J. C. McEIyea, a prom-
inent farmer living near Flora, shipped
three cases to a commission firm in New
York, October 5, and by this means
saved approximately 50 per cent in
transportation charges under express
rates. Furthermore, Mr. McElyea reaped
a price of 47 cents a dozen, laid down
at New York. After deducting freight,
cartage and packing expense, his net
return was 43 cents. Farmers were re-
ceiving from 25 to 35 cents from dealers
in this territory for the same period.
Railroad Officials Interested

Officials of the B. & 0. were interested
in the farm bureau meeting because
they are desirous of parrying more
poultry and eggs out of [ southern Illi-
nois. They predict an increase in poul-
try husbandry in this section of the
state.

Mr. Gougler thinks that a corps of a
farmers' shipping organization may be
developed at Flora and other points by
first organizing the heaviest farm-ship-
pers. With a strong desire already
manifest by the leading farmers in this
locality^ Mme definite action may be ex-
pected. Tlowever, the primary purpose
of this meeting, and other meetings be-
ing held by Mr. Gougler over the state,
was to acquaint farm advisers and
leading farmers with first-hand infor-
mation on some of the problems which
must be met by any co-operative poultry
and egg marketing organization.

out that the attitude of agricnltiire to-
ward the railroads, in recognizing the
need for their proper maintenance and
support, is fairer than that of the aver-
age business view of agriculture. Am
I wrong in saying that the typical at-
titude of the cities toward the farms
may be summed up about as follows?
"Your income is shrinking, therefore,
reduce the valuation of your farms, low-
er your living standards, increase your
hours of labor and those of your family,
until your income suffices; you are over-
expanded, so reduction is inevitably
decreed by economic law, and even
thougn reduction must be attended by
foreclosure and bankruptcy, nothing can
be done about it."

Prosperous Agriculture — Prosper-
ous Railroads

A prosperous agriculture will do more
to rebuild railroads, then increased
freight rates; a human understanding
of our common problems must precede
a solution of the difficulties of either
the railroad or the farmer, or of both.
These are the two thoughts I want to
leave with you this morning, above all
else.

Business intercourse is moving along
on higher levels than before the war.
A prevalent view among leaders of
business and industry is that these
higher levels are here to stay. It is not
my purpose to discuss that with you to-
day further than to say that they can-
not permanently be maintained for
some groups if others are to be ex-
cluded. They can only be maintained
by the co-operation of all groups, and
the putting into practice of the golden
precept which has come down through
the ages as the guide for men's rela-
tions, one with another:
"Whatsoever ye would that men shall
do unto you. do yp «»v»n «<> onto them.'*

OFFICE VISITORS

Chris Chrlstenson, in charge of the
division of agricultural co-operation.
United States Department of Agricul-
ture, Washington, O. C; Elmer £. Ly-
on, Georgetown; W. V. Jones, George-
town; J. J. Lintner, in charge of tuber-
culosis eradication, Illinois Department
of Agriculture, Chicago; J. J. Sullivan,
Consumer's Company, Chicago; T. F.
Quilty, president, Superior Stone Com-
pany, Chicago; Herman Steen, secret
tary, Indiana Wheat Growers* Associa-
tion, Indianapolis, Ind.; M. L. Wilson,
bureau of farm management, United
States Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C; C. W. Holman, sec-
retary of the National Co-operative
Milk Producers' A^ociation, Washing-
ton, D, C; S. A. Miller, legal counsel.
Dairymen's League Co-operative Aaso-
ciation» Inc., New York; Frank Evans,
general marketing council, American
Farm Bureau Federation, Chicago; J.
P. Larson, Farmers' National Grain
Dealers Association, Ft. Dodge, Iowa ;
A. W. MacKay, division of agricultural
co-operation, U. S. Department of Agri-
culture, Washington, D. C; J. P. Toch-
er, general western freight agent.
Southern Railway System; Stanley M.
Powell, assistant Secretary and legisla-
tive representative of the Michigan
State Farm Bureau, Lansing, Michigan;
Mr. Collins of West Frankfurt, 111.; J.
W. Goemans of the Grain Dealers Na-
tional Association; Rev. Elmer Olson,
Wataga, Illinois; Dr. C. E. Nourse,
Washington, D. C; E. L. Corbin, or-
ganizer for the Missouri Farm Bureau
Federation; N. W. Strother, office man-
ager and director of information de-
partment of the Missouri Farm Bureau
Federation; John M. Crebs, chairman
advisory committee tof the American
Red Cross White County; O. R. Waddle,
assistant general livestock agent, Atchi-
son, Topeka & Sante Fe Railway Com-
pany; Mr. Cowling, Plainfi^ld, Illinois;
John N. Davis, assistant commissioner
of agriculture, Hamilton, Mont.; F. E.
Harris, in charge of co-operative au-
diting, department of agriculture, St.
Paul, Minn.

Farmers Co-operate
in Marketing Eggs

(Continued from page t)
ot the dilTerent grades in a pool, and the
range of price received by members. The
last pool for example graded and netted
members as follows :

GRADE PER CENT PRICE REC'D

Hennery 32% 42c

Standards 56% 34c

Trades 9% 27c

Checks 1.8% 20c
Rejects .4%

Get Fi^ CenU Additional Profit

The average price received by the
members during this pool (Sept. 1-15)
was 35.7 cents and the average current
receipt and price paid to non-member^
for this period in these four counties
was 30 cents per dozen. Thus it is seen
that the members received a premium
of five cents per dozen through their
association. This does not take into
consideration the amounts retained by
the association for a reserve. For one
single pool the members of the associa-
tion enjoyed the privilege of having no
less than ?3,450 more money to their
credit than they '•^might otherwise have
had.

This extra gain, however, is not the
only thing to hold up as the goal of
the association. Being able to sell eggs
on grade is of far greater importance.
The above table clearly points out that
better eggs bring the most money for
there was a margin of 15 cents a dozen
between the top grade and the lowest
grade outside ox checks. This difference
is a strong stimulus for producers to
improve quality.

Hav« Forty-four Receiring Stations

Set-up of the Ohio organization and
its method of assembling and handling
eggs is very similar to those found in
Minnesota, which have already been ex-
plained in these columns. This one or-
ganization of 1800 members covers four
small counties. in the northwest corner
of the state, an area about 40 by 50
miles square. These 1800 members take
their eggs to some 44 receiving stations
which have about 40 members around
each station. Generally these stations
are country grocery stores. Over a good
system of hard roads, the poultry and
eggs are brought to Wauseon, Ohio,
from these 44 stations. The association
uses four trucks for this purpose. In
this manner the produce moves every
other day from any one of the receiving
stations to the concentration point
where the produce is graded and packed
for shipment.

At present poultry is handled alive
in carlot shipments. Taking all condi-
tions into consideration, there seems to
be no outstanding reason why this
method of marketing these commodities
should not be just as practical for
Illinois as for Ohio. This is particular-
ly true for such areas of Illinois that
correspond in every way to thp north-
wpRt «prtiATi of Ohio

Insurance Totaling
$681,000 Received

(Continued from page 1, Col, 3)

Name Addrrai

Lee R. CdwHrds. Virginia
H. H. Carls, Beardstown
Felix Krohe, Beardatown
F. E. Virgin. Virfinia
McNeiU Bros.. Chandler-

▼iUe
Beary J. Eorsmeyw. Areni-

viife,
Wm, B. Harria, Beardstows
H. V. Wilson. Vir^nia
1 hoB. F. Schaad, \ irginla
(■uy H. Huatcd, VirKinia

F. C. Wallbaum, Afibland
Wm. Batoriia, Aahland
O. W. Gentber. Aahlaod
J.W.Lynn.Oakford
Mn H. Taylor. Vindnis
Ceo. A. Ch&rlM, KooxTiUe
J. R. Youna. GiIpod
Aldeo SnyJcr, Hillsboro
Chr 8. Baxter, Hillsboro

It . R. Shepperd. Mt. Auburn
John SkallDerg, Orion
Mary K. Graves, Villa

Bidn
R. B. Endicott, Villa Ridge
T . E. Lingenfelter, UUin
E. O. Scboembe, Villa

Ridge
Vilb Ridce Orange. No.

1616, Villa Ridge

0. L. McBride. Villa Ridge
Wm. E. Rife, Villa Ridge
James Gould, Villa Ridge
E. J. Koonrp, Villa Ridge
A. J.Scboenbom.Olmst^
M. D. Brelaford,' America
L. E. Endicott, Villa Ridge
J. A. HogeDdobler, ViUa

Ridge
W. J. Heinhorst. Fowat

City
Mrs. Jeoaie Richardnon

Orion
Chaa. R. Finlpy, Hoopeeton
W. J. Thom^Bon, Rusbvillc
H, Roberta, Waterman
W. A.Conidon, WaiTimm
Wm. L. Nelson, Peoria
Ceo.J.Wolf^Henry
F.E. Smith, McNabb
H. R. MnrriB, Magnolia
(■!-irE.Haj%TayWille
John H. Waraer, 'Fonat

City
H. W. Whin. Hume
Daniel Thom-is, Brocton
Emily H. & Geo. W. Fair.

Chrisman
August Wieae, Brocton
Madison Co. Mutual Auto

Inninnee Co., Edwarda-

viUe
Jersey County Farm

Bureau. Jersey^ille
White County Live Stock

8hipiMng Ass'n., Carmi
White County Farm

Bureau, Carmi
E. W. Creigbton. Carmi
E. L. Knebel Highland
Chaa. A. Rogier. Highland
John O. Ho>-t. Hijrhland
John Bernhardt, Troy
M.-ggie Virgin, St. Jacob
JuhnS.Leef.Highl-nd
Fred Wildhaher, Highland
A. R. Foreman. Rttsfield
JohnS. Felmley. Griggs\'ille
C E. Dunham, Griggaville
J. A. Miller. Milton
G. Walter Boothby, Ftta-

ficld
J. M. Strong, Hoopeaton
Wm.B.McFarlaiKl. Hoopes-

ton
QBrar Arnold, HoopeatoD
. C. Jonea, Rtdge Farm

A. E. Reining. Stanfwd
iiichani Watta. Milton
H. H. Hoffman. Glenvicw

G, R. Pesrce. Jerseyville
Wat.soa Randolph, Jeraey-

viUe
John Offenhiser, Pearl City
L. R. Marchant. GaloiburK
John W. Antrim. Lacon
Chra. Okerbtoom. Lynn

Center
Geo, W, Ferguson, Orion
Roy O. Zimmerman, Ver-

eaillefl
Fred RoWnson, Hmewell
H. S. Chapman. Timewell
Wm. Lanmg, ^It. Sterling
E. E. McCoy, Mt. St-ling
Geo. Peterson. New Wind-

»or
James Gibbons. Hoopestoo
C. W. Scholl. Polo
V.eary Graehting. Polo
Mrs. Geo. A. Fox, Syca-
more
P. W. PfingBton. Itasca
Ernst Oram, New Lenox
Ma'lison County Farm

Bureau, Edwardsrille
r.W.VonOhlen.Lebnd
Alwlne Von Ohlen, Leiand
Geo. H. Stratton Leland
Isaac Arnold, Lebnd
Guy Herrick, Waterman
Alex B. Atkins. Ferris
H. N. Moore. Carthage
Harry Hanson. Hamilton

1. N. Hofiford. Hamilton
W.E. Miller, VandalU
J. L. Naughton, Ottawa
Geo.C. Mattes Vandalia
O. L. Brown, Vandalia
Wm.G. Nollau, Belleville
J. L. A Flora Whiaoaod,

Charleston
J. J. Doerscbuk, Liberty-

ville
J. W. Coal^ HoHer
f "ca J. Mecherle^ Normal
E. J. Carmody, Towanda
It. A. Cowles, Chicago
Abner Wood, Redmon

B. M. Huffman, Paris
N'elvin Thomas, Charkston
Washington Mpmorir-|
ISflbyterian Church, Elglii
WillC. McQueen, Elgin
Chns. Ffm^FTfevort
Niemeyer Threaluu Rins,

HumboUt
J. P. Farrar , Mattoon
Fd. Niemevo-, Humboldt
Walter Kiemsyer, Uaxa-

boldt

Name Addrev

Henry Macke, HumboU
Mason County Farm

Bureau, Havana
Andrew Smith, Argyle
0. H. Coiiklin, Roecoe
Wm, Ziegler, Murptrvaboro
Joseph Jaoquot. De Solo
H. E. Fraley. Naperville

C. O. McCbomey, West
Chirago

T. F. Keating. WapeDa
H. H. Bennett Maroa
Wm. Tuggle. Clinton
John Ryan. Heyworth
W. P. Burns, Heyworth
O. M. A Ilyn. Clinton
Do Witt County Farm

Bureau, Clinton
E. F. Garmire. Clinton
Taaewell County Farm

Bureau, Pekin
G. T McCuilough. Gumee
Arthur Leng, Gra>-8 Lake
Chas. J. RoUnson, Shelby-

Tille
Wm. H. Bnihskov PVeepiirt
L. M. SwaoKy, Fntport
Guy A. Mitchell Freeport
W. Frank Reid. Roekford
J. A. McCultoch, Rockford
Stark Coun ty Farm Bureau,

Wyoming
H. P. HoBtetter, Mt. Carroll
John A. Puntney. Grayville
O. E. Beat, Lancaster
S. S. Seiler. Mt. Cannel
Levitt Smith, West Salem
W. H. Lyon, Buffala Hart
E. H. Lyman, Farmingdale
E. M. Breckenridge, Rode-

ford
John P. Lingenfelter, Cao-

ton
Enrl C. Smith, Detroit
Geo. C. A W. A. ViAm,

Rockfcwd
Matthew L. Ralston. Ro(^-

ford
S. E. Hmsington. Stiltmu

Valley
Robt. N. Colville. Argyte
Chas. A. Kleckner, Rook-
ford
James Greenlee. Argyle
David Picken. Argrle
Hugb Smith. Argyle
L.H.Kah'e. Granite City
J. E. W. Miller, Edwaida-

viUe
JdiD J. Ewjild. Mt. Cannel
U. C. WUliaOHoa. White

H-ll
W. Edward H-»rt. Louisville
M. S. Gpder, Pleasant

Plains
M. M. CampbeU. Pleasant

PLias
Andy Haas. Manbadi
D.J^B'ochw, Pearl City
G. R. WillianM, Salon
Fred J. Blackburn Salem
Le^b F. Maxcy, Farming*

Eira Wooley, luka
Sangamon County Farm

fiur^u, Springtiekl
Geo. T. Swaim. Gibson Citv
Ford Co. Dairy Mktg.
Ass'n. In"., (% James
Gourley)Paxton
R.F. Homer. Pax tan
E.E. Bishop, Rper City
Green A Vaughan, Amboy
Geo. C.Ew;.ld.Mt. Cannel
Trustees, School District
No. 69, J. A. Harmon.
Clerk. Wert Union
J<din M. Jordan, t^nfidd
Alex Jordan. Enfield
Henry W. Homann, Alta-

mont
Clarence Shoger, Naperville
E. A. Carncroes. Wbeaton
E. E. Glick, BentoD
H. H. Webb. Christopher
Matt House. Benton
J. A. Freeman, Beaton
Mrs. F. C. SeUer, Mt.

Carmel
Wm. L. Waters, Godfrey
Grover C. Leipold. Mt.

Carmel
Emma T. Grundon. Mt.

Carmel
John Meta. Mt. Carmel
O. W. Beckett, Stronghurst
Wm. Hartquist. Strong-
hurst
Fort Brothers. (% H. B.

Fort), StroQgfaunt
Frank Lant Stronghurst
Cbae. F. HeHler. Strong-
burst
Frank Lant. StrODgburst

D. A.Gibb.BigsrriUe
W.T. Weir.GKstone
L. T. ThomaaHamiltOD
W. C.K*ing,Elv'fton
J. Walter Daw. Hamilton
Susan P. Potter, Hamilton
Louis Miller, Carlinville
Lenora A W, C. Robinson.

Bunker Hill
Otto HauBchikl, Gillespie
J. M. Rodener, GiBcsme
O.L. Dorsey.GilU^iie
J. P. Denby, CartiaviUe
H. W. Rice. Gillenie
Thf«. Ellim->n, GiSsple
A. W. Lawless, Gilesple
L. P. GrcM. GiUeaple
J. D. Bilflborrow. trbuift
Henry Reinhart. PMotum
Q. N. Spears, Tallala
C. C. Steir Petersburgh
John W. Bebrena, Pet^»-

burg
J. Colby Beekman Peters-
burg
John neinders. Athens
V. Vaninun, Urbona
W. E. Woods. CarBnville
Edwards County Shipping
Assn. % Lyman Bunting.
Albion
G. W. GroTM. Carfinrille
J. W. Armstrong, CarHn-

Tilie
S. 8. Bnibaker. Vrdflo
Bea L. Mayne, Albion
W.L. Miller, Cansi
Frank J. Chlnberg. Orion

W. L. Coptt

Faru Adviber ErRN8 or Obampaios county

rf>pre8ented the niinoia advisers at the Natiotial
Conference of County Agents at Indiaoapolia.

The I. A. C. A., co-operatttb AtmrrtNo
service, has' opened a branch offi<t' at Champaign
fifteen farmers' businoes organixaliona wilioe
served from this point, thiw oittting own-hMid.
^xp^nftMi tr> a minimum.

Marketing Problems
Main Topic at 2 3rd
District Conferences

Cowles, State Treasurer, Tells
Necessity of Concerted Ac-
tion On National Farm
Legislation

Discussion of the marketlne and pro-
duction projects carried on in tlie va-
rious counties
formed the ma-
jor portion of
the program of
the 23rd Dis-
trict conference
of the Illinois
Agricultural As-
sociation, held
at Effingham,
October ]4.

Eighteen farm
leaders and
farm advisers
from Wabash,
Richland, Jef-
ferson, Marion,
Crawford and
Effingham coun-
ties iwere pres-
ent. Following the election of W. L.
Cope of Salem, executive committee
man of the 23rd district of the I. A.
A., as chairman and Bliss E. Loy
secretary of the EiBngham County
Farm Bureau, as secretary of the meet-
ing, the farm advisers were asked to
give a short review of the work in their
respective counties.

MemberAlp Drive PromUing

This was followed by open discussions
with a view of assisting in solving the
common problems. These talks covered
such subjects as tuberculosis eradica-
tion, the purchase of limestone, discus-
sion of poultry, egg and cream market-
ing, membership drives, boys and girls
club work, experimental plots, and live-
stock marketing. Farm Adviser Wasch-
fv '^L*"* "■"' *'■* membership drive of
the Effingham County Farm Bureau is
progressing rapidly and indications are
tBat the campaign will go over 100 per
cent. *^

K. A. Cowles, I. A. A. state treasurer,
gave the address of the meeting. Be-

t'.,r, "ruT"il^ ?'^"y "f "•« questions
put forth by the leaders present regard-
ing state policies and problems, Mr
Cowles emphasized the need of co-oper-
ation and concerted action regarding
the national legislative problems of the
American farmer and particularly those
of the Middlewest

"Agriculture must have a voice in
directing the progress and political
trend of this country," stated Mr.
Cowles, and this can be accomplished
most effectively through co-operation in
the state and county Farm Bureaus."
If we do not unite in making known
our needs and desires our mid-western
farmers can expect the same disaster
that the farmers of England met fol-
lowing the abolition of the English corn
laws in 1847. At that time the English
government decided that England wa'.
predominately an industrial country and
practically destroyed her rural people
by the industralizing laws that were
passed in an elTort to get cheap food
lor her laboring class.

Membership Drive Promising

"We must realize that the people of
our eastern states are principally in-
terested in getting their food at the
lowest cost and we cannot expect them
to defend our farmers in the efforts to '
get greater agricultural returns. It is
for us to work together through the
farm bureaus, the Illinios Agricultural
Association, and the American Farm.
Bureau Federation in stating and di-
recting our legislative and industrial
needs before our governmental bodies.
I am pleased to state that, in gen-
eral, the farm organizations and lead-
ers of the Middle West are co-operat-
ing for the good of agriculture.

Toriuao Relief Work Told

Mr. Cowles, who is also trustee <tt
the $182,000 farm bureau fund for re-
lief work in the tornado stricken dis-
trict of Illinois, told of the efforts and
money that are being expended to as-
sist the farmers of that district to re-
construct their buildings find purchase
animals so that the devastated area
may be restored to its former pro-
ductiveness. The committee in charge
of the fund is working with the Ameri-
can Red Cross in the rehabilitation.

Among those present were: W. W.
Bunn, farm adviser, and D. H. King,
president of the Richland County Farni
Bureau; J. R. Spencer, farm adviser ofV
the Wabash County Farm Bureau; L. \
G. Stillwell of Mt. Carmel; L. R. Cald- '
well, farm adviser of Jefferson County
Farm Bureau; F. J. Blackburn, famt-^'
adviser of Marian County Farm Bu-
reau; J. L. Parks and G. R. Williams
of Marion County; N. F. Elder of
Saline County; W. L. Cope of Sa-
lem; David McClary of Lawrence
County; George Knierim of Shumway;
Charles Evans of Mason; Otto Braasch
of Altamont, and F. W. Miller, presi-
dent, F. W. Wascher, Farm Adviser,
and Bliss E. Lop, secretary of the Ff
fingham bounty Furm BMr.»Bii.

1

T

ber 24, 1925

iblems

at23rd

nferences

iMureTf TelU
ncerted Ac-
onal Farm

ketine and pro-
on m the va*

W. L. Cope

ction of W. L.
itive committee
ict of the I. A.
Blisa E. Loy.
ingham County
ary of the meet-
were asked to
he work in their

I Promising

open discussions
g in solving the
fse talks covered
rculosis eradica-
imestone« discuti-
d cream market-
', boys and girls
1 plots, and live-
I Adviser Wasch-
ibership drive of
Farm Bureau is
i indications are
go over 100 per

. state treasurer,
le meeting. Be-
of the question?
s present regard-
! problems, Mr.

need of co-oper-
action regarding

problems of the
)articularly those

lave a voice in
3 and political
•y," stated Mr.
be accomplished
1 co-operation in
Farm Bureaus."
I making known
our mid-western
le same disaster
)ngland met fol-
the English corn
time the English
at England was
trial country and
ber rural people
laws that were
get cheap food

e Promising

at the people of
3 principally in-
leir food at the
mot expect them

in the efforts to '
il returns. It is
her through the
tiios Agricultural

American Fam*
stating and di-
and industrial
-nmental bodies,
ate that, in gen-
^tions and lead-
st are co-operat-

agri culture.

Work Told

also trustee of
eau fund for re-
ado stricken dis-
f the efforts and

expended to as-
at district to re-
gs ^nd purchase

devastated area
its former pro-
mittee in charge

with the Araeri-

rehabilitation.
t were: W. W.
ind D. H. King,
ind County Farm
, farm adviser of \
arm Bureau; L.
met; L. R. Cald-
Jefferson County
Blackburn, lanrN^
)unty Farm Bu-
I G. R. Williams
N. F. Elder of
L Cope of Sa-
r of Lawrence
im of Shumway;
in; Otto Braasch
W. Miller, presi-
Farm Adviser,
etary of the F-f-

B'lr^Bii,

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CULTUMAL

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Volume 3

issued Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinking Farmers — November 7, 1925

No. 22

FARM BUREAU HNDS ERRORS IN RAILROADS' TESTIMONY

Farm Bureau Members
Must Reserve Places
At A. F.B.F. Meeting

Farmers Should Notify Farm
Bureau if They Plan to Hear
President Coolidge Talk at
Chicago

Special arrangements are being made
by the American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion to provide "hearing and seeing"
space for every farm bureau member
who attends its seventh annual meeting
at the Sherman hotel, Chicago, when
President Coolidge speaks on Decem-
ber 7.

Members of each County Farm Bureau
wishing to attend, should make reserva-
tions through their County Farm
Bureau either by phone, personal call
or letter.

Seats are being allotted to each state
in proportion to the number of mem-
bers it has in the national organization.
This entitles the Illinois Agricultural
Association to approximately 300, which
does not include farm advisers, there
being a special section reserved for
them.

Seats For 200 Members ,

With 92 presidents of county farm
bureaus invited by the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association to attend a state-wide
prexy conference during the national
convention, seats are available to slight-
ly over 200 Illinois farm bureau mem-
bers.

Special railroad rates are effective for
. those attending the meeting. The fare
amounts to one and one-half round trip.
Tickets should be purchased to Chicago
the regular way, but a certificate of
purchase mi st be obtained from the
local station agent. Through the trans-
portation department of the American
l^'arm Bureau Federation, the'cfrtificate
will be properly validated so a. return
ticket can be purchased at one-half
fare. There will be no reduced fares to
those who forgot their certificate^.

Reinsurance Company

Applies for Charter;

Total Now $700,000

Applications and Books Pass-
ed Inspection By State Ex-
j aminers; Henry Leading
County in' Campaign

Puncturing Their Testimony

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UJMV St-OULOW'T TWE CAIUQOAIJS,

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'VJCOEASE'

Illinois Real Estate
Now Pays 85 Per Cent
of State Tax Revenue

Land Ownership Becoming
Undesirable in Illinois Due
to Old Tax System — Wat-

AU arrangements and requirements
are being completed and the Farmers'
Mutual Reinsurance Company of Illi-
nois will soon be under way, according
to Vernon Vaniman, I. A. A. repre-
sentative of the new mutual state-wide
insurance company.

Last week. W. Rufus Kendall, chief
examiner, assisted by W. E. Cable and
Max Beekler of the Illinois State In-
surance Department, Springfield, exam-
ined the applications and books and
passed sanction on the new company.
Application for the state license has
been made to the division of insurance
of the Department of Trade and Com-
merce, Springfield.

Campaign Totaled $700»000

Farmers in 67 counties of this state
assisted in getting the charter for the
reinsurance company by sending in ap-
plications for insurance to an amount
totaling over $700,000. According to
Mr. Vaniman, it is expected that other
counties would have assisted in the
campaign but the personnel of the new
:'ompany did not have time or oppor-
tunity to explain the project to the
members in all counties.

In ranking the counties according to
amounts of insurance subacribed dur-
ing the campaign, it was found that
Henry county led with a total of $48,-
950. LaSalle county ranked second with
$40,000; Madison, third, with $35,460;
and Henderson, fourth, with a total
amount of $30,650.

Work has begun in signing up coun-
ties for specific reinsurance and blan-
ket reinsurance. Six counties have al-
ready signed the contracts for specifi?
reinsurance and the new company will
be in position to take care of insurance
ceded to it by the local company just
as soon as they have signed the con-
tract.

Blanket reinsurance cannot be put
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son

Illinois real estate constitutes less
than 40 per cent of the wealth of the
state but is paying 85 cent of the taxes,
according to J. C. Watson, director of
the I. A. A. taxation and statistics de-
partment.

"People of Illinois realize very keen-
ly the breakdown of the present revenue
laws," stated Director Watson, when
discussing the proposed revenue amend-
ments to the State Constitution which
will be voted upon by the people of Il-
linois during the general election of No-
vember 1926.

"Farmers of Illinois realize also that
unless the General Assembly is given
much broader powers than it now pos-
sesses, it cannot do much to remedy the
present condition. As a result of the
present Illinois tax system, people are
becoming more and more unwilling to
own their own homes, and farm owner-
ship has become very undesirable.
Tax Laws 55 Years Old

"The Constitution , of Illinois was
adopted in 1870 when practically all
property in the state was tangible and
could be assesed and taxed in the same
manner. This is no longer the case. Un-
der the proposed tax amendment to the
Illinois Constitution, the members of the
two legislative bodies of our state will
be permitted to adopt methods of tax-
ation, free from limitations in the pres-
ent Constitution, adopted fifty-five years
ago, which now prevent an equitable
adjustment of our tax burdens. The
proposed amendment will Impose no
new taxes or affect any existing exemp-
tions from taxation."

Illinois County Farm Bureaus and the
Illinois Agricultural Association have
been co-operating for more than three
years in the work of bringing about
more equitable adjustments in the taxes
of this state.

M. P. Roike becane farm adviser for
Carroll county in October.

Red Grange Reared on
Milk; Worked on Farm
of Uncle, Says Father

Prisoners of the DuPage County jail
should consider themseh'es lucky ant^
might be expected to develop into su-
per-athletes because they are fed by
no other than Deputy Sheriff L. N.
Grange, father of Harold "Red" Grange.
Illinois football ace and famous grid-
iron sprinter of all football history.

Harold, as his father recently told a
representative of the I. A. A. Record,
is very fond of milk. Ever since Red
was a little tot and attended his first
athletic event, way back in Pennsyl-
vania, he has drunk milk with practi-
cally every meal, according to his father.

"Harold would have made a good
farmer. He likes the fferm and farm
work says Mr. Grange, in telling how
years ago before Red Grange became
the famous 'Wheaton Iceman,' he
worked on the farm of his uncle, E. 0.
Grange.

"Harold can milk, plow, disc, make
hay and do «ll farm chores. Several
years ago when we had the exceptional
cold weather, Harold was one of the
hands on his uncle's farm. The hard

ghysical work of the farm appealed to
im. He is a lover of aaimals and es-
pecially of fine horses. He would go a
long way to see an exhibit of pure-
bred livestock."

Chicago Producers'

Buy 27,000 Montana
Lambs For Feeders

A lamb-buying pool composed of ap-
proximately 27,000 head of Montana
lambs has been completed by the Chi-
cago Producers* Commission Associa-
tion.

This pool was conducted by the Pro-
ducers' for their patrofts in Illinois
and Iowa who were desirous of pur-
chasing feeder lambs at the lowest price
commensurate with good quality and
condition. A. E. Adams, representing
the Producers', made a special tour
throughout the entire state of Montana
where he purchased and loaded some
90 double-deck' carloads of lambs and
shipped them ^direct from the loading
point to fanners' feed lots in Illinois
and Iowa whb had contracted for pur-
chases. '

Railroads ' Picture of Return of Prosperity,
Painted Last September , Gets Severe Reversal
Under Cross Examination by Farm Bureau

I. A. A. Gathering Data Direct From Countiea and Country
Banks to Give Interstate Commerce Commission an Actual
Picture of Farm Conditions Which Will Be Introduced at
Kansas City in January

irh of farn^

HE story of the grand relurh of farnJ prosperity which
was told the Interstate Commerce Commission in Sep-
tember by economists employed by jthe western rail-
roads was thoroughly punctured by the FaJtm Bureau during
the cross examination proceedings at Chicago which began
Ott. 26. One of the impoitant basis for rate-making is to
charge "what the traffic will bear," consjequently the rail-
roads introduced testimony in the hearing iit Chicago in Sep-
tember to show that the farmers could affi>rd an increase in
freight rates — namely, that the farmers* {purchasing power
h^s been fully restored to the pre-war basis, and that a de-
pression in agriculture no longer exists. Tjhe carriers hoped
thtet, had their testimony prevailed, it would have had the
effect of completely eliminating the possibility of reduction
in rates on farm products under the Hoch-Smith resolution.
Railroads* Testimony Punctv^n d
It was this testimony which was pi'.i^ured in cross
examining Dr. David Friday, formerly presidAit of the
Michigan Agricultural College, and H. W. Moorhouse; of
the Brookmire Economic Service, both of whom were em-

Cider Effective in
Extinguishing Fire
When Water's Scarce

"Cider, cider everywhere" was the
situation at Neo^a, Camberland
cOunty, recently, when, according to
estimated reports, 40,000 gallons of
processing vinegar were used to fight
the fire which destroyed one of the
cold storage warehouses and 30.00C
barrels of apples owned by the Wat-
son Orchard Company.

When the fire broke out in the
main warehouse, on this eventful
Sunday morning, the only water
supply of the plant was used to fight
the blase. Sparks soon spread to a
nearby warehouse where a half-mil-
lion gallons of cider was stored until
it would reach the proper state of
fermentation. The men attempting
to defeat the conflagration realized
that the cider would eventually be
destroyed, if the fire were not con-
trolled, and substituted the beverage
for the much needed but scarce
water.

No report was made to indicate the
effect of the alcoholic content of the
hard cider upon the blaze.

Lower Prices on Farm
Products Expected in
Future. Economist Says

Three hundred farm bureau leaders,
home demonstration agents and county
agents who met at the thirteenth an-
nual extension conference at Iowa State
College recently were told by G. F.
Warren of Cornell University, New
York, one of the outstanding agricul-
tural econonnsts of the country, that a
period of low prices is in prospect. He
feels that there is likely to be a trend
toward lower prices during the next 10
or 15 years.

Dr. Warren stated that he stands
about half-way between two schools of
economic thought — one saying that there
will be a return of the pre-war price
level, while the other believes future
prices will be about 60 per cent higher
than the pre-war. Dr. Warren personal-
ly believes there will be somewhere be-
tween these two, or about 20 to 30 per
cent above pre-war levels. ,

4:-

For 1924 the Taxable VALrAXios of property
ill niiDois 0ubj«^ to ad valorem tazatioD was
$4.090.509. SM: the amount of lUtc taxea levied
wai920A52MS: and per eapiu Inr «24N).

r

ployed by the railraads to prepare «ta-
ttstics and to testifyon the agricnltor-
al situation. !■ their direct testimony,
botii painted a rosy picture of the re-
turt) of agricultural prosperity, a situ-
ation that is not believed by those who
are close to tbe farms, and a picture
which has raise^ considerable ire among
fartners.

R«ve«l [Faulty Fig hfm

Perhaps the imost important reveU-
tiort in the Fat^ Bureau's cross-exam-
ination was the, bringing to light of tbe
erroneous figures of Dr. Friday which
had been used t-O show that the farm-
ers* purchasing , power in 19£4 and 19£!>
had risen to ai high a point as was
reached in 191p, the highest pre-war
yeah*. When this testimony was given
by him in Seiitemfcer, the impression
was taken by the public from the press
reports that agriculture had regained
its pre-war conqition. which was taken
for granted as having returned to a
prosperous conqition.

Ifi direct testimony during the bear-
ing in September, Dr. Friday said:

"Agricultural i products in the year
1924. according to this computation, as
well as accordint^ to the computation of
the department 'of agriculture, have re-
gained, within a fraction of a per cent,
the reiatti-e purchasing power of 191S.
the I highest pre-jwar year.'*

^mrm Bure*^ Points Out Errors

F>«d S. Jack^n. attorney represent-
ing the American Farm Bureau Feder-
ation and IltinbTs Agricultural Asso-
ciation interests, in crossexamining Dr.
Friday, pointed lout errors in figuring,
and substituted fiie correct ones as pre-
pared by the Ui^ted States Department
of Agriculture, i which were compiled
upon reque^A of ^nd in cooperation with
the Farm Bureau.

A part of the record of the cross ex-
amihation reveals this fmportant point:

Q^— (by Mr. jkekson) Dr. Friday. Im«
your attention been called to the (act that
b«iribninr with 1V09 errors oectir In yovr
division! 7 I

Av— No. air. '

Q.' — And that tpe defertf iiKreaw from
thert on down toi the end of the column?

A.^— No. air. I

Qj — Your attention hat not been di-
rected to that. Doctor, you say?

A^-No. sfr.

Q-^-Well. if tfeS»ae w«re eorrected. tbay
would read a« follow*,—^ I nay be per-
mitted to read tWni. Mr- Chaimian —

Chairman Aiteiison: Commencinc with
whatT I

Mr. Jaeksen — nt9. oolumB S. the flrur*
should b* lt»— .]

Introduce CorracI Fiyvros

The figures re^d by Col. Jackson sub-
stitute for those which Dr. Friday's ex-
hibit showed as representing the pur-
(ContauMd on p9g« h (W IJ

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L EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
(By Coosressional DUtricts.) ' "^ ' '

11th WUlism Webb, Route One, Joliet

12th J .• G. F. TuUock, Rockford

litn , C, E. Bamborough. Polo

14th t...... W. H. Moody, Port Byron

15ch B. H. Taylor, Rapatee

1^ •. i...A. R. Wriftht. Varna

17th ► ;.,.F. D. Barton. ComeU

18Ui ;., ....:. R. F. Karr. Iroquois

.J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

..Earl C. Smith, Detroit

. .Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

Stanly Castle, Alton

..W. L. Cope, Salem

Curt Anderson, Xenia

R. K. Loomis, Makanda

OFFICERS

Prcaldent. S. H. Thocnpson Qulncy

Vice-President, H. E. Goembel Hooppole

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloominston

Secretary, Geo. A. Foa « Sycunore

I LiIjINOIS

CULTURAL ASSOCIA

^RECORD^

To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organ-
ijted, namely, to promote, protect and represent the business,
economic, social and educational interests of the farmers of
Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture.

N

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Co-operatlre Accountinc G». R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

Finance « ,-, . .R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vecetable MttrkstiMS .......A. B. Leeper

General OfBcc J. H. KeUcer

Grain Marketlns .Chctter C. Davis

Informatton Harry C Butcher

Legal Counsel .'..Donald Kirkpatrick

LlTe Stock Marketing Wm. B. Hedgcock

Organization G. B. MeUger

nioephate- Limestone J. R. Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketizig F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistic* J. C Wataon

Tran^Kirtation L. J. Quaaey

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Canada 's Farmers and The Tariff

FARMERS of Canada,' paiticularly of those
jrreat surplus-producing provinces of the
\West, see clearly that high tariffs which profit
^dustri^l Canada, operate to their disadvan-
/tage. This was the issue in the recent Ca-
nadian election. It is significant to note that
' the stubborn farmer fight against the Con-
servative, or high tariff party in Canada, did
lot stem the tide of high-tariff sentiment
fostered by Canadian industrialists. The
Conservatives gained more seats than any
other pjtrty, but fell short of control by sev-
X-e/al vot^s.

This indecisive election which left the Con-
servatives with about 116 seats, the Liberals
with 102, and the Progressives v;ith 23, will
undoubtedly be followed by another election,
possibly within the year. If the Conserva-
tives shiotild then gain control, and enact
high tariff laws, important reactions may be
• looked for in the United States.

The recijjrocity issue will be with us again.
Manufacturers of the United States who want
no effective tariff between them and the Ca-
nadian
whicfc 1

a free
goods.

The industrially-minded Chicago Tribune
, is in the field early with its demand for this
sort of a customs agreement with Canada.
Right now the tariff on farm, products is oper-
ating to the advantage of farmers of the
United States, due to the partial crop failure
in important wheat states, and to the forced
reduction that has taken place in livestock.

The outlook on the tariff of the farmers
of the United States and of Canada is exactly
the same, even though there is an economic
clash for the United States market. On both
sides of the boundary there is a growing con-
viction that we want to be done with special
privilege; that if the tariff must be ineffec-
tive for agriculture, then let us stop the tariff
subsidy for those whose goods we buy.

Where there is a surplus over what the
domestic market absorbs, then world prices
rale, and a tariff, though it be high enough
to constitute an embargo, is a teasing bit of
political fiction, and the farmers know it.

Renewal of the demand for Canadian re-
ciprocity can only be countered by a demand
from the farms that the rest of the tariff wall
be leveled.

sonable estimate on the number which will
yet join in the remaining 14 counties is 6,000,
which means a total of 21,000 members.
This is about 2,500 more than the same coun-
ties had three years ago."

An increase of 2,500 means an average
boost of 13.5 per cent for these Bureaus.
Again we say that such confidence in the Farni
Bureau must be deserved.

narket, Avill demand a trade under
,. 'V'ntr can market can be made free
ii:iri ' Ti products, in exchange for
jaiiixaicLiX market for our industrial

Governors Favor Equality

iiJF the American protective tariff is to be
A retained, legislation must be enacted
which' will give Agriculture equality with in-
dustry and labor in the American protective
system," is a part of a resolution passed by
the governors of North and South Dakota,
Minnesota, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa
when they held a midwest governors' con-
ference at Sioux Falls, S. D., on October 29.
It will be remembered that the last Gen-
eral Assembly of Illinois memorialized Con-
gress to take some action on this same prob-
lem. Many other states have done likewise.
All of which indicates that there is strong
feeling in the Middle 'West for some pro-
vision being made to permanently relieve
American Agriculture from world competi-
tion^an accomplishment gained by both in-
dustry and labor, and largely because of
farmer support.

We Repeat: Such Confidence Must be
Deserved

IN addition to the news story report in this
issue on the progress of^organization work
in the many counties^ which are renewing
memberships this year, G. E. Metzger, or-
ganization director, reports that 33 Farm Bu-
reaus have finished the second school of in-
straction stage. Twenty-seven Farm Bureaus
have madi reports — of these, five have com-
pleted, eight are in the "clean-up" stage, and
14 othei-s have broken the ice.

"The total reported this year is slightly
over 15,000," states Mr. Metzger. "A rea-

Overcoming Knavish Leadership

For a period of nearly twenty-five years certain politicians,
lawyers, and cattle dealers in Northern Illinois have fought
the tuberculin test. They have done all within their power
to encourage the development of tuberculosis, to make the
counties of Northern Illinois the dumping ground of react-
ing animals, and to increase tuberculosis among the herds
and flocks of those counties. It is pathetic to read what
these men say and to listen to their advice to farmers. They
have seen tuberculosis spread in these counties until some
herds contained 50 to 75 per cent of diseased animals. They
opposed legislation which would keep reacting animals from
entering' Illinois. They tried to defeat the Tice Bill which
makes provision for assisting cattle owners of Illinois to rid
their herds of tuberculosis.

It must be pretty hard on these men to find that the farm-
ers of Illinois are gradually discovering it is to their advan-
tage to eradicate tuberculosis and tha^he state is no longer
to be made the dumping ground for reacting animals; it
must be pretty hard to find that few states are doing more
tuberculin testing than Illinois, it must be pretty hard to
realize that it is gradually growing in the miQds of all farm-
ers that they are bearing the expense of tuberculosis.

These men who have opposed tuberculin iestirfe helped
to enact a law which purports to preveM_ciJ;ie« from enact- ■
ing ordinances requiring their milk supply 'W~come from
tuberculin tested and cleanU|erds, We presume some dairy
farmers think this law is effective and will prevent cities
from enacting ordinances designating conditions under which
their milk supplji must be p)rod|B;ed. It is our opinion, how-
ever, the people of any city mve the inherent right to de-
termine the source of its milk supply and to demand that
it come from clean herds. *

The leaders among the dairy farmers of Illinois see the
handwriting on the wall, for tliey know it is only a matter
of time before the city of Chicago will enact an ordinance
demanding its milk supply to come from herds free from
tuberculosis. They recognize that cities have this right and
they are having their herds tested so they will be in position
to meet the requirements of any ordinance which Chicago
or any other city may enact.

This anti-tuberculosis eradication gang of Northern Illinois
has led many farmers into serious difficulties. Dairy farm-
ers who followed this knavish leadership have paid and will
pay a dear price for their folly. Light is breaking' through
into the minds of these producers and again we find that
right practices ind principles prevail. Illinois is in step with
other .states ii^ eradicating Dovine tuberculosis. — [Hoard's
Dairyman.

JOHN THINKER AND EPIDERMIS FLINT.

Ep Gets His $25.00

THE STORY

\FTER a loni? i>eriod'.of antatronistie re^is-
tnnce. Epidermis Flint joined the Farm
Bureau, but not until the member-^hip com-
mittEe. of which his neighbor, John Thinker, was
chairman, nad declined to even solicit him.
Urjredlon by his prot^res.sive wife. Mirandi, who
sees the diPference between the farm of John
Thinker an(i that of her husband. Ei) finally swal-
lowed his pride, walked into the Farm Biireaii
office, and .4itcned the member»hip aereement.

For yeark Mrs. Flint wanted a new cjiicken
hou.^se — one bullt-,in accordance with the Collejre
of Agricultpre principles. The first service she
wanted renaered by the Farm Bureau was to
fumish p^ris for the new chicken house. Ep wa.-
"till »*u'i^-i'-iitical of the Farm Huieni. j n<l
kicked beciiui^e he co>iIdn't jr«t the plans im-
mediately. Mirandi said that wince they had
waited yeais before decidintr to even build, they
could at leiL3t wait a f^w days until the best
plans could be obtained from the University
through thel Farm Bureau. The plans cnme and
the chickent hou.«e was built, much to the .satis-
faction of llirandi.

Ttirti Ep Bi([ "-'ilir* on litm-iltMw. h.iiiiit: s<'<'n Ilie cs^'t
rt:M(U« oixaintii b>' Jnhn Think.r. Hi- ordtTi-il a parUmit
'hmuKh the ^Ann IturMii. aiul iip^nit*' arrival fotind he
had bten "wfrr harmed J'J."> nii Th>' tritlj:ht. .Auain he was
iH-«rTcd. both it thf railnwil and at llhe Riirrau. hut iwnt
TO th»- office where iht. Farm AdvlM-r •iaid. '"Yr^. Thi-n-'-*
srtroettime wrong — 1ft me ha^ve yoar biQ and I'll spod it In
tn the 1. A- 4-~^'t'*1 0™* "•" what'^ wmnp and If jou'vtf
aarthinir cantmn Uit^'ll k<4 it."

But Kp wa4i'i nuite inirt ahnul rhe'l. \. A. itottlns \v*
mouy bark uir him. so he decltlrd in write to \\» railnad
binneir. NVw , mnimuf -

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MECt'S A LETTER FROM

THE RAlLRjDAD -WONOeR
I IF TMEV KETURNED "^^Ti^t^E'S
I^ZS -- THEY'D 6ErTER_|^^^ .^^^,^

TH E PARM Bureau
TOO -

^^f

HUMP*" IP they'd 5FND
THE MONEY I WOULDN'T
NEED TO WRnE 'Ervi_-

WELL, WEUL Sf E WHAT THC WRM BUREAU'S
<ioT To 5*\Y--- A CHECK I CkUO RJP-
tiS" - VVELL WHAT D'YE KNOW ABOUn
JKAT? HEBF'S VMAT IT 5t^XS --■

osTTi/A/Eo ey -mc /.4-4: TK/in/s —

you'll spend *-2-5|

POSTACj-E ST\MP5.
BEPORE YOLl <hET DU& l^

R. PILES TD NC/NISeiS.'-
5fe'*-8X3i -- YOU'D
VClSS THAT ZS5P0T <jooDfi

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NOW EPibfRMIi
FLINT '. DON'T

YOU ei'tR

TELL ME
OBqANlZ«TlO^)

Doesn't pay

PORTVie
FARMER I

Here's roi/R
individual
complaint

PKj-eON -MOLCO And

\A(ITH fc^OOoTWCR. ILLINOIS
FAIlMeRS BEHIND YOU TVlE
FARM BURCAli <3-e-rS IT-
BACK iN JItr TlMC !!

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November 7, I92S

The Illinoi* Agricultural AMociation RECORD

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Pace 3

Farm Leaders of 15th
District Think Press
Over Play Prosperity

Treasurer Cowles Stresses
Problem of Surplus as Farm
and Nation Issue

Officials and farm advisers of four
county Farm Bureaus — Knox, Fulton,
Henry and Schuyler — met at Galesburj.
Oct. 20 in a regular district conference
to discuss their mutual farm problem;
and to reflect their views to B. H. Tay-
lor of Rapatee, who represents thi.
confrressional district on executive com
mittee of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation, and who presided.

The farm leaders in this district arc
not in harmony with the attitude of tht
city press in labelinK the recent in-
creases of farm prices as a grand re
turn of farm prosperity.

It was brought out that the newspa
pers of the smaller cities, such as Gales-
burg, and the newspapers of small
towns, are much closer to the actual
farm facts and are not so often mife*
lead, intentionally or unintentionally,
as their big city brethern.

Farnn Newt is Good N«ws

"The average capital invested in the
farms around any Illinois town," said
Harry C. Butcher, I. A. A. director of
information who spoke at the forenoon
session, "is somewhat in excess of
$25,000. Walk down the street of your
home town — How many businesses rep-
resent that much capital? It logically
follows that it is good business upon the
part of newspapers in such towns to
print as much news of the farm as they
can. This has proved out in practice,
too. Farmers should encourage their
local and county newspapers to print
farm news because it helps the in-
dustry."

Radio and it's value to the farmer
was also discussed, the general opinion
being that the radio has become an in-
despensible tool for the farmer. The
thought was expressed that farmers in
Illinois should have their own radio
station.

Cowles Stresses Problem of Surplus

After luncheon, the group re-con-
vened in an afternoon session, which
was addressed by R. A. Cowles, treas-
urer of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation.

"The 1925 census gives definite pro'of,"
said Mr. Cowles, "that there still is a
farm problem. The census shows a de-
crease of five per cent in the number
of farms in Illinois from 1920 to 1925.
Every banker in a rural community
knows the cause of this heavy fatality.

"The real cause of agriculture's dif-
ficulty, which is by no means corrected
because of any temporary increase in
prices, is the surplus production which
is sold in the world market and which
sets the pric^ on that which is sold in
the domestic market. Agriculture as-
sisted industry and labor to get protec-
tion under the protective system of this
country, but this protection has never
had the desired effect for farmers. We
buy in a protected market and sell in a
world market."

Those present were as foIloRw; Knox
cottAty; Ray Arnold, W. B. Elliott. A. N.
Skinner, L. R. Marchant. farm advitter and
A. R. Kemp, asRistant adviser; Henry: D.
Downs, H. E. Goembel. vice-president of
the I. A. A.. F. E. Good. Henry Larsen
and J. L. WhiBcnand. farm adviser; Ful-
ton: B. H. Taylor. C. T. Whitnah, M. R.
Stafffc. J. R. Shinn, farm adviner, and J.
N. Price. assistRnt adviser: Schuyler: C.
J. Thompson and L. E- McKenzie.

I. A. C. A. Membership Grows

Eight More Sign Up Without
Solicitation

Contract membership in the Illinois

Agricultural Co-operatives' Association,

the co-operative audit-

^ 0%^% ■"£ ^^^ business advis-

T ^M a ory service, has reached

I ^\ m a new high mark — 182.

1^^ Without solicitation

eight co-operative and
marketing associations
or organizations have sent in member-
ship contracts during the past five
weeks.

The latest organizations to join the
auditing co-operative are: Fancy Prai-
rie Co-operative Company. Fancy
Prairie, Menard county; Colchestei
Livestock Shipping Association, Col-
chester, McDonough county; Williams
ville Co-operative Association, Wiliams-
ville, Sangamon county; Strasburp
Equity Union Exchange, Strasburg
Shelby county; Culver Farmers' Co-
operative Company, Culver, Menard
county; Marshall Co-operative Shipping
Association, Marshall, Clark county ;
McLean County Farm Bureau, Bloom-
ington; and, Winchester Mutual County
Fire Insurance Company, Winchester,
Scott county.

The Iowa Farm Bireai- membership maw
reached the highest peak in years, arconiing to
the Iowa Farm Bureau Messenger, During the
month of July there was an increase of 1,500
niembers. This givesa net gain over previous
years of approximatery 7,000 members for the
rst six months of this year.

These Men Attended the District Conference
Held at Galesburg, Oct. 20

Farmers Can Order
Limestone at This
Time, Says J. R. Bent

"Several of the larger limestone quar-
ries and companies arenow in a position
to make prompt shipments of a good
grade of limestone from current produc-
tion and are desirous of receiving or-
ders, so they may avoid, as far as pos-
sible, the necessity of storing this mate-
rial in the open during the winter,"
states J. R. Bent, director of the I. A.
A. phosphate-limestone department.

"As it seems almost certain that the
demand next year is going to be great-
er than the supply of by-product;
screenings, I feel that I should recom-
mend to farmers who can use limestone
this fall and winter, to place orders at
this time. Orders placed now may avoid
disappointment and perhaps greatei
costs than waiting until next summe;
to order.

"Of course, winter shipments must bi
safeguarded against bad weather anc
freezing conditions but if the materia
is loaded out of the bin in a dry con-
dition it will stand considerable bat
weather without much damage being
done."

DECORATED

EXTEND WORK OF U. S. D. A.

Farm Leaders A^ree Upon Bill to
Establitli Division of Co-opera-
tive Marketing

Union County Farmers
Save $2700 Annually
In Purchase of Manure

Union County Farm Bureau isC'saving
for its fruit and vegetable growlers be
tween $2700 and $3000 annually in the
purchase of manure, according toiJeorgt
E. Fager, farm adviser. This pr«j^(t i^
still in its first year operation, it having
l>een started early in the year with as
sistance from the I. A. A.

This saving was brought about by thf
Farm Bureau last February when tht
officers made a contract with a fertilizer
company of Chicago-to furnish manure
at a reduced rate. According to Farm
.\dviser Fager, a canvass was made o
the membership to determine th(
amount of manure needed each month
by Union county farmers. From thi
solicitation it was found that an aver
age of 15 cars would be required eacl
month or between 4500 and 5000 ton
.-innuatly.

The Farm Bureau then signed a con
(met with the. Chicago fertilizer com
r^iny for 15 cars of 25 tons each to be de
livered every month. Due to this large fu
ture order the company granted a reduc
tion in price of approximately $15 a car
- Cheaper Freigbt, Too.

Union County Farm Bureau then ap
[ilied to the Illinois Central railroad foi
a reducllon in freight which was grant
cd through the efforts of the I. A. A
transportation department. The cars an
delivered on railroad sidings at varlou>^
points in the county and unloaded by
the members.

The manure is used for application or
fruit orchards and \-egetabIe plots of
:ihout 35 members at an average of fron-
I to 20 cars each.

"It is not 8 case tof demand, but sup
ply,** stated Mr. Fager, "Union countx
farmers could, and no doubt would us<
a greater quantity of manure if mon
rapid deliveries could be made by th-
fertilizer company. Next year we will b*
required to increase the number of car;
ander our contract and thereby make :
saving to more of our members.'*

State Commission
Compliments I. A. A.
For Taxation Work

Establishment of a Division of Co-
operative Marketing in the United
States Department of Agriculture was
one of the suggestions pointed out
whereby the governmental department
might extend further assistance to the
American farmer, according to a report
of the conference of farm leaders of
co-operative marketing with Secretary
Jardine at Washington on October 29
and 30.

The Illinois Agricultural Association
is in favor of the proposed addition to
the agricultural department and it is
understood that Secretary Jardine has
given his unqualified approval.

A legislative bill which ^thorizes the
new division was agreed gpon by the
twenty some leaders and wtQ^nbe sub-
mitted to the coming Congress, including
the following principles:

1. There will be no regulatory fea-
tures in the legislation such as were
alleged to exist or to be implied in the
Capper-Williams bill introduced in the
last Congress as a result of the recom-
mendations of the president's farm com-
mission.

2. The personnel and scope of the
work of the present one man co-opera-
tive bureau in the Department of Agri-
culture will be increased so as to create
a real governmental agency for the as-
sistance of the co-operative movement.

3. An apnropriation will be asked of
Congress of not less than $ 1 50,000,
part of which will go for salaries but
most of which will be expended for the
assistance of experts to help the co-op-
eratives when they ask for help.

It Js said that the new measure will
in no way conflict with the McNary-
Haugen bill to create an exporting
agency for the export of surplus farm
products under governmental assistance
and control.

FARM FILLERS

The pRonrcERs' I.ivektotk Comuibsion
Assoriatinn will rr>ndupt a special show and sale
for the Boya' and Girls' Cluba of the Midwest
on December 10 and II at thp Xational Stock
Yards. St. Louis, arcordinpt to H. D. Wright,
nianaifer of the Producers' association. Priiee
will be given for the best calves shown in each
class of Angus. Shorthorn and Hereford breeds.
The judges at the show will be Professor Rush of
the University of Illinois and Professor Trow-
bridge of the University of Missouri. On the
day following, the calves will be sold at a special
auction and premium prices will be received.

This Boys' and Girls' calf club sale and show
was originated last year by the Producers' .Asso-
ciation. The grand sweepstake prise was won
by a member of the calf club at Auburn, Illinois.
and the top calf sold for 40 cents a pound.

i

Peotone. Wii.i. Cocntt. has followed thi

i"ad of Jotiet and several other_Jlitnois eitio i:
1 lopting a milk ordinance deBigped to privcui
he sale of milk frmi cattle suffering from coii-
'airioiia and infectious diseases. The ordinanci
rthich is directed mainly against dairy herds H'.i
tested for tuberciJosiR, proWdes that "all milk
*Ad, bartered or exchanged in Peotone as ra»
tiiilk shall be derived from aninwls under stat*
md federal supervi.'iion and pro\Tic Irvj from all
<"ontagious djseai^OK."

The REPORT AT THE 16th AMNCAL meettv*
"f the stockholders of the Watseka Farmer^
Cirain Company disclose<l that the elevator
luring the past year was operated ou a 2H p«'i '
rent i>asis. This represents the oost of handlinv
:ind marketing grain which is unusually low f.-i
a successful <-lcvat<ir The low cof^t of operatinr |
was due to the larger volume of bu.«ine»>e and th' \
■•fficient niaaagemeiit by the board of director^ i
iin<l the manager, according to Oeo. R. Wicker.
manager of the I, A. C. A.

f)NE OF THE Menard Coi-yrr Farm BcbeaiV

«cti\-itics is an annual fish fry. The event is at '
.'ill day affair with wives and families attendins I
The fry this year was held at Petersburg on i
'>ctober 2S. A local talent show, "Hank Home- j
brew Carries On," was presented in the mornine I
iind Sam K. Thnmpwjn, (>ret>ident of the I. A. A 1
spoke in the afterntxin. ,

On ONE farm in Pctvam rorvrr rr wah
f<iund neeea»ary on Oct. 10 to Ymve two radio
sets going in one room. One se< was used tn
get the Ohio-Chicano football game and th«'
other the world series baselmll game, according
to the Marshall -Put nam Farm Bureau. Thf
tepfjrt coninienttf tliat the radio will do more to
keep boys on the farm than a thoAsand lectures
The gain from close observation of the market
will more than pay the running oit^ts of a goixl
set. states the report.

Approximately 1(K) cars of li>f.stoni!; were

ordered by Wabanh County farmers through
their Farm Bureau this year, according to .1. K.
Spencer, farm adviser of the Wabash County
Farm Bureau, Mt. Carmet. Illinois.

The number of farms in Illi.voir has De-
creased more than one per cent a >-|'ar since 1920.
according to a preliniinar>" announcement of the
1925 farm census. Illinois has 22.5.44.5 famns
this year, a decrease of I^.^SG or over five per
cent. The number of farms in the United States
during this five year period decreased 75,735 or
more than one per cent. The decreaae was not
general, some states reporting declines while
increases were shown in others. Texas led with
the greatest increase in the number of farms
while the f^reatest decrease was shown in Georgia.
In the Mid-West Wisoonain showed an iocreaM.

Farm Bureaus Using Best
Method In Finding Inequal-
ities, Say Members of Illi-
nois Tax Body

The work of the Illinois Apricultur:*'
Association and the county Farm Bu
reaus in their efforts to bring abou'
irreater equality in the tax assessment
of this state was complimented highl>
by the Illinois Tax Commission during
a hearing before that body when inves
tigations were made regarding the com
plaints of the Farm Bureaus of Peoria
Kane, Clay and Franklin counties.

On October 27. farm representati\ie'
of Kane and Peoria counties appearei!
before the commission with charges tha'
thei||' county boards of review had re-
fused to consider the needed reductior
in farm property assessments and th*i'
the farmers are required to pay an un
duly jarge proportion of the taxes.
Farm Bureau CollecU Facts

Lloyd Keepers, assistant farm adviser
of the Kane County Farm Bureau
pointed out to the state commission tha*
the farm property of his county wa-
assessed at 46.4 per cent of the actua'
sales value while the "city property wa*
assessed at 3.5.7 per cent. During th
period of March 1, 1924. and March 1
1925, the Kane County Farm Bureau
under the direction of J. C. Watson. 1
A. A. taxation specialist, made a care
ful study of the sales of farm and cit>
properties which includjed some .SOO cit?
sales and 30 transactions of farm prop
erty. From figures compiled during thi?'
study, the Farm Bureau determined th<
actual values of the city and farm prop
erties and the inequality of tax assess
mentrf.

According to Mr. Keepers, these in-
equalities were shown to the Kanr
county board of review but it refuser*
to act and through the selecjion of
sales of exceptional farm lands, some
of which were used for subdivision pur-
noses, attempted to show that the Farm
Bureau's calculations were too low.

Commission Agrees With Bureau

Members of the tax commission stated
that they believed the Farm Bureau
had collected the facts iii the most in-
telligent and honest method known and
Inasmuch as the board of review did not
check the figures presented by the farm
organization or sugeest a t>etter method
of compiling the information, the^ board
has thrown itself open to criticism be-
cause of its refusal to act.

Representatives of the Peoria County
Farm" Bureau told the slate commission
that their board of review had agreed
to a reduction in farm assessments but
the state's attorney has nrohrbited such
H reduction on the grounds that it would
be illegal. The state's attorney did not
appeafr before the tax commission and
no decision irttji reached.

When the fTay county delegation ap-
peared, they presented information, and
figures to show that the assessment of
farm property in Clay county was 56

i

Potato Shortage
Acute; Price 50
Per Cent Higher

A. A. Director Says Spud
Market U Panicky; Diflfi-
cult to Secure Deliveries At
Any Price;

crop

the I

?ond

was I

""itbe pot:;to snortage in Illinois hiis
l»eeri more acuti than at lirvt antic-
pateti." states A. B. Leeper. I. A. A. rii
rectir of fruit and vegetable marketing
and manager af the Illinol> Fruit
Growers Exchanre of Centralia.

"Sections producing the rommerciJil
I of lat« potatoes have experienee'i
sunio unfaworable climatic condi
as the Illinois sections, and thes*-
tions cnuplid with a crop which
considerahl) below normal. hav«
kepti the miirkei in a very unsettltHJ
condition, and mist of the time ainio-t
panicky. I*o<ato<s are today itelling for
mora than .50 per eent higher than at
the beginning of the season, and it hat-
been! almost impossible to get deliverie>
late in the seasoi at any price."

luiresponse to in urgent demand, the
Illinois Fruit G »wers Exchange, cm
operating with t|e I. A. A., offered ir
■issist tht farmei s of Illinois in buying
pota1)oes for win :er use through their
respA-tive Farm )urehus. According to
Diredtor Leeper. :he Exchange has had
many inquiries n lative to making pur-
?hasc)s for farm bureau meml>ers. It
is understood thit the Exchange will
olacel orders for car lot shipments but
its pHncipal sen ice has been that of
keepihg the eoun y farm adviaers post-
ed a$ to the markets and changes in
price^.

"Those who pu 'chased potatoes early
this fall were fo tunate in getting the
loweatt price," styites Director I^eeper.
"Thoie who ordefred late, or expect to
ordeij in the future, will be lucky to
zet qeliverie*." . i

Better Sire Train On Tour

Dairy 'Exhibition Trkin to Stop at
19 Cities in Southern Illinois

Fatm rs w*jo Ike near 19 towns and
rities in central land southern Illinoii^
located on the Batimore and Ohio rail-
road will have an opportunity to see
the ''Better Daim- Sire" train which
will be on an exhibit tour from Noveni-
>>er 0 to 20.

This exhibit trajin, mhich is conducted
by tht Cnivercityjof Itlinoih in co-opera-
tion Kith the B A 0 railroad and other
dairy interests, will make hatf-day stops
It Flora. luka, Ctarlyle, Breese. O'Fal-
lon. Fairfield, NprriK City. Ridgway.
Shawtieeiown, Livtrenceville, Sumner,
Olney, Altamont, Beecher City. Cowden,
Pana, Taylorvilje. Springfield and
Beardstown. The] train will consist of ■
ten cars incjudingian exhibit car, lecture
car, a flat car fof cow demonstrations,
■ars lor the livestock which will be ex-
hibitetl, four cars jfor purebred bulls and
rars for the accopiodation of the staff
which will acromfiany the train.

lectures, demonstra-
hat will be given at
win be givej^an op-
purebrwi dait-y sire.
For tliis purpose j.lO bulls of thp three
breed* — Jersey, Holstein, Guet-nsey —
will bp carried on the train. Arranire-
ments have been j made with the local
business men of the 19 towns whereby a
bred |rrad4 heifer will be give to some
farmetr who visitk the train at each
point.. i

The speakers wlo will accompany the
^rain are: C. S. Rhodes, dairy extension
specialist of the] agricultural college.
\. J. Glover, ediliDr of Hoard's Dairy-
man; and, O. K. jCjuivey representative
of the B & O railrtoad. The county farm
idvisflr and a local representative busi-
nessman will nisa speak at eii(^ stop.
The ?fational Pairy Council will nnake
^n exhibit showing the value of milk
3nd i|s products ^ human foed.

n addition to tH
tions, exhibitions f
?ach 4lop, farmer
portuhity to buy

KveUi Kj«idav

thr fi*-** ninrketiu del

talk*. o*n VilJS Do 4f>u hf« theni'

FridIt evesiKk, <TrmBrR .10. i« rttt: rtut
•^t 1tw\m dehale uvr4 WlJ< on tlie niilnrndf'
tkftitioq Utt a f)\'eptT e«it rale im
Bradfurtp of the A F H K Mtid I. J. IWhiv rtt tb«>
\»itioni(l (irance. »ill fcell (he *

=^

per cefit higher than the asseuinents on
city Ifits and buiwings.

Eleven Appear Before .^oard

The state comnji.^ssion '^ con-iderinc
the aompl;iint<' made by the Farm
Bureaus and is expected' to render a
decision in the ne^r future. Those who
appealed before tlfe commission »» rep-
resenting the farfiers were:

Kan^ county:

adviseh Lloy4 Keepers, assistant farm
adviser; Henry
Queen and J. H.

Peoria cojntv: .......,« .-,..:„. ,„,.,

advia^ •, Sam lIcCI igage and W. T. Con
ley

E. Hart, farm ad-
Curt Ander *on. I A. A. executive

Cla3
viser,

committeeman of he 24th district, and
Georg" McElyea, ihairman of the Clay
County Farm Bureau tax committee.

JIcGough, W, C. Mc
Burr,
Wiiford Shiw. farm

J. E. WatU, farm

Page 4

The Illinois Agricultural Associatioin RecOku

November 7, 192$

Davis Tells Grain
Marketing Plan at
Ottawa Conference

Farm Leaders Told of New-
Grain Marketing Associa-
tion by 1. A. A. Director at
12th pistrict Meeting

Producers* Handle 8,9
Per Cent of Livestock
Sold on Chief Markets

Approximately 65 per cent of all
cash grain that reaches the Chicago
market originates from farmer-owned
elevators," declared Chester, C Davis,
director of! the grain marketing depart-
ment of the r. A. A., in his address be-
fore 41 farm leaders and advisers from
LaSalle, JGrundy, Kendall, DeKalbf;
Boone and] Winnebago counties, who at-
tended thi I'Jth district State Farm
BurenU' conference held in the LaSaile
county courthQQse. Ottowa, October 22.

The meeting was presided over by E.
E. Stevenston of Streator, president of
the LaSalli Farm Bureau, with Walter
W. McLaughlin, farm adviser, acting as
secretary. 1 L. F. Tullock of Rockford,
I. A. A. executive committeeman of 12th
district, introduced Director Davis, who
gave the address of the meeting.

"There are more than 60d farmers'
elevators in Illinois and no less than 30
are locate^ in LaSalle county alone",
stated Mr. Davis, "These local and coun-
ty farmers' elevators have contributed
tremendously in a local co-operatiVe
way for Illinois cornbelt farmers. No
one can discount the benefits that these
elevators have performed in maintaining
a higher local price level. However, in
the past, tflieir work has ceased at the
local railroad station and they have been
uitl^la to assist the Illinois farmer in
handling his product from the elevator
to the point of consumption.

. To Have dbmmission Firing on

Markets

**The N^ational Farmers' Elevators
Grain Company. Co-operative, repres-
enting th* national scope of grain
marketing, and the Rural Grain Com-
pany, which will represent the farmers'
elevators on the Chicago market, have
been organized for this purpose. The
Rural Grain Company, which was in-
corporated in May, as a subsidiary of
th« National Organization, has secured
a seat on the Chicago board of trade.
Thfs company will handle on a co-oper-
ative commission basis, the grain from
the farmers' elevators of Illinois and
Iowa delivered to Chicago.

"TUo K-^*;«-,«i v«^Tv,*»rs' Elevators
.^__ I /■ •"" «^' ' *ve, will act in

ir.r V :V-'i J; M»i ?. wn 1 sales agency

-Ind - * *r--^ 'hrr -^ iperative com-
missioD ornnizations in the terminal
markets of St. Louis, Peoria, Indiana-
polis and St. Paul as the work advances.

SimfiUr to Canadian Plan

"These organizations will not deal di-
rectly with the individual farmers, but
function 0s agencies of farmer-owned

Sales agencies of the National Live
Stock Producers' Association in the 13
principal terminal livestock markets of
the United States handled 8.9 per cent
of the animals sold on those markets
tluring the month of August.

The percentage of receipts handled by
ihe Producers' sales agencies in the var-
ious markets were listed as follows:
Market « Percentage

Kvansville, Ind 53.05

Peoria. Ill 28.88

Indianapolis, Ind 4 ■ .24.11

Cleveland, Ohio 19.70

Buffalo, N. Y 17.77

Pittsburgh, Pa 15.41

St. Louis, Mo 13.37

Fort Worth, Tex 9.75

Cincinnati, Ohio 8.82

Chicago, 111 5.57

Sioux City, Iowa 4.41

)klahoma City, Okla 2.28

Kansas City, Mo 1.74

There was considerable variation in
he percentages for the different kinds
)f animals. In the case of cattle the Pro-
ducers* co-operative sales ai^ency at
Kvansville handled 54.5 per cent of
■attle received. The Indianapolis
^ales agency was in second place
with 20.26 per cent. Fifty-two per cent
of the calves received at the Peoria
market were handled by the co-oper-
ative, as well as 54 per cent of the hogs
md 42 per cent of the sheep.

The thirteen sales agencies handled
3.8 per cent of the cattle received at the
13 markets, 10.35 per cent of the calvea,
13.39 per cent of the hogs and 6.23 per
cent of the sheep. '

elevators
ground u|^
formed by

They are built from the
the firm foundation
_]the county and local organ-
isations. Tliey are receiving the support
of the el ivators because they were
formed by and for the farmers' institu-
tions. This plan is similar in many ways
to the Canadian method of marketing
spring wh^t which has been in success-
ful operatiftn for several years."
Thole Present at Meeting

L. A. Ftfisbie, president of the Win-
nebago County Farm Bureau stated that
an effort id being made in his county to
'bring the Ifarmers and city people to-
gether on a mutual basis of understand'
ing. DinnOTs, luncheons and meetings
are being Ihetd and attended by both
groups whareby they may learn to know
each othe^ and understand their re-
spective viewpoints.

those present at the meeting in-
cluded:

Lasalle county— J. L. Eutis. T. W. Es-
mond. R. W -Cross. Walter W. McLaugh-
lin, Geo. Grpver. Jute Baker, J. J. Homunr. '
J. A. Anderson and Alex McFedron of
Ottawa; C. H. Mudge of Peru: F. W.
Klein. G. J. Elliott and E. E. Stevenson of
Strentor; li A. Breuer. H. T. Marshall
and D. Schadicker of Seneca: L. C. Rinker
and O. D. Center of Grand Ridge and J. B. .
Rice of MarseilleB. J

Grundy oounty — H. E. Green. F. E.|l
Longmire, farm adviser. Alem Anderson
and E. G. Gai'ley of .Worn.-; an.i \* . n.
Broderick of Verona.

DeKalb county — R. A. Nelson, assistant
farm adviser, anil A., W. D. Dodge of De-
Kalb: H. J White of-Somonauk and H. H.
Biillis of Eariville.

Kendall cjoupty — Frank H. Crumm and
L. S. Nelsoi of Newark: Earl Price, farm
adviser .tndf E. L. Matlook of Yorkville. .

Win^ebafdo county — L. A. Fri^bie. C. H.
Keltner. fa#m adviser. J. M. Rankin and
L. F. Tulloqk of Rockford. executive com-
mitteeman «f the 13th district of the Ill-
inois Agriciiltural Association. J. A. Gil-
christ and ^ W. Carper of Coal Cfty.

Membership Reports
Show Increase From
15 to 26 Per Cent

Many County Farm Bureaus
Conducting CampaignsThis
Year Tell of Favorable Re-
sults'^

Substantial increases in membershii^
have been reported by many county
Farm Btireaus who are conducting cam-
naigns this year, according to G. E.
.Metzger, director of the I. A. A. organ-
ization department.

*' McLean county," states Director
Metzger, "holds the record so far this
year with an increase of 26 per cent in
membership. Iroquois and Knox counties
lie for second place with reported in-
creases of vl5 per cent each, while Wood-
ford county has an increase of 14 and;
one half per cent over its first three-
townships to report.

"In Marshall-Putnam, 700 member-
ship renewals were obtained in seven
days. In Henry county six townships
:*till remain for canvassing, but the for-
mer membership total has been reached.
A 15 per cent increase is anticipated 1$
that county."

Crawford county started its renewal
i-ampaign on October 21 and Mason be-
^an next day. Shelby county opened its
drive on October 24, Kane the 26thj
.\dams the 27th, Sangamon the same
day. Lake the 30th, and DeKalb Novem-
-her 2.

County Farm Bureaus that will start
membership drives in the near future
are: Saline and Menard, November 10;
Randolph, November 11 ; Wiliamson,
November 12; and, Bureau, December 1.

"All renewal work in the Farm Bu-
reaus of Illinois," states Metzger, "is be-
ing done by the farmers themselves in
what is termed the 'neighbor- to-
neighbor' style, 'Farmers are re-signing
for three-year memberships all qver the
state with a keener appreciation of the
possibilities, accomplishments and lim-
itations of the Farm Bureau."

Revenue Amendment
Would Save Co- ops
$400'$500 Yearly

I. A. A. Director Says Farm-
ers' Elevators Have Been
Denied Rightful Income
Exemptions

Not one of the farmers' co-operative
elevators in Illinois has been able to ob-
tain exemption from payment of income
tax or filing of annual returns, despite
of the intentions of Congress at the
time the revenue act was passed, accord-
's ng to George R. Wicker, director of
the co-operative auditing department of
the I. A. A. and manager of the Illinois
Agricultural Co-operatives' Association.

"Illinois farmers' elevators have been
denied the exemptions intended to be
granted by Congress and the present
provisions of our national internal
revenue act are detrimental to the pro-
motion of more efficiency in the produc-
tion and marketing of our nation's
crops," declares Wicker, who has just
returned from appearing before the con-
gressional ways and means committee.
Secretary of Agriculture Jardine and
President Coolidge, relative to drafting
hnd promoting an amendment to the
revenue act which will give definite ex-
emption to farmers' co-operative organ-
izations and associations.

While in Washington, Mr. Wicker
cited four test cases, regarding co-oper-
ative exemptions, brought before the
treasury department which met with de-
nials because of minor technicalities. As
representative of the leaders of agri-
cultural co-operation in this country, he
a<!ked that specific legislation granting
relief for co-operatives be included in
the new revenue amendment. •■

"The provisions of the existing law,
as well as previous revenue acts, are
restrictive to members only and there-
fore do not accomodate the general
practice of co-operative associations of
dealing with both members and non-
members," states Mr. Wicker, "The pro-
posed amendment broadens the basis for
exemption and in addition provides for
the distribution of net incomes common
to such associations which are conducted
Upon the actual cost of service and as-
sessment plan."

Director Wicker, who is also chair-
man of the committee representing
agricultural co-operatives in sponsoring
the revenue amendment, states that if
the new amendment is included in the
Tiew revenue act, it will save the indi-
vidual farmers' elevator companies of
Illinois an average of from $400 to $500
annually.

/. A, A. Director Gives
Demonstrations Before
Shipping Associatiorxs

Wm. E. Hedgcock, director of the I.
A. A. livestock marketing department,
has been asked by many Farm Bureaus
and livestock shipping associations in
this state to address their members on
the proper grading of their animals for
the market.

"In attempting to create a better un-
derstanding of the. marketing problem,
we have arranged with the managers
of the shipping associations and farm
advisers for a county livestock grading
Jemonst ration to which the managers
and officers of the shipping associations
are invited to attend," states Director
Hedgcock.

"At these demonstrations a repre-
sentative from the nearest Producers'
market assists in pointing out the vari-
ous grades of livestock which have been
assembled by the shipping association
for shipment that day. A special ef-
fort is made to impress upon the ship-
ping association officers the require-
ments of the market, with the thought
:hat they can point out these market
requirements and explain them to the
livestock farmers in their respective
communities. This should create more
efficiency in preparing livestock and do
away -with a great deal of misunder-
standidg of the market needs and the
quality of livestock which the owner
«<hould .consign for shipment."

TB Eradication Work
Discussed at I. A. A.
District Conference

Fox, Bent and Hosford Speak
Before Farm Leaders At
Rock Uland Meeting, Oct.
20

Railroads ' Picture
of Prosperity Denied

(Continued from page 1, Col. 6)
chasing power of farm products. Both
;ets of figures follow:

Purchasing Power
of Farm Products
Year U. S. D. A. Dr. Friday

126
128
126
128
125
131
129
121
134
140
140
120
106
111
115
120
125

1909 ....

1910

1911 ....

1912 ....

— 1...

. 1J7

. 126

1S2

1913

1914

. Ill
186

1915 ...

_ 118

1918

rtm

1917

1918

-

. 138

1919 _...

ISS

1920 ...

,

1921

1922 ._..

19I3

1924

:;::;::::::s;::;::::::;::

. lOB

. 108

. 110

11Q

1926

Reinsurance Company
Applies for Charter

(Continued from page 1, Col. 1)
into force until at least twenty-five

ompanies have signed the contract.
This form of insurance operates for the
'ocal companies in the same manner
that the local mutual protects the in-
dividual farmers.

Counties that contributed individual
in.<urance applications during the cam-
paign and the total amounts of their

nphcations are as follows: v

"Radio will do more to keep the bot on
the farm that| a thoussad lecturft*." states F, K.
Fuller, adviafr for the Marshall-Putnam Farm
Bureau, "and the gain from clo!<e observation of
the market wtll more than pay the running costs
of a good Mt.[*

Wool has bees sold coopERATn-KLT in the
United StatesTf-^T 40 years. The Putnam County
(Ohio) Wool Growers' ARao*"iation sold its first
crop in 18S5J Todav 30.0<»0 sheep meo in the
T'liited State^ are selHng 12.500.000 pounds of
wool throuRH 22 state-wide eooperatives. As
muth as 80 per cent of all .\mericaalwool ia
andled in tbisj manner.

■ I

A (Isms

Itond «

Itoone

Brown .,. -
Carroll ..

t'BM

(.'hampalsn
t'hrifltlan

t'Urk

flay -.

Cftlea

Cook

l>eKalb ._.-

DeWItt

DuPue -■

E<Iwr

Kdwards ...

Fayeite ...

Fnrd 15,»50

Franklin 11,000

Pulton ..- 2,l."(0

nreene 3,850

• Hancock 21.000

TlendfrsoB _ 30,850

Henry ..- 48.950

Iroquois 5.000

Jacknon „ _ 8 SOO

Jersey 8. MO

in Daileas „ 1.000

Kanp .1.000

Knox ir.250

Lake 2.000

" " " „ 40.000

..% 5.000
, 1.000
. 12.1150
11.500
. 2.500
20.000

5.500

. 24.840

. 20.T50

. J.500

. 21.000

1»400

3.250

2.500

Lee .,

McHenry
McLean
Macon . ..
Hacflupln
MadiMD '
Marlon ....
ManhaU
Mason

. ll.nno

i.snn
... 25.240
... 35.4B0
.„ 3.850
... 7.150
._ 8.500
- 12.000

. _.__ - 20.000

Montsomery „ 22.800

Ogle 5.600

PMrta __ 10.800

put* : 7.300

PuUskt ... 20.68T

Putmm 4,100

Rock Utami 3.OO0

Sancamon ]3,.'0fl

Sctjuyler 4.000

Shelby „ 2,000

8t. Clair 1.000

Stark 1.500

StcDhenson .. 15.000

Taxewell
I'nion .. .. .
VermlUon

Wabash

Wtyne _.

White

Will

Wllllanaon
Winnebago

!.noo
. i.ooo
. 17.200
. l.-i.SJS
. l.WtO
. 11,«00

. i.ono
. 2.. WO

Curt Anderson

One-Fourth of Red
Top Seed of World
Sold Through Co-op

|. More red top seed is produced in cen-
tral southern Illinois than any other ter-
ritory of the
world.

"From 85 to
90 per cent of
all red top
seed grown in
the world is
produced in 8
Illinois coun-
ties," stated
Curt Ander-
son of Xenia,
manager of
the Red Top
Seed Growers
Assoc i a t i 0 n
and the Egyp-
t i a n Seed
Growers Ex-
change. "This percentage amounts to
approximately 7,000,000 pounds of clean
seed annually and is grown in Wayne,
Clay, Marion. Jefferson, Hamilton,
Fayetie, Effingham and Richland coun-
ties. '

"Approximately 25 per cent of the
red top seed produced in the counties is
marketed co-operatively by the 800
members of the Red Top Growers Asso-
ciation located at Flora, Illinois."

"Although red top seed is not one Of
the major farm crops of this country,
the annual gross receipts from this crop
last year in the eight counties amounted
to between $600,000 and $700,000,"
stated Mr. Anderson. "Of this amount
nearly $182,000 worth of the seed was
sold co-operatively."

The average price received by the
producers this year was 18H cents a

Bound, according to the United States
•epartment of Agriculture. Through
pooling and stabilizing the delivery on
the market, it is estimated that the
members of the Red Top Growers Asso-
ciation will receive approximately 25
cents a pound for the 1925 crop.

The Kiw.«.vi8 club or Ottawa is orrERiNo
the farmen of that viqinity a copy, free nf
fliarRe, of w book by Chris L. Christensen,
"Cooperation in Denmark/' Mr. Christensen
U an agricultural economiBt on the staff of the
y. 8. D. A. The agricultural committee of the
Kiwanis club report* that it is taking this ntep
»5 a means of aiding in the progress of cooperative
farm organisation.

Two HCNPRED TWENTY rARUBJtS IN 3R COUN-

lies of Ohio have made an effort to produce 100
« ..j« bushels of corn to the acre. Reports are now
30>50 Jbfling assembled to see how nearly they eome to
I the mark.

Correct Figures Reverse Testimony

A moment's consideration of the two
sets of figures above shows one of the
ways Dr. Friday's expert testimony was
punctured. It will be noted that he es-
timated the purchasing power of farm
products for 1925 as 125, which is ex-
actly the same as his 1913 figure, while
his 1924 figure is only five pointt be-
low his 1913 level. The correct figures,
as furnished by the United States De-
partment of Agriculture upon request
of the Farm Bureau, tell a wholly dif-
ferent story — namely, that the purchas-
ing power of farm products is not as
irreat today as it was from 1909 to
1914 — pre-war year.

Following Dr. Friday, H. W. Moor-
house took the stand for cross exam-
ination. This brought out, first, that
the figuies and exhibits prepared and
introduced by him were carefully pre-
pared by an expert statistician; second,
that many factors entering into those
exhibits were merely guesses; third,
that the exhibit, as introduced upon di-
rect testimony, concerned itself up to
nnd including the crop year ending
June, 1924.

Move to Deny Increase

At the close of the hearing in Chi-
cago, Fred S. Jackson, representing the
Farm Bureau, presented a motion to dis-
miss the rate increase petition of the
western railroads on the ground that the
carriers jailed to show that the present
rates on agricultural products are non-
compensatory and unlawful under the
Transportation Act. Also, that the In-
terstate Commerce Commission, under
the Hoch-Smith resolution, is legally re-
quired to make a full investigation in
the rate structure of the country and
make such changes in the rate struc-
ture as will promote the freedom of
movement by the common carriers of
the farm products affected by the de-
nression, including livestock, at the
lowest poggible lanfut rafeg compatible
with the maintenance of adequate trans-
portation service.

Hearings Continue In West

The western hearings will go on,
nevertheless. They w*^ll open at Den-
ver, Nov. 9. From then on there will
be a constant flow of testimony against
the proposed increase excepting for
some brief additional testimony which
Chief Counsel Van Doren for the rail-
Voads said might be presented at the
western hearings.

Considerable first-hand information
concerning the prosperity of farmers in
Illinois as determined from facts
gleaned from county records and from
county bankers, has been and is being
secured by the I. A. A. This will be
introduced at the hearing in Kansas
City, which begins Jan. 4.

In the meantime, L. J. Quasey, di-
rector of the I. A. A. transportation
department, is carefully following the
hearings so as to be in touch with any
situation which might affect Illinois
farmers.

Eradication of tuberculosis in Illi-
nois dairy herds was one of the main
topics of discussion when 35 represent-
itive farm leaders and advisers of Rock
Island, Warren, Henderson, Mercer.
Hancock and McDonough counties met
ut the I. A. A. conference of the 14th
ongressional district held at Rock
Island, on October 20.

The meeting was called to order by W.
H. Moody, I. A. A. executive commit-
eemnn of that district. A. Larson.
nresident of the Rock Island County
Farm Bureau, was elected chairman,
with Sidney S. Carney, Rock Island
farm advisor, acting as secretary.

General discussion of the T. B. eradi-
ation work occupied most df the morn-
ing session.

Mercer Soon Accredited Area

Rock Island county veterinarian has
completed first time over the couyity.
Many facmers failed to test on the first
trip but are anxious for their cattle to
be tested in the near future. Well over
50 per cent of the cattle in the county
have been tested and reactors have
averaged about three per cent or less, '■
except in a few herds.

Warren county veterinarian has test-
ed 80 per ce'nt of the cattle in the coun-
ty with two to three per cent reactors.

Mercer county veterinarian has test-
ed 22.000 head once, 20,000 cattle have
been retested with only 2,000 head to
test the second time to make the county
an "Accredited Area."

Henderson county veterinarian is go-
ing over the herds of the county for
the second time. The retest is 76 per
L'ent complete with no reactors.

llHnoit Uses One-Fourth Limestone

"More than 500,000 tons, or one-
fourth of the total limestone used in
he United States, was used by Illinois
farmers last year," declared J. R. Bent,
Jirector of the I. A. A. phosphate-
limestone department, who made the
opening talk of the afternoon session.
'This year Illinois is making a more
rapid race. Reasons for this remark-
able lead are due to education and
knowledge of the value of limestone,
use of limestone stressed by Farm Bu-
reaus as a major project, better busi-
ness relations existing between the
farmers and the producers of limestone,
ind a proper regard for the future of
agcriculture on the ipart of the farm-
er^," stated Mr. Bent.

Questions following the talk brought
out the fact that 13 per cent rock phos-
phate is selling at $7.00 f. o. b. Tennes-
see quarries and the additional cost for
freight is about $4.50 a short tone.
Fox Speaks on Taxation

Geo. A. Fox, I. A. A. executive secre-
tary, was the second speaker on the
program. Instead of making a formal
address. Secretary Fox gave those pres-
ent an opportunity to bring up ques-
tions regarding the work of the I. A. A.
•ind some of the problems confronting
the farmers. He discussed the tax ques-
tion in this state and urged that
farmers become posted on the new
revenue amendment to the State Con-
-stitution which will come before the
voters in the general election in No-
vember, 1926.

Before adjournment, I. N. Hosford
of Hamilton told of the $500,000 cam-
naign to secure the charter for the
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Company
r>f Illinois which was sponsored and
?ompleted by the I. A. A. in coopera-
tion with the Illinois Association of
Farm Mutual Companies.

Farm Bureau Members
Raise More Per Acre
* Than Non-Members

Marshall-Putman Farm Bureau is
carrying on an experiment which gives
tangible evidence that members of the
Farm Bureau who follow the better
methods as atvocated by the adviser
and the stattpfxperiment stations raise
more corn on each acre than to the
farmers who disregard the more ad-
vanced ideas of production.

Eighteen ears were taken promiscu-
ously from members' seed corn and the
same amount was taken from the seed
corn of non*members. The seed from
each was planted on different farms.
The first test to report this year was
that grown on the farm of John Stadel.
The results were that the non-members
corn made 55.7 bushels to the acre and
the members seed corn produced 67,2
bushels an acre.

"Pit it on — dox't pct it orr" he\ds ax
:iiiviTti»cment urging the use of limestone by
Ainrriraii fartners that ia l>eing published by the
New York Central Lines in farm papers of the
central states that hare a total circulation of
approximately 1,700,000.

"The Illinois AcRicuLTraAL .\srociation
niayjwell be used as a model for other state
Farm Bureaus." stated Paul A. Eke, agricultural
economist of West Virginia University in a reoeni
etter. . .

I

ii

nber7, 1925

nWork
I. A. A.
inference

sford Speak
Leaders At
eeting» Oct.

culosis in Illi-
ne of the main
n 35 represent-
idvisers of Rock
lerson, Mercer,
;h counties met
nee of the 14th
held at Rock

J to order by W.
ecutive commit-
ct. A. Larson.

Island County
icted chairman.
y, Rock Island

setretary.
the T. B. eradi-
pst M the morn-

frdited Area

veterinarian has
rer the coufity.
test on the first
r their cattle to
ture. Well over
e in the coanty
reactors have
er cent or less, '

narian has test-
ttle in the coun-
r cent reactors,
larian has test-
,000 cattle have
f 2,000 head to
nake the county

erinarian is go-
the county for
retest is 75 per
eactors.

rth Limestone

tons, or one-
lestone used in
used by Illinois
ared J. R. Bent,
A. phosphate-
who made the
ternoon session.
making a more
3r this remark-
education and
e of limestone,
^d by Farm Bu-
xt, better busi-
; between the
;rs of limestone,
r the future of
t of the farm-

le talk brought
cent rock phos-
f. o. b. Tennes-
iitional cost for
short tone.
Taxation
executive secre-
speaker on the
aking a formal
rave those pres-
bring up ques-
c of the I. A. A.
ms confronting
^d the tax ques-
id urged that
in the new
the State Con-
►me before the
Election in No-

I. N. Hosford
$500,000 cam-
harter for the
ranee Company
sponsored and
A. in coopera-
Association of

f embers
'er Acre
Members

■m Bureau is
;nt which gives
nembers of the
low the better
jy the adviser
stations raise
•e than to the

the more ad-
ion.

aken promiscu-
d corn and the

from the seed
The seed from
iifferent farms.

this year was

of John Stadel.

le non-members

to the acre and

produced 67.2

T OFF HE\DS AK

of limestntie by
jr published by the
arm papers of the
otal circulation of

TRAI. AbROCIATIOV

iel for other Htatr

Kkp, affricultur&l

liversity id a recent

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Vplume 3

Issued Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinking Farmers — November 21, 1925

No. 23

JARDINE AND LOWDEN TO SPEAK AT ANNUAL MEETING

Executive Committee Passes on Program of
L A. A. Convention, University of Illinois,
Jan. 21 and22; Open Discussion is Planned

Farm BureauMembers
Discuss LA. A. Work
At District Meeting

Kirkpatrick, ' Hed gcock and
Quasey Speak at 20th Dis-
trict Jacksonville Confer-
ence

Fifty-four farm bureau leaders, ad
visers and members from the counties
Brown, Green, Jer-
sey, Pike, Cass,
Mason, Scott and
Morgan attended
the I. A. A. 20th
' ^ district conference

held at Jacksonville
on Nov. 12 and ex-
pressed their views
and wishes reeard-
ing farm problems
and activities
which will be for-
Earl C. Smith warded on to the
' officers and execu-

tive committee of
the state organization by Earl C. Smith,
I. A. A. executive committeeman of the
(district.

The meeting was presided over by C
S. Black, president of the Scott County
Farm Bureau, with R. J. Liable, farm
adviser of Green county acting as secre-
tary, f

TelU of Freight Rate Fight
L. J. Quasey, director of the I. A. A.
transportation department made the
opening address in which he discussed
the traffic work of the organization and
told of the fight that is being waged
by the I. A. A., in co-operation with the ;
A. F. B. F. and other state organiza-
tions, against the five per cent freight
rate increase that is being demanded
by the western railroads. He re-
lated the proceedings of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission hearings
that were held in Chicago recently and
are now being continued in western
states.

Following Director Quasey, Wm. E.
Hedgcock, I. A. A. director of livestock
marketing, addressed the members. lie
told of the work of the shipping asso-
ciations in the state and emphasized the
need for federation of the local asso-
ciations in the counties. Director Hedg-
cock urged that the associations become
incorporated under the laws of Illinois
and adopt a more improved system of
accounting. He told of the plans that
are now being considered for the or-
ganization of a livestock commission as-
sociation at Springfield.

Farmers Muci ICcep Control
."Not only is it necessary that the
county, state and nation Farm Bureaus
wotk to secure national legislation for
farmers," stated Donald Kirkpatrick, I.
A. A. legal counsel who spoke before the
conference in the afternoon session,
"but after these front line trenches have
been taken, we must keep them from
the enemy. Those who constantly fought
such legislation have no right to move
in. and control it."

All of the talks were followed with
questipns fw)m the floor.

I. A. A. Directors On the Air

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Seated at table, left to right: R. A. Cowles, treasurer; H. E. Goembel, vice-
president; S. H. Thompson, president; Geo. A. Fox, secretary. Standing are ihe
district executive committeemen, left to right, G. F. Tullock, Rockford, 12th
district; C. E. Bamborough, Polo, 13th district; W. H. Moody, Port Byron, 14th
district; B. H. Taylor, Rapatee, 15th district; Wm. Webb^ Joliet, 1st to llth
district; A. R. Wright, Varna, 16th district; F. D. Barton, Cornell, 17th district;
R. F. Karr, Iroquois, 18th district; J. L. Whisnand, Charleston, lirth district;
Earl C. Smith, Detroit, 20th district; Samuel Sorrels, Raymond, 21st district;
Stanley Castle, Alton, 22nd district; W. L. Cope, Salem, 23rd district; Curt
Anderson, Xenm,- 24th district; and R. K. Loomis, Makanda, 25tli district.

Marketing Talk Broadcast Over

WLS Every Friday Noon For

Illinois Farmers

Are you on the "air" every Friday
noon?

Four more radio talks are scheduled
for I. A. A. directors to be given over
WLS every Friday noon between now and
Christmas. These will conclude the first
series of marketing addresses which
have been conducted for the benefit of
Illinois farmers during the past six
months.

Those who will take part in the Fridtay
noon programs are:

November 27, F. A. Gouglcr, director
of the I. A. A. poultry and egg market-
ing department ; December 4, A, B.
Leeper, manager of the Illinois Fruit
Growers Exchange and director of the
fruit and vegetable marketing of the I.
A. A.; December 11, Wm. E. Hedgcock,
director of the livestock marketing de-

Bartment; and, December 18, Chester C.
"avis will be on the program again.

/. A. A, Speaker Accepts
Call as Pastor of Long
Beach Lutheran Church

Rev. Elmer Olson, formerly on the
speakers bureau of the organization de-
partment of the I. A. A., has accepted
a call to the First Lutheran Church oJ'
Long Beach, Cal. Rev. Olson waj»
mayor of Wataga, (111.) and pastor of
the Lutheran church of that city before
accepting the California call. He wa»
a farmer before being ordained two
years ago and during the past year he
has spent considerable time as a solici-
tor of the I. A. A. He has represented
the association as speaker at many an-
nual meetings and picnics of county
Farm Bureaus and is well known in
many sections of the state.

7 Things to Remember
Before You Invest in
Florida Real Estate

Ohio farmers have been -advised
against unwise speculation in Florida
lands by the Ohio Farm Bureau In-
vestment Service company which is at
present conducting an energetic cam-
paign in the interest of conservative
investments. In the October issue of
the Federation news the service com-
pany published "A Cure for Florida
Real Estate Fever." The warning
reads :

"Whenever you are tempted remem-
ber:

"1. That it is estimated that 2,000
real estate men from Ohio are going
to Florida to buy real estate to sell
northern prospects.

"2. That lots are sold to be resold at
higher prices — not for improvements.

"3. That it is estimated, that one-
eighth of the entire state is staked off
in lots.

"4. That if homes were, erected upon
these lots, they would accommodate
36,000,000 people — one-third of the
population of the United States.

**5. That one company bought 17,000
acres at $10 per acre, divided it into
135,000 lots which it expects to sell next
winter at $14.75 each— cost $170,000,
selling price, $1,991,250.

"6. Business proi>erties in Florida
cities are offered at more per front foot
than lots in northern cities with more
than ten times the population.

"7. That real estate companies admit
50 per cent of the selling costs are
spent for commissions, to furnish free
auto rides, free lunches, free banquets,
free vaudeville acts and free band con-
certs to all comers."

Southern Illinois
Cotton Co-op Saves
$2240 for Members

Members of Cotton Associa-
tion Receive 5 to 6 Cents
More a Pound than Non-
Members

Members of the Illinois Cotton Grow-
ers' Cooperative Association, Incorporat-
ed, received from 5 ttf' 6 cents a pound
more for their cotton than non-members
in southern Illinois last year, according
to E. A. Bierbaum, farm adviser of the
Pulaski .County Farm Bureau. This is
the second year for the Illinois cotton
pool, it having been started last year
with assistance of the I. A. A.

"This amounted to an additional
profit to the average members of ap-
proximately $120/' stated Farm Adviser
Bierbaum. *'0f course, the amount of
saving to the members depends upon the
number of bales marketed through the
pool, but it has been estimated that a
saving of approximately $20 on a bale
was made by the association. This
equals a total saving of about $2240 an-
nually,"

The Illinois cotton Growers' Cooper-
ative Association was incorporated with
26 members in September, 1924, and
handled the crop for last year. The
association is a project of the members
of the Pulaski "County Farm Bureau
but a considerable amount of cotton has
been handled for farm bureau members
in Union, Johnson, Alexander and other
southern counties.

Sold With Arkansas Growers

In 1924, the association handled 112
bales or approximately 60,000 pounds of
cotton. The amount to be handled by
the cooperative association this year is
expected to be a similar figure.

The cotton is marketed in coopera-
tion with- the ArkansastCotton Growers'
Association and the members thereby
receive benefits derived by the larger as-
sociation. During delivery times the cot-
ton is brought to the association's re-
ceiving warehouse where it is sampled
and classed according to color, staple
and grade. If the member desires, an
advance of genei^lly $70 a bale is made.
The amount of this advance depends
upon the market price of the grades
delivered, but usually averages this
amount.

Prices 26 to 33 CenU a Pound

As soon as all of the cotton of the
members has been received, the bales are
shipped to a reliable warehouse in Mem-

Annual Budfi^et, Financial Report, Grain Marketing, Consti-
tutional Amendments and State Police ^ill Discussed at
November Executive Meeting

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WILLIAM M. JARDLNE, seereUry «« agriculture, and
Former-Governor Frank O. Lowden rave promised to
address the delegates and members jattending the an-
nual meeting of the Illinois Agricultural Association which
will be held again this year at the. Uniy^rsity of Illinois,
Champaig^n-Urbana, Jan 21 and 22. <■«

The Secretarj''s address will be giv^ during a luncheon
between 12 and 2 o'clock on Thursday, Jan. 21 and Former-
Governor Lowden's speech will be at q luncheon on Friday,
according to the program submitted by Sec: "etarj^ Fox to the
executive committee 'at its regular men hly meeting on
Nov. 6.

This year's program is planned expressjy for the purpose
of giving each delegate an opportunity to: express himself.
To permit sufficient time for free disoussion, sectional

conferences arc (planned during which

Can You Find the
Eggs in Eggplant
j Or Cat in Catnip?

Many's the mind that has puzzled
ov^r the origin of the names of
many of our common products or
why certain trademarks and trade
names have been adopted.

In this regard, a current issue of
The Sunkist Courier, official organ of
tht California Fruit Growers Ex-
chlinge, told of a lawyer who made
apblication to register a trademark
"limestone Brand,*' a carthartic
medicine, and was refused because
the medicine did not contain lime-
stone and might give a deceptive im-
pression. The lawyer then prepared a
br^f which stated, in part, as fol-
loiTs:

'Ivory is a good trademark for
soip not made of^ivory. Gold Dust
wabhing powder is not made of gold.
There is no bull in Bull Durham.
Pearline contains no pearls, and
White Rock is water. There is no
crsara in Cream of Tartar, in cold
cr«am or in chocolate, no milk in
mai^nesia, in milkweed or in the
coooanut. These are all as remote
irdm the cow as the cowslip.

"There is no grape in grapefruit,
or bread in breadfruit. A pineapple
is heither pine nor apple; a prickly
pear is not a pear; and alligator pear
is ^neither a pear nor an alligator,
and a sugar plum is not a plum.

''Apple butter is not butter. All
the butter is taken out of buttermilk,
and there is none in butternuts, nor
in .buttercups, and the flies in the
dairy are not butterflies."

phis, Tennessee, where the cotton is
stored and sold as a unit of the Ar-
kansas association. Members of the As-
sociation are protected at all times by a
substantial amount of insurance upon
their product whether in transit on the
railroad or stored in the warehouse-.
Warehouse receipts are issued to the
members and reasonable amounts may
be berrowed on the cotton from a bank
if the owner desires.

prices to the members- last year
ranged from 26 to 33 cents a pound de-
pending upon the grade of the product
while a majority of the Association's
sales average 28 to 29 cents. Total sales
for the association in 1924 were said to
approximate $17,000.

Officers of the Illinois Cotton Growers
Cooppratives Association are:

L. E. Lingenfelter, of Ullin, president;
T. A. Dul>ois of Cobden, vice-president;
and. E. O. Schoembs of Villa Ridge,
secretary-treasurer. The main office of
the atssociation is located at Mound City.

In (Clinton cocTNTY, Iowa, 110 bcrai. school*
hsvc decidrd to tPitrfa farm arnnintuic as a
part of regular eighth fmwlc arithmetic.

open consid«rat:<to of a large variety of
subjects wiil prnr:iil. In addition, each
Congressional difirict will held a eon-
ference. Cvpn-^umbered districts will
nominate execuvve committeemen to
hold ouice for a ttwo-yeur period, and a
president and wce-preaident lor 1VZ6
will be elected. The becrvtar} and
treasurer are enmloyed on a month-by-
month Imsit by tne executive comraittae
and arc not elected.

All Farm Forces Represented

For the evening' piugrani of the firat
day, the customdhy annual banquet wiU
provide a common meeting , ground.
Speakers of thf ivenmg are expected to
be Dean H. W. ^umford; Director S.J. .
Stanard, iUinoi:> Mepurtment of agricul-
ture; Mrs. Spencer Ewing, presideni,
Illinois Home Bilie;iu l-'ederation; and
I'resideni S. U. Tbompsun. The Farm-
ers' Institute an4 the Grange are also
to be represented on this piog^ram. lu*-
principal addressjuf the evening will U.
on the subject, "the Future of the Ru
dio Industry and its Ise by Parmera,"
but the speaker fe yet to be :»electe<l.

Besides appro>fng this program for
the annual meeting, the executive coni
"hiittee also set tic date of Wi-dneaday,
Jan. 20, the day prec-eding the annuai
meeting, for an j all-day oonfcr*'nce of
the farm advisers, the exei-utive com-
mittee and 1. A. JL oUicers and directui:-
of departmehts. J At this time the fuu
program of activities of the Illinois
Agricultural As4>^iation will be gon«-
over and di.«cu»s4d, the object being to
permit every farm adviser in the stau-
to become thoroaghly acquainted witb
the extensive act)vitie» ol the 1. A. A.

Free-For4\ll -Diac nasion

The evening preceding the annual
meeting, an op^i loiiitTt-iice of all
county Farm Bireuu pri'sidents and
farm advisers w4 be held with offitcrs
of the Illinois Ai^ricuitural Association
presiding. So f rogrum will be ai
ranged, this being a time for open free
discussion of IhoJe in utlehdancc. Last
year »uch a meeting was held for the
Iirst time and resulted in a general air-
ing of opinions fand inter-cfaange o.'
ideas of infinite I value. During laat
year's mtftintr iti was voted to have a
similar .one again] this year.

The exectitive c >mmittee voted to pay
one-half of the i Kvessary expennes Ji
farm advisers wh > attend the Wedne^-
day conference, \he other half to K;
borne by the cotlnty organizations.

A budget committee, consisting ©: the
officers and tinante committee, »;,s or
dere<I by the exec utivas. To the^e met.
is ch.irged the re: poni^ibility of budget-
I ing the tinam-cs |>f tht- avsociatioti fo;
j iy26 and reporting back to the exem-
i tive committee w i-ch witJ prisv liniiilj
upon it. Memltrr^ of the finance com-
mittee are: William H. Moody, Port
Byron, Rock. Isl:t id county, chairman;
F. D. Bartoit, Coi nell. Livingston coan-
ty and Earl C. Smith, Dev^ot. Pike
county.

(Continued o4 page i; Col. 4)

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DIRECTORS I

' DEPARTMENTS

.B. H. Taylor, Rapaf
^A. R. Wri(ht, vir

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OFFICERS

Prerident S. H. Thompeon Qutacy

Vice-Resident, H. E. Gocmbel Hooppole

Treaeurer, R. A. Cowlee Btoomincton

Secretary, Geo. A. Fox Sycamore

.P. D.

'. D. Barton, Cornell
R. F. Karr, Iroquoia

J. L. Whlanand, Charleston

Earl C. Smith, Detroit

...Samuel Sorrells. Raymond

Stanly Castle, Alton

W. L. Cope, Salem

. . . Curt Anderson, Xenia
. .R. K. Loomis, Makanda

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ASSOCIA1

RECORD'

To advanC€ the purptue for wMch the Farm Bureau was organs
txed, namely, to promote, protect and represent the business,
economic, social and educational interests of the farmers of
Illinois arui the tuition, arid to develop agriculture.

Co-operaUve Accounting , Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing ^ A. D. Lynch

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fnilt and Vegetable Marketinc A. B. Leeper

General Office J. H. Kelker

Grain Marketin« Chester C. Davis

Information Harry C. Butcher

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Markeflng Wm. E. Hedgoock

Orgaidzatkin G. E. Metiger

Phosphate-Limestone .' J. R- Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistica J. C. Watson

Transportation .\ L. J. Quaaey

Publishrd evfry other Saturday at 404 North Wesley Ave.. Mount Moms. Illinois, by the Illinois Agrirullursl Association. Edited by Department of Information. HaiTy C. Butcher, Birector, 608 South
Dearborn Street, Chicaro, Illinois. Entered as second-class matter October 20. 1S25 at the poet office at Mount Morris, Illinois, under the .*ct of March 3. 1879, as a bi-w<jkly Acceptance for muling at special
rate sf postage provided for in Section 412, Act of February 28. 1925. authorijcd October 27. 192.5 The indiTOlual membership fee of the Illinois Auricultuml A.ssociation is five dollars a year. The fee includes
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'tun Mcnrketing Progressing

Minus Headlines

'T'HE grain marketing department of the
^ Illinois Agricultural Association has no-
tified all the Farm Bureaus in the state that
the National Farmfejs' Elevator Grain Com-
pany, Co-operative, is now ready for the con-
sideration of the farmers!' grain companies
of the-^ Midwest.

It has required a great deal of time and
effort io work out the fortn of the organiza-
tion, and to gain a seat on the Chicago Board
of Trade for the subsidiary, the Rural Grain
Company. The national company is strictly
co-operative. It will operate subsidiaries in
various grain markets, ajnd the profits or
losses from these will reflect on the books of
the national body. This plan permits en-
trance [on the boards of trade, at least on
the Chicago board, and at the same time will
permit savings in commissions and economies
in handling grain to be prorated back to the
local elevators in proportion to the grain
handled for each individual elevator- com-
pany. I :
s In niiH--^d cQ ^rast with other attempts of
larmens tu exiIJii . their control of their grain
marketing, this attempt is going on slowly
but surely and without the hubbub and news-
paper headlines which characterized pre-
vious efforts. Perhaps the principal reason
that there is a noticeable absence of head-
lines concerning this co-operative- is that it is
not particularly unusual. It is best that the
company be not unusual; the plan can be
better find more universally understood. It
cannot^ be denied that the farmers elevators
people know their business, for as a whole,
they have been successful. A terminal mar-
keting organization built upon this success-
ful foundation cannot be far from right.

It should not be difficult, the leaders in
the movement think, to get together the
necessary amount of working capital, as it
will onily require a few hundred dollars from
each fanners' elevator company. '. No com-
pany Can hold more than $500 worth of
stock, but the officers want none to take less
than $200. "

An important meeting of the directors of
the cotaipany, together Avith representatives
of stock-holding elevators who may be in
Chicago at the time, will be held December
1 at the I. A. A. office. At that time the
plans for the winter's organization in Illi-
nois and Iowa will be made and arrange-
ments perfected for the first annual stock-
holders' meeting to be held as soon after-
yward is possible.

Every effort is being made to keep down
expenses of organization,' and there is no
method so direct and effective to bring about
acbicfi in an.'^ county, by the local farmer
grain (iompanies, as joint effort on the part
of the' ccamty farfti bureaus and farmers'
elevatdrs themselves.

Just as the county Farm Bureaus are para-

mount factors in the success of the Pro-
ducers, so will they figure prominently in any
successful grain marketing movement.

L^'s Put This Across

NOW that farmers in some 67 Illinois
counties have made it possible for the
Farmers Mutual Re-insurance Company to
get its charter, having over-subscribed the
necessary $500,000 in insurance by $215,000,
the first step is completed and everything
is set to gain the principal objective. The
machinery has been set up, now comes the
time when it shall be put in operation.

It is now up to the officers and directors of
local mutual companies to take advantage of
what the far-sighted individuals have made
possible. Will these officers and directors
place their companies in a position whereby
they can: (1) handle all the insurance
needs of the farmers against fire and light-
ning (later wind storms and hail) on a mu-
tual basis; (2) protect the local company
against those inevitable years when there are
excessive losses and provide against exces-
sive assessments through blanket re-insur-
ance?

We believe that every director and officer
of every local mutual in Illinois should get
full information on the newly chartered com-
pany so they can pass intelligent judgment
on it and answer any questions that their
members may ask.

Both Indiana and Iowa have had a re-
insurance company for many years. Let's
make the Illinois re-insurance company the
best in the United States!

Incidentally, the farmers whose local com-
panies take advantage of the reJhsurance
company will be saved several million dol-
lars on their insurance bills.

the actual value was substanfiially only about
two-thirds of the assessed valuation of lands
devoted to agricultural ,|iurposes to their ac-
tual value." " ,

While the Supreme colirt finds that the
facts were as claimed by. the farmer ob-
jectors, it holds that the objection to appli-
cation's for judgment for unpaid taxes must
be made by each individual person who is
aggrieved, and that the objection cannot be
made by a group. Although application has
been made for re-hearing of this case in the
Supreme court, it has not been determined
as yet whether or not the case will be carried
further. i

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'carmers Lose Tax Case

THE Supreme court of Illinois at the Oc-
tober term handed down a decision in
which the Illinois Agricultural Association
was interested. In 1924, 199 farmers in
Madison county filed objections to the ap-
plication of the collector of Madison county
for judgment and order for sale for taxes de-
linquent against lands of these farmers. The
work of the Madison County Farm Bureau,
co-operating with John C. Watson of the I.
A. A. taxation department, indicated that the
farm lands in Madison county were assessed
for taxation purposes at one-half more than
they should be. This was the basis for the
filing of objections to the application of the
collector.

The County court of Madison county held
against the farmers and the Supreme court
affirmed the decision of the County court.
The Supreme court, in its opinion, finds that
"the evidence justifies the conclusion that in
the assessment actually made, the ratio of the
assessed valuation of city and village lots to

Make It the Com Belt 's National Sport

SO well was the state husking contest
handled by the Montgomery County
Farm Bureau folks that scarcely nothing was
overlooked that could contribute to the com-
fort of the onlookers and to the efficiency
of the competition. Even a com-sheller
style pencil sharpener attached to the busi-
ness-end of the scales was provided.

Staging a husking contest, whether county
or state, is no small job. The state contest
required the services of 148 officials, and
they worked with a will. The ladies did
their bit and then some in furnishing good
food, tasty and hot.

Next year we hope more Farm Bureaus
will have county husking contests. With
more county contests, there could be no mis-
take about getting the very best picker out
of each county. C. V. Gregory, editor of
Prairie Farmer, which is sponsoring the con-
tests in Illinois, said after the Hillsboro af-
fair that quite likely many individual entries
could be eliminated next year if there are
enough county contests to give a fair rep-
resentation of the state. Farm Bureaus
which held county contests this year seem
well pleased with the sport as a morale
builden

There's nothing like a snappy huskin' con-
test to put a kick in the atmosphere! And
farmers say that a contest benefits a whole
community. One farmer in Montgomery
county said his boys averaged from five to
ten bushels more a day after they watched
the style of the good buskers competing in a
contest.

How about com shuckin' as the National
game of the Corn Belt? And hog callin' as
the Com Belt's song?

ANOTHER service of your organization is
the promotion of the consumption of
farm products. Recently the famous "Red"
Grange and "Five Yards" McCarty testified
to representatives of the Record as to the im-
portant part milk has had in making them
football heroes. This was broadcast to the
world. No need to tell you what the kids with
football aspirations who read these stories will
do. i ,■- . . _ I

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November 21, 1925

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St. Louis District
Farm Bureaus Adopt
Detroit Milk Plans

Executive Committees of Clin-
ton, Macoupin, Montgom-
ery and St. Clair Counties
Pass Resolution

■ Farm Bureaus in the counties of the
St. Louis district are now making defi-
nite plans for the organization of the
n:ilk producers in that territory, ac-
cording to A. D. Lynch, L A. A. director
of dairy marketing. The scheme under
consideration- is known as the ^'Detroit
Plan" which regulates the price of milk
when the market has a surplus which
cannot be bottled and sold

Recently Director Lynch met with
the executive committees of four Farm
Bureaus and explained the plan which
will probably be adopted for the milk
produced in southern Illinois and dis-
tributed through the St. Louis com-
panies.

The following resolution was adopted
by the executive committees of the St.
riair County Farm Bureau and the
Macoupin County Farm Bureau on Nov.
2, the Montgomery County Farm Bu-
reau on Nov. 3, and the Clinton County
Farm Bureau on Nov. 5, and will prob-
ably be considered by other Farm Bu-
reaus.

Resolution A<loptecl

"Whereas, a condition exists in this
county and has existed for a number of
years whereby the dependable 12-month
dairy farmer with his capital invested
in dairy farming has been in competi-
tion with other dairymen who are not
12-month dairymen, and who operate a
dairy part of the time and usually in
the period of the year when milk can
be produced most cheaply, thereby creat-
ing a surplus which lowers the market
value of the milk of all who are produc-
ing it.

"And, whereas, a sound, conservative
sales plan for merchandising the milk so
that the dairymen who are producing
milk more nearly as consumers require
it may be premiumized, is needed as the
proper means for effectively selling thfe
milk in our several communities in a
business-like manner.

"And, whereas, such a sales plan can
succeed only when all dairymen and their
service organizations unite unselfishly
in formulating such a plan and set it
in operation under the guidance of cap-
able persons democratically serving the
interests of the membership.

Seek Help of Organization

"Therefore, be it resolved, that this
executive committee approve the adop-
tion of such a plan in the St. Louis
dairy district and give it the unqualified
endorsement of this county Farm Bu-
reau.

"Be it further resolved, that we seek
and request the co-operation of the State
Department of Agriculture, University
of Illinois, Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, the several county Farm Bureaus,
the Illinois State Grange, the Farmers'
Equity Union and all buyers of milk in
our communities to unite with us ac-
tively in bringing to a successful con-
clusion the formation and adoption of a
sound, conservative milk merchandising
plan for the benefit of the whole dairy
industry in the St. Louis milk district."

1. A. A. to Entertain
Farm Club Boys and

Girls at Breakfast

"Last call for breakfast!"
Thfs is the call that will assemble
nearly 100 Illinois farm boys and girl»
to a breakfast entertainment on Dec

2, which will be given by the Illinois
Agricultural Association when they at-
tend the Boys' and Girls' Club Congress
and the International Live Stock Ex-
position at Chicago during the first
week in December.

Club boys and girls of Illinois will not
get out of the habit of rising early, as
customary on the farm, when they take
a short vacation trip and attend their
national meeting and the live stock
show, for on the second day of Decem-
ber they will breakfast at /::10 a. m.
in the Crystal room of the Great Ncrth-
ern hotel.

This annual breakfast for the boys
and girls of Illinois has become an
established tradition In the state farm
bureau activities. Last year approxi-
mately 150 boys, girls and tiflRcers and
directors of the I. A. A. attended the
annual breakfast. Two years ago, the
farm club members of Illinois who
earned trips to the stock show as re-
wards for superior club work, were
fiven a banqurt and dance.
The progr^"! ^^ ***^ breakfast will
probably include exhibits by special
demonstration teams, speeches by the
boys and girls, talks by President
Thompson and Geo. A. Fox, executive
secretary of .the I. A. A., and a general
ineroduction of the guests to the state
farm bureau directors and their work.

In California, cooperativb associations
are being formed to erect and operate large
storage tanks for oil uaed in hcatinc orchards
during frost periods. _^

The Illinois Agricultural Association ReCQRD

And here's Col. L. B. Warnsing, chief manager of the state com
liasldng contest, and his two assistants, William Refahans and Wade^
Weller.

FARM FILLERS

FARM BUREAU POSTER

Citizens of this countht are eatino abodt
18 pounds more meat a yf*"" than thpy were
•xinsuming five years ago. During 1923 the total
amount of meat consumed was 18,481,000,000
pounds. Pork lead in popularity with beef.
veal, mutton and lamb and goat following in
order named. The consumption of pork totaled
over ten billion pounds while goaf meat was
consumed at the rate of three million pounds
annually.

Complaint has been hadb toat tob co-
operative enK association in Ore^n has been so
manipulatiiiK the eeg mnrkrt that the cold
8for8(?e intcrf«its and sporulators have been
getting the short end of the profits. In the spring
the charge is that the price for eggs is held up so
high that the ioe house men cannot afford to
buy them for storage stock and in Octotjer the
price in Portland is so low that there is little profit
in bringing tlirm out, while the oo-operative
sell carloads of eegs in New York at an advance
over the Portland price.

MiCHiOAN State Fabm Bubeau has a fabhic
department which »'llb suits, overcoats, woolen
bed blanktts, auto robes and underwear to its
members. The merchandise is said to be manu-
factured of 100 per cent wool and of the highest
quality.

A RECENT INCOMPLETB BUR VET OF JUNIOR 4-H

rlubs in Iowa showed 18,052 club members
scattered throughout the 99 counties of the
state. Of this number 10,326 are enrolled in
girls' clubs and the remaining 7,720 in boys
clubs.

In THE SIXTH zoo POOL, OCTOBER 1 TO 15. OF
the Ohio Poultry Producers' Co-operative Asso-
riation the memoera received 47.5 cents a dozen
for their eggs. This price was 7.5 cents above tlir
price paid by local poultry and egg buyers during
the same period when the non-nu'mbers reo'ivpii
40 cenia a dotrn. By the first Wi-ek in November
it W'lS expected that thu Ohio co-operative would
reach the $'200,000 mark in total sales for the first
four months of operation, according to M. L.
Howdl, manager of the association.

The Alberta (Canada) wheat pool mem-
bership ia increasing more rapidly than ever
a V. b. D. A. report statt«. ^ A million additional
acres are expected to be signed by January 1.
Coarse grains may also be pooled if enough con-
tracts are received. Some elevators are being
built by the pool.

Jerset countt has recently ewploted a
county veterinarian. Eh-. H. H. Seely, who will
have charge of tuberculosis eradication work
beins started in that county with the support of
the Jersey County Farm Bureau.

Ford Countt Daibt MARKETtNo Asbocia-
tion, located at Paxton. started with 115 members
and now has 201. During its first year of opern-
tion it did over S30.000 of business and paid
patronage refunds of $lt391.05 to its members.

Gathering the Corn
'T*HE great plumes, the ears
well enveloped in their husks,
the Umff, and pointed leaves, in
summer, Uke green or purple
ribandSf vnth a uellow stem line
in the middle, all now turned
dingy; the sturdy stalks, and the
rustling in the breeze — the breeze
itself well tempering the sunny
noon — the varied reminiscences
recall'd — the ploughing and plant-
ing in spring — the whole fam-
ily in the field, even the little
girls and boys dropping seed in
the hill— the gorgeous sig h t
through July and August — the
walk and observation early in the
day — the cheery/ call of the robin,
and the low whirr of insects in
the grass — the- Western husking
party, when ripe — the November
moonlight gathering, and the
calls, songs, laugh ter of the
young fellows. — Walt Whitman,

FORO COUNTY

FARMiUREAU

AND HOW IT HAS PAID

WHAT IT HAS DONE

"iyM^s^

WHAT THE farm BUREAU IS DOING

tt TT— Op..,^! T. n- r«- l-M> « T. c
b iV Om TWi Hfi, T^ (M

This poster^ which is one of the
achievements of the publicity com-
mittee of the Ford County Fmrm
Bureau, is displayed in all public
places in the county for the purpose
of pointing out to both members
and non-members, the activities, ac-
complishments and program of the
organization.

Adviser idea 200 Years Old

Letters In NeH Jersey Archives

Show Farmers Wanted County

AgenU in 1723

How old is the county agent idea?

Carl R. Woodward, editor of the New
Jersey extension service, found upon
examing colonial documents in the New
Jersey archives that more than 200
years ago a suggestion was made that
a farm demonstrator be employed.

As early as 1723 a farm demonstrator
was proposed for the colonial planters
of flax and hemp. In November, 1719,
Lewis Morris, president of the East
Jersey Council, suggested the establish-
ment of demonstration farms in a iet-
ter written to the lords of trade in
which he said:

"Hemp may be easily raised in great
quantities in this country; but we do
not well understand the managery of it.

"I humbly submit to your Lordship's
consideration whether, if a few families
that understood it were plac't by His
Majttstie, on some propper lands in the
Province of New Yorke (of which there
are great quantities), and oblig'd to at-
tend solely the raising of hemp, it would
not be the be^t direction; and of use."

Mr. Woodward states that four years
later a memorial was presented to the
lords of trade which concluded that a
farm demonstrator was the best means
of promoting the interests of agri-
culture. It read:

"That they . . . humbly propose some
person well Skilled in Raising and
Manufacturing the several Species of

Naval Stores (flax, hemp, tar)

may be Forthwith appointed with suf-
ficient power to instruct the Inhabitants
and conduct this Affair, which is of the
greatest consequence to his Maj'ts.
Dominions both here and in the Planta-
tions."

Whether or not the lords of trade
ever acted on this proposal, Mr. Wood-
ward has so far been unable to discover.

ThkCrICAOO PRODUr^Ks'B17IIINEMIBSTEAI>n.T

.growing, judging from the Octobrr rccript*..

County Farm Bureau
Presidents to Hold
J Breakfast Meeting

When it comes to having business
breakfast conferences. President Cool-
idge has nothing on the county farm
bureau presidents of Illinois who will
attend the conference of the Illinois
Agricultural Association and the annual
meeting of the American Farm Bureau
Federation in Chicago, DecemlKT 7, 8,
Bn4 9.

According to an announcement sent
to Presidents of the 92 county Farm
Bureaue by Geo. A. Fox, executive sec-
retary of the I. A. A., all county farm
bureau presidents of the state have
be^n called to meet at a special break-
fast conference in the Crystal ro^ of
the Great Northern hotel, at 7:00 |a. m.,
Tuesday, December 8. . {

This early morning conference has
beem called to make plans for other
meetings of the county presidents Vhich
will convene during the annual canven-
tioB of the national farm crp-anitation
and to give the presidents an opportun-
ity to attend the national meeting and
take part in its activities.

It is understood that the presidents
expect to journey to Chicago on Mon-
day, December 7, to hear President
Coolidge, who will address the farm
delegates at 11:00 o'clock that morning.

The conference of the county presi-
dents of Illinois will take up lepisla-
tiv«, administrative and marketing
problems strictly related to the farm
work in this state. The discaRsion at
this meeting will supplement the con-
vention work of the national organita-
tiot. ■

''Five Yards" McCarty
Drinks Quart of Milk
Three Times Each Day

When Austin ("Five Yards") Mc-
Carty, Chicago's famous gridiron play-
er end human battering ram. sits down
to his three square meals he flnds at
the right of his plate a quart bottle of
milk to which is attributed considerable
of his ability to gain five yards or the
football field every time he carries the
ball, according to information c*ming
to the Illinois Agricaltural Association.

*yed" Grange. Illinois' football ace.
may have had a hard time keeping Ws
hands off of the white bottle*; of the
lactile substance when he delivered ice
to the Wheaton refr^rators last sum-
mer but to McCarty three quarts of
milk is a daily present to him from his
fraternity. ^

In the trophy room of Austin** fra-
ternity stands a silent monument to
the .American cow and her contribution
to Chicago's football victories, it is
learned. The trophy, reposing beside
the loving cups won for athletic achieve-
ments, is the first milk bottle emptied
by "Five Yards" McCarty when be en-
tered the fraternity life of his school.

McCarty's success and perfect health,
through his milk diet, has been so con-
vincing that his room-mates have taken
to drinking the farm beverage. The
steward of Austin's fraternity states
that up until 1922, when McCarty be-
canie a member of the college organiza-
tion, milk was used only for cooking
purposes. However, this fall the stew-
ard; finds that he roust order 20 bottles
of imilk for each meal. Of th«9e, 19
are pint bottles and one a qunrt size
to he placed before McCarty's chair at
thej table. Upon this diet, the steward
beliieves, the members of the chapter
will soon oBtgrow their present cloth-
ing- measurements.

KtNETT-BEVtM SHIPPERS OF THE M \RlnN
fv>unty III. Shipping Asm>«Tation vUitM thr
l-.ai-t Snint Lnuis Pr.Mluocrs rcfvntly «-atching thr
si<K-kgothrou^thev&rds. F. J. Blackburn, farm
advi^r and G. C. Cliftoo, shifting associatiuD
m&JOfecer. pronaoted the trip.

SEVENTEEN Pes cent OP THE TOTAL RBCTIPTB

nf li»rst«ck on the St. Ixiiiis niHrket wctv hstKlltHJ
(iurisg a ivrent wwk by iKc PriMluivm. Tliin m-as
oufuiiderable more than mny ottier aceuoy handU-d.

Pagg3

L A. A. Cmferefices Listed

Four District feelings to be H*ld
B«(or« fClosc of Y^r

Congressionnl' district conference
meetings of fa^ bureau representa-
tives and members and 1. A. A. ofliciuis
have been schequled for the next four
weeks with pl^ce. date, district and
spo;ikcrs annoutced as follows:

November 2ai-22nd district, Green"-
villc. Speaker, A'crnon Vaniman, field
reprfy.entative df the Farmers' Mutual
Reinsurance Company of Illinois.

~ 11th d.slrict. Wood-
President Thompson
I. A. A. director of

November 2
stock. Speakei
and A. D, Lyn^
dairj- marketio]

Decern l»er 2
ton. Speakers,

7th district, Blooming-
C. Watson. I. A. A.
taxation specialist ; President Thomp-
son, and L. J. yuasey. director of the
I A. A. transportation department.

December 14-4l8th district. Watsok.i.
Speakers, Geo. J^. Fox, executive tnH-re-
tary of the I. Aj A., and Wm. E. Hedg-
cock, I. A. A. {director of live stock
marketing

Renewing Members of
Alabama Farm Bureau
Must l^ool Farm Crop

A new p<m?^ toward co-operative
marketing has been formulated by the
board of directois of the Alabama Farm
Bureau Federalion. Hereafter farm
bureau members must market their
crops throagh commodity cu^operative*.

After the exmration of the present
farm bureau niAiberships on December
31, no application for renewal or for
new membership! will be accepted unless
at the same tim^ the farmer signs up a
commodity contract for such crops as
he is known td grow, handle or sell.
This ruling api^ies only to the crops
for which the ^ute and county Farm
Bureaus have fqstercd commodity mat*
keting associations.

The resolutior^ setting forth the n««
policy was adopttnl unanimousl>' and of-
ficial notice has $cen sent to every ^em-
ber. Better mar^t-tiiwr i^ the chief pur-
pose of the Farfii Btirenu, according to
its directors, antl farmers who are not
willing to' help j improve marketing do
not belong in th^ organization.

Knox Bureau Buys $10
Gas Covnon Books And
Meml I fi Get 'Em For f 9

A saWng Oa ciose to ♦••■' cents a gal-
lon on gasoline ,i^ i sir uvalable to
members of the Knox County Farm
Bureau, which thus Used the buying
power of the organisation to purchaSjp
SIO coupon boo^s at a discount, and
sells them to members at $9.

"It is getting Fto be a difBcult matter
to keep gasolin4 on the farm without
a lock or key,* a statement in the
Knox County Farm Bureau Bulletin
reads. "In fac^, a goodly number of
farmers han*e discontinued buying gaoD-
line in large tquantities from tank
wagons becaus* of the shrinlcag*
through eTapor^tion and loss due to
passing motorist<i who find their gas
tanks emty at ^ large hour.

"Thus the F#m Bureau has opened
a new way for ineml>ers to buy gas at
a discount. Praicticaliy every corpora-
tion using large, quantities of gasoline
is able to purchase it at a discount.
The Farm Bureau has been able to d«
likewise, the OT\\y difference being that
the Farm Burea* takes a large number
of coupon book* instead of gasolitio.
These are redeemable at filling stations
throughout the eounty."

The coupons <re good for kerosene,,
oil, grease or arAr products sold at th-
ing stations. By taking advantage of
the co-jpon book . savings, members can
' "clip cash coQpo^a from their meraber-
' ship," concludes (the statetnent.

Here Aey are before th«y sUried. Eltn«r WillUms. Tictor. is

v"!lf* sTJ?* * *"?^ ^** there'd been some Red Granges and 'Ti«

"^ McCytys here *f they had chosen the gridiron in place of tb«

cornfield to display their athletic talenU !

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Page 4

"The Illinois Agricultural Asgociation RECORD

November 21, 1925

Carterville Lions

Work With Farmers
^ In Co- op Marketing

Fruit and Vegetable Associa-
tion Formed by Co-operation
of Farmers and Business
Club Proves Success

MyfUckl of the credit of the
IVl xutxess of the Carterville
Growers' Association is due to
the leadership
and work of
Logan N.
Colp, presi-
dent of the as-
soeiaiion. As
a farmer, Mr.
Colp hnew the
coTuiition o f
local agricul-
ture and as
vice-p r e s i -
dent of t h e
Lions club he
was able to
join the busi-
the fanners in
making the organization a suc-
cess. Colp managea a SiO-acre
farm of which 187 acres are
planted in fruit trees. He is a
director I of the Illinois Fruit
Growers^ Exchange, Centralia.
ReeentM he has given manu talks
before mrtners and businessmen
of soutlt}pm Illinois telling of the
success of the CarterviUt a.isoci-
ation airi^ assisting in organizing
similar organizations in that part
of the state.

nes9tnen<

Williams, Stark County Member, Husks

Barehanded; Wins State Shuckin' Title

When the business men and the farm-
era get toj^ether on a cooperative^ and
mutual project things begin to happen.
That is a known fact and Carterville
has an example which furnishes a good
proof for the axiom.

It was Isst year that the citizens of
Cartervillei be^n to realize that all was
not well ah)und their community. Agri-
culture ha)d not been doing: well and
- Cartervillei depends largely upon its
rural people. Farmers were badly in
<•«*'♦ Tcr: -...? ' it farming had not
l-^,u n ; >-.»i^ sinesa. Mortgages

"'OFeii incTC i.-intf *n- he average farmer
I' ' not h» ■•- *u!^ !.:_. money to make a
Change if he desired.

That was the condition when the
Lions Club of Carterville, through the
efforts of ^ogan N. Colp, a local farmer,
began to take a hand. Farmers were
called in f<tr consulation, a careful study
of conditidns was made and in October
a joint too'r of farmers and merchants
was made throu^ the fruit and vege-
table districts of southern Illinois. This
was followed by local farm meetings
with the nesult that last December, the
Carterviilej Growers Association, Inc.,
was formed with seventy-one members.
Logan N. ICoIp was elected president.
Toniato«s Yield $300 an Acre

Twenty-five acres of tomatoes were
grown by the members this year which
netted the«i from $150 to $300 per acre
after all expenses were paid. Beans,
sweet corn and spinach also were plant-
ed by the -tnembers but due to the dry
season, thece^rops did not yield as well.
These werf not a complete loss by any
means because of the unusual climatic
conditions !for more than 1000 hampers
of green beans, 350 sacks of corn and
300 busheU of spinach were shipped to
market on a cooperative basis by the
association members.
. Although it is planned that the pro-
duction of fruit shall be the major crop,
the members decided to confine their
initial efforts to vegetables the first
year in order to receive immediate re-
turns on their investment.

The tomato crop proved the big suc-
cess. In ^1, fourteen cars or approx-
imately 4,000 bushels were shipped by
the association. The distribution was
handled bv the Illinois Fruit Growers
Exchange, rCentralia, and the product
was sold o> the market in Chicago, Mil-
waukee, sit. Paul, Indianapolis, Cin-
cinnati, Rochester, New Yofk and oth«;r
prominent points of consumption.

Green Wraps Profitable '

Ten of tke fourteen cars weare shipped
as green wrapped tomatoes and thus
allowed a wider distribution with less
spoilage or loss and greater financial
returns, this was the first time that
green wrapped tomatoes had been
shipped oiit of this district and they
took exceptionally well on the markets.
It is befieved that the Carterville
farmers have established a demand for
their greert wrapped tomatoes that will
prove of unusual financial benefit in fu-
ture seasons.

Local greenhousemen co-operated with
the association members this year and
fhe tomatd plants were grown in the
Carterville green house on a purely cost
of production basis. A local warehouse
was rented at a reasonable rate for
grading and packing the crops.

Lions Club to Furnish Wrappers j

For the next year, the Lions Club of

I;

^'fJROWN, I've got to get this news
^-^ to my wife!'*

So said Elmer Williams when it was
announced that his 27.21 bushels which
he shucked in eighty minutes in the sec-
ond annual state
com husking con-
test, -conducted by
Prairie Farmer,
entitled him' to the
title of Illinois
champion.

Nineteen other
fast corn pickers
competed in the
contest which was
held on the farm of
William Bergman,
ten miles north of
Hillsboro in Mont-
gomery county No-
vember 12 under
auspices of the
Montgomery Coun-
ty Farm Bureau.
While the corn was
of %good yield, the
ears were high and
a long d r i z z I i ng
rain the night be-
fore caused con-
siderable difficulty
in getting about.

"Brown" is the
farm adviser of
the Stark County
Farm Bureau — E.
E. Brown. He
played a new role
for farm advisers
— that of coach.
Williams. the

state's newly crowned champion, has been
a member of the Stark County Farm
Bureau' since it was organized.

"I wish they'd had these contests ten
years ago," declared Williams. "I'm
getting so my arms begin to numb, but
when I was younger I could toss 'em
faster. Why about fourteen years ago
I shucked 202 bushels in eight hours
and twenty minutes, and one week I got
over 800 bushels."

Williams is 35 years old, 5 feet 6
inches tall, 160 pounds in weight and a
farmer.

Adviser Brown was on the job to
render rubbing service if necessary, but
none was.

Williams used a shucking peg and
worked barehanded. The peg jabbed his
left wrist badly. When the contest
ended his wrist and hands were bleeding.
He tossed from 37 to 42 ears into the
wagon per minute.

Husking 27.21 bushels in eighty min-
utes is at the rate of 202 bushels if that
pace is maintained for ten hours, 183.6
bushels far nine hours, 163 for eijjht
hours, or on'e-third of a bushel a min-
ute.

A Cloae Secon<l

Close on his iieels was Walter W.
Olsen, member of the Knox Farm Bu-
reau, with 26.56 bushels. Third was
Earl Niehaus, 20-year-old son of Ilenry
Niehaus, winner of last year's state
contest, who could not compele this
year because of boils on his wrists. The
younger Niehaus, however, turned in a
remarkably clean load, havinc only
four ounces of ribbons on the 100-
pound sample taken from his load. It
weighed 1778 pounds, and dividing by
a 70-pound bushel gave him a total of
25.40 bushels. Henry Franzen of Flana-
gan, Livingston county, landed fourth
with 25.12 bushels. Oscar Hafremeier of
Nokomis, Montgomery county, took
fifth with 25 bushels.

Other placings were as follows: 6 —
Orville Welch, Monticello, Piatt county.
24.6 bushels; 7 — M. V, Beck, Rochester,
Sangamon county. 24.5 bushels; 8 —
Theodore Tuftie, Ottawa, LaSalle coun-
ty, 23.93 bushels; 9 — Wayne Umphries,
Covell, McLean county, 23.74 bushels;
10— E. C. Henry, Piper City, Ford coun-
ty, 23.3 bushels; 11 — Pearl Mansfield,
Montgomery county. 22.05 bushels; 12 —
O. R. Pawley, Aledo, Mercer county,
21.94 bushels; 13 — William Wellenreiter,
Danvers, McLean county, 21.89 bushels;
14 — Gus Miller, Geneseo, -Henry county,
21.66 bushels; 15 — Curtis Robb, Taylor-
ville. Christian county, 20.9 bushels; 16
— Earl Marquis, Bethany, Moultrie

Illlnoli' New ( h mp in Action

(jounty, 20.42 bushels: 17 — Grover Leigh,
Sangamon county, 20.19 bushels; 18 —
Souvie Harland, Marietta, Fulton coun-
ty, 18.81 bushels; 10--Joe Morford.
Alexis, Mercer county, 18.14 bushels;
20 — Dave Spain,
Armstrong, Ver-
million county, 17.35
bushels.

Penalty For Too
Many Ribbons

Under the system
of scoring used, a
100-pound sample
v;as taken , from
ctich contestant's
corn. All husks left
on ears in this
samp'.e were re-
moved and weigh-
p.l. No penalty was
mrtde if not more
ihan four ounces
of husks were
found, but for each
ounce over four,
three per cent was
t .ken off the total
weight of the corn.
Some contestants
were penalized
heavily because of
"dirty" husking and
those wh;> turned
in clean loads were
Lt-nefitted. For
each pound of corn
left behind in the
field, each contest-
• ant was penalized
two pounds from the total husked.

Several of the contestants earned the
right to enter the state contest by win
ning in county contests, several of which
were put on by county Farm Bureaus
Others entered by , offidavit as to
amounts they had shucked under obser^
vation of some onlooker. It is expected
that more county contests will be held
by Farm Bureaus next year and individ-
ual entries eliminated.

About 3,000 People

About 680 cars were counted as the
onlookers left for ,home, and it was
estimated that at least 3,000 people saw
the event.

Handling such a crowd in an efficient
manner, and also superintending the
many details of the contest itself, was
the, job of the Montgomery County
Farm Bureau. That this was well done
was the opinion of everyone. One hun
dred and forty-eight men were required
as gleaners, drivers, judges, timekeepers,
mounted police and officials. Col. R. B.
Warrjsiiig of Nokomis was in charge.
His close assistants were: Will Reb-
ham and Louis Weller of Raymond
Farm Adviser Alden Snyder and others
of the Farm Bureau deserve much credit
.for the efficient manner in which the
contest was handled. The Hillsboro
Chamber of Commerce gave good sup-
port. Appetites were appeased by the
hospitable ladies of the locality who
served food during the day.

The farm is owned by Garrett Fere-
boom and Mr. Bergman is the renter,
Most of the 680 automobiles were park-
ed on a bluegrass pasture and it was
badly cut up.

"Aw, don't worry about that pasture,"
Bergman said alter the contest, "it
hasn't been in com for forty years, so
I'll plow it up next spring."

MKlwest Contest Next

Both Williams and Olsen will rep-
resent Illinois in the Midwest contest
Sn Mercer county, Illinois, November 19.
There is keen desire to bring the corn
belt championship to Illinois this year.
State champions of Illinois, Iowa, Ne-
braska, and Minnesota, and perhaps rep-
resentatives of Indiana and South
Dakota, will compete.

W. J. Sharer, representing the Burv
iress Community Club, an important
part of the Mercer County Farm Bur-
eau, invited all to attend the Midwest
contest in the "best county in Illinois^
but! if I lived in Montgomery county,
I'd say this is the best ohe."

"Beat Iowa! Beat Iowa!" answered
the crowd.

Carterville has offered to famish free,
of charge, special printed wrappers for
the green tomatoes shipped by the as-
sociation. The product will be market-
ed under the "lUini" brand but the
wrapper will bear the name of the as-
sociation and a statement to the effect
that the organization was sponsored by
the Carterville Lions Club.

It is expected that next year the
membership of the Carterville Growers
Association will number more than 150
and at least 60 to 75 cars of vegetables
will be handled by the association. 'The
members were well satisfied with the
results this year.

The. success of the Carterville grow-
ers has come to the attention of both
farmers and towns people throughout
the district and it is understood that
the Rotary and Lions' clubs of many
towns are making arrangements to co-

\

operate with the farmers in sponsoring
fruit and vegetable associations in their
respective communities.

The total, sales of the Carterville
Growers Association this year has been
estimated at approximately J13,000 and
was made up of $11,000 in tomatoes,
(1,500 in beans and $500 in spinach and
corn. This was a good start and with
similar success next year it is expected
that the total sales will reach a mark of
at least four times this amount.

Officers of --the association include:
Logan N. Colp,' president; Jay Bick,
Vice-president; Leo Watson, secre-
tary-treasurer and J. W. Hayton, Matt
Conner, J. B. Moulton, Claude Cox and
Richard North, directors.

Rains, Bad Roads

Slow Farm Bureau
Membership Drive

Rains, snows and bad roads daring the
past two weeks have combined in re-
tarding the membership renewal cam-
paigns in many counties of the state,
according to Geo. E. Metjtger, I. A. A.
director of organization.

"Membership drives have been in
progress in many counties and their re-
sults have been encouraging," states
Director Metzger. "However, when many
of the roads became in such a condition
that our cars mired down to the hubs,
we were forced to quit and wait until
the boggs freeze up or become dry
enough to be passable. In counti^ hav-
ing hard roads we have been able to
complete the solicitation of the members
living on tha concrete highways. We are
unable to complete the cancpaighs in
many counties until the side roads are
in better condition.

"The recent continuous rains have
caused great losses to many Illfhois
farmers. In our work in the countVy we
find that thousands are unable to get in
the fields to harvest their corn. These
rains have been exceptionally prevalent
in our southern counties. In one county,
which ordinarily sows a large acreage
of wheat, it is said that this fall the
farmers have been able to sow less than
100 acres on the entire county.

"Under these conditions we are hold-
ing up our membership campaigns.
Several of our solicitors have been with-
drawn to curtail expenses."

New Game Law Makes
"No Hunting" Signs
Mean What They Say

Several county Farm Bureaus in Illi*
nois are furnishing "No Hunting" signs
to members. In the last legislature an
amendment to the game laws was en-
auied which protects an owner or tenant
who posts a "No Hunting" sign on his
premises, or inserts a small advertise-
ment in the local newspaper telling that
no hunting is permitted.

The text is as follows:

"It shall be unlawful for any person
to trap or hunt with a gun or a dog,
or allow a dog to hunt within or upon
the land of another or upon the waters
Bowing over or standing on the land of
another, where notice that hunting or
trespassing is forbidden, is posted or
exhibited in a conspicuous place on such
land, or where the owner, agent of the
owner, or occupant has expressly for-
bid.ien hunting or trespassing on such
land by publication in a local news-
paper,"

in analyzing this amendment, Legal
Counsel Kirkpatrick states that it
serves as a protection for those who
put up signs or who advertise, yet does
not lessen the protection of the owner
ur tenant as it stood before the game
law was amended.

The penalty for violation is a fine of
not less than $15 nor more than $100,
or county jail imprisonment of not less
than 10 days nor more than 20 days,
;il, the discretion of the court.

Jardine and Lowden
to Speak at Meeting

(Continued from page 1, col. 6)

A conunittee to consider any pro-
posals for amending the I. A. A. con-
stitution, should there be any, was also
appointed. The members are: B. H.
Taylor, Rapatee,; Fulton county; Samuel
Sorrells, Raymond, Montgomery coun-
ty and G. F. Tullock, Rockford, Winne-
bago county. Proposals to amend the
constitution must be submitted 20 days
in advance of the annual meeting in
order that all voting delegates may be
notified, according to the by-laws of the'
I. A. A. '

Other actions taken by the executive
committee in its November meeting
were: approval of the treasurer's finan-
cial report which showed the I. A. A. is
operating under its budget; received a
report on grain marketing, a story
of which is in another column, and re-
ceived a verbal report from the legis-
lative committee telling of work being
done to forjji a citizens' protective body
for the purpose of pushing a state po-
lice bill in the next legislature which
would have the support of the Illinois
Chamber of Commerce. Illinois Bank-^
ers' Association and the I. A. A.

All three organizations are co-oper-
ating in this effort to secure a state
police bill which will furnish adequate
rural protection and without undesir-
able political influences.

"No TRE8PASR"8triVSARR BEADT^R nELTYBRT

to all niembera uf tlig Winnebago CVunty Farm
Bureau.

Iv A LETTER TO TBB IlLTNOIS AgHICCTLTCHAL

SMiciation coneerniiiR the Kecobd, the Literary
nw-8t says "We are K>oliing forward to re-

f^ivinff fiitiirii lauii.^ t-<t *\ila .•.*a_«.a4£.._ _.._li;^_

.VRECENTftCRVKYOf-THElJ.S. D. A. REVEALED

■ha( 70 p€T»(fiit of th« price ptii.i by cunsuiiu-ro
ii Button for onions was ab6<»rb€^ in iiandliiiK
ii«t8 y>etwe<-n the prtxtm-era and the conaumerH,

T«B Chicago Prodccerb handIb about
5 p**. cent of the tutu I livestock receipts on the
Chicaj^o market after deducting shipnieDta
Uii;^t to packers.

NrARLT Two-mmtM! or thB nation's cran*-
berry crop is marketed Cooperatively.

Gougler and Wicker
Address Members at
District Conference

'
'

. A. A. and Woodford County
Farm Bureau Compliment-
ed by Members at 1 6th
District Meeting, Oct. 27

A. R. Wrtsht

Poultry and egg marketing, principles
involved in developing successful co-op-
erative organiza-
tions and p general
review of tne^rob-
lema and projects
of the county Farm
Bureaus were the
chief subjects dis-
cussed at the 16th
district I. A. A.
conference held at
Henry, Oct. 27.

Thirty-two farm
bureau officers, ad-
visers and members
from Marshall,
Putnam, Peoria,

Bureau, Stark and Tazewell counties
attended the meeting. A. R. Wright,
I. A. A. executive committeeman, who
will reflect the wishes and expressions
of the leaders on to the state organiza-
tion, presided as chairman with F. E.
Fuller, adviser, Marshall-Putman Farm
Bureau, as secretary.

During the morning session, F. A.
Gougler, director of the I. A. A. poul-
try and egg marketing department, told
the members about the Ilfinois poultry
and egg marketing plan that is now
in the educational stage in many coun-
ties. It was the opinion of those
present that most farmers will be will-
ing to take better care of the eggs by
gathering them twice a day, "swatting
the rooster" and in general, produce a
higher quality of eggs, provided there
IS a profit for doing so. Under present
marketing conditions farmers get little
or nothing extra for the extra work.
Woodford Conntv Praised

Following the noon hour, the meet-
ing was turned over to a round-table
discussion of the problems and projects
of the various Farm Bureaus repre-
sented. The progress of the membership
drives w^ reviewed and the unanimous
opinion was stated in the belief that,
when possible, non-members should be
excluded from participation in the bene-
fits of the Farm Bureau.

Hog vaccination work which makes a
saving in lower costs of serum to farm-
ers was reported as saving more than
the cost of running the Farm Bureaus
of the district. Praise was given to tfce
Woodford County Farm Bureau for its
discovery of Krug corn and work in in-
creasing the yield. Tazewell county
representatives related the work with
their automobile insurance for members.
I. A. A. Complimented

The work of the I. A. A. was compli-
mented by J. E. Shanklin of Toluca, who
stated that he saw the great value of
the organization at the time of the
hearing of the state commerce commis-
sion in defense of the farmers' elevator
which he represents at Varna. This
elevator company owns property along
a railroad that is attempting to cease
operations, thus leaving the elevator
stranded for want of transportation fa-
cilities. "When these emergencies arise
we see the great value of sticking to-
gether," he stated.

Geo. R. Wicker, manager of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Co-operatives' Asso-
ciation, the I. A. A. co-operative audit-
ing and business service, made the after-
noon address. He explained the neces-
sity of a solid foundation for grain
marketing founded upon farmers' eleva-
tors. He stated that now farmers* ele-
vator associations are getting together
on a plan acceptable to all.

Thirty-two Present

Those present at the meeting, accord-
ing to counties represented, included:

Marshall-Putnam County Farm Bureau —
J. £. Shapklin. John McDonald. H. H. Heat-
ings. A. K Wright, I. A. A. executive com-
mittee, Charles Martin, Ben Modro, H. I.
Webber, J. A Shanklin, J. T Mills. John
Schmitt. H. H. Thierry. J. E. CarlBOn. Otis
McCUry, A. M. Stoner, F. E. Fuller, farm
adviser. Louis Boyle, assistant adviser. F.
E. Smith. George Wheeler. William Dow-
ney, L. F. Doyle. David Sipe and Guy
French.

Peoria County Farm Bureau— Charles
Ford, president ; and C. R. Coultas. assist-
ant adviser.

Bureau County Farm Bureau — Herman
Madsen. William Habercom. and W. W.
Wilson, farm adviser. *

SUrk County Farm Bureau — Ed. Welcox
and E. E. Brown, farm adviser.

Tasewell County Farm Bureau — L. E.
Wetk and President Morris.

Facrr treks {and many spbino and eaklt
summer flowers within a radius of 60 tnijes of
EKiquoin. Perry county, were in bloom or bud thia
fall, uakiiig two "spring seaaons" for 1926.

The board of the Vrruilion County Fabu
Bureau has expreaMed it^-If as favoring a corn
husking rate of five cents a bushel for this fall
and feels this is the average in central Illinois.

J. Franklin Hedocock, pasm adviber of thS
Will County Farm Bureau, was one of the speak*
era at the National Conference of County Agenta
which was heU at the National Dairy Show.
Indianapolis.

Most animals aboct the farm bate a
name. Why not give one to the farm too?

\

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yer 21. 1925

Vicker
\bers at
nference

ord County
ompliment-
s at 16th
, Oct. 27

ting, principles
ccessful coiQj?-

K. R. Wricht

lewell counties
A. R. Wright,
nitteeman, who
;nd expressions
state organiza-
an with F. E.
-Putman Farm

session, F. A.

I. A. A. poul-
epartment, told
Illinois poultry
n that is now

in many coun-
lion of those
rs will be will-
of the egrgrs by

day, "swatting
eral, produce a

provided there

Under present
rmers get little

extra work.
r Prsicefl
lOur, the meet-
> a round-table
as and projects
Bureaus repre-
the membership

the unanimous
the belief that,
ibers should be
ion in the bene-

which makes a
serum to farm-
nng more than
Farm Bureaus
'as given to the
Bureau for its
ind work in in-
azewell county
the work with
:e for members.
in«ntecl
A. was compli-
of Toluca, who
great value of
time of the
imerce commis-
rmers' elevator
Varna. This
property along
pting to cease
: the elevator
nsportation fa-
lergencies arise
of sticking to-

ger of the Illi-
eratives' Asso-
iperative audit-
made the after-
ined the neces-
tion for grain
farmers' eleva-
w farmers' ele-
etting together
all.
eftent

leeting, accord-
Ki, included:
Farm Bureau —
aid. H. H. Heat-
executive coin-
in Modro, H. I.
, T Mills. John
E. Carlson. Otis
E. Fuller, farm
iant adviser, F.
William Dow-
Sipe and Guy

Bureau — Charles
Coultas, assiat-

lureau — -Herman
and W. W.

—Ed. Welcox
iBer.

urea a — L. E.

'RTNQ AND EJUU,T

US of 50 miles of
1 bloom or bud thit
toa" for 1025.

ON ConjTTT Fakh
3 favoring a Ourn
>u.'<)iel fur this fall
ceutral lUiiiuis.

:H ADVISER OP TBS
i ooe of the speak*
of County Asent*
mal Dairy Show,

E rARH HAVE

e farm too?

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Volume 3

luued Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinking Farmers — December 5, 1925

No. 24

750 ILUNOIS FARMERS TO ATTEND A. F. B. F. MEETING

Marketing Proves
Lively Subject at
Murphysboro Meet

Lynch, L^eper and Gougler
Address Fanners at 2Sth
District I. A. A. Conference

R. K. Loomii

Twenty-eight farm bureau offi
cers, advisers and members from
the counties of
Jackson, Un-
ion, Randolph,
Franklin and
Williamson at-
tended the
25th district I.
A. A. confer-
ence held at
Murphysboro,
Nov. 19, and
united in ex-
pressing their
views and
wishes regard
ing farm prob-
lems and ac-
tivities whiA
will be fcy-
wardcd to the officers and executive
committeemen of the state organi-
zation by R. K. Loomis of Makan-
da, I. A. A. committeeman of the
district and chairman of the meet-
ing.

The program was taken up chief-
ly with discussions on co-opprative
marketing with special talks given
on the marketing of poultry and

eggs, cream and milk, and fruit and

vegetables.

F. A. Gougler, director of the
poultry and egg marketing depart-
ment of the I. A. A., explained the
Illinois poultry and egg marketing
plan and emphasized the importance
of carefully planned educational
v.ork as a ground-breaker before ac
tual marketing is begun.

Loomis Rerfewt I. A. A. Work

The second I. A. A. speaker to
address the conference was A. D.
Lynch, head of the dairy marketing
department, who told of the co-op-
erative cream and milk marketing
organizations that are being or-
ganized or are in operation in the
state. Director Lynch also pointed
out the progress that has been made
on the tuberculosis eradication pro-
ject in Illinois.

A. B. Leeper, I. A. A. director of
fruit and vegetable marketing and
manager of the Illinois Fruit Grow
ers Exchange, Centralia, spoke on
problems of interest to the fruit
men of the 25th district. He was
followed on the program by Com
mitteeman Loomis who told of the
important current activities of the
Illinois Agricultural Association and
opened the meeting to a round
table discussion.

Those who attended the ineeting
were: Jackson County Farm Bu
reau — Herbert Young, G e o r g"*
Smith, C. C. Logan, Charles Miller,
L. D. Reickenberg, Henry Reicken-
berg, Henry Dickmeyer, Jesse Klein,
Nick Maes, Charles Maes, H. P.
Sauer, Frank Easterly, E. Melner,
Fred Dietz, L. A. Dietz, Philip
Dietz, Adviser C. J. Thomas, C. O,
.\Ilard, H. G. Easterly and H. Bur-
key. Union — R. K. Loomis; Ran-
dolph county — John Uffelman and
E. C. Secor, farm adviser; Frank-
lin county — H. H. Webb, presi-
dent, and E. E. Glick, farm advis-
er. Williamson county — Josh Col-
lins, J. M. Krumrey, president, and
W. K. Galeener, farm adviser.

SECRETAHr JaRDINE, IN A RECENT SPEECH

piitin.«t«l that »2,r)00.000,000 ot farm products
would be marketed co-operatively in tne U. S.
ID 1925.

In Ohio the Farm BCREAn recently orqan-
iied the Ohio Farm Bureau Corporation which is
incorporated for the purpose of offering financial
and managerial aerviccB to co-ope. Sharea and
bonds in it will be offered to the general public.

To Take Care of All Insurance Needs of Farmer

^i2fi> Alenei^-

Curt Anderson

24th District Farmers
Discuss Limestone R. R.
Rates at I. A. A. Meeting

Resolutions urging T. B. Testing
of Illinois herds, the continuance of
a strong dif-
ferential i n
the purchase
price of lime-
stone, favor-
ing farm bu-
r e a u mem-
bers, and the
holding of the
I. A. A. dis-
trict confer-
ences next
year, summar-
izes much of
the discussion
of the 22 farm
leaders, offi-
cers, advisers and members from
Clay, Pope, White, Gallatin, and
Johnson counties, who attended the
24th district conference, held at
Golconda, Nov. 19.

The meeting was called to order
by Curt Anderson, I. A. A. execu-
tive committee of the district, who
absorbed the opinions of the leaders
present with the view of forward-
ing the information on the state
executive committee for the purpose
of directing the activities of the
state organization.

Report on Wheat Pool

During the morning session, the
meeting was turned over to a round-
table discussion which broiight out
the fact that the Louisville and
Nashville railroad is not making an
allowance for demurrage on rainy
days on cars while other roads re-
ported on have made allowances in
the past. The freight rate on lime-
stone chat from Southern Missouri
to Illinois points was discussed and
a feeling shown that the I. A. A.
should attempt to gain a more fav-
orable rate from this source of sup-
ply.

Farm Advisers Creighton of
White county and Simpson of Gal-

latin county both reported favor-
ably on the soft wheet pool of the
Indiana Wheat Growers Association
but stated that the pool has not
progressed far enough to throw
much light on the probable future
of the organization.

Resolution Urges T. B. Testing

Before the close of the meeting
a committee reported on the fol-
lowing resolutions, which were
adopted :

"Resolved, in view of the vast
amount of educational work on lime-
( Continued on page 3, col. 5.)

Famous Poland China

Is Model For Medal

Awarded Hog Caller

Because he was adjudged the
most effective and persuasive hog
caller of Illinois at the I. A. A. an-
nual state picnic, which was held
under auspices of the Christian
County Farm Bureau at Taylorville
August 27, V. E. Robison of Mor-
ton, Tazewell county, is awarded
the medal reproduced here.

The medal was made from a pho-
tograph of Armistice Boy, famous
grand champion Poland China boar.
It is a watch charm and is one inch
long. Champion Robison is a Pol-
and China breeder. People who
have seen the charm marvel at its
fine detail. It is lO-karat gold.

f

Insttrance Totaling
$750,000 Placed in
Force by New Mutual

Famters' Mutual Reinsurance
Company of Illinois Re-
ceived Charter Nov. 17

Many National Authorities to Address

Seventh Annual Meeting of A. F. B. F.
at Sherman Hotel, Chicago, Dec. 7-J3

President and Mrs. Coolidge to be Luncheoh Guests of Farm
Bureau Officials; Illinois County Presidents to Attend
Breakfast Conference ; Seats For All Illinoisians.

HEADLINERS including the President of the United States,
Senator Capper of Kansas, representaUyes of the Inited
States Department of Ajtricullmre, leailers in the
fieltls of electricity, organization, advertisine,
marketing and women's work are 8ch«iule<l t<i
speak, on the program of the annual meeting of
the American Farm Bureau Federation whirli
opens at the Sherman Hobd, C Aicago, on Monday,
December 7 and continues for three days.

Besides the general scBSionR, sjiocial sectional
meetings are scheduled which arc to inchulc l>riof
discussions covering the varijbus ty|)es of work
Arthur Capper (.f^frig^ on by the state Farm .Bureaus and lines
of iendeavor allied to farm organization activitie^. Although varied
the program is full and complete with practictJlyievery minute of the
three da>'8 taken up with convention work. It will l>r> a School of

farm orgialxizapon infnr.jiation.

Presidcst Coolidgr \ ill oi»<.n the
speaking progrim of I lie C'invention
at 11 a. m., Monday, the i r«t dny.
rollowinj5 il.lol >.t: »..y Ittt.t luW^i
with the natiopal offiwrs and presi-
dents of the s^tr Farm Itiirrscs st
which time only foods thni have bren
markctt'd throiiRh o<»-o|r-i-:iIivc unnui-
izations «"ill tp served The rir»t
Laily of the Laqd. who will arcompany
the President, twill he enl*Ttaim*«i at •
a spefial lunehfon given by the fariti
bun'au womenl who allend the na-
tional convention I'he CtK»lidgt*s
will rftum toTWaahington Monday
afternoon. '

I. A. A. I^iractor to Talk

During the prst afternoon Jame*
O'Shaughnessy.lseeretarv of the Amor-
iean Associattion oJ .Xdvertisiiig
.\gencieg, fiev lorl Citv. will addresx
the nie<>ting on "The Application of
.\ilv<-rti.singtothc Farming Industry.'
He will hf folli>»ud on the program
by I.iieiiiti \\"il.'^>n, nn-sident. rjenen*!
Organization <V»., Chicago, who will
, speak on "The Farm Hiireau — -Mother
Organiiatiun of Agricultunc. "

Following Pfi-sident Wilson's talk,
the conventmn will be opened for
a sectional naTting on organiza-
tion, membership and field M-rvioe
with S. H. Thompson, I. A. A. presi-
dent, presiding. During this meet-
ing George |^. Metzger, director
of the I., A. [A. organisation de-
partmeht, will speak on "The Inton-
six'e Sales Campaign."

"Makiag the'
Load Lighter by
Electricity " is Ae
subject Bcbe<lu^-d
for the princitial
address of t he ete-
ning session of t^e
first day. Ttie
speaker will pe
Owen D. ^'ouiig,
chairman of tfie
board of directors I
of the Cenefal [
Electric Co^n- I

^!,T'Mr*YoXg <— V„„^
collaborated ' with \ it^-President
Dawes on thel formulation of the
Dawes plan of preparation.

At 7O0 a. i., Tuesday, Dec R,
all presidents ijif the county Farm
Htireaus of Illinois will meet at a
special breakfat^t eonl<-renc<f called
by Geo. A. Foi, executive *«ocretary
of the I. A. A. JAt this early morning
conference the p2 county pruxidcnU

(Continaed kn page 4, col. 5.)

XiAt noon, Monday, Nov. 21, ap-
proximately threerfourths of a mil-
litJn dollars of risks in farm mu-
tual insurance wasrplaced in force
through the Farmets' Mutual Re-
indirance Company of Illinois.

This notice was issued on re-
ceipt of the company's charter
from the Illinois trade and com-
merce department, Springfield, on
Now. 17, following a state-wide
campaign for $500,000 in individ-
ual insurance applications in which
38$ Illinois farmers in 67 counties
took part. This campaign, which
over-subscribed the goal by $240,-

000, was accomplished in less than
four montlis through the co-opera-
tion of comnty Farm Bureaus, the

1. A. A., secretaries of local and
county mutual insurance companies
and individual farmers throu^out
the state.

A 25- Year-Old Aspiration Realized

With the starting of operations
by the Famers' Mtitual Reinsurance
Coitipany of Illinois, an aspiration
of mutual insurance leaders in Illi-
nois for more than 25 years has
beeh completed. For over a quar-
ter _of a century mutual companies
of the state have realized the need
of a state-wide reinsurance com-
pany to allow further development
of the field and place the mutuals
in S position to take care of all the
insurance Deeds of Illinois farmers.
However, it was not until this year
that definite plans were adopted by
the State Association of Mutual In-
surance Companies of Illinois and
through thf assistance of the I. A.
A. Organization efforts were started.

The new reinsurance comp^iny
will in no way conflict with the ac-
tivities of t^e local mutuals but will
supplement their benefits by ex-
t«naing blanket reinsurance, speci-
fic reinsurance and recessional in-
(Continsed on page 4, col. L)

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EXECUTIVE COMMTTTEB
(By Concrenioiial DiMr^cCa.)

. wmimi Webb, Rout* Ob*. JoUm

G. F. TuUock, Rodrford

C.E. aunborouah. Polo

. . . W. H. Moody, Put Brran

-A* K. WrlKllt, VaiT

MtallA,:

IWi

13th

14* ,

ISlti B. H. Tutlo^Rapatee

16th A.R. Wri«ht,vr

17th F. D. Bvton, CotneU

ISth ,..R. F. Kan-Tlroquai*

t9th i ...J. U'Whianuid, OiarkMon

20th EarlC Smith. Detroit

21« Samuel SorrelU, Raymond

22i>d 1 Stanly Castle, Alton

UtU , W. L. Cope, Salem

Z4th ( > Curt Anderson, Xenia

2Stl> .• R. K. Loomia, Makanda

PraaldenC, S. H. Thomp
Vice-Prealdent, H. E. c5
Treaaurer, R. A. Cowlea
Secretary, Geo. A. Fox .

OFFICERS

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Quiitcy

Hooppole

.Blootnlncton
Sycamore

I li Lil N OIS

CCLTUBAL. ASSOCIA

RECORD^

*

Tosdrancm lh€ purpose for which the Farm Bureau war orgmti-
isad, namely, to promote, protect and represent the business,
eeiutomic, social and educational interests of the farmers of
iUittois and the tiation, and to develop agricttltura.

Co-operatln Aocounthn G». R. y**^

Dairy Marketlnl •„ P'i?!!?^

Finance „ ?"*

Fruit and Vc«etablc Markctlil^ :..A. B. Leeper

General Office ^^■"^*^^^

Grain Marlcatini "'"'? S' "V**

Infbndation Harry C. BuKiier

L^salCounael Donald Kiriipatricls

Lira Stock Marketinc Wm. E. Hed«oock

Orfanixation G. E. Merger

Phoaphate-Limcstone J- R* Bent

Poultry and Eu Marketing F. A. Gouder

Tazatkin and Statiatica J- C Watadn

Tranaportatkn L. J. Quaaqr

Publiahrf^rjry other Saturday at 404 Norti W«,ley Ave., Mount Morri.. niinoi., by the lUinoi. AurifuHural Amociation. Edited by De[»rlni"t of Information. H»ny C Butcher J^lf^-^ Jo^
Dcartym Street. Chica«;, lUinoi.. Entered a. seoond-oUai matter Oitober 20. 1925 at the post office at Mount Mo™. Illinoi.. under the Act of March 3. 1879^ a bijweeUy Acceptance for maihn. at wo™J
rate of poetace providejfor m Section 412. Art of February 28. 1925. authorirod October 27. 1925. The indiWdual membenihip fee of the IlBnoia A«ncultur«l Aaaooation 1. *" aoUana y"^' T°« '«• includei
payment of Sftv cents for subecriplion to the Illinois Agncultural Aswjcistion Ricobd: Postmaater: In returning an uncalled for or miasent copy, please indicate kiy number On aodreas as is reqmrea Dy law.

Fine! Now Support It

i i WW7E call attention to the fact that a tariff
W on agricultural products is not effec-
tive when there is an exportable surplus, and
call upon the business interests of the country
and Congress to assist in remedying this situ-
ation, to the end that American Markets at
American Prices be preserved for American
farmers."

The above is a part of the resolutions
adopted by the board of governors of the
Aiherican Farm Congress, the most conser-
vative agricultural group in these States.
Secretary Jardine is a past president of the
organization and addressed the convention
at Kansas City at which this important reso-
lution was adopted.

The coming session of Congress will no
doubt give the element which fostered this
resolution a splendid opportunity to back up
what they ^y. V •

respective Farm Bureaus. In the meantime,
if other j'arties attempt to sell phosphate in
Illinois and make claims or statements which
might cause you to think they are operating
under the I. A. A. plan, or in co-operation
with the I. A. A. you should inquire about
them through your Farm Bureau, or direct
to the phosphate-limestone department. This
department requests that you report promptly
such facts to it.

Quality Product + Organization =
j . i I Higher Prii.e

pEcIuSL u..:, :-'- '^nirg milk from
J3 tul^erculin-tested cows that is of extra
good quality, and also because they formed
an orgainization and appointed a sales com-
mittee to bargain for them, the members of
the DeKalb Milk Producers Association
raised their price from $2.25 to $2.75 a hun-
dred.

Quality Product + Organization = Higher
Price.

A Timely Warning

IN ordbr to guarantee fair and square treat-
ment to Uie farmers in Illinois in pur-
chases Of ground rock phosphate^ your as-
sociation has been maintaining, for six years,
a supervisional service with a branch office
and chemical laboratory facilities in . the
l)hosphate field in Tennessee. : »

Rigid regulations and specifications have
bsen established by the association, and any
phosphate company which is able, pliysically
and financially, to meet the requirements of
the I. A. A. and shows its willingness to
abide by the I. A. A.'s regulations and super-
vision by signing the agreement which the
I. A. A. has prepared, is placed upon what
is known as the I. A. A. Accredited List.

At present there are three such companies
and no more. These are : Robin Jones Phos-
phate Company, Nashville, Tenn.; Ruhm
Phosphate & Chemical Company, Mt. Pleas-
pnt, Tenn.; Thomson Phosphate Company,
Home IJfe Bldg., Chicago, 111.

If, in the future, other companies are able
to qualify and satisfy the I. A. A. require-
ments and will sign the agreement with the
I. A. A., they will be added to the list and
farm. bureau members will be advised of the
fact through the RECORD and through your

Where The I. A. A. Stands

YOUR organization — and stress the y-o-u-r
— has replied to a request from the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation in which" the
Illinois Ajgricultural Association was ^ked
to list, in order of importance, the subjects
of far legislation which the association
considers should be brought before the next
session of Congress. ^,

jThe reply listed the following:

1. Legislation that will place Agriculture
on equality with Industry and Labor.

2. Legislation that will establish proper
income tax exemptions for co-operative mar-
keting organizations which were meant by
Congress to be effective but which the treas-
ury department has interpreted differently.

3. Legislation making it possible for fer-
tilizers tos^be manufacturftd>at Muscle Shoals
with tl^ least possifite-Wpense to farmers.

These are. national objectives. Don't for-
get the maj^r /state legislative program,
which is:

1. Adoption of the amendment to the
revenue section of the state .constitution
which wins or loses at the polls in Novem-
ber, 1926.

2. Adoption of a gasoline tax in lieu of
some present tax.

3. Adoption of a state police.

Why Did You Join?

WHAT was your reason for joining the
Farm Bureau?
George E. Metzger, organization director,
finds that the five reasons given most often
by farmers who joined or re-joined this year
are:

1. I believe that the farmers of the
United States must become strongly organ-
ized. I am putting my belief into action by
becoming a member of the Farm Bureau.

2. I believe that farmers have a legisla-
tive problem in gaining "Equality for Agri-
culture" which can only be solved through
organization.

3. I believe that co-operative marketing
is the way to a reasonable degree of price
stabilization and I recognize the value of the
Farm Bureau in organizing such co-opera-
tives, as well as rendering field service and
legislative services to such organizations af-
ter they have been set up.

4. I believe that the problem of ever-

increasing overhead expense of farm sup-
plies, labor and taxes can best be studied
and solved by farmers through organization.

5. I believe in the study of greater ef-
ficiency in production of farm products
which comes through co-operation and mem-
bership in the Farm Bureau.

Do these reasons cover your thoughts
toward the Farm Bureau when you joined
or re-joined? Write us your views.

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Not Credit, But Price

THE finding of the official team that was
sent to Iowa to see whether special credit
to enable farmers to hold their com would
help the agricultural situation any, is receiv-
ing passing notice in the press. The inves-
tigators, one from the U. S. department of
agriculture, the other from the federal farm
loan board, undoubtedly reported much more
to the Secretary of Agriculture than the pub-
lished report reveals. There was nothing in
the report that any farmer in the com belt
could not and no doubt many did tell them.

More credit cannot relieve a situation that
is due to inadequate price. No business can
pay off a debt that was incurred when all
costs were inflated, with a product whose
price has fallen out of proportion to costs
which still stay up.

The concluding paragraph of the summary
of the investigating committee's report as re-
leased from Washington is more to the point
than all of the eight or ten paragraphs that
precede it. It reads: ,

While our mission was to survey credit and farm stor-
age conditions in Iowa, we feel it should be added that
deep interest was expressed in the problem of stabilizing
the prices of farm products and in bringing about a bet-
ter relationship between the price of the things farmers
buy and the things they sell. The agricultural situation
has improved since 1921, but it is apparent that many
Iowa farmers still labor under the handicaps of large
debts, high operating expenses, high taxes, high interest
rates on short time loans, and al50 widely fluctuating
and often unsatisfactory prices for their products.

In the past two years, the farmers have
brought forth proposals for an export cor-
poration or similar device to stabilize prices
by caring for the siirplus that follows any
normal crop of certain farm products. The
government has taken no pains to hide its
opposition to such projects.

The problem of the surplus is recognized
at Washington. The Secretary of Agricul-
ture has repeatedly said so. The late agri-
cultural commission, on adjournment last
mnter, announced that the first problem it
would take up, on reconvening, would be that
of the surplus. Now it is announced that the
commission is not to meet again. The farm-
ers are not disappointed over lack of effec-
tive action from the commission. They did
not expect it. But they are waiting, more or
less patiently, for the administration to bring
forth its suggestions as to how the famier
may be included in the American protective
system.

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December 5, 1925

The niinoig Agricultural Association RECORD

Pmf^

LA. A. Cream Reports
Force Local Stations
to Pay Better Prices

Spread Between Butter Fat
and Butter Prices Reduced
Through Price Reporting
Service of Department

Weekly reports issued by the
dairy marketing department of the
I. A. A. giving the butter fat prices^
paid by Illinois cream stations,
have had a marked influence in re-
<!ucing the spread between the
price of 90-score butter and butter
fat, according to A. D. Lynch, di-
rector.

This "bullish" influence on the
prices paid for butter fat by Illi-
nois cream stations was brought out
in a report by Director Lynch
which showed a decrease of four
cents a pound in the spread be-
tween 90-score butter prices and
the prices paid fanners for their
butter fat over a period of 18
months.

In May, 1924, when the weekly-
price reports were first issued, the
average difference in price between
butter fat and 90-score butter was
five cents a pound. Six months lat-
ei*~ the Illinois cream stations had
raised their price standards and the
spread was reduced to four cents.
The weekly reports were then con-
tinued for another year and during
October of this year, the .average
spread was less than one cent a
pound.

Report* From 42 Counties
Figures for these reports are
compiled by the I. A. A. dairy de-
partment through the co-operation
of 125 members in 42 Illinois coun-
ties who send in an account of the
prices paid for butter fat at their
respective cream stations each Sat-
urday in the month. These reports
are summarized and a statement is-
sued by the dairy department giv-
ing the average prices paid for but-
ter fat in the various counties ajid
the differences between these prices
and the market "quotations on 90-
Ecore butter.

These differences are brought to
the attention of farm bureau
members who in turn investigate
the reason for the spread. This in-
directly influences the cream buyer
to pay a higher price for the dairy
product.

"In one lUinois county," states
Director Lynch, "the spread has
been reduced nine cents a pound
in the last 18 months and has in-
directly given an additional profit
of nine cents on each pound of but-
. ter fat marketed by the farmer of
that county."

« Co-Op> Force Price Up

Reports from the 42 counties
also show that cream stations lo-
cated in counties where co-opera-
tive creameries are in opferation
pay higher prices for butter fat
than in counties where there are
no co-operative cream marketing
efforts. This was brought out par-
ticularly in Carroll and Stephenson
counties during October of this
year. Both of these counties have
co-operative creameries and the
average prices paid for butter fat
were 47.2 cents and 49.0 cents re-
spectively, as compared with the av-
erage price of all counties of 46.1
cents.

This result is also found in a
comparison of states. In Ohio,
where co-operative cream market-
ing is more extensive than in Illi-
nois, the farmers receive an aver-
age; of five cents more for their but-
ter fat than those of Illinois.

"In general, it is found that
through co-operative marketing op-
erations the net return to farmers
amounts to an increase of from
seven to ten per cent," states Direc-
tor Lynch. "This increased price,
due to co-operative efforts benefits
the outsiders as well as the mem-
ber."

Perched 300 feet above Randolph street, Chicago, on the tiptop of
the new Hotel Sherman, is a new Georgian residence which is a mid-
western "White House" where President. Coolidge will make his head-
quarters when he comes to address the American Farm Bureau Feder-
ation Seventh Annual Meeting, December 7.

It is an honest-to-goodness two-story house with stairs connecting
the first floor with the upstairs, where there are four master bedrooms.
Downstairs there is a wood paneled living room with a wood-burning
fireplace, a dining room and a kitchen. The tall west windows look out
on a yard which is to be planted in grass. This yard is surrounded by
an old fashioned tall brick wall.

President Cbolidge will deliver his speech, which will be in the
presence of approximately 750 Illinois farmers, in the "basement" to
his midwestern "White House."

HbNBT CoCNTT HA8 INntKABED ITS KARM

bureau membership atjout 13 per cent.

Albxandrr I.booe. phehidemt of the Intbb-

natioiuil Harvester f'ttaipany, recently stated
before the National Industrial Conference
Board, New Yoric, a research organitation for
industrial interests, that atcrieultural inequality
beean before the war and that it is newspaper
writers and so-called econoniists who are filhoB
the papers with bombast as to the oome-baclc
of the fanner. He said that the farm situation
is better than two years ago. but nothing has
happened loolcing toward a permanent im-

pcvveoieot.

Illinois Farmers Sell
Half of Eggs During 4
Lowest Priced Months

One half of the eggs produced in
Illinois are marketed during the
months of March, April, May and
June, according to F. A. Gougler,
director of the LA. A. poultry and
egg marketing department.

"It has been noted," states Direc-
tor Gougler, "that during the four
months which we call our flush sea-
son, 50 per cent of the eggs move
to market and the other half are
distributed throughout the other
eight months. This heavy move-
ment always comes during the sea-
son of low prices. In fact, the
heavy marketing is responsible for
the low prices at that time of the
year. Likewise, it has been noted
that November is the low month of
production, the average farmer sell-
ing only half a case during the
month, and this accounts for the
high prices for fresh eggs during
the winter months."

Pacific Cout Producert Sell in Fall

Director Gougler points out that
one of the important phases of a co-
operative marketing association will
be to educate its members to the
need of changing their production
methods in order to produce the
largest volume of eggs during the
high price months. A notable ex-
ample of heavy production in
months of high prices is found on
the Pacific Coast where co-opera-
tive marketing of eggs has been
carried out extensively. Figures
from those states show that 84 per
cent of the Pacific Coast eggs sold
on the New York market during the
winter of 1924-25 were marketed
in the high price months of Novem-
ber, December, January and Feb-
ruary. On the other hand during
the heavy months of production in
other states, the Pacific Coast pro-
ducers sell less than 25 per cent of
their annual production.

Sella 20 Cases Annually

The average size flock on an Illi-
nois farm is 106 and from this, it
is estimated that Illinois farmers
sell approximately six dozen eggs
per hen. Therefore, one farmer,
with an average number of 100
laying hens, will sell annually 600
dozen or 20 cases of eggs. Under
present marketing and production
methods these eggs are marketed by
months as follows:

No. of
Month Cases

January „ , -_ 1

February H4

March _ 2

April „ S

May .. _ 8

June . 2

July s

August m

September 1%

October , 1

November .^ ... __. M,

December .„ „ j„ 1

19 Counties Expect
To Feature ^uckin *
Contests Next Fall

Nine Others Say 'Prohably"
or "Maybe" and Five ^-
swer "No"; Stark County
Member World Champ

I. A. A. Prie^Bnts Oub Medals

Seven State CKampion Club Win-
ners Given IMedals at 1. A. A.
Bfeakfast

Coolidge To Be Served
Only Co-op Foods When
He Dines With A. F. B. F

It's a 100 per cent co-operative
meal that President Coolidge will
jat when he takes lunch with the
national officers and presidents of
the state Farm Bureaus at the an-
nual meeting of the American Farm
Bureau Federation, Chicago, Mon-
day, Dec. 7.

The milk that the President will
drink will be "Creamy Products"
milk from tuberculin tested cows
and sold by the Quincy Co-opera-
tive Milk Producers' Association, a
co-op that has a record of paying
its members the highest price and
selling to the consumers at the low-
est pric^ of any milk distributing
agency in the United States. Only
"Vita-Gold" cream, produced by the
Stephenson . County Co-operative
Cream Producers' Association.

Following the state com husking
contest held in Montgomery county
and the mid-west competition in
Mercer county, keen intere.st has
developed among a large number of
county Farm Bureaus in "com
shuckin' " as a farm sport.

Both Elmer Williams of Stark
county and Walter W. Olson of
Knox county, winners of first and
second in the state and mid-west
contests, respectively, are members
of the Fawn Bureau.

Williams hung up an official
world's record in the mid-west con-
test with 35.9 bushels, while Oli;on
was not far behind with 34.03
bushels in the 80-minute battle.

A questionnaire sent to each farm
advfeer in the state asking the qucs-
tion» "Do you plan to have a coun-
ty Busking contest next fall?" re-
sulted in 33 replies (by Nov. 28),
19 •f which said "yes," 9 "prob-
ably^' or "maybe" and 5 "no."

"tVe anticipate a big event in our
courtty contest next year," states
Adviser E. E. Brown for Stark coun-
"The Rio Community Men's Club
held a banquet in honor of Walter
Olsoh last night," Adviser L. R.
Marchant of Knox county writes.
"Some eighty men voted to co-
operate in conducting a local contest.

The Farm Bureaus which have
rather definitely decided, although
In s«me cases not oflicially, to hold
county husking contests next fall
are: Shelby, Hancock, Knox, Doug-
las, ■ Carroll, Christian, McLean,
Taz«well, Iroqouis, Piatt, DeWitt,
Ford, Warren, Henry, Clark, La-
Salle, Rock Island, McDonough and
StaHc.

Those reporting "no": Pike,
Lawrence, Crawford, Madison and
Vermilion. "Probably" or "may-
be": Sangamon, Peoria, Bond,
Schuyler, Ogle, Grundy, DeKalb,
Macbn and Henderson. Other coun-
1 ties probably will be heard from.

MIMEOGRAPHING IS HER PET PEEVE!

This is the first of a series of stories <Aout farm bureau secretaries of
Illinois. The work of the office secretary, is important to the success of
every Farm Bureau. The efficiency displayed in handling the office rou-
tine, her knowledge of the work and farm problems arid her courteous
personality in greeting the office pisitors reacts directly upon the mem-
bership. During the coming months our readers will meet some twenty
of the farm bureau office secretaries who have been in the service the
longest period of time. — Editor.

UVITHERE will I find the cow we are finding the least trouble in
W tester ( county veterin- gettihg new members and renewing

arian)?" is one of the questions
asked most frequently by farmers of
Lake county, according to Miss
Blanche Osborne, who has held the
position of ofiice

Tbb Michioan Potato Ghowkks' Exchanoe,
Cadillac, Mich., has sold nearly 19.000 cars of
potatoes for its afGliAted local associations in
seven years. The number of cars handled each
season has sversfed from 2,11S to 3,250.

secretary of the
Lake County
Farm Bureau for
nearly six years,
in answering
a questionnaire
from the infor-
mation depart-
ment of the Illi-
nois Agricultural
Association.

Another ques-
tion we hear sev-
eral times a day,
writes Miss Os-
borne, is, "Where
will I find the
farm adriser?"
From this it is
readily gathered
that personal
service plays an
important part in
the work of the
Lake County

Farm Bureau, for when asked what
she considers the most important
phase of farm organization work,
Miss Osborne writes :

"While it possibly should not be
true, nevertheless, in our county the

old ihemberships.

"The value of tuberculosis test-
ing to the dairymen of the Chicago
district, writes Miss Osborne, "is the
most important
problem facing
the farmers of
Lake county to-
day." To this she
ads that the util-
ization of the
various side-lines
of farming that
will bring the
farmers consider-
able income be-
side milking cows
is always a cause
for more or less
trouble in her
section. Lake
county is located
in the center of
the district that
supplies the Chi-
cago milk.

This secretary

says that the best
MISS BLANCHE OSBORNE ..J . .j^

SMretary, L.ake County >ami Bureal^ '"'"8 ^"e ""eS

LibertyvUle about her work is

- the personal con-

tact with people and their problems,
and the necessity of using her wits
in giving the service when she is the
only one around the oflice. Mim-
eographing is her pet peeve.

Miss Osborne denies that she is

{Seven medals were

given to state cham-

pibn boys' and girls'

cl*b winners by the

Illinois Agricultural

Alsociation when 113

Illinois farm boys and

girls, attending

the club con-

gress, were

at a breakfast

entertain-

ment given by

the I. A. A. in

the Crystal room

of the Great

Northern

hotel, Chicago,

Dec. 2.

The med a I
winners were

f resented to the
, A. A. by Dean
H. W. Mumford,
of the college of
agriculture, Uni-
versity of Illi-
nois, and the I.
A. A. medals-
were presented
by P r e s i d eji t
&. H. Thompson.
Following the
presenta-
tion of the med-
als, one boy and
one girl winner
responded with a
short talk for the
guests.

Tho.se who re-
ceived I. A. A.
medals were:
Donald Cam-
eron of Peori* county, was de-
clared state champion at the live-
stock judging tontest iicUi at Ur-
bana, August 17. Donald, who is
president of the H^na City pig
club, has been dhosen by the Peoria
county boys ani girl.- club commit-
tee as the PeoHa county pig club
champion for 1925.

Elmrr Becker, Adrian Bullington
and Donald Deafi nf Bureau county,
members of the istate champion live-
stock judging t4am which made the
greatest numbef of points in the
judging contest held at Urbana,
Aug. 17.

Clifford Ericsson, Donald Nelson
and Leonard Lwiegran, members of
the DcKalk cofnty dairy judging
team, which Was declared stale
champion dairy team.

Other state dub champions who
were given medhls at the I. A. A.
breakfast by their respective county
Farm Bureaus Were:

Nam.

County

Proiect

Joseph Bnnasisrdner^larshaU-

Putnam

Beef Calf

Prsnl^lin Sinser

■ ontaomery Alfalfa

G'en Baker

Effincfaajii

FbreBt >^esemaD

tane

Dairy

Glen Buesinpsr

Christian

Sheep

M. T. Stephenson

Williamson

Bee,

Haiel Quicliull

a>elby

Poultry

Mancaret Fortsne

K^illiamson

Clothinc

Edna Hiae

:allatln

MealPlaB

Lucile Tavener

jivinKston

Bsktna
floomlB-

Lotua Beckmeyer

^dams

L

provenent

personal service of the farm advis- : marr«>d but. when asked her opin
er to the members is the most im- ion Aether it is better to be a farm
portant. We have that demon- bureau secretary than married she
strated now in our membership cam- writes: "That's hardly fair to ask be-
paign. In localities where more | fore we've tried it Both might be
personal service has been rendered i O. K."

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24th District Farmers
Discuss Ji. R. Rates

(Continued /roft page 1, eoL 3.)

stone usage, as initiated by our
Farm Bureaus. '

"That the limestone and trans-
portation depart^ients of our 1. A.
A. co-operate with our Farm Bu-
reaus and the lead mines of Mis-
souri in securing the best possible
rate on limestoiie chat from the
Missouri supply ; for southern Illi-
nois;

"■That we recofimend that the ac-
tivities of tJie P^ucers' Livestock
Commission Association on all Ter-
minal markets sir\ing Illinois be
given special mention through the
I. A. A. Record ^ to the compara-
tive amounts of business handled bv-
these firms at thfir respective mar-

"That the T. f . testing of cattle
be urged at tht earliest possible
date throughout ^e counties of the
24th district; '

"And be it furpier resolved, that
this meeting go <*i record as favor-
ing a continuance of these district
meetings, and thit we urge a n)ore
enthusiastic fnter^ and a better at-
tendance."

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The ntinois Agricultural A«»ociation RECORD

December 5, 1925

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Value Ofl925 Com
Crop Is Lower Than
Short Crop Of 1924

Current Com Prices Fall
Short of Paying Cost of
Production, Says I. A. A.
Grai* Director

Notwitfistanding the size of the
1925 buttiper com crop in Illinois,
its cash Value to the farmers who
produced! it is sixty million dollars j
less than the value of last year's i
poor crop, if the price which the
farmers «t the state are actually re-
ceiving at country elevators in No-
vember Continues through the sea-
son, according to findings of Ches-
ter C. Davis, I. A. A. grain market-
ing director.

The statement of Director Davis
points out that November 1 esti-
mates credit Illinois with a corn
crop of 394,994,000 bushels for
1925 as compared with 293,600,000
bushels in 1924. But the 1924 crop
had a farm value of |278,920,'000
at the December 1 price, accowiinpr
to the V. S. Department of Agricul-
ture, whije the price which farm-
ers, are actually receiving at coun-
try pointe in the state this week
would yi*ld a total of only $217,-
246,700 ijf it were all sold.

Farmeis who are selling their
com are deceiving from fifty to six-
ty cents la bushel for it, with the
bulk of it going at 55 cents or less.
Excessivd moisture in this year's
corn is tbe factor which is holding
the country cash price below con-
tract gra<le quotations.

Production CuU 68 Cents

Current com prices fall far short
of paying) costs of production, and
enfail a Ipsa of millions to farmers
of Illinois if they continue, it is
pointed put. Actual cost records
on a nui»iber of farms in Cham-
paign an(^ Piatt counties, in one of
the best Oorn producing districts in
Illinois, show a com production cost
of 68 cent* oer H..^i-"i f-~ iq9,i on
fxif.c3 h4>:ig an .- ^rotfBi.yicia of
• 4*';ba *iJ» .-i »■ .

If €> ! u.fc.» U-o r^i'Vet rules
through tfce season," states Direc-
tor DavisL "farmers who sell their
corn as their cash crop will be in
much worse state than those who
feed and market their com as pork,
or who buy com to feed. Many
factors e«ter into a calculation as
to what the trend of corn prices
will be this winter. Heavy discounts
. have ruled on the new corn crop
because of excess moisture. Weath-
er that ^would permit drying before
the corn is marketed would help the
farm pride. Spoiling of cribbed
corn -is r«Jx)rted from all over the
state as a tesult of the wet weather.

Need Way to Handle Surplus

"Faimefs of Illinois are not as
iruch interested in devices to make
more credit available to enable
them to hdld their com, as they are
in some means to handle the sur-
plus that follows a normal crop, so
as to prevent it from .brewing
down prices disastrously. It is not
lack of credit So much as wet com
and inadequate storage facilities
that prevents farmers from holding
their com this year. 'The unfavor-
able fall, Hhe short carry-over, and
the relatively good market for hogs
a.".d best grade cattle all support the
farmers' view that he ought to have
a better price for corn, but no one
can be certain of what the market
A -a do."

Insurance Totaling
$750,000 Placed

(Continued from page J, eoL i.)

surance. The extension of these
aids to loc^l mijtuals, it is estimat-
ed, will sa+e Illinois farmers more
than $3,000,000 annually. This esti-
mate is reached upon consideration
of the greater amounts of individual
risyi ^^sij the mutual companies
wilF be aBlp to handle and the re-
daction injcostVand additional as-
sessments due to exceptional losses.
Individual farmers, by respond-
ing heartily to the campaign, have
made the reinsurance company an
actual accomplishment and it is
now up to thedocal and county mu-
tuals to take advantage of the or-
ganizatinn and gain the benefits for
Ibcij respective members.

The Goal of a 25- Year- Old Ambition

Popularity of Farm
Sports Growing; Big
Aid to Home Morale

Mythical AIl-F arm Sport
Team of Mid-West Com-
posed Entirely pf Illinois
Bureau Members

Charter of the Farmers' Mutual Reinsurance Company of Illinois
granted by the state department of trade and commerce, Nov. 17. A
document that opens a new and larger field of insurance to Illinois farm-
ers and mutual farm insurance companies of this state. An acknowledged
need of more than a quarter of a ce«lury accomplished through the co-
operation of Farm Bureaus, mutual insurance companies of the state and
Illinois Agricultural Association.

Milk From Tested

Herds Pays Premium

Dairymen of the Chicago Dis-
trict who -have tested their cattle
and Tfho-jell fliilk to the Bowman
Dairy Company, one of the big-
gest distributors in Chicago, are
receiving a premium of twenty-
five cents a hundred, beginning
with December 1.

The Bowman Company, along
with other Chicago distributors,
have been paying $2.55 a hundred
for all milk, regardless of source.
The new price to farmers with
tested herds is $2.75. Dairymen
with untested herds will be paid
only $2.50. '

In addition to this penalty for
not having tested herds, the com-
pany is paying only $2.10 a hun-
dred for surplus but no milk go-
ing from h^a- under State and
Federal Supervision will be clas-
sified as surplus, the company of-
ficials state.

This premium for T. B. free
milk is a goal sought by the Farm
Bureaus and the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association for three years
and now that one company has
seen fit to estab)i.sh a premium for
the farmer who produces the
higher quality and- safe milk, the
Illinois Agricultural Association
will continue and try to get as
many as possible distributors in
the Chicago district to pay the
premium.

Frank D. Barton

Wants Next I. A. A. Convention

I. A. A. 17lh District Conference
Held at Bloomington, Nov. 27
Representatives of the Farm Bu-
reaus in McLean, Ford, Livingston
and Woodford
counties who at-
tended the 17tb
district confer-
ence, held at
B I o o m i ngton,
Nov. 27, passed
a resolution ask-
ing the Illinois
Agricultural As-
sociation to con-
sider Blooming-
ton as the logical
place to hold its
next annual con-
vention, which
will probably be in January, 1927.
It was pointed out that Blooming-
tan has excellent facilities for such
a I meeting and is ideally located in
the center of the state.

The Farmers' Mutual Reinsurance
Company of Illinois was endorsed.
One resolution, passed by the lead-
ens suggested that the I. A. A. in-
vestigate the plans and programs of
other state farm bureau federations
with the view of bettering the serv-
ice rendered in Illinois.

The proposition of the Kenneth-
Murry Company to lease the C. and
A. yards and operate as a livestock
order buyer in Bloomington, buying
through commission companies, was
brought up for considerable discus-
sion. Some farmers were not so
sure as to the advisability of the
scheme.

There has been more organized
farm sport in Illinois during 1925
than in any other year in the his-
tory of the state.

Only two of the five sports which
were extensively participated in by
the Farm Bureaus are common to
both rural and city people — baseball
and horseshoes pitching. The other
three are distinctly farm sports.
These are hog calling, chicken call-
ing (for women) and corn husking.

The development of sports among
farmers, their sons, and even their
wives and daughters is regarded by
President Sam H. Thompson as a
splendid condition. He says that
farm sports contribute much to the
happiness and contentment of farm
life. Anything along the lines of
competition creates more interest
around farm life, he says, and,
furthermore, farm sports have a
bearing on the problem of keeping
boys and girls on the farms-
Torberts on Team

Farm sport enthusiasts, like their
city cousins who are now busy se-
lecting, re-selecting and debating
over who shall be on the Ail-Amer-
ican football team, can also point
to star performers in the various
farm sports field. ;

Walter and Harry Torbert of De-
Witt county, Illinois, earned a place
on the mythical All-Farm sport team
by throwing the most ringers and
counters in the annual state farm
bureau horseshoe tdumament held
in connection with the state picnic
of the Illinois Agricultural Associ-
ation August, 27 at Taylorville.
Walter and Harry are 19 and 20 re-
spectively, and are sons of Ed. Tor-
bert, a member of the state cham-
pion team of 1920, 21, and 22. The
boys defeated Reuben G. Bright and
Samuel G. Smith of McLean county,
champion team of 1924. About 25
county horseshoe pitching contests
were held by county Farm 'Bureaus
preliminary to the state competition.

V. E. Robison of Morton, Taze-
well county, perhaps qualifies best
for the quarter-back or signal-call-
ing position of the All-Farm sports
team. He proved that "whoo-o-oey,
whoo-o-oey" is the most effective
way to call hogs when he was de-
clared by the two-legged judges to
be the champion swine yodeler in a
contest which was also held at the
state farm bureau picnic. This was
the first state-wide competition ever
held and was the basis for a long
preliminary discussion by city fea-
ture writers and editorial expound-
ers on the merits of "poo-o-oey"
or "who-o-oey," the former being
the form fancied by a metropolitan
newspaper as comparable to strains
of opera, but one which showed the
writer was not a hog caller.

Mrs. Wooley Selected Captain

Mrs. I. N. Wooley of luka, Marion
county,, won the state chicken call-
ing contest, and since she is the only
woman rating the All-Farm sports
team, she should be captain.

The baseball division of the All-
Farm sport team is awarded to the
Tazewell County Farm Bureau ag-
gregation, it having won the state
title after an interesting season
which terminated in the champion-
ship game at the state picnic. Base-
ball among the Farm Bureaus is
conducted through the Illinois Farm
Bureau Baseball league.

Elmer Williams of Toulon, Stark
county, wins a prominent place on
the All-Farm sports team, and is
also entitled to a place on a national
selection, having won both the Illin-
ois and the Mid-West com husking
contests. On November 2 in the
Montgomery county contest staged
by Prairie Farmer, state farm paper,
he out-shucked 19 other contestants,
many of whom were winners of
county contests staged by Farm
Bureaus. On November 19 he Red
Granged the best shuckers of Iowa,
Nebraska, Minnesota and Indiana
when\he picked 35.9 bushels in 80
minutes in the Mid-West contest at
Burgess, Mercer county, a speed
equivalent to 2G9 bushels in JO
hours.

This stands as an official world's

Large Number to

Attend Meeting

(Conitnued from page 1, col. 5.)
will discu.ss the program of the annual
meeting of the I. A. A. to be held at
the University of Ilhnois, Champaign-
Urbana, Jan. 21 and 22. The new
plan of speeiiil sectional meetings will
be explained to the county executives.

Hoadliners on the second day's
program includes:

Demonstration by Club Boys Har-
old Rubiger and Geo. Bohman,
Bureau county, state championship
team of Illinois.

Capper to Speak at Banquet

Twenty-minute talks on "Co-oper-
ative Cotton Marketing" by C. O.
Moser, manager, American Cotton
Growers' Exchange; "Livestock Mar-
keting " by C. B. Denman, president,
National Livestock Producers' Asso-
ciation; "Fruit and Vegetable Market-
ing" by A. R. Rule, manager. Fed-
erated Fruit and Vegetable Growers,
Inc., New York; and, "The Farm
Bureau's Opportunity in Co-operative
Marketing by Dr. E. G. Nourse,
chief of agricultural division. Insti-
tute of Economics.

During the annual banquet, to be
held on Tuesday evening, the prin-
cipal addresses will be given by
Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas
and Mrs. Ivan D. Gore of Utah,
authority on farm home and com-
munity work. The third day will be
taken up with reports of resolution
committees, election of officers, adop-
tion of resolutions, new and un-
finished business and adjournment.
Seat Requests Heavy

Demands for seat reservations to
hear President Coolidge have been
coming in thick and fast from Illinois
arm bureau members. Officials of
the (American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion at first allotted 300 seats to
Illinois, but this number was increased
to 750 upon the urgent request of
Secretary Fox, who on Dec. 1 had
nearly 800 requests from county
Farm Bureaus throughout the state.
There are only 2600 seats in the whole
hall where President Coolidge speaks
and Illinois has more seats reserved
than any other state. However, it
seems probable that all Illinois re-
quests will be cared for. The I. A. A.
ticket booth will be open at the>
Sherman Hotel on Sunday and Mon-
day morning. Members are advised
to get their reserved tickets as soon
as thry arrive in the city. At 10:30
Monday morning the booth will be
closed and all seats not called for
will be given to those not holding
reser\ ations.

record — one actually established by
physical, field performance in the
presence of sgme 7,000 witnesses,
whereas many higher unofficial re-
cords have been established around
the stoves of country stores in the
presence of hot air competitors.

The personnel of the 1925 All-
Farm sports team foltows :

Champion hog caller — V. E. Robi-
son, Morton, Tazewell County Farm
Bureau.

Champion chicken caller — Mrs. I.
N. Wooley, luka, Marion County
Farm Bureau.

Champion baseball team — Taze-
well County Farm Bureau.

Champion busker — (Illinois' and
Mid-West) Elmer Williams, Toulon,
Stark County Farm Bureau.

Champion horseshoe team — Wal-
ter and Harry Torbert, DeWitt
County Farm Bureau.

Prices were given by the Dlinois
Agricultural Association to the
champions of hog -and chicken call-
ing, horseshoe and baseball. These
were, for the hog calltTig champ, a
gold miniature hog for watch chain
pendant; for the chickeji calling vic-
tor, a silver cream piteher; and a
silver loving cup each for the horse-
shoe and baseball teams. Prairie
Farmer gave $100 to the winner of
the state husking contest, $50 for
second, $25 for third, $15 for
fourth and $10 for fifth. This farm
paper, in company with Wallaces'
Farmer, Nebraska Farmer and The
Farmer (St. Paul) gave $100 and
a gold medal to the Mid-West cham-
pion, and Prairie Farmer gave $50
for the winner of second place who
was Walter W. Olson of Rio, a
member of the Knox County Farm
Bureau.

A DrCHKABE or FROU lU Ttt l.*) PKK CENT IN

the protluction of hogs and entile in Iowa ttiia
vear as compared with 1924 h-^H t>een n*ported
by Knute l-'spe, secretary of the Federation of
Uve Stock Shippers.

McLean Countt Farm Bubeau has secured
Henry A. Waltsce, ed tor of Wallaces" Farmer
a» principal speaker f r the annual meeting to
be held at ninontington, Dec :U.

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Issued Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinking Farmers — December 19, 1925

No. 25

"OUR SAM" TAKESA.F.B.F. PRESIDENCY WITH HUMBLENESS

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5am Thompson ''Came
Up from the Ranks**
Through Farm Bureau

Has Held Many Offices All the
Way From Solicitor of Mem-
berships to President of
Farmers' Greatest Body.

Sam H. Thompson, newly-elected
president of the American Farm Bureau
Federation^ has "come up from the
ranks" in the farm bureau organiza-
tion.

He has been a leader in his home
community in Gilmer township, Adams
county; president of the Adams County
Farm Bureau; executive committeeman
of the Illinois Ajn*>cultural Association;
chairman of its legislative and iinance
committees; president of the Illinois
Agricultural Association; director of the
American Farm Bureau Federation ;
member of its finance committee and is
now president of the national organiza-
tion.

Lived on Farm 54 Years
He was born August 18, 1863, on a
40-acre farm in Gilmer township, near
Quincy. He was the youngest of five
children, three girls and two boys. He
grew to manhood on this farm and re-
ceived his education in the public
schools. He joined the Methodist Epis-
copal church when 12 years old and al-
ways has been active in church and
Sunday school work.

At the age of 26 two important events
took place. He married Miss Lemmie
Dickhut and the same year he bought
an 80-acre farm at $75 an acre, going
in debt for the entire amount. On this
farm there were bom to the Thomp-
sons seven children, four boys and thre^
girls. Five are now married and living
on farms in the neighborhood of their
father and grandfather. Two of the
children live at home, the youngest hav-
ing graduated last year at the Agricul-
tural College of the University of Illi-
nois.

Has 500-Acre Farm
Mr. Thompson engaged in grain and
live stock farming. The 80-acre farm
was paid for and adjoining land was
acquired which enlarged the old home
place to BOO acres. Two of the sons
are now farming it under the eye of
Mr. Thompson.
- He was tax collector at 22 years of
age. Since then he has always.^ taken
an active part in the public affairs of
his neighborhood, township and county.
He was commissioner for nine years arid
supervisor for six years. In 1916 he
was elected to the 60tfa' General Asseiii-
biy of Illinois.

It was back in 1915 that Mr. Thomp-
son got active in Farm Bureau wotfk.
He became a strong advocate for the
organization of farmers. He was pres-
ident of the Adams County Farm Bu-
reau and was a charter member in the
organization of the Illinois Agricultural
Association in 1917. Although he had
moved in to Quincy in 1918 and was
elected president of the Broadway Bank
of Quincy, which position he now holds,
he gave considerable time in helping the
Illinois Agricultural Association get on
its feet. Even though a bank president,
he spent weeks out in the country as a
soliciter.

He became an executive committee-
man of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation representing the 22nd congres-
sional district, serving for three years.
He was also chairman of the finance and
legislative committees. Mr. Thompson
also helped organize the American Farm
Bureau Federation and has been, for
two years, a member of its executive
committee.

Mr. Thompson has had 54 years of
actual farming experience. He has busi-
ness experience as president of the
Broadway Bank of Quincy. The deposits
of that bank have doubled since he be-
came president and in the financial de-
pression which has hit farming commun-
ities so hard, the bank of which Mr.
Thompson is president suffered no loss
of any kind. In public affairs, Mr.
Thompson has had wide experience, first,
in his township and county affairs;
second, as a public legislator in the
General Assembly and third, through of-
ficial position of the .Illinois Agricultural
Association and the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation, where he has had di-
rect experience in state and national
agricultural problems.

President Thompson Pinning

Medals on Illinois Club Winners

The University of Illinois, through De«n H. W. Mnmford and E. I. Pil-
chard, ftate leader of boys* and girls' work, and the Illinois Agricultural
Association gave medals to winners in club competitions when the Illinois
boys and girls who were attending the International L|ve Stock Exposi-
tion were breakfasted by I. A.. A. officials, executive committee and di-
rectf>rs. Left to right: Sam H. Tliompson; Adeline Spragg, Sangamon
county, Donald Cameron, Peoria county; Dean H. W. Mumford and For-
rest Weseman, Kane county.

Chef Got 'Ze Great Kick * in Cooking

Co-op Luncheon for Calvin Coolidge

'PHOMAS MAGLIANO, a former sub-
"*• ject of the Prince of Monoco and
who learned his cooking in Monte Carlo,
his native land, was the chef who super-
vised the cooking of the co-operative
luncheon served to President Coolidge
and guests during the American Farm
Bureau convention at Chicago last
week. Three assistant chefs helped him.

Chef Magliano took great pride in
cooking for the president. On ■^wo
previous occasions he has prepared tdBd
for presidents, in both instances for the
late Theodore Roosevelt, once in Colo-
rado in 1901, and the other time in
.Arizona in 1911.

"I got ze big kick out of getting this
great meal for re President," said
Senor Magliano, who is chef, de caisine
at the Sherman Hotel, where the con-
vention and luncheon was held. "And
deed you hear what the President he
say? He say hemself it was a great
luncheon. It should be — you know thiff*
quality of food was tres bon — ex eel -
lente — it came from farmers themselves.

"We cooked all of it in a special
kitchen ap^rt from all food for ze regu-
lar customers of the hotel. We had
nothing but new utensils. And ze secret
service men! Aha. They stand around
looking to see that no poison get in.
They found none, I assure you. And
Dr. Bundesen of the Chicago health
department he send inspectors! They
asked about the milk — it was good milk
— I found it came from Quincy and the
farmers* cows are all tested for ze
tuberculosis. They say 'fine.' "

Senor Magliano has been in the

Telegrams and Letters
Pile on Thoxnpson's Desk
Saying ''We* re With You'*

"We're with you, Sam!"

That's the sentiment expressed in a
big pile of telegrams and letters which
tumbled onto President Thampson's desk
after his election to the national pres-
idency. One telegram was a resolution
of congratulation from the Illinois State
Grange which was in session at the
time in Champaign-Urbana. It pledged
full co-operation, as did the scores of
other letters and telegrams which came
from all over the country.

United States 25 years and ha« become
a naturalized citizen.

The Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange
furnished apples for the co-op luncheon,
but the Stephenson County Co-operative
Cream Producers' Association is exper-
iencing such a demand for its "Vita-
Gold" butter that no cream could be
spared.

Besides the luncheon to President
Coolidge, a co-op luncheon was also
served the next day.

I. A. A. Leader Elected President of

American Farm Bureau Federation for
2- Year Term Which Began Immediately

Hopes He Can Serve Humbly Enougrh So He Will Always Be
CloM to "the Folks Back On the Farm^'; E. A. O'Neal
of Alabama Re-elected Vice-President; Thompson Gives
His Future Policy in Statement in This RECORD.

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Frank D. Barton
■ Uinoia Dela(ata

After His Election
Sam Was Sad Because
He'd Be At Home Less

Upon learning' of his townsman's
election as president of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, the editor
of the Quincy Herald wired Pres-
ident Thompson for a "word to the
folks back home." He replied as foK
lows:
**To my friends at home:

"After bein? elected president of
the American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion, the distressing thought came to
me as I sat at supper with a frroup
of confcratulatini; friends that my
new duties would pull me more and
more away from Quincy and the
Adams county folks with whom I
have lived all ^ the years of my life.
The thoufrht m'ade me sad.

"Bat with this sadness I also feel
that I must assume this new respons-
ibiltty as a sacred duty to American
agriculture and that I can be of
wider service to the farmers. In the
future I hope to continue the princ-
iples which have made the Illinois
Agrricultural Association such a
strong and useful organitation.

"My prayerful hope is that I will
be able to serve humbly enough to be
always close to the folks on the farm
and home. Sincerely,

Sam. H. Thompson."

Senor Thomjis Magliano, the chef
who cooked the co'O0erative lunch-
eon for President Coolidge.

HOPE and trust I can serve humbly enoug-h so I always
will be close to the folks back home on the iarms." fervent-
ly declared "Our Sam" Thompson in his first
speech as president of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation before the delegates at thd
national organization's seventh annual meeting
in Chicago last week after he had been elected,
in a warm contest, to become "Our Sam*;, to the
farm bureau farmers of the nation.

"And I want to promise you who represent
the states which make up this great federation,"
he said, "that from now on my viewpoint is
primarily a national one. As a director of the
American Farm Bureau Federation 1 have hati a splendid op-
pwrtunity to see agricultural problems in a national way, and
it is my duty, in co-operation with the new bo^rd of directors,

to act in the best intere.sts of all the
farmers in Amerfca."

Three can<)idat)es were pushed by
their respective backers m what de-
veloped into a <hree-comered con-
test. They were:: 0. E. Bradfujte of
Xenia, Ohio, whohac }v*fn T^r«>ci'l*»nt
for three years; Hi. A. O'NealVf Bir-
mingham, .Alabama, vice-president
during 192.5 anci jiresident of the
Alabama Farm Bureau Federation
and Sam H. Th<>m|>son of Quincy,
who has been president of the Illi-
nois Agricultural ^s.sociation during
^ 1923-24-25 and a

^F\ director of the

^^ha American Farm

^^Hl Bureau Feder<ition

^^Br for the same pe-

^NB riod. Eight secret

^^^■^a^^^ pilots were cast,
^^^^/^^^^^ V'^ ninth being a
^^^^^^^^^^^ tote by acclama-
^^^^^^^^^^ lion, upon motion
^^^^^^^■ty President Palm-
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^^^^^^^^^^ Farm Bureau Fed-
..S"* *-■ Smith ^ration, w h i ch
"""•'• D*'***" _ *i a de' unanimous
the majority gai'ntd by Mr. Thomp-
son on the eighth kallot. The eighth
ballot stood: Mr. thomp.son. 24; Mr.
Bradfute 19 and Mr. O'NeaJ 1. Then
the vote wa.s mad^ tinanimou.-.

Bradfate Pledge ^o-operation

E. A. O'Neal was then elected
vice-president to succeed himself.
President BradfuteL in addressing the
delegates later, w»rmly bespoke the
co-operation of alllstates for the new
president and piMged himself to
serre the Farm Bdreau in any man-
ner in which he cguld be of servie'

President
Thomp.son a s—
sumed the duties
of his new office
immediately. The
next day, Thurs-
day, the newly
elected board of
directors met in
the American
Farm Bureau of-
fices, where
Frank Evans,
general market-
ing counsel and {
acting secretarj'
for the past year,
was re-elect^, as
was A. R. Simp-
son, treasurer, ithe next
was set for Feb. 9v

Representatives of the Mid-West
states elected to s^rve on the board
(Continued en ^ag* 4 Col 6)

Another County Group
of Mutuals Okehs the
New Reinsurance Body

"We hereby endorse the plan of the
Farmers* Mutual Reinsurance Company
for direct insurance, specific reinsur-
rce. blanket reinsurance and also re-
<^sion reinsurance and authorize the
:.a Salle County Reinsurance committee
> put on record our endorsement of
.L:d Farmers' Mutual Reinsurance Com-
pany."

Thus comes indorsement from another
county group of farm mutuals for the
new reinsurance company. La Salle
county has more fire and lightning com-
panies than any other county in the
state — 13. Representatives of these have
met several times during the last two
years studying reinsurance.

"Therefore," says Vernon Vaniman,
field representative, "they are plad that
a company has been organised that will
cover the entire state, thereby putting
their companies in a position whereby
they can take care of all the insurance
needs of their farmers against fire and
lightning."

Many other mutuals in Illinois have
endorsed the new company. Madison
connty recently gave it a strong in-
dbraement.

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The nilnois Agricultural Association RECORD

December 5, 1925

Value Of 1925 Corn
Crop Is Lower Than
Short Crop Of 1924

C urrent Corn Prices Fall
Short of Paying Cost of
Production, Says I. A. A.
Grain Director

The Goal of a 25- Year- Old Ambition

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Notwithstanding tlii' size of tin-
hunipcr i-ftin ciop in Illinois,
sh vaIu-> lo tlif farnirrs who

pi-jxlu I it is .-InIv million dollai.--

tliaii til.- valiii' of last year's

cr*>i>, if tlv price w!iic!\ the

rs of tlir state are actually r«-'-

vinvr at c.iuiitry eli'vators in No-

ve^nliir (•(•iitinues tliroixgli the sca-

rtlinc to findinjjs pi* Ches-

('. I>av;s, I. A. A. jrrain market-

lini-tor.

TW statement of Oiri'ctor Davis
nts out that November 1 esti-
s cre<lit Illinois with a corn
crjpp of :t!M,!»:> 1,000 husluls for
impar.-.! witli 2y:i,f,00,000
bi^^hels iji l;t2l. But the 1!)-.>I crop
farm value gf S2TS.U20.OOO
the Oecrnilter 1 price, ticcortliii'r
the I'.^S. IK'partment of AL'-'ricul-
,- while tie- priye which farm-
ari- actually receivinj; at couii-
ixiints in th.- state this ueek
ultl \ i.M a total of onlv $J17,-
*n,70(i if it were all sold. "

farmers w!io are sejlinjr their
n nr. receiving from til'ty to six-
. cents a liushi^l for it. with- the
l>u k of it volpj: at .">."> cents or less.
E.'icessivi- in<>i-tui%' in this year's
is tie- faitnii wliich is holdinj;
country c:i^i^priei' below con-
t!-:4ct itraiie iiuutalioris.

Production CosM 68 Cents

Current corn pry"*-.- t'all far short
'■payin;.; cost- ol fvioduclion. and
lil a loss of niilliojis to farmers
Illinois if tiny continue, it is
|>:j jilted out. .\ctual cost re<-ordj'
en a numlv r of farms in ("liam-
jn -ind Piatt roumi'S, in one of
best corn produciie; districts in
1!! iioi.s^ show a corn pre.iuction cost
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Uavis. *'f.irmers wiio sell their
'-oiti as tlieh- cash ciop will be in
.-h Wol-.^*4^ state- t .a:i those who
fee .1 anil nutrket their corn as porI\.
who buy corn to feed. Many
fat tors enter into a calculation as

io .what the ti. nd of corn pries
I'il be this wiiit.-r. Heavy discounts
lia' e ruled on the m-.v corn crop
. bn ausL' of excess moisture. We.-ith-
er [Bat would permit dryinjr befor.
the corn is nuirketed would help the
fat n price. Spoilinj; of criblwd
cor 1 is i-<'|>orted from all ovei-" the
.-ta e as a liiult of the wet weather.

Heed Way to Handle Surplus

*Ka!m<'rs of Illinois are not as
ir.u h interest^-il in di-vices to make
nioi e credit ' available to enable
t'.'. I 1 to hold their corn, as they are
-';i omo means to handle the sur-
; lu. that follows a normal crop, so
•iS to prevent it from breakin.u
do-.vi prices <lisa.strously. It is not
! ;e!i of ireilit >o much as wet corn
and inadeiiuate storage faciliti'-s
t. at prevents farmers irom holdinj;
corn this year. The unfavor-
: :-Ie| fall, the short carrv'-over, and
't l.itivi'ly jrood market for ho-,^
;d iiest .cradp cattle all .support the
faiii (r.s' view that.he ouj-'lit. to liavi
a, !^r 'l* r price for corh, but no oni-
ccrtaiu of wliat the mark>-<^
:!f.i

^r^m

.:.... w:

.^iiiir'^tniuijtpUilirn'iil" '.,.

Charter of the Far'mers' Mutual Reinsurance Company of Illinois
i;ranted by the stale department of tr.Tde and rommercp, Nov. 17. A
document that opens a ne'w and larger field of insurance lo Illinois farm-
ers and mutual farm insurance companies of this state. An acknowledged
need of more than a quarter of a ceiltury accomplished through the co-
operation of Farm Bureaus, mutual insurance companies of the state and
Illinois Agricultural Association. {

Popularity of Farm
Sports Growing; Big
Aid to Home Morale

Mythical All-F arm Spbri
Team of Mid-West Com--
posed Entirely of Illinois
Bureau Members

in

urance Totaling
$750,000 Place't

orr'iiuKd from, iKiije 1, col. .',.)

'.ce. The extension of thos

'.o local mutuals, it is estimat-

vdl .'a\e illjiiois farnn-rs more

li
t on

p-.at,
.-f t
r.-.-k
will
d

..-.-.-SI I

J.;

■ n,:;
!nad'
uclu:
now
<un!s
ij.ini:
-litir

■'I upod consiileration
amounts of ittdiviilual
coinpaiiiis

reac'
eatei
.^ that the mutual

able to haudh- and. the re--

in costs and addHional a.-'-

its due to exceptional lussi-K

lividual farmers, by n-i^iiid-

artdy to the canipaifcn. Ii;tve

Ijie n-insuranci- company* an

1 aceomplishm<.nt and it is

urvto, the local and county mu-

to take advantuKe of. the or-'

ijtion and jrain the Ix-nefits for

respective members. ,

Milk From "Tested

H^jals'Pdx^ Premium

Dai^hien 0"? Ih^ Chicairo Dis-
trict \yho Iklvi; tested their cattle
and who sell milk to llie Bowman
Dairy ^mpa'iiy, one of the bi^-
,i;e.st di.snuXutors in Cliicajjo, nie
ri.-<-eivinjr \^n-i-niium of twenty-
liv.- cents \\u.iiln-d, befrinninfr
with De<-(>niTK-r 1.

T^-NBowman Company, alons'
witli\atiy.-r ('liica.^o distributors,
have IwAn payini;- Si..").'! a hundn-d
for all rtylk, re};arilless -of source.
Tile ni»}Aprice to farnv-rs with
ti .sted herds is $2.7r>. Dairymen
with untestid herds will Im- pai<l
only ^'^.:>0. '

In Jiddition to this jienalty fm-
iiot having te.-ted herds, 'the cein-
pHn.\ is pa>inj; onl.v JjiS.lO a luin-
r^^^ for surplus hut no milk jro-
ngs f>-oni lu-rd untler Sfa'te and
leral .Supervision wfll Ije das-
-ifii d as surplu.-^, the company of-
ficials state. ■•• *

This pn mium^for T. B. fr.-,
-milk is ii s-'oal souiAjt h.v'^he Farm
Bureaus and the Illinois Agricul-
tural .-Vs-ociation for three years
and now that one com|>an.v has
seen tit to estab!i.-h a premium for
the farmer who produces the
highi-r quality rnd .-afe milk, the
Illinois ..\gricultu:al .-X-sociation
will continue Vind try to get as
many a^iMio-'sible distributors in
t'.- Chici'o district to pay the
premium,'^ ^^

'Wants Next J!. A. A. (Jcnvention

1. A. A. 17th District Conference
\ Held at Bloomington, Nov. 27

! R.-presentatives (rf the Fann Bu-
ii-aus in McLean, Ford, Living-ton
a n d Woodford
counties who at-
tended the 17th
district confer-
ence, hel.l at
B 1 o o m i ngton,

Y^^ i ■ ;i resolution ask-

' ' "^ ing the Illinois

A.irvi(-ultural .-^s-
sociatit>n to con-
sider Dlooining-
toii as tht- loL'ical
pl.-ice to hold its
next annual con-
vi ntion, w h i c h
wfll probably be in January. i:i27.
It was pointed out that I'inoming-
tdn has i-xct-lh-nt facilities for such
a 'meeting and is ideally located in
tlJe center of the stati-.

'I'he Farm, r' .Mutual IJeinsurancc

t'pmpany of Illinois was - endors' (1.

One resolution passed by the h-ad-

s sugue.-ted tliat the l.".\. ..\. in-

tigate th.'- platis an<l pro-jrams of

otlii-r st.-ite f.-nni bureau federations

w th the vi.-w of bettering the sorv-

reiidei.d in IlHnoi.s,

Tile preposition of the Kenneth-

M^irry ('om))any to |.-a.-e tin- ('. and

.varll- .-md op. rate as a livestock

li-r buyer in [Hooniiimton. buying

th -oii'.;o iommis.-ion comp-uiies. w-as

hrpueh! up foi- considera'ile discus-

.*nie farmers w-ej-e not so

lo the a<!yrsability of the

Fi-ank D. Barton

■^

\l

J .rcheme.

/Thorn has boon mor<' orponisJ'd
fai-ni sport in Illinois <luring li)2.5
than in any other .veur in tho hi.s-
tory' of the' state. _ - -

Only two of the fivo sports which
were i-xtensively jiiirticipated in by
th>- >'arni fiureaus are common to
both rural and city people- — baseban
-jind horsi-shnes pitching.- The 'other
three are distinctly farm s|>oi-ts.
Thestvai-e hog calliii);^, chicken call-
ing (for women) afld corji husking.

The de\ el(rpj>n.-jit ef .spo'rts a.inong
farni'.r.s, theiv sons, and eyiin Hieir
wives and dav.ii'lit'-rs is regafded by
I*re,-id'-n't Sam H. Tliomp.s'on as a.
spleiolid conditioB, He . says ..that
firm sports contribute miu-h to, the
iiappj'hi-ss 'and contentment of farm
life, .^n.vtliiii'g along tlnr- lines of-
eonip.-tition ^ cri-att-s -moi-e 'Miti-jx^t
aroun.l f.-tn'n lifO,; he- SHy.^,/^nd,
furtherin'ore, _f:irni sports ii-AVf a
■bearing oh thi- problem o^keeping
ho.y.-* and girls on tlie f.-irms.
Torberts on Tifani

Farm spoil i-ntliusiasts, like their
city cousins wlio are now busy se-
■lecting-, rc-seh-cting and. debating
Over who .-hall be'on the .\ll-.\mer-
ican foof.hall team, can also point
to st.-ir p.rformers in the various
farm sports ti'-hl.

Walt.-r and Harry Torbert of De-
Witt county, Illinois, earned a place
on the niythical .\I1-Farm sport tc;.im
by tlirowiu'g the most ringers and
counters in the annual stati- farm
hur.-au horseshoe tournament held
in (-onn.-i-lion with tin- state picnic
of the Illinois .-\gricultural Associ-
ation .August, 27 at Taylorville.
Walter and Harry are Ifl and 20 rit-
sji'-ctively. and are sons of Ed..Tot-
bert, a menih'-r of the state cham-
pion t'-am of l:t2(i, 21, and 22. The
boys d.f.-at d R. ub.-n G..T?right an.l
.s;;imu -I G. Smitli of MelJ'.an cougty,-
champion team -of 1024. ' .About 2.'»
county horseshoe pitching contests
were li.-ld by county Farm Biin-aus
pri'limiiK-.ry to tUe state competition.

V. K. Rohisofi of Moil on, Taze-
well county, p.-:haps (|ualilies -l^st
for the i|riart.-r-back or signal-call-
• .-\I1-F'arm spoi-ts
that **whoo-o-o«^>-,
whoo-o-oey" is'^the most elfi-ctive
wa.y to call h(t'.:s when he w?is <le-
i-lal-' d by the two-legged judges to
h.-; the champion swine yodeler in a
conte.st wliich was also hehj-at the
state farm, bureau picnic: This was
the first stat'--wide competition ever
h.Id and was tin. ba.-is for a long
pi-' liminary- dis(-ussion' by c\iy fea-
ture wri'ters and editorial *-xpound-
i-rs on the merits of "poo-o-o^v"
or "wilo-o-oey," the formel- lieing
Ihi- form faijcied by a metropolitsn
i-ewspap^'r a.s' comparable to strains
of fu> ra, but one whii-Ii shttwed the
writer was not a hog calh-r.

Mrs. Wooley'-Selected Captain

-,Mrs. 1. .\. Wooley of lirka, ..Marion
(-ounty, v.on the .state cidcken call-
in.g <-ontest, anti since siie is the only
woman rating thi- All-Farm sp'oft's
team, she should be captaki.

Thi' baseb-:ll division of the AIl-
Fajin sporf team is awaiwh-d to the
TaZ'-well. Count.\- Farm Bureau ag-
gregation, it having won the state
titl.' after an interesting -.^ason
which terniinati'd in the champior-
-hip game at tin- state picnic. Ilase-
h:dl among the Farm Bureaus is
con.luct'-.l through the Illinois Farm
nur.-au lias. -ball league.

Klmi r Williams of Toulon, Stark
county, wins a promiii.-nt place on
tile All-Farm sports , team, and is
also entitled to a place on a national
s' lection, liaving won both tin- Illin-
ois ;ind the Jlid-West corn husking
contests. On Novi mill r 2 in - thi-
Montgoniery county contest stageil.
by I'rairie Farm -r, .state farm paper,
he out-shuck' d 19 other cont'-stants,
many of whom were winners of
county contents stag.Hl bv Farm
Hureaus. On .Novemh. r I li h.- lied
Orangi-d the best shuckeis of hiwa.
N'ebr.-iska, Minnesota and Indiana
wl).n he j)i.-k.-.! .-(o.O bushels in 80
m-nut.-s in t'le Mid-West contest at
I!ur-jes-, .M.-rcer county, a sfH'od
eiiuivi! lit !o 2';LI busilels in 10
houis.

This stands as an official worhfs

tor l.ie (|nart.-r-i>:
ing position of.^h
tt-am. IU''pr(i5j|d

k.-!in4' ^

niMTlMpT, Ffil-

i'<r<'l;ihl(> < Irdwrrs.

ntl, •■'I'lic FMrin

y in C"<)-op('r:itivo

]■:. <i. .\((Ursr.

I (livi.sioii. liisti-

pri

Large Number to

Attend Meeting

^ (ConntiHcd from pot/v 1, col. 5.)
will (li-('i;-.s the pr(i[:r:nn nf llic nnniial
in.Tiimj: <.f thi;, I. A. A. t.. !.>.■ hrid at
thi' I iiivrrsit V t»f Illinois, C'liuinpaJKn-
I rlxiiiM, .I:in. 'Jl iiiiil-'JLV Tho new
pfnn of siwci.'il si-ctioTiri! iniM'tincs will

1m' (v\)»l;iiui;ij '" ' hr fotllily rM'Cilt ivi'S. ,

lIi^?TT+HTTf IS on tin- .srcfdiii duj''s
proi:r:ini irH-litd.'s: , .'

■ I^rmonstrritioii hy C'liiKi Hoy;* II:ir-,
oM Htihiirir amt (It-f).' Hohnirln.
Huri'Mu cvtiinty, sialtt tlia.n^>ionship
team 4)f JllnKtis, --.

Cappec to Speak at 'Banquet '.
'I'ut iity-iriiniili- l;il!s on "< 'o-opor-'^
ritivp ('(jtjrin M:irki'iintr ' I'V ^'. **-
MnsiT. ^'I'^iiap-t-r, Aini'iii-aii Cotloii
l'Afliaiit;i'; *I,ivi-sioi-k Mar-
l>y y. H. I)fnnian, pii-sidrnt,
NAlioij:iI "ijYst.ii'k IVoiIiKM'i's' Akso-

inff" l(v A. IJl^TTuIi
rr:itr(l FrMiit \V«1 V
Int-', Niu- York
Utirvnu's 4)ppt4»-tuni|l
\JaikiUtiirV A*\ U\.
i-hirf isT airrii«i'*'ir
1 lilf of l'!foimrnir«i

J>uriTig till' :^inn:tl IhinipicI
J»l■l(^ oil Tin .-^flny I'VilliTiK, t li
fipnl ail.li'i s.-(< will Im j;iv.n h
Srnato?" Alt Inir ' CappiT of J\:insa
:mm1 Mrs. Ivan 1). <;..n' of^ llah
authority on fniiii honii* and
nitinity work, 'I'lii- lljml day will li
laki-n lip wiih niMir^s of nsoliiliun
roniniit icfs. (-U-ciioii oif ollici'is, adop-
tion of n-solniions, ! nt-w :ind nn-
tinishcd Inisinr-^s and M'JjouMiincnt .
Seat Requests Heavy

DiMnailil-s f<>r scat rrsi-rva I iritis to
hear. IVi-sidrnt CnolidKc have Imm-h
foniinn in thirk and fast, from Illinois
atrn lnin;iu ini'inhcrs. < Ulicinls of
III''. American Farm Hurcaii Federa-
tion ill first allotl.-d MM) seals to
I llinois, Imt ihisriiimhcr was increased
ti» 7'>0 upon llie Urtiellt reipicst of
Secrelnry jFox, ^hn on Dec I had
nearly N(M( "rtMiuests from (*f>un1 y
harm Hurcmi;^ tlirnuphoirt thr- stntc.
'ilurc are only .2lifM) seals in 1 he whole
hall will re l*rcsideTit CooIidKc speaks
and Illinois has more se:its n'servi>il
llian any otiur sl:ite. However, it
seem** prolt:il)l(' that all lUinojs rc-
(juestsisili Im- cared for. The 1, A. v
ticket hoolh will be open al. lh*'
Shrrinnn Jlotcl on Sunday anc[ ^loii-
chiy iiiorninn. Al<'tnhers arc advisrd
to pet their iPPerved tickets as soon'
as till y arrive in the ciiy. i\a Wi'M^
MoinI:iy ntoritini; t^ic hootliwill he
ehtsi-d "and all svals not c:dle.| for
jvill he iiivcii t«I tjifisc nut holding

re.-erM:li*ns.

<

acfilBli

recoifl-Xjme acTimliy established by
physical, field perfoiniancf in tlie
presenne' of so'me • 7,000 witn'es.ses,t
jJlKWrs nianyjiigber unofficial re-'.
cor(lS~ha^e— tern o.stabM.'fhod ' around
the stoves of cotintry jifores in the
presirnce of hot air competitors.

TW, personnel of tlie 102.-) Ail-
Fai-rivsports team follow* :
' Champion V'K call'i-r-V.-E. Robi-
son, Morton, Jaz.-well .County Farm
Bureau. . '- i.

Champion clji«kcii ujller^JklTjS.U.
N. Woolev, luka, .Marion County
Farm Bureau.

Chaminon baseball »tram— ,-Ta7.e-
well County Faim Hureau.

Champion Jiusker — (Illinois' anl^^
Mid- West) Elnii-r Williams, ToUloii,
Stark Coiwity Farm Bureau.

Champron hors'-shoe team — Wal-
ter and Harry Torbert, DeWitt
Count.x- Farm Bureau.

Prizes Were given by the Illinois
.Agricultural .Association to the
champions of hog and chicken call-
fng, liorseshoe and baseball. These
were, for the hog calling champ, a
gold miniature hog for watch chain
peri'lant; for the chicken calling vic-
tor, a silvi-r cream jiitcher: and a
silvi.-r loving cup each fo-r the horse-
shoe and b.aseball teams. Prairie
Farmer gave $100 to the winner of
the state husking conte.st, .«.-i0 for
second, $2.") for third, $15 for
fourth and $10 for fiftli. Tliis farm
paper, in company wiih Wallaces'
Farmer, Nebraska Farmer and The
Farmer "(.St. Paul) grtve SIOO and
a gold m.dal to the Mid-West cham-
pion,, ancj Prairie Farmer gave $.")0
for "(he winner of second ]>lace who
was Walter W. Olson of Rio, a
member of the Knox County Farm
Bureau.

-V nirnr^st ok hiom ni T" l.'. i-i ji.< i .\r i\

l)'f> |.l...lu.-ll'.ll ,'f Ji'.ii.H IHI'I < .1.1' 111 l...%Mt tl'i-

\';ir;is '"mpnT'-.l willi ^1124 !i - I"-' ii f' iLiru-.!
b.v Kn.it'- J -t '-. .."-rftXarv ,.f (be i'l-'K-raliiili uf
t.O' Sl"C-k SI'il'INT-.

M' t.l;\N CnCNTY t'^tlM BeHr\T: IL\S8KCCNKI>

ll'iirv \. W.'ll.,.,-. ,sl c.r ..f « :,ltii.-.-s- laril'i-r
.:- j.rii.'iiial -jHiits'-r ( r tin- aiiliiinl im-rtinK tu
l-li'M al lM".ii.iiii;t"i., !>.-.- :il.

1

iber 5. 1925

to
Meeting

■r 1, enl. -,.)
of thr ;innil;il

10 1>,. hcl.l ill
, f 'li;inip:iiEll-
!-' Till! lliw

iiif'i'Iincs will
t y I'Vfciil ivi's. ,
siH'oml title's

11I.1 RMys II:ir-
•«.* Holinirin.
l.*lin»^>Kinsliip

t Banquet -'

nil ■■( 'i>-(»por-"^
C' I'v V. 0
riiTin <'((Hon

visti.ck Mrir-
:in, pri'siili'iit,

illUMTs' As>o-

i:i)ilo Markrt-
l:iTi;iKcr, Fi'il-
:ihtr (Irowors.
'•Till' r';irin '
C"i»-iiIMT:itivo
. (1. Muursr,
ivision. Iiiati-

;irn|Ilrt, to 1>I'
iiK, tin prin-
H* Ki\i'" hy
r of K:ins:is
on! of* I'trih.
Ill' ;tlii)
.1 .Imv will 1.^
of rrsolulioll

iini<"iTs. :iiJop-
I'W :tn<l ini-
:Mljoiiriiin<-nl .
Heavy

's»T\:ili^>ls to
:i' havi* lic'i'll

I from Illinois' ,

<)flii-i;ils of_
irr.'ni I'l'ilcrn- *
:illO si'Mis to
\\:is iiH'icnscil

11 riMpii-st, of
Dir. 1 hMil

from coiinly
oM thT' SiMtl'-.
s in tlir wholi'
mliilgc speaks
;(';ils rrsrrvij*! '
IIoWI'VIT, it

II Illinois ri'.- "
Till- I. A 1

oprn at. th*'
ay anif ^loii-
■i an- ailvisi-d
•kcts as soon
,U ly;:i()

til Hill l.l-

t <-all<.| for
not holilini:

tablisli.il Ijy
incr in till'

0 witn'i'ssrs,^
unotlicial 11-'
shpil 'around
fores in the
pi'titor.s.

1925 AU-
rp:
V.-E. Rol)i-
oiinty Farm

ion -County

;oam— ^Tazo* ^

■au.

Illinois' am*^

nis, Toulon,

■(-■au.

team — Wal-

rt, DtWitt

the Illinois

1 to the

hickcn call-

liall. Thcs,-

ig cliainp, a

ivatdi chain

calling vic-

hor; ami a

'r the liorso-

i. Prairie

winner of

t, .«r.O for

$15 for

This farm

Wallaces'

r and The

SI 00 ami

West cham-

V Have $50

1 |rlaci' who
of Rio, a
untv Farm

l*l It'* KN r IS

iri I.,.w(i till-

U-i II n|iiiru-.l

l\-i!L-rati^ii uf

\S SKCIIIKD

.- iMriiLT
iii'^llliK lu

ItlHEAU

ACEiC'

III

"111

'\F

Volume 3

Issued Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinking Farmers — December 19, 1925

No. 25

"OUR SAM" TAKES A. F. B. F. PRESIDENCY WITH HUMBLENESS

<

Sam Thompson 'Xathe
Up from the Ranks"
Through Farm Bureau

Has Held Many Offices All the
Way From Solicitor of Mem-
berships to President of
Farmers' Greatest Body.

Siini H. Thompson, newly-elect t-i!
pi^sitk'nt of the Atncrican Farm Bureau
l-cderatioiij has "come up from tin-
rank*" in the farm bureau organiza-
tion.* . f
He has been a leader in his home
(■'>n»niun:ty in (lilmer township, Ailams
i-r-unty; president of the Adams County
Farm Hiin-au; exerutive commit Iceman
of the Utiiioii* Ajrrieultural A.^sociation;
chaiinian of its loRislative antifinanre
coniniittees; president of the^TTTTmus
Airricultural Association; director of the
American Farm Hurcau Federation;
memlier of its finance committee and is
n,ow pr-'sidvnt of the national orMniza-
tinn.

Lived on Farm 54 Year*

He \v;i-; Itorn j\jiirust \><, 1X(\'A, on a
■lO-acre f.'irm in Gilmer township, near
Quincy. He was the youngest of five
children, three ;;irls and two boys. He
irrew to manhood on this farm and re-
ueived his education in the public
IchooN. He joined the Methodist Epis-
«ip;il church when lii years -old and al-
wViys has been active in t-hurch and
Sunday school work. r

.\t the afre of 20 two important events
_lfiiJt_T>lace. He married yUf>s Lemmic
Dickhur~imd the same year^^Jie ^lout^ht
an SO-acre /arm^ at $7.') an acre.'poinu
in debt for the entire amount. On this
farm there were born to the Thonip-
sfnis seven children, foflr boys and three
^;irls. Five are now married ^^nd livinp
on farms in the nriii^!»orhood of their
fathcr^^iwH ' irrirmWaiher. Two of the-
hib|j>(m live fit home, the youn;;cst hav-
irraduated last year at the Atrricul-
1 CniWii^of the University uf Ikli-
noi;;. '

Has 500-Acre Farm

Mr. Thonips<>ii eiitriired fn grain and
live &tock farniin^'T^Tiw. SO-acre farm
was pair! for and adjoinin>L_Jaml was
acfpiired which enlar;refl the oPT home
plnte to .%0Q' acre's. Two of the sons
are" now farmfnir it under the eye of
Mr. Thompson.

He w;is tax collector at 22 year< of
HKC. Since then he has always taken
an active part in the public atfairs of
his neighborhood, township and county.
He was comniissionor for nine years and
supervisor for six yeajs. In liMG he
was elected tn the r)Oih (leneral Assem-
bly of Illinois.

It w:ls back in 11M."> that Mr. Thomp-
son .^ot .active in Farm Bureau uork.
Ile became a strong advocate for flie
organization of farmers. He was ju-ji's-
ident of the Adams (^ounty Farm Bu-
reau and Was a charter member in the
organization of the Illinois .^pricultural
•Association in I'.HT. Although hv hrul
moVed in to Quim-y in liMS and was
elected prcsiilent uf the liroadway Bank
(»f Quincy, which position he now holds,
he gave consi<IeraIiIe time in helping the
Illinois .Agricultural Association gel on
its feet, Kven though a bank presidiwit,
he spent weeks out in the country ;i.-- a
vfdii-iter.

He t^ecame an executive commitiee-
M'.an of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation representing the 22nd con^'s-
-ional district, serving for three- years.
He was also chairman of the finance jind
legislative committees. Mr. Thompson
also helped organize the American Farm
Bureau Federation and has been, for
two vear.-, a member of its executive
.'iinimttee.

Mr. Thompson has had r>4 years of
actual farming experience. He has busi-
ness experience as president of the
Broadway Bank of Quincy. The deposit?
of that bank have (foubled since he be-
lame president and in the financial de-
pression which has hit farming commun-
ities so hard, the bank of which Mr.
Thompson is president sutfercd no toss
of ;inv kind. In public affairs. Mr.
Thompson has had wiile experience, lirst,
in his township and ot)unly affairs;
s.'cond. as a public le|ti>!ator in the
C.eneral AsseMii>ly and tl^ird. throagh of-
ficial position of the Illihois Agricultural
Association and the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation, whereNhe has had di-
rect experience in statp\^and national
agricultural problems.

President Thompson Pinning

Medals on Illinois Club Winners

I ]/. A. A, Leader Elected President of ^ '

American Farm Bureau Federation for
2- Year Term Which Began immediately

Hopes He Can Serve Humbly Enouj^h So H
I Close to *'the Folks Back On the Farms'

Will Always Be
F. A. O'Neal

I

I of Alabama R©-ejlected Vice-President; Thompson Gives
His Future Polilcs in Statement in This Ri

HOPE and trust. I cair >kv\i' liurnl>l\

will be close to tlte
ly d<>clared "Our Sam
s|>ecth as president <if
roau Federation be 'o^v the
initionai organizalioi
in Chicago last week
in. a warm contest, tc
farm bureau famien
**And I want to p

The University of Illinois, \through Dean H. W. Mumford and £. 1. Pil-
chard, state leader of boys* aVtd girls' work, and the Illinois Agricultural
Association gave medals to winners in club competitions when the Illinois
boys and girls who were attending the International Live Stock Exposi-
tion were breakfasted by I. A. A. officials, executive committee and di-
rectors. Left to right: Sam H. Thompson; Adeline Spragg, Sanltamon
county, Donald Vameron, Peoria county; Dean H. W. Mumford anct I'or-
rest Weseman, Kane county.

Chef Got 'Zie Great Kick ' in Cooking

Co-op Luncheon for Calvin Coolidge

'rihJilAS MACLIAXOj a former sub-
^ ject of the Prince of Monoco and
who learned his cooking in Monte Carlo,
his native land, was the chef who super-
vised the cooking of tlw co-operative
luncheon ser\-ed to President Coolidge
and guests during the American F"arni
Bureau convention at Chicago last
week. Three assistant chefs helped hira.

Chef Magiiano took great pride in
co<tkii!g for the president. On two
previous oc<-asioris he has prepared food
f«)r presidents, in both instances for the
lati' Theodore Roosevelt, once in Colo-
rado in litOl, and the other time in
.Arizona in li'll.

"I got ze big kick out of getting this
great meal for ze President." said
■^i-nur M:ii.'liann. who i- chff dt- cai-'ine
at the Sherman Hotel, where the con-
vention and luncheon was held. "And
deed you hear what the President he
say? He say hemself it was a great
luncheon. It should be -you know the
quality of food was tres I'on — excel-
Iente--it canie from farmers themselves,

•'We cooked all of it in a special
kitche» apart from all food for ze regu-
lar ciistomers of the hotel. We had
nothing but new utensils. And ze secret
-ervice men! Aha. They stand around
looking to see that no poisOn get in.
They found none, I assure you. And
Dr. Bundesen of the Chicago health
department he send inspei-tors! They
asked about the milk — it was good milk
— I foun<l it came from tjuincy and the
farmers' cows are all tested for ze
tuberculosis. They say 'fine.' "

Senor Magiiano has been in the

Telegrarr\s and Letters ^SgK

Pile t>n Thompson' s Desk ^H[ ^
Saylng'-We're With You' ^^

"We're with you, Sam!"

That's the sentimen^^ expressed in a
Ijig pile of telegrams and letters which
tumbled onto President Thompson's desk
after his election to the national pres-
i'lcncy. One telegram was a resolution
of congratulation from the Illinois State
Grange which was in session at the
time in C'hampaign-Urbana. It pledged
full co-operation, as did tjie scores of
other letters and telegrams which came
from all ovei the country.

L'nited States 25 rears and ha* beronie
a naturalized citizen.

The Illinois Fruit Crowers Kxchanpe
furnished apples'for the co-op luncheon,
bu: the Stephenson County Co-operative
Cream Producers* Association is exper-
iencing such a deman*! for its "Vita*
<;old" butter that no cream could be
spared.

lifsides the luncheon to
Coolidge, a co-op luncheor
served the next <lay.

folks back hanu' on tin
* llionipson in h\> (h
the Amei'ican I'artn Ila
delftr.tt.s ;tl tin
seventh annual meetinji

rafter he had ix-en elected
come "Our Sam" to tht

6( the nation.

olni'-e you wh^» rt^'pivsont

the states which maki- 1 p this irreat f<'derali(^ii,"

he said, **that from

primarily a national

American Farm Bui\»t:u Federation I have ha<

portunity to see aij:r cultural problems in a n;

n [)w
01 e.

on my viewpoint is
As a diiecto!* of the

1 a .s>l
tit>n:ii
it is my duty, in co-operation wiHi the new board *»1 .

to act in the best inli-n

After His Election
SamWas Sad Beckuse
Ffe'd Be At Hotni^ Less

nsman s
m<'ric;;!i

I'pon learning of hi
election as president of th- ji
Farm Bureau Kederrition,
of tie Quincy Herald v
ident Thompson f<»r, a
folks back home." He rep
lows :
"To my friends at home:

"After being eb-cled p
the American Farm Bun-
lion, |the distressing thousjit
me af; I s:i1 jit supp»*r wi
of c^ngraLl^ating friend^
new iluties would pull nie
more away* from Quinc;
-Adanls county folk* wit
have lived all the wars ^(
The thought made me sad

"But wiih this saclnes^
'hat 1 must a«<uine this n<
ibilitj as a sacred dnt>' ti
agriculture and that
wider service to the famn rs !;; the
future I hope lo continue th- pt.ti
iples jwhich have made t le IHi
.Xerictjltural Association fu<h
vtroni and useful orpaniz

*'Mt prayerful hope is l h.i r I w:!l
iie able tn serve humbly en turh ti
alwayK close to the folks of tfir farm
ind h*'me. .'^incerelv,

Sam. H. Th

i PP-

a^ f..l-

K.-d«T.-1-

ClitVf T"
1 i:r'"ari
h:.' juv

rr :\u.\

i,i- ;h-

,\h<'rn I

life.

fv-1

iv"^!! >o I always
fiMAt'nt-

did*'op-

i\. and
■f.iors,
'■ alt the

ick(

farmer- in Ann'r

Tlipcf <-an<tiriat > w
till !V le-iH'clixx? 1
v«-iMiie«l into
t<.<i. Thry wrr*-:
\<ni;i, * Hii«i, \vtv>
for thrc y«ai.-<; I-
min!:li:i:i'>. Alaba
tiurinu I'.»2r» an«
Alab:'.(' I Farm
and < irn H. Th*
w'^o !, Incn i»i;
noi.- A; cultural

Eari C Smith

Ih." maj"
-on on til
b-illot st.
ItraMifut.

ll;

ity

: eijrhtli
.►.1: Mr,

IK-aiMl

:■ vol,- wirf m
Bradfute Pled^

inty Qri
s Okeffs

Senor Thomas Magiiano
who cooked the co-operativ
eon for President Coolidge

the chef
e lunch-

Another Coui
of Mutuals
New Reinsurant

■'We hereby endorse the fl.i

F.'irmerij' Mutual Reinsur:in<r

for direct insurance, speciic

ance. bipmket reinsurance :tBd

cession {reinsurance an<l »u

La Sallfl County Reipsuranc*

to put !on reci»rd our end

siiid Fntmers' Mataal R«'insu
■ ny." ■ '

Thus com<'> irdtn-sciiient fr ni

.Munty irroup of farsn niutu|.l;

tew reinsurance cotnpany

county bas more fire and bg!

panies thrin any other cna it;

state— Ui. Representatives i-tii!

met several times durini:

years studying rejnsuraiii

"Thertfore," says Vervirt \ aTiiman.

field representative, "they :ii ' hi 1 ^at

a company has been organ izi d fhi' uill

cover tl^e entirt; state, theri h\ p;

their cqmpanies in ;i po^itii n wh'

thipy cah take care of al! th- ir'.>urani-e

needs of their farmers M;air|st t-rc a'nd

Iiphtnin(;,"
! Many other mutuals in I In ois h.
' endorse^ the' new. companyl Madison
I county recently (rave
' dorsement.

■ t

i j-liHl by
what dp-

ITW' ru-tx»'l COTI-

II. i:. Bra.lfutc<if

■.. •>.<■.. -i-i'.nt

A. t>'N'al ..f liir-
l:i. Virt'-i,r-i ..sitk^l.t
■ •(liidf'r: of t|»«
I lau F. ' atitm

r. t^nn ti!" ''^ .IDOV,

Mlrnt (if I' ■ V.U-
\- -i^iati'ii, It 1 . iiK

•.•2:r-24-2."i arri :i
I i r f (* t o r «.f tii.
Vmiri<-;in K a r m
{uriiiu Fcvier»tii't!
r xhc same pt'-

M. TlKll! SCTP t

atlats wc-j-f' ra>1.

hv ninth being a

it<! by acclama-

1i<>n. upon motion

tv fn-ia. r,t Palm-

f till 6hio

' 'arm liurc-au F»-<l-

rati'ji. w !i i rh

1 1 a il t' unatlim<lu^

i;!iitii ti hv Mr. Thiim^-

I..II..I. Thl'..>:Mlh

' 'hnnu'^'in. 24; .Mr.
Mr. (iVal I. Pi.'n

t:iin*ill 1
•s Cn-up*ration

E. A. O'N'iiif kva- tuiti \
\i(M-nr» --i'll nr t" -im-ci'. i i-.;m-«lf
Pi'>-.<iditnt Br.idfiit' in a^lrti -^ill!r thi
ihlirat' .- lat. r, \vj rmly l>. -[x.lf ihi
c-o-oi><-lalion "f .'ill Stat'-.- fort'i'' ni-v
•n'<'^"i«l«'nI a"nl pl« 'Ijfi'tl him*"!''.' tKi
.,-rv<- t4)'' Kai-m Iti y-vint in ;tny man
nor in wl.ich ho r'fuM b» of «»'rvjce.

P I- o > i .1 <■ n t
Thnmp-'»n ai^ -

^Uml^i the ilulio

iif hi.- mw i.illcc
imnfti'tiiat* ly. 1?hf
in xt .lay. Tluit --
tla>% tli^ r-.i \i iy
clcdiod hiiai'l ji'l"
(lirectfir- n>i t iir-
t h t .\miri'tit:
Farm Buriau (•;
fict > . \v li i ( .
F r« n k K-ali-,
Kcnpral niaikit-
ing C'luii.-el ani'l
aclijig -ifrt'tifiA
for th. ;ia-t y< iir,
was i.-i Icolfd. ,a.-
wa.s .A. U. Sirai'-*
.-X)n, t iiasurer.: Ttu
was M-t Id!- F*|). 1
Roprr-cntaiite-
-taU's plirtofi tm .-
( ri^ntinm-iT on

J. 1.. Whj<,n.,tM

^^i M nn'flinj;

f thi .Mid-\Vf.st
(Irvc on th<' hoard
>affe 4 I'ol .% I

^ EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

CBy Caacnuiaaal Districts.)

IM <o llKl WUIUm Webb, Rout* One, JoUM

tltli G. F. TuUock, Rockford

13th dk I CB.Bamb(irau(h, Polo

14th ....W.H.Moody, Port Byioci

ISth .1 B. H. Taylor, RarotM

16th i A. R. Wri(ht, VaiTU

17th F. D. Barton. ComcU

ISth ; R. F. Karr, Iroquoia

'. IMl ^.J. L. Whianand. Charleston

120th .r. i Earl C. Smith, Detroit

21st .Samuel Sorrella, Raymond

22nd , Stanly Castle, Alton

2W .,. W. L. Cope, Salem

24th ; Curt Anderson. Xenia

. 2Sth , R. K. Loomis. Makanda

mmmmmmmBS

OFFICERS

Preaidant, S. H. Thomamm

Vice-Pmidcnt, H. E. Go«b«l

Trcaaurer, R. A. Cowlcs

Secretary, Geo. A. Fox

I liLiINOlS

CULTURAL ASSOCIA

RECORD

Qidncr

Hooppolc

. Bloominston
. . . . . Sycamore

#iH

To mdwmnc€ tht purpote for trhich the Farm Bureau vos organ-
iM*d, namely', to promote, protect and represent the buHneta,
ecortomic, tocial and educationat Interettt of the farmert of
llHnoU and the nation, and to develop atricutture.

DDtBCTORS OF DEP^TMBNTS

Co-opentlsc Ac«untli« G«>. R. WIeker

Daily Marketing vJ- P-Jr'™*

Finance R. A. Cowies

Ftuit and VecetabU Marksthw A. B. Leeper

General Office „ . . J. H. Kelker

Gr^Marfcetins Chester C. DstIs

Information Harry C. Butcher

Le^ Cotinsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Use Stock Marketlns Wm. E. Hed«cock

Organisation G> B. McCsgcr

Phosphate-Limestone J. R. Bent

Poultry and E(g Marketiiw F. A. Gouglcr

Taiatlon and Statistics J. C. Watson

Transportation L. J. Quasey

Pubhrfifd n-piy other Saturday at 404 North. Wesley Ave., Mount Morrii, Illinoi., by the Illinois Agricultural AiMoeiation. Edited by Department of Information, Harry C. Butcher, Director 608 South
Dearborn Street, Chicaao, Illinoi.. Entered as K-rond^clam mailer October 20, 1925 at the pet office at Mount Morri., Illinoi.. under the Act o( March 3, 1879. a. a bi-wM-kly Acceptance for mailiM at .pe^i.1
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paymcr.t c.f fifty rciiia fur subscription lo the Illinoia .Vnncultural Assciation Ricord: I'oelniiuiter: In returning an uncalled for or niiswnt rupy. please -indicate kry number on address as is required by law.

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A Changing Attitude?

HE first beneficial result of the election of offi-
X cei-s of the American Farm Bureau Federation is
1 he partial change of attitude of the general public
i;nd the city press toward the whole agricultural
liroblem. Many people and interests have had it
brought to their senses, through events occurring
< luring the A. F. B. F. annual meeting, that there is
much more to the agricultural problem than what
they have liberally labelled as chronic wails. A re-
flection of this change of attitude is shown by the
editorial, "The Farmers' Just Complaint," which ap-
] eared in the Chicaggo Tribune, Dec. 11 :

"Mr. Coolitige came out to Chicago the other day to ad-
cress the American Farm Bureau federation, at the invita-
tton of 0. E. Bradfute, its president. The farmers heard
1 (r. Coolidge, and apparently were not much impressed by
I is proposals for improvine their lot. They took the first
opportunity to show their displeasure by refusing to reelect
J[r. Bradfute, who had held office for three terms. Instead
trey chose S. H. Thompson, whose criticism of agricultural
jiolicies laid down by the President was most outspoken.

"We think it would be a grav^ error to attempt to mini-
r lize Oie incident. It shows clearly that an influential sec-
t on of the agricultural community in this country is dissat-
ii fied and insistent upon governmental help in fixing prices

0 f crops. TTie idea takes form in a number of proposals for
nipre or less direct subsidies, which the President attacked
w ith vigor, offering substitutes. The delegates heard him and
w ere unconvinced. It is, perhaps, not an overstatement to say
tiat many of them oared so little for remedies he proposed
a I to be indifferent ♦" " r success or failure in congress.

i.r on may become a -critical one for

P'r''iul- 111 ai.d ;.: I rty. Agriculture is underpaid in

« cc'intn to*lnv. anfl le farmers know it. They are not

.,. ^,ty,Au. i....ii .' - ' ;ept whatever fate may offer them.

1 hey have been airing their difficulties and asking for rem-
e lies ever since the post-war deflation. They have received
h gher tariffs on farm products and a somewhat improved
c edit machinery, but these measures apparently have failed
t( ' do all that was hoped; of them.

"There has been little sympathetic understanding in the
e ist of the farmers' troubles. There seldom has been. Gen-
e ally speaking, the east does nothing until the farmers,
g laded to desperation, demand some unsound measure of
d rect relief, such as free silver or greenbacks, whereupon
tl e industrial and financial interests unite in saying no. The
e: St has frequently defeated the farmers' program and of-
f< red no substitute. .It is time the business interests of the
c< untry, and particularly those of this section, realized that
tl e prosperity of the farmers is a matter of direct concern
tt city dwellers. If there is no prosperity on the farms
tl ere can be no prosperity in the cities.

"All this does not mean that congress should accept what-
ei er the farmers propose and turn it into law. That would
b( as un*ise as it would be to adopt every proposal made
bj manufacturers in their own interest. The alternative,
h< wever, is not inactivity. Looking at the farm question as
w ! do, from the center of the nation's most productive farm-
in ; district, we conclude that congress has been neglectful
o1 its duty. The men on the land will not be content
ar y longer with a sop, and they ought not to he. If congress
di approves of the fanners' own remedies it must come f or-
w: ird with something constructive to take their place."

equalization fee or tax paid by the farmers them-
selves, on the commodities directly benefited in price
by the operation of the corporation which the bill
proposed to create.

What the farmers want is enabling legislation to
put them in position to handle the surplus in the in-
terest of a stabilized, American price, not fixed,, as
far as the home market is concerned, by the low
costs of production in other countries.

This is entirely in harmony with tiie resolution,
and the Drovers Journal's glee over the words "not
involving government subsidy," lacks point.

It carries its comment further to say that advo-
cates of the McNary-Haugen bill never answered the
question of how production could be limited if it
were made profitable. The Journal's very statement
implies its own answer since it shows that what the
Journal is arguing against is not the McNary-Hau-
gen bill, or any legislation aimed at control of the
surplus, but a profitable price for farm production.
Obviously, the farmers' response to a profitable price
level would be the same in all cases, whether that
price resulted from voluntary reduction of acreage,
an act of God, or the segregation of the surplus as
provided Under the McNary-Haugen bill.

As a matter of fact, farmers rob their land, and
work themselves and their families longer hours
than they otherwise would when farm prices are
generally low in order to meet their fixed charges.

We Never Asked For Subsidy '

'HE Chicago Daily Drovers Journal in captious
comment upon the resolution adopted by the
Anerican Faiwi Bureau Federation, asking that
ajriculture be given a place of equality with other
in ;erests in the American protective system through
lerislation directed at the problem of the surplus,
se ;ms to find great significance in the closing phrase
"rot involving government subsidy."

The Record is glad this point has been raised,
si ice it gives opportunity to drive home the point
that neither the Illinois Agricultural Association
n(r the American Farm Bureau Federation ever
asked for legislation involving direct government
sDbsidy.

Contrary to the misrepresentations circulated by
some of its opponents, the McNary-Haugen bill did
not call for a government subsidy as that term isi
understood. The public understands a government
su' )sidy to mean financial payment out of the public
tr< asury for the benefit of sOme particular group or
da ss. The McNary-Haugen bill provided for » gov-
er iment loan, to be repaid out of the proceeds of an

curtail nuisance taxes, particularly on auto accessories, antos,
trucks and forms of sales tax found to be generally objec-
tionable; (d) federal government should stay in the inherir
tance and estate tax field; (e) opposition to the abolition
of the gift tax; (f) tax no incomes under $5,000; (g) re-
duction in normal tax rates as the total reduction decided
upon will permit; (h) retain capital stock tax; (i) increase
personal exemption and decrease tax rate; (j) remove re-
striction of states to tax national banks; (k) retain differ-
ential in favor of earned income.

Recommends immediate congressional action ion the Vestal
Standard Container bill which would eliminate hundreds of
odd-sized and unnecessary off-standard containers of fruits
and vegetables. ^_^

Demands that the administration of the national forest
should continue with the Secretary of Agriculture and regu-
lation of grazing privileges should not be placed elsewhere.

Requests that the tariff commission make a study of the
cost of frozen eggs, meats and dried eggs in this country
and in China wift the view of increasing the tariff the fijll'
60% allowed under the flexible provisions of the tariff laW.

Requests Congress to readjust postal rates to approximate-
ly the 1924 level, to take positive steps toward safeguarding
the parcel post system, and to effect a reorganization of the
postal service with a view to greater economy and efficiency.

Where The A. F. B. F. Stands

THERE were about 5,000 words of resolutions
passe* by the delegates at the seventh' annual
meeting of the American Farm Bureau. To print
them in full would require most of the space of this
Record, consequently they have been boiled down to
give only the gist. Copies of the official resolutions
may be obtained )jy writing the information depart-
ment of the A. F. B. F. The resolution of most inter-
est to Illinois members follows in full :

We endorse the enactment of a federal law based on the
principle of a farmers' export corporation, providing for the
creation of an agency with broad powers for the purpose of
so handling the surplus of farm crops that the American
producer may receive an American price in the domestic
market and we instruct our officers and representatives to
work for the early enactment of such a law founded upon
sound economic policy and not involving government subsidy.

Other offlcial pronouncements of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation are:

Approves and endorses the proposed amendment to the
Federal Revenue Act of 1924 making effective the exemp-
tion of agricultural co-operative marketing associations from
the payment of income tax and the filing of annual returns.
(The I. A. A. has been particularly interested in obtaining
this exemption.)

Confirms previous resolutions in favor of deep channel
waterways from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, as
well as general improvement of navigation and power condi-
tions as might be brought out in a survey made by the chief
engineers of the United States Army.

Approves of the services now being rendered by the gov-
ernment under the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 which pro-
vides for tjie development of shipping lines to a paying
basis and then selling them to citizens of the United States
to be operated under the American flag and under a guar-
antee of continued service.

Endorses the McNary-Woodruff bill authorizing the ap-
propriation of $3,000,000 a year for five years and $5,000,-
000 a year for the succeeding five years for purchasing na-
tional forest lands and urges its early passage by Congress.
«

Urges the complete construction and disposition of Muscle
Shoals for the utilization of the largest portion of the hvdi-o-
electric power to manufacture concentrated nitrogen fertil-
izers with a farmer board to pass upon the cost of produc-
tion, distribution and profit, assuring low cost to farmers.

Petitions Congress to continue the co-operation with the
states in constructing roads as rapidly as the econdmic condi-
tions of the country will permit.

Summarized its position on federal taxation by suggesting
that the new revenue law, now before Congress, include the
following points: (a) tax, at proper rates, undistributed
profits of corporations; (b) tax stock dividends; (c) sharply

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Requests Congress to enact legislation preventing the
importation into the United States non-adapted and worth-
less Italian red clover and alfalfa seed, and of .Argentinian.
Arabian, South African and other seed from regions of mild
climate, as well as a law authorizing the Secretary of Agri-
culture to stain by some non-injurious method all imported
red clover and alfalfa saed excepting Canadian-grown.

Petitions the United States Department of Agriculture
and the extension service departments of the land grant
colleges of this country \o instruct their employees, agents
and teachers to lend their influence and support in teaching
the principles and practices of co-operative marketing and
assisting existing co-operative associations in their operation
policies and membership relations.

Calls attention to the need for unbiased livestock market
news service from the cities of Detroit, Indianapolis, Pitts-
burgh, Cincinnati and Buffalo similar to that given from
other cities by the U. S. D. A. and petitions Congress to
include this item in the appropriation for the Department
of Agriculture. _\

Reminds the state Farm Bureaus that the question of an
amendment to the Federal constitution which would grant
power to Congress to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor
of persons under 18 years bf age is still before the states for
ratification. The American Farm Bureau unsuccessfully
opposed this measure in Congress and asks state Farm Bu-
reaus to be on watch in thefr respective states to defeat
renewals of attempts to get sA^ie ratifications.

;et «<^te
sider iav<

Asks that Congress consider favorably the Capper-French
bill, known as the truth-in-fabric measure, requiring the
labeling of woolen goods so as to show the amount of virjfin
wool, shoddy, or re-worked wool, cotton, silk or other fibers
which they contain.

Recommends the creation in the Department of Agricul-
ture a division of co-operative marketing that will assist
ill an educational way the farm co-operative marketing asso-
ciations in this country.

Recommends as a part of the A. F. B. F. work of 1926
the study of co-operative insurance as it relates t6 life,
indemnity, fire, automobile and liability and to submit the
findings to the member states for consideration.

Endorses the proposal for a National Agricultural Day-
Endorses the principles of protection against introduction
of foreign pests and diseases through quarantines as pro-
vided by present laws and asks the Secretary of Agricul-
ture to do all in his power to maintain the effectiveness of
such protective laws.

Suggests the appointment of a permanent committee on
boys' and girls' cnib work in the A. F. B. F., including
representatives from the National Home and Community
committee, and that proper action be taken to secure more
club leaden.

Recommends the appointment of & farm woman leader
to be placed in charge of home and eommnnity work in the
departnjent of organization of the A. F. B. F. and that
adequate money be set aside in the budget of the national
organization to carry on the work.

Demands that the railroad rates on agricultural products,
including livestock, be restored to what they were prior to
the World War and that A. F. B. F. stand opposed to the
five per cent increase in freight rates now being asked by,,
western carriers.

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i

t. wicker
D. Lynch
II. Covlcs
B. Lecper
H. Kelkcr
■C. Daitia
. Butcher
rkpatrlck
Hedsoock
. Mcti(er
. R. Bolt
. Gousler
. Wataon
1. Quaaey

ith
nal

dea

mmmMM

:essories, autos,
enerally objec-
r in the inheri-
<> the abolition
5,000; (g) re-
luction decided
X! (i) increase
(j) remove re-
) retain di&r-

n ion the Vestal
te hundreds of
riners of fruits

national forest
lure and regu-
leed elseyhere.

a study of the

n this country

! tariff the full

the tariff law.

o approximate-
d safeguarding
nization of the
and efficiency.

Jrercnting the
;ed and worth-
if Argentinian,
regions of mild
retary of Agri-
id all imported
ian-grown.

of Agriculture
he land grant
sloyees, agents
jrt in teaching
marketing and
their operation

•estock market
inapolis, Pitts-
it given from
s Congress to
le Department

juestion of an
1 would grant
libit the labor
the states for
unsuccessfully
ate Farm Su-
ites to defeat

Tapper-French
requiring the
ount of virjtin
or other fibers

it of Agricul-
lat will assist
larketing asso-

work of 1926
elates t6 life,
to submit the

Itural Day.

t introduction
itines as pro-
y of Agricul-
Tectiveness of

committee on
F., including
i Community
1 secure more

voman leader

Y work in the

F. and that

the national

jral products,
were prior to
pposed to the
ing asked by,.

December 19, 1925

The Illinoig Agricultural Association RECORD

Pages

PRESIDENT COOLIDGE ADDRESSES FARM BUREAU MEMBERS

Senator Capper Says
Congress Must Aid in
Farm Surplus Problem

National Authorities Speak
Before Delegates at Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federa-
tion Convention*

interest of the producer, would be sure to
dominate in the end."

Co-op0rativ*B Promis* Greatest
Succ«M

Referring to the co-operative movement
as the most important development of
late years in the agricultural field, and
emphasizing the crop surplus problem as
a vexing factor in the farm price situation,
Coolidge expressed the opinion that with
the economic information furnished by the
Department of Agriculture, with better

through financing and through the co-
operative movement, would appear to be
a wise method of soh-ing this problem.
Of course I should be willing to ap-
prove any plan that can be devised in
accM>rdance with sound econonnic prin-
ciples.'*

Turning to the question of tariff. Presi-
dent Coohdge, as a defender of RepulJican
policies, pointed out that the import duty
on products that the farmer purchasers
and the general increase in price of non-
agricultural necessities advances the cost

and 5.000,000 of our iTage earners were
u»emplo>-ed. their ooiisutnption of the
more expensive agnruUuml supplies fell
18 per cent below what ji had l>een before
and what it became aglun when cniplnv-
ment increased. This waa more than tht>
amount of our exports.

"Piisperity in our industries is of more
value to the farmer than ibc wh<Je exptwt
market for foodstuffs. Protection has
contributed in making tni(>lo>'ment plen-
tiful with the highest itages and highest
standards of living in tl|c worid. Genera!

credit, but eouqd business ad\ice and the
farmers to a ntuch l^i-tter extent nhould
learn to use all iheee facilities."

CAPPER SPEAKS

I^R the first time in the his-
*■ tory of farm organizations, in
fact for the first time in the his-
tory of this country, the Chief
Executive of the United States
• made a special trip of 2000 miles
' to greet and address a meeting
of America's farmers.
■ On Monday, Dec. 7, at exactly
11 o'clock President Coolidge,
acoomi>anied by Mrs. Coolidge,
O. E. Bradfute. president and
E. A. O'Neal, vice-president of
the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration, entered the ball room of
the Sherman hotel where he ad-
dressed nearly 4,000 farmers
representing approximately all
the states of the Union, over a
thousand of whom were from
Illinois.

Fifty newspaper and motWi
picture cameramen were crowtied
around the speaker's platform.
Four microphones were arranged
to broadcast the message to the
farm people of the United States
who could not attend. Two
telegraph instruments ticked out
the story to thousands of news-
papers in all corners of the land.
On the platforn) were also Gov-
ernor Small, Mayor Dever of
Chicago, Everett Sanders, sec-
retary to the President, military
aides and secret senice men.

Slaps McNary-Haugen as Un-
sound

President Coolidge predicted
that, in spite of past and present
adversities, agricultiure as a
whole will lead industry in future
prosperity. Assailing le^alative
proposals savoring of paternal-
ism, he promised to approve any
a^cultural relief plan "devised
in accordance with sound eco-
nomic principles." '

"I propose," he added, "ac-
tively and energetically to assist the farm-
ers to promote their welfare through co-
operative marketing." ^

He opposed tampering with the tarifT
with any intention of aiding the farmers,
and condemned proposals which woidd
bring the governmeift into the field of
buying and selUng farm products, or of
fixing prices.

To Assist Co-operative Marketing

The President's audience listened atten-
tively to the address, which he read with
few gestures. Only a half-dozen times was
he interrupted by applause. His defense
of the tanfT as an aid to agriculture and
his arraignment of propo^s that the
government engage in the marketing of
farm products or in price fixing direct or
indirect were greeted with silence.

With an assurance that his adminis-
tration will assist farmers in profitably
disposing of their products and
providing better storage facilities
and credit, the President ex-
pressed the view that agriculture
could thus be placed "on a sound
and independent business basis."

"To have agriculture worth
anything, it must rest on an in-
dependent business basis." he
added, "it cannot at the same
time be part private business and
part government business. I
believe the government ought
to give it every assistance, but
it ought to leave it as the sup-
port, the benefit and the busi-
ness of the people."

Opposes Direct or Indirect
Price-Fixing

The President launched into an
attack of proposals that the gov-
.ernment engage in buying and
selling of farm produce and direct
or indirect price fixing with the
following obser\ations:

"This would be a dangerous
vftodertaking, and as the emer-
gency is not so acute, it seems at
present to have lost much of its
, support. No matter how it is
disguised, the moment the gov-
ernment engages in bu>'ing and
selling, by that act it is fixing
prices.

"Moreover, it would appar-
ently destroy co-operative asso-
ciations and all other marketing
machinery, for no one can com-
pete with the government. Ulti-
mately it would end the inde-
pendence which the farmers of
this country enjoy as a result of
centuries of struggle and prevent
the exercise of their own judg-
ment and control in cultivating
their land and marketing their
produce.

"Government control cannot
lie divorced from political con-
trol. The overwhehning interest
<^ the oonsumer. not the smaller

So much was going on during the seventli annual convention of the American Farm Bureau F<Mlarajti#n ihmt tibe ouly euit-
able time that could be found for the presidents of the county Farm Bureaus and the 1. A. A. officials to hold a conference
was at breakfast. Can you pick out the president of your Farm Bureau? Most all of them attended. Plans were made for
the I. A. A. annual meeting which will be held Jan. 21-22 atthe University of Illinois. It's to be the biggest and best so far,
the presidents decided. Howard Leonard, former I* A. A. President, was yresant also, and gave a sfcort talk.

warehouses and storage facilities and a
better credit structure much can be done
to take care of the ordinary surplus.

"The leaders in the co-opwative move-
ment with the advice of the Department
of Agriculture have prepared what is be-
lieved to be an adequate bill embodying
these principles, which will be presented
to the Congress for enactment.

"For a more orderiy marketing calcu-
lated to secure a better range of prices the
co-operative movement promises the great-
eat success. Already they are handhng
»2.500,000.000 of farm produce, or neariy
one-fifth of the annual production.

Points to Tariff as Assisting Farmers

"The initiative of the farmers them-
sdves, with such assistance as can be given
by the government without assuming
responsibility for business management

to the farmer tess than from two to three
per cent. -He said that' many economists
consider this contribution of farmers to
the tariff is over estimated. On the cMther
side he told how the protective tariff on
agriciiltural products benefited the farmer
and tended to hold the domestic agricul-
tural markets above the world or foreign
price levels. He sUted that S780,000,000
of agricultural products imported last
vear had paid $260,000,000 for the privi-
lege of coming into competition with our
own farm production.

"But the largest benefits atircruing to the
farmer come from supplying him with borne
markets," be stated. "What the farmer
raises must either be sold at home or sent
abroad. Our per capita consumption of
butter, sugar, meats, eggs, milk and
tobacco is far above those of foreign coun-
tries. When the depression of 1920 oame

economic stabiUty is of vie; utmost impor-
tance to the farmer anf * depression in
industry with the atte^dlint unemploy-
ment would do the farmer (an incalculable
injury.

Famn Loan B**kft Help
"If the price fixing and tarifT reWsion
do not seem to be helpfi|l. Ahere are other
proposals that do prom^ improvements.
For financing the farmer 'we are developing
the farm loa n and i niermediate credit
banks. These have put Out about tl.200,-
000,000 of loans at moderate rates to alK>ut
350.000 farmers. In addition, there is the
general banking system, hational and state.
All of these agencies n^ed to give more
informed attention to firm needs. They
need more enerK>' in adi|tiiustration. They
should be equipped to j mipply not only

And herV> the hope chest of the future — the boys and girls of the farms. These are the ones who were entertained by the
I. A. A. at a breakfast affair during the International Live Stock Exposition when they were cashing ie on their hard earned
trips to Chicago. Dean Mumford made a talk and said, among other things, that Red Grange has the b«st wishes of everybody
at the U. of 1. and they all hope he will make barrels of money, but the real question is: Will he be at good a moral char-
acter as he would have been if he had not become a professional ? The Dean said each of the leading boys and girls represented
here is a kind of Red Grange in his or her own community and now each must live up to his or her success. Suecess

bringf greater responsibility, he said.

.-.. .w --::;^

SEN'.^TOR ARTHUR CAPPKR of Kan-
sas, who atMressed the mendiers at-
tending the afinual lianquet. Tueedmy
nijrfit^ Dec. h. on the subjert.
"TheiFarmer and the \e«- C-on-
gTw. siKike in a more opti-
tfiistid and promising manner
than 4id the Prasident. AHhougb
8tAtin|[ that he wao in agn^^ment
with -the statements made by
President Coolidge, ScnalorCai*-
per showed a mure e>'mp^thetic
undertitanding of the farm prob^
lem and offered in a stronger
raannhr U> assist in getting great-
er "equality for agriculture." In
Ijart qo said :

"T^o farmer is fully justified
in ailing of Omgrees that the
eeonotiiic re»'ards of agriculture
Khali \>f' (»n a i>arity witli those
nrcf)nj«'<l fch indu8tr>-. He te
juMtifiNl in asking that agricni-
turc t*p sufficiently remunerative
for hitn to maintain a comfort-
aUc homo and educate his rliil-
dren 9iyN>rding Uy the bestVitand-
ards. In asking this, he is not
demanding 8i*eciaJ priWloges .
equality of op)K>rtunity is alt.

"The tarifT lielps the manu-
facturer, ininiigration restriction
lieli* |al>or. the E8ch-( 'ummins
fic-t h^lpf the r&ilroads and the
I c*'*' Ri-sene art hfliie the

iinitsi and the farmer iWi>-8 a
■'>d ^art of the cost without re-

■ i\ iiii his fair (Uiare of the liene-
tit(" or much of tlii* le^slation.
It catinot lie eniphaiased too
often hor loo strongly tliat what
the falnier reail\ np(>dB is not the
I banc* to liorntw riiore money.
iliough adequate credit facilities
mean i a great deal to him — Iwit
fits* ^d above everything else
he must have lietter prices, a
fair pttjfii for his products.

Capper Says Congress Must
Help

"The farmer i.-- encoiiraieed bv
==:=: the tetoporan reUef afforded hv
oircuntstanoes and i» paying o}f
debts, but allowCng for the recent change
in price levels, be can buy today witti bis
dollar only about 85 i>pr ceni as much as
be could before the war. And the moat
generous figured yet disci' wed show he
earns a net Inootne of lees than 4 pw cent
annually on his iiveetroent.

*'Kven in taxfa faruMrs are not on an
equality with tUe rest of the world. Last
yc-ar in most farming states Uxos absorbed
OIK -third of farm income compwd »ith
less than one-t4nth in 1913. All other
business passes bn its increased taxes to
the consumer, qat the fanner cannot do
thin. I

"These and n^ny other facts show that
if the producer m to receive an>-thing like
a fair return for liis labor and his risks.
* <mgre« should igo as far as it can to prrv
\'wie some meats by which an equality
with other groups in our industrial life
may be attsiined. The agricultural indus-
tries must Ik* reconstructed and
stabili^. A permanent policy
ffM- aghcAlture must be worked
oui w-ltli the farmer himself a
argp factor in the program.

Surplus Big Prablssn

I ^-ant to HP*' this g«>vaA-
meiit, ^) far a« it can. put throt^h
an Hgffvfwive [Kilicy for advan^
mem 0f the interr«i..« of agrirul-
liire. Ijut afUT tux years at Wash-
ingUtiH I am r«>nvinrod that the
'•est gd\'ernnieiit can do for farm-
ers is (>f little imi>ortanf!e com-
pared I with what, by carefully
tlH>ugHt out and lo>-al r<o-opera-
uon, they can -do for themselves.
l*iH even after all that is done
the pr()14em of the miriklus will
still 1>A with us, although it may
not ali'avfi l»e quite so e\'ident.
We «^1 still have wonderful
wheat Vears. Uke 1914 for exam-
ple, wfcen all of naiun> seems to
r*W)(>ei>te in a delightful way to
produce a rwil huni[ier crop, far
larger than tlie home market.
no matter how pruAperoufi it may
be. cat ever aliworh. When this
OiY-urs the »ur|>Iut must be fteiu
ubniad. We should see to it
if posaible that this is done
in a way so the surplus of 10
or 15 br 20 par cent will not
set the price for the entire
yield. This nneans that some
systeiti must be worked out
so it ean be moved into for-
eign channels, sold for whet
it will bring, and the loss dis-
tributed properly among the
producers, who will than be
able to sell thsir rentainirkg
crop ftt home, free from the
weight of this sac ess produc-
tion. JWe must give t he farm-
er the same kind of market
to sell in that- he is obliged to
buy hk.^And this_9iu8t faa

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
(By Congressional Dictricts.)

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1 2th G. F . TuUock. Rockf ord

C. E. BjmhorouBh. Polo

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W. H. Moodv. Port Byron

B. H. Taylor. Repatee

A. R. » right, Varna

F. D. Bnrton. Cornell

. .R. F. Karr. Iroquoia

J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

. , Earl C. Smith. Detroit

■ Samuel Sorrelis. Raymond
Stanly Castle. Alton

W, L. Cope. Salem

Curt Anderson. Xenia

. . . ;R. K. Loomis, Makanda

OFFICERS

Preaidcne, S. H. Thompson Quincy

Vice-President. H. E. Goembel Hooppole

Treasurer. R. A. Cowlea Bloomington

Secretary, Geo. A. Foi Sycamore

,^ ILiL<INOlS _^

ACaiCt'LTtHAL ASSOClATfON

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To advance the purpose fnr which the Farm Bureau was organ-
ized, n0mety. to promote, protect and represent the business,
econorrtic, sociat and educational interests of the farmers of
lllinois^and the nation, and to develop agriculture.

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Co-operative Accountln( i Gto. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing •*■ D. Lynch

Finance R- *• Cowlra

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General Of6ce .,' r ■■ J- H. Kelker

Grain Marketing ^ Chester C. Davis

Information Harry C. Butcher

Legal Counsel - Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organization .S G. E. Metzger

Phosphate-Limestone ^^ J. R. Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing \ F. A. Gougler

Taiation and Statlatics J- C. Wataon

Transportation L. J. Quaacy

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A Chdnging Attitude?

TlIK first benoficijil result of the election of offi-
cers of tli<^ Ametioan P'arm Bureau Federation is
ihe ));\itial cliaune of attitude of the general public
1 nd tl'.o city pres.sj toward the whole agricultural
]irol)Iini. Many jx|ople and Interests have had it
liroii^iht to their senses, throuirh events occuiTinjj
(luriiiir the A. V. B. F. annual meetinii. that there is>
much more to the hirricultural problem than what
they have lilKM-ally [labelled as! chronic wails. A re-
lection of this cbatige of attihide'is shown by the
(ditorial. "The F.iriiiers" -lust (Tomplaint," which ap-
)«>ri'(l in the Chicai-o Tribune.| Dec. 11 :'

"llf. rooiid^.- <-am.-(out to Chiciso thi- other "lay t<> ad-
' rvfi ih.- .Ai)T-rii-;in F:fiin Bureau f<<l<-iation, at the invita-
t on of O. K. Brailfutk its piesi<Kint. The farmors heard
; Ir. Cooliiii'-, and appjir. ntly w.nj not much inipresse.l by
f is propo.-^als ifor impib\ injr thi-ir (ot. They took the first
( pportunitv to show thrir displeasure liy refusine: to reelect
: [r. Bra.lfuti-. vi-.. h.-i.l hel.l offici; for thr. e t.-rnis. Instea.l
t ley cho.se S. H. Thoivpson. w'liosi' criticism of aericultural
I olicics lai.l .lowii l.y he Presi.ieiil was most outspoken.

"We ^ink it -ivould d.' a prave cjrror, to attempt to mini-

V lize the incitj.int. It shows clearly that an influential scc-
t on of the ajrri.-iiUural community in this countny is dis.sat-
i ti.-d and insi.-^t. nt upcin p-overnmejital help in fixinp: prices
of crop.s. The id.;, t.nkhs form in ainumber of proposals for
more or less <lir. ct ~uSsidies, whic^i the President attacked

V ith vi(»or, otT.-rinc -liultitutes. Thei delegates heard liim'anil
wli n- unconvinn-d. It if. perhaps, ndt an over.statemint to say

-' ' •> (] =0 littly' flor remedies h.' proposeil

r success ^r failure in congress.
on may bjpcomer a critical one for
rty .Sericulture is unden)aid in
le farmeis know it. They are not
•ept w-hat.'Ver fate may offer them.
, 'their dilTMuIties and asking for rem-
fver -iitcc th poit-war deflation. They have receivinl
h jrTier tari-'> on f.im [products and 3 somewhat improved
<• edit ma. lr!r.. r>', bui tncse" measuioB apparently have failed
t< do all th.il was iLip. .1 of them.

"There has been little sympath-tjic understandinsT in the
e i.st cf the f.irni. rs' trophies. Thero seldom has b. .-n. Gen-
e -ally .«p<-akin?, the eii;t does nothin}: until the fivrmers,
^D.idi.l to desperation.! demand soiie unsound measure of
d re. t reli.f. .such as fiec silver or' greenbacks, whereupon
tie industrial and financial interests unite in .sayinu: no. The
e; st has frequently deflrated the farmers' propram and of-
fi nil no substitute. It! is time the business interests of the
c( untry. an.l narticularly those of this section, r.-alized that
tic nrosperity of the f.trmers is a itiatter of .lir. rt conct-rn
tr city dwelier.s. If t^ere is no prosperity on the farm.s
tl FTf can be no prosperity in the cities. ■'

".All this does not metin that congress .shouUI accept what-
e\i r the farmers pro])o.<te and turn it into laj* That would
h. as unwise as it woul'l be to ado^t every proposal made
b' manufacturers in tSeir own intf-rest. The (alternative,
hi wever. is not inactivity. Lookiiifriat the farm .que.stion as
w • do. from th.- center of the natiofl's most productive farm-
inp di.strit-t, w. concludr that conpifess has been neglectful
its dBty The m.'n ; on the land will not be content

t lat many of them
a ' to be indifTere'^t

II

have h.-en airi'iir

eiiiTalization fee or tax paid l).v the farmers them-
selves, oil the commodities directly benefited in price
by the operation of the corposation which the bill
proposed to create.

Wh.it tlie farmeis want is enabling legislation to
put them' in position to handle the surplus in the in-
terest of a stabilized. American price, not fixed, as
far as the home market is concerned, by the low
costs of production in other countries.

This is entirely in harmony with the resolution.
:uid the Brovers Journal's glee over the words '"not
involving! govei'nment subsidy," lacks point.

It carilies it.« comment further to say that advo-
cates of the McNar.v-Haugen bill never answered the
question of how production could be limited if it
were made profitable. The Journal's very statement
implies its own answer since it shows that what the
■ Journal i^ arguing against is not the McNs\ry-Hau-
gen bill, or an.v legislation aimed at control of the
surplus, but a profitable price for farm production.
Obviously, the farmers' response to a profitable price
level would be the same in all cases, whether that
price resulted from voluntary reduction of acreage,
an act of God, or the segregation 'of the surplus as
provided under the McNary-IIaugen bill.

As a matter of fact, farmers rob their land, and
work themselves and their families longer hours
than the.V otherwise would when farm prices are
generally low in order to meet their fixed charges.

lonerrr with a

ol
ai

tv ii-il wit^ som. thins cdnstructive ti take their place."

appi

of th

sop. .i^id they oupht not to be. If conirress
' fartnir-rs' ow-n r<-medies it must come for-

in-
fer

cl
er

treasury for the benefit of some
the McNary-Haugen bill

particular group or
provided for a .gov-

imcnfloan, to be repaid out of the proceeds of an

We Never Asked For Subsidy , " '
HE Chicago Daily Drovers Journal in captious
comment upon "the resolution adopted by tjie
AJneiican Farm Bureau FeSeiration. asking that
ai rieulture be given a place of equality with other

orest.s in the American proteittive system througti

isl.ition directed at, the problem of the surplus.

iii--.tn find gre.it significance ,in the closing phra.se

it invelvrng government subsidy."

ri;r' RrcoRD is glad this point has been raised,
sitic, it gives opportunity to drive home the point

at neither the Illinois Agricultural Association

r tl.i' American Farm Bureau Federation ever

ked lor legislation involving direct government
SI bsid.v. I .

Contrary to the. misi-epresentiitions circulated by
.so Tic of its opponents, the ^IcXary-Haugen bill did
not call for a Jrovpritment subsiidy as that term is
iir £ler.stood. The public iinderst.tnds a government

)sidy to moan financial payment out of the public

Where The A. F. B. F. Stands

THERE were about 5.000 words of resolutions
passed b.v the delegates at the seventh annual
meeting of the American Farm Bureau. To pritit
them tn full would require mo.st of the space of this
RECORn. consequently they have been boiled down to
giv(^ only the gist. Copies of the official resolutions
may be obtained by writing the iirfoiTnation depart-
ment of the A. F. B. F. The resolution of most inter-
est to Illinois mcmbei's follows in full :

We endorse the enactment of a federal law based on the
principle oi a farmers' export corporation, providing for the
creation of an agency with broad powers for the purpose of
so handling the surplus of farm crops that the American
producer may receive an American price in the domestic
market and we instruct our officers and representatives to
work for the ea^y enactment of such a law founded upon
sound economic policy and not involving government subsidy.

0th. -r official pronounc.-ments pf the .American Farm Bu-
reau Federation are: I , '■

.Approves and endorses the pilbpo.sed amendment to the
Federal Revenue .Act of 1024 makinff effective the exemp-
tion of agricultural c6-operative mVrketinsr associations from
the payment of income tax and \'h(^ filinp of annual returns.
(The i. A !a. has been particulaWy interested in obtainine:
this exemption.) \

. Confirmsl previous resolutions in favor of ile.-p chann.-l
waterways jfrom the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, as
w-'ll as pent'ral impro\-ement of navigation and -power condi-
tions as miiflit he broupht out in a sui"vey made by the chief

i encineors df the United States Army.

.Approves! of the s.'rvices now heinp ren.lcred by the gov-
ernment ynder the Merchant Marine Act of 1!*20 which pro-
vides i for the development of shippinc lines to a payinp
basis nnd then sellinp them to citizens of the United Staffs
to i^e operated under the American flap and under a puar-
antee of continued service.

Endorses I the Mc-Nary-Woodruff bill authoririnp the ap-
propriation of $3,000,000 a year for five years and $.5,000,-
000 a year for the succeeilinp fi\-e years for purchasinp na-
tional fore.stl lands an.l urpes its early passage by Conpress.

- - ■ " a

Urpes the complete construction and disposition of Muscle
Shoals for tjie utilization of the largest portion of the hvlro
electric povMer to manufacture concentrated nitropen fertil-
izers with aj farmer board to pass upon the cost of produc-
tion, distribution and profit, assurinp low cost to farmers.

Petitions Congress to continue the co-operation with the
,-t.ates in conjstructinc roads as rapidly as the economic condi-
tions of the country will permit.

Summariztd its position on fetleral taxation by suppestinp
that the ne\v revenue law, now before Conpress. include the
followinp piint.-;: (a) tax, at proper rates, undistributed
profits oif cotporntions; (bl tax stock dividends; (c) sharply

Petitions the United States- Department of Apriculture
and the extension service departments of the land prant
collepps of this country to instruct their employees, apent»
and teachers to lend their influence and support in teachinp';
the principles and pVactices of co-operative marketinp and-
assistinp exi.stin,p co-operative associations in their operation'
policies and membership relations.

Calls attention tfi the need for unbiased livestock nvirket
news service from the cities of Detroit, Indianapolis, Pitts-
burph, Cincinnati and Buffalo similar to that piven from
other cities by the U. S. D. A. and petitions Conpress to
include this item in the appropjiation for the Department
of Apriculture.

Reminds tlie state piarm Bureaus that the question of an
ainiendment to the Federal constitution which would prant
power to Conpres.s to limit, repulate and prohibit the labor
of persons under 18 years of ape is .still before the .states for
ratification^ The American Farm Bureau unsuccessfully
opposed this niea.sure in Conpress and a.sks state Farm Bu-
reaus to be in watch in their rdspective states to defeat
r.-newals of attempts to pet state ratification.'.

.A.sks that Conpress cons'ider favorably' the Capper-French
bill, known as the ti-utb-in-fabi-ijc measure, i-equiritip the
labelinp of woolen poo. Is so as to show the amount of virpin
wool, shoddy, or i-e-\vorkeil wool, cotton, silk or other fibers
which they contain.

Recommf^nds the creation in the D.-^partment of .Apricul-
ture a division of co-operative marketinjj that will assist
in an educational way the farm co-operative marketinp asso-
ciations in this country.

Recommends n? a part of the A. F. B. F. work of lf)2fi
the study of co-operative insurance as it relates to life,
indemnity, fire, automobile and liability and to submit the
finilinps to the member stat.-s for consideration.

Endorses the proposal for a NationalApricultural Day.

Endorses the principles of protection apainst introduction
of foreipn pe.sts ail4 diseases throuph quarantines as pro-
vided by present laws and asks the Secretary of .Aprfcul-
Unfe -to do all in his -power to mainfiin the efiTectivenCss of
k.uch protective laws.

' Sugpests the appointment of a permanent committee on
hoys' arid carls' cluti work 'in the' A. F. B. F.. includinp
representatives from the Nation.al Home and Community
committee, and that proper action be taken to secure more
rinb leaders. ^

Recommends tViir appointment of a failn woman "leader
to be placed in charpe of home and community work in the
department of orcfanization of the A. F. B." F. and that
adequate money he set aside in the budget of the national
organization to carry on the work.

Demands that the railroad rates on agricultural products,
including livestock, be restored to what thev were prior to
the World War and that A. F. B. F. stand" opposed to the
five per cent increase in freight rates now being asked by
western carriers. ,

L

De

curtail nuisance taxes, particularly on auto accessories, aui
trucks and forms of sales tax found to be penerally objec-
tionable; (d) federal povernment should stay in the inheri-
tahce and estate tax field; (e) opposition to the abolition
of the gift tax; (f) tax no incomes under $5,000; (g) re-
duction in normal tax rates as the total reduction decided
upon y^ill permit; (h) retain cjjpital stock tax; (i) increase
personal exemption and dec-rfase tax rafe; (j) remove re-
striction of states tp tax jiational banks; (k) retain differ-
ential in faVor of earm-d income, '^

Recommends immediate congfessioTial action on the Vestal
Standard Container bill which would eliminate hundreds of
odd-sized and unnecessary otT-standard' containers of fruits
and vegetables. . i

Demands thanthe administrtition of the national forest
.should continue with the Secretary of Agriculture and regu-
lation of grazing privileges shoyld not be placed elsewhere.

Requests that the tariff commission make a study of the
cost of frozen eggs, meats and dried eggs in this country
and in Chiji.i with the view of increasing the tariff the fuil
.TC^'r allowed umter the flexible provisions of the tariff law.

Requests Conpress to readjust postal rates to approximate-
ly the 1924 level, to take positive steps toward safeguarding
the parcel post system, and to effect a reorganization of the
postal service with a view to greater economy and efficiency. "

■ Requests Congress to enact legislation preventing the
importation intp the United St.ites non-adapted and worth-
less Italian red clover and alfalfa seed, and of Argentinian,
Arabian, South African and other seed from regions of mild
climate, as welt as a law authorizing the Secretary of Agri-
culture to stain by some non-injurious mctJiod all imported
red clover and alfalfa seed -excepting Cana.lian-prown.

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December 19, 1925

The lllinoi* Agricultural Asgociation RECORD

Page 3

PRESPNT COOLIDGE ADDRESSES FARM BUREAU MEMBERS

Senator Capper Says
Congress must Aid in
Farm Surplus Problem

rliroiifch fiimiiciiif; and
Mi)oraiive movement

in^:

National Authorities Speak
Before Delegates at Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federa-
tion Convention.

intorest. of ilie (irtwiiicer. wotiM l>f f\iro i.
dominato in the ond,"

-, . n . ^ 1 '1 wi-"**^ miiln

Co-operatives Promise Greatest | of coursi I should be willing to ap-

3uccess I prove any plan that can be devised in

HefiTriiiK to ilio (-ii-<)i)rrnt.ive movemiciit I accordance with sound economic prin-
ts tin* moNt iiii|>ortant Mevelopitient *»f \ ciples. "

id thn.uKli th^ v<> ;iid ."i.ftOO.OOO of onr

would ajipcar v> 1m* | uii«Mn|»Io\>'.I. tlicir ^'oristi^iipti.ni

'■■■■■- iliis pntV'hMii iiiir»rc cxiN-ii^ii,)- ;i»:n<'il

l"i [mT rt'Ilt U-I..W mL.-*'
aikd wIkiI it lM'f:ini<' air
niient imTi-ascd. 'Ilii

f the ^nrtiM-rs iji la
,d I.-.T. U.f..r.>)
^k■^•i Mtori- tli.iii iTi

pOR tbo fii^t time in tin- his-
-*■ tory of farm oriraiiizatiinis, in
fart for tlio first tinio in tlio his-
tory (»f this prrtmtr>'. tilt" <'liicf
Kipctttivc of tlie L'nitwi Staff's
inldo a speeial trii» of 2(KK» niili-s
to (irc<'t and address a meetiuK
of Antorica's farmers.

On Monday. Doe. 7, at cxartly
H o'rloclv President Coolidpc.
aet-ompniiied l>y Mrs. <"(H)lidBc\
O. K. liratJfiitc. jtresident and ■
K. A. O'Neal, viee-president f»f"
(he American Tarm Kiireaii Fed-
eration, enterr^l tlie ball ro«iin of
the Sherman liote! wliere he acl-
dresscd nearly 4.<MM) farmers
representing appn)xiniateiy all
the states of the I'nirtii, over a
thhn.simd of wh'tin were fr»mi
Illinois.

Fifty newsi»aper an<l motion
pieture eameramen were nn»\vde<l
around the six-akers i>l;rtform.
Ftmr ruicnipliones were arrange*!
to T)roadrast the messajte to the
/arm people of the Tnited Siati--
Vho «'t(uld not attend. 'I'vvn
tploprapli instninients licked otiT
the stor>' t'> thousands of new.<i-
pai)ers in all enrners of tlio lanri.
On the platform wore also (Gov-
ernor Small, Mayor I>i'\ir of
< 'hioaRo, Kvcreit S;nidcr>.IiM''--
ri'tary to ihi- Pn-sidcnt. niilif:ir\

aidfS -AUil >.MTtt ^.^■^\i^•^> liifll.

Slaps McNary-Haugen as Un-
sound

President ('(►olitipe v'"*"<li''led
that, in sj)ite of past and present
a<lversities, agrieiilture as a.
wlioh' will lead industry in future
prosiH-rity. Assailing legislative
proiM)saIs savoring of j.at^riml-
ism, he promised to ajtprttve aiiy
agric\iltural relief plan ■(lovi-H-ii
in aeeordanoe with Sound I'co-
noniic i)/ineiples."

"I pn)]>ose." hr added, "ae- ;| ~

lively and eiiorgeiieally tii assist the farm- ' wareliouses and
ers to promote their welfare through co-
operative marketing." hN

He opjMised taniixring with the tariff
with any intenti<»n of aiding tlie farm<Ts.
anri c()ndemiied i>n>i>osaIs vhieli wtiuld
bring tlie government into the field of
buying and selling farm products, or of
fixing prices. j

To Assist Co-operative Marketing

Tlie Resident's audience listened atten-
tively to the a<ldres.s. which he read with
few gestures. Only a half-<lozen timet* was
he intorniijU")! by applause. His defense
of the tiiriff as an aid to agriculture and
his arraignment of projKisals that the
government engage in the marketing of
farm products or in price fixing direct or
indirect were greeted with silence.

\yith an assurance that his adniini>-
tration will a,ssist farmers in prntitaMy
disposing of their i)roducts and
jWoviding Ijotter storage facilities
and credit, the President ex-
pressed the \iew that agriculture
could thus be placed "on a si)uiiil
and indeiiendent Imsiness basis. "

"To liaA c agriculture worth
anything, it nm.st rest on an in-
depende(it business basis." lie
addeil, "^t cannot at the same
time l>e jiart private business and
part |KO\eriimelit business. I
l>elie\Ee the government ought,
to give it e\-ery assistance, but
it. ought to leave if as the sup-
IKirt. the benefit and the busi-
ness Af the iH-ople."

Opposes Direct or Indirect
Price-Fixing

Tlie President laumlied iiitn'an
att.'iek i>f proposal^ thai the go\ -
ernnu-nt engag*- in buying and
selling of farm produce and direct
or indirect price fixing with the
follJ)wing f»bser\ations:

"This would be a dangerous
undertaking. ;ind as the emer-
gency i,-< not S4» a<-nfe, ii ^eems arf
present to have loM iimch of it-
-.upport. No matter how it is
disguised, the moment the gov-
ernment engages in bu\iiig and
selling, by that act it is fixing
prices.

"More<)ver. it would apiiar-
ently destroy ro-o|>eiati\e assrt-
eialions and afl other marketing
niachincr>'. fur no one can com-
I»ete with the government, lltj-
niately it would end the inde-
f»endence which the farmers of
this country enjf.y as a result of
centtirie? of struggle and |»re\fnt
the exercise <jf their '>\\fi judg-
ment and control in eultivating
their land and marketing, their
produce.

■■(Wivernnient control cann«»t
Iw divorcetl from political con
trol- The overwhelming interest

lati- years in the agricultural field, and : -Turninc to the .niesti.-n (.f imilT. Presi- j."'Pn>sjM.nty in otir in
iMiiitha-^izing the crop surplus jtntblenj as . dent < ^mlidge, as. a iU'fender ol Hepulilican \ ^Jue to the farmer ili-t
,'i \e\ing facUtr in the farm price .situation, j iH)licies, |H>inlod out that the import dutv | n^trkei for loodj-tutT-

products t,hat the farmer ^>nrehtis4T^ «-«jiitrilHii*''I.in tnakinu
inerea-M' in pric- of tiou- j tihil wiih the higlie-i
rignetiitural necessities advances t1ie|*-<iist i simidanls of living iu i'

a ^cMiifi lai'Lot III I. lie liiiin price .suuaiioii, jHHicir^. |k>iiiii.hi
* "oolidge e\i>n'ssed tin" o]>inion tiiajf. with tui pro*hicts t,h;
the f'corioniii- informalion furnislKii l»y the and the general
Dep.'triiiieiii of .\[iri<'ulTnre, taiih ll>ettcr i agrietdtural nocf

:iri-« i- of TM'>r.
wliole fvitJir
l*rote>'ii.n has**!^
rt(pIoym'!ii plen- ,CKN \ t < Ut

CAPFER SPEAKS

,p-^ aiid liighesl ;' ' ^s;is,
-rid- rt'-iK'nd '^-itditie

\(

,1,

ti,.- :,
rliirht

• nt^:
4'

So much was going on during the seventh annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federxfti^n that the only *uit-
ahle tinte that could be found for the presidents of the county Farm Bureaus and the I. A. A. officiati^ lo hold a conference
was at breakfast. Can you pick out the president of your Farm Bureau? Most all of them attended. Plans were m;:de for
the I. A. A. annual meeting which will be held Jan. 21-22 at the University of Illinois. It's to be the siggest and best so- far.
the presidents decided. Howard Leonard, former I. A. A. President, was preaentiaUo, and gave a a tort talk.

torage facilities and a
belter cre'^lit structure much can be dorie
to take care of the <.r<liniiry surplus.

"The leaders ia the co-operative movt--
menl with the advice of the Department
of vVgricuIture liave prepare<l what is Mv-
lieved t«) l.»e an adc<iuate bill enibodying
thest^ princiiJes. -whi^-h will l>e presontcii
to the Congress for enactment.

"For a more onlorly marketing calcu-
lated lo .secure a Injtter range of prices the
co-operative movement promises the great-
est success. Alreadv thev are handling
S2.50(),(HX),(X)() of farm produce, or henrly
one-fifth of the annual production.

Points to Tariff as Assisting Farmers

to the-fanner less than from two to iJire**
I«.T cent. He sai<i that" imtnv eeoiioniists
con.sidor ihi-s contribution of fanuorii to
the tariff is over estimated. On the itther
side he told how t!ie pn>l.e«'i.ive tariff on
agricultural products iM'netit.Hi the farmer
and tonde«l to hoM the doinesiic agricul-
tural markets alwive the world <)r foneign
priee,levels. H(i st.ated that !<7n().(>0(1.<MK)
of agricultural pn^iucts iniporte<! Litil
yi-ar had pai«i SL'fUl.iMHi.tMHi for tlie piriti-
lege of <>ominc info r-ompetiiion with, oifr
ftwii iarni prorhiction.

lirr|M

f T"'i utnio-i

I dcprevioii III

ttlOl Illlfll.|.li.>-

rtnn iii.-:,].-*ihiUv

liotiiii- st,-|biltty is
r.;iiice I't th«- t:trirH*r

iii'^ii-*>rv wiili the
m.fnt Wi.uld do tin- f;
injury.

Fai*tn4.oan Ba ikk Help

''If the |.ri<-c tivirJls
■ lo not se<>m t'» 1"^ T

Ip'j I

l*fit the largest Iwnefits ac-ruiiig t4 th« j Uijnks. Thes,- lia\-e |
farrier come from supplying him with H<»me ' (Kt|»:inK»rtf loans at modi-;
markets." he stati-d. "What the fai^mer ■ ^i-'*!'.'*'*'' farmerv In
raist's must either Ik; soM ai h'tine or |seut ge^i^rtl bankiiiii system

pr^j»«»sals that do prom !*'• .(ii,pruven»eni«.

v.f are deM'litpini;

1 ;iifii(.'liiiie credit

lit a'-.'lt *1.^IH1.-

Itj- Tjte* T*i aKiIlt

tW tinaticittg the farni<
th^ farm loan and

"The initiative (.f the farmers them- 'i^>r'»a'l- Our per camtlh n-n.^uniptiop ..f AW t'f these air-nciiv, „
:^lve.s. with such a.<!sistance as can l>e u'iven butter, sugar, mcat-^. eggs, milk and intorm.-i aitj-ntioii to f
V the go'\ernment without as>miiing tobaec, js far alKive th'w- ot foreign .-i.mh- h4'd iimr.- etu-rgv in adi
='■='■*" '— '^" '■ ' '-'■ -. Wlien the depression ot P)L'0 <jaiNe'slij..r" ' -^ - > -

management

..lid Ik

|iiip'pe<l

r

deb'

ri,.

T revisKm
thrr

but :illow|inK f*»r iIh- n

111 Itrii-i- ievi'is
.lolbir'wth a1
In; '--tiil.i lii'ff>m

C'-r>-n.im (ifftirpi
ciun" a ntn -innifiii

.-iiiMcitIv on hi^
I

jfnsg*^

I buSHH-ftfc .ir

ilrli^U-lter '
e (.eiliTi.-

loHnln-

should

\PIM l: ..' K.-in

..pu-

iiitmt

iMueb

Tjii-nt
by

I Ul i:
Ire.,...) ih,

I l^in.fi.- Ti.-^

<■ s f- -.b,,

I'.iriner and th- \.'« t
[-.ki- HI ri ti...n
lid iir»itiu-«trj: •>
idtlK- Pri'sid-nt A!
hat Ih- was in bct'-tj

be -tafn|ii«*|i|*i toiii)c

-t«T < 'o**|idre. S<'li:i1'>r ' ri,ri-

iwAl ri itiofi' *{\ inpallie'i/-

mdei -t.itiditig of tJie farn. t»Ptt».

: nd '•tTeri^l in a Hin.r.ir«T

s^ist ill getti^lg Kfi'jtt-

iialju I'lragrii'iltur.' ■ |n
I;

tMi-r IS ftjIK jTi--n!.-'l

iiiir oi <'..hgn>^ tfiai rhe

III- n-wafrls «tf aL'ri'iili>»r<«

>• oli*ft p:<ritv *nh t.h.r«'

•d lo industry, I|.- i^

1 ill a-kti»c l>i:it airn.til-

»^illhfieli|Iy re?nUWr:tlP\e

I T>. inaint.-uti

in. iM.I ...i.ie:

'■•■-•fditti: tt. the lii-wt wtari.l

itg ibis, he iv ii.»t

lir(lfr -iMt-iai pmil.iF'ft.

V ot "fiH.riiiitit\- ih .-ill.

• t.Hrili h.Jpf the inntiil-

r. intrniLTaiion p-.iri>-iKkn

Ird-ii tlie l«-"'li < illiiiiiini*

•' 'if railroads and ihe

and the tarnn-r \k\\* a

I Aari ..: th-- .-..t »it)|o<it n'-

1 ^lii- fair ^iio.-..( the U-m*-

•riiueli .»( till* '. -giOalioli.
I jmrt b«i i-toph-.-si/ed Utt

KC t'«. -troni'!> 'hat whiU
lui-r r. aU.\ 1J.-.-K 1-. not the

to )w«rr|iw iii-.n- iiM»m>v.

:i<t«siM:i(.- .-ri'dii faeiliii<<a
:i great dial i-i Itim — Tint-
nd :d-.\.- .■\er\ihlng •-!•«•

IKl ha,. *imM(T prieeK. IS

eotytorl-
■ 111- ■

It

the t:i
chant
thirtlg I
mean
finil :
he til
fair ,

Capp w SayR C ongreM MuaC
Help

TI •■ tarnci .- en(N>urae«Hl }t\-
the u i.iHtmr r.^ie! .nfT<fr<h'<t i
oireiit^ntaniN-x and is payinir o(T

Ue

i*eeni rli;itige
It l>'l> l.ioav WKn hw
IHT c.-ti' .-IS Ji, irh AM -

war \fMi tj»e tiiml

■ ■•■ rli* ; ... .1 show b**

■ ■I lejW" tt, ■.■.: 1 i»i»r ri!>'
?tni*»iii

eti tn taxK tarntfTs at- ■.. ' on an

«-ri ''ity withjtl i' n-.t of the h^ l I,a.«t.

r mng "tui-i's 'tn\»«i -i..-. .rltr^l

f farn ine.,tii,- crtHparel « itii ,

«e-rjn(h in l'(j:f All otlo^r '

Ml itji fnen^ised tjiv-.' ^o

•^

irner: I nc the farmer cannot tUf \^

If itA>ft. t.hcre is the ! . .
i^V.n-liand^te. | |'
e<l T.. give more \
rm in.*'ds Tlii*;
iit|i'.rrrtli..Ti. Tlte;
siippU not on!:

rt nMwt fai

oit-- 'tiird
le,- .l.an

lb. .-..I.
tUv.

ili.- i.r..tii.s.r |<
l;iir fX'tiH-n i,

i'l,- ..^nne til
I ti mtIhV c

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littl.' III.)
Hi'ik whaT.
i»Mi rin^i I.
ie\ erin

And here's the hope chest of the future — the boys and girls of the farms. These are the ones who i»>re entertained by the
I. A. A. at a breakfast affair during the International Live Stock Exposition when they were cashing ifi on their hard earned

kbl.

crop

Meigf

t ion

trips to Chicago. Dean Mumford made a talk and said, among other things, that Red Grange has th^ bfcsl wishes of everybody
at the U. of I. and they all hope he will make barrels of mone^y, but the real question is: Will he bel as good a moral char-
acter as he would have been if he had not become a professional? The Dean said each of the leading boys and ^irls represented er tHf same'kincl~f~nvnCr
- _ here is a kind" of Red Grange in his or her own community and now each must live up to his oi] her success

of the^consuiiiet. not the smaller brings greater responsibility, he said. .' '■-.'■*

teller facts sh'iw tb.i' .
t«( ri'-f(\-e anything Iikc'
hi- lal»»r an«i- his risk-.
o a" bir a- it can to pr-.,*^
bv whieh an (-tjuah'v '
s in ..ur industrial lite -
Tin agrieuliund indu-
i-t U- rei-<fiisinict4sl atid
■ i \ j«*rMianenr jhiIi'v .
t'-nl«.ir,- iKilsr iM- wiffke.)
«fri, the firmer hlto-eh a
I tin- i.r'.gr;in.

urplus Bic Problem

• i.'-.\.Tn-

I (' ^^ f.hniugh

•■■r 'et\alie<-
f' ••! iWrirui-
r.fs at \\*aK|i-
M--.1 that Uie

I d<^t»r ^m-
•rtjiii-e .pifiti-
b ra^-Cully

V :,i c...,^li^a- I

I" tvr l!l.■tll's•l^ ••*

II rita' i»«lotif
b!..ni ••) klie -.irf.lUs w iH
«l'h M-. fdfli..ufb \t max

-IN" be ,,Uit, H., .vi-l.-lit

11 siUI ha>.' «..n.|eri.il
.e!.i^ like I'M-) ri.r cvaii.
eH :..'! ..1 iK.n.r.. 'Mfn,^ "..
a'e in ri .i.lj-f,!-.il %i-a\*'--

nai bi.n.i-t-r crop V*''

1' ;iJi.

oh\ i

Thi

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h.

ni:trk'e'

[•ro^I««Tnu. It 111

'bi

We ahould see te it

f poinible that this is done
a I ay so the surplun of 10
jor 20 per cent will not
■ price for I he entire
This means that snnte
be worked rtkji
ran be moved into f»r-
hanneU, s<dd for what
bring, and the lositdix-
ed properly among the
prodt cerft. who will then be

or bS

v.eld

svKtei^ must

so it

•■ign

It wil

tribu

:o sell thmr remaminf;
It home, free from the
t of this excess produc-
We must give the farni-

Sutpcess^ to sel I in that he is obliged 1

n.^ And this muat be

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]

The Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD"

done in a way which is practicable,
ami 1 'hich the American people will
accep . Up to this time the various
plans presented to Congress have not
been teund workable, but equality
for airiculture is an issue that will
not d< wn.

Must Find Better Market
"Ag riculture must be placed square-
ly un<ler our protective system. Our
tariff nust apply to agricultural sur-
l^uses, otherwise its beneficient pro-
tection is likely, I fear, to be removed
from >ur surpluses of manufsctured
prodwits. Very few fanners. 1 am gim!
to say. subscribe to a program of arbitr.ir\
price-fi.[ing by the governmeDt, or pun'l\
political expedients that are unaound and
imprac ical. While the fEovemm«nt should
not en ;age in the buying and selling uf
coramo iities. nor the arbitrary fixing of
prices, it can take a more active part in
finding a better market f6r our agricultural
surplus . that prices of farm products
shaU n)t continue to be out of line *ith
the general price level.

•'An< ther thing which Congress will
cooflide r this winter is co-operative mar-
ketine. I endorse all that President
CooUdi B said to you yesterday on thu
gvhject n hia splendid address on the prob-
lems o agriculture. To reorganize our
fannini industr>' on modem lines we must
have a better marketing system in the
hands 4^ the producers of the basic com-
modities. Farmers are subject to the
organ^ed wiles of big buying inten-
ests %nth the disposition and the
facilitifM for securing the products
at thei lowest possible pricee and in
absolute disregard of production costs.
Agriculture n^ust create and use the
selling ;n:\echinery that general indus-
try has found so necessary. Co-op-
erativef marketing can be made to
ahorte^ the spread between producer
and consumer, eliminate waste and
benefit^ all. Evidence of the success
of co-«l>eration, where It is set up on
a sensible, business -bstfis and so con-
ductedTcontinues to pile up."

December 19, 1925

"Our Sam" Takes
A.F.B. F. Presidency

Con' inued from page I. col. 5.

of directors for two years are: C.

" Hearst, president of the Iowa

L.

After President Coolictge's address before some 3,000 delegates and farmers, of wiiich over 1000 were
from Illinois, he was treated to a luncheon on products marketed co-operatively. The President pronounced
the food as "great." Illinois products were represented by "Creamy Products*' milk from the Quincy Co-op<
crative Milk Producers' Association and "Illini" apples from the Illinois Fruit Growers* Exchange, Centralia.

MEIZGER ON PROGRAM

GEORGE E. METZGER. director of the
orgi nisation department of the I. A.
A., adtireased the convention on "The
latensiv s Method of Selling Membership."
Directoi Metsger emphasized the neces-
sity of laving a definite pmgram in the
Htate and county Farm Bureaus and that
it must include certain activities that will
reap di ect benefits to the membership
in a duL ar and cents manner. To sell the
idea to farrocre, stated Mr. Metager.
t>M» •rti;,;*r.». mii^t have something to sell.
I . '.n. . .' . tO explain

^:U^'^. "we sre quite
i)n\incea mat to secure member-
farm Iwreau propr.im must first
pretty thoroughly understood by

ship the
of all b«

a good e Ised group of leadine men in each
county. To attain this end we have
attempt id to make organiz.^tion one of
the regt lar projects of the county Farm
Bureau. When a piece of work is pro-
jected, two things essentially happen.
First, a definite set of rules is laid down
which w 11 govern in a basic way the carr>-

of the piece of work in question.

a number of men are interested

tng out

Sc^nd. _ -

m the p ©position to the extent that they
wiU take " ' '"^ — ' *"""

those rules, put them into action,
and can v out the work so as to arrive
conclusion."

WOMEN HAVE PROGRAM

communi

LIVE

B.

lisciation,
ovestock

THE w >mcn members of the Farm Bur-
eau n ere not without a program and
interestir g speakers on subjects of par-
ticular ii terest to them, for on Tuesday
aftemoot , Grace E. Frysinger, extension
home ec onomist of the United State?
Dep&rtm ^nt of Agriculture, addressed the
wives aE d daughters who attended thc
conventit n. In telling of the projects of
the Hon e Bureau and farm community
work for 1926, Miss Fo'singer, threw out
this chall mge: "It seems to me," she said,
"that yo 1 women members of the Farm
Bureau have a two-fold function to
perfonn. As an individual, a citizen, and
a co-ordi: late farm owner or operator you
may wei . be interested in matters of
legislatioi , tax redvtction rate fixing, co-
operative marketing and the many and one
other economic matters contained in the
program of the American Farm Bureau
Federation But as a woman, as the one
who thrc ughout the centuries has been
e to carry on from generation to

problem of marketing co-operatively th.'
great volume of livestock produced in the
mid-west states of Nebraska. Iowa, Kansas
Colorado, and Illinois, be said:

"I have not come to boast, but I think
that we, as farm bureau folks, have a right
to feel proud of the fact that the 13 term-
inals operating under the National Live-
stock Produce lb Association, are more
nearly approaching the handling of this
volume than any other organization in this
'■ountry. The fact that during 1924 we
handled more than 92.000 cars of livestock
valued at more than $121,0<X>,000 for
ipproximately 240.000 membora, justifies

:>ur pride. Thus we have an organization of
producers from the range country of the
west and southwest, the combelt feeder and
breeder, with markets located entire^
itrr^ss the country in which today we have
'lur fingers on the pulse of the trade on
these markets and are able to tell our
membership about these markets in
1 inguage which they can understand."

BRADFUTE'S MESSAGE

PRESIDENT Brad-

fute's message to
the convention was
made up of a review
of the various activi-
ties of the federation
and recommendations
for future work. He
stated that the former
debt of $47,418.46 has
been completely wiped
out and organisation
now has a surplus of
more than $10,000. In
speaking of the finan-
cial expenditures of the
federation, he said:

"When we stop to
think that the results
attained bythe Ameri-
pan Farm Bureau Fed-
eration during its six years of operation has
rost the individual member but $3 each alt
told, we begin to resize that the work has
been done at a minijbum cost." Of tiie 50
cents which went to the Federation during
1925 from each jnember, the money was
9[)ent as fDllows>

O. E. Bradfut*

Illinois Farm Bureau
Member 'Signed' Father
of Cool id £e in Bureau

<^. J. Cooper, formerly a memher
of the DeKalb County Farm Bureau
and the I. A. A., but now residing
in Oak Park, 111., bears the unique
distinction of having "signed" Col.
Coolidge, father of the president,
in the Farm Bureau. It was several
years ago.

In the early days of the Farm
Bureau in Illinois, Mr. Cooper helped
organize "in 40 counties, and later
was called to assist in expanding the
organization in other states.

Because he was practically through
with active farming himself and
more concerned with his store, Mr.
Coolidge, Sr., at first did not feel
justified in joining, but when told
of the Farm Bureau's benefit for his
grandchildren and nephews, who
would inherit the farm, he "peeled
oflF a 10-doIlar bill, sighed, and
signed." The largest cultivated field
on the Coolidge farm is about three
acres, Mr. Cooper said, and the land

is rough and stony.

I ftdminiatrmtioD <

Pt Hideat'* offic« and |

OrcKoisation work .

I )«l>«Tt(i>eat of MarkAtlos and 8««r*t*ry. .

TrMMiirer and Departncfit ot Floaaea. . . .

Trwuimrtatioii Dvpartnent. ,

Fork . SJie

3A!

4.0e

2Mc

,2 Jo

responsib _ __

generatio; t those values which develop soul
:uid hear^
must feel

as well as mind and body, you
it your especial function to stress
without c jssation the need of ^xing greatly
increased attention in the programs of
rommuni y, county, state and national
Farm Bu reaus to such factors as health,
rccieatioi . music, reading, religious educa-

1 iwi-Utive work t>y ourdapartmaM at Waobiostoo. .4.Sc

1 >*Dartni«r)t of Infomultioa 4.4c

Cieneral oSm-c axpaonaa 7.0r

Mur«!l«n«oas''^uch aa Woman'* Hama and C(^a-
munity Work; Boyn' and Oirk' Club work: Com-
ntittee on tl>« Relation of Electndty to Asrieultura 3.4c

Pfiard of Diractora 2Jc

.\nniual Maatiag 3.8e

t V»d in paynfMit of old dabta 7.7(:

In referring to the importance of taxa-
lion work to American fanners, Mr. Bfad-
fute mentioned particularly the taxation ac-
tivities of the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
lirm, calling attention to the annual saving
in this state of over $2,000,000. In this re-
gard he stated:

"We also should be making some special
studies along the lines' of federal taxation,
und should, therefore, have a specialist
working on these problems. Some of the
hiost valuable services rendered by a num-
ber of our state Farm Bureaus have been
through this means, of which Illinois is a
notable example. If it is not possible to
have a specialist, we should by all means
have a special committee with sufficient
funds available to begin such work."

that $50,000,000 left to be applied on
principal each year.

"It amounts to $26.29 for each farm in
America. It is equivalent to one-half the
value of all crops raised in the State o!
Indiana in one year. It approximates the
4otul value of all annual crops in such states
jw Michigan and South Dakota. The build-
ing material thus consumed materially dis-
oounta the combined efforts of the Govern-
ment and other bodies to conserve the
forests and other natural resources of the
naticn. If, as believed, one-half of this loss
comee from the destruction of buildings,
our forests are depleted to the tune of
"",500 acres annually.

"But, while fire losses are showing a per
aptta decrease for the nation and a decrease
in certain cities, they are still increasing on
the farm. Figures, compiled by the Farm
(Insurance) Association, which includes
practically all bi^siness transacted by legal
reserre companies on farm property in
twelve of the middle western states known
as the Heart States, indicate an increase of
29 j)er cent in fire losses for the five-year
period ending December 31, 1924."

FARM FIRE LOSSES

i

; y centers, ci\ics and other con-

sideratioi s for the common weal."

DIRECTLY in line with the recent ac-
complishment of the Illinois farmers.
Farm Bureaus, and mutual fire and ight-

. ^, ^ ning insurance companies in the oTganiza-

tion. trailing for j>arenthood. better schools I tion of the Farmers Mutual Reinsurance
' ' Company, as well as former work in this

field by other state Farm Bureaus, Wallace
Rogers, chairman of the fire prevention
committee of the Farm Fire AJasociation^
Chicago, addressed the convention on
"Farm Fire Losses" and the prevention of
such losses. In this he statea:

"The loss by fine to farm proj)erty, real
and personal, in America has attained the
astounding figure of $150,000,000 annually.
The toll which the fire demon exacts from
American farmers will pay their annual in-
terest bill on all borrowed capital jrith more

STOCK MARKETING

DENMAX. president of
Natio lal Livestock Producers

the
As-
spoke before the delegates on
marketing. In speaking of the

Farm Bureau Members
Get $15 Discount on
Phosphate Next Year

Beginning Jan. 1, 1926, Farm bureau
members in Illinois will have an op-
portunity to save $15 on every 30-ton
car of phosphate that they order, due
to a recent agreement withLthree phos-
phate companies accomplished through
the effort^^ of J. R. Bent, director of the
I. A. A. phosphate-limestone department,
and his advisory committee.

This phosphate discount amounting to
50 cents a ton is given as a special
recognition to farm bureau members by
means of a farm bureau membership
credit certificate similar in principle to
the one used in ordering limestone dur-
ing the past two years. The phosphate
discount will be applied as a credit at
the time of paying for the material.

One minimum carload ordered by a
farm bureau member allows him a sav-
ing of $15 or an amount equal to his
membership dues in the county and
state organization for an entire year
or will justify a non-member in join-
ing due to this one item alone.

"It is hoped and expected," states Mr.
Bent, "that this will be a big talking
point for the Farm Bureaus in securing
and keeping members, and that it will
not only justify but encoufage the
members and advisers in their promo-
tional work for the use of phosphate
and thereby result in an increased de-
mand. In fact, that is the main argu-
ment upon which the producers were
finally convinced in granting the dis-
count. We hope to prove that it was
a sound argument."

The Illinois Agricultural Association's
accredited list of phosphtate companies
at present include:

Robin Jones Phosphate . Company,
Nashville, Tenn.

Limestone Rate on
Wabash R, R. Saves
$9,000 in 4 Months

Illinois farmers living in 21 counties
served by the Wabash railroad are gain-
ing ft. saving of over $2,000 a month in
limeatene transportation costs due to an
agre^ent secured by the Illinois Agri-
cultutml Association through J. R. Bent,
director of the phosphate-limestone de-
partiamt.

This saving to farm bureau members
was brought about on Aug. 17 of this
year when officials of the Wabash lines
agreed to absorb a portion of (he cost
of switching at origin on shipments of
limestone intended for delivery at
Wabash points in Illinois. This meant
an average saving of approximately $10
a car on the transportation costs. Since
the agreement was arranged, close to
900 cars have been handled by* the rail-
road with the result of a saving of
nearly $9,000 to Illinois farmers in less
than four months.

Director Bent states that this special
rate agreement was first accepted by the
Wabash company as an experimental
proposition for the balance of 1925. The

results, however, have been so satis-
factory that the railroad officials have
consented to extend the rate for 1926
and it may become permanent.

Counties affected by this special lime-
stone rate are: Adams, Brown, Cham-
paign, Christian, Cook, Ford, Effingham,
Grundy, Hancock, Livingston, Macon,
McLean, Montgomery, Morgan, Moults
rie, Piatt, Sangamon, Scott, Shelby,
Vermilion and Will. ;.

Illinois' 20 Master
Farmers All Members
of the Farm Bureau

"To these farmers, because they are
good farmers, good neighbors and good
citizens, Prairie Farmer is awarding the
degree of Master Farmer, and present-
ing each with a gold medal."

Such is the enviable honor bestowed
upon 20 Illinois farmers, all farm
bureau members, because "they stayed
on the farm and made a good job of
farming and farm living."

All farmers in Illinois, whether they
belong to the Farm Bureau or not, were
eligible in the contest which culminated
in the selection of the 20 Master
Farmers, but it is notable that each of
the 20, coming from 16 counties which
range from "Little Egypt" in the south
to the Chicago Milk territory in the
northj are members of their respective
county Farm Bureaus.

Judges in the contest werei Sam H
Thompson, president of the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association and the American
Farm Bureau Federation, Dr. W. L.
Burlison, University of Illinois; C. V.
Gregory, editor, Prairie Farmer and S
R. Guard of the WLS radio station.

The 1925 Master Farmers of Illinois
are: Roy Atwood, Grand Ridge, La-
Salle county ; E. E. Boyer, Ashmore,
Coles county; Glenn Craft, Burlington,
Kane county; A. O. Eckert, Belleville,
St. Clair county; L. B. Eidman, Mas-
coutah, St. Clair county; John B. Ey-
man, Pontiac, Livingston county; Clyde
Hall, Aurora, Kane County; W. D. How-
land, Gardner, Grundy county; Law-
rence Kiesling, Mason ; City, Mason
county; W. 0, Kunkle, Carthage, Han-
cock county; E. R. Leigh, Sparland,
Marshall county; John C. Meis, Fair-
bury, Livingston county; J. E. Mum-
mert, Astoria, Fulton county; S. Nie-
meyer, Humboldt, Coles county; A. J.
Pallissard, St. Anne, Kankakee county;
Oris Pepple, St. Francisville, Lawrence
county; John Rathbun, Lombard, Du
Page county ; W. E. Reigle, Tolono,
Champaign county; L. C. Rinker, Grand
Ridge, LaSalle county and Carle C.
Walker, Clinton, DeWitt county.

The gold medals were awarded at a
banquet given in honor of the Master
Farmers in Chicago, Dec. 2, at which
former Governor Frank 0. Lowden
spoke.

-I

■1.-

Ruhm Phosphate and Chemical Com-
pany, Nashville, Tenn. ■

Thomson Phosphate Company, 137
So. LaSalle St., Chicago,

Vl

Farm Bureau Federation; M

Noon, president of

the Michigan Farm

Bureau Federation

and L. B. Palmer,

president of the

Ohio Farm Bureau

Federation. Those

elected for one

year: W. H. Settle,

president of the

Indiana Farm Bu-

reau Federation

and F. L. Kelso, A. R. Wriiht

president of the *'»•"'■«• Dele«ate

South Dakota

Upon request of Frank Ridgway,
agricultural editor of the Chicago
Tribune, President Thompson gave a
statement from Quincy Friday, Dec.
11, as follows:

"I was extremely pleased to see
the editorial in the Chicago Tribune
this morning entitled, "The Far-
mers' Just Complaint." The biggest
opposition that agriculture has been
confronting has been due to lack of
sympathy from other interests who

hould lend us a hand. Our problem
is a common one to all people.

"I particularly like the statement
that if Congress disapproves of the
farmers* own remedies it must come
forward with something constructive
to take their place. The problem of
the surplus, which is our principal
one, is a problem that can be solved
by the brains of America if we will
adopt the right attitude toward it.

Not Unfriendly to Coolidge

"I am not unfriendly to Presidetit
Coolidge, in fact, I agree with much
of what he said before the American
Farm Bureau convention, especially
as regards co-operative marketing.
He referred to but failed to recog-
nize adequately our paramount prob-
lem— that of disposing of the normal
surplus, which, because it is sold in

world markets at world prices in

competition with the very cheapest
standards of living, sets the price on
the entire American demand. In tak-
ing up the surplus problem, he con-
sciously or unconsciously assumed
me responsibility of dealing with it.
"As regards the present agricul-
tural situation, I think that such
improvements as have taken place in
the relative prices of wheat and of
hogs have been due to abnormal con-
ditions of production, rather than to
any correction ef the fundamental
underlying maladjustment. In 1924
we profited from a world-wide short-
age of wheat due to misfortunes
abroad. This year we have been
placed on a domestic basis with our
wheat because of the partial failure
of the winter wheat crop of this
country. Hogs are high because we
have comparatively few hogs to sell,
owing to the short com crop of last
year, and the unprofit9ble prices for
hogs that have ruled since 1921,
while com this year, of which we
have a good crop, is selling today at
less than it cost to grow it.

Quotes Jardine on Farm Situation

"In the 1925 report, released Dec.
7. Secretary of Agriculture says:
'Much remains to be done to put
agriculture on a profitable basis.
The purchasing power of farm prod-
ucts in October was still 13 per cent
below its pre war level.' "

"Agricultural conditions of the
past five years have resulted in a de-
cline of the capital value of agricul-
tural investment of 20 billions of
dollars. Even after writing this off
as lost' agriculture is not in a posi-
tion of parity. With normal crops
at home and abroad, I can see no
reason why the price relationship in
the future may not slump further to
the disadvantage of the products of
those crops that normally are pro-
duced in excess of the amount which
the domestic market can absorb at a
fair value.

The problems of the new admin-
istration of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation will be determined
by the resolutions of the convention
and carried out by the concurrent
action of the board of directors and
myself. i

The Illinois delegates wtre S'am
H. Thompson, Earl C. Smith, Frank

D. Barton and J. L. Whisnand. A.

E. Wright was alternate. These del-
egates were placed on several im-
txirtant committees.

i

I

Pagr

(lone in a way which is practicable,
tnd ' i-hich the Annerican people will
•accept. Up to this time the various
plan^ presented to Congress have not
been found workable, but equality
for a [riculture is an issue that will
not d^wn.

Must Find Better Market
"Aj riculture must be placeid .square-
ly un ler our protective systpm. Our
■iff musl apply to agricuUural sur-
plusei. otherwise its Leneficieni pro

tectio 1 is likely. I fear, to be

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from

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mathrnery that i;ener*l indus-

found so necessary. Co-oi>-

After President Cooltdge's ad^Iress before some 3,000 delegates and farmers, of which over 1000 were
from Illinois, he was treated to a luncheon on products marketed co-operatively. The President pronounced
the food 'as "^reat " Illinois products were represented by "Creamy Products" milk from the Quincy Co-op-
erative Milk Producers* Association and "Illini*? apples from the Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange, Centralia.

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kdes of big buying inter- (, )V,l proiul of llit- f: .-t thai tlhf Ki l.riii-

^itti/the disposition »nd the iii;'.U oixTaliii:: uinltT tin- N-iiii'iial I.i\f-

/for securing the products | -j.K-k l'riMlni-»-r< As>oiiMtion.; an- iuoit

ow.cst possible prices and in [ •■i-;irly ;;ppro:irhinir llu' h;infmnir of thi>

\x le di-ifegard of production costs. ; \.,Imu.- llinii aii.\- oiluT oriiaiii/iiMoii in tlii-

oiiiitr\. Th.- f;n-i ih;it <lurii|>i; VS1\ ".■

Iian.ll. .1 nior." than '.'J.tMH) 4;irs:of liv.->tock

\a!u».| :il mim- thill :<Il»I.«H«MKMt fi.i-

be made to j pi.n.\iTii;!li'l\' f IH.'hm) ni,inlK(r:*. jn^titi.--

■ •iir pri'lf. Thus «.■ }i:i\f ;in ori^iniz;iti.>n ..f

I roiluiri-; troni thf mni^f ooftiitrx' of thf

\\-f<\ anil -;4iMth\\.sl. tht^torihlKlp fcocU'r anil

l.ri-ttU'r. uiih markti^ I'm;ii yi c-nlircly

•Toss ^lic- <-ounlr\ in whhli to( hiy we havr

i:r titiHt-rs on tlu- puUi- <'f tl^«- tra<lc

erativ< marketing car

the spread between producer

er. eliminate waste and

beneAd all. Evidence of the success

f co-< peration. where it i« set up on

a sens ble. busmesR hajiis and so con-

ducte<^ , continues to pile up.'

METZGER ON PROGRAM

pl.uK.K v.: Mi.l/,».i i: ii";
^^ orir inization <!.■
\ . rtd'. n-ssi-d tin-

lut4nsi\L- Method of :
birt-rto Metzerr *rHiii»:i
'ly- of living a drlnii('
rtltto :ii)tl fourtty >>rni \'>'.

inrht<le certain H'*"'-!"'-
.H -f-^ t benefits i.» tli. ■;
.. 1 ar aiul cents ni;»ui. r. 1

f;iniKT». Ml iltjil ^i^
... r...iat l»ri\f Hoint-lhil!

. .my
tiip t

a u'.^o.i ; izr-d prouj- of h'»ili' - n;

oiiiitv.

aTttfmpt ■*! to II
till- regi h»r pro;
Utiroau.
jt-cted.
First, a

which wfll
iuK out

Sf'COIKl,

m tlio i<

will tak"i

;ii>d

Tin:
r-.U

th-ular I

uflrriI'Mrl

hoinr

l>>'parf^ii

"I hat y
llurf:iu
iwrf-rni,

rnav v

l*!i:i>iat
"li-rati
-.,t..T .■
I-ro-rr .ni

r.-l.-i

and h. '

M.-ji.
'i tli(

i;ra]ii in tin-
1 III

lh:-t «i!l
nl)«-r>lii(

S.'ll th.'

M.'tzir.r.

; to ^-11.

(ixphiin

tnvmcfii ttmi ii»
farm bun-au y«*-
pretty tti'-routth^

To altiin* thn
orjai;
i.f th.-
When a Iticn of \m.tV
thitiL'- <-ien'iall.

k'tinir.

s.«t ff puU-s is I; ill d<*wi

. rii in fl l-aei'- way

pf tti.- piecf of work in Aiicstii.n
1 ii<iitil«-r of nwn an; ii li-restr.l
*(■■ -iii"n to tint extent -t lat thi>
till,-)- r'itr>. put jheni ini » artion

i.>i! ihf w.irk >•)
; orn liisioit."

niarkfts :inil
..lM.r->iip aLoul
:u:.i.'.- whirl, ih.'V .

ahl- kit tell
.■-'.; niarVi-i--'
.n-.!.T^t;ni.l."

llL- I. A,

■■Thf
hip.-

BRADFUTE'S MESSAGE

ire HUiti
tiieinlwr
Tu II luat tir>i I
i,-it^to<.a I.\ 1
t-a.-h ;
le lia\r !

nu«- o1

y Fariii

is pro-

liap|>rn

l)Ui:sll)|:\T Hni-l-
■■I futr'> ilJe^sagc to

le farr\-

I In- (■on^■t|ntiotl was
ni:yl(- up <>f a review
of 'the \:\riovis aetivi-
ti-s (»f tlid federation
:iful ri'i'onilnendatifini-
f(»r fuuirc'work. He
Aixwd th:it| the -former
.1-1.1 of .<lInN.4(lhas
N-(jii loinplcn-Ji,- wipf'l
o^it :inii (iQ-^Mnizalion
\\i}\\ \\:i< :i sMrr>Ius of
nioreihmi'llMMHi. In
.'•|K-nkini; of th*- Iiikhi- {
' itil ixiM-ini^tijr.-^nl llu- [
fiiilct:ition. in- ^ai^l:

f'Wht 11 \Kr .-lop lo
think thnt iih.' r.-snli~ I
attained I'\jlhf Amhti- I
v-Xn I'lirin iiurrnu I'etl-
. rjif ion 'hirins it.^ .-ix yerirs of oi)|Tafioii li:i.-
' "hi llu- iiifiividuai inrinK-r l>ul i-"?-! »'jiih jilI
f.'l.l. we U-cin to rnili^e that tht- work li;i-

Illinois Farm Bureau
.Men-iber 'Signed' Father
of Coolidge in Bureau

('. J. Cooper, formerly a nu-niher
of the Dt'Kalli t'ouniy Farm Kurerlu
and the I. A. A., hut now residinji
in Onk Park, III., I'ears the unique
^listinction of havin;: "signed" Col.
Conlidffe, father of tht' president,
in the Farm Rureau. It' was several

years airo.

In the early d.-iy.-, of the Farm

Bureau in Illinois, Mr. Cooper helped
orjjani7P in 40 counties, and later
wris ealled to as5iist in expimdinp: the
or^'Anization in other state.s.

Hecause he was practieally throu^'h
with active farmintr himself an<I
mort* concerned with His store, Mr.
Coolidjre, Pr.. at first diti not feel
justified in joinintr. hut when tnld
of the Farm Bureau's henetit for hi?^
K>aniithildren and 'nephews, who
woulii inherit the farm, he "peeled
otT a 10 dollar hill, siirhed. and
sit'ued." The lartrest eultivated field
on the Co(did(re farm is ahout three
aen-s. Mr. Cooper said, and the hind
is nm^ and stony.

O. E. Bradfute

ix'i'ii done at a nunii
■ I III.-- which went to
l\*'St from eaeh infinlpt
-lifnt as follows;

111' Ki«lerai
rhe

WOMEN HAVE PROGRAM

.nd '

\\*ini' p im inl"t- el 'he I ::|ni
V KTK- iioi \viili*HH
inierfitil (f siwiikers (rti sul.jei
terest lo tlkiBi., for
i'.ia<-i' K. Fry^iiiHiT
n'.ini-T of th? I'nilefl
It of Ai;ri<uliiin . 'iddr.'sed
d dauL'htcrs who aitfiiih-.i th.
• ■nveivtii ill. in telling t»f ilu- pril;ret>
Ilrt- Hon r Iturt-au and f:irni roi i^i
work lor lin'fi. Mi>3 Frycint!*! tl^n-w

'his >-hal i'iii:e: "II s«-.ii

1- to inv-

It vvoipen nieniU-rs nf tlii- Farn

have :i iw.-foi'j fun.- . -
;Vs an individiuil. a iiii;(en. -irui'

li late farm owjw-r or ojn-riioT yoi

U- itii<'rv<t*-<l in inalters
tax rejilKti.'iu r;vfe fix i
niarki^^ific yml (li-- many ^
rtoiHif niatter-i fofifiined
of liie .\nierii-:i|i Farm

ir II. Hut as a w<aua

who il.r- urrhout the ietinirii-> li
resj'i.nsilj I To earr>' ou fr6tn iiemriiion t
•ho^ v;ilue> whiili f{*-\\
;s wtdl a^ mind and In

■ir es|)eei:il funetion tr>str('s-.

tntist feel , y .. , ... - -
vvHhout '■ ■>- Lti-n iheiieo«Sof givuiL-jcreatly
iftfre:i.**4i .^-'iT.-ion in th<
•rumuiiiu y. >'-,uiv. >tate and
Farm fit rrui.- '■> s-wh f4eti>T
recreatioi . mu-i r. ndinjr, relisiou;
tion. trr»ii ineff-r 1- .t* i^.!»./<k1. better
eoninuni y e.ut* i:-, • : i- :i and or!
.-ider.'itioi ? for the <.< ii; , a wea!

■4.fk.

tbl

■ I >p(>n> t nirnt of MarhrMiK
I 'twi.iirrr uml l>e|turini'>nt i.f

, 1 -.tii-f>->-t>ti'>D rt«i>artni(»iC
' .-■i-t.fii*' no.ik I'V ti'tr <l«|HiM
I "(.jirlt'i*"!! til Infurni.tltdlt. .

Mw.HLiru—u).-— u>-h Ks W^.ir.
■niiiiHv tftnrk: |i(iy~' uri<] ••■
•»iit.c ni. t)-e RflHturi. ot KU-
I e..nT.I..( lMre.(..r«,.
\>rniial M<N-tiiwr . .
f p:ir- I -rtl in ii.iy(ii*nn.f «l.l ■iflt-
■rrn-Mla> rr
leti>ion ,

ih'

In refi-ftitii; t'
' ■ i-»*i work to Aiti

lur<- mentioned pir'ieul
1 ivitie- of ih-- Illii;'ii>
; M*>ii, ( idliiu: iiitentiiiii

that !^.■»IM^<W>.lKM^ left to he ;ipi»lied ua

priiieipal ea<li year.

■'It amounts to SL>f,.2;j for ejrh farm in
Atiieri.:.. It is eiiiiiv:deiit to one-half the
value of all .r..ps rai-ed in the State of
Indiana in one year, li api)roxiniatos the
lofal \ alue of ail annual .lops in siiefi states
a^ .Mi.hijran and South Dakota. Thelmild-
inii material thust^onsuni.'d materially di.s-
• 'punis the eonil)ii!r'(ietiorts of the (ioverii-
Mient and othef Inxlies to eonserve the
i'Tists and olhrr -natural resourees of the
nation. If. a« U-lieved. oae-halfof this loss
' ornes fnun t In; .d^st nier ion of' huildiuKS.
our forests are dui>lete<l lo the tunc of
~ ,'.(H».i'n-s :.|mu;JIy.

lul \\:i-»r.Bl.m

of

Mr. Hr.id-

inport

farme

riy lhet:fxaiiori ae-

Vj^rieuitunil Ass.,<iu-

lh<^anii|ual saving

f ov^r rrJ.tltHMMKl. In thi.-' n-

■hesai.l '

ot

ndoM<
in the
Hureau
"he onv
s U-en

in Ihi-^stat
■/ard hestatwF

"We al-*"' <ho:ifil l>e rhakini: .•*otni; spe-l;
-liidies aloni; thi^lines ^ federal taxation.
.lid slif)n!d. thli^.Jote.l have a .spe«-iali>I
uorkitiif ori these'jaohlt-ins. Sojiie of the
i< iK-t \ahi.d>le .«tT\ ifrfs findered tiv a ntinr
l»-r of our -tafe Far;n liMreaijs Biave li<>en
thrPtiirh this nieaii-^. ojl wliieh Illinois is a
nolahlt- exaliiplo. Hjitj is nol i»os>ihle To
have a ^(H'i'i.iii.sr. we-,.should hy EiM means
lia\'e -,a .-(wi-i d "eoniinil|Tee with sufri'-i'-nr
lunii- availa'-le T<» heeid ^U' h wl.rlv."

ly. you

FARM FIRE LOSSES^

pr'tt'rtiinx of
4arion.il
health
eduea-
sehcol-
(T e<»n

LIVE

STOCK MARKETING

G. H II
liwititi'-n

UVtSto- k

^y

i>i:nma\. piy-i-r. II

\e.~lo.k rrod.i.t+>
h|>oke Ixfon* the delen it
marketine. In speaking

D1I{!:<'1I.V in lii^^with the ree.nt a.-
ei>nipli:>hment *^'the Illinttid farmer^.
1 arm iJureaus/and tuntual fire and i^ht-
ninp iii>unme? eoinpfniy.'S in the orgriitiz i-
tioii of tlji- Farmers" M,ntual HeiiLsuran-e
I 'onipaiiy,-a.-| well as ftjrnier work in ti.i-
tiei-l by i,tTiei^ state larii bureaus, Walhn e
Ilo;.'er>. thairman of the tire prevention
i-i.nimitt«e of the Farnj lire .-\spo<iation,
< fiiiatfo, addrcsse<l 'the ebnvejition ()n
I arm^J ire Lessen" aBd( the prevention of
•urh lo-ses. In this he stated: !
I "The lo^i f<y fire to fiirin propi-rty. real
and iH.-r>onal, in .Vmerii-U ha> attiiine*! the
^t.HUidiiKf lipire of $i:irt.lM»U,000 Imnually

I I lie i a-iouu'iint: iii:ure oi -rioiF.oou^ooi' iiunu;iii,\ - i '" i-ietincu ii.-i

\>- I The Iftll wliieh the fire demon ex^ets froin.lat present inc

e> on Anierit-an famiers will pjty their Minnual in-X J£o*>in Jone

>f the ' terest l»ill on all iH-rrowfd eapital With n^or^' *Nashville, Ten

.,..(H».i'n-s :.finu;illy.

.-■■Unt. Avhile lire losses are .-.hoivini: a jx-r

■:i pita deerease for the nation a tuPadeerease

in n-rtaiti eities. they are -^tiJI inert-asini; on

,^, , , .'In- farm. I imires fom piled 4v the Farm

Oftheott (li.snntn.e) As^oeiation. uliffh inehides
Ion durinir prarii.ally all business tran^aeled by le^'al
i^toney wa> ■reser\«' eiinipanies on f;irin pru|MTty in
tweUe of the noddle Wi-te^n suites known
as the Heart States, indleate an inerease of
'-!'.* per eerit in fin' K»ss*'s for the tive-ye.'ir
period ending; iVeemU-r ^il. llti'j."

Farm Bureau Members
Get $15 Discount on
Phosphate Next Year

lieu'inniii'r .Ian. I. 102*?. Farm bureau
members in Illinois will have an op^
porlunity to save $15 on every ;ip ton-
car of phosphate that' they onleri due
to ;i reeent airreemenj with three phi><
ph.it e i-omixinies aceomplished throniih
the efforts of .1. R. Bent, director of thf
I. A, A. phosphate-limestone department,
ami his advisory eummittee.

This phosphate dist-ount amuuniinj: to
5o cents a ton is , piven as a spei-ia!
reeopnition to farm hiireau memhers !->■
nu-ans of a farm bureau memhership
credit certificate .similar in principle to
the one used in orderitiL' lin'iesfone dur-
the past two years. The phosphate
disidunt will be applied as a eri-dit at
th^ time of payinir for the material.
y One minimum carload ordered hy a
•^■irm fiufeau member allows him a sav-
in;: .r>f ?ir. or an amount equal to his
nieiiihership dues in the county and
state or^ranization for an entire year
nr will justify a non-memher in join-
ing dui- to this one item alone.

"It is hoped and expected." states Mr.
Bent, "that thii will be a hip talkinir
point for the Farm Bureaus in securinp
anti k epinir nieiuher-, and that it will
not only justify hut encouratre (he
rcemhers and advisers in their promo-
tional work for the use of pho>phate
and thereby result in an increased de-
mand. In fact, that is the main argu-
ment upon which the producers were
tinally convinced in granting the dis-
chiint. We hope to prove that it wa?-
a sound aipument."

The Illinois Agricultural, Association's
(•credited list of phosphtate companies
lude:
ones Phosphate Conipanv.
Tenn.

Limestone Rate on
Wabash R. R. Saves
$9,000 in 4 Months

Illinois , farmers livinR vn 21 counties
served hy the Wabash railroad are ffain-
inp a savinir of over $2,000 a month in
limestone transportation costs due to an
agreement secured hy the Illinois Ai^ri-
cultural Association through J- R- Bent,
director of the pho-^phate-liinestone ^do-
j partment.

I This pavio;: to farm, bureau mcinliera
I was hroupht about on -Autr. 17 of this
.year when officials of tho'Wahash linct
I airreed to idisorh a portion of the cost
of switching at orie:in,on shipments of
limestone intendetl for delivct-y at
Wabash points in Illinois. Jhis meant
an .average saving: of appro\iniately $10,
a car un the transportation costs. Since
the apreenient was arranped, dose to*
ftllO ear* have been handled hy the rail-
read wilh the result of a savinp of
nearly $'.1,000 to Illinois farmer.-^-in less
than four months.

Uiiector Bent states that this special
latv ajrr-eement was first accepted by the
Wabash conipanv as an experimental
p-oposition for the balance of 192r>. The
resnh.^, however, have been so satis-
factory that the railroad oflicials have
con-iented to e.\tend the rate for VJ'IQ
:in<I it may become permanent.

Counties affected by this special lime-
stone rate are: Adams, Brown. Cham-
paipn. Christian. Cook. Ford, Elfinpham,
drundy, Hancock, Livinpslon. Macon,
Mel.can, MofUu'omery, Morpan, Moult-
rie, Piatt, Samjamon, Scott, Shelby,

Vermilion ai^d jV'ill.

Illinois '20 Master
Farmers ^All Members
of the Farm Bureau

'. "To these farmers, because they are
pood farmers, pood nei'phbors .and pood
citizens, Prairie Farmer i;*=<iwardinp the
depree of Master Farmer, and present-
inp each with a pold mejal."

Such is the envialde honor bestowed
upon 20 Illinois farmers, all farm
bureau member.^, -because "they stayed
on the farm and made a pood joh uf
fatmiiiL'' and farm livinp."

AH farmer.s in Illinois, whether they
beionp to the Farm Bureau or not, were
elipible in the contest which culminated
in the scdection of the 20- Master
Farmers, hut it is notable that each of
the 20. cominp from HI counties which
lanpe from "Little Kpypt" in the south
to the Chicago Milk territory in the
north, are memhers of their resptctive
eo;int\ [•■.irm Hineaus,

Judpes in the contest were: Sam H.
Thompson, president of the Illinois Ap-
ruultural -Assoeiation ami the American
Farm Bureau Federation. Dr. ' W. L.
Burlison, I'niversity of Illinois; C. V.
Crepory, etlitor, Prairie Farmer and S.
K (iuard t»f the WbS radio station.

The lHjr. Mavter Farmers of Illinois
are: Koy At wood. (Irand* Itidpe, I,y-
Salle count.v; K. K. Boyer, Ashiiiore.
<'oles count\-; (llenn ("raft, Burlinpion,
Kane countv: ,A. O. Fckert. Belleville,
St. Chiir county; L. R. Kidman.. Mas-
eru t ah. St. (Tair county: J#ihn IJ. Ky-
man. I'ontiac, bivinp-^ton county; Clyde
Hall, .\urora. Kane County: W. P. Huw-
land, (iardner. (Irundy county; Law-
rence Kieslinp. M^son City, Mason
county; W. (). Kunkle. Carihaire. Han-
cock county ; K. H. Leiirh, Sparland.
Marshall count,\ ; John *". -Meis, Pair-
bury, Xivinpston cmint\ ; J. K. Mum-
mert, Astoria, Fulton county; S. Nie-
n.eyer, Humhnldt, Cojes county; A. .1.
Pallissard, St. .•Vrine, Kankakee county;
Oris Pepple. St. Franci-^ville. Laurence
county; John Kathbun. Lombard, I>u
Pape county; W. K Reiple, Tolono.
rhampaipn county; I-. C. Rinker, flrand
Ilidpe. LaSalle eonnty and ("arh- C.
Walker. Clinton, lieWJtt county.

The pold medals were awarded at a
banquet piven in honor uf the Master
Farmers in Chicapo. Dc. 2, at which
former Governor Frank O. Low den
-•poke.

Kuhm Phosphat? and Chemical* Com-
pany, XashviHe, Tenn.

Thomson Phosphate Cmtijianv. \'i'
So. LaSalle St.. Chicago.

"Our Sam" Takes
A. F. B. F. Presidency

<'fin'nfHil ffittii jMi'ii I. ,■>/. -'t.

iif diioctms for two yoars uiv: ('.

E. Heaist, inesdlont of tht" Iowa

Farm Buicau Fcrlerution; M. I..

Noon. iiicsiJcnt of

Ilip Mi(.'liif;aii Farm

Bureau Federation

an.l I.. K. Palmer,

|il'esi<!ent of tile

OIlio Farm Hui,cau

Federation. Those

elected for (me

year: \V. H. Settle,

liresideiit "of the

Indiana Faim Bu-
reau Fodoratiipn

and F. L. Kelso, A. R. Wrisht

president of the A''""""! Delegate

South Hako.ta

Upon request of Frank Ridgway,
agricultural editor of the Chicago
Tribune, President Thompson gave a
statement frcmi Quincy Friday, Dec.
11, as follow.s:

"I wa.s extremely plea.-^ed to .see-
the editorial in the Chicago Trihune
this nioi-ning entitled, "The Far-
mers' .lust Complaint." The biggest
opposition that agriculture has been
confronting has been due to lack of

ympathy from other interests who
■should leml us a hand. Our problem
is a common one to all people.

"I particularly like the statement
that if Congress di.-iaiip'-oves of the .
farmcr.-''Tiwn remedies it niu t come
forward with soniethjtig constructive
tp take thi'ir place. The jooblem of
the suriilus, which is our principal
nne, i< ri problem that can be solved
by the brains of America if we will
adopt the right attitude toward it.

Not Unfriendly to Coolidge

"I am liot unfriendly to Pre.-ident
Coolidge, in fact, I ng'vcc with much
of what he said before the .Anirrican
Faim Bureau convention, especially
a= regards co-operative marketing.
He ref-rred to but failed to recog-
niz" adequately our paramount prob-
lem— that of disposing of the normal
surplus, which, because it is sold in
world markets at world prices in
competition with tlie very -chrape.Jt
standnrds of living, sets the price on
the entir .Xmerican demand. In tak-
ing up the suijilus problem, he t;on-
sciously or uncrinscinusly assumed
the Fesjionsibility of dealing with it.
"As regai-ds the present agricul-
tural .situation, I think that such
improvements as have taken place in
he relative prices of wheat and of
hogs have been due to abnormal con-
ditions of producti.on, rather than to
any correction ef the fundamental
underlying ma'ladiu^tnrient. In 1924
we profited from a world-wide sh(n-t-
age ofi -wheat due to misfortunes
abroad. This year we have been
olaced on a domestic basis with our
wheat becau.-ie of the partial failure
of the winter wheat crop of this
■ountry..^ Hogs are high because wc
have comparatively few hogs to sell,
iwiiig l« the short c,;rn crop iff last
vear, and the uni)rofitable prices for
I'ogs that have ruled sinrc 1021.
while ciirn this year, of which wi-
'.•ive a L'ood croii, is spiling today at .
!■■-< th:'n it rot to grow it.

Quotes Jardine on Farm Situation

"In the 1!I2.'> riiiort, released Dec.
7. .S"ci-elary of .Agriculture says;
"Much remains to be done to put
agrioulture on a profitable ba.-is.
The pi:rchasing power of farm jirod-
'icts ill October was still IS jier cent
below !t< pre war level.'"

"Agricultural conditions of the
past fiveyear> liave resulted in a de-
cline of the caiiital value. of agricul-
tural investment of 20 'billions of
dollars. Kven aft('r writing this oPT
as lo.i-t; agriculture is not in a posi-
tion of parity. With normal crop-
at home and abroad, I c.-Ln .see no
rea-on why the price relationship in
the future may not slump further to
the disadvantage of the pri>ducts of
those crops that normally arc pro-
duced in excess of the amount which
the domestic market can atjsorb at a
fair value.

"The problems ofthe new admin-
i.itratioh of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation will be iletermined
by the resolutions of the convention
and carried out -by the concurrent
action of the board of diiictors and
pyself.

The Illinois delegates were Sam
H. Thompsjim, Earl C. Smith. Frank
D. Barton and J. L. Whisnand. A.
R. Wright was alternate. These del-
egates were iilaced on several im-
portant committees.

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Volume 4

luued Every Other Saturday for 63,000 thinking Farmers — January 2, 1926

1926 HNDS PUBUC MORE AWARE OF PROBLEM OF SURPLUS

PROGRAM OF ANNUAL MEETING ANNOUNCED

Jardine, Lowden and
Davis Will Address
State Farm Bureau

Plan Largest I. A. A. Annual
Meeting to be Held at Cham-
paign-Urbana, Jan. 21-22.

A rrangem ents are being made to accom -
modate the wives of delegates to the An~
nual meeting; and the w&men folks are

especially incited.

There will be lots to hear, much to do
and many meeting to attend when the
farm bureau officers, members and ad-
visers gather at the annual meeting of
the Illinois Agricultural Association to
be held at University of Illinois, uCham-
paign-Urbana on Jan. 20, 21 an* 22.

It will be a great state farmersV^vcnt,
comparable only to the state I. A. A.
picnic or the annual meeting of the A.
F. B. F. when President Coolidge made
his trip to Chicago last month.

William M. Jardine, secretary of Agri-
culture, Frank 0. Lowden, former gov-
ernor of Illinois, and Hon. Stephen
Davis of the U. S. Department of Com-
merce are scheduled as headliners who
will address the members and delegates
attending the annual gathering. Besides
the meeting of the I. A. A., the Illinois
Farm Bureau Sen^m Association, the
annual conference of the I. A. A. staff
and Illinois farm advisers and the Illi-
nois Agricultural Co-operatives Asso-
ciation, it will be Farmers' Week at the
University of Illinois*
County President Enter Jan. 20.

Secretary Jardine will address the
delegates at a luncheon between 12 and
2 o'clock on Thursday, Jan. 21. Former
Governor Lowden's speech will be made
at a similar luncheon on Friday noon
and Mr. Davis will talk on "The Future
of Radio Industry and Its Use by
Farmers" at the annual banquet to be
given on the evening of Jan. 21.

The Illinois Farm Bureau Serum As-
sociation has scheduled its meeting for
9:00 a. m. Tuesday, Jan. 19, while the
Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives As-
sociation will hold its meeting during
the afternoon of the same day. On
Wednesday, Jan. 20 all the farm ad-
visers of the state will gather in the
assembly room of the Illinois Union
building at the University of Illinois
for an all-day conference with the I. A.
A. officers, directors and executive com-
mitteemen to consider and map out the
program of cooperative work for 1926.

Special Sectional Conferences.

The program for this year's annual
meeting of the I. A. A. which will open
in the auditorium of the University at
9:00 a. m. on Thursday, Jan. 21, is
planned expressly for the purpose of
giving each delegate an opportunity to
express himself. To permit sufficient
time for free discussion, sectional meet-
ings conferences are planned during
which open consideration will be given
to a large variety of subjects. In addi-
tion, each congressional district will hold
a conference. The even-numbered dis-
tricts will nominate executive commit-
teemen to hold office for the next tw^-
year period and a president and vice-
president will be elected.

In a notice sent to the 92 county
Farm Bureaus of the state particular
mention was made that for the sectional
conferences on Thursday and Friday,
each Farm Bureau should have not less
than four representatives — one for each
of the four conferences in session at the
same time. This was su^ested so that
each representative conld be assigned by
his county to the particular conferences
which it is desired that he should at-
tei^d and thus be able to report on at
the next county board meeting follow-
ing the annual I. A. A. meeting.
Publish Complete Program.

Farm Bureaus should notify Geo. A.
Fox, executive secretary of the I. A, A.,
of the number of representatives from
the respective counties not later' than
Jan. 15, and specify the conferences to
which each representative has been as-
signed.

The I. A. A. will pay one-half of the
county president's expenses and one-
half of the farm advisers expenses to
(Continued on page y, Col. 4) |

Fairness Demands They Be All

Up or All Down, Uncle Sam !

I. A. A. Will Be 10 Years Old This Month;
Farm Editors, Who Watch Growth, Comment

It wa* in January 10 years ago that the Jllinoia Agrieuliitral Assoeiatif^n was
born. When the forthcoming annual meeting is held at Champaign-Urbana
January 21 and Zt^ it teill be almost exactly 20 years since a smaU group of farm
advisers, then knoum as county agriculturists, in co-operation with leading fam,-
ers and farm paper men met at the University and took the preliminary step
in forming the iUinoia Agricultural Association. That was January se, 1916.

In recognition of the 10-year birthday, the editors of Orange Judd ILUNOIS
FARMER and Prairie Farmer have contributed brief comments for the annual
repttrt vfhich will be placed in the hands of all delegates at the annual meeting.
Both Mr. Gregory and Mr. Page have followed and watched the Farm Bureaus
and the I. A. A. grow and it is thought their comments wiR be -of particular
interest to readers of the Record.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ILLI-
NOIS AGRICULTURAL
ASSOCIATION

Br C V. Qitt$n, cAter, Prakic Fncr

HERMAN DANFORTH of Taiewell
county, Illinois, went to the short
course at the University of Illinois in
January, 1916, with one idea firmly in
his mind. He be-
lieved that the
county soil im-
provement asso-
ciations (they
were not called
farm bureaus in
those days) ought
to join hands to
form a state as-
Bociation.

When Danforth
gets an idea he
sticks to it per-
sistently. So on
January 26 he got
a group of farm
advisors and farmers together in the
Agricultural Building and the Illinois
Agricultural Association was formed.

A few weeks later (March 15) at a
meeting at Ottawa, a constitution and
( Continued on p^c 4, Col. 1 )

■eforjr

THE FARM BUREAU IS FIRMLY

ROOTED
•r Arte C Pv; e<l«, Onu«e JaM Unw Fner

V\7"E HAVE learned from watching
'" processes of Nature how an ideal
organization should develop. A fertile
soil, a seed, and a small growth mostly

of roots come — ^

first. As the plant
grows above
ground, the roots
strike constantly
deeper ' into the
soil.

That is the way
the Illinois Agri-
cultural Associa-
tion started; that
is the way is has
grown.

The farm bur-
eau idea in a
single county was
the seed. The
great farming
public of Illinois,
entering a period
of trem e n d 0 u 8
importance in its

history, and needing public representa-
tion, was the soil. The Illinois Agriral-

Coolidge 's Blunt Dismnsal of All F€um
Relief Proposals as '* Price-Fixing" G^s
Fiery Come-back in Des Moines Conference

And Next Day Secretary Jardine Announces: ''Now that the
Plan to Aid Co-operative Organizations Has Been Placed
Before Congress I Feel that Further and More Definite
Attention Can Be Directed to the Agricultural Surplus
Problem."

THE year 1926 starts off with excellent prospects for a
real consideration by Congress of agriculture's major
problem — ^the disposal of the abnormal
surplus. 1 '

Ever since President Coolidge's failure to
recognize this problem adequately in his
speech before the annual meeting of the
American Farm Bureau Federation and the
triumph of the export corporation idea as a
means of obtaining equality for agriculture,
which is characterized by the election of Sam ^
H. Thompson as president, there has been
a wide and startling awakening in the city
press and by the public to the fact that
there is a farm problem.

Before that event the city press frequently

referred to the truly

Reinsurance Company
Sustains First Loss
In Franklin Co. Fire

The first loss of the farmers Mu-
tual Reinsurance Company occurred
on Monday morning, Dec. 21, when
the granary of J. S. Webb of Ewing,
Franklin county, was burned to the
ground. The losses included the
building, about 1500 buahels of corn,
400 bushels of oats and machinery
valued at $700.

Grain and implements were in-
sured for $500 each in the Farmers
Mutual Reinsurance Company, while
the Franklin County Farmers Mu-
tual Fire Insurance Company car-
ried ^500 each on the building and
implements and $200 on the grain.

The fire originated in a country
store building of A. N. Webb and
Sons, located some 200 or 300 feet
from the granary. Clues* point to
the belief that the fire was started
by burglars who wer« rifling the
store.

Mr. Webb is a farm bureau mem-
ber and a charter member of both
the Farmers Mutual Reinsurance
Company and the Fratklin County
Farmers Mutual Firt Insurance
Company.

Insurance settlements for the
losftea were made in la few days
after the loss.

tnral Association in its present stature
is the tre^, with roots reaching back
inPo almost every couilty and every
township and into thousnds of farm
homes throughout the state. The or-
ganization has grown in the ideal way,
supplying a need.

Whole branches might he cut off from
this great tree, and it would still live.
Even if some of its roots should now^'
be cut away it would go on growing
and bearing fruit.

The greatness of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association has always depended,
and depends today, on its responsive-
ness to the thoughts and desires of ita
membership.

Among the achievements of the I. A.
A. one 6f the most important has been
the development and education of lead-
ers. Agriculture has its full share of
intelligent and thoughtfvl men, but it
has lacked men trained for public lead-
ership. In training a -.few such men
through thMr pr(rani£atlon. wl)o have
been contributed to the nation, the
farmers of Illinois hav^ p^Tt^prmed
great aerrica. .

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Franli D. Barton.

Repreirntativr «t

Das MoiAes M«*ttec

representative
spokesmen of the farmer? as "calamity
h( wlers" and labelled practically all at-
tempts of the farmers to get national
legislation desi^'nod to place them on a
level with other clashes as "nostmnut"
and every kind of quackery.

Waabiiifftoa G«ttiag Boay

But since that event a wnvr tf real-
ization that ' agriculture is not fretting
its fair share of the national income
has swept the country — nnd ha* gUrrett
Weuhinfjton. Several measures have
been introduced in Congress embodyinir
the principle of the McNary-Haugen
bill which, briefly, provided for the ab-
norm.'il surplus to be seirregated and
sold abroad in the world market in
order that world price levels would not
set the price on the whole American
production \as, is now the case). Any
losses incurred through the sale of the
surplus abroad was to be borne equally
by those producers who benefited.

Several other plans have been sug-
gested. Now the problem is to run all
suggested plans through a hopper of
sound judgment and grind out an ef-
fective one which CongresK will msk
and which will do the job for which it
is intended. It must be effective on
cotton, as well as for wheat and com.
Red Blooded Meetinf at
D^s Moines
On Dec. 21 and 22, representatives
of every grain belt farm organizatioB
of consequence, including in their mem-
bership about 1,000,000 farmers in Ok-
lahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South and
North Dakou, Minnesota, Iowa, Mis-
souri, Illinois and ladiana, met at Des
Moines. Iowa, and passed bristling, reso-
lutions demanding effective export con-
trol of abnormal surplus crops. It was
a joint meeting of the Corn Belt com-
mittee, representing 23 farm organixa-
tions in the west and northwest, snd the
executive committee of the American
Council of Agriculture which has for
its one and only objective securing
"equality for agriculture." Frank Q.
Barton of Cornell, Livingston counts
chairman of the I. A. A. legislative
committee, represented the IlIinoTS Ag-
ricultural Association. R. A. Cowlet.
I. A. A. treasurer, also attended, but ill
capacity of secretary-treasurer of tUs
American Council. j^

Fear Co-op BUI Only G««tnr« *

Although the Illinois Agricnltorml
Association has the word of SecretaiW
Jardine that the administration's bill
which has be«n introduced by Senator
McNary and Representative Hauges.
providing for creation of a divi»io»i
within the department of agricultuiv
to give advisory service and assistance
to co-operative mwketing will in no
way take the place of some measui^
meeting the surplus problem, there wi
(Continued on page' 4, Cot. SJ

«5««>"* Wffltam Webb, Rout. On., IoB«

}?«»• -i G. F. Tullocfc, Rodtford

13th „„.. .1 C. B. Bamboraucb, Polo

>Jth 1 V.H. Moody, P^nBfToa

!fth .'. B. H. Taylor, RmtM

■Mh A.R. Wricfat, Vun.

ffth j F. D. Bwtoa,ConieU

l«th R. F. KarrTlrociuoU

J* L. Whisnand, Charleston

Earl C. Smith. Detroit

.,..,.. .Swnuel Sorrells, Raymond

Stanly Caatle, Alton

W. L. Cope, Salem

Curt Anderson, Xenia

R. K. Loomia, Makanda

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ICDLYVIIAL, ASSOCIAI

^RECORO-

Toadrone*th9 purport for which the Farm Bureau was organ-
'sad, namtty, to promote, protect and represent the business,
economic, social and educational interests of the farmers of
Itlinoit atuS the nation, and to develop agriculture.

'Oo-opcratlT. Accounting G«>. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Markctinc .^ A. B. Leeper

General Office... „..- J. H. Kelker

Grain Mariceting Chester C. Davis

Information Harry C. Butcher

I Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organization G. E. Metiger

Phosphate-Limestone * ' J.'R. Bent

Poultry and Egg Mai;keting . . .t^ F. A. Gougler

Taiation and Statistics .\ ......J.C Watson

Traiuporution i .L. J. Quaaey

. Pubhshrf evfry other Saturday at 404 North Wesley Ave . Mount Morris, Illinois, by the Illinois Agrioultursl Association. Edited by Department of Information. Harry C. Butcher. Director. 608 South

WeartJpm street. Chicago. Ulinois. Entered as second-class matter October 20. 1925 at the p<Tet office at Mount Morris. Illinois, under the Act of March 3. 1879, as a bi-weekly. Acceptance for maihnff at speoai
rate of postaee pro\'idcd for m Section 412. Act of February 28. In35. authoriird October 27. I»2.'i. The individual membeiship fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five dollars a year.. The fee includes
payment of fifty cents for subecnption to the Illinois .\gricultural Association Rxcord: Poatmaster: In returning an uncalled for or missent copy, please indicate kfy numlier on address as is required by law.

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Policy Holders in Mutuals Please Note

WOULDN'T it be wonderful for the year
^926 to be the most successful year of
your insurance company?

Wjuldn't it be a great satisfaction for
your directors to say, "Our mutual company
can 1 low take care of all the insurance needs
of o ir farmers against fire, lightning and
windptorm on a mutual basis; Our com-
is backed by over 240 other mutuals
have over $600,000,000 insurance in
! Just as you insure your building, like-
we have our mutual company insured,
will increase the amount of insurance
and ^Iso the confidence in our mutual, as our
assessments will be more uniform."

new Farmers' Mutual Reinsurance
Comj^any can place your local in this po-
sition .

pany

that

force

wise

That

more
given
tions

A CI ance to Practice What They Preach

WITH OFHCIALS in administration cir-
cles in Washington singing "Halleluiah!
Halleluiah! Co-operative Marketing" as a
love oast to the farmers, there ought to be
real honest-to-goodness consideration
by the treasury department to exemp-
of farmers' co-operatives from federal
incone taxes.

Th< intent of the Federal Revenue Act is
that iarmers' co-operatives shall be exempt
from income taxes, the idea being that any
profit! accruing to a co-op are pro-rated back
to thi! individual members ahd are there
caugh; by the income tax collector.

The Illinois Agricultural Association,
through our department of co-operative ac-
counting, has had several income tax eases
up for consideration, all of which haVe; been
tumea down by treasury department officials.

Whm the Congressional ways arid means
committee met early last fall and held hear-
ings 01 tax matters, our Director Wicker of
the co-operative accounting department ap-
pearec before them asking that the commit-
tee re( ommend to Congress certain clarifying
clause; i to the revenue act which would erase
the re i-tape haze which persisted in befog-
ging tl e issue with the treasury officials. Mr.
Wicke •'s suggestions were received favorably
and th^y appeared to have won the case, but
later treasury officials appeared before the
commi ;tee and stated that aH of the proposed
amend nents were being carried out in actual
execution of the act-— which was not true.
But ths committee didn't know it and Mr.
Wicker was back in Chicago. Consequently
the cla ification was not included in the ways
and m( ans committee's tax bill recommended
to the House and since passed.

Tljtis is the only request of the farmers
conceniing the amendments to the federal
revenui act, but there are requests from

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other interests for exemptions on articles
ranging from chewing gum to pogo sticks.

But the cause is not yet lost. The I. A. A.
stand was backed up by a resolution passed
by the American Farm Bureau Federation in
its last annual meeting. Senator Capper will
sponsor the amendments on the floor of the
Senate and they will have the support of
other prominent senators from the Mid- West.
Senator Capper writes the following:

"I am heartily in favor of the amendments
to the Federal Revenue Act relating to the
exemption of co-operative marketing asso-
ciations as proposed ... I will be pleased
■to handle the matter on the floor of the Sen-
ate-if you wish and will do everything in
my power to secure favorable action."

The attitude of the administration toward
co-operative marketing as a cure for all farm
ills and the coldness of certain officials of the
administration toward exemptions for co-oi)s
puts that particular element in the same boat
with the fellow who doesn't practice what he
preaches.

This is a test of the good faith of the ad-
ministration toward co-operative marketing.
Will it ring true?

False Economy

NOT CONTENT with refusing to increase
the federal appropriation for t. b. eradi-
cation, the director of the budget bureau
went further and sliced off a half million.

Such economy is false economy. With
tuberculosis on the run it is not economy to
let up on the campaign. T. B. eradication is
like killing qu^ck grass — the only way to
get rid of it is to keep everlastingly at it.
If a little patch is left, it will soon spread
itself to its former area, and perhaps farther.
Slowing up on tuberculosis eradication — ^the
result of decreased federal appropriation —
is not conducive to early and efficient eradi-
cation of the dreaded disease.

This is a case of a dollar in time will save
niiie. A half million dollar slice may look
fine for economy propaganda, but in the end
it will be false economy.

' ' Co-operation Not So New

GO-OPERATION is not so new, after all.
When the Pilgrims came over on the
Mayflower, they drew up a contract and
agreement in which they agreed to pool all
of their resources for seven years after land-
ing. They adopted the one-man one-vote
policy, which is a fundamental of successful
co-operatives today.

Through the troublesome days that fol-
lowed, the colony was preserved largely be-
cause of mutual helpfulness and support — in
other words, through co-operation.

T. B. Eradication Should Not Stop

BECAUSE the federal appropriation for
t. b. testing in Illinois is exhausted for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, an order
was issued on Dec. 23, by J. J. Lintner, fed-
eral supervisor, discontinuing all testing un-
der the. co-operative plan in Illinois where
obligations for payments of indemnities are
involved.

By this order 77 veterinarians in 67 coun-
ties ceased their testing activities. Wash-
ington officials also requested the names and
addresses of the veterinarians in order that
they might be transferred to some other state.

This deplorable situation arose out of the
state's refusal to continue, as it had done
in the past, to pay the federal one-third of
indemnities. Governor Small wants a larger
federal appropriation, as does the I. A. A.,
but that is no justifiable reason for discon-
tinuing all testing. The testing should con-
tinue on the state's money in-so-far as it will
go. The $2,000,000 appropriation made by
the last General Assembly to indemnify cat-
tle owners will permit considerable testing to
be done even though the federal government
is out of indemnifying: funds.

Testing cattle for fc' b. and elimination of
those- found diseased should continue. Eco-
nomic production demands it. The thinking
farmer and the consumer demand it and
humanity requires it.

According to the act adopted by the last
General Assembly governing t. b. eradica-
tion, the Illinois department of agriculture
has the control and supervision of it and is
directed to co-operate with the federal de-
partment of agriculture. When federal funds
are exhausted, the act further states, the
state shall continue to supervise this work
and shall pay both the state and federal
shares. A •$2,000,000 approi)riation was
made \o accompany the t. b. Taw with such
a possibility in mind.

The testing program should be continued
under joint federal and state supervision as
heretofore because of the inter-state traffic in
cattle and for uniform efficiency in eradicat-
ing the disease. Such co-operation is abso-
lutely necessary to maintain modified accred-
ited areas and accredited herds in Illinois.

The Illinois Agricultural Association is
urging Washington officials to pass an emer-
gency appropriation. The association stands
four-square that Governor Small and the
state department of agriculture should con-
tinue the co-operative plan between federal
and state departments.

T. B. eradication should not stop. The
fight to clean up our herds has been vigor-
ously waged in No Man's Land until the
enemy ison the run. Holding up the indem- •,
nity fund at this stage of the campaign is <
like delaying the ammunition when all are
ready to go over the top for victory.

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The Illinois A^icultural Association RECORD

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Insurance In State
Mutual Approaching
Million Dollar Mark

Scott County Fanners Form
County Mutual Similar to
State Reinsurance Com-
pany.

Surmounts Handicap of Wheel Chair

ALTHOUGH working under a perma- : though h« has held the position only
■^*- nent physical handicap, Gene Bar- ; since the first of February, Gene is well
ter, office secretary of the Gallatin | informed on all current farm bureau

Stock Solicitation For
Farmers' Grain Company

Started at Pontiac, III.

Solicitation of subscriptions for
$250,000 in capital sto<Sk for the Na-
tional Farmers' Elevator Grain Com

County Farm Bureau, has refused to be ! work in the coUrtty, state and nation, pany. Co-operative, a gtrajn marketing

' Gene says that organization being 'orgtinU.ed ihrougli

his pet peeve is [the co-operation of s6m^ J2(>0 farmers

With the total amount of insurance
la force rapidly nearing the million
dollar mark, activ-
ities of the Farm-
I aK ers Mutual Rein-

tfe,?-- -■ "^^^ surance Company
BRf^^R* are now being di-
^ reeled toward the

d evel opment
oi specific reinsur-
ance, blanket rein-
surance and reces-
sional insurance.

Direct insurance

in the new state

I company, which is

chiefly the result

of the recent cam-

■ paign, in which

Vernon Vaniman farmers in 67 Illi-
Field Reprewntative nois counties took
part, now totals
$817,997. To be added to this figure is
$40,850 in specific reinsurance, the to-
tal of 27 applications from mutual com-
panies in 5 counties.

Twelve mutual companies, according
to Vernon Vaniman, field representative
of the reinsurance mutual, have signed
contracts for specific reinsurance and
eight other companies have made out
the application subject to the approval
of their respective boards of directors.

Blanket Reinsurance to Be Feature

Applications for blanket reinsurance
are also being considered by the local
companies throughout the state. So
far eight companies have si^ified their
intentions of applying for this .benefit
from the state mutual while * many
others are waiting the approval of their
boards of directors and merfibers. This
form of reinsurance has not shown as
rapid progress as the specific form due
to the fact that such action must be
considered and passed upon by the local
memberships and boards of directors
which usually hold their annual meet-
ings during the first month of the new
year. Mr. Vaniman points out that dur-
ing the coming spring months blanket
reinsurance will probably prove one of
the most popular forms.

Six mutual companies have now re-
ceived recessional insurance totaling
$286,275 from the state mutual. This
type of insurance is used when the
state company has more insurance than
it wishes to carry and cedes part of
it to certain local or county mutuals
I who are not carrying their maximum
amount and are desirous of increasing
their total amount of insurance in
force,

Scott County Farmers Form Mutual

Following the organization of the
state mutual company, the farmers of
Scott county formed the Winchester
- County Mutual Fire Insurance Com-
pany. This new company is modeled
in many respects after the state or-
ganization and is so organized that it
can work with the state organization in
direct harmony. The Winchester com-
pany started operations on Nov. 16
with $160,000 insurance in force. The
rates of the Winchester Mutual are
based on the same classification of
property as the state organization. No
dwelling will be insured unless it has
proper access to the attic. Registered
livestock will be insured by name and
number and the new company is en-
couraging its meml^rs to secure fire
extinguishers, realizing that fire pre-
vention is an important feature.

Scott County Farm Bureau has ac-
tively assisted in the formation of the
Winchester company and the relation-
ship between the two organizations is
100 per cent co-operation with mutual
advantage to all, according to Mr.
Vaniman. Miss Ferry Coultas, office
secretary of the county Farm Bureau,
is acting secretary of the insurance
company. Geo. H. Vannier of Bluffs is
president of the new local mutual and
the board of directors is composed of
the president and H. H. Fletcher, Win-
chester; E. M. Chrisman, Jacksonville;
Fred Korty, Bluffs; Carl Ritter, Naples;
B. F. Webster, Winchester; R. P. Allen,
Winchester; W. D. McEvers, Winches
ter; R. S. Coon, Winchester; F. H. AI
len, Winchester: Albert Rolf. Blu
JVm. S. Fletcher, Winchester; Jferi
Smothers, Naples; Chas. D. O'Ddwiell,
Winchester, and Ralph Curji^ Man
Chester.

Jo D«viess CouiKjKt'avors

Reinsuraifce

Officers and direcWrs tif the iarmers
piutual insuraneey^ompaniea of Jo Davi-
ess county met.^ Dec. 23 and enthusi-
astically e.ndpfscd all four phases of in
surance off^ed by the state re-insur
ance cojirfpany._ ' The insurance com-
pary€8/included in the endorsement

y.

thwarted in his ef
forts to do kM:
part in the wojrW's^t.^
work and is carv- ' ^.#:
ing his niche in
the building of a
greater Farm Bu-
reau.

It was six years
ago that Gene's
disability came up-
him. At that
time his knee
joints began to fill
with cartilage in
such a manner that
he was unable to
straighten his legs
and was forced to
go about in a
wheel chair.

Today Gene is

I efficient farm
bureau secretary
and is popular
with the farm bu-
reau members of
Gallatin county.
His rare wit, -a

smile, and his ex- ^

treme personal interest in farmers and
farm bureau work have won the re-
spect and colifidence of his employers —
the farmers of Gallatin county. Al-

Ccnc Barter

making out a fed
eral farm loan ap-
plication for a slow-
thinking, undecid-
ed-minded farmer
who is without a
sense of value of
his personal prop-
erty. He states that
this duty woald
"tax the -.patience
of an old maid try-
ing to flirt with
the 'last chance.' "
In talking of the
present day farm
problems, ■ Secre-
tary Barter states
that, in his opin-
ion, the biggest na-
tional problem fac-
ing the farmers lo-
day is the job of
marketing the sur-
plus products pro-
duced. However, in
Gallatin county, he
points out, farmers
r.re most interested in the problem of
permanent soil fertility, for questions
asked most often are about use of -lime-
stone, its price, and use of sweet clover.

- — " crtased trom tK> tc eo cer

r ij —i- *- «.„♦;..« «f Slfi^. w> irurcaKO requiring U
n, field »^2»:*^"t"*'.^^ "^S toLav about $2,000,000 moi
■ketmg orgMnitation. s now , 0||J. t * ^^^

Lmngston county m co-- _^^ ..^_ ■... ^^,. „„„„/;.

I. A. C. A. Members Increase

Three More Co-operatives Join Dur-
ing Past Month

Contract Membership of the Illinois
Agricultural Co-operatives' Association,
the co-operative auditing
^ ^% ^B and business service of
^ ^B p^ the I. A. A., reaches a
I ^\- 1 new high mark this
I W month~185. Without so-
licitation three organiza-
tions joined the association during the
past month and others have signified
their intentions to sign the member-
ship contract as soon as the opportun-
ity permits.

The three latest to join the auditing
co-operative are: Farmers Co-operative
Supply Company, Taylorville, Christian
county; Bath Co-operative Grain Com-
any, Bath, Mason county; and the
Hillsdale Livestock Shipping Associa-
tion, Hillsdale, Rock Island county.

Farmers in 48 Counties
Used 19,625,000 C. C. o£
Cholera Serum in 1925

If all the hogs that were vaccinated
with hog cholera serum distributed by
the Illinois Farm Bureau Serum Asso-
ciation during the past year were
formed in a single line, the column
would extend such a distance that the
first hog might be rooting at the gates
of the Chicago stockyards while the
last of the line would be standing hock-
deep in mud on the banks of the Ohio
river at Cairo, Illinois.

This somewhat 'lengthy' illustration
was broueht out in a recent announce-
ment which stated that 19,625,000 cubic
centimeters of hog cholera serum were
purchased and administered by farm-
ers in 4S Illinois counties during the
past year. This amount of serum, i
which if based on the number of cubic i

elevators in Illinois and Iowa, is now
getting well under way, according t«
C. C. Davis, director o|f the I. A. A.
grain marketing departynent, who has
been assisting in an ad\isory capacity
willv the formation of the new organi
zation.

M. L. Hunt,
the grain m«rl

working in Linngston ; county
operation with Geo. L. Potter, prei^i
dent of the Livingston County Farm
Bureau and member oi! ^e board of
directors of the Farmers? Grain Dealers
Association of Illinois attd the National
Farmers' Elevator Grain Company.

On Tuesday, Dec. 22. a [meeting, at-
tended by members of the boards of
directors of the 25 farmeirs* elevators
in the county, was held ifi the court-
house at Pontiac. At tH>s meeting the
organization and operatinjr principles
were discussed and thoj plai^ consid-
ered. Several of the elevator com-
panies represented became members of
the national co-operative and sub-
scribed for stock. Beft>r« thie meet-
ing 12 of the county's formers' ele-
vators had become affillabed with the
association. Other fanners' levators
of the county are expected to art favor-
ably upon the projects proposed by the
new grain company.

During the next few Weeks Mr. Hunt
will attend a number of meetings com-
prising representatives of many farm-
ers' elevators in central Illinois, where
heyili explain the work ©f the grain
co-o^t)€ratii'J^

State Tax Increase
Partly Overcome By
Reduced Valuations

. C, Watson Tells How Low-
er Valuations Save Farmers
$1,912,500 as Compared to
1920 Rate

In !q>ite of the fact that the Illinois
state liix rate for 192B has been Ib-
cr«ased from 65 tc 85 cents on tlM
TcaKO requiring land owners
more in state
paid last
year, they will pay approximatfly $1,-
912,.'(K) Uss than would have been re-
quired, if the high tax valuations of
1920 had not been reduced' through the
efforts of the county, .Farm Bureaus and
the Ttlinoi* A^-ncuitural AMOciation.

"The valuations un farm lands since
1920 have bein redu<-ed about $225.-
000,00(1.'* slate^ J. C. Watson, director
of the I. A. A. taxation and Btatlitica
departsicnt. who h.tF conducted tax in-
vest iritf^inii* and .'Tided in securing re-
dut-tiom in many Illinois countiea.
"This reduction h:is made a savings in
state tsxeit on farm lands this year, a«
compuBed with what would have been
true under tha forme** high valuations,
of abo«t {3^12,500.

"The increase in saving comes chiefly
in st:ite t^KeH. although net reductions
in valuations of farm lands for county
and local purposes in the state as a
whole now amovnt to more than- I120,-
OOO.OOO. Ix)wer county valuations also
resulted in lower taxes but due to the
differences In tax le\'ies for various'
county and local purpoees, it is impos-
5ibte to compute the amount of such
savings unt'l after taxes are extended.

Illinois Farmers Again
Break Record in Use of
Agricultural Limestone

More than three-fourths of a million
tons of agricultural limestone were ap-
plied on over 250,000 acres of Illinois
land by farmers of this state in 1925,
according to an estimated report of J.
R. Bent, director of the I. A. A. phos-
phate-limestone department.

This 750,000 tonnage of limestone,
which if loaded on a single train of
freight cars would extend 123 miles,
breaks all records for use in any one
state in the United States during the
past year. It exceeds by 50 per cent
or 250,000 tons the Illinois record of
1924 which was. also greater than any
other state in the country. Illinois
farmers, according to government sta-
tistics, in 1924 used more than one-
fourth of all agricultural limestone
spread on farm lands in the United
"States.

*'The amount of agricultural lime-
stoflip/used by Illinois farmers in 1925,"
states Director J. R. Bent, "increased
to, such a large quantity that, many of
ttie limestone plants and quarries used
their entire reserve supply and were
from 20 to 30 daya behind on orders.

"In fact the flood of limestone or-
ders resulted in such a delay at a few
of the production plants that several
farmers were forced to cancel their or-
ders as the late deliveries w*ould have
arrived during the busy fall season.
This increasing demand for agricultural
limestone has caused several farmers
and Farm Bureau^.^ various parts of
the state to co^wrfder the possibility of
producing th«fr^..oSvn community needs
from son»''BP<Ssibl^*local limestone de-
posits."/^/^

Due to the increased use of this
pMlWt in Illinois, the Illinois Agricul-
tural it<soci>tion secured a $10 reduc-
tlon^TO fp^j^^t*costs to 21 counties lo-
cated ^!^''tjj^ Wabash railroad lines.
This 'redurtirfh has saved the farmers
of these counties approximately $9,000
in the pas^four months.

were: Jo Daviess Mutual Fire Insur-
ance cainpany; Menominee, Vinegar
Hill altd Dunleith Insurance company;
Thompson and Guilford Mutual Fire
and Lightning Insurance company;
Woodbine Mutual Fire Insurance com-
pany and the Stockton and Wards
r,r»n'G Mutual Fire and Lightning In-
surance company.

. i

nite time has been set ft>r tV compl.
tion of the stock campaitn. Mr. Davis
points out that this wotk will depend
entirely upon the local . furmers' ele-
vators. '

Program of Annual
Meeting is Announced

(Continued from pagt 1, cot. Ij
the meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 20. If
the president is a regulSr del^ate to
centimeters of serum injected into the ! ""c 1. A. A. meeting ^j-^. «']"='"«'■
average 120-150 pound hog, would vac- >"« ^''P^.f ^P, >!. '^f^!^ .if. r A J
cinatc 3o6,R18 head of animals. It was I 21 jnd 22 will be paid *■ Ihe L A. A
distributed by the Illinois Farm Bureau
Serum Association composed of 48
county Farm Bureaus. These Farm
Bureaus in turn delivered the serum to
their members who vaccinate their own
swine. •=

During the past year, according" to
Director Hedgcock who is a member of
the board of directors of the serum
association, the officers of the organi-
zation inspected nine serum copipanie;* ' ing.
and contracted with seven to furnish
serum to the association's members at
prices ranging from 50 to 65 cents a
hundred cubic centimeters. Farm bu-
reau members whose county organiza-
tions are not members of the serunj
association were charged five cents a
hundred more for the serum. The total
of 19,625,000 c. c. does not include the
amount of serum contracted by county
Farm Bureaus not members of the as-
sociation.

"The success of farmers administer-
inV serum and virus has exceeded ex-
peHations in Illii^is, as the majority
of farmers have Tffeen under the im-
pression that this vaccination cannot
be done successfully by other than a
graduate veterinarian," states Director
Hedgcock. "The farmer is conscious of
the necessity of extreme care in vac-
cination in order that his year's work
may not be lost.

-"Voluntary stock subscriptions *»i»^'« L.^., « - , -. ,*-*

been coming in from eUvators in Illi- ] n2H Per Cent IncrMsc ^nce 1920

nois and Iowa in considerable number i "The" state tax rate for 19*J4 was 65
during the past month," ptate* Director , cents W $100. For 19211 it h 85 cents.
Davis. A large field otleanization has The inereu^e in the last year alone, if
notf been organized as ytt and no den- applied to the high valuations of 1920,

The outline of the puogram of the
four days is as follows:

Tuesday, January 19

9:30 a. m. to 2:00 f. m.— Annual
meeting of the Illinois Farm Bureau
Serum Association. Illinois Vnion Build-
ing.

2:00 p.m. to 5.00 p. m.-^Annual meet-
ing of the Illinois AgricuftMral Co-oper-
atives Association, Illinoif^Cnion build-

W«dnes^y, Janoary 20

would have cost the land owners about
$450,000 more in state taxes than they
will have to pay this year.

"It cannot he claimed that the cut In
valuations of land^ .caused much of tills
increase in state tax rates. The total
reduction in state valuations from 1920
to 1924 -^-Bs a little more than fiH
per cent of the total valuations of nil
classes of property in the state. The
increase in state tax rates for this year
alone is more than 30 per cent, whils
the iiicr€S!»« as cunipared tu 1820 U
112% ^r cent."

Illinois Farmers Sold
82,909 Pounds of Wool
Thru Co-ops Last Year

Wool suScient to clothe 10,0((0 mrr
in all-wool suits was marketed co-qper-
atively h\ farmers in 25 Illinois coun-
ties in ltf25.

This estimate was reached following
an announcement of Wm. E. Hedgcock,
director of the I. A. A. livestock mar-
keting department, to the effect that

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p. m.*— Annual con- ; H2,909 pounds of wool were pooled by
A. staff land farm ad- 352 Illinois farmers during 1925.

fcrencc of I. A,
visers. Illinois L'nion buU|ling.
6r00 p.m. — Annual I. , A. A

Dairymen To Give Prize

Illinois State Dairymen's Association

Offers Calves to Boys and Girls

Securing Most Members

Six registered heifer calves will be
given as prizes to the six Illinois boys
or girls who are able to secure the most
memberships in the Illinois State Dairy-
men's Association, which is holding its
annual meeting at Galesburg, Jan. 26-
28.

The contest is open to boys and girls
under 21 years of age who apply
for application blanks to the secretary,
George Caven, Illinois State Dairymen's
Association, 136 West Lake Street, Chi-
cago, Illinois.

A 15 per cent commission on all
memberships is paid to every boy and
girl with the exception of the prize
winners. The six winners will each re-
ceive a pure bred heifer of the breed
:hpy like best as a prize.

(Beardsley hotel) for coUnty farm bu
reau presidents.

Thursday, January 21

I. A. A. Annual ^eeting

9:00 a. m. — Invocation.— Dr.. , R. E.
HieronymouR, community ' a4viser.

9:30 a. m. — .\ddress ^f welcome. —
Dean 4H. W. Mumford. i

10:00 a. m. — President's address. —
Sam H. Thompson. ;

10:.tO a. m. — Secretary's report, — <;co.
A. Fox. !

11:00 a. m. — Treasurers report. — R.
A. Cowles. ,

If-SO a. m. — Announcenients.

12:00 m. to 2:00 p. ^i.-^Luiich^on.

Of this amount approximately 81,000
dinner pounds were ^old by 'M'^ producers

I thmugh the National Wool Exchange

of Boston, Mii^s.. a wool conimtssion

' company organized by northwestern

i wool growers to market their fleeces

' co-operatively. In one Illinois county

7 growers desire to sb\l through the

Ohio Wool Growers' Association and

11^08 pounds were shipped to that

state.

Durinig the past 7 your* the live-
stock marketing department of the Il-
linois Agricultural Association -has aid-
ed Illinois farm bureau members, who
' were interested in pooling their wool.
j to market it through the most profit-
able channt'lf. This ye#r the amoun'

of prices offered by tht
buyers, and the reduction
of sheep bemg raised.

peculative
numl>er

Address by Wm. M.iJardlnfl, secretary : of wool poojed was ;pomewhat less than
of agriculture. Place — Stock Pavilion, former icarp. This was due. Director

2:00 p. m. to 5:00 p. m.-|— Twelve sec- i Hedgcock points out. to the extreme
tional conferences covering the co-oper- activities of the commission companies
ative marketing of livestodfe, gra^n, dai- I who are opposed to co-operative mar.
ry products, poultry and eis, fruits and keting of wool, the general high level
vegetables, as well as such subjects, as "' "* ^

auditing and accounting, fifiance. organ-
iization, information, taxatnn* transpor-
tation and phosphate-limestone.

5:00 p. m. — District meetings— Sepa-
rate meeting for the representatives of
each I. A. A. district. Includes nomina-
tion of executive committeenjen for the
12th, 14th, 16th, 18th. 20tfti. 22nd, and
24th districts. General business confer-
ence for the representatives of other
districts. I

7:00 p. m. — Banquet, Mi(sic. — Univer-
sity Gymnasuim Annex.

8:00 p. m. — Responses, [Dean H. W.
Mumford, college of agrifulture. Uni-
versity of Illinois; S. J. Sttanard, direc-
tor, state department of .agriculture; S.
H. Thompson president, I. A- A. and A.
F. B. F; L. C. Brown, prefti<4ent farm-
ers' Institute: E. A. Eckert, master,
Illinois State Grang*; Iprs. Sjencer
Ewing. pre.>ident, Illinois Hone Gjureau
Fedrr;ilion. J ■ i '

ir:Ofl p. m.— Address, "T^e Fui4re of

FuUr

Radio Industr>- and Its 1 ae by Farm-
ers," by Hon. Stephen Davis, U. S. l>e-
partment of ;Commerce. '

Friday, Janisary 22

fi:0O to 9:30 a. m. — Two sectional con-
ferences co\tring insurance and legis-
lation.

9:30 a. m. to 12:00 ra.— General as-
sembly meeting. Reports from sectional
conferences.

12:00 to 2:00 p. m. — Luncheon: Ad
di-ess by 'Frank O. Lowden, former gov-
ernor of Illinois. Place — Stock I'avTlion.

2:00 p. m.— Business meeting. Reporth
of committed on amendments to con-
j^titution, report of committee on resolu-
tions, election of executive committee,
election of president and vice-president.

Adjournment.

i::::.

A Brief History

of the I. A. A

{Cont\ nued/rom page 1. col. ^)
by-laws wa r adopted and officers Wre
elected. Hi rraan Danforth was elected
president. End E. T. Robbins, then farm
adTiser in Tazewell county, secretary.
Ldrle Johns one of McLean county was
elected vi :e-president and Howard
Leonard of Woodford county, treas.nrer.
The dues w !re fixed at «100 a year from
fgch count] farm bureau, and even that
'^irall amoint was hard to pet. But an
or^anizatio \ had been formed that was
'Ip^tined l( play a major part in the
future hist »ry of Illinois Agriculture

Slow F*roffres« Duriofl War

; In 1917 ame America's entrance into
the war, a ad for nearly two years II
liinois farr ers were too busy growing
crops to d ?vote much attention to or-
):pniaation. During these two years J
W. Kirkto i of Livingston county wM
president )f the Illinois AgricuIturjJ
AssocitftTor and Adviser Roy Bishop of

failed of

From the standpoint of,-' Illino
farmers, the establishment' of small
stockyards or livestock «Ales agencies
throughout the various districts of the
state may eventually work a.Tpes to
livestock produc«f^, accordhjif to Wm.
E. Hedgcock, I. A. A. djM^Wt <>' Ii>
stock marketing. .^^y^- x

"The re<?ent movexnd^'on the j*b^ of
a few^'private ini^estfl to vnpflrurage
the vniuilding ■>a*f(l operation t)f loc»}
stockyard ^»tea H^enciM --^rill bring
about the^tffsabling or wretlclng oMocal
co-oper^ve shipping rfssociations and
ral decline in our lacge terminal
ets and DToducers cetnmission aa-
fftciations mxf te exported,*' states Di
rector Hye^eock.

li^fee liyestock^hich.is delivered to
jii(e ^ma^' stoe^ards, Mr. Hedgcock

the same :ounty, secretary. The chief' B»thts,<flit, iy^^rchas^d by local specu

work of tt e association was legislative
A pure-sc' d law which it spon$oced

passage in 1917, but thp-^ *ft

■CitoT* amj^orwarded to o;ir large ter-
jjjjnal jH^rkets, which is highly possible,

pioneer wa rk done at that time insu;p«d
its passJigc at the next session. <^
• Ihe clos i of the war, which
wi'ch it a multitude of pre;>«lng
problems, nany of which^^e sMtl un
solved, wa i followed bj'^a T0<(ri:^n
tion to mi ke it a factor of niajo^^m>-
portance i^i Illinois and the natioti o^-
ihated wit i W. G. Eckhardt, tfcen^farm
adviser in DeKalb county. At 'Oift^ time
I had beei for a year a-rtieg>*^r of the
executive < ommittee of th§#4issociation —
long enoi gh to learo^ that without
ample fun Is its usefulness could not be
great. I t ilked this matter over many
times witl Eckhardt.
*Let*s B lild a Real Organixation**
. "What we need is a big visipn of
what sucl an association can do," he
said,"*Ma ce the membership fee <5 a
year for eich farm bureau member, hire
man that can be found for
and build up a real organ!-

Jras start
could not
i»e start
persisted,
Ponvinced
Before

the best
secretary
xation."

The idej i of asking for $5 a year from
every fan i bureau member in the state
ing. I told Eckhardt that it
be done and suggested that
with one dollar a year. He
however, and I was finally
"that he was right,
the next session of the ex
ecutive c immittee I sold the idea to
Howard 1 «onard and Lyie Johnstone,
their help the entire executive
was converted to the plan.
The execi tive committee presented this
plan to he delegates at. the meeting
January 21 — 22. It was warmly defend-
ed and jiist as warmly attacked. After
two days of discussion, which at times
grew so 1 leated as to threaten to bretfk
up the meeting, the' new plan was
ladopted.

1^ pers n«l Notes Not Needed
vTfcrec lundred farmers signed notes
for $100 ;ach in order that the organi-
zation m ght launch its new plans at
once. Si liberally and quickly did
farmers ally to the support of the as-
sociation, however, that these notes were
never col ected and were later returned
to the si] ners. Many of them are now
filed awa r among the treasured family
possesi>ioi s.

Harvey Sconce of Vermillion county
was elecl ed president of the reorgan-
ized assc iation, and J. G. Sailor'of Iro-
quois CO inty vice-president. Howard
.Leonard ras retained as treasurer. An
executive committee of one represent-
ative from each congressional district
was elec «d and the association was
ready foi business.

The nt w executive committee imme-
diately employed" D. 0. Thompson, who
had beei doing outstanding work as
farm ad nsor in McLean county, as
secretary A state-wide membership
campaign was launched.

80»(K 0 Members a Year Later
A yeai later when 900 enthusiastic
farmers sgain gathered at Peoria tor
the annial meeting (Jan. 13-14) the
associatic n had 50,000 paid members
and its let assets had grown frbm
Sl,800 tc $574,000. The meeting was
devoted ! trictly to business. The enly
set speec i was made by J. R. Howard,
president of the newly-organized Amer-
ican Far a Bureau Federation.

Howar I I^eonard was elected president
and Z. ] [. Holmes of Peoria county
vice-pres flent. Geo. Fox of DeKalb
county w as elected as treasurer.

At the next annual meeting, Jan. 13,
i 1921, 10< 1,413 members were reported.
^ During t le year the association hd| en-
j gaged he Kvily in cooperative marfeting
enterpris *s and had added a number of
special r en to its staff to handle this
w^rk. cl: ief among them being W. G
Eckhardt as director of grain market-
ing, H. \ '. Muftiford as director of live-
stock mi rkefing, and J. R. Bent as di
rector o ' the phosphate-limestone de
partmenl. Leonard and Holmes were re-
elected.

The a nnual meeting the following
year was held at Springfield, Jan. 11-12.
Howard Leeftard was re-elected pres-
ident. S. H. Thompson of Adams county
replaced Z. M. Holmes as vice-president.
Shortly after this meeting D. O

Warns Against New Movement

HedflTCOck Tells Farmers That Too
Many SmaH Local Stockyards
May Kill Co-operative Movemont

fins that a large number of the

fivrtners will pay two selling commis
^ons^AWo yardage charges, two feed
chaM^s and perhaps an additional
fi^ignt cost. Tnis in itself means that
fne farmers would receive less for
their livestock than they would have
*i*ceived if It had gone direct to the
larger market.

Dangar in Lack of Buyers

"Other problems confronting the
farmers who choose to market their
livestock through the small stock-
yards," Mr. Hedgcock states, "are the
scarcity of buyers, an absence of buy-
ing competition and the lack of pack-
ing facilities at the local yards which
will require shipping to distant points
for slaughter. On the small yards
there is a danger that only one or two
buyers will be represented.

"The livestock producer must remem-
ber that in order to have a good outlet
for his product he must have active
competitive buyers present at the sale.
He mupt also bear in mind that if the
co-operative commission companies have
a large bulk of the livestock in their
control they will be in a better position
to deal with the buyers than they
would have if the livestock is in the
control of a lar^e number of small com-
mission companies.'*

The price to the farmer, it is pointed
out, depends upon the ratio of buyers
to sellers. Under the local stockyards
movement, Mr. Hedgcock believes, the
farmers in the community will be at
the mercy of so few buyers that their
returns for livestock will be decidedly
reduced.

Thompson resigned as secretary and
(leorge Fox was hired to take his place,
which position he has held since. R. A.
Cowles of McLean county took Fox's
place as treasurer.

The hard times on the farm which be-
gan- during the later part of 1920 had
their eflfect on the membership of the
Illinois Agricultural association. When
the delegates gathered at Chicago for
the eighth annual meeting early in Jan-
uary, 1923, the membership had shrunk
to 70,000. :S. H. Thompson was elected
president, which position he has held
since. A. O. Eckert of St. Clair county
was elected vice-president.

The ninth annual meeting was held at
Galesburg during the third week in
January 1924, Mr. Thomp^n was re-
elected president and C. B. Watson of
DeKalb county was elected vice-pres-
ident. The chief features of this meeting
were the decision to devote more atten-
tion to 'co-operative marketing in view
of the lessened efforts of the American
Farm Bureau Federation along this
time, and refusal to endorse the Mc-
N'ary-Haugan bill. This measure was
endorsed by the executive committee
later in the year, however, after it was
better understood.

At the tenth annual meeting, held at
Champaign in January, 1925, Mr.
Thompson was elected president for the
third time and H. E. Goembel of Henry
county was elected vice-president. The
treasurer reported assets of over $250,-
000.

Enthusiasm Replace*! by Spirit of
Business
The Illinois Agricultural Association
seems to be now established on a stable
basi^. Its membership is far below the
high point of 1921, bnt with improving
farm conditions there is reason to hope
that it will grow. The initial enthusiasm
has been replaced by the spirit of a
business organization. While the associa-
tion has grown more conservative with
age, this is a natural development. Ir\
the long run the association may be ex-
pected to reflect the wishes of the
majority of its membership in the future
as it has for the mojt part in the past.
As a soundly financed and stable busi-
ness organization of farmers the Illinois
Agricultural Association has attracted
nation-wide attention, and has become
an organization that is a constant
source of pride to the farmers of IIH-
nots.

1926 Finds Public

Aware of Problem

{CorUyrxud from page 1. col. 5)
strong feiling that,' after passing the
bill, the administration might say, "why,
weVe given you farm legislation!" This
thought was expressed in resolutions
lambasting this bill as "a means of
aalving the farmer with information,
of whrch farmers never had so much in
ti>*ir lives."

No particular export corporation bills
-flow pending in Congress were in-
dorsed, but a committee was named to
present the export corporation in the
simplest form, compatible with effec-
tiveness. Frank D. Barton was placed
on this committee. Congress was asked
to postpone all action on export cor-
poration bills until the committee's bill
is drafted.

Specific mention was made in the
resolutions "that the agricultural ques-
tion is fundamentally economical rather
than political," which was a reiteration
of the stand taken at the St. Paul con-
ference in 1924.

Westerners Severely Criticize
Coolidge

"We are obliged to differ from the
administration," the resolutions read in
a particularly vigorous section which
followed criticism of the reasoning of
President Coolidge before the A. F.
B. F. convention, "not only in his
statements in Chicago, but also in that
portion of his message to Congress
which dealt with agriculture.

"We protest against such a misrepre-
sentation of the movement for equality
in which the people of the great staple
growing empire of America are enlist-
ed with all tbeir hearts.

"We protest against the abrupt dis-
missal of a petition in the formulation
of which the best intelligence in agri-
culture has put in so many years of
devoted and sincere study.

"JVe protest respectfully, but none
the less with every ounce of power,
that it is incumbent upon anyone who
.comes into the agricultural forum to
thwart a constructive and practical
program to have an equally construc-
tive and practical program to suggest
in its place.

Say Tariff Favors Other Classes Most

"We submit that, in view of the piti-
able conditions exisiting among men
who have spent a lifetime in hewing a
destiny from the soil, anything less is
a betrayal of faith.

"Wherever one turns, except in the
price of the great staples of agricul-
ture," the resolutions declared in ex-
pressing surprise at Coolidge's argu-
ments in Chicago, "the influence of the
protective tariff is encountered. The
farmer, consequently, while himself de-
riving almost none of the benefits,
bears the burden and shares in ad-
verse economic implications of protec-
tion to the full.

Why Not Protect Agriculture, Too?

"If it was wise on the part of Con-
gress to stabilize our banking system
through the federal reserve act and Our
transportation system through the
Esch-Cummins act, then why not in-
dulge the same solicitude for the 40,-
000,000 people who live upon the farm
and whose purchasittg^ower is so vital
to our myriad of ihills and factories?

"Finally we desire to say to Congress
on this score thi*- the time has come
when it must choose between one of
two alternatives — if industry insists
that it cannot exist without the tariff,
then it must take agriculture in on
the deal. And, failing to do this, it
should not blame the farmers if they
invoke the principles that self-preserv-
ation is the first law.

Coolidge's Tariff Plea Denounced

"If the existing tariff is such a boon
to agriculture then how can the fact
be explained that, although this tariff
has been in operation for five years,
agriculture is at this hour staggering
on the brink of complete collapse?

"With all due respect to the Presi-
dent, we desire to say that the farmers
of this country know the source of
their difficulties — they "know that on the
one hand they are carrying the heavy
burdens of the protective system and
sustaining the generous wage scales of
organized labor, while on the other
hand they are meeting world competi-
tion which industry and labor refuse
to meet, and in these premises we de-
mand of the sixty-ninth Congress that
it enact legislation that will assure the
same degree of equality for agriculture
that industry and labor have so un-
compromisingly demanded and received
for themselves.

Labor and Industry Protected

"If it is not unsound to fix prices on
steel, textiles and other similar com-
modities by protective legislation, then
why is it unsound to fix them for agri-
culture by the same process? If it
were not unsound to vouchsafe the
Adamson law to organized labor, then
why be so horrified : at specific legisla-
tion for the natiori's great basic in-
dustry? I

"Already hundreds of thousands of
farmers have been sold out by the
sheriff, while many thousands of others

will suffer a similar fate before relief
can possibly come. Already more than
2,000 rtiral banks have been forced to
close their doors, while the shadow ol
insolvency is hovering over hundreds of
other banks which only a little while
ago were the pride of their communi-
ties. Therefore let those who by plaus-
ible pretext seek • to minimize the
wrongs of the farmers pause before it
is too late — let them have a care lest
their attitude not only assure the final
and complete collapse of agriculture
but also a condition of affairs which in
the not distant future will bring dis-
tress to every great industrial center.

Ridicule Co-op Bill

"In this connection and with a degree
of amusement which shows that, de-
spite our tragic condition we still have
a sense of humor left, we note that
the new measure sponsored by Secre-
tary Jardine is to prove a means of
salvation to the farmer by supplying
him with a new and expert fund of
information about the mysteries of co-
operative marketing. And in these
premises we desire to assure the sec-
retary that it is not information that
we need, but a fair price. As a matter
of fact we have never had so mqch- in-
formation in our life — it is &bout all
we have left. But we wonder if when
the Fordney-McCumber act in Con-
gress someone had moved to substitute
a bureau of information, whether this
would have been satisfactory to indus-
trial New England? Als^ we wonder
whether organized labor would have
been content with mere informatidn in
lieu of the Adamson law?

"This meeting desires to take cog-
nizance of the enheartening actipn of
the legislatures of 12 western «tates
(including Illinois) which have lent the
strength of their indorsement to the
demand of a method of making the
tariff effective for agriculture.

CommeDd GoTemor's Action

"We commend the governor of South
Dakota in calling a conference of the
midwest governors, which has resulted
in the unqualified adherence to the
proposition that the protective system
should be extended to include the crops
of agriculture of which we produce a
surplus if the protective tariff i» to be
retained for industry. The voice of
these men is the voice of the great
agricultural region for which they
speak. We consider that such a pro-
nouncement cannot be ignored."

News of the Des Moines meeting evi-
dently traveled fast. The following
statement was issued at Washington by
Secretary Jardine for publication Dec.
23:

Jardine Announces Consideration
of Surplus

"Now that the plan to aid co-opera-
tive organizations has been placed be-
fore Congress, I feel that further and
more definite attention can be directed
to the agricultural surplus problem.

"During the past several weeks, I
have had under consideration with co-
operative marketing organizations a
plan for aiding and assisting coopera-
tive effort. A bill embodying this plan
and carrying practically the unanimous
endorsement of the entire co-operative
movement in this country has been in-
troduced in both branches 'of Congress.
This plan, as I have oftentimes stated,
should stand upon its own merit and
not be confused or considered in con-
nection with other agricultural meas-
ures.

"Discussing agricultural surpluses in
my Annual Report released on Decem-
ber 7, I laid down certain broad prin-
ciples which in my opinion, constitute
the basis of any plan for the solution
of this perplexing problem now facing
American agriculture. Dealing broadly
with the subject I stated that it "is
one of the major economic problems of
the nation. It does seem essential that
this issue should receive broad recog-
nition as a problem of national im-
portance and, second, that public agen-
cies should ^ake every proper effort
to co-operate in sound workable pro-
grams looking to its solution." I am
opposed, as stated in my report, to any
plan of government price-fixing or the
handling of farm products by govern-
ment agencies or officials. On the other
hand, I said that "farmers through
their organizations have a most power-
ful instrument to control the movement
of surpluses into consumptive chan-
nels."

Surplus Remedies Coming to
Common Ground

Again referring to my annual re-
port, I stated that "the discussion of
the problem of surpluses^ is entering
more and more upon common ground
and I look forward to an agreement
upon the principles of a solution along
the broad lines here suggested." I be-
lieve that, as things stand today, the
most effective machinery in sight exists
in the co-operative marketing move-
ment. Any sound plan directed to the
surplus question will be practically
certain, in my judgment, to recognize
the co-operative movement and carry
the approval of cooperative leaders.
Refers to Lowden Plan

"A number of plans have heen pro-
posed which warrant thoifghtful atten-

Woman Judged Best Feeder

Farm Bureau Tour Shows Mrs.
Virgie Mathews Is Best Lamb
Feeder in Montgomery County*

The best lansb feeder in Montgom-
ery county is a woman — Mrs. Virgie
Mathews. That was the consensus of
opinion of the county's Iamb feeders
following a tour of the flocks on Dec.
19.

This tour was an unique demonstra-
tion in the. proper feeding of lambs
and was conducted under the auspices
of the Montgomery County Farm Bu-
reau, with Parni Adviser Snyder and
Manager Roberts of the shipping asso-
ciation as directors. Starting at ♦he
farm bureau office with two or three
members in one car, they drove to the
farm of the first feeder, Nathan Wea-
cott. Then he joined in and went to
the next feeder, and so on until by
the time the tour was well under way
about eight autpmobile loads of inter-
ested feeders had joined the demonstra-
tion.

There were approximately 7,000 sheep
and lambs on feed in Montgomery
county. After the tour, which lasted
from 7:30 in the morning unt^I 6:00
at night ,it was considered that Mrs.
Mathews had the best lambs of any
seen on the trip. ,-She personaIl|t super-
vises the feeding operations. ,*

Is Sam Thompson Radical?

Farm Writer for 40 Big Eastern
Papers Tells World That Visit in
I. A. A. Office Proves Him Not

"Anyone who has visited the head-
quarters of the Illinois Agricultural
Association, of which Sam H. Thomp-
son, the new bead of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, has been the
executive officer, will have to revise his
idea of a 'radical' — if Mr. Thompson is
to be ^o designated."

So states O. M. Kile, Washington
farm correspondent who writes for
about forty big Eastern city papers on
"How Things Look to the Fartner."

"Occupying some 15 or 20 nicely fur-
nished, glass partitioned offices in a
high grade office building in Chicago,
the Illinois unit of the Farm Bureau
has built up a large, efficient and most
business-like business organization. It
is thoroughly departmentalized,' budget-
ed and audited in the most approved
style. Its co-operative departments
supervise the handling of millions of
dollars of farm products each year — it
is at least seven years old^ — its tax de-
partment has gone before nearly all
the county tax boards in the state and
effected readjustments in farm land
assessments that' hava saved Illinois
farmers millions of dollars in taxes. A
dozen other service features might be
mentioned. It seems a little harsh to
call such organizations 'radical' merely
because it. insists on legislative assis-
tance in carrying out one feature of
its co-operative marketing business."

tion. Former Governor Lowden of Il-
linois has referred to a plan which, as
I understand it, would have surpluses
handled by co-operative organization s
assisted by a Federal Farm Board of
parallel importance to the Federal Re-
serve Board buf in which there would
be no governmental price-fixing and no
buying and selling of farm products
under the control of government offi-
cials. Secretary Hoover made an almost
exactly similar proposal two years ago
with the idea of building up for agri-
culture'the same stability as in indus-
try. C. R. Noyes, of St. Paul, also
has given a great deal of thought to
this question and has worked out the
details of a plan. Other proposals have
been introduced in Congress and others
are in the course of preparation.
To Call Conferences on It
"With the sincere feeling that a fur-
ther crystallization of thought and de-
velopment of a common aim -can and
should he secured on this vital problem,
I have decided to call to Washington
from time to time a number of leaders
who can make a contribution looking to
the laying dowp of a sotind and effec-
tive plan. I have already issued an in-
vitation to the agricultural editors of
the country to come to Washington to
discuss the surplus problem among
other things in order that I might have
the value of their knowledge and expe-
rience as reflected in different sections.
I propose to call other leaders, start-
ing immediately."

ThEBE am now 578 HaDIO BSOADCA0TDIO

stations in oi>eration in the Inited Stat«. To-
day vvrry solitary channel of the air is occupied
by at Ipact one broadcasting Btatiim and tnerp
are now pending before the If. 8. Department of
Commerce more than 175 applicatioug for new
licenses. Experience and experimenta have
found that there are only 89 distirtct wave
lengths to serve all who wish to uae tae air at
one time. It is estimated that $50,000:, is .spent
every uight to fill the radio ears of this comitry.

Thb Ruhm PnofipHATK AWD Chemiqil com-

pany is situated Hf Mt. PlraRant. Trrmt in8t*>>»d
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Volume 4

Issued Every Month for 63,000 thinking Farmers — February 1, 1926

No. 2

EARL SMITH OF PIKE COUNTY IS NEW 1. A. A. PRESIDENT

Eleventh Annual Meeting Proves Largest
And Beat One Ever Held; Delegates O. K.
General Princif^ies of Dickinson Measure

Convention Elects
Three New Members
Tol. A. A. Committee

Members of 20th, 22nd and
24th Congressional Dis
tricts Nominate New Men
for Executive Committee

Clim*. Marihall

Three new men were elected to
the executive committee of the as-
sociation at the
close of the an-
nual meeting
held at Cham-
paign - Urbana,
Jan. 21 and 22
They are : Chas.
Borgelt to repre-
sent the 20th
congressional dis-
I trict in place of
Earl C. Smith;
I Frank Oexner to
succeed Stanly
Castle of the
22nd district
and Chas. Mar
shall as successor to Curt Ander
son for the 24th district.

Chas. Marshall was born in the
Blue Grass district of Kentucky.
Forty-two years ago he moved to
Mason county, 111., where he took
up a farm near Belknap and has re-
mained a tiller of the soil to the
present day. By following the live'
stock and grain principle of agri-
culture Mr. Marshall h^Sj developed
his holdings until he now Owns 2600
acres of land and manages 1000
acres of adjoining territory.

Marshall An Active Worker

When the Johnson County Farm
Bureau was organized Mr. Mar-
shall became a leader in organiza-
tion work and has served on the
executive committee since its ori-
gin. Three years ago he was
elected to the office of county pres-
ident which he now holds together
^th a position on the board of di-
rectors of the Illinois Cotton Grow-
ers Co-operative Association. Mr.
Marshal is commissioner of the
Lower Cache River Drainage Dis-
trict, director in the First National
Bank of Vienna and president of
the board '> of directors of the
Vienna Firm Loan Association.

Coming from Kentucky, Mr. Mar-
shall is a descendent of the late
Thos. Marshall, former vice presi-
dent of the United States, and like-
wise of Chief Justice Marshall, for-
merly of the supreme court.

"Chas. Borgelt gives more time
to farm bureau work than any
farm bureau
president in the
state." That is
the reputation
Mr. Borgelt
holds with ihis
neighbors and
members of the
Mason County
Farm Bureau.
Mr. Borgelt lives
in Havana and
owns and man-
ages a half sec-
tion of land just
outside of the
city where he
grows acres and acres of alfalfa.
Besides the Havana farm he oper-
ates another one in Fulton county
just across the county line.

Mr. Borgelt has served as presi-
ident of the Mason County Farm
Burean since its organization and
is a strong disciple of farm organ-
ization and the production princi-
ples advocated by the University of
Illinois. - He is also a partner in a
grocery store located in Havana.
(Continued on page 4, Col. 3.) I

Frank Oexner

"OUR SAM" DONATES
CUP

"To the Farm Burelu having the
best information service to members
and general public," is a part of
the engraving on this sterling silver
loving cup which Sam H. Thomp-
son is personally donating as a
farewell affair^ Mr. Thompson
thinks the fundamental require-
ment of a good farm bureau mem-
ber is that he be well posted on
the activities of his organization.
From this it follows, Mr. Thompson
thinks, that each county Farm Bu-
reau and the state and national
bodies should develop the very best
possible information service.

A committee is to be selected by
President Thompson soon which will
take care of the details. It will be
given to the lucky county at the an-
nual meeting in January, 1927.
When won three times by one Farm
Bureau, it shall become its perma-
nent possession.

Jardine Defines His
Position on 8 Points;
Tosses Some Bouquets

Secretary Tells 1,700 Dele-
gates and Visitors That
Surplus Problem Underlies
Whole Farm Situation

Secretary Jardine, speaking be-
fore some 1,700 people at the
Thursday luncheon during the I. A.
A. annual meeting, hit seven points
before coming to the one in which
Illinois farmers are principally in-
terested— the surplus. This was his
eighth point.

At the outset, however, the Sec-
retary made some statements con-
cerning the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation which should kindle the
pride of every member of the asso-
ciation who has placed his faith and
financial backing into it. Said he:

(Continued on page 3, Col. 4.)

Lowden Talks Surplus
Amid Hearty Cheering
at Annual Convention

Says Federal Farm Board
Could Stabilize Farming
Like Federal Reserve
Board Stabilized Banking.

Former Governor Lowden, speak-
ing before the largest assembly ever
gatheced at an annual meeting of
the Illinois Agricultural Association
— some 2,300 people — was received
with a tremendous ovation and
scarcely a minute passed during his
hour of discourse without general
applause and cheering.

In introducing "Farmer" Low-
den, President Thompson said that
Lowden knows farm oroblems from
actually bumping ii^ them, that
he has been next to the soil for a
long time and that he has been con-
sistent in his attitude toward na-
tional legislation for farmers.

Prond of I. A. A.

"I am proud of the Illinois Agrri-
culture Association," Mr. Lowden
said. "When I am in other states
I point out the achievements of the
I. A. A. as examples of what farm-
ers can do by organizing.

"And I ho{ife that under the new
leadership of Sam Thompson, the
American Farm Bureau Federation
will become as effective in its field
as the I. A. A. has been."

* * «

Lowden had prepared a written
address, but he tossed it away and
did not refer to it excepting when
he needed certain statistics.

Lowden's talk was especially sig-
nificant -because he gave the view-
point endorsed and followed by the
Illinois Agricultural Association on
the relation of the export corpoTa-
tion idea and the co-operatives. The
association's viewpoint was reflect-
ed in the endorsement of the gen-
, eral principles of the Dickinson bill
later in the day. Lowden has also
given a similar endorsement of the
Dickinson bill, and even Secretary
.tardine has stated, and repeated it
alfthe annual meeting, that the
Dickinson bill contains substantial
ground for agreement.

• * •

; Dickinson Bill ^rosents Feasible
Plan

In the Dickinson bill is pro-
posed a federal farm board with
power to segregate abnormal sur-
pluses, through co-operatives if they
be sufficiently represented in the
given surplus commodity, but if co-
operative machinery is insufficient,
the board would encourage the or-
ganization of co-operatives, and in
the meantime use existing facilities
for quickly skimming off the sur-
plus in order to preserve the Amed-
can price for the share of the crop
consumed in America.

* * * ■• \

Lowden*s theme was the surplus
problem and reiterated his sugges-
tion of a federal farm board, as is
now incorporated in the Dickinson
bilL

Lowden Wants Federal Farm
Board

His idea is that a federal farm
board could operate in farm prod-
uce similar to the federal reserve
board in adjusting nation-wide cred-
it facilities for the industrial world.

Acting through co-operative
groups representing certain crops,
such a farm board, Lowden said,
might expect to prevent the ruin-
ous over-production which, from
time to time confronts agricultural
producers "turning the surplus of
the very essentials of life from a
burden into a blessing."

(Continued on page 3, Col. 2.)

Of the Seven Evon-Numbered Districts Which Were Due
for Electing Executive Committeemen, Four Re-elected
and Three Chose. New Representatives.

THE tenth anniversarj' of the formation of the Illinois
Agricultural Aasociation wa.s celebrated at the annyal
meeting in Champaign-Urbana, Jan. '21 aid 22- with
the biggest birthday party of any of the association's eleven
annual events. ^ j

For at some of 'the sessions as many as 2,300 people
were in attendance, and the trekking to the University from
the farms in 92 counties was so heax-y that the railroad

sorry they

oUr new leader

Meet your new president!

Here's what his home folks tell
about him and, after all, home folks
know a man best.

He was born in Pittsfield, Pike
county, Feb. 19, 1886. His father
was a college professor at Macon.
In 1907 President Smith moved on
the f|irm and has been there ever
since. Mary Sanderson, a farm girl,
was his bride. .They wete married
in 1909.

The 160 acres upon iwhich the
Smith's now live is only a mile and
a "halt from Mrs. Smith'b girlhood
home. This 160 was obtained by
Smith's grandfather by grant from
the government and has been in the
famUy since then. In addition to
this 160, there are 388 more acres,
making the home farm of 548 acres
which Smith lives on anid actively
operates. In addition, $mith has
the active management of 578
acres.

Local People Give Him Their
Responsibilities

Smith has been a member of his
home school board at Detroit for
12 years and has been chairman of
the board of the Christian church
for seven. After passage of the 60
million bond issue, a mass meeting
of the citizens of Pike county chose
him as one of seven to look after
the county's interest in tjiat issue.
When the 100 million bond issue
»;as passed, a similar meeting se-
lected him for the same capacity.

Smith joined the Farm Bureau
in the original organization and be-
came vice-president in 1921, presi-
dent in 1922 and was elected by the
20th Congressional district, com-
prising nine I. A. A. counties, to
the I. A. A. executive committee for
the years 1923-24-25. He has been
a member of the finance commit
tee of the I. A. A., an important
Post.

officials were not
given fare-and-a-half
round trips.

Earl

New

Smith
Chief

Chief amoag all
business done by
the delegates was
the election of
Earl C. Smith of
Detroit, Pike
county, as presi-
dent to succeed
"Our Sam"
Thompson, who
now wields the
gavel of the ci«.. R. Finhr
American Farm

Bureau Federation. As a result of
friendly campaigns conducted by
friends, three men were nominated
— Earl C. Smith, Frank U. Barton
of Cornell, Livingston countv, and
B. H. Taylor of Rapatee. Kulton
county, in the order named.

Smith received 126 votes. Barton
64 and Taylor 3. Immediately after
announcement of the outcome of
the balloting, Barton jumped to the
floor and moved that the election be
made unanimous for Smith, which
was done.

"This thing is- bigger than Smith
or me or any personalities," Barton
fervently declared, "and I want you
men who thought I was t( to sup-
port Smith to-the last ditch."

Finlejr Is Viea-President

Chas. R. Finley of Hoopeston,
Vermilion county, a former execu-
tive committeeman, was elected
vice-president over W. C. McQueen
of Elgin, Kane county, 95-69, in
an equally sportsmanlike Competi-
tion.

Even-numbered Congressional dis-
tricts were the ones which fell due
at this meeting for election of new
executive committeemen. Districts
12, 14, 16 and IS re-elected their
men. District 20, formerly repre-
sented by President Earl C. Smith,
elected Charles Borgelt of Havana,
Mason county. District 22 put in
Frank Oexner of Waterloo, Monroe
county, to succeed Stanly Castle of
Alton, Madison county. Charles
Marshall of Belknap, Johnson coun-
ty, succeeds Curt Anderson of
Xenia, Clay county, for the 24th
district. These men hold office for
two years and at the next annual
meeting odd-numbered districts will
be due for elections.

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Earl's a OiscipU of Saas

_After his- election. President
Smith, who is known as a disciple
of Sam Thompson, made the fol-
lowing statement:

"I have be*n a hearty supporter
of the policies of the past adminis-
tration and contemplate no changes
at this time."

The I. A. A. meeting was sched-
uled by the University of Illinois
as a feature of ite annual Farmers'
Week, which was also acclaimed a
tremendous success.

(Continued on page 4, CoL 8.)

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-j EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ^

' (By Omcressional Districts)

St to llth William Webb, Route One, Joliet

2th G. F. TuIIock. Rockford

ith C. E. Bamborough, Pok>

4th W. H. Moody. Port Byron

5th B. H. Taylor. Rapatee

fcth A. R. Wright. Vama

7th .■ » F. D. Barton, Cornell

8th '. R. F. Karr, (roqxiois

9th.- J. L. Whisnand. Charleston

:0th Charles Borgelt, Havana

Ist Samuel SorrcUs, Raymond

2nd Frank Oexner. U aterloo

:ird W. L. Cope, Salem

;4th Charles Marshall. Belknap

[Sth R. K. Loomis, Makanda

OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith 4 Detroit

Vice- President, Charles R. Finley _. .Hoopeston

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles f, .Bloomington

Secretary, Geo. A. Fox »..^ Sycamore

I Li L. i\isi\>i s ^m

cultural' ASSOCIA'KrON

— n E c o R o— - >—

To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organ-
ized, namely, to promote, protect and represent the Business,
economic, social and educational interests of the farmers of
Illinois and the nation, and to develop airiculture.

Co-operative Accounting ' Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing , A. B. Leeper

General Office ' J. H. Kelker

Grain Marketing '... Chester C. Davis

Information }.', Harry C. Butcher

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organization G. E. Metiger

Phosphate-Limestone J. R. Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C Watson

Transportation L.J Quasey

Publish*^ tn\<^ a month at 404 North Weslr-y Avo , Mount Morris. Illinois, by thp Ilhnois A(irri'ii!tural Asaoriation. Edited by Drpariment of Information. Harry C Butcher, Director, 608 South Dearborn
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in the historj- of the association has there been

a splendid, fine-spirited meeting as the One just

at Champaign-Urbana — and this is written with

knoMedge that there have been good meetings in the

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s page are the resolutions passed by the l'J4 dele-

ol" which received their unanimous indorsement.

it to yourself and your organization to read

ions carefully. The resolutions stand as guide

• the officers to follow during the year. They are

tes of the delegates.

resolutions :

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Thanks to the Hosts'

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visitors and delegates to the Eleventh Aniiual

ing of the Illinois Agricultural Association, held

Chanjpaign and Urbana, Jan. 21-22, 1926, hereby express

] preciation for the tourtesy and co-operation ex-

them by the University of Illinois, the Champaign

Farm Bureau, Champaign and Urbana Chambers

Commerce, and all citizens of the Twin Cities and or-

thereof that have contributed to making

ani^ual meeting a success from every standpoint.

Commend New Grain Company

W e commend the spirit of co-operation now being

m inifested by the Illinois Agricultural Association

t' ■ ''mers' Grain Dealers Association in the establlsh-

n>%*.' o| an' a^uc'y for securinc better marketing facilities

jii;<, .J i: I :;,rkH:; l e country, and

CIrm ■•hr «»• . - •>|i \.iJU icic.ciice to co-opera-
tive marketing of farm products and urge our members to
continui
agencie

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■ their etforts toward the perfecting of more direct
I for the handling of our farm products.

Co- ops Should be Exempt From Income Tax

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under
strictivt
Bureau
sociatio^
to sec
benefits
which
act. •
tance,
proper
to work

A H'icultural co-operative marketing associations in
inois are largely barred from benefits of exemption
Federal Revenue Act because of the law's re-
language, and of unfavorable regulations of the
of Internal Revenue. The Illinois Agricultural As-
has been active in proposing certain amendments
for co-operative associations of this state, the
which Congress evidently intended to grant but
not been accorded under interpretations of the
we consider these amendments of great impor-
ask our officers to continue to press them in every
ay, and we urge members of Congress from IlU|iois
for their early adoption. {

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are

hive
Since

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Raise Tariff on Onion* . ■

4Pl'OdQCtion of pickling onions has been an important
• farm industry in counties surrounding Chicago, but
now faces extinction because the American farmer cannot
compete with cheap foreign labor in this field without ad-
ditional and effective protection. We urge, therefor, the
enactment by Congress of a tariff amendment providing a
dnty of 60 per cent ad valorem, American valuation at port
of entv:r, in place of the existing duty basec^ on foreign
valoatic^

B. Testing Should Continue As Befdre

Tl le Illinois Agricultural Association emphatically re-
afirms its position, long maintained, with refereftce
to the 1 teed and desirability of effectively eradicating 'Ithe
plague ( f bovine tuberculosis. We commend the work that
has beei i done heretofore to that end.

We c ill for the continued adequate appropriation from

both St ite and Federal governments to carry forward the

work to the earliest possible conclusion. We farther urge

I an emei gency appropriation from the Federal government

I to meet the emergency now existing in Illinois.

Becaqse of the nation-wide character of the work and

i^ty for uniform administration, we urge the con-

of this work under Federal supervision, on the

bdsfs as heretofore.

f irther urge that the money already appropriated by
Stal e of Illinois be made available for .the payment of
condemned cattle as rapidly as the testing of cattle can be
effective ly administered. In view of the emergency exist-
ing with reference to the milk supply of the city of Chicago
we urg( the fair minded and earnest cooperation of all
the peo: lie of Illinois to meet the situation in justice to all
parties concerned.

nec( s;

the
tiiiuanc<
same
We
ithe

Protect Members from Thievery

6 Theft of live stoik, poultry and other farm property
• , results in a tremendous loss to the farmers- of Illinois
whi(;h ^e believe can be greatly reduced by organized
protective effort through the Farm Bureaus for farm bureau
members. We urge, therefore, that the executive com-
mittee of the Illinois Agricultural Association undertake
at once a study of ways and means to accomplish this,
lead^g as soon as possible to the adoption of some workable
plan,' applicable to all parts of the state, to be put in opera-
tion by the Illinois Agricultural Association and the county
Farm Bureaus.

Commend New Reinsurance Company

7 We commend the organizations, namely, — Illinois
• State Association of Mutual Insurance Companies,
Illinois Agricultural Association, County Farm Bureaus
and local insurance companies for their co-operation in the
organization of the Farmers* Mutual Reinsurance Com-
pany. We believe every Farmer Mutual Insurance Com-
pany in the state will be rendering a real service to Mutual'
Insurance by using one or more of the insurance services of-
fered by the State Company.

Support Amendment to State Constitution

8 The present taxing system of this state has proved
• unworkable and unfair. It has thrown at least 85 per
cent of the burden of supporting public institutions and
functions on real estate which is probably not more than
one-half of the property in the state and produces an even
smaller proportion of the wealth of the state. This in-
equitable condition, under the limitations of the present
constitution, cannot be corrected by the General Assembly.
Until it is corrected, it is certain to grow worse. It is al-
ready interfering with the desirability of owning homes and
farm lands and with their values. The certain end, if it
continues long enough, is confiscation of property values
of real estate.

We, therefore, pledge our support to the pending amend-
ihent to the revenue article of the State Constitution sub-
mitted for approval or rejection by the voters of the state
at the general election of November, 1926. We regard the
proposed amendment as embodying the changes necessary
to permit the General Assembly to broaden and modernize
our taxing system. We believe that it properly safe-guards
the just rights of every citizen of the^tate in any new forms
of taxation which may be establishea under its provisions.

Want Gas Tax As Lieu Tax

9 A tax on gasoline is generally recognized as fairly
• distributed on owners of motor vehicles, the chief
beneficiaries of highway improvement, according to their
use of the highways. Recognition of this fact, and the
demand for better improvement of the highways, have led
to the establishment of a tax on gasoline in all but four of
the states of the Union.

We favor a tax on gasoline in Illinois on condition that
the proceeds of the tax are used in improving and maintain-
ing the secondary highways of the state known as State
Aid roads, and on condition that it is used in lieu of some
other highway tax and not in addition to other taxes.
These principles were embodied in the Cuthbertson gasoline
tax bill, which we supported in the 56th General Assembly.
We hereby declare our continued support of a bill embody-
ing these principles. Even with a gasoline tax which we
here propose, property — chiefly farm property— will con-
tinue to carry the entire burden of improving and maintain-
ing more than two-thirds of the public highways of the state.

Check Up On Legislators

1 f\ Whereas, at the nominating primaries in April and
•^v/» at the general election in November of this year
representatives to the Congress and State General As-
sembly will be nominated and elected at the first sessions
of which matters of especial concern to agriculture will be
pending, and

Whereas, it riot only becomes but behooves organized
agriculture in a more positive way to interest itself in the
nomination and election of such persons.

Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association and the county Farm Bureaus during
these coming primary and election campaigns earnestly
search the past records and sympathies of all candidates
along lines of legislation affecting agriculture and solicit
from such candidates statements of position and commit-
ments of action thereon.

Want Annual Meetings In Logical Order

11 We recommend the rearrangement as speedily as
A« possible of the time of holding the AnnusU Meet-
ings of County Farm Bureaus, of the Illinois Agricultural
Association and pf the American Farm Bureau Federation

in the order as to time of the organizations so named. We
believe that by this arrangement the wishes of the smaller
units in the Farm Bureau Federation could be more ef-
fectively expressed, both as to the selection of delegates to
such meetings and as to suggesting policies for considera-
tion.

1 O We favor such legislation as may be necessary to
^"■* . eliminate unfair discrimination against the use of
corn sugar as a means of assisting in the absorption of the
surplus of corn in Illinois.

1 O We commend the woi* that has been accomplished
!*#• with reference to the improvement of the Lakes
to Gulf Deep Waterways and we urge adequate appropria-
tion and speedy administration looking toward completion
of that project.

We urge that due consideration be given to the protec-,
tion of health and property of the people living adjacent
thereto.

We also commend the proposed St. Lawrence waterway.

Indorse Principles of Dickinson Bill

I A The unfavorable situation of agriculture since the
■^ •• war has been due in large part to the working out
of national policies which have expanded farm production
to the utmost, above domestic needs, on the one hand, while
they have maintained a high level of farm production costs,
on the other. Because of this, the responsibility of estab-
lishing a new national policy aimed to correct existing
disparities and to promote economic equality for agriculture
rests on the nation as a whole. Attempts to include the
American farmer in the protective system by tariffs have
been largely futile because the normal surplus of the impor-
tant cash crops holds the domestic price to world levels
regardless of tariffs.

Therefore, the farmers of Illinois join with the farmers
of the other agricultural surplus states in asking the Sixty-
Ninth Congress, as part of a definite national farm pro-
gram, to create an export board or corporation under
which producers can, at their own expense, control the
marketing of their surpluses abroad in such manner as to
sustain an American price for that portion consumed in
America.

Many plans for dealing with the surplus problem have
been proposed to Congress, some of which are now in the
form of bills providing for export bounties, foreign credits,
and other means and agencies.

The Illinois Agricultural Association, while reiterating its
willingness to support any sound and workable plan to ac-
complish the desired ends, recognizes its responsibility to
express its general judgment on the relative value of the
several plans, some of which are:

1. Export bounty on each of several farm commodities
approximately equal in amount to the import duty provided
in each case, financed by an excise tax on the units of each
commodity that move in trade.

2. Export bounty on each of several farm commodities
approximately equal in amount to the import duty provided
in each case, the bounty payable in form of due bills ac-
ceptable by the United States Treasury in payment of
import duties.

3.. GovernmenJ loans to buyers abroad to provide funds
for foreign purchase of our farm surplus.

4. Federal board to assist farm producers to control,
segregate or dispose of surpluses abroad or at home, the
actual buying and selling to be done wherever practicable
through corporations created by associations of producers
themselves, but financed as to sales abroad by an equaliza-
tion fund from an excise tax similar to that proposed for
the export bounty. ^

An export bounty, not administered by a central body
empowered to segregate and control the surplus movement,
would, in our judgment, be less effective than other pro-
posals in adjusting domestic supply and demand at "a fair
price. The plan to finance bounty payments either from
the United States Treasury or from diverted import duties
in effect proposes a public subsidy against which the Amer--.
ican Farm Bureau Federation has gone on record. /TTie
plan to loan additional funds to finance foreign purchases
could not materially change the world price level at which
the sales would be made, could not operate to maintain an
American price for tKat portion consumed in America, and
does not appear to be a proper solution for the further
reason that since the war our farm exports have not been
curtailed but on the contrary have found ready buyers at
a world price and in volume greater than pre-war. The
bounty and loan proposals do not tend to bring the or-
ganized producers into the market in control of the handling
of their surplus. '

^Continued oo page 3, col. 'i.)

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February 1, 1926

The Illinois Agricultural Astociation RECORD

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Illinois Co-ops Sold
$200,000,000 In Farm
Products During 1925

Farmers' Elevators Handled
Over Hundred Million
Dollars in Grain; Livestock
31 Million

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Nearly two hundred million dol-
lars worth of farm products was
handled by farmers' co-operative
marketing associations in Illinois
during 1925. With the exception
of the farmers' elevators, all other
marketing agencies which contrib-
uted to this tremendous turnover
were 'mothered' by the association.

This total amount of co-operative
business, which is comparable to
the amount of business done by the
largest industries in the state, is
estimated at $181,928,000 for the
past year. The figure was reached
following a survey by the I. A. A. of
the total sales of more than 1,000
co-operatives in the state including
the co-operative marketing of corn,
wheat, oats, livestock, dair^ prod-
ucts, fruit, cotton, red top seed and
wool. \

The figure.does not include all of
the products ' sold co-operatively by
all the farmers in the state for dur-
ing the past year $5,161,070 worth
of Illinois livestock was shipped to
and sold by the Producers Commis-
siofi Association at Indianapolis, a
smaller amount by the Producers
at Evansvillc, Ind., as well as $200,-
000 worth of Illinois soft wheat
whi«h was marketed co-operatively
through the Indiana Wheat Grow-
ers' Association.

Farmers' Elevators Lead

A large portion of this Illinois
co-operative business was done by
some 600 farmers' elevators in the
state, a total amounting to $104,-
250,000 during the past year. In
a recent investigation by the co-op-
erative auditing department of the
Illinois Agricultural Association it
was revealed that approximately
$174,000 worth of corn, wheat and
oats is handled annually by the
average farmers' elevator in this
state.

Livestock ranked second in the
amount ot co-operative business
done,, totahng $58,000,000. Of this
amouiit $31,000,000 worth of live-
stock was handled by the Produc-
ers Commission Association on the
Chicago stockyards, $22,000,000
by the Producers on the National
stockyards. East St. Louis and $5,-
000,000 by the Producers at Peoria.
This gross total includes approxi-
mately 15 per cent of all livestock
handled on the three major yards of
the state and represents a decided
"increase in the amount of business
as compared to 1924.

Third in the amount of co-opera-
tive business in Illinois stands the
distribution of fluid milk, table
cream, farm and factory butter and
cheese. This amount of business
for 1925 totaled $19,100,000, an in-
crease of approximately 5 per cent
over the previous year when the
total (igure was $18,035,000.

Fruit Business Increased

With somewhat less impressive
■figures but of equal importance to
the farmers of Illinois is the amount
of fruit, red top seed, cotton and
wool handled by the co-operatives.
Last year approximately $300,000
worth of fruit was sold co-opera-
tively by southern Illinois farmers
through the Illinois Fruit Growers
Exchange, Centralia. This repre-
sents an increase of $50,000 over
'the total of 1924 and six per cent
of all fruit sold in the southern part
of the state.

In 1925 close to 83,000 pounds
of wool was sold co-operatively by
Illinois farmers. This was collected
through the various county Farm
Bureaus of the state, and through
the livestock marketing department
of the I. A. A. was sold at an
amount totaling in the neighbor-
hood of $35,000. Cotton amount-
ing to approximately $18,000 was
handled co-operatively by the Illi-
nois Cotton Growers' Co-operative
Association, a small but effective
organization formed by the farmers
in the extreme southern counties of
Illinois.

The combined volume or business of the
cotton co-operatives of this country, since their
organization tive years ago, is approximately
S40(J,(KX),(K)0. They arc doinK a combined
aDBual businesa of nearly $12o,000,n00.

Sweeten Your Disposition with Corn. Sugar

George A. Fox, executive secretary, is seen here looking over the
original drawings from which stickers have been made and are being
placed on letters leaving the office of the I. A. A. The stickers say, "We
are eating more corn sugar to sweeten our dispositions while waiting for
legislative action by Congress dealing with the fundamental problem —
agricultural surpluses."

Lowden Talks Surplus
at Annual Convention

(Continued from page 1, col. S)

"The federal reserve board seeks
to do, in reference to space — wh^
a farm board should accomplish, in
reference to time, with the seasonal
surpluses of the farm," the former
Governor said.

"A surplus of the staple farm
products is inevitable and neces-
sary," said Lowden. "The farmer
asks why, if this seasonal surplus is
a good thing for everyone else, it
should result in a loss to him. "The
farmer must always plan to raise
more than just enough if the world
is to be fed and clothed. Every-
one recognizes this need.

The Farmer's Dilemma

"Business responds to the prom-
ise of a bountiful crop. The farm-
ers' gladness, however, is tempered
with the bitter thought that may-
be these seeming blessings of a
kindly Providence may bring him
ruin. He is always confronted with
this dilemma. If he produces too
little, the world will go hungry and
naked; if he produces too much, the
surplus for the time may break the
price he receives for his product to
a point where it would have been
better for him to have left his fields
lie fallow.

"In the South we say cotton is
king; in the Middle West, it is corn
#e'have crowned. But these royal-
[ties^sre buffeted about by the trad-
;^rs of the world. They have been
made to yield immense profits to
everyone but those who produce
them. And all the while we have
been marketing not alone these
great staples of the North and the
South, but also each year a part of
the fertility of the soil itself.

Needs Help in Burden

"If the farmer alone must bear
the crushing burden of a surplus,
under the slow operation of eco-
nomic laws the time will come when
there will be no surplus and they
will go hungry and but half clothed.
In the interest, therefore, of society
as well as the farmer, we must con-
trive some method by which the
surplus of tKe very essentials of I|fe
shall become a blessing and not a
burden.

"There seems to be an analogy
between the seasonal surplus of
staple farm crops and the surplus
credit resources of the banks be-
fore the adoption of the Federal
Reserve System. The resources of
the banks as a whole were adequate
for the business of the country as
a whole. It frequently happened,
however, that an unusiial demand
at some particular place exceeded
the resources of that community,
while in other sections there were
ample credit resources in excess of
their need.

Will County Farm Bureau ordebed po-
tatoes for its members at a laid down prioe of
$1.42 a bushel. For. the members who took
advantsKC of this offer to the amount of 10 to
\h bushels, a saving equal to one y-car's mem-
ben-Iiip fee was secured.

'^kr

Don' t Blame Mailman
If You Missed Record;
It's Once a Month Now

You'll notice that the line un-
der the "flag" on page one says,
"Issued Every Month for 63,000
Thinking Farmers," instead of
"every other Saturday" as it has
stated in the past.

The change is due to curtail-
ment in the general budget.

The decision to eliminate a
half of the issues of The Record
as an econ9my measure came
after the Jan. 2 issue was mailed,
consequently no advance an-
nouncement could be made. So
if you missed The Record of
Jan. 16, it wasn't the mailman's
fault 'The RECORD is to continue
in its present size, but monthly.

Jardine Defines His
Position on B Points

(Continiied from'pagk 1, col. 2)
"I have followed thei progress of
this association with real interest
and I want to take thisi opportunity
to express my appreciation of the
strong, forward-looking character
of the work of your «rganiiation.
The men who founded and devel-
oped this association ssnsed clearly
the trend of (modern aeeds in the
field of farm organization. They
need not only the vision to see what
such an institution tiight mean
to the farmers of Illinois; they
had the sound, practical sense
that^ financed it securely and shaped
its activities out into those fields
where they were genlinely eff'ec-
tive. It was my pleasite last, sum-
mer to spend a brief time hastily
surveying the differait projects
then carried an by you» association.
Your activities in marWeting, taxes,
auditing and along numerous other
lines manifestly react tp the benefit
of the men o» the famj."
i* • •

Summarized brieflyd his eight
points were: j

1. Taxes. Farmers jtell the de
partment of lagricultune that high
taxes is their second tnost impor-
tant concern, next toj low prices,
wTiich comes first. I firmly believe
that our systejn of valuation can be
materially improved and thie tax
burden of farmers can be substan-
tially lighteneid by reducing present
inequalities i4 assessments and by
giving ^eater considerntfcn- to the
earning power of the land in mak-
ing such assessments. Your own ^-
sociation has done a fine piece of
work in this state in i ironing out
inequalities between the assessment
of farm lantK and in J other prop-
erty and in building a foundation
for a more satisfactory administra-
tion of the general property tax.

Greatest Meeting

of the I. A. A

(Continued from ]xige 2, col. 3)
Therefore, be it resolved that the
Illinois Agricultural Association en
dorse the general principles set
forth in the Dickinson Bill now be-
fore Congress; a measure which
provides for a federal board to ad-
minister an equalization responsi-
bility for the surplus farm commo-
dities, the finances to be put up by
the producers themselves in the
most practical manner, through ex-
cise tax or equalization fee. and the
actual buying, storing and selling
involved in handling the surplus to
be done, with the support of the
board, by corporations created and
controlled by the producers them-
selves.

Were With You, Sami^
1 C Whereas, Sam H. Thompson
iO« has for three years ably
served the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation as its president, and

Whereas, the farmers of America
have recognized his sterling quali-
ties and able leadership in calling
him to the presidency of the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation, and

Whereas, by reason of such posi-
tion it becomes necessary for hiin
to retire from the presidency of the
Illinois Agricultural Association in
order to assume the vast responsi-
bilities imposed upon him by his
new position.

Therefore, be it resolved that we
hereby express our hearty appre-
ciation for the service he has ren-
dered and for the personal •, sacri-
fice which he has made in beltalf of
the interests of agriculture during
his term as President of the Illinois
Agricultural Association.

Be it further resolved, that we
extend our heartiest wishes to him
in such efforts as he may put forth
for the cause of agriculture in par-
ticular and the American people in
general, as he takes up his duties in
his new position, and

Be it further resolved, that we
pledge him our earnest support and
our hearty cooperation in such en-
deavors as he may make as presi-
dent of the American Farm Bureau
Federation for the cause of agri-
culture.

ing the department's work in the
field of marketing research and
ser\ice. This section of tKe coun-
try does not lack succc^ssful co-
operatives. Your farmers' co-op-
erative elevatorf are among oar
best examples of successful co-
operation. It is my opiiiion that
you have the foundation 'on which
to build a thoroughly effetrtivc
marketing organization, and I be-
lieve the tiipe is soon at hand
when the frain jiroducers of the
middfip weft^rn gr^in states will
join in a sound grain marketing or-
ganization. Such an effort, in my
opinion, is worth/ of early consider-
ation. ( The Secretary had refer-
ince in the itliovt to the work voui
being doni in xetting. up the A'o-
tlonnl Farfners' Elevator Company,
Co-oitcrotioe, with itn Kitftsidiarn
felling ageney on the Chirago mar-
ket, the Utrral Grain Company.)
• * ♦

8. Surplus. No longer is it the
size of the crop that counts, but its
purchasing power. 'The surplus fre-
quently is not a blessing to the
farmer, f«r even a smal suijilus
tends disproportionately to lower
the market value of the whole prod-
uct This is the .surplus problem —
this uncontrollable aspect of agri-
culturd prpduction that tends tu
put the fanners at the frequent dis-
advantage in the field of exchange
relations. It in a problem underly-
ing the whole agricultural situation.
I believe we must recognize it on
that basis.

A National Problem

The nation must recognize this
problem for it is a matter of na-
tional concern. I am already on
record with my belief that public
agencies skould make every proper
effort to co-operate on sound work-
able programs looking to its solu-
tion.

I am opposed to price-fixing. I
am oppose* to govemmint handlins
of farm products.

It has seemed to mo, however,
that something could Lie don*e to-
ward reducing the ban- a^^ A'hich
surround lertai.. , l.asea of ^ji-

2. Land Policy. N»t in favor
of aggravating the c»-op surplus
problem by the government helping

develop new hinds any Ifurther than

is neces.<^ary'to complete presautJ cultural" merchandising— the term
projects. It^ better to rgforesll merrhanditing b<ing.J|ictS-JJS«J -!P

than to develop new and coinpeting
farm lands. ,

* «

3. Farm Credit. Much remaihs
to be done in bringing all credit
facilities to farmers. This is espe-
cially true of the federal interme-
diate credit system. It is necessary
to develop credit machinery which
serves the farmer adequately and
reasonably io times of depres^on as
well as in times of prosperity.

• * *

4. Freight Rates. I believe we
must have substantial readju*ment
in freight rates. High freight rates
contributed to the farm depression.
The whole freight-rate structure
needs overhauling. Adjustments
should be made which take into Ac-
count the market value of farm
products. On the olher hand, rail-
roads need adequate income tp ren-
der eficient and adequate service.

5. Roads. It is important to the
nation that highway development
be so directed that it bring; good
roads as near as piossitlle to levery
farmsr. Necessary thalt statt and
federal governments co.*operate.

* * * .

6. Water Developments. Our nav-
igable waterwjftys should be made
effective owtlets fdr products df tfie
farm. Secretarj- Hoover has iiointed
out that many competing agricul-
tural sections of the world arc' close
to seaboard, that ocean Ates are on
a pre-war basi^. that our incnasetl
rate to sea-boBrd therefore penal-

zes Mississippi Valley producers in
foreign markets by just this amount
— from five tojtwelve cents a bush-
el, that one iremedy lies iri im-
provement of lOur waterways,, thus
reducing freigUt costs.
¥ * *

7. Co-apera(!ve Markelin(. Xs an

individual the farmer can do little
or nothing to improve marketing
conditions, but through organiza-
tion, the financing, insurance, sltand-
ardization, storage and ~distrib(ution
of farm crops may be tnade Jnore
efficient and less costly. ' I am anx-
ious to promote the development of
co-operative marketing along sound
lines. In order that the department
may render co-operatives even
greater; a.ssistance than in the past,
I have ^iven my support to a pleas-
ure now before Congress, expand-

its broadest. 8e."s?. It has seemed
that this oould and should be dene
by some fiarmir-controlled agency.
When Mr. Dic'inson <ame forth
with hits new bill, introducod in ''..v
House January 4, it appeari:d that
we had apgiroached -u^me common
ground, and I frankly and openly
said so. I tried to make it plain
that I want to give full consider-
ation tu constructive proposals di-
rected to the surplus problem, even
though 1 did not favor all the pro-
visions of the Dickinson bill as in-
troduced. There has been general
discussion «if late as to the forma-
tion of a federal farm board or com-
mission Oi embodied in the Dickin-
son bill and other proposals. J me
in a riffhtlg constituted agency of
thin nature the poHHibility of at-
tacking thic surplus problem in a
coitst ruct ire and seientifie way.
Furthermore, there is as broad field
of action for such a board as a pow-
erful spoko^sman for American agri-
culture.

Conferences to Continue

I hai»e called into conference on
this surplus problem mt^n whom 1
consider among the best equipped
in the country to contribute to a
solution. I have scheduled other
conferences during the remainder
of January and the fore part of
Febrftarj-. There is a great divi-
sion of opinion. The whole subject
is controversial. Vut the economic
conditions hack of this a.udition
are • mtdenlablr. The American
people will profit in my judgment,
by giving fair-minded, sympathetic
considtTiition to those conditions.
We should bury all bitterness in
these discussions. J(en are sincere
and we will onlj- havte success when
we pound out cverj-* proposal upon
the anvil of constructive debate. /
look funvard to ultimate action on
this jirolilcm which will be sound,
consthictice, and in th* interest of
the nation.

In a cnl:rK-tii' or the AMsmMtam om rAKu

landH as wiu|iiir<-d to city (>r(4j«Tt> in Frvuklin
cuuty by J. C Wuisoii. I. .\. A tsuIKH sp. -
CIalu.t, in oi..t.i>*al lou witli tl^f J niliUlu County
ranu liun^iu, il was found tljst furai luisU wvre
BBimiw-d at ^iti.ti per cent of tWir sale value and
city lota alid h.ux-s at ^-.t.S per cent. Tluw'
facts were broujlit to the aUcriI|i.ii of tlieCunly
Itoardof L.oii;tli^tiori but ttoaetmn wsk M^eiir,.*!
The K.irm ISurtsu th,-n afvpeaV-d to Ihe Stale
Tax ConuniiMuoa aod tiic OMe ia bciae oousidcrrd
by tli;it bo4y.

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The IllinoU Agricultural A«»ociation RECORD

February 1, 1928

1'

t92t

Annual Report
Of Association Now
Printed In Booklet

ttt-PtLke Illustrated Review of
Year's Work Ready for Dis-
tribition to Bureaus and
Mei ibers

"What

Organi^ti

might

the am ual

recentlj

hensive

ready

Bureau: i

This
the
activities,

many

illustrai ions
cleame is
in a c mc
<f

rector

Fron
has rec
formatibn
I. A. ^
In this
answer;
licitor
graphs
he

of faml
tive ni< mber.

nee< s

Happened in Illinois Farm

ion Circles in 1925"

'rell have been the title of

report of the I. A. A.

printed in a most compre-

80-page booklet and now

for distribution to Farm

and members,
publication, which reviews

fields of the association's

i, includes 38 pictures and

placed to add color and

to the facts as reported
ise manner by each di-

the 15 departments,
time to time the association
ived many requests for in-
concerning *'What is the

and What has it Done?"
booklet may be found the

and the member or so-
by gleaning certain para-
finds the information that

in explaining the benefits

organization to a prospec-

pige

recjnt
amps ign-

Spscial Features Included

Opening with a drawing on the

e depicting the growth of

A. from the first meeting

to the tenth anniversary

annual meeting held at

■Urbana, there may be

)ictures of the officers and

'e committee; the depart-

directors; the office staff;

county farm bureau president's

Chicago, Dec. 8; the

i ind girls' club breakfast,

, Dec. 2; the I. A. A. fair

the picnic issue of The Rec-

d maps of Illinois showing

location of farmers' elevators.

Farm Bureaus, livestt

front
the I.

in 1910

tha

Chfc .

found

executi

mental

the

breakfast

boys'

Chicag<

exhibit

ord;

the

county

licitors going over the territory,
following the local men.

Reterre.Fund Over $273,000

The financial r«port shows the
association's general reserve fund
totaling over $273,000, an accom-
plishment that has gained for the
organization the reputation of be-
ing the most strongly founded farm
association in this country. It is
also shown that the expenses of the
organization for 1925 were $21,-
545.97 less that the income for the
same, period, thus giving an addi-
tion to the reserve of that amount.

During the 12 months of 1925,
12,982 clippings hearing the name
"Illinois AgriculturalVAssociation"
were returned by a^-«<uamercial
clipping bureau which clips news
articles in a large portion of the
newspapers of the United States,
according to the report of the in-
formation department. This gives
a general idea of the news of the--
association's activities distributed
through the press. The amount of
clippings returned last year was 50
per cent more than 1924, 400 per
cent more than 1923 and 300 per
cent greater than the clipping re-
turned in 1922.

Report of the legislative com-
mittee for 19ft5 includes work of
state legislation including the pro-
posed amendment to the state con-
stitution con«erning taxation, a
state gasoline tax law and a bill to
facilitate the er-adication of bovine
tuberculosis as well as analyzing
all bills that were introduced in the
legislature to protect Illinois farm-
ery against detrimental law-making.

Tifx Department Savei $2,000,000

The legal department functioned
chiefly as a legal counsel for the
various departments and activities
of the association with special work
being done on tax hearings, grain
problems and legislative matters.

Accomplishments of the taxation
and statistics department have sav-
ed for Illinois farmers approximate-
ly $2,000,000 annually. This was
gained through securing reductions
in the tax assessments on farm

i . .■ .'It; •

OTiei Aiscory ua mc uiiu»u: -^^^
cultura Association" by C. V.
Greg — ■ Bditor of Prairie Farmer;
C' < - " m Bureau is

Firr •. ^ ^^^ b.\ rthur 0. Page,

edit . * '-..'sfr Judd Illinois
Far ■{■ ■: inual crop re-

vie* » .1 nitted through

the cc - operation of the United
States and Illinois departments of
agricul ure.

Sam H. Thompson, president of
the A. F. B. F. and former presi-
dent of the I. A. A., has included a
messag : to the 63,000 Illinois farm-
ers and extends admonition for fu-
ture pr)gress. In the introduction,
Secretaf-y Fox points out:

Di

lanHn to Rn amoii"* "-

! UUttiO!!.-

■he
n ■-

pi blit

iifided Into Five Sections

material for this, the Elev-
Ahnual Report, has been as-
under five main divisions
dic^te the general character of
which is attempted by the
members of the staff of
The field of service is
a general farm organization
its usefulness into the
)t covered by other agencies
ic, semi-public or private
irhese five divisions char-
this service are adminis-
organization, public rela-
ancial business service and
The accomplishments
fields of service outlined
fy the costs involved and
amount of personal effort
i^any over the state have so
given to bring about
tolerable conditions for the
today and to lay the foun-
for a prosperous and con-
agrarian population in the

"The
enth
semblec
to ini
service
various
worker^,
that of
extendi
fields n
of a
nature,
acterizi^g
traton,
tions,

fin;
marketi Dg.

jv stii

in the

fully .

the vast

^hich

generously

more

farmers

dation

tented

future.

Turn ng over the pages from de-
partmei it to department certain
facts nay be found as follows:

More than 600,000 pieces of mail

were hi indled by the general office

issQciation during 1925, not

; the general routine of of-

of the
including 1
fice woi'k.

In
ment silp
in 50 1 1

li25

the organization depart-
pervised membership drives
linois counties. Under the
associat ion's campaign plan this
work w Ls so arranged that the local
men si( ned, on an average, 75 per
cent oi the membership, the re-
naindeij being signed by state so-

•■re icc_c^«i iu -

vciox uuuitbies.

The transportation department
collected 594 claims totaling over
$16,000 for Illinois farmers during
the last year. Other work of the
department included investigations
in freight rate structure, reduction
in limestone rates, represented the
farmers in hearings regarding the
installation of light and power lines
as well as telephone rates and serv-
ice.

Reduces Auditing Costs

During the last year 73 farmers
organizations joined the Illinois
Agricultural Co-operation Associa-
tion, the auditing and business ad-
visory service of the association.
This brings the total membership up
to 185. One hundred eighty-nine
examinations were made at a reduc-
tion of 20 per cent in costs as com-
pared to the previous year and de-
cidedly lower than the general
commercial costs of equal ability.

Through the limestone-phosphate
department, farm bureau members
in Illinois during 1925 were able to
secure approximately 750,000 tons
of linaestone at a contract price.

iBy co-operation of the associa-
tion, the county Farm Bureaus and
the Illinois Association of Mutual
Insurance Companies, th« Farmers
Mutual Reinsurance Company was
organized with over $700,000 di-
rect insurance in force. In a few
years it is estimated that this or-
ganization will save the farmers of
this state two million dollars an-
nual in insurance costs.

Dairy Marketing Service Rendered

The fruit and vegetable-depart-
ment which functions aS the Illinois
Fruit Growers Exchange, Centra-
lia, handled approximately $300,-
000 in fruits and vegetables for
southern Illinois Farmers in 1925.
This volume was distributed in 105
different cities in 25 states includ-
ing points as far south as Jackson-
ville, Fla., and north to Portland,
Me.

Last year the dairy marketing
department assisted in organizing
five co-operative associations. Field
service was rendered in eight coun-
ties. Seventy-one organization
problems were handled in 18 coun-
ties. In 32 counties merchandis-
ing service was rendered.

You Can Get Full Text
of Important Speeches
if You Write For Them

Space does not permit print-
ing more than excerpts from the
addresses made at the annual
meeting, but anyone who wants
a copy of any of the principal
ones can get one as long as the
supply lasts by writing the in-
formation department of the I.
A. A., 608 S. Dearborn Street,
Chicago.

You can also get a copy of the
annual report for 1925 and the
report of the Illinois Farm Re-
lief Committee.

Convention Elects
Three New Members

(Continued from ■page 1, col. J) '
Many farmers of this state need
little or no introduction to Frank
Oexner, newly elect committeeman
from the 24th congressional dis-
trict. For the last three years Mr.
Oexner has worked with the organ-
ization department of tlfe I. A. A.
in the solicitation of membership in
more than half of the counties of
Illinois. He lives near Waterloo
and has served as secretary of the
Monroe County Farm Bureau.

Mr. Oexner owns and operates
an,80-acre farm and has developed
its fertility to more than four times
its original produciveness. Several
years ago the land, of which Mr.
Borgelt's farm is a part, produced
about seven or eight bushels of
wheat to the acre. During the last
season Mr. Borgelt'p wheat yielded
an average of 32 bushels. He cred-
its this increase due to the use of
limestone and sweet clover.

Earl Smith is New

I. A. A. President

(Continued from page 1, col. 5)
Outstanding among the official
:tions taken by the delegates was
"e endorsement of the general
inciples set forth in the Dickinson
K,.ll, now pending in Congress,
which was mentioned by Secretary
of Agriculture Jardine in hjp speech
at the Thursday luncheon as the
one measure offering substantial
ground for agreement. It is also
the bill which contains the federal
farm board idea suggested by for-
mer Governor Lowden in the past
and reiterated by him amid hearty
applause by 2,300 people at the
Friday luncheon.

A summary of all the resolutions
will be found on the editorial page.

Conference at Car mi
Feb. 12 Will Discuss
Future of Wheat Pool

Whether or not the Indiana Soft
Wheat pool shall be extended fur-
ther into White, Gallatin, Edwards
and Wabash counties and other
parts of southeastern Illinois will be
decided in a conference of all in-
terested parties at Carmi, Feb. 12,
according to Chester C. Davis, di-
rector of grain marketing of the
Illinois Agricultural Association.
Reports from the first year's opera-
tions of the pool in the four coun-
ties named are generally satisfac-
tory.

The grrain marketing department
completed arrangements with the
Indiana Wheat Growers Associa-
tion, so that the soft wheat of Il-
linois farmers could be marketed
co-operatively. It was largely
through this department that the
formation of the National Farm-
ers' Elevators Grain Company has
been made possible.
Poultry Marketing to Start Next

More than $104,000,000 in live-
stock was marketed co-operatively
in Illinois in 1925 by the Produc-
ers Associations, livestock commis-
sion companies formed and foster-
ed by the I. A. A. livestock mar-
keting department. This depart-
ment also handled 82,909 pounds
of wool and assisted in the Illinois
Farm Bureau Serum Association.

Educational work preparatory to
the organization of poultry and egg
marketing associations in many Il-
linois counties was carried on by
the poultry and egg marketing de-
partment of the association.

/* A. A. Increased Its Financial Reserve in
1925, Auditor's Certified Report Shows

THE most outstanding point of
interest about the Ilinois Agri-
cultural Association as seen by oth-
er organizations and business inter-
ests is its extraordinary financial
stability.

During 1926 the association lived
within its income and saved the ex-
cess of income over expense, which

ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION EXHIBIT A

BALANCE SHEET
As at DcMKbcr 31, 192S

ASSETS ' ; 1 - i .

CURKENT ASSETS:

Cash on hand and in Banks. $11^77.21

Illinois Farm Belief Fund 12,292.08 $ 24^69,29

was $21,545.97. This sum was in-
vested in safe securities by the
treasurer, R. A. Cowles. The total
of the general reserve fund is now
$273,606.85 and it is invested in
Liberty and other safe bonds.

The financial standing as found
by the independent auditors, Fra-
zer and Torbet, is as follows:

ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE:

County Farm Bureaus for dues $13,599.fi4

County Farm Bureaus — Miscellaneous 484.02

Phosphate Account _ 254.70

Co-operative Accounting Accounts 4,600.68

Producer Comn. Co.'s for field service.. .;.... 1,169.42

Others - i... 3,37g.90

Inventory of Signs

Advances to Employees — Bonded ; ', \ -

Accrued Interest Receivable .- ' '*'

Illinois-Missouri Co-op., Inc. (secored)i._

U. S. Liberty Bonds -.-.;._

Federal Land Bank Bonds... —

Total Current Assets _ —

LONG TERM LOANS:

Due from Agricultural Organizations $19,781.56

Less: Reserve for doubtful items 6,500i)0

23,487.26

5.06

2,125.00

1,651.56

16,000.00

131,808.45

15,131.25

„.$214,477M

FIXED ASSETS:

Furniture and Equipment — ~ — *

Less: Reserve for Depreciation

..$29,349.53
_ 13,677.86

Automobiles _

- Less: Reserve for Depreciation..

$ 2,053.64

701.16

$ 16,671.67
1,352.38

V 13^1.66

Total Fixed Assets $ 17,024^5

. 42,091.64

ORGANIZATION EXPENSES (chargeable to 1926 and 1927)

DEFERRED CHARGES: .

Prepaid Rent -. $4,033.32 :

Prepaid Insurance »__ 323.01 i

Inventory of Supplies i 1,029.75

LIABILITIES
CURRENT LIABILITIES: ^i ■

Accounts Payable _ % 2,951.24

Accounts — Credit Balances
Baseball Fund — Farm Bureaus-
Illinois Farm Relief Fund

Total Current Liabilities

Unearned Membership Income...

110.00
.. 220.33
12,292.08

Illinois Agricultural Co-op. Assn. Reserve..

6,386.08
$292,216.18

-$ 16,673.66

360.00

2,720.69

GENERAL FUND RESERVE

273,606.83

$292,261.19

ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION EXHIBIT B

STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURES

For tile year ended December 31, 1925

INCOME:

Dues— Current $228,030.37

Dues— Past Due - - : 47,330,42

Total

Interest on Bank Balances $2,517.26

Interest on Note 966.23

Interest on Bonds 6,634.96

Discount earned 2,163.96

-$276^60.79

12,281.41

Total Income
EXPENDITURES:

Administration;

General Office

Executive

Secretarial —
Finance

..■JK..

$23,828.89

22,817.61

11,289.37

..- 21,367.72

..$287,642 JiO

Service Bureaus:

Legal

Statistical ^

Transportation-Claims
Special Projects

Phosphate-Limestone

Organization Expense ....

Speakers Bureau

Information

Legislation

Co-operative Accounting

Co-operative Marketing;

Poultry

..$ 7,072.36

.. 9,348.99

.. 11,376.68

.. 20,061.96

.. 9,443.25

.. 21,045.82

.. 1,469.30

.. 24,658.49

.. 5,671.08

.. 11,915UI9

- $ 4,898U)1

Livestock 9,754.67

Dairy -■>.- - 10,916.23

Grain .._ " 7,287.60

Fruit and Vegetable _.. 5,761.91

$ 79;293.40
%

$122,061.92

38,608^2

Total Departmental Expense

Add: Membership Dues remitted to American Farm Bureau
Federation .

.$239,963.78
. 26432.60

Total Expenditures

Excess of Income over Expense-

..$266,096.23
- 21,646.97

CERTIFICATE OF AUDITORS

We certify that the Balance Sheet, Exhibit A, correctly states the
financial position of your association, ou December 31, 1925, and that
the Income and Expense of the year 1925 are correctly shown in Exhibit
B.

(Signed) FRAZER £ TORBET,

Certified Public AecountMitSi
Chicago, Jan. 11, 1926.

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Volume 4

Issued Every Month for 63,000 thinking Farmers— March 1, 1926

No. 3

REAL BAHLE FOR EQUAUH FOR F

/. A. A. Wins Long Fight in New Federal Tax Bill

BEGINS MARCH 1

George R. Wicker

Co-ops Exempted From
Income Taxes; Saving
Over Million $s a Year

Two Years' Persistent Effort
by I. A. A. Ends in Victory;
Revenue Law is Clarified
After Much Opposition.

Due largely to the persistent ef-
forts of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation through
George R. Wick-
er, director of the
department o f
cooperative a c
counting, the new
federal tax hill
as agreed upon
by the confer-
ence committee
appointed by the
House and Sen-
ate to conciliate
points of differ-
e n c e between
their respective
bills, a clarifica-
tion of the exemption rules concern-
ing fanners' cooperative marketing
and purchasing associations has
been obtained which means an an-
nual saving to Illinois fanners' ele-
vators of approximately $75,000.

The victory represents nearly two
years of effort by the Illinois Agri-
O'lltuT'al A!?snf iatmn. Tn the past,
farmers' cooperatives have exper-
ienced an interpretation . of the ex-
emption clause which has been out
of harmony with the intent of the
cooperative marketing laws as en-
acted by Congress, consequently
many cooperative organizations
paid from $200 to $300 taxes a
year when they should have been
exempt. The clause was re-worded
through suggestions of the asso
elation and the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation, whose support was
enlisteB, and when Congress gives
its final O- K. to the conference
tax bill, the exemptions will be
clarified and definite.
IllinoU Saves $75,000 Annually
About half the farmers' elevators
in Illinois pay income tax, Mr.
Wicker finds, these paying from
$200 to $300 a year. The clarifica-
tion exempts them and results in a
saving estimated at $75,000 an-
nually. There are about 4,500
farmers' elevators in the United
States, Mr. Wicker says, and about
ha'f of these have been paying in-
come taxes. Combining the saving
to the nation's farmers' elevators
and that given other cooperatives,
ft total annual saving of about $1,-
125,000 results.

The I. A. A. has had representa-
tives at Washington on several oc-
casions in behalf of the exemption
problem. Mr. Wicker appeared be-
fore the House ways and means
committee last fall urging a clari-
fication, but due to opposition from
the treasury department officials
who claimed the changes unneces-
sary, the House committee did not
include the I. A. A. changes in the
original bill recommended to the
House and subsequently passed.
Victory Followed Defeat.
Although defeated before the
House ways and means committee,
the I. A. A. persisted. The case
was brought to the attention of the
Senate finance committee where,
after considerable effort, favorable
action was accorded it and an
amendment was made to the tax bill
in the Senate covering the I. A. A.
request. This amendment was sub-
sequently adopted by the conference
committee, which means enactment
when the entire tax bill is finally
passed by Congress, which is now
considered a mere formality.

25 States Reached
by Illinois Fruit
Grower's Exchange

During 1925 the Illinois Fruit
Growers Exchange at Cenjtralia,
"mothered" by the I. A. A. and
Farm Bureaus, handled products
from 35 shipping points which
were sold direct to 105 markets
located in 25 states.

Not more than 1500 cars of
peaches will be signed for 1926
and it was decided at the Ex-
change's annual meeting. By
limiting the amount handled, the
quality can be bettered, produc-
ers who are chronic kickers can
be left out and a general in-
crease in efficiency will result, it
is believed.

Sam Thompson' s Silver
Cup Arouses Interest
of Many Farm Bureaus

Information about what your
county, state and national Farm
Bureaus are doing in your behalf
ought to be more prevalent this
year than ever before, judging from
the interest shown by the county
Farm Bureaus in the silver loving
cup to be: awarded by Sam H
Thompson to the Farm Bureau hav-
ing the "best information service to
members and general public."

The information service of each
Farm Bureau which enters the con-
test will be judged next January
by a committee yet to be named by
Mr. Thompson. In judging, the
committee will use the following
scorecard :

Farm Bureau official onran 40 points

Newb in papers of county 40 point.-!

Stat«- newB _ 10 pointtj

Special features (posters, radio
speeches, special postcards, stick-
ers, etc.) 10 points

100

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Miss Lillie Brandt, 16 years old,
won first place on this cartoon in a
contest in the Sibley High School in
Ford county. Excuse us, Miss
Brandt, but we couldn't resist add-
ing two more signs to your dog's
tail — the first two.

A. "JUNIOR FARM Bt'REAU" IS ONE OF THE

major projects of the De Witt Countjr Farm
Uur^u this year. , .

I If You Feel The Si ime, Do The Same!

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TWAT SAVS THE FARMERS ARE MORE m

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^LETTERS FROM FARMERS
WHAT 0*YE ■

THINK 0'7t4AT?

Every letter to a Congresi
farmer it a bullet that hits iti
"Equality for Agriculture."
than a sword — and do your 1
Your organization can be no
port behind it from the members.

in or Senator from an Illinois
mark in this great battle for

Use your pen — it is mightier
it to win this, economic war!

stronger than the moral sup-
Do your bit NOW!

New I. A. A. President
Announces Committees
To Serve During 1926

Number of Advisory Commit-
tees Reduced to Save on
Traveling Elxpenses; 13 De-
partments Under 5 Divisions

The advisory committees which
will guide the work of the Illinois
Agricultural Association during
1926 were announced by Earl C.
Smith, new president, at first meet-
ing of new executive committee.

The number of advisory commit-
tees is cut down this year in order
to economize on traveling expense,
each of this year's committees be-
ing given more responsibility. The
13 departments, each of which had
a separate advisory committee last
year, are brought under five func-
tional headings.

The committees and personnel:

Finance — William H. Moody,
Port Byron, Rock Island county,
chairman; Charles R. Finley,
Hoopeston, Vermilion county; A.
R. Wright, Varna, Marshall county.

Organization — C. E. Bamborough,
•Polo, Ogle county, member^ip ac-
quisition; Frank Oexner, Waterloo,
Monroe county, membership col-
lections; R, F. Karr, Iroquois, Iro-
quois county, information; L. R.
Marchant, Galesburg, Knox county,
Ifarm adviser.

f Public relations — Frank D. Bar-
ion, Cornell, Livingston county,
legislation; R. K. Loomis, Makanda,
lackson county, transportation; J.
L. Whisnand, Charleston, Coles
county, taxation; E. W, Rusk, Car-
inville, Macoupin county, farm
idviser.

Financial business ser\'ice-^G. F,
fuUock, Rockford, Winnebago
bounty, insurance; Charles Borgelt,
flavana, Maaon county, farm sup-
plies; B, H, Taylor, Rapatee. Fulton
;ounty, accounting; Ralph E.
Amett, Pekin, Tazewell county,
farm adviser.

Marketing — C R. Finley, Hoopes-
[on, grain; Samuel Sorrells, Ray-
mond, Montgomery county, livestock;
tVilliam Webb, Joliet, Will county,
lairy; Charles Marshall. Belknap,
fohnson county, poultry; W, L.
ope, Salem. Marion county, fruit
ind vegetable; J. H. Uoyd, Carth-
)ge, Hancock county, f Arm adviser.

Dickinson Bill s the
Flag; Sam Thompson
Fires Opening Volley

House Committee on Agricul-
ture Begins Hearings ;Gossip
Says Bill Will Be Reported
Out Favorably

MARCH 1 is the date set for
the beginning of hearings on
the Dickinson bill by the House «
committee on agriculture at Wash-
ington. And the economic war for
"Equality for Agriculture" with
industry and labor is on at close
range !

Every member of the Farm
Bureau will be represented by Sam
H. Thompson as president of the
American Farm Bureau Federation,
who fires the opening volley. Other
representatives of the American
Farm Bureau Federation and of
other farm organizations will then
have their say.'

BusiaeM Interests Back Ferners

Backinf up the farm organiza-
tions in their light for the Lfickinson
bill is the "Executive Committee of
22," appointed to carr>- 1 on the
pledge to the Dickinson pl^n given
by the All-.Agricultural Aijea Con-
ference alt Des Moines, whiqh repre-
sented business interests closely
allied to farming in 1 1 states of the
Middle West. Earl C. Smifh, presi-
dent of Ihe yiinois AjgriculVural K»-
sociation, is on this committee rep —
resenting Illinois in compi^ny with
George N. Peek of Moline who is
chairman and also president of the
American Council of Agriculture
which was formed at Si. P^ul after
the defeat of the McN'aryi^Haugen
bill in the spring of 1924 for the
sole purpiose of securing "^quality
for Agriculture."

The House committee «n agri-
culture has expressed itself as not
wanting to hear any testimbny con-
cerning the seriousness of the agri-
cultural situation. Members of the
committee say they know what it is. ■>
The thing they want to hear is some
feasible plan which will give agri-
culture equality with industry and
labor.

Stroag Front for Dickinaoti Plaa

The Dickinson plan, which really
is a plan worked out by farm lead-
ers in cooperation with Repfesetita-
tive Dickinson of Iowa, represents
the most substantial Common
ground for agreement of am- relief
bill in Congress, and for thai reason
has the best chance of passing.
Eastern farm organizatioi|s have
endorsed it and a more united front
prevails for this plan than Ifor the
McNary-Haugen bill.

Gossip from Washington already
has it that the House committee on
agriculture will vote the Dickinson
plan out with a recommetidation
tb.at it jjass — but that is go»sip.

-All indorsements of the Dickinson
plan — including that given it by the
Illinois Agricultural As,sociation at
the annual meeting — have been
gpjieral and apply to the ^neral
principles, which, briefly, call for
creatiom of a Federal Farm Board
in connection with which the pro-
ducers car control and dispose of
the surplus above domestic needs of
the major farm commodities lin such
manner as to maintain an Atnerican
price in the home market, the
finances t« be derived in the most
practical manner from all pro-
ducers, and ;the actual buying;, stor-
ing and selling involved in h|tndling
the surplus to be done by associa-
tions or corporations created and
controlled by the producers them-
selves. These are the principles

sought to be
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE . j

(By Congressional Districts) [

IsC to 11th .* William Webb, Route One, Joliet

12th ; G. F. TuUock, Rockford

I3th C. E. Bamboraugh, Polo

|4th W. H. Moody, Port Byron

15th B. H. Taylor. Rapetee

Ifcth '. .■ A. R. Wright. Varna

17th F. D. Barton, Cornell

18th R. F. Karr, Iroquois

19th « * J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th ■ Charles Borselt. Havana

21st . ., Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd .....: Frank Oexner. Waterloo

23rd W. L. Cope, Salem

24th CharlesMarshall, Belknap

25th R. K. Loomis, Makanda

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hearing on the citation concerning
tie Chicago Producers Commission As-
sociation has been concluded. The reams
tesi imony, much of which was simply hear-
the part of sorrje witnesses and would
been admitted as evidence in a regu-
now lies before Secretary Jardine
review and final decision which is ex-
shortly.
Duijing the nine-day hearing, three hog
salesn len — Fred Zeiss, George Parmenter and
CJranston — confessed to receiving money
John Reilley and R. Shefler, yard
for the privilege of operating
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OFFICERS

President, E«rl C. Smith Detroit

Vice-rresident, Charles R. Finley Hoopcston

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington

Secretary, Geo. A. Fox Sycaxnore

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[CCLTURAL ASSOCIAXfWN

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To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organ-
ized, namely, to promote, protect and represent the business,
economic, social atui educatiotutt interests of the farmers of
Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture.

',; ■■'•,■',. DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Co-operative Accounting Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing — . ..3 A. D. Lynch

Finance .; R. A. Cow lea

Fnjit and Vegetable Klarkcting A. B. Leejjer

General Office J. H. Kelker

Grain Marketing Chester C. Davis

Information Harry C. Butcher

Legal Counsel Donald Kiikpatrick

Live Stock Marketing J Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organization G. E. Metiger

Phosphate-Limestone J. R. Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C Watson

Transportation L. J Quasey

Published once a month at 404 North Weglcy Ave, Mount Morris, Illinois, by the Illinoia AKrictilturftl Araooiation. Edited by Department of Information, Harry C. Butcher, Director, 608 South Dearborn
Street, Chicago, Illinois. Kutered as second-class matter Ortober 20, lUJj at the post office at Mount Morris. Illinois, under the Act of March 3. 1879. Acceptance for niaiUnit at special rate of poetaee provided
for in Section 412, Art of February 2S, 192.5, authorized October 27, 192,>. The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty, cents
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JJ^BjUiSUS

Imnediately following their confession,

were discharged. In order to continue

care o^' ^he Producer hog business, the

.i . a .-i Indianapolis sister organiza-

loaned Lug salesmen who are serving

)ermanent, competent salesmen are se-

they
taking;

lions
until
cured
Cocperative marketing is a comparatively
system, but it must necessarily, at least
beginning, draw its employees from
those who have received their train-
the employ of old-line commission
Unfortunately a few of these men
)roven to be dishonorable and dishon-
n this case it is the misfortime of the
farme "s' organization to have had to shoulder
the blame — and they are not dodging their
share af it — and the employee's moral down-
fall is being used by old-line interests against
the pr nciples of cooperative marketing.

The facts disclosed by the Hearing sink
home the ever existing responsibility of any
board of directors and the managArient to
whom it delegates authority. The manage-
ment and directors who hold the reins of
authority and have the responsibility of guid-
ing a cooperative dare not let those reins es-
cape tieir constant attention, or else the or
ganization will get off the road which the
membors want it to travel. The Chicago Pro-
ducers bo^d of directors is meeting its re-
sponsijility courageously, • has the confidence
of the farm organizations and I. A. A., and
merits the utmost confidence of the country.
The inter, * of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation in :.i 3 matter is that oxir coopera-
m; irketing enterprises shall be conducted
y and efficiently. There is absolute
ty of employing men who are thor-
infoiTOed on the principles of cooper-
njiarketing and who have the ability and
to honestly represent the farmers' in-

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Speaking of the 1925 annual report of the niinois Agri-
cultural Association, the Springfield Journal recently stated:
"Every farmer would find something in this report to in-
terest him; certainly it is enough to inspire hope in the
ability of farmers to conduct so great an association for
their mutual benefit. The pity is that every farmer in the
statt is not a member and giving aid to the movement."

Emphasize the Last Sentence

T^MPHASIS should be placed on the last
-*-^ sentence of the story on the opposite
page concerning the secret subsidy given the
"County Agent and Farm Bureau" magazine.
If the exchanges have a legitimate fight
against cooperative marketing, why not come
out in the open?

"Serving 6.3,000 thinking farmers, the Hlinois Agricul-
tural Association, through five divisions, those of adminis-
tration, organziation, public relations, financial business
service and marketing, seems to have gone far during the
year 1925 towards its declared object of bringing about
more tolerable conditions and of laying the foundation for
a prosperous and contented agrarian population. ... It
payt to organize." — Rock Island Argus.

Are Farm Bureau Members
\ "Real Farmers"?

TTSUALLY the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
^ ciation does not reply to published at-
tacks upon the organization because nine
times out of ten an attack is its own answer.
In the case reprinted below, however,
George E. Metzger, I. A. A. organization di-
rector, could not bear remaining silent. The
fii^st letter was written to and printed in
Pi'airie Farmer of Feb. 13 and the second is
Mr. Metzger's answer, submitted to Prairie
Farmer.

We Are All Wrong

[How does it come that you recommend policies ad-
vanced by the farm bureau and not those advanced by
the real farmers?
I Did you know that the farm bureau represents about
one-tenth of the farmers, and they have not done, or
recommended anything that has the approval of real
farmers?

The bill to take care of the surplus that you say has
the best chance of passing in congress is one to reim-
burse exporters for any loss they may sustain in ex-
porting grain.

How much of it do you think would reach the farm-
ers? I think the best bill yet introduced in congress
is the one by McKinley to use grain as collateral to
borrow money so we can hold grain off the market.
Douglas Co., HI. JOHN E. MAX.

We can l>Drrow money on grain without any new laws. — Editor.

Editor, The Prairie Farmer:

I want to take the liberty to ask John E.
Max of Douglas County, Illinois, writing in
your issue of February 13, 1926, just who the
"real fanners" are. He insinuates that our
farm buieau men are not "real farmei-s."

First of all, Mr. Max's statement that the
Fai-m Bureau represents one-tenth of the
farmers is incorrect, insofar as Illinois is con-
cerned. Our paid-up memberships in 1925

represent approximately 25 per cent of the
farmers in the state, based on the number
given by the census, which includes all farms
from three acres up.

Apparently Mr. Max does not belong to a
farm organization. If he represents the "real
farmers," then cei-tainly the "real farmers"
do not believe in organization. The Farm
Bureau has had in its program for several
years the development of cooperative mar-
keting on such a scale that the farmer can
have some hope of stabilizing the price of his
products. Agencies for this purpose have
been established for the handling of live-
stock, fruits, dairy products and grain, but
there ate a lot of Mr. Max's "real farmers"
who do'not see fit to patronize those agencies.
Apparently those "real farmers" are not in
favor of stabilizing the price of their products.

The Farm Bureau is standing solidly for
some sort of a Government Board which can
assist in stabilizing the price of various farm
commodities, so that the farmer may take ad-
vantage of the protective system in this coun-
tiy and prevent a little surplus of some com-
modity from depressing the price of the
whole crop. Apparently Mr. Max, if he rep-
resents the "real farmers," is not in favor of
making the pi-otective system available to the
American fanner, and thus increase his
prices.

The Farm Bureau has been active in legis-
lative affairs, and its work since the opening
of the American Farm Bureau office in Wash-
ington has been largely responsible for the
passing of 26 bills favorable to agriculture.
The results of this work helps every farmer
in.. America, iiiQluding^Mr. Max's so-called
real farmers" ^ well as the farm bureau
members.

The Farm Bureau has k\^o been very much
interested in tax reduction and its work in Il-
linois has been responsible for a decrease of
$225,000,000, in the full assessed valuation of
fai-m lands, and a saving in taxes during 1924
of $8.04 per farm, based on the high valua-
tions of 1920. Apparently Mr. Max's "real
farmers are not interested in tax reduction.

Ifte I'arm Bureau has also stood solidly for
a program of efficiency in farm operations,
tending to cut down the cost of production
Apparently the "real farmers" are not inter-
ested in lowering production costs.

"They say that a real man when he sets forth
destructive cnticism always has constructive
criticism to offer. We take it that if this is
true of a real man it should be true of a "real
farmer. After all of Mr. Max's destructive
criticism will he kindly come through and
offer a constnictive program, stating in con-
Crete terms what the "real farmers" want?
Yours very truly,
(Signed) GEORGE E. METZGER.

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March 1, 1926

The Illinoi* Agricultural A««ociation

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Pay 3

EXPOSE EXCHANGE'S SECRET SUBSIBiY TO ANTI-CO-OP PAPER

National Producers Have Facts on
Attempt of Old Line Interests to
Kill Farmers 'SellingOwn Products

Farmers Who Have Received "County Agent
Farm Bureau" Magazine in Their Mail Boxes
Without Subscribing Will Now Know Why.

FARMERS who have received the "County A^nt and
Farm Bureau" magazine in their mail boxes, and
have wondered at its persistence in reaching them even
though no subscription fee was ever collected from them can
now have their questions answered for the so-called friend

Here Is the Evidence —
You Are Judge and

aganda from that paper and say, "and that's |rom the
'County Agent and Farm Bureau,' your own paper.*'

To get articles and information to fill up the piper, the
corporation subscribes to the United States Press jClipping
Bureau at 538 South Clark St, Chicago, for clippings on
activities or reorganizations of cooperative n^keting
concerns. These are edited in such a ivay tl^at only
the unfavorable side of cooperative marketing i" , printed.
Other times information is printed that is furni^hcl by the
enemies of cooperatives. And, at the same time, infirmation
is also printed that comes free to any farm pajxr editor
from agricultural colleges and the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture. In these the paper is cloalied with

certain; air of authority.

Old-line commission houses subscribe liberally fof adver-

of the farmer has been exposed. To many this expose is
simply proof of well-founded suspicions.

There is substantial evidence in possession of the National
Livestock Producers Association proving that the livestock
exchanges of several of the principal markets of the United
States are secretly subsidizing the "County Agent and Farm
Bureau," which has been bitterly and viciously against
farmers marketing their own products. The purpose of the
secret subsidy has evidently been to defeat the farmers of
the country in their efforts to have a voice in the market-
ing of the products which they grow.

Exchanget Represent Old-Line Interettt.

The livestock exchanges are the organizations of the old-
line proprietary commission houses. There is an exchange
on each market, and the group of exchanges have a na-
tional organization called the National Livestock Exchange.
The farmers' cooperative organizations are not members of
the exchanges'.

"The County Agent and Farm Bureau" sails under false
colors. Instead of flowing a banner openly representing the
old-line interests which are subsidizing it, it sails the high
seas through second-class mailing privileges under the name
"County Agent and Farm Bureau" which is intended to give
it a iriendly approach to the \yould-be cooperative shippers
and persons generally interested in the farmers' welfare.
Yet it has been denounced, disclaimed and condemned by the
National Association of County Agents and the American
Farm Bureau Federation, as well as by county and state
Farm Bureaus.

Old-Liners Scared at Co-ops Grovrth.

The growth of the cooperative selling of livestock by the
farmers themselves on the principal market of the United
States has cut into the business of the old line commission
houses to the extent that the livestock exchanges of Chicago,
St. Paul, St. Louis, Buffalo and Sioux City are known to be
working against the farmers' interests by subsidizing and
furnishing a selected mailing list for the "County Agent and
Farm Bureau."

This magazine is mailed to livestock shippers, managers
and officers of the livestock shipping associations, farm ad-
visers or county agents, officers of county Farm Bureaus, and
many others in positions of responsibility in farmers' organ-
izations. This is done for the sole purpose of attempting to
shake their faith in cooperative marketing. Thus the old-line
interests are working under cover to clamp the brakes on the
present healthy growth and progress of cooperative market-
ing.

Many Advisers Get !t Free.

The magazine is published by the Lightner Publishing Cor-
poration at 2721 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, which
claims th« subscription rate is $1.50 a year. Reports from

Illinois farm advisers in response to an inquiry s<nt out by
the Illinois Agricultural Association show that th< majority
of them receive it month after month and year i f ter year
and yet pay no subscription fee. The same is ti ue as re-
gards managers of shipping associations and far ners' ele-
vators in Illinois and many other states.

The total circulation is approximately 10,500. iThe bona
fide subscription is only a small fraction of the tctal circu-
lation. The South St. Paul exchange has been 'specially
active in ci.culating the paper. It is reported tha; this ex-
change is paying for 1000 subscriptions and has piid some-
thing like $750 in advance for this priWlege. The ri te in this
case was 75 cents per copy per year in this instancp, but the
advertised rate is $1.50.

Fights Co-ops (or Own Profit.

When the "County Agent and Farm Bureau" vias estab-
lished several years ago, its publishers tried to repi esent the
thought of the farm bureau movement. Howev* r, a few
years later it changed hands, the present publi iher, the
Lightner Publishing Corporation of which O. C. L ghtner is
president, gaining control. The motive for publisi dng anti-
cooperative marketing articles is defined as simply bne from
which the cori)oration can reap commercial gain.
Gloats over Failures.

Certain interests opposed to the producers and tlie cooper-
ative movement generally were found ready and ' rilling to
assist the paper in a financial way. The name "County
Agent and\Farm Bureau," gave these old-line interests, es-
pecially their field men, a fine opportunity to quite prop-

tising space. Much of this is printed under a hcaHing of
"Direct Marketing."

Sister Paper Excluded from P. O.

The "Peanut Promoter," one of several trade papdrs pub-
lished at. one time' or another by the Lightner Publi.«hing
Corporation, was recently excluded from second-claSs mail-
ing privileges from the Chicago post office by sqtion at
Washington.

While the Nation^ Livestock Producers Association real-
ises thatthe "County Agent and Farm Bureau" h»s been
so radically- opposed to cooperative marketing that its voice
has had but little weight with those who are informed, the
association also realizes that many readers who t^Te not
fairly well acquainted with the facts of the co-op(erative
movement get an unfairly presented picture of thei whole
development.

Why Not Come 0«t in tke Open?

Farm onganization workers have been suspicious for some
time thatithis organ has been grinding out tunes to (he lik-
ing of old-line interests. However, in the past the fonnec-
tion has been so carefully concealed that no one hrif been
able to establish definite proof of a financial oonrcction.
Now the connection has been definitely efstablished.

If the pid-line inrterests have a legitimate fight i gainst
cooperativje marketing, why not come out in the open? ^}

Five Bureaus Getting Into Poultry

and Egg Marketing as Project

The first week in March was set as the time to hold a
series of educational meetings at 14 points in Clay <ounty
on the poultry and egg marketing plan sponsored ty the
Qay County Farm Bureau and I. A. A. poultrj- aqd egg
marketing department. A committee of 40 men and Von>en
have been named by Curt Anderson, president fcf the
Bureau, to make a study of the project and assist w^th the
meetings. , j

Ford and Fulton County Farm Bureaus have been con-
sidering pAoltry and egg marketing nearly a - <>ar, but othM-
important projects have delayed action. ' ^ counties now
report that plans are being made to beg. "active organiza-
tion work SDon, according to Frank A. Gougler, direator of
the department. j

Knox and Warren counties have voted poultry ar^d egg
marketing into their programs as projects for 1926 anjcl con-
template SB organization with its concentration point at
Galesburg. Meetings were scheduled" at Monmouth Fpb. 2.S
and Galesburg, Feb. 27 to explain the plan to repre^nta-
tives from each community in the two counties. |

DnI.T 10,S40 SEN'S WSXK WTTHDRAWX mOM^E PaCTPTC Ot>-OPntAT1VX FoTLTmT

Pnxlucnv. Potuand.Orccon, during thf> withdniwikl period, out of the 307 .Son htm»
Under oontrsrt in 1*V24. The roanon Kivrn l>v -the owrtefs of more thsaj hslf of
tbt number %'ithdrawn wa« that they nsvc sold out ur (|uit tbe pvullr> I

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March 1, 1926

Illinois Accredited
Hatcheries Announced
by State Department

Thirty-eight I-Iatcheries of
More Than 180,000 Birds
Have Passed Required Rules
and Regulations

Wh in Farmers' Week was held
at the University of Wisconsin not
!unK P go, the Farm Bureau wets pic-
tured like you see above.

The men are; I. M. Wright, sec,
retary of the Wisconsin Farm Bu,
reau, Orrin Fletcher, former presi
dent, arid Sam H. Thompson, also a
"formir president."

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Thirty-eight hatcheries, includ-
ing 180,000 b'rds, are now listed
as accredited institutions by the
Illinois Department of Agriculture.

This plan of government inspec-
tion to insure a higher quality of
baby chicks hatched and distributed
in Illinois, a movement of less than
three years, was originally pro-
moted by the joint action of the
Illinois Agricultural Association,
the poultry department of the Uni-
versity of Illinois, the Illinois Baby
Chick Association and the Illinois
Poultry Association.

In 1924 there were 36 hatcheries
inspected and placed on the ac-
credited list. These inspections
totaled 800 flocks of approximately
120,000 birds. The inspection is
made by a representative of the
division of standards and markets
of the Illinois Department of Agri-
culture. Hatcheries are not com-
pelled to subject themselves to the
examinations but are volunteering
to gain the guarantee advertising
prestige.

.A'"crL^itfd hatc-herips a^i announced by H. W.
Day, superintendent of the division of
standards and markets of the state De-
partment of A4rriculture, are:

Walnut Ridire Hatchery. Butler; Stouffer
Erb Farms, Mount Morris ; Chestnut Hatch-
ery, Chestnut : Rock River Hatchery. Rock-
ford ; Egyptian Hatchery. Sunnnerfield, El-
dorado Hatchery, Eldoradn : Kix-helle Etn:
Farms, Rochelle: Great Kii?ht Poultry Farm.
Carlyle: Brenner Hatchery and Poultn
Farm. Freebiirjr; Panville Baby Chick Co..
Danvil^; Edward L. Parker. New Athens :
Joseph Mueth. New Athene ; Elzo Saunders,
Belleville : Dean and Son Hatchery, Jackson-
ville; Eureka Hatchery. Belleville.

New Era Hatchery. Pittsfleld ; Chaa. W.
Norris. Monticello; Farmers' Cooperative
Hateher>-. Elirjtheth ; Fairmont Farms. Fair-
field ; Mrs. Ross Bartholomew. Vermont;
Kemp Creme. Albion : Clinton Hatchery,
"linton : Clyde Smith. Colden Gate; Chandler
-hatchery. Macomb : Marion J. Porter. Pitts-
field ; J. E. F.lsesser. Amboy ; Moultrie Coun-
ty Farm niireau Hatchery. Sullivan ; South-

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}%i ■■;"<•'•. ; ' jr«t favor-
ui. i.roiii Cuu ^eiiaie lur u:!
appropriation from Con-
fer eradication of bovine
osis. The amount wa? set
000 and Illinois' share is
to be J1,000,000.

Fox wrote each Con-
and Senator representing
as follows:

officers and executive com-

of the Illinois Agricultural

ion regard an increase in

eral appropriation for the

ic^tion of tuberculosis as very

and necessary. We be-

hat Congress should approp-

not less than ?6,000,000 for

p irpose.

, therefore, urge that you use
influence and give your full
to an increase in the ap-
tion."

association stood for a state
of $3,000,000 during
legislature which was cut
,000,000,

following Illinois Congress-
responded promptly to Seere-
's letter and pledged them-
whole-heartidly behind an in-
appropriation as endorsed
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Sen itor Deneen acknowledged re-
ceipt (if the letter but failed to in-
dttate his position.

Women in Many Sta tes

Proposing Marriage to

Cornhusking Champion

Young women in many cities
have been i)estering Elmer Wil-
liams of Toulon, Stark county,
with offers of marriage and ex-
pressions of admiration ever
since he won the world's corn-
husking championship last fall
at Burgess, Mercer county.

Reaching the Toulon post of-
fice recently was a letter from a
Kentucky widow, who, E. E.
Brown, the farm advisor of Stark
county, wrote to the Illinois
Agricultural Association, was
anxious "to enlist for a second
term,"

Still another was from Elmira,
N. Y., and apparently was writ-
ten by two young women who
expressed themselves as glad to
find some one interested in some-
thing beside "Charlestoning."
Their letter read:

"Dear Champion:

"Please accept our congrat-
ulations on your wonderful re-
cord of corn husking, which was
published in a local paper. We
were delighted to learn that
there was some one interested in
attaining a record in a line of
this kind rather than Charleston-
ing. We envy the dames who
were around when the red ears
were found. East is east, and
west is west, but should the
twain ever meet, it would be a
pleasure for us to show you our
beautiful Chemung Valley."

The only difficulty with Elmer's
growing mail is that he is mar-
ried. Mrs. Williams destroyed
the last letter he received — but
.she enjoys reading them.

em IIlinoi.s Accredited Hatchery. Murphys-
boro ; Rosciio Hatchery. Roscw : J. S. Pen-
ninaton. Plainfield ; Corn Belt Hatcheries.
Gibiwn City . Oakcrest Fruit and Poultry
Farm. Dundas.

Alt>ert Aiwood. Davis Junction ; Millway
Hatchery. McNabb ; Brooks Hatchery. Mt.
Sterling; Helena BrowninB. Perry; J. D.
(•arren. Centralia; A. Clyde Parfrey, SprinK
Grove.

For Members Only

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THE stability of the Farm Bureau
is reflected in the increasing
number of office buildings built and
owned by the organization. '•

In McDonough county the Bu-
reau has a new home, 30x64, cost
$12,000 (lot and buildingT, steam
heated, front office 15x30, assembly
room 15x30, and a rear room 30x
.32, which is filled with seed corn
brought in by members to be tested.
A freight elevator carries it to the
basement which is 8 feet in the
clear, and 30x64 feet. The seed
testing room is 13x22 and is built
of shiplap lined inside with roofing
paper. Hot water heat keeps a tem-

perature of around 85 degrees. Its
SO trays hold 300 ears each.

The Bureau is testing about 150
bushels a week and expects to turn
out 1,500 bushelg before planting
time. Of the sack-picked corn from
McDonough county fields, reports
are that about 85 per cent will be
unsuitable for planting and only 10
per cent disease free and only 60
per cent of crib-selected corn is suit-
able for planting.

Offices such as this one make busi-
ness interests respect the Farm Bu-
reau more than ever, according to
M. L. Hunt, president, who sent in
the photograph. '

Ch icagoDairymen Who

Have Tested Organize

to Protect Themselves

Pure Milk Association Formed;
Object is to Protect Own
Interests and Furnish Con-
sumer Commodity Wanted

Will April Fool's Day have a
stinger in it for dairymen in the
Chicago district?

April 1, 1926 is the date when
the Chicago milk ordinance goes
into effect which bars all non-tested
milk from being sold in the city.
Dairymen who have not tested their
herds by that date will be excluded
from the Chicago market, according
to the ordinance. Dairymen who
have tested will not be barred.

Dairymen in the Chicago milk
belt who have tested are carefully
preparing for the deadline day —
now only a month away. Their
preparation is organization and
their organization is the Pure Milk
Association, which is being formed
to protect their interests and to give
Chicago the kind of milk its con-

I sumeTs want.

Membership in the Pure Milk
Association is limited strictly to
farmers whose herds have been
tested for bovine tuberculosis or
those who have filed applications
for testing with authorities in
charge.

This is the entrance require-
ment set up by the board of direc-
tors of the association, which grew
out of the recent controversy be-
tween non-testing dairy farmers
and health authorities of Chicago.

"We dairymen who had tested
our cattle and were in shape to
sell Chicago consumers tested milk
as the health department demanded,
felt the need of an organization to
speak for our interests, so we form-
ed one, and it is the Pure Milk As-
sociation," says W. C. McQueen of
Route 3, Elgin, president.

"The principal object of the as-
sociation is to protect dairymen who
have had their herds tested or who
will have had them tested by April
1, 1926, and, in addition, our object
is to furnish Chicago milk consum-
ers the kind of milk they want,
which we feel is not only good busi-
ness practice, but absolutely neces-
sary from a health standpoint," Mr.
McQueen states.

l.NNOUNCBD AT BrISKANB, AUSTRALIA.
Queensland fcovernment has decided
a cotton control board which will
for a period of five years beeinning

JS127. Wonder if the U. S. A. will
export corporation by then 7

lNCRF.l..tEn FARM PRODUCTION THIS YSAK
'uill ui doubtf^ly end this favorable eco-
nomic pwilh.n." meaning the present "farm
prosperi >." ktates the U. S. Department of
A;,'ricult ire. In other words, increased pro-
.luction a U2fi means still less income Uian

THIS is a reproduction of the
phosphate credit certificate now
in use by county Farm Bureaus and
the I. A. A. which, when properly
filled in at your farm bureau office,
win save you 50 cents a ton on
phosphate bought under the I. A. A.
accredited plan. This lower price
is for members only.

Complete instructions for order-
ing can be obtained from your Farm
Bureau. Three of the principal
phosphate producers are cooperat-
ing— they are known a.s "I. A. A.
accredited companies." These are:
Robin Jones Phosphate Co., 166
Fourth Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn,

Ruhm Phosphate & Chemical Co.,
Mt. Pleasant, Tenn.

Thomson Phosphate Co., 137 S.
LaSalle St., Chicago.

"Any one of these companies is
in position to take care of any mem-
ber's order," states J. R. Bent, di-
rector of the phosphate-limestone
department. "They are backed up
by I. A. A. guarantee as to accuracy
of quality, weight and service. All
purchasers should specify that they
desire I. A. A. service when order-
ing and thej will receive a report
direct from the I. A. A. Branch
Phosphate Supervisional office lo-
cated at Columbia, Tenn."

Here is Secretary Jardine's Attitude

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

C. A. Stawart, F.»ct.tiTe iiaeretarjr,

BationELl LiTtstock ProduMrs' Asfociation,
606 South Dearborn Street,
Chicago, Illiaola,

February \, 1926.

Uy 4eap I*. Stmrnrtt ; . I , it'

Throuch the medlun of your letter of Janwry ICth my at-
tention has beer, directed to the Deeenber leeue of the County Agent
and Farm Bureau, Tills publication carries an item on the charges
recently Issued under the Packers ati|l Stockyards Act in a citation
to the Chicago Producers Conoission. Association. This article has
teen arranged so that the editoritl concient, interspersed with the
iext of the citation, all appearing over i^^' signature, may create
the lupression that the observations of the editor are expressions
*f this Department. In fact, comnunlcatlons which both you and w»
have recelTed bear out this conclusion.

There can be, of course, fto olijection to the coniplete pub-
lication of such official documents as r.iEy be issued by the Depert-
ment in connection with action similar to that pcmdlng against
your or^niiation but it la both objectionable and unfair to
suppleoont the text of such documents by statements of the puhlisher
in a manner to create possibly the impression that they are. a portion
of the text, "aile It is not apparent to me that any action can be
taken by the Department against the publishers, 1 do not hesitate
to express in this form to you, for whatsTer disposition you ma;/ car«
to make of It, my conle«B»tlon of the arrangement of this article.

V»ry truly yours,

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Volume 4

Issued Every Month for 63,000 thinking Farmiers — April 1, 1926

No. 4

HERH TEXT OF FEDERAL FARM BOARD MEASURE; STUDY IT!

Report of Industrial
Economists on Farm
Supports Our Position

National Board Finds Agricul-
ture's Plight Largely Due
to Buying in Protected
Market and Selling in
World Market.

A report on the farm situation
was made public recently by the
National Industrial Conference
Board. This is not a farm organi-
zation. It is an organization of en-
gineers and economists sustained
by the transportation, manufactur-
ing, mining and other interests for
the scientific investigation of eco-
nomic questions pertinent to these
industries.

These industries, having come to
the realization that agriculture has
a very direct relation to themselves,
have undertaken an extended in-
quiry to find out just what the eco-
nomic status of the farmer is. The
study upon which the report is based
has been in progress about a year.
It substantiates the position of the
I. A. A. and many other farm or-
ganizations.

The report shows that there has
been:

"A progressively declining ten-
dency ever since 1900, excepting
during war years, when there was a
temporary respite."

Farming Laf^ns Bahind.

Again in the report comes this
significant statement:

"It is no more a question of what
ails the farmer than of what will
be the consequence for all the rest
of the nation, for industry, finances
and general business, for all the
urban population, if American agri-
culture continues to lag behind in
comparison with the general devel-
opment of the country."

A capital decrease from 47 billion
dollars in 1920 to 32 billion dollars
in 1925 is shown by the report. The
rate of farm failures from 1910 to
1924 shows an increase of over 1,-
000 per cent in contrast to that in
commercial failures which has re-
mained practically the same. Farm
acreage and farm production de-
clined, and overhead capital costs,
including taxes and interest, in-
creased about 100 per cent from
1900 to 1910 and nearly 600 per
cent between 1900 and 1920. Com-
bined costs per unit of production
rose over 300 per cent, while whole-
sale prices increased only 120 per
cent.

Farmers* Earnings Lowest

Of startling significance, the re-
port shows that actual earnings of
farmers average only $730 in 1924,
as against the average earnings of
$1,256 per wage-earner in the man-
ufacturing industries; of $1,572
among transportation workers; of
$2,141 by clerical workers; of $1,-
296 by teachers; $1,650 by govern-
ment employes, or an average of
$1,415 per worker in groups other
thail farmers.

All this is due, the National In-
dustrial Conference Board finds, to
the fact that 60 per cent of the
farmer's income depends on world
conditions of supply, demand and
costs, which are out of his control,
while the expense of operating the
farm is determined by domestic con-
ditions "which place the costs for
the farmer on a higher level of val-
ues than the world level of values
which determines the bulk of the
farmer's income."

Another Remedy for
Surplus: Let U. S. A.
Give Liquor Gratis

Of the many plans offered to
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion for solving the problem of
the surplus, a particularly un-
usual one was explained recently
by S. Cohn, age 76, "soft drink"
manufacturer of 116 N. Keeler
Ave., Chicago, who stopped in at
the office.

"The government should pass
a law stopping all this temper-
ance business," Mr. Cohn sug-
gested. "Prohibition has cut
down by millions of bushels the
demand for farmers' com and
barley. Cut out the temperance
business, then the government
would save enough on its bud-
get for enforcement that it could
manufacture whiskey, beer and
wine and give it away free, which
would get rid of the surplus."

Appeal to I. A. A. for
Help in Dealing With
Thieving from Farmers

An appeal to the I. A. A. to in-
augurate some state-wide move to
stop thieving from farmers was
made by Samuel Sorrells, executive
committeeman for the 21st district,
who presented a resolution from
Sangamon, Christian, Montgomery
and Macoupin counties, which com-
prise that district.

The executive committee referred
the resolution to the sub-committee
dealing with public relations with
the request that definite considera-
tion and recommendations be laid
before the executive committee at
its next regular meeting, which" will
be April 9.

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Why Farmers Shoulq Support the Tax

. Amendment to Illinois Constitution

» ii Novenber, l»M) i i

(To b« voted on I

1. Real estate, altboufh leia ftian one-half— many say less tfaaa
40 per cent — of the property in |the state, is now pajinc about 80
per cent of all of the taxes for itiost purposes.

2. Tangible property, althoug|i probably not more than one-half
of the property in the state, is tmyr paying more than 92 per cent
of all of the taxes for most purposes.

3. A minority of the people if the state are now paying all of
the taxes for most purposes. I

4. Ow^ners of some kinds of property easily can and do add their
taxes to the prices of their services or products. Owners of other
kinds of property, notably land, Icannot «hift their taxes to others
to pay. ,

5. Owners of mortgaged prc^perty are now paying doable or
multiple taxes. They pay taxes Aot only on their equities, but also
on the value of the mortgages, avd pay a higher rate of interest on
taxable mortgages whether the i^ortgages pay taxes or not.

• 6. Lack of personal interest f>n the part of most people in the
economical and efficient use of tax moneys, and their belief that
they are paying no taxes of any |cind, promote extravagance and a
rapid increase of deferred taxes i* the form of bonded indebtedness.

7. Taxes are rapidly increasing in Illinois partly because the
population is increasing, but chiely because of the demand for new
forms of service.

8. Under the present constititional limitations none of the in-
equalities of the present taxing syatem described above ean be fairly
or properly corrected. The proposed amendment is a grant of
power to the General Assembly, enabling it from time to time to
correct inequalities in taxation at d to establish a modem and equit-
able system of taxation.

[Brief artides in support of the points
of The Record. Questions relative to th4
will be answered through Thf Record.]

Pn BidcBt, Illinois A^cultural Association

stated above will be'printed in later issue*
proposed tax amendment are invited and

Afore Voluntary Support

STATC or ii.LtNOia

Mr. A.

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JUSTICE CLYDE C STONS

Peoria, Illinois ^
ICarch 4tb, 1926.

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My dear Mr. Wright:

I am in receipt this morning of a '
copy of the Illinois Agricultural Asfiociation
Record end notice on its editorial ptge thtt
individual membership fee in the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association is $5.00 a year. I ae
wondering vheth' r or not membership trivileges
would extend to a perso.-. who farms throu£^h a
tenant. If so, I should like to Join the Asso-
ciation and assipt In any way I can to further
the intereets of- that organization as I under-
stand them to be;

The necessity for such an organiza-
tion in the agricultural industry is so very
epnarent in order to secure a fair place for
that industry thet I trust it will grow verj
r;.pidly in cumbers and influence.

V Awaiting your coi:^Dieiice, I &c

Or THB 12 Pboducer agbncies function-
ins on livestock markets of the United States
which reported their standinss during the
first part of March, six were first in volume
(rf business done and one was seoond. I

WHEN A. R. Wright of Vama,
representing the 16th district
on the I. A. A. executive committee,
received the letter reproduced above
from Clyde E. Stone, justice in the
Supreme court of Illinois, needless
to say he was pleased. Mr. Wright

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informed Justice Stone that it would
be necessary to join the county
Farm Bureau In his home county,
which is Peoria, and the fee is $15
for a joint membership. Justice
Stone replied saying he was joining
In Peoria county.

National Association
of Grain Dealers Set
to Helpi ?} Farmers

If You Don't Believe it. Read
What Has Been Sent All
Their Members Concerning
Dickinson Bill Principles.

The official organ of the Grain
Dealers National ^sociation, well-
known friends of the fanners, con-
tains the following significant para-
graph in bold face type which con-
cludes a long editorial tirading
against the farmers' efforts to se-
cure better prices for their crops:

"It mmj be necetssry for tbe At-
socuttion to call upon its members,
direct end effilieted, for eesistence
in the fifht before Ceecress. If tbe
DickiDSOB bill is reported out, end
indicetioBS point to its serious con-
sideretioa hy the House, then it irill
be up to YOU to 4o your duty!
Yon will be kept posted and wben
President Horner issues the cell for
your aid yon will be expected to re-
spond as you did when the McNary-
Hangen bill was sno%ved under. You
are duty bound to Bght such legisla-
tion, from the standpoint of patri-
otum as well as SELF-INTEREST."

Some of the 75 Chicago members
of this association are: Armour
Grain Co.; Bartlett, Frazler Co.;
Rosenbaum Bros, and the Rosen-
baum Grain Corporation, which, it
wilt be remembered, were anxious
some time back to assist the farm-
ers by selling them a J26,000,OO0
"cooperative" grain company.

The Association is maintaining a
representative at Washington who
is carefully watching developments.

THI BXBCUTTVE COMntTTBK OT TBI CSAW-

fonl County Farm Bureau rvcentl; decided
that all serrice be limited t0 members only,
and tbe7 have called on the members to
help carry out the new poller.

Measure Embodies
Broad Principles
of Dickinson Bill

President Smith Says Mem-
bers Can Do Nothing More
Important for Cause Than
to Study Bill Now.

THE complete text of the "Federal
Farm Board Measure" is print-
ed in this issue of The Recobb so that
every member can carefully study
this proposal which contains the gen-
eral principles of the Dickinson bill
which were endorsed by deltgates at
the annual meeting of the 1. A. A.
at Champaign-Urbana in January.
In addition to the text, there is a
chart-diagram which pictures the
measure in an understandable man-
ner.

Sam H. Thompson, pretlident of
the American Farm Bureau Feder-
ation, your national organization
that is on the job at Washington
guarding and advancing your inter-
ests, has the following to say aoout
the measure:

"Farmers, themselves, and not
members of C<*igress, nor any com-
mittee thereof, have drafted and
presented this bill on farm relief
which is epochal in character. Not
often in Congressional history has
such a burden been thrown upon
farm leaders. Congress realizes that
there must be farm relief, but seems
either indisposed or unable to pre-
sent a solution, in definite form. It
is into this breach that faimer& have
thrown themselves in offering this
measure, which need not be pre-
sented as being perfect but which
represents a sincere and consci-
entious effort to solve the perplexing
problem of surpluses in a way which
is economically sound."

Earl C. Smith, president of the I.
A. A., urges that every member
read with considerable care the en-
tire bill as presented in Th8 Reooko.

"There is nothing more important
that individual members can do at
this time in helping win tbe battle
for 'Equality for Agriculture' than
to make themselves fully corversant
with this measure and thus be abli;
to talk intelligently with thedr neigh-
bors about it," President Smith de-
clares. "Keep this issue for future
reference."

The measure begins on page 2.

Executive Committee of
I. A. A. Offers Proposal
to Farmers' Elevator Co.

At the March meeting of the LA.
A. executive committee, a resolution
was passed to the effect that the
committee is willing to enter a con-
tract with the directors of the Na-
tional Farmers' Elevator Grain
Company, to furnish a man and pay
his expenses to sell the stodc of the
company in Illinois. The other terms
of the proposed agreement are tbe >
same as the general practices among
other business institutions.

At a meeting on March 15 of the
board of directors of the National
Farmers' Elevator Grain Company,
Cooperative, a committee to consider
the proposal was appointed, consist-
ing of D. H. Allen, Delavan : Fred
Mudge. Peru; F. W. Hall, Leiand.
and Lawrence Karlow, Blootnington.

Further progress will depend
upon action of this committee.

SsMun. iNsuu.. PUBLIC unLfTT OKKtua or
Cfaicaco who has succewfuUy direet«l and
promoted rlsantic trmctioo. power, ass aad
li(ht eoterprisea throuEhont the Middle Wast.
hsi k»t heevil; for 20 rears in opateHas ' '
4.800 acre Lake eoartr farm. Praip EMr
nmrrated in the Chicaco Trfbuae reasa^.
The farm itself Is divided and kept seperate
from the Insull home estate, which Is not
expected to earn its way. but the farw Is
operated under approved methods with ef-
Sclencr stresMd to the limK. ret K lost aa
avar^re of SIS aa acre last faar.

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Ut to lltil WUliam Webb, Route One, JoUct

12th G. F. Tullock, Rockford

13th.. ..> C. B. Bamborouch, Polo

I4th W.H.Moody. Port Byron

15th B. H. Teylor, Rapetee

IMh A. R. Wricht, Varna

I7th F. D. Barton, Cornell

Igth , R. F. Karr, IroquoU

19th J. L. Whianand, Charlcaton

20th Charlea Borgelt, Havana

21st Samual SorrclU, Raymond

22nd Frank Oezner, Waterkxi

23rd , W. L. Cope, Salem

24th Oiarles Marshall. Belknap

j5th R. K. Loomls. Makanda

Prsaklent, Earl C. Smith .
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OFFICERS

>-Pr<aident, Charles R. Finley Hoopeston

Treaaurcr, R. A. Cowlcs > Bkiomincton

Secretary, G«o. A. Foi Sycamore

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DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Co-operative Accountins Geo. R. Wicker

D«iry Markctins A. D. Lynch

Finance R. A. Cowlcs

Fruit and Vecetablc MartcctSng A. B. Leeper

General Office J- H. Kelker

Information Harry C. Butcher

Lecal Counael Donald Kirkpa trick

Live Stock Marketing Wm. E. Heidgcock

Organization G. E. Mctxgcr

Phoephate-Limeatonc C J- R- Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C Watson

Transportation L. J Quasey

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Tentative Draft of

Farm Relief BUI

(Committee Print No. 1)

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la tll|» Hovse of Representatives
March — , 1926

March 16, 1926
CONGRESS — 1st Session
H. R.

Mr. . introduced the

foUowiiff bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Ag^ricolture and ordered
to' be p inted:

A BILL
To esta bliah a Federal Farm Board to
Aid ii 1 the orderly marketing and in
the < ontrol and disposition of the
•urpl ises of, agricaltural commodi-
ties, ind for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of B epresentatives of the United
Stateii of America in Congress as-
sembl ^d.

Declaration of Policy

SECIION 1. It is hereby declared to
be the policy of Congress, in order to
promote the general welfare of the
United States, to promote the orderly
marketing of agricultural, commodi
ties; ta enable producers of agricul-
taral dommodities to stablize their
markets against undue and excessive
An^t^noflnnv and minimize speculation
_.. . 1 ._.:-. j; to encourage

falM trKAf^ i.*Uva *''■ Mucers of agri-
.catt'i**:4 M^n.'-'Jtiitl'^s nto co-operative
„;.__.'_ Jor.fl; iL I protect domestic

markets! against world prices by pro-
viding |or the control and disposition
of the sbrpluses of agricultnral commo-
dities. L

Fade ral Farm Adviaory Council

Sec. 2, (a) There is hereby estab-
lished a Federal Farm Advisory Coun-
cil (he -einbf ter referred to as the
"council ') to consist of five members
from ea;h of the twelve Federal land
bank districts. The members of the
council ,from each district shall be
elected' tty the bona fide farm organiza-
tions a^d co-operative associations in
such district at a convention of such
organizations and associations, to be
held at jthe office of the Federal land
bank in such district or at such other

ftlace in the city in which such Federal
and barik is located as the convention
may adjourn to.

(b) The Secretary of Agriculture
shall anitually, with the advice and as
sistance of the president of the Amer-
ican Fartn Bureau Federation, the mas
ter of tlie National Grange, and the
president of the Farmers* Educational
and Co-o>erative Union of America, fl)
fix the date on which such conventions
shall be held, (2) designate the farm
orga>izat ions and co-operative associa-
tions in each district eligible to par
ticipate n such conventions, and (3)
designate the number of representa-
tives and the number of votes to which
each sac i organization or association
shall be i entitled. The Secretary of
Agricultiire shall mail, at least fifteen
days pridr to the date on which a con-
vention ^ to be held, to each organi-
zation add association eligible to par-
ticipate \r such convention, notice of
the date land place of such convention.
The conventions first held after the
date of enactment of this Act shall be
held witun forty-five days after such
date. Trie Secretary of Agriculture
shall prascribe uniform regulations for
the proctjdure at such conventions and
for the ttroper certification of election
of the m^bers of the council.

(c) Th^ term of office of each mem
ber first elected shall expire one year
from the date of his election, and the
term of office of all successors shall
expire oiie year from the date of the
expiration of the preceding term. Any
member in office at the expiration of
the term for which he was elected may
continue in office until his successor
takes office.
.\ (d) Tf e members of the council shall

serve without salary but may be paid
by the Federal Farm Board (estab-
lished in section 4 and hereinafter re-
ferred to as the "board") a per diem
compensation not exceeding $26 for at-
tending meetings of the council. Each
member shall be paid by the board his
necessary traveling expenses to and
from the meetings of the council and
his actual expenses while engaged upon
the business of the council.

Duties of Council

Sec. 3. (a) The council shall—

( 1 ) Meet and organize as soon as
practicatUe after the enactment of this
Act and select a chairman, secretary
and such other officers as it deems nec-
essary.

(2) Nominate to the President three
individuals from each of the twelve
Federal land bank districts, eligible for
appointment to the board.

(5 ) Meet thereafter at least twice
in each year at a time and place desig-
nated by the Secretary of Agriculture;
or upon a petition duly signed by a ma-
jority of the individuals elected to the
council at a time and place designated
therein.

(4) Nominate individuals to fill va
cancies occurring in the board. *

(6) Submit to the board such recom
mendations, and co-operate with the
board in such manner, as the council
deems most effective to carry out the
purposes of this Act.

(b) The individuals to be nominated
for appointment to the board from any
district shall be selected by the mem
bers of the council from such district.

Federal Farm Board

Sec. 4. (a) There is hereby estab-
lished in the Department of Agriculture
a board to be known as the Federal
Farm Board and to be composed of
twelve members, one from each of the
twelve Federal land bank districts, ap-
pointed by the President, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate
from the individuals nominated as pro-
vided in section 3.

( b ) The Secretary of Agriculture
shall be ex-officio member of the board

Appointment and Qualisation of
Members

Sec. 5 (a) The terms of office of the
appointed members first taking office
after the enactment of this Act shall
expire, as designated by the President
at the time of nomination, four at the
end of the second year, four at the
end of the fourth year, and four at the
end of the sixth year, after the date of
the enactment of this Act. A successor
to an appointment member shall be ap-
pointed by the President, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate,
from the individuals nominate, as pro-
vided in subdivision (d) of this section,
for a term expiring six years from the
date of the expiration of the term for
which his predecessor was appointed.

(b) Any person appointed to fill a
vacancy occurring prior to the expira-
tion of the term for which his prede-
cessor was appointed shall be appointed
for the remainder of such term.

(c) Any member in office at the ex-
piration of the term for which he was
appointed may continue in office until
his successor takes office.

(d) Whenever a vacancy occurs in
the board or whenever, in the opinion
of the chairman of the board, a vacancy
will soon occur, he shall notify the
council thereof and request that the
council nominate three individuals
qualified to fill such vacancy. Upon
receipt of such nominations he shall
submit their names to the President as
the nominees for such vacancy.

(e)' Vacancies in the board shall not
impair the powers of the remaining
members to execute the functions of
the board, and a majority of the ap-
pointed members in office shall con-
stitute a quorum for the transaction of
the business of the board. .

(f) Each of the appointed member^
shall be a citizen of the United States,
shall not actively engage in any other
business, vocation, or employment than
that of serving as a member of the
board, and shall receive a salary of
$10,000 a year, together with necessary

traveling expenses and expenses in-
curred for subsistence, or per diem al-
lowance in lieu thereof, while away
from the principal office of the board
on business required by this Act.

General Powers of Board

Sec. 6. The board:

(a) Shall annually designate an ap-
pointed member to act as chairman of
the board.

(b) Shall maintain its principal office
in the District of Columbia.

(c) Shall have an official seal which
shall be judicially noticed.

(d) Shall make an annual report to
the Congress.

(e) May make such regulations as
are necessary to execute the functions
vested in it by this Act.

(f) May (1) appoint, and fix the sal-
aries of such experts and, in accordance
with the Classification Act of 1923 and
subject to the provisions of the civil
service laws, a secretary and such other
officers and employees, and (2) make
such expenditures (including expendi-
tures for rent and personal services at
the seat of government and elsewhere,
the law books, periodicals, and books of
reference, and for printing and bind-
ing), as may be necessary for the exe-
cution of the functions vested in the
board. All expenditures of the board
shall be allowed and paid upon the pre-
sentation of itemized vouchers therefor
approved by the'chairman.

Special Powers and Duties

Sec. 7 (a) The board shall meet at the
call of the chairman at least weekly,
and at such other times as the Secre-
tary of' Agriculture or the chairman
deems advisable.

(b) The board is authorized —

(1) To obtain from any available
sources, information in respect of crop
prospects, supply, demand, current re-
ceipts, exports* imports, markets, trans-
portation costs and facilities, and prices
of agricultural commodities, and eco-
nomic legal and financial information
in respect of the organization, progress,
and business methods of co-operative
associations in the United States and
foreign countries.

(2) To disseminate any such infor-
mation, or analyses or summaries there-
of, from time to time, among co-opera-
tive associations and farm organizations
in the United States.

(3) To advise co-operative associa-
tions, farm organizations, and produc-
ers in the adjustment of production in
order to secure the maximum benefits
under this Act.

Control and Disposition of Surplus

Sec. 8 (a) The board shall keep ad-
vised by investigations, from time to
time, made upon its own initiative or
upon petition of any co-operative asso-
ciation or farm organization, of the do-
mestic and world prices and the exist-
ence or tberprobability of the existence
of a surplus of any agricultural com-
modity or any food product thereof.

(b) The board shall furnish, upon re-
quest, to any co-operative association
or farm organization, or to any pro-
ducer of any agricultural commodity,
or to any person owning or controlling
any of such commodity, its recommen-
dations upon the disposition of such
commodity, or any surplus thereof,* and
upon the available methods of financ-
ing. Whenever the board is of opinion
that the provisions of this Act applic-
able to a basic agricultural commodity
(as defined in subdivision (c) of this
section) should be made applicable to
any other agricultural commodity, it
shall submit its report thereon to Con-
gress.

(c) Whenever the board finds fl)
that there is or may be during the en-
suing year a surplus above domestic re-
quirements of cotton, wheat, cattle, or
swine (hereinafter referred to as "basic
agricultural commodity"), or any food-
product of wheat, cattle or swine, and
(2) that substantial number of co-
operative associations or other or-
ganizations representing the pro-
ducers of such basic agricultural com-
modity are in favor thereof, the board
shall determine upon and declare an

operation period and prepare for its
operations in respect of such basic agri-
cultural commodity.

(d) During such operation period
the board shall assist in removing or
withholding from the domestic market
the surplus above domestic require-
ments of such basic agricultural com-
modity or food product by entering into
agreements with co-operative associa-
tions engaged in handling such basic
agricultural commodity, or with a cor-
poration or association created by one
or more of such co-operative associa-
tions, or with persons engaged in pro-
cessing such basic agricultural -'com-
modity, for the payment, out of the
equalization fund hereinafter estab-
lished, or losses, and the payment into
the equalization fund of profits, arising
out of the purchase, storage, sale, or
other disposition, and or contracts for
the purchase, storage, sale or other dis-
position (after such agreement has been
entered into and in accordance with the
terms and conditions thereof) of such
basic agricultural commodity of food
product, except that —

(1) If the board is of the opinion
that there is no such co-operative as-
sociation capable of carrying out any
such agreement, the board, prior to the
expiration of two years from the en-
actment of this Act, shall enter into
such agreements with other agencies ;
and

f 2 ) Such agreement shall pro^de,
among other things, that no payQ^nt
of losses shall be made unless the pur-
chase or contract for the purchase is
made at a price which in the opinion
of the board is not in excess of a fair
and reasonable price, and that no sale
or contract for sale shall be madle in
respect of which a loss would be sus-
tained unless such sale or contract is
authorized by the board.

(c) If the board is of the opinion
that there are two or more co-opera-
tive associations capable of carrying
out any such agreements the board, in
entering into such agreements^ «hatl not
discriminate unreasonably against any
such association and in favofi of any
other such association.

Purposes of Equalization Fee

Sec. 9. In order that the producers
of each basic agricultural .commodity
may pay ratably their equitable share
of the losses and expenses to be paid
by the board in respect of such opera-
tion period; in order to prevent any
unjust discrimination against, any
direct burden or undue restraint upon,
and any suppression of, commerce in
basic agricultural commodities with
foreign nations in favor of interstate or
intrastate commerce; and in order to
encourage and stimulate the normal
and usual current of foreign and inter-
state commerce in basic agricultural
commodities, an equalization fee shtill
be apportioned and paid, as hereinafter
provided, during the operation period
in respect of such basic agricultural
commodity.

Determination of Amount of Fee

Sec. 10. Prior to the operation period
in respect of any basic agricultural
commodity, the board shall estimate
the probable losses and expenses to be
paid in respect of such operation period.
Having due regard to such estimates,
the board shall determine and publish
the amount for each unit of weight,
measure, or value designating by it to
be collected upon the processing of
such basic agricultural commodity dur-
ing such operation period. Such amount
is hereinafter referred to as the "equal-
ization fee."

Payment and Collection of Fee

Sec. 11 (a) During ^he operation
period in respect of any basic agricul-
tural commodity, the equalization fee
shall be paid, under such regulations as
the board may prescribe, upon the pro-
cessing (as hereinafter defined) of such
basic agricultural commodity.

(b) The board may by regulation re-
quire any person engaged in processing
such basic agricultural commodity, dur-
ing such operation period, to file re-
turns under oath and to report, in re-
spect of his purchases and processing
of such basic agricultural commodity.

the amount of the equalization fees
payable thereon, and any other facts
wh4ch may be necessary for the pay-
ment or collection of the equalization
fees.

(c) Every person who, in violation
of the regulations prescribed by the
board, fails to account for any equali-
zation fee shall be liable for such fee
and to a penalty equal to one-half the
amount of such fee. Such fee and pen-
alty may be recovered together in a civil
suit brought by the board in the name of
the United States.

Equalixation Fund

Sec. 12. (a) In accordance with reg-
ulations prescribed by the board, there
shall be established an equalization
fund for each operation period and for
each basic agricultural commodity, into
which the equalization fees aad the
profits for such operation period shall
be deposited.

(b) The board, in anticipation of the
collection of the equalization fees for
any operation period, and in order to
provide for the prompt payment of the
losses agreed to be paid, of the salaries
and expenses of exports, and of the re-
funds on exportation (as provided in
section 16), in respect of such opera-
tion period, may advance to the equali-
zation fund of any basic agricultural
commodity, out of the revolving fund
hereinafter established, such amounts
as may be necessary.

(c) Prom such equalization fund, the
losses agreed to be paid in respect of
such . operation period by the board
shall be disbursed, the salaries and
expenses of such experts as the board
de^rmhies should be payable therefrom
shall be disbursed, and any amounts ad-
vanced from the revolving fund (here-
inafter established) and remaining un-
paid (together with interest on such
amounts at the rate of 4 per centum
per annum) in respect of such basic
agricultural commodity, shall be re-
paid. Any- balance remaining in such
fund shall be transferred to the equali-
zation fund of such basic agricultural
commodity for the next operation
period.

Audits of Books and Accounts of
Board

Sec. 13. The books and accounts of '
the board showing the payments of the
losses and profits under agreements
entered into under section 7, salaries
and expense of experts, and refunds
on exportation shall be audited at least
once every year at such times and by
such auditors as the board may direct.
Tiie report of such auditors shall be
included in the annual report to the
Congress.

Co-operation With Executive
Departnnents

Sec 14 (a) It shall be the duty of jiny
governmental establishment in the ex-
ecutive branch of the Government, upon
request by the board, or upon Execu-
tive order, to co-operate with and
render assistance to the board in carry-
ing out any of the provisions of this
Act and the regulations of the beard.
The board may, in co-operation with
any such governmental establishment,
avail itself of the services and facili-
ties of such governmental establish-
ment in order to avoid preventable ex-
pense or duplication of effort.

(b) The President may by Executive
order direct any such governmental
establishment to furnish- the board with
such information and data pertanniAg
to the functions of the board as may
be contained in the records of such
governmental establishment. The order
of the President may provide such
limitations as to the use of the infor-
mation and data as he deems desir-
able.

(c) The board may co-operate with
any.$tate or Territory, or department,
agen<^, or political subdivision thereof,
or with any person.

Definitions and Short Title

Sec. 15 (a) As used in this Act —
(1) In the case of wheat, the term
"processing** means the milling for

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market of wheat, or the first
processing in any manner
for market of wheat not to
miUed.

(2) In the case of cotton,
the term "processing" means
the milling for market of
cotton, or the first processing
in any manner (other than

■ gihntng) of cotton not so
milled.

(3) In the case of cattle and
swine, the term "processing"
means slaughter for market.

(4) The term "person"
means individual, partner-
ship, corporation, or associa-
tion.

(6) The term "United
States," when used in a
geographical sense, means
continental United States.

(6) The term "co-opera-
tive association" means an
association of persons engag-
ed in the production of agri-
cultural products, as farmers,
planters, ranchers, dairymen,
ot nut or fruit-growers, or-
ganized to carry out any
purpose specified in section 1
of the Act entitled "An Act
to authorize association of
producers of agricultural
products," approved Febru-
ary 18» 1922, whether or not
such association is qualified
under such Act.

(b) This Act may be cited
as the "Federal Farm Board
Act of 1926."

Revolving Fund and Ap-
propriation

Sec. 17 (a) There is here-
by authorized to be appro-
priated the sum of $250,*
000,000, which shall be ad-
ministered by the board and
used as a revolving fund, in
accordance with the provi-
sions of this Act.

(b) For expenses in the administra-
tion of the functions vested in the
board by this Act, there is hereby au-
thorized to be appropriated the sum of
$300,000, to be available to the board
for such expenses (including salaries
and expenses of the members and the
per diem compensation and expenses of
members of the council) incurred prior
to July 1, 1927.

Separability of Provisions

Sec. 18. If any provisions of this Act
is declared unconstitutional or the ap-
plicability thereof to any person, com-
modity, or circumstance is held invalid,
the validity of the remainder of the Act
and the applicability of such provision
to other persons, commodities and cir-
cumstances shall not be affected thereby.

Refund on Exportation

Sec. 16 (a) Upon the exportation
from the United States of any product
of a basic agricultural commodity in re-
spect of which an equalization fee has
been paid, the board shall allow and pay,
out of the proper equalization fund, a
refund in an amount equal to the
amount of such equalization fee prop-
erly allocable to such product.

(b) The board shall prescribe such
regulations as may be necessary for de-
termining the amount pt such refund,
the identity and quantify of such basic
agricultural commodity, and the pay-
ment i>f such refund to the exporter or
to the person to whom the exporter shall
in writing order such refund to be paid.

Relief of Corn Emergency

Sec. 19 (a) The board is authorized
and directed to enter into agreements,
under the conditions applicable in the
case of a basic agricultural commodity,
for the payment of losses arising out
of the purchase (as soon as practicable
after the enactment of this Act), dry-
ing, storage, sale or other disposition,
of corn, or products thereof, except
that—

(1) Such losses shall be paid out of,
and any profits shall be paid into, the
revolving fund:

(2) No operation period shall be de-
clared, and no equalization fee shall be
paid or collected; and

(3) Such agreement shall provide
among other things, that corn pur-
chased prior to November 1, 1926, shall
not be sold in the United States prior
to Jahuary 1, 1927.

(b) So much of the revolving fund
as may be necessary, but not exceed-
ing ifye sum of $100,000,000 shall be

Proposed Measure foriRelief of agriculture

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FtVE MEMBERS FROM EACH DISTRICT ELECTED BY
FARM ORG. S. COOP. A<;S'N. IN JOINT CONVENTIONS
IN EACH LAND BANK DISTRICT ( Sec . of Agr.- to
prescribe regulations ona procedure for elections
Mfith ad f ice of Amer Form Bureau, Not. Gron^^_^
arni f'trrmers C/nion)

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Nominate 3^
indi 'iduals —
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distt-ict

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meetings t-nrtce
each year Also
special meetings

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Nominate to
fill vacancies
on Board-

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and formalat^
recom c?>« nidations on
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PRESIDENT appoints ( t^ith adyice ana consent ot Senate)

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to const. tute

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Keep This Issue for
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feRn/i or 9fFiCE 6 yfarj ir each bi-*nnium '
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f b e, d, e, f J /incidental powef^s ff Administration .

(b.l Authorized to acquire mariret data and mformotior on Cooperative fertcetmj
(bj Disseminate information am^ny Cooperotitre ana Farm Orpanizations
fbj) Give advice relative to Crop Adjustment.

GENERAL :

(a) Appoint Chairman.

special:
(a) Board metH weekly

CONTROL *"■> DISPOSITION or CROP SURPLUS
A.y ^rr^ ^f>^,tMn i up^n oivn initiative ind
(a J Kete MViseo j Jj^^^ petition of Cooperative Assoe^at,en\f

o^ ejcisTENce , oif eifoaAOiu rr oe sueeuus

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-r,\ ' Xif upon rtte dispasitiom o^ Comm^tf'tifs

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i,H as ro wnen timv n applicable to ottier commedittet
(c) m/HtH »OA»o ^mot

(i) surplus { cottom viliemr, cAfrie o^ smiite). ana

i^} tnat Coopera*ivf Asiocai'ons tit airt .n favor of oprf-ai'O^

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rr SHALL oecLAKC OPCiUTiOM ee^ioo
l^) evKiM^ eeenATioM ecjtioo aojuto small assist //» ^eitovn'^ sukei

COOreitArivt iLUOCJArioi^S . O* **iri,

eKocessoK* , ok

or net Acencies /#» • 'imoe or

0r bS-AL'^C tv'^m

Farmers Are 1-3 of U. S.
Population; We Own I-S of
U. S. Capital, But We Get
Only 1-7 oiF National Income.
That'a Why We Are Fichtinc
for Equakly for Agriculture.

Ce) SHALL nor fiiseeiMinAre Berrveen associatioma

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I

f OPERATior^

Me vocvino ri/nc

COUALLZATION
FEE

available for carrying out the pronsions
of subdivision (a).

(c) On and after the tenth da.v after
t1ie date vf the enactment of thic Act
and until the expiration of one >'ear
from such date it shall be unlawful to
import into the United Staus any ar
ticie included in paragraph 724 of the
Tariff Act of 1922.

V»'HEAT I COTTON I SwiNE

AA VMtMT Of Lossrs *^P exr£Msrj

Sec. S. PURPOSES :

FKOOVCTS TO SUSTAIN LOSSCS AMD CXPCMStS HATABUY
'., TO PHCVtNT OlSCKIMIMATIOn AOAIMST ,

-7 ' * unoue itesreAinT ueon^ oa — -— ^- fokci6h HAtiofft

a m SiiPAKrssioiv or cofineece viiru-^

CATTuE I

Thb Moiitooiiimy Coukty Farm Burkau
is in the oil business. A famww" companr
wu Btart«l at Raymond March 1 with tS.MM
salMcribed for preferred stock «t »r.O a ah«r«.
which is t* b«ir T p«- cent inu-rest. A»
soon aa profits of the Company warrant, it
is to b« taken up at 5 per cent premium.

Kvery farm bureau mcfnb^r is to rrceiwe
a share of common stock which rnttt)«B hifli
to dividend* in proportion to the amount
of busineu done by his own company. , Oil
tmcks are betnsr maintained to deliver m**.
kerosene and lubricatins oil. The net profit
for the flr»t two weeks was $115.

3€c. to.

Jec. /J.

Sec. fS.
Sec /6.
Sec. 17.

5cc /e.

</*/- Of^ ^tfODUCvT.

OETCRMtNATION

30A»0 SMALL £.iriMAT£ Rt^OOABLg LOASCS AND £X^if^S£-i TO B£ ^AiO fff ^^effATtON ^r-'-^d .
SffAU 0€T€RMIf<£ ANO PuBLiiH AMOUNT ro St PAID fOU CACM "

PAYMENT
Ca } coLL€creo at' PROCESS mo potnT as Pffesctti8£0 ar »oahp

i^} BOAnO MAY Jf£QV/^£ FILING Of R£TuRNS Br PHOCSiSOA
(C) PSMALTr POA. ¥i^LATlON

MISCELLANEOUS

EQUALIZATION FUND

AUDIT or BOOKS aho ACCOUNTS o* FEDERAL FARM BOARD

COOPERATION wmi t»» EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS

OEFfNITIONS

REFUND o« EXPORTATION

APPROPRIATION or $ 300,000 ^«« SALARIES, ETC., or thi BOARI

SEPARABILITY or PROVISIONS

Tus omcE or the Sangamon C#ukty
Farm Bureau has been moved into the tlOO.-
000 boildinc and ptant of the rro4urera
Dairr Company, which was formed hr>- the
Sprinicfield Mtik Produrers As»oriatH>n.
sponsored by the Farm Bureau. The butM-
inc occupied by the Farm Bureau ^'Is 40'xl4*'.
A space 40'xS0' is used for ofRoca an4 aeeu
Kermination. with 40'xdO' apace for stonure.

MeuBCits or thk Farm Bukeau who want
ta buy daif)' cows to replace reactor* or
build up their herds can ret informatloa as
to where to buy them throuirh their own
Farm Bureau. It is obtained by the dftiry
marketins department of Um L
passed on.

M L A. A.<

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IN ttAVINQ 1

Farm feuiFAi'j; iNrEKr»*TT:o I
year's I. A. A. picnic will h« inten-stMl In
knowing that the executive curomittac ex-
pects to decide on its location Ax>rfl %,

T'

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Th« IllinoM Agricultural AMociation RECORD

April 1, IftM

5/(171 and Spud Join I. A. A.

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JOINT MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENT

m Urn

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hntwidi Ruki

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n TV' ■ Hj/«'t F,n«B D£.r.

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■ WrtM ifcniiiiilBlfl "nv TmHrcr of lud County Farrn Bunau riwll recavc a tni« fa> aad itrnir (o the Trewwrt of iwl A^kuHucjI

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rmfbraatdM wMlwyhip

Couniy FtrrnVltJu^f

I. upon my preM>U'><
•*tiOB thttwi — iu- ll
i my ttcvth I hit t*em-

M..B , _^

^ Pay to the order of Q X^b|pU County Farm Bureau

-lUii^is

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$15.60

No/100 DOLLARS

SI*ii.-_A*.^J^^C^a.*.<|^

wo

T

and

Pijai
myst ry
ordini
of tht
man,
Farn

well-known gentlemen of

I linois, the Honorables Slim

Spud, cartoon characters of

trie Farmer who find fun,

and adventure about an

ordinary farm at the beck and call

pen of Cartoonist E. Ray Iii-

have joined the Peppy County

Bureau and the Illinois Agri-

cultu^^ Association.

Pnjof of their membership is fur-
in the reproduction of the
membership agreement shown

nishep

joint

above.

Recently Hon. Slim had the good
to sell a plug horse for $50,-

fortupe
000.

N »w that you've got all that

mone r, what are you going to do with

it?" isked his partner, Hon. Spud.

Well, first of all, I think I'll

1 he I. A. A.," declared Slim.

•* A.!! . . . Gee,
Tie ... I can't
the Sam Hill you
A. A."
Wjeiii loi une thing, I'm _
THIl IKING farmer!" rejoined Slim.
"0! i-ho-ho-ho-ho — a thinking
_ f armi r ! Har-har-har — Where do
~" you I ;et that noise? You, a think
mg fjirmer!"

join

timir

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I- th.

"Say!" returned Slim, hotly,
"Didn't I sell an ol' horse that
wasn't worth more'n a dim^ for
$50,000. That's 500,000 per c^nt on
vour money, isn't it? I gues^ that
makes me a THINKING farmer."

"I never thought of that.f

"In fact, I think I am almost a
Master Farmer!"

So Slim took Spud to the farkn bu-
reau office where they got a special
joint membership for both of them.
Both are prominent and favdrably
known in their home community,
which is Porkshank townshipj near
the town of Cassarole, Peppy coun-
ty, "somewhere in Illinois."

With $49,985 still in his posses-
sion. Slim has turned his thdughts
to the solution of the problim of
the surplus. It is undcr.stood that
the financial wizard of Porkshank
township will have a definite solu-
tion to the agricultural problem in a
week or so. Anyway we welcome
.'=lim and Spud into the ranks of the
Farm Bureau, and trust that Slim's
efforts to solve the problem are- more
successful than many who have
tried before him. 1

Fin t Week of Chicago
Pppducers' Suspension
rings More Shipment

Although the thirty days' suspen-
sion irder against the Chicago Pro
duceis' went into effect March 20,
more business was done the first
week of the suspension than the
week before it went into effect. The
St. L>Uis Producers', with authority
of S<cretary Jardine, established
branch in Chicago, using the Chi-
cago Producers' personnel under the
mana gement of C. t). Denman, pres
ident of the St. Louis and National
Prod icers

At
March
over
the
Prod^i
Min:
the
tors

£0,(

John iton

tw
Jo

tionai
TY
elect
mittqe
dred
seveil
place i
tie

so

judged
time,
aged
clea
and
'•O.

the special meeting held

18, in Chicago, attended by

six hundred representatives of

000 shippers to the Chicago

cers' located in Illinois, Iowa,

niesota, Wisconsin and Indiana,

;signation3 of the seven direc-

i ,nd manager, S. W. Doty, were

; but those of the board

vigorously refused. FiVe new

ors were added to the board,

,er, and the executive cpmmit-

instituted, (insisting of the

secretary and three di-

to be elected by the twelve

ors. The executive committee

keep closely in touch with the

during the intervals be-

board meetings. Lyle C.

Bloomington, is the addi-

director from Illinois.

board meets April 15, to
officers and the executive com-
Resolutions of the six hun-
commended the honesty of the
directors and managers who
the case before the meeting
farmers themselves could be
and juried. In the mean-
Secretary Jardine is encour-
to carry, on the same stringent
r -up process all over the yard,
ndications are that he is doing

tendered
were
direc:
bowe
tee

presi lent,
recto -s,
direc
is to
business
vee; i

Reinsurance Companjr
Announces Crop Hail
Insurance; Low Cost

Crop hail insurance for Illinois
farmers is now available on a mu-
tual basis, it is announced by the
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Com-
pany, the • state-wide organisation
formed about a year ago by joint ac-
tion of the Illinois Association of
Farm Mutual Insurance Companies
and the I. A. A.

"In order that Illinois farmers
may receive this insurance service
at the cheapest possible cost, it will
be written by agents of local mu-
tual insurance companies and by
F'arm Bureaus," says Wm. B. Mc-
Farland, secretary.

"Arrangements have been made
to reinsure the crop hail insurance
with one of the largest mutual hail
insurance tjompanies in the World
The farmers will be protected
against excessive assessments.

"The policy will be for one year
with an automatic renewal privilege
for four morj years, making 4ve in
all. The cost for the first year will
be based on experience tables and in
all probability will not exceed $24
per $1,000 of insurance. On an
average for the five years, the tost is
expected to be around $20 to $22
per $1,000. The greater the vplume
of business, the less the cost. This
rate means a saving to the farmers
who take advantage of it of from 20
to 30 per cent in premium cost;"

Policy blanks and agent's instruc-
tions were sent out from the I.jA. A.
loffice last week. '

Thb DbKalb County Farm Bukbau suc-
cessfully defended a numbe*- of ita members
aKBinst a seed company which sold them
seed oats at $2 per bushe!. Upon learninK
that the oats were not as represented, the
order was cancelled. Then it was found they
had signed a combination note and order.

Thb Jackson Coun-ty Farm BtJBBAU is
foatcrins a tomato marketine ooopprattr*.

Milk Consumption
Increased by Dry
Law , Survey Shows

Fifty-one Dairy Authorities
Answer Questionnaire ; 33
Say "Yes," 7 "No" and 11
are Non-Committal.

Prohibition has been a principal
factor in the 27 per cent increase
in milk consumption from 1918 to
1924 according to a nation-wide
questionnaire-survey conducted by
the Illinois Agricultural Association.

Fifty-one leading dairy experts
employed as heads of dairy depart-
ments of agricultural colleges, agri-
cultural agents of railroads, man-
agers of cooperative milk distribut-
ing agencies and milk dealers an-
swered the questionnaire which was
sent out by A. D. Lynch, director of
the association's department of
dairy marketing.

Of the 51, 33 definitely stated
that prohibition has had an effect
upon the increasing consumption of
milk by the American public, 7 said
"No" and 11 were non-committal.

The opinions as to the degree of
effect of the Volstead act varied
from 50 per cent to "very little"
with a majority attributing about
one-fourth of the increase to scar-
city of beer, wine and other intoxi-
cating liquors. Educational adver-
tising was given most of the credit.

More Phosphate Used
During 1925 Than in
Any Year Since 1920

During 1925, 26,270 tons of phos-
phate were used by Illinois farmers,
which is more than has been used
during any other year since 1920
when 32,000 tons were applied to
the soil.

The I. A. A. maintains a branch
of its phosphate-limestone depart-
ment at Columbia, Tenn., in the
heart of the phosphate-producing
country, where analyses are made
and reports made direct to farmer-
purchasers. Members get this service
free as well as a 50-cent per ton
lower price than non-members due
to group-buying advantages used b.\
the I. A. A. The five outstandirig
phosphate-consuming counties dur^
ing 1925 were: Will, Iroquois, Liv-
ingston, Grundy and McLean.

Thb CI.EARINQ HOUSB ASSOCIATION OF
Quiney. representinR the banks, is otTerinR
$595 for prizes, premiums and trips to mem-
bers of Adams County Boys' and Girls' Clubs
during 1926. The move i» sponsored by the
Farm Bureau.

Lived Nearly a Century on One Farm

ABOVE is pictured the gentleman
who is thought to be the old-
est member of the Farm Bureau
and I. A. A. in Illinois. He is Wil-
liam Marvin, age 93, of West Union,
Clark County. The lady is Mrs.
Marvin. The picture was taken
only last August, so you can see that
Mr. Marvin bears his years well.

"William Marvin was born, raWd
and has lived his entire life on the
farm which he now owns," states
Worth W. Merritt, farm adviser of
the Clark County Farm Bureau.
"He is rated as a successful farmer
by his many friends in York town-
ship. Excepting the time which he
spent in the Union army during the
Civil war, he has spent his entire
life on this farm. At a corn culling
demonstration held at West Union
recently, Mr. Marvin was an inter-
ested spectator, coming with some
of his tenants, bringing his corn and
remaining during the entire fore-
noon session.

"Judged from all standpoints, Mr.

Marvin has been a success. He has
lived in the same community nearly
a century, and he can well be classed
as an asset on the balance sheet of
mankind."

Mr. Marvin joined the Farm Bu-
reau in January at the solicitation
of H. A. Bramlet of Eldorado,
Saline county, who has been doing
membership work in that county.

In the spring of 1924, Mr, Marvin
planted a peach orchard by himself,
and recently purchased i a stump
puller. This past winter he has
been supervising the clearing of 12
acres of brush land. He is also
making preparations to so* 12 acres
of alfalfa.

"He is remarkably active for a
man of his age and takes a keen in-
terest in the affairs of life," says
Mr. Bramlet.

If any reader knows of an older
member of the Farm Bureau, or one
who is approximately the age of
Mr. Marvin, The Record would be
glad to have the information.

Farm Bureau Saved
From $45,000-$60,000
On Limestone In 1925

More limestone was used by Illi-
nois iarmers during 1925 than ever
before. The amount was 800,000
tons, which is comparable with 525,-
000 tons used in 1924, a record at
that time. During, 1925 Illinois
farmers used about one-third of all
that was applied in the United

'WQRi^

Stat^. . Indications are that 1926
will see 1925's record broken.

Members get a 10-cent per ton
lower price on limestone which
amounted to a saving during 1925 of
between $45,000 and $60,000. Lower
prices, brought about by group bar-
gaining, resulted in an additional
saving, other than the 10-cent per
ton differential, of over $100,000,
according to J. R. Bent, director of
the I. A. A. phosphate-limestone de-
partment.

Thomas Cumhings, presidbnt of thi

Jersey County Farm Bureau, spoke right
from bis heart in a meseage sent by the
Farm Bureau to every member recently. It
was addressed "To the Men Who Made
Every Fellow Rich Save Himself."

"Farmers talk too much and think too
tittle," he said. "We need less talking, more
thinkinK and more willinsrness to give our
problems mature consideration of our beat
judgment. We should have a greater will-
ingness to sit down and work these problems
over together and out of thb cooperation
we can come to a definite agreement of ways
and means to help ourselves. Organisation
is th# means for this."

The Adams County Fakm Buheau has
gone on record against old age pensions
and daylight savings.

Foa THE ELEVENTH SOCCESSIVE YEAS, B. H.
Taylor, of Rapatee, has been elected presi-
<lent of the Fulton County Farm Bureau.
Mr. Taylor is also an executive committee-
man of the I. A. A. His 11 years of con-
tinuous service is thought to be a record
in Illinois. Anyone knowing of longer ser\'-
ice by any official of a Farin Bureau wotild
bestow us a favor by so informing this
office.

Organization work is progressing rapid-
ly in Edwards, White and Wabash counties
in behalf of the Indiana Wheat Growers
Association. Membership in the pool is be*
ing limited to members of the Farm Bureau,
and dues are to be taken out of proceeds
from sales of wheat. About 150.000 bushels
of soft wheat in Wabash Valley counties
were marketed through the pool last year,
and the growers are enthusiastic.

A rOOPERATIVE OIL COMPANY HAS BEEN
started by the Marshall-Putnam Farm Bu-
reau which is expected to operate in parts
of La Salle and Bureau counties as well.
Capital stock is $25 a share, totaling $25.00Q.
There are 2,000 shares of comn^on stock to
be held by farm bureau members. Preferred
stock will pay 8 per cent before refunds are
made to members in proportion to their
purchases.

The E. St. Louis Producers handle be-
tween 18 and 20 per cent of the total receipts
on that market every week.

Macoupin county livestoci^ shippers con-
tributed the most business toi^he E^. St. Liouis
Producers during 1925. this county having
a refund recently of $1,816.29. Twenty per
cent of the paid-in commissions was re-
funded by the St. Louis <^p-op totaling
$17,694.22. The total Illinois- r«{and was
$18,786.94. ;

HANDLE BB-

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Volume 4

Issued Every Month for 63,000 thinking Farmers— May 1, 1926

No. 5

PRESIDENT SMITH URGES EVERY FARMER

TO WRITE

Smith Gives Reason
Why Tincher Bill Is
No Good for Farmers

Says Administration's Farm
Relief Proposal Would
Place Entire Burden of
Stabilization on Coopera-
tives, Thus Making Mem-
bership Undesirable.

THE Coolidge administration's
program for farm relief as em-
bodied in the Tincher bill, referred
to in Washington as a measure
"everyone knows has the endorse-
ment of the administration," and
which has the open support of Sec-
retary Jardine and the endorsement
of "the spokesman of the White
House" is unqualifiedly disapproved
by the Illinois Agricultural Associ-
ation.

Speaking for the association's
6.1,000 farmer-members, Earl -C.
Smith, Detroit, Pike county, presi-
dent, issued the following state-
ment :

"The appearance of the Tincher
bill in the House and its companion
bill in the Senate, draws a clear
picture of the tremendous gap be-
tween the nationaPagricultural pro-
-am which the farmers are work-
ing for and what the administration
offers as its program.

"Now that the House committee
on agriculture has reported out both
the farmers' measure,, vi*ich is the
Federal Farm Board "biU^ and the
Tincher bill, bringing both to the
attention of the whole House, it is
time that we clearly state our po-
sition.

Would Not be Effective.

"In our opinion the Tincher bill
fails utterly to address the basic
problem of agriculture besides em-
bodying in it most objectionable
provisions.

"The reasons why the Tincher
bill has the unqualified disapproval
of the Illinois Agricultural Associ-
ation are:

"(1) It provides no mechanism
or funds for making the tariff ef-
fective.

"(2) It makes no provision of
any kind for handling the surplus or
stabilizing markets or prices.

"(3) : It provides no aid for car-
rying over surplus production from
one year to the next or for finding
markets.

"(4) The revolving fund pro-
vided in the bill cannot be used ex-
cept to make loans to cooperatives
which must be repaid with interest.
Cooperatives do not need govern-
ment loans for their regular mar-
keting operations. If they need
loans for handling the surplus they
will unfairly impose upon their
members the entire cost of stabil-
ization, and, therefore, they will not
j'ccept such loans. In other words,
this bill provides for an additional
method for cooperatives to get into
debt. If cooperatives undertake to
handle a crop surplus so as to sta-
bilize prices, to make the tariff ef-
fective, or to regulate the world
price, (as in the case of cotton) the
costs of the endeavor and the risks
they run would be borne by the
members only of such cooperative
ansociations. The cooperative which
atti-mpted to do this would certainly
<\'stroy itself for it would in effect
be placing a penalty on membership
in that organization.

"The Federal Farm Board meas-
ure vt-hich is supported by the farm
organizations of the Corn Belt, of

No Use Throwing a Life

Saver That Won't Reach

225 of Illinois ' Best Farmers Earned

3.21 Per Cent on Investment in 1925

THE first annual report of Farm
Bureau-Farm Management serv-
ice conducted under auspices of the
department of farm organization
and management of the University
of Illinois and the Farm Bureaus in
Livingston, McLean, Tazewell and
Woodford counties, shows that the
225 farmers whose records were
used in preparing the report, after
paying all expenses of operating
their farms, without including any
allowance for their own labor,
lacked $382 of making 5 per cent
on their investment.

M. L. Mosher and H. C. M. Case
are authors of the report, the form-
er acting as field man for the 225
farmer-cooperators who keep rec-
ords.

The average investment pel acre,
states the report, including build-
ings, livestock and other equipment,
was $258.15 per acre. Expressed in
another way, these men earn 3.21
per cent on their investment, after

the North, the West and of the
South, truly representative of the
producers and in substantial agree-
ment, and has been reported on
favorably by the Senate committee
on agriculture, places the cost of
caring for the surplus on every pro-
ducer. It is not price-fixing any
more than the tariff is price-fixing
or the . immigration law, or the
transportation act. It does not
place the government in business,
and does make the tariff effective."

deducting all expenses of operating
their farms and $720 for the Value
'of their own labor.

"In addition to the wages allowed
a man for his own labor, these farms
on an average received the use of
produce from tbe farm which at
farm prices was worth $430 per
farm. Also the house they lived in
was worth $446 per farm each year
based on depreciation, upkeep and
interest charges. The total value
of the living furnished from the
farm at farm prices amounted to
$876 per farm.

These Farms llluch Above Average.

"In considering tlie earnings on
these farms it must be recognized
that these farms do not represent
the average farm conditions and
average farm earnings. Most of
these men own their own farms or
else are renting them from relatives,
and on the whole they are more pro-
ductive than the average of all
farms of a community in this sec-
tion of the state. A survey was
made of all the farms of one town-
ship in the center of the area repre-
sented by the 225 farms securing
information which would determine
the approximate farm earnings. It
was found that the 225 cooperators
in this project received a return of
more than a thousand dollars great-
er net income per farm for 1925
than those in the one township
where very few farm records were
kept."

Farmers* "Lead Pencil" Letters Needed
Down at Congress NOW; Says Farm Board
Bill Only Hope to Quickly Boost Prices

VERY farm bureau member is urged to write letters to

his Congressman, the two Congressmen-at-large and the

two Senators, by Earl C. Si«ith, president of the Illinois

cultural Association.

['In the last issue of The Record," says President Smith, "we

nted the full text of the Federkl Farm Board measure which

he definite form of the general principles of farm legisla-

endorsed by the delegates at the annual meeting at the

iversity •f Illinois last January.

'We askei at that time that members study the bill and be in

position to act when called upon.
It has developed, witli the drawing
of definite lines in this fight, that
the administration leaders who do
not want the Federal Farm Board
measure are saying that the real
farmers in the country do not want
the equalization fee, which nukes
it possible to skim the surplus prod-
uction off the domestic market and
dispose of it abroad at world prices
and place the loss on the producers
of the commodities benefited.

3 Important Bodies
Indorse I. A. A. Stand
on Farm Legislation

Three important indorsements
of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation's ^and for "Equality
for Agriculture" have been ren-
dered recently.

iThe American Federation" of
Labor officially indotsed the Fed-
eral Farm Board bjl before the
proper committees at Washing-
tan. The Hamilton Club of Chi-
cago, the largest Republican or-
giinization of its Idnd west of
New York, passed a resolution
urging Congress to "redeem the
Republican pledges of lil24" bj>
providing adequate relief l^is-
lation for the farmers. The Illi-
nois Bankers Association,'
through its administrative com-
mittee and committee on agricul-
tural relations, endorsed the Fed-
eral Farm Board measure. In a
letter from Secretary M. A.
Graettinger iof the Bankers as-
sociation to Secretary Fox, he

"The general sentiment was in
faivor of going along with the
Illinois A^itultural Association
arid cooperating with it to the
fullest extent, and with this end
iqjview, action was taken endors-
ing the Fedenal Farm Board bill."

Many local Chambers of Com-
mtrce in IBinois have tak^n
similar action.

Legislative Situation
at Washington Rallies
500 More to Our Ranks

At least 500 new members in
the Farm Burdaus and the I. A- A.
will I result from the large number
of township meetings held in some
40 Illinois coUnties the week of
April 19 to 24, according to George
E. Metzger, oqganization director.

"I'p to Tuesday morning, April
27, 2,76 new members have been re-
ported to my office," Metzger says.
"Thtre are 39 from Pike countv;
25 from Rock Island: 22 from Ma-
con; 25 from Morgan; 6 from pan-
cock; 12 from Henry; 22 from San-
gamon; 25 from DeWitt, and 100
^onk McLean.

Bad Weather laterfered.

"Reports from farm advisers show
that storniyi weather 3eriou.sly haadi-
capped holding the meeting. The

(Continued on pace 4. col. 5)

Equalization Fee Necessary.

"1 am con\-inced, as are the oth-
ers who have piven thi« nrnhUnt
close study, that the equalization
fee is absolutely necessary to make
the plan effective; to avoid direct
government subsidy and to strength-
en our cooperative marketing organ-
izations.

"I know that Con^ressmeti and
Senators give more weight to letters
from farmers within their district
than a half-dozen telegrams from
outside. The more letters each
member writes, the greater is his
realm of influence and usefulaess in
this fight.

"The following Ck>nKres$men and
Senators should be written IM-
MEDIATELY:

1. Senators Charles S. Deneen
and William B. McKinley orf Illi-
nois.

2. Congressmen-at-large Richard
Yates and Henry R. Rath bone. * .

3. Your own Congressman. t
"Address these men care of the

Senate or House Oflice buildings,
Washington, D. C. i

What t«> Write. | ^
"The poinU that should be
stressed in letters are: (1) That
Congressmen exert their utmost ef-
forts to pass the Haugen bill, which
is the name of the farm organiza-
tions* Federal Farm Board measure
in the House, and, that Seaators
•igorously support and defend the
.McNary bill, as our bill is known,
in the Senate; (2) Urge defeat of
the Tincher bill in the House and
the Capper bill in the Senate as it
is e\ndent that the administration
has brought out this proposal to sub-
stitute for and to defeat the F*d«ral-
Farm Board measure.

"There is no doubt that the Fed-
eral Farm Board measure is the only
bill before Congress that promises
to immediately enhance the value of ,
major farm commodities."

HELP US HELP YOU GET EOUALIH FOR AGRICULTURE-WRITE!

IP5I

EXECUTIVE COMMITTBB
(Br CongnMionsI Dlatrlct*)

•Cto Ittta WOUun Webb, Route OiM, JoUct

1th G. F. Tullock, Rixlcfard

}th C.B. Banibarau(h,PoIo

: 4th W. H. Moody. Port Byroti

Sth B.H.T«rloc, RfPatee

6th A. R. WrUht, Verne

7th F. D. Berton, Cornell

R. F. Kerr, Iroquole

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

8th.

Sth.

Co-oficntlTe AcoountJna Ceo. R. Wicker

Dairy Merketing A. D. Lynch

Finance R. A. Cowlee

Fruit end Vesetebla Merketlnc A. B. Leeper

General Office ; J. H. Kelker

Informetlon y Herry C Butcher

Legal Couneel Donald Kirkpa trick

Lire Stock Marketinc Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organiiation G. B. Metzger

Phosphate-Limeatone , J. R. Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketliw F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statiatlca J. C Wataon

Tnuuportatioa L. J Quaiey

r_aBa_> <i__ a month at 404 Nortk Wealay Atc.. Mount Mcrria. niiaoia. by tbe Ulisoia Agricultural AMXutioo. Edited by Dapartmant o( InlormatioD, Harry C. Butdiar, Directcr, 60S Soutli Dearbcm
Street, ^^'^'^rnr. Ulinota. Enter«d aa aeoood-ciaM matter Oetobcr aO, 1036 at the peat offiea at Mount Morria, lUinoia. undOT the Aet^of Mareb 3, 187V. Aooeptaoc« for mailiDic at apeetai rate of poetage crovided
for in SaetkiD 411, Aet of February 28, 182S, autboriied Oetobcr 27. 1*2S. The individual memberahip fee of the Illlnoia Agrieuhural AaoeiatiaD ia fire dollara a year. The fee iodudea payment of fifty cenia
for eubeeription to the IlJiooia A^rulturaJ Ajeociation Racann. Poatmaatcr: In retuming an uncalled for or miaaent copy, pleaae Indicate key number on addreaa aa. is required by law.

' ■ ■ - """ 8. Dearl

.J. L. Whlanand, diarleatoa

Charlea Borgelt, Hayana

. . .Sumiel Sorrella, Raymond

Frank Oezner, Waterloo

. W. L. Cope, Salem

4th Charlea Marahali. Belknap

.1 R. K. Locmia, Makanda

OFFICERS

Preaklent, Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vice-Preaident, Charlea R. Finley Hoopeaton

Treaaurer, R. A. Cowlaa Bkxanington

Secretary, Geo. A. Foi Sycamore

I LiIjINOIS

CCLTUBAL ASSOCIA

RECORO'

Temdwmmemtlupurposm for which *Hm Form Bur»

ttod. namely, to promote, protect and represent the butinott.
economic, aoeial and educational intereMtt of the farmer$ of
ilUrutis and the nationp'and to develop ogriculture.

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nmunicjttions to Illni-ia AKricuItiiral A-^.trifttion. 608 8. Dearborn St . < hir

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mynynyiiyiij

IS^SE^l

low the McNary-Haugen Bill
Was Defeated

'T'HE pongressional Becord of April 15 contains an inter-
J. esting revelation in line with the story printed in the
April llissue of THE Record, In that issue we told how the
Graia pealers' National Association (old line companies)
were utging through their official organ that members hold
themselves in readiness to send letters and telegrams to Con-
gressmi n and Senators to defeat the Dickinson bill, which
has sim e been slightly changed and re-named as the Federal
Farm ] loard measure and was printed in full in the pre-
ceding lECORO.

"It n ay be necessary for the Association to call upon its
membeis, direct and affiliated, for assistance in the fight be-
fore Congress," was a statement printed in bold face type in
a long editorial against the farmers' efforts to secure
equalit] , which appeared in the Grain Dealers' official paper.
"If the Dickinson bill is reported out, and indications point
to its s »rious consideration by the House, then it will be up
to YOl to do your duty! You will be kept posted and when
Preside It Homer issues the call for your aid you will be ex-
pected o respond as you did when the McNary-Haugen bill
was sn< wed under. You are duty-bound to fight such legis-
lation, from the standpoint uf patriotism as well as SELF-
INTEREST!"

Some of the 75 Chicago members of the Grain Dealers'
Nations! Association are: Armour Grain Co.{ Bartlett,
Frazier Co.; Rosenbaum Bros, and the Rosenbaum Grain
Corpors tion, which, it will be remembered, were anxious to
assist the farmers by selling them a $26,000,000 "coopera-
tive" giain company.

Then on April 15, in the Congressional Record, we find the
followir g :

"Mr. Summers of Washington: (Speaking before the
H.'d .-j Air. C • lan and gentlemen, two years ago I led
TIM mti e cam|>a of education in behalf of farm legisla-
; — i"l' ,a- nown as the McNary-Haugen bill. We
sent ou ; more tnan 30,000 letters from my office to farm
leaders throughout the United States. At one time I pre-
dicted the passage of that bill. I was not mistaken at that
time. I ; was finally defeated but 'murder will out.' We now
know 'v ho killed Cock Robin.' The Colorado Wheat Grower
of February 20, 1926, tells a story that will interest every
farmer in America. I quote from the Wheat Grower:

"'GRilN OFFICIALS TELL HOW FARMERS' BILLS
ARE lEATEX— SECRETARY OF GRAIN DEALERS'
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION EXPLAINS HOW McNARY-
HAVGj N BILL WAS DEFEATED AFTER LOBBYISTS
INTER VIEWED CONGRESSMEN; 'WE WORK WHILE

YOU s. .eep:

" 'Ho^ r a well-organized minority can impose its wishes on
a poor! ^-organized majority was entertainingly explained
by Char les Quinn, secretary-treasurer of the Grain Dealers'
Nationa Association, speaking before the Cok>rado Grain
Dealers' Association in Denver last week.

" 'Moie specifically, Mr. Quinn's story described how 16,000
grain dealers have been able to maintain their marketing
whip ha id over 7,000,000 farmers.

" 'Wit 1 pardonable pride Secretary Quinn told 'what an
associati on can do.' (He referred to an association of grain
men.)

" 'He • old how the Grain Dealers' National Association had
helped t > defeat the McNary-Haugen bill. He told how the
grain dealers' lobbyist in Washington carries on his work.
He told how the Grain Dealers' National is always on the
job and works while you sleep.'

" 'Spei iking on the work of the Grain Dealers' National,
he said:

"Whn, the McNary-Haugen bill was introduced, a canvaxa
of the H ruse showed enough votes to pass it with 95 to spare.
The Gri in Dealers' National Association got busy. Grain
men gavj freely of their time and we had from 5 to IS men
in Wash Ington all through the danger period,

"Killint tha McNary-Haafen Bill.

"We n €t 171 the morning arul each man was assigned to see
certain < 'o7i{rre«smcii. In the evening each man reported the
results (f his interviews. Before a vote was called every
Congresiman had been interviewed and we estimated we had
beaten ti e bill by 75 votes. The following day the returns
showed t was beaten by 73. That is what an association
can do. ^

"Many bills to help the farmer are before Congress now,
but ther is only one that is really dangerous and that it is
nee^ssar r to fight — the Dickinson bill."

" 'Mr. Quinn did not explain why it is necessary for the
grain dealers to fight a bill which is, by his own statement,
designed I "to help the farmer." Neither did he say, in so
many wdrds, that the grain dealers' interests are directly
opposed to the interests of the farmer. His listeners were
left to daaw their own conclusions.

" 'Speajking on tbe work of the Grain Dealers' National,
he said;

"It (tie Grain Dealers' National) is' always on the job
Uoking out for the interests of the grain trade; looking out

Why Farmers Should Support the Tax
Amendment to Illinois Constitution

(To be voted on in November, 1920)

1. Real eelate, althou(k leae than one-kalf — many
aay leaa than 40 per cent — of the property in the atate,
ia now paying about 80 per cent of all of the taxea for
moat purpoaes.

2. Tangible property, althoafh probably not more
than one-half of the property in the atate, ia now pay-
ing more than 92 per cent of all of the taxea for most
purposes.

3. A minority of the people of the state are now
paying all of the taxea for most purposes.

4. Ownera of eome kinda * of property eaaily can
and do add their taxes to the pricea of their services or
products. Owners of other kinds of property, notably
land, cannot shift their taxes to others to pay.

5. Owners of mortgaged property are now paying
double or multiple taxes. They pay taxea not only on
their equities, but also on the value of the mortgages,
and pay a higher rate of interest on taxable mortgages
whether the mortgages pay taxea or not.

6. Lack of personal interest on the part of most
people in the economical and efficient use of tax
moneys, and their belief that they are paying no taxes
of any kind, promote extravagance and a rapid
increase of deferred taxes in the form of bonded in-
debtedness.

7. Taxea are rapidly increasing in Illinois partly
because the population ia increasing, but chiefly be-
cause of the demand for new forms of service.

8. Under the present constitutional limitations
none of the inequalities of the present taxing system
described above can be fairly or properly corrected.
The proposed amendment is a grant of power to the
General Assembly, enabling it from time to time to
correct inequalities in taxation and to establish a
modern and equitable aystem of taxation.

President. Illinoitt Aicricultural Association.

[Brief articles in support of the points stated above will be
printed in later iasuee of THE Record. Questions relative to the
proposed tax amendment are invited and will be answered through
Tub Kecobd.]

for the interests of the Colorado Grain Dealers' Association
as well as those of the 18 other affiliated organizations.
(There is *an Illinois organization,) Every industry has
lobbyists in Washington. And it is necessary that the Grain
Dealers' National Association keep a man there also, which
we rfo. He goes every morning to the clerks and finds out
what bills have been introduced. Then he checks on what
happens tt> them in all the various details and keeps me ac-
quainted by letter and telegraph. I in turn acquaint the
state organization secretaries with any developments of tm-
porfonce, that they may varry it to their membership.

"I took the secretaryship of the National Association on
January J, 19H. During the last 10 years hell has broken
loose 1

" 'Mr. Chairman, while I do not bdieve Mr. Quinn spoke
for all millers throughout the United States, I do suggest
that all members of Congress re-read and ponder his state-
ment when general farm legislation is under consideration.
Perhaps we can corral some of this fire and brimstone in
behalf of the farmer.' "

This ought to make every red-blooded farmer hot under
the collar. You can see now who is causing most of the
opposition down at Washington, and we know they're on the
job down there right this minute trying to influence votes
against the farmers' bill for equality with industry and labor.
They will be successful in proportion to our weakness.

The only way to meet this kind of opposition is by letters
from the farmers themselves. A prominent (Congressman
recently said that "two or three pencil letters have more
weight with Congressmen than a stack of telegrams." There-
fore your voice has considerable weight and you can make
good use of it by writing your Congressman. If you have
written before, as many Illinois farmers have, then it won't
hurt to write again, in fact the cumulative effect will be
greater if you write several times. Be sure and make your
letter plain in support of the farm organization's bill— the
Federal Farm Board measure.

If farmers get as active now in advancing their own in-
terests a% the grain dealers have in opposing the farmers,
then Manager Quinn will have more reason to believe that
"hell has broken loose."

liKsme Recstved in 1921. Pertestafle sf
Pirtentats Veluatlsss Is th«
•f Total 1934 Assanasst

Amaunt

..) 489,640,00*

10/>

23.0

7J

70J

22.2

7.S
S9.2 None possible

The Greatest Inequality of the
Illinois Taxing System

By John C. Wataon, Director, Department of Taxation and
Statiatlca, Illinois Agricultural Aaaociation.

TIE unfairness of the present taxing system in Illinois is
well shown by a comparison of amounts of income re-
ceived by the population of the state from different sources,
and the relative dire<;t tax burden carried by each principal
source of income. The figures on income given below are
taken from the book entitled "Income in the Various
States," recently published by the National Bureau of Eco-
nomic Research. They are for the year 1921, but there is
every reason for believing that the unfairness disclosed
would be worse if the figures for 1925 were available. The
percentages of total income derived from each source are
computed from the figures given. The percentages of total
valuations of property, which are also approximately the
percentages of total taxes paid by the several sources of
income, are computed from the 1924 report of the Illinois
Tax Commission.

Tax Burdens of the Principal Sources of Current Income
Received by the Population of Illinois.

Seurts «f
liKama
Intancible Property,

Interest and Dividends..
Tangible Property.

Rented out or used for farm-

inc or for business... 1,130,060,000

Miscellaneous — Chiefly rental

values of urban and farm

residences occupied by their

owners 3*7,298,000

Personal s e r Vic e s — Salaries,

and waies 2,SI0,0SO,00O

According to these figures, interest and dividends make
up about 10 per cent of the total income of the population
of the State. The sources of interest and dividends are
7-3 10 per cent of all valuations for tax purposes in the
1924 assessment. Tangible property, not including res-
idences, either urban or rural, occupied by their owners,
returned 23 per cent of the total income, but had 70%
per cent of the total assessments. Relative to income, there-
fore, tangible property used for farming or business,
including the railroads, had 4-1/5 times as heavy a direct
tax burden as intangible property. Income from miscel-
laneous sources, chiefly urban and farm residences occu-
pied by their owners, must also be allowed for, since this
kind of property not only saved the payment of rentals, but
also paid taxes. Income of this character accounted for
7-4/5 per cent of the total and had about 22-1/5 per cent of
tax valuations.

The greatest weakness in the present taxing system
is its failure to tap the greatest source of income and
of taxable wealth in the state. In 1921, salaries and
wages accounted for more than 59 per cent of the total
income of the population of the state. They paid no direct
taxes and could pay none. Undoubtedly this source of in-
come was used for actual payment of taxes on some prop-
erty, especially urban residences occupied by their owners.
From another and more correct point of view, taxes on this
class of property were paid out of the saving in rentals.
For it must be kept in mind that the general property tax
is never levied on individuals, but is levied on property,
and that non-payment of a property tax results in the sale
or forfeiture of the property, if real estate, to the state.

On January 1, 19E0, less than 37 per cent of urban res-
idences and less than 58 per cent of the farms of the state
were occupied by their owners. It is certain, therefore, that
the amount of income derived from salaries and wages used
in payment of taxes on owned homes was a relatively small
amount of the total income.

It is true that some of the income derived from personal
services is used in an indirect way for paying taxes which
are shifted in urban rentals, transportation or public utility
rates, in the prices of consumption goods, or in other similar
ways. The amounts of taxes thus indirectly paid are a
small percentage of the total income from this source.
Total state, county, and local taxes in Illinois are only about
10 per cent of the total income from personal services. It is
certain that indirect taxes paid out of income from this
source are only a fraction of ten per cent of the total
income.

Under the present taxing system in Illinois, tangible prop-
erty, chiefly real estate, including the railroads, is compelled
to pay at least four times as much taxes relative to what it
produces, as money and credits.

Owners of land, especially farm land, cannot usually shift
their taxes to others to pay. They are compelled, therefore,
to pay many times as much in direct taxes as those who
receive equal income for their personal services. Under the
present system of taxation such inequalities cannot be re-
moved. The situation is certain to become worse. It can be
corrected only under broad powers granted to the General
Assembly as in the pending revenue amendment. It must
be corrected if we are to avoid confiscatory taxation of real
estate.

May 1, 1926

The Illinois Agricultural Asgociation RECORD

Pag* 3

DOESN'T FARMING MERIT PROTEQION GIVEN OTHER CLASSES?

Here's High Spots of Executive Body's I

Meeting April 7; Picnic at Mt. Vernon

THE high spots of the executive
committee meeting on April 7
are summarized as follows:

1. Treasurer's report, on motion
by Moody, seconded by Tullock, or-
dered received and placed on file.

2. Report by Barton, chairman
of public relations sub-committee,

that I. A. A. lend its
I. A. A. to moral support to Illinois
Help Solve Association for Criminal
Crime Justice, the purpose of

Problem which is to obtain in-
formation concerning
criminal justice and make recom-
mendations. A similar organization
in Missouri has done good work.
Donald Kirkpatrick, I. A. A. legal
counsel, has assisted the cause. Mo-
tion by Barton, seconded by Whisn-
and, that recommendation be
adopted.

Report by Barton concerning pos-
sibilities of helping form state-wide
farm bureau protective association.
Information obtained insufficient
for action and more time required.

3. Report by Tullock, chairman
committee on financial business

service, on Farmers
Reiniurance Mutual Reinsurance
Company Company. The com-
Makint pany, he reported, is

Steady making a steady

Growth growth, having $1,-

496,867 of insurance
• in force at the time, with 51 local
mutuals using the company's speci-
fic reinsurance service, 42 the blank-
et reinsurance and 23 the recession
reiilsurance. The state company
can now handle a $40,000 risk. The
companies having blanket reinsur-
ance with the Farmers Mutual Rein-
surance Company have over $90,-
000,000 of insurance in force. This
means that each company carrying
blanket reinsurance is protected by
other companies that have a total
of about $90,000,000 of insurance
in force.

Tullock also reported that crop
hail insurance is now available to
the farmers of Illinois
Crop through the Farmers

Hail Mutual Reinsurance

Insurance Company. Farm Bu-
Now reaus and agents of mu-

Available tual fire insurance com-
At SaTiBg panies will act as agents
of the reinsurance com-
pany in writing hail insurance. The
saving to the farmer should be
about 20 per cent. Both reports ac-
cepted and placed on file by motion
of Tullock and seconded by Barn-
borough.

4. Bamborough, chairman of the
committee on organization, reported
that all details were arranged for
beginning the I. A. A. farm radio
program from WON as soon as the
executive committee approved it,
which was done upon ■ motion by
Bamborough, seconded 'by Tullock.

5. Report by Finley on grain
marketing stated that on March 15

at a meeting of the
Basis board of directors of

of I. A. A.- the National Farmers
Farmers Elevator Grain Com-

Elevator Co. pany, Cooperative, the
Discussed basis of a contract

was discussed which
would set forth the relationship be-
tween the I. A. A. and the company
in the selling of stock of the com-
pany. The I. A. A. proposed to
furnish a man and pay his salary
and expenses in the selling of the
stock and suggested that the length
of time, amount to be sold, return
of amount subscribed, (to be re-
turned in full to subscriber if in-
si»fficient stock was sold) together
with other minor items, should be in
the contract.

This kind of agreement was not
acceptable to the company. A com-
mittee was appointed to give further

consideration to it and a meeting
was held April 7 when it was de-
cided that a committee meet with
the I. A. A. on April 16 and submit
a proposition for consideration.

Motion by Barton that contract
terms be left with I. A. A. officers,
but with instructions to properly
safeguard funds derived from sale
of stock in such manner that in
case of insufficient stock being sold
to properly finance company, those
funds already collected from stock
sales to be returned, except such
amount as shall be agreed upon as
necessary for organization work.
Seconded by Marshall and carried.

Report of Finley on soft wheat
pool in Southern Illinois which is
an extension of the In
Soft Wheat diana Wheat pool into
Poo! Illinois, showed that

Growing in Edwards, Wabash
Illinois White, Wayne and

Crawford counties
have definitely decided to put on
membership drives. Ninety mem-
bers in pool secured in short time.
27 of which thereby became new-
members of Farm Bureaus.

6. George J. Jewett, formerly
president of American Wheat Grow-
ers, and now president of the Fed-
eral Land Bank at Spokane, Wash.,
was invited to give the committee
the benefit of his recent trip to
Washington from which he was re-
turning. I

7. Sam H. Thomjjson, past pres-
ident of I. A. A. and now A. F. B. F.

chief, addressed the
"Our Sam" committee briefly on
Urges the legislative situa-

You to tion at Washington,

Write saying, among other

Congressmen things, that the pow.
ers-that-be at Wash-
ington need to know how the farm-
er out on the farm feels about leg-
islation. Every farmer can be of
immediate assistance to the cause
by writing his Senators and Con-
gressmen, he declared.

"They'll take the farm leaders'
word for it if we're for the bill
they're for," said President Thomp-
son, "but if we want one they do
not, then they are inclined to doubt
our authority for speaking for
faripers."

8.^ Report by Webb stated that
I. -fl^- A. should continue to work for
increased federal appropriation for
t. b. Report moved adopted by
Webb, seconded by Karr.

9. President Smith opened con-
sideration of time and place of an

nual I. A. A. state-
State Picnic wide picnic. A delega-
to Be At tion was present from

Mt. Vernon Tazewell county, con-
This Year sisting of Joseph Mor-

ris, president, and
Ralph Amett, farm adviser, repre-
senting the Tazewell County Farm
Bureau, and Secretary Lyman of
the Pekin Association of Commerce,
which spoke for holding the picnic
at Pekin. W. L. Wimberly, mem-
ber of executive committee of the
Jefferson County Farm Bureau,
spoke for Mt. Vernon. Secretary
Fox read a letter from McDonough
County Farm Bureau in behalf of
Macomb. Vote by ballot resulted
in Mt. Vernon getting the picnic
with 13 votes, Pekin getting 2 and
Macomb 1. Since the annual meet-
ing is always held in Northern Illi-
nois, it was the opinion of the ma-
jority that Southern Illinois should
have this year's picnic. Wimber-
ley's oration on Southern Illinois
peaches and promise of free ones
also had some weight. Date to be
announced later, but it is expected
to be sometime in August.

10. Consideration of place of
next annual meeting, on motion of
Karr and seconded by Whisnand, to
be at next meeting.

THE MAN WHO WILL ELECT THE NEXT PRESIDENT

J'lr — ^^

Predicts 10 Per Cent
Volume for Producers
By End of This Ye^r

to
:he

"Theksupport given the St. Lcuis
Branch agency the month it ojer-
ated in Chicago and to the Chicigo
Producers during "Producer Wci k''
answered the public's inquiry as
whether the farmer believes in
principles of cooperative marketing
espacially of livestock, accordin{ to
William E. Hedgcock, I. A. A.
rector of livestock marketing.

"The receiving, yarding and sell-
ing of TA per cent (315 cars) : of
the entire Chicago receipts of live
stock during "Producer Week" is a
wonderful record for cooperative
marketing. In making this recbrd
the Chicago Producers handled 68
more cars than their nearest com-
petitor and, with only two excep-
tions where check-ups were neces-
sary, had every bill of sale in the
mail the same day the sale was con-
summated.

70 Buyers in Producer Alleys.

"The activity of the Chicago Pro-
ducers is commanding the attention
of the buyers as indicated by the
fact that they sold livestock to 70
different buyers in one week.

"The Chicago Producers handled
130 carloads of cattle, which was
5.1 per cent of the 'Chicago run,
166 carloads of hogs, which was
11.5 per cent and which was more
hogs than the combined receipts of
the next three largest firms, and 17
carloads of sheep, which was 8.2
per cent of the run during 'Pro-
ducer Week.'

"This spirit of confidence and co-
operation on the part of livestock
producers has made it possible, dur-
ing the past three years, for the as-
sociation to sell 57,000 cars of live-
stock, with a total value of over
$100,000,000. With this spirit of
cooperation and confidence it' is
not unreasonable to expect the Chi-
cago Producers to be marketing 10
per cent or morfe of the total re-
ceipts of the Chicago Stock Yards
by the end of the year."

Egypt Launches Co-op
to Handle Poultry and
Eggs of 250,000 Hens

"Egypt" will soon launch a new
enterprise in the way of a coopera-
tive poultry aad egg marketing as-
sociation— a companion to the well-
known "Red-Top" Seed Growers As-
sociation. Daring the past two
months the counties of Clay, Effing-
ham, WajTie and Edwards have been
covered with meetings for the pur-
pose of explaining the I. A. A. plan
for marketing poultry and poultry
products cooperatively.

"Everywhere the poultry produc-
ers have show* unusual interest in
this plan and have urged the sev-
eral Farm Bureaus to get squarely
back of this plan," says Frank A.
Gougler, the L A. A. poultry and
egg marketing director, who has
been pushing this work.

"During the past month a num-
ber of meetings have been held at
Flora, III., of representatives from
the counties of Clay, Effingham,
Marion, Wayne and Edwards for
the forming of a temporary organ-
ization. The officers elected to head
this new undertaking for the first
year are as follows :

President — C. R. Richison, Cisne. Wajme
county. •

Vioe President — H. O. Henry, Beecher
City. Effingham county.

Secretary-Treasurer — .OrvUIe Bryant.
Xenia, Clmy county.

— <7Aioatw Tribune

Revenue Amendment
Supported by G. O. P. ,
Democrat Pledges

Amendment to Constitution
up to Voters in November ; 1 .
A. A. Supports it and Urges

- Farmers to Vote for iti

The platforms adopted by the
state conventions of Democrats and
Republicans support the amendment
to the revenue section of the' Ill-
inois constitution which is to be
voted on by the people in Novem-
ber, 1926. The Illinois Agricul-
tural Association earnestly aad vig-
orously supports the amendment
and urges every farmer to vote for
it at the polls.

The Democratic platform said on
this subject: "We favor the adop-
tion of the amendment to the Rev-
enue Clause of the Constitution to
be submitted to the voters at the
next general election, thereby
enabling the General Assetablj- to
enact an equitable system al tax-
ation throughout the State."

The Republicans said: I

"Economy in the use of thfe peo-
ple's money and the lowest tax-rate
compatible with good seniae are
fundamental doctrines of our party.
While we realize that adjustments
in the way of the men and women
in the public service t<> meet in-
crt-ases in the cost of living were
only fair and essential, and that to
meet these adjustments und the in-
creased cost of all supplies and ma-
lerials purchased for public use
Jmve required higher appropriations
by state, county and municipal au-
thorities, we believe present con-
ditions demand every possible re-
t^enchment by all governing bodies
which have authority to li-\-y taxes.
We believe there should 1m concert-
ed and cooperative efforts among
state, county and municipal bodies
to lighten the burden of taxation,
and pledge Republican officials to
this course. Also, to permit the
equal distribution of our tax bur-
den, we recommend the proposed
amendment to our Sute Cosstitu-
tion which will be submitted to the
voters in November."

Directors in addition to the officers are •
Louis Jack. Albion. III.. Edwards rounly.
Sam Ructtmnn. Xenia. Clay rountty.
Roy CunninKham. Rinard. Wayne tounty
Will Fry. Louisville, Clay county.

"The district centef will be lo-
cated at Flora, and the membership
will be secured in most of Clay and
Wayne counties and parts of Ed-
wards, Effingham and Marion. In
the territory covered from 20 to 80
towns will serve as receiving points
to «4iich the members will take their
produce. From these ' points the i
produce will be a.sscmbled at Flora
by trucks over the splendid system
of hard roads leading into that city
from four different directions. Here
the eggs will be graded and packed
for shipment and as rapidly as cat
loads are, assembled they "will be
shipped to terminal markets. "Eggs
are pooled by two-week periods ac-,
cording to grade and as returns are
received by the asisociation, nem-
bers will receive pay for their eggs
by check according to gntde and
quality.

"By" the time this announcement
appears in The Record, active »iem-
bersfiip acquisition into this new rn-
terprise should be under way. The
goal set by the association is 250,-
000 heos. This will probably wean
a membership of 1,200 to 1.500
-nembers and in this beavj- produc-

ng area such a membership should
furnish the association from 100 to

25 car loads of eggs and aibout
40 cars of poultr>' per year."!

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TTie lllinoig Agricultural Agsociation RECORD

May 1, 1926

EIOTH lUINOIS PARTY CONVENTIONS URGE FARM RELIEF

Democrats

POST war readjustments have inflicted tragic penalties
upon tlie farmers of Illinois.
"Thousands of farm families have been forced through
lankruptcy. They have lost their homes, their land and their
I lopes for their future.

"Other thousands are confronted hj the terrors of in-
olvency and are dependent upon the generosity of those who
lold their mortgagen and notes to permit them to enjoy the
: belter of the only home they know.

"Illinois' one great and rich basic industry, which made
I icr famous throughout the world as the biggest producer of
arm products, is in desperate straits.

"The farmers carried their case to President Coolidge'and
1 le came to Chicago a fevr months ago and offered the farmers
1 lo ralief of any kind, but told them to get together and co-
I iperate and do the best they could for themselves. He offered
I hem nothing. He gave them a stone. The Republicans in Con-
{ iress, under orders from the White House, are getting ready
1 o adjourn without giving the farmers any adequate or benefi-
cial relief.

"We believe that if the Government, by tariff, puts up
the price for the eastern manufacturer and- for the labor he
t mploys; if the Government by law puts up railroad rates, so
1 hat the railroads shall not lose money, then we contend that
the Government shall enact appropriate legislation so that the
I armers, who are the bone and sinew of the nation, shall not
le sacrificed,"

Illinois Republicans
Snub Administration 's
Fake Farm Relief Plan

DURING the month the state
conventions of both the Demo-
cratic and Republican parties
drafted their platforms. Their
promises to agriculture are printed
herewith.

It is noteworthy that the Illinois
Republicans, in contrast to the ex-
pressed policy of the Republican
administration, vigorously endorsed
the "equalization fee" principle
which places the loss — if any — of
the control of the surplus distribu-
tion on the producer, a principle
which has been vigorously advanced
by the united farm organizations, in-
cluding the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation. The "equalization fee"
principle is embodied in the Federal
Farm Board measure, now pending
in both branches of Congress and is
supported by the Farm Bureaus and
I. A. A. Note also that the Illinois
Republicans did not so much as men-
tion the Tincher bill, the administra-
tion's "give-thcm-a-board" measure
which the I. A. A. opposes.

Republicans

llYJLTE recognize that because of the wide expanse of our
W country, the industrial needs of one section may be dif-
ferent from those of another section, therefore, we regard it to
be the special duty of lUinoisans in the national service to be
alert to protect the particular interests of this state and of the
Middle West, of which Illinois is the heart. We believe the
following insistant needs of the Middle West should command
the immediate and careful consideration of all representatives
of the Republican party who are charged with the enactment
and administration of national laws:

"(a) The earliest possible relief of the great industry of
agriculture and the continuing protection of that industry
equal to the protection given other industries by our tariff
system. This should include emergency legislation for the
establishment of federal agencies effectively to control
the distribution of our exportable surplus of farm products
in such manner as will restore the industry to a profitable
basis and give to the producer an American price for his
products, the loss — if any — of such control of surplus dis-
tribution to be borne by the producer. This we deem to
be imperative for the preservation of the> greatest industry
of our State, and to be essential to the welfare of the
Middle West, of the nation and of our party," ^

Producers to Pool
Lambs on National
Basis This Season

Corn

Belt Feeders Were
Sav^ $1 to $2 on Feeder
Lanlbs Last Year by Pool-
ing Operations of Co-op.

A saijing of $1 to %2 a hundred-

* '^ to farmers who

'oducers' lamb

.. i' ng to the Na-

» 1 - • ' icers Associa-

which is arranging for a larg-

this year.

year 68,000 feeder lambs

based direct from the

through the National Pro-

vith the branch agencies at

St. Louis and Kansas City

the animals.

l4mb pool proved so satisfac-

he livestock producers that

lamb pool on a national

been organized by the

4gencies for this year.

I>

tional Ilvesu

tion,

er pool

Last
were pprc
range
ducers
Chicago
handlini

The
tory to
a feede
basis
branch

h£s

To

The
general
though
the ter^iinal
forward
ters
the Mo
averaging
pounds.
inspecte( 1
an table
fore load':

Arerage 55 to 65 Pounds.

The

Appro [imate
Belt

Corn-

The pry

pooling '

tingent

changes

lambs

cars at

mission

for

losses f

shortage

An
onrf
275 hei
of $1 per
which

ac.

price,
feed
place an
14 Produlcer
advised
that the
the l(?ss
pected
about

she< p

ly

Sejt

^ation^I Producers will have

supervision of the pool, al-

irders will be received by

agencies which will

them to national headquar-

lambs will be mostly from

ina and Wyoming ranges,

between 55 and 65

They will be only from

flocks and all unmerch-

ambs will be rejected be-

ng on cars in the West.

prices will be quoted

purchasers in advance.

will be determined by

' he costs at intervals, con-

vith volume received and

in price conditions. The

be billed at cost, f. o. b.

l<|ading point, plus $15 com-

car and 5 cenbi per head

which will cover all

om deads, cripples and

in transit.

WGN Abruptly Stops
I. A. A. Farm Period,
Refusing Reason Why

will

jepc
insui ance.

How to Order.

^.ny

ortier must be for at least
douqle-deck car, approximately
and an advance payment
hundredweight is required,
credited to the purchase
farmer who wants to
this fall and winter can
order with any one of the
agencies. Growers are
the National Producers
>arlier the order is placed,
I he price will be. It is ex-
shipments will begin
1.

that

Many members who listened in on
the I. A. A. farm program from
WGN, the Chicago Tribune station,
during the one week which it was
on the air, must have wondered why
the association was not on WGN's
program after Monday, April 26.
Xhe reason is partially explained in
yie following statement which was
issued Tuesday, April 27, to the
press because wide publicity was
given in the newspapers of the Mid-
dle West to the association's farm
radio program from WGN:

"An arrangement was recently
announced whereby the Illinois
Agricultural Association would
broadcast a daily noon farm pro-
gram from its offices over WGN, the
Chicago Tribune station.

'*The announcement gave the
names of speakers for two weeks in
advance, beginning with April 19
when the program was started, and
the Illinois Agricultural Association
had scheduled speakers for a com-
plete program as far in advance as
May 15, which was in line with a
written memorandum between WGN
and the association calling for one
year's participation with a 30-day
termination clause.

"After one week, WGN officials
abruptly terminated the arrange-
ment on three hours' written notice,
and refused to give a reason. Dur-
ing the week the following speakers
and organizations were on the pro-
gram:

Sam B. Thompson, president, American
Farm Byreau Federation. (Personal mes-
sage read whicli was sent from WashinK-
ton, D. C.)

C. B. Denman, president. National Live-
stock Producers Association, and J. D.
Harper, editor of the National Livestocit
Producer, who gave daily liveatocit mar-
ket analyses based on reports from Pro-
ducer aitencies on 13 markets.

Arthur C. Page, editor. Orange Judd
Illinois Farmer.

Miss Edna Walls, specialist in Child
Care and Training. IJniversity of Illinois.
C. V. Gregory, editor, Prairie Farmer.
Earl C. Smith, president. Illinois Agri-
cultural Association.

C. E. Durst, editor, American Fruit
Grower.

A. C. Hughes, editor, Barrel and Box.
A. Sykes. president, Chicago Producers
Commission Association.

A. D. Lynch, director of dairy market-
ing. Illinois Agricultural Association.

Uncle Bert, the Garden Expert, United
States Department of Agriculture.

"Reports direct from the country
concerning the I. A. A. Farm pro-
gram over WGN were favorable, sev-
eral characterizing it as 'a real farm
program expressing honest-to-good-
ness farmer thought.' ,

"No criticism was given either by
WGN or the federal supervision of
radio. The termination became ef-
fective following the program given
Saturday, April 24, without WGN
stating the cause."

5am Thompson Calls
Administration Bill
"An Empty Proposal"

President of A. F. B. F. Says
Tincher Bill Devoid of Any
Real Promise to Agriculture
— a Half Measure.

THE admistration's farm relief
plan is an 'empty proposal de
void of any real promise to agri-
culture," declares Sam H. Thomp
son, president of the American
Farm Bureau Federation.

The American Farm Bureau "is
not seeking palliatives and half
measures" declared President
Thompson in issuing the statement
which analyzes the position of the
Farm Bureau in regard to the
Administration Bill introduced by
Congressman Tincher of Kansas,
in the House during the month
Thfe statement also heavily scores
the "give-them-a-Federal Board" at
titude adopted by Senators and
Congressmen seeking to defeat
farm relief measures.

Reviews History of Situation

The full statement as issued by
President Thompson, of the Farm
Bureau, setting forth the attitude
of the organization upon the im-
portant agricultural relief measures
now before Congress, is as follows:

"When the representatives of the
Farm Bureau, together with spokes-
men for other farm groups, ap-
peared before the House Agri-
cultural Committee on March 5,
1926, they were requested by the
Committee to file a' written state-
ment of the principles upon which
an adequate relief measure might
be based. This statement was pre-
pared by an authorized representa-
tive of the Farm Bureau and an

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authorized representative of other
farm groups, and after being sub-
mitted to and approved by a meet-
ing of the leaders of all these farm
organizations it was filed with the
Agricultural Committee of the
House. This statement was pub-
lished in full and sent to all State
Farm Bureaus, and it brought forth
many expressions of approval and
no statements of disapproval. ^

Farm Organizations Told to Draw
Up Bill

"After consideration had been
given to these proposals by the
Committee, the farm representa-
tives were requested to prepare a
bill for the use of the Committee,
according to the principles set forth
in this proposal. For 10 days the
persons who prepared the proposals,
with the assistance of the House
Drafting Committee, applied them-
selves to the task of preparing the
bill requested by the House Com-
mittee. On Tuesday, March 16, this
bill, designated as House Print No.
1, together with a graphic analysis
of the bill, was tendered to the
Committee. This bill followed
closely the lines of the Dickinson
bill with some important changes.

Bill Followed A. F. B. F. Resolution

"Special care was taken to
formulate this bill in accordance
with the resolutions adopted at our
Annual Meeting and by our Board
of "Directors, and an effort was
made to conform to the declared
policies of the administration. Ex-
tended hearings were conducted
and one by one all objections to the
measures were swept away, except-
ing for one feature — namely, the
equalization fee. There recently
appeared a measure sponsored by
Representative Tincher of Kansas,
which is said to have the support
of the administration, which follows
closely the provisions of House
Print No. 1, excepting that it fails
to provide for an equalization fee
or an equalization fund. It does,
however, provide for a revolving
fund, but contains no provision
whatever for replenishing this fund.
In fact it is nothing more nor less
than a loan fund from which the
Federal Agricultural Board would
make loans to any cooperative as-
sociation or agency which would
undertake to deal with a given com-
modity in an attempt at stabiliza-
tion.
"Tincher Bill An Empty Proposal"

"Farm Bureau representatives
have made careful analysis of the
Tincher measure with the hope of
discovering that its provisions might
be acceptable, but have reached the
decision that it an empty proposal.
Although the Tincher Bill recogn

able way in which any one of the
great "surplus" commodities, such
as wheat or cotton, could be stab-
ilized through this machinery,
namely: by securing co-operative
action on the part of substantially
all the producers of the commodity.
A wheat association composed of
ull the wheat growers or an asso-
ciation made up of all the producers
of swine, dairy products, cotton or
potatoes, if adequately financed and
properly conducted would, we be-
Ii9'.-e,ibe capable of stabilizing the
pBoduct. A 100 per cent sign-up
is a worthy ideal. It is the millen-
nium in co-operative marketing.
Notwithstanding the remarkable
progress made in the organization
of co-operative associations in rec-
ent years, the percentage of cotton,
wheat, hogs, potatoes, dairy and
other products which are handled
co-operatively is comparatively
sinall. It is obviously hopeless to
expect relief from a plan that would
impose the burden of stabilization
upon the comparatively few who
compose these respective co-operat-
ing groups.

Tincher Bill "Gives-them-a-Board"

"During the course of the hear-
ings on House Print No. 1, op-
ponents of agricultural relief legis-
lation Were continually seeking a
place for compromise, and the
phrase "Give them a federal board,"
became a commonplace. The Tinch-
er bill does just that. The Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation has
no disposition to enter into any
such compromise. This organiza-
tion is not seeking palliatives and
half measures. It demands a whole-
some straight-forward provision
which will enable agricultural prod-
ucers to stabilize their industry so
that they will receive the benefit of
the American protective system.
We do not begrudge the stability
and the independence of American
labor and American industry. We
demand the same stability and in-
dependence for American Agri-
culture."

500 More Added

to Our Ranks

(Continutd Jram po^e I, col. 4.)

snow storm over part of the state
April 17 made it necessary to post-
pone some of the meetings. Several
counties report that more meetings
are coming. Marshall-Putnam re-
ports 385 attendance at four meet-
ings.

"Strong resolutions have been
adopted by practically all Farm Bu-
reau and community clubs and a con-
tinuous flow of letters is going to
Congressmen to tell them what Illi-
izes the surplus problem, yet there I nois farmers want in the way of
is, in our opinion, only one conceiv- farm relief legislation."

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Volume 4

Issued Every Month for 63,000 thinking Farmers — June 1, 1926

No. 6

COWLES REPORTS TO MEMBERS ON STATUS OF FARM RELIEF

"Haugen Bill Would
Bring Nation a New
Prosperity, ' ' — Fox

Says Effective Action hy Con-
gress Would Change Pessi-
mism Into Optimism, Be-
sides Helping Prices.

A permanence of prosperity
never before seen in this country
would be a logical result of enact-
ment of the Haugen federal farm
board measure by Congress, accord-
ing to George A. Fox, executive
secretary of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association.

"The enactment of a genuine
farm relief bill, making possible
equality for agriculture and effec-
tively coping with the uncontroll-
able surplus, would have a two-fold
beneficial effect upon the farmers
themselves, and the rest of the
nation," declares Secretary FoJt.

"The first is psychological. Farm-
ers have been more or less pessimis-
tic for five or six years. Pessimism
is a brake on any industry, and if
effective legislation is passed, optim-
ism will chase away pessimism,
which will be of considerable value
in helping agriculture get back on
its feet — an event which would re-
flect benefits into every allied in-
dustry and business.

Would Increase Prices

"The second is material. Low
prices have caused pessimism. Leg-
islation along the lines of the
Haugen bill, if properly adminis-
tered, would materially enhance
prices to the farm«is. All who
trade with farmers would benefit
therefrom, as would the farmers
themselves.

"What ibout the consumer? His
benefits from a rehabilitated and
rejuvenated agriculture would
greatly offset the small increase in
the cost of living, if there is any.
An increase of 25 cents a bushel
on wheat adds only three tenths of
one per cent to a one-pound loaf of
bread, the government has found.

"Wheat is a fair example of all
foodstuffs; consequently it follows
that there would be a very small in-
crease in the cost of living to con-
sumers, and if there should be
much, the merchandising mechan-
ism of the country would be prof
iteering, and not the farmers.

'Some interests profess to believe
that if any effective bill is enacted
which would raise farm prices for
farmers, the other two-thirds of the
population — the major portion cf
the consuming public — -would imme-
diately react unfavorably and wipe
out all the fanner had gained, and
even set him back a notch.

"What happens under present
conditions when the farmers are
prosperous? AH the country is
prosperous, and the press is full of
prosperity talk, 90 per cent of
which is based on the farmers'
higher prices.

Cites Aluminum Interests

"What about other similar cases?
Take, as an example, the Mellon
aluminum interest which is virtually
a monopoly of products used ex-
tensively in practically every Amer-
ican household. The consumers of
aluminum are a much greater ma-
jority over the aluminum interests
than the food consumers are over
the farmers. But, were tyrannical
laws made or regulations promul-
gated against the aluminum inter-
ests as a result of the recent Con-
gressional inquiry? No.

"The same is true of manufac-
turers who enjoy the benefits of our

The Fight In the House

I. A. A. APPRECIATES

BANKERS HELP ON BILL

Appreciation for the indorsement
by the Illinois Bankers Association
of the Haugen Federal Farm Board
measure was expressed in a resolu-
tion passed by the I. A. A. execu-
tive committee at monthly meeting
May 7, as follows:

whereas, the admintstrmtive committee
and the committee on asricultural rela-
tions of the Illinois Bankers Association,
in joint meetins assembled at Chicairo on
April 21, 1926, have hy suitable action
endorsed the activities of the Illinois
Affricultaral Association in its effort to
secure the enactment into law of the farm
organisations' Federal Farm Board bill;
and have given assurance of the coopera-
tion of the Illinois Bankers Association.

Therefore, be It resotved, by the execu-
tive committee of the Illinois Agricultural
Association :

That we express, on behalf of both the
Illinois Agricaltural Association and this
committee, and -of the members of our as-
sociation, genuine appreciation of the ac-
tion taken and expression made and con-
veyed to this Association: and

Be it further resblvad, that a copy of
this resolution be transmitted by our sec-
retary to the secretary of the Illinois
Bankers Associstion; and that this resolu-
tion be incorporated in the minutes of this
meeting of the executive committee.

protective tariff which increases
costs of practically all our products
to the consumers yet the manufac-
turers are an insignificant minority,
numerically. The tariff is known;
to benefit many consumers more
than it increases their cost of liv-
ing, therefore there is no general
attack against it.

"Making the tariff effective on
agricultural products, as is done by
the Haugen federal farm board
measure, also benefits most of the
consumers by rehabilitating the
finances of the largest single con-
suming class in the country — the
farmers."

Pboh 1922 TO 1926 BOVINB tubbbculosis
was reduced from 4 to 2.8 per cent in the
United States by the cooperative federal,
state and county testing program, says the
U. S. D. A.

Important Ruling of
Commerce Commission
Affects Many Farmers

Farmers who have or want elec-
trical conveniences on their farms
gained a large measure of protec-
tion from possible exorbitant rates
as a result of the recent order is-
sued by the Illinois Commerce Com-
mission which requires that all pub-
lic utilities about to render rural
electric service in the state shall
file with the commission a detailed
statement of the cost per mile of
constructing rural lines.

This ruling is of considerable im-
portance and means much to the
advancement of electrification of
the farms of Illinois, according to
L. J. Quasey, director of the de-
partment of transportation of the
Illinois Agricultural Association.
Heretofore, states the commission,
estimates of costs of building rural
electric lines have varied from $600
to $1,600 a mile for the same qual-
ity of lines.

INDIANA WHEAT POOL

SELECTS A NEW NAME

"Central States Soft Wheat
Growers Association" is the name
selected by the board of directors
of the Indiana Wheat Growers As-
sociation to replace their present
one because of expansion of the
organization beyond Indiana. This
will be submitted to a vote of
the members by mail according to
Vernon Vaniman, who is handling
grain marketing work for the I. A.
A., and, in all probability it will
carry.

Illinois membership in the pool is
gradually increasing, Vaniman
finds. Clark and Effingham counties
are now giving the wheat growers
in certain communities the oppor-
tunity of securing the advantages
of marketing their wheat through
their own agency.

/. A. A. Treasurer Analyzes Situation

of McNary Bill in Congress; Adverse j
Vote in House Does Ntd Mean Defeat

Industrial East Voted Solidly Against Farm Relief; Illinois
Delegation in House, Excepting All But One of Congress-
men from Chicago, Voted Solid for Farmers' Bill. i

(Note: R. A. Crowles, treasurer of the Illinou Agrieultural AtM-
ciation wa» in Wathinffton the week of May 17 to it in behalf of the
asBociation's intereet in the Haugen bill (MeNary bill in Senate) and
haa written this report to each member can know what has been hap-
pening, and something of what may be expected to happen tn the. near
future.— Editor.) \

By R. A. COWLES

Drive Started to Get
Members for Poultry
and Egg Association

Flora Poultry Producers As-
sociation Members Solicit-
ing Neighbors to Get Prod-
uct of 250,000 Hens in
Marketing Organizations.

HIS report is offered in an attempt to acquaint the
members of the Illinois Agricultural Association and
their friends with the events that have
transpired in Washington during the past
week, with respect to the action in the House
on farm legislation, the status of legislation
now pending in the Senate dealing with dis-
posal of surplus, and to forecast within the
limitations of the writer and others, oppor-
tunity to secure the enactment of the farm
organizations' Federal Farm Board Bill in
this session of Congress.

The "Haugen Bill" was voted down in the
House of Representatives by a vote of 212 to lfi7, with 51
Congressmen reported as not voting. Let the reader bear in
mind, however, that the bill voted down was a bill that was

prepared by the Chairman of the
Committee on Agricultun of the
House, at the direction of hi" Com-
mittee, and that this bill embodied
in it, provisions and certain refer-
ences to the tariff that were omitted
from the bill earlier prepared by
the representatives of the united
farm organizations and supported
bv the Executive Committee of
22 of the CeTitral West Agricultural
Conference, as presented to the
House Committee on Agriculture
by those representatives, and em-
bodying the provisions that they
thought should be and might prop-
erly be incorporated in a bill. Ths
subject of tariff, for instance, was
very studiously avoided in the bill
prepared and drafted by the farm
organizations representatives aitore-
mentioncd. And the unfavorable
vote recorded in the House, is the
judgment of those who have been
closely associated with the legisla-
tive program in Washington, is at-
tributable in part at least to the
reference to the tariff and certain
declarations relating thereto, as ap-
pearing in the bill voted down. The
events that led up to the unfavor-
able vote on the bill will be recount-
ed later in this report.

Roles Committee Unfriendly
While the Haugen bill has been
voted down in the House, and it
would be impossible at this time for
the friends of the farm organisa-
tions' Federal Farm Board BUI in
the House, to obtain from the ftulea
Committee a place on the House
calendar for the consideration of
their bill, substantially in the form
as originally presented to the com-
mittee, fortunately, there is now
pending in the Senate the farm or-
ganizations' Federal Farm Board
Bill, as an amendment, appended to
the administration's Co-operative
Marketing bill. This result came
about in this manner: The house
early in the session passed the Ad-
minstration's Co-operative Market-
ing Bill, which then went to the
Senate; and was by the Senate re-
ferred to its Committee on Agri-
culture and Forestry. Senator Nor-
ris* committee deferred action on
that bill until after the representa-
(Coatlaaad on pegs 4. aeL 4.)

Owners of 3,450 hens signed th«
first membership agreements in the
Flora Poultry Producers Associa-
tion at an organization meeting at
Flora, Clay County, recently. These
men were: C. R. Richison, Cisne,
president; C. D. McCommons,
Flora; C. T. Hufford, Fairfield; Roy
D. Cunningham, Rinard; J. T. Mc-
Allister, Xenia; W. R. Fry, Louis-
ville; Orville Bryant, Xenia; J. M.
Schwantz, Clay City; F. W. Lo-
gan, Louisville; John W. Wilkins,
and Charles E. Dodd, Cisne.

"This represents approximately
one seventieth of the goal of 250,-
000 hens that must be signed up to
make this marketing association a
realty," says Frank A. Gougler, di-
rector of poultry and egg marketing
of the I. A. A.

Only a few farmers have had
time to solicit their neighbors to
join, but those who have been active
have been successful in getting
members. There is no charge to a
Farm Bureau member to join, but
non-members are required to pay
$5 for a share of common stock
and two per cent -is deducted from
non-members' gross sales for over-
head expense, and for service ren-
dered by the Farm Bureau. This
arrangement is bringing more farm-
ers into the Farm Bureau, Director!
Gougler finds.

The Peoria County Farm Bureau and the
Peoria Association of Commerce extended an
invitation to the Illinois Agricultural As.
sociation to hold Its next annual meetins in
Peoria at the last executive committee
ing.

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BXBCUnVB COMMTTTEB
(Bj Congf txIniMl Dl»trlct«)

lldl WUliwn Webb, Route On*, JoUM

1th G. F. Tullodi, Rodrfard

3th C B. Bunbaraugh, Pldo

4th W. H. Moody, Port Byrai

Sth ; B.H. Tnlor, Rapatoe

6th A.«. Wrl(ht,V>rna

7th .' F. D. Bwtao, Cornell

Sth R. F. Kerr, Iroquois

«th J. L. Whlanend, CSierUetoa

0th Cherlee Borcelt, HeTene ■

1st Samuel SorrcUs, Raymond

Ind Frank OeansT, Waterloo

Jrd W. L. Cope, Salem

: 4th Charles Marshall, Belknap

R. K. Loomla, Makanda

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OPFICBRS

PrsWdasit, Earl C. ScBith Detroit

Vlcs-Preaident, Charles R. Finley .' Hoopeston

Treasurer, R. A. Cowlas Bloomlnston

, G«o. A. Fas Sycamore

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CCLTVBAL ASSOCIA1

RECORD'

r» arfwwio th^purpoMfor mhich thm Wmrm Bur^mu wm» mgmn-
ls«irf, nam«ly, to promote, protmct and represent thm busings*,
metinomic, woeUii and adueationat IntwrmMiM of thm farmmrt of
IttkwU and thm nation/and to dm¥€lop agHcultur*.

DIRECTORS OP DEPARTMENTS

Co-opcntiTC Acoountlf^ Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Markctlns ; A. D. Lyn<^

Pinancc R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable M«rk«tlns A. B. Leeper

General Office J. H. Kclker

Information Harry C. Butcher

Lcsal Counsel Donald Klrkpatri<dc

Live Stock Marketing Wm. B. Hedgcock

Organisation G. B, Mctxgcr

Phoaphate-Llmestone J. R. Bent

Poultry and Eu Markedly P. A. Goufler

Taxation and Statlatica , J. C. WaCaon

Tranaportation L. J Quatcy

PabUahed once a month at 404 North Wcaley Are.. Mount Morrta, ntinoia, by the IlUnob Agricultuiml AaKMdation. Edited by DepartmeDt of Infonuatloo, Hany C. Butcher, Direetor, 006 South Dearboni
Street, Chioago. UliDoia. Entered a* aeoood-elaM matter October 30, I92ti at the post office at Mount Morria, lUinoia, upder the Act of March 3, 1879. Aooeptanoe for mailing at ipeoial rate of poatage providad
for ID Section 412, Act of February 38, 1936, authorised Oetober 37, 1936. The individual memberahip fee of the'IUinois Agricultural Aeaoeiation it five doUara a year. The fee inoludea pasrment of fifty oenta
for eubecription to the Illinoia Acriciilturml Aaeociation Rboord. Poetmaiter: In returning an un<^ed for or miaeent oopy, pleaae indicate key number on adoreae m ia required by law.

Jj(ouble Taxation of Mortgaged
Real Estate

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HY Relief Is Impossibie Under the Present
Constitution.

J. C. HTaUsa.

By JOHN C. WATSON

D\/reetor, Department of Taxation and Statigtiea.
Illinois Agricultural Association

UNDER the Illinois taxing system it is well
ktown that the owner of mortgaged real
estate is compelled to pay taxes
on the entire property. He can-
not deduct the amount of the
mortgage from the value of the
whole property and thus reduce
his taxes to his equity or the in-
terest which he has in the prop-
erty.

In contrast with its treatment
of tangible property, the revenue
system of Illinois carefully re-
lieves intangibles of. double taxa-
Owners of money, notes, mortgages, trust
jtorkp \-~.il:, or other evidence of in-
nes», sire cxvi >.■. >ly given the right to deduct
uue (leuU IiOiu the valuations of such
propel ty. Owners of real estate are denied the
right to deduct debts from the valuations of their
real es tate. The present constitution of the State
makes relief impossible. Until the constitution
is amended in such a way as to make a fair tax-
ing system possible, owners of mortgaged real
estate, whether farm lands, town and city lots,
or corporate property, including the railroads,
must c Dntinue to pay taxes not only on the equity,
but up an the entire property. In addition, wheth-
er the mortgages pay any tax or not, mortgagors
must I ay a some'^hat higher rate of interest on
the mc rtgages, because they are taxable.

Vari ous remedies, either to ' prevent double
taxation of real estate or to relieve tax payers
from i a worst effects, have been proposed.

It hi s been proposed that mortgages be exeippt-
ed fro:n taxation, as is now done in some states.
Without constitutional amendment, mortgages
cannot be exempted in Illinois. The pending
amendinent would permit exemption. But exemp-
tion is not the proper remedy, because an equitable
distribution of the burden of taxation is impossible
under i, system of exemptions. The proper remedy
is the t ixation of intangibles in such a way that the
tax cainot successfully be shifted. The only kind
of a tix which cannot easily be shifted by some
people ind usually cannot be shifted at all is the tax
on net ncome. Why this is true will be shown in a
later aiticle.

It hs.s been proposed that disclosure of the
ownership of intangibles be forced by making it
by legal action to collect any debt
document evidencing the debt bears
ior's stamp or has other evidence that it
a tax. Such a law would force the dis-
of the ownership of intangibles, but it
Dot keep them on the assessment books,
such a law intangibles would rapidly be

tion.
buna

imposs] ble

unless

the asj

has

closure

would

Under

paid

the

Why Farmers Should Support the Tax
Aknendment to Illinois Constitution

(To bs voted on in November, 1926)

If Real estate, although less than one-half — many
sayiless than 40 per cent — of the property in the state,
is njow paying about 80 per cent of all of the taxes for
mol t purposes.

2. Tangible property, although probably not more
tha 1 one-half of the property in the state, is now pay-
ing: more than 92 per cent of all the taxes for most
purposes.

3L A minority of the people of the state are now
paying all of the taxes for most purposes.

4. Owners of some kinds of property easily can
ana do add their taxes to the prices of their services or
products. Owners of other kinds of property, notably
lanJ, cannot shift their taxes to others to pay.

si Owners of mortgaged property are now paying
double or multiple taxes. They pay taxes not only on
their equities, but also on the value of the mortgages,
and pay « higher rate of interest on taxable mortgages
whclther the mortgages pay taxes or not.

& Lack of personal interest on the part of most
people in the economical and efficient use of tax
moneys, and their belief that they are paying no taxes
of sjny kind, promote extravagance and a rapid increase
of deferred taxes in the form of bonded indebtedness.

7f Taxes are rapidly increasing in Illinois partly
beciuse the population is increasing, but chiefly be-
cause of the demand for new forms of service.

S* Under the present constitutional limitations
none of the inequalities of the present taxing system
desdribed above can be fairly or properly corrected.
The proposed amendment is a grant of power to the
General Assembly, enabling it from time to time to
cornect inequalities in taxation and to establish a
modern and equitable system of taxation.

President, Illinois AKricultural Association.

[BIrief articles in support of the points stated above will be
printed in later iasut-s of THE Record. Questions relative to the
propSsed tax amendment are invited and will be answered through
Thb Rbcobd.]

converted into tax exempt securities, or would be
invested in other states or even in other countries.
The supply of credit would be drained away, re-
sulting in foreclosure of mortgages, reduction of
property values, and stagnation, both in produc-
tion abd in commerce. It would reduce taxes on
real eetite by making it impossible for real estate
to carry the present burden.

It has been proposed that owners of mortgaged
property be taxed only on their equities. Under
this remedy it is held that the remainder of the
tax would be paid by the holder of the mortgage
either through taxation of thp mortgage or
through! taxation of his interest in the property.
Undei*the first method as shown above, either the
tax would be shifted or the supply of credit would
be drained away either into other states or coun-
tries or ^to tax free securities. In the same way,
if the niortgagee were taxed on his interest in
mortgaged property, he would force the mort-
gagor to pay the tax either directly or through
a higheif* interest rate. Otherwise he would re-
fuse to ta&ke the loan.

Taxing owners of mortgaged property only on
their equities would result in a heavy reduction
in valuations of property actually paying taxes.
This would be true even if the remedy would not
cause wholesale foreclosures, loss of property,
and reduction of property values. It is a well known
fact that loans on farm lands usually do not exceed
one-half of the current value of the land, though re-
cently, due to the refunding of floating indebtedness,
loans on lands often exceed one-half of their present
value. It is also well known that loans on city
and village property often exceed fifty per cent of
current values. This is especially true of mort-
gages given to building and loan associations. It
is also true of such large city properties as busi-
ness houses, hotels, and apartment buildings. It
is also well known that corporations and large
business enterprises, including the railroads, are
usually operated largely on borrowed money. In
many cases the bonded or mortgage indebtedness
is much larger than the capital stock or equity in
the property. Owners of farm lands would prob-
ably gain less from taxation only of the equity
than owners of other real estate.

It is now generally believed that farm mort-
gages in Illinois have a total face value of about
35 or 40 per cent of the value of all farm lands.
The proportion of mortgage or bonded indebted-
ness is probably even larger in the cities and in
corporation property. If taxation of equities only
is established for any of these properties, it must
be established for all of them. The reduction in
taxable valuations could not be made up from the
mortgages, bonded indebtedness, or from any
other property. The rdeult would be a heavy
increase in tax rates. If the reduction in valua-
tions amounted to 40 per cent, it would require an
increase of 66-2/3 per cent in tax rates to produce
the same amoupt of tjxes. If the reduction in
valuations were^SOlpel* cent, it would require an
increase of 100 per cent in tax rates.

Even if taxation of equities lonly would not re-
sult in wholesale destruction of property values,
it would force such an increase of tax rates as
largely or wholly to offset the reduction in valua-
tions. Owners of small equities in property would
gain some advantage. Owners of large equities
in property would be worse off than they are
now. Owners of unencumbered property would
be crushed by the burden of taxes. They could
escape only by mortgaging their property, and
the degree in which they would escape would be
measured by the size of the mortgages.

Until the present constitution is amended so as
to permit fair and effective taxation of money
and credits, without shifting of taxes, owners of
mortgaged real estate must continue to pay double
and multiple taxes. The pending amendment if
approved by the people of the state will permit
a fair taxing system and gradual relief from the
unfair burden of taxes real estate is now carry-
ing. No change in the taxing system can be made
which would give immediate relief.

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June 1, 1926

The Illinoig Agricultural Agsociation RECORD

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Page 3

Farm Bureau Baseball
Underway; At Least 14
Counties After Trophy

Peoria and Marshall-Putnam
Play First Game of Season
May 29; Some Schedules
Still in the Making.

Organized baseball will be played
by the Farm Bureaus in at least 14
Illinois counties this year, all of
which aspire to the state champion-
ship which is held by the Tazewell
County Farm Bureau team, accord-
ing to George R. Cline of Virginia,
Cass county, president of the Illi-
nois Farm Bureau Baseball league.

As many as five or six other
Farm Bureaus may join the league
in time for play this season, but 14
have sent in their dues to the treas-
urer. These 14 are: Marshall-Put-
nam, Peoria, Woodford, Tazewell,
Livingston, McLean, Mason, Cass,
Morgan, Schuyler, Adams, Hender-
son and Warren. Mercer county is
expected to play this year, as is
Brown. No action has been taken
yet in McDonough, Menard or Lo-
gan. Jefferson county, In southern
Illinois, wants to play, but appar-
ently has no competitors in that sec-
tion of the state. All the other
counties are in west central Illinois.

Divided into Five Districts

The counties already in the league
are divided into districts as follows:
1, Henderson and Warren (and Mer-
cer if it comes in) ; 2, Marshall-
Putnam, Peoria, Woodford and
Tazewell; 3, Livingston and Mc-
Lean; 4, Adams and Schuyler (and
Brown if it comes in) ; 5, Mason,
Cass and Morgan (and Logan and
Menard if either or both come in).

In District 2, a schedule has been
arranged as follows: May 29, Peoria
at Marshall-Putnam and Woodford
at Tazewell; June 6, Peoria at
Woodford and Marshall-Putnam at
Tazewell; June 12, Peoria at
Tazewell, and Woodford at Mar-
shall-Putnam; June 10, Tazewell at
Woodford, and Marshall-Putnam at
Peoria; June 26, Tazewell at Mar-
shall-Putnam and Woodford at
Peoria; July 3, Marshall -Putnam at
Woodford and Tazewell at Peoria.

Schedules in other districts are
being arranged by mutual agree-
ment in each district.

Representatives of most of the
Farm Bureaus in the league met at
Peoria May 18 and made plans for
the season and apportioned the dis-
tricts.

Other States Becoming Interested

At the meeting it was decided to
play the championship game at Mt.
Vernon in connection with the I. A.
A. annual picnic, providing funds
are provided there for expenses,
otherwise the game will be played
at a point mutually agreeable to
the two teams in the finals. In or-
der to be eligible in the finals, each
team must have eliminated at least
one other team. Some counties will
have more than one team for inter-
county games. Livingston expects
to have two teams and will pick its
county team from players of both
nines. Farm Bureau' members or
members of their families are eligi-
ble to play. Playing and practice
are usually on Saturday afternoons.
The late spring has interfered with
baseball playing. The I. A. A. gives
a cup each year to the champion-
ship team.

This is the only organized farm
bureau baseball league existent, but
other states are becoming interest-
ed, notably Ohio. Officials of the
league look forward to the day when,
there will be interstate contests.

Promoters of Farm Bureau Baseball

lijciri

Here are some of the "magnates" of Farm Bureau baseball. They met at Peoria
recently and made arrangements of the affairs of the Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball
league. Left to right (top row) — Harry C. Butcher, director of information of the
I. A. A. and secreUry of the league; LeRoy Pike, Browning, Schuyler county; J. E.
Harris, assistant adviser, Tazewell county (becomes assistant adviser in Mercer county
June 1 and represented that county also); Wilfred Shaw, Peoria county adviser; T. R.
Isaacs, Mason county adviser; L. E. McKenzie. Schuyler county adviser; C. L. Bates,
Browning, Schuyler county. (Bottom row) — E. S. Sharp, Eureka, W(K>dford county;
L. R. Welk, Martin, Tazewell county; C. £. Hopkins, associate adviser, Liviagston
county; George R. Cline, Virginia, Cass county, president of the league; Theodore
Stempert, Panola, Woodford county, vice-president; W. A. Stevenson, Biggsville. Hen-
derson county and £. D. Walker, Henderson county adviser.

Producers, Only Four
YearsOld, Handle 127
Million $ Business '25

Livestock Marketing Mechan-
icism Set up by Farm Bu-
reaus Grows; Having Some
Effect in Stabilizing Mar-
kets.

In four years the farmers of the
Middle West, working through the
state Farm Bureaus and the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation, have
built up a cooperative marketing
mechanism which did a business dur-
ing 1925 of over $127,000,000.

It was in 1922 that the "Commit-
tee of 15," a group of leading Mid-
dle Western farmers and college spe-
cialists selected by the American
Farm Bureau Federation to study
livestock marketing conditions, made
recommendations for establishing a
cooperative marketing organization
along national lines, to be owned and
operated by the farmers themselves.
This cooperative marketing program
is being supported by the Farm
Bureaus, and today there are agen-
cies of the producers actively and
successfully operating on 13 mar-
kets, with representation on 14, all
under the banner of the National
Livestock Producers Association.

Producers Lead on 8 Markets

On 8 of the 14 markets, these
farmer organizations handled, dur-
ing 1925, more cars of livestock than
any other agency, and on several
others ranked either second or third,
although two or three which were
started within the last year or two
did not handle so much.

The cars handled, and the per-
centage of total receipts for each
agency are as follows: Chicago,
17, 071 cars, or 6 per cent; Peoria,
2,695, or 28.73 per cent; National
Stock Yards (East St. Louis), 12,-
991 cars, or 14.68 per cent; Indian-
apolis, 10,464, or 25.72 per cent;
Buffalo, 3,939 cars, or 20.84 per
cent; Fort Worth, 3,555 cars, or 7.49
per cent; Kansas City, 3,660 cars,
or 2 per cent; Cleveland, 4,227
decks, or 23.01 per cent; Sioux City,
3,517 cars or 5 per cent; Evansville,

fThy Not Think?

IT'S a little thing to do.
Just to think.
Anyone, no matter who,

Ought to think.
Take a little time each day
From the minutes thrown away;
Spare it from your work or
play —
Stop and think!

You will find that men who fail

Do not think.
Men who find themselves in jail

Do not think.

Half the trouble that we see.
Trouble brewed for you and me.
Probably would never be
If we'd think.

Shall we, then, consider this?

Shall we think?
Shall we journey, hit or miss.

Or shall we think?
Let's not go along by guess.
But rather to ourselves confess
It would help us more or less

If we'd think!

Anon.

Ind., 1,474 cars, or 45.84 per cent;
Pittsburgh, 2,738 decks, or 18.64 per
cent; Cincinnati, (10 and one-half
month), 2,377 decks, or 11.5 per
cent and Oklahoma City, 238 cars
for an intermittent period during
1925 under pressure of a boycott
against the cooperative.

These Ranked First

The Producer terminal agencies
which ranked first were: Chicago,
Peoria, E. St. Louis, Indianapolis,
Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and
Cincinnati.

According to William E. Hedg-
cock, director of livestock market-
ing of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation, there have been marked
gains toward the cooperative's goal
of stabilization of prices and re-
ceipts on all markets where the
Producer agencies have handled as
much or more than 15 per cent of
the total receipts, a fact which, he
declares, means economy and sav-
ings to both producers and consum-
ers of meat products by eliminating
some undesirable fluctuations.

The total business done by all
farmers' cooperative livestock agen-
cies for 1925 is estimated by the
National Livestock Producers Asso-
ciation as 148,344 carloads of which
the Producer terminal agencies
handled 71,144 carloads. Total
value of all cooperatively handled
stock is estimated at $269,820,000.

Illinois Cooperates Most

In an analysis of origination of
shipments to Producer agencies
covering 1925 business, made by
the National Livestock Producers
Association, it is revealed that Illi-
nois farmers are using cooperative
marketing to a greater extent than
farmers in any other state, there
having been 19,481 carloads from
this state, with Indiana second,
Iowa third, Ohio fourth and Mis-
souri fifth.

Illinois farmers shipped 89 car-
loads to Producer agencies at Buf-
falo; 8,140 to Chicago; 65 to Cin-
cinnati; 38 to Cleveland; 221 to
Evansville; 2,810 to Indianapolis;
5,616 to E. St. Louis, and 2,502 to
Peoria. A large percentage of the
shipments originate from local ship-
ping associations operated by farm-
ers. There are 4,000 of these local
associations in the United States,
most of which are in the Middle
West. Illinois has 527; Iowa about
700; Minnesota about 600; Indiana,
270, and Wisconsin, 240. In Illi-
nois the shipping associations work
closely with county Farm Bureaus.

One feature inaugurated by the
National Livestock Producers asso-
ciation which effectively shortens
the economic path from producer to
consumer is a lamb pool which has
been conducted for two years.
Lambs are bought and assembled by
the national organization in west-
ern states and delivered to corn
belt farmers for fattening. So far
this year, 25,000 Iambs have been
contracted by corn belt feeders for
fall delivery, according to Charles
A. Stewart, secretary of the na-
tional organization. Last year over
70,000 lambs were handled.

Dairymen of Chicago
District Working to
Form Pure Milk Body

"The dairjTnen in the Chicago
dairy district are almost on the last
lap in completing the membership
work of the Pure Milk Association."
declares A. D. Lynch, I. A. A., di-
rector of dairy marketing.

"The association will ser\'e as a
selling agency for the dairym^ in
the district. It is the first organiza-
tion of its size to accept as members
only those jvhose herds are fnee
from bovine tuberculosis. The fact
that the Chicago milk ordinance,
which went into effect April 1, per-
mits only tuberculin-tested milk to
be sold in the city makes the Pure
Milk 'Association the only logical or-
ganization for dairymen to join who
intend to use this market.

"The directors have recently em-
ployed A. E. Richardson, formerlly
manager of the 111. -Mo. Cooperative,
E. St. Louis, as field service mana-
ger to assist in completing the mem-
bership work. He is cooperating
with the county locals in their pro-
gram to complete the organization
work as rapidly as possible in order
that the tuberculin-tested herd own-
ers may finally have an organiza-
tion to represent them.

"The Pure Milk Association
stands for true cooperation. It be-
lieves that this cooperation should
extend not only among its members
but to the distributors and the con-
sumers. The following clause at the
beginning of the member's agree-
ment shows what ' each mepiber
agrees to do:

"/The member expressly agrees
to Cooperate with the milk distrib-
utors and consumers of milk,
through their health officers, by pro-
ducing milk of the highest quality
in accordance with ordinances, rules
and regulations now in effect or to
be enacted during the life of this
agreement.' "

The officers and directors are as
follows:

L. E. Johnson. Capron „ Boone

Herman Schwake, Arlington Heisht8..Co«k

A. A. Skelley. Maple Park DeKaD)

H. C. Vial, Downer's Grove DaPase

(Secretary)
W. C. McQueen. Elgin, R. S Kane

(President)
J. Leo Mofarman, Waukecan- .-Lake

(Treasurer)

Ole Stalheim, Harvard „ McHenry

(Vice-President)

John H. 'Cryder. Plainfield Will

D. N. Geyer. Harvard •. At large

American Institute
of Co-ops Convenes
at St. Paul in June

I. A. A. Director on Program
as is C. C. Mast of Adams
County; A Short Course on
Co-op Marketing.

FarmersTornado Fund
Still Helping Sufferers
14 Months A fter Ordeal

Four Carloads of Soy Beans
and Cow Peas Now Being
Distributed Free to South-
em Illinois Farmers.

Fourteen months after the worst
tornado ever experienced in the
United States, and particularly in
Illinois and the Middle West, finds
the Illinois Farm Relief Committees
still on the job distributing neces-
sities to farmers who were caught in
the catastrophe.

A car load of cow peas and soy
beans is being, distributed in each
of four counties — White, Franklin,
Jackson and Hamilton. The Farm
Bureaus in the first three counties
named are making the distribution,
while a committee consisting of
Chas. N. Burnett and C. C. Wright,
McLeansboro, is handling the car-
load "for Hamilton county, where
there is no Farm Bureau.

R. A. Cowles, treasurer of the I.
A. A. and director of the Illinois
Farm Relief Committee jointly with
Curt Anderson of Xenia, 111., an-
nounce that a final survey will be
conducted soon after the soy bean.s
and cow peas arc distributed.

Every farmer who suffered from
the tornado's ravages has been or is
being notified that the peas and
beans are available free — an nftir
that is possible only because of the
generosity of farmers all over Illi-
nois in subscribing liberally to the
tornado relief fund, which amounted
to approximately $180,000, nearly
all of which has now been put to
the good use for which it was in-
tended. All leading farm interests
in the state cooperated in raising
the fund, including the farm press
and all farm organizations.

I -I

To clarify the future coarse of
Cooperative marketing, and to seek
a definite set of principles for the
entire movement, 500 national co-
operators will meet at University
Farm, St. Paul, between Jnne 21
and July 17, to attend the second
annual session of the American In-
stitute of Cooperation.

The Institute was organized in
January, 1925, by twenty national
cooperative organizations as an edu-
cational institution for the purpose
of collecting information about co-
operative marketing, training lead-
ers and workers, assisting educa-
tional institutions in improving
their teaching co'jrses, and as a
means of focusing the cooperative
movement toward community and
national development. The Insti-
tute program this year is sponsored
jointly by the University of Minne-
sota College of Agriculture and the
Institute of Cooperation. George
R. Wicker, director of cooperative
accounting of the I. A. A., is also
a speaker, and is a trustee of the
Institute, representing the I. A. A.

The program for this year has
been divided into four major units
of one week each. Each week's
program will deal with the coop-
erative marketing of a particular
commodity. The association of co-
operative principles to the market-
ing of a particular commodity will
make the discussions concrete.

To Study Shippinc AssociatioBs

Facts of interest to every member
of a livestock shipping association
will be disclosed during th* first
week, from June 21 to Juhe 26.
Livestock and wool will be the com-
modities emphasized during the ini-
tial week. Leo-ters of that field
from all parts of the covnt^'y will be
present to guide the discussional
groups. E. G. Nourse, of the In-
stitute of Economics, Washington,
D. C, and chairman of the Insti-
tute of Cooperation program com-
mittee, will open the program with
an address on the history and struc-
ture of cooperative livestock ship-
ping.

In addition to the regular topics
on the livestock program, a four
day short course will be offered for
members of shipping associations on
June 22, 23, 24 and 25. One of the
highlights will be a grading demon-
stration under the direction of N.
K. Games, Central Cooperative
Commission Association, to be held
at the South St. Paul terminal, i.
S. Montgomery, manager of the
same organization will also address
the group. C. C. Mast, manager of
the Adams County (111.) Shipping
Association, will discuss county fed-
erations.

The second week, June 28 to July
3, will be devoted to dairy products
marketing. At that time pertinent
question of the dairy industry will
be discussed by groups of creamery
men, milk distributors, cheese mak-
ers and by-products manufacturers
under the leadership of nationally
known cooperators. Problems of
price, distribution, sales promotion
and increased consumption will be
taken up by the various groups.

KEEP SMIUNG

There is something bueyant
and cheer>' and breezy about any
person who can live above his
surroundings — that is, can find
something to cheer in every state,
and who prefers to ponder on the
brightness of the sun rather than
discover the spots in it.

If you would sing and whistle
and laugh more, heartaches
would be fewer. Laughter is a
contagious thing. It calls forth a
similar response. People feel the
tingle of life, and experience its
thrills as they laugh. And there
is such a lot in life to smile over.

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The Illinois Agricultural A»»ociation RECORD

June 1, 1926

Praivie Farmer Man
Becomes I. A. A. Head
, o/ Publicity June 15

Assist^int Editor Thiem Takes

of Harry Butcher,

Becomes Editor of

Fertilizer Review,

-Waihington, D. C.

Plade
The

E. G (George) Thiem, for the
past tw 3 years assistant editor of
Prairie Farmer
and for three
years assistant
farm adviser in
Whiteside coun-
ty, becomes di-
rector of infor-
mation of the
Illinois Agricul-
tural Association
June 15.

Thiem is a
product of. the
farm and has a
sympathetic un-
E. Cj Tbicm derstanding o f
farm problems
which i I a necessary requirement
in a position where one is relied
upon to inform intelligently and ef-
fectivel; the membership and the
public ibout the activities of a
state-wi le organization.

Thien was employed by a com-
mittee t onsisting of C. E. Bambor-
nugh, P< lo, Ogle county: R. F. Karr,
Iroquois Iroquois County, both of
whom are executive committeemen
of the I A. A. and George A. Fox,
, executiv e secretary.

He tJ^kes the place of Harry C.

who has been director of

for the association for

Butcher
publicity '

over two years and who resigned
recently affective July 1, to become
editor of The Fertilizer Review, a
new jot mal published by the Na-
tional Fertilizer Association at
Waahint toh, D. C. Butcher will be
associati d with Charles J. Brand,
formerly consulting specialist
marketii g pf the U. S. Department

of 4?

Butch
cultural
Iowa St4te
handled
licity f o •
with un( ergraduate

late Henry

T came to the Illinois Agri-
association direct from I
College, Ames, where hej
agricultural and sport pub-
the college in connection
work.

accounts

"A
tion of
panies ai
of $462
of $96,
counts
:n.04
lished
from

pe ■
■ t>

stated
manager
executivi i

"This
seriously
farmers'
view of
gested
established
for the
present
classifying
recommefii
lection
by estab
service,
ber

The
A.

ment of
the I. A.

vhic 1

MANY FARMERS AFTER

CROP HAIL INSURANCE

The Farmers Mutual Reinsurance
Company is now receiving hail ap-
plications. This will mean a sav-
ing of $6 to $8 per $1,000 of in-
surance for the farmers of Illinois
to take out farm crop hail insur-
ance on a mutual basis through the
reinsurance company, according to
Vernon Vaniman, field represent*-
tive.

The insurance is written on jn
acre basis. Based on the crop be-
ing valued at the amount of insur-
ance carried the insured will be r^
imbursed for the actual loss or dam
age done by hail. For example. If
the crop is insured for $2,000 anp
there is a total loss the insured will
receive $2,000. If a 50 per ceilt
loss the insured will receive $1,009.

One of the largest mutual hatl
insurance companies in the world is
following the practice of insuring
on the acre basis. It has been iti
operation 32 years. Illinois farm-
ers are fortunate in now' being able
to secure their hail insurance on a
basis which has proved satisfactory
to the farmers of other states.

The following counties have sent
in application for hail insurance:
Heiderson, Henry, Knox, Lee, Mer-
cer, McDonough, Vermilion.

Henry and Knox Counties head
the list in the amount of insurance
sent in.

The Farmers Mutual Reinsurance
Company is gradually extending its
services *o it can further supply the
insuranee needs of the farmers of
Illinois on a mutual basis.

Level of Prices on
Peoria Market Rises
Due to Cooperative

Manager of Peoria Producei's
Finds Level of Livestock
Prices at Peoria on Par
With Chicago Now.

I. A. C. lA. INSTITUTES

COLLECTION SERVICE

A new service has been instituted

by the I linois Agricultural Cooper-

m £\£^ atives Association to

I rrV help member organiza-

^ tions collect past due

st idy

r sceiva

of the financial condi-

65 farmers' elevator com-

the close of Feb. 28, 1926,

! 05.30 and notes receivable

63.51. The ratio of ac-

ivable to net worth was

cent, while reserve estab-

meet anticipated losses

un< loUectable accounts was ap-

proximately one per cent of sales,"

C eorge R. Wicker, generil

in a report to the I. A. A.

committee May 7.

condition is general and

affects the success of

elevator companies. In

this fact, ' it has been sug-

tsat a collection service be

within the I. A. C. A.

Ijenefit of its members. The

practice of analyzing and

accounts receivable and

dations for credit and col-

] lolicies will be supported

ishing an actual collection

Such service is for mem-

com] lanies."

nbership of the I. A. C.

functions as the depart-
cooperative accounting of
A., is now 199.

INCHEASE ) FARM PHODCt^lOM THIS TRAB
undc Llhtedljr end thi^ favoratilc eco-
1 ion." meaninif the present "farm
states the U. ^S. Department of
AgricQlturc In orther words, increased pro-
ductioD in 11*26 means sti]] less income than
192S.

nomic posi
prosperity.

Tri
is success]
■Ution.

CAL PORNIA

r iiir

FARM BtntBAt? PRDRKATTON
operating a 500-watt ratlio

Society Note: Madame
Hen Creates 3 -Strand
Girdle for Ma Earth

iperative marketing has raised
LuL general average of prices on the
Peoria market to a par with Chi-
cago, whereas before a cooperative
agency of farmers was organized at
Peoria, the price level averaged
about 25 cents a hundred lower than
at Chicago, according to W. R.
Hembrough, manager of the Peoria
Producers Commission Association.

According to Manager Hem-
brough, the Peoria Producers will
declare either a 25 or 30 per cent
dividend to members at the close of
this fiscal year May 31. For 1922,
the first year, the dividend was 20
per cent; 1923 and 1924, 30 per cent.
Practically the same amount of busi-
ness was done this year as last, in
spite of marked decreased receipts
on the Peoria market — an amount
of business which is interpreted as
a continuance of the steady growth
of cooperative marketing of live-
stock on this market.

There is also much less fluctuat-
ing on the Peoria market since the
advent of the cooperative, Hem-
brough finds.

i

Illinois Man Made
Director in Wheat
Pool; More Members

Southern Illinois soft wheat pro-
ducers who are pooling their wheat
with the Indiana growers, were
granted a voting director at the
recent annual meeting of the In-
diana Wheat Growers Association.

The director is C. L. Scott of
Grayville. White county.

"Edwards and Wabash counties
have completed their membership
campaigns," states Vernon Vani-
man, who is representing the I. A.
A. in this work. "White county
has not completed the campaign.
Fifteen new members have been
secured for the Farm Bureau as a
result of the pool campaign in
White county. Wayne, Saline, Gal-
latin and Clark counties are plan-
ning to give members in those coun-
ties an opportunity to market their
wheat through the pool."

This year 163 new members have
joined the pool in Illinois, making
the total in this state 392.

Girdle is of One Year's Illinois
Eggs Placed End to End;
Enough Material Left for
Pendant from Equator to
North Pole and Back.

The results of the 1925 activities
of Madame Hen, popular society
matron of Illinois barnyards, in the
creation and delivery of the well-
known breakfast partner to ham,
show that her efforts, excluding
similar activities of her sisterhood
in all other states excepting Illinois,
would, if placed end to end, thrice
girdle Mother Earth about the
equator with enough eggs remain-
ing to form a pendant to hook
around the North Pole and suspend
back to the equator.

Such is the importance of Ma-
dame Hen in Illinois, according to
Frank A. Gougler, director of poul-
try and egg marketing of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association.

In fact, says Mr. Gougler, she is
so important that farmers are
speeding considerable thought and
effort in working out ways and
means for marketing her contribu-
tions to the nation's wealth, so the
farmer who owns her can get a
maxium return and the consumer
who buys her eggs can do so eco-
nomically without paying tribute to
some unnecessary middlemen.

Poultry Co-ops Successful in Other
States

Minnesota and Ohio farmers,
have been successful in applying
cooperative marketing to poultry
and eggs in important sections of
these states, and conditions there
are quite similar to those in Illinois.
Many Ohio farmers have added an
average of 2 cents a dozen to their
returns through their organization,
he says. Exceptionally successful
farmer-organizations for marketing
their own products are functioning
in California, Washington and Ore-
gon.

In Illinois, an educational cam-
paign has been under way for a
couple of years under the direction
of the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion. In the near future, Mr. Goug-
ler declares, this campaign will be
flowering into actual organizations.

The first is likely to be in "Little
Egypt" in Clay, Marion and Wayne
counties, with headquarters at
Flora. Under the local leadership
of the Farm Bureaus in those coun-
ties, membership contracts are now
being signed and when the product
of 250,000 hens are signed up, the
organization will begin functioning.
A manager will be employed and
eggs will be gathered from members
in the country, assembled and
graded at Flora, and shipped in car-
loads to the big markets.

Central Illinois Interested

Knox. Warren and Henderson
County Farm Bureaus are also in-
terested, several meetings having
been held to acquaint farmers with
details and workings of joining to-
gether in their marketing. If an or-
ganization is formed in these coun-
ties, the headquarters will be at
Galesburg. Ford County Farm Bu-
reau is planning a one-county or-
ganization along similar lines, with
headquarters at Gibson City.

The ten Illinois counties which
produce the most poultry and eggs
per 100 acres of improved land,
and the value, are given as follows
by the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion: Edwards, $347; Clark, $270;
Cumberland, $264; Wayne, $244;
Clay, $242; Effingham, $234; Clin-
ton, $223; Jasper, $223; Jefferson,
$208 and Shelby, $202. Southern
Illinois counties are heaviest poul-
try and poultry-product producers
in the state.

The U. 8. DKPARTMRNT OP COMHBRCR RB-
ports that Illinois has 16 cities over 30.000.
three of which border ChicaiTO. All increased
since 1922. while the farm population de-
crearied considerably.

GOVCRNMKNT LtVBSTOCK MABKBT NBWB SBRV-

ice B hein? extended by Confrressiona) author,
ity to marltets at Pittsburgh. Buffalo. Cleve-
land. Cincinnati, St. Joseph and Indianapolis
soon after July 1.

Cowles Reports on

Status of Relief

{Continued from page 1, col. 6.)

tives of the united farm organiza-
tions, supported by the Executive
Committee of 22, had appeared be-
fore that Committee and presented
and offered its Federal Farm Board
Bill. Subsequently, the Senate Com-
mittee reported to the Senate,
through Senator McNary, the Co-
operative Marketing measure with
the farm organizations. Federal
Farm Board Bill, appended thereto
as an amendment. So that the Fed-
eral Farm Board bill, as a committee
amendment to the Administration's
Co-operative Marketing bill is pend-
ing now before Congress in the
Senate, and is likely to be taken up
for consideration as this report is
written or at least within the next
few days. I repeat that the Senate
measure makes no reference to
tariff and that it omits certain pro-
visions that were objected to in the
consideration and debate on the
"Haugen bill" in the House. And
without attempting to enter into a
discussion of the matter, let it be
recognized (as it has been all along
by those associated together in their
efforts to secure legislation dealing
with the surplus problem), that the
introduction of the subject of tariff
either by reference or by declara-
tion in any bin dealing with the
problem of surpluses might be ex-
pected to prejudice certain support,
particularly in the south, that was
needed to secure the enactment of
adequate legislation. Let it also be
remembered that a group of Sena-
tors, representing the majority of
the Senators, have recently agreed
that the Congress shall not adjourn
until farm legislation is enacted.
The present situation is quite the
opposite of the situation that Ex-
isted in Washington when the old
McNary-Haugen bill was defeated
in the House, in the 68th Congress,
two years ago. At that time the
vote on the bill in the House came
during the closing week of the ses-
sion and Congress had agreed to an
adjustment, with no opportunity to
secure action by the Senate.
SnbstitnteB Offered

Returning to the immediate
events preceding the unfavorable
vote on the Haugen bill in the
House, late Thursday afternoon,
the reading of the bill was con-
cluded under "five minute rule,"
permitting members of the House
to offer amendments to the bill or
speak for or against the section of
the bill previously read. During the
reading of the bill certain construc-
tive amendments had been made, as
agreed to by the friends of the bill,
and all objectionable amendments
were defeated. The bill was before
the House under a special rule, by
the terms of which, either the
Tincher or the Aswell bill were per-
mitted to be offered as substitutes
for the Haugen bill, or interchange-
ably. Therefore it was in order, at
the conclusion of the reading of the
Haugen bill on Friday evening, to
offer either bill As substitute; and
accordingly the Tincher Bill was of-
fered, on motion, as a substitute for
the Haugen bill, and then the As-
well bill was offered as a substitute
to the Tincher bill, after which the
House adjourned.

Administration Attempts "Painless
Killing" But Fails

The House reconvened Friday
morning and took up the Haugen
Bill. Both the Tincher Bill and the
Aswell Bill were at once with-
drawn ; and following this action by
the proponents of these measures.
Congressman Madden, from Chica-
go, Chairman of the Administra-
tion's Appropriation Committee, of-
fered a motion to recommit the
Haugen bill to the Committee on
Agriculture. The effect of this mo-
tion, had it prevailed, and its evi-
dent purpose, was to have the bill
"die in committee." This disposal
of the measure would have effec-
tively prevented a record vote on
the Haugen Bill in the House. An
aye and nay vote was taken on the
motion to recommit, and the Chair-
man (Mapes of Michigan) an-
nounced, "the ayes seem to have
it." A divison of the House was
called for by rising vote, and the
Chair announced again, "the ayes
seem to have it." A vote by tel-
lers was requested and the ayes
were 182 and the nays were '200,
and the motion te recommit was
lost.

"The previous question" was
moved, and the vote was on the

Haugen bill. Those answering the
roll call in the affirmative were 167,
those in the negative, 212 — 51 not
voting. And the clerk announced
3 additional pairs. So the bill was
rejected.

Democrat^ ^hj at Tariff Mention

The vote o1\ the motion to recom-
mit the bill, and the vote on the
bill, revealed the following: first,
that democrats from the south had
voted with the friends of the bill
in defeat of the motion to recom-
mit, thereby forcing a record vote
on the bill and disclosing its repub-
lican opposition. The failure of
southern leaders and their follow-
lowing in the democratic party to
support the bill on roll call, and to
vote the bill down will be ac-
counted for by them, no doubt, be-
cause of the fact that the bill, by
its specific declaration, stated its
purpose to be "to protect domestic
markets against world prices and
assure the maximum benefits of the
tariff upon agricultural commodi-
■ties," and because of other refer-
ence in the bill to the tariff.

Cotton Alliance Strong

However, through the active sup-
port and influence of the American
Cotton Growers Exchange, and its
aflfiliated state associations of cot-
ton growers, the so-called "cotton
states" contributed forty-t h r e e
votes for the bill. Space does not
permit recounting here the story of
the working alliance formed with
the Cotton Growers.

Without attempting to furnish a
detailed vote on the bill in the
House, our members no doubt will
be interested in knowing something
of the vote. The Illinois delegation
in the House outside of certain
Chicago Congressmen, and includ-
ing the Congressmen at Large, vot-
ed solidly for the bill. Congress-
man Sabath of Chicago, from the
5th Congressional District, voted
for the bill. The Indiana, Iowa and
Nebraska delegations voted solidly
for the bill. The Minnesota delega-
tion, with the exception of the Con-
gressman from Minneapolis, voted
for the bill. Tha Missouri delega-
tion, with the exception of the Con-
gressman from Kansas City, and
two Congressmen from St. Louis,
and the Congressman from the 14th
District, voted for the bill. The
delegation from Wisconsin cast
seven votes for the bill, two against
the bill, and two Congressmen were
recorded as not voting. Seven fav-
orable votes were recorded from
Pennsylvania, five from Ohio, three
from Michigan. The vote in Ohio
and Michigan was disappointing.
Four favorable votes were recorded
from Washington, and one vote
against the bill. Two favorable
votes were received from Oregon,
and one vote against the bill. One
favorable vote was recorded from
California. Idaho, Nevada, Utah,
Wyoming, South Dakota, North Da-
kota, Montana, Arizona, voted for
the bill. The delegations in the
House voting against the bill
were: New Hampshire, Connecti-
cut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jer-
sey, New York, Vermont, Virginia,
West Virginia, Kentucky and Lou-
isiana.

; Still Hopeful in Senate

Friends of the bill in the Senate
believe the bill has opportunity, a^
if passed then goes to Conference
Committee, composed of members
of both houses of Congress, with
subsequent action by the House and
Senate on the report of the Con-
ference Committee. There is rea-
son to believe that the House will •
adopt the Conference Committee re-
port if the bill is reported substan-
tially in its present form.

J^HE law oj nature Lr, Do the
thing, arid you thall have
the power: hut they who do not
the thing have not the power.
Human labour, through all its
j or iris, from tlie sharpening oj a
stake to the construction oJ a
city or an epic, is one immense
illustration oJ the perject com-
pensation oJ the universe. Every-
where and always this law is
sa blime. — Emerson .

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CULTUMAL AS

Volume 4

Issued Every Month for 63,000 thinking Farmers — July 1, .;j26

No. 7

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WE7E JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT," REPLY CORN BET TO SENATE DEFEAT

Cm. R. Wicker

Over- Extension of
Credit Makes Hard
Sledding for Co-ops

Wicker Tells Elevator Managr
ers to Decide on Fair Credit
Policy, Then Stick to It for
Success.

"Adopt a credit policy for the
purpose of restricting credit within
areasonable
margin of safety,
then follow a sys-
tematic plan of
collection to keep
down accounts re
ceivable to a min-
imum figure."

This is the ad-
vice George R.
Wicker, director
of cooperative ac-
counting for the
I. A. A., handed
out to 50 or more
farmers' elevator
managers at their
short course at
the University of Illinois on June 17.
"The interest on accounts receiv-
able may amount to a considerable
sum, and this money must be sup-
plied either by investment or loans
to accommodate the practice. A di-
rect interest expense results in
either case," he said. "The uncol-
lectable account is generally the re-
sult of an overextension of credit,
either as to time or amount or both.
But direct losses of this kind are
not so serious as the loss from hav-
ing funds tied up in non-interest
bearing accounts.
Should Safeguard Credit at Sale
"The time to safeguard credit ac-
counts is at the time of sale. Have
an understanding with the customer
when payment will be made. Then
follow up this understanding by
pressing for collection at the time
agreed upon.

"The credit policy should hinge
upon two points: first, the amount
of invested capital which may be
safely tied up in accounts; second,
the ability to pay and integrity of
the buyer. Don't extend credit to
men who have not established a
reasonable basis for credit. Willing-
ness to pay should also be consid-
ered. An account which must be
collected with interest and costs
usually results in dissatisfaction and
financial loss."

Credit Losses Serious
Sixty-five Illinois elevators dur-
ing 1925 had accounts receivable
totalling $463,000. Thirty-ei^ht of
the companies had on their books
$312,500 of which 48 par cent were
from one to 90 days old. Sixteen
per cent were from 90 to ISOtdays
and 22.6 per cent were over one
year old. Credit losses during the
year were $66,331. Credit losses
of the entire group were about one
per cent of merchandise sales
amounting to $1,806,000.

The 65 elevators were divided
into three groups. Group 1 consisted
of 18 companies including those
which had an income of $2000 or
over. Group 2, comprising 16 com-
panies, included those which had an
income under $2000. Group 3 in-
cluded 31 companies whose opera-
tions resulted in a loss. The loss of
the latter group exceeded the gains
of Group 1 and 2 by $1,062.15.

This loss was brought about
largely through credit losses.
Charge Interest on Old Accounts
By making accounts receivable
subject to interest at 90 days or
not later than six months, long-time
credits might be partially avoided,
suggested Wicker. The directors of
the company ought to go over the
credit accounts regularly and agree
on a credit policy based on their
knowledge of th.eir business and the
individual debtors.

Who'll Take the Last Trick?

Organiza tion Got John
Anderson $127.55 More
Than He Could Singly

When John Anderson, of Utica,
Lasalle county, had two steers killed
on the railroad right-of-way, while
driving a drove to the Utica stock
yards, he applied to the railroad for
damages of $187.55. 'The crossings
were not protected against cattle,
but the railroad refused to pay more
than $60 for the loss.

Anderson appealed to Farm Ad-
viser Walter McLaughlin who im-
mediately referred the case to L. J.
Quasey, director of transportation.
Quasey secured a pencil sketch
showing how the accident occurred
and again presented the claim in
person to the railroad for the full
amount.

On June 18, the general claim
agent of the railroad wrote: "We
have now received additional re-
ports and I hand you herewith draft
and release in favor of Mr. Ander-
son in the sum of $187.55."

Since June 1 the transportation
department of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association has collected 11
claims totalling $719.64 and has
filed nine other claims. During the
same time the transportation de-
partment's service to the Chicago
Producers has resulted in the collec-
tion of 62 loss and damage claims
amounting to $1123.63, and 14
overcharge claims totaling $81.26
or a grand total of $1204.89. Thirty-
nine other loss and damage claims
and 10 overcharge claims, not yet
settled, have been filed since June 1.

State Picnic Aug. 12
Will Show Egypt at Her
Best; Good Program

Sen. McKellar Of Tennessee
Asked To Deliver Principal
Address ; Special Features
For Women.

"It is my personal experience in
business that there is less dissatis-
faction on the part of the customer
if he understands that the company
has a definite credit policy and that
it will enforce collection when that
policy is violated," said Wicker. "It
has also been my experience in busi-
ness that most people, when they
have made a definite promise to pay,
will hesitate to violate their .own
promise. Therefore, it is quite es-
sential that a thorough understand-
ing should be had at the time of
sale."

Southern Illinois h o s p i t a 1 i ty,
famed throughout the Middle West,
will be at her best when thousands
of cars packed with mother, dad,
sons, daughters, and the kiddies plus
the well known fried chicken and
layer cake roll into Mt. Vernon in
Jefferson county on the morning of
August 12.

The I. A. A. picnic will be a great
gala event for all "Little Egypt"
and great plans for the entertain-
ment of the state-wide picnickers are
now in progress. This is the first
year the state picnic has gone so far
south, and the people from Jeffer-
son and surrounding counties are
hoping to outdo their neighbors
from central and northern Illinois
who have entertained heretofore.

An unusual number of visitors
from central and northern Illinois
are expected because of the splendid
opportunity to see Southern Illinois'
great harvest of golden peaches,
said to be the heaviest crop in the
history of the state.

The championship farm bureau
baseball game, the horseshoe pitch-
ing contest, the chicken and hog
calling contests, and other events
will be the principal attraction for
sport lovers. Mrs. Spencer Ewing,
president of the Illinois Home Bu-
reau Federation is helping to ar-
range an interesting program for the
women. The speakers for the event
have not been definitely chosen but
Senator McKellar from Tennessee
has accepted our invitation condi-
tionally depending upon the health
of a member of his family. The
cotton folks of the south are urg-
ing him to come.

President Smith Reveals Inside Story

of Broken Promises of Administration
In Comment On Defeat of McNary Bill

Redoubling of Efforts to Secure Equality for Ag^iiculture
Will Be Outcome of Failure of Congress to Recognize
Need; Early Conference of Com Belt Leaders Planned in
Chicago.

Note: Earl C. SnUth, ■president of the Ittinois Agricultural A «»»- '
dation, was in Washington at frequent intervals in the interest of farm
legislation. His story which foUown describes simply yet forcefully hix
uncolored version of what took place in and about the White House and
the congressional chambers. — Editor. <

By EARL C. SMITH ' |

THE DEFEAT of the McNacy Bill in the Senate 39-46
on Thursday, June 24, does not in any way justify its
opponents in believing that they have put to sleep the
principles upon which it was founded. On
the contrarj', it means that when the reasons
prompting the opposition in their efforts are
analyzed and the sources from which it ema-
nated are fully understood, farpjers and ^heir
friends will rise as a unit in repudiation'^f
the now self-satisfied group who are respon-
sible for its defeat. Let's review the fight
and see what really happened.

Farm leader^ of the midwest and west, act-
ing under instructions from their variou^>con-
stituents and backed by the Committer of 22 set up at
the Des Moines Conference, assembled in *Vashington early

in March. They asked Congress for
legislation necessary to gire agri-
culture equality with other indus-
try. The need for such legislation
had been recognized «nd promised
in the platforms of both parties in
1924.

Immediately after their arrival in
Washington, the farm representa-
tives called upon the President ahd
the Secretary of Agricultvre and
expressed their desire to co-operate
with them in bringing forth such a
program. Those vested with the
duty and responsibility of keeping
the pledges of 1924 had nothing
definite to offer, but requested the
farm representatives to get to-
gether and bring forth a specific
measure that would cope with the
situation. We were advcied bv
President Coolidge and Secretary
Jardine that they felt sure we
would find a sympathetic atmos-
phere in both houses of congress to
any suggestions in definite form
that addressed itself to the basic
problem confronting the industry,
and that in no event would they
embarrass a full and fair consider-
ation of such proposals.

Acting upon this request, was
brought forth Committee Print
Number One or the Federal Farm
Board Act, which was presented to
the Agricultural Committee of the
House and was under consideration
there for several weeks. It gained
support very rapidly Omfil tkrrr de-
veloped strong administmtimi pres-
sure in opposition) to the fundamen-
tal principles upon which it was
founded.

1927 Annual Meeting
Goe^ to Peoria; Had
Invitation to Canada

Peoria will be the scene of the
next annual meeting of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association in
January, 1927, the executive com-
mittee decided at its June 11
meeting. Among the invitations
to the association was one from
Montreal, Canada, which, of
course, could not be considered
since the meeting is always held
within the state.

Among the sales points used in
the Montreal invitation were:
"Montreal has many attractions
both natural and othertrifie";
• * * the individual liberties
of the citizens have not been dis-
turbed and Montreal is able to
offer a hospitality in entertaining
guests, which, under existing
laws cannot be equalled by any
other city in America."

But Peoria won.

WashingtonCounty May
Have Burea u ; 208 Wan t
One; Need Another 100

Two hundred and eight farmers
in Washin^on county, southeast of
St. Louis in "Little Egj-pt," have
signed membership agreements to
join the Washington County Farm
Bureau when it is formed.

These farmers have been anxious
to complete their organization, but
have been advised to get at least
300 or 350 members before electing
officers and hiring a farm adviser.

Martin Schaeffer of Hoyleton has
been a prime mover for a Faxm
Bureau in this county and has been
working with his neighbors towar*
this goal for several months. The
additional members are expected to
join within a few weeks, and if bo
Illinois will have another county or-
ganization working for a perman-
ent-, profitable and happy farm life.

I feel it germane to say Aat the
spokesman for this opposition, Mr.
Fort of Kew Jersey, openly prided
himself that he came from a district
that did not have a farmer in it.
Counter proposals were under con-
sideration but none of them, we be-
lieve, carried the possibility of gen-
uine relief or in any way made pos-
sible the restoration of agriculture
to her rightful economic position.
The result of several weeks of
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Vice-President, Charles R Finley Hoopeston

Treasurer, R . A. Cowles Blotnninston

Secretary, Geo. A. Fox Sycamore

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RECORD-

To advance the purpose/or which the Farm Bureau was organ-
ized, namely to promote, protect and represent the business,
economic, social and educational interests of the farmers of
Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture.

. DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENlfe

Co-operative Acoountinf Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vesetable Marfcetlng A. B. Leeper

General Office J. H. Kelker

Information E. G. Thiem

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organization G. E. Metzger

Phosfrfiate-Limestone J. R. Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson -

Transportation L. J. Quasey

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Taxes On Agricultural Land Be
Shifted?

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By JOHN C. WATSON

Director^ Depnrtment of Taxation and Statistics
Illinois Agrictdlural Association

THE general property tax is based upon
the assumption that uniformity of val-
uations insures a fair and equitable
distribution of the tax burden.
The assumption is not only un-
warranted, but cannot possibly
be true. As has been shown
in a previous article, most of
the income of the people of
Illinois is not derived from
property at all, but from sal-
aries, fees, commissions, and
wages, whiqh pay no direct
taxes in this state.
Property itself, even if valued uniformly,
have no uniformity in its tax burdens.
! Sone propertv is easily hidden and usually
. 1 ev:. Ic3 the a*.- j-cv. If it is discovered, it
enn readtiy > ^-J nsferred to other localities
: or states, or ' " (-'el into tax free securities.
Real estate cannot escape the assessor, and
cannot easily be exchanged for other forms
of property. Property of the same value
produces widely varying returns. "Owners
of aome kinds of property easily can and do
add their taxes to the prices of their services
; or products. Owners of other kinds of prop-
; erty, notably land, cannot shift their taxes to
; others to pay."

■ The determination of who really pays a tax
J levijd on land is too extensive and complex for
discussion in a brief article. Instead of such
a di 3cussion, the conclusion of Professor E. R.
A. Seligman, of Columbia University, is given
below. Professor Seligipan is recognized as
one of the foremost authorities of the world
on t lis subject. His book, "Incidence of Tax-
atioa," in which he discusses the circum-
starces under which various kinds of taxes
can or cannot be shifted, should be studied
by (ivery one who is interested in one of the
greatest problems of taxation.

Ill his discussion of Taxes on Agricultural
Land, Professor Seligman reaches the follow-
ing conclusion:

"' )ur conclusion, hence, is that under actual
conditions in America today the landowner
may virtually be declared to pay in last in-
stance the taxes that are imposed on his land.
At all events, it is erroneous to assume any
general shifting to the consumer. To the ex-
tent] that our land tax is a part of a general
property tax, it cannot possibly be shifted;
to tie extent that it is more or less an exclu-
sive tax, it is even then apt to remain where
it is first imposed — namely, on the land-
owner." , .

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Why Fanners Should Support the Tax
Amendment to Illinois Constitution

(To be voted on in November, 1926)

1. Real estate, althougli lata than one-Kalf — many
say less tban 40 per cent^-of the property in the state*
is now paying about 80 per cent of all of the taxes for
most purposes.

2. Tangible property* although probably not more
than one-half of the property in the state* is now pay-
ing more than 92 per cent of all the taxes for most
purposes.

3. A minority of the people of the state are now
paying all of the taxes for most purposes.

4. Owners of some kinds of property easily can
and do add their taxes to the prices of their services or
products. Owners of other kinds of property, notably
land* cannot shift their taxes to others to pay.

5. Owners of mortgaged property are now paying
double or multiple taxes. They pay taxes not only on
their equities* but also on the value of the mortgages*
and pay a higher rate of interest on taxable mortgages
whether the mortgages pay taxes or not.

6. Lack of personal interest on the part of most
people in the economical and efficient use of tax
moneys* and their belief that they are paying no taxes
of any kind, promote extravagance and a rapid increase
of deferred taxes in the form of bonded indebtedness.

7. Taxes are rapidly increasing in Illinois partly
because the population is increasing, but chiefly be-
cause of the demand for new forms of service.

8. Under the present constitutional limitations
none of the inequalities of the present taxing system
described above can be fairly or properly corrected.
The proposed amendment is a grant of power to the_
General Assembly* enabling it from time to time to
correct inequalities in taxation and to establish a
modern and equitable system of taxation.

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President, Illinois Agricultural Association.

TBrief articles in support of the points stated above will be
printed in later issues of The Record. Questions relative to the
proposed tax amendment are invited and will be answered through
Tub Recoeu).]

The Palliative Pink Pill

NOW that the administration has the scalp
of the corn belt bill safely nailed to its
belt, the spokesman from the White House
would mitigate the wrath of western and mid-
dle-west farmers by offering them the Fess
Amendment. This bill provides a federal re-
volving fund of $100,000,000 to be loaned to
cooperatives, and for a farm board of six
$12,000 a year members to be appointed by
the president.

We can see in this new move nothing but
a mere political gesture for favor. It lacks
all the earmarks of a sincere attempt to rem-
edy the farmers' troubles. The farmer's pres-
ent channels for borrowing money are ade-
quate to give him all the cash he ought to have.
And a new board subject to political appoint-
ment with little or no power to effect any per-
manent improvement in the condition of agri-
culture would be of no more value than the
President's recent agricultural commission.

The administration recognizes with loud
expressiorts of profound sympathy that the

patient has the appendicitis. But it refuses
to operate. It seeks to bring the patient
around with the well-known palliative pink
pill. We believe the situation demands a new
set of doctors. Come on 1928.

How The McNary Bill Was Defeated

(Note: Here is a message received just
before going to press from, Robert A. Cowles,
who has been in Washington representing I.
A. A. for the past two weeks. His comments
are of particular interest because they come
fresh from the national capital. — Editor.)

Washington, D. C, June 25.
E. G. Thiem, Director of Information i

Illinois Agriculture Assn.
608 South Dearborn St., Chicago, III.

Defeat of committee amendment to cooper-
ative marketing bill in senate knownlas Mc-
Nai~y bill by a margin of six votes is attribut-
able to negative Votes of Senators Borah,
Idaho; Walsh, , Montana; Reed, Missouri;
King, Utah; Warren, Wyoming; Phipps,
Colorado, and to a^shift in four southern votes,
hi the contest, organized industry exerted
poiverful influence and pressure through
party leaders regarding with alarm the united
front presented by farm organizations north
and south. As viewed by party leaders this
non-partisan alliance given the opportunity
through the federal farm board provided in
the bill and appointed from those nominated
by farm organizations presented possibilities
for the solidification of the farmer vote into a
powerful non-partisan political organization
to be reckoned with in the fufure. In other
words, the organization and forces that
influence the election of senators evident
throughout the struggle were arrayed against
the bill and in spite of which nruiny serpators
dared to support and vote for the bill. The
show-down .finally dame as a non-party or
political sectional contest with the great in-
dustrial east reaching out its powerful in-
fluence wherever it might. With the commit-
tee amendment voted down, the president has
late today through public announcement
thrown his influence directly behind and is
urging the enactment of the so-called Fess
amendment known in the house as the Tincher
bill and the administration is driving for its
passage. The bill is a gesture with apolitical
farm board appointfd without farm organi-
zation nomination. The evident purpose of
action at this time by the administration and
its effect if successful in both houses of con-
gress will be to foreclose further effort on the
part of farm organizations to secure enact-
ment of legislation designed to effectively
control anSdispose of surplus farm commodi-
ties with the commodity bearirig the charges
therefore and with the contrpl of the com- .
modity in the hands of farmers. COWLES.

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8 Ford County Co-ops
Adopt Federated Audit
Service for Protection

Eight Ford county shipping as-
sociations blazed the trail toward
securing an up to
date audit service
and improving
their methods of
doing business
when they co-
operated recently
in having their
books audited by
the Illinois Agri-
cultural Cooper-
ative Association.
The associa-
tions operate in-
dependently a s
Wm. E. Hedfcock before but they
agreed to adopt
uniform rules of accounting and to
submit their records annually for
audit. At a meeting of the associa-
tion officers and managers following
the audit, considerable interest de-
veloped regarding accounting and
shipping problems.

W. E. Hedgcock and George R.
Wicker of the Illinois Agricultural
Association attended the meeting
and led the discussion toward help-
ing each organization with its work.
"I believe that the expense in-
volved in extending service to a
single association makes it both un-
satisfactory and unprofitable to ac-
cept associations as members of the
Cooperatives Association," said
Wicker. "But if the livestock ship-
ping associations will cooperate in
a county or district so the records
of all companies could be assembled
at one point, the cost of service will
be largely reduced. The net result
of such cooperation will be to en-
able us to make comparative studies
toward bringing about better prac-
tice and more uniformity in opera-
tions and accounting."

WE'VE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT

(Continued from page 1, column 5.)
consideration by the House Agricul-
tural Committee was a deadlock, re-
sulting in their voting out three
measures, the Haugen, Tincher, and
Aswell bills to the House as a Com-
mittee of the Whole, for consider-
ation. One-third of the time was to
be given to consideration of each
measure; but the Congressional
Record shows quite clearly that the
proponents of both the Aswell and
Tincher Bills confined themselves
largely to criticism of the farmers'
programs, which naturally forces us
to view with suspicion the sincerity
of purpose directing their efforts.

The farm leaders could have, at
any time, compromised on a meas-
ure carrying twelve good jobs and
an endless amount of money for
farmers to get further into debt
but so far as I know, although ev-
ery farm organization of note was
represented except the National
Grange, not a single one for a mo-
ment ever entertained a notion of
doing so. We had been promised
legislation that would give to agri-
culture equality with other group
interests, and on that platform we
stood, preferring temporary defeat
to any compromise of principles
necessary to achieve that result.

In the Senate our bill known as
the McNary Bill, had a somewhat
different status, in that it had been
favorably reported out of the Com-
mittee as an amendment to the ad-
ministration's co-operative measure.
In consideration on the floor of the
Senate, party lines and party prece-
dents were broken, and it is only
due them to state that many able
senators with considerable political
embarrassment to themselves, were
staunch supporters of the farmers'
program and defended the bill to
the end.

It was the desire of those re-
sponsible for the preparation of our
bill to do nothing or ask nothing
that would seriously disturb the
prosperous condition prevailing
throughout the industrial world or
would in any way, affect adversely
American labor standards. It was,
however, not only our intention but
determination to receive our just
portion of the benefits of the pro-
tection afforded these groups. It is
quite surprising to note in a careful
analysis of the vote on these bills
before both Houses, that those who
have most enjoyed the fruits of
protection are unwilling for farm-
ers to share with them its benefits.
Ib the Senate only one vote was
«ast for this bill from east of Indi-

Helping Poor Kiddies Get Vacations Is
Practical Application of Christianity

YOUR State Farm Bureau — ^the!
Illinois Agricultural Association {
— is cooperating
again this year
with the United
Charities of Chi-
cago to try and
make it possible
for some of the
unfortunate chil-
dren of Chicago's
poor districts to
have an oppor*
tunity to spend
two weeks in
some of our good
Farm Bureau
homes.

The United
Charities will see
to it that the
children are
fresh, clean and
properly dressed
before they are
sent from Chica-
go. They have
all arrangements
with the rail-
roads which have
agreed again this
year to carry the children free.
Attendants from the United Chari-
ties organization will accompany
the children to their destinations
and will call for them when their
two weeks have passed.

A Farm Vacation
and Pleasure

The Farm Bureau members' part
consists of giving them a good time
while they are in
the country, and
farm families
who have opened
their homes and
hearts to these
youngsters in the
past report that
entertainment for
city children in
the country is
easy and simple.
They make their
own good times
and furnish their
hosts with a
great deal of en-
tertainment be-
sides. The won-
der and delight
with which they
will greet the
most common-
place things in
the country is a
source of con-
ii Fun For Him stant amusement
for the Halt to many farmer-

hosts.
A card addressed to the Outing
Secretary, Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation, 608 S. Dearborn St., Chi-
cago, will make known your willing-
ness to take part in this practical,
Christian endeavor.

Quasey Represents
Farm. Bureau In Rate
Case At Springfield

Farmers of Fulton county joined
hands with citizens of Canton in
opposing an increase in rates re-
quested by the Canton Home Tele-
phone Company at a hearing before
the Illinois Commerce Commission
in Springfield on Tuesday, June 22.

The telephone company is asking
for a raise from $18 to ?24 per year
on party lines, and from $5 to $9
per year for switching service to
415 farmers on mutual telephone
lines around Canton.

L. J. Quasey, director of trans-
portation, represented the I. A. A.
and the Fulton County Farm Bureau
at the hearing. He succeeded in
revealing information by cross-
questioning officials of the com-
pany which indicates the utility has
been doing very well financially
since it merged with another com-
pany in 1922.

At that time the company was
given a substantial increase by the
commission, and was allowed to
merge on the plea that economies
could be effected. On Dec. 31, 1925
the company had accumulated a re-
serve for depreciation purposes of
$67,951.50. It has met regularly
the interest on $150,000 of bonded
indebtedness, but has not paid divi-
dends on $145,000 stocks. The com-
mission is expected to render a de-
cision by July 1.

Wheat Pool Meet* At Carmi

Fifty Illinois members of the Cen-
tral States Soft Wheat Growers' As-
sociation met at Carmi, in White
county, on June 23 for a frank and
full discussion of last year's results
in the wheat pool. Earl C. Smith,
president of the Illinois Agricultural
Association, addressed the meeting.
The membership reaffirmed their
faith and expressed their determina-
tion to make the pool a success.

ana and north of the Ohio River.
That was Copeland's from New
York. Practically the same propor-
tioning of support was true in the
House. This alone is sufficient evi-
dence of the need of and necessity
for every red-blooded American
farmer to rally and stand shoulder
to shoulder in defense of his rights.
Although temporarily defeated, the
only result of such defeat will be
a redoubling of our efforts to se-
cure what so rightfully belongs to
us, believing more than ever in the
justice of our cause and that jus-
tice must and will prevail.

Thomas P. Cooper, formerly chief of the
Bureau of Agricultural EconomicB. haa re-
sumed his position as dean and director of
the Collefre of Agriculture and Experiment
Station at the University of Kentucky.

Oil and Gas Supply

Companies Will Be
Discussed in July

Oil and gasoline and the prob-
lems to be met by farm bureau sup-
ply companies engaging in the dis-
tribution of these commodities will
be the subject of a series of confer-
ences to be held during July by J.
R. Bent, director of the I. A. A.
farm supply department.

Meetings will be held as follows:
Springfield, Monday, July 19, 11. a.
m.; Centralia, Tuesday, July 20, 1
p. m.; Champaign, Wednesday, July
21, 11 a. m.; Rockford, Thursday,
July 22, 1 p. m. ; Galesburg, Mon-
day, July 26, 11 a. m.

TTiey will be attended by Mr.
Bent, Donald Kirkpatrick, legal
counsel, and George R. Wicker, di-
rector of cooperative accounting.
The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion in sponsoring these meetings
hopes to give such advisory service
as will help those contemplating
such service.

The first meeting at which this

bject was fll^rn^gprf was \]Klrl a>

^~Marshall County on June
30, ^wTTgfe an "oil an3 gas^suj^Tj,
cbmpaa;i is, iiuw in operation;

subje

Hail Insurance Tops
Million Dollar Mark
In Farmers' Mutual Co.

Hail insurance signed by the
Farmers! Mutual Reinsurance Com-
pany topped the million dollar mark
on June 21 when a total of $1,147
850 was reported by J. H. Kelker,
assistant secretary of the company.

Henry county led all others in the
amount of insurance w^ritten with
total of $686,939. Most of this was
written by members of the Farmers'
Mutual Company of that county. A
total of 631 policies were recorded
on that dat«.

Practically all the insurance so
far has been written in western Il-
linois where damage from hail in
recent years has been particularly
severe in localities. Knox county is
second with $134,415; McDonough
county third with $112,085, and
Mercer and Rock Island counties
next with lesser amounts. Sixteen
counties so far are represented.

The initial payment on delivery
of the policy is $4 per $1000 of in-
surance. At the end of the crop
season the losses from hail damage
will be totaled and assessments pro-
rated to the policy holders. The
maximum assessment, according to
estimates of the company, will not
run over $24 per 1000 including the
initial payment. Old-line companies
are charging around $30 per 1000
for this class of insurance.

Germans Pass Bill to

Stabilize Farm Prices

That the Federal farm board
plan is not so revolutionary as its
opponents would have the world
believe is borne out in the recent
action of the German Reichstag
which has passed a bill granting
a loan of 30 million marks ($7,-
150,000) to a German Grain
Trading Company composed of
farmers, fertilizer syndicates and
others, the purpose of which is to
study ways and means to render
German agriculture profitable
and also to stabilize grain prices
by buying, storing and selling
German grain.

Scatter The Orders

For Limestone: Bent

The limestone companies are
kicking about the large percentage
of orders they receive on the 1st
and 15th days of the month causing
a peak demand at these two periods,
according to J. R. Bent.

Many buyers would be just as
well pleased to pla(;g their orders
for delivery the 5th, 10th, 20th, or
25th, and the- limestone shippers can
thus effect a more even distribution
of labor. It is suggested that farm
bureau members and farm advisers
who order limestone in the future
try to accede to this request.

The Regular Delivery

By R. J. Bieger

Illinois Delegates
to Tour to St. Paul
Institute in July

Gougler Will Conduct Party
to Cooperative Feeding:
Plant at La CroMe, Wis-
consin.

Frtmk A. QtmtUt

A representative delegatioS of 25
to 30 men will leave Illin
auto mobile on
Sunday, July 4,
and Monday, July
5, to attend the
American Insti-
tute of Coopera-
tion at St. Paul.
according to
Frank Coupler.
director of poul-
try marketing.

Wavne, Clav.
Effingham, Forri.
Knox, Hender-
son, Warren and
possibly other
counties will be
represented in the tfcur to th« Twin
Cities where GougUivA. B. I«ep«r,
and Geo. R. Wicker of the Illinois
Agricultural Association will appear
on the program. The touri*« will
stop to go through the cooperative
poultry feeding plant recently es-
tablished at La Crosse, Wisconsin,
by the Lake Region Cooperative Egg
and Poultry Exchange. This plant
is being used in conjunction Tpifith a
larger one now operating lat St.
Paul to concentrate and feed and fit
live poultry for market before ship-
ment to New York.

The delegation from Illinois will
spend their time seeking inltorma-
tion and the experience of others
in poultry and egg, fruit, an4 dairy
marketing.

Mr. Gougler will present a his-
tory of poultry and egg marketing
experience in Illinois with a con-
densed summary of his observations
in this and other states.

A. B. Leeper, director of fruit
and vegetable marketing, will dis-
cuss the successes and failures of
cooperative fruit markelring in Il-
linois and the experien' s of the Il-
linois Fruit Exchange while Wicker
will speak on cooperative audft sen/-
ice for farmers' elev-ators.

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Senate Aslcs Jardine

of Chicago "Cilteee"

Secretary Jardine wa* asked Fri-
day, June 25, by the Senate to
explain his connectibn wi^ the
Roundup College of Scientific Price
Forecasting of Chicago.

A resolution making the request
was offered by Senator Caraway
(Dem. Ark.), and adopted. Cara-
way said the secretary had Accept-
ed appointment as a member<of the
faculty of the college to teaeh stu-
dents "how to speculate aad get
around the rules pf the grain fu-
tures act which he administers."

The resolution asked the secre-
tary to state whether his informa-
tion on grain futures markets wa*
obtained as a restllt of his pfficial
connection with the department of
agriculture, and what compensation
he has received from the coliege.

The Roundup College school for
price broadcasting was held at the
Congress Hotel four woek» ago.
."secretary Jardine was announced
in publicity as the principal r«peak-
er. The school is run by J. Ralph
Pickell, li.sted in the telephone book
with offices at 1848 West Washing-
ton Boulevard and 328 Atihland
Boulevard, It is said, however, that
the offices have been movpd to
Western Springs, HI., n.'ar Chicago.

Pickell at the time the school was
held, said about 500 students would
be in attendance. Each student, he
said would pay $50 for the oourse.

War On Chicken Tkievea Comkinuea

Prairie Farmer's war gainst
chicken thieves has brought la full
awakening of the necessity fi)r co-
operation all along the line in stop-
ping this kind of crime. Vermilion,
Woodford, Lake, Edwards, and Dc-
witt are some of the latest oounty
farm bureaus to offer rewards and
help set up local protective a»»<Hia.
tions of farmers to detect the law-
breakers. Five organized to«-nship
units in Dewitt county have offered
$.50 each for information leading to
the arrest and conTiction of anyone
stealing from melnbers. Lot the
good work go on.

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The Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD

July 1, 1926

^all Community Meetings OK'd; Institute

Asked to Chicago; Peoria Gets Annual Meet

i ere are the detailed minutes of
the Executive Committee meeting
on lune 11.

loll call showed the following
members present:

W n. Webb. Will County.
G« >. F. Tullock. Wtnnebwro County.
C. E. BamborouRh. Otrle County.
W n. H. Moody. Rock Island County.
A. R. WriEht. Mkrshall County.
Fr ink D. Barton. Livinjrston County.
R F. Karr, Iroquois County.
J. L. Whisnand. Coles County.
CI arlea Bonri?lt. Mason County.
Sh wiuel Sorrplls. MontKomery County.
Ki ink Oexner. Monroe County.
W L. Cope. Marion County.
O arl«B Marshall. Johnson County.
R. K. Loomis. Jackson County.
CI arlcs R. Finley. Vermilion County.
E. A. Camcroes (Substituting). Dupage
Com ty.

Ej rl C. Smith, president. Pike County.
G< 5. A. Fox. secretary.
R. A. Cowles. treasurer.

I resident Smith called for the ac-
tior of the Committee on approval
.of 1 he minutes of the May 7, 1926,
J me< ting.
MOriON— Mr. Moody:

That the minutes of the last
me< ting be approved.
Sec >nd — Mr. Webb — Carried.

I resident Smith called the Com-
mit ee's attention to a Suggested
Declaration of Policy. A copy of
the suggested policy was handed
eac 1 member of the Committee.
President Smith asked that con-
sid( ration be given to this prepared
sug festion by each member and sug-
ges ions regarding the same be com-
municated to Secretary Fox or Mr.
Tullock, Chairman of the Financial
Bui iness Service Committee, before
the next meeting in order that the
material may be gotten into definite
forn for full consideration at the
next meeting.

Erookhart Makes Few Remarka

Senator S. W. Brookhart, of
loHB, was introduced by President
Sm th and addressed a few remarks
to the Committee.

I Resident Smith asked that con-
sid< ration of the selection of the
pla^ e for the next annual meeting
So nvea at this time.

J serf*- T^' ''\' ated that invita-
i'M.s hjr: ' ■ r. : ceived from the
uu .cAo.tj .- 'is, Urbana, Peo-

ria, Springfield. Montreal, Canada,
and Chicago. He reported that he
had made a trip to Peoria, with Mr.
Wr fht, for the purpose of looking
over facilities there. He reported
tha ; Peoria has ample facilities for
har dling the meeting. He reported
that an investigation of facilities
hac been made at Springfield and
the^ also were in a position to take
cars of the annual meeting.

f annal Meetiof to Be at Peoria
MCTION — Mr. Wright:

1 move that the next annual meet-
ing be held at Peoria and that
proper officials negotiate arrange-
me its for the meeting.
. Set onded — Mr. Barton — Carried.

1 'resident Smith stated that a
tell gram had been received from
Washington stating that it was im-
peTBtive that either Mr. Cowles or
himself go there immediately. It
was decided that Mr. Cowles should
leave immediately for Washington.

He stated that in the absence of
Trjasurer Cowles, copies of the
fimncial statement for the month
of May would be handed to each
me nber of the Committee.
MCTION — Mr. Whisnand:

That the Financial Statement be
rec Mved and placed on file.
Sec ond — Mr. -. Karr — Carried.

Hr. Wright reported that the
Special Committee, consisting of
hinself and Mr. Potter, had visited
Mr Allen of the Fanners' Grain
Dei lers' Association of Illinois in the
interest of the sale of stock of the
National Farmers' Elevator Grain
Coiipany, Co-operative.
MCTION — Mr. Barton:

That the officers of this Associaj
tioi , together with the Chairman of
the Grain Marketing Committee,
inc uding Mr. Wright, a member of
the last Grain Marketing Commit-
tee be authorized to meet with the
Fa mers' Grain Dealers' Associa-
tion of Illinois at such time and
pla ;e as the Elevator people suggest,
provided that assurance be given
out Association that the Elevator
pet pie will be represented at such
V me (ting with sufficient representa-
tion and power to enter into con-
tract if such a plan should be
de\ eloped.
Sec onded — Mr. Moody — Carried.

Fall Community Meetings Approved

Secretary Fox brought up the
matter of holding fall community
meetings over the State in conjunc-
tion with district conferences. He
asked for expressions from the
members of tht Committee as to
whether they approved of this ar-
rangement and all seemed to be
thoroughly in accord with the plan.

Mr. Tullock, chairman of the
financial business service commit-
tee, reported on the activities of the
Re-Insurance Company. He stated
that recently representatives from
13 counties interested in hail insur-
ance had been invited to meet to
confer with the board of the Re-
Insurance Company on the matter
of policy to be pursued in selling
hail insurance; fhat representatives
of the Farm Bui-eaus were anxious
to have a policy adopted which
would insure friendly cooperation
between the Farm Bureaus and rep-
resentatives of mutual companies in
their counties. The Farm Bureaus
expressed a willingness to lend ac-
tive support to all farm mutual ac-
tivities but also stated it was their
belief that the Re-Insurance Com-
pany should compensate the Farm
Bureaus for their activities in this
behalf. The Re-Insurance Board
considered the suggestion from the
Farm Bureaus but did not take
any definite action at this time.

The Committee then went into
Executive Session and discussed the
relationship existing between the
niinbis Agricultural Association and
Farm Bureaus — the Re-Insurance
Company and farm mutuals. At
the conclusion of the discussion, the
following motion was offered by Mr.
Tullock:

MOTION— Mr. Tullock:

Tkeft, Life and Anto Insurance

The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion has fostered the promotion of
the Farmers Mutual Re-Insurance
Company solely for the benefit of
the farmers mutual, fire, lightning
and windstorm companies. It has
no intention of entering the fire,
lightning or windstorm field. The
executive committee of the Illinois
Agricultural Association authorizes
the officers of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association, to investi-
gate the advisability of theft, life
and automobile insurance for its
members.

Sedond — Mr. Karr. Unanimously
carried.

Mr. Barton, Chairman of the
Public Relations Committee, report-
ed that a conference was held at
Springfield, May 26, with officers of
the Illinois Anti-Horse Thief Asso-
ciation and the Illinois State Detec-
tive Association. He stated the
advisability of forming a Farm
Bureau Protective Association in
each county and providing theft in-
surance for the members of such
Associations was discussed in the
conference and favorably received.
It was the opinion of all present
that Farm Bureau Protective As-
sociations would not attempt to
duplicate activities where other
Protective Associations were active-
ly functioning but would cooperate
in such territory. Representatives
of the Illinois Anti-Horse Thief As-
sociation and the Illinois State
Detective Association expressed
themselves as believing that theft
insurance and cooperation on the
part of the Farm Bureaus would be
helpful to their organizations.
Institute of Cooperation To Chicafo

Secretary Fox stated that the
American Institute of Cooperation
is being held at the University of
Minnesota this year at which time
the Executive Committee ol the In-
stitute will receive invitations for
the 1927 session. He stateci that
several meetings had been held with
Dr. Taylor, of the Northwestern
University and Mr. Evans of the
American Farm Bureau Federation.
He said that it will be necessary to
pledge a sufficient sum of money to
make up the amount necessary to
finance the Institute. The Laura
Spellman Memorial Fund has raised
its offer to duplicate dollar for dol-
lar cash contribution to the Institute
up to $15,000 for this year and has
extended this offer to apply upon
next year's donations; that it was
thought the farm organizations
might assume $2,000 or $3,000 of
the total amount necessary to hoM
the Institute in Chicago.

THE TARIFF REGISTERS* "CONCERN"

••xwiAwe"

CtMrUtii Ckieato TViAane

MOTION — Mr. Moody:

That the committee authorize a
contribution of $500 toward the
amount necessary to finance holding
the 1927 session of the American
Institute of Cooperation in Chicago,
discretion on the part of the officers
to be used in contributing an ad-
ditional $500, if necessary, in order
that the required amount may be
raised.

Seconded — Mr. Whisnand — Roll
call showed motion unanimously
carried.

Secretary Fox stated further that
the Association had been asked to
contribute toward financing the
1926 session of the American In-
stitute of Cooperation which is be-
ing held at Minneapolis.
MOTION— Mr. Whisnand :

I move that we appropriate $200
towards financing this year's session
of the American Institute of Co-
operation.

Seconded — Mr. Karr — Roll call
vote was taken and motion unani-
mously carried.

Illinois Milk Producers Contract

Secretary Fox asked that the
Committee consider the matter of
an agreement between the Illinois
Milk Producers' Association and the
Illinois Agricultural Association. He
stated that the contract is identical
with the one adopted a month ago
with the Pure Milk Association with
the exception that the deduction is
5c per cwt. instead of Ic. The
Illinois Milk Producers' Association
has been in promotion for the past
ten months and includes the coun-
ties of Tazewell, Peoria, Woodford
and Fulton. He stated that the
contract has been passed upon by
the Board of the Illinois Milk Pro-
ducers' Association.

Mr. Finley, Chairman of the
Marketing Committee, stated that
the Marketing Committee met with
Mr. Fox, before the Executive Com-
mittee went into session, and went
over the agreement rather thorough-
ly. He stated that the Marketing
Committee recommended the con-
tract and also that the officers sign
the same.

Organization Conferehce to Be Held

Secretary Fox stated that plans
were under way for holding an or-
ganization school or conference,
perhaps during the middle of
August, at which time a definite pro-
gram on organization would be
worked out for that week. He
stateci that the surrounding states
are interested in a conference of
this kind and it had appealed to
them to have their men actively
engaged in organization work parti-
cipate in this conference. He stated
that Mrs. Sewell had been appoint-
ed as Chairman of the Committee
to work out plans for the school at
the last Mid-West conference and
she had asked Mr. Lincoln, of
Ohio, and himself to serve on this

committee. A meeting was held on
June 3 and another meeting is
scheduled for June 16. He stated
that it was thought the cost of hold-
ing this conference would probably
amount to $1,000 which would be
divided between five different states.
He asked whether or not the Com-
mittee approved of having this con-
ference and spending $200 or $300
as the Association's share of ex-
pense covering same.
MOTION — Mr. Barton:

That this matter be referrecj to
the officers of this Association and
the Organization Committee, With
power to act.

Seconded — Mr. Moody — Caj-ried.

New Director of Information Em-
ployed

Mr. Karr reported that applica-
tions for the position of director of
the department of information had
been considered at a meeting with
President Smith, Secretary Fox and
Mr. Bamborough on May 14, at
which time it was decided to em-
ploy Mr. E. G. Thiem.
MOTION — Mr. Karr:

I move that the Committee concur'
in the action of the committee ap
pointed to employ a director for the
department of information.

Seconded — Mr. Whisnand — Roll
call vote resulted in motion being un
animously carried.

The next subject to be acted upon
by the Committee was the annual
appropriation towards the expenses
of the winning judging teams in at
tending the International Live Stock
Show. Mr. Hedgcock explained to
the Committee that the money con
tributed would be used in defray-
ing the expenses of the winning
judging teams in attending the
jutlging contest and also for the vo-
cational winning judging team ir
attending the International Live
Stock Show.
MOTION — Mr. Webb:

That the Association appropriate
$200 towards the expenses of the
winning judging teams.

Seconded — Mr. Marshall — Roll call
vote resulted in motion being
unanimously carried.
MOTION— Mr. Whisnand:

That the picture of our former
President, Mr. S. H. Thompson, be
framed and placed on the wall in
the Executive Committee room.

Seconded by Mr. Moody — Carried.
MOTION— Mr. Wright:

That the committee authorize the
completion of the remaining six
photographs into transparencies for
use in the windows of the Executive
Committee room.

Seconded — Mr. Karr — Carried.
MOTION— Mr. Moody:

That the next meeting of the Ex-
ecutive Committee be held Friday,
July 9.

Seconded — Mr. Whisnand — Car-
ried.

Adjournment.

Farm Bureau Baseball
Teams Sw ing into Play
for State Championship

Hard Struggle For Honort in
District 4 Between Taze-
well, Marshall-Putnam and
Woodford.

Although the late spring delayed
Farm Bureau baseball, there has
been considerable activity lately.

A report by L. R. Welk, of Mor-
ton, Tazewell County, chairman of
the district which includes Tazewell,
Marshall-Putnam, Woodford and
Peoria Farm Bureaus, says:

"The first games in this district
were played on May 29, Tazewell
winning over Woodford 14-7, and
Marshall-Putnam defeating Peoria
17-5. On June 5, Marshall-Putnam
defeated Tazewell 4-2, the winning
team putting over 3 runs in the
ninth. On the same date Woodford
won from Peoria 8-1.

"On June 12, Marshall-Putnam
beat Woodford in a hotly contested
game 2-1. This was a pitchers' duel
between Hallem and Vogel of
Woodford and Earl Hinman of
Tazewell.

"It appears there will be a real
struggle for first honors in this dis-
trict."

Adams, Brown and Schuyler
■Counties constitute another district.
The first ga,me was scheduled for
June 26 at Quincy between Brown
and Adams. The remainder of the
schedule is: July 3, at Mt. Sterling,
Brown vs. Schuyler; July 16, at
Quincy, Adams vs. Schuyler; Aug.
6, at Rushville, Adams vs. Schuyler;
Aug. 26 or 28, at Mt. Sterling,
Brown vs. Adams; Sept. 2, at Rush-
ville, Brown vs. Schnyler.

Earnest D. Walker, farm adviser
in Henderson County, sent in the
following report of a game between
Warren and Henderson:

' "With the score tied at one each
in a game played Saturday, June
19, and both pitchers going like a
house afire, John Painter came to
bat in the eighth with one down.
He placed one into center field
which was good for four bases. This
{iroved to be enough to win, but the
Henderson team made one more for
good measure on hits by Steffey, E.
Pence and Fryrear.

"The first score for Warren coun-
ty came in the second inning when
Bradley reached first on an error
and stole second. A throw to catch
him at third bounced off Fryrear's
glove into the crowd and the umpire
allowed the score to count on the
ground that the ball was blocked.

"This run looked big until the
fifth when Keener reached first on
an error. Ricketts was safe on
Keener's out at second, stole second
and scored on a hit by Painter. This
tied the score and it remained so
until the fireworks opened in the
eighth.

"Both pitchers were going fine,
each allowing six hits and getting 14
strikeouts.

"The return game with Warren
county will be played Saturday af-
ternoon, Ji^jy 3, at Little York.

"The line-up:

Warren

AB H R E

J. Kinney, ss 4 10 0

Whitman, cr . 4 0 0 0

F. Kinney, rf 4 0 0 0

L. Peterson, lb 4 10 0

Bradley, c S 1 1 0

Anderson. If . 8 10 0

RiSKle. 3b 4 10 0

E. Peterson. 2b 4 0 0 1

Turner, p 4 10 0

S4 e 1 1

Hamiarson

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Steiley. c( 4 110

E. Pence, e 4 10 0

Fryrear, 3b 4 2 0 1

Felton, 2b 2 0 0 2

Downes, 2b 10 0 0

Keener, lb 8 0 0 2

C. Pence, ss 3 0 0 1

Ricketts, If 3 0 10

Painter, rt 3 2 10

H. Pence, p 8 0 0 0

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The championship game is expect-
ed to be played at the annual state-
wide picnic of the I. A. A. which is
to be at Mt. Vernon, Jefferson coun-
ty, Aug. 12. Some playing sche-
dules will have to be revised if the
championship game is played on this
date.

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54.326.000,000 POUNDS OF MILK AND CREAM
in fluid form were consumed in the United
States la.'it year accordinR to the United
States Department of Aftriculture. This is
the lamest year's record in the Natiorfs
history and represents an increase of 1,5M(>
(KH>,000 pounds over 1024.

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Volume 4

Issued Every Month for 63,000 thinking Farmers — August 1, 1926

No. 8

Southern Illinois To Be On Dress Parade

is expect-

nual state-

which is

: AND CREAM
the United
the United
ire. "this is
he Nation's
ac of 1,554,-

Protection For All
Or Protection For
None, Corn Belt Says

Farm Leaders Unite To Con-
tinue Fight In Next Session
of Congress. Aid of West-
em and Southern States To
Be Solicited

Protection for all or protection
for none. This is the slogan
adopted by the corn belt leaders at
Des Moines on July 19 and 20
where 20 farm organizations and
10 out of 11 Middle West states
were represented.

The meeting of the corn belt com-
mittee of farm organizations on
Monday was an executive session
to determine the next move in the
fight for agricultural equality. The
committee of 22, led by George
Peek, which met the following day,
was called for the same purpose.
Never was there greater unanimity
of sentiment and determination to
continue the fight for protection to
agriculture equal to that accorded
other industries.

The attitude of the corn belt com-
mittee toward the administration
was expressed in the following
resolution.

Conilemn Industrial Policy.

"We condemn the shortsighted
industrial policy expressed by
spokesmen for the national adminis-
tration, including Secretary Mellon,
Secretary Hoover, and Secretary
Jardine, which opposes any move
to make tariffs effective for agri-
culture on the ground that to do so
would place American industry at
a disadvantage in competition with
foreign competitors in the export
markets of the world.

"Such a policy would lead to the
industrialization of the nation at
the expense of the farmers, sub-
ordinating our agriculture to our
industry in order that the latter
might compete more favorably
abroad. Certainly such a policy is
not favorable to the economic de-
velopment of the middle west or the
nation."

The Committee of 22 which met
on Tuesday passed a resolution con-
curring in the resolutions of the
corn belt committee quoted above.

George N. Peek expressed almost
the same sentiments in his report to
his committee.

Peek Hits Administration.

"It is the plain and unmistakable
attitude of the administration," Mr.
Peek said, "to oppose making the
tariff effective for agriculture be-
cause of the belief it would raise
the price of foodstuffs above the
foreign costs. This, the administra-
tion insists, would react to the dis-
advantage of American industry In
the export markets."

Investigations by congressional
committees of "interrelations that
appear to give to industrial advis-
ers who are not without self-interest
as dealers and speculators in farm
products, the deciding voice not only
in influencing the enactment of
agricultural legislation but in de-
termining the manner of adminis-
tration of such laws after enact-
ment" were recommended by the
corn' belt committee.

By these investigations the corn
belt committee seeks to learn of pos-
sible collusions which it suspects.

"The activities of Secretary Hoov-
er to dominate and encroach upon
the functions of the Department of
Agriculture, including interference
by Mr. Hoover in the personnel of
the department and the source of
the opposition toward effective agri-
cultural legislation described by
Senator Norris in his speech of June
14 in the Senate were other lines of
investigation recommended.

In a brief conference with George

Tentative Program State Picnic Aug. 12

9:00 A. M. — Horseshoe Tournament Opens
10:00 A. M. — Band concert, Peach Grading Demonstration
10:15 A. M. — Woman's Program Begins

Boy.s* and Girls' Club Demonstrations and Stunts un-
der direction of E. I. Pilchard and Nathalie Vasold,
state club leaders.
Address by Mrs. Chas. E. Sewell, Otterbein, Indiana
10:00 P. M. — Championship Baseball Game I

12:00 M. — Hog Calling Contest . \

Chicken Calling Contest ;

12:30 P. M. — Band Concert, Dinner. !

1 :30 P. M. — Inspection of Exhibits and Displays
Peach Grading Demonstration

1 :45 P. M. — Speaking program begins with President Earl C. Smith

presiding.

Address of welcome — Mayor Koons

Feature music . •

Adarding of trophies.

Address by Hon. Senator James E. Watson of Indiana
3:30 P. M. — Band concert

Peek and Chester Davis in Chicago
recently, Senator McNary of Ore-
gon, new chairman of the Commit-
tee on Agriculture in the Senate,
expressed the same interest and de-
termination in renewing the fight
for surplus control legislation in
the next Congress.

Both committees took steps to
form a closer alliance between states
of the middle west, far west, and

south. Summer and fall meetings
were planned for states of the
south and middle west at which
farmers may discuss their common
economic problems. The ultimate
outcome of such meetings it is hoped
will be to increase farm strength in
Congress.

The I. A. A. Record will report
the latest developments in the fight
for farm relief in the next issue.

Senator James E. Watson of Indiana \
To Speak At I. A. A. Picnic, Mt. Vernon
Aug. 12; All Set For Big Annual Event

Southern Illinois City To Be Mecca For Thousands Expected
From Every Part of State; Horseshoe Tournament Draws
Many; Free Peaches Special Attraction; Championship
Baseball Game Scheduled

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GOME to Mt. Vernon, Aug. 12. Come and see our won-
derful peach harvest. Let us show you the »vonders
of "Little Egypt." Get acquainted with you^ neigh-
bors in the lower third of the state. Give us
a chance to demonstrate real southern hos-
pitality. That's the invitation and welcome
Southern Illinois is broadcasting to its neigh-
bors to the north in preparation for the. greats
est state farmers' picnic of all time.

Thursday, August 12, will be a big day in
Southern Illinois. They expect to make his- |
tory at Mt. Vernon. Never before has the
I. A. A. picnic, the gala event unequalled I
anywhere in past years, gone so far south.
And to show how much they appreciate the honor, Jefferson.
Wayne, White, Franklin, Jackson, Marion, Williamson, Ran-
dolph, and those other counties where Illinois history was
first made, are cooperating to display Egypt in ail her glories.
The beautiful wooded city park at the edge of Mt. Vernon
will be the setting for the picnic. Shade, water, swimming,
wading pools, playgrounds, tourist camp, rest, theso a-e only

a few of the ac-
commodations it
offers.

But the pro-
gram of the pic-
nic itself where
records are
smashed and new
champions are

made, where statesmen proclaim
views of national import, will be
the great mecca to bring thousands
from every nook and corner of the
state. Here arc a few of the features.

1. James E. Watson, senior Unit-
ed States senator from Indiana, a
leader in the fight for the McNary
bill in the Senate, will be the speak-
er of the day. Senator MdKellar of
Tennessee, who has been invited,
promised • to come providing the
health of a member of his family is
such that he could get away.

2. Mrs. Chas. E. Sewell of the
American Farm Bureau Federation.

a speaker of na-
t i o n a I promi-
nence known ev-
er>-wher« to farm
bureau people,
will speak on the
morning program
arranged e s p Cr
ciaily for the women.

3. A giant fruit display from the
best orchards in Southern Illinois.

4. Free peaches to be di»tributed
by the Illinois Fruit Growers' Ex-
change. Peaches for sale in handy
packs for carrjing home.

5j The Annual State Horseshoe
Pitching Tournament.

6. The Annual State Baseball
Championship.

7. Hog Calling and ChicVcn Call-
ing Contests.

8. Boys' and girls' clubs demon-
strations and displays.

9. Band concert.

10. Awarding of trophies.

11. Peach Grading and Sorting
Demonstration.

12. Southern
Illinois exhibits
of:

a.' Red Top by
Egyptian Seed
G r o w e r s' Ex-
change.

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EXECurrvE committee

(By Congressional Districts)

Ist to llth William Webb, Route One, Jolict

12th G. F. TuUock, Rockford

13th C. E. Bamborough. Polo

14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron

ISth , B. H. Taylor. Rapstee

16lh A. R. Wright. Varna

17th F. D. Barton, ComeU

ISth R. F. Karr. Iroquois

Itth J, L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th ^ Charles Borgelt, Havana

2Ist Samuel SorrelFs, Raymond

22nd Frank Oexncr. Waterloo

2Jrd W. L. Cope, Salem

24th Charles Marshall, Belknap

2Sth R. K. Loomis, Makanda

OFFICERS

President. Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vice-President, Charles R Finlcy Hoopeston

Treasurer, R. A, Cowles '. Bloomington

Secretary, Geo. A. Fox Sycamore

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To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organ-
ized, nameiy to promote, protect and represent the business,
economic, social and educational interests of the farmers of
iUinois and the nation, and /p develop agriculture*

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Co-operative Accounting ^ Geo. R. Wi<icer

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

Finance', R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General Ofifice J. H. Ketker

Information E. G. Thlem

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpa trick

Live Stock Marketing Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organization G. E. Metzger

Phosphate-Limestone . . . . >. J. R. Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C Watson

Transportation L. J. Quasey

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Plain Language '

HE Philadelphia Public Ledger takes uf) the
cudgel in a recent editorial reprinted in the
Chicago Tribune to denounce the presentation
truth regarding the recent fight at Wash-
by President Earl C. Smith and our edi-
exposing the Fess Amendment subterfuge
in the July issue of the I. A. A. Record.
are accused of "playing politics," and "ad-
the political interests of ex-Gov. Lowden
n. Dawes"'; of "price fixing" and wanting
Sam to buy us all a farm." As an example
childishness expressing complete ig-
of the corn belt's interest in farm relief,
Attempt at ridicule is unequaled.

Illinois Agricultural Association never j^as

' " up as a political organization. It does not

low. It is interested in no one's political

It does believe however, in the policy of

:tion for all, agriculture included, or protection

The administration' ^posed this prin-

Its opposition was aptly expressed in Sec-

Mellon's letter to the last congress. We

plain language in denouncing such apparent

ipcialism. We are just a bit skeptical even

,Kf».v fi-- -ospects of securing any worth

i-.-si.-.^ti'. i.'i make the farmer's dollar worth

;1: nsf'f-' ♦I'er fellow's, until after 1928. If

Ftublic Ledger editorial, conceived in ignorance,

presentative of a large portion -of the country,

skepticism would be complete for all time.

Thursday, Aug. 12

OllJTHERN Illinois is making grand preparations
f )r a great entertainment at Mt. Vernon on Aug.
12. lere is an opportunity for Northern and Cen-
tral Illinois folks to see Egypt, the fruitland of the
Midd e West, the longest settled area in Illinois,
the bristling peach and apple orchards, and on top
of al these a day of splendid entertainment and
recre ition.

Mt Vernon is more than 100 miles north of the
extrene south end of the state. It is located on
pavec Route 15 which may be reached from north
and sauth by Routes 2. 25, and 1. It is on the direct
route of the C. & E. I. R. R. between Chicago and
Thebi !s. A clean, shady tourist camp for picnickers
who qrive in the night before adjoins the picnic
.. It will be a trip well worth while for those
who lave or have not seen Southern Illinois.

A Step Forward

recent inauguration of a collection service
cooperatives by the Illinois Agricultural' Co-
ives Association may never cause a ripple,
;he state and yet it represents a move aimed
direct ly at one of tie greatest needs of farmers' or-
ganizations, of all time.

Wh|en George Wicker finished examining the
of 65 farmers' elevators in Illinois he turned
)otlight on more than a half million dollars
of accounts and notes receivable. Many were
y standing. The ratio of accounts receivable
worth was ?.7.04 per cent. He had uncovered
ason for the losses and failures of not a few

eleval ors.

Thj s condition, he said, results in a -iieavy finan-
cial iurden and is the cause in most instances of
disaslrous borrowings.

Th(i new collection service offered at cost without
increasing the personnel of the association was the

result. Classifying accounts receivable according
to age, sending out letters to debtors from head-
quarters, personal visitation for the purpose of mak-
ing collections, and reporting back to boards of di-
rectors with recommendations for legal procedure
will be methods employed to turn accounts into cash.
This service may not sell memberships in the
farm bureau but it is a forward step in making
farmers' business ventures successful.

Good News

ANNOUNCEMENT of the refusal of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission to grant western
railroads an increase of five per cent in freight rates
on agricultural products including livestock is good
news for farmers throughout the Middle West. The
American Farm Bu-eau Federation through 0. W.
Sandberg, director ot transportation, and Fred Jack-
son, special attorney took the initiative in present-
ing figures and statistics showing the depression
existing in agriculture, to the Commission. L. J.
Quasey of the Illinois Agricultural Association gave
valuable aid in the hearings.

Farmers are not opposed to the railroads earning
5% per cent interest on their investment, but they
see no reason why the government should guarantee
the carriers such a return through its ability to fix
rates, when farmers are not so prosperous and are
left to shift for themselves.

"These railways for six years have not earned,
and are not now earning anything approaching a
'fair return' (534%)," says the Railway Age in a
bitter condemnation of the Commission's decision,
"and the commission offers no definite suggestions
as an alternative to the proposed general advance of
freight rates."

Hard luck, isn't it. Agriculture isn't even asking
the government to fix prices so farmers may earn
5% per cent. All it wants is a little assistance to
help manage the damaging surplus. The freight
rate case reveals just another reason why farmers
need a strong organization.

Frank O. Lowdca

Organization Greatest Need — Lowden

"I am more convinced than ever that organiza-
tion is the greatest need of the farmers of this
country." This is the message ex-
Governor Lowden had for more
than 500 Illinois bankers at the
banker-farmer field day held at
Sinnissippi Farms, Oregon, on
July 30.

Mr. Lowden, in his own vigor-
ous way, drove home the point
that the combined efficiency of the
Danish farmer plus his inherent
ability to organize and cooperate
with his brothers, in producing
and marketing his crops were responsible for the
happy condition of agriculture in Denmark.

"The farmer's interests are your interests and
anything you can do to help them will react to your
benefit and the good of the country," said Mr. Low-
den. "It is more necessary that you lend your aid
first to agriculture rather than to industry, for when
the farmer is prosperous there is prosperity for all."
The ex-governor had returned from a tour through
Denmark, and other Scandinavian countries only
the day before the meeting.

In spite of the rain, the bankers went home
pleased with the day and its practical lessons in
farm management. The Illinois Bankers Associa-
tion cooperated with the University of Illinois in
arranging the events of the day.

Income Tax is Permitted by Present
Constitution i ?

By JOHN C. WATSON

Director, Department of Taxation and Statistics,

XaWatsoa.

OPPOSITION to the pending revenue amend- ,
ment is occasionally expressed on the ground
, that it permits a tax on income. It is true that it
does permit a tax on income. This is the most hope-
ful and valuable feature in the

amendment. As has been shown
in previous articles, this is the
only important source of fair tax-
ation which has not been tapped
in Illinois. It is the only source
that can save real property, urban
and rural alike, investment and
home alike from the present men-
ace and the eventual certainty of
confiscation of values.

Opposition to the pending
revenue amendment, on the ground that it
permits a tax to be established on income, ignores
the fact that a tax on income is permitted by the
present constitution. The foremost constitutional
lawyers in the state hold that section 2 of Article IX,
which has been in effect since the year 1870, gives
the General Assembly authority to establish a tax
on income. The section is as follows :

"The specifications of the objects and subjects of
taxation shall not deprive the General Assembly of
the potver to require other subjects or objects to be
taxed in such a manner as may be consistent ivith
the principles of taxation fixed in this constitution."

There can be little or no doubt that "other subjects
or objects" would be interpreted as including a tax
on income.

An income tax under the provisions of the present
constitution would differ sharply from an income tax
under the terms of the proposed amendment.

Under the present constitution a tax on income
could be passed by the General Assembly by a bare
majority of the members of each of the two houses.
The pending amendment would require a two-thirds
vote of the members of each of the two houses.

Under the present constitution a tax on income
would be uniform on all income alike whether large
or small. There could be no exemptions, no offset
of income tax against property tax to prevent tax-
ation both of property and of the income produced
by property, and no substitution of a tax on income
entirely in place of a tax on property.

The pending amendment, if approved, will permit
graduated or progressive rates on income, the fixing
of limits below which the tax on income will not ap-
ply, the offsetting of income taxes against property
taxes to prevent double taxation, and the substitution
of a tax on income in place of part or all of a prop-
erty tax, either all property or any class.

The pending amendment would permit a fair sys-
tem of taxation. An income tax under the present
constitution could not be fair. This is probably the
leading reason why it has never been established.

Mt. Vernon, August 12, That's the Day

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Oil and Gas Supply
Companies Attract
State- wide Interest

■ Knox County Company In'
corporates For $50,000. If
Farmers Must Help Them'
selves. This Is Our Way,
Say Members

State-wide interest in the forma-
tion of cooperative oil and gasoline
supply companies was evidenced in
the recent series of meetings held
by J. R. Bent of the Illinois Agri'
cultural Association for the purpose
of acquaintinii; farm advisers, mem'
bers, and others with the possibil-
ities and limitations of this new
■ project.

■Since Hancock, . cojinty started.
operating an oil and gas suppIy~com-
pany mSrgTftau two years ago ami
sinceTBtSTsTiall-Putnam county made
a very^ Successful beginning less
than a year ago, other counties ha-ve
inveiilignUul mill Tippareiitly liSyF
seen a new opportunity for another
effeetfrp^way fo shorten the road
from producer to consumer to help
the farmer.

Meetings Throughout State.

Meetings under the auspices of
the I. A. A. were held at Henry,
Centralia, Springfield, Champaign
and Rockford, within the past few
weeks, at which half the counties of
Illinois were ^presented. Knox
county thought so well of the proj-
ect that the farm bureau there or-
ganized a corporation with capital
stock at $50,000. Fifteen thousand
or more in cash already has been
paid in and the new company is on
the high road to a happy beginning.

"Smee Congress has failed to give
us any relief, we have decided to
help ourselves," says the Knox
county farm bureau members. "Al-
most every politician in Washing-
ton who opposed real farm relief
measures has been preaching that
the farmers should be more efficient
and lower their cost of production.
Thus we Knox county farmers have
started out to do this by buying our
own gasoline, kerosene, and lubri-
cating oils on the cooperative basis."

Trucks Deliver Products.

Bulk stations will be located at
convenient places in the county as
rapidly as possible and trucks will
deliver petroleum products to every
member's farm, says the Knox
County Farm Bureau Bulletin. Pre-
ferred stock at $25 per share bear-
ing 7 per cent are being offered to
farm bureau members to help
finance the project.

For the man who buys his gaso-
line at filling stations, there will be
. pumps established in every town so
he may use his own products.

The Marshall-Putnam Oil Com-
pany is in full operation, according
to F. E. Fuller, county adviser,
since each one of ■ its stations has
two truck drivers to deliver. A
second driver was recently installed
at McNabb, and a new service sta-
tion is to be located soon at the
Ford garage in Granville.

The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion has drawn up a model set of
"Articles of Incorporation" under
the provision of the Cooperative
Marketing Act. These are ready for
distribution to everyone interested
in the project.

Need Should Be Considered.

"Some counties are going to suc-
ceed while others may fail," said
J. R. Bent in commenting on the
probable outcome of the new ven-
ture. The degree to which success
may be achieved, or failure en-
countered will depend primarily
upon the need for such a cobpera-
tive company, the general interest
in it on the part of farmers, local
competitive conditions, the form of
organization and the financial and
"business set-up," and the exper-
ience, business-like character, afid
ability of the management.

The responsibility for the new
companies organized will rest with
the incorporators themselves, but
the Illinois Agricultural Association
is making a determined effort to
give helpful information and advice
to every county interested.

78 Respond Already To Appeal For Farm
Outings For Kiddies of Chicago 's Slums

This Little Fellow Needs An Outinf in the Country. Write and Tell
Him to Come.

Pack 'em in and Head for Mt.
Vernon.

SEVENTY-EIGHT slum kiddies al-
ready farmed out through the
I. A. A. for summer vacations —
that's the record of the past two
weeks. The United Charities of
Chicago, with whom we are work-
ing in getting vacations for the
poor children of the tenement dis-
tricts report that they have many
more children who have not been
provided for. Here's an opportun-
ity to be happy through making
these unfortunate children happy

for a couple of weeks this summer.
The United Charities deliver
the children in clean clothes and
come after them at the end of
the vacation period. A card ad-
dressed to the Outing Secretary,
Illinois Agricultural Association.
608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, will
make known your willingness to
help in this splendid work. If pos-
sible, secure the aid of your neigh-
bors so a dozen or more children
can be delivered to the same town.

G. E. Metzfer.

20 Counties Show
Increase in Total
Mem bersh ip — Me tz^er

Twenty counties reorganized this
year signed more members in the
farm bureau than
they did three
years ago, ac-
cording to G. E.
Metzger, director
of organization,
who recently
completed a sur-
vey of organiza-
t i o n work

throughout the
state.

And a number
of other counties
whicli have com-
pleted or are
about to complete
their new drives for members re-
port memberships approximately the
same as three years ago. With the
greater portion of the work com-
pleted for the new period, prospects
for a similar or slight increase in
membership over the total of three
years ago are becoming more ap-
parent each day.

Pulaski, Bond and Jackson coun-
ties started resigning members
within the past two weeks, while
Edwards and St. Clair counties will
resign their memberships within the
coming two weeks. By the end of
August, Henderson, Schuyler, Rich-
land, and Scott counties will start
their campaigns for members for the
new three-year period.

Washington county in Southern
Illinois, one of the few counties in
Illinois which never has had a farm
bureau, has its quota of 300 mem-
bers nearly enrolled and plans to
establish an office and employ a
county adviser by September first.

When Washington comes into the
fold, the total will be swelled to 93
county farm bureaus in the state.
Washington County Farm Bureau
officials will hold a meeting at Nash-
ville on Aug. 4 to complete final
arrangements for the official launch-
ing of their new organization.

Take Route 2 and Turn East at
Ashley.

Mid-West Conference
atSa aga tuck, Mich . , to
Present Many Subjects

The first Mid-West Stote Farm
Bureau training school, to be held at
Saugatuck, Mich., Aug. 16-20, will
be a bell-ringer, according to an-
nouncement made recently from the
office of the American Farm Bureau
Federation.

Mrs. Chas. E. Sewell, chairman
of the committee in charge of the
school, announces that Dr. Carl Tay-
lor, of the University of North Caro-
lina, will be the principal speaker
at the banquet, to be held the first
night, Monday, Aug. 16. The gen-
eral address on publicity will be
made by S. J. Duncan Clark, Editor-
in-chief of the Chicago Evening
Post

G. E. Metzger, director of organ-
ization, will speak on the "Art of
Salesmanship Applied To Farm
Bureau Needs," during the first day
of the convention.

"Simple Rules For Effective Pub-
lic Speaking" will be the special sub-
ject of R. E. Pattison Kline, of tiie
Kline School of Effective Speech
Training, Chicago. Lucius E. Wil-
son, another "imported" speaker,
will discuss "Outlines of Modern
Psychology As Related to the Art
of Selling." Many other prominent
speakers are billed.

The program will continue
throughout the week, winding up
with an open forum and summary
on Friday afternoon. The meetitig
and conference is called especially
for county advisers, organization
directors, solicitors, and farm bu-
reau workers. Reservations may be
made through the American Farm
Bureau Federation, 58 E. Washing-
ton St., Chicago.

Send 'Em In

Entries for the State Horse-
shoe ntching Tournament must
be sent to L. R. Caldwell, County
adviser, Mt. Vernon, 111., at once.
Contestants should be at Mt.
Vernon ready to plav by 9:00 a.
m., Thursday, Aug. 12.

For The Winner

This is a replica of the solid
gold watch charm to be awarded
to the new hog-calling champion
at Mt. Vernon on August 12.
Come and win it.

Henry Casseil of Harrodsburg,
Ky., is the champion hog-caller
from the Bluegrass State, who is
looking for other worlds to con-
quer. "We will challenge the best
you have in Illinois for we think our
man can lick anyone in the United
States," writes Stuart Brabant,
county agent at Harrodsburg. Bra-
bant didn't slate whether Cassel's
favorite call is W-h-o-o-«-y, or
S-o-o-e-y, but we have enough con-
fidence in our coming state cham-
pion to pit him against Casse] and
others in a National Hog Calling
Contest, to be held at the Interna-
tional Livestock Exposition, Chi-
cago, 1926.

Here is th« Illinois score card,
which will be used at the I. A. A.
State Picnic, Aug. 12, for judging
the hog callers:

1. Volume, loudness, or csrryins ca-
pacity. This is important, because
the voice must rvach the ears of
the hoes if they ar« in the back
field 40

2. Appeal to the hoc. The voice must
be earnest and sincere. denotinK
honesty. It must carry convic-
tion to the pisrs that their supper
awaits them 20

t. Variety. A varied call I's more in-
terestina and penetrattnK than a
monotonous one given in the same
key 20

4. OriKinality. The hoir should know
his oa-n master's voice so he may
not be fooled by impostors 10

5. Clearness and musical qualKy. A
clear, musical call is much more
enticini; and appealina than a
throaty one lackina music. Hoas
enjoy music and happiness aids dt-
orcstion. A musical call will brine
them in quicker and with better
apietite to enjoy thefr meal with
profit to their owner 10

ToUI 100

Samuel G. Smith and Reuben Bright shown above carried the silver
cup back to McLean county in 1924 in the annual Horseshoe Tcmrna-
ment. Walter and Harry Torbcrt of DeWitt county won last vefir as
well as in 1923. These four masters of the art are expected "at Mt.
Vernon Aug. 12 in a new duel for state honors, gd. Torbert, father'of
Walter and Harry, and Joe Heskitt carried off the honors in 1920, 19&1,
and 1922. They may all be matched at the 1926 tournament. Will
these old champions come back, or will a dark horse team put them all
on the toboggan. It's worth a trip to Mt. Vernon to sec this annual
fight for supremacy. Don't miss it.

United States Leads
In Fire Losses Per
Capita Report Shows

Windstorm and hail insurance for
horticultural crops ■will be the next
type of insurance considered by the
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co.,
according to V. Vaniman, field
representative of the company. De-
mands are now coming on from
over the state for such insurance.
^ A survey of the new company
recently completed by Vaniman
shows that practically 20 per cent
uf all mutual companies in the st^te
are now carr>-ing blanket reinsur-
ance.

The Dix Mutual Fire Insurance
Co., according to \'animan is now
classifying property and allowing
deductions on cost of insurance to
property protected with lightning
rods, fire proof roofs, and fire proof
walls. This company had 124 pol-
icies with $147,670 of insurance in
force back in ]890« and today there
are more then 1200 policies repre-
senting $4,486,830 in force.

"One of the effective ways to en-
courage f'reproofing is to lower the
rate on buildings wliere some atten-
tion is given to fire protection," said
C. B. Goodrich of Gibson City in
commenting on differential in ra'tes.

A special committee on fire waste
and in.surance of the United State*
Chamber of Commerce reports that
the annual per capita losses fr"m
fire are more than three times
greater in the United States than in
France, the next highest country in
fire loss. Here are the figures,
taken from total losses in the yi';irs
from 1912 to 1915 inclusive;

United States

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Norway

Italy

Sweden ...

Germany

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"I l>er cal'ita

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A. R. Wri(;ht. \.irna

. D. Barton. Cornt-ll

R. F. Karr. Irotjuois

J. I.. Whistiand. C harlvston

Oiiirlcs Borgtlt. Hav-iina

Saniuct Sorrells. R;>M<i.>rlJ

I rank t>exncr. W..t*'rJ.x>

\V. L. (^»pt-- S-»Um

. Charles Ntarshall. Btlknap

. - U. K. Loomis, Mak^iiida

OFFICERS

President, Enrl C. Smitli Detroit

Vice-President, Charles R Finley Iloopeston

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloom ington

Secretary, (ieo. A. Fox Sycamore

jm I Li L( I

A«ltlcrLTliRAL

I To advatiie the ru'P<*^*f*^f which the Form Bureau was nrgan-
izett. natnalv '*» prttmote. protect and represent the business,
economic, stn iai an<t vilucatitnuil interests iff the farmers of
lllinuis and the nation, and to detelof* aiiriculture.

IM Ol S _/^
ASSOCIATION

h W.-l. V M:

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Co-operative Accounting Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

Finance R. A. Cx>w!es

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General Office J. 11. Kelker

Information 'E.G. Thiem

Legal Counsel . Donald Kirkpatrick

■ Live Stock Marketing . . . . ^ Wm. E. I Icdtecock

Organization .1 G. E. Metzgcr

Phosphate-Limestone J. R. Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing: F. A. Couglcr

Taxation and Statistics J. C. \<'atson

Transportation L. J. Quascy

. Tl.i..

1.1 M"rn>. I!lii,..i... I.y ihi- Illin..i» Airri.iilluril As'.i.blimi. F..lil.-.| by Drpnrliiipnt "f Iiif.)r..wilii.n. E. O. Tl.i.-iTi. niri!<-t..r. finS K„iilli n>-:irli..rii Sln-,-t,
'-■."i,!i( liio ["■>.t nllin- ;il Miiin.t Mi.rn.-', lUiiioi-. uri.liT tiifi Art i.f M:trrh .'(. \S7U. .\fcr(>Iaiiro f.-r inailinjt a' siktIhI rrilc t'f |visi:tm- |miviilr<l (or in !"t('(!f»n
' !■ iii(!ivii!ti;il rut inlnTstup t< >• ..f rtir I!liii..is .\i:ri<'uitiir;il .\ss-irjatniTi is tivr (lollari a yr.Tr. Til*' itv includes i>aymciil of lifty t» iits fur toub.scrii»tiuii tu the
.iiiti all uii. all..l fur ir ii.is.-iiit (■..[..v, |iU-a.-,v iiiiij,;il,' key iiuiiiIm r i.n alillrl^a as i.s n-iiuiriil by l.iw.

^"'".TjTl.TTJ'nj.^J? T? 'j iyr. i.",! .j.Tg,^; ^ iUf if^g-'.' '' '•^sH&AM'^i^iiUi^JU^TJJJ^VJ} jU'SU' lU;S^;!L5g^J?Miyr!y;!!^3-UyUiMM!!^!MO^^[!y?J^^^

Plain Language

Pl'ilad.ie t :■'. I'iil'lic I.cd.yer tak(>!: up ihe

lit lililnrfal ri'prinlid i:i iho

t'l lii'iiounct" the pn'.scntation

<;' the ritent figlu at U'ash-

Kui! (.'. Smith and our odi-

>.-; Anundmont sultti'rfupe

F.

':i!;4''i 111 a I

■in. -M Ti-il,:.

Iri.il;i ri"-'.i: .

I'.v l>i-;sid>-i:

t x:i'»siii.L>- ih.

u-d \\\ th' J'lly is.-ut' of the I. A. A. FIkcokd.

aic atCii-i'd of "'iila.vinjr politics," and "ad-

';; ttio ;'nijiii;a!i!!t; rests of ex-Gov. Lowdi-n

••n. OaAis': oi ■■p'"''''' tixiiiji" :'nd Avantinjjr

• S.irji t.i Iniy i,- a!' ii i'arm." As an txaniplc

:iiti;;<t( d iliihiislun ss ixpn'ssinsr complete ijr-

cc of the i-orn 1/elfs interest in farrri relief.

temt''t ai I'ii'.ieiiie is unefiualed.

[iliiiois A'.'Tieiiltiiral Association never has

'.' v.]< .is ;: polilical ortranization. It does not

,\inv. l! is interested in no one'.s political

It din ■ icIicNe howexer, in the polic.v of

tioii fir iili. ,!j.'riiniitiire included, or ])ri)tection

>ne. Th'- ;iu'!iini.stratioii opposed this prin-

Its f>p)i'is;ti.>n was aptl.v expressed in Sec-

Mol!on"s liiter to the last con.!rress. We

jilain laii.fL!;.:i,i;e
icialisni. Vfc

,l,r.-.> '»•

I'l

s<t

in dencHinciiifr such appari'nt

re .just a l.'it skeiHical even

isi^icts of socurinK an.v worth

make the farmer's dollar worth

■r ieliow's, u.nlil afttr 1028. If

hlie l.eiiiT'-r eijitorial, conceived in ipnorance,

lives' u*a!!'e of a lar.L'e (lortion of the country,

ptiei.-in Would Im- complete for all time.

Thursday, Aug. 12

lOrTIlKHN iliiiiois is niakin.e trrandj^iro^iarntions
fur a .i-'iiul t Dteftainnu lit at Mt. \'ehion on Aug.
12. iere is an opiiortunity for Xorthtrn and Cen-
tr;il lllinoi . foltvS !o see Kjrypt. the fruitland of the
.Midd e '.Vest. l!:e ion.ge.st Settled area in Illinois,
the Ii -isUiii}.' peach and ;i|)p!i' orchards, and on top
of ai thesi- it d:i'. of s|>lcirdid entertainment and
recre, ition

.Mt \e: 111)11 is more lliaii 100 miles north of the
exirene souin end of the state. It is located on
paM( lioute 1"> whicii ma.v be resiehed from north
a;'..i s )uth ov Kojites 2. 2.", and 1. It is on the direct
r-iute of tht (S oi !•■.. I. \\. K. between Chicago and
\ c!e;'M. shady tourist camp for )iiciiickers
who \vi\x: iii ilie ni.ylit liefore adjoins the picnic
groui d>. It will be a trii> well worth while for those
who I ave or have not seen .Southern Illinois.

i

A Step Forward

IllF. rr'CO.n' iii;.:;:" -^timi of a collection service
r c'K)per;iti\. s ly the Illinois Agricultural Co-
i'.. s ''■\s..iiei;i!iiiri nia.v inxfr c^use a ripple,
iie >\k'.'' ami y it rejiresents a move aimed
y ai one of th> ;';ciitest needs of farmers' or-
■ lio.i-, of ;.ll iiri' .

:i (li 'I'ge Wicli'er linished exiimining the
of ti" farini rs" e!e\ iit0!> in Illinois he turned
loiiii.' !' on more Ihan a half million dollars
of ace :!i.~ i'.iid ii'ues I'l-. i\al)le,. Many were
;■ .-taii'ii Th'- ratio of accounts receivable

,ort-!i «.: 'Tji't I'lrreiit. He had iHicovered
- •■(. fo!- ii !l.--. - iili.l fa:'ures of not a tVw

teii.ji! !..ti. !■ N.iiil. cesuii in a lu avy (inaii-

iiri!"i! iiiiil :.- il'.e c;r.i~e in most instances of

rolls hoi'V'n'. in-rs.

liev\' colieclio!) si rvice oll'ered at cost without

in;' I'le ji; r.-oniii I of ih" association was the

result. Classifying accounts receivable according
to age, .sending out letters to debtor.s from head-
(luarters, personal visitation for the ))urpo.se of mak-
ing collections, and reporting back to boards of di-
rectors with recommendations for legal procedure
will be methods employed to turn accounts into cash.
This .service may not sell memberships in the
farm bureau but it is a forward .step in making
farmers" business ventures successful.

Good News

\ N'NOUNCEJIENT of the refusal f>f thr Inter-
/v state Commerce Commission to grant western
railroads an increase o,f five i)er cent in freight rates
on agricultural products including livestock is good
news for farmers throughout the Middle W-est. The
American Farm Bu'eau Federation through O. W.
Sandberg. director ot transportation, and Fred .Jack-
son, special attorney took t^e initiative in present-
ing figures ,and statistics showing the depression
existing in .a.griculture, to the Commission. L, ,J.
Quasey of the Illinois Agricultural Association gave
valuable aid in the hearings.

Farmers are not opposed to the railroads earning
5'' I per cent interest on their investment, but the.v
see no reason wh.v the government should guarantee
the carriers such a return through its ability to fix
rates, when farmers are not so i)rosiierous and are
left to shift for themsehes.

"These railways for six years have not earned,
arid are not now earning anything aj)proaching a
'fiir return' (.5" | '.' )," .says the Railway Age in a
bitter condemnation of the Commission's decision,
"and the commission offers no definite suggestions
as an alternative to the propo.sed general advance of
freight rates."

Hard luck, isn't it. Agriculture isn't even asking
the government to fix price.s .so farmers may earn
5-' I per cent. All it wants is a little assistance to
help manage the damaging surplus. The freight
rate ca.se reveals .I'u.st another reason why farmers
need a strong organization.

Organization Greatest Need — Lowden

"I am more convinced than ever that organiza-
tion is the greatest need of the farmers of this
country." This is the message ex-
Governor Lowden had for more
than .500 Illinois bankers at the
banker-farmer field day held at
Sinnissippi Farms. Oregon, on
July ^0.
J \ "TSP^^^ ^'''- Lowden, in his own vigor-
^d !»' ^^M Otis way, dro\e home the jjoint
^^1 4 ^.^^H that the combined efficiency of the
^^|A^^^H Danish farmer plus his- inherent
I^BstABH ability to organize and cooperate
Frank o. Lowden ^vith his brothors, in producing
and marketing his croi)s were responsible for the
happ.v condition of agriculture in Denmark.

"The farmer's interests are your interests and
iinything you can do to helj) them will react to your
benefit and the good of the country," said Mr. Low-
den. "It is more necessary that ypu lend your aid
first to agriculture rather than to industry, for when
the farmer is prosperous there is prosperity for all."
The ex-govi'rnor had returned from a tour through
Denmark, and other Scandinavian countries only
the day before Hie meeting.

In spite of the rain, the bankers went home
pleased with the day and its practical lessons in
farm management. The Illinois Bankers Associa-
tion cooperated with the University of Illinois in
arranging the events of the day.

Income Tax is Permitted by Present
Constitution

By JOHN C. WATSON

nincfoy, DriKiytnH'nt nf Tti.rn'iou attd Slfttift^C!<

J. C Watsoa.

OPPOSITION to the pending revenue amend-
ment ' isi occasionally expressed on the ground
that it permits a tax on income. It is true that it >-
does permit a tax on income. This is the most hope-
ful and valuable feature in the

amendment.' As has been shown
in previous articles, this is the
only important .source of fair tax-
ation which has not been tapped
in Illinois. It is the only .source
that can .save real property, urban
and rural alike, investment and
home alike from the present men-
ace and the eventual certainty of
confiscation of values.

Opposition . to the pending
revenue amendment, on the ground that it
])ermits a tax to be established on income, ignores
the fact that a tax on income is permitted by the
I)re.sent constitution. The foremost constitutional
lawyers in the state hold that section 2 of Article IX,
which has been in effect since the year 1870, gives
the General As.sembly authority to establish a tax
on income. The section is as follows:

"Thr spccifiattionK of tlw objects and subjects of
taxation shall not deprive the General Assiimhli/ of
the poirer to reqi<iy( other siihjccts or objects to l>e
taxed in sxch a manner as may be consistent n-ith
the princi))les of taxation fixed in this constitntinn."

There can be little or no doubt that "other sub.jects
or ob.jects" would be interpreted as including a tax
on income.

An income tax under the provisions of the present
constitution would differ sharply from an income ta.x
under the terms of the i)roposed amendment.

L'nder the present constitution a tax on income
could be passed by the General Assembly by a bare
ma.jority of the members of each of the two houses.
The pending amendment would require a two-thirds
vote of the members of each of the two houses.

Under the pre.sent constitution a tax on income
would be uniform on all income alike whether large
or small. There could be no exemptions, no offset
of income tax against property tax to prevent tax-
ation both of pro))erty and of the income i)roduced
by property, and no substitution of a tax on incom.e
entirely in place of a tax on property.

The pending amendment, if approved, will permit
graduated or progressive rates on income, the lixin.g
of limits below which the t;ix on income will not aji-
ply, the offsetting of income ta.xes against projierty
taxes to prevent double taxation, and the sub.stitution
of a tax on income in place of part or all of a proji-
erty tax, either all property or any class.

The pending amendment would permit a fair .sy.s-
tem of taxation. An income tax under the jire.sent
conslitufion could not be fair. This is jiiobably the
leading rea.son why it has iiewr been established.

Mt. Vernon, August 12, That's the Day

August 1, 1926

The Illinois Agricultural Association RkcoRO

I

Par«3

i

Oil and Gas Supply
Companies Attract
State- w ide Interest

Knox County Company In-
corporates For $50,000. If
Farmers Must Help Them-
selves, This Is Our Way,

Say Members

State-wide intorcst in the fornia-
tif»n of cooperative oil ami jrJisnlinc
Mipply ("mpaiiifs was «-\iii< lucl in
thr rt'cent f^crii-s of nu't-tintrs h»l(l
l.y .1. U. Bent «.f Xh>- Illinois Aixri-
(riiltural Associati(.n U-r thi' purposr
<>i' acijuaintintr farm ailviscrs. mem-
bers, and others with th-- possibil-
ities and limitations of this new
project.

Smce_ JJancock county started
opt-rafiinr an oil and (fas supply coni-
I>any more than two years ago and
since Marshall-rutnam county made
a vi-ry successful hejrinninp: less
than a year acn. other counties have
investijfated and 'apparently have
seen a new opportunity for another
elfective way to shorten the road
from producer to consumer to help
the farmer.

Meetings Throughout State.

Mectinprs iin<ier the auspices of
the I. A. A. were held at Henry,
Centralia, Sprin^rt'ield, Champaitrn
and Rorkf()rd. within the past ivw
weeks, at which half the counties tif
Illinois were represented. Knox
county thoutrht so well of the proj-
ect that the farm bureau there or-
^'ani7.e<l a corporation witli capita!
stock at ?5().0O0. Fifteen thousand
or more in cash already has been
jiaid in and the new company is rm
the iiigh road to a ha])py beginning.

"Since Tontrress has failed lo jrive
us any relief, we have <lecided U>
help ourselves." says the Knox
county farm bureau members. ".\l-
most every politician in Washinp-
»ton who opposed real farm relief
measures has been ]treachinp that
tile farmers should be more etticient
and lower their cost of jiroduction.
Thus we Kn<ix county farmers have
started out to do this by buying our
own pasoline. kerysene, antl lubri-
cating oils on the c|(Opei*ative basis."

Trucks Deliver Products.

Bulk stations \\llill be located at
convenient places 'in the county as
rapidly as possiblJ and trucks will
deliver petroleum jiroducts to every
member's farm, jsays the Knox
<^)unty Farm Burijau Bulletin. Pre-
ferred stock at $liirj per share liear-
iiig 7 per cent are being olTered to
farm bureau members to help
(inance the pr(»ject.

For the man who buys his gaso-
line at tilling stations, there will b.-
pumps e.stablished in every town so
he may use his own jiroducts.

The Marshall-I'utnam Oil Com-
pany is in full o)»erali'>n. according
to F. K. Fuller, county adviser,
since each one of its stations ha^^
two truck drivers to deliver. A
sccoikI driver was recently installed
at -McNabb. and a new service sta-
tii»n is to be located soon at the
Ford garage in (iranville.

The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion has drawn up a model set of
".Articles of Incorporation" under
the provision of the Cooperative
Marketing .Vet. These are ready for
distribution lo everyone interested
in the project.

Need Should Be Considered.

"Some counties are going to suc-
ceed while others may fail." said
J. R. Bent in commenting on the
probable outcome of the new ven-
ture. Tlie degree to which success
may be achieved, or failure en-
countered will , depend primarily
u|ton the need for such a coopera-
tive company, the general interest
in it on the ])art of farmers, local
competitive conditions, the form of
organization and the tinancial and
"business set-up." and the exper-
ience, business-like character, and
ability of the management.

The responsibility for the new
companies organized will rest with
the iniiirporators themselves, but
the Illinois A^ricull iiral Association
is making a delerrniinMl olTort 1"
give hel[)l'ul inforiuat i<iM and ad\ u e
to every county interesl4'd. I

78 Respond Already To Appeal For Farm
Outings For Kiddies of Chicago s Slums

SKVEXTY-KICIIT slum kiddies al- I f or ;i c/.uple of weeks this ?nmnior.
ready farmed out through the The I'nited Charities riciiver
I. A. A. for summer vacations — | the children in clean i-buhis^ and
that's the record of the past two ; come after them at the end of
weeks. The United Charities of j the vacation peri<»d. A card ad-
Chicago, with whom we are work- dres-ed to the Outing .'Secretary.

ing 1

poor

tricts

1 getting vacati<<ns f.-r the
hildren of the tenement dis-
repurt that they have many
more children who have not been
provid'fi for. Here's :in opportun-
ity to be happy through making
thisi- unfortunate children hajipy

G. E. Metzger.

20 Counties Show
Increase in Total
Membership— Metz^er

Twenty counties reorganized this
year signed more members in thr
f farm bureau than

they did three
years ago. ai -
coniiitg to G. K.
Metzger. directiir
of organization,
who r e c e n t 1 y
completed a sur-
vey of organiza-
t i o n w <i r k

throughout t h e
state.

And a number
of other counties
which have com-
pleted or are
ibout til coriipleu-
their new drives for member.^ re-
))orl memberships approximati'Iy the
same as three years ago. With tli'.
greater portion of the work com-
pleted for the new |ieriod. prospects
for a similar or sliglit increase in
membership over the total of tbrei-
years ago are becoming more a]»-
parent each <lay.

Tulaski. Bond an<l .Tai k-oh »-., un-
ties started resigning member--
within t!ie past 'wo weeks, while
Kdwards an*! St. Clair counties wiH
resign their memljersliips within tlie
coming twii weeks. By the end of
.August. Heuderson. Si'huyler. Kich-
iand. and Scott counties wdl start
their campaigns for members U>v the
new three-year periotl.

Washington C(»unty in .•Southern
Illinois, one of the few counties in
Illinois whicli never has had a farm
bureau, has its qu'tta of ;!00 mem-
bers nearly eni''*iled and
establish an olhce and emj)li>y
county adviser by Scptemb(.'r fir

Illinois Agricultural .Association.
r.Os So. m-arborn St.. Chicago^ wiil
make known your willinirnes,-, to
help in this splendid \vo|1:. If pos-
sible, secure the aid of your neitrh-
})ors so a dozen or more children
can he delivered to the same ^<»wn.

When Washington comes into the
fr.ld, the total will hv swelle<i to if.',
c'iunly farm bureaus in the state.
Washington County Farm Bureau
iiOicials will hobl a meeti?ig at Vash-
ville on .Aug. 1 to complete final
arrangements for tlu* "iriciMJ launch-
ing of their new organi/a! lou.

Mid-West Conference-
at Saui^atuck. Mich., to
Present Many Subjects

The first Mid-WVst State I'ann
Bureau trainiing scIMm-I. to b« !i(-lii at
Sau^raluck. Alich.. Aug. l»''-liti. wi!!
be a b«'ll-ri)»^?er. aj-c-'rduig l-' an-
iiounccnieni ituuli* recently (v"V\ th»
otlic** of the Americjm Farni Btireau
Federation. .;

.Mrs. t'has.- K. j^-u.||. iba- -nan
of the" conimftlee iii «haige •-" :'.e
s* ho<d. nnnoutu ' ;- that IM (ail I :a-
b.r. of tin- I'lm-rMli "f North < .to.
lina. will lu- the [»in»i!al spj .. i r
a* the baUM Kt- ''• W h- bl tho ;,r>t

night. Moink-n. Aujt. !•.. The i:.-n-
eral aildri>- on piddidry will i>e
mad<- by S. .1. l>iutcan Clark. KdUov-
in-cliief of tho »!1iicjigo Iv.ining
Post.

(i. K. M*'izg4 r. dftectoF of organ^
izati^.n. will Kjieak m-m t be ".Art of
Sale-^nianship Appli' d To Farm
Bureau Needs." <lunng tb'- '■'•■v--\. d ly
of the e<nvention.

"Simple Kules For Ftfr.-tr.. I'ib-
lic .^peaking" will bo the .-pe, ud nb-
i.-ct of U. K. ,Battis(.n Kline, -f '-u.
Kline School of Eirecliw Sp.-.-.-b
Training, rhitago. .Lucius K. \vr;.
son. ani»lher "intjM»rted" speak< : .
will discuss ^'Outlirn's of M«>d» t m
Bsycht>logy As Keiatid to the At-
of .'Vliing." Many other |>roniinent
speakers are billed. ■ '

The program will eoTvli?.iii
thp'Ughout the wifj'k. winding up
with an'oprti forurti and summary
on Friday afternoon. The met-ting
and confcronre is .called c-pi-^-ially
for ci>unty udriset-'^. organ i^jit ion
<iirectors. solicitors, and farni bu-
reau workers. Reservations in*y bo
made thV'tugh the vAmerican Kar?n
Bureau Federation, r^s K. Wasliing-
t'tn St.. Chieago.

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WILL THEY COME BACK?

For The Winner

Henry < a-<eM ..i iian-.i t.-.'g,
Ky.. is th«- • banipion hog.«;(tle?
i'nmi tb'- Hluegrass Slate. wh.> i-
.-iotjking ;''-r othri WoHds t-. t-oo-
j "pier. "Wf wdl challenge I'e be-t
>ou have i?i I^limll^ for we ttii''*» ""f
j o'an can lick anyone iu th*- Ciiite*!
f .*^ates." wi- i'es Stua^ Brabanf.
• ounly ag<-ni .:t Ilarrodsburg. Bra-
liant diiin'l state whether < ass* !'>.
favttrile call is VV-h-o-o-c-y. r.r
S-o-ii-f-y. hut \\v liave enough con-
fidence in our colli i tig .^^tate ehdm-
ptitn to pit h>n» against Ca->el :ind
others in a National Il'»g Calling
Contest, to be held at the Intf-rna-
tt«»nal I.ivestt»ck Kxpositi«»n. Chi-
cago. r.»L*«'».

Here is the Illinois scor»' card,
whiih wdl be used at the I. A. A.
State I'Hiiic. Aug. li, for judging
the hog cidU'rs:

I. Volun-.i . iMMilrifiv. t*r "■nrr.viM- «■»•

l'«'ily. 'I'll)" i- im|N«rtjiii' iM-au^i-

1 h«' *Mt>i- ttiu^l r«-Mi'h Iht iiir- i-f

il.> h»\t- )f ItH-y itr<- ill lt>. \un-l.

fi. i.l I"

■2. A|.|».Ml !•. III.- ho.'. Tl.. V..,.-. mu-i

I— r-t-rti.-T hikI Mii.-.-r.- .l.-n.tMf.i;

lif>n<*^* y Ii must .urry ^.mvii .

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Vernon.

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gold wall h charm to be awarded
to the new hog-ialling chamjiion
at Mt. A'erivm <in .August 12.
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Pag* 4

The Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD

August 1, 1926

Eflpcutive Committee Met July 9; Report on
Theft, Life, Auto Insurance; Poultry Co-op
To Be Aided by Solicitors; Next Meet Aug. 11

Hete are the high spots from the
montily meeting of the Executive
Comiiittee held on July 9 in Chi-
cngo, at which all members were
present, as follows:

Wm. Webb. PlainfieM : Ceo. F. Tullock.
Rockfcril; C. E. BamborouKh. Folo; Wm.
H. Mo >dy. Port Byron : B. H. Taylor. Rapa-
tee: /. R. Wright. Varna; Frank D. Bar-
ton, (ornell; R. F. Karr. Iro«iuois ; J. L.
J Whisrand, Carleston: Charles Borirclt. Ha-
vana: Samuel Sorrt-lls. Raymond: Frank
(>exne ■. Waterloo: Charles Marshall. Bel-
knap; R. K. Loomi.s. Makanda: Charles R.
Finley, Hoopeston; H. Fahrnkopf. Bloom-
inKtor <McLe.in County!: Earl C. Smith.
Detroit (President! ; Geo. A. Fox. Syca-
nore (SecreUry) ; R. A. Cowles, Chicsffo

(Treasurer).
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Secretary Fox reported that

■ ations were still being made

jy^=ibilities in theft, life, and

nobile insurance for farm bu-

members. Mr. Donald Kirkpat-

discussed the insurance pro-

at length. It was the opinion

e committee that the officers,

togel her with Mr. Tullock, chairman

, le Financial Business Service

1 nittee, continue the investiga-

Treasurer Cowles* report
show?d total current assets of the
•association at $183,293.50. A bal-
of $7,676.81 still remains in
Illinois Farm Relief Fund,
assets including long term
due, office equipment, deferred
etc., amount to $280,-
J.64. Liquid assets in the form
C! ,sh. Liberty Bonds, and Federal
Bank Bonds amount to ap-
proximately $125,000.

President Smith reported on
conference at Chicago with rep-
resentatives of the Chicago, Indian-
Peoria, St. Louis, and the
Livestock Producers at
. problems of marketing live-
through cooperative channels
discussed. He stated that an-
eonference was scheduled for
Fridiy, July 16.

Mr. Matt Grennan of White-
County, 111., presented a mar-
ketii g plan, which he devised for
purpose of' solving the agricul-
-i.ltn.. '•" suggested dec-
■ - 'iscussed at the

i . „rought up and

.-.Aitional paragraph, prepared
At. Kirkpatrick, was read by
Fox. Action 'on same was de-
fem d until the next meeting.

Mr. Perry Crane, former Sec-

retary of the Indiana Farm Bureau
Federation demonstrated the use of
an automatic fire extinguisher for
use in rural districts. The matter
of handling the extinguisher through
the I. A. A. was referred to the
Committee on Financial Business
Service.

6. Moved by Mr. Sorrells, sec-
onded by Mr. Finley that the next
meeting of the Executive Committee
be held at Mt. V^ernon on Wednes-
day, August 11.

7. Secretary Fox read the follow-
ing resolution from the 24th dis-
trict.

WHEREAS, certain counties in this the
24th District are proposing to develop a
cooperative poultry and eEU marketinK as-
sociation, and

WHEREAS, each and every member of
this association will pay his Farm Bu-
reau and to the 1. A. A. a substantial serv-
ice chargre. or will maintain himself as a
member of his County Farm Bureau and
the 1. A. A., and

WHEREAS. non-Farm Bureau members
are evidencinB keen interest in this as-
sociation and have already indicated a.
decided preference to join the F'arm Bu-
reau and the I, A. A. in lieu of payinK
this service charge, and

WHEREAS, the onranization of this
marketing association appears certain to
result in stronKly increasinE the present
Farm Bureau membership in the counties
interested,

NOW. THEREFORE, be it resolved that
we request and urEe the 1. A, A. to co-
operate in the orEanization of the Flora
Poultry Producers Association by furnish-
inE 1- A. A. solicitors on the same basis
as for a Farm Bureau membership drive —
for siEninE memberships directly in the
marketinE association and incidentally
siEninE them also in the Farm Bureau and
the I. A. A.

MOTION— Mr. Moody—

That the officers of the I. A. A. he
authorized to negotiate an aEreement with
Farm Bureaus interested in the promotion
of the Flora Poultry Producers Associa-
tion to pay the Flora Poultry Producers
Association S5 for each new Farm Bureau
member secured by solicitors for the Poul-
try Producers Association, provided that
two-thirds of the $5 shall be charEi'd
aEainst County Farm Bureau dues where
tile County Farm Bureau dues are $10 anil
one-third charged against the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association dues, and provided
further that no money is to be paid until
the Urst payment on the new Farm Bureau
members* dues has been received.

Seconded— Mr. Wright — Roll call
vote taken resulted in motion being
carried unanimously.

Motion was made and duly sec-
onded to adjourn.

Sastator Watson to

Speak at Picnic

Continued from paEe 1. col. 5.)
Egg grading and packing by
Flori Coop, Egg and Poultry Mar-
ketii ig Association.

c. Southern Illinois wheat grades
by TTheat Pool.

Tlie picnic was purposely held on
Aug 1st 12 because that date is
usually followed closely by the
harvest, and the program
committee wanted visitors from
northern and
i central lUirtois to
I see the crop be-
fore it is har-
vested. After the
peach harvest be-
gins, it is nearly
^__ impossible for
^^ growers to break
away even for a
day to attend a picnic.

Iti a letter received from A. B.
Leeier, of the Illinois Fruit Grow-
ers' Exchange, just before going to
pres 1, Leeper states that the Ex-
char ge expects to have a carload or
mon^ of peaches at the picnic for
free distribution and sale, if enough
ripe fruit can be had. The peaches
will be bj'ought up from the ex-
tren e south end of the state where
the larvest begins, a week or more
earler than at Mt. Vernon.

A rcording to present plans, the
spea king program will be held out
in tl e open park under a canopy of
beat tif ul oaks and elms where am-
plifii rs tied to trees throughout the
woo led amphitheatre will carry the
mes: age to every member of the
thro ng.

T le boys and girls will have the
leadership of Eddie Walkup, pro-
fe.ss onal director of organized 'rec-
reat on from Cetitralia. He will
sup« rvise theto in .stunts, swimming,
race;, games, and all the other
thin fs that kiddies enjoy at picnics.
T le park is provided with tables
and benches for the picnickers'

Order Phosphate Now

This is the time of year to get
in your orders for rock phos-
phate, says J. R. Bent of the
Farm Supply Department. The
volume will probably be larger
than ever and phosphate com-
panies are making an effort to
get ready for heavy shipments
for the early fall deliveries.

Orders may be placed direct
with the companies or through
the county farm bureau. Farm
bureau members through certifi-
cates furnished by the local or-
ganization receive a discount of
50 cents per ton on all phosphate
orders which on a minimum size
ear of 30 tons amounts to $15,
or farm bureau dues for one
year.

lunch baskets. There are tennis
courts available for lovers of the
sport, croquet courts for the older
folks, swings, slides, and trapezes
for the youngsters, and a clean
swimming pool lined with cement
for young and old alike.

The Horseshoe Tournament Com-
mittee plans to build ten pitching
courts so the games may be played
and the championship decided well
before the end of the day. A sche-
dule will be worked out so the
counties matched will not need to
play off more than one series of
games. Last year some difficulty
was experienced in rounding up
players after they had been defeat-
ed. This will be avoided this year
according to the committee, under
the new arrangement.

A baseball diamond is now bein^
made ready for the championship
game. As we go to press, the semi-
final farm bureau baseball schedule
is being played off, with a five cor-
nered fight on between Marshall-
Putnam, McLean, Morgan, Brown,
and HendersoH counties.

W—H—O—O—E—Y

Here they are again. This male quartette was heard a mile away in
the greatest Hog-Calling-Contest of all time at Taylorville last year.
Left to right they are V. E. Robison, the state champion from Morton in
Tazewell county, E. G. Brick of Cumberland county, Emery Erwin
of Menard county, and Henry Brown of Sangamon county. Mr. Rob-
ison 'won the solid gold miniature pig watch charm shown elsewhere
in this issue for his prowess last year.

Southern Illinois claims to have louder, clearer, more musical, and
more appealing hog callers than elsewhere in the state. The 'champion
at Mt. Vernon is expected to challenge the world. Don't miss this event
which is to be held at noon on the big day, Aug. 12.

Will They Become Twice Champions?

Marshall-Putnam's 1924 champions are riding high, wide, and
handsome again this year with a record of every game won. Last
year they were put out of the running by Tazewell's crack nine, the
1925 champions, but this year the tables are turned in district four.
Henderson, Brown, and Morgan counties are having a tussle to de-
cide the Western Illinois championship as we go to press.

McLean expects to take a shot at Marshall-Putnam by July 31.
According to dope experts, Mars+iall-Putnam will play in the big
game at Mt. Vernon taking on the winner in the three cornered
fight between Brown, Morgan and Henderson.

U

Determined to Halter Him

A. D. Lynch.

Peoria Inaugurates
New Epoch in Co-op
Milk Marketing Here

Producers and Dealers Join in
Working out a Better Plan
for Selling Milk. Dairy Co-
ops in Illinois Succeeding

The Illinois Milk Producers As-
sociation, made up of dairymen
supplying the
Peoria market
and the local dis-
tributors, took a
forward step in
solving the milk
situation on that
market recently.
The pooling plan
of selling milk
on a three-price
basis dependent
upon whether the
product is used
as fluid milk, con-
densed or pow-
dered, or for

making ice cream and candy, cheese,
or butter, was adopted at a meeting
between the producers and dealers
at Peoria on July 15.

The adoption of this plan, as rec-
ommended by the committee which
studied the Detroit, Pittsburgh, and
Philadelphia cooperative marketing
plans, marks a new epoch in the
histoty of cooperation in Illinois.
The program includes leaving the
distribution in the hands of the
dealers, with the latter cooperating
with the dairymen in arriving at a
fair price.

A joint committee, composed of
like numbers of producers and
dealers, will determine the prices
for the three classes of milk. Pro-
vision is made for arbitration in
case of a deadlock.

The distributors agree to pay the
association five cents per 100
pounds on all milk purchased from
membersy- and the' same check-off to
be made on non-members and paid
to a dairy council for the purpose
of improving quality and increas-
ing consumption.

The entire program, submitted by
the special investigating committee,
was unanimously adopted and a
new group, composed of Bruce
Roszell, Eugene Chapin, Fred Zim-
merman, Edward Heinz, Wilfred
.Shaw, and A. D. Lynch of the
Illinois Agricultural Association,
was appointed to work out the de-
tails of the cooperative plan.
Rock Island Co-op Growing.

The Rock Island Cooperative
Ejairy Company has made more
progress toward achieving financial
and business success during the past
year than at any time since its
beginning. Starting only three
years ago, without capital or busi-
ness, this farmers' owned and con-
trolled company invested $55,000 in
a building and equipment, and has
built up a thriving and growing
business amounting to $15,000 a
month.

It now has nine wagons, and four
wholesale trucks in operation. It
is leading the city in quality and
service, and recently has increased
the price 15 cents to producers with-
out raising the cost to customers.

Quinsy Co-op Thriving.

The Quincy Cooperative Milk
Producers' Association has been
successful from the beginning. The
last audit showed a total net worth
of $55,280.06 with a surplus of
$25,935.06.

Bankers' Prexy

W. B. Craw-
ford, vice-pres-
ident of the
West Frank-
fort Bank and
Trust Co., of
West Frank-
fort, Franklin
county, is the
new president
of the Illinois
Bankers' Asso-
ciation elected
at their annual
meeting at
Springfield in
June.

Crawford
rose to promi-
nence as chairman of the Illinois
Bankers' State Protection Commit-
tee. He is a young man who has
been active in the banking business
in Franklin County since 1912.
Crawford is the 37th president of
the state association.

W. B. Crawford

i

IN

^"I .SO Ails- '■ •

Volume 4

Issued Every Month for 63,000 Thinking Farmers — September 1, 1926

LAND AND HOME OWNERS JOIN HANDS TO LffT HEAVY TAX BURDEN

I'DCh.

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Bunk About Tariff
Aiding Agriculture
Exploded by Experts

Analysis By Leading Econo-
mists Reveals That Ford-
ney-McCumber Tariff Bill
Figures Little In Helping
Farmers

Propaganda being broadcast
throughout the Middle West pur-
porting to show how the tariff helps
t! , . 'armer as much as the manu-
facturer and industrialist is so false
and misleading that the Department
of Information has undertaken to
reveal the truth about the tariff.

One of the most pernicious pieces
of propaganda is an article in "Live-
stock Markets," an organ circulated
by a commission merchant, Chicago,
regarding the farmer and the tariff.
The writer, S. W. McClure, an Idaho
sheep feeder, mentions a great
many articles including wheat, corn,
barley, wool, potatoes, butter, sugar,
eggs, flaxseed, beans, etc., protected
by a tariff, and also a number of
others which farmers buy and con-
sume that are on the free list, name-
lyi agricultural implements (does
not include cream separators, type-
writers, and linotype machines),
copper ore, iron ore, crude rubber,
petroleum, refinery products, hides,
leather, boots, shoes, potash, shin-
gles, lumber and timber, newprint
paper, barbed wire, coal, binder
twine, raw silk, cotton, raw furs.
Tariff Doesn't Help.

The assertion is made that be-
cause the former products are pro-
tected by a tariff, and the latter are
on the free list, the farmer receives
as much benefit from the tariff as
anyone.

This will do for a superficial ar-
gument but unfortunately for the
farmer the tariff isn't worth a con-
tinental so long as his products are
on an export basis. Many of the
farmer's products are sold on a
world market, namely most of his
wheat, com, meat products, cotton,
cereals, etc.

It will be noted that the articles
mentioned on the free list are near-
ly all raw materials or productive
equipment, and so are a boon to the
manufacturer rather than to the
farmer and consumer.

It is easily understood why Mc-
Clure of Idaho so stoutly defends
the tariff when it is known that the
benefits of the tariff are practically
confined among farmers to sheep
growers who get the benefit of a
high tariff on wool, to a lesser ex-
tent dairymen, and to a larger ex-
tent sugar beet growers.

The following statement taken
from the paper of Prof. B. H. Hib-
bard, noted economist from the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin, which was
read before the annual meeting of
the American Farm Economic Asso-
ciation last year is illuminating on
this particular point. Here it is:
What Hibbara's Study Shows.

"The greatest of all legislative
results, however, so far as general
income of a class, or classes, of peo-
ple is concerned is that providing a
payment for the privilege of bring-
ing goods into the country. The
tariff receipts are about $450,000,-
000, about one-third of which are on
agricultural products mainly on
sugar and wool. While it appears on
the face of it that the farmers are
getting a good thing out of certain
tariff protection, the total amount
received in increased income it esti-
mated to be $125,000,000 because
of the tariff which, however, goes to
a relatively small number of farm-
ers. 'The whole group of farmers
pays in increased prices of goods,
due to tariff on agricultural prod-
ucts, around $95,000,000 leaving as
the net gain to agriculture about

Time to Equalize the Load!

L. J. Quasey.

Lower Freight Rate
On Peaches Secured
For Growers in Egypt

ANEW low freight rate on
peaches shipped from points on
the Illinois Cen-
tral south of
Odin to Cairo in-
clusive became
effective last week.
The reduction
in rates from
$1.49% per 100
^^^_^. to 59V4c per 100

^^^^K^k pounds came

^^k ^^^ ^^^ about following
^^^^ A ^^^ word received
■■■Lf^.^^l from the New Or-
leans representa-
tives of the Illi-
nois Fruit Growers Exchange that
Southern Illinois quoted a much
higher rate than points across the
Wabash River in Indiana.

A. B. Leeper, manager of the Illi-
nois Fruit Growers Exchange, im-
mediately got in touch with L. J.
Quasey, director of transportation,
advising him of the discrimination
against growers in Southern Illinois.
The I. A. A. representative com-
municated with the Illinois Central
and subsequently with the South-
western Tariff Bureau at Atlanta,
Ga., and thanks to the energetic ef-
forts of the I. C. R. R. the order for
the lower rate was issued.

This lowering in the rate on
peaches from 1.49% to 59% cents
per 100 pounds will effect a saving
of thousands of dollars to peach
growers throughout Southern Illi-
nois. It will enable shippers in that
section to compete for markets with
growers elsewhere who heretofore
have enjoyed a lower freight rate
on this commodity.

$30,000,000 or one dollar per capita
for all JEarm people.

"On steel alone the farmers pay

a tariff bill, including the additional

charges accumulated along the way

between producer and consumer of

(Continued on cot. 1, pace 4)

Can You Make a Good
Speech? Here Are the
Rules from an Expert

R. E. Pattison Kline, Director
of Kline School for Effec-
tive Speech Training, Says
Everyone Can Become An
Able Speaker

WILLIAMS JENNINGS BRYAN
was a great national ftgiure
not because of what he said, but
how he said it," declared R. E. Pat-
tison Kline, public speaking expert
at the Mid-West Organization
School at Saugatuck, recently.

"The spoken word can be made
1,000 times more effective than the
written word," said Kline, "because
the speaker may convey ideas by
his eyes, his body movements, his
hands, and by the inflections in his
voice.

"Ability to speak effectively is
the result of training. The first
time Gladstone, the great orator,
appeared in public his speech was
a complete failure. He was hissed
by the audience. He determined to
make people respect his thoughts
and began regular training by read-
ing out loud and practicing his
speeches many times before they
were delivered.

"Abraham Lincoln, likewise, be-
came an effective speaker after long
arduous practice in speaking out
loud in private. The first time he
addressed an audience he was so
ungainly both in speech and figure
that people laughed at him. He be-
came one of the most effective
speakers of his day."

Kline makes the following sug-
gestions for effective speech:

Speak distinctly.

Make your speech attractive.
Make it alive, active. Put pep into
it. No ofle likes a dead one.

Be positive. Adopt a note of
authority. . .

Sentiment For Revenue Amendment

Grows Throughout State As People

Learn Facts Regarding Inequality

Tuvo Thirds of Dowrnstate Counties Are Organized With
Representatives In Each District to Work For Vote In
November Elections. Determined to Change Present
Condition Where 37 Per Cent of State's Wealth Pays ftS
Per Cent of Taxea.

BATTLE lines are drawing hard and fast as the fight
to put over the revenue amendment to the state con-
stitution draws near. A. C. Everingham, legislative
representative of the Illinois Agricultural A.ssociation who
is working also with the organized real estate boards of the
state has been in two-thirds of the downstate counties, and by
the middle of September will have spoken before 30 county
farm bureau picnics.

"Sentiment is rapidly crystallizing in favor of the amend-
ment to the constitution," said Everingham, in a recent inter-
view. "I hear 100 opinions expressed in favor of the tax

amendment to one against it. I
never have spoken to audience*
more keenly alive and more atten-
tive to my explanations of the need
for tax reforms.

"We have county organisations
set up in two-thirds of the down-
state counties, and before the No-
vember elections we shall be 100
per cent organized," he declared.

"These county organisationn are
made up of representatives from
the farm bureaus, real estate
boards, women's clubs, bankers' as-
sociations, labor organisations, and
people from almost every walk of
life. We have on these county
committees from one to five repre-
sentatives in every voting precinct
whose purpose is to disseminate in-
formation and urge people to vote
on the proposal."

Cope Gets Check For
$55.18

4

W. L. Cope of Marion county
is $55.18 ahead as a result of
more than a year's work on the
part of the Illinois Agricultural
Association transportation de-
partment in collecting a freight
overcharge claim of two years'
standing.

On September 6, 1923, Mr.
Cope consigned a load of pears
through the Illinois Fruit Grow-
ers' Exchange from Tonti to
Alma, to finish loading, and on
to Milwaukee. They were then
reconsigned to Marion, Wiscon-
sin.

This movement caused quite a
controversy in the application of
rates, the shipper being charged
with a combination of locals also
a combination on the refrigera-
tion.

Claim originally was filed with
the Federated Fruit and Vege-
table Growers but they were
able to collect only $9.51 from
the railroad and so gave it up.

The Fruit Exchange turned it
over to the I. A. A. The trans-
portation department made a
.thorough check on the rates and
took the matter up through the

?:neral offices of the railroad,
he department was finally able
to convince the railroad of their
error by referring them to the
various tariffs applicable.

Dominate your audience.

Leam to be direct. Talk to peo-
ple, not at them.

Be spontaneous and so full of
your subject that the words pour
out fluently.

Never use a comedy story, or
joke, in a serious speech. Laughter
and applause divert attention from
what yon are saying. Don't try to
get applause if you want people to
keep interested in what you arc
saying.

Use plain language, short words,
and be accurate in your choice of
words. Profanity and coarse slang
are detrimental to a good speech.

Leam to speak from an outline.
Don't write out your speech unless
necessary for press purposes.

Answer the questions, who,
where, what, why, how, and when
in your speaking.

Divide your speech into introduc-
tion, discussion, and conclusion, and
make the introduction and conclu-
sion very brief.

Modulate your voice, don't (peak
in a monotone. n j.

Spealu to 2SO0

At the Richland County Farm
Bureau picnic last week, Mr. Ever-
ingham spoke, to 2,500 people as-
sembled in tlse grandstand at the
fair grounds. At Moline, recently,
he addressed &00 men and women.
In the group was represented every
civic activity and organization in
this manufacturing city. At the
close of the meeting, the proposed
amendment was unanimou^y en-
dorsed.

"The opposition to the tax amend-
ment expressed by John Glenn, sec-
retary of the Illinois Manufactur-
ers* Association is not representa-
tive of the business and industrial
interests throughout the state,"
said Everingham.

"Everywhere I go I find more
business men in favor of the pro-
posed amendment than against it."
Everingham has spoken to thou-
sands of business men at luncheon
clubs in addition to his appearance
at county and district picnics.

Ob joctioBs Not RaaaoBablc

The objections to the amendment
voiced by John Glenn and others
are not based upon fact or sound
reason," declared Everingham.

"One argument advanced is that
the proposed amendment would
make it possible to tax i^anufac-
turers out of business. My an.^wer
to that spurious attack is that if the
present constitution were enforced
and all industrial properties were
(Contiaacd on eol. 1, pace S.>

Don't talk too loud, cultivate a
resonant voice with tone quality.

Look into the eyes of your audi-
ence and they will not see your ges-
tures.

Be aggressive. Lean toward your
audience, with one foot advanced,
hands at the side when not making
gestures.

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

(By Concessional Districts)

1st to lltfl WUlUm Webb. Route One, Joliet

llth G. F. Tullock. Rock/ord

13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody. Port Byron

15th B. H. Taylor, Rapatee

16th A. R. Wright. Varna

17th F. D. Barton. Cornell

18lh R. F. Karr. Iroquois

19th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th Charles Borgelt. Havana

21st Samuel Sorrells. Raymond

27nd Frank Oexner. Waterloo

2Jrd W. L. Cope. Salem

24th Charles Marshall, Belknap

2SU> R. K. Loomis, Makanda

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OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vice-President, Charles R Finley Hoopeston

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington

. Cowles
Secretary, Geo. A. Fox. .

. Sycamore

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I LiIjINOIS

ICCLTVRAL ASSOCIA

^RECORD

To advance the purpose f(tr which the Farm Bureau was organ-
ized, rtamely to promote, protect and represent the business,
economic, social and educational interests of the farmers of
Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture.

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

0>K](>erative Accounting , Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

Finance i R< A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketii^ , A. B. Leeper

General OCfice J. H. Kelker

Information E. G. Thiem

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organization G. E. Metzger

Phosphate-Limestone J. R. Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson

Transportation .........<*. L. J. Quasey

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Tariff Bunk

MIS-STATEMENTS and misleading
propaganda about the protective tariff
and its effect on farm prices have been
bobbing up periodically since the com belt
first innounced its intention to make the tariff
effective for agrlctlure.

Tl e old line protectionists sound the trum-
pet £ nd rally around the flag whenever an in-
nocent bystander raises the question, "Is the
tarifi ' fair to all classes ; does the farmer share
equally in its benefits?" Their answer is a
broadside characterized more by its volume
than its accuracy. Probably the most flagrant
illus ration was the tariff bunk in President
Coo] idge's Chicago speech. The jokester who
supilied this information by a wonderful
seri( s of deductions, concluded that the cost of
manufactured goods to the farmer was raised
only two to three per cent as a result.

T le story on page one in this issue is based
ujKJ] t thf jimt' gs of two of the nation's lead-
ing ecunw..^„ following a distinterested
stud y and analysis of the Fordney-McCumber
tarif r schedule. The information is untainted
by ]iolitieal interest. The farmer is not dis-
pose d nor ready to swing the axe on the tariff
but he would like to see an honest attempt
mac e by the administration to accord its
ben jfits to farm products.

thei e
him

A Hard Job

Vl/ ILL ROGERS, cowboy comedian, says
'" the trouble with the farmer is that
are toi many middlemen between
and the consumer. "Cut out the
middle, bring the two ends together, and the
fan lers' trouble will be solved," is his advice.
Many a gi-eat truth has been said in jest. This
is a 1 example. Our expensive system of dis-
tribution, however, has a bull dog's grip on
countiy and the cutting out process is a
diss gieeable and difficult task.

Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, in
an article on "The Tariff and the Farmer,"
published in the current issue of "The Na-
tioij," says the trouble with agriculture is the
ine(iualities of the tariff and the high cost of
distribution. His suggestions for correcting
the latter condition is expressed as follows :

"Ev^n if the farmer ivere given the full
ben efit of the tariff, he tvould still be suffer-
ing binder handicaps not applicable to other
clatses of citizens. The cost of distribution
in many of our principal food products is
greiter than the <;ost of production. The re-
8\fl\ is that the farmer frequenUy gets too

Ten Commandments of Business

By George R. Wicker

1. Treat every person with the same honesty, fair-
ness and consideration that you would like for your-
self. Gold and silver, stocks and bonds, and other
forms of property are much to be desired, but a profit,
able business is built upon a ffood reputation.

2. Do not be Jealous of your competitors and do
not look vrith covetous eyes upon their business. The
public is discriminating and will reward you according
to your merits.

3. Do not exaggerate, misrepresent or speak with
a false tongue and do not resort to unfair or deceptive
practices, lest your last days be lived in isolation and
reproach.

4. If you would keep your friends and your money
be sparing with the extension of credit. If you must
transact your business on a credit basis conclude your
sale ^vith a definite understanding regarding settle-
ment.

5. Be conservative in your effort for gain, for
verily I say unto you that the skids to the bankruptcy
courts are greased with the oil of speculation.

6. Render unto Cnsar the things that are Caesar's,
and be honest in your obligation to the Government,
since the tax collector is a necessary evil. Look upon
his coming cheerfully for the Government loves a
cheerful taxpayer.

7. Be public spirited. Live agreeably with other
people and take pleasure in helping to provide for the
public comfort and convenience of the multitude, for
in the performance of good deeds you shall prosper.

8. Be prompt in the payment of your accounts, for
the virtue of a good credit is multiplied in the prompt
settlement of your obligations.

9. As you hope for gain in your own business do
not deny a just wage or fair profit to those who serve
you.

10. Keep your own house in order. Life is un-
certain and death in its coming knows neither time nor
season. Keep your records as for the Day of Judg-
ment, and it shall be well with you and your children.

little to pay him for his investment and his
labor, ivhile the consumer pays a price so high
as to be almost prohibitive. There is no
doubt that this excessive cost of distribution
decreases greatly the amount of consumption.
. . . The farmer ought to get more and the
eonstimer ought to pay less. Cooperative or-
ganizations of producers and consumer ought
to be encouraged by law. It will require leg-
islation to bring about the elimination of this
great army of middlemen. Our producers
as well as our consumers are so tvidely scat-
tered and so difficult to organize that noth-
ing can bring about the elimination of this
waste except the strong arm of the Govern-
ment."

rienced men. It would give the efficient man-
ager greater responsibility in handling the
business transactions of two, four, six, eight,
ten or even more elevators. There would be
local managers in each elevator working un-
der the group manager. But authority would
be centralized. Overhead expense would be
reduced by making unnecessary a high-priced
manager at a small elevator. Successful
methods and practices based on experience
would be followed. '

The plan is among the most constructive
suggestions ever offered. It is based on
authoritative information secured from the
audits of 65 downstate farmers elevators. It
would go far to stop losses and bankruptcies
which audits show are all too frequent.

And yet, "keep it dark, soft pedal the shady
side, don't mention the losses," is the advice
of one manager. It will hurt us and the ele-
vator movement^ he says; what we need is
optimism and boosters. Forget the group
management plan, we are admonished.

Leave the rotten apple alone, put on the lid,
and trust to luck to save the rest of the barrel.
Shall we poke our heads in the sand like the
ostrich, or shall we rout the danger by a bold,
common-sense attack? Write your own an-
swer.

Shall We Play Ostrich?

'T'HE nation-wide attention and publicity
given to the plan for improved man-
agement of farmers' elevators devised by the
Illinois Agricultural Association through
George R. Wicker, director of business serv-
ice, has resulted in much favorable comment
from many sources.

The I. A. A. plan would coordinate and
strengthen the entire farmers' elevator move-
ment by placing the management of groups
of elevators in the hands of top-notch expe-

Why Farmers Should Support the Tax
Amendment to Illinois Constitution

(To be voted on in November, 19

6)

1. Real estate, although less than one-half — many
I say less than 40 per cent — of the property in the state,

is now paying about 80 per cent of all of the taxes for
most purposes.

2. Tangible property, although probably not more
than one-half of the property in the state, is now pay-
ing more than 92 per cent of all the taxes for most
purposes.

3. A minority of the people of the state are now
paying all of the taxes for most purposes.

4. Owners of some kinds of property easily can
and do add their taxes to the prices 'of their services or
products. Owners of other kinds of property, notably
land, cannot shift their taxes to others to pay.

5. Owners of mortgaged property arc now paying
double or multiple taxes. They pay taxes not only on
their equities, but also on the value of the mortgages,
and pay a higher rate of interest on taxable mortgages
whether the mortgages pay taxes or not.

6. Lack of personal interest on the part of most
people in the economical and efficient use of tax
moneys, and their belief that they are paying no taxes
of any kind, promote extravagance and a rapid increase
of deferred taxes in the form of bonded indebtedness.

7. Taxes are rapidly increasing in Illinois partly
because the population is increasing, bat chiefly be-
cause of the demand for new forms of service.

8. Under the present constitutional limitations
none of the inequalities of the present taxing system
described above can be fairly or properly corrected.
The proposed amendment is a grant of power to the
General Assembly, enabling it from time to time to
correct inequalit^s in taxation and to establish a
modern and equitable svstem of taxation.

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Preaident, Illinois Agricultural Aaaociation.

[Brief articles in support of the Ooints stated above will be
printed in later iaaum of Thb Rbcorb. Questioni relative to tba
proposed tax amendnwnt are invited and will be answered throngh
Thb Rbcoko.]

i:

September 1, 1926

The Illinoia Agricultural Association Record

Pace 3

3
I

Sam Thompson Back
From 3,000 Mile Trip
Through Eight States

"The Farm Bureau is taking hold
of the thinking people more than at
any other time
in its history,"
said Sam
H. Thompson,
president of the
American Farm
Bureau Federa-
tion before the
recent Mid-
West Organiza-
tion Conference
at Saugatuck,
Mich.

"I n talking
to thousands of
farmers and
business men
throughout the
western states
o f California,
Oregon, Washington, Wyoming,
Utah, Nevada, Kansas, and Mis-
souri, I am more convinced than
ever that farmers themselves as
well as business men are coming to
realize the needs of agriculture, and
the necessity for an effective policy
to bring back farm prosperity,"
said Mr. Thompson.

"And wherever 1 went, all in-
terests are looking to the farm
bureau as the great American agri-
cultural institution to lead the way
in securing the necessary aid," he
said.

S. H. Thompson

i:

Sentiment for

Amendment Grows

(Continued from paire 1. col. 5)

assessed at their true valuations,
the burden to industry would be
enormous.

"The fact is that in some locali-
ties, tools, equipment, and tangible
property owned by manufacturers
is assessed at only around two per
cent of its true value. The work
of John C. Watson, statistician for
the I. A. A., has shown that indus-
trial properties in most counties are
assessed far below their value.

Land and Home Owners Suffer

"The farmers already are being
taxed off their farms, and home
owners are being taxed out of their
homes. The ownership of real es-
tate, and even homes, is no longer
considered desirable in many towns
and cities because of the tax bur-
den.

"In the City of Chicago real es-
tate taxes are out of reason and
rents are so high in desirable neigh-
borhoods as to be almost prohibi-
tive to people in moderate circum-
stances. The farmer and the home
owner is the sufferer because he is
not in a position to dodge taxes.

"No one wants to tax the manu-
facturer out of business, and more-
over legislatures do not do what no
one wants done. It is ridiculous to
say that the legislature will place
an undue burden on such interests."

The argument has been advanced
that the amendment would give too
much power to the legislature, r The
revenue amendment will not 'give
the legislature any power it already
does not have except to adjust and
equalize taxes.

The legislature under the present
constitation may impose an income
tax, but if this were done it would
serve merely as a double tax. It
would not alleviate the present in-
tolerable conditions. If the pro-
posed tax amendment is passed,
however, the legislature may re-
move some of the burden from farm
lands and real estate, pass an in-
come tax, and so equalize the load
between different classes of owners.

If the amendment goes thffough,
a two-thirds vote of the legislature
will be necessary to pass any new
tax laws. The two-thirds rule will
safeguard against the passage of
legislation not for the people's in-
terests. If we can't trust one-third
of our representatives to give us
good laws, then we may as well
abandon democratic government.

The state of New York adopted
a state income tax years ago of one,
two, and three per cent, depending
upon the amount of income, the
larger incomes being taxed more
than the smaller. In that state
there is no longer the intolerable
spectacle such as obtained in Illi-
nois where 37 per cent of the state's
wealth bears 85 per cent of the tax
burden.

/. A. A. Collects

$13,502 Claims For
Chicago Producers

Twelve hundred and forty-six
loss and damage claims totaling
$40,012.90 have been filed for mem-
ber shippers of the Chicago Pro-
ducers Commission Association
since the I. A. A. transportation de-
partment began work for the Pro-
ducers a year ago.

The total already collected
amounts to $13,502.45 while more
than $25,000 in claims are still out-
standing.

The Chicago Producers through
an arrangement made a year ago
secured the aid of the Transporta-
tion Department of the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association at a nominal
figure to help in settling claims and
overcharges.

The work of our transportation
department for the Producers has
attracted wide attention and a let-
ter from the St. Paul Cooperative
Commission Co., received a short
time ago at the Producers office
here, requested information as to
how they were handling this work
with such effect.

This department of the I. A. A.
has had six years of successful ex-
perience, has made contacts with
railroad officials and tariff bureaus
throughout the country, and has
saved thousands of dollars to the
farmers of Illinois through freight
rate reductions, and the collection
of overcharge and damage claims.

Since starting work for the Pro-
ducers, the department has devoted
much attention to the improvement
of conditions at local shipping
points, has succeeded in getting new
stock yards built, has had yards re-
paired, water installed in them,
shade provided, while at countless
stations the scales have been re-
paired through their efforts.

In addition the department has
secured transit privileges on cattle
and sheep from many western
points. Thus feeders have been en-
abled to unload their stock, feed
and fatten them at their farms, and
reship them to market at a substan-
tial saving in freight charges. This
amounts to as high as $40 a car in
some cases.

All this service is handed on down
to customers of the Association
without additional charge.

Lee County Board of
Review Reduces Farm

Values $5,315,653

The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion through the work of John C.
Watson, director of taxation, scored
another victory in Lee County re-
cently, when the county board of
review made an 18 per cent cut in
farm land valuations.

The cut in land valuations came
following information revealed by
Mr. Watson in a survey comparing
the valuations of farm and city
property. Watson found that valu
ations on land were practically the
same as they were in the high times
of seven years ago.

In making the reduction, the
board of review issued the follow-
ing statement:

"The board of review now in ses-
sion in Lee County has seen fit to
make a reduction on all values upon
lands and so-called farm lands, in-
cluding tracts of 10 acres or more,
exclusive of buildings.

"The total amount of values for
taxation purposes on farm lands in
Lee County is placed at $29,531,-
406 at the present time. The reduc-
tion placed by the board is 18 per
cent or a total amount of $5,315,-
653, which when deducted from the
above values leaves a total of
$24,215,753.

"We as members of the board feel
justified in making this adjustment
since the above land values were
placed on these lands seven years
ago during high prices. As a result
of the deflation we believe farmers
are entitled to a substantial reduc-
tion. GEORGE FRUIN.
G. F. MALACH.
(Signed) W. F. AVERY.

This splendid piece of work will
result in a saving of thousands^ of
dollars to farmers in Lee County.

Farm Bureaus Help
Stop Chicken Thefts
Throughout Illinois

Thousands of Dollars In Re-
wards Offered. Local and
County Protective Associa-
tions Offer Most Hope

Divorce increased 14.4 per cent
in Ohio last year over 1924. There
was one divorce for every four mar-
riages. In Michigan the divorce in-
crease was 3.2 per cent with one
divorce for every five marriages.

THOUSANDS of dollars in re-
wards to stop chicken stealing
and petty thievery in the rural dis-
tricts are being offered by county
farm bureaus throughout Illinois
according to word received from
the Illinois Agricultural Association
today.

Many county farm bureau re-
wards of $50 to $100 for informa-
tion leading to the arrest and con-
viction of chicken thieves have been
in force from three to five years but
counties heretofore inactive in the
suppression of rural thievery have
come to the front recently with
county-wide campaigns which in-
clude the organization of local
vigilanti committees, detective as-
sociations, and posting of rewards
in bold, black type in prominent
places.

Six fully organized townships out
of 13 in the county is the record
established by the Dewitt County
Farm Bureau. A reward of $50 is
paid by the association from which
property is stolen and an additional
reward of $10 is paid by each of
the other organized groups, making
a total reward of $110.

Kendall county, according to
County Adviser Earl Price, fir.st
posted a reward of $125 in 1923,
but. subsequently changed the offer
to (fouble the value of the property
stolen up to $100. The reward is
paid only in case of conviction.

The Adams County Farm Bureau
recently posted a reward of $100
for information leading to arrest
and. conviction of anyone stealing
from a member.

"We are offering $100 reward
and our protective association is
open to anyone in the county."
writes Ed. Creighton of the White
County Farm Bureau. "Just before
we started our organization two
thieves were caught and plans
were already on foot to get them
paroled. But our association was
able to bring enough pressure to
prohibit this from being done, and
when these thieves are brought to
trial we plan to have at least 50
reliable citizens to see that these
men go to the penitentiary where
they belong."

The St. Clair County Farm Bur-
eau enlisted in the fight to check
farm thievery lately when it posted
a reward of $100 for the arrest
and conviction of anyone caught
stealing from a member.

"A year ago the Henry County
Farm Bureau paid Albert Schmidt
of Kewanee township $50 for catch-
ing a chicken thief," said J. W.
Wgisenand, farm adviser. "Schmidt
got up in the middle of the night,
shot one chicken thief in the back,
and captured his partner."

The previous season Carl Doye
of Kewanee collected a $50 reward
when he and his wife caught two
boys raiding their hen roost. Rec-
ently the Geneseo Farm Bureau
Community Club in Henry county
organized a local protective asso-
ciation to cooperate with the local
authorities in the apprehension of
thieves.

Following several convictions of
chicken thieves in Knox county the
farm bureau posted a $50 reward
for information leading to the ar-
rest and conviction of thieves stea'-
ing from members.

"Our Bureau has a standing re
ward of $100 to protect our mem-
bers," writes Alfred Raut, of Madi-
son county. "In case of a jail sen-
tence this is increased 50 per cent.
We have a county-wide protective
association to prevent trespassing,
but the members are prepared to
take care of chicken stealing. They
have devised a system of markine:
poultry so that each member's poul-
try can be identified if found at
the St. Louis markets.

"At intervals our men look over
the poultry bought by the dealers
This has been given wide publicity
and has served quite well in holding
down chicken stealing in this coun-
ty. In the past three years only
two of our members have lost poul-
try. About five poultry thieves
have been sent to jail from this

Listen Iri^

The Illinois Agricu'ltnrel As.
sociation's half hour over radio
station WLS, Chicago, was in-
augurated at 12:30 p. m. on
Thursday, Aug. 26.

The half hour over WLS is to
be a regular feature each week
at 12:30 standard time. News
and information of Interest to
farm bureau members through-
out the state will be featured.

A. D. Lynch, director of dairy
marketing who recently com-
pleted a survey of milk market-
ing on several large eastern mar-
kets, will have the leading part
in the program, Thursday, Sept.
2. A feature of the half-hour
each week will be a dramatised
story of farm problems or ques-
tions of general interest. George
R. Wicker, who featured the pro.
gram last Thursday, told in dia-
logue some of the principles for
the successful operation of a
farmers' elevator.

/. A. A. Elevator Plan
To Be Discussed In
Iroquois Co. Meeting

Illinois Fanners' Grain Deal-
ers Assn. Expected to Show
Hand On Proposed Plan
For Strengthening Eleva-
tors '

county. Walter Gerling, Edward.'i-
ville, is secretary of our county pro-
tective association."

The Kane County Protective As-
sociation organized by the farm
bureau offers a reward of $100 for
information leading to conviction
of persons stealing from members.

In Bennington township^ Mar-
shall county, farmers have perfect-
ed a close organization to stop
chicken stealing, which they hope
to do first by offering a $50 reward.
As soon as thievery. is detected the
members are posted to surround the
territory where the thieves are
operating. Secret alarms are being
installed about their buildings. In
addition the Marshall-Putnam Farm
Bureau has posted a reward to
protect its members.

Organized gangs have been stea'-
ing poultry from Lake county farm-
ers for years, according to County
Adviser Doerschuk. Two rece'-
raids which netted the thieves 160
choice standard bred chickens
valued at more than $300 led the
Lake County Farm Bureau and the
local protective association to post
rewards of $50 each.

The Sugar Grove Detective As-
sociation composed of farmers of
Vance and Catlin townships in Ver-
milion county was formed recently
following wholesale raids by pro-
fessional gangs operating through
out .Eastern Illinois. The *'ork of
these gangs was exposed several
months ago in Prairie Farmer.
Aided by Otis Kercher, farm
'idviser. farmers about Fairmount
assembled and under the leadership
of C. H. Burton, president, per-
fected an organization of nearly
200 men to suppress lawlessness in
hat section. The Vermilion Coun-
ty Farm Bureau simultaneously
posted rewards of $25 each for the
first 10 thieves caught stealing from
members.

Other county farm bureaus ac-
tively engaged in the fight to stop
the crime wave by posting rewards
and organizing protective groups
are Williamson county, Edwards.
Woodford, Mason, Hancock, Gal-
latin, Grundy, McLean, Greene,
Carroll, Morgan, Jackson, Dupage,
and Boone.

"Thieves have stolen three plows,
several eveners, rolls of wire fence,
as well as chickens in this county,"
writes C. W. Simpson, farm adviser
in Gallatin county. "Last week
they dug one-half an acre of pota-
toes by moonlight belonging to a
farm bureau member and carried
the loot away."

Fred Trautvetter of Hancock
county collected a $50 farm bureau
reward when he discovered his
neighbor's chickens at the poultry
house in Warsaw. The two thieves,
Archie Neatrour and Carroll Nes-
bit. were apprehended as a result.
The Hancock County Farm Bureau
has placed no limit on the number
of $50 rewards offered.

The Mason County Farm Bureau
recently broadened Its offer of
$100 to include automobile as well
as chicken thieves. "At present
we are organizing an Anti-Horse
Thief Association branch of the old
state association, in Manito town-
ship," said T. R. Isaacs, counVy ad-
viser. "Our reward was posted
more than a year ago."

J'

A COUNTY meeting to discuss
the merits of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Associa-
tion's plan for
the improvement
of farmens' el-
evators with rep-
resentatives of
the Illinois
Farmers' Grain
Dealers Assoria
tion and elevator
directors in Iro-
quois county wa.-
in prospect a s
this issue went '
to press.

The proposed C«or«« R. Wickmr

plan for federating the management
under one head of eight Iroquois
county elevators whose audits have
been subject to the inspection of
the Illinois Agricultural Coopera-
tives Association, a subsidiary of
the I. A. A., met with almost
unanimous acclamation by the
l>oards of directors. But a small
minority who favor a thorough con-
sideration of the plan have held up
its initiation due it is thought to
influence coming from the head-
quarters of the Illinois Grain Deal-
ers' Association.

The plan proposed some time ago
provides for the operation of the
elevators under one management
but with «ach individual elevator
maintaining its own identity as be-
fore.

There would be no pooling of
profits or interests. All sales, how-
ever, as well as purchases would
be made through the central oper-
ating company and the prices to be
paid for grain at the various points
would be determined by the board
of directors. There is no provision
for the assumption of los.ses of one
elevator by another.

The plan for coordinating the
management of elevator^ that those
most successful may hold out a help-
ing baijd to the less fortunate is the
outgrowth of the work of George
R. Wicker, cooperative marketing
expert and director of cooperative
accounting for the I. A. A., who re-
cently completed a detailed survey
of 65 farmers' elevators subject to
his audit.

The figures showed clearly that
39 of the 65 companies had capital
and surplus whereas 17 showed the
original capital impaired. Nine of
the companies were insolvent.

Insufficient working capital ne-
cessitating heax-y borrowings and
the subsequent ^payment of disas-
trous interest was found by Wicker
to be one of the chief causes of
los.ses. That combined with specu-
lative and bad account losses con-
tributed most heavily to the down-
fall of the unsuccessful companies.

Mr. Wicker believes that knowl-
edge of the business by the directors
as well as the manager is essential
to a well regulated elevator. Poor
management was responsible for
more losses than from any other
cause.

The proposed meeting in Iroquois
county suggested first by the Illin-
ois Farmers Grain Dealers Associa-
tion will probably be held the sec-
ond week in September. The Illinois
Agricultural Association welcomes
the opportunity to be represented
that the plan for strengthening the
elevator movement throughout the
state may have full explanation.

Theft, Life and Auto
Insurance for Members
Under Study by I. A. A.

Authorization has been given the
officers of the Illinois Agricultural
Association by the executive com-
mittee to investigate the advisability '
of theft, life and automobile insur- '
ance for its members in 92 Illinois %
counties.

However, the association will not.
according to the executive commit-
tee's order, poach in the field of the
i farmers' mutual insurance com-
I panies, which are concerned chiefly
I with mutual insurance for farmen
for protection against loss from
I fire, lightning and windstorm.

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The Illinois Agrricultural Association Record

September 1, 1926

Tax on Income Can 't
Bje Shifted, Declares
Watson; Tells Why

By JOHN C. WATSON.
Diijector Taxation and Statiatica.

1 C. WaUoo.

TH S most desirable feature of a tax-
iiig system is th^ fair distribution
of the tax burden
among the popula-
tion. Taxes cannot
be fairly distrib-
uted if some people
can easily shift
them to others to
pay, while others
cannot shift them
at all or have the
jfreatest difficulty
in doing so. In a
previous article it
ha s been shown
that taxes on agri-
cultural land can-
not be shifted. The
same is usually true
of taxes on urban
land. In theory, owners of land, whether
agri<altural or urban, can usually shift
tiixe; on their improvements, but there
are londitions under which this is not
true. The owners of farms on which
the 1 uildings are unoccupied, frequently
#oun I in parts of Southern Illinois, are
one I :Iass of taxpayers who cannot shift
the 1 axes on their improvements.
Staivment Not True.
It is sometimes said that all taxes are
shifted to consumers. The statement is
not true. There is one kind of tax
whic 1 can be shifted only with extreme
difficilty, if at all. This is the tax on
net income, especially the progressive
tax, with graduated rates increasing
with Higher amounts of net income.

Tl e question is sometimes asked why
one kind of tax can be shifted, while
anot ler cannot be shifted. The purpose
of tHs discusion is briefly to answer the
ques ion.

A !at tax, the amount of which can be
anti<ipated with approximate accuracy,
and irhich if shifted, does not increase
the Amount of tax in a later year, offers
the 1 nost favorable conditions for shift-
ing. The general property tax, at least
on s fme classes of property, offers con-
ditio IS favorable to shifting. A sales
tax 1 Iso is usually easily shifted. But a
grad lated tax on net income differs
shar )ly from both the general property
tax 1 ind from a sales tax.

Why Can't Be Shifted.
There are two principal reasons why
grad lated taxes on net income cannot
easil T be shifted.

Fi -st, those who pay taxes on net in-
come cannot shift them because they
mnsi compete with others whose net
incoiie is not high enough to be taxed.
Those who pay the higher rates on net
incoiie cannot shift them because they
must compete with those who pay lower
ratei or pay no tax at all.

Sc :ond, those who pay taxes on net
incoi [les, or anticipate that they may
have to pay them, cannot shift them
beea ise, by doing so, they only increase
the J. mount of their net income and thus
inert ase the amount of their tax. The
tax, of course, does not increase as fast
as tie net income, but any taxpayer who
trie! to adopt this policy will not long
be a >le to continue it. He can shift the
X >nly by increasing his net income.
i \d tT ordinary conditions he can in-
a « his net income only by increasing
tAe )rices of his goods or his services.

Mid-West Farm Bureaus
Adopt Uniform Plans for
Future OrganizationWork

The organization committe repre-
senting eight Mid- West states as-
sembled at Saugatuck, Michigan, re-
cently adopted a uniform plan for
carrying on membership work in
the various states. Here are the 10
recommendations adopted by the
committee:

1. That a permanent membership
is paramount if the farm bureau is
to function in an educational, social
and economic capacity; and that the
farm bureau, county, state and na-
tional, must build its program, per-
sonnel and budget with membership
as the primary consideration.

2. That a membership policy must
be built on an appeal for an ade-
quate standard of living on the
farm, and a farm income to main-
tain it.

3. That membership work be
based on volunteer effort.

4. That to have a healthy and per-
manent farm organization, farm
leaders must have the courage to
teach the membersh i p that each
American farmer owes to his occu-
pation and his community a decent
contribution of money, time and ef-
fort.

5. That the future of cooperative
marketing and cooperative purchas-
ing, can only be assured through an
appreciation by the farmer, that
such activities are only factors that
help to make possible an adequate
standard of living; and that he must
recognize and appreciate the neces-
sity of loyalty to, and understand-
ing of these fundamentals, rather
than a consideration only of im-
mediate and direct monetary re-
turns.

6. That publicity, properly adapt-
ed and directed, is indispensable to
getting and keeping members; and
its form and appeal must be of such
character that it will create and
maintain interest in the Farm
Bureau.

7. That all farm bureaus should
adopt an adequate uniform member-
ship fee.

8. That financial support from
Commodity Associations should be
received only for specific services
rendered, and should not be recom-
mended as the principal source of
farm bureau income.

9. That prompt collection of dues
is fundamental to the success of
membership work; and that a dues
collection program must be continu-
ally in effect, and particularly
should a dues collection campaign
precede a membership campaign.

10. That we should look to the or-
ganization department of the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation for
the further development of a na-
tional plan of organization and
membership maintenance, and that
department should have the assist-
ance of a competent personnel made
available to train leaders and assist
in ihe direction of organization
work.

Bunk About Tariff
Is Exploded by

Farm Experts

(Continued from paee 1. coL 2)

proljably over $5 per capita, or a
tota of $158,000,000 on steel alone.
It w ould not be out of reason to say
that the tariff costs the farmer, net,
in tl e neighborhood of $300,000,000
or SIO for every man, woman, and
chil I livinff on American farms. . . .
Thus the fanner very properly
asks what the facts are about his
mu4> praised home market. So far
as he can see, it works well with re-
spe<tt to potatoes, tomatoes, and
fresfi vegetables, but fails to work
resriecting com, hogs, cattle, wheat,
ricel and cotton. For the most part
the [prices of these basic commodi-
ties »re made on a world market and
refltctcd back to American farmers.

"This is merelv another way of
saySng that one of the greatest price
mahing influences known is the tar-
iff, and the farmer receives little
benefit in the way of increased
price, but pays bills made much
larg Br by the tariff on manufactured
goods." I

Speaking for the* same meeting

in New York City some' time ago,

. Pro '. John D. Black, economist from

the University of Minnesota, had

the following to say:

Aaotlier Krfockout.

" ^0 nation has gone in for stimu-

lating urban industries on so vigor-
ous a scale as has the United States.
The duties now generally average
around 40 per cent of the value of
what few manufactured goods arf
imported. Coupled with this, most
raw materials of manufacturing
have come in duty free, even though
they compete with domestic farm
products in some cases. Hides, veg-
etable oils, and Egyptian staple cot-
ton are cases in point. All of this
was done in the beginning to give
our infant industries a chance to get
started. We were largely an agri-
cultural nation, and thoughtful peo-
ple agreed that we would be better
off if we diversified. But we al-
lowed the infant to grow so strong
that it has over-mastered us. The
effect has been to penalize agricul-
ture by making farmers pay higher
prices for what they buy, while the
protection they are receiving on
their farm products is adding little
to offset it. It must be remembered
also that tariff protection for in-
dustry raises the whole level of
money wages (not real wages) in
the cities. The protected industries
take labor away from the unpro-
tected ones and the exporting ones,
until only the more efficient units of
these, those which can meet the
high wages, are left producing.
Along with this is a reduction in per
capita output, because the labor is
now used in less productive indus-
tries. The same analysis probably
applies to the land and capital goods
also used in production. The result

Oil Co-ops Succeed
In Saving Thousands
For Minnesota Men

Good Cooperation and High
Class Management Reasons
For Success, Declares J. R.
Bent, Following Visit

"Cooperation aided by good manage-
ment is saving the farmers of Minne-
sota thousands of dollars annually on
their gas and oil bills," declared J. R.
Bent, director of farm supplies who just
returned from a study of cooperative oil
and gas companies in Minnesota.

".Minnesota has 40 cooperative dis-
tributive stations in operation, said
Bent, most of which are of recent origin.
But the older companies have been pay-
ing almost unheard of dividends on their
investments. The Cottonwood, Owaton-
na, and Freeborn county companies have
made a pronounced success of their op-
erations in both service and savings.
Their earnings are almo:it too good to
be true."

The Freeborn county company with a
capital investment of only $20,000, but
capitalixe^or $25,000, earned more than
$16,00(^-^t last year. A surplus of
$1,600 was set aside, and a patronage
dividend of $14,000 was declared for
payment next year. This money in the
meantime will help augment the working
capital.

The Freeborn county company has a
central bulk station at Albert Lea and
three outlying bulk stations. There is
only one retail filling station, and that
is located at Albert Lea. According to
Bent, the retail station is the least
necessary part of the distribution sys-
tem. The managers are not altogether
convinced that the filling station is an
asset. Each bulk station is equipped
with one or more delivery trucks.

The Central Cooperative Oil Co., at
Owatonna has been successful since its
organization in 1922. It has only one
bulk and retail filling station. Both are
located together in Owatonna.

This company organized with 1000
shares of stock at $25 per share. Seven
hundred shares only were sold. The
last audit on January 1, 1926, showed
the net worth of the company was ap-
proximately $16,000 with refunds for

1925, not paid, at $14^71.17.

The net profit for last month, July,

1926, of the Owatonna company amount-
ed to more than $4,300 net. The Free-
born county company showed a profit
for July of over $4,500. These figures
are exclusive of taxes, insurance, and
depreciation, but they are above all
labor, management, and other overhead
expenses.

"The chief reasons for the outstand-
ing success of these companies is the
splendid way in which the Danish, Nor-
wegian, and German farmers of those
sections cooperate in patronizing their
own companies," said Bent. "Then, too,
the companies got into the field early
when there was little competition. Their
profits may decrease somewhat as more
competition develops.

"These companies buy their gas on the
open market, and purchase lubricating
stock following specifications on a con-
tract basis."

The Freeborn county association has
approximately 1300 accounts on the
books. Between Mar. 1 and Dec. 31
last year it sold 555,138 gallons of gas-
oline, 188,738 gallons of kerosene, and
22,082 gallons of lubricating oils. A
patronage dividend of 9.4 per cent on
sales was declared.

The Illinois Agriculturnl Association
is prepared to offer complete service and
advice to counties interested in the
formation of such companies. A detailed
summary of the experiences of the Min-
nesota companies with facts and figures
about their operations is being prepartd
for the benefit of companies organized
in Illinois.

The I. A. A. is cautioning its members
to be sure the local people are ready to
support the cooperative venture before
launching their organization. An ag-
gressive and active board of directors
and manager are essential to the suc-
cess of such companies. The oil co-op
is being looked upon as one of the great-
est opportunities ever offered for farm-
ers to save money. Minnesota, appar-
ently, is more successful with its
cooperative ventures than other states,
largely because its Northern European
population thinks in terms of coopera-
tion.

is that nearly all the things which
the farmers buy from the city, not
just the dutiable goods, cost appreci-
ably more.

"The total offset is not forty per
cent, but it is surely more than the
two per cent that certain quaint
jugglers of figures managed to get
inserted in President Coolidge's re-
cent Chicago speech.

"Also the wages the farmer pays
his hired labor are higher because
of the competition of the protected
city industries. Thus the farmers
who are near the margin arc crowd-
ed out just as are the marginal city
producers in unprotected indus-
tries.

Higher Prices for

Beef Cattle Coming
Is Govt. Prediction

HIGHER prices for beef cattle
are in prospect within the next
eighteen months for both the feed-
ers and range producers, according
to the report on the outlook for beef
cattle made by the Department of
Agriculture recently. An upward
trend is probable over the next two
or three years the department says.
The numbers of breeding stock, of
cattle on feed, and of young stock
seem to be materially lower than for
several years so that reduction in
the market movement is expected.

While no considerable reduction
in the number of stock held by range
men was made for some time after
the break of 1920, the number of
steers has been reduced during the
last three or four years accomp-
anied by a less rapid reduction in
the number of cows. The increasing
number of cows and heifers now
being slaughtered indicates further
reductions in breeding stock still be-
ing made. It does not appear,
therefore, that the number of cows
is sufficient to long maintain the
present high rate of slaughter, the
report shows.

All indications are for smaller
supplies of cattle on the markets
during the next few months also,
the department states. The move-
ment of all cattle so far during 1926
has been less than for the same
periods last year, and the best in-
formation from the range States in-
dicates a considerably lighter run of
grass cattle during the next three
months than a year ago. In the
Southwest there are lighter supplies
of cattle available than a year ago.
As the 1926 calf crop was good, Uie
number of calves to be offered from
the Southwest this fall will compare
favorably with the past three years,
however. Good range conditions
and an improved financial situation
have placed the southwestern cat-
tlemen in a position so they would
not be forced to sell on an unfavorv
able market.

Survey In Forty-
Six Counties Shows
Wealth Farm Bureaus

Net Worth Nearly Half Mil-
lion Dollars and Represents
An Industry Valued at
Three Billion

FORTY-SIX county farm bureaus
picked at random over the state
of Illinois are worth approximately
a half million dollars, they serve an
industry in these 46 counties valued
at three billion dollars, and they
represent a total paid-up member-
ship of 37,000 according to a survey
recently completed by George R.
Wicker, director of business service.

The survey covering 46 county
farm bureaus whose books were
audited by the. Illinois Agricultural
Cooperatives Association shows that
the average net worth of the 46
bureaus was $10,009.85. The
wealthiest county farm bureau
showed a net worth of $24,623.80
while the smallest was rated at
$495.02.

The financial statement shows
that most farm bureaus are living
within their income because the
average of the 46 showed an excess
of income over expense of $1,595.92.

Commercial activities of farm
bureaus it was found are compara-
tively slight and in most counties
are limited to the handling of serum
and virus for vaccinating hogs. The
total income derived from such ac-
tivities amounted to only 3 per cent
of the total gross income. Member-
ship dues were responsible for 72.97
per cent of the total income, receipts
from state and federal appropria-
tions represented 18.82 per cent, and
commercial activities about 3 per
cent.

Total expenses of the 46 farm
bureaus included in the survey were
$269,130.33 representing 90.3 per
cent of income, resulting in an ex-
cess of income of $28,899.46 or 9.7
per cent of total income.

"The survey indicates that the
farm bureaus whose expenses ex-
ceeded income last year, did not pay
sufficient attention to the collection
of membership dues," said Wicker.
"The budgets in such cases did not
take account of the delinquencies."

Rain Breaks Up
State Picnic at
Mt. Vernon, Aug. 12

Horseshoe Championship to
Be Decided at Fairbury,
Sept. 6. Marshall-Putnam
Plays Knox County, Ind.,
In Interstate Championship
Series

A crowd estimated at 15,000 most-
ly from the lower third of the state
got a wet reception at the I. A. A.
state picnic, Mt. Vernon on Thurs-
day, August 12.

Intermittent showers throughout
the day terminated in a downpour
at 3:00 p. m. that sent picnickers
scurrying for shelter in every direc-
tion, and before the torrent which
bordered on a cloudburst had sub-
sided the picnic grounds were swim-
ming, and all >hopes for continuing
the program had vainshed.

Between showers, Marshall-Put-
nam's crack nine led by "Parson"
Thompson, who preaches in Lacon
on Sunday and pit<!hes for the farm
bureau team diiring the week, man-
aged to rout Henderson county in a
fast game by the score of 12 to 2.

This is the second state champion-
ship in the Illinois Farm Bureau
Baseball League for the winners.
Phelps and Wallace each brought in
three runs for Marshall-Putnam,
while Rickets and Keeney scored the
two runs for Henderson. Wallace
for the winners, and Keener for the
losers each made home runs.

Marshall-Putnam was scheduled
to play an interstate' game with an
all-star team selected from the 10
farm bureau te^ms of Knox County,
Ind., at the former's picnic, Lacon,
on Aug. 28. A series of games is
planned to decide the interstate
championship.

The hog-calling contest delayed by
rain until afternoon brought out 24
entries, 21 of which reported for
competition. It didn't take the
three judges, Sam Sorrells, Clair
Hay, and C. T. Hufford long to
award the little gold pig trophy to
Walton Hodge of Jefferson county.
V. E. Robison of Tazewell county,
last year's champion, was among the
contestants.

Hodge won hands down with a
penetrating, musical W-H-0-O-E-Y
delivered from the side of the
mouth.

Peterson Brothers from Marshall-
Putnam and the Torbert boys from
Dewitt were battling for the silver
cup in the horseshoe tournament,
when the deluge dampened their
ardor and made a puddle out of the
new clay courts.

Marshall-Putnam coming; through
the day without a defeat had won
the first gaihe when the contest was
called off. Arrangements were made
later to play off the championship
at the state horseshoe meet to be
held at Fairbury in Livingston
county on September 6.

• Senator Jim Watson of Indiana,
the speaker of the day, merely had
time to walk out on the platform,
say a few nice things about the
tariff, comment briefly on the fight
for surplus control, and tell his lis-
teners, "it's time for us to look about
for protection," as the patter of
rain drops announced the coming
storm.

Mr. Watson's speech was reported
in detail in the 16 page Special Pic-
nic Edition of the I. A. A. Record
published at Mt. Vernon in cooper-
ation with the Register-News the
day of the picnic. A large part of
the crowd left the grounds before
the the special edition could be dis-
tributed. Souvenir copies may be
had by writing the I. A. A. office,
Chicago "or the Register-News, Mt.
Vernon.

Mrs. Chas. Sewell of Otterbein,
Ind., director of community and
field service for the American Farm
Bureau Federation spoke to the
women following the rain in the
morning. "The morale of the hus-
band is largely determined by the
mental attitude of the wife," she
said. "The farm woman can help by
supporting the farm bureau and in-
sisting on maintaining a high stan-
derd of living on the farm."

Mrs. T. L. Stookey of St. Clair
county won the chicken calling con-
test in a field of seven entries.

Peaches were given away and sold
by the Illinois Fruit Growers Ex-
change. Peach grading demonstra-
tions acquainted many visitors from
afar with the methods used in sort-
ing and packing fruit for market.

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Volume 4

Issued Every Month for 63,000 Thinking Farmers— October 1, 1926

No. 10

1,000,000 VOTES FOR THE TAX AMENDMENT IS AIM NOV. 2

A Wet Trip With The
Comborer Thru Ohio,
Michigan and Canada

500 Attend International Con-
vention at Detroit Last
Week.

By the Editor

Essex and Kent counties, On-
tario, Canada have reduced their
corn acreage 60 per cent already
and promise a further reduction
of 10 to 20 per cent next year as
a result of the European Corn-
borer. The borer came 65 miles
westward this year into five
counties in Northeastern Indiana
and almost across the state of
Michigan to Kalamazoo. . Can
the Corn Belt stop the corn-
borer? Read the story of this
dangerous insect and what is be-
ing done to keep the borer out of
Illinois corn fields written by the
Editor following a trip to the
devasted area in Ohio, Michigan
and Ontario.

Can the Middle West stop
the European co rn b o r e r?
This is the question and this
the problem that brought
more than 500 farmers, en-
tomologists, editors, scientists,
deans and professors, federal
investigators, reporters, bank-
ers, and officials from many
walks of life to Toledo, De-
troit, and on into Essex and
Kent counties, Ontario, Can-
ada on Sept. 23, 24, and 25.

I was astonished when I clambered from
my berth at Toledo after an all night ride
through the rain to find so many important
men gathered to do homage to His Majesty,
a little, white, in&igniticant looking grub of
foreigrn parentage.

At the Fort Meigs Hotel, where we gather-
ed early Thursday morning in a driving
raioi boots and rubbers, raincoats, caps and
rubber hats, were being sought in prepara-
tion for the wet drive through the infested
Ohio and Michigan territory between Toledo
and Detroit.

An International Gatherinf

A doctor of zoology from Germany with
his short mustache, goatee and professional
air, lent an international aspect to the
gathering. The Canadians, of course, were
there en masse. I was particularly inter-
ested in a light silk raincoat impregnated
with rubber worn by the young German
professor. It was equipped with a hood to
j)ull over his hat so that when properly ad-
justed, the wearer was as snug and safe
from the elements as a turtle in his shell.

The coat weighed only a few ounces and
could be carried conveniently in one's pocket.
Herr Professor told me he paid 90 francs
for it in Switzerland, which at the normal
rate of exchange is |20, our money.

The bus trip to Monroe was uninteresting
although ample opportunity for getting ac-
■ quainted with men who had been on former
trips through the comborer territory pre-
sented itself. Our bus carried about 30 men
hut the hum of their conversation scarcely
could be heard above the tattoo of the down-
pour on the roof of the car.

Our first stop was in Lucas county, Ohio
where we saw a field approximately 75 per
cent infested. It was yellow dent corn
planted May 20. From the road the corn
did not look as bad as I had expected. The
stalks were still green and nearly all up-
standing, although the growth was stunted.
There were plenty of ears, two to three per
stalk, but they were smaller than our better
Illinois corn, and upon closer examination,
we found the infested ears were considerably
.damaged. Much of the corn was loose on
(Contjnved on col. 8. page 4.)

Determined to Do Something About It

f^aso aJehb/2.

V. Vaniman.

42 Counties Join In
Fire Protection Week
To Stop Farm Losses

By VERNON VANIMAN

FORTY-TWO farm bureaus arc
cooperating in Farmers' Fire In-
surance Week or
Farm Fire Pro-
tection Week.
Each farm bu-
reau will hold at
least one meeting
in the county
during the week
of October 18 to
23 when it will
discuss the why
and wherefore of
farm fires and
how to safeguard
the county
against fire losses
For the past seven years in Ill-
inois there has been a gradual in-
crease in the number of fires and
also in the total loss. The number
of fires have increased from 14,052
in 1920 to 18,049 in 1926 and the
losses have increased from $16,552,-
248 in 1920 to $27,112,084 in 1926.
These are for the fiscal years ending
June 30th.

Exceed All Records

For the fifth consecutive year the
fire losses of the nation have exceed-
ed the half billion mark. This has
been an ascending scale of several
millions per year.

In 1921— $485,000,000
In 1922— $506,000,000
In 1923—^535,000,000
In 1924— $548,000,000
In 1925 — $570,250,000
These are the figures recorded by
the Actuarial Board of the Fire
Underwriters which is America's
official clearing house on such infor-
mation.

The annual sacrifice of life in the
U. S. by fire still runs around 15,000.
Each county will have the total
number of fires and the fire loss for
the past six years. The statement
is made that 75 per cent of the fires

(Continued on col. 5, page 3.)

Revenue Amendment
Criticisms Answered

Here Are Replies to Principal
Objections to Constitution-
al Reform Sought.

By JOHN C. WATSO^

1. The pending antendment is
objected to because it permits the
establishment of a tax on income.
Some persons have even said that its
approval will establish such a tax.

Approval of the amendment will
establish no tax. It will permit no
tax not now permitted by the consti-
tution. The General Assembly now
has the power, by a bare majority
of each house, to enact an income
tax, but any such tax would be with-
out exemptions, and without proper
deductions of taxes on income of
property from taxes on the property
itself. The pending amendment per-
mits the General Assembly, by a
two-thirds vote of the members
elected to each house, to enact a tax
on income, with such exemptions as
it may deem proper, and with proper
adjustments so that both income
from property and the' property it-
self will not be taxed. •

2. The amendment is objected to
by some people becarcse it permits
classification of property for tax-,
ation.

The power of classification is
necessary for proper adjustment of
the burden of taxation. For ex-
ample, if an income tax is enacted,
double taxation both of property and
of income from property^ as shown
above, can be avoided «nly if the
General Assembly has the power to
classify. It is highly desirable also
that mining property be taxed on
its output, rather than on its value,
and that the same principle be fol-
lowed in the taxation of real estate
which is better adapted to forestry
than to any other purpose. The
present Constitution does not permit
the taxation of property on its out-

Endorsement and Active Support By

Labor and Other Groups Throughout

State Assures Passage Is Prediction

Amendment Must Have a Majority of Votek Cast to Win.
Opposition Tries to Befog Issue. Joint Committee Report
of General Assembly Answers Criticisms.

ONE million votes for the revwiue amendment to the
Illinois constitution at the polls Nov. 2. This is the
igoal of the organized groups pledged to support of
the tajx amendment that will empower the state legislature,
if passed, to revise our antiquated tax laws.

Following the unqualified endorsement of the tax amend-
ment by the Illinois Federation of Labor at their recent an-
nual meeting held at Streator positive assurance was held
out by leaders in the movement that the amendment would
receive the needed majority of votes cast.

Supporting the Tax
Amendment

ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL

ASSOCIATION

ILLINOIS FEDERATION OF
LABOR.

ILLINOIS BANKERS' ASSO-
CIATION.

ILUNOIS FEDERATION OF
WOMEN'S CLUBS.

ILLINOIS LEAGUE OF WOM-
EN VOTERS.

ILLINOIS STATE TEACHERS'
ASSOCIATION.

ILLINOIS FARMERS' INSTI-
TUTE.

ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF
REAL ESTATE BOARDS.

PRAIRIE FARMER.

ILLINOIS FARMER.

MOST OF D 0 W N S T A T E
PRESS.

put. If does not permit taxation in
such a way as to encourage reforest-
ation.

Classification might well be used
also in the taxation of automobiles.
Few counties get more than 60 per
cent or 70 per cent of their automo-
biles on the assessment books. Cook
County does not assess more than
five or six per cent of its automobiles
and trucks. If classification were
permitt^, the property tax on mo-
tor vehicles could easily and surely
be collected with the motor license
fees. '

3. Some people object to the
pending amendment on the ground
that the legislature cannot be trust-
ed with the power it wotild give.

The Amendment gives the General
Assembly no power which it does not
now have except to adjust the bur-
den fairly between different sources
of taxation and different tax payers.
The objection here quoted is not a
valid argument against the amend-
ment, but so far as it is based on
fact, is rather an argument for the
election of better members of the
General Assembly.

4. Somewhat similar is the ob-
jection that the pending amendment,
if approved, will give the GeneraJ
Assembljf^iinlimited power to raise
taxes.

The General Assembly now has
unlimited power to raise taxes. It
has full power over the basis of
valuations and within the last
twenty (20) years has twice raised
the basis of valuations. Except in
the total for county taxes it has un-
limited power over all tax rates.
The present Constitution limits the
total tax for county purposes to 75
cents on the hundred dollars of as-
sessed valuations. It limits the Gen-
eral Assembly on no tax rate for any
other purpose. By raising the basis
of valuations to actual values, the
General Assembly, under the pres-
ent Constitution, could increase the
county tax as well as other taxes

Marked proer«s.) was m*ie by A. C. Ever-
inKham durinir the past four weeks in form-
jnR an orKanization to every county to work
for votes on the amendment.

"By the end of October we will have
reached every county in the state." de-
clared Everinnham. "and by that time we
will have an effective state onraniiation with
farmers, bankers, labor, real estate men,
teachers, and civic leaders from every ptiaae
of business life supportinjr the tax amend-
ment throuc^h active county and townahip
units.

"This is the icreatest leftislative interest
we have at the present time." said John L.
Walker, labor president before their annual
meetinE in Steeator two weeks airo-

, Will Help You

"Here la one piece of legislation sve cea
conscientiously help you put over." dedared
Victor A. Olander. secretary of the lUinaia
Federation of Labor in speak inir to a rep-
resentative of the Illinois Asricultural As-
sociation last week. "We are for it un-
qualifiedly because its riirht. not becauae we
expect to ret any particular economic ed-
xantace out of it." *

Opposition from the spokesman for the
Illinois Manufacturers' Association is dwindl-
ing down to a desultory fire by means of
questions deeiKned to befoff the voter and
cloud the real issue as to whether or «ot
the legislature is to be riven authority by
a two-thirds vote to work out a revision and
a more equitable adjustment of the tax
burden.

The purpose of the amendment is stated
very clearly in the report of the Joint Com-
mission on Constitutional Amendment of the
B4th General Assembly. Here it is in full :
To the PFOptc of Illinois:

At the reneral election to be held on the
second day of November, 1926, you will be
cahed upon to adopt or reject an amendment
addinr Section 14 to Article IX of the Con-
i^titutton of Illinois.

Purpose of Proposed Amendmoat

The purpose of this proposed amendment
is to permit the General Assembly of this
State to employ other methods of taxation
than those now provided by the institution.
The ammdmrmt. it»ttf tgtablishet nc taxes.
The Constitution of Illinois now requires
that all property be taxed ,uniformly in pro-
portion to its value. Under present condi-
tions it has prox'ed impossible to value
(Continued on col. 4, pace S.)

about five fold. It could increase all
tax rates except that for county pur-
poses without any limit.

There is no danger that, under the
pending amendment, the General As-
sembly would tax any or all persons
out of business. Nobody wants any
such tax. Under the present Consti-
tution the General Assembly has al-
most no other source of taxation ex-
cept tangible property, chiefly real
estate. The real danger is that
taxes on this kind of property will,
as in fact they are already doing,
more and more rapidly approach the
full producing power of such prop-
erty. This means confiscatisn of
values of property, especially prop-
erty which cannot shift its taxes
to others to pay.

•i-

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
(By Congressional Districts)

Ut to 11th William Webb, Route One, Joliet

nth G. F. Tullock. Rock/ord

13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Mood>, Port Byron

15th B. H. Taylor. Rapatee

16th ^ A. R. W right. Varna

17th F. D. Barton, Cornell

18th R. F. Kerr, Iroquois

l»th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th Charles Boreelt. Havana

21st Samuel Sorrelis, Raymond

22nd ■. . . . Frank Oexner. Waterloo

2Jrd W. L. Cope, Salem

24th Charles Marshall. Belknap

25th R. K. Loomis, Makanda

OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vice-President, Charles R Finlcy Hoopeston

Treasurer, R . A. Cowles Bloomington

Secretary, Geo. A. Fox Sycamore

I LiI^INOIS

CCLTVBAL ASSOCIA

RECORD

N

To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau wo* organ-
ized, namely to promote, protect and represent the business,
economic, social and educational interests of the /armers of
Ulitiois and the nation, and to develop agriculture.

DIRECTORS OE DEPARTMENTS

Co-operative Accounting Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lyndi

Finance , V R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marlceting A. B. Leepcr

General Office ; J. H. Kctker

Information E. G. Thiem

Legal Counsel ,-. Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing i Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organization |. , j. .'..... G. E. Metzger

Farm Supply \ ; J.R. Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing ^ F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson

Transportation L. J. Quasey

Published once a month at 404 North Wcslry Ave. Mount Morris, Illinois, by the Hfinois Apricultural Afworiation. Edite<i by Department tA Information, E. G. Thiem, Director, 608 South Dearborn Street,
Chicaan, Illinois. Knterctl as scrond-ciiiss matter October lio, 1025,Bt the post office at !Mount Morris, Illinois, under the Art of March 3, 1871). Acceptance for maitinK at special rate of postage provided for in Seccion
412, Act of February 2S, I92."i, authorized Oetober.27. IS'li.^. The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five dollara a year. The fee includes payment of fifty cents for subscription to the
Illi^iit yVgricult ural Associatiun Kecoud. PoHtnastcr: lii returning an uncallcd'for or niisscnt copy, please indicate key number on address txa is required by law. i

Are We All Wrong?

NE of the familiar answers made to the farm-
ers' insistent demand for protection on a
with industry is that domestic consumption
result of our ever-increasing population will
overtake production, and then the farmer
be in the saddle.
We wonder how some of our infant manufac-
turiig industries would have fared had the same
line of reasoning been followed. What if they
had been told, "We know you are weak now
and are having hard sledding, but you'll learn the
ropiis in a few years and everjrthing will be all
righ t. We don't believe a protective tariff would
be irood for you."

The tariff on aluminum helped make Andrew
Mel Ion rich. And yet our secretary of the treas-
ury was the first to raise the cry about Europe
seciring a cheaper food supply than America if
the tariff were made effective for corn belt farm
pro( lucts.

T le belief that American agriculture, except
for i small minority like the wool and sugar beet
growers, is suffering more from continued "young
indistry" tariff protection than anything else is
substantiated in the authoritative article, "Amer-
Export Trade and The Tariff," written by Dr.
Jacib Viner of the University of Chicago in the
Sepi ember 1926 Annals of the American Acad-
emy] of Political and Social Science. The author
say

': n the past the restrictive effect of the Amer-
tariff has been felt most keenly by the agri-
cultliral industries. By raising the general money
of living and the money costs of production,
tariff has acted as a depressive influence on
prosperity and growth of American agricul-
insofar as its opportunities lay in foreign
In the main, American agriculture still
undbubtedly loses more than it gains from the
protective tariff policy.

The fundamental tariff principle is that the

maintained industry is an anaemic industry

alive by blood-transfusions from the healthy

and that these blood-transfusions

weaken the latter.'

Agriculture has given its life's blood toward
makjing the United. States the wealthiest country
world. Is it not justified now in seeking to
the blood-transfusions that weakened it?

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The Tariff and Wheat

a recent survey of United States and Cana-
ian wheat prices Chester C. Davis found that
price of wheat in the terminals of the United
Statjs now represents from 86 to 88 per cent of
its pre-war purchasing power (on farms it is less
becjuse present freight rates are 45 per cent
high ^r) , and that wheat prices for the same grades
at Winnipeg, Canada, were higher than those
quoled at Minneapolis, Kansas City, and other
terminals in this country.

T) be specific, on Sept. 13 the Winnipeg cash
pricj paid for No. 1 Northern Spring Wheat 60
lbs. bo bu. 60 per cent dark, hard, vitreous kernels
was ?1.42Vi. On the same day the prices paid

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for No. 1 Dark Northern Spring wheat (60 lbs.
to bu. 75 per cent, dark, hard, vitreous kernels)
ranged from $1,371/4 to $1.50%. In other words,
on that day Winnipeg ^'anged from 4V4 cents
above to SV^ cents below Minneapolis on com-
parable grades of spring wheat.

This difference is even more remarkable because
Canadian freight rates on wheat in Western Can-
ada are from seven to 10 cents less per bushel
than are rates for equal distances from Montana
points to Minneapolis.

On the same day, while No. 1 Northern Spring
wheat was selling in Winnipeg for 1.4214, No. 1
Hard Winter wheat was selling in Kansas City at
from 1.301/i to 1.36 Vo— from 5% to 12 cents under
Winnipeg.

At Chicago, No. 1 Red Winter commanded a
cash price of 1. 351/2, or 6% cents per bushel
under the Winnipeg price for No. 1 Northern
Spring.

And yet United States wheat is protected (?)
by a 42 cent per bushel tariff. Will someone from
over the Alleghenies tell us how much of this 42
cents the American farmer is getting?

1,000,000 Votes

ONE million votes for the revenue amendment
to the Illinois constitution. This is the goal of
the allied organizations working toward the passage
of the new tax provision which will empower the
General Assembly to work out a fair equitable,
modern taxing system for the state.

With the active support of the Illinois Federation
of Labor whose endorsement was secured at their
annual meeting held recently at Streator, little
doubt as to the outcome of the vote was held by those
back of the movement.

For the amendment are the ILLINOIS AGRI-
CULTURAL ASSOCIATION, Illinois Association
of Real Estate Board, Illinois Farmers' Institute,
the Illinois Federation of Labor, Illinois Bankers'
Association, Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs,
Illinois League of Women Voters, Illinois State
Teachers' Federation, Prairie Farmer, the Illinois
Farmer, and most of the downstate newspapers.

The Illinois Manufacturers Association oppose
the measure, and a referendum taken by the Illinois
Chamber of Commerce indicated a majority of the
members who voted on the proposal were opposed to
it. Nevertheless, we believe there will be thousands
of thinking business and professional men through-
out the state who will vote for the tax amendment,
for it is not a partisan measure. It is to the inter-
est of the home owner and business man in the
town and city just as much as it is to the interest
of the farmer to see that our antiquated tax laws
are revised and taxes are levied on an income pro-
ducing basis.

The amendment must have a majority of votes
cast to make it effective. One million votes will do
it.

Every man and woman of voting age will be
needed at the polls Nov. 2 to reach this goal.

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Poor Judgment

EORGE R. WICKER, director of business serv-
ice for the Illinois Agricultural Association
completed an interesting survey sometime ago based
on the audits of 65 farmers' elevators in Illinois.

He compared the successful elevators with those
that were unsuccessful or insolvent and point by
point showed why some elevators were making
money while others failed.

His survey was authoritative, distinctly different
from anything else published in recent years, and
its value was given due recognition in the farm and
city press throughout the state and nation.

Wicker found that good management was essen-
tial to the success of an elevator. Hence, he aided
in the development of a plan whereby the more ef-
ficient managers would be given greater responsibil-
ity in supervising the business transactions of more
than one elevator. The plan was first proposed to
a group of elevatbrs in Iroquois county.

At a meeting of the Illinois Farmers Grain Dealer
Managers Club at Dwight recently which presum-
ably was called by Lawrence Farlow, secretary of
Illinois Farmers' Grain Dealer Association, the
latter is reported to have attacked Wicker and
the I. A. A. in ungentlemanly language. The re-
port was circulated that Wicker was invited but
was afraid to appear at the meeting to defend his
position. As a ' matter of fact Wicker never re-
ceived an invitation to be present. The following
resolution was passed at this meeting!

"We deplore and strongly condemn the activities
of the Illinois Agricvltural Association, tvho directly
and through their subsidiaries have seemingly made
a strong effort to inject themselves into the farmers'
elevator movement. . .' , 1 ''■

"We hereby ask the directors of our state asso-
ciation to pass resolutions setting forth the fact that
the Illinois Agricultural Association and its subsid-
iaries are in no manner connected ivith the Illinois
farmers elevator movement, have no right to talk
for it or to give out any statement concerning any
of its activities . . . ad finitum."

The Illinois Agricultural Association is the farm-
ers' service organization of Illinois, with approxi-
mately 63,000 members. A large portion of its
members sell grain through farmers' elevators, and
in fact most of the stockholders and directors of the
550 farmers elevators are members of the I. A. A.
And yet farmers are told that their own organiza-
tion has nothing to say about the farmers' elevators.
Are we to assume from this that the elevator man-
agers' club assumes to dictate the policies of the
managers' employers? Farmers will not be dis-
posed to listen kindly to being told that they have
no right to discuss their own business. The man-
agers who endorsed these resolutions showed poor
judgment. FarmeVs, we believe, will reserve the
right to control their own businesses be they ele-
vators or otherwise. We will welcome letters ex-
pressing opinion on this point.

Only four farm crpps are now on a level equal
to the level of wholesale prices of non-agricultural
products compared with pre-war. They are hogs,
■wool, lamb9 and potatoes. « ^ ! . '

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October 1, 1926

The Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD

Page 3

Policy of I. A. A.
In Aiding Farmers
Elevators Outlined

Wicker Broadcasts From

WLS Telling Why It is I

A. A.'s Business to Protect
Members.

Cao. R. Wicker

'l''HERE are about 550 farm-
*- crs elevators in the state of
Illinois, many of
which have been
in continuous and
successful opera-
tion from 25 to
30 years. A large
percentage of the
grain and corn
produced in this
state moves to
market through
farmer-o w n e d
warehouses. Most
farm bureau
members in the grain producing
counties also are members of their
local farmers elevators. Therefore,
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion has a direct interest in the
condition, the improvement, and
the success of these local associa-
tions."

This is the message, broadcasted
over WLS recently by George R.
Wicker, director of business serv-
ice in answer to a letter sent out
over the state on the stationery of
the Illinois Farmers Elevator Man-
agers' Club questioning the right of
the I. A. A. in showing ai/ interest
in the improvement of farmers' ele-
vators over the state,

In outlining the (policy of the
state association in sej^ng its mem
bership, Wicker said:

"We are living in A day of or-
ganization. Capital is\organized,
labor is organized, and industry is
organized. It is not surprising,
therefore, that farmers are organ-
izing. The Illinois Agricultural
Association has approximately 65,-
000 members who also are members
of their respective county farm bu-
reaus. The affiliated organizations
cover the entire state of Illinois.
Their members are engaged in a
wide range of agricultural produc-
tion, from cotton and fruit in the
south to grain, live stock and dairy-
ing in the north.

A Service Organization

"The Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation is a service organization and
as such does not engage directly in
marketing or merchandising. It
recognizes the need and the value
of local co-operative associations
and farmers elevator companies,
and devotes a large part of its ef-
fort to their support and improve-
ment. We are also interested in
efforts to establish effective farmer
controlled marketing agencies in
the terminal markets, so as to com-
plete the chain of organization by
which the producer may come into
more direct contact with the buyer.
This is not a new or sudden inter-
est of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation. The first farm bureaus
were organized in counties largely
devoted to the raising of grain,
corn and live stock. Among the
leaders of the farm bureau move-
ment are some of the most progres-
siva and successful farmers of the
state, many of whom are also of-
ficers of their local farmers eleva-
tor companies. Therefore, it is im-
possible to separate or distinguish
the purposes of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association from the inter-
ests of its individual members or
their local associations.

Must Help All

"The officers of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association have no false

Bent to Muscle Shoals

At the request of President Sam
H. Thompson of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, J. R.
Bent, director of farm supplies is
attending the meeting of the Fed-
eration directors at Florence, Ala-
bama near the site of Muscle
Shoals.

Farm Bureaus of the southern
states are deeply interested in the
nitrate production possibilitie.^
there, and the meeting was held at
their invitation to discuss the farm-
ers' interest in the project.

pride of organization. They know
that its continued existence must be
justified by a record of service. The
extent of that service will be limited
only by the interests of its mem-
bers, its financial res^ources and the
ability of its staff, which has been
selected to carry these purposes
into execution. To this end the As-
sociation maintains several depart-
ments which are classified under
five divisions.

1. Administration.

2. Organization and Informa-
tion.

3. Public Relations.

4. Business Service.

5. Marketing and Farm Sup-
plies.

The services of these departments
are made available to members
through their respective county
agencies, and to such co-operative
associations as enter into contracts
for special service. Throughout all
of the activities of the association
first and constant consideration is
given to the interests of the in-
dividual producer.

Strong Local Units Needed

"Co-operative grain marketing in
this state is still in the local phase
of development. Several unsuccess-
ful efforts have been made to es-
tablish co-operative grain market-
ing agencies in the terminal mar-
kets. Each failure has pointed out
the fact that the successful ac-
complishment of terminal market-
ing must be built upon the founda-
tion of successful local units. The
job immediately at hand, therefore,
is to promote the improvement and
the success of the local unit. This
can be done only by close applica-
tion to the problems of local asso-
ciations, including the form of or-
ganization, method of financing,
character of administration, man-
agement, facilities, membership and
the general strengthening and im-
provement of business practices.
Some of these problems cannot be
solved by or within the local unit.
Therefore, the principle of co-
operation must be extended and
made more effective through groups
of local organizations. There is
nothing new or revoluntionary in
this suggestion. It is the method by
which modern industry has been
built up. There is not a successful
industry in America today that does
not support this fact. Centraliza-
tion for the purpose of providing
better methods of financing, a
larger volume of sales, increased
purchasing power, better adminis-
tration and more efficient manage-
ment is the only means of a broader
and more advanced form of co-
operation.

"The Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation does not hesitate to accept
its responsibility in supporting this
policy. We have no criticism to
make concerning the past. For the
present we will not shut our eyes
to conditions which require atten-
tion and understanding. For the
future, we have a hopeful optimism
and, we believe, a cheerful pros-
pect."

A person good at making excuses
is seldom good at making anything
else.

U. S. Chamber Comes
To Rescue Farmer
For $7.50 Is Story

Farm Bureau Secretary Ad-
vises Members to Read
Carefully Before Signing
List.

Salesmen claiming to represent
the United States Chamber of Com-
merce have been working in Middle-
sex County, Mass., recently, collect-
ing $7.50 each, from a large num-
ber of farmers.

They tell a long story about
farmer co-operation, and farmer
representation in Washington, and
how the United States Chamber is
taking a survey of the farmers.
They say that the Chamber is anx-
ious to place certain literature in
the hands of the farmers, and the
$7.50 is to help pay the cost of all
this good work.

What they actually sell you is a
three years' subscription to the
magazine of the United States
Chamber of Commerce, The Na-
tion's Business.

Secretary Russell of the Farm
Bureau Federation has advised
Farm Bureau members that if they
want to subscribe for a magazine
for three years, well and good, but
he wants them to know what they
are paying for, as the agents are
said not to mention the word maga-
zine.

Here is the story as President
Leon A. Wetherbee of Stow tells
it:

"As I remember it the story of
our U. S. Chamber of Commerce
man runs like this: The Chamber
has been asked by the President
(Coolidge) and Secretaries Hoover
and Jardine, none of whom were
in favor of the farm relief meas-
ures which have been before Con-
gress, to undertake a survey, the
object of which was to help the
farmer to market his crops to ad-
vantage through co-operatives or
other organizations in each market
which would work together to pre-
vent gluts by proper distribution of
reshipping and to discover what
other ways and means there were
for placing the farmers' dollar
more nearly on a par with other
dollars. The Chamber was going to
all the expense of the work in-
cluding the force of men like him-
self and cars for them (Essex Se-
dan), he was on his second having
worn out one, and intended to pub^
lish such information as they gath-
ered together with such publicity as
might later be needed. All they
wanted of the farmers was to be
sure that they were back of the
thing and would give it their mora!
support.

"You were willing to do that of
course, and would you sign your
name below a list of your neighbors
and other influential farmers (which
you did). Then of course, there
was a large expense to all this and
if you wished you could pay the ex-
pense of getting out this litera-
ture which the Chamber figured to
be $7.50 for the period.

"He then produced a large bunch
of checks signed by your neighbors,
etc., and if you were in the field
he had plenty of blank checks with
him.

"This is all a whole lot smoother
to hear than read and he was the
slickest thing I ever saw, and I
thought I had seen a few." Look
out! — Farm Bureau News in the
August number of "Middlesex
County Bulletin," Waltham, Mass.

Cartoon of the Month.

The. 'Auto MM- Mosi uB-

I.A.A. Comes to Rescue
As Hog Cholera Serum
Shortage Is Threatened

OUTBREAKS of cholera through-
out central and northern Illi-
nois have kept many farm advisers'
on the jump during the past few
weeks supplying members with
serum and virus for immunizing
shoats against the dreaded disease.

Appeals to the I. A. A. for help
in the cooperative purchasing of
more serum sent director of live-
stock marketing W. E. Hedgcock
out scurrying for new supplies.
Many farm bureaus already have
exceeded their original quotas or-
dered early last spring, and serum
companies unprepared for the de-
lugre of orders have sent prices sky
high in some instances with the
veterinarians and unorganized
groups at a sorry disadvantage.

Companies whose supplies have
been sold largely to Illinois farm
bureaus have stood by them in all
instances and have refused flatter-
ing offers from outside parties and
even other companies whose stocks
have not kept up with demand.

The I. A. A. was able to buy late
orders of serum for as low as 81
cents per 100 c. c. when private in-
dividuals were selling for between
$1.50 and $2 per 100 c. c. Henry.
Whiteside, DeKalb, Knox and other
central and western Illinois countier
were the hardest hit. Losses from
cholera were not many due to the
prompt action of the county advis-
ers and farmers in immunizing all
hogs in the areas where outbreak?
occurred.

J. W. Whisenand, adviser in
Henry County, reported the sale of
140,000 c. c. of serum and virus in
one day with a total of 200,000 c. c
distributed in four days.

Farm Adviser Wise of Whiteside
county distributed between 30,000
and 50,000 c. c. of serum daily in
the busiest period in late August
and September.

Endorsement and

Active Support

(Continued from col. 6. paire 1.)
property uniformly far taxation. TTie effort
to do so has in reality been abandoned. The
Constitution of 1870 wan adopted when prmc-
ttcally afl property in the State was tangible,
and could be assessed and taxed in the same
manner. This is no longer the cate. This
proposed amendment is intended to remove
the obstacles in the way of Bane, equitable
and fair tax taw-s, and to permit the adop-
tion of ft more satisfactory tax system.
Two-thir4* Necessary

The broader powers conferred upon the
General Assembly by this proposed amend-
ment are fully safemiarded by the require-
ment of a two-thirds vote of all members
elected to both houses of the General As-
sembly. The proposed amendment permits
the General Assembly by a two-thirds vote
to classify personal property and to provide
for proper deductions and exemptions for
purposes of taxation. Rates of income or
other taxes which may be established under
this amendment will require a two-thJrdt;
vote of the General Assembly. Should an
income tax be established under the pro-
vifions of the present Constitution, no legis-
lative authority exists to make exemptions
or deductions and credits from such income
tax because of other taxes paid by the same
person. An income tax must, under the
present eonstitutioiuU provision, be in ad-
dition to other taxes. Under this proposed
amendment it may be in substitution for
other taxes, and the General Assembly will
have authority to make allowances, exemp-
tions or deductions and credits rendered
proper by justice to the taxpayer.

The proposed amendment will appear upon
a separate balk>t at the s^neral election of
November 2. 1926. Here it is in part:
AmendiBCBt Ballot

This proposed amendment imposes no new
taxes. It affects no existing exemptions
from taxation. The provision concerning
the "two-thirds" vote (conUined in the
proposed Section 14) applies only to such
future tax and exemption legislation as may
be pursuant to. that ■ "under the autborKy
of this section." It does not apply to past
leirislation. nor to such future legislation as
may be under the general powers of the
General Assembly nor as may be only under
one or more of the oW thirteen sections.
The rates under new methods of taxation
authorized by the amendment will require «
two-thirds vote. The proposed amendment
permits two-thirds of the members of the
two houses to adopt methods of taxation,
free from limitations in the present Con-
stitution, adopted fifty-five years aco. which
now pre\-ent an equitable adjustment of the
burdens of taxation. For this reason the
two houses of the General Assembly propose
this amendment to the people.

42 Counties Join in
Fire Protection Week

(ContirfaM] from col. 2. p«c« l.t
with reasonable care are prevent-
able. Following are some of the
questions each county will present :
Can the farmers in our county 1k'
accused of carelessness Y>r negli-
gence? If not what are we going to
do about it or is there anything that
can be done about it?

Do we believe in spontaneous
combustion? What has bieen the ex-
perience in our county* Have there-
been any bam fires started by spon-
taneous combustion?

Matches and Smoking

The average number of firejt per
year for the past seven years
through matches and smoking is
1,789 and the loss per year is |I771,-
217. It is estimated that, of farm
fires, 6';c can be attributed to care-
lessness with matches and smoking
materials.

A downstate farmer related this
experience. On coming home from
town he noticed smoke at the kitchen
door and upon opening the door he
found the floor on fire. After con-
siderable effort the fire was put out.
While thinking about the matter he
remembered that on leaving the
kitchen he knocked the ashes out of
his pipe on the side of the door cas-
ing. This fire caused him to stop
smoking.

Liffatnint Rods

Lightning rods and their value
will come up for discu.ssion.

Many insurance companies are
charging less for insurance on red-
ded buildings.

There is still some prejudice
against lightning rods. Estimated
farm fire loss caused by lightning is
18 per cent of the toUl loss. In Ill-
inois for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1926 there were no fires and no
losses by lightning on rodded build-
ings. On unrodded buildings light-
ning caused 316 fires with a total
loss of $593,424.

How to Protect

Some farmers have ladders al-
ways in place that can be used in
case of fire. A large farm house in
Macoupin County burned down be-
cause there was no ladder available
to get up on the roof. A neighbor
passing by saw the fire start from a
spark from the chimney. Also a
number of farmers have a fire hose
attached to the force pump ready
for use.

At Hastings, Michigan 400 farm-
ers formed an association and pur-
chased a fire truck. Farmers with-
in a radius of eight miles of Hast-
ings are members.

Officers and directors of the
Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance
Companies have rendered a valuable
service in calling attention to fire
hazards. Gasoline, coal oil stoves,
gas engines, automobiles, electric
irons, electric toasters, and cigar-
ettes are all sources of fires.

Because of the fact that the farm
bureau covers the entire county, di-
rectors and members of mutual fire
insurance companies have asked the
farm bureaus to call meetings to dis-
cuss fire problems. A fire prevented
brings a benefit to ever>'one. With
farm fires in Illinois amounting to
2^4 to three million dollars per year
and with 75 per cent of these fires
preventable the opportunity to save
the farmers of Illinois about $1,-
800,000 per year in fire loss is a
challenge. It is hoped the Fire Pro-
tection Week will be fruitful in re-
ducing fire losses in 1927.

FARM FIU.KRS

The KAunruL TsANarAiteKT "ncrtnts

showing eicht purebm) Perchepon hones
puUins a harrow, which hancs in the 1. A.
A. office wa« made from a photosraph taken
by J. C. Allen of Lafayette. Ind.. on the
farm of William Freitas in Tatewetl county
many years aao. Mr. Freitajc was in the
office recently and rrcocnized his horses and
farm in the picture.

WiiiUjnu or thb Naarn pACinc oruATiMi
from Vancouver. B. C. will use seaplan..K
this cominjr season is helping them locau-
their prey. I.ookinc down from an altitudc
of IMO feet, a ranse of 2fi ta .10 miles can
he obtained, and an airman will be able t^>
pick out the mammals and communicate his
find U) the fleet by means of sienala.

Drying thmk AcmKS or DiRHn a yaatt.
walkinfT a quarter of a mile to hake a lemon
pie. and pumpinjr IS tons of water in a
year are some of the domestic feat* perform-
ed by the avenwe rural housewife who does
not follow cood methods of home maiiese-
ment.

Cbewino gum valuip at S47.1t4(M0 WAS
manufactured In the IJnit*^ States in XKfi.
accordiiic to tile Department of Coinmeroe.

Pag: 4

The Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD

i

October 1, 1926

111

Auto Insurance For Members Considered
At September Meeting. Action Expected
Next Month. Presidents To Meet Oct. 8

I Ml tual auto insurance for mem-
bers of the Illinois Agricultural As-
socia ;ion may become a reality judg-
ing f rom the interest created by the
repoi t of the business service com-
mitt* e to the executive committee at
the r lonthly meeting on Sept. 10.
f Th 3 committee decided to give the
propi sed project careful consider-
ation before taking steps. But a mo-
tion )y Taylor^ seconded by Oexner
provi ding that if a farm bureau mu-
tual luto insurance company be set
up, i be for and controlled by mem-
bers 3f tfce Illinois Agricultural As-
socia ion was passed unanimously.

A iefinite decision on the question
of ai to insurance will be forthcom-
ing ( ollowing the October meeting,
schec uled for the seventh. Farm
buret u presidents are being invited
to at :end a meeting in Chicago on
Octol er 8 in conformation with the
precedent established several years
ago of securing e.xpression fresh
from the membership, on general
farm bureau policies.

A motion was made by Tullock,
secorded by Cope that the I. A. A.
lend ts aid to W. P. Flint, state en-
tomo ogist, in preparing for the ad-
vanci of the European cornborer.
Geor; re Thicm, director of informa-
tion 'epresented the I. A. A. at the
Inter national Cornborer ConSerence
at T( ledo and Detroit on Sept, 24-25.

J. 3. Macherle of the State Farm
Mutual Auto Insurance Co., Blocm-
ingto n was given a hearing before
the c )mmittee in which he presented
facts and figures regarding his or-
gan!: ation and its advantages.
Aftei careful consideration of Mr.
Mech erle's message, and the report
of th I financial business service com-
mittc e. the executive committee de-
cided that if the I. A. A. entered in-
to th e field of auto insurance in a
state wide capacity, it would set up
its ovn organization for farm bu-
reau members.

Th; public relations committee
made the following recommenda-
tions regarding protection to mem-
bers against thievery to farm prop-
erty :

Yojr Public Relations Committet
has c onsidered carefully the demand
that las come up from the member-
ship for protection against lossef
that occur through the thievery of
, farm property.

It has been suggested that the
Stat* Association should provide foi

such

force

protection to its members

throi gh one of the following plans
or a combination of them.

1. The organization of county
protc ctive associations and the fed-
erati )n of the county organizations
into J 1 state association, such associ-
ation s to be organized under the law
providing for associations to detect
and apprehend criminals and ap-
point deputy sheriffs within the
couni ies.

2. The offering by the State As-
sociaion of rewards for the detec-
tion, a'pprehension and conviction of
those guilty of farm thefts.

3. The employment by the State
Asso iation of a competent detective

that could operate throughout

the s ate in conjunction with county
farm bureaus for the detection, ap-
prehi nsion and conviction of those
guilt ' of crime affecting the farmer

4. The offering by the State As-
socia ;ion through the. county farm
bure; it^s, or their agents, of an in-
surance policy that would protect
the I olicy holder against loss from
farm thefts.

In considering the question of pro-
tectii e associations, your Committee
has tiken into consideration the fact
that' there are such protective or-
gan!: ations now in the field and
open ting with varying degrees of
success. The popular feature of of-
ferin ; rewards is also being worked.
We < o not desire to interfere with
the e fective activities of such organ-
izati( ns as the A. H. T. A., the I. S.
D. A, and others now operating in
these fields. However, in case it is
the d esire on the part of any county
to or ?anize a protective association,
the ) lecessary forms for same can
be ol tained from the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association.

Yd Lir Committee cannot at this
time recommend the employment of
a detective force for the purpose of
detec -ing, apprehending and convict-
ing t lose guilty of violations of law
affec ing the farmer. The expense

of maintaining such a; force over
such a large field of opeijation would
probably be too great, i

Investigation has indicated quite
clearly that theft insurance alone be
too expensive. The premiums col-
lected from such insurance is not
large. To make such a form of in-
surance available, it must be offered
with other forms of insurance pro-
tection.

The Committee has been advised
by the executive officers ihat there is
a possibility that an in^irance pro-
gram of the associatibn will be
adopted at an early date. If such a
program is adopted, this Commit-
tee will be ready to make recom-
mendations along the line of protec-
tion from this source. This type of
insurance can be and should be cor-
related with other typds of insur-
ance offered to the menibers of the
State Association.

Supplement to Report tp Executive
Committee —

After due consideration of the
question of what should be done by
the I. A. A. and Farm I Bureaus to
boost the adoption of the Revenue
Amendment to the Sta e Constitu-
tion, we recommend that the Novem-
ber issue of the Record lie published
iln time to get into the lands of the
membership by Satui-duy prior to
election day and that At. Watson
and Mr. Thiem take car ! of prepar-
ation of the publicity re ative to the
Amendment.

In this connection we 1 ave further
recommended that Pr^ dent Smith
write a letter to all Cou ity Legisla-
tive Committees sugg 'sting that
Ihey get before their B( ards of Su-
pervisors and urge then as super-
visors of election to do all in their
power to get voters to vote on the
amendment. This to be followed a
little later with sufficien ; number of
posters and back auto curtain stick-
ers to reasonably post tie most im-
portant road corners, banks, etc.
Further that literature explaining
the main points of the Amendment
be, in so far as possibl ^ placed in
*he hands of every farm family.
The posting of posters and distribu-
tion of literature to be d me through
the various tax comm ttees, com-
munity chairmen or ( ther Farm
Bureau committeemen.

The Public Relations Committee
has had its attention ca led to com-
munications from W. I . Hedgcock
relative to the activities of the I.
A. A. in the matter o ' Boys and
Girls Club work. Nam;ly: '

1. The I. A. A. Breakfast to Ill-
inois Club Boys and Gir s, and, 2.
The appropriation of money toward
the conduct of the Boy j and Girls
Club and the vocational ligh School
iudeing contests.

With reference to tie I. A. A.
Breakfast we recommend that the
I. A. A. Breakfast be riven to all
Illinois Club Boys an 1 Girls on
Wednesday of International Week.
The anticipated attendai ice is 200 to
2.50.

Relative to the second point it ap-
pears that heretofore \'e have ap-
nropriated S250 for the conduct of
tl\e live stock apd dairy udging con-
tests and that the appr ipriation of
^200 as made this year is not suf-
ficient amount to take ore of what
we have done in the past and that
failure on our part to appropriate
the full $2.50 will make t necessary
for those in charge of t his work to
seek help from othi r sources
Hence, we recommend that the I.
A. A. appropriation for :his purpose
be increased $50.

G. E. Metzgcrr, directe r of organ-
ization reported on the Mid-wes*
Conference at Saugatu ck, and
recommended a similar school for
Illinois.

The Committee on ( rganization
and Publicity made the following
recommendations whicl^ were adopt-
ed as read:

Due to the growing sentiment
among our members ar d organiza-
tion workers for strengthening the
sei-vice of the Department of Infor-
mation to members of the Illinois
Agricultural Associatior, the organ-
ization committee after thoughtful
consideration makes .the following
recommendations for eitecution at
the earliest posible momi nt:

1. That the Illinois . Igricultural
Association RECORD, now pub-

A Trip Thru Ohio,
Michigan and Canada

(Continued from col. 1. pare 1.)
the cob BhowinK''premature dryine and lack
of kernel development.

Mud Roadi No Good

We were forced to abandon several of our
stops located on the mud roads. The bus
drivers would not venture off the pavement.
Near Monroe, where we pulled up for
luncheon, we went throuKh the state and
federal laboratories. There we saw thou-
sands of cornborers in fflass bottles. The
borers were being used to breed the two
parasitic wasps, Exeristes Roborator and
Habrebracon Brevicornis. Their names are
in keepinjT with the importance and esteem
with which they are looked upon by our
entomoloicists for these two insects are the
great white hopes of the corn belt.

Will they be able to lick the corn borer?
So far the latter has the best of the armi-
ment by reason of his ability to multiply
rapidly under averaee corn belt conditions.
But a new champion may come out ot the
west, and Exeristes or his brother, rather
her sister. Habrebracon may be it. Here
agrain the female of the species is more dead-
ly than the male.

The cornborer invariably bores throuRh the
side of the stalk or into the cob of the ear
and taken possession of the entire interior
where he roams at will. Protected as he is
from prowlinsr birds, bats, and other natural
enemies, he lives a sumptuous, secluded life
eatinir away the core and sapping the corn
plant of its life's blood. His domain is the
entire tenjith of the stalk, from the brace
roots below to tho upper extremities.

Cornborer Good Host

But Mrs. Exeristes and her kin Habre-
bracon have discovered that the borer makes
an admirable host for rearing their children.
With her lonir swordlike ovipositor un-
sheathed for action, the female wasp settles
on the cornstalk where inside a borer is
feeding, and humpinir her back like a jack-
knife drives the sword through the tough
woody stalk stinging the cornborer inside.
The sting paralyzes the borer rendering him
hora dp romhat. whereupon the mother
wasp deposits her eggs in the flesh of the
host.

The egps hatch in from 24 to 48 hours,
and the little maggots finding a fresh meat
supply awaiting them, attack it until there
is little left but the crumbs. During the
process, the Exeristes and Habrebracon mag-
gots or larvae spin a web about the un-
happy remains of Mr. Cornborer possibly
tb hold him more securely.

Now the problem is to propagate the
parasitic wasps in large enough numbers
to stem the tide of cornborer population.
In Essex and Kent counties, Ontario the

lished once each month be changed
to a semi-monthly.

2. That the form of the REC-
ORD be changed to a four-page
seven-column newspaper of regula-
tion size to cost approximately $500
per issue including printing, paper,
makeup, composition, proof-reading,
mailing and cuts, based on a circu-
lation of 60,000.

3. That to finance the project,
the budget committee for 1927 al-
low the Department of Information
the fifty cents per member to go for
the Illinois Agricultural Association
RECORD as stated on the Farm
Bureau membership agreement.

4. That in the event of a possible
shortage in funds to carry out the
program of publicity planned for the
coming year, the Department of in-
formation be empowered as a last
resort to seek advertising at going
'-ates, to defray added expenses of
the department based on this en-
larged program.

The committee believes that a field
contact with the membership and
County Farm Bureaus of the state
for the sake of more effective local
publicity is essential to a well ord-
ered program. Under the present
restricted means of the department
this is not possible.

President Smith reported a favor-
able meeting with the officials of the
Illinois Federation of Labor in
which the latter extended to the I.
A. A., the use of their radio station
on the Municipal Pier at any time.

Secretary Fox reported that the
Mooseheart Radio station officials
had been to see him and were de-
«:iriou8 of having the I. A, A. broad-
cast from their station, WJJD.

A statement on the revenue
amendment prepared by Evering-
ham and Watson was adopted as the
expression of the committee.

It was moved by Taylor, seconded
by Finley that the farm bureau
nresidents be requested to meet in
Chicago on Oct. 8, and that the farm
advisers be invited. Carried.

The next meeting of the Commit-
tee was set for Oct. 7, Chicago.

authorities bred and liberated 900.000 Habre-
bracon and 60,000 Exeristes flies last year,
and since 1922, 109,300 Exeristes and 2,&11,-
100 Habrebracon have been liberated in the
cornfields of these two Canadian countiei.

It is difficult to measure the effect of these
parasites, but so far they are not numerous
enough to control the borer. One authority
told me that they couldn't hope for more
than a 25 per cent control of the borer by
means of the parasites for the next few
years.

Wasps QHite Prolific

The wasps may bring out several broods
a year. The Iffe cycle of the Habrebracon
is approximately two weeks. Wesley P.
Flint, state entomologist for Illinois has
liberated thousands of this latter species in
this state. He is doing admirable work
among the farm advisers, extension men.
and through the farm press to prepare
lUJnoiB for the coming of the borer.

Worst Damage in Canada
The next day we saw our real cornborer
damage. Crossing the St. Clair River to
Windsor. Ontario early Friday morning I
had my first five-cent ferry ride. The ferry
boats dock every seven minutes and before
you know it. you are whisked across the
channel to Canada.

Congregated at the Prince Edward in that
rather quaint, oldish tfiwn where every busi-
ness house is "Limited" and where the going
names for banks are "Imperial," or "Crown"
we found a larger crowd than had assembled
the day before. The farm machinery men
from the colleges, and from implement com-
panies, the Canadian officials, our own as-
sistant secretary of agriculture, Ren nick
Dunlap, Worthley who is in charge of the
control work for the federal government.
Dean Curtis and Mark Thornburg of Iowa,
Director Chri.stie of Purdue leading the In-
diana delegation a score or more of Ohio
officials, Michigan and Wisconsin men and
our own Illinois crowd represented by Pro-
fessors Flint, Hackleman and Bauer from
the un iversity, county advisers Kercher.
Keltner and Simpson from Vermilion.
Winnebago and Gallatin counties. W. H-
Givler, chairman agricultural committee the
Illinois Bankers Association. Delx>ach from
Armour's, Frank Ridgway. Chicago Tribune,
Vice-President Perkins and Cooley from the
International Harvester Co., Brice Martfn,
Decatur Herald. Glenn and Anderson of the
state plant inspection survey, and others
were there.

The ride to Chatham, 60 miles northeast
was through a flat, level, rather poorly
drained country settled largely by Canadians
of early French descent. The soil was fertile
but the drainage was through open ditches
almost entirely. Naturally we saw lota of
water on the fields and in ditches. It was
still raining. There was comparatively little
corn. Kent and Essex counties, Ontario
are in about the same latitude as our north-
ern Illinois tier of counties, and normally
this section grew quite a heavy acreage of
corn, but today, four years after the corn-
borer got a toehold on Canada's lower ex-
tremity, farmers have been scared away
from this crop into smalt grains, sugar
beets, alfalfa, grapes, and truck crops.
Cash Raised to Help
And why not? The provincial government
has appropriated money and is aiding farm-
ers to raise funds to develop other interests.
Already $100,000 has been raised to build
plants and equip them for processing grapes
in making tight wines, jellies, etc. One
acre of grapes brings in a net return
equivalent to about 10 acres of corn.

Another 1100,000 has been raised for a
sugar beet plant, and the Essex County
Farm Bureau according to Ira L. Graham.
president, has raised money to start an
alfalfa mill. Canadian farmers haven't
stopped growing corn altogether but they
have reduced the acreage from around 150,-
000 to 60,000 acres in Kent and Essex, and
in the worst iirfested areas, the reduction
is close to 90 per cent. Next year a fur-
ther reduction of 10 to 20 per cent is pre-
dicted.

On the Charles Archibald farm in Essex
we saw corn 90 per cent infested. The
stalks were loaded with borers, from top to
bottom. Farther on near St. Joachim we
saw 100 per cent infestation oi% the Delphis
Beaulieau farm. There was hardly enough
good corn in the field to bother with. This
corn was white cap yellow dent, planted
May 24. It average S2 borers per stalk.
The corn was short, much of it broken over
due to rottenness caused by the insect, and
altogether a discouraging mess. One could
see the destruction plainly from the road.

"Our worst areas are where our farmers
have borrowed American customs and left
their stalks standing in the field," said Law-
son Caesar, provincial entomologist In
charge of the eradication work. "Where
our men are in the habit of removing the
corn stalks for feed and fodder, the borer
hasn't done nearly so much damage. Our
problem now is to get every man to clean
up and burn all his stalks. Our farmers
are cooperating with us now that they see
how serious is this problem."

Machinery Aids Control
New low cutting devices are being in-
stalled on corn binders. And the Ohio
Experiment Station staff of agricultunl

J. C WaUon.

Eight Per Cent Tax

Reduction in McLean

AN eight per cent reduction on

/»- land values for tax purposes

was made in Mc-
Lean County ac-
cording to recent

word from tte

board of review

there.

The reduction

came following a

long drawn-out

controversy re -

garding the au<

thenticity of va-

r i o u s figures

presented b y

John C, Watson,

tax expert for

the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association and members
of the McLean County board.

Figures presented last year by
Mr. Watson showed a 10 per cent
disparity between the valuations of
farm and city real estate. Again
this year, Mr. Watson presented
two sets of figures taken from the
county records showing land and
real estate transactions. Figures
which included master in chancery
sales showed that land values were
12 to 13 per cent higher than city
property. And excluding master in
chancery sales there was a disparity
of eight per cent against the farmer.
Criticisms of Watson's figures
made by R. L. Carlock, member of
a specially appointed investigating
committee from McLean county
were overruled in making the re-
duction.

The eight per cent reduction will
amount to approximately a saving
of $40,000 to the farmers of Mc-
Lean county. Bank assessments like-
wise were reduced 16*^ per cent.
This reduction of land valuations
for tax purposes in McLean county
follows similar reductions made
within the past few weeks in Ogle
and Lee counties. Word from Ogle
county recently was to the effect
that a 20 per cent reduction in land
values was assured. An 18 per cent
reduction in land values for assess-
ment purposes was reported several
weeks ago in Lee county.

These three reductions secured
by the I. A, A. in recent months
will result in a saving to farmers
in the three counties of approxi-
mately the cost of operating the
state association for the entire year.

engineers designed a new corn combine that
cuts, husks, and chops up the stalk and
stover into bits killing all borers and leaving
the cut stover on the ground, or if desired
elevating it into wagons to be carried away
and stored.

The combine is rather cumbersome. It
must be pulled by at least a 10-25 or 12-25
tractor. The John Deere company already
has built one machine which is now in use
on the county farm near Monroe. The In-
ternational Harvester Co. likewise has built
a powerful stubble pulverizer that stashes
all corn stubble to bits. Both machines may
become practical with further development
if the borer hits Illinois and Iowa.

A recent provincial act in Ontario re-
quires that every remnant of the previous
year's corn crop be cleaned up by May 20.
Inspectors have been appointed to aee that
the law is carried out. Weeds and trash are
included with stubble, in the order. L.
Caesar who is chief administrator in this
control work states that most of the cleanup
work will be done this fall.

Ira Graham, an Ohioan farming 900 acres
in Essex reduced his acreage of corn from
300 to 150 acres. He will make a further
reduction next year. The borer promises to
itcp canning of sweet corn altogether. In a
badly infested field on one farm, the owner
had few borers last year. This year there
is 90 per cent infestation with prospects for
a yield of only 15 bushels an acre.

The borer showed up in five northeastern
counties of Indiana and in southeastern
Michigan as far west as Kalamazoo. Ita
progress was approximately 65 miles through
Southern Michigan according to the state
entomologist. An east wind in June that
lasted for 10 consecutive days is thought to
have aided the cornborer moths in their
flight westward. Allen, DeKalb. Steyben,
LaGrange. and Noble are the Indiana coun-
ties where borers have been detected.

A strict quarantine requiring the stopping
of all cars, wagons, and vehicles coming
through the infested territory was found
necessarv- Numerous cases are on record of
tourists carrying with them infested roast-
ing ears. Forty borers were discovered in
four ^zen roasting ears taken from a
touristj" in Northwestern Ohio bound for
Chicafli^.

If tfce cornborer comes to the corn belt
in serious numbers what will be the result.
Judge for yourself in the light qf this in.>
forniatioB.

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Issued Every Month for 63,000 Thinking Farmers — November 1, 1926

No. 11

VOTE "YES" ON THE TAX AMENDMENT, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2

Peek Raps Hoover-
Mellon Policy Of
Industry Expansion

Sets Forth Present Position of
Agriculture With Relation
To Other Industries In Re-
port.

Now — before election — i« tlie
time for candidates from agri-
cultural states, to be made to
understand that their duty lies
first to the economic interests of
their constituents, and secondly
to their political parties. It may
be said that this is a sectional
Stand. If so it has been forced
upon US by the sectional position
already taken by the industrial
East. The need is for men in
Congress who have vision enough
to see the problem and having
seen it, to rise above the crack
of the party whip in working
courageously for its solution.

Ceo. N. Peek.;

If the Hoover-Mellon policy of
expanding exports means anything,
it means the def-
inite s u b m e r-
gence of agricul-
ture.

This is the
warning sounded
by the Executive
Committee of 22
of the North
Central States
Agricultural Con-
ference, George
N. Peek, chair-
man, in a recent
bulletin setting
forth the present position of agri-
culture with reference to other in-
dustries in our national life.

Our national policy as it relates
to agriculture does not fit present
conditions, states the report. But
instead of statesmen who can see
its failure we have at the head of
the administrative affairs of the na-
tion men who are aggressively push-
ing a program of favoritism to in-
dustry that will not only continue
but must inevitably increase the
disadvantage not only of the farm-
ers' position, but the position of all
those great sections of the United
States which are priinarily agri-
cultural.

Different Now
When a surplus agricultural pro-
duction was necessary to repay
foreign investors in the United
States and to buy what we must im-
port, our national policy of expand-
ing agriculture upon an export basis
worked admirably. When our
greatest national test came it was
our surplus agricultural production
that fed the Allies and decided the
issue of the World War. But the
international balance shifted as a
result of the war. We have the
gold. The rest of the world owes
us. These facts inevitably limit
the volume of exports, both indus-
trial and agricultural, from the
United States. Our wheat, corn,
pork, cotton and sometimes beef
can bring the farmers only the price
which foreign buyers will pay for
what is left after the domestic need
is satisfied. This condition is cruci-
fying agriculture. It is directly
due to our past policy of agricul-
tural expansion, and to the develop-
ment of the protective system.
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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT BALLOT

Proposed Amendment AdHing Section 14 to Article IX of the

Conititution of the State of lUinoii

This proposed amendment imposes no new taxes. It effects no ezistinK exemptions
from taxation. The provisions concerninR the "two-thirds" vote (contained in the pro-
posed Section 14) applies only to such future tax and exemption lefirislation as may be
pursuant to, that is "under the authority of this section." It does not apply to past
legislation, nor to such future legislation as may be under the general powers of the
General Assembly nor as may be only under one or more of the old thirteen sections.
The rates under new methods of taxation authprized by the amendment will require a
two-thirds vote. The proposed amendment peCmits two-thirds of the members of the
two houses to adopt methods of taxation, free from limitations in the present Constitu-
tion, adopted fifty-five years ago, which now prevent an equitable adjustment of the
burdens of taxation. For this reason the two houses of the General Assembly propose
this amendment to the people.

HERE'S HOW TO MARK IT

FOR the proposed amendment adding Section 14
to Article IX of the Constitution.

X

AGAINST the proposed amendment adding Sec-
tion 14 to Article IX of the Constitution.

More Forces Rally to Support of

Tax Relief Proposal As Campaign

For And Against Draws To A Close

If Public Is Alive to Present Intolerable Condition of Our
Tax Laws, Friends of Amendment Say It Will Get Needed
Majority.

AS THE campaign to pass the re\ienue amendment draws
tq a close, the only organized opposition to it comes
from the State Chamber of Commerce whose members are
far from unanimous in endorsing the stand of its president
and officers, the Illinois Manufacturers Association, and the
Chicago Tribune.

During the past two weeks, the situation in Cook county
has been greatly improved. The press has rallied to the sup-
port of the amendment. The Evening American, the Herald-
Examiner, the conservative Chicago Daily News, the Evening
Post, and the Daily Journal have come out either with strong
editorial endorsements or comments friendly to the tax meas-
ure. The city Club voted 4 to 1 in favor and the Chicago Fed-
' eration of Labor endorsed it.

But the opponents of tax amend-
ment have on their side the apathy
and inertia of the public, a, power-
ful ally. The results of the elec-
tion on Nov. 2 will tell whether

Method For Figuring
Majority Votes Explained

By John C. Wation

The language of the Constitution-
al provision relating to amendments
has caused a
widespread be- !
lief that the I
proposed taxi
amendment, to '
be adopted,'
must receive a j
vote in excess
of one-half of
all of the votes \
cast for mem- 1
bers of the Gen- '
eral Assembly.

J. C. W.tMO. J^ig ^jjgj jg gj..

roneous. In 1917 (281 111. 17), the j
Supreme Court, two justices dis-
senting, held that a proposed
amendment, to be adopted, must re-
ceive a vote in excess of one-half of
the combined vote of all candidates
for the office for which the highest
number of votes is cast. \

The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion believes that every qualified
elector should vote both upon can-
didates for office and upon ques-
tions of public policy. In every
election, however, many qualified
electors do not vote. In this respect
the coming election is not likely to
be any exception. This situation of-
fers an unusual opportunity for sup-
porters of the amendment to do very
effective work for it.

If people cast no other ballot,
they ought to vote upon so import-
ant a question of public policy as
the tax amendment. Under these
circumstances a vote will count
more for it than when the person
casting it also votes for candidates
for office. For he will increase the
total number of votes for the
amendment without increasing the
vote of all candidates for any office.

If any person votes for candi-
dates, but fails to vote on the
amendment, his failure to vote on the
amendment will have the same ef-
fect as if he had voted iMpunst it.

the forces working to give the leg-
islature an opportunity to revise
our antiquated tax laws have suc-
ceeded in breaking down the bar-
rier of disinterestedness, shown
heretofore by so man} pr-ople in im-
portant issues that affect their wel-
fare.

DowBstate Support
Downstate, the proposal has re-
ceived minor consideration in the
press, although most editors who
have studied the amendment and
undei^tand it have come out with
strong editorials in support. A
few have taken their information
from profligate literature bearing
false witness against the proposi-
tion, but from no source has there
been any defense offered to the
present intolerable tax situation.

The tax amendment, neverthe-
less, has attracted more attention
than either of the other two issues

1 on the little ballot. The referendum

' on modification of the federal pro-
hibition act which drew headlines
in the metropolitan dalles several
months ago is almost forgotten.
The drys feel confident of a vic-
tory here, and the wets are hope-
ful that the vote will result in an-
other entering wedge to separate
the country from Volsteadism.

Another Referendam

The referendum to lease the
state-owned Illinois and Michigan
Canal has received little attention.
The general opinion seems to be
that the old canal is no longer use-
ful as such and should be filled in
so the space it occupies can be
leased to private parties f6r build-
ings and other purposes.

The Illinois Agricultural Associ- taxes. The pending amendment
ation has distributed more than permits an income Ux in lieu of
75,000 "Truth About Tax Relief" property taxes.

folders through the county farm 2. ci.i.ifi<:.tioi> wouM i.«i»it .. unfair
bureaus. The Tax Relief Commit- burden to be throi™ on re«l ntate or other
tee made up of representatives of «!"«» »< property,
the organizations working for the Answer — The present taxing sys-
amendment likewise has issued 70,- tem not only permits, but compels
000 booklets explaining the proposal 1 an unfair burden on real estate,
and answering charges of the op- 1 Classification is necessary to pre-

President Smith
Urges Affirmative
Vote On' Amendment

To all those «rho favor a fair
and equitable tax •ystem, I have
no xt^^milMacy in recomnendiitt
that they not only vote for, but
actively support in every legit-
imate way, all eflFort* put forth
to secure passage of the Revenue
Amendment to the Constitution
to be voted on November 2.

Careful consideration of this
proposal durinc recent months
has caused the lines to be tightly
drawn between those favoring
and those opposing the Anomd-
ment.

It discloses thet the opposition
is largely made up of those who,
under the present tax system.
are escaping in a large measure,
theif due proportion of the tax
burden, vrhilc those vrho have
unquestionably been bearing an
unjust proportion of this burden
are most actively supporting this
proposal.

The farm and home owners, to
a large degree, make up the
latter class and we earnestly
solicit not only the affirmative
vote of the farmers of Illinois,
' but all those srho favor a mod-
ern and fair division of the cost
of government.

vent double taxation, as for ex-
ample, of property and income from
property, or of real estate and
mortgages thereon.

S. The amendment would rive the Levis-
Isture unlimited power to increase tsxei,.

Answer — The General Assembly
Answer — The amendment pro- now has unlimited power to in-
vides for no tax not now permitted crease taxes. The amendment granU
I by the Constitution. The General it no right which it does not now
Assembly now has the power to ?s- have except the power to equalize
tablish an income tax, but such a the burden and adjust the taxing
tax must be in addition to property 1 (ContisoMi on coi. t. pace s.)

ponents.

Answers To Charges

Following are answers to some
of these charges:

1. The amendment provides for an in-
come tax in addition to other taxes. '

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
(By Congressional Districts)

Ut to 11th William Webb, Route One, JoUet

I2th G. F. Tullock. Rockford

13th C E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Mood>, Port B>Ton

15th B. H. Taylor. Rapatee

16th A.R. Wright, Varna

17th F. D. Barton, Cornell

18th R. F. Karr. Iroquois

19th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th , Charles Borgelt, Havana

21st , Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

27r*d Frank Oexner. W aterloo

23rd W. L. Cope. Salem

24th Charles Marshall, Belknap

25th R. K. Loomis, Makanda

Published fwice a month «t 404 North Wee Icy Avo.. Mount J
Chicago, Illinois. Entered as Beeond-cmas matter October '20, 1925,at
412. Art . f IVbruary 2K, 1925, authnriBed October 27. I!>2o. Tlie im
Illtnm.H A^rit'utiural As^iociatiun Hlx'okd. Postr-iaiitcr: In returning a

• OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vice-President, Charles R Finlcy Hoopeston

Treasurer, R . A. Cowlcs Bloomington

Secretary, Geo. A. Fox Sycamore

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COLTVBAL ASSOCIAI

RECORO-

To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was orHan-
ixed, namely to promote, protect and represent the business,
economic, social and educational interests of the farmers of
Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture.

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Co-operative Accounting Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

Finance . R- A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General Orfice JH. KeUcer

Information E.G. Thiem

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organization , C. E. Metzger

Farm Supply J. R. Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson

Transportation L. J. Quasey

, Illinoifl, by the Illinois Aicricultural Assnotation. Edited by IVpartnient nf Information, E, G. Thiem, Director, 608 South Dearborn Street,
the post office at Blount Morris, Illinois, under the Act of March ^, lS7'.t. Acceptance f'»r mailing at special rate of poetatcf" provide*! for in Section
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Helping the Farmer

AM FIRST for Illinois, then for the great
Middle West, and then for the United
States and America.
Tde farmer is one man in America we should
do everything in our power to help. I will help
him all I can so long as I don't interfere with the
present economic position this country now en-
joys.

spoke Congressman Martin B. Madden of

Chic4go, chairman of the powerful appropriations

tee in Congress, before a group of Chicago

businiess men and farm leaders in his home city

Thus

rece

Mii
and

rtly.

Madden is a shrewd business man, an able
''aluable representative to have in our law-
maki ig body. But his expressed good wishes for
firmer are like the biblical sounding brass
tjinkling cymbal.

Madden voted and worked against the
n bill in the last Congress. This bill em-
bodiejd the only legislation that gave promise" of
the economic plight of the farmer
whicih he is far from enjoying." Mr. Madden
that he is first for Illinois and the Middle
and yet he stood with the industrial East
the test came. We would remind the con-
that agriculture is a dominant industry
Illinois and the Middle West. The farmer
more convfticing evidence than mere state-
that Mr. Madden is for the state and see-
the country he represents.

Help The Flood Victims

HUNDREDS of our neighbors in the Illinois
Valley are homeless, with their crops totally
Submerged and their farm machinery, buildings,

nd livestock swept away by the floods. More than
100,000 acres of corn are reported under water.
President Smith sent out an appeal to the county
farm bureaus last week for contributions to a re-
1 ef fund for these stricken people. Solicitation
for funds will continue throughout the winter.
The American Red Cross with headquarters at
Ileardstown will have charge of and distribute all
f|unds raised. Here is an oppo tunitv v.o''i. help a

eighbor in distress. Leave your contribution at
jjour county farm bureau office.

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Know Your Friends

3 best index to the fitness of a candidate is
record in office. And the most reliable
of finding out the attitude of a representa-
tj)ward agriculture is to study his voting rec-
farm measures,
this issue we are presenting the records of
candi iates for Congress and the General As-
sembly on legislation supported by the Illinois
Agricultural Association. We are glad to an-
that all our down state Congressmen as
our two U. S. senators supported surplus-
legislation in the last Congress at least
■heir votes. A few worked industriously on
aid bill and these should be given spe-
donsideration.
Wljile the issues in the last General Assembly
not as clean cut for agriculture as they
have been, yet the vote on the Tice bill,
venue amendment, and the state police bill
which were endorsed by the Association in-
the attitude of the candidate toward repre-
his farm constituency. Remember your
frien(|s when you go to the polls Nov. 2.

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VIEWS FROM THE PRESS

Why Auto Insurance

THE new mutual auto insurance company pre-
sented elsewhere in this issue offers several ad-
antages to members of the Illinois Agricultural
iissociation not revealed by a cursory examination
qf its merits.

The control of the company is democratic and
rjests within the membership. The I. A. A. Execu-
t ve Committee will act as the first board of
directors.

There will be no expensive sales force since
le county farm bureaus are their own agents.

The policy holder always retains his interest
111 the reserve and surplus accumulated by the
company. If he withdraws he is entitled to his
s lare of the surplus on hand at the time of with-
drawal. There is no such advantage in a privately
cjwned and controlled company.

Farm Bureau members are better than average
njioral- risks. In every community they are the
more substantial and responsible citizens.

Liability and accident insurance offers protec-
tion that should not be overlooked in view of the
alarming number of smashups and fatalities oc-
cjrring annually. The opportunity offered the
member to have this protection in his own com-
any at a rate which should be decidedly lower
t lan is offered elsewhere should not be over-
l()oked. Stop at the local Farm Bureau office,
gn" a policy, and become a charter member in
j-louF own company.

(Galesbanc Republican-Resister)

LINING UP

Forces seem to be lining up for and against the proposed
tax amendment.

Here for instance comes the ILLINOIS Agricultural As-
sociation Record, with a leading article espousing the amend-
ment and urging people to vote for it and representing that
it has the support of this association, the Illinois Federation
of Labor, the Illinois Bankers Association, the Illinois Fed-
eration of Women's Clubs, the Illinois League of Woman
Voters, the Illinois State Teacher^ Association, the Illinois
Association of Real Estate boards, and other interests

On the other hand the Illinois Chamber of Commerce
representing largely the business irfterests of the State has
come out in opposition to the measure after a referendum
vote showed that a large number of the Chambers were
opposed to it.

Furthermore there has just come to hand a small pamphlet
entitled: "Danger!" and with a lantern on it, and "Vote
No!" all printed in red ink, and it is representing the senti-
ments of the Illinois Manufacturing Association.

The Record points out the benefits that the amendment,
if adopted by the people, will confer. This circular rep-
resents that it will open the door to unlimited taxation.

The Record story shows that along this line the Legisla-
ture will have no more power than it has at present, and
the opponent prints by years a list of figures showing how
Illinois taxes have mounted.

However, the association seems to have forgotten that this
mounting has all been done under the present systfem, and
it does not answer the problem of equalizing the burden of
taxation, a point that the Record stresses.

It is evident that the discussion is now on. The Republi-
can-Register believes that the approval of the amendment,
giving the Legislature needful powers does not signify that
the Legislature will abuse those powers, for if it did, its
members would not dare to come up again for election.

Furthermore it is clear that the present provision of the
constitution has not afforded the opportunity to abolish some
of the wrongs which the present system has given rise to.

The Important Issue

HE proposed revenue amendment to the lUi-
■ L nqis constitution is the important issue for
farmers to vote on Nov. 2. If the amendment
curries it must have a substantial majority down-
slate. Nothing but the solid "Yes" vote of farm-
e;-s will make this possible. Help lift the burden
o;' taxation from farms and homes by doing your
bit at the polls next Tuesday.

International Time

'HIS annual classic of the breeds known far and
wide by lovers of good livestock as the Inter-
natioral will be with us again in less than a
month . The time is Nov. 27 to Dec. 4. Why not
bring your wife to the city for that long delayed
wedding trip, and show her the sights. Oui-
friend Barney Heide, manager, says it will be a
Wggeit, and better show than ever.

Illinois ranked fifth among the states in the
imber of motor cars and trucks registered the
six months of 1926. The five leading states
as follows: New York, 1,562,492; California,
459,570; Ohio, 1,370,756; Pennsylvania, 1,326,-
Illinois, 1,217,265. Michigan and Texas
nked next with less than a million each. A total
19,697,832 motor vehicles were registered in
the United States during this period.

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SPIKE THE LIES ' ^

Second only to forth-right corruption, the most destruc-
tive tendency in democratic government is the clouding of
referendum issues by deliberate misrepresentation. It ap-
pears to be more and more the reliance of opponents, not
to meet an issue fairly in argument, but to defeat the pro-
posal by lying about it.

The proposed new constitution for Illinois, submitted to
the voters a few years ago, was defeated by lies. Teachers
were told that their pensions were endangered; trade unions
were told that the new constitution would operate in favor
of the open shop; there were other alarming tales for each
class of the population. None of these allegations were
true, but they had their effect

Now, the voters of Illinois are about to be asked to cast
their ballots upon a proposed amendment to the tax clause
of the state constitution, and again the opponents are
found arguing, not the merits of the real question, but the
bogey of a malicious falsehood

The most common and reprehensible lie that is told about
the proposed tax amendment is, that it is going to set up
new, and additional taxes — that it is "going to take more
money out of the pockets of the people." There is every
reason to believe that the men who are raising this smoke
screen of fear know, as they do so, that their statements
are false. It just happens to be the grave misfortune of
this people that leaders have learned that it is easier to beat
a measure by lying about it than by meeting the issue
squarely.

The truth about the proposed amendment is, that it does
not authorize any new tax whatever. Any form of taxa-
tion possible under the new section can be enacted by the
legislature under the old, including the income tax. If there
is any movement for a new tax after the amendment is
adopted, that issue will be a new one, to be met and
fought out on its own merits

The lies will continue to be spread industriously, right
up to the day of the election. It is the business of every
landowner who feels the sting of excessive taxes to see
that the lies are met and labeled for what they are. The
issue presented by this referendum is too important to the
people of the state to go down by default, in a cloud of
misrepresentation.

■I

November 1, 1926

Tlie Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD

Page 3

KNOW YOUR FRIENDS WHEN YOU GO TO THE POLLS. VOTE ACCORDINGLY

Legislative Committee Reports On

Representatives in Congress And

General Assembly Showing Records

State Legislators' Vote On Revenue Amendment, Tice Bill,
And State Police Bill Supported By Farmers Indicates At-
titude Toward Agriculture.

Editors Note :

The following IpRialative report of representatives in Congress and the General
Assembly is published in acordancc with the [>o!icy of the Illinois Asrricuttural Associa-
tion in sivin? its members facts about their representatives in the state and national
law-making bodies. The attitude or interest of the candidate in agriculural lesislation
is the basis of this report.

FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR

None of the candidates for this
office subject to election Nov. 2 has
a previous record in the United
States senate. Frank L. Smith, re-
publican candidate declared himself
early in his candidacy for farm re-
lief, as provided in the surplus con-
trol legislation supported by the
Illinois Agricultural Association.
His past record in Illinois has
shown him to be friendly and
helpful to agriculture. Smith
comes from a farming district, and
his interests are mainly agricultural.

George Brennan, democratic can-
didate, placed himself on record in
favor of farm relief and surplus
control legislation in his Bloominton
speech.

Other candidates for the United
States senate so far as we are in-
formed have taken no position on
farm relief through surplus control
legislation.

For United States Representative

Among the 10 representatives in
the 69th Congress from Chicago and
Cook county only one, Adolph J.
Sabath, voted in favor of the Haug-
en bill which was supported by the
Illinois Agricultural Association. All
the others were against it.

Every downstate congressman
voted for the bill. Those who most
actively supported it and spoke for
it from the floor of the House are
starred, in the list of those who vot-
ed for the bill, following: —

Richard Yates, Henry R. Rathbone*.
Adolph J. Sabath, Frank R. Reid. Charles
E. Fuller (deceased). William R. John-
son, John C. Allen, Edward J. King. Wil-
liam E. Hull. Frank H. Funk*. William P.
Holaday, Charles Adkins*. Henry T.
Rainey», Loren E. Wheeler*. Ed. M. Ir-
win. William W. Arnold, Thomas S. Wil-
liams*, Edward E. Denison.

For Ganeral Assembly.

The Lantz revenue amendment reso-
lution, the Tice Tuberculosis Eradica-
tion Bill, and the Dunlap State Police
bill are the three measures in which
the Illinois Agricultural Association
was most interested in the last session
of the General Assembly. The (caso-
line tax bill didn't come to a vote so
there was no basis for an authentic
report on this measure.

Eighth district — Counties of Mc-
Henry, Lake and Boone.

Rep. Wm. Weiss, Waukegan, law-
yer.

Voted for revenue amendment. Tice Bill,
and state police bill.

Rep. N. L. Jackson, Belvidere,
farmer.

Voted for revenue amendment, but failed
to vote on Tice Bill and state police bill.

Tenth district — Ogle and Winne-
bago counties.

Rep. David Hunter, Jr., Rockford,
farmer.

Voted for revenue amendment, Tice Bill
and state police bill. Good record.

Rep. Leroy Y. Green, Rockford,
lawyer.

Voted for revenue amendment. Tice Bill,
but against state police bill.

Twelfth district — Counties of
Carroll, JoDaviess and Stephenson.

Rep. John Acker, Savanna, sales-
man.

Voted for revenue amendment. Did
not vote on Tice Bill.

Voted to kill state police bill.

Rep. Chas. D. Franz, Freeport,
wholesale beverage business.

Voted for revenue amendment and for
Tice Bill. Did not vote on state police
bill.

Fourteenth district — Kane and
Kendall County.

Rep. Frank A. McCarty, Elgin,
lawyer.

Voted for revenue amendment, but
against Tice Bill and state police bill.

Mr. McCarty led the fiKht airainst the
Tice Bill, but later actively opposed re-
duction of the appropriation for tuberculo-
sis eradication. A good flghter. bat baa
been on wrong side of some important
public questions, namely, on T. B. eradi-
cation measures,

Rep. John M. Peffers, Aurora, at-
torney.

Voted for revenue amendment, state po-
lice bill and Tice Bill. Good record.

Rep. Ralph H. Hoar, Elgin, in-
surance.

Voted for revenue amendment. Tice Bill
and state police bill. Good record.

Sixteenth district— Counties of

Livingston, Marshall, Putnam and
Woodford.

Rep. Chas. M. Turner, Wenona,
farmer.

Voted for revenue amendment, Tice Bill,
and state police bill. Mr. Turner was
chairman of committee on agriculture in
the House during last session. He had a
consistent voting record for the session
and deserves re-election.

Rep. Calistus A. Bruer, Pontiac,
farmer.

Voted for revenue amendment and Tice
Bill. Also for state police bill. Has a
consistently good record on farm meas-
ures and exhibits marked qualities of
leadership.

Rep. Michael Fahy, Toluca, real
estate.

Voted for revenue amendment and Tice
Bill. Voted against state police bill.

Rep. Robert Scholes, Peoria
Heights, lawyer.

Voted for revenue amendment and Tice
Bill, but against state police bill. Mr.
Scholes was speaker of the House during
last Assembly. Fair in most of his deal-
ings with agricultural questions, but he
was not fair in giving consideration to
friends of the Tice Bill, when a speeiat
conference committee to iron out the dis-
agreements was named.

Rep. David H. McCluggage, Pe-
oria, hotel proprietor.

Voted for revenue amendment, and Tice
Bill, but against state police bill.

Twentieth district — Grundy and
Iroquois counties.

Rep. John Trotter, Coal City,
farmer and banker.

Voted for revenue amendment, but was
away because of illness when Tice Bill
was voted on. Voted against state police
bill.

Twenty-second district — Edward
and Vermilion counties.

Rep. H. M. Luckey, Potomac,
farmer.

Voted for revenue amendment and Tice
Bill, but against state police bill.

Rep. Abraham L. Stanfield, Paris,
grain dealer.

Voted for revenue amendment and Tice
Bill. Against state police bill.

Rep. Edgar B. Brown, Paris, ac-
countant.

Voted for revenue amendment and Tice
Bill. Voted to kill state police bill.

Twenty-fourth district — C h a m-
paign and Piatt counties.

Rep. Roger F. Little, Champaign,
lawyer.

Voted for revenue amendment. Tice Bill
and state police bill. Good record.

Rep. James A. Reeves, Cham-
paign, farmer.

Voted for revenue amendment and Tice
Bill, but against state police bill.

Twenty-sixth district — Ford and
McLean Counties.

Rep. Gus J. Johnson, Paxton, real
estate.

Voted for revenue amendment. Tice Bill
and state police bill. Consistently favofs
farm legislation and has marked qualities
of leadership. Deserves re-election.

Rep. A. L. Hutson, Colfax, mer-
chant.

Voted for revenue amendment, Tice Bill,
and state police bill.

Rep. Jacob Martens, Anchor,
farmer and banker.

Voted for revenue amendment and Tice
bill. Also for state police bill.

Twenty-ei«hth district — DeWitt
Macon and Logan Counties.

Rep. W. C. Chynoweth, Decatur,
farmer.

Voted for revenue amendment. Tice Bill
and state police bill.

Rep. Johii Clark, Decatur, miner.

Voted for rivenue amendment. Did not

vote on Tice Bill. Voted against state
police bill.

Rep. Grover G. Hoff, Decatur, at-
torney.

Voted for revenue amendment, Tice Bill
and state police bilL

Thirtieth district — Brown, Cass,
Mason, Menard, Schuyler and Taze-
well.

Rep. Homer J. Tice, Greenview,

farmer.

Voted for revenue amendment, Tice Bill
and state police bill. Tice is one of the
veterans of General Assembly. Has spon-
sored many agricultural bills. Has splen-
did record and deserves re-election.

Rep. H. B. Teel, Rushville, law-
yer.

Did not vote on revenue amendment.
Vbted for Tice bill, also state police bill.

Rep. Martin B. Lohman, Pekin,
insurance and real estate.

Voted for revenue amendment and Tice
Bill. Against state police bill.

Thirty-second district — Hancock,
McDonough and Warren Counties.

Rep. RoUo R. Robbins, Augusta,
publisher.

Voted for revenue amendment, Tice Bill
and state police bill. Robbins has a con-
sistently favorable record on farm legis-
lation.

Rep. James H. Foster, Macomb,
insurance.

Voted for revenue amendment, Tice Bill,
also state police bill.

Rep. Wm. Adcock, Galesburg,
farmer.

Voted for revenue amendment and state
police bill. Did not vote on Tice Bill. Ad-
cock introduced a resolution memorializing
congress to provide for a bounty on ex-
portable surplus of farm products. Passed
unanimously.

Thirty-third district — Henderson,
Mercer and Rock Island counties.

Senator Martin R. Carlson, Mo-
line. Merchant.

Voted in favor of Lantz Revenue Amend-
ment Resolution and for Tice bill. Voted
against reducing appropriation for tuber-
culosis eradication. Voted for Police bill.
A good record.

Representative Harry M. McCas-
krin, Rock Island, Attorney.

Voted for Revenue Amendment and Tice
Bill. Against Dunlap Police bill. Good
record.

Rep. Thos. P. Sinnett, Moline, at
torney.

Voted for Revenue Amendment and the
Tice bill. Also voted for state police bill.
Good record.

Thirty-fourth district — C lark.
Coles and Douglas.

Rep. Harry Baxter — Newman,
automobiles and farmer.

Voted for revenue amendment and Tice
Bill. Voted to kill sUte police bill.

Rep. Walter E. Cork, Marshall
insurance.

Voted for revenue amendment and Tice
Bill. Voted to kill state police bill.

Thirty-fifth district — D e K a 1 b,
Lee, Whiteside counties.

Senator Harry G. Wright, De-
Kalb, banker.

Voted for revenue amendment and Tice
bill. Voted against reducing appropria-
tion for tuberculosis eradication. Voted
for state police bill. Senator Wright has
been friendly to agricultural proposals,
and has a good record.

Rep. Henry C. Allen, Lyndon,
farmer.

Voted for revenue amendment. Tice Bill,
and state police bill. Allen has a very
good record and has been favorable to
measures for betterment of agriculture.

Rep. John P. Devine, Dixon, law-
yer.

Voted in favor of revenue amendment
and Tice bill. Against state police bill.
Devine has not always shown disposition to
support agricultural legislation but of
late his record has been fairly good.

Thirty-sixth district — A dams.
Pike and Scott Counties.

Rep. A. Otis Arnold, Quincy, pub-
lish! isher.

Voted for revenue amendment, Tice Bill
and state police bill. Consistently favor-
able to agricultural legislation. Deserves
re-election.

Rep. Harold Bush, Pittsfield.
newspaper publisher.

Vited for revenue amendment and Tice
Bill. Also for state police bill.

Thirty-seventh district — H e n r y,
Bureau, Start counties.

Senator Randolph Boyd, Galva,
retired manufacturer.

Voted for revenue amendment and for
Tice bill. Voted to reduce appropriation
for tuberculosis eradication. Voted ' for
Rarr appropriation bill on its passage.
Voted for state police bill. Record good.

Rep. Frederick W. Rennick,
Buda, lawyer.

Voted for L^ntz revenue amendment
resolution, also for tuberculosis eradica-
tion bill. Voted for state police bill.
Good record.

Rep. John R. Moore, Kewanee,
lawyer.

Voted for revenue amendment, Tice bill,
but against state police bilL

Booth, Atkinson.

Rep. Milton T.
retired merchant.

Voted in favor of revenue amendment.
Tice bill, and state police bill. Good rec-
ord.

Thirty-eiifhth district — Greene,
Jersey, Macoupin and Montgomery

counties.

Rep. Otto C. Sonnemann, Carlin-
ville, retired.

Voted for revenue amendment and Tire
Bill. Against state police bill.

Rep. Robert Whiteley, Carlin-
ville, farmer and mel-chant

Voted for revenue amendment and Tice
Bill. Against state police bill.

Rep. Truman Snell, Carlinville,
attorney.

Voted for revenue amendment and Tice
Bill. But against state police bill.

Thirty-ninth district, — L a S a 1 1 e
County.

Two new candidates for Senate: George
M. Reynolds, Utica, republican, and B. J.
Shanley, OtUwa, democrat.

Rep. R. G. Soderstrom, Streator,
Linotype Operator.

Voted for revenue bill and Tice bill.
Against state police bill.

Rep. John Wylie, Ottawa, Farm-
er.

Did not vote on Lantz revenue amend-
ment resolution; voted for Tice and state
police bills.

Rep. Lee O'Neil Browne, Ottawa,
Lawyer.

Failed to vote on revenue amendment ;
voted for Tice bill, but voted to kill state
police bill.

Fortieth district — Christian, Shel-
by, Fayette and Cumberland coun-
ties.

Rep. H. D. Sparks, Shelbyville,
Business Education.

Voted for revenue amendment and T^ce
bill. Failed to vote on state police bill.

Rep. Arthur Roe, Vandalia, Law-
yer,

Voted for revenue amendment. Tice bill,
and against state police.

Forty-first district — DuPage and

Will counties.

Senator Richard J. Barr, Joliet,
Lawyer.

Voted for revenue amendment and for
Tice bill. Voted to reduce appropriation
for tuberculosis from IS. 000. 000 to t2 -
000.000 ir^his own bill. Did not vote on
state police bill. Barr generwlly has given
active support to farm measures and has
a good record.

. Rep. Lottie Holman O'Neill,
Downers Grove, Home-maker.

V'oted for revenue amendment and Tice
bill. Failed to vote on state police bill

Rep. Michael F. Hennebry, Wil-
mington, Lawyer.

Voted for revenae amendment, but did
not vote on Tice or state police bill.

Forty-second district — Clinton.
Marion, Clay, Effingham counties.

Rep. R. J. Branson, Centralia, At-
torney.

Voted in favor ef revenue amendment
and for Tice bill. Voted to kill sute
police bill.

Rep. A. B. La^er. Carlyle, Law-
yer.

Voted for revenue amendment and the
Tice bill. Voted against state police bill

Forty.tbird district — Knox and
Fulton Counties.

Sen. Wm. S. Jewell, Lewistown,
111., Lawyer.

Voted for revenue amendment and for
Tice bill. Voted to {educe appropriation
for tuberculosis eradication. Voted against
state police bill. Fair; record.

Rep. Reed F. C4>:ler, Lewistown,
Lawyer.

Voted for revenue amendment and Tice
bill. Voted against sUte police bill. Mr
Cutler was majority floor leader and as
such had an opportunity*! to wield more in-
fluence over legislation than the ordinary
member. He actively supported the move-
ment in the committee on appropriations
to reduce the appropriations for tuberculo-
sis eradication from three million dollars
to one million and a half dollars. Mr. Cut-
ler showed an inclination to be governed
more by personal likes and dislikes of
member sponsoring legislation than merits
of matter contained in the bill.

Forty-fourth district — Randolph.
Jackson, Perry, Washington and
Monroe counties.

Rep. Elbert Waller, Tamaroa,
School teacher.

Voted for revenue amendment but
against Tice bill and state police bill.

Rep. Henry Eisenbart, Waterloo,
Insurance.

Voted no on revenue amendment. Did
not vote otf Tice bill, and voted against
state police bill. Poor record.

Rep. Charles J. Kribs, Prairie,
DuRoacher, General merchandise.

Did not vote on revenue amendment
nor the Tice bill. Voted against Btate po-
lice bill. Poor record.

Forty-fifth district — Morgan and
Sangamon Counties.

Sen. Earl B. Searcey, Springfield,
Writer.

Voted for revenue amendment, but did
not vote on Tice bill. Voted against ef-
fort to reduce appropriation for tuberculo-

" n

«is eradication. Did not vote on State po-
lice bill. 1 An entire new alate of can-
didates fur represt^-ntative has been nom-
inated from this difitrict.)

Forty-sixth district — Jefferson,
WayAe, Richland and JasperXoun-
tios.

Rep. W. B. Phillips Ml. Vernon.
Banker.

Voted for revenue am<-ndment. Tice bill
and state police bill. Gu«>d record.

Forty'seventh district — Bond and

Madison Counties.

Norman G. Flagg, Moro, Farmer.

Candidate for state .senator on repub-
lican ticket. Had excellent record as
representative in the last General A»Kem-
bly. Voted for revenue amendment. Tice
bill and state police bill.

Rep. Chas. F. Malloy, Sorento,
Oil, gas and coal leases.

Voted for revenue amendment and for
tuberculosis eradication bill. Voted

against .^tate police bill.

Forty-eiffhth district — Crawford,
Edwards, Lawrence, Wabash, While,
Gallatin and Hardin Counties. ,

Rep. Ed. Ryan, Lawrenceville,
Farmer.

Voted for revenue amendment. Tice b^.
and state police bill. Good record.

Rep. Jerome L. Harrell, Norris
City, Publisher and lawyer.

Voted for revenuf amendment. Tice bill
and state police bill. Good record.

Forty.Binth district — St. Clair
County.

Senatorial candidates are both new men

Rep. Ed. P. Petri, Belleville, In-
surance, real estate and loans.

Voted in favor of revenue amendment
and against state police bill. Failed to
vote on Tice bill.

Rep. Thomas L. Fekete, East St.
Louis, Lawyer.

Vot«»d for revenue amendment. Tiee bill

and state police bill.

Fiftieth district — Franklin, Pul-
aski, Williamson, Union and Alex-
ander Counties.

Rep. Wallace A. Bandy, Marion,
Real estate and insurance.-

Voled for revenue amendment. Tice biU.
and state police bill. Good reoord.

Rep. Carl Choisser, Benton, Law-
yer.

Voted for revenue amendment and Tice
biU. Against state p«>lire bill.

Fifty-firat district — J o h n s o n,
Po^e, Saline, Massac and Hamilton
Counties.

Candidates for Senator frum thitt district
are new men.

Rep. Claude L. Rew, Harrisburg.
Insurance and real estate.

Voted for revenue amendment and Tice
bill. Voted against state police bill.

Rep. W. B. Rush, Metropolis,
Farmer and merchant.

Voted for revenue amendment. Tice bill
and state police bill. Good record.

4 ■!'

RaUy to Proposal

(Continued from cot. 6, pmgr 1.)

system to new conditions as they
arise.

4. Tbe LefftslktuK cmnnot V tnutcj with
additional ijowrr. It mwht tax important
industries out of busin«*M«.

Answer — The Legislature now
has tht^ power to tax important in-
dustries out of business. But no-
body wants to tax industry out of
business. Nobody wants to make
Illinois an unfavorable home for in-
dustry, capital, or any other worthy
enterprise. Legislatures don't do
what nobody wants done.

The amendment requires a two-
thirds vote on all legislation enacted
thereunder. Any legislation so efa-
acted may be repealed by a major-
ity vote. If any one does not be-
lieve these provisions a sufficient
safeguard against unfair legisla-
tion, he must regard representa-
tive government as a failure.

5. The rv<juir«itient of a two-thirds vote
of the members of each Houm; for the
enactment of any kvisiation under the
amendment is itself unconstitutional.

Answer — This objection ignores
the fact that the Constitution re-
quires a two-thirds vote for the ex-
pulsion of members by either house,
the conviction of any official under
impeachment, the passage of any
act with an emergency clause, the
passage of any act over the Gover-
nor's veto, or the submission of a
constitutional amendment.

6. The amendment would permit th«
sinirle ux — that is. the taxation of land
without refrard to buildings or other In.
provcments.

Answer — It is specifically pro-
vided in the amendment that real
estate except mining land or land
devoted to reforestation, shall be
in one class. There is no provision
for the taxation of land and im-
provements separately or for the
taxation of land and the exemption
of improvements.

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The Illinoit Agricultural Association RECORD

November 1, 1926

5(|00 CHARTER MEMB^^S GOAL NEW AUTO INSURANCE COMPANY

19,328 People Died
From Auto Accident
. last Year Is Report

Ten Times As Many Are In-
jured and Thousands of
Curs Are Wrecked.

By V. Vaniman

THt RAPID growth of the auto-
mobile industry has been
matcl led by a similar growth in au-
tomobile accidents.

More people
are killed by the
automobile to-
day than in any
other way, bar-
r i n g diseases.
The type of ac-
c i d e n t that
stands out pre-
eminently is the
personal injury
accident. Last
year there were
y. v.mm.n. 19,828 fatalities

by automobiles and ten times as
. manj more were seriously injured
in th > United States.

N< other form of insurance has
had such a rapid development as
auto insurance. At close of 1920
there was approximately 9,000,000
cars registered in this country. Dur-
ing ;he same year 424 insurance
comianies wrote automobile insur-
of some kind, the premium in-
being about $185,000,000.
Oile person is killed by an auto-
mobile rfvery 30 minutes. An acci-
dent can happen in the twinkling of
of ai 1 eye.

Accident! Similar
F< Ilowing is a typical story of an
acci< ent. Out in the country — bad
crosj roads — both to blame — one
kille i, three injured. Who pays?
is worth dollars and cents to
your mind at ease and to know
hazards of sudden loss have
removed. Many people every
are confronted with a $5,000
or $|l 0,000 liability loss. Every one
wanfs to feel whatever they are li-
for in case of a serious accident
be forthcoming. Members of
family or friends driving your
should an accident occur, if
liable, naturally would be ex-

ance
com<

It
hav«
the
beer
yeai

able

will

your

car,

heldl

hurl
Can

pected to pay. A child at play may

or fall in front of your car.

you imagine any picture which
would touch the heart of a jury
mors quickly than a crippled child.

automobile owner unprotected
by ] ublic liability insurance, by rea-
son of judgment against him, loses
eveiything he owns.

May Sue Later

Eo you know that under the law
a p ;rson injured in childhood may
sue for damages when he or she
reac hes maturity, regardless of prev-
ious settlement having been accept-
ed >y his or her lawful guardians,
'unless settlement is approved by a
cou -t of competent jurisdiction?

1 here are some unavoidable ac-
cidi nts. Insurance is the first ac-
res: ory. Become a charter member
of J I company which will operate for
yoi and your own fellow farmers
whi have indicated their belief in
coo peration by being a Farm Bu-
rea i member because they know the
far ner has problems to solve. With
the increasing number of automo-
bil< s, with the trend toward compul-
sor^ automobile liability insurance
an( with the increasing number of
automobile accidents it behooves
ev«ry member to think seriously if
he should not have his own automo-
bil ! insurance company not only for
his iself but for the sake of bis fam-
ily

An' Open /^tter from Our President

For

considera

>bl<

period of time there has been a demand for
the lllinoii Agricultufftl Association to furnish automobile insurance
to it I members. After thorough investigation and
consideration, the Executive Committee unanimous-
ly decided that an insurance company be organized
to be owned and controlled by the membership and
operated exclusively for members of the Illinois
Agricultural Association. At a recent meeting of
the Farm Bureau presidents, they heartily endorsed
the i.ction of the Executive Committee.

Tl ^ Illinois Agricultural Association is your or-
gani: Ation, and you are entitled to the best service
it can render, and likewise, the Association is en-
titled to your best thought and support.

The trend toward compulsory liability insurance
also a factor that merits your consideration.
lEver r Farm Bureau member owning an automobile
shou d be vitally interested in automobile insur-
ance. Especially is this true with reference to liability protection.
It is my opinion tliat you, as a Farm Bureau member, will not
only be strengthening your Farm Bureau organization by becoming
a charter member and making application for insurance in this com-
pany, but that you y^i"
your estate.

Your decision, and
how soon the compa ly can start operations.

ill be creating a protection which you owe to
the decision of other members, will determine

S^-*^^ ^<^L^^5r^

Four Classes of
Against Fire

Coverage Offered to Protect
Theft, Collision, Public Liability

To make the insura ice just as
simple as possible, so ts to reduce
bookkeeping and give tie members
the protection needed, four classes
of coverage are offered as follows:
Class I. Fire and th< ft, property

damage an(

Class II.

bility and ccllision.
Fire and the ft, and prop-
erty damagi! and public
liability.

Class III. Property camage and
public liabi ity.

Class IV. Fire and th ift.

Class I is called the full coverage

policy. It protects th< car of the

insured and also the in^ired against

liability imposed by

damage his car may do

or persons.

EXPLANATION OF

Fire and Theft— It

standard practice for

public lia-

law against
to property

[:OVERACE

is becoming
these two

forms of coverage to b; written to-
gether. With the fire s also trans-
portation coverage. T le insured is
protected against (1) fire, arising
from any cause wha:soever, and
lightning; an^^£^ while being
transported i'^H^ co nveyance by
land or water.^The th !ft insurance
protects the insured s gainst theft,
robbery or pilferage, jxcepting by
any person or persons in 'the in-
sured's household or in insured's
service or employment. In case of
loss from fire, trans )ortation, or
theft, the insured will be paid the
actual value of the cir. "This will
be determined by the insured and
the company and in ci se they can't
agree provision is made for an ap-
praiser to be selected by both par-
tits. The cost per cai for fire and
theft insurance will be determined
by dividing the total osses by the
value of the ears insuied. This will
give the per cent loss per $100 of
value.

Collision Insui ance

Collision Insurance — This is to
indemnify the insured against ac-
tual loss or damage ti his automo-
bile by collision with »n object. It
covers only collision with movable
objects except in cas s the insured
in avoiding a coUisior with a mov-
ing object, collides with a station-
ary object, then he is protected.
There are many fact )rs connected
with collision insuran :e. It is not
fair to other member i of the com-
pany to have them p irt with their
money to recompense a party who
is negligent or careli ss in driving
his automobile. Foi example, if
the insured goes to sleep driving
his car, run off the riad and hit a
tree, this might be termed negl
gence or carelessness |or both. How-

ever, if the driver runs into a tree to
avoid hitting an individual, he will
be protected by his insurance. The
cost of this insurance will be deter-
mined by classifying the cars and
finding the losses that each car of
the class should pay. It will cost
just as much to replace a fender on
an old Ford as on a new one. Fords
may be in one class — Dodges and
similar priced cars in another class,
etc.

No Deductables

It is common practice among
many companies to have deducta-
bles, for example, $20 or $50 or
$100 deductable. This means that
one must stand the first $20 or $50
loss himself. Then the company will
pay the balance. The Board of Di-
rectors decided that there would be
no deductables. Instead the in-
sured will receive 80 per cent of the
loss damage.

Property Damage and Public Li-
ability— These two types of insur-
ance are invariably written together.

Property Damage — This insur-
ance promises to indemnify the in-
sured against loss from the liability
imposed by law upon the insured
for property damage to other par-
ties of every description, resulting
from the ownership, maintenance or
use of the insured's car. The limit
of liability of the company is up to
$1,000 for any one accident.

Public Liability — This insurance
indemnifies the insured against loss
from liability imposed by law for
"bodily injuries" suffered, or death
caused by the operation of the in-
sured's automobile. The company
will write the ordinary limits of the
public liability policy which is $5,-
000 for one person, and $10,000 for
any one accident injuring more than
one person.

In determining the basis for pay-
ment for property damage and pub-
lic liability it is pointed out that a
$500 car running 30 miles per hour
can do as much personal injury as
a $1,000 car running at the same
rate of speed'. After examining
the loss figures'iof this kind of cov-
erage for more than 25,000 auto-
mobiles, no justification could be
found for basing the cost on the
value of the car. Therefore each
automobile will bear in equal pro-
portion losses for property damage
and public liability insurance.

Many factors are involved in de-
termining the proper basis for de-
termining : what each automobile
should pay for a particular cover-
age. The only basis that will eventu-
ally stand the test of time will be
one that is fair and equitable.

Launching of New Organization Follows
Unanimous Endorsement of Plan on Oct. 8
by Farm Bureau Presidents in Chicago

No Money to Be Collected Until 5,000 Applicants Insure
Success of Venture. Company Will Be Owned and Con-
trolled By and Operated Exclusively For Members. Farm
Bureaus Are Agents. , — .

A State-wide mutual automobile insurance company to be
owned and controlled by and operated exclusively for mem-
bers of the Illinois Agricultural Association became a reality
following action taken by the I. A. A. Executive Committee
and Farm Bureau presidents in joint session on Oct. 8 in
Chicago.

There was no dissenting opinion expressed in this represen-
tative meeting. Farm bureau members want mutual auto in-
surance but they want it under their own control so that its
benefits may be exclusively for the people who are support-
ing the movement.

Investigation Made

The decision to launch the new

company came after many months

of careful con-

J^^k sideration and

^^^ investigation by

^ Donald Kirk-
B| \ Patrick, V.
^^ J Vanimon and
• / others. It was
[^ y not hatched

k ' overnight. The

'^^^^^ Association had
l^^^fe the choice of
_^^| linking its fu-
ture interest in
•»•■"'■' Ki'kp-*"'"'- auto insurance
with a privately-controlled mutual
or of organizing its own company.
It chose the latter course.

What does the company offer?
How much will a policy cost?

These are salient questions.
There will be no membership fees.
The only requirement, is member-
ship in the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation. The law states, however,
that a premium must be collected in
cash in advance. This will amount
to $10, and will be known as a pre-
mium deposit. At the end of each
six months period the member will
pay his share of losses and expens-
es, and thus restore the premium
deposit and renew his insurance for
another six months period.

The policyholder retains his $10
interest in the initial premium de-
posit. The policy fee is $5, to cover
overhead expenses requisite to put-
ting the name of the holder on rec-
ord.

Policy Holder Benefits

The Board of Directors has in ev-
ery instance formulated plans hav-
ing in mind the best interests of
the policy holder. The unused por-
tion of the premium deposit will be
returned to the policy holder upon
cancellation of his policy. Likewise
his surplus share, will be returned
upon cancellation of the policy.

There are legal requirements that
do not permit the company to guar-
antee that this will be done since
such promises would create a paper

liability not permitted by the State
Insurance Department. In the same
way the earnings on the surplus
will be credited to the policy holder
regardless of the form of auto in-
surance coverage. The surplus share
will be a contribution by the mem-
bers to the company's surplus to
meet the law requiring the company
to have five times its maximum risk.
The surplus share is $10. The maxi-
mum risk of the company will be
for public liability, which is for
$10,000 in any single accident. The
member will get his insurance at
the cheapest possible cost. In case
he parts with his automobile he will
have contributed only $5 to the
company beyond the cost of actual
insurance.

5000 Members Needed

Five thousand Farm Bureau
members, who will become charter
members, are needed to start the
company. No money will be col-
lected until the company has the
necessary 5,000 applications to be-
gin operations.

The Farm Bureaus will have the
agency for the Company. When
they secure applications from 10
per cent of their members they will
be authorized agents. When they
secure 20 per cent, they will have
their quotas.

Legal Reserve Company

The Company is organized under
the uniform mutual law of the State
of Illinois and is a legal reserve
company. The powers of the Com-
pany are broad enough so it can
write other forms of insurance be-
sides automobile. It will not, how-
ever, enter the fire, lightning, or
windstorm field.

The company is to be owned and
controlled by its members who must
be farm bureau members or mem-
bers of their immediate families.

The board of directors will con-
sist of 19 men. The first board of
directors will be the Executive com-
mittee of the Illinois Agricultural
Association and its executive offic-
ers. Every policy holder will have
one vote.

Fill out this blank and send to

ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL
MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY

Room 1200, 608 South Dearborn St., Chicago

□ fntwea^d" becoming} • Charter M.mber of

The Illinois .Agricultural Mutual Insurance Company which will write
automoble insurance and operate for Farm Bureau Members

Name _ _

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Volume 4

Issued Every Month for 63,000 Thinking Fanners — December, 1926

No. 12

lOWDEN TO ADDRESS FARM BUREAU CONVENTION, CHICAGO, DEC. 6-7-8

Nation 's Eye On
Assembly In View
of Farm Depression

EvI C. Smitb

South and Grain
Belt Unite At St.
Louis In Epoch-
Marking Assembly

3500 Word Declaration of Prin-
ciples Heralds National Ac-
ceptance of Policy for Sur-
plus Control.

''p HE agricultural South and the
-'- Grain Belt joined hands in a
solemn pact to
unite for their
economic welfare
at an epoch-
.. ,^ ni niarking meeting
* ^BTfc in St. Louis on

^^^ Nov. 16-17.

Unity of
thought and ac-
tion was the key-
note of this im-
portant meeting,
and before the
delegates from
t w e 1 V e I states
went home a farmers' Declaration
of Principles had been drawn up
and adopted without a single dis-
senting voice. It was a great day
for American agriculture. It was
the first time in history that repre-
sentatives from two great sections
of the country united in a pledge
to hold iovp fnr agriculture above
political faith in the great fight for
a common cause.

Smith Chairman.

Earl C. Smith, president of the
Illinois Agricultural Association,
was chairman of the program and
arrangements committee that
framed the 3,500 word "bill of
rights."

The Declaration of Principles,
too lengthy to reproduce here, asked
for the assistance of commerce, in-
dustry, finance, and labor in map-
ping out a constructive program but
it expressed disfavor with move-
ments for farm relief initiated inde-
pendently of farm organizations.
It reaffirmed the faith of farm lead-
ers in surplus control legislation, the
equalization fee, and a Federal
Farm Board with broad powers.
Muscle Shoals, the tariff, coopera-
tive marketing, farm blocs, and a
plea for unity of agricultural in-
terests regardless of political affilia-
tion were named in the statement.

South Hard Hit.

The immediate cause for this
meeting that brought farm leaders
from all the great agricultural
states is the dilemma of the cotton
glower, and the continued depres-
sion in farm prices throughout the
grain and livestock areas.

With an 18,000,000 bale crop of
cotton selling now for only 12%
cents per pound, or nearly six cents
per pound below the cost of produc-
tion, the South is facing hard times
and possible bankruptcy.

Southern leaders point out that
a small surplus of 2,000,000 bales
of cotton reduced the value of the
crop $760,000,000. When the U.
S. Dept. of Agriculture put out its
first crop estimate cotton was sell-
ing for 18 cents per pound. But
only a few weeks later when returns
showed a crop of approximately
18,000,000 bales, the bottom of the
market dropped out and cotton fell
to 12 cents per pound.

Unnecessary Loss.

B. W. Kilgore, president of the

O. L. Hatch Elmer Willisms E. E. Brown

Seven thousand people saw Elmer Williams, 1925 national champion cornkusker, successfully defend
his title against 14 dark horse candidates in the T hird Annual State Corn Husking contest sponsored by
Prairie Farmer and the Stark County Farm Bureau near Elmira in Stark county on Nov. 12. Wil-
liam's record at 28.83 bushels husked in one hour and 20 minutes compares with his record of 35.76
bushels made last year which still stands as the world's record.

The contest went off smoothly under the direction of O. L. Hatch, president of the Stark County
Farm Bureau, and farm adviser E. E. Brown. The people of the Elmira Community club provided
helpers and lunch. The 15 contestants had all been selected at county contests conducted by the farm
bureaus of Piatt, Livingston, Mason, McLean, Moultrie, Montgomery, Knox, McDonough, Mercer, Han-
cock, Marshall-Putnam, Rock Island, Ford and Stark.

Williams lost the Mid-West contest at Fremont, Nebr., the following week to Fred Stanek of Iowa
^rho brought in a net load of 27.07 bu. The Nebraska corn ^ras lighter and the husks were much tighter
about the ears thus giving book buskers the advantage.

Exposition and Old Time Farm
Dance New Features This
Year.

Among other speakers sched-
uled for the three-day program
are;

Magnus Alexander — Prcs. Na-
tional Industrial Conference
Board, N. Y.
Robert S. Pack — Pres. National
Electric Light Ass'n., Minne-
apolis.
Dr. B. W. Cilgore — Pres. Amer-
ican Cotton Growers* Ass'n.

Dr. Carl C. Taylor Dean and

director. North Carolina Agri*
cultural College.
S. J. Duncan Clark — Editor Chi-
cag< Evening Post.

American Cotton Growers Ass'n,
the great cooperative of the South
figures that 6,000,000 bales of cot-
ton could have been bought at the
going price of $60 per bale for
$360,000,000, and the crop would
still have given the grower $400,-
000,000 more than he stands to re-
ceive under existing conditions.

The real problem of agriculture
is to prevent the overwhelming de-
pression in prices, created by small
surpluses.

This was the central thought of
every speech made in the conven-
tion.

"Surpluses are necessary if the
world is to be fed and clothed," de-
clared Gov. Lowden repeatedly, and
time after time he presented facts
and illustrations using the corn, po-
tato and cotton crops of successive
years to show how the smaller crop
invariably is worth more than the
larger crop.

Stabilisation Possible.

"Surpluses can be controlled and
prices stabilized," declared Lowden.
He cited the Brazilian government's
mass selling of coffee, and the Eng-
lish government's curtailment of
rubber offered to foreign trade, as
examples of price stabilization.

Lowden reaffirmed his conviction
that a Federal farm board with
broad powers could stabilize prices,
remove surpluses from channels of
trade, and assess the cost equally
among all producers of the com-
modity.

"I'm satisfied," declared Lowden,
"that' the present distress among
cotton growers of the South could
have been averted by a Federal
farm board, which could have main-
tained a price of 18 to 20 cents per
pound for cotton."

Illinois was well represented at
the gathering by farm bureau mem-
bers, farm advisers, and county and
state executive officers from every
section. Dr. Tait Butler, editor of
the Progressive Farmer, the South's
great farm paper, presided.

The happiest moment of a fail-
ure's life — quitting time.

Gas Tax and Income
Tax With Exemptions
May Be New Proposals

Legislative Committee Adopts
Policy Against Any Increase
in Taxes to Farmers.

Frank Barton,
the legislative

4 DETERMINED stand a«:ainst

■^ any kind of legislation that will
increase taxes
to farmers or at-
tempt to saddle
any additional
burden on farm
property will
form the founda-
tion for the legis-
lative program of
the Illinois Agri-
cultural Associa-
tion in the com-
ing legislature.

This was the
policy adopted by
committee, Frank
Barton, chairman, which met in Chi-
cago recently to outline its plans for
the coming year.

Gas Tax Discussed.

While specific legislation to be
supported by the Association was
not considered in detail, a gas tax
with the "in lieu of" feature which
assures that such a tax will replace
a portion of the county road -and
bridge tax, in equal amount, will
undoubtedly get the Association
backing. "The Association will be
against such a tax that adds to the
farmers' burden.

Incensed at the defeat of the tax
amendment proposal, the committee
urged that the Association continue
its efforts toward keeping alive the
general tax relief committee of
state organizations that it may con-
tinue its campaign of education.

Income Tax Recommended.

As one step toward getting the
public interested in a new taxing
system, the enactment of a state,
income tax law with sufficiently higl^

(Continue<1 on cul. 3. pai^c 4. )

Eastern Policy of
Exploiting Farmer
Condemned by Peek

Declare Farniers' Job to Pro-
duce Cheap Foods to Aid
American Industry and Ex-
ports.

(Continued from last month.)
The farm debt has more than
trebled and the actual exchange
value of farm lands has de-
clined 20 per cent during the past
15 years. There is continuing in
this country on a vast scale a redis-
tribution of wealth away from the
farms into the cities — from those
who have produced it to those who
have not.

Hoover and Mellon say in sub-
stance that American farmers must
provide the food and raw material
for American industry and labor at
prices no high^ than foreign manu-
facturers and labor pay. Why?
In order that American industry
may export manufactured goods in
competition with Europe.
' In other words Hoover and Mel-
lon and all they stand for are push-
ing as America's new policy toward
agriculture, the proposition that it
is the American farmer's duty and
place to produce and sell here at
home just as cheaply as does the
Russian t>^asant and the South
American peon in Europe.

Their aim is to develop the capa-
city of the United States to compete
for world markets with industrial
expqrts. They suggest that to make
this possible the American farmer
must provide the basic materials on
the same level as the foreign indus-
trialists are supplied. They hope
the American farmer can do this
and maintain his standard of living
by superior and increasing efficiency
in production and distribution. If
he cannot that is his hard luck; no
matter what happens to him he must
make it possible for our industrial
exports to continue.

Lower Wages Result

To apply this same reasoning

(C«ntinued on ool. 4, pare 4.)

4^.:.,ri

FRANK O. LOWDEK, Illi-
nois' war governor and
champion of agriculture, will
be the key-note speaker at the
annual meeting of the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation,
Chicago, Dec, 6-7-8. Gov.
Lowden's address will be made
on Wednesday moiiiing, Dec.
8, when agricultural leaders
from everj' state in the Union
will assemble for the most rep-
resentative farm gathering
ever held in the United States.
A varied program with speak-
ers representing .several ^schools
of thought on agricultural re-
lief is promised.

The Eighth Annual 'Meeting
which takes place the aecood week
in December will
find the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau
more firmly en- ^^
trenched in its \
position as first , '
i n agricultural
America, than at
any previous
time since its
formation. It wiil
j find at the helm,
I Sam Thompson,

"Our Sam," a Frank O. Lowdm

vigorous thinker

and fighter for agriculture who
came up through the ranks from a
farm to farm membership cam-
paigner to his present position.

Country Dance Monday.

An old-fashioned countrj' dance
the first night of the convention, a
banquet in the Grand Ballroom of
the Hotel Sherman on Tuesday
night, and the First National Farm
Bureau Agricultural Exposition are
new features.

The A^icultural Exposition will
display a cross-section of farm bu-
reau activities, cooperative market-
ing, and commercial institutions
that supply fkrmers' needs. The
entire mezzanine floor of the hotel
has been engaged for the exhibits.

On Friday and Saturday preced-
ing the convention, a hom« and
community traisinK school will be
held.

The meeting this year will un-
doubtedly have greater significance
and will present a group with more
unitj- of thought and spirit than at
any previous time.

/» trs<l'a<trtart-^TrS<ti»Kg(ffSmi<trt<tra<m<m:tmi^

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

(By Congressional Districts)

1st to llth William Webb, Route One, JoUet

12th G. F. Tullock. Rockford

13th C. E. Ban^borough, Polo

14th W. H. Mood>, Port Byron

ISth B. H. Taylor. Rapatee

I6th A.R. Wright. Varna

17th F. D. Barton. Cornell

18th R. F. Karr. Iroquois

19th J. L. Whisnand. Charleston

20th Charles Boraelt. Havana

21st Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

27.nd Frank Oexner, Waterloo

23rd W. L. Cope. Salem

24th Charles Marshall. Belknap

2Stll R. K. Loomis, Makanda

Published once a month at 404 North We«Iey Ave., Mount
Chicago, Illinois. Entered as second-ciass matter Oetober 20, 1925, at
412. .\ct of February 2S, 192.'». authorized October 27. l'.)25. The in«
Illinois Agricultural Association Kecoki>. Postmaster: la returning i

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OFFICERS '

President. EatI C. Smith , Dctnrft

Vice-President, Charles R Finley Hoopcston

Treasurer, R . A. Cowlcs Bloominston

Secretary, Geo. A. Fox , Sycamore

I LiLilNOIS

rCCLTVRAL ASSOCIA

'RECORD

N

To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organ-
ized, namely to promote, protect and represent the business,
economic, social and educational interests of the farmers oj
Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture.

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Co>operative Accounting Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

Finance R> A. Cowtes

Fruit and Vegetable Marketiag A. B. Lceper

Ceneml Office J. H. Kelker

Information E. G. Tbiem

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organization G. E. Metzger

Farm Supply J.R.Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson

Transportation L. J. Quasey

irris, Illinoio, by the Illinoia Axricultural Association. Edited by Depnrtmont of Information, E. G. Thiem, Director, 608 South Dearborn Street,
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i A Lesson In Organization

AC.VREFUL analysis of the vote on the defeated
tax amendment leads us to several inevitable
conch sions. .Our first is that the Association func-
tionec and functioned well. Its members voted
overwhelmingly for the tax amendment. This is
shown clearly by the great majority in favor of
the measure in the well organized farm bureau
counties where the rural population predominates.
In unorganized or poorly organized counties farm-
ers failed to rally to this cause which meant so
much to them.

Organized Crawford county returned 4,171 votes
in favor, and 1,239 against with total votes polled
at 7,<01. But across the county line in unorgan-
ized .fasper county the result was 1,480 for, 1,370
againpt with a total of 5,537 votes cast. Here is
a lesson in organization. There are others.

Out of 13,388 votes cast in Morgan county, the
amendment received 5,298 in favor and 3,167
againjst. In Jacksonville, the largest city in the
the amendment had a slight majority but
rural townships, the count was 2,576 for and
1,020 against with 1,952 not voting,
flowing are the figures in some of my best
Bureau sections," writes farm adviser For-
isher :

Total

Pisgah 181

Arcadia _ 170

Sincliir .j 157

Alexander 412

"A 1 we need is to sell our people on the value of
orgariization," concludes Fisher.

In DeKalb county the amendment had the needed
majoi'ity with 5,709 votes in favor and 1,716 against
out 01' a total of 9,982 votes cast for the office receiv-
ing most votes. This is a county largely rural
with a strong farm bureau, good advisers, and
plenty of able leadership.

Likewise Grundy county voted nearly 3 to 1 in
favorl Piatt the same, Pike county mo'-e than 5 to 1
with the needed majority, Warren more than 2 to 1

In two communities where there was strong farm
bureau leadership influence 64 per cent voted for,
13 against, and 23 per cent non- voters.

In seven half -organized communities 47 per cent
of the 1,876 voters were for the amendment, 27
J br cent against, and 26 per cent not voting.

In seven unorganized communities or precincts
ojnly 40 per cent voted for, 28 per cent against, and
32 per cent didn't Vote out of the total of 1,321
\ oters. In Urbana the vote was 37 per ceiit for and
c6 per cent against, 27 per cent not voting. In
Ohampaign 42 per cent voted for, 31 against, and
7 per cent not voting.

The obvious lesson is stronger organization if
tjhe farmer is to keep pace with and gain justice
in a highly organized society. The Illinois Agri-

iultural Association should have 40,000 more mem-
ers. It ought to keep its organization staff in the
field until it gets them.

For

Against

145

12

124

45

80

24

196

41

A. F. B. F. Meets

THE annual meeting of the American Farm
Bureau Federation Dec. 6-7-8, in Chicago, will
')e watched with much interest by men from all
'valks of life. Its pronouncements will be read as
1he thoughts of real farm folks on the problems of
1he day. When all other industries are prosperous
( xcept agriculture something is the matter. Far-
mers know better than any others what's wrong.
They are in the best position to prescribe a rem-
iidy. Whatever thoughts come out of this national
assembly, should have careful consideration by all
■vho are in a position to help the industry.

with
3 to

the required majority, Stark 3 to 1 for. Ogle
I, Gallatin the same, Mercer nearly 4 to 1 in

of a

favor and so on.

Bu : the inescapable and deplorable truth is that
because of the ignorance, poor citizenship, or lack
of interest displayed by such a large percentage
of th ; mass of voters who failed to express them-
selves on a measure so vital to all, this proposition
went down to defeat when the thinking voters were
for i; decisively. Here is democratic government
at its worst. It doesn't seem fair to allow the non-
thinking people to decide so important a question.

Faraiers displayed much more intelligence in the
last I election than town and city people if we use
the ■'■ote on the amendment as a yardstick. In
Cook county a larger percentage failed to vote on
the tax amendment than in most downstate com-
munities. County Adviser Burns of Champaign
eounly in an interesting survey made in his county
shows that in 20 well-organized farm bureau com-
muni ;ies 65 per cent voted for, 19 per cent against,
and : 6 per cent didn't vote on the amendment, out

Funds Needed

THERE will be no Christmas spirit in the homes
of hundreds of flood sufferers, our neighbors in
1 he Illinois valley, unless those who are able pro-
ride for them. 'The Red Cross is making a valiant
iffort to care for the needy, but funds are inade-
quate. More money will be necessary to give
« hese people even the necessities of life. Our
iuty and obligation to the hundreds of poor, ten-
int farmers who lost everything is plain. Send
your contribution to your local Red Cross chapter,
'arm bureau or to R. A. Cowles, Treasurer, Illinois
Agricultural Association, 608 So. Dearborn St.,
Chicago, and it will be relayed to the proper
i luthorities.

The Cornborer Scare

4 T the recent cornborer meeting held in the of-

l\ flees of the Illinois Agricultural Association

several speakers referred to the scare created

by half-baked information about the ravages of this

insect.

One young man from Southern Indiana broke off
a deal for a farm because he feared the borer would
stop corn growing. Panicky insurance companies
and bankers, it was reported, are withholding loans
on farm lands because they fear the cornborer.

While we would not minimize the possible dan-
gers from this pest, yet we are convinced after trav-
eling over the infested areas of Ohio, Michigan, and
Canada that the insect can be stopped. Damage
can be largely avoided. And if the borer comes we
can learn to live with it.

Burning, sli(redding, or plowing under of all
stalks, corn stubble, and trash will destroy 95 to 98
per cent of the insects. Farmers of Kent and Essex
townships, Ontario, would have suffered little, ex-
perts admit, if they had shown more interest and ac-
tivity in destroying the pest. Legislation and a
police force were found necessary there to compel
cleanup work.

There's another side to this new situation. The
borer might do for us what we can't seem to do for
ourselves, that is, to reduce our crop so corn will
be worth at least cost of production. The cotton
boll weevil rested last summer and let the South
grow 18,000,000 bales of 12 cent cotton to its
own great loss and sorrow. A 16,000,000 bale crop
would have been worth $300,000,000 more. Now
the weevil is being hailed as a public benefactor.
The corn belt will continue to grow heavy corn
crops in spite of the borer. If

total of 3,764 Voters.

J The International

AS WE go to press the great international Live-

.t\. stock Exposition with all its glamour and at-
raction for the stockman is in full swing. There's

i omething in the sight f;.._ ^eel of choice purebred
ivestock that breeds optimism and confidence in
he future of farming. There's inspiration in look-

:ng at a beautiful fiock of sheep or a showy, well-
rroomed herd of cattle. With all our efforts and

• '.nergy directed toward the economic side of agri-
lulture, let us not lose our appreciation for the
)eauty, romance, or what-you-may-call-it of the
'arm. It's such appreciation, not desire for gain,

: hat has developed our choicest livestock. And
ove for the finest things in farm life is the reason

! 10 many of us stay by it.

More Coordination Here

THE downstate business interests voted against
the tax amendment except in such towns and
cities where business men had been enlightened
about the real tax situation. There is ample proof
of this assertion in the vote records of the urban
precincts.

The referendum submitted by the Illinois Cham-
ber of Commerce to its members according to the
figures released showed that 75 per cent of the
members who voted were against the amendment.

Merchants and business men as a class, prob-
ably think little and know less about tax matters
than almost any other group. In many cases their
knowledge of farm problems is bounded by what
they learned 20 or 30 years ago as a boy on the
farm.

The fault doesn't lie in lack of interest in, or
sympathy for, a prosperous agriculture. It is due
mostly to ignorance and lack of information.
There needs to be more coordination between the
farmer and the people of our towns and cities.
The man on Main Street needs to be enlightened
with facts. Here is a challenge for the county
farm bureaus. The influence of the farmer work-
ing alone is on the wane because the drift of popu-
lation is constantly to the towns and cities. It is
important to the farmer that the local merchants,
business and professional men keep in tune with
agriculture.

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December, 1926

The Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD

Pages

V

What The Counties
Are Doing

When the
STARK MANAGES opening shot
STATE CORN was fired in

HUSKING CONTEST the race for
the state
com husking title on Nov. 12, E.
E. "Buster" Brown, county ad-
visor was behind the gun while
O. L. Hatch, president of the Stark
County Farm Bureau as general
manager was on the job keeping the
150 helpers busy and caring for a
crowd of 7,000 spectators. The
contest held recently south of Ke-
wanee in Stark county was the third
sponsored by Prairie Farmer. The
Stark County Farm Bureau and the
allied community clubs about El-
mira deserve a lot of credit for their
good work. Elmer Williams, who
won the state title again this year
is a member of the Stark County
Farm Bureau and a real farm bu-
reau booster.

Henry
HENRY WALLACE county re-
SPEAKS AT CORN ports an in-
MEETING IN HENRY t cresting
Beed com
meeting on Morgan Brothers' farm
Nov. 10. Henry A. Wallace, editor
of Wallace's Farmer and an expert
on seed com breeding was there to
discuss his pet hobby and see the re-
sults of the Morgans' variety test
work. Four of the five comparisons
on disease testing in the 1926 corn
plots favor the tested com, which
outyielded the untested by nearly
three bushels. Harold -Holmes,
Henry county's entry in the state
corn husking contest placed fourth.

The worst
LET-UP IN HOG hog cholera

CHOLERA IN outbreak in

COLES ANNOUNCED history is
the verdict
of Coles county in announcing that
conditions are improved there. Farm
adviser Melvin Thomas has spent
all his available time and then
some teaching farmers to vaccinate
in an effort to save the hog crop.

Hereafter
MAKE 'EM pen drawings

SNAPPY IS of f a n c y

HUGHES' f^lOTTO dancers and
bathing
beauties will "perk up" the monthly
publication of the Monroe County
Farm Bureau. Editor Hughes is
also a well known writer of humor
for farm bureau folks.

"Have you ever been to a side
show with some good actors (as il-
lustrated) doing their stuff, or to a
ball game, dog fight, or a trial for
bigamy and see a lot of fellows who
wouldn't cross the road to attend
a farmers' meeting," writes Hughes
in the November issue. The an
swer is "yes," all of which shows
that people want to be entertained,
not educated.

Whiteside
WHITESIDE ACTIVE county's ac-
IN HOG tivity in

CHOLERA CONTROL t e aching
farmer-vac-
cination against hog cholera has
drawn the fire of a local veterinar-
ian who reported farm advisor L.
0. Wise and several members to
the state authorities for "vacci-
nating unlawfully and spreading
. disease." Subsequent investigation
showed that the loss from farmer-
vaccination has been notably less
than that sustained by the com-
plaining "doctor." The state re-
turned a verdict of not guilty.

Lawndale
McLEAN COUNTY and Chenoa
ORGANIZES PROTEC- township
TIVE ASSOCIATIONS farmers in
M c L e a n
county have formed local protective
associations as branches of the Illi-
nois State Detective Association.
Forty-one charter members were
signed up at the initial meetings of
the two associations. County ad-
viser Harrison Fahrnkopf is assist-

How Ohio Poultry
Association Helps
Pay More For Eggs

Frank Cou«l«r

Naperville Townthip in Dupage county claims the state record for fiaTing more farn^ bureau members thaa
any other. At the call of county adviser Elmer Carncross, the members celebrated the completion of their
successful campaign by a dinner and meeting at the Granger Consolidated School. Mike Lyons at the right
who is one of the I. A. A.'s crack solicitors was instrumental in bringing the membership above the 100
mark, but he gives part of the credit -to Helen Binder, 21, at the left who drove him most of the time. Sena-
tor Harold Kessinger of Aurora and George Thiem of the Illinois Agricultural Ass<»cialion appeared on the
program.

FIN LEY TO LEAVE FOR
CALIFORNIA

Vice-President
Chas. R. Finley
will spend the
winter in Califor-
nia, he announced
at the Novem-
ber meeting of
the Executive
Committee. Sam
Sorrells who rep-
resents the 21st
district will suc-
ceed Finley as
Chas. R. Finley chairman of the I
Marketing Committee. I

ing in forming these local associa-
tions whenever the demand arises.

Don Smith
MARSHALL-PUTNAM of Varna
OIL CO. HIRES was em-

NEW MANAGER ployed re-

c e n 1 1 y as
manager of the Marshall-Putnam
Farm Bureau Oil Company. Smith
had been employed by one of the
large oil companies for six years.
The Marshall-Putnam Company is
doing a business of approximately
$15,000 per month. A higher test
gas and a special oil for zero
weather will be offered the trade
this winter.

VERMILION COUNTY The third
HOLDS BOYS' CORN annual
CLUB SHOW boys' com

club show
was held in Danville on Nov. 8 in
cooperation with a local business
house. A free dinner was furnished
all the boys who attended. Close
to 600 people attended the recent
dairy extension meetings at ten dif-
ferent places over the county. The
train was operated over the C&EI.
The Sec-
LOGAN COUNTY end Annual

HOLDS UTILITY Utility

CORN SHOW Corn Show

was one of
Logan County's features for No-
vember. Two hundred and fifty
dollars in prizes were offered for
the various com classes. The an-
nual club round-up and achieve-
ment day rally was held on Friday,
Nov. 26 in cooperation with the Lin-
coln Chamber of Commerce. Af-
ternoon and evening entertainments
were provided along with a special
luncheon at the corn show room.

"We a r e
DuPAGE COUNTY challengingthe
CLAIMS HIGHEST state' to show
TVfP. a tpwnship

MEMBERSHIP with j a higher

farm ' bureau
membership than Naperville town-
ship in this county," vmtes Elmer
Carncross, farm adviser. This town-
ship has a membership of more than
100 which represents nearly a 100
per cent sign-up. A meeting was
held in the Giouger consolidated
school recently to celebrate the oc-
casion.

Com Market Weak
Due Surplus From
1926, Wheat Low

By U. S. Bureau of Agricultural
Economics.

THE grain market during Novem-
ber has been rather unsettled with
prices fluctuating with the chang-
ing crop and market developments.
Com prices reached a new low for
the season and had a weakening in-
fluence upon the market for other
feed grains. The wheat market
turned weaker late in October and
prices declined to about the same
level as prevailed during the latter
part of September.

Old Com On Hand

The large stocks of old corn on
farms which was estimated by the
Department of Agriculture at about
181,000,000 bushels on the first of
November has been one of the prin-
cipal weakening influences in the
corn market. In addition to large
faiin stocks there were around 23,-
000,000 bushels in store in the prin-
cipal markets which made the total
stocks of com on farms and in the
principal trading channels approxi-
mately 145,000,000 bushels larger
th&n last year. The crop, however,
a(*cording to the Nov. 1 estimate,
is about 211,000,000 bushels smaller
than last year, making the total
supply of corn at this time about
65,000,000 bushels smaller than at
this time last year, with the quality
of the new crop considerably be-
low average. It is estimated that
less than three-fourths of the crop
is of merchantable quality.

A. R. Wright New Prexy
Marshall-Putnam Bureau

A. R. Wright of Varna, who rep-
resents his district on the Execu-

live Committee

of the I. A. A.
was elected to
the presidency of
the strong Mar-
shall -Putnam
County Farm
Bureau recently.
Mr. Wright
who served as
secretary for
many years, suc-
ceeded L. F.
Boyle who served
A. R. Wrijht f a i t h f u 1 1 y as
president for four years. Guy
French of Putnam succeeded Wright
as secretary.

R. F. Karr of Iroquois county is
president of his county farm bureau
and represents the 18th district on
the Executive Committee of the I.
A. A. The photographer caught him
in a characteristic pose enjoying his
pipe. The tractor in the back-
ground is nine years old and is still
doing heavy duty in the field and on
power jobs about the farm.

Com Price Low >

The receipts of new corn have
not been large but a large percent-
age contains excessive moisture and
can be sold only at wide discounts
under the better grades of old dry
corn. On November 17 Nos. 5 and

6 grades of new corn at Chicago
ranging in moisture from 21-29 per
cent and in test weight from 47-53
pounds, sold at 46-60c per bushel.
This compares with sales of No. 3
yellow corn at 71-72c and shows a
discount of from 12-25c per bushel.
With so much old corn available
both in store and in" the current
i«ceipts buyers are unwilling to in-
cur the risk of handling the new
grain except at what they consider
safe margin.

Industries are absorbing fairly
large amounts of com but eastern
and southern demand is light. In
the Southwest the low price of milo
and kafir is restricting the demand
for com. The Pacific Coast is tak-
ing considerable com from Kansas
City and Omaha. Feeder demand is
of only fair volume. According to
reports to the Department of Agri-
culture decreased cattle feeding in
the corn belt this winter is still in-
dicated. Outside the com belt, how-
ever, indications are that feeding
will be considerably increased.
Wheat Market Weakens

Increasing stocks of wheat in
both the United State^and Canada,
together with more favorable
weather in Argentina, is having a
weakening influence o^n the wheat
market. Stocks of wheat in the
principal markets of the United
States now total around 80,000,000
bushels. Canadian stocks on Nov.

7 totaled around 93,000,000 bushels.
This is about 14,000,000 bushels
more Canadian wheat and around
30,000,000 bushels more United
States wheat than was in store at
this time last year. The Canadian
crop is now estimated fit approxi-
mately 406.000,000 bushels, which
is larger than earlier expectations.
Recent trade estimates indicate a
prospective increa.se in the Argen-
tine crop over earlier estimates.

By Frank B. Gouglar

Dtrsctor Poultrr MaHcvtinc

JN northwest Ohio arc four coun-
ties covering an area about 50
miles square.
Early in 1924 the
farm bureaus of
these counties,
together with the
State Farm Bu-
rea, decided to
organize a poul-
try marketing as-
s o c i a t i o n .
Throughout the
organization peri-
od and for near-
ly a year following its inception,
the association struggled for exist-
ence. The membership campaign
was drawn out for more than a
year. While the first member was
signed up April 10, 1924, it was
July 10 of the following year be-
fore marketing actually began.

It was not all smooth sailing even
then. Finances were ever an im-
portant question with the officers
and the manager. The initial cap-
ital has been raised through a $3
memAership fee. This was about
all used as organization expenses.
The association was able, however,
to finance itself through notes taken
from its members on the basis of
20 cents per hen.

A Deficit

After operating six months an
audit of the association's books
showed a deficit of $4,171. This
was largely dne to organization ex-
penses, nevertheless it gave the of-
ficials considerable anxiety.

From that time on he was de-
termined to build up a reserve and
again on September 1 this year an-
other audit was made which showed
results as follows:

Assets $68,941.46

Liabilities 89,227.86

Net Worth , 19,713.69

Reserves 17,986.00

Undivided Surplus $ 1,728.69

Members Sacrifice

The building up of this reserve
was not done at a sacrifice of prices
to the members less than outsiders
were receiving.

An analysis of the pool statement
of October 1-15 will show some
comparative prices received. A pool
statement shows the amount of eggs
handled during two weeks, how
they graded and the price received
by the members. It follows:

45,000 dozen fumished by 1,800
members.

Oct. 1-15, 25 Oct. 1-16, 26

Vr C "/i C

Henneries

32. 68

46.

67

Standards

56. 43

36.

46

Trades

9. 30

17.

32

Checks

1.8 22

LS

32

Rejects

.4
Higher Prices

.6

The Weighted average price ^-
ceived by the members of the asso-
ciation for the first two weeks of
October this year was 47.5 cents.
The average country buying price
for Ohio during this period accord-
ing to quotations given in the Pro-
duce Packer was 42 cents. In Illii-
nois during this period the country
price was 39 cente. This shows
Ohio prices three cents over lUi-
nois, and the members of the Ohio
association received 5 4 cents more
than the general country price for
Ohio and 8H cents more than Illi-
nois current prices. The association
was able to secure these splendid
prices for its members even after
deducting one cent per dozen for
the reserve fund which also belongs
to the members.

The two pool statements, with a
year intervening, are shown in or-
der to illustrate the improvement
made in egg quality. It will be
noted that last year only 32 >* made
the top grade while this year 46 Vi
were up in this grade. Money
talks — pay the producer on a qual-
ity basis and attention will soon be
given to the care of eggs.

P««e

The Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD

December, 1926

Sniith, Wright, Barton and Moody To Represent

I. A. A. As Official Delegates at Annual Meeting

of American Farm Bureau Federation Dec. 6-7-8,

j Sorrells New Cfiairman

THE re^lar meeting of the Ex-
ecutive Conunittee of the Illinois
Agricultural As-
sociation was held
in Chicago on
Nov. 5. All mem-
bers were present'
except R. K.
Loomis, 25th dis-
trict, and Charles
Borgelt, 20th dis-
trict.

President Earl
C. gmith presid-
ed. Harrison
Fahrnkopf, presi-
dent, represented
the n4nois State Farm Advisers As-
sociat: on.

Rep ort by Treasurer R. A. Cowles
as of Oct. 31 shows current assets
$23,6! 12.36, total accounts receiv-
able including $96,808.45 U. S.
Liberty Bonds, and $15,131.25 Fed-
.«!ral :^nd Bank bonds, of $187,-
T45.7' , and total assets of $292,-
553.61.

Lia >ilities amount to $13,141.85,
and ai excess of assets over liabil-
ities of $279,411.78. Moved by
Moody, seconded by Bamborough
treasurer's report be placed on file.
Carried.

Moved by Wright, seconded by
Bamborough that delegates be
elected to annual meeting of Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation.
Carried. Smith, Barton, Wright,
and Moody were elected as official
delegates.

Finlcy Leaves
Moved by Finley, seconded by
Taylor that all members of the Ex-
ecutivie Committee be authorized to
attend A. F. B. F. meeting, expenses
to be paid by Association. Carried.
Moved by Barton, seconded by
TuUoik that Harrison Fahrnkopf,
presicent of Illinois Farm Advisers
Association be authorized to attend
A. F. B. F. meeting at expense of
I. A. A. Carried.

Moired by Whisnand, seconded by

Bamborough that the Committee
concur in President Smith's recom
mendation that Sam Sorrells be ap-
pointed as chairman of
committee to succeed Ch»s. R. Fin
ley who left to spend thi: winter in
California. Carried.

Secretary Fox announ ;ed follow
ing schedules of meetingjs of advis-
ory committees:

Financial Business Se^^ce, Nov,
17.

Public Relations, Nov.

Marketing, Nov. 23.

Organization, Nov. 24

Budget Committee, D<c. 1.

Moved by Barton, seconded by
Marshall that next Execjitive Com
raittee meeting be held
Dec. 9. Carried.

Question of contributihg $100 to
National Industrial Conference
Board for publications and material
released by them left to officers on
motion by Barton, secon( ed by Tul-
lock and carried.

22.

Thursday,

To Indianapolit

Seer ^tary

seconded by

Fox,

r|epresent I.

Commerce

Nov. 15-

Moved by Moody
Bamborough that
Whisnand and Barton
A. A. at Chamber of
Conference in Indiana;
16. Carried.

Pres. Smith called i
St. Louis Conference on
Motion carried that ccjunty
bureau officials be urge 1
to attend.

Secretary Fox read
olutions from eight counties
ing plans of Illinois
Mutual Insurance Comp4ny.
by Taylor, seconded by
Fox write each county
A. A. postion and
tions raised.

Moved by Moody,
Sorrells that Swanson
auditors, be employed
nual audit of the
Illinois Agricultural
Carried.

t)
b0( iki

CkeA. MankaU

24th District O K's
\^uto Insurance Plan
Shawneetown Meet

Fa^ bureau members from the
countfes of Saline, White, Johnson,
and Gallatin
meeting on Nov.
15 at Shawnee-
town in the I. A.
A. 24th district
conference, went
on record urging
all members in
the district to co-
operate with the
Illinois Agricul-
tural Auto Insur-
ance Company in
securing the
membership re-
quire!] to establish the company.

Charles Marshall, I. A. A. Com-
mitte>man from this district, called
the iieeting to order but Andrew
Turn !r presided as permanent
chair nan.

Mi k marketing discussions which
prevailed esirly in the day revealed
that farmers in the adjoining coun-
ties I re not satisfied with price and
marketing conditions. A. D.
Lync 1, director of dairy marketing,
will >e asked to come in and make
an ir vestigation. In Johnson coun-
ty, 1 auling difficulties have arisen
and exorbitant charges are made
so tlat the net return per 100 lbs.
of milk is comparatively low.

Lccal dairies in Harrisburg are
paying $2.60 per 100 lbs. it was re-
ported.

A resolution endorsing the action
of the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion in trying to secure remunera-
tion for local farm buieaus that se-
cure business for the Producers was
passed. A campaign was urged to

I

apo! is

tention to

Sov. 16-17.

farm

by letter

cojpies of res-

regard-

i^gricultural

. Moved

tullock that

stating I.

answiering ques-

Route 3 over the lllinoii River at Bearditown wu submerged under
several feet of water when the flood reached its highest stage. Travel
over this route was stopped and the people of the city were forced to
go about in row boats to their occupations. Thr lower floor in the
Park Hotel was raised three times to keep it above the flofid waters.
Portions of the bottom lands were submerged under 20 to 25 feet of
water and around 140,000 acres are still under water. Only seven
drainage districts out of 21 that went out will be reclaimed according
to one local attorney.

i nd

seconded by

Ogelvie

make an-

of the

Association.

Executive Committee
Broadcast Features
Program Over WLS

A cross section of farm senti-
ment in Illinois under the caption
"What Farmers Are Thinking
About" was the featur; of the I.
A. A. half hour over r idio station
WLS on Thursday, Nov. 4, broad-
cast by members of he Illinois
Agricultural Association, Executive
Committee.

Chas. Finley of Vcrmi lion county,
vice-president of the I, A. A. re-
lated some of his observ itions while
serving as an election judge in his
home precinct.

Frank Barton gave
summary of crop, liv
farm conditions in
county. Chas. Marshall
county told his audience
em Illinois' farmers had
this year. Frank Oexner of Monroe
county dwelt on the gloiies.of sweet
clover the life-saver cro ) for South-
em Illinois.

Sam Sorrells told what the Illi-
nois Farm Bureau Serira Associa-
tion had done for farm
members. Wm. Webb
county told his listener; how to se-
lect a good ear of se !d com for
the International, whure he has
judged for many ydars. Bert
Leeper, manager of the Illinois
Fruit Exchange answer !d questions
and talked interestingl r about the
1926 apple crop in Illinois.

influence the people i f Southern
Illinois to use soft wheit flour, for
the sake of boosting th; ; soft wheat
industry throughout thp section of
the state.

Farm Advisers Whitchurch,
Creighton. Simpson, ai|d Foote at-
tended the meeting.

a general
istock, and

Livingston
of Johnson
that South-
good crops

bureau
of Will

Rock Phosphate Pays
On G. F. Tullock Farm

Forty bushels of wheat per acre
op a rock phosphated field in Win-
nebago county is
^^k^^^^ the record made
j^Hm^^ season by G.

W^ ^^H ^- Tullock, mem-
V ^^^H. ^^^ °^ ^^^ Execu-
/ ^ ^^^^^ tive Committee of
^ /^^^^V ^^^ Illinois Agri-
\J/^^^F cultural Associa'
>^^^^P^ tion. Sweet clover
fl^^^^^^ was sown with
^^^^^^^^^1 the wheat as a
^^Hi^^^^H catch crop.
^^^^^^^^^^^ This particular
aF. TuUock field had been
used many years
as an experiment field by the Uni-
versity of Illinois.

On all the plots where rock phos-
phate and limestone had been ap-
plied during the time the state was
operating the field, there was a
growth of 14 to 16 inches of sweet
clover, while on tKe border strips
and check plots the sweet clover
was short and hardly reached above
the stubble.

These results were obtained fol-
lowing a lapse of at least five years
since any applications other than
barnyard manure were made. Tul-
lock says that this is the most strik-
ing illustration of the lasting ef-
fects of limestone and rock phos
phate he has ever seen.

Gas Tax and Income
Tax with Exemptions

(Continued from coL 3, page 1.)
exemptions to remove the possibil-
ities of any further burden from
the farm and home owner, will be
recommended to the executive com-
mittee for adoption. Such a law
it was pointed out would bring in-
come from intangibles, also other
large incomes into the taxing sys-
tem, so that a portion of the tax
load might be lifted from real
estate.

It was recommended that the mat-
ter of improving and perhaps liber-
alizing the amendment clause of
the state Constitution be considered
by the joint committee represent-
ing the different organizations sup-
porting the tax amendment.

Likewise the establishment of a
joint commission made up of repre-
sentatives of the General Assembly
and the larger state organizations
to investigate the working of the
present tax system and of the tax
systems of other states, was recom-
mended. The committee contem-
plates a continuous campaign to
show the necessity of amending the
revenue article to the constitution.

"I appreciate the prompt and
valuable service you gave me in se-
curing payment overcharge on
freight on phosphate amounting to
$16.07," writes Fred W. Wasman of
McLean County. ,.

Eastern Policy of

Exploiting Farmer

(Continued from col. 4, page 1.)

to labor would mean that the
American wag©
scales should be
brought down to
foreign levels; it
is precisely equi-
valent to a de-
mand for foreign
price levels in the
United States,
but only upon
products of the
farm.

Such a policy
prefers an export _ ,

market for manu- ^'»« ^- ^^^
facturers, made possible by sacrific-
ing agriculture, to an improved
domestic -market made more pro-
sperous by the extension of the
American protective system to in-
clude the farmers.

The Hoover-Mellon doctrine is
dangerous. Its vicious effect on

agriculture needs no further demonstration.
But it is equally unwise and short<fiiKht«d
as a policy for our industry and commerce.

The buying i>ower of the farm population
of America is incalculably more important
to our manufacturers as a whole even in-
cluding those who manufacture for sale
abroad than an export market. The nation's
economic position in the world does not re-
quire or even sanction stimulated industrial
exports.

This is true of the nation as a whole.
For the mid-west, west and south the case
is even more overwhelming. Their direct
interest in industrial export trade is infini-
tesimal : their interest in agriculture's buy-
ins power is everythiner. There are some
manufacturers in these districts who exi>ort
some of their floods ; but give them the
choice between their export sales and a
sustained home market built on agricultural
prosperity, and they could not hesitate for a
moment.

The 1923 census of manufacturers placed
the total value of all manufactured goods
that year at $60.556.000.000 ; the Department
of Commerce reports the value of the mana-
factured exports as 12,625,000,000. Only
four and three-tenths per cent of our manu-
factures exported — and yet our policy-makers
gloat over that 4.8 per cent as if it were
of more consequence in our economic welfare
than the prosperity of thirty DiiUion Amer-
ican farm consumers.

Exports From Farm

In considering the im|>ortance of our ex-
ports it must be remembered that between
40 and 50 per cent of them come from the
farm. In 1926 farm products and their
manufactures accounted for 47 per cent of
the total exports. Of the non-agricuIturaJ
extwrts, the foUowing commodities lead ir
order — mineral oils, automobiles and parts,
machinery, copper and manufactures, iron
and steel, coal and coke, lumber and agri-
cultural machinery. None of the scattering
remainder in the classification reaches 2 per
cent of the total. Of those enumerated, how
many are there in the United States and in
the midwest, west and south particularly, to
whom an industrial export market is of more,
importance than a sustained farm market
based on farm prosperity here at home?

Let Mr. Hoover and Mr. Mellon answer.

Mellon and Hoover are regarded as tb«
spokesmen for the policy -makers of the
present administration. Hoover is the
administration's agricultural adviser. Jar-
dine is hardly in a position to oppose him.

Backing Up

The Department of Commerce policy to
expand industrial exports is too generally
known to require elaboration here. Two or
three years ago Mr. Hoover held and on oc-
casion publicly suggested that the American
farmers ought to get out of the export ma^^
Msumably in order to make room for

Farmers Give Aid

To Flood Victims

County farm bureaus throughout
the state swung into action follow-
ing a special appeal made jointly by
the Illinois Agricultural Association
and the American Red Cross for aid
to the flood sufferers in the Illinois
River Valley recently.

Following a conference at Beards-
town on Nov. 19 between county
farm bureau, Red Cross, and R. A.
Cowles of the I. A. A, a definite
plan of action was outlined for
bringing the needs of these people
to the attention of farm and city
people throughout the state.

The following telegram was sent
to county executive officers by Sec-
retary Geo. A. Fox on Nov. 23:

"A grave situation faces our
farmers in the lower Illinois River
Valley who have suffered ruinous
flood losses. Around 2500 families
are in need. Hundreds of our
neighbors in that section lost all
their crops, some livestock, and
many their homes and personal be-
longings. The Red Cross now dis-
closes that at least $\0j},000 more is
needed to care for tfiese people.
This deplorable situation is a chal-
lenge to us and demands that we act
at once. We urge that you use
your organization and recommend
a farm to farm canvass for help.
The Red Cross is working hard in
the towns and cities but we must
take charge in the country. May
this cause have your active support.
Contributions should be turned over
to your local Red Cross chapter."

the manufacturers — and reduce their produc-
tion to the needs of the domestic market.
It is reported that more recently he has
backed up on that opinion or at least will
not sanction its publication as coming from
him.

Congressman Fort of New Jersey, a form-
er associate of Mr. Hoover, was Hoover's
spokesman in the House of the 69th Con-
gress. The two speeches he delivered against
the Haugen bill were currently understood
in Washington to have been prepared in the
Department of Commerce.

Mr. Fort said. May 4th, 1926 <Cong.
Record) :

"Our labor in America is going to buy
bread on a basb at least 47 cents a bushel
higher for wheat than British labor and
German labor and French and Canadian
labor. We are going to cheapen the cost
of production of foreign-made articles by
selling foodstuffs cheaper to foreign labor
than we sell them to our own." • • • *

"You are going to make it cheaper for
the foreign competitor «f American labor
to live, but you are going to make it cost
more for the American bborer to live, and.
therefore, the cost of production to the
American manufacturer must go up, while
the foreign cost goes down, and his world
market is lost." '

Senator Fess of Ohio was generally re-
garded as the administration's agricultural
spokesman in the Senate. In a speech in
the Senate on June 9, 1926, he said:

"Mr. President, I do not propose to vote
for any measure that will feed at a lower
cost the producer of competitive articles
that come in com[>et4tion with American
production."

The same note was struck by Mr. Mellon
in his official letter of June 14, 1926, in
which he said:

"Foreign consumers • • • under the pro-
posed plan will secure American commodi-
ties at prices below . the American level.
European labor could purchase American
products at a- lower price and could live'
more cheaply than American labor. Foreign
industrial costs wou}d be lowered and the
foreign competitor assisted in underselling
American products abroad and in our home
market."

It has been repeatedly pointed out that
these men stand for Uie industrialization
of America at the expense of agriculture.

Limitations to Exports

In our international i>osition, the volume
of export business which we can maintain
is limited by :

<a) Our ownership of half of the world's
gold supply.

(b) foreign government's debts to us.

(c) our increasing capital investments
abroad.

(d) our tariff policy of restricting im-
ports.

Under such strict limitations, anything
which expands our industrial exports, makes
it increasingly difficult to market our farm
surpluses abroad. Our farm surpluses are
the results of past and continuing govern-
ment policies. The farm business cannot
expand and contract its output, or regulate
its production, in the way industry can.

A. S. Anderson Was elected presi-
dent, R. L. Fox vice-president and
Edward Lindholm, secretary-treas-
urer of the Ford County Farm Bu-
reau for the coming year.

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1000 EXPECTED AT ANNUAL I. A. A. MEET, PEORIA, JAN. 26,2?,28

Surplus Control Is
Major Issue Before
Both Houses Congress

Revised Bills Are Introduced
Before House and Senate
Adjourn For Holidays

THE third fight for sur-
plus control legislation in
Congress is on. Senator Mc-
Nary introduced a revised
surplus control bill the prev-
ious week and Congressman
Haugen introduced a bill
practically the same as the
McNary Bill in the House on
December 20.

A previous bill had been intro-
duced in the House by Representa-
tive Fulmer of South Carolina.
This bill provides for surplus con-
trol legrislation to apply to cotton
only, but otherwise it is identical
with the McNary bill.

The revised surplus control bill
differs in several important points
from the McNary-Haugen Bill of
last session. The "tariff yardstick"
of the House bill and the "fair and
reasonable" price-standard of the
Senate bill are both omitted. The
McNary bill does not contain any
reference to price-standards or
price-levels. The nearest it comes
to mentioning the tariff is in the
declaration that one of its aims is
to "preserve advantageous domestic
markets."

Stabilization Fund Prorided.

The equalization fund in the old
bill gives way to the Stabilization
Fund in the new bill.

The much talked about equaliza-
tion fee remains, but instead of be-
ing apportioned to "all producers"
as in the old bill, it is assessed
against "each marketed unit" in
the new bill. The fee may be col-
lected, in the discretion of the Fed-
eral Farm Board on the milling or
processing, the transportation or
the sale of the commodity. The
equalization fee is made applicable
to all products named in the bill
when operations with respect to
that product begin.

Five Commodities Named.

Five commodities are named in
the bill — cotton, wheat, corn, rice
and swine. Cattle and butter, in
the old bill, are omitted. Rice ap-
pears in the bill for the first time.
It is said this is the result of re-
quests from Southern rice interests.

A new feature of the bill is a
loan section which authorized loans
to cooperatives handling any com-
modity for the purpose of "con-
trolling the surplus," without the
requirement of an equalization fee.
This provision is similar to the loan
feature of the Fess and Tincher
bills of last season.

Federal Board Alio.

A Federal Farm Board is provid.
ed, as in the old bill, to consist of
the Secretary of Agriculture and
one member from each Federal
Land Bank District, to be appointed
by the president from a list of cli-
gibles submitted by a nominating
committee in each district com-
posed of representatives of cooper-
ative associations and'farm organi-
zations.

A non-salaried commodity Ad-
visory Council is provided for each

A Thought for the New Year

The holiday season is a time for joy and happiness
when we are close to family and friends. The best within
us finds expression in making others happy, in bringing
cheer to those about us. It is this spirit
of Christ, the lowly Nazarene whose ex-
ample and work still lives throughout the
world, that makes man lay aside the pet-
tiness of quarrels and strife, egotism,
hatred, selfishness, and ill-will.

The Illinois Agricultural Association is
.a business organization of farmers, but it
I is also an association of friends interested
in a common purpose, working for a com-
[mon cause. As we enter the New Year,
our eleventh year of active service, I hope
that none of us may lose sight of the high
purposes that led to this union. Let us strive to give
character and soul to our organization, as well as stabil-
ity and strength, in the coming year.

Eul C. Smith

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The picture above recalls a familiar scene enacted at Wathinfton
in 1924 when Sam Thompson, then president of the Illinois Agricultural
Association received thousands of petitions from Illinois farmers asking
Congress to pass the McNary-Haugen bill. Senator Chas. L. McNary
of Oregon, iX the left, will address the annual meeting of the I. A. A. at
Peoria this month. Congressman Haugen as the gentleman in the center.

commodity, to consist of seven men
selected by the Board from lists
submitted by cooperatives and farm
organizations' representatives of
the commodity.

Revolving Fund.

The bill authorizes an appropria-
tion of $250,000,000 which will
constitute a revolving fund, from
which loans may be made to the
several commodity stabilization
funds in anticipation of the collec-
tion of equalization fees. Loans
may also be made from the revolv-
ing fund directly to cooperatives

for handling the surplus. Both
classes of loans, those made direct-
ly to cooperatives and those made
to commodity stabilization funds,
must be repaid with interest.

Appropriation Authorized.

The only costs to the government
under this bill are the salaries and
expense of the Federal Farm Board,
for which an appropriation of
$500,000 is authorized. All other
costs are to be paid out of the sev-
eral stabilization funds derived
from the collection of equalization
fees.

Senator Chas. L. McNary, Chairman of
Agricultural Committee And Leader
In Congress To Speak On Fri., Jan. 27

Sam H. Thompson Scheduled For Banquet Talk; Music,
Entertainment, Other Prominent Men On Procrsim;
Women To Hold Own Conference.

PEORIA is getting ready for a crowd of 1,000 delegates
and farm bureau members from 93 Illinois counties. The
new Pere Marquette Hotel, Peoria's newest and best hos*
telry, is being rushed to completion for the
annual assembly that transcends all other
agricultural gatherings in this state for be-
ing representative, business-like, and attrac-
tive of interest and respect.

The Illinois Agricultural Association will
have the honor of dedicating the new hotel,
and the latter the privilege of entertaining
the Eleventh Annual Convention of the or-
ganization whose name and activities have become known

throughout the United States and

Brine a Member.

Knox County Claims
Ontario Holds Title
For High Membership

Ontario township in Knox county
is the latest disputant to the claim
of Naperville township, Dupage
county for having the highest town-
ship farm bureau membership in the
state.

A. R. Kemp, associate adviser in
Knox county states that Ontario
township has a membership of 103
and so is entitled to the honor of
high farm bureau membership town-
ship.

"The Community With A Vision,"
is the term applied to Ontario Town-
ship which its residents claim is the
garden spot of the i>;>rld.

Previous to the present three-
year-period, the tolmship had a
signed membership ot 101, and ever
since the farm bureau was organ-
ized, Ontario has been a banner com-
munity in farm bnrean spirit and
activity.

Rev. Guy Van Buakirk, pastor of
the Ontario Parish, a real country
church, is township farm bureau di-
rector. The community life of the
township is built up around this
church and the Ontario Men''s Club.

James McBride, one of Knox
County's "Master Fairmers" is vice-
director and secretary of the town-
ship.

TRAYLOR TO SPEAK AT

FARMERS' WEEK. URBANA

Melvin C. Traylor, president of
the American Bankers' Association
will discuss "Eur6pean Debts and
and the Farm Situation," on the an-
nual Farmers' Week program to
be held Jan. 17 to 32 at the Uni-
versity of Illinois, Uiiwna.

Dr. Henry C. Taylor, economist
from Northwestern University, Dan.
T. Gray, dean of the Arkansas Col-
lege of Agriculture, Lorado Taft,
sculptor, Miss Lit* Bane, president
of the American Home Economic
Association, and D. J. Caffrey, in
charge of research work on the com
borer for the U. S. Dept. of Agri-
culture are other heaidline speakers.

The Annual Utility Corn Show,
the annual meeting of the Illinois
Crop Improvement Association a
farmers' banquet, a korse show and
horse-pulling contest, and a "Little
International" fat stock show are
other features announced for the
week. Fare and one-half rates will

apply for the
at this time.

trip to Urbana

foreign countries.

The opening day of Wednesday,
Jan. 26, will not be the opening of
the convention proper. That day
will be devoted to committee meet-
ings, conferences, and the annual
get-togethers of the subsidiary as-
sociations of the L A. A. Tlie
Illinois Agricul-
tural Co-opera-
tives Association,
the Illinois Farm
Bureau Serum
Association, and
the Illinois Farm
Bureau Baseball '
League will meet Wednesday to dis-
cuss their problems and plans for
the coming year.

The Executive Committee of the
I. A. A. will hold its annual pre-
convention session on Wednesday
night, and then on Thursday the
decks will be cleared for the de-
liberations of the parent organiza-
tion which finds itself on the
threshold of its elaventh year of
service.

Charles L. HcNary, chairman of
the Agricultural Committee in the
United States senate and leader in
the fight for surplus-control legisla-
tion, has promised to make the long
journey from Washington to give
Illinois farmers the last word on
the possibilities of their bill and
its promised relief going through.

Senator McNary is booked to
speak at a special luncheon in his
honor on Friday, January 27.

The Annual Banquet on Thurs-
day night, where Sam H. Thomp-
son, president of the American
Farm Bureau
Federation and
its most popular '
and colorful
chief, will deliv-
^_ er the message,
"» will be made fur-
t k e r attractive
by music from
the peer of all
soloists and entertainers, James
Goddard, of Chicago, who brought
down the house last year at Ur-
bana. '

Dr. Cart C. Taylor from the
North Carolina College of Agricul- *
ture, Lucius Wilson, business or-
ganization efficiency expert, George
E. Frazer, public accountant and
business adviser, Prsf. Chris Chris-
tensen, director of the division of
cooperative maricetlag in the U. S.
Department of Agriculture, and
others to be announced later will

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ^ -

(By Congressional Districts)

1^ to 11th Willi«n Webb, Route One, JoUet

i; th ^ G. F. Tuilock. Rockford

i; th '. C, E. Bamborough, Polo

lith W. H. Moodv, Port Bvron

h B. H. Tavlor, Rapatee

_.h A. R. Vi right, Vama

i; th F, D. Barton, Cornell

|( th R. F. Karr, Iroquois

1« th J. L. Whisnand. Charleston

21th..K -. -Charles Borgelt, Havana

2; St Samuel SorTells, Raymond

2. od Frank Oexner, Waterloo

2. rd ,. . - W. L. Cope. Salem

2'th Charles Marshall, Belknap

Z^Cli R. K. Loomis, Makanda

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Master Farmers Honored

FIFTEEN outstanding Illinois farmers were
honored by Prairie Farmer at its Second An-
nual Master Farmer Banquet in Chicago recently.
They were all awarded the Master Farmer medal
because they are "good farmers, good neighbors,
and good citizens."

It isn't strange that all these men are active farm
bureau members. Many of them are officers or
former officers on their county executive commit-
tees, [t's such men that made the farm bureau.
They ire its backbone, its leaders. They are the
men who get the most out of their organization be-
cause hey put the most in. It is idle to speculate
how n uch the county farm bureaus are doing to
make master farmers. Certainly their work has a
tremendously large influence. The wide use of
limestone rock phosphate, certified seed, improved
livestock, farm accounting, better cultivation, all
these Were stimulated when the farm bureau was
organized. The experiment station revealed the
need ii i many cases, the farm papers wielded a pow-
erful influence in initiating reforms and in spread-
ing trie gospel, but the county farm bureaus were
needed to drive home the bargain and show by
word, [example, and demonstration the value of bet-
ter fatt"m practices.

PraBrie Farmer and the other farm papers that
are helping to honor the men who have succeeded
in th« oldest profession are making an inestimable
contr bution to the betterment of American agri-
cultui e.

OFFICERS

President. Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vice-President. Charles R. Finley Hoopcaton

iWasurer, R. A. Cowlea Btoomin^on

Secretary, Geo. A. Fo« Sycamore

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CCLTUBAL ASSOCIA1

RECORD-

To advance the purpose for which the farm bureau was organ
ized, namely to promote, protect and represent the business,
economic, social and educational interests of the farmers of
lliinois and the tuition, attd to develope agriculture.

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Co-operating Accounting G«o. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General Office J. H. Kelker

Information E. G. Thiem

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organization , G. E. JMetxger

Farm Supply J. R. Bent

Poultry arMi Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C. Wataon

Transportation L. J. Quaaey

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Tax Revaluation Ordered

ORGANIZED farmers were recognized again
when the Illinois Tax Commission in a recent
decision ordered revaluations for taxation purposes
urban and rural property in the four counties
Kane, Peoria, Franklin, and Clay.

When the adjustments placing farm lands on the
sa me basis as city property are made, the rural tax-
payers of these four counties will profit to the ex-
tent of approximately $200,000. On the basis of
tie 9271 farms affected, taxes will be $20.50 per
fj.rm less than they would have been had the read-
justment not been ordered. In other words farm-
e]'s have been paying $20.50 per farm more than
tlieir share of taxes.

The announcement of this new order follows four
ysars of effort by the county farm bureaus of Clay,
Jane, Franklin, and Peoria, and the Illinois Agri-
caltural Association to gain a just equalization of
f irm property values. In Clay County it was found
t lat farm lands were paying nearly twice as much
t ixes based on actual selling values as town and city
\ roperty. Here farm lands were being assessed
en the basis of 58 to 60 per cent of full valuation
^ whereas property in the towns and villages was pay-
i [ig on only 32 to 34 per cent of full valuation. Ac-
tual sales records from the county recorder's office
levealed this information.

♦ Surplus Control Again ?

THE battle for surplus control legislatioti is on
in Congress for the third time since 1924. The
revised bill introduced in the Senate by Senator Mc-
Nary, and most recently in the House by Represen-
tative Haugen is a modification of the McNary-Hau-
gen bill of last year.

The features held objectionable heretofore by cer-
tain Southern democrats have been removed. But
the bill has not been emasculated. It contains pro-
visions for a Federal Farm Board, the application
of an equalization fee, loans to cooperatives for
handling stirpluF crops at a nominal rate of inter-
est, and a revolving fund of $250,000,000 to be ap-
propriated by Congress for loaning to the Board.

There is nothing in the bill that might be con-
strued as price-fixing. The administration will
have an opportunity to demonstrate its expressed
interest and good intentions for agriculture as set
forth in the president's recent message. We sin-
cerely hope it will do so. Farm organizations
throughout the country are as well united on this
measure as it is humanly possible for them to be.
It's the administration's turn to show its hand.

Ik 'ilk Shippers Have a Grievance

WHOLE milk shippers in the Chicago fluid milk
eone are faced again with the dilemma of in-
difFeijent prices. Milk testing 3.5 per cent from
tuberculin tested herds brings only $2.50 per cwt.
The ! urplus above the average or base amounts de-
liven d during August, September, and October
sells for $2.20 per cwt. Dairymen contend that
they can't continue to deliver whole milk so cheaply
under the stringent requirements of the Chicago
Health Department. Their costs have been raised
tremendously by accrediting their herds, submit-
ting to regular sanitary inspection, installing sani-
tary equipment, and employing high priced labor.

"There is no incentive to apply the tuberculin
test," say the untested herd owners. "Selling un-
tested milk to the condensery, or butterfat to the
creamery at 60 cents a pound, is more profitable."

H(!re is a grievance that ought to be righted.
The dealers are human and will continue to buy as
cheaply as possible. The old Milk Producers' As-
sociation is defunct and out of the running. The
Pun Milk Association, the new organization of
tested herd owners, is valiantly striving to rep-
resent the whole milk shippers in securing fair
pricds. It could be more effective with a stronger
following. Farmers' difficulties are not righted
until they themselves take the necessary action.
Whenever we start, we can't avoid getting back to
mor| effective organization as the solution of most
of our problems.

Farmers »re not averse to paying taxes. They
: lave always contributed their share of the cost of
rovernment. But bad as our tax system is in this
itate, its administration works even a greater hard-
ship when one class of real estate is discriminated
igainst.

When these four counties equalize valuations it
will virtually complete a job started more than four
vears ago. Since then nearly all counties in Illinois
pave equalized valuations as between farm and city
roperty where a discrepancy was brought to light.
Mr. Watson estimates that Illinois farmers have
been saved between $2,000,000 and $2,500,000 each
year from this work alone. Taxes have not been
necessarily reduced by this amount, but they were
approximately that much less than they would have
been had farm valuations not been equalized.

CAN'T SHAKE IT OFF

— WasHington News.

An Indictment

lifT^HE farmer hasn't been insistent enough in
L his own behalf. He has been retiring, liberal-
minded, individualistic ; too ready to rely on his own
self-sufficiency. This is the reason for the distinct
tendency ih this country for agriculture to be neg-
lected in favor' of industry and other branches oi
our economic life."

These words coming from a farm bureau mem-
bership solicitor might sound worn out and trite.^
but coming from Magnus Alexander, research
worker, industrialist, and president of the National
Industrial Conference Board they are worth more
than passing attention. Consciously or uncon-
sciously Mr. Alexander laid the farmers' difficulties
squarely at his own door in his recent message be-
fore the American Farm Bureau Federation. In
other words, while the steel trust was organizing,
cutting out wasteful competition, securing a high
tariff, and building up a "40 per cent stock divi-
dend," the farmer was out trying to beat his neigh-
bor growing crops and producing milk to sell below
cost of production. Is Mr. Alexander right? Write
your own answer.

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\ r Women Invited *■
'T'HE women are coming to the annual meeting
-*- of the Illinois Agricultural Association this year.
They will have a part in the program through the
"Home and Community" conference to be held si-
multaneously with four other conferences on Thurs-
day afternoon, Jan. 27. This is a departure from
the old that promises to be productive of much good.
Women have furnished the inspiration for most of
man's enterprises. For years farm women have
played prominently in community clubs, meetings,
and organized activities. Now they are to be of-
ficially recognized at the state convention. The
meeting will be better for their presence.

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What The Counties
Are Doing

A major pro-
MARSHALL-PUT- ject for 1927
NAM TO BOOST in Marshall-

DAIRYING Put n a m

County will
be stimulating the dairy business by
the use of high record sires and the
purchase of good cows. "The farm-
ers who are best off are the ones
who have a few cows to milk, and
little cream to sell," says Lloyd
Jones of the First National Bank,
Henry. Farm adviser Fuller states
that the net profit from the M-P Co-
operative Oil Co. are twice what it
costs to run the farm bureau.

A corn borer
PEORIA COUNTY meeting was
HOLDS CORN held in Pe-

BORER MEETING oria on Dec.
9 when Wes-
ley P. Flint, state entomologist, pre-
sented the latest information about
the westward march of the danger-
ous insect.

We are side-
McLEAN COUNTY tracking ev-
TO ORGANIZE crything else

SERVICE CO. to organize

the McLean
County Service Company, the name
of our proposed cooperative oil com-
pany, states Harrison Fahrnkopf,
farm adviser. During the past month
the farm bureau was busy with the
poultry show, the utility corn show,
the annual meeting at which Con-
gressman L. J. Dickenson spoke, and
two farmers' institutes.

The Ford
FORD COUNTY TO County Serv-
ORCANIZE ice C o m -

MARKETING pany now be-

ing organ-
ized will aid farm bureau members
both in marketing and in buying
commodities more advantageously.
Poultry and eggs will be handled at
Paxton; livestock will be shipped co-
operatively; and later the collective
purchase of gas and oil will be added
to the other activities.

The Piatt
PIATT COUNTY County Farm

COOPERATES IN Bureau and
HANDLING SEEDS the local far-
mers' eleva-
tors have entered an agreement by
which the latter wiH^ handle all farm
seeds for members af^a^ small saving
over the price paldjjj non-members.
The farm bureau has agreed to as-
sist the elevators in locating good
seed, pooling orders, and increasing
the i>usiness.

1,000 Expected at

Annual Meeting

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make up the roster of prominent
people engaged for the three-day
session.

A new feature will be the Home
and Community Conference on
Thursday ' afternoon for women,
and delegates interested in this
work. This is the first time women
have been invited and provision
made for their participation in the
annual convention.

MASON COUNTY
TO SHIP IN
COWPEAS

The books
98% OF KENDALL of the Ken-
COUNTY MEMBERS dall County
PAID UP Farpi Bureau

which has a
membership of two-thirds of all
farmers in the county, show that 98
per cent of the dues are collected
for 1926.

Plans are
being made
for shipping
in c o w p e a
seed and al-
falfa hay, according to Farm Ad-
viser Isaacs. Weather conditions
last year created a shortage of both
cowpea seed and alfalfa hay.

Our hatch-
MOULTRIE COUNTY ery has been
REPORTS SUCCESS a means of
WITH HATCHERY selling better
h o u s i n g ,
feeding, and care of poultry, to our
members, states Farm Adviser Tur-
ner. Thirty flock owners were in-
terested in preparing for accrediting
work. The PuUorin test will be
used for detecting white diarrhea.
The tested flock owners receive three
cents more per dozen for eggs than
state accredited flock owners.

A reward

OGLE COUNTY
ORGANIZES
PROTECTIVE
ASSOCIATION

WAYNE\COUNTY
ACCREDITS
POULTRy FLOCKS

of $100 is
off^ered b y
the newly or-
g a n i z e d
Farm Bureau
Protective Association for the con-
viction of thieves. Members will co-
operate with the sheriff and the dep-
uties of the county in securing con-
victions wherever there is sufficient
evidence presented.

\ Under the

supervis i o n
of the Farm
Adviser, C.
T. Hufford,
thirty pure bred flocks, containing
approximately 6000 birds will be
state accredited this month.

The San-
SANGAMON gamon Far-

COUNTY OIL m e r s Oil

COMPANY IN Company, re-

OPERATION cently organ-

^^-— ized, will es-

tablish^' bulk plants at New
Berlin, Auburn, Buffalo and
Williamsville. Truck headquarters
will be stationed at Pleasant Plains,
Pawnee and Illiopolis. The Spring-
field filling station is located at
Ninth and Jefferson streets.

A substan-
PULASKI COUNTY tial increase
SIGNS MANY in member-

NEW MEMBERS ship with 25

per cent new
members is reported by Farm Ad-
viser J. H. Hughes. Two bull blocks
are being organized in connection
with the dairy calf club. Pulaski
County was represented at the In-
ternational Livestock Show for the

TO SING

James Goddard of the Foreman
National Bank, Chicago, will ting
and lead the singing at the Annual
I. A. A. Banquet, Peoria, Jan. 27.

Kane, Peoria, Clay,
And Franklin Co. 's
Involved In Order

Revaluation Hearing Held
Dec. 21. No. Evidence Pre-
sented By Boards To Show
Why Reassessment Should
Not Be Made.

J.CWatMk

This is the new Pere Marquette Hotel, Peoria, where the Eleventh
Annual Meeting of the Illinois Agricultural Association will be held. The
Marquette is said to be the finest hotel in downstate Illinois. It is being
rushed to completion to care for the I. A. A. convention.

first time in history when Matthew
R^ietiert, county club champion
made the long trip unescorted.
"Matthew came home tired but brim

full of experience, "1 writes Hughes.
"He said Urat Chicajgo has too many
cobble stones, banbuets and good

eats. (Colltilluocl;IM'!^ nM>lltll )

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Tentative Program

Illinois Agricultural Association

Annual Meeting

Jan. 26-27-28, 1927.

Pere Marquette HoteL,yeoria.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26.

8:30 a. m. — Hlinois Farm Bureau Baseball League, Annual Meeting.
10 :30 a. m. — Illinois Farm Bureau Serum Association, Annual

Meeting.
1:30 p.m. — Illinois Agricultural Cooperatives Association, Annual

Meeting.
6:30 p. m. — Annual Dinner, Farm Boreau Presidents and Farm

Advisers.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 27.

I. A. A. ANNUAL MEETING.

9 ;30 a. m.to 12 :00 Opening Session. ,

President's message. 1,1

Secretary's report.
Treasurer's report.

1 ;30 p. m. to 4 :30 — Sectional Conferences.

I. ORGANIZATION AND INFORMATION,

borough, presiding; Lucius E. Wilson, pres. General Or-
ganization Co., present.

II. PUBLIC RELATIONS. Frank D. Barton, presiding; A. C.

Everingham, legislative representative, and John C. Wat-
son, director of taxation, present. | j
IIL FINANCIAL BUSINESS SERVICE, G^. I F. Tullock,
presiding; George E. Frazer, of Frazer artd I'orbet, public
accountants, Chicago, present.

IV. MARKETING, Samuel Sorrells, presiding; Chris L. Chris-
j tenson, director of division of cooperative marketing, I,'.
1 ■ S. D. A., present.

V. HOME AND COMMUNITY (for women) Mrs. Spencer

Ewing, president of Illinois Home Bureau Federation,
presiding; Mrs. Charles W. Sewell, field director. Home
and Community Committee, present.

Mr. Eugene T. Lies, special-repr. Playgrokinfl and Recrea-
tion Association of America, present.
4:30to5:30 p. m. — Congressional District Meetings.
6:30 p.m. — Annual Banquet and Election.
Sam H. Thompson — speaker.
James Goddard — soloist.
Humorist to 1 e announced.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 28.

9:30 to 11:00 a. m. — Business Ses^cn of Delegates.
41:00tol2:00a.m.— Address— Dr. Carl C. Ta.\ior, Dean Graduate

School, North Carolina Agricultural College.
12:30 p. m. — Luncheon, .Address, Senator Chas. L. McNary, chair-
man agricultural C(»mmittee, U. S. "
2:00 p.m. — Adoption of Resolutions.

COUNTY boards of review from
the counties of Kane, Franklin,
Clay, and Peoria
appeared, two
with their states
attorneys, before
the Illinois Tax
Commission o n
Tuesday, Dec. 21,
and presented
pleas a.'iking the
Commission t o
countermand i t s
order calling for
a revaluation of
farm propertie.s
in these counties.

Up until time
of going to press
no action had been taken to coun-
termand the order. Chairman Wm.
H. Malone told the board of review
representatives in the open hearing
that their statements were good
reason why revaluations should t>e
ordered.

Figures Presented.

The decision of the Tax Commis-
sion ordering a reassessment came
following presentation of facts and
figures by John C. Watson and Earl
C. Smith of the Illinois Agricultural
Association showing that inequali-
ties between farm and city valua-
tion existed in the four counties
mentioned.

The information revealed by Wat-
son shows that landowners in thest'
counties are paying around $200,
000 more than their just share oi
taxes. In Clay county farm land'
are being assessed on the basis of
58 to 60 per cent of full valuation
whereas in the towns and cities the
full valuation are only 32 to 34 per
cent of actual selling values.

The controversy which led to the
final order by the Tax Commission
has been underway for four years.
The boards of review have been ap-
pealed to repeatedly, by local farm
bureau committees and the I. A. A.
"Their indifference and evijent de-
sire to defeat justice led ;ne Associ-
ation to aj.pea! to the state Com-
mission which "has jurisdiction over
such matters, with the result noted.

L,. mess

TIT

Charles Nagel, of St. Louis, Sec-
retary of Commerce and Labor in
President Tafl's cabinet, is chairman
of the joint commission representing
the National Industrial Conference
Board and the United States Cham-
ber of Commerce recently appointed
to work out a national plan and pol-
icy for agriculture. Mr. Nagel is
honorary vice-president of the U. S.
Chamber of Com|ii*rc«.

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44 Counties Ready
I To Sell Quotas In
' A uta Ins urance Co.

Thje Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD

January, 1927

Fire and Ifheft Policy Proves
iVery Popular.

By y. VANIMAN.

THE lUinofis Agrricultural Mutual
Insurant Company, organized
to provide ajuto insurance at cost,
has a new name
among farm bu-
r e a u members.
They call it "Our
Company."

The farm ba-
re a u presidents
and the Execu-
t i V e Committei'
of the I. A. A.
planned well and
thought straight
in setting up the
company. No
constructive sur-
riestions ha|e been made to date
Sor improving the plan.

Forty-f ou - farm bureaus already
have orgar ized to secure their
quota of chirter members equal to
20 per cen ; of the present farm
bureau membership. The organ-
ization in <ach county consists of
a county wi de insurance committee
<>f five meii and a local township
Committee, including a chairman
and four men from each township.
All these rien meet in a one-day
esssion anc school themselves on
auto insurs nee so they can give
their felloM farm bureau members
accurate in: ormation about auto in-
surance.

PI in Is Popular.
The writing of what is termed
a "No value policy" for fire and
theft is n:eeting with unanimous
approval, [n case of loss of car by
fire or thelt the company pays the
msured the actual value of the car
at the time of the loss. Of cars of
the same make and age one may be
worth twicj as much as the other
one, depe iding upon care and
usage, con: lequently the basis of a
stated depi eciation per month does
not agree with the reasoning fac-
ulties of F irm Bureau members.

company
per cent
damage.

Public

Collulon Coverage Broad.

Collisioi 1 coverage is to reim-
burse the insured for damage done
to his cai and the policy not only
provides p rotection against collision
with moving objects but also with
stationary objects in case of avoid-
ing collisi]n with a moving object.
There aie no deductibles. The
will pay the insured 80
of the collision loss or

Liability and Property
Damage.

Public Liability and Property
Damage insurance is to protect the
insured against the liability imposed
by law for personal injury or dam-
age the car does to persons or prop-
erty. Tie insured is protected up
to $5,00(1 for personal injury or
death to one person and with that
limit per person $10,000 for any
single aci ident. On property dam-
age up tc $1,000 for any single aC'
eident One Farm Bureau member
reasoned that based on law of aver-
ages he could not ^ord tp gamble
$5 or $19 against $5,000 that his
car migh ; not injure some one or
cause a fatal accident during the
year.

Illinois Commission Orders Tax Cut

Left to right above are Llamea D. Telford, Wm. H. Malone, and
Chas. R. Francis, members of j the Illinois Tax Commission who upheld
the county farm bureaus of l^ane, Peoria, Franklin, and Clay and the
Illinois Agricultural Association recently wlien they ordered a revalu-
ation of farm property in the four counties.

Wm. H. Malone, chairmaU of the Commission is seen signing the
order.

The order for a revaluation follows four years of consistent and
painstaking effort on behalf L>f the Farm Bureaus and the I. A. A.
during' which statistics and data were collected to show that farm
property was bearing an une<^ual portion of the tax burden.

When the necessary adjustments are made, farmers in the counties
affected will save approximatily $200,000 or $20.50 per farm.

Plan Simple.

The auto owner can hav* any
one of the four optional forns of
coverage, namely. Class I, File and
Theft, Collision, Public Liability
and Property Damage. Tliis is
what is termed full coverage; Class

II, Fire and Theft and Publi: Lia-
bility and Property Damage; Qlass

III, Public Liability and Property
Damage or Class IV, Fini and
Theft

Cost of Insurance.
The company does not operate
for profit. It is just to rend !r ,one
more service to farm bureau mem-
bers. Each car will pay it i pro-
portionate share of the losaes ac-
cording to the form of coverage
carried, plus the proportionate
share of the operating expense of
the company. No money paid until
company starts operation.

The initial payment for each car
or truck is as follows:

Policy Fee $ 5

Premium Deposit 10

Surplus Share _. 10

Total $ !5

The above amount is fcr life.
There is no additional payment to
the insured except the payment of
his share of the losses and e: :penses
at the end of the six montl 's per-
iod which restores the premium de-
posit and renevrs the insuraice for
another six months' period. Thus
the policy never expires except
through cancellation. The iiember
can have his policy transfe -red to
another car by paying a transfer
fee of $1.

Retain Surplus Share
The surplus share is eacli mem-
ber's contribution to the suri lus and
each member is credited vith his
share of the surplus earning > on his
surplus share.

Both the surplus share and the
premium deposit are returned to
the member upon cancellation of
his policy, thus the assets of the
member in the company are $20.

It is understood, of course,
the assessment is not paid

end of the six months' period it is

that if
at the

deposit
to the
surplus

taken out of the premium
and the balance returned
member together with the
share.

No Money Paid.
In order to cut the overhead cost
of operation to a minimum and also
to provide the necessary free sur-
plus required by law, 5,000 appli-
cations for auto insurance must be
secured. On making appliiation a
check or checks should be njade out
to the Illinois Agricultural
Insurance Company,
them.

Mutual

Plan I. If you want insurance
to go into force when company
starts, make one check for $25 and
attach to application. This will be
dated and cashed ten days before
company starts.

Plan II. If you have other in-
surance in force, make one check
for $15, which will consist of pol-
icy fee and surplus share. Do not
date it. This check will be cashed
when company starts. Make an-
other check for $10 which is for the
premium deposit.

By making application for ante
insurance and being a charter mem-
ber you will have had a part in
laying the foundation for a. broad
insurance program for farm bureau
members. Plans are already being
formulated for life insurance as
another service for farm bureau
members. Your enrollment as a
charter member on auto insurance
will hasten the establishment of the
company. See your Farm Bureau
or write direct to the Illinois Agri-
cultural Mutual Insurance Com-
pany, 608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago,
Illinois.

15 Farm Bureau Men
Awarded Gold Medals
As Merit Recognition

Prairie Farmer Awards Mas-
ter Fanner Insiynias To
Highest Scoring Candidates.

Howard B. Hancock, president of
the New Jersey Farm Bureau Fed-
eration went out single-handed in
his home county of Cumberland and
signed up 90 per cent of all the
farm families in his township. In
his first 24 interviews he signed 22.

FIFTEEN farm bureau members
from various sections of Illinois
were honored at the second annual
Master Farmers banquet given by
Prairie Farmer at the Sherman Ho-
tel during the week of the Inter-
national Live Stock Exposition in
Chicago.

The following men were so hon-
ored and were presented with gold
medals by Burridge D. Butler, pub-
lisher of Prairie Farmer: George T.
Harris, Rock Island County; Albert
Hayes, Peoria County; E. D. Law-
rence, McLean County; Martin
Linn, Fulton County; W. G. Mc-
Cormick, Douglas County ; J. L. Mc-
Keighan, J. E. Main, and Jones Mc-
Bride, all of Knox county, Charles
E. Mies, Livingston County; Fred
C. Parks, Woodford County; Wm.
C. Rebhan, Montgomery County,
Edward Schrock, Tazewell County;
Carl Sargeant, Schuyler County;
George Shuman, Woodford County
and Clarence Watson, McDonough
County.

Good Neighbors and Citizens.

"To these men, because they are
good farmers, good neighbors, and
good citizens, Prairie Farmer is
awarding the degree of Master
Farmer, and presenting each with a
gold medal as a token," said editor
C. V. Gregory, who acted as toast-
master.

William R. Dawes, President of
the Chicago Association of Com-
merce, was the speaker of the eve-
ning. He told why the Middle West
should have a deep waterway to the
sea.

Knox County with three men had
the honor of producing the largest
number of Master Farmers this
year. Woodford County produced
two, and the other counties one
each. In their speeches of accept-
ance the honored men paid glowing
tribute to Dr. Cyril G. Hopkins, who
instituted the Illinois system of
Permanent Soil Fertility.

J. L. McKeighan of Yates City is
vice-director and secretary of the
farm bureau in Salem Township,
Knox County. McKeighan has been
a prominent seed com grower and
breeder of Hampshire sheep for
many years. He was crowned com
king at the State show at Urbana
in 1923 and 1924. McKeighan aided
the farm bureau in arranging for
the first state utility corn show held
in Galesburg in 1921.

James McBride of Oneida, Knox
County, was formerly director of
the Farm Bureau from Lynn Town
ship and has served as vice-director
and secretary of Ontario Township
since moving to his present home.
He was active in establishing the
Ontario Parish Experimental Plot,

Knox County's Champion Team

From left to right above are E. R. Bowman, Edd Holmes, Zina
Crane, and J. W. Asplund, all from Knox county. These men com-
prise Knox county's championship sign-up team. They signed 30 mem-
Do I ot date I bers in the southeast quarter of Ontario Township during the recent
' drive of the Knox County Farm Bureau.

W. E. Hedfcock

Soys' and Girls' Club v.V
Champion Guests of
I. A. A. at Breakfast

"Gee kids, look at all the eats.
Isn't this a swell room." These and
many similar remarks, by the state
and county club
champions repre-
senting the 13,-
000 boy and girl
club members of
Illinois, were
heard at the Illi-
nois Agricultural
Association club
breakfast on
Wednesday
morning, Decem-
ber first.

More than 209^ |
boys' and girls'
club leaders,
farm advisers,

and other ofiicials were guests of
the I. A. A. in the Crystal Room of
the Great Northern Hotel during
International week.

Matthew Reichert, 14, champion
calf club boy from Pulaski County
claimed the long distance record
among the Illinois club members at
the International. Matthew made
the trip of nearly 400 miles unac-
companied. He had the honor of
being the first club member ever to
represent his county at this national
club gathering.

Seven boys and girls were
awarded gold medals. Six of the
medal winners were members of the
champion livestock and dairy judg-
ing teams as follows:

Champion Livestock Judging Team:

Raymond Benbone, Iroquois

County.
Baymond Callahan, Iroquois

County.
Harold Hixon, Iroquois County.

Champion Dairy Judging Team:

Bernard Montgomery, Bureau
County.

Rudolph May, Bureau County.

Harold McDonald, Bureau
County.

Speeches were made by Dean H.
W. Mumford of the Illinois College
of Agriculture, Earl C. Smith, presi.
dent of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation, and E. I. Pilchard, state
club leader. W. E. Hedgcock of the
Illinois Agricultural Association
awarded the medals.

sponsored by the Ontario Hen's
Club, of which he is a member.

Grows Big Crops.

J. E. Main of Altona has been an
active worker for the Farm Bureau
in Walnut Grove Township ever
since the organization was started.
He has put into practice the meth-
ods of improving soil and crop yields
as recommended by the Farm Bu-
reau. He has further increased
yields through the introduction of
new varieties of seed oats and dis-
ease free seed corn introduced by
the Farm Bureau. He has a record
of producing 108 bushels of Iowa
oats per acre on an 80 acre field.

Fred C. Parks of Minonk is vice-
president of the Woodford County
Farm Bureau and has been an ac-
tive co-operator since its formation.
He is just finishing his eleventh year
as a co-operator in the farm man-
agement project. He is president of
the Minonk High school board and
is very active in community and
church affairs.

A Charter Member.

George Shuman is also a charter
member of the Woodford County
Farm Bureau and is an active co-
operator and is also completing his
eleventh year in the farm manage-
ment project. He as well as Mr.
Parks has been very successful in
his farm enterprises and especially
so in swine production.

E. D. Lawrence of McLean
County was on the board of direc-
tors of the Farm Bureau for four
years, acting as secretary for three
years. Lawrence farms around 500
acres of land. He is a graduate of
the University of Illinois and is an
active worker in community enter-
prises.

(Continued next month.)

He that would catch the fish must
venture his bait.— Franklin.

Iowa finished the year 1926 with
the largest paid farm bureau mem-
bership. Illinois was a close second.
New York state made a gain of 4112
members.

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Volume 5

Issued Every Month for 63,000 Thinking Farmers — February, 1927

No. 2

ALL RECORDS BROKEN WHEN 2000 AHEND 12th PUAL CONVENTION

Disloyalty To Middle West Is Charge

Hurled At Colleagues By Congressman
Brand In Speech Before Crowd Of 1700

Scores Opponents of Surplus Control Measure and Predicts
Issue Will Become Political Football Unless Solved By
Present Congress.

G6NGRESSMAN Charles Brand of Ohio brought his
heavy artillery and ammunition into play against op-
ponents of surplus control legislation before 1,700 delegates
and visitors at the Friday luncheon during the I. A. A. con-
vention at Peoria last week.

Before finishing his interesting two-hour address to the
greatest crowd ever assembled at an I. A. A. meeting, he
poured volley after volley into his fellow congressmen from
Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and
Milwaukee who voted against the McNary Haugen measure.

"These men are traitors to the
great Middle West which they are
supposed to represent," he said.
"If they had voted for agriculture,
the industry that supports these
cities, we lyo'^'d have had the
needed majority to pass this legis-
lation in the last congress."

Traylor and Jardine Scored

Melvin Traylor, president of the
American Bankers Association and
Secretary Jardine likewise came in
for a round of condemnation for
their opposition to the surplus con-
trol plan.

"The bankers have their McNary
Haugen bill in the Federal Reserve
Act, the railroads have theirs in the
Transportation Act, and labor has
the Immigration Act," said Mr.
Brand. He commended labor, how-
ever, for its friendliness to the
farmers' cause, and John Walker,
president of the State Federation
of Labor, and an interested listener,
smilingly acknowledged the rec-
ognition.

"The analogy between the Fed-
eral Reserve Act and the McNary
.Haugen plan is perfect," said the
speaker. "That Act stabilized
credit in this country." Then he
compared the two point by point
and showed how the member banks
pay 10 per cent of their deposits
and six per cent of their capital
into the Federal Reserve Bank.

"It is unbecoming of bankers to
oppose this legislation for farmers
when the government did so much
for them," said the congressman.
"Mr. Traylor may be one of the
money changers in tEe temple."

Farmers Lost 20 Billion.

After showing how agriculture
had lost 20 billions of dollars be-
tween 1920 and 1925, the speaker
started an explanation of the sur-
plus control plan showing how it
might be used to stabilize prices of
such crops as cotton, wheat, corn,
and livestock.

"The fear expressed by some op-
ponents that the price of food
would be raised is groundless," said
the speaker. Then to prove his
point he showed how bread had re-
mained at eight cents per pound for
the past eight years while wheat
varied from 80 cents to $1.85 per
bushel. "Cotton goods haven't
changed in price since the price of
cotton went so low," he continued.
"The only difference is that the cot-
ton planters of the South get less
while the manufacturers and spin-
ners get more."

Before concluding his address the
congressman predicted that if the
surplus control plan is not adopted

Congressman Charles Brand

by the present Congress it would be
thrown into politics.

"If that happens don't vote for
anyone who isn't your friend," was
the concluding word and directly
following it the vast audience arose
and cheered the speaker for fully
five minutes. It was the greatest
exhibition of enthusiasm and un-
animity of sentiment ever expressed
at a farm gathering in Illinois.

Cooperatives Assn. to

Indianapolis in 1927

Definite plans to open a branch
office at Indianapolis in the coming
year were laid at the annual meet-
ing of the Illinois Agricultural Co-
operatives Association held at
Peoria on Wednesday, Jan. 26.

Sixty-two counties were repre-
sented in the meeting which was the
largest held in the short history of
the Association. Among the organ-
izations represented were 24 county
farm bureaus, 15 farmers' eleva-
tors, five shipping associations, six
insurance companies, four farm
supply companies, three dairy or-
ganizations, one livestock terminal
comniission association, and three
seed and cotton cooperatives.
300 Members Coal.

The goal for the coming year is
300 active member associations as
announced by George R. Wicker,
manager. Eighty-four more mem-
bers are required to reach this num-
ber.

(Continued on col. 6, page 4.)

Our Sam Asks For
Continued Support
To Relief Program

More Than 1,200 Attend Ban-
quet On Thursday Night In
Shrine Temple Building.

THE attitude which society takes
toward agriculture depends upon
farmers t h e m-
selves. If we
have the proper
respect for our-
selves and our
calling, with
faith enough to
stand together
through trials
and adversity,
we will write a
story that will be
the pride of our
children and
those to come
after them. We
canont fail if we _ „ _.

. ^. . Sam H. Thompson

do this.

This is the sage advice Sam H
Thompson, president of the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation, and
the pride of the Illinois Agricul
tural Association, handed out to his
fellow citizens and friends at the
annual banquet in Peoria on Thurs-
day, Jan. 27.

TMlht PUialy.
Our Sam was talking to his home
folks and he talked plainly. The
home folks responded with a power-
ful ovation that threatened to raise
the roof off the Shrine Temple
building.

After admonishing the great
audience of delegates and visitors,
many of whom he had worked side
by side with in building the I. A.
A. about the necessity for main
taining a strong organization and
a united front, Mr. Thompson
launched into a discussion of the
economic situation of agriculture
and the need for enabling legisla
tion so the farmer may help him-
self out.

"Lack of stabilization is the
trouble with our business," said the
speaker, "and lack of bargaining
power on the part of farmers is the
root of all the evil."

Answers Criticism
Answering the criticism of
"price-fixing" and "economically
unsound" both of which have been
used in describing the surplus con-
trol legislation asked by farmers,
Mr. Thompson stated that if this
were true, the same might be said
for the whole protective system as
applied to other groups.

The last six years, the speaker
pointed out, have seen the steady
transfer of wealth from the farm
to the city because the farmer had
no way of securing for himself a
fair price for his product. Farmers
have lost while others have gained.
James Goddard of the Foreman
National Bank, Chicago led the
community singing and later sang
negro melodies which drew tremen-
dous applause. R. Bradley, "the
talkative tailor" from Peoria was
the humorist of the evening.

THE greatest annual convention in the eleven years' his-
tory of the Illinois Agricultural Association is over. It
was greatest in attendance, in spirit, in enthusiasm, and in
the impression made upon those who saw this mighty exhibi-
tion of the strength and loyalty of the organized farmers of
Illinois.

j Peoria, the metropolis of downstate Illinois, was taxed to
care for the crowd that exceeded all expectations. One thou-
sand was the number predicted, but more than 2,000 delegates,
visitors, and their wives came from the 93 organized counties
of the state to participate in the three-day program.

Twenty newspaper, farm paper

Congressman Brand's complete
speech as well as copies of "A Short
Story of the I. A. A. and Report for
1926" may be had by writing the
Department of Information, Illinois
Agricultural Association, 608 So.
Dearborn St., Chicago. They will
be sent free as long as they last.

Earl C. Smith Unopposed for President
Is Elected by Unanimous Vote. Frank
Barton Wins Over W. C. McQueen
filir\ Vice-President. Four New

Men on Executive Committee

Congressman Charles Brand of Ohio Gets Glad Hand and
Vociferous Applause From 1700 Delegates and Visitors at
Friday Luncheon in Shrine Temple As He Flays Oppo-
nents of Farm Measure.

Re-elected President

Earl C. Smith

McNARY l^ETAINED

Senator Charles L. McNary who
was scheduled to speak at the Fri
day luncheon called by long dis-
tance telephone on Thursday to say
that it was imperative he stay in
Washington in the interest of the
McNary farm relief bill.

A. A. Executive
Committee Votes
For "Bureau Farmer"

The BUREAU FARMER, official
publication of the American Farm
Bureau Federation, will be sent to
all members of the I. A. A. accord-
ing to a unanimous decision reached
by the Executive Committee at its
regular meeting held on Jan. 7.

The BUREAU FARMER which
appeared officially January 1, is a
32-page magazine issued once each
month. It is published by John
Wilding, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, who
signed a contract with the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation by
which the former assumes all risk
and responsibility for advertising.
I. A. A. News Included.

News of the Illinois Agricultural
Association and the county farm
bureaus will be included in a four
to eight page insert each month.
The magazine will appear the first
of the month.

The Illinois Agricultural Associa-

(Continued on ool. 3, page 4.)

and press correspondents from Chi-
cago, Washington, D. C, Indiana,
and the downstate cities of lUinoir
who attended the convention broad-
cast its proceedings into every
state in the Union, It was a repre-
sentative gathering.

Many Guest* Present.

Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Miller drove
to the meeting frou Denver, Colo-
rado.

John Walker, the vigorous presi-
dent of the Illinois State Federation
of Labor, Wm. H. Malone, chair-
man of the Illinois Tax Commission,
Mrs. H. C. Rodenhouser of the Illi-
nois Federation of Women's Clubs,
Mrs. Arthur Smith of the Illinois
League of Women Voters, R. C.
Moore, secretary of the Illinois
State Teachers' Association, H. E.
Young, secretary of the Illinois
Farmers' Institute, E. A. Eckert, of
the Illinois State Grange, and Jus-
tice of the supreme court of Illi-
nois, Clyde E. Stone were all guests
at the Friday luncheon. Telegrams
from eight Illinois congressmen,
who were unable to attend were
read by President Earl Smith.

Herman Danforth, first president,
Howard Leonard, and Sam H.
Thompson, all past presidents of the
I. A. A. were other prominent
guests there to celebrate the twelfth
birthday of the organization which
they helped build.

Beginning Tuesday afternoon, a
steady stream of delegates and vis-
itors poured into the city on the
banks of the Illinois, by train, trol-
ley, bus, and auto until by Thurs-
day all hotels were crowded to
capacity. It was the first large con-
vention held in the new Pere Mar-
quette hotel, but five of Peoria's
largest buildings were required to
hold all the sessions of the meeting.

Smith Unopposed.

Rumors regarding opposition to
President Smith for reelection which
were heard about the lobby prior to
the election never materialized.
When Frank Barton arose to nom-
inate Mr. Smith following the call
for candidates by A. C. Everingham,
President Smith's name was re-
ceived with loud acclaim. A few
minutes later the secretary was in-
structed by the voters to cast a
unanimous ballot for the popular
candidate.

The \nce-presidential berth, held
last year by Chas. R. Finley was
(Continued on col. 2, page 4.)

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Page 4

44 Courities
I To Seil
I Auto

The Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD

Ready
Quotas In
Insurance Co.

Fire and Theft Policy Proves
[Very Popular.

By ". VANIMAN.

UK mini is Acriiultural Mutu.i
ItistiraiK f Company, orpanizod
t« pri'viiif t uto insurance at cost,
has a nt'W nam*^

i K amonn farm b»-

l<-^ <<->■ roaii nicmbiTs.

•G^ "^SlPa xhiy call it "Our
Company."

The farm bii-
r e a u presiilents
and thjL' ExecM-
t i V e Comniitto'
<if the I. A. A.
planned well and
thought straight
in setting up the

I V. Vai.ii an. I.' o ni p a 11 y. No

t c*»nstructive suff-

tfestions ha e been made to date

^r iniprovii p the plan.

i !-'orty-foa ■ farm bureaus already

riavi' (Jrijai ized to secure their

ituota of ch irter members eciual t"

10 per cen : i>t the present farm

ureau me nbership. The orpan-

zation in < ach county consists of

t county w dc insurance committee

f live men and a local township

ommittee, including a chairman

md four m I'n from each township.

\11 these lien meet in a one-day

■.<ssion anc school themselves on

luto in.--uri nee so they can K've

heir fellov farm bureau members

itTurate in 'ormation about auto in-

urance.

PJin Is Popular.

The writ inj; of what is termed

I "No val le policy" for fire anfl

theft is n ee^inp with unanimous

approval. !n case of hiss of car b.v

tire or the! t the cimipany pays the

insured tbt actual value of the car

at the tinu of the loss. Of cars of

the same j) ake anil age one may be

Worth twlc L- as much as the other

one, depe uiinR upon care and

'fiisajre. ct>n equentl.v the basis of a

tated dep: eciation per month does

with the reasoning fac-

K irni Bureau members.

January, 1927

Left to right above are James D. Telford, Wm. H. Malone, and
I Chas. R. Francis, members of the Illinois Tax Commission who upheld
the county farm bureaus of l^ane, Peoria, Franklin, and Clay and the
I in recently when they ordered a revalu-
four counties.

Illinois Agricultural Associati
ation of farm property in the

Wn

H. Malone, chairman of the Con|mission is seen signing the

arde

The order for a revalua
painstaking effort on behalf
during which statistics and
property was bearing an i.nec

When the necessary adju
affected will save approximati 1

ion follows four years of consistent and
f the Farm Bureaus and the 1. A. A.
data were collected to show that farm
ual portion of the tax burden,
itments are made, farmers in the counties
ly $200,000 or $20.50 per farm.

Coll

CoUisioi
burse the
to his cat
provid»-s
with mov
stationary
inis colli
There
C4itiipany
per cent
<lanuij;e.

on Coverage Broad.

coverage is tti reim-

insured for damage dune

and the policy not only

Ijrotecti<in against collision

ng tibjects but also with

bjects in case of avoid-

with a moving object.

no tleductibles. The

will pay the, insured >^0

of the collision loss or

XI e

Public Liability and Property
Damage.

Public
Damagi

. Liability and Proi>erty
i nsurance is to protect the

nsured a rainst the liability imposed
by law fi r personal injury or dam-
age tine c ir does to persons or prop-
erty. Tl e insured is protected up
tti $.5. (Ml I for personal injury or
death to one person and with that
limit per person $10,000 for any
single ac id*-nt. On jiroperty dam-
age up tl :?1.I>00 for any single ac-
cident. I )ne Farm Bureau member
leasoned that biiseil on lasv of aver-
ages he lould not jjfford to gamble
$5 or .<1 ) again.-4t $.5,000 that his
car migh not injure some one or
cau.se a fatal accident during the
year.

J

Plan Simple.

The auto owner can havt any
one of the four optional for ns of
coverage, namely. Class I, File and
Theft, Collision, Public Liability
and Property Damage. T'lis
what is termed full coverage; Class

II, Fire and Theft and Publi; Lia
bility and Property Damage; Class

III, Public Liability and Pr iperty

Clas

IV, Fin .

and

Damage
Theft.

Cost of Insurance.

The company does not operate
for profit. It is just to rend >r one
more service to farm bureau mem-
bers. Each car will pay its pro-
portionate share of the losses ac-
cording to the form of coverage
carried, plus the propor ionate
share of the operating expense of
the company. .Vo imnii'ii /laii iDitil
ri>tti iKtnif atitfts tn/eration.

The initial payment for e^ch car
or truck is as follows:

Policy Fee ..

Premium Deposit..

Surplus Share

5
10
10

..$>5
f( r life.

Total

The above amount is
There is no additional payr lent to
the insured except the payment of
his share of the losses and e pen.scs
at the end of the six montl
ioii which restores the ]>reiiiium de
posit and renews the insura ice for
another six months* jieriod. Thus
the policy never expires except
through cancellation. The member
can have his policy transfe-rcd to
another car by paying a transfer
fee of $1.

Retain Surplus Share

The surpjus share is cac
ber's contribution to the suri lus and
each member is credited % ith his
share of the surplus earning! on his
surplus share.

Both the surplus share
premium deposit are retu
the member upon cancelli
his policy, thus the a.ssets

member in the company are $20.

15 Farm Bureau Men
Awarded Gold Medals
As Merit Recognition

Boys' and Girls' Club
Champion Guests of
I. A. A. at Breakfast

"Gee kids, look at all the eats.

. . 1 »« I Isn't this a swell room." These and

Prairie Farmer Awards Mas- many similar remarks, by the state

ter Farmer Insignias To
Highest Scoring Candidates.

(.("'IFTEEN farm bureau members
from various sections of Illinois
were honored at the second annual
.^laster Farmers banquet given by
Prairie F'armer at the Sherman Ho-
tel during the week of the Inter-I b r e a k f a .s t on

and county club
champions rejire-
senting the 1:?,-
000 boy and girl
club members of
Illinois, were
heard at the Illi-
nois Agricultural
Association club

Plar| I. If you want insurance
to go I into force when company
starts, make one check for $25 and
attach to application. This will be
dated and cashed ten days before
conipapy starts.

Plaii II. If you have other in-
surance in force, make one check
for $15, which will consist of pol-
icy fc^ and surplus share. Do not
date i^. This check will be cashed
when company starts. Make an-
other fheck for $10 which is for the
premium deposit.

By making application for auto
insurajnce and being a charter mem-
ber you will have had a part in
laying; the foundation for a broad
insuralncc program for farm bureau
niembiers. Plans are already being i
formulated for life insurance as [
another service for farm bureau
members. Your enrollment as a
charter member on auto insurance
will hpsten the establishment of the
company. See your Farm Bureau
or wrfite direct to the Illinois .Agri-
cultuijal Mutual Insurance Com-
pany. 608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago,
Illinois.

Howard B. Hancock, president of
the New Jersey Farm Bureau Fed-
eration went out single-handed in
his home county of Cumberland and
signed up 90 per cent of all th'-
farm families in his township. In
his fir.-'t 24 interviews he signed 22.

national Live Stock Exposition
Chicago.

The following men were so hon-
ored and were presented with gold
medals by Burridge D. Butler, pub-
lisher of Prairie Farmer: George T.
Harris, Rock Island County; Albert
Hayes, Peoria County; E. D. Law-
rence, McLean Count.v; Martin
Linn, Fulton County; W. G. Mc-
Cormick, Douglas County ; J. L. Mc-
Keighan, .1. E. Main, and Jones Mc-
Bride, all of Knox county, C^iarles
E. Mies. Livingston County; 'F>ed
C. Parks, Woodford County; Wm.
C. Rebhan. Montgomery County.
Edward Schrock, Tazewell County;
Carl Sargeant, Schuyler County:
George Shunian. Woodford County
and Clarence Watson, McDonough
County.

Good Neighbors and Citizens.

"To these men, because they are
good farmers, good neighbors, and
good- citizens, Prairie F'armer is
awarding the degree of Master
Farmer, and presenting each with a
gold medal as a token," said editor
C. V. Gregory, who acted as toast-
master.

Williijm R. Dawes, President of
the Chicago .Association of Com-
merce, was the speaker of the eve-
ning. He told why the Middle West
should have a deep waterway to the
sea.

Knox County with threemen had
the honor of producing the largest
number of Master Farmers this
year. Woodford County produced
two, and the other ciunties one
each. In their speeches of accept-
ance the honored men jiaid glowing
tribute to Dr. Cyril G. Hopkins, who
instituted the Illinois system of
Permanent Soil Fertility

J. L. McKeighan tif Yates City is
vice-director and secretai-.v Ojf the
farm bureau in Salem Township,
Knox County. McKeighan has been
a prominent seed corn grower and
breeder of Hampshire sheep for
many years. He was crowned
king at the State show at Urbana
in 192:1 and 1924. McKeighan aided
the farm bureau in arranging for
the first state utility corn show held
in Galesburg in 1921.

James McBride of Oneida, Knox
County, was fornierl.v director of
the F'arm Bureau from Lynn Town-
ship and has served as vice-director
and secretary of Ontario Township
since moving to his present home.
He was active in establishing the
Ontario Parish Experimental Plot.

W. E. Hedscock

Wednesday
morning. Decent
ber first. '

.More than 200
boys' and girls'
club leaders,
farm advisers,

and other olhcials were guests of
the I. -A. A. in the Crystal Room of
the Great Northern Hotel during
International week.

Matthew Reichert, 14, chanipion
calf club boy from Pulaski County
claimed the long distance record
among the Illinois club members. at
the International. Matthew 'made
the trip of nearly 400 miles unac-
companied. He had the honor of
being the first club member ever to
represent his county at this national
club gathering.

Seven boys and girls were
awar<led gokl medals. Six of the
medal winners were members of the
champion livestock and dairy judg-
ing teams as follows:

Champion Livestock Judging Team:

Ra.vmond Benbone, I r o ij u o i s

Count.v.
Raymond Callahan, Iroquois

Count.v.
Harold Hi.xon, Iroquois County.

Champion Dairy Judging Team;

Bernard Montgomery, Bureau
County.

Rudolph May, Bureau County.

Harold McDonald, Bureau
County.

Speeches were made by Dean H.
W. .Mumford of the Illinois College
of Agriculture, Earl C. Smith, presi-
dent of the Illinois Agricultural .As-
sociation, and E. I. Pilchard, state
cliib leader. W. E. Hedgcock of the
Illinois Agricultural Association
awarded the niedal-s.

sponsored by the
Club, of which he i;

Ontario JlenV
a member.

Knox County's Champion Team

I mem-

ind the

ned to

tion of

of the

It is understood, of course,
the assessment is not paid
end of the si-x months' per
taken out of the premium
and the balance returned
member together with the
share.

No Money Paid.
In order to cut the overh
o( operatiin to a minimum
to provide the necessary ftee sur-
plus required by law, 5,00 3 appli
cations for auto insurance
secured. On making appli

that if
at the
od it is
<lep<isit
to the
surplus

ad cost
tnd also

nust be
ation a

check or checks should be n ade out

to the Illinois Agricultural

Insurance Company,
them.

Mutual

Do I ot date

m

y.' -i

■&»■ v^^ :'.'-■ / ••

H

#'1M

^.lilB

* -

1 «r<fef/-o.-

Grows Big Crops.

J. E. Main of Altona has been an
active worker for the Farm Bureau
in Walnut Grove Township ever
since the organization was started.
He has put into practice the meth-
ods of improving soil and crop yields
as recommended by the Farm Bu-
reau. He has further increased
yields through the introduction of
new varieties of seed oats and dis-
ease free seed corn introduced by
the Farm Bureau. He has a record
of producing His bushels of Iowa
oats per acre on an 80 acre field.
F'red C. Parks of Minonk is vice-
I president of the Woodford .County
Farm Bureau and has been an ac-
tive co-operator since its formation.
He is just finishing his eleventh year
as a co-ojierator in the farm man-
iigement project. He is president of
I the Minonk High school board and
j is very active in community and
church affairs.

A Charter Member.

George Shuman is also a charter
member of the Woodford County
Farm Bureau and is an active co-
cpcrator and is also completing his
(deventh .vear in the farm manage-
ment project. He as well as Mr.
Parks has been ver.v successful in
his farm enterprises and especially
so in swine production.

E. D. Lawrence of McLean
County was on the board of direc-
tors of the Farm Bureau for four
years, acting as secretary for three
years. Lawrence farms around 500
acres of land. He is a graduate of
the University of Illinois and is an
active worker in community enter-
prises.

(Coiifinufd next nmiith 1

He that would catch the Bsh must
venture his bait. — Franklin.

From left to right above are E. R. Bowman, Edd Holmes, Zina
Crane, and J. W. Asplund, all from Knox county. These men com-
prise Knox county's championship sign-up team. They signed 30 mem-
bers in the southeast quarter of Ontario Township duiring the recent
' drive of the Knox County Farm Bureau.

Iowa finished the y.ar 1920 with
the largest paid farm bureau mem-
bership. Illinois was a close second.
New York state made a gain of 1112
.^embi r.s.

w

Voli

Volume 5

Issued Every Month for 63,000 Thinking Farmers — February, 1927

No. 2

ALL RECORDS BROKEN WHEN 2000 ATTEND 12th ANNUAL CONVENTION

Disloyalty To Middle West Is Charge

Hurled At Colleagues By Congressman
Brand In Speech Before Crowd Of 1700\

Scores Opponents of Surplus Control Measure and Predicts
Issue Will Become Political Football Unless Solved By
Present Congress.

Flays Opponents

GONGRESS:\IAX Charles Riand of Ohio broupht his
heavy artilleiy and amnuinitloii into play ajjrainst op-
ponents of surplus control k'<rislati(m before 1,700 delegates
and visitors at the Friday luncheon during the I. A. A. con-
vention at Peoria last week.

Before finishinfr his interesting two-hour address to the
greatest crowd ever assembled at an I. A. A. meeting, he
jtoured volley after volley into his fellow congressmen from
Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, ^Finncapolis, St. Paul, and
Milwaukee who voted against the McXary Haugen measure.

"These men are traitors to the
great llidillc We.^t which they art-
supposed to represent," he said.
"If they had voted for agriculture,
the industry that supports these
cities, we would have had the
needed majority to pass this legis-
lation in the last congress."

Traylor and Jardine Scored

Jlelvin Traylor, president of the I
.\merican Bankers Association atid
Secretary .Jardine likewise came in
for a round of condemnation for
their opposition to the surplus con-
trol plan.

"The bankers have their McNary
Haugen bill in the Federal Reserve
Act, the railroads have theirs in the
Transportation .-^ct, and labor has
the Immigration Act," said Mr.
Brand. He commended labor, how-
ever, for its friendliness to the
farmers' cause, and John Walker,
president of the State Federation
of Labor, and an interested listener,
smilingly acknowledged the rec-
ognition.

"The analogy between the Fed-
eral Reser\-e Act and the McNary
Haugen plan is perfect," said the
speaker. "That Act stabilized
credit in this country." Then he
compared the two point by point
and showed how the member banks
pay 10 per cent of their deposits
and six per cent of their capital
into the Federal Reserve Bank.

"It is unbecoming of bankers to
oppose this legislation for farmers
when the government di<l so much
for them," said the congressman.
"Mr. Traylor may be one of the
money changers in the temple."

Farmers Lost 20 Billion.

After showing how agriculture
had lost 20 billions of dollars be-
tween 1920 and lil25, the speaker
started an explanation of the sur-
plus control plan showing how it
might be used to stabilize prices of
such crops as cotton, wheat, corn,
and livestock.

"The fear expressed by .some op-
ponents that the price of food
would be raised is groundle.-is," said
the speaker. Then to prove his
point he showed how bread had re-
mained at eight cents per pound f..r
the |jast eight years while wheat-
varied from 80 cents to .$1.8.5 per
bushel. "Cotton goods haven't
changed in price since the price of
cotton went so low," he continued.
"The only difference is that the cot-
ton planters of the South get less
while the manufacturers and spin-
ners get more."

Before concluding his address the
congressman predicted that if the
surplus control plan is not adopted I

Congressman Chai^les Brand

by the present Congress it would be
thrown into politics.

"If that hapi)ens don't vote for
anyone who isn't your friend," was
the concluding word and directly
following it the vast autiience arose
and cheered the speaker for fully
five minutes. It was the greatest
exhibition of enthusiasm and un-
animity <*f sentiment ever expressed
at a farm gathering in Illinois.

Cooperatives Assn. to

Indianapolis in 1927

Dofinito plans to o|ien a branch
office at Indianapolis in the coming
year were lai<l at the annual meet-
nig of the Illinois Agricultural Co-
operatives .Association held at
I'eoria on Wednesday, Jan. 20.

Sixty-two counties were repre-
sented in the meeting which w-as the
largest held in the short history of
the .Association. .Among the organ-
izations rep!'esented were 24 county
I'arm bureatis, 15 farmers' eleva-
tors, live shipping associations, six
insurance companies, four farm
supply companies, three dairy or-
;ianizations, tme livestock terminal
commission association, and three
seed and cotton cooperatives.
300 Members Coal.

The goal I'or the coming year is
-100 acti\*e member associations as '
announced by Ceorge R. Wicker,
manager. Kighty-four more niem- j
bers are required to reach this num- I
bor.

(Continued on col. 5, page 4.) '

Sam H. Thotnpsi

Our Sam Asks For
Continued Support
To Relie f Prog ra m

More Than 1,200 Attend Ban-
quet On Thursday Night In
Shrine Temple Building.

'"piIF. attitude which society takes
*- toward agricidture depends upon
larmers the m-
selves. If we
have the projier
respect for our-
selves and our
calling, with
faith enough to
s t a n d together
through trials
.1 n (1 adversity,
we will write a
story that will be
the pride of our
children and
those to come
after them. We
canoht fail if we
<lo this.

This is the sage advice .<ani 11.
Thompson, i>resident of tin- .Amer-
i-an P'arm Bureau Federation, anti
the pride of the Illinois .Agricul-
tural .Association, banded out to his
fellow citizens and friends at the
annual baniiuet in I'eoria on Thurs-
da.v, Jan. 27.

Tn!!:c ?!a;.il/.

Our Sam was talking to his home
folks and he talke.l plainly. The
home folks responded with a power-
ful ovation thafi thre.-itened to raise
the roof otf the Shrine Temple
iinilding.

.After admonishing the great
audience of delegates and vi-^itors,
many vi whom he had wi»rkt-d >iile
by side with in building the I. -A.
.A. about the necessity for main-
taining a strong i-rganization and
a united front, Mr. Thompson
launched into a discussion of the
economic situation of agricultwre
ami the need for enabling Kgi^a-
tion so the farmer may help him-
self out.

"Lack of stabilization is tihe
trouble with our business," said tb<-
speakc;r, "and lack of bargaining
power on the part of farmers is the
root of all the evil."

Answers Criticism.

Answering the criticism of
"price-fixing" and "i:'con<,niically
unsound" l>i>th of which have been
used in describing the surplus con-
trol legislation asked b.v farmers,
.Mr. Thomps.m .stated that if this
were true, the same might be said
for the whole pr'itective system as
applied to other groui>s. |

The last six years, the speaker
pi)inted out, have seen the steady
transfer of wealth from the farm
to th'; city becau.se the farmer had
no way of securing fi>r himself a
fair price for his iiroduct. Farmers
have lost while others have gain<d.

James (loddard of the Foreman
National Bank, Chicago led the
community singing an<l later sang
negro melodies whicli drew tremen-
d<»us applause. R. Bra^lley, "the
talkative taiK)r" from Peoria was
the humorist of the evening.

Earl C. Smith Unopposed for President
Is Elected by Un animous Vote. Frank
Barton Wins Over W. C. McQueen
for Vice-President. Four New
j I Men on Executive Committee

Congressman Charles Brand of Ohio Gets Glad Hand and"
Vociferous Applause From 1700 Delegates and Visitors at
Friday Luncheon in Shrine Temple As He Flays Oppo-
nents of Far'm Measure.

Congressman Brand's • complete
speech as well as ecipies of ".A Sh<irt
Story of the I.'A. A. and Report for
|y2G" may bt had by writing the
Department o^ Information. Illinois
Agricultural -Association, C0>* So.
Dearborn St., Chicago. They will
i'e sent free as long as thev last.

THE greatest asinual convention in the eleven years' his-
toi-y of the Illinois Agricultural A.ssociation is over. It
Was gieatcst i i alleixlancc in siiiril, in enthusiasm, and in
the inii)re.<siiin made upon those who .saw this mighty exhibi-
tion of the strtngjh and loyalty of the organiztNi farmers of
Illinois.

P("oiia. the' inetropulis of downstate Illinois, was taxed to
lai-f for the cr iwd that cxcivdod all exi>ectations. ' One thou-
stind was the njinibi i- yirodicted. but more than 2.000 deleirates.
\ isitors. and tli^ir v.ivi s tame from the 0."? organized coimties
"( the .state to jiai'ticipate in the three-day jirogram.

— \ ~\^ — --^z^^ -^ Twenty ne\vsp;'.per. farm papei

ami pn'ss correspondents from Chi-
cago, Wa.-hington, |). C, Indiana.
aiid the down.state cities of Illino!>
who attended the convention broad
cast its proceedings -.into ever\
state in the Union. It was a repro-
scntative gathering.

Many Guests Present.

Mr. and Mr.s. J. A. Miller drovt
to the iiicelia^ frot4 Denver, Colo-
rado.

John Walker, the vigorous presi-
dent of the Illinois State Federation
of Labor. Wm. H. Malone, chair-
man of the Illinois Tax Commission.
.Mrs. H. C. Rodenh..u.<er of the Illi
nois Federation of Women's Clubs.
.Mrs. .Arthur .Smith of the Illinois
League of Women Voters, R. C
.Mooro, secretary cf the Illinois
.Stale Teachers' .AsSociatii>n, H. K
Voung, secretary of the Illinois
I'arnjers' Institute. K. A. Kckert, ot
the Illinois State (irange, and Jus-
tice of the supreme court of Illi-
nois. Clyde E. .Stone'were all guests
at the Friday lunch<y)n. Telegrams
from eight Illinois congressmen,
who were utiable to att»'nd were
read by President Eijrl Smith.

Herman Danforth, tir.st president.
Howard Leonard, and Sam H.
Thompson, all past jwesidents of the
1. A, .A. were other prominent
guests thire to celebrate the twelfth
birthday of the oi-ganization which
they helped build.

Beginning Tuesday afternoon, a
steady stream of ikk-gates Snd vis-
itors poured into the city on the
banks of the Illinois, by train, trol
ley. bus, and auto until by Thurs-
da.v all hotels were crowded to
capacity. It was the first large con-
vention held in the new Pcre Mar-
quette hotel, but five of Peoria's
largest buildings wore required to
hold all the sessions of the meeting.

Smith Unopposed.

Rumor* ■'.'garding opposition to
President Smith for reelection which
were heard about tno lobby prior to
the ele(ti'>n iivver materiali7.ed
When Frank Barton arose to nom-
inate .Mr. ."<niith following the call
for candidates by \. C. Everinghani.
Presiileiit .Smith'> nanK' was re-
ceived with loud aci laim. A few
minute- later the secretary was in-
structed by the voters to cast a
unanimous ballot for the popular
candidate.

The vice-presitieiitial berth, held
la^t yea"- by Chas. R. I'inley was
(ro!itlliued-<»li col. 2, pape 4.)

McNARY DETAINED

.Senator Cbarl
was scbe<luled t<
day luncheon Ci
tance teb-pbone c
that it was impe

Washington in tt:o interest of the
McNary farm reli« f bill

L. McNary who

peak at the Fri

alleil by long <li-—

1 T^lu^sd:ly to .-a.\

atiie he --tay in

7. A. A. Exectftive
Committee Votes
For "Bureau Farmer"

The BUREAU FARMER, oflicial
publication of the Ailierican Farm
Bureau Federation, wiil! be si'nt to
all memb(-rs of the 1. ,.A. .A. acc<u"d-
ing to a unaninoius decision reached
by the Executive C^omniittee at its
regular meeting held pn Jan. 7.

The BUREAU FAU-MER «,i.h
apiK-ared olliciall.v Jaiiuary 1, is a
-';2-page magazine is>iied one- eai h
month. It is pul»l^^lled by J**hn
Wilding. Ft. Wayne, jffuliana. who
--igneil a contract witli the -Ameri-
c:ln Farm Bun-au tVderation by
which th<- forinor a>slimes all ri>k
and responsibility for a<l\:eiti-ing.
I. A. A. News lacluileel.

Xcws of the Illinoi:| .Agricultural
.Association and the |county farm
bureaus will be inclu()<Hl in a four
to eight page insert 1 each month.
The magazine will ajipear the lirst
of the month. ]

The Illinois .Agriculiural .Associa-

(Continued on col, ]!. page 4-t

igs^ijPTf ?yrf irrf:ffy«ffAy?y^ifprfir^^ MlgaiaSg

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
(By Concrcssional Districts)

, H. CVial, Downer* Grove

G. F. Tullock. Rockford

C. E. Bamborough, Polo

W. H. Moody, Port Byron

A> M. Skinner, Yates City

A. R. Wright. Varna

Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

, R. F. Karr. Iroqxiois

.J. L. Whtsnand, Charleston

. . .Charles Borgelt. Havana

Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

Frank Oexner. Waterloo

W.L. Cope. S«Iem~

Charles Marshall, Belknap
Fred Dietz, De Sota

OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith Detroit

-President, Frank D. Barton Comclf

, R. A, Cqwlea Bloominffton

Vi<

Tr^ -__ .

Se 3«ary, Geo. A. Fox Sycamore

Tf advance the purpose for which the farm bureau tvas organ-
ized, namely to promote, protect and represent the businetM,
edonomic, social and educational interests of the farmers of
H inois and the nation, and to develope agriculture.

Published once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave.. Mount Morris
Chicago. Illinois. Enterwi as second-rlass matter October 20, 1925, at the ]
412. Art of February 2S. 1925. arithoriied October 27. 1925. The imiividu41
Illinois AoBicuLTXiLAi. AsaociATioN Recobo. Postmaster: In/eturniog

Here Are the High Points in Resolu-
tions Passed at Peoria

The visit! irs and delegates to the Twelfth Annual meeting
of the lUi lois Agricultural Association, held in Peoria,
January 27 and 28, hereby express their hearty apprecia-
tion for th< cordial welcome and uniform courtesy and co-
operation txtended to them by the Peoria County Farm
Bureau, the Peoria Association of Commerce and all organ-
izations am ! citizens of the city who have so efficiently con-
tributed to the making of this Annual Meeting a success
from every standpoint.

WE RECOMMEND that our efforts be redoubled to secure
the cnjctment of a national policy for agriculture in
the presen session of the Congress designed to stabilize
agriculture and to maintain an American standard for the
American : armer. . . . We believe that such end can
be best attained by providing for the adequate control of
surplus agricultural products as provided in the bill now
pending before Congress known as the McNary-Haugen bill.
We furtheB believe that such surplus control should provide
for the stimulation and growth of commodity marketing or-
ganizations,

Waterways.

We favo r the completion, at the earliest possible date, of
the water i oute from the Great Lakes to the gulf, legislation .
for which lias recently been enacted by the Congress of the^
United Sts tes. Due regard must be given to the property
rights of li nd owners adjacent to the streams affected. We
• also favor the construction of the deep sea channel through
the St. Lai frence River to the sea.

Oppose Domination.

We belli ve that the Federal Land Bank of St. Louis has
rendered great service to the farmers of Illinois in lowering
farm loan nterest rates, expediting the closing of farm loans
and elimin iting useless red tape.

We dep -ecate instructions from the Federal Farm Loan
Board, dir;cted to appraisers, which are not in accordance
with the established practices in Illinois and unnecessarily
retard the closing of loans such as is embodied in Instruc-
tions to the Land Bank appraisers Numbers 4 and 5; all of
,which nee ilessly increases the cost to the farmer borrower
and hamp< rs the operation of the system.

We opiose legislation making the system a bureau of
the Treasi ry Department, as contemplated by the provisions
of the McTadden Banking Bill and urge that steps be taken
to vest centrol of the system in the hands of its farmer
owners.

Tuberculosis Eradication.

We bel eve that bovine tuberculosis is a menace to the
health of our people and to the livestock industry of our
State.

We, th< rcfore, favor the adoption of a definite program
for the re noval of said menace at the earliest possible date
to the en<: that our people may be protected, our livestock
industry le preserved, and the market for milk and other
dairy prot ucts be retained for the dairymen of Illinois. We
recommeiid the appropriation of such funds as may be neces-
sary to cirry forward such program for the coming two
years.

Black Stem Rust.

The pr< secution of the campaign for the control of black

»tem rust of small grains through the eradication of the

, common liarberry bush has resulted in the destruction of

more thai 370,000 common barberry bushes and thousands

of seedlin ^.

The Illinois Agricultural Association recommends and
urges that both the State and Federal Governments continue
to cooper ite and to support the barberry eradication cam-
paign.

Favor Amendment.

The defeat of the proposed revenue amendment to the
constituti >n, the soundness of which we hereby reaffirm,
through lack of interest on the part of the voters, has
demonstri ted the extreme difficulty (amounting almost to
impossibility) of amending the constitution «nder the pres-
ent restri ;tions.

We, ihirefore, favor such changes in the amending clause
as will pirmit the ratification of an amendment by an af-
firmative pote of two-thirds of those voting on the proposal
when suqh twet-thirds is less than a majority of all votes
cast in tUe election.

Reapportionment.

We retopiize that a great obstacle in the way of con-
rtructive Tlegislation arises out of the fear of domination
shared by both urban and rural populations of our state.
This confition has arisen out of population developments
not contemplated by our present constitution. We favor
such solution of our problem of representation as will secure
the fairest possible representation of all our people, but
■which wi: 1 prevent the control of our legislative machinery
by any (eographical or political subdivision of our state.
We recoiimend that our executve committee address itself
to such sslution of said problem and offer our cooperation
to other Organized groups in the state which seek to advance
our geneial welfare. ^

Tax Revision.
S In or4er to distribute the burden of taxation as eqtiitably

_ Li Li I N OlS

ICCLTUBAL ASSOCIA

'RECORD'

:!^

DIRECTORS OF D^ARTMENTS

Co-operating Accounting Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

Finance R- A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General Office J. H. Kelker

Information E.G. Thiem

Legal Counsel * Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing ,. Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organization ; „ G. E. Metzger

Farm Supply , J. R. Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson

Transportation L.J. Quasey

i, by the niinois Agricultural AMOcialioti. Edited by Department of Information, E. G Thiem. Director, 608 South Desrhoni Street,
» at M,uiit .Morr^IUinoi., under the Art of .\I.reh 3. 1879. Areept.nce for maihug at .penal rate of postage provided for in Section
KTship lee of the IlUnois Airieultural Amociation is five dollar, a year. The fee includes payment of fifty rents for .ubscnption to tht

nUnois, 1 .
I 08t office 8 ,

I membership fee of the Illinois Agrieultural ABmmmtui. m u..^ «^... .. - — -.

Ml uncalled for or miraent copy, please indicate key number on addreaa as is required by law.

as possible, under present constitutional limitations, we ask
for:

1. The enforcement of the revenue laws, as interpreted
by tte courts, requiring the assessment of all property at
the same percentage of its fair cash value. We believe
that I he quadrennial revaluation of real estate in 1927 offers
a fa\ orable opportunity for the cooperation of supervisors
of assessments, assessors, boards of review, and owners of
diffei ent classes of property in securing substantial equality
in assessments.

2. Such changes in the method of distributing the State
Scho )1 Fund as will insure its benefits to districts in pro-
porti an to their need for it.

3. Legislation permitting small tax payers to recover
taxei illegally levied, objections to which are now profitable
only to large taxpayers.

4. Such legislation and administration of law as is pos-
sible under existing constitutional limitations which will
more equitably distribute the burden of taxation over the
weahh and among the people of the state and secure partic-
ipati 3n in the cost of government from persons and property
now contributing nothing or contributing inadequately for
this Jurpose.

Hard Roads.

Tlie people of Illinois by their vote on the $100,000,000
road bond issue in 1924 issued a mandate for the construc-
tion of the system of hard roads over the state as set forth
in tl e law on whichsaid vote was taken. Those roads can-
not be completed within a reasonable time with the funds
now available for that purpose.

W e further recognize that many citizens of our state have
no I atisfactory connection with this system of roads, al-
thou gh they are paying their quota of the cost.

¥ e, therefore, favor a law levying a tax on all gasoline
usee by highway i"otor vehicles, the revenue derived there-
frori to be used to insure the completion of the bond issue
syst ;m in a reasonable time, and all revenue not essential
for that purpose to be applied to the improvement and
mai itenance of the state aid roads.

P-ovided, further, that all funds available for state aid
roae s be expended in a fair and equitable manner as between
coui ities.

Poultry Stealing.

V 'ide spread stealing of poultry constitutes a real menace
to t le poultry industry of the state.

\7e, therefore, favor the passage of a law requiring deal-
ers in poultry and poultry products to keep such records of
the: r purchases as will assist in the apprehension of chicken
thieves.

1 Corn Borer.

\j^e recognize the menace to our grain farming and our
general economic welfare in the approach of the European
corp borer. We urge close cooperation with the Federal
Government and with other states in measures looking to
thej eradication or control of such pest. We believe that
this is a matter of national concern, and where farmers or
other citizens are forced to assume special costs in com-
pliance with state or federal regulations that they should
be^ompensated for such additional burden.

We, therefore, urge the appropriation of such money as
may be necessary to carry out any program that may be
adc^ted looking toward such control.

i Thank You, Gentlemen,

e commend the action of such of our congressmen and
tors as have given their active support to agricultural
lation as supported by this association.
Also desire to express to the members of the General
As4embly of the State of Illinois our hearty appreciation for
thefr recent action in adopting a resolution memoralizing
Co(igress for speedy consideration and prompt enactment
of I legislation looking to the stabilization of farm prices.

] Tax Commission.

We commend the Illinois State Commission for its orders
fori reassessment in four counties, issued after careful con-
sideration of the evidence submitted by the County Farm
Buk-eaus and the Illinois Agricultural Association, and the
estkblishment of the justice of our claims.

We urge the prompt compliance with these orders. We
plekige to the Tax Commission our hearty support to the
enq that equitable assessment of property contemplated
by ithese orders may be promptly secured.

We desire to express our appreciation to the various
or^nized groups that have cooperated with us in an effort to
Snd a more equitable distribution of the tax burden through
tha proposed amendment to the revenue section of our Con-
stitution defeated in the recent election.

We recommend the continuance of the spirit of harmony
anfl cooperation thus expressed relative to matters which
maiy arise of concern to all our people.

Better Legislative Service.

We believe that all legislation enacted, directly or indi-
rectly, affects the agricultural interests of our state and
na ion.

We, therefore, urge that steps be taken to provide a more
definite study of all proposed legislation relative to its
efflect upon agriculture. Our members should be con-
tinually advised as to such laws and as to the stand taken

by members of the General Assembly on legislation affecting
their interests.

We further recommend increased effort to bring to the
attention of other organized groups reliable information
concerning farm problems

Help Produc^.

We commend all efforts that havGneen put forth to secure
a closer relationship and full understanding between this
Association and other farm groups, especially those coopera-
tives for whose development we have a responsibility.

We urge a continuation of these efforts to the end that
such cooperatives may become more potent factors in their
respective fields, that farmers may enjoy the benefits to be
derived therefrom at the earliest possible time.

We also urge the Illinois Agricultural Association and
County Farm Bureaus to use every effort to increase the
volume of livestock shipments to the various Producers'
Livestock Agencies in and contiguous to Illinois territory.
Grain Marketing.
It is the sentiment of this meeting that improvements in
our Grain Marketing structure in the State of Illinois and
elsewhere are essential to ^h^ better marketing of grain.
The legislation now proposed before Congress would require
the use of Cooperative Marleeting Agencies to function to
the highest advantage to the grain farmer.

It is recommended:

That the Illinois Agricultural Association and Farm Bu-
reaus cooperate with others interested in fostering and fur-
ther developing and strengthening the farmers' cooperative
elevator movement.

That the Illinois Agricultural Association and Farm Bu-
reaus continue to cooperate with the Central States Soft
Wheat Growers' Association,

That the Illinois Agricultural Association undertake a
study of elevator warehouse facilities at terminal markets
and elsewhere, and of storage and conditioning services now
available — inviting farm organizations and others interested
to join in such effort.

■That the Illinois Agricultural Association undertake to
form grower cooperatives at such time as may be needed
to carry out and give full force and effect to surplus control
legislation now contemplated.

Maintaining Membership.

The most effective farm bureau organization is attained
when a large majority of the members understand its pro-
gram and policies. The neighbor-sign-neighbor system of
acquiring and maintaining membership contributes freely
to acquainting a large nurber of men with the aims', policies
and programs of the association.

We therefore recommend that in order tJiat the greatest
good may result from this type of membership campaign
that the county farm bureau be urged to appoint regular
membership committees to function throughout the member-
ship period

Auto Insurance.

We commend to the farm bureau members in Illinois the
automobile insurance offering of the Illinois Agricultural
Association and urge the county farm bureaus to continue
their active support of the insurance company in its char-
ter membership campaign

Flood Relief.

We recognize that many of our farmers have suffered
irreparable loss due to the unprecedented flooding of the
lowlands.

We urge, therefore, such assistance as can reasonably be
given by the General Assembly to assist those farmers in
recovering from their misfortunes.
Radio.

Recognizing the outstanding value of the radio in pre-
senting the cause of Agriculture to the American Public
and the necessity of having available a broadcasting station
owned and controlled by Agriculture, it is recommended that
the Illinois Agricultural Association take immediate steps t«
consider the pos^bility of establishing such a station. In
view of pending Ppderal Legislation, which will restrict the
licensing of existing stations and the establishment of ad-
ditional stations, immediate action in this connection Is par-
ticularly opportune. i i- •

Protection. J .. . '

Realizing that farmers often suffer loss in the marketing
of their products through unscrupulous and irresponsible
dealers, we favor such steps as may be necessary to protect
them from such loss.

Mutual Insurance.

The Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Company was organ-
ized to supplement the activities of the local mutual fire
insurance companies and not to compete with them in any
way.

We recommend that the farmers' mutual fire insurance
companies avail themselves of the services of the Farmers
Mutual Reinsurance Company and inasmuch as the Farmers
Mutual Reinsurance Company was organized through the
cooperation of the local farm fire mutuals, the Farm Bureaus
and the Illinois Agricultural Association, we encourage the
continued cooperation of these organizations to the end
that the farmers of the State of Illinois may secure their
insurance at the cheapest possible cost.

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February, 1927

The Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD

T

Pages

What The Counties
Are Doing

Five hun-

MORGAN COUNTY d r e d and

ANNUAL MEETING thirty men

BIG EVENT and women

turned out

for the annual meeting of the Mor-

'■ gan County Farm Bureau. Guy

Bender, champion hog caller at the

State Fair, called the men to dinner.

Earl Smith, President of the Illinois

' Agricultural Association, spoke on

' the workings of the National and

.1, State Farm Bureau Organizations.

<• A schedule

♦. LIVINGSTON of winter

; J: COUNTY TO HOLD meetings

' WINTER MEETINGS lasting half

^ way through

February began on Dee. 27, in

I" Livingston county. The farm bureau

, recently bought ten cars of potatoes

for members. An estimated saving

of 75 cents a bag was made. The

potato deal showed a profit of

116.20. Seed corn will be tested for

members as in former years.

"Meat for
GREENE COUNTY our Second
HOLDS CATTLE Annual Cat-

FEEDERS' BANQUETtle Feeders'
banquet was
furnished by the champion calf of
the Greene County calf club," writes
R. J. Laible, farm adviser. Adviser
J. H. Checkley of Logan County led
the singing, and Professor R. R.
Snapp, University of Illinois, deliv-
ered the speech of the evening on
cattle feeding.

The an-
WABASH COUNTY nual meeting
ANNOUNCES on Dec. 16

MEETINGS which was

addressed by
Earl C. Smith, president of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association, and J.
C. Spitler, University of Illinois, the
Wabash County Poultry Show, held
on Dec. 20-23; and two schools, one
for farm accounts, and the other for
dairy feeding, were recent events
announced by the Wabash County
Farm Bureau.

Warren
WARREN AND and Hender-

HENDERSON TO son Counties
ORGANIZE OIL CO. are looking
forward to
ward forming a new oil company
for their members. Preferred stock
will be $25 per share to bear seven
per cent interest. Common stock
of no par value will be issued to
farm bureau members only. Mem-
bers only will participate in ac-
crued profits.

R a y -
BROWN COUNTY m o n d
BOYS WINS AT PRO- M o b 1 ey
DUCERS' CALF SHOW of M t .

S t erling,
won first honors in the Angus class
at the recent Producers' Calf Club
Show at St. Louis. Judges debated
for an hour to decide whether the
calf should be champion or reserve
champion. The calf weighed 1135
pounds and sold for 30~ cents a
pound.

One
PULASKI REPORTS hundred
SUCCESSFUL HORTI- farmers
CULTURAL SCHOOL and. 100

stu'dents
attended the horticultural extension
schools at Villa Ridge and Grand
Chain. The east side of Pulaski
County, which borders the Ohio
River, promises to develop in fruit-
growing.

Nine
HENRY COUNTY livestoc k

SHIPPING ASS'NS. s h ipping

INCREASE BUSINESS ass ocia-

t i 0 n s
handled 1474 cars of stock worth
more than $3,000,000 last year.
This is an increase over 1925.
Sixty-five farm bureau members
completed farm account books this
year compared with 45 in 1925.
Ninety members started keeping ac-
counts for 1927. Frank Barton, A.
C. Everingham and D. S. Swanson

spoke at the combined annual meet-
ing of the nine livestock shipping
associations.

Mrs. John
SANGAMON HOLDS S h u 1 1 of
FOURTH ANNUAL Cha t h a m
HOG-DAY won the

hog calling
contest in which 57 contestants
completed at the recent Hog-Day
banquet. Prizes were awarded to
the owners of the nine successful
ton litters of the county. Dr. H.
B. RaflFensperger of the U. S. Dept.
of Agriculture discussed swine pro-
duction problems as related to sani-
tation.

The brood-
MACOUPIN e r house

BROODER HOUSE building
DEMONSTRATION d e monstra-
tion held at
Herbert Malsbury's in North Otter
Township, was well attended ac-
cording to farm adviser Earl Rusk.
Prof. Hanson of the University of
Illinois directed the brooder house
construction with the assistance of
the assistant adviser, L. G. Neel.
A picnic dinner arranged by the
ladies helped bring out a crowd.

The mem-
DUPAGE COUNTY b e r s h i p
SIGN-UP CAMPAIGN sign-up in
STILL IN PROGRESS D u Page

County
totals 408 to date according to farm
adviser Corncross. Naperville Town-
ship is in the lead with 108 mem-
bers. The campaign is still pro-
gressing with M. E. Lyons as a
solicitor. liisle township has 72,
Milton 68, 'and Bloomingdale 61.
Five townships are yet to be
solicited.

At the
MADISON REPORTS farm ac-
INTEREST IN count

FARM ACCOUNTS school held

on Decem-
ber 20, six new men started keeping
account books, several others ap-
plied for books since that time, and
five co-operators came in to close
their accounts. Business methods
among our members are improving
each year. We operate according
to budget and each month the Ex-
ecutive Committee gets a statement
of money spent under each ap-
propriation. The monthly bank
balance also is reported.

Due to the
MONROE'S MAJOR good work
PROJECT of Alfred

SOIL TESTING Tate, now

a d V i s er in
Scott County, many farmers here
have completely limed, and all but
a few have used some limestone,
according to farm adviser Hughes.
Soil testing is conducted to guide
farmers in the more intelligent use
of limestone.

An an-
90 PER CENT OF a lysis

MEMBERS GET SERV- made by
ICE IN McDONOUGH the Mc-
Donough
County Farm Bureau showed that
90 per cent of the members re-
ceived some form of direct service.
Eight per cent called at the office.
Thirty-two per Sent were given
service at their farms. Forty-three
and five-tenths per cent attended
demonstrations.

A record crowd
EDWARDS came out for the
FIRST TO last annual meeting

OWN HOME in Edwards County.
The report made by
ex-farm adviser H. C. Gilherson
showed that Edwards had made the
greatest increase in membership
and was the first farm bureau in
Southern Illinois to own its own
home. Albert Libkie was elected
president. Harold U. Myers is the
new adviser.

Farm Ad-
MONROE COUNTY viser Hughes
ACTIVE IN COM- conducted
MUNITY MEETINGS meetings in
ten organ-
ized communities recently. A plan
is being outlined tq give every mem-
ber a place in one air more activities,
which include organization, legisla-
tion, soils, crops, livestock, club
work, and marketing.

Logan County Champions

250 Women Assert
Their Interest In
Many Farm Problems

First Home and CommaBity Confer-
' { ence «l I. A. A. Meetinc Exceed*

All Expectations in Attendance
and Interest.

J. H. Checkley, farm adviser left, is examining the prise sample of com
with which Edwin Rentschler right, won the Junior Championship at the
recent State Utility Corn Show at Urbana. In addition te haring the Jr.
Corn King, Logan county boys and girls carried off two-thirds of the
prixes in the Junior Corn Show.

15 Farm Bureau Members Honored

As Master Farmers in 1926 Contest

Following arc Short SketcheM of Men Awarded Cold Medalm by frairie
Farmer — Continued from Latt Month

Carl Sargeant of Schuyler County
is 39 years of age, married, and has
three children, one girl and two
boys. He farms 200 acres, has used
limestone, keeps his buildings and
improvements in excellent condition,
has a modem home, and derives his
chief income from hogs which are
raised by the sanitation system. He
is a member of the Farm Bureau,
local Farmers' Elevator and has
served on the board of directors.

Albert Hayes, Chillicothe, is a
member of the Executive Commit-
tee of the Peoria County Farm
Bureau. Mr. Hayes lives in Medina
Township, has three children and
operates a livestock farm.

He is active in the local Parent-
Teachers' Association, also in for-
warding the Farm Bureau work in
his neighborhood and township.

Rebhan is ActiTe.

Wm. C. Rebhan is vice-president
of the Montgomery County Farm
Bureau, president of the Raymond
Farmers' Elevator, and treasurer of
the Farmers' Oil Company (a
county oil company owned by farm
bureau members.) Mr. Rebhan is
also Township Director of the Mont-
gomery County Mutual Fire Insur-
ance Co., and is County Super\'isor
from Raymond Township besides
holding many other offices.

Charles B. Meis of Saunemin,
Livingston County, Illinois, has
lived on this present farm more
than twenty years. Mies attributes
no small part of his success to the
loyal cooperation of his wife. He is
interested in all activities for the
benefit of his community, is a direc-
tor on the Township High School
board, a director in the local farm-
ers' elevator, in the telephone com-
pany, and has been an active mem-
ber and supporter of the Farm
Bureau since it was organized in
1912.

Meis is at present a director in
the Livingston County Farm Bu-

A Northwestern Man.

W. G. McCormick of Douglas
County, was very active in the or-
ganization of Douglas County Farm
Bureau in 1920. He was vice-
president during its first three years
and has always been a farm bureau
leader in his township. He was Sec-
retary of the Farmers' Elevator for

a number of years, and now is very
active in church and Sunday-school
work in the rural church of his com-
munity. Mr. McCormick is about
40 years of age and has a wife and
two children. He secured his educa-
tion at Northwestern University.

Martin Linn, of Fulton County, is
50 years old, and has a family of
four girls and two boys. The oldest
son is in partnership with him on
The Duck Island Farm. Mr. Linn is
an active church worker, a member
of the School Board, and a Farm
Bureau member since its organiza-
tion in Fulton County.

Harris An OtBcer.

George T. Harris is vice-presi-
dent of the Rock Island County
Farm Bureau and has aided the or-
ganization ever since it was started.
He is the Farm Bureau Director in
his township and is always ready to
assist in putting across any project
which the Farm Bureau has on its
program.

In addition he is president of the
Taylor Ridge Livestock Shipping
Association, president of a farmers'
electric light company, and a direc-
tor in the Hamlet Mutual Fire In-
surance Company. Mr. Harris is an
active member of Edgington Presby-
terian Church and belongs to the
Masonic lodge. Harris is a college
graduate and has given both of his
girls an opportunity to do college
work. His wife is prominent in
Home Bureau work.

Watson An Organizer.

When Clarence Watson of Mc-
Donough County was shucking com
on a certain November day in 1917
two men walked up on him and
started shucking along with him.
One was his neighbor and one was
M. J. Wright from McHenry
County. These two men had been
talking about organizing a Farm
Bureau in McDonoUoh County and
asked Clarence if he would like to
help. The idea appealed to him and
he went to the house and unhitched
and went with Mr. Wright to see
some of the men in the county whom
he thought might be interested in
the building of a real farmers' or-
ganization in McDonough County.

Watson probably signed more
farm bureau members in the last
campaign than any man in the
county and has always been loyal in
the program of the organisation.

The two hundred and fifty farm
women who exchanged ideas in the
Home and Community Conference
held in the Pcrc Marquette hotel
Thursday afternoon, Jan. 27, initi-
ated a movement which promises to
be an important feature at coming
conventions of the I. A. A.

The growing economic independ-
ence of farm women along with
problems pertaining to rural health,
the one-room school, development of
through beautification of the farm.
4H clubs, and the enrichment of life
and organized play were discussed
informally.

Mrs. Spencer Ewing, PresWent of
the Illinois Home Bureau Federa-
tion presided.

Mrs. Charles Sewell Speaks.

Mrs. Charles Sewell, in charge of
home and community work for the
American Farm Bureau Federation
spoke of the change in status of all
women and farm women in particu-
lar during the past few years.

A woman from Macon County
told of the Thrift Exchange organ-
ized by the Home Bureau in De-
catur three years ago. The women
have a booth in the Farm Bureau
office where they bring their prod-
ucts on Saturday morning. Ten
per cent of the money taken in goes
to the county organization and 90
to the women. One woman is edu-
cating a Mexican boy on what she
makes in this way.

Sold $1100 Worth of Food.

One woman soM $1100 worth of
cheese, whole wheat bread, plum
puddings, coffee cakes, potato salad,
baked beans, scrapple, and chickens
on the Bloomington farmers' mar-
ket. The Lasalle County Thrift
Exchange operates every day under
a paid manager. It was started
four years ago. The receipts are
never less than $200 a week and
usually amount to $300 or more.

Mrs. Ewing recommended that
the conference give its hearty sap-
port to the bill authorizing super-
visors to appropriate money for
establishing county health depart-
ments. This bill is to come up in
the Legislature in the near future.
Mr. Richards, who is on the State
Board of Health, gave statistics
showing that contagious disea.se is
much more prevalent ajid that in-
fant mortality is three points higher
in rural than in urban districts.
One-Room Scho<»l Discnsacd.
Mr. Hoffman, a rural school
supervisor, spoke of the one room
school as the nursery of the educa-
tional system.

C. E. Gates, State leader in boys
club work, said there were 800 local
clubs in the state with a total mem-
bership of 11,900 boys and girls.

Dr. Hieronymous, of the Univer-
sity of Illinois, stressed the need for
l)eautif>-ing the farm home through
plantings, paint, and convenient ar-
rangement of buildings. One woman
declared that she had painted ever>*-
thing on the place but the livestock
and that the improvement -was
marked. Eugene Lies of the Recre-
ation and Playground Association
told the value of carefully planned
play in raising a happy family.
Married Women Employed.
Sam Thompson, president of the
American Farm Bureau Federation,
stressed the necessity of better liv-
ing conditions. He deplored the
fact that 44 per cent of all women
now employed are married. He be-
lieves that many other problems will
be automatically solved when a bet-
ter home life can be brought about.
The women present were agreed
in their wish that anqther confer*
ence be held neirt year in connec-
tion with the annual meeting of the
Illinois Agricnltural Association.

Page 4

V^

The Illinoia Agricultural Association RECORD

February, 1927

Nearly 2000 Attend Five

Cdnferences on Thursday

I The larMst and most representa-
tive gatherings for informal discus-
sion of farners' problems ever held
[in the stat* described the five con-
ferences h«ld Thursday afternoon.
Between 250 and 500 men and
Women attended each of the ses-
sions held on problems pertaining
to organisation and information,
public relations, marketing, home
and community, and financial busi-
ness ser\*ice.

The balll-room of the Pere Mar-
quette hotel was nearly filled with
delegates ind members who had
come to ta k over the problems per-
taining to the organization and
maintenani e of their association.
In each case members of the Ex-
ecutive Colnmittee of the I. A. A.
presided.

The discussion in the organiza-
tion and publicity conference in-
dicated tnat the morale of the
thinking farmer in Illinois was
never stringer for organization.
Several connties reported success in
developing! the life membership plan
of solicitation.

The disdussion on the gas tax in
the public relations conference
revealed (mat sentiment is strong
for development of the secondary
road systam. Thousands of farm-
ers have been left marooned on
mud road: through certain seasons
and so get little benefit from the
hard road sj^tem.

Prospects Good for

Surplus Control Bill

Eight '. llinois congressmen and
friends of the Illinois Agricultural
Associatio n wired their regrets at
l>eing uns ble to attend the Peoria
conventioi i. President Earl C.
Smith whj presided at the Friday
luncheon read the following tele-
gram amo ng others :

"I regr( t that conditions here are
such that I cannot attend," tele-
graphed (longressman Tom S. Wil-
liams fr}m the 24th district.
"Prospects for the passage through
the Hous< of real farm relief legis-
lation ar( brighter now than ever
before. The apropriation bills will
all, be 01 1 of the way early next
week, ard the Haugen bill will
be given immediate consideration
under a special rule. We have
made sui istantial gains since the
vote last spring and are confidently
expecting victory. The I. A. A. and
other fa 'm organizations of the
corn belt have made a good fight.
I congrat ilate you and wish for you
a most sv ccessful meetir^."

Similai telegrams were received
from Coigressmen Chas. Adkins,
Wm. E. Hull, Henry T. Rainey, Ed.
M. Irvin!, Wm. W. Arnold, and
Henry R. Rathbone. Max Murdock,
secretary of the Illinois Association
of Real I state Boards wired his re-
grets at t eing unable to attend.

Puts Naperville Over

When Mike Lyons above heard
that Ontario township in Knox
county had 103 farm bureau mem-
bers, which was three more than
the records showed for Nafwrville
township in Dupage county, he
went right out and put Naperville
up to 107 members. Mr. Lyons is
with the organization department
of the 1. A. A., no«r aiding in re-
newing memberships in Dupage
county.

Kane Co inty Beard

of Review Meets Feb. 1

A special meeting of the Kane
County Hoard of Review was held
on Tues< ay, Feb. 1, at Geneva to
review a id equalize assessments in
accordan :e with the recent order of
the Illin< is Tax Commission , which
followed appeals fronf the Kane
County '"arm Bureau and the Ill-
inois Ag '{cultural Association.

A redaction of 10 per cent in
valuatior s in the 10 townships of
the west two-thirds of the county
was agr led upon. This reduction
will amojnt to over $730,000 in as-
sessed V iluations, or a saving of
$28,000 |on taxes of farmers in this
area.

M. G. Lambert, president, W. B.
Curtis, nce-president, A. H. Gra-
ham, se< retary and E. O. Reaugh,
treasure •, are the officers of the
Hancock County Farm Bureau for
the con ing year. The Executive
Committ se is composed of 21 men.
One is ( hosen from each township.

Earl Smith Rcf
elected ,

(Continued from page 1, coL'S.)
contested for with Frank Barton of
Livingston county, and W. C. Mc-
Queen of Kane county the nom-
inees. The letter's unanimous sup-
port from the dairy districts was
not great enough to overcome Mr.
Barton's lead downstate, sojBarton
was elected by a substantial ma-
jority. The unofficial count showed
1 54 for Barton and 32 for McQueen.

Four new executive committee-
men were elected at the [district
caucuses held Thursday afte^Tioon.

The following committeeni|en sub-
ject to reelection were retuijied for
a new I wo-year period : — C. E. Bam-
borougli. 13th district, J. li Whis-
nand, 19th district, Samuel $orrells,
21st district, W. L. Cope, 28rd dis-
trict.

The new men elected are! as fol-
lows: H. C. Vial, 11th districjt, A. H.
Skinner, 15th district, Geo. JT. StoU,
17th district, and Fred Diets, 26th
district.

Brand Is Popular. I

Congressman Charles Brahd, who
delivered the principal address at
the Friday luncheon where ISenator
Charles L. McNary haf been
scheduled to speak, was loudly ac-
claimed. His presentation! of the
farmers' fight for farm relief, and
the operation of the iMcNary
Haugen plan was clear and force-
ful. His humorous and informal
style, coupled with his deliberate-
ness in explaining every point by
maps and illustrations, vfon the
hearts of his 1700 listeners.

Baseball League Chooses Cline
President, Thiem Arbitrator

George R. Cline of Cass county
was reelected president of the Illi-
nois Farm Bureau Baseball League
at its annual meeting in Peoria on
Wednesday, Jan. 26. W. G. Griffith
of Marshall county was chosen vice-
president, and E. G. Thiem, who
automatically resumes the position
of secretary-treasurer, was elected
to act as dictator or arbitrator in
settling disputes and arguments re-
quiring prompt action.

Between 50 and 75 farm advisers,
baseball captains, and members of
the 14 county teams in the League
attended the meeting.

The Constitution was revised to
clear up questions about eligibility
of players. The majority sentiment
was strong for limiting players to
farm bureau members and their
sons whose residence and occupa-
tion is on the farm.

Several new districts expect to
come into the League this year
which promises to bring its strength
up to 20 to 25 teams. Membership
dues for teams are $5 per year,
after the initiation fee of $5 is paid.

Piatt County Latest

Claimant to Title

Cerro Gordo township in Piatt
county has the largest farm bureau
membership in the state according
to Farm Adviser S. S. Davis. The
list shows 130 members.

A complete list of the member-
ship from this township received by
the department of information veri-
fies Piatt County's claim to the title.
Dupage, Knox, and Marshall-Put-
nam were other competitors for the
honor.

Cerro Gordo township is the ban-
ner township of Piatt county and
is one of the best agriculturally in
the state.

7 Michigan Counties
May Join Ohio Co-op

Seven counties of southeastern
Michigan may set up local poultry
marketing associations and pool
their produce with that of the Ohio
Poultry Producers Association ac-
cording to a recent announcement
of the Michigan State Farm Bureau.

At a meeting held at Jackson, on
Dec. 10, a committee was appointed
to develop a plan of organization
which may lead directly to a con-
nection with the Ohio co-op in the
marketing of poultry and eggs.

John A. Gage, president; W. H.
Norfleet, vice-president, W. E. Page,
sec'y., and Onis McPherson, treas.,
are the officers of the tJefferson
County Farm Bureau for the com-
ing year. Directors chosen were E.
A. Walker, W. L. Wimber|y, J. L.
Porter, Xavicr Kiefer and Stanley
W. Norris.

Mutual Reinsurance Co.
To Meet At Springfield

On Thursday, Feb. 10

Following the two-day session of
the Illinois Association of Mutual
Fire and Windstorm Insurance
Companies, on Feb. 9 and 10 at
Springfield, the Farmers' Mutual
Reinsurance Company will hold a
session in the Springfield Y. M. C.
A. on Thursday afternoon to discuss
its problems and future program.

The Farmers' Mutual Reinsur-
ance Company has had a steady
growth since its formation a year
ago and plans are underway to
develop a larger program of serv-
ice in the coming year.

Vernon Vaniman and J. H.
Kelker will represent the Illinois
Agricultural Association at the
meeting.

/. A. A. Executive
Committee Votes
For "Bureau Farmer"

(Continued from col. 4, page 1.)
tion RECORD will be continued as
before. Its date of publication,
however, will be changed to the
middle of the month so members
will have news of their organization
every two weeks.

The insistent demand from the
membership for publication of the
RECORD more often than once a
month added to the need for more
direct contact with the national or-
ganization led to the adoption of
the new publication. The agree-
ment signed by the I. A. A. will go
into effect with the March issue.

The great saving effected by co-
operating with the A. F. B. F. and
other state farm bureaus in se-
curing this direct contact with the
membership was important in the
decision of the Committee.

Ames Abe Says:

As I was tellin' Maw the other
day, when she bawled me out for
hangin' my hat on her broom
handle, married life is like farm
machinery. When it's right new
it's pretty hard puUin' and takes
a lot'a adjustin', when it gets
well broke in it runs along purty
smooth an' nice, but when it be-
gins to get old it take lots'a
watchin' to keep it from rattlin',
squeakin' an' knockin'.

Standard of Living
Is Measure of Farm
Efficiency — Taylor

Declares Fanners Haven't
Advanced in Living Con-
ditions Commensurate with
Efficiency

"The rural standard of living is
a measure of agricultural effi-
^■^fc-^^ ciency," declared

^■F^ Dr. Carl C. Tay-
^1^ I y lor. Dean of the
^^^L^^ L Graduate School
Hv|n# of North Caro-
^^^^^^]g l'"^ Agricultural

J^^Bf College, before

^^^^^^^^^ the Illinois Agri-
^^^^^S^^^l cultural Associa-
^^^^^^^k^^H tion
^^^^^^^^^1 at
^^^H^^^^l week.

"It constitutes
Dr. c«-l C. Tsylor f^^ monuments

which have been built to the suc-
cess or failure of agriculture. Rur-
al people, like all others, carry on
their occupations in order to obtain
the necessary and desirable things
of life. The standard of living is
the human yardstick and is meas-
ured in terms of: food, clothing,
shelter, health, education, religion,
recreation and social contacts.
People have these satisfactions to
the degree they can afford them.

Standard of Living Test.

"While American agriculture can
b« measured in various ways, such
as acres, farms, by value of crops,
rural population, farm population,
and the kind of lives those who till
the soil live, yet the standard of
living of the people who farm is
the best and ultimate test of agri-
culture," said Dr. Taylor.

"It tells whether the system of
farming pays over long periods of
time. It tells whether the present
status of agriculture is satisfactory
or not. And it is the thing by
which to measure the success and
status of the individual farmer."

"There have been great gains in
agriculture but no commensurate
gains in the rural standards of liv-
ing," said' the speaker.

American Farmers Efficient.

"American farmers are produc-
ing more per man and more per
acre today than ever before. In
1850 they represented 67 per cent
of all gainfully employed, but in
1920 only 29 per cent. Their gain
in efficiency is seen by the fact
that in 1830 it took three hours
and three minutes of human labor
to grow a bushel of wheat. But in
1894 the same production required
only 10 minutes. Here are the fig-
ures on corn and seed cotton.

"In 1855 it took four hours and
34 minutes to grow a bushel of
com. In 1894 it took only 41 min-
utes. In 1841 it required 10 min-
utes to grow a pound of seed cot-
ton. In 1895 only 7/10 minute to
grow the same amount.

Need Higher Standard*.

Dr. Taylor argued that the Unit-
ed States can't build an acceptable
civilization unless rural standards
are held up, sines rural people are
the producers of much of the pri-
mary wealth of the world.

The lack of cultural things in so
many rural homes he attributes to
inadequate income to buy them.

The standard of living is low be-
cause of lack of institutional and
community facilities, he believes.
The remedy lies in larger communi-
ties with adequate institutions —
schools, churches, playgrounds, hos-
pitals, according to Dr. Taylor.
Ideas only of production or owning
land or making money, rob institu-
tions. The Value of art and of
community life must be empha-
sized. Absentee landlordism takes
money out of community and sacri-
fices dynamic interest of owner
resident.

Light and Power

Problems To Have

Attention in 1927

Electric Light, and power on the
farm, a subject which is assuming
greater importance each year, will
have special at-
tention from the
Transportation
Department o f
the Illinois Agri-
cultural Associa-
tion in the com-

L. J. Quasey

ing year.

Studies of
power line costs,
and relative rates
for various uses
to which elec-
tricity is put will
be made with the idea of present-
ing intelligent information to the
Illinois Commerce Commission that
fixes rates when controversies arise
affecting the interests of farm bu-
reau members.

"Light and power on the farm
is a leading issue before the Illinois
Commerce Commission at the pres-
ent time," declared L. J. Quasey,
who has represented farmers in the
past five years in disputes before
the Commission. "There is a tre-
mendous lot of work to be done in
this direction, since more farmers
each year are taking advantage of
electricity for power and light uses.

"It will be the department's aim
to see that the farmer secures this
service at a reasonable rate," he
said. "Members having problems
of this character are invited to write
u* for aid. The Illinois Agricul-
tural Association believes in light
and power from electricity for farm-
ers and the sooner this service can
be made available to all the better.
Bat the Association will be on guard
to protect its members against any
possible exhorbitant charges or ar-
bitrary routing of power lines that
work a hardship against them."

Cooperatives Assn. to

Indianapolis in 1927

(Continued from col. 2, page 1.)

"When we have 300 members, we
will have the largest cooperative
organization in the world," he said.

Great interest was expressed by
the members in comparative figures
which help them check their own
Dusinesses with others. The mem-
bership favors the continuation of
this service.

New contracts providing for a
three-year membership and continu-
ous thereafter unless cancelled will
be sent out in the near future.

Directors nominated for two years
were H. J. Shaffer, Illiopolis, A. J.
Gilfillan, Watseka, and L. P. Mc-
Millen, Rock Falls. George Potter,
vice-president, presided in the ab-
sence of President McMillen.

Serum Association
Elects New Officers

0. B. Goble of Charleston was re-
elected president of the Illinois
Farm Bureau Serum Association at
its annual meeting in the Jefferson
Hotel, Peoria, Wednesday, Jan. 26.

Sam Sorrells of Raymond was
elected vice-president, and W. E.
Hedgcock again will serve as secre-
tary-treasurer in the coming year.
Directors chosen for 1927 were R.
A. Norrish, Whiteside county, Adam
McWilliam, Stark county, James
Gilespie, Lawrence county, and J.
H. Lloyd, Hancock county.

Dr. T. P. White of the bureau of
animal industry, Washington, D. C.
who delivered the principal address
stated that vaccination is the only
solution to the hog cholera problem.
He recommended that farmers vac-
cinate every year against the dis-
ease.

Twelve states showed a member-
ship gain on the books of the A. F.
B. F. The honor roll states are Ala-
bama, Arizona, Illinois, Indiana,
Kansas, Louisiana, Nevads, New
York, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia
and Washington.

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CUL.TU

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Volume 5

Issued Every Month for 63,000 Thinking Farmers — March, 1927

No. 3

"THE ISSUE WILL NOT DOWN," IS WEST'S REPLY TO COOUDGE VETO

AUTO INSURANCE GOES INTO FORCE APRIL 1

J. P. Gibson, Jr.
Employed To Direct
Affairs Of Company

Goal In Sight As Counties
Put In Last Licks For Quotas

ALL auto insurance policies in the
Illinois Agricultural Mutual
Insurance Company will go into
force April 1 when the nc«r mutual
is officially launched.

This decision by the directors fol-
lowed insistent demands from over
' the state that the company start
functioning at an early date. With
the announcement came the pre-
diction by Vernon Vaniman, pro-
motional manager, that between
3500 and 5000 policies would be in
by April 1 so as to insure the suc-
cessful inauguration of the new
ser-.-ice to members of the I. A. A.

New Man Employed

J. P. Gibson, Jr., of the Security
Mutual Casualty Co., Chicago, who
has been identified with various in-

surance organiza-

^^^^^^ tions since h i s

^^^^^Plty graduation from

^ ^ Beloit College in

^^■^^ 1917, was em-

^^^^ViPk f ployed at the last

^^^^H^ directors' meet-

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^^^^^E^ fice work con-

^^H^^F ^^ nected with the

^^ft A ^^^ new mutual. V.

^^^ Vaniman will

J. P. Gibson, Jr. continue as field

director.
Mr. Gibson was bom in 1896 and
reared in Wisconsin. At Beloit Col-
lege he made Phi Beta Kappa and
secured his B. A. degree just prior
to enlisting in the Navy from which
he was released as Ensign in March,
1919. Then followed two years'
service with the Federal Mutual
Liability Insurance Co. of Boston,
Mass., a similar period with a Rock-
ford, Illinois, real estate firm as in-
surance agent, during which he
passed the Casualty Actuarial ex-
aminations, and since 1923 Gibson
has been identified with the Security
Mutual Co., as actuary and in
charge of the reinsurance depart-
ment. He married the daughter of
Circuit Judge A. E. Fisher of Rock-
ford, in 1926.

Winnebago in Lead

Winnebago county was still in the
lead with the most policies signed
at time of going to press. With
more than 240 applications signed
this county had 146 per cent of her
quota. Quota equals 20 per cent of
the farm bureau members in the
county. La Salle county members
turned in 154 applications on Feb.
28, which equals 78 per cent of her
quota.

The plan of writing a "no value
policy" and paying the actual value
of the car at the time of the loss
by fire or theft is meeting with gen-
erl approval, according to Vaniman.

"The county farm bureaus are
now beginning to feel that building
a strong company is a matter of
loyalty," he says. "It is a question
of each farm bureau doing its part
to make the new mutual a success."

Wisdom of I. A. A. In
Opposing Grain Co.
Upheld In Decision

Armour Grain Co. Charged
With Falsifying Records
and Changing Grain Sam-
ples

O CourKwy Sorippa-Howkrd Papen

MORE light was shed on the
$26,000,000 lemon known as
the Grain Marketing Co., offered
farmers by the large terminal ware-
house operators two years ago, by
the recent finding of E. E. Brown,
arbitrator that the Armour Grain
Co. had fraudulently changed rec-
ords and grain samples in an at-
tempt to swindle the company out
of approximately $3,000,000.

This finding coming soon after
the charge and investigation involv-
ing the Armour Co. for the alleged
dumping of screenings into rye has
shaken the Board of Trade and the
entire grain business to its very
foundations.

Condemned It

At the time Grain Marketing Co.
stock was offered farmers and
farmer elevators of Illinois by John
Coverdale, Gray Silver and others,
the Illinois Agricultural Association
investigated the company and ad-
vised its members against invest-
ing money in the doubtful venture.
Sam Thompson, then president of
the I. A. A. and a director in the
American Farm Bureau Federation
stood out against the federation's
endorsement of the proposal. As a
result of the combined opposition
of the I. A. A. and Prairie Farmer
in Illinois, and the Indiana Farm
Bureau in Indiana, the stock sale
fell flat and the new so-called farm-
er's cooperative remained in the
hands of the Armour Grain Co., the

Put Winnebago Over

14,000 Word Message Of President Blindly
Rehashes Old Arguments Previously Answered
InBoth House and Senate Debate On FarmBills

Executive Committee of 22 Retaliates With Broadside
Against 14 Points of Presidential Document Pointing Out
Its Weaknesses and False Assumptions I "

A DISTINCT but undemonstrative wavt of indignation
swept over the great agricultural west following Presi-
dent Coolidge's veto of the McNary-Haugen bill on Friday,
Feb. 25. Almost simultaneously his signature was given to
the branch banking bill gi\ing the federal reserve system
perpetual existence in the law and promoting centralized
banking. And the same day the tariff was raised on pig
iron to the limit.

In the opinion of careful observers, no series of acts
could more clearly illustrate how firmly entrenched is big
business and the industrial East in the good graces of the
administration, and how indifferent is the same administra-
tion to the needs of the farmer.

The 14,000 word apology for vetoing the McNarj--

=^ Haugen bill raises a great many

false issues, sets up imaginary evils
and harmful influences credited to
the proposed legislation, and calls
it class legislation.

The Executive Committee of 22,
in an 8000 word 'reply to the veto
message, has the following to say :

"The President holds the bill to
be unconstitutional, but his other ob-
jections are so numerous that the
question of constitutionality can be
waived in considering his message.
He makes it clear that he would not
have approved the bill even if its
validity under the Constitution were
beyond question. In passing, how-
ever, it may be observed that the
President is no better constitutional
authority than many Members of
the Senate and House who supported,
the measure. It is the function of
the court to decide this point, al-
though the veto prevents a test at
this time.

Replies to Veto

Homer Hitcbcock

When the Winnebago County
Farm Bureau decided to take on the
new mutual auto insurance project,
the executive committee gave the
job of selling policies to gain its
quota, to Homer Hitchcock, one of
their own number. Hitchcock farms
near Pecatonica, but he is at his
best explaining the intricacies of
an insurance policy. Winnebago
turned in 220 policies in short order,
and Hitchcock is responsible for
most of them.

Rosenbaum Grain Corp., and Rosen-
baum Brothers.

Half of the Grain Marketing
Company stock is owned by the
Armour Grain Co., and the rest dis-
tributed between the Rosenbaum
Grain Corp., Rosenbaum Brothers;
and smaller holders. The failure of

The President's veto of the
McNary-Haugen Bill is a repu-
diation of the platform upon
which he was elected which
promised the farmers of
America legislation necessary
to give them economic equal-
ity, and which would safe-
guard the future of our basic
industry, "American Agricul-
ture." The principles upon
which this legislation is
founded have many precedents
and will continue to gain in
favor as in the past.

Regardless of the attitude
of any individuals, a majority
of the American people can be
depended upon to rally in sup-
port of any sound program
when its justice and fairness is
understood.

In the meantime, the Presi-
dent and his advisors carr>'
full responsibility for the de-
lay in restoring agriculture to
its rightful position in our
National life.

the company with a loss of approxi-
mately $2,400,000 is charged en-
tirely to the Armour Grain Co.
which delivered low grade wheat on
purchases when orders called for
higher grades.

George E. Marcy, chairman of
the board of directors of the Arm-
our Co., and George Thompson,
superintendent in charge of eleva-
tors have both resigned leaving only
John Kellogg, president as a re- 1
maining officer. Testimony by
Frank Crombie, superintendent of j
the Northwestern elevator who told |
how the grain samples were switched
to falsify grades was mainly respon-
sible for the decision by Brown ask-
ing the Armour Co. to pay the Mar-
keting Company $3,000,000. j

What of the Tariff?

It it difficult to understand how such sn
advocate of the hiirh protective tariff as
the President can employ some of the
arguments that appear in the mesace. He
says :

"The bill sinRlen out a few produrtu
chiefly sectional and proposes to raise the
prices of those regardless of the fact that
thousands of others • * • would be di-
rectly penaliied."

Airain:

"The so-called equalization fee is not a
tax for purposes of revenue in the ac>
cepted sense. It is a tjut for the special
benefit of particular Kroup». * * * Its real
efert is .an emploirment of the coercive
powers of novemment to the end that cer-
tain special frroups * * * may profit tem-
porarily at the expense of * * * * the
community at lance."

Aeaio:

"The bill would impose the burden of its
support to a larire degree upon those who
would not benefit by it."

Again:

"It runs counter to the well-cronsidered
principle that a healthy economic con-
dition is best maintained thronrh a free
play of competition."

Surely the President recognizes that
every word above quoted is fully as
strong an argument against the protec-
tive tariff as against the McNary-Haugen
bill.

The surprising khing aboat the message
is that it offers no reasons against the bill
that were not used by partisan and emhit*
tered opponents on the floor of Senate rtr
House and answt-red to the satisfaction of
a majority of both parties in each body.
In fact, most of the massage is substan-
tially ide&tioal with parts of apeechea

Pace 2

"fhe Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD

March, 1927

■caii»t the

bill mad« duriny its paasase
throuKh Coi iffreaa. Like the speeches it
•o much re lembles, the mesaaKe protests
too much to be resarded finally as an un-
biased repoi t on an act of major import-
objections ffiven are so many
that the reaider is left wondering; if, after
an, the real rerson for the veto was ex-
pressed. I

The veto ^easare is part of the proKram
that is indi^trializinE America at the ex-
pense of agriculture. Repeatedly it ple-
turea evil < ffects following better prices
for the Nat Ion's caah crops. It expreaes
the Tiewpoii t of laissez faire for agricul-
tare while lanctioninK protection for in-
dnstry. Af er reading the messase with
its almost infinite faultfindins over de-
tafls. the tt ouKht occurs that the funda-
mental, nne] pressed objection may be that
Toiced by A idrew Mellon a year ago when
he asked fo r the rejection of the surplus
control bill on the ground that it would
tend to rail e the cost ^ of food and raw
material to indutsry in the United States.

The mess: :ge is evidently a compilation
from seven 1 sources assembled without
any resulai order ; consequently an or-
derly constd -ration of its salient points is
Impossible 'wnthout rearranRement and con-
densation of the reasons given for the veto.
This is attempted in the following "14
points" of tae veto message :

"That tha measure deals with few. not
all, f^rra commodities and in operation
would discrsninate against some farmrrs
in favor of others; would check crop diver-
aification and promote one-crop farming."

Here's Class Legislation

One is tanpted to point out that the
tariff, the immigration exclusion act, rail-
road' labor legislation, and many other
laws benefit a few, not all, classes of cit-
isens and inpustries. Almost on the very
day of his Ifarm bill veto the President.
ander the so-called "flexible" provision of
the tariff law, raised the duty on pig
iron by 50 per cent— an act certainly for
the special protection of one group at the
expense of bthers in this country. It is
significant that the President at this ses-
sion of Congress signed the Lenroot-Taber
milk bill, oflextremely doubtful soundness,
which woulA use sanitary regulation to
anpplement tariffs to protect New Eng-
land and Ne4r York dairymen, although the
reault probably ia to raiae the coat of
dairy products to consumers, including
farmers, in those districts.

The President asks why beef, sheep,
dairy produats, poultry products, potatoea.
fruit, veget^Iea, flax, and other important
agriculture products are not included. This
ia a direct Iquestion and can be directly
answered. Beef cattle were not included
because no effort was made by producers
of beef to ^ome under the law. just as
many commodities are on the free list be-
cause its producers have not sought tariff
protection. As a Nation we are deficient
in wool production, and the tariff therefore
is of practi&l help to the wool man. We
have no surplus of wool. The same holds
true of flaxJ poultry products, and butter.
' Wheat is] an important cash crop over
most of the United States. Cotton, to-
bacco, swine, and corn are the most im-
portant caan crops in great areas. These
are normally surplus crops. Their atabil-
ixation and protection would have a steady-
ing, helpful] influence in the entire agri-
cultural stracture, particularly in substi-
tute crops of livestock, rye, oata and bar-
ley. If the President's advice ia good, and
if we should turn from production of the
staple crops to get away from low prices,
what wiH happen to the dairy producers
and other farmers now relatively well off
when wholesale shifts bring increased pro-
(Auction in competition with them T

It costs money to change from one type
of farming |to another. The farmer who
ia presaed t^ meet his fixed charges when
cash crop Drices are low is more likely
to plant mo3e land in caah crops if he aUya
on the farmj than he ia to bay a herd of
dairy cattle :o go into competition with the
dairyman. The bill does not put a prem-
ium on one- crop farming, but it seeks to
reach and htlp certain basic crops that are
in need of aid and that lend themselves
to assistance through surplus control. This

obviously is

not the case with perishables
like fruit i nd vegetables, which i^ the
very good a iswer to the President's query
as to why 1 hey were not included.

There are provisions in the hill (sec. 12)

asked for by dairymen and fruit growers

to them the asaiatance they
was adapted to their needa.

The bill Offered aid to every class of
farmers in the United States who wanted
or needed its benefits. Let the bill itself
speak on this point. Tbe sum of $225,-
000,000 is made available as loans to
farmers' cocperatives to manage the sur-
plus of any agricultural product produced
in the country, whether named in the bill
as a basic c ommodity or not. This same
section of ttie McNary-Haugen bill made
$25,000,000 available to producers of any
and all agri rultural products ( 1 ) for ac-
QQiring wart bouses, processing plants, and
other facilites: (2) for capital stock of
I 'atiooa for extending produc-
es) for expense of terminal
market fede ration of producers' coopera-
tives. The8< ' benefits were made available
to producer: of beef cattle, aheep. dairy
producta, poiltry products, potatoes, hay,
fruit, veget^blea. oata, rye, barley, and
flax, which i he President mentiofis as ex-
cluded from benefits under the bill.

Finally on this point, if presidential ap-
proval to a J arm law ia withheld until one

credit corpo
tion credit :

reaches him that benefits all farmers and
all commodities in identical degree, then no
farm bill will ever be signed. And if the
President is opposed to better prices for
wheat and com and cotton unleas some
magical method can be devised where bet-
ter pricee can be secured without some one
paying them, then the farmers had better
become reconciled to low prices, if the
President can keep them low.

"That it would not beneflt the farmers,
because increased production and decreased
consumption would follow better prices."

This is, of course, an entirely hopeless
view. The President says increased prices
are bad for the fanners and would tend
to ruin him through increased produc-
tion and decreased conaumption. This ob-
jection may be raised with equal justice
againat any increaae in price to farmera
no matter what causes it. but it is atrange
to hear it urged in the present crisis,
which is due to low prices. The aame
objection would tie against any farm legis-
lation effective to aid agriculture. It
would be even more valid againat legisla-
tion to use Treaaury funds without an
equalization fee, since in such a bill the
production and the responsibility of car-
ing for crop surpluses are divided. The
masaag* somewhat uncertainly indicates
that aome kind of farm legislation might
have presidential approval, but the Presi-
dent serves notice in this objection that he
is opposed to any bill the effect of which
would be to raise pricea for the farmers.

The measage errs in stating that authors
of the measure "proposed originally to off-
set this tendency (to increase production)
by means of the equalisation fee," but
that "in the present bill the equalization
fee is to be paid by only part of the pro-
ducers." The original intent, and the in-
tent in the bill Congress passed, is to col-
lect the fee on each unit of a commodity
that moves in regular channela of com-
merce. The exemptiona from the fee are
of small interfarmer transactions and are
no broader in the 1927 measure than in
former bills. In each case the fee places
on the industry benefited the responsibil-
ity of earing for crop aurpluses, which is
the only sound principle of surplus con-
trol.

The message says : "Experience shows
that the high prices in any given year
mean greater acreage the next year." With
due deference to the President, this is not
supported by the facta. For example:

The Facts Are These

The price of com on the farm dropped
10 cents a bushel, or 20 per cent, from
December, 1909, to December, 1910, yet
the area planted to com in 1011, the
spring following, increased 7,600,000 acres.
In tbe fall of 1913 com on the farm aver-
aged 69.1 cents a bushel, the highest De-
cember price of the Ave years 1909-1913,
and an increase of 20 cents over the pre-
ceding December price; but the acreage
instead of increasing fell off 2,400,000
acres. The highest corn acreage in history
was reached in 1917 with 116.730,000
acres. Com sold for the highest average
farm price known to that time, $1.27 per
bushel, but the next spring's acreage
showed the greatest decline in the history
of corn in this country — 12,263,000 acres.
That year (1918) the average farm price
was $1,866 per bushel, the highest of all
time, but again there was a spectacular
drop in acreage, this time 7,297,000 acres,
to a total acreage in 1919 below that of
1909, when the price of corn was only
about one-third as great.

The next year (1920) the price dropped
to about one-half — from $1,366 to $.67 a
bushel. The acreage again disproved Mr.
Coolidge's theory by increasing over 2,-
000,000 acres in 1921. By 1924 the price
(98.2) had more than' doubled the 1921
price (42.8 cents), bat the acreage in
1925 showed a decrease of 2.000,000 acres
below 1921.

Similarly with wheat, during the four
years 1866-1869 the wheat price dropped
ateadily, until in 1869 it was almost ex-
actly one-half the price in 1866 ($1.62 7/10
per bushel in 1866; $0.76 6/10 per bushel
in 1869). Yet the wheat acreage increased
from 16.424,000 acres in 1866 to 18,993,-

000 acres in 1869.

During the decade 1880 — 1889 the De-
cember 1 farm price of wheat averaged
83.4 centa per bushel, and the acreage dur-
ing the last year of the decade (1889) was
38,580.000 acres. Daring the following
decade, 1890 — 1899, the December 1 farm
price of wheat averaged 65.1 cents per
bushel, or 22 per cent lower. Following
Mr. Coolidge's reasoning, one would ex-
pect to see the acreage of wheat fall off
correspondingly, but the reverse was trae.
The wheat acreage during the last year of
the decade (1899) was 62,589,000, an in-
crease of 67 per cent over the acreage 10
years before. Carrying the comparison out
through the following decade (1900-1909)
it is interesting to note that the December

1 farm price of wheat averaged 76.7 cents
per bushel, an increaae of 18 per cent
above the average price of the preceding
decade, but the acreage, instead',of show-
ing corresponding increase, decreased to
44,262,000 in the last year of the decade
(1909), a drop of 16 per cent.

It is possible to get more accurate com-
parisons after 1909, owing to the fact that
a weighted average farm price for wheat
is available commencing with that year to
replace the December 1 price. During the
five years, 1910 to 1914. the average
weighted price of wheat dropped from
$1.01 in the season of 1909-10 to $0,793
in the season of 1913 — 14. a decline of
21.4 cents per bushel. But the acreage
went the otherway, and increased from
46.681,000 in 1909 to 53.641.000 acres In
1918. an increase of 8,860.000 meres.

It ia true that the acreage of wheat in-
creased during the war while prices were
high, but no one has forgotten that the
highest possible pressure was applied by
every Government officer, from the Pres-
ident down to the humblest school-teacher,
to increase the acreage planted to wheat.

Trends in cotton to which the President
refers as an increaae in the cotton acreage
of 17,000.000 acres In the last five years,
"under the atimulua of high prices." merit
more careful study than the message ac-
cords them. The facts disclose that this
addition of 17.000,000 acres to the area
planted in cotton was drawn from other
cash crops, notably corn, cattle, and swine.
The increased cotton acreage, therefore,
was due to low prices of competing crops
fully a^ much as to high cotton prices. If
cattle and com prices had been stable and
fair, and if the plan proposed in this bill
had been in operation to equalise the sup-
ply of cotton to demand ov^ a period of
years, the acreage would not have shifted
to cotton.

Inconsistent Here

The message argues, on the one hand,
that we have overproduction of agricul-
tural staples in the United States and, on
the other, that production can be curbed
only by decreased pricea. Congreaa [>aased
the bill in tbe belief that the farmers,
given effective machinery to stabilise and
protect their markets, would consolidate its
advantage and not throw it away through
reckleaaly increased production. The bill
sets up comprehensive machinery to as-
sist in adjustment of production to the
best advantage.

The board, the land-bank district con-
ventions, the commodity advisory councils,
and cooperative associations are knit to-
gether in an organization to work to bring
about the adjustment of production to se-
cure maximum advantage to the producers.
If farmers ever can benefit from better
prices, they can under this act.

There is evidence to justify this faith.
Labor has not thrown away its wage ad-
vantages under the stimulus of good pay
for short hours, with attractive rates for
overtime. The Corn Belt for two years has
exercised restraint upon numbers of hogs
produced notwithstanding increased and
fairly satisfactory prices aince the close
of 1924. The number of hogs on farms on
January 1, 1927, was 62,686,000 compared
with 62,066,000 a year before.

The assumption that increased prices of
staple farm commodities mean decreased
conaamption is not conclusive. The price
of wheat since the war has been consider-
ably below pre-war exchange value, yet the
per capita consumption of wheat has fallen
off 26 per cent from the rate of 20 years
ago. The falling off of pork consumption
to which the message alludes is due to lack
of pressure of supply rather than to high
price. There has been no radical change in
retail pork prices. Of coarse, it is impos-
sible to raise pork prices out of line with
other meats and keep them there and this
fact, instead of being an argument against
the bill, is one of the elements relied on to
make it work, since <a) the point at which
consumers will turn to substitutes is the
economic barrier to unreasonably high
prices, and (b) this tendency to substitute
would extend the benefits of operations in
one commodity to the growers of com-
petitive substitutes in this country.

The wheat farmer gets 16 to 18 per cent
of the retail price of a loaf of bread, and
therefore the price of bread does not fluct-
uate with the price of wheat. The cotton
farmer gets but 16 to 20 per cent of the
retail price of cotton cloth, and a much
smaller share of the retail price of articles
made from the cloth. A fair price to the
farmers would not affect the retail prices
enough to influence volume of conaamption
at all, while the increased purchasing power
of farmera would be a new and stimulating
influence in national prosperity.

"That it involves both price fixing and
buying and aelling of farm commodities
by government."

No Price- fixing Mentioned

There are no price-fixing atandarda or
proviaiona in the hill. Purchases and sales
made under contract with the board would
involve only the excess supplies— the sur-
plus— leaving the remainder, the great
bulk of the crop, to be bought and sold
at any price, buyer and seller could agree
upon. Even for the surplus that might
be handled under contract with the board,
the bill fixes no price, nor need the board
fix any price in its contracts. Purchases
under contract could be made fairly at pre-
vailing market pricea. The influence on
price is not secured by purchaaing at an
artificially fixed figure, but by withholding,
removing, and diapoaing of aurpluaes. With
the surplus removed, pricea would riae
until checked by danger of importa, or by
economic factora auch aa substitution of
other meats in case of operation wth live*
atock.

The aim of the bill is to regulate the
movement of these staple commodities in
commerce — not to fix pricea. It would In-
fluence prices, to be sure, but ao do the
tariff and many other laws.

It is charged that the bill involves
government buying and selling of farm
commodities. Under its proviaiona the
Government board can not buy or sell a
pound. It can not as a board, own any
farm commodities. Purchases and sale
would be made by private agencies, on
their own account, but their operations
would be made possible and guided by the
board to the extent neceasary to secure an
orderly movement of the commodity dealt
with.

No Guarantee Here

"That it guarantees profits to packers,
millers, and cotton spinners at the ex-
pense of farmers; would destroy all pro-
cessors who failed to secure contracts with
the board, and diacriminatea againat pro-
cessors by collecting an equalization fee
on imported units of the raw commodity,
but not on imported products of that com-
modity."

The report of the Senate committee an-
swered the first point convincingly when it
said:

"The committee feels that power to con-
tract with processors may be necessary in
order to insure, for example, that as much
of the exports of wheat as possible may be
sent abroad in the form of flour, thus en-
couraging the employment of mill capacity
and mill labor in the United States and
retaining the feed by-products within this
country. Again, in order to maintain a
stable hog market in this country. It may
be necessary to enter Into contracts with
packers covering auch export operations
as result In the sale of lard abroad.

"Nothing in the bill gives any justifica-
tion for the charge that tht bill, because
of this provision, insures that the business
of a packer or a miller shall be conducted
at a profit. On the contrary, the measure
specifically provides (subdivision (e) of
section 6) that the profits resulting from
any such agreements between the board
and the association, corporation, or person
handling the surplus shall accrue to the
stabilization fund for that commodity. The
board is given tbe authority to enter Into
sneb contracta aa are necesaary to se-
cure the handling of the aurplua in the
intereats of the producers. Th«-e is no
reason to assume that it would not ne-
gotiate terms as favorable to producers
aa poaaible." ^

If this provision of the McNary-Haugen
hill Is objectionable, it may be observed
that the Curtis-Crisp bill, which the mes-
sage indorses by implication, permits cor-
porations to use Government money to
make contracts which guarantee profits of
packers and mUlera. The safeguard is
that the hoard must approve such con-
tracts. The same safeguard and additional
ones are in the McNary-Haugen bill.

Processors that had no contracts with
the board would be no more discriminated
against than are those msnufacturera and
contractors today who fail. In competition,
to secure contracts for Government sup-
plies and services.

The objection that processors are dis-
criminated against because the equaliza-
tion fee is collectible on important units
of a raw commodity, but not on manu-
factured products of that commodity is
valid only if domestic prices rise above
prices outside of the United States by
more than the amount of the tariff. Up
to that point the duty on the raw material
and the compensatory duty on the manu-
factured products would protect the man-
ufacturer.

"That the equalization fee is Impossible
of exact predetermination ; would not be
collected on units of a commodity that do
not move in commerce: its collection would
prove an impossible task; and the return
of any excess collected to the producer is
not provided for except in the case of
cotton."

In practice the equalization fee would
be fixed at an amount which would, over
a period of years, adequately cover the
average coats and losses, if any, of opera-
tions. The fee would be adjusted from
time to time to conform to experience and
changed conditions. The bill is very care-
fully drawn to cover this point. If the
amount collected under one equalization
fee ia too great, the fee would he reduced
by order of the board for succeeding opera-
tions. If the amount collected is not
enough, the fee would be increased.

If the fee Is collected on the unita of
the commodity in the stream of com-
merce. Its identity with the grower of
the commodity ia loat and Its return to
the producer Impoaaible, notwithatanding
the provialon giving the board power to
issue participation certificates and return
any excess collected in the case of cot-
ton. This provision for cotton was In a
former draft of the bill which provided
for collection of the cotton fee at the
gin, and was carried over after the change
in the point of collection was made. This
rendered the cotton participation certificate
paragraph inoperative, but at least it is
harmless and not of sufficient importance
to justify Executive disapproval. ;

Fee Not a Tax

It is objected that the fee would not
be collected on units of a commodity that
do not move in commerce. These are all
important cash crops. The aim Is to col-
lect the fee on that portion which
actually sells as a cash crop and to ex-
empt the portion that is consumed at home
for feed or seed, as well as the small in-
terfarm transactions which are apecifically
exempt bccauae they are not part of the
stream of interatate and foreign commerce,
as they would he if sold to an elevator or
mill or shipped by common carrier. The
fee Is not a tax on production but a fee
necessary to the proposed promotion of
orderly movement of commodities in com-
merce. Therefore the exemptions are not
objectionable, but are necessary and justi-
fiable.

The message cites somebody's estimate
that the fee would be collected upon 16.-
000,000.000 units, creating the Impreaslon
that the very number of units makes col-
lection impossible. It should be noted, how-
ever, that the foe will be Imposed at the

narrowest point In commercial movement
of a commodity, and the persons and
firms from whom it would be collected are
in fact few. The board Is «npowered to
collect the fee on "sale, transportation, or
processing." Each term is carefully de-
fined. The board would probably collect
the fee in the case of cotton from tha rail-
roads transporting It, which would add
its amount to their freight charge. Some
cotton would be trucked or sold direct for
milling or export. Fees on such cotton as
had not moved by rail would be collected
on the aale. There ia nothing impossible
about it. Similarly, there ia a practical
point on which the bulk of the fee would
be collected on any commodity and aup-
plemental points on which the fee could
he collected on the remainder.

Salaried Positions Few

That it "means an enormoua building up
of Government bureaucracy."

Actual aalaned positions created by the
bill are few. Adequate personnel to oper.
ate the system on behalf of the facfn pro-
ducers would, of course, be required ; but
there is no reason to suppose the force
required for satisfactory operation would
be "enormous," as suggested by the mes-
sage. Regular trade agencies would per-
form all the market functions involved.
The collection of the eqoalixation fe«
would be narrowed down to the fewest
posaible points. Instead of being charit-
able toward the farm bill on this question,
the message is uncharitable. This line of
reaaoning has not been invoked in oppoai-
tion to the great and growing ayatem of
Government intervention on behalf of in-
dustrial and commercial groups.

That the method of nominating the
board ia not only unconstitutional, but
when taken in connection with the broad
delegation of powers to the board consti-
tutes a dangerous precedent in govern-
ment.'*

If the restriction on the President's
power to name whom he desires on the
farm hoard should be held invalid, that
need invalidate no provision ' other than
those for nominating the board. If the
bill had been permitted to become a law.
and the President, accepting the nomin-
ating committees* recommendations, ap-
pointed from the lists submitted to him,
the question would not be raised at all.

This Assumption Unfair

Fear is expressed that the board would
be free from restraints imposed by anti-
trust law, and because "no time limit ia
placed upon the contracts which the board
may make." It is not fair to assume in
advance that the farm board would be un-
patriotic, stupid, selfish, unethical, and
incompetent, yet this is what the message
in effect implies, not only in its objection
from the standpoint of - delegated powera
but at nearly every other point. Congress
is in session annually; and if ex[>erlence
demonstrated that the board as constituted
used its delegated powers unwisely it
would not only be easy to change the law,
it would be next to impossible to prevent
changing it.

"That it might obligate the Government
beyond the $250,000,000 receiving fund."

This not only evidences an unwarranted
lack of confidence in the board ; it con-
tradicts the provisions of the act itself.
Tbe board, in its operations is not em-
powered to make contracts obligating the
revolving fund, or the Treasury, for any
sum whatever. It is empowered to make
advances out of the revolving fund to
the stabilization fund for any commodity
"in anticipation of the collection of equal-
ization fees." If all the money in the re-
volving fund should be advanced to the
several stabilization funds the board
would have no power to advance
further. The extreme illustration with
cotton used in the message is not only
inconsistent with the provisions of the
bill: it assumes that the board would be
foolish and incompetent. While the col-
lection of the fee remained in doubt, or if
restrained by injunction from its collec-
tion, the board would only enter into con-
tracts under which risk of loss would be
slight.

"That it would not aid cooperative mar-
keting, but would remove the reasons why
farmers now join cooperative associations."

The fact that nearly every large scale
cooperative association in the United
States handling a basic commodity had a
hand in drafting the measure ought to be
aufflcient on this point. The Senate com-
mittee report aaid of this objection :

"The cooperative associations represent-
ing producers of wheat, cotton, rice, corn,
and swine are asking Congress to pass the
committee bill — a sufficient answer to the
objection that the measure would affect
their interests adversely. The bill would
remove the present handicap to successful
operation which cooperative associations
arc unable to overcome — the surplus. It is
the only measure propoaed that makes all
who contribute to the production of a sur-
plus, not alone those in tbe cooperative
association, responsible for caring for the
surplus in the interests of orderly ma[ket-
Ing and a fair domestic market."

In addition to the cooperative named as
asking Congres to enact the bill, the com-
mittee might have added the burley and
dark tobacco growers associations.

A Trivial Objection

"That the provision for expression of
producers' sentiment thronsli State con-
vcations is unworkable." jt -

March, 1927

The Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD

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Pmf i

How Congressmen Voted On The McNary-Haugen Bill In Last Congress

This provision. Inserted ms a Senate
amendment, provised that State conven-
tions shall be held for the purpose of ex-
pressins producers* sentiment in States
where less than 50 per cent of the pro-
ducers belonfc to a farm or cooperative or-
eanization. The bill elsewhere provides
that the board, before operating with mny
commodity, must satisfy itself that the
majority of the producers favor such ac-
-tion. The point is made in the veto mes-
sage that "the bilt^oes not say 'delegates,'
it says 'producers,* the farmers them-
selves," therefore, it is concluded, "it is
entirely unworkable."

Such an objection is almost trival. The
bill provides that the heads of the State
department of agriculture shall prescribe
rules and regulations for such conventions.
The President reaches the surpassing con-
clusion that the physical presence of a
majority of all the producers of a State
is required in one convention by this
provision — certainly an unreasonable in-
terpretation, in the light of the power
conferred on the State commissioner of
agriculture to prescribe the rules and regu-
lations for the convention in his State.

The original bill did not contain thia
section. It might be regarded as unneces-
sary, but it is not unworkable of itself.

Not Purpose of Bill

"That 'we are already overproducing,'
and that the measujre would result in dis-
astrous dumping of -farm products abroad,
giving an advantage to our foreign farm
competitors, but at the same time leading
to reprisals on the part of foreign na-
tions."

For example, the message says : "we
shall send cheap cotton abroad and sell
high cotton at home." Nothing could be
further from the intent of the bill. Cotton
is a commodity of which our exports con-
stitute nearly two-thirds of the total in-
ternational trade. There was proposed in
this bill a way in which surplus cotton
could be withheld so that the world cot-
ton buyers, abroad as well as at home,
would be required to buy in a market free
from the pressure of more cotton than
currently needed. The message is clearly
uninformed and prejudiced in this point.

Much is said of the consequence of
"dumping" American feeds abroad, thus
subsidizing livestock competition for our-
selves. Corn is the only feed crop in
the bill- The authors clearly recognized
that with corn the problem is rather to
overcome the effect of excessive produc-
tion one year and scant supplies the next

than to dispose of a large exportable Bor>
plus abroad. There is no reason to be-
lieve it impossible or unwise to secure
the price benefit of the small com tariff,
both through an intelligent carry-over
program and export sales. Hill feed is
classed with corn, notfawithstanding that
a policy of exporting wheat as flour would
retain mill feed in this country and thus
cheapen its home price.

Our exports of agricultural products go
to countries that are themselves deficient
in farm production. They might fear a
move to restrict our farm surpluses: they
will not protest against a measure that,
tends to keep up their supply.

It is not consistent to argue, as the mes-
sage does, in one paragraph that we are
conferring unfair advantages on foreign
agriculture, and then argue in the next
paragraph that foreign nations will be
moved to reprisals. One or the other of
the objections might be valid, but surely
not both.

It is objected that "we are already over-
producing." Our agricnlture was devel-
oped on an export basis by conscious effort
of National and State governments, of rail-
roads, banks, and civic agencies. The war
forced further expansion of agriculture,
industry, transportation, and labor. Our
national imstwar effort has been directed
successfully to save industry, transporta-
tion, and labor from the effects of transi-
tion to a peace-time basis, leaving agri-
culture exposed to the full shock of post-
war deflation. It was our national policy
that expanded agriculture. Therefore it
has become a national responsibility to
aid agriculture as other groups were aidedr
Instead of meeting that responsibility, and
developing u national program to promote
agriculture side by side with industry,
we are pursuing a national policy aimed to
expand industrial experts at the exiMnse
of our agricultural market in other coun-
tries.

Taking the long view of the relation be-
tween our farm production and population,
the National Industrial Conference Board
makes a clear statement of the falling
behind both of acres and farm production:
"Since the beginning of the century our
mining production increased about 2S1 per
cent: oar manufacturing production about
190 per cent; whereas agricultural produc-
tion only increased 88 per cent. The num-
ber in farms per capita increased up to
1860. but then started to decline since it
was then limited by the limits of our
territory. The per capita of improved
farm land increased up to 1880, but since
then has shown a downward trend. The
acreage in harvested crops per capital In-

creased up to 1900. Since then it has
shown a downward trend. In the period
1920-1925 this decrease was very sharp,
between 9 per cent and 10 per cent.

Instead of this process resulting in an
increase in yield per acre to make up for
the declining per capita acreage in crops,
there has been a slackening in the up-
ward tendency in the yield per acre, which
was in evidence before the beginning of the
century. Neither has there been any in-
crease in the total per capita agricultural
production. In fact, the period 1920-
1925 shows about 6 per cent below the
pre-war years 1910-1914.

Would Help Co-ops

"That the insurance provision is 'de-
structive of all orderly processes of trade.*
and is unfair to non-members of the co-
operatives."

This provision takes previous utterances
of the President at literal value. It has
been repeatedly said from the White
House that cooperative organizations are
the agencies through which the agricul-
tural surplus should be controlled. With
an insurance agreement such as proposed
cooperative associations could afford to
withhold a surplus from the market when
supply and demand conditions jeopardize
producer's interests. The cooperative
would be able to advance nearly the full
snrrent market value at time of delivery
by its members. This would overcome the
great handicap that now prevents coopera-
tive associations from increasing member-
ship. With it removed, it is believed that
cooperatives would rapidly bring a major-
ity of producers of certain commodities
within their organizations.

The insurance proposal does not insure
a cooperative associa'ion against loss if
it sells unwisely. It merely insures
against changes in the level of the quoted
market. Nor is there any "straight
Government agreement" to insure cooper-
atives, as the message represents. The
agreements were to be made with the
backing of the stabilization fund for a
commodity, raised by the fees paid by the
commodity itself.

This Isn't Right

"That it would disrupt existing chan-
nels of trade."

The report of the Senate committee an-
ticipated this criticism. It said:

"Under the committee bill existing
agencies are employed to do all of the

buying, storing,' or aelUng that t))c board
deems necessary in controlling and hand-
ling the surplus. Instead of upsetting
existing trade channels, the committee
bill uses them exclusively. It is true that
under contracts with the board corpora-
tions created and controlled by cooperative
aesociations would probably handle, store,
and sell, both in domestic and export
markets, a larger volume of the surplus
commodity than at present. To that ex-
tent they would probably render unneces-
sary some non-cooperative private grain
exporters and buyers of. farm commodities
for speculative profits. The committee
understands that this * result would like-
wise follow from any equivalent growth
in the functions of cooperative associa-
tions. Congress must abandon its policy
of promoting cooperative marketing if it
is to preserve from interference every
speculative dealer or exporter trading in
farm commodities."

A Weak Exciise

"That many farmers have not asked for
it."

During four years in which this legis-
lation has been considered not a single
representative of a membership farm or-
ganization has opposed it before commit-
tees of Congress. On the contrary, the
committee reports list literally hundreds
of organizations that have appeared peti-
tioning for it. Unanimity among bankers
was not required as a condition to enact-
ment of the Federal reserve act or of
the branch banking act, which the Presi-
dent signed on the day of his veto of
the farm bill. There is probably no prec-
edent for a veto based on such a reason.
After all that has been said by the pres-
ent administration about cooperative mar-
keting, the recommendations of the asso-
ciations handling the commodities affected
are pushed aside, while the message em-
phasizes a suggestion that "imirartant min-
orities" have advised the President against
the legislation.

Senator Norris, former chairman of the
Senate Committee on Agriculture, on
March 29, 1026. inserted in the Record
correspondence referring to an agreement
by the President and two of his Cabinet
officers with the former chairman and the
legal advisor of a national council of co-
operative marketing associations. In this
correspondence these gentlemen then rep>
resenting the cooperatives admitted that
they had agreed «-ith the President and
the Secretaries of Commerce and Agri-
culture that their organisations would op-

Dark Screen — For,
Light Screen —
Against. White —
Not Voting. New
Mexico didn't vote
but was Favorable.
Light Screen dis'
trictin Northwest*
ern Georgia didn't
vote but was

pose legislation aimed at anrplus eoatrdi —

to which the veto message now refers as
"the heart of the whole problem." This
understanding was reached without the
knowledge of the cooperatives that com-
posed the council. Practically all of them
were, in fact, favorable to surplus control
legislation and supported the McNary-
Haugen bill. This incident indicates at least
one quarter from which came the Presi-
dent's advice on what the farmers want.
The message says "several of the larg-
est farm organizations have refused to
support' the farm bill. The foeegoing par-
agraph throws light on what happened
to one of them. Of the three national
farm organizations, one of them on this
very issue repudiated its president, who
had stood with the administration. An-
other at its annual meeting in October
indorsed the Com Belt program for agri-
cultural equality, which includes the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill. The third at its annual
convention in November made an emphatic
declaration on the surplus problem and
indorsed far more radical legiiilation in-
volving Government subsidy through
bounties on exports.

Bill for Surplus Control

As a summary of what the bill does
contemplate, it may be said that it is ad-
dressed primarily to surplus control. It
provides especially for certain "basic agri-
culturml commodities." because they arc
the principal cash crops of which we expart
a surplus. Collectively they are the foun-
dation of farming in the great agricultural
areas of the United States. In addition
the bill treats with all farm oommodities as
fully as any loan measure can soundly
provide for them.

The bill provides a method by which a
majority of the producers of a "basic"
commodity may regulate the flow to mar-
ket of the surplus portion of a crop in
order that supply and demand may be
balanced over a longer period than ii pos-
sible under existing conditions. Through
the principle of an equalization fee it
would enable American farmers to in-
fluence the marketing of their surplus
products in ways that would permit main-
tenance of domestic price levels in line
with domestic costs and standards of liv-
ing. It does not attempt to annul the law
of supply and demand, but to administer
it in the interest of producers. The equal-
isation fee spreads the cost as well as the
benefits over the whole crop and avoids
Government subsidy. If supply and de-
(Continued on page 6, colaasn t.)

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE . ■; V

(By Concresaional Districts)

11th WiUiam Wetb. Route One, JoUet

Cj. F. Tullock, Rockford

C. E. bamborou^. Polo

W. H. M<xxl>. Port Byron

B. H. Taylor. Rapatee

A. R. Wright. Varna

F. D. Barton. Cornell

. ". R. F. Karr. Iroquois

. .' J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

Charles Borgelt. Havana

Samuel Sorrclls. Raymond

Frank Oexner, Waterloo

: W. L. Cope. Salem

, Charles Marshall, Belknap

R. K. Loomis, Makanda

OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vice-President, Charles R Finley Hoopeston

Treasurer, R. A. Cowlcs Bloomington

Secretary, Geo. A. Fok Sycamore

I L< L< I N OIS

CCLTVRAL ASSOCIA

RECORD

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To advance the purpose/or which the Farm Bureau was orian-
tzed, namely to promote, protect and represent the business,
economic, social and educational interests of the farmers of
lUiitois and the tuition, and to develop agriculture.

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Co-operative Accounting Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

Finance R- A. Cowlea

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General Office J- H. Kelker

Information E.G. Thiem

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing Wm. E. Hedgcock

Organizaticm C. E. Metzger

Farm Supply J. R. Bent

Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taiation and Statiatica J. C. Watson

Transportation L. J. Quasey

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The'jCoolidge Veto

political explosion expected to follow

Coolidge's veto of the McNary-Haugen

B stabilization bill has, as yet, failed to

and friends of Mr. Coolidge here are

) secret of their satisfaction."

the burden of a Washington press dis»

the White House favorites are gloating

they have done. It is true there has

Explosion. The veto was less of a sur-

"armers and the West than our Eastern

realize, although we had reason from

and observations to expect some-

The veto certainly showed little

The merits of the farm relief pro-

lingly, were never considered.

appeared to be inimical to the interests

it promised to raise the price

Therefore it was rejected. The Presi-

astute a politician to break with the

selfish, moneyed crowd that maneuv-

into office. Had he signed the bill there

would have been a terrific explosion

disappointed Easterners. The Wash-

the President's champion, would have

of apoplexy and passed out. So

Mellon, Herbert Hoover, Julius

O'Leary, and the rest of the crowd

bitterly opposed to the measure.

!^oolidge was in a tight place. He chose

way out. It's our hard luck that an issue

onomic importance to American agricul-

|ettled by political considerations rather

own merits.

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President
farm pric
materialise
making n

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patch,
over what
been no
prise to
neighbors
past expe riences
thing diff Brent,
statesmanjship
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The Veto Message

THE McNary-Haugen veto message of Presi-
dent C oolidge made a profound impression on
of people whose notion of the surplus
control plkn was more or less hazy. It was worded
to accomiilish just that, to arouse doubt and sus-
I^ raised the old bogey of price-fixing, it
bill sectional and class legislation. It
accused the plan of promoting one-crop farming,
of being ( conomically unsound, of being unwork-
able and inconstitutional.

When Ihe writers had tired of throwing bricks
and had lun out of bad names, like the small boy
with his tpngue out whose parting shot is "you're
us a thousand times," they said :
"This measure is so long and involved that it is
impossiblt to discuss it without going into many
tiresome Retails. Many other reasons exist why it
be approved, but it is impossible to state
them all v lithout writing a book."

All these objections were raised in the House
Senate debates. All were effectively an-
swered. The bill might have been unconstitutional
in the mcsthod provided for the selection of; the
Federal Farm Board. But the Supreme Court could
have decided this point, after all a small one, if
the issue (iver arose.

length of the message, and its unusual
on the other hand, gave it the ap-
of an apology for the veto. Many of
the accusktions could have been used against the

The
vehemencje
pearance

Federal

Reserve

Act, the protective tariff, the

Immigration Act, the Esch-Cummins Act and other
legislation none of which allows "free play of com-
petition."

The reply by the Executive Committee of 22,
is published in full in this issue. Every member
should read it carefully. The criticism of the
message is set forth under 14 points. The reply
refrains from saying that a book might have been
written in criticism of the message.

Labor and the Farmer

John H. Walker, president of the Illinois State
Federation of Labor commented favorably on the
jrrowing friendliness between organized labor and
the organized farmer, in a recent talk at Cham-
paign. He referred to the school of thought which
believed or believes that organized labor by rea-
son of its success in gaining higher wages and
shorter hours is largely responsible for the high
cost of commodities the farmer must buy, for the
scarcity and high cost of good farm' help, and for
the disparity in prices between agricultural and
non-agricultural goods. There is another side to
this question which thinking farmers fully appre-
ciate.

Labor and the farmer unquestionably have
much in common. Labor belongs to the consumer
group. It buys what the farmer produces. Pros-
perous labor is the farmers' best customer. Few
if any begrudge labor its better working condi-
tions and higher standards of living. They realize
that labor through organization has done for itself
what farmers have yet to accomplish.

On the othei" hand, labor has been sympathetic
to the farmers needs and demands. In Illinois, the
State Federation endorsed the McNary-Haugen
bill. It f(^ught for tax revision on the basis of ability
to pay. Its leaders have shown a most admirable
broadness of vision in these and other questions.

Farmers have much to learn from labor. With
as thorough and unified an organization as the
latter, agriculture could get what it needs with
much less effort than has already been expended
toward securing surplus control legislation.

The Outlook for 1927

The 1927 outlook of the federal bureau of agri-
cultural economics is on the whole decidedly pes-
simistic. It says there is slight hope for improve-
ment unless there is a drastic cut in acreage of
corn, cotton, wheat, and rice.

It credits the livestock and dairy business with
more favorable prospects. These and other farm
commodities are briefly mentioned in the outlook
report, as follows:

"A slightly larger supply of farm labor and possibly lower
wages.

"Hard spring and durum wheat growers cannot expect
as much for the 1927 crop as they received in 1926.

"Corn growers are faced with the prospect of lower prices
unless acreage is substantially reduced.

"Oats and barley are likely to be in greater demand for
feed. Prices will depend upon supply.

"Prices of cattle are expected to average somewhat higher
than 1926.

"Hog producers have a favorable outlook but present
prices will continue through 1928 only if pork production
is held down to the level of the past two years.

"Sheep production expected to increase slightly but a
strong consumptive demand is anticipated.

"The dairy industry is on a stronger basis than a year
ago.

"Egg and poultry producers may not expect as profitable
a year as 1926.

"Horses and mules are plentiful enough to meet demands
but supplies of young stock are low.

"Potato growers should guard against overplanting by
watching acreage plantings in other states.

"Trend of fruit production is upward but as large a crop
as last year is not likely again. Don't plant more peach
trees.

"Increase alsike and red clover seed production."

Cutting production by acreage reduction is not
always effective because of the uncertainties of
the weather. But it will be well to heed the hand-
writing on the wall as revealed in statements of
surplus and its possible effect on prices. For the
diversified livestock farmer the chances for
making some money in 1927 are good. For the
straight grain farmer opportunity is less favorable.
A good poultry flock will pay because the demand
for poultry products is firm and we are still on a
domestic consumptive basis under the protection
of the tariff. It is now up to the farmer to help
himself.

4 Courtesy Scripps- Howard Papers)

/. A. A. Offices Retaified

Offices of the I. A. A. will be retained in the
Transportation Building, the present location at
608 So. Dearborn St., the Executive Committee de-
cided at its last meeting.

While slight savings in rent might have been
realized by moving a distance from the loop, the
inconvenience to directors and members who come
to the city and the loss of time involved in going to
meetings and maintaining contacts with other
groups were held to counteract the difference in
cost. The I. A. A. pays its rent a year in advance
and thereby secures a discount of 15 per cent
from the regular rate. Approximately 5500
square feet of space are used by all departments
of the Association.

The loop is slightly overbuilt with office space
as a result of the many new skyscrapers recently
completed. Bids were secured from many space
sellers anxious to have the I. A. A. officers.

J

March, 1927

t

The Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD

Pag«S

What The Counties
Are Doing

At the
DEKALB CORN 40 recent corn
PER CENT BETTER show held in
THAN LAST YEAR D e K a 1 b

County, on
December 6-11, William Webb of
Will County judged. Mr. Webb
stated that the type of corn ex-
hibited was fully 40 per cent better
than that exhibited last year, and
freedom from disease and germina-
tion was 50 per cent better, bring-
ing home the real value of a pro-
ject of this kind. The show was
held in cooperation with a clothing
store in DeKalb which furnished the
priies valued at $175.00. One hun-
dred thirty-eight lO-ear samples
were entered.

The leadership
CHAMPAIGN system of educa-
GOES AFTER tion works accord-
FARM LOANS ing to Farm Ad-
viser Bums. The
Champaign County Federal Farm
Loan Association organized 8 years
ago had loaned only $262,600 in
that time. Since starting an educa-
tional campaign through community
leaders, the new secretary placed
$341,000 worth of loans between
October 9 and December 29. This
year the leaders of each unit will
set definite goals of attainment.
One unit hopes to get 75 per cent
of its members to use poultry self-
feeders and the home grown bal-
anced poultry mash ration.

The farm
LA SALLE COUNTY and home
IMPROVES bureaus o f

FARM HOMES La Salle

county de-
cided that the two things needed
most in their farm homes were
running water and sewage disposal
systems. They co-operated with the
farm mechanics department of the
University of Illinois in a home
equipment project. Educational
meetings were held, moving pic-
tures and slides were shown illus-
trating different kinds of water
systems, and visits were made to
homes to help solve improvement
problems.

"When
GRUNDY HOLDS 8TH we held
ANNUAL CORN AND our first
POULTRY SHOW corn and

poultry
show eight years ago we had all
sizes, types, and varieties of seed
corn in our exhibits," states Farm
Adviser Longrmire. "At the last
two shows our corn was remark-
ably uniform. Wm. Webb and J. L.
McKeighan who have judged nearly
every year remarked about the
great improvement made. Our
poultry shows likewise have stimu-
lated~ interest in purebred stock
until today we have many purebred
flocks in the county which furnish
hatcheries with eggs at premium
prices."

Seventy per
GALLATIN cent of the

STRONG FOR membership in

SWEET CLOVER Gallatin coun-
t y sowed
sweet clover in 1926. The farm
bureau bought 39,815 pounds of
seed. Between 1921 and 1926 the
acreage of sweet clover increased
from 100 to 6,000. In five years
32 lime spreaders were sold, or one
for each eight members. A total
of 220 carloads of limestone was
spread during this period. One
thousand bushels of sweet clover
seed was threshed in the county last
year.

The
FARMERS' LUNCHEON Farmers'
CLUB IN Noon -Day

WINNEBAGO Luncheon

Club mod-
eled after Rotary and Kiwanis is a
new idea recently introduced in
Winnebago county. Farm bureau
members and their wives meet at
the Nelson hotel, Rockford, for
luncheon the second Saturday of
•each month. A good program with

community singing, music and a
top-notch speaker are provided.
Shop talk is barred. Those who at-
tend make their reservations at the
farm bureau office by the preceding
Thursday night. Two hundred and
twenty attended the first luncheon,
and 236 the second on Feb. 12.

The 10,000
10,000 ACRES OF Acre Alfalfa
ALFALFA GOAL Club of Lo-

IN LOGAN gan county

was launched
recently to increase the present
acreage of 1,000, ten-fold in this
county. This means 2 hi per cent
of all farm land in alfalfa. The
farm bureau, the County Bankers
Association, and the Blue Valley
Creamery Co., are cooperating.

Acorn
MENARD STARTS germinator

CORN GERM! NATOR with 128
IN HATCHERY bushel ca-

pacity ev-
ery six days was set up in conjunc-
tion with a local commercial hatch-
ery at Petersburg recently. The
same narrow range of moisture and
temperature conditions in the hatch-
ery prevail in the germinator. Re-
sults so far exceed expectations and
stamp the project as one of the
most successful in the state. Around
2000 bushels will be tested by May
15 according to farm adviser
Crosby.

T h e 19
19 SHIPPING ASS'NS. shipping as-
IN HENRY SHIP sociations

2394 CARS of Henry

county
shipped 2394 cars of livestock in

1926 which netted producers about
$4,660,000. This compares with
2176 cars in 1925 worth $4,130,-
000. The associations handled
56.05 per cent of the total ship-
ments from the county in 1926, and
51.73 per cent in 1925.

One hundred
DuPAGE 100 per cent collec-

PER CENT; tion of 1926

WINNEBAGO 98 dues, and 80
per cent collec-
tion of 1927 checks is the recent
report of the DuPagc County Farm
Bureau. Winnebago collected 98
per cent of its last year's dues, ac-
cording to Farm Adviser Keltner.
Eight farm bureaus in Illinois have
collected more than 80 per cent and
four more than 60 per cent of their

1927 dues.

The South-
PULASKI em Illinois

ENTERTAINS OR- orchard train
CHARD TRAIN on the Big

Four made
four stops in Pulaski county on Feb.
14 and 15. Exhibits were dis-
played in the cars, and meetings
held in town halls with a total at-
tendance of 1,005.

Education-
DeWITT al programs

EMPHASIZES CUL- on economics
TURAL PROGRAM and social
science will
be innovations in the work of the
DeWitt County Farm Bureau in
1927. Records of local livestock
shipping associations are being cen-
tralized.

A summary of
HANCOCK RE- yields of original
SULTS FAVOR Krug com grown
KRUG CORN by 23 farm bu-

reau members in
18 townships in Hancock county
shows the average yield on 203 H
acres to be 51.9 bushels per acre
compared with a yield of 47.25
bushels per acre on 543.5 acres of
other varieties grown in the same
fields or under similar conditions.
This shows a gain of 4.65 bushels
per acre for Krug corn. Coopera-
tors state that Krug corn is superior
in quality and will produce more
pounds of beef and pork per bushel.
Krug corn matures 10 days earlier
than Reid's Yellow Dent.

An all-day com-
OYSTER SOUP bination farm bu-
DRAWS CROWD reau and ship-
IN MACOUPIN ping association
meeting at Mod-
esto with oyster soup at noon,
brought out a good crowd in Ma-
coupin county. The European com-

Wins Sam Thompson Trophy

F. E. Fuller, farm adviser in Marshall-Putnam county, left, is seen
accepting the sterling silver loving cup from Sam Thompson, president
of the American Farm Bureau Federation, who offered the prize more
than a year ago to the county farm bureau having the best publicity
service.

The publicity of Marshall-Putnam was judged to be the most
original, interesting, varied, and effective in keeping the name of the
farm bureau in a favorable light before the people of the two counties.
The cup will remain the property of the farm bureau winning it three
times.

borer, poultry, and swine feeding
and sanitation were the problems
discussed by J. H. Bigger, field en-
tomologist. Red Neel, and Farmer
Rusk. Local club leaders and soil
project leaders met later in the
month.

Ten townships
MADISON expect to hold

HAS MANY monthly meet-

COOPERATORS ings, and five
are planning
for annual picnics, homecomings, or
community fairs for 1927 in Madi-
son county. Eleven directors agreed
to increase the membership in their
townships, and 36 men offered to
cooperate in the use of limestone
and growing of legumes. A seed
corn culling school was held, and 23
men have agreed to follow the com
Improvement program.

A. J.Glov-
GLOVER , er, editor

SPEAKS IN of Hoard's

McHENRY COUNTY Dairyman
was the
principal speaker at the annual din-
ner of the McHenry County Herd
Improvement Association held Feb-
ruary 16. Glover was the first cow
tester employed in this state.
Medals in the Illinois 500 Pound
Butter Fat Cow Club were awarded
to A. D. Coraue, W. H. Gardner.
Wm. Wittmus, and F. M. Barber.

Oil testing dem-
M-P EDUCATES onstrations to in-
MEMBERS form farmers

ON OIL about good and

poor lubricating
oil are being featured in Marshall-
Putnam counties. Special emphasis
is being placed upon the damaging
effect of dilution in the crank case.
An accredited list of truck drivers,
who boost for and haul more than
50 per cent of the stock received by
the Peoria Producers, is kept by the
farm bureau.

More than 800
800 AT MER- attended the elev-
CER ANNUAL enth annual
MEETING meeting of the

Mercer County
Farm Bureau held in Aledo, Jan-
uary 11, 1927. Members and their
wives were guests at dinner fur-
nished free of charge by the farm
bureau. Three hundred fifty-one
I registered members were present

The Carroll
CORN CULLING County Farm
POPULAR IN Bureau held a

CARROLL better seed corn

meeting on Feb-
ruary 15, with 35 present. Clair
Golden of Rock Island county gave
a culling demonstration. Each man
culled the sample he had brought
from home.

Over 500
500 AT people attend-

MASON AN- ed the Mason

NUAL MEETING county annual
farm bureau
meeting which was one of the larg-
est and most successful in the his-
torj- of the organization, according
to adviser T. R. Isaacs.

Share-hold-
^cLEAN ers of the

SERVICE CO. McLean

ELECTS OFFICERS County Serv-
ice Company
held their first meeting February
19. E. D. Lawrence was elected
president; Geo. L. Clarke, vice-
president; and Len E. Jones, secre-
tary-treasurer. The company will
handle petroleum products.

Soil mapping
WABASH meetings are be-

BUSY MAKING ing held in
SOIL MAPS Wabash county.

Each member
tests soil from 40 acres, and draws
a map under the ad\'i£er's direction.

The John-
JOHNSON COUNTY son County
MUTUAL A GO Mutual Fire

Insurance
Company, chartered December 15,
1926, had more than $300,000
worth of insurance pledged to it
within two months. It insures only
farm bureau members. Risks are
classified according to hazards, and
specific and blanket reinsurance is
carried in the Farmers Mutual Re-
insurance Company.

A member with $2500 worth of
insurance can save his farm bureau
dues every year in reduced cost.

Lawrence town-
GOOD MEMBER- ship, Lawrence
SHIP IN county has 90

LAWRENCE TWP. farm bureau

members, all of
whom are paidup. The membership
was signed by local solicitors with
William Philbert in charge. "Any

I. A. A. Stand A gainst
ComborerQuarantine
For Illinois k Upheld

f LLINOIS corn growers and com

^ shippers will not be hampered or

inconvenienced by a quarantine

^^^^ ban. as a "result

^^^^^^^ of a recent deci-

f ^^^ sion of the Fed-

^^^^^L eral Horticultur-

"jV f^^^H b' Board not to

^^^^^ include Illinois in

^X^^^^ the European

^^^^^^ eomborer quar-

^^^^^^^^anllne area.

^^^^^^^^Hpresident. who

^V ^^^^^^P was Washing-

■..^^^^IHton the time

Earl C. SBitk "^ *''* quarantine

hearing, appeared

in protest before the board, stating

that inasmuch as only one specimen

of the borer had been found in

Kankakee county, Illinois should

not be subjected to the dangers of

further infestation by inclusion in

the quarantine.

Had the federal quarantine been
established, Illinois com growers
and shippers would have been pro-
hibited from shipping ear com out-
side the state except to such points
already in the eomborer zone. Such
action, likewise, would have made
it possible for com from the
heavily infested areas to be im-
ported into Illinois, thus increasing
the danger to Illinois corn fields
from this pest.

$10,000,000 Appropriation Passed

The bill appropriating $10,000,-
000 for the control of the borer
was passed and signed by President
Coolidge on Feb. 22. The act pro-
vides for control work in 76 coun-
ties in New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana, in
which the com crop is threatened.
Approximately 2,500,000 acres of
corn land in these states will be in-
cluded in the cleanup.

The federal fund provides for
the payment of $2 per acre to farm-
ers who are obliged to do extra
work in cleaning up stalks, stubble,
trash, etc., in stamping out the
borer. Supplementary legislation
by the states must be passed in the
meantime to secure the advantages
of the federal appropriation.

The state department of agricul-
ture cooperating with W. P. Flint,
state entomologrist, and the state
natural history survey framed a bill
which was introduced in the Illinois
legislature very recently. This bill
contemplates a $100,000 appro-
priation for eomborer control,
a portion of which will be
used to reimburse farmers should
their expenses for cleaning up in-
fested fields exceed the amount al-
lowed by the federal regulation plus
$1.50 per acre.

The SUte Coraborer Committee,
of which Geo. A. Fox is chairman,
will seek to insure the passage of
this bill.

time Lawrence township wants to
add 10 members, and make it 100,

we can do it," says Philbert.

More than
SANGAMON TELE- 1 0 0 farmers
GRAMS GO TO started farm

COOLIDGE. account r e c-

ords January
1, 1927 in Sangamon county. Scores
of telegrams urging President Cool-
idge to sign the McNary-Haugen bill
were sent from this county just
prior to the veto.

The Inter;iational Live Stock Ex-
position announces that the Chicago
Association of Commerce for the
fourth consecutive year will award
agricultural college scholarships of
$500, $300 and $200 to the three
highest ranking individuals in the
non-collegiate live stock judging
contest to be held at Chicago, No-
vember 26.

.11

Paf*€

The Illinois Agricultural JAsaociation RECORD

March, 1927

CooHdge Politics Revealed In

High Sounding Statements /p

New York Speech Before Election

Veto A brogates Campaign Pledges of Party and Promises of
Pres dent in February, 1924

(Edi
Thompsoi
months

or's note: — FollowinK is a letter addressed to President Coolidse hy Sam H.
then president of the Illinois Asricultural Association in April 1924, seven
before the last presidential election.

The Ho ronable Calvin Coolidtfe,

President of the United States;
Dear M ■. President :

In your address to the people of
the Uni ,ed States, delivered at New
York or February 12, you presented
a clear picture of the existing con-
dition i 1 apiculture and its effect
on othei' parts of our national struc-
ture. \ ou identified the cause when
you sai<;:

"To his depression there have
been otiier contributing causes, but
the mai; i difficulty has been the price
of farm products."

The ! ituation unmistakably leads
to this conclusion, and agricultur-
ally-mirded men endorse it.

You laid on that occasion:

"There is no sound policy which is
narrow 9r sectional or limited. • • ♦
When ti iere is a difficulty which af-
fects so large a population, to large
an area and so important an inter-
est as t iat of agriculture, it is dis-
tinctly 0 national question."

Then is a real gleam of hope for
agriculture in your great declara-
tion in the Metropolis of America:

"ThSj people of these numerous
States e ist an enormous influence on
the mak \ng of the laws by which you
are govmed. • • • This problem is
not merely the problem of the agri-
cultural section of our country, it is
the pro\ Uem of industry, of trans-
poTtatio t, of e<nnmerce, and of bank-
ing."

Your remarkable address from
which we quote lays down before
the Nation in language that may
not be misunderstood the condition
and the cause, and directs attention
to the c»mmon responsibility of ap-
plying the remedy.

The hope of agriculture centers
upon thje principles contained in the
McNary-Haugen Bill now before
Congress. In brief, the substance

of this measure is:

t

1. '^0 enable the producers,
through an agency created
fpr them, to purchase or to
contract with others to pur-
cnase, the exportable surplus
ok certain basic crops at the
sfme exchange value com-
pared with other commodities

^ that obtained for a nonnany
representative period prior to
the war.

2. ito protect that value by an
a|dequate tariff.

3.

4.

Thia
prom
York

J 3 enable the producers to
11 this surplus at the best
pjrices ruling in the world
i^arkets.

collect the loss thereon
d the costs of operation,
om the producer.

return to the Treasury
y funds advanced by it.

measure rests upon the
laid down in your New
iddress. It prescribes the
remedy! for the basic difficulty of
discriminatory price. The objections
that hajve thus far been advanced
against it rest almost wholly upon
misrepresentations of the plan.
They aj-e that Ciis is price fixing;
that it ^ill impair or destroy exist-
ing agencies that perform useful
(unctiois; that a circulating medium
of indeterminate value will ensue;
that intjernational complication will
result ;,' that increased production
will follow. Not one of these ob-
jections will withstand the test of
close analysis. They proceed mainly
from one source out of which the
elemenf of selfish interest is not
lacking. It is only fair that this
organization of agricultural produc-
ers be i permitted to observe that
J u 1 i ti^ Barnes, grain-exporter.

should not be permitted to write the
agricultural policies of America.
From everywhere intellectual as-
sent has been given to your proposi-
tion that agriculture is in distress
and that a remedy is called for.

Have the objectors a better plan
to accomplish the necessary end?
If so, the common interest demands
that they make it known.

With deepest appreciation of your
great service in calling attention to
the critical situation, we wish re-
spectfully to ask you for further
leadership in aiding as far as you
properly can, the enactment into
law of this measure that provides
equality for agriculture in the net-
work of protective legislation that
supports industry, and finance, and
labor, and transportation in our
present-day structure.

Yours very respectfully,
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSN.
S. H. Thompson,

President.

Com Borer Bill
Is Introduced In
Illinois Legislature

Provides For State Pasrment
To Farmers In Com Borer
Cleanup Work

A bill known as the "Insect Pest
and Plant Disease Act" introduced
by Rep. C. M. Turner in the House
and by Senator Simon Lantz in the
Senate provides among other things
for the reimbursement by the state,
of farmers who sustain a cost in
excess of |1.50 per acre over and
above all money received from the
federal government while following
out instructions or regulations of
the state in eradicating the Europ-
ean com borer.

The federal bill provides for re-
imbursing farmers to the extent of
%2 per acre for such cleanup work.
Thus if an Illinois farmer sustains
a cost of more than $3.50 per acre
in excess of regular farm practice
while following state regulations in
stopping the borer, the state accord-
ing to the bill, will reimburse him
for the excess cost. Funds will come
out of the appropriation to the De-
partment of Agriculture.

Provides for Qilarantine

The Act likewise empowers the
State Department of Agriculture to
establish quarantines within the
state to stop the dissemination of in-
sect pests and plant diseases from
an infested section to an uninfested.
Preparatory to enforcing a quaran-
tine the state must hold a public
hearing allowing interested persons
to come and be heard.

The proposed Act will take pre-
cedence over a similar one filed June
29, 1917.

Reply to Veto

(Continued from paffe 9)

mand are fairly balanced, prices will equate
themaelves in line with general prices and
with senerml business conditions. In this
equation other than basic commodities will
And their level: thus there is no justifica-
tion for the charse that it will destroy
diversification or that it favors one crop
at the expense of another.

There is no Government buyins or sell-
ins; there la no price flxins by Govern-
ment agency : there is no guarantee of
profits to millers or packers. The board
is directed to assist in removing or with-
holding or disposing of the surplus of the
basic agricultural commodity by entering
into agreements with cooperative assoeia-
tions engaged in handling the bmsic agri-
calturaJ commodity, or with a corporation
or association created by one or more of

Five Times President

L. C. Warneft of Warner, was re-
elected president of the Henry
County Farm Bureau for the fifth
consecutive year at its recent an-
nual meeting. Mr. Warner was one
of the early organizers of the farm
bureau in that county. Under his
able leadership, aided by strong
executive committees and good ad-
visers* the Henry County Farm
Bureau has thrived consiatently. To-
day it is one of the strongest county
organisations in Illinois.

I. A. A. AUDIT SERVICE
FAME SPREADS

TO FAR EAST

A letter from Jerusalem, famous
in Bible history as the capitol of
Palestine, was received by the Illi-
nois Agricultural Cooperatives As-
sociation recently asking for a copy
of the "Analysis and Summary of 65
farmers elevators in Illinois."

The request came from the gen-
eral manager of the Central Bank of
Cooperative Institutions in Pales-
tine, Ltd. Jewish farmers in Pales-
tine are developing rapidly in co-
operative marketing and are inter-
ested in all old and new ventures of
this kind in this country. The same
bank recently asked for a copy of
the plan of the Illinois Milk Produc-
ers Association at Peoria.

LAMB AND

CATTLE POOL

FEEDERS WARNED

To secure the benefit of the feed-
ing-in-transit rate wherever it is ap-
plicable it is necessary for the ship-
per to present his inbound freight
bills to the local agent at the time he
makes out his bill of lading for ship-
ment to market, according to L. J.
Quasey, director of transportation in
a statement to livestock feeders who
bought cattle and lambs in the
feeder pools of 1926.

"If this is not done, technical
rights to the fecding-in-transit rates
are lost," states Quasey.

such cooperative associations, or with per-
sons enxared in processing the basic asrri-
cultural commodity, or with other persons
if there are no such competent cooperative
asencies. Such agreements may properly
provide for the payment of the losses,
costs, and changes arising out of con-
tracts dealing only with surplus. There
is no interference with the balance of the
crop.

Proponents of this legislation have never
claimed that it is a cure for all the ills of
agriculture. It is recognized that high
costs of production, distribution, transport-
ation, local and State taxes, and other
causes must be addressed. It is claimed,
however, that the bill would remove one
of the major hindrances to agricultural
recovery, i. e.. the difficulty of equating
supply to demand over a reasonable length
of time, and of preventing excess supplies
from demoralising markets -Srhich other-
wiae would be profitable.

I. A. A. Seeks Gas
Tax With Provision
I For Secondary Roads

SOME provision for improving our
secondary roads as soon as possi-
ble with a portion of the funds de-
rived from the proposed gas tax is
the position taken by the Illinois
Agricultural Association on this
most important issue.

In declaring for the 75 per cent of
the farmers of Illinois who now live
on relatively unimproved road, the
I. A. A. is following the sentiment
of its members as expressed at the
recent Peoria convention.

No particular bill has received of-
ficial endorsement. But the gas tax
has been accepted as a fair and
equitable way of shifting at least
part of the road tax burden on those
who secure the most benefit.

President Earl C. Smith has com-
piled a great deal of useful infor-
mation on the cost of completing
the hard road system on the gas tax
iteue, and on general road matters in
an effort to fairly represent the in-
terests of the membership.

A compromise measure with cer-
tain recognition to the needs of
farmers for better farm to market
roads will undoubtedly be the out-
come of the shuffle for disposition of
the proposed gas tax funds.

In the meantime, the Chicago Mo-
tor Club is fighting a gas tax. It
will secure some support downstate,
but from all appearances the agri-
cultural group in the legislature has
the balance of power and will have
the final say so on this issue.

HOW THE SENATE
VOTED ON FARM BILL

For the bill — Republicans: Cam-
eron, Capper, Curtis, Deneen, Fra-
zier, Gooding, Gould, Harreld, How-
ell, Johnson, Jones of Washington,
La FoUette, McMaster, McNary,
Means, Norris, Nye, Oddie, Pine,
Robinson of Indiana, Schall, Stan-
field, Stewart and Watson — 24.
Democrats: Ashurst, Bratton, Cara-
way, Copeland, Dill, Ferris, Fletcher,
Hawes, Kendirck McKellar, May-
field, Neely, Pittman, Ransdell, Rob-
inson of Arkansas, Sheppard, Sim-
mons, Smith, Steck, Trammell, Ty-
son and Wheeler — 22. Farmer-La-
bor: Shipstead — 1. Total, 47.

Against the bill — Republicans:
Bingham, Borah, Couzens, Dale,
Ernst, Fess, Gillett, Goff, Greene,
Hale, Keyes, Lenroot, McLean, Met-
calf, Pepper, Phipps, Reed of Penn-
sylvania, Sackett, Shortridge, War-
ren, Weller and Willis — 22. Demo-
crats: Bayard, Blease, Bruce, Ed-
wards, George, Gerry, Glass, Harris,
Harrison, Feflin, King, Overman,
Reed of Missouri, Stephens, Under-
wood, Walsh of Massachusetts and
Walsh of Montana — 17.

Pairs were announced as follows:
Broussard (D) for, with Moses (R.)
against; Jones of New Mexico (D)
for, with Wadsworth (R) against;
Norbeck (R.) for, with Edge (R.)
against.

MCLEAN COUNTY
MILK PRODUCERS
ORGANIZE

At a recent meeting of the Mc-
Lean County Milk Producers' As-
sociation Guy Hilton was elected
President. Other officers for the
coming year are as follows: W. F.
Coolidge, vice-president; Jay J.
Wright, secretary; Homer R. John-
son, treasurer. Directors are: Con-
rad Schaefer, J. W. Smith, Wm.
Welch, Howard B. Mason and H.
W. Enns.

Officers of the Woodford County
Farm Bureau for 1927 are Joe
Jochums, president, Fred Parks,
vice-president, J. Ira Powell, secre-
tary and Jo Major, treasurer.

/. A. A. Executives
Vote to Adopt New
Organization Plan

State To Be Divided Into Eight
Districts With Man In
Charge of Each

A DEFINITE step toward a
larger state organization was
taken by the Executive Committee
of the I. A. A. at its meeting on
Mar. 10-11 when a plan providing
for the employment of eight dis-
trict managers to supervise organ-
ization work in the state was for-
mally adopted.

The plan will go into effect at
once and district managers are to
be selected as soon as convenient
to coordinate the organization work
in every county in Illinois.

Under the new arrangement
which has been under advisement
for more than a year, a force of
full-time managers will be placed
in the field under Director G. E.
Metzger, whose business it will be
to help or direct county farm bu-
reau drives, organize leadership,
and give assistance toward building
up a more effective and representa-
tive organization in counties and
communities needing assistance.

The field force will be chosen by
Mr. Metzger subject to the approval
of the officers and Executive Com-
mittte. The new managers will te
chosen entirely on their merits. All
political considerations will be
^aived aside in their selection. The
force will be divorced from partici-
pation in any of the politcal aspects
of the organization and trained in
the act of building effective mem-
bership selling groups in every com-
munity, township, and county.

The new managers will establish
residence in a conveniently lo-
cated city near the center of the
district from which they will be
within easy driving distance of the
counties. Moderate salaries, and
per diem expenses while out on the
road are provided in the new plan."

The change in policy came fol-
lowing a general recognition that
maintaining an organization with
an adequate membership to make i(
effective is a year 'round job. Un«
der the new arrangement of field
forces a group of skilled and
trained men will be at work 12
months a year seeking and develop-
ing leaders and new thoughts
toward making the county farm
bureaus and the I. A. A. more rep-
resentative and effective in every
county.

C. W. Wray Is New ''
Field Secretary For
Illinois Hoist ein Ass'n

GW. WRAY of Lake county will
• take care of all calls for field
service for the Illinois Holstein-
Friesiah Association in the coming
year. This announcement was made
at the last directors meeting of the
Association.

Mr. Wray has been an officer in
the state Holstein breeders associa-
tion for the past two years. He
operates a purebred Holstein herd
And a 120 acre dairy farm at the
present time. At the urgent request
of his executive committee he agreed
to devote part of his time to field
work in the interest of the organi-
zation.

Mr. Wray is a graduate of the
University of Illinois, class of 1916,
where he specialized in dairying.
Previous to operating his own farm
in Lake county, he managed dairy
farms in Pennsylvania and Indiana.
He will give assistance to counties
on forming Holstein calf clubs, cow
testing associations, sales, registry
and transfer information, and In
helping to locate and select breeding
stock for members.

: r

'•I

Farmers elevator accounting will
be the subject of a talk by Geo. R.
Wicker of the Illinois Agricultural
Association during the Grain Deal-
ers' Short Course at Purdue Uni-
versity, Lafayette, Ind., on Mar.; 16.

^•f'

March, 1927

The Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD

f:

Pare?

I. A. A. SAVES FARMERS OF ILLINOIS $60,000 ON LIMESTONE RATES

JohnH. Walker
Statt, Labor Head
Asks Farm Backing

Points To Improvement In Re-
lations Between Agricul-
ture and Labor

WITH THE passing of the old
style institute and the forma-
tion of the present Illinois Agricul-
tural Association and the county
farm bureau system, relations be-
tween labor and agriculture have
steadily improved," declared John
H. Walker, president of the Illinois
State Federation of Labor in a re-
cent speech before a state labor con-
ference at Champaign.

"The old farmers organizations
were not representative of the ac-
tual farmers at all," said the speaker.
"The officers invariably were the
largest landowners of the county
concerned and often did not even
live on their farm lands. The farm-
ers, the ones who faced the real
problems, had little or no authority
in determining the policies of their
organizations. Worst of all they were
poisoned against labor when they
should have been working with labor
for mutual aims.

Wronflf Idea

"They had the idea too that the
Federation was after wages and in-
terested'only in that. Labor knew
long ago that its interests and its
prosperity were dependent upon the
interests and prosperity of agricul-
ture. But farmers' minds were so
poisoned against labor that the goal
of cooperation is not reached even
yet.

"It is indicative of a more sym-
pathetic understanding between the
two organizations that the Illinois
Agricultural Association sent two
authorized delegates to the last con-
vention of the State Federation of
Labor at Streator. That, I believe
was the first time in the history of
the Federation that agriculture was
officially represented at a Federa-
tion convention. These delegates
remained throughout the conven-
tion. They learned of the problems
and ideals of labor and presented
those of agriculture. Their pres-
■ence represents a long stride in im-
proved relations between the two
organizations.

Whole-Hesrted Welcome

"I attended the state convention
of the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion at Peoria a short time ago and
I venture to say that no other speak-
er was given the whole-hearted wel-
come I received. That proved con-
clusively that labor and agriculture
arc well along the road to under-
standing. There are fine men at
the head of the Illinois Agricultural
Association and I have a great ad-
miration for their work and that
of the association."

EGYPTIAN SEED
GROWERS SELL
MUCH RED TOP

Eighteen carloads of cleaned red
top seed and five carloads of un-
cleaned seed were handled by the
Egyptian Seed Growers Exchange
in 1926 according to Curt Anderson,
manager. The first nine and one-
half cars brought approximately
25 He per pound gross and five cars
more averaged between 22 and
23% cents. These prices were real-
ized when independent buyers were
offering farmers around 16% and
17 cents per pound.

The Seed Growers Exchange owns
its own building and equipment with
a capital investment of approximate-
ly $20,000. It has close to 800
members.

No Money Allowed For Expenses On

European Tour, I. A. A. Committee Decides

Party Proposes to Leave New York, July 30, for Isle of Jersey,
Germany, Denmark, and Other Points on S. S. Aurania

NO farm bureau money will be
spent to send any delegates or
officials to Europe on the proposed
1927 American Farm Bureau Feder-
ation Pilgrimage, according to a de-
cision of the Executive Committee of
the I. A. A. at a recent meeting.
This announcement is made follow-
ing reports from downstate to the
effect that officers and delegates
from the I. A. A. and the American
Farm Bureau would make the trip
at the expense of the membership.

The American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration arranged the tour "to pro-
vide a unique and unusual oppor-
tunity to farm people desiring to
visit Europe ; to make the trip in the
company of congenial companions
and under favorable circumstances."
According to the A. F. B. F. the tour
was arranged to meet what it con-
siders is a general demand for such
a pilgrimage. It states that the U.
S. Department of Agriculture has
received many requests from farm
people asking what particular points
of agricultural interest could be
viewed.

other motor trip up the cast coast of
Denmark. At Frederikssund the 51
cooperative slaughter houses will be
visited. On the return trip to Copen-
hagen the seed exchange and cathed-
ral at Roskilde will be seen.

The party will continue from here
on in to Germany to Berlin, Pots-
dam, and Frankfort. The steamer
trip down the Rhine from the docks
at Mainz to Cologne is said to be one
of the most picturesque in the world.

Four days will be spent in Hol-
land. A part of this time will be de-
voted to things of scenic and his-
toric interest and the remainder to
Agricultural methods.

The week in Paris will be devoted
to sight-seeing. Trips will be made
to the great art galleries, cathedrals,
parks, to the American battle fields
of Chateau Thierry and Rheims, and
a day will be spent at Malmaison,
the home of Napoleon and the Pal-
ace at Versailles where the peace
treaty, was signed.

The schedule provides for two
weeks in England. One will be spent
in London and vicinity. On the jour-

Recent Ruling Of Commerce

Commission Upholds Association

Quarry Representatives Appear in Support of Low Rate
For Farmers on Fertilizer

A SAVING of 30 cents a
ton net on one-third of
all agricultural limestone
used in Illinois will be real-
ized by farmers as a result of
the recent decision of the Illi-
nois Commerce Commission in
upholding the application of
the combination rule on ship-
ments of limestone. This will

amount to approximately $60,000
annually it is estimated if the 1926
figures are used in the calculation.

Following a recent appeal by the
railroads asking that the combina-
tion rule be cancelled, the I. A. A.
through its transportation depart-
ment, protested showing the impor-
tance of preserving a low rate ^>n
limestone to help farmers maintain
and improve soil fertility. Repre-
sentatives of all the larger lime-
stone companies appeared before

the Commission at the call of the I.
A. A. in support of its stand.

In making its decision in this con-
troversy, the Commission said, "No
effort has been made to justify
the increased rates resulting from
the proposed cancellation of the
Kelly Combination rule. Until
such time as joint through rates
are published to apply on all traf-
fic, or until such time as the car-
riers present evidence to show that
the resulting through charges are
just and reasonable, we conclude
and find that the Kelly Combination
Rule should continue in effect."

During 1926, Illinois farmers
most of whom were farm bureau
members bought approximately
650,000,000 tons of agricultural
limestone for soil improvement pur-
poses. At least 200,000,000 tons,
based on last year's business, will
be effected by the new ruling so

j as to secure the advantages of a
much lower rate on shipments

I travelling over more than one line.

Producers In First
Place at Chicago and
St. Louis Stock Yards

Chicago Association Breaks
All Records With 13.37 Per
Cent of U. S. Yards Receipts

Kronborf — The Castle of the Lefend of Hamlet at HeUinfor
(Shakespeare's "Elsimore")

The proposed voyage and tour is
expected to start from New York on
the S. S. "Aurania" on July 30.

The first stop will be made at the
Island of Jersey where a day will be
spent visiting the herds and breed-
ing establishments for which the is-
land is famous. The boat will land
at Helgoland, the famous German
North Sea fortress the next day.
From there the party will continue
to Cuxhaven and Hamburg, by train,
and thence across the famous Kiel
Canal to visit the Agricultural Ex-
periment Station at Askov and the
Royal Agricultural School at Brorup.

A motor trip will be provided
through the most fertile sections of
Denmark near Odense, followed by a
train ride to Copenhagen and an-

ney to Scotland, stops will be made
to sec the Shakespeare country, the
Liverpool Cotton Exchange and the
famous Manchester Ship Canal.
Headquarters in Scotland will be set
up at Edinburg. The main tour will
end here and the first sailings home
will be scheduled from Glasgow to
Montreal or froiq Liverpool to New

I York.

In all seven countries and their
Capitols and 43 cities and towns will
be visited. Sixty-seven thousand
miles will be traveled by steamer,

' 2500 by train, and 550 by car.

Resen-ations may be secured by
an advance deposit of $60 to the
American Farm Bureau Federation.
The balance of $925 will be due {our

I weeks before sailing.

"pHE CHICAGO and East St
^ Louis Producers Commission As-
sociations have consistently led all
other houses in these two terminals
in recent weeks. Producers at the
National Stock Yards has led that
market since its organization but
its business reached 22.6 per cent of
the total receipts the week ending
February 26. The following week
231 cars representing 19.2 per cent
of total receipts were received.

Likewise the Chicago Producers
crept up during Februar>- to first
place where it has remained consist-
ently since then. The high point
was reached on Feb. 3 when 116
cars representing 11.8 per cent of
the entire Chicago receipts went into
the Producers alleys. This record
stood only one day, for on Fri-
day, the day following, 73 cars rep-
resenting 13.37 per cent of the
total receipts came in. The best
week's business was 396 cars re-
ceived the first week in February
which was 144 ears more than were
handled by any other firm.

Gross sales of the Chicago Pro-
ducers aggregated $26,738,100.91 in
1926, for the total of 13,005 car-
loads of livestock received. Receipts
comprised 6.2 per cent of all live-
stock shipped to the Union Stock-
yards. TTie largest receipts were in
hogs which averaged eight per cent
of all receipts. Gross purchases of
feeder cattle, calves, and lambs,
amounted to $1,282,513.46. This
business increased 25 per cent for
cattle and calves and 35 per cent
for sheep during the past year.

The East St. Louis Producers
gained 1228 cars in 1926 over the
1925 record. The total cars received
for the year aggregated 13,699 com-
pared with 12,371 for 1925. Re-
ceipts in 1926 were 17.6 per cent of
the saleable stock sold on this mar-
ket. Net earnings were $70,258.95,
estimated savings made from reduc-
ing commissions $58,510.13, or a
toUl of $128,769.08. Illinois led all
states with 4,775 cars.

The Adams county, Illinois, Ship-
ping Association led ail county as-
sociations with 728 cars on which it
received a patronage refund of $2,-
059.09. The Columbia Cooperative

R A. Cowles

1000 Bu. Seed Com
Bought For Flooded

Out Valley Farmers

One thousand bushels of high test
seed com was brought for distri-
bution to flood sufferers in the
counties adjoin-
ing the Illinois
valley flood are*
according t«
Robt. A. Cowles ■
of the Illinois "
Agricultural As-
sociation who is
assisting the
farm bureaus of
Menard, Fulton,
Mason, Schuyler,
Morgan, Scott,
Brown, Ca s s.
Pike, and Greene
counties in meet-
ing the needs of their people.

This action followed a meeting
of the farm ad-, -ers and Mr. Cowles
at Jacksonville n Feb. 24. Dis-
tribution of tht ^eed will be made
according to needs and the funds
available for this purpose. The
committee in charge will make an
effort to see that everj- worthy can-
didate for aid is supplied with seed
com.

It is pointed out that thousands
of acres of flooded lands will be
unfit for recropping this spring,
while others are still submerged,
unreclaimed from the floods.

Mr. Cowles expects to make an
extended trip through the flood
areas within the next two weeks as-
sisting in apportioning aid where
most needed and expending funds
for seed com where it will do the
most good.

Applications for aid made to the
county farm bureaus will be investi-
gated and help given where needed.

Shipping Association of Columbia,
Mo., led all individual associations
in the number of cars shipped to the
St. Louis Producers with 300 cars
on which the refund amounted to
$792.24.

The St. Louis Producers have
commission rates approximately 20
per cent lower than other Arms on
that market.

Farm taxes take more than half
the rents of farms in the lower pen-
nsula of Michigan, the State College
announced following its sur\-ey of
1133 farms. Taxes average 52 per
cent of the net rents to farm own-
ers between 1919-26.

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The Illinoi* AgriculturalJAsaociation RECORD

March, 1927

Coolidge Politics Revealed In

High Sounding Statements In

New York Speech Before Election

Veto Abrogates Campaign Pledges of Party and Promises of
President in February, 1924

(Editor's not«: — Following is a letter addressed to President Coolidffe by Sam B.
Thompson, then president of the Illinois Agricultural Association in April 1924, sever
months before the last presidential election.

The Horonable Calvin Coolidge,

President of the United States.
Dear Mr. President:

In I your address to the people of
the United States, delivered at New
York on February 12, you presented
a cle^r picture of the existing con-
ditio^ in agriculture and its effect
on odher parts of our national struc-
ture, j You identified the cause when
you said:

'To this depression there have
been \other contributing causes, but
the main difficulty has been the price
of farm products."

Th^ situation unmistakably leads
to tl^is conclusion, and agricultur-
ally-ihinded men endorse it.

You said on that occasion:

"There is no sound policy which is
narrau) or sectional or limited. • • •
lyA^n there is a difficulty which af-
fects \so large a population, so large
an anea, and so important an inter-
est CM that of agriculture, it is dis-
tinctly a natiojml question."

Thpis is a real gleam of hope for
agrictil^re in your great declara-
tion (n the Metropolis of America:

"The people of these numerous
Statef cast on enormous influence on
the ntiaking of the laws by which you
are governed. • ♦ ♦ This problem is
not n erely the problem of the agri-
eultui al section of our country, it is
the problem of industry, of trans-
porta "ion, of commerce, and of bank-
ing."

Yofir remarkable address from
whicti we quote lays down before
the Sation in language that may
not b|e misunderstood the condition
and the cause, and directs attention
to thf common responsibility of ap-
plying the remedy.

The hope of agriculture centers
upon the principles contained in the
McN^ry-Uaugen Bill now before
Congress. In brief, the substance
of this measure is:

1. To enable the producers,
through an agency created
for them, to purchase or to
contract with Dthers to pur-
chase, the exportable surplus

' of certain basic crops at the

same exchange value com-
pkred with other commodities
that obtained for a normally
representative period prior to
the war.

2. To protect that value by an
adequate tariff.

3. To enable the producers to
sell this surplus at the best
prices ruling in the world
markets.

4. To collect the loss thereon
and the costs of operation,
from the producer.

6. To return to the Treasury
any funds advanced by it.

Thi) measure rests upon the
promise laid down in your New
York address. It prescribes the
remedy for the basic difficulty of
discriminatory price. The objections
that kave thus far been advanced
againtt it rest almost wholly upon
misrepresentations of the plan.
They are that this is price fixing;
that it will impair or destroy exist-
ing a^ncies that perform useful
functions; that a circulating medium
of indeterminate value will ensue;
that ititemational complication will
result; that increased production
will fpUow. Not one of these ob-
jections will withstand the test of
close snalysis. They proceed mainly
from one source out of which the
element of selfish interest is not
lacking. It is only- fair that this
oi;ganlzation of agricultural produc-
ers be permitted to observe that
J u 1 i [OS Barnes, grain-exporter.

should not be permitted to write the
agricultural policies of America.
From everywhere intellectual as-
sent has been given to your proposi-
tion that agriculture is in distress
and that a remedy is called for.

Have the objectors a better plan
to accomplish the necessary end?
If so, the common interest demands
that they make it known.

With deepest appreciation of your
great service in calling attention to
the critical situation, we wish re-
spectfully to ask you for further
leadership in aiding as far as you
properly can, the enactment into
law of this measure that provides
equality for agriculture in the net-
work of protective legislation that
supports industry, and finance, and
labor, and transportation in our
present-day structure.

Yours very respectfully,
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSN.
S. H. Thompson,
* ' President.

Com Borer Bill
Is Introduced In ,
Illinois Legislature

Provides For State Payment
To Farmers In Com Borer
Cleanup Work

A bill known as the "Insect Pest
and Plant Disease Act" introduced
by Rep. C. M. Turner in the House
and by Senator Simon Lantz in the
Senate provides among other things
for the reimbursement by the state,
of farmers who sustain a cost in
excess of $1.50 per acre over and
above all money received from the
federal government while following
out instructions or regulations of
the state in eradicating the Europ-
ean corn borer.

The federal bill provides for re-
imbursing farmers to the extent of
$2 per acre for such cleanup work-
Thus if an Illinois farmer sustains
a cost of more than $3.50 per acre
in excess of regular farm practice
while following state regulations in
stopping the borer, the state accord-
ing to the bill, will reimburse him
for the excess cost. Funds will come
out of the appropriation to the De-
partment of Agriculture.

Provides for Qnarmnline

The Act likewise empowers the
State Department of Agriculture to
establish quarantines within the
state to stop the dissemination of in-
sect pests and plant diseases from
an infested section to an uninfested.
Preparatory to enforcing a quaran-
tine the state must hold a public
hearing allowing interested persons
to come and be heard.

The proposed Act will take pre-
cedence over a similar one filed June
29, 1917.

Reply to Veto

{Continaed from pase S)

mand are fairly balanced, prices will equate
themselves in line with general prices and
with Keneral business conditions. In this
equation other than basic commodities will
And their level; thus there is no justifica*
tion for the charge that it will destroy
diversification or that it favors one crop
at the expense of another.

There is no Government bnylns or Bell4
ins: there is no price flxins by Govern-
ment asency; there is no guarantee of
profits to millers or packers. The board
is directed to assist in removing or with-
holdiny or disposing of the surplus of the
basic agricultural commodity by entering
into agreements with cooperative associa-
tions engaged in handling the basic agri-
cultural commodity, or with a corporation
or association created by one or more of

Five Times President

L. C. Warner, of Warner, was re-
elected president of the Henry
County Farm Bureau for the 6fth
consecutive year at its recent an-
nual meeting. Mr. Warner was one
of the early organizers of the farm
bureau in that county. Under his
able leadership, aided by strong
executive committees and good ad-
visers, the Henry County Farm
Bureau has thrived consistently. To-
day it is one of the strongest county
organizations in Illinois.

I. A. A. AUDIT SERVICE
FAIVIE SPREADS

TO FAR EAST

A letter from Jerusalem, famous
in Bible history as the capitol of
Palestine, was received by the Illi-
nois Agricultural Cooperatives As-
sociation recently asking for a copy
of the "Analysis and Summary of 65
farmers elevators in Illinois."

The request came from the gen-
eral manager of the Central Bank of
Cooperative Institutions in Pales-
tine, Ltd. Jewish farmers in Pales-
tine are developing rapidly in co-
operative marketing and are inter-
ested in all old and new ventures of
this kind in this country. The same
bank recently asked for a copy of
the plan of the Illinois Milk Produc-
ers Association at Peoria.

LAIVIB AND

CATTLE POOL

FEEDERS WARNED

To secure the benefit of the feed-
ing-in-transit rate wherever it is ap-
plicable it is necessary for the ship-
per to present his inbound freight
bills to the local agent at the time he
makes out his bill of lading for ship-
ment to market, according to L. J.
Quasey, director of transportation in
a statement to livestock feeders who
bought cattle and lambs in the
feeder pools of 1926.

"If this is not done, technical
rights to the feed ing-in -transit rates
are lost," states Quasey.

such cooperative associations, or with tier-
sons engaged in processing the basic agri-
cultural commodity, or with other persona
if there are no such competent cooperative
agencies. Such agreements may properly
provide for the payment of the losses,
costs, and charges arising out of con-
tracts dealing only with surplus, ^here
is no interference with the balance of the
crop.

Proponents of this legislation have never
claimed that it is a cure for all the ills of
agriculture. It is recognized that high
costs of production, distribution, transport-
ation, local- and State taxes, and other
causes must be addressed. It is claimed,
however, that the bill would remove one
of the major hindrances to agricultural
recovery, i. e., the difficulty of equating
supply to demand over a reasonable length
of time, and of preventing excess supplies
from demoralixing markets which other-
wise would be profitable.

/. A. A. Seeks Gas
Tax With Provision
I For Secondary Roads

SOME provision for improving our
secondary roads as soon as possi-
ble with a portion of the funds de-
rived from the proposed gas tax is
the position taken by the Illinois
Agricultural Association on this
most important issue.

In declaring for the 75 per cent of
the farmers of Illinois who now live
on relatively unimproved road, the
I. A. A. is following the sentiment
of its members as expressed at the
recent Peoria convention.

No particular bill has received of-
ficial endorsement. But the gas tax
has been accepted as a fair and
equitable way of shifting at least
part of the road tax burden on those
who secure the most benefit.

President Earl C. Smith has com-
piled a great deal of useful infor-
mation on the cost of completing
the hard road system on the gas tax
issue, and on general road matters in
an effort to fairly represent the in-
terests of the membership.

A compromise measure with cer-
tain recognition to the needs of
farmers for better farm to market
roads will undoubtedly be the out-
come of the shuffle for disposition of
the proposed gas tax funds.

In the meantime, the Chicago Mo-
tor Club is fighting a gas tax. It
will secure some support downstate,
but from all appearances the agri-
cultural group in the legislature has
the balance of power and will have
the final say so on this issue.

HOW THE SENATE
VOTED ON FARM BILL

For the bill — Republicans: Cam-
eron, Capper, Curtis, Deneen, Fra-
zier, Gooding, Gould, Harreld, How-
ell, Johnson, Jones of Washington,
La Follette, McMaster, McNary,
Means, Norris, Nye, Oddie, Pine,
Robinson of Indiana, Schall, Stan-
field, Stewart and Watson — 24.
Democrats: Ashurst, Bratton, Cara-
way, Copeland, Dill, Ferris, Fletcher,
Hawes, Kendirck McKellar, May-
field, Neely, Pittman, Ransdell, Rob-
inson of Arkansas, Sheppard, Sim-
mons, Smith, Steck, Trammell, Ty-
son and Wheeler — 22. Farmer-I<a-
bor: Shipstead — 1. Total, 47.

Against the bill — Republicans:
Bingham, Borah, Couzens, Dale,
Ernst, Fess, Gillett, Goflf, Greene,
Hale, Keyes, Lenroot, McLean, Met-
calf. Pepper, Phipps, Reed of Penn-
sylvania, Sackett, Shortridge, War-
ren, Weller and Willis — 22. Demo-
crats: Bayard, Blease, Bruce, Ed-
wards, George, Gerry, Glass, Harris,
Harrison, Feflin, King, Overman,
Reed of Missouri, Stephens, Under-
wood, Walsh of Massachusetts and
Walsh of Montana — 17.

Pairs were announced as follows:
Broussard (D) for, with Moses (R.)
against; Jones of New Mexico (D)
for, with Wadsworth (R) against;
Norbeck (R.) for, with Edge (R.)
against.

McLEAN COUNTY
MILK PRODUCERS
ORGANIZE

At a recent meeting of the Mc-
Lean County Milk Producers' As-
sociation Guy Hilton was elected
President. Other officers for the
coming year are as follows: W. F.
Coolidge, vice-president; Jay J.
Wright, secretary; Homer R. John-
son, treasurer. Directors are: Con-
rad Schaefer, J. W. Smith, Wm.
Welch, Howard B. Mason and H.
W. Enns.

Officers of the Woodford County
Farm Bureau for 1927 are Joe
Jochums, president, Fred Parks,
vice-president, J. Ira Powell, secre-
tary and Jo Major, treasurer.

/. A. A. Executives
Vote to Adopt New
Organization Plan

State To Be Divided Into Eight
Districts With Man In
Charge of Each

A DEFINITE step toward a
larger state organization was
taken by the Executive Committee
of the I. A. A. at its meeting on
Mar. 10-11 when a plan providing
for the employment of eight dis-
trict managers to supervise organ-
ization work in the state was for-
mally adopted.

The plan will go into effect at
once and district managers are to
be selected as soon as convenient
to coordinate the organization work
in every county in Illinois.

Under the new arrangement
which has been under advisement
for more than a year, a force of
full-time managers will be placed
in the field under Director G. E.
Metzger, whose business it will be
to help or direct county farm bu-
reau drives, organize leadership,
and give assistance toward building
up a more effective and representa-
tive organization in counties and
communities needing assistance.

The field force will be chosen by
Mr. Metzger subject to the approval
of the officers and Executive Com-
mittee. The new managers will be
chosen entirely on their merits. All
political considerations will be
waived aside in their selection. The
force will be divorced from partici-
pation in any of the politcal aspects
of the organization ani trained in
the act of building effective mem-
bership selling groups in every com-
munity, township, and county.

The new managers will establish
residence in a conveniently lo-
cated city near the center of the
district from which they will be
within easy driving distance of the
counties. Moderate salaries, and
per diem expenses while out on the
road are provided in the new plan.

The change in policy came fol-
lowing a general recognition that
maintaining an organization with
an adequate membership to make it
effective is a year 'round job. Un-
der the new arrangement of field
forces a group of skilled and
trained men will be at work 12
months a year seeking and develop-
ing leaders and new thoughts
toward making the county farm
bureaus and the I. A. A. more rep-
resentative and effective in every
county.

C. W. Wray Is New
Field Secretary For
Illinois Holstein Ass'n

GW. WRAY of Lake county will
• take care of all calls for field
service for the Illinois Holstein-
Friesian Association in the coming
year. This announcement was made
at the last directors meeting of the
Association.

Mr. Wray has been an officer in
the state Holstein breeders associa-
tion for the past two years. He
operates a purebred Holstein herd
and a 120 acre dairy farm at the
preseht time. At the urgent request
of his executive committee he agreed
to devote part of his time to field
work in the interest of the organi-
zation.

Mr. Wray is a graduate of the
University of Illinois, class of 1916,
where he specialized in dairying.
Previous to operating his own farm
in Lake county, he managed dairy
farms in Pennsylvania and Indiana.
He will give assistance to counties
on forming Holstein calf clubs, cow
testing associations, sales, registry
and transfer information, and in
helping to locate and select breeding
stock for members.

Farmers elevator accounting will
be the subject of a talk by Geo. R.
Wicker of the Illinois Agricultural
Association during the Grain Deal-
ers' Short Course at Purdue Uni-
versity, Lafayette, Ind., on Mar. 16.

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Th* Illinois Agricultural Asaociation RECORD

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I A. A. SAVES FARMERS OF ILLINOIS $60,000 ON LIMESTONE RATES

John H. Walker
State Labor Head
Asks Farm Backing

Points To Improvement In Re-
lations Between Agricul-
ture and Labor

"Vl/'ITH THE passing of the old
' ' style institute and the forma-
tion of the present Illinois Agricul-
tural Association and the county
farm bureau system, relations be-
tween labor and agriculture have
steadily improved," declared John
H. Walker, president of the Illinois
State Federation of Labor in a re-
cent speech before a state labor con-
ference at Champaign.

"The old farmers organizations
were not representative of the ac-
tual farmers at all," said the speaker.
"The officers invariably were the
largest landowners of the county
concerned and often did not even
live on their farm lands. The farm-
ers, the ones who faced the real
problems, had little or no authority
in determining the policies of their
organizations. Worst of all they were
poisoned against labor when they
should have been working with labor
for mutual aims.

Wrong Idea

"They had the idea too that the
Federation was after wages and in-
terested only in that. Labor knew
long ago that its interests and its
prosperity were dependent upon the
interests and prosperity of agricul-
ture. But farmers' minds were so
poisoned against labor that the goal
of cooperation is not reached even
yet.

"It is indicative of a more sym-
pathetic understanding between the
two organizations that the Illinois
Agricultural Association sent two
authorized delegates to the last con-
vention of the State Federation of
Labor at Streator. That, I believe
was the first time in the history of
the Federation that agriculture was
officially represented at a Federa-
tion convention. These delegates
remained throughout the conven-
tion. They learned of the problems
and ideals of labor and presented
those of agriculture. Their pres-
ence represents a long stride in im-
proved relations between the two
organizations.

Whole-Hearled Welcome

"I attended the state convention
of the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion at Peoria a short time ago and
I venture to say that no other speak-
er was given the whole-hearted wel-
come I received. That proved con-
clusively that labor and agriculture
are well along the road to under-
standing. There are fine men at
the head of the Illinois Agricultural
Association and I have a great ad-
miration for their work and that
of the association."

EGYPTIAN SEED
GROWERS SELL
MUCH RED TOP

Eighteen carloads of cleaned red
top seed and five carloads of un-
cleaned seed were handled by the
Egyptian Seed Growers Exchange
in 1926 according to Curt Anderson,
manager. The first nine and one-
half cars brought approximately
25 He per pound gross and five cars
more averaged betw«en 22 and
23 hi cents. These prices were real-
ized when independent buyers were
offering farmers around 16% and
17 cents per pound.

The Seed Growers Exchange owns
its own building and equipment with
a capital investment of approximate-
ly $20,000. It has close to 800
members.

Recetit Ruling Of Commerce

Commission Upholds Association

Quarry RepresentatiTes Appear in Support of
For Farmers on Fertilisrr

Lew Rat*

No Money Allowed For Expenses On

European Tour, I. A. A. Committee Decides

Party Proposes to Leave New York, July 30, for Isle of Jersey,
Germany, Denmark, and Other Points on S. S. Aurania

NO farm bureau money will be
spent to send any delegates or
officials to Europe on the proposed
1927 American Farm Bureau Feder-
ation Pilgrimage, according to a de-
cision of the Executive Committee of
the I. A. A. at a recent meeting.
This announcement is made follow-
ing reports from downstate to the
effect that officers and delegates
from the I. A. A. and the American
Farm Bureau would make the trip
at the expense of the membership.

The American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration arranged the tour "to pro-
vide a uiiique and unusual oppor-
tunity to farm people desiring to
visit Europe ; to make the trip in the
company of congenial companions
and under favorable circumstances."
According to the A. F. B. F. the tour
was arranged to meet what it con-
siders is a general demand for such
a pilgrimage. It states that the U.
S. Department of Agriculture has
received many requests from farm
people asking what particular points
of agricultural interest could be
viewed.

other motor trip up the east coast of
Denmark. At Frederikssund the 51
cooperative slaughter houses will be
visited. On the return trip to Copen-
hagen the seed exchange and cathed-
ral at Roskilde will be seen.

The party will continue from here
on in to Germany to Berlin, Pots-
dam, and Frankfort. The steamer
trip down the Rhine from the docks
at Mainz to Cologne is said to be one
of the most picturesque in the world.

Four days will be spent in Hol-
land. A part of this time will be de-
voted to things of scenic and his-
toric interest and the remainder to
Agricultural methods.

The week in Paris will be devoted
to sight-seeing. Trips will be made
to the great art galleries, cathedrals,
parks, to the American battle fields
of Chateau Thierry and Rheims, and
a day will be spent at Malmaison,
the home of Napoleon and the Pal-
ace at Versailles where the peace
treaty was signed.

The schedule provides for two
weeks in England. One will be spent
in London and vicinity. On the jour-

A SAVING of 30 cenU •:
toh 'net on one-third of
all a^cultural limestone ,
used in Illinois will be real-
ized by farmers as a result of
the recent decision of the Illi-
nois Cotrmerce Commission in
upholding the application of
the combination rule on ship-
ments of limestone. This will
amount to approximately $60,000
annually it is estimated if th^ 1926
figures ak% used in the calculation.

Following a recent appeal by the
railroads asking that the combina-
tion rule be cancelled, the I. A. A.
through its transportation depart -
"ment, protested showing the impor-
tance of preser\-inK a low rate on
limeston* to help farmers maintain
and improve soil fertility. Repre-
sentatives of all the larger lime-
stone companies appeared before

( UM

'"5

the r<.miiii««H>n at the rail nf tkel
A. A. in aiippori if it« •<

In makinr its derisioa m Uim rm>-
trovemy. the Cnmrntmimm tmM. "No
effnrl ha» heeti marf* tn jwtify
the inrrraaed rate* reashiac tmm
the pm|ft«»*rd raiu-eltalmfi nf
Kelly rombinatiofi mle
■urh lime mr jnint throach
are ptibli«he4 I" ap^y on all
fir. or until mmrh tnae as the rar4
Tiers present eTuienr^ t« sho* thai
the resulting throuch rhat(es arsi
just and reasonable, wr emM-ta^M
and find that the Kelly r'ombtnattaJ
Rule rhould rontmu' m e<fert ~

Durinr l»3*. III. now farmers
most of whom ••■rr farm h«r«*a
memb>-r> boactit ap^maisMMr
650.0<M),n4Mt tons of aaiwhw I
limestone for soil iwpr»»ysmeiit ^r-
poses. At least 200.mvA.MM tons,
based on last year'i bu«inn«. will
be efferted by the Mew ralmc m^
as to seeure the atKantaces "f g
mu<^ Wiwer rate on «hniaii aU
tra%'rllinc over more than one Itae.

Producers In First
Place at Chicago and
St. Louis Stock Yards

Chicago Association Breaks
AH Records With 13.37 Per
Cent of U. S. Yards Receipts

Krooborc — The Csstle of the Legend of Hamlet at Helsincor
(Shakespeare's "Elsimore")

The proposed voyage and tour is
expected to start from New York on
the S. S. "Aurania" on July 30.

The first stop will be made at the
Island of Jersey where a day will be
spent visiting the herds and breed-
ing establishments for which the is-
land is famous. The boat will land
at Helgoland, the famous German
North Sea fortress the next day.
From there the party will continue
to Cuxhaven and Hamburg, by train,
and thence across the famous Kiel
Canal to visit the Agricultural Ex-
periment station at Askov and the
Royal Agricultural School at Brorup.

A motori trip will be provided
through the most fertile sections of
Denmark near Odense, followed by a
train ride to Copenhagen and an-

ney to Scotland, stops will be made
to see the Shakespeare country, the
Liverpool Cotton Exchange and the
famous Manchester Ship Canal.
Headquarters in Scotland will be set
up at Edinburg. The main tour will
end here and the first sailings home
will be scheduled from Glasgow to
Montreal or from Liverpool to New
York.

In all seven countries and their
Capitols and 43 cities and towns will
be visited. Sixty-seven thousand
miles will be traveled by steamer,
2500 by train, and 550 by car.

Reservations may be secured by
an advance deposit of $60 to the
American Farm Bureau Federation.
The balance of J925 will be due four
weeks before sailing.

THE CHICAGO and East St
Louis Producers Commission A"
sociationk have consistently led all
other hoikses in these two terminaU
in recent weeks. Producers at the
National; Stock Yards has led that
market since its organization but
its business reached 22.6 per cent of
the total receipts the week ending
February 25. The following week
231 cars representing 19.2 per cent
of total receipts were received.

Likewise the Chicago Producers
crept up during February to first
place whtr* it has remained consist-
ently since then. The high point
was reached on Feb. 3 when 1 1 6
cars representing 11.8 per cent of
the entire Chicago receipts went into
the Producers alleys. This record
stood only one day, for on Fri-
day, the day following, 73 can rep-
resenting 13.37 per cent of the
total receipts came in. The best
week's business was 396 cars re-
ceived tke first week in Februar>'
which w«s 144 cars more than wen-
handled by any other firm.

Gross sales of the Chicago Prf>-
ducers aggregated $26,738,100.91 in
1926, for the toUl of 13.006 car-
loads of livestock received. Receipts
comprisetl 6.2 per cent of all live-
stock shipped to the Union Stock-
yards. The largest receipts were in
hogs whith averaged eight per rent
of all reieipts. Gross purchases of
feeder Oattle, calves, and lambs.
amounte4 to $1,282,513.46. This
business increased 25 per cent for
cattle and calves and 35 per cent
for sheeik during the past year.

The Cast St. Louis Producers
gained 1E28 cars in 1926 over the
1925 record. The toUl cars received
for the year aggregated 13,699 com-
pared with 12,371 for 1926. Re-
ceipts in 1926 were 17.6 per cent of
the saleable stock sold on this mar-
ket. Net earnings were $70,268.96,
estimated savings made from reduc-
ing commissions $58,510.13. or a
total of $128,769.08. Illinois led all
states with 4,775 cars.

The Adanu county, Illinois, Ship-
ping Association led all county as-
sociations with 728 cars on which it
received a patronage refund of $2,-
069.09. The Columbia Coop«rati%e

'1000 Bu. Seed Com

Bought For Flooded I
Out Valley Famwrt

One thousand husbels of hich teat

seed com was brought for distn-

bution to Somi suffsreri m tka

rnnnt'ies uiinim-

amg the lllmois
valley flood area
arrording t<i
Robl A f-owles
of the llliaow
Agriraltaral A*.
Boriation arbo ■■
a s • I • t I n g the
farm bareaua nt
Menard. rult»n.
Mason. SrhurWr.
Morgan. .S r n 1 1.
R r n » n. Ca s a,
* A. CewUs pik,. aad Cr
I roaaties la i

ing the needs »f their people.

This art ion followed a

of the farm advisers and Mr Cowles

i at Jarksonrille »n Feb 24 I>ib-

I tnbution of the seed will be ■ta4e

according to needs and the faads

available for this purpose Tke

I committee in rharye will make aa

effort to M-e that every worthy raa-

didate for aid is supplml witK

com.

It IS pointed out that thou
of acres if flooded lands will M
unfit for rermpping thi« apni^,
while i>thprs are still eubawigtd,
unreclaimed fram the fUod* j

Mr Cowles experts In aube ad
I xtended trip tkrouch \hr fln<i4
ureas within the next two «<^ks a*-
sisting in apportioning aid where
moiit needed and expending funH«
for seed com where it will 4» |Im
most good. I

Applications for aid made t* Ikt
county farm bureaus will be meestt*
gated and help given wh^re needed.

Shipping Association ..f < olumbia,
Mo., led all individual a*«nriatx>n«
in the number of cars shipped to the
St. Louis Producers with .la* ran
on which thr refund aiii'>unled ta
$792.24

The .St Louis Producers have
commissii>n rates approximately 2*
per cent lower than other Anas md
that market. I

Farm taxes Ube more than half
the rents of farms in the losr»t pen-
nsula of Michigan, the State rnllege
announced following it« survey of
1133 farms. Taxes avrr^re &3 per
rent of the net rents to farm owa*
•rs betwcMi 19l»-».

A J:

P>g«8

The Illinois Ajrricultural Association Record

I

March, 1927

Veto Leaves Farater In Hole

Confressman Cha». Brand

M'T'IiE President's veto leaves the
A firmer in the hole — the hole of
uneqnal legislative treatment," de-
clared Congressman Chas. Brand of
Ohio following President CoUidge's
veto J)f the McNary-Haugen bill.

"Industries have their tariff; rail-
roada have their transportation act;
bank^ have their federal reserve
act; labor has its immigration law
and the eight hour day law and
those laws work to lift those groups
above world conditions, but the
farmer, for the most part, is com-
peting with the world and trying to
buy from those groups whose prices
have artificially been raised by legis-
lation. We have worked hard for

four
bring

years writing a measure to
about equality and we have
answered every argument that has
been offered by the President in a
way so satisfactory that a majority
of the members of Congress have
been convinced and converted to
approjval of the bill

' Weakness and Strength

Th* McNary-Haugen Bill will
raise the prices of farm products,
and that is its weakness and its
strength.

If We could present a bill which
would secure equality for agricul-
ture, |and at the same time guaran-
tee njo advance in food prices all
the objections would be waived and
ever™ody, including the President,
would be favorable to the bill.

I tnink farm prices can be raised
to tht extent of the tariff without
advancing the price of food but I
cannot prove that until the bill is
in operation but if food prices were
raised, it would be absolutely fair
because the prices of other things
have already been artificially raised
by legislation. The battle of the
fanner to save himself from this
uneqi^al situation will be intensified
by thte veto and all those who be-
lieve Jin equality of treatment will
join ihe fanners, and all those di-
rects or indirectly affected by farm
conditions.

Although only six basic commodi-
ties ai'e considered in the beginning
yet a)l agricultural products would
have been affected by the operation
of th« bill because the products of
agriculture are largely interchange-
able and substitutes for each other.
The six basic 'commodities, men-
tioned in the bill, are the ones suf-
fering most from surplus conditions
and are the ones most needing the
operation of the measure. Others
may ije added by Congress upon the
request of the Agricultural Board.

The veto is a sectional decision
becauBe the vote shows that only the
northjoastem section of the country
is to lany great extent opposed.

Marshall-Putnam
First, Hancock Second
In Publicity Contest

The Marshall-Putnam County
Farm Bureau won first and Hancock
second in the publicity contest for
the Sam Thompson . trophy which
closed Feb. 15. Eight counties were
entered liteluding the two men-
tioned aboye, Henry, Vermillion,
Peoria, Pulaski, Montgomery, and
Madison.

The purpose of the contest was to
determine which county farm bureau
in Illinois is offering the most
varied and • effective publicity and
news service. The volume and qual-
ity of clippings from newspapers,
the official farm bureau paper, pub-
licity stunts, number of speeches and
radio talks made, state-wide pub-
licity secured through farm papers,
as well as other factors were taken
into consideration.

The Marshall-Putnam Bureau
sends a release with five to ten stor-
ies every Saturday to all the news-
papers in the county. In addition it
publishes a good monthly paper full
of short, concise, interesting news
about the bureau and its members.
Moving pictures of farm activities
are taken by F. E. Fuller, the ad-
viser and shown at community
meetings. Numerous speeches and
radio talks are made advertising the
organization.

Hancock county, J. H. Lloyd ad-
viser, placed second, while Henry
and Vermillion were honorably men-
tioned for their creditable exhibits
and thoroughness in advertising the
farm bureau. All the counties en-
tered in the contest are above the
average over the state in publicity
service.

The judging committee follows:
Sam H. Thompson, president Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation, C. V.
Gregory, editor Prairie Farmer,
Fred L. Petty, associate editor, Or-
ange Judd Illinois Farmer, W. W.
Loomis, editor Citizen, La Grange,
who acted for H. L. WiHiamson, sec-
retary Illinois Press Association, F.
L. Keilholz, director of publicity,
Illinois College of Agriculture, L. R.
Marchant, farm adviser, Knox
County, and E. G. Thiem, director of
information, Illinois Agricultural
Association.

Ninjeteen more counties in 11
states were recently added to the
modinerf T. B. accredited area for
having less than one-half of one per
cent infection in livestock. Crawford
count* was the only new addition to
the toberculosis (ree list in Illinois.

COUNTY FARM
BUREAUS CON-
TRACT 1927 SERUM

Signed contracts for serum and
virus from practically every county
engaged in hog cholera control work
were received by the Livestock
Marketing Department by Mar. 1.
Eight companies including the
American Serum Co., at Denver and
Sioux City, the Anchor Serum Co.,
St. Joseph, Mo., the Browner Serum
Co., Converse, Mo., the Denver Hog
Serum Co., Denver, the Fidelity La-
boratorie.", Chicago, the St. Joseph
Veterinary Lab., St. Joseph, Mo.,
and the Swine Breeders Co. at
Thorn town, Ind., bid on the county
farm bureau business this year.
Quotations varied from 57 H cents
per 100 c.c. to 85 cents depending
upon the terms of the order and the
grade of serum purchased. The bulk
of the business was placed at prices
ranging less than 75 cents net per
100 c. .c to the farm bureau.

ILLINOIS FARM SUP-
PLY CO. FORMED

Th Illinois Farm Supply Co., Co-
operative, was organized at a meet-
ing of stockholders, and representa-
tives of the local and county co-oper-
ative oil companies in Chicago last
week to do a centralized purchasing
service in petroleum products.

The compaay has applied for its
charter unde'r'the cooperative act of
1923, with authorized capital stock
of $250,000. There are 10 farmer-
owned cooperative oil companies
operating at the present time. Seven
more are in the process of organiza-
tion. The 17 companies will do an
estimated business of $1,500,000 to
$2,000,000 annually. ,

Ohio Farmers Profit Last Year by

Selling Eggs Cooperatively in Po6l

Members Secure $12.46 Profit Each Over Local Buying
Prices, Year's Records Show

BY FRANK A. GOUGLER.

A RECENT study of the 1926 re-
turns made by the Ohio Poultry
and Egg Market-
ing Association,
reveals that the
average profit per
member for the ,
year was $12.46 V^
net over what he '■

would have re-
ceived from local ^'
buyers. ^^Kt
The following ^^^Bf
table shows the ^^^B
volume shipped, f„^ ^ g.„,,„
and the loss or

gain per dozen over prices offered
by local buyers by two-week pe-
riods.

Profit or loss

Semi-monthly in cents

pools Dosens /or each pool

Jan. 1-15 80,000 — 5

Jan. 16-31 86,000 plus 3

Feb. 1-15 45.000 — 2

Feb. 16-28 60.000 —1

Mar. 1-15 67,560 plus 1

Mar. 16-31 60,000 plus 1

Apr. 1-16 77.618 0

Apr. 16-30 92.000 plus 1

May 1-16 94.883 — 1

May 16-31 84.929 —2

June 1-15 86,901 plus 1

June 16-30 70,000 plus 1

July 1-16 66,924 plus 1

July 16-81 66,788 plus 1

Aug. 1-15 64.960 plus 7

Aue. 16-31 60.000 plus 6

Sept. 1-15 46,000 plus 4

Sept. 16-30 30,000 plus 2

Oct. 1-16 26,000 plus 8

Oct. 16-31 20.000 plus 7

Nov. 1-16 16.000 plus 6

Nov. 16-80 18,000 0

Dec. 1-16 21,638 — 7

D«. 16-31 28,164 —4

ToUl 1.226.360

The million and a quarter of doz-
ens handled during 1926 represents
40,845 cases or 102 carloads. Note
the heavy volume handled during
the months of March, April, May
and June. The profit and loss col-
umn represents the difference in the
weighted average price received for
eggs through the Association and

The Ohio Association has been
able to handle this large volume of
eggs at a total cost not to exceed
six cents per dozen. This includes
all expenses from the time the eggs
leave the farm until they are sold.
The division of expenses is as fol-
lows:

Handling at re-
ceiving station . ^4 cents per doz.

Trucking to dis-
trict plant 14 cents per doz.

Supplies, cases,

fillers, etc 2 cents per doz.

Office, manage-
ment, grading "
etc m cents per doz.

Freight to New

York 2 cents per doz.

Total 6 cents per doz.

Referring again to the table of
egg pools it should be noted that the
association had a distinct advantage
over local prices during the fall
months June to November inclusive.
This is the period of gradually ad-
vancing prices on our terminal mar-
kets for fresh eggs. The remainder
of the year prices usually work
down from the high peak and there
are times when fresh eggs are so
scarce at country points that the lo-
cal price may be higher than they
are at the terminal markets.

The results accomplished during
the past year in Ohio show clearly
that the member cannot depend
upon individual pools as a guide in
determining whether the association
is getting a better price than if the
eggs were marketed independently.

The following table shows the
average monthly net price received
by each member and the average
monthly per cent of each Of the
four grades of eggs packed by the
association : —

Re-elected President

Ceo. F. Tullock

IPrices net to Members and the Per Cent of Each Grade by Months for the Year I92S.

Net to Members — cents Per cent of each Grade

Hens Stand- Checks ft Hen- Stand- CheckB A

neries ards Trades Cracks neries ards Trades Cracks

Jan 84 80 29 25 68 22 19 .5

Feb 27 26 22 20 64 21 14 .5

Msr 24 23 21 20 69 2S II .6

Apr 26 26 22 20 64 26 11 .4

May _..27 26 23 20 64 81 13 .8

June 28 26 23 22 44 ' 41 16 .8

July 81 26 28 22 87 42 14 .6

Auk >6 SO 25 24 48 44 10 1.6

Sept 40 86 28 30 42 48 18 1.4

Oct 66 60 46 36 46 36 17 1.3

Nov j60 61 39 88 38 26 40 1.2

Dec 48 41 89 <9 42 26 SO 1.8

Av 36 33 29 26 48 82 16 .8

the average buying country Ohio
price for the same two weeks. The
buying prices were taken from the
Producer Packer, a weekly. In re-
lation to local prices it is clear that
the fall months, August to Novem-
ber inclusive, are the most favor-
able. The twenty-four pools show
that fifteen were sold at an advan-
tage to members, seven at a loss and
two were even.

One Cent In Reserve

The net amount received by the
members of this association during
1926 over local prices, amounted to
$10,180. In addition to this, one
cent per dozen was set aside for re-
serve. This amounts to $12,253
which belongs to the members.

Adding this to the $10,180 makes
a net total gain of $22,443. Divid-
ing this sum by the total member-
ship of 1800 gives a net gain to each
member of $12.46. This figure is
conservative because the member-
ship is somewhere between 1700 and
1800. It should also be stated that
this report takes into consideration
only the egg business of the associa-
tion, while live poultry also was
marketed for the members. The
purpose of the reserve fund is to
equip the plant for fattening, kill-
ing, packing, and storing dressed
poultry.

Best Eggs Get Premium

In reviewing the above table it
should be understood that these
average prices were net to members
after all expenses of the association
were paid and one cent per dozen
set aside as a reserve. Note also
that as an average for the year, the
best eggs were worth 10 cents per
dozen more than the poorest, and
that only 48 per cent of all eggs
handled made the top grade.

The Ohio association has been
operating only 18 months but the
members have already learned that
extra care given to eggs as they are
handled on the farms means a.
greater return. During October,
1925, only 32 per cent of all eggs
graded as henneries, while for the
same month. 1926, there were 42
per cent in this top grade.

Illinois now sells 75,000,000 doz-
ens of eggs annually. Assuming
that Illinois grades will average as
indicated for the Ohio association:
that through special care half of the
second grade could be brought into
the first grade; knowing that 16 per
cent of seventy millions of eggs is
twelve million and that henneries
brought three cents more than stan-
dards; it follows that an additional
income of $360,000 would be real-
ized. Likewise, if half of the grade
called trades, could be brought into

George F. Tullock, I. A. A. Com-
mitteeman from the 12th district was
reelected presi-
dent of the Win-
nebago County
Farm Bureau at
its annual meet-
ing on Saturday,
Feb. 26.

L. A. Frisbie
was elected vice-
president, and J.
M. Rankin, sec-
retary- treasurer.
Six hundred and
twenty-five at-
tended the meet-
ing. Earl C. Smith, president of
the I. A. A. was the speaker of the
day.

Pure Milk Asso'n

Gets Quick Action
On TB Retest Demand

\ HURRY-UP appeal for aid in
-'*■ bringing T B retest work up
to date in the Chicago dairy district
brought an immediate response
when Pure Milk Association officials
wired the state department of agri-
culture following Health Commis-
sioner Bundesen's recent order bar-
ring milk from herds which had not
been retested within the past six
months.

The order found thousands of
heWs under federal and state super-
vision unable to meet the require-
ments since retest work had not
been kept up to date.

Director Stanard immediately
surveyed the field and detailed state
and county veterinarians from cen-
tral and southern Illinois counties
to the northern part of the state
to help retest herds affected by the
order.

Pure Milk Association officials at
the same time appealed to Dr. Bun-
desen and secured an extension of
time to Feb. 25 for the enforce-
ment of the order. The date for
enforcement later was deferred to
March 11 while extra veterinarians
got under way to prevent the loss
of the Chicago market for the
dairymen in the adjoining territory.

W. C. McQueen, president of the
Kane County Farm Bureau, is presi-
dent of the Pure Milk Association,
and H. C. Vial, newly elected I. A.
A. Executive Committeeman, is sec-
retary.

Hedgcock On National

Wool Market Committee

A movement to coordinate the
work of the present wool market-
ing associations and centralize sales
in a smaller number of agencies was
launched Feb. 12 in Washington,
D. C, when a national committee
was appointed to this end.

The smaller associations and
pools like those in Illinois, Iowa,
and other Mid-West states will be
aided in securing the advantages of
the more powerful organizations
like those in Ohio, Idaho, Califor-
nia, and in other western states.

J. F. Wilson of California is
chairman and W. E. Hedgcock will
represent Illinois wool growers on
the committee to work out the plan.
Announcement of the new plan will
be made at the annual convention
of the American Institute of Co-
operation to be held at Northwest-
ern University, June 20 to July 15,
1927.

the next higher grade, the result
would be that six million eggs would
bring four cents more, per dozen, or
$240,000 more. This added to the
$360,000 amounts to $600,000. Illi-
nois producers, therefore, if given
an opportunity to sell their eggs on
a grraded basis, could increase their
income materially through the im-
provement of the quality of their
product.

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Issued Every Month for 63,000 Thinking Farmers— April, 1927

No. 4

equauzahon makes headway as counties announce tax curs

/. A. A. ANNUAL PICNIC GOES TO MOOSEHEART

Thursday, Aug. 11,
Date Decided Upon.
Macomb Also Bids

Entire Progrram Will Be
Broadcast Over Station
WJJD. Site For Picnic Is
1023 Acre Plot

THE annual picnic of the
Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation will be held at Moose-
heart, famous foundation of
the Loyal Order of Moose,
located just north of Aurora
on the Lincoln Highway in
Kane County, on Thursday,
August 11.

The only other contender

for the annual event was Macomb.
By a nine to seven vote, the Execu-
tive Committee in their monthly
meeting on April 8 decided in
favor of the former.

The site for the picnic is the 1023
acres of ground adjoining the Fox
River, owned by the Loyal Order of
Moose. Included in the grounds at
Mooseheart is a park of approxi-
mately 200 acres, a grove of 150 A.,
a lake of approximately 60 acres,
two baseball diamonds, playgrounds,
a large track, and other accommoda-
tions.

Mooseheart is approximately 38
miles west of Chicago on the Lin-
coln Highway between Aurora and
Elgin. Nine main paved roads con-
nect this site with all parts of Illi-
nois.

The entire picnic program, in-
cluding speeches, results of the
State Farm Bureau championship
baseball game, the hog and chicken
calling contests will be broadcast
by radio station WJJD, owned by
the Moose organization.

The invitation to hold the picnic
at Mooseheart was extended by
representatives of the Aurora and
Elgin Chambers of Commerce, the
Kane, DuPag^, Will, Kendall, and
DeKalb county farm bureaus, and
the Mooseheart foundation.

The original invitation to hold
the 1927 picnic at the place chosen
was received by telegraph from Sec-
retary of Labor, Jas. J. Davis, chief
of the Moose organization, directly
after the annual picnic last year.

President O. L. Welsh and M. L.
Hunt of the McDonough County
Farm Bureau presented the invita-
tion of Macomb.

WABASH CO. FORMS NEW
SHIPPING ASSOCIATION

A county livestock shipping as-
sociation was recently organized in
Wabash county with the aid of the
Illinois Agricultural Association,
livestock markrting department.
John Deputy, former president of
the* farm bureau was chosen as first
manager. Non-farm bureau mem-
bers will be given service at a
slightly higher cost than members.
Sixteen new members came into the
farm bureau during the past month.

HELPING TO EQUALIZE THE LOAD

Legislature Swings
Into Action After
Elections Clear Way

Home Rule, Reapportionment,
T. B. Eradication, and Tax
Proposals Are Important
Issues

THE Illinois legislature got
under way again early
this week following its ad-
journment to enable members
to go back home and cam-
paign in the local elections.
From now until final adjourn-
ment, the legislators are ex-
pected to get down to busi-
ness and move the pending
bills along rapidly.

The much discussed corn borer
bill, carrying the I. A. A. amend-
ment, was booked for the signature
of the governor at an early date.
The bill as originally introduced
provided $1.50 per acre as the
maximum amount any farmer
would be required to expend for
extra work required in clean-up
territory. "At the request of the
Illinois Agricultural Association,
this amount was reduced to $1 per
acre by amendment to the Senate
bill," writes A. C. Everingham, leg-
islative representative.

How It Work.

Under its operation, if clean-up
work should be ordered by the state
or federal authorities, the federal
government would expend up to $2
per acre or whatever is permitted
with funds available. If the cost
of clean-up exceeded this allow-
ance, the farmer would stand up to

tl per acre more, but all above this
sum would be borne out of state
funds.

Another bill of considerable in-
terest is H. B. 106, introduced by
Representative Petri. This bill
amends the game law by making it
unlawful for any person to hunt on
the premises of another without
first securing permission. The law
as it now stands makes it lawful to
hunt on the premises of another
unless those premises are posted or
advertised. This bill will, without
doubt, meet with the general ap-
proval of farmers who are interest-
ed in the protection of game, and
also the protection of their crops
and livestock from injury by the
careless hunter.

After Chicken Thieres

Three bills were reported out of
the House Committee on Agricul-
ture on Wednesday preceding the
local elections. All of them re-
ceived the unanimous approval of
the Committee with the recommen-
dation that they do pass.

House Bill No. 325 introduced by
Mr. Whiteley, provides that any
person, firm or corporation engaged
in dealing in live poultry shall ob-
tain a license from the Department
of Agriculture. The bill provides
further that all trucks used by such
person, firm or corporation shall
also obtain license. Under the bill,
all such poultry dealers are re-
quired to keep a record which shall
show the date of all transactions,
the number, the weight and de-
scriptions of fowls purchased, and
the name, address and brief de-
scription of the seller and the type
of conveyance; if auto, they are re-
quired to record the license num-
ber.

Tax Work Of Farm Bureaus And '

/. A. A. Bears Fruit As Valuations
I On Farm Property Are Sltuhed

Knox, Vermilion, Champaign, Winnebafo, Crawford, and
Many Others Secure Cuts in Assessments for Coming
Quadrennium. | ,

RECENT reductions in farm valuations for taxation pur-
poses in many counties over the state, ranjring from 10 to
25 per cent or more, are regarded as the cul-
mination of efforts put forth by the Illinois
Agricultural Association and the county farm
bureaus beginning nearly -■'even years ago to
equalize valuations between farm and city
property.

The reductions in valuation in nearly every
case came following careful checkups by farm
bureau tax committees in the various coun-
ties. . Returning from a swing through ap-
proximately 50 to 60 Illinois counties in be-
half of securing equalization of farm and City

assessments for the romini: four

Bond County Man

Automobile Policy

years. John C. Watwtn. director of
_, _,. -, ^ .. I taxation stated that the county fsrrr

GefsrirSfi4ufo/;OIICy I bureaus win resist evrr> effort nwH.

to place farm pmiifrly valuat^n*
higher than city valuatian>. j j

10 Per Ceal iMmrnr

"Selling values of farm land^
have decreased at least 10 i»r cenr
during the past year in certain imt
I tions of Illinois, (wrtirularly in lh<'
I grain belt," he said. "The liveTlt«k
producing sections on th*- other haind
seem to be holding better in «rllini;
' values.

I "If equalization by reduction of

I farm land valuations should brini;

total valuations to the point wfcen

i maximum tax rates will not prndun-

' sufficient revenue." said Watson.

I "the boards of review will have the

opportunity to change valuations tvi

as to secure adequate revenue. But

on the other hand, if eqaalizatinn at

the average level of the state will

not produce sufficient funds, it i»

time for the people of both city and

rural communities to ask that theii

valuations be not raised higher, hut

that the people vote a higher rount>

or school tax rate. This will oh\-iatr

their paying more than their just

share of state taxes.

"My investigations in the major-
ity of Illinois counties reveal that
average full valuations of city prop
erty are less than 40 (ler cent of
their actual selling >-alues, «'hjle av-
erage full valuations of farm prop
erty are approximately 45 per cent
of actual selling values," said Mr.
Watson.

25 Per Ceal C«l ia Km* |

Gross inequality oi> farm and city
valuations which have existed in
Knox county for years, were ad
justed when the assessors met on
April 1 and voted to reduce farm
valuations ^5 per cent.

The tax committee composed of
George Charles, Robert Gibbs, and
T. J. Sullivan, appeared before the
assessors and presented fig-^re^ •—^-
piled under the direction of Mr.
Watson. A motion to reduce farm
lands 25 j>er cent received the ap-
proval of all but two assessors who
represented city interests.

The investigations showed, ac-
cording to Farm Adviser L. R. Mai-
chant that farm lands had decreased

(Continued on col.' 3, page 3.)

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Notice of Ab7

JOSIAH J. BAITS of Smithboro
in Bond county bus the distinc-
tion of receiving the first policy is-
sued in the new Illinois Agricultural
Mutual Insurance Company. Mr.
Bait's policy, number 1, reproduced
herewith, was sent to him on
Wednesday, March 30. It provides
for full coverage on his Ford tour-
ing car.

This bill was introduced at the
instance of the Anti-Horse Thief
Association and the Prairie Farm-
er Protective Union, and has had
the support of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association. The purpose of
the Act is to secure protection of

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

(By Congressional Districts)

1st to 11th H. C Vtal, Downers Gro»e

12th G. F. TuUock, Rockford

13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron

15th A. M. Skinner, Yates City

16th ■. A. R. Wright , Varna

17th .....Geo. J. StoU, Chestnut

18th R. F. Karr. Iroquois

19th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th Charles Borgelt. Havana

21st Samuel SorrelJs, Raymond

22nd Frank Oexncr. Waterloo

ZJrd W. L. Cope, Salem

24th Charles Marshall. Bellcnap

2Sth Fred Dieti, De Sota

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OFFICERS ,

President, Earl C. &aiith Detroit

Vice-President, Frank D. Barton Cornell

Treasurer. R. A. Cowle* Blootninston

Secretary, Geo. A. Fox Sycamore

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To advance the purpose for which the farm bureau was orgart'
ixed, rutmely to promote, protect and represent the business,
economic, social and educational interests of the farmers of
Illinois and the nation, and to develope agriculture.

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Business Service V. Vaniman

Co-operating Accounting Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

Farm Supply J. R. Bent

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General 0£Fice J. H. Kelker

Information E. G. Thiam

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing ^.^ Wm. E. Hedgoock

Organization T. G. E. Metzger

Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C WatsCHi

Transportation L. J. Quasey

Published once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave.. Mount Morris, niinois, by the Illinois Agricultural Association Edited by Department of Information, E. G. Thiem. Director, 608 South Dearborn Street.
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i Government Price Fixing

TI:E current issue of Dun's Review has the fol-
1< iwing to say on recent trends in the steel indus-
try: "That competition for business is keen in
some lines is shown by is^'-t^M price concessions,
yet the price situat'"., biiiadl.v \ i. \ is firmer than
was the . ' i i"- r ■ year. Meanwhile basis
pijr '! ■'^-;..V| >y turi.-ce, has been advanced 50 cents
a 1 , • Ion maxes a rise of $1 a ton in that grade
.<!u. >j the middle of March."

As a matter of fact the price of pig iron jumped
.50 c(nts a ton within a few days after President
Coolidge raised the tariff 50 per cent on this corn-
modi y. Simultaneously, common stock of the Steel
Corporation began a steady rise. On April 1, Chi-
cago newspapers heralded this fact in headlines as
folios rs: ("STEEL COMMON LEADS STOCKS
TO K IGHER LEVELS") "The United States Steel,
common's impressive strength was the feature of
the stock market today. Rising to a new record
of 16 71/2 and ending the day at 167 for a net gain
of 21/8 points, its leadership enabled the market to
give a good account of itself. The consistent
strength of this stock doubtless in anticipation of
the annual meeting on April 17 has brought strong
repoits of the possibility of an extra dividend on
the o d steel shares before stockholders are called to
vote on the 40 per cent stock dividend."

Now pig iron has advanced another 50 cents. It
must be comforting for officials of the U. S. Steel
Corporation to know that they can go down to
Washington whenever they choose and secure the
aid of a benevolent (to industry) administration in
fixinj; prices so they can make a profit. The steel
price situation n;ay be "firmer than earlier in the
year, ' Mr. President, but the agricultural index is
still at 80.

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IN a speech recently delivered before a group of
farmers and townspeople at Sidell, 111., Presi-
dent T. C. Powell of the C. and E. I. R. R. told the
farmers that the only way to solve their problem
is to do as the railroads have done.

"There is a close analogy between the problem of
the farn^er and the problem of the railroad," said
the speaker, "because both are dependent upon vari-
ous and fluctuating demands, and upon uncontroll-
able competition, and upon the weather.

"But the railroads attack the problems at the
source, because being forced to deliver a certain
produce, namely transportation, at a price fixed by
public authorities, and therefore beyond their con-
trol, the railroads must start with this factor of
delivered price and work back to the origin of all
products: namely, the human factor, represented
by labor and intelligent administration.

"The application of this principle to farming and
the adoiition of intensified cultural methods, di-
rected toward the production of diversified items in
marketable quantities, is, in my opinion, the only
way to solve the farm problem."

We presume all this means that the farmer isn't
efficient; that if he could make two blades of grass
grow where one grew before he would be prosper-
ous. As an analyst of the farm problem, Mr. Pow-
ell (or his speech writer) is a good railroad man.
The analogy between the farmer and railroads
doesn't hold good because the railroads have a guar-
antee of prices for their product, transportation,
from the Interstate Commerce Commission. They
are furtlier protected to a large extent from cut-
throat competition by the same body. The Com-
mission ixes freight and passenger rates to enable
the railroads to earn 5% per cent interest on their
investments. It is true that not all of the carriers
do this ^ve\\. Some do better.

Finishing The Job

LLjINOIS has been engaged in a great war to

drive tuberculosis, the most dreaded plague of

man and beast, out of the state. It has prob-

spent upwards of $10,000,000 of both state

:ederal funds in the last eight or ten years to

plish this end for livestock alone. The cost

farmer and herd owner whose cattle were

slaugjhtered aggregates many times this amount

from what he received in indemnities.

battle is not won yet although more than half

ctttle are tested. Since July 1, 1925, alone, the

has paid $980,511.78 of its own claims and

575.37 of federal claims. Expenses of admin-

istrallion during that time amounted to $133,828.05.

claims and expenses paid and pending on

1, 1927, aggregated $1,462,790.20 leaving a

' )alance of the $2,000,000 biennium appropria-

$573,209.80.

well that the state is committed to the task
finishing this most important work. It would
xpedited to the advantage of all if the needed
ind money were budgeted, the necessary ap-
propriations made, and all efforts centered on finish-
ing the job in a definite period of time. It can be
done.

Mr. PoweH tells us that farmers must do as the
railroads have done to solve their problem. If they
followed his advice, farmers would demand that
Congress fix minimum prices'on farm products, and
limit competition so they could earn a fair rate of
interest on their investment. The realization of
such benevolence, even were it possible, is far be-
yond the expectation of the most sanguine of us.

We Succeed By Trying

THE numerous reductions in farm land valua-
tions for tax purposes over Illinois is a further
tribute to the value of organization. In nearly
every case^ these reductions come following the ap-
pearance of farm bureau tax committees before the
county assessors and boards of review with facts
and figures showing that farm lands were discrim-
inated against. The very fact that prior to 1920
there was a marked discrepancy in most of the
counties over the state between urban and rural
valuations, to the disadvantage of the latter, is
proof enough of the farmers' need for represprifq-
tion. Before the farm bureaus and the I. .A
were organized no agency was doing this woin. for
him. He wasn't around when the taxes were levied.
Occasionally a farmer got on the county board of
review. But then he was usually in the minority,
and granting that he knew about inequalities in
tax matters, he had no organization behind him to
get a hearing.

For seven years, the I. A. A. has fought for equal-
ity in taxation. During that time taxes may have
gone higher but at least the farmer has seen other
interests pay more nearly their share of the cost
of government. The work is not done yet. It will
not be done so long as there is tax dodging and con-
trol of boards of review and assessors by corpora-
tions and moneyed interests. Another way to help
this whole situation is for farmers to use their in-
fluence in placing men on county boards of review
who will represent them.

RADIO STATION WJJD AT MOOSEHEAKT

I Why The Strong Butter Market?

FARMERS who sold their cream in March this
year sold their butter fat on the basis of a but-
ter market which averaged 49.4 cents. This is a
new record for March since war time. Consider-
ing the scarcity of butter, retail prices have not been
exorbitant. Consumers have not paid more than
58 or 60 cents for butter. Oleo put the brakes on
too high a retail price, says Art Lynch, our dairy
marketing director.

But what brought about the strong market?
Nothing more nor less than the fact that the stor-
age holdings of March 1, 1927, set a new low record
for 12 years. As a result farmers have been get-
ting eight cents more per pound for butter fat than
last year. This is one of the clearest illustrations
of what surplus control as provided in the McNary-
Haugen bill can do for the farmer. The small
,' amount of butter in storage a year ago — some 26,-
000,000 pounds — could have been given away or
dumped into the ocean without notice while the one
billion or more pounds that went into consumptive
channels brought five or ten cents a pound more.

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What The Counties
Are Doing

STARK GOES
ON RECORD FOR
EGG GRADING

HENRY BOYS
AND GIRLS HAVE
POULTRY CLUB

At their
regular meet-
ing on Satur-
day, Mar. 26,
the Stark
County Farm Bureau directors
voted to ask S. J. Stanard, state di-
rector of agriculture, to establish
standard egg grrades for the buying
of eggrs in Illinois.

The Henry
County Boys
and Girls
Poultry Club
closed Mar.
23 with 91 entries. The farm bu-
reau is cooperating with the Galva
Poultry Association which furnishes
two settings of eggs to each mem-
ber.

Keith Weh-
PEORIA MAN ner, a local

WILL TAKE Smith -Hughes

EUROPEAN TRIP teacher, has
been employ-
ed to handle the Peoria Farm Bu-
reau club work next year. Glen
McCluKage of Limestone township
will take the A. F. B. F. European
tour this summer.

Piatt County

PIATT GOES
OVER QUOTA
IN INSURANCE

surance, Apr. 1.

had 143 appli-
cations for the
new farm bu
reau auto in
This was 36 per

JOHNSON TO
Cpi'T-e TOLL
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IN HEARING

LAWRENCE
COUNTY PEACH
GROWERS GET
TOGETHER

38 H bushels. Early Chios. This
project was introduced three years
ago. Six hundred and fifteen farm-
ers attended seven dairy meetings
held last week. Higher producing
cows, better feeding, and improved
breeding were discussed.

Lawrenc e
County peach
growers met
with A. B.
Leeper, H. W.
Day, and W.
L. Cope Tuesday, March 22, to dis-
cuss the formation of a Lawrence
County unit of the Illinois Fruit
Exchange. 0. P. Dowell and F. L.
Severns, both of Lawrenceville,
were selected temporary chairman
and secretary.

Williamson
County has 30
poultry clubs
with 425 boys
and girls en-
rolled. The
provided 20,000

STOPPING THE CORN BORER

Farm Bureau Baseball
Season To Open With
First Games On May 7

Four New Counties From
Southern Illinois Enter
League To Form New
Division

WOODFORD
CULLS CORN
AND LEARNS
NEW HITCHES

BOND TO HIRE
VETERINARIAN
IN APRIL

cent more than her quota. If plans
materialize, farm bureau members
there will be benefited by the new
oil company now being organized
in Macon County. A bulk station
may be located in a town near the
border which will serve a large
number of farmers on both sides of
the line.

Through signed
petitions secured
locally and with
the aid of the I.
A. A., the John-
son County Farm
Bureau is trying to re-establish
rural and village telephone service
in that section of Southern Illinois.
A hearing before the Illinois Com-
merce Commission will be held in
Vienna, Apr. 19, when proposed
toll rates between various ex-
changres in the county, which up to
the present have been free from
exchange service, will be opposed.

Twenty per
cent of the
Bond County
Farm Bureau
' membership ap-

plied for policies in the mutual
auto insurance company. A $4,000
appropriation was secured from the
county board of supervisors recent-
ly to carry on tuberculosis eradica-
tion in cattle. A veterinarian will
be employed to start work some-
time in April.

Schuyler
and Brown
County dairy-
men recently
organized the
Brown - Schuy-
ler Dairy Herd Improvement As-
sociation to start work April 1.
Twelve men are cooperating with
the farm bureau and Prof. Rob-
bins in the hog feeding project.
Records are kept of amounts fed.
Several men in the project are us-
ing the sanitation system and some
are not. Some good comparison?
are expected. Demonstration plotF
to show the value of differen'
amounts of limestone and rock
phosphate were recently sown to
different kinds of clover and alfalfp
on wheat.

Thirty-five
Gallatin Coun-
ty Farm Bu-
reau members
bought 146
bushels of cer-
tified seed potatoes of which 107%
bushels were Irish Cobblers and

GREEN COUNTY
SIGNS 122 IN
AUTO INSURANCE

SCHUYLER AND
BROWN FORM
DAIRY HERD
ASSOCIATION

GALLATIN
COUNTY INTER-
ESTED IN SPUDS
AND DAIRYING

WILLIAMSON
HAS BIG POUL-
TRY CLUB
UNDERWAY

merchants have
eggs, from pure bred flocks, for
the members. Club leaders are
rural and Smith-Hughes teachers.

A series of
corn culling and
disease germina-
tion demonstra-
tions were held
in Woodford
county during February and March.
Nine men attended the University
of Illinois corn disease germination
school, and twenty the two-day
county school. Losses in this
county from corn root rot disease?
approximated one-half million dol-
lars according to Prof. Hackleman.
One hundred farmers attended the
three horse hitching demonstrations
held here, showing how to use the
four, five, six, and eight horse
hitches with the tying-in and buck-
ing-back system and driving with
two lines.

One hun-
dred twenty-
two applica-
tions have
been made
by Greene County farm bureau
members for auto insurance in the
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insur-
ance Company. They think it the
.best project the farm bureau has
sponsored for some time. "This
number means that more than one
member out of five has signed up
for insurance in his own company,"
writes Farm Adviser Laible.

0. L. Welsh was
McDONOUGH reelected p r e s i-
HAS GOOD dent, W. R. Claw-

ANNUAL son was elected

MEETING vice-president.

Ward F. Higgins,
secretary, and 0. P. Kline, treas-
urer, at the recent annual meeting
Df the McDonough County Farm
Bureau. More than 700 people at-
tended. M. G. Van Buskirk of
Oneida and Miss Claire Atwood
from the University of Illinois were
the speakers.

A new com-
PULASKI HAS munity club

NEW COMMUNITY at Grand
AND 4-H CLUBS Chain and a
4-H Sewing
Club of 25 members at Karnak are
new accomplishments of the Pul-
iski County Farm Bureau. These
new activities are in portions of the
?ounty which have been more or
'ess dormant in the past. "Our
people are coming to realize that
't makes life more interesting and
livable if they know each other
better and work together," says
Farm Adviser Hughes.

Two dozen
McHENRY HOLDS people came
BROODER HOUSE out on a
DEMONSTRATION stormy day
to the brood-
er house building demonstration
conducted recently by Frank Han-
son of the University of Illinois on
the Louis Koltz farm in McHenry
county. A picnic lunch was ser\'ed
at noon in the bam.

Here are snapshots of the oil burners and a KOTcrnment army
truck ready to burn over corn stalk ground on the Frank Love
farm east of Grant Park in Kankakee county. The oil burners
are made of gas pipe. The oil is forced into the burners from the
truck tank with a pump. Outlets are placed 12 inches apart and
the 27-foot pipe located behind the wheels covers a swath eight
corn rows wide." The crude oil bursts into flame as it leaves the
pipe and consumes all corn stalks, weeds and trash in its path
Com stalk ground within a radius of a mile of the spot where the
first corn borer was discovered, has been or will be burned over.

TAX VALUES SLASHED

(Continued from col. 5, page 1.)
15 to 20 per cent in value since 1923,
while city lots and improvements' in-
creased 12 to 15 per cent during the
same period. It was Watson's opin-
ion that the taxes on city property
would have to be increased 35 per
cent or farm lands reduced 25 per
cent to put farm lands and city
property on an equal basis.

One of the farmers supported the
argument by stating that if taxes
were based on the earning power of
property, farm lands would deserve
a much larger reduction. George C.
Gale, Galesburg attorney, appeared
before the assessors unsolicited and
argued in favor of the reduction.

Winnebago Gets 20 Per Cent
Cut

Champaign Cuts 10 Per Cent

L

The Champaign County Board of
Assessors at their meeting in the
Urbana courthouse Mar. 30 voted to
reduce the assessed valuation of
farm land 10 per cent. For the first
time in years all the assessors were
present, and the vote on the reduc-
tion was 27 to 2.

This tax reduction was the result
of a survey made by the Champaign
County Farm Bureau through its 52
tax leaders. Approximately two
men were appointed to act as tax
leaders in each township. This
spring, these men under the leader-
ship of Farm Advisor C. C. Burns,
and John C. Watson made a record
of all bona fide sales of property in
Champaign county between the last
half of 1925 up to Mar. 1, 1927.
After these sales were recorded they
were rechecked to make sure that
no unfair examples were included,
such as forced sales, gifts, etc. The
sales were then divided into four
classes including farm lands, vil-
lage lots, Urbana lots, and Cham-
paign lots. Then the full valuations
on the assessors books for each of
these properties were secured. The
total of the full valuations of each
class was divided by the total of the
sales values of each class to arrive
at the valuation ratio. The results
of the summary were as follows :

\n. Tofa! To«aI Valua-

I'<3h)o Pull Sale Tton

Sales Clau Valuations Values Ratio

-.9 r*ll«l LANDS H2S.R9S 9M,359.!7 42.«"t

17 VILLAGE LOTS 52.0TS Hfi.327.50 5n.^r,

f» URBANA LOTS 90.330 289.19o.00 31. 5*7

11'. CHAMPAIGN LOTS 135.950 543.933.50 24.9%

These figures were mailed out to
the community director of each
Farm Bureau unit with the sugges-
tion that he and his tax leaders take'
them up with the assessor or as-
sessors in the township or townships
his unit covered. This was done in
practically all of the units and when
the assfessors met March 31 they
voted 27 to 2 to reduce farm lands,
in spite of determined opposition on
the part of the treasurer^ and as-
sistant treasurer.

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"Our local farm bureau tax com-
mittee went before our county treas-
urer and township assessors yester-
day and submitted data collected by
the committte," wrote Farm Ad-
viser Keltner of Winnebago county
in a recent letter. "The assessor
then voted to reduce the \'aluation
of our farm lands in Winnebago
county 20 per cent"

Winnebago county followed the
same plan four years ago and re-
ceived on that presentation a 40 per
cent cut which placed values on a
fair basis at that time. Continued
declines in farm values since then
led to the new reduction.

Many Other Counties Reduce

Many other counties have an-
nounced reductions in valuations of
farm property, including a cut of
20 per cent in Iroquois county, 10
per cent in Crawford county, and
so on.

"The Macoupin County Farm Bu-
reau went to court back in 1922 to
protect the land owners of the
county against an unjust tax in-
crease— and won," writes Farm Ad-
viser Earl Rusk. "And we have
been fighting for the principle of
equalization ever since. Four years
ago WE found farm land assessed out
of line and succeeded at that time,
with the cooperation of the asses-
sors and others, in securing a re-
duction which went a long way to-
ward equalization. This reduction
has been the means of saving nearly
$40,000 annually to land owners in
the county.

"We have just finished an up-to-
date summary of the tax," writes
Rusk, "and have again appeared be-
fore the assessors with the facts.
Land has decreased in value during
the past four years so that it is
again somewhat out of line with
other property. We believe that
most of the assessors will trj' again
to equalize the assessments so that
all classes of tangible property vrill
be valued for tax purposes on a
fairly equal basis. An attempt will
be made also to get more intangible
property on the tax books. We arc
committed to the task here of ever-
lastingly watching and when neces-
sary fighting for equality in tax
matters."

Other counties which secured re-
ductions are De Kalb, 10 per cent,
Livingston 10 per cent, Edgar 10
per cent, Pike 25 per cent. Coles 15
per cent, and Iroquois 20 per cent.
There are unconfirmed rumors of re-
ductions in a number of other coun-

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Farm bureau baseball tn
Illinois will open officially on
May 7 when the first jrames
of the -season are scheduled
in the new Southern Illinois
division of the Illinois Farm
Bureau Baseball League.

With the addition of four .
new teams which include
Bond, Jefferson", Clay, and

Lawrence counties promises to bo
4 race for the state title more hotly
contested than any time hereto-
fore. The four new teams will
compnse Division 6. At a meet-
ing held in Mt. Vernon on April 5
a schedule of gamr^s was drawn up
for the 1927 season.

The first games will be played
on May 7 with Bond »nd Jefferson
counties meeting each other at Mt.
Vernon, while Clay and Lawrence
counties fight it out at Louisville.

The 14 county farm bureau teams
from Central and Western Illinois
voted to launch their schedule on
May 21 following a meeting of
League officials at Peoria this wee!.'.

The five divisions from this sec-
tion include teams from the follow-
ing counties: District 1, Warren and
Henderson; District 2. Marshall-
Putnam, Woodford, Peoria, and
Tazewell; District 3, McLean, De-
Witt, and Logan; District 4. Adams.
Schuyler, and Brown; District .■>.
Cass and Morgan.

Applications from other counties
desiring entrance into the League
will be considered, and if accepted
will be placed in districts most con-
venient to them.

150 ATTEND DISTRICT
MEET AT SHELBYVILl

The best I. A. A. meeting ever
held in the 19th district is the way
members expressed themselves fol-
lowing the meet-
ing at Shelbyville
on Friday, March
25. More than
150 were present. '

President Earl
C. Smith and
John C. Watson
of the Illinois':
Agricultural As-'
1^^ sociation spoke
on activities of
the Association
while J. D. Bils- ^
J. L. whisnand borrow discussed
the relation of University Extension
to the farm bureau.

J. L. Whisnand, executive com-,
mitteeman representing the lj9tti
district, presided. i

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WINNEBAGO MAN PRO-
POSES f>EALS FOR CLUB

A creed and program of work
has been proposed by E. V. Der^-ent
for the Farmers' Luncheon Club or-
ganized by the Farm Bureau of
Winnebago county. The program
proposes that members work to-
gether to foster the idea that farm-
ing offers as good an opportunity as
any business to ser\'e society; to
raise the st&ndard of the profes-
sion, farming; to extend the influ-
ence and acquaintance of the mem-
bers among, high-minded, progres-
sive farmers of other counties; to
widen the mental horizon and de-
velop the interests and intelligence
of each member; to widen the
spiritual horizon of each member;
and to inspire each member to do
some unselfish service for the good
of the community, county, or state.

Auto Insurance Co.
Grows Rapidly As
More Policies Come In

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Oil [Trucks To Be Insured
WSth An Advance Pre-
mium Deposit Of $25

Pol cies in force in the Illinois
Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co.
jumpid to a new high level follow-
ing ,>Jhe official launching of the
compi ny on April 1.

A t }tal of more than 3,000 policies
signei I and in the office, was the rec-
ord established on April 6. With
those in the hatids of solicitors and
count 7 advisers, membership in the
company will soon exceed 3,500 it
was iredicted.

Th4 rapid expansion of the new
company made necessary an in-
creasi i in its personnel from one to
five helpers who are now busily en-
gage< in sending out policies. A
total >f 2,300 were in the mails early
this ' feek with prospects for finish-
ing ( he job within the next few
days.

All applic
in th< new
fully chec'
risks. Mc
thro\in o'
tection »
ers ii( *

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Corn Surplus Grows
Under

Hiavy

What the U. S. Department
Grair

«I Asaociation RECORD

April, 1927

Less

Farm L *<iSumption

of Agriculture Sa> :•. \bout the
Market

for membership

.y are Deing care-

. gainst undesirable

h;. 1 a dozen have been

,.- undesirables as a pro-

the other policy-hold-

■; jpany.

ting of the directors of
the 1 lw company held on April 8.
the f iJL.wing resolution was passed
m'' g insurance on oil trucks
■ire used by farm bureau oil
es over the state:
WAeREAS, there appears to be
a demand from some of the Farm
Bure^ lu interests in the state for full
coverage automobile insurance along
the 1 ne of the contract heretofore
authorized by this board covering
Farm Bureau owners of automobile
truckB used in the delivery and dis-
tHbuyinn '^f gas^oline, oil and lubri-
cants^ by cooperative supply com-
panies under the control of County
Fam^ Bureaus, and

WBEEEAS, the Manager of the
Company has recommended to the
Board the issuance of such a con-
tract with an advance premium de-
posit of twenty-five ($25.00) dol-
lars with a contribution to surplus
in the sum of $10.00 and a policy
fee cf $5.00.

NCW THEREFORE, Be It Re-
solve I, that the Board of Directors
herely authorize and direct the Ex-
ecuti re Officers to prepare and issue
to thi ise making application therefor
a coi tract for automobile insurance
for trucks distributing and deliver-
ing g asoline, oil and lubricants, such
a coatract to contain substantially
the same provision as the contract
authorized for issuance to owners of
pleasure automobiles, and that the
Advance Premium Deposit therefor
be tie sum of Twenty-five Dollars
($25. )0), the contribution to sur-
plus in the sum of $10 and a policy
fee »f $5 ; and that a separate
class fication be established and
main :ained for such class of auto-
roobii e insurance risks.

Seini-annual assessments for this
class of business will be determined
on tie basis of its own experience
and, ;herefore, the insurance will be
provided at absolute cost.

»as further decided to make no

for transferring insurance

one car to another. In such

a new application must be

out covering the new car, and

sent to the company with the

policy.

rje

It
cha
from
cases
filled
this
old

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duce(l
the
ture.
121
with

ine growers in 29 states pro-
808 ton litters in 1926 says
S. Department of Agricul-
Tennessee placed first with
litters. Pennsylvania second
114, and Illinois third with 90.
Indisna and Kentucky were fourth
and. I ifth. About 30 per cent of the
total number of entries finished in
the tan litter class.

ACCORDING to the March est
-mate by the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, stocks of
com on farms at that time wer;
about 215,000,000 bushels smaller
than a year ago. When exports an i
present commercial stocks are coi
iidered, these statistics indicate
that the consumption of com froii
November to March was arounj
70,000,000 bushels greater than fc r
the same period last year. The suj -
ply of com available for consumi-
tion and carry over during the ri -
mainder of the season is only aboi t
20,000,000 bushels more than weie
disposed of from March 1 to Oct( -
ber 31 last year.

While the number of animals on
farms on the first of January wss
sightly smaller than a year ago, the
relative prices of livestock in the
markets compared with grain pric< s
are about as favorable for feeding
as last year and there is also a po i-
sibility of an increase in the spring
pig crop. It would appear, ther( -
fore, that the statistical position (f
the com market is more favorab e
from the producers' standpoii t
than at this time last year.

The present weakness in the coin
market can be attributed largely 1o
the distribution of the supply th s
year. The larger crop in the Soutl i-
em States has resulted in larger
local consumption of com but h: s
restricted the shipping demand
from the Cora Belt. This has n-
sulted in the larger accumulation
in the markets despite the materia I-
ly reduced receipts this seaso i.
Present plans of farmers point to a
large increase in com acreaj e
again this year in the Cotton Belt
where farmers plan substantial i: t-
creases in all important crops thi >t
can be substituted for cotton. \
slight decrease is planned in tl e

Central Cora Belt States, but for
the United States as a whole an
increase of nearly two per cent in
the corn acreage this spring is in-
dicated.

Oats Declines

The decline in the oats market
during the past month has been
caused principally by the limited
demand. Farm stocks of oats on
Mar. 1 were about 424,000,000
bushels, making the total supply
available for the remainder of the
season about 170,000,000 bushels
smaller than on Mar. 1 last year.
New crop winter oats are doing
well in the southern states and
these favorable prospects, together
with abundant supplies of other
grains, including grain sorghums,
are offsetting the strengthening in-
fluence of the smaller supply.

Stocks of barley on farms, Mar.
1, were about 12,000,000 bushels
smaller than a year ago, refle^ing
the better demand for barley this
year in the North Central States,
where the crop of other feed grains
was short.

More Wheat This Year

About 40,000,000 bushels more
wheat was held on farms and in
country mills and elevators on Mar.
1 than a year ago. This supply will
provide an average carry over and
about 15,000,000 bushels more
wheat for export than was shipped
out from Mar. 1 to June 30 last
year. Heavy shipments of wheat
from the southern hemisphere have
weakened the foreign markets and
somewhat reduced the demand for
United States wheat. European buy-
ers appear to be giving preference
to Canadian spring wheat for mix-
ing with the Argentine wheat,
which has shown less gluten
strength than expected.

TWENTY-SECOND DIS-
TRICT MEETS AT
NASHVILLE MAR. ^4

The most representative gathe •
ing ever held in the twenty-secor d
district was the I. A. A. distri
meeting held at Nashville in Was i-
ington county on Mar. 24. Mo ■e
than 500 members and farmers fro n
St. Clair, Madison, Washingtoi,
Bond, and Monroe counties came
out. Mr. Griggs of Sparta, wl o
spoke in the morning, stated th; it
wild garlic is the greatest mena< :e
to the Southern Illinois wheat cro ).
County Adviser Smith of Washin ;-
ton county outlined plans for culti-
vation to eradicate garlic. In tl e
afternoon Frank Scott of Edwari Is
county, a director in the Centr il
States Soft Wheat Growers' Ass'i .,
put in a good word for the So !t
Wheat Pool. He said that Southei n
Illinois farmers have not ye't awa c-
ened to the fact that they are pr >-
ducing a wheat which is in gre it
demand.

Dairy marketing was discuss( d
preceding the business meeting if
the 22nd District. The new au ;o
insurance company, likewise, w is
thoroughly discussed. Frank Oe t-
ner, executive committeeman fro n
the district, presided.

"Here's just' a line to tell y< u
how much I appreciated the Man h
issue of the I. A. A. Record, [t
certainly was a dandy. If you ei n
hold that pace you are certain o
get results. The hired man is rea i-
ing it from cover to cover now "
Ogle County, III.— Joe Brooks.

"The March issue of the Reco id
is certainly a good one. We real y
need that much going to the mei i-
bership each month. One of oi ir
members has requested that we g !t
him two dozen copies of this Man h
issue, for which he has a speci »1
use. Please send us that many at d
forward the bill." — C. C. Burns,
Farm Adviser, Champaign Co., I I.

Comptroller System
Established In I. A. A.
Office Aids Accounting

Recent revision in the internal
bookkeeping system of the Illinois
Agricultural Association and the
establishment of a comptroller,
promises to simplify future ac-
counting, and to aid in determin-
ing the exact amount of funds de-
voted to various activities.

The revision leading to the adop-
tion of the comptroller system was
worked out with the aid of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Cooperative Asso-
ciation, and its prosecution will be
under the general direction of
George R. Urcher, manager.

J. H. Kelker, office manager, will
act as comptroller in allocating all
expenditures to the proper division
of the budget. At the end of the
year each member will know at a
glance just what part of the Asso-
ciation's funds went for organiza-
tion, cooperative marketing, trans-
portation and taxation service, and
so on.

Illinois farmers plan to reduce
the state corn acreage about six
per cent and oats acreage five per
cent if spring planting conditions
permit them to carry out their ex-
pressed intentions according to a
joint survey made by the Illinois
and federal departments of agri-
culture.

By protesting against payment of
certain taxes they considered illeg-
ally levied, 112 members of the Mc-
Donough County Farm Bureau
saved $3,964.96 when the county
judge and state supreme court up-
held them in most of their claims.
The members raised a defense fund
of $5 each and hired an attorney to
represent them.

Greene County Farm
Bureau Awards $50 to
Chicken Thief Catcher

The standing reward of $60 of-
fered for the arrest and convic-
tion of thieves caught stealing poul-
try from farm bureau members in
Greene County, was recently paid
to Lee Hopkins of Roodhouse,
writes Farm Adviser Laible.

Hopkins apprehended three boys
last fall after they had robbed his
poultry roost of a number of choice
hens. Upon being brought before
the Roodhouse authorities they con-
fessed to their guilt. After some
argument with the former state's
attorney, Hopkins and a neighbor
succeeding in getting the lads
bound over to the grand jury. The
court recently imposed a jail sen-
tence on two of the boys and
paroled the youngest one for a year.

L. H. Raffety, president of the
Greene County Farm Bureau in
commenting on the case said that
the executive committee was glad
to pay this reward as an incentive
for farmers and others in the
county to work toward the appre-
hension of other gangs of chicken
thieves.

LEGISLATURE STARTS WORK

(Continued from col. 4, page 1.)
farmers from petty and organized
thieving in poultry and to assist in
apprehending chicken thieves.

Dog Tax Law Amendment

House Bill No. 276 was intro-
duced by Mr. Foster. This is an
amendment to the dog tax law, and
provides that swine, when killed or
injured by dogs, shall come under
the operation of the law. It pro-
vides that where hogs are killed or
injured by dogs, where the owner-
ship of such dog is not known, that
the owner of the hogs so killed or
injured shall receive damages out
of the dog fund not to exceed $26
per head.

Under the present law, sheep,
goats, cows, horses, and mules are
compensated for, and the pending
bill simply brings swine under the
operation of the act.

House Bill No. 314, also intro-
duced by Mr. Foster, provides that
whenever a case of rabies has oc-
curred in any locality, the Depart-
ment of Agriculture in order to
prevent the spread of the disease,
may require all dogs in such local-
ity to be locked up, restrained by
leash, or muzzled. All owners of
such dogs may be required to take
such prophylactic measures as may
be deemed necessary to prevent the
spread of the disease.

Tax Increase Opposed

Three biBs were introduced early
in the session in the House, under
the provision of which any high
school or consolidated school may,
on referendum, add materially to
the tax rate both for building and
educational purposes. These bills,
as originally introduced, were op-
erative only in districts containing
a population of more than 1600 and
an enrollment of 250 pupils or
more. These bills have been op-
posed by the Illinois Agricultural
Association, following its general
policy to oppose all legislation, ex-
cept in cases of absolute necessity,
that will tend to increase taxes.
The Association is compelled to
take that position until such time
as a way may be provided to more
equitably distribute the tax bur-
den.

Hearings on the Home Rule Bill
relative to regulating public utili-
ties are scheduled for immediate
attention.

Reapportionment Up Again

There has been much discussion
during the entire session relative to
the reapportionment of the Legis-
lative Districts of the State. Ap-
parently realization is dawning in
the minds of many members of
both houses of the futility of any

just reapportionment under the
present Constitutional provision.

Everingham Placed
in Charge I. A. A.
Legislative Program

Executive Committee Votes
To Keep Him At Spring-
field To Look After Mem-
bers' Interests

A. C. Everingham of Hutsonville,
Crawford county, for many years a
member of the legislative commit-
tee of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation, was authorized to devote
his time to the legislative program
of the I. A. A. at a recent meeting
of the Executive Committee.

A. C. Evtrinffbam.

Mr. Everingham was born on a
farm in Crawford county in 1879
where he attended the district
school, later high school, and sub-
sequently Franklin College at
Franklin, Ind., where he graduated.

He fitted himself for the legal
profession at the Indiana Law
School, Indianapolis, graduating
from this institution in 1903. For
five years he practiced law in Terra
Haute, Ind., but the urge for the
farm brought him back to Craw-
ford county where he has resided
ever since.

During the last two sessions of
the legislature Everingham was es-
pecially active in representing the
interests of farmers, and was the
designated leader in charge of the
L A. A. program.
\ For years he has been prominent
as a speaker for the Illinois Farm-
ers' Institute and the I. A. A. speak-
ers* bureau during which time he
has spoken in all but two Illinois
counties.

What the Countie* Are
Doing

The Farm-
MONTCOMERY ers' Oil Co.,

OIL CO. HAS sue- of Raymond,
CESSFULYEAR Montgomery
County, or-
ganized Mar. 1, 1926 made 12.2 per
cent net on total volume of sales
after paying interest on investment
and all other expenses. Trading
margins on all products sold aver-
aged 27.7 per cent. The board of
directors voted to pay a patronage
refund amounting to eight per cent
of gross sales to farm bureau
members patrons.

"We have been
RANDOLPH getting in some

AFTER WILD 'licks' at wild
ONIONS AND onion and garlic
GARLIC during the past

six or eight
months," writes Farm Adviser
Secor. "Our plots, started two
years ago to demonstrate methods of
eradication, have shown conclu-
sively that the pest can be killed.
The secretary of the Southern Illi-
nois Millers Association is aiding us
in getting control work started in
other counties." p

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Volume 5

MAY, 1927

i^umuer 9

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What^s In The Income Tax Bill

''pHE large volume of propaganda be-
A ing scattered over the state in op-
I>osition to the state income tax spon-
sored by the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation plainly illustrates the ease
v'ith which false bogies and misconcep-
tions iriay arise when people do not
stick to facts. It is quite possible, if
not probable, that the spurious attacks
were and are premeditated. Whatever
the cause, it is evident that there is
a general lack of understanding re-
garding the provisions of the measure.
The bill provides first for a grad-
uated cax on income with exemptions.
A siiigle person is allowed $1,000 of
exemptions, a married man $2,000, and
$500 additional for each child under 18
years. After exemptions the rates are
one per cent on all taxable net income
of $5,000 per year or less, two per cent
on the second $5,000, and three per
cent on all taxable net income above
$10,000.

Corporations Not Taxed

Income is not taxed in the hands of
corporations or partnerships but in the
hands of share holders or
partners. This point has
been controverted, misrep-
resented, or completely
ignored repeatedly. In the
joint committee hearing of
the House and Senate re-
cently at Springfield, repre-
sentatives of business or-
ganizations made the state-
ment that the tax would
drive industry out of the
state. The president of one
organization, then, was
forced to admit from the
platform that he was not
aware that corporations
were exempt by provisions
of the bill.

All ordii^ary business ex-
penses, but not personal ex-

Few Of The Critics Have Read It

penses, may be deducted from the gross
income in computing net income.

Any taxes paid on real or personal
property in Illinois may be deducted
from the tax computed on net income
(except improvement taxes as for a
drainage district). Persons paying a
property tax, especially on real estate,
will not be subject to an income tax
under this provision unless their com-
puted income tax exceeds their prop-
erty tax. Thus taxes paid on property
are directly deductible from the income
tax. This point has been minimized
for in this exemption lies the virtue
of the tax in taking some of the bur-
den off of farm and home owners, and
placing it on that large portion of our
people who now share no direct respon-
sibility of citizenship.

The proposed income tax has been
hailed as an extra tax. The usual
argument is that designing politicians
will find some way to use the extra
funds derived without lowering the
taxes on property. This argument is
groundless. The income tax is a lieu
or a substitute tax. The bill specific-

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Prompt Action Needed

The proposed state income tax is designed to
help equalize the tax burden by largely distribut-
ing it among that portion of our citizens who are
at the present time escaping their responsibility
of citizenship.

Propaganda by its opponents (chiefly the city
press) is founded upon a misinterpretation and
misstatement of the provisions of the bill.

Prompt action in support of this measure by
the home and property owners (who are its bene-
ficiaries) is imperative to secure its enactment.
Immediately communicate your position to your
senator and representatives.

ally states that funds so derived shall
be placed in the state school fund to
replace in equal amount property taxes
levied for this purpose. Approxi-
mately one-third of the total state
taxes now go into the state distributive
school fund.

While the bill does not entirely cor-
rect the broken down taxing system
of the state, yet it is a step in the right
direction and leads the way toward a
general revision of our tax laws so
taxes may be levied according to abil-
ity to pay.

Examples of the operation of the
measure follow:

1. Single person, no dependents, net
income before exemptions, $2,000.
Exemption $1,000. Net taxable
income $1,000. Computed income
tax $10.

If he pays no property tax his
income tax 'will be $10.
If he pays property taxes
amounting to $10 or more, he
will pay no income tax.

2. Family with two young children.
Net income before exemptions

$5,000. Exemptions
$3,000. Net taxable in-
come $2,000. Computed
income tax $20. If they
pay no property tax,
the income tax will be
$20. If they pay prop-
erty taxes to $20 or
more, they will pay no
income tax.

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3. Husband and wife, no
dependents. Net income
before exemptions,
$17,000. Exemptions
$2,000. Net taxable in-
come $15,000.
Tax on first $6,000 at
1% $ 50

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THE I. A.

RECORD

Before Legislature This Week

Trade Bill Passes Senate, Now Up to the House

T AST week saw the first skirmish be-
-■-^ tween friends and opponents of
the I. A. A.'s two measures, the stJite
income tax proposal, and the Kessing er
public exchange regulatbry bill. B(th
won victories when the Senate Com-
mittee on Revenue voted overwhelm
ingly on Tuesday May 3 to send ttie
tax measure out with a fav6raMe
recommendation, while the Board of
Trade bill passed the Senate on Thu's-
day with a vote of 30 to 11.

The Senate committee on Tuesday
afternoon went to bat determined to
get at the bottom of the income tax
measure. Chairman Martin Carls jn
called on both opponents and propon-
ents to present their arguments. Join
C. Watson started off for the I. A. A..
explaining the salient features of tie
bill and emphasizing its in lieu fea-
tures. Questions came thick and fsst
but Watson stayed on top, meeting all
unfriendly attacks with figures and
facts that mowed down the opposition.

Colin C. H. Fyffe, attorney for tie
Illinois Manufacturers Association wlio
followed Watson, put all his eggs in
one basket by centering his attack <in
the constitutionality of the proposal.
"I hope to show in my remarks thit
this bill regar41ess of its merits car 't
possibly become' law because it fails :o
meet the requirements of the Illinois
constitution," he said. Simon Lan ;z
replied sharply, "There are good
lawyers who disagree with you. This
same argument has been used time ard
time again against bills which are notv
on the statutes. That's a question f(r
the courts to decide." "^

The counter attack by Lantz floored
the speaker for a minute but he r(!-
sumed warily pointing to statements by
the revenue amendment committee cf
last year and bearing down on the
graduated features of the tax which
he stated are contrary to the revenue
section of the constitution providing
for uniform assessments on propertj'.

Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel
for the I. A. A., came back with a.
broadside of supreme court decisions
in this and other states in which ir-
come or inheritance taxes with similar
features had been upheld. Kirkpal-
rick's evidence was weightier and mor s
authoritative. A. C. Everingham folr
lowed with a strong appeal summai
izing the need for the reform. Th ;
round ended with the opponents get-
ting the worst of it.

Douglas Sutherland, secretary of thi
Civic Federation of Chicago, who was
with us in the fight to pass the revenue
amendment, next took the floor an(!
half critical, half commendatory, sug
gested a few changes including the pro
vision that the state tax commission ad
minister the tax rather than the audi
tor. He criticised the tax deductec
from tax exemption feature but pre

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sented nothing to replace it. Minor
suggestions were made by representa-
tives of the Chicago Real Estate Board,
and an insurance association. ; -

Lantz Counters

Then the chairman opened the meet-
ing for discussion. Senator Roy C.
Woods of Chicago made a futile ef-
fort to refer the bill to the attorney
general for an opinion on its constitu-
tionality. Lantz advised that the at-
torney general refused" to give opin-
ions on the constitutionality of pend-
ing legislation. Woods got hot under
the collar at that and harangued the
chairman and everyone in general, but
his motion failed to get a second and
died in its tracks.

The committee then voted to pass
out the measure with the recommenda-
tion that it "do pass." Woods and Mc-
Dermott of Chicago cast the only dis-
senting votes. Barbour of Evanston
voted present.

Over in the House Committee on
Revenue, the same measure sponsored
by Representatives A. Otis Arnold and
Gus Johnson received rough treatment.
The Cook county delegates who packed
the committee, organized their steam
roller and ran over the measure rough
shod before Chairman Hutson knew
what was up. The committee was
scheduled for a hearing on the bill.
The L A. A. representatives and Fyffe
of the Manufacturers Association were
there but they never had a chance to
get in a word.

I The Steam Roller

The Cook county group saw that they
had enough, votes to do as they pleased
so they forced through a motion by
Schnackenberg that the bill be reported
out with the recommendation that it do
not pass. This motion carried 11 to 7.
Voting to kill the measure were
Church, Elrod, Juul, Schnackenberg,
Swanson, Gill, Ratigan, Minsky, Igoe,
and Lipka, all of Cook county. John
Wylie of Ottawa was the only down-
stater who voted with tlie Cook county
crowd. He will have to do some ex-
plaining down in Lasalle county next
time he goes out to get the farmers'
vote. Hennebry of Will county voted
present. He is evidently not interested
in helping the farm and home owner
get relief from the tax burden.

Voting against the motion and for
the measure were Allen, Hutson, Hunt-
er, Phillips, Stewart, Vaughn, and
Warren. All are from down state and
all have good records on farm ques-
tions.

The Gas Tax

The gas tax hearing on Wednesday
afternoon, May 4, was a walk-away
for the administration. Frank Sheets,
chief highway engineer, left nothing
more to say. He took the wind all out
of the sails of the Chicago Motor Club

and the Cook county opposition by ad-
mitting that Cook county paid 34 per . >
cent of the state motor license fees.
He admitted likewise that the present .
schedule of roads under the $100,000,- \
000 bond issue could be built without \ :
a gas tax.

"It's just a question of whether you
want the roads now or 12 to 14 years ;
from now," he said. "With the gas
tax we can build 1200 miles of road
a year. Without it we can build only ■
around 800 miles per year, which will
necessitate dragging out the hard road _..
program until 1942."

The array of facts and figures pre-
sented by Sheets swept everything be- •
fore him. He showed that there are
6021 miles of hard road completed of
the 9800 miles provided for under the
$60,000,000 and $100,000,000 bond is-
sues. Sidney Gorham, attorney for the ;.
Chicago Motor Club, told why the gas
tax was unnecessary. Si Mayer of the
Illinois Automobile Club who followed
him disputed the figures presented by •>
Sheets. The hearing ended evidently
with neither side convinced that the
other is right in opposing or upholding
the tax.

, Meents Open* I: 1 £ /

Senator Meents opened up the hear-
ing reviewing the road program in Illi-
nois and emphasizing the point that
the gas tax is a fair and equitable
system of raising funds to build roads.
He showed how all but four states have
gas taxes, and stated that two of these
will soon enact them. If the friends '
and enemies can get together with
suitable amendments, the gas tax will
go through, otherwise it will have to
wait until a later time.

The I. A. A. is for a gas tax with .
certain reservations. We want to in-
sure a definite portion of the funds go-
ing back to the counties to build sec-
ondary roads. The administration /
seems to be friendly to the proposal
that a graduated portion of the funds • ;.
beginning with 10 per cent the first
year go back to the counties, the basis ■
of distribution being the amount con-
tributed by the various counties.
Another proposal has been offered — ■
not by the administration — that a
graduated portion go back to the coun-
ties, 50 per cent on the basis of road . -
mileage in the county. And 50 per cent
on the basis of the amount of gas tax
contributed by the county. The fate ':
of the bill hinges on whether or not
proponents of the various proposals
can. get together. Last reports indi- :
cated a deadlock. Watch for future
announcements.

The public exchange regulatory
measure which was carefully drafted
by R. A. Cowles and Donald Kirk-
patrick of the I. A. A. and introduced
by Senator Kessinger passed the Sen- , '

(Continued on page 6.)

I

X7<

THE I. A. A. RECORD

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Page Three

Ho>\^ The State Legislature Operates

Our Law Making Machinery in Action

'X'HE Illinois legislature known as
A the General Assembly consists of a
Senate of 51 members and a House of
Representatives of 153 members. There
are 51 senatorial districts in the state
each of which is allowed one senator
and three representatives. This ap-
portionment was provided for in the
Constitution of 1870.

The lieutenant-governor, at present
Fred E. Sterling of Rockford, presides
over the Senate. The House of Rep-
resentatives elects its own chairman
who is called the "speaker." The pres-
ent incumbent is Robert E. Scholes of
Peoria. ,- ■ . ■:-■'■■■ ■■■; . "■"'-:■-■:';'

The legislature meets once every two
years, in the odd-numbered years. In
Illinois the session begins directly after
New Years and lasts for nearly six
months. This year it is scheduled to
close June 20. In certain other states
the legislative session is limited to
from 60 to 90 days. In others there
is a deadline or final date after which
no more bills may be introduced.
California is much a state which lim-
its the length of the session and sets a
date limit for the introduction of bills.

Chairmen and Committees

Shortly after the legislature con-
venes, the presiding officers of each
house announce the chairmen and per-
sonnel of the various committees. Each
member is assigned to a number of
committees according to his profession
and previous experience. Thus the
lawyers are usually placed on the Ju-

resurrect a bill after it has been acted
upon unfavorably by a committee.

First reading of a bill refers to the
order in which the bill is reported to
the House or Senate from committee.
It consists of nothing more than a
presentation of the report of the com-
mittee, upon which the bill, if reported
favorably is advanced to the order of
"second reading." If the committee
report is unfavorable the bill is usually
allowed to die there.

When the bill comes up for second
reading it is usually acted upon.
Amendments, if there be any, are pro-
posed at this time. Amendments often
result in roll call votes. A bill may be
killed on second reading by adopting a

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pronhptly reported to both houses, and
if adopted by both, results in the final
passage of the bill.

After the bill passes both House and
Senjjte it goes to the Governor, who
mayl follow one of three courses. He
may; approve the bill, whereupon it be-
comfes law on July 1 unless a later
datei is provided in the new law (or
an daiilier date has been provided for
as ajn emergency-^by a two-thirds vote
of botih houses). He may withhold-
his signature whereupon the bill be-
comes law in 10 days, providing that
number of days remain before the final
adjolumment of the legislature. He
may veto the bill whereupon it is dead
and can be revived only by passing it

motion to "strike out the enacting overj his veto by a two-thirds vote of
clause," with or without a roll call, both! houses. j' j

A similar procedure may be followed
in advancing the bill to the order of
"third reading."

Majority Is 77

Third reading is the order of passage
when no amendments are permitted.
By common consent it may be moved
back to "second reading" for amend-
ment. The last opportunity for debate
is offered at this time. After the
member who sponsors the bill makes a
last appeal for favorable votes, the
clerk calls the roll. The bill must re-
ceive the affirmative votes of a major-
ity of members elected or it is de-
feated. To pass, therefore, it must re-
ceive 77 affirmative votes of the House
members and 26 affirmative votes of
the Senate members. The late wom-

Tax

Tax

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(Continued from page 1.)

on second $5,000 I
»t 2% : 100

diciary among others, while farmers

are ordinarily assigned to the Com- an's eight-hour working bill introduced

mittee on Agriculture. A representa- by Lottie Holman O'Neill of DuPage

DuPage
county received only 74 votes in the
House, hence it failed to carry. A bill
which receives 76 yea votes in the
House without a single negative vote
is nevertheless defeated becaus 76 is
not a majority. Having passd one
house the bill is then reported to the
other house, where it goes thi'ough
committee, and follows the orders of
first, second, and third readings.

As soon as both houses act favor-
ably on a given bill, it is declared
passed. Frequently when a bill has
passed one house, amendments are
made in the other house. This re-
quires a return of the bill to the house
which first passed it. If that house
. . then accepts or decides to "concur" in

ponents and opponents are then invited ^^^ amendments of the house, the bill
to present their arguments pro and ^^ passed,
con before the members. A recommen- ' • : -. , "

dation— arrived at oftentimes by spir- Conference Committee

ited debate followed by a vote — ^that
the bill "do pass" opens the way for
action on the floor of the House or Sen-
ate. If a committee recommends that a
hill "do not pass" the measure is almost
invariably killed. It is exceedingly dif-
ficult and in most cases impossible to

tive or senator may be a member of
four, six, or more committees. These
committees do most of the work of
the legislature. They usually decide
the fate of the various bills.

At the beginning of each session, the
clerk of the House or Senate calls the
roll. If a member wishes to introduce
a bill he refers it to the clerk. The
title is rekd at once and the bill is
usually referred to a committee.

Committee Meetings

In the case of bills of wide interest
or those over which there is bound to
be controversy, separate or joint com-
mittee hearings are arranged. Pro-

oii remainder at 3%

150

If it disagrees, a conference com-
mittee representing both houses is
asked for. It is the business of the
conference committee to reach some
agreement without inserting new mat-
ter. Any conference agreement is

Total computed income tax. $300
If they pay no property tax, their
income tax will be $300.

If they pay property taxes of
$175, their income tax will be
$125.

If they pay property taxes
amounting to $300 or more, they
will pay no income tax.
The purpose of this bill is to
secure some contribution to the
cost of government from persons
who have substantial income but
pay little or no property taxes.
Thus there are countless high-
salaried workers, and many
wealthy people who own little or
no real estate but have large
holdings of stocks and bonds from
which they derive large incomes,
who pay very little tax in pro-
^rtion to their wealth and abil-
ity to pay. Such people enjoy
all the benefits of citizenship, but
they do not share its responsi-
bilities. They help vote the
taxes, but they do not help pay
them. It is argued that they pay
their taxes indirectly in food and
tent. Food and rent are no
cheaper to the taxpayer who
owns real estate and property.
He also pays indirect taxes in
addition to his direct taxes.
Tthe measure pr6vides that the state
auditor shall collect the taxes. If it
becomes law, it will not go into effect
until ,1929..

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Page Four

THE I. A. A. RECORD

I li L« I N OI

CCL.T1JRAL ASS

^RECOR

To advance the parpote for which the farm bureau
namely to promote, protect and represent the
aocial and educational intereata of the farmers of Iflinois
and to develop agriculture.

Published once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave.,
by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Edited by Dep
E. G. Thiem, Director, 608 South Dearborn Street, Ch
as second-class matter October 20, 1925, at the post
Illinois, imder the Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for
postage provided for in Section 412, Act of Februa^
October 27, 1925. The individual membership -fee "of
Association is five dollars a year. The fee includes
subscription to the Illisoib Agricultural AssociatioJij
In returning an uncalled for or missent copy, please
address as is reqtiired by law.

\tount Morris, Illinois,

irtment of Information,

cago, Illinois. Entered

ce at Mount Morris,

mailing at special rate of

28, 1925, authorized

ihe Illinois Agricultural

paypient of fifty cents for

Record. Postmaster:

Indicate key number on

* I OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith

Vice-President, Frank D. Barton

Treasurer, R. A. Cowlcs

Secretary, Geo. A. Fox

1st to 11th.

12th

13th

14th

15th

16th

17th

18th

19th

20th

21st

22nd

23rd

24th

2Sth

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
(By Congressional Districts)

H. C

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Ceo.

J.L,

Cli arles ]

. Sami lel

. Char les

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Business Service

Co-operating Accounting

Dairy Marketing

Farm Supply -.

Finance

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing

General Office

Information

Legal Counsel ,

Live Stock Marketing.

Organization

Poultry and Egg Marketing

Taxation and Statistics

Transportation

teas organized,

business, economic,

and the nation.

Detroit

Cornell

. Bloomington
.... Sycamore

Vial, Downers Grove

F. TuUock, Rockford

E. Bamborough, Polo

Moody, Port Byron

A. M- Skinner, Yates City

A. R. Wright, Varna

J. StoU, Chestnut

R. F. Karr, Iroquois

^hisnand, Charleston

Borgelt, Havana

Sorrells, Raymond

Oexner, Waterloo

W. L. Cope, Salem

Marshall, Belknap

Fred Dietz, De Soto

Frank)

V. Vaniman

Geo. R. Wicker

A. D. Lynch

J. R. Bent

R. A. Cowles

A. B. Leeper

J. H. Kelker

E. G. Thiem

. Donald Kirkpa trick
. . . Wm. E. Hedgcock

G. E. Metzger

F. A. Gougler

J. C. Watson

L. J. Quasey

Yet

The Income Tax

THE struggle to help the farm ;j,nd home own
ers of Illinois get out from und^r the crushing
burden of our antiquated property
renewed by the I. A. A. in the incoijae tax proposal
now before the legislature.

This is a good bill. It deservei to pass
the hue and cry from the metropolitan press would
have US believe that this is a dangerous piece of
class legislation. •.

The income tax is the most distasteful of all
our taxes. The very mention of it
diate antagonism from the salariec worker. The
tax merely looks like robbery be<jause so many
in this group have never paid any taxes hereto-
fore.

When the federal income tax wajs initiated and
started to put the screws on hea^'y incomes the
payee who assumed his rightful rosponsibility of
citizenship for the first time squealed
smarts from the last check he sent

revenue Collector. Visions of a similar state tax

raise a chorus of howls heard from
state to the other. • *

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With the tangible property taxpayer it is dif-
ferent. He is accustomed to paying taxes. He
inherited the yoke from his father, grandfather,
and great-grandfather and has learned to carry
it with grace and fortitude, heavy as the burden
has grown each successive year. ; | g

But like the long suffering colonials too much
is plenty. It's time to have a taxpayer's Boston
Tea P.arty. It's time to look into our order of
representation without taxation. It's time for
a new deal. If the voters who vote the taxes had
to help pay them it would be good, for our state
government. It would help check extravagance.

Write your senator and representatives and tell
them how you stand on the income tax.

He still
to the federal

one end of the

Midwest Corn Pool

A MIDWEST Corn Pool for the 11 corn belt
states was prepared by Matt Grennan, author
of the plan, and John Conrad, both of Whiteside
County, who appeared before the I. A. A. Execu-
tive Committee on May 6. i f

The plan proposes a giant organization of at
least 75 per cent of all corn growers in. the Mid-
dle West. Each grower would be placed under
contract to market any corn not used on the farm
for feed, in an orderly manner.

Every member would be apprised of his share
of the surplus which he must agree to keep back
and store on the farm. One twelfth of the total
supply needed for domestic use would be sold each
month, but never more than enough to hold the
price at $1.10 per bushel. No. 0 basis, Chicago.

Members of the committee conceded that the
plan has a great deal of merit. They agreed that
it would be a stupendous undertaking. The task
of organizing and then of insuring the coopera-
tion of every man in the pool were points dis-
cussed at great length. Several expressed the
belief that such a plan is little different than that
proposed by the McNary-Haugen bill whereby
producers would all cooperate under the law in
controlling surplus and maintaining a fair level of
farm prices.

After considerable discussion the committee
adopted the following statement:

"The committee expressed to Messrs. Grennan
and Conrad its appreciation for their presentation
of the corn pool plan and the committee's confi-
dence in their sincerity, but it is sense of the
Executive Committee that the Illinois Agricultural
Association is at present firmly committee to the
principles embodied in the McNary-Haugen bill
for proper control of ^arpluses in all commodities,
and that this committee is determined to push to
the utmost its activities in behalf of this measure
without weakening its influence or dividing its
energy in attempting to support other measures
even though those other measures might have
meritorious features."

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

i 1 Page Five

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What The Counties Are uoins

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4-H CLUB CAMP A 4-H Club camp at the Y. M. C

NEAR DECATUR A.'s Camp Seymour near Decatur is

being planned by the Macon County
Farm Bureau on June 13, 14, 15, and 16. Adjoining
counties will probably send club members also. The Y.
M. C. A. athletic and swimming instructors will be there
to supervise the 4-H boys.

WAYNE FORMS Two blocks of the Jersey Bull As-

BULL CLUBS sociation were formed recently in

Wayne county. Two more blocks will
soon be organized. "The four bulls were pledged at a
Rotary Club meeting recently by Fairfield business men,"
writes Farm Adviser L. L. Corrie. "The business men
here believe'that boosting the farmer in every way is good
for the community and will help them as well.":

COWS AVERAGE
271 LBS. FAT

Cows on test in the Henry County
Dairy Improvement Association av-
eraged 271.73 pounds of fat per cow
in the year just closed according to Farm Adviser Whisen-
and. Dr. F. M. Reed and Sons placed high with an av-
erage for their Holsteins of 357 pounds. A Brown Swiss
herd owned by C. A. Dunbar & Son placed second with
349.3 pounds of fat per cow. A grade Guernsey owned
by L. L. Angevine of Osco scored highest with 516.8
pounds, while two Brown Swiss placed second and third.

OGLE TO HAVE
SEED CORN PLOTS

Twenty-three Ogle county mem-
bers will conduct seed com dem-
onstration plots this year. The
Farm Bureau germinator is being operated continuously
testing com in preparation for this work. Among 696
€ars already tested, 17 per cent graded No. 1 or practi-
cally disease free, 49 per cent No. "2 (infected but good
germination), and 34 per cent No. 3 or badly diseased.

HORSE HITCHES
IN GREENE CO.

Farmers who are striving to econ-
omize are using larger horse hitches
here instead of buying more power
machinery, writes Adviser Laible. H. L. Young of the
Horse Association of Aiherica assisted in 4;hree demonstra-
tions here showing the "tying-in and bucking-back" sys-
tem of hitches. A truck made from the front running
gears of an old wagon was used recently to make possible
the use of a three-bottom tractor plow with an eight-horse
hitch.

KNOX WRITES Knox county wrote $244,000

HAIL INSURANCE worth of hail insurance last year;

$812.77 in losses were paid. Many
of these policies were written at the Farm Bureau office.
A saving of $8 to $13 per thousand was secured for these
men. "This year we expect to write double this amount
of insurance," states Adviser Marchant. "With five or
six sub-agents and one man in charge we hope to cover
the county."

CLARK HOLDS
30 MEETINGS

Thirty night meeting were held dur-
ing recent months by Adviser Merritt
of Clark county in cooperation with
the agricultural teachers at Martinsville, Casey, and West-
field. Soils and crops discussions featured the program.

MORGAN STARTS
OIL COMPANY

H. E. Kitner has been employed
to manage the newly launched Mor-
gan Farmers' Oil Company. The
distribution of petroleum products started with four
trucks from Jacksonville on April 16. A bulk station will
be established at Chapin soon.

PULASKI COUNTY "Our main project of late has
FIGHTS FLOODS been hustling sand bags and getting

othefs to do likewise," writes Ad-
viser Hughes. "The Mississippi and Ohio rivers lately be-
came high enough to unite above Mound City and we are
therefore pocketed with no means of transportation ex-
cept by boat. We hope to be back to normal soon."

M-P DOUBLES Marshall-Putnam county hopes

SOYBEAN ACREAGE toi double its soybean acreage

this year according to Farm Ad-
viser Fuller. Two carload^ of seed are being shipped in.
Alfalfa, sweet clover, and more dairying are getting lots

of attention.

SCOTT AFTER
POULTRY TROUBLES

s.

I'Farmers in this county are
|)egrinning to realize the im-
J)ortance of poultry sanita-
tion," says Farm Adviser "^atje. Two meetings were con-
ducted there last month byjMr. Alp, University of Illinois
Specialist. Girls' club wo^k ^ is a new project in Scott
county.

LASALLE GETS
10% TAX CUT

A 10 per cent reduction in assessed
valuations' of farm lands was an-
nounced at the recent assessors' school
in LaSalle county. This is [the second 10 per cent reduc-
tion for this county according to Farm Adviser McLaugh-
lin. Fourteen seed corn project leaders gathered at the
office recently to make final selections for their test plots
in which will be planted both good an|d poor seed from
their own supplies.

PHOSPHATE TEST
IN HANCOCK

Pfiofephate demonstration plots
will be established on the farms
of five project leaders in Hancock
County this year. Both raW rock and acid phosphate will
be used in these tests which will include applications of
from 200 to 500 lbs. of acid phosphate per acre and from
1000 to 3000 lbs. of raw rock phosphate per acre. Not-
withstanding the fact that the results on the Carthage Ex-
periment Field show that rock phosphate has not given
large returns, many practical farmers believe that their
results have been satisfactory, which is the leading reason
for the accurate tests' to be made by the cooperators in
this project. \

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PIKE BUYS 21
JERSEY CALVES

R. H. Clanahan, agricultural teach-
er of Pittsfield, and Dean Sneeden,
president of the local shipping asso-
ciation, drove 250 miles to Crawford county and bought
21 Jersey calves for club menibers. The calves all come
from members of the Crawford County Farm Bureau. All
the calves are from purebred dams with records averag-
ing more than 400 pounds butterfat in a year. Farm Ad-
viser Frazier and E. E. Pifer located the club calves after
considerable driving and effort. These heifers will be
used as foundation stock for new Jersey herds in Pike
county. j ^1 -.. . 'p • .

RANDOLPH AFTER "^e have been getting in some

WILD GARLIC i.'lick^' jat wild onion and garlic

during the past six or eight
months," writes Farm Adviser Secor. "Our plots, started
two years ago to demonstrate methods of eradication,
have shown conclusively that the pest can be killed. The
secretary of the Southern Illinois Millers Association
is aiding us in getting control i|vork started in other
counties." *

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

WATSON ANSWERS IIDITOR ON THE STATE

INCOME TAX

Editor, The Chicago Daily News,
Chicago, 111.

THE reference to the State income
tax bill in your news article, April
28. and in your editorial the following
day needs correction. The question
asked me in the joint leg^islative hear
ing in Springfield related to the effect
on farmers of the provision permitting
any taxpayer on property to deduct his
property tax from his income tax. To
this question I replied that whether
such a deduction is permitted or not,
I doubted whether, under present con
ditions of farmers' income, five per
cent of them would pay any income
tax.

I call your particular attention to
the words "whether such a deduction
is permitted or not" and "under pres
ent conditions of farmers' income.'
Both clauses were -omitted in the news
article, and their omission is the basis
of a so-called "admission" on my part
My reply was not an admission but a
statement of fact about the income of
farmers. Its truth has not been de-
nied and cannot successfully be chal-
lenged.

Reference in your editorial to class
legislation shows that you have not
carefully considered the purpose and
effect of the income tax bill. Is it
class legislation for farmers and wage
earners to offer a constructive measure
designed to give owners of real estate
and tangible personal property (not
only farmers, but the much larger
number of city and village people)
some measure of relief from the unfair

class legislation for the minority of
Illinois people who own real estate, but
pay nearly all of the taxes to ask for
a measure requiring some contributiori
to the cost of government from tht;
greater number of people who hav€
much the larger portion of the income
of the State, but pay little or no di-
rect property taxes? If this is class
legislation, the revenue amendment
v/hich was supported last fall was
class legislation. Any other remedia
measure which might hereafter be of
fered would be class legislation.

We hold that the present unfair tax- 1
ing system, which is taking an increas-
ing proportion of the return producec

and deductions provided for income
from farm property apply also to in-
come from city and village real and
personal property. A very substantial
percentage of people owning city and
village property have income which,
without the exemptions and deductions
provided in the bill, would require
them to pay an income tax in addi-
tion to their property taxes. All au-
thorities agree that farmers have very
low net income. If there were no ex-
emptions and deductions provided in
the bill, comparatively few farmers
w^ould have any taxable net income.
These provisions of the income tax bill,
therefore, will help owners of city and
village property far more than they
will help farmers.

Your argument that a tax on the net
income of persons would be shifted
brings you into conflict with practically
all economists. If you were right, the
people who have taxable net income
would not pay it, but would collect it
from others. Why, then, do they (or
you) oppose the bill? If some of the
provisions of the bill can be made "fket-
ter, why do not they (and you) help
to improve it?

Other statements in your editorial
betray ignorance of the provisions of
the income tax bill and little compre-
hension of the serious situation it is
designed in some measure to relieve.
The small amount of tax it would re-
quire of people who now pay no direct
taxes could not be a burden to them.
They would be better citizens if they
I^aid it. It is no defense to say that
they pay indirect taxes, for property

burden they are carrying under the ^^^^^^ ^^j.^ ^j.^ taxpayers also pay in
present vicious taxmg system? Is it| direct taxes.

John C. Watson,
Director Taxation and Statistics.

Income Tax Before Legislature
(Continued from page 2.)

ate after a short, spirited debate, on
Thursday morning. The vote was 30
to 11. Senators Rodney Swift and
John Denvir attacked the measure bit-
terly. Voting for the bill were Abt,
Bailey, Barr, Bohrer, Boyd, Burgess,
Carlson, Dailey, Dich, Dunlap, Em-
mons, Flagg, Forrester, Hamilton,
Jewell, Kessinger, Lantz, McNay,
Meents, Meyers, Reynolds, Learcy,
by property, is class legislation, notl Smith, Sneed, Starr, Telford, Thomp-
designed to be such but not less effec- son, Urlson, and Woods. Denvir voted
tive than if it had been designed. for to enable him to enter a motion

The people who are arousing class for reconsideration the following week,
feeling are not the proponents of the Against the bill were Barbour, Boehm,
bill, but the people who profit by th^ Broderick, Courtney, Haenisch,

present unfair taxing system and figh1
every attempt to change it.

Your reference to "various exemp-
tions adopted for their (farmers')
special benefit" is also without founda
tion. Farm property on the assess
ment books is now only about thirty
I>er cent of the total of all property
taxed in the state. The exemptions

Huebsch, Hughes, Joyce, McDermott,
Marks, Swift. This bill has a good
chance to pass in the House next week.
There is no reason why the Chicago
Board of Trade should not be subjected
to the same supervision as are banks,
public utilities, and insurance com-
panies. There is a general feeling that
the Board would not objecti. to mild

I-

supervision such as is imposed by the
Kessinger bill if all its dealings were
legitimate and ahove board, i' .« ■.■■■

Rush Bills Burisd.

The two Rush bills providing for
authorizing county advisers to vaccin-
ate pigs against cholera and test cows
for tuberculosis are buried in sub com-
mittee. These bills are not sponsored
by the I. A. A. and will not be sup-
ported by the Association. Their pas-
sage might lead to ill consequences.

The anti-poultry thief bill sponsored
by Prairie Farmer is getting on nicely
and will probably go through without
opposition. Flood sufferers in the Illi-
nois Valley will be given aid as a re-
sult of the passage of the Arnold bill
appropriating $250,000 for this pur-
pose. The University of Illinois ap-
propriation measure passed without dis-
sent. The well known woman's eight
hour bill regulating the hours women
may work to a maximum of eight daily,
lost by three votes. Lottie Holman
O'Neill, its sponsor for the past three
of four sessions, promises to stage a
comeback in the next Greneral Assem-
bly. Watch for the next legislative
story in the I. A. A. Section of the
Bureau Farmer. j jp ;

MISSOURI CUTS LAND AS^
SESSMENTS

The State Board of Equalization re-
cently voted to cut farm land valuations
for assessment purposes $21,281,930
announces the Missouri Farm Federa-
tion. The net reduction in other farmer
owned property consisting of livestock
and machinery amounted to $3,249,688
below last year.

"This reduction in valuations comes
after many months of work by the Mis-
souri Farm Bureau Federation first
with the assessors before the assess-
ments were made, then in rendering as-
sistance to tlje assessors in helping
them arrive at fair valuations of the
various classes of property," says the
M. F. B. News.

The Missouri Farm Bureau appeared
before the State Tax Commisison and
the State Board of Equalization fre-
quently to present the need for a true
valuation of f ram property. There was
a slight increase in valuations on sheep
and a larger one on hogs.

The total net reduction, however, on
all classes of farm property amounts to
$24,531,618. Should the state tax rate
this year total 12 cents on $100 valua-
tion, this reduction will mean a saving
of $29,437.92 to the farmers of Mis-
souri.

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Bloomlngton Dairymen Organize

Milk producers about Bloomington
are making rapid progress with their
new association modeled after the one
at Peoria. More than one-third of the
dairymen have already joined the or-
ganization. One of the three larger
dealers recently started price cutting
by selling ten milk tickets for one dol-
lar, which means a drop in the retail
price of 1 % cents a quart.

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Page Seven

Eighty farm bureaus are now writ-
ing auto insurance in the Illinois Agfri-
cultural Mutual. Applications totaling
3570 were in the office the first week
in May. Ten thousand applications by
Aug. 1 is the goal of V. Vaniman in
charge of promotional work.

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Farm crop hail insurance signed up
to date totals $62,000. The goal set
by the Farmers Mutual Reinsurance
Co. for the season is $4,000,000.

Fruit and garden truck hail insur-
ance written the first of May amount-
ed to $264,700. Cancellations due to
frost totaled $45,000, leaving a net of
$219,700.

The Illinois Farm Supply Co., has
already handled 18 cars of kerosene,
13 cars of gasoline, and six cars of
lubricating oils, besides miscellaneous
supplies and equipment. The company
was incorporated Mar. 7, 1927, under
the cooperative marketing act of
1923. Officers are M. G. Van Buskirk,
president; G. F. TuUock, vice-presi-
dent; A. R. Wright, secretary, and R.
A. Cowles, treasurer. The Board of
Directors includes the president, vice-
president, secretary, and E. D. Law-
rence, M. G. Lambert, W. A. Dermis,
L. R. Marchant, Harry Jewell and
Sam Sorrells. Membership contracts
are now being received from the local
farm bureau oil companies about the
state. , .V ■■ --^ :i.

Twenty-one limestone quarry com-
panies have signed agreements with
the I. A. A. providing a 10c per ton
discount to all farm bureau members.
Phosphate companies will continue to
operate under an agreement similar to
that of last year. Shipments of phos-
phate so far this year have been slight-
ly heavier than in 1925 and 1926.

Higher limits of coverage tor public
liability damage will probably be made
available soon to auto owners by the
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance
Co., at small additional cost. Reinsur-
ance in larger companies makes these
higher limits possible without jeopar-
dizing the success of the company.

The I. A. A. auto insurance company
placed 2939 policies ip force during
April. Premium deposits during the
month amounted to $29,520; policy
fees $14,685; surplus shares $34,990.
Premiums earned against which losses
and expenses for the month may be
charged were $4,382.
. Twenty-three claims were reported
with losses incurred of $1,357.56, or a
loss ratio of 31 per cent. Fifteen
claims came under collisions, five un-
der property damage and one each un-
der public liability, and fire and theft.

Communitj/ High Schools and Taxes

TOWNSHIP and community high
schools in Illinois increased from 84
in 1923 to 495 in 1924. During the
same period the enrollment and cur-
rent expenditures of these schools in-
creased 425 and 800 per cent respec-
tively. In 1923, the rural districts in-
cluded in 210 townships and commun-
ity high school districts, comprised 37.-
68 per cent of the school population,
furnished 30.41 per cent of the high
school enrollment, paid 56.44 per cent
of the high school taxes, and received
only 22.28 per ceht of the estimated
net income of the people in the dis-
tricts. This is the striking informa-
tion revealed in a study entitled, "The
Distribution of the Tax Burden of
Township and Community High Schools
in Illinois," by Carl Althaus, now as-
sistant professor in the University of
Kansas who completed an exhaustive
investigation under commission from
the Educational Committee of the L
A. A. in 1923. : Vv: Vv

Area Varies
The area of the 210 districts on
which the study is based ranged from
12 to 120 square miles, the average
being 49 square miles. In the study
the common school district in which
the high school building is located is
considered urban, and the remainder of
the territory is considered rural. The
chief motive for combining the rural
and urban districts for high school pur-
poses was the financial motive. In over
half of the 210 township and com-
munity high school districts the urban
districts contained a potential major-
ity of the legal voters of the proposed
districts. Thus it was possible under
the laws which required a favorable

majority vote for the urban districts
to vote the rural districts into the
high school districts even if the rural
people wer^ opposed to being included
in a township or comunity high school
district.

Property subject to taxation in Illi-
nois can be classified into four classes:
lands, village and city lots, personal
property, and railroad property. In
1923, 46.64 per cent of the total tax
burden of township and community
high schools was placed on lands while
lots, personal property, and railroad
property carried 22.51, 19.05 and 11.80
per cent respectively.

Taxed Unequally

"From these data it appears that
the rural districts are taxed out of
proportion to the benefits they receive,
or their ability to pay," stated Althaus
in summarizing his study. "The dis-
proportionate distribution is more
marked in some districts than others,
yet the conditions are so general that
it appears that the general property
tax which operates in all the districts
is the cause for the conditions revealed
by this study. The general property
tax in Illinois has actually broken down
for it causes inequalities between ter-
ritories, types of property, size . of
property and classes of people." The
author has submitted his stjjdy for a
doctor's degree at the University of
Chicago. The 100 page book embody-
ing the study complete with charts and
figures is just oflF the press. Its price
is $1.00 each. Copies may be had by
writing the Illinois Agricultural 'Asso-
ciation, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chi-
cago, enclosing clieck.

Culp and Hlgglns Hired

AB. CULP of Woodford county
• and F. M. Higgins of LaSalle
county have been employed as assistant
directors of organization for districts
five and six under the new organization
plan adopted by the Association. Mr.
Culp, who started work May 1, will
have direct charge of membership
work in the counties of McLean, De-
Witt, Logan, Menard, Sangamon,
Mason, Piatt, Champaign, Vermillion,
and Douglas.

Mr. Culp is a charter member of the
Woodford County Farm Bureau. He
started soliciting for the I. A. A. in
1919 and has been at it almost contin-
uously since then. He will make
Champaign his headquarters where his
son will enter the University of Illi-
nois.

F. M. Higgins of LaSalle county is
a journalist-farmer with 20 years of
newspaper experience, and a consider-
able career of farming back of him.
Higgins became active in farm bureau
work early in the history of the or-
ganization. Following the death of his
wife in 1918 he returned to his LaSalle
county farm to live with his daughter

and son-in-law. He joined the LaSalle
County Farm Bureau in June, 1918,
where he has been a staunch supporter
continuously since that time. In 1922
he started out as a special solicitor for
the I. A. A. His knowledge of the
farm bureau and his firm personal con-
•vittions of the need for a powerful
farm organization led to his success
wherever he went. In the spring of
1924, Higgins left for Nebraska where
he spent a year in charge of organiza-
tion work for the Nebraska Farm Bu-
reau Federation. j

He will have direct; charge of or-
g^ization work in the counties of
Christian, Shelby, Moultrie, Coles,
Edgar, Cumberland, Effingham, Clay,
Jasper, Richland, Lawrence, Crawford,
arid Clark. His headquarters will
probably be Mattoon. .,,

Sixty-seven out of 86 counties whose
membership expired in the past year
have been reorganized with a substan-
tial increase in membership in many
counties. Losses were sustained in the
Chicago dairy district. The counties
of Clay, Clinton, Cumberland, Galla-
tin, Iroquois, Pope, and Wayne will
renew their memberships in 1927.

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709,600 TONS LIMESTONE
USED IN ILLINOIS IN 1926

A total of 709,600 tons of agricul-
tural limestone were used by Illinois
farmers in 1926, according to estimates
made by J. R. Bent, director of farm
supplies, after reviewing records of
the various limestone companies.

This tonnage is double that of any
other state in the Union although it
is approximately 100,000 tons short of
the amount used in 1925, Wet
weather and bad roads which prevailed
last spring and in late summer and
fall retarded Illinois from beating its
former high record according to Bent.

St. Clair county placed first in the
state with a total tonnage of 43,500,
exceeding its former record of 37,000
tons used in 1925. According to Bent,
this is perhaps the greatest tonnage
ever used by any one county in the
United States.

Randolph county placed second with
32,500 tons, Washington third with
24,500, Madison fourth with 23,100
tons, Clinton fifth with 23,000, and
Monroe sixth with 20,000 tons. Twen-
ty counties used 10,000 tons or more-
each.

To maintain a supply of calcium
carbonate in the soil essential to soil
neutrality would require the use of
approximately 2,000,000 tons annually
in this state, according to Mr. Bent.

Richardson Hired

A. E. Richardson, formerly with the

Pure Milk Association, was employed

recently as field representative for the

. , Illinois Agricultur-

' ■^^gji^- al Mutual Insurance

^^^^\ Co. Mr. Richardson

. -^^L__l "will work with V.

.. fl^BRMb Vaniman, field man-

^■jjj^^^ ager, in selling auto

^^^^Htor insurance to farm

^^^^tH^^^ bureau members.

^^^^ a^^^^ Ten thousand policy

^^^^^l^^^^k holders by Aug. 1

^^^^^^^^^^H the goal com-

^^^H^^H pany.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

A. E. Richardson

helped organize the
State Farm Mutual
Auto Insurance Co.
of Bloomington back in 1922. Later
he solicited members for the I. A. A.
under J. C. Sailor and G. E. Metzger,
did organization work in the St. Louis
dairy district and more recently acted
as director of organization for the
Pure Milk Association.

Richardson, who is 39 years old, is
the son of Hon. John C. Richardson of
Edinburg, Christian county, 111.,
member of the State legislature for
18 years.

Heavy barrows will be eligible to
compete in the individual classes at
the International Live Stock Exposi-
tion at Chicago, Nov. 26 to Dec. 3,
according to a recent decision of the
Board of Directors. i i.

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John L. Eustis.

Under the leadership of John L.
Eustis, chairman of the auto insurance
committee, LaSalle county members
went over the top in their recent auto
insurance drive and secured 229 appli-
cations or 22 per cent of the 1041 Farm
Bureau members.

Jiacomb District Conference

Full approval and commendation of
the Illinois Agricultural Association's
legislative program was expressed in
resolutions at the
District Conference
held at Macomb on
April 22.

President Earl C.
Smith reviewed the
I. A. A. legislative
activities before the
conference of mem-
bers from Rock
Island, McDonough,
Hancock, Mercer,
and Warren coun-
ties. W. H. Moody,
representative on
the Executive Com-
mittee from the district, presided.

The field service program in behalf
of the Producers' Commission Associa-
tion was discussed and full approval
given.

It was recommended that the I. A. A.
use its influence to secure farm speak-
ers on Chautauqua programs. The
meeting went on record in favor of
holding the next annual meeting of the
Association at Rock Island. The dis-
trict conference idea was highly com-
mended and the next one scheduled for
September.

W. H. Moody

Senator Capper Addresses

I. A. A. Executive Committee

A HEARTY endorsement of the
grain exchange regulatory meas-
ure drafted by the I. A. A. and intro-
duced in the state
senate by Senator
Harold C. Kessinger
of Aurora was given
by U. S. Senator
Arthur Capper of
Kansas before the
executive committee
at its last meeting
on May 6. : >i

"My own s&te
will be greatly
pleased if this bill
passes and becomes
law," declared the
senator. , "There is \ • . •;
a growing feeling that something is
wrong on the Chicago Board of Trade,
and there is a general lack of confi-
dence by the public at large in this
exchange.

A state regulatory commission
would help rather than hinder the
Board, he said, because it would tend
to restore public confidence. He stated
that the Capper-Tincher Act had done
some good but had not come up to
expectations in purging the exchange
of all suspicions of guilt and shady
practices.

Arthur Capper

Senator Cuthbertson, chairman of
the Committee on Education in the
Senate has asked John C. Watson,
director of taxation and statistics, to
review carefully his bill amending the
state school fund statute and to make
suggestions on other proposed school
legrislation.

Danville and Rock Island

Invite I. A. A.

DELEGATIONS from both Danville
and Rock Island appeared before
the Executive Committee on May 6 to
ask for the next Annual Meeting of
the I. A. A. ,« j «..

The new Hotel Ft. Armstrong and
theatre seating 2,000 people as well
as the U. S. Arsenal were the big at-
tractions offered the I. A. A. delegates
and members by Walter F. Archer,
representing the Rock Island Chamber
of Commerce. Farm Adviser S. S.
Carney and W. H. Moody supported
Archer in the invitation.

Farm Adviser Otis Kercher brought
up an invitation committee from Dan-
ville. Allen T. Gordon, secretary of
the Chamber of Commerce, Frank P.
Myers, a local merchant, and President
Lenhart of the Vermilion Farm Bu-
reau all collaborated in persuading the
committee to come to Danville. "We
have everything at Danville," said
Myers, the chief spokesman. "Just
name it and we'll deliver."

The committee will probably an-
nounce its selection at an early date.

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JUNE, 1927

Number 6

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^^^^^^^^^^ t^ Dra^ws to Close 1

Gas Tax, Increased Bonding Bills, Appropriations, and Traction Feature Last Week's Session

THE Fifty-Fifth General Assembly
is scheduled to adjourn this week.
While there is nothing in the law to

prohibit the ses-
s i o n continuing,
any bills passed
and signed after
June 20, can not
become effective
until July, 1928.
Hundreds of
measures, both
good and bad, are
listed on the
calendar or lie in
committee, and
the mad scramble

A. Otis Arnold

has begun to put them through before
the curtain
goes down
next Saturday.

The Arnold
gas tax bill,
Chicago's in-
creased bond-
ing and trac-
tion measures,
Lee O'Neil
Browne's vit-
riolic reply to
the Chicago
Tribune's re-
c e n t attack
on him, and
the omnibus
bill were the
pro m i n e n t
subjects a t
the Legisla-
ture last
week.

The fight
over the gas
tax opened
o n Wednes-
day afternoon
when this bill
was called up
on second
reading b y

Rep. Arnold. Cook county members
sought at once to strike out the en-
acting clause, but a motion to that
effect by Weber lost eighty-two to
sixty-one. Failing in this attempt.
Rep. Schnackenberg offered an amend-
ment providing for a referendum on
the proposition at the next general
election. This motion, likewise, was
defeated but by a smaller margin.

The debate was continued on Thurs-
day morning when David Hunter, Jr.,
of Rockford, submitted an amendment
providing for the distribution of the
gas tax funds on a 70-30 basis with
seventy per cent refunded to the
counties, thirty-five per cent on the
basis of hard road mileage, and thirty-

A SCENE at Mooseheart showing the beautiful lake and dam where the I. A. A.
picnic will be held on Thursday, Aug. 1 1 . Preparations are under way to enter-
tain a crowd of 50,000 people.

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five per cent on the basis of license
fees. His amendment provided fur-
ther for collection of the tax by the
Secretary of State instead of by the
Department of Finance. | f

Amendments Voted Down *

Homer Tice of Greenview defended
these amendments on the floor of the
House in which he repeatedly referred
to the 1. 1 A. A. asking that the Asso-
ciation endorse them because the new
plan offered more money to the coun-
ties to build secondary farm to mar-
ket roads. He further attacked the
provision in the bill for the refunding-
of fifty per cent of the funds to the
counties after expenses for admin-
istering the
act had been
deducted.

"This leaves
a loophole for
an unlimited
number of
political ap-
pointees and
white-collared
loafers," h e
said. "W h y
they can have
an inspector
in every fiU-
i n g station
in the state
to administer
the act at
such expense
that little
money will be
left to build
roads."

This critic-
ism was ob»
viated, how-
ever, when
Rep. Arnold
of Quincy in-
troduced a bill
providing for

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only $50,000 to administer the act if i

passes. At the same time Arnold introducei I est transactions contrary to the interests
bills appropriating: $9,200,000 for refundinj^ of the public and particularly farmers.

Senator Swift upheld the provision
claiming it was germane to the bill and

to the counties to build roads, and |1,840,-
000 for rebates on gasoline not used in mo'
tor cars, should the gas tax measure pass, necessary to protect the millers wlfo buy

many strings tied to the money to be re
funded to the counties." A spirited de
bate continued with Arthur Roe of Van

Quincy defending the bill.

O'Grady and Lyons of Cook, Tice of Men

down. The opponents then withdrew, an(
allowed the bill to go along to third read
ing when it is expected to pass and b^
referred to the Senate.

Fight Awaits In Senate
The I. A. A. sponsored the measur^

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place, and moreover would legalize dishon- bonds the people have already voted.

Margaret Haley of the Chicago Teachers'
Federation and Harris Keeler of the Public
Bureau of EflBciency of Chicago maintained
that the bill was not needed, that the $35,-
000,000 of bonds just voted could be issued
Rep. Little of Champaign attacked th^ wheat and sefl flour on contract, hedging when the money was needed. Nevertheless,
measure because he said, "there are too their purchases to protect theiiiselves when put to a vote, this bill together with

against market fluctuations. Senator Dun- S. B. 447-532 which cut the maximum tax
lap defended, the I. A. A. amendments to i^tes in half in taxing districts throughout
strike out Section 6 B. Senator Meents the state, were passed out fifteen to eleven

dalia, Wood of Keenes, Moore of Kewanee, admitted the bill would be stronger with- with^ favorable recomendation. The 1. A.
Snell of Macoupin County, and Arnold o:! out 6 B although he saw no harm in it.

Cuthbertson's motion to strike out the sec-

Amendments were offered repeatedly bn tion was sustained a moment later and the

bill was reported out with the recom-

ard, and others, but all these were voted mendation that it do pass as amended.

H. B. 471 O'Hair, known as the fertilizer
bill, was amended in the Senate Agricul-
tural Committee on motion by Senator
Dunlap to exclude nitrate of soda, and
nitrate and sulphate of ammonia from the
provisions of the act. Sen. Dunlap claims
that these fertilizers do not need to be
bearing Rep. Arnold's name after muck tagged, and that the tax for this purpose
deliberation because it considers the bil: would just handicap and increase the cost
most fair and acceptable to all interest i of these fertilizers to the fruit growers
concerned. Cook county legislators havd who use this material. The state department
repeatedly taken the narrow and selfish of agriculture contended that these mate-
view that it is not concerned in the down' rials ought to be tested, analyzed and tagged
state road program and hence is opposec to safeguard the smaller buyers. Senator
to any gas tax. They continually belabor Dunlap, yho is one of the largest fruit grow-
downstate representatives for lack of co - ers in the state, promised to look into this
operation, but on an issue such as this on( feature before the bill comes up for passage,
which concerns the entire state, oppose ill

because the rest of the state will get s
slightly larger piece of the pie than th«
90unty of Cook

The amended gas tax provides that fifty;
per cent of the funds so derived will be
returned to the counties to build and main
tain state aid roads under state super-
vision. Such funds may also be used to
retire bonds already issued for roads with-
in the county. A fight awaits the measure
in the Senate when it passes the House,
but with the amendments noted it is
expected to pass and be signed by the
governor

School Bill Amended

The Cork bill which would
more than double the maximum
non-high school tax rate was
further amended in the Senate
on Tuesday when Cuthbertson
secured an amendment reducing
the maximum rate from $1.25
to $1.00 per $100 valuation.
Hicks had previously amended
the bill reducing the rate from
$1.50 as provided in the or-
iginal bill to $1.25. The pres-
ent law allows a levy of only
66-2/3 cents per $100 valua-
tions. The Cuthbertson amend-
ment is in line with the I. A.
A.'s thought on this question,
and allows enough taxing
power to any district whose
assessed valuations are at the
state level.

The McCarthy Public Ware-
housing bill, H. B. 553, was up
before the Senate Committee
on Agriculture on Wednesday
morning when I. A. A. amend-
ments were submitted by Sena-
tor Cuthbertson. Section 6 B
of the act would validate all
trades and transactions on the
Chicago Board of Trade wheth-
er they are legal or otherwise.
R. A. Cowles and Donald Kirk-
patrick appeared before tne
committee against this provision
contending that it did not be-
long in the bill in the first

Bonding Bills Win

A sharp encounter between friends and
enemies of the Chicago increased bonding
measure, S. B. 446, occurred in the House
Revenue Committee on Wednesday after- called up this week. Pressure is being brought

A. fought these measures with all its
strength. The vote of downstate members
who were not representing the interests of
their constituents when they Voted for these
measures, was responsible for them going
to the floor of the House. The roll call
vote on S. B. 446 which doubles assesed
valuations throughout Illinois follows.

For: Overland, Beckman, Elrod, E. A.
W. Johnson, Juul, Phillips, Schnackenberg,
Stewart, Swanson, McClugage, McSweeney,
Ratcgan, Minsky, Lipka, O'Brien. Mc-
Clugage explained his vote saying he would
vote against the bills on the floor of the
House. Igoe voted present.

Against: Chr. Hutson, Hunter, Allen,
Church, Clark, Vaughan, Warren, Wylie,
Gill, Fahy, Hennebry.

It is hard to understand how any legis-
lator could be for these bills, much less a
downstate representative when they open
wide the gates for higher taxes.

The vote on the other measures S. B.
447-532 was the same.

Senate Bill* Delayed ^

The Board of Trade bill, S. B. 148, was not

noon. This bill would double the bonding
power by doubling the assessed valuations,
in every taxing district of Illinois. Cor-
poration Counsel Ettelson of Chicago and
his colleagues appeared in defense of the
measure again with the argument that Chi-
cago can not go forward with its public
improvements and school building program
unless it has authority to issue the

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6i 4IGRICULTURAL assets have been depleted
-Hk some $20,000,000,000 in the past five years.
In tpn years the indebtedness of agriculture has

increased from $3,320,000,000
to $12, 250,000,000. The total
value of Illinois farms in 1920
was $5,250,294,752 and by the
close of 1925 they had de-
creased to $3,428,229,461,
showing a loss of $1,822,065,-
291."

This is part of the story told
the organized bankers of Illi-
nois by President' Earl C. Smith,
who recently completed a
speaking tour before ten group
conferences of the Illinois
Bankers Association.

"We all enjoyed having you
with us on the trip, and I want
to thank you most sincerely for
splendid contribution to the program," said
M. All Graettinger, secretary of the Illinois Bankers'
Assoiiiation, in a letter to President Smith. "I feel
that your efforts have spurred the interest of the
bankers in the agricultural problem as it has never
been done before and I am sure that this will lead
to some helpful action on the part of -the associa-
tion pvithin a short time."

St<ips were made at Barry, Litchfield, Murphys-
boro, Mount Vernon, Casey, Dixon, Kewanee,
PeorTJa, Pontiac, and Woodstock.

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your

to bear to prevent the passage of this meas-
ure and there are evidences of influence to
block its further consideration. It was on
the calendar, second reading, on Thursday.
The I. A. A. will ask to have it brought up
for early consideration this week.

The state income tax bill, S. B. 313, was
in the same position. An effort will be
made to bring it up for earty considera-
tion likewise.

The Lantz cornborer appro-
priation bill, S. B. 553, which
would give $30,000 to the state
experiment station for special
research work on the corn-
borer, lies in the House Com-
mittee on Appropriations fac-
ing opposition from certain
committee members. It will be
brought out early next week,
according to present indica-
tions, and moved up for pass-
age.

Cooperative Bills
S. B. 366 — Lantz — the amend-
ment to the Cooperative Act of
1923 passed the Senate with
some bad ' amendments, which
would virtually prevent a co-
operative from entering into a
contract with a producer,
passed the Senate and lies in
the House Committee on Agri-
culture. The same bill H. B.
509 — McCarthy — was up on third
reading in the House ready for
passage on Thursday. The
House bill is not amended. This
bill will be pushed along to the
.Senate where an effort will be
made to pass it without amend-
ment.

H. B. 578— Tice— the grain
warehousing on farms bill is up
on third reading in the House.
Its companion measure S. B. 433
— Cuthbertson — has passed the
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NEW LIVESTOCK DIRECTOR .Smith Speaks at Centralla

ROCK ISLAND GETS

RAY E. MILLER of Quincy, 111.,
farm adviser in Adams County,
has been employed as director of live-
stock marketing for
the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association, to
succeed Wm. E.
Hedgcock, who re-
cently tendered his
resignation. M r.
Miller will also serve
as director of field
service for the four
cooperative 1 i v e-
stock producer
agencies operating
in the Illinois ter-
ritory under the
terms of an agrree-
ment entered into between the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association and
these Producer Agencies. The organ-
izations concerned are the Chicago
Producers' Commission Association,
Producers' Commission Association,

Ray E. Miller

President Earl C* Smith addressed
a joint luncheon of 120 farmers and
business men at Centralia on Friday,
V ,; June 3. :,..■■.

"It was a fine
meeting and there
ought to be more
like it throughout
Illinois," said W. L.
Cope, I. A. A. Ex-
ecutive Committee-
man from Salem,
who introduced the
speaker. The meet-
ing had been ar-
ranged by the Cen-
tralia Commercial
Club with th€ help
of A. B. Leeper,
Illinois Fruit Ex-

W. L. Cope

manager
change.

of the

The ninth annual meeting of the
American Farm Bureau Federation
Indianapolis, Peoria Producers' Com- will be held at the Sherman Hotel,
mission Association, and the Produc- Chicago, Dec. 5, 6, and 7, 1927, ac-
ers' Livestock Commission Association, cording to a recent announcement of should provide an interesting setting
National Stock Yards, 111. President Sam H. Thompson. i for the meeting.

Mr. Miller will as- I

MEETING

Rock Island will be the scene of the
next annual meeting of the I. A. A.,
according to a decision of the Execu-
tive Committee in
session last week.

The decision lay
between Danville
and Rock Island, al-
though Peoria made
an effort to bring
the convention back
to that city through
the efforts of Mike
Finn of the Peoria
Chamber of Com-
merce and Wilfred
Shaw, farm adviser.
W. H. Moody,
member of the com-
mittee, made an earnest plea in behalf
of Rock Island, while R. F. Kan-
spoke for Danville. The members
voted eight to five for the western Illi-
nois city. The convention w^U be held
Jan. 18, 19 and 20, 1928. Rock Island,
old stamping gn*ound of Blackhawk,

W. M. Moody

sume his new duties
about July 1. He is a
graduate of the Uni-
versity of Missouri
and during his four
years' emplo3rment as
farm adviser in Adams
County established an
enviable record of ac-
complishment. Adams
County has the repur
tation for shipping
more livestock co-
operatively than any
other county in the
state. Mr. Miller is
president of the Illi-
nois Association of
Farm Advisers. He
will probably establish
residence in Chicago.
Miller is married and
has one daughter. ,

INDIANA FARM BU-
REAU GETS INTO
TAX FIGHT

THE Indiana Farm
Bureau is taking
the lead in a state-
wide campaign to low-
er assessed valuations
of farm lands. In a
series of meetings con-
ducted by the state
board of tax commis-
sioners throughout the
state, the Farm Bur-
eau showed that as-
sessed valuations on
farm lands are higher
than their actual sell-
ing value.

The Sta^te Board un-
der the law must
equalize valuation.

JUDGING CONTEST WINNERS

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These boys from the Chenoa High School placed first !n 'tbeir
section in the recent livestock judging contest, held at the University
farm. Normal, III.

Top row, left to right, are Lowell Gerdes, Arthur Downs, Ken-
neth Jordon and J. A. Twardock, coach.

Bottom row: Kenneth Mears, Edwin Rhoda And James Andes.

They placed first in dairy, third in fat stock judging, and first
in placing sheep. Mears won first and Andes third in individual
judging.

Sixteen schools and 200 contestants competed.

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I. A. A. PICNIC
MAKES PROGRESS

"We are getting
ready to entertain a
crowd of 50,000 peo-
ple at Mooseheart on
Aug, 11" is the optim-
istic note expressed by
Harry P. Kelley, Kane
county farm adviser,
who is chairman of
the general committee
for the I. A. A. State
Picnic. Following are
the names of the peo-
ple who will see that
the picnickers get a
royal welcome.

I. A. A. Picnic Committees.

General— H. P. KeUey.
Geneva, chairman ; Theodore
G. Miller, Mooseheart, secre-
tary : John ESsser, Aurora,
treasurer.

Finance — C. B. Ha^ams.
Geneva, chairman ; C. W.
T e n n a n t, Aurora ; Karl
Stouflfer. Elgin; Robert B.
Irwin, Aurora: John Geiss.
Ratavia: O. G. Olwin, De-'
Kalb; Wm. Webb. Plain-
field: J. F. BetE, Osweiro:
Dr. Fred MUJer, Elgrin.

Sporta — Glenn W a r n e.
Sugar Grove, chairman :
Dan G. Da vies. Sugrar
Grove : Harry Gilkerson,
Libertyville : Raymond Nel-
son, DeKalb : H a r r i a o n
Fahrnkopf, Bloominirton.

Program — Col. Frank D.
Whipp. St. Charles, chair-
man : Rodney Brandon.
Mooseheart: J. F. Hedseock.
Joliet ; J. A. Yopns, Aurora.

Women's Program — Mias
Lulu Black, Geneva, chair-
man: Mrs. I. R. Judd, Au-
rora; Mrs. Harvey Fraley,
Naperville.

Grounds — Homer McCoy.
Mooseheart, chairman : E.
A. Camcross, Wheaton.

Publicity-^. W. Lino.
Aurora, chairman ; Malcolm
Watson, Yorksville : Lewis
Murkvicka, Aurora ; K.
White, Elgin.

Concessions — ^M. F. Me-
Carty. Aurora, chairman.

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only $r)0,000 to udminister the ai-t if i .
passes. At the same time Arnold introduc«'i|
liills appropriating $9,200,000 for refundinjf
f.o the counties to build roads, and $1,810,
000 for rebates on gasoline not used in mof
tor la; -, should the tras tax measure iiassi.

Rep. I^ittle of Champaign attacked th t
mieasu IV because he said, "there are toi>
Miaiiy strings tied to the money to be re
funiii'd to the counties." A spirited de
bato continued with Arthur Roe of Van
<lalia. Wood of Keenes, Moore of Kewanee
Smll of Macoupin County, and Arnold o
<iuiticy defending the bill.

Amendments won- offered repeatedly by
O'drady and Lyons of Cook, Tice of Men
;)»•!. and others, hut all these were votec
• .'•wn. The opponents then withdrew, an(
:illowed the bill to go along to third read
•iig when it is expected to i)ass :ui<i b
.•■eferre<i to the Senate.

Fight Awaits In Senate

The I. A. A. sponsored the measur
bt-aring Rep. .Arnold's name after juucl
deliberation because it considers the bil
most fair and acceptable to all interest
I'oncrrned. Cook county legislators hav
repeatedly taken the narrow and selfis
view that it is not concerned in the down
stall- road program and hence is oppose
to any gas tax. They continually belabo
downstate re|>resentatives for lack of co
operation, but on an issue such as this on<|
which concerns the entire state, oppose i
because the rest of the state will get '
slightly larger piece of the pie than th
county of Cook.

The amended gas tax provides that tiftyl
l)er cent of the funds so derived will bi
returned to the counties to build an«l main
tain state aid roads under state super-
vision. Such funds may also be used tc
retire bonds already issued for roads with-:
in the county. A fight awaits the measure
in the Senate when it passes the House
but with the amendments noted it i^
exyjected to pass ;ii)d be sign<'(l by th<
L(Hernor.

School Bill Amended

The Cork bill which would
vjiore than double the maximum
Mon-high school tax rate was
further amended in the Senate
>>n Tuesday when Cuthbertson
-ecured an amendment reducing
the maximum rate, from $1.2.')
to $1.00 per $100 valuation.
Hicks had previously amended
the l>ill reducing the rate fi'om
.$1..jO as provided in the or-
iginal bill to $1.25. The pres-
ent law aliffws a levy of only
(j»;-2, :5 cents per $100 valua-
tions. The Cuthbertson amend
ment is in line with the I. A.
A.'s thought on this (luestion,
.md allows enough taxing
power to any district whose
■ a.^sessed valuations are at the
state level.

The McCarthy Public Ware-
housing bill, H. B. 553. was up
before the Senate Committee
on Agriculture on Wednesday
morning when I. A. A. amend-
ments were submitted by Sena-
tor Cuthbertson. Section fi B
of the act would validate all
trades and transactions on the
Chicago Board of Trade wheth-
er they are legal or otherwise.
R. A. Cowles and Donald Kirk-
I)atrick appeared before the
committee against this provision
contending that it did not be
long in the bill in the first

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of the pubjic and particularly farmers.

Senator Swift upheld the provision
claiming it was germane to the bill and
necessary to i)rotect the milleis who buy
wheat and sell flour on ctyitract, hedging
their purchases to protect themselves
against market fluctuations. Senator Dun-
lap defended the I. A. A. amendments to
strike out Section 6 B. Senator Mecnts
admitted the bill would be stronger with-
out 6 B although he saw no harm in it.
Cuthbertson's motion to strike out the sec-
tion was sustaine<l a moment later and the
bill was reported out with the recom-
mendation that it do pass as amended.

H. B. 471 O'Hair, known as the fertilizer
bill, was amended in the Senate Agricul-
tural Committee on motion by Senator
Dunlap to exclude nitrate of soda, and
nitrate and sulphate of ammonia from the
provisions of the act. Sen. Dunlap claims
that these fertilizers lio not need to be
tagged, and that the tax for this purpose
would just handicap and increase the cost
of these fertilizers to the fruit growers
who use this material. The state dej)artment
of agriculture contended that these mate-
rials ought to be tested, analyzed and tagged
to safeguard the smaller buyers. Senator
.Dunlap. who is one of thtrlargest fruit grow-
ers in the state, promised to look into this
feature before the bill comes up for passage.

Bonding Bills Win

A sharp encounter between friends and
(tieinics of the Chicago increased bonding
nieasuie. S. B. -1 ICi, occurred in the House
Revenue Committee on Wednesday aftei-
noon. This bill would double the bonding
ITftwer by doubling the assessed valuations,
in every taxing district of Hlinois. Cor-
poration Coun.sel Ettelson of Chicago and
his colleagues appeared in defense of the
measure again with the argument that Chi-
cvAgo can not go forward with its j)ublic
imni<>vem<>nt« and school building program
unless it has authority to issue the

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(JRICULTURAL a.s.^et.s have been depleted ll
some $20,000,000,000 in the i)ast five year.s. fl
n >ears the indebtednes.s of agriculture has jj
increa.sed from $3,320,000,000 Q
to .$12, 250,000,000. The total g
value of Illinois farms in 1920 '
was $.5,250,294,752 and by the
ch)se of 1925 they had de-
creased to $3,428,229,-161.
showing a loss of $1,822,065,-
291."

This is part of the story told ll
the organized bankers of Illi- fl
nois by President Karl C. Smith, H
who recently completed a
speaking tour before ten group
conferences of the Illinois
Bankers Association.

"We all enjoy-ed having you |i

with us on the trip, and I want ||

to thank you most sincerely for W

splendid contribution to the pijogram," said U

(Jraettinger, secretary of the Illinois Bankers' ll

Assoi iation, in a letter to President Smith. "I feel U

that your efforts have spurred the interest of the jj

bank >rs in the agricultural problem as it has never 'J

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done before and I am sure that this will lead

to some helpful action on the part of the associa

vithin a short time.

St< ps were made at Barry, Litchfield, Murphys-

Mount Vernon. Casey, Dixon, Kewanee.

Peoria. Pontiac, and Woodstock.

Margaret Haley of the Chicago Yeachers'
Feiferation and Harris Keeler of the Public
Bureau of Efficiency of, Chicago maintained
that the bill was not deeded, that the $3.').-
000,000 of bonds just voted could be issued
when the money was needed. Nevertheless,
when put to a vote, this bill together with
S. B. 447-.'>:52 which, cut the maximum tax
rates in half in taxing districts throughout
the state, were passed out fifteen to eleven
with favorable recome'hdation. The I. A.
X. fought these measures with all its
strength. The vote of downstate members
who were not representing the interests of
their constituents when they voted for these
measures, was responsible for them going
to the floor of the House. The roll call
vote on S. B. 446 which doubles assesed
valuations throughout Illinois follows.

For: Overland, Beckman, Elrod, E. A.
W. Johnson, Juul, Phillips, Schnackenberg.
Stewart, Swanson, McClugage, MeSweeney,
Ratcgan, Minsky, Lipka, O'Brien. Mc-
Clugaire explained his ivote saying he would
vote against the bills on the floor of the
House. Igoe voted present.

Against: Chr. Hutson, Hunter, .Allen,
Church, Clark, Vaughan, Warren, Wylie,
Gill, Fahy, Hennebry.

It is hard to understand how any legis-
lator could be for these bills, much less a
downstate representative when they open
wide the gates for higher taxes.

The vote on the other measures S. B.
l47-.")32 was the same.

Senate Bills Delayed

The Board of Trade bill, S. B. 148, was not
called up this week. Pressure is being brought
to bear to prevent the passage of this meas-
ure and there are evidences of influence to
block its further consideration. It was on
the calendar, second reading, on Thursday.
The I. A. A. will ask to have it brought up
for early consideration this week.

The state income tax bill, S. B. 313, was
in the same position. An effort will be
made to bring it up for early considera-
tion likewise.

The Lantz cornborer appro-
priation bill, S. B. 553, which
would give $30,000 to the state
"■xperiment station for special
research work on the corn-
borer. lies in the House Com-
mittee on Appropriations fac-
ing opposition from certain
committee members. It will be
brought out early next week,
.iccording to present indica-
tions, and moved up for pass-
age.

Cooperative Bills
S. B. 366 — Lantz — the amend-
ment to the Cooperative Act of
iy23 passed the Senate with
some bad amendments, which
would virtually prevent a co-
operative from entering into a
contract with a producer,
passed the Senate and lies in
the House Committee on Agri-
culture. The same bill H. B.
.')09 — McCarthy— was up on third
reading in the House ready for
passage on Thursday. The
House bill is not amended. This
bill will be pushed along to the
.Senate where an eff'ort will be
made to pass it without amend-
ment.

H. B. 578— Tice— the grain

warehousing on farms bill is up

on third reading in the House.

Its companion measure S. B. 433

Cuthbertson — has passed the

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Ray E. Miller

NEW LIVESTOCK DIRECTOR

KAY E. MILLER of Quincy, 111.,
farm adviser in Adams County,
has been employed as director of live-
stock marketing foi'
the Illinoi.^ Apfvicul-
tural Association, to
succeed Wm. E.
Hedgcock, who re-
cently tendered his
resignation. .M r.
Miller will also serve
as director of field
service for the four
cooperative 1 i v e-
stock producer
agencies operating
in the Illinois ter-
ritory under the
terms of an agree-
ment entered into between the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association and
these Producer Agencies. The organ-
izations concerned are the Chicago
Producers' Commission Association.
Producers* Commission Association.
Indianapolis, Peoria Producers' Com-
mission Association, and the Produc-
ers' Livestock Commission Association.
National Stock Yards, 111.

Mr. Miller will as-
sume his new duties
about July 1. He is a
graduate of the Uni-
versity of Missouri
and during his four
year.s' employment as
farm adviser in Adams
County established an
enviable record of ac-
complishment. Adams
County has the repu-
tation for shipping
more livestock co-
operatively than any
other county in the
state. Mr. Miller is
president of the Illi-
nois Association of
Farm Advisers. He
will probably establish
residence in Chicago.
Miller is married and
has one daughter.

SnuUi Speaks ill Ccniralui

Pre.^^ident Karl C. Smith addressed
a joint luncheon of 120 farmers and
husiiu'ss men at Centralia on Friday. .
June 3. j

"It was a fine
meeting and there-
ought to be more
like it throughout
Illinois." said \V. L.
Cope, I. A. A. Ex-
ecutive Committee-
man from Salem,
who introduced jthe
speaker. The meet-
ing had been ar-
ranged by the Cen-
tralia Commercial
Club with the help
of A. B. Leeper.
Illinois Kruit Ex-

next

W. L. Cope

manager
rhange.

of the

The ninth annual meeting of the
.\merican Farm Bureau Federation
will be held at the Sherman Hotel.
Chicago, Dec. .5, 6, and 7, l'J27, ac-
cording to a recent announcement of
President Sam H. Thompson. j

INDIANA FARM BU-
REAU GETS INTO
TAX FIGHT

''l^HE Indiana Farm
■ Bureau is taking
the lead in a state-
wide campaign to low-
er assessed valuations
of farm lands. In a
series of meetings con-
ducted by the state
board of tax commis-
sioners throughout the
state, the Farm Bur-
eau showed that as-
sessed valuations on
farm lands are higher
than their actual sell-
ing value.

The State Board un-
der the 1 a w must
equalize valuation.

JUDGING CONTEST WINNERS

These Jboys from the Chenoa High School placed first in their
section in the recent livestock judging contest^ held at the Unjiv^rsity
farm. Normal, III. | .

Top rovr, left to right, are Lowell Gerdes, Arthur Downs, Ken-
neth Jordon and J. A. Twardock, coach.

Bottom row: Kenneth Mears, Edwin Rhoda and James Andes.

They placed first in dairy, third in fat stock judging, atid first
in placing sheep. Mears won first and Andes third in inaiviidual
judging.

Sixteen schools and 200 contestants competed.

ROCK ISLAND GETS
MEETING j

Rdckl Island will be the scene of the
afinual meeting of the I. A. A.,
accoijdipg to a decision of the Execu-
tive Committee in
session last week.

The decision lay
between Danville
and Rock Island, al-
though PeoHa made
an effort to bring
the convention back
to that' cityl through
the efforts of .Mike
I'inn of thp Peoria
Chamber of Com-
merce and Wilfred
Shaw, farm adviser.
W. H. Moody,
I ,r member of the com-

niiltep, mavle an «arnest plea in behalf
of Rjoc^ Msland, while R. F. Kan-
spoke JFor Danville. The member.-
voted, eight to five for the we.stern Illi-
nois 4'ty. The convention will be held
Jan. Is] 19 and 20, 1928. Rock Island,
old sJtahiping ground of Blackhawk.
should provide an interesting setting
for tlje meeting. , " j I

I. A. A. PICNIC
MAKES PROGRESS

■'We are getting
ready to entertain a
crowd of 50,000 peo-
ple at Mooseheart on
.Aug. 11" is the optim-
istic note expressed by
Harry P. Kelley, Kam
county farm advi.ser,
who is chairman of
the general committee
for the I. A. A. SUt<-
Picnic. F^ollowing are
the names of the peo-
ple who will see that
the picnickers' get a
royal welcome.

I. A. A. Picnic Cammitlees.

G»'Pfral— H. P. K«-lley.
i^tuv.-i. chairman : Thwiilor*.
'!. Miller. MoosehcHrt. ^pcre-
tar>-; .John Essec, Aurora.
'ri-Hsurer.

Finance C. B. : Hairams.
'it-nc'va. chairman ; C'. W.
T «• n n a n f , Aurora ; Kan
St.mffpr. Klpin ; Robert B.
Irwin. Aurora; John Geiss.
Hatavia: O. G. Olwin. Dc-
Kalb: Wm. WeM>. Plain-
lit'lf! ; J. F. Betz. Osweiro .
I>r. Frod Miller. F.lKin.

SportK- Glenn W a r n o.
Suvar Grove, chairman :
Dan G. Davies. Sutrar
Grove : Harry Gilkerson.
I.;iK-rtyviIIe : Raynftnnd Nel-
son. DeKalb : H a r r i .« o n
Fahrnkopf, Bloominrton.

I'rnu:ram — Col. Frauk D.
Whipj>. .St. Charlrs. rhair-
man : _ Kndney Brandon.
Mooseheart ; J. F. Hedsrccvk.
.loHct ; .1. A. Young. Aurora.

Women's Procram — Mihk
I.ulu P>iack. Geneva, rhair-
mati: Mrs. I. R. ludd. Au-
rora: Mr.s. Harv«>- Fraley..
Naperville.

Grounds — Homer McOiv
MrH>seheart. chairman : K
A. Carncros.";. Wheaton.

Publicity— J. W. Lino.
Aurora, chairman ; Malcolm
Watson, Yorksville: Lewi^<
Murkvicka. Aurora; K
White, Elsrin.

Goncessjon.s — M. F. .Mc-
Carty. Aurora, chairman.

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CCL.TURAL ASS

RE COR

1

THE I. A.

RECORD

To advance the purpose for which the farm
namely to promote, protect and represent
eocialand educational interest m of the farmer » of
tutd to develop agriculture.

t ureau was organized,

buaineat, economic,

lllinoit and the nation.

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Published once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave
by the IllinoiB Agricultural Asaociation. Edited by D(i
E. G. Thiem, Director, 608 South Dearborn Street. C
as seoond-claas matter October 20, 1925, at the post
Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance ~
poetage provided for in Section 412, Act of Februkry
October 27, 1925. The individual membership fee of
Association is five dollars a year. The fee includes pe
subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Association
In returning an uncalled for or missent copy, please
address as is required by law.

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artment of Information,

icago, Illinois. Entered

office at Mount Morris,

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OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith

Vice-President, Frank D. Barton

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles

Secretary, Geo. A- Fox ,

1st to 11th.

12th

13th

14th

16th

16th

17th

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19th

20th

21st

22nd

23rd

24th

25th

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEK
(By Congressional EKstrict^)
H

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DIRECTC«S OF DEPARTMENTS

Business Service

Dairy Marketing

Farm Supply

Finance

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing

General Office

Information

Insurance

Legal Counsel

Live Stock Marketing

Organization

Promotional Service

Poultry and Egg Marketing

Taxation and Statistics

Transportation

Detroit

Cornell

. Bloomington
Sycamore

C. Vial, Downers Grove
. F. TuUock, Rockford
, E. Bamborough, Polo
H. Moody, Port Byron
VI. Skinner, Yates City
A. R. Wright, Varna
Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut
, . .R. F. Karr, Iroquois
Whisnand, Charleston
Charles Borgelt, Havana
Sorrells, Raymond
^rank Oexner, Waterloo
W. L. Cope, Salem
Marshall, Belknap
Fred Dietz, De Soto

Samuel

Chi irles i

Geo. R. Wicker

, A. D. Lynch

• J. R. Bent

i . . R. A. Cowles

A. B. Leeper

J. H. Kelker

E. G. Thiem

J. P. Gibson

. Donald Kirkpatrick

Ray E. Miller

G. E. Metzger

V. Vaniman

F. A. Gougler

J. C. Watson

L. J. Quasey

The Attacker's Advantage

IN ANY dispute or argument tiinging upon a
constructive piece of legislation or program
the critic or opponent always ha} the proponent
on the hip. If he is a clever liar, he can raise
more false issues and befuddle t le minds of the
credulous public so completely ;hat the propo-
nent on the defensive is always

Smoke screens are no less effeistive in a battle
of words and ideals than they ar » in actual war-
fare. False bogies become rea
reader. They only fall to the ground under the
thoughtful scrutiny of the careful observer.

Producer's Agreement

FOR the past year an
pending between the I. A
stock Producers' Association at
Indianapolis, and E. St. Louis,
provides for a statewide field
ment to be administered by a
committee consisting of one r
from the four agencies, one
Producers' Commission Associa
the I. A. A., and one from the
Bureau Federation. This
been accepted by all interestec

Signed

agreement has been

and the Live-

(phicago, Peoria,

The agreement

service arrange-

.I'oint field service

epresentative each

from the National

ion, two from

American Farm

agreerpent has finally

parties. An-

nouncement of the details of the new plan will
be made in the near future.

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The Raid Is On 11

THE expected raid on the tax payers, predicted when
Mayor Thompson's eighty-seven revenue bills were
cast into the legislative hopper, has already become real.
The county clerks were the first on the scene at Spring-
field last week putting in their bid for more taxing power.
They showed up en masse to amend Senate bill 518 so
as to increase the maximum tax rate for general county
purposes sixty per cent. IS

They would do this very innocently and unobtrusively,
but cleverly. S. B. 446 provides that assessments here-
after shall be based on full valuations instead of half
thereof as at present. To leave tax rates the same would
double all taxes, so Mayor Thompson had eighty-six other
bills drawn up each of which cuts the maximum tax rate
fifty per cent in one or another taxing district in Illinois.

The result of all this is to keep taxes where they are
but to double any district's bonding power. At present,
the limit of bonding power in a district is five per cent of
the assessed valuations. By doubling the assessed valua-
tions, the effect is the same as increasing the bonding
.power to 10 per cent. That's so Chicago can continue
its orgy of spending unhampered by legal restraints.

Farmers don't object to Chicago doubling its bonded
debt but they are against allowing their own counties and
communities to do likewise.

The county clerks want to reduce the maximum tax
rate for county purposes from fifty to only forty per cent
instead of to twenty-five as provided in S. B. 518. It
looks like an innocent enough proposal, but it may saddle
sixty per cent more taxes on the farm and home owners.
This is only one of many more raids to follow. i S

The only thing to do is to beat the increased bonding
bill and its retinue of eighty-six dependent allies. That's
what will happen in the House next week if each member
tells his representative how he stands on these measures.

Can and Can't

THE amusing statement presented below which has
been going the rounds among the county farm bureau
papers in Illinois is indicative of the farmers' reaction to
the diversification argument, as outlined in the Coolidge
veto message on the McNary-Haugen bill:

"Diversification is the hope of agriculture, according to the

'farmer' from Vermont. We are in the midst of one of the best

diversified agricultural regions in the nation, yet we are also in the

midst of the region of agricultural depression.

"What is the farmer here to do? 1 • ^

"He shouldn't raise more corn, nor ]. •'

"He shouldn't raise more oats, and v?

"He can't raise much more wheat or hay, nor ' ?^

"He can't raise many more chickens, sheep, cattle, or hogs, with

out making them unprofitable.

"He can't raise another loan because he already has a mortgage

growing on the ground, and can't cut it.

"He can't raise more children, because he's already supporting

twenty-seven per cent of the population on only nine or ten per cent

of the national income.

"He CAN raise hell with the administration, and that's what he

will raise if he isn't accorded the same rights as others."

Disregarding the political reference, the statement
pithily reveals the fallacy of trying to solve a national
problem by such a shallow and trite recommendation.
Which is more dangerous to our national welfare and
security, a crop shortage or a surplus? Then again, who
is to cut acreage? Who can say how much of any crop
farmers shall produce to insure them a reasonable profit?
Who is qualified to tell how many acres are required to
grow a given number of bushels without accurate long dis-
tance weather forecasts?

These are some of the questions the diversification and
reduced acreage theorists must answer satisfactorily be-
fore farmers will abandon their own solution for the sur-
plus problem.

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FRUIT AND VEGE- The Illinois

TABLE RATES Central Rail-

IN DANGER , road, the Chi-

cago & Eastern
Illinois, and other railroads operating
in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, have
asked the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission for permission to cancel out
their present rates on fruits and vege-
tables applying from points in Illi-
nois and Indiana to Chicago, and in-
stead, establish substantially higher
rates. This action is based upon the
case in which the I. A. A. was active
two years ago when a very substantial
increase in Illinois rates was pre-
vented. The railroads are now mak-
ing another effort to boost Illinois
rates. L. J. Quasey, director of trans-
portation, will file a protest against
rate increases on the ground that the
economic position of the fruit grower
in Southern Illinois is such that they
can not stand any further handicaps.

PEACH RATES Negotiations are

ON I. C. R. R. under way with the
Illinois Central
Railroad Company for a reduction in
the minimum weight on peaches from
24,000 pounds to 20,000, and to ap-
ply the same rate on peaches south-
bound as that applicable on peaches
northbound from Georgia. If we are
successful in bringing this about, it
will result in a very substantial re-
duction to our people. .

FEEDING-IN-TRAN- As a result
SIT ON WABASH of our efforts,

the Wabash
Railroad Company has put into
effect a feeding-in-transit rate on cat-
tle and sheep so that they may be
stopped in transit for grazing or fat-
tening at a very substantial saving in
freight on the through movement to
market. This applies to points on the
Wabash intermediate to Chicago.

REDUCTION^ ON
C at E. I< R. R.

As a result of
our negotiations
with the C. & E,
I. Railroad Company a reduction in
stocker and feeder rates has been
granted from the National Stock
Yards at East St. Louis, to points on
the C. & E. I. railroad in Montgomery
County. This makes the rates 25 per
cent lower than those previously in
effect.

MILK AND CREAM
RATES REDUCED

On April 15
w e reported
that the Wa-
bash Railroad Company put into effect
increased rates on milk and cream
which particularly concerned shippers
in and around Raymond, Illinois. We
immediately took the matter up with

the Wabash Railroad Company and
filed informal complaint with the
Illinois Commerce Commission. As a
result of our action, the Wabash Rail-
road Company issued their new tariff
M-9, to become effective May 28, 1927,
reducing the rates practically to their
former basis. - j ,

STOCK CATTLE
RATES

The C. & A.
Railroad Company
has issued a tariff
to become effective June 15, 1927,
which increases the freight rate from
27 cents to 29 cents a hundred on
stock cattle from Kansas City to
points in Illinois on the C. & A. and
connecting lines. We have filed a
petition with the Interstate Commerce
Commission opposing this increase.

PROPOSED CAN
CELLATION OF
L. C. L. RATES

The railroads
are proposing to
cancel the less
than car load
commodity rates on a large number of
commodities, including fruits and
vegetabl«Sr- moving between points in
Illinois, and to apply a higher class
rate. This move is being opposed by
this association and other interested
parties. Hearingrs are being conducted
jointly by the Illinois Commerce Com-
mission and the Interstate Commerce
Commission. The outcome of this
proposition will be reported later.

This case
involves a pe-
tition by the
Jerseyville Telephone Company for
an advance in telephone rates in
Jersey County. The final hearing was
held in Springfield, May 19. Mr. Cod-
dingham. Chairman of the Farm
Bureau Committee, Mr. Shuman, farm
adviser of Jersey county and L. J.
Quasey of the I. A. A., represented

JERSEYVILLE
TELEPHONE CASE

Goi Loading Chute

I. A. A. Transportation Dept.:

Referring to your letter of
May 26 about stock loading pens
at Twin Grove, I am mighty glad
to report that these facilities
were put in three weeks ago.

Please be assured I greatly
appreciate your part in getting
this fine accommodation. I
think it is an object lesson to my
non-farm bureau member neigh-
bor who had repeatedly told me
he had tried for twenty years to
get what we have just gotten so
easily.

E. D. LAWRENCE,
- McLean County, 111.

farm j bureau member subscribers.
From the report of the Commission's
engrineers, it appears that the com-
pany will earn on the basis of the
present rates, about five per cent,
which : practically means that the pe-
tition for the advance in rates will be
denied by the Commission.

ILLINOIS SOUTHS
ERN TELEPHONE
CASE

• We haVe Just
received the Illi-
nois Commerce
Commission's de-
which was heard
The Commission

CLAIMS I
COLLECTED

cision Ion this case
in Vienna, April 19,
has refused to grant the petition of
the company to discontinue free toll
service and to abandon certain ex-
changes. The Commission also or-
dered the company to re-establish cer-
tain service which they had discon-
tinued without authority from the
Commission. Immediately after this
order Was issued by the Commission,
the cotnpany withdrew another peti-
tion which it had filed with the Illi-
nois Commerce Commission affecting
telephone service in ten other coun-
ties in Illinois. The I. A. A. and the
farm bureaus gave the testimony
which )*esulted in the favorable action
of the jCommission.! i

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From January 1,
1927, to April 30,
1927 the I. A. A.
collected $12,306.91 in claims. For
the month of May, 1927 the total was
$1,767.70 or a grand total of $14,-
074.61. Of this amount, $6,994.08
was collected in the name of the Chi-
cago t*roducers' Commission Asso-
ciation for the period from January
1, 1927, to April 30. For the month
of May $1,375.27 was collected for the
Producers.

AUTO INSURANCE By the end of

HITS 4000 May, auto insur-

I I ' ' ■ i ance applications
in the fllinois Agricultural Mutual In-
surance Co., totaled 4,080. The rec-
ord of the month was 530 applications.
The dr^ve for 10,000 applications by
Aug. 1 .;is on. Every Farm Bureau will
beask^d to devote a week toward se-
curing hew policy holders. •■[

HAIL INSURANCE A total of $615,-
PROVES POPULAR 887 worth of

fruit and garden
truck hail insurance has been written
in thiifty'-one ct)unties. The heavy
frost will cut the total amount that
would have been written at least fifty
per cent. Farm crop hail insurance
written up to June 8 totaled $1,133,-
055 in forty-three counties. The
heavy demand for this insurance will
come later. -

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What the Members Say

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EAT MORE EGGS

Editor, I. A. A. RECORD:

THERE is so much talk of helping
the farmer, I believe I have a good
suggestion to make; one that would
help them and also the public. This
is the time of the year when the pro-
duction of eggs is large and they are
fresh, and now is the time to get the
people to eat them when the farmer is
producing, not after the hen has
stopped laying and they are in the
hands of the speculator.

The crop is the largest in history,
and indications are for a heavy lay. I
believe you should encourage the
farmer and small town population as
well as the city dweller to increase
their consumption now, and by so do-
ing stimulate prices for the farmer.
There is no use to let the speculator
put the market down to where it would
cost the farmer money to produce, now
that the speculator has his load in cold
storage to sell next fall at a good profit.
Now is the time to start a campaign
to eat more eggs while they are fresh,
and not wait and let the speculators do
it this fall when the hen is through
laying. Such an advocation coming
from you over the radio and through
the press and your papers could make
thousands of dollars for the farmer,
and cost you nothing as all informa-
tion is eagerly sought from an organ-
ization of your standing by all news-
papers and a short talk on the radio
nightly by one of your speakers. Hop-
ing you will take some action on the
suggestion, I am

Wilbur Fuller,
Cook County, 111.

A good suKKestion, Fuller. Some day farm-
ers will learn to store their own eggs and
share in the profits when eggs are high. —
Editor.

AGAINST TAXES

Editor I. A. A. Record:

I OBJECT to any income tax for
farmers, in fact if the farmers were
exempt from any tax for at least one
year it would help regain a little of
what they have lost. Speaking for my-
self I am land-poor and sand land at
that which was bought by my father
with the laudable desire to make it
productive. Buildings and fences and
cross fences were a big expense and
the feed for the livestock on it has to
be bought.

In the course of time by using car-
loads and carloads of limestone, and
growing legumes it has a chance to
be more valuable.

I buy com, and feed it and apparent-
ly when the returns come in it might
look as though I was making money —
but — what about borrowing money at
seven per cent to pay for com and live-
stock, also hired help at high wages?

I don't believe in the gas tax either,

but will not write about that now as
I have to take a six mile ride to the
farm to see how things are and also
work even though I have two high-
priced men. I am up at from three
to four a. m. retiring at 9:30 or 10:30
p. m., perhaps — indeed most of the time
lying awake worrying.

Mine is no rocking chair or swivel
chair job I can assure you, and I am
tired, tired, tired of these eternal taxes.
Just take the farm and be done with it.

A lot of the farmers won't build or
improve their property for they know
taxes will be increased. Why not legis-
late for lower prices for the things we
have to buy?

There is only one farmer in my com-
munity who has bought farm machin-
ery and everyone wonders how he did
it. Catherine Stevenson,

Mercer Co., 111.

The state income tax is designed to help yon,
not to add to yonr burdens. It would exact
taxes from the wealthy owners of stocks and
bonds, and the salaried workers who now
make no direct contribution to the cost of
state government. If we had a state income
tax, all the burden of taxes would not fall
on farms, homes, and real estate as is the
case now. Only farmers with large net in-
comes who pay little or no personal property
or land tax would contribute to an income
tax, and under present economic conditions,
this number is conceded to be very small. —
Editor.

BLAMES FEDERAL RESERVE

Editor, Record:

I am the man who 'phoned you twice
since your talk over the WLS radio
station last Thursday. I am the one
who blames the Federal Reserve Sys-
tem for the present condition of agri-
culture all over the country.

I am indeed confident as to my posi-
tion in this matter; for I have given
it much forethought and study since
the enactment of the Federal Reserve
Act of 1913.

Until 1920, the farmer enjoyed the
same so-called prosperity experienced
by everybody else; but when the Fed-
eral Reserve Board was requested to
call in $15,000,000, the grain prices
were the first to be affected. When the
Federal Reserve called in this $15,000,-
000 the dollar was and had been for
some time worth approximately 33 1/3
cents. With the action of the Federal
Reserve Board by order of the Treas-
ury, the dollar advanced from 33 1/3
cents in value to about 75 cents. Dur-
ing this fluctuation, corn dropped from
$2.25 a bushel to about $0.30 per
bushel; and the farmer was ruined.

At this juncture, the deflation was
halted because it was on the verge of
affecting general prices to a downward
trend. More money was put into cir-
culation which brought the dollar back
to about 62 cents where it has re-
mained practically all the time since
that time; but grain prices have never
been put back to their original point
of inflation where other prices still re-
main, practically.

The foregoing is the story of the
calamity. Although it is unnecessary
for one to be an expert economist, yet
the American people do not understand

the reality of the situation; and the
so-called agricultural doctors in the
form of farm bureaus, cooperative
marketing association, and all other
organizations connected with the im-
provement of agriculture are working
night and day to figure out the remedy
which is indeed simple.

The abolition or modification of the
powers of the Federal Reserve are the
only two alternatives for the solution
of the difficulty. There is absolutely
no legislation whose enactment can
help agriculture permanently without
the abolition or limitation of the Fed-
eral Reserve System; and I am ready
to stand behind the truth of this state-
ment under all circumstances.

G. Rex Clarke,
Cook County, 111.

The deflation policy of the Federal Reserve
Board following the war, undoubtedly was
partially responsible for the rapid fall in farm
prices. But this is not the only reason for
the continued agricultural depression. The de-
flation policy affected other commodities as
well as farm products. The organised indus-
tries, however, were able to check the fall in
their prices to some extent by reducing pro-
duction, whereas agriculture had no effective
method of decreasing production and thereby
maintaining a fair level of prices. — Editor.

THANK YOU |

Editor, I. A. A. Record: *

I have just received bulletin No. 345
"The Distribution of the Tax Burden
In Township and Community High
Schools In Illinois" put out by your
Association. It is such an excellent
piece of work that I must congratulate
you upon sponsoring it. Authentic
data, intelligently interpreted, is one
of the things we need for the improve-
ment of country life.

K. Llewellyn MacGarr,
Taylor University, Upland, Ind.

Half ^MilUon Left oj T. B.

Appropriation

Don W. Robison, state superintend-
ent of animal industry, submits the
following financial statement on tuber-
culosis eradication in the State of Illi-
nois for May, 1927:

Indemnity and Expenses Paid and Pending

APPROPRIATION $2,000,000.00

Indemnity claims against the

State paid since July 1, 1926 11,068,619.49

Amount of federal claims paid

by the State 281,676.37

Expenses incurred since July 1,

1925 156,209.61

Claims pending on 4,251 reactors
secured ^ince July 1, 1926, al-
lowing $16 per head. (State
share) 63.766.00

Total clain^s and expenses paid

pending 1,610,189.47

Free Balance of Appropriation $ 489,880.53

Farmers pay approximately 16 per
cent of the state auto license fees in
Illinois.

Seventy-eight per cent of Illinois
farmers live one or more miles off a
paved road.

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girls have entered the

Corn Club sponsored by

the Mason County Farm

Bureau. Each member received a supply of Krug corn

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CLUB MEMBERS IN MASON

JERSEY HOLDS
FEEDING SCHOOLS

One-fourth of the members of
the Jersey County Farm Bureau
are feeding the modified Wiscon-
sin chick ration as a result of feed-
ing schools held over the county. The ration can be mixed
for about $1.50 per cwt. if milk is available, says Frank
Shuman, farm adviser.

The largest annual meeting
CONG. BRAND SPEAKS since the DeKalb County Farm
AT DEKALB MEETING Bureau was organized in 1912,

was the last one on May 10
when 712 sat down to the banquet and heard Congressman
Brand speak. Eight hundred attended the meeting. Busi-
ness men and bankers from over the county as well as
farmers were there. The Home Economics girls at the
DeKalb High School served.

We recently employed a
HANCOCK EMPLOYS county insurance representa-

INSURANCE SOLICITOR tive, L. W. Baxter, who in
• conjunction with eight or ten

local agents will offer mutual automobile insurance in the
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Company and mu-
tual hail insurance on farm crops, fruits, and vegetables
in the Farmers' Mutual Reinsurance Company to every
member says Adviser J. H. Lloyd. This decision was
reached at a recent meeting of the executive committee
when unanimous approval of the insurance program was
given and the county insurance committee authorized to
provide this important service for members.

HENRY COUNTY FARMERS
COMPARE CORN IN PLOTS

Six farmers cooperate
with the Henry County
Farm Bureau in conduct-
ing identical corn plots
comparing various strains of corn, including a number of
hybrids, and checking on the value of disease testing and
seed treatment. The men are Morgan Bros., G. E. Hult-
ing, Wm. H. Miller, C. D. Ford, Otto Lundberg, and Lynn
and Ephraim Kerr. The task of producing a hybrid es-
pecially adapted to Western Illinois has been undertaken
by Morgan Bros.

VERMILION SEEKS
30,000 ACRES ALFALFA

Our campaign for 30,000
acres of alfalfa provides for
10 acres on every farm in
Vermilion county, says Farm
Adviser Kercher. One hundred and five farmers had a
total of 1,026 acres according to an initial survey, but new
seeding this spring brought the total up to 2,500 acres.
One hundred and seventy-five boys and girls are entered
in club work. •;:.;>':

SCOTT COUNTY HAS
SWEET CLOVER DAY

The International Harvester
Co., and the John Deere Imple-
ment Co., both conducted demon-
strations on preparing the seed
bed at the Third Annual Sweet Clover Day on May 17
in Scott county. Prof. E. T. Robbins demonstrated mul-

tiple hitches. Attendance and interest was good in spite
of bad weather, says Adviser Tate. Two hundred girls
are entered in the eight 4-H clubs just organized. This is
the first girls' club work ever undertaken here.

LAKE COUNTY ENROLLS
150 IN POULTRY CLUB

Lake county recently en-
rolled 150 members in poul-
try club work, 75 per cent of
which are from non-farm bu-
reau families. We hope to reach the non-member in this
way and show him what real Farm Bureau work means,
says Farm Adviser Harry Gilkerson. The money to buy
eggs was furnished by the Waukegan Chamber of Com-
merce. Three settings of eggs from good quality stock
were distributed to each boy and girl, and in the fall the
members are to return one pullet for each setting. These
pullets are to be sold at a public show where they have
been displayed and awarded premiums. The local Smith-
Hughes instructors did most of the work in getting mem-
bers. A local calf meal company supplied each member
with 10 lbs. of chick feed free.

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Competition among our 50 calf
members is keen for the gold
medal offered by the Chicago
Producers Commission Associa-
tion writes Farm Adviser Marchant. The medal is
awarded the most outstanding calf club member, the plac-
ing of the calf counting only 25 per cent. This has been
an incentive to the members to attend meetings regularly,
give reports and discussions, and keep complete feed and*
management records. All calves on feed this year were
purchased locally. Twenty-two are Shorthorns, sixteen
Herefords, and twelve Angus. The fifty members feeding
these calves are organized into five standard 4-H clubs.

KNOX BOYS AFTER
GOLD MEDAL

LASALLE HAS GET
TOGETHER MEETING

JA.. C. Everingham, legislative
representative of the Illinois
Agricultural Association pleaded
for elimination of sectional lines
and class prejudices before a large gathering of farmers
and business men at LaSalle on the night of May 19. ^
"This-* meeting, in the opinion of our people, was a very
successful one," writes Farm Adviser Walter McLaughlin.

NEW WABASH ASS'N.
SHIPS 18 CARS LIVESTOCK

Eight cars of livestock

were shipped during its

first six weeks of operation

by the Wabash County

Livestock Shipping Association. Farm Adviser Spencer is

busy conducting hog cholera vaccination demonstrations.

MARSHALL-PUTNAM
FARMERS TREAT CORN

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mercury treatment for seed
corn this spring, states Farm
Adviser F. E. Fuller. Fully
40 per cent of our members' entire com acreage will be
treated. Two hundred tests with various seed treatments
are being carried on in cooperation with James Holbert
of the U. S. D. A. The M-P Oil Co. passed its 100 carload
mark before the first year was up. Annual cattlie Feed-

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How lUlnols Spends Its Tax Money

THE payments for maintenance*' anc
operation of the general depart
ments of Illinois for the fiscal yeai '
ending June 30, 1926, amounted t(i
$43,158,525, or $6.04 per capita, ac
cording to the U. S. Department oi'
Commerce. This includes $8,877,22v
for education from the state schoo
fund. In 1925 the comparative per
capita for maintenance and operatior
of general departments was $6.94, anc
in 1917, $3.62. The decrease in per
capita maintenance and operatior i
shown for 1926 was due to the de
creased payments for compensation o '
soldiers and sailors of the World War.

The expenses of public service enter
prises amounted to $40,952; interest
on debt, $5,667,947; and outlays for
permanent improvements, $27,357,093 ,
The total payments, therefore, for ex
penses of general departments anc
public service enterprises, interest, anc
outlays were $76,224,517. Of this
amount $319,612 represents payments i
by a State department or enterpris<!
to another on account of services. Th<i
totals include all payments for th<i
year, whether made from current rev
enues or from the proceeds of bone
issues.

Of the governmental costs reportec
above, $26,364,926 was for highways,
$2,041,542 being for maintenance anc
$24,323,384 for construction.

Income $10.52 Per Capita

THE total revenue receipts of Illi-
nois for 1926 were $75,223,910, or
$10.52 per capita. This was $26,356,
486 more than the total payments o'
the year, exclusive of the payments for
permanent imporvement, but $1,000,
607 less than the total payments in
eluding those for permanent improve
ment. These payments in excess o
revenue receipts were met from th^
proceeds of debt obligations. Of th;
total revenue receipts $319,612 repre
sents receipts from a State depart
ment or enterprise on account of serv
ices. Property and special taxes rep-
resented 51.2 per cent of the total
revenue for 1926, 45.2 per cent for
1925, and 74.9 per cent for 1917. Tbs
increase in the amount of property anc I
special taxes collected was 19.3 per
cent from 1917 to 1925, and 48.3 pe r
cent from 1925 to 1926. The per cap
ita property and special taxes wen;
$5.39 in 1926, $3.75 in 1925, and $3.4^
in 1917.

Earnings of general departments, oj*
compensation for services rendered b;^
state officials, represented 4.2 per cen
of the total revenue for 1926, 4.9 pei"
cent for 1925, and 6.3 per cent fo\
1917.

Business and nonbusiness licenses
constituted 38.5 per cent of the tota
revenue for 1926, 39.2 per cent fo^
1925, and 16.8 per cent for 1917.

Receipts from business licenses con
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surance and other incorporated com-
panies, while those from nonbusiness
licenses comprise chiefly taxes on motor
vehicles and amounts paid for hunting
and fishing privileges.

Debts $19.39 Per Capita

THE net indebtedness (funded or
fixed debt less sinking fund assets)
of Illinois on June 30, 1926, was $138,-
633,018, or $19.39 per capita. In 1925
the per capita debt was $18.41, and in
1917, $0.33.

For 1926 the taxable valuation of
property in Illinois subject to ad
valorem taxation was $4,194,769,417;
the amount of State taxes levied was
$35,655,540; and the per capita levy,
$4.99. In 1925 the per capita levy was
$3.83, and in 1917, $3.75.

LEGISLATURE DRAWS TO
CLOSE

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Senate and is up on second reading in the
House. This measure should go through
without delay early this week.

Lantz's park district bill, S. B. 342, was
up on second reading in the House on
Thursday. This is a good measure and
should go through.

Lantz's S. B. 335, the new Canada thistle
and noxious weed bill up on second read-
ing in the House on Thursday is slated to
pass.

S. B. 186 — Lantz — the state department T.
B. eradication measure, which would allow
the state to enter and test a man's herd
at his own expense when three-fourths of
the cattle of the county are tested, was on
second reading in the House. When called
there is likely to be opposition from the
dairy districts of northeastern Illinois
where the T. B. test is still more or less
unpopular.

Senator Flagg's flag smut relief bill,
S. B. 181, was up on second reading in
the Senate and should be moved along
without opposition. This measure carries
a small appropriation to reimburse farmers
in Madison County who burned their straw
stacks to prevent the spread of flag smut
in wheat.

Other bills of more or less importance are
being watched to protect the interests of
I. A. A. members.

Omnibus Bill Storm Center

The $2,000,000 T. B. appropriation is in-
cluded in the omnibus bill which was up
on second reading in the House this week.
This bill was attacked vigorously by Rep.
Tice, Castle and others who objected to
the fact that it provides for $9,000,000 ap-
propriations in excess of the budget. The
appropriation for an artillery firing range
at Camp Grant was stricken out on the
objections of Reps. Green, Hunter and
Baker from that section. Other slight
additions and subtractions were made be-
fore the measure was allowed to go along
to third reading.

Heavy barrows will be elisrible to compete in
the individual classes at the International Live
Stock Exposition at Chicago, Nov. 26 to Dee. 3.
according to a recent decision of the Board of
Directors.

Walton Peteet

Walton Peteet Improved
Walton Peteet, former secretary of
the National
Council of Co-
operative M a r-
keting Associa-
tions, is recover-
ing from a par-
alytic stroke that
left him almost
helpless on the
right side, ac-
cording to re-
ports from his
home in Wash-
ington, D. C. He
had been ill for
several months
jprevious to the
stroke. Friends
of Mr. Peteet in Illinois will be glad
to know he is much improved, w ..

NEW HOLSTEIN SECRETARY

JAMES A. BALL, formerly with the
Department of Animal Husbandry,
University of Illinois, is the new sec-
retary of the Illinois Holstein-Friesian
Association. Ball is a graduate of the
University of Illinois and for the past
two years has been eng^aged in experi-
mental and research work for the Uni-
versity. He started work as Holstein
secretary on June 1, with headquarters
at 608 So. Dearborn, Chicago. If you
want any information on Holsteins or
have a bull to sell get in touch with
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The Farmer's Railway

By B. B. Goodin, President Dewitt
County Farm Bureau

Farming is like a mountain railway
With an engineer for all.
He must make the run successful.
From the springrtime to the fall.
Watch the bug^, the worms, the

moisture,
Never falter, never quail ?

With his hand upon the throttle
And his eye upon the rail.

Farming will be growing pleasant

With our I. A. A, as guide

We must make our work successful

We must cross the swelling tide

With its agents as conductors

Do .our duty never fail.

For his hand's upon the throttle

And his eye's upon the rail.

We will often hear objections ^
For selfish reasons that are plain
And on farmer's vital interests
They will try to wreck our train.
We will make the run successful
Never falter, never fail.
Keep your hand upon the throttle
And your eye upon the rail.

Many troubles has our agent
But a patience that is great.
He will give us much assistance
If we all cooperate
With a Farm Bureau behind him
That is strong, he'll never fail
For his hand's upon the throttle
And his eye's upon the rail.

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Number 7

Charges of Trading Branded False

Legislative Committee Presents Truth About Gas Tax l

THE Fifty-fifth General As-
sembly, which just passed
into history, was one of un-
usual interest to Illinois farm-
ers. The Illinois Agricultural
Association was involved in
much legislation of major im-
portance. These matters were
highly controversial, the de-
cision hinging, in most in-
stances, on two or three votes.

The outstanding example of
this was the so-called Chicago
bonding bills, which provided
for the assessment of property
at full value. As originally introduced,
Senate Bill No. 446 would have doubled
the bonding limit of every taxing body
in the state.

At various stages of the assembly
the association was charged, both in
the press and from the floor, of trading
support on various measures. These
charges were utterly false. The Illinois
Agricultural Association was party to
no traffic in bills. It supported or op-
posed legislation strictly on the individ-
ual merits or demerits of pending bills.
Terrific Pressure

Members from down-state were often
subjected to terrific political pressure
to influence their action on various
measures. Senators and representa-
tives who stood up under that pressure
and voted in the interest of Agricul-
tural and down state communities de-
serve the profound gratitude and ar-
dent support of down-state voters who
are interested in the future • -

welfare of agriculture and
rural development.

Many bills 'were passed,
some were defeated and oth-
ers were amended, due to ac-
tivities of agricultural repre-
sentatives. The Illinois
Agricultural Association was
never more potent as a legis-
lative influence than now.
The complete story of agri-
cultural participation in the
Fifty-fifth General Assembly,

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Earl C. Smith A. C. Everincham Frank D. Barton

I. A. A.'S LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.

together with roll calls on important
controversial measures, will be pre-
sented in a special legislative edition of
the Record to be published Aug. 15.

Truth About Gas Tax

The position of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association in favor of the proper
sort of a gas tax has long been known.
That a strenuous effort would be made
to establish a gasoline tax at the ses-
sion just closed early became apparent.
To that end a bill was introduced pro-
viding for a gas tax of two cents per
gallon, devoted entirely to the comple-
tion of the bond issue system.

This bill never received any support
from the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion. It failed to recog^nize a secondary
system of roads. It left more than
seventy-five per cent of the farmers
and down state communities wallowing
in the mud, though they had supported

The complete summary of the Illinois Ag^ricultural
Association's legislative policy and the story of each
measure of interest to agriculture will be related in
detail in the August issue of the RECORD. Per-
sonalities involved in the struggle to secure agrri-
cultural legislation and the part they played in the
passage and defeat of good and obnoxious measures
will be presented without bias. Members will be
fully informed of the voting records and efforts in
behalf of farm legfislation so ^hey may vote intel-
ligently in coming elections. i ,

he development of the trunk
line system and had continu-
ously contributed to its con-
struction.

In face of certain defeat,
l[his bill was stricken from
the calendar in the Senate and
the Senate bill was dead. At
the time of the introduction of
the Senate bill an identical bill
was introduced in the House
which was still pending. .^ ■;

I. A. A. Amendments Adopted

The Illinois Agricultural
Association presented certain amend-
ments to that bill to the House Com-
mittee on Roads and Bridges, which
were adopted and the bill as amended
by the Illinois Agricultural Association
was voted out of the committee with
recommendation "that it do pass."

All partisan and political lines were
ignored in the fight that ensued on this
bill, the issue being between the down-
state more rural representatives who
supported the bill while almost to a
man those representing the largfe cities
of the state put forth every effort for
its defeat.

It was the opinion of John C. Wat-
son, Tax Director of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association, based on the
figures of the highway engineer, which
he believed to be substantially correct,
that, without a gas tax or some ad-^;
ditional revenue, the bond issue system
could pot have been completed with-
in a reasonable time. Most
of the roads, the completion
of which would have been
long delayed, serve down
state rural and uzimn com-
munities.

How Bill Operates

What does this amended
bill do? I !_•

1. It levies a tax of two
cents per gallon on all gaso-
line used in motor vehicles on
the highways in Illinois.

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2. It provides exemption for g^so-
* line used for agricultural, industrial

and purposes other than in motor ve-
hicles used on the highways.

3. It provides for the prompt c<im-
pletion of the bond issue system, (one-
half of the tax going for that purpose),
thereby removing to a large degree ;he

. element of politics in designating wh ich
roads shall be first completed.

4. It recog^iizes the secondary roiids
as a part of the state highway system.
One-half of the gasoline tax goes bfck
to the counties on the basis of the auto-
mobile license fees coming from sich
counties for the construction and ma n-
tenance of state aid roads.

5. It removes state politics from 1 he
selection of the state aid roads for i ti-
provement by providing that such roads
shall be designated by the courty
boards.

6. It provides that funds derived
from the gas tax may be used to piy
the principal and interest of county
road bonds where such bonds have be ;n
issued for the construction of state aid
roads and where such roads have beon
built according to approved specifica-
tions.

7. It provides that county boards
may, by resolution, use the funds de-
rived from the gas tax to replace f un< Is
now levied against property for sta ;e
aid road maintenance.

Best Possible Arrangement

It is the opininion of those in touch
with the legislative situation that the
gasoline tax just passed is the be; t
possible arrangement obtainable un-
der present conditions.. They believe
further that at no future period woul i
as satisfactory an arrangement hav;
been possible.

The large cities have already been
supplied with roads and have lost in-
terest in the rural requirements. I '
this program had gone forward for twi )
more years, other communities would
have grown cold to those needs. Neve*
again would we have been able t<i
secure substantial recognition of sec-
ondary roads.

We have made possible through th<
gas tax a comprehensive road program
The farmer's end of the road has beer
recognized. We may now look forward
to the development of a real farm to
market system of roads.

"Apples for Health, Inc." an organ
ization representing the apple growing
interests of America will soon launch
a campaign to raise $4,000,000 to ad
vertise this fruit says the Illinois Fruit
Exchange News. A national advertis
ing comptany has been retained as
counsel.

A gold medal for the champion calf
club member in each county having a
regular organized calf club of five or
more members, and a silver medal to
the champion fat barrow club member
will be awarded by the Chicago Pro-
ducers Commission Association to boys
and girls in all counties in northern
and central Illinois, this year.

DR. TAYLOR TELLS CHICAGO WHY

L A. A. ATTENDS LEGISLATURE

City and Country Should Work Together For A Square Deal In

Washington and Springfield

THE press of Chicago seems to be
convinced that because the farm-
ers of the state of Illinois control the
legislature and seek to pass some
measures which seem to shift the tax
burden from country to city, Chicago
should secede and set up a state of
her own. This suggests the need of
sober thought," declares Henry C.
Taylor of The Institute for Research
in Land Economics, Northwestern Uni-
versity, in a recent issue of the Evan-
ston. 111., News-Index.

"Which group is the more prosper-
ous at the present time, the citizens of
Chicago or the down-state farmers?
Which group has the higher standards
of living? Which group is getting
ahead financially the more rapidly?
The answer is well known. Since 1920,
city incomes have been much higher
and farm incomes have been much
lower in purchasing power than before
the war. The wealth of Chicago has
greatly increased, while. the wealth of
the farmers of Illinois has decreased
more than 25 per cent.

Agriculture at Disadvantage

"This shrinkage in agricultural in-
come and wealth is in large measure
diie to specific acts of the federal gov-
ernment which have placed agricul-
ture at a disadvantage in the distribu-
tion of the wealth of the nation. The
farmers have found Washington as
completely dominated by the financial
and industrial bloc as Chicago has
found Springfield dominated by the
'Squires.' The farmers have found
it utterly impossible to secure relief
legislation which would put agriculture
on a parity with the city industries.
The Chicago delegation in Congress
failed to help the Illinois farmers to
secure needed legislation in Washing-
ton.

"It is most natural that the farmers
who have failed to secure the legisla-
tion in Washing^ton which would re-
store their purchasing power, should
turn to their state legislature where
they have some influence and seek
legislation which will reduce their tax
burden and place more of the burden
on those who have incomes which are
better because of federal legislation.

"The solution should be a simple
one. Let the city and country in Illi-
nois recognize their community of in-
terest, work together for a square deal
in primary distribution of wealth, and
then the distribution of the tax bur-
den can easily be adjusted. City and
country should work together for a
square deal in Washington and Spring-
field. This will end country and city
strife. If country and city strife con-
tinues and Chicago and other cities
similarly situated secede, it will be
equally logical for the agricultural re-
gions of the United States to ask the

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Union and establishing a separate gov-
ernment because they find Congress
dominated b^ the financial and indus-
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Is Chicago Ready to Help?

"There are two roads open at the
present time. The one we are on and
the one we should be on. The one
we are on is the road easily traveled
by the politician who is dominated by
private interests and which leads to
injustice, war and chaos. The one we
should be on can be traveled only by
statesmen dominated with the national
point of view and seeking the welfare
of all. It leads to justice, harmony
and a square deal for all.

"The experience Chicago is having
in Springfield should help her to un-
derstand and appreciate the position
of the farmer \n Washington. I hap-
pen to know that it was the failure of
the farmers to get what was due them
in Washington which led them to seek
relief from their tax burdens in Spring-
field.

"Is Chicago ready to work with the
farmers of the state for a square deal
all round? If so, there is hope for the
city, the state and the nation."

TELEPHONE COMPANY
GETS RATE INCREASE

''l^HE Illinois Commerce Commission
-■- recently granted the Jerseyville
Telephone Co., an increase of $3 a
year on service to subscribers. This
means that rural subscribers will pay
$21 per year, hereafter, instead of
$18. Commenting on this action, L.
J. Quasey, says:

"This was rather a close case, in
that the old rates were not adequate
to give the company a fair return, and
the rates ordered by the Commission
will tend to make an earning of about
seven per cent. This is rather high
for a small telephone company. How-
ever, the Commission does not make
changes up or down that amount to
less than 25 cents a month. The com-
pany has been backward in its rural
service policy and we hope that the
advance will induce them to be more
amenable to the demands for tele-
phone service in the country. The
fact that they were allowed the ad-
vance puts us in position to insist
more strongly on this point."

The Transportation Department col-
lected $18,468.09 in claims from Jan.
1 to June 30, 1927. f • 1 1 .

The total quantity of phosphate rock
sold in the United States in 1926 was
3,209,976 long tons valued at $10,893,-
800 according to the U. S. Dept., of
Commerce. This is 8 per cent less
than was sold in 1925.

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FRIDAY, AUG. 26, FARM BUREAU DAY AT STATE FAIR

FARM BASEBALL
TITLE RACE ON

Lawrence Wins In Southern Illi-
nois Division. Others In Doubt

WHO will win the 1927 state farm
baseball title? That's the ques-
tion to be decided within the next
three to four weeks. It's anyone's
contest at this writing. Five or six
teams are running neck and neck while
a dark horse or two are ready to jump
in and upset the dope any minute.

Lawrence county's leadership in the
Southern Illinois division is undis-
puted by virtue of her four successive
victories. What this team will do in
competition with the seasoned nines
from Central and Western Illinois is
a puzzle, however.

Dopesters point to the fact that
other Southern Illinois teams, includ-
ing Jefferson, Bond, Wayne and Clay,
have piled up too many runs against
the Lawrence Farm Bureau team to
make it look like a state champion-
ship contender.

Competition Keen

As the time draws near for the
preliminary championship games, Mar-
shall-Putnam, Peoria, and Tazewell all
show leadership calibre. The latter re-
covered remarkably after a bad start
by defeating Peoria and Woodford in
the past two games. Peoria defeated
Marshall-Putnam decisively by a 11
to 4 score on July 2, while Tazewell
the same day was trouncing Woodford.
If Tazewell beats Marshall- Putnam and
Peoria wins from Woodford again, the
Peoria nine may enter the finals a fa-
vorite for state honors. On the other
hand, the strong Tazeweir players have
a good chance at the title if they win
their remaining games.

Logan county is booked to win in
the McLean-DeWitt-Logan division.
DeWitt beat McLean in an early game
only to be defeated by Logan 8 to 3 at
Beason on July 4.

Henderson and Warren were sched-
uled to play on July 9 with Henderson
county, a championship contender in
past seasons, conceded to be the most
likely winner. Cass and Morgan final-
ly have arranged a game to determine
which team shall represent the division
in the preliminary championship series.
Farm Work Interferes

Adams, Brown and Schuyler are still
head over heels in corn plowing, hay-
ing, and harvesting. Prospects are
bright, however, for enough games to
select a divisional leader this week and
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The season has handicapped farm
baseball beyond measure. Only 12 of
the 20 county farm bureau teams had
played up to July 9.

'To be eligible, each player must live
and work on the farm and be a farm
bureau member or come from a mem-
ber's family.

HAIL STORM inf S

WHITESIDE COUNTY

THE most destructive hail storm in
30 years cut a path a mile wide
through Whiteside county in North-
western Illinois on July 6, beating
down corn, oats, wheat, and clover,
and doing much damage to fruit, gar-
dens, farm buildings and poultry.

After cutting through Iowa in a
Northeasterly direction, the storm
swept across the Mississippi near Ful-
ton and continued its rampage across
Whiteside to the borders of Lee and
Ogle counties. r

Hailstones Large

Hailstones varying in size, with the
largest like hens' eggs, rained down
for an hour, stripping the corn and
hammering the standing grain into the
ground. West windows in houses and
barns were broken, shingles beaten
from roofs, trees blown down, and
farm buildingrs moved from founda-
tions. Hailstones were washed into
gullies to a depth of three feet.

Oats and wheat in the storm's path
are a total loss. Corn is expected to
recover enough to make fodder or a
light crop. Fay Peugh, south of Co-
leta, reported the loss of 30 White
Leghorn pullets from hailstones. Even
rabbits were killed. The damage is
estimated at more than a half million
dollars. According to reports no one
in the storm's path was protected by
hail insurance.

STATE OIL CO-OP
SELLS 170 CARS

Twelve County Companies Now
Afflliated; More To Join

ONE hundred and seventy carloads
of gasoline, kerosene and lubricat-
ing oils have already been handled by
the Illinois Farm Supply Co., the State
cooperative engaged in centralized
buying and selling for the county oil
and supply companies. This is the en-
couraging report made recently by
Manager Geo. R. Wicker. Additional
orders totaling three carloads of lubri-
cating oil will be filled shortly. This
record was made in three months.

Favorable comments are coming in
from members over the state who re-
port that the fuel and motor oils are
measuring up to the best of the old
advertised brands. All fuel and motor
oils are being brought on specifications
subject to laboratory tests to insure
their high quality

Twelve county cooperatives are now
affiliated with the state company, and
six more are in the process of organi-
zation. Attractive savings are being
made as a result of the large volume
of business. These will be returned,
after paying expenses, in patronage
dividends to the member companies.

HEADQUARTERS TO I
BE ESTABLISHED

Replies Peoria and Decatur Day

In Recognition of Organized ;

j I ] Agriculture

I? RIDAY, August 26, will be known
officially as FARM BUREAU DAY
at thei Illinois State Fair, this year.
Official Confirmation of the arrange-
ment iame in a telegram to President
Smith from S. J. Stanard, State Di-
rector; of Agriculture, just before go-
ing to press. No extensive exhibits or
demonistrations have been planned but
it has bjeen definitely decided to set
up heidquarters and provide a check
room Vhere Farm Bureau and I. A. A.
members! may meet, rest, and exchange
greetings. An effort will be made to
bring put a large delegation of Farm
Bureaik members for this day. |.

W. L. COPE AND SONS

I ARE GOLF CHAMPS

"Y\r U COPE, fruit grower from
' »• Mai^on County and member of
the I. A. A. Executive Committee
from the 23rd district heads the great-
est aggregation of farm champions in
Southern Illinois.

In the recent golf tournament at
Salem, Mr. Cope's two oldest sons,
Loren and Howard placed first and sec-
ond wlith scores of 74 and 76. The
former also won the President's cup,
the highest honor of the tournament.
Mr. Cope, himself, won the contest for
the b^st approach shot, one of the
boys Won the driving contest, and
a young son, Allen clinched the
family's supremacy by winning the
horseshoe pitching contest held the
same day. It was Cope's day. More
than 100 competed in the sports pro-
gram held at the Salem Country Club.

Follbwing is the report of Don
Robisojn, state superintendent of ani-
mal industry on the status of T. B. ap-
propriation at the end of June, 1927:

APPROPRIATION ....__™- $2,000,000.00

Indemnity claims

against the State

paid iinCe July 1,

1925 .i...... $1,101,215.87

Amount' of Federal ,

claims paid by the

State _ 231,675.37

Expenses i n c u r r ed

since July 1, 1925.. 166.972.59
Claims pending on

2,403 reactors se-
cured since July 1, ^ '

1926, allowing $15

per hea^. (State

share) .4. 36,045.00

Total claims and expenses paid

and pending

-$1,535,908.83

* Free Balance of Appropriation..

464,091.17

Henderson County's farm bureau
baseball team defeated Warren county
4 to 0 on Saturday, July 9. The three
Pence's, E. Pence, H. Pence, and C.
Pence, who catch, pitch, and play left-
field respectively were prominent in

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

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tocial and educational intereata of the farmera
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of Illinoia and the nation.

Published once » month »t 404 North Wesley
by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Edited by
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as second-class matter October 20, 1925, at the
Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance
postage provided for in Section 412, Act of Fel
October 27, 1925. The individual membership fee
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subscription to the Illinois AoRicrrLTTTRAL
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OFFICERS

President, Earl C Smith

Vice-President, Frank D. Barton

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles

Secretary, Geo. A. Fox

EXECUTIVE COMMITTE S
(By Congressional District i)

1st to 11th H.

12th

13th y.E. Bamborough, Polo

H. Moody, Port Byron

M. Skinner, Yates City

. . . A. R. Wright, Varna

Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

R. F. Karr, Iroquois

14Ch W|

15th A

16th

17th

18th

19th J. Li Whisnand, Charleston

2Wy (Carles Borgelt, Havana

21st Sfu^uel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd.
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Detroit

Cornell

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C. Vial, Downers Grove
3. F. Tullock, Rockford

"rank Oexner, Waterloo
W. L. Cope, Salem

24th Ch irles Marshall, Belknap

25th.

DIRECTORS OF

Business Service

Dairy Marketing

Farm Sujjply

Finance

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing

General OCTice

Information

Insurance

Legal Counsel

Live Stock Marketing

Organization

Promotional Service

Poultry and Egg Marketing

Taxation and Statistics

Transportation

DEPARTMINTS

.Fred Dietz, De Soto

Geo. R. Wicker

A. D. Lynch

J. R. Bent

R. A. Cowles

A. B. LeciJer

J.H. Kelker

E. G. Thiem

J. P. Gibson

.Donald Kirkpatrick

Ray E. Miller

G. E. Metzger

V. Vaniman

F. A. Gougler

J. C. Watson

L. J. Quasey

iniquities and lack
legislators.
Chicago leg^islators
Their goal was

on the same score.

We Draw a Goose Egg From Chicago

IN the heat of the debate on reapportionment in the
legislature just closed, a prominent Chicago representa
tive indulged in a ruthless tirade on the
of cooperation shown by the downstate

For'campaig^i purposes or otherwise,
spoke fluently for more representation
control of the General Assembly. They failed to get it
That hurt, and the cry of sectionalism, and lack of coopera-
tion followed-

Let's examine the Chicago delegation
For our own information, the voting r< cords of each leg-
islator were checked on four major me£ sures, namely, the
gas tax, the state income tax, the Boari of Trade control
bill, and the Chicago tax raid measures. The first three
were supported by the Illinois Agricu tural Association,
the last was actively opposed.

For affirmative votes on the first three and a negative
vote on the last, a grade of 25 per cent each was allowed.
Forty-seven representatives drew goose eggs on the test.
Every one of these came from Cook county and practically
the entire Chicago delegation was so recorded.

Here is a flagrant example of sectionalism. No down-
state delegation ever voted so consistentl; r against construc-
tive measures, and in favor of one so destructive of econ-
omy and the State's welfare as the increased bonding bill.
This is a fair sample of how the rest <if the state would
pay, and pay, and pay if Chicago W(!re placed in the
saddle.

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Light from the East '

AM one man from east of the Apalachian Moun-
tains who believes in the principles of the McNary-
Haugen bill," declared Dr. Clyde L. King, professor in the
Warton School of Commerce, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, in a recent address before the American In-
stitute of Co-operation.

Dr. King is the Judge Landis on three large city milk
markets in Pennsylvania. He is chief arbitrator between
the milk producers and distributors in case of disagree-
ment.

Such a statement coming from Dr. King is significant.
He is no mere theorist like so many of his eastern neigh-
bors. He has had experience in helping the Philadelphia
milk producers solve their surplus problems. He knows
something about the farmers' troubles. He admitted that
he could think up more arguments ag^ainst the McNary-
Haugen bill than were presented in President Coolidge's
veto message.

Nevertheless, he believes that western farmers are on
the right road in advocating their surplus control plan.
We congratulate Dr. King for his independence of thought
in the face of the overwhelming eastern provincialism that
surrounds him. i

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One man was killed and five injured two
miles east of here today when an Overland
sedan suddenly swerved across the highway
in front of a Litchfield car. The driver of
the Overland had run off the pavement and
while trying to get back on jerked the steer-
ing wheel quickly, throwing the car in the
path of the other machine. Both cars were
wrecked. The injured were taken to the hos-
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Such items from the newspapers are common. This one
describes a familiar cause of many accidents on the state's
paved roads. Boneheadedness, intoxication, or nervous-
ness invariably result in grief, and here is an example of one
or the other. , ^ :\ j .

A movement to curb loss of life and property damage
through education is now underway by our own mutual
auto insurance company. Vernon Vaniman who has charge
of the campaign believes that 75 per cent of such accidents
are preventable. The American Farm Bureau is en-
couraging similar work among Farm Bureaus in other
states. These efforts are tremendously worth while. We
can all help by watching our own driving.

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Our Privilege in 1928

OCK ISLAND county congratulates itself over the
fact that the Illinois Agricultural association is to
hold its annual convention in Rock Island in 1928. We
are amply equipped to house the delegates to this im-
portant gathering of the agricultural interests of Illinois
and consider ourselves privileged to be their hosts. We
believe that nowhere in the state would the men who
compose the membership of the farm bureaus be more
cordially and sincerely welcomed. Through the Rock
Island county farm bureau, which has been functioning
successfully for years, we have a point of contact with this
splendid state organization, and one of our representative
farmers, W. H. Moody of Port Byron has been a member
of its executive committee for a long period. Rock Island
county is the home of many institutions which come into
very close association with agriculture; indeed they have
played a prominent part in the development of agriculture
in the matter of farm implements, and in no small de-
gree have contributed to its progress. The farm bureau
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LA. A. MEMBERSHIP
GROWS STEADILY

Farm Bureau Never Stronger In
Morale and Accomplishments

NEARLY 12 years after its birth,
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion today is stronger in morale, pot-
ency, and accomplishment than at any
time in its brief history.

. The trend of membership is on the
increase according to figures revealed
recently by George E. Metzger, direc-
tor of organization. Increases in mem-
bership in 38 counties during the past
year amounted to a total of 4,105 over
the previous three-year period. This
is an average increase of 108 to the
county. Mr. Metzger allows full credit
for this remarkable showing to the
members themselves working with their
farm advisers to maintain strong, vig-
orous county organizations.

He sees in these results a vindication
of the member-sign-member plan ini-
tiated some five years ago. A larger
membership might have been sig^ned
through the paid solicitor plan but it is
generally conceded that the training in
leadership and improvement in morale
resulting from the members bearing
the responsibility of organization them-
selves, in paramount to all other con-
siderations.

Better Feeling Evident

The records reveal that 24 counties
obtained practically the same number
of members as were signed three years
ago. A loss was sustained in certain
counties in the Chicago and St. Louis
milk zones where the Farm Bureaus
were blamed for initiating and promot-
ing the tuberculin testing of cattle.
This situation is regarded only as tem-
porary. When such dairymen come
to realize the importance of getting
rid of tuberculosis for their own wel-
fare, a reaction will take place that
will eventually strengthen such county
farm bureaus.

Dupage county, where opposition to
the T. B. test hurt the last membership
campaign, is already showing the ef-
fects of a changed sentiment. Here,
the membership has grown steadily for
the past eight or ten months until
again the Dupage County Farm Bu-
reau, in spite of extensive subdividing
in the eastern section of the county
has one of the strongest small county
organizations in Illinois.

McHenry, Boone, Lake and Kane
likewise are coming back and the turn
of events is expected to result in lar-
ger Farm Bureau organizations in all
these counties. The progressive think-
ing dairymen in this district who are
working through the Pure Milk As-
sociation will eventually bring about
improvements in both production and
marketing conditions here that prom-
ise to bring untold benefits to the
farmers of this section.

Collections High

L. 0. Wise, farm adviser in White-

side county, reports a growing mem-
bership. In the past two weeks, 10
new members voluntarily came into
the Whiteside County Farm Bureau.
There are now enough voluntary mem-
berships coming in throughout the
state, to more than offset the losses
from death, moving out of the state,
and retirements, according to Mr.
Metzger.

Farm bureau collections of dues are
the highest they ever have been. Col-
lections have risen from approximate-
50 to 60 per cent in 1920-21 to an av-
erage of 85 to 90 per cent today.
Many counties report collections of
95 per cent and up of 1927 dues.

The counties showing increases in
membership and the number in excess
of the previous period are as follows:
Adams, 167; Bond, 51; Brown, 8;
Bureau, 109; Champaign, 125; Craw-
ford, 50; DeKalb, 323; DeWitt, 53;
Edwards, 60; Franklin, 41; Greene,
194; Henry, 140; Jackson, 35; Jo
Daviess, 37; Knox, 157; LaSalle, 124;
Lee, 78; Macoupin, 12; Madison, 108;
Mason, 52; McDonough, 162; McLean,
652; Mercer, 3; Monroe, 104; Morgan,
157; Moultrie, 24; Massac, 204; Ogle,
200; Pulaski, 1; Richland, 3; Rock Is-
land, 26; Scott, 91; Stark, 48; Ver-
milion, 29; Williamson, 28; Winne-
bago, 137; Woodford, 47; and Wash-
ington, 305. Washington and Massac
counties, each become affiliated with
the I. A. A. in the past year.

APPEL IS NEW

^ BANKER HEAD

JM. APPEL, of Highland Park was
• elected president of the Illinois
Bankers' Association at the close of its
thirty-seventh annual convention at
Danville, June 24. Mr. Appel is presi-
dent of the Highland Park State Bank
and the Broadway National Bank of
Chicago.

$75,000,000 A YEAR
ALL FROM ICE CREAM

Ice cream consumption in the United
States was nearly 2,000,000 gallons
more than in 1925, but the consump-
tion per person decreased from 2.80
gallons in 1925 to 2.77 gallons in 1926
according to the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.

Ice cream production has increased
remarkably in recent years. Estimated
production in 1910 was 95,450,000 gal-
lons; in 1920, 260,000,000 gallons, and
last year it was 324,665,000 gallons,
an increase in 16 years of 240 per cent.

Although ice cream manufacture is a
small branch of the dairy industry,
utilizing only about 3.8 per cent of the
milk produced in the United States,
the industry employs 50,000 persons
and pays out in salaries $75,000,000
a year.

COUNTRY LIFE WEEK will be
celebrated at the Michigan State Col-
lege, East Lansing, July 30 to Aug. 5.

Illinois farmers, county advisers and
extension workers are invited.

AUTO INSURANCE

AT HIGH MARK

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More Counties Gain 20 Per Cent
Quotas As Campaign Goes On

AUTO insurance applications re-
■ ceived at headquarters approached
the 5,000 mark shortly before going to
press. The total of 4635 applications
on July 8 is being added to at the rate
of more than 100 per week, and before '
August 1, the 5000 mark will be ex-
ceeded according to predictions by Ver-
non Vaniman, in charge of the pro-
motional work.

The ten district meetings for spread-
ing the gospel of accident prevention
and farm bureau insurance are now in
full progress. These meetings were
scheduled to close with the last at Cen-
tralia and Charleston on July 16. Dis-
cussion of all phases of auto insurance
preparatory to staging an intensive
drive during INSURANCE WEEK be-
ginning July 25 was scheduled.
425 Per Montk '

Since the new mutual was launched
April 1, policies have come in at the
rate of 425 per month. Popularity of
the new policy according to Vaniman
is due in part to the fact that payment
of the actual value of the car is made
at time of loss by fire or theft. Knowl-
edge that the company is owned and
controlled by the Farm Bureau^ with
no persons privately interested for
profit in the venture is another factor
in its general popularity. Protection
is extended likewise to anyone the own-
er allows to drive the ^ar of legal age
or 15 years old. Public liability protec-
tion may now be had up to $50,000 at
small additional expense. •

Claims numbering 107 had been re-
ceived at the office up to June 30.

Many new counties have obtained
their quotas of 20 per cent of the
membership since the last report. Win-
nebago still leads with 347 policies
signed, while LaSalle county is second
with 242.

Other counties over the 100 per cent
mark are Bond, Boone, Clinton, Cook,
Dupage, Greene, Grundy, Johnson,
Piatt, Stephenson. Other counties ap-
proaching the 100 per cent quota mark
are Lee, Williamson, Washington, Rock
Island, Pike, Morgan, Macon. The 12th
congressional district leads with a total
of 944 applications signed.

The 19^7 Spring; pig crop in Illinois is 7.6
per cent Itfrger than that of last year says the
State and Federal Departments of Asrriculture.
Increases m other corn belt states are Iowa
1.9 per ceht, Indiana 8.1 per cent, Ohio 12.6
per cent, Michigan 18.6 per cent, Wisconsin
4.9 per cent, Missouri 5.6 per cent, and Kansas
6.4 per cent. Increases in bred sows for fall
litters are 13.6 per cent for Illinois and 28 per
cent for the corn belt.

Decreases were reported in three other Mid-
West states. The rural mail carriers made
the survey, i

L, J. Quasey. Director, ,

I. A. A. Transportation Dept. ; I

"We received the railroad's draft coverinsr
the seed corn shortage. We appreciate your
efforts immensely. I feel that your depart-
ment gives the most real service and says the
least about it of any."

B. W. TILLMAN.
County Afent. St. Clair County Farm Bureau

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What the Counties
Are Doing

TWENTY-ONE cars of limestone
all in one train shipped over the
I. C. R. R. were unloaded in Mont
gomery county on June 29-30. Farn
adviser Alden Snyder and the agricu
tural department of the I. C. coop-
erated in putting on the project.

As the train pulled in to its destina-
tion near Litchfield, farmers were wait-
ing to lend a hand to the train crews
in getting the stone out of the cars

The stone came in large coal car^
fitted with tight self-dumping bottom
that let the stone slide out beside thfe
track. Dumping places 40 feet lonjf
and 2V^ feet away from the rails wer;
skinned and made ready. Twenty to
30 minutes were required to dump each
car. The limestone will be haule<
away at leisure. Most of it will b;
spread on wheat and plowed ground
this fall.

The limestone was shipped by th4
Dolese and Shepard Co., from their
quarries in Northeastern Illinois. Moro
than 12,000 tons were unloaded.

Williamson Picnic Aug. 25

Williamson county merchants wil
join with the farmers in a huge picnic
to be held on August 25. Pres. Ear
C. Smith of the I. A. A. will be th<i
speaker of the day. Farm Advisei
Dee Small believes in spreading the
gospel of limestone and legumes
through community meetings. "Wt
are just starting a two-weeks campaigr
to drive home the value of crop rota-
tions," he says.

Jersey Banner Township

Adviser Frank Shuman of Jersej
county rises to present the name oi
Jersey Township as the greatest ir
Farm Bureau membership in the State,
"This township has 138 members," he
says. "Let's see someone show us a
better record."

Scott GroMring

Scott county has the fastest growing
little farm bureau in Illinois. Five
hundred and six farmers out of 700
in the county now belong to the Scott
County Farm Bureau.

How Knox Did ilt

A 25 per cent cut in quadrennial
farm land valuations in Knox County
was declared at the April meeting of
the Board of Review. This was accom
plished through the efforts of the Farm
'' Bureau tax committee working with
its chairman, George Charles of Knox
ville. Mr. Charles is treasurer of the

County Farm Bureau, and a member
of the Board of Review. The assessors
have made most of the necessary re-
ductions.

T. B. TESTING

MAKES HEADWAY

W/HILE more than 1,000,000 dairy
»» cattle out of 30,000,000 head
tested for tuberculosis have been de-
stroyed, the industry is in better con-
dition today than it was ten years ago
when the campaign against the disease
was inaugurated. This was the opinion
of Dr. John R. Mohler, chief of the
Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. de-
partment of Agriculture, at the re-
cent Eastern States Tuberculosis Con-
ference. He also stated that the an-
nual consumption of milk in the United
States has increased more than 49
quarts per capita since 1918. During
1926 the public consumed 56 billion
pounds of milk and cream, an increase
of two billion pounds over the quantity
consumed in 1925.

To date 874 cities have tuberculin-
testing ordinances and 375 provide an
option between the tuberculin test and
pasteurization.

POOR WIRING STARTS

MANY FARM FIRES

A CONDITION that exists to a greater
or less extent in practically every
rural community was revealed during
the recent inspection of farm proper-
ties in Sun Prairie Township, near
Madison, Wis. In a number of in-
stances, electric wiring of dwellings
was found in very poor condition, espe-
cially on farms where the wiring had
not been up to the proper standard
originally, or the insulation had worn
off from one cause or another. In
other cases, it was found that while
the original wiring had been properly
installed, extensions had been made by
inexperienced persons, who did not re-
alize the necessity of proper insula-
tion when running the wires through
partitions, or along the ceiling or floor
of the building.

Another defect discovered by the fire
preventionists, and one that not in-
frequently causes fire, was the over-
loading of the circuit. Originally in-
stalled for lighting purposes only, ex-
tensions to electric irons, washing ma-
chines, or other devices had been made
from time to time, with the result that
the system was taxed far beyond the
limit of safety.

Attention is called to the fact that
the most important part of an electri-
cal equipment and the one least under-
stood, as a rule, is the fuse plug, which
is the safety valve of the system. An
overloaded electric wire becomes heated
and the greater the quantity of the cur-
rent the higher the temperature. The
rubber insulation on the wire vul-
canizes when subjected to high tem-
perature and loses its insulating value.
To care for this contingency, the fuse
is placed in the electrical circuit.

HOW THE SEAWAY
WILL AID FARMER

Eight reasons for building the Great
Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway to benefit
the farmer, according to the St. Law-
rence Tidewater Association, are as
follows :

First — It will cheapen the cost of
carrying to market the food stuffs he
exports.

Second — It will establish a new and
higher level of prices for food stuffs
he sells at home.

Third — It will give him a wider
range of markets, and enable him to
select a wider variety of crops adapted
to such markets.

Fourth— It will give to all lines of
regional excess production a wider
marketing field, and will help to pre-
vent local market gluts within this
country — gluts that work havoc with
producer prices throughout the area of
surplus production, and that bring loss
and farming instability to farmers
within the regions of food supply
shortage.

Fifth — It will extend to the farmer
the benefits of lower transportation
costs on imports consumed on the farm.

Sixth — The St. Lawrence Seaway
will promote the growth of industries
and of consumer population closer to
the central area of farm production,
thereby moving the factory closer to
the farm and the consumer closer to
the producer.

Seventh— It will benefit the farm-
ers of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific
coasts by placing their products with-
in reach of the interior by direct, low-
cost water transportation.

Eighth— It will help to stabilize
American agriculture as a whole by
stimulating a better distributed, more
orderly, more efficient, and a steadily
expanding home market. It will help
to stabilize American agriculture as a
whole by providing the best possible
means for direct trade connection and
low cost transportation to all surplus-
consuming markets throughout the
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GAS TAX GOES INTO
FORCE ON AUGUST 1

■pNFORCEMENT of the gas tax on
■L^ Aug. 1 is predicted in spite of
attempted injunctions by organized
motorists to hold it up.

Forms for keeping records of all
gasoline used in stationary engines,
and tractors are being drawn up at
this writing and should be ready for
distribution by the end of the week,
or by July 16. I. A. A. members are
advised to write to the Department of
Finance, State House, Springfield, 111.,
for a supply in case the local oil dis-
tributor or filling station does not offer
them.

All applications for rebates on gaso-
line not used in motor cars must be
made within six months of time of pur-
chase.

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I. A. A. PICNIC, MOOSEHEART, AUG. 11, LOOMS AHEAD

''I'^HE National Cooperative Milk
X Producers' Association, with head-
quarters at Washingfton, will assist the
Pure Milk Association in working out
its plan of organization in the Chicago
milk zone. This was decided by the
board of directors of the National As-
sociation at their recent meeting in
Chicago.

An effort will be made to secure the
cooperation of all organized dairsrmen
in the Chicago milk shed toward stop-
ping indiscriminate inter-market ship-
ments of milk and cream. Orderly
marketing and merchandising with
controlled production will be sought.
The dairy marketing department of
the Illinois Agricultural Association
was instrumental in bringing the prob-
lem and the need for united action to
the attention of the national authori-
ties.

A PRELIMINARY hearing on the
question of discontinuing free
telephone toll service between certain
exchanges in Morgan, Scott and
Greene counties was held recently at
Jacksonville. The telephone companies
interested petitioned the Illinois Com-
merce Commission claiming they need-
ed more money to pay dividends.
Farm advisers Fisher and Laible, Con-
gressman Henry T. Rainey, and L. J.
Quasey of the I. A. A. represented the
farmer subscribers. Mr. Quasey will
prepare briefs on the case for presen-
tation at the next meeting.

New stock pens were installed re-
cently at Ridgrway in Gallatin county
following an appeal to the railroad by
the I. A. A. Transportation Depart-
ment.

A reduction in freight rates on
peaches from points on the I. C. R. R.
south of the B. & 0. in Southern Illi-
nois to Mississippi Valley points was
secured recently. The reduction
amounts to seven cents a hundred, or
$16.80 per car.

L. B. Palmer, president of the Ohio
Farm Bureau, is the new secretary of
the American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion. He succeeds Frank Evans who
will return to his home in Utah.

The American Farm Bureau reports
assets of $50,000 with practically no

liabilities. This is a decided improve-
ment over the financial condition of
1923 when the Federation was in debt
$50,000. During the first six months
of 1927, the Federation received fees
from 31 states.

A. B. Leeper, director of fruit mar-
keting, is aiding in the formation of a
fruit and vegetable marketing unit in
Saline county. "We will be busy mar-
keting the peach crop throughout July
and August," says Leeper.

The cheese producers of Illinois
have appealed to the I. A. A. Dairy
Marketing Department for help in fed-
erating' and organizing a central sales
agency. There are more than 160
cheese producers' associations in Illi-
nois, each of which sells its products
independently.

The B'oomington Milk Producers*
campaign of organization is nearing
completion. The Association is ex-
pected to start operating shortly. The
Dairy Department is assisting in get-
ting the new cooperative started and
is expected to provide managerial
service.

New dairy and poultry shipping and
bargaining associations are in the
process of organization at Blooming-
ton, Bement, Milford, Cissna Park,
Toulon, and Galva. Frank Gougler of
the Poultry and Egg Marketing de-
partment is giving his time to this
work. ■■■■■■■: '/'

Ray E. Miller, Director of Livestock
Marketing, will assume his new duties
August 1. He will visit the Producer
Commission Associations at Chicago,
St. Louis, Peoria, and Indianapolis,
after which a series of district meet-
ings will be held over the state to se-
cure the cooperation of the county
farm bureaus in carrying out the new
program of coperative livestock mar-
keting, • ., ,

Details of legislative measures
drawn by Donald Kirkpatrick and R.
A. Cowles of the I. A. A. Special
Grain Marketing Committee will be
presented in the August issue of the
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Harvey Sconce of Vermilion county,
reporting on the facilities offered for
shipping and handling grain down the
Mississippi River to New Orleans, has
recommended that the I. A. A. appeal
to officials of the federal barge line
toward establishing a modern transfer
elevator at Cairo. ' li ;

COMMITTEES ACT
IN PREPARATION

Baseball Diamond and Horse-
shoe Courts Made Ready |
11 For Contests

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WITH« only three weeks to go in
preparation for the Eighth An-
nual I. A. A. picnic, committees and
officials in charge of the event are
bending to their tasks in making it a
memorable one in agricultural history.

Out on the Moose reservation on the
banks of Fox River, there is much
speculation and more expectation of
the coming State farm gathering on
August 11. How many ;w^ill be there
seems to be the popular question. Fifty
thousand is the optimistits^stimate of
the committee in charge. They are
preparing for that many sa' don't dis-
appoint them. The fear, that- August
1 1 may catch the corn belrinthe midst
of oats and wheat harvest is disquiet-
ing. Sizable crowds have come out to
previous picnics, however, in spite of
harvest, hail, or high water, and so the
prophets are foretelling that all records
will be smashed when Mooseheart op-
ens its doors to the organized farmers
of Illinois.

Preliminary plans call for the State
championship baseball contest in the
morning at 10. Horseshoes will start
flying an hour before to continue until
late afternoon.

Homer McCoy, Mooseheart's farm
manager, says that all the pigs on the
section will be shut up to prevent a
stampede when the hog callers send
forth their W-H-O-O-E-Y-S, P-E-E-G-
I-E-S, and P-I-G-O-O-E-Y-S. | j ..

As the time and place of the other
events are decided upon they will be
released through the press and radio.
For those who cannot come, the radio
will be used to impart a picture of the
crowds and contestants in action. City
farmers from Chicago will mix with
their neighbors from downstate. Invi-
tations will be sent to all agricultural
groups and organizations in Chicago.

In the afternoon. Senator Kenneth
D. McKellar, Democrat, and farm lead-
er from Memphis, Tenn., will lead
the speakers. He will speak from the
rostrum of the campanile or main
building ;at the entrance to the
grounds. ^ ^-^ v J; : , I I

The ladies* program in th^ audito-
rium will be held in the morning as in
previous years. ; . ! ^j; \ U

Professional umpires for the State
championship baseball game have been
engaged from the Midwest Umpires
League, Chicago. f .;

Army airplanes will be used this
summer in the Pacific Northwest to
protect national forests against fire.

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I. A. A. TO BROiVDCAST FROM STATION WJJD DAILY

PROGRAM OPENS HAIL INSURANCE

ON JULY 18

To Have Fifteen Minute Period
Betwen 12:00 and 12:15 P. M,

THE Illinois Agricultural Assoc a-
tion will be on the air again da ly
by the time this issue of the Record
is off the press.

A 15-minute program beginning at
12 o'clock noon was arranged recenlly
with Station WJJD, owned and con-
trolled by the Mooseheart Foundatitn.
Preliminary to the official opening )n
Monday, July 18, the period will >e
used in announcing the coming pio-
gram and news of the Association.

The radio connection with the Moos e-
heart station follows an invitation ex-
tended by the latter six months ajo.
An official agreement signed by oi fl-
eers of the Loyal Order of Moose and
the I. A. A. insures the latter free-
dom of speech and unhampered u se
of the 15-minute period for a definite
time after which either party may can-
cel on due notice. J j

Wave Length 370 Meters

Station WJJD operates on a wave
length of 370 meters. It is on tlie
Radio Commissioner's preferred list
and is included in a small group )f
the most powerful stations in tlie
United States,

WJJD divides time with Station
W^EBH at Edgewater Beach. Boh
have the same wave length but broai-
cast from different stations. Music il
programs of the stations are in charj;e
of the Chicago Herald-Examiner. F(tr
the present, the I. A. A. period will be
devoted to speaking. News of the A \-
sociation, educational talks from staff
members and others, crop reports, ard
the truth about the I. A. A.'s interest
and activity in legislation and con-
troversial questions will be told fear-
lessly.

Delay in getting the program und<r
way earlier in the year due to unce;'-
tainties of new wave length and power
allotments by the Radio Commission.

Send Letters

"There is nothing in the way nov
to hinder us in developing the most
powerful station in the Middle West"
said C. A. Howell, radio director fcr
the Mooseheart foundation, recently.
"We have been assured by the Radio
Commission that if we need moie
power to reach out over the country
we can get it. We are ready to spend
whatever money is necessary.

"Our letters from over the state iii-
dicate that we reach every section cf
Illinois."

Comments from members will help
us in checking up on reception. Le1-
ters are invited giving news of locf 1
and county organizations, community
clubs, meetings and other events.

ILLINOIS BANKERS

HITS $2,755,000 WORK WITH L A. A.

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HAIL insurance written in 1927 al
ready has exceeded that for 1926
by $1,155,000 according to a report
submitted by George TuUock, chair-
man of the Business Service Commit-
tee, on July 8.

On that date, a total of $2,755,000 of
hail coverage was in force on Illinois
farm crops, and an additional coverage
totaling $652,000 on fruit and garden
truck. On June 29, Western Illinois
counties were leading in the amounts
subscribed with Henry, Mercer, Knox,
Madison, and Warren counties in the
order named.

Statistics reveal that in 1926 farm-
ers were saved from $8 to $13 per
$1,000 of hail insurance through the
mutual company. The cost last year
was $22 per $1000 of insurance cov-
erage.

Express Approval of Committee's

Action In Cooperating With

Association

95 PER CENT OF

BORERS KILLED

DESTRUCTION of more than 95 per
cent of the European corn borers
is the estimated result of a four
months intensive spring campaign in
defense of the nation's corn crop ac-
cording to the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture. This campaign
in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Michigan, and Indiana is one of the
most intensive ever waged against an
insect pest in the United States. It
was begun March 14 under authority
of an act of Congress appropriating
$10,000,000 for control of the borer,
after the necessary legislation had been
enacted by the States concerned.

Our Privilege in 1928

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idea meets with support in Rock Is-
land county, and it will be a pleasure
for our people to meet the leaders of
this great movement. This is to be
their privilege because of the united
efforts of Mr. Moody, our farm ad-
visor, Sidney S. Carney, and Walter
F. Archer, secretary of the retail bu-
reau of the Rock Island chamber of
commerce, strongly supported by lead-
ing business men. The convention is
to be held in January and will bring
in all probability more than 3,000 dele-
gfates to this community. The new
year could hardly open more aus-
piciously.— Rock Island (111.) Argus.

Preparation of programs and broad-
casting will be in charge of the Direc-
tor of Information.

When Chicago goes back on Stand-
ard Time in October, the period can
be changed to 12:30 p. m. or later if
listeners find such advisable. All let-
ters should be addressed to George
Thiem, radio director, 608 South Dear-
bom St., Chicago.

'X'HE following resolutions adopted
-*- at the 37th annual convention of
the Illinois Bankers Association, June
24, at Danville reveals the cooperative
spirit and close working relationship
existing between the bankers and the
Illinois Agricultural Association:

"Of the many situations affecting
our economic and social welfare, not
only in Illinois, but throughout our
country, none has more troublesome
aspects than that in which agriculture
finds itself. The causes are well known
and need not be catalogued. Suffice
to say that after these eight years
since the World War, the farmer's
crop dollar remains below the p^irchas-
ing power of the industrial dollar.
Equilibrium has not been restored to
his relationship with industry, mer-
chandising and manufactures. On the
average the income from the farmer's
investment of capital and energy in
his business is not equitable.

"As banks are necessarily and in-
herently connected with, and their
prosperity is based on the success of
all legitimate business, and none more
than agriculture, it, therefore, behooves
us to give earnest consideration to all
corrective and constructive measures.

"We charge the officers of our Asso-
ciation with the responsibility for close
cooperation with the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association and other agencies
dealing with relief for agriculture.
Our Association should give most care-
ss cul study to any plans proposed and
lend its emphatic support to any sound
proposal for the ultimate good for this
fundamental Illinois industry, and we
heartily approve the work of the com-
mittee on Agricultural Relations as
shown by its report of the current year.

"As stated by President Crawford,
the Committee on Agricultural Rela-
tions has sought to consistently pursue
a course of cooperation with the estab-
lished and recognized leaders for the
solution of our farm problem, and we
respectfully refer the suggestions con-
tained in the splendid address of Mr.
Chas. A. Ewing to the thoughtful con-
sideration of the Administrative and
Agricultural Committees." , .^

I. A. A. AUDIT SERVICE
TO HELP IOWA BUREAU

FRED E. RINGHAM of the I. A. A.
audit service is on his way to Iowa
to help the Iowa Farm Bureau Federa-
tion set up an accounting system for
their supply department. The request
for aid came through President Charles
Hearst. The I. A. A. audit service was
organized three years ago.

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Our Program in the 55th GeneraJ Asseiriuiy

i^ V'v -By 2%d /. A. A. Legislative Cpmmittee

HE legislative policy of the lUi- were to secure a prompt comple-

I nois Agricultural Association in

the fifty-fifth General Assembly

was adopted after much deliberation

and study into the needs and rights

of the farmers of the state. It was

Early in the session of the 1927 leg-
islature, considerable discussion . devel-
oped relative to a gasoline tax law.
Representatives of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association sat in several con-

tion of this primary system. Recog-
nizing these facts, the Illinois
Agricultural Association, in its last
annual meeting, endorsed a two-
cent gasoline tax provided the funds ferences with those sponsoring a gaso-
not a selfish policy. It sought to im- derived therefrom were used for two line tax. Our position was made
pose no hardship on any class or
group. It had in mind the inter-
est of the public at large but it
recognized certain inequalities im-
posed upon farmers by present laws
which it hoped to amend or ad-
just through the measures sponsored.

purposes: namely, the completion of known repeatedly but it did not seem
the bond issue system within a reason- to meet with much favor from influ-
able period of time, and the building ential sources. Accordingly, adminis-

and maintenance of a secondary sys-
tem of highways. It further provided
that the division of this fund should
be made in an equitable manner. ,

GAS TAX AND SEC-
ONDARY ROADS

ILLINOIS, through the
adoption of two bond
issues, is engaged in build-
ing the finest system of
primary roads in the world.
All automobile owners in
the state are contributing
to that system through
auto license fees. How-
ever, when that system is
completed more than sev-
enty-five per cent of the
farmers will not have rea-
sonable connection with
these highways. A real
farm-to-market road sys-
tem would still be far from
an accomplished fact.

It has been apparent for
many months that avail-
able funds from the $100,-
000,000 bond issue would
not be nearly sufficient to
complete this system with-
in a reasonable period of
time. It appeared neces-
sary, therefore, to provide
additional funds if we

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THIS issue of the RECORD is devoted almost
entirely to the major legislation in which the
Illinois Agricultural Association was particularly in-
terested in the 55th General Assembly. Never be-
fore has the I. A. A. put forth so great an effort
in behalf of the farmers of Illinois as it did this
year at Springfield. Staff members were called
upon freely for assistance in drafting legislation,
and in studying and reporting upon measures pre-
sented by others. This is the first time in the
history of the Association that so complete a
report to the members has been attempted. It
marks the adoption of a policy to tell the whole
story without bias or prejudice, and to set forth the
voting records of each senator and representative.
Credit is given where credit is due. Censure of
legislators is withheld except in those cases where
there was a clear-cut violation of confidence and be-
trayal of agricultural constituents and their inter-
ests. "•■[■>^ ...>•• : ■(!■■■;■-;

Members are urged to read this report carefully,
and to examine with a critical eye the records of
their representatives. File the information auray
and use it as a basis for future voting. It is only by
intelligent voting and coordinated, determined ef-
fort that we can expect to secure recognition of our
rights and justice for the great industry w^ repre
sent. — Editor.

tration bills were introduced in both
houses levying a two-cent tax on all
gasoline used for motor vehicles and
providing therein that all the funds
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should go towards the com-
pletion of the bond issue
system. Representatives of
the Association were con-
vinced these bills had prac-
tically no chance of passage
and predicted their early
defeat.

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First Bill Withdraws

The bill was first tried
out in the Senate and
in the face of certain de-
feat was withdrawn from
the calendar by proponents
of the bill. Immediately
thereafter, our association
was approached and re-
quested to make known the
amendments that would be
necessary to secure our
support. We prepared the
amendments necessary to
embody the principles of
such a law as authorized
by our expressed position
in resolution, and pre-
sented them to the house
committee on roads and
bridges. After being care-
fully explained to the com-
mittee l^y our representa,-

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WHY WE SUPPOFITED THE STATE INCOME TAX BILL

tives, they were voted out by an over-
whelming majority, and from that time
on, the gasoline tax had the active sup-
port of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation.

Early in consideration of the meas-
ure, it developed that the lines were
tightly drawn between the larger cities
of the state and the more rural dis-
tricts. Most of the city newspapers
aggressively opposed the measure.
So did the Chicago Motor Club.
Farmer representatives were contin-
ually charged with asking the city
motorist, not only to complete the bond
issue system, but to construct and
maintain the secondary road system.

What's In Bill

This amended bill contains the fol-
lowing provisions:

1. It levies a tax of two cents per
gallon on all gasoline used in motor
vehicles on the highways of Illinois.

2. It provides exemption for gaso-
line used for agricultural, industrial,
and purposes other than in motor ve-
hicles used on the highways.

3. It provides for the prompt com-
pletion of the bond issue system (one-
half of the tax going for that pur-
pose), thereby removing to a large de-
gree the element of politics in desig-
nating which roads shall be completed.

4. It recognizes the secondary
roads as a part of the state highway
system. One-half of the gasoline tax
goes back to the counties on the basis
of the automobile license fees coming
from such counties for the construction
and maintenance of state aid roads.

5. It provides that county boards
shall designate the state aid roads for
improvement from this fund. How-
ever, the construction and maintenance
of such highways is to be subject to
the approval of the State Highway De-
partment.

6. It provides that funds derived
from the gas tax may be used to pay
the principal and interest on county
road bonds where such bonds have
been issued for the construction of
state aid roads, and where such roads
have been built according to approved
specifications.

7. It provides that county boards
may, by resolution, use the funds de-
rived from the gas tax to replace funds
now levied against property for state
aid road maintenance.

A close study of the following roll
calls reveals and confirms our state-
ment: The vote in the House was as
follows :

YEAS — Acker, Allen, Arnold, Babb,
■Baker, Bauer, Baxter, Beckman, Bran-
son, Bray, Breen, Browne, Bush, Chois-
ser, Chynoweth, Cork, Corzine, Cutler,
Davis, Eckley, Eisenbart, Ewing, Fahy,
Foster, Hanley, Harrell, Hawkins,

Hoar, HofF, Hunter, Hutson, Jackson,
Jenco, Johnson, E. A. W., Johnson, G.
J., Kasserman, Kersey, Lager, Lipka,
Lohman, Luckey, Malloy, Martens,
Martin, McAdams, McCarthy, McCask-
rin, Mester, Moore, O'Hair, Petri, Phil-
lips, Porter, Reeves, Rennick, Rew,
Rice, Robbins, Robinson, Roe, Rush,
Ryan, Ed., Searle, Snell, Soderstrom,
Sparks, Stanfield, Stewart, Teel, Tice,
Trandel, Turner, C. M., Turner, S. B.,
Vaughan, Waller, Warren, Weiss,
Whitely, Wilson, Wood, Wright, and
Scholes.

NAYS — Baird, Bippus, Boyle, Bruer,
Castle, Church, Clark, Coia, Devine,
Douglas, Elrod, Fekete, Finneran,
Franz, C. D., Franz, Matt., Gallas,
Garriott, Gill, Gormley, Green, Griffin,
C. A., Griffin, John, Hennebry, Holm-
gren, Holten, Hrdlicka, Igoe, Jacobson,
Juul, Krump, Lee, Lyon, Marinier, Mc-
Clugage, McSweeney, Miller, Minsky,
Mugler, Murray, Noonan, O'Brien,
O'Grady, O'Neill, Pacelli, Peffers, Per-
ina. Powers, Propper, Rategan, Ryan,
Frank., Schnackenberg, Shanahan,
Steven, Swanson, Turner, E. W., Web-
er, Weeks, Wylie.

Here's Senate Vote

The bill was taken up promptly in
the Senate and passed second reading
without further amendment. On the
vote on third reading, the bill failed
to pass lacking one vote of the required
constitutional majority. On the follow-
ing legislative day a motion to recon-
sider the vote by which the bill failed
to pass was carried and on a second
roll call the bill passed by a vote of
30 to 19. On this roll call the mem-
bers of the Senate voted as follows:

YEAS — Bailey, Barr, Bohrer, Boyd,
Brown, Burgess, Carlson, Courtney,
Cuthbertson, Deck, Flagg, Forrester,
Haenisch, Hamilton, Jewell, Joyce,
Lantz, Leonardo, McNay, Marks,
Meents, Meyers, Roberts, Searcy,
Smith, Sneed, Telford, Van Lent, Wil-
son, and Wright.

NAYS — Abt, Barbour, Boehm, Brod-
erick, Carroll, Dailey, Denvir, Dunlap,
Emmons, Hicks, Huebsch, Hughes,
Kessinger, McDermott, Mason, Rey-
nolds, Starr, Steinert, and Woods.

It is the opinion of those in touch
with the legislative situation that the
gasoline tax just passed is the best
possible arrangement obtainable under
present conditions. They believe fur-
ther that at no future period would
as satisfactory an arrangement have
been possible.

The large cities have already been
supplied with roads and have lost in-
terest in the rural requirements. If
this program had been deferred
two more years, other communities
would have grown cold to those needs.
Never again would we have been able

to secure substantial recognition for :.;.
secondary roads, v:^ :..:';- ;|. Si .".V^

We have made possible through the
gas tax a comprehensive road pro-
gram. The farmer's end of the road .
has been recognized. We may now look
forward to the development of a real
farm-to-market system of roads.

INCOME TAX--A TAX BASED
ON ABILITY TO PAY

EXPERIENCE in the tax amend- :
ment campaign of 1926 demon-
strated the extreme difficulty of secur-
ing tax reform through a change in
the state constitution. It will be re-
called that in that fight, although a .
large majority of those voting on the
proposition voted in favor of the . ;
amendment, it failed to carry because
of the Constitutional requirement that : *. :
an amendment must receive a major-
ity of all votes cast in the election.

It has long been generally conceded
that a uniform property tax cannot be ; •
made to apply equitably to property
conditions as they now exist. Under
its operation taxes have borne down . '
each year more heavily on tangible
property until conditions are becom-
ing unbearable. .. i fi

In view of this situation, and be-
cause an amendment to the Revenue
Article could not be submitted until
the next General Assembly, it was
thought advisable to see what could
be done under present constitutional
provisions. A state income tax bill
accordingly was introduced in each
House. In the Senate it was sponsored
by Senators Lantz, Deck, and Sneed and
in the House by Representative Arnold.

What It Provided ^ ^'

This bill in its final form provided
for a tax of one per cent on net in- ;
comes up to $5,000; it allowed an ex-
emption of $1,500 in case of unmar-
ried persons and $3,000 in case of mar-
ried persons or heads of families; and
it provided for an additional exemp-
tion of $500 for each child under eight-
een years of age, or other dependent. =
It provided a tax of two per cent on
additional net incomes of $5,000 to $10,-
000, and three per cent on additional
net incomes above $10,000.

It allowed the taxpayer to deduct ;.
his property taxes from his computed
income tax. In case a man paid taxes
on property, either real or personal,
he must have received a very large in- •
come before he would be required to
pay an income tax. The purpose of
the measure was to secure contribution .
to the cost of government from per-
sons of substantial incomes who, be-
cause they pay no property tax, con-
tribute nothing directly to the cost of
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For example, take a married man
with two children and a net income of
$10,000 including exemptions:
Total income after deducting

ordinary expenses $10,000

Ordinary exemption 3,000

Additional exemption for chil-
dren 1,000

Taxable net income 6,000

Tax on the first $5,000 at one

per cent 50

Tax on the remaining $1,000 at

two per cent 20

Total Income Tax 70

Taxes on any property paid by the
taxpayer cited above would be credited
against the income tax. A property
tax of only seventy dollars would com-
pletely wipe out the tax on his income.

Killed In Committee

The House Bill was killed in the
Revenue Committee of the House with-
out the courtesy of a hearing. One-
half of the members of this committee
were from Chicago. The Senate Bill,
on the other hand, was promptly
passed out with a favorable recommen-
dation, and with but two dissenting
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The introduction of the income tax
bill created much protest which came
mostly from the Chicago press. The
opposition to the bill emanated largely
from two sources, as follows:

(1) Those who were honestly or wil-
fully misinformed.

• (2) Those who now pay no direct
tax but whose incomes are sufficiently
large to compel them to pay a tax had
the bill become a law.

When the bill was considered on sec-
ond reading in the Senate an amend-
ment was adopted attaching a refer-
endum to the measure. In spite of this
weakening amendment, the Association
determined to press the bill for pass-
age. The amended bill, at least, would
have furnished an opportunity to get
an interpretation of the powers of the
legislature with reference to the in-
come tax under the present constitu-
tional limitation.

How They Voted

The bill was passed by the Senate
with a vote of 30 to 18. The roll call
follows :

AYES — Abt, Bailey, Barr, Bohrer,
Boyd, Burgess, Carlson, Cuthbertson,
Dailey, Deck, Dunlap, Emmons, Flagg,
Forrester, Hamilton, Hicks, Jewell,
Kessinger, Lantz, McNay, Meents,
Meyers, Searcy, Smith, Sneed, Swift,
Telford, Thompson, Wilson, Wright.

NAYS— Barbour, Boehm, Carroll,
Courtney, Denvir, Haenish, Huebsch,
Hughes, Leonardo, McDermott, Marks,
Mason, Reynolds, Roberts, Starr, Stein-
ert. Van Lent, Woods.

The following down state Senators
who voted for the bill on final passage
also voted for the amendment attach-
ing the referendum to the act:

Searcy, Dailey, Hicks, Kessinger,
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The bill thus went to the House
where it was handled by Rep. Reed
Cutler. The same revenue committee
that killed the bill earlier in the ses-
sion passed the bill out with favorable
recommendation after a fierce strug-
gle.

At this point the Chicago press
hurled charges of trading support on
various bills. These charges were en-
tirely without foundation. The Asso-
ciation was ^rty to no deal with any
political cpBfibination. It based its
support or opposition to various meas-
ures strictly on the merits or demerits
of the pending measures.- ~ I

After the bill was placed on the cal-
endar repeated attempts were made to
secure consideration but without suc-
cess. Consideration was postponed
from time to time until it was caught
in the famous filibuster on the bonding
bills. On the morning of the last day
of the session Association representa-
tives awakened to find that the income
tax bill had disappeared from the cal-
endar.

The Last Fight i

Late that last night. Representative
Arnold made a motion under Rule 12,
supported by more than five members,
to call the bill up. Seventy-seven votes
were required to carry this motion.
The roll was called and the motion was
lost 67-67. Following is the roll call:

AYES — Acker, Allen, Arnold, Babb,
Baker, Bandy, Bauer, Baxter, Beck-
man, Branson, Bray, Bruer, Bush, Chy-
noweth, Cork, Corzine, Cutler, Davis,
Fahy, Foster, Green, Hanley, Harrell,
Hawkins, Hennebry, Hunter, Hutson,
Jackson, Johnson, G. J.; Kasserman,
Lohmann, Lager, Little, Luckey, Mar-
tens, Martin, McAdams, McCarthy,
McCaskrin, McClugage, Mester, Miller,
Moore, O'Hair, O'Neill, Phillips, Por-
ter, Rennick, Rew, Rice, Robbins, Rob-
inson, Roe, Rush, Searle, Sinnett, Sod-
erstrom. Sparks, Stanfield, Teel, Tice,
Turner, C. M.; Vaughan, Waller, War-
ren, Whitely, Wright.

NAYS — Baird, Bippus, Breen,
Browne, L. O'N.; Castle, Church, Clark,
Coia, Curran, Devine, Douglas, Durso,
Eckly, Eisenbart, EIrod, Ewing, Fekete,
Finneran, Franz, Matt; Gallas, Gar-
riott. Gill, Gormley, Griffin, C. A.;
Hoar, Holmgren, Holten, Hrdlicka,
Igoe, Jacobson, Jenco, Johnson, E. A.
W., Jewell, Kersey, Krump, Lee, Lipka,
Lyon, McSii«reeney, Minsky, Mugler,
Murray, Noonan, O'Brien, O'Grady,
Overland, Pacelli, Peffers, Perina,

Powers, Propper, Rategan, RyaBt 1.
Frank; Schnackenberg, Shanahan, I
Snell, Steven, Stewart, Sullivan, Swan< |
son, Trendel, Turner, E. W., Weber, i
Weeks, Weiss, Wilson, Wylie.

Recorded as not voting — Boyle, ; ■
Choisser, Franz, C. D.; Goode, Griffin,
John, Hoff, Malloy, Marinier, Petri, ;
Placek, Reeves, Ryan, Ed.; Turner, S.
B.; Van Norman, Wood and Scholes. i:

Although the income tax bill failed ]
to pass, much good was accomplished j
by its introduction. The whole tax i
problem received a tremendous amount ;•
of discussion in the press of the state. |
The inequality of the tax situation was ^
never brought more clearly before the I
minds of the people. Never before has I
an income tax bill passed either House t,
though one has been frequently intro-
duced.

It is generally admitted by tax
authorities that there is no fairer '■
measure of a man's ability to pay
taxes under modern conditions than''
the income he receives. This is not 1
the time to feel discouraged. With i
continued effort extending even to the f
polls, we may look forward to a fairer ::
taxing policy in Illinois in the near
future.

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THE RAID ON THE TAX-
PAYER'S POCKETBOOJC

ON THE 17th of May, thirty-three
days before the traditional final
closing day of the General Assembly,
the Chicago administration threw into
the hopper 112 bills purporting to deal
simply with the Chicago revenue situa-
tion. As a matter of fact, these bills
as originally introduced would have
doubled the bonding power of every
taxing body in the state. |

What was generally known las the
key bill, S. B. No. 446, changed the
basis of assessment from half to full
value. The other bills cut the maxi-
mum tax rates in half. Mr. Watson,
Tax Director of the Association, be-
lieved that the upsetting of the tax
system; due to the passage of these
bills, would result in greatly increased
taxation. He based this opinion on
past experience in Illinois. I I

These bills came into the General
Assembly as the session was approach-
ing its close with a crowded calendar
and much major legislation demanding
consideration. From the time of their
appearance, these measures consumed
almost the entire attention of the As-
sembly to the detriment of other legis-
lation. The session ran two weeks
longer than usual. Even then many
important bills died on the calendar,
including fa number of great interest
to agriculture. .

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V ^° ! BUls Rashed Through

Representatives of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association recognized th;
dangerous possibilities of this legisla-
tion and immediately organized to de-
feat its passage. A joint hearing wa:>
called by the Revenue Committee o:
both Houses. I. A. A. representative!!
appeared at this hearing and callec
attention to past experience and pre
dieted that this upsetting of the basis;
of taxation would certainly result ii
greatly increased taxes, even though
property taxes were already unbear
ably high. At the close of the joinl;
hearing the Senate Committee met
and ignoring the question of a quorun
raised by Senator Flagg, passed th<
bills out with favorable recommenda-
tions.

These bills were ruthlessly rushed
through the Senate. The key bilJ
passed the Senate by a vote of 27 to
20, with a bare one vote more than
the constitutional majority required

Following is the roll call :

AYES — Barbour, Barr, Boehm,
Broderick, Carlson, Carroll, Courtney,
Dailey, Deck, Denvir, Haenisch, Hicks,
Huebsch, Hughes, Joyce, Leonardo,
McDermott, Marks, Mason, Roberts,
Searcy, Starr, Steinert, Swift, Van
Lent, Woods, Wright.

NAYS — Abt, Bohrer, Boyd, Burgess,
Cuthbertson, Dunlap, Emmons, Flagg,
Forrester, Hamilton, Jewell, Lantz,
McNay, Meyers, Reynolds, Smith,
Sneed, Telford, Thompson, Wilson.

Fight Begins

With the passage of the key bill
in the Senate the fight began in dead
earnest. About that time the Farm
Bureau presidents were called in and
members of both Houses were inter-
viewed by representatives of the folks
back home. This had a wonderful
effect and the bills met with a cool
reception in the House. !

The Chicago administration began
to marshal its forces and every known
means to get votes was used. After
a bitter struggle in committee, the bills
were passed out with favorable recom-
mendation and the fight became in-
tense.

From the introduction of the bills,
the Illinois Agricultural Association
exerted its every effort to defeat them.
They were aided by a few civic organi-
zations, including the Chicago teach-
ers and others. The Chicago adminis-
tration was at this time receiving some
support from down state cities.

In spite of Chicago's strength and
influence the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation was able to deliver a body
blow to the bills on the afternoon of
June 21, when a roll call was had on
a motion to strike the enacting clause
which would have killed the bill. On

RESSURE WHIPPED VOTES INTO LINE

this roll call the forces back of the
bill were routed by a vote of 70-62.

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The following roll call resulted on
a motion by Mr. Schnackenberg of
Chicago, to table the motion offered by
Mr. Warren, to strike the enacting
clause from the Bill. Those voting in
the affirmative are those who favored
the bonding bills, those voting in the
negative are the men who opposed the
passage of the S. B. 446.

AYES — Baird, Beckman, Boyle,
Church, Clark, Coia, Cork, Curran,
Cutler, Douglas, Durso, Eckley, Elrod,
Ewing, Franz Matt., Gallas, Garriott,
Gill, Gormley, Griffin, C. A.; Hoar,
Holmgren, Hrdlicka, Jacobson, John-
son E. A. W.; Juul, Kersey, Krump,
Lee, Lif^a, Lyon, Marinier, Martin,
McCarthy, McCaskrin, McSweeney,
Mintky, Mugler, Murray, Noonan,
O'Brien, O'Grady, Overland, Pacelli,
Perina, Phillips, Powers, Propper,
Rategan, Rew, Ryan, Frank; Shanahan,
Soderstrom, Steven, Stewart, Swanson,
Trandel, Turner, C. M., Turner, E. W.;
Weber, Weeks, and Weiss.

NAYS — Acker, Allen, Arnold, Babb,
Baker, Bandy, Bauer, Baxter, Bippus,
Branson, Bray, Breene, Browne, Bruer,
Bush, Castle, Choisser, Corzine, Davis,
Devine, Eisenbart, Fahy, Fekete, Fin-
neran, Foster, Franz C. D.; Greene,
H»nley, Hennebry, Holten, Hunter,
Hutson, Igoe, Jackson, Johnson G. J.;
Kasserman, Lager, Little, Lohmann,
Luckey, Martens, McAdams, McClug-
age, Mester, Miller, Peffers, Petri,
Porter, Reeves, Rennick, Rice, Robbins,
Robinson, Roe, Rush, Schnackenberg,
Sinnett, Snell, Sparks, Stanfield, Sulli-
van, Teel, Tice, Vaughn, Waller, War-
ren, Whitely, Wilson, Wood, and Wy-
lie.

Chaos and Disorder Reign

Here lack of control of the machin-
ery of the House was fatal to the in-
terests of the taxpayers of Illinois.
Before the killing operation could be
completed beyond hope of resurrection,
the House was adjourned under the
most arbitrary use of the gavel ever
witnessed by veteran members. When
the motion to adjourn was made there
were at least twenty members on their
feet demanding a roll call. The Con-
stitution provides that where five mem-
bers demand a roll call the request
shall be granted.

In spite of the demand of the score
of members; in spite of the Constitu-
tion ; bang went the gavel and the House
was adjourned. The clever wielder
of the gavel in this instance was Wil-
liam Weiss of Lake County who was
called to the Speaker's chair just as
Senate Bill 446 was called for con-
sideration.

At this time the votes of House
members were reflecting the best judg-
ment of the members and represent-
ing the interests and sentiment of the
folks back home. Reference to this
vote shows that the proponents of the
bill still lacked 15 of the required 77
votes to pass the bill.

Much Night Work

At the evening session of the same
day, with Representative Weiss again
in the chair facing a renewed effort
to kill the bill, the gavel was again
used in adjourning the House and
nothing was accomplished. Imme-
diately things began to happen in rapid
succession. Over night the most
powerful political combination ever
assembled in behalf of any legislative
measure swung into action.

Just before taking up S. B. 446 in
the House, the proponents of the debt
raising program attempted to furnish
an alibi for some down-state members
by offering an amendment to S. B. 606.
This amendment purported to limit
the bonding power of all taxing bodies
outside Cook County to two and one-
half per cent.

The position of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association was in no way
altered by the adoption of this amend-
ment. It was the opinion of Mr. Wat-
son, tax director, and Mr. Kirkpatrick,
legal counsel for the Association, that
the amendment was probably uncon-
stitutional. Even if upheld by the
courts, it would only meet one phase
of the difficulty. We considered this
amendment nothing more than a politi-
cal palliative to get the necessary votes
for the passage for S. B. 446. In no
way did it justify any down state mem-
ber in supporting the bill. •

The result of this high pressure cam-
paign was that within twenty-four
hours a number of down-state repre-
sentatives had succumbed to the lash of
political domination and the last roll
call on a motion to strike the enacting
clause failed by a vote of 76 to 63.
This wearing down process continued
until enough votes had been clubbed
into line to secure the passage of the

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- All Sought Favor -

It was a political effort by an or-."
ganized political lobby for a political/
purpose. Every political influence and
every politican with aspirations for '•
political preferment vied with each v.
other to secure the favor of the ad- .
ministration of the City of Chicago.

Members were routed out of bed at
all hours of the night and every device
known to modern politics was applied
to induce them to swing into line. It
was a combination that no force, rely-
ing on nothing but the righteousness of
its cause could withstand.

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Finally in the most solemn and dig-
nified meeting of the General Assem-
bly, the roll call was on the passage of
S. B. 446. As a result of that roll call
the bill was passed by a vote of 80
to 64.

The roll call follows:

AYES — Acker, Baird, Bandy, Beck-
man, Bippus, Boyle, Church, Clark,
Coia, Cork, Curran, Cutler Douglas,
Durso, Eckley, Elrod, Ewing, Finneran,
Franz, Matt.; Gallas, Garriott, Gill,
Gormley, Griffin, C. A.; Hoar, Hoff,
Holmgren, Hrdlicka, Jacobson, Jenco,
Johnson, E. A. W.; Juul, Kersey,,
Krump, Lager, Lee, Lipka, Lyon, Mar-
inier, McCarthy, McCaskrin, McSwee-
ney, Mester, Minsky, Moore, Mugler,
Murray, Noonan, O'Brien, O'Grady,
Overland, Pacelli, Peffers, Perina, Phil-
lips, Powers, Propper, Rategan, Rew,
Rush, Ryan, Ed.; Ryan, Frank;
Schnackenberg, Searle, Shanahan, Sod-
erstrom, Stanfield, Steven, Stewart,
Swanson, Trandell, Turner, C. M.;
Turner, E. Vf.; Turner, S. B.; Weber,
Weeks, Weiss, Wood, Wright, and
Scholes.

NAYS — Allen, Arnold, Babb, Baker,
Bauer, Baxter, Branson, Bray, Breen,
Browne, Bruer, Bush, Castle, Chois-
ser, Chynoweth, Corzine, Davis, De-
vine, Eisenhart, Fahy, Fekete, Foster,
Franz, C. D.; Green, Hanley, Hawkins,
Hennebry, Holten, Hunter, Hutson,
Igoe, Jackson, Johnson, G. J.; Kasser-
man, Lohmann, Luckey, Malloy, Mar-
tens, Martin, McAdams, McClugage,
Miller, O'Hair, O'Neill, Petri, Porter,
Reeves, Rennick, Rice, Robbins, Rob-
inson, Roe, Sinnett, Snell, Sparks, Sul-
livan, Teel, Tice, Vaughan, Waller,
Warren, Whitely, Wilson, and Wylie.

. Climax of Fight

The climax of the biggest fight of
many sessions was reached on the roll
call. Many members of the lower
House had withstood tremendous pres-
sure and some of them had been threat-
ened with political annihilation unless
they voted in favor of the bills.
Farmers should scan this roll call with
care and find out how their represen-
tatives voted on this measure.

They owe it to the representatives
who withstood tremendous pressure
from every angle and voted in their
interest, not only a debt of gratitude,
but their united support in the future
endeavors of these men who thus fear-
lessly faced political death. Only by
showing such support and gratitude
can agriculture hope to build up a
morale among members representing
down-state communities that will as-
sure proper attention to their in-
terests in future years. Let us all back
them up.

Farmers and Farm Bureaus must
use particular vigilance with their

Boards of Review and tax levying
bodies in order that the raise in taxa-
tion due to this upsetting of the tax-
ing system be kept as low as possible.
Property valuations must be equalized
and the strictest economy demanded
of all taxing bodies if taxes are not
to reach the point of confiscation of
Illinois farms, ■

S. B. 148— GRAIN EXCHANGE

SUPERVISION AND

REGULATION

THIS Bill, in its final form, as
passed by the Senate and remain-
ing on third reading on the House
calendar, defeated as the session
closed, was prepared, drafted and
sponsored by the Illinois Agricultural
Association. It embodied needed leg-
islation on the subject. It was in-
tended to supplement existing Federal
supervision imposed by the Grain Fu-
tures Act. It proposed, in the com-
mon interests of the grower, the grain
trade, the gjain exchanges and the
public generally, to extend State su-
pervision to grain trading on the pub-
lic exchanges, and to the exchanges.
It was proposed in view of the vast
public interest in trading and the con-
duct of traders on grain exchanges.

The Bill was prepared and drafted
in the light of experiences had by the
Federal Grain Futures Administration,
and in view of the findings of the Fed-
eral Trade Commission. The Associa-
tion requested and received valuable
information and assistance from rep-
resentatives of these Federal bodies,
in the preparation of the Bill. It was
a constructive proposal, offered in the
interests of the grain trade as
well as in the interests of the grow-
er. In our opinion, it would have done
much to restore public confidence in
trading on the Board of Trade of the
City of Chicago — in assuring, under
state supervision, equal opportunity to
all traders with a resultant truly free,
open, and competitive grain market at
Chicago, as should be maintained.

c Provided For Commission

The Bill provided for the creation
of a commission within the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, composed of
three members of which the Director
of Agriculture would be chairman. It
provided for the licensing of public
grain exchanges and operators on such
exchanges. It gave co-operative or-
ganizations engaged in handling grain
the right to seats on exchanges and
protected them against discrimination.
It gave the commission certain rights
respecting rules that might be adopted.
In short it gave to the State simply
such regulatory power as it already

exercises over practically every other
public interest.

In the course of the debate in the
Senate it was charged that the pro-
posed legislation would destroy the
Chicago Board of Trade or drive it
out of the State. Recessions in the
price of grain were attributed to the
prospect of passage of the bilL },

The Illinois Agricultural Associiation
was pictured as a gigantic organiza-
tioi^, attempting to overthrow the
Board of Trade and establish a new
system.

This was all old stuff to the Illinois
Agricultural Association representa-
tives. It is the stock argument of
powerful interests in resisting public
control. Proponents of the bill an-
swered that it was not the purpose of
the legislation to destroy legitimate
business; that the public had a right
to exercise certain supervision over a
public market.

i The Roll Call

After extended debate, the Bill
passed the Senate by a vote of 30 to 11.
The roll call is as follows: AYES — Abt.,
Bailey, Barr, Bohrer, Boyd, Burgess,
Carlson, Dailey, Deck, Dunlap, Em-
mons, Flagg, Forester, Hamilton, Jew-
ell Kessinger, Lantz, McNay, Meentz,
Meyers, Reynolds, Searcy, Smith,
Sneed, Starr, Telford, Thompson, Wil-
son, and Woods. NAYS — Barbour,
Boehm, Broderick, Courtney, Denvir,
Haenisch, Huebsch, Hughes, Joyce,
McDermott, Marks, and Swift.

Senator Denvir of Chicago then
changed his vote from "no" to "aye"
and served notice that he would move
to reconsider on the next legislative
day. This motion was duly made, but
failed to carry and the bill was passed.
Senator Cuthbertson, who was one
of the active supporters of the Bill,
was compelled to be away when the
bill was passed, but was present and
voted with the proponents against the
motion to reconsider.

After passage of the bill in the Sen-
ate every known means of delay was
resorted to, to obstruct its passage.
Representative G, J. Johnson, who had
been selected to pilot the bill through
the House, had been assured by the
speaker that it would be referred to
the Committee on Agriculture. In
spite of that assurance, after unwar-
ranted delay, the Bill was referred to
the Committee on License and Miscel-
lany, composed largely of Chicago
members.

The Illinois Agricultural Association
representatives appeared at the Com-
mittee hearing and the Bill was re-
ported out, but with the recommenda-
tions "that it do not pass."

When the report of the committee
came on the floor of the House, Mr.
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THESE STATE SEl

THEY SHOWED COURAGE

T T REQUIRED much courage in

instances for these men and
to make the record that entitled
to a place on this page. They
alluring promises of political
ment. They faced threats of po
ruin.

Such service must not be
If necessary party lines must be
tered. People should vote for
dates to the General Assembly w!
consider legislation on its merits
than its political effect; who will
to the voice of the people they re]
rather than that of powerful
influence.

If that is done the number of
on this page will increase and the
of the people will be protected.

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Randolph Boyd

H. S. Burress

A. S. Cuthbcrtson

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Simon E. Lantz

Chas. R. McNar

Joseph Meyers

Wm. Sneed

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Roy A. Corzine

Hmry C. Allen

A. Otis Arnold

Alfred S. Babb

Chas. Baker

Geo. J. Bauer

Jos. H. Davis

Harvey Z. O'Hair

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David Hunter

F. W. Rennick

M. P. Rice

Rollo Robbins

Cari E. Robinson

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thbertson

Norman Flafc

James H. Forrester

John R. Hamilton

W. S. Jewell

Sneed

Ben L. Smith

E. D. Telford

Chas. H. Thompson

Harry Wilson

HOW CHICAGO VOTED

DOWNSTATE legislators and organi-
zations have been accused repeated-
ly of unfairness and lack of cooperation
toward Chicago. Newspapers of this
city have taken the lead in raising the
question of downstate domination at
Springfield.

Such accusations are best answered
by presenting the vote of Chicago mem-
bers on the four measures of utmost
interest to agriculture. The roll call
showed that only six Chicago senators
and five representatives voted for the
gas tax.

Not a single Chicago man was re-
corded in favor of the state income tax.

Only two Cook county representatives.
Castle and Igoe, voted against the in-
creased bonding measures.

Two Chicago senators and three rep-
resentatives were recorded in favor of
the Board of Trade bill.

There are 19 senators and 57 repre-
sentatives in Cook county. Pra,w your
own conclusions. 'r-. .:'''' i'|

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F^ND OUT WHY

CCAN this page and
see if the faces of
tho«e who represented
you in the last General
Assembly are there. If
not find out nrhy.

Hunter

A. L. Hutson

G. J. Johnson

Jacob Martens

Mary McAdaiBS

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Homer J. Tic*>

Schuyler B. Vau(han

Albert Wallar

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THESE STATE SENATORS HAD PERFECT VOTING RECORDS ON FO

THEY SHOWED COURAGE

1 T REQUIRED much courage in many
instances for these men and women
to make the record that entitled them
to a place on this page. They withstood
alluring promises of political prefer-
ment. They faced threats of political
ruin.

Such service must not be forgotten,
if necessary party lines must be shat-
tered. People should vote for candi-
dates to the General Assiembly who will
consider legislation on its merits rather
than its political effect; who will listen
to the voice of the people they represent
rather than that of powerful political
influence.

If that is done the number of faces
on this page will increase and the rights
of the people will be protected.

Florence Fifer
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Randolph Boyd

H. S. Burgess

A. S. Cuthbertson

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Simon E. Lantz

Chas. R. McNay

Joseph Meyers
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Henry C. Allen

A. Otis Arnold

Alfred S. Babb

Chas. Baker

Ceo. J. Baue

Roy A. Corzine

Jos. H. Davis'

Michael Fahy

James H. Foster

H. H. Hawkins

David Hunter

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Harvey Z. O'Hair

Frank Porter

F. W. Rennick

M. P. Rice

Rollo Robbins

Carl E. Robinson

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S ON FOUR MAJOR ISSUES OF IMPORTANCE TO lillNoi FARiUERS

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Norman Flagg

James H. Forrester John R. Hamilton

W. S. Jewell

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Ben L. Smith

E. D. Telford

Chas. H. Thompson

Harry Wilson

HOW CHICAGO VOTED

DOWf^STATE legislators and organi-
zations have been accused repeated-
ly of uitf^irness and lack of cooperation
toward Chicago. Newspapers of this
city haVe taken the lead in raising the
question of downstate domination at
Springfield.

Such I accusations are best answered
by presenting the vote of Chicago mem-
bers on the four measures of utmdst
interest tb agriculture. The roll call
showed that only six Chicago senators
and five representatives voted for the
gas taxi ■ _ ^ ^ t

Not B single Chicago man was re-
corded (n favor of the state income tax.

Only |wo Cook county representatives,
Castle 4nd Igoe, voted against the in-
creased l}onding measures.

Two Chicago senators and three rep-
resentatives were recorded in favor of
the Boatrd of Trade bill.

Ther^ are 19 senators and 57 repre-
sentatives in Cook county. Draw your
own coikclkisions. '

CENT ON THE FOUR BIG ISSUES AFFECTING ILLINOIS AGRICULTURE

Geo. J. Bauer

Harry Baxter

R. J. Branson

Carroll Bush

Martin B. Lohman

FIND OUT WHY

OCAN this page and
see if the faces of
those who represented
you in the last General
Assembly are there. If
not find out vrhy.

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Hunter

A. L. Hutson

C. J. Johnson

John Kasserman

H. M. Luckey

Ja^ob Martens

Mary McAdams

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H. D. Sparks

Homer J. Tice

Schuyler B. Vaughan

Albert Waller

Robt. Whiteley

GRAIN STORAGE AND PUBLIC WAREHOUSING ACTS

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Johnson moved that the House non-
concur in the Committee report. At
that stage friends of the bill had con-
trol of the situation and a substantial
majority in the House. Therefore by
agn^eement the report of the commit-
tee was not concurred in and Senate
Bill 148 was placed on the calendar,
without recommendation.

Continued Delay

Repeated attempts were made dur-
ing the remaining days of the session
to secure consideration of the Bill, but
continued delay was encountered. As
a final resort, on the last night of the
session, Mr. Johnson moved that the
bill be taken up out of order, under
House Rule No. 12. He was supported
by a number of down state members.
A roll call was had upon that motion
which was lost by a vote of 64 to 57
lacking 13 votes of receiving the re-
quired constitutional majority of the
House. Following is the House roll
call on Mr. Johnson's motion,

AYES — Acker, Allen, Arnold, Babb,
Baird, Baker, Bandy, Bauer, Baxter,
Branson, Bruer, Bush, Choisser, Cork,
Corzine, Cutler, Davis, Eibenbart,
Ewin^f, Fahy, Foster, Franz, C. D., Gal-
las, Harrell, Hawkins, Hennebry, Hoar,
Hunter, Hutson, Johnson, G. J., Kasser-
man. Little, Lohmann, Luckey, Martens,
McAdams, McCaskrin, Mester, Miller,
Minsky, Moore, O'Hair, O'Neil, Pef-
fers, Phillips, Porter, Reeves, Rennick,
Rew, Rice, Robbins, Robinson, Rush,
Searle, Snell, Soderstrom, Sparks,
Tice, Turner, C. M., Vaughn, Waller,
Warren, Whiteley, and Wylie.

NAYS — Beckman, Bippus, Castle,
Church, Clark, Coia, Curran, Devine,
Dnrso, EIrod, Fekete, Finneran, Franz
Matt.; Garriott, Gill, Gormley, Green,
Griffin, C. A., Holmgren, Holten, Igoe,
Jacobson, Johnson, E. A. W., Juul, Ker-
sey, Krump, Lee, Lyon, Marinier, Mc-
Carthy, McSweeney, Mugler, Murray,
Noonan, O'Brien, O'Grady, Overland,
Pacelli, Perina, Powers, Propper, Rate-
gan, Ryan Frank.; Schnackenberg,
Shanahan, Sinnett, Stanfield, Steven,
Stewart, Sullivan, Swanson, Trandell,
Weber, Weeks, Weiss, Wilson, and
Wright.

RECORDED AS NOT VOTING—
Boyle, Bray, Breen, Browne, Chyno-
weth, Dougles, Eckley, Goode, Griffin
John; Hanley, Hoff, Hrdlicka, Jackson,
Jenco, Lipka, Martin, McClugage, Pet-
ri, Placek, Roe, Teel, Turner E. W.;
Turner S. B., Van Norman, Wood and
Sckoles.

The failure of a majority of the
House to support the motion by which
it was attempted to take the Bill up
for consideration on final passage, as
it came in the closing hours of the
session, must be regarded and inter-

preted as meaning that a majority of
the House were disposed to disregard
the tremendous public interests in
grain trading, as it is conducted on the
grain exchages; for no other similar
measure was offered by any member
of the General Assembly, and the State
exercises no supervision over grain ex-
changes, conduct of traders, or trad-
ing thereon. To those members of the
House who failed to act, and did so in
the face of a disclosure of conditions
demanding attention, to protect the
public interest in grain trading, at-
taches full responsibility for the failure.

GRAIN STORAGE ACT—
S. B. 433

IDENTICAL bills, prepared and
sponsored by the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association, were introduced in
the Senate by Senator Andrew Cuth-
bertson, and in the House by Repre-
sentative Homer Tice. Both Houses
of the Legislature passed the bill by
substantial majorities and it later re-
ceived the Governor's signature.

This Act follows the Iowa law, which
is desirable because of our common
marketing problems. We believe the Act
will be found useful and possibly essen-
tial in a cooperative grain marketing
program, particularly in the orderly
marketing of corn. Its provisions are
broad enough to offer opportunity in fi-
nancing voluntary, organized withhold-
ing from the market of quantities of
grain in excess of immediate market re-
quirements. It should assist the admin-
istration of federal surplus control legis-
lation, to the extent of its use.

For the immediate present, the Act
offers possibilities to growers, who
elect to make use of it, in groups,
or individually.

PUBLIC WAREHOUSE ACT
H. B. 553

THIS bill was introduced in the
House as a special committee bill,
without further reference to a stand-
ing committee. The bill was sponsored
by the so-called "CURRAN INVESTI-
GATING COMMITTEE." The bill may
be regarded as the proposal of the
"grain trade" to provide certain rem-
edies to correct undesirable practices
in the warehousing of "contract grain"
eligible for delivery on "futures con-
tracts." The bill, as introduced in the
House, included a section not germane
to warehousing, and designed to render
lawful and immune from prosecution
under the "anti-gambling laws," any
and all transactions including "puts
and calls" conducted on the Board of
Trade of the City of Chicago.

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The Association expressed its disap-
proval of and opposition to this sec-
tion, in a coihmunication addressed to
the chairman of the Special Investigat-
ing Committee, previous to the intro-
duction of the bill. It also submitted
to the Committee, through the Com-
mittee's attorney, draft of a bill pre-
pared by the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation, amending the warehouse Act
in accordance with the Association's
views on the subject. . W'/

The committee's bill passed the
House unamended, in its orig^inal form,
and was referred to the Senate. The
Senate in turn referred the bill to its
Committee on Agriculture. Represen-
tatives of the Association appeared be-
fore the Senate Committee in opposi-
tion to the objectionable "legalizing"
section referred to and secured an
amendment striking it from the bill.
The Senate then passed the bill so
amended. The bill was re-referred to
the House as amended. The House
refused to concur and the Senate sub-
sequently refused to recede from its
position. A joint conference commit-
tee finally reported the bill, as amended
with the "legalizing" section stricken,
to the House and Senate and the re-
port was adopted. Much credit is due
to those Senator members of the con-
ference committee who vigorously in-
sisted on the Senate's position.

The responsibility for setting their
house in order under the provision of
this Act now rests with the "grain
trade." The Illinois Commerce Com-
mission is charged with responsibility
for administering the Act. ; .

IN ADDITION to the bills hereto-
fore mentioned, the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association was interested in
other measures; several to the extent
of aiding in their passage, and others,
which were just as important, that we
aid in defeating or amending them.

The relations existing between our
Association and the State Department
of Agriculture were most cordial. Your
Legislative committee was in confer-
ence many times with Director Stanard
and other members of the Department
in framing or amending legislation af-
fecting that Department and our mem-
bership.

The bills to which we now refer can
quite properly be listed in four classes.

First, those bills which were in the
main drafted by members of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association staff.
Among this class of bills, was Senate
Bill 336 introduced by Senator Lantz.
This bill passed in the Senate and was
substituted in the House by Represen-

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AID OTHER GOOD BILLS AND HELP KILL BAD ONES

tative McCarthy for House Bill 509 in-
troduced by him. The contents of the
two bills were the same. This bill was
on the order of third reading in the
House on that last memorable night of
the session, and although Representa-
tive McCarthy tried many times to get
recognition during those last hours of
the session to bring this bill up for
final passage, he failed to do so and
this bill died, with many other good
pieces of leg^islation. This bill sought
to amend Section 15 of the Coopera-
tive Act of June, 1923, and would have
clarified and streng^thened the Act.

Corn Borer Bill*

S. B. 553 also introduced by Senator
Lantz was another good measure. This
bill sought to make a special appro-
priation to the University of Illinois in
the amount of $30,000 for special re-
search work in corn borer control and
eradication. This bill easily passed
the Senate and was referred to the
Appropriation Committee in the House,
where it hit a formidable snag -in the
person of Tom Curran, Chairman of
that Committee, who refused week
after week to allow the measure to be
brought up for consideration. After
several efforts on the part of associa-
tion representatives, it was finally
voted out of the Committee with rec-
ommendations that it do pass and was
advanced on the calendar to the order
of third reading. Due to this delay
it remained there at the close of the
session although Representative Gus
Johnson made strenuous efforts to have
the bill considered. ,. . ■:■■:.

House Bill 208 introduced by Rep-
resentative C. M. Turner, is known as
the corn borer bill. This bill provides
the regulations for the Department of
Agriculture to cooperate with the Fed-
eral Department in the control and
eradication of the corn borer. With
the consent of the Director of the
State Department of Agriculture, we
succeeded in amending this bill so
that the farmer can in no instance be
held responsible for costs exceeding
$1 per acre for measures put into ef-
fect for such control. This bill as
originally drawn provided that the
farmer could be responsible up to $1.50
ner acre. ■•■:.-•:.._. ;^ :•'

Secondly, we list those bills to which

-/e have referred in connection with

the State Department of Agriculture.

Association representatives aided in

he passage of these measures, all of

/hich were signed by the Governor

.nd became law.

T. B. Measure Passes

Under this division is S. B. 186 intro-
'uced by Senator Lantz. This bill is
I \ Hn amendment to the Tuberculosis
1 Eradication measure clarifying the

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present act and extending the power
of the Department of Agriculture en-
abling it to clean up the herds in the
counties under State and Federal Su-
pervision more promptly, and to place
such counties in the accredited area
list.

House Bill 471 introduced by Rep-
resentative O'Hair, seeks to regulate
the sale of commercial fertilizer.
Your Legislative Committee together
with Mr. Bent of the I. A. A. and Dr.
Bauer, University of Illinois, sat in
with representatives of the State De-
partment of Agriculture and succeeded
in having amendments adopted to the
bill which excludes from the provisions
of the law, raw rock phosphate, agri-
cultural limestone, marl, gypsum, ani-
mal manure and burnt and hydrated
lime.

Aided Other Good Bills

Thirdly, are listed those bills intro-
duced by others and which subsequent-
ly passed both Houses and became law
which the association Legislative Com-
mittee felt were good bills and so aided
as best it could in their passage.

Senate Bill 181 introduced by Sen-
ator Flagg was one of these. This bill
provided for an appropriation to re-
imburse farmers in the wheat section
of Southwestern Illinois for straw de-
stroyed in the control of flag smut.

Senate Bill 89 introduced in the Sen-
ate by Senator Abt and House Bill
106 introduced in the House by Repre-
sentative Petri both sought to amend
Section 24 of Article 3 of the fish and
game law. The law as it stood, per-
mitted hunting on any land unless th.
owner posts or publishes notices. These
amendments provided that the hunter
must procure permission of the owner
before hunting. The provisions of
these bills were placed in S. B. 572
known as the fish and game act and
thus became law. '••'.',

House Bill 276 introduced by Repre-
sentative Foster included swine among
the animals for which reimbursement
is made from the dog tax fund with a
maximum allowance of $25.

House Bill 314 introduced by Repre-
sentative Foster was a bill to aid in
the control of rabies. Both of these
bills passed and became law.

:■:::.. Aid Anti-Chicken Thief Bill

House Bill 325 introduced by Repre-
sentative Whitely and known as the
anti-chicken thief bill. This bill was
mainly sponsored by the Prairie Farm-
er and Anti-Horse Thief and Detective
Associations. The Illinois Agricultural
Association's Leg^islative Committee
was called upon to sit in with repre-
sentatives of the Prairie Farmer and
Anti-Horse Thief Associations in fram-
ing this bill. After its introduction,

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the Illinois Agricultural Association
lent every effort to aid in its passage.
This bill was signed by the Governor
and became law.

House Bill 511 introduced by Repre-
sentative Arnold creates a commission
of five members composed of the Di-
rector of the Department of Agricul-
ture, Superintendent of Waterways,
one Senatoi^, one Representative and
one citizen residing in the Illinois
River Valley to be appointed by the
Governor. The duties of the commis-
sion are to study the cause of floods
and contnol of same in the Illinois
River Valley and report the status
of its wotk to the 56th General As-
sembly. I I |- , ;■ ■■ "J; •;

Senate Bill 414 intr'oduced b^r
ator Forrelster and Senate Bill 257 in-
troduced by Senator Hicks, passed both
Houses with the understanding that
whichever one of these the Governor
decided upon to be the best should be
signed by him and the other one
vetoed. Both of these bills create a
commission to study the revenue sit-
uation in the State. Your Committee
feels that S. B. 257 is the better of the
two, and accordingly President Smith
has written Governor Small our in-
terest in his Signing Senate Bill 257 in
preference to Senate Bill 412. 1 '|

Anotheri'piece of legislation in which
your representatives took a part was
embodied first in S. B. 254 introduced
by Senator Flagg and afterwards in
S. B. 419 by Senate Motor Vehicle
Committee. Early in the session the
attention ot your Committee was
called to the extra license fee collected
from farmers on small trucks used in
carrying their own produce to market
with U e produce of a few of their
neighbors. Slaving in mind the cor-
rection of the law to cover such in-
stances. Senator Flagg introduced S.
B. 354. l*hi$ bill, however, was tabled
in Committee and its provisions in-
cluded in S. B. 419 as stated above.
This bill passed in the Senate and was
upon the brder of second reading in
the House where it remained until tht

close.

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Fourthly, one of the tasks of the
Legislative Committee of the Illinois
Agricultural Association is to watch
for legislation detrimental to farmers.
In addition to Senate Bill 446 as de-
scribed among our major projects were
the following :

House Bill 394 introduced by Repre-
sentative Rush was placed in this
group. This bill sought to amend the
Bovine Tuberculosis Act permitting
Farm Advisers to administer the tuber-
culin test to cattle. Because of the
fact that Representative Rush is the
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38th District (Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Mont
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39th District (LaSalle)

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Sen. Dunlap _

Rep. Eeisenbart

Rep. Davis _

45th District (Morgan, Sangamon)

.Spn Sparry

Rep. Little

J Rep. Reeves.

Rep. HawkiDa_

Rep. Robinson —

Rep 'Mt^ifT , ., ,

26th District (Ford, McLean)

Rep. Sullivan -.

Sen. Bohrer

46th District (Jasper, Jefferson, Richland, Wayne
*Sen. Burgetis

Rep. Johnson, G. J ...

Rep. Hutson

Rep. Martens-

Rep. Wood

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Rep. Phillipa._

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. X

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28th District (DeWitt, Logan, Macon)

Rep. Kassennan _.

Sen. Deck

47th District (Bond, Madison)

Sen. Flagg _

Rep. Chynoweth- ... .

Rep. Clark™ _

Rep. Hoff

Rep. Vaughan. _ _ —

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Rep. Martin «. „ -..

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30th District (Brown, Cass, Mason, Menard,

Rep. Malloy _

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Schuyler, Tazewell)
Sen- Smith. .._ _

48th Di8trict(Crawford, Edwards, Gallatin, Hardii
Lawrence, Wabash, White)
Sen. Emmons —

1,

Rep. Tice. ..„

Rep. Lohmann „

Rep. TeeL _

Rep. Ryan Ed

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Rep. Harrell _ . „ _.

- X

32d District (Hancock, McDonough, Warren)

Rep. Wrighl _ _.

X

Sen. Brown _

49th District (St. Clair)

Sen. Abt.

Rep. Petri „

y

Rep. Robbins „ .

Rep. Foster ,

Rep. Hanley

Rep. Fekete

33d District (Henderson, Mercer, Rock Island)

Rep. Holten

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Sen. Carlson ...

50th District (Alexander, Franklin,
Union, Williamson)
Sen. Sneed

Pulask

Rep. McCaakrin _

Rep. Searle _

Rep. Sinnett ..

34th District (Clark, Coles, Douglas)

Rep. Bandy.__ „ „

Rep. Choisser _

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Sen. Hamilton _

Rep. Wilson _

Rep. Baxter

Rep. Cork _ _

Rep. O'Hair _

Slst District (Hamilton, Johnson, Massac, Pop*
Saline)
Sen. Thompson .,

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- X

- X
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35th District (DeKalb, Lee, Whiteside'^
Sen. Wright.

Rep. Rew +.._

Rep. Rush. . - —

Rep. Porter. _

Rep Allen. _..

Rep. Warren ^

36th District (Adams, Calhoun, Pike. Scott)
Sen. McNay

♦Senator Cuthbertson necessarily abeent on this roll call but voted with proponents
on the Denvir motion to reconsider.

Rep. Arnold . ,

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Rep. Bush

♦.Senator Burgess voted no on 1st roll call and yea on reconsideration.

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President of the Massac County Farm
Bureau it was quite generally under-
stood by veterinarians and others to
mean that the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation was backing this measure. It
was necessary for the Association to
write a good many letters explaining
that we had nothing to do with the in-
troduction of it. After our position
was known the sponsor of the bill al-
lowed the same to be tabled in Com-
mittee. It is understood that Repre-
sentative Rush introduced this bill on
request.

House Bill 533 was introduced by
Representative Breen by request. This
bill if enacted into law would have pro-
hibited farmer vaccination of hogs with
the double treatment. Your Commit-
tee aided in killing this bill in the
House. The Agricultural Committee
in the House is composed largely of
farmers, many of which are Farm
Bureau Members and they soon put the
bill asleep in a sub-committee.

House Bill 60 sought to amend the
Public Utilities Act providing for the
creation of Municipal Public Utility
Commissions. This measure was known
as the Home Rule Bill. By this bill
many large utilities would have been
taken out of the jurisdiction of the
Illinois Commerce Commission and
your Committee felt that such action
would have been detrimental to agri-
cultural interests. This bill was se-
verely attacked in Committee in the
House and was supposed to have been
dead. However, later in the session, it
was revived and passed in the House
but later died in the Senate Public
Utilities Committee.

House Bill 148 introduced by Rep-
resentative Cork sought to increase
the maximum amount to be levied in
non-high school territory from the
present rate of 2-3 of 1 per cent to
1% per cent. This bill passed the
House in its original form. The Illi-
nois Agricultural Association represen-
tatives felt that there was no justifica-
tion for such a large increase. Ac-
cordingly the influence of the Organi-
zation was used to amend the bill in
the Education Committee of the Sen-
ate, thus reducing the maximum to
1*4 per cent and by further amend-
ment submitted by Senator Cuthbert-
son upon second reading in the Sen-
ate to one per cent. This means that
the maximum school tax rate for non-
high school territory is now $1.

MARSHALL-PUTNAM I'

WINS THIRD TITLE

Defeats Logan County In One-Sided
Game 12 to 3 . ' li

MARSHALL-PUTNAM won its
third state Farm Bureau baseball
title on August 11 when it defeated
Logan County in a one-sided game 12
to 3 at Mooseheart.

Logan started the contest by a col-
lection of hits that netted them one
run, but Marshall-Putnam came back
in the following inning and with the
help of D. Zollars, Logan pitcher
who lacked control in the early part
of the game, and a few well-placed
hits, brought in six runs before the
inning was over. : ^'.•• {"-■/•.:■.."■: j

This sudden onslaught took the fight
out of the Logan boys and from that
time on the Marshall-Putnam players
had things pretty much their own way.
Spangler, the Marshall-Putnam pitcher,
received good support from his team
mates while the opposing team made
frequent errors. Logan lost many op-
portunities to score through careless
base running. Frank Wallace, catcher
for the winning team, was especially
effective in catching runners going
around the bases.

The only home run of the entire
game was made in the eighth inning by
Logan county just after one of their
men had been caught off third base.
The Marshall-Putnam team tighened
up when the opposing batters threaten-
ed and through good field work re-
tired the side before the Logan team
could bring in the needed runs. .;. j

Cusack and Statz, professional um-
pires from Chicago, officiated. Bur-
dette Griffith, captain of the winning
team, received the beautiful gold I.
A. A. trophy from Secretary George
A. Fox following the speaking on the
afternoon program.

BIG

A presidential poll taken by Kes-
singer's Mid-West Review at the I. A.
A. picnic on Aug. 11 revealed that, of
the first 135 cards turned in, 124 were
for Lowden, 5 for Dawes, 3 for Al
Smith, and one each for Coolidge,
McAdoo, and Capper. ■■■...

Auto Driving Contest Arouses

Much Interest

The auto driving and parking con-
tests in charge of V. Vaniman, J. P.
Gibson, and A. E. Richardson of the
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance
Company aroused much interest among
picnickers at Mooseheart.

Prizes offered in both classes were
$10 for first, $5 second, and $3 third.
The winners were as follows:

Men.

First — R. Hoover, Piper City, 111.
Second — C. A. Stookey, Majrwood,
111.

Third— W. H. Dowell, Henry, 111.

Women.

First — Margaret Short, Melvin, 111.

Second — Phyllis Dougan, Iowa Falls,
Iowa.

Third — Mrs. F. W. Baxter, Hazel-
hurst, 111.

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STATE RALLY ^ •
FRIDAY, FAIR WEEK

Car of Limestone to be Awarded
I Free to Lucky Registrant -

A State Farm Bureau Rally
Day will be held on Friday, Au-
gust 26, at the Illinois State Fair,
Springfield.

Plans have been completed
for jestablishing headquarters in
a large new 50x80 foot tent to
be erected in a centrally located
spot just east and north of the
new grandstand. The tent will
be surmounted by a large sign
labeled "FARM BUREAU
HEADQUARTERS." j i

The rest tent with parcel-checking
facilities, seats, cots, and other accom-
modations will be open throughout the
week in charge of George E. Metzger,
director of organization, who knows
personally more Illinois Farm Bureau
members than any other man in the
statd

Farm Bureau and Illinois Agricul-
tural Association officials will be on
hand to meet visitors, and get them
acquainted. Tent facilities will be
available to all comers. '

Every visitor will be asked to regis-
ter. A popular drawing of names of
registrants will be made at a stated
hour when the two lucky names will be
announced for special prizes.

Prizes Offered.

ime-

First prize will be a car of
stone delivered free of charge to the
Fanri Bureau member drawing the
luck^ number. Second prize will be a
full coverage auto insurance policy in
the Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insur-
ance'Company. ..,[.• j: j

In. a special letter addressed t6 all
the County Farm Bureaus of Illinois,
President Earl C. Smith is inviting the
membership to come out and have a
part 'in the celebration. No parade is
contemplated but moving slides and
pictures depicting the activities of the
Farm Bureaus of Illinois will be shown
in the tent. f

The invitation from State fair of-
ficials to name Friday FARM BU-
REAU DAY is in recognition of the
agricultural interests of the Pair and
the leadership of the organization in
this field. E. C. Coulter, president of
the Sangamon County Farm Bureau
was instrumental in bringing about the
necespary arrangements made possible
through the cooperation and good will
of S. J. Stanard, State Director of
Agriculture. ;

Diif««tor Stanard voiced 'the opinion
that more than 90 per cent of the live-
stock, grain, and farm crop exhibitors
at Springfield are Farm Bureau mem-
bers. Practically all of the boys and
girls club activities likewise are car-
ried on by the County Farm Bureaus
and their members.

McKELLAR ANSWERS COOUDGE VETO AT PICNIC

GUY BENDER AND MRS.
ROY SMALTZ CHAMPS

GUY BENDER of Alexander, Mor-
gan county, and Mrs. Roy Sraaltz,
Morrison, Whiteside county, are the
1927 hog-calling and chicken-calling
champions.

Bender's long, musical, high-pitched
w-o-o-o-o-e-e-e-e was heard 30 miles
away. A telephone call from a farmer
near Oswego was received during the
contest complaining that his hogs were
running around excitedly. It was re-
vealed that the man had tuned in on
the picnic and his loud speaker was
close to the window where the hogs
could hear the calls given over sta-
tion WJJD.

Bender won against a dozen candi-
dates, many of whom were county
champions. It was his second signal
victory since he carried oflf first prize
at the Illinois State fair in 1926.

The judges, Arthur C. Page, David
L. Swanson, and Dr. E. A. White were
unanimous in the decision.

Mrs. Smaltz was an easy victor in
the chicken calling contest against a
small field of six entries. Judges were
Mrs. Earl C. Smith, Mrs. E, G. Thiem,
and D. L. Swanson. Malcolm Watson,
farm adviser in Kendall county, man-
aged the hog calling contest perfectly,
announcing each contestant as he
stepped up to the microphone to de-
liver his call. Raymond Nelson, De
Kalb county, was unable to be present
because of illness. Harry C. Gilker-
son of Lake county managed the chick-
,en calling contest.

FATHER AND SON WIN

HORSESHOE MATCH

ED. TORBERT and his son Walter,
of DeWitt county, kept the state
horseshoe pitching title in the family
when they defeated Rube Bright and
his son, of McLean county, in the
Eighth Annual State Horseshoe Pitch-
ing Tournament at Mooseheart.

It was a father and son contest, and
a battle between former champions.

Rube Bright and Sam Smith won
the state title in 1924, Ed. Torbert and
Joe Heskitt were the champs in 1920,
'21 and '22, and Harry and Walter
Torbert, sons of Ed., carried off the
honors in 1923, '25 and '26.

This year there was rearrangement
of the former champions, but the beau-
tiful loving cup awarded by the I. A.
A. was added to the Tor<bert collection
gathered in past years.

The tournament went off smoothly
under the able management of Harri-
son Fahrnkopf of McLean county. The
championship was decided early in the
afternoon. ■>.

EXPRESSES HOPE FOR ENACTING McNARY-

HAUGEN BILL INTO LAW IN NEXT CONGRESS

Lauds Lowden and Dawes As Friends of American Agriculture,
Criticises Money-Lending Plan of Administration as Unsound

SENATOR KENNETH McKELLAR of Tennessee received a
great ovation when he attacked the Coolidge veto and up-
held the McNary-Haugen bill before thousands of Illinois farmers
gathered at Mooseheart Aug. 11 for the Eighth Annual Picnic of
the Illinois Agricultural Association.

HAVE FAITH AND KEEP
ON FIGHTING-GREGORY

Let's Tighten Our Belts and Help
Ourselves, Says Prairie
i Farmer Editor *■ .

LET us have faith in ourselves, in
^ our farms and in the future of
agriculture. Instead of marking time
while we are waiting for legislation
let us tighten our belts and put forth
our best efforts to help ourselves.
American farmers have never been
licked. Surplus control legislation will
come sooner or later. We must keep
on fighting until we get what we want.
Let us not be discouraged.

This is the pithy advice handed out
by Clifford V. Gregory, Editor of
Prairie Farmer who preceded Senator
McKellar on the afternoon program
at Mooseheart on Aug. 11.

Mr. Gregory called atention to
the fact that legislation is not every-
thing. "Even after we have the legisla-
tion we need, the battle of efficient and
profitable farming must still be fought
out on our farms," he said. "Many
farmers have become discouraged and
have lost faith in themselves and their
jobs. This is a bad state of mind to
be in. The best of legislation will
not greatly help the man who is dis-
couraged."

President Earl C. Smith presided
during the afternoon program. Glenn
Warren, president of the Kane County
Farm Bureau and Rodney Brandon,
Executive Secretary of the Loyal Or-
der of Moose, welcomed the picnickers
to the Fox River Valley.

George A. Fox, General Secretary
of the I. A. A., awarded the trophies
following the speaking program. The
Warren County Farm Bureau quartet
was applauded enthusiastically.

Congressmen Henry T. Rainey of
Carrollton and Chas. Adkins of De-
catur; George N. Peek, leader of the
McNary-Haugen fight at Washington,
officials of the Loyal Order of Moose,
and the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, *he I. A. A. Executive Committee,
30 County Farm Bureau presidents,
and several members of the Illinois
legislature were among those on the
speakers' platform.

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He expressed the hope that the next
Congress would not only pass the re-
lief measure but would give it a two-
thirds majority if necessary to pass it
over the President's veto. Before
delving into his discussion of the mer-
its of the measure. Senator McKellar
praised Frank O. Lowden and Vice-
President Charles G. Dawes as friends
of American agriculture and worthy
of the highest honor the nation could
bestow upon them.

"Agriculture is the only great Amer-
ican industry which is not benefited
and protected by federal legislation,"
he said. "All our laws unite in bring-
ing about an adequate return on cap-
ital. Immigration and tariff laws help
labor and industry. The Esch Cum-
mins bill provides for the railroads.
But the farmer must buy in a pro-
tected and stabilized market and sell
in an open market with the law of
supply and demand in full force."

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Money-Lending Fails.

Senator McKellar criticized "the
money-lending plan" of the administra-
tion and cited the illustration of the
recent attempt at Memphis to raise
cotton prices through lending money
to growers. "Eugene Meyer, that
great dirt farmer from Wall Street,
New York, was sent down by President
Coolidge to try out the money-lending
plan," said the speaker. "The venture
failed. I don't know of a single loan
made in my state, although I have
heard there were several made in
Texas. Farmers don't want more
money to get deeper in debt. They
want a better price for what they
grow."

The money-lending plan of the ad-
ministration he characterized as
"economically unsound" because it
provided for extending loans to farm-
ers "with a reasonable expectancy of
their being paid back." "People don't
pay back money borrowed on such
terms," he said. "The administration
opposed the McNary-Haugen bill not
because the measure was considered
unworkable, but because they feared
it would operate successfully."

Senator McKellar's speech delivered
before the microphone and broadcast
from Station WJJD with other events
of the day, held his audience in spite
of threatened rain which sent a por-
tion of the crowd scurrying for shel-
ter in the middle of the afternoon.

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SEPTEMBER, 1927

Number 9

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Executive Committee Points Way v

to Equal Opportunity for Agriculture

Refers to Lowden and Dawes as the Only Men Thus Far

Prominently Mentioned for President, Whose Position • t

Is Known and Approved by the Farmers of the Nation

The Executive Committee of the Illinois Agricultural Association, meeting
in regular session September 9 ,'formulated and authorized the follow-
ing statement and recommendations to its members

"'' I ^HE years since the war have been
X costly to agriculture. The Illinois
Agricultural Association on many oc-
casions has summed up the evidence
of the loss which the unfair working
out of national policies has caused
farmers of Illinois, and of the rest of
the country. The present moment is
a critical one, for as a nation the
United States is now forming the
policies toward agriculture which will
determine for better or worse the im-
mediate and future trend of that in-
dustry.

"We are entering the season when
the position of political parties on
public issues is to be determined, and
national leaders chosen. The farmers
have the largest stake of all in nation-
al affairs. Their concern over na-
tional policies is broader than interest
in any one bill or measure. They can-
not be indifferent to government finan-
cial and banking policies, to the tariff,
to transportation laws, rates and ad-
justments, to land and immigration
policies and to the countless other
fields in which government action ef-
fects the economic interest of the
farm.

Know Your Delegates

"The purpose of this statement is to
urge farmers and their friends in every
Illinois district to see to it that only
those delegates who are pledged to
candidates whose position is known to
be fair and favorable to agriculture
are sent to the national party conven-
tions. Farmers and all fviends of
agriculture in Illinois can rightfully
feel proud of the fact that thus far
the only two men prominently men-
ijioned for president whose position on

agricultural matters is known and ap-
proved by the farmers of the nation,
former Governor Frank O. Lowden
and Vice-President Charles G. Dawes,
come from Illinois.

"There never was a time in the
economic history of the United States
when it was so important for farmers
to concern themselves over policies of
government. Nor has there been a
time since the Civil War when farmers
had a better opportunity to impress
their influence on political history than
the present. They neither seek nor
desire class government, or special fa-
vors to agn*iculture ; but they ask for,
and by right are entitled to a national

B. C. COULTER

E. C. Coulter, president of the Sangamon County
Farm Bureau, had much to do with inaugurating
the first FARM BUREAU DAY at the Illinois
State Fair. He was a familiar figure at the head-
quarters tent throughout the week wdcoming
visitors to Sangamon county

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jadministration which in its executive
as well as its legislative branch, has a
jvision national not sectional in scope,
land has at least a sympathetic under-
I standing of the present critical prob-
lems of the farm. The practical way
to secure not only satisfactory plat-
forms but fair execution of them, is to
rise above party lines and work and
vote for men and principles rather
than for party labels.** , , .

Duties of Secretary's Office to be

Disckarged Temporarily by tbe

President and Treasurer

The

le Executive Committee, meeting
September 9, expressed the desire and
directed that the duties of the Secre-
tary's office, pending the selection of a
Secretary by the Executive Committee,
be discharged by the President and
Treasurer, of the Association. ?

' Report On Decatur Meeting

President Earl C. Smith reported on
the I farm relief meeting of representa-
tives of the various group organiza-
tions held at Decatur on Thursday,
Sept. 8. No plan for legislative action
was formally adopted, he said, but a
resolution was adopted as follows:

"Resolved that it be the sense of
this meeting that we carry back to the
various organizations represented, the
recommendation that they aggressively
interest themselves in the farm prob-
lem and put forth every effort to se-
cure coordinated support for such a
sound agricultural policy as seems pos-
sible of passage in the next session of
Congress.

Representing the I. A. A. were Pres-
ident Smith, Secretary Geo. A Fox,
and Treasurer Robt. A. Cowles. Oth-
er organizations represented were the
Illinois Bankers' Association, the Illi-
nois Chamber of Commerce, Illinois
State Grange, Illinois Grain Dealers'
Association, Farmers' Grain Dealers'
Association, the American Land
League, and local organizations of
Decatur. '•

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

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What the Counties J
- Are Doings '-

Henderson county beat Warren at

the Warren County Farm Bureau pic-
nic at Monmouth on Aug. 26. The
; score was 2 to 0 although it was any-
body's game until the last man was
out, says Farm Adviser E. D. Walker.
' Pence, who pitched for the winners,
struck out nin« men and gave three
hits, while Turner, the opposing pitch-
er, struck out 12 men but was touched
for six hits, four of which came in
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"Crawford county boys and girls won

two state championships at the Illinois
State Fair, and the Crawford County

> Jersey breeders who exhibited won
one-tenth of the prizes in the Jersey
classes given there," writes J. Z.
Frazier, farm adviser. This is the
first time the county was represented
in club work at Springfield. One

:• championship was won by a club team
demonstrating poultry culling, and the
other was awarded Margaret Barber
of Hutsonville for the state champion
showman in all dairy classes. Mem-

. bers of the winning team are Leaf el
Norton, Glen Wilson, and Ernest Cor-
rell. Mary Trimble won first and
Louise Trimble second over all Jersey
calves exhibited. i 1 : j ^ v : /.;

: ■' The Henry County Farm Bureau is

cooperating with Prairie Farmer in the
formation of a Henry Coi*ity Protec-
tive Association to stop farm stealing.
R. S. Saunders of the Illinois Bankers'
Association who outlined his ideas for
a county protective system in a re-

: cent radio talk on the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association program from

' station WJJD, presented his plan

: again at a meeting held at Cambridge
on Aug. 19. "Aroused public senti-

-■ ment and cooperation of farmers will
stop chicken stealing and farm thiev-
ery," said Mr. Saunders.

Farm Advisers Allison and Hopkins

■ of Livingston county are concentrating
on farm visits, making soil tests, out-
lining crop rotations, and making de-
- finite recommendations toward re-
: establishing fields of alfalfa that were
killed by wet weather. "We expect to
continue our activity in recommend-
ing proper care and feeding of live
" stock to adults as well as to the junior
club members," says Allison.

"On August 22, we unloaded our

seventh tramload of limestone be-

. tween Effingham and Dieterich on the

I. C. R. R.," says Farm Adviser

Wascker. "The stone is loaded in side

dump cars and our farmers meet the

train at desigrnated points to help

dump. The stone is hauled away at the

: convenience of the men who buy it.

: This system saved our men an average

' of three miles each of hauling. The

seven loads were delivered during the

The FARM BUREAU HEADQUARTERS tent was a popular meetiM place for
members from nearly every county in Illinois during State Fair Week. This picture
shows the tent crowded during mid-day by visitors Mrho are resting and cooUng off
in the shade.

past five years and represent 183 cars
or about 8,500 tons of stone bought by
40 farmers."

Ford county started on its third co-
operative cream station on July 29.
So far the station has handled more
than half the town's business, and
there are four old line stations in
town. J. T. Arens, an experienced
cream and butter man, is the manager.
"The L A. C. A. audit of our Seed Corn
Ass'n. shows 385,657 ears of seed corn
stored and tested at a cost of $6,086.27
or $.0158 per ear," writes Farm Ad-
viser Swaim. '/v' ■'^■- ■■■■• .■.■•■;>;'•:.■■:: ::\

Madison county recently completed

plans for bringing in a trainload of
29 cars of limestone. Sixteen of the
cars will be set out at stations, and
13 will be dumped along the right-of-
way, 30 inches from the rails. "The
cost of dumping will be about 10 or
12 cents a ton," says Adviser Raut.
"We feel that after we have succeeded
in getting this train, more will fol-
low." ;> -J ■■■■-:

"We have sold 1,390,785 e. c. of

serum and virus already this year,
335,785 c.c. of which was delivered in
August," says Adviser A. A. Olsen of
Warren county. "Fifteen thousand at-
tended the Warren-Henderson Farm
Bureau picnic held in Monmouth Park
on Friday, Aug. 26 when Congress-
man Dickinson spoke."

Congressman Brand made a very

favorable impression at the Lawrence
County Farm Bureau picnic according
to H. C. Wheeler, farm adviser. Law-
rence county's speedy Farm Bureau
baseball team licked the champs from
Knox county, Ind., 8 to 7.

"We may increase our acreage of al-
falfa this year more than in previous
year," says Farm Adviser Issacs of
Mason county. "Limestone orders
are not up to previous years although
we are shipping a lot of it into the
county."

C. W. Simpson of White county ad- ;

vises that work has already started on v
a cooperative cream pool at Norris -
City. This is the outgrowth of a •
dairy association which has been meet- \
ing more than a year. Two red top ■>■
growers, the first from this county, re-
cently signed up with the Egyptian /^
Seed Growers Exchange.

All business houses olosed at noon

when Rushville merchants joined
Schuyler county farmers in the annual -.
Farm Bureau picnic on Sept. 1. The
Farm Bureau baseball team beat the
business men 12 to 10. President Earl
C. Smith was the speaker. . j ,. .....

Marshall-Putnam county will supply \-

free tattoo outfits for marking poultry
to members of the new county-wide
protective association now being or-
ganized. A reward of $100 is to be . ';
posted on each Farm Bureau mem-
ber's farm for the capture and convic-
tion of any thief. Seven thousand peo- '
pie attended the annual Farm Bureau
picnic at the John Swaney school T
g^rounds on Aug. 30 when Congress- .'.;
man Dickinson addressed the grather- -;
ing. •.■■:;:.

- Ralph Allen Dies

Ralph Allen, former president of the
Illinois Farmers' Institute and leader , '
in the Illinois Farmers* Grain Dealers' "
Association passed away suddenly at ^
his home near Delavan on Sept. 3. He -.
was stricken with a heart attack and .\
died three hours later.

Mr. Allen was born at Seekonk,^ ■'■■.
Mass., in 1854 and moved to Delavan
in Tazewell county at the age of 15. :;
He organized the Tazewell County f;
Farmers' Institute and acted as presi- .\.
dent of the Illinois Farmers' Institute ',
from 1922 to 1926. He was a gradu-
ate of the University of Illinois, class '
of 1876, and for many years was a '; .
membe^^)f the soils investigation com-
mittee of that institution.

Each of the seven surviving sons
and daughters of Mr. A'.en are uni- v
versity gfraduates.

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Farm Bureau Disclaims

Support of "Bogus" Bill

Washington Representative Says Eastern
Papers Credited Farm But^eau with
Ownership

ON Sunday, August 7, there was
published in the New York Times
a definite text of a proposed farm re-
lief bill according to Chester H. Gray,
Washington representative of the
American Farm Bureau Federation.
The authority, at the time of printing
this bill, seems to have come from
Rapid City, S. D., but whether it was
released for publication by an admin-
istration leader or by other persons,
no one has been able to ascertain. The
New York Journal of commerce and
other papers desigrnate the bill as a
.:'} Farm Bureau measure. Other press
:■ comments express doubt about its be-

• ., ing an administration bill and describe
r it as being a "bogus" bill.

This measure could not reasonably
be called a Farm Bureau project for
several reasons, some of the most im-
^ portant being :

1 — It contains provisions for amor-

: tized loans to cooperative organiza-

. tions which are so sketchy and inade-

. quate as to be hardly comparable to

the so-called Neely amendment on the

• same subject which was incorporated
in the McNary bill as it passed the

: Senate last session.

: • 2 — It provides for the payment of
losses in disposition of surpluses di-

'' rectly from the revolving fund which
violates the well known and long es-

; tablished Farm Bureau principle
against subsidizing any group in our

: . government, even agfriculture itself.
3 — It places the whole burden of

~'. solving the surplus question upon co-

: operative enterprises so that the load

j; on the membership in such co-oper-
ative enterprises would be destructive

; rather than helpf ui according to our
past proof in testifying upon farm re-

.'. lief subjects.

4 — It fails to recognize the funda-
mental principle established in the
FarmBuraau heretofore, that the com-
modity being served should pay its

..'; price for the benefits of such service,

• and should not fall back upon the
Treasury of the United States in case
of losses.

5 — It comes more dangerously near
^•^ the point of putting Uncle Sam into
• . the business of merchandising farm
'crops than has ever been advocated by
.,■ the American Farm Bureau Federa-
V tion, because of the fact that if the
Treasury must pay the loss, manifest-
ly the activity of the federal govern-
ment in the business of disposing of
: surpluses will be much more intimate

• than otherwise would be the case.

"The Washington offices of the
American Farm Bureau Federation
will continue on farm relief as on all
" other legislative projects, exactly in
keeping with the policies of our mem-
bership, expressed in annual resolu-
tions and in recommendations of the
•; Board of Directors," declared Gray in
■ commenting on the proposed measure.

FARM BUREAU

DAY VISITOR

rarm Values Drop
I During 1926-1927

Herman W. Danforth, first president of
the Illinois Agricultural Association and
one of its founders, was a visitor at FARM
BUREAU HEADQUARTERS during the
State Fair. Mr. Danforth served as pres-
ident of the Tazewell County Farm Bu-
reau for seven years. He has extensive
landholdings in Iroquois county, and
for five years was president of the Federal
Land Bank of St. Louis. Mr. Danforth
is in business in St. Louis but he still
calls Washington, 111., in Tazewell
county, his home.

Knox Pioneers in f

Trucking Service

WHEN the Gilson Livestock Ship-
ping Association of Knox county
faced possible extinction because of
the growth of direct-by-truck-to-mar-
ket business in that vicinity, the As-
sociation purchased its own truck and
started a similar service for its mem-
bers. The Association truck picks up
livestock at the, farm for carload ship-
ment, or trucks direct to the Peoria
Producers if the owner of the live-
stock so wishes.

The Association charges five cents
per hundred weight for the first three
miles, and one cent per hundred for
each additional mile. Two trucks are
maintained by the Association. One
is driven by the manager, Leo Rich-
ardson, and the other by his assistant,
Curtis McCoy.

Livestock men find it very conven-
ient to have their stock picked up at
the farm and because of this new serv-
ice the Gilson Association not only
has maintained its business but has
actually increased it.

Plenty of Farms for Sale with Buyers
I Few and Cautious j . I,

Ir^ARM real estate values declined
iT sharply during the crop year just
fended, being placed at 119 per cent of
ihe pre-war level, against 124 in 1926,
in the Department of Agriculture's
inew index of farm real estate values.
The decline is part of a continued de-
preciation during the past seven years
from the peak of 169 per cent of pre-
Iwar in 1920. Present values are at

Ebout the 1917 level.
The decline during the past year
iras inot to be wholly unexpected, says
he department, on account of the
Ipiarked decrease during the year in
the price of certain of our major farm
products, the sharp drop in farmers'
Incomes, and a generally inactive farm
real estate market. There are plenty
of farms for sale, with buyers few
and I cautious. In a, number of areas
there are still many foreclosed and
other distress farms hanging over the
market to keep values down;

I Largest Drop in South 1:

The largest decline last year was in
the South Atlantic States for which
the departhient's index is 137 com-
pared with 148 in 1926. The index
'for the East North Central States is
placed at 103 against 110 in 1926;
West North Central States 115 against
121; East South Central States 133
against 139; West South Central 139
against 144; Middle Atlantic States
111 against 113; Mountain States 101
against 103; New England 127 agfainst
128, and Pacific States 143 against
144.

The greatest depreciation in values
since the 1920 peak has occurred in
the jWest North Central States where
the index is now 115 per cent of pre-
war against 184 per cent in 1920. The
East South Central group runs a close
second with a decline from 199 in
1920 to 133 at present; followed by
the South Atlantic States, the index
for which was 198 in 1920 against 137
now; East North Central 159 in 1920
against 103 for 1927; Mountain States
151; against 101; West South Central
177| against 139; Middle Atlar^tic 136
agatnst 111; New England 140 against
127, and Pacific 156 against 143.
Values for the United States as a
whole have gone down 50 points, from
169 in 1920 to 119 for 1927.

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.f.

kus Gillard, a well-known clown,
was the principal attraction at the

Stark County Farm Bureau picnic.
"We can recommend a good clown
like Gus for any picnic," said Farm
Advisor E. E. Brown. "He was the
best attraction we've ever had." j ;

The Gilson Association is Producer
perfect. Everything it handles goes
to the Chicago or Peoria Producer
Commission Associations.

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CCLTIJIIAL ASSOCIA

RECORD

To advtaice th* purpose for which the farm bureau warn organixed,
namely to promote, protect and represent the butinets, economic,
»ocial and educational interetta of the farmer » of lllinoi* and the nation ,
and to develop agriculture.

i

Published once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave., Mount Morris, Illinois,
by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Edited by Depsirtment of Information,
E. G. Thiem, Director, 608 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois. Entered
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OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vice-President, Frank D. Barton Cornell

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles BkxMnington

- :''\ EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ' '^ ■ ;

.. ' (By Congressional Districts)

I«t to 11th H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

12th G. F. TuUock, Rockford

13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron

15th A. M. Skinner, Yates City

16th A. R. Wright, Varna

17th Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

18th R. F. Karr, Iroquois

19th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th Charles Borgelt, Havana

21st Scunuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd Frank Oexner, Waterloo

23rd W. L. Cope, Salem

24th Charles Marshall, Belknap

2Sth Fred Diets, De Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Business Service Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

Farm Supply J. R. Bent

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General Office J. H. Kelker

Information E. G. Thiem

Insurance ". J- P- Gibson

Legal Counael Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller

Organization G. E. Metzger

Promotional Service V.« Vaniman

Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson

Transportation L. J. Quasey

s Hope From Geneva

. '. "The farmer needs the assistance of his gov-
ernment. This was one of the conclusions of the
' . Economic Conference. Although it was found
that the most progress toward an improvement
. of this condition could be made by the farmer
', • himself, particularly through co-operation, this
• fact did not lessen the recognition of the need of
legislation and other governmental aids."

This quotation is taken from a recent news let-
ter regarding the deliberations of the international
Economic Conference held at Geneva, Switzerland.
Representatives of all the larger nations partici-
pated. It was freely admitted at the conference
that trade barriers such as high protective tariffs
hamper agriculture. We have presented this view
repeatedly. It was suggested that an equitable
balance be maintained between industry and agri-
culture that one may not be stifled at the expense
of the other. This is what organized agriculture
is fighting for — a national policy that will prevent

the submergence of its industry. It is to be hoped
that these expressions signify a change of heart
on the part of certain industrial groups repre-
sented at the conference from this country; that
these who have admitted and deplored the condi-
tion of agriculture will now go a step farther and
support farmers in their efforts to establish an
equitable balance with industry. ; ■: .

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Another Friend in the Senate v

THE McNARY-Haugen measure, or one sim-,
ilar to it, will get at least one vote from my
state in the next Congress that it didn't get
in the last session," said Senator Alben W. Bark-
ley of Kentucky in addressing a recent luncheon of
agricultural, labor, and business interests given
by the Illinois Agricultural Association complimen-
tary to the Senator. . / >; j *, /- . , . ' | g ;^v

Both senators from Kentucky voted against the
measure in the 69th Congress.

Against Switching Support

EXPRESSIONS from members received by
speakers at County Farm Bureau picnics held
during the past few months throughout the state
indicate that Illinois farmers are opposed to any
switching or dividing of support that might
weaken the standing of the surplus control meas-
ure known as the McNary-Haugen bill.

This stand has been taken consistently by our
Executive Committee. It was reaffirmed at a con-
ference of officials from various state organiza-
tions held recently at Decatur, when advances
were made to secure support for the so-called "ex-
port debenture" proposal. i. ; v • t' # ' •

The argument was made that the McNary-
Haugen bill hasn't enough support to become law.
On the other hand, the plan has gained consistent-
ly. It passed the last Congress and would now be
law except for the veto of the President. The lack
of popularity of that veto was subsequently dis-
closed. Whether or not the disclosure influenced
Mr. Coolidge's recent decision is food for specula-
tion. Farmers will stand firm in the next Con-
gress for something more substantial than loans
to cooperatives. They will resist attempts to
divide support that will lose a cause almost

won.

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Cooperate 30 Years

I

FARMERS at Luck, Wis., have been operating
a co-operative creamery for more than thirty
years. Who said farmers couldn't stick together?

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Senator Barkley Talks

To I. A. A. Radio Audience

Advocates Federal Legislation Involving
Active Power of Government in Con-
trolling Surplus Farm Crops.

T^HE active authority and power of
-'- the United States government
should be given to agriculture in help-
ing this basic national industry con-
trol and orderly market surplus farm
crops.

This is what Senator Alben W. Bark-
ley said in a radio talk broadcast on
the I. A. A.'s program over station
WJJD on Wednesday, Sept. 7. Sen-
ator Barkley asserted that no one who
has given agricultural conditions any
thought or study Can deny that there
is a- serious problem confronting the
people of our country. "And no man
will confidently deny that this problem
of the farmer cannot be solved by the
farmer alone."

Calling attention to the extent of
organization in other professions and
industries and the ease with which
they have been enabled to fix prices
for goods or services, in some cases
with government aid, he said:

An Absurd Situation

"This is not true as to the service
rendered the public by the man en-
gaged in agriculture. He is compelled
to take what is offered for his product,
and large numbers of those who buy
from him are indifferent to the ques-
tion of what it has cost to produce it.
Not only is the farmer helpless in fix-
ing the price of what he sells to others
but he is utterly ignored when it comes
to fixing the price of what he pays to
others for what they sell him. This
is an absurd situation."

Senator Barkley, who is a leading
Democrat, steered clear of partisan
politics but addressed himself to the
economics of the surplus control mea-
sures passed by the 69th Congress and
subsequently vetoed by President Cool-
idge. He told why he worked for the
measure and why it was needed by the
farmer. He predicted that the major
issue before Congress in its next ses-
sion would be the farm surplus prob-
lem.

Government Help Needed

"By whatever name any measure
may be known it will be a failure un-
less it brings the power of the govern-
ment to bear in aiding agriculture to
control its surplus," he said. "The
surplus control bill passed during the
recent Congress and vetoed by the
President was designed to assist the
farmer in coping with some of these
difficulties to which I have alluded.
None of its advocates or supporters
contended that it was a perfect mea-
sure, or that it would not have to be
amended, in the light of experience.
Some of these who voted for it with
hesitation felt that it was the best pro-
posal offered dealing with the agn"icul-
tural situation, and that it was worth
(Continued on page 8)

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I. A. A. RADIO SPEAKER

SEN. ALBEN W. BARKLEY

Senator Barkley is the junior Senator
from Kentucky. He became interested
in the surplus control plan as a Cong-ress-
man, soon after its introduction, and aft-
er studying^ it thoroughly gave it his
active support.

Senator Barkley was born in Graves
County, Kentucky, in 1877, was educat-
ed in the county schools and at Marvin
College, Clinton, Ky., and later at the
University of Virginia Law School. Prior
to being elected to the senate, he was
prosecuting attorney for McCracken
county, Kentucky, and for° five sessions
was Congressman from the first district
of his home state. He was the speaker
of the day at the recent Piatt County
Farm Bureau picnic and the following
day. Sept. 7, addressed Illinois farmers
during the noon hour on the I. A. A. radio
program from Station WJJD, Chicago.

Swisher Gets $50

Check For Claim

LAST winter, S. P. Swisher accom-
' panied by his neighbor, E. C. Betz,
both of LaSalle county, went to South-
ern Wisconsin to buy several purebred
Milking Shorthorn cows. They rode
back on the same freight train with the
cattle and were delayed an extra day
at Rockford where in switching to an-
other line, the cattle received very
rough handling.

When they were unloaded, one cow
was down in the car and the others
in a very weakened condition with a
subsequent heavy loss in flow of milk.

Swisher laid the case before the
LaSalle County Farm Bureau, who in
turn referred it to the I. A. A. Trans-
portation Department. Evidence was
gathered and submitted, but the rail-
road rejected the claim twice on the
ground that there was no evidence of
specific damage. The 1. A. A. per-
sisted, however, in establishing the
justice of the claim and last week a
check for $50 from the railroad was
forwarded to Mr. Swisher in settle-
ment.

"To say that I was highly elated is
putting it mildly," said Swisher in ex-
pressing his thanks. "I note that you
have not spoken of your commission
(Continued on page 8)

Fruit Growers' Exchange jy
, I Sells 4,000 Cars Produce

Leeper TeDs of Obstacles and Experiences
in Fruit Marketing in Radio Address.

PROBLEMS and pitfalls experienced
^ in sdven years of cooperative
fruit marketing were revealed re-
cently by A. B. Leep-
er, manager of the Il-
linois Fruit Growers*
Exchange in a radio
talk broadcast on the
I. A^ A. program,
over station WJJD.

Marketing fruits
and vegetables is dif-
ferent from any
Mother according to
JLeeper, first because
such crops are perish-
able, hence the im-
portance of the time
which eliapses between harvest and
consumption; secondly, because they
must be: graded, standardized and
packed it containers at the shipping
point rendy for the consumer; and
thirdly, because they must be shipped
by the n^ost direct route to the con-
suming ndarkets.

"The real essentials in the proper
marketing of fruits and vegetables,"
said Leeper "are — standardization,
communication, transportation, and
distribution. A cooperative market-
ing association must have a properly
graded ptoduct to sell, must know the
demands: of all the different markets
on the ^ay of shipment, must have
adequate facilities to send to the mar-
kets, and then so distribute the prod-
uct as not to overload the markets.
If all thiese were possible, conditions
would be ideal. But, unfortunately,
coopteratives meet ever changing con-
ditions ahd must be prepared to meet
them as they arise day by day. It
is in this uncertainty that we find most
of the pitfalls of fruit marketing, the
most hazardous business of all the
lines of merchandising.

"During the seven years the Illinois
Fruit Growers Exchange has been
operating we have had to meet a dif-
ferent condition in the marketing of
each commodity each year. During
this time we have sold over 4,000 cars
of fruits and vegetables. These have
been shipped direct to 150 or more
different markets in the United States
and Canada. We have avoided a
great many pitfalls, but not all of
them. In the first years of operation
the greatest prttfall encountered by the
Exchange was the lack of reliable in-
formation. It was hard to get re-
liable information from competing
sections, from the markets, and from
our own grrowers themselves. We
have almost entirely overcome these
difficulties and today we feel reason-
ably sure that we can get the right
information on all the markets whe -e
we expect to ship. Competing sections
are now more willing to exchange
Continued on page 6)

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Page Six

H,r..:\^-.,^

THE I.

RECORD

Agricultural Investment
-•V .--^ Company. ;.,..| -j

THERE has been recently organized
in connection with the Transporta-
tion Bank of Chicago, the "Agricul-
tural Investment Company, 608 So.
Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois." The
similarity of names and address of
our Association with its affiliated and
associated organizations, and this
Company, seems to require a state-
ment from the Association setting
forth the relations of the two organ-
izations; in order to prevent and re-
move confusion in the minds of some
of our members and others. Neither
the Illinois Agricultural Association or
its officers or members of its Execu-
tive Committee, have any t;onnection
with or financial interest in either the
Transportation Bank of Chicago or
the Agricultural Investment Company.

Mr. George C. Jewett, President of
the Transportation Bank of Chicago
and of the Agricultural Investment
Company, appeared before the Execu-
tive Committee in its meeting of Aug.
12, at the suggestion and invitation of
the officers of the Association. He
outlined the purposes of the Agricul-
tural Investment Company and dis-
cussed the subject of relations. His
statement follows and clearly sets forth
relations existing and should remove
any possible misunderstanding in the
matter. The Executive Committee of
the Illinois Agricultural Association,
has directed, for reasons above set
forth, that the statement offered by
Mr. Jewett in regard to the Agricul-
tural Investment Company, be pub-
lished in an official publication of the
Association, and is as follows:

"As a courtesy to your executive of-
ficers I submitted to them a few days
ago a prospectus setting forth plana
for an Agricultural Investment Com-
pany which has just been organized to
operate in connection with the bank
which I am interested, and with which
you are familiar. I did this that they
might be apprised fully of what we are
attempting to do in behalf of the agri-
cultural industry. Your officers have
very graciously
asked me to come
here and present
to you, the mem-
bers of the Execu-
tive Committee, in
the same way the
salient points in
our further pro-
gram of agricul-
tural finance as
provided in the
Agricultural In-
vestment Company.

"The Investment
Company is an Il-
linois corporation
capitalized for
$500,000. The stock
is being sold
throughout the
state to farmers
and others at one
hundred dollars
per share. Any

GEORGE E. METZGER
Mr. Metzcer, Director of Organization, will have
charge of the staff of district men who will assist
the counties throuehout the state in their organi-
zation problems. Membership in the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association is on the upward grade as
shown by results of renewal campaigns held during
recent months.

investments you may care to make per-
sonally or any assistance you may care
to render in the distribution of this
stock will be greatly appreciated. The
Agricultural Investment Company will
do three things. It will own the con-
trol of a Joint Stock Land Bank which
will provide . long term credit on the
amortization plan. The Joint Stock
Land Bank, of course, will be under
(Continued on page 8)

Fruit Growers

(Continued from page 5)
crop information and conditions, and
our growers have learned that keep-
ing their own organization reliably
informed works for their own good.
"A cooperative encounters another
difficulty when a marketing season
starts off at a price too high to dis-
pose of the entire fruit crop. Fruit
prices change rapidly and if the prices
start off at a high figure, only a part

STEPHENSCW^ PROTESTS TO
STATE TAX COMMISSI^

Board. of Review Refuses to Take
Action on Ekjualizing Assessed
Valuations in County

A FORMAL protest was made by
the Stephenson County Farm
Bureau to the Illinois Tax Commission
recently calling attention to inequality
in farm and city valuations existing
in that county. The study made by
the Farm Bureau tax committee and
John C. Watson of the I. A. A. shows
that to place farm lands on the same
average assessment as the city of Free-
port, would require an average cut of
24.7 per cent in farm valuations. Or
to place town and city lots on the same
average assessment as farm lands, it
would be necessary to have an average
increase^ 32.94 per cent in valuations.

The lOTal Board of Review admitted
that the inequality exists, but refuses
to take any action for three reasons
as follows: They haven't the time,
they don't know how, and they have
been advised not to do anything.
I "We request that you take immedi-
ate action to bring about equalization,
either by sending a representative
from the Tax Commission to this
county to investigate the situation, or
by hearing our complaint and requir-
ing the presence of the Board of Re-
view at the hearing before they ad-
journ," said the message to the State
Tax Commission.

:■''■■' '/<;:\: ■:':':- \^ 1 NEW DISTRICT ORGANIZATION LEADERS *

Left to right: fitarvey D. Fink, L. F. Brissenden, R. J. Hamilton, Harry L. Hough, F. M. Higgins
and A. B. Culp._ These men will be stationed in various districts around the state to aid in maintaining
the Illinois Agricultural Association as the strongest state farm organization in America.

of the crop can be sold. If the price
is too high, consumers buy only a
limited quantity or refuse to buy at
all. This causes an over-supply to ac-
cumulate and the prod^icer has to sell
a large part of his crop at a low price
and often loses part of it entirely. This
condition is more often brought about
by the buyers themselves than by the
producers.

"For example, Illinois peaches started
at a high price this year. Buyers on
the ground were bidding ag^ainst each
other for the first cars. They cre-
ated a temporarily inflated market

which meant heavy
loss to themselves,
and later resulted
in a weak market
for the larger per-
centage of the
crop.

•'This conditioa
occurs in the mar-
keting of some
commodity every
season. However,
producers and buy-
ers are beginning
to understand each
other better.
Each group is be-
ginning to realize
that it has a com-
mon problem and
that the ultimate
consumer must al-
so be considered in
any successful sys-
tem of marketing."

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Seven

Hits Politics As Cause

of Tax Inequalities

Tax Director Reveals Three Reasons for
Bad Conditions In Some Counties In
Illinois.

An Editorial By John C. Watson

THE State Constitution and the
revenue statutes of Illinois clearly
prescribe uniform valuations of all
taxable property for purposes of tax-
ation. The courts always so interpret
the statutes.

The revenue laws provide that coun-
ty treasurers shall be supervisors of
assessments in their several counties,
and shall give the assessors such in-
structions as will tend to produce uni-
formity in valuations. The Supervisor
of Assessments himself is gi^en the
power of original assessment whenever
he thinks that any property has been
improperly assessed.

In June or July, sometimes later,
each supervisor of assessment turns all
assessment books over to the county
board of review, consisting of the

chairman of the
county board, and
usually of two ad-
ditional members
appointed, one
each year, by the
county judge. In
counties not under
township organiza-
tion, the board of
three county com-
missioners are the
county board of
review. The prin-
cipal duty of any
board of review is
the equalization of valuations.
Swear To Accuracy
In September or October, though
sometimes later, each board of review
closes its work for the year, and the
members take oath that "the books —
in number to which this affidavit is at-
tached, contain a full and complete list
of all the real and personal property
in said county subject to taxation for
the year — so far as we have been able
to ascertain the same, and that the
assessed value set down in the proper
column opposite the several kinds and
descriptions of property, is, in our
opinion, a just and equal assessment
of such property for purposes of taxa-
tion according to law."

Following adjournment of the coun-
ty board of review, the county clerk
certifies to the Illinois Tax Commission
the total assessment of each of the
three kinds of property locally as-
sessed. It is the duty of the Tax Com-
mission to equalize valuations of each
class of property among the counties
of the state.

DeKalb County Case

■' In spite of laws providing for uni-
form valuations and for an elaborate
system of review of assessments by
different public officials, assessments in
almost every county of the state have
gross and indefensible inequalities in
valuations which could easily be re-
moved. Due to its greater uniformity

VISITS I. A. A. OFFICE

John C. Watson

SENATOR GEO. W. NORRIS

in value and to the acre unit standard,
farm lands within each county are
more uniformly assessed than any
other property. Yet there is probably
not a county in the state in which some
farm land, always the poorest land and
the least .able to stand the burden is
not assessed relative to its fair sale
value, several times as high as other
farm land. In city and village lots,
for which there is no standard unit of
measurement, the situation is much
worse. It is at its worst in personal
property, especially unenumerated per-
sonal property. An example of such
inequality was found two years ago in
DeKalb County. The manufacturing
plants in the little city of Sandwich
had valuations for manufacturers'
tools and implements ten times as high
as the much more extensive and much
larger number of manufacturing plants
in the City of DeKalb.

The foregoing remarks apply to
valuations within the same counties.
Between counties inequalities are far
worse than within counties. It is not
too much to say that in the state as a
whole there is no class of property in
which there are not some assessments,
relative to fair sale value, at least ten
or twenty times as high as other as-
sessments. If the comparison is made
between different classes of property,
the inequality is many times worse.
Three Reasons

The principal reason for the virtual
failure of equalization of valuations
are three in number. First, it: ignor-
ance of the facts. Second, is timidity
of public officials. Third, is politics.
Sometimes two or even all of these
rersons operate at the same time.

County treasurers usually do not

know the: facts about the assessments
or what Should be done to correct in-
equalities^ They can give no proper
instructions to assessors. The stand-
ards of assessors vary widely, since
each one :knows little or nothing about
how oth^r assessors value property.
Boards oi Review likewise do not know
what is required for uniform assess-
ments of different classes of property.
Their equalization, so far as they do
anything, is too often equalization of
a comparatively small number of prop-
erties, or equalization of classes by
guess wdrk only. Even the Illinois
Tax Comfnission can only guess at the
facts about assessments of different
classes ofi property.

In mariy counties the Supervisors of
Assessmeints and Boards of Review
have some knowledge of the inequal-
ities in assessments of different classes
of property, but are too timid to cor-
rect them. It is easier for such boards
to permit inequalities to continue than
it is to perform their proper duties.

: Politics Interferes

The experience of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association in the last few
years proves conclusively that politics
often interferes or attempts to inter-
fere withj proper equalization of valua-
tions. Appointments of members of '
Board of. Review by county judges are
often made for political reasons. The •
refusal o|f boards of review to remove
admitted; inequalities in many cases is
clearly djie to the political ambition of
one or rhore members of the boards.
It will be recalled that last year, after
the Tax Commission had ordered reas-
sessment! of real estate in four coun-
ties, powerful political interests in
every one of the four counties, did
their utmost to pirevent the orders of
reassessment from being carried into
effect. The Tax Commission itself was
bombarded on political gfrounds to such •
an extent that it Tvas slow and hesitant ,
in carry^g out its own order. i ^

Ignorance of the facts about assess-
ments, timidity ih correcting inequal- t
ities, anj refusal for political reasons,
do not mix well with proper tax equal-
ization. I

-■\ |— : '

Senatol" George W. Norris
J Speaks Before Committee i

Relates l^xperiences as Chairman of Ag-
ricultural and Judiciary Committees in
United States Senate.

SENATOR GEORGE W. NORRIS of
Nebilaska visited the I. A. A. offices
on Friday, Sept. 9, long enough to de-
liver a Bhort address before the Ex-
ecutive Committee in session that day,
and to ^et acquainted with the Asso-
ciation [officials, ! staff members, and
their activities.

Commenting upon his experiences as
a Gongj-essman and Senator over a
period ocf more than 20 years. Senator
Norris *aid, "I have been impressed
with th* seeming injustice shown by
so many legislators and others toward
agriculture. In all my experience I
hav^ mver known any group to be
more fafir in their demands than rep-

^^^-

W^

I'ayt- Si.i-

THE I. A. A. RKCORI)

Agricultural Investment
Company.

'■piIKKK has boon rt'c-ciitly organiztd
■ in connection with the Transporta-
tion Hank of Chicago, the "AKrirul-
tural Investment (Company, <>(»S So.
Deiuhorn Street, Chicago, Illinois."! The
similarity t)f names and address of
our As.sociation with its afliliati'd and
nssociate<l organizations, and this
(^ompany, seems to reiiuire a state-
ment from the Ass(uiation setting
f(;rth the relations of the two organ-
izations; in order to prt-vi'iit an»l re-
move c<in fusion in the minds of sornt'
()} onr memhers and others. Neither
tile Illinois Agricultural Association or
its olliceis or nu-mhers of its Kxecu-
tive Committee, have any connection
with or linancial interest in either the
Transportation Hank of Chicago or
the AgiicuMural Investment ('ompanx.

Mr. (U'org.e C. Jew«'tt, President of
the Transportation Hatd\ of Cliicav<i
and of the Agiicult lira! Investnu-i.)
Company, appeare<l before the {execu-
tive Committe*' in its meeting of Aug.
lli, at the suggestion and invitation oi
the ollicers of the Association. Hi
outlined tlu- purposes of .the .Agiicul-
tural Investment Company and dis-
cussed the sul).iect of rtiations. His
statement follows and clearly sets forth
relations t'xisting and should renune
any possilde misunderstanding in the
tnatter. The Executive Committci' of
thi' Illinois Agricultural Association,
has directed, for reasons ahove set
foith, that the statement otl'ered by
.Mr. Jewett in regaid to the Agricul-
tural Investment Company, he pub-
lished in an oflicial publication of the
Association, and is as follows:

"As a courtesy to your executive of-
ficers I submitted to them a few days
ago a prospectus setting forth plans

GEORGE E. METZGER

Ml . Mcl/nt-r, Dirt-i'lor of Orn-'inizat inn, will havt-
< li;ir^<- of till- s< .iff of clislilrt iiKii who will assist
the > ouiil ics t !iit>ut liixit tlir st;ilf in thrir <>r|4iini
/at ion proSlt'nis. Mcnibirship in the Illinois Atifi-
t'liltiiral Assoriation is on tlic iipwiird tirade :is
shown by irsiilts of icnt wal campaigns held during;
n< lilt months.

investments you may cure to make |ier-
sonally or any assistance you may care
to render iii the distribution of thi
slock will be gfi-atly appreciatetl. The
Agricultural Investment Company will
do three things. It will own the con-
trol of a Joint Stock Land Hank which
will provide ■ long term credit on tlu
amortization plan. The Joint Stock
Land Hank, of course, will be undei
(Continued on page 8)

Fruit Growers

(Continued from i)age 5)

crop information and conditions, am

our growers liave learned that keep

for ^n Agricultural Investment Com- ing their own organization reliably

own good

pany which has just been organized to
operate in connection with the bank
which I iim interested, and with whicii
you are familiar. I did this that they
might be apprised fully of what we are
attempting to do in behalf of the agri-
cultural industry. Your oflicers !.ave
V e r y graciously
asked me to come
here and present
to you, the mem-
bers of the Kxecu-
tive Committee, in
the same way the
salient points in
our further pro-
gram of agricui-
turaL iinance as
provided in the
Agricultural In-
vestment Company.
''The In vest mem
Company is an Il-
linois corporation
capitalized f o r

■S,')(K>,(HIO. The stock
is b e i n g sold
thi'oughout the
state to farmers
and 'others at on'
hundred dollars
per share. Any

itiformed works for their

"A cooperative encounters another
dilTiculty when a marketing season
starts off at a price too high to dis-
pose of the entire fruit croj). Fruit
[)rices <hange rapidly and if the prices
start off at a high figure, only a part

STEPHENSON PROTESTS TO
STATE TAX COMMISSION

Board. of Review Refuses to Take
Action on Equalizing Assessed
Valuations in County

\ FORMAL protest was made by
*- the Stephenson County Farm
Hureau to the Illinois Tax Commission
recently calling attention to ine<|uality
in farm and city valuations existing
in that county. The study made by
the Farm Hureau tax committee and
John C. Watson of the I. A. A. shows
that to place farm lands on the same
average assessment as the city of Free-
jiort, wouhl recpiire an average cut of
21.7 pi-r cent in farm valuations. Or
to place town and city lots on the same
average assessment as farm lands, it
would be ne<-essary to have an averag"
increa.se of ;{2.;»1 pi-r cent in valuations

The Iwal BoanI of Review admit te<i
that the inecjuality exists, but refuses
to take any action for three reasons
as follows: They haven't the time,
they don't know how, and they have
been advised not to do anything.

"We request that you take immedi-
ate action to bring al>out efiuaiization,
either by sending a representative
from the Tax Commission to this
county to investigate the situation, or
by hearing our comjilaint and recpiir-
ing (he presence of the Hoard of Re-
view at the hearing before they ad-
journ," said the message to the State
Tax Commission.

•NEW DISTRICT ORGANIZATION LEADERS 1

Left t > riRht: Harvey D. Fink, L. F. Brisscnden, R. J. Hamilton. Harry L. Hough. F. M. HiRgins
and A. H.Culp. These nun will be statio.icd in various districts around the state to aid in inaintaimm;
the Illinois AKrirultural Asso(iali<in as the strongest slate farm organisation in America.

of the crop can be sold. If the price
is too high, consumers buy only a
limited (juantity or refuse to buy at
all. This causes an over-supply to ac-
cumulate and the producer has to sell
a large part of his crop at a low price
and often loses part of it entirely. This
condition is more often brought about
by the buyers themselves than by the
l)roducers.

"For example, Illinois peaches started
at a high price this year. Buyers on
the ground were bidding against each
other for the first cars. They cre-
ated a temporarily inflated market

which meant heavy
loss to themselves,
and later resulted
in a weak market
for the larger per-
centage of the
crop.

''This condition
occurs in the mar-
keting of .some
commodity every
season. However,
l)roducers and buy-
ers are beginning
to understand each
other better.
Each group is be-
ginning to realize
that it has a com-
mon problem and
that the ultimate
consumer must al-
so be considered in
any successful sys-
tem of marketing."

m^

THE I. A. A. RECORD

by

Hits Politics As Cause

of Tax Inequalities

Tax Director Reveals Three Reasons for
Bad Conditions In Some Counties In
Illinois.

An Editorial By John C. Watson

/rilE State Constitution and the
' revenue statutes of Illinois clearly
prescribe uniform valuations of all
taxable property for i)urp()ses of tax-
ation. The courts always so interj)ret
the statutes.

The revenue laws provide that coun-
ty treasurers shall be supervisors of
a.sse.ssments in their several counties,
an<i shall ^ive the assessors such, in-
structions as will tend to j)roduce uni-
formity in valuations. The Supervisor
of A««i'««nit'nts himself is ir'iwvu the
power of orif^inal assessment whenever
he thinks that any property has been
improperly assessed.

In June or July, sometimes later.

each supervisor of assessment turns all

assessment books over to the county

,boar<l of review, consistinj; of the

chairman of the
county board, and
usually of two ad-
ditional members
appointed, o n e
each year, by the
county Judjje. In
counties not under
township orpraniza-
tion, the board of
three county com-
missioners are the
county board of
review. The j)rin-
cipal duty of any
board of review is
the equalization of valuations.
Swear To Accuracy
In September or October, thouf^h
sometimes later, each board of review
closes its work for the year, and the
members lake oath that "the books —
in number to which this affidavit is at-
thched, contain a full and complete list
of all the real and jjcrsonal j)roperly
in said county subject to taxation for
the year — so far as we have been abl'-
to ascertain the same, and that the
assessed value set down in the ])roi)er
column ojtposite the several kinds and
descriptions of i)i'o|)erty, is, in our
oj)inion, [i just and ecjual a.ssessmeiit
of such ])ro|»erty for purposes of taxa-
tion acconlin^-: to law."

Followinp: adjournment of the coun-
ty board of review, the county clerk
ceitilies to the Illinois Tax Commission
the total assessment of each of the
three kinds of projjcrty locally as-
sessed. It is the (luty of the Tax Com-
mission to equalize valuations of each
class of property among the counties
of the state.

DeKalb County Case
In spite of laws providing for uni-
form valuations and for an elaborate
system of review of as.sessments by
different public officials, assessments in
almost every county of the state have
gross and indefensible inequalities in
valuations which could easily be re-
moved. Due to its greater uniformity

John C. Watson

VISITS I. A. A. OFFICE

knoW th<

SENATOR GEO. W. NORRIS

in value and to the acre unit standard,
farm lands within each county are
more uniformly assessed than any
other propi-rty. Yet there is probably
liot a county in the state in which some
farm land, always the jjoorest land and
the least able to stand the burden is
!iot assessed relative to its fair sale
value, several times as high as other
farm land. Iti city and village lots,
for which theie is no stan<lar<l unit of
nieasuremenl, the situation is much
worse. It is at its woist in personal
l)roperty, especially unenumerated ])er-
sonal property. An exami)le of >iuch
inequality whs found two years ago in
DeKalb ('ounty. The numufacturing
plants in the little city »»f Sandwi<-h
had valuations for manufacturers'
tools and inii)lemenls ten times as high
as the much more extensive and much
larger number of manufacturing i)lants
ill the City of DeKalb.

The foregoing renuirks apply to
valuations within the same counties.
Between counties ineciualities are far
worse than within c<iunties. It is not
too much to' say that in the state as a
whole there is no class of property in
which there are not some assessments,
relative to fair sale value, at hast tt-n
<pr twenty times as high as other as-
sessments. If the comparison is niade
between different clrisscs of property,
the inequality is many tinu-s worse.

Threr- P .-asons

The ])rincipal r^ .json foi" the virtual
failure of eciualization of valuations
are thre«> in number. First, is ignor-
ance of the facts. Second, is timidity
of |)ublic officials. Third, is politics.
Sometimes two or even all of these
re:sons operate at the same time.

County treasurers usually «lo not

/'ffflPf? Fitcvrti

facts, about the a.ssossnienls

or what should be done to correct in-
equalities. They can give no proper
instructii ns to assessors. The stand-
ards iof assessors vary widt-ly, since
each'oiu- knows little or nothing about
how Other assessors value property.
Hoards o Review likewise do not know
whati is 'e<juire<l for unifoiin assess-
mentjs of dilferent classes of i)roperty.
Theii- e<i lalizatioi), so far as they do
anything, is too often ecpuilizatioii of
a cotpparitively small nundn-!' of pr<»p-
ertiei;, or etpialization of claj^se.s by
gues?; w( rk only. Even the Illinois
Tax Copi mission can only guess at the
facts ab( ut assessments of different
classes of propt'rty.

In niai y counties the Supervisors of
As.sepments and Boards of Review
havej .son e knowh'dge of the ine<|ual-
ities iin assessments of ditfen-nt classes
of propely, but are too timid to cor-
rect then . It is easier for such boards
to pormil ine<|ualities to continui' than
it is Ito p;>rform their proper <lutii>s.
I Politics Interferes

Tl|e e> perience of the Illinois Agri-
cultural 'Vssociation in the last few
yeari: proves conclusively that p<ditics
ofteik interferes or attempts to inter-
fere with proper equalization of valua-
tions. A ppointments of members of
lioar.d of Review >)y county jiulges are
ofleiji maile f<»r political reasons. The
reful^al of boards of review to remove
admitted ine<iualities in many cases is
cleanly d iv to the political ambition of
one or rioie members of the Ixtards.
It will b< recalled that last year, after
the Tax [;«)minis.sion had ordered reas-
sessilient of real estate in four coun-
ties,! powerful political intere.><t^ in
every one of the f<»ur c<»unties, did
their utnost to prevent the oi<i«'rs of
:-e;'.st;essi lent from being carried into
elfett. '"he Tax Commission it^^elf was
bom )ar<lL'd on political grounds to such
an <>?vtent that it was slow and hesitant
in cjiriy ng out its ow'n order.

It^nor: nee of the facts abou< assess-
menjls. timidity in correcting inecpial-
itiesj, and refusali for pcd it icai reasons,
<lo iiot n ix well with proper tax equal-
ization.

Senator George W. Norris

Speaks Before Committee

Relates 1 Experiences as Chairman of Ag-
ricultur.d and Judiciary Coni:nittecs in
Unitct States Senate.

:HN'A"OR GEORGE W. NORRIS of

S

I'll Kri(
liver a
ecu^ive
.ind! to
(•iat|oii
their ac'
C<omn

Neb](aska visited the I. A. A. otlices
y. Sept.-'.), long enough to de-
^hort address before th<' Ex-
'<)mmittee in s<'ssion that <fay,
and' to ^et accpiainted with the .Asso-
otlicjals, I staff meml)<>rs. and
ivitii's.

» jomn|enting upon his exju-rienecs as
a ([(mg^-e.ssman and Senat<»r over a
ixriod (if more thim 20 years, Setiator
Noiiris <;aid-, "I have been impressed
witlj thi* seeming injustice shown by
so many legislators and others toward
agriculture. In all my experience I
havb nover l<nown any group to be
more f^ir in their demands than rop-

Page Eight

THE I. A. A. RECORD

resentatives of agriculture and agri-
cultural organizations.

"If it becomes necessary to put the
government in business to save the
agricultural industry of this country I
would favor such action, he said. In
fact it is the government's duty to do
this for its own good for all history
shows us that a nation goes up or down
as its rural population prospers or
fails."

Senator Norris is a native of Ohio,
having been born in that state in 1861.
He worked on a farm, taught school,
earned his way through law school,
became prosecuting attorney when he
moved to Nebraska, and later served
as district judge in the Fifth District,
for three terms. He was then elected
to Congress where he served until he
became a United States Senator in
1913. Senator Norris was chairman
of the Agricultural Committee in the
Senate during the war.

250 Club Calves Sold

THE largest sale of boys' and girls'
club calves of the season was held
under the auspices of the International
Live Stock Exposition at the Union
Stock Yards when 250 calves weighing
892 pounds (average) sold for an
average price of $13.70 per cwt.
Seven head reached the top price of
$15.50 per cwt. • > ' |

Details follow:

No.

Av.

Av.

County

Head Weight Price

Top

Cedar. Iowa

9

908

<14.97

$15.60

Joe Daviess, Illinois

7

977

14.55

15.25

DouKlas. Illinois

10

996

14.63

15.25

Bureau, Illinois

38

936

14.21

15.50

Coles. Illinois

37

928

14.18

15.25

Rock Island, Illinois

24

903

13.46

16.00

Christian. Illinois

17

872

13.30

14.50

Iroquois, Illinois

69

827

13.28

16.60

Moultrie, Illinois

25

915

13.26

16.00

Delaware, Iowa

13

847

12.64

14.00

Jackson, Iowa

1

760

12.00

12.00

Swisher Gets Claim Check

(Continued from page 5 ) . |
for your services. This is surely
worth something. I am well pleased
and many thanks until you are better
paid."

Note: This service is free to every
member of the Farm Bureau in Illi-
nois. Satisfied members can express
their appreciation by urgring their
neighbors to join the Farm Bureau
and the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion.

The recent Scott County Farm Bu-
reau picnic brought out the largest
crowd ever recorded in the county.
"One reason it was such a great suc-
cess is that everyone was invited,"
said Farmer Adviser Tait, "non-mem-
bers as well as members came. This
stimulated a better feeling for the
Farm Bureau. The Kiwanis Club of
Winchester attended the picnic in a
body and led in community singing."
Scott county is launching a drive to
drive out stinking smut by treating
seed with carbon carbonate.

Senator Barkley Talks

to I. A. A. Radio Audience

(Continued from page 5 )
while to try it realizing that even at
its worst, being a complete failure,
the losses would be borne by the farm-
ers who asked for it and not by the
government. It had the virtue of be-
ing conceived and proposed by ihe or-
ganized farmers of the nation who
ought to have some knowledge of their
conditions and are entitled to be con-
sulted about remedies."

Answers Criticism

Alluding to the criticism of the Mc-
Nary Haugen bill by President Cool-
idge on the grround that it was class
legislation, Senator Barkley said, "If
this virtuous attitude toward all legis-
lation enacted for the benefit of por-
tions of our population were followed.
Congress would find itself idle a large
portion of the time. If this attitude
prevailed in the levying of taxes by
federal ana state governments the
farmers of the nation would have less
cause now to complain of their condi-
tion.

"If this attitude had been strictly
adhered to we would have had very
little wise, or progressive legislation
in behalf of the industrial, financial,
educational, transportation, or other
vital activities of the people. Govern-
ments exist in order that society may
use them for their common advance-
ment, in order that they may accom-
plish as a whole people, what could
not be accomplished by the individual
and unorganized effdtt. Legislative
bodies frequently find it necessary to
legislate for a particular situation that
affects one portion of the people more
directly than others. Such laws are
intended to benefit the whole country
by preventing disaster or unprofitable
effort on the part of any one group.

"The government has not hesitated
in the past, and does not hesitate now
to use its powers to stimulate the wel-
fare and increase the profit of certain
classes of manufacturing interests in
the nation," said the Senator. "They
are enjoying the fruits of this govern-
mental policy, and the farmer is con-
tributing his share in increased costs
to this prosperity, which others are
enjoying."

Senator Barkley spoke before a
large crowd at the Piatt County Farm
Bureau picnic, Monticello, the day be-
fore on Sept. 6, where he received a
great ovation. Robt. A. Cowle,, .. .as-
urer, was instrumental in persuading
the Senator to come to Illinois.

Approximately 1500 stories about
activities of the Illinois Agricultural
Association appeared in Illinois news-
papers during the m©nth of Augrust.
During the past six months, news of
The Association appeared in newspap-
ers in practically every state in the
Union.

Clippings of a story published in a recent _^ . _ , .

issue of the I. A. A. Rbcord were received u IV*' T' "fffective in treating contagious

from Honolulu. Hawaii, Long Beach and abortion of cattle, says the U. S Department

T „„ A , r> ,-t J » "f"^" """ of Agriculture m a recent bulletin on this

Los Angeles. California, and Jonesboro, Ark. subject.

StoU Is Champ Manager

Ships All to Producers

; V i: ley Ray E. Miller

FRED M. Stoll will have been man-
ager of the Season Cooperative
Live Stock Shipping Association at
Season, Logan County, Illinois, four
years on January 1st, 1928. During
the entire time Mr. Stoll has never
sent a car to any firm other than the
Producers -at Chicago or Indianapolis.
Mr. Stoll and his directors claim the
long distance record for consistent
support of the Producer movement.
Furthermore, he says the service has
been entirely satisfactory. Stoll could
not recall having ever had a kick. Of
course, there have been occasions when
his patrons were not fully satisfied
with the market but so far as the
shipping association and the Producer
service are concerned, the members of
the Season Shipping Association seem
pretty well satisfied.

A record of this kind certainly is
an enviable one, both for the associa-
tion and for the manager. It speaks
volumes for efficient service at both
the local and terminal points. More
than that it indicates excellent Farm
Bureau support in Mr. Stoll's terri-
tory. Farm Advisor Checkley says
"Hurrah for Logan County!" He
wants to know how many Farm Ad-
visers of the State can produce 100
per cent Producer Association man-
agers who will compare with Mr. Stoll.

Agricultviral Investment
Company

(Continued from page 6)

the supervision of the Federal Farm
Loan Board. The Investment Com-
pany will also own the control of a
credit corporation which will make in-
termediate loans on crops and live
stock. These loans will be redis-
counted in the Federal Intermediate
Credit Bank and elsewhere and will
therefore be subject to the regulation
of the Federal Farm Loan Board. The
third thing, the Investment Company
will do is to conduct a high class in-
vestment business for farmers and
others. If farmers can be induced to
diversify their investments by putting
some of their capital in high grade,
listed securities along with their land
holdings it will be a very helpful
thing.

"On the Board of Directors of the
Transportation Bank of Chicago and
of the Agricultural Investment Com-
pany will be found men affiliated with
the Illinois Agricultural Association
and other farm organizations. It is
understood by you and by us, and
should be clearly understood by your
membership that they are acting only
in their individual capacities." ;

A perfumed fertilizer made of

pressed cocoa meal and containing
four per cent of nitrogen is now avail-
able for the meticulous farmer, says
the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

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Volume 5

OCTOBER, 1927

Number 10

Government Crop

Forecasts Upheld

Dr. Taylor Tells I. A. A. Radio Audience

How Government Forecasts May

Help Farmer

By HENRY C. TAYLOR

Institute for Research in Land Economics,
and Public Utilities, Northwestern University,
Chicago.

GOVERNMENT crop reports give
essential information to the farm-
er. The farmer sees from day to day
the activities on his own farm and in
the immediate neighborhood. He sees
something of what is going on at the
local market from time to time when
he goes to deliver his produce. Once
a year when he visits a county or state
fair or the International Livestock Ex-
position he may get a still broader
view of what is going on in the world
of agrriculture. Beyond this, by the
very nature of his calling, his eye does
not reach; he must see through the
eyes of others or work in the dark.

Price Important

In the old«n days when the farmer
produced primarily for his own home,
crop reports were of little importance
to him. But in these modern days of
commercial agriculture when the
farmer produces primarily for the
market and buys upon the market a
large portion of the food, clothing and
other supplies essential to his well-be-
ing, the price for which he can sell his
products becomes a dominant factor
in determining his prosperity. The
supply of farm products may be abun-
dant but if the price is too low the
farmer may be in distress.

Needs Information

The local environment which falls
under the eye' of the farmer does not
produce the facts on which the farm-
er can judge the trend of farm pro-
duction and prices. Without informa-
tion from the outside the farmer must
proceed in ignorance of the compet-
ing forces which determine his pros-
perity. In manufacturing and trans-
portation, the management is in the
hands of the few, in agriculture the
management is in the hands of the
many. Good management in industry
and transportation requires that the

DEFENDS GOVERNMENT
FORECASTS

Dr. Henry C. Taylor

£>r. Taylor organized the Division of Agricultural
Economics at Washington in 1921 and was its first
head under Secretary of Agriculture Henry C.
Wallace. The radio talk presented herewith was
delivered on the I. A. A. radio program, Friday
Oct. 7, station WJJD, Chicago.

few in authority have a comprehensive
knowledge of the whole economic set-
ting of their activity. They are able
to employ agents and experts to keep
them fully informed. In agriculture
millions of farmers are of necessity in
authority and each of them can not
employ agents to secure information.

It was to fulfill the purpose of pro-
viding information which would give
these millions of farm managers a
mental vision of the economic life of
which they are a part that the United
States Department of Agriculture has
attempted to serve as "the eye of the
farmer" in this and other lands.

The Department's major function is
that of gathering facts, focusing them
acurately and giving them to farmers
and others interested in agricultural
production and marketing.

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Tax Committees Score I

[ -■ i,l' Victory In Hearing

Illinois Tax Commission Upholds I. A. A.
. [ System of Checking Valuations on
! Farm and City Property

THE Illinois Tax Commission gave
complete recognition to the I. A.
A. and Farm Bureau system of check-
ing farm and city
property valuations
for assessment pur-
poses in a hearing
held in Chicago on
Thursday, Oct. 6.

The hearing in-
volved the counties
of Champaign and
Stephenson where
the Boards of Review
had neglected to
take action in equal- o<m»id Kirkpatrick
izing farm and city
valuations when wide discrepancies
had been revealed. Both Farm Bu-
reaus and Boards of Review were
represented, the Stephenson county
board also by its state's attorney.

When the latter objected to the
Farm Bureau's method of checking
valuations, Mr. Francis of the Tax
Commission asked if he knew a bet-
ter system of obtaining the necessary
data. State's Attorney Jaynes con-
fessed that he did not, whereupon the
Commission advised that the use of
representative sales of both farm and
city property was the only way as-
sessed valuations could be checked.

Then the Stephenson county board
tried to establish the fact that there
was insufficient time to equalize valua-
tions in the county. But here again
it was revealed that the Farm Bureau
made the presentation of its case in
ample time for necessary adjustment.

The Tax Commission then recom-
mended that the Farm Bureau repre-
sentatives and t the Board of Review
get together within the next week and
plan to equalize with the stipulation
that there be «ither a 30 per cent in-
crease in valuations for tax purposes
in the city of Freeport or a reduction of
24 per cent oh farm lands. It waB
implieti that if the necessary adjust-
Dpent was not made, the Commission
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What the
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V Thank You

Editor, Record:

YOUR paper is doing very construc-
tive and helpful work for American
agriculture. The editorial "Against
Switching Support" in the September
issue is exactly right. The farmers of
this county, and of Illinois and the
country at large, have nothing to gain
by the so-called "Export Debenture"
proposal. It is merely another form
of subsidy. The University men make
a mistake which is against the interests
of agrricultur© to insist on advancing
the proposal at the wrong psychologi-
cal time. No plan has yet been sug-
gested which promises assistance on a
more sound basis than the surplus
control through the equalization fee
proposed in the McNary-Haugen Bill.
Do not let a division come among the
forces back of agriculture on this
proposition.

You will find the farmers of Illinois
lined up solidly behind your efforts as
long as you stick to this policy. Fur-
thermore, the fight by down-state
against increase of legislative voting
power in Cook County will not abate
until legislators from Cook County,
both at Springfield and Washington,
develop statesmanship to sympathize
with and support the demands of ag-
riculture for fair play.

PETER P. SCHAEFER,
Champaign County, 111.

A Good Record

Editor, Record:

IN YOUR September issue I see
where Mr. Stoll, Manager of the
Beason Live Stock Shipping Associa-
tion has been a true man to the Pro-
ducers Commission Association of
Chicago and Indianapolis for four
years. This is very good indeed. But,
as I am manager of the A. R. Shipping
Association I have Mr. Stoll beaten by
one year, for by Jan. 18, 1928, I will
have been on the job for five years,
and every load has gone to one of the
two Producers' Associations, either
Chicago or Indianapolis.

I do not want to boast, but thought
you might be interested to know that
there is one association and manager
in Champaign that has been 100 per
cent for the Producers Association.
HENRY KILIAN, Jr., Mgr.,

A. & R. Shipping Ass'n., Broad-
lands, Illinois.

All to Producers .

Editor, Record: j

T NOTICED in your last article in
^ the Record about managers for live-
stock shipping associations. In Sep-
tember, 1923, we organized a live
stock shipping association in this coun-
ty. We have had the same County

Manager, the same president, and the
same secretary-treasurer ever since.
And there have been only three
changes in the Board of Directors
since the organization.

Every carload of stock that has
been shipped out has been sent to the
Producers. In fact, our constitution
and by-laws require that all stock be
shipped to the Producers unless a ma-
jority of the shippers request that we
ship to some other commission firm.

I believe our record is equal to that
or a little ahead of the Logan county
shipping association. G. C. Clifton
of luka, Illinois, is our manager; C.
H. Stanford, president, and Roy Charl-
ton, secretary-treasurer. Mr. Charl-
ton is also president of the Farm Bu-
reau in our county.

FRED J. BLACKBURN,

County Agent, Marion County, 111.

Another Good One

Editor, Record:

IN THE last issue of the I. A. A.
Record I note the record of Fred
M. Stoll, manager of the Beason Co-
operative live Stock Shipping Associa-
tion in Logan County. I just want to
send you the record of our man who
has this record beat.

Harold Bradshaw has been manager
of the Live Stock Shipping Associa-
tion at Albion five years, February
1st, 1928. He has shipped everything
to the Live Stock Producers at St.
Louis. He also helped organize the
Producers at Evansville, and the Wa-
bash County Shipping Association. He
attended the American Institute of
Cooperation at St. Paul, Minn., last
year and at Chicago this year. He
has given such good satisfaction that
the local buyers ship a large amount
of stock with him.

In addition he handles feed and
fertilfeer at five cents above the ac-
tual cost.

Tell Checkley that he is not the
only adviser that has a one hundred
per cent Producers' Association man-
ager.

H. N. MYERS,

Farm Adviser, Edwards County,
111.

Editor, Record: '

Who won the $60 attendance prise at the
I. A. A. state picnic?

E. H. Hess of Washington in Taze-
well county won this prize.

Illinois Agrricultural Association,
608 South Dearborn St.,
Chicago, 111.

"We are everyday listeners on your noon-
day program and think it's very good work
you are putting on. We have just heard
Senator Barkley talk from your station this
noon, and commend him very highly for it.
We are for more Senators like Mr. Barkley,
and hope to hear him again."

EDWIN F. KANEY,
I Shannon, Ogle County, III.

Geor^re Curtis, formerly of Stockton,
Jo Davies county, is the new manager
of the McLean County Service Com-
pany.

Smith and Barton Named

On Farm Guard Committee \:^

I. A. A. Votes To Lend Aid Toward s
Forming State Protective Body

PRESIDENT EARL C. SMITH, and V
Vice-President Frank D. Barton v.
were named by the Executive Commit- ■-
tee to serve on the Illinois Farm Guard V.
Committee the purpose of which is to : a
unite all efforts toward driving farm '
thievery out of the state.

The State Committee formed at '
Springfield on September 23 is made ^
up of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation, Prairie Farmer, the Illinois '
Anti-Horse Thief Association, the t
State Detective Association, the Illi- '■■■
nois Poultry Dealers Association, the
Illinois Bankers Association, the Illi- ;
nois Association of Farm Advisers, and
the State Department of Agriculture. ;•
C. V. Gregory of Prairie Farmer is
general chairman, and Alden Snyder '
of Montgomery county is secretary.

R. C. Saunders, of the Bankers As-
sociation who organized the Town
Guard system to drive bank robbers ;;
out of the state has pledged his aid to
perfect a similar Farm Guard system •'.:
for the rural districts. The proposed .
plan involves the selection of three or
more Farm Guards in every school dis- ;
trict who will be trained in the use of i
firearms, and in apprehending crim- i
inals. The organization will be open
to all farmers. Henry and Marshall- .
Putnam counties already have taken
steps in this direction.

Tax Committees Score

Victory In Hearing

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would be forced to act to fulfill the law. ■ v

The Champaign County Board of ' .
Review made no contest, admitting
that certain inequalities existed. They
left the matter to the discretion of
the Tax Commission, • • ,

Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel,
and John C. Watson, director of tax-
ation, represented the Illinois Agricul- '\
tural Association. Farm Adviser C. ' '
C. Burns, W. Z. Black, and R. W. Hin- ;,
ton, chairman of the county Tax Com-
mittee, represented Champaign coun- r
ty. Farm Adviser W. A. Herringfton,
L. M. Swanzey, Theo. Ellis, Tom Nib- ,
lo„ Jim Daws, Harry Snyder, Ray Fol-
gate, G. A. Mitchell, Frank Fleuchel- !.
ing and M. F. Kotman represented -
Stephenson county.

THE Knox County Board of Review
voluntarily reduced farm valua- •.
tions 25 per cent in that county when •'
a discrepancy between city and farm
valuations was revealed. The Knox .
County Farm Bureau presented the ■:
matter of equalization to the Board of
Review on Aug. 19. The Board called
in the assessors who agn'eed to re- '■_■:
duce all townships on 25 per cent basis.

"Our Board of Review deserve a lot ,
of credit and thanks for their prompt-
ness in making this reduction," says
Farm Adviser Marchant.

The annual meeting of the Illinois
Farm Supply Co. will be held on Fri-
day, Oct. 14, in the I. A. A. offices,
Chicago.

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Government Crop

Forecasts Upheld

(Continued from page 1)
Eye of Farmer

The issuing of crop outlook
reports or crop forecasts as
they are commonly called was
the first effort of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture to serve as
the eye of the farmer. With-
out these reports farmers would
have to market their crops with-
out any knowledge of whether
or not the crops in other
places are large or small. The
buyers of farm products have
their own private agencies se-
curing information for them.
Hence the government crop
reporting service is essential if
the farmer is not to plod along
in the dark while the middle-
men to whom farmers sell
their products know what is
happening in the world.

Tryinjf To Kill Service ^

Many organized groups like
the great cotton exchanges and grain may more successfully be used as

May E. Youngberg and Inez Nelson, office secretaries
of the Winnebago and DeKalb County Farm Bureau,
respectively, tied for first place for securing the greatest
number of applications during Automobile Insurance
Week.

exchanges have done what they could
from time to time to discourage gov-
ernment crop reports. The speculative
market is truly disturbed by full in-
formation. Future trading is reduced
by reliable crop reports issued at fre-
quent intervals. This is because fu-
ture trading is in part for hedging,
that is insuring against loss due to
changes in prices. Anything that re-
duces uncertainty reduces the need for
this insurance. This, of course, is a loss
to the^peculative market operators but
it is a gain for all others. The producers
and the users of farm products bene-
fit by full information and are usually
found backing the crop reporting serv-
ice of the Department. When the is-
suing of crop reports come at the
same time as falling prices, farmers
have been known to protest against
the reports. Organized groups of
merchants are believed to have subsi-
dized "stool pigeon" farm leaders to
protest against crop reports at times

material for the speculative game.
Has Gone Further

In recent years the Department of
Agriculture has gone much further
than simply to report on crop condi-
tions in this country. It has collected
and published facts about crop condi-
tions in all parts of the world where
foreign^ farmers are competing with
American farmers. All this is an es-
sential part of the picture the farmer
must hold in mind if he is to produce
and market crops intelligently.

Another important improvement in
the information service provided by
the Department of Agriculture was
initiated by Secretary Henry C. Wal-
lace soon after he went to Washing-
ton. I refer to the Livestock Outlook
Reports, and particularly to the Pig
Survey made each spring which gives
accurate information to farmers about
the first of July regarding the number
of spring pigs which are available for

to weather conditions has more
to do than acreage in control-
ling the supply of farm prod-
ucts. The outlook reports give
the fact so the farmers may act
more intelligently.

I cannot in the brief time
available give any more details
regarding this economic serv-
ice, this "eye of the farmer"
operated by the Department of
Agriculture; but I want to em-
phasize the fact that the Depart-
ment of Agriculture has gone
far towards developing methods
of collecting and distributing in-
formation which will enable the
farmer to have a much clearer
mental vision of the economic
facts and forces which deter-
mine his profits than has ever
been true before. Unfortu-
nately, there are those who
would destroy this information
service because they would
then be in a position to
profit by keeping the farmers
ignoraht.

Out To Make Money

Do not misunderstand me about
these speculators in farm products.
They have no desire to hurt farmers,
they would rather see them prosperous
than depressed, but the interest of
these dealers centers in their own
profits. They see and discuss crop and
market reports from their own point
of view. Their point of view is not
the general welfare nor the profits of
the farmer. What is needed is that
farmers seek their own interest with
the same intelligence as do these busi-
ness men. The purpose of the govern-
ment information service is to help
farmers understand the production
and marketing situations so that they
can pursue their own interest in the
light of equally good information.

Should Help Service

Unfortunately farmers sometimes
join with the speculators in complain-
ing about this service. If farmers and

when big crops are leading to falling feeding and which will be in the mar- farm organizations can do anything

prices. Wise farmers are not fooled
by this type of propaganda. They
know the dealers have the informa-
tion and that prices will fall when
supplies are large whether the farm-
ers have the facts or not.

Farmer* Use Facts

Intelligent farmers use the facts
and plan to hold their products. Fur-
thermore, thoughtful farmers know

ket during the following fall and win-
ter. At the same time information is
secured regarding intentions to breed
for fall litters. This information is
given early enough so that farmers
may change their plans either to in-
crease or decrease the number of lit-
ters, according to whether there is an
under-supply or an over-supply of
spring pigs. Again in December a
similar report is isued to gruide farm-

that the government can not issue a ers in planning their spring pig crop

part of the facts and hold back other These reports give the farmers a

facts. It must tell all of the truth, chance to act intelligently in produc-

If short crops leading to high prices
are to be reported then long crops
must be reported also. ^ The full truth
puts the farmer on an even basis with
the man to whom he sells. A dealer
in farm products once said to me, "I
don't like this information service of
the Department of Agriculture. The

ing an orderly supply of hogs for the
market.

February Report
The next great step forward in im-
proving the "eye of the farmer" was
the February report on intentions to
plant and the general outlook with

to help improve the information serv-
ice of the Department of Agriculture
they should not hesitate to give their
suggestions and helpful criticisms di-
rectly to the officials of the Depart-
ment. The United States government
crop and livestock estimates are the
best in the world. They could be im-
proved if more funds were available
but they are now superior to any lUce
reports in this or other lands. The
crop estimates are not always under-
stood by their critics. The crop re-
ports give the conditions as of a
given date and indicate that on the
basis of average results in the past
following such conditions a given crop
is indicated. Every report states spe-
cifically that the outcome of the crop
for the season will be more or less
than the figrure indicated depending
on the weather and- other conditions

respect to the probable demand for

trouble is everybody has the informa- agricultural products. This spring out- during the time yet to intervene be

tion. It is the information I have look report gives farmers information ^ore the crop is harvested. The closer

which the other fellow does not have needed in deciding what and how much to the harvest the reports are the less

that is worth money to Aie." The agi- to plant. This has done much to keep the chance for change in the crop out-

tation against crop reports originates farmers from planting too much in look and the more dependable the esti-

in the great exchanges where farm one year and then too little the next, mates. Much of the wheat and much

products are bought and sold. Its In the past, increased prices led to of the cotton is marketed long before

purpose is to destroy the clear vision increased planting and low prices to the last of the crop is harvested. With-

of the "eye of the farmer" in reduced planting. This was often out estimates many a farmer would be

order that the products of the farm wrong because variation in yield due (Continued on page 7)

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ICVLTIJRAL ASSOCIAT^N

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To mdvane* thm par pom* tor which thm t€trn\~ bureau i0a« organizmd,
nmtnely to promot*, protect and represent the butineaa, economic,
emmial and educational intereata of the farmera of Illinoia and the nation,
and to develop agriculture.

Published once » month at 404 North Wesley Ave., Mount Morris, niinois,
by the Ulinois Agricultural Association. Edited by Department of Information,
B. G. Thiem, Director, 60C South Dearborn Street, Cnicago, Illinois. Entered
■a second-class matter October 20, 1925, at the post office at Mount Morris,
Dfisois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of
p— <sge provided for in Section 412, Act of February 28, 1925, authorized
Oirtober 27, 1925. The individual membership fee of the lUinois Agricultural
Aaooiation is five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty cents for
•akaenption to the Illinois AoRictrLrnRAi. Association Record. Postmaster:
In returning an uncalled for or miasent copy, please indicate key number on
address as is required by law.

OFFICERS j

f>reMdent, Earl C. Smith I .Detroit

Vice-President, Frank D. Barton Cornell

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
' ' (By Congressional Districts) i'

1st to 11th... H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

12th G. F. Tvillock, Rockford

I3th C E. Bamborough, Polo

deh W. H. Moody, Port Byron

ISth A. M. Skinner, Yates City

IMa A. R. Wright, Varna

17th Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

ISeh R. F. Karr, Iroquois

19th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th Charles Borgelt, Havana

21at ; Samuel Sorreils, Raymond

22iid Frank Oexner, Waterloo

23W W. L. Cope, Salem

2Mi Charles Marshall, Belknap

ZSth : Fred Dietz, De Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Business Service Geo. R. Wicker

Dldry Marketing A. D. Lynch

Farm Supply J. R- Bent

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit aiKl Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General Office J. H. Kelker

Information E. G. Thiem

Insurance J. P- Gibson

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller

Qrsanization G. E. Metzger

Promotioruil Service V. Vaniman

PiDultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taj^tion and Statistics J. C. Watson

Transportation L. J. Quasey

The Chicago Tax Situation

THE good people of Chicago are uncovering some of
the rottenness in the tax situation in that city. In
a recent memorandum to the Cook County Board of Re-
view, George O. Fairweather, and John O. Rees, members
of the Joint Commission on Real Estate Valuation point
out some of the gross inequalities still existing even after
the Board is supposed to have made needed adjustments.

Thus it has been found that many properties are as-
sessed at more than their sales value, while countless others
are assessed as low as one to 20 per cent of their fair
sales value.

The Commission found that of 58 properties originally
assessed at 91 per cent or more of their sales value, five
were changed to over 101 per cent, nine to 91-95 per cent
of their sales value, three to 86-90 per cent, five to 81-85
per cent, six to 76-80 per ffent, nine to 71-75 per cent,
four to 51-55 per cent, one to 26-30 per cent, one to 31-35
per cent, and so on. t I j '

Thirty-seven properties were assessed at one to 10 per
cent of their fair sales value and after being reviewed by
the Board of Review only one of these cha,nged and it
was raised to 46-50 per cent. The other 36 were left
"as is."

This is all very illuminating, in view of the provision in
the constitution of Illinois which says that all property
must be assessed equally, i I j

Margaret Haley, leader of the Chicago Teachers' Fed-

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eration is on the war path and has been granted a hearing
before the State Tax Commission to present some of these
interesting comparisons. She is out after the tax dodgers.

To get ready for the fight, she attended the hearing be-
for the Commission last week when the I. A. A. and the
Farm Bureaus of Stephenson and Champaign presented
their case. ■":"'.,!.'■'■■::'.• '•':',:'■:-.:. '■•■■f-

Tax revision in Chicago is of interest to downstate be-
cause the state tax rate is applied to valuations made by
the local boards. For some time, John C. Watson has
contended that equalization between counties would result
in raising the general level of assessed valuation in Chi-
cago. The outcome of these hearings before the Tax Com-
mission will decide the part the Association must play in
bringing about needed changes.

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Farm Bureau Contract Legal

THE Farm Bureau membership contract is legal and
binding. Farm Bureau dues must be paid. This is the ,
decision of the Appellate Court of Illinois at Ottawa in ;
reversing the decision of the circuit and justice courts in
LaSalle county.

Jos. E. Thompson dropped out of the LaSalle County
Farm Bureau after paying one year's dues. He still owed
two years' dues but refused to pay. The Farm Bureau
sued and the local justice of the peace held that the Bureau
could not collect.

Judge Eldredge in the Circuit Court sustained the de-
cision of the J. P. Attorneys for the Farm Bureau again
appealed the case and the higher court established the
legality of the contract.

This decision will be of interest to members in every
county. The Farm Bureau is a responsible organization.
Its contracts and agreements are as binding and inviolable
as those of any organization. It ^ well to have this fact
firmly established in law. ,;' : 'I •'^

Not The Solution ' ^

THE National Drainage Association wants tax relief.
It suggests the establishment of a revolving fund by
Congress from which drainage boards can borrow to meet
their annual payments on drainage bonds and interest.
It would borrow government money free of charge with
plenty of time allowed to pay it back.

Perhaps this is no more a subsidy than the government
is now allowing to steel, aluminum, and other highly pro-
tected commodities. But will this solve the problem of the ,
farmer on drained lands who can not meet his taxes and
other fixed charges? Our answer is no. We would call
this light treatment. It would help a little. But we be-
lieve in the doctrine of putting first things first. Go after
the big thing and the little ones will take care of them-
selves. ■■. i r fi- ■•."■' ^^

A surplus control plan that will enable farmers to get a-
fair price for his product is needed. This is the big idea.
Give the drainage farmer a substantial income and he'll
not complain about nominal interest charges:

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Whom Do You Want ?

WHOM do you want for a speaker at the next an-
nual meeting of the I. A. A? This is the question
the Committee is debating. Choose someone of national
prominence. Select the man or woman you would rather
meet and hear than any other, in the United States or
beyond. Then send a letter or card to the Editor of
the Record expressing your choice. Your communication
will be turned over to the Program Committee and the
leading candidate will be announced in the next issue.
The next annual convention is scheduled for Jan. 18, 19,

and 20 at Rock Island. Plan now to attend.

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Working Together

in Richland County

County Wide Shipping Association Works
Hand in Hand With Farm Bureau
and Producers 1 ...

A. E. MILLER '

RICHLAND County, Illinois, has a
county-wide live stock shipping
association which is an excellent type
of cooperative that is gradually devel-
oping throughout the corn belt. The
Richland Association was originally
formed by the Richland County Farm
Bureau in 1922. W. R Bunn, the
present Adviser, came to the county
in the spring of 1923 and lent a helping

I hand to the Association which at that

; time needed just this spirit and en-

j couragement.

J Since 1923 the Association has con-
tinued to grow and thrive until at
present it handles the major portion
of the live stock going from this
county. Richland County is not one
of the large live stock producing coun-
ties, but last year this Association sold
117 cars. Kindly get the next state-
ment. One hundred per cent of the
Richland County Live Stock Shipping
Association business went to Producer
Agencies. Of this amount one-half
went to the Indianapolis Producers and
the other half was divided between St.
Louis and Cincinnati.

^ The Richland County Farm Bureau
and the Richland County Shipping As-
sociation are very closely allied. In
fact, membership in the Farm Bureau

) entitles one to membership in the Ship-
ping Association. A charge of 10
cents per hundred weight is made on

i shipments from non-members of the
Association. Mr. Bunn states that this
differential between members and non-

i members of the Shipping Association
has been of great value to him in
building the Farm Bureau organiza-
tion in that county.

Four Local Managers

The Association is managed by a
board of nine directors, one from each
township. Officers of the Association

j are elected from among the directors.
Regular meetings of the directors are
held and the annual meeting of the
Association is always made an occasion
for a systematic study of the past
year's business.

The business of the Association is
handled by four local managers —
Chris Seller at Olney; C. W. Hawkins
at Noble; Ed. Lathrop at Claremont;
J. E. Franklin at Dundas. These man-
agers assemble the loads and ship
them out. The managers' commission
is 10 cents per hundred weight on
cattle and 12 cents on other stock.
An insurance charge of one-half of
one per cent of the gross receipts is
made on all shipments. This has been

1 found ample to cover losses.

Centrally Located '!
J The returns are brought to the
Farm Bureau office where the Asso-
ciation's books are kept. All returns
: (Continued on page 7)

Loading Livestock — Richland County Shipping Association.

-Well Pleased

C. H. Vinson of Vermilion
County, 111., shipped a carload of
cattle from Kansas City more
than a year ago. He accom
panied the shipment home. The
train was delayed so that the
cattle arrived in a weakened
condition, with one dead. Two
more died as a result of the long
trip, whereupon Vinson tried to
collect from the railroad. Un-
able to secure a settlement, he
referred the case to the Ver-
milion County Farm Bureau who
relayed it to the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association. After some
delay occasioned by dilatory tac-
tics on the part of the railroad,
a settlement was made, where-
upon Mr. Vinson wrote the fol-
lowing letter: ■ :,"
Transportation Dept.,
Illinois Agricultural
Association.

Received your letter of
September 10 stating that you
had obtained an offer from the
Railroad Company in the
amount of $135. A note that
you think this the best settle-
ment that you can secure.

I will say that I surely ap-
preciate your efforts in this
case. Had it not been for you
I would not have realized any-
thing from them. Therefore,
I am well pleased to settle for
this amount — $135.

C. H. Vinson.

Twenty-five hundred attended the

plowing match and tractor demonstra-
tion held recently in Morgan county.
Limestone spreaders and threshing
machines as well as plows and tractors
were demonstrated. After dinner 13
tractors entered the plowing contest.
Congressman Rainey spoke on the
agricultural situation. The joint town
and country picnic held at Jackson-
ville on Labor Day brought out more
than 5,000 people.-

Seven Counties Start

Membership Campaigns

Tazewell Nearly Complete With Heavy
Signup, Iroquois Ready to Start Drive

CEVEN Illinois County Farm Bu-
'^ reaus have launched or will soon
begin their triennial campaigns to re-
new members.

Tazewell county is the farthest
along with its membership campaign
where the signup has been heavy.
With five townships still incompletely
solicited, the total membership signed
on September 29 was 913. G. E.
Metzger, director of organization es-
timates that this county will have well
over 1000 members in the organiza-
tion within the next week or two.

Gallatin, Pope, Wayne, Cumberland,
and Clay counties, all in Southern Il-
linois, have already begun their re-
newal campaigns with their district
organizer F. M. Higgins lending ac-
tive support to advance the strength
of the organization in this quarter.

The new organization plan with dis-
trict men located in various sections
is starting off well, says Mr. Metzger.
In his judgment it will be the means
of bringing the state organization up
to a strength of 75,000 probably as
early as next year. To show how the
plan is , working out, Metzger points to
a current illustration.

Down in Champaign county dis-
trict leader, A. B. Culp recently held
an organization school with live men
picked from each of three communi-
ties;. The new Farm Bureau motion
picture film was shown and the various
activities and projects of the county
and state organizations explained.

Then each of the three groups se-
lected 30 prospective members from
each community making 90 prospects
in all. Each of the 15 local members
then went out and in one day signed
57 of the 90 men seen. Before the
cleanup drive, none of these communi-
ties had a heavy membership, and one
had only eight. By reaching each
farmer in the state in this way it is
hoped to increase the membership to
new high levels.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Fruit Exchange Buys Spuds
for County F. B. Members

To Handle Northern Illinois and Red
River Valley Potatoes Without Charge

NORTHERN grown potatoes for seed
and table use will be handled free
for all Illinois Farm Bureau members
by the Illinois Fruit
Growers' Exchange.
This is the announce-
ment of A. B. Leeper,
manager of the Ex-
change, made in a
recent letter to all
County Farm Bu-
reaus.

"The season is at
Ihand,"
Leeper,

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"when farm-
ers who do not grow
enough potatoes for
their own use will want to purchase
their supplies for this year. The Illi-
nois Fruit Growers' Exchange is
handling a nice lot of Northern Illi-
nois grown potatoes. These are just
as good as potatoes from the far
north or better. These Illinois pota-
toes are Green Mountains, a fine
variety for table use.

To Assist Bureaus

"Mr. Harry Day expects to spend his
entire time during the next month as-
sisting Farm Bureaus in placing orders
for their respective counties. If you
are interested, drop us a line imme-
diately and Mr. Day will get to your
county as soon as possible. He will
have samples of these potatoes with
him. Here is a chance for some real
cooperation, as we are selling the
products of Farm Bureau members di-
rect to other Farm Bureau members
without any middlemen's pcofits.

"We are also in position to furnish
early Chios from the best cooperative
and dealers in the Red River Valley,
and Round Whites from farther north.
If your Farm Bureau does not want to
buy potatoes, the Exchange will appre-
ciate it if you will take this matter up
with the cooperative associations, ele-
vators, or dealers in your county.

No Buying Charge

"There will be no buying charge
for this service. The prices we quote
you will be net delivered, and the po-
tatoes will be shipped to you subject to
inspection. You will no doubt receive
quotations from a great many con-
cerns and someiof them may be lower
than ours, but a difference of five to
ten cents per hijfhdred can be absorbed
very quickly in quality. The potatoes
we handle will be high quality prod-
ucts. Prices on potatoes change very
rapidly, but at present they are selling
around $1.75 per hundred delivered to
most of the counties in the State. You
understand the market may change at
any time. If you want to purchase
potatoes befor^ Day gets to see you,
get in touch with the Exchange office
at Centralia and we will quote you the
lowest price for quality stock on the
day we receive your inquiry."

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What the Counties J
Are Doing

PROFITABLE returns from the
swine sanitation plan and from
feeding a balanced ration were force-
fully demonstrated to 125 farmers
who attended the livestock tour iji
Hancock county in September.

Eighty Farm Bureau members
guessed the total weight of the 83
spring pigs on the W. S. Felgar farm.
The guess of the winner of the $10
prize, Harry L. Burling, was within 30'
lbs. of the actual weight of the entire
drove. The ^igs averaged 234.6 lbs.
per head at six months and 12 days.

These shoals were farrowed by 10
sows and were self-fed on corn and
the two to one tanlcage and oil meal
mixture on clove'r pasture. They were
sold by the Chicago Producers' Com-
mission Association on September 8 at
$11.40 per cwt., which was the top for
that day. Accurate feed records kept
in cooperation with the University of
Illinois show that the cost of producing
these hogs was around $7 per cwt.,
which is far below the average figure
and which left Mr. Felgar a nice mar-
gin of profit.

An interesting proof of the fact that
the composite opinion of a group of
livestock men will be about correct is
the fact that the average of the 80
guesses on the weight of this drove of ^
hogs was only a little more than a
pound per head from the actual
weight.

MACOUPIN County won the grand
champion county herd prize at
the State Fair on five Hereford calves
from the Jones Ranch in Texas.
(Circle Brand). They were bought
through the Producers' calf pool.
These calves were all in the Virden
Calf Club, with Bruce Ogg, local
leader. "There are 59 head of these
splendid calvete in the Virden Club,"
says Farm Ad^riser Rusk, "and 29 more
of the same brand in the Modesto
Club. We have about 100 club calves
in the county. The Virden Club show
will constitute the principal part of the
morning program of our Seventh An-
nual Farm Bureau Rally Day to be
held at Virden, Saturday, Oct. 22."

Macoupin recently celebrated its
Seventh Annual Soy Bean Day on C.
C. Coots' farm two miles southeast of
Modesto.

T W. WHISENAND, farm adviser in
" • Henry County announces that the
local Board of Review reduced land
valuations for tax purposes 12% per
cent in that county. The Henry
County Farm Bureau presented facts
and figures showing wide discrepancies
between assessed valuations of farm
and city property.

(Continued on page 7)

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John C. WaUon

Watson Warns Against

Higher Highway Taxes

Counties Now Have Power To Levy Four
Times As Much For County Road

Purposes As Formerly ■.••<■■•;

BY REASON of the passage of the
so-called Chicago bonding meas-
ures in the 55th General Assembly,
county boards of su-
pervisors and com-
missioners now have
power to levy four
times as much taxes
for county highway
purposes as before
the changing of the
statutes. This is the
information recently
forwarded to Illinois
County Farm Bu-
reaus by John C.
Watson, director of
taxation, in asking for information
relative to changes in such levies.

On the old basis of assessment, at
the maximum rates then fixed no
county board without a favorable vote
of the people could levy any amount
requiring a tax rate in excess of 25
cents on the $100 assessed valuation.

Due to changes in the law made by
the House Committee on Revenue in
the last legislature, county boards are
now limited only by the constitution
and may levy any amount not re-
quiring more than a 50 cent tax rate.
This rate if applied to full valuations,
which are double the former assessed
valuations, would quadruple the county
road tax. j. ■ •

Several Increases

Preliminary returns received from
counties in answer to a questionnaire,
indicate that there have been several
increases in road tax levies. Mr, Wat-
son will make a study of the situation
when all reports are in to determine
what use is being made by county
boards of the increased taxing power
granted, to raise taxes.

The purpose of the study is to giv|B
farmers latest information relative to
trends in taxation that they may use
their judgment in protesting or ac-
quiescing to such changes. Indications
are that most county boards will
merely cut the previous tax rate in
half thereby maintaining the levy at
the same level as in 1926, and former
years.

. In the view of the prospective re-
turn of gasoline tax funds to counties
after January 1, it is doubtful, if any
increases in road levies are necessary.
There is good reason why many such
levies should be reduced. , *»

President Earl C. Smith, Geo. F.

Tullock, and C. E. Bamborough are
serving as a committee of three to
make recommendations regarding the
selection of a secretary for the Associa-
tion.

'THE I. A. A. RECORD

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STATE CHAMPION LIVESTOCK JUDGES

Macon county's fat stock judging team above won first in the recent state contest held at the
University of Illinois for club members. Left to rig^ht are Farm Adviser K. H. Walworth, Dan
Shutter, Carroll Cassity, Lawrence Hockaday, and L. W. Shutter, coach.

The lad in the circle is Albert Dozier of the Sanganton county team who won high individual honors.

The group below is DeKalb county's crack dairy judging team showing Raymond C. Nelson,
assistant adviser and coach, Charles Lett, Ralph Nelson, and Thos. Robinson.

Donald Dean of the Bureau county team is the boy in the oval. He is the state champion dairy
judge. These boys will represent Illinois at coming national contests.

Government Crop

, Forecasts Upheld

(Continued from page 3)

in the dark until the product has
passed out of his hands. The estimates

five a valuable basis of judgment,
hose who operate on tl^e basis of this
information will on the average come
out far ahead of those who go it in
the dark.

Protect Govt. Forecasting

It is the duty of every farmer and
of every organized group of farmers
to do everything they can to protect
and not to destroy this invaluable
service without which the farmers
must work in the dark so far as their
own economic outlook is concerned.
The farmer's own eye will not reach.
It is necessary for the nation to pro-
vide an organization which will trans-
mit information to the farmer if he is
not to be left in ignorance while those
to whom he sells his products operate
in the light of privately collected in-
formation. Uncle Sam, through the
Bureau of Agricultural Economics of
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture is striving to perform this
ifunction.

_ How completely Uncle Sam can pro-
vide this service depends largely on
the extent to which he has the aid of
statesmen who wish to serve the na-

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tion as a whole. The organized farm-
ers of America must be alert to pro-
tect this "eye of the farmer" and keep
its economic vision clear and strong in
order that the image it transmits may
be a true reflection of the facts that
concern them. While struggling to
develop this service Secretary Wallace
said, "Farmers must organize and fight
for their rights," and he prophesied
that unless they do so the Department
of Agriculture will not be able to con-
tinue freely to collect and give out
economic information essential to the
independence of the farmers: in other
words, without the support of orga-
nized agriculture the "eye of the
farmer" will not be able to function.

The Jersey County Farm Bureau

introduced : a novel feature at its re-
cent picnit; when communities rather
than individuals competed in the var-
ious contests. Each community was
asked to furnish entries, and points
made were credited to the community
from which the contestant was enter-
ed. Ten different neighbors were rep-
resented. Contests included horseshoe
pitching, a slow Ford race, rolling pin
throwing, hog calling, chicken calling,
and others. The Voorhees community
won the 17 points and received a lov-
ing cup 2% feet high made of tin.

Working Together in

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(Continued from page 6)
to individual shippers are figured here
and returns made to shippers. Rich-
land County geogrraphy lends itself to
this ■ arrangement. This is a fairly
small county and Olney, the county
seat, at which point the Farm Bureau
office is located, is almost the exact
center of the county.

The outstanding features of the
Richland County Shipping Association
are: A 100 per cent Producer spirit
and the complete satisfaction of such
a policy, the intimate relationship be-
tween the Farm Bureau and the Ship-
ping Association, and. the diflPerential
between members and non-members of
the Association. Ailing Associations
in some sections might do well to re-
model their Associations after the
Richland plan<i

What the Couinties Are Doing

(Continued from page 6)

OG. BARRETT, farm adriser in
• Cook county, returned recently
from a trip through the cornborer in-
fested area of the east. Cook county
raises in the neighborhood of $1,000,-
060 worth of sweet corn annually and
because the oncoming borer threatens
sweet corn Cook county farmers feel
that they are faced with a serious
problem. The Cook County Board of
Commissioners recently made a very
liberal appropriation to the Farm Bu-
reau, largely because of the menace of
this threatening pest. '

Barrett traveled through Michigan
and badly infected area of Canada, go-
ing over the sweet com area in the
vicinity of Boston, and back through
New York and Ohio. "We can be
mighty thankful that the borer started
its work in an area of light corn
acreage," said Barrett. He is urging
Cook county farmers to use raw rock
phosphate and limestone preparatory
to seeding more alfalfa and sweet
clover.

Kewanee-Pekin High

Line Investigated

Farm Bureau and Commerce Commission
Officials Tour Over Proposed Route

Farm Bureau officials from Stark
and Peoria counties accompanied by
Engineer White of the Illinois Com-
merce Commission recently drove by
auto over the proposed route of the
Super-Power Co.'s high line between
Kewanee an<^ Pekin. L. J. Quasey,
transportation director represented the
Illinois Agricultural Association.

The object of the tour held Oct 7,
8 was to eliminate objectionable
features along the route so as to dam-
age a minimum of farm lands.

A meeting of Farm Bureau and
public utility representatives was held
in Peoria on Saturday to discuss con-
troversial matters connected with the
proposed line.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Accident Prevention Key

To Lower Insurance Rates

Illustrations to Show How Auto Smash-
ups May Be Avoided

"DELOW is presented the first of a
-L' series of pictures illustrating the
cause of the more common accidents
and the way in which they can be pre-
vented. Most accidents are prevent-
able. Man^ arg due to the lack of
knowledge olthe rules of the road and
the provifioi^ of State Laws govern-
ing the uaie^f motor vehicles on the
highways./ ',,■. I !^.% . •■ ■

These pictures illustrate the rule
that one should never attempt to pass
a car on a hill. In fact, do not try to
pass a car under any circumstances
unless you .-"have a clear and unob-
structed view of the road ahead for
a sufficleiit distance to allow you to
regain ^«r proper position on the
right hand side of the highway. Statis-
tics of insurance companies operating
in the Unjted States indicate that
more than S^ per cent of accidents
reported to thjS insurance companies
are collisions '^with another vehicle.

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Rules for Drivers

AN ARM protruding from the car
>-ahead means that the driver is:

1. Knocking ashes off his cigar-
ette.

2. Going to turn to the left.

3. Telling a small boy to shut
up; he won't buy any red pop.

4. Going to turn to the right.

5. Pointing out a scenic spot.

6. Going to back up.

7. Feeling for rain.

8. Telling his wife, "Hell, yes,
he's sure the kitchen door is
locked."

9. Saluting a passing motorist.
10. Going to stop.

The average cost per claim is $64. Thia
represents the damage to property
only, and does not take into considera-
tion the injury to the occupants of
either or both cars involved.

It is a great temptation when fol-
lowing another car up a hill to pass
the car ahead if it is traveling at a
slower speed than your own. This
temptation should be overcome under
all conditions. The illustrations shown
below indicate the right way and the
wrong way to drive up a hill.

Accident prevention can only be
accomplished by the serious co-opera-
tion of every automobile driverT

Seventy-five per cent of them are
avoidable. Carelessness in one of its
many forms' is responsible for nearly
every smashup. Give the man cross- .
ing your path from the right the right
of way. Always signal when stopping
or turning off the road. Don't go to
sleep while driving. If you are sleepy
pull off the road and rest a few min-
utes. Keep your mind on your driv-
ing. \ •;:"•;:.

Watch this space for further in-
formation on accident prevention.

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KEGORD

Issued Every Monl^ for 63,000 Thinking Farmers

Volume 5

NOVEMBER, W27

Number 11

/ Pledge Renewed At
j V ; St. Louis Conference

Plans Made To Carry On Equality Fight
In 70th Congress

|<4rpHERE will be an equali-

t A zation fee in the next

Congress or an equalization

fight in the next presidential

campaign."

I Farmers and farm leaders
from 20 states of the Com Belt
and South renewed their alle-
giance to this pledge at St.
Louis on Nov. 1-2.

I There were no signs of faltering,
no move to retreat from the goal al-

.most reached in the 69th Congress.
But there was a determination writ-
ten on the faces of those who came
to this assembly comparable to that
of the Continental Congress that
framed the Declaration of Independ-
ence. With almost religious fervor,
this united group decided to keep the
faith and carry on the fight for the
principles embodied in the McNary-
Haugen bill.

Gov. McMuIlen Keynotes ■'■

Governor Adam McMuUen of Ne-
braska, the keynote speaker, present-
ed forcefully the cause for which the
cotton and tobacco farmers of the
South and corn and wheat farmers of
the West have united. There was
nothing especially new in his address.
He called attention to the agricultural
problem and the need for aid. He
showed what had been done to help
other groups. He voiced the belief
that the equalization fee plan was the
best solution yet offered. He chal-
lenged the right of the administration
to proceed further in the industrializa-
tion of the nation at the expense of
agriculture. He rebuked leaders of
both parties for failing to fulfill the
party platform pledges. He reviewed
the history of the fight for surplus
control legislation. He scored Senator
Borah for his seeming duplicity. And
he advanced the idea that a determined
effort should be made to pass a suit-
able bill over the President's veto in
tiie next Congress if necessary.
(Continued on page 2, col. 2)

I. A. A. OFFICE CALLER

Sen. Chas. L. McNary

SENATOR CHARLES L. MC-
NARY, chairman of the Agri-
cultural Committee in the United
States Senate, called at the of-
fice of the Illinois Ai^ricultural
Association while on his way to
Washington recently.

Senator McNary says he will
stand pat on the vetoed McNary-
Haugen bill in the next Con-
gress. He sees no reason for
abandoning the principles of the
measure Mrhich the administra-
tion and powerful interests are
trying to discredit.

"There may be some slight
changes in the text or wording of
the bill," he said, "but I con-
template no alteration that will
change the essential principles
of the measure.** .. .

119 Attend St. Louis

Meeting From Illinois

41 Counties Represented, Including 16
Farm Bureau Presidents

One hundred and nineteen Illinois
Farm Bureau members and leaders
from forty-one counties registered at
the St. Louis Farm Conference on
Nov. J. and 2.

J. E. Harris, farm adviser in Mercer
county, led a delegation of eight. This
was the largest from any central or
northern Illinois county.

Every section of the state was rep-
resented but the proximity of the
meeting to southern Illinois counties
resulted in larger delegations from that
part of the statue.

Among the il9 delegates were 16
Farm Bureau presidents, 16 farm ad-
visers, ^\\ the officers and all men;ibers
of the I. A. A* executive committee ex-
cept three. \' '["■'■^\'-

The counties represented ' as shown
by registrations were as follows: Taze-
well, Christian, Mercer, Sangamon,
Madison, Marshall, Macoupin, Wabash,
Cook, Henry, Monroe, Montgomery,
Rock Island, Randolph, Washington,
Adams, Williamson, McLean, Knox,
Pike, Morgan, Mercer, Henderson,
Clay, LaSalle, Woodford, Kendall,
Jackson, Livingston, Pulaski, Clinton,"
Scott, Vermilion, Greene, DuPage, Ogle,
Mason, St. Clair, Logan, Effingham,
and Brown.

Bankers Find 22 Per i V "
;,! ' Cent Make Money

AN analysis of 700 replies received
on a questionnaire sent out to its
members by the Illinois Bankers Asso-
ciation reveals that 35 per cent of
their farmer customers are losing
money, 43 per cent are breaking even,
and only 22 per cent are making
money.

The bankers said that 53 per cent,
or more than half, of the farms in
their communities are operated by
tenants. Fewer than four out of 10
children bom on the farm are remain-
ing to .carry on the work of their par-
ents. Farmers were criticised by
bankers for owning high-priced autos,
trucks, tractors, especially when pur-
chased on deferred fiayment plans.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD i'

Erase Party Lines .
i And Work Together

West and South Resolve to Back Candi-
dates With Chance to Win Who
I Are Friendly to Agriculture

T^HE commoh economic and political
A interests of the Mid-West, South,
and West were recognized in seven
ironclad resolutions adopted at the St.
Louis Farm Conference on Nov. 1-2.
After endorsing the Declaration of
. Principles adopted at l^e conference
last year, the resolutions set forth the
surplxis-control policy embodied in the
McNary-Haugen bill demanding legis-
lation in the 70th Congress incorporat-
ing these principles. "The farm or-
ganizations here represented," stated
the second resolution, "serve notice
that they will accept no compromise
in principle that fails to provide the
measure of relief sought by the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill."

Opposition Cited

Sources of opposition were cited in-
cluding farm crop dealers, speculators,
' and industrial groups "that want cheap
foodstuffs regardless of what happens
to producers." The United States
Chamber of Commerce policy against
adequate farm legislation established
when Julius Barnes, foremost grain
exporter, was president was mentioned
as a typical example of a certain type
of organized opposition. The letter of
Andrew Mellon which
frankly stated that "equal-
ity for agriculture would
weaken the competitive po-
sition of American manu-
facturers in the field of
^foreign commerce," was
named. The attention of
labor was called to the
steady drift of farm work-
ers to the city.

Fair Administration

■ The need for a fair na-
tional administration re-
ceived special attention in
the last resolution. This
pledged the organizations
represented to work for
candidates friendly to agri-
culture who have a chance
to win for "it is very neces-
sary to realize that the
preservation of the farm-
ing industry is infinitely
more important than the
success of any political
party."

Borah Named

The motive of Borah of
Idaho who was ranked with
Senators Reed, Fess, and
Bruce on agricultural pol-
icy, was viewed with sus-
picion. His apparent as-
sumption to speak for a
group of Republican sen-
ators on presidential pol-
itics and farm legislation
was resented.

The broken platform

pledges of both Democratic and Repub-
iican parties were cited.

It was urged that the two vacan-
cies on the Committee on Agriculture
be filled by farm-minded men from
agricultural states, or else left without
representation.

Dr. Taylor Speaks

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Gov. McMullen's address set forth
clearly and completely the cause for
which its supporters had met. Most
of the other addresses were more or
less supplementary to his.

Banks Full of Money

An elderly, gray-haired man with
a wrinkled but kindly face named
George W. Donaghey, ex-governor of
Arkansas, called the meeting and pre-
sided throughout.

Mr. Donaghey is a banker at Little
Rock. He said that all the large banks
are full of money and looking for in-
vestment security, and the farmers
are clamoring for aid, but haven't
any security or collateral to offer.
"We're here to make easier the re-
turn of the farmer to normal pros-
perity," he said. "This is a business
man's as well as a farmer's problem.
We ought to have their cooperation.
Protection must be withdrawn from
all or protection must be extended to
all alike." He was applauded for that
statement.

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Dr. Henry C. Taylor of Northwest- V
ern University, formerly chief of the ,
Division of Agricultural Economics at ^
Washington, discussed the relation of
the tariff to agriculture and showed
how the tariff has become inoperative •;.
on farm products of which there was ■
a surplus.

He quoted a man named Sparks
who was the first to write on the na-
tional distribution of wealth. "Thirty
years ago," said Dr. Taylor, "Sparks
wrote that the next great struggle
would be between the country and the
city."

Col. Clarence Ousley of Dallas,
Texas, former assistant secretary of
agriculture under President Wilson,
scored the Jardine subsidy proposal.
He accused the administration of eco- .
nomic "color-blindness." "^he Presi- v
dent and his advisers can't see the dif-
ference between the lush-green color
of industry and the sickly blue of agrri- .
cultural loss and despair," he said.

South Needs Aid ^
Col. Ousley was vehement. He was
fervent. He spoke with sincerity. He
told of the washed hillsides and the
decaying cabins of the South. He re-
ferred to Wm. Jardine as Secretary
of the "Departure" of Agriculture. He
took a side-swipe at Henry Ford as a
glaring example of successful busi-
ness men and leaders in other fields

who seek to legislate for .
farmers and impose their
own impractical schemes
upon agriculture.

"We are not powerful
enough to overcome our
opponents in numbers,"
he said. "Our job is to ex-
ercise our balance of power
for the good of the industry
we represent." \ m

Endorse Equalization Fee

Senators Arthur Capper
of Kansas and Arthur Rob-
inson of Indiana ple(|ged
their support to the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill or one
similar to it, in the next
Congress.

Senator Robinson declared
that he believed an equal-
ization fee absolutely nec-
essary that 100 per cent
of the beneficiaries of the
surplus control movement
share the expenses in-
volved.

"I have been practicing
law for 18 years," he said,
"and in my judgment such
legislation will be declared
constitutional."

Other speakers were Col.
Stengle, editor of the Na-
tional Farm News, Dr. Tait
Butler, Cong. H. P. Ful-
mer, C. O. Moser, C. V.
Truax, and Judge Caverno.
Short messages were de-

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Boys' and girls' club work is taking

well in Greene county. "Girls* club
work seems to be easier to put over,"
says Farm Adviser Laible, "because
it is not so difficult to secure leaders
among the women as it is among the
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The Farm and. Home Bureau* of

Champaign county started operating
a Farmers' Market on Nov. 5, accord-
ing to Farm Adviser C. C, Burns. Space
for about twenty booths 6x10 ft. has
been provided. These booths may be
rented by individuals, by two people
in partnership, or by Farm Bureau
units. "We think a great deal of the
unit idea because it allows every Farm
and Home Bureau member to sell what-
ever he may have, no matter how small
an amount it may be," says Mr. Burns.
"It spreads the service to a wider num-
ber of members. The market will be
held on Saturdays and days before holi-
days only for the start. Later it may
be held more days of the week."

The Stark County Farm Bureau fed
473 members and their wives at a din-
ner served in connection with their an-
nual meeting. Fifty-three per cent
of the membership of Essex Township
was present at the meeting.

"The 800 Farm Bureau members who
participated in the refund are elated
over the earnings of their new oil
cooperative," says F. E. Fuller, farm
adviser of Marshall-Putnam. "Wm.
Koch of Varna had the largest divi-
dend, which was $69.56. Herman
Webber of La Prairie comes second
with $47.34; John Johnson leads in
Evans Township with $46.47; Griffith
Bros., McNabb, follow closely with
$46,18."

The McLean County Marketing As-
sociation, the newly formed produce
association of the Farm Bureau, open-
ed its first Co-op cream station, Fri.,
Oct. 21. The station is located at
Bloomington, and will handle cream
for members in that territory.

"The first solid train-load of lime-
stone operated in this county was
handled over the Illinois Central Rail-
road, Wed., Oct. 19," according to a
report from Harrison Fahrnkopf, farm
adviser. The McLean County Farm
Bureau was instrumental in working
up the orders for this train, which con-
tained 30 carloads. A number of the
cars were dumped near owners' farms
on the right-of-way between stations.

The Henderson County Farm Bur-
eau recently held one of its most suc-
cessful annual meetings. President
Earl C. Smith outlined the policies of

the Association regrarding state leg^is-
lative matters, particularly with refer-
ence to the gas tax, and income tax.
The farm relief situation was also dis-
cussed.

"A: 2850 pound ton litter produced
by Fred Houlette of Greenfield, 111.,
is a record which will probably not be
excelled in Greene county this year
by any officially entered in the Farm
Bureau Ton Litter Club," states R. J.
Laible, farm adviser. The crossbred
litter of thirteen pigfs tipped the scale
at 2850 pounds when the pigrs were
180 days old.

The litter was farrowed by a Duroc-
Jersey sow belonging to Fred Houlette.
Jim Phillippo bred the Poland China
boar that sired the heavyweights.

"We are busily engaged in organiz-
ing a produce marketing unit at Ma-
comb," writes R. C. Doneghue of Mc-
Donough 'county. "Our falks are
strong for this project when it is ex-
plained to them. We held a corn
shucking contest on Nov. 3 that
brought out 800 people."

Since July 1 the State Division of
Animal Industry reports a total ex-
penditure of $115,814.05 in T. B. cat-
tle indemnity claims paid and pending,
leaving a free balance of appropria-
tion of $1,884,186.95.

Between July 1 and Oct. 1 indemnity
claims aggregating $32,826.55 were
paid, total expenses incurred amounted
to $50,811.50, and claims pending on
2145 reactors at $15 per head (state's
share) were held at $32,175.

C. F. Dueringer of North Dix is the
newly elected president of the Ford
County Farm Bureau, F. W. Tieken of
Brenton was elected vice president, and
Charles E. Harper of South Dix, sec-
retary-treasurer. Mr. Dueringer is a
charter member, was on the first board
of directors of the organization, and
has served continually since its incep-
tion.

Every owner of a quarter section of
land m Piatt county will pay $11.20
less taxes next spring than he would
have paid, as a result of reductions in
assessed valuations brought about by
the Piatt County Farm Bureau.

The Farm Bureau secured a reduc-
tion of $10.06 per acre in valuations
for tax purposes. This reduction for
the whole county amounts to approxi-
mately $27,750 in direct taxes. Since
Piatt county has 253,686 acres of farm
lands, the saving on each 160 A.
amounts to more than $11.

Nearly all the landowners of Piatt
county are members of Farm Bureau.

The "Dewitt Clounty Fire Prevention

Plan" promises to become as famous
as the McLean County Swine Sanita-
tion System.

Dewitt county is blazing the trail
toward reducing the number of farm
fires by stopping them before they
start. A man has been appointed as
fire inspector in each township whose
duty it is to inspect the buildings of
every Farm Bureau member, point out
fire hazards, and make suggestions to-
ward fireproofing buildings, roofs, and
places where there is likelihood of dan-
ger.

A card record system is kept on each
farm. This card contains information
regarding lightning rods, roofs, chim-
neys and fiues, use of matches and
smoking, gas engines, stoves and fur-
naces, storage of gasoline, and recom-
mendations of the inspector.

Statistics tell us that 18 per cent
of farm fires are caused by lightning,
12 per cent by defective flues, seven
per cent by sparks on roofs, six per
cent by matches and smoking, and 4.69
per cent by spontaneous combustion.

22nd District Meets At

:^ ' Edwardsville Dec. 2

PRESIDENT Earl C. Smith of the
I. A. A. will address the 22nd dis-
trict conference to be hetd at Ed-
wardsville on Dec.
2. Representatives
from Madison,
St Clair, Monroe,
Bond and Wash-
ington counties
will participate in
the conference
where members of
this district will
have an opportun-
ity to hear about
the activities of
the Association,
and voice their own
opinions and recommendations on
past and future policy.

FVank Oexner of Waterloo, repre-
sentative from the district on the I.
A. A. executive committee, will preside.
"We want every member to feel
that the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion is his orgfanization," said Mr.
Oexner, "and that its policies are sub-
ject to his control. The voice of the
members is our guide in determining
what course to take on all activities."
Part of the program will be devoted
to a round table discussion when
members will have the privilege of
airing their opinions on legislative and
other policies of the Association.

Earl C. Smith

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CrLTVRAL ASSOCIA

RECORO

To adoancm the pwtrpoam for which thm farm bureau woaa organized,
namely to promote, protect and represent the bu*ine*$, economic,
eoeial and educational intereata of the farmera of Illinoia and the nation,
mnd to develop agriculture.

Published onoe a month at 404 North Wealey Ave., Mount MorriB, Illinois,
by the Illinois Acricultural Association. Edited by Department of Information,
E. G. Thiem, Director, 808 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois. Entered
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postage provided for in Section 412, Act of February 28, 1925, authori«ed
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OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith Detroit

^^tee-President, Frank D. Barton Cornell

TVCksurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington

. , : EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

(By Consressional Districts)

laC to 11th H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

12th G, F. Tullock, Rockford

13th C E. Baxnborough, Polo

14Ch W. H. Moody, Port Byron

15th A. M. Skinner, Yates City

16th A. R. Wright, Varna

17th Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

18th R. F. Karr, Iroquois

19th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th Charles Borgelt, Havana

21st Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

JXt%d Frank Oezner, Waterloo

23rd W. L. Cope, Salem

24ih Ch«rles Marshall, Belknap

2fth Fred Dietz, De Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Business Service Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing y A. D. Lynch

Farm Supply J. R- Bent

Flitance R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General Office J. H. Kelker

Information E. G. Thiem

Auto Insurance J. P. Gibson

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Lire Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller

OlVanixation G. E. Metzger

Field Service V. Vaniman

PoNsltry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

Tiifation and Statistics J. C. Watson

Transportation L. J. Quasey

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, A Parallel In Scotland \

N ARTICLE in The Scottish Farmer for October 8
says:

"Nobody cares a straw for the farmer. Those
who are in a position to help will not. The govern-
ment tells him to work harder. The public advises
him to spend less. Well-wishers tell him to have
patience and everything will come all right sooner
or later. But this is all talk and nothing else. The
time has come, however, when more than words
are necessary. Whether the farmer has been wise
or foolish makes no difference. The point is — agri-
culture needs assistance. No one cares a snuff
about individual farmers who fail, but the Nation
must and does care a good deal whether agriculture
as an industry fails. The Nation and the Govern-
ment will not believe the farmer when he says he
is down and out. The fact is — ^the Government
does not understand, and the public does not care.
They do not know the facts and conditions, and
they have no desire to learn the truth. We sug-
gest, therefore, that the only way to make such
people learn the truth is for farmers to go bank-
rupt en bloc. If this is the only way, they should
take it. It is an extreme step, but it takes a dras-
tic step to meet a drastic situation. Someone must
move, because if we do nothing the powers that be
will follow suit, and if we do something drastic so
will they."

Strangely enough, the words of the canny Scot who
wrote this analysis of conditions in Scotland, might well
be applied to American agriculture. We differ, however,
in the proposed remedy. Wholesale bankruptcies merely
destroy. They ruin the morale and faith of jthose engaged
in the industry. They promote land tenancy and the con-
centration of land ownership in the hands of the few.
The inevitable result of such a policy would be peasantry.
The American farmer will help himself if given equal op-
portunity and protection.

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INCE 1920, this country has been going through a
period of deflation, and farmers have been working
for the cities at very small pay," says Dr. G. F. Warren,
agricultural economist at Cornell University.

He points to the fact that in 1926 values of farm lands
in the United States averaged 24 per cent above pre-war
values or at 124 per cent, whereas industrial stocks were
149 per cent above pre-war, or at 249 per cent.

The farmer has been working in the role of the hired
man. But a most unusual hired man he is. He supplies
the capital for his business. He assumes the business risks
ordinarily borne by the employer. He plans, initiates, and
executes all his work without direction. He doesn't put
in eight hours a day. He labors 12 to 15 hours daily
through a large portion of the year. He provides his own
shop or office for which he must pay rent, or interest and
taxes. He supplies all his own tools and equipment. He
calls on his family daily for help, or hires a helper, or
both.

And in return what does he receive? His yearly pay
check may be large enough to pay the rent or taxes and
buy groceries. If he is fortunate it may do slightly more
than this. If otherwise he may go in the hole. A most
unusual hired man.

Our Great Job

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"T HAVE great faith in the American body politic
X when it is informed. But the public is not informed
on this question. Business men particularly do not under-
stand the farmers' problem nor the solution they offer to
remedy it."

Col. Clarence Ousley of Texas, former assistant secre-
tary of agriculture, made this sig^iificant statement before
the recent St. Louis conference. By doing so, he revealed
the greatest stumbling block to the American farmers' de-
mands for a raise.

Where there is ignorance and lack of information there
is likely to be prejudice. When a man isn't up on a thing,
he is usually down on it.

Agriculture has had difficulty in getting across its story
in a big way. Business and industry is wedded to the
psychologfy of optimism. The influence of the counting-
house is used to suppress truth through the press when
the truth seems unfavorable to business. The metropoli-
tan papers devoted page upon page to the President's veto
message on the McNary-Haugen bill. The reply to the
veto message, a much more ably written document, was
obscured in the Congressional Record.

An organized publicity campaign, ostensibly backed, by
eastern industrialists and unlimited capital, has been
waged to discredit the surplus-control movement. Agri-
culture has not the capital nor the organization to counter-
act this propaganda. Telling our story and getting it
across to the public in our towns and cities is our biggest
job. It will be so for years to come.

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^adiSliewS

Tune in on the I. A. A. 15 minutes program
hroadctist daily at li:SO P. M. from station
WJJD, Chicago (S65 meters). The facilities .of
station WJJD are loaned the Association
through the courtesy of the Loyal Order of
Moose, Mooseheart, lU. No program, on Satur-
days and Sundays.

, i "Electrifying The Farm" will be
the subject of a radio address by Paul
Kuhn, member of the Illinois Com-
merce Commission, in the near future.
Announcement will be made by radio
so members may tune in on this
address. J. > ^ >

t A brief report of the Chicago daily
livestock market furnished by the
Chicago Producers Commission Asso-

' elation has been initiated for the bene-
fit of those who fail to hear earlier
reports. This report is given prompt-
ly at 12 :30, Monday to Friday in-
clusive.

I During the week beginning Nov. 21,
the farmer's interest in fire and acci-
dent prevention will be given promin-
ence. O. M. AUyn, farm adviser in
Dewitt county will tell about the
Dewitt County Plan of Farm Fire Pre-
vention. On Tuesday, Nov. 22, W. A.
Rutledge of Des Moines, la. will dis-
cuss farm crop hail insurance and the
growth of this f6rm of protection, on
Nov. 23. J. P. Gibson will talk on
auto accident prevention on Friday,
Nov. 25.

The program for the week will 'be

■in charge of V. Vaniman who will de-
liver the opening address, Nov. 21 on
*'The Farmer's Interest in Insurance."
A special program will be broad-
cast on Thanksgiving Day.

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Farm Bureau officials from Stark and Peoria counties go over the proposed
high line route between Kewanee and Pekin for the purpose of aiding the
utility company in eliminating unnecessary damage to farm lands and in rep-
resenting the interests of the landowners involved.

At the left are O. L. Hatch, president, and E. E. Brown, farm jidviser, for
the Stark County Farm Bureau, inspecting a blue print with Engineer White
of the Illinois Commerce Commiuion and L. J. Quasey I. A. A* transportation
man.

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i Stock Show Coming

Reduced Rates OfiFered on All Illinois

Roads, 11,000 Horses, Cattle, Hogs,

and Sheep Booked

AN OPEN rate of fare and one-third
-^ for the round trip will be in ef-
-^ect on railroads from Illinois points
to Chicago during the International
Live Stock Exposition, on Nov. 26 to
Dec. 3.

I Manager B. H. Heide reports that
11,000 beef cattle, horses, swine, and
sheep, and 5,000 choice samples of 22
different kinds and varieties of grains,
seeds and hay will compete for inter-
national honors.

i Walter Biggar of Dalbeattie, Scot-
land, will judge the bullocks and se-
lect the grand-champion of the fat cat-
tle show. Lieut, Arnold Caddy of Aus-
tralia will make the official awards in
the Red Polled breeding classes.

Reduced railroad fares will be in ef-
fect on every road entering Chicago.
More than 40 national organizations
will hold their meetings in Chicago
during International week. ; !■

Indiana After 70,000

Members In 1928

THE Indiana Farm Bureau Federa-
tion has issued a call for 10,000
-Tolunteers to go out during the week
of Dec. 12 to 17 and sign their neigh-
bors in the organization.

The week will be known as "Volun-
teer Victory Week" the object of which
is to extend the Farm Bureau into
every district and swell the member-
ship roll to 70,000 by the end of 1928.

An effort is being made to interest
the rural churches on the Sunday pre-
ceding the drive to take cognizance of
the Farm Bureau. Information is be-
ing forwarded to all ministers in
country meeting-houses.

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PRODUCER HONOR ROLL

Henry County Man

Is Champion Husker

HENRY county carried off the hon-
ors in the State Com Husking
Contest, sponsored by Prairie Farmer,
which was held near Altona in Knox
county on Nov. 11.

Harold Holmes, member of the
Henry County Farm Bureau and win-
ner of the Henry county contest for
two years in succession, is the new
champion. He won with a record of
1989 lbs. of corn net which figured
28.41 bushels feathered in one hour
and 20 minutes.

Houston Franks, 20 years old, of
Whiteside county, placed second with
a record of 1825.5 lbs. net or 26.08
bushels. Tom Murphy of Rock Island
county was third with 25.95 bushels,
Hartwig Olson of Knox county fourth
with 1807.3 bushels, and Ernest Kling
of Lasalle county placed fifth.

Elmer Williams, former state and
Mid-West champion, finished in sixth

FOLLOWING are the names of ship-
ping association managers in the or-
der of their length of service who have
shipped every carload of livestock -to a
PRODUCER agency:

James R. Abbey, Golden Gate Assn.^
Wayne county, 5 years.

C. C. Johnson, Fairfield Assn.,
Wayne county, 5 years.

Henry Kiliian, Jr., A. & R. Assn.,
Champaign county, 5 years.

Harold Bradshaw, Albion Assn., Ed-
wards county, 5 years.

Fred. M, StoU, Beason Ass'n., Lo-
gan county, 4 years.

G. C. Clifton, Marion County Ass'n.,
4 years.

L. G. Orr, Cisne Ass'n., Wayne
county, 3 years.

Farm advisers, managers and mem-
bers are invited to send in names of
others who should be on this honor
roll. Write Ray E. Miller, director of
livestock marketing, Illinois Agricul-
tural Association, 608 So. Dearborn,
Chicago. Give the length of service,
total number of cars shipped, name of
association, etc^ ■ \

place. His arm which has given him
much trouble this season, became
numb during the contest, and almost
forced him out of the running.

The contest was ably managed by
the Knox County Farm Bureau. A
crowd estimated at 12,000, said to be
the largest that ever witnessed a corn
husking content in the Middle West,
was out for the day. Rain held off
until the husking was completed. It
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Farm Philosopher

Talks About Egypt

DeWitt C. Wing, Associate Editor, Breed-
er's Gazette, Discusses Farming
In Southern Illinois

(Following is Mr. Wing's interesting address
delivered recently, on the I. A. A. program over
radio station WJJD. Mr. Wing is one of Amer-
ica's foremost agricultural writers and philoso-
phers. He is owner of Skillet Fdrk Farm in
Wayne county. — Editor.)

'CX)R the first time in seven years Dan
A the foreman was conservatively opti-
mistic when I went over Skillet Fork

Farm with him a
week ago-. He was
almost cheerful.
This uncommon
condition filled me
with uneasiness
and suspicion. I
asked his wife if
she was sure that
he was well and in
his right mind. She
guessed that he
was about the
same as he'd al-
ways been. TJhe

De Witt C. Wing

only thing that she could think of at
the time which might have unduly
brightened his attitude toward the
farm's business standing and prospects
was that lightning struck the house on
a July night, and jarred him and her
out of bed. "Of course," she added,
"that electrical treatment might have
helped him some, bjit I doubt it."

Be that as it may, Dan has a new
vision or else he is "seeing things." He,
has changed the tone of his comments-
on farming in the past year. "Is the
farm going to pay its way and the
taxes this year?" I asked him. "It
will do considerably more than that,"
he answered. I then changed the sub-
ject, fearing ihat if it were further
pursued Dan would disclose some
"buts" that would take all the shine off
his first encouraging announcement. As
we grow in experience of life, we are
likely to learn that it is not always
profitable to spend most of our time
looking for niggers in woodpiles. If
we keep on sawing wood, maybe they
will slip out without our seeing them.

That ligTitning stroke aroused Dan's
interest in rodding the house. The
Building has been standing for more
than 30 years. It' was never struck
until this year. But for the fact that
a heavy downpour accompanied the
electrical storm, the house would have
been destroyed by fire on that wild
July night. One of the chimneys re-
ceived the charge. It cracked some of
the bricks, branched off and ran down
water pipes at each .corner of the
house, and tore off plaster and wall-
paper in several rooms. Some of us
sometinies are aided by lightning. A
friend of mine says -that anything is
good for us if it doesn't quite kill us.

Since 1920 some marked changes
and developments have occurred in
southern Illinois farming. Changes
equally noticeable probably have taken
place in most other agricultural com-
munities. Young people do not ob-
serve changes, unless they be sudden,
because their experience and memory

are short in pedigree. It is well for
us that .endless change should be a
law of nature. So far as I am con-
cerned, the world is a better place to
live' in than it was when I was a boy ;
although it still needs a lot of chang-
ing and improvement. I wonder just
how much of a hand each of us is
taking in bettering it, according to the
ideas of the best minds of the past and
present.

Limestone literally sweetens hu-
manity where it has soured on acid
soils. It seems to me that gooseberries
grown in our garden are gifted with a
little mor£ and a little sharper acid
than any that I have eaten g^reen else-
where. Maybe .that's imagination.
Well, it takes a pile of Cuban sugar
to S\veeten a gallon of ihis fruit for
a hunting-case pie. Also a gn^een per-
simmon in southern Illinois will pro-
duce a mouth pucker that is unique in
the history- of facial contortions.
Ground limestone has been applied to
many fields in- our neighborhood. Farm-
ers ane rtbt down and out who, de-
spite the waning depression, have the
will to buy limestone with which ttf re-
build their soils.

We economize and practice thrift
and go on because we must. Necessity
governs us, but the politicians take
credit for the job. We are constantly
urged to reduce production costs and
maintenance expenses. Having heard
a talk on this subject, a 250-pound
young woman in our county fasted
for 35 days, in order to reduce her
weight, lessen her maintenance ex-
pense, and discipline herself to be a
southerh Illinois farmer's wife. Her
sacrificial, beautifying experiment got
into the newspapers, and ten Scotch-
men, always interested in economics,
proposed to her. I have never seen a
fat Scotchman in Scotland or in south-
em Illinois.

Cows of dairy breeding are more nu-
merous in our area than they have
ever been in the past. That's a new
development that we welcome. It
means jour soils are going to' be im-
proved and little children- better fed.
Ten years ago sheep were scarce in
our county; now there are many farm
flocks in it. They are being improved
by the use of purebred mutton rams,
and their owners are learning how to
feed and manage sheep. Men who be-
gin in a small way, and learn to* do
things by doing them, are on the right
road .toward better stock and increased
net returns Sheep hus-
bandry, in competent hands, looks like
a sound farm business for years to
come in the United States. But no
one is qualified to make a success of
sheep-raising if he acts like a sheep,
for a sheep is so trustful, unselfish, and
narrow in its experience of a many-
sided world that it will follow false
leaders down to its own destruction.
An old Billy Goat is used at the Kansas
City stockyards to lead sheep to the
slaughtering house.

There are more large flocks of
poultry of fair to standard breeding
on more farms in southern Illinois than
have ever been seen there before.
Small, mongrel flocks, receiving little
or rno care, have practically disap-

peared from our landscape. Poultry
production has come to Jbe a consider-
able and well-established farm enter-
prise, to which farmers themselves are
giving special attention. Chicken
thieves also are keenly interested in it.
If most local officials were not both
lazy and cowardly, they would run
down, arrest and jail these nocturnal
crooks, who are chiefly young loafers
and wastrels in our villages and small
towns. If we have got to police our
own poultry yards and hoglots, we
shall be compelled to quit raising poul-
try. In fact, it seems to me highly
probably that poultry production is
going onto a volume basis in the hands
of large, well-equipped specialists, who
are better prepared than most farmers
to apply the principles of sanitation
and scientific nutrition to the business,
and to market eggs, baby chicks, broil-
ers, and capons to bettfer advantage.

We are selling purebred but unreg-
istered Hereford bull calves at wean-
ing iime for $50 a head at the farm.
Neighbors come for them in their
own or hired trucks. Heretofore
we have sold the same grade of calves
for $35 each. Buyers now are paying
cash, and some of them desire to buy
heifers that we won't sell. A new and
lively interest in beef cattle has mani-
fested itself in our region during the
past six months. Evidently our farm-
ers have been inspired by the reports
of big prices at the terminal markets.
Southern Illinois is mostly as well
adapted to the production of feeder
cattle as any zone in the United States.

The demand for work horses and
mules in our county is listless. A
shortage of both impends on many a
farm. The brayings of a neighbor's
jack have advertised him far and wide,
but only a few mares were bred to
the jack this year, and there isn't a
draft stallion in our township. I saw
a new small tractor at work in a neigh-
bor's wheat field the other day. We
have plenty of good horses and mules
on our farm, and plenty of cheap feed
with which to fuel them at work. If
a man likes to handle and work
horses, he can always prove to his own
satisfaction- that they are more . eco-
nomical than tractors; if he lilces to
monkey with machinery and drive a
tractor, he can always prove to his sat-
isfaction- that it pays him to do so. . . .

Two years ago our taxes were con-
siderably higher than they were last
year. For the reduction we have to
thank the Illinois Agricultural A.sso-
ciation, whose tax expert, John C.
Watson, has earned the gratitude of
every farmer in this state. It costs
us $15 a year to enjoy the benefits of
membership in our Wayne County
Farm Bureau, which makes a small an-
nual contribution to the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association. It is the best
investment that we have made in any
year. But a few of us are paying for
services which benefit others who don't
pay a cent for them. There are 3,000
farmers in our county; about 10 per
cent of them belong to our Farm
Bureau, through which all of the
others are getting something valuable
for nothing. How long should the 90
per cent ride a free horse? Probably
so long as it declines to buck.

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Pane F^even

,-Borgelt Tells Flood

^ Needs of 111. Valley

Appears Before Commission At Washing-
ton in Behalf of Illinois Farmers

A plea for the inclusion of the Illi-
nois Valley in any national flood
relief plan was presented to the Flood

Control Commis-

Chas. Borgelt

sion by C h a s.
Borgelt of Mason
county, r e p r e-
sentative for the
20th district on
the I. A. A. execu-
tive committee.

Mr. Borgelt is
probably the best
informed 1 a n d-
owner in the Illi-
nois valley regard-
ing flood -condi-
tions. He has
been prominently
identifled with his local drainage dis-
trict since its organization in 1900.
Beginning with 1902, he has kept rec-
ords pertaining to floods in the Illinois
bottoms. He was one of the first to
recogrnize the tremendous influence of
water diversions from Lake Michigan
on Illinois floods.

When asked by Chairman Frank
Reid why the Illinois Valley should be
included in the flood control program,
Borgelt replied: "Because we are
taking care of large quantities of
water resulting from reversing the
flow of the Chicago and Calumet
Rivers."

Mr. Borgelt presented figures show-
ing that the Illinois River water level
was raised at least three feet following
the change in the course of the Chi-
«cago River. He was the official
representative of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association at the hearing.

Noted Speakers At -.

j Coming A. F. B. F. Meet

MEMBERS of the I. A. A. who
attend the annual convention of
the American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion, Dec. 5-6-7, at the Sherman Hotel,
Chicago will hear such well known men
as General John J. Pershing, com-
mander of the A. E. F. in the World
War, Prof. Wm. E. Dodd, foremost
American historian of the University
of Chicago, Senator Royal S. Copeland
of New York, Congressman Lister Hill
of Alabama, former governor Nellie
T. Ross of Wyoming, Robt. T. Bass,
former governor of New Hampshire
and others.

The Federation is looking forward
to its greatest meeting. An agricul-
tural exposition will be held in con-
nection with the convention similar to
last year.

The meeting will open on Monday
morning with general reports of
officers. Ex-Gov. Ross will speak
Tuesday morning. Senator Copeland
will be the banquet speaker on Tues-
day night, and General Pershing is

scheduled to address the convention on
Wednesday morning, December 7.

Election of officers, and the report
of the Resolutions Committee will take
place Wednesday afternoon.

Presidents of nine state Farm Bu-
reau federations will talk 10 minutes
each on the outstanding accomplish-
ments of their organizations during
the past year. President Earl C.
Smith will be one of this group. T^

Telephone Co.'s Ask

For Raise In Rates

THE Cabery Telephone Co., recently
petitioned the Illinois Commerce
Commission for authority to increase
rural telephone rates. At the request
of the Ford County Farm Bureau, L.
J. Quasey attended the hearing when
it was discovered that the Telephone
Co. had failed to give legal notice
through the public press of its inten-
tion.

The commission, therefore, post-
poned the hearing until Nov. 10.

A similar petition was also brought
before the Commission the same day
by the Peoples Telephone Co. of Mer-
cer county.

A total of 20,991,333 motor vehicles were
registered in the United States in the first
six months of 1927.

NOVEMBER

By MAHLON LEONARD FISHER

HARK you such sound as
quivers? Kings will hear.
As kings have heard, and trem-
ble on their thrones;
The old will feel the weight of
mossy stones;
The young alone will laugh and

scoff at fear.
It is the tread of armies marching
near.
From scarlet lands to lands for-
ever pale;
It is a bugle dying down the gale;
It is the sudden gushing of a tear.
And it is hands that grope at
ghostly doors;
And romp of spirit children on

the pave;
It is the tender sighing of the
brave
Who fell, ah! long ago, in futile
wars;
It is such sound as death; and,

after all,
'Tis but the forest letting dead
leaves fall.

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Freeport Officials

Hope To Evade Law

Tax Commission Order For Increase In
Assessed Valuations Causes Upheaval

Freeport officials recently filed a
petition asking for a rehearing follow-
ing the order of the Illinois Tax Com-
mission directing
a reassessment of
property in the
Stephenson county
metropolis.

The order which
grew out of facts
and figures pre-
sented by the
Stephenson Coun-
ty Farm Bureau
and the Illinois
Agricultural Asso-
ciation was made
for the purpose of bringing about
equality in taxation between farm
lands and city property in that
county.

The records of sales revealed that
valuations in Freeport were 20 per
cent lower than farm lands, although
assessed valuations of lands were no
higher than those in other counties.

The order resulted in an upheaval
of interest and sentiment pro and con
on tax matters, j v ;;1 ■ ■'.."* ■;

Comment reported in the Freeport
Journal ^ Standard which devoted
column after column to the tax situa-
tion, was varied. One bank president
charticterized the order as "a fraud
and a conspiracy," but other business
men took a more rational view.

"No doubt the tax commission was
correct in finding gross inequalities ifHk^
the" taxation of real estate in Yre^
port," said F. E. Furst, president of
a local manufacturing concern.

"Reassessments have been ordered
in other counties," said H. A. Hillmer,
local grain and coal merchant, "and
I believe if the valuations and assess-
ments have not been fair they should
be corrected. I think the farmer has
proven that his taxes should be low-
ered."

John C. Watson, tax director for the
I. A. A., presented figures showing that
to place farm lands on the same level
as city property would require an
average cut of 24.78 per cent in farm
valuations or an average increase of
32.94 per cent on town and city lots.
These figures were griven to the
Board of Review, but no action was
taken to alleviate the condition. The
Farm Bureau was forced to appeal to
the State Tax Commission.

L. M. Swanzey, Theo. Ellis, Thomas
Niblo, James Daws, Harry Snyder,
Ray Folgate, G. A. Mitchell, Frank
Fleuchtling, and M, F. Koltman repre-
sented the Farm Bureau, and Donald
Kirkpatrick and John Watson the I. A.
A. before the Commission.

Southern Illinois fruit and vegetable grow-
ers will hold a meeting at Harrisburg; Nov.
21-23. The annual meeting of the Illinois
Horticultural Society is scheduled for Dec
14. 15, 16 at Urbana. \ ,.

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OTHER OPINIONS

The Illinois Farmer

THE members of the Illinois Bank-
ers' association do not conduct
their business by guesswork and hear-
say, and when the association inves-
tigates the condition of agriculture in
this state its findings may be accepted
as reliable. Seven hundred out of 1,-"
700 member banks have replied fo
the association's questionnaire. These,
banks provide the money which keeps
the farmers going. They know when
farming thrives and when it languishes.
An analysis of their reports on con-
ditions shows that 35 per cent of their
farmer customers are losing money, 43
per cent are just making ends meet,
and only 22 per cent, or about one in
five, are making money. And this in
Illinois, one of the finest agricultural
areas in America!

And Illinois is not alone. Every
week brings tales of the desperate
plight of the farmer everywhere. The
farm conference in St. Louis yesterday
echoed the familiar and wholly reason-
able complaint, and reiterated its de-
mand for relief on the McNary-Haugen
plan which President Coolidge, pre-
sumably with the advice and assistance
of Secretary Hoover, bludgeoned un-
mercifully in his veto.

•The man who is next elected presi-
dent of this nation will be one with a
convincing plan for farm relief. None
other can be elected, or should be. —
Chicago Evening Journal.

Makes $40 Head Thru

Shipping Association

Crawford County Woman Profits By
Selling Cattle the Cooperative Way

FORTY DOLLARS a head on four
steers is the net gain realized re-
cently by a CiHwford county woman
who turned down the offer of a local
buyer and shipped through the Oblong
local of the Crawford-Jasper Livestock
Shipping Association.

When an offer of 8c a pound was
made on the three choice beefy bul-
locks and one well finished Holstein,
the owner decided to try the shipping
association.

They were shipped to the Indian-
apolis Producers where three of them
sold for $11.85 and the Holstein for
$10.25 a hundred. A heifer in the
consignment netted $8 more than the
offer of the local buyer.

"This is the first time I shipped
through the Association," said the
owner, "but hereafter all my livestock
will be marketed the cooperative way."

The Washington County Farm Bureau an-
nounces the following officers for the coming;
year: President, J. R. Hood, vice-president,
Geo. J. Hake, secretary-treasurer, F. J.
Schleifer. Officers and directors were chosen
at the annual meeting on Nov. 9. Mr. Hood
and Mr. Hake are serving their third terms.

Addresses Students

I Cornell University

tt'T'HE Farmers' Elevator," and "Ac-
•*• counting and Auditing for Co-
operatives" were the subjects of two
addresses made by
George R. Wicker,
director of business
service for the lUi-
I n 0 i s Agricultural
Association to stu-
dents in the market-
ing course at Cor-
nell Un i V e r s i t y,
Ithaca, N. Y., re-
cently.

In addition to his
experience in audit-
ing elevator ac-
counts, Mr. Wicker
was a member of
three such organizations and a director
for more than 20 years.

After reviewing the history of the
farmers' elevator movement, Mr.
Wicker discussed elevator problems,
successful practices, and pitfalls which
the better managed organizations
avoid.

In his address on accounting, he told
about the development of the Illinois
Agricultural Cooperatives Association
and how its work is strengthening the
cooperaitive movement in Illinois.

Geo. R. Wicker

Grow More Beans

"The large imports and increasing
utilization of the soybean crop call for
an expansion of soybean production in
our own country," declared W. J.
Morse of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
recently. "This crop is a branch of
agriculture in which the national sup-
ply does not meet the demand," he
said.

According to Morse, the industry in
the U. S. is in its infancy and although
soybeans are used primai ily for forage,
our oil mills offer an opportunity for
a greater production of r>eed.

Two thousand varieties of Chinese
soybean seed are being tried out by
the Government with promibing results.

Small qtiantities of catnip oil are used as
a lur« for trapping mountain lions and bob-*
cats l)|r the U. S. Biological Survey. To ob-*
tain this oil catnip plant has been grown on
a small plot of land on the fur animal experi-
ment station maintained by the Survey at
Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Catnip oil is valued
at (100 an ounce. Forty-eight ounces of
crude oil were obtained from three-fourths
'of an acre.

Henry County Man

Is Champion Husker

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was necessary to deduct five per cent
from the weight of the husks on sev-
eral of the last loads however to al-
low for 'the extra moisture.

Fifteen contestants competed.
Prizes of $100, $50 and $25 were
awarded the winners by Prairie
Farmer. Holmes will represent Illi-
nois injthe Mid-West contest at Win-
nebago,, Minnesota, on Nov. 15.

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Resolutions Adopted at Ninth Annual Meeting, American tarm
Bureau Federation, Chicago, December 7, 1927

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Reaffirmation

WE HEREBY approve, without re-
iteration, the principles and poli-
icies which have been set forth at
length in the resolutions of our former
annual meetings. Therefore, for sake
of brevity reference is hereby made to
all such resolutions and unless re-
pealed or inconsistent herewith, the
same are declared to be in full force
and effect.

A National Agricultural policy

We appreciate the actions of the
Sixty-Ninth Congress, which, in a non-
partisan manner, passed the Surplus
Control Bill. If put into operation this
measure would have marked the begin-
ning of a sound economic agricultural
policy in our nation.

Commodity marketing and surplus
control are inseparable. Co-oper«$ivef
orgranizations, however, cannot bear the
load unaided. Under certain condi-
tions in order that operations may be
successful, the entire commodity mar-

' keted and not the member producers
alone, must by the applications of the
equalization fee principle meet the re-

' qulrement that each marketed unit
shall pay its share in the cost of its
own stabilization and protection.

We insist that legislation which con-
tains the principles embodied in the
McNary-Haugen bill with such improve-
ments as experience and good judg-
ment may suggest shall again be passed
by Congress.

■ Muscle Shoals

We reaffirm our support of the prin-
ciples now contained in the Madden
Bill, H. R. 16614, of the Sixty-Ninth
Congress. . ■ '

Equalizing Domestic and Foreign Costs
of Production.

We urge such increases in import
duties as are possible to be secured un-
der the flexible provisions of the Tariff
Act upon various agricultural products
whose costs of production can be shown
to exceed foreign costs. We recom-
mend that the flexible provision be
changed so that the United States
Tariff Commission can be in position
more efficiently to serve agriculture in
the cases before it. We insist there
should be no import duty on plant
food constituents. We commend the
I Tariff Commission for its studious at-
tention to and fair <:onsideration of the
agricultural cases recently decided and
now pending. The duty on hairy
Vetch seed should be removed.

Foreign products which can be used,
either in the raw state or as processed
material in place of, or as substitutes
for, home-grown agricultural products
should carry the highest possible rates
of import duty.

Sam H. Tbompson.

"Our Sam" was re>elected to the
presidency without opposition at the
Ninth Annual Meeting of the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation, Chicago,
Dec. 5-6)-7. It was a harmonious meet-
ing and drew a largc^^ attendance than
any previous annual convention. Ed.
A. O'Neil of Ahabama was re-elected
vice-president. Three new directors,
one each from Maryland, Washington
and New York, were chosen.

Taxatioi^ *

Debt reduction should '• precede tax
reduction. Exemptions and repeated
modifications of the national tax struc-
ture are undesirable. The basis of
federal taxation should be ability to
pay. We recommend reciprocity be-
tween the states in matters of estate
and inheritance taxation. Estate taxes
should be retained permanently. It is
unnecessary to reduce corporation
taxes in this period of national in-
dustrial prosperity. Federal taxes on
automobiles should be eliminated.

We recommend the outline of state
taxation. Resolution No. 28, adopted
last year at our annual meeting.

Service To Organized Agriculture

It is gratifying to observe that a
number of national cooperative market-
ing organizations are negotiating with
the American Farm Bureau Federation
regarding the subject of expert and
professional service fcrr cooperative as-
sociations on a basis of reasonable com-
pensation to be provided through & con-
tractual relation. We heartily com-

mend this proposal and direct our ex-
ecutive offices to proceed as rapidly
in the development of such a service
as will be consistent with safety. T

An effective flood control prograin, ''
to be national in effect, should con-
tain the following features:

(a) Levees as the first line of de-
fense ;

(b) Diversion channels to give more
flowage capacity in the lower reg^ions .
of the Mississippi River;

(c) Parallel channels to give more
flowage capacity above the diversion
channels ;

(d) Surveys of tributary streams
to ascertain how to secure navigation,
power development and flood control
in one effort;

(e) Reservoirs, to be located on
tributary streams, following the com-
pletion of surveys;

(f) Reforestation. i ft .

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We rely upon the corps of army en-
grineers to carry into effect the tech-
nical details of the above program,
and all expenses of the above plan to
be borne by the Federal Government.

Transportation

Transportation to argiculture as-
sumes national, and even international,
aspects. We advocate among others
the following plans to prevent losses
to agriculture by the payment of ex-
cessive transportation costs:

(a) An American Merchants Mar-
ine of permanent character, under the
authority of the United States Shipping^
Board;

(b) Readjustment of freight rates
on the basis of the Hoch-Smith Reso-
lution;

(c) The development of the Great
Lakes-St. Lawrence tidewater channel
and an early completion of treaty ne-
gotiations between the United States
and Canada; | ' t ll V

(d) The rapid completion of the
Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio-Illinois river
system ; -.

(e) Surveys and transportation de-
velopments on other main streams;

(f ) Legislation to provide that toll

bridges on our national highways shall

revert to the government, when tolls

have amortized cost and interest.

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Agricultural appropriations

We request sufficient federal funds
for agriculture. We especially urge
adequate appropriations for the fol-
lowing projects:

(a) Extensions work in agricul-
ture, home economics, and boys' and
girls' club work;

(b) Continuation of T. B. eradi-
cation;

(c) Quarantine and control of com
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PASSES BEYOND

Ckarles R. Pinley

ALL Illinois mourned the sudden
^passing of Charles R. Finley, who
died from an unexpected heart attack
on Saturday morning, Nov. 26, at his
home in Hoopeston.

Mr. Finley rose to prominence in
Illinois agriculture shortly after the
re-organization of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association at Peoria in 1919.
He was one of the group that pledged
$300 each to see the Association
through the strenuous days of reforma-
tion when it became established as the
greatest state agricultural organiza-
tion in the country. »

Previous to that time, Mr. Finley
led in org^anizing the Vermilion County
Farm Bureau which he served as presi-
dent for six years. In 1921 he was
elected to represent the eighteenth
congressional district on the Executive
Committee of the Illinois Agricultural
Association. He was re-elected in
1922 and 1923, and in 1926 was elect-
ed vice-president of the Association in
the annual meeting at Champaig^i.

He assumed an important role in
the activities of the Association and
served on the Finance Committee dur-
ing his incumbency.

Mr. Finley was born at Rossville on
September 6, 1857 and spent his en-
tire life in Vermilion county. After
graduating from the Hoopeston High
School in 1886, he entered the Na-
tional Normal School at Lebanon,
Ohio. After graduating from that in-
stitution, he returned to Vermilion
county and taught school for several
years before he married and started
farming. His good judgment and abil-
ity was early recognized in his home
community where he became a director
and later president of the Grant Town-
ship Mutual Fire Insurance Co., which
position he held until his death.

Mr. Finley gave his life toward de-
veloping and improving the 400 acre
Meadowbrook Farm south of Hoopes-
ton where he lived until last spring,
when he moved to town. He was a
leading proponent of Dr. Hopkins' sys-

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tem of permanent soil fertility. Nom-
inated as a Master Farmer last spring,
Mr. Finley placed third high in the
state but was declared ineligible be-
cause he moved off the farm shortly
before being scored.

Locally, he was active in the Meth-
odist Church, in the Masonic order at
Hoopeston, at Danville, and in other
social and fraternal groups.

Mr. Finley was well known through-
out the state because of his long as-
sociation as a director and officer in
the I. A. A. News of his passing came
as a shock to his associates at head-
quarters of the Association where he
had vifeited only a week before his un-
timely death. His quiet, good-natured
conservatism and unfailing good hu-
mor made him popular and highly re-
spected. He was recognized as* an ag-
gressive farm leader of the finest type.
H\s interest in the affairs of organized
agriculture and the Association con-
tinued until the last.

The Association sent flowers in token
of its sorrow and respect. Frank D.
Barton, vice-president, represented the
organization at his funeral held on
Nov. 30 at Hoopeston. j •

At the regular meeting of the Execu-
tive Committee Dec. 9 the following
resolution was adopted and forwarded
to Mrs. Finley, Margaret A. Finley,
his daughter, and Marion R. and Watts
Finley, his two sons:

WHEREAS: It has been the will of
Almighty God, who in his providence
does all things well, to remove from
earthly activities Chas. R. Finley ofi
Hoopeston, Illinois, former Executive
Committeeman of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association from the Eighteenth
District during the years 1921, 1922
and 1923, and Vice-President of the
Illinois Agricultural Association dur-
ing the year 1926, a trusted leader, a
friend of those in need, an exemplary
citizen, a staunch* friend of the farmer
and of every effort put forth for the
raising of the standard of living on the
farm. •'. -^ : V'-^v.-- \-- : ■ f '

gE IT RESOLVED: That we, the
Executive Committee and officers of
the Illinois Agricultural Association, in
regular session assembled on this 9th
day of December, 1927, do hereby
testify our sincere respect for him and
that we express our deep sympathy to
the family of the deceased in their af-
fliction and mourn with them the loss
of one whose friendship we prize and
whose life was replete with many good,
kind deeds.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED:
That these resolutions be made a part
of the records of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association and that a copy of
the same be mailed lo the family of
the deceased.

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-- ■ j Tax Hearing Dec. 13

I. A. A. and Farm Bureau Figures Show
Discrepancy in Tax Valuations

RB. Endicott, ^A. J. Shoenborn,
• John C. Watson, and Donald
Kirkpatrick represented the Pulaski

County Farm Bu-
reau and the IIU-
nois Agricultural
Association rer
spectively in a
hearing before the.
Illinois Tax Com->
mission on Tues- ,
day, Dec. 13, re-
garding tax in-
equalities in Pul-
aski county.

Representing the
taxing districts of •
the county were
the county clerk,
the county judge,
and a local attorney. The hearing
was called in behalf of equalizing tax
valuations between various classes of
property and taxing districts.

Tests of valuations made by Mr.
Watson over a period of 15 months
beginning Jan. 1, 1926, revealed that
there was a marked lack of uniformity
in assessed valuations. Farm lands it
was shown were assessed on the aver-
age about 18 per cent higher than
the average of city lots and other real
estate in the municipalities of the
county. In Mound City, however, the
records revealed that valuations were
higher even than farm lands.

County Officials Willins

The county officials on the basis of,
a study of more recent sales, refi^sed
to admit the inequalities charged.
They expressed their willingness to
comply with the law and make any
adjustments which seemed necessary
according to the facts. They were
fearful of making any changes be-
cause of the expense involved, and the
extremely low total valuations in the
county.

The Commission requested that the
I. A. A. and Farm Bureau represen-
tatives meet with the county officials
without delay and go over the records
of sales and assessments in an effort to
agree on the needed adjustments. f[

Watson's figures which were com-
piled from all usable records of sales
from Jan. 1, 1926, to April 1, 1927.
showed that farm lands were assessed
at 52.12 per cent of their fair cash
value whereas in the municipalities as
a whole the assessed valuations aver-
aged only about 42.50 per cent of
their fair selling values. ^'t , ;

The U. S. Bureau of Mines recently let

a contract for drilling its fifth potash test
well. The location of the well is on Harris
Bros, ranch in Crockett county. Texas.

Drilling will be done with cable tools to
the top of the potash-bearing salts, a depth
of approximately 1,190 feet. After the salU
are encountered, the diamond drill will be em-
ployed. The well will be sunk to a total
depth of about 2.M0 feet.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

13th ANNUAL MEETING, ROC

Notice of Annual Meeting

and

Election of Directors

The annual meetinsf of th»
members of Illinois Agricultural
Mutual Insurance Company will
be held in the Ballroom of the
Fort Armsteb^g Hotel in the City
of Rock Island, Illinois, on the
18th day of January, 1928, at
one o'clock P. M., to hear the re-
port of the Board of Directors
for the fiscal ■ year of the com-
pany ending December 31, 1927;
and to elect nineteen (19) direc-
tors to serve^^for one year and to
attend to siicb other business as
may properly come before the
meeting.

I President.

President Smith To

I Report To Members

'[T^E annual address of the president
tl to the membership on the state of
the organization will
be made on Thurs-
day morning, Jan.
19, in the -general
session to be held in
the Ft. Armstrong
Theatre.

President Earl
Smith will discl.ose
and review at that
time the problems
of the Association
and its accomplish-
ments during 1927.

During the year,
the Association
added approximately 4,000 members
although only a comparatively small
number of counties held organization
campaigns. Details will be given with
reference to the new projects launched
during the year, and a thorough ex-
planation will be given of policies on
such public matters as tax equalization
and legislation. I

Earl C. Smith

Auto Insurance Company
' Holds First Annual Meet

&:>ard of Directors To Report To Policy
Holders

THE first annual meeting of the Ill-
inois Agricultural Mutual Insurance
Co. is scheduled for 1 :00 p. m. Wednes-
day, January 18, 1928 in the ballroom
of the Ft. Armstrong Hotel, Rock Is-
land.

Each member of ^he Company is en-
titled to one vote ^to be cast at the

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9:00 A. M.

Tentative Program I. A. A.
Annual Meeting, Jan. 19-20

THURSDAY, JAN. 19 ■ " •■ ; '

Ft. Armstrong Theatre

Call to order . .. . v

Invocation

Address of Welcome, Mayor of Rock

Island
President's Address --..-'

Treasurer's Report V "-

Appointment of Committees : , -

Sectional Conferences • t

Organization and Information
Public Relations ■.■;■'

Business Service •
Marketing

Home and Community (in charge of Illi-
nois Home Bureau Federation)
District Caucuses (eveij-numbered Con-
gressional Districts)
General Business Session (odd-num-
bered Congressional Districts)
Annual Banquet "

Speakers, President Sam H. Thomp-
son of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, and others.

Election of Officers

Election of Executive Committeemen

FRIDAY, JAN. 20
Ft. Armstrong Theatre

9:00 A. M. Reports from Sectional Conferences

Reading of Resolutions '
10:3* A. M. Address by George O. Fairweather,
Chicago, Vice-Chairman ,

Joint Commission on Real Estate Valua-
tion for Cook County, Illinois

1 :00 P. M. Annual Luncheon

Introduction of Invited Guests
Address by Hon. Adam McMullen,
Governor of Nebraska

Adoption of Resolutions . ■

Business Session of Delegates

1 :00 P. M.

1 :00 P. M.
4:30 P. M.

6:30 P. M.

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HOTEL FT. ARMSTRONG, RO
HEADQUARTERS FOR I
ANNUAL MEETING

annual meeting, and 500 members pres-
ent in person or by proxy shall con-
stitute a quorum. The by-laws of the
Company provide for a board of di-
rectors of 19 members elected an-
nually who must receive a majority
of the votes cast. The directors hold
office for one year and until their suc-
cessors are chosen. The directors se-
lect their own officers* and choose an
executive committee composed of the
president, secretary, treasurer, and
two other members of the Board.

The Illinois Agricultural Mutual In-
surance Co. started operations on April
1, 1927. In the first eight months
closing Nov. 30, the Company had 6270
policy holders, and total applications
for policies aggregating 6326.

The first assessments to policy hold-
ers revealed that protection was given
at a lower cost for like insurance, than
is offered by any company operating
in the state.

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; Fully Discussed

■pETTER marketinig of farm prod-
■L'ucts through cooperative marketing
associations and cooperation with pres-
ent agencies when advisable will be
the subject of a full afternoon's dis-
cussion during the I. A. A. annual
meeting on Thursday, Jan. 19, at Rock
Island.

Every phase of the cooperative mar-
keting question will -be taken up in or-
der according to commodities. The
first order of business when the con-
ference convenes at 1 :00 p. m. will be
dairy marketing. Next in order will
come produce marketing, fruit and
vegetable, grain, and livestock market-
ing, and finally a general discussion in
which any and every phase of the I.
A. A. marketing program will con\e
up for consideration. • | ??

Sam Sorrells," chairman of thp ad-

The L A. A.
Annual
Meeting
will be
broadcast
from Sta-
tion woe,

Davenport.

Attend the
meeting if
you possibly
can but if
you can't
TUNE IN.

The dates

are: Jan.

19-20, 1928.

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OCK ISLAND, JAN. 19-20, 1928

STRONG, ROCK ISLAND,
RTERSFORLA. A. V '
JAL MEETING

he I. A. A.

Annual
Meeting

will be
broadcast
rom Sta-
ion woe,
>avenport.

ittend the
neeting if
)u possibly
:an but if
you can*t
^UNE IN.

e dates
re: Jan.
-20, 1928.

Tentative Program, Meetings of Al-
lied Organizations, Wed., Jan. 18

9:00A.M. ANNUAL MEEUNG OF ILLINOIS FARM
BUREAU B\SEBaLL LEAGUE (ROOM K.
, FT^ ARMSTRONG HOTEL)

./ Call to order by President Cline

A Reading of Minutes •-.<- ;■. • *

Secretary-Treasurer's Report ; '■

Appointment of Committees :,-^'' '

Discussion of Rules and Plans for 1928
Reports of Committees
Election of Officers

lOKWA. M. ANNUAL MEE'Hn^G OP ILLINOIS FARM

BUREAU SLRUM ASSOCIATION (ELKS
CLUB)

CJall to order by President Coble •%..-'

Reading of Minutes
Secretary-Treasurer's Report
<■ . Appointment of Committees (Credentials, Resolu-

■ '■.•■' tions) •-.•■■ __ .•+:.■■..■■■•".' :-\".' t. .'•■■'■: ■'■■■.

10:30 A. M. Address, "Studies in Baby Pl2 Vaccination"

Dr. Robert Graham, University of Illinois
Discussion— Dr. Jas. McDonald, U. S. Dept.
of A^culture, In Charge Hog Cholera Con-
trol Work in lUinois
Discussion — S. J. Stanard, Director, State
Dept. of Agriculture ^
Lunch ' -

Report, Credentials Committee
Business Session

Report, Resolutions Committee and Election of
Officers

ANNUAL MEETING OF ILLINOIS AGRI-
CULTURAL MUTUAL INSURANCE CO.
(BALL ROOM, FT. ARMSTRONG HOTEL)

President's Address ;

Report of Treasurer ■ ■:'•».'' ■' »

Report of Manager

Appointment of Committees

General Discussion of Company Matter*

Reports of Committees • . ■ ;, .

Election of Directors V ' '"

1:00 P.M. ANNUM. MEETING OF ILLINOIS AGRI-
CULTURAL CX)OPERATIVES ASSOCIA-
TION (BALL ROOM. NEW HARPER
HOTEL) . '

. ■-■: Call to order by President Potter

Appointment of (Committees

Reading of Minutes ■>

j- Reports of Secretary, Treasurer^ and Manager

Discussion

(a) Natural fiscal years

■ (b) Uniform accounting systems ■- . -%- -

(c) Control of credits

Reports of Committees

Election of Ofikers

12:00
1:00 P. M.

2:30 P. M.

1:00 F.M.

visory committee on marketing, will
preside and lead tha discussion on
grain marketing. He will introduce
the various marketing specialists from
the University of Illinois at the proper
time during the program. Every coun-
ty should be represented in each of
the sectional conferences.

Serum Men To Hear ^
A ■ ff Well Known Speaker

Farm Bureau Serum Association Annual
Meeting Wednesday Morning, Jan. 18

CONTROLLING hog cholera will be
the central theme of discussion
when the counties holding membership
in the Illinois Farm Bureau Serum
Association meet for their annual
gathering at Rock Island on Jan. 18.
The meeting is scheduled for Wed-
nesday morning in the Elks Club at
10:00 a. m. Following the usual pre-
iminary talks and reports. Dr. Robert

Graham of the University of Illinois,
will tell what his recent studies in baby
pig vaccination have revealed. Later
Dr. Jas. McDonald of the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture will lead a discus-
sion on hog cholera control.

During the current year, the Serum
Association composed of 61 member
counties contracted for 35,875,000 c.c.
of anti-hog cholera serum at a saving
estimated at a quarter of a million dol-
lars over former costs. i

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'^ ; Mecca For Yearly Trek ..

Proximity To Iowa To "Dtaw Many
Visitors From Hawkeye State

FOR the first time in history the an-
nual meeting of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association which is recog-
nized as the most representative yearly
gathering of Illinois farmers will be
held in extreme' Western Illinois on
the Mississippi River, where the west
begins and the tall com is alleged ta
grow.

It will be the thirteenth annual as-
sembly of the organization which had
its birth back in 1916 when a small
group of Farm Bureau representatives
met in the Old Agricultural Bafldi^ig
at the University of Illinois and dis-
cussed the possibilities of federating
the small group of county organiza-
tions then in existence. Many of the
county units in those days were known
as soil improvement associations and as
theft- name implied devoted all their
activities to the field of production.

> Needed Strong Orraniuttion

The development of the Farm Biv-
eau \*'ith its subsequent evolution into
the field of business and marketing is
well known. The L A. A. grew out of a
long recognized need for a strong, rep-
resentative organization that would
represent farmers in all their inter-
ests including production, economic,
social, business, and political interests.

The program this year will adhere
closely to the general policy of the
organization to give every member the
utmost opportunity to be heard in pub-
lic "meeting. Thursday afternoon, Jan-
uary 19, will be devoted entirely to
four group conferences, to be held
simultaneously. , Each member will
have his choice of attending any One
of the four.'" I : 1

The sections Will be divided as fol-
lows; Organization and Information,
Business Service, Public Relations,
and Marketing. The places for hold-
ing these conferences will be announc- .
ed in due time, f j
' The general assembly of all dele-
gates and visitors will be held in the
Ft. Armstrong Theatre but the lesser
meetings will take place elsewhere,
as designated in the tentative program
presented in this issue.

A surprise will await the delegates
and visitors at the annual luncheon
on Friday when prominent representa-
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Committees Chosen

For Annual Meeting chas. W. Borgelt, -Chas. Marshall,
T^HE personnel of the resolutions, Frank Oexner. \ I

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J- constitutional amendment, and cre-
dentials committees were chosen at the
monthly meeting of the I. A. A. Ex-
ecutive Committee on Friday, Dec. 9.
The resolutions committee is as fol
lows: A. R. Wright, A. N. Skinner,

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Amendments to i§ie Constitution and
By-Laws Committee: J. L. Whisnand,
R. F. Karr, Fred Dietz.

Credentials Committee : — ^Wm. H.
Moody, W. L. Cope, George J. StoU,
Harold, C. ViaL i

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CCLTIJIIAL ASSOCIA

RBCORI>

To a^vanc* the parpot* for which the farm bureau waa organised,
itmmely to promote, protect and represent the butinee; eeonownic,
social and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation,
mnd to develop agriculture.

Published once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave., Mount Morris, Illinois,
by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Edited by Department of Information,
E. G. Thiem, Director, 608 South Uearbom Street, Cnicago, IHinois. Entered
aa second-class matter October 20, 1925, at the post office at Mount Morris,
Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of
postage provided for in Section 412, Act of February 28. 1925, authorized
October 27, 1925. The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural
Association is five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty cents for
Subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Association Record. Postmaster:
Ib returning an uncalled for or missent copy, please indicate key number on
address as is required by law.

OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith Detroit

l^ce-President, Frank D. Barton Cornell

1>c«surer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington

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[•EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
■([By Congressional Districts)

lit to 11th ^ H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

12th G. F. Tullock, Rockford

t3th.. ;.C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th W. H. Moody, Port Byron

iSth A. M. Skinner, Yates City

16th A. R. WHght, Varna

17th Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

IStfa R. F. Karr, Iroquois

19th J. L. Whisnand, Chcu-leston

20th ....;.... Charles Borgelt, Havana

21st .........^ Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

23ad Frank Oezner, Waterloo

23rd W. L. Cope, Salem

2401 Charles Marshall, Belknap

2Ctb Fred Diets, De Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Business Service Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketinc A. D. Lynch

Paxm Supply J. R. Bent

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General Office J. H. Kelker

Informatk]*! .^ B. G. Thiem

Auto Insurance J. P. Gibson

Legal Counsel /. Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing ". Ray E. Miller

Organization ; G. E. Metzger-

Field Service V. Vaniman

Pmiltry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson

Transportation L. J. Quasey

The Man With The Hammer

'X'HE I. A. A. is no one man organization. Nor is it
-*■ run by a clique or a group. It is a great democratic
institution in which every member has a chance to be
heard. He can voice his objection or his approval. He can
criticize and kick where kicking counts. The place to do
it is in one or all of the four gn^oup conferences to be held
on Thursday afternoon, Jan. 19, 1928, at Rock Island.

These conferences have become as important a part of
the I. A. A. annual meeting as the banquet and the giant
luncheon on Friday.

If you know a good, vigorous, two-fisted kicker, one who
carries his hammer around with him regularly, and uses
it conscientiously, urge hin^ to come to the annual meet-
ing and put on a first class demonstration. That's what
these meetings ^re for.

The L AL A. 'Executive Committee and officers are anx-

ious to meet these people. They are at least stimulating,
and often they do a great deal of good. We're for the man
with the hammer, if he's honest and sincere. He cani be
taught to help build something.

In the Society Columns

'T'HE farmer has arrived. He has made the society col-
umns of a great metropolitan daily. The gold coast
has learned that thefe is such a person. Here is the proof
just as it was lifted out of the newspaper: • ;V : - ^; f ■
"Mrs. William E. Clow of Lake Forest will open her
home in Sunset Lane next Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock
for a talk on "The Problems of the Farmer," by Miss
Julie R. Adams. Miss Adams will: give the same talk
Monday morning at 10:45 o'clock at the home of Mrs.
Edward T. Jeffery, 915 North Dearborn Street." ; . , ^

Who shall say we are not making progress?-

Appreciation ' ?

'T'HE last meeting of the 1927 Executive -gommittee of
-*- the I. A. A. will be held Friday, Jan. 6, 1928. It is
fitting that a word of appreciation be expressed for the
faithful service these men have given during the past year.
In all the history of the Association there is no record, to
the writer's knowledge, of an executive meeting that
lacked a quorum. During 1927 an absence of a single
member was very unusual. It was a hundred per cent
committee at nearly every session.

It's this kind of faithfulness that makes the L A. A. a
great organization. It has been blest with able leadership.
Personal sacrifice is necessary to carry on the work of this
democratic institution. There is no fee worthy of the
name for those who assume its responsibilities. Most of
the committeemen are active farm operators. Oftentimes
they can ill afford to be away. The membership owes its
representatives a vote of thanks. All in favor say aye.

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Ousley to Illinois ' ' ^

\ DISTINGUISHED southerner from the sunny cotton
-^*- fields of Texas will address four farm audiences in
Illinois between the Christmas and New Year holidays.

The Hon. Clarence Ousley, assistant
secretaiy of agriculture during the
Wilson administration, a prominent
newspaper man, and now director of
the Texas Safe Farming Association
of Dallas will present a §ou'-herner's
viewpoint on the national agricultural
problem at the annual Farm Bureau
meetings, in Woodford, McLean, and
Iroquois comities, and before a farmer-
business men's gathering in DeKalb
county. The dates are Dec. 28, 29,
30, 31 respectively. - s; ; I f|

Mr. Ousley is not only a student of
economics, he is a student of government. He represents
an organization made up of Texas business men. There-
fore, his advocacy of a surplus control plan for agricul-
tural products is doubly significant. 1 k
Col. Ousley has a way of saying things that cut deep.
He is a master linguist. He doesn't mince words. He im-
presses you with the idea that he knows what he's talking
about. He is a believer in the possibilities of an economic
and political alliance between the South and West. The
four counties in which he will speak are to be congratulated
in securing such an outstanding man. l! *

Clarenca
Ousley

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Tune in on the I. A. A. 15 minute program
broadcast daily at 12:30 p. m. from station WJJD.
Chicago (36'5 meters). The facilities of station
WJJD are loaned the Association through the
courtesy of the Loyal Order of Moose, Moose-
heart. III. No program on Saturdays and Sun-
days.

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Appeal for More Power

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A PETITION for a higher power al-'
lotment was presented to the Fed-
eral Radio Commission by representa-
tives of the Loyal Order of Moose,
owners of Station WJJD, and the Il-
linois Agricultural Association in a
hearing at Washington on Nov. 27.

Station WJJD, the official station of
the I. A. A., which operates on a wave
length of 365 meters, has a power al-
lotment of only 1000 watts which is
insufficient to reach out over the coun-
try under average weather conditions.
This is particularly true in the day-
time when static and interference is at
its worst. Members of the. I. A. A.
in the southern half of the state re-
port difficulty in picking up our daily
noon farm program.

Harry C. Butcher, former Director
of Information, appeared as a witness
in behalf of the I. A. A. and presented
important facts regarding the need for
more radio service to farmers. The
I. A. A. program is being developed to
give farmers throughout Illinois, the
com belt and beyond, the latest news
and valuable information regarding
conditions of crops, warnings against
crop diseases, insects and pests, ad-
vice with reference to harvesting and
marketing, and educational matter per-
taining to economics, legislation, in-
surance, fire and accident prevention
and other questions of general inter-
est.

Die Looks for a Wife '

OLE OLSON, star broadcaster of
the Northwest's native tongue,
who recently joined the Cook County

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Farm Bureau, is
going to get mar-
ried. That is, if he
can find a wife.
So he announced
last week on the
I. A. A. farm pro-
gram. O 1 e has
been working on a
dairy farm but,
as he stated to his
radio audience, "I
ban 36 yahr old
and tank I go out
for myself pretty
/-', soon. I got couple

tousand dollar put away and maybe

dot's enuf for a man to start farmin'

wid if he gets a liddle help."

Ole -will tell his story on the I. A.

A. farm radio program Tuesday, Jan.

3, 1928, 12:30 to 12:45 p. m.

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FOUR I. A. A. HEAVY WEIGHTS

Left to right: Frank D. Barton, 210 lbs., Harold C. Vial, 240 lbs.,
( Frank Oexner, 220 lbs., and A. R. Wright, 205 lbs., members of the
L-' Executive Committee.

Their combined weight is 875 lbs. When they called at the Photog-
"'i rapher's to have this snapshot taken, the freight elevator was used
to hoist them to the studio.

Program For Group

y:- .-:■'■■:''■: Conferences Complete

Every Phase of I. A.A.'s Activities To
. , , Come Up For Discussion
By Members

EVERY activity of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association will be dis-
cussed in the four great sectional
meetings to be held Thursday after-
noon, Jan. 19, during the I. A. A.
meeting at Rock Island.

In charge of each group will be a
member of the Execiitive Committee
who will preside and give every mem-
ber a chance to speak his mind. The
group conferences will start promptly
at one o'clock in separate rooms, and
will hold over until 4 o'clock or later
if necessary. . <

The Organization and Information
discussion gfroup will meet in the Ball-
room of the New Harper Hotel and
will be in charge of C. E. Bamborough
who represents the 13th congressional
on the Executive Committee.

The topics for discussion as out-
lined by the advisory committee are
as follows:

' ORGANIZATION

1. County Farm Bureau Program
of Work and Its Effect on Organiza-
tion Maintenance.

2. Who Should Be Farm Bureau
Members? :• .t^-'.V':- -..;;■::: ^ *^.;-

3. Discussion by the Organization
Director on the District Plan.

INFORMATION

1. Legitimate newspaper publicity
(a) Reaching the non-member.

2. Some Outstanding Publicity
Projects.

3. Discussion by, Director of In-
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COLLECTIONS ^^

The Public Relations conference will
be held at the same time at the Elks
Club, with Frank D. Barton, chair-
man of the Leg^islative Committee pre-
siding.

The following topics will come up
for discussion:

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1. LEGISLATION.^^ r J . : --

\ A. Latest developments on Na-
*; tional Farm Relief Legislation.
r. B. National and State Food Re-

i:'lJef.

C. State Tax Legislation.
": Ten minute summaiy by A.. \^»
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2. TAXATION.

A. Administration 'of the Gasoline
■/ Tax Fund.

' B. Service Problems. ^ f-^ ^ t "^li^
:' • • Ten minute summary by Jomi'v^
• ■' Watson. '■■■^

3. TRANSPORTATION AND.
UTILITY PROBLEMS. . j : Z .. -r, , ,_

A. Telephone Rates.

B. Transportation , ^ates . and

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.. C. Power Lines!

Ten Minute Siunn^ut^yj by Lee J.
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^ ^ MARKETING ^^ - '^'^

The marketing program to be held
at the Odd Fellows Hall will be pre-
sided over by Samuel Sorrells chair-
man of the Marketing Committee. The
discussion will revolve around the fol-
lowing subjects in the order as given:

1. Dairy marketing 1:00 to 1:30
p. m.

2. Produce Marketing 1:30 to 2:00
p. m. - 1 >"

3. Fruit and Vegetable Marketing
2:00 to 2:30 p. m.

4. Grain Marketing 2:30 to ^:00
p. m.

5. Live Stock Marketing 3:00 to 3:30
p. m. -

6. General Discussion 3:30 p. m.

The Financial Business Service-
meeting to be held in the Ft Arm-
strong Hotel will b^ in charge of Geo.^
F. Tullock, chairman «of the Financial
Business Service Committeie of tb» L
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The program as mklined is as fol-

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lows:

1. ACCOUNTING.

v.:. A. Farm Bureau Accounting.

B. Auditing, ^

C. Budget Control Expense.

(Continued on page 8)

POtOe Eight

THE I.

A. A. RECORD

Resolutions Adopted

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borer, and other insect and plant pests
and diseases;

(d) Fundamental research by the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture, to include research to extend in-
dustrial as distinguished from food
uses of farm products;

(e) Continuation of the usual aid
for construction of federal highways
and bridges; and special aid for high-
way and bridge reconstruction in the
recently flooded areas;

(f) United States Tariff Commis-
sion in carrying out the flexible pro-
vision of the Tariff Act ;

(g) Enforceiqent of the Milk In-
spection bill passed by the 69th Con-
gress.

Earopean Corn Borer
Commendable progress in com borer
control has been made. We favor an
appropriation by this Congress suffici-
ent to carry on the work effectively.
We commend the cooperation griven by
the farmers in the past and realize
that wholehearted support by them is
essential

Packer and Stockyard Act

We ifavor the strengtheaing of the
Packer & Stockyard Act, both as to
the definite authority vested in the De-
partment of Agriculture and its ad-
ministration, for the purpose of further
safeguarding the interests of the live-
stock producer and his cooperative as-
sociations.

We further authorize the Legislative
Committee of the A. F. B. F. to work
in connection with a like committee
from the National Live Stock Pro-
ducers Association to ascertain and
support the manner or method which
will result in the accomplishment of
the above purpose.

. I ' Immigration

We request our officers to exert
every effort in securing a congressional
investigration before any additional im-
migration restrictions to nationals on
the western hemisphere are applied.

Farm Loan Committee

We thank the Special Farm Loan
Committee for the long, diligent and in-
telligent study which it has conducted
upon th^ farm loan question, and for
the excellent report which has been
formulated. We reccommend that the
report of said Special Committee be
accepted and the officers and Board of
Directors be authorized to act in ac-
cordance therewith.

; I -. Omnibus

We announce our position in sup-
port of —

I (a) Securing electricity on the
farm, under rates and conditions which
are economically possible for agricul-
ture;

^ (b) Cooperating with other agen-
'des in farm fire prevention;

HONORED AT DINNER

Geo. A. Fox.
A DINNER wa« fiven by the Amo-
^^ ciation to members of the Execu-
tive Committee, officers, and staff at
the Hotel Eitel, Chicago, on Nov. 10,
where former secretary Geo. A. Fox
was presented with a beautiful gold
wratch and chain by his former asso-
ciates. Mr. Fox recently retired to
his home at the edge of Sycamore
where he now resides.

(c) Opposing legislation which
would establish retail price fixing;

(d) Securing legislation for the
early development of the Colorado
River ;

(e) Securing legislation which will
classify live poultry as live stock ;

(f) Favoring a governmental in-
quiry into the growth and methods of
capitalization of public utility corpora-
tions supplying electrical energy in the
form of power and light;

(g) Developing a more intensive
national reforestation progrram, said
progrram to be in cooperation with and
a correlation of state program, to pre-
vent erosion of soils, and to bring
present marginal lands eventually back
into profitable production, with more
adequate fire protection for our great
forested areas.

(h) We favor a federal law re-
quiring truth in market reports, and re-
ports affecting marketing levels.

(i) The action taken at the last
meeting creating the Home and Com-
munity Department has been fully
justified as demonstrated by the in-
terest manifested during the conven-
tion.

We heartily endorse and commend
the fine accomplishments of this de-
partment and recommend its continued
and generous support.

(J) We, the women of the A. F.
B. F., herein assembled representing
seventeen states of our Union, wish
to voice our sincere appreciation of the
entire convention program. We are
mindful of the hard work and cooper-

ation of all departments that has made
this the outstanding convention.

We are impressed with the fine spirit
and purpose manifested throughout the
week. We especially wish to endorse
the Home and Community Training
School and feel deeply indebted to Mrs.
Chas. W. Sewell for her able and in-
spirational leadership.

(k) We endorse the effort now be-
ing made in Congress to effect a stabil-
ized price level and stable purchasing
power of money through additional in-
structions to the Federal Reserve
Board.

And resolutions of similar nature, all
expressing approval of the voting
delegates for the efficient way in which
the annual meeting had been con-
ducted by the various service agencies
supplying talent therefor.

. Respectfully submitted,

EDW. A. O'NEIL, CHAIRMAN,

CHAS. E. HEARST,

GEO. M. PUTNAM,

M. L.NOON, ._ .
rH. G. KING. *

Group Conferences

(Continued from page 7) .. •;•

2. FARM SUPPLIES. : :

A. Phosphate and Limestone.

B. Commercial Fertilizer and
Supplies.

C. Farm Bureau Supply Com-
panies.

3. INSURANCE.

A. Automobile.

B. Fire, Lightning, and Hail.

C. Life.

While the men are attending the
group conferences, the women will
have a program of their own which
will be in charge of the Illinois Home
Bureau Federation.

Opportunity will be given each
member to bring up any question or
criticism during the sectional confer-
ences. These meetingfs belong solely to
the membership. The officers, direc-
tors, and staff members will make it a
point to keep as much in the back-
ground as possible.

Western Illinois City

Mecca for Yearly Trek

(Continued from page 5)
tives of other state-wide organizations
will be introduced. The list of guests
will include several distinguished peo-
ple well known to Illinois farmers.

Governor Adam McMullen of Ne-
braska whose keynote speech at the
St. Louis Farm Conference in Novem-
ber attracted nation-wide attention is
scheduled to deliver the principal mes-
sage. Governor McMullen is a typi-
cal aggressive westerner who has given
much thought and study to the prob-
lems of agriculture.

woe Will Broadcast -:

The proceedings of the convention
will receive wide publicity through the
courtesy of radio station WOC of
Davenport which has offered to broad-
cast the more important features.

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Volume 6

JANUARY, 1928

Number 1

Revenue Legislation Up

In Special Session

Seek To Safeguard Constitutional Tax
Limits For Downstate Counties

REVENUE legislation designed to
safegruard the present constitu-
tional limits of taxation in downstate
Illinois will be considered at the spe-
cial session of the legislature called by
Governor Small for Jan. 10.

The Juul amendment
to the notorious bond-
ing or revenue bills
passed by the 55th
General Assembly
would have made the
measure which doubled
tax valuations apply to
Cook county only. This
amendment, however,
was declared unconsti-
tutional, and so all of
downstate Illinois is
now subject to debt
increases amounting to
double the limitations
existing prior to the
passage of the new
bills.

I. A. A. latere* ted

The Illinois Agricul-
tural Association will
lend its support to
legislation which has
for its purpose the re-
instatement of former
limitations on debts of
taxing districts.

The constitution of Illinois provides
that no county, city, township, school
district or other municipal corporation
shall be allowed to become indebted in
any manner or for any purpose to an
amount, including existing indebted-
ness, in the aggregate exceeding five
per centum of the value of the taxable
property therein, to be ascertained by
the last assessment for State and coun-
ty taxes previous to incurring of such
indebtedness. County authorities may
not levy taxes exceeding 75c per $100
.^^aluation without the vote of the

^people. ;- :' :•

Executive Committee Decides

The revenue bills passed by the last

CT'HE. final announcements of
J- the 13th Annual Meeting of
the I. A. A., Rock Island, Jan. 19-
20 are made on pages four and
five. Every member is invited
to attend and have a part in the
convention. Informative

speeches, good entertainment,
and accommodations at reason-
able prices are assured.

Haugen Pleads Cause

At Chicago City Club

Our Only Interest, To Bring Agriculture
Within Protective System, He Says }

CONGRESSMAN Gilbert N. Haugen,
white-haired solon from North-
wood, Iowa, chairman of the Agricul-
tural Committee in the House, and
member of the nationally famous
"McNary-Haugen team" told more
than 200 Chicago busi-
ness and professional
men why agriculture
should be included in
the protective system,
in a recent address be-
fore the weekly forum
of the City Club, Chi-
cago.

Thirty-five members
and guests of the Chi-
cago Agricultural Club
including I. A. A. offi-
cers, executive commit-
teemen and staff mem-
bers attended the
luncheon.

Don't

Hurt

President Earl C. Smith shows Congressman Haugen of Iowa, — a recent
visitor at the I. A. A. office, — the Special Legislative Issue of the RECORD pub-
lished following adjournment of the 55th General Assembly. The Congressman
was much impressed with the magnitude of the Association's program and
activities.

legislature doubled the basis of tax
valuations and so doubled the debt lim-
itation.

The decision to follow up the legis-
lative program prosecuted by the As-
sociation in the 55th General Assembly
was made at the last meeting of the
1927-28 Executive Committee held on
Jan. 6.

A budget for 1928 likewise was
adopted for recommendation to the
new committee which meets after the
annual meeting. Few, if any, changes
are expected in the new board.

Insurance problems particularly that
relating to the adoption of life insur-
ance for members will be submitted for
approval at the annual meeting. Rock
Island.

Want To
TarifiF

"We do not want to

harm nor tear down

any other industry,"

said the congressman.

"Opening the tariff

wall is not the solution

we offer. We would

solve the problem of

agricultural depression by establishing

an American price for American farm

products. This can be accomplished

by bringing farm products within the

protection of the protective tariff."

Letting down the bars of immigra-
tion and the protective tariff would
hurt the farmer as well as others, de-
clared Mr. Haugen. , The result would
be a lower level of prices which would
bankrupt farmers with debts contracted
during the period of high prices.
$1,442,000,000 More Annually
"If our plan for making the tariff
effective on farm products had been in
operation during the past seven years,
producers would havei received an esti-
mated average of $1,442,000,000 more
for their crops annually," he said. ,

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Pane Tivo

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Illinois Farm Guard

Plan Interests Ohio

Seeks to Drive Farm Thieves Out of
. Illinois Through Co-operation
of All Organizations

THE plan for orgranizing the State
of Illinois against farm thieves
which was adopted by the Illinois
Farm Guard Committee on Dec. 20 in
a meeting at the I. A. A. offices, Chi-
cago, has drawn an inquiry from the
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation asking
for further information. The Ohio
Farm Bureau is seeking to organize
that state against farm thieves
through a state-wide protective asso-
, elation.

The Illinois plan provides for ex-
tending protective organizations al-
ready in operation to embrace every
community in the state.

Thus where the county Farm Bu-
reaus, the Illinois State Detective, and
the Illinois Anti-Thief Associations
already have local or county protec-
tive organizations in operation an ef-
fort will be made to strengthen the
programs of such associations — not to
displace or compete with them.

But in unorganized territory, or
in counties only partially organized
the following procedure is recom-
mended :

Program of Procedure

1. Call a committee meeting repre-
senting all parts of the county and all
existing anti-thievery organizations,
inviting the sheriff, state's
attorney, bankers and oth-
ers, who may be helpful.

2. Decide on plan of
■ county organization. The

following three alterna-
tives are suggested:

a. Expand and strength-
en existing local associa-
tion, either an independent
local protective association
or a local of the Illinois
State Protection Associa-
tion, or the Illinois Anti-
Thief Association, into a
county wide organization.

b. Organize a county
farm guard association
with direct membership.
This plan is particularly
applicable to counties
where no start has been
made with any form of
anti-thievery org:anization.

c. Organize a county
farm guard federation us-
ing all existing locals of
whatever type and orgran-
ize into locals where none
exist. This form of or-
ganization is particularly
applicable to counties hav-
ing several local anti-thief
associations of various
types. It makes possible
the formation of a county
farm guard federation
without tearing down or
changing anything that has
already been built.

3. Call a county-wide
mass meeting with good
speaker to explain plan
adopted and launch organir
zation. Follow with agres-
sive membership campaign.

The Illinois Farm ^ ird Committee KnOX Countv Oil Co

recommends that the following funda-

mental principles be observed:

1. Cooperation of all interested
parties ;

2. Association should be county
wide, with as large a membership as
possible.

3. Membership should be open to
all qualified farmers and other citizens
interested in the purposes of the or-
ganization ;

4. A limited number of the most
responsible men in the organization
should be selected as deputy sheriffs.
These men should be strategically lo-
cated thruout the county;

5. Limit activity to the prevention
and punishment of stealing, hunting
and trespassing.

The objectives of the movement are
to:

1. Make the entire county danger-
ous and unprofitable for thieves;

2. Cooperate with sheriffs and to
use deputies most effectively in order
to secure arrests;

3. Cooperate with state's attorney
to secure convictions;

4. Cooperate with poultry dealers
to secure enforcement of poultry deal-
ers' license and record law and to
make it difficult for thieves to market
stolen poultry;

5. Cooperate with bankers' town
guards;

6. Educate farmers to protect
themselves by using locks and burglar
alarms and by marking poultry;

7. Conduct shooting matches;

8. Watch strangers and suspicious
characters in the community.

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Earns 10%Net in '27

Balance Sheet Shows Total Assets of

$52,430.90 at Close of First

Fiscal Year

If to launch and firmly establish a
thriving farmer company within a
year's time is to be considered a no-
table achievement, then such a com-
pany showing a balance sheet with
total assets of $52,430.90 on a paid
in capital stock of $31,425 should be
considered a still greater feat. This
was accomplished by the Knox Coun-
ty Oil Company within its first fiscal
year, ending November 30, 1927.

Two and one-half trains of gaso-
line and kerosene were distributed
within the year with only two bulk
stations operating full time. Seven
carloads of lubricating oils and close
to five tons of grease also appear on
the sales records. The gross trading
income was better than 30 per cent
and the net income 10.2 per cent of
sales.

After computing depreciations at 10
and 20 per cent and setting aside
funds to the reserve, the remainder of
the net earnings were returned to
the farmers' pockets. Approximately
$10,000 was paid out in dividends.
Seven per cent preferred stock divi-
dends were paid out Christmas week
and recently a 7 per cent patron-
age dividend on common stock to all
Farm Bureau members who hadjjat-
ronizei! the Cfw.pany tliii-
ing tl.-: past f--ca!" yin-.
All paid Up Par 11 Bureau
members are common
stockholders. The com-
mon stock dividends were
based on the total pur-
chases of each member
customer.

Checks were distributed
at the close of the Farm
Bureau annual meeting,
January 3. E. A. Daily of
Yates City, who operates
300 acres in Salem Town-
ship, bought four shares of
preferred stock a year ago
when the company was or-
ganized. His preferred
stock dividends were $8.08
and his patronage dividend
$64.75, making a total of
$72.83 returned on a $100
investment.

The Farm Bureau has
1349 members and the Oil
Company has an even
greater number of custom-
ers; many non-members
patronize this farmer com-
pany on account of the
quality of the petroleum
products sold. The com-
pany now owns and oper-
ates five bulk stations lo-
cated at Rio, Victoria, Wil-
liamsfield, Hermon and
Galesburg. The Galesburg
plant which only recently
opened for business, prom-
ises to lead all othej sta-
tions in volume of business
for 1928.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Three

W. H. Moody

14th Dist. Meeting

O. K.'s Surplus Bill

Largest Diatrict Meeting of the Year
Is Held at Monmouth Not. 23

ONE of the best I. A. A. district
meetings of the year was held at
Monmouth in the 14th district on Nov.
23. W. H. Moody,
who represents 1|he
district on the J.
A. A. executive
committee, called
the meeting to or-
der. M. L. Hunt
of McD o n o u g h
couijty was elected
chairman and J.
H. Lloyd of Han-
cock county secre-
tary.

"From the stand-
point of accom-
plishment, this has
been the greatest year of my expe-
rience on the executive committee,"
said Mr. Moody.- He commended the
good work of special I. A. A. commit-
tees and President Earl C. Smith.

Represented at the meeting were
delegations from Mercer, Warren,
Henderson, McDonough, Hancock, and
Rock Island.

The 14th district has its own public
relations committee composed of C. W.
Cooper, A. G. Bridgford, and John
Schwartz who reported on the political
candidates in the district and their
stand on various legislation of interest
to farmers. ^

Resolutions Passed
Resolutions were passed supporting
the principles of the McNary-Haugen
bill, approving the recommendations of
the recent St. Louis Farm Conference,
advocating coverage in the 111. Agr.
Mutual Insurance policy of collisions
with immovable objects, recommenjd-
ing a plan of life insurance to be
worked into the mutual insurance pro-
gram, praising the work of the I. A.
A. executive committee, staff, and
President Smith during the past year,
pledging support to presidential and
local candidates who are friendly
to the principles involved in the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill, and pledging large
delegations from each county to at-
tend the annual meeting of the I. A.
A. at Rock Island, Jan. 19-20, 1928.
Dave L. Swanson, manager of the
Chicago Producers, who spoke on the
subject of livestock marketing , showed
how it would be possible for the Pro-
ducers' organizations to stabilize the
market and save farmers millions of
dollars if they can secure a large
enough percentage of the receipts.
' The question of the direct purchas«
of hogs by packers was considered. It
was pointed out that if farmers mar-
ket direct to packers they should see
to it that they get at least a part of
the savings thus effected.

J. H. Lloyd moved that the program
committee be held intact and be in-
structed to arrange for the first dis-
trict meeting following the annual
meeting of the I. A. A. Carried.

The I. A, A. In 1927

Response by President Earl C. Smith, to the Roll Call of States, in Re-
porting Accomplishments of the I. A. A. at the Annual Meeting of the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation, Chicago, Dec. 6, 1927. i .

1AM pleased to report among the many accomplishments of the I. A. A.
during 1927 the following:

Our full support and cooperation with the A. F. B. F. and other affiliated
farm and cooperative organizations in securing the passage of the McNary-
Haugen Bill by the Second Session of the 69th Congress. We authored,
sponsored, and secured the passage of a constructive gasoline tax law in our
State which properly recognizes a secondary system of roads giving direct
recognition and service to rural Illinois.

We authored and sponsored an income tax bill during the same session
of our Legislature and although did not secure its passage, succeeded dur-
ing its consideration in imprinting upon the minds of our legislators, the
inequities that exist under the present laws, as to cause the passage of a
resolution providing for a committee with proper appropriations chargred
with the responsibility of reporting and recommending a fair practical tax
revision program to the next General Assembly.

Several other bills we supported became laws and many we opposed were
defeated.

Operating through ten service departments and four subsidiary organiza-
tions and in full cooperation with 94 County Farm Bureaus in our State,
the following may be reported as outstanding achievements:

1. Secured reduction in full valuation of farm lands for state and county
taxing purposes since 1920 amounting to six hundred million dollars. Since
1922, a reduction of four hundred million dollars for county and local taxing
purposes. The net result accruing a saving of from two to two and one-half
million dollars per year in farmers taxes since 1923. Further readjustment
since 1927 will make possible a net saving to the farmers of our State at the
next taxable period approximating four million dollars.

2. Represented our people before State and Interstate Commerce Commis-
sions wherever their interests might be affected. In one instance, prevented
a proposed increase in freight rates on fruits and vegetables which would have
amounted to $115,000 annually. Collected $25,500 in railroad claims for our
members.

3. Very active in promoting the cooperative selling of live stock. Forty-
eight and seven tenths per cent of the total receipts of the Producer Agencies
on the Chicago, East St. Louis, Peoria and Indianapolis markets emanated
from Illinois farms. Handled 35,565,000 cc of anti-hog cholera serum, and
virus, saving users practically $250,000.

4. Encouraged and promoted the cooperative handling and selling of
dairy products. Managed and sold for 10,235 members their milk and cream
showing increased earnings of $1,428,200.

5. Executed contractual relations with four rock phosphate and 25 lime-
stone companies whereby the interests of our members as to the quality and
price are carefully safeguarded. More than one-fourth of all limestone and
two-thirds of all ground rock phosphate used in the United States has been
used by Illinois farmers.

6. Furnished a highly specialized audit and business advisory service to
224 cooperative organizations with a total membership of approximately 120,000.

7. Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Company has written during the year,
$2,058,655 fire insurance, $3,980,000 farm crop hail insurance and $656,337
fruit and garden truck hail insurance.

8. During the year -organized the Illinois Farm Supply Company which
is controlled by and operated for our members. Although only seven months
old, have purchased 2,000,000 gallons of gasoline, 1,250,000 gallons of kero-
sene and 150,000 gallons of lubricating oils, comprising about 440 cars of
petroleum products, representing a sales value of over $600,000 and a saving
in the form of patronage refunds to consumers of about $48,000.

9. During the year, organized the Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance
Company, which provides ample automobile insurance protection at a cost
considerably lower than is obtainable on the open insurance market. This
Company which is exclusively owned by and operated for Farm Bureau mem-

(Continued on page 8)

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Page Four

THE I. A. A. RECORD

THOUSANDS GET READY TO

I. A. C. A. Now Has i

222 Member Co-ops

WHEN the Illinois Agricultural Co-
operatives Association, the state
audit service formed by the I. A. A.
more than three years ago, gathers
for its Fourth Annual Convention at
Rock Island on Wednesday, Jan. 18,
it will report a membership of 222 dif-
ferent cooperative associations and
farm organizations, about half of which
are farmers' elevators.

The I. A. A. audit service has been
carried to practically every county of
the state and in three years has grown
steadily until today it requires a staff
of expert accountants in the field the
year 'round.

The opening address of the annual
meeting will be made by President
George L. Potter, and after the reports
are made, open discussion will follow
on questions of vital interest to the
membership.

Natural Fiscal Year «

An attempt is being made by busi-
ness organizations throughout the
country to substitute natural fiscal
years for the present system whereby
the fiscal year is made to correspond to
the calendar year. The calendar year
closing, it is said, works a hardship on
the accountant and is not suited to cer-
tain kinds of business, the operations
of which are seasonal, such as farm-
ers' elevators. It is suggested that the
fiscal years of such companies should
correspond to the crop year.

Uniform accounting systems for all
companies of a like nature also will be
discussed. The accountant finds that a
standard method of keeping accounts
simplifies bookkeeping and auditing
and makes easier comparative analysis
of similar businesses which are of ex-
treme value in revealing profitable and
unprofitable business practices.

Baseball Officials

Get Ready For 1928

Annual Meeting Farm Bureau Baseball

League Set For Wednesday Morning,

Jan. 18

WHILE there will be no spectacular
trades and deals for stars and
heavy-hitters announced at the an-
nual convention of Farm Bureau Base-
ball League officials in January, there
may be some interesting discussions
of eligibility rules, scheduling of
games, and deciding championships
when President Cline of Cass County
orders the assembly to play ball. The
meeting is called for 9 :00 a. m. in the
Ft. Armstrong Hotel. Farm baseball
in 1927 was marked by poor playing
conditions caused by unfavorable
weather early in the season, but the
large number of post-season gfames
more than made up for the loss of time
in May and June.

Many new counties brought out
teams to play at annual picnics for

the first time and some of these
hurriedly-assembled nines looked prom-
ising enough to give the old-timers a
rub for honors in the coming season.

The entry of Southern Illinois coun-
ties into the League last season prom-
ises to bring about a realignment of
schedules and the possibility of two
large divisions in the State League.
In this event, the Northern Illinois
champs would play the Southern Illi-
nois winners for the annual state
championship.

The question of eligibility, the most
popular one which ' makes its appear-
ance each year, is scheduled to come
up again. Sharp division of opinion
over the eligibility of players other
than those living' on and operating or
working on farms was expressed.

Federal Farm Loan

System To Be Aired

President of St. Louis Federal Land Bank
To Address Meeting Friday A. M.

TEN Years of the Federal Farm
Loan System" will be the subject
of an address by H. Paul Bestor, presi-
dent of the St. Louis Federal Land
Bank when he talks before delegates
and visitors in the Ft. Armstrong
Theatre, Rock Island, on Friday morn-
ing, Jan. 20.

Mr. Bestor is one of the best in-
formed men in the entire federal farm
loan system. His comments will be
unusually interesting in view of the
criticism from certain quarters which
followed the appointment of Eu-
gene Meyer as chairman of the Fed-
eral Farm Loan Board.

The System is alleged to have been
dominated by the Secretary of the
Treasury to the disadvantage of farm-
ers for whom it was created. Secre-
taries of the many local farm loan
associations, and farmers who hold
federal loans will be particularly inter-
ested in hearing the address of Mr.
Bestor.

Plowboy Quartet And

College Band Booked

THE famous Plowboy Quartet from
the farm implement factories of the
Tri-Cities, and the Augustana College
band are special musical features that
will help entertain at the Rock Island
convention. Music will be sprinkled
amongst the speeches and discussion,
and Farm Adviser J. H. Checkley from
Logan County will be on hand to open
up with a "Hello, etc." or a "Hail, Hail,
the gang's all here," on the slightest
provocation.

Activities of the Illinois Agricultural
Association in 1927 will be presented
in a 72-page report which will be oflf
the press in time for the Annual Meet-
ing. Copies will be available to dele-
gates and visitors on Thursday morn-
ing, Jan. 19.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKEB; AT

Hoisi. ADAM Mcmullen, g )vern

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Five

r TO ATTEND I. A. A. MEETING

EAKEBj AT ROCK ISLAND

iULLEN, G )VERNOR OF NEBRASKA

Sam H. Thompson To t

Tell About Europe

WHAT he learned about European
agriculture after a tour through
seven countries including England,
France, Germany, Holland, Belgium,
Denmark, Scotland, also the Isle of
Jersey, will be told by Sam. H. Thomp-
son former president of the I. A. A.
and now head of the Farm Bureau
movement in America, when he talks to
his old-time friends and neighbors at
the annual banquet, Thursday night,
Jan. 19.

"Our Sam" and the party of Amer-
ican farmers who accompanied him
drew the admiration of many Euro-
pean people for the modest, gentleman-
ly manner in which they conducted
themselves in contrast to the swagger
and arrogance of so many plutocratic
American tourists in Europe.

Mr. Thompson discussed his Euro-
pean tour briefly on the I. A. A. radio
program more than a month ago. He
is expected to go into some detail in
his banquet address by way of con-
trasting European and American agri-
culture, and to cite less^^ns he learned
from experiences of farmers in these
foreign lands.

Geo. O. Fairweather,

Tax Expert, To Talk

THE much-discussed tax situation
will receive further treatment but
this time from a new and different
angle when Geo. 0. Fairweather of
Chicago, vice-chairman of the Joint
Commission on Real Estate Valuations
for Cook County addresses the con-
vention in the Ft. Armstrong Theatre
on Friday morning.

The revelations of this Commission
have furnished plenty of ammunition
for civic organizations in Chicago who
are making an effort to institute a fair,
honest, and lawful tax system in Cook
County.

Mr. Fairweather's address will have,
a direct bearing on the downstate sit-
uation. Don't miss his talk. Fair-
weather is a high official in the business
office at the University of Chicago. ,

Delegates and visitors who attend
the convention will be well provided
for at the Ft. Armstrong, the New
Harper, and other hotels if necessary.
The proximity of Rock Island to Iowa
is expected to attract large numbers
from the Hawkeye state.

For those who wish to drive, Rock
Island is fortunately situated on paved
routes 3 and 7 which connect up with
other hard roads leading to all parts
of the state. Railroad accommoda-
tions may be had in four directions
over the Rock Island, Burlington, and
Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul
Railways.

S. H. Thompson

Late Reports Show 1

Large Crowd Coming

Hon. Frank O. Lowden Invited Among
Many Distinguished Guests on Friday

WITH time for the 13th Annual
Meeting of the Illinois Agricultural

Association, scheduled for Rock Island
on Jan. 19-20,
drawing near,
thousands of dele-
gates, members,
and visitors are
preparing to leave
for the western
city and the yearly
mid-winter c o n-
vention of organ-
ized Illinois agri-
culture.

Final arrange-
ments for a great
annual meeting
are complete and
nothing has been

left undone to prepare for the large

crowd expected from every nook and

corner of the State.

Many Will Drive 1

Reservations are in from most of the
counties and larger delegations from
the nearby sections are in prospect.
The w^estern Illinois counties are near-
ly all well-organized and heavily popu-
lated . with Farm Bureau and I. A. A.
members. These counties are expected
to swell the attendance because they
are all within easy driving distance
and Rock Island is handily situated
with hard roads coming in from all
directions.

Though unannounced heretofore, for-
mer Governor Frank O. Lowden of
Oregon, most prominent member of the
Illinois Agricultural Association, has
received an invitation extended by
President Earl C. Smith to attend the
giant luncheon on Friday. Mr. Low-
den will be one of many prominent
citizens and leaders of the state ex-
pected at that time. He is not sched-
uled as a speakers J

An Able Speaker

Gov. Adam McMuUen of Nebraska
will deliver the principal address at
the luncheon. Gov. McMuUen is a very
able speaker and one well-qualified to
discuss the national agricultural situa-
tion which he has given considerable
study and thought. Following his mas-
terly presentation of the agricultural
problem before the farm congress of
the Middle West and South at St.
Louis in November, Gov. McMullen re-
ceived many invitations to speak in the
East. He recently returned west from
a tour along the Atlantic seaboard.
Following the luncheon will come final
adoption of the report of the resolu-
tions committee, and adjournment.

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I L«L«IIMOIS

CCLTVRAL ASSOCIA

RECORO^

^ To advance the purpose for which the farm bureau waa organized,

-^ namely to promote, protect and represent the business^ economic »

^ 90cial and educational interests of the farmers of Illinoit and the nation,

*^ mnd to develop agriculture.

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IB rettuBins bb UBeallwl for or -miaaeDt eopy pleaae indicate key number on
mUnm aa ia ie<|ulied by law.

OFFICERS

rraaldent. Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vlee-PraairfeBt, Ptvnk D. Bartoo ^ ^^. Cornell

, R. A. Cowlea ».._...... Bleomlnston

EXECirnVE OOMMTTTEE

(By Congreaalonal Dlatricta)

lattallth H. C. Vial, Downers Grova

U(b i G. P. TuIIock, Rodcford

13(h '. C B. Bamboroush, Polo

MMl W. H. Moody, Port Byron

1M> > «..A.M. Skinner, Yates City

IMi ; A.R. Wri«ht, Varna

17th ,> i. Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

IMi ^_ ......\ R. F. Karr, Irxiquoia

IWi J. L. Whlsnand, Charleston

Mth Charles Borgelt, Havana

Mat Samtsal Sorralla, Raymond

ttad Frank Oaznar, Waterloo

13rd W. L. Cope, Salem

24th Charlaa MarahaU, BcUniap

tfth Fred Diets, De Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Bualneas Service Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy MarkeCias .; < A. D. Lynch

Farm Supply J. R. Bent

Finance *■■.•*•..........................•••■ *R> A. Cowlea

F^uit and VegeCabte Marketins A. B. Loeper

General Office J. H. Kelker

Informatkn i E. G. Thlem

Insurance (Actuarial) J. P. Gibaon

Insurance (Acquisition) V. Vaniman

LasalCouneel Dotiald Kirkpatrick

lire Stock Marhetins Ray E. Miller

Orcanlsatlon ^' G. B. Matscer

Poultoy andBcgMarketias..... F. A. Gouclcr

Taaatfam and StatieCloa J. C. Wataon

Tinaaportatlon L. J. Quaaey

Why Powerful?

SOME prominent writer points out that there are only
two kinds fof power that a human being can possess
on this earth. They are personal and financial power.
Financial power is limited to a comparatively few people.
It has built churches, comforted the needy and elevated men
in the sight of God. On the other hand, it has caused
divorces, evaded justice, and brought contempt and ruin
to its possessor. The rich man is literally helpless when
he first recognizes his money fails to command respect.

The other power is personal poWer. It is that develop-
ment of the intellect, character and personality of the indi-
vidual which demands respect and brings to him vision
and decision. It can never estape the individual possessing
it. The more he uses it, within reason, and the more freely
he gives of it the stronger individual he becomes.

The greatest job of the Farm Bureau is the development
of men and women. Its aim embraces economic, social and
educational progress. Its program is built with the devel-
opment of personal power as a basis.

How well it is succeeding may be set forth in a part of
its record of accomplishment.

It has for its membership the best and leading farmers
of our State. Its members are the community leaders, the
church leaders, and in fact that progressive and substan-
tial element to be found in all communities.

It commands the respect of other economic and' social
groups of people second to no farm organization on earth.
Its representatives and members are respected even by indi-
viduals semi-antagonistic to its program. It is looked upon
as the voice of Agriculture. Its spirit of fairness in mat-
ters of Public Policy is above reproach or question.

The result is the development of a farm leadership with
clear vision, with an intelligent understanding of agricul-
ture, its needs and telationships, and most of all a leader-
ship possessed with; that personal unselfish desire to do
something constructive for the benefit of all mankind. Why
shouldn't such an organization be powerful?

. %i GEORGE E. METZGER.

Administrative Responsibility i 5'

WHEN a man accepts election to a board of directors
of a co-operative company or any other corpora-
tion, he assumes a definite responsibility. He becomes, in
fact, the joint trustee with other directors to represent the
interests of the individual members of the company. It
must be presumed that a director is selected because of his
ability to meet those responsibilities and as a result of the
confidence of the members.

The board of directors as an administrative body has
certain duties which are closely related to the business
operations of the company. Those duties are not dis-
charged by the appcflptment of a manager nor by the elec-
tion of certain officerlk Each member of the board during
the term for which he is elected is responsible to the mem-
bership for the proper conduct of the business. It is the
duty of the board of directors to determine policies which
shall govern the affairs of the company and to see that such
policies are carried into effect by the manager and other
employes. They are primarily responsible for the funds
and properties of th6, company to see that they are prop-
erly used.

It is recognized that these responsibilities and duties re-
quire more time than the average director can contribute.
Proper administration requires him to be currently in-
formed regarding the affairs of the company. It is im-
portant that a complet^and accurate report shall be made
to the members at theifilose of the year's business. Suc-
cess in the administratiSh of co-operative organizations re-
quires the same application of business principles and meth-
ods as apply to other forms of business. Members are en-
titled to facts free from prejudice, favor, or the consider-
ation of any personal interest. Efficient disinterested audit
service is necessary and should be employed by directors
of co-operative associations.

pEO. R. WICKER.

English Farmers Demand a Raise

THE farm problem in England apparently has some-
thing in common with that in our own country. Low
prices for agricultural products are causing farm bank-
ruptcies and the abandonment of i large acreages. This in
spite of the fact that the British Isles import much of their
food. The British faijn organization corresponding to the
American Farm Bureau wants a protective tariff, a tax
on imported foods. The labor and business groups which
comprise 80 per cent or more of the population are not dis-
posed to grant the farmer a raises They want to maintain
cheap food prices.

One school of English farm thought, as expressed by Mr.
Baillie Scott in the Countryman says: — "Between the
two extremes of dearness and cheapness there is always a
right price, and in respect of a vital industry that price
must be maintained in agriculture by giving up the ideal
of cheap food and by taxing all the cheap foreign rubbish
on which our people now mainly contrive to subsist."

THE I. A. A. RECORD

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i?admjews

Tune in on the I. A. A. 15 minutes program
broadcast daily at li.-SO P. M. from station
WJJD, Chicago (S65 meters). The facilities of
station WJJD are loaned the Association
through the courtesy of the Loyal Order of
Moose, Mooseheart, III. No program on Satur-
days and Sundays.

TO BROADCAST ANNUAL
MEETING.

NEGOTIATIONS are under way as
this is written to broadcast cer-
tain features of the 13th Annual I. A.
A. Meeting at Rock Island on Jan. 18-
19-20 over a hookup of 15 stations
through the courtesy of the National
Broadcasting Co., Chicago.

If the move to secure nation-wide
distribution is successful, powerful sta-
tions such as KDKA Pittsburgh, WLW
Cincinnati, KYW Chicago, WOC Dav-
enport and others as far south as At-
lanta and as far west as Omaha will
pick up the I. A. A. program from
Rock Island. Radio fans from the At-
lantic seaboard to the Rockies, and
from Canada to the Gulf thus will
have an opportunity to hear the prom-
inent features of the convention.

In any event, the facilities of the
Davenport station, WOC, will be avail-
able and much of the program will be
broadcast by this station whether or
not the national hook-up is secured.

While definite hours for broadcast-
ing have not been arranged, I. A. A.
members who do not attend will be
certain to hear the luncheon program
on Friday, Jan. 20 by radio. The
broadcast should begin by 1:15 or 1:30
P. M. and will continue to the end of
Gov. McMullen's address. The ban-
quet program Thursday night and the
speeches Friday morning likewise will
undoubtedly be broadcast.

Former Governor Frank 0. Lowden
of Oregon, most prominent member of
the I. A. A. has accepted an invitation
to be our guest. He is not scheduled
as a speaker. Many other distin-
guished leaders in other groups are ex-
pected at the luncheon in the U. S.
Government Arsenal dining-room on
Friday.

OLE GETS LETTERS.

Following is one of the many let-
ters received by Ole Olson, I. A. A.
broadcaster who recently announced
his "intentions" over the radio. Ole
says this one is the best prospect, but
to play safe, he is writing for pictures.

Dear Ole:

Aye heerd you on the radio five or sax
times now ; and the first time Aye heerd your
voice Aye know that Aye would love every
hair on your head; it was so sveet.

Mae Fadder he was a farmer and Aye milk
most all the cows; my but wouldn't it be such
a pleasant yob if they was our cows. Aye
would milk twice as many.

Aye don't dare to come down to Chicago,
it was such a bisr place. Aye was afraid Aye
might have to go through Cicero; but Aye
would be willing to come down half way.

Cass County Has

100% Shipping Ass'n.

A LETTER has just been received
from Mr. Geo. A. Aldridge, man-
ager of the Cass County Live Stock
Shipping Association, Virginia, 111.,
^^^ stating that his as-

SHH sociation has been
^W a hundred per-
^ center from Sep-
I tember, 1922, to
jfe|>l date, having ship-
m P^^ every carload
\ m of stock to a Pro-
4 ^ ducer Agency.
M "When a man-
I^H ager can ship all
^H of his livestock to
-^^1 one agency for

Ray E. MUler

more than five
years and still
maintain the satisfaction of his mem-"
bers it is certainly indisputable evidence
that the farmer-controlled sales agen-
cies are doing a good job of selling,"
said Ray E. Miller, director of live-
stock marketing. "The example of these
managers serves a mighty valuable pur-
pose in stimulating the confidence of
other managers and individual ship-
pers in the Producer Agencies. If
Mr. Aldridge can ship all of- his stock
to a Producer Agency and retain the
satisfaction and support of his mem-
bers other livestock shipping associa-
tion managers can do the same thing.
Every time a local shipping associa-
tion or an individual sends a carload
of stock to a Producer Agency that
shipment increases the ability of the
Producer Agency to render still greater
service to the livestock growers of the
county. Volume is the most effective
instrument at the disposal of Pro-
ducer Agencies in rendering service."

MORE ON HONOR LIST

"In a recent issue of the I. A. A.
Record was a list of honor shipping
associations," writes J. V. Stevenson,
manager of the Kernan Shipping As-
sociation, Streator, Lasalle county.
"Our association was not included, but
we have shipped 100 per cent to the
Producers since the second week the
Producers did business in Chicago.
Will you please add our name to the
honor roll."

"I can testify to the truth of this
statement," says P. G. Evans of the
Chicago Producers. "You might also
add the Farmers' Shipping Association
at Rockford, Dwight, and Baileyville."

Meybe we could meet at Benton Harbor and
we could get married then and Aye could go
with you back to Cook Coonty or we could
come home and stay a while on Pa. He heerd
you over the radio too one day and he say
"Aye bet you that bane one damb good
swede."

Don't disappoint me, let me hear from you
quick. Aye bane sure we was yust meant for
each other. Pa he say the same as Aye do
Aye bet you get thousands of letters froni
other Kirls all round the country; but Aye
hope to die if Aye don't love you more as
all the rest of them put together.
Yours with love

(Signed) Ola Anderson,

SWAK.

Lowden Is Endorsed

At 13th District Meet

Strong Delegatione Turn Out From All
Counties At Lanark on Dec. IS

RESOLUTIONS were passed en-
dorsing Frank O. Lowden for
president, commending the legislators
from the district who supported the
I. A. A.'s legislative program in the
last General Assembly, and endorsing
the principles of the McNary Haugen
bill when more than 100 Farm Bureau
and I. A. A. leaders and members met
for the 13th District meeting on Dec.
15 at Lanark in Carroll county. *

C. E. Bamborough, who represents
the district on the I. A. A. Executive
Committee discussed agricultural leg-
islation in the 55th General Assembly
and presented the records of the three
representatives and senator from that
section. Senator Joseph Meyers, it was
revealed, had a 100 per cent voting
record on the four major proposals in
which the Association was most inter-
ested.

100 Per Center* Named

Representative A. S. Babb was also
given a 100 per cent record. Rep. John
Acker a 75 per cent record, and Rep.
C. D. Franz a 50 per cent.

"The I. A. A. is
committed to the
policy of watching
the interests of
agriculture in the
General Assembly
and in Congress,"
said Mr. Bambor-
ough. "Taxes will
always be an im-
portant issue so
long as the great
bulk of govern-
ment revenue is
levied against farm

C. E. Bamborough

lands and real estate. Farmers as a
class pay direct taxes on all their
wealth, whereas those owning intan-
gible property often escape with pay-
ing little or no direct taxes.

A. N. Abbott Speaks

Farm Bureau presidents and leaders
from Whiteside, Jo Daviess, Carroll,
Ogle and other counties in the district
contributed to the discussion regard-
ing the effectiveness of various types
of Farm Bureau work.

A. N. Abbott of Whiteside county,
told of his observations in the corn
borer infested regions about Lake
Erie and related how the government
is working to stamp out the pest and
prevent its spread westward.

H. D. Fink, district orgranization
manager for the district with head-
quarters &t Dixon presented the pro-
gram of the I. A. A. with a series of
slides illustrating the Association's ac-
tivities.

Henry A. Wallace, editor of Wal-
lace's Farmer, and President Earl C.
Smith addressed the annual meeting
of the Lasalle County Farm Bureau
at Ottawa on Dec. 15.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Champaign County

Wins Tax Victory

State Commission Orders Reassessment

of Real Property In Champaign,

Urbana and Rantoul

AN ORDER to reassess real property
in the cities of Champaign, Ran-
toul, and Urbana in Champaign tounty,
was issued recently by the Illinois
Tax Commission.

The order sets forth that the local
assessment officers shall proceed at
once to reassess all real property with-
in the township of the city of Cham-
paign, the township of Champaign, the
township of Rantoul, and the township
of Urbana for the year 1927. " Such
reassessments are to be substituted for
the original assessment of real prop-
erty for 1927 within these districts.

This order by the Commission comes
following a presentation of inequalities
between farm lands and real estate
valuations by the Champaign County
Farm Bureau and the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association some time ago. The
Commission's statement reveals that
real property in the city of Rantoul
was assessed at 35 per cent of its fair
cash value, in the city of Champaign
at 26 per cent of its fair cash value,
in the city of Rantoul at 27 per cent,
and in the city of Urbana at 30 per
cent of its fair cash value.

Denies Claim*

The Commission's order denies the
claims made by a group of seven Cham-
paign county attorneys who appeared
in behalf of the taxing districts to de-
feat tax equalization. According to
John C. Watson, tax expert for the
Illinois Agricultural Association, the
average percentage of increase in valu-
ations should be about 34.6 per cent in
the city of Champaign, about 25 per
cent in suburban property in Cham-
paign township, about 30 per cent in
the city of Rantoul, and about 16% per
cent in the city of Urbana. When these
changes are made Mr. Watson esti-
mates that both land and city property
will be assessed on approximately the
same percentage of their fair cash
values.

Inequality Shown

The Champaign County Farm Bu-
reau, with the help of Mr. Watson, un-
covered facts revealed in the tax books
of the county showing that gross in-
equalities existed. The figures so ob-
tained were never successfully at-
tacked, and in two hearings the State
Tax Commission upheld this method of
arriving at the truth regarding as-
sessed valuations.

In its order to the Treasurer of
Champaign county the Tax Commis-
sion statement said: "Therefore the
real property in said townships in said
Champaign county has not been as-
sessed in substantial compliance with
the law for the year 1927, and has
been unequally and improperly as-
sessed.

Mutt tv^ est

"It is therefore ordered by this
Commission that the assessments of
real property as returned by the as-
sessor or assessors within said town-
ships, and as equalized by the Cham-
paign County Board of Review for the
year 1927, be set aside and held for
naught, and that the local assessment
officers of said Champaign county and
of said taxing district do proceed
forthwith to reassess all the real prop-
erty within said districts and cause
such reassessment to be substituted for
the original 'assessment of real prop-
erty for 1927."

The effect of the order will be to re-
duce farm taxes and cause a more
equal distribution of the tax burden
between farm and city property in
Champaign county to the advantage of
farm lands.

. I. A. A. in 1927

(Continued from page 3)
bers, started operations on April 1.
By . November 1 more than 6,000
policies in force and our Financial
Statement listed assets of $120,000
and after setting up reserves for all
liability including losses and claims
unpaid, the net worth of the company
exceeded $70,000.

10. During 1927 the news of the
I. A. A. activities appeared in the press
of practically every State in the Union
as shown by more than 15,000 news-
paper clippings returned by a Clipping
Bureau. Inquiries asking for informa-
tion came from as far East as Jeru-
salem, in Palestine, and as far West as
New Zealand. In addition, our organ-
ization is kept before the public
through our official papers, the ILLI-
NOIS Agricultural Association Rec-
ord, and the Bureau Farmer, and
through a daily 15 minute radio pro-
gram broadcast direct from our own
office studio through the courtesy of
Station WJJD. \

11. We are especially proud to re-
port that the per cent of membership
dues paid up to December 1 was the
highest in the history of our Associa-
tion and last but by no means the least,
we are closing the year with an in-
creased membership of approximately
4,000.

THE PLOWBOY QUARTET

Frank G. Oexner

22nd District Holds

Meeting at Edwardsville

(JT^HE object of these district meet-
A ings is to give the members an
opportunity to voice their wishes and
opinions regarding
past and future
policies of the
Illinois Agricul-
tural Association,"
declared Frank
G. Oexner, I. A.
A. Committeeman
from the 22nd dis-
trict who opened
the recent district
meeting on Dec.
2 at Edwardsville.
Wm. V e i t h,
president, and E.
H. Isenberg, sec-
retary of the Madison County Farm
Bureau, acted as chairman and secre-
tary respectively of the conference.
About 75 turned out for the meet-
ing from the counties of Bond, St.
Clair, Monroe, Washington, and Madi-
son. Following a discussion reg^ard-
ing the advisability of organizing a
milk producers' association in the St.
Louis territory. Farm Adviser Foard
of Bond county described the lime-
stone project which won him third
place in the county adviser's contest
fostered by the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation. The campaigrn re-
sulted in bringfing 400 carloads of
limestone into the county.

President Earl C. Smith discussed
national legislation and held an open
forum on the surplus control bill in
the afternoon. To perpetuate the dis-
trict meeting plan, Stanley Castle,
former I. A. A. committeeman, moved
that the meetings be continued. The
motion was seconded and carried.

Freeport Officials I.

Seek To I^alt Order

Tax Commission Says Inconvenience and
Lack of Time No Argument

THE city attorney of Freeport ap-
peared before the Illinois Tax Com-
mission, Tuesday, Dec. 13, to appeal
for a deferred hearing regarding the
order of reassessment recently issued
by the Commission in the city of Free-
port in Stephenson county.

The Commission granted the request
and the hearing was set for Wednes-
day afternoon, Dec. 21.

"Make it plain to your officials,"
said Chairman Wm. H. Malone, "that
the plea of inexpediency, inconvenience
or lack of time in making the neces-
sary adjustment to comply with the
law will not be accepted. The law sets
forth clearly that all real property
shall be assessed on the same basis, and
if this law means' anything it is our
duty to enforce it."

The recent order of the Commission
called for a reassessment of property
in Freeport where valuations for tax
purposes were much lower than in
other taxing districts of the county.

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Volume 6

FEBRUARY, 1928

Nur

F. D. Barton

Public Questions Up

Before I. A. A. Conference

Legislation, Taxation, Transportation
Problems Reviewed in Rock Island

Meeting
(Note: FolUncing u a tummary of the Pub-
lic Relatione Conference held during the I. A. A.
nieeting at Rock leUind.)

T^HE Chairman of the Public Rela-
-•- tions Advisory Committee submits
the following report and recommenda-
tions of the con-
ference on Public
Relations held
January 19, 1928:
The conference
was held in Eagles
Hall and was at-
tended by about
180 persons.
Legislation
Matters of inter-
est to members on
national and state
legislation were
discussed at this
conference, and recommendations
made thereon. President Smith of the
Association reported on the situation
in Washington regarding farm relief
legislation. It appeared from his
statement that strong pressure was be-
ing brought to bear at this time to
eliminate the equalization fee as a
part of the McNary bill. Mr. Smith
stated that the farm leaders who were
sponsoring this legislation had refused,
and would continue to refuse to elim-
inate the equalization fee as a part of
the proposed legislation. This matter
was considered by the conference, and
the following recommendation made:
"That the Illinoii Agricultural As-
sociation, through its leaders, con-
tinue to insist that the equalization
fee be maintained as a part of the
National Farm Relief program as
outlined in the McNary bill, and
that members of the Congress in
both houses be urged to stand by the
McNary bill as it is now pending
with its inclusion of the equalization
fee provision."

Senate Bil' No. 1 Discussed
Senator Simon E. Lantz appeared
before the conference and stated the
situation at Springfield before the

CD EPORTS of the four group confer-
^ ences held at Rock Island on Jan.
19, 1928, together with accounts of
other meetings, are presented in this
issue. They are a part of the corpor-
ate records of the I. A. A. Read them
carefully. .

state legfislature in its present special
session on the matter of debt limita-
tion legrislation as now outlined in
Senate Bill No. 1 and House Bill No.
13. The senator reported that Senate
Bill No. 1, limiting the debt incurring
power for downstate taxing district to
2% per cent had passed the senate on
second reading and would, during the
early part of the coming week, be be-
fore the senate for final passage. At-
tention was called to the conference
that it would require the constitutional
majority of votes to pass the senate,
namely 26 votes, and that all senators
representing agricultural constituencies
be urged over the week-end to be pres-
ent and vote for Senate Bill No. 1
without amendment.

Recommendation is made that mem-
bers of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation, through their respective county
Farm Bureaus and county executive
officers, be urged to get in touch with
their senators and representatives
over the week-end, urging the support
and passage of Senate Bill No. 1 and
House Bill No. 13 limiting the debt in-
curring power of downstate taxing dis-
trict to 2% per cent on the full as-
sessed value.

Flood Relief Urged

The jmatter of national and state
flood relief was given full considera-
tion by the conference. After careful
consideration it appeared to be the un-
animous opinion of those attending the
conference that relief against floods
was a matter for the attention of the
national congress, and that the con-
gress be urg^ed to pass such legrislation
as would give relief against losses by
floods in the Mississippi valley.

Recommendation is made to the
voting delegates of the Association
(Continued on page 8)

New I. A. A. Committee
Holds First Meeting

In Chicago On Feb. 3

Organize and Plan for 1928, New
Committees Appointed

NEW advisory and finance commit
tees were appointed, and plans
for, the future were considered at the
first meeting of the 1928 Executive
Committee of the I. A. A. held at
Chicago on Feb. 3.
L. R. Marchant of
Knox County was
present, represent-
ing the State Asso-
ciation of Farm
Advisers. A. R.
Wright of Varna,
R. F. Karr, Iro-
quois, and A. N. ,
Skinner, Yates
City, were appoint-
ed to the Finance
Committee for the
A. R. Wright ensuring year.
The personnel of the advisory com-
mittees as recommended by President
Smith and approved by the Execu-
tive Committee is little different from
the previous year, the same chairmen
in each case being re-appointed. The
committees for 1928 are as follows:

Organization and Information, C.
E. Bamborough, Polo, chairman;
Frank Oexner, Waterloo; Charles S.
Black, Jacksonville; W. B. Bunn, 01-
ney.

Financial Business Service, Geo. F.
Tullock, Rockford, chairman; Fred
Dietz, DeSotoj M. G. Lambert, Ferris;
W. W. McLaughlin, Ottawa.

Public Relations, Frank D. Barton,
Cornell, chairman; J. L. Whisnand, '
Charleston; Charles Marshall, Belk-
nap; R. J. Laible, Carrollton.

Marketing, Samuel Sorrells, Ray-
mond, chairman; W. L. Cope, Salem;
H. C. Vial, Downers Grove; Geo. J.
StoU, Chestnut; R. C. Doneghue, Ma-
comb.

Barton Reports

Frank D. Barton, chairman of the

Legislative Committee, reported that

Senate Bill No. 1, limiting the bond-

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THE 1. A. A. RECORD

Senim Ass'n Plans

For 1928 Campaign

O. B. Goble and Sam Sorrella are Re-
elected President and Vice-President

(Not*: FoUovtno are the mmute* of th*
third mnnual matting of tht /Uinow Farm Bu-
rtau SantiH Attoeiation, k«U /ait. IS at Roek
ItUnd.)

THE meeting was called to order by
President O. B. Goble. Remarks
relative to the growth of the Associa-
tion and the success of last years
operations were made by President
Goble.

The minutes of the Third Annual
Meeting were read and approved.

Secretary's report was presented.

Moved and seconded that the .report
be approved. Carried.

Treasurer's report was presented.

Moved and seconded that the Treas-
urer's report be approved. Carried.

The following men were appointed
^ on the Credentials Committee: — J. H.
Lloyd, Alden Snyder, P. B. Scott.

The following were appointed on the
Resolutions Committee: — R. A. Nor-
rish, Enos Wa-
ters, 0. L. Welch.

Dr. Graham
Speak*

Dr. Graham
was introduced
by President
Goble. Dr. Gra-
ham gave a high-
ly instructive talk
on "Studies in
Baby, Pig Vacci-
nation," followed
by a discussion
led by Dr. Jas.
McDonald, U. S.

Dep't. of Agriculture, in charge of
Hog Cholera Control Work in Illinois.

Following the general discussion,
slides were shown by Dr. Graham per-
taining to the subject under discussion.

Adjournment for lunch.

Meeting reconvened at 1 :30 p. m.
Called to order by President Goble.

Report of Credentials Committee by
Chairman J. H. Lloyd. Motion made,
seconded and carried that report be
approved.

District caucuses were next held to
enable such districts to select their
nominees for directors. Nominees were
as follows: —

District No. 1 — R. A. Norrish.

District No. 2 — J. H. Lloyd.

District No. 3 — Adam McWilliam.

District No. 4 — Sam Sorrells.

District No. 5 — O. B. Goble.

District No. 6 — James Gillespie.

Directors Elected

Motion made and seconded that the
Secretary be instructed to cast unan-
imous ballot of the Association for
delegates above. Carried.

Discussion relative to possibility or
advisability of having a Farm Bureau
label on serum and virus put out by
the serum companies. John Spencer,
Lawrence County, suggested that virus
bottles bear a red label or label of some
other strikingr color. No action taken.

General discussion followed, from
which developed the following sugges-
tions for the consideration of the Di-
rectors.

Suggestions offered

1. That bonds for delivery of serum
and virus covered in contracts be re-
quired from contracting companies.

2. That something be incorporated
in the contracts obligating companies
to furnish serum and virus for revacci-
nation when serum or virus is at fault.

3. That bids be obtained on avian
bacterins, especially in small bottles.

4. That all shipments of serum and
virus sent to one county be of same
serial number as ^nearly as possible.

Report of Resolutions Committee
given by R. A. Norrish, Chairman.
Motion made and seconded that the re-
port be approved and resolutions be
adopted.

Motion made and seconded that un-
animous ballot of organization be cast
for Ray E. Miller for Director at Iiarge.
Carried.

ILLINOIS FARM BUREAU SERUM ASSOCIATION DIRECTORS'
Left to right: R. A. Norrish, Whiteside County; Adam McWilliam, Stark
County; Samuel Sorrells, Montgomery County; O. B. Goble, Coles County.

Resolutions To All Counties

Motion made that copy of resolu-
tions be sent to all member counties
of the Association. Seconded and car-
ried.

Motion that booklet or pamphlet of
directions for vaccination be prepared
and distributed to member counties of
association. Seconded and carried.

Expression called for from counties
as to number selling only to Farm
Bureau members. Only five counties
responded as selling to non-members —
all others represented restrict sale to
Farm Bureau members.

Motion by Scott of Mercer County
that buying of 1928 serum and supplies
be turned over to the board of direc-
tors with full purchasing powers. Sec-
onded by C. J. Elliott of LaSalle Coun-
ty. Extended discussion followed.

Motion by L. 0. Wise, seconded by
Heath of Piatt County that motion be
tabled. Motion carried.

Meeting adjourned at 4 :30 p. m.
RAY E. MILLER,
Secretary-Treasurer.

Directors Meet

(Note. Fotlovnng are minutes of dirteturt
meeting foUovnng Aeeociation Meeting.)

Motion by Adam McWilliam, second-
ed by R. A. Norrish, that 0. B. Goble
act as president. Amended by J. H.
(Continued on page 9)

M. G. Lambert

Lambert Active in ,

Home Community

Is First Man on Executive Board from
Hancock County < i

MG. LAMBERT, the new repre-
• sentative of the 14th Congres-
sional District on th,e Illinois Agri-
cultural Associa-
t i o n Executive
Committee, was
born in Rock Creek
township, Hancock
county, in 1881^
He has lived his
entire life on a
farm within five
miles fronj where
h i s grandfather
settled in 1358.

He attended the
district school a
few months each
winter until he
was 21. Then he entered the Howes
Academy, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, where
he was a student from 1903 to 1906
inclusive. Later he attended the Iowa
State College at Ames where he studied
agriculture and livestock production
from 1906 to 1907.

Feeds Livestock I' L

Returning to his home in 1907 he
started operating the home farm. He
owns the 280 acre live stock farm
which he now operates. All of the
crops are fed to livestock and marketed
on the hoof. Lambert raises three or
four carloads of hogs a year and feeds
from four to eight loads of cattle.

In 1912 he married Sadie iLucken-
bill. He has a son and two daiighters
ranging in age from nine to 14 years.

He aided in organizing the Hancock
County Farm Bureau in 1914, and
since that time has been, active as
township director, executive commit-
teeman, and now as president. He has
always taken a prominent part in com-
munity activities: namely, as school
director, church officer, president of
the Adrian Shipping Ass'n, bank
director, president of the Western Illi-
nois National Farm Loan Ass'n, pres-
ident of the Adrian Agricultural Credit
Corporation, president of the Adrian
Agricultural Short Course, president
of the Adrian Community Club, di-
rector in the Hancock County Farm
Bureau Supply Company, and director
in the Illinois Farm supply Cp.

Sth Member From District

Mr. Lambert is the 5th member of
the Illinois Agricultural Association
Executive Committee from the 14th
District. The committeemen who pre-
ceded him were : I. F. Gilmor of Mercer
county, Robert N. Clarke of Hender-
son county, M. L. Hunt of McDonough
county, and Wm. H. Moody of Rock
Island county. Mr. Lambert is the first
man from Hancock county to be repre-'
aented on the I._A. A. Ezecotive Bo»rd.

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Teams in 1928 Race

Minute* of annuo/ mseting of the lUinoie
Farm Bureau Batball League, Room K, Fort
Armetrong Hotel, Wednetday, Jan. IS, l»tS.
Rock Itland.

'X'HE meeting was called to order
1 at 9:30 a. m. by Secretary E. G.
Thiem in the absence of President
George R. Cline and Vice-President
W. G. Griffith.

Between 75 and 100 delegates, mem-
bers, and visitors were present.

The first order of business was the
election of a temporary chairman. C.
R. Ford, president of the Peoria
County Farm Bureau, was duly nomin-
ated and in the absence of other nom-
inations, was elected without opposi-
tion.

The secretary-treasurer's report was
next presented. It was moved and
seconded that the report be accepted
as read. Carried.

The financial statement of the
league, as read by the secretary-treas-
urer, showed a balance on hand as of
December 31, 1927, of $102.98. Sub-
sequently, |25 for 1927 dues was re-
ceived bringing the total to $127.98.

Committeet Announced

Following the reports it was moved
and seconded that a committee be ap-
pointed for the purpose of appointing
committees on credentials, resolutions
and eligibility, and nominations.

Harrison Fahrnkopf of McLean
County, chairman of this committee,
reported as follows: for the committee
on credentials, E. G. Thiem, E. D.
Walker, of Henderson County, and
' H. O. Tedford, of Lawrence County;
for the committee on resolutions and
eligribility, W. A. Stevenson, Hender-
son County, Harrison Fahrnkopf, Mc-
Lean County, and L. R. Welk, Taze-
well County; for the committee on
nominations, Guy Husted, Cass
County, Theodore Stimpert, Wood-
ford County, and F. E. Fuller, Marsh-
all-PutAam County.

It was moved and seconded that the
report of the committee on committees
be accepted as read. Carried.

I Eligibility A Problem

A discussion of rules and plans for
1928 was next taken up. The ques-
tion of eligibility was first considered.
After much discussion pro and con on
the question as to whether or not
the league should be opened to all
Farm Bureau members and their fam-
ilies regardless of residence or oc-
cupation, the report of the committee
on resolutions and eligibility was call-
ed for. Mr. Fahrnkopf of McLean
County reported for the committee
and advised that it favored the fol-
lowing amendment to the eligibility
clause in the constitution. Article IV,
Section 1:

Tke New Amendment
"Any Farm Bureau member or

member of his family whose business
is farming and whose principal in-
come is derived from farming, pro-
vided said Farm Bureau membership
shall be contracted for in the custom-
ary way, shall be eligrible to play in
this League. Said elig^ibility must be
certified to by the directors or farm
adviser from each county."

The committee, likewise, submitted
a more liberal amendment declaring
any Farm Bureau member or member
of his family eligible to play in the
League. The first proposed amend-
ment was favored by the committee.

To determine which delegates were
entitled to vote. Secretary Thiem next
reported for the credentials committee.
The following were credited as voting
delegates having fulfilled all the re-
quirements necessary to that office:
Guy Husted, Cass County; Theodore
Stimpert, Woodford County; George
Clark, McLean County; W. P. Miller,
Brown County; F. M. Hastings, Mar-
shall-Putnam County; Sam McClugage,
Peoria County; L. R. Welk, Tazewell
County; W. E. Foard, Bond County;
J. D. Burns, DeWitt County; H. O.
Tedford, Lawrence County; and W. A.
Stevenson, Henderson County. Adams
and Effingham counties, both of which
were eligible to one delegate each,
were not represented.

Counties Fay Up

This made a total of 11 accredited
voting delegates representing 11 coun-
ties.

Following the reading of this list the
following counties paid their dues and
be came eligible to vote : Logan, War-
ren, Jefferson, and Morgran. Dele-
gates accredited from these counties
were as follows: J. H. Checkley, Lo-
gan County; Curtis Bates, Warren
County; L. R. Caldwell of Jefferson
County, and F. A. Fisher of Morgan
County.

Amendment Adopted

After considerable sparring around
it was moved and seconded that the
recommendations of the committee on
eligibility be accepted and that the
first amendment proposed be incorpor-
ated into the constitution and by-laws.
Roll call on this motion was asked for.
the Counties voting in favor of the
motion were as follows: Cass, McLean,
Brown, Marshall-Putnam, Peoria, Taze-
well, DeWitt, Henderson, Logan, and
Warren; against the motion, Wood-
ford, Bond, Lawrence, and Jefferson.
The count showed 10 in favor, and
four against. Inasmuch as only a two-
thirds vote is required to amend the
constitution, the amendment, there-
fore, was declared adopted.

A discussion now followed regard-
ing the interpretation of the amend-
ment. Several delegates voiced their
opinions regarding the interpretation.
After much deliberation it was moved
by Tedford of Lawrence County that
the word "dependent" be inserted be-
fore the word "member." The mo-
tion was seconded. A roll call vol* on

Chu. S. Black

Black Is New Director Dist. 20

Was Eight Years President of Morgan
County Farm Bureau

CHARLES S. BLACK, recently
elected to the I. A. A. Executive
Committee from the 20th district, was
born in 1869 on a
farm in Morgan
county near Jack-
sonville, Illinois.
After finishing the
elementary
schools, he entered
Brown's Business
College at Jack-
sonville where he
later g^raduated.

Mr. Black and
his two sons are
farming BOO acres
of land. He also
superintends the
farming of 600 additional acres. He
has always taken an active part in all
community enterprises. He served as
school director for 26 consecutive
years, and has held various offices in
the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Eight Years President

Mr. Black helped organize the Mor-
gan County Farm Bureau and served
eight years as president. He was un-
tiring in his efforts to make it a suc-
cess. He was a charter director of
The Farmers Stote Bank and Trust
Company and is a vice-president of
that institution at the present time.
He is also affiliated with a number of
fraternal orders, being a thirty-second
degree Mason, a Shriner, and now
Commander of Hospitaller Command-
ery, No. 31, Knighte Templar. He
also belongs to the Odd Fellows,
Knights of Pythias, Anti-Horse Thief
Association, and is a farmer member
of the Rotary Club, Jacksonville.

Mr. Black is the first Morgan county
man to be elected to the I. A. A. Ex-
ecutive Committee. He is the fifth
representative on the I. A. A. Board
from the 20th District. His prede-
cessors were: Jos. R. Fulkerson, Jer-
sey county; W. A. McNeill, Case
county; Earl C. Smith, Pike county,
and Charles Borgelt, Mason county.

this question was obtained, resulting
in seven votes in favor and only two
against. The motion was declared
carried.

I How It Reads Now

The amendment as amended now
reads as follows: "Any Farm Bureau
member or dependent member of his
family whose business is farming, pro-
vided said Farm Boreau membership
shall be contracted for in the cus-
tomary way, shall be eligible to play
in this League. Said eligibility most
be certified to by the directors or farm
adviser from each county."

After a discussion regarding the
time of opening the season, it was d»-
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THE I. A. A. RECORD

I L«L«INOIS

CCLTURAL ASSOCIA

RECORJO

To advance the purpoMe for which ihe farm bareau tsa* OTganixed-
nanteiy to promote, protect and reprcMcnt the bumineaa, economic^
aoeiai and maueational interest b ct the farmare of lilinoie and the nation,
and to develop agriculture

Published once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave., Mount Morris,
Illinois, by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Edited by Deparcment
of Information, E. G. Thiem, Director, 608 South Dearborn Street,
Chicago, Illinois. Entered as second-class matter October 20, 1925,
at the post office at Mount Morris, Illinois, under the Act of March 3,
1879. Accepted for mailing at special rate of postasre provided for in
Section 412, Act of February 28, 1925, authoriicd October 27, 1925.
The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
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for subscription to the iLUNOis AORicuLTURAi. Association Record.
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OFFICERS

President, Ewl C. Smith Detroit

Vlcc-Prealdent, Frwik D. Bwton ,^ ComeU

Treaeurer, R. A. Cowie* Bloomincton

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

(By Congrcaaioiul District*)

lit to 11th H. C. Vtal, Downers Grove

12th G. F. TuUock, Rockford

I3tb C E. Bamborough, Polo

14th M. G. Lambert. Ferris

ifth _ A. N. Skinner, Yates City

l«th A. R. Wrisht, Varna

17th Geo. J. StoU, Chestnut

Wth R. F. Karr, Iroquois

l»th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th Charles S. Black, Jacksonville

21at.« Samuel Sorrelis, Raymond

Slnd Frank Oezner, Waterloo

2ard W. L. Cope, Salem

2<th Charles Marshall, Belknap

Hth Fred Diets, Oe Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Business Service Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A, D. Lynch

Farm Supply J. R. Bent

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit arid VaBCtabl* Marketins A. B. Leeper

General Offloe J. H. Kelker

Information E.G. Thiem

Insurance (Actuarial) J. P. Gibson

Insurance (Acquisition) V. Vaniman

Lacal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

LlTe Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller

Organization G. E. Mctzgcr

Poultry and Egg Marketing F. A. Gougler

TautkM and Statistics J. C. Watson

Traosportatiaa L. J. Quasey

A Good BUI

ILLINOIS farmers will be glad to learn that Senate Bill
No. 1 now before the legislature is in line for passage
at an 'early date. The welcome news that the measure
was moved up to tnird reading in the House came just
before going < press. The bill should become law within
the next ten tiays.

This important piece of legislation, which the I. A. A.
has supportied vigorously, limits the bonding power of
down-state taxing districts to 2% per cent of the total full
valuations of property therein. It spares downstate from
a possible orgy of local indebtedness which no sane citizen
or taxpayer wants to see.

The notorious revenue measure of the 55th General As-
sembly, which doubled valuations for tax extension pur-
poses throughout Illinois, thereby doubled the debt-incur-
ring powers of all taxing districts. Senate Bill No. 1 is in-
tended to restore the old limitations placed in the Consti-
tution of 1870 by its far-sighted farmers.

Tax relief is farm relief. Until farm prices are up to
the American standard, farmers will insist on economy in
government commensurate with that which they must
practice ^t home. ,

Uses of Chain Broadcasting y ^l ■

AGRICULTURE is to have its place in national 'chain
i broadcasting. So says the National Broadcasting
Company announcing our friend Frank Mullen as farm
radio director, and the broadcast of the I. A. A. meeting
at Rock Island as the inaugural feature of the new service.
The chain expects to broadcast all important farm meetings
and expositions. The announcement states that plans for
daily agricultural service over the Middle West network
are rapidly nearing completion.

The National Broadcasting Company can render a great
service to ag^riculture by telling the truth about the in-
dustry. We hope there will be many dirt farmers sched-
uled on its programs. The farmer is not in so great need
of advice and suggestions as he is of an opportunity to
tell others what's wrong with his business and how it can
be remedied. Sympathy alone will not help. A friendly
helpful attitude toward his efforts at surplus crop control
and price stabilization is needed from the farmers' town
i;nd city neighbors. The American people will respond
when they are properly informed.

OTHER OPINIONS

AN ARGUMENT FOR STABILIZATION

WE remind the critics of farm relief legislation that the
railroad industry of the United States was financially
unstable and undependable as well as unfair in sefvice
from its beginning, and its master minds were unable to
solve its difficulties, until powers of government were em-
ployed to exercise control, to establish financial stability
and efficient service.

In like manner the banking business of the United
States was subject to disastrous disturbances and panics
to the hurt of all business, and its master minds were un-
able to solve its difficulties, until the powers of govern-
ment were employed to exercise control of credit and
currency.

Agriculture asks no more and will accept no less than
the exercise of like powers of government to establish an
agency of control of farm surpluses for the stabilization
of values in common justice to produ ers and in promotion
of a balanced and enduring national prosperity.

HON. CLARENCE OUSLEY.

FARMERS AND BONDING BILLS t ^*

It may seem that there can be little or no connection
between the interests of the farmers of Illinois and the
bonding power of the city of Chicago. But events of the
past year have shown a near and vital connection between
these two, as was pointed out by Earl C. Smith, president
of the Illinois Agricultural association in his speech at
Rock Island this week.

The last legislature passed a bill enabling Chicago to
double its bonding limits. The same law was seen to aflfect
the powers of every taxing unit in the state, and therefore
might be used to greatly increase taxation against farm
lands. In spite of a fight agrainst legalizing this possible
injustice to the farmers, proponents of the law sought to
throw farmers a sop in the amendment to the Juul law.
The latter, however, has just been invalidated by the su-
preme court, this leaving the way open for inpi'eased farm
taxes unless some remedial legislation is taken. Therefore
the state farm organization secured consent of the gover-
nor to include this subject in those for consideration at the
present special session. The state farm organization is
supporting a bill in this session which would confine bond-
ing powers in all sections outside of Cook county to their
former limits. Farmers are finding that eternal vigilance
is the price of escaping death-dealing taxation. — Panta-
prapb (Bloomingrton). _ _ y

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Tun* tn on tht I. A. A. IS nUnuttt program
broadeast daily at lt:SO P. M. from ttation
WJJD, Chieago (S6S metert). The faeUUiet of
ttation WJJD are loaned the Aetoeiation
through the eourtesv of the Loyal Order of
Mooee, Mooeeheart, lU. No program on Satur-
day and Sundayt.

Hears From Many

In a letter to a friend in Rock Is-
land, Governor Adam McMullen of Ne-
braska, who made the keynote speech
at the convention of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association at the Rock Island
arsenal dining room last Friday after-
noon, said : "I have received many let-
ters relative to the broadcasting. They
came from a number of states."

Dewitt C. Wing, Editor of the Amer-
ican Swineherd, Chicago, writes:

"From a personal friend of mine in Kansas.
Hiss Carol L. Martin at Lawrence, I received
this on Jan. 22 : 'We have been hearing soma
wonderfully good radio programs. One of the
most interesting was the program of the
Illinois Agricultural Association, following its
luncheon on Friday. Governor McMullen's
and Hr. Peek's brief talks were hard to an-
swer, it they were not unanswerable. I'm still
for the McNary-Haugen bill'."

Prominent Speakers Scheduled

Well known and interesting speakers
from public life have spoken, or will
speak on the I. A. A. daily radio pro-
gram during the next few months.

Questions of unusual interest by
men well qualified to speak on them
will be covered in such talks.

The interest of farmers in matters
of 'public policy and representation has
never been greater than at the present
time. The following schedule, part of
which already has been fulfilled, is rep-
resentative of what is to come here-
after. Write and tell us how the pro-
grams are coming in. Criticism and
suggestions are always welcome.

TUNE IN SUNDAY NOON

Estimated receipts of livestock on the Monday
market at the U. S. Yards. Chicago, will be
broadcast each Sunday between 1 :00 and 1 :30
p. m., from Station WJJD, Mooseheart. The
Chicago Producers furnish the information.

Mtnday, Feb, 13. 12:30 P. M.
■0)e" Olsnn from Noith DakoU. the humoroui Swedf.

Tuesday, Fab. 14

•What rirmers Ought to Know About Rural Electrl-
flcatlun." by I'aul Kulin. Chicago, member Illlnoli
Ccimmerce Commission.

WadsMday. Feb. IS
"The I. A. A. 'I Interest In Rural Electrlflcatlon."
by L. J. Quasey. director of transportation.

Thursday, Feb. 16
"The Work of the Grain Futurei Administration," by
L, A. riU. director. Chicago.

Friday. Feb. 17
"Out of the Smokehouse." by DeWltt C. Wlni. edi-
tor, American Swineherd.

Menday. Feb. 20
"Crime and Law Enforcement." by Hlntoo O. Clay-
baugh. chairman, lUlaoli Parole Board.

Tuesday, Feb. 21
"Why rarmen Maat Be Organised." by Ses. K
MeUger. director of orgsnlsatlon.

Thureday, Feb. 23
"What Farmers Ought te Know About Wild Oane."
by Beth ■. Gordoo. Isaak Walton League of Anerlca.

Geo. F. TuUoch

Th« pnrchaie of ■ system of amplifiers or
loud speakers to. be used at future I. A. A.
and Farm Bureau picnics was considered at
the recent meeting of the I. A. A. BzeentiTe
Committee.

Business Services of

I. A. A. Are Discussed

Accounting, Insurance and Farm Supplies
Considered in Rock Island Conference

(Note: FoUoieing ie the report of the Con-
ference on Financial Bttstness Service held on
Jan. It at Rock leland.)

'I^'HE meeting was called to order by
J- Mr. Tullock, chairman of the Ad-
visory Committee on Financial Busi-
ness Service. He
stated that the
purpose of the
meeting was to af-
ford an opportun-
ity for the Asso-
i "" K^^^P ciation to get the
-^^^^^ best thought and
opinion of the
members present.

Accounting Up
First

The presenta-
tion of the topics
announced in the
program was made in the form of a
paper, in which was suggested the
necessity for better Farm Bureau ac-
counting and the desirability of hav-
ing the accounts periodically audited
by disinterested parties. The present-
ation of the topics led to an outline
of the preparation of Farm Bureau
budgets estimating income and ex-
pense for the ensuing year. Multi-
graph statements of income and ex-
pense of three unidentified county
Farm Bureaus, covering periods of
three years, were presented as ex-
amples of the methods employed in
preparing a budget.

There was no discussion. No ex-
pression or recommendation was made
by the conference.

Phosphate and Limestone

During the eight years of the ac-
tivities of the Phosphate and Lime-
stone Department, the work has
been in a state of continual evolution
and improvement. During the last
year a number of suggestions and cri-
ticisms aimed at ways and means of
making this work more effective and
valuable, have come from various sec-
tions of the state and it now seems
desirable to give an opportunity for
the fullest possible expression of
views, suggestions and criticisms, by
each and all of the counties concerned.
Rather than attempt to cover this sub-
ject in an exhaustive way in the group
conference, this afternoon, the con-
ference seemed to approve of the de-
partment's own suggestions that a se-
ries of seven (7) district conferences
be held in the near future to discuss
more thoroughly this work. Each of
these districts will select one repre-
sentative to attend a final meeting at
the Illinois Agricultural Association
oflBce at Chicago for conference with
members of the administration and
the Financial Business Advisory Com-
mittee and the Department Director in
an effort to make such improvements

and additions to the work as may seem
feasible and prudent and will harmon-
ize the needs of the various districts
in a uniform state-wide policy.

Farm Bureau Supply Companies

The organization of county supply
and service companies, was explained
in general terms and also the organ-
ization of the Illinois Farm Supply
Company and its relation to ths
county units.

A number of questions were asked
regarding the problems of organiza-
tion. Considerable interest was shown
by delegates representing counties in
which companies of this character are
under consideration or in some stage
of organization.

Due to the fact that supply compan-
ies have been organized in 21 coun-
ties, this plan of organization and the
experience of operating companies
was apparently well known. The dis-
cussion was limited to questions of an
informational character and no recom-
mendations were made by the confer-
ence.

Insurance Expfkined

Automobile Insurance. An explan-
ation was given of the new schedule
adopted by the board of directors of
the Illinois Agricultural Mutua^ In-
surance Company.

Class 1 — Fire, Theft, Collision, Pub-
lic Liability and Property Damage $26.

Class 2 — Fire, Theft, Public Liabil-
ity, and Property Damage $25.

Class 3 — Public Liability and Prop-
erty Damage $15.

Class 4— Fire, Theft $15.

In Class 3 and 4, contribution to
surplus is $5, or one-half of surplus
share and also premium deposit is re-
duced to $5.

Windstorm, tornado and hail cover-
age will be made effective on all pol-
icies Feb. 1, unless indication is made
that such coverage is not desired.
There will be no additional initial cost
for this coverage. Coverage was added
on spare tires that are locked, for
those electing same, with no additional
initial cost. Collision coverage with
any immovable object including ac-
cidental up-set wis added with an ad-
ditional premium deposit of $10. The
above schedule applies to pleasure cars
and farm trucks.

Fire, Lightning, and Hail Insurance

It was explained that the Farmers
Mutual Reinsurance Company, which
was organized by the State Associa-
tion of Mutual Insurance Companies
in cooperation with the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association, was furnishing
the following forms of insurance serv-
ice on a mutual basis: Direct insur-
ance, specific reinsurance, recession re-
insurance, blanket reinsurance, farm
crop hail insurance, and fruit and gar-
den truck hail insurance. The farm
crop hail insurance was furnished at a
cost of $22 per $1,000, both in 1926
and 1927, which was a saving of at
least $8 per $1,000 over what the same
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THE 1. A. A. RECORD

Samuel Sorrells

Bargaining Power

Object of Cooperation

Marketing Conference Report Shows
Great Interest in Mass SeUing

(Not»: FoUowing u a •ummary of tfc« Uar-
kttmg Confertne* h*U Jan. it during tA« re-
cent convention of th* lUinoit AgrieuUmml At-
—eiation at Rock Itland.)

DAIRY farmers in Illinoia can add
$8,000,000 annually to their in-
come by merchandising their milk in a
more correlated
manner. Markets
that are already
organized have a
problem of ex-
tending coopera-
tion to their neigh-
bors so that they
will not compete
agrainst one an-
other but co-oper-
ate with one an-
other.

The Dairy De-
partment reported
that a move was
already underway to work out a state
plan on a fundamentally sound basis
to bring about better co-operation in
selling, a better knowledge of markets
on the part of associations already es-
tablished, and the further organiza-
tion of markets not yet organized — all
yielding increased prices to the produc-
ers of milk.

Produce Marketing

Illinois has a produce marketing
problem valued at $75,000,000. The
commodities include cream, poultry
and eggs. In solving the marketing
problem of these commodities it is be-
ing done by organizing units made up
of approximately 125 members around
a trading point. At present twelve
counties have associations now market-
ing and that many more counties are
organizing.

The advantage to be gained through
such associations is through the bar-
gaining power grained in selling vol-
ume, the farmers weighing and testing
their own products as they are sold,
production of quality and the knowl-
edge gained through the co-operative
effort of these units, which will lead
to a more comprehensive plan of mark-
eting produce. We are finding out
that this method of marketing not only
is proving beneficial to the farmer, but
is also meeting with favor on the part
of our present commercial marketing
institutions, with which we make con-
tact.

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing

The extent of the fruit and vege-
table industry is not generally known
throoghout the state. Seventy-one
counties shipped fruits and vegetables
in carlots. The total shipments in
1926, according to figures supplied by
the Illinois Department of Agriculture,
aggregated approximately 13,000 cars.
The 1927 figures are not yet available.

The big problem in marketing fruita

and vegetables is to reduce the high
cost between the producer and the
consumer. The principal item of these
is freight, which through the assist-
ance of the Transportation Depart-
ment of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation has shown a saving to the
fruit growers of Illinois of practically
$130,000 a year.

The increased buying power of large
distributing organizations for perish-
able products is becoming grreater very
rapidly and it is becoming more and
more necessary each year that the
fruit growers cooperate in a mass sell-
ing campaign to meet this restricted
buying of these products.

Grain Marketing

The treasurer of the association at
the request of the president, during
the year, has made a study of the
grain marketing situation with partic-
ular reference to opportunity that
seems to be offered the association to
develop or assist in the development
of a marketing plan for gr&m. This
conference is advised that the treasur-
er has filed with the executive com-
mittee of the Association his report on
the snbpect. The report with certain
proposals embodied in it has been of-
fered to the executive committee, for
study, and is under consideration at
this time by that body, and therefore
is not offered here.

The association has made a particu-
lar study of certain limitations and
impediments that seem particularly to
hamper the development of cooperative
marketing of grain, with a view to
suggesting to other organizations ways
and means to foster and supplement
it through its formative stages, and
until its merit shall have been demon-
strated and proven to growers.

In this connection it may be pointed
out that the co-operative marketing
movement in Denmark has developed
and succeeded largely through the ef-
forts of government in its intensive
educational work. The same may be
said of co-operative marketing of
wheat in Canada, in which instance
the government, in effect, conducted
a demonstration, during the war years,
through its compulsory grain pool.
Previously, certain provinces in Can-
ada had substantially aided financially
and otherwise in the building of num-
bers of farmers' elevators for grow-
ers. These cases are merely cited as
examples and in general support of the
thought of the association — to be left
with the conference.

It was the sense of the meeting that
the Illinois Agricultural Association
should employ a director of grain mar-
keting to devote his full time to this
important marketing project.

Lit* Stock Maricetiag

There are approximately 500 live-
stock shipping associations in Illinois,
95 Farm Bureaus, four great terminal
cooperative selling agencies and ap-
proximately 60,000 Farm Bureau
members.

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The principal aim of the livestock
marketing program of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association is the coordinate
the efforts of all of these agencies and
individuals on one program with one
object. In carrying out this program
we have presented to each Farm Bur-
eau the advisability of making liva-
stock marketing a major project. In
cooperation with the co-operative
agencies on the terminal markets, ar-
rangements have been made for push-
ing aggressively the livestock market-
ing program in 77 counties of the 95
organized Farm Bureau counties of
the state.

The principal problems which we
have to overcome in furthering this
prog^ram are, first, the indifference of
the individual farmer as to the im-
portance of studying his livestock
marketing problem in the same way
that he has studied his production
problem. Our second difficulty lies in
the lack of information which the
great mass of individual farmers have
as to what has already been accom-
plished in the co-operative marketing
of livestock. Our third problem is to
bring about the united effort of all the
agencies mentioned. Our fourth prob-
lem is to bring about a proper con-
ception of the true place of our co-
operative shipping associations in a
broad livestock marketing program. A
shipping association is only a shipping
association and these associations can
never achieve mass selling unless they
consolidate their efforts on the ter-
minal markets. ! -T-

Summary i

Summarizing the activities of the
entire marketing department of the
Illinois Agricultural Association and
its different departments special at-
tention should be paid to a central
theme which is fundamental in every
report. Mr. Lynch calls attention to
the necessity of mass selling of milk
in the different milk sheds of the state
to avoid competition between these
same milk sheds. Mr. Gougler in his
report illustrates the progress which
has been made in consolidating the
selling of cream, eggs and poultry
through organizations instead of by
individual producers. Mr. Leeper has
illustrated the effect of the mass sell-
ing of fruits and vegetables to meet
the mass buying of these same prod-
ucts. In grain marketing the same
problem is apparent. In the last an-
alysis the whole marketing problem re-
volves around the necessity for giving
to the producer a bargaining power in
order that he may meet with mass sell-
ing the mass buying with which he is
confronted on the other side.

The meeting further was of the
opinion that, if possible, more time
should be allotted to the marketing
conference so each commodity might
have fuller consideration.

Respectfully submitted,
SAMUEL SORRELLS,

Chairman Marketing Committee.

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Do Business Projects

Aid Large Membership ?

Yes, Say Records. Advisers Tell How
They Keep Members Informed

(Not*: Following it the report of the Organ-
ization and Information Conference h^d on
Jan. If, at Bock I eland.)

IN THE Organization Section of the
Conference conducted in the ball
room of the New Harper Hotel on
Jan. 18 at Rock
Island the discus-
sion took an in-
structional turn
rather than one of
definite recom-
mendations.

Discussions were
limited to three
topics :

1. Discussion
of the Program of
Work and Its Ef-
fect on Member-

Bamborouth ship Maintenance.

2. Who Should
be Members.

3. The General Discussion of the
Continuous Membership Agreement.

Early in the conference, it devel-
oped that there are three general
types of county Farm Bureau pro-
grams prevailing among the Bureaus
of the state. They are as follows:

1. Those county programs heavily
loaded with projects of a commercial
nature.

The Bureaus following this type of
program have rather generally shown
increases in their membership. In
all cases, however, they strongly em-
phasize the establishment of differ-
entials in some way or another, so
that Farm Bureau members may be
favored over the non-member.

Educational Projects Good

2. The second class of county pro-
grams with a large majority of educa-
tional projects and little or no com-
mercial work.

The thought was advanced that this
type of program tends to increase
and maintain membership, if the ad-
ministration is such as to keep a great
number of members busy and carry-
ing responsibility. It calls for a
highly organized system of commit-
tees and leaders widely scattered over
the county.

3. The third type of program
seems to be a more evenly balanced
type containing both educational and
commercial projects. The thought de-
veloped was that this type of progrram
appeals to a larger percentage of farm-
ers than the highly educational, or
the highly commercialized type of
program. It was recognized, however,
that conditions vary in different coun-
ties, and in different communities, and
that a careful study of local conditions
should govern the type of program
which Farm Bureaus should carry.

Who Should Be Members

The second general topic under dis-
cussion was "Who Should be Mem-
bers."

Discussion showed that in some
counties anybody who is interested in
ag^riculture is permitted to join. Oth-
ers follow the policy of making a more
or less careful selection of the pros-
pects, thus tending toward a selected
membership. There seemed to be quite
a division of thought on this matter.
Several things, however, of importance
were brought out in the discussion.

Joint Memberships

The joint membership agreement as
it now prevails in most counties be-
tween father and son, landlord and
tenant or partners in the farming
business was given the most considera-
tion. It was pointed out that this joint
membership agn^eement will be a great-
er obstacle in the future than it has
been in the past with commercial
activities developing, through which
Farm Bureau members are favored
by dividends of one kind or another.
It is diflScult to determine just who
should get dividends from some sort
of commercial venture, or who should
be entitled to serve in case a project
is confined to members only.

Several representatives of county
Farm Bureaus who spoke on this par-
ticular subject urged that the tend-
ency should be toward limiting mem-
bership to the individual rather than
accepting partnership of father and
son, or landlord and tenant on a joint
agn'eement.

Continuous Membership

From this subject the discussion
drifted to the continuous membership
contract now in use in several coun-
ties. Several men representing Bur-
eaus using this contract reported very
favorably on it. There seemed to be
no difficulty expressed from counties
using this type of contract in the mat-
ter of collection. They all reported
that it seemed to them that this agree-
ment would tend to cut the cost of
membership maintenance. The pres-
ent policy of the Illinois Agricultural
Association is to encourage the use
of the continuous membership agree-
ment, but allow the counties to de-
cide between this type of agreement
and the straight three-year form com-
monly in use over the state.

No definite recommendations were
made in the org^anization branch of
this section of the meeting.

Collection Section

The treasurer of the Association in-
troduced to the meeting Mr. Welk of
Tazewell county, Mr. Quisenberry of
the Mid-West Claims and Adjustment
Service. The two services were stat-
ed by the treasurer to cover the field
of Farm Bureau membership collec-
tions. The character of the service
rendered by Mr. Welk had fully dem-
onstrated its beneficial application to
cases in arrears where personal service
seemed to be indicated. The service
offered by Mid-West Claims and Ad-
justment Service had demonstrated its
effectiveness, particularly in its appli-
cation to cases where payment was de-
liberately evaded and refused. In Mc-

Lean county, where the Farm Bureau
cooperated fully, out of an accumula-
tion of old items, some $6,800 had
been recovered, in a complete clean-up
of all past due items remaining un-
paid; after so-called "collection serv-
ices" and "commercial lawyers" had
failed.

Mr. Welk and Mr. Quisenberry ad-
dressed the conference briefly, relat-
ing their experiences and describing
the respective services.

Advisers Talk Publicity

The discussion of publicity was con-
fined to two topics, namely:

1. Outstanding publicity projects.

2. Legitimate newspaper publicity,
and reaching the non-member.

Farm Advisers Kercher of Vermil-
ion county and Foard of Bond county
discussed the value of outstanding
projects in placing the name of the
county Farm Bureau before the farm-
ers and general public of the county
in a favorable light.

A 30,000 acre alfalfa campaign in
Vermilion county, and how it suc-
ceeded in gaining the attention of
farmers and the public through news-
paper publicity, was outlined as an
example of this type of project. Mr.
Foard presented information regrard-
ing the publicity value of his lime-
stone-legume project.

j How To Succeed j

It was generally agreed that the suc-
cessful county Farm Bureau must give
considerable attention to the selection
of at least one or more projects that
serve to add prestige to the county or-
ganization and place its name favor-
ably before both farmers and city peo-
ple, through the publicity it or they
gain for the county organization.

Getting acquainted with the editors,
cooperating with reporters and press
representatives, and keeping the mem-
bers informed through interesting ar-
ticles in the official organ about the
activities of the Farm Bureau were re-
commended as essential to an ade-
quate publicity program.

Other Advisers Speak

The subject of reaching the non-
member through newspaper and other
publicity was discussed by Farm Ad-
visers Whisenand of Henry county,
Lloyd of Hancock county, Shaw of
Peoria county, and Checkley of Lo-
gan county.

The important points revealed by
the discussion of this question were
that:

1. Publicity should be made a ma-
jor project in every Farm Bureau
program.

2. Regular releases to the daily
and weekly newspapers of the county
concerning Farm Bureau activities are
needed to acquaint the non-member
with the program, and influence him
to become a member.

3. Community meetingrs, particu-
larly in the summer time, are valu-

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Public Questions Before I. A. A.
Conference

(Continued from page 1)
. that the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion call upon the representatives of
Illinois in congfress that they support
legrislation that would look to the full
control of a flood relief program by
the National Government and on a
basis of cost that would be met by the
National Government.

Taxation Discussed
Under Taxation two topics were dis-
cussed :

First: The gasoline tax law and the
use of the funds derived therefrom.

Second: General taxation problems,
and in particular, orders of reassess-
ment in certain counties of the state.
Under the first heading, many
questions were asked and the answers
thereto were discussed relative to the
use of gasoline tax funds in the im-
provement of the secondary roads. Ap-
parently there is some difference of
opinion about the powers of the State
Division of Highway under the gasoline
tax law. It seems to be held in some
counties of the state that the State
Division of Highways will approve
only of the use of concrete in the im-
provemient of the secondary roads. It
was pointed out that this was not the
intention of the sponsors of the gas-
oline tax law and that there is nothing
in the law itself that seems to warrant
such a view. The position of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association was
stated to be that the county boards had
the right to determine both the roads
which would be improved with gasoline
tax funds and the type of improve-
ment wliich would be made. It was
agreed that whatever the type of im-
provement it must be approved by the
State Division of Highways if the im-
provement is of such type as to re-
quire the state to assume the entire
cost of maintenance.

Consider Proposed Attacks
T-here was some discussion also
about contemplated attacks on the
gasoline tax law for the purpo'se of
diverting a portion of the funds from
the counties to the municipalities of
the state. There seemed to be a un-
animous agreement that any such at-
tacks upon the distribution of the
funds in the next general assembly
should be resisted.

It was urged that the county Farm
Bureaus should carefully consider a
constructive program in each county
for the most efficient utilization of the
gasoline tax moneys. It was urged
also that no project for the issue of
bonds for the improvement of the
secondary roads to be repaid from
gasoline tax funds should be con-
templated at least until the gasoline
tax law has been successfully main-
tained in the next regular session of
the general assembly.

Gas Tax Administration

There were numerous other ques-
tions relating to the administration of
the gasoline tax law and to refunds of
the tax on gasoline used for other than

the operation of most vehicles on the
public highways.

There was some sentiment expressed
to the effect that the gasoline tax
should serve to replace the county high-
way tax and thereby be made a lieu
tax, and also to the effect that the
gasoline tax moneys should be used not
only for improvement but also for the
maintenance of the State aid roads.
However, neither of these views seemed
to receive much approval.

Wm. H. Malone Present

General problems of taxation were
discussed chiefly by the Honorable
Wm. H. Malone, chairman of the Illi-
nois Tax Commission. Mr. Malone re-
ferred to the orders of re-assessment
which have been issued in certain
counties of the state, and to the num-
erous efforts by political pressure to
have such orders rescinded. He de-
clared the policy of the Tax Commis-
sion to be the enforcement of the law
on the basis of the facts in each case
regardless of pressure for political or
other reasons.

Mr. Malone also pointed out the
necessity of organized effort by agri-
culture if the farmers of the state are
to receive a fair deal in taxation.
Transportation Problems Up

The chairman briefly outlined the
services of the Transportation Depart-
ment and particularly mentioned its
work before the Illinois Commerce
Commission.

The questions asked by many dem-
onstrated that there are numerous
problems confronting our members on
electrification and telephone matters.

Rural electrification particularly re-
quires proper information and assist-
ance to those interested in order that
the best service can be secured for the
least money.

Super-power Lines Coming

Organization of committees is also
recommended in connection with
super-power right of ways. The re-
sults obtained in a substantial number
of cases involving the re-location of
routes for super-power lines bear testi-
mony to the benefits to be derived from
concerted action by land owners.

The position taken by the Associa-
tion has been that these huge steel
tower lines shall be routed in such a
way as will result in the least possible
detriment to agricultural lands.

The conference was informed re-
garding the efforts of the Association
in seeking reductions and prevention
of. increases in freight rates on farm
products. Particular reference was
fnade to the proceedings before the
Interstate Commerce Commission in
regard to the Hoch-Smith resolution.
The program of service as now car-
ried on by the Department in the three
general divisions; namely, telephone
rates and service, rural light and power
problems and transportation was
enthusiastically approved by confer-
ence.

Respectfully submitted,

F> D. BARTON,
Chairman, Public Relations Committee.

THE 1. A. j. RECOHD

Auto Insurance Co.

Offers New Coverage

Protection Against Spare Tire Thieves,
Windstorms, Etc., Added

NEW forms of auto insurance were
added to the coverages already ex-
istent as result of action taken at the
recent meeting of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Mutual Insurance Company.

Theft of spare tires, tubes, rims and
wheels, when locked to the car will
now be covered at the request of the
owner. There is no additional initial
cost for the new coverage. The insured
simply pays his share of losses and ex-
penses. This new insurance is written
with classes having theft coverage.
Spare tires, etc., are covered under the
regular policy when the car is stolen.
The above coverage is optional and
will be given on application.

Windstorm, tornado, cyclone, and
hail coverage, after February 1, will
be included on all policies issued, un-
less it is indicated by the insured that
it is not desired. There is no additional
initial payment. The insured simply
pays for his share of carrying such
coverage. The above coverage is in-
cluded along with fire and theft cover-
age.

Stationary object collision (of which
it is necessary to have 300 applica-
tions) provides collision coverage with
any object including accidental upset.
The premium deposit for this coverage
is $10. The insured siiaply pays his
share of losses and expenses for this
coverage. .

New Schedule of Rates

The following new schedule of rates
was adopted by the Board of Directors
at the annual meeting of the company:

Class I. Public Liability, Property
Damage, Collision, Fire and
Theft $25

Class II. Public Liability, Property
Damage, Fire and Theft.i $25

Class III. Public Liability and
Property Damage $16

Class IV. Fire and Theft $15

In all above classes, in case the in-
sured cancels out, all but $5 is re-
turned to him.

"Your own company and insurance
at cost" is the slogan of the company.

.;

Stationary Object Collision
Coverage

Enroll me as a charter member
for stationary object collision
coverage. It is understood I will
be notified when this will be made
effective.

Name „

Address „

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Mail to ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL

MUTUAL INSURANCE CO.,

608 South Dearborn Street.

Chicago, III.

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Page Nine

Welk and Snyder New Business Services of

Heads Baseball League I. A. A. Are Discussed

(Continued from page 3)
cided that this matter be left to the
county directors and district chair-
men. It was the general opinion that
the time of opening the season be de-
ferred to meet the convenience of the
majority of the League members.

Defer Annual Clash

J. H. Checkley of Logan County
suggested that the annual state cham-
pionship game be deferred until the
latter part of August. This suggest-
ion seemed to meet with the approval
of the delegates and members present.

Mr. Husted reported for the nomin-
ating committee as follows: For presi-
dent of the League in 1928, L. R.
Welk, Morton, Tazewell County, and
for vice-president, Wayne Snyder,
Versailles, Brown County.

It was moved and seconded that the
report of the nominating committee be
accepted as read. Carried.

Southern Illinois Speaks

Delegates from the Southern Illi-
nois Division expressed their interest
in dividing the Division in half to
eliminate long drives and to make it
more convenient for playing off inter-
county schedules. This matter was
left for the consideration of the Ex-
ecutive Committee with the under-
standing that something would be
done toward meeting the objections
to the present arrangement.

Arthur Kraushaar, Warsaw, Han-
cock county, reported that an effort
would be made to enter a team from
Hancock County in 1928. H. K. Dan-
forth, assistant farm adviser, made a
similar report for Henry County. E.
W. Runkle of Macomb, stated that Mc-
Donough County planned to come into
the League with a team. C. J. Thomas,
farm adviser of Jackson County, and
W. H. Lyon, Prophetstown, Whiteside
County, both stated that they hoped to
bring out teams from these counties
in the coming season.

It was decided to leave the appoint-
ment of a league arbitrator or com-
missioner to the board of directors.

The meeting adjourned at 11:30 a.
m.

Respectfully submitted,
E. G. THIEM, Sec'y-Treas.

Bids Asked For

Serum And Virus

BIDS for 35,000,000 c. c. or more
of anti-hog-cholera serum and
virus for the 60 counties holding mem-
bership in the Illinois Farm Bureau
Serum Association have been request-
ed from more than 20 com belt serum
companies.

Last year, the Association pur-
chased upwards of 35,000,000 c. c. of
serum at an estimated saving of $225,-
000 over former prices which ruled
before farmers used their collective
buying power.

(Continued from page 6)
kind of insurance could have been se-
cured elsewhere. The basis of settle-
ment on fruit and garden truck insur-
ance, has been changed to percentage
or so-called acre basis. This will be on
the same basis as farm crop hail in-
surance.

Farm Bureaus cooperated in observ-
ing Fire Prevention Week. Explan-
ation was made that DeWitt county in
cooperation with the DeWitt County
Fire Insurance Company, formulated
plans whereby every Farm Bureau
member's property was inspected in
order to prevent fire.

Life

Insurance

A report with recommendations rel-
ative to a life insurance program for
the Illinois Agricultural Association
from the Executive Committee of the
Association was presented to the con-
ference. This report and recom-
mendation suggested the advisability
of the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion organizing a legal reserve life in-
surance company that would furnish
low net cost insurance to Farm Bureau
members, providing the interest of the
members in attendance at this annual
meeting would justify the entry of the
association in this field of activity.

An explanation of the report and
the recommendation of the Executive
Committee were presented to the con-
ference by a member of the staff of
the Association and an extended dis-
cussion was had in reference to this
matter. The following recommenda-
tion was made by the confeernce for
your consideration. The recommenda-
tion is as follows:

That the voting delegates in the an-
nual meeting assembled suggest to the
Executive Committee of the Associa-
tion that a detailed argument and
brief be prepared by the Executive
Committee setting forth the advan-
tages and disadvantages that the As-
sociation might have in organizing a
legal reserve life insurance company,
owned and controlled by it, wherein
life insurance might be furnished to
members of the Illinois Ag^-icultural
Association and others with differen-
tials to the advantage of Farm Bureau
members.

Argument and brief should be sub-
mitted to the Executive Committees
of the county Farm Bureaus for their
consideration and if there should be
favorable consideration of the program
by at least 75* per cent of the county
Farm Bureaus in the state, endorsing
such program, that the Executive Com-
mittee proceed to carry out the recom-
mendations presented by it to this an-
nual meeting.

Respectfully submitted,
GEO. F. TULLOCK, Chairman.

'(Note: The neteeeary percentage vote to
launch a Ufe mauranee program wo* changed
from 7( to 10 per cent of the eountie* by t>oe<
at the adioumed ineura»ce meeting o« FrUa^i
morning.)

Committees to Meet

Plan 1928 Program

MEETING dates for the four I. A.
A. advisory committees that plan
and counsel with the departmental
staffs in carrying on the work of the
Association were announced at the last
meeting of the Executive Committee
as follows:

Organization and Information, Feb.
21. '

Marketing, Feb. 22. 1 I

Public Relations, Feb. 24.

Financial Business Service, March 7.

All of the meetings will be held in
the offices of the I. A. A. at 608 So.
Dearborn St, Chicago.

Serum Association Plans

for 1928 Campaign

(Continued from page 2)

Lloyd that nominations close and that
the secretary cast unanimous ballot
for 0. B. Goble. Carried.

Sam Sorrells nominated by R. A.
Norrish as vice-president. Motion by
J. H. Lloyd and seconded, that the
secretary cast a unanimous ballot for
Sam Sorrells as %'ice-president. Car-
ried.

Ray E. Mille* nominated for secre-
tary-treasurer. Motion properly made
and seconded that unanimous ballot be
cast for Ray E. Miller as secretary-
treasurer. Carried.

Motion made and seconded that of-
ficers act as executive committee for
ensuing year. Carried.

Arrangements for meeting of the
board of directors on February 11th
or 13th at the oflSces of the Illinois
Agricultural Association at 8:30 a. m.,
or some other satisfactory date.

Meeting adjourned.

RAY E. MILLER, Sec'y-Treas.

Resolutions were adopted at the As-
sociation meeting asking the Serum
Committee and secretary to invest-
igate the use of clear, concentrated
Strum, to send out publicity material
on vaccination to the counties to pro-
mote greater efficiency, and to urge all
counties to work in close harmony on
the program of the organization.

Frank 0. Lowden, for president, was
endorsed by the legislative committee
of the Farm Bureaus in the 19th con-
gressional district. When a resolution
to this effect was presented to the
Republican Central Committee in
meeting at Decatur the same day, the
Republican organisiation likewise en-
dorsed Mr. Lowden.

Three carloads of limestone will be civen
away to patrons of the Farmers' State Bank,
Carlock. 111., who show the most improvement
in srowins leffumes in 1928. "The McLean
CoDDty Farm Bureau will sut>ervige the contest
and the selection of judges," writes Senator
Simon E. Lants. "I believe the banks of Illi-
nois Bhoald set behind such, projects as this,"

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Do Business Projects

Aid Large Membership?

(Continued from page 7)

able in selling the Farm Bureau pro-
gram and reaching both members and
non-members.

4. Co-operating with the shipping
associations and other local organiza-
tions by furnishing speakers for an-
nual meetings and aiding them where-
ever possible advertises the Farm
Bureau, and wins friends among the
members of such organizations.

5. A live, newsy official organ that
is read by the membership is an asset
in holding members.

6. Short, snappy personals and
news of a local nature playing up lo-
cal people but all linked- aip with the
Farm Bureau are most effective in
getting the attention of the press.

In the general summary it was
pointed out that the great opportunity
and the big job of the Farm Bureau is
to sell its story and its progrram toithe
people of our towns and cities as well
as to farmers; that the public must be
informed and its sympathy and help
won if the farmer is to gain the right-
ful place he should occupy in the
economic life of the nation.

New I. A. A. Committee

Holds First Meeting

(Continued from page 1)
ing power of downstate taxing dis-
Jtcicts to 2^ per cent of the assessed
valuations therein, had passed the
Senate and was on second reading in
the House. (Subsequently the bill
passed to third reading in the House.)
Mr. Barton stated that the measure
was passed in the Senate as originally
drafted except that the emergency
clause had been removed to eliminate
considerable opposition and secure its
passage. President Smith supple-
mented the report with additional in-
formation, and then reviewed the
legislative situation in Washington
with reference to the new McNary
and Haugen bills as heretofore pre-
sented.

The belief was expressed that the
entire downstate delegation in Con-
gress would vote for the surplus con-
trol measure when it came before the
session again.

District Conference*

After considerable discussion on
the question of I. A. A. District Con-
ferences, Whisnand moved that Ex-
ecutive Committeemen be authorized
and directed to hold at least two
meetings, and a third if desired, in
their respective districts, during the
coming year, expenses of the Com-
mitteemen to be paid by the Associa-
tion. Seconded by Black. Carried.

The President suggested that such
district conferences should be open to
members from adjoining districts. It
was agreed that the Farm Bureaus
composing the various districts should
feel frep to hold as many meetings as

seemed necessary but that the I. A.
A. should participate officially in not
more than three a year.

Farm Bureau Picnic*

Moved by Barton that the proposal
to hold a giant Farm Bureau and I.
A. A. picnic in each congressional dis-
trict in 1928 be submitted to the mem-
bers for approval in the various dis-
trict conferences. Second by Mar-
shall. Carried.

It was decided to defer selection of
the 1929 convention city until the May
meeting.

Treasurer R. A. Cowles offered the
report of the Home and Community
Conference at the request of Mrs. A.
R. Wright of Varna. He also read a
letter from Mrs. Homer Johnson, presi-
dent of the Illinois Home Bureau Fed-
eration, expressing the desire of the
Federation to work with the I. A. A.
on matters of mutual interest.

The women's conference report
showed that 22 counties were repre-
sented, Rock Island having the largest
delegation with 45 present. One hun-
dred and twenty registered.

Holmberg Speak*

N. J. Holmberg, commissioner of
agriculture for the State of Minnesota,
appeared before the Committee while
enroute for home from Washington and
reported on the latest developments on
farm relief legislation.

The Committee decided unanimously
to renew the membership of the I. A.
A. in the Chicago Association of Com-
merce for the benefit and use of the
Illinois Agricultural Association.

Mr. Tullock reported that after full
conference with the President and di-
rector of the Phosphate-Limestone De-
partment it seemed advisable to hold a
series of district conferences through-
out the state with Farm Bureau rep-
resentatives "to fully air all sugges-
tions and criticisms and to develop
ways in which the work of the Depart-
ment, particularly as regards lime-
stone, may be strengthened and im-
proved."

Mr. Cowie* Appointed

Various plans of contract and pro-
cedure will be presented at the confer-
ences and the one which meets with
greatest approval will be followed.

R. ,A. Cowles was appointed treas-
urer of the Illinois Agricultural Co-
operatives Association, and directed to
discharge duties of secretary until fur-
ther recommendation from the Com-
mittee.

Executive Committeemen were au-
thorized to attend one board or annual
meeting per year of each County Farm
Bureau in their respective districts
with per diem allowed, excluding there-
from meetings of committeeman's own
county organization. Motion was car-
ried unanimously.

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Mt. Carroll Co-op

Creamery Ace High

1 eads State In Price Paid For Butterfat

'■pHE Mt. Carroll Co-operative Cream-
A ery Co., in Carroll county, smashed
all records on price paid for butterfat
in 1927 according to the Company's re-
port as of Dec. 31, 1927,

Patrons were paid an average price
of 50.92 cents per pound for butterfat
which is 5% cents higher than the 92
score Chicago butter price. Gross re-
ceipts for the year amounted to $231,-
351.32 and gross expenditures were
$227,299.47. Of these expenditures
$209,346.15 was paid for cream, poul-
try and eggs, leaving a balance of $17,-
953.32 for operating expanses. The
cost of manufacturing the butter was
slightly less than 3% cents per pound.

A dividend of 10 per cent was paid
on creamery stock and a patronage
dividend of Ic per pound was paid for
butterfat delivered during jthe year.

Ralph and Verne Kaufman led in
the amount of butterfat delivered with
a total of 5,722 pounds.

The Elizabeth Co-operative Cream-
ery in Jo Daviess county was second
high among the four co-operatives with
an average price paid patrons for but-
terfat of 49.7 cents. The Galena Co-
operative paid 47.2 cents, and the Free-
port creamery 45.2 cents.

A. D. Lynch, dairy marketing di-
rector, points to the fact that before
the co-operatives were organized, dairy-
men in this section of the state were
selling their cream at prices ranging
from three to five cents under the 90
score butter market at Chicago where-
as now, through co-operation, they are
receiving from one to six cents more.

During 1927, old line cream station
buyers bought butterfat at prices rang-
ing from one to four cents under the
90 score Chicago market. Members of
co-operative cream shipping associa-
tions, on the other hand, received 90
score price to one cent higher plus a
patronage refund varying from one to
2% cents per lb.

I. A. C. A. Has Busy

t\lonth In January

F1IFTY-SIX 4-eports were received
and 65 were completed during the
month of January by the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Co-operatives Association.

During the month of December, 1927,
there were 34 reports received at the
Chicago office and 27 completed. This
makes a total of 83 audit reports com-
pleted during the past two months.

These are the yearly audit reports of
the 227 member co-operatives in the
State Co-operatives Association. Dur-
ing January, it required 2.4 days per
audit job. Average typing time was
1.3 days per report. An averagre of
2 2 reports were completed per day.

The county la not liable for the death of
liveetock resultinK from the application of
the tuberculin teit by the eoanty veterinar-
ian, according to a recent decision of Attor
ney General Oacar CarUtrom.

The next meeting of the I. A. A.
Executive Committee will be held at
Chicago on March 9

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Limestone-Phosphate

Meetings Under Way

\ SERIES of district conferences to
-'*- discuss contracts and policies re-
garding: the collective buying of phos-
phate and limestone opened recently
with the first in Chicago on Tuesday,
Feb. 7. Similar conferences have
been or will be held as follows:

Dixon, Friday, Feb. 10, 1:00 p. m.

Peoria, Monday, Feb. 13, 1:30 p. m.

Champaign, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 1:00
p. m.

Jacksonville, Thursday, Feb. 16,
1:00 p. m.

Centralia, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 10:00
a. m.

Carbondale, Wednesday, Feb. 22,
1:00 p. m.

Farm advisers and Farm Bureau
presidents or representatives of the
various county organizations in each
section will meet with Illinois Agri-
cultural Association representatives
at these meetings to iron out any mis-
understandings regarding the program
of the I. A. A. phosphate-limestone
department.

It Is hoped that these conferences
may lead to a uniform state-wide plan,
which will be most helpful and serv-
iceable in buying limestone and rock
phosphate for Farm Bureau members.

The final state-wide delegate meet-
ing will be held in Chicago on Friday,
Feb. 24, at 10:00 a. m.

Cut Tax Values

In Southern Illinois

REDUCTIONS ranging from 10 to
20 per cent were made recently in
land valuations for state tax purposes
in the counties of Bond, Clay, Cum-
berland, Edwards, Gallatin, Pulaski,
Randolph, Richland, Johnson, and Wa-
bash. The latter two counties each
received a reduction in land values of
20 per cent; the three preceding,
of 15 per cent, and the rest 10 per
cent.

The order of the Commission fol-
lowed information brought to light by
the Illinois Agricultural Association
showing a wide discrepancy in valua-
tions in the Southern Illinois area
compared with other sections of the
state.

Explaining the action of the Com-
mission Mr. Malone said: "An inves-
tigation of the Commission disclosed
the fact that farm lands in these
counties were carrying much more
than their share of the tax burden and
the reduction was ordered for the pur-
pose of equalization. The fanners in
general throughout the state are fac-
ing a condition demanding the atten-
tion of the Government. The purchas-
ing power of the farmers' dollar was
probably never lower than today, and
the price of his products certainly
does not compensate for the labor and
Copt of production."

Wm. H. Malone

Wm. H. Malone Says

Farm Taxes Too High

Compliments I. A. A. Officials On Farm
Radio Program

<<1^ARMERS are carrying more
A than their just share of taxes."

said William H.

Malone, chairman
of the Illinois Tax
Commission, in a
radio address on
the Illinois Agri-
cultural Associa-
tion program, Fri-
day, Feb. 3.

"In equalizing
taxes in the State
of Illinois we are
endeavoring to do
the right thing,
not the expedient
thing," he said. "Equalization is al-
ways a large problem. It has been so
in the past. It is doubtful if we ever
can please everyone. There is more
room and justification for a general
clean-up of the tax situation in Cook
county than in any other." He stated
that in this county the Board of Re-
view had failed to comply vrith the
law in publishing the tax lists of as-
sessments, and was ordered to do so
by the Commission. "Publicity will do
more than any other thing," he said,
"to correct the evils of tax assess-
ments."

Mr. Malone paid a high tribute to
President Earl C. Smith. .John C. Wat-
son, and Donald Kirkpatriek for their
conscientious work in bringing to light
tax inequalities in behalf of the farm-
ers of Illinois.

LaSalle County Seeks j

Fair Tax Assessment

''pHE LaSalle County Farm Bureau
' and the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation are cooperating to secure an
equalization of tax valuation in that
county.

The LaSalle County Board of Re-
view's own figures show that farm
lands are assessed at 36.57 per rent
of their fair sales value, whereas val-
uations in the cities of LaSalle, Ogles-
by, Ottawa, Peru, and Streator range
from only 21.96 per cent to 28.14 per
cent of their fair sales value.

To equalize valuations will require
an average increase of 50 per cent in
LaSalle, 30 per cent in Oglesby, 54.83
per cent in Ottawa, 66.53 per cent in
Peru, and 46.39 per cent in Streator.

Valuations in Mendota, Marseilles,
and the villages of the county, on the
other hand, were even higher tl)gn
the average for farm lands. To
equalize in these cities will require a
reduction of 7.93 per cent in Mar-
seilles, 4.79 per cent in Mendota, and
15.87 per cent in the villagesof the
county.

It is hoped that the Board of Re-
view will take the necessary action
so it will be unnecessary to appeal to
the Illinoifi Tai CommiMion.

I. A. A. Represented At j

Freight Rate Hearing

A LIVESTOCK freight rate, hearing
•before the Interstate Commerce
Commission provided under the Hoch-
Smith Resolution has been in progress
in Chicago for the past two weeks.

The Hoch-Smith Resolution provides
that there shall be no increase in rates
during the agricultural depression. The
hearing is being held by the Commis-
sion in compliance with the law to de-
termine what changes if any are justi-
fied according to the present economic
status of agriculture.

The carriers have been putting in
evidence to show that livestock farmers
are now making money, hence that
rates on livestock should be increased.
Successful cattle growers from the west
have been testifying to the effect that
they made money in 1927. A promi-
nent cattle man, A. J. Abbott, from
the Sand Hills of Nebraska testified
that he had made money in 1927. al-
though he admitted most of his neigh-
bors had not done so well as he.

The American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion representatives and L. J. Qua.^ey,
director of transportation, for the I.
A. A. are attending the hearing in the
interest of members in this section.
Evidence will be introduced later, if
necessary, to show the true condition
of the industry. The proposed rate
increases would affect livestock growers
in Northwestern Illinois.

79 Delegates Attend

Annual I.A.C.A. Meet

CEVENTY-NINE officially accred-
^ ited delegates and representa-
tives estimated at 125 attended the
annual convention of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Co-operatives Association
held on Jan. 18 at Rock Island.

The program consisted of an open
discussion on three topics, as follows:
Natural fiscal ye.ars, uniform account-
ing systems, and control of credits.

The majority of elevator representa-
tives present favored closing their
operating year at the close of the nat-
ural crop or marketing year.

A number of delegates familiar
with accounting problems of their
companies stated that their boards of
directors were being furnished with
information currently and that they
were able to keep in much closer
touch with the operating problems of
their companies than previously.

Manager Geo. R. Wicker explained
the practices of the Association in
making a detailed classified list of ac-
counts receivable which would enable
the directors to maintain a proper
control over the extension of credits
both as to time and amount; also the
manner in which the managers could
supplement this practice by furnishing
similar information at the close of
each month.

ScJme took the position that co-oper-
ative associations should adopt a cash
basis while others held for a short
time approved credit plan.

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THE I. A.

RECORD

Parke Re-elected Head

Of Chicago Producers

Geo. F. TuUock Elected To Board. Re-
ports Show 17.37 Per Cent
Increase In Business

HH. PARKE of Genoa was re-
• elected president; J. N. Horlach-
er of Storm Lake, Iowa, was elected
vice-president; and H. Weiland, of
Beloit, Wis., was elected secretary,
following the recent annual meeting
of the Chicago Producers Commission
Association.

Wm. H. Moody of Port Byron, 111.,
and A. Sykes of Ida Grove, Iowa,
were elected to the executive commit-
tee. As a result of a recent redis-
trieting, several changes were made
in the board of directors. Geo. F.
Tullock of Rockford, 111., was elected
to succeed G. C. Johnstone of Bloom-
ing:ton, and J. P. Kelley of Stewarts-
ville, Minn., was elected to succeed
W. H. Wischow, Weaver, Minn. R.
F. O'Donnell, Colo, Iowa, and H.
Weiland, Jr., Beloit, Wis., were re-
elected.

Hearst and Curtis Talk

Charles E. Hearst, president of the
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, and
Dean C. F. Curtis of the Iowa State
College, were the principal speakers.
Charles A. Stewart, secretary of the
National Live Stock Producers Asso-
ciation, told of the progress in the
operation of the Producers' lamb and
cattle pool for 1927. The National
Association handled 19,000 carloads
during the first year of its operation,
whereas in 1927, 78,000 carloads, val-
ued at $129,000,000 were sold for its
members.

Ray E. Miller, director of live stock
marketing for the I. A. A., presented
the Illinois plan of field service.

17.37 Per Cent Increase

During 1927, the Chicago Produc-
ers handled a total of 15,435 cars of
live stock valued at more than $30,-
000,000. This represents an increase
of 17.37 per cent in the receipts over
the 1926 business.

Delegates from Illinois, Iowa, Mich-
igan, Wisconsin, and Indiana were
present.

Fruit Growers Meet

At Centralia Feb. 4

THE entire board of directors, of-
ficers, and executive committee were
re-elected at the annual meeting of the
Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange held
on Feb. 4 at Centralia.

Each of the 16 locals active in sell-
ing co-operatively last year was rep-
resented. The members who attended
from all sections of the fruit belt re-
ported that peach prospects are better
in the southern part of the peach belt
but about the same as 1927 in the
northern section. The January 1 freeze
was responsible for the great damage.

Resolutions were adopted favoring a
tariff on bananas and instructing the
manager to continue his efforts in be-

FARM ADVISERS COMPETE FOR CUP

F. E. FULLER OF MARSHALL-PUTNAM WINS FIRST YEAR'S CONTEST AND
GETS CUP FROM SAM THOMPSON

ILLINOIS farm advisers will com-
pete in the second-year contest for
the Sam Thompson Trophy awarded
the county Farm Bureau having the
most effective publicity service. The
contest closes on Feb. 20.

Effectiveness in reaching members,
nonmembers, and the general public is
to be the measuring stick in selecting
the winner. The score card to be
used is as follows:

Farm Bureau official organ 40

News in papers of county 40

State news 10

Special features (exhibits, radio
speeches, special literature,
stickers, etc.) 10

100

Each county entering the contest

must present an exhibit of clippings,
copies of releases, and general in-
formation about other publicity work
done in the county, since Feb. 15,
1927. Originality, variety, and in-
terest are all considered in judging
the exhibits.

Last year was the first year of the
contest. The exhibit of F. E. Fuller,
farm adviser from the Marshall-Put-
nam Farm Bureau, won the prize. A
county must win the cup three times
before it retains permanent posses-
sion.

Judges are as follows: S. H.
Thompson, C. V. Gregory, F. J. Keil-
holz, a representative of the Illinois
State Farm Advisers' Association,
Fred L. Petty, a representative of the
Illinois Preis Association, and E. G.
Thiem. ] ■«

half of equalizing freight rates in the
fruit belt.

Samuel Sorrells, of Raymond, chair-
man of the I. A. A. marketing commit-
tee, Fred Dietz, De Soto, and W. L.
Cope, Salem, all members of the I. A.
A. Executive Committee, addressed the
meeting.

Officers and directors re-elected are
as follows: R. B. Endicott, Villa Ridge,
president; I. D. Snedeker, Jerseyville,
vice-president; Walter Parks, Patoka,
secretary-treasurer; Logan N. Colp,
Carterville; W. L. Cope, Salem; L. 0.
Day, Olney ; S. T. Rice, Centralia ; Nor-
man Casper, New Burnside; and J.
W. Lloyd. Urhana.

Excellent prospects for a heavy apple
bloom throughout the state were re-
ported.

The rcsiKnstion of L. P. HeHillen, director
in the Illinois Asricnltaral Co-operstives
Association, was accepted at a special meet-
inc of the board at Rock Island on Jan. 18.
A letter of appreciation for his valnable serv-
ices, and resret of his inability thronch press
of other work to continue was forwarded at
the direction of the members present.

A load of choice hogs shipped by C. E. Haase,
manaKer of the Brenton and Pella Livestock
Shipping Association of Ford county, topped the
Pittsbursh market on Feb. 9, at $9.10 per cwt.

The boss were sold by the Pittsburgh Live-
stock Producers' Assncistion. They averaged
?«* pounds each. ,

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Illinois Agricultural A
^~ RECORD

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Volume 6

MARCH, 1928

Number 3

S. H.
J. Keil-

Illinois
>ciation,

of the

E. G.

125 Attend 12th Dist.

Meeting At Aurora On
March 10, Break Record

Endorse District Picnic Plan, Next
Meeting In June At DeKalb

''PHE largest I. A. A. district confer-
*- ence held in recent years in the 12th
congressional district
characterized the
meeting called b y
Geo. F. Tullock, I. A.
A. executive commit-
teeman on Saturday,
March 10, in Aurora.
A crowd estimated
at 125 representing
the Farm Bureau
leadership from Win-
nebago, Boone, De-
Kalb, LaSalle,
Grundy, and Kendall
Counties had gathered
when the afternoon
program was opened
following the lunch-
eon in the lower din-
ing-room of the Au-
rora Hotel.

Congressman John
T. Buckbee, Rockford,
who was first intro-
duced by Mr. Tullock pledged his un-
wavering support to the McNary-
Haugen bill with
the equalization
fee principle. The
congressman was
given a hearty re-
ception. He had
made a special
trip from Wash-
ington to attend
the I. A. A. con-
ference and one
two other

VOTE!

E\ery member of the I. A. A. owes it
to himself and to agriculture to get out
and vote in the April primaries. In this
issue you will find information about
your senators, representatives and candi-
dates for officep to help you vote intelli-
gently. Records are published without
comment. Use your own judgment but
vote the ticket straight for agriculture.

T'

Tullock

o r

meetings

district.

Smith Get! Ovation
President Earl C. Smith received a
great ovation when he was introduced
following Mr. Buckbee. Before delving
into the agricultural situation and the
I. A. A. legislative program, he told
about the first I. A. A. district confer-
ence held in his own, the 20th district,
which he called to get certain facts
(Continued on page 8)

ILLINOIS Farm Bureau Serum Association Receives Bids For 1928 Supply of Serum
^ and Virus. Officers and Directors of the Scrum Association are Seated about Presi-
dent O. B. Goble in the center of the table to the rear. Representatives of the serum
companies are in the fore^ound.

Illinois Farm Bureaus

Contract For 1928 Senim

BIDS for the 1928 supply of anti-hog
cholera serum and virus were re-
ceived by directors of the Illinois Farm
Bureau Serum Association at a recent
meeting with serum company repre-
sentatives in Chicago.

Quotations for the most part were
considerably lower than last year be-
cause of the low price of hogfs. Clear
concentrated serum in some instances
was quoted at a price little higher than
prices paid the previous year for blood
serum.

While no definite contracts were
closed at this meeting, the bids of the
various companies which included all
the larger ones in the Middle West,
were submitted to the 60 counties hold-
ing membership in the Association.

The discussion indicated that more

clear concentrated serum will be used

in 1928 than ever before. In view of

the fact that the dosage for clear serum

(Continued on page 8)

in his

Know Them By Their
Records Before You Vote
In Primaries On April 10

Senator Deneen and All Downstate Con-
gressmen Support McNary-Haugen
Bill in 69th Congress
HE voting records of downstate
senators and representatives on
five measures of ma-
j 0 r importance t o
Illinois farmers in the
55th General Assem-
bly, and in the Spe-
cial Session held early
this year are pre-
sented on pages four
and five by the Pub-
lic Relations Commit-
tee.

This action is in
accordance with the
recent announcement
that voting records
on agricultural leg^is-
lation would be pub-
lished prior to the
April primaries. The
vote on the four is-
sues, namely, the gas
tax, income tax, grain exchange bill,
and the increased bonding bills, which
came up in the last regular legislative
session, is largely a reprint of the
table presented in the Special Legis-
lative issue of The Record last Aug.
ust, with a few minor adjustments.
They Tell The Story
In addition, the vote on the bond-
limiting measure applicable to taxing
districts in Illinois outside Cook County
is presented. All the records here con-
sidered are of primary interest to
farmers. They furnish an index to
the manner in which each member of
the legislature is representing his agri-
cultural constituents. They are pre-
sented with the hope that members will
vote the ticket straight for agriculture
and place that interest above party.
August Issue For Details
Complete information on all the
measures in which the I. A. A. was
(Continued on page 4)

Pagg Twelve

THE 1. A. A. RECORD

Parke Re-elected Head

Of Chicago Producers

Geo. F. Tullock Elected To Board. Re-
ports Show 17.37 Per Cent
Increase In Business

HH. PARKE of Genoa was re-
-elected president; J. N. Horlach-
er of Storm Lake, Iowa, was elected
vice-president; and H. Weiland, of
Beloit, Wis., was elected secretary,
following the recent annual meeting
of the Chicago Producers Commission
Association.

\Vm. H. Moody of Port Byron, 111.,
and A. Sykes of Ida Grove, Iowa,
were elected to the executive commit-
tee. As a result of a recent redis-
tricting, several changes were made
in the board of directors. Geo. F.
Tullock of Rockford, 111., was elected
to succeed G. C. Johnstone of Bloom-
ington, and J. P. Kelley of Stewart.s-
ville, Minn., was elected to succeed
W. H. Wischow, Weaver, Minn. R.
F. O'Donnell, Colo, Iowa, and H.
Weiland, Jr., Beloit, Wis., were re-
elected.

Hearst and Curtis Talk

Charles E. Hearst, president of the
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, and
Dean C. F. Curtis of the Iowa State
College, were the principal speakers.
Charles A. Stewart, secretary of the
National Live Stock Producers A.sso-
ciation, told of the progress in the
operation of the Producers' lamb and
cattle pool for 1927. The National
Association handled 19,000 carloads
during the first year of its operation,
whereas in 1927, 78.000 carloads, val-
ued at §^9,000,000 were sold for its
niembersiv

Ray E. Miller, director of live stock
marketing for the I. A. A., presented
the Illinois plan of field service.

17.37 Per Cent Increase

During 1927, the Chicago Produc-
ers handled a total of 15,435 cars of
live stock valued at more than $30,-
000,000. This represents an increase
of 17.37 per cent in the receipts over
the 1926 business.

Delegates from Illinois, Iowa, Mich-
igan, Wisconsin, and Indiana were
present.

FARM ADVISERS COMPETE FOR CUP

Fruit Growers Meet

At Centralia Feb. 4

'■pHE entire board of directors, of-
•- ficers, and executive committee were
re-elected at the annual meeting of the
Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange held
on Feb. 4 at Centralia.

Each of the 16 locals active in sell-
ing co-operatively last year was rep-
resented. The members who attended
from all sections of the fruit belt re-
ported that peach prospects are better
in the southern part of the peach belt
but about the same as 1927 in the
northern section. The January 1 freeze
was responsible for the >jrt'iit (Iriinagc.

Resolutions were adopted favoring a
tariff on bananas and instructing the
manager to continue his efforts in be-

F. E. FULLER OF MARSHALL-PUTNAM WINS FIRST YEARS CONTEST AND
GETS CUP FROM SAM THOMPSON

ILLINOIS farm advisers will com-
pete in the second-year contest for
the Sam Thompson Trophy awarded
the county Farm Bureau having the
most effective publicity service. The
contest closes on Feb. 20.

Effectiveness in reaching members,
nonmembers, and the general public is
to be the measuring stick in selecting
the winner. The score card to be
used is as follows:

Farm Bureau official organ 40

News in papers of county 40

State news 10

Special features (exhibits, radio
speeches, special literature,
stickers, etc.) 10

100

Each county entering the contest

must present an exhibit of clippings,
copies of releases, and general in-
formation about other publicity work
done in the county, since Feb. 15,
1927. Originality, variety, and in-
terest are all considered in judging
the exhibits.

Last year was the first year of the
contest. The exhibit of F. E. Fuller,
farm adviser from the Marshall-Put-
nam Farm Bureau, won the prize. A
county must win the cup three times
before it retains permanent posses-
sion.

Judges are as follows: .S. II.
Thompson, C. V. Gregory, F. J. Kcil-
holz, a representative of the 'Illinois
State Farm Advisers' Association,
Fred L. Petty, a representative of the
Illinois Press Association, and E. G.
Thiem. |

half of equalizing freight rates in the
fruit belt.

Samuel Sorrells, of Raymond, chair-
man of the I. A. A. marketing commit'
tee, Fred Dietz, De Soto, and W. L.
Cope, Salem, all members of the I. A.
A. Executive Committee, addressed the
meeting.

Officers and directors re-elected are
as follows: R. B. Endicott, Villa Ridge,
iresident; I. D. Snedeker, Jerscyville,
vice-president; Walter Parks, Patoka,
secretary-treasurer; Logan N. Colp,
Carterville; W. L. Cope, Salem; L. 0.
Day, Olney; S. T. Rice, Centralia; Nor-
man Casper, New Burnside; and J.
W. Llovd, Urhana

p]xcellent prospects for a heavy apple
bloom throughout the state were re-
ported.

■ — i

The resismation of L. P. McMillen, dirertr>r
in the Illinois Agrricultural Co-operatives
Association, was accepted at a special meet-
insr of the board at Rock Island on Jan. 18.
A letter of appreciation for his valuable serv-
ices, and regret of his inability through press
of other work to continue was forwarded at
the direction of the mombora present.

A load of choice hoj^s shipped by C. E. Haase,
manager of the BriTiiun and IVlIa Livo.-itock
Shipping A.ssoi'iatioii of Ford county, topped iht-
PittTiburgh market i»n Feb. 1>, at ^9,10 ppr cwt.

The hogs were sold by 'the Pittsburgh Live-
stock Producers' AHsociation. They averager)
^itK pounds each.

I

The-J^

Illinois Agricultural A

^^ RECORD

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Ortober 20. 1925, under the Art of March 3. 1879, Acicptancc for malllnB at special rate of po'.taKe prorlded In Sertlon 412. Act »f February ;«, 192'. authorized October 27. IStS

Volume 6

MARCH, 1928

Number ^

125 Attend 12th Dist.

Meeting At Aurora On
March 10, Break Record

Endorse District Picnic Plan, Next
Meeting In June At DeKalb

'PHE lar}!;est I. A. A. district confti-
' I'nce held in recent years in the 12th
congressional district
char a c te r i z e d the
meeting- called bv
Geo. F. Tullock, I. A.
A. executive coinniit-
teeman on Saturday.
March 10, in Aurora.
A crowd estimated
at 125 representing
the Farm Bureau
leadership from Win-
nebago, Boone, Ke-
K a I b , L a S a 1 I e .
(Jrundy. and Kendall
Counties had gathered
when the afternoon
program was opened
following the lunch-
eon in the lower din-
ing-room of the .Au-
rora Hotel.

Congressman John
T. Buckbee, Rockford.
who was first intro-
duced by Mr. Tullock pledged his un-
wavering suppoi't to the McXary-
llaugen bill with
t h e equalization
fee principle. The
congressman was
given a hearty re-
ception. He had
made a special
trip from Wash-
ington to attend
the I. A. A. con-
ference and one
or two other
meetings in his
Geo. F. Tullock district.

Smith Gets Ovation

President Earl C. Smith received a
great ovation when he was introduced
following' Mr. Buckbee. Before delving
into the agricultural situation and the
I. A. A. legislative i)r(>gram, he told
about the first I. A. A. district confer-
ence held in his own, the 20th district,
which he called to get certain facta
(Continued on page 8)

VOTE!

E\ery member of the I, A. A. owe** it
to himself and to a^ricuhure to get out
and vote in the April primaries. In this
issue you will 6nd information about
your senators, representatives and candi-
dates for office, to help you vote intelli-
gently. Records are published without
comment. Use your own judgment but
vote the ticket straight for agriculture.

Know Them By Their
Records Before You Vote
In Primaries On April 10

I

ILLINOIS Farm Bureau Serum Asso'^iation Receives Bids For 1928 Suppiv of Serum
* and Virus. OfScers and Directors of the Serum Association art^Seated ahou! Presi-
dent O. B. Coble in the center of the table to the rear. Represent at i .eK of the i-erurr^
companies are in the foreground. ,

Illinois Farm Bureaus

Contract For 1928 Serum

plDS for the l!t28 supply of anti-hog
I ^ cholera serum and virus were re-
iiived by directors of the Illinois Farm
Bureau Serum Association at a recent
meeting with serum company repre-
sentatives in Chicago.

Quotations for the most part were
considerably lower than last year b.e-
cause of the low jjrice of hogs. Clear
concentrated serum in some instances
was (juoted at a price little higher than
prices paid the previous year for blood
serum.

While no definite contracts were
closed at this meeting, the bids of the
various companies which included all
the larger ones in the Middle West,
were submitted to the 60 counties hold-
ing mcnibershii) in the Association.

The discussion indicated that more

clear concentrated serum will be used

in i;»2S than ever before. In view of

the fact that the dosage for clear serum

(Continued on page 8)

Senator Deneen and All Downstate Con-
gressmen Support McNary-Haugcn

Bill in 69th Congress
^III-: voting records of downstate
>enat(v.s and representatives on
five measures of ma-
i o r importance t o
Illinois farmers in the
.">-')th (Jeneral .Assem-
bly, and in the Si>e-
cial Session held earlv
thi.* year are pre-
>entcd on iiages four
and five by the Pub-
lie Relations Ccmiitiit-
tee.

This action is in
ac<<>rdance with the
recent uniiouncenient
that voting records
oil agricultural legis-
lation would be pub-
lish«-d prior to the
.April primaries. The
v(»te on the four is-
sues, namely, the gas
income tax. grain exchange bill,
iicreased bonding bills, which

tax.

and the

came up in the last regular legislative
session, is largely a reprint of the
table presented in the Special Legis-
lative i.-isue of The RnroRn last .Aug.
ust. with a few minor adjustments.
They Tel! The Story

In addition, the vote on the bond-
limiting measure applicable to taxing
t'istricts in Illinois outside Cook County
is iiresented. All the records here con-
sidered are of primary interest to
farmers. They furnish an index to
the manner in which each member of
the legislature is representing his agri-
cultural constituents. They are pre-
sented with th€ hope that members will
vote the ticket straight for agriculture
and jilace that interest aboVe party.
August Issue For Details

Complete information on all the
measures in which the I. A. .A. was
(Continued on page -11

Page Two

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Knox County Wins Farm
Bureau Publicity Match
And Sam Thompson Cup

Judges Award Trophy to County Having
j^ Most Effective Publicity Service

KNCX COUNTY'S publicity exhibit
won the second year's Farm Bu-
reau contest for the Sam Thompson
trophy by a unanimous decision of the
judges at a meeting in Chicago on
Tuf?Jay, March 6.

The Knox coun-
ty exhibit was giv-
en first place by
reason of the
large volume of
publicity secured
in the local and
state news and
farm papery, and
for the originality,
effectiveness, and
attractiveness of
the exhibit. The
neatness of the
L. R. Marchant exhibit was espe-
cially commendable.

Honorable mention was given the
following counties: Vermilion, San-
gamon, Champaign, and Madison.
Monroe County was cited for the in-
terest and effectiveness of its monthly
mimeographed letter to the members.
Exhibits were judged according to

the following score card:

I

Farm Bureau official organ 40

News in papers of the counties 40

State news 10

Special features (such as posters,
radio speeches, special post

cards, stickers, etc.) 10

Total 100

The exhibits were composed of rep-
resentative newspaper clippings, copies
of stories released to the press, files of
the official Farm Bureau organs, and
statements of other special publicity
devices used in the various counties.
They were judged on their effective-
ness, originality, quantity, and attrac-
tiveness. The presentation of local
news regarding the Farm Bureaus' own
activities was emphasized in judging
the official organs.

The committee of judges was com-
posed of C. V. Gregory, Editor, Prairie
Farmer: Charles H. Keltner, Farm
Adviser. Rockford, who represented
the Illinois State Farm Advisers Asso-
ciation ; D. C. Waterman, Associate
Editor, Illinois Farmer; F. J. Keil-
holz. Extension Editor, Illinois Col-
lege of Agriculture; and E. G. Thiem,
Director of Information, Illinois Agri-
cultural Association.

Farm Adviser L. R. Marchant was
ably assisted by Associate Adviser A.
R. Kemp in getting out the Knox Coun-
ty Farm Bureau Bulletin, and giving
news and publicity to the local ncws-
napers. The Knox County exhibit wa?
especially attractive.

Knox county is the second county to
•in the contest, Marshall-Putnam hav-

r placed first last year. ;

Win Victory For Quincy
Milk Producers' Ass'n
On Income Tax Rebate

A THREE-YEAR fight to secure a
refund for federal income taxes
[laid by the Quincy Milk Producers'
Association was crowned, with victory
when George R. Wicker, director of
business service for the I. A. A. who
filed the application, received a tele-
gram from Washington to the effect
that the exemptions had been granted.

Between $3,000 and $4,000 are in-
volved according to estimates. The
sum applied for covers taxes paid hack
to 1923. When the application whs
filed three years ago, the Treasury De-
partment denied exemptions on tech-
nical grounds.

Thereupon Wicker sought to secure
a reconsideration and review of further
evidence presented tending to show
that exemptions were in order. This
move was successful and resulted in
the telegram received at I. A. A. head-
quarters just before going to press.

The I. A. A. has been successful in
getting more than 200 exemptions for
Illinois co-operatives including farm-
ers' elevators. Farm Bureaus, and
other cooperative organizations.

While in Washington recently, Mr.
Wicker submitted a memorandum to
the Senate Finance Committee amend-
ing the present statute to eliminate
technicalities tending to defeat the pur-
pose of the act.

Dealers Don't Like

I. A. A. Co-operative

Marketing Activities

THE following story clipped from
the Peoria Star of Feb. 25 indi-
cates that the poultry dealers don't like
to see the progress farmers are making
in helping themselves get better prices.

"Shippers Hit I. A. A. Market

Agent Policy

Government Is Also Made Target

"Condemning the stand of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association and
federal government as menacing to
their business, members of the Illi-
nois Poultry & Egg Shippers Asso-
ciation at the close of their fif-
teenth annual convention here yes-
terday went on record as opposed
to co-operative marketing. Their
resolution follows:

" 'Whereas the business of the
membars of the Illinois Poultry &
Egg Shippers Association is be'njr
menaced by the activities of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association and
federal government, by their en-
couragome:it of the establishment
of otl'.or marketing agencies; and

" 'Whereas we believe we can
serve the farmer better than he can
serve himself.

" 'Be it resolved that we go on
record as being in hearty accord
with the program being fostered by
the Federated Agricultural Trades
of America, and endorse in prin-
ciple the resolutions adopted by the
Agricultural Trades Economic con-
ference held in Chicago, Nov. 30,
1927.'"

J. R. Bent

Limestone Companies

To Submit Bids For

Year's Supply April 1

I. A. A. Completes Negotiations With 16

Companies — Farm Bureau Members

Get 10 Cent Per Ton Refund

THE I. A. A. and representatives of
sixteen leading limestone produc-
ing companies operating in Illinois
reached an agree-
ment last week
which is consid-
ered quite a step
forward in carry-
ing out an equi-
table and effec-
tive plan to pro-
vide, at minimum
cost, agricultural
limestone to the
Farm Bureau
members in Illi-
nois.

The plan carries
with it the best thought of interested
leaders throughout the state who met
in some seven district conferences for
the discussion of this question. The
plan contemplates a uniform system
of orders all going through the Farm
Bureaus direct to Accredited Lime-
stone Companies which have previ-
ously submitted bids to the Limestone
Department of the I. A. A. The I. A.
A. in turn will give full information
a3 to price, quality, etc., to the various
Farm Bureaus of the state.

The outstanding difference in the
new program from that of previous
years is: 1. The ten cent Farm Bureau
member differential will not, under the
new program, be reflected in the bill-
ing of the limestone on the certificate
plan but will be cleared through the
I. A. A. and Farm Bureaus at definite
periods as a refund. 2. This refund
will be made available only to those
who have ordered their limestone
through the Farm Bureau on uniform
blanks and have paid their bill in fuli
within fifteen days. 3. The pian fur-
ther contemplates the pooling of or-
ders by purchasers within a county or
counties, who may desire to do so, and
negotiating for the purchase of such
orders from the lowest possible bid-
der, quality taken into consideration.
Detailed advice and instruction ".''
be furnished each Farm Bureau ,! *'? .

Grain Marketing Meeting •'

PRESIDENT Earl C. Smith, Geo. J.
StoU, Sam Sorrells, Frank Barton,
and Harrison Fahrnkopf representing
the I. A. A., met Dave Allen, Joe Hen-
ncbry, Henry Green, V. A. Wertsch,
and Lawrence Farlow, representing
the Farmers Grain Dealers Ass'n at
Bloomington on Mar. 13 to discuss
co-operative grain marketing in Illi-
nois.

Negotiation.* toward effecting closer
co-operation between the two organi-
zations hfi/e been underway for some
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HERE IS HOW THEY VOTED. LOOK UP THE RECdDS

How Congressmen Voted

on McNary-Haugen Bill

/nUR United States Senator, both
Congressmen at large, Congress-
men from every downstate district, and
two Congressmen from Chicago voted
for the McNary-Haugen Bill in the
69th Congress. These men are: Sen-
ator Charles Deneen, Congressmen at
large Richard Yates and Henry R.
Rathbone, Congressmen Frank R. Reid,
William R. Johnson, John C. Allen, Ed-
ward J. King, William E. Hull, Frank
H. Funk, William Perry Holaday,
Charles Adkins, Henry T. Rainey,
Loren E. Wheeler, Ed M. Irwin, Wil-
liam W. Arnold, Thomas S. Williams,
and Edward E. Denison from down-
state districts, and Adolph J. Sabath,
and Stanley H. Kunz (paired for) of
Chicago.

There are three new Congressmen
in the 70th Congress, namely: John T.
Buckbee, Homer W. Hall, and J. Earl
Major, all of whom have given assur-
ance that they will support and vote
for the McNary-Haugen Bill now pend-
ing, at their earliest opportunity. .

This is a matter of sincere gratifica-
tion to the farmers of Illinois and to
all people who believe that the restora-
tion of agrriculture to a position of
equality with industry is essential to
permanent prosperity.

By Their Records ;

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especially interested appeared in the
August, 1927, issue of the Rbxx)RD. It
would be well for every member to
look up that issue and review it thor-
oughly before the primaries for the de-
tailed story. A few copies of this num-
ber are available for distribution and
may be had, as long as the supply lasts,
by writing the I. A. A. Department of
Information, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chi-
cago.

The vote of our representatives in
the United States Senate and House
on the McNary-Haugen bill in the 69th
Congress also is published on page four.
Every downstate congressman and two
from Chicago voted in favor of the
measure. Illinois delivered more votes
to the McNary-Haugen bill than any
other state.

The question of increasing the upper
limit of indemnity payments by the
government on reactor cattle, which
was raised by Farm Adviser Foley of
Boone county at the I. A. A. District
Conference, Aurora, March 10, was re-
ferred to the Public Relations Commit-
tee of the I. A. A. for investigation.

Fifty thousand rats were killed in
Clinton County, Ohio, recently during
a county-wide rat killing contest. A
rat does $2 damage annually, says the
U. S. government.

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Rep. Baker

Rep. Cireen

Rep. Hunter.-

12th District (Carroll, JoDavieM, Stephensonl

Sen. Myers

Rep. Acker

Rpp. Babb

Rep. Fran», C. D

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Rep. I'effers

Rep. Hoar._

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18th District (Peoria)

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Rep. Scholes.

Rep. Eckley

Rep. McClugage

20th District (Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee)

Sen. Meents

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Rep. Miller

Rep. Beckman

22d Di«trict (Editar, Vermilion)

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Rep. Hawkins

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Rep. Hut-son

Rep. Martens

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Rer. Hoff

30th District (Brt»wn, Cass, Mason, Menard,
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tural measures had already been voted upon in the Senate, except the gasoline tax bill.

No. 2. Senator Cuthbertson necessarily absent on this roll call but voted with proponents on the Denvir
motion to reconsider.

No. 3. Representative Hennebry came to Springfield on the day on which Senate Bill No. 1 was voted
in the special session, but was taken violently ill, was removed to a hospital, and thereby prevented from
voting.

No. 4. Senator Burgen voted no on 1st roll call and y«s on reconsideration. . -

I. A. A. Members Are

Asked To Study Vote

And Stand By Friends

Only Way Agriculture Will Get Fair
Representation and Square Deal

^^HIS page contains a reprint of the
J voting record of the members of
the 55th General Assembly. It jjives
the officially recorded vote of everv
member in all the downstate districts
on the four measures considered in
the regular session that were of major
importance to the agricultural inter-
ests of the state, together with their
voting percentage.

These bills were: the gasoline tax.
the income tax, the bill providing
proper regulation of grain exchanges,
and opposition to the Chicago bonding
bills.

We are including with this reprint,
the roll call as affecting down-state
districts, on Senate Bill No. 1 in the
special sessions, which prevents the
doubling of the bonding power of tax-
ing bodies outside of the City of Chi-
cago, due to the passage of the Chicago
bonding bills during the regular ses-
sion and made necessary by a Supreme
Court decision declaring the amend-
ment to the Juul Law, also passed dur-
ing the regular session, unconstitu-
tional.

Primary, April 10

This record is republished at this
time because a state-wide primary
occurs on April 10 at which candidates
of all political parties will be- selected
for county, state, and national offices.
Many of these representatives are can-
didates for renomination. In numer-
ous instances, they are opposed. It
is the duty of every American citizen
to vote in primaries and elections.

This record is published for the in-
formation of our members and the
friends of agriculture to enable them
to cast an intelligent vote for members
of the General Assembly. Study the
vote. If they have been fair to agri-
culture and have served faithfully the
people they represent, reward them
with your vote and support. If agri-
culture is to receive a square deal and
our institutions are to be preserved,
in the interests of all our people we
must elect to office people who will dis-
charge their duties fairly and in the
interests of their constituents.

A 10 per cent reduction in cotton
acreage was recommended at the South-
wide cotton conference held at Jack-
son, Miss., Feb. 20-21.

Senate Bill No. 1 passed in the Special Ses-
sion was introduced and sponsored in the
Senate by Senator Simon E. Lantz and handled
in the House by Rep. Reed Cutler.

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-^^=— RE C O R©^=^^

To advance the purpose for which the farm bureau was organized,
namely to promote, protect and represent the business economic,
social and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation ,
and to develop agriculture.

Published once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave.. Mount Morris,
Illinois, by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Edited by Department
of Information, E. G. Thiem, Director, 608 South Dearborn Street.
Chicago, Illinois. Entered as second-class matter October 20. 1925, at
the post office at Mount Morris, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Sec-
tion 412, Act of February 28, 1925. authorized October 27. 1925. The
individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is
five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty cents for sub-
scription to the Illinois Agricultur.^l Association Record. Post-
master: In returning an uncalled for or missent copy please indicate
key number on address as is required by law, ^

OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vice-Pr.esident, Frank D. Barton Cornell

Treasurer, R . A. Cowles Bloomington

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

(By Congressional Districts)

1st to 11th H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

12th G. F. Tullock, Rockford

13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th M. G. Lambert, Ferris

ISth A. N. Skinner, Yates City

16th A. R. Wright, Varna

17th Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

18th R. F. Karr, Iroquois

19th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th "..... Charles S. Black; Jacksonville

21st Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd Frank Oexner, Waterloo

23rd ,. , W.L. Cope, Salem

24th Charles Marshall, Belknap

iSth Fred Dietz, De Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Business Serw ce Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

Farm Supply '. . . J. R. Bent

Finance i R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General Off ice J. H. Kelker

Information .' E. G. Thiem

Insurance (Actuarial) ' J. P- Gibson

Insurance (Acquisition) .......; V. Vaniman

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing , Ray E. Miller

Organization •,...,; G, £, Metzger

Poultry and Egg Marketing' ^ F, A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics '. J. C. Watson

Transportation '. L, J. Quasey

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Our Political Policy

"E ARE not endorsing candidates for any office,
nor criticising any of them. We are merely pre-
senting the records to our people and requesting them to
vote for those who are worthy of support."

This pronouncement made by President Earl C. Smith
before the 17th I. A. A. District Conference at Blooming-
ton last week expresses definitely the policy of the Asso-
ciation in political matters, and the information published
in this issue of The Record is in line with the expression.

The Association belicTes that every voter is entitled to
exercise his own judgment in performing this solemn duty
of citizenship. But it has consistently held that its mem-
bers should have the facts so they may judge with delib-
eration and intelligence before casting the ballot.

Check Up On Delegates

THE Illinois Agricultural Association recently sub-
mitted a questionnaire to all prospective delegates to
the Republican and Democratic national conventions.

The questionnaire asked for their attitude on certain
matters which we consider of fundamental importance,
namely, whether or not they will stpnd unequivocally and
steadfastly for that presidential candidate or candidates
who are friendly to agriculture, and are ready to accept
the principles of farm surplus control legrislation em-
bodied in the McNary-Haugen bill.

Replies to these questionnaires already are coming in
in large numbers. The information they impart will be
forwarded to Farm Bureau leaders in every Illinois
county. ; ,

Awake in the 19th

THE militant Farm Bureau members of the 19th Con-
gressional District are aroused over the activities of
designing politicians who are seeking to euchre them out
of an acceptable delegate to the Republican National
Convention.

The farmers want Fred. D. Lewis, a Tolono banker and
supporter of Frank O. Lowden. One of the local poli-
ticians would like to put over another candidate not so
minded. At which the Farm Bureau groups expressed
themselves at the I. A. A. District Conference held Mar.
15 at Champaign essentially as follows:

"WHEREAS, Since it is necessary again to call atten-
tion to the fact that politics in the past has been played
behind 'closed doors'; and

"WHEREAS, sincerity and frankness are the two
essential qualities which mean much to the correction of
the farm problem; and,

"WHEREAS, the farm situation demands that business
men and farmers use every effort toward formulating a
basic political program designed to correct the evils that
now exist;

"THEREFORE be it resolved that we support Frederick
D. Lewis of Tolono and George Jeffries of Coles county
as delegates to the Republican National Convention;

"That we urge and request that no candidates for office
be supported except those whose attitude on farm equality
is known to be fair and genuinely true;

"And that we condemn the action of machine politicians
who under the guise of friendliness to the farm problem
are still doing everything possible by propaganda and
otherwise to the disadvantage of the farmers' best inter-
ests."

Defying The Law I ; .

IT would be amusing were it not so serious to see to
what ends tax administrators will go in some counties
to defy the law and defeat justice.

After the Stephenson County Boavl of Review admitted
in a hearing before the Illinois Tax Commission that as-
sessed valuations in that county were in need of adjust-
ment, they went home and did nothing. Perhaps the home
boys at Freeport got to them on their arrival. At any
rate, it became necessary for the Commission to exercise
its authority and order a reassessment.

The local assessor in Freeport, it was reported, went
out and returned with a net change in the total valua-
tions of $8980. The facts, which were not disputed by
the Board of Review when they appeared before the Tax
Commission, revealed that Freeport property is assessed
at only 34.50 per cent of its fair valuation whereas farm
lands are assessed at 46.16 per cent.

Now the Stephenson County Farm Bureau has filed a
second complaint with the Commission charging the Board
with non-feasance and asking that the reassessment be
declared null and void.

As we go to press, the report comes that a similar situ-
ation exists in Champaign county where a reassessment
was ordered months ago. Similar action may be neces-
sary there. Such open disregard of the law is deplorable.
It should not be necessary to appeal to a state body like
the Tax Commission to secure justice. It is very plain
that it may become necessary for the Commission to
seek other remedies to enforce its requests.

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PLEASED WITH IT

The Illinois Agricultural Association Record approved of the action
in the Legislature in limiting the bondingr power of down state taxing
districts to 2^4 per cent of total full valuations of properties therein.
It then says that tax relief is farm relief, and that farmers will insist
on economy in government. This is the position taken by the Register-
Mail with reference to the situation. Every one of the municipalities
which clamored for the power to increase their bonding capacity ouprht
to realize that their citizens are now being ta^ed in many directions,
and that only absolute necessity would justify an increase in the
burdens, (Galesburg Register-Mail)

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Tune m on the I. A. A. half hour program
broadcast dailii at 12 SO P. M. from station
WJJD, Chicaqn (SS5 meters). The facilitira of
station WjJv are loaned the Association
throuph the lourtesy of the Loyal Order of
Moosf, Mooseh'^art, III. No prbgram on Satur-
days and Sundays.

DEWITT C. Wing, agricultural
writer, philosopher, and editor of
the American Swineherd will be a
regular broad-
caster each Mon-
day on the I. A.
A. daily farm pro-
gram. His views
on farm life and
other subjects are
read with interest
throughout the
United States. Mr.
Wing owns a 1100
acre farm in
Wayne county, H-
linois, where he
holds a member-

Dewitt C. Wing

ship in the Farm Bureau and I. A. A.
C. S. Rhode and J. C. Hackleman of
the University of Illinois are the
sjieakers scheduled for Friday, Mar.
2o. Ole Olson will be on the air Mar.
26, and L. B. Palmer, president of
Ohio Farm Bureau, on Mar. 29.

THE FARMERS' TALE

VV'HEN World War came 'twas often said,
•' we'll "raise more Wheat" and save the
bread.

The price of land contrived to double and
those who bought are still in trouble.

While those who sold are still afraid the
mcttgage never will be paid.

The younpr men mostly left the farms, to
factories, shipyards, some to arms.

Old men and women tilled the land ; the tax
went up on every hand.

With spuds so high it seemed like fun, one
hundred dollars for a ton.

War caused a mushroom valuation, and gave
high tax unjust foundation.

We paid high tax without much care, while
pr' -^s nil were in the air.

Put now the price has dropped so low, to
pay our tax we have no shew.

Sometimes our crops are only half; we milk
the cow and kill the calf.

And if we try to sell the skin, the price will
hnrdly make you grin.

But if you buy a piece of leather, the price
has gone up like a feather.

We used to love the noble steed, who pulled
the plow and gave us speed.

But now no matter where you go, the
factory man takes in the dough.

Price is fixed by some "combine," and tariff
helps to make it shine.

sweet, but farmers

War is over, peace is
can't keep on their feet.

The price for produce does not pay, the cost
of growing grain or hay.

And if you turn to hogs and veal, all you
will clear will be the squeal.

Farmers produce now is sold, in open mar-
l(tt« of the world.

When he buys he meets "protection," I hope
by votes, he'll make objection.

And ask for laws to make his pay as good
as in the factory.

Industry can never stand, when farmers die
and quit the land, for workmen need good food
to eat.

From where will come their bread and meat?

P'armers claim an equal share, "to live and
let live" through the year.

Courtesy A. M. Hodgson, Chatsworth, III.

Auto Insurance Policy

Applications In I. A. A.
Company Now Total 7200

Anniversary Week Scheduled For March
26 to 31, Company Year Old April 1

APPLICATIONS for auto insurance
-'^ policies in the Illinois Ag^ricultur-
al Mutual Insurance Company totaled
7,200 on Thursday, March 15, two
weeks before the first anniversary ol
the new company.

"This is the greatest record ever
made by a mutual insurance company
of this kind, to our knowledge ' states
V. Vaniman, director of insurance
acquisition for the I. A. A., in com-
menting on the growth of the com-
pany.

Steady Growth

"We started less than a year ago
with some 2,000 applications for poli-
cies and since that time the company
has had a steady natural growth. In
most counties the members themselves
signed up voluntarily or at the sugges-
tions of their neighbors. The company
has not found it necessary to use high
pressure salesmanship in firmly estab-
lishing itself as a service institution
for the Farm Bureau members of Il-
linois."

The company expects to celebrate
by holding Anniversary Week from
March 26 to April 1 with the idea of
ushering in the second year with a
substantial increase in policy holders.

New Coverage

Three forms of additional coverage
recently added to the policy have
proved popular. These include pro-
tection against stationary object col-
lision, windstorm and tornado, and
theft of spare tires, rims, etc., when
locked.

The stationary object collision .vill
be put into effect as of noon on March
26. All members desiring this cov-
erage should send in their $10 check
so their coverage for this insurance
can be made eflFective as of that date.

Windstorm, Tornado

The windstorm, tornado, cyclone,
hail, earthquake and explosion cover-
age was made effective February 1.
This coverage goes along with the fire
and theft coverage and will cost about
the same as fire insurance. It is in-
cluded in the policy the same as trans-
portation insurance, and is given the
insured unless they otherwise specify.

Theft coverage includes spare tire?,
tubes, and wheels when locked to the
car. Theft coverage went into effect
on Feb. 1. This coverage is optional
and is not given unless desired. There
is no additional initial cost.

Initial Payment

The initial payment for public lia-
bility and property damage has been
reduced from $25 to $15. The same
is true for fire and theft. In case of
cancellation $10 is returned to the
insured.

' "Farm Bureau members like the
special features of the policy, namely,
paying the actual value of the car at
the time of loss by fire or theft," says
Vaniman. In case of collision accident
where insured recovers for collision
loss, he is also paid for damage to
tires. The special feature of the pol-
icy giving protection to anyone the
insured gives permission to drive the
car is meeting with general approval.
Not only is the reduction in cost of
the insurance appealing to Farm Bu-
reau members but also the coverage
offered in the policy which meets their
needs.

Many I. A. A. District

Conferences In March

DISTRICT I. A. A. conferences al-
ready held or to be held durin»t
March were scheduled at the March
meeting of the I. A. A. Executive Com-
mittee on the 9th.

District 15 started the spring sched-
ule with a meeting at Canton on March
6 called by Committeeman A. N. Skin-
ner of Yates City. A report of this
conference appears elsewhere in this
issue.

The 12th District followed with a
conference at Aurora on March 10, the
story of which appears on page 1.
other meetings scheduled thereafter
are as follows:

District Date

Meeting Plaet

ChtUrman

11th

Mar.

20

Wheaton

i. C. Vial

1.3th

Mar.

23

Dixon C. E. Bamborout.h

14th

Mar.

22

Macomb M. G. Lambert

17th

Mar.

16

Bloomington Geo. J. Stol

19th

Mar.

15

Champaign J. L. Whisnbml

20th

Mar.

23

Jacksonville C. S. Black

21st

Mar.

29

Carlinville Samuel Son ells

22nd

Mar.

24

East St. Louis

"rank Oexner

23rd

Mar.

22

Salem W. L. Cope

24th

Mar.

31

Albion Chas. Marshall

25th

Mar.

30

Ullin Fred Dietz

Meetings will be scheduled in the
16th and 18th districts and announced
as soon as the necessary arrangements
can be made. Life insurance will be
discussed at all the district conferences
by either Donald Kirkpatrick, legal
counsel.'or V. Vaniman, director of in-
surance acquisition. President Smit;t
will attend most of the conferences to
discuss policies of the Association par-
ticularly with reference to legislation.
The district picnic plan which has al-
ready been favorably received in sev-
eral districts will be presepted for vote .
at all the conferences.

Ninety-five speakers includins farm-
ers, merchants, business, and profes-
sional men of Logan county will ad-
dress a series of 80 community meet-
ings scheduled by Farm adviser J. II.
Checkiey of the Logan County Farm
Bureau.

The meetings will be held for the
most part in the country churches,
school houses, and town hiiUs. Check-
ley has enrolled nearly all the eligible
broadcasters of Logan county in his
speaker's bureau, among whom are
doctors, lawyers, preachers, merchants,
and others. Experiences in and out of
the profession or occupation provide a
variety of interesting material.

Attend Meeting

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about the Association before the mem-
bers. Since that time, I. A. A. dis-
trict conferences have been held regu-
larly in all the congressional districts
of the state.

Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel,
opened the session in the morning after
introduction by Chairman Tullock, with
a clearcut presentation of the proposed
life insurance plan.

His explanation aroused considerable
Interest indicating that the plan is be-
ing favorably received.

A motion to the effect that the meet-
ing express itself on the bill now before
congress seeking to prevent the govern-
ment from dealing in stamped envel-
opes carrying the return address of the
sender, was tabled following a sugges-
tion by Pres. Smith that the proposal
be referred to the I. A. A. and A. F. B.
F. for further investigation.
District Picnic OK'd

The district I. A. A. picnic plan was
warmly endorsed. A motion by Mr.
Keltner of Winnebago that the chair-
man appoint a committee to make plans
for a 12th district picnic was carried.
Mr. Tullock appointed the presidents
of all the County Farm Bureaus in the
district on the committee except in
Winnebago where Vice-president Fris-
bie w^as named.

The conference then voted to accept
Tom Roberts' invitation to hold the
June meeting at DeKalb.

Before adjournment, President Smith
carefully explained the policy of the I.
A. A. Executive Committee with refer-
ence to life insurance. "If we enter
the life insurance field," he said, "We
have decided how we will do it. But
the decision as to whether or not we
shall make this service available rests
with you. If 60 per cent of the coun-
ties want it, life insurance will be
added to our program. This insurance
will be made available at cost. We
hope every Farm Bureau will give
careful consideration to the plan not
later than the April meeting after
which the I. A. A. would like to be in-
formed of the action taken."
. The meeting adjourned at 3 p. m.

Illinois Farm Bureaus

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is around 20 per cent less than for
the blood serum, Illinois Farm Bureau
members will make a decided saving
on their vaccinating bill. The volume
of serum handled, however, may be
smaller than last year because of the
change.

Clear concentrated serum is more
convenient to handle and administer, is
more readily absorbed, and results in
fewer abscesses.

Vermillion county has already an-
nounced that it will contract for 750,-
000 c. c. of clear concentrated serum.
Last year, more than 36,000,000 c. c. of
serum and virus were purchased by
more than 60 counties engaged in this
service.

A. N. Skinner

Stop Coal Strip Mining
Is Plea of Members at
15th Dist. Meet, Canton

other Issues Receive Attention From
Farm Bureau Leaders

1EGISLATIVE action to stop coal
J stripping in Illinois, the $20,000,-
000 game refuge bond issue, district I.
A. A. picnics, the gas tax question,
and county oil companies were dis-
cussed at the 15th District meeting of
the Illinois Agricultural Association
held at Canton, in Fulton county, on
Mar. 6.

A. N. Skinner, Yates City, who rep-
resents the district on the Illinois Agri-
cultural Associa-
t i o n Executive
Committee, pre-
sided. Delegates
from Fulton,
Schuyler, Knox,
and Henry coun-
ties attended.

Leeper of Ful-
ton county stated
that coal stripping
operations in that
county are laying
waste hundreds of acres of fertile farm
lands making them unfit for agricul-
tural purposes. The meeting went on
record in favor of referririg the situ-
ation to the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation Executive Committee for con-
sideration. It was reported that most
states already have legislation to pre-
vent indiscriminate strip mining.

Direct Buying Considered

Direct buying of live stock by the
packers received some discussion, and
a motion that the I. A. A. and National
Live Stock Producers' formulate a def-
inite policy in regard to direct buying,
was carried.

The meeting, likewise, approved a
l)lan of holding a large I. A. A. picnic
and county Farm Bureau picnic in that
congressional district. A committee of
five, composed of Watt, McKinzie, Mc-
Kee, Whisenand, and Mummert was
appointed by Chairman Skinner to se-
lect a time and place for the district
picnic.

It was moved by Turpin and sec-
onded by Sullivan of Fulton county,
that the meeting go on record in favor
of a new gas tax for Illinois similar
to the recent tax declared unconstitu-
tional.

Oppose Bond Issue

Mr. Skinner explained the $20,000,-
000 bond issue passed by the last leg-
islature to buy a tract of land along
the Illinois River and other sections
of the state to reforest and be used as
a game preserve, the inner portion of
such tracts to be used for a game pre-
serve, and the outer portion for hunt-

ing within definite limitations. The
bond issue must be submitted to the
people in the next general election, for
approval.

After considerable discussion it was
moved by Warner of Henry county
and seconded by Schleich of Fulton
county that the bond issue be opposed
by the Farm Bureau.

Canton or Galesburg

The picnic committee reported later
that the 1928 district picnic be held
either at Canton or Galesburg, de-
pending upon the location of picnics
in other districts. The final decision
was left to Chairman A. N. Skinner.

Whisenand of Henry county outlined
the proposed limestone contract.

J. E. Mummert of Fulton county
raised the question of organizing co-
operative Farm Bureau oil companies.
Considerable interest was shown by the
delegates of the various counties, in
this service.

A motion by McKinzie of Schuyler
county, and seconded by Nelson of
Knox county that the next meeting be
held in Henry county, Apr. 24, was
carried. The place of the meeting was
left to the Henry County Farm Bu-
reau.

Robinson Resigns

In Shelby County

CHARLES J. ROBINSON, farm ad-
viser, in Shelby county resigned
recently to take a position with the Na-
tional Bank of Decatur. This bank has
recently taken over the management of
a group of farms totaling 5,000 acres
and expects to enlarge its activities in
managing farm lands.

Robinson has a great many accom-
plishments to his credit as a result of
his five years service as adviser for the
Shelby County Farm Bureau. He suc-
ceeded in initiating area testing for
tuberculosis in Shelby county. The
county is now nearly ready to be ac-
credited. In addition he organized
three shipping associations, brought
the first limestone train into the coun-
ty, got 90 per cent of the members to
use improved seed corn, more recently
persuaded the Walgreeiw Company to
locate a condensery at Snelbyville, and
did much to improve the general farm
practices with reference to soil treat-
ment and culture in the county.

Harold Hixon is selected as one of

two out of 12,000 club members in Illi-
nois to attend the national 4.H club
camp at Washington, D. C, in June.
This is an outstanding honor for Har-
old as well as for 4-H club work in
Iroquois county.

"If 65 per cent of the poultry own-
ers in Crawford county will sign up for
the work we can get a veterinarian to
T. B. test our flocks," says Farm Ad-
viser Frazier. The State is starting
the plan in six Illinois ciAinties and will
pay all expenses.

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Volume 6

APRIL, 1928

Number 4

I^HE I. A. A. District Conferences
^ are lield to ffive every member an
opportunity to express himself regard-
ing the policies and activities of his
organization. Are you taking advan-
tage of the privilege? Reports of sev-
eral meetings are presented in this is-
sue. Go to the next conference in your
district with constructive suggestions
for the Association's welfare. You will
be welcome.

PEORIA'S GRADE

MILK COMMISSION

I. A. A. Executives

Discuss Mj^rketing

At April Meeting

Place of Next Annual Meeting To Be

Decided In May. Plan For

District Picnics

GRAIN marketing, insurance and
taxation figured prominently in
the deliberations at the April meeting
of the Illinois
Agricultural As-
sociation Execu-
t i V e Committee
held Friday,
April 6.

A thorough dis-
cussion took place
regarding the part
the Association
should take in co-
operative grain
marketing. While
no definite plan
was evolved it was
generally agreed
that grain mar-
keting must be de- V : ' ' I
veloped by strengthening and working Quality Improvement
with the farmers' elevators. j^ fj^^^ ^^ Dairymen

TWENTY-EIGHT producers, deal-
ers, and marketing officials repre-
senting Peoria's Grade A Milk Com-
mission went by bus recently to Bloom-
ington and Champaign to study quality
improvement and grading.

At Bloomington where grading has
been in progress for several months,
the Commission obtained first hand in-
formation about the plan and its oper-
ation. The basis for grading there is
the bacteria count as revealed by the
methylene blue test. Milk is placed
into one of three classes depending

upon its quality.

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Dr. M. J. Prucha, dairy bacteriol-
ogist at the University of Illinois, as-
sembled the tourists in one of the class-
rooms in the Old Ag Building and tt
them about his latest investigation
and what he had learned about quali
control.

Enroute from Peoria to Bloomington and Champaign to study
improvement. Twenty-eight dealers, producers, and officials made the

At the suggestion of Rufus C.
Dawes, chairman of the World's Cen-
tennial Committee, Chicago, it was
moved by Oexner and seconded by
Skinner that the president appoint a
suitable committee to cooperate with
the world's centennial committee in
representing the interests of Illinois
farmers.

In view of the fact that all I. A. A.
district conferences have endorsed the
district picnic plan, President Smith
was authorized to appoint a committee
to make suggestions for picnics in all
the congressional districts.

The Organization Advisory Commit-
tee composed of C. E. Bamborough,
chairman, Frank Oexner, C. S. Black,
W. B. Bunn, G. E. Metzger, and E. G,
Thiem, was named to serve in this ca-
pacity.

Geo. F. Tullock, chairman of the
Financial Business Service Committee
reported that the proposed life insur-
( Continued on page 3)

I. A. A. Sees Farmers

Elevators As Foundation
Of Grain Marketing Plan

Mutual Relations Committee Offers Defi-
nite Co-operation With Illinois Farmers
Grain Dealers Association

ANY constructive cooperative grain
^ marketing program in Illinois
must include the farmers' elevator as
the foundation for
the structure.

This elemental
policy is laid down
in the proposal
submitted by the
I. A. A.'s special
Mutual Relations
Committee to a
committee from the
Illinois Farmers
Grain Dealers As-
sociation in a re-
cent meeting at
Bloomington.

Briefly the pro-
posal sets forth the
following points:

1. The Farm Bureaus of Illinois
recognize the farmers' elevators of
Illinois as the medium through which
any constructive grain marketing
program should go forward.

2. The announced purpose of said
farmers' elevators is to operate so
as to return the largest possible ul-
timate price to the producers of
grain.

3. Both the Farm Bureaus and
the farmers' elevators recognize that
to carry out most effectively para-
graph 2, it is essential to control the
marketing of the maximum volume
of grain produced within a given
area.

4. Therefore, the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association is willing and
desirous of rendering such construc-
tive service as may be deemed ad-
visable and feasible to increase the
volume of business now being han-

iJed by farmers' elevators, and stim-
ulating the moral support of the
farmers behind said elevators. We,
the representatives of said Associa-
( Continued on page 3)

grading and quality
trip recently by bus.

Page Two

U. S. Supreme Court

Decision Safeguards

Illinois Co-op Act

Court Finds For Plaintiff in Burley To-
bacco Ass'n Suit Against Old Line
Buyer

THE Co-operative Marketing Act of
1923 sponsored by the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association and passed by the
Illinois legislature of that year was
strengthened in effect by the recent de-
cision of the United States Supreme
Court upholding the Burley Tobacco
Growers' Co-operative Marketing As-
sociation contract.

The decision in effect declared that
farmers' co-operative associations shall
not be deemed monopolies, combina-
tions, or conspiracies in restraint of
trade, and that contracts made by such
associations with their members are
legal.

The Supreme Court decision grew
out of a suit against the Liberty Ware-
house Company brought by the Ken-
tucky Burley Tobacco Association be-
cause the warehouse company received
and sold 2,000 pounds of the 1923 to-
bacco from a member of the Burley
Association although its attention had
been called to the penalty provided in
the Kentucky statutes for such action.

Penalty Provided

The penalty mentioned "from any
person, firm, or corporation conduct-
ing a warehouse within the State of
Kentucky who solicits or persuades or
permits any member of any association
organized hereunder to breach his mar-
keting contract with the association by
accepting or receiving such members'
products for sale or for auction or for
display for sale contrary to the terms
of any marketing agreement with an
association such person, firm, or cor-
poration shall be liable and subject to
fine, etc."

Recover $500

The Burley Association recovered a
penalty of $500 prescribed by the act.

Referring to the general scheme of
co-operative marketing, the Supreme
Court said, "Although frequently chal-
lenged, we do not find any court has
condemned an essential feature of the
plan with the single exception of the
Supreme Court of Minnesota. But in
that case it should be noted the dealer
who bought products from a member
was passive and apparently did not
actively seek to purchase them and, so
far as the opinion in the case shows,
had no knowledge that the member was
under contract with the association."

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Honk! Honklt

niinoi* Farm Bureau members pay 50e per
ton less for rock phosphate than do farmers of
other states. Oricanized buying power is the
reason.

Taxpayers' League

In St. Clair County

THE Taxpayers' League was recently
organized in St. Clair county large-
ly as a result ef the tax work of the
St. Clair County Farm Bureau and
the I. A. A. in revealing inequalities
in valuations. The League is made up
largely of civic organizations.

"The organization of the League is
an attempt in the right direction," said
Farm Adviser Tillman, "and it may yet
develop that St. Clair county citizens
have learned how to govern themselves
intelligently without recourse to the
State Tax Commission.

"The Farm Bureau will co-operate
with the Taxpayers' League whole-
heartedly in bringing about a fair re-
assessment but farmers have a right
to expect that revision will mean a
lower full valuation on farm land
rather than an exclusive revision up-
ward to the value of farm lands."

GETS CHECK FOR $100

T^ M. WOOD of Bloomington,
^-^' a member of the McLean
County Farm Bureau, recently
received a check for $100 in full
payment for a Guernsey heifer
killed on the right-of-way near
his farm early last fall. Settle-
ment came as a result of the Il-
linois Agricultural Association
Transportation Department's ef-
fort in Mr. Wood's behalf.

The heifer in question broke
out of an enclosure and wan-
dered down the road onto the
right-of-way which was not pro-
tected with cattle guards or
proper fencing. The animal was
so badly injured that it had to
be killed and buried.

After his own efforts had
failed to get a settlement, Mr.
Wood appealed to the McLean
County Farm Bureau from
whence it was referred to the
I. A. A. Transportation Depart-
ment.

50 Counties To Renew

Membership In 1928

Eleven Counties Adopt Continuing Plan
For Maintaining Farm Bureau

FIFTY Illinois counties will renew
their Farm Bureau memberships in
1928, states Geo. E. Metzger, director
of organization.

Clinton county in Southern Illinois
has already finished its drive with a
net total gain of 128 members. This
is an increase of more than 30 per
cent. Clinton county was one of the
first to adopt the continuing member-
ship agreement by which the member-
ship continues automatically unless
the member gives notice to the con-
trary 30 days prior to the end of the
fiscal year. As a result, the greater
portion of the members automatically
renewed their memberships and the lo-
cal solicitors centered their efforts on
non-members.

The continuing membership plan has
been adopted by 11 county Farm Bu-
reaus. Edgar county adopted this
plan several years ago and at the pres-
ent time is testing its effectiveness.
This county is expected to finish its
renewal campaign with 150 members
more than it had during the previous
three-year period.

The counties which have adopted
the continuing membership plan are:
Edgar, Clinton, Marion, Cumberland,
Clark, Crawford, Champaign, Iro-
quois, Johnson, Vermilion, and Henry.

Is Farmer Liable For

Injury To Employee?

E. D. McQuire of Union county writes: "I
would like to know whether an employer is sub-
ject to damages if an employee on the farm gets
injured while working for him. I am wonder-
ing whether or not it is necessary to carry a
Workman's Compensation policy. I itmploy a
great deal of help during harvest time and want
to protect myself against any possible lawsuits."

The employer is liable for injuries
to employees resulting from the em-
ployer's negligence, although contrib-
utory negligence on the part of the
employee is a bar to recovery. Never-
theless this does not prevent a man
from bringing action against his em-
ployer, causing him considerable ex-
pense and embarrassment.

According to the Illinois Statutes,
the Workmen's Compensation Act
does not apply to "any work, femploy-
ment or operations done, had or con-
ducted by farmers and others engfaged
in farming, tillage of the soil, or stock
raising, or to those who rent or lease
land for any such purpose, or to any-
one in their employ or to any work
done on a farm or country place, no
matter what kind of work or service
is being done or rendered."

However, a farmer may elect to
come under the Act. This is discre-
tionary. By so doing he can relieve
himself of the common law liability,
which briefly means that recovery can-
not be had, in case of injury to or the
death of an employee, beyond certain
specified amounts.

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Fred Diets

25th District Tables

Movement Against

Strip Coal Mining

DiscuM Insurance, Candidates, and Other
Questions at Mound City Meeting

l^IFTY I. A. A. members from Pu-
*- laski, Union, Jackson, Randolph,
Williamson, and Franklin Counties
attended the 25th
district conference
held at Mound
City on Friday,
March 30, at the
call of Fred Dietz,
I. A. A. Executive
Committeeman.

After an expla-
nation of the pro-
posed p la n of
abandoning the
state picnic in fa-
vor of district pic-
nics, the meeting endorsed the pro-
posal and voted for a joint picnic for
the 24th and 25th cong^ressional dis-
tricts. A committee, composed of the
presidents of each county Farm Bu-
reau, was appointed to arrange the
time and place for the picnic.

Mr. Dietz presented voting records
and led the discussion regarding can-
didates for the legislature from that
section. He also read the replies of
prospective delegates to the national
Republican and Democratic conven-
tions, in answer to a questionnaire
submitted several weeks ago by the
Association.

Strip Mining Discu*se<i

The question of abolishing strip
mining by legislation received consid-
itration. It was pointed out that coal
lands in some sections of Southern Il-
linois are more valuable for strip min-
ing than for agricultural purposes,
and that legislation prohibiting the
sale of land for this purpose would
work an injustice against owners of
iiuch property. On motion by Mr.
Lingenfelter, proposed action on the
question was tabled.

Vernon Vaniman, director of Insur-
ance Service presented the proposed
life insurance program and consider-
able interest was shown by all coun-
ties. The plan was favorably re-
ceived. It was pointed out that fur-
ther progress of the life insurance
project rests with thie executive com-
mittees of the county Farm Bureaus.
Questions on storm, hail, and crop in-
surance received considerable atten-
tion.

Resolutions placing the conference
on record against the endorsement of
any candidates for office, advising that
the counties refrain from any tend-
ency toward partisan politics, and
urging every farmer to vote in the

coming primaries were carried without
a dissenting vote.

The Pulaski County Farm Bureau
extended an invitation to return to
Mound City for the next conference.

Limestone Orders Must i

Be Placed Through Farm
Bureaus For 10c Refund

FARM BUREAU members should
see their county advisers for de-
tails regarding the new limestone
plan," states J. R. Bent, director of
the Limestone-Phosphate Department
for the I. A. A.

"If members are to get the benefit
of the 10 cent per ton discount their
orders must be placed through their
county Farm Bureaus in the method
provided," states Bent. "If orders
are forwarded direct to the limestone
companies they will not receive the
benefit of the concession."

Under the new plan members will
not receive a discount at the time of
payment, but they will receive a re-
fund check in due time, covering the
10 cent per ton rebate.

Discuss Marketing

(Continued from page 1)
ance plan had been presented before 13
district conferences, where the interest
was keen and discussion indicated a
wide demand for the new service. He
reported that few county Farm Bu-
reau boards had met since the district
conferences, and thus had had no op-
portunity to vote on the project.

It was reported that 10 limestone
companies had signed the contract of-
fered by the I. A. A. up to April 1.
These inlcuded all the large companies
with the exception of Dolese and Shep-
ard. Full information regarding
prices, sources of supply, and delivered
cost of limestone was forwarded to
each county last week.

Farmers' Elevator

(Continued from page 1)

tion, submit to the representative of
the Farmers Grain Dealers Asso-
ciation of Illinois our willingness to
employ and maintain a grain mar-
keting director to carry out a pro-
gram which may be agreed upon by
both the Farmers Grain Dealers As-
sociation of Illinois and the Illinois
Agricultural Association.

Business men, including salesmen,
merchants and bankers are the heav-
iest drinkers of harmful liquors ac-
cording to the Keeley Institute at
Dwight, 111. Farmers and mechanics
drink very little, states the report.

At a meeting of the I. A. A. staff on April
7, the members unanimously recommended
that the next annual meeting be held the last
week in January, 1929.

C. E. Bambarough

100 Attend I. A. A.

District Conference In

Dixon On March 23

ONE hundred I. A. A. member*
Jrom the counties of Jo Daviess,
Stephenson, Carroll, Lee, Ogle, and
Whiteside attend-
ed the 13th I. A.
A. district confer-
ence in the court
house at Dixon on
Friday, Mar. 23.

C. E. Bambor-
ough of Polo, I. A.
A. Executive Com-
mitteeman, led
the discussion dur-
ing the afternoon
regarding the vot-
ing records of leg-
islators from that
district in the 55th General Assembly.
Mr. Bamborough expressed the policy
of the Association of not endorsing
any candidates for political office, and
then analyzed the voting records as
presented in a recent issue of The I.
A. A. Record.

QuestioBBaiire* Read

Replies of prospective delegates to
the national Republican and Demo-
cratic conventions regarding their
stand on farm issues and presidential
candidates also were read. The meet-
ing refused to endorse any candidates
for delegate from that section in line
with the I. A. A. policy.

Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel,
opened the discussion in the morning,
and spoke on the I. A. A.'s auto in-
surance program. In the afternoon
he presented the proposed life insur-
ance plan which was favorably re-
ceived.

The meeting endorsed the plan of
abandoning the state picnic in favor
of district I. A. A. picnics. Chairman
Bamborough appointed the presidents
of all the Farm Bureaus in the district
to act with him in deciding the time
and place for a picnic for the 13th
district.

Official From South

Africa Studies Co-ops

JM. TINLEY, Division of Co-opera-
, tion of the Department of Agri-
culture, Union of South Africa, who
has been studying in the United States
for the past two and one-half years,
visited the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation offices recently to study co-
operative associations in Illinois.

George R. Wicker, director of busi-
ness service and manager of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Co-operatives Asso-
ciation, gave him first-hand informa-
tion on co-operatives in this state.

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To adoanea the purpoM for which tha farm hureau i«<u organized,
nmmely to promotet protect and represent the buaineat economic,
mocial and educational intaremta of the farmera of liiinoia and the nation,
and to develop agriculture.

Published once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave., Mount Morris,
Illinois, by the Illinois Agrricultural Association. Edited by Department
of Information, E. G. Thiem, Director, 608 South Dearborn Street,
Chicago, Illinois. Entered as second-class matter October 20, 1925, at
the post office at Mount Morris, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Sec-
tion 412, Act of February 28, 1925, authorized October 27, 1925. The
individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is
five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty cents for sub-
scription to the Illinois Agricultural Association Record. Post-
master: In returning an uncalled for or miasent copy please indicate
key number on address as is required by law.

OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vice-President, Frank D. Barton , Cornell

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloominston

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

(By Congreasional Districts)

lat to nth H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

12th G. F. Tullock, Rockford

13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th M. G. Lambert, Ferris

ISth A. N. Skinner, Yates City

16th * A. R. Wright, Varna

17th 7. Geo. J. StoU, Chestnut

18th R. F. Karr, Iroquois

19th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th Charles S. Black, Jacksonville

21»t Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd Frank Oexner, Waterloo

23rd W. L. Cope, Salem

24th Charles Marshall, Belknap

2Sth Fred Dietz, De Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Business Service Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lwich

Limestone-Phosphate J. R. Bent

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leepcr

General Office ; J. H. Kelker

Information E.G. Thiet^

Insurance Service V. Vaniman

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller

Organization G. E. Metzger

Poultry and Egg Marketing' F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson

Transportation ." L.J. Quasey

Champaign Still Floundering

THE Illinois Tax Commission recently issued its second
order directing the Champaign county board of re-
view to obey the law and equalize assessed valuations be-
tween farm lands and city real estate in that county.

The cry of distress, hardship, and what not raised by
the local press and taxing officials following this act is
comparable to a pre-election ballyhoo. Bad advice and
political wire pulling are chiefly responsible for the tangle.
The county board of review, which has been made the
goat, has allowed others to influence the members against
their better judgment.

Let us briefly review the history of the controversy.
Last summer the Champaign County Farm Bureau
through its Tax Committee brought to light certain in-
equalities showing that assessed valuations in four town-
ships including the cities of Champaign, Urbana, and Ran-
toul were considerably below valuations in the rest of the
county.

This was presented to the county board of review. The
board admitted the substantial accuracy of the figures
taken from the county records, but it refused to do any-
thing about it on the ground of inexpediency.

That was last September.

The Farm Bureau appealed to the State Tax Commis-
sion and a hearing was held in Chicago on October 6.
The board of review did not contest the Farm Bureau's
figures, and admitted that inequalities existed. The mat-
ter was left to the discretion of the Tax Commission for
any action it saw fit to take.

The Commission ordered the Farm Bureau and the
board of review to get together, continuing the case until
October 18. The board and opposing parties returned on
Qctober 18 with a group of attorneys who sought to
vitiate the damaging testimony in the previous hearing in
which the board of review admitted the inequalities.

The attorneys pleaded that the board of review had
no authority to offer such testimony on the technical
ground that the board was legally adjourned at the time.

"This Commission has no patience with mere techni-
calities when justice is at stake," said Chairman Malbne.
"The board of review of Champaign county did not re-
monstrate when the Farm Bureau presented its case
showing that inequalities existed."

"The plea of inconvenience is no argument," said Com-
missioner Francis. "It is our duty by law to equalize
valuations when a maladjustment is revealed."

Ten days were allowed the Champaign county attorneys
to review the figures of the Farm Bureau in an effort to
show why a reassessment should not be ordered. The fig-
ures were never reviewed.

Another hearing was held on November 1. The Farm
Bureau's figures stood unchallenged. The Commission
issued its order in December for a reassessment and
equalization in line with the true values of property in the
respective taxing districts. Now it is April, nearly four
months later. Dilly-dallying and evasion have character-
ized the action of the board of review during this period.

All that the Farm Bureau asked for was an equitable
assessment in compliance with the law. There was ample
time in which to make a real assessment.

But the situation is no farther along than it was six
months ago. Now who is to blame? Substantial equality
would be brought about by lowering farm lands 20 per
cent and villages 30 per cent. The villages may not have
enough money to pay expenses, but the board of review,
which has consistently refused to equalize by raising val-
uations in the four townships where such action is needed,
must bear the responsibility. j

The tax muddle is regrettable. In issuing its two orders
the Tax Commission merely obeyed the law which states
very clearly that all property shall be assessed equally
according to its true value. Public policy and the inter-
ests of everyone concerned demand that the necessary
adjustments be made without delay. i >

25 Per Cent Cut in Stephenson

A 2b PER CENT cut in Stephenson county farm valu-
ations was brought about following a hearing of
Farm Bureau, I. A. A., and board of review representa-
tives before the Illinois Tax Commission on April 4.

The order for reassessment and the subsequent 25 per
cent reduction culminates another extended controversy.
But here the board of review, unlike that in Champaign
county, had the courage to investigate, learn the facts,
and act when its duty was made clear. The revision will
bring farm valuations down to the level of assessments
in the city of Freeport. v.'

The persistence of the Stephenson County Farm Bureau
in standing firm for tax equality should have the everlast-
ing gratitude and support of every farmer in the co"nty.
The Farm Tax Committees in both Stephenson and Cham-
paign counties made at least three special trips to Chi-
cago to present their causes before the Commission. No
self-respecting member or non-member in either county
will ever say the Farm Bureau never did anything for
him.

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Tun* in on the I. A. A. half hour program
broadeatt daOv >t lt:SO P. M. from station
WJJD, Chicago (SIS metert). The faeUitiea of
ttation WJJO are loaned the Aeaoeiation
through the courtetv of the Loyal Order of
Mooee, Mooseheart, III. No program on Satur-
day* and Sundays.

Judge Dickinson Speaks

NATIONAL conservation of our
natural resources including
wild life, forests, and natural game
preserves was
championed in a
recent address on
the I. A. A. daily
farm radio pro-
gram by the Hon.
Jacob M. Dickin-
son of Chicago.
Judge Dickinson is
a foremost Ameri-
can jurist but he
is better known as
President Taft's Secretary of War.

Judge Dickinson was one of the
founders and now holds an honorary
office in the Izaak Walton League of
America, national sportsmen's organi-
zation. He represented the United
States before the Alaskan Boundary
Tribunal in 1903, served later as gen-
eral solicitor for the L C. R. R., and
in 1915 was appointed receiver for
the Rock Island Lines. He returned
from a health trip in the South only
a few days before addressing the I.
A. A. radio audience. Judge Dickin-
son is 77 years old.

J. M. Dickinton

Dr. Van Norman Coming
New uses for dried milk and the
work of the American Dry Milk Insti-
tute will be presented in a radio ad-
dress by Dr. H. E. Van Norman, di-
rector of the organization interested
in developing this outlet for the prod-
uct of the dairy cow.

Dr. Van Norman for many years
was chief of the dairy department at
the University of California. His ad-
dress will be broadcast on the I. A. A.
daily farm program from Station
WJJD at 12:30 p. m. on Apr. 30.
Tune in and hear him.

National Producers' President

GB. DENMAN, president of the
, National Livestock Producers
Association, and other members of the
board are scheduled to talk to the
livestock growers of the Middle West
from the I. A. A. office over Station
WJJD on Wednesday, Apr. 25.

The occasion will be the quarterly
meeting of the National Producers'

board of directors in Chicago. J. D.
Harper, director of Information, and
editor of the National Livestock Pro-
ducer, will have charge of the pro-
gram.

Ole Oleson
Ole Oleson of Cook county and A.
D. Lynch, dairy marketing director of
the I. A. A., will discuss the dairy
business on the I. A. A. farm radio
program, Wednesday, April 18. Ole
became so famous through his broad-
casts from the I. A. A. offices over Sta-
tion WJJD that his services were de-
manded at many annual Farm Bureau
meetings in the dairy district during
the past few months.

R. F. Karr

18th District Meets

At Danville, March
30, Discuss Limestone

Life Insurance Program Presented By
Kirkpatrick Arouses Interest

THE first I. A. A. conference of
the year was held in the 18th
district at Danville on March 30 at
the call of R. F.
Karr of Iroquois,
member of the I.
A. A. Executive
Committee.

Representatives
from Iroquois,
Vermilion, Clark,
and Kankakee
counties attended.
Mr. Karr first
presented the plan
for holding a giant
I. A. A. picnic in
each district in place of the annual
state picnic. On motion of Gillfillan
of Iroquois, seconded by Leemon of
Vermilion county, the plan was adopted.
Want Refund
An expression was made in favor of
modification of the refund plan con-
tained in the limestone agreement
adopted following a series of Farm
Bureau conferences held about the
state. The plan provides that the 10
cent per ton refund will be made avail-
able only to those who have ordered
their limestone through the Farm Bu-
reau on uniform blanks and have paid
their bill in full within 15 days.

Moved by Gillfillan and seconded by
Morris that the conference recommend
to the Limestone-Phosphate Depart-
ment of the I. A. A. that it use its
best judgment and every honorable
means to keep the cost of limestone
down to that of 1927 or lower and
that the contracts with the company
be consummated at the earliest oppor-
tunity.

Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel
for the I. A. A., outlined in some de-
tail the proposed life insurance pro-
gram. A discussion indicated consid-
erable interest.

Chas. S. Black

Jacksonville Conference On
Mar. 23 Discusses Issues of
Importance to Members

President Smith and V. Vaniman Present
Legislative and Life Insurance Program

IIFE insurance, legislation, voting
J records of candidates, and other
issues received consideration at the
I. A. A. district
conference held at
Jacksonville o n
Friday, March 23.
Charles Black, Ex-
ecutive Commit-
teeman from the
20th district, pre-
sided. R. J. Laible
of Greene county
acted as secretary.^
After discussing
the progress of
the I. A. A. auto
insurance service, V. Vaniman outlined
the proposed life insurance program.
President Earl C. Smith followed Mr.
Vaniman and expressed the position of
the I. A. A. Executive Committee in
making Farm Bureau life insurance
available. "We investigated the possi-
bilities of life insurance after a de-
mand was apparent in various sections
of the state," he said. "The service
will not be initiated unless the county
Farm Bureaus want it. When 60 per
cent of the county Farm Bureaus vote
in favor of the plan we will make it
available."

Surplus Legislation

Mr. Smith then discussed surplus
control legislation and told about the
changes that had been made in the
McNary-Haugen bill to meet the ob-
jections of the President. The policy
of the I. A. A. in furnishing its mem-
bers with the voting records of candi-
dates was thoroughly explained.

"Farm organizations can take three
positions in regard to political issues,"
he said. "First, they can ignore them
because of fear of entanglement. Sec-
ond, they can get definitely into party
politics. Third, they can take the po-
sition of the I. A. A. which is to se-
cure full information about candi-
dates, and send it to their mem-
bers."

District Picnic Endorsed

It was moved by Ogle of Cass coun-
ty and seconded by Arnold of Greene
county that the I. A. A. state picnic
be abandoned and that picnics be held
in each congressional district instead.

Chairman Black was authorized to
appoint a picnic committee with a
representative from each county.

Charles Borgelt of Mason county,
former Executive Committeeman,
spoke briefly in favor of the life in-
surance program, and indicated his
pleasure and appreciation in serving
on the Executive Committee of the
I. A. A. last year.

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M. G. Lambert

I. A. A. Conference At
Macomb Hear Insurance,
Voting Records Discussed

To Hold District Picnic, Kirkpatrick
Presents New Life Proposal

VOTING records of candidates, the
status of the McNary-Haugen bill,
proposed gas tax legislation, insur-
ance, district pic-
nics, and other
subjects were dis-
cussed at the Illi-
nois Agrricultural
Association con-
ference in the
14th district, held
on Thursday, Mar.
22, at Macomb. M.
G. Lambert, I. A.
A. Executive Com-
mitteeman, presid-
ed.

Farm Adviser J. H. Lloyd of Han-
cock County discussed the hog cholera
control project in Western Illinois. It
was suggested that the counties in
that district might come to an under-
standing reg:arding prices for serum
and virus to avoid confusion at coun-
ty border lines.

Donald Kirkpatrick of the I. A. A.
discussed the new limestone contract
and explained how it would operate.

District Picnic Planned

It was moved by P. B. Scott of Mer-
cer County and seconded by W. A.
Stevenson of Henderson County that
the 14th congressional district hold a
district picnic this year. Each county
Farm Bureau was asked to appoint a
representative to act on a joint picnic
committee. Mr. Lambert was elected
chairman of the committee, and was
asked to call the first meeting.

Farm advisers in the district re-
ported on livestock marketing prog-
ress in their various counties.

It was moved by Cooper of Hender-
son County and seconded by Scott of
Mercer County that meetings be held
quarterly in the district, and that the
next conference be held on May 22.
Carried. Aledo was suggested for the
next meeting, but on motion it was
decided to leave the choice to the dis-
trict picnic committee.

R. J. Hamilton, district manager,
spoke briefly on organization.

Butterfat Prices Higher

Farm Adviser Doneghue of McDon-
ough County discussed co-operative
produce marketing and told about
activities in his county where 170
farmers are selling their produce co-
operatively. He stated that butterfat
prices have risen considerably in that
section since the organization of the
cream-buying station at Macomb.

Donald Kirkpatrick presented the

I. A. A. insurance progn^am and spoke
at length on the proposed plan for
initiating life insurance as a new serv-
ice. When 60 per cent of the county
Farm Bureaus endorse the project the
service will be made available.

Mr. Lambert led the discussion on
the voting records of local candidates
for the legislature. The members were
urged to support those who had voted
for the interests of their farm con-
stituents.

Farm Adviser A. A. Olsen of War-
ren County acted as secretary of the
meeting.

Frank Oezner

22nd District Votes To

Picnic At Highland Pk.

Life Insurance Plan Creates Much
Interest

THE district picnic plan was unani-
mously endorsed at the 22nd I.
A. A. district conference held in East
St. Louis on
March 24. Frank
Oexner presided
and B. W. Till-
man of St. Clair
county acted as
secretary.

Donald Kirkpat-
rick, legal counsel
for the I. A. A.,
outlined in detail
the proposed life
insurance project
in which he stated
that the plan had been developed after
more than a year's investigation. Much
interest was shown in the new service,
although it was decided not to take
any action. Each County Farm Bu-
reau was asked to act upon the pro-
posal as soon as possible. When 60
per cent of all the counties endorse
the plan, the service will be made
available.

Stanley Castle and Mr. Miller of
Madison county suggested Highland
Park as a suitable place for the 22nd
district picnic. It was moved, second-
ed, and carried that the Madison coun-
ty invitation be accepted. The chair-
man was authorized to appoint a com-
mittee of five to set the date and make
all arrangements.

It was suggested that the I. A. A.
prepare a standard poster for the dis-
trict picnics.

Representatives from all the counties
in the district attended.

Visits I. A. A. Offices

Charles W. Holman, secretary of
the National Co-operative Milk Pro-
ducers' Marketing Federation, and L.
Smith, a director in the Dairymen's
League of New York, visited the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association offices
recently.

21st District Meets At
Carlinville, Endorse New
Picnic Plan, Insurance

Bid

'Farmer" Rusk Goodbye In
Resolution

Sam Sorrella

EVERY county in the 21st congres-
sional district was represented
at the Illinois Agricultural Association
conference held
on March 29 at
Carlinville at the
call of Samuel
Sorrells of Ray-
mond, I. A. A. Ex-
ecutive Commit-
teeman.

H. J. Schultz,
president of the
Macoupin County
Farm Bureau, pre-
sided. Mr. Sorrells
led the discussion
on candidates for the legislature from
that section, and presented the voting
records of members of the 55th Gen-
eral Assembly.

V. Vaniman, director of insurance
service, outlined the proposed life in-
surance plan which the Association
will initiate when 60 per cent of the
County Farm Bureaus of the state de-
mand this service. The life insurance
program apparently was favorably re-
ceived.

Serum Association

Mr. Sorrells also explained the work
of the Illinois Farm Bureau Serum As-
sociation in buying the needs for 63
county members engaged in active hog
cholera control campaigns.

The district picnic plan was unani-
mously endorsed.

In view of the fact that Farm Ad-
viser E. W. Rusk of Macoupin county
resigned recently to become agricul-
tural agent for the Chicago and Illi-
nois Midland Railroad, the following
resolution was off'ered by Dwight Hart
of Christian county and unanimously
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Bouquet to Rusk

"Be it hereby resolved that the rep-
resentatives of the executive commit-
tees of the four Farm Bureaus of the
21st district, comprising the counties
of Macoupin, Montgomery, Christian,
and Sangamon do hereby extend to E.
W. Rusk, the retiring adviser of Ma-
coupin county, the sincere apprecia-
tion of this 21st district for his un-
tiring and faithful services to the
Farm Bureau, not only in his own
county, but in the entire district as
well. We feel his counsel and accom-
plishments have been an inspiration
which has not been confined to Ma-
coupin county and the 21st district
alone, but has been felt all over the
state.

"Be it further resolved that we ex-
tend to him in his new field of labor
our best wishes for his success, and
also our sincere good will."

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Southern Clover And

Alfalfa Seed To Sing

Swan Song Is Report

New Government Seed Service To Tell
Source Of Origin

THE death knell of southern clover
and alfalfa shipments to com belt
farmers has been sounded.

The U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture recently instituted a new service
whereby the source of origin of al-
falfa, clover, and seed corn will be
given on every bag or package. All
the large seed dealers who handle ap-
proximately 90 per cent of all the
clover, alfalfa and seed corn used in
the country have subscribed for the
service.

The inspection service is a benefit
to the seed companies as well as to
Middle West farmers who have lost
thousands of dollars in times past by
sowing worthless southern grown al-
falfa or clover seed only to see a nice
stand kill out completely the follow-
ing winter.

Each Bag Labeled .

Each seed bag will carry a verified
origin certificate tag. There will be
no government guarantee of germina-
tion, purity, or variety, however.

Each grower or shipper of seed un-
der the department's service submits
to the dealer either a declaration of
origin or an official State certificate of
origin of each shipment. The shipper
filling in a shipper's declaration states
that the lots described therein have
been obtained directly from growers
with proper declaration or other suffi-
cient evidence as to locality of pro-
duction; that the facts stated are cor-
rect to the best of his knowledge and
belief, and that the locality of pro-
duction and identity of each lot are
properly covered in his records, which
will be made accessible for verification
by a Federal seed inspector at any
time upon request.

How It Is Done

With declarations at hand covering
the various lots of seed for which
verification is desired, the verified-
origin dealer makes application to the
nearest inspector for an inspection
certificate, giving the kind of seed,
name of shipper and shipping point,
or declaration number covering the
shipment, date of shipment, shipper's
lot number or mark, the verified-
origin dealer's receiving lot number,
the quantity in pounds, place where
the seed was grown, and kind of dec-
laration covering the shipment. This
certificate is in effect a copy of the
dealer's own record which may be ex-
amined at any time by a seed in-
spector. It entitles the verified-origin
dealer to issue verified-oripn seed
certificates for all lots covered by it.

The verified-origin seed certificate
is the recognized commercial docu-
ment verifying the origin and iden-
tity of the seed which it covers.

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This tag certificate gives, in addi-
tion to the name and address of the
verified-origin seed dealer, the kind of
seed, lot number, and where the seed
was grown. It is attached to every
bag in shipments made to purchasers
who are not verified-origin seed deal-
ers.

The department's new service is
conducted under authority of Con-
gress to establish an inspection service
for perishable farm products. The act
provides, among other things, for fees
that are reasonable and that cover as
nearly as possible the cost of the
service. Accordingly, for seed listed
in an inspection certificate a fee of 3
to 5 cents per 100 pounds is charged.

T. B. In Hogs Drops

55 Per Cent at Yards

TUBERCULOSIS infection in hogs
received at the Chicago livestock
market decreased 55 per cent during
the past four years according to a
survey recently completed by the Chi-
cago Livestock Exchange.

Last December only 10.2 per cent of
the hogs at the Union Stock Yards
were retained by the federal inspec-
tors because they were infected with
tuberculosis.

During 1927 packers paid at Chi-
cago $97,652.46 alone in 10c premiums
on 382,570 hogs from accredited T. B.
free counties. A county becomes ac-
credited when all the breeding cattle
within its borders have been tuberculin
tested and the infection reduced to less
than half of one per cent. :

439 Accredited Coanties

There are now 38 accredited coun-
ties in Iowa, 7 in Illinois, 12 in Minne-
sota, 27 in Wisconsin, 29 in Indiana,
and enough in the other states of the
Union to make 439 in all.

In 1908, the survey shows, less than
four per cent of Chicago hogs had
tuberculosis. Then as T. B. spread in
poultry and dairy herds, tuberculosis
in hogs rose steadily until it had
mounted to 20 per cent in 1922.

Premiums paid by all packers for
hog^ from accredited counties in the
corn belt totalled $500,000 during 1927.

Eight Counties Get

New Farm Advisers

EIGHT Illinois counties have an-
nounced or will announce new
county farm -advisers according to re-
ports received at the I. A. A. offices.

R. J. "Rusty" Laible, farm adviser
in Greene County for the past three
years, recently started work for the
Marshall-Putnam Farm Bureau where
he succeeds F. E. Fuller who moved to
Bloomington. The Greene County
Farm Bureau membership grew 70
per cent during Laible's incumbency.
Mr. Fuller is managing a large num-
ber of farms in McLean County.

W. F. Coolidge of Blooming^ton,
who has been active in the McLean
County Farm Bureau, was employed
by the Macoupin County Farm Bu-
reau as adviser to succeed Earl W.
Rusk. Mr. Rusk resig^ied to become
agricultural agent for the Chicago
and Illinois Midland Railroad, an In-
suU holding. Claude C. Coots of Mo-
desto, has been engaged by Rusk to
manage the railroad's experimental
farm at Havana in Mason County.

Geo. H. Iftner, former teacher of
vocational agriculture at Robinson,
was employed recently to succeed
Farm Adviser Wascher in Effingham
County.

R. H. Clanahan, agricultural teach-
er from Pittsfield, has been chosen to
succeed Farm Advisor Laible in
Greene County. G. O. Stanley is the
new county adviser in Cumberland
County, while H. M. Adams was re-
cently employed to succeed Charlie
Robinson, former county adviser in
Shelby County. L. Kimmel, former
county adviser in Pope County, re-
signed April 1. H. F. Crosby, farm
adviser in Menard County, according
to reports will leave his office there
May 15.

L. W. Braham succeeded J. F.
Hedgcock as farm adviser in Will
County several months ago.

-Marchant Heads Farm Advisers

LR. MARCHANT of Knox county
• was elected president, C. H. Kelt-
ner of Winnebagro county, vice-presi-
dent, J. W. Whisenand of Henry
county secretary, and W. B. Bunn, of
Richland county, treasurer of the Illi-
nois State Association of Farm Ad-
visers for i928.

Directors are: C. E. Yale, Lee
county; R. C. Doneghue, McDonough
county, and F. W. Garrett, Douglas
county.

Charter members of the State As-
sociation were active in helping or-
ganize the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation back in 1916. Representative
farm advisers serve on each advisory
committee of the I. A. A. and the
president attends all meeting^s of the
I. A. A. executive committee.

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TbE I. A. A. RECORD

Chas. Marshall

Vote To Hold Four I. A. A.
Conferences Yearly In 24th

Go On Record In Favor Of Free
Discussion Meetings

MEMBERS of the I. A. A. from
the 24th district, who met at
Albion on March 31, endorsed the life
insurance progrram
as outlined by V.
Vaniman, director
of insurance serv-
ice. Chas. Mar-
shall, I. A. A.
Committee-
man, presided.

Representatives
from White, Mas-
sac, Gallatin, Ed-
wards, Wayne,
Johnson, and Sa-
line counties were
present.
The district picnic plan was unani-
mously endorsed, and it was decided
to join with the 25th district in hold-
ing a joint picnic. Mr. Marshall was
authorized to appoint a picnic com-
mittee of three to act with a similar
committee from the 25th district.

Change Meeting Places

L. S. Foote of Johnson county
moved that four conferences be held
each year in the 24th district. The
motion was seconded by Simpson of
Gallatin county and carried.

It was decided to hold the next
three meetings in successive order in
Clay, Gallatin, and Massac counties.

L. F. Brissenden, district manager
for the I. A. A., gave a brief talk on
organization.

A. J. Libkie of Edwards county, H.
H. Glasscock of Gallatin count/, and
J. C. Small of Saline county were ap-
pointed to serve on the picnic com-
mittee.

The opinion was expressed that more
time should have been provided at the
Carbondale limestone conference for
full discussion of the new contract.

Business men and merchants aided
in promoting the produce association
plan because they recognize that co-
operatives will bring more money into
the community and that they will
share in the farmer's prosperity. Local
buyers, it has been reported, have
been paying such low prices for but-
terfat and poultry that many farmers
drove 25 miles to Jacksonville to sell
their produce on a better market.

Scott County Forms a

Co-op Produce Association

THE Scott County Produce Associa-
tion was organized at a meeting
held at Winchester on Thursday night,
March 29, where Frank A. Gougler,
director of produce marketing for the
Illinois As^cultural Association, out-
lined the plan now being followed by
produce associations in 16 other coun-
ties.

Nearly everyone who attended the
meeting signed the contract to market
his cream, poultry and eggs co-opera-
tively. The following day seven more
agreements were signed at the Farm
Bureau office. When 125 contracts
have been signed the organization will
elect a board of directors and start
operations.

Official From Poland

Visits I. A. A. Officers

LOUIS LADOS, a representative of
j the Central Co-operative Associa-
tion of Warsaw, Poland, and the local
consul for the Polish Government,
spent considerable time in the Illinois
Agricultural Association office recent-
ly securing information on farmers'
elevators whose books are audited by
the I. A. C. A. Mr. Lados already has
visited the farmers' elevator at Mor-
rison in Whiteside County and the
Watseka Farmers' Grain Company in
Iroquois County. Following his studies
downstate, Mr. Lados will return to
Chicago to study operations in the
terminal market.

He comes as a representative of the
Ministry of Agriculture in Poland. He
is particularly interested in grain mar-
keting organizations in the United
States. The Polish officials were in-
troduced through a letter from Chris
L. Christensen, director of co-opera-
tive marketing for the U. S. Dept. of
Agriculture, to Geo. R. Urcher, di-
rector of business service for the I.
A. A.

Enters Baseball League
P. F. Burns was appointed chair-
man, W. H. Sappington, Earl Gilman,
Hardin Young, and George H. Vannier
were appointed members of a commit-
tee to organize a Farm Bureau base-
ball team in Scott county.

The committee already has applied
for admission to the Illinois Farm Bu-
reau Baseball League.

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W. L. Cop*

All Counties Represented
At 23rd District Conference,
Salem, Called By W. L. Cope

Endorse Policy and Commend I. A. A.
For Publishing Voting Records

NEARLY 50 representatives from
Crawford, Lawrence, Richland,
Clinton, Marion, Wabash, Jefferson,
and Effingham
counties attended
the Illinois Agri-
cultural Associa-
tion district con-
ference held in
the 23rd district
at Salem on March
22.

John Rogier of
Marion county
was elected chair-
man and John R.
Spencer, secretary
of the meeting.

W. L. Cope, executive committee-
man representing the 23rd district,
explained the district picnic plan
which was adopted unanimously.

Baseball Interest

Lloyd Caldwell of Jefferson county
opened a discussion on Farm Bureau
baseball. Three of the counties rep-
resented signified their intention of
bringing out organized Farm Bureau
teams.

Mr. Cope discussed the legislative
situation and presented the I. A. A.'s
policy on publishing voting records.
The conference endorsed the policy
and commended the Association for
giving the members of the district
complete information on their candi-
dates for office.

William Moorman, manager of the
Shelby County Oil Company, led a
discussion after lunch on the advisa-
bility of organizing Farm Bureau oil
companies and the problems involved
in their operation.

Vote For Insurance

V. Vaniman, director of insurance
service for the I. A. A., reviewed
briefly the progn"am of the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Mutual Insurance Company
and asked for expressions as to wheth-
er or not they regarded auto insurance
as an asset to the Farm Bureau. An
overwhelming vote was registered in
favor of insurance. He next outlined
the proposed life insurance program,
describing in detail the three different
kinds of policies to be provided under
the plan. Briefs were distributed set-
ting forth the life insurance plan and
illustrating how it would operate.

The next monthly meeting of the 1.
A. A. Executive Committee will b«
held on Friday, May 11.

The Scott County Farm Bureau decided not
to organize its own company in view of the
fact that the Morsan Oil Company is servins,
or will serve, all sections of Scott county.

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Page Eight

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Chas. Marshall

Vote To Hold Four I. A. A.
Conferences Yearly In 24th

Go On Record In Favor Of Free
Discussion Meetings

MEMBERS of the I. A. A. from
the 24th district, whoi met at
Albion on March 31. endorsed the life
insurance program
as outlined by V.
Vaninian. director
of insurance serv-
ice. C has. Mar-
.^hall. I. I A. A.
C o m m i t t e e-
man, presided.

Representatives
from White, Mas-
sac. Gallatin. Ed-
wards. \V a y n e.
Johnson, and Sa-
line counties were
present. '
The district picnic plan was unani-
mously endorsed, and it was decided
to join with the 25th district in hold-
ing a joint picnic. Mr. Marshall was
authorized to appoint a picnic com-
mittee of three to act with a similar
committee from the 25th district.

Change Meeting Places

L. S. Foote of Johnson county
moved that four conference.-i be held
eacli year in the 24th district. The
motion was seconded by Simpson of
Callatin county and carried.

It was decided to hold the next
three meetings in successive order in
Clay. Gallatin, arid Massac counties.

L. F. Brissenden, district manager
for the I. A. A., gave a brief talk on
organization.

A. J. Libkie of Edwards county, H.
H. Glasscock of Gallatin comity, and
J. C. Small of Saline county were ap-
pointed to serve on the picnic com-
mittee.

The opinion was expressed that more
time should have been piovidtd at the
Carbondale limestone conference for
full discussion of the new contract.

Scott County Forms a

Co-op Produce Association

THE Scott County Produce Associa-
tion was organized at a meeting
held at Winchester on Thursday night,
March 21t, where Frank A. Gougler,
director of produce marketing for the
Illinois Agricultural Association, out-
lined the plan now being followed by
produce associations in 16 other coun-
ties.

Nearly everj'one who attended the
meeting signed the contract to market
his cream, poultiy and eggs co-opera-
tively. The following day seven more
agreements were signed at the Farm
Bureau office. When 125 contracts
have been signed the organization will
elect a board of directors and start
; operations.

Business men and merchants aided
in promoting the produce association
plan because they recognize that co-
operatives will bring more money into
the community and that they will
share in the farmer's prosperity. Local
buyers, it has been reported, have
been paying such low prices for but-
terfat and poultry that many farmers
drove 25 miles to Jacksonville to sell
their produce on a better market.

Official From Poland

Visits I. A. A. Officers

LOUIS LADOS. a representative of
I the Central Co-operative Associa-
tion of Warsaw, Poland, and the local
consul for the Polish Government,
spent considerable time in the Illinois
Agricultural Association office recent-
ly securing information on farmers'
elevators whose books are audited by
the I. A. C. A. Mr. Lados already has
visited the farmers' elevator at Mor-
rison in Whiteside County and the
Watseka Farmers' Grain Company in
Iroquois County. Following his studies
downstate, Mr. Lados will return to
Chicago to study operations in the
terminal market.

He comes as a representative of the
Ministry of Agriculture in Poland. He
is particularly interested in grain mar-
keting organizations in the United
States. The Polish officials were in-
troduced through a letter from Chris
L. Christensen. director of co-opera-
tive marketing for the U. S. Dept. of
.Agriculture, to Geo. R. Urcher. di-
lector of business service for the I.
A. A.

Enters Baseball League

f. F. Burns was appointed chair-
man, W. H. Sappington. Earl Gilman,
Hardin Young, and George H. Vannier
were appointed members of a commit-
tee to organize a Farm Bureau base-
ball team in Scott county.

The committee already has applied
for admission to the Illinois Farm Bu-
reau Baseball League.

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W. L. Cope

All Counties Represented
At 23rd District Conference,
Salem, Called By W. L. Cope

Endorse Policy and Commend I. A. A.
For Publishing Voting Records

NEARLY 50 representatives from
Crawford, Lawrence, Richland.
Clinton, Marion, Wabash, Jefferson,
and Effingham
counties attended
the Illinois Agri-
cultural Associa-
tion district con-
ference held in
the 2.3rd district
at Salem on March
22.

John Rogier of
Marion county
was elected chair-
man and John R.
Spencer, secretary
of the meeting.

W. L. Cope, executive committee-
man representing the 2.3rd district,
explained the district picnic plan
which was adopted unanimously.

Baseball Interest

Lloyd Caldwell of Jefferson county
opened a discussion on Farm Bureau
baseball. Three of the counties rep-
resented signified their intention of
bringing out' organized Farm Bureau
teams.

Mr. Cope discussed the legislative
situation and presented the I. A. A.'s
policy on publishing voting records.
The conference endorsed the policy
and commended the Association for
giving the members of the district
complete information on their candi-
dates for office.

William Moorman, manager of the
Shelby County Oil Company, led a
discussion after lunch on the advisa-
bility of organizing Farm Bureau oil
companies and the problems involved
in their operation.

Vote For Insurance

V. Vaniman. director of insurance
service for the I. A. A., reviewed
briefly the program of the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Mutual Insurance Company
and asked for expressions as to wheth-
er or not they regarded auto insurance
as an asset to the Farm Bureau. An
overwhelming vote was registered in
favor of insurance. He next outlined
the proposed life insurance program,
describing in detail the three different
kinds of policies to be provided under
the plan. Briefs were distributed set-
ting forth the life insurance plan and
illustrating how it would operate.

The next monthly meeting of the I.
A. A. Executive Committee will be
held on Friday, May 11.

The Scott County Farm Bureau decided not
io organize its own company in view of the
fact that the Morgan Oil Company is serving,
or will servo, all sections of Scott county.

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Future of Motor

Trucking Revealed

in I. C. C. Report

Quasey and Kirkpatrick Represent I. A.
A. in a Series of Hearings

TiEGULATION of motor trucks and
A *- bus lines, and a complete treatise
on the development of freight service
by motor trucks is
^^^ the subject of a

^^^^^ lengthy report of

^^^^^^ the Interstate

^^^^^^B Commerce Com-

m^K^^^Kt mission known as

^^^■^ docket No. 18300.

^I^^^F^ The report grew

^^^^HL out of a series of

^^H^^^^ hearings through-
^^X^ ^1^^ out the United
^Hflu^^^H States during 1927
and early 1928.
The purpose of the
hearings was to
bring to light facts regarding motor
truck and bus transportation with the
view of recommending regulatory
measures in the interest of the public.
L. J. Quasey, director of transpor-
tation, and Donald Kirkpatrick, legal
counsel, represented the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association at the various
hearings.

L. J. Quasey

Truck Service Popular

The Commission states that through-
out the hearing few complaints were
registered against the service rendered
by either contract carrier or common-
carrier trucks. Motor-truck service
for short hauls was generally com-
mended by shippers. Promptness of
delivery was recognized as an im-
portant advantage. Little uniformity
between rates and charges -for trans-
portation for both goods and pas-
sengers was apparent. The Com-
mission found it impossible to make a
fair comparison of truck rates with
rail rates.

In Connecticut transportation by
motor truck for 20 miles is three cents
per 100 lbs. lower than the rail rate;
for 30 miles it approximates the rail
rate; for 50 miles it is two cents
higher; for 75 miles it is ten cents
higher and for 100 miles, 19 cents
higher. In Louisiana and North Caro-
lina truck rates approximate the cor-
responding rail rates. In other sec-
tions truck rates vary above and below
rail rates. Few operators of individual
trucks and even of fleets of trucks
have kept adequate cost records.

Livestock Transportation

Reporting on the increase in trans-
portation of livestock by motor truck
the Commission says: "Through the
use of the railroad and motor trucks,
farmers are now enabled to save 18 to
36 hours in delivering their livestock
to market. This, of course, applies to
short hauls of 150 miles or less. Three
and one-third million hogs were mo-
tor trucked to 15 principal markets in
the United States in 1925. This
approximated 11 per cent of the total
receipts. Calves, cattle, and sheep,

The Way To Market

TRUCKINe BECOMES
MORE POPULAR

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likewise, are being hauled to market
in increasing numbers by motor truck.

Truck-In Business Grows

In 1922, 28,103 head of cattle were
motor-trucked to the Sioux City, Iowa,
stockyards and in 1925 the number
was 79,966, representing 4.07 per cent
and 9.47 per cent, respectively, of the
total receipts in those years. In 1922,
277,514 hogs were motor-trucked to
Sioux City, and in 1925, the number
was 665,394, representing 14.95 per
cent and 19.59 per cent, respectively,
of the total receipts of hogs at that
market. In 1922, the number of
calves hauled by motor truck to Sioux
City represented 7.11 per cent of the
total receipts and in 1925, 24.9 per
cent. In 1922, 8.06 per cent of the
total receipts of sheep were motor-
trucked and in 1925, 11.73 per cent.
The average length of haul to the
Sioux City market is 35 to 40 miles,
with a maximum haul of about 100
miles.

Large Increase Here
In 1925, the receipts of livestock by
motor truck at South St. Paul, Minn.,
were about 7 per
cent of the total
receipts, r e p r e-
senting an in-
crease in 1925 as
compared with
1924 of approxi-
mately 37 per
cent. About 75 per
cent of the motor-
hauled livestock
received at this
market originates
within a radius of
60 miles.
The livestock hauled by motor truck
to the Kansas City, Mo.-Kans., stock-
yards shows a gradual increase from
1921 to 1925. The total number of
livestock received by motor truck at
this stockyard in 1921 was 228,762
and in 1925, 354,184, which was about
five per cent of the total receipts of
all meat animals.

Smaller Growth Chicago

There is a smaller percentage of
total rece^ts of livestock coming into
the Chicago stockyards by motor truck
than at most of the other principal

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markets, largely due, it is stated, to
the congestion encountered by the
motor trucks going to and from the
stockyards. The percentage of the
total of all classes of livestock re-
ceived at the Chicago market by motor
truck varied from .32 per cent in 1920
to .91 per cent in 1925. The total
number received by motor truck in
1925 was 128,215 head. The radius
of operations for motor trucks han-
dling livestock to the Chicago market
ranges from about 30 to 60 miles and
in some instances, 70 miles.

Indianapolis Figure*

In the Indianapolis, Ind., market in
1913 only 4.5 per c^t of the total
receipts of hogs were transported by
motor truck while in 1923, 32.5 per
cent were hauled by motor truck. The
length of haul of these shipments was
approximately 50 miles. The rates for
the transportation of hogs and cattle
to packing plants at Indianapolis have
been reduced because of a rapidly de-
veloping practice of hauling return
loads of merchandise, agricultural ma-
chinery, fertilizers, cement, and build-
ing material from the industrial center
to small towns along the route of the
truck operator. Approximately 180
tons of return loading are being
transported weekly from Indianapolis
to surrounding territory on returning
stock trucks.

Poultry Trucking Grows

Shipments of poultry by motor truck
are increasing in number. A farmer
in Minnesota stated that though there
was a shrinkage of five or six pounds
per crate on rail shipments, it was only
about one pound when motor trucks
were used. He can deliver his poultry
in Minneapolis, a distance of about 50
miles, in a little over two hours by
truck and is enabled to obtain the
benefit of the Minneapolis market
price which is usually five or six cents
per pound over his local market.

The advantage of motor truck trans-
portation for shipments of livestock
for short distances are: A minimum
of shrinkage, quick delivery, ability to
take advantage of favorable market
prices, less cost for food and watering
stock, and ability to make shipments
of a few animals at a time. i <

GATES TO LASALLE * *

CE. GATES, assistant state club
• leader, has been employed as
farm adviser in LaSalle county to suc-
ceed Walter W. McLaughlin. Mc-
Laughlin resigned recently and accord-
ing to reports has been employed by
one of the banks at Decatur to man-
age its agricultural interests.

CONGRESSMEN ASWELL OF
Louisiana, Fort of New Jersey, Crisp
of Georgia and Clarke of New York
were principal speakers against the
Haugen Bill in the early debate in the
House. Keteham of Michigan ap-
peared in behalf of the export deben-
ture plan.

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October 20, 1925. under the Art of Mar. S, 1879. Acceptance tor mailing at special rate of iKKUse provliled In Section 41S, Act ut February 28, 1925, authorized October 27, 1925.

Volume 6

MAY, 1928

Number 5

Com Borer Due In

Illinois This Year

Be On The Lookout

Moths Now Emerging From Chrysalis
In Infested Areas

''pHE Buropean com borer will strike
A Illinois in numbers within the next
few weeks if the previous progress of
the insect westward continues. Pre-
vailing easterly winds in late May and
June two years ago
brought the borer moths
a long ways toward Illi-
nois into southwestern
Michigan and northwest-
ern Indiana.

The moths come out
of their wintering quar-
ters in May and June
just as the tiny corn
plants are leaving out.
With favorable winds
they will take the air
and come westward,
striking first, in all
probability, the corn
fields of Cook, Will,
Kankakee, Lake and
Iroquois counties.

The borer has ad-
vanced its front line
trenches to within 50
miles of Chicago al-
ready. The insects have
been found in numbers
a little farther east,
about Plymouth, Indi-
ana, and in Berrien
county, the easternmost
county in Michigran.

Bore Into Stalk

The moths lay their
eggs in protected places
on the young corn
plants and within a few
days the little larvae, or
grubs, hatch out. They
start feeding on the ten-
der leaves at once. The
larvae grow rapidly.
Within a few days after
birth, they bore their way through the
stock well into the interior, where
they lead a comfortable, protected ex-
istence feeding on the stalk juices and
vegetable matter, and striking at the
heart of the young plant.

The borer doesn't kill the plant. It
merely weakens it, stunts the growth,
and produces nubbins instead of
healthy ears.

As a result of borer ravages, farm-

A not her Record

Organized agriculture hung up
another record in convincing an
overwhelming majority in Con-
gress of its earnestness in de-
manding adequate farm surplus
control legislation. Read the
story which begins to the right.

WAH HOO! WHOOP-E-E-E!! . . .

pHIEF OH-NEI-O-WAH-WEH-TWAS himself, otherwise known as RusseV
^^ Hill, U. S. assistant county agent for corn borer work on the four West-
ern New York reservations, is shown here broadcasting on the corn borer to
the Indian farmers. This is said to be the first time in the history of radio
that a talk in the Indian language has been sent through the air.

Did we say "broadcasting?" Broadcasting is right, as one glance at this
picture will show. Here is the chief all loaded for bear, with war feathers and
tomahawk clinched in bis bronze fist. He began his talk with a few war
whoops, spelling death to the borer on the Indian reserves. By the way.
Russell's new name, "Oh-Nei-O-Wah-Weh-Twas," is of his own coinage >nd
means Corn Borer. His Indian friends nicknamed him that because of the
work he is doing.

ers in Kent and Essex townships, On-
tario, Canada, have virtually stopped
corn growing. Some acreage has been
abandoned likewise in Michigan and
Ohio, and states farther east.

If the borer hits Cook county it
may play havoc with the county's mil-
lion dollar sweet com crop. The corn-
borer is fond of sweet corn.

(Continued on page 5) >

Fres. Smith And Other I

Farm Leaders Ask Mr.

Coolidge To Sign Bill

Haugen Measure Passes House With

Nearly fwo-Third^ Majority By I

Vote 204 To 121 1

PRESIDENT EARL C. SMITH,
Sam H. Thompson, and 14 other
farm representatives called at the
White House on Saturday, May 12,
and asked President
Coolidge to sign the
McNary-Haugen bill
which passed both
houses of Congress by
overwhelming majori-
ties.

The President gave
the party a cordial re-
ception.- President Sam
H. Thompson of the
American Farm Bureau
Federation acted as
spokesman for the
group. The following
statement was submitted
to Mr. Coolidge by the
delegation :

"Mr. President: We
have asked for this
meeting in order to ex-
press to you our hope
that you will approve
the agricultural bill S.
3555, by Senator Mc-
Nary «nd Mr. Haugen,
when it reaches you.

An Honest Effort

"This measure repre-
sents an honest effort
to meet every objec-
tion and suggestion ex-
pressed by you that can
be met without depart-
ing completely from the
fundamental principles
for which the farm
groups represented
here, and many other
farm organizations
which unfortunately
represented here this
been contending for

could not be
morning, have
years.

"We realize this is not the time to
present a discussion of the details of
the measure. They are comprehen-
sively, and we feel, fairly presented
in both the Senate and House Commit-
tee reports.

"It has been suggested that your
(Continued on page 5)

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Future of Motor

Trucking Revealed

in I. C. C. Report

Quasey ami Kirkpafrick Represent I. A.
A. in a Series <j1 Hearings i

l>KGULATION of nidtor tiiuks and
' * i)us lines, and a fomplt'tc tivatiso
on the development of freitrht seiviee
by motor trucks is
the subject of a
lengthy rept)|rt of
the Interlstate
Commerce [Com-
mission kno\^n as
(locket No. Ip300.
The report jgrew
out of a series of
hearings throuph-
out the United
States during :r.»27
and early l;t28.
The. purpose o!f the
hearings \va* to
hrinpr to light facts regarding motoi-
truck and bus transjiortation with the
view of recommending regulatoiy
measures in the interest of the pqblic.
L. J. Quasey. director of transpor-
tation, and Donald Kirkpatrick. legal
counsel, lepresented the Illinois Agri-
lultural Association at the various
hearings.

Truck Service Popular

The Commission states that throUgh-
<iut the hearing few comi)laints were
registered against the service rend^sred
by either contract carrier or common-
carrier trucks. Motor-truck serivice
loi- short hauls was generally ciom-
mendeil by shippers. Promjitness of
delivery was recognized as an im-
portant advantage. Little unifoniiity
lietween rates and charges for trans-
poitation for both goods and pas-
sengers was apparent. The Cpm-
niission found it impossible to make a
fair comparison of truck rates with
rail rates.

In ronni'cticut transportation : by
motor truck for 20 miles is three cqnts
per 100 lbs. lower than the rail late:
for. :>0 miles it appro.ximates the ^'ail
rate: for 50 miles it is two celits
higher; for 75 miles it is ten cents
hij;her and for 100 miles. 1!» cents
Ijigher. In Louisiana and North Carr)-
lina truck rates apiiroximate the cor-
responding rail rates. In other sec-
tions truck rates vary above and beli)w
rail rates. Few operators of individtjial
trucks and even of fleets of truitks
have kei)t adequate cost records. 1

Livestock Transportation

Reiiorting on the increase in trarts-
portatioii of livestock by motor triu-k
the Commission says: ^'Through t)ie
use of the railroad and motor trucl(.s,
farmers are now enabled to save IM to
:'.(> hours in delivering their livestock
Xo market. This, of course, applies to
shoit hauls of 150 miles or less. Three
and one-third million hogs were mo-
tor trucked to 15 |)rincipal markets in
the United States in l!t25. This
approximated 1 1 per cent of the total
pfceiiUs. Calves, cattle, and sheep.

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likewise, are lieing hauled to market
in increasing iiuiiibers by motor truck.

Truck-In Business Grows

In Vyl-l. 2S.10:! Ii^ad of cattle were
motor-trucked to the .Sioux City. Iowa,
stockyai-ds and in I!i25 the number
was 7;».:»Gfi, repiesenting 4.07 per cent
and it. 47 per cent, respectively, of the
total receipts in those years. In 1SI22,
277.514 hogs were motor-trucked to
Sioux City, and in l',t25. the number
was (H)5.;!iM. re|)resenting 14.i»5 per
cent and l'.i.5;t per cent, respectively,
of the total receipts of hogs at that
market. In l'.i22, the number of
calves hauled by motor truck to Sioux
City represented 7.11 jier cent of the
total receipts and in l!t25. 24. !» per
cent. In 1022, S.OO i)er cent of the
total receipts of sheej) were motor-
trucked and in 1!»25. 11.7:! per cent.
The average length of haul to the
Sioux City market is .'iS to 40 miles,
with a maximum liaul of about 100
miles.

Large Increase Here

In 1!»25. the receipts of livestock by

motor truck at South St. Paul, Minn.,

were about 7 per-

cent

.f the total
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an in-
1925 as
with
approxi-
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receipts
senting
crease in
compared
l'.»24 of
mately

cent. .About li) i)er
cent of the motor-
hauled livestock
receiveil at this
market originates
within a radius of
r>0 miles.
The livestock hauled by motor truck
to the Kansas City. Mo.-Kans., stock-
yards shows a gradual increase from
l'.i21 to l'.t25. The total number of
livestock received by motor truck at
this stockyard in l'.t21 was 228.702
and in r.'25. .■i54.1X4. which was about
five per cent of the total receipts of
all meat animals.

Smaller Growth Chicago

There is a smaller peicentage of
total receri)ts of livestock coming into
the Chicago stockyards by motor truc^k
than at most of the other principal

markets, larpolj- duo. if is stated, to
the congestion t'ncountered by the
motor tiucks going to and from the
stock.uiids. The peicentage of the
total of all cla.s.ses <if livestock re-
ceived at the Chicago market by motor
truck varied from .;{2 per cent in I>l20
to .111 per cent in 11»25. The total
number received by motor truck in
lii25 was 128,215 head. The radius
of operations for motor trucks han-
dling livestock to the Chicago market
ranges from about 30 to 60 miles and
in some instances. 70 miles.

Indianapolis Figures

In the Indianapoli.s, Ind.. market in
l!»l,i only 4.5 per c«yit of the total
receipts of hogs were transported by
motor truck while in 1'.I23, .'52.5 per
cent were hauled by motor truck. The
length of haul of these shipments was
approximately 50 miles. The rates for
the transportation of hogs and cattle
to packing plants at Indianapolis have
been reduced because of a rapidly de-
veloping practice of hauling return
loads of merchandise, agricultural ma-
chinery, fertilizers, cement, and build-
ing material from the indu.strial center
to small towns along the route of the
truck operator. .Approximately 180
tons of return loading are being
transported weekly from Indianapolis
to suirounding territory on returning
stock trucks.

Poultry Trucking Growi

Shipments of poultry by motor truck
are increasing in number. .A farmer
in .Minnesota .stated that though there
was a shrinkage of five or six pounds
per crate on rail shipments, it was only
about one pound when motor tiucks
were used. He can deliver his iioultry
in Minneai)olis, a distance of about 50
miles, in a little over two hours by
truck and is enabled to obtain the
benefit of the .Minneapolis market
price which i.s usually five or six cents
per pound over his local market.

The advantage of motor truck trans-
portation for shipments of livestock
for short distances are: A mininiuiti
of shrinkage, quick delivery, ability to
take advantage of favorable market
jirices, less cost for food and watering
stock, and ability to make shipments
of a few animals at a time.

GATES TO LASALLE

r^ E. GATES, assistant state club
^^« leader, has been employed as
farm adviser in LaSalle county to suc-
ceed Walter W. McLaughlin. Mc-
Laughlin resigned recently and accord-
ing to reports has been emi)loyed by
one of the banks at Decatur to nian-
:ige its agricultural interests.

CON'GRESSMEX ASWELL OF
Louisiana. Fort of New .lersey. Crisp
of Georgia and Clarke of New York
were principal .speakers against the
Haugen Bill in the early debate in the
House. Ketchani of Michigan ap-
peared in behalf of the export deben-
ture plan.

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Volume 6

MAY, 192S

Number 5

Corn Borer Due In

Illinois This Year

Be On The Lookout

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M iths

Now Emerging From
In Infested Areas

Chrysalis

'I'HE Buropean corn borer will strike
I Illinois in numbers within the next
tew weeks if the previous progress of
the insect westward continues. Pre-
vailing easterly winds in late May and
June two years apo
!)rouKht the borer moths
a long- ways toward Illi-
nois into southwestern
Michigan and northwest-
ern Indiana.

The moths come out
oi' their wintering quar-
ters in May and June
just as the tiny corn
plants are leaving out.
With favorable winds
they will take the air
and come westward,
striking first, in all
probability, the corn
fields of Cook, Will.
Kankakee, Lake and
Iroquois counties.

The borer has ad-
vanced its front line
trenches to within .50
miles of Chicago al-
ready. The insects have
been found in numbers
a little farther east,
about Plymouth, Indi-
ana, and in Berrien
county, the easternmost
county in Michigan.

Bore Into Stalk

The moths lay their
eggs in protected places
on the young corn
l)lants and within a few
days the little larvae, or
grubs, hatch out. They
start feeding on the ten-
der leaves at once. The
larvae grow rapidly.
Within a few days after
birth, they bore their way through the
stock well into the interior, where
they lead a comfortable, protected ex-
istence feeding on the stalk juices and
vegetable matter, and striking at the
heart of the young plant.

The borer doesn't kill the plant. It
merely weakens it, stunts the growth,
and produces nubbins instead of
healthy ears.

As a result of borer ravages, farni-

Another Record

Organized agriculture hung up
another record in convincing an
overwhelming majority in Con-
gress of its earnestness in de-
manding adequate farm surplus
control legislation. Read the
story which begins to the right.

Fres. Smith And Other '

Farm Leaders Ask Mr.

Coolidge To Sign Bill

Haugcii Measure Passes House With
Nearly Twcj-Tiiirds Majority By I
Vote 204 To 121

|)KKSII)ENT KARL C.
' .Sam H. Thompson, and

CHIEF
HiU.

WAH HOO! WHOOP-E-E-E!! . . .

OH-NEI-O-WAH-WEH-TWAS himself, otherwise known as Russell
U. S. assistant county agent for corn borer work on the four West-
ern New York reservations, is shown here broadcasting on the corn borer to
the Indian farmers. This is said to be the firs* time in the history of radio
that a talk in the Indian language has been sent through the air.

Did we say "broadcasting?" Broadcasting is right, as one glance at this
picture will show. Here is the chief all loaded for bear, with war feathers and
tomahawk clinched in his bronze fist. He began his talk with a few war
whoops, spelling death to the borer on the Indian reserves. By the way,
Russell's new name, "Oh-Nei-O-Wah-Weh-Twas," is of his own coinage and
means Corn Borer. His Indian friends nicknamed him that because of the
work he is doing.

ers in Kent and Essex townships, On-
tario, Canada, have virtually stopped
corn growing. Some acreage has been
abandoned likewise in Michigan and
Ohio, and states farther east.

If the borer hits Cook county it
may play havoc with the county's mil-
lion dollar sweet corn crop. The corn-
borer is fond of sweet corn.

(Continued on page ,5)

SMITH,
14 other

farm representatives called at the
White Hou.-<e on Saturday, .May 12.
and asked President
Coolidge to sign the
McXary-Haugen bill
w h i c h passed both
houses nf Congre.ss by
overwhelming majori-
ties.

The President gave
the party a cordial re-
ception. President Sam
II. Thompson of the
.American Farm Bureau
Federation acted as
spokesman for the
group. The following
statement was submitted
to Mr. Co(didge by the
delegation:

"Mr. President:! We
have asked for I tWs
meeting in order tio ex-
press to you our hope
that yoii will ajiprove
the agricultural bill S.
!.").').">, by S<'nator Mc-
.\aryian<l Mr. Haugeti,
when! it reaches you.

An Honest Effort

■'This measure repre-
sents, an honest effort
to meet every objec-
tion and suggestion ex-
presst-d by you that can
be met without depart-
ing completely from the
fundamental principles
tor which the farm
g r () u p s represented
here, and many other
f a r m organizations
w h fc h unfortunately
could not be represented here this
morning, have been contending for
years.

"We realize this is not the time to
present a discussion of the details of
the measure. They are comprehen-
sively, and we feel, fairly presented
in both the Senate and House Commit-
tee reports.
- "It has been suggested that your
(Continued on page 5)

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

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Galesburg Gets I. A. A.
Fauna Bureau Picnic

in Fifteenth District

Endorse Accredited Limestone Com-
panies, Discuss Oil and Insurance
at Cambridge Conference

GALESBURG will be the scene of
the L A. A. Farm Bure^ip Picnic
in the 15th district. This was decided
at the L A. A.
conference C a m-
bridge, on April
24. The president
of each Farm Bu-
reau will serve
with the advisers
on the picnic com-
mittee. The local
chamber of com-
m e r c e will be
asked to cooper-
ate as it has done
before with the

WINS I. A. A. TROPHY

A. N. SUaaer

Knox County picnics.

Farm advisers and representatives
from each county recommended that
limestone be bought only from the I.
A. A. accredited companies. A resolu-
tion to this effect, drawn by W. B.
Elliott, W. H. Brown, Jr., and J. W.
Whisenand, was carried unanimously.

Better Accommodations

The question of better accommoda-
tions to livestock shippers from the
railroads was discussed. Several mem-
bers expressed the belief that passes
should be granted to livestock ship-
pers. A. N. Skinner, who represents
the district on the I. A. A. Executive
Committee, agreed to refer the matter
to the Transportation Department of
the Association.

Marchant, Skinner, and Gehring of
Knox County explained thoroughly the
operation of the Knox County Oil Com-
pany for the benefit of those interested.

Vernon Vaniman, director of insur-
ance stated that several thousand 4-H
calendars already had been ordered. A
motion to endorse the calendar plan
and refer it back to the County Farm
Bureau executive committees for fur-
ther action, was carried unanimously.

Life Insurance Plan

Vaniman then briefly discussed auto-
mobile, hail, and windstorm mutual in-
surance before explaining the proposed
life insurance progrram. Briefs of the
plan were handed to all the representa-
tives present, and the Farm Bureaus
were urged to take action before May
11.

It was decided to hold the next
district conference at Rushville in
Schuyler county, on Tuesday, Septem-
Her 18.

A. N. Skinner of Yates City ably pre-
sided. L. E. McKinzie of Rushville
acted as secretary.

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"Winning this beautiful cup has
been the primary impulse for turning
lliscoura^{ement into hope," writes J.
L. Long, University of Illinois student
in thanking the I. A. A. for the silver
loving cup he won in the student live-
stock judging contest beld at Urbana.
"It has given me the necessary en-
couragement to go on and work hard-
er. Granting that any boy winning
the trophy appreciated, and received
as much help from it as I, then un-
doubtedly donating it has been a val-
uable service to the boys in the Col-
lege of Agriculture."

Farm Delegates Go

To Kansas City

TN view of the importance of select-
A ing a presidential candidate accept-
able to the farmers of the United
States and of adopting an agricultural
plank that promises to meet the needs
of American agriculture. State Re-
publican Conventions have selected
prominent farm representatives as
delegates at large to the Kansas City
Convention in June.

Earl C. Smith, president of the I.
A. A., was chosen from Illinois, Chas.
E. Hearst, president of the Iowa Farm
Bureau Federation from that state,
and Frank Murphy, legislative repre-
sentative of the Com Belt Committee
from Minnesota.

It is understood other states will do
likewise and thus organized agriculture
will be fittingly recognized and repre-
sented in this Convention.

Sixteenth District Holds
. Conference Princeton,

Picnic to Pekin-Peoria

Want State Championship Baseball
Game If Possible

FIVE counties were represented at
the I. A. A. district conference
held in the 16th district, Princeton, on
April 23.

G. G. Weller,
president of the
Bureau County
Farm Bureau,
called the meeting
to order and asked
A. R. Wright, ex-
ecutive committee-
man of the I. A.
A., to preside.
George B. Storey
of Tazewell county
was elected chair- ^ *• *^'^«''*

man of the meeting at the suggestion
of Mr. Wright. Wayne A. Gilbert, as-
sistant adviser in Tazewell county,
acted as secretary.

Mr. Wright outlined the plan for
holding district picnics. On motion by
Shaw and seconded by Hatch, the dis-
trict picnic plan was adopted making
it optional for any county Farm Bu-
reau to hold its own picnic if it so
desires. Amett of Tazewell county
suggested that the picnic date be late
enough to secure a semi-final or final
game of the Illinois Farm Bureau
Baseball League.

Committee Appointed

Mr. Wright appointed a district pic-
nic committee as follows: Chairman,

0. L. Hatch, Stark county, C. R. Ford,
Peoria county, F. S. Clift, Marshall-
Putnam county, Gilbert Weller, Bu-
reau county, and Joseph Morris, Taze-
well county.

Mineral Springs Park, Pekin, and
two parks in Peoria were suggested
as suitable locations. August 25 was
suggested as a possible date but no ac-
tion was taken.

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Hail Insurance Plan

Vernon Vaniman, outlined the mu-
tual insurance program and stated
that by proper arrangement county
Farm Bureaus might receive $1.50 per
$1000 worth of hail insurance written
in any county. After presenting the
proposed life insurance plan, Vaniman
asked that each executive committee
act on the project and report to the

1. A. A. on or before May 11.

Ray E. Miller reported on the activi-
ties of the Farm Bureau shipping asso-
ciations and the producer terminals in
increasing the volume of livestock sold
co-operatively.

R. J. Hamilton reported on organiza-
tion activities. He stated that Farm
Bureau morale was on a high plane.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Five

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Ask Coolidge to Sign Bill

(Continued from pag'e 3)
objectionB to the equalization fee pro-
visions in the measure are funda-
mental. We trust this will not prove
to be the case. You have repeatedly
discussed the problem of agricultural
surpluses, recognizing it as a barrier
to the successful stabilization and pro-
tection of the widely grown cash crops
of agriculture. We urge that you con-
sider the equalization fee in the light
of the following facts:

Dittribntei Coit Fairly

"It is the only device yet proposed
by which the cost of organized han-
dling of the surplus may be distributed
fairly over all the producers who mar-
ket the commodity. To deny the
equalization fee is to deny the pro-
ducer of some of the most important
American crops his place in the Amer-
ican protective system.

"Without it we feel that experience
has proven there is no possibility for
the development of large-scale co-
operative associations competent to
deal with surpluses in an orderly man-
ner. It is true others have insisted
co-operative associations will be able
to accomplish these ends if they are
assisted through additional credit. It
is in recognition of this latter view
that Congress has provided for such
loans in the measure just passed.

A Patriotic Board

"We respectfully urge that this
measure be judged in the light of ad-
ministration in the hands of an able
and patriotic board such as it would
be your concern and wish to select.
It would deal fairly and conscien-
tiously with tiie problems that arise.

"We believe, and we desire nothing
so much as to have you share our con-
viction, that under the administration
of such a board the provisions of this
measure can be made effective for
good in all branches of agriculture,
laying the foundation for a new na-
tional farm policy, bringing renewed
hope and encouragement to farmers
in every part of the United States,
ihus restoring the purchasing power
of the American farmers, which is
essential for permanent national pros-
perity.

Many in Party

Included in the party who called on
the President, in addition to Thomp-
son and Smith, were Geo. N. Peek,
chairman Executive Committee of 22;
Wm. Hirth, chairman. Corn Belt Com-
mittee; Chas. E. Hearst, president,
Iowa Farm Bureau; Wm. H. Settle,
president, Indiana Farm Bureau; Dr.
B. W. Kilgore, president American
Cotton Growers' Exchange; W. W.
Pitts, chairman. Legislative Commit-
tee, American Cotton Growers'; Frank
W. Murphy, chairman. Legislative
Committee, Com Belt Committee;
Ralph Snyder, president, Kansas Farm
Bureau; Ed. O'Neil, vice-president,
American Farm Bureau Federation;
Chester Gray, legislative representa-
tive, American Farm Bureau; A. H.

Stone, president, Long Staple Cotton
Growers' Association; C. E. Huff,
president, Kansas Farmers' Union; and
Chester C. Davis, agricultural econo-
mist.

President Coolidge indicated that
the statement and request would re-
ceive his careful consideration.
16 Hour Debate

The final vote on the Haugen bill in
the House, which came on May 3, fol-
lowed a long 16-hour debate marked
by heated argument and discussion.
The vote of 204 in favor to 121
against lacked only 12 votes of being
a two-thirds majority of all those
voting in favor of the bill.

Illinois Congressmen gave the meas-
ure 18 votes, the largest number from
any state. Voting in favor of the
measure were the following Illinois
Congressmen: Adkins, Allen, Arnold,
Denison, Hall, Holaday, Wm. E. Hull,
Johnson, King, Major, Rainey, Rath-
bone, Reid, Williams, Yates, Buckbee,
Irwin, and Sabath.

Against the measure were Chind-
blom, Morton D. Hull, Sproul, Michael-
son, and Igoe — all from Chicago. Not
voting were Doyle, Kunz, and Britten.

Smith Repreaents I. A. A.

The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion was represented at Washing^ton
by its President throughout the period
during which the
bill was under
preparation and
consideration. The
I. A. A. was large-
ly responsible for
simplifying and
clarifying many
provisions in the
measure. After
full explanation
and clarification of
the equalization
fee principle, the
Sam H. Thompion Illinois Bankers'
Association gave the measure its
hearty endorsement. The equalization
fee merely safeguards the loan feature
and asks those who benefit to pay a
proportionate share of the cost of
handling the surplus of farm crops.

The measure passed the Senate pre-
viously without hearings.

The bill came up in the House on
April 26, the day before the sudden
death of Congressman Madden. On
Apr. 28, it was announced that the
bill would not be open to amendments
until the following Thursday.

The measure was called up un-
expectedly on Wednesday when many
friends of the bill were absent, and by
a fluke vote of 141-120 the House sit-
ting as a committee of the whole
eliminated the equalization fee.
Illinois Doe* Good Work
This vote was taken without roll
call, and subsequently the forces favor-
ing the bill were rallied with the re-
sults noted.

Congressman Charles Adkins of De-
catur proved to be* an outstanding
leader in defense of the measure.
He was second to none in answering

Farm Relief In Vermilion '
Obtained Through Tax Cut

Landowners Save $150,000 Declares

County Treasurer
t ( T N checking over the tax figures of
A Vermilion county, I find that the
horizontal cut of 30 per cent in farm
land values secured through the ef-
forts and co-operation of the Vermil-
ion County Farm Bureau in its hear-
ing before the B»ard of Review last
August 24, has saved the farmers of
this county more than $150,000 in
actual taxes," stated F. L. Endicott,
county treasurer, in a recent letter to
the directors of the Vermilion County
Farm Bureau. "With a few specific
exceptions in one or two townships
and school district where local im-
provements required more money than
usual, the reduction has averaged ap-
proximately 25 per cent lower than

last year.

I
Urge Support F. B. '

"The cut in valuations of farm lands
in Vermilion county has been greater
than that of any other county in the
state and in my judgment the consis-
tent and thorough manner in which
the Vermilion County Farm Bureau
carried out its prog^ram, together with
the statistical data which is furnished
at considerable expense of time and
money, has been largely responsible
for the satisfactory manner in which
adjustments have been made. I feel
it would have been impossible for me
as your county treasurer, and it is very
improbable that the Board of Review
could have made suoh a horizontal cut
of land taxes, without the efforts, sta-
tistics, and legal help which your or-
ganization of farmers furnished.

"I do not hesitate to say that I feel
that every land owner in the county
should loyally support your organiza-
tion." j

j Com Borer Due f

(Continued from page 3)

Since the finding of a lone borer iii
Kankakee county in the fall of 1926,
field workers have failed to find other
traces of the insect.

The Pumell bill now before Con-
grress which will probably be enacted
appropriates $7,000,000 additional
funds for the use of the government in
continuing its warfare against the
borer.

The Illinois Agricultural Association
gave its support to this measure and
will continue to aid any movement de-
sigrned to curb the progress of the
borer through Illinofe cornfields.

the argruments of opponents on the
floor during debate. Other Illinois con-
gressmen worked faithfully in behalf
of the measure, and gave it their best
support.

Newspaper reports implying that a
trade had been made with advocates of
flood control, and the boulder dam for
support of the surplus control bill were
entirely unfounded, declared President
Smith.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Galesburg Gets I. A. A.
Farm Bureau Picnic

in Fifteenth District

Endorse Accredited Limestone Com-
panies, Discuss Oil and Insurance
at Cambridge Conference

GALESBURG will be the scene of
the I. A. A. Farm Burefta Picnic
in the 15th district. This was decided
at the I. A. A.
conference C a m-
bridge, on April
24. The president
of each Farm Bu-
reau will serve
with the advisers
on the picnic com-
mittee. The local
chamber of com-
m e r c c will be
asked to cooper-
ate as it has done
before with the

WINS I. A. A. TROPHY

A. N. Skinner

Knox County picnics.

Farm advisers and represeiitatives
from each county recommended that
limestone be bought only from the L
A. A. accredited companies. A [resolu-
tion to this effect, drawn by W. B.
Elliott, W. H. Brown, Jr., and J. W.
Whi?enand, was carried unanimously.

Better Accommodation*

Tho question of better accommoda-
tions to livestock shippers frqm the
railroads was discussed. Several mem-
bers exiiressed the belief that passes
should be granted to livestock shii>-
pers. A. N. Skinner, who represents
the district on the I. A. A. Executive
Committee, agreed to refer the matter
to the Transportation Dei)artment of
the Association.

Marchant, Skinner, and Gehring of
Knox County explained thoroughly the
operation of the Knox County Oil Com-
pany for the benefit of those interested.

Vernon Vaniman, director of insur-
ance stated that several thousand 4-H
calendars already had been ordered. A
iv.otion to endorse the calendar plan
and refer it back to the County Farm
Bureau executive committees for fur-
ther action, was carried unanimously.

Life Insurance Plan

Vaniman then briefly discussedj auto-
mobile, hail, and windstorm mutual in-
surance before exi>laining the proposed
life insurance program. Briefs of the
plan were handed to all the rei)resenta-
ives present, and the Farm Bureaus
T^ere urged to take nction before May

n.

It was decided to hold the next
district conference at Rushville in
Schuyler county, on Tuesday, Septem-
• °r 18.

A. N. Skinner of Yates City ably pre-
.<ided. L. E. McKinzie of Rusihville
acted as secretary.

"Winning this beautiful cup has
been the primary impulse for turning
discouraigement into hope," writes J.
L. Long, University of Illinois student
in thanking the I. A. A. for the silver
loving cup he won in the student live-
stock judging contest held at Urbana.
"It has given me the necessary en-
couragement to go on and work hard-
er. Granting that any boy winning
the trophy appreciated, and received
as much help from it as I, then un-
doubtedly donating it has been a val-
uable service to the boys in the Col-
lege of Agriculture."

Farm Delegates Go

To Kansas City

I N view of the importance of select-
A ing a presidential candidate accept-
able to the farmers of the United
States and of adopting an agricultural
plank that promises to meet the needs
of American agriculture. State Re-
publican Conventions have selected
prominent farm representatives as
delegates at large to the Kansas City
Convention in June.

Earl C. Smith, president of the I.
A. A., was chosen from Illinois, Chas.
E. Hearst, president of the Iowa Farm
Bureau Federation from that state,
and Frank Murphy, legislative repre-
sentative of the Corn Belt Committee
from Minnesota.

It is understood other states will do
likewise and thus organized agriculture
will be fittingly recognized and repre-
sented in this Convention.

Sixteenth District Holds
Conference Princeton,
Picnic to Pekin-Peoria

Want State Championship Baseball
Game If Possible

FIVE counties were represented at
the I. A. A. district conference
held in the 16th district, Princeton, on
April 23.

G. G. Weller,
president of the
Bureau County
Farm Bureau,
called the meeting
to order and asked
A. R. Wright, ex-
ecutive committee-
man of the I. A.
A.", to preside.
George B. Storey
of Tazewell county
was elected chair- ■*■ **• Wnght

man of the meeting at the suggestion
of Mr. Wright. Wayne A. Gilbert, as-
sistant adviser in Tazewell county,
acted as secretary.

Mr. Wright outlined the plan for
holding district picnics. On motion by
Shaw and seconded by Hatch, the dis-
trict i)icnic plan was adopted making
it optional for any county Farm Bu-
reau to hold its own picnic if it so
desires. Arnett of Tazewell county
suggested that the picnic date be late
enough to secure a semi-final or final
game of the Illinois Farm Bureau
Baseball League.

Committee Appointed

Mr. Wright appointed a district pic-
nic committee as follows: Chajrman,

0. L. Hatch, Stark county, C. R. Ford,
Peoria county, F. S. Clift, Marshall-
Putnam county, Gilbert Weller, Bu-
reau county, and Joseph Morris, Taze-
well county.

Mineral Springs Park, Pekin, and
two parks in Peoria were suggested
as suitable locations. August 25 was
suggested as a possible date but no ac-
tion was taken.

Hail Insurance Plan

Vernon Vaniman, outlined the mu-
tual insurance program and stated
that by proper arrangement county
Farm Bureaus might receive $1.50 per
$1000 worth of hail insurance written
in any county. After presenting the
•proposed life insurance i)lan, Vaniman
asked that each executive committee
act on the project and report to the

1. A. A. on or before May 11.

Ray E. Miller reported on the activi-
ties of the Farm Bureau shipping asso-
ciations and the producer terminals in
increasing the volume of livestock sold
co-operatively.

R. J. Hamilton reported on organiza-
tion activities. He stated thdt Farm
Bureau morale was on a high plane.

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Ask Coolidge to Sign Bill

(Continued from page 3)
objections to the equalization fee pro-
visions in the measure are funda-
mental. We trust this will not prove
to be the case. You have repeatedly
discussed the problem of agricultural
surpluses, recognizing it as a barrier
to the successful stabilization and pro-
tection of the widely grown cash crops
of agriculture. We urge that you con-
sider the equalization fee in the light
of the following facts:

Distribute* Cost Fairly

"It is the only device yet proposed
by which the cost of organized han-
dling of the surplus may be distributed
fairly over all the producers who mar-
ket the commodity. To deny the
equalization fee is to deny the pro-
ducer of some of the most important
American crops his place in the Amer-
ican protective system.

"Without it we feel that experience
has proven there is no possibility for
the development of large-scale co-
operative associations competent to
deal with surpluses in an orderly man-
ner. It is true others have insisted
co-operative associations will be able
to accomplish these ends if they are
assisted through additional credit. It
is in recognition of this latter view
that Congress has provided for such
loans in the measure just passed.

A Patriotic Board

"We respectfully urge that this
measure be judged in the light of ad-
ministration in the hands of an able
and patriotic board such as it would
be your concern and wish to select.
It would deal fairly and conscien-
tiously with tiie problems that arise.

"We believe, and we desire nothing
so much as to have you share our con-
viction, that under the administration
of such a board the provisions of this
measure can be made effective for
good in all branches of agriculture,
laying the foundation for a new na-
tional farm policy, bringing renewed
hope and encouragement to farmers
in every part of the United States.
;hus restoring the purchasing power
of the American farmers, which is
essential for permanent national pros-
perity.

Many in Party

Included in the party who called on
the President, in addition to Thonip-
.son and Smith, were Geo. N. Peek,
chairman Executive Committee of 22;
Wm. Hirth, chairman. Corn Belt Com-
mittee; Chas. E. Hearst, president,
Iowa Farm Bureau; Wm. H. Settle,
president. Indiana Farm Bureau; Dr.
B. W. Kilgore, president American
Cotton Growers' Exchange; W. W.
Pitts, chairman. Legislative Commit-
tee, .American Cotton Growers'; Frank
W. Murphy, chairman. Legislative
Committee, Corn Belt Committee;
Ralph Snyder, president, Kansas Farm
Bureau; Ed. O'Neil, vice-president,
-American Farm Bureau Federation;
Chester Gray, legislative representp-
tive. American Farm Bureau; A. K.

Stone, president, Long Staple Cotton
Growers' Association; C. E. Huflf,
president, Kansas Farmers' Union; and
Chester C. Davis, agricultural econo-
mist.

President Coolidge indicated that
the statement and request would re-
ceive his careful consideration.

16 Hour Debate

The final vote on the Haugen bill in
the House, which came on May 3, fol-
lowed a long 16-hour debate marked
by heated argument and discussion.
The vote of 204 in favor to 121
against lacked only 12 votes of being
a two-thirds majority of all those
voting in favor of the bill.

Illinois Congressmen gave the meas-
ure 18 votes, the largest number from
any state. Voting in favor of the
measure were the following Illinois
Congressmen: Adkins, Allen, Arnold.
Denison. Hall, Holaday, Wm. E. Hull.
Johnson, King, Major, Rainey, Rath-
bone. Reid, Williams, Yates, Buckbee.
Irwin, and Sabath. j

Against the measure were Chind-
blom, Morton D. Hull, Sproul, Michael-
son, and Igoe — all froni Chicago. Not
voting were Doyle, Kunz, and Britten.

Smith Represents I. A. A.

The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion was represented at Washington
by its President throughout the period
during which the
bill was under
preparation and
consideration. The
I. A. A. was large-
ly responsible for
simplifying and
clarifying many
provisions in the
measure. After
full explanation
and clarification of
the equalization
fee principle, the
Sam H. Thompson Illinois Bankers'
Association gave the measure its
hearty endorsement. The equali-ation
fee merely safeguards the loan feature
and asks those who benefit to pay h
proportionate share of the cost of
handling the surplus of farm crops.

The measure passed the Senate pre-
viously without hearings.

The bill came up in . the House on
April 26, the day before the sudden
death of Congressman Madden. On
Apr. 28, it was announced that the
bill would not be open to amendments
until the following Thursday.

The measure was called up un-
expectedly on Wednesday when many
friends of the bill were absent, and by
a fluke vote of 141-120 the House sit-
ting as a committee of the whole
eliminated the equalization fee.
Illinois Does Good Work
This vote was taken without roll
call, and subsequently the forces favor-
ing the bill were rallied with the re-
sults noted.

Congressman Charles Adkins of De-
catur proved to be an outstanding
leader in defense of the measure.
He was second to none i;i answering

Farm Relief In Vermilion
Obtained Through Tax Cut

Landowners Save $150,000 Declares
County Treasurer

i« IN checking over the tax figures of
-I Vermilion' county, I find that the
horizontal cut of 30 per cent in farm
land values secured through the ef-
forts and co-operation of the Vermil-
ion County Farm Bureau in its hear-
ing before the Beard of Review last
August 24, has saved the farmers of
this county more than $150,000 in
actual taxes," stated F. L. Endicott,
county treasurer, in a i^ecent letter to
the directors of the Vermilion County
Farm Bureau. "With a few specific
exceptions in one or two townships
and school district where local im-
provements required more money than
usual, the reduction has averaged .ap-
proximately 25 per cent lower than

last year.

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Urge Support F. B. {

"The cut in valuations of farm lands
in Vermilion county has been greater
than that of any other county in the
state and in my judgment the consis-
tent and thorough manner in which
the Vermilion County Farm Bureau
carried out its program, together with
the statistical data which is furnished
at considerable expense of time and
money, has been largely responsible
for the satisfactory manner in which
adjustments have been made. I feel
it would have been impossible for me
as your county treasurer, and it is very
improbable that the Board of Review
could have made such a horizontal cut
of land taxes, without the efforts, sta-
tistics, and legal help which your or-
ganization of farmers furnished.

"I do not hesitate to say that I feel
that every land owner in the county
should loyally support your organiza-
tion." - L I

Corn Borer Due

(Continued from i)age ;i)
Since the finding of a lone borer iii
Kankakee county in the fall of 1926,
field workers have failed to find other
traces of the insect.

The Purnell bill now before Con-
gress which will pro'oably be enacted
appropriates .$7,000,000 additional
• funds for the use of the government in
continuing its warfare against thc-
borer.

The Illinois Agricultural Association
a:ave its support to this measure and
will continue to aid any movement de-
signed to curb the progress of the
borer through IHinofc cornfield^.

the arguments of opponents on the
floor during debate. Other Illinois con-
gressmen Worked faithfully in behalf
of the measure, and gave it their best
support. - 1 i

Newspaper fepoMs implying that a
trade had been made with advocates of
flood control, and theboulder dam for
support of the surplus control bill were
entirely unfounded, declared President
Smith.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

I LiLillMOIS

CCLTIJRAL ASSOCIA

RECORD

To advanem thm parpote for which th» Farm Bureau wat organlied,
namely to promote, protect and reprewent the hueineaa, economic,
political, and educational interettw of the farmera of ftlinoia and the
nation, and to develop agriculture.

Pnblished once a month at 404 North Wesle7 Ave., Mount Morris,
lUinoia, by the Illinois Aerieultnral Association. Edited by Department
of Information, E. G. Tbiem, Director, 608 South Dearborn Street,
Chieaco, Illinois. Entered aa second-claas matter October 20, 1925, at
the post office at Mount Morris, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Accepted for mailinK at special rate of postage provided for in Sec-
tion 412, Act of February 28, 1925, authorized October 27, 1926. The
individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is
five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty cents for sub-
scription to the Illinois Agricultcbal Association Record. Post-
master: In retumine an uncalled for or missent copy please indicate
key number on address as is required by law.

OFFICERS

Preaident, Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vlce-Prcaident, Frank D. Barton ; Cornell

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

(By Congressional Districta)

lat to llth H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

12th G. F. TuUock, Rockford

13ch C. E. Bamborough. Polo

I4ch ,. .,.. M. G. Lambert, Ferris

ISth A. N. Skinner, Yates City

IWkt A. R. Wright, Varna

17th ' Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

Itth R. F. Karr, Iroquois

19th ; J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

Mth , Charlea S. Black, Jacksonville

21at J Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd Frank Oexner, Waterloo

23rd W. L. Cope, Salem

24th \ Charlea Marshall, Belknap

25th ^ Fred Dietz, De Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Buainess Service Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

Limestone-Phosphate J. R. Bent

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General Office i- H. Kelker

Information ■ E. G. Thiem

Insurance Service i V. Vaniman

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing J. Ray E. Miller

Organization G. E. Metzger

Poultry and Egg Marketing' F. A. Gougler

Taxation and StJstistica J. C. Watson

Transportation L. J. Quasey

Our New Grandmother

THE organized middlemen speaking through their offi-
cial mouthpiece, the Federated Agn"icultural Trades
of America, would make a grreat distinction between co-
operative marketing initiated by farmers, and that in-
duced by what they term "subsidized" government
agencies.

The F. A. T. asserts that it is not opposed to co-opera-
tive marketing; it is merely against the government giv-
ing aid and encouragring farmers to this end. It would
abolish the Division of Co-operative Marketing in the U.
S. D. A., kill appropriations to the agricultural colleges
under the Purnell Act for co-operative marketing investi-
gation, and prevent Congress from passing legislation de-
signed to help agriculture as other industries have been
fostered and helped.

What nonsense is this? No one is being fooled by such
a contradictive declaration of principles. Whenever a
co-op spokesman counters to the organization's attack, he
is suavely assured that the F. A. T. is the farmers' best
friend. It's like the old story of Little Red Riding Hood
and the wolf posing as her grandmother. We might have
greater respect for the F. A. T. of America if it sailed
under its true colors.

"Keep Out Of Politics"

DR. WM. E. DODD of the University of Chicago uttered
several significant thoughts in his recent article,
"Shall Our Farmers Become Peasants," published in the
May issue of the Century Magazine.

Answering the critics who tell farmers to keep out of
politics he writes: "The present vast industrial privilege
is the result of a hundred years of business men in politics.
The railway leaders have been in politics since 1850, and
they operate now under the protecting law of 1920. There
has never been a time when bankers were not in politics,
and the great army of financial men are now protected
and guided to steady and increasing profits by positive law.
Even the labor organizations are shielded by state and
national law. 'Let the farmer keep out of politics.' "

"Keep out of politics" is familiar advice. Added to many
other delightful gems, this one bears further witness to the
farmers' eminence as the most advised man. But this is
one admonishment farmers will not follow if its purpose is
to let others do their legislating for them. Passage of the
McNary-Haugren bill is an illustration. We learn by ex-
perience. I ■ 1 '•

We Must Progress

OUR good friend, DeWitt C. Wing, who on June 1 be-
comes editor-in-chief of the Rural New Yorker — one
of the country's oldest and most successful farm weeklies —
tells us that the Illinois Agricultural Association is well
known in the East.

"A strong, effective farmers' organization ttiat is doing
its job," is the description he brought back with him follow-
ing a visit to New York. It may be useful to analyze
why the I. A. A. has been and is enabled to grow increas-
ingly helpful in performing those tasks which individual
farmers or small groups cannot do for themselves.

THE I. A. A. enjoys, first, a close tieup with 94 strong,
ably-manned county Farm Bureaus. That the farm
adviser or county agricultural agent is an integral part
of this relationship is most fortunate. In certain of our
neighboring states this is not true. In no other state, to
our knowledge, are the county advisers performing as
varied and helpful a service as in Illinois. Their activities
and interests go beyond the boundaries of the farm, and
properly so.

Secondly, the I. A. A. is better financed than many organ-
izations. Money is necessary to maintain an organization
and carry on a broad prog^ram of service. Thus the Asso-
ciation's activities operating through 13 departments, in
addition to committees and subsidiaries, are made possible.

IF THE I. A. A. stands out as a state farm organiza-
tion that is doing its job, the credit goes to the fore-
sighted, thinking farmers of Illinois who made it. As in
most trade organizations, certain benefits accrue to non-
members or "free riders" as well as to members. Out-
siders there are and always will be. Some folks are that
way unalterably. Profound individualists grubbing along
content with the present order and unmindful of the future
may be found in every walk of life. They will be run over
except as their more public-spirited, organized neighbors
protect them. 11

THIS nation is fast becoming dominated by group ef-
fort. Great combines are replacing the private en-
terpriser. Machinery and efficiency are our new gods.
Business and economic groups are becoming more highly
organized. General Motors, U. S. Steel, Standard Oil, con-
solidated utilities, chain stores and newspapers, and giant
banking systems are on every hand or in the process of
development. And every group strives to use the govern-
ment for its economic advantage.

The individualist farmers can't keep pace with this pro-
cession. Organized agriculture can.

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Tttne in on the I. A. A. half hour program
broadcast daily at lt:00 o'eloek noon from sta-
tion WJJD, Chicago (365 meters). The facil-
ities of station WJJD are loaned the Associa-
tion through the courtesy of the Loyal Order
of Moose, Mooseheart, III. No program on Sat-
urdays and Sundays,

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I. A. A. Broadcast Hour

Now 12:00 to 12:30 P. M.

THE period for the daily farm radio
program of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association from Station WJJD
was changed recently to 12:00 to
12:30 p. m., Central Standard Ti«ie.
The new arrangement became effective
Monday, Apr. 30. The former broad-
cast period was 12:30 to 1:00' i).™.
The change was made necessary be-
cause of the recent initiation of Day-
light Saving Time in Chicago.

A. D. Lynch

at Rock Island,

Tri-City Dealers 'i

And Dairymen Study

Peoria Co-operative

May Establish Similar Stabilization Plan
At Rock Island, Davenport, And Molinc

' A DELEGATION of producers, cbun-
.!»- ty agricultural advisers and deal-
ers from Rock Island county. 111., and
Scott county,
Iowa, visited Pe-
oria recently to in-
vestigate the
farmer-dealer co-
operative plan
which is operating
to the mutual ben-
efit of both pro-
ducers and distrib-
utors there.

A similar organ-
ization to stabilize
the milk market
Moline, and Daven-
port is in prospect. Wasteful methods
of distribution and competition at the
tri-city market have worked against
the interests of both dealers and dairy-
men.

The consumer is paying no less for
milk and fails to profit by the lack of
co-ordination. The dealers it is re-
ported are in the mood to recognize a
dairymen's organization and bargain
with the producers for a fair, stabi-
lized price. They are getting no-
where fighting each other. The dairy-
man is the loser because wasteful com-
petition has resulted in discouraging
prices.

A. D. Lynch, dairy marketing di-
rector, and several Peoria dealers of-
fered their assistance in establishing a
similar plan at the tri-city market.
Dealers and dairymen about Rock
Island are in a receptive mood for any
proposal that will enable them to get
on a paying basis for neither, it is re-
ported, is satisfied with the present
situation.

PRODUCE MARKET TREND
May 1, 1928

EGGS (Cases)

1927 1928

Receipts this year
on 4 leading mar-
kets _ 2,670.647 2.677.201

In cold storage.
Hay l.._ 1,612,176 1.321,096

POULTRY

Pounds Pounds
N. Y. receipts

dressed poultry

Jan. to May 1. .36,361,340 44,667,411
In cold storage, 4

1 a r e e markets.

May l..._ 60,041,902 33,448.094

BUTTER

N. Y. receipts of

-tub butter 966,092 967,480

In cold storage

4 large mar-

iieU, May 1 899,817 1,896,649

FLORIDA BOYS WANT JOBS

John H. Wahl, Jr., and Henry A. Carter,
University of Florida students at Gainesville,
Florida, are looking for jobs on Illinois farms
during the summer vacation. ,

"We are both 19 years of agi," wrote Wahl
recently to the Knox County Farm Bureau,
"and 'Pete' (Henry) is the son of an orange
grower here in Florida. My father is J. H.
Wahl, attorney. Cocoa, Florida. If we can get
jobs and have the pleasure of a trip to Illinois
we will be more than satisfied.

"Pete is acquainted with agricultural work,
and while I have never lived on a farm, I
think I could learn. At the present time my
accomplishment along that line are: (1) I can
milk a cow, (2) I can harness a horse. I
think we will work as hard as the average boy.
Our address is Phi Kappa Tau House, Uni-
versity of Florida, Gainesville, Fla."

Pi(mic Committee Meets

in 14th District

MG. LAMBERT, I, A. A. Execu-
• tive Committeeman from the
14th district, presided at a meeting of
the district picnic committee held at
Monmouth on Apr. 25.

Tuesday, Aug. 21, was selected as
a tentative date.

Col. Ousley, Adam McMuUen, Con-
gressman Hill, Dr. H. C. Taylor, and
Chester Davis w^re mentioned as pos-
sible speakers.

It was decided to hold the next dis-
trict I. A. A. conference at Aledo on
May 22, and that the conference fol-
lowing be held at Carthage.

W. A. Stevenson, Henderson county;
W. O. Kunkel, Hancock county; J. H.
Lloyd, Hancock county; M. G. Lam-
bert, Hancock county ; P. B . Scott,
Mercer county; R. C. Doneghue, Mc-
Donough county; Joseph Adcock, R.
E. Kirby, and A. A. Olsen, Warren
county, attended the meeting. i

Direct Buying Increases

DIRECT buying of feeder cattle by
com belt feeders is on the in-
crease, according to the U. S. D. A.
The change is due to the fact that
many ranchmen prefer to sell their
stock at home, while feeders like to
buy their stock direct from the range.

Alfred Tat*

Co-operative Movement at

Winchester Gets Results

Brings Offer of More Money for Butterfat

FOLLOWING the recent movement
of the Scott County Farm Bureau
to organize a co-operative produce
selling association
at Winchester, f
representatives of
a centralized
creamery from
Jacksonville of-
fered to pick up
cream at Winches-
ter and pay farm-
ers in that vicin-
ity one-half cent
per lb. more for
butterfat than is
being paid in Jack-
sonville.

"The fact that
we have started to organize a produce
marketing association has excited the
cream station buyers and they are
making every attempt to retain their
business if possible," says Farm Ad-
viser Tate, "We are not finding any
difficulty in sig^ning up members in
the association. I think we have 51
contracts already signed, many of
which came in voluntarily."

Old like buyers in Missouri and Illi-
nois are getting their butterfat ap-
proximately 10 cents per lb. cheaper
than they pay in Minnesota where co-
operative creameries are scattered
throughout the state according to re-
ports. The Land 'O Lakes Creameries,
Inc. of that state deplore this situation
since it permits centralized creameries
to undersell the Land 'O Lakes organ-
izations on the large butter markets.

Chicago Meeting in June

to Defend Co-operatives

JF. REID of the Minnesota Farm
• Bureau Federation released a
story recently calling attention to a
meeting of all co-operative organiza-
tions in Chicago early in June to de-
fend co-operative marketing against
the attacks of the organized distribu-
tors, who, it is reported, have raised
a large fund to put the farmers' organ-
izations out of business.

The Federated Agricultural Trades
of America is the new anti-co-opera-
tive organization formed in Chicago
last year.

Don't Like Grading System

FEDERAL grading of grain has noth.
ing to do with the milling value
of wheat, and the United States Grain
Standards Act, while it has done well
I for the consumer, has worked against
the producer, the Senate Committee
on Agriculture and Forestry were told
recently by witnesses appearing in
support of the Shipstead bill to repeal
the grading law.

Philo B. Miles of the Peoria, Illinois,
Board of Trade urged that the meas-
ure be enacted and the States be per-
mitted to return to the old grading
system.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

State-wide Committee
Seeks Solution to Tax

Weaknesses in Illinois

Earl C. Smith Represents I. A. A. on
Fact Finding Body

AV'^AYS and means of making facts
of taxation and public finance
available were discussed at a meeting
of the new state-
wide tax commit-
tee at the LaSalle
^^^^^^ Hotel, Chicago, on

"^fc^^^P May 11. This was

^ -^>^j^^^» the third meeting

of the group or-
ganized recently
to study and in-
vestigate the oper-
ation of the pres-
ent revenue laws
EMMi c. Smith o^ Illinois, and to
make recommend-
ations for their improvement.

Omar H. Wright of Belvidere, vice-
president of the Illinois Bankers' As-
sociation, has been designated as
chairman of the new fact-finding body.
Other members of the executive com-
mittee of the tax conference are:
Fredrik L. Gjesdahl, secretary, Earl
C. Smith, Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation, James D. Cunningham, Illi-
nois Manufacturers Association, Vic-
tor A. Olander, Illinois State Associa-
tion of Labor, Max Murdock, Illinois
State Association of Real Estate
Boards, Robert C. Moore, Illinois State
Teachers Association, Miss Grace
Temple, Illinois Women's Joint Legis-
lative Council, Chief Justice Harry
Olson, Municipal Court of Chicago,
Professor Charles E. Merriam, De-
partment of Political Economy, Uni-
versity of Chicagro, Dr. Richard T.
Ely, and Professor Herbert D. Simp-
son of the Institute of Land Econom-
ics and Public Utilities, and George
O. Fairweather of the Joint Commis-
sion on Tax Valuations for Cook
county.

Others Inrited

At a preliminary meeting the execu-
tive committee was authorized to in-
crease its membership and invite other
state-wide org^anizations to send repre-
sentatives to the next meeting of the
tax conference. President Earl C.
Smith, John C. Watson, and Robert
A. Cowles represented the I. A. A.
at the first general conference.

Among the experts in taxation and
public finance who will bring to the
committee their study and investiga-
tions are: Dr. Herbert D. Simpson of
Northwestern University, George O.
Fairweather, Dr. Jacob Viner of the
University of Chicago, John C. Wat-
son of the I. A. A., and Professor J. A.
Fairley of the University of Illinois.

The committee recognizes that it is
entering on a long-time program
through which it hopes to bring about
changes in laws and constitutional
provisions where needed.

Looking Him Over

Country Life Conference

June 19-20-21, Urbana

THE eleventh annual conference of
the American Country Life Asso-
ciation will be held June 18-19-20 at
Urbana in co-operation with the Uni-
versity of Hlinois.

A. D. Lynch, dairy marketing di-
rector of the I. A. A., will tell how
dealers and dairymen are working to-
gether at Peoria for their mutual bene-
fit, while John C. Watson, tax director,
will discuss "What We Are Learning
About Taxes."

Talks and discussions relating to
country life and rural improvement by
people from many states have been
arranged. Eugene Davenport, former
dean of the Illinois College of Agri-
culture, will be the speaker at the
annual country life banquet on June
20.

Knox County Farmers

Save $87,000 in Taxes

LAND owners in Knox county paid
I $87,000 less taxes in 1927 than
they paid in 1926, according to a re-
cent compilation by John C. Watson,
director of taxation.

The reduction in taxes was brought
about by a 21 per cent cut in land
valuations secured following an appeal
to the county board of review by the
Knox County Farm Bureau.

Sixteen njembers of township tax
committees in Knox county met at
Galesburg recently where Mr. Watson
discussed the state revenue laws and
their administration. Robert Gibbs,
H. S. Brown, Guy Routh, and James
McBride, the Farm Bureau's Public
Relations Committee, arranged the
meeting.

Shaw to Milk Producers'

WILFRED SHAW, farm adviser in
Peoria county, has been employed
as resident manager of the Illinois
Milk Producers' Association to work
with A. D. Lynch, dairy marketing
director of the I. A. A., in directing
the affairs of the co-operative market-
ing agency at Peoria.

Shaw will begin his new duties as
soon as his -successor has been chosen
by the Peoria County Farm Bureau.

Appeal To Attorney
General To Enforce

Tax Commission Order

Champaign County Tax Case Awaits
Further Action On Reassessment

OSCAR CARLSTROM, attorney
general, was asked recently to
start proceedings in Champaign coun-
ty toward enforc-
ing the April 5 or-
der of the Illinois
Tax Commission
directing a reas-
sessment of prop-
erty by C h a m-
paign county tax
ofiicials.

Action to en-
force its orders
was taken at a
meeting of the
State Tax Com-

Wm. H. Malone

mission in Chicago on May 7 when the
members voted unanimously to auth-
orize Chairman Wm. H. Malone to ap-
peal to the attorney general.

According to reports Champaign
county officials ig^nored the Tax Com-
mission's orders and proceeded to ex-
tend taxes on old valuations which the
Commission declared null and void.
As a result many Champaig^n county
farmers have refused to pay their
taxes on the ground that they were
being illegally collected.

The controversy, which began early
last summer, arose over findings of
inequalities in tax valuations between
farm lands and property, and real
estate in the taxing districts of Cham-
paign!, Urbana, and Rantoul by the
Champaign County Farm Bureau and
the Illinois Agricultural Association.

The Farm Bureau alleges that farm
lands, and real estate in the smaller
villages of the county, were assessed
from 25 to 40 per cent higher than
property in the cities mentioned.

After several hearings and subse-
quent investigations, the Tax Commis-
sion found that the farmers had a just
complaint, and in December, 1927,
ordered a reassessment. The Cham-
paign County Board of Review made
a slight revision in assessed valuations
which the farmers contended did not
bring any substantial relief.

The Farm Bureau again appealed
to the Commission which issued its
second order for a reassessment on
April 5, 1928. This the Champaign
county officials ignored.

Section 287 of the state tax laws
provides that if any taxing official
shall fail or neglect to perform any of
the duties required of him under the
Act, he shall be liable to a fine of not
less than $10 nor more than $500 to
be recovered in an action of debt in
the Circuit Court of the proper coun-
ty, and may be removed from office
at the discretion of the court.

Reports coming to the State Tax
Commission are to the effect that a re-
cent order of reassessment issued for
St. Clair county for 1928 taxes is be-
ing carried out.

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Farm Baseball Season
Opens May 26, Eight

Divisions To Compete

Each District Schedules Own Games,

Keen Competition Seen For

State Title

FARM Bureau baseball in Illinois
will be ushered in on Saturday,
May 26, and to all indications games
will be played in the eight divisions of
the State League, with one or two ex-
ceptions, on that date.

Playing schedules have been or will
be announced, it is hoped, within the
next 10 days in official Farm Bureau
organs or in the local newspapers.

At least seven new teams are ex-
pected to compete in the race for the
state title which promises to be keenly
contested. Division I, comprising
Whiteside, Henry, and Stark, has all
new teams to play for the first time
in years, this season. Whiteside had
a team several years ago but neither
Stark nor Henry has competed hereto-
fore.

New Coantiet Enter

Champaign, Scott, Washington, and
McDonough counties also will enter
Farm Bureau teams for the first time
this year. Jackson, and possibly Piatt
counties, likewise, may bring out farm
baseball nines. With favorable weather
there will be more Farm Bureau teams
entered in the race this year than ever
before.

Pla3ring has improved steadily since
the League was organized four years
ago. The team captains, managers, and
farm advisers are keeping their eyes
open for likely talent among the boys
and younger men. This activity was
revealed in the improved playing of
several teams last year.

Dirition III Lead*

Peoria county arose from its cellar
position to become a championship con-
tender. This county, as well as others
in Division III comprising Tazewell,
Peoria, Marshall-Putnam, and Wood-
ford, will fight for League leadership
in '28.

Division III has had the champion-
ship team ever since the League was
organized, although Henderson county
was a worthy contender on several oc-
casions. Henderson county has a
strong team but the competition in
Western Illinois has been less keen,
hence this county usually has entered
the semi-finals with less playing ex-
perience than is the case in other divi-
sions.

Egypt Ha* Good Team*

The Southern Illinois counties of
Lawrence, Wayne, Clay, and Effingham
have been placed tentatively in Division
VIII, while Jefferson, Bond, Washing-
ton, and possibly Jackson will play in
Division VII.

Members who are interested in base-
ball, but have no county team should
see their farm adviser about organiz-
ing one. Usually it is advisable to
play locally a year and get experience

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before entering the stiffer competition
in the State Farm Bureau League.
Where the players have had experience
working together on local teams this
is not necessary. ^

Thirteenth District to

Picnic at Freeport

THE I. A. A. Farm Bureau picnic
in the 13th congressional district
will be held at Taylor's Park, Freie-
port, according to a recent announce-
ment of C. E. Bamborough, I. A. A.
Executive Committeeman from Polo.

Representatives from Jo Daviess,
Stephenson, Carroll, Ogle, Lee, and
Whiteside counties met at Freeport
recently to make preliminary arrange-
ments.

The exact date was not definitely
set but members of the committee pre-
fer that it be held the latter part of
August.

Whiteside county asked to have the
picnic next year. Thereafter the pic-
nic will go to a different county in the
district each year until all have been
served. . ,

Livestock Shippers at !

Cissna Park Get Shed

L[VESTOCK shippers about Cissna
Park, Iroquois county, recently ex-
pressed their thanks to the Iroquois
County Farm Bureau and the I. A. A.
Transportation Department for the
new stock shed built by the C. & E. I.
railroad at that point.

The appeal for the new sheds was
initiated by L. W. Wise, farm adviser
at Watseka. The I. A. A. Transpor-
tation Department assisted by pre-
senting the Farm Bureau's plea to the
carrier. The Cissna Park Shipping
Association had asked for the conveni-
ence more than two years ago. Live-
stock had been without any shelter
whatever in these yards before the
shed was built. .

FIFTY CANADIAN FARMERS
are members of the lower house of
Parliament, according to the National
Farm News. Four others are members
of the Federal Cabinet Council.

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Truck Transportation

Field in Near Future

Commerce Commission Makes Recom-
mendation on Motor Truck Regulation ,

THE Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion recently reported the follow-
ing conclusions as a result of a series
of hearings held during 1927 on motor
truck and bus transportation: Rail-
roads, whether steam or electric, and
water carriers subject to the interstate
commerce act should be authorized to
engage in interstate commerce by mo-
tor vehicles on the public highways,
and thereafter such service should be
subject to the provisions of the inter-
state commerce act, with the possible
exception of section 15 (a).

Railroads and other carriers subject
to the interstate commerce act should
be authorized to participate in joint
rates and through routes with common
carrier motor truck or motor bus lines.
' The problem of regulating motor
i vehicle operations in interstate com-
merce is so new that it is too early to
attempt too detailed regrulation. .

Need Regvlatory Law*

Regulation of interstate commerce
by motor vehicles operating as com-
mon carriers of passengers on the pub-
lic highways over regrular routes or
between fixed termini should be pro-
vided for by law.

There does not appear to be at the
present time public need for regulat-
ing interstate transportation of prop-
erty by motor vehicles.

The right of any party to appeal to
the Interstate Commerce Commission
from the action of a state board or a
joint board should be provided.

Recommend Operate One Year j

The law should provide that an ap-
plicant for a certificate of public con-
venience and necessity must be in
operation as a common carrier over
the route described in the application
at least one year prior to the first day
of the legislative session in which such
law is enacted.

Holders of certificates of public con-
venience and necessity should be re-
quired to furnish such additional serv-
ice as the public demands.

The law should require that the in-
terstate fares and charges of motor
bus lines be just, reasonable, not un-
justly discriminatory, and not unduly
preferential or unduly prejudicial.
Tariffs should be filed and posted.

Provision should be made for the
filing of complaints against fares,
charges, practices or service of motor
bus lines operating as common car-
riers.

Additional recommendations are
made that broad discretionary pwwer*
be given regulatory boards in classi-
fying vehicles, the issuance of free-
passes and free transportation, trans-
portation of explosives and inflam-
mables, preventing monopolies and'
effecting co-ordination of all existing;
transportation agencies.

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Co-ops Reply to ;

Attack of Federated j

Agricultural Trades

Minnesota Farmers Cite Aid Given Busi-
ness by Department of Commerce

THE Land 'O Lakes Creameries,
Inc., the Central Cooperative
Association, and the Twin City Milk
Producers' Association, all in Minne-
sota, issued a 16-page pamphlet re-
cently, entitled, "An Answer," which is
a reply to the Chicago conference of
the org^anized middlemen known as the
Federated Agricultural Trades of
America.

The Chicago conference, which was
held last year in the Palmer House,
was characterized by the extreme
antagonism expressed by many repre-
sentatives of dealers' organizations to
co-operative marketing of farm prod-
ucts. Many of the speakers implied
that the farmer had no business selling
farm commodities cooperatively. They
denounced bitterly the activities of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture and the state universities in study-
ing and teaching marketing, and help-
ing farmers inaugurate cooperative
ventures.

Attack Farm Bill

The middlemen attacked the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill presumably because
it will limit speculation when passed
and in operation. One speaker urged
the raising of a large defense fund to
keep a powerful lobby in Washington
to fight such legislation as the McNary-
Haugen bill and to work for the farm
bill which will interfere the least with
the established old line system of
distribution.

Replying to the attack of the
middlemen on the activities of the
Division of Co-operative Marketing of
the U. S. D. A., the Minnesota co-
operatives said:

"The chairman said, 'We are op-
posed to the co-operative issue if it
requires government subsidies, which
must be carried in part or as a whole
by the tax payers in other lines.'

"The answer to this is that co-
operative marketing has never received
a single dollar from the government.
The Department of Agriculture has
tried to aid farmers just as the De-
partment of Commerce aids business.

All Aid Business

"Here are a few divisions of the De-
partment of Commerce each with a
chief in charge paid by the taxpayers
of this country to aid business: Re-
gional Information, Textile, Machinery,
Foodstuffs, Lumber, Hide, and Leather,
Automotive, Iron and Steel, Agricul-
tural Implement, Boot and Shoe,
Chemical, Electrical Equipment, Min-
erals, Commercial Law and Transpor-
tation.

"This does not look as though busi-
ness has been neglected in spending
'the money of tax payers in other
lines,'

"Furthermore, the Department of

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Commerce maintains representatives in
most large cities of the entire world
to help these American business men
who are objecting to the work of the
Department of Agriculture.

Subsidies to Private Enterprise

"When it comes to subsidies it is
private business and not co-operatives
that have benefited. We quote from
a letter just received:

" 'The Street Railway Statute vests
in the Railroad and Warehouse Com-
mis.sion of Minnesota authority to de-
termine the value of properties and
establish rates of fare which will yield
a reasonable return on such value.'

"Have you ever heard of any branch
of farming that has ever been guaran-
teed a 'reasonable return' on the in-
vestment or is this done because trans-
portation is more important than
food? How about the Panama Canal
built to aid business although it greatly
injures the great Northwe.st agricul-
tural district? Is not this in fact a
subsidy to business?

"None of the middlemen answered
C. A. Ewing when he made the state-
ment that the unfair advantage given
manufacturing by our tariff laws costs
the farmers more each year th^ there
is invested in the business 6f the
middlemen organizing to fight/ co-
operative marketing! Who id sub-
sidized by these tariff laws?"

Richland County Unit

Sells 94,305 Lbs. Butterfat

''pHE farmers' ci'eam station at Olney
A marketed co-operatively 94,305
pounds of butterfat during 1927. This
is a higher record than any other
single unit in the state, made last
year. During the first three months
of 1928 the Olney station increased
its intake by more than 21 per cent
over a similar period in 1927. The
Richland Farmer estimates that Rich-
land county will sell co-operatively at
least 150,000 pounds of butterfat be-
fore the end of this year. The three
units at Olney, Claremount, and
Stringtown are adding thousands of
dollars to the incomes of their farmer
patrons.

Trucks Now Haul

Bulk of City Milk '^
Supply Says I. C. C.

Glass Lined Tanks on Trucks Replace
Cans at Many Cities

BETWEEN 1910 and 1924, the
motor truck had taken over the
bulk of the shipments of milk formerly
handled by electric railways and
wagons and also a part of the steam
railroad short-haul shipments, accord-
ing to a recent report of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission. This is
largely accounted for by the gradual
crowding back of dairy farms with
the growth of city suburban areas and
by the shifting from rail to motor
truck transportation for distances up
to 50 miles. Among these advantages
are: (1) Truck passes producer's
gate and the truck driver acts as pro-
ducer's personal agent in the city; (2)
shipment by truck reduces the number
of handlings from six or more to only
two; (3) trucks lose fewer cans; (4)
elimination of the haul from railroad
milk platform to the city milk dealer
results in an estimated saving of five
cents a hundredweight.

Saves Time

Shipping by motor truck saves time
where distances are not too great and
eliminates the city terminal handling
and transportation costs.

Approximately 90 per cent of all
milk brought into the cities of Cin-
cinnati, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Paul,
Minneapolis and Indianapolis is
brought in by motor truck. About 20
per cent is trucked into Philadelphia,
while Baltimore receives 45 per cent
of its supply by truck.

Of the trucks hauling milk into these
cities 65.6 per cent operated within
a radius of 29 miles and only 6.8 per
cent operated over routes 50 miles and
over in length. The trucks are, for the
most part, of the smaller capacity
type; 57.1 per cent are one and two-
ton trucks while only 7.3 per cent are
over four-ton capacity.

The trucks are usually operated by
individuals who live in the rural sec-
tions and operate one or two trucks.
Twenty cents per ton-mile is the usual
rate in the 30 to 39-mile zone. For
shorter distances the rates are higher.
Comparison of rail and motor truck
rates for hauling milk shows that truck
rates are the same as rail rates or
somewhat higher.

In 1924, there were delivered daily
to Chicago, 44,000 eight-gallon cans of
milk of which 68 per cent were carried
by rail and 32 per cent by motor truck.
Since then trucks have come into much
wider use.

Bulk transportation of milk has de-
veloped the tank truck. The glass-
lined tank truck is suited for the haul-
ing of milk from country stations to
city plants, especially when neither is
located directly on a railroad and when
the distance is not beyond the
economic range of truck haulage. The
capacities of the tanks range from
about 800 to 2,000 gallons.

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Equality for Agriculture

^^--^HE Republican Party is on trial at
^ / Kansas City this week. ^ A great

J national issue is at stake. Shall
agriculture be permanently subjected
that industry may enj oy greater privilege,
protection, and profit, or shall protection
be accorded to all alike ? This is the para-
mount question before the Nation. The
farmer is fighting for equal opportunity.

Organized agriculture sought to keep
the issue out of politics. The adminis-
tration chose to force it into politics. We
accept the challenge. May Illinois acquit
itself well in the coming test to determine
whether or not this question shall be
squarely met in the interest of the future
welfare of our country.

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Geo. N. Peek

Peek Hits Hard In i

Radio Talk On Veto '
Message from KFNF

Calls Document Most Intemperate and
Ill-Humored of Any In History

AFTER carefully analyzing and ex-
- plaining the provisions of the re-
cently vetoed McNary-Haugen bill,
Geo. N. Peek,
chairman of the
North Central
States Agriciiltur-
al Conference,

launched into a
discussion of the
veto message and
the political ele-
ments involved in
his radio talk from
Station KFNF,
Shenandoah, Iowa,
on June 7.
After explaining the bill Mr. Peek
said: "This all seems so simple that
you wonder why the question has not
been settled long ago.

"The answer is that Secretary Wal-
lace did try to get the Harding admin-
istration to take definite constructive
action, but he was pushed aside for
Secretary Hoover who has been the
real agricultural adviser and dictator
of the last two administrations. Hoov-
er has had for his advisers the grain
exporters, dealers in farm commod-
ities, millers, and other manufacturers
of the farmers' crops.

Don't Want Anything New

"These men do not want anything
to happen which by any possibility
might interfere witii their business and
so the farmers have arrayed against
them the exchanges, boards of trade,
and I am sori-y to say, some of the big
bankers who finance .their members."

Discussing the veto message in gen-
eral Mr. Peek voiced the belief that
the President knew but little about the
bill and what it contained. "His veto
message proves that this is still the
case," he said. "It is a lengthy docu-
ment said to be the most intemperate
and ill-humored of any veto message in
our history. It was openly charged in
the Senate debate on May 25 that the
President did not himself write the
message and no one in Washington be-
lieves that he did.

"Many of the assertions in the veto
message can only be answered by a
blunt statement that they are not true,
either as economic fact or as interpre-
tation of the bill.

Adjectives No Argument

"The use of epithets and the calling
of names is not argument; they can
only be answered in kind, and it is
best that such passages be ig^iored
even though that means ignoring much
of the last message which, compared
with the veto message of February,
1927, adds many new adjectives but
no new ideas to the discussion. In
general the veto message shows (1)

RESOLUTION ADOPTED AT
MASS MEETING HELD IN
CHAMPAIGN, MAY 31, 8
P. M., AT COLI-
SEUM, 1928

WHEREAS, The President's recent veto
message of the McNary-HauRen bill dis-
closes a lack of proper understanding of and
Kenoine sympathy for American agriculture
by the present administration and its ad-
visers ; and

WHEREAS, The principles of this legisla-
tion are well within the pledge of equality for
agriculture set forth in the party platform of
1924, upon 'which this administration came
into power; and

WHEREAS, This pledge has been treats a-<
a scrap of paper;

NOW, THEREFORE. BE IT RESOLVED.
That we, the citizens of this section in mass
meeting assembled, and regardless of party,
feel we can no longer depend upon party
pledges. We serve notice here and now upon
the responsible leaders of all parties of our
individual and collective support only of those
candidates for President of the United States
who have a sympathetic understanding of this
great question and who have the initiative
and courage to see that the benefits of gov-
ernmental policies are extended to all eco-
nomic groups of the United States on an equal
basis ;

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED. That
as an act to secure justice for farmers we will
resist by every honorable means every candi-
date for office from President down to county
officials who refuse to give us a square deal.

We request the secretary of this meeting to
send a copy of this resolution to each dele-
gate from Illinois to the Republican and Dem-
ocratic National Conventions.

W. E. Riegel, Chairman,
F. D. Lewis,
I John T. Smith,

Eugene Curtis,

Resolutions Committee.

that the real Coolidge objection is
not against the equalization fee as has
been frequently stated, but against
making the protective tariff operate to
enhance the profits of farm crops of
which we produce a domestic surplus;
(2) that his interest in co-operative
marketing development is pretended,
not real; (3) that in order to support
his criticisms of the measure the Pres-
ident is forced to assume that the board
which he alone would appoint would
be foolish or criminal in its adminis-
tration of the act; (4) that he has no
constructive proposal for an agricul-
tural policy except the dangerous one
that American farm production must
be reduced to meet domestic demands,
which is economically unsound and na-
tionally unwise; and (5) that he is un-
willing to permit the Supreme Coui't
to pass upon the constitutional ques-
tions involved."

The Real Ground*

Delving into the message Mr. Peek
said: "It clearly exposed the real
grounds for the Coolidge objections
to the McNary-Haugen bill. For
months it has been stated on his be-
half that his real objection was to the
equalization fee provisions of the
measure. Talk of the equalization fee
is only camouflage.

The speaker denounced the veto
message as exposing President Cool-
idge's pretended interest in co-opera-

Indiana Farm Bureau

Protests Cal's Veto

Use Strong Language

Must Have Leader to Administer Office
In Perfect Fairness

tj^OR the second time we farmers of
the Mississippi Valley have been
silent witnesses to the exercising of a
veto privilege that for sheer audacity
and a genuine disregard for the rights
of a large group of citizens, is prob-
ably the most daring piece of nullifica-
tion that the world has witnessed since
the infamous episode of Germany's
'scrap of paper'," declared the In-
diana Farm Bureau Federation follow-
ing the recent presidential veto mes-
sage.

"We have just witnessed a most as-
tonishing paroxysm of hate in the mes-
sage of veto," continued the Feder-
ation. "Fortunately for the country,
the farmers have just begun to fight,
and we ^re preparing for the day when
we can go to the polls and vote into
office some Western man who has cour-
age, sympathy, and a desire to be Pres-
ident of «// these United States. Out
of the material already offered, the
South and the far West can find a
leader that we can elect «nd depend
upon, who will administer this great
office in perfect fairness to all citi-
zens and to all classes."

tive marketing development as a sham.
"The bill as presented to him would
build co-operative associations," he
said. "Mr. Coolidge turned his back
upon that bill with its carefully work-
ed-out provisions to do the job he ad-
mits needs to be done, and through the
very agencies which he himself has
suggested for the task."

The Real Question

The rest of Mr. Peek's talk was de-
voted to amplification and enlarge-
ment upon the five points presented
above. In closing he said: "The ques-
tion which confronts the Government
is whether it should take effective
steps to correct an injustice to the
basic industry of agriculture. Shall
equality be restored by bringing agri-
culture under the protection which the
tariff law and restrictive immigration
give industry and labor — shall the in-
equality be allowed to persist — or shall
the inequality be removed by dragging
down the condition of industry and
labor to the present condition of agri-
culture?

"There is practically a concensus of
intelligent opinion that the effective
remedy which exists for this situation
is involved in the proper control of
the surplus supply of farm products
and the feeding of them out in re-
sponse to demand through devices for
orderly marketing similar to the prac-
tice in industry."

Note: Complete copies of Mr. Peek*» ad-
dress may be had by writing the Illinois Ag-
rictdtural Asaociation, 60S So. Dearborn St.,
Chicago.

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Volume 6

JUNE, 1928

Number 6

THE CORN BELT SPEAKS

Mass Meetings Express Indignation at President's
Veto and Coolidge-Hoover Negative Farm Policy

ILLINOIS, Iowa and other corn belt
states gave emphasis to the west-
ern revolt against the administration's
negative farm policy following Presi-
dent Coolidge's second veto message,
in a series of great mass meetings
held during the past three weeks.

Simultaneous assemblies at Spring-
field and Galesburg on Saturday, May
26, voiced the pent-up wrath of a
long-suffering, patient Middle West
populace at the rank injustice of an
administration which will go down in
history as one controlled and motivated
by the narrow sectionalism of selfish
and industrial class interest.

Thousands of farmers, bankers, mer-
chants, and business men met to de-
nounce the open opposition of those
in control of the government, to equal-
ity for agrriculture and a square deal to
the West.

All Central Illinois turned out more
than 3,000 strong in the Springfield
arsenal where the aged Joseph W.
Fif er of Bloomingrton, former governor
of Illinois and civil war veteran who
saw the birth of the Republican Party
in the Middle West, made a ringing key-
note speech denouncing the action of
President Coolidge in twice refusing
western agriculture a seat at the table
of privilege. Col. Geo C. Seamon, ex-
tensive landowner in Christian county,
was the chairman of the meeting.

The meeting was not a farmers'
meeting alone. Such bankers and
business men as E. E. Crabtree, mayor
of Jacksonville, and Andrew Russel
from the same city espoused the cause
of agriculture in vigorous language.
John P. Stout, farmer, of Chatham
forcefully expressed the resentment of
corn belt farmers at the President's
harsh and unsympathetic treatment of
legislation painstakingly prepared dur-
ing a five-year eflfort to make the
tariff effective on the major farm pro-
ducts.

A touch of color was added to the

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scene when a banner carrying the slo-
gan "We Want A Statesman for Presi-
dent," was hoisted in the crowd while
Bill Gardner of Logan county sang
"Who'll Carry The Banner." Other
banners carried the words, "Goodbye
Cal and Herby, Hello Frank."

Here Are The Resolutiona

The resolutions adopted before the
close of the session set forth in un-
equivocal terms that "the President's
veto message of the McNary-Haugen

KEYNOTER AT SPRINGFIELD

PX-GOV. JOS. W. FIFER is known by hia
•'-' friends as "Private Joe." Born in Virginia
in 1840, he will celebrate his 88th birthday
in October. Mr. Fifer came to McLean county
in 1857, where his father started farming,
and plied his trade as bricklayer.

Mr. Fifer is a Civil War veteran and saw
service with the 33rd Illinois Volunteer In-
fantry at the fall of Vicksburg. He was
wounded in action at Jackson, Miss., when
Sherman's forces assaulted the forces of
General Johnston.

He graduated from Illinois Wesleyan Uni-
versity in 1868, was admitted to the bar,
elected to the State Senate in 1880, and later
was elected governor of Illinois.

I. bill discloses a lack of understanding
and genuine sympathy of the funda-
mental problem facing American ag-
riculture, by the President and his ad-
visers :

"That the principles of this IcKislation
are well within the limitations set forth in
the Republican party's platform of 1924
upon which the administration came into
power :

"That we, the thousands of citizens rep-
resentinK the unalterable sentiment of Cen-
tral Illinois in mass meeting assembled and
resardless of party feel we no lonjter can
depend upon party pledges ; and we serve
notice here and now upon the respective
leaders of all parties that our support will
BO only to those candidates for President
of the United States who have a sympa-
thetic understanding of this great question
and who have the initiative and courage to
eee that the benefits of governmental poli-
cies are extended to all economic groups
of the United States on an equal basis:

Nothing But- Mockery

"That the action of President Coolidge in
vetoing the McNary-Haugen bill, after
the Congress had done its utmost to fairly
meet his expressed views without destroy-
ing the principle of the bill by removing
the equalization fee, constitutes the final
proof that a pledge for a square deal for
agriculture is but mockery, unless it be
administered by a President who under-
stands and at heart desires a fair solution
of the agricultural problem ;

"That the developments since 1924 have
proven: (1) That members of Congress of
all political parties from all agricultural
districts are standing firmly and courage-
ously with the farmers in their fight for
equality for agriculture. (2) That party
lines have disappeared in this fight. (S)
That all the efforts that the executive
branch of the government has made to re-
• deem the party's pledge to agriculture have
been trivial, insincere, and not intended to
bring about agricultural equality. ( 4 ) That
Herbert Hoover, who is spokesman for the
exporter and professional trader in farm
crops, many of whom are his closest ad-
visers oni agricultural questions, has been
the guiding influence with President Cool-
idge in his attitude toward our problem.
(5) That hope for the adoption of a fair
national policy toward agriculture lies only
in the complete repudiation of the Coolidge-
Hoover leadership.

Hoover Acainst Farmers

"That in view of Mr. Hoover's well-known
record against the interests of the farmers
of the country and the intensely organized
campaign, which he and the special interests
back of him are making to secure for him
the Republican nomination, we call upon all
delegates to the Republican National Con-
vention t» work to the end for the nomina-
tion of a man who is known to have a prac-
tical and sympathetic understanding of the
farm problem and who has the initiative,
ability, and courage to tee that this prob-

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Peek Hits Hard In

Radio Talk On Veto
' Message from KFNF

Calls DiHimient Must Intemperate ami
lU-Hunioreil of Any In History

ilTEi; » uicfiilly analyzing- aiul cx-
*- plaiiiiiivr the
efclitlv vct'i-il

Geo. N. Peek

nitre
V,vo. X. peek,
ihairnian of^ the
North Central
States AKiiiiiltiir-
al Conference.

lauMilied injo a
discussion o^_ tlie
\-eto message and
the political ele-
ments involved in
his railio talk from
Station K FN V .
Shenandoah. Iowa.
on .June 7.
After explaininjr the hill Mr. iPei'k
said: '■Tlii> all seems so simple! that
you wondei- why the question huv- not
heen settled lonp auo.

"The answer is that Secretary !\Val-
lace diii try to >ret the Hardinjj a()min-
istration to take definite constri^-tive
action, hut lie was ))ushed asido for
Secretary Hoover who has beert the
real ay-ricultural advisei' and di<-tator
of the last two administrations. Hoov-
er has had for his advisers the train
ex|)orters. dealers in farm coniftnod-
ities, millers, and other manufacturers
of the farmers' crops.

Don't Want Anything New (

"These men do not want anythinjr
to liappen which hy any possi lility
niiirht interfere with their businesii and
so the farmers have arrayed a>;)ainst
them the exchaiiKes, hoards of trade,
and I am sorry to say, some of tht l)i>r
bankers who finance their niemqers."

I'iscussinjr the veto message in jren-
eral Mr. F'eek voiced the belief: that
the President knew l)Ut little aboujt the
bill and what it contained. "His i veto
messajre proves that this is still the
ca.-^e." he s.-iid. "It is a len>rthy (locu-
nlent said to be the most intemperate
and ill-humori'd of any veto message in
our history. It was openly charir^'d in
the Senate debate on May 2.5 thajt the
President did not himself writel the
message and no one in Washington be-
lievt's that he did.

".Many of the assertions in thejvi'to
missajre can only be answered hy a
blunt statement that they are not true,
I'ithei- as economic fact or a.<! intef-pre-
tation of the bill.

eh:

Adjectives No Argument

"The use of epithets and the c;^"Ilinfr
of names is not arjrument; the>' can
mly be answered in kind, and it is
l>e>t that such pas.sages be ignored
even thoufrh that means ipnorin>r (nuch
of the last niessaire which, coniilared
with the veto message of FVbriaary,
li»27. adds many new adjectives: but
no new ideas to the discussion, i In
general the veto mes.sage shows; (1)

RKSOI.l'TION AI)OI'Ti:i) Al
j MA.SS MKKTING HF.LD IN

cii \mpah;n, may .u, k

P. M., AT COl.I-
sr.lM, l')2S

provisions of the re-
.McNarv-Hauiren ! bill. >\

HKKKAS

lack

'lu- I*resitifiit'>^ rt'rt'Tit veto
till' .Mi-Nar>-Haui;«'ii I'i.l «Ii^--
|irt»per uixli-rstatiiliii^ uf and

i-ltis^'s a lack iif iiriiper uixIcrstatnlliiK uf and
vi-iiUiTif symitathy for American ajrriculturf
l»y jthf itrcsent ailniiiiistration and its ad-
visf^; and

WHKKKAS. The principles i>f ihis let-isla-
I inn are well within the pledk'e uf eimality fur
.'lu'ricnltnre set forth in the party platfurni i»f
l'.>21. upon which this admitiisi rat inn <-anie
mlul t»uwer ; atid

Wln-.KKA.'-"-. This i.j.dr.' h:i^ I., .ri tr.-alffi! :>~
a -<\t:\\' uf paiirr;

,\ji\V. THKKKI OHK.
That wc. the citizens uf
n-.ietitiv: assenihled. antl
feel I we can nu lunirer
piedlr«-s. We serve nutic<

UK IT UKSOI.VK.n.

this set-tiun in mas.;

re^rardless i^i party,
deltend llltun J>arty
here and nrtv\ tipuii
the Irespuiisihle leaders uf all iiarties uf uiir
individual anil c.dlective suppurt only uf those
.atiijiilates fur President uf the Uniteil States
uhuihave a sympathetic ninlerstalnlini; uf this
i/reak cmestiun and whu have the initiative
and 'cuuraire lu see that the heitetits of ^rov-
.-rtimielital policies are exteniled to all vci^-
noni(c ^'ruiii>s of the t^nited Stiites on an c-'inal
l.a<i*:

A^D UK IT FITRTHKR RKSOI.VKD. That
:i- ah act t.. secure justice for farmers we will
resist hy every honurahle means every candi-
date for olTicr from Presiilent duwn tu cuunty

otn.'i
\v.

^end
vri.l

als whu reftjse to jrive us a snnare deal.
' re»iijest the secretary uf this meetini: to

: ity uf this residntiun tu each d"de-

frum lllinids to th. Ret>uhlican an<l Dern-

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Nat iunal Cunventiiins.

W. K. Rietrel. rhairman.
V. I). Lewis.
.John T. Smith.
Kurene Curtis.

Resolutions Committee.

that the real Coolidge objection is
not against the e(|ualization fee as has
been fretpiently stated, but against
making the ))rotective tariff operate to
enhanc- the jirofits of farm crops of
which we produce a domestic surplus;
(2) that his interest in co-operative
marketing development is i)retended.
not real; (o) that in order to support
hjs criticisms of the measure the Pres-
ident is forced to assume that the board
whiijh he alone would appoint would
be foolish or criminal in its adminis-
tration of the act; (4) that he has no
constructive pi'oposal for an agricul-
tural policy except the dangerous one
that; American farm production must
be r^'duced to meet domestic demands.
whi(Sh is economically unsound and na-
tionally unwise; and (.5) that he is un-
willijng to permit the Supreme Court
to ijass upon the constitutional ques-
tion^ involved."

The Real Grounds

Delving into the message Mr. Peek
said: "It clearly exposed the real
grounds for the Coolidge objections
to the .McNary-Haugen bill. For
months it has been stated on his be-
half that *his real objection was to the
e(iuali/.ation fee provisions of the
measure. Talk of the equalization fee
is only camouflage.

The speaker denounced the veto
message as exposing President Cool-
idge'.s pretended interest in co-opera-

Indiana Farm Bureau

Protests Cal's Veto

Use Strong Language

Must Have Leader to Administer Office
In Perfect Fairness

■' L"'OR the second time we farmers of
' the Missis.sippi Valley have been
silent witnes.ses to the e.xercising of a
veto privilege that for sheer audacity
and a genuine disregard for the rights
of a large group of citizens, is jirob-
ably the most daring piece of nullifica-
tion that the world has witnessed since
the infamous episode of Germany's
'scrap of jiaper'." declared the In-
diana Farm Bureau Federation follow-
ing the recent presidential veto mes-
sage.

"We have just witnessed a most as-
tonishing iiaroxysm of hate in the mes-
sage of veto," continued the Feder-
ation. "Fortunately for the country,
the farmers have just begun to fight,
and we ^re prejiariiTg for the day when
we can go to the i)olls and vote into
othce some Western man who has cour-
age, sympathy, and n desire to be Pres-
ident of (lU these United States. Out
of the material already offered, the
South and the far West can find a
leader that we eiin elect and depend
upon, who will administer this great
otlice in perfect fairness to all citi-
zens and to all classes."

tive marketing development as a sham.
"The bill as ])resented to him \vould
build co-oi)erative associations," he
said. "Mr. Coolidge turned his back
upon that bill with its carefully work-
ed-out provisions to do the job he ad-
mits needs to be done, and through the
very agencies which he himself has
suggested for the task."

The Real Question

The rest of Mr. Peek's talk was de--
voted to amplification and enlarge-
ment upon the five points presented
above. In closing he said: "The ques-
tion which confronts the Government
is whether it should take effective
steps to correct an injustice to the
basic industry of agriculture. Shall
etiuality be restored by bringing agri-
culture under the piotection which the
taiitr law and restrictive immigration
give industry and labor — shall the in-
etjuality be allowed to persist — rtr shall
the inetiuality be removed by dragging
down the condition of industry and
labor to the present condition of agri-
culture?

"There is practically a concensus of
intelligent opinion that the effective
lemedy which exists for this situation
is involved in the proper control of
the surplus supply of farm products
and the feeding of them out in re-
sponse to demand through devices for
orderly marketing similar to the prac-
tice in industry."

Xntr: Comi>lrtr cov'es of Mr. Peek's ad-
ilriss man I'*' lutd hif irritiny thf lUinotH Aw
rifutfiirat Aattofiatioii^ OUH So. Utarhiirn St.,

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Volume 5

JUNE, 1928

Number 6

THE CORN BELT SPEAKS

Mass Meetings Express Indignation at President's
Veto and Coolidge- Hoover Negative Farm Policy

ILLINOIS, Iowa and other corn belt ,
states gave emphasis to the west-
ern revolt ajrainst the administration's
negative farm policy following Presi-
dent Coolidge's second veto message,
in a series of great mass meetings
held during the past three weeks.

Simultaneous assemblies at Spi'ing-
tield and Galesburg on Saturday, May
26, voiced the pent-up wrath of a
long-sutfering, patient Middle West
populace at the rank injustice of an
administration which will go down in
history as one controlled and motivated
by the narrow sectionalism of selfish
and industrial class interest.

Thousands of farmers, bankers, mer-
chants, and business men met to de-
nounce the open opposition of those
in control of the government, to equal-
ity for agriculture and a square deal to
the West.

All Central Illinois turned out more
than 3,000 strong in the Springfield
arsenal where the aged Joseph W.
P"ifer of Bloomington, former governor
of Illinois and civil war veteran who
saw the birth of the Republican Party
in the Middle West, made a ringing key-
note speech denouncing the action of
President Coolidge in twice refusing
western agriculture a seat at the table
of privilege. Col. Geo C. Seamen, ex-
tensive, landowner in Christian county,
was the chairman of the meeting.

The meeting was not a farmers'
meeting alone. Such bankers and
business men as E. E. Crabtree, mayor
of Jacksonville, and Andrew Russel
from the same city espoused the cause
of agriculture in vigorous language.
John P. Stout, farmer, of Chatham
forcefully expressed the resentment of
corn belt farmers at the President's
harsh and unsympathetic treatment of
legislation painstakingly prepared dur-
ing a five-year effort to make the
tariff effective on the major farm pro-
ducts.

A touch of color was added to the

scene when a banner carrying the slo-
gan "We Want A Statesman for Presi-
dent," was hoisted in the crowd while
Bill Gardner of Logan county sang
"Who'll Carry The Banner." ' Other
banners carried the words, "Goodbve
Cal and Herhy, Hello Frank." '•• '

Here Are The Resolutions .;

The resolutions adopted before the
close of the session set forth in un-
equivocal terms that "the President's
veto message of the McXary-Haugen

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KEYNOTER AT SPRINGFIELD

T,^X.GOV. JOS. W. FIFER is known by his
■L-' friends as "Private Joe." Born in Virginia
in 1840, he will celebrate his 88th birthday
in October. Mr. Fifer came to McLean county
in 1857, where his father started farming,
and plied his trade as bricklayer.

Mr. Fifer is a Civil War veteran and saw
service with the 33rd Illinois Volunteer In-
fantry at the fall of Vicksburg. He was
wounded in action at Jackson, Miss., when
Sherman's forces assaulted the forces of
General Johnston.

He graduated from Illinois Wesleyan Uni-
versity in 1868. was admitted to the bar.
elected to the State Senate in 1880, and later
was elected governor of Illinois.

bill discloses a lack>o£ understanding
and genuine sympathy of the funda-
mental problem facing American ag-
riculture, by the President and his ad-
visers:

"That the principles bf this leirislation
arc well within the limitatictns .set ff»rlh irt
til,' Kfpublican party's platform <if \\vl%
upon which the a<lmini!4traiif>n rami- into
power;

"That we. the thouKands of citizens n-p-
rescntinir the unalterabl,. sentiment of Ceii-
tral Illinois in mass m«*etinj: ass<-mliU*d anil
rcjrardless of party frel we no lon;r»*r can
flepend upon party pledtres ; and wt* serve-
notice here and now uptm the rfsp,K-tiv«-
Icaders of all parties that our support will
iro only to those candiilates for President
of the United Stales who have a sympa-
thetic understandinir of this preat fiiiestion
and whfi have the initiative and couraire to
Bee that the benefits of trovernmental poli-
cies are ext^-n'leil to: all economic vrroups
»>f the Uniteil .States on an cijual basis;

Nothing But Mockery

"That the action of President C*MiliiIire in
vctoinc the McNary-Hauiren bill. after
the Congress had doixt^ its utmost to fairly
meet his expressed views without destroy-
insr the principle of the bill by removjnv:
the e<|uaIi7.ation fee. constitut<'s the final
proof that a pledite for a siiuare deal for
agriculture is but mockery, unless it l.c
administered by a ('resident who under-
stands and at heart desjres a fair solution
of the airricultural prob'i,-m ;

"That the developments since 1^24 ha\e
proven: (1) That members of Conrress of
all political parties from all ai-ricultural
ifistricts are stan^lintr firmly and .-.iiira^.--
ously with the farmtrs in their fii-ht for
equality for acriculture. (2) That party
lines have <lisappearc<l itv this ti'.'hi. fMi
That all the .-tTorts that the e\e<-ijtive
. branch of the troveniimi-nt has nia<le to re-
deem the party's pleitee to ai-ricult ;iri' haw-
been trivial, insincere, and not intended to
brinp about ai;ricultural t-«iuality. (Ij That
Herbert Hoover, who is Ispokesman for the
■ xiKirter and profes-tioritl tradi-r in farm
• rops. many of whotn are his clos.-st ad-
\ isers on airricultural HUestions. has been
the (ruiiiinc influenci* with President Cool-
idfe in his attitude to»vard our problem.
(5) That hope for tihe adoption of a fair
national policy toward acricultiire lies onl.v
in the complete rei>Ufliat inn of the Coolidj.-. -
Hotiver leadership.

Hoover Against Farmers

"That in view of Mr. Hoover's well-known
rect»rd ai^ainst the interests <»f the farm,-r-
of the country and the intensely or-.,'ai]i/.--d
campaiirn. which he and the special interest <
bai-k of him are makintr to secure for him
the Republican nomiiuition. we call upon all
delet-ate-j to the RepublScan National Con-
vention ^o work to the end for the nomina-
tion of a man who is known to have a pra. -
tical and, sympath.tic underslandini: of ih-
farm problem and who ! has the initiative,
ability, and couraee to |see that this pn.b.

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lem is solved in a n^anner that is fair to
all interests.

"That we warn all delegates to the Na-
tional Conventions that the agricultural
question is the paramount issue before the
country and that failure of any party to
recosrnize the condition of agriculture as
the paramount issue will result in our sup-
port of that party, whose candidates make
the solution of the aEricultural problem the
paramount issue of the campaign."

Representatives from eleven central
Illinois counties presented these resolu-
tions which were echoed in the press
of the United States ftom coast to
coast within 24 hours after their unani-
mous adoption.

GALESBURG MEETING
2,500 STRONG

THERE were 2,500 militant farmers
from a dozen Western Illinois
counties at the Galesburg Court House
in Knox county while the Springfield
meeting was on.

Long before the meeting was sched-
uled to open the Knox County Court
House was filled to overflowing.
Crowds gathered in the adjoining halls
and lobbies. It became apparent that
some other provision must be made
for the crowd, so a large truck was
driven up in front of the Court House
to serve as a speakers' stand, and the
throng adjourned to the Court House
lawn when A. N. Skinner, prominent
Yates City farmer, called the meeting
to order. Many women were present.
Ten or twelve Western Illinois counties
were represented. Ira Moats of Ma-
quon opened the meeting with prayer,
which was followed by the audience
singing "Illinois".

Coolidge Advice Followed

"The first McNary-Haugen bill was
presented to Congress at the sugges-
tion of President Coolidge," said Mr.
Skinner in his opening remarks. "The
President had advised farmers and
farm representatives who had visited
him to go back home and frame ade-
quate legislation to be presented to
the Congress. The farmers complied
and when their measure was presented
the first time it was beaten by a sub-
stantial majority.

"The McNary-Haugen bill was re-
vised and was presented again. By
that time it had gained so many friends
that the 69th Congress passed it with
a substantial majority. President Coo-
lidge vetoed the bill, accompanying his
action with the long message in which
he presented his objections.

"These objections were carefully
noted by friends of the measure and
again the bill was revised to meet. Mr.
Coolidge's objections insofar as they
i;ould be without emasculating the bill.
Again the McNary-Haugen measure
was presented to Congress where it
passed by an even greater majority
than the year previous. Mr. Coolidge
vetoed that bill. In undignified lan-
guage he denounced the results of the
farmers' painstaking efforts to frame
a measure that would meet with the
approval of the President.

"We must have someone in the
White House who is not too provin-
cial and who has the interests of
American agriculture at heart."

A. G. Bridgford, Banker and Land-
owner of Mercer County, taid:

"The administration would lead us
to believe that we are in the most
properous condition that has existed.
That is quite true east of the Alle-
gheny mountains and the New York
Stock Exchange. Stocks and bonds
have doubled and tripled, yet in the
Middle West there have been more
bank failures during the Coolidge
administration than in the 60 years
preceding it. You have seen agricul-
ture and agricultural products take a
deflation of over twenty billion dol-
lars, a sum sufficient to buy all the

railroads in the United States

Mr. Coolidge might just as well say, 'I
am opposed to any farm legislation
that will help the farmer,' because
any bill he would recommend or sign
would be of no avail to us."

R. C. Ford, Farmer, Peoria County:

"It has been said that Calvin Cool-
idge could Slap the farmers in the
face and make them like it. I want
you to understand that here is one
farmer whom he slapped in the face,
and he lacks a hell of a lot of making
him like it; and if I get the gist of
the sentiment of the 800 Farm Bureau
members of Peoria county, he has 800
more there that he lacks a lot of mak-
ing them like it, and I would like to
see every Farm Bureau in this United
States have the same feeling that
the Farm Bureau of Peoria county
seems to have."

L. C. Warner, Farmer, Henry County:

"Agriculture is the basic industry
of our land, and yet agriculture has
been compelled to take a back seat.
Organized farmers in this country are
not attempting to pull down any other
class. They are simply asking that
they may be brought up upon an equal
basis with industry and manufactures,
capital and labor. . . Thousands of
men in my county were disappointed
when Mr. Coolidge saw fit to veto the
McNary-Haugen bill, but I have not
yet heard one single man say he would
not still carry on. There was a little
meeting over in my county a few days
ago, representing some four thousand
votes in the County of Henry, and
they passed unanimously a set of reso-
lutions, which pledged themselves not
to support a certain man, who it has
been said is one of the chief agricul-
tural advisers of the I*resident, and
that they would use all the influence
and power which they possess to pre-
vent his nomination at the convention
at Kansas City, and if he was nomin-
ated they would use all their power to
defeat him at the polls."

R. E. Kirby, Farmer, Warren County:

"It seems to me we have

had the poor end of it all the time.
Until just recently we farmers were
so near asleep that we never could

see the advantage of organizing, and
a good many farmers are still sleep-
ing, but there are some 60,000 in this
State of Illinois who have awakened,
and I think a great many of them
are thinking and meeting today under
this same kind of a gathering, and I
think we will let the people of the
United States know that we have awak-
ened from our long slumber."

C. C. Craig, Former Supreme Court
Judge, Banker, and Landowner:

"Our legislators have passed laws
to help the railroads; they have passed
laws to help the manufacturers; la'w's
which are a benefit to all of those
different lines of business, at the ex-
pense of the great basic industry, the
farmers, the producers. Let me tell
you, my friends, those who have to
do the making of the laws, they listen
to an assemblage like this. They will
listen to you. They will listen to
others, and we hope to make such a
noise that we will keep them awake
for a while until something will be
accomplished."

M. G. Van Buskirk, Knox County:

"We are here today to serve notice
upon the Republican party that Her-
bert Hoover is not acceptable to the
voters of the Middle West and that he
will not receive our votes. We are
here today to serve notice upon both
parties that unless the Middle West
is taken into consideration in Kansas
City and in Houston, and men satis-
factory to the voters of the states in
this territory are nominated as Presi-
dent, that the results of the November
election must rest upon the shoulders
of those who so blundered as to leave
out of the reckoning so large a per-
centage of the constituency of either
party, a constituency that is inter-
ested not only in its own welfare,
but in the welfare of the nation in its

entirety "Justice must be

done the Middle West and by so doing
the entire nation made to prospei- and
enjoy happiness. We will accept noth-
ing less than this."

Resolutions were passed similar to
those presented above.

CLOSE to 3,000 farmers, bankers,
merchants, and others assembled
on the DeKalb high school grounds
Saturday, June 2, to express their re-
sentment of the administration's veto
message on the McNary-Haugen bill,
the Coolidge-Hoover farm policy, and
their apparent partiality to the indus-
trial interests of the East.

None of the speakers protested more
vigorously than Omar H. Wright, pres-
ident-elect of the Illinois Bankers' As-
sociation. He stated emphatically that
when Coolidge vetoed the McNary-
Haugen bill he slapped the Illinois
Bankers' Association as well as the
Middle West in the face. "We re-
sent the words that he used in de-
nouncing the legislation upon which we

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Here's part of the crowd that assembled on the De Kalb High Sc hool grounds Saturday, June 2. It was a determined audience, demand-
ing equality for agriculture.

had pinned our hopes," said Mr.
Wright. "The language in that mes-
sage was unnecessary."

Wright Is Applauded

Mr. Wright was loudly applauded
when he said: "I know more in 30
minutes about the agricultural prob-
lem of this section than all the citi-
zens combined in Pennsylvania, Mass-
achusetts, Vermont, and the other New
England states. We don't want any
plank, resolutions, or platitudes," he
said. ""What we need is a man. Frank
Lowden our neighbor has the ability,
knowledge, and courage to solve this
question."

Henry White of DeKalb County pre-
sided. At least a half dozen delegates
to the Republican and Democratic
National Conventions gave short talks.
C. E. Bamborough of Ogle county and
George R. Tullock of Winnebago rep-
resented their respective counties on
the program. Mr. Tullock read tele-
grams from Congressmen Buckbee
and Rathbone expressing their regrets
at being unable to attend.

Vrooman Suggests Coalition

Carl Vrooman of Bloomington told
his large audience that what they must
do is to raise less hogs and more hell.
"If you don't nominate Lowden at
Kansas City," he said, "I shall try to
get him to go to Houston so we can
nominate him there." ^ Mr. Vrooman
is a prominent dry Democrat who held
the office of Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture in Wilson's administration.
Mr. Vrooman presented a plea for a
coalition ticket of Republicans and
Democrats which the South and West
could support in the event that both
parties fail to nominate a Middle West
man who has the courage to be for
equality for agriculture. The crowd
listened intently to Vrooman's by-par-
tisan plan and applauded loudly at the
close of his speech.

Kessinger Speaks

*'It doesn't take statesmanship to
oppose everything and be for nothing,"
declared State Senator Harold Kessing-
er from Aurora. Senator Kessinger
expressed his opposition to a third
party but voiced his interest in nomin-

ating Middle West candidates for Pres-
ident in both parties. He lauded Ex-
Governor Lowden and called attention
to the war governor's deep interest
in farm problems long before the Mc-
Nary-Haugen plan was formulated.
"Business will get worse unless farm-
ing gets better," he said. "If the
farmer doesn't get protection others
will lose it." Senator Kessinger closed
his remarks by an urgent plea for
farmers to drive en masse to Kansas
City and demand the nomination of
a Middle West man.

A dozen Northern Illinois counties
were represented. One hundred and
fifty auto loads came from Lee county
alone.

One of the most significant acts of
the meeting was the adoption of a
resolution presented by Henry Watts
of LaSalle which read as follows:

"Mr. Chairman, I move that ^ire per-
petuate the spirit of this meeting by
the formation of a permanent organ-
ization, that the chairman appoint a
county chairman for each county here
represented and that each county chair-
man shall appoint a township chair-
man and that each township chairman
shall appoint a school district chair-
man, all whose names shall be re-
ported to the county chairman. That
the purposes of this organization shall
be to fight at the polls next November,
any candidate, whether of the Repub-
lican or Democratic party, who favors
the Hoover-Coolidge policies of sub-
ordinating agriculture to industry."

Other Speakers Talk |
Other speakers who made short ad-
dresses were W. I. Hibbs, former pres-
ident of the Ottawa Chamber of Com-
merce; Phil Sanford, Boone county;
Wm. Heath, Kane county; the Mayor
of DeKalb, and Earl Buck, Lee county.
Many of the speakers emphasized the
fact that "We are here in the interest
of equality for agriculture. We must
make the tariff effective on farm pro-
ducts. We must have an American
price for American farm products."
It was a conservative, orderly meet-
ing marked by the determination writ-
ten on the faces of the audience.
Many women were present. The reso-
lutions adopted early in the meeting

condemned the Coolidge veto, and de-
manded that delegates use all their
influence to nominate a Middle West
candidate for President who knows
the farm problem.

A similar mass meeting was sched-
uled at Taylorville in Christian county
for Saturday, June 9.

MEET AT CLINTON, IOWA

WESTERN Illinois farmers from
Whiteside, Carroll, and Rock
Island counties joined with their
neighbors across the Mississippi in a
meeting at Clinton, Iowa, Saturday
afternoon, June 2.

State Senator J. O. Shaff presided.
Impromptu talks and addresses ex-
pressing the resentment of farmers
and merchants from this section over
the McNary-Haugen veto message
were made by many who attended. A.
C. Everingham of Illinois expressed
the sentiment of the mass meeting
when he stated that the Middle West
would not stand for another President
who had no policy for agriculture
other than to keep farmers subjected
for the benefits of a prosperous indus-
try.

Resolutions were adopted condemn-
ing the veto message and the Hoove^r-
Coolidge policy of favoritism to in-
dustry. '^

Farmer-Banker Meeting

1\/I0RE than 100 farmers and bank-
. . ^^^ ^™'" Knox county attended
a. joint banquet in Galesburg recently.
Thirteen banks of the county were
represented. In addressing the gath-"
ering. President Earl C. Smith stated
that according to the most recent cen-
sus report farm lands in the county
had declined $32,000,000 since the
war while the total assets of agricul-
ture had depreciated 34 per cent dur-
ing the same period.

A. N. Skinner, member of the I.
A. A. Executive Committee, presided.
The dinner was sponsored by the
Knox County Farm Bureau.

Swine growers produced 752 ton lit-
ters in 1927. .

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lorn is snlvi'd in a rti.'innor that is fafir to
all interests. I

"That w«* warn all (loleirati-s to th« Na-
tional Conventions that the airricultural
niu'Htion is thi* paramount issue before the
»-t>unlry an<l that failure of any parly to
recofrnize the eoniiition of airrifultuCe as
the paramount issue will result in our, sup-
port of that I>arty. whose caiuiitlates piake
"the solution of the atrriiultural prohler^i the
I'-iranjount issue of the eaitipaivrn." !

Rt'prt'!;entatives from eleven ceiptnil
Illinois counties presented these resolu-
tions which were echoed in the press
of the United States from coast to
coast within 21 hours after their uriani-
mbus adoption.

GALESBIRC; MEETLNG
2,3«0 STRONG

■"PHERK were 2.500 militant farmers
' from a dnzen Western Illinois
counties at the Cialesburjr Court House
in^Knox county while the SprinKtield
iin-etinj; was on.

Long: before the nieeling was sched-
uled to open the Knox County Cburt
House was tilled to overflowinK-
Crowtls gathered in the adjoininR halls
and lobbies. It became apparent that
some other provision must be made
t«y the crowd, so a large truck .want
driven up in front of the Court House
to serve as a speakers" stand, and the
throng ad.iourni'd to the Court Hpus<'
lawn when A. N. Skinner, prominent
Yates City farmer, called the meijting
to order. Many women were prer^ent.
Ten or twelve Western Illinois counties
were representctl. Ira Moats of Ma-
<luon ojjened the meeting with piaf>-er,
which was followed by the auditnce
singing "Illinois".

Coolidge Advice Followed {
"The first JIcNary-Haugen bill was
presented to Congress at the su^es-
tion of President Coolidge." said 'Mr.
Skinner in his opening remarks. MThe
President had advised farmers and
farm representatives who had vi.sited
him to go back home and frame {»de-
i|uate legislation to be presented to
the Congress. The farmers comiflied
and when their measure was preseiitcii
the first time it was beaten by a tiub-
stantial majority.

"The McNary-Haugen bill was re-
vised and was presented again, j By
that time it had gained so many friends
that the <)lith Congress passed it >vith
a substantial ma.jority. President foo-
iitlge Vetoed the bill, accompanyinjj his
action with the long mc'ssage in which
he presented his ob.iections. ;

"These ob.iections were careftilly
noted by friends of the measure land
again' the bill was revised to meet|Mi\
Coulidge's ob.iections in.sofar as (hey
could be without emasculating the Ibill.
.Again the McXary-Haugen nieasjure
was presented to Congress where it
passed by an even greater ma.iiwity
than the year previous. Mr. Coolidge
vetoed that bill. In undignified lan-
guage he denounced the results ofj the
larniers' painstaking efforts to frjime
a measure that would meet with the
apjudval of the President.

"\Vi' must have someone in the
White House who is not too provin-
cial and who has the interests of
Ame>"ican agriculture at heart."

A. (&. Bridgford, Banker and Land-
Owner of Mercer County, said:

"The administration would lead us
to hielieve that we are in the most
iiroplerous condition that has existed.
ThatI is quite true east of the Alle-
gheny mountains and the New York
Stock P'xchange.' .Stocks and bonds
have; doubled and tripled, yet in the
Middle Wi'st there have been more
bank failures during the Coolidge
ailministration than in the fiO years
precOfling it. You have seen agricul-
ture and agricultural products take a
defliiition of over twenty billion dol-
lars,! a sum sufficient to buy all the

railrj)ads in the I'nited States

-Mr. (Toolidge might .iust as well say. 'I
am hpposed to an.v farm legislation
that will help the farmer,' because
any bill he would recommend or sign
woulld be of no avail to us."

R. C. Ford, Farmer, Peoria County:

"It has been said that Calvin Cool-
idge i could slap the farmers in the
face ^ and make them like it. I want
you ito understand that here is one
farnier whom he slajiped in the face,
and he lacks a hell of a lot of making
him Hike it; and if I get the gist of
the Sentiment of the 800 Farm Bureau
memjiers of Peoria county, he has 800
iiiorcj there that he lacks a lot of mak-
ing (hem like it, and I would like to
see every Farm Bureau in this United
States have the same feeling that
the Farm Bureau of Peoria county
seenijs to have."

L. Cj Warner, Farmer, Henry County:

"Agriculture is the basic industry
of our land, and yet agriculture has
been compelled to take a back seat.
Orgainizcd farmers in this country are
not attempting to pull down any other
dasSi They are simply asking that
they may be brought up upon an equal
basi.sl with industr.v and manufactures,
capital and labor. . . Thousands of
men in my county were disappointed
whert Mr. Coolidge saw fit to veto the
McN'iiry-Haugen bill, but I have not
.vet Heard one single man say he would
not still carry on. There was a little
meeting over in my county a few days
ago, irepresenting some four thousand
votes in the County of Henry, and
iheyipassed unanimously a set of reso-
hitiops, which pledged themselves not
to si|pport a certain man. who it has
been| said is one of the chief agricul-
tural; advisers of the President, and
that they would use all the influence
and power which they possess to pre-
vent Ihis nomination at the convention
at Ktuisas City, and if he was nomin-
ated they would use all their iiower to
defeat him at the polls."

R. E. Kirby, Farmer, Warren County:

"It seems to me we have

had the i)oor end of it all the time.
Until .iust recently we farmers were
so iili'ar asleep that we never couki

see the advantage of organizing, and
a good man.v farmers are still sleep-
ing, but there are some 00,000 in this
State of Illinois who have awakened,
and I think a great many of them
i're thinking and meeting today under
this same kind of a gathering, and I
think we will let the people of the
United States know that we have awak-
ened from our long slumber."

C. C. Craig, Former Supreme Court
Judge, Banker, and Landowner:

"Our legislators hate pa.ssed laws
to help the railroads; they have pas.seti
laws to help the manufacturers; laws
which are a benefit to all of those
ilifferent lines of business, at the ex-
pense of the great basic industry, the
farmers, the producers. Let me tell
you, m.v friends, those who have to
tlo the making of the laws, they listen
to an assemblage like thi.s. They will
listen to you. They will listen to
othei's, and we hope to make such a
noise that we will keep them awake
for a while until something will be
accomplished."

M. G. Van Buskirk, Knox County:

"We are here today to serve notice
upon the Republican party that Her-
bert Hoover is not acceptable to the
voters of the Middle West and that he
will not receive our votes. We are
here today to ser\'e notice upon both
parties that unless the Middle West
is taken into consideration in Kan.sas
City and in Houston, and men satis-
factory to the voters of the states in
this territory are nominated as Presi-
dent, that the results of the November
election niu.st rest upon the shoulders
of those who so blundered as to leave
out of the reckoning so large a per-
centage of the consfituency of either
party, a constituency that is inter-
ested not only in its own welfare,
but in the welfare of the nation in its

entirety Justice must be

done the Middle West and by so doing
the entire nation made to prosper and
enjoy happiness. We will accept noth-
ing less than this."

Resolutions were passed similjar to
those presented above.

/ ^LOSE to .-5,000 farmers, bankers.
' ^ merchants, and others assembled
on the DeKalb high school grounds
Saturday, June 2, to express their re-
sentment of the administration's veto
message on the AIcNary-Haugen bill,
the Coolidge-Hoover farm policy, 'and
their apjiarent partiality to the indus-
trial interests of the East.

None of the sjieakers protested more
vigorously than Omar H. Wright, jires-
ident-elect of the Illinoir- Bankers' -As-
sociation. He stated emphatically that
when Coolidge vetix'd the McNary-
Haugen bill he slai)ped the Illinois
Bankers' Association as well as the
Middle Wes^t in the face. "We re-
sent the words that he used in de-
nouncing the legislation upon which we

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Here's part of the crowd; that^assembled on the De Kalb Hiffh School grounds Saturday. June 2. It was a determined audience, demand-
in; equality for agriculture. ' '

that

had pinned our hopes," said Mr.
Wright. "The hinguage in thiit mes-
sage was unnecessary."

Wright Is Applauded

Jlr. Wright was loudly applauded
when he said: "I, know mate in 80
minutes about the agricultiitial prob-
lem of this section than all^'ithe citi-
zens combined in PennsylvaWra. Mass-
achusetts, Vermont, and the other New
England states. We don't want any
jdank, resolutions, or platitudes," he
said, "^W'hat we need is a man. Frank
Lowden our neighbor has the ability,
knowledge, and courage to solve this
question."

Henry White of DeKalb County pre-
sided. At least a half dozen delegates
to the Republican and Democratic
N'ational Conventions gave short talks.
C. E. Bamborough of Ogle county and
George R. Tullock of Winnebago rep-
resented their respective counties on
the program. Mr. Tullock read tele-
grams from Congressmen Buckbee
and Rathbone expressing their regrets
at being unable to attend.

Vrooman Suggests Coalition

Carl Vrooman of Bloomington told
his large audience that what they must
do is to raise less hogs and more hell.
"If you don't nominate Lowden at
Kansas City," he said, "I shall try to
get him to go to Houston so we can
nominate him there." Mr. Vrooman
is a prominent dry Democrat who held
the office of Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture in Wilson's administration.
Mr. Vrooman presented a plea for a
coalition ticket of Republicans and
Democrats which the South and West
could support in the event that both
parties fail to nominate a Middle W'est
man who has the courage to be for
equality for agriculture. The crowd
listened intently to Vrooman's by-par-
tisan plan and applauded loudly at the
close of his speech.

Kessinger Speaks

"It doesn't take statesmanship to
oppose everything and be for nothing,"
declared State Senator Harold Kessing-
i-r from Aurora. Senator Kessinger
expressed his opposition to a third
I)arty but voiced his interest in nomin-

ating Middle West candidates for Pres-
ident in both parties. He lauded Ex-
Governor Lowden and called attention
to the war governor's deep interest
in farm problems long before the Mc-
Nary-Haugen plan was formulated.
"Business will get worse unless farm-
ing gets better," he said. "If the
farmer doesn't get protection others
will lose it." .Senator Kessinger closed
his remarks by an urgent plea for
farmers to drive en masse to Kansas
City and demand the nomination of
a Middle West man.

A dozen Northern Illinois counties
were represented. One hundred and
fifty auto loads came from Lee county
alone.

One of the most significant acts of
the meeting was the adoption of a
resolution presented by Henry Watts
of LaSalle which read as? follows :

"Mr. Chairman, I move that we per-
petuate the spirit of this meeting by
the formation of a permanent organ--
ization, that the chairman appoint a
county chairman for each county here
represented and that each county chair-
man shall appoint a township chair-
man and that each township chairman
shall appoint a school district chair-
man, all whose names shall be re-
ported to the county chairman. That
the purposes of this organization shall
be to fight at the polls next November,
any candidate, whether of the Repub-
lican or Democratic party, who favors
the Hoover-Coolidge policies of sub-
ordinating agriculture to industry."

Other Speakers Talk

Other speakers who made short ad-
dresses were W. I. Hibbs. former pres-
ident of the Ottawa Chamber of Com-
merce; Phil Sanford, Boone county;
Wm. Heath, Kane county; the Mayor
of DeKalb, and Earl Buck, Lee county.
Many of the speakers emjihasized the
fact that "We are here in the interest
of equality for agriculture. We must
make the tariff effective on farm pro-
ducts. We must have an American
price for American farm products."

It was a conservative, orderly meet-
ing marked by the determination writ-
ten on the faces of the audience.
Many women were present. The reso-
lutions afjop^ed early in the meeting

condemned the Coolidge veto, and de-
manded that delegates use all their
influence to nominate a Middle West
candidate for President who know-
the faim problem.

A similar mass meeting was sched-
uled at Taylorville in Christian county
for Saturday^ June S*.

MEET AT CLINTON, IOWA

W^ESTERN jllinois farmers from
»> Whiteside^ Carroll, aii.l Roek
Island countieit" joine<l with their
neighbors acroHs the Mississippi in a
meeting at Clipton, Iowa. Saturday
afternoon, June^i.

State Senatori^J. O. Shaff jiresided.
Impromptu tal#> and addresses ex-
pressing the restsctment of farmer-
and merchants from this section over
the McNary-Haugen veto niessajr<
were made by many who attended. A.
C. Everinghani of Illinois expressed
the sentiment of the mass meeting
when he stated that the .Middle West
would not stand for another President
who had no policy for agriculture
other than to keep farmers subjected
for the benefit.<! of a prosperous indus-
try.

Resolutiofts were! adopted condemn-
ing the veto message and the Hoover-
Coolidge policy of favoritism to in-
dustrv.

Farmer-Banker Meeting

\ lORE than 100 farmers and bank-
-♦•* ers from Knox county attended
a joint banquet in Galesburg recentl.i;.
Thirteen banks of the county wen-
represented. In addressing the gath-
ering. President Earl C. Smith .stated
that according to the most recent cen-
sus report farm lands in the countv
had declined $:i2. 000.000 since the
war while the total a.s.sets of agricul-
ture had depreciated ;}4 per cent dur-
ing the same period.

.\. N. Skinner, member of the I.
A. A. Executive Committee, presided.
The dinner was sponsored by the
Knox County Farm Bureau.

Swine growers produced 752 ton lit
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CCLTVRAL ASSOCIA

RECORO

Ta mdomne* thm parpot* for which th» Farm Bureau warn organized,
namely to promote, protect and represent the buaineea, economic,
poiiticai, arid educational interemtt of the farmere of fllinoie and the
nation, and to develop agriculture,

PnbUshed once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave., Mount Morris,
Illinois, by the Illinois AKricaltoxal Association. Edited by Department
of Information, E. G. Thiem, Director, 608 South Dearborn Street,
Chieaso, Illinois. Entered aa second-class matter October 20, 1926, at
the post office at Mount Morris, Illinois, under the Act of March S, 1879.
Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Sec-
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key number on address as is required by law.

OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vice-President, Frank D. Barton Cornell

Treasurer, R, A. Cowles Blootnington

EXECUTIVB COMMITTEE

(By Consreasiotial District*)

1st to 11th H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

I2th G. F. Tullock, Rockford

13th C. E. Bamboroush, Polo

I4th , M. G. Lambert, Ferris

ISth A. N, Skinner, Yates City

16th A. R. Wright, Varna

17th Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

18th R.F. Karr, Iroquois

l»th , J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

10th Charles S, Black, Jacksonville

21st ,1 Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

12nd Frank Oexner, Waterloo

13rd W. L. Cope, Salem

14th Charles Marshall, Belknap

2Sth .' Fred Dietz, De Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Business Service Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing 4 A. D. Lynch

Limestone-Phosphate J. R. Bent

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

GeneralOtTice J. H. Kelker

Information E.G. Thiem

Insurance Service , V. Vaniman

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller

Ch^anization ', G. £. Metzger

Poultry and Egg Marketing' F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics ', J. C. Watson

Transportation L, J. Quasey

The Corn Belt Uprising

SEVERAL months ago, administration leaders were
consoling themselves with statements to the effect
that the cry from the West for equality for agriculture
emanated from a small group of orgranization and politi-
cal leaders. Secretary Jardine told New York business
men a year ago when speaking of the Corn Belt agitation
that "a small pack of wolves could make a lot of noise,"
President Coolidge has been assured by his advisers from
time to time that the farmers are not for the McNary-
Haugen type of farm relief, that the fight for the bill is
being made by only a handful of men for political pur-
poses.

Overnight, it seems that the Corn Belt picture to the
down-easterners has changed. Farmers' mass meetings at
Clinton, Iowa, Springfield, Galesburg, DeKalb, Champaign,
and Taylorville, Illinois, and at other points in adjoining
states have awakened the country to the fact that the
West is in earnest.

Farmers are patient and long-suffering. But the Presi-
dent spilled the beans in his ill-conceived, bitter denuncia-
tion of the farmers' request for equal opportunity legis-
lation. The resentment it a»oused was to be expected.
These uprisings merely reveal what has been ^apparent
for years to those who know the true situation.

Judging from the sentiment expressed at these mass
meetings, it would not be surprising to see a coalition, bi-
partisan ticket placed in the field that the South and West
would support unless the major parties nominate men
acceptable to the voters of these great sections. The Mid-

dle West has no hope of getting a square deal from Cool-
idge or Hoover. These men undoubtedly are dominated
by the selfish industrial interests of the East and by the
exchanges and dealers handling farmers' products. What
the Republican Party does at Kansas City this week may
determine to a large extent its future power and influence
in the section of its birth.

The Tail Wags the Dog

HOW the populous industrial east, comprising a very
small area of the United States but with a native
son in the strategic position of chief executive, dictated the
agricultural policy of the nation for a period of five years,
will go down in history as one of the ironies of a so-called
democratic form of government.-

Even a casual observer of the map on page 7 is struck
at once with this great truth. Never have we had a more
vivid example of how the tail may wag the dog. It
causes us to wonder whether we actually have a govern-
ment of the people, by the people, and for the people that
Lincoln dwelled upon in his Gettysburg address.

Such an unwarranted encroachment by the executive on
the legislative branch of the government as we have seen
in the two McNary-Haugen vetoes never was contemplated
by the framers of our constitution. Nor did they assume
when they provided for a supreme court that the executive
and a cabinet member would usurp the function of pass-
ing upon the constitutionality of measures.

To do anything effective for agriculture in a national
way is a bold undertaking. Shortly before his death. Presi-
dent Wilson lamented the fact that the agricultural prob-
lem was still unsolved. He admitted it was the greatest
of all and the most difficult of solution. We have heard
expressions of admiration for the "courage" President
Coolidge showed in using his veto power. This is super-
ficial reasoning. It requires much more courage to launch
an untried plan, such as was embodied in the farm sur-
plus bill, than to do nothing. It is deplorable that the
President passed up a great opportunity. His administra-
tion has not been barren of useful works. But on the
great national issue of bringring about equality for agricul-
ture it has failed almost completely.

Farming As Is

STRAWBERRIES are rotting on the ground in South-
ern Illinois for want of a market says A. B. Leeper,
manager of the Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange. At
11.75 a crate, less than 8 cents a box, the growers can not
afford to pay for picking, packing, and the freight to mar-
ket.

Large shipments of berries from Kentucky and Missouri
and the fact that there was no market Decoration Day
combined to bring about a glut on all markets. We are
told that holidays cost the fruit and vegetable growers of
America hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.

The producer of perishables is continually faced with the
hazard of unprofitable prices in a season of flush produc-
tion. Canning plants are reducing this hazard in many
communities, but in others the possibility is ever present.
The biggest single item of expense in marketing is freight
which for years has increased steadily, along with other
fixed charges.

Theoretically, co-operative marketing might solve this
problem if the growers over the country were closely or-
ganized so as to feed the market only what it could con-
sume at profitable prices to the producers. Practically
there is little hope for such a Utopia with the producing
(Continued on page 11)

W.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Nine

Padi^feW5

Tune in on the I. A. A. half hour program
broadcast daily at 12:00 o'clock noon from sta-
tion WJJD, Chicago (365 meters) . The facil-
ities of station WJJD are loaned the Aesocia-
fion through the courtesy of the Loyal Order
of Moose, Mooseheart, III, No program on Sat-
nrdaya and Sundays.

Wing to New York

"TTITTJ are admonished to bear one
» ' another's burdens, but farmers

are carrying some that a lot of easy-
going people have
saddled onto
them," stated De-
Witt C. Wing, new-
ly appointed edi-
tor the Rural New-
Yorker in a fare-
well address to
corn belt farmers
on the I. A. A.
radio program re-
cently.

"If a pack horse
doesn't buck and
unload some of his

O. C. Wing

excess baggage, you can be sure that
he will be loaded up with more, until
he will either balk or lie down in ab-
ject, hopeless despair. When a man's
spirit breaks, he is no longer a man
but a drudge. So long as he will
fight in his own interest there is hope
for him.

"The champions of mechanical ef-
ficiency seem to rejoice in the fact that
our farm population is decreasing. Our
agricultural troubles, they say, are
caused by a surplus of inefficient
farmers. They overlook the important
fact that national decay begins when
farmers are compelled to give up their
land and join the landless hordes in
cities and towns.

Source of Strength

"The living waters of life spring
from the hills and valleys, from which
man draws the strength and power
that produce clean, rOigged people.
The stream of life is polluted by its
passage through cities."

In his closing remarks, Mr. Wing
said, "Instead of saying goodbye to
my corn belt friends, I would like to
leave these questions with you: How
many farm journals are published for
farmers, in the interest of farmers?
How many of them are influenced to
a far greater extent by their adver-
tisers than by their farmer readers?
Is the farm press a free press? I
know a few journals that are free to
represent and fight for the rights of
farmers. I am going to work for one
of this small group."

Mr. Wing succeeds the late H. W.
Collingwood. His new address is 333
W. 30th St., New York City.

Editor Record:

"We are charter members of the Ancient
Order of Radio Bugs and Broadcasters and
were delijrhted to hear you and our mutual
friend, DeWitt C. Wing, at noon today on the
air.

"Your Ezry Doolittle's dialogue and satire
on campaifrn expenses was amusinfi: and enter-
taining, but don't Bet him smeared with oil as
that Tea Pot Dome affair is putting the skids
under the G. O. P. and Al Smith is running
like a new Ford and may some day be getting
his mail in Washington."
CarroU County. C. T. CROFTON.

Pure Milk Association

Gains New Membership

MEMBERSHIP in the Pure Milk
Association is mounting steadily,
according to a report recently issued
by Don Geyer, field representative.
The members of the organization now
control more than half of Chicago's
daily fluid milk supply.

The orgfanization now embraces 17
counties in Northern Illinois, Southern
Wisconsin, and NorthwestJt-n Indiana.
More than 600 dairymen in Kane coun-
ty are members and by the end of June
officers of the association hope to bring
the total of this county to 1,000. The
first unit was organized in Lake
county, Indiana, on May 23. Work is
now in progress toward building the
membership in that state.

An important meeting of the Wis-
consin Council of Agriculture was held
at Madison on June 14 to discuss the
fluid milk section and particularly the
welfare of the Pure Milk Association.
The Council hopes to co-ordinate the
major farm and dairy organizations in
Wisconsin to bring about some unity
and co-operation in fluid milk market-
ing.

In some instances in the past one
group of milk shippers has fought an-
other so as to flood the market and de-
press prices to the detriment of all.
The new piovement hopes to stop re-
currences of this kind. The 4,000
members of the Pure Milk Association
are divided into more than 100 locals
which vary in membership from 100 to
275.

The injury done to the Illinois wood-
lots by using them for pasture is
greater than injury from all other
sources, according to R. B. Miller,
chief forester of the State Department
of Conservation. Throughout Central
and Northern Illinois, woodland is not
only being injured but it is being con-
verted to cleared land by grazing, he
says.

Farm production in the United
States in the five years from 1922-26
was about 14 per cent greater than in
the five years 1917-21, whereas popu-
lation increased less than nine per
cent.

The Government printing oCBce at
Washington is by far the largest book
and job printing plant in the world.

Wm. H. Malone

Malone Speaks At

Champaign County

Tax Gathering 31st

Declares There Is No Tax Roll at Pres-
ent Time

CHAMPAIGN county farmers turned
out 800 strong at a meeting of tax-
payers in Champaig^i on May 31 to
hear William H.
Malone, chairman
of the State Tax
Commission, bring
the latest word on
the controversy
over the legality
of the assessment
in that county.

Mr. Malone stat-
ed that there is no
tax roll in Cham-
paign county at
the present time
since the present assessment was de-
clared null and void by the Commis-
sion.

"The order of reassessment will
stand until it is changed by a court of
competent jurisdiction," said Mr. Ma-
lone.

"The Tax Commission grave a fair
and open hearing to the farmers of
Champaign county, to the Board of
Review, and numerous lawyers and
county and city officials. They found
that property in Champaign county
had not been equally assessed and
signed an order for reassessment. And
I say to you, if the assessors reassess
and it comes back the same as before
I will sign an order for another reas-
sessment.

Obey the Law

"The Statfr^ax Commission, created
under the law of this state and vested
with the powers I have read to you,
plain, clear, and definite, has ordered
a reassessment of Champaign county.
I suggest that the county officers obey
the law and if they don't, the State
Tax Commission will go into the Su-
preme Court of this state and ask for
a writ of mandamus to compel them
to, and ask for a writ of malfeasance
in office to put them out where they
belong."

John C. Watson, director of taxa-
tion, spoke briefly following Mr. Ma-
lone. He read excerpts of the October
6 hearing before the Commission re-
vealing that the Board of Review had
knowledge of the tax summary as pre-
sented; that it did not question the
method by which these facts were se-
cured; and agreed that the summary
stated the facts as the board knew.

Sixty-two livestock growers from

Logan county visited the Chicago Pro-
ducers on May 31. J. H. Checkley,
farm adviser, led the pilgrimage.

They came up in a special car on
the I. C. R. R. returning home the
same day.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Meet to Further t

Grain Marketing

Plan for Illinois

To Recommend I. A. A. Employ a Grain
Marketing Director

A FURTHER clarification of common
ground on which the I. A. A. and
the State Farmers Grain Dealers' As-
sociation can work in a co-operative
grain marketing program for Illinois
resulted from the joint meeting of
committees held in the I. A. A. offices
on May 29.

The I. A. A. recognizes that the
farmers' elevators should be the nu-
cleus for building co-operative grain
marketing machinery and to this end
it promised whole-hearted support to-
ward strengthening and aiding these
units.

The program recommended by the
committees will include closer co-oper-
ation between elevators and Farm Bu-
reaus, urging farmers to support their
elevators, making elevators more truly
co-operative, better co-operation be-
tween elevators, and improvement of
methods and practices.

A Starting Point

The marketing committee agreed to
recommend that the Executive Com-
mittee of the I. A. A. employ a grrain
marketing director to develop this pro-
gram as a foundation and starting
point for co-operative grain marketing
in Illinois.

Representing the Farmers Grain
Dealers' Association at the meeting
were President D. H. Allen, Delavan;
Secretary Lawrence Farlow, Bloom-
ington; Joe Henebry, Plainfield; V. A.
Wertsch, Delavan; and representing
the I. A. A. were President Earl C.
Smith, Treasurer R. A. Cowles; A. R.
Wright, Varna; Frank Bai-ton, Cornell;
George J. Stoll, Chestnut; Sam Sor-
rells, Raymond; and Harrison Fahrn-
kopf, Bloomington.

Ex-Farm Advisers

Now Manage Lands

WALTER w. McLaughlin, who
resigned recently as farm ad-
viser in LaSalle county, is the new
farm manager for the Citizens Na-
tional Bank at Decatur. McLaughlin
will manage approximately 10,000
acres of land most of which has been
turned over to the trust department of
the bank in recent years.

Many persons have become owners
of valuable lands in Central Illinois,
who, for various reasons, cannot super-
vise or handle these farms properly.
Some are non-residents and others are
in business and have no time to give
attention to their farm interests. In
some cases owners of land have died
leaving it to persons untrained and un-
skilled in farm management, and for
the benefit of such persons the new
service is being offered by this bank.

McLaughlin's success as farm advis-
er! ^" LaSalle county fits him admir-

Like Producer Service

GS. THOMAS, manager of
• the Brown County Ship-
ping Association, shipped 700
calves last year. Practically all
of these went to Producer
Agencies at St. Louis, Indian-
apolis, or Chicago. Mr. Thomas
handled several consignments of
calves sent in by a local buyer.
The buyer voluntarily offered
as explanation for his use of the
Association that he received 50c
to 75c per hundred weight more
by selling to the Producers. Last
year Thomas shipped 116 cars of
livestock from various points in
his county. One hundred three
cars, or 88%, went to Producer
Agencies. Mr. Thomas says that
his sales and the service which
he got from the Producer Agen-
cies are satisfactory to him.
What is more, the service and
sales are satisfactory to his
patrons. Some managers "pass
the buck" to their members by
saying that the latter will not
let them ship to Producers. In-
vestigation brings to light the
fact that where the managers
will give the Producer Agencies
a fair trial, their members will
not let them ship anywhere else.
Mr. Thomas reports that his
members would object strongly
if he attempted to direct his
shipments to other than Pro-
ducer Agencies. — Ray E. Miller.

ably for his new work. He is the third
farm adviser within the past three
months to undertake the management
of land of this class. Chas. Robinson,
of Decatur, and F. E. Fuller of Bloom-
ington are the other two. Banks have
acquired many farms in recent years
through bankrupt proceedings and in-
ability of owners to make payments
and hold them.

Madison Co. Tries

New Member Plan

Continuous efforts to build member-
ship instead of one big drive at the
end of a three-year period will be
tried out in Madison county. Thus
memberships will expire at different
times and the work of maintaining the
organization will be spread over the
three-year period.

DETENTION of cattle and hogs for
tuberculosis at the packing cen-
ters is showing a decided reduction as
a result of the nation-wide campaign
to exterminate the disease in cattle.
The Department of Agriculture's re-
cent survey that bovine tuberculosis
now affects only about two per cent
of the animals is against four per cent
in 1922. Sixty-nine counties in the
United Spates report infection of more
than 15 per cent.

Baseball League Gets

Away to Flying Start

New Teams Play

West Central Illinois Division Meets in
Peoria June 8

XpARM Bureau baseball in Illinois got
-*- under way on May 26, with games
in most of the districts over the state.
A general shower which fell over west
central Illinois the opening day
brought several games to an abrupt
close.

All teams in Division three com-
prising Tazewell, Peoria, Marshall-
Putnam, and Woodford have played
each week. This division leads in base-
ball interest, and perhaps in profic-
iency of playing. It has won the state
championship each year since the
League was organized in 1924.

The first series of games resulted in
a tie between Woodford and Tazewell,
and a called game between Peoria and
Marshall-Putnam, the result of which
is still in dispute.

Stark and Henry counties, playing
their first games in the League, met
twice. Both g:ames went to the Henry
county team. Whiteside, the third
team in the division, was scheduled to
play Henry on June 9.

Jefferson County Wins

In Southern Illinois Jefferson coun-
ty trounced Washington, a new team,
on May 26 while the following week
Lawrence county won easily from
Wayne in a one-sided game.

McDonough county is the dark horse
in the Western Illinois divisions. Play-
ing for the first time, this team de-
feated Henderson county 5 to 1. Hen-
derson county always has been a dan-
gerous team and a hard one to beat.

Champaign county has shown con-
siderable activity in baseball this sea-
son. A county league of four teams
has been organized from which a
county team will be selected to com-
pete against other county teams in
that division. The first county league
games were played on Saturday, June
2, with Pesotum opposing the Cardi-
nals at Rantoul, and Urbana playing
Tolono-Sadorus at Tolono. Paul Me-
harry has been selected to org:anize a
county team to compete in the state
league.

At a meeting of League officers and
leaders in Division 3 at Peoria on
June 8 it was recommended that all
disputed questions be referred to the
League commissioner and that the con-
stitution with respect to the eligibility
clause be interpreted to promote the
best interests of the League. It was
generally agreed that no players
should be declared eligible who have
no farming interest or who have no
interest in the Farm Bureau other
than to play baseball. The League
frowns on attempts to professionalize
it by signing semi-pros or paying Farm
Bureau dues of proficient players sim-
ply for their services on the Farm
Bureau team.

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Page Eleven

EDITORIAL

(Continued from page 8)

area strung out from the Gulf to
Canada, and each section trying to
get the best of the other. Such il-
lustrations serve to impress us with
the limitations of co-operative market-
ing and the highly speculative fea-
tures of farm production under the
present system.

WHY YOU SHOULD BEGIN
TO THINK SYMPATHETI-
CALLY OF THE FARMERS'
TROUBLES

8,374 On June 7

EIGHT thousand three hundred and
seventy-four applications for auto
insurance in the Illinois Agricultural
Mutual Insurance Company were re-
ceived up to the night of Thursday,
June 7. The company now has policy-
holders in more than 80 per cent of the
counties in Illinois and has total as-
sets of nearly $175,000.

The directors recently voted to ad-
vertise in a broad, effective way and
to this end purchased the back cover
of the Record for 12 consecutive issues.
Since policies are limited to Farm
Bureau members there is no wastage
in circulation.

The company made an enviable rec-
ord of low cost in its first year of
operation. And now that the number

17th Dist. To Meet at Pontiac

THE next I. A. A. Conference in the
17th district will be held at Pontiac
Friday, June 29, according to an an-
nouncement by Geo. J. StoU of Chest-
nut who represents the district on the
I. A. A. Executive Committee.

All Farm Bureau menibers in from
the counties in the district are urged
to attend this meeting. Further plans
for the district picnic at Bloomington
on Aug. 31 will be discussed among
other questions.

of policyholders is nearly double the
average of last year, further decreases
in overhead may be expected.

Do not fail to read the monthly mes-
sages on the back cover. Further in-
formation may be had by writing the
company at 608 So. Dearborn St., Chi-
cago.

Money Goes Abroad

CONGRESSIONAL investigation of
foreign investments has been re-
quested by Representative Celler of
New York City. He states that fig-
ures compiled by the Department of
Commerce show that in addition to the
loans to the Allies, $11,611,364,736
had been loaned abroad up to Jan-
uary, 1928.

"Europe alone has received over
$5,000,000,000," he said, "while
Canada and Newfoundland have bor-
rowed $3,000,000,000."

THERE IS ONE MOTOR VEHICLE
to every 5.13 persons in the
United States. More than 23,000,000
motor vehicles were regristered in
1927. Illinois was fifth among the
states with 1,438,985.

Be on th6
Safe Side

i
of that hailstorm when it strilces

HaU Stones Like These FeU in IlUnoU Last Year

A HAILSTORM usually cuts a path of varying width through the country Hke a tornado.
Sometimes it's only a half-mile or a mile wide, sometimes many miles. When the black
hail cloud comes, you can't steer it away from your farm. You can't cover up. You are
helpless. i :

The only way you can protect yourself against hail loss is by Insurance.

Farm Crop Hail Insurance, Fruit and Garden Truck
Hail Insurance, Fire and Lightning Insurance, Wind-
storm, Tornado, and Cyclone Insurance all at cost,
which means cheaper than in any old line company.

W. C. Stuckey of Knox County says he
lost enough in one year from Hail to pay
his insurance for the next 40 years.

See your Farm Bureau, Mutual Insurance Company, or write ike

FARMERS MUTUAL REINSURANCE CO.

608 So. Dearborn St.
CHICAGO

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Page Ten

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Meet to Further
I Grain Marketing

Plan for Illinois

To Recommend I. A. A. Employ a Grain
Marketing Director

A FURTHER clarification of common
ground on which the I. A. A. and

.the State Farmers Grain Dealers' As-
sociation can work in a co-operative
grain marketing program for Illinois
resulted from the joint meeting of
committees held in the I. A. A. offices
on May 29.

The I. A. A. recognizes that the

' farmers' elevators should be the nu-
cleus for building co-operative grain

* marketing machinery and to this end
it promised whole-hearted support to-
ward strengthening and aiding these
units.

The program recommended by the
committees will include closer co-oper-
ation between elevators and Farm Bu-
reaus, urging farmers to support their
elevators, making elevators more truly
co-operative, better co-operation be-

'tween elevators, and improvement of
methods and practices.

I A Starting Point

: The marketing committee agreed to
recommend that the Executive Com-
mittee of the I. A. A. employ a grain
marketing director to develop this pro-
gram as a foundation and starting
point for co-operative grain marketing
in Illinois.

Representing the Farmers Grain
Dealers' Association at the meeting
were President D. H. Allen, Delavan ;
Secretary Lawrence Farlow, Bloom-
'ington; Joe Henebry, Plainfield; V. A.
Wertsch, Delavan; and representing
the I. A. A. were President Earl C.
Smith, Treasurer R. A. Cowles; A. R.
.Wright, Varna; Frank Barton, Cornell;
George J. Stoll, Chestnut; Sam Sor-
rells, Raymond; and Harrison Fahrn-
pkopf, Bloomington.

Ex-Farm Advisers

Now Manage Lands

WALTER w. McLaughlin, who
resigned recently as farm ad-
viser in LaSalle county, is the new
farm manager for the Citizens Na-
tional Bank at Decatur. McLaughlin
will manage approximately 10,000
acres of land most of which has been
turned over to the trust department of
the bank in recent years.

Many persons have become owners
of valuable lands in Central Illinois,
who, for various reasons, cannot super-
vise or handle these farms properly.
•Some are non-residents and others are
in business and have no time to give
attention to their farm interests. In
some cases owners of land have died
leaving it to persons untrained and un-
skilled in farm management, and for
the benefit of such persons the new
service is being offered by this bank.

McLaughlin's success as farm advis-
er in LaSalle county fits him admir-

Like Producer Service

CS. THOMAS, manager of
• the Brown County Ship-
ping Association, shipped 700
calves last year. Practically all
of these went to Producer
Agencies at St. Louis, Indian-
apolis, or Chicago. Mr. Thomas
handled several consignments of
calves sent in by a local buyer.
The buyer voluntarily offered
as explanation for his use of the
Association that he received 50c
to 75c per hundred weight more
by selling to the Producers. Last
year Thomas shipped 116 cars of
livestock from various points in
his county. One hundred three
cars, or 887c, went to Producer
Agencies. Mr. Thomas says that
his sales and l!he service which
he got from the Producer Agen-
cies are satisfactory to him.
What is moJe, the service and
sales are satisfactory to his
patrons. Some managers "pass
the buck" to their members by
saying that the latter will not
let them ship to Producers. In-
vestigation brings to light the
fact that where the managers
will give the Producer Agencies
a fair trial, their members will
not let them ship anywhere else.
Mr. Thomas reports that his
members would object strongly
if he attempted to direct his
shipments to other than Pro-
ducer Agencies. — Ray E. Miller.

ably for his new work. He is the third
farm adviser within the past three
months to undertake the management
of land of this class. Chas. Robinson,
of Decatur, and F. E. Fuller of Bloom-
ington are the other two. Banks have
acquired many farms in recent years
through bankrupt proceedings and in-
ability of owners to make payments
and hold them.

Madison Co. Tries

New Member Plan

Continuous efforts to build member-
ship instead of one big drive at the
end of a three-year period will be
tried out in Madison county. Thus
memberships will expire at different
times and the work of maintaining the
organization will be spread over the
three-year period.

DETENTION of cattle and hogs for
tuberculosis at the packing cen-
ters is showing a decided reduction as
a result of the nation-wide campaign
to exterminate the disease in cattle.
The Department of Agriculture's re-
cent survey that bovine tuberculosis
now affects only about two per cent
of the animals is against four per cent
in 1922. Sixty-nine counties in the
United States report infection of more
than 15 per cent.

Baseball League Gets

Away to Flying Start

New Teams Play

West Central Illinois Division Meets in
Peoria June 8

XpARM Bureau baseball in Illinois got
-*- under way on May 26, with games
in most of the districts over the state.
A general shower which fell over west
central Illinois the opening day
brought several games to an abrupt
close.

All teams in Division three com-
prising Tazewell, Peoria, Marshall-
Putnam, and Woodford have played
each week. This division leads in base-
ball interest, and perhaps in profic-
iency of playing. It has won the state
championship each year since the
Leagrue was organized in 1924.

The first series of games resulted in
a tie between Woodford and Tazewell,
and a called game between Peoria and
Marshall-Putnam, the result of which
is still in dispute.

Stark and Henry counties, playing
their first games in the Leagrue, met
twice. Both games went to the Henry
county team. Whiteside, the third
team in the division, was scheduled to
play Henry on June 9.

Jefferson County Wins

In Southern Illinois Jefferson coun-
ty trounced Washingrf;on, a new team,
on May 26 while the following week
Lawrence county won easily from
Wayne in a one-sided game.

McDonough county is the dark horse
in the Western Illinois divisions. Play-
ing for the first time, this team de-
feated Henderson county 5 to 1. Hen-
derson county always has been a dan-
gerous team and a hard one to beat.

Champaign county has shown con-
siderable activity in baseball this sea-
son. A county league of four teams
has been organized from which a
county team will be selected to com-
pete ag^ainst other county teams in
that division. The first county league
games were played on Saturday, June
2, with Pesotum opposing the Cardi-
nals at Rantoul, and Urbana playing
Tolono-Sadorus at Tolono. Paul Me-
harry has been selected to organize a
county team to compete in the state
league.

At a meeting of League oflicers and
leaders in Division 3 at Peoria on
June 8 it was recommended that all
disputed questions be referred to the
League commissioner and that the con-
stitution with respect to the eligibility
clause be interpreted to promote the
best interests of the League. It was
generally agreed that no players
should be declared elig^ible who have
no farming interest or who have no
interest in the Farm Bureau other
than to play baseball. The Leagrue
frowns on attempts to professionalize
it by signing semi-pros or paying Farm
Bureau dues of proficient players sim-
ply for their services on the Farm
Bureau team.

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area strung out from the Gulf to
Canada, and each section trying to
get the best of the other. Such il-
lustrations serve to impress us with
the limitations of co-operative market-
ing and the highly speculative fea-
tures of farm production under the
present system.

8,374 On June 7

EIGHT thousand three hundred and
seventy-four applications for auto
insurance in the Illinois Agricultural
Mutual Insurance Company were re-
ceived up to the night of Thursday,
June 7. The company now has policy-
holders in more than 80 per cent of the
counties in Illinois and has total as-
sets of nearly $175,000.

The directors recently voted to ad-
vertise in a broad, effective way and
to this end purchased the back cover
of the Record for 12 consecutive issues.
Since policies are limited to Farm
Bureau members there is no wastage
in circulation.

The company made an enviable rec-
ord of low cost in its first year of
operation. And now that the number

WHY YOU SHOULD BEGIN
TO THINK SYMPATHETI-
CALLY OF THE FARMERS'
TROUBLES

of policyholders is nearly double the
average of last year, ; further decreases
in overhead may be expected.

Do not fail to read the monthly mes-
sages on the back cover. Further in-
formation may be had by writing the
company at 608 So. Dearborn St., Chi-
cago.

17th Dist. To Meet at Pontiac

THE next I. A. A. Conference in the
17th district will be held at Pontiac
Friday, June 29, according to an an-
nouncement by Geo. J. StoU of Chest-
nut who represents the district on the
I. A. A. Executive Committee.

All Farm Bureau members in from
the counties in the district are urged
to atttend this meeting. Further plans
for the district picnic at Bloomington
on Aug. 31 will be discussed among
other questions.

Money Goes Abroad

CONGRESSIONAL investigation of
foreigm investments has been re-
quested by Representative Celler of
New York City. He states that fig-
ures compiled by the Department of
Commerce show that in addition to the
loans to the Allies, $11,611,364,736
had been loaned abroad up to Jan-
uary, 1928.

"Europe alone has received over
$5,000,000,000," he said, "while
Canada and Newfoundland have bor-
rowed $3,000,000,000."

THERE IS ONE MOTOR VEmCLE
to every 5.13 persons in the
United States. More than 23,000,000
motor vehicles were registered in
1927. Illinois was fifth among the
states with 1,438,985.

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hail cloud comes, you can't steer it away from your farm. You can't cover up. You are
helpless.

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storm, Tornado, and Cyclone Insurance all at cost,
which means cheaper than in any old line company.

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District, Sept. 1, Freeport; 14th District, Aug. 21, Macomb; 15th District, Aug. 15, Galesburg; 16th District, Aug. 18,
Peoria; 17th District, Aug. 31, Bloomington; 18th District, Aug. 22, Watseka; 19th District, Aug. 10, Sullivan; 20th
District, Sept. 3, JacksonTille; 21st District, Aug. 8, Taylorville; 22nd District, Aug. 9, Highland: 23rd District, Aug.
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and mark it on the calendar. 11th District, July 25, Herrick Lake, Wheaton; 12th District, Aug. 23, Sandwich; 13th
District, Sept. 1, Freeport; 14th District, Aug. 21, Macomb; 15th District, Aug. 15, Galesburg; 16th District, Aug. 18,
Peoria; 17th District, Aug. 31, Bloomington; 18th District, Aug. 22, Watseka; 19th District, Aug. 10, Sullivan; 20th
District, Sept. 3, Jacksonville; 21st District, Aug. 8, Taylorville; 22nd District, Aug. 9, Highland; 23rd District, Aug.
30, OIney; and 24th and 25th Districts, Aug. 17, Marion. ,

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Get Ready for District Picnics

Lr.fues oj Interest to Agriculture Will Be Discussed at 14 Great Outdoor Gatherings

Bring 'em along

/COMMITTEES in 14 congressional
^-^ districts are meeting regularly
these days, each determined to outdo
the others in organizing' the test I. A.
A.-F a r ni Bureau
picnics in the state.
That these gath-
erings will com-
p a r e favorably
with former I. A.
A. state picnics is
assured according
to news and infor-
mation coming from various sections
of the state. Baseball games, horse-
shoe pitching, hog calling and chicken
calling contests, races for the kids,
and all the attractions heretofore as-
sociated with the annual state picnics
will feature the dis-
trict events.

As one farm ad-
viser put it, "We ex-
pect to have just as
large a crowd and as
much fun at our dis-
trict picnic with the
further advantage
that the members can
make the drive much
more easily and be
home in time to do
chores."

Want Baseball Teams

The districts al-
ready are vieing with
each other to get the
leading teams in the
Illinois Farm Bureau
Baseball League to
play off their regular
semi-final and final
games at their re-
spective picnics.
League leaders are
co-operating in this
move. The semi-finals
are expected to begin
about the third week
in August.

A movement is un-
derway to arrange
for a state horseshoe tournament where
the winners at the district picnics will
meet to decide the state championship.
Whether this tournament will be held
in connection with the last picnic of the
season on Labor Day at Jacksonville
has not been definitely decided. But
this picnic in the 20th district is being
favorably considered because of the ad-
vantages in time and location af-
forded.

"Fighting Bill" Settle

Speakers already have been definitely

scheduled for all except three of the
14 picnics. These include congressmen
and leaders who have been prominent
in the cause of equality for agriculture
during the past six years. Wm. H.
Settje, known as "Fighting Bill" in the
Hoosier state where he is president of
the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation,
will be a popular attraction at Taylor-
ville on August 8, Highland Aug. 9,
and at Sullivan on Aug. 10.

Mr. Settle is a director in the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation and acts
as manager of the Central States Soft
Wheat Growers Association.

Smith to Speak

The last picnic to be scheduled will
be held first, namely, the 11th district

Tune up Lizzie

THE FAMOUS ED TORBERT AND JOE HESKITT TEAM

The late Ed Torbert, who succumbed to a fatal attack of pneumonia recently and Joe

Heskitt, his partner, did much to raise the standard of horseshoe pitching in Illinois.

They won the state championship three years in succession.

picnic booked for Herrick Lake near
Wheaton in Dupage county on Wednes-
day, July 25. Earl C. Smith will be
speaker.

Congressman Charles Adkins of De-
catur will speak at Marion Aug. 17,
and at Macomb on Aug. 21. Mr. Ad-
kins is well known to Illinois farmers.
For many years he was active in the
grain business, and later served as
state director of agriculture. He was
especially prominent in the McNary-
Haugen debates in the 70th congress.

Congressman Charles Brand of Ur-
bana, Ohio, one of the most able spokes-
men for agriculture in congress, will
appear at Olney on Aug. 30, Blooming-
ton Aug. 31, Free- i «
port, Sept. 1, and
Jacksonville, Sept.
3.

Some of the best
picnic sites in Illi-
nois have been
chosen. Estimates
of the expected

crowds vary from 6,000 to 10,000 to
as high as 20,000 people. Knox
county heretofore has had unusually
large crowds at the annual Farm Bu-
reau picnics. With the aid of other
counties in the district this year, the
picnic at Galesburg
on Aug. 15 promises
to surpass those held
in previous years.
Peach Crop Harvest
For the most part
the dates have been
chosen to avoid con-
flicts with harvest.
Whether or not the
peach crop will be out
of the way around
Mapion by Aug. 17 is
problematical, but
local leaders are in
hopes that most of
the peaches will have
been disposed of by
that time.

Some of the old
familiar faces will be
missing at the picnics
this year. Such
prominent figures as
Ed Torbert and his
son Walter of Dewitt
county, always the
center of attraction
where the horseshoes
were flying at former
I. A. A. state picnics,
will not be there.
Father and son passed
away recently from a short but fatal
attack of pneumonia. Harry alone is
left of this most famous trio of barn-
yard golf experts in Illinois history.

The poster part of which is repro-
duced on the cover page will advertise
the picnics in every congressional dis-
trict. Local committees will provide
their own windshield stickers and ar-
rows to mark the roads to the picnics.

The fourteenth annual meeting of
the I. A. A. will be held at Danville,
Jan. 30-31, 1929.

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Volume 6

JULY, 1928

Number 7

j Farm Bureau Day, State Fair, Aug. 24

Vice- Presidential Candidates, Senators Robinson and Curtis
I ni^ited to Address Middle West Farmers II

PLANS for a bigger and better FARM
BUREAU DAY at the Illinois State Fair
on Friday, August 24, were being made as
this issue of the Record went to press.

After conferring with the State Fair Officials,
permission was >..,:.-,...;.
granted the Illi-
nois Agricultural
Association,
through President
Earl C. Smith, to
use the mammoth
new grandstand
overlooking the
race track for a
discussion of the
National Agricul-
tural situation be-
tween 10:30 a. m.
and 12:30 p. m.

In keeping
with the non-par-
tisan policy of the
Associaton, also
seeking to give full
and impartial in-
formation on this

question to the general public as well as to our
members, the following telegram of invitation
was dispatched to the Vice Presidential candi-
dates of the Republican and Democratic parties,
who happen also to be the floor leaders of their
respective parties in the United States Senate.

' July 13, 1928.

"Hon. Joseph T. Robinson,

Senate Office Bldg., ..

Washington, D. C.

"Through the courtesy of the Illinois State
Fair Association, Friday, August twenty-fourth,
is known as FARM BUREAU DAY. The officers
and members of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation extend to you an invitation to discuss the
national agricultural question for one hour be-
ginning at 10:30 a. m. at the Illinois State Fair
Grounds at Springfield. The grandstand is

Hon. Joseph T. Robixson

equipped with amplifiers and seats 12,000
people. A similar invitation is being extended
to Senator Charles Curtis to speak from the same
platform on this occasion.

"Your position as floor leaders of the Senate

and as candidates
for Vice-Presi-
dent of the Unit-
ed States of your
respective parties,
assures you of the
close attention
not only of the
Middle West but
of the whole na-
tion. We hope to
receive promptly
your acceptance
of this invitation.
(Signed)
Earl C. Smith,
President,
Illinois Agricul-
tural Association."
Neither candi-
date had respond-
ed to the invita-
tion up to time of going to press, but acceptances
from both were being awaited with confidence.
State fair officials made a special concession in
allowing the use of the grandstand. Scheduled
attractions for the morning will be dispensed
with, and the speed program of the afternoon
will be deferred until one o'clock so as to allow
time for clearing the grandstand if the candi-
dates agree to speak.

With the two Vice-Presidential candidates as
speakers, the program will attract farmers not
only from Illinois, but also from adjoining com
belt states. Comparable to the Lincoln-Douglas
debates of pre-Civil War days, the occasion may
go down in history as one of the high lights of
the 1928 presidential campaign.

The I. A. A. will set up a headquarters tent for
Fair visitors similar to that of last year. Chairs,
drinking water, and rest facilities will be pro-
vided under the big top. All visitors are cordially
invited. .1 !

Hon. Charles Curtis

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' districts arc meeting
thcsi" (lays, each (it'tormincil jto outdo
the others in orjianizin.; the f.est I. A.
A.-F a r ni Bureau
picnics in, the state.
That tHese gath-
erings Will coin-

fchiduled for all except three of the
! ! picnics. These include congressmen
and leaiiers who have leen prominent
in the cause of e(|uality for agriculture
(iuring the past six years. \Vm. H.
Settle, known as "Fiphting: Bill" in the
Hoosier state where he is inesident of
the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation,

p a r e jfavorably will be a popular attraction at Taylor-

tirin^ 'em along

with former I. A.
A. state licnics is
assured ;iccoi'ding
to news sjnd infor-

fro.li

various! sections
Baseball gamos, horse-

ville on .August S, Highland Aug. '.I.
and at ,Sullivan on Au'^. 10.

]Mr. Settle is a director in the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation and acts
as manager of the Central States Soft
Wheat Growers Association.

Tune up Lizzie

The
be held first

Smith to Speak

ist ))icnic to be scheduled wil

namely, the 11th <listrict

mation cominj.
of the state.

shoe pitching, hog calling anjl chicken
calling contests, races for the kids,
and all the attractions herethfore as-
sociated with the annual statje picnics
will feature the . ilis-
trict events.

.As one farm ad-
viser put it, "We ex-
pect to have just as
large a crowd and as
much fun at our dis-
trict picnic with the
further advantage
that the members can
make the drive much
more easily and Ix"
home in time to do
cbiires."

Want Baseball Teams

The districts al-
ready are vieing with
each other to get the
leading teams in the
Illinois Farm Bureau
Baseball League ti>
play olf their I'eguhir
semi-final and final
games at their re-
spective picnic s.
League leaders are
co-operating in this
move. The semi-finals
are expected to begin
' about the third week
in August.

A movement is un-
derway to arrange

for a state horseshoe tournament where picnic booke<I for Herrick Lake
the winners at the district picnics will Wheaton in Dupage county on Wednes
meet to decide the state chamjiionship. day, July 25.

THE FAMOUS ED TORBERT AND JOE HESKITT TEAM

The late Ed Torbert. who succumbed to a fatal attack of pneumonia recently and Joe

Heskitt, his partner, did much to raise the standard of horseshoe pitching in Illinois.

They won the state championship three years in succession.

Whether this tournament willj be held
in connection with the last picnic of the
season on Labor Day at Jackscinviile
has not been definitely decidad. But
this picnic in the 20th district is being
favorably considered because of the ad-
vantages in time and location af-
forded.

"Fighting Bill" Settle!

" Speakers already have been definitely

Earl C. Smith will be
speaker.

Congressman Charles Adkins of De-
tatur will speak at Marion Aug. 17,
and at Macomb on Aug. 21. Mr. Ad-
kins is well known to Illinois farmers.
For many years he was active in the
grain business, and later served as
state director of agriculture. He was
especially prominent in the McNary-
Haugen debates in the 70th congress.

Congressman Charles Brand of IJr-
bana. Ohio, one of the most able sjxikes-
men for agriculture in congress, will
appear at Olney on Aug. 30, Blooming-
ton Aug. 31, Free-
liort, Sept. 1, and

Jacksonville, Sept.
.»

Some of the best
picnic sites in Illi-
nois have been
chosen. Estimates
of the expected

crowds vary from fi.OOO to 10,000 to
as high as 20,000 i)eoi)le. Knox
county heretofore has had unusually
large crowds at the annual Farm Bu-
reau picnics. With the aid of other
counties in the district this year, the
picnic at (iaiesburg
on Aug. 15 promises
to surpass those held
in previous years.
Peach Crop Harvest
For the most part
the dates have been
chosen to avoid con-
flicts with harvest.
Whether or not the
peach cro|i will be out
of the way around
Marion by Aug. 17 is
problematical, but
local leaders are in
hopes that most of
the peaches will have
been disposed of by
that time.

Some of the old
familiar faces will be
missing at the picnics
this year. Such
prominent figures as
Ed Torbert and his
son Walter of Dewitt
county, always the
center of attraction
where the horseshoes
were flying at former
I. A. A. state picnics,
will not be there.
Father and son passed
rwny recently from a short but fatal
attack of i)neumonia. Harry alone is
left of this most famous trio of barn-
yard golf exjierts in Illinois history.

The poster part of which is repro-
duced on the cover page will advertise
the picnics in every congressional dis-
trict. Local committees will provide
their own windshield stickers and ar-
row.? to mark the roads to the picnics.

The fourteenth annual meeting of
the I. A. A. will be held at Danville,
Jan. 30-31, 1929.

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Volume 6

JULY, 1928

Number 7

Farm Bureau Dav, State Fair, Aug. 24

J ice- Presidential Candidates
Imnted to ^-id dress .

PLANS for a bigger and better FARM
BUREAU DAY at the Illinois State Fair
on Friday, August 24, were being made a.s
this issue of the Record went to press.

After conferring with the State Fair Officials,
permission w a s
granted the Illi-
nois Agricultural
Association,
through President
Earl C. Smith, to
use the mammoth
new grandstand
overlooking the
race track for a
di.scussion of the
National Agricul-
tural situation be-
tween 10:30 a. m.
and 12:30 p. m.
In keeping
with the non-par-
tisan policy of the
Associaton, also
seeking to give full
and imi)artial in-
formation on this

question to the general public as well as to our
members, the following telegi-am of invitation
was dispatched to the Vice Presidential candi-
dates of the Republican and Democratic parties,
who happen also to be the floor leaders of their
respective parties in the United States Senate.

July 13, 1028.

"Hon. Joseph T. Robinson,

Senate Office Bldg.,

Washington, D. C.

"Through the courtesy of the Illinois State
Fair Association, Friday, August twenty-fourth,
is known as FARM BUREAU DAY. The officers
and members of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation extend to you an invitation to discuss the
national agricultural question for one hour be-
ginning at 10:30 a. m. at the Illinois State Fair
(Jrounds ti Springfield. The grandstand is

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, Senators Rottinson and Curtik
Jliddle II est I arniers I

equipped with amplifiers and seats 12,000
peoi)le. A similar invitation is being extended
to Senator Charles Curtis to speak from the same
platform on this occasion. j

"Your position as floor leadei-te of the Senate
; i and as candidates

for Vice-Presi-
dent} of the Unit-
ed Sjtates of your
re.spective parties,
a.ssures you of the
elope attention
not onlv of the
Middle West but
of the whole na-
tion. We hope to
receijve promptly
your acceptance
of this invitation.
(Signed)
Earl C. Smith,
President,
Illinois Agricul-
tural As.sociation."
Neither candi-
date had res])ond-
ed to the invita-
tion up to time of going to press, but ac^ceptances
from both were being awaited with confidence.
State fair officials made a special concession in
allowing the use of the grandstand. Scheduled
attractions for the morning will be disjien.sed
with, and the sp|ed program of the afternoon
will be deferred tmtil one o'clock so as to allow
time for clearing the grandstand if the candi-
dates agree to speak.

With the two Vice-Presidential candidates as
S|)eakers, the program will attract farmers not
only from Illinois, but also from adjoining corn
belt states. Comiiarable to the Lincoln-Douglas
debates of pre-Civil War days, the occasion may
go down in history as one of the high lights of
the 1928 presidential campaign.

The I. A. A. will set up a headquarters tent for
Fair visitors similar to that of last year. Chairs,
drinking water, and rest facilities will be pro-
vided under the big toj). All visitors are cordially
invited.

Hon. C'liAiti.Ks Ci'irn.-

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

THE

Story of the Houston Convention

R. A. Cowles

THE "Houston Convention" — the Na-
tional convention of the Democratic
party — has now been held and the party's
acknowledgments, dec-
larations and com-
mitments with respect
to ag-riculture and its
problems, have ap-
peared in the press re-
ports of the Conven-
tion. Representatives
of farm organizations
were there in attend-
ance throughout the
Convention, and the
Illinois Agricultural
Association was repre-
sented by Frank Bar-
ton, its Vice President
and Chairman of its committee qn Public
Relations, and by its Treasurer.

Arriving at Houston Sunday evening,
June 24th, we were met by playing bands,
and host committees, on the job to wel-
come arriving delegates and the guests
of Houston over the Convention. The
beautiful new modern city, elaborately dec-
orated in the National colore, its streets
and hotel lobbies filled with the hosts ar-
riving, was at its best. The work was done.
The great convention hall had been dedi-
cated during the day by the people of
Texas. It was apparent that everything
was in readiness, waiting for the opening
hour of the Convention. The city and its
people of the south land, famous for its
hospitality, were "dressed up" ready to re-
ceive its gruests.

Party Leaders Sympathetic

We looked up George Peek and Chester
Davis as we arrived, and during the eve-
ning met representatives of farm organ-
izations and talked with friends in Con-
gress, and others who have supported our
cause in Congress, already on the ground.
Party leaders were generally reported to be
interested in our problem and sympathetic.

The following morning we had breakfast
with the representatives of the American
Farm Bureau Federation there, Ed O'Neal
of Alabama, Vice-President arid Chairman
of the Legislative Committee, and Mr.
Chester Gray, Washington representative
of the Federation. -Favorable reports were
given by these men. We called at head-
quarters of the Hljnois delegation, in the
Rice Hotel, and talked with Mr. Brennan,
Chairman of the de^Iegation, and with Mike
Igoe, and others of the delegation. We
were cordially received and were pleased
to learn that Mr. Igoe was to be selected
by the Illinois delegation for the place on
the Platform and Resolutions Committee of
the Convention.

During the day, representatives of other
farm organizations were arriving at
"Farm Headquarters" in the Rice Hotel.
Favorable reports were coming in to us in
regard to others, selected by state delega-
tions, for places on the important Com-
mittee on Platform and Resolutions. We
were gratified to learn that a number of
Senators and others, who have loyally sup-
ported our legislative program at Washing-
ton, were being selected by their respective
state delegations to be appointed on the
Committee. The Committee was found to
include such outstanding and able men as
Senator Key Pittman of Nevada; Senator

By R. A. Cowles, Treasurer

T. H. Caraway of Arkansas; Senator Sam
Bratton of New Mexico, and Messrs.
Thomas Cashman of Minnesota; John
Simpson of Oklahoma, among others who
have ably and loyally fought for our cause.
It appeared that the Committee was being
forme^ from those of the delegates best
informed and most able to draft a compre-
hensive platform for the party. Any sug-
gestion that the Committee was "picked"
or "packed" was conspicuous by its absence.
The Committee was later announced, with
Senator Pittman of Nevada as its chair-
man. The Senator always has been sym-
pathetic to our problem and program and
his selection, as its chairman, was there-
fore, pleasing and reassuring to us.

Resolution* Committee Meets

The Committee assembled and duly or-
ganized for its task, delegating to a small-
er sub-committee, the responsibility for
drafting the platform, for later considera-
tion and recommendations. The sub-com-
mittee included Senators Pittman, Cara-
way, Harrison, Wagner and Bratton, Gov-
ernor Dan Moody of Texas, Mr. Cashman
and others.

As the Committee met and organized, a
group of our people, headed by Ed O'Neal
of Alabama, called on the Chairman of the
Committee, and respectfully asked that rep-
resentatives of farm organizations there,
be given an opportunity to appear before
the Committee and present their views on
the agricultural situation. Our request was
received and we were informed that a sub-
committee might be expected to set aside
an appropriate period of time for the hear-
ing. The sub-committee, as appointed, im-
mediately convened and directly announced
that three hours had been set aside for
those to be heard on this subject, before
the Committee on Platform and Resolu-
tions. The hearing was scheduled for 4:00
that afternoon. Our group retired to
"Farm Headquarters" and prepared its
program.

Among those who appeared before the
Committee and addressed them, were: Mrs.
Verna Hatch and Bill Settle of Indiana,
both well known to our people in Illinois;
Ed O'Neal of Alabama; J. F. Reed of Min-
nesota; C. E. Huff and C. E. Brasted of
Kansas; Dr. B. W. Kilgore of North Caro-
lina and our Frank Barton. Congressman
Henry Rainey of Illinois also addressed

THE GREAT SECRET
OFSUCCESSINLIFE
IS TO BE READY WHEN
THE OPPORTUNITY
COMES.— Disraeli.

the Committee and urged the party to meet
the agricultural issue courageously and
squarely. Hon. Clarence Ousley of Texas,
also well known to some of our people,
spoke forcefully on the subject.

Job Well Done

Space does not permit a full report here
of our appearance before the Committee
that afternoon. It is sufficient for our
people to know that the job was well done
in every respect. The program was so
arranged that there was little repetition
and the subject was completely covered,
for the purposes of the hearing. As one
of those who "stood by," the writer felt
great pride in the splendid presentation
made by each one of our group.

In the meantime, the Convention on the
evening of its first day's session had lis-
tened to the "keynote" address, delivered
by Claude G. Bowers, formerly of Indiana,
had heard the keynoter's plea to "give
farm equal chance with factory." And as
he developed the thought, that great Con-
vention arose to its feet and we witnessed
a demonstration that gladdened our hearts.
The Agricultural situation was to be the
paramount issue. It encouraged us much
in our undertaking, in which we were about
to appeal to the party to pronounce a na-
tional policy for agriculture and pledge its
support in putting it into force.

Platform Is Presented

The sub-committee concluded the draft
of the platform, in an all-night session,
and the following morning made }ts report.
Later in the day we were informed that
the sub-committees' draft had been ac-
cepted in its entirety and that the Com-
mittee on Platform and Resolutions was
ready to make an unanimous report to the
Convention. The platform was presented
that night and unanimously adopted by the
Convention as our people learned through
press reports. It may be fairly said that
the agricultural plank of the platform was
prepared with the collaboration of those
who had given the subject most careful
thought and study, included on the Com-
mittee. At all times our views were wel-
comed and were solicited by the party
leaders who were sympathetic and seemed
to want to make comprehensive acknowl-
edgment and commitment by the party.

No attempt here is made to analyze the
agricultural plank, included in the plat-
form. Those of us who were there and
were informed of what the plank was to
include, as it was developed, were agreed,
and it seemed to us, to be comprehensive
in its acknowledgments of present day
problems of agriculture and the situation
as it actually exists, and particularly, in
its acknowledgment of the fundamental
problem confronting agriculture, the sur-
plus problem; and it seemed equally com-
prehensive in its pronouncement on behalf
of the party, of a national policy for agri-
culture, which by the language of the
plank, pledges the party to undertake to
carry out.

We all returned from the Convention
greatly encouraged, appreciative of the con-
sideration given our cause, and of the
many courtesies extended us by party
leaders throughout the Convention. We
left the Convention, waiting the expression
and commitment of the man who was
selected as the party's standard bearer.

i 1

THE I. A. A. RECORD

i,

'age Five

THE REPUBLICAN FARM PLANK

THE DEMOCRATIC FARM PLANK

AGRICULTURE

(Adopted at Kansas City, June H, 1928)

THE agricultural problem is national in scope and, as such, is
recognized by the Republican party, which pledges its
strength and energy to the solution of the same. Realizing that
many farmers are facing problems more difficult than those which
are the portion of many other basic industries, the party is
anxious to aid in every way possible.

Many of our farmers are still going through readjustments,
a relic of the years directly following the great war. All the
farmers are being called on to meet new and perplexing condi-
tions created by foreign competition, the complexities of domestic
marketing, labor problems, and a steady increase in local and
state taxes.

The general depression in a great basic industry inevitably
reacts upon the conditions in the country as a whole and cannot
be ignored. It is a matter of satisfaction that the desire to help
in the correction of agricultural wrongs and conditions is not
confined to any one section of our country or any particular
group.

AchicTements Cited

The Republican party and the Republican admiiiistration, par-
ticularly during the last five years, have settled many of the
most distressing problems as they have arisen, and the achieve-
ments in aid of agriculture are properly a part of this record.
The Republican congresses have been most responsive in the mat-
ter of agricultural appropriations, not only to meet crop emer-
gencies, but for the extension and development of the activities
of the department of agriculture.

The protection of the American farmer against foreign farm
competition and foreign trade practices has been vigorously
carried on by the department of state. The right of the farmers
to engage in collective buying and cooperative selling as pro-
vided for by the Capper- Volstead act of 1922 has been promul-
gated through the department of agriculture and the department
of justice, which have given most valuable aid and assistance
to the heads of the farm organizations.

The treasury department and the proper committees of con-
gress have lightened the tax burden on farming communities,
and through the federal farm loan system there has been made
available to the farmers
of the nation $1,850,-
000,000 for lending pur-
poses at a low rate of
interest, and through
the intermediate credit
banks 1665,000,000 of
short term credits have
been made available to
the farmers.

Rural Free Delivery

The post office de-
partment has systemati-
cally and generously
extended the rural free
delivery routes into even
the most sparsely settled
communities.

When a shortage of
transportation facilities
threatened to deprive
the farmers of their
opportunity to reach
waiting markets over-
seas, the president, ap-
preciative and sensitive
of the condition and the
possible loss to the com-
munities, ordered the
reconditioning of ship-
ping board vessels, thus
relieving a great emer-
gency.

Last, but not least,
the federal tariff com-
mission has at all times
shown a willingness
under the provisions of
the flexible tariff act to
aid the farmers when
(Continued on page 8)

REPRESENT ILLINOIS AT 4.H CLUB CAMP, WASHINGTON

THE four boys and girls with their state leaders shown above represented Illinois
at the 4-H club encampment recently at Washington, D. C.

Above are E. I. Pilchard and Miss Mary L. Grady, state club leaders, Harold
Hixson, 20, of Wellington, Iroquois county, who has been active in club work for
six years, and Clarence Ropp, 20, of Normal, McLean county, who has been prominent
in club work for nine years.

Below are Dorothy McGaughey of Macon county and Lois Hubbard of Adams
county, both of whom have done outstanding club work. ^

The trip to Washington represents the highest award that can be given to 4-H
club boys and girls in Illinois. Before leaving for Washington, the boys and girls
and their leaders discussed club work on the I. A. A. farm radio program. The As-
sociation has contributed $100 each year for several years to help pay expenses of
the winners to the national capitol. -., . ,

AGRICULTURE j j

(Adopted at Houston, June 28, 1928) '

DECEPTION upon the farmer and stock raiser has been prac-
ticed by the Republican party through false and delusive
promises for more than 50 years. Specially favored industries
have been artificially aided by Republican legislation. Com-
paratively little has been done for agriculture and stock raising
upon which national prosperity rests. Unsympathetic inaction
with regard to this problem must cease. Virulent hostility of
the Republican administration to the advocates of farm relief,
and denial of the right of farm organizations to lead in tht
development of farm policy, must yield to Democratic sympathy
and friendliness.

Four (years ago, the Republican party, forced to acknowledge
the critical situation, pledged itself to take all steps necessary
to bring back a balanced condition between agriculture and other
industries and labor. Today it faces the country not only with
that pledge unredeemed, but broken by the acts of a Republican
President who is primarily responsible for the failure to offer
a constructive program to restore equality to agriculture.

Coolidge Vetoes Cited

While he had no constructive and adequate program to offer
in its stead, he has twice vetoed farm relief legislation and has
sought to justify his disapproval of agricultural legislation partly
on grounds wholly inconsistent with his acts making industrial
monopolies the beneficiaries of government favor; and in endors-
ing the agricultural policy of the present administration the
Republican party in its recent convention served notice upon
the farmer that the so-called protective system is not meant for
him; that while it offers protection to the privileged few, it
promises continued world prices to the producers of the chief
cash crops of agriculture.

We condemn the policy of the Republican party, which promises
relief to agriculture only through a reduction of American farm
production to the needs of the domestic market. Such a program
means the continued deflation of agriculture, the forcing of ad-
ditional millions from the farms and the perpetuation of agri-
cultural distress for years to come, with continued bad effects
on business and labor throughout the United States.

The Democratic party recognizes that the problems of produc-
tion differ as between
agriculture and indus-
try. Industrial produc-
tion is largely under
human control, while
agricultural production,
because of lack of co-
ordination, among the
6,500,000 individual
farm units, and because
of the influence of
weather, pests, and
other causes, is largely
beyond human control.
The result is that a
large crop frequently is
produced on a small
acreage and a small
crop on a large acreage;
and measured in money
value it frequently hap-
pens that a large crop
brings less than a small
crop. ^

Producers of crops
whose total volume ex-
ceeds the needs of the
domestic market must
continue at a disadvan-
tage until the govern-
ment shall intervene as
seriously and as ef-
fectively in behalf of
the farmers as it has
intervened in behalf of
labor and industry.
There is a need of
supplemental legislation
for the control and or-
derly handling of agri-
( Continued on page 8)

h

Puf/c Four

tnt I. A. A. RECORD

THE

Story pf the Houston Convention

R. A. Cowlis

iiiul I h;iiii)i;iii of
R^.•lati()n^^

'■pilK "Houston Convontion" - the Na-
J. tional. convontion of the Democratic
Iiaity — has now been hfld and the party's
acknowledgments, dec-
larations and com-
mitments with respect
to uffriculture and its
Miljleins, have ap-
. :ired in the press re-
rts of I the Conven-
or). Representatives
of farm organizations
were thete in attend-
ance throughout the
(■(jiivention, and the
Illinois -Agricultural
Association was repre-
sented hyf Frank Bar-
ton, its Viice President
its committee on Public
.•lations, and by its Treasurer.
Arriving at Houston Sunaay evening.
June 21th. we were met by playing bands,
and host committees', on the job to wel-
come arriving delegates and the gu<*sts
of Houston over the t'onvOntion. The
beautiful new modern cit.v, ela[)oiately dec-
orated in the National colors, its streets
and hotel lobbies filled with t^e hosts ar-
riving, was at its best. The wo(rk was done.
The great convention hall had been dedi-
cated during the day by the people of
Texas. It was apparent that everything
was in readiness, waiting for the opening
hour of the Convention. The; city and its
people of the south land, faipious for its
hospitality, were "dressed up"lready to re-
ceive its guests.

Party Leaders Sympathetic

We looked up George Peek and Chester
Mavis as we arrive<i, and during the eve-
ning met reprtsentatives of farm organ-
izations and talked with friends in Con-
gress, and others who have supported our
c.iuse in Congress, already on the ground.
Party leaders were generally reported to be
interested in our problem and sympathetic.

The following morning we hpd breakfast
with the representatives of t^ie .American
I'arm liureau Federation there, Ed O'Neal
ol .Alabama, Vice-President and Chairman
o! the Legislative ComniitteK', and Mr.
(■h<'ster dray, Washington representative
of the Federation. Favorable reports were
given by these men. W« called at head-
i|uarters of the Illinois delegation, in the
l;ice Hotel, and talked with Mr. Brennan,
Chairman of the delegation, arid with Mike
Igoe, and others of the delegation. We
were cordially received and \|iere pleased
to le;irn that .Mr. Igoe was tii be .selected
bv the Illinois delegation for the place on
the Platform and Resolutions (Jomniittee of
thi- Convention.

During the day, representatives of other
farm org.Hnizations were arriving at
"Farm Headquarters" in the ' Rice Hotel.
Favorable reports were coming in to us in
legard to others, selected by state delega-
tions^ for places on the important Com-
mittee on Platform and Resolutions. We
were gratified to learn that U number of
Senators and others, who have, loyally sup-
pc rted our legislative program at Washing-
ton, were being selected by their respective
*tate delegations to be appointed on the
(. ommittee. The Committee w,as found to
include such outstanding and hble men as
.^i nator Key Pittman of Nev;uda; Senator

By R. A. Covvles, Treasurer

T. H. Caraway of Arkansas; Senator Sam
Bratton of New Mexico, and Messrs.
Thomas Cashman of Minnesota; John
Simpson of Oklahoma, among others who
have ably and loyally fought for our cause.
It appeared that the Committee was being
formed from those of the delegates best
informed and most able to draft a compre-
hensive platform for the party. Any sug-
gestion that the Committee was "picked"
or "packed" was conspicuous by its absence.
The Committee was later announced, with
.Senator Pittman of Nevada as its chair-
man. The Senator always has been sym-
pathetic to our problem and program and
his selection, as its chairman, was there-
fore, pleasing and reassuring to us.

Resolutions Committee Meets

The Committee assembled and duly or-
ganized for its task, delegating to a small-
er sub-committee, the responsibility for
drafting the platform, for later considera-
tion and recommendations. The sub-com-
mittee included Senators Pittman, Cara-
way, Harrison, Wagner and Bratton, Gov-
ernor Dan Moody of Texas, Mr, Cashman
and others.

As the Committee met and organized, a
group of our people, headed by Ed O'Neal
of Alabama, called on the Chairman of the
Committee, and respectfully asked that rep-
resentatives of farm organizations there,
be given an opportunity to appear before
the Committee and present their views on
the agricultural situation. Our request was
received and we were informed that a sub-
committee might be exjiected to set aside
an appropriate period of time for the hear-
ing. The sub-committee, as appointed, im-
mediately convened and directly announced
that three hours had been set aside for
those to be heard on this subject, before
the Committee on Platform and Resolu-
tions. The hearing was scheduled for 4:00
that afternoon. Our group retired to
"Farm Headquarters" and prepared its
program.

Among those who appeared before the
Committee and addressed them, were: Mrs.
\erna Hatch and Bill Settle of Indiana,
both well known to our people in Illinois;
Kd O'Neal of Alabama; J. F. Reed of Min-
nesota; C. E. Huff and C. E. Brasted of
Kansas; Dr. B. W. Kilgore of North Caro-
lina and our Frank Barton. Congressman
Henry Rainey of Illinois also addressed

THE GREAT SECRET
OF SUCCESS IN LIFE
IS TO BE READY WHEN
THE OPPORTUNITY
COMES.— Disraeli.

the Committee and urged the party to meet
the agricultural issue courageously and
squarely. Hon. Clarence Ousley of Texas,
also well known to some of our people,
spoke forcefull.v on the subject.

Job Well Done

.Space does not permit a full report here
of our apijearance before the Committee
that afternoon. It is sufficient for our
people to know that the job was well done
in every respect. The program was so
arranged that there was little repetition
and the subject was completely covered,
for the purposes of the hearing. As one
of those who "stood by," the writer felt
great pride in the splendid presentation
made by each one of our group.

In the meantime, the Convention on the
evening tof its first day's session had lis-
tened to the "keynote" address, delivered
by Claude G. Bowers, formerly of Indiana,
had heard the keynoter's plea to "give
farm equal chance with factory." And as
he developed the thought, that great Con-
vention arose to its feet and we witnessed
a demonstration that gladdened our hearts.
The Agricultural situation was to be the
paramount issue. It encouraged us much
in our undertaking, in which we were about
to appeal to the party to pronounce a na-
tional policy for agriculture and pledge its
support in putting it into force.

Platform Is Presented

The sub-committee concluded the dr^ft
of the platform, in ah all-night session,
and the following morning made its report.
Later in the day we were informed that
the sub-committees' draft had been ac-
cepted in its entirety and that the Com-
mittee on Platform and Resolutions was
ready to make an unanimous report to the
Convention. The platform was presented
that night and unanimously adopted by the
Convention as our people learned through
p,ress reports. It may be fairly said that
the agricultural plank of the platform was
prepared with the collaboration of those
who had given the subject most careful
thought and study, included on the Com-
mittee. At all times our views were wel-
comed and were solicited by the party
leaders who were sympathetic and seemed
to want to make comprehensive acknowl-
edgment and commitment by the party.

No attempt here is made to analyze the
agricyltural plank, included in the plat-
form. Those of us who were there and
were informed of what the plank was to
include, as it was developed, were agreed,
and it seemed to us, to be comprehensive
in its acknowledgments of present day
problems of agriculture and the situation
as it actually exists, and particularly, in
its ■ acknowledgment of the fundamental
problem confronting agriculture, the sur-
plus problem; and it seemed equally com-
l>rehensive in its pronouncement on behalf
of the party, of a national policy for agri-
culture, which by the language of the
jilank, pledges the party to undertake to
carry out.' .

We all returned from the Convention
greatly encouraged, appreciative of the con-
sideration given our cause, and of the
many courtesies extended us by party
Naders throughout the Convention. We
left the Convention, waiting the expression
and commitment of the man who was
selected as the party's standard bearer.

I i

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Five

THE REPUBLICAN FARM PLANK

THE DEMOCRATIC FARM PLANK

AGRICULTURE

(Adopted at Knnsan City, June H, 1U2S)
''I'^IIK aK>'iiultuial ])i'obk'm is national in scope and, as such, i^;
I li'CdRnizeil by the Republican l)arty. which jiledtres its
sticnsfth and energy to the solution of the same. Kealizinj; that
many farmers are faeinj^ problems more difficult than those which
are the portion of many other basic industries, the party is
anxious to aid in every way possible.

.Many of our farmers are still poing through readjustments.
a relic of the years directly following the great war. All the
farmers are being called on to meet new and perplexing condi-
tions created by foreign competition, the complexities of domestic
marketing, labor problems, and a steady increase in local and
state taxes.

The general depression in a great basic industry inevitably
reacts upon the conditions in the country as a whole and cannot
lie ignored. It is a matter of satisfaction that the desire to help
in the correction of agricultural wrongs and conditions is not
contined to any one section of our country or any particular
group.-

Achievements Cited

The Republican party and the Republican adininistration. )>ar-
ticularly during the last live years, have settled many of the
most distressing problems as they have arisen, and the achieve-
ments in aid of agriculture are proiierly a part of this record.
The Republican congresses have been must responsive in the mat-
ter of agricultural appropriations, not only to meet cro]) emer-
gencies, but for the extension and development of the activities
of the department of agriculture.

The protection of the American farmer against foreign farm
competition and foreign trade practices has been vigorously
carried on by the department of state. The right of the farmers
to engage in collective buying and cooperative selling as i)ro-
vidcd for by the Capper- Volstead act of 1922 has been promul-
gated through the department of agriculture and the department
of justice, which have given most valuable aid and assistance
to the heads of the farm organizations. ^

The treasury department and the proper committees of con-
gress have lightened the tax burden on farming communities,
and thiough the federal farm loan system there has been made
available to the farmers
of the nation $1,8.'>0.-
000,000 for lending pur-
poses at a low rate of
interest, and through
the intermediate credit
banks $C(!o,000.000 of
short term credits have
been made available to
the farmers.

Rural Free Delivery

The post office de-
partment has system-iti
cally and generou--lv
extendeil the rural f'ee
delivery routes intoev"
the most sparsely settled
communities.

When a shortage of
transportation facilities
threatened to deprive
the farmers of thvir
opportunity to reach
waiting markets over-
seas, the president, ap-
preciative and sensitive
of the condition and the
possible loss to the com-
munities, ordered the
reconditioning of ship-
ping board vessels, thus
relieving a great emer-
gency.

Last, but not least,
the federal tariff com-
mission has at all times
shown a willingness
under the provisions of
the flexible tariff act to
aid the farmers when
(Continued on page 8)

REPRESENT ILLINOIS AT 4-H CLUB CAMP. WASHINGTON

THE four boys and girls with their state leaders shown above represented Illinois
at the 4-H dub encampment recently at Washington, D. C.

Above are E. I. Pilchard and Miss Mary L. Grady, .state club leaders, Harold
Hixson, 20, of Wellington, Iroquois county, who has been active in club work for
six years, and Clarence Ropp, 20, of Normal, McLean county, who has been prominent
in club work for nine years.

Below are Dorothy McGaughey of Macon county and Lois Hubbai-d of Adams
county, both of whom have done outstanding club work.

The trip to Washington represents the highest award that can be given to 4-H
club boys and girls in Illinois. Before leaving for Washington, the boys and girls
and their leaders discussed club work on the I. A. A. f.irm radio program. The As-
sociation has contributed $100 each year for several years to help pay expenses of
the winners to the national capitol.

AGRICULTURE

I Adi'iilid at Hofntuii, June 2K, 192S)

DEl'EI'TION upon the farmer and stock raiser has been prac-
ticed by the Republican prirty through false and delusive
l)romises for more than M years. .Specially favored industries
have been artificially aided by Republican legislatioh. Com-
paratively little has been done for agriculture and stock raising
u*on which national jirosperity rests. Unsympathetic inaction
u-jilh •reK;ird to this problem must cea.-ie. Virulent hostility of
tl^e Republican administration to the advocates of farm relief,
and denial of the right of farm oiganizations to lead in the
lievelopment of farm policy, must yield to Democratic sympathy
and friendliness.

Four years ago. the Repuljlican party, forced to Acknowledge
the critical situation, pledged itself to take all steps necessary
to bring back a balanced condition between agriculture and other
indu.-tries and labor. Today it faces the country not only with
that pledge unredeemed, but broken by the acts of a Republican
I'lesident who is piimarily refponsible for the failure to offer
a constructive program to restore equality to agriculture.

Coolidge Vetoes Cited

While he had no constructive and adequate progrtim to offer
ill its stead, he has twice vetoed farm relief legislation and has
sought to justify his disapjirOval of agricultural legislation partly
on grounds wholly iiiconsistpnt with his acts making indu.strial
monopolies the beneficiaries pf government favor; and in endors-
ing the agHonltural policy of the present admini:itration the
Republican oarty in its retent convention serve<l notice upon
the farmer that the so-called jvrotective system is not meant for
him; that while it offers protection to the privileged few, it
promises continued world prices to the producerK of the chief
cash crops of agriculture.

We condemn the policy of the Republican party, which promises
relief to agriculture only thri>ugh a reduction of American farm
production to the needs of the domestic market. Such a program
means thq continued deflation of agriculture, the forcing of ad-
ditional millions from the farms and the i)erpetuati<jn of agri-
cultural distress for years to come, with continued l>ad elfects
on business and labor throughout the United States.

The l»emocratic party recognizes that the problems of produc-
tion differ as between
agriculture and indus-
try. Industrial produc-
tion is largely under
human Control. while
agricultural production,
b(c;iuse of lack of co-
o'dination, among the
'■•,.'>:k).0(III individual
fnrm units, and because
of the influence of
weather, pests," and
other causes^, is largely
beyond human control.
The result is that a
large crop frequently is
produced on a small
.acreage an^i a small
crop on a large acreage:
and measiurod in money
value it frequently hap-
pens that a large ciof)
brings less tihan a small
crop.

Producers of crops
whose total volume ex-
ceeds the needs of the
domestic market must
continue at a ciisadvan-
tage until the govern-
ment shall intervene as
seriously and as ef-
fectively in behalf of
the farnu'r.s as it has
intervened ill behalf of
labor and industry.
There is a need of
suiii)lemertal legislation
for the control and or-
derly handling of agri-
( Continued on page 8)

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THB5 I. A. A. RECORD

I LLilNOIS

CCLTURAL ASSOCIA

RECORO

To advance thm purpose tor which the Farm Bureau waa orgar\ized,
namely to promote, protect and represent the bumineta, economic,
political, and educational intereata of the farmera of Illinoia and the
nation, and to develop agriculture.

Poblisbed once ■ month at 404 North Wesley Ave., Mount Morris,
Illinoii, by the Illinois ABrieultDral Associmtion. Edited by DepsrtmeAt
of Information, E. C. Thiem, Director, £08 South Dearborn Strevt,
Chieaco, Illinois. Entered as second-class matter October 20, 1925. at
the post office at Mount Morris, Illinois, under the Act of March S, 1879.
Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in SfC-
tion 412. Act of February 28, 1925, authorized October 27. 1925. Thp
individual membership fee of the Illinois ARricuttural Association is
five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty cents for sub-
scription to the Illinois AGRirin^TURAL Association Record. Pust-
master: In returninK an uncalled for or missent copy please indicate
key number on address as is required by law.

OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vice-President, Frank D. Barton Cornell

Treasurer, R . A. Cowles ,' Bloomington

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

(By Congressional Districts)

1st to llth H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

I2th i G. F. Tullock, Rockford

Uth C. E. Bamborough. Polo

14th I M.G. Lambert, Ferris

ISth i A. N. Skinner, Yates City

16th A. R. Wright, Varna

17th Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

Kth R . F. Karr, Iroquois

I9th i J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th Charles S. Black. Jacksonville

21st , Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd ; Frank Ocxner, Waterloo

23rd W. L. Cope, Salem

24th t Charles Marshall. Belknap

iSth Fred Dietz, De Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Business Service Geo. R . Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lyrich

Limestone-Phosphate J. R. Bent

Finance ; R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing , A. B. Leeper

General Office J . H. Kelker

Information ■. E.G. Thiem

Insurance Service V. Vanlman

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing Ray E. MilUr

Organization ; G. E. Metzger

Poultry and Egg Marketing' F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics , J. C. Watson

Transportation !-• J- Quasey

/. A. A. Policy

SINCE the close of the political conventions, many in-
quiries and suggfestions as to our future course in
these matters have been received. After careful con-
sideration at the regular meeting on Friday, July 13th,
the Executive Committee of the Association authorized
the following statement be issued:

"The primary interest and purpose of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association is to serve the true and permanent in-
terests of the farmers of Illinois. The policy of the As-
sociation in all political matters has always been and will
continue to be strictly non-partisan.

"We recognize that agricultural issues are economic
rather than political. This was conclusively shown by the
majority vote of both parties in each house of the 69th
and 70th Congresses, by which the McNary-Haugen Bill
was passed. It has also been repeatedly revealed by the
non-partisan vote supporting and passing such construc-
tive agricultural legislation in our state.

"National, state and district issues should be carefully
considered on their relative merits and in no way become
confused. '

"We seek to furnish full, fair and impartial informa-
tion on agricultural issues to our members and friends,
also the records and commitments on these issues of
political parties, men in office and those seeking positions
of trust and responsibility. With this information in hand,
farmers and all true friends of agriculture are in a posi-
tion to support candidates for office who will best serve

the economic interests of agriculture. We urge our mem-
bers at all times to support those candidates, reg^ardless
of party, who by their records or definite commitments
have proven their worthiness of this support.

"The policy as above set forth will be continued."

I

The Republican Farm Plank

Excerpta from Statement Made by Earl C.

Convention

Smith at the /Kansas City

THE agricultural section of the Republican platform is un-
satisfactory for the following reasons:

First, while farmers have been struggling for legislation neces-
sary to control crop surpluses in a manner to secure benefits of
the tariflf, it fails to suggest the ways and means through which
the party proposes to accomplish this end. In fact, it is silent
on that question.

Second, it fails to state the means by which the party proposes
to accomplish its general pledge to restore economic equality to
agriculture.

Summed up, it fails utterly to recognize the fundamental prob-
lems facing agriculture, dealing as it does in general phrases
which will be particularly unsatisfactory to farmers, due to the
failure of the party in the past seven years to suggest construc-
tive remedial legislation for the correction of agricultural con-
ditions recognized, and general pledges made in the 1920 and 1924
platforms.

\ J

The Democratic Farm Plank [ |

statement by Earl C. Smith. President ' '

''I^HE agricultural plank in the Democratic platform adopted
X at Houston covers the essentials of a national farm policy
more completely than any platform previously adopted by a poli-
tical party. It fully recognizes the funclamental problem of crop
surpluses which farm groups have for years contended must be
met by any legislation if it is to be effective and satisfactory.

It further frankly recognizes the impossibility of effectively
controlling surpluses unless there is authority to spread costs of
such operation over all the commodity benefited.

It pledges the enactment of legislation to prevent the price
of surpluses from determining the price of the entire crop and
also recognizes the soundness of distributing costs incurred in
handling surpluses over the commodity benefited.

While it pledges the enactment of legislation to prevent the
price of surpluses from determining the price of the entire crop
and also recognizes the soundness of distributing costs incurred
in handling crop surpluses over the commodity benefited, it fails
to pledge the party specifically to enact legislation embodying
the only device yet proposed or seriously considered by Congress
to accomplish that end. It does, however, pledge the party to
an earnest endeavor to solve this problem, making it a matter of
prime and immediate concern of a Democratic administration.

The Democratic tariff pledge is satisfactory and in addition,
the platform covers the farm demand for a way to make existing
tariffs, whatever, they may be. effective on the crops whose pro-
duction exceeds the needs of the domestic market. Farmers will
watch with interest and concern for the interpretation placed
upon this plank by the party candidate, in view of the treat-
ment which platform pledges have recently received by officials
after election. i

THE PRESS SAYS

Translating the Platforms

NEITHER party has made a hit with its platform this year, with the
single exception of the farm plank in the democratic platform, and
even this is given various constructions by the press and politicians.
Because of this fact and the further one that the candidates are both
men of unusual personality, the voters will be inclined to construe the
meaning of the various planks according to the views of the candidates
themselves.

Platforms as a rule are a sort of catch-all designed to attract one
class of voters without offending others who hold opposite views. Where
it is deemed safe, the platform straddles an issue ; often it is so vague
that its meaning is obscure to the most discerning and analytical voter.

This year, the platforms as guides to the electorate are less satis-
factory than usual. They will only exert an influence upon intelligent
people as the candidates themselves translate them into action. This,
after all, is the safest, if not the only safe guide for the voter. — Chicago
Journal.

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Page Seven

1

Water Transportation Will Help

How Farm Prices May Be Raised by Barge Line Develop-
ment Down the Mississippi

Lachlan Macleay, Secretary Misaiaaippi Vailey Aaaociation

Lachlan Macleay

IN speaking: of the problem of get-
ting a fair price for the products
of the farms, it has been said "the
farm price be-
comes the retail
price less the costs
of assembling,
transporting, pro-
cessing, and distri-
buting." Assum-
ing that this is a
correct statement,
then any agency
that reduces the
cost of getting the
products of the
farms to their mar-
kets will result in higher prices on the
farms, and the farmer, therefore, has
a direct cash interest in Inland Water-
way development which will lower
these transportation costs.

It is 7346 miles from Buenos Aires,
Argentine, to Liverpool, where the
world price of wheat is made. From
central Kansas to Liverpool via the
port of New Orleans, it is 6010 miles,
— 1336 miles less distance, and yet
Kansas wheat pays nearly 12c per
bushel more to get to market than Ar-
gentine wheat. The average rail haul
to seaboard in Argentine is 141 miles
against an average rail haul from
Kansas to seaboard of 800 miles. In
1927 Argentine corn was marketed on
the Pacific Coast, United States of
America, in competition with Illinois,
Iowa, and Nebraska corn, and despite
the duty paid, I am told by reliable
authority that it undersold our Middle
West product so much that we lost the
market almost completely.

Argentine Corn Competes

What do you think of wheat moving
12,691 miles from Melbourne, Aus-
tralia, to Liverpool for 19.8 cents per
bushel as against 27c a bushel for an
800 mile rail haul from Kansas to New
Orleans? Buenos Aires is 6,722 miles
from New York, and Illinois is only an
average of about 900 miles, and yet
Argentine corn, despite the duty, often
finds a profitable market in New York,
New Jersey, Boston, and Philadelphia.

The average earnings of Atlantic
ocean carriers last year is given by the
Shipping Board as 3 mills per ton mile.
The average earnings of Class A rail-
roads is given by the Interstate Com-
merce Commission as 11.1 mills per ton
mile. The average earning of the Fed-

eral Barge Line on the Mississippi
River was 4.12 mills, and it made a
profit on that figure after paying all
of fts costs and depreciation.

The Federal Barge Line is handi-
capped by shortage of equipment to
take care of the full volume of traffic
offered to it. It has not adequate ter-
minal facilities, and its river channels
are not more than two-thirds com-
pleted. In addition to these physical
handicaps, it is being bitterly opposed
by powerful east and west rail lines,
despite all of which it carries grain
from St. Louis to New Orleans for
11 %c per cwt., as against a rail rate
of 18c per cwt. and shows a profit on
that rate while it brings back Yucatan
sisal to make the farmers' binder twine
at a saving of 20 % under the rail rate,
and makes a profit on that. It brings
north a thousand cars of sugar a
month and saves the public $60 per

car.

Carries Grain Cheaper

I could go on enumerating com-
modities the Barge Line handles at a
saving for the shippers and consumers,
almost covering the entire list of
staples used by the people of the Val-
ley.

It is carrying grain from the Twin
Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul to
New Orleans for export at a rate of
14.8 cents per cwt., as against a rail
rate of 35 %c, and bringing back sisal,
binder twine, sugar, and coffee, also
farm machinery from Moline and Rock
Island for use on the farms of Min-
nesota, Wisconsin, North and South
Dakota.

If the Barge Lines can do as well
as they are doing while battling agfainst
the present handicaps to their oper-
ation, it is a fair assumption that they
can do much better when these diffi-
culties have been overcome. I am
not making an extravagant statement,
nor an over-optimistic one, when I
tell you that on many commodities the
Barge Lines will be able to cut their
present rates in half, and they will
move coal, lumber, and steel products
at tremendous saving^s when their
equipment, terminals and channels are
adequate and completed.

Need More Facilities
There is urgent need for grain ele-
vators at Barge line terminals on the
rivers so that the farmers' grrain can
be put on the river barges at the near-

est port to the farm anol move by water
to the nearest port to its ultimate mar-
ket. A grain elevator at Memphis,
Tenn., for instance, will be of great
value to grrain growers in the north
and northwest who can then ship by
water at a substantial saving a larger
part of the 50,000,000 bushels of
coarse grains and wheat that are used
annually in the southeastern states.
This would move from the farm by rail
to the river, by river to Memphis, and
then by rail to destination, thus en-
joying the advantage of low cost water
transport for a great portion of its
journey.

There is a big market for hay in
Cuba and the West Indies. High
freight costs shut out the Middle West
entirely, and while in our country
there is in some hay-gfrowing sections
as much as three years' crops in stor-
age awaiting a market that will get the
grower even his production cost. Ca-
nadian hay is moving into Cuba at
rates that our shippers cannot com-
pete with.

I ' I Canadian Rates Lower
Speaking of Canadian rates, you
may be interested in a comparison of
American with Canadian rail rates on
grain from the farms to the seaboard
for export which was made in testi-
mony favoring the Denison Barge Line
Bill by George J. Miller, Executive Sec-
retary of the Missouri River Navigation
Improvement Association. His testi-
mony showed that from points in Al-
berta province, Canada, averagring
1,200 miles to Port Arthur on Lake
Superior, the rate on grain per 100
pounds is &5c. The rail rate from
Port Arthur to Quebec for export,
1372 miles, is 18.34 per cwt. or a
total of 43.34 cents for a total rail
haul of about 2,600 miles. From Mani-
toba to Port Arthur, an averagre of
650 miles, the rate is 18c per cwt.
From Saskatchewan to Port Arthur,
an average of 800 milei^, the rate is
20c. I

In the United States the average
650 mile haul from Nebraska and
Kansas points to Chicag^i carries a
rate of 35c per cwt., as against the
Canadian rate of 18c.

The average rate on export grain for
an 800-mile haul from the Middle West
to seaboard is 38c per cwt. as against
the Canadian rate of 20c.

(Continued on page 8) * i

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Republican Farm Plank

(Continued from page 5)
foreign competition, made possible by low
wage scales abroad, threatened to deprive
our farmers of their domestic markets.
Under this act the president has increased
duties on wheat, flour, mill feed and dairy
products. Numerous other farm products
are now being investigated by the tariff
commission.

We promise every assistance in the re-
organization of the marketing system on
sounder and more economical lines and,
where diversification is needed, government
financial assistance during the period of
transition.

Federal Farm Board Promised

The Republican party pledges itself to
the enactment of legislation creating a
federal farm board clothed with the neces-
sary powers to promote the establishment
of a farm marketing system of farmer-
owned and controlled stabilization, corpora-
tions or associations to prevent and con-
trol surpluses through orderly distribution.

We favor adequate tariff protection to
such of our agricultural products as are
affected by foreign competition.

We favor, without putting the govern-
ment into business, the establishment of a
federal system of organization for co-
operative and orderly marketing of farm
products.

The vigorous efforts of this administra-
tion toward broadening our exports market
will be continued.

The Republican party pledges itself to
the development and enactment of meas-
ures which will place the agricultural in-
terests of America on a basis of economic
equality with other industry to insure its
prosperity and success. I

Democratic Farm Plank

(Continued from page 6)

cultural surpluses, in order that the price
of the surplus may not determine the price
of the whole crop. Labor has benefited
by collective bargaining and some indus-
tries by tariff. Agriculture must be as
effectively aided.

Pledges Adequate Laws

The Democratic party, in its 1924 plat-
form, pledged its support to such legisla-
tion. It now reaffirms that stand and
pledges the united efforts of the legislative
and executive branches of government, as
far as may be controlled by the party, to
the immediate enactment of such legisla-
tion, and to such other steps as are neces-
sary to place and maintain the purchasing
power of farm products and the complete
economic equality of agriculture. •

The Democratic party has always stood
against special privilege and for common
equality under the law. It is a funda-
mental principle of the party that such
tariffs as are levied must not discriminate
against any industry, class or section.
Therefore, we pledge that in its tariff
policy the Democratic party will insist
upon equality of treatment between agri-
culture and other industries.

Farm relief must rest on the basis of an
economic equality of agriculture wjth other
industries. To give this equality a remedy
must be found which will include among
other things:

(A) Credit aid by loans to co-operatives
on at least as favorable a basis as the
government aid to the merchant marine.

(B) Creation of a federal farm board
to assist the farmer and stock raiser in
the marketing of their products as the
federal reserve board has done for the
banker and business man.

Lowden Withdraws
Frank O. Lowden's signed statement
read to the Republican Convention by
Hon. Otis F. Glenn.

HAVE stated

I

publicly that I
did not want the
nomination unless
the Republican par-
ty was prepared to
meet fully and fair-
ly the agriculture
y ^^r^^^^ problem.
jj '"Wl^ ^^^^ "I have waited
^^^k 1 j^^^^ upon no particular
^^^m ^ y^^^H remedy but I have
^^^■^■^^^^H stated times

miBBK^HI^^I if there was a bet-
Frank O. Lowden ter method than
the so-called equal-
ization fee, I would gladly accept it.
I have urged, however, that it is the
duty of the Republican party to find
some way to rescue agriculture from
the ruins that threaten it.

"This in my judgment the convention
by its platform just adopted has failed
to do.

"I therefore authorize the withdrawal

of my name from before the convention.

"Though I cease to be a candidate

my interest in the cause is in no way

abated."

Passed Federal Reserve Act

When our archaic banking and currency
system was revised after its record of
disaster and panic under Republican ad-
ministrations, it was a Democratic congress
in the administration of a Democratic
president that accomplished its stabiliza-
tion through the federal reserve act creat-
ing the federal reserve board, with powers
adequate to its purpose. Now in the hour
of agriculture's need the Democratic party
pledges the establishment of a new agri-
cultural policy fitted to present conditions,
under the direction of a farm board vested
with all the powers necessary to accom-
plish for agriculture what the federal re-
serve board has been able to accomplish
for finance. In full recognition of the
fact that the banks of the country, through
voluntary co-operation, were never able to
stabilize the financial system of the coun-
try until government powers were invoked
to help them.

(C) Reduction through proper govern-
ment agencies of the spread between what
the farmer and stock raiser gets and what
the ultimate consumer pays with con-
sequent benefits to both.

(D) Consideration of the condition of
agriculture in the formulation of govern-
ment financial and tax measures.

Will Aid Co-ops

We pledge the party to foster and
develop co-operative marketing associations
through appropriate government aid.

We recognize that experience has dem-
onstrated that members of such associa-
tions alone cannot successfully assume the
full responsibility for a program that
benefits all producers alike. We pledge the
party to an earnest endeavor to solve this
problem of the distribution of the cost of
dealing with crop surpluses over the
marketed units of the crop whose producers
are benefited by such assistance. The
solution of this problem would avoid gov-
ernment subsidy to which the Democratic
party has always been opposed. The solu-
tion of this problem will be a prime and
immediate concern of a Democratic ad-
ministration.

We direct attention to the fact that
it was a Democratic congress, in the
administration of a Democratic president,
which established the federal loan system
and laid the foundation for the entire rural
credits structure, which has aided agri-
culture to sustain in part the shock of the
policies of two Republican administrations,
and we promise thoroughgoing administra-
tion of our rural credits laws, so that the
farmers in all sections may secure the
maximum benefits intended under these
acts.

Water Transportation

(Continued from page 7)
The average rate for a 1,050 mile
haul is 49 cents from Mid-Western
points to Galveston and New Orleans,
as against a Canadian rate of 18.34
cents for 1300 miles.

Here are a couple of more export

rail rates on wheat which are illuminating :
Kansas City to New York, 1287 miles,

$.40 per cwt.

Port Arthur, Canada, to Quebec, 1372 miles,

$.1834 per cwt.

They Favor Agriculture

Some people will tell you that these very
favorable Canadian rates are secured for the
grain growers by subsidies to rail lines, or
by Government ownership, and that huge
deficits are made up by Canadian tax payers.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad is a party to
all these rates, and it must be doing quite
well because it is not under government man-
agement or subsidy and its stock is selling
today on the New York market for 203. This
is an advance of 25 points over its price one
year ago. The fact is that Canada and the
Canadian Pacific Railroad are favoring agri-
culture with helpful rates so as to build up
and develop agricultural wealth and resources.
They are finding this a profitable undertaking
as will we of these United States as we begin
to realize the benefit and help of our low
waterway rates on the products of the farm,
and the purchases of the farmer.

Include Many Tributaries
Our inland waterways of the Mississippi
Valley include the Mississippi River from the
Gulf of Mexico to Minneapolis and St. Paul,
the Illinois River to Lake Michigan, and the
Hennepin Canal, which connects the Illinois
with the Mississippi at Rock Island, Moline,
and Davenport: the Missouri River from its
mouth near St. Louis to Yankton, South Da-
kota, and even beyond there to Fort Benton,
Montana ; the Ohio from its confluence with
the Mississippi at Cairo to its sources in the
Allegheny and Cumberland mountains: the
Tennessee, the Cumberland, the Red, the
Arkansas, and many other tributaries reach-
ing into the very heart of twenty-three of
the most productive states of the Union.
These great water routes, "nature's own
streets," must be developed and used in co-
ordination with the railroad lines serving this
vast territory so that the products and pur-
chases of the people who live here and do
business here may enjoy the most economical
and expeditious transportation services that
it is possible to develop. Thus, we will be
taking a long step toward putting agriculture
in the United States on an even basis so far
as transportation facilities and costs are con-
cerned, with the competing areas of Canada,
Europe, Australia, and South America.

Need Home Industries {' . | ' .' ^

It haa been said that "Waterways build up

industry in the midst of agriculture." This

is very true, and thus is created vast home

markets for the products of the farm. We

(Continued on page 10),. ■

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V

THE I. A. A. RECORD

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Discuss Pledges of Major
Parties at 17th I. A. A.

Dist. Conference

Geo. J. Stoll Outlines Policy of Associ-
ation on Political Matters

THE Democratic and Republican
farm planks adopted at Houston
and Kansas City respectively figured
prominently in the discussion at the
I. A. A. district conference at Pontiac
on June 29 when 150 members from
the 17th district assembled.

George Stoll of Chestnut who repre-
sents the district on the I. A. A. Exec-
utive Committee called the meeting to
order. When urged to seek an active
stand on the part of the I. A. A. in
the coming election, Mr. Stoll replied
that he considered the stand of the
Association already known.

"The policy of the Association is
to make known the records of the po-
litical parties and candidates and let
each member know by such records
which candidate is most favorable to
agriculture," he said.

"The simple publication of the party
platforms on agriculture, and the ut-
terances of the candidates themselves,
he said, should be enough. Every
member of the Association knows what
our stand has been in the past. There
is no indication that that stand will be
changed."

Why Change Policy

George Potter of Graymont suggest-
ed that the I. A. A. should do as is al- «
ways done — publish the information
for the members and let them decide
how they will vote. E. D. Lawrence
of Bloomington said he would like to
see the Association insist upon its po-
sition just as strongly as it always had
done. Several speakers thought the
Association should campaign actively
for the Democratic ticket because the
Democratic platform was most favor-
able to agriculture. Others cautioned
against the Association telling its
members how to vote.

Co-operative marketing, buying, and
the coming I. A. A. picnic at Bloom-
ington on August 31 were- considered.
Lawrence Farlow of the State Farmers
Grain Dealers Association discussed
farmers' elevators and their place in a
grain marketing system.

Why Co-operative Buying

L. T. Skeffington of the I. A. A.
Livestock Marketing Department told
of the Producer movement and what
farmers can gain by complete co-oper-
ation in selling their livestock.

Frank Gougler, director of Produce
Marketing, told what farmers' cream
pools, and co-operative creameries
were doing to improve the quality of
cream, and get for their members a
better price. E. D. Lawrence called

Sam Thompson On Democratic
Plank

(Statement yiven newspapers and press aS'
sociations)

PRINCIPLES of
agricultural re-
lief embodied in
the farm plank of
the Democratic
platform were in-
dorsed today by
Sam H. Thompson,
president of the
American F a r ni
Bureau Federation,
who announced his
organization would
support the plank
on which Al Smith
will oppose Herbert

S. H. Thompson

Hoover for the presidency.

"The agricultural plank in the Demo-
cratic platform completely covers the
fundamental principles we advocated,"
Thompson said. "It outlines a perma
nent agricultural policy of the type that
will place agriculture on an economic
basis equivalent to that of industry,
labor, transportation and finance in the
American protective system."

When asked if his group would ac-
tively support the Democratic candidate
for President, Thompson replied.
"Under the federation's constitution we
are prohibited from partisan political
activity. I may say, however, that the
federation will continue to advocate the
principles indorsed by the Democratic
platform and do everything in its
power to obtain a permanent policy
which will give agriculture the bargain-
ing power necessary to stabilize the
industry."

attention to the fact that farmers' dif-
ficulties were brought about to some
extent by the high prices they were
forced to pay. Co-operative buying,
he said, is a legfitimate part of the
Farm Bureau program because it seeks
to make the farmer's dollar go farthe*.

Bankers Stand By

I. A. A. Farm Policy

At Recent Meeting

Renew Confidence in Leadership and
Pledge Further Co-operation

THE thirty-eighth annual conyen-
tion of the Illinois Bankers' As-
sociation, Rock Island, June 22, re-
newed its previous
expressions of con-
fidence in the agri-
cultural policy of
the Illinois Agri-
cultural Associa-
tion, and pledged
its continued co-
operation in bring-
ing about g^reater
stabilization of the
farm industry.

Omar H. Wright
of Belvidere was

tinger was unanimously chosen again
as secretary.

The resolution on agriculture fol-
lows :

Agriculture ' j -

"Serious and adverse economic con-
ditions continue to confront agricul-
ture. The best hope for the solution
of the problem is the fact that it now
occupies the center of public interest
and commands the serious study and
intelligent thought of our best minds.

"In the front rank of those repre-
sentative bodies which are striving for
the adoption of a constructive na-
tional policy is our sister organization,
the Illinois Agricultural Association.
We renew our expressions of confi-
dence in its capable leadership and
again charge the officers of our As-
sociation with the responsibility of
maintaining the closest possible co-
operation with the Illinois Agricultural
Association in its endeavor to give to
agriculture an assured place along with
industry, commerce, transportation
and finance, in our national Economy."

On the subject of taxation the fol-
lowing resolution was passed;

Taxation

"While we are gratified at the con-
tinuing reduction of federal taxes, we
find that state and local taxes are an
ever increasing factor in the expense
accounts of our banking institutions.
The item of taxes alone, in many in-
stances, is accountable for the diflfer-
ence between a profit and a loss in a
bank's operation.

Our present system of taxation in
Illinois is generally conceded to be in-
adequate and out-of-date. We realize
that the day has passed when most of
our wealth was tangible and when the
general property tax therefore fell up-
on the citizens in accordance with their
ability to pay. | i I "i

Much Property Escapes

With the vast increase of intangible
wealth, a large amount of property
escapes taxation. Economically speak-
ing, bank shares are classed with
money, notes, bonds, and the like, as
intangibles, but for taxation purposes
they are unfortunately most tangible.
With real esUte, bank shares bear an
unjust proportion of taxation.

This is a subject which looms larger
and larger as a menace to our whole
economic structure. The recent union
of nine state-wide organizations, of
which our own Association is one, in
a co-operative movement to effect re-
lief, is a move in the right direction.

Omar H. Wri(ht

elected president, Lyon Karr of We-
nona, vice president, and M. A. Graet-

THE Illinois SUte Horticultural Society wi.I
hold iU summer meeting and tour in the
Centralia district. July 19 and 20.

Reservations should be made with Frank
Welehl sccreUry of the Centralia Chamber of
Commerce. t* 1 '

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Page Ten

THE I. A. A. RECORD

H. H. Parke

Illinois Livestock

Shippers Hang Up

Good Record 1927-'28

Consign 55.4 Per Cfnt of All Shipments

Handled by Chicago Producers
1 4 ILLINOIS livestock producers can
'^ point with pride to their record
of last year in supporting co-operative
livestock marketing," says H. H. Parke
of Genoa, Illinois,
president .of the
Chicago Producers'
Commission Asso-
ciation.

"Of the 15,936
rail car loads of
livestock received
by the Chicago
Producers' during
their sixth fiscal
year, which closed
July 1, 8,829 were
received from Illi-
nois shippers," says Mr. Parke. "This
constituted 55.4 per cent of the total
Producer receipts. It represented a
gain of 10.6 per cent over the preced-
ing year."

Much Progress Made

The progress made in each of the de-
partments of the Chicago Producers'
is of special interest to Illinois ship-
pers. In competition with over 125
other selling agencies, the Producers'
handled 3.17 per cent of all the cattle
sold, while the 44,110 calves that were
handled represented 5.8 per cent of all
those sold at Chicago; an increase of
41.3 per cent over the calf business of
the preceding year.

While hog receipts on the market in-
creased only 14.5 per cent during the
past fiscal year the Producers' receipts
of 858,344 show an increase of 34.4
per cent. Last year the Producers'
handled 9.1 per cent of all the hogs re-
ceived on the Chicago market, but at
the present time they are handling
10.77 per cent of all the hogs received.

Sheep receipts of the co-operative,
likewise, show a gain. Sheep receipts
at Chicago during the past year de-
creased 19.4 per cent, but the total
sheep handled by Producers' decreased
only 13.8 per cent. Last year the Pro-
ducers' handled 7.3 per cent of all the
sheep received, but now this figure has
jumped to 8.3 per cent.

Mr. Parke stated that the National
Livestock Producers' Association, with
its 13 member agencies, is not simply
another commission house on the vari-
ous terminal markets, but represents a
definite plan which has much more than
justified its existence and its support
from the livestock growers. When the
livestock marketing program is com-
pletely carried out it promises to give
farmers bargaining power and influ-
ence in stabilizing prices to a point
where they will receive cost of pro-
duction plus a reasonable profit.

Water Transportation

(Continued from page 8)
vision nine thousand miles of main trunk
line waterways in the Mississippi Valley with
common carrier service, adequately equipped,
well managed, with terminals and elevators
at principal rail and river crossinKS feeding
traffic to and receiving it from rail lines, thus
reaching into every interior section on joint
rates that give the shipper the benefit of the
low water route costs.

That is the picture I want to leave with
you, and that is the program that the Mis-
sissippi Valley Association is working to ac-
complish. We do not favor permanent govern-
ment operation. We do not believe the Gov-
ernment can conduct our transportation serv-
ices as effectively or as well as private enter-
prise can, but vre must insist upon the Gov-
ernment continuing its present demonstration
until it has achieved the conditions necessary
to private success :

1. Dependable channels.

2. Adequate terminals with necessary ele-
vators.

3. Joint rates between rail and river car-
riers in the interests of the shippers.

Want Service to Peoria

These three things, it is the Government's
job to secure and establish so that private
capital going into boat and barge line oper-
ation on. our Valley waterways will be safe to
operate and safe from successful assault by
powerfully entrenched interests whose ambi-
tions are to gain and retain a monopoly on
Valley transportation facilities.

We are urging the Secretary of War to
extend the present services of the Federal
Barge Line to the Illinois River as far as
Peoria and to the Hennepin Canal immedi-
ately. (They will come on into Chicago, too,
when the channel is finished.) This will en-
able Illinois River elevators to serve the Barge
Lines with grain for export via New Orleans
or for distribution through the Memphis gate-
way into the Southeast by next season. It
will enable the Northwestern wheat grower to
ship his wheat into central freight territory
through the Peoria-Pekin gateway at sub-
stantial savings which will be reflected back
to him. It will make savings to the Illinois
farmer on binder twine, sugar, coffee, etc.,
northbountd.

I. A. A. Helps at Washington

All of these ambitions were very materially
advanced by the passage of the Denison Barge
Line Bill by the recent session of the 70th
Congress. This legislation had excellent sup-
port from the farm organizations. Mr. Cowles
of the Illinois Agricultural Association, and
officials of the American Farm Bureau, were
most active in their efforts to help the pas-
8a!?e of the Bill. The Nebraska Farm Bureau
sent its Secretary, Mr. Charles Steward, to
Washington, and kept him there during the
hearings, and while the measure was pending
before the House and Senate.

In the final hours of the session, when the
air in the legislative chambers and in the
lobbies was fairly crackling with final efforts
und suspense, and when the strongly or-
ganized opposition was bringing all its heavy
power to bear to delay the bill until the next
session which would be after election (get
this, it's significant, after election) and when
the workers for the Bill were reaching in
every direction for help and using every in-
fluence they could command to push the Bill
to final passage. Bob Cowles and Charlie
Steward were on the job,- and they were a
powerful infiuence.

Among the many problems facing the Amer-
ican farmer, the one of present high cost of
transportation is not the least. The Missis-
sippi Valley Association believes that the best
solution to this problem is the fullest use
and development of common carrier service on
our inland waterways.

Larger Volume Cuts

Cost Handling Cream

Co-op. Reports Show

Gougler Pegs Away on Produce Units
and Makes Progress

THE second annual report recently
received from an Illinois produce
unit shows that this co-operative
handled 81,515.2
lbs. of butterfat at
an average operat-
ing cost of 1.97
cents per lb. dur-
ing its first year
of operation,
whereas, during
^^^"^jr^^J the second year it
^^K^T^ii^H handled 99,536.2

^^^^- ^^^^ operating cost of

Frank A. Gougler only 1.72 CentS per

lb. fat.
"This substantial reduction in oper-
ating cost was largely brought about
by increase in business," declared
Frank Gougler, director of produce
marketing. "When a larger percent-
age of the farmers in the community
where the unit is operating co-operate,
further reductions may be expected."

Cream improvement meetings held
in several communities have been at-
tended by 200 to 400 people each, and
the result has been an increase in the
volume of produce handled cooperative-

ly.

What They Show ' ^

May and June reports recently re-
ceived by Mr. Gougler indicate the
following volumes for these months:
Logan county unit at Lincoln handled
11,717 lbs. of butterfat during May;
Geneseo unit, Henry county, 8,904
lbs.; Mt. Sterling unit. Brown county,
12,121 lbs.; and the Rushville unit,
Schuyler county, 8,484 lbs. of butter-
fat, 6,807 dozens of eggs, and 2,380
lbs. live poultry. The latter unit had
a trading income of $650.08 for the
month, with total expenses amounting
to $357.16, leaving a net surplus of
$292.92.

On July 2 the cream for the new
unit at Winchester, Scott county, was
sold for the coming year. Several new
units are being organized as follows:
Stronghurst, Henderson county; Vir-
den, Macoupin county; Bement, Piatt
county; Tuscola, Douglas county;
Farmer City, DeWitt county ; and Fish-
er, Sadorus, and Sidney, Champaign
county.

"With 17 units now marketing and
eight being organized it appears that
co-operative produce marketing is de-
veloping safely and satisfactorily,"
said Gougler. "This phase of market-
ing should not develop faster than is
consistent with good business practice."

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Eleven

Want Any Peaches?

Illinois Has Good Crop;
Growers to Pick Soon

Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange Seeks
to Market More Peaches at Home

c

A. B. Leeper

AN you use any strictly No. 1
peaches at wholesale dealers'
prices? ,. .^ -

' ' " " If so, the Illi-

nois Fruit Grow-
ers' Exchange will
help fill your
wants, for South-
ern Illinois is get-
ting ready to har-
vest one of the
best crops in the
history of peach-
raising in that sec-
tion.

A. B. Leeper,
manager of the
Exchange at Centralia, says that in
previous years he has received numer-
ous inquiries from County Farm Bu-
reaus and dealers in small towns ask-
ing for information and prices. "As a
rule," he says, "such information is
not requested until the shipping season
has begun. Peaches, one of the most
perishable crops, must be handled
quickly. For this reason we are ask-
ing the co-operation of all Farm Bu-
reaus and Farm Bureau members to-
ward assisting the peach growers of
Illinois in marketing what appears to
be one of their largest crops, and at
the same time aid the members of the
Farm Bureau in all counties to obtain
strictly No. 1 peaches at the wholesale
dealers' price."

Elbertas Mostly

Most of the peaches are the yellow
free-stone Elbertas. A few cars of
white peaches, of especially fine qual-
ity, also will be available. The fruit will
be packed according to U. S. standards
with a diameter of two inches and up.

Peaches will be sold at a guaran-
teed delivered price and orders placed
now will be received subject to final
approval price. No peaches will be
shipped, in other words, until the price
is agreed upon by both parties. Ship-
ments will begin Aug. 1 and will con-
tinue through the month of August.

"Early shipments usually sell for less
money than later ones," says Leeper,
"because the earlier fruit comes in
competition with peaches from other
growing sections." A carload of
peaches contains from 387 to 396
bushels, i ■ .

Congressman Henry T. Rainey will
address the I. A. A. District picnic at
Watseka on August 22. ...

COLORADO CYCLONE FATAL TO FOUR

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A CYCLONE that tore through Colorado about 50 miles north of Denver on June 29 took
'^ a toll of four lives and did property damage that will run into the hundreds and thou-
sands. The scene above was photographed near Johnstovm, Colorado, and shows homeless
pe<H>le wandering about the uprooted trees and razed houses looking for remnants of their
belongings.

WHY TAKE A
CHANCE?

4 DISASTER like the one pictured above can happen any-

_r\_ Avhere in Illinois. The Southern Illinois tornado of 1925

took a heavy toll. A tornado may strike your farm.

What if it does? Will you lose all, or will th) insurance

company reimburse you? t

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Why take a chance ^^'hen you can get protection against wind-
storms, cyclones, and tornadoes in your own company at cost?

" 1'
Also 'i

I
Hail Insurance for Grain,

Fruit, and Truck Crops. Fire

and Lightning Insurance.

• - for purticulars write

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Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Company

Ask your County
Farm Bureau

608 So. Dearborn
Chicago

See your local
Mutual Fire In-
surance Company

A LEGAL RESERVE MUTUAL

...J.

FARM BUREAL

AUTO INSURANCE
... and save

the difference^

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YOUR COMPANY pays back a higher percentage of the money
collected for losses than any other operating in Illinois.

This means that you pay less for equal insurance PROTECTION in
YOUR OWN COMPANY than you would pay in any other. There's a rea-
son. The Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co. was ORGANIZED
FOR and is CONTROLLED BY the FARM BUREAU members of the state ;
hence it makes no profits. The company is operated as a service to members. The
which privately owned companies keep, are returned by YOUR COMPANY in the
lower premiums and assessments.

profits,
form of

iiiino|. A»rt MutuM irsuranre cb. f I Peters Was Rc-Instated I ■■ . It.

nOR So. Dearborn St., Chicaffo.
Hear Sirs:

A few days aso we asked for a cancellation of our policy which you willingly sent. A friend of ours told of an insurance tliat lie had which was so much
cheaper. But come to And out. we can pay our premiums In your company and p:iy our $15 Farm Bureau dues at less cost tlian his insurance.

I am leturning check you tent as, also personal check covering the premium fur the coming or past six months. By doing this and paying our Farm
Hunau dues will it be possible for vs to be relnstaTed? We still have our policy, etc., Just as It was.
Hotting to hear from you atinut this matter, I thank you. HEY PETEIIS, Falrdale, III.

PROTECTION AGAINST FIRE, THEFT
PUBLIC MABILITY, COLLISION, AND

PROPERTY DAMAGE u

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Protect yourself against liability imposed by law for damage
your car does to persons and property. All losses paid promptly.

DON'T DELAY. MAIL THE COUPON at once and get full
information. ' *

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INSURANCE COMPANY

608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago

WATCH US GROW

"^v^ 8,878 POLICY HOLDERS

..„.^™.^ N^ on July 7; Assets $181,828.87

IlUnois Agricultural ^^

Mutual Insurance Co. s

608 So. Dearborn Street,
Chicago, 111.

Please send me full in- [
formation about Farm Bu-|
reau auto insurance.

I am a Farm Bureau Member in

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COME TO FARM BUREAU DAY, ILLINOIS STATE FAIR, AUG. Z4

Illinois A^icultural Association

RECORD

Volume 6

AUGUST, 1928

Number 8

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Caraway and Dickinson Speakers

Will Present Party Views On Agriculture On Farm Bureau Day, State Fair, Aug. 24 \ ■

SENATOR THAD-
DEUS H. CARA- .
WAY, of Arkansas,
that sharp, witty, dis-
cerning son of the
South who is at his
best on the speaking
platform ; who de-
lights in expounding
the virtues of De-
mocracy and defend-
ing its principles of
government has been
chosen by the Na-
t i o n a 1 Democratic
Committee to repre-
sent his party in a
discussion of the ag-
ricultural question on
the morning of Farm
Bureau Day at the
State Fair, Spring-
field, Friday, Aug. 24. Senator Cara-
way was an ardent supporter of the
McNary bill in the 70th Congress.

Congressman L. C. Dickinson of
Iowa, grrey-haired but young-looking,
vigorous, a practical politician, an ora-
tor of note, and a champion of the Mc-
Nary-Haugen surplus control measure
in the last two sessions of Congress
is the choice of the Republican National
Committee. He will present his party's
views on the farm issue from the same
platform with the Democratic senator
from Arkansas.

Both for Surplu* Control

What a setting for an interesting
time. Both men champions of the ve-
toed farm surplus control measure in
the 70th Congress and now both on
opposite sid^s of the fence working for
their party's success in November.

The two speakers will address the
farmers of Illinois at the invitation* of
the Illinois Agricultural Association.

Sen. T. H. Caraway

Congr. L. C. Dickinson

Previously the Association had invited
the two vice-presidential nominees, Sen-
ators Charles Curtis and Joseph T.
Robinson, to speak. Both declined. Then
the matter was left in the hands of the
two National Committees. Dickinson
and Caraway were named only last
week.

I. A. A. Policy Non-Partisan

In announcing this feature for Farm
Bureau Day, President Earl C. Smith
said, "The invitation to the two Parties
to provide representative speakers was
extended in pursuance of the Associa-
tion's policy to furnish full, fair, and
impartial information to our members
on political and partisan questions-
Farmers who hear these two men will
not be disappointed. Both are nation-
ally prominent, and both eminently
qualified in ability and experience to
discuss the agricultural question."

There All Week
The Illinois Agricultural Association

will be at the State
Fair the entire week
beginning Aug. 20.
Farm Bureau head-
quarters will be in a
large tent near the
grandstand. Several
department exhibits
illustrating the many
services available to
Farm Bureau mem-
bers in Illinois will
be presented.

There will be chairs,
drinking water,
checking facilities for
leaving wraps and
packages, and other
conveniences for the
benefit of visitors.

Fair Officials Co-operate '

The invitation to the two speakers
was made possible by the permission
and excellent co-operation of S. J.
Stanard, state director of agriculture,
and State Fair officials. The morning
special feature program will be called
off and the races postponed at least
half an hour after lunch to provide
ample time for Caraway and Dickin-
son to speak.

A public address system, permanent
equipment in the grandstand, will carry
the voices of the two speakers to re-
mote parts of the stand. .

The speaking program will begin
promptly at 10:30 a. m. Each speaker
will be given approximately an hour.
President Earl C. Smith of the I. A. A.
will be there to introduce the two men.

Farm Bureau headquarters on the
fair grounds will be open to all visitors
whether affiliated with the organization
or not.

Don*t Miss the I. A. A. Farm Bureau Picnic in Your District

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Pnge Two

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

I

Harvest Cuts Crowd j
At First I. A. A. Dist.

Picnic in DuPage Co.

Hear Earl C. Smith's Address Broadcast
Over New I. A. A. Amplifier

-, TTARVESTING and "picnicking"

|_ X "lix like oil and water.
\ And because the I. A. A. district pic-
nic at Herrick's Lake near Wheaton in
DuPage county came on July 25 when
farmers of the 10th and 11th districts
were riding their binders, the turnout
was not so heavy.
! Nevertheless, several hundred men
j and women, boys and girls, were there
I to enjoy a cool swim in this placid
i little lake, the shade of the spreading
J oaks and maples, the games and con-
tests, the music, and the clean-cut dis-
cussion of the agricultural problem
and the issues of the day by Earl C.
Smith, president of the Illinois Agri-
'■ cultural Association.

The I. A. A.'s latest acquisition, a
made-to-order public address system,
was used to call the swimmers up from
the lake for the afternoon program.

Vial Is Chairman

Harold C. Vial of Downers Grove
was master of ceremonies. He intro-
duced Earl Smith as the speaker of the
day after several popular songs had
been sung by the Woodstock male
quartet. George Metzger preceded
President Smith with a brief address
on organization. The St. Charles Boys'
Band supplied the music.
Although the crowd was small, the
*■ amplifier was placed in use. The speak-
er's voice could be heard far beyond
the last straggler at the edge of the
audience. The public address system
was pronounced a success. One listener
commented on the fact that he heard
a member of the quartet whisper con-
gratulations to his mates after a lusty
folk-song had been broadcast before
the microphone. Every sound made be-
fore the "mike" is amplified innumer-
able times.

K. T. Wright of the farm manage-

' ment department. University of Illi-

: nois, won first prize in the auto driv-

' ing and parking contest held after the

speaking program. Wright drove a

model T Ford and scored 350 out of a

possible 400 points. '

'' Second prize went to Dr. E. E.

Byrum, county veterinarian, who also

drove a Ford, and third prize to R.

Lichtenwalter, who drove a Dodge.

The contestants drove their cars around

a series of barrels placed in a row at

intervals. They were also made to

park their cars in a designated space

and to enter and leave an improvised

garage.

■ The contestants were judged on ease
of handling, gracefulness, accuracy,
time required, precaution, and careful-
ness in driving. Cars were inspected
for brakes and efficiency of operation,
and each contestant had to answer ten

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NEGLECTED WIVES

Orr in the Chicago Tribunt

questions on rules of the road and the
care of an automobile. The Illinois
Agricultural Mutual Insurance Com-
pany sponsored the contest which at-
tracted much interest.

A similar contest was held at the
Randolph County Farm Bureau picnic
on July 26. In the ladies contest the
winners were Florence Fulton, first, in
an Overland; Grace Wilson, second, in
a Ford, and Jean McHatton, third, in
a Ford. In the men's contest prizes
were awarded as follows: First, Joe
Smith, Ford; second, W. H. Moreland,
Chevrolet; and third, Roy McHatton,
Ford.

WALKS 70 MILES TO

I. A. A. MEETING

J. E. HARRIS

Farm Adviser J. E. Harris of Mercer county
broke all records recently by walking and
bumming his way for 70 miles to the I. A.
A. conference at Carthage.

Through a misunderstanding he was left
stranded west of Alexis in Warren county.
Instead of giving up and going home he
started out on foot about 9:00 «. m. and ar-
rived at the meeting in Carthage, more than
70 miles away, in time for lunch at 12:30.
He was picked up three different times bjr
•utomobilists.

24th District Passes I
Resolutions In Flora
Meeting On July

27

Members Urged to Continue Watchful
Waiting Policy

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FARMERS were urged to continue
their policy of watchful waiting
until the presidential candidates have
had an opportunity to interpret their
respective party platforms and state
specifically what
they intend to do
in resolutions
passed at the 24th
I. A. A. district
conference at Flora
on July 27.

Further resolu-
tions were passed
asking farmers to
rise above party
allegiance and
support only can-
didates definitely
committed to the
policy outlined above.

Representatives from the counties of
White, Edwards, Saline, Johnson, Gal-
latin, Clay, Wayne, and Marion at-
tended the meeting.

Charles Marshall of Belknap, I. A.
A. Executive Committeeman, called the
meeting to order. Leo Lybarger,
president of the Clay County Farm Bu-
reau, presided. George Metzger, di-
rector of organization, represented the
I. A. A.

It was agreed to hold the next con-
ference in Gallatin county.

Chas. Marshall

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Cabbage and Sauerkraut

CABBAGES for sauerkraut cost
approximately $2,500,000 per
year, according to the United States
Department of Agriculture. It is es-
timated that 250,000 tons of cabbages
were made into kraut in one year. This
was about one-half of the commercial
crop. Manufacturers sold the kraut
for more than $3,500,000.

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Helping Flood Victims

COUNTY agricultural agents in the
Mississippi flood areas are devot-
ing nearly all their time to aiding flood
sufferers in the rural areas. The prob-
lem of living with the evils the water
left after it has been tlfe primary
concern of those engaged in extension
service in these areas. Approximately
25,(ID0 horses and mules, 50,000 cattle,
148,000 hogs, and more than 1,000,000
chickens were lost in the 124 counties
experiencing the first overflow last
year.

(T^i^^^j? The c>^^

Illinois A^ctdtural Assodktioti

RECOI^D

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Publiihed mooUilj by tta« IlUnott Acrlcultural AiiocUtlon ac 404 North Wetler Ave., Mount Morris, IlL Entered at aecond elati matter at post-olllee at KoudI Morrla, HL.
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Volume 6

AUGUST, 1928

Number 8

Hoover States Position on AgricuUure

(Followino it the text of the Republican presi-
dential candidate's statement on agricutture
delivered in his speech of acceptance at Palo
Alto. Cal. on Aug. 11.)

"The most urgent economic problem
in our nation today is in agriculture.
It must be solved if we are to bring
prosperity and contentment to one
third of our people, directly and to all
of our people indirectly. We have
pledged ourselves to find a solution.

"In my mind most agricultural dis-
cussions go wrong because of two false
premises. The first is that agriculture
is one industry. It is a dozen distinct
industries incapable of the same organ-
ization. The second false premise is
that rehabilitation will be complete
when it has reached a point comparable
with that before the war. Agriculture
was not upon a satisfactory basis be-
fore the war. The abandoned farms
of the northeast bear their own testi-
mony. Generally there was but little
profit in midwest agriculture for many
years except that derived from the
slow increases in farm land values.
Even of more importance is the great
advance in standards of living of all
occupations since the war. Some
branches of agriculture have greatly
recovered, but taken as a whole it is
not keeping pace with the onward
march in other industries.

Many Factor* Involved

"There are many causes for failure
of agriculture to win its full share of
national prosperity. The after war de-
flation of prices not only brought great
direct losses to the farmer, but he was
often left indebted in inflated dollars
to be paid in deflated dollars. Prices
are often demoralized through gluts in
our markets during the harvest season.
Local taxes have been increased to pro-
vide the improved roads and schools.
The tariff on some products is proving
inadequate to protect him from im-
ports from abroad. The increases in
transportation rates since the war have
greatly affected the price which he re-
ceives for his products. Over six mil-
lion farmers in times of surplus engage
in destructive competition with one an-

President Earl C.

Smith Says :

Mr. Hoover in his acceptance speech
frankly recognizes that the most urg-
ent economic problem in our nation to-
day is agriculture; and that the solu-
tion of this question constitutes the
most important ohligation of the nation.
His general statement of the necessity
to estahlish for farmers an income
equal to that of other occupations is
good. No farm organization could ask
for more in the way of general ex-
pression. The responsibility of a farm
organization to its members, however,
requires that before a program can he
accepted as satisfactory, it must give
assurance of the means that will be
adequate to secure the ends promised.
This, in my judgment, Mr. Hoover's
statement fails to do. He promises
higher tariffs, waterway improvement
and a Farm Board to set up stabiliza-
tion corporations financed by Govern-
ment loans. This last proposal was
the basis of the Crips bill, which Con-
gress rejected in the last session and
which failed to secure farm support.

Mr. Hoover says the tariff is the
foundation of farm relief and promises
to use his office and influence to give
the farmer the full benefit of our his-
toric tariff policy. For five years,
western farmers have demanded not
only that agricultural tariffs be ade-
quate, hut that a way be found to make
such tariffs effective on that portion
of our surplus crops consumed at home.
On the latter, Mr. Hoover is silent.
This question has been too much in
the forefront of farm relief discussion
to be ignored. Farmers will want this
question answered before they go to
the polls in November.

other in the sale of their product, often
depressing prices below those levels
that could be maintained.

"The whole tendency of our civiliza-
tion during the last fifty years has
been toward an increase in the size of
the units of production in order to
secure lower costs and a more orderly
adjustment of the flow of commodities
to the demand. But the organization
of agriculture into larger units must
not be by enlarged farms. The farmer
has shown he can increase the skill of
his industry without large operations.
He is today producing 20 per cent more
than eight years ago with about the
same acreage and personnel. Farming
is and must continue to be an individ-
ualistic business of small units and in-
dependent ownership. The farm is
more than a business; it is a state of

living. We do not wish it converted
into a mass production machine. There-
fore, if the farmer's position is to be
improved by larger operations it must
be done not on the farm but in the
field of distribution. Agriculture has
partially advanced in this direction
through cooperatives and pools. But
the traditional cooperative is often not
a complete solution.

Common Ground Needed

"Differences of opinion as to both
causes and remedy have retarded the
completion of a constructive program
of relief. It is our plain duty to search
out the common g:round on which we
may mobilize the sound forces of agri-
cultural reconstruction. Our platform
lays a solid basis upon which we can
build. It offers an afl^rmative pro-
gram.

"An adequate tariff is the founda-
tion of farm relief. Our consumers in-
crease faster than our producers. The
domestic market must be protected.
Foreign products raised under lower
standards of living are today compet-
ing in our home markets. I would use
my office and influence to give the
farmer the full benefit of our historic
tariff policy.

"A large portion of the spread be-
tween what the farmer receives for his
products and what the ultimate con-
sumer pays is due to increased trans-
portation charges. Increase in railway
rates has been one of the penalties of
the war. These increases have been
added to the cost to the farmer of
reaching seaboard and foreign markets
and result therefore in reduction of
his prices. The farmers of foreign
countries have thus been indirectly
aided in their competition with the
American farmer. Nature has endowed
us with a great system of inland water-
ways. Their modernization will com-
prise a most substantial contribution to
midwest farm relief and to the devel-
opment of twenty of our interior
states. This modernization includes not
(Continued on page 6)

P(t</c T f'o

T,H K I.

A. KKC'onn

Harvest Cuts Crowd

At First I. A. A. Dist.

Picnic in DuPage Co.

NEGLECTED WIVES

24th District Passes

Resolutions In Flora
Meeting On July 27

Hear Earl C. Smith's Atldress Broadcast
Over New I. A. A. Amplifier

HARVESTING and "picnicking"
mix like oil and water. [
-And because the I. .\. A. district pic-
nic at IIciM-ick's Lake near Whbaton in
DuPaf^e county came on July ^5 when
farmers of the 10th and 11th jtlistricts
: were riding their binders, thefturnout
was not so heavy.

,Xevertheless, several hundiied men
and women, boys and girls, were there
to enjoy a cool swim in thi$ idacid
little lake, the shade of the sjM'cading
oaks and maples, the games and con-
tests, the music, and the clean-icut dis-
cussion of the agricultural problem
and the issues of the day by Earl C.
Smith, president of the Illinojs Agri-
cultural Association.

The I. A. A.'s latest acquisition, a
made-to-order public address ! system,
was used to call the swimmers ip from
the lake for the afternoon program.

Vial Is Chairman

Harold C. Vial of Downer:^ Grove
was master of ceremonies. He intro-
duced Earl Smith as the speaker of the
day after several popular sorigs had
been sung by the Woodstock male
(|uartet. George Metzger preceded
President Smith with a brief address
on organization. The St. Charles Boys'
Band supplied the music.

Although the crowd was smiall, the
am))lifier was i)laced in use. The speak-
er's voice could be heard far beyond
the last straggler at the edgel of the
audience. The jjublic address system
was pronounced a success. One listener
commented on the fact that h€ heard
:\ member of the quartet whisper con-
gratulations to his mates after a lusty
folk-song had been broadcast | befoie
the microphone. Every sound niade be-

' fore the "mike" is ami)litied irinumei-
able times. j

K. T. Wright of the farm ipanage-

• ment department. University pf Illi-
nois, won first prize in the auto driv-
ing and parking contest held after the
speaking program. Wright djrove a
model T Ford and scored 350 oiut of a
possible 400 points. |

Second prize went to Dr. E. E.
Byrum, county veterinarian, who also
drove a Ford, and third prize to R.
Lichtenwalter, who drove a Dodge.
The contestants drove their cars around
a series of barrels placed in a tow at
intervals. They were also made to
park their cars in a designated space
and to enter and leave an improvised
garage. ^

. The contestants were judged «n ease
of handling, gracefulness, accuracy,
time required, precaution, and careful-
ness in driving. Cars were inspected
for brakes and efficiency of operation,
and each contestant had to ans'syer ten

Ofr til tin (Viw.ijM 'J'ri'innt

questions on rules of the road and the
care of an automobile. The Illinois
.Agricultural Mutual Insurance Com-
pany sponsored the contest which at-
tracted much interest.

A similar contest was held at the
Handoli)h County Farm Bureau i)icnic
on July 2C. In the ladies contest the
winners were Florence Fulton, first, in
an Overland; Grace Wilson, second, in
a Ford, and Jean McHatton, third, in
a Ford. In the men's contest prizes
were awarded as follows: First, Joe
Smith. Ford; second. W. H. Moreland,
Chevrolet; and third, Roy McHatton.
Ford.

WALKS 70 .MILES TO

I. A. A. MEETING

J. E. HARRIS

Farm Adviser J. E. Harris of Mercer county
broke all records recently by walking and
bumming his way for 70 miles to the I. A.
A. conference at Carthage.

Through a misunderstanding he was left
stranded west of Alexis in Warren county.
Instead of giving up and going home he
started out on foot about 9:00 a. m. and ar-
rived at the meeting in Carthage, more than
70 miles away, in time for lunch at 12:30.
He was picked up three different time* by
automobilists.

Members Urged to Continue Watchful
Waiting Policy i

r*

FARMERS were urged to continue
their iiolicy of watchful waiting
until the i)residential candidates have
had art oppoi-tunity to interpret their
resjiective i)arty i)latforms and state
s|)e<^ifically what
they intend to do
in Resolutions
passed at the 24th
I. A. A. district
conference at Flora
oh July 27.

Further resolu-
tions were passed
asking farmers to
rise above party
allegiance and
support I only can-
didates definitely
committed to the
policy outlined above.

Representatives from the counties of
White. Edwards, Saline, Johnson, (;al-
latin, Clay, Wayne, and Marion at-
tended the meeting.

Charles Mar.shall of Belknap, I. A.
A. E.xecutive Committeeman, called the
meeting to- order. Leo Lybarger,
president of the Clay County Farm Bu-
reau, presided. George Metzger, di-
rector of organization, rejiresented the
I. A. A.

It was agreed to hold the next con-
ference in Gallatin county. .

Chas. Marshall

Cabbage and Sauerkraut

CABBAGES for sauerkraut cost
approximately $2,500,000 per
year, according to the United States
Department of Agriculture. It is es-
timate that 250,000 tons of cabbages
were made into kraut in one year. This
was about one-half of the commercial
crop." Manufacturers sold the kraut
for more than $3,500,000.

Helping Flood Victims

COUNTY agricultural agents in the
Mississippi flood areas are devot-
ing nearljr iill their time to aiding flood
suff'erers in the rural areas. The prob-
lem of living with the evils the water
left after it has been tlTe primary
concern of those engaged in extension
service in these areas. Approximately
25,000 horses and mules, 50,000 cattle,
148,000 hogs, and more than 1,000,000
chickens were lost in the 124 counties
experiencing the first overflow last
year.

<

Illinois A^cultural Associaticm

RECORD

Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Association at 404 North Wesley Are., Mount Morris. 111. Entered as second class matter at post-offlce at Mount Morrtl. III.,
October 20, 1925, under the Act of Mar. 3, 18"9. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of po=ta»:e provided in Section 112, Act of February 28. 192o. authorlz^-d October 27, 193S.

Volume 6

AUGUST, 1928

Number S

Hoover States Position on Agriculture

f Following is the text of the RcpubHcan prod-
(lential candiftate*8 statement on agriculfun
ttrf leered in hia 8t>eech of aeceptance at Palo
Aifo. Cal., U7I Aufj, 12.)

"The most urgent economic problem
in our nation today is in agriculture.
It must be solved if we are to bring
prosperity and contentment to one
third of our people directly and to all
of our people indirectly. We have
pledged ourselves to find a solution.

"In my mind most agricultural dis-
cussions go wrong because of two false
premises. The first is that agriculture
is one industry. It is a dozen distinct
industries incapable of the same organ-
ization. The second false premise is
that rehabilitation will be complete
when it has reached a point comparable
with that before the war. Agriculture
was not upon a satisfactory basis he-
fore the war. The abandoned farms
of the northeast bear their own testi-
mony. Generally there was but little
profit in midwest agriculture for many
years excejjt that derived from the
slow increases in farm land values.
Rven of more importance is the great
advance in standards of living of all
occupations since the war. Some
branches of agriculture have greatly
recovered, but taken as a whole it is
not keeping pace with the onward
march in other industries.

Many Factor* Involved

"There are many causes for failure
of agriculture to win its full share of
national prosperity. The after war de-
flation of prices not only brought great
direct losses to the farmer, but he was
often left indebted in inflated dollars
to be paid in deflated dollars. Prices
are often demoralized through gluts in
our markets during the harvest season.
Local taxes have been increased to pro-
vide the improved roads and schools.
The tariff on some products is proving
inadequate to protect him from im-
ports from abroad. The increases in
transportation rates since the war have
greatly aff"ected the price which he re-
ceives for his products. Over six mil-
lion farmers in times of surplus engage
in destructive competition with one an-

President Earl C.

Smith Says:

Mr. Hoover in his acceptance speech
frankly recognizes that the most urg-
ent economic problem in our nation to-
day is agriculture; and that the solu-
tion of this question constitutes the
most important obligation of the nation.
His general statement of the necessity
to establish for farmers an income
equal to that of other occupations is
good. No farm organization could ask
for more in the way of general ex-
pression. The responsibility of a farm
organization to its members, however,
requires that before a program can be
accepted as satisfactory, it must give
assurance of the means that will be
adequate to secure the ends promised.
This, in my judgment, Mr. Hoover's
statement fails to do. He promises
higher tariffs, waterway improvement
and a Farm Board to set up stabiliza-
tion corporations financed by Govern-
ment loans. This last proposal was
the basis of the Crips bill, which Con-
gress rejected in the last session and
which failed to secure farm support.

Mr. Hoover says the tariff is the
foundation of farm relief and promises
to use his office and influence to give
the farmer the full benefit of our his-
toric tariff policy. For five years,
western farmers have demanded not
only that agricultural tariffs be ade-
quate, but that a way be found to make
such tariffs effective on that portion
of our surplus crops consumed at home.
On the latter, Mr. Hoover is silent.
This question has been too much in
the forefront of farm relief discussion
to be ignored. Farmers will want this
question answered before they go to
the polls in November.

other in the sale of their product, often
depressing prices below those levels
that could be maintained.

"The whole tendency of our civiliza-
tion during the last fifty years has
been toward an increase in the size of
the units of production in order to
secure lower costs and a more orderly
adjustment of the flow of commodities
to the demand. But the organization
of agriculture into larger units must
not be by enlarged farms. The farmer
has shown he can increase the skill of
his industry without large operations.
He is today producing 20 per cent more
than eight years ago with about the
same acreage and personnel. Farming
is and must continue to be an individ-
ualistic business of small units and in-
dependent ownership. The farm is
more than a business; it is a state of

living. We do not wif^h it convertetl
into a mass production machine. There-
fore, if the farmer's position is to be
improved by larger operations it must
be done not on the fitrm but in the
field of distribution. Agriculture has
partially advanced in this direction
through cooperatives and pools. But
the traditional cobpek'aljive is ^ften not
a complete solution.

Common Ground Needed

"Difl'erences of opinion a.s to both
causes and remedy have retarded the
completion of a constiiuctive program
of relief. It is our plain duty ito search
out the common groun|d on which we
may mobilize the sound forces of agri-
cultural reconstruction. Our platform
lays a solid l)asis upon which we can
liuild. It ort"ers an affirmative pro-
gram.

"An adequate tariff is the founda-
tion of farm relief. Oui- consumers in-
crease faster than our productrs. The
domestic market masti be p(rotected.
Foreign products ra;iseld under lower
standards of living are today compet-
ing in our home markets. I would use
my office and influen<;e to give the
farnier the full benefit lof oui historic
tariff policy. ;

"A large portion of the spread be-
tween what the farmer receives for his
products and what the ultimlate con-
sumer pays is due to increased trans-
portation charges. Increase in railway
rates has been one of the penalties of
the war. These increases have been
added to the cost to the fa,rmer of
reaching seaboard and foreign markets
and result therefore in reduction of
his prices. The farmers of foreign
countries have thus been indirectly
aided in their competition with the
Anierican farmer. Nature has endowed
us with a great system of inland water-
ways. Their modernization will com-
prise a most substantial contribution to
midwest farm relief and to the devel-
opment of twenty of our interior
states. This modernization includes not
(Continued on page 6)

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

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RECORI>

To mdvunea thm purpotm for wMeh thm Farm Bureau oat organitad,
namely to promote, protect and repretent the butirtemm, eeonomio,
poUtieal, and educational interetta of the farmerm of llHnoit and the
nation, and to develop agriculture.

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OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith : Detroit

Vice-President, Frank D. Barton , Cornell

Treasurer, R. A. Cqwlea Bloomington

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

(By Congressional Districts)

1st to 11th H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

} Jth G. F. Tullock. Rockford

}«}» C. E. Bamborough. Polo

Jjtn .; M. G. Lambert, Ferris

}f«h A. N. Skinner, Yates City

fjth A. R. Wright, Varna

}'*}» Geo. J . Stoll, Chestnut

}5*P R- F. Karr, Iroquois

19th , J. L. WhUnand, Charleston

|Oth Charles S. Black, Jacksonville

••■* ■ » Saniuel Sorrells, Raymond

J*n? Frank Oexner, Waterloo

Mrd VV. L. Cope, Salem

Mth Charlea Marshall. Belknap

""> Fred Dietz, De Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Business Service Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lvnch

Limestone-Phosphate , J. R. Bent

Finance R. A. Cowlea

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

General Office J. H. Kelker

Information fe. G. Thiem

Insurance Service V. Vaniman

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing Rav E. Miller

Organization G. E. Metzger

Po«»ltry and Egg Marketing' F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics -» J. C. Watson

Transportation L. J. Quasey

Farmers Win In Tennessee

SENATOR KENNETH McKELLAR won a sweeping
victory over Congressman Finis J. Garrett, minority
leader of the Democratic party, in the race in Tennessee
for the Senatorial nomination. McKellar's lead will likely
m.ount to 50,000 majority when the final returns are re-
ceived. McKellar carried nine of the ten congressional
districts in the State.

And farm relief was the issue.

More farmers in Tennessee are alive to the need of
surplus control legislation than ever before.

"It's unconstitutional," shouted Garrett from a number
of stumps.

"Let the Supreme Court of the United States say so,"
was McKellar's rejoinder.

"It involves bureaucracy," asserted Garrett.

"We've set up bureaucracies for everybody else. Let's
do something for the farmer," replied McKellar.

"It won't work; it's economically unsound," proclaimed
Garrett.

"That's what they said about Fulton's steamboat," re-
plied McKellar.

"The equalization fee involves taxing the farmer," de-
clared Garrett.

From McKellar: "Look how the farmer is taxed by
the effect of uncontrolled surplus production, and how
much an equalization fee, whjch would give him bargain-
ing power, would save him."

Back and forth the debate swept over the state. And
the whole nation looked on. ,

For Senator McKellar was the first democratic senator

from the South to espouse the cause of the farmers; and
the first publicly to announce his support of the McNary-
Haugen bill. McKellar's candidacy was not^helped by the
fact that he was seeking the nomination for the third
term. No Tennessee Senator has served three terms since
the Civil War.

Other issues in the campaign were soldier legislation,
• the Esch-Cummings bill, woman suffrage, and labor leg-
islation. But the farm issue transcended them all.

If there is doubt that the cotton growers and the tobacco
raisers in the south are interested in surplus control leg-
islation, look to Tennessee.

For Tennessee, for the last two months, has been the
battleground. Every argument of the Coolidge Republicans
was echoed by reactionary democrats and by Garrett.
Every argument was met and answered by McKellar, to
the satisfaction of the voters of Tennessee.

Washingfton says the farmers won't vote for their own
interests. Let official Washington look to Tennessee.

Opponents of justice to the farmers say that the demand
for farm legislation is voiced by a few job-holders who are
farming the farmers. Let these look to Tennessee.

Down in the old Volunteer State lives Senator McKel-
lar, the tried and trusted champion of the farmers.

He has been re-nominated for the Senate, in a state
where nomination is almost equivalent to election. His
majority is overwhelming. He swept nine of the ten Con-
gressional districts. He defeated Finis Garrett, arch-enemy
of justice to the farmer, of equality for agriculture.

The farmers of Tennessee rallied to McKellar as never
before. By their votes, they proclaimed to the nation:
"He has fought the good fight; he has kept the faith!"

At Albany i i

IN LINE with the non-partisan policy of the Illinois
Agricultural Association to be impartial in present-
ing facts to its members, and in expressing itself fear-
lessly and honestly on agricultural questions as it sees
them. President Earl C. Smith journeyed with other farm
leaders to Albany, New York, recently at the invitation of
Gov. Alfred E. Smith to discuss the economics involved
in surplus control legislation.

Those attending the conference held in the Governor's
mansion on August 13 were Geo. N. Peek, Earl C. Smith,
Wm. Hirth of Missouri, Frank Murphy of Minnesota, J.
N. Kehoe of Kentucky, B. W. Kilgour of North Carolina,
Wm. H. Settle of Indiana, and Chester C. Davis of Illinois.

Following the conference, the leaders authorized that
the following statement be made:

We came to Albany at the invitation of Governor
Smith to discuss the agricultural problem with him, and
to explain our view of national policies which should be
adopted toward its solution. We were not invited to dis-
cuss' the political situation in our states or sections.

In general, our position, as explained to Governor
Smith, is that before ag:riculture can be afforded stability
and protection equivalent to that developed for other
groups, an effective control of agricultural surpluses must
be provided, which will permit the handling of supplies
that are in excess of seasonal or domestic requirements,
independently of the portion needed at home. If such
surplus control is to be effective, and if treasury subsidy
is to be avoided, we' explained our conviction that the
costs involved in handling the surplus must be assessed
against the units of the commodity benefited.

We expressed the view that if the surplus crops of
agriculture are to secure without government subsidy the
results from tariffs that compact industrial groups secure,
these principles must be embodied in national legislation.
, We were pleased with the Governor's interest in and
understanding of the agricultural problem.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Five

Farm Congressmen

To Speak At Coming

I. A. A. Dist. Picnics

Ed. A. O'Neal of Alabama To Talk At

Freeport, Bloomington, and

Jacksonville

1EADING corn belt congressmen,
J all of whom were in the forefront
of the fight for surplus control legis-
lation in the 70th session of congress,
are scheduled as speakers at coming
I. A. A. district picnics.

A short sketch of Congressman Chas.
Adkins who speaks at Marion and Ma-
comb appears on page 10 in this is-
sue. Congressman Adkins is an old
war horse, thoroughly experienced and
schooled in the game of politics. He
got his training in Illinois, first in Piatt
county, later in the state legislature
where he became speaker of the house,
and following his service there. Gov.
Frank 0. Lowden appointed him as his
state director of agriculture in 1917.

Able In Debate

Adkins is the rough and ready type
but he's long-headed, an able man in
debate, and has a background of farm
experience that places him distinctly
at an advantage when answering the
arguments of opponents to farm leg-
islation. The congressman from De-
catur is an interesting speaker. He
can be depended upon to please his au-
dience.

Gilbert N. Haugen of Iowa is char-
acterized by his bull-dog determination
and tenacity. He hammers away un-
til the opposition weakens. Not a bril-
liant speaker, but sound and deliberate
he is. His honesty and sincerity is
impressive, and he knows his agricul-
ture. Haugen comes from hardy Nor-
wegian stock. He was born in Rock
county, Wisconsin, April 21, 1859.
That makes him 69 years old, but he
is a vigorous man for his age.

Entered Politici Early

After securing a common school edu-
cation, he entered business at the age
of 14. When 18 years old he purchased
a farm in Worth county, Iowa, continu-
ing his studies in Decorah, Iowa, and
finishing with a course at Janesville,
Wis.

He was one of the organizers and
has been president of the Northwood
(Iowa) Banking Company since 1890,
operating banks at Northwood and
Kensett. Mr. Haugen entered politics
in his home county and became county
treasurer in 1887.

He Was twice a member of the Iowa
House of Representatives. In 1899
he was elected to Congress, and since
that time he has represented his dis-
trict in the House of Representatives
at Washington continuously. Mr. Hau-
gen is chairman of the Committee on
Agriculture in the House and is author
of the Haugen Packer Control and
Stockyards Act. More recently he has
become nationally known'through spon-

soring the Haugen farm surplus con-
trol bill in the House.

He is a Republican and his home is
in Northwood, Iowa.

Long a Congressman

Congressman Henry T. Rainey of
Carrollton is something of a polished
gentleman farmer and ex-lawyer who
was educated at Amherst in the east,
the college of Calvin Coolidge and
Dwight Morrow. He took his law work
at Northwestern in Chicago. He knows
agriculture from first hand experience
for he lives on and manages a farm in
Greene county. Congressman Rainey
is one of the oldest members of Con-
gress in point of service. He has rep-
resented the 20th Illinois district for
24 years. He is Democratic nominee
for the 71st congress.

He has represented the agricultural
constituency in his district well, and in
the last congress he was a strong sup-
porter of the farm surplus control
measure bearing Mr. Haugen's name.
He will speak at Watseka on Aug. 22
and at Olney on Aug. 30.

O'Neal Of Alabama

Ed O'Neal of Alabama has been in-
troduced heretofore to members of the
Farm Bureau in Illinois. He is vice-
president of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation. The serious picture
of O'Neal on page 7 is not characteris-
tic for he usually wears a broad smile
and exudes optimism. Some of his
friends occasionally refer to him jocu-
larly as the "Wild Irishman" but as
a farm organization executive he is
anything but that. Good business judg-
ment and ability in addition to his en-
thusiasm and knowledge of organiza-
tion have placed Ed O'Neal high in the
ranks of farm leaders.

O'Neal makes an interesting and in-
structive talk. He knows the problems
of the cotton farmers and his long ex-
perience in managing the Alabama Cot-
ton Co-operative Association has given
him a practical knowledge of market-
ing farm products and the business
side of agriculture.

The counties which will participate
in the district picnics at Bloomington,
Freeport, and Jacksonville on Aug. 31,
Sept. 1, and Sept. 3 respectively are
fortunate in securing O'Neal as the
speaker of the day.

Veteran Manager Says ,

Producer Service Is '
11 O. K. ; Is Old Shipper

Schuyler Association Prospers

SINCE its doors were opened for
business on March 9, 1928, the
Schuyler County Produce Association
at Rushville had handled 28,475 pounds
of butterfat, 27,685 dozens of eggs,
and 7,215 pounds of poultry up to July
1. The Association likewise had ac-
cumulated a surplus of $973.15, all of
which belongs to the patrons of the or-
ganization.

Sends All Livestock To Chicago Producers

RJ. BEATTY, manager of the
• Woodstock Shipping Association
in McHenry County, 111., says, "Pro-
ducer service can't be beat. There is
not a firm that does more for the farm-
ers."

Prior to taking over the management
of the Woodstock Association, Beatty
bought and shipped livestock from that
community for 35 years. He has man-
aged the Association for three years
and ships practically all of his stock to
the Chicago Producers. He reports
that his membership is well satisfied
and says that there is no disposition
to demand that the Association con-
sign its shipments to firms other than
the Producers.

Mr. Beatty believes in going to mar-
ket with his shipments because it keeps
him in closer touch with the market
and is helpful in explaining sales to
his patrons. He knows the producer
salesmen intimately, having done busi-
ness with Ed. Stephens, particularly,
for 30 years. He says, "There's a man
that can't be influenced and there is no
better judge of cattle anywhere." He
speaks with equal confidence of the
other salesmen on the producer staff.

The Woodstock Association shipped
112 carloads to the Chicago producers
during the year ending June 30, 1928.
A good deal of this livestock was
brought into the loading point *in a
truck owned by Mr. Beatty. He does
rot figure to make a profit on the op)€ra-
tion of the truck, although he charges
sufficient to cover cost of operation and
the employment of the necessary labor
to run the truck. During the busy
season, at least 50% of the livestock
is trucked in and throughout the year
this service is used and appreciated by
the patrons. While Woodstock is only
about 50 miles from the Chicago mar-
ket, Beatty reports that trucking com-
petition has not cut into his business
to any material extent and he attrib-
utes this to the fact that he is giving
his patrons trucking service from their
farms to the loading point. — Ray E.
Miller, director livestock marketing.

National Air Highway -

THE awarding of contracts covering
radio equipment for 12 radio con-
trol stations, six radio beacons, and 12
marker beacons to be established on
the national airways was announced
recently by the Assistant Secretary of
Commerce for Aeronautics, William P.
MacCracken, Jr. i

The Condit Farm Bureau unit in
Champaign county recently decided to
organize a baseball team to compete
in the County Farm Bureau League.

FIFTY-FIVE THOUSAND OF THE
188,000 farmers in New York State
have electricity either from a central
station or from their own plants, ac-
cording to an estimate by the New
York State College of Agriculture. ^

Page Six

Hoover on Agriculture

(Continued from page 3)
only the great Mississippi system, with
its joining of the great lakes and of
the heart of midwest agriculture to the
gulf, but also a shipway from the great
lakes to the Atlantic. These improve-
ments would mean so large an incre-
ment in farmers' prices as to warrant
their construction many times over.
There is no more vital method of farm
relief.

Pledges Marketing Aid

"But we must not stop here.

"An outstanding proposal of the
party program is the whole-hearted
pledge to undertake the reorganization
of the marketing system upon sounder
and more economical lines. We have
already contributed greatly to this
purpose by the acts supporting farm
cooperatives, the establishment of in-
termediate credit banks, the regulation
of stockyards, public exchanges, and
the expansion of the department of
agriculture. The platform proposes to
go much farther. It pledges the crea-
tion of a federal farm board of repre-
sentative farmers to be clothed with
authority and resources with which not
only to still further aid farmers' co-
operatives and pools and to assist
generally in solution of farm problems,
but especially to build up with federal
finance farmer-owned and farmer-con-
trolled stabilization corporations which
will protect the farmer from the de-
pressions and demoralization of season-
al gluts and periodical surpluses.

"Objection has been made that this
program, as laid down by the party
platform, may require that several
hundred millions of dollars of capital
be advanced by the federal govern-
ment without obligation upon the indi-
vidual farmer. With that objection I
have little patience. A nation which is
spending ninety billions a year can well
afford an expenditure of a few hundred
millions for a workable progrram that
will give to one-third of its population
their fair share of the nation's pros-
perity. Nor does this proposal put the
government into business except so far
as it is called upon to furnish initial
capital with which to build up the
farmer to the control of his own
destinies.

An Enduring Program

"This program adapts itself to the
variable problems of agriculture not
only today but those which will arise
in the future. I do not believe that
any single human being or any group
of human beings can determine in ad-
vance all questions that will arise in
in so vast and complicated an industry
qver a term of years. The first step is

President Sam H.

Thompson Says:

"Farm people will be dis-
appointed with Mr. Hoover's
statements regarding agriculture.
They had every right to expect a
specific outlined proposal on ag-
ricultural relief."

This statement was made at
the conclusion of Herbert Hoo-
ver's acceptance speech by Sam
H. Thompson, president of the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion,

"In dealing with the agricul-
tural problem, Mr. Hoover in his
speech of acceptance shows no
progress 'in advanced thought
that would provide fundamental
principles for a concrete market-
ing policy for American agrricul-
ture," Mr. Thompson added.

"Mr. Hoover does not amplify
the broad general statement con-
tained in the 1928 Republican
platform."

to create an effective agency directly
for these purposes and to give it
authority and resources. These are
solemn pledges and they will be ful-
filled by the Republican party. It is a
definite plan of relief. It needs only
the detailed elaboration of legislation
and appropriations to put it into force.

"During my term as secretary of
commerce I have steadily endeavored
to build up a system of cooperation
between the government and business.
Under these cooperative actions all
elements interested in the problem of
a particular industry, such as manu-
facturer, distributor, worker, and con-
sumer, have been called into council
together, not for a single occasion, but
for continuous work. These efforts
have been successful beyond any ex-
pectation. They have been accom-
plished without interference or regu-
lation by the government. They have
secured progress in the industries,
remedy for abuses, elimination of
waste, reduction of cost in production
and distribution, lower prices to the
consumer, and more stable employment
and profit. While the problem varies
with every different commodity and
with every different part of our great
country, I should wish to apply the
same method to agriculture so that the
leaders of every phase of each g^roup
can advise and organize on policies and
constructive measures. I am convinced
that this form of action, as it has done
in other industries, can g^reatly benefit
farmer, distributor, and consumer.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

"The working out of agricultural re-
lief constitutes the most important ob-
ligation of "the next administration.
I stand pledged to these proposals. The
object of our policies is to establish
for our farmers an income equal to
those of other occupations; for the
farmer's wife the same comforts in her
home as women in other groups; for
the farm boys and girls the same op-
portunities in life as other boys and
girls. So far as my own abilities may
be of service, I dedicate them to help
secure prosperity and contentment in
that industry where I and my fore-
fathers were born and nearly all my
family still obtain their livelihood."

Lowers Shipping Cost

A SUMMARY of shipping costs from
the Illinois Valley Shipping Asso-
ciation at South Ottawa, 111., covering
exactly two years, indicates an average
cost per hundred weight of 1.8c less
on shipments to Producer Agencies as
compared to all shipments to non-co-
operative commission firms. The aver-
age cost per hundred pounds on con-
signments to Chicago Producers was
51.9c as against 53.7c to all others.

0. D. Center, manager of this As-
sociation, believes that the principle of
co-operation should be applied in the
selling of livestock at the Terminal
niarket as well as in the shipment from
local points. His experience with the
producers has convinced him that this
Cooperative Commission Association is
rendering as good or better service
than he is able to get on the Terminal
niarket and at less cost, besides the
satisfaction of knowing that his Asso-
ciation is co-operating in the develop-
ment of a selling organization under
the control of the livestock producer.
—Ray E. Miller.

Mendota Association

Has Trucking Service

"C^D. BROWN, manager of the Men-
■L^ dota Shipping Association, LaSalle
county, has found that his members
appreciate the trucl< service which he
offers them in getting their livestock
fiom their farms to the loading point
So far this year the Mendota Ship-
ping Association has sent in 128 car-
loads of livestock. Mr. Brown reports
that he is drawing shipments from a
widely extended territory through the
truck service which he offers. The
truck is owned by the manager per-
sonally and charges are based upon
the amount hauled and the distance
covered. A special effort is made to so
route the drivers that the livestock can
be hauled at minimum expense to his
shippers. — Ray E. Miller, director live-
stock marketing.

Uncle Ab says: Don't give up in a
tight place; the worse it gets the more
likely it is to get better.

,1

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Sev«n

BASEBALL
DOPE

Eligibility Question

Baseball Commissioner,

Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball League.

"During our recent membership drive
we sig:ned up many new members for
the new three-year period which be-
gins on October 1, 1928. (Jur Execu-
tive Committee voted to give these new
members Farm Bureau service imme-
diately, that is, during the summer
months. For example, they may avail
themselves of the opportunity to buy
serum and virus even though a non-
member is not granted this privilege.

"Now then, can we say to any of
these men interested in baseball that
they are eligible to play on our base-
ball team, although their membership
period does not begin until October 1?
We would like very much to be able to
grant them this privilege along with
our other privileges. We have one or
two good prospects."

HARRISON FAHRNKOPF,
Farm Adviser, McLean County."
Answer: —

If the Farm BOreau chooses to give
a man full and regular standing as a
Farm Bureau member after signing,
there is no reason why he or a mem-
ber of his family should be barred from
playing Farm Bureau baseball. When
the Farm Bureau serves such people on
the same basis as it does old members,
in effect it says that such men are
members in good and regular standing.
Therefore they should be allowed to
play.

Champaign Beats DeWitt

CHAMPAIGN county defeated De-
Witt in a one-sided game played
at the 19th district I. A. A. picnic at
Sullivan on Aug. 10. The score was
17 to 2. Champaign made 11 hits to
DeWitt's 5. At least part of the large
number of runs made by Champaign
were due to DeWitt county's five er-
rors. Champaign made three.

The game was played before a large
picnic crowd following the speaking
program. Batteries for DeWitt were
W. Bell and B. Mills, pitchers, and L.
Bell, catcher. Buddemeier and Parker
acted for Champaign. The same two
teams were scheduled to cross bats
again at the Atlanta Fair, on Aug. 14.
McLean and Logan counties are lead-
ing in this division.

THE REMOVAL OF RUBBISH
and unnecessary accumulation of com-
bustible materials is important in les-
sening the number of farm fires, says
the National Fire Protection Associa-
tion. Rubbish accumulated during the
winter should be burned now.

O'NEAL IS LAUDED

Ed A. O'Neal

Senator Key Pittman of Nevada
paid the following tribute recently to
Ed A. O'Neal, who speaks at the I.
A. A. Farm Bureau district picnics to
be held at Bloomington, Aug. 31,
Freeport, Sept. 1, and Jacksonville,
Sept. 3, for his good work in present-
ing the need for an adequate farm
plank at the Democratic National Con-
vention, Houston :

"It was due to the clear and patient
arguments made by you, George N.
Peek, and others that resulted in the
adoption of the farm plank in the
party platform."

OFFICIAL STANDING OF TEAMS IN THE

ILLINOIS FARM BUREAU BASEBALL LEAGUE

FOR WEEK ENDING AUGUST II, 1921

DIvUiM I W. L. Pet. Divlsian

W. L. Pet.

750
250

Henry 4 0 1000 McDonoush ...3 1

Whiteside 0 2 000 Ilenderson 1 S

Stark _ 0 2 000

Division III W. L. Pet. OlvisiM IV W. U Pet.

1 833 Loean ...._ 4 0 1000

3 500 McLran 3 2

Champaign ....3 3
500 DeWitt 0 5

Tazewell 5

Woodford 3

Marshall-
Putnam 3

Peoria 1

Division V W. L.

Cass 5 1

Morsan 3 1

Slason 0 3

Scott 0 3

166

Pet. Division VII W. L.

833 Jefferson 4 0

750 Washington ....1 2

000 Clay 0 3

000

600
500
000

Pet.

1000
333
000

Division VIII W. L. Pet.

Lawrence 2 0 1000

Wayne 0 2 000

Results Games

AUGUST 4, 1928 (At Arenzville)

Cass 11 11 hits — 2 errors

Morgan 6 11 hits — 4 errors

AUGUST 6

Henderson 10 McDonough 2

(No other details reported)

AUGUST 10 (At Sullivan)

Champaign 17 5 hits — 3 errors

DeWitt 2 5 hits — 5 errors

RADIO

NEWS

New Radio Features

NEW radio features, recently an-
nounced by the United States
Department of Agriculture for the
coming fall, will include the U. S. Ra-
dio Farm Forum, Outdoors with the
Scientist, Farm Science Snapshots, and
the Agricultural Situation.

The Farm Forum will be broadcast
exclusively on the I. A. A. program
from WJJD, Mooseheart, in this terri-
tory beginning October 1. The Farm
Forum will be a daily discussion of
farm problems. Much of it will be de-
voted to useful economic information.

The Agricultural Situation will be
broadcast the first Monday of each
month. This will be a fifteen-minute
summary of farm conditions in the
corn belt.

Morse Salisbury, director of radio for
the U. S. Department of Agriculture,
visited the I. A. A. radio studio recently
when he outlined the department's pro-
gram for the coming fall and winter.

A

Hancock Demonstrates

Grape Spray Schedule

COMPLETE spraying sche(Jule for
grapes is being demonstrated in
the old Nauvoo vine-yard section of
Hancock county under the auspices cf
the Hancock County Farm Bureau and
the University of Illinois.

An effort is being made to show
what can be done toward producing
clean fruit free from the berry moth
and brown rot, and to prevent damage
to vines by grape root worms, leaf
hoppers, and other insects.

Check plots have been left in the
vineyards on the George Marzolf and
Richard Baxter farms. Other experi-
ments are being conducted to show the
use of fertilizers and to learn which
method of pruning is most successful.

Grape growing is an important in-
dustry in the Nauvoo territory.

Co-operation Pays in '

Minnesota, Prices Show

"TAURING the week ending April 22,
■•--' dairymen in one section of Min-
nesota received 51 cents per pound
butterfat for sour No. 1 cream, accord-
ing to a statement made by a prom-
inent Chicago commission merchant.
Sweet cream brought 54 cents per
pound butterfat.

During the same week, states Frank
Gougler, director of produce market-
ing for the L A. A., the Illinois cream
stations paid on the average only 42
to 43 cents, a discount of eight to nine
cents from the Minnesota prices.

Page Eight

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Law Is Unfair To

Corn Sugar, Wider Use
Will Help Price Corn

By Mrs. Thora M. Car me An
Caaner, lllinots i

Mrs. Carmean

THE farmer wants more corn used
and a better price for corn sold.
The governmental discriminations
against corn sugar
must be removed.

The corn belt
farmer is overlook-
ing an opportunity
which, if seized,
would improve his
market an4 put dol-
lars in his pocket.
Corn sugar offers
this opportunity — a
sugar manufactured
from a product of
the corn belt — a
fine white sugar
generally used in hospitals and sani-
tariums because of its wholesomeness
and food value — a sugar rated by the
Journal of the American Medical As-
sociation as "par excellence the physi-
ologic sugar."

The purity, wholesomeness and food
value of corn sugar is accepted with-
out question by the medical profession
as well as the U. S. Department of
Agriculture, which is responsible for
the administration of the Pure Food
and Drugs Act of 1906. The arbitrary
system of definitions and standards,
under which this Act is administered,
requires special label mojition of the
use of corn sugar, dextrose, as an in-
gredient, although declaration of the
use of imported foreign sugars is not
repuired. On account of this unfair
discrimination, potential consumers of
large quantities of corn sugar refuse
to use it except in those 'products
where this discrimination does not pre-
vail. I
Need Protection I
The United States sends between
four and five hundred million dollars
into foreign countries every year in
pjayment for sugar produced by cheap
fbreign labor. A large portion of that
amount could be directed into the
pockets of her own citizens in return
for sugar of equal, if not greater,
merit. Not content with allowing the
foreign sugar interests to dominate the
poli(*y by which that portion of the
Pure Food and Drugs Act is admin-
istered, a very light tariff of $2.21 per
cwt. has been placed on foreign sugar,
while Cuba is allowed a preferential
rate of 80 per cent of that paid by
other foreign countries.

Bills To Be Introduced

It is up to the farmers to work
through the agricultural organizations
to bring about a change of attitude on
the part of the Department of Agri-
culture toward the use of corn sugar
and through Senators and Representa-
tives in Congress to secure enactment

of proper leg^islation to remove this un-
just discrimination against an impor-
tant product of the American farms.
Bills having this purpose are noW be-
fore the U. S. Senate and House of
Representatives, but thus far organ-
ized agrriculture has withheld endorse-
ment. This attitude of aloofness should
be changed without delay.

When we buy twenty-five pounds of
corn sugar, we are buying a bushel of
our own corn. If we can help create
a market for corn at $1 or $1.25 a
bushel, it will be to our advantage to
do it. *

14th District OK's

Insurance Program
Endorses I. A. A. Policy

Urge That Members Weigh All Facts In
Coming Contest

O ESOLUTIONS were adopted at the
■•- *■ I. A. A. district conference, Car-
thage, on July 27, urging that life in-
surance be made available as soon as
possible to members, commending
Farm Bureau leaders for their action
in political matters, and urging that
members remain open-minded regard-
ing their political allegiance until the
Illinois Agricultural Association can
give full information concerning the
stand and records of all candidates.

Nearly 50 leaders in the 14th dis-
trict attended the meeting. Hancock
county had the largest representation.
A. D. Lynch, director of dairy market-
ing for the I. A. A., discussed the value
of collective effort in marketing dairy
products. R. J. Hamilton talked on
Farm Bureau organization. Executive
Committeeman M. G. Lambert pre-
sided. The late Sidney S. Carney of
Rock Island acted as secretary of the
meeting.

Messages by Wireless

THE Radio Corporation of America
recently applied to the Federal
Radio Commission for construction per-
mits to cover 65 short wave transmit-
ters for the establishment of a domes-
tic communications network serving 24
important cities throughout the United
States.

"It is our intention," said the appli-
cation, "to provide rapid and direct
conneption between our international
transoceanic service now operated
from New York and San Francisco,
and the largest possible number of im-
portant points within this country,
thus supplying the need for an all-
radio international telegraphic service
not now available to the public except
in New York, San Francisco, Boston,
and Washington. In conjunction
therewith we w^ill offer a domestic
radio telegraph service competing
favorably in quality and in rates with
the existing wire line telegraphs."

Farm Adviser Carney

Answers Last Call
Many Attend Funeral

Was One of Outstanding Men In Farm
Bureau Movement

Sidney S. Carney

MORE than 300 Farm Bureau
members, farm advisers, busi-
ness men, and representatives of local
and state-wide or-
ganizations a t -
tended the services
held for Sidney S.
Carney, Rock
Island county farm
adviser, in the
chapel at Rock
Island Monday,
July 30. Burial
took place the fol-
lowing day from
the First Metho-
dist Church at Ro-
chelle from which

the body was taken to the ceme-
tery at Greenwood, north of Woodstock
in McHenry county.

Mr. Carney lost his life in an auto-
mobile accident on Friday night, July
27, when A. D. Lynch and R. J. Ham-
ilton of the I. A. A., who were riding
with him, were injured. Glenn West-
cott, a passenger in the other car, died
after the collision. Three other pas-
sengers were seriously injured.
Born Near Steward

Carney was born near Steward in
Lee county, April 25, 1889.

After graduating from the local
schools he attended Evanston Academy
and later entered the University of
Illinois where he graduated with hon-
ors from the College of Agriculture.
After securing his Master's degree he
became a member of the teaching staff
in the Agronomy Department where
he served for five years. He left the
University to become farm adviser in
Rock Island county, February 1, 1925.
His ability was soon recognized, and as
a result of his hard faithful work the
Rock Island County Farm Bureau was
strengthened and improved in member-
ship and activities.

During the war Carney served as a
Lieutenant in the Reserve Corps.

He was a Mason, president of the
Rock Island Kiwanis Club, a member
of the American Legion, a member of
the Elks lodge, and while at the Uni-
versity was elected to Sigma Xi, hon-
orary scientific fraternity.

He is survived by his wife, for-
merly Miss Mildred Marble of Green-
wood, McHenry county, and by his
mother, a brother, and five sisters. .

Farm Adviser Frank Barrett of
Pike county tendered his resignation
recently to become effective Septem-
ber 1.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Nine

Picnic Crowds Grow

In Size As Season
Advances, Last, Sept. 3

Harvest Conflicts With Gatherings At
Taylorville, Highland and Sullivan

be modified and that the Drys should
lead in the modification, not the Wets.

Study the I«>ues

"Farmers should study both plat-
forms and also the promises made by
both candidates and vote for what
they believe to be the best for their

,~__._,^ ■, . . . . ,-,,,, business and their families," said Mr.

pjISTRICT I. A. A. picmcs held last ^^^^^^ ..-^g g^ould not allow any

'-^ week at Taylorville, Highland and other issue to confuse our minds on
Sullivan were highly successful in spite this question.

of the fact that they •..■-•^ . .»

competed with thresh-
ing in each case. Be-
ginning with the pic-
nic at Taylorville on
Aug. 8, which drew a
crowd estimated at
3,000 to 5,000, at-
tendance increased at
the gatherings held
in the days following
at Highland and Sul-
livan. More than
5,000 crowded into
Wyman Park, Sulli-
van, the scene of the
19 th district gather-
ing on Aug. 10, ac-
cording to official ob-
servers.

Wm. H. Settle, of

Indiana, known to corn belt farmers as "Now seems to be the opportune
"Fighting Bill," spoke at all three pic- time to secure for agriculture legisla-
nics. His listeners were not disappoint- tion that will place the industry on an

J. L. Whisnand, Con. Chas. Adkins and Wm. H. Settle at Sullivan

ed. Mr. Settle laid bare the issues of
the campaign, reiterated organized
farmers' stand on the agricultural
question, fearlessly discussed candi-
dates as well as principles, and chal-
lenged the world to
dispute his assertions
as they were vigor-
ously marshalled out
for the enlightenment
of his thousands of
interested listeners.
Public Address
System

With the help of
the public address
.system which carried
the speaker's voice to
remote parts of the
picnic grounds, Settle
probably reached
10,000 people in the
t h r e e-day speaking
tour.

At Taylor ville.
President Earl C.
Smith again empha-
sized the policies of
the I. A. A. in po-
litical affairs which
were fully presented
in the last issue of the Record. He
urged that farmers study the issues
of the day, fully inform themselves on
the expressions of candidates, and vote
for the best interests of agriculture.

Settle spoke approvingly of the
Democratic farm plank and of the
presidential candidate's frankness in
asserting he would stand on that plank
as adopted at Houston. He expressed
the belief that the prohibition act must

equal basis with other great industries,
and establish a permanent policy with
a degree of bargaining power which
is essential to the farming business as
it is for any other business that can

O. Whitler and C. Whitler of Macoupin Co., Horseshoe Champs at Taylorville

ever hope for success," continued
Settle.

"Regardless of who is selected Pres-
ident, a majority of the agricultural
people of the country will carry on this
fight until victory is attained and the
American farmers will have secured
equality with industry and labor under
our protective policy."

Executive Committeemen Samuel
Sorrells, Frank Oexner, and J. L. Whis-

nand presided at the 21st, 22nd and
19th district picnics, respectively.

' Whitlers Champ Pitchers '

O. Whitler and his brother, C. Whit-
ler, of Macoupin county, carried off
the honors in horseshoe pitching at
Taylorville. Macoupin and Christian
counties each entered two teams, San-
gamon and Montgomery counties only
one. Frank Ritchie and Tollie Whitler,
another brother, also of Macoupin,
placed second high in
the contest. The cham-
pions won each of the
six games played.

Merrill Sorrells of
Raymond, son of Ex-
ecutive Commit t e e-
man Samuel Sorrells,
won first in the auto
driving contest. Ver-
na Deal of Morrison-
ville placed first in
the contest for wom-
en. Ernest Minnis of
Taylorville took the
Cow Calling Contest,
and Mrs. John R.
James, the Husband
Calling Contest. An
i m p r o V ised Andy
Gump in effigy was
the target for many
a rolling pin in a contest for women,
which was won by Mrs. Minnie Deal
of Christian county. Montgomery
county won the relay race, Dick Wil-
son of Christian county the Fat Man's
Race; Helen Henry of Farmersville
proved to be the champioir ball
thrower, while Ray Privott of Kincaid
carried off the honors
in the Milk Man's
SpeciaL

Highland Picnic a

Success
Highland Park
i n Madison county
proved to be an ideal
jA location for the 22nd

^^^j district picnic on Aug.

^^^^ 9. The crowd was
^B estimated to be larger
than that of the day
before at Taylorville.
The horseshoes were
hurling through the
air long before 10 a.
m., and by 10:15 the
cars were rolling in
at the rate of two a
minute. Threatening
clouds hid the sun at
times during the day
but the rain held off
until after the pic-
nickers had started for home.

Prairie Farmer's newly painted air-
plane, carrying Murvin Ator, pilot, and
Floyd Keepers, flew low over the
crowds at all three picnics. The plane
attracted much attention. Men, wom-
en and children craned their necks to
see thfe spanking white Waco flyer as
she maneuvered about, skimming the
tree tops.

(Continued on page 11)

I'age Eight

Law Is Unfair To

Corn Sugar, Wider

THE I.

RECORD

Use

Will Help Price Corn

By Mrs. Thara Af Can
iC.isrier. IHtnLtis

Mrs. Carmean

•"PHK farnifr wants more (orn used

■ and a betti^r \yr\i-c for tjorn sold.

The provoriinifntal discrijuinations

ajrainst cojin sugar

must be removed.

The c(jrn belt
farmer is ,^verlook-
iiifr an opportunity
which. if' seized,
would improve hi.s
marlu't and put dol-
lars in his pocket.
Corn suji4'' otfers
thi.'i opportunity- — a
sujrar manufactured
from a pilotiuct of
the corn belt — a
fine white sugar
geiurally used in hospitals <ind sani-
tariums because of it.s wholtisomeness
and food value — a sugar rated by the
Journal of the American Jh'ilical As-
sociation as "par excellence the physi-
ologic sugar."

The purity, wholesomeness and food
value of corn sugar is accepted with-
out question by the medical profession
as well as the I'. S. Dei>artment of
Agriculture, which is respoiisible for
the administration of the Phre Food
and Prugs .Act of UI06. The iaihit:ary
system of didinitions and .standards,
under which this Act is administered,
reciuires special label mejitio^i of the
use of corn sugar, dextrose, as an in-
gredient, although declaration of the
use of imported foreign sugars is not
rejjuired. On account of this unfair
discrimination, i)Otential consumers of
large quantities of corn sugar refuse
to use it except in those products
where this discrimination doe^ not pre-
vail.

Need Protection
The I'niled States sends between
four and live hundred millioh dollars
into for<'ign countries everyl year in
payment for sugar produced py cheap
foreign labor. A large portioh of that
amount could be directed into the
pijckets of her own citizens in return
for sugar of equal, if not [greater,
merit. Not content with allojwing the
foreign sugar interests to dompnate the
policy by which that portion of the
Pure Food and Drugs Act is admin-
istered, a very light tariff of .$2.21 per
cwt. has been placed on foreign sugar,
while C'uba is allowed a preferential
rate of 80 per cent of that paid by
other foreign countries. [

Bills To Be Introduced

It is up to the farmers j-to work
through the agricultural organizations
to bring about a change of attitude on
the part of the Department of Agri-
culture toward the use of corn sugar
and through Senators and Representa-
tives in Congress to secure enactment

of proper legislation to remove this un-
just discrimination against an impor-
tant product of the American farms.
r)ills having this purpose are no\v be-
fore the U. S. Senate and House of
Representatives, but thus far organ-
ized agriculture has withheld endorse-
ment. This attitude of aloofness should
be changed without delay.

When we buy twenty-five pounds of
corn sugar, wo are buying a bushel of
our own corn. If we can help create
a market for corn at $1 or $1.2,5 a
bushel, it will be to our advantage to
do it.

14th District OK's

Insurance Program
Endorses I. A. A. Policy

Urge That Members Weigh All Facts In
Coming Contest

I) ESOLUTION.^ were adopted at the
' I. A. A. district conference, Car-
thage, on July 27, uiging that life in-
surance be made available as soon as
possible to members, commending
Farm Bureau leaders for their action
in political matters, and urging that
members remain open-minded regard-
inj; their political allegiance until the
Illinois Agricultural Association can
give full information concerning the
stand and records of all candidates.

Nearly 50 leaders in the 14th dis-
tiict attended the meeting. Hancock
county had the largest representation.
A. D. Lynch, director of daily market-
ing for the I. A. A., discussed the value
of collective effort in marketing dairy
products. R. J. Hamilton talked on
Farm Bureau organization. Executive
Committeeman M. G. Lambert pre-
sided. The late Sidney S. Carney of
Rock Island acted as secretary of the
meeting.

Messages by Wireless

''PHE Radio Corporation of America
A recently applied to the Federal
Radio Commission for construction per-
mits to cover 65 short wave transmit-
ters for the establishment of a domes-
tic communications network serving 24
important cities throughout the United
States.

"It is our intention," said the appli-
cation, "to provide rajjid and direct
connection between our international
transoceanic service now operated
from New York and San Francisco,
and the largest possible number of im-
portant points within this country,
thus supplying the need for an all-
radio international telegraphic service
not now available to the public except
in New York, San Francisco, Boston,
and Washington. In conjunction
therewith we will offer a domestic
radio telegraph service competing
favorably in quality and in rates with
the existing wire line telegraphs."

Farm Adviser Carney

Answers Last Call

Many Attend Funeral

Was One of Outstanding Men In Farm
Bureau Movement

MORE than .500 Farm Bureau
members, farm advisers, busi-
ness men, and representatives of local
and state-wide or-
ganizations a t -
tended the services
held for Sidney S.
Carney, Rock
Island county farm
adviser, in the
chapel at Rock
Island M o n d a y,
July 30. Burial
took place the fol-
lowing day from
the First Metho-
dist Church at Ro- Sidney S. Carney

chelle from which

the body was taken to the ceme-
tery at Greenwood, north of Woodstock
in McHenry county.

Mr. Carney lost his life in an auto-
mobile accident on Friday night, July
27, when A. D. Lynch and R. J. Ham-
ilton of the I. A. A., who were riding
with him, were injured. Glenn West-
cott, a i)assenger in the other car, died
after the collision. Three other pas-
sengers were seriously injured.
Born Near Steward

Carney was born near Steward in
Lee county, April 25, 1889.

After graduating from the local
schools he attended Evanston Academy
and later entered the University of
Illinois where he graduated with hon-
ors from the College of Agriculture.
After securing his Master's degree he
became a member of the teaching staff
in the Agronomy Dejiartment where
he served for five years. He left the
University to become farm adviser in
Rock Island county, February 1, 1925.
His ability was soon recognized, and as
a result of his hard faithful work the
Rock Island County Farm Bureau was
strengthened and improved in member-
shij) and activities.

During the- war Carney served as a
Lieutenant in the Reserve Corps.

He was a Mason, president of the
Rock Island Kiwanis Club, a member
of the American Legion, a member of
the Elks lodge, and while at the Uni-
versity was elected to Sigma XI, hon-
orary scientific fraternity.

He is sui-vived by his wife, for-
merly Miss Mildred Marble of Green-
wood, McHenry county, and by his
mother, a brother, and five sisters.

Farm Adviser Frank Barrett of
Pike county tendered his resignation
recently to become effective Septem-
ber 1.

1

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Wine

Picnic Crowds Grow

In Size As Season
Advances, Last, Sept. 3

Harvest Conflicts With Gatherings At
Taylorville, Highland and SuUivan

1~\ISTRICT I. A. A. picnics held last
*-^ week at Taylorville, Highland and
Sullivan were highly successful in spite
of the fact that they
competed with thresh-
ing: in each case. Be-
Rinninp with the pic-
nic at Taylorville on
Aug. 8, which drew a
crowd estimated at
3,000 to 5,000, at-
tendance increased at
the gatherings held
in the days followin.s:
at Highland and Sul-
livan. M ore than
5,000 crowded into
Wyman Park, Sulli-
van, the scene of the
19th district gather-
ing on Aug. 10, ac-
cording to official ob-
servers.

Wm. H. Settle, of
Indiana, known to corn belt farmers as
"Fighting Bill," spoke at all three pic-
nics. His listeners were not disappoint-
ed. Mr. Settle laid bare the issues of
the campaign, reiterated organized
farmers' stand on the agricultural
question, fearlessly discussed candi-
dates as well as principles, and chal-
lenged the world to
dispute his assertions
as they were vigor-
ously marshalled out
for the enlightenment
of his thousands of
interested listeners.
Public Address
System

With the help of
the ]) u b 1 i c address
system which cairied
the speaker's voice to
remote parts of the
picnic grounds. Settle
probably reached
10,000 people in the
t h r e e-day sjieaking
tour.

At Taylor ville,
F'resident Earl C.
Smith again empha-
sized the policies of
the I. A. A. in po-
litical affairs which
were fully presented
in the last issue of the Record. He
u»-ged that farmers study the issues
of the day, fully inform themselves on
the expressions of candidates, and vote
for the best interests of agriculture.

Settle spoke approvingly of the
Democratic farm plank and of the
presidential candidate's frankness in
asserting he would stand on that plank
as adopted at Houston. He expressed
the belief that the prohibition act must

be modified and that the Drys should
lead in the modification, not the Wets.

Study the Issues

"Farmers should study both plat-
forms and also the promises made by
both candidates and vote for what
they believe to be the best for their
business and their families," said Mr.
Settle. "We should not allow any
other issue to confuse our minds on
this question.

J. L. Whisnand, Con. Chas. Adkins and Wni. H. Settle at

"Now seems to be the opportune
time to secure for agriculture legisla-
tion that will place the industry on an
equal basis with other great industries,
and establish a permanent policy with
a, degree of bargaining power which
is esseiltial to the farming business as
it' is for any other business that can

O. Whitler and C. Whitler of Macoupin Co., Horseshoe Champs 'at Taylorville

ever hope for success," continued
Settle.

"Regardless of who is selected Pres-
ident, a majority of the agricultural
people of the country will carry on this
fight until victory is attained and the
American farmers will have secured
equality with industry and labor under
our protective policy."

Executive Committeemen Samuel
Sorrells, Frank Oexner, and J. L. Whis-

nand presided at the 21st, 22nd and
19th district picnics, respectively.

Whitlers Champ Pitchers

O. Whitler and his brother, C. Whit-
ler, of Macoupin County, carried off
the honors in horseshoe pitching at
Taylorville. Macoupin and Christian
counties each entered two teams, San-
gamon and Montgomery counties only
one. Frank Ritchie and Tollie Whitler,
another brother, also of Macoupin,
placed second high in
the contest. The cham-
jiions won each of the
six games played.

Merrill Sorrells of
Raym<)nd. son of Ex-
ecutive Committee-
man Samuel .'Worrells,
won first in the auto
driving contest. Ver-
na Deal of Morrison-
ville placed first in
the comtest for wom-
en. Krnest Minnis of
Taylomille took the
Cow Calling Contest,
and Mrs. John R.
.Tames, the Husband
Calling Contest. An
i m p r o v ised .\ndy

Sullivan ^'"""P '" efflg>' was

the target for many
a rolling pin in a contest for women,
which was won by Mrs. Minnie Deal
of Christian county. Montgomery
county won the relay race, Dick Wil-
son of Christian county the Fat Man's
Race; Helen Henry of Farmersville
proved to be the champion ball
thrower, while Ray Privott of Kincaid

carried off the honors

in the Milk Man's

Si)ecial.

Highland Picnic a
Success

Highland Park
i n iMadison county
provfd to be an ideal
location for the 22nd
district bicnic on .\ug.
9. "The crowd was
estimated to bo larger
than that of the day
befiire at Taylorville.
The horseshoes were
hurling through the
air lonj? before 10 a.
m., alndj by 10:1.") the
cars vi-^re rolling in
at the rate of two a
minuie. I Threatening
clouds hid the sun at
times during the day
but the rain held off
until after the pic-
nickers had started for home.

Prairie Farmer's newly painted air-
plane, carrying Murvin Ator, pilot, and
Floyd Keepers, flew low over the
crowds at all three picnics. The plane
attracted much attention. Men, wom-
en and childi'en ci-aned their necks to
see thfe spanking white Waco flyer as
she maneuvei'ed about, skimming the
tree tops. [ j

I (Continued on page 11)

II

Page Ten

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Seek Better Barge

Ljne Terminals On

111. and Mississippi

Robt. A. Cowles Represents I. A. A. On
Important Waterways Committee

PICNIC SPEAKER

Games and Contests

Attract Many At I. A. A.
Picnic, Sullivan, Aug. 10

T^O provide suitable terminal facili-
^ ties for the federal barge line
service on the Illinois and Mississippi
Rivers and other local tributary
streams wHJ be the work of the new
Uniform Waterway Terminals Com-
mittee recently named by John H.
Camlin, president of the Illinois Cham-
ber of CcMimerce.

The committee will be entrusted
with the job of assisting in making the
barge line service of greatest use and
benefit to Illinois shippers. To this
end it will work for adequate and uni-
form terminals at cities and shipping
points adjoining the Illinois, Missis-
sippi, and other tributaries within and
adjoining the state. ,

Meeting Aug. 2 {

The work of the Committee was out-
lined at a meeting held in Chicago on
Aug. 2, when preliminary plans
were made for a definite campaign.
The opening move to carry out the
program will be a tour of inspection
of the ports in Illinois on the Lakes-to-
the-Gulf Waterway to be arranged by
George Stephens, secretary of the
Committee.

W. F. Mulvihill, superintendent of
state waterways, Theo. Brent, Lachlan
Macleay of the Mississippi Valley As-
sociation, and others have pledged
their support.

Robert A. Cowles, treasurer of the
I. A. A., will represent the Association
on the Committee. The other mem-
bers are as follows: A. T. Griffith, Pe-
oria," chairman; Congressman Wm. E.
Hull, Peoria; F. L. Stephen, Morris;
John Hanifen, Ottawa; Bedor Wood,
Jr., Col. Robert Isham Randolph, Chi-
cago; Ray Williams, Cairo; Francis
Kilduff, La Salle; F. F. McNaughton,
Pekin; R. B. Glenn, Beardstown; E. T.
Harris, Chicago; Wayne Hummer, La
Salle; John H. Camlin, Rockford, and
Walter W. Williams, Benton,

Form New Produce Unit

HARRY REID was elected president,
Lloyd Elmore, vice-president. Jay
Basom, secretar y-treasnrer, and
Wayne Herrick and Sherman Ready,
directors of the recently organized
Farmer City Dairy Marketing Associa-
tion in DeWitt county.

The association will handle produce,
-mostly cream and poultry products.

More than a hundred members have
already sigrned the agreement. Bids
are being received from creameries
for the entire year's output of the as-
sociation.

Farm Adviser Allen of Dewitt.county
and Frank Gougler, director of pro-
duce marketing for the I. A. A., are
assisting in getting the association
launched.

Cong. Chas. Adkins

CONGRESSMAN CHARLES AD-
KINS of Decatur was born Feb-
ruary 7, 1863, in Pickaway county,
Ohio. He was educated in the country
schools, and taught school for a time.
He moved to Piatt county, Illinois, in
1885 and has been engaged in farming
and stock raising since that time.

He served as a member of the 45th,
46th, and 47th General Assemblies, and
was speaker of the house in the 47th
Assembly. Congressman Adkins was
appointed Director of the State De-
partment of Agriculture during the ad-
ministration of Gov. Frank 0. Low-
den.

He is married and has five boys and
five girls. He is a Methodist and a
member of the Hamilton Club of Chi-
cago.

Mr. Adkins was elected to the 70th
Congress where he distinguished him-
self in support of farm legislation. He
proved to be an effective and formidable
fighter on the floor of the House for
the McNary-Haugen bill.

Congressman Adkins will speak on
the farm question at the District I.
A. A. picnics scheduled for Marion on
Aug. 17, and Macomb on Aug. 21.
Mr. Adkins appeared on the program
with "Fighting Bill" Settle, the speaker
of the day, at the 19th District Picnic,
Sullivan, on Aug. 10.

NEW LIMESTONE PLAN

Be sure and see your Farm
Adviser for details about the new
limestone purchasing plan. If
you are going to order limestone
this season, it is worth ten cents
(10c) a ton to you "through a re-
fund" to place your order
through your County Farm Bu-
reau and not send it in direct.

No discount at time of payment
applies under the new plan. •

Jersey Calves Selected For State Fair

WATER sports, Farm Bureau base-
ball, horseshoe pitching, auto
driving contests, and a hangup pure-
bred Jersey calf exhibit by the Monroe
County 4-H clubs were entertaining
features at ihe I. A. A.-Farm Bureau
district picnic held at Sullivan on Fri-
day, Aug. 10.

The baseball game between the
Champaign and DeWitt county Farm
Bureau teams, the details of which are
given elsewhere in this issue, went to
Champaign, 17 to 2.

Owners of calves selected to go to
State Fair, Springfield, arei as follows :

Senior Yearlings ;

1. Hugh Righter, Sullivan.

2. Vincent Esry, Bethany.

3. George Atchison, Lovington.

4. Alex Mitchell. Bethany.

5. Glen Clark, Bethany.

Senior Calves :

1. Merwyn Tipsward, Bethany.

2. Ralph Sharp, Bethany.

Horseshoe Pitching :

1. Emmett Burcham, Lovington.

2. W. A. Kamm, Atwood.

3. R. Temple, Oakland. . ^^•

Milkmaid Contest:

1. Geraldine Keyes, Lake City.

2. Grace Clark. Sullivan.

3. Dorothy Winings, Lake City.

Water Carnival :

Boys 12 and under — 100 feet. , ,<

1. Dean Foster. i s!

2. George Poland. ' *

3. Wendel Turner.

Boys 15 and under, dive from pier and
swim 150 feet.

1. Elmer Dunscomb.

2. Chas. Cummins. I '^*

3. John McDonald. ' *

-Across the Lake — 100

Men's Free for All-
yards :

1. K. K. Hoagland. .

2. John Moran. I

3. Sam Bolin.

Girls 15 and under — 100 feet:

1. Eileen Myers.

2. Norma Hanson. J

3. Beatrice Hill.

Women's Free for All— 200 feet:

1. Dorothy Wood.

2. Beatrice Hill.

3. Ruth Monroe.

Men's Fancy Dive : i

1. Will Baker. I

2. George Poland. !

3. Sam Bolin. I

Men's High Dive from Tower:-

1. Sam Bolin.

2. Jack Condon. I

3. Luke Parker. I

f
Men's Long Dive under water;

1. Will Baker.

2. Roy Bai)ey. |

3. Sam Bolin.

I

I-

NINETY-TWO STATE PRISOfjS
and reformatories had a total of
41,942 prisoners during the year
1926 as compared with 33,298 in
1923, and 26,415 in 1910. The fed-
eral prisons had 5,010 admissions in
1926 compared with 3,703 in 1923,
and 987 in 1910.

I

;ORD

y. 10

Fair

base-
auto

pure-
[onroe
lining
ureau
1 Fri-

1 the
Farm
ch are
ent to

go to
»llows :

>ier and

,ake— 100

tiso^s

)tal of
i year
298 in
he fed-
iions in
1923,

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Eleven

St. Clair Co. Defeats

Washington In Base-
Ball At I. A. A. Picnic

Frank G. Oexner Pays Tribute To Strong
Farm Leadership

r

F. G. Oexner

"F AGRICULTURE is established
and equality attained on a sound
program it must be brought about by
leadership of men who know farm prob-
lems," declared Frank G. Oexner, ex-
ecutive committeeman from the 22nd
district in intro-
ducing the speaker
of the day at the
I. A. A. District
picnic in Highland
Park, Madison
county.

"It is necessary
to have aggressive
leadership of Wm.
H. Settle's type, if
we are to get the
attention and gain
the confidence of
people in other
pursuits," he continued. "Bill Settle is
such a man and because he has fought
£0 aggressively and whole-heartedly in
behalf of agriculture we have invited
him here today."

Oexner paid tribute to the co-opera-
tion of the Highland business men in
staging the picnic. He used the op-
portunity as an illustration of the "in-
clination of business men, bankers, and
other groups to help bring about stabil-
ity in agriculture and solve the trouble-
some problem of crop surpluses."

"We have faith in the fairness of
the American people to right an in-
justice," he said, "when they become
aware that our protective policies are
not being applied impartially."

Baseball In Afternoon

The baseball game scheduled for the
morning between Bond county and a
Madison county team from about Troy
failed to materialize. The Bond county
players vv-ere at home in the harvest
fields threshing grain.

In the afternoon Washington and St.
Clair county Farm Bureau teams
hooked up for a battle which was won
by the St. Clair boys 11 to 4. St.
Clair county's team has not entered
the Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball
League and so it was not an official
game.

Following is a list of the prize win-
ners in the races and contests:

Chicken calling contest for ladies, 10 com-
petitors, Mrs. Emma Kleinert, St. Clair County,
flist.

Hoe calling contest for men, 10 competitors,
Edgar North, Lebanon, first.

Three-legged race for bojrs, Franklin Reiss
and Irwin Reiss, Freeburg, lU.

Egg race for girls, Jeanne Thompson, Green-
viUe, 111.

Running race for girls, Edna Kaiser, High-
land. lU.

Sack race for boys, Dan Kleiner, Highland,
lU.

Nan driving contest for ladle*. Mrs. J. G.
Mueller, Highland, lU.

Horse-shoe pitching, teams, W. A. Cope and
Rdwin Twenhafel, Clinton County.

Horse-shoe pitching, singles, Louis Monken.
Highland, first and Richard Kunz, St. Jacob,
second.

Tug of War, Albert G. Hebrank. Robert Buehl-
manii, Oswald Doll, Adolph Wernle, Chris Jakel.
Gus A. Reichert, Wm. Maack.

Picnic Crowds Grow

(Continued from page 9)

Business Men Help

The business men of Highland en-
tered into the spirit of the day, closed
shop, and joined their neighbor farm-
ers in the festivities. Wm. Vreth, pres-
ident of the Madison County Farm Bu-
reau, Executive Committeeman Frank
Oexner of Monroe County, Farm Ad-
viser Raut, John Miller, and H. U. Lan-
don of Edwardsville officiated in carry-
ing out the program.

Adkins at Sullivan

Bill Settle shared the speaking pro-
gram at Sullivan with Cong:ressman
Chas. Adkins of Decatur, who came out
to attend the picnic in his home dis-
trict.

Mr. Adkins reviewed early farm or-
ganizations in Illinois, told of his in-
terest in the farmers' grain elevator
movement, discussed early farm legis-
lation in the state legislature, where he
served for many years, and later dis-
cussed the fight for surplus control leg-
islation in the last congress.

Contrary to newspaper reports, Mr.
Adkins did not renounce his advocacy
of the equalization fee. He said that
he believed the plan embraced in the
McNary-Haugen bill was worthy of a
trial and would prove effective, but he
doubted if the bill could be enacted
into law. He said he expected to vote
for the farm bill that had the best
chance of passage if he was returned
to the next congress. j

T'HE McLEAN COUNTY FARM
Bureau, now engaged in renew-
ing its memberships for a new period,
has increased its membership consid-
erably in all those townships which
have been thoroughly solicited.

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Fire and Lightning, Windstorm, Cyclone, and Tornado Insur-
ance for your buildings, furniture, and livestock, at cost. '

Ask your

County Farm Bureau

See your
Local Mutual Fire Ins. Co.

or write

Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Company,

608 So. Dearborn St.,
Chicago, 111.

A legal reserve mutual co-operating with local farm mutuals and
supplementing their activities.

Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co.,
608 So. Dearborn St.,
Chicago, lUinois.

Please send me full information on
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n Windstorm Insurance

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Of course not. But through no fault of yours, your car might
injure someone. If so, think of the attending worry and expense
of a trial, and the possibilities of a judgment against you for
$5,000, $10,000, or more. You can't afford to lose that much
money— not when you can get low cost FARM BUREAU auto
insurance with full protection against damages, court expenses,
and all the inconveniences of a trial.

24,000 people were killed and more than 700,000 injured by
automobiles in 1927. AUTO SMASHUPS RE-
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injure someone. If so, think of the attending worry and expense
of a trial, and the possibilities of a judgment against you for
$5,000, $10,000, or more. You can't afford to lose that much
money — not when you can get low cost FARM BUREAU auto
insurance with full protection against damages, court expenses,
and all the inconveniences of a trial.

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automobiles in 1927. AUTO SMASHUPS RE-
SULTED IN AN ENORMOUS LOSS TO
THEIR OWNERS.

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Street, Chicago, III.

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The Work of the L A* A.

Transportation
Claims I

Legislation has a profound influence on
the prosperity or lack of prosperity of

Represenution gSLS^'w^r.

ness what the tariff did for steel and
aluminum, and many other industries.
The I. A. A. is eifectively organized
(b) To stop harmful legislation; (a) To
secure helpful and enabling legislation
when and where needed.

Taxes are commonly levied most heav-
i'y a;:ninst those who offer the least re-
r., ^«^_ distance. Not until the

■axaTlon i a. a. prosecuted its

tax investigations in Illinois were many
glaring inequalities disclosed and reme-
died. That work is but well started. The
I. A. A. Department of Taxation is on the
job. (%j

Freight rates are ever subject to in-
crease. Every industry is organized and

bidding for pref-
erential rates.
The carriers are
always seeking
an opportunity to increase their revenue.
Agriculture is willing to pay its share of
the freight bill but not the other fellow's
share. The I. A. A. maintains a Transpor-
tation Department to see that the farmer
gets a square deal in freight rates. The
Department also handles claims against
rail carriers.

A strong organization can secure a set-
tlement of a claim when an individual -
farmer can't. Ask your neighbor who has
tried. The I. A. A. collects thousands of
dollars worth of these claims annually. It
is performing a valuable service for Farm
Bureau members, and for co-operatives.

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The farmer is a user of the services of-
fered by public utilities, such as tele-
i»f- phone, electricity, trans-

PUPllC portation. His interests

Ullllfl^ are often at stake in mat-
ters before the Commerce
Commission which regulates these closely
associated utilities. The I. A. A, has able,
trained men to represent the farmer.
They know what to do and when.
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The farmer must organize his bargain-
ing power. The I. A. A. has several active
departments directed by
trained men who are
working and succeeding
with this problem. The
object is to secure for farmers a larger
share of the consumer's dollar. ,

Bargaining
Pow^cr

Orderly marketing must replace
"dumping." The progress that has been
1Lfo«*lr»#lm<r niade in this direction
IViarKeiing ^^s brought about by
organization. The Illinois Agricultural
Association already has accomplished
much. Its five marketing departments are
assisting not only in forming new selling
units, but also in helping those already
established to serve the farmers of Illi-

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Business
Service

Successful management of co-operatives
and farmers' business enterprises has
been the aim and end of
the I. A. A.'s co-operative
accounting and audit
service. We must pro-
tect our present ventures. Good manage-
ment and accurate, informative records
go hand in hand. t.

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Farmers can learn much from big busi-
ness. Big business uses its buying power
. to reduce the cost of those

Buying materials necessary to
PO^V'er manufacture and produc-
tion. Buying at retail and
selling at wholesale isn't good business.
The I. A. A. is making progress in organ-
izing farmers' buying power through the
purchase of limestone, fertilizers, petro-
leum products, serum and other supplies.

Farmers learned long ago that by
group action they could carry their own
insurance cheaper than
they could buy it from
privately controlled companies. The
I. A. A. has assisted in extending and im-
proving this service for the farmers of
Illinois. It has helped bring about sub-
stantial savings on hail, windstorm, tor-
nado, fire and automobile insurance.

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The light of publicity is the first step
in effecting a cure for economic ills. Or-
IHwHtieit'v ganized agriculture has
IrUPUClty succeeded in focusing
the eyes of the nation on the fact that it
is not included in the charmed circle
of protection created by legislative sub-
sidies. The Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation played a leadiqpr part in telling
the story of agriculture's needs and in
winning the support of other groups in
our national life. . < .

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Volume 6

SEPTEMBER, 1928

Number 9

Governor Alfred E. Smith oh Agriculture

Following is the text of the Democratic
presidential candidate's statement on agri-
culture delivered in his speech of accept-
ance at Albany, N. Y., of Aug. 22.

"Publicity agents of the Republican
administration have written so many
articles on our general prosperity that
they have prevented the average man
from having a proper appreciation of
the degree of distress existing today
among farmers and stock raisers.
From 1910 to the present time the
farm debt has increased by the strik-
ing sum of ten billions of dollars, or
from four billion to fourteen billion
dollars. The value of farm property
between 1920 and 1925 decreased by
twenty billions of dollars. This de-
pression made itself felt in an enor-
mous increase of bank failures in the
agricultural districts. In 1927 there
were 830 bank failures, with total lia-
bilities of over 270 millions of dollars,
almost entirely in the agricultural sec-
tions, as against 49 such failures dur-
ing the last year of President Wilson's^
administration.

Disparity Continues

"The report of Nov. 17, 1927, of a
special committee of the Association
of Land Grant Colleges and Universi-
ties states: 'Incomes from farming
since 1920 have not been sufficient to
pay a fair return on the current value
of capital used and fair wages for the
farmers' labor, or to permit farm
people to maintain a standard of living
comparable with other groups of like
ability.' The business men's commis-
sion on agrriculture said in November,
1927, 'Since the war the prices of
farm products have persisted in an un-
economic and unfavorable adjustment
to the general scale of prices of other
goods and services' and 'the disparity
between urban and farm incomes has
emphasized the disparity in standards
of living in the rural and urban popu-
lations. The value of farm land and
farm property decreased heavily in the
post-war deflation' and 'large num-
bers of farmers have lost all their
property in this process.'

"We have not merely a problem of
helping the farmer. While agriculture

Statement by Earl C. Smith

President Illinois Agricultural
Association

i < r^ OVERNOR SMITH prom-
Vj ises his support and
leadership in the development of
a legislative program for farm
relief which recognizes two spe-
cific principles that have been
uppermost in the farm relief
program backed by agricultural
organizations in recent years.
He points out that the tariff is
ineCFective upon crops of which
we produce an exportable sur-
plus; and he pronounces, as does
the Democratic platform, in
favor of legislation to make the
tariff effective on such crops.

"In pledging support to co-
operative marketing develop-
ment, he recognizes, as did the
Democratic platform, that the
costs of dealing with crop sur-
pluses should be distributed over
the crop whose producers are
benefited by such assistance.

"His position on this major
principle of farm legislation
squares exactly with that of the
Illinois Agricultural Association.
Governor Smith did not commit
himself, however, to any specific
legislative plan to make it effec-
tive. The mechanics, he admits,
remain to be devised, and he pro-
poses that this shall be worked
out immediately after election in
co-operation with farm leaders
throughout the country vrho have
given thought to this problem,
with the assistance of economists
and business men."

is one of the most individualized and
independent of enterprises, still, as the
report of the business men's commis-
sion points out, 'Agriculture is essen-
tially a public function, affected with
a clear and unquestionable public in-
terest.' The country is an economic
whole. If the buying power of agri-

culture is impaired, the farmer makes
fewer trips to Main street. The shop
owner suffers because he has lost a
large part of his trade. The manufac-
turer who supplies him likewise suf-
fers, as does the wage earner, because
the manufacturer is compelled to cur-
tail his production. And the banker
can not collect his debts or safely ex-
tend further credit. This country can
not be a healthy, strong economic body
if one of its members, so fundamen-
tally important as agriculture, is sick
almost to the point of economic death.

"The normal market among the
farmers of this country for the prod-
ucts of industry is ten billions of dol-
lars. Our export market, according to
latest available figures is, exclusive of
agricultural products, approximately
one billion, six hundred millions of
dollars. These large figures furnish
striking indication of the serious blow
to national prosperity as a whole
which is struck when the buying
power of the farmer is paralyzed.

"When, therefore, I say that I am
in accord with our platform declara-
tion that the solution of this problem
must be a prime and immediate con-
cern of the Democratic administration,
I make no class appeal. I am stating
a proposition as vital to the welfare of
business as of agriculture.

Republicans Break Promise

"With the exception of the adminis-
trations of Cleveland and Wilson, the
government of this country has been
in Republican hands for half a century.
For nearly eight years the President
and Congress have been Republican.
What has been done to solve this prob-
lem? Many promises were made which
have never been fulfilled.

"The tariff is ineffective on commod-
ities of which there is exportable sur-
plus without controlled sale of the sur-
plus. Our platform points the way to
make the tariff effective for crops of
which we produce a surplus. There
has been government interference with
laws of Supply and demand to benefit
industry, commerce and finance. It
has been one-sided because business.

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industry and finance would have been
helped more if proper attention had
been g^iven to the condition of agricul-
ture. Nothing of substance has been
done to bring this basic part of our
national life into conformity with the
economic system that has been set up
by law. Government should interfere
as little as possible with business. But
if it does interfere with one phase of
economic life, be it by tariff, by assis-
tance to merchant marine, by control
of the flow of money and capital
through the banking system, it is bad
logic, bad economics and an abandon-
ment of government responsibility to
say that as to agriculture alone, the
government should not aid.

Co-ordinated Marketing Needed

"Twice a Republican Congress has
passed legislation only to have it
vetoed by a President of their own
party, and whether the veto of that
specific measure was right or wrong,
it is undisputed that no adequate sub-
stitute was ever recommended to the
Congress by the president and that no
constructive plan of relief was ever
formulated by any leader of the Re-
publican party in place of the plan
which its Congress passed and its Presi'
dent vetoed. Only caustic criticism
and bitter denunciation were provoked
in the minds of the Republican leaders
in answer to the nation-wide appeal
for a sane endeavor to meet this crisis.

"Co-operative, co-ordinated market-
ing and warehousing of surplus farm
products is essential, just as co-ordi-
nated, co-operative control of the flow
of capital was found necessary to the
regulation of our country's finances.
To accomplish financial stability, the
federal reserve system was called into
being by a Democratic administration.
The question for agriculture is com-
plex. Any plan devised must also be
co-ordinated with the other phases of
our business institutions. Our plat-
form declares for the development of
co-operative marketing and an earnest
endeavor to solve the problem of the
distribution of the cost of dealing with
crop surpluses over the marketed unit
of the crop whose producers are bene-
fited by such assistance.

Pledge* Immediate Action

"Only the mechanics remain to be
devised. I propose to substitute action
for inaction, and friendliness for hos-
tility. In my administration of the
government of my state, whenever I
was confronted with a problem of this
character, I called into conference
those best equipped on the particular
subject in hand. I shall follow that
course with regard to agriculture.

"Farmers and farm leaders, with
such constructive aid as will come

from sound economists and fair-mind-
ed leaders of finance and business,
must work out the detail. There are
varying plans for the attain^nt of the
end which is to be accomplished. Such
plans should be subjected at once to
searching, able and fair-minded analy-
sis, because the interests of all require
that the solution shall be economically
sound.

"If I am elected, I shall immediately
after election ask leaders of the type
I have named, irrespective of party,
to enter upon this task. I shall join
with them in the discharge of their
duties during the coming winter and
present to Congress, immediately upon
its convening, the solution recommend-
ed by the body of men best fitted to
render this signal service to the na-
tion. I shall support the activities of
this body until a satisfactory law is
placed upon the statute books."

Statement Issued
by President Sam

H. Thompson

American Farm Bureau Federation

GOVERNOR SMITH in kis
acceptance speech last
night recited facts that clearly
represent the present agricaltur-
al situation.

He reiterated the Democratic
party pledge adopted at Houston.
As I have already said, that
party platform covers the funda-
mental principles adopted by the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion five years ago.

The avoidance of Government
subsidy by assessing the cost of
surplus control to the product
benefited is fundamental.

Governor Smith's plan to find
a way of spreading the market-
ing costs over the marketed unit
of the commodity benefited is
satisfactory.

Nearly Two Million

Leave Farms in 1927

THE Bureau of Agricultural Eco-
nomics estimates that 1,978,000
persons left farms last year compared
with 2,165,000 in 1926, and 1,900,000
in 1926. Offsetting this movement,
1,374,000 persons moved from cities
to farms last year compared with
1,136,000 in 1926, and 1,066,000 in
1926.

These figures show a net movement
of 604,000 persons from farms to
cities for 1927 compared with 1,020,-
000 persons in 1926, and 834,000 per-
sons in 1926. Only a small reduction,
however, is shown in farm popula-
tion, an excess of births over deaths
bringing the population to 27,699,000

THE PRESS SAYS

THAT LONGING FOR MR.
LOWDEN

Recently Gov. Smith, in addressing
certain spokesmen for agriculture,
named Frank 0. Lowden as one of the
intellectual leaders and practical
farmers whom he would ask to serve
on a committee of experts to be ap-
pointed at once, in the event of his
election, to devise a solution of the
complex and difficult farm-relief prob-
lem.

In his speech on that problem the
other day at West Branch, Iowa, Mr.
Hoover remarked that "outstanding
farmers such as Gov. Lowden would
be asked to join in the search for com-
mon ground upon which we can act."

The assiduous cultivation of Mr.
Lowden by both candidates and both
parties is one of the features of the
campaign which is not devoid of
humor for the observer. Mr. Low-
den's aid and advice would be both
scientific and practical, but the value
of his political support is not under-
estimated by either anxious aspirant
to Presidential honors.

While awaiting some sign from the
eminent Illinoisan both candidates and
their respective campaign managers
might study with profit the many
speeches, magazine articles and state-
ments which Mr. Lowden has contrib-
uted to the discussion of the farm
problem. They should ponder espe-
cially his insistence upon what he calls
the penalty clauses of farm-relief leg-
islation, upon the necessity of distrib-
uting the cost of surplus control over
all the beneficiaries and upon prevent-
ing abuse of devised remedies by self-
ish, stubborn, narrow-minded or short-
sighted farmers who, avid to take ad-
vantage of others' costly co-operative
efforts, have no scruples about neutral-
izing those efforts by grabbing profits
in their own good time while contrib-
uting nothing to the common welfare.

Investigation of the obvious would
be a waste of time and effort The
crux of the problem is known and
should not be dodged. The urgent need
is for some workable substitute for
the equalization fee of the McNary-
Haugen bill. — Chicago Daily News.

persons on January 1, 1928, compared
with 27,892,000 on January 1, 1927,
a decrease of 193,000 persons, com-
pared with a decrease of 649,000 in
1926, and 441,000 in 1925.

A survey made last winter shows
that 87 per cent of those moving from
cities to farms had had farm experi-
ence.

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LOGAN COUNTY LIVESTOCK GROWERS VISIT CHICAGO PRODUCERS
Thousands of Illinois livestock men already have taken advantage of recent opportunities to tour with their neighbors to learn more
about selling livestock co-operatively through the PRODUCERS at the terminal markets' in and adjoining Illinois. This snapshot was naade
some time ago when a large delegation led by Farm Adviser Checkley and Logan county shipping association managers visited the Union
Stock Yards, Chicago,

Auto Insurance Company

Nears 10,000 Policy Mark

APPLICATIONS for auto insurance
^ policies by the Farm Bureau mem-
bers of Illinois neared the 10,000 mark
on September 1, according to an an-
nouncement by the Illinois Agricul-
tural Mutual Insurance Company. On
that date exactly 9,678 policies were
in force or had been applied for. By
the first of October it is expected that
the policies in force will exceed the
10,000 mark by a substantial number.
"Our policyholders indicate fre-
quently that they are well pleased with
this service of the Farm Bureau," said
Manager A. E. Richardson. "With the
growth of the company claims are
coming in regularly and we are mak-
ing an effort to adjust them to the en-
tire satisfaction of the policyholders.
Our motto is to make a fair settlement
in every case, and to do it promptly."

A Code of Ethics

For City Folks

A CONDENSED code of outdoor
ethics has just been issued by the
Izaak Walton League of America.

"If this code is followed, even fifty
per cent, by the vast hordes of people
who are taking to the outdoors this
summer, the condition of our great
natural playground, hard pressed by
the outdoor movement occasioned
by modern transportation facilities,
will be safe from the destruction
which threatens it," declared Dr.
Henry Baldwin Ward, national presi-
dent of the organization.

The code of ethics was compiled by
Seth E. Gordon, conservation director
of the League, whose talks are enjoyed
by the I. A. A. radio audience. Here
is the code of ethics for city folks as
Mr. Gordon presented it over Station
WJJD, Mooseheart, recently:

1. Your outdoor manners tell the
world what you are when at home.

2. What belongs to the public isn't
your own — play fair.

3. Respect the property of rural
residents — ask before using it.

4. Save fences, close gates and
bars, go around planted fields.

5. People, livestock, trees and
birds were never meant to be target
practice backstops.

6. Respect the law — catch enough
legal fish to eat, then quit.

7. Protect public health — keep
springs and streams clean.

8. Clean up your camp and don't
litter the highways with trash.

9. Finish what you start — careless-
ness with fires is cussedness.

10. Leave flowers and shrubs for
others to enjoy. Do your share to
keep outdoor America beautiful.

160 Visit Producers

ONE hundred and sixty mem-
bers of the Wenona Ship-
ping Association from Marshall
county visited the Chicago mar-
ket June 29. Farm Advisers R.
J. Laible and C. E. Gates accom-
panied the party.

The C. and A. railroad provid-
ed a special train for the group,
the members of which were en-
tertained by the Chicago Pro-
ducers' Commission Association.
The morning was spent in in-
specting the Producers' alleys,
and in the afternoon Swift and
Company entertained the entire
group at luncheon and later con-
ducted a tour through their pack-
ing plant.

Axel Helander, manager of the
Association, was largely respon-
sible for making arrangements
for the trip. This live Associa-
tion has 170 members in La Salle
and Marshall counties. This was
the largest delegation ever to
visit the Chicago Producers' from
any one shipping association up
to that time.

New Produce Co-op.

Organized At Bement

THE twentieth and most recent co-
operative produce marketing as-
sociation to be organized is the Piatt
County association with the first unit
at Bement, 111. A dozen or more bids
were received for members' produce
for the coming year. The contract
was awarded to Swift & Co., Decatur.

Officers elected to direct the Bement
unit of the Piatt County Produce Mar-
keting Association are A. E. Larson,
Lester Cook, John W. Hammon, Harry
M. Coffin, and John Hendrix, all of
Bement.

As soon as this unit opens for busi-
ness a second will be orgranized at
Monticello in Piatt county.

Immense Loss From

Kansas Hail Storm

ONE of the most disastrous hail-
storms in Kansas since 1917
swept across eight southwestern coun-
ties recently and caused approximately
$2,000,000 damage in a path 100 miles
long by 15 miles wide.

Communication lines, crippled by the
storm, were not restored until several
days later. The hail was followed by
a three-inch rain.

Grant county suflFered the g^reatest
loss with about a million dollars dam-
age done to wheat fields. Other coun-
ties in the path of the storm were
Stanton, Morton, Stevens, Haskell, Se-
ward, Meade, and Clark. It is esti-
mated 1,500,000 bushels of wheat were
destroyed. Wind also damaged wheat
fields.

THE FARMERS SHIPPING Asso-
ciation of Chapin, Morgan county,
shipped $126,457.26 worth of livestock
during the fiscal year ending March 1,
1928. Two hundred and seventy-five
farmers shipped through the associa-
tion which handles more than 50 per
cent of the livestock sold in the com-
munity.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

industry and finance would have been
helped more if proper attention had
been given to the condition of agricul-
ture. Nothing of substance has been
done to bring this basic part of our
national life into conformity with the
economic system that has been set up
by law. Government should interfere
as little as possible with business. But
if it does interfere with one phase of
economic life, be it by tariff, by assis-
tance to merchant marine, by control
of the flow of money and capital
through the banking system, it is bad
logic, bad economics and an abandon-
ment of government responsibility to
say that as to agriculture alone, the
government should not aid.

Co-ordinated Marketing Neeqed

"Twice a Republican Congress has
passed legislation only to hajve it
vetoed by a President of theit own
party, and whether the veto of that
specific measure was right or ^-rong,
it is undisputed that no adequate sub-
stitute was ever recommended ^o the
Congress by the president and that no
constructive plan of relief was ever
formulated by any leader of the Re-
publican party in place of thq plan
which its Congress passed and its Presi-
dent vetoed. Only caustic criticism
and bitter denunciation were provoked
in the minds of the Republican leaders
in answer to the nation-wide appeal
for a sane endeavor to meet this {crisis.

"Co-operative, co-ordinated miarket-
•ing and warehousing of surplus! farm
products is essential, just as C(i)-ordi-
nated, co-operative control of thb flow
of capital wa.s found necessary to the
regulation of our country's finances.
To accomplish financial stability, the
federal reserve system was called into
being by a Democratic administration.
The question for agriculture isi com-
plex. Any plan devised must also be
co-ordinated with the other phafees of
our business institutions. Our plat-
form declares for the development of
co-operative marketing and an eftrnest
endeavor to solve the problem of the
distribution of the cost of dealing with
crop surpluses over the marketed unit
of the crop whose producers are bene-
fited by such assistance.

Pledges Immediate Action

"Only the mechanics remain to be
devised. I propose to substitute action
for inaction, and friendliness fojr hos-
tility. In my administration of the
government of my state, whenever I
was confronted with a problem of this
character, I called into conference
those best equipped on the particular
subject in hand. I shall follow that
course with regard to agriculture.

"Farmers and farm leaders, with
such constructive aid as will come

from sound economists and fair-mind-
ed leaders of finance and business,
must work out the detail. There are
varying plans for the attainment of the
end which is to be accomplished. Such
plans should be subjected at once to
searching, able and fair-minded analy-
sis, because the interests of all require
that the solution shall be economically
sound.

"If I am elected, I shall immediately
after election ask leaders of the type
I have named, irrespective of party,
to enter upon this task. I shall join
with them in the discharge of their
duties during the coming winter and
present to Congress, immediately upon
its convening, the solution recommend-
ed by the body of men best fitted to
render this signal service to the na-
tion. I shall support the activities of
this body until a satisfactory law is
placed upon the statute books."

Statement Issued

by President Sam

H. Thompson

American Farm Bureau Federation

GOVERNOR SMITH in hi*
acceptance speech last
I night recited facts that clearly
represent the present agricultur-
al situation.

He reiterated the Democratic
party pledge adopted at Houston.
As I have already said, that
party platform covers the funda-
mental principles adopted by the
American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion five years ago.

The avoidance of Government
subsidy by assessing the cost of
surplus control to the product
benefited is fundamental.

Governor Smith's plan to find i
a way of spreading the market-
ing costs over the marketed unit
of the commodity benefited is
satisfactory. ,

Nearly Two Million

Leave Farms in 1927

'■pHE Bureau of Agricultural Eco-
A nomics estimates that 1,978,000
jjersons left farms last year compared
with 2,155,000 in 1926, and 1,900,000
in 1925. Offsetting this movement,
1,374,000 persons moved from cities
to farms last year compared with
1,135,000 in 1926. and 1,066,000 in
1925.

These figures show a net movement
of 604,000 persons from farms to
cities for 1927 compared with 1,020,-
000 persons in 1926, and 834,000 per-
sons in 1925. Only a small reduction,
however, is shown in farm popula-
tion, an excess of births over deaths
bringing the population to 27,699,000

THE PRESS SAYS

THAT LONGING FOR MR.
LOWDEN

Recently Gov. Smith, in addressing
certain spokesmen for agriculture,
named Frank O. Lowden as one of the
intellectual leaders and practical
farmers whom he would ask to serve
on a committee of experts to be ap-
pointed at once, in the event of his
election, to devise a solution of the
complex and difficult farm-relief prob-
lem.

In his speech on that problem the
other day at West Branch, Iowa, Mr.
Hoover remarked that "outstanding
farmers such as Gov. Lowden would
be asked to join in the search for com-
mon ground upon which we can act."

The assiduous cultivation of Mr.
Lowden by both candidates and both
parties is one of the features of the
campaign which is not devoid of
humor for the observer. Mr. Low-
den's aid and advice would be both
scientific and practical, but the value
of his political support is not under-
estimated by either anxious aspirant
to Presidential honors.

While awaiting some sign from the
eminent lUinoisan both candidates and
their respective campaign managers
might study with profit the many
speeches, magazine articles and state-
ments which Mr. Lowden has contrib-
uted to the discussion of the farm
problem. They should ponder espe-
cially his insistence upon what he calls
the penalty clauses of farm-relief leg-
islation, upon the necessity of distrib-
uting the cost of surplus control over
all the beneficiaries and upon prevent-
ing abuse of devised remedies by self-
ish, stubborn, narrow-minded or short-
sighted farmers who, avid to take ad-
vantage of others' costly co-operative
efforts, have no scruples about neutral-
izing those efforts by grabbing profits
in their own good time while contrib-
uting nothing to the common welfare.

Investigation of the obvious would
be a waste of time and effort. The
crux of the problem is known and
should not be dodged. The urgent need
is for some workable substitute for
the equalization fee of the McNary-
Haugen bill. — Chicago Daily News.

persons on January 1, 1928, compared
with 27,892,000 on January 1, 1927,
a decrease of 193,000 persons, com-
pared with a decrease of 649,000 in
1926, and 441,000 in 1925.

A survey made last winter shows
that 87 per cent of those moving from
cities to farms had had farm experi-
ence.

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LOGAN COUNTY LIVESTOCK GROWERS VISIT CHICAGO PRODUCERS
Thousands of Illinois livestock men already have taken advantage of recent opportunities to tour with their neighbors to learn more
about selling livestock co-operatively through the PRODUCERS at the terminal markets in and adjoining Illinois. This snapshot was made
soine time ago when a large delegation led by Farm Adviser Checkley and Logan county shipping association m.ina(ers visited the Union
Stock Yards. Chicago.

Auto Insurance Company

Nears 10,000 Policy Mark

APPLICATIONS for auto insurance
- *- policies by the Farm Bureau mem-
bers of Illinois neared the 10,000 mark
on September 1, according to an an-
nouncement by the Illinois Agricul-
tural Mutual Insurance Company. On
that date exactly 9,678 policies were
in force or had been applied for. By
the first of October it is expected that
the policies in force will e.xceed the
10,000 mark by a substantial number.
"Our policyholders indicate fre-
quently that they are well pleased with
this service of the Farm Bureau." said
Manager A. E. Richardson. "With the
growth of the company claims are
coming in regularly and we are mak-
ing an effort to adjust them to the en-
tire satisfaction of the policyholders.
Our motto is to make a fair settlement
in every case, and to do it promptly."

A Code of Ethics

For City Folks

A CONDENSED code of outdoor
ethics has just been issued by the
Izaak Walton League of America.

"If this code is followed, even fifty
per cent, by the vast hordes of people
who are taking to the outdoors this
summer, the condition of our great
natural playground, hard pressed by
the outdoor movement occasioned
by modern transportation facilities,
will be safe from the destruction
which threatens it," declared Dr.
Henry Baldwin Ward, national presi-
dent of the organization.

The code of ethics was compiled by
Seth E. Gordon, conservation director
of the League, whose talks are enjoyed
by the I. A. A. radio audience. Here
is the code of ethics for city folks as
Mr. Gordon presented it over Station
WJJD, Mooseheart, recently:

1. Your outdoor manners tell the
world what you are when at home.

2. What belongs to the public isn't
your own — play fair.

3. Respect the property of rural
residents — ask before using it.

4. Save fences, close gates and
bars, go around planted fields.

5. People, livestock, trees and
birds were never meant to be target'
pi'actice backstops.

6. Respect the law — catch enough
legal fish to eat, then quit.

7. Protect public health — keep
springs and streams clean.

8. Clean up your camp and don't
litter the highways with trash.

!». Finish what you start — careless-
ness with fires is cussedne.^s.

10. Leave flowers an<l shrubs for
others to enjoy. Do your share to
keep outdoor America beautiful.

160 Visit Producers

ONE hundred and sixty mem-
bers of the Wenona Ship-
ping Association from Marshall
county visited the Chicago mar-
ket June 29. Farm Advisers R.
J. Laiblc and C. E. Gates accom-
panied the party.

The C. and A. railroad provid-
ed a special train for the group,
the members of which were en-
tertained by the Chicago Pro-
ducers' Commission Association.
The morning was spent in in-
specting the Producers' alleys,
and in the afternoon Swift and
Company_entertained the entire
group at luncheon and later con-
ducted a tour through their pack-
ing plant.

Axel Hclander, manager of the
Association, was largely respon-
sible for making arrangements
for the trip. This live Associa-
tion has 170 members in La Sallo
and Marshall counties. This was
the largest delegation ever to
visit the Chicago Producers' from
any one shipping association up
to that time.

New Produce Co-op.

Organized At Bement

'■pilE twentieth and nmsi reii-nt co-
A operative produce marketing as-
sociation to lie organized is the Piatt
County association iwith the first unit
at Bement. III. A dozen or more bids
were received for members' produce
tor the coming year. The contract
was awarded to Swift & Co., l)<vatur.
Officers elected to direct the Bement
iunit of the Piatt County Produce Mar-
keting Association are A. E. Larson.
Lester Cook, John W. Hammon, Harry
M. Coffin, and John Hendrix, all of
-Bement.

i .As soon as this unit opens for busi-
ness a second will be organized at
.Monticollo in Piatt county.

Immense Loss I^rom

Kansas Hail Storm

ONE of the most disastrous hail-
storms in Kansas since 1917
swept across eight slouthwcstern coun-
ties recently and caused approximately
$2,000,000 damage in a path 100 miles
long by 15 miles wide.

Communication lines, crippled by the
storm, were not restored until several
days later. The hail was followed by
a three-inch rain.

Grant county suffered the greatest
less with about a million dollars dam-
age done to wheat fields. Other coun-
ties in the path of the storm were
Stanton, Morton, Stevens, Haskell, Se-
ward, Meade, and plark. It is esti-
mated 1,500,000 bushels of wheat were
destroyed. Wind also damaged wheat
fields.

THE FARMERS SHIPPING Asso-
ciation of Chapin, Morgan county,
shipped $126,457.26 worth of livestock
during the fiscal year ending March 1,
1928. Two hundred and seventy-five
farmers shipped through the associa-
tion which handles more than 50 per
cent of the livestock sold in the com-
niunitv.

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I LiLilNOIS

CCLTUBAL ASSOCIA

RECORD

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nomoiy to promoto, protect and ropro—nt thm buainmam, «conom<Cp
politicol, and odueotionat intmrmata of tiim farmora of iiiinoia and thm
nation, and to dmomiop agricufturm*

Published once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave., Mount Horria,
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of Informatioo, E. G. Thiem. Director, 608 South Dearborn Street,
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OFFICERS

PreaMent, Earl C. Smith i ; Detroit

Vice-President, Franl< D. Bartoa J Cornell

Trcaaurer, R. A. Cowlca 1 Bloomincton

BXECUTIVE COMMITTEB
(By Con«reaaianal Diatricta)

.H. C. Vial, Downers Grove
. , .G. F. Tullock. Rockford
. . .C. E. Bamborough, Polo

M. G. Lambert, Ferris

. .A. N. Skiimcr. Yates City

A. R. Wright. Varna

. . . .Geo. J. Stoll, Cheatnut
R. F. Karr, Iroquois

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12th

Uth

14«h

ISth

16th

17th

18th

19th , J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th Charles S. Black, Jackaonvillc

21at Samuel Sorrclls, Raymond

23ad Frank Ocxner. Waterloo

ntd W. L. Cope, Salem

M(h Charles Marshair Belknap

2Sth Fred Diets, De Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMEr4TS

Bualneas Service Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

Llnnestone-Phosphate J. R. Bent

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Lceper

General Office J. H. Kelker

Information E.G. Thiem

Insurance Service 4 V. Vaniman

Legal Counsel L Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing f. Ray E. Miller

Organization i G. £. Metzger

Produce Marketing' , F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statiatica J. C. Watson

Transportation L. J. Quaaey

The Proposed $20,000,000 Bond Issue

The Executive Committee of the I. A. A. wnanimoualy adopted the fol-
loKnng report of ilt Public Relationt Committee toith reference to the
proposed bond tame of ttO.OOO.OOO for acguiring a atate-wide ayatem of
fiahing and hunting grounds at its reifidar meeting on Sept. 7, 1918:

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IN THE general election in November of this year,
the people of Illinois will vote upon a proposition
submitted by the Fifty-fifth General Assembly authorizing
the State of Illinois, through the Governor and Depart-
ment of Conservation, to issue, sell, and provide for the
retirement of bonds of the State to the amount of twenty
million dollars for the purpose of acquiring and estab-
lishing a state-wide system of fishing and hunting
grounds.

"It is provided in the Act submitting the bond issue
that, to be approved by the people, it must receive a ma-
jority of the votes cast for members of the General As-
sembly in the November election.

"If the Act is apprpved by the people, it is provided
that the rate of interest on any bonds that may be issued
shall not exceed four per cent per annum, and that no
bond shall be issued for a period of more than thirty
years.

"If the issue of bonds for the purpose stated is ap-
proved by vote of the people, the state officers will be
authorized to levy a tax on property from year to year

sufficient to meet interest on the outstanding bonds and
to retire the bonds as they become due. It is provided,
however, that moneys in the Game and Fish Fund be first
used for such payments and requires the omission of a
direct tax on property in any year in which sufficient
money from other sources of revenue has been appropri-
ated to meet such payment for such year..

"The Act also declares its intent that the state-wide
system of fishing and hunting grounds, including all fish-
ing and hunting grounds, fish and game preserves,
refugees, rest grounds, and sanctuaries now owned by the
State of Illinois, shall be spread out over the entire state
roughly proportionate to population, so that all the people
shall have approximately the same opportunity to partake
of its benefits.

"The officers and the Committee on Public Relations of
the Association have been urged to endorse and to give
public notice of their position on the proposed bond issue.

"Due consideration has been given to the arguments
and figures presented by supporters of the bond issue, and
to additional figures compiled by our Department of Tax-
ation. The Committee has reports for recent years giv-
ing the receipts from hunting and fishing licenses into the
Game and Fish Fund of the State, and appropriations and
expenditures therefrom by the former Division of Game
and Fish of the State Department of Agriculture, and,
beginning in 1925, by the State Department of Conserva-
tion.

"All of this information has been analyzed by the
Department of Taxation for the purpose of determining
as definitely as possible whether the proposed bond issue
involves serious danger of requiring a state tax on gen-
eral property either for the payment of interest on out-
standing bonds and the retirement of the bonds as they
become due, or for the expense of administration by the
Department of Conservation.

"If the bond issue is approved, the extensive system of
hunting and fishing lands purchased with the proceeds of
the bond issue will require very large additional expense
for improvement, maintenance, stocking with game and
fish, and protection, and for administration by the De-
partment of Conservation. All such expense must be paid
out of the Game and Fish Fund of the State derived from
hunting and fishing licenses alone, or out of appropria-
tions therefor out of the general or other funds of the
State.

"The Committee does not believe that the number of
hunting and fishing licenses issued in the state, or the
schedule of fees therefor, will be increased to such an
extent as to meet all the expenses of the Department and
the principal of the bonds and interest thereon. The Com-
mittee is convinced, therefore, that approval of the bond
issue by the people of the State will soon result in the
levy of a state tax on general property for these purposes.
Once levied, such a tax, like other taxes, is likely both to
become permanent and to increase in amount.

"Following the well defined policy of the Association
to give information on all state and national questions in-
volving agriculture, we are here giving our conclusions on
this matter. The Illinois Agricultural Association is not
opposed to a state-wide progrrani of conserving and de-
veloping natural resources for hunting and fishing; how-
ever, with all the information available, the Association
does not believe it possible to establish, improve, main-
tain, and protect so extensive a system without a further
increase in general property taxes.

"The Illinois Agricultural Association is definitely com-
mitted to a program of resisting any tax increases at
least until assessments of property in this state are made
upon a uniform basis and the state constitution is amend-
ed in such a way as to permit a fair taxing system."

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Page Seven

Executive Committee Reaffirms
Policy

The following report of the Committee on Pub-
lic Relations held on September 5, tttS. attended
bv Earl C. Smith, preeident. R. A. Cowles. treas-
urer, J. L. Whitnand, Chae. MarehaU and Frank
D. Barton, woe ur%animou*ly adopted by the
/. A, A. Executive Committee at its regular
meeting in Chicago, Sept. 7, IStS:

' ' TTAVING received a report of

J_X the 14 district picnics for
which our Association had secured
speakers of national reputation, among
whom were farm leaders from North,
South, East and West, as well as Re-
publican and Democratic leaders in
Congress who had demonstrated their
loyalty to agriculture and therefore
were asked to discuss the agricultural
issue fully and impartially; and after
hearing a report on Farm Bureau Day
at the State Fair where Congressman
Dickinson of Iowa, representing the
National Republican Committee, told
how the Republican Party expected to
solve the agricultural problem in the
next session of Congress, while Sena-
tor Caraway of Arkansas, representing
the National Democratic Committee,
told how the Democra+ic Party expect-
ed to solve the same problem, and

"Also having carefully considered
the developments up to date in both
the great political parties on the para-
mount issue of the national campaign
— ^that of establishing a national pol-
icy for agriculture comparable to that
already established for industry, labor,
transportation, and finance, and

"In view of all these reports and
developments your committee on Pub-
lic Relations wishes to recommend to
you, the Executive Committee, that
we reaffirm and recommend a continu-
ance of the policy adopted at your
regular meeting on July 13 and re-
affirmed at the regnilar meeting of the
Committee on August 11, which is as
follows:

"The primary interest and purpose
of the Illinois Agricultural Association
is to serve the true and permanent in-
terests of the farmers of Illinois. The
policy of the Association in all poli-
tical matters has always been and will
continue to be strictly non-partisan.

"We recognize that agricultural
issues are economic rather than politi-
cal. This was conclusively shown by
the majority vote of both parties in
each house of the 69th and 70th Con-
gresses, by which the McNary-Haugen
Bill was passed. It has also been re-
peatedly revealed by the non-partisan
vote supporting and passing such con-
structive agricultural legislation in our
state.

"National, state and district issues'
should be carefully considered on their
relative merits and in no way should
they become confused.

"We seek to furnish full, fair and
impartial information on agricultural

issues to our members and friends,
also the records and commitments on
these issues of political parties, men
in office and those seeking positions of
trust and responsibility. With this in-
formation in hand, farmers and all
true friends of agriculture are in a
position to support candidates for of-
fice who will best serve the economic
interests of agriculture. We urge our
members at all times to support those
candidates, regardless of party, who
by their records or definite commit-
ments have proven their worthiness of
this support.

"The policy as above set forth will
be continued." . \

SWEETENING UP IN BROWN COUNTY
A TRAINLOAD of limestone, 46 cars in all, moved into Brown county
on Aug. 16 to prepare the way for bigger and better crops of
sweet clover, alfalfa, corn and wheat. A special feature of the train
was eighteen side-dump cars which were unloaded along the Wabash
Railroad between stations. The Wabash provided a special crew to
assist and the farmers picked the sites for unloading the limestone.
Each purchaser furnished two men for each car bought and these men
accompanied the train during the dajr. Thirty-six men unloaded the
18 carloads in 7,^ hours. The Brown County Farm Bureau, the Wabash
Railroad, and the Brownell Improvement Co. co-operated in the project.
Farmers remotely situated from the railroads will crush approximately
2000 tons this year with the two crushers now working on local lime-
stone deposits. '-.

The Ohio Farm Bureau Mutual
Auto Insurance Company has 27,000
Farm Bureau member policyholders.
It recently established a branch office
in Maryland at the invitation of the
Maryland Farm Bureau where the
auto insurance service will be made
available to Farm Bureau members
there.

L. Burl Hornbeck, of Winchester, a
member of the Scott County Farm Bu-
reau, won one of the twelve prizes
offered in a national contest promoted
by the Bureau Farmer, official maga-
zine of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, in which entrants sub-
mitted letters on the topic, "What My
Farm Bureau Means to Me." First
place, with a prize of $10, went to H.
E. Meeker, Gait, Iowa, and second
place to Mrs. Louise W. East, Warren,
Utah, who received $5. The other ten
received $1 each. A second Illinois
prize winning letter was submitted by
Sartory Brothers, Warsaw, Hancock
County, 111.

Farmers Warned Not To Let
Insurance Lapse Thru Neglect

Attention Called To Mistakes By
Policy Holders

FARMERS should be careful not to
void their fire and tornado insur-
ance through failure to comply with
certain well-established rules of all in-
surance companies. In a letter to all
its borrowers, the Federal Land Bank
of St. Paul calls attention to the fact
that a number of its clients who had
fire losses during the past year had
voided their policies by neglecting to
observe the conditions of the contract,
and offers the following words of
caution :

i "If your build,
ings are vacated,
fire insurance be-
comes null and
void in a certain
number of days,
unless the in-
sured obtains a
'vacancy permit.'
"Remedy: If
your buildingrs
are not occupied,
even for a short
time, report the
matter to the in-
surance company
at once and ob-
tain a 'vacancy
permit.' In writ-
ing, request one
from the local
agent.

"The insurance
company's liabil-
ity ceases at once
when the farm is
transferred.

"Remedy: Re-
port transfer of
farm to the insurance company imme-
diately, in writing. The policies can
either be transferred to the new own-
er, in which case the company should
be asked to make the transfer and the
new owner should pay for the unex-
pired insurance, or the policies can be
cancelled and the unused premium re-
covered from the company.

"Insurance is immediately suspend-
ed and of no force if any premium
note given in settlement for it is not
paid when it comes due. This is also
true as regards assessment policies
where assessments are not paid in a
certain number of days (according to
the terms of the policy) after they are
levied.

"Remedy: Pay premiums and as-
sessments when due."

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The Tampico Livestock Shipping
Assn. in Whiteside county sold $253,-
270.40 worth of livestock during the
12 months ending March 1, 1928.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

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THE race for the state championship
in the Hlinois Farm Bureau Base-
ball League has narrowed down to
three or four outstanding teams. Taze-
well county, a favorite with many fans
by reason of its victory in Division III
over the strong Marshall-Putnam,
Peoria, and Woodford nines had won
consistently until its recent defeat by
Logan county. On August 15 at Gales-
burg the Tazewell boys played the fast
Henry county team, undefeated this
year, and the Tazewell players came
through with a 2 to 0 victory. Again
at Peoria, three days later, these two
teams hooked up and Tazewell, true to
form, won the game 9 to 7 and with
it the series. At Macomb on August
21, Logan county defeated McDonough
county 10 to 2. These two teams
crossed bats again at Bloomington on
August 31 when Logan county won its
second victory 11 to 7. Woodford
county defeated McLean in the first
game that day 3 to 2, the better game
of the two.

Logan and Tazewell counties fought
their first battle in the race for the
championship on Labor Day at Morton.
It was a hard-fought battle but Logan
county came out on top with a 1 to 0
victory in the first of the three-game
series that will decide the champion-
ship of northern and central Illinois.
It was by far the best Farm Bureau
baseball exhibition of the year, and in
the opinion of Farm Adviser Checkley,
the game saw Logan county at its best.

Same Lineup

The lineup of the two teams was
practically the same as heretofore.
Ackerman pitched for Tazewell and
Hanahan for Logan. Ackerman struck
out six men and Hanahan 4. Two
base hits were made by Beaver of Lo-
gan and by Bluemenshine and R. Israel
of Tazewell county. Ackerman suf-
fered his first defeat in 16 games. A
pass to Galen Shirley, the only pass
issued by Ackerman during the game,
a stolen base and Perry's single scored
the lone tally of the game in the Jxth
inning. Perry was out stealing and
the second hit of the inning by Chris-
man was wasted. Hanahan pitched an
excellent game for Logan and held
the Tazewell sluggers to six hits.
Neither pitcher secured many strike
outs, but excellent support by both in-
fields retired hitters in rapid fire
fashion. i

Many Spectator*

A large number of Logan and Taze-
well county farmers as well as towns-
people attended the game. Another
large crowd was expected at the second
game on Sept. 8. The winner of this
series will probably play Lawrence

OFFICIAL STANDING OF TEAMS IN THE ILLINOIS FARM

BUREAU BASEBALL LEAGUE FOR WEEK ENDING

SEPTEMBER 8, 1928

SEMI-FINALS

I<awrence county, southern Illinois champions, defeated JelTeraon in two games:

At Flora— Auc 24 At OIney— Auc 30

Lawrence H Jefferson 6 Lawrence 20 Jefferson 1

13 hiU, 6 errors 12 hiu, 7 errors 26 hite, 6 errors 6 hiU, 1 error

Batteries: H. Ck^nrad and S. Conrad: Spangler, Mills and Corder

In Division V Cass & Morgan tied for championship, each having won five games and
lost one to each other.

Tazewell county eliminated Henry in two games at Galesburg and Peoria previously re-
ported. Logan county eliminated McDonough at Macomb (previously reported) and at
Bloomington on Aug. 31.

At Bloomington — Auf. 31
Woodford 3 McLean 2

7 hiu. 2 errors 6 hiU, 1 error

Batteries : Young and Moser : Van Dyke and Payne
Logan 11 McDonough 7

16 hits, 2 errors 13 hits, 3 errors

Batteries: Hoerr and Myers; Mead and L. Mings
Logan defeated Tazewell in first game of three games scries
At Morton — Sept. 3
Logan 1 Tazewell 0

5 hiu, 1 error 6 hits, 0 errors

Batteries : Hanahan and Quisenberry ; Ackerman and Carius

county, the southern Illinois cham-
pions, in the near future for the state
championship.

Jefferson county went down to de-
feat to Lawrence county in two games
played at Flora and at Olney. Jeffer-
son had won the championship in Di-
vision VII by defeating Washington,
Clay, and Wayne consistently. The
Lawrence county nine romped away
with the title rather early in Division
VIII. The Lawrence team is rated as
one of the best in the state because
its players are all experienced and
play regularly in the Lawrence County
Community League.

Game One-tided

The game at Olney on Augrust 30
was a one-sided affair with Lawrence
county winning easily 20 to 1. The
game was played on a rough, uneven
diamond. As a result there was
plenty of loose playing and errors.
Both teams hit the ball freely, al-
though the Lawrence batsman made
the majority of the long drives.

The winning team in Division V has
not been reported up to date, although
Cass and Morgan counties are running
neck and neck in the championship
race. Each team has defeated the
other once. So far they have failed to
play a third game to determine which
team has the best right to claim the
championship.

Mason and Scott Enter

Mason and Scott counties both en-
tered teams in the League this year
and made a good showing against the
experienced Cass and Morgan county
nines.

At -this writing efforts are being
made to bring the season to a close at
an early date. It is expected that the
two leading teams will play a cham-
pionship series of two out of three
games. The teams which compete in
the championship series will select the
time and place for their games, which
will be announced by radio and news-
papers as soon as the information is
available.

C. M. Hatland

Club Work At Walnut

Is Very Successful

CM. HATLAND, instructor of vo-
• cational agriculture in the Wal-
nut Community High School, super-
vises the work of almost 100 club
members besides discharging his other
duties as teacher. During the present
year he has acted as leader for the
following clubs
with enrollments
as indicated.

Sow and Litter,
21; Dairy Heifers,
19; Baby Beef, 8;
Lamb Clubs, 3 ;
Ton Litter, 4;
Corn Clubs, 21;
Poultry, 15.

Mr. Hatland
started the Voca-
tional Agriculture
Department at the
Walnut Commun-
ity High School five years ago. The
enrollment in his classes has averaged
35 boys per year. He took an active
interest in club work in cooperation
with the Bureau County Farm Bureau
from the beginning. For the last five
years his club members have exhibited
a full carload of their stock at the
Aurora Fair. He has also had a car-
load at Springfield for three years
and has exhibited at the International
for four years. Each year and from
each fair his club members and team
have returned to Bureau county in the
Walnut Community bedecked with rib-
bons and bearing trophies of every
description.

Mr. Hatland reports that practically
all of his pupils have returned to the
farm and are making agriculture their
life work. The type of livestock in
that community, particularly hogs, is
unusually good and Hatland has found
that there is keen rivalry between the
farmers of that section and his club
members as to who shall breed and
raise the best hogs or feed the best
calf.— Ray E. Miller.

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I. A. A. Non-Partisan
Policy Approved By
Members, Survey Shows

Total Attendance at 14 District
Picnics Approaches 100,000 Mark

THE non-partisan political policy of
the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion is meeting with the approval of
the Farm Bureau members of Illinois,
according to a survey conducted at the
14 district I. A. A.-Farm Bureau pic-
nics held throughout the state during
the summer. Following its established
policy, farm leaders and Congressmen
of varied political faiths were selected
to address the outdoor gatherings.

Among these were such men as Con-
gressman Haugen of Iowa, a Republi-
can who spoke at Sandwich; Congress-
man Adkins of Illinois, a Republican
who delivered speeches at Sullivan,
Marion and Macomb; Congressman
Rainey of Illinois, a Democrat who de-
livered the addresses at Watseka and
Olney; Edward A. O'Neal of Alabama,
a Democrat and vice-president of the
A. F. B. F., who was speaker of the
day at Bloomington, Freeport, and
Jacksonville ; President Sam H. Thomp-
son, a Republican who spoke at Gales-
burg; Wm. H. Settle of Indiana, a Re-
publican who was speaker at Taylor-
ville. Highland and Sullivan; and M.
S. Winder of Utah, Republican and
Secretary of the A. F. B. F. who ad-
dressed the Peoria gathering. Presi-
dent Smith was principal speaker at
the first district picnic held near
Wheaton in July.

These men confined their remarks
for the most part to a discussion of
the agricultural situation, the econom-
ics involved, and the necessity for
farmers to disregard fictitious party
allegiance and vote for those candi-
dates whose records and statements
show them to be fair and friendly to
agriculture. Nearly 100,01)0 farmers
and their families and guests, includ-
ing business and labor groups, came
out ':q the 14 picnics. This number is
approximately five times greater than
the largest crowd ever assembled at a
former state picnic of
the I. A. A.

Fair Weather
Prevails

Fair weather pre-
vailed for the most
part at every gather-
ing. Cloudy weather
and light showers
held down the attend-
ance the morning of
the picnics at Marion
and at Sandwich, but
before noon in each
case the sun broke
through the clouds
and in the afternoon

volved had become sufficiently clari-
fied, so that they might cast an intelli-
gent vote in behalf of their own in-
terests.
j I Interest Great

There was comparatively little open
discussion of political questions at the
gatherings, but it was very apparent
that interest in the situation was
great. Never before was such careful
and close attention given the speakers
who had larger audiences than at any
previous picnics. The I. A. A. public
address system was an important fac-
tor in making this possible.

Picnics held early in August con-
flicted with harvesting and threshing.
As a result the attendance was re-
duced considerably at all the gather-
ings held the first three weeks of the
month. Threshing was still in progress
as late as the first of September in
northern Illinois, and the 13th district
picnic at Freeport on September 1
was affected by this situation.

Logan Barber of Locan county measures
5S inches around the middle. He won first
prize in a walkaway at the 17th Dist. Picnic,
Bloomington, Aug. 31.

from three to five thousand people had
gathered to hear the speaking and to
take part in the sporting events of the
day. Horseshoe pitching tournaments,
baseball games, hog calling, and chick-
en calling contests, races for the chil-
dren, and other events featured the
majority of the gatherings.

President Earl C. Smith addressed
ten of the picnics and before intro-
ducing the speaker of the afternoon
outlined the definite policy of the I.
A. A. in political matters, told of
the efforts of organized agriculture
throughout the past three sessions of
Congress, explained how this economic
issue had been injected into politics
by the last presidential veto, comment-
ed on the agricultural planks of the
major party platforms and the accept-
ance speeches of the two candidates,
and urged farmers to continue their
careful study of the situation and re-
serve judgment until the issues in-

CHAMPION NAIL DRIVERS AT MARION
Nail driving contests for the ladies were popular at several of
The young lady in the center, Esther Beasley, Jackson County,
driving 19 tenpenny nails into a pine plank in one minute.

Galesburg, 111., Aug. 15. — A crowd
estimated at 12,000 gathered here to-
day for the 15th district I. A. A.-Farm
Bureau picnic. Warm, sunshiny weath-
er greeted the arrivals who began
pouring into Lincoln Park, north of
here, shortly after nine o'clock.

President Sam H. Thompson of the
A. F. B. F. and President Earl C.
Smith of the I. A. A. arrived shortly
before noon. The Galesburg Chamber
of Commerce ably assisted the Farm
Bureaus in preparing for the large
crowd and in arranging the program.
Galesburg business men contributed
liberally also to the expense fund.
Many of the business houses closed
for the afternoon. The Chamber of
Commerce quartet enlivened the after-
noon program with its excellent
music which was broadcast over the
grounds by means of the I. A. A. pub-
lic address system.

Sam Thompson reviewed the efforts
of farmers to gain equal privilege leg-
islation. He touched the hearts of his
audience with his deep sincerity and
earnestness in fight-
ing the battles of ag-
riculture. President
Smith answered
charges that the corn

?belt farm leaders had
no rank and file by
pointing to the great
a audience from the va-
iK rious counties of the
district.

E. F. Griggs and
E. C. Griggs, the lat-
ter a 16-year-old boy
of Adams County,
defeated Henry Coun-
ty, represented by W.
H. Miller and Jesse

the district picnics,
won first prize by

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Anderson, in the horseshoe pitching
tournament by score of 52 to 46, tak-
ing the double title to Adams County.
Tazewell defeated Henry County 2 to
0 in the first semi-final game for the
championship of the Illinois Farm Bu-
reau Baseball League.

Macomb, Aug. 21. — Logan
defeated McDonough here
today, 10 to 2, in the first
game of a 3-game series in
the semi-finals of the Illi-
nois Farm Bureau Baseball
League. A crowd estimated
at 5,000 people gathered in
the natural amphitheatre
on the Western Illinois
State Teachers College
campus to hear Cong.
Charles Adkins of Decatur.
M. G. Lambert of Ferris
opened the progrram. Pres.
Lloyd Welch, of the Mc-
Donough County Farm Bu-
reau, presided. Earl C.
Smith, I. A. A. president,
spoke briefly before intro-
ducing Congressman Ad-
kins.

Cool sunshiny weather prevailed
throughout the day. By early after-
noon a crowd estimated at between
4,000 and 5,000 assembled to hear Ed.
A. O'Neal of Alabama, vice-president
of the American Farm Bureau Feder-
ation, discuss agriculture's bill of
rights, the name he gave to surplus
Congressman Holaday, Republican control legislation passed by the 70th

Cahnnett of mind m one of the beau-
tiful jeivele of wisdom. It it tke reeuU
of long and patient effort in »elf-«ontroL
Its presence is an indication of ripened
experience and of a more than ordinary
knowledge of the laws and operations
tf thought.— -James Allen.

county of Danville, spoke briefly before in- Congress.

Sandwich, Aug. 23. —
Nearly 5,000 Farm Bureau
members and their guests
from the 12th congres-
sional district attended the
I. A. A.-Farm Bureau pic-
nic here today. Heavy
showers fell during the
morning, but the weather
cleared up before noon.
The horseshoe tournament
started immediately after
the rain and though courts
were sloppy and bleachers
wet, enthusiasm was not
dulled.

The sun pierced the
clouds at noon, and by 1 :30
p. m. the amphitheatre was
more than filled. The over-
flow crowded about the
loud-speakers to hear Con-
gressman Gilbert N. Hau-
gen, Republican of Iowa,
speak on the agricultural
situation. Congressman

John T. Buckbee of Rock-
ford, President Earl C.
Smith of the I. A. A., and
George F. Tullock, I. A. A.
Executive Committeeman, made short
talks prior to the introduction of Mr.
Haugen. Henry White, president of
the DeKalb County Farm Bureau, pre-
sided. I

President Earl C. Smith,
who preceded O'Neal, dis-
cussed briefly the I. A. A.'s
non-partisan policy in poli-
tical matters. C. E. Bam-
borough of Polo presided.
Hog calling and chicken
calling contests featured
the late afternoon pro-
gram.

WIN STATE HORSESHOE TITLE
RoUo Siegfried. left, and W. I. Earls of Hancock county are the new
Illinois State Farm Bureau Horseshoe Champions for 1928. They won
at Jacksonville on Sept. 3. "They throw the prettiest horseshoes I ever
saw. and Til back 'em against all comers.** said "Hank** Lloyd, farm
adviser from Hancock who came to the tournament with his champions.
Each was presented with a large, handsome silver loving cup by the
President of the I. A. A. Scott county was runner-up.

THE PAWNEE QUARTET

Left to right: D. C. Dragoo, H. B. Austin, W. L. bragoo, E. V.
Hoagland.

These men are past masters at singing Farm Bureau songs and en-
tertaining their audiences. On Sept. 3 at Jacksonville, they were en-
cored titae after time during the afternoon. Their "Down On The
Farm At Half Past Four'* by Homer Hall was a popular choice.

troducing the speaker. R. F. Karr, of
Iroquois, presided. Robt. A. Cowles,
treasurer, represented the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association.

Watseka, Aug. 22. — Congressman
Henry T. Rainey of Carrollton, Demo-
crat from the 20th Illinois district, dis-
cussed the agricultural platform of
the two major parties and the two
presidential candidates here today be-
fore 2,000 Farm Bureau members
from the 18th district who had gath-
ered for the I. A. A.-Farm Bureau
picnic.

Freeport, Sept. 1. — Whiteside coun-
ty won the Farm Bureau baseball title
of the 13th congressional district here
today, defeating the newly organized
Stephenson county nine 5 to 3, before
more than 1,000 spectators who had
gathered for the I. A. A.-Farm Bureau
picnic. Stephenson county retaliated
later by winning the horseslye pitch-
ing tournament.

Jacksonville, Sept. 3. —
The State Hospital Grounds
in the east part of town
was the scene of a gn^eat
gathering of Farm Bureau
members and their guests,
and laboring and business
men here today. The pic-
nic was sponsored by the
I. A. A. and the Farm Bu-
reau of the 20th Congres-
sional district. A crowd
variously estimated at
7,000 to 10,000 turned out
for the day.

Cool but bright, clear
weather and a cold breeze
heralded the approach of
autumn. Warm wraps and
top coats were much in evi-
dence.

Morgan and Scott Coun-
ty Farm Bureau baseball
teams crossed bats in an
interesting game played
after the speaking program
in the afternoon. Morgan
county won easily.

The strong Hancock
county horseshoe pitching
team comprising Rollo
Siegfried and W. I. Earls
carried off the silver
trophies awarded by the I.
A. A. in the annual State
Farm Bureau Horsehoe
Pitching Tournament. Scott
county's team was runner-
up in the contest.

Ed. A. O'Neal of Ala-
bama, speaker of the day,
was introduced by Presi-
dent Earl C. Smith. Dr. Bowes of
Jacksonville spoke briefly in behalf of
organized labor. Executive Commit-
teeman Charles Black presided. Guy
Bender, 1927 champion hog caller, had
charge of the contests following the
speeches.

The Pawnee male quartet from
Sangamon county was a special at-
traction.

Peoria, Aug. 18. — Milton Newman,
president of the Glen Oak Park Board,
stated here today that the I. A. A.-
Farm Bureau picnic crowd was the
largest he had ever seen in the park.

A beautiful sunshiny day greeted

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the picnickers. Threshing was out
of the way in most sections of Peoria
and Tazewell counties, and as a result
the turnout from these counties was
large.

M. S. Winder, secretary of the A. F.
B. F., was the speaker of the day. O.
L. Hatch, president of the Stark Coun-
ty Farm Bureau, opened the afternoon
program and presided. He first intro-
duced Executive Committeeman A. R.
Wright of Varna, then the other Farm
Bureau presidents in the district, Con-
g^ressman Hull of Peoria, and later
the speaker. Tazewell defeated Henry
county in the second game of their
series in the State Farm Bureau Base-
ball League elimination contest. Mar-
shall-Putnam won the horseshoe tour-
nament.

Bloomington, Aug. 31. — Beautiful
Miller Park, Blooming^on's show place,
was the scene here today of the
I. A. A. -Farm Bureau picnic for mem-
bers of the organization in the 17th
Congressional district. A crowd esti-
mated by Charlie Hill, park superin-
tendent, at between 12,000 and 15,000
filled the spacious grounds by early
afternoon.

Two hotly contested baseball games
held in the morning drew an immense
audience. Woodford county defeated
McLean's fast team in the first game
3 to 2 while Logan administered its
second beating to the McDonough
County Farm Bureau nine in the sec-
ond game. The first contest was un-
official, and the second was an official
game in the semi-finals toward select-
ing the champions of the Illinois Farm
Bureau Baseball League.

Logan Barber, who weighs 325
pounds and measures 58 inches around
the belt, won the first prize for the
man with the biggest bay window. Gus
Gilard, a professional clown from Chi-
cago, entertained young and old
throughout the day. President Earl
C. Smith of the I. A. A. introduced
Ed. A. O'Neal of Alabama, speaker of
the day. George Stoll of Chestnut
presided. Sam Smith of Anchor and
Ed Kruse of Colfax, McLean county's
entry, won the horseshoe tournament.
Hog calling, chicken calling, and other
stunts were held following the
speeches.

Olney, Aug. 30. — The largest crowd
ever assembled at a Southern Illinois
Farm Bureau picnic gathered here to-
day for the 23rd district I. A. A.-
Farm Bureau picnic. The gathering
was estimated at between 8,000 and
10,000 people. It was held on the
Richland County Fair Grounds. Threat-
ening clouds cleared away late in the
morning and before noon the grounds
were packed with Farm Bureau mem-
bers, their guests and friends from
over the district.

Lawrence county defeated Jefferson
county's Farm Bureau nine in the
second game of the Southern Illinois
Championship series. It was a one-
sided contest with the fast Lawrence
county boys getting the long end of a
20 to 1 score.

The Cover

MORE than 30 years ago,
President Draper of the
University of Illinois said that
"the wealth of Illinois lies in her
soil and her future in its devel-
opment." This statement which
adorns the entrance to the old
agricultural building at Urbana
is more than half true even to-
day. Thirty or fifty years ago
it was a more accurate state-
ment.

Today it is apparent that the
future of agriculture lies in the
hands of the farm men and
women of tomorrow. These are
the farm boys and girls of today.
The Four H clubs whose repre-
sentatives are featured on the
cover page are doing their bit
toward giving farm boys and
girls a vision of what is best in
agriculture.

W. L. Cope, of Salem, I. A. A. ex-
ecutive committeeman from the 23rd
district, presided and introduced the
speakers. Congressman Henry T.
Rainey of Carrollton discussed the
national agricultural situation. Pres.
Earl C. Smith spoke briefly before
presenting the Congressman who has
represented Mr. Smith's home district,
the 20th, for more than 20 years.

Marion, Aug. 16. — A light rain
which fell here early this morning
coupled with the fact that the peach
harvest was in full swing in several
sections of the 24th and 25th districts,
held the crowd down to approximately
3,000 to 5,000 people. The occasion
was the joint I. A. A. -Farm Bureau
picnic of the two districts.

The picnic site was the beautiful
grounds of the Williamson County
Fair at the edge of town.

The address of Congressman Charles
Adkins of Decatur, speaker of the day,
was presented in the September issue
of the Bureau Farmer.

Wins at Fairbury

Fairbury, Sept. 3. — Gaylord Peter-
son, a 19-year-old Toluca lad, won the
first prize in the annual horseshoe
pitching tournament at the Fairbury
Fair here today. The tournament, open
to everyone, was sponsored by the Il-
linois State Horseshoe Pitchers' Asso-
ciation. Peterson won a medal and
$50 in cash. The champion tossed
272 ringers in the seven games played.
Joe Bennett of Congerville placed sec-
ond. Walter Torbert, deceased, of
Clinton, was the 1927 champion. Har-
ry Torbert, Walter's brother, entered
the contest this year but failed to
place.

Sam G. Smith, Farm Bureau mem-
ber from Anchor, won first place in
Class B.

Illinois Woman Hangs Up
New Horseshoe Record

Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 5. — Three
world's records were broken in the
opening elimination trials of the
Women's National Horseshoe Pitching
tournament here Monday, held in con-
nection with the annual Rochester ex-
position and horse show. The world
records were established by Mrs. C. A.
Lanhan, Bloomington, 111., former
world champion, and Miss Doris Per-
kins, Springfield, Mass., high school
girl, pitching in her first national
tournament.

Both tossed 54 ringers each, estab-
lishing a new record for number of
ringers pitched in a 50-point game.
The women broke another record by
putting four ringers on the pegs four
consecutive times and Miss Perkins
established the third record with 18
double ringers, the largest number
ever made in a 50-point game. Mrs.
Lanhan, Miss Perkins, Mrs. E. E. Cole,
Ann Arbor, Mich., and Mrs. Edith
Hough, Willard, Ohio, emerged vic-
torious in the trials.

The four winning women will com-
pete in further trials this week for
the title of world champion now held
by Mrs. Mayme Francisco, St. Peters-
burg, iFla., who is not defending her
laurels.

$700,000 Saved Farmers

By Freight Reduction

\T least $700,000 ^ year has been
-t*- lopped off the freight bill Farm
Bureau folks in Ohio, Indiana, Michi-
gan and Illinois have been paying for
the commercial fertilizer they need on
their farms. Through the combined
efforts of the Farm Bureaus in these
states, and with the co-operation of
the American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion, a four-year fight for reduction
of the fertilizer freight rates was won
when on July 11 the Interstate Com-
merce Commission ordered a reduc-
tion, effective at an early date.

The decrease varies in amount from
80 cents to $1.60 a ton according to
distance from point of origin of the
shipments, but the average reduction
for the entire territory is $1 per ton.
An estimate made during the course
of the hearing placed the quantity used
in this region as 700,000 tons.

This means a saving of $300,000 an-
nually to Ohio farmers; $250,000 to
Indiana farmers and about $100,000
to Michigan farmers. If you are one
of the farmers to be benefited, get
out the comptometer and figure up
how much you will clear from this one
deal over and above the cost of your
membership in the Farm Bureau.

Frank Barton of Cornell, vice president of
Illinois Agricultural Association, was the
speaker at a Peoria county community meet-
insr at the Dave Wykoll farm near Latira.
Friday eveninpr. AuRust SI.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Anderson, in • the horseshoe pitching
tournament by score of 52 io 45, tak-
ing the double title to Adanjis County.
Tazewell defeated Henry C(^unty 2 to
0 in the lirst semi-tinal gaipe for the
championship of the Illinois Farm Bu-
reau Baseball Loague.

Calmness of fnind is one of the baaii-
tiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result
•)f long and patient effort in self-control.
Its jiresericc is an indication of ripened
experience and of a more than ordinary
Kniiiilcdye of the laws and operations
i thought. — James Allen.

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Macomb, Aug. 21. — Log^n
defeated McDonough here
today, 10 to 2, in the first
game of a.3-game series in
the semi-finals of the Illi-
nois Farm Bureau Baseball
League. A crowd estimated
at 5,000 people gathered in
the natural amphitheatre
on the Western Illinois
State Teachers College
campus to hear Cong.
Charles Adkins of Decatur.
M. G. Lambert of Ferris
opened the program. Pres.
Lloyd Welch, of the Mc-
Donough County Farm Bu-
reau, iiresidcd. Karl C.
Smith. I. .\. A. i)re.<ident.
spoke briefly before intro-
ducing Congressman Ad-
kins.

county

Congi-essman Holaday, Republican
if Danville, spoke briefly before in-

Sandwich, Aug. ^.'}. —
Nearly 5,000 Farm Bureau
members and their guests
from the 12th congres-
sional district attended the
I. A. A. -Farm Bureau pic-
nic here today. Heavy
showers fell during the
morning, but the weather
cleared up before noon.
The horseshoe tournament
started immediately after
the rain and though courts
were sloppy and bleachers
wet, enthusiasm was not
dulled.

The sun i)ierced t h e
clouds at noon, and by 1 :;!()
p. m. the amphitheatre was
more than tilled. The over-
flow crowded aliout the
loud-speakers to hear Con-
gressman (iilbert N\ Hau-
gen, Republican of Iowa,
speak on the- agricultural
situation. Conjiressman

John T. Buckbee of Rpck-
ford. President Earl' C.
Smith of the I. A. A., and
(ieorge F. Tullock, I. A. A.
E.xecutive Committeeman, made short
talks prior to the introduction of Mr.
Haugen. Henry White, president of
the DeKalb County Farm Bureau, pro-
sided. ■

Cool sunshiny weather prevailed
throughout the day. By early after-
noon a crowd estimated at between
4,000 and 5,000 assembled to hear Ed.
A. O'Neal of Alabama, vice-president
of the American Farm Bureau Feder-
ation, discuss agriculture's bill of
rights, the name he gave to surplus
control legislation passed by the 70th
Congress. President Eai'l C. Smith,
who preceded O'Neal, dis-
cussed briefly the I. A. A.'s
non-partisan policy in poli-
tical matters. C. E. Bam-
borough of Polo presided.
Hog calling and chicken
calling contests featured
the late afternoon pro-
gram.

WIN STAIE HORSESHOE TITLE
Rollo Sifijfripd, left, and W. 1. Earls of Hancock county are the new
Illinois State Farm Bureau Horseshoe CItanipions for 1928. They won
at Jacksonville on Sept. 3. "They throw the prettiest horseshoes I ever
saw, and I'll back 'em against all comers." said "Hank" Lloyd, farm
adviser from Hancock who came to the tournament with his champions.
Each was presented with a large, handsome silver loving cup by the
President of the I. A. A. Scott county was runner-up.

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C. Dragoo. H. B. Austm, W.

Left to
Hoagland.

These men are past masters at singing Farm Bureau songs and en-
tertaining their audiences. On Sept. 3 at Jacksonville, they were en-
cored time after time during the afternoon. Their "Down On The
Farm At Half Past Four" by Homer Hall was a popular choice.

ti'oducing the si)eaker. R. F. Karr, of
Iio(juois, presided. Robt. A. Cowles.
treasurer, represented the Illinois Ag-
ricultural .Association.

Watseka, .Aug. 22. — Congressman
Henry T. Rainey of CarroUton, Demo-
crat from the 20th Illinois district, dis-
cussed the agricultural platform of
the two major parties and the two
presidential candidates here today be-
fore 2,000 Farm Bureau members
from the 18th district who had gath-
ered for the T .\. .-\.-Fann Bureau
picnic.

Freeptirt, Sept, 1. — Whiteside coun-
ty won the Farm Bureau baseball title
of the l.'Jth congressional district here
today, defeating the newly organized
Ste|)henson county nine 5 to 3, before
more than 1,000 spectators who had
gathered for the I, A, A. -Farm Bureau
picnic. Stei)henson county retaliated
later by winning the horseshoe pitch-
ing tournament.

Jacksonville, Sept. 3. —
The State Hospital Grounds
in the east part of town
was the scene of a great
gathering of Farm Bureau
members and their guests,
and laboring and business
men here today. The pic-
nic was sponsored by the
I. A. A. and the Farm Bu-
reau of the 20th Congres-
sional district. A crowd
variously estimated at
7,000 to 10,000 turned out
for the day.

Cool but bright, clear
weather and a cold breeze
heralded the approach of
autumn. Warm wraps and
top coats were much in evi-
dence.

Morgan and Scott Coun-
ty Farm Bureau baseball
teams crossed bats in an
interesting game played
after the speaking program
in the afternoon. Morgan
county won easily.

The strong Hancock
County horseshoe pitching
team comprising Rollo
Siegfried and W. I. Earls
carried off the silver
trophies awarded by the I.
.\. A. in the annual State
Faiin Bureau Horsehoe
Pitching Tournament. Scott
county's team was runner-
u)) in the contest.

Ed. A. O'Neal of Ala-
bama, speaker of the day,
was introduced by Presi-
dent Karl C. Smith. Dr. Bowes of
Jacksonville spoke briefly in behalf of
organized labor. Executive Commit-
teeman Charles Black jiresided. Guy
Bender, U»27 champion hog caller, had
charge of the contests following the
speeches.

The Pawnee mah
Sangamon e(junty was
traction.

L. Dragoo, E. V.

quartet from
a special at-

Peoria. -Aug. 18. — Milton Newman,
l)resident of the Glen Oak Park Board,
stated here today that the I. A. A.-
I'arm Bureau picnic crowd was the
largest he had ever seen in the park.

.A beautiful sunshiny day greeted

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the picnickers. Threshing was out
of the way in most sections of Peoria
and Tazewell counties, and as a result
the turnout from these counties was
large.

M. S. Winder, secretary of the A. F.
B. F., was the speaker of the day. O.
L. Hatch, president of the Stark Coun-
ty Farm Bureau, opened the afternoon
program and presided. He first intro-
duced Executive Committeeman A. R.
Wright of Varna, then the other Farm
Bureau presidents in the district. Con-
gressman Hull of Peoria, and later
the speaker. Tazewell defeated Henry
county in the second game of their
series in the State Farm Bureau Base-
ball League elimination contest. Mar-
shall-Putnam won the horseshoe tour-
nament.

Bloomington, Aug. 31. — Beautiful
Miller Park, Bloomington's show place,
was the scene here today of the
I. A. A. -Farm Bureau picnic for mem-
bers of the organization in the 17th
Congressional district. A crowd esti-
mated by Charlie Hill, park superin-
tendent, at between 12,000 and 15,000
filled the spacious grounds by early
afternoon.

Two hotly contested baseball games
held in the morning drew an immense
audience. Woodford county defeated
McLean's fast team in the first game
3 to 2 while Logan administered its
second beating to the McDonough
County Farm Bureau nine in the sec-
ond game. The first contest was un-
official, and the second was an official
game in the semi-finals toward select-
ing the champions of the Illinois Farm
Bureau Baseball League.

Logan Barber, who weighs 32.5
pounds and measures 58 inches around
the belt, won the first prize for the
man with the biggest bay window. Gus
Gilard, a professional clown from Chi-
cago, entertained young and old
throughout the day. President Earl
C. Smith of the L A. A. introduced
Ed. A. O'Neal of Alabama, speaker of
the day. George Stoll of Chestnut
presided. Sam Smith of Anchor and
Ed Kruse of Colfax, McLean county's
entry, won the horseshoe tournament.
Hog calling, chicken calling, and other
stunts were held following the
speeches.

Olney, Aug. 30. — The largest crowd
ever assembled at a Southern Illinois
F'arm Bureau picnic gathered here to-
day for the 23rd district I. A. A.-
Farm Bureau picnic. The gathering
was estimated at between 8,000 and
10,000 people. It was held on the
Richland County Fair Grounds. Threat-
ening clouds cleared away late in the
morning and before noon the grounds
were packed with Farm Bureau mem-
bers, their guests and friends from
over the district.

Lawrence county defeated Jefferson
county's Farm Bureau nine in the
second game of the Southern Illinois
Championship series. It was a one-
sided contest with the fast Lawrence
county boys getting the long end of a
20 to 1 score.

The Cover

MORE than 30 years ago,
President Draper of the
University of Illinois said that
"the wealth of Illinois lies in her
soil and her future in its devel-
opment." This statement which
adorns the entrance to the old
agricultural building at Urbana
is more than half true even to-
day. Thirty or fifty yeai's ago
it was a more accurate state-
ment.

Today it is apparent that the
future of agriculture lies in the
hands of the farm men and
women of tomorrow. These are
the farm boys and girls of today.
The Four H clubs whose repre-
sentatives are featured on the
cover page are doing their bit
toward giving farm boys and
girls a vision of what is best in
agriculture.

W. L. Cope, of Salem, I. A. A. ex-
ecutive committeeman from the 23rd
(iistrict, presided and introduced the
speakers. Congressman Henry T.
Rainey of Carrollton discussed the
national agricultural situation. Pres.
Earl C. Smith spoke briefly before
presenting the Congressman who has
represented Mr. Smith's home district,
the 20th, for more than 20 years.

Marion, Aug. Ifi. — A light rain
which fell here early this morning
coupled with the fact that the peach
harvest was in full swing in several
sections of the 24th and 25th districts,
held the crowd down to approximately
3.000 to 5,000 people. The occasion
was the joint I. A. A.-P"arm Bureau
l)icnic of the two districts.

The picnic site was the beautiful
grounds of the Williamson County
P'air at the edge of town.

The address of Congressman Charles
.Adkins of Decatur, speaker of the day.
was presented in the September issue
of the Bureau Farmer.

Wins at Fairbury '

Fairbury, Sept. 3. — Gaylord Peter-
son, a 19-year-old Toluca lad, won the
tirst prize' in the annual horseshoe
pitching tournament at the Fairbury
Fair here today. The tournament, open
to everyone, was sponsored by the Il-
linois State Horseshoe Pitchers' Asso-
ciation. Peterson won a medal and
!?50 in cash. The champion tossed
272 ringers in the seven games played.
.Joe Bennett of Congerville placed sec-
ond. Walter Torbert, deceased, of
Clinton, was the 1927 champion. Har-
ry Torbert, Walter's brother, entered
the contest this year but failed to
place.

Sam G. Smith. Farm Bureau mem-
ber from .Anchor, won first plact^ in
riass B.

Illinois Woman Hangs Up
New Horseshoe Record

Rochester, N. Y.,. Sept. 5. — Three
world's records were broken in the
opening elimination trials of the
Women's National Horseshoe Pitching
tournament here Monday, held in con-
nection with the annual Rochester ex-
position and horse show. The world
records were established by Mrs. C. A.
Lanhan, Bloomington, I!!., former
woild champion, and Miss Doris Per-
kins, Springfield, Ma.-;s., high school
girl, pitching in her first national
tournament.

Both tossed 54 ringers each, estab-
lishing a new record for number of
ringers pitched in a 50-point game.
The women broke another record by
putting four ringers on the pegs four
consecutive times and Miss Perkins
established the third record with 18
double ringers, the largest number
over made in a 50-point game. Mr.s.
Lanhan, .Miss Perkins. Mrs. E. E. Cole,
Ann .Arbor, Mich., and Mrs. Edith
Hough, Willard, Ohio, emerged vic-
torious in the trials.

The four winning women will com-
pete in further trials this week for
the title of world champion now held
by Mrs. .Mayme Francisco, St. Peters-
burg. F'ia.. who is not <iefending her
laurels.

$700,000 Saved Farmers

By Freight Reduction

\T least STOO.UOO a year has been
-i *■ lopped off the freight bill Farm
Bureau folks in Ohio, Indiana. Michi-
gan and Illinois have been i)aying for
the commercial fertilizer they need on
their farms. Through the combined
etforts of the Farm Bureaus in these
states, and with the co-o])eration of
the American ?"arni Bureau Federa-
tion, a four-year fight for reduction
of the fertilizer freight rates was won
when on July 1 1 the Interstate Com-
merce Commission -ordered a reduc-
tion, effective at an early date.

The decrease varies in amount from
SO cents to $1.60 a ton according to
distance from point of origin of the
shipments, but the average reduction
for the entire territory is $1 per ton.
An estimate made during the course
of the hearing placed the quantity used
in this region as 700.000 tons.

This means a saving of S300.000 an-
nually to Ohio farmers; 8250,000 to
Indiana farmers and about $100,000
to Michigan farmers. If you are one
of the farmers to be benefited, get
out the comptometer and figure up
how much you will clear from this one
deal over and above the cost of your
membership in the Farm Bureau.

Frank Barton of Cornell, vice president of
Illinois Aericullural Association, was the
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Tazewell County Wins
State Farm Baseball

Tazewell. Nevertheless, the Lawrence
county boys who hit the ball freely
drove in one run to tie the score in
Title at Bloomington the last of the eighth. Here the Taze-

well fans took a hand and cheered
their boys on to victory as they came
to bat in the ninth. A beautiful dem-
onstration of the squeeze play with a
man on third in the ninth netted a

1928 STATE CHAMPIONS FROM TAZEWELL COUNTY
Front row, left to right: — Jack CaHus, captain, and William Ackerman, pitcher.
Center row — George Israel, Milton Rich, Ralph Israel, Earl Hinman, Delmar

Sturdyvin, Lester Blumenshine, and Paul Graff.

Back row — Wayne A. Gilbert, nianager and asst. adviser, George Storey,

George Schmidt, Jesse Myers, William Ellenson, and Lester Keil.

run and paved the way for a victory.
The inning placed Tazewell two runs
ahead. Lawrence county failed to
even the score in the last of the ninth
and the game was over.

Following was the lineup in the
championship game:

Defeats Lawrence Nine From Southern
Illinois in Hard Fought Games

TAZEWELL County has the state
championship Farm Bureau base-
ball team for 1928. It is this coun-
ty's second victory in
five years. Tazewell
came out on top in
the race for the
coveted title in 1925,
but in the two years
following Marshall-
Putnam was the vic-
tor. In the five years'
history of the Illinois
Farm Bureau Base-
ball League, Mar-
shall-Putnam county
has won the state
title three times and
Tazewell twice.

The final game of
the season was played
at Blooming:ton, Sat-
urday September 29.
It was a hard-fought
battle from beginning
to end. Tazewell came to bat first.
Wagonseller, star hurler for the Law-
rence county team, opened the game
but after three pitched balls it was
apparent that his arm, which had
been strained in the previous Law-
rence-Tazewell game, was not in con-
dition. He retired and was replaced
by Conrad. The Tazewell batsmen,
all of whom are dangerous against
most pitchers, started the bombard-
ment early and by bunching two hits,
aided by an error at second, drove in
two runs before three men were
out.

Lawrence Play* Well

Lawrence county
was especially effec-
tive in catching run-
ners stealing to sec-
ond. Two Tazewell
men were caught off
second during the
first three innings.
Lawrence county
came back in the sec-
ond with one run, but
Tazewell increased its
lead in the fourth and
fifth innings with two
more runs. In the
sixth Lawrence came
back with two runs
making the score 4 to
3.

Several bystanders commented on
the fact that Lawrence county did
not take advantage of its opportuni-
ties. The southern Illinois champions
seemed unable to hit the ball with
men on bases when any kind of a hit
would njean runs. Taylor, Lawrence
county third baseman, was unfortu-
nate in handling grounders on sev-
eral occasions. He let one go through Tazewell had defeated Lawrence
in the fourth, another grounder was county in a previous game at Morton,
fumbled, and in the fifth a bad peg score 9 to 6, and thus took the series
to first base meant more runs for in two games.

Lawrence
Miller, CF
Kintner, 2b
Taylor, 3b
Burman, s. s.
Burman, RF
Bennett, lb

Tazewell

G. Israel, s. s.

Rich, lb

R. Israel, 3b

Hinman, RF

Sturdyvin, 2b

Blumenshine, LF

Left to Right:

FOUR LAWRENCE COUNTY PLAYERS
[Conrad, pitcher; Wagonseller, pitcher; Bennett, lb

ner, 2b. These men and their teammates. Southern Illinois Champions, fought
hard for victory.

Conrad, C
Conrad, LF
Wagonseller, P
Conrad, P

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Carius, C

Ackerman, P
Graff, CF

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Farm Bureau Policies

And Activities of I. A. A.

Discussed at Decatur

More than 200 Presidents, Advisers, and
I. A. A. Leaders and Staff Members Meet

MORE than 200 Farm Bureau
presidents, farm advisers, offi-
cers, executive committee, and staff
members of the Illi-
nois Agricultural As-
sociation gathered for
a two-day conference
at Decatur on Sep-
tember 27-28.

The first day was
devoted to the activi-
ties and service offer-
ed Farm Bureau
members by the I. A.
A. The discussion
was led by the de-
partment directors.
Following a banquet
on Thursday night, a
detailed review and
explanation of the
Association's activi-
ties during the past
three years toward
securing a d e q u a te
surplus farm crop control legislation-
were presented by President Eail C.
Smith.

"After the party conventions we
had our choice," said Mr. Smith,
"of following one of four courses.
One was to endorse the Repub-
lican candidate. The second was to
endorse the Democratic candidate,
the third to back entirely away from
the issue because it had become asso-
ciated with the 1928 political cam-
paign, the fourth to stand our ground,
endorse neither candidate, but to
give our members complete informa-
tion regarding the
statements and ex-
pressions of the two
nominees with such
official comment as
seemed justified by
our policy. We chose
the latter course."

On motion of Lloyd
Welch, president of
the McDonough
County Farm Bureau,
the Farm Bureau
presidents gave a un-
animous vote of con-
fidence to the Asso-
ciation and its leader-
ship endorsing the
policy in political
matters being pur-
sued.
The life insurance program was out-
lined by Donald Kirkpatrick and V.
Vaniman and considered in detail on
Friday morning.

The proposed $20,000,000 bond
issue was presented in detail by John
C. Watson. The I. A. A.'s stand on
the measure was reiterated as pre-
sented by the Public Relations Com-
mittee in the September issue of the
Record.

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Volume 6

OCTOBER, 1928

Number 10

An Editorial

ive a un-
of con-
he Asse-
ts leader-
ing the
political
ng pur-

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FOR several years
the Illinois Agri-
cultural Associa-
tion has put forth
every effort to develop
and secure from our
national government
recognition ,of a sound
permanent policy for
American agriculture.

During recent
months the I. A. A.
Record has carried im-
partial information as
to the attitude and
commitments of major
political parties and
their candidates on this
great question. Be-
cause of the nature of
their development,
some issues of the
Record have been con-
fined largely by com-
mitments by one or the
other of these parties.

Recognizing that
possibly some of our
members or friends
might not have fol-
lowed carefully all is-
sues of the Record, the Executive
Committee directed that this issue
again carry full and impartial infor-
mation as it has developed up to the
time of going to press.

Here you will find the agricultural
planks in the Republican and Demo-
cratic party platforms adopted at Kan-
sas City and Houston, the references
to agriculture in the acceptance
speeches of Herbert C. Hoover and Al-
fred E. Smith, the Republican candi-
date's amplification of his original
statement, made at West Branch, Iowa,
and Elizabethton, Tenn., and the Dem-
ocratic candidate's further expressions
delivered at Omaha, Neb., and Chi-
cago, 111.

We also again publish the official
statement adopted by the Association's
Executive Committee on legislative pol-
icy.

If agriculture is to receive its share
of protection commensurate with that

OUR POLICY

HE primary interest and purpose of the Illinois Agrical-
^ tural Association is to serve the true and permanent in-
terests of the farmers of Illinois. The policy of the Associa-
tion in ail political matters has always been and will continue
to be strictly non-partisan. —

|\ We recognize that agricultural issues are economic rather

than political/^ This was conclusively shown by the majority
vote of both parties in each house of the 69th and 70th Con-
gresses, by which the McNary-Haugen Bill was passed. It has
also been repeatedly revealed by the non-partisan vote support-
ing and passing such constructive agricultural legislation in our
state.

^ National, state and district issues should be carefully con-
sidered on their relative merits and in no utray should they be-
come confused.

K We seek to furnish full, fair and impartial information on
agricultural issues to our members and friends, also the records
and commitments on these issues of political parties, men in_
office

With this information in hand,

agriculture are in a position to support candidates for office ivho
will best serve the economic interests of agriculture. We urge
our members at all times to support those candidates, regard-
less of party, who by their records or definite commitments
have proven their worthiness of this support.

commitments on tnese issues or poiiticai parxies, men in
and those seeking positions of trust and responsibility./T
this information in hand, farmers and all true friends of

accorded other groups in our economic
life, farmers must hold their economic
interests in the forefront. They must
consider the welfare of their industry
first. The only means we have of do-
ing this insofar as government is con-
cerned is through our votes. As an
industry we are contributing little or
nothing to campaign expenses of the
political parties. It is only natural
for those in office to be friendly and
partial to those individuals and inter-
ests which pay the campaign bills.

The Illinois Agricultural Association
is non-partisan. We do not attempt to
tell our members how to vote. Agri-
culture has its friends in all political
parties. It is our purpose to assist
farmers in recognizing their friends
and to urge their support of same.
While in nowise a political organiza-
tion, yet we are forced to recognize the
close relationship between politics and
the distribution of our national in-

come. A large percent-
age of bills enacted
into law, either di-
rectly or indirectly, af-
fect the economic inter-
ests of agriculture.
The deep interest of
other organized groups
in legislation is proof
that there is wide-
spread recognition of
this fact. One of the
major purposes for
which the I. A. A. was
organized is to seek
and secure for agricul-
ture a square deal in
legrislation.

When President
Coolidge vetoed the
Farm Surplus Control
Bill, passed by a bi-
partisan vote in the
70th Congress, the
agricultural question,
purely an economic one,
immediately was picked
up by the parties and
made a political issue.
Farm organizations up
to this time had kept it
out of politics.

Thus we were faced with a new
problem. Should we abandon our ef-
forts in behalf of an adequate farm
measure, or seek to get an endorsement
of the farm program by the political
parties at their conventions? Organ-
ized agriculture followed the usual and
reg^ular way, namely to present its
cause before the Resolutions Commit-
tees at both the Republican and Demo-
cratic Conventions. Our purpose was
and has been to get both parties and
candidates committed to a definite pro-
gram for an adequate solution to the
farm problem in line with our well-
known position in favor of protective
tariffs, price stabilization, the right of
farmers through their organizations to
participate in devising the plan to be
applied for the improvement and wel-
fare of their industry, and specific leg-
islation for making the tariff effective

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

on crops of which we prodnce a nor-
mal surplus.

The Republican Convention at Kan-
sas City rejected the resolution known
as the minority farm plank, presented
and advocated by organized agricul-
ture. The Democratic Convention at
Houston a short time later adopted a
farm plank which frankly recognized
the cardinal principle sought by farm-
ers, namely that of spreading the cost
of handling burdensome crop surpluses
over each unit of the commodity bene-
fited. However, it did not commit the
party definitely to the manner in which
this principle was to be made effective.

Commitments of Presidential candi-
dates mean more than party platforms.
We have learned this by experience.
We, therefore, have followed with in-
terest and concern the expressions of
the nominees on agriculture. You will
find them elsewhere in this publication.
As these statements which appeared in
the acceptance and campaign speeches
of the candidates came to our atten-
tion, we compared them with our pro-
gram for a solution of the farm prob-
lem, the program which was twice
passed by a bi-partisan vote in the
69th and 70th sessions of Congress.

We have given full credit for the
commendable expressions and commit-
ments in the acceptance speeches of
both Secretary Hoover and Governor
Smith. We also pointed out what each
candidate had failed to say by way of
specific pledges in recognition of the
agricultural problem. We sought to
make our comments square with the
policy and program organized agricul-
ture has heretofore supported. In do-
ing this, we followed our adopted pol-
icy of rejecting inadequate substitutes
and standing for what we believe is
best.

The disposition of Illinois farmers
to break away from party lines and
vote for those candidates whose rec-
ords and agricultural commitments are
most satisfactory denotes constructive
and sound thought. Our greatest hope
toward electing fair and friendly pub-
lic officials and law-making bodies lies
in this direction. The records of can-
didates for Cong:ress and the State
legislature who served in the 70th
Congress and in the last General As-
sembly were published in the March
issue, which we asked you to save for
future reference. We have purposely
gathered all this material in one issue,
and we again repeat our policy so as
to remove any misapprehension or mis-
understanding in the minds of our
members.

Ponder carefully the expressions,
commitments and records of all candi-
dates for public office. Again we re-
peat, we endorse no candidate. We
merely present their records and ask
you to gro to the polls and vote for the
candidate, who in your judgment, will
best serve agriculture.

THE REPUBLICAN FARM PLANK

In 1920 onlj about hmlf of the
qualified men anil women voted. Help
beat that record at the polls on Nov. 6.

AGRICULTURE

(Adopted at Kansas City, June 14,
1928)

THE agricultural problem is nation-
al in scope and, as such, is recog-
nized by the Republican party, which
pledges its strength and energy to the
solution of the same. Realizing that
many farmers are facing problems
more difficult than those which are the
portion of many other basic industries,
the party is anxious to aid in every
way possible.

Many of our farmers are still going
through readjustments, a relic of the
years directly following the great war.
All the farmers are being called on
to meet new and perplexing conditions
created by foreign competition, the
complexities of domestic marketing,
labor problems, and a steady increase
in local and state taxes.

The general depression in a great
basic industry inevitably reacts upon
the conditions in the country as a
whole and cannot be ignored. It is a
matter of satisfaction that the desire
to help in the correction of agricultur-
al wrongs and conditions is not con-
fined to any one section of our coun-
try or any particular group.

Achievements Cited

The Republican party and the Re-
publican administration, particularly
during the last five years, have settled
many of the most distressing problems
as they have arisen, and the achieve-
ments in aid of agriculture are prop-
erly a part of this record. The Re-
publican congresses have been most re-
sponsive in the matter of agrricultural
appropriations, not only to meet crop
emergencies, but for the extension and
development of the activities of the
department of agriculture.

The protection of the American
farmer against foreign farm competi-
tion and foreign trade practices has
been vigorously carried on by the de-
partment of state. The right of the
farmers to engage in collective buying
and cooperative selling as provided for
by the Capper-Volstead act of 1922
has been promulgated through the de-
partment of agriculture and the de-
partment of justice, which have given
most valuable aid and assistance to
the heads of the farm organizations.

The treasury department and the
proper committees of congress have
lightened the tax burden on farming
communities, and through the federal
farm loan system there has been made
available to the farmers of the nation
$1,850,000,000 for lending purposes at

a low rate of interest, and through
the intermediate credit banks $665,-
000,000 of short term credits have
been made available to the farmers.

Rural Free Delivery

The post office department has sys-
tematically and generously extended
the rural free delivery routes into
even the most sparsely settled com-
munities.

When a shortage of transportation
facilities threatened to deprive the
farmers of their opportunity to reach
waiting markets overseas, the presi-
dent, appreciative and sensitive of the
condition and the possible loss to the
communities, ordered the recondition-
ing of shipping board vessels, thus re-
lieving a great emergency.

Last, but not least, the federal
tariff commission has at all times
shown a willingness under the provi-
sions of the flexible tariff act to aid
the farmers when foreigni competition,
made possible by low wage scales
abroad, threatened to deprive our
farmers of their domestic markets.
Under this act the president has in-
creased duties on wheat, flour, mill
feed and dairy products. Numerous
other farm products are now being in-
vestigated by the tariff commission.

We promise every assistance in the
reorganization of the marketing sys-
tem on sounder and more economical
lines and, where diversification is
needed, government financial assis-
tance during the period of transition.

The Republican party pledges itself
to the enactment of legislation creat-
ing a federal farm board clothed with
the necessary powers to promote the
establishment of a farm marketing
system of farmer-owned and con-
trolled stabilization, corporations or
associations to prevent and control
surpluses through orderly distribution.

We favor adequate tariff protection
to such of our agricultural products
as are affected by foreign competition.

We favor, without putting the gov-
ernment into business, the establish-
ment of a federal system of organiza-
tion for co-operative and orderly mar-
keting of farm products.

The vigorous efforts of this admin-
istration toward broadening our ex-
ports market will be continued.

The Republican party pledges itself
to the development and enactment of
measures which will place the agri-
cultural interests of America on a
basis of economic equality with other
industry to insure its prosperity and
success.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Fii'e

THE DEMOtRATIC FARM PLANK

1

AGRICULTURE

(Adopted at Hotiston, June 28, 1928)

DECEPTION upon the farmer and
stock raiser has been practiced by
the Republican party through false
and delusive promises for more than
50 years. Specially favored industries
have been artificially aided by Republi-
can legislation. Comparatively little
has been done for agriculture and
stock raising upon which national pros-
perity rests. Unsympathetic in action
with regard to this problem must
cease. Virulent hostility of the Re-
publican administration to the ad-
vocates of farm relief, and denial of
the right of farm organizations to lead
in the development of farm policy,
must yield to Democratic sympathy
and friendliness.

Four years ago, the Republican
party, forced to acknowledge the criti-
cal situation, pledged itself to take all
steps necessary to bring back a bal-
anced condition between agriculture
and other industries and labor. Today
it faces the country not only with that
pledge unredeemed, but broken by the
acts of a Republican President who is
primarily responsible for the failure
to offer a constructive program to re-
store equality to agriculture.

Coolidge Vetoes Cited

While he had no constructive and
adequate program to offer in its stead,
he has twice vetoed farm relief legis-
lation and has sought to justify his
disapproval of agricultural legis-
lation partly on grounds wholly incon-
sistent with his acts making industrial
monopolies the beneficiaries of govern-
ment favor; and in endorsing the agri-
cultural policy of the present adminis-
tration the Republican party in its re-
cent convention served notice upon
the farmer that the so-called protec-
tive system is not meant for him; that
while it offers protection to the privi-
leged few, it promises continued world
prices to the producers of the chief
cash crops of agriculture.

We condemn the policy of the Re-
publican party, which promises relief
to agriculture only through a reduc-
tion of American farm production to
the needs of the domestic market.
Such a program means the continued
deflation of agriculture, the forcing of
additional millions from the farms and
the perpetuation of agricultural dis-
tress for years to come, with continued
bad effects on business and labor
throughout the United States.

The Democratic party recognizes
that the problems of production differ

as between agriculture and industry.
Industrial production is largely under
human control, while agricultural pro-
duction, because of lack of coordina-
tion, among the 6,500,000 individual
farm units, and because of the influ-
ence of weather, pests, and other
causes, is largely^eyond human con-
trol. The result is that a large crop
frequently is produced on a small
acreage and a small crop on a large
acreage; and measured in money value
it frequently happens that a large crop
brings less than a small crop.

Producers of crops whose total
volume exceeds the needs of the do-
mestic market must continue at a dis-
advantage until the government shall
intervene as seriously and as effective-
ly in behalf of the farmers as it has
intervened in behalf of labor and in-
dustry. There is a need of supple-
mental legislation for the control and
orderly handling of agricultural sur-
pluses, in order that the price of the
surplus may not determine the price
of the whole crop. Labor has bene-
fited by collective bargaining and some
industries by tariff. Agriculture must
be as effectively aided.

Pledge* Adequate Law*

The Democratic party, in its 1924
platform, pledged its support to such
legislation. It now reaffirms that stand
and pledges the united efforts of the
legislative and executive branches of
government, as far as may be con-
trolled by the party, to the immediate
enactment of such legislation, and to
such other steps as are necessary to
place and maintain the purchasing
power of farm productb and the com-
plete economic equality of agriculture.

The Democratic party has always
stood against special privilege and for
common equality under the law. It
is a fundamental principle of the party
that such tariffs as are levied must not
discriminate against any industry,
class or section. Therefor, we pledge
that in its tariff policy the Democratic
party will insist upon equality of
treatment between agriculture and
other industries.

Farm relief must rest on the basis
of an economic equality of agriculture
with other industries. To give this
equality a remedy must be found
which will include among other things :

(A) Credit aid by loans to co-oper-
atives on at least as favorable a basis
as the government aid to the merchant
marine.

(B) Creation of a federal farm
board to assist the farmer and stock

raiser in the marketing of their prod-
ucts as the federal reserve board has
done for the banker and business man.
When our archaic banking and cur-
rency system was revised after its rec-
ord of disaster and panic under Re-
publican . administrations, it was a
Democratic congress in the administra-
tion of a Democratic president that ac-
complished its stabilization through the
federal reserve act creating the fed-
eral reserve board, with powers ade-
quate to its purpose. Now in the hour
of agriculture's need the Democratic
party pledges the establishment of a
new agricultural policy fitted to pres-
ent conditions, under the direction of
a farm board vested with all the pow-
ers necessary to accomplish for agri-
culture what the federal reserve board
has been able to accomplish for fi-
nance. In full recognition of the fact
that the banks of the country, through
voluntary co-operation, were never
able to stabilize the financial system
of the country until government pow-
ers were invoked to help them.

(C) Reduction through proper gov-
ernment agencies of the spread be-
tween what the farmer and stock raiser
gets and what the ultimate consumer
pays with consequent benefits to both.

(D) Consideration of the condi-
tion of agriculture in the formulation
of government financial and tax meas-
ures.

We pledge the party to foster and
develop co-operative marketing asso-
ciations through appropriate govern-
ment aid.

We recognize that experience has
demonstrated that members of such
associations alone cannot successfully
assume the full responsibility for a
program that benefits all producers
alike. We pledge the party to an
earnest endeavor to solve this problem
of the distribution of the cost of deal-
ing with crop surpluses over the mar-
keted units of the crop whose produc-
ers are benefited by such assistance.
The solution of this problem would
avoid government subsidy to which
the Democratic party has always been
opposed. The solution of this prob-
lem will be a prime and immediate
concern of a Democratic administra-
tion. We direct attention to the fact
that it was a Democratic congress, in
the administration of a Democratic
president, which established the fed-
eral loan system and laid the founda-
tion for the entire rural credits struc-
ture, which has aided agriculture to
sustain in part the shock of the poli-
cies of two Republican administra-
tions, and we promise thoroughgoing
administration of our rural credits
laws, so that the farmers in all sections
may secure the maximum benefits in-
tended under these act&

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II

Page Six

THE I. A. A. RECORD

I

Secretary Hoover's Acceptance Speech

(FoOowmg it the tact of the Rejmbliean
preeidential eandidate'e etatement on
agrieultvre delivered in hie tpeech of ae-
eeptanee at Palo Alto. CaL, on Aug. 11.)

of agriculture into larger units must
pot be by enlarged farms. The farmer
has shown he can increase the skill of
his industry without large operations.
He is today producing 20 per cent more
than eight years ago with about the
4 if^ HE most urgent economic prob- game acreage and personnel. Farming

is and must continue to be an individ-
ualistic business of small units and in-
dependent ownership. The farm is
more than a business; it is a state of
living. We do not wish it converted
into a mass production machine.
Therefore, if the farmer's position is
to be improved by larger operations it
must be done not on the farm but in
the field of distribution. Agriculture
has partially advanced in this direc-
tion through cooperatives and pools.
But the traditional cooperative is often
not a complete solution.

J_ lem in our nation today is in
agriculture. It must be solved if we are
to bring prosperity and contentment to
one-third of our people directly and to
all of our people indirectly. We have
pledged ourselves to find a solution.

"In my mind most agricultural dis-
cussions go wrong because of two false
premises. The first is that agricul-
ture is one industry. It is a doien dis-
tinct industries incapable of the same
organization. The second false premise
is that rehabilitation will be complete
when it has reached a point comparable
with that before the war. Agriculture
was not upon a satisfactory basis be-
fore the war. The abandoned farms
of the northeast bear their own testi-
mony. Generally there was but little
profit in midwest agriculture for many
years except that derived from the
slow increases in farm land values.
Even of more importance is the great
advance in standards of living of all
occupations since the war. Some
branches of agriculture have greatly
recovered, but taken as a whole it is
not keeping pace with the onward
march in other industries.

Many Factor* Involved

"There are many causes for failure
of agriculture to win its full share of
national prosperity. The after war
deflation of prices not only brought
great direct losses to the farmer, but
he was often left indebted in inflated
dollars to be paid in deflated dollars.
Prices are often demoralized through
gluts in our markets during the har-
vest season. Local taxes have been
increased to provide the improved
roads and schools. The tariff on some
products is proving inadequate to pro-
tect him from imports from abroad.
The increases in transportation rates
since the war have greatly affected the
price which he receives for his prod-
ucts. Over six million farmers in
times of surplus engage in destructive
competition with one another in the
sale of their product, often depressing
prices below those levels that could be
maintained.

"The whole tendency of our civiliza-
tion during the last fifty years has
been toward an increase in the size of
the units of production in order to
secure lower costs and a more orderly
adjustment of the flow of commodities
to the demand. But th« organization

Common Ground Needed

"Differences of opinion as to both
causes and remedy have retarded the
completion of a constructive program
of relief. It is our plain duty to
search out the common ground on
which we may mobilize the sound
forces of agricultural reconstruction.
Our platform lays a solid basis upon
which we can build. It offers an af-
firmative program.

"An adequate tariff is the founda-
tion of farm relief. Our consumers in-
crease faster than our producers. The
domestic market must be protected.
Foreign products raised under lower
Standards of living are today compet-
ing in our home markets. I would use
my office and influence to give the
farmer the full benefit of our historic
tariff policy.

"A large pction of the spread be-
tween what the farmer receives for his
products and what the ultimate con-
sumer pays is due to increased trans-
portation charges. Increase in railway
rates has been one of the penalties of
the war. These increases have been
9dded to the cost to the farmer of
reaching seaboard and foreign markets
and result therefore in reduction of
his prices. The farmers of foreign
countries have thus been indirectly
aided in their competition with the
American farmer. Nature has en-
dowed us with a great system of in-
land waterways. Their modernization
^ill comprise a most substantial con-
liribution to midwest farm relief and to
tihe development of twenty of our in-
terior states. This modernization in-
cludes not only the great Mississippi
system, with its joining of the great
lakes and of the heart of midwest agri-
culture to the gulf, but also a shipway
from the great lakes to the Atlantic.

These improvements would mean so
large an increment in farmers' prices
as to warrant their construction many
times over. There is no more vital
method of farm relief. i X •

Pledget Marketing Aid

"But we must not stop here.

"An outstanding proposal of the
party program is the whole-hearted
pledge to undertake the reorganization
of the marketing system upon sounder
and more economical lines. We have
already contributed greatly to this
purpose by the acts supporting farm
cooperatives, the establishment of in-
termediate credit banks, the regulation
of stockyards, public exchanges, and
the expansion of the department of
agriculture. The platform proposes to
go much farther. It pledges the crea-
tion of a federal farm board of repre-
sentative farmers to be clothed with
authority and resources with which not
only to still further aid farmers' co-
operatives and pools and to assist
generally in solution of farm problems,
but especially to build up with federal
finance farmer-owned and farmer-con-
trolled stabilization corporations which
v/ill protect the farmer from the de-
pressions and demoralization of season-
al gluts and periodical surpluses.

"Objection has been made that this
program, as laid down by the party
platform, may require thatj several
hundred millions of dollars of capital
be advanced by the federal govern-
ment without obligation upon the indi-
vidual farmer. With that objection I
have little patience. A nation which is
spending ninety billions a year can well
afford an expenditure of a few hundred
millions for a workable program that
will give to one-third of its population
their fair share of the nation's pros-
perity. Nor does this proposal put the
government into business except so far
as it is called upon to furnish initial
capital with which to build up the
farmer to the control of his own des-
tinies.

An Enduring Program

"This program adapts itself to the
variable problems of agriculture not
only today but those which will arise
in the future. I do not believe that
any single human being or any group
of human beings can determine in ad-
vance all questions that will arise in
so vast and complicated an industry
over a term of years. The first step is
to create an effective agency directly
for these purposes and to give it au-
thority and resources. These are sol-
emn pledges and they will be fulfilled
by the Republican party. It is a defi-
nite plan of relief. It needs only the

•

THE I. A.

RECORD

Page Seven

detailed elaboration of legislation and
appropriations to put it into force.

"During my term as secretary of
commerce I have steadily endeavored
to build up a system of cooperation
between the government and business.
Under these cooperative actions all
elements interested in the problem of
a particular industry, such as manu-
facturer, distributor, worker, and con-
sumer, have been called into council
together, not for a single occasion, but
for continuous work. These efforts
have been successful beyond any ex-
pectation. They have been accom-
plished without interference or regu-
lation by the government. They have
secured progress in the industries,
remedy for abuses, elimination of
waste, reduction of cost in production
and distribution, lower prices to the
consumer, and more stable employment
and profit. While the problem varies
with every different commodity and
with every diflferent part of our great
country, I should wish to apply the
same method to agriculture so that the
leaders of every phase of each group
can advise and organize on policies and
constructive measures. I am convinced
that this form of action, as it has done
in other industries, can greatly benefit
farmer, distributor, and consumer.

"The working out of agricultural re-
lief constitutes the most important ob-
ligation of the next administration.
I stand pledged to these proposals. The
object of our policies is to establish
for our farmers an income equal to
those of other occupations; for the
farmer's wife the same comforts in her
home as women in other groups; for
the farm boys and girls the same op-
portunities in life as other boys and
girls. So far as my own abilities may
be of service, I dedicate them to help
secure prosperity and contentment in
that industry where I and my fore-
fathers were bom and nearly all my
family still obtain their livelihood."

SECRETARY HOOVER AT

WEST BRANCH, lA.,

AUG. 21, 1928

i i TUST as there is transformation in
fj agriculture so there is in other
industries. Just as there is more spe-
cialization on the farm, so there is in
other industries. We live today by the
exchange of goods among ten thousand
sorts of producers of specialties. A
large number of occupations which
were conducted on the farm in old days
are now conducted in the factory. That
is one reason why we have a decreas-
ing proportion of our people on the
farms. By this revolution the Amer-
ican farmer has become enmeshed in

powerful and yet delicate economic
forces which are working to his dis-
advantage.

"In my acceptance speech 10 days
ago I made an extended statement upon
the legislative proposals for relief to
the agricultural industry which the Re-
publican Party has put forward in its
platform. You would not wish me to
take your time to review that state-
ment. I should, however, like to em-
phasize that the spirit of those legis-
lative proposals is to work out a more
economical and stable marketing sys-
tem. A federal farm board is to be
set up with the necessary powers and
resources to assist the industry to meet
not alone the varied problems of to-
day but those which may arise in the
future. My fundamental concept of
agriculture is one controlled by its own
members, organized to fight its own
economic battles and to determine its
own destinies. Nor do I speak of or-
ganization in the narrow sense of tra-
ditional farm cooperatives or pools, but
in the much wider sense of a sound
marketing organization. It is not by
these proposals intended to put the
government into the control of the
business of agriculture, nor to subsi-
dize prices of farm products and pay
the losses thereon either by the federal
treasury or by a tax or fee on the
farmer. We propose with govern-
mental assistance and an initial ad-
vance of capital to enable the agri-
cultural industry to reach a stature of
modern business operations by which
the farmer will attain his independence
and maintain his individuality.

"And upon this whole question I
should like to repeat from my accept-
ance that:

Quotes Acceptance

" 'The working out of agricultural
relief constitutes the most important
obligation of the next administration.
The object of our policies is to estab-
lish for our farmers an income equal
to those of other occupations; for the
farmer's wife the same comforts in her
home as women in other groups; for
the farm boys and girls the same op-

portunities in life as other boys and
girls. So far as my own abilities may
be of service, I dedicate them to help
secure prosperity and contentanent in
that industry where I and my fore-
fathers were born and nearly all my
family still obtain their livelihood.'

"In formulating recommendations
for legislation to carry out the pro-
posals of the party, I trust that we
may have full assistance of the lead-
ers of agricultural thought. I am not
insensible of the value of the study
which sincere farm leaders have given
to this question of farm legislation.
They have all contributed to the reali-
zation that the problem must be solved.
They will be invited into conference.
Outstanding farmers such as Governor
Lowden will be asked to join in the
search for common ground upon which
we can act.

Interior Waterway*

"I had thought today to particularly
point out the importance of the de-
velopment of our interior waterways as
bearing on the prosperity not only
of agriculture but of the whole of our
midwest business and commerce. It is
a most important supplement to agri-
cultural relief. The necessarily large
advances in railway rates from the
war militate against the economic set-
ting of this whole interior section.
This, together with the completion of
the Panama Canal and the fact that
ocean rates have increased but little
since before the war, further disturbs
the whole economic relationships of the
midwest. It is as if a row of toll gates
had been placed around this whole sec-
tion of our country. It seriously af-
fects the farmer. I think we can ac-
cept it as an economic fact that the
farmer on most occasions pays the
freight on his products. It is a deduc-
tion from the ultimate price. You
yourselves can test this. In a ge^ieral
way, the center point of markets is
overseas or the Atlantic seaboard,
where prices are determined by the
meeting of the streams of world prod-
ucts. For every hundred miles you are
removed from these market centers, the
price of farm products is lower by the
amount of freight rates. Some cal-
culations which I made a few years a£:o
showed that the increase in railway
rates had in effect moved the midwest
200 to 400 miles further from seaboard.
Moreover, some of the competitive agri-
cultural regions such as the Argentine
and Australia are close to seaboard
and with sea rates about the same as
before the war, they are able to com-
pete with the American farmer in for-
eign markets to a greater advantage
than before the war. This increase in
transportation rates also affects the
prices of many things which the
farmer must bay, for much raw ma-

Page Eight

terial which comes into the midwest
pays the increased freight and this in
turn is taken up by the consumer. We
cannot return to pre-war railway rates
without ruin to the railways. There-
fore, I have long asserted that the real
hope of reducing charges upon our
bulk goods was through the moderni-
zations of our great interior water-
ways. By modernization, I mean in-
creasing depths to a point where we
can handle five or ten thousand tons
in a line of barges pulled by a tug.
This administration has authorized the
systematic undertaking of this modern-
ization. Within a few years we will
have completed the deepening of the
Ohio up to Pittsburgh, the Missouri up
to Kansas City, Omaha, and beyond,
the Mississippi to St. Paul and Minne-
apolis, the Illinois to Chicago. We al-
ready have experience with results, for
with only the main river from St. Louis
to New Orleans as yet working prop-
erly, the rates for transportation of
bulk agricultural products through
that section are near pre-war railway
rates. We will not have the advantage
of full results until the entire Mis-
sissippi and its tributaries are in one
connected transportation system.

Modernization of Waterways

"We have another great opportunity
of relief in the building of a shipway
from the Great Lakes to the sea. Our
engineers have recommended the St.
Lawrence route as the preferable out-
let. The administration has under-
taken negotiations with Canada upon
the subject. If these negotiations fail
we must consider alternative routes.
In any event, the completion of this
great system of barge lines on the riv-
ers and connecting the lakes with the
gulf, of opening a shipway from
the lakes to the sea, will make
an effective transportation system
12,000 miles in length penetrating
20 midwest states. It will connect
these states with seaboard at the gulf
on one hand and with the North At-
lantic on the other. And this means
more than the mere saving upon the
actual goods shipped over these routes.
If part of your crops can move to mar-
ket at a seven-to-ten-cent saving per
bushel, the buyers' competitive bidding
for this portion of the crop will force
upward the price of the whole crop."

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Horses and mules, which in 1926
were worth relatively less than any
time in the past 40 years, are advanc-
ing in price, says the United States
Department of Agriculture. The num-
ber of horses and mules in certain
states has decreased steadily since
1900. In 1913 Illinois had 1,659,000
horses and mules compared with 1,-
045,000 this year.

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SECRETARY HOOVER AT

ELIZABETHTON, TENN.,

OCT. 6, 1928

4</^ REAT expansion of agricultural
\j production in Canada and the
southern hemisphere combined with in-
creasing efficiency and larger produc-
t on by our own farmers have ren-
dered unstable those branches of our
agriculture which are dependent upon
)reign markets. These circumstances
have brought a long train of difficulties
t> the American farmer. With fewer
nen needed upon the farm and with
n ore needed in other lines of produc-
ton our great cities have, within this
1 1 years, a little less than doubled in
pjpulation, with resultant social prob-
lems.

"We must continue our endeavor to
n istore economic equality to those farm
fi.milies who have lagged behind in the
n^arch of progress.

Proposals For Relief

"In the past seven and a half years
c< ngress has passed more than a score
o1 constructive acts in direct aid of the
fj rmer and the improvement of his
marketing system. They have con-
ti ibuted greatly to strengthen the agri-
ci Itural industry. Our party has un-
d(rtaken to go farther than this and
to still further reorganize farmers'
m irketing systems, placing it on a basis
ol greater stability and security. I
ni jy repeat these proposals. We stand
specifically pledged to create a federal
farm board of men sympathetic with
the problem, to be clothed with pow-
ers and resources with which not only
tc further aid farmers' co-operatives
ar d assist generally in solving the mul-
til ude of different farm problems which
arise from all quarters of our nation,
but in particular to build up with ini-
ti{ 1 advances of capital from the gov-
er iment, farmer-owned and farmer-
co itrolled stabilization corporations
wlich will protect the farmer from de-
pressions and the demoralization of
su nmer and periodic surpluses. Such
an instrumentality should be able to
de relop as years go on the constructive

measures necessary to solve the new
farmers' problems that will inevitably
arise. It is no proposal of subsidy or
fee or tax upon the farmer. It is a
proposal to assist the farmer onto his
own feet into control of his own des-
tinies. This is not a theoretic formula.
It is a business proposition designed to
m.ake farming more pi-ofitable. No
such far-reaching and specific proposal
has ever been made by a political party
on behalf of any industry in our his-
tory. It marks our desire for estab-
lishment of farmers' stability and at
the same time maintains his independ-
ence and individuality."

W. L. Cops

Farmer-Business Men's Picnic

"DETWEEN 500 and 600 business
-L* men, farmers, and their wives, of
Mt. Vernon, held a picnic at the Fair
grounds on Oc-
tober 2. The
Jefferson County
Farm Bureau
and the luncheon
and business
clubs of Mt. Ver-
n o n sponsored
the get-together.
S. J. Stanard,
director of the
State Depart-
ment of Agricul-
ture, was the
principal speak-
er.

W. L. Cope of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association Executive Commit-
tee represented the I. A. A.

"We ought to hold more meetings
of this kind," declared Mr. Cope.
"Business and agriculture working to-
gether can accomplish g^eat things."

The two groups joined in providing
food and entertainment for the picnic
dinner. It was voted to make the
picnic an annual affair. Farm Ad-
viser Lloyd Caldwell was largely re-
sponsible for the success of the meet-
ing.

Visit Chicago Producers

/^NE hundred and sixty-two people,
^^ including the officers, directors,
and manager of the Varna Shipping
Association in Marshall county, at>
tended a tour to the Chicago live
stock market early in September.

The Varna Shipping Association
has been sending 100 per cent of its
live stock to the Producers' since the
co-operative agency was organized in
Chicago in 1922.

The party made the trip to Chicago
on a special train over the C & A
railroad, returning the same day.
Armour & Company served a free
luncheon after which the party was
conducted through the Armour &
Company packing plants.

President Earl C. Smith was the
speaker of the day at the Wayne
County Farm Bureau picnic, Rich-
mond, Indiana, on September 15.

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Page Nine

] Governor Smith's Acceptance Speech

Following i* the text of the Demoeratie
presidential eandidate'e atatement on
agriouUure delivered in hie tpeeeh of ae-
eeptane* at Albany, N. Y., on Atm. tt.

H-ryjBlAClTY agents of the Repub-
_|7 lican administration have writ-
ten so many articles on our gen-
eral prosperity that they have pre-
vented the average man from having
a proper appreciation of the degree of
distress existing today among farmers
and stock raisers. From 1910 to the
present time the farm debt has in-
creased by the striking sum of ten bil-
lions of dollars, or from four billion to
fourteen billion dollars. The value of
farm property between 1920 and 1925
decreased by twenty billions of dollars.
This depression made itself felt in an
enormous incriease of bank failures in
the agricultural districts. In 1927 there
were 830 bank failures, with total lia-
bilities of over 270 millions of dollars,
almost entirely in the agricultural sec-
tions, as against 49 such failures dur-
ing the last year of President Wilson's
administration.

Disparity Continue*

"The report of Nov. 17, 1927, of a
special committee of the Association
of Land Grant Colleges and Univer-
sities states: 'Incomes from farming
since 1920 have not been sufficient to
pay a fair return on the current value
of capital used and fair wages for the
farmer's labor, or to permit farm peo-
ple to maintain a standard of living
comparable with other groups of like
ability.' The business men's commis-
sion on agriculture said in November,
1927, 'Since the war the prices of
farm products have persisted in an un-
economic and unfavorable adjustment
to the general scale of prices of other
goods and services' and 'the disparity
between urban and farm incomes has
emphasized the disparity in standards
of living in the rural and urban popu-
lations. The value of farm land and
farm property decreased heavily in the
post-war deflation' and 'large numbers
cf farmers have lost all their property
in this process.'

"We have not merely a problem of
helping the farmer. While agriculture
is one of the most individualized and
independent of enterprises, still, as the
report of the business men's commis-
sion points out, 'Agriculture is essen-
tially a public function, affected with
a clear and unquestionable public in-
terest.' The country is an economic
whole. If the buying power of agri-
culture is impaired, the farmer makes

fewer trips to Main street. The shop
owner suffers because he has lost a
large part of his trade. The manufac-
turer who supplies him likewise suf-
fers, as does the wage earner, because
the manufacturer is compelled to cur-
tail his production. And the banker
can not collect his debts or safely ex-
tend further credit. This country can
not be a healthy, strong economic body
if one of its members, so fundamen-
tally important as agriculture, is sick
almost to the point of economic death.

"The normal market among the
farmers of this country for the prod-
ucts of industry is ten billions of dol-
lars. Our export market, according to
latest available figures is, exclusive of
agricultural products, approximately
one billion, six hundred millions of
dollars. These large figures furnish
striking indication of the serious blow
tc national prosperity as a whole
which is struck when the buying
power of the farmer is paralyzed.

"When, therefore, I say that I am
in accord with our platform declara-
tion that the solution of this problem
must be a prime and immediate con-
cern of the Democratic administration,
I make no class appeal. I am stating
a proposition as vital to the welfare of
business as of agriculture.

Republicans Break Promise

"With the exception of the adminis-
trations of Cleveland and Wilson, the
government of this country has been
in Republican hands for half a century.
For nearly eight years the President
and Congress have been Republican.
What has been done to solve this prob-
lem? Many promises were made which
have never been fulfilled.

"The tariff is ineffective on commod-
ities of which there is exportable sur-
plus without controlled sale of the sur-
plus. Our platform points the way to
make the tariff effective for crops of
which we produce a surplus. There
has been government interference with
laws of supply and demand to benefit
industry, commerce and finance. It
has been one-sided because business,
industry and finance would have been
helped more if proper attention had
been given to the condition of agricul-
ture. Nothing of substance has been
done to bring this basic part of our
national life into conformity with the
economic system that has been set up
by law. Government should interfere
as little as possible with business. But
if it does interfere with one phase of
economic life, be it by tariff, by assist-
ance to merchant marine, by control
of the flow of money and capital
through the banking system, it is bad

logic, bad economics and an abandon-
ment of government responsibility to
say that as to agriculture alone, the
government should not aid.

Co-ordinated Marketing Needed

"Twice a Republican Congress has
passed legislation only to have it
vetoed by a President of their own
party, and whether the veto of that
specific measure was right or wrong,
it is undisputed that no adequate sub-
stitute was ever recommended to the
Congress by the president and that no
constructive plan of relief was ever
formulated by any leader of the Re-
publican party in place of the plan
which its Congress passed and its
President vetoed. Only caustic criti-
cism and bitter denunciation were pro-
voked in the minds of the Republican
leaders in answer to the nation-wide
appeal for a sane endeavor to meet
this crisis.

"Co-operative, co-ordinated market-
ing and warehousing of surplus farm
products is essential, just as co-ordi-
nated, co-operative control of the flow
of capital was found necessary to the
regulation of our country's finances.
To accomplish financial stability, the
federal reserve system was called into
being by a Democratic administration.
The question for agriculture is com-
plex. Any plan devised must also be
co-ordinated with the other phases of
our business institutions. Our plat-
form declares for the development of
co-operative marketing and an earnest
endeavor to solve the problem of the
distribution of the cost of dealing with
crop surpluses over the marketed unit
of the crop whose producers are bene-
fited by such assistance.

Fledges Immediate Action

"Only the mechanics remain to be
devised. I propose to substitute action
for inaction, and friendliness for hos-
tility. In my administration of the
government of my state, whenever I
was confronted with a problem of this
character, I called into conference
those best equipped on the particular
subject in hand. I shall follow that
course with regard to agriculture.

"Farmers and farm leaders, with
such constructive aid as will come
from sound economists and fair-mind-
ed leaders of finance and business,
must work out the detail. There are
varying plans for the attainment of the
end which is to be accomplished. Such
plans should be subjected at once to
searching, able and fair-minded anal-
ysis, because the interests of all require
that the solution shall be economically
sound.

"If I am elected, I shall immediately

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after election ask leaders of the type
I have named, irrespective of party,
to enter upon this task. I shall join
with them in the discharge of their
duties during the coming winter and
present to Congress, immediately upon
its convening, the solution recom-
mended by the body of men best fitted
to render this signal service to the na-
tion. I shall support the activities of
this body until a satisfactory law is
placed upon the statute books."

THE I. A. A. RECORD

GOVERNOR SMITH AT

OMAHA, NEBR., SEPT.

18, 1928

HT STRONGLY believe in co-opera-

X tive marketing. It is clearly all
right — as far as it goes. I have en-
couraged it in my own state. In New
York today we have over one thousand
co-operative marketing associations.
With our major cash crops and with a
device for taking care of the surplus
at the cost of the commodity benefited,
co-operatives would be given a great
opportunity for development.

"Their field is limited, however, with-
out such a device, for the reason that
when the membership alone is com-
pelled to pay the whole cost of the at-
tempt at stabilization, those outside the
membership receive the benefits of the
increased prices without bearing any
of the burdens incident thereto. And
the attempt at stabilization is in large
measure impaired by the activities of
the non-members.

"The fundamental fact is that none
of the methods can function with re-
spect to the major cash crops unless
they are coupled with the control of
the exportable surplus with the cost of
lifting it out of the domestic market
assessed back on the crop benefited.

"Various people have attempted to
misrepresent and confuse my attitude
with respect to the McNary-Haugen
bill. I do not propose to leave the
slightest doubt in anybody's mind on
that subject.

"As I read the McNary-Haugen bill,
its fundamental purpose is to establish
an effective control of the sale of ex-
portable surplus with the cost imposed
upon the commodity benefited. For
that principle the Democratic platform
squarely stands, and for that principle
I squarely stand. Mr. Hoover stands
squarely opposed to this principle by
which the farmer could get the benefit
of the tariff. What remains of the
McNary-Haugen bill is a mere matter
of method, and I do not limit myself to
the exact mechanics and method em-
bodied in that bill.

VOU HWE TCM POTATOES AND HAUe)
To OIMIOE THEM BETWEEN THREE. J

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Pledges Prompt Action

'Here is a clean-cut issue, which the
] armers and the voters of this country
iiust decide. It remains but to work
( ut the details by which this principle
shall be put into effect, and I have
I ledged myself to name a non-partisan
commission of farm leaders and stu-
cents of the problem to work out these
c etails.

"I shall make that appointment, if I
am elected, not 'when I take the oath
of office as President, but immediately
after election; and I pledge to the
f irmers and to the people of this coun-
t:y that no stone will be left unturned
t(i give immediate and adequate farm
r ilief, by legislation carrying into
p -actice this definite principle for
which my party and I stand. This
c< urse alone gives promise of rescuing
tl e farmers of this country from the
c( mplete ruin which threatens them to-
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CHICAGO, OCT. 19, 1928

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FTER commenting upon the Re-
publican Party's past record and
f u ture proposals for farm relief, Cov-
er lor Smith said :

"On the other hand, the Democratic
Ps rty, in a clear-cut, concise, and
definite platform plank, recognizes

! great underlying and fundamen-
difficulty confronting agriculture,
ani promises immediate solution of
thi ! problem with a constructive pro-
gr im for its relief.

'I stand hard and fast by that plat-
fo)m, and I promise you that if I am
eh cted President of the United States,
it ivill be entirely unnecessary for me
to seek excuses for non-performance
in the carrying out of that pledge, be-
cause I shall make good that promise,
ani I I shall not be scurrying around
United States to look for words to
bu: Id up the reason why it was not
doi le."

Our forefather* fought for the
pri rilege of self •determmation in gov-
ern ment. Exercise the right they won
for you by voting at the polls en Nov.

Dean Mumford Returns

DEAN H. W. MUMFORD, College
of Agriculture, Illinois, recently
returned from a three months' leave
of absence spent in
Germany. While in
Europe, Dean Mum-
ford served with
nine other men on
the American Study
Commission formed
for the purpose of
obtaining first-hand
information regard-
i n g agricultural
conditions and or-
ganization in Ger- Oean H. W. Mumford
many.

The members of the Commission
travelled extensively from farm to
farm, and through packing houses,
creameries, stock yards, and shipping
centers. A special study of the meat
and dairy situation was made. The
report submitted by the Commission
to the industrial and banking inter-
ests of Germany will be published at
a later date.

Dean Mumford, former member of
the staff of the Illinois Agricultural
Association, served on the National
Farmers' Livestock Marketing Com-
mittee of 15, which set up the pro-
ducers' co-operative livestock com-
mission agencies now operating on
all the principal livestock markets.

Lack of Efficiency in

Retail Selling Analyzed

THE cost of retail selling in stores
was analyzed recently in the De-
partment of Commerce. The report
indicates that one of the most difficult
problems facing the retail merchants
today is in connection with the costs
entailed in actually selling his wares
over the counter.

Less than half of the clerks' time
is used in actual sales. In a promi-
nent retail establishment having stores
in four large cities, it was found that
the sales force were idle one-third of
their time. Taking care of stock re-
quired 17 per cent of the working day,
and interviews without sales another
eight per cent. Only 42 per cent of
the sales person's time was taken up
in the actual selling of merchandise.

These figures were based on 1927
business and represent a more favor-
able situation than existed two years
previous.

REASONABLE DISPATCH OR
promptness in transporting perishable
goods by a common carrier is a ques-
tion for the jury, where farmers suffer
losses on perishable products in tran-
sit. Farmers can sue and collect dam-
ages if the plaintiff can prove that the
carrier was negligent in expediting de-
livery.

Frank D. Barton, vice-president of
the Illinois Agricultural Association,
was the principal speaker at the re-
cent annual meetings of the Mercer
and Marshall-Putnam County Farm
Bureaus.

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Page Eleven

iford

I. A. A. Organizes New
Life Insurance Service for

Bureau Members

More Than 95 Per Cent of County Or-
ganizations Endorse Project
AFTER two years of careful investi-
^ gation the I. A. A. has completed
plans for a life insurance company.
The project was discussed at two an-
nual meetings of the Association,
namely at Peoria in 1927 and at Rock
Island in 1928. The Rock Island
meeting authorized the Association to
proceed with the project when 60 per
cent of the County Farm Bureau ex-
ecutive committees had approved it.
To date 95 per cent of the Farm Bu-
reaus have endorsed the project. Plans
for the new company were unanimous-
ly approved at a meeting of the Farm
Bureau presidents held at Decatur on
September 28.

The plan, briefly, provides for the
formation of a legal reserve life in-
surance company with capital and sur-
plus of $125,000.

There will be a first special partici-
pating ordinary whole life policy. It
will not only participate in the mor-
tuary savings and interest earnings,
but in addition it will participate in
the profits of the company on an equal
basis with a share of stock in the life
insurance company, based on the
premiums paid in for insurance. This
policy will be issued for a limited
length of time only and is offered to
Farm Bureau members and members
of their immediate family.

Cost of Insurance

The premium for the insurance is
approximately 5 per cent less than
the most favorable of the large com-
panies in the field. The tentative rate
at age 35 is $21.63 and age 50,
$39.35. Insurance will be written
up to age 70.

Twelve million dollars is the prob-
able limit in amount for the first spe-
cial policy. If an amount in excess of
this is secured it will be pro-rated
among the members in the respective
counties based on quota for county.

The limit of insurance for any in-
dividual on the first special policy is
$5,000.

After the first special policy is dis-
continued there will be a full line of
policies issued, both participating and
non-participating.

The life insurance company will be
controlled by the I. A. A. An inten-
sive survey is being made at the pres-
ent time as to the interest of Farm
Bureau members in having their own
life insurance company. A sufficient
amount of insurance of the first spe-
cial policy must be secured in a rea-
sonable time or the whole project will
be postponed indefinitely.

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CONVINCING
ANOTHER

EXPERIENCE has taught me
that the way to convince an-
other is to state your case modef
ately and accurately, and then
scratch your head or shake it a
httle, and say that, that is the way
it seems to you, but that you of
course may be mistaken about it;
which causes your Hstener to re-
ceive what you say, and as Uke as
not turn about and try to convince
you of it since you are in doubt;
but if you go at him with a tone of
positiveness and arrogance you
only make an opponent of him. —
Benjamin Fran}^in.

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Every Farm Bureau member who is
interested in providing, at a substan-
tial saving in cost, a real life insur-
ance service for himself and his fam-
ily as well as for future generations
should become a charter member.

A Great Benefit

WHEN Ralph Overholser of
Whiteside county lost a
heifer shortly after its arrival
with a carload of others from St.
Paul, he tried to get a settlement
from the railroad by appealing
to the local agent but failed.

Then he referred the claim to
the I. A. A. Transportation De-
partment, after he had almost re-
signed to take the loss and let
the matter drop. By appealing
to the proper authorities, the As-
sociation secured prompt action
and a short time ago sent Mr.
Overholser a check for $50.
This service is free to Farm Bu-
reau members.

/. A. A. Transportation Dept.

Received your letter and money for
that heifer.

The Farm Bureau and all it is do-
inE is a great benefit to the farmers,
if they only make use of it. We ought
to stick closer together.

I want to thank the Association for
its help in getting this money. Maybe
you have a bill for this. If so, send it to
me. It is enough to pay my dues for
three years in our county organization.

RALPH OVERHOLSER.
Whiteside County.

Minnesota Bureau "

Against Crippling
j Prison Industries

Mtl^ufacturers Would Abolish Twine and
Farm Implement Making By Convicts

THE Minnesota State Farm Bureau
will oppose a movement in the
next legislature on the part of north-
west farm equipment manufacturers
to stop the manufacture of twine and
farm equipment in the state prison.

The secretary of the Northwest
Farm Equipment Association has been
carrying on a campaign through the
orgianization's oflficial paper against
the prison industry claiming that he is
making a fight for the taxpayers of
the state. The Farm Bureau contends
that the machinery manufacturers, on
the other hand, are fighting only in
the interest of their own business and
to the detriment of the majority of
Minnesota taxpayers.

Save Farmers Money

The state prison industries, it is
claimed, have saved the farmers of the
northwest close to $20,000,000 in
prices payed for twine and farm ma-
chinery, and several times that amount
indirectly by acting as a price leveler
in the twine and machinery business.
As, proof that farmers rather than
farm manufacturers need help, the
Farm Bureau points to the fact that
Intfernational Harvester Company
stock of par value $100 is now selling
at more than $300 a share on the New
York Stock Exchange and that the
company has reserves in cash securi-
ties of over $200,000,000.
A Great Benefit

The Farm Bureau claims that not
only are the prison industries of bene-
fit to farmers of the northwest, but
the- prisoners are helping support
themselves, thus relieving taxpayers
of the state from a large burden. The
State Farm Bureau will oppose any
attempt in the next legislature to
cripple the prison industries that will
tend to raise appropriations for the
penal institutions.

THE Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion is not opposed to the con-
servation of natural resources, nor a
state system of fish and game pre-
serves. It is opposed to a $20,000,000
bond issue which to all indications
must be paid out of the g^eneral taxes
collected by the state.

The proposed $20,000,000 bond
issue will cost approximately $16,000,-
000 in interest charges alone at 4 per
cent if paid off over a period of 30
years on an amortized basis. A pay-
as-you-go plan is far more economical.
Keep this in mind when you vote on
the proposition Nov. 6.

^he Farm Bureau is a business or-
ganization for prosrr^ssive farmers.

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RECORD

PROTECTION

IHE EARLY Puritans
were forced to pro-
tect themselves
against savage, hos-
tile Indians as they went to
church for divine worship.
In the picture the artist
portrays the stem Pilgrim
father with musket and
Bible on his way to Sunday
service. His daughter, who
accompanies him, is happy
in the security afforded by
her sturdy, courageous pro*
tector.

'and now

IHE SAVAGE is Ino longer a menace, but the deingers of modem
travel are infipitely greater than they were in the days of the
Puritan.

Auto insurancje is the modem protector of the automobile own-
er aind his estate agai: ist the haizards of driving on the public highway.
Fire eind theft, collision, property deimage and public liaJaility are the
enemies the auto owni sr n^ds protection against today.

You will be surprised 1 o know how little such protection costs when you
secure a FARM BUREAU auto insurance policy in YOUR OWN
COMPANY, which sen es you AT COST.

You can't afford to be without protection that guards your estate against
confiscation Eind protects you against dsimage to your car and by your
Call at your Cour ty Farm Bureau office, or let us give you complete
It is yoi irs without cheu-ge for the asking.

car
information.

MAIL THE COIPON BELOW DON'T DELAY DO IT NOW

IlUnoto Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co.
608 So. Deertiom Street. Chicago, 111.

Pleasa lend me full information about Fa rm Bureau
Auto Insurance. I am a Farm Bureau Member in

County

ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL MUTUAL
INSURANCE COMPANY

608 So. Dearborn Street
CHICAGO

A Legal Reserve Mutual Under State Supervision
More than 10.200 Satisfied Policy Holders

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PROTECTION

HE EARLY Puritans
were forced to pro-
tect themselves
against savage, hos-
tile Indians as they u^ent to
church for divine worship.
In the picture the artist
portrays the stem Pilgrim
father with musket and
Bible on his way to Sunday
service. His daughter, who
accompanies him, is happy
in the security afforded by
her sturdy, courageous pro-
tector.

'and now^^

IHE SAVAGE is no longer a menace, but the dangers of modem
travel are infipitely greater than they were in the days of the
Puritan.

Auto insuranc^ is the modem protector of the automobile own-
er and his estate agaii >st the hsLzards of driving on the public highway.
Fire and theft, collision, property deunage and public lisibility are the
enemies the auto own* r needs protection against today.

You will be surprised <o know how little such protection costs when you
secure a FARM BUflEAU auto insurance policy in YOUR OWN

COMPANY, which senf
You can't afford to be

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co.
608 So. Dearborn Street, Chicago. II).

Please send me full information about Fa -m Bureau
Auto Insurance. I am a Farm Bureau M< mbcr in

es you AT COST.

without protection that guards your estate against
confiscation and protects you against dsunage to your car and by your
car. Call at your Coun ty Farm Bureau office, or let us give you complete
information. It is yet rs without charge for the aisking. ,

MAIL THE COIPON BELOW DON'T DELAY DO IT NOW

My name is..

Address

Hake of car..

County

ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL MUTUAL
INSURANCE COMPANY

608 So. Dearborn Street
CHICAGO

A Legal Reserve Mutual Under Stale Supervision

More than 10.200 Satisfied Policy Holders

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Council is or-

Nat'l Horticultural

Council is Formed

To Represent Growers

Chas. E. Durst is Secretary, A. B. Lceper
a Director

THE National Horticultural Council,
organized to represent the eco-
nomic interest of fruit and vegetable
growers in the Unit-
ed States, was incor-
porated under the
laws of Illinois, Oc-
tober 18, 1928. The
first meeting of the
15 directors was held
in Chicago on Octo-
ber 31 when by-laws
were adopted, officers
and the executive
committee elected,
and plans and poli-
cies decided upon.

It is expected that
the Council will func-
tion similarly to the
National Dairy Coun-
cil for the dairy in-
dustry, the National
Poultry Council for
the poultry industry,
and the National Live
Stock and Meat
Board for the live
stock industry. The
ganized with broad powers and will be
in position to represent the industry
and work for the solution of economic
problems facing fruit and vegetable
g^rowers.

Many Activities
Its activities and interest will In-
clude legislation, tariff problems,
transportation, standardization of
commodities, fruit juice and by-
product questions, trade practices, bet-
ter methods of marketing, and collec-
tion and dissemination of information
on economic questions. The Council
will not engage in marketing nor in
the purchase of supplies.

The following
officers and ex-
ecutive committee
have been elected :
John Napier Dyer,
president; F. L.
Granger, first vice-
president; Frank
T. Swett, second
vice-president; and
Charles E. Durst,
secretary-t r e a s -
urer. The execu-
tive commit-
tee consists o f
John Napier Dyer, F. L. Granger, M.
C. Burritt. Louis F. Miller, and
Charles Carmichael. Charles E. Durst
of Chicago, former director of fruit
and vegetable marketing for the
I. A. A., has been appointed executive
secretary.

Leeper A Director

The directors are as follows : John Napier
Dyer, Indiana, owner of 1,000 acres of land
and 850 acres of orchard; Senator H. H.
Duniap. Illinois, owner of 1,400 acrea of
orchard, and the senior senator in point of
■erviee in the Illinois senate; F. L. Granger,

I

THE I. A. A. RECORD

leneral manager of the Michigan Fruit Grow-
ers' Inc., largest co-operative in Michigan;
louis F. Miller, large greenhouse growers of
( >hio, and leader in various vegetable organ-
i nation movements; M. C. Burritt. president
qf the New York State Horticultural Society,

ice-president of the Western New York Fruit
drowers' Cooperative Association and former

fader of state extension in New York ; V. H.
I lavis. president of the Ohio State Horticultural

ociety and manager of the Catawba Island
Orchard Company, Ohio; W. C. Reed, Indiana,

■ROM GROWER TO CONSUMER DIRECT
Thousands of doll
house in Rock Islar d

its products direct o consumers in the tri-cities. Incidentally, the buildings here
are insured in the 'armers' Mutual Reinsurance Co., which has headquarters with
th: I. A. A. in Chic. igo.

irs worth of apples and oth-^r fruits are sold from this storage
d annually. It is owned by Smith's Fruit Farm which markets

C. L. Uurst

( wner of 220 acres of orchard and president
c f the Vincennes Nurseries, largest growers of
cherry trees in the United States; Wilson
1 ;ood. New York, sales manager of the Chau-
t luqua and Erie Grape Growers* Association ;
I rank T. Sweet, California, president and gen-
eral manager of the California Pear Growers'
I .ssociation and owner of extensive pear or-
c hards in California; A. B. Leeper, manager
c f the Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange, Illi-
I ois, and owner of orchards in western
Illinois; Charles Carmichael, Missouri, sec-
t stary of the Ozark Fruit Growers' Associa-
t on. a large fruit and vegetable co-operative
c perating in Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee,
epid southern Illinois; Ben E. Niles, Kentucky,

cretary of the Kentucky State Horticultural
Society and orchard owner; E. L. Balch,
1 Washington, Wenatchee Valley orchardist and
1 fader in organization movements in the
1 aciHc Northeast; Warren E. Beebe, Iowa,
I lanager of the largest orchard in Iowa; and
Qharles E. Durst, editor of Fruits and Gardens,

commercial fruit growers' paper with head-
charters in Chicago.

The Council is to be financed by
ijiemberships held by individual grow-
ers, horticultural societies, and fruit
i nd vegetable co-operatives. The coun-
try has been divided into nine sections,
each of which will have one director.
In addition, there will be six directors
st large. Each state will be represent-
ed also by state committees.

The headquarters of the National
ftorticultural Council are at 608 So.
Dearborn Street, Chicago, and all cor-
respondence relating to the organiza-
tion should be directed there.

New Bulletin Out

"Market Destinations of Illinois
(train" is the title of a new bulletin
recently published by the University of
Illinois. The publication concludes a
1 hree-year study by C. L. Stewart, L.

J. Norton, and L. F. Rickey of the During the same years, Iowa shipped
Agricultural college staff. out 90 per cent as much as Illinois,

An estimated total of 215,000,000 Kansas 60 per cent, Nebraska 47 per
Ijushels of corn, oats, and wheat were cent, and Indiana 37 per cent. , «

Illinois Farmers Are

Invited To St. Louis

Waterways Meeting

Well Known Speakers Will Discuss Water
Transportation

ILLINOIS farmers are invited to at-
tend the annual meeting of the
Mississippi Valley Association to be
held at St. Louis,
November 2 6-27,
1928.

A long list of able
speakers is an-
nounced by the As-
sociation, who will
appear sometime dur-
ing the two-day ses-
sion. Some of the
speakers are as fol-
lows: Secretary of
War D w i g h t F.
Davis; U. S. Senator
Henrik Shipstead of
Minnesota; Congress-
man Wm. E. Hull of
Illinois; Major Gen.
Edgar Jadwin, chief
of Army Engineers;
William R. Dawes,
president, Chicago
Association of Commerce; Hon.
James A. Reed, U. S. senator from
Missouri; Major-General T. Q. Ash-
burn, Inland Waterways Corpora-
tion; and Hon. Harry B. Hawes, U. S.
senator from Missouri.

Want 9-Foot Channel

The M. V. A. is working to com-
plete the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Waterway.
It hopes to bring about a nine-foot
channel from Minneapolis to New
Orleans on the Mississippi, from Chi-
cago to Mississippi through Illinois,
from Pittsburgh to Cairo on the Ohio,
and similar channels on other tribu-
taries.

The Association states that on a
joint haul where both water and rail
service is used, farmers may save ap-
proximately 20 per cent of the rail
rate that parallels the water hauL If
the freight originates on the river and
is consigned to another point on the
river, the shipper may save as much
as 50 per cent of the rail rate be-
tween the river ports.

The Denison bill, fostered by the
Mississippi Valley Association, and
passed in the last session of congress,
provides for the establishment of joint
rates between rail and river carriers
on the entire Mississippi Waterway
system.

shipped out of Illinois as the annual
average for the five years, 1922-26.

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Volume 6

NOVEMBER, 1928

Number 11

A. F. B. F. Prepares for
10,000 at Convention
Chicago, Dec. 10, 11, 12

I. A. A. Selects Four Voting Delegates
to Represent State

ILLINOIS will be represented by
fully 1,000 farmers at the tenth an-
nual meeting of the American Farm
Bureau Federation at the Hotel Sher-
man, Chicago, December 7 to 12, it is
indicated by advance requests for res-
ervations received at national federa-
tion headquarters. Oflficial delegates
from the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion will include President Earl Smith,
C. E. Bamborough, Polo, A. R. Wright,
Varna, and George F. Tullock, Rock-
ford. The entire I. A. A. Executive
Committee and department heads will
also be present, together with officers
of County Farm Bureaus and farm
advisers.

LaSalle, Fulton, Tazewell and Han-
cock County Farm Bureaus it is re-
ported already have organized delega-
tions. In other sections of the state
neighborhood groups are being en-
rolled to avail themselves of the spe-
cial reduced railroad rates to the con-
vention. Ask the county adviser about
these rates and get
the necessary cer-
tificate from him
if you contemplate
attending.

Prepare For

10,000
Many parties
are planning mo-
tor bus trips to the
convention and a
few are consider-
ing the airplane as
their preferred ve-
hicle of transportation. Every effort
is being made by the American Farm
Bureau Federation to have a record-
breaking crowd at this great national
assembly of farmers and farm women
and plans have been perfected to care
for 10,000 visitors during the six-day
affair.

A program of general interest has
been prepared. It is intended to pre-
(Continued on col. 1, page 9)

Sam H. Thompson

REMEMBER THE DATES
The annual convention of the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation, Hotel
Sherman, Chi<:aso, comes on Dec. 10,
II, 12, 1928; the annual meeting of
the Illinois Agricultural Association on
Jan. 30, 31, 1929, at Danville. Mark
these dates on your calendar. The
meetings are yours for you to help de-
cide the future course of the Farm
Bureau.

International Time

THE Hay and Grain Show is ex-
pected to be an outstanding fea-
ture of the International Live Stock
Exposition which opens December 1 at
Chicago. A large' number of Illinois
farmers already have entered seed corn
and small grain exhibits in the con-
test.

Eleven hundred and fifty cash prizes,
in addition to eight handsome silver
trophies, are being awarded to the ex-
hibitors in this division.

The United States Department of
Agriculture and the state universities
will have their usual exhibits and dem-
onstrations. The fact that seed corn
from sections of Ohio, Indiana, Michi-
gan, and other states infested with the
corn borer is barred offers an unusual
opportunity for exhibitors from areas
not so handicapped.

Thousands of 4-H Club boys and
girls from every corner of the country
will be in Chicago on the opening day.
The Illinois Agricultural Association
will provide a dinner for the Illinois
winners in accordance with its usual
custom. This dinner will be held on
the night of December 5, the place to
be announced later.

President Earl C. Smith, C. E. Bam-
borough of Polo, George F. Tullock of
Rockford, and A. R. Wright of Varna
will represent Illinois as official dele-
gates at the annual convention of the
American Farm Bureau Federation,
Chicago, December 7 to 12. Alternates
are as follows : Charles Marshall, Frank
Oexner, W. L. Cope, and Samuel Sor-
rells. The entire executive committee
of the Illinois Agricultural Association
was authorized to attend the meeting

Jan. 30, 31 Are Dates
; Set For 14 th Annual

Convention of I. A. A.

County Farm Bureaus Are Asked to Select
Official Delegates to State Gathering

ClOUNTY farm" BUREAUS in lUi-
4 nois will select delegates within
the j next few weeks for the 14th an-
nuajl meeting of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association to be held at Dan-
vill^, January 30-31, 1929.

T!he program now being arranged
will include speakers of wide reputa-
tion. Agricultural legislation to be
presented before the coming general
ass^bly will be considered. Group
meejtings will be arranged as hereto-
fore for the consideration of specific
activities such as legislation, co-opera-
tive! marketing, business service, or-
ganization and publicity, etc.
Easy To Get There

Hbtel accommodations are being ar-
ranged for a large assembly and while
it is thought that hotel facilities will
be ajmple, all those who plan to attend
are ^eing asked to make reservations
earl^. Danville is fortunately situated
so ais to be readily accessible to all
parti of the state. It is on the main
line of the C. & E. I. Railroad north
and south, and on the Big Four in all
four directions.

Subsidiary organizations of the Illi-
nois [Agricultural Association will meet
on January 29, the day before the
opening of the convention, as has been
the custom in the past. The annual
meetings of the Illinois Agricultural
Mutual Insurance Company, the Illi-
nois Agrricultural Co-operatives Asso-
ciation, the Illinois Farm Bureau Base-
ball League, and the Illinois Farm Bu-
reau I Serum Association will come on
this day according to present plans.
Vermilion I* Host

The Vermilion County Farm Bu-
reau will be hosts to visitors and mem-
bers Ifrom the far corners of the state
and 'Will co-operate with the local
Chamber of Commerce and business
men in making local arrangements.

Thds will be the first annual meeting
of the Illinois Agricultural Association
held in the extreme part of the state
outside Chicago. ii

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house in Rock Isl.
its products direct
are insured in the
tb.- I. A. A. in Chic

Nat'l Horticultural

Council is Formed

To Represent Growers

Chas. E. Durst is Secretary, A. B, Leeper
a Director

'pHE National Horticultiiial Council,
*- organized to represunt the eco-
nomic interest of fruit an<l vcgretable
growers in the Unit-'
ed States, was incor-
porated under the'
laws of Illinois. Oci
tober l.S. 11>2S. The
first meeting of the
1.5 directors was held
in Chicago on Octo-
ber 31 when by-lawsi
were adopted, officers
and the executive
committee elected,
and plans and poli-
cies dcciiled upon.

It is expected that
the Council will func-
tion similarly to the
National Dairy Coun-
cil for the dairy in-
dustry, the National
Poultry Council for
the poultry industry,;
and the National Livei
Stock and Meat]
Board for the live-
stock industry. Th« Council is or-
ganized with broad powers and will be
in position to reT)resent the industry
and work fo'r the solution of economic
problems facing fruit and vegetable
growers.

Many Activities

Its activities and .interest will in-
clude legislation, jtaritf problems,
transportation, .standardization of
commodities, fruit juice and by-
product questions, traide practices, bet-
ter methods of marketing, and collec-
tion and dissemination of information
on economic questions. The Council
will not engage in marketing nor in
the purchase of supplies.

The following
officers and ex-
ecutive committee
have been elected :
John Napier Dyer,
ptesirtent; F. L.
Granger, first vice-
pifesident; Frank
tJ Swett. second
vice-president; and
Charles E. Durst,
sqcretary-t r e a s -
uifer. The execu-
tive commit-
tee consists o f
John Napier Dyer, F, L. Granger, M.
C. Burritt, Louis |F. Miller, and
Charles Carmichael. Charles E. Durst
of Chicago, former director of fruit
and vegetable marketing for the
I. A. A., has been apJ)ointed executive
secretary.

Leeper A Dtirector

The directors are as follows: John Napier
Dyer, Indiana, owner of 1.000 acres of land
and 350 acres of orchard; Sen.ttor H. M.
Dunlap. lllinoi.". owner of 1.400 acres of
orchard and the senior penator in point of
service iu the Illinois senate; F. L. Granger,

THE I. A. A. RECORD

reneral manager of the MichiKan Fruit Grow-

I rs* Inc., largest co-operative in Michiiran;

■ouis F. Miller, large greenhouse prowers of

I >hio, and leader in various ve(?etable ortran-

i tation movements; M. C. Burritt. president

f the New York State Horsiciili iiral Society,

ice-iiresident of the Western New York Fruit

I ;ri»wfrs* Cnoper.'itive Association and former

[•a<ier of state exlen>ton in New York : V. II.

>avis. presiiletit of the Ohio State Horr icultural

ociety and manager of the CatJiwha Island

Mrchard Coniptin.v, C)hio; W. C. Reed, Indiana.

3^.Hv£*

FROM GROWER TO CONSUMER DIRECT
Thousanjls of doll ars worth of apples and oth >r fruits are sold froin this storage
d annually. It is owned by Smith's Fruit Farm which markets
[o consumers in the tri-cities. Incidentally, the buildings here
Farmers' Mutual Reinsurance Co., which has headquarters with
igo.

wner of 220 acres of orchard and president

) f the Vincennes Nurseries. largest growers of
Kerry trees in the United States: Wilson
tood. New York, sales manager of the Chau-

1 auqua and Frie Grape Grower.^' Association;
'rank T. Sweet, California, iiresident and gen.
ral manager tif the California Tear Growers'
association and owner of e,\tensi\e pear or-
hards in California: A. H. Leeper. manager

( f the Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange. Illi-
ois. and owner of orchards in western
llinois: Charles Carmichael. Missouri, sec-

1 ulary of the Ozark Fruit GroVers* Associa-

1 ion. a large fruit ami vegetalile co-operative
perating in Missouri, Arkansas. Tennessee.

J nd southerr. Illinois; Hen E. Niles. Kentucky,
ecrelary of the Kentucky State Horticultural
iety and orchard owner; E. L. Balch.

' ^^ashington. Wenatchee Valley orchardisl and

oler in org inization muvements in the

'a<-ilic Northeast: Warren E, Iteehe. Iowa.

1 lanauer of the largest orchard in Iowa: an<l

i 'harles E, Durst, etiitor of Fruits and Gardens,
commercial fruit growers' paper with head-

« uarters in Chic.-igo.

The Council is to be financed by
1 lemberships held by individual grow-
f rs. horticultural societies, and fruit
i nd vegetai)le co-operatives. The coun-

ry has been divided into nine sections,
< ach of which will have one director.
] n addition, there will l>e six directors

t large. Each state will be represent-
ed also by state committees.

The headquarters of the National
Horticultural Council are at 608 So.
Dearborn Street. Chicago, and all cor-
1 espondence relating to the organiza-
\ ion should be directed there.

New Bulletin Out

'Market Destinations of Illinois
iJrain" is the title of a new bulletin
1 ecently published by the University of
llinois. The publication concludes a
ihree-year study by C. L. Stewart, L.
Norton, and L. F, Rickey of the
i.gricuitural college staff.

An estimated total of 215,000.000
lushels of corn, oats, and wheat were

Illinois Farmers Are

Invited To St. Louis

Waterways Meeting

Well Known Speakers Will Discuss Water
Transportation

ILLINOIS fai-niers are invited to at-
tend the annual meeting of the
.Mississippi Valley Association to be
held at St. Louis.
November 2 6-27.
1928.

A long list of able
speakers is an-
nounced by the As-
sociation, who will
appear sometime dur-
ing the two-day ses-
sion. Some of the
speakers are as fol-
lows: Secretary of
War D w i g h t F.
Davis; U. S. Senator
Henrik Shipstead of
Jlinnesota; Congress-
man Wm. E. Hull of
Illinois; Ma.ior Gen.
Ed,gar Jadwin. chief
of Army F^ngineers;
William R. Dawes,
l)resident, Chicago
Association of Commerce; Hon,
James A. Reed, U. S. senator from
Missouri; Ma.ior-General T. Q. Ash-
burn, Iidand Waterways Corpora-
tion; and Hon, Harry B. Hawes, U. S.
senator from Missouri,

Want 9-Foot Channel

The M. V. A. is working to com-
plete the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Waterway.
It hopes to bring about a nine-foot
channel from Minneapolis to New
Orleans on the Mississippi, from Chi-
cago to Mississippi through Illinois,
from Pittsburgh to Cairo on the Ohio,
and similar channels on other tribu-
taries.

The Association states that on a
joint haul where both water and rail
service is used, farmers may save ap-
proximately 20 per cent of the rail
rate that parallels the water haul. If
the freight originates on the river and
is consigned to another point on the
river, the shipper may save as much
as 50 per cent of the rail rate be-
tween the river ports.

The Denison bill, fostered by the
Missi.ssippi Valley Association, . and
passed in the last session of congress,
provides for the establishment of joint
rates between rail and river carriers
on the entire Mississippi Waterway
system.

shipped out of Illinois as the annual
average for the five years, 1922-26.
During the same years, Iowa shipped
out 90 per cent as much as Illinois,
Kansas GO per cent, Nebraska 47 per
cent, and Indiana 37 per cent.

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Volume 6

NOVEMBER, 1928

Number 11

A. F. B. F. Prepares for
10,000 at Convention
Chicago, Dec. 10, 11, 12

I. A. A. Selects Four Voting Delegates
to Represent State

ILLINOIS will be represented by
J. fully 1,000 farmers at the tenth an-
nual meeting of the American Farm
Bureau Federation at the Hotel Sher-
man, Chicago, December 7 to 12, it is
indicated by advance requests for res-
ervation.s received at national federa-
tion headquarters. Official delegate.*
from the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion will include President Earl Smith,
C. E. Baniborough. Polo, A. R. Wright,
Varna, and George F. Tullock, Rock-
ford. The entire I. A. A. Executive
Committee and department heads will
also be present,' together with officers
of County Farm Bureaus and farm
advisers.

LaSalle, Fulton, Tazewell and Han-
cock County Farm Bureaus it is re-
ported already have organized delega-
tions. In other sections of the state
neighborhood groups are being en-
rolled to avail themselves of the spe-
cial reduced railroad rates to the con-
vention. .Ask the county adviser about
these rates and get
the necessary cer-
tificate from him
if you contemplate
attending.

Prepare For

10,000
.M a n y parties
are planning mo-
tor bus trips to the
convention and a
few are consider-
ing the airplane as
their preferred ve-
hicle of transportation. Every effort
i.s being made by the American Farm
Bureau Federation to have a record-
bi caking crowd at this great national
assembly of farmers and farm women
and plans have been perfected to care
lor 10,000 visitors during the six-day
affair.

A program of general interest has
been prepared. It is intended to pre-
(Continued on col. 1, page 9)

Sam H. Thompson

REMEMBER THE D.\TF.S
The annual convention of the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation, Hotel
Sherman, Chicago, comes on Dec. 10,
It, 12, 1928; the annual meeting of
the Illinois Agricultural Association on
Jan. 30. 31, 1929, at Danville. Mark
these dates on your calendar. The
meetings are yours for you to help de-
cide the future course of the Farm
Bureau.

International Time

THE Hay and Grain Show is ex-
pected to be an outstanding fea-
ture of the International Live Stock
Exposition which opens December 1 at
Chicago. A large number of Illinois
farmers already have entered seed corn
and small grain exhibits in the con-
test.

Eleven hundred and fifty cash prizes.
in addition to eight handsome silver
trophies, are being awarded to the ex-
hibitors in this division.

The United States Department of
.Agriculture and the state universities
will have their usual exhibits and dem-
onstrations. The fact that seed corn
from sections of Ohio, Indiana, .Michi-
gan, and other states infested with the
corn borer is barred offers an unusual
opportunity for exhibitors from areas
not so handicapped.

Thousands of 4-H Club boys and
girls from every corner of the country
will be in Chicago on the opening day.
The Illinois Agricultural Association
will provide a dinner for the Illinois
winners in accordance with its usual
custom. This dinner will be held on
the night of December .5, the place to
be announced later.

President Earl C. Smith, C. E. Bam-
Iiorough of Polo, George F. Tullock of
Hockford, and A. R. Wright of Varna
will represent Illinois as official dele-
gates at the annual convention of the
.American Farm Bureau Federation,
Chicago, December 7 to 12. Alternates
are as follows; Charles Marshall, P'rank
Oexner, W. L. Cope, and Samuel Sor-
rells. The entire executive comniittee
of the Illinois Agricultural Association
was authorized to attend the meeting

Jan. 30, 31 Are Dates

Set For 1-^th Annual
Convention of I. A. A.

Coi^nty Farm Bureaus Are Asked to Sele t

C Official Delegates to State Gathering
10UNTY FARM BUREAUS in Illi-
^ nois will select delegates within
the next few weeks for the 14th an-
nual meeting of the Illinois .Agricul-
tural Association to be held at Dan-
vill'. .January 30-31, 1929.

The program now being arranged
will include speakers of wide reputa-
tior . Agiicultural legislation to be
pre; ented before the coming general
ass« mbly will be considered. Group
meetings will be arranged as hereto-
fort for the consideration of specific
actii-ities such as legislation, eo-opera-
tive marketing, business service, or-
gan zation and publicity, etc. .
Easy To Get There

Hotel ai'coniniodations are being ar-
ranced for a large assembly and while
it i.- thought that hotel facilitie^s will
be i mple, all those who plan to attend
are being asked to make reservations
earl,-. Danville is fortunately situate*!
so ;s to be reatlily acce.ssible to all
parti of ihf .itate. It is on the main
line of the <". ^ E. I. Railroad north
and sou'h, an<l on the Big Four in all
foui directions.

.Subsidiary organizations of the Illi-
nois Agriculturaj .Association will meet
on January 29i the day before the
oper ing of the cionvenlion, as has been
the custom in the past. The annual
meel ings of the Illinois .Agricultural
Mut lal Insurance Company, the Illi-
nois Agricultural Co-pp*ratives Asso-
ciati )n. the Illinois Farm Bureau Base-
ball [.eague. and tiie Illinois Farm Bu-
I'eau Serum .Association will come on
this Jay aecordi<ig to i)resent plans.
Vermilion If Host

Tie Vermilion County Farm Bu
lean will be hosts to visitors and inem-
beis from the far corners of the state
and will co-op<>rate with the local
Chaiiber of Conimerce and business
men in making local arra"ngements.

Tlis will be the first annual meeting
of the Illinois Agricultural Association
held in the extreme part of the state
outsiie Chicago.

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4

Page Four

Milk Producers at

Peoria Close Second

Successful Period

Pool More Than 27,000,000 Pounds Milk
Which Brought $636,123.28

THE Illinois Milk Producers' Asso
ciation, the farmers' collective
bargaining organization at Peoria,
pooled 27,178,608 pounds of milk
valued at $636,123.28 in the year end-
ing September 30, 1928. It brought
an average price of $2.34 per 100
pounds. The net worth of the com-
pany after two years of operation is
$13,157.24 as compared with a net
worth of $6,276.18 a year ago.

The association was organized with-
out any capital stock or investment.
The milk pooled by some 1,200 mem-
bers was sold by the association to
dealers operating on the Peoria mar-
ket at a cost of a fraction over one
. cent per 100 pounds. Commenting
upon the financial standing of the
company, the auditor said:

Lauds Management

"We wish to compliment the man-
agement upon the splendid showing
during the two years which this pool
has operated. With no initial invest-
ment of capital, the net worth of $13,-
157.24 has been accumulated out of
earnings and at the same time returns
to members for their product have
been increased."

The outstanding accomplishment of
the company is not the earnings over
the two-year period. The improve-
ment in quality of milk, marketing
conditions, price to the producer, and
elimination of waste brought about
are far greater accomplishments. The
producers about Peoria received an
average of 25 cents per 100 pounds
more for their milk during the year
than they did prior to the organization
of the pool. The consumers received
better milk. Based on the volume sold
co-operatively during the year, it is
conservatively estimated that the mem-
bers of the association received $67,-
946.52 more for their product than
they would have received otherwise.

Dealers Profit

The dealers were enabled to secure
reasonable compensation for their
services because waste due to poor
milk, cut-throat competition, and price-
wars was reduced to a minimum.

Wilfred Shaw, Peoria, is resident
manager of the Association. A. D.
Lynch, dairy marketing director of the
I. A. A., who assisted in its organiza-
tion is retained as marketing counsel.

Help prevent colds this year by eat-
ing plenty of bulky foods and those
rich in vitamins, such as milk, eggs,
spinach, carrots, oranges, and cod liver

THE 1. A. A. RECORD

MITCHELL KNOWS
INSURANCE

Roy Mitchell of Champaign, county director
>f insurance sales for the 1. A. A. auto insur-
ince company, sent in 66 applications in the
lix weeks ending Oct. 1, placing first in the
itate-wide contest.

European Farmers Suffer

'"P'UROPEAN farmers are suffering
-L-^ from hard times just as Amer-
can farmers are suffering," says Dr.
P. A. Pearson, who recently returned
"rom a study of agricultural conditions
n Germany and other European coun-
ties. "European farmers,'' he says,
are troubled with high retail prices
ind low prices in farm products just
as much as American farmers. Taxes
hat farmers have to pay are as high
:n Germany, Scotland, and England as
:n America. Farmers in Germany com-
; )lain of the high interest rates on mortr
1 rages and short term credit.

"Farmers in the United States," he
1 ays, "raise more bushels of grain and
1 ons of hay per day than European
: armers. Farm wages are lower on
ihe continent than in the United States,
1 lut farmers do less work in the old
(ountry than in America," says Pear-
son.

Within 10 Per Cent

T^HE purchasing power of
■*• farm products in terms of
other commodities continues
within 10 per cent of the 1909-14
pre-war parity, says the Bureau
of Agricultural Economics.

"The chief sustaining influence
in agricultural prices," says the
Bureau, "is the favorable posi-
tion of the livestock industries."

Life Insurance Co.

Applies For Charter

Sell Special Policies

Members Who Sign Now Will Have the
Best of It

APPLICATION has been made for
L the charter for the proposed life
insurance company being organized
by the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion and the Illinois Farm Bureaus.
The name of the company as selected
by the Executive Committee of the I.
A. A., after getting suggestions from
the County Farm Bureaus, is the
"Country Life Insurance Company."
Charter membership pledges for the
first special participating policy are
now being received. The maximum
amount of pledges for the first special
participating policies will be limited.
The quota for each County Farm Bu-
reau has been fixed upon a basis of
membership within the county. The
first special participating policy will
not only participate in the mortuary
savings and excess interest savings,
but will also participate in the profits
of the company the same as a share
of stock in the life insurance com-
pany. The first special policy is of-
fered to Farm Bureau members and
members of their immediate families.

More Hog Cholera

"SEPTEMBER, October, and Novem-
'^ ber are the worst months for hog
cholera,", says the U. S. Department of
Agriculture. "More hog cholera this
fall than a year ago was reported from
Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, Nebras-
ka, Oklahoma, Maryland, Georgia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, and
Florida.

"The disease is readily controlled by
the preventive-serum treatment without
which cholera would cause vastly great-
er losses than the swine industry now
sustains."

The County Farm Bureaus and the
Illinois Farm Bureau Serum Associa-
tion are reducing hog cholera losses
in Illinois to a minimum.

Shelby Is Clean
Shelby County Farm Bureau an-
nounces that Shelby county is now on
the tuberculosis free list as a modified,
accredited area, effective October 1.

Hogs from this county when properly
tattooed are eligible to a premium of
10 cents per hundred at the central
markets.

Managers of the county's shipping
associations were recently provided
with tattoo irons fbr marking the hogs.

Illinois farmers are buying their rock
phosphate from $1.50 to $2 less than
the same companies are selling the
same grade of phosphate in other
states. Collective bargaining through
organization is responsible for this
saving.

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FACTS EVERY MEMBER
SHOULD KNOW

PRODUCTION of food stuffs in foreign
countries has a direct and important bear-
ing on farm prices in the United States. Par-
ticularly ia this true when American farmers
produce a surplus and must sell on a world
market. Therefore, it is well to know some-
thing of production in foreign countries.

The dairying season in New Zealand
opened with a 30 per cent increase in produc-
tion over a similar period last year or an in-
crease of more than 50 per cent over the
1926 season. Prices nevertheless are satis-
factory, says the U. S. Dept. of Commerce.

Butter has been offered and sales made at
from 34.5 cents to 34.75 cents per pound
f. o. b. New Zealand ports for shipments to
the end of December and in some cases to the
end of January and February.

Queensland, Australia, nearly doubled its
exports of butter in the year ended June 80,
1928, compared with a similar period the year
previous.

On September 19, 1928, a committee repre-
senting the dairy farmers and dairy distribu-
tors in Great Britain reached an agreement
in respect to the contract terms for milk for
the year beginning October 1, 1928. The farm-
ers were given an increase over present
prices. Under the new agreement they are
to receive 34 cents per gallon for four
months, 82 cents per gallon for four months,
and 24 cents per gallon for four months, or
an average of 30 cents per gallon for the next
year. The dairy distributors intend to pass
the price increase along to the consumers.
The present retail price for ordinary milk in
London is 12 cents per quart during the six
summer months and 14 cents per quart during
the six winter months. Under the new ar-
rangement, the distributors intend to charge
14 cents per quart for eight months and 12
cents per quart for four months. Consider-
able resentment to price increase to the con-
sumer has been expressed in the public press
and the Food Council has been asked to in-
vestigate to determine whether the increased
cost to the public is justified.

The principal significance of this victory by
farmers, says Trade Commissioner Brice M.
Mace of the U. S. Dept. of Commerce, is in
the organized power of the National Farmers'
Union which has over 100,000 members on
its rolls. The National Farmers' Union is go-
ing to be greatly strengthened by the outcome
of this milk dispute and because they held out
as long as possible against any increase in the
price to the consumer, they have come out of
this dispute in better favor than the distribu-
tors. There still remains in Great Britain the
problem of the disposal of surplus milk. Until
surplus milk can be profitably marketed in
manufactured products, the dairy industry
will be unbalanced in its growth and will con-
tinue to suffer because it is almost entirely
a fluid milk proposition.

Argentine exported 753.360 pounds of but-
ter and 71,876 pounds of cheese during
August, 1928. None of the butter, but 7,869
pounds of the cheese came to the United
States.

The organization of the Swiss dairy in-
dustry is unique when compared with similar
organizations in any other country, in that all
branches work in harmony and co-operation,
reports Commissioner Kenneth M. Hill. The
central organization, known as the Swiss
Cheese Union, is composed of three branches
called (1) the Central Union of Dairy Farm-
ers, (2) the Swiss Cheese Manufacturers
Union, and (3) the Trade Branch. The Swiss
government does not constitute a fourth
party nor exercise any control whatsoever.

The Central Union of Dairy Farmers is the
organization of the producing end of the in-
dustry and includes about 95 per cent of all
dairy farmers in its membership. It is made
of hundreds of small local co-operative soci-
eties located in practically every dairying

community. These local co-operatives act as
central collection stations and are often cheese
manufacturers as well. The price which the
milk producer receives in Switzerland is iixed
relatively by the Central Union of Dairy
Farmers through a guarantee of the price of
cheese. This system of guaranteeing the price
of milk through the price of cheese eliminates
to a very large extent any tendency of other
milk consuming industries to attempt to pur-
chase at a price lower than the standard.

The Swiss Cheese Union then sells to its
Trade Branch, composed of the exporters and
wholesalers. This branch attends to the dis-
tribution to the consumer.

The 1928 season for egg products in the
Tientsin district in China has been full of
difficulties for both the manufacturers and ex-
porters, it is reported. The manufacturers
have been confronted with high first costs
and a rather indifferent market for dried
products, which has resulted in increased
production of liquid egg yolk for the European
trade.

Exports of dried egg albumen from
Tientsin amounted to only 1.370.300 pounds
during the first six months of 1928, whereas
2,041,900 pounds were exported during the
corresponding period of 1927.

Oranges are being grown in considerable
quantities in Paraguay and Argentina in
South America. The industry is just being
developed on an extensive scale in Argentina
where the Southern Railway is planting
oranges and grapefruit trees along their lines.

Oranges were formerly brought from Par-
aguay into Argentina by merely shoveling
them on the boat. Recently, however, the
Argentina government forbade their marketing
in Buenos Aires unless the fruit is wrapped
in a separate paper. Cuttings for the new
orange and grapefruit plantations are being
imported in large quantities from the United
States.

Cutting In

IT HAS BEEN HELD that, where the
defendant drove his automobile at
an unlawful or unreasonable rate of
speed up to and past the automobile in
which plaintiff was riding without
signal or warning, and forced his car
across and in front of the plaintiff's
car, in such a manner as to disconcert
the driver of plaintiff's machine, and
cause the latter car to go over an em-
bankment, to the injury of the plaintiff,
the defendant might be liable even
though the impact of the defendant's
machine was not sufficient in itself to
forcibly throw the plaintiff's car out
of its course.

Public liability and property damage
insurance in your own company, would
protect you against loss in such an
accident.

I Save $100,000

Illinois Farm Bureau members are
buying limestone at a saving of 25 to
30 cents less per ton than are farmers
in adjoining states. This saving is
made possible through the use of the
I. jA.. A.'s collective buying power. On
tha basis of 400,000 tons sold ftnd
us^d in Illinois since Jan. 1, 1928, the
saving to Illinois farmers amounts to
mojre than $100,000.. j;

i

; Champaign Accredited

(phampaign county was recently
added to the tuberculosis free list as
a modified accredited area. All the
cattle in the county have been tested
and the infection now is less than one-
half of one per cent. All hogs shipped
to Chicago are eligible to a 10 per cent '
peif hundred premium provided they are
tattooed and are found to be free from
tuberculosis upon slaughter.

Shipping association managers are
buying tattoo markers and will market
all hogs shipped to market.

Corn Price Outlook

The outlook for better corn prices is
good according to Secretary of Agricul-
tupe Jardine. The Rumanian crop was
about 23 per cent less than last year
and the carry-over of old corn in the
United States this year was small.
"This, coupled with a comparatively
high price for Argentine corn, will in-
crease export demand for our com,"
says Mr. Jardine, "unless the new
Argentine crop is available.

"If farmers will refrain from rushing
the new market," he says, "and will
adjust their feeding to produce slightly
heavier cattle and hogs, the market
shbuld be well maintained and improve-
ment is likely before the end of the
se£<son."

Chicago Producers Entertaui

Visiting journalists, farm paper and
newspaper editors will be entertained
by the Chicago Live Stock Producers'
Commission Association on November
30, the day before the opening of the
International.

The Producers' will conduct a tour
thrpugh the Yards and their guests
will be shown the method used in han-
dling and selling livestock. In the
afternoon a tour will be conducted
through one of the large packing
plafits. The journalists also will be en-
tertained at dinner that evening.

L

lore than 30,000 Illinois farmers
will be purchasing gasoline, oil, and
petroleum products co-operatively by
the end of 1929 is the opinion of Geo.
R. Wicker, manager of the Illinois
Farm Supply Co. Twenty-one county
co-operative oil companies in the state
are now supplying approximately 23,-
000 farmers with motor fuel and lubri-
cants.

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CCLTURAL

IM O I

ASS

THE I. A. A. RECORD

RECORjy

7* mJv^nem thm parpowm for which thm Farm
nmmtiv to promotm. protect mnd roprotcnt th^
political, mnd mdticmtionot intmromta of thm fan
nmtion, and to dmaolop ogricuituro.

PablUbMi onr« a month at 404 Nnrth Wmlei
niinoli. by thf Illinoia Asriealtaral Asaociation.
of Inforinatinn, E. G Thiem. Dtr«-ctor. 60^ Situth
Chicaso. IllinoU. Enterrd a« wmnd-claw matwi
thr po«t office at Mount Morrta. Illinoia. andrr ihp
Accepted for mailinK at a(i«ciat rat4> of po8tair«
tion 412. Act of February 21). 1926. authnriied
Individual memht'rahip fee of the lllinoii* Airri^ult
five dollar* a year. The fee include* payment
■cription u> the Illinois AnRirin.TuiiaL
maater; Id returning an uncalled for or miaaeii^
key namber on addrest* aa ia required by law

ureaa wot organismd,

buainoaa, ocortomie,

of tllinoim mnd Iho

Ave.. Mount Morria,
Rdited by Department
Dearborn Street,
October 20. 1925. at
Act of March S. 1879.
provided for in See-
I >ctoher 27. 1925. The
ural Aaaociation ia
flfty cent* for aab-
Rrcoro. Port-
copy pleaae indicate

A81IM lATION

OFFICERS

Prcaldent, Earl C. Smith

Vice-Preaident. Frank D. Barton

Traaaurcr, R. A. Cowlcs

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
(By Consreaaional Diatricta]

lat to llth H. C.

12th G

IJth C.

14ch

Uth A.

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17th Qco. J. Stoll. Chestnut

R F Karr. Iroquois

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.^ CharleK

Slat. .••.. * Sami lel Sorrel U. Raymond

llnd Fr >nk Oezner Waterloo

23rd .■ W L C^pe. Salem

Mth Char cs Marshall Belknap

Detroit

Cornell

• Bloominston

Vial. Downera Grove

F Tullock. Rockford

E. EUmhorough, Polo

1 A. G. Lambert. Ferria

Skinner. Yates City

A. R Wright. Vama

^ t'hisnand. Charleston
S BiRck. Jacksonville

Uth.

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMEK TS

Btjaineas Service

Dairv Marketing

Limestone-Phosphate. ..«•• ••..

Finance

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing.

Genera I Office

Information

Insurunce Service

Lege I Counsel

Live Stock Marketing

Oraanization

Produce Marketing'

Taxation and Statiatlce

Tranaportation

.Fred Diets, Dc Soto

.Geo. R. Wicker
....A. D. Lynch

J R. Bent

R. A. Co* lea

.A B Leeper

J H Kelker

, E. G Thiem

V Vaniman

Donald Kirkpatrick

Bb> E Miller

C E Metxger

F. A. Gougler

J. C. Wataon

.L. J. Quaacy

the public con-
Farmers who
the cause of the

The Election Is Over

THE 1928 political campaign is now hi: tory, and a new
president is elected. It may be use 'ul and interest-
ing to recapitulate and analyze the farmers' position with
respect to the past and future.

More than five years ago, organized agriculture, led by
the Farm Bureau, sought to impress upor
sciousness that there was a farm problen
had studied the question knew fairly well
trouble. They recogni.:;ed that only in idolated instances
were they getting the benefit of the j rotective tariff,
whereas, nearly everything they bought ■was priced on an
artificial basis because of high and effecti e tariffs on the
commodities purchased.

The exportable farm surplus sold on thn world markets
fixed a world price on American farm j roducts sold at
home. Government intervention and legislation had as-
sisted in bringing on this inequality. Farmers thought
they were justified in seeking like intervent on to correct it.
The public was slow to respond to the Jarmers' appeal.
The press at first was hostile, but enlighter ment eventually
came and interest was finally aroused in the farmers'
plight.

He advised farm organization representatives to prepare
and bring in a plan which they thought would solve the
problem.

The McNary-Haugen bill was the result. Farmers se-
cured the support of their measure in two different ses-
sions of Congress. The President vetoed it each time.-
That much is history and is well-known to everyone.

The issue then became involved in politics. For the
most part farmers held their peace and awaited develop-
ments. They refused to commit themselves for one party
or the other. They asked of the candidates, "what have
you to offer, what will you do about it?" The two presi-
dential nominees responded. Never before in the history
of the United States was agriculture given so much con-
sideration in the campaigns of two political parties. Never
before in the history of the country were such far-reaching
declarations and commitments made by presidential nomi-
nees. From this point of view it was a victory for the
American farmer. Organized agriculture had done its job
and done it well.

In his acceptance speech, the successful candidate, Mr.
Hoover said: "The most urgent economic problem in our
nation today is in agriculture. It must be solved if we are
to bring prosperity and contentment to one-third of our
people directly and to all of our people indirectly. We
have pledged ourselves to find a solution. . . .

"The working out of agricultural relief constitutes the
most important obligation of the next administration. I
stand pledged to these proposals. The object of our pol-
icies is to establish for our farmers an income equal to
those of other occupations; for the farmer's wife the same
comforts in her home as women in other groups; for farm
boys and girls the same opportunities in life as other boys
and girls. So far as my abilities may be of service, I
dedicate them to help secure prosperity and contentment
in that industry where I and my forefathers were bom
and nearly all my family still obtain their livelihood."

This is the pledge of President-elect Hoover. It is the
promise of the 30th President of the United States. Farm-
ers will take him at his word. Organized agriculture un-
doubtedly will offer President Hoover support and co-
operation in any plan he proposes which will bring about
the promised ends.

The Republican Party met in 1924 and

]iledged itself to

cure agriculture's ills. A short time aft^r his election.

farm representatives called on President

asked his aid. He replied saying that h > had no plan.

Coolidge and

. \t.

Protection For All

/COMMENTING upon the American protective system
^ and the farmer, an English writer concludes with some
truth that "protection for everyone is protection for no
one." His point is that if the tariff were made effective
on all agricultural products, special privilege wbuld be
abolished and the tariff would fail of its purpose. The
reason for its existence would be wiped out.

Prof. Boyle of Cornell University, in a recent article
a^its that "the tariff has been put there (on farm prod-
ucts) as a mere sop to the farmers. In other words, the
farmer has the shadow of protection, the manufacturer
the substance."

Both views lend color to the suspicion that ppposition
to an effective plan for applying the protective! principle
impartially was based purely on selfish motives. It im-
plies recognition of the fact that someone must pay for
the other fellow's protection. The future will enlighten
us further on this point. It will reveal whether or not
there is honesty and sincerity of purpose in those given
the power to distribute real protection equitably. The
farmer is fully aware of his obligation to produce effi-
ciently and in accordance with market demands. But he
also recognizes natural limitations in his industry which
can be bridged only by proper machinery built with gov-
ernment assistance.

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THE I. A. A. RECORu

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f

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WHnicws

J Radio Schedule

Station WJJD, Mooseheart
Monday to Friday Inclusive

9:S0 to 10:30 A. H. — Ellen Rose Dickey "Hap-
py Thouerht Hour"
10 :45 to 11 :S0 A. M. — Musical Program
12:00 to 12:30 P. M.— Palmer House Noontime

Musical
12 :30 to 12 :45. — Daily Farm Program Broad-
cast from Illinois Aerricultural Association,
Transportation Buildiner, Chicago
12 :45 to 1 :00 — Palmer House Orchestra
2 :00 to 3 :00 — Studio Program
3 :30 to 4 :30 — Mooseheart Children
4 :30 to 6 :00 — Singing — Victor Half-hour Mus-
ical Gala and Organ Recital
6:20 to 6:30 — Newscasting
6 :30 to 6 :55 — Palmer House Symphony
6:65 to 7:00— Sport News

7 :00 to 10 :30 — Mooseheart Children, and Mus-
ic by Palmer House Quintette
10 :30 — Weather Forecast

On Saturdays the program over WJJD opens
at noon, with music, newscasting, and weather
forecasts as usual in the evening. On Sundays
the program opens at 6 :00 P. M. and continues
throughout the evening until 11:00 o'clock.

"I tuned in on WJJD at noon today,
and although there was practically no
static or other interference, will have
to say that I have never had a Chicago
station come in so distinctly."

A. B. Leeper,
Centralia, 111.

"We get Station WJJD, Mooseheart,
probably better than any other in the
whole country," writes E. E. Click,
farm adviser in Franklin county. 111.

FRENCH GOV'T. TO BROADCAST

THE French government plans to
institute a regular broadcast of
weather reports and market and crop
news within the near future.

Professor Bernard Trouvelot of the
French national school of horticulture,
who recently visited America, was
particularly impressed by the great
number of farmers having radio sets
and getting reg:ular information and
instruction through the air. He also
noted that one American radio manu-
facturer had produced 50 per cent
more receivers than all the radios
owned in France.

FLORIDA LEADS IN PHOSPHATE

FLORIDA was the source of 83 per
*■ cent of all the phosphate rock sold
or used by producers in the United
States in 1927. Last year producers
in the United States used 3,166,102
long tons of phosphate rock valued
at $11,234,863. The value of Ten-
nessee rock used was $2,300,296. All
of the rock phosphate used in Illinois
comes from Tennessee. The use of
phosphate rock sold or used by pro-
ducers in the western states in 1927
increased 37 per cent as compared
with 1926.

THE 1928 NATIONAL CHAMPION
Walter Olson, member of the Knox County Farm Bureau, is the new Illinois State
and National champion com husker. He husks with both a peg and a hook. Elmer Williams
of Stark County placed second in both state and national contests.

Knox County Man Is

1928 State Champion

Husker with 27.8 Bu.

Noses Out Elmer Williams from Stark,
Former National Winner

FIVE thousand fans saw Walter
Olson of Knox county win the
1928 state corn husking championship
in the annual contest held on the
Morgan brothers' farm near Galva,
Nov. 3. Olson nosed out his old rival,
Elmer Williams of Stark county, by
more than a bushel and a half of corn
after deductions. Williams, former
state and national champion, defeated
Olson in the 1925 contests held in
Montgomery and Mercer counties. Wil-
liams and Olson placed first and sec-
ond respectively in the state and
national meets that year.

A disagreeable drizzle, which started
on the afternoon of Nov. 1, continued
throughout the night and the follow-
ing day when it developed into a
steady downpour. A hasty conference
between local officials and Prairie
Farmer representatives, who sponsored
the event, resulted in postponing the
contest originally set for Nov. 2 until
the following day. Elaborate prepa-
rations had been made for an expected
crowd of 10,000 to 15,000. Nearly
$1,000 had been invested in food, and
to continue with the contest in the face
of the weather would have jeopardized
the success of this venture. With the
aid of a telephone and Prairie Farm-
er's radio Station WLS news of the
postponement was spread throughout
the state. Scores of contestants, their
sponsors, and visitors arrived from dis-
tant points, but nearly all willingly
acquiesced in the new arrangement
and stayed over for the event the next
(Continued on col. 1, page 8)

Olson and Williams
I Place First, Second

In National Contest

f" 1 1HE two Illinois entries, Walter
X Olson of Knox county and Elmer
Williams of Stark county, defeated all
comers in the fifth national corn husk-
ing contest held at Fowler, Indiana,
November 13. Olson and Williams
are members of the Knox and Stark
couBty Farm Bureaus, respectively.

The match was to some extent a
repetition of the second contest held
in Mercer county, Illinois, in 1925. At
that time Elmer Williams broke all
corn husking records and placed first
with 35.8 bushels of corn net, husked
in one hour and 20 minutes. Walter
Olson was second that year. This
year it was Walter Olson who carried
off first honors with 26.62 bushels
husked in the 80-minute period, while
Williams placed second with a record
of 2p.31 bushels.

I Favorable Weather '

A great crowd variously estimated
at from 8,000 to 16,000 saw the 14
buskers from seven states compete.
The men were all first and second
prize winners in their respective state
contests. Beautiful, clear weather
and dry fields made conditions un-
usually favorable for the big farm
sporting event of the year. Many fol-
lowers of the sport in Illinois drove
to Benton county, which borders Illi-
nois on the east, to see the match.
Backers of Olson and Williams of
Knox and Stark counties were there
in nnmbers.

I Corn Wa« Light j

An excellent field of upstanding
corn had been prepared for the busk-
ers; The fact that many of the ears

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were smaller and the corn perhaps
drier at this time of the year than
the average field, made it difficult to
break the 1925 record of 35.8 bushels,
held by Williams.

Among the old-time buskers who
competed heretofore in state and na-
tional contests were Joe Sudik of Ne-
braska and Ben Grimmus of Iowa,
besides the two Illinois men. Fred
Stanek of Iowa, national champion
last year, did not compete.

The contest was sponsored by
Prairie Farmer, Missouri Ruralist,
Kansas Farmer, The Farmer of St.
Paul, Minnesota, the Nebraska Farm-
er, and Wallaces' Farmer.

A specially prepared program for
the contest was received by radio
from WLS and amplified through the
Illinois Agricultural Association's loud
speaker system. The amplifier, like-
wise, was used for making all an-
nouncements and giving the results to
the waiting audience. i

State Champion Husker

(Continued from col. 2, page 7)

day. Others drove home and returned
early next morning.

Better Weather Saturday

The rain ceased during the night
and on Saturday morning better
weather prevailed. By 11:00 o'clock
more than 2,000 visitors had driven in
to see the opening of the race.

Williams and Olson were regarded
by all as possible winners. A throng
followed each man as he sped down
the com rows. Both picked clean and
fast and held their respective positions
nearly opposite one another through-
out the 80-minute period. The corn
was wet and the field soggy. These
adverse conditions slowed up all the
contestants and prevented making any
new high records. Williams' arm,
which forced him out of the running
last year, gave him no trouble this
time. Olson was up to his usual speed
but he picked cleaner. A large per-
centage of ears sailed through the air
without husks. Olson had learned his
lesson for in past years his heavy loads
had suffered severely from deduction
for husks.

During the contest complaint was
made by several bystanders that the
gleaners working behind Williams were
leaving corn. After an investigation
the judges decided that the corn thus
gathered should be deducted from Wil-
liam's load. Good sportsmanship on
Williams' part nipped in the bud a
possible controversy which might have
marred the contest. It was thought
by Williams' supporters that the corn
in question had been gathered else-
where.

"Indispensable to Our
Business"

"The work of the Illinois
Agricultural Co-operatives As-
sociation is very satisfactory and
its statements are complete in
every detail," says H. S. Wil-
liams, a director in the Wood-
land Farmers' Co-operative Ele-
vator at Woodland in Iroquois
county. "The audits not only
show every detail of the business,
but from year to year the ac-
counting is done in a way to
actually improve the business
and correct exorbitant valuations
so that at all times the books
show the true condition and
actual worth of the elevator.

"Timely comments by the
auditor and suggestions as to
how the profits may be increased
and the financial standing of the
company strengthened accom-
panied each report. These point-
ers from the auditor are very
helpful to the board of directors;
and when acted upon quite fre-
quently solve a great many prob-
lems.

"We consider these reports
very valuable for several rea-
sons: (1) they tend to keep the
stockholders informed and satis-
fied, (2) they furnish a guide for
action on the part of the direc-
tors, and (3) they serve as an in-
centive to the manager to excel
the former year's record. We
consider the audit so important
as to be indispensable to our
business."

Holmes Is Fifth

Harold Holmes, last year's cham-
flion, dropped down to fifth place.'
(trville Welch, the young lad from
I iatt county who has been a consistent
csntender for honors since the first
state contest, placed third. Welch is
al fast, clean husker and has staying
qualities that may eventually make
h m a state champion. He has invari-
a )ly been up near the top in former

impetitive meets.

The contestants and their records
a|e as follows:

Na

Wi Iter Olson
E. KVillhma .
Orfillc Welch..
C^ude Brown .
olmes . . . .
Hahild Love. . .

Ve ner Rice

H. Pohnson

Bunen . . .
George Kamm.
Th^oTuftie...
ieilKecock. .
. Anderson .
Toi I Murphy..
E. 1 eanon

Total
Wt.of

County Corn

.Knox 2.155

..Stark 2.045

.Ratt 1.905

.Macon 1.905

.Henry 1,990

.Henry 1.855

.Mercer 1.920

.Ford 1.880

McLran 1.8.55

.Hancock 1.880

.LaSalle 2,045

.Iroquois 1.980

.Logan l.&W

.Rock Island. 1,720
.Christian 1,840

Glean-
ings
42.5
40.25
14
27
47.5
17.75
40.5
29.25
24

58.75
43
59.5
11

45.75
31

Deduct
For
Gleanings
127.5
120.75

42

81
142.5

53.25
121.5

87.75

72

176.25
129
178.5

33
137.25

93

The usual prizes were offered as
follows: first prize, $100 and a free
trip to the national contest at Fowler,
Ind., on Nov. 13; second prize, $50;
third prize, $25; fourth prize $15; and
fifth prize $10.

An added attraction of the day was
a husking demonstration by each con-
testant on a platform prepared by the
Morgan brothers. Several rows of
corn had been erected on the platform
in an enclosure where the crowd could
see the contestants go through their
motions.

Radio In Field

Before and after the contest a radio
hookup with the Illinois Agricultural
Association's amplifier was made out
in the alfalfa field from which a
specially prepared program from WLS
was broadcast to the crowds who had
gathered to hear the results. As the
records of the contestants came in
from the weighers and judges they
were announced over the loud speaker
system. A cheer went up as the an-
nouncement of Elmer Williams' record
was made. A few minutes later, how-
ever, the Knox county boosters gave
voice to their feelings when their fa-
vorite son, Walter Olson, took the
lead with the winning score of the- day
— 27.8 bushels. Both Olson and Wil-
liams planned to enter the national
contest in Indiana on November 13.

This was the fifth annual state corn
husking contest held in Illinois. The
first one took place in Sangamon coun-
ty in 1924 and subsequently Ihe state
events have gone to Montgomery,
Stark, Knox, and Henry counties re-
spectively. Williams' former record
of 35.8 bushels made two years ago
still remains the highest ever recorded
in a state contest.

The Henry County Farm Bureau
and its members about Galva received
much credit for their work in staging

the meet.

t

The new film entitled "Health, Happi-
ness, and Hogs," produced for a wire
fence manufacturer at Peoria, has been
shown 193 times to 63,271 farmers,
writes C. L. Venard, producer of agri-
cultural films at Peoria.

Venard recently finished a film for
the Radio Corporation of America.

Husks

7 11/16

i 3/16

5 16/16

4 6/16

6 3/16
4

6 15/16

7 9/16

7 y,

5 15/16
10 15/16
10 1/16

3 V16

10 15/16

Deduct
For

Husks
79.73
94.07
36.19
3.81
4378
None
55.68
67.68
59.36
24.44

261.76

201.96
None
67.08

235.5

Total
Deduc-
tions
207.23
214.82
78.19
84.81
186.28
53.25
177.18
155.43
131.36
200.69
390.76
380.46
33
204.33
328.5

Net
Com
1,947.27
1.830.18
1.826.8
1.820.19
1.8a3.72
1,80175
1,742.82
1.724.57
1,723.64
1,679.3
1.654.2
1.599.6
1,597
1,515.67
1,511.5

Busheb
27.8
26.14
26.09
26

25.76
25.73
24.9
24.63
24.62
23.99
23.6
228
22.8
21.6
21.59

Ears
Per
Min.
39.3
41.4
41.5
40.2
38.5
36.6
37.4
36.9
34.5
38.5
45.5
40.3
35.9
35.7
38.1

ing
J.

pho!

was

pan

men

Assi

ing

ing

appi

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Nine

400,000 Tons of Limestone,
29,000 Phosphate to Oct. 1

MORE than 400,000 tons of limestone
were sold and used in Illinois dur*
ing the first nine months of 1928, says
J. R. Bent, director of the limestone-
phosphate department. This limestone
was produced largely by the 22 com-
t)anies operating under signed agree-
ments with the Illinois Agricultural
Association. To October 1 the two lead-
ing rock phosphate companies operat-
ing under the I. A. A. agreement sold
approximately 29,000 tons in Illinois.

Copies of orders for limestone or-
dered through Illinois County Farm
Bureaus received at headquarters of
the Association amounted to more than
4,000 carloads up to October 1. A
total of $14,866.30 was remitted to the
various counties as a refund collected
from the shipping companies. This
sum resulted from the 10 cent per ton
refund paid by the co-operating com-
panies to the I. A. A.

All rock phosphate shipped from the
phosphate plants in Tennessee is sam-
pled and tested by an impartial chemist
selected, instructed, and supervised by
the Illinois Agricultural Association.
This man is entirely disconnected from
the phosphate company's payroll or
interests.

Seven hundred and thirty-one car-
loads of ground rock phosphate has
been sampled in Tennessee since Jan-
uary 1.

A. F. B. F. Prepares for
Convention

(Continued from col. 1, page 3)

sent to the nation an adequate picture
of the Farm Bureau's varied activities
and to consider what organized agri-
culture can do to improve its economic
condition.

In view of the work the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association has done in re-
ducing the tax bill of farmers in this
state, the address on "Rational Taxa-
tion," by George H. Duncan, New
Hampshire tax expert, will have an
especial appeal.

Co-operative Marketing

Co-operative marketing will be dis-
cussed by several speakers, including
C. B. Denman, president. National
Live Stock Producers Association, C.
O. Moser, president, American Cotton
Growers Exchange, and others.

Dr. Charles M. A. Stine, interna-
tionally famous scientist, will have an
absorbingly interesting story of the
wonders wrought by chemistry in de-
veloping uses for agricultural wastes,
such as cornstalks and oat hulls, and
about the opportunities these discov-
eries promise for increasing farm
profits.

Other noted speakers include William
Butterworth, Moline manufacturer,
and president of the Chamber of Com-
merce of the United States, Mrs. Cora

font. ReAuv canV MetP
fesL vjany ^oa the.

IsvriNNeo fba THIS

Ford Co-ops Do Well

MS. WINDER, secretary of the
• American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion, and H. L. Hough of the Illinois
Agrricultural Ascociation spoke at the
recent annual meeting of the Ford
County Farm Bureau.

The co-operative subsidiaries of the
Farm Bureau were all reported to be
in good financial condition. Ford coun-
ty has emphasized commercial projects,
which now include the service company
handling oil and petroleum products,
several co-operative produce market-
ing associations, and seed corn storage
and testing associations.

A New Record

, The Illinois experiment station has
discovered that soundness of informa-
tion can be combined with speed in
publishing the results of experiments
for the benefits of farmers. Staff mem-
bers claim that this station recently
established a new national record for
promptness in getting out experimental
reports.

Wilson Stewart, director of the Na-
tipnal Illiteracy Crusade, Virgil Jor-
dan, of the National Industrial Con-
ference Board, Dean A. R. Mann,
Cornell University, Dr. Eben Mum-
ford, Michigan State College, and
others.

Training School

A National Training School for
Farm Bureau executives will be held
Friday and Saturday, December 7 and
8. The I. A. A. will send its district
organization workers to this school and
assist in the program.

Another feature of the week's
events will be the Third National Farm
Bureau Agricultural Exposition dur-
ing the main sessions of the conven-
tion, on December 10, 11 and 12.

An old-fashioned party will be given
all delegates Tuesday evening, Decem-
ber 11, to commemorate the A. F. B.
F.'s tenth anniversary. President
Thompson will cut the largest birthday
cake ever concocted by a Chicago chef.
Numerous other social events are
scheduled and an unexcelled progrram
of music and other entertainment
features has been provided.

I The Kosher Strike !

WHEN 9,000 Kosher retail butchers
(Jewish) in Greater New York re-
cently went on a strike against condi-
tions in the meat trade of that city. Dr.
John Mohler, chief of the Bureau of
Animal Industry, was dispatched to New
York to intercede and arbitrate. The
strike which began October 19 ended
October 30. In the meantime 2,000,000
consumers went without meat.

"The industrial conflict was unusual
in many respects," states Dr. Mohler.
"It represented essentially a protest of
Kosher butchers against certain trade
practices and especially the operation
of meat speculators. During the 12
days of the strike no Kosher meat was
sold and approximately 2.000,000 Jew-
ish inhabitants of Greater New York
were practically without meat."

Solution Found

A series of conferences called liy Dr.
Mohler showed that the early morning
purchase of meats by speculators, while
the butchers were necessarily busy serv-
ing their customers, was partly re-
sponsible !or high prices not warranted
byinovnial market conditions. The only
manner by which the butchers were able
to 'obtain wholesale cuts of satisfactory
quality was by paying prices which
th4 specu'ators demanded. The desig-
nation of a convenient afternoon trad-
ing period, which enabled the butchers
to jbe on the market at the same time
as i other buyers, was the solution to
thip cause of the strike.

Didn't Know Conditions

'j'he settlement of various other
caiises was made difficult because many
of ! the participants were unfamiliar
wi<h current conditions in livestock
prciduction. Dr. Mohler explained the
inafbility of the department to adjust
meat |)( ces in response to the strikers'
demand, but arranged for the butchers
to receive current, market quotations
as a guide to their purchases. The
Unfted States Department of Agricul-
tuiie's inspection illustrates the effec-
tiveness of the Packers and Stockyards
Aci \v hich provides for department in-
quiry and suitable action when there
is report of unfair practices or manipu-
lation of prices.

One of the handicaps toward settling
the: strike was due to the fact that
previous discussions of the conditions
leading up to the strike appeared al-
most exclusively in Jewish publica-
tions. It was necessary to translate
much of the evidence bearing on the
problems.

Note: Kosher meat is that slauehtered and
inspected by authorized Jewish dienitaries.
The animal is never stunned before bleeding.
Onljt the choicest beef animals are used.

The Illinois Agricultural Association
transportation department is co-operat-
ing with McLean county farmers about
Danvers and Stanford in working out a
solution to their power line problems.

* «.

Fruits and vegetables in storage
need ventilation, especially during the
first few weeks.

CO-OPERATIVE MARKET-
ING AS IS

tCT OWER meat prices to the consumer,
•'-' higher returns to the livestock producer,
and a profitable business to packers and
tradesmen engaged in supplying meat can be
brought about by the elimination of waste."
Dr. John R. Mohler told the Institute of
American Meat Packers at Atlantic City
recently.

"Great wastes in the livestock and meat
business," he said, "are caused by diseased
and parasitic conditions in livestock herds."

"Major Transactions in the 1926 December
Wheat Future," is the title of a new bulletin
recently issued by the U. S. Department of
Agriculture. The bulletin states that heavy
trading in futures by the leading grain spec-
ulators is frequently an important factor in
grain price fluctuations. The conclusion is
reached "that without the accumulation of
long or short lines of millions'; of bushels by
a very few leading speculators, the major
swings in price would not have befen so large."

Inspections of Canadian wheat to date in-
dicate that the effective supply for bread-
making purposes may be no larger than from
last year's crop. Frosts seriously damaged the
Canadian crop, and dockage is reported to be
heavy. Much more wheat than last year is
being classed as feed. This fact has an im-
portant bearing on the price situation in the
United States, because our 42.6 cent tariff is
ineffective.

Continued moderate expansion of the dairy
industry in the United Stated in view of
steadily increasing population and increasing
per capita consumotion of dairy products ap-
pears to be justifled, according to Nils A.
Olsen, chief of the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics.

The OIney co-operative cream station, or-
ganized by the Richland County Farm Bureau,
had an increase of 23.6 per cent in September,
1928. business over that of September,
1927. The Claremont station in the same
county increased its September. 1928, busi-
ness 14 per cent over that of the same month
last year.

The Crawford County Farm Bureau is organ-
izing produce marketing units in several com-
munities of that county. At a recent meeting
held at the county court house, representatives
from Oblong. Palestine. Hardinville, Porter-
ville, Annapolis, and Robinson trade territory
discussed the project under the leadership of
Frank Gougler, director of produce market-
ing for the Illinois Agricultural Association.

Gougler explained that it would be neces-
sary to secure a minimum membership of not
less than 125 members per unit owning 600
cows that will produce approximately 75,000
pounds of butterfat annually.

A plan for furnishing life insurance and old
age benefits at a low cost has been
developed by the California Fruit Growers'
Exchange for its employes, in recognition of
the loyal services they have rendered during
the more than 30 years that the organization
has been operating. The management feels
that the "Sunkist Provident Plan," as it is
called, will result in developing habits of
thrift and will bring great satisfaction to the
participants.

Employes who have less than five years'
service to their credit are covered by group
life insurance, the entire premium being paid
by the Exchange.

The Exchange pays the premiums on all its
insured employes and deducts a portion of
the cost from the salary of the employe.

Farmers' co-operative creameries in Ne-
braska are taking steps toward federating in
the interests of economy and efficiency.

The National Association of Marketing
Officials will hold their annual meeting in
Chicago. December 3-4-6. Many distinguished
speakers on co-operative marketing have been
scheduled.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Stopping Without Warning

IF THE DRIVER of a vehicle, with
knowledge that another is so close
behind him that an abrupt stop or
slackening of speed will probably re-
sult in the rear vehicle colliding with
him, and he suddenly and without
warning stops or materially lessens
his speed, lind a collision follows re-
sulting in injury to him, he is guilty
of contributory negligence barring re-
covery.

He would be reimbursed for the car
damage, however* if insured in the
1. A. A. Auto Insurance Company.

lail losses of members of the Saskatchewan
Ml nicipal Hail Insurance Association totaled
$2 [0,222 more in 1927 than in 1926. Rather
tht n increase the rate the Association took
$7 .000 from its reserves, levying the same
cr( p rate as in 1926. A flat rate of four
cei ts per acre is charged on all farm land,
with additional varying crop rates which
av< rage 14 cents an acre on land covered by
ins irance in the amount of $S an acre. This
pla 1 was put in operation in 1924 and is con-
sid ired an equitable system.

of
OOCI

by

Ip round figures, 20,000,000 pounds of wool
he 1927 clip, with a sales value of $7,000,-
was marketed through co-operative
agefticies,

1 hree-fourths of this amount was marketed
ibout 20 large-scale or state-wide associa-
tior 8, and one-fourth by more than 70 inde-
penjient local associations and pools.

Ihe present season will be the fifth that
the members of the Farmers' Co-operative
Pou ;try Association. San Angelo, Teitas, have
beei marketing their turkeys co-operatively.

T ley started out to ship live turkeys to
the Texas markets but, after two years of ex-
peri mce, reached the conclusion that if they
wer ! to obtain the best results, they would
hav to kill, dress, pack and deliver at the
east !rn markets birds in condition for im-
med ate sale. A dressing and packing plant
was erected, which has been entirely paid
for. Farmers are required to give notice in
advi nee as to the number of birds they wish
to n arket for the Thanksgiving trade and the
num )er for the Christmas trade, then they are
assii ned days for delivering, these assign-
men s being arranged to keep the plant oper-
atini steadily at full capacity. Much of the

worl

men

sent

cent

in the plant is done by the farmer-

mem >ers under the direction of farmer-fore-

who have been given special training.

AI out 12 carloads of dressed turkeys are

to market each fall, this quantity, the

mam gement states, represents about 95 per

Ang< lo.

signs

of the turkeys produced about San

Each member of the association

a seven-year contract which covers all

his I Qultry products. So far, with the excep-
tion >f one season when eggs were marketed,
the a asociation has confined its activity to the
mark sting of the turkeys.

Off cials of the Saskatchewan Co-operative
Poult ry Producers. Ltd., are planning for
shipp ng dressed poultry from the province in
carloi 8. They plan to send representatives
into listricts where poultry is raised in suf-
ficien quantities to warrant carlot shipments
and t lese representatives, in co-operation with
the I ool secretary, are to instruct the pro-
ducer 1 on all matters of recording, weighing,
packii ig, and shipping. In those communities
wher* there is enough poultry for carlot
shippi ng, arrangements will be made to con-
duct : . killing and dressing demonstration.

Th< association will furnish all necessary
boxos paper wrappers, etc., and an official of
the g ivernment will grade the fowls as they
are lo ided. Pool representatives will supervise
the p tcking, loading, weighing, and paying,
but t le actual work is to be done by the
produi ers themselves, as an educational prop-
ositioi .

Spe iai service will be provided for pro-

ducers in districts where carlots are not
practicable. Growers will receive the dressing
bulletin and will be instructed as to where
and when they can ship their poultry for sale
through the pool. Considerable quantities
were assembled in this way last season and
the experience gained will be of value this
year.

The capital required by the Co-operative
Growers' Association, Inc., Beverly, N. Y.,
haa been obtained through the issuing of
boaAs and of certificates of indebtedness. Six
per cent bonds in the sum of 112,000 have
been issued, secured by a first mortgage. In
addition a portion of the yearly deduction
from sales is converted into five-year cer-
tificates of indebtedness, another portion is
set aside as a reserve for contingencies, and
a portion is added to surplus. On January 1.
last, bonds outstanding amounted to $9,800,
outstanding certificates of indebtedness to
$32,876, reserve for contingencies to $4,000,
and surplus to $10,947.

This association, formed in 1918, is en-
gaged in marketing peaches, apples, pears,
cherries, peas, beans, lima beans, and corn;
and in purchasing for its members, packages,
spraying material, seeds, fertilizers, etc. Sales
of farm products amounted to $923,310 in
1927, and sales of farm supplies to $168,112,
making a total business for the year of
$1,091,422.

The 11,400 active farmers' co-operative as-
sociations transacted business to the amount
of $2,300,000,000 in the 1927 marketing
season. This figure is less b»r $100,000,000
than the total business for the 10,803 associa-
tions listed by the U. S. Department of Agri-
culture in 1926. Had prices of farm products,
and the prices of supplies bought by farmers,
been as high in 19i27 as in 1926 the total
business of the co-operatives would have
been in excess of $2,500,000,000.

The largest amount of business credited to
any one group was $680,000,000, this being
the sum of the transactions by the associa-
tions handling grain. The associations
marketing dairy products had a total business
of $620,000,000; the livestock associations,
$320,000,000; the fruit and vegetable associa-
tions, $300,000,000: the associations market-
ing cotton, $97,000,000; the poultry and egg
association, $40,000,000; the nut marketing
associations, $14,600,000; tobacco associa-
tions, $22,000,000; and the associations
handling wool, $7,000,000. The business of the
associations selling miscellaneous products and
buying farm supplies amounted to nearly
$200,000,000.

The Illinois Agricultural Co-opera-
tive Association announces the ap-
pointment of J. P. Adams as resident
auditor in charge of the Champaign
office, effective November 12, 1928.

Adams was a student of the College
of Commerce, University of Illinois,
for three years. He is a graduate of
the University of Indiana where he
specialized in accounting. He was
formerly a member of the staff of
Haskins & Sells, certified public ac-
countants, at their Detroit office.

Tlie Illinoia Agricultural Mutual In-
surance Company reported 10,599 au-
tomobile policies in force on Novem-
ber 15.

Total asset* of the company as of
October 31 were $22,158.41. , j

"Some farmers like to milk so well
they keep ten poor cows rather than
five good ones," says "Ye Farme Cos-
sipe" of Clemson College, South
Carolina.

For land's sake lime your soil!

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

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Page Eleven

Read What Canadian

Fanners Have Done in
Selling Co-operatively

Get Contfol of Terminal Agencies and
Handle Over Half Wheat Produced

/CANADIAN farmers have gradually
^ developed a g^roup of co-opera-
tives which co-ordinate local and
terminal elevator
facilities with
centralized s e 1 1-
ing, according to
a comprehensive
bulletin by J. F.
Booth, published
•• TsAMwoRK <J recently by the
United States Department of Agri-
culture.

The independent local unit has dis-
appeared. Several large-scale co-
operative associations market more
than one-half of the grain crop of
western Canada.

This large volume of grain is at
present handled by the Canadian Co-
operative Wheat Producers Ltd.,
known commonly as the Central Sell-
ing Agency, which handles the grain
of tiie Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and
Alberta wheat pools, also that of the
United Grain Growers Ltd., which
combines the activities formerly car-
ried on by the Grain Growers Grain
Company Ltd. and the Alberta Farm-
ers Co-operative Elevator Company
Ltd.

Handled 41,000,000 ButheU

The United Grain Growers Ltd. has
35,000 farmer shareholders. It oper-
ates more than 400 country elevators
and several large terminal elevators.
In 1926 it handled 41,000,000 bushels.
Through the parent organization and
several subsidiaries the company also
handles livestock, farm supplies, and
insurance. A farm journal with a cir-
culation exceeding 100,000 is pub-
lished. The company follows the gen-
eral principles of operation followed
by the trade. It buys from farmers
or handles on consignment. It pays
current pricefs and does not pool re-
turns. Grain is handled for both
members and non-members. The
company is strong financially with re-
serves aggregating nearly $4,000,000.

140,000 In Pool*

The western Canadian wheat pools
were organized in 1923 and 1924 and
combined to form their central sell-
ing agency in 1924. Their total mem-
bership is 140,000 and the volume of
grain handled exceeds 200,000,000 bu-
shels annually. The members are all
signed on five-year contracts.

The Province of Ontario recently
organized a gprain pool which now has
over 9000 members. The Ontario
pool, likewise, will sell through the
central selling agency.

The pools operate more than 900
country elevators and terminal eleva-
tors with capacity exceeding 20,000,-

000 bushels. The grain is sold direct
to domestic and foreigrn mills and
other users of gr&in both at home and
abroad. They have branch offices in
Canada and in Europe, with agency
connections in most importing coun-
tries. Returns from grain sales are
pooled among g:rowers on the basis of
grades of grain each member delivers.

Deduct 2 Cents Bushel

The pools are permitted, under their
contracts, to deduct two cents per
bushel for an elevator reserve and up
to one per cent of the gross sales value
for commercial reserves. These de-
ductions run into millions of dollars.

The bulletin cites the differences in
co-operative methods of selling grain
in the United States and Canada and
the reasons for the greater success of
centralized efforts in the Dominion.

Crop Loss from Weather

THE United States Weather Bureau
estimates that the average farmer
loses from one-sixth to one-third of
his crop every year as a result of
drought, excessive moisture, hail,
storms, and other forms of bad
weather. The wheat farmer, for ex-
ample, has his average yield reduced
23 per cent by unfavorable weather;
the barley grower fares likewise,
while the corn grrower loses an aver-
age of 24 per cent each year. Hay
crops are reduced 17 per cent, apples
33 1/3 per cent, cotton 22 per cent,
oats 19 per cent, tobacco 16 per cent,
and rice 15 per cept.

Right of Way

AN AUTOMOBILE which enters the
intersection of two streets first
is, generally speaking, entitled to the
right of way; and it is the duty of a
motorist approaching at right angles to
avoid colliding therewith. And in de-
termining whether he can safely cross,
he need not anticipate a sudden viola-
tion of the law of the road by an ap-
proaching driver. While a motorist
may assume that others will exercise
due care, he cannot for that reason
omit any of the care which the law
requires of him.

A statute relating to the right of
way at intersections, makes no excep-
tion as to drivers who sound their
horns. For example, one approaching
a state hard road must stop and give
the driver on the hard road the right-
of-way.

When a car having the right of way
arrives at an intersection first, the
car approaching on the other street
must accord the other such right.

Failure to yield the right of way to
a driver entitled thereto is negligence.

Protect yourself against reckless
drivers with insurance in your own
company. Your County Farm Bureau
office will give you full information.

Eighteen hundred carloads of peaches were
shipped out of Illinois in 1928. Approximately
4500 carloads were sold by peach growers
locally to automobile and truck drivers.

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company organized to pro-
tect the local township and
and country fire and wind-
storm mutuals against stag-
gering losses, through re-
insurance.

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large risks which the local
company should not carry.

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cost, regardless of value.
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erate for profit.

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local mutuals, it supple-
ments them.

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mers to secure all their fire,
windstorm, and tornado in-
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Illinois to Have 9-Foot Channel From
Chicago to Mississippi River

THE eatly establishment of joint
rail and water haul rates in line
with provisions in the Denison bill was
urged at the recent
convention of the
Mississippi Valley
Association,
St. Louis, Novem-
ber 26-27.

With much; of
the work of deep-
ening the inland
waterway • system
already launched
or completed, at-
tention is being di-
rected toward the
building of munic-
ipal dock, and ter-
minal facilities at the principal ports
along the Mississippi and its tribu-
taries. Full benefit of the waterways
system cannot be obtained by farmers
and other shippers until terminal facil-
ities are established and joint rail and
water haul rates are brought into be-
ing by the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission. All attention is being cen-
tered upon these adjuncts which are
necessary if waterway transportation
is to be of greatest service to the mid-
dle west.

Robert A. Cowles, treasurer of the
Illinois Agrricultural Association and a
member of the Illinois Waterway Ter-
minals Committee, represented the I.
A. A. at the convention. Speakers of
nation-wide prominence participated in
the convention.

In the resolutions adopted the M. V.
A. states that the system consists of
more than 70 projects having a total
length of 13,391.42 miles. The sum of
$452,270,217 has already been expended
or allotted for construction. A com-
paratively small sum is required for
the completion of the system.

Said the resolutions: "The Missis-
sippi river system should be considered
in its entirety and as one project with
a view to standardization of channel
depths, locks, terminals and floating
equipment. The main trunk lines
should be standardized on the basis of
a channel depth of riot less than nine
feet. These should include the Missis-
sippi river from Minneapolis and St.
Paul to New Orleans as the north and
south artery, and the Ohio and Mis-
souri rivers as the east and west trunk
line. The authorized improvement of
the waterways from Chicago to the
Mississippi river via the Sanitary
Canal and the Illinois river on the
basis of nine feet, . . . should be im-
proved upon a standardized basis with-
out delay."

"We direct the attention of all in-
terested communities located on the
Mississippi river system to the neces-
sity, as a condition precedent to their
enjoyment of the benefits of water
transportation, of the construction and

THE 1. A. A. RECORD

NOTICE OF ANNUAL
MEETING

of

Illinois Agricultural

Mutual Insurance

Company

TAKE notice that the annual
meeting of the members of
the Illinois Agricultural Mutual
insurance Company mrill be held
on Tuesday, the 29th day of Jan-
uary, 1929, at the hour of 1:00
o'clock P. M., in the Assembly
Room, on the second floor, at the
Elks Club, Danville, Illinois, for
the purpose of the election of
directors, of receiving, and, if
approved, confirming the report
of the Board of Directors of the
company for the fiscal year end-
ing December 31, 1928; and to
consider, and, if approved, rati-
fying and confirming all the acts
and proceedings of the Board of
Directors done and taken since
the last annual meeting of the
members of the company; and
for the transaction of such
further and other business as
may properly come before the
meeting.

Dated at Chicago, Illinois,
December 7, 1928.

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maintenance of terminals.

"That industries located adjacent to
waterways may not be deprived of
their use through lack of connecting
rail facilities, we recommend that the
Interstate Commerce Act be so
amended as to permit, without applica-
tion to the Commission for specific
authority, the construction, acquisition,
3r operation of new lines of railroad
not exceeding 20 miles in length, lo-
:ated wholly within one state where
such will furnish railroad facilities for
ports, industries, industrial develop-
ment, or connect with state, county,
nunicipal, or otherwise publicly-owned
railroads."

Approval of further flood control
jff'orts was given in other resolutions.
The establishment of an American
Merchant Marine maintained and op-
erated in the interests of the country
it large, was advocated. The Asso-
:iation prefers that such' ships eventu-
illy be owned and operated by private
;ompanies rather than by the govern-
nent. But until such time as private
!apital and ownership are able to com-
pete successfully with foreign vessels,
he Association favors a continuance of
)perations by the United States Ship-
)ing Board, supported by adequate
'ongressional appropriations.

The Association went on record
igainst the creation of a department

Horse and Buggy Has

as Much Right to

Road as Automobiles

Auto Drivers Must Use Higher Degree
of Care

l^RIVERS of automobiles and of
-•-^ other vehicles and of animals have
equal rights in the highways and must,
'aside from statute or ordinance chang-
ing the rule, use ordinary or reason-
able care for the safety of themselves
and of others.

The degree of care and caution to be
used in each case depends upon the
character of the vehicle used and the
locality and surroundings in which it
is being used. The more dangerous the
character of the vehicle and the
greater its liability to do injury to oth-
ers, the higher is the degree of care
and caution to be exercised by the per-
son charged with the duty of its op-
eration.

There is no imperative duty resting
upon pedestrians or upon travelers in
a horse-drawn vehicle on public high-
ways to keep a continuous lookout for
automobiles, under penalty that if they
fail to do so and are injured contribu-
tory negligence will be conclusively
imputed to them. The mere fact that
automobiles are run by motor power
and may be operated at ^a dangerous
and high rate of speed gives them no
superior rights on the highway over
other vehicles, no more so than would
the fact that one driving a race horse
gives such driver superior rights on
the highway over his less fortunate
neighbor who is pursuing his journey
behind a slower horse.

It has been held that if the driver
of a team was sleeping or nodding
when an automobile collided with his
vehicle when it attempted to pass him
going in the same direction, at the
same time that a vehicle was passing
in the opposite direction, he was guilty
of contributory negligence.

Evidence that defendant's automo-
bile, at the time it collided with an-
other vehic'le, was being driven at a
dangerous rate of speed, without lights,
on a dark night, and without sounding
the horn, and that the chauffeur turned
to the left when meeting the other ve-
hicle instead of to the right, contrary
to statute, was held to constitute a
prima facie case of negligence on the
part of the defendant.

While policy holders in the Illinois
Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co. are
as a group careful drivers hence pre-
ferred risks, they are nevertheless pro-
tected against personal liability, loss
and damages by a full coverage policy
if collision results from their negli-
gence in an unguarded moment.

of public works and favored the con-
tinuation of present building opera-
tions by the Corps of Engineers of the
United States Army.

William R. Dawes, former president
of the Chicago Association of Com-
merce, was elected president of the
Mississippi Valley Association to suc-
ceed James E. Smith, of St. Louis.

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Volume 6

DECEMBER, 1928

Number 12

Gov. Lowden's First

Public Statement

Since Nov. Election

Suggests Farm Legislation Await Incom-
ing President, Cooperate With Hoover

A LETTER addressed to President
Earl C. Smith by the Hon. Frank
O. Lowden of Oregon was read by
Mr. Smith before the annual conven-
tion of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, Chicago, last week. The
letter bore the first public utterance
of Mr. Lowden since the election.

Mr. Smith mounted the platform
directly after the principal resolution
dealing with the farm legislative sit-
uation was read.
In introducing the
subject he called
attention to the
fact that every
great struggle for
_^^^ economic freedom

\.^B^^^B or justice has de-
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initiated by the
Farm Bureau organization of Amer-
ica in behalf of a national policy for
agriculture," said Mr. Smith, "is no
exception in this respect.

"The I. A. A. has reason to feel
very proud," he said, "that its most
distinguished member perhaps was
more responsible than any other citi-
zen in the United States for the con-
sideration given the farm problem
during the past few years and more
particularly in recent months. He
buried all personal ambition in be-
half of the cause he held most closely
to his heart."

Mr. Lowden's letter which follows
was written in reply to an invitation
to address the 14th annual meeting
of the I. A. A. at Danville the latter
part of January.

The Letter

Frank O. Lowden,
SiNNissippi Farm,
Oregon, Illinois

December 7, 1928.

My dear Mr. Smith:

Upon my return home after a brief

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TO DANVILLE JAN. 29-30-31

The proffram for our 14th Annual
Meeting will be presented in detail :n
the January RECORD. The dates are
Jan. 29-30-31, the place, Danville.
Affiliated organizations will meet on
Tuesday, the 29th. Make reservations
for hotel accommodations and tickets
with Otis Kercher, Farm Bureau office,
Danville AT ONCE. Watch for further
announcements.

absence I find your recent letter.

I cannot tell you how greatly I ap-
preciate your invitation, for there is
no body of men and women in the
United States before whom I Would
rather speak than the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association. It so happens, how-
ever, that we are planning to sail
from New York on January 3 for a
trip abroad. I regret more than I
'can say that this will deprive me of
the very great pleasure of being with
you at your annual meeting.

I should also have greatly appre-
ciated this as a fitting opportunity to
say some things that I have had in
my mind with reference to the pres-
ent situation so far as possible legis-
lation is concerned.

There never was a presidential
campaign I think in which the prob-
lems of agriculture played so con-
spicuous a part as in the campaign
just closed. The candidates of the
two chief parties e^ch recognized the
gravity and importance of the prob-
lems.

A perfectly clean cut issue was de-
veloped, however, as to remedies.
Both proposed a federal farm board.
Mr. Hoover would have the board set
up a stabilization corporation, with
liberal advances from the Govern-
ment, the purpose of which would be
to stabilize the prices of farm
products. Such corporation would,
of course, attempt to handle seasonal
and occasional surpluses, with the
hope that they could prevent the de-
moralization of the market caused by
such surpluses from time to time.
He, however, frankly rejected the
idea that the cost to the equalization^
corporation of thus caring for the
surplus should be distributed over the
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EJarly I. A.- A. Leaders
Coming To Convention
Danville, Jan. 29-30-31

Visitors and Delegates Shpuld Make Res-
ervations For Accommodations Now

THE Hotel Wolford will be head-
quarters for the 14th annual
convention of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association at Danvillfe, January
30 and 31,

Following a recent conference in
Danville between President Earl C.
Smith, Treasurer Robert A. Cowles,
Farm Adviser Otis Kercher, and offi-
cers of the local Chamber of Com-
merce, the committee on local ar-
rangements was set up with Otis
Kercher as chairman. Official dele-
gates and Farm Bureau members are
being requested to make early
reservations for rooms, and banquet
and luncheon tickets with Chairman
Kercher, in care of the Vermilion
County Farm Bureau, Danville.

j Pioneers Invited

While the convention in January
will be the 14th I. A. A. annual nfeet-
ing, it will be the . 10th anniversary
of the I. A. A.'s reorganization on
its p/esent basis. In commemoration
of ^his event, the early officers, di-
rect«rs, and pioneers in the move-
ment, which resulted in the formation
of the strongest state farm organization
in America, will be invited as guests.

"We are now realizing the fruits of
the .early eflforts of these pioneers,"
stated President Smith. "It is fitting
that they should be recognized."

Speakers are- being selected to dis-
cuss the major questions and prob-
lejris of particular interest to farm-
ers of to-day. Speakers' names will
be announced later. Entertainment
and fun will be provided by the Dan-
ville Chamber of Commerce.

The annual banquet will be held on
the evening of January 30 "and the
great luncheon at noon the next day.
Both events will take place in Dan-
ville's mammoth armory.

Four Groups Meet

Tuesday, January 29, will be de-
voted to the annual meetings of four
afSliated organizations, including the
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insur-

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tural Cooperatives Association, ihe
Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball Leag^ie,
and the Illinois Farm Bureau Senim
Association. Officers and directors of
the State Baseball League are pl^n
ning a session on Monday night p
paratory to the meeting the follojw
ing day. Sectional conferences )n
cooperative marketing, organizat: on
and publicity, business service, home
and community, and public relations
will be held concurrently on Wedmis-
day afternoon, January 30. All busi-
ness sessions will be held in the Ter-
race Theatre.

A complimentary dinner and con-
ference for Farm Bureau .presiden ;s,
farm advisers, I. A. A. officers a id
staff members is scheduled for Tu( s-
day evening, January 29.

Early OCBcers

Among the early leaders who w 11
be invited as guests of the Association
are: Sam H. Thompson of iQu^ncy;
Howard Leonard, Eureka; Hermi n
Danforth, St. Louis; Harvey J. Sconce,
Sidell; J. W. Kirkton, J. C. Sailor,
Cissna Park; George A. Fox, Syci-
more; Dave Thompson, C. V. Grei:-
ory. Dean H. W. Mumford, Z. M.
Holmes, and a host of others.

The meeting is expected to be a
mecca for all the new and old Farn
Bureau leaders of the state. Theie
will be much "back-slapping" and ris-
newing old, old friendships. It will
be a place where early friends and
leaders of the movement can me<t
and swap stories about "way back
when." It will be a time for happ^r
memories of the early days of the
Farm Bureau movement in Illinoii .
Every organized county in Illinois wi 1
be represented.

Accommodation* Ample

The ease of accessibility of Dar
ville both by train and hard road is
expected to bring out one of the larg-
est gathering's held in recent years
Several delegations are considering
making the trip in specially chartereil
motor busses. Ample hotel accommo-
dations have been assured by this
Danville Chamber of Commerce, bu;
it is urgent that reservations be madd
early. The overflow crowd will b(!
housed in private homes if necessary

Prairie Farmer's radio statioi
WLS has offered its facilities t<
broadcast the convention. If propei
arrangements can be made a specia
wire will be engaged between th(i
broadcasting station at Crete anc
Danville for the principal events oi
the session.

Invite the Women

Three hundred men and women at
tended the dinner and annual meet
ing of the Coles County Farm Bureau
at Charleston recently.

"It was the best annual meeting ever
held in the county," declared J. L.
Whisnand, who represents the 19th dis-
trict on the I. A. A. Executive Com
mittee.

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L. J. Dickinson

Dickinson Tells Why

Farm Legislation

Should Await Hoover

Declares Special Session Is Place To
Frame and Pass Surplus Control Bill

DECLARING that farm legislation
should await the inauguration of
the incoming President, Congressman
L. J. Dickison of Iowa stated em-
phatically that everyone participating
in the presidential campaign would be
embarrassed if the short session
should pass farm legislation, the
Hoover prog^ram should be ignored,
and the personnel of the new admin-
istration should be deprived of di-
recting the details by which the pre-
election promises are to be enacted
into legislation.

"The wording of the new bill will
be all important," said Dickinson.
"The authority given the Board is to
be all controlling. The conditions
upon which federal financing can be
used is far reaching. The very de-
tails of the legislative authority
granted is the yard ^tick by which the
benefits of the legislation can be
measured. Those interested have
every faith that President-Eleet Hoo-
ver will set forth these provisions in
plain definite legislative provisions
that cannot be misunderstood."

Wants Special Session

Congressman Dickinson seemed to
think that a much better agricultural
bill could be written in the special
session promised by President-Elect
Hoover, directly after the latter's in-
auguration. He believes that Mr.
Hoover should be allowed to counsel
with farm leaders in congress, that
his own ideas may be incorporated in
the bill finally submitted for passage.
"Experience has shown us," he said,
"that the surest way to write an agri-
cultural law on the statute books is
to join with the administration in the
program embodying the enactment of
such a law as can be mutually agreed
upon and thereby procure administra-
tion aid in both the legislative ap-

proval and the signing of the meas-
ure."

Qaote* From Record

The Congrressman quoted freely
from the editorial in the October I.
A. A. Record. "The Illinois Record
can proudly say," said Dickinson:
" 'Never before in the history of the
United States was ag^riculture given
so much consideration in the cam-
paigns'of two political parties. Never
before in the history of the country
were such far-reaching declarations
and commitments made by presiden-
tial nominees. From this point of view
it was a victory for the American
farmer. Organized agriculture had
done its job and done it well.'

"In his acceptance speech, the suc-
cessful candidate,. Mr. Hoover, said:
'The most urgent economic problem
in our nation today is in ag^riculture.
It must be solved if we are to bring
prosperity and contentment to one-
third t)f our people directly and to
all of our people indirectly. We have
pledged ourselves to find a solu-
tion . . .' "

Speech Well Receivecl

^Congressman Dickinson's speech
was well received. Theire seemed to
be general agreenienti that agricul-
tural legislation should await the in-
coming President who so definitely
committed himself on this point dur-
ing the campaign.

Dickinson quoted freely from
I*resident-Elect Hoover's campaign
speeches. He declared that "on gen-
eral principles the plain duty of an
outgoing official is to leave all policy-
fixing legislation to his successor, for
the incoming official is entitled to an
unobstructed field.

"Then the farm relief program will
be accepted from the new administra-
tion by the farming population of the
country, with more confidence," he
continued, "and a better spirit of co-
operation from the new officials
would be forthcoming, and the charge
could not he made that the officials
in power had failed to keep the
faith."

Dickinson called attention to the
changes in present economic condi-
tions pertaining to agriculture. "The
farming interest," he said, "must pre-
pare itself to meet new conditions.
It is my belief that changed condi-
tions on the farm will be met by the
farmers themselves. Beyond the con-
trol of the farmers and outside of his
front gate are legrislative policies of
state and nation vitally affecting the
farmers' interest."

Still Investigating

The Wabash Valley telephone case
in which the I. A. A. transportation de-
partment and southeastern Illinois
Farm Bureaus are representing the
interests of rural subscribers is still
under investigation. ,'

The Champaign County Milk Pro-
ducers' Association will begin opera-
tions'on January 1, 1929.,

THE 1. A. A. RECORD

Page Five

Pro-
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Sam H. Thompson

Sam Thompson Calls

Hoover Agricultural

Statement Heartening

If A Better Way Can Be Found To Solve
Problem We'll Support It

QUOTING freely from the campaign
speeches of President-EIect Hoo-
ver and calling special attention to
his promise to "call a special session
in order that we might speedily ar-
rive at a determination of the ques-
tion before the next harvest" Sam
H. Thompson, president of the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation de-
clared that this
statement is the
most heartening
thing that has hap-
pened since we
waged our battle
for equality for
agriculture.

"At last the
agricultural prob-
lem has become
the nation's prob-
lem," said Mr.
Thompson. "We
have always con-
tended and now

contend, that the American policy of
protection should be made just as
effective for agriculture as it has been
for industry and labor, and thus as-
sure the farmer an American price
for the products of his labor, al-
though it may be necessary to sell a
portion of that product abroad.

We Will Cooperate

"It is well known that we have
sponsored and supported the meas-
ures that we sincerely felt would
achieve that purpose, but now, with
the forthcoming administration offer-
ing a broad program that will give
agriculture the benefits of the pro-
tective system and achieve for agri-
culture a place on a basis of equality
with industry, labor and finance, it
would seem wisdom, on our part, that
we hold ourselves in readiness to con-
sider on their merits such measures
as will be advanced from time to
time, and that we should allow oppor-
tunity for the best minds in America
to study this program, because we are
told in the Good Book that 'in a mul-
titude of counsel there is wisdom.'

"If after mature thought and de-
liberation, a better way has been
found that will do this job, then we
should support the better way and see
that it is enacted into law. This is
of such vital importance to the wel-
fare of thirty million farm people
first, and to the nation as a whole,
that the way it is accomplished is in-
significant in comparison to the im-
portance of having it done well and
effectively."

Tax Gathering Proposed

Mr. Thompson's speech, which
dealt largely with the present eco-
nomic situation in agriculture, the
ever changing problems brought on
by chang^ing habits and new alig^i-

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g Keeping Christmas a

THERE is a better thing tharj
the observance of Christ--
mas Day, and that is, keeping
Christmas. Are you willing to
forget what you have done for
other people, and to remember
what other people have done
for you; to ignore what the
world owes you, and to think
what you owe the world; to
put your rights in the back-
ground, and your duties in the
middle distance, and your
chances to do a little more
than your duty in the fore-
ground; to see that your fellow-
men are just as real as you
are, and try to look behind their
faces to their hearts, hungry
for joy; to own that probably
the only good reason for your
existence is not what you ar«
going to get out of life, but
what you are going_ to give to
life; to close your book of com-
plaints against the manage-
ment of the universe, and look
around for a place where you
can sow a few seeds of happi-
ness— are you willing to do
these things even for a day?
Then you can keep Christmas.
— Henry Van Dyke.

ments, was highly commended by
journalists, observers, and delegates
attending the convention.

Mr. Thompson quoted freely from
the National Industrial Conference
Board report. He stressed the need
for a new deal on taxation and assess-
ment of taxes according to ability to
pay. He stated that the Federation
expects to inaugurate an effective
nation-wide campaign for the equal-
ization of taxes in the coming year.
To this end a conference of dele-
gates from each state will be called to
consider this question early in 1929.
He dwelled at lengrth on the goal of
the Farm Bureau program which in
the last analysis is better farm homes
and a satisfactory standard of living
for the countryman.

Champaign Market

Sells $366,667.07

The total sales of the farmers mar-
keted at Champaign during 1928
amounted to $366,667.07. Among the
farm commodities sold direct to con-
sumers were chickens, geese, butter,
eggs, sausage, other meats, pastries,
fruits, and vegetables.

F. B. F. Stands By
Former Policies But

Pledges Cooperation

Resolutions Adopted With Little Impor-
tant Discussion

A STRONG resolution reiterating
the faith of the American Farm
Bureau Federation in its previous
policies with reference to surplus con-
trol legislation, but expressing a will-
ingness to cooperate with President-
EIect Hoover in any plan he proposes
that promises to make the American
protective system apply to agricul-
ture, was passed without a dissenting
vote on the last day of the American
Farm Bureau convention, held \n
Chicago last week.

There were two major resolutions;
' one dealing with the question of a
national policy for agriculture, the
other with the tariff. Since both are
of particular importance they are pre-
sented in detail as follows:

A National Policy for Agriculture

I "The control of agricultural sur-

; pluses is the dominant economic
question which faces us at the pres-
ent time. This problem has become
a national issue and is not of concern
alone to agriculture,
t "We reiterate the principles for

! which we have striven in the past to
remove the effects of surpluses which,
by imposing upon us a world price
rather than an American price and

j by making the tariff largely without
benefit to the producers of farm
crops, have in the past and will in the
future, if continued, make it impos-
sible to maintain the American stand-
ard of living upon our farms.

"The questions of surplus control,
seasonal and otherwise, for their
proper solution require that the en-
tire crop be brought under the regu-
lation of efficient marketing and dis-
tribution which is too g:reat a task
for our present cooperative com-
modity marketing associations of
themselves to accomplish. Failures
in cooperative marketing have oc-
curred mostly because it has proven
to be difficult and in most cases im-
possible to acquire control of the
whole crop. This has resulted in a
small part of the crop, produced by a
ismall fraction of the total producers,
being required to bear the burden of
Surplus control and distribution for
the entire production; and has made
It impossible to require all portions of
the crop to share in the cost o^ bring-
ing the crop into the American Pro-
tective System. Tariffs on farm
Tops, however, are not substitutes
for surplus control legislation, and
he partially ineffective on crops
vhich produce surpluses. Neither
does acreage regulation, by govem-

tental mandate or by voluntary agree-
ent, guarantee control of surplus.
"Legislation must be adopted to
make the tariff effective on surplus
producing crops using cooperative
marketing associations as the instru-
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To advance thm purpow* for which the Fefrm Bureau wae organized,
namely to promote protect and repreeent the bueineaa, economic,
political, and educational intereute of the tarmere of lllinoia and the
nation^ and to develop agriculture,

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OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith .j,

Vice-President, Frank D. Barton

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles

Detroit

Cornell

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1st to 11th.

12th

13th

14th

15th

16th

17th

18th

19th.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

(By Congressional Districts)

H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

.G. F. TuUock, Rockford

.C. E. Bamborough, Polo

. . .M. G. Lambert, Ferris

.A. N. Skinner, Yates City

A. R. Wright, Vama

. . .Geo. J. StoU, Chestnut

R. F. Karr, Iroquois

, L, Whisnand, Charleston

20th. Charles S. Black, Jacksonville

Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

Frank Oexner. Waterloo

W. L. Cope, Salem

21st.
22nd.

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24th 1 3>arles Marshall, Belknap

25th Fred Dietr Pe Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPAR

Business Service

Dairy Marketing

Limestone-Phosphate

Finance

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing

General Office

Information

Insurance Service , . . .

Legal Counsel

Live Stock Marketing

Organization . . ,

Produce Marketing

Taxation and Statistics

Transportation

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lENTS

Geo. R. Wicker

A. D. Lynch

J. R. Bent

R. A. Cowles

A. B. Leeper

J. H. Kelker

E. G. Thiem

V. Vaniman

Donald Kirkpatrick

Ray E. Miller

G. E. Metzger

F. A. Gougler

J. C. Watson

L- J. Quasey

Only Half Sol4

ONE of the weaknesses of the Farhi Bureau movement
in Illinois is that Farm Bureau service is only half
sold: Even our members are not awatre of the aid the or-
ganization has to offer. When this service is forcibly re-
vealed and emphasized, requests for help are proportion-
ately increased.

Early this fall our director of transportation addressed
the annual meeting of one of the goutheastem County
Farm Bureaus. In his talk the I. A. A. representative
merely called attention to the service available from his
department. He told of the contacts the department had
with public utilities and agencies which serve farmers.

Prior to that time there had been only periodic re-
quests for transportation service from that county. With-
in the next few weeks, 10 different calls for help, some
involving individual cases and others involving entire
communities, were received. These included freight loss
and damage claims, fence repair and right-of-way dis-
putes, state highway culvert complaint, dangerous cross-
ing complaint, request for information and advice on con-
tracts, claim against railroad for wrecking auto, and an
appeal for aid from telephone subscribers in one section
of the county because of poor service.

The farm adviser of that county in a recent letter said:
"I believe that your talk at our annual meeting went
home to our people out on the farms of this county for
there has been about a 1000 per cent increase in requests
for service from your department during the past two
months." i

A Candid Analysis

THE candid analysis of the agrricultural situation pre-
sented by Economist Virgil Jordan before the
American Farm Bureau Federation convention last week
must have been a sharp blow to the farm prosperity sales-
men from whom we have heard so much of late.

Said Jordan, "I must emphatically challenge the view
that there has been any fundamental improvement in the
economic position of American agriculture during the
past six years. The official statistics of the Department
of .Agriculture .... prove this up to the hilt."

We take no especial delight in stating that agriculture
as a whole is a long ways from prosperity's door. But
the ostrich does not better his plight by sticking his
head in the sand. He would do better to face the enemy
and use such weapons as he has to protect himself.

Two Ways of Self Help ^

DEFINITE accomplishment has marked the path the
Farm Bureau has trod in Illinois. One cannot review
the Farm Bureaus' and I. A. A.'s activities during 1928
without concluding that the results justify the effort and
money expended. A summary of the year's work will ap-
pear in the Record next month.

Certain emphasis during recent years has been given
to savings, that is to making the farmer's dollar go far-
ther. Some of our friendly critics have intimated that
we are getting out of pur field by so doing. Mutual in-
surance and co-operative buying and selling agencies have
been frowned upon by the opposition, yet such service is
demanded and widely appreciated by farmers. It has been
instrumental in giving stability to organized agriculture
in Illinois. The I. A. A. contends that it is just as neces-
sary that hard earned money be spent wisely and care-
fully after receiving it as it is to increase the income. It
is equally as important to reduce costs of production as
it is to increase prices. A profitless business can be im-
proved by both means.

Our efforts of a business nature are predicated upon
the belief that we can serve ourselves through coopera-
tion more efficiently and at less cost than can private en-
terprises. When this ceases to be true such activities
will be abandoned. The greatest possibilities for improv-
ing the farmer's financial condition undoubtedly lie in the
direction of securing a larger share of the consumer's
dollar and an American price for farm products. But
thinking farmers will never cease to use every means to
cut costs of production. That is the surest road to finan-
cial independence. i

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The Golden Calf i

THE story of the seven dollar a pound baby beef club
calf fed by Clarence Goecke of Iowa is likely to give
great impetus to 4-H club work. The income approxi-
mating $10,000 brought by "Dick" to his youthful owner
represents a small fortune. The money side of club proj-
ects is important but far greater are the moral qualities
and business training developed by the successful handling
of such enterprises. ^

The I. A. A. and the Farm Bureaus are deeply inter-
ested in the farm boys and girls of Illinois for the future
of Illinois agriculture depends on them. Perhaps no in-
fluence outside of home and school is working so assidu-
ously toward developing leadership and business sense in
the farmers of the future as the 4-H club. Boys and
girls are the most important crop on the farm. As such
they will bear careful and painstaking cultivation. In
honoring the boy and girl club champipns at its annual
dinner for the Illinois winners the Association seeks to
encourage this noble activity.

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mml^y^s

"TT WAS a pleasure to listen to your
A radio talk on the I. A. A. farm
program from Station WJJD, Chicago,
recently," wrote L. W. Solsmon of the
Haddon Township Farm Bureau Ship-
ping Association in southern Indiana,
to C. G. Randell of the Bureau of Agri-
cultural Economics, Washing^ton, who
spoke a short time ago on the I. A. A.
program.

"At this shipping point the motor
truck is making inroads on the Ship-
ping Association," continued Solsmon,
"with probably no more returned for
the livestock marketed."

If you want the livestock markets
direct from the Chicago Producers
tune in on WJJD, Mooseheart, daily at
12:30 p. m. The I. A. A. radio pro-
gram begins with a review of the Chi-
cago market. Each Friday a represen-
tative of the Producers' reviews the
market for the .week and gives the out-
look for the future. Latest economic
information, farm news, and talks on
the business interests of farmers fea-
ture the daily program.

Station WJJD operates on a low
wave length, 254 meters, using 20,000
watts by authority of the Federal
Radio Commission. Interference with
other stations has been reported from
some localities but this is being cleared
up as rapidly as possible. Good day-
light reception is reported from Wash-
ington, D. C, according to C. A.
Howell, director of the station.

Station WLS has offered to broad-
cast the I. A. A. annual meeting at
Danville Jan. 30-31, if "necessary ar-
rangements can be made for securing
a private wire.

Reorganize for Profit

MARKED reorganization of farm
production plans and the adjust-
ment of the marketing system to
chang^ing economic conditions during
the past year are reported by Nils A.
Olsen, chief of the Bureau of Agricul-
tural Economics.

"Many sections have reorganized
their farm activities on a more profit-
able basis," declared Mr. Olsen. "State
and local agricultural workers have
joined in in assisting farmers to find
the most profitable combination of farm
enterprsies under varying conditions."

The St. Clair County Farm Bureau
reports total assets of $13,114.40. A
nest egg of $7,500 has been put away
in real estate mortgage notes. Net
worth on Nov. 7, 1928, was $13,109.40.

CHRIS L. CHRISTENSEN

CHRIS L. CHRISTENSEN, director of tha
Division ol Co-operative Marketing, will
address the marketing conference at the com-
ing annual meeting of the I. A. A., Danville,
January 30-31, 1929. Professor Christensen
was reared on a farm near Minden, Nebraska,
graduated from the State University, and
later did graduate work in economics, nuir-
keting, and business administration at the
University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and also
at Harvard University of Cambridge, Mass.

Stands By Policies i

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ments for marketing not only the sur-
plus but all portions of our farm
crops, and containing definite checks
and penalties upon over-production.
This legislation must be of a nature
which does not subsidize agriculture.
"It is recognized generally that sur-
plus control legislation and agricul-
tural tariffs are companion measures,
each exerting a long-time influence.
Emergency action upon either meas-
ure is not sought by us since a na-
tional policy for ag^riculture cannot
be founded on emergency treatments.
These measures are inseparable and
cannot be made major features of the
second session of the 70th congress
since time is not available in a short
session of congress adequately to cor-
relate and dispose of these subjects
in the proper manner. Both such
major legislative projects should be
considered at an extra session of the
71st congress. In this we are given
assurance by the promise of our
President-Elect who said: 'So far as
my own abilities may be of service, I
dedicate them to help secure pros-
perity and contentment in that indus-
try where I and my forefathers were

born and nearly all my family still
obtain their livelihood.'

"We devotedly are seeking to solve
these problems as a basis ui>on which
our national ag:ricultural policy may • •
be founded. While we have been
nothing up to this time which would
cause us to recede from our former
position, we are willing to compare
legislation which has received our
support in the past with that pro-
posed by any other organization. We
are also willing to consider these sub-
jects with the forthcoming national
administration from time to time to
find, if possible, a better way than
we have heretofore supported, of ef-
fectuating adequate control of agri-
cultural surpluses, of protecting apd
advancing cooperative commodity mar-
keting, ai)d of establishing on our
farms the benefits of the American
Protective System, all of which secures
that American standard of living which
agriculture and industry alikje desire.

Tariff '

"The cries of the last 10 years have
brought all citizens to realize that
agriculture in our nation is facing
conditions similar to those which
existed in England when the Corn
Laws were repealed, since which time
farmers in that country have striven
against insurmountable odds. Tariffs
are international issues and have for
farmers in the United States con-
stantly increasing world-wide signifi-
cance. International loans by a
creditor nation such as ours has come
to be contain no promise of benefit
to agriculture.

"Rates of duty on foreign-grown
farm commodities which seek mar-
kets in our country must be adequate
to permit our farmers to enjoy that
profit which guarantees the American
standard of living. Various com-
modities which are directly or indi-
rectly competitive with our domestic
farm crops should carry high rates of
duty. The rates of duty should be ,
based on the value of farm crops to
the American producers thereof and
should be of such nature that as the
value increases the rate of duty auto-
matically will increase.

"It is indispensably necessary that
flexibility be provided in tariff rates
no matter how accurately such rates
may be estimated in the writing of a
tariff act. Economic conditions
change, which require an elasticity
which will permit corresponding
changes in the rates of duty. There
must be continuously in the federal
government a tariff commission un-
der the administration of which this
elasticity can be secured. This com-
mission should be non-partisan and
the members thereof should be ap-
pointed for such a term of years as
will give continuity in the carrying
out of the polici'js of our tariff laws
and will secure eventually scientific
and economic revision of tariff rates
rather than revision of a political na-
ture which has been up to the pres-
ent time too much in evidence."

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PRODUCE MARKETING

Cartoon of the Season

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By Frank Gougler '

PRODUCE marketing units were
completed recently at Oblong and
Robinson in Crawford County. Direc-
tors have been elected for each of the
units and bids have been received from
leading creameries for their yearly out-
put.

These two units added to the former
list of marketing units brings the total
up to twenty-eight, located in eighteen
different counties. Some counties have
as many as four of these units.

A dozen or more units are now being
organized in various parts of the state.
Crawford County has an organization
committee at work at Hutsonville and
Annapolis; Clark County at Martins-
ville and West Union; and Lawrence
County will soon start membership
campaigns at two or three points.

ASSOCIATIONS that were started
-i*- earlier are carrying on extensive
educational work. Champaign County
has two new units — one started mar-
keting early in October, the other in
November. The Champaign County
Farm Bureau is planning programs a
year in advance for these units. Some
of the problems to be studied will be
feeding, herd improvement, cream im-
provement, causes of variations in
cream tests, selling dairy products in
the most profitable forms, etc.

The board of directors of the Farmer
City Unit held a meeting the evening
of November 30. Social features were
combined with educational. The Sugar
Creek Creamery, the purchaser of this
cream, furnished an abundance of re-
freshments while the unit furnished
coffee. A splendid address was made
by Mr. Spencer, dairy specialist for-
Sugar Creek Creamery, on the subject
of "Producing Good Cream." The lead-
ers of this organization appreciate the
importance of developing a community
co-operative spirit. Harry Reed, Presi-
dent, says that the most important
work confronting his association is to
create a clear understanding on the
part of his membership of the value of
co-operative marketing.

Schuyler and McDonough Cut Melon

FARMERS, too, can cut melons if
they will only co-operate. Their
melons do not run up into nine figures,
but perhaps eventually they will com-
pare more favorably with those of
big business.

December 17 is the day set for the
Schuyler Association to hold its sec-
ond get-together meeting. Several
hundred dollars will be returned to
producers in the form of patronage re-
funds. The board believes that just
prior to the Christmas holidays is an
appropriate time for declaring divi-
dends.

The McDonough County Association
held a meeting November 1 to declare
patronage dividends. At this time the
association had operated nine and one-
half months. During this time 54,940

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t pounds of butterfat was sold and 11,-
!057 dozens of eggs. Total trading in-
come and expenses on these two com-
modities were as follows:

Bufterfat Egg»

Trading Income _....$2,'}52.63 $186.88

Expenses @ 2.7 per lb. and

Ic per doz 1,621.93 112.16

Net Income on each $1,230.60 $74.72

74.72

$1,305.32
Patronage Refunds 800.00

Surplus $ 605.32

The Brown County Association is
planning a similar meeting for its
hiembers December 19. All three units
were organized less than a year ago.

"Dairymen Not Organized"

OE. REED, chief of the Bureau of
• Dairy Industry, U. S. D. A.,
urged members of the American Asso-
ciation of Creamery Butter Manufac-
turers, recently, to take a greater in-
terest in the problems of dairymen.

"No part of the industry can be
prosperous very long if the man who
milks the cows does not get his fair
share of profits," said Mr. Reed. "The
farmers and dairymen upon whom you
depend for your cream are not an or-
ganized body such as yours. They do
not meet as you are meeting today to
discuss their problems with one an-
other. Farming is more of an indi-
vidual matter. The producers need
such organizations as yours to study
their problems. I believe they have
made much progress along this line,
considering the many difficulties they
have encountered, but there is still
opportunity for greater advancement."

Mr. Reed reminded his audience that
the average cow producing about 4,600
.pounds of milk and 180 pounds of but-
terfat a year barely returns to her
owner the total cost of production. He
said the yearly average of cows in
cow-testing associations is about 7,410
pounds of milk and nearly 300 pounds
of butterfat. He also urged the manu-
facturers to pay premiums for quality
cream. -

First Public Statement

(Continued from page 3)
commodity as a whole. Governor
Smith, upon the other hand, clearly
and forcefully asserted the principle
that the cost of handling the surplus
should be borne by the entire com-
modity. This, in substance, was the
substantial principle of the so-called
equalization fee. Thus the issue was
clearly drawn.

When, therefore, the American peo-
ple preferred Mr. Hoover to Governor
Smith, they in effect issued a mandate
to Mr. Hoover to proceed with the
program which he had advocated. All
sincere friends of farm relief will
now, in my opinion, cooperate whole-
heartedly with him in giving effect to
that program. In view of the fact
that Mr. Hoover will have the respon-
sibility of administering whatever
legislation there may be enacted, the
wise course it seems to me at the
present time is to await the incoming
of the new administration. Congress
will no doubt wish freely to consult
with the President as legislation is
being shaped. I understand that a
special session will be called. That
would be the proper time I think for
legislation upon this vastly important
question. If such legislation shall not
prove effective, the President no
doubt will lend a ready ear to further
suggestions. For he forcefully said,
in his acceptance address, "the most
urgent economic problem in our na-
tion today is in agriculture."

In addition to Mr. Hoover's frank
recognition of the gravity of the agri-
cultural situation, there is a wider
understanding of that situation than
at any time in the past. Business
men recognize as they have not
recognized Before that a larger meas-
ure of prosperity must be given to
the farmers of America if we would
avoid danger to the entire business
structure.

I send my heartiest greetings to all
the members of the Association, and
with personal regards, am.

Very sincerely yours,
(Signed) Frank O. Lowden.

Mr. Earl C. Smith,
President, Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation,
608 South Dearborn Street,
Chicago, Illinois. i -^

The Farmers Mutual Reinsurance
Company reports that it now has on
the books 4,000 direct and specific fire
insurance policies representing
$8,250,000.

The term "direct" refers to insur-
ance on individual property placed di-
reictly with the state company by the
owner. "Specific" insurance refers to
reinsured risks placed with the state
company through the local mutual
which usually carries a portion of the
risk.

The Reinsurance Company also had
275 direct and specific windstorm
policies amounting to $783,000 on
November 15, 1928.

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At the 4-H Club Dinner to Illinois Champions

MORE than 80 4-H club boys and
girls from Illinois, including the
state champions in all kinds of club
work, -were entertained at dinner by
the Illinois Agricultural Association on
Wednesday evening, December 5, at the
Auditorium Hotel, Chicago.

Complimenting the 4-H club winners
on their accomplishments. President
Earl C. Smith expressed the interest of
the I. A. A. in the boys and girls of
the state, and referred to them as the
future leaders in the Farm Bureau
movement. He referred to the fact
that the future of agriculture depends
upon the boys and girls of today, and
that the 4-H club work is helping to
fit them for their coming responsibil-
ities.

Prof. Smith Speak*

Prof W. H. Smith, state leader of
farm advisers, spoke on the subject
"4-H Club Members and the University
of Illinois." Prof. Smith thanked^the I.
A. A. for its co-operation in promot-
ing agricultural welfare and recogniz-

ing the value of 4-H club work. He
called attention to the training .for
leadership, which agriculture so sorely
needs, afforded by 4-H club work.

Miss Mary E. McKee and E. I. Pil-
chard, state club leaders, presented the
championship medals.

Among the 4-H club speakers on the
program were Arlene Scheidenhelm,
poultry club member from LaSalle
county; Clarence Ropp, corn club mem-
ber from McLean county who repre-
sented Illinois at the 4-H club camp,
Washington; Maribel Eldred, health
project winner from Macoupin county;
John Sullivan, livestock judging team
member from Knox county; Vera
Nofftz, style show member from Cham-
paign county; and William Brown, sow
and litter club member from Ogle
county.

Among the guests were a number of
farm advisers and leaders. Nearly 100,
including members of the I. A. A. Ex-
ecutive Committee and staff, joined in
honoring the club champions. Ray E.
Miller acted as toastmaster.

Other state champions who were awardeil
medals are as foliows: Ferdinand Bastine. Mc-
Lean county, dairy calf club; Edwin Hansen.
Rock Island county, corn club ; Carl Duis. Iro-
quois county, sheep club ; Mary Louise Duke,
Henderson county, clothing club ; Alelia Sieerist,
Hancock county, bread club ; Mildred Read,
Wayne county, meal planning club; Edwin John-
son, Christian county, dairy heifer club ; Mary
Switzer, Adams county, sheep club ; Raymond
Long, Rock Island county, fat barrow club;
Kenneth Kinsineer, McLean county, beef club ;
Donald Kennel, Tazewell county, gilt club ;
Lucille Wilson, Macon county, baking club ;
Esther Hieland, Adams county, canning club :
Mabel Newburn, Vermilion county, clothing
club : Edith Metcalf, Edwards county, room im-
provement club ; Sarah Snell, Sangamon county,
clothing club ; Pearl Reinking, Kane county,
demonstration team club ; Margaret Seilkopf ,
Kane county, demonstration team club ; Alex-
ander Collebrusco, Christian county, garden club :
Clark Hewitt, McL«an county, potato club;
Homer Mendenhall, Sangamon county, livestock
judging club ; Selmar Lehmann. Sangamon
county, livestock judging club : Paul Archer,
Sangamon county : livestock judging club ; James
Hulmes, DeKalb county, dairy judging club :
Stanley Jensen, DeKalb county, dairy judging
club ; Clifford Bemis, DeKalb county, dairy judg-
ing club : Arden Rains, Crawford county,
demonstration club ; Leslie Rutledge, Crawford
county, demonstration club : Edith Lee Jonea,
Hamilton county, clothing judging club ; Mary
Boyer, Hamilton county, ck>thing judging club ;
and Sybil Herring, Fulton county, outfit club.

Argentina a Competitor

ARGENTINA is one of our chief
'- competitors in the world's agri-
cultural markets. In 1927 Argentina's
ag^ricultural exports were half as much
again in value as in 1923. Although
livestock raising is still the chief ag-
ricultural enterprise, the country is
forging ahead rapidly in wheat and
corn production.

During the last five years 96 per
cent of the country's total exports
consisted of agricultural products.
Yet only a small part of the potential
tillable land has been brought into cul-
tivation. In a cereal region as largre

as the corn belt, only 16.2 per cent
of the land is in crops. Only eight per
cent of the country's total area is in
cultivation.

A large proportion of the cultivated
area is in the hands of comparatively
few holders. In 1914 about 85 per
cent of the farm land was held by
about 13 per cent of the farm opera-
tors and was in holdings of 1,200 acres
or more. In 1920 about 59 per cent
of the country's farmers operated only
3Vi per cent of its farm lands. In
1920, 69 per cent of our farmtra in
the United States operated 17 par cant
of the farm land, r

Co-op Shipments Gain 121%

Mercer county livestock powers in-
creased their shipments to the Chicago
Producers Commission Co., 121.6 per
cent in 1927, compared with 1926,
according to Ray E. Miller, livestock
marketing director. Individual ship-
ments increased from 44 to 83 cars,
or 88.6 per cent while shipping asso-
ciation consignments jumped from
141 cars in 1926 to 327 cars in 1927.

"No, No, Maudial — ^A night club it
not the stick a policeman carries."

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

PRODICK MARKETING

Cartoon of the Season

liy I r;iiiU Coiiiilt'i

I PRODUCE markt'tintr units were
lomiilotoil wcenilvVi't Olilonp ami
Rohinpon in Cra\vf(>r(l tVninty. Direc*
tins have been elected for each of thi*'
units and l>i<ls have been received froip
leadinji creameries fui thi-ir yeiuly out-
put.

These two units added to the former
list of marketinj^ tinits biinjis the total
un to t\venty-eij;ht.llocated iji eighteen
ditferent counties. fJome counties have
as many as four of these units.

A dozen or more ijnits are now licin;;
lo'tranized in various parts of the state.
Crawford County hhs an organization
committee at work at Hutsonville and
.\nnapolis; Clark County at .Martins-
ville and West I'Tiibn; and Lawrence

County will
campaigns at

soon
two or

start nienjibei
three jioints.

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VsSOCI.ATIONS tiial were [started
earliei' are carit-jing on e^ctensive
chicational work. Champaign County
has twii new uffits*^— one started mar-
keting early in October, the other in
November. The £Juimi>aign County
Farm Bureau is plahtVing jji-og-rams a
year in advance for {hese units.l Some
of the problems to tie •^'tudied will be
fee<iing. henl impro\^ement, cream im-
provement, caus/L's ^f, variations in
cream tests, selling dai^'y ))ri>ducts in
the mo.'^t profitable fiorms. etc.

The board of <Urectors of the Farmer
City I'nit held a meeting the evening
of November :10. Social fwature.s were
combined with cjlucational. The Sugar
Creek Creamery, the purchaser of this
cream, furnishe<i an abundance of re-
fi-eghments while the unit furnished
\, coffee. .A splen<i id address was made
by Mr. S|)encer, daiiry specialist for
Sugar Creek Creamci;y, on the subject
of "Producing (Jood tlreani." The lead-
ers of this organization aiipreciate the
importance of developing a comn>unity
co-opcratfve spirit. Hirry Reed, fresi-
<lcnt. says that the ; most imiHjrtant
work confronting his^iassociation is to
create a char undei^taiiding on the
part of hr*- membeishiji of the v^lue of
co-opciative market in>i.

Schuyler and McDon^ugh Cut Melon

l/.ARMKR.S, too. can cut melons if
I' jthey will only c<|-operate. Their
tnelons di> not run uji into nine ligures,
but perhajis eventuallV they will com-
pare more favorablyl-Vitlfi those of
big business. I

December 17 is the I day set far the
."Nchuyler .Association !to hold its sec-
on<l get-together nu^eting. ' Several
hundred dollars will Ibe reiurn<'(i to
producers h\ the form \i>i' patronaj^e re-
funds. The board beilieves that just
prior to the Christma$ holidays is an
appropriate time for I declaring divi-
ilends. ■ '

The McDonough County Association
held a meeting November 1 to declare
patronage dividends. At this time the
association had operated nine antl one-
half months. During this time 54,940

TATHECS

Purse

/ uikr

pounds of butterfat was sold and 11,-
■.0.")7 dozens of eggs. Total trading in-
come and expenses on these two com-
modities were as follows:

Itnllfrfal

rmdint- Income . $2.T.i2.i>S
HxtJcnscs ^a 2.7 per lit. and
Ic p.r (ioz l.o'>l.'.<^

Not Inconu-' on cai'h

J'.'itronagc Rt-fiintls

$l!>6.HS
112.11-,
$74.72

.■Surplus . $ 505. .12

The Brown County Association is
planning a similar meeting for its
meml)ers Decetiiber V.K X\\ three units
were organized less than a year ago.

"Dairymen Not Organized"

t\ v.. UKKI). chief of the Bureau of
^ '• Dairy Industry, U. S. li. A.,
urged members of the American Asso-
ciation of Creamery Butter Manufac-
turers, recentl.v, to take a greater in-
terest in the problems of dairymen.

"Xo part of the industry can be
[irosperous very long if the man who
milks the cows does not get his fair
share of jirolits." said Mr. Reed. "The
farmers .-ind dairymen ujion whom you
de|K'hd for your cream are not an or-
ganized l)ody such as yours. They do
not 'meet as you are meeting to<lay to
discuss their problems with one an-
othet:. Farming is more of an indi-
vidual niatter. The producers need
such organizations as yours to study
their i)roblems. I believe they have
made much iirogress along this line,
considering the many difficulties they
have encountered, but there is still
i«p|iortunity for greater ad\"5incement."

-Mr. Reed reminded his. audience that
the average cow pro<lucing about 4,00(1
l>ounds of milk and IMO pounds of but-
terfat a year barely returns to her
owner the total cost of production. He
!^aid the yearly average of cows in
cow-testing associations is about 7,410
pounds of milk and nearly 300 pounds
of butterfat. He also urged the manu-
facturers to pay premiums for quality
cream.

First Public Statement

(Continued from page 3)
commodity as a whole. Governor
Smith, upon the other hand, clearly
and forcefully asserted the jirinciple
that the cost of handling the suri)lus
should be borne by the entire com-
modity, Thi.s, in substance, was the
substantial principle of the so-called
ecpialization fee. Thus the issue was
clearly drawn.

When, therefore, the .American peo-
ple preferred Mr. Hoover to (Jovernor
Smith, they in effect issued a mandate
to Mr. Hoover to jiroceed with the
program which he had advocated. All
sincere friends of farm relief will
now, in my opinion, cooperate whole-
heartedly with him in giving effect to
that i)'rogt-ain. In view of the fact
-that Mr. Hoover will have the respon-
sibility of iwlministering whatever
legislation there may be enacted, the
jwise course it seems to me at the
present time is to await the incoming
of the new administration. Congress
will no doubt wish freely to consult
with the President as legislation is
being shaped. I understand that a
special session will be called. That
would be the proper time I think for
legislation upon this vastly important
([uestion. If such legislation shall not
prove effective, the President no
doubt will lend a ready ear to further
suggestions. For he forcefully said,
in his acceptance address, "the most
urgent economic problem in our na-
tion today is in agriculture."

In addition to Mr. Hoover's frank
recognition of the gravity of the agri-
cultural situation, there is a wider
understanding of that situation than
at any time in the past. Business
men recognize as they have not
recognized before that a larger meas-
ure of prosperity must be given to
the farmers of America if we would
avoid danger to the entire business
structure.

I send my heartiest greetings to all
the members of the Association, and
with personal regards, am.

Very sincerely yours,
(Signed) Frank O. Lowden.

Mr. Earl C. Smith,

President, Illinois Agricultural As.so-

ciation,
008 South Dearborn Street,
Chicago, Illinois.

1

The Farmiprs Mutual Reinsurance
Company reports^ that it now has on
the books 4,000 «jir£ct and specific fire
insurance i policies representing

$8,250,000. j

The term j'direct" refers to insur-
ance on individual property placed di-
rectly with the state comjiany by the
iiwner. "Specific" insurance refers to
reinsured risks placed with the state
company through the local mutual
which usually carries a portion of the
risk.

The Reinsurance Company also had
275 direct and specific windstorm
policies amounting to $78;3,000 on
November 15, 1928.

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I'HE 1. A. A. RECORD

At the

MORE than 80 4-H club boys and
girls from Illinois, including the
state chs^mpions in all kinds of club
work, wdre entertained at dinner by
the Illinois Agricultural Association on
Wednesday evening, December 5, at the
Auditoriuiii Hotel, Chicago.

Complimenting the 4-H club winners
on their accomplishments, President
Earl C. Smith e.xpressed the interest of
the I. A. A. in the boys and girls of
the state, and referred to them as the
future leaders in the Farm Bureau
movement. He referred to the fact
that the future of agriculture depends
upon the boys and girls of today, and
that the l-fl club work is helping to
fit them foj- their coming responsibil-
ities.

Prof. Smith Speaks

Prof W. H. Smith, state leader of
farm advisers, spoke on the subject
"4-H Club Members and the University
of Illinois." IProf. Smith thanked the 1
A. A. for its co-oi)eration in i)roniot-
ing agricultilral welfare and recogniz-

4-H Club Dinner to Illinois Champions

ing the value of 4-H club work. He.
called attention to the training for
leadership, which agriculture so sorely
needs, afforded by 4-H club work.

Miss Mary E. McKee and E. I. Pil-
chard, state club leaders, pnesented the
chamiiionshii) medals.

.\mong the 4-H club speakers on the
Itiogram were Arlene Scheidenhelm,
poultry club member from LaSalle
county ; Clarence Ropp, corn club mem-
ber from McLean county who repre-
sei^ted Illinois at the 4-11 club camjj,
Washington; Maribel Eldred, health
project winner from Macoupin county;
John Sullivan, livestock judging team
member from Knox county; Vera
Xofftz, style show member from Cham-
paign county; and William Brown, sow
and litter club member from Ogle
county.

Among the guests were a number of
farm advisers and leaders. Nearly 100,
including members of the I. A. A. Ex-
ecutive Committee and staff, joined in
honoring the club champions. Ray E.
Miller acted as toastmaster.

Otht-r slate champions whu \
medals are as follows : F»»nlinand
Lean county, dairy oatf cluh ; K<
Rock Island county, corn clult . C
nuois county. shtH'p club ; Mary
Henderson county, clothing cUih : A
JIaiicitck county. bre:iil club ; M
Wayne county, me-ril r>lannir.ii club
Mil}, Cbri.^tian county, dairy heifi
Swit7( r. . .\dams ci»«nty, sheep c
Lonj^. Kock Island county, lat
Koni;oth Kinsinirer, McLean count;
Donald Kennel, Ta/.,'\vell county,
Lucille -Wilson, Macon county, I
Ksth,T Hieland. Adamd ctninty, cj
Mabel Newburn. V'ermiiion c*»u
club: Kflith Metcalf, K'iwards coun
provemt'nt club ; Sarah Snell, SanK
cKithini; club: Pearl Reinkinc
di-nionslration team club : Marca
Kane coun'.y. demonstration team
ander Cokcbrusco. Christian county,
dark Hewitt. McLean C4>unty.
Homer Mendenhall, Sangamon coui
jud;^ing club: Selmar Lehmann
county, livestock judcinK club:
Sansan»on county; livesttx-k judnini;
Hulmes. DcKalb county, dairy j
Stanley Jensen. I>eKalb county, d
club : Clifford Hemis, DeKalb count
injT clitb : Arden, Kains, Craw
demonstration club ; Lt-slie Rutio
county, demonstration club: Kdit
Hamilton county, clothing judirinK
Boyer, Hamilton county, clothintr
and Sybil Herrinp, Kulton county

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Argentina a Competitor

ARGENTINA is one of our chief
'- competitbrs in the world's agri-
cultural markets. In 1927 Argentina's
agricultural epcports were half as much
again in value as in 1923. Although
livestock raising is still the chief ag-
ricultural enterprise, the country is
forging ahead rapidly in wheat and
corn production.

During the! last five years 96 per
cent of the ^country's total exports
consisted of i «gTicultural products.
Yet only a imall part of the potential
tillable land has been brought into cul-
tivation. In a cereal region a.s large

as the corn belt, only 16.2 per cent!
of the land is in crops. Only eight per
cent of the country's total area is in
cultivation.

A large proportion of the cultivated
area is in the hands of comparatively
few holders. In 1914 about 85 per
cent of the farm land was held by
about 13 per cent of the farm opera-
tors and was in holdings of 1,200 acres
or more. In 1920 about 59 per cent
of the country's farmers operated only
3 V4 per cent of its farm lands. In
1920, 59 per cent of our farmers in
the United States operated 17 per cent
of the farm land.

awardeo
lta$tin^. Mc-
kin Hansen
■1 Duis, Iro-
.ouise Duko.
e1ia Siegrist,
idncd Read,
h-dwin John-
Uib : Mary
Raymond
rrow club ;
beef club :
($ilt club .
iikinir club ;
nnin^ club;
y. clothinK
y, room im-
mon county,
no county,
I Scilkopf,
■lub : Alex-
garden club :
lotato club ;
ty, livestock
Sangamon
ul Archer,
club ; James
dt:ing club ;
liry judging
dairy judg-
county.
Crawford
1ai- Jones,
cob: Mary
idging club ;
oi^ttit club

la

r t

Ki

la

( >rd
'di e,

do -op Shipments Gain 121%

Mercer county livestock
crea.xed their shipments to t\
Producers Commission Co.
cent jn 1927, compared w
according to Ray E. Miller
marketing director. In<iivii
ments increased from 44 t<
or 88.6 per cent while ship
ciation consignments juni]
141 cars in 1926 to 327 carb

"No, No, Maudia! — A nig^t club is
not the stick a policeman

g|-owers m-
e Chicago
121. G per
ith 1926,

livestock
ual ship-

83 cars,
)ing asso-
led from

in 1927.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

What You Should

Know About Life

Insurance Policies

By L. A. Williams j '

FN ALMOST eVery household life in-
-■• surance is appreciated, but in the
main is not understood. Many peo-
ple can scarcely tell the name of the
company they, are insured in. Very
few know what kind of a policy they
have, and most everyone has questions
.about life insurance that he would like
to have answered, either about his own
policy, or about one which he intends
to buy or was thinking of buying.
Any of these questions will be an-
swered if sent in to the Life Insur-
ance Service, Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation, 608 So. Dearborn Street,
Chicago.

What kind of life insurance should
a person carry, and how much? These
questions are always prominent in the
minds of everyone affected by life in-
surance. There are two kinds of life
insurance as far as this explanation
need classify them. One is old line life
insurance, and the other is not. The
old line legal reserve life insurance is
always secure, the rates can never be
raised, the values are always guaran-
teed. The laws of the various states
governing old line life insurance, pro-
tect tl:e policyholder, regardless of the
company's guarantee. The -Mutual
Companies, Fraternal and Assessment
Organizations that do not have per-
manence of rate and assurance of the
death claim, provide a very unstable
sort of protection. It is therefore cer-
tain-thai the kind of life insurance that
will be carried by the discriminating
buy^r will be old line life insurance.

Needs Should Govern

Next, the kind of policy that it is
advisable to carry is usually deter-
mined by the needs of the insured.
Where protection is ►the most impor-
tant issue, ordinary or straight life
gives the maximum of protection for
the minimum of cost, and has cash and
loan values, making it possible to bor-
row on the policy after the second pr
third year, and in the event of sur-
render, if there is no loan against the
policy, the cash value is available, so
that the net cost of protection is very
low over a period of years. This pol-
icy comes nearer fitting the needs of all
people than any other.

1^ Next in popularity is the 20-Pay-

i ment Life Policy. This policy costs

f^bout $10 a thousand more than the

straight life policy, at age 35 and pays

j' up in 20 years, so that the insured has
attained a paid-up estate of the face
of his policy at the end of a period of
years, or in case he desires, he may
surrender the policy with a guaranteed
cash value at that time.

20- Year Endowment

The 20-year endowment policy is
perhaps the best known of all old line
life insurance policies. The name has
been misunderstood, ^he policy has

^

UEAVE IT TO

Put one in

been abused and mis-quoted, but it is
still a good policy, and only the mis-
understanding individual has suffered a
disillusionment when he discovered
that the policy he called a 20-year en-
dowment turned out to be a 20-payment
life or a straight life policy instead.
It is practically impossible to buy a
20-year endowment policy for very
much under $40 a thousand. In some
companies the net cost would run a
little lower than $40, but any policy
that pays $1,000 at the end of 20 years
must of necessity cost very close to
$800 in 20 years' time at the lower
ages, I should say below age 40. At
age 50 the policy would cost approxi-
mately $47 a thousand net. The 20
year endowment policy pays the face
of the policy at maturity, at the end
of 20 years, or at death. And for
young people who have no one depend-
ent upon them, and who are interested
in leaving an estate, but are more in-
terested in acfcumulating a saving over
a period of years, this compulsory
method of saving money in a life in-
surance company and creating an es-
tate also combines itself nicely in a
20-year endowment policy.

What Is Double Indemnity?

There is a great deal of misunder-

Driving in Front of Car
Entitled to Right of Way

UNDER evidence that the auto-
mobile in which plaintiff was
riding reached an intersection
first, moving about .12 miles an
hour; that defendant approached
from the left at 30 to 35 miles
an hour, ran in front of plain-
tiff's machine, skidded and
stopped, and was, in consequence,
then run into by plaintiff's ma-
chine, which caused the plaintiff
to be injured; and that plaintiff's
machine was entitled to the right
of way, a verdict for the plaintiff
was sustained.

standing about the Double Indemnity
and Total Disability Clauses. Double
Indemnity means that if you are killed
by accident, the policy carrying that
clause will pay twice the face of the
policy to the beneficiary named. Now,
suppose that death resulted from
poison. The question arises in your
mind at once that such a death could
be accidental, if it could be proven
that the insured did not take the poison
purposely. Now,'' this will be defined
in the Double Indemnity clause, and
in most cases is not covered and not
considered accidental death.

Total and Permanent Disability
means just what it says. Disability
must be total and premanent within
the definition described in the policy.
The abuses of the disability clause
more frequently arises from unmerited
claims than from misunderstanding.
It is true that many agents sell this
policy for an accident policy. But the
60-day clause most always prevents it
from being of any value for ordinary
accidents. More common cases of dis-
ability claims arise from tuberculosis,
diabetes, and other diseases that ren-
der the individual totally incompetent
to carry on his business such as paral-
ysis and insanity. It is quite certain
that the rates on disability insurance
will have to be increased because most
companies selling this sort of insur-
ance have found themselves in the red
after a brief experience.

Help To Policy Holders

You have an oU policy that has a lot
of coupons on it, and a lot of in-be-
tween clauses and frills that you have
never fully understood. If you would
like an explanation of the policy, we
will mail you an analysis, if you will
go to the trouble of registering the
policy and mailing it to us with a
letter asking us to give you this anal-
ysis. Address your letter to the Life
Insurance Service of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association, 608 So. Dearborn
Street, Chicago.

The right amount of Life Insurance
for the head of a family to carry is
easiest arrived at by figuring all cash
needs that must be met immediately
at death such as funeral, doctor bills,
debts, etc.

Then add an amount of insurance to
this which at a fair rate of interest
would provide an income from the prin-
cipal invested to permit the familyjto
carry on after the bread winner is
gone. The principal sum may be left
with the insurance company at inter-
est.

The principal may then be distrib-
uted, after the family is raised, in a
monthly income to wife and daughters
or in any manner the insured may stip-
ulate in the insurance provision, f

A regular auto insurance policy in-
cludes protection against fire, theft,
-windstorm, public liability and prop-
erty damage, collision. Write the
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance
Co., 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago or
see your County. Farm Bureau.

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THE 1. A. A. RECORD

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Pcg« Eleven

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Changes in Women's

Clothing Hits Business

REPLIES from more than a thou-
sand men and women representing
all sections of the United States as to
the textile fibers in use in their houses
and wardrobes in 1927 as compared
with 1922, indicates that families and
individuals with larger incomes more
frequently chose silk and rayon in
preference to cotton for many gar-
ments. Women gave as their chief
reasons for this change that silk and
rayon are more attractive and easier
to handle then cotton. Men based their
preference for silk and rayon socks to
cotton on style and comfort.

In household articles, however, cot-
ton is more than holding its own, ac-
cording to a report of 646 families.
The survey was conducted by the Bu-
reau of Home Economics, U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture.

The shift from the use of silk and
rayon instead of cotton and wool, par-
ticularly in women's clothes, is largely
responsible for the depressed condition
of the textile industries in the New
England States.

Abolish Toll Bridges

U'T'HERE is no place on the public
A highway today for a privately-
owned toll bridge," said Thomas H.
MacDonald, chief of the Bureau of
Public Roads, U. S. D. A., before the
annual meeting of the American Asso-
ciation of State Highway Officials in
Chicago.

"The public can finance and build at
lower costs, and the largest bridge un-
dertakings in the country today are be-
ing financed on the basis of their earn-
ings," he said.

"The building of bridges is a field
from which the 'shoestring' promoter
should be excluded, and he will be if a
thorough investigation is made," con-
tinued MacDonald.

Every time a carfeless smoker throws
a burning cigarette into the dry grass
or needles of a forest floor he is giv-
ing the fire demon odds of one to nine
that it won't start a fire, says the
United States Forest Service. These
odds, coupled with the fact that there
is smoked and discarded in the United
States the amazing total of 171,000
cigarettes per minute, day and night,
during the entire year, are believed to
account for the large percentage of
man-caused forest and brush fires that
are started by smokers. Even if only
one-third of the cigarettes consumed
throughout the country were smoked
out-of-doors, there would still be over
50,000 chances a minute of a fire
starting from a burning cigarette butt,
foresters point out. '

Thrift Note — It is estimated that
two per cent of national energy could
be saved if all salary checks were sent
direct to the installment people.

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Air Travel Creates
, NJBW Fire Hazard

THE National Board of Fire
iUnderwriters has c iUed the

Rules of the Road — No. 1. The best
way to handle a traffic cop is to move
your head up and down as he finishes
each sentence.

Uncle Ab sayi don't slight the job
you are on now; for the time being it's
the most important job there is.

A successful sailor studies his com-
pass and a successful farmer studies
market conditions.

During four years in a typical dairy
region in New York it cost an average
$2.42 to produce 100 pounds of milk;
in the same period the average price
received was $2.11 a hundred.

Unlighted Car Standing at
Night

IT IS NEGLIGENCE to leave an auto-
mobile standing unlighted in a pub-
lic highway at night, in violation of
a statute. ' i

The fact that^a truck standing in
the highway at night, and with which
another vehicle collided, had no lights,
as required by law. was properly con-
sidered on the issue of defendant's
negligence.

Leaving a truck standing near the
middle of a street at night without
lights, for two and a half hours, after
the engine had stopped and the driver
was unable to move the truck with its
own power, was negligence, but did not
constitute a wilful obstruction of the
highway, in violation of a statute. A
driver colliding with such truck was
guilty of contributory negligence, where
it appeared that he would have avoided
the collision had his lights met the re-
quirements of the law and he hall ex-
ercised ordinary care.

If no tail light was left burning on
an automobile standing at the side of
a road, and the conditions were such
that because of the absence of such
tail light the driver of another car did
not see it in time to avoid a collision,
the negligence in not leaving such light
burning has been held to be concurrent
with the negligence of the driver of the
other car and contributory in causing
the collision.

attention of the U. S.

ment of Commerce to t\

hazard of fire resulting

trafl^c and has asked for some

regulatory measure which will

bring home in a forceful man

ner to air travellers tl^e

lute necessity of

against fire damage i[esulting

from carelessness.

Departs
e added
from air

abso-
^uarding

I7IGURES compiled by

The long winter nights are never too
long for t)ie man who wants to improve
himself by study.

JL tional Board shoiv that
careless smokers cause an an-
nual fire loss of million!; of dol-

lars, but one would

the Na-

expect

smokers to exercise mdre care
when riding in a plane. I Appar-
ently this is not the case, as it
has been found necessary to
place "No Smoking" signs in the
cabins of air passenger machines
operating on the Pacific Coast,
; between Los Angeles, San Fran-
cisco, Portland and Seattle.

THE danger of fire resulting
from carelessness of air
I passengers is not so great now,
! since comparatively few ma-
chines are in operation. How-
ever, it will be only a feiv years
until air travel becomes com-
mon, and when that timt comes
no one's property will be safe
unless restrictions are provideti
and strictly enforced, s;iys the
Board.

THE Farmers Mutual Reinsur-
ance Co. provides a way
for farmers to secure a 1 their
FIRE, LIGHTNING, TORNADO
and HAIL insurance on a mu-
tual basis. It will insute your
entire risk direct, or reihsure a
local mutual for any part of a
lusk which it does not desire to
carry itself — all at cost\ which
means at least 25 per c0nt less
than going rates in stoc^ com-
panies.

For particulars write

FARMERS MUTUA
REINSURANCE CO.,

8 So. Dearborn St. Chicago

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•A legal reserve mutual —

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Pays AU Hospital Bills

and Court Costs

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A FULL coverage auto insurance policy in YOUR OWN COMPANY not only reimburses
you for property damage to your car and that of the other party, but it relieves you of
all worries and responsibilities for doctor and hospital bills, and possible court expenses
resulting from injuries to third person.

FARM BUREAU auk) insurance AT COST is the least expensive, yet the best you can
buy. When you insure in YOUR OWN COMPANY you don't pay a large agent's com-
mission, nor any profit to the management and stockholders. You pay only actual cost.
Y'ou get the benefit of these savings. YOUR COMPANY operates with a low overhead, and
we believe Farm Bureau members are preferred risks. A full coverage policy insures your car
against fire, theft, tornado, collision, property damage, and public liability for injury to others.
You can get full particulars at your County Farm Bureau office or by writing the

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Volume 7

JANUARY, 1929

Number 1

Annual Banquet to

Bring Back Leaders of

Early I. A. A. Days

Frank L. MulhoUand, of Toledo,
Scheduled for Address of Evening

THE reunion of former lead-
ers and friends of the Illi-
nois Agricultural
Association in the
early days of its
existence is ex-
pected to bring
back many fa-
miliar faces of ten
years ago when

delegates and visitors
gather in Danville's
large armory for the
annual banquet on
Wednesday night,
Jan. 30, during the
coming I. A. A. meet-
ing.

Invitations have
gone out to these
former leaders re-
questing their pres-
ence on this night. Former presidents
of the State Association including
Herman Danforth, St. Louis; J. W.
Kirkton, Normal; Harvey Sconce, Sid-
ell; Howard Leonard, Eureka; and
Sam H. Thompson, Quincy, are ex-
pected to attend. i
Reserve Ticket* Now

While the detailed program for the
banquet has not been definitely ar-
ranged at this writing, the only set
speech scheduled is that of Frank L.
MulhoUand, Toledo, Ohio, who has
won nation-wide reputation as an in-
spirational speaker on organization.
Short talks from representative for-
mer leaders of the various periods
in the early history of the L A. A.
will be given during the early part
of the evening. The banquet promises
to draw an unprecedented number and
all delegates and visitors are being
asked to reserve tickets early.

Last Call

If you have not already made your
reservations for accommodations and
luncheon and banquet tickets at the
annual 1. A. A. meeting do so at once
by writing Otis Kercher, Farm Adviser,
Danville, 111. Send check to cover.
Luncheon $1.00, Banquet $1.50.

WHERE BANQUET AND LUNCHEON WILL BE HELD

Danville's Armory will provide ample room for the banquet, luncheon and

group conference

"The benefit I received from tke
efforts of the Farm Bureau and Illi-
nois Agricultural Association in equal-
izing land valuations in Stephenson
county amounted to $19.76 on my
77.S4 acres," writes Eric A. Carlson
of Lena, III.

SENATOR GLENN IS

LUNCHEON SPEAKER

US. Senator Otis Glenn of Illi-
• nois will address the annual
luncheon scheduled for Thursday,

January 31, in
the armory at
Danville. The
subject of
Senator
Glen n's ad-
dress will be
announced
later but it is
expected that
he will discuss
the farm legis-
lative s i t u a -
tion at Wash-
ing^ton.

Mr. Glenn
was born at

Hon. OUs Glenn Mattoon in

Coles County in 1875 where his
father was a prominent farmer and
stock raiser. He graduated in law
from the University of Illinois after
which he set up law offices at Mur-
physboro in Jackson county. About
four years ago Glenn became a mem-
( Continued on page 2)

President's Address j

to Feature Opening
of I. A. A. Convention

Annual Report of I. A. A. Activities and
Treasurer's Report to Be Released Jan. 30

'"llHE record of accomplish-
J. ments of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Associa-
tion in 1928, to-
gether with rec-
ommendations for
the future will
be covered in the
president's ad-
dress to be deliv-
ered by Earl C. Smith
on Wednesday morn-
ing, January 30, fol-
lowing the opening
of the 14th Annual
Convention.

Mr. Smith will out-
line the trend of the
Association's devel-
opment in the past
year and will give the
high points covering

this stage of the organization's growth
and progress. The president's address
will feature the morning session to be
held in the Terrace Theatre.

Following the president's address
will come the treasurer's report by
Robt. A. Cowles, which is expected to
reflect a favorable financial situation
for the Association and ^1 its subsid-
iaries.

Annual Report Coming |

The Annual Report together with
the Treasurer's Report, now in process
of preparation, will be released to the
membership and the public that morn-
ing. Appointment of committees for
the Convention will be made before
adjournment for lunch.

The five sectional conferences
scheduled for Wednesday afternoon
follow closely the program of last
year. Outside speakers will appear
before at least three of these confer-
ences, although the bulk of the time
from 1:00 to 4:30 p. m. will be de-
voted to shop talk and discussion.
These sectional conferences are pri-
marily designed to give the delegates
and members an opportunity to dis-
cuss the activities and policies of the
Association. It is the time for con-
( Continued on page 5)

I. A. A. MEETING pANyiLLE JANUARY 30-31

r I"

Pagt Two

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Auto Insurance Co.

Looks Forward To

Good Year In 1929

Policy Holders to Meet in Annual Session
Jan. 29, Danville

SHOP talk, including questions
and problems of interest to
policy-holders in the Illinois
Agricultural Mutual Insurance
Company, will have a promi-
nent place on the program at
the organization's annual meet-
ing to be held on the afternoon
of Tuesday^ January 29, at Dan-
ville. Questions pertaining to
liability, various forms of cover-
age, insurance costs, and meth-
ods of figuring losses will be up for
discussion.

The annual reports of the officers
are expected to reveal a very satisfac-
tory condition in the development of
the company in 1928. Organized only
a year and a half ago, the auto insur-
ance project now serves more than
11,000 policyholders located in nearly
every county of the state. The service
has met with general satisfaction and
the company is looking forward to an-
other good year in 1929. -~

Employers' Liability

A new question which may be in-
jected into the meeting this year is
employer's liability insurance. Under
the common law rule of negligence,
farm operators are liable for injury
to employees while on duty. Expe-
riences have been numerous in which
hired men and other employees have
secured judgments in injury cases.
Fanners are not subject to the Work-
men's Compensation Act, but they are
none the less liable for damages aris-
ing out of injuries to hired help. Even
where the employer has not been espe-
cially guilty of negligence, judgments
in favor of the employee have been
awarded.

Senator Glenn

(Continued from page 1)
ber of a Chicago law firm and he no>^
maintains offices both in Murphysboro
and Chicago. In 1916 he was elected
States Attorney in Jackson county
and four years , later Glenn went to
the State Senate from the 44th sena-
itorial district.

Following his father's death in 1912
the Senator has given considerable
time to supervising farming and fruit
gfrowing on 2000 acres of land, most
of which lies in Jackson county on the
Mississippi river.

Mr. Glenn is a vigorous and force-
ful speaker. He has pledged his aid
as the down-state Senator from Illi-
nois to work for the interests of agri-
cultiire in the upper house of Con-
gresa. Illinois farmers will welcome
the opportunity to meet and hear their
new representative. It will be the
Senator's first public appearance since
his election. , i ]

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WOMEN'S CONFERENCE

MRS. HOMER R. JOHNSON
Mrs. Johnson of McLean county, president
of the Illinois Home Bureau Federation, will
preside at the coming Women's Conference
scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, January
30, at the I. A. A. annual meeting. Danville.

ADVISER L. W. WISE OF

IROQUOIS CO. RESIGNS

L. W. Wise of Iroquois county, one
of the oldest farm advisers in pbint of
service in Illinois, tendered his resigna-
tion recently.

Mr. Wise came to Iroquois county in
1912 when the Farm Bureau movement
was young, and continued there as ad-
viser for the past 14 years. He will
undertake farm management work and
superintend farms for non-resident
landowners.

Fifty pairs of Bob White quail were
imported from the United States by
the Calgary Fish and Game Associa-
tion, Canada. The experiment is be-
ing made in the hope that this choice
game bird will flourish in Alberta.

Get Your Ticket!

"When you buy your round-
trip ticket to and from tbe an-
nual meeting of the I. A. A,.,
Danville, January 30-31, mahte
sure that you get fare and a half
rates," states L. J. Quasey, direc-
tor of transportation.

"No certificates are required,"
be says, "but if the agent re-
fuses to sell tickets at a rate of
fare and a half get a receipt from
him for tbe fare paid, then take
it up with a representative of tbe
I. A. A. at tbe annual meeting in
Danville."

Dates of sale are from January
24 to February 2 inclusive, witb
final return limit February 4.

Women's Conference

To Consider Higher

Standard Of Living

Running Water in Every Farm Home is
Bureau Proposal for 1929

WAYS and means of improv-
ing living conditions on
Illinois farms will be the chief
topic for discussion at the Wom-
en's Conference scheduled for
Wednesday afternoon, January
30, at Danville. Mrs. Homer R.
Johnson of Covell, president of
the Illinois Home Bureau Feder-
ation, who is formulating the
program, states that there will
be speakers to show what has
been, done to improve standards of
living without expending a great deal
of money. The speakers will be real
farm women who will talk from expe-
rience. It is proposed to follow the
talks with an hour of open discussion.
An address on coming legislation of
interest toj. Illinois farm men and
women also has been scheduled, the
speaker to be announced later.

"The Home Bureau Federation was
formed to unite and strengrthen the
county Home Bureau organizations; to
promote the welfare of the Individ^"
ual and the family; to adjust their
relations with the home, school,
church, community, state, and nation;
and to further the various interests
of the homemakers," states Mrs.
Johnson.

Works Through Committees

"The Federation does most of its
work through standing committees.
The Better Practice Committee in the
coming year proposes to work out a
plan designed to bring running water
into every farm home in Illinois.
Specifications and approximate costs
for both simple and more elaborate
systems will be drawn up. It is hoped
to interest landlords in the project so
that the tenant will receive compen-
sation far equipment he installs and
leaves in the home when he moves.
We find tenants unwilling to spend
money in a house which they may
leave in a year or two," declared Mrs.
Johnson. "We believe that if land-
lords were more generous in this re-
spect many a tenant's wife could have
simple conveniences which would help
wonderfully."

The fall pig crop in Illinois is about
three per cent larger than that of a
year ago, says the Federal and State
Departments of Ag^riculture.

Iowa reports an increase of 12 per
cent and Kansas a gain of six per cent.
However, the fall pig crop is about 1.5
per cent smaller than a year ago for
the_eom belt as a whole and about five
per cent less for the United States.

"The grreatest good to the greatest
number" is achieved when cooperation
is scientifically and justly applied to
production-distribution-consumption.

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Illinois A^ctdtural Association

RECOI^D

Published monthly bjr the Illinois Agricultural Auoclatloo at 404 North Wesley Are., Mount Morrli, m. Entered ai te«ond clasg matter at poet-offoe at Mount Motrli, m..
Oct. 20. 1925, under the Act of Mar. S, 187>. Acceptance tor malllnc at ipeclal rate of pottace prorlded in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28. 1>2S, authorlied Oct. XT. ItlS.

Volume 7

JANUARY, 1929

Number 1

'

9:00 A. M.

Tax Reform Seen as

Chief Farm Interest

In Next Legislature

I. A. A. Legislative Committee Prepares
To Submit a Constructive Program

AGRICULTURE'S chief inter-
est in the coming sessions
of the 56th Illi-
nois General As-
sembly promises
to be confined
largely to tax
legislation and
an amendment
to the revenue
•section of the
c o nst itution.
While no definite
legislative program
has been adopted by
the I. A. A. Execu-
tive Committee at
this writing, the Pub-
lic Relations Com-
mittee, charged with
responsibility in for-
mulating a program,
has met and dis-
cussed thoroughly
the reforms needed
to bring about a
more equitable dis-
tribution of the tax
burden in the state.
Limitation of the
county road and '
bridge tax, a gas tax
that will provide for
a better system of
farm to market
roads, a suitable in-
come tax that will
take a portion of the
burden off of land
and home owners,
and an amendment
to the antiquated
revenue clause of
the constitution are
specific legislative
proposals about
which a program
will be built, states
Frank D. Barton,
chairman of the
committee.

Get up a party in your community
and drive to tbe annual meeting of the
I. A. A., Danville. Paved roads all the
way. There will be ample ftccommoda-
tions at moderate rates.

■Ai

Ice Cream Meacure

Other legislation
of minor importance
also will receive at-
(Turn to page 7)

__ TENTATIVE PROGRAM

, -"^ Annual Meetings of Affiliated Organizations
Tuesday, Jan. 29, 1929

Danville
Headquarters — Wolford Hotel ',

ANNUAL MEETING, ILLINOIS FARM BUREAU BASEBALL

LEAGUE

Dining Room, 9th Floor, Wolford Hotel
Call to Order — Pres. L. R. Wrfk
Business Session

Address "What It Takes To Make A Good Baseball
Team" — Coach Carl Lundgren, University of
Illinois. ••

Business Session <

ANNUAL MEETING, ILLINOIS FARM BUREAU SERUM
ASSOCIATION

Ballroom, 9th Floor, Wolford Hotel
Call to Order — Pres. O. B. Goble
Business Session

Address "Recent Development In Manufacturing Serum
And" Virus" — D. 0. Skidmore, Chief Division
■ of Virus-Serum Control, U. S. D. A.
Address — Dr. Robt. Graham, University of Dlinois.
Discussion and Business Session

ANNUAL MEETING, ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL MUTUAL
INSURANCE COMPANY j ^

Elks Club — Assembly Room — 2nd Floor I

1:00 P. M. BUSINESS SESSION

(Adjourned meeting, to follow, Thursday, Jan. 31, at
8:30 A. M., Terrace Theatre)

ANNUAL MEETING, ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATIVES

ASSOCIATION

Dining Room, 9th Floor, Hotel Wolford
M. Call to Order. — Pres. George L. Potter
Business Session

FOURTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION ILLINOIS

Practical Problems j

To Feature I. A. C. A.

Convention, Danvil^

Representatives from 212 C^o-op

Members To Gather !

DISCUSSION of practical
problems of business ad-
ministration in
farm co-opera-
tive enterprises
, will be featured
at the . coming
annual meeting
of the Illinois
Agricultural Co-
operatives Asso-
ciation on Jan.

29 at Danville. Dele-
gates from ^he 212

10:00 A. M.

1:00 P.

AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION

Jan. 30-31, 1929
Danville

9:00 A.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 30, TERRACE THEATRE

M. Invocation

Group Singing '

9:30 A. M. Address of Welcome ^

Music
10:00 A. M. President's Address — Earl C. Smith
11:00 A. M. Treasurer's Report — Robt. A. Cowles •
(Continued on page U)

member organiza-
tions are expected to
attend.

E. D. Lawrence,
president of the Mc-
Lean County Service
Company, is sched-
uled to speak on the
subject "Accounting
Records as a Guide
to Business Admin-
istration." W. D.
Mobley, president of
the Mt. Sterling
Farmers' Elevator
Company which has
had a rapid rise
from near failure to
comparative success,
will speak on the
subject "Overcoming
a Deficit." Earl C.
Smith, president of
the I. A. A., is ex-
pected to address the
meeting following
the early business
session.

OflScers of the As-
sociation are:
George L. Potter,
Pontiac, president;
H. J. Shaefer, lUi-
opolis, vice-presi-
dent; A. R. Wright,
Varna, secretary ;
and R. A. Cowles,
Chicago, treasurer.

The meeting will
be held at 1 p. m.,
January 29, in the
dining room, 9th
floor. Hotel Wolford.

Page Four

THE 1. A. A. RECORD

Leading Economist

To Discuss Tariff
j At I. A, A. Meeting

Harvard University Man Recognized as
One of Best On Subject

r^^ of America's outstanding
yj farm economists and stu-
dents of farm relief, particular-
ly in its relation to the tariff,
will speak at the annual meet-
ing of the I. A. A. at Danville,
Jan. 30-31.

John D. Black, professor of
economics at Harvard Univer-
sity and formerly agricultural
economist at the University of Minne-
sota, is this man. He will speak on
the tariff and its relation to the Amer-
ican farmer.

Native of Wisconsin

Mr. Black is a native of Wisconsin.
He ^aduated from
the State Univer-
sity, Madison, where
he secured his Mas-
ter's and Doctor's
degn^ees successively
in 191-0 and 1918.
He served as con-
sulting specialist in
the Bureau of Ag-
ricultural Econom-
ics, Washington, in
1922. He is author
of the book "Intro-
duction to Produc-
t i o n Economics"
and also of a num-
ber of bulletins on
economic subjects.

Mr. -Black will
speak on the lunch-
eon progrram on the
last day of the con-
vention.

\ CONFERENCE SPEAKER

LACHLAN MACLEAY

EDITOR TO
SPEAK

SJ. Duncan-Clark,
• editor of the
Chicago Evening
Post, will address
the Organization-
Information confer-
ence in the Hotel
Wolford on Wednes-
day afternoon. Mr.
Duncan-Clark is a
close observer of
social movements
and reforms. He
has been much in-
terested in the
farmers' efforts to
gain economic
equality and protec-
tive legislation. He
is expected to em-
phasize the impor-
tance of farmers
informing the '
American public
about their prob-
lems.

-Ballroom, 9th

PROGRAM — {Continued from page S)
11:30 A. M. Appointment of Committees
1:00 to 4:30 P. M. Sectional Conferences

ORGANIZATION AND INFORMATION-
Floor, Hotel Wolford

C. E. Bamborough, Presiding

Speaker, S. J. Duncan-Clark, Editor, Chicago Evening
Post

PUBLIC RELATIONS — Armory, Assembly Room, 2nd
Floor

F. D. Barton, Presiding

Speaker — Lachlan Macleay, Secretary, Mississippi Val-
ley Association

MARKETING— Y. W. C. A. Gymnasium, Assembly
Room, 2nd Floor

Samuel Sorrells, Presiding

Speaker — Chris. L. Christensen, Chief Division of Co-
operative Marketing, U. S. D. A.

FINANCIAL BUSINESS SERVICE— Elks Club, As-
sembly Room, 2nd Floor

Geo. F. Tullock, Presiding

WOMEN'S CONFERENCE— Dining Room, 9th Floor,
Hotel Wolford

Mrs. Homer R. Johnson, President Illinois Home Bureau
Federation, Presiding

Subjects for Discussion: "Improving The Standard of
Living for Farm Homes" by Speakers to be Selected

"Forward Looking Legislation of Interest to Illinois
Farm Men and Women" — (speaker to be selected)
4:30 P. M. District Caucuses, and Business Sessions

Nominations of Executive Committeemen to Succeed —

Harold C. Vial, Downers Grove

C. E. Bamborough, Polo

A. N. Skinner, Yates City

George J. Stoll, Chestnut

J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

W. L. Cope, Salem

Fred Dietz, De Soto

WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN. 30, ANNUAL BANQUET

Armory, Danville, Pres. Earl C. Smith, Presiding
6:30 P. M. Music

Old Timers' Reunion — Short Talks, etc.
Address — Frank L. Mulholland, Toledo, Ohio
THURSDAY, JAN. 31, TERRACE THEATRE

9:30 A. M. BUSINESS SESSION
12:30 P. M. ANNUAL LUNCHEON— Armory ''
1:00 P. M. Music ^

Introduction of the Guests

Addresses, Sen. Otis Glenn, Gov. L. L. Emmerson, Prof.
' John D. Black

3:00 P. M. BUSINESS SESSION

L. Macleay To Speak

Before Conference

On Publ. Relations

To Discuss National Transportation Sys-
tem and Importance To Farmers

IA.CHLAN Macleay, secretary of the
-* Mississippi Valley Association, will
address the Public Relations Confer-
ence on Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 30.
He will discuss our national transpor-
tation system and the importance of
waterways as a part of that system.

Mr. Macleay has appeared several
times during the past year on I. A. A.
radio programs from Station WJJD,
Mooseheart. He is one of the best in-
formed and most able speakers in the
country on the subject of waterways.
Macleay was born in Olympia,
Washington. He was publicist, speak-
er, and Executive Commissioner of
the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition,
Seattle, 1908-1909.
In 1914 he became
secretary of the
Chamber of Com-
merce in Syracuse,
New York. Three
years later when
the United States
entered the World '
War Macleay en-
tered the service
where he became a
captain. From 1912
to 1920 he was a
member of the ex-
ecutive committee
of the New York
State Waterways
Association, and in
1922 he became
secretary of the
Mississippi Valley
Association.

Macleay has
made a life study
of inland waterways
economics and is
recogrnized as a na-
tional authority on
their history, im-
provement, and use
for navigation pur-
poses.

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REGISTER

All official dele-
gates to the I. A.
A. Annual Meeting
should register at
once on arrival at
headquarters ip the
Hotel Wolford,
Danville. The Reso-
lutions Committee
will be in session
between 1 and 4
p. m., Wednesday,
Jan. 30. The Com-
mittee's report will
be made Thurs-
day. Ample time
must be allowed for
its preparation.

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Baseball Fans Get

Ready for Mid- Year

Pow-Wow at Danville

State League Shows Much Growth in
Five Years

FARM baseball leaders and
managers will hold their
annual mid-winter conference
when the State Farm Bureau
League meets for its annual ses-
sion at Danville on Tuesday,
January 29. This will be the fifth
annual meeting of the League.
During the past five years Farm
Bureau baseball has spread
from county to county until in
1928 twenty-two county teams

competed for the state title which was
finally won by Tazewell. Heated dis-
cussion reg^arding rules, practices and
eligibility questions has been the or-
der at previous meetings of the
League, and this year promises to be
no exception to the rule.

Two schools of thought have devel-
oped among the League leaders and
followers over the question of who
shall be eligible to play. Under the
present by-laws players are restricted
to Farm Bureau members and mem-
bers of their immediate families whose
principal occupation is farming. Un-
der this rule nearly all Farm Bureau
members living in town have been
barred. As a result several teams have
lost valuable players. One or two
teams were forced out of the running
completely say leaders because they
could not muster enough farm boys
to round out a good nine.

Want* Lenient Rule

Letters received at headquarters of
the State League, Chicago, indicate
that the eligibility question has not
been settled. One team manager sizes
up the situation like this: "A more
lenient eligibility rule is the main ob-
jective, as I see it, to better Farm Bu-
reau baseball. Last year you remem-
ber there were only two org^anized
teams in our district. That caused us
to have a very limited playing sched-
ule which in turn caused a lack of
interest People are not going to at-
tend games to see the same teams
compete, especially if one team hap-
pens to be stronger than the other.
This happened in our district last sea-
son for we had considerable interest
for the first game or two. A wider
eligibility rule will remedy all this for
it will permit more counties to organ-
ize teams which will make a more
complete playing schedule to last the
entire season. This will tend to create
more interest in Farm Bureau base-
ball.

Keep Out Pro's

"As to the leniency of the rule why
not make any player who signs a
three-year contract and pays his own
money, and any player who is a mem-
ber of a Farm Bureau member's fam-
ily regardless of occupation, eligible
to play? I am strictly opposed to
anyone having his membership fee

BASEBALL SPEAKER

COACH CARL LUNDGREN
Coach Lundgren. who will address the an-
nual meeting of the Illinois Farm Bureau
Baseball League, was a former star hurler for
the University of Illinois in 1899, 1900, 1901,
and 1902. He pitched for the Chicago Cubs
for seven years, in two of which they were
world's champions and for three years lead-
ers of the National L.eague. '-

Coach Lundgren came to Illinois in 1921
and under his leadership the Illini teanss have
won most of their games. Last summer Lund-
gren led his players to Japan where they
made a great record playing the championship
teams on the Isle of Nippon.

paid or receiving money for playing."
The baseball convention is called
for 9:00 a. m., Tuesday, January 29.
The meeting will be held in the dining
room on the ninth floor of the Wol-
ford Hotel.

Following the early business session
Coach Carl Lundgren of the Univer-
sity of Illinois will speak on the sub-
ject "What It Takes To Make a Good
Baseball Team."

Officers of the State Leag^ie are:
L. R. Welk, Morton, president; Wayne
Snyder, Versailles, vice-president; and
E. G. Thiem, Chicago, secretary-treas-
urer.

President's Address

(Continued from page 1)
structive criticism and suggestions.
The progn*ani for the most part will be
impromptu, although the directors of
departments will be present to answer
questions and discuss details of their
work if called upon.

The odd-numbered districts will
hold their caucuses to nominate execu-
tive committeemen at 4 :30 p. m.,
Wednesday afternoon. The places of
meeting will be announced in the pro-
gram. The present executive commit-
teemen of these districts are: 1-llth
district, Harold C. Vial, 13th C. E.
Bamborough, 15th A. N. Skinner, 17th
Geo. J. Stoll, 19th J. L. Whisnand,
21st Samuel Sorrells, 23rd W. L.
Cope, and 25th Fred Dietz.

The even-numbered districts will
hold business sessions during this pe-
riod.

T'

Serum Ass'n To ' ' "!

Hear Authorities

On Cholera Control

Meet on Jan. 29, In Annual Session

^HE last word on hog cholera
X control and recent develop-
ments in manufacturing serum
and virus will be presented to
delegates and visitors attending
the annual meeting of the Illi-
nois Farm Bureau Serum Asso-
ciation scheduled for Tuesday,
January 29, at Danville. The
meeting is called for 10 :00 a. m. in

the ballroom on the ninth floor of the
Wolford Hotel.

Following the business session D. O.
Skidmore, chief of the Division of
Virus and Serum Control of the U. S.
D. A., is scheduled to disclose inter-
esting details regarding the manufac-
ture of serum and virus. Dr. Robert
Graham of the University of Illinois
is expected to discuss swine disease
control from a pathological stand-
point, and Dr. James McDonald, in
charge of hog cholera control work
in Illinois, has been invited to lead a
discussion on control problems.

The State Serum Association han-
dled more than 30,000,000 c. c. of
serum and virus last year at a sub-
stantial saving to the Farm Bureau
members of Illinois. The unified ac-
tion of the County Farm Bureaus in
this project not only has made pos-
sible the purchase of immunizing ma-
terials at decidedly lower prices, but
also it has insured a safe and steady
supply.

Farm Bureaus have been instrumen-
tal in driving cholera out of their
counties by advocating consistent vac-
cination. Before the discovery of
control methods early in the 20th Cen-
tury hog cholera took an enormous
toll in this country. Back in 1903-
1904 approximately one hog in five
died from cholera. But during the
past two years the loss from this
source in comparison has been neg-
ligible, i

PROFESSOR HITS TARIFF

DOCTRINE OF COOLIDGE

Prof. H. T. Collings of the Wharton
School of Finance, Philadelphia, ad-
mitted that farmers for the most part
are not getting the benefit of the pro-
tective tariff, in an address before the
recent convention of the American
Economic Association in Chicago.

Prof. Collings referred indirectly to
President Coolidge's tariff pronounce-
ments saying that they had been
"weighed in the balance and found
wanting." He further asserted that
farmers and consumers are getting the
worst of our tariff policy; that the
United States is now manufacturing 20
per cent more goods than is needed at
home; that it must find markets for
these goods; and that modification of
our high tariff policy must be made if
our trade with foreign nations is to be
increased.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

I L L< I N Ol S

CCLTVRAL ASSOCIA

RECORD

To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau warn organized,
namely to promote, protect and repreeent the buaineag, economic.
poiiUctd, and. educational intereata of the farmere of lllinoi* and the
nation, and to develop agriculture.

Published once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave., Mount Morris.
Illinois, by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Entered as second-
class matter October 20, 1925, at the post office at Mount Morris,
Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Accepted for mailing at
special rate of postagre provided for in Section 412, Act of February
28, 1925, authorized October 27, 1925. The individual membership
fee of the Illinois Aerricultural Association is five dollars a year. The
fee includes payment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois
Agricultural Association Record. Postmaster: In returning an un-
called for or missent copy please indicate key number on address as
is required by lawr.

OFFICERS '

President, Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vice-President. Frank D. Barton Cornel!

Treasurer, R. A.-Cowles Bloomincton

I ' EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

J (By Congressional Districts)

1st to 11th H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

12th G. F. Tullock, Rockford

13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th M. G. Lambert, Ferris

ISth A. N. Skinner, Yates City

16th A. R. Wright, Varna

17th Geo. J. StoII, Chestnut

18th R. F. Karr, Iroquois

19th J. L. Whisnand, Charleston

20th Charles S. Black, Jacksonville

21 »t Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22ncL Frank Oexner, Waterloo

23rd W. U. Cope, Salem

24th _ Charles Marshall, Belknap

25th - Fred Dietz, De Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Business Service Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing _ A. D. Lynch

Limestone-Phosphate J. R. Bent

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

Comptroller f- J. H. Kelker

Information George Thiem

Insurance Service V. Vaniman

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller

Organization « G. E. Metzger

Produce Marketing _ F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson

Transportation L. J. Quasey

Executive Committee Acts

AFTER a presentation of the milk situation in
^ the Chicago District had been given by
Harold C. Vial, of Downers Grove, who repre-
sents the dairy section on the I. A. A. Executive
Board, the Committee authorized that the fol-
lowing statement be released:

"The Illinois Agricultural Association has for
years supported and encouraged an aggressive
and effective T. B. eradication program in Illi-
nois, which particularly affected the dairy herds
of our state.

"We have always believed such a program
was the only way to perpetuate the dairy indus-
try while at the same time insuring a pure milk
supply to the public, especially the children of
congested areas, such as Chicago.

"This clean-up campaign has cost the owners
of present clean dairy herds large sums of
money.

"It is appalling to note the inequitable por-
tion of the consumers' cost that is finding its way
to the producers of this pure product.

"We believe in and support the collective bar-
gaining rights of such producers.

"While we are not apprised of all develop-
ments leading up to the present relations exist-
ing between the officials of the Pure Milk Asso-

ciation and the milk dealers of Chicago, we be-
lieve the consumers' interests as well as the pro-
ducers' interests demand that proper representa-
tives of all parties to this controversy, including
representatives of the public interest get together
in a spirit of fairness and settle the present dispute.
"The I. A. A. stands ready and willing to lend
its support to such a program." . * .

Consider Legislative Program

MAJOR projects of legislation for introduction in the
coming session of the 56th General Assembly have
been receiving careful consideration of the Public Rela-
tions Committee for some time. Their conclusions were
reported to the meeting of the Executive Committee on
January 10, and after careful study and consideration
were adopted as their recommendations to the Board of
Delegates at the Annual Meeting to be held in Danville,
January 30 and 31.

Various proposals for constructive changes in our
revenue system make up a large part of this program,
among them being an amendment to the Revenue Article
of the State Constitution designed to give the General
Assembly the power to adopt an equitable taxing system;
a tax on net income of natural persons with moderate
exemptions and moderately progressive rates and with
provision for payment of such a tax by any person only
to the extent that the tax levied upon his income exceeds
all taxes paid on property by said tax-payer; and pro-
vided further, that the proceeds of such a tax on net
income be used to replace the present tax levied on
property for the State Distributive School Fund, or some
other tax now levied on property for state purposes; a tax
on gasoline, provided that the funds derived therefrom
be divided equitably and used for the early completion of
the Hundred Million Dollar Bond issue road system and
improvement of a secondary road system; some revision of
the Co-operative Marketing Act of 1923 to meet require-
ments that have developed with the experience of recent
years.

There will be ample opportunity for full discussion,
consideration and final decision on all of these and other
matters during the conference on Public Relations, and
later when under consideration by the Convention meet-
ing as a whole.

Black Strap Molasses ' *

THE decision of the I. A. A. Executive Committee on
Jan. 10 to give active support to an attempt to se-
cure a 10 cents per gallon tariff on black strap molasses
is of particular interest to Illinois corn growers.

According to our best information approximately 280,-
000,000 gallons of molasses are imported into the United
States annually. This quantity is equivalent to 57,000,000
bushels of corn, which might replace the molasses used to
a large extent in manufacturing industrial alcohol.

It is estimated that an increase in the present one-sixth
to five-sixths of a cent per gallon tariff (depending upon
sugar content) to 10 cents per gallon would increase the
price of corn from three to four cents per bushel.

Illinois produces annually about 300,000,000 bushels of
corn. Approximately 40 per cent, or a total of 120,000,-
000 bushels, is shipped out of the counties where grown.
At 3.5 cents per bushel this would mean an increased
revenue to farmers of the corn belt of 14,200,000.

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The daily farm program of the 1. A. A. from
Station WJJD, Mooseheart (2S4 meters) is
broadcast between 12:30-12:45 p. m. Monday
to Friday inclusive. Hear the daily Chicago
livestock market from the Producers, and each
Friday the weekly market review. Outlook
reports, reviews, and talks by I. A. A. staff
members, officials, and leaders in farm
thought are broadcast daily.

Negotiations are under way to broad-
cast several of the feature talks at the
I. A. A. Convention, Danville, Jan.
30-31 over Station WLS. Raising of
funds to pay the heavy charges imposed
by the utility company for the use of its
lines is the chief obstacle. The execu-
tive committee voted to appropriate a
limited sum for this purpose provided
the balance can be raised from other
sources. If pending arrangements can
be consummated, an announcement will
be made over the radio and in the press
so members may tune in and hear the
program.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
GLEE CLUB TO ENTERTAIN

The University of Illinois Glee Club
which normally includes around 100
voices will provide
the entertainment on
Jan. 30, the opening
day of the I. A. A.
Convention, Dan-
ville, announces Otis
Kercher, chairman
of the local commit-
tee on arrangements.
The University sing-
ers will appear at
the evening banquet
in addition to provid-
ing music during the
day's program.
The Schoenbech
Orchestra has been engaged to play at
the banquet on Wednesday night and
at the luncheon the following day.

"We also intend to have a class of
local dancing girls and a slight-of-hand
performer as part of our entertainment
features," writes Kercher.

Otia Kercher

Lawrence Farlow, secretary of the
Illinois Farmers Grain Dealers' Asso-
ciation will speak on the I. A. A.
radio program at 12:30 on Tuesday,
Jan. 22. Mr. Farlow will discuss the
high points of the Association's com-
ing meeting at Joliet on February 5-
6-7.

F. S. Betz, Chicago, editor of the
Farmers' Elevator Guide, is scheduled
for an address on "Farmers and Big
Business," from Station WJJD, 12:30
p. m., Wednesday, Jan. 30. Ernest V.
Maltby, manager of the Rural Grain
Co., will discuss co-operative grain
marketing the following day.

LUNCHEON SPEAKER

HON. LOUIS L. EMMERSON

LOUIS L. EMMERSON, governor of
■^ Illinois, has accepted an invitation
to deliver a short address at the an-
nual luncheon on Thursday, January
31.

Mr. Emmerson is well known to a
host of I. A. A. members. He has had
a long and successful career in public
life. Mr. Emmerson was born at
Albion, in Edwards county in 1863. He
entered the mercantile business in Mt.
Vernon at the age of 20. He served
successfully in minor public offices
and in 1916 was elected Secretary of
State. He served most efficiently in
that capacity until his recent election
as governor.

Tax Reform

(Continued from page 3)
tention. The Pure Milk Association of
Chicago, in a letter from its secretary,
H. C. Vial, advises that the Association
has officially recorded itself in favor of
legislation forbidding the use of butter
in making ice cream and of raising the
minimum butterfat content of ice
cream from eight to 12 per cent.
Legislation embodying these ideas was
bitterly contested in the 55th General
Assembly with butter manufacturers
objecting strenuously to any move that
promises to curtail their outlet or
source of cream supply. The I. A. A.
will study this question thoroughly
since its own constituents are not fully
agreed on the advisability of such a
measure.

Non-Party Approach
The state is so committed to a pro-
gram of tuberculosis eradication that
an appropriation providing for this
work in the coming biennium should
go through without opposition. The
I. A. A. will resume its interest fn all
legfislation, and opposition to any bills
harmful to agriculture or designed to
increase the tax burden on farms. The
non-party approach in line with the
Association's long-standing policy will
be strictly adhered to as in the past.

Again The Farmer

By

Omar H. Wright, Belvidere, President,
Illinois Bankers Association

'T^O those of us who have passed our
-*- active business lives in agricultural
communities; who have had uninter-
rupted dealings
with farmers dur-
ing that period ;
who have made
loans upon and
who own farm
lands ; it seems evi-
dent that the farm-
ers' financial prob-
lems at this time
are more difficult
than they have
ever been.

We are now
reaping the results
of the shaking out

O. H. Wright

process and there is upon us the real
aftermath of extremely poor crop
yields and partial crop failures during
the years of '26 and '27.

It is yet too soon to receive any of
the benefits of grenerally good crop
yields this past season.

Dean Mumford summed up the situ-
ation at Champaign in November when
he told the Bankers-farm-school that
during the past five or six years the
fanner who had accumulated a reserve
for a rainy day had been drawing ui>on
his surplus steadily and that unless
conditions soon changed he would be
unable to get back on his feet and be
able to farm at a profit when the op-
portunity came to him.

The other day 80 acres of our black
soil farm land in this garden spot of
northern Illinois (all plow land — no
buildings) sold for $40 per acre. It is
doubtful if such a price has been
equalled in this territory in 40 years.

Recently one of the Federal Land
banks, which has loaned liberally in
this section of the state, advised its
loan agent that its loan limit was now
|50 per acre on a farm upon which it
offered to loan $75 per acre a year ago.
In some instances previously it has
gone as high as $90 per acre and num-
bers of our farmers have been increas-
ing their mortgages when possible.

Fortunately for us all, however, the
leadership of such intelligent, able and
well posted men on agriculture as For-
mer Governor Lowden has brought
home to both political parties the real
seriousness of the situation and our
President-elect has pledged himself to
do everything possible to aid in solving
this problem.

It may well be questioned, however,
if additional loans will not be detri-
mental rather than beneficial. Many of
the present ills of the farmer can be
traced to his former ability to too easily
exercise his credit which once was
AA-I-.

In any event it behooves every
Banker in Illinois to get behind any
constructive, carefully considered plan
which may be proposed and help.

It will take Federal legrislation to do
it. — Illinois Bankers' Bulletin.

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Supervised Fanning

Hailed as Next Step

In Farm Production

"Chain Farms" Being Studied by Econ-
omists, Watched by Others

SUPERVISED farming, with
managers in charge of chains
of farms, was given a clean bill
of health by C. L. Holmes of Iowa
State College who told of his in-
vestigations regarding possible
displacement of the independent
family farm by large farms or
chain farm management before
the recent meeting of the Amer-
ican Farm Economic Association.
Mr. Holmes predicted that there
would be considerable further de-
velopment in this direction.

He said that a good manager must
have scientific knowledge, must know
the art of farming, have a keen busi-
ness sense and have financial knowledge
of farm operations, know economic con-
ditions, use price forecasts, and must
know how to select good tenants and
work with them. ■

Social Effects '

He stated that the social effect of
large-scale units need not be detri-
mental to the farm community but may
bring about improvement and give
greater stability to farm communities.
He predicted that farming under large-
scale units might even result in agri-
culture taking a more important part
in the councils of the nation. "Lower
costs of production and a greater out-
put per farm and per man," he stated,
"are necessary to make these other
things possible."

I Bank* Lead Way

Banks and insurance companies hold-
ing large tracts of farm lands as a
result of depressio'n in the industry, are
the principal experimenters in chain
methods. The latest report on their ex-
perience involved 32 farms on a tract
of 7,500 acres in central Illinois. Each
farm was OQfrated by a tenant under
the direction of a general superintend-
ent.

"We shall sooner or later have to
face and answer the question whether
the small independent farm is the size
of productive unit and the form of
productive organization best adapted to
the new conditions of agriculture," Vir-
gil Jordan, chief economist of the Na-
tional Industrial Conference Board,
rrtrently declared.

Five former Illinois farm advisers
are or will soon be engaged in manag-
ing "chain farms" for non-resident
owners. These men are F. E. Fuller,
Chas. Robinson, W. W. McLaughlin, J.
E. Johnson, and L. W. Wise.

The Jersey County Farm Bureau
went on record at its recent annual
meeting recommending that the incom-
ing Board of Directors appoint a
woman's committee to work with them
in the coming year. I

R. F. Karr Addresses

Iroquois County Meet

Executive Committeeman R. F. Karr
of the 18th district addressed the an-
nual meeting of the
Iroquois County
Farm Bureau re-
cently. Mr. Karr
reviewed the activi-
ties of the Illinois
Agricultural As-
sociation and urged
farmers from that
county to attend
the annual I. A. A.
meeting at Dan-
ville the last two
days of January.
Professor W. H.
Smith, state leader
of agricultural extension, and W. T.
Martindale of the Indiana Farm Bu-
reau Federation, were other speakers.
Officers selected for the coming year
are: President, R. F. Karr, Iroquois;
Vice-President, Floyd Hare, Gilman;
Secretary-Treasurer, A. J. Gilliillan,
Watseka; Directors, H. G. Pendergast,
G. C. Honeywell, John Leverenz, George
Tascher, F. W. Schroeder, J. W. Law-
rence, Herbert Benbow.

R. F. K«rr

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■ CAN all be angry
with our neighbor;
what we want is to be
shown, not his defects of
which we are conscious,
but his merits, to which
we are too blind. — R. L.
Stevenson.

■I-M'M'M'M 1 I I-M-I-H'MM-M'l'

"IF THERE is one lesson great-
er than another to be gained
from the experience of the past
eight years, it is the lesson that
agriculture can never hope to
hold its own until it is definitely
and thoroughly organized for
collective action in all the mat-
ters that pertain to the welfare
of agriculture.

"In connection with the
strengthening of the co-opera-
tive movement, it should also be
the purpose of farmers to build
up their general farm organiza-
tions in order that agriculture
may properly express the desire
of farmers in conducting the
affairs of the nation." — Editor
Dan A. Wallace, in "The
Farmer."

Fact Finders Would^
Place Milk Industry

Under Gov't. Control

Recommendations of Committee Would
Have Far-Reaching Effect

RECOMMENDATIONS made by the
Fact Finding Commission ap-
pointed to investigate the Chicagro milk
marketing situation propose that the
milk industry be placed under the regu-
lation of the Illinois Commerce Com-
mission as a public utility if the war-
ring interests decline to accept volun-
tary arbitration.

This is a far reaching proposal and
one that would attract nation-wide at-
tention should it come to an issue be-
fore the State Legislature.

Here Are 5 Points

The five recommendations made by
the Commission are as follows:

"That the milk producers' organiza-
tion, called the Pure Milk Association,
be fully recognized by the dealers, and
that a system of arbitration be set up
here within the industry that the rights
of all elements, including the public, be
protected.

"That the proposed milk strike be
called off.

"That if the present price of milk in
Chicago does not warrant an increase
to the farmer, that the price to the
consumer be increased one cent a quart,
and that all of that increase be paid to
the producers on a base and surplus
price plan.

"That the Chicago milk-marketing
committee hold itself intact until the
present emergency is past.

"That in case the various elements
in the milk industry decline to accept
voluntary arbitration within the in-
dustry that the public be urged to pro-
ceed at once to Springfield and seek
legislation to put the milk industry un-
der the regulations of the Illinois com-
merce commission as a public utility."

Report Blames Both

The committee signing the report
was composed of Newton Jenkins, for-
mer legal counsel for the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association, who served as
chairman; Mrs. W. E. Fribley, repre-
senting the Illinois Federation of Wom-
en's Clubs; and Dr. Arthur E. Holt of
the Chicago Theological Seminary.

The report blamed the milk dealers
for their unwillingness to co-operate
and arbitrate differences with the pro-
ducers, but it placed part of the blame
for unsatisfactory conditions on the
dairymen themselves for not joining
their organization, the Pure Milk
Ass'n., and paying their dues.

W. A. Herrington, farm adviser, in
Stephenson county, it is reported, has
resigned to accept a position in th«
Farm Management Department of the
University of Illinois.

Eugene Davenport, dean-emeritus
of the Illinois College of Agriculture,
is back at the University assisting
President Kinley in Publ'c Relations
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Page Nine

See Gas Engine As

Partly Responsible

For Farm Depression

Brings 41,000,000 Acres Under Plow To
Produce Surplus Crops

'"T^RACTORS, automobiles, and
X other gasoline engines have
destroyed the market for 20,000,-
000 acres of farm crops by dis-
placing over six million horses
during the past nine years," de-
clared Willford I. King of New
York University in a recent paper
read before the American Farm
Economic Association, convention.
"Another 21,000,000 acres for-
merly used for hay and pasture
for horses, have been plowed up
to grow farm crops so as to ag-
gravate the crop surplus prob-
lem," he continued. "Thus we
have 41,000,000 more acres pro-
ducing crops of which we have a
surplus as a result of the influ-
ence of gas engines. This is
approximately one-ninth of the
total acreage in farm crops."

Outlook Favorable

According to Prof. King the gas en-
gine is largely responsible for the pres-
ent agricultural depression. He pointed
out, however, that the outlook for the
future is not so gloomy as appears on
the surface since the population in this
country is increasing 1,250,000 each
year and that 5,000,000 more acres
yearly are needed to care for this in-
crease in population providing yields
continue on the present level. The
crop acreage per capita has decreased
steadily in this country since 1918.

Gas Costs High

L. H. Bean of the Division of Agri-
cultural Economics in commenting on
Prof. King's paper asserted that the
gas engine has made farm costs of pro-
duction more inflexible. "Gas engine
expense has increased from year to
year," he said, "while other farm ex-
penses have decreased." Prof. Bean
stated that farmers' cash income for
living expenditures is 20 per cent less
now than it was in 1919 whereas the
buying power of factory employees has
increased 20 per cent since 1919 mak-
ing a disparity of 40 per cent between
buying power of farmers and factory
workers.

Bean found that since 1920 the use of
tractors and gas engrines on farms has
nearly doubled, although the acreage
in crops has not expanded. In 1919
the cost of operating automobiles, trac-
tors, and gas engines for farm pro-
duction comprised one-third of the pro-
duction costs. In 1927, costs of pro-
duction on farms declined, but costs
attributed to gas engines increased so
that the latter constituted about half
of the total farm operating costs. The
gas engine is responsible for an annual
depreciation of over a billion dollars.
Bean is of the opinion that the present
generation is paying the price for the

"Farmers Have Brains"

"I have no patience with
farmers and their self-pity.
Farmers do not need to organize
— that has been done. They do
need to join their Farm Bureau
and give it their most loyal sup-
port. We have only to look at
the medical and legal profes-
sions to see what may be accom-
plished by cooperation. Farmers
have brains. Let them use them
if they would strengthen their
position in the world. I expect
my husband to have enough pro-
fessional pride to belong to his
ovirn organization and cooperate
to the best of his ability. Then
I know he is working for the
good of his home and commu-
nity. And I have faith to believe
that ultimately it will result in
a standard of living for the farm
home that he will be proud to
pass on to his son."

Mrs D. H. Stevenaon, a Hancock
County Farm Bureau member' »
wife.

revolution in agriculture, the benefits
of which will be derived by succeeding
generations.

LARGE GAINS SHOWN

BY FARM MUTUALS

Farmers' mutual fire insurance com-
panies in the United States have in
the last decade greatly increased the
volume of their insurance in force,
according to^ke department of agri-
culture, which compares figures for
1926 with figures for 1916.

The number of farmers' mutual fire
insurance companies increased little
in the period reviewed, because the
formation of new organizations was
largely offset by the consolidation of
old ones. Their growth in business,
however, was extremely large, as ap-
pears from the fact that 1,911 such
companies on December 31, 1926,
had nearly $10,000,000,000 of insur-
ance in force, compared with less than
$6,000,000,000 on the books of 1,883
similar companies at the close of
1916.

The business of 1926 was done at
the average cost of about 26 cents
per $100 of insurance in force. The
average membership of 1,060 com-
panies was 1,762, compared with an
average of 1,532 members for 1,116
companies in 1916. Insurance per
member in 1926, for companies re-
porting both membership and risks,
was $3,144. No corresponding figure
for the country as a whole is avaUable
for 1916.

Middlemen Fight '

Co-Op. Marketing and
* Government Activity

Would Move Bureau of Agr. Economics
to Dept. of Commerce

WAR on co-operative market-
ing by organized middle-
men determined to cripple the
government's activity in this di-
rection continues.

W. F. Jensen, professional or-
ganizer and business manager of
the American Association of
Creamery Butter Manufacturers,
has written the members of the
organization presenting an out-
line of proposed discussion on Co-
operative Marketing and the Bu-
reau of Agricultural Economics.
The statement forwarded to the
butter manufacturers follows : ^

Marketing No Place

"The present over-development of the
marketing side of the U. S. Dept. of
Agriculture is a product of the war
control of industry; and as marketing,
is a purely commercial operation and
has no proper place in the agricultural
department.

"The obstacle in the way of market-
ing studies by the Department of Agri-
culture is that it limits its activities to
those marketing agencies in which
farmers are members, while 95 per
cent of the agricultural marketing is
performed by middlemen, whose activi-
ties would come under the U. S. De-
partment of Commerce, of which the
President-elect was, until recently, the
head.

"The Department of Commerce must
necessarily maintain agencies at home
and abroad to further the interests of
our mining industry, our fisheries, our
manufacturers and exporters. With the
Bureau of Agriculture Economics trans-
ferred from the Department of Agri-
culture to the Department of Commerce
much wasteful duplication of effort
would be done away with.

"As at present conducted by the De-
partment of Agriculture, there is never
any comparison of the economy of
marketing grain by the co-operative
companies, the pools or the independent
dealers, since the Agricultural Depart-
ment'invariably confines its research
to the financial statements of co-opera-
tive companies, when the middlemen,
handling 90 per cent of the crops are
certainly entitled to whatever assistance
the government can give."

A limited number of I. A. A. An-
nual Reports for 1928 will be avail-
able for general distribution. This
book, handsomely illustrated, will tell
what the I. A. A. is, and what it ac-
complished last year. If you want a
copy, write to the Department of In-
formation, I. A. A., 608 So. Dearborn
St., Chicago, at once. Those who at-
tend the Annual Meeting, Danville,
can get copies at the Terrace Theatre,
Wednesday morning.

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Produce

' i BY FRANK GOUGLER |

'T'HE McLean County Produce Associ-
;. "■■ ation held its first annual meeting
at Bloomington on December 27.
Seventy-five thousand pounds of butter-
fat were handled during the year. Re-
funds were made to Farm Bureau mem-
b^s out of the surplus earnings. This
association is the only one in the state
to confine its membership to Farm
Bureau memJbers.

It is doubtful if any other produce
marketing association has furnished its
creamery any finer cream than has this
unit. The Freeport Dairy and Produce
Company, which purchases the output
of the association, recently made the
following report on quality of cream
received : .

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Month Cana Rec'd

June 340

July .267

August 200

September 204

During September this creamery re-
ceived a total of 1,063 ten gallon cans
from five stations which contained only
one can of second grade cream.

Cant Second
Grade Cream

None
None

Does real sour cream test higher
than cream not so sour? "No," says
Dr. H. A. Ruehe, Chief of the Dairy
Division at the University of Illinois
who addressed several meetings on
quality improvement. Ruehe says that
100 pounds of cream contains a given
amount of fat whether sweet, slightly
sour or extremely sour. Butterfat will
not evaporate, so how can it get away?
"What might happen," he says, "is that
moisture from cream allowed to stand
will evaporate and a subsequent test
might show a higher percentage of fat.
But nothing would be gained here by
the producer for the higher test would
be balanced by the loss in weight."

How much butter will 100 pounds
of butterfat make is a question asked
at miany of our produce marketing
meetings. This is a good question and
is one that should be understood by
every producer who sells butterfat. In
a report from C. Bechtelheimer, Sec-
retary, Iowa Co-operative Creameries,
for 1928 he shows tht average overrun
for 113 creameries to be 23.23 per cent.
In other words 100 pounds of butterfat
will make 123 pounds of butter. This
overrun is largely salt and water which
costs practically nothing. It explains
the reason why creameries can pay
practically the butter price for butter-
fat. The overrun takes care of manu-
facturing costs and profits.

Influence of Volume of Butterfat upon the
Price and Cost

Aver. Price Aver. Cost

Volume of Paid Per Pound of Mfg. Per

Butterfat Butterfat Pound Butter

Less than 100,000 lbs. 48.43 5.69 <

100,000 to IBO.OOO lbs.

50.16

4.19

150,000 to 200.000 lbs.

60.86

4.07

200,000 to 260,000 lbs.

51.03

8.60

250.000 to 300,000 lbs.

62.01

3.02

300,000 to 400.000 lbs.

61.77

2.94

400,000 to 600,000 lbs.

61.90

2.82

Over 500,000 lbs.

52.14

2.88

Another question that is often raised
at these meetings is : What does it cost
to manufacture a pound of butter?
Bechtelheimer also answers this ques-
tion in the same report as follows:

A vexing problem of our cream sta-
tions is the wide range of butterfat
prices quoted during the late fall and
winter months by direct shippers. Re-
cent reports from producers show that
Chicago direct shippers offered as high
as 58 cents while the 90 score butter
market held steadily at 48 cents per
pound. Producers should act cautiously
before accepting such bids. All is not
gold that glitters. ' A. H. Liestman of
Champaign County had been a direct
shipper. He decided to sell through
the cream pool at Fisher. After deliv-
ering two cans, he remarked, "I don't
get as much per pound butterfat
through the pool as the direct shipper
price, but I get more for my can of
cream." This experience has been re-
ported by many. It is self explanatory.
Beware of the exceptionally high offers.

December is the month of greatest
variation in egg prices at country
points. From the following widely dis-
tributed points in Illinois the prices
below are buying prices quoted Decem-
ber 24: Altamont (Effingham County)
35 cents; Clinton (DeWitt County) 44

At long as you leave your product*
in some other person's hand to mar-
ket, you can expect nothing other than
for them to handle it in a way that
will net them the most profit. Farm-
ers should quit cussing big business
and get into it for themselves. — Land
O' Lakes News.

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cents; Walsh (Randolph County) 36
cents; Patoka (Marion County) 40
cents; Champaign (Champaign Coun-
ty) 46 cents. Such wide ranges are
due to two factors, first, fresh eggs at
country points "are exceedingly scarce
at this time of the year; second, it is
the time of year that buyers at terminal
markets are reducing prices low enough
to purchase the spring crop at satis-
factory figures.

These wide' variations in prices create
much dissatisfaction among producers
and many are led to believe that mar-
kets are being manipulated. This is not
the case. The buyer at this time is pay-
ing according to his market outlet. If
the purchaser has a favorable local
demand, he is in better position to pay
higher prices than the dealer who must
depend on shipping to terminal markets.
On the date that these varied prices
were being paid at country points the
Chicago market ranged from as low
as 20 cents for low grade eggs to 34
cents for the best eggs. The New York
market ranged from 25 cents to 52
cents.

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BY RAY E. MUXER

THE Chicago Producers' will hold its
annual meeting at the Stock Yards
Inn, Chicago, on Tuesday, January 22.
Every man interested in livestock pro-
duction is invited to attend. The year
1928 was the best year of the Associa-
tion's history. The total number of
cars handled by rail was 15,895 and
1,118 Jby truck, making a grand total
of 17,013 cars.

The Producers Livestock Commission
Association, National Stock Yards, Illi-
nois, will hold its annual meeting at the
National Hotel, East St. Louis, Tues-
day, January 22. During the past year
this co-operative handled approximately
25% of the total receipts on that mar-
ket. The St. Louis h"euse was the first
of the 13 Producer agencies established
and since its inauguration has made
an enviable reputation in volume of
business and quality of service. Every
livestock grower is invited. i -'

The Illinois Farm Bureau Serum As-
sociation will meet in Danville Tues-
day, January 29. The meeting will
begin at 10 a. m. in the ballroom of the
Wolford Hotel. D. O. Skidmore, chief
of the division of virus and serum con-
trol, U. S. D. A., has been invited to
address the gathering. Dr. Robert
Graham of the University of Illinois
and Dr. James McDonald, in charge of
Illinois hog cholera control work, also
are expected to speak. The Association
handled approximately 35,000,000 cc of
hog cholera serum and virus during
1928.

Chris L. Christensen of the United
States Department of Agriculture will
be the headliner for the marketing con-
ference on Wednesday afternoon, Jan.
30, Danville. Following Mr. Christen-
sen's address the livestock marketing
section will devote itself to a considera-
tion of the livestock marketing pro-
gram of the I. A. A. Suggestions are
invited from delegates or others in at-
tendance. Improved service from local
livestock shipping associations, the re-
lation which should exist between co-
operative shipping associations and co-
operative selling agencies, and the
tendency toward the establishment of
small local yards throughout the corn
belt will be major topics for discussion.

The outlook for American pork prod-
ucts fn Germany is still unfavorable
and existing conditions do not offer
much hope for any decided change that
will work for an early increase in
sales, says the Dept. of Commerce.
Th^ movement of home-grown hogs to
market has increased considerably dur-
ing the past month and the price of live
pork has held fairly steady.

It is estimated that over 50 per cent
of the hogs in Germany are fed on
imported feeds.

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BY L. A. WILLIAMS

THE Country Life Insurance Com-
pany is now a fact. Reservations
are in that will consume the entire
allotment of the first participating
ordinary life policy. Just as rapidly
as the applications can be taken and the
information obtained from each risk,
the policies will be issued and protec-
tion for these Illinois Farm Bureau
members will beg^in to be effective.
Nothing like this has ever been enacted
at the inauguration of any life insur-
ance company.

The enthusiasm which the Country
Life Insurance Company is meeting
with assures a tremendous first year's
business, which in turn assures pros-
perity for all time, since the fii^gj^^ar
is the expense year for any life ins
ance company. The work that is don?
now in starting a company will never
have to be done again, and it only re-
mains for each Farm Bureau member
to participate in the benefits of this
great protection organization, for us
to be 100 per cent efficient in our de-
partment.

There will be some applicants who
will not be able to get the first policy
because they are not desirable risks.
They in turn will be fair to the other
members and feel that it is only fair
that the better risks enjoy the better
rates and superior benefits. Where
medical examinations are made, it will
be because the risk requires further
investig^ation. Whenever that investiga-
tion is made, the applicant should feel
that information will result which is
worth much to him as well as to the
Insurance Company. If anything is
physically wrong with the applicant
he would be the one to benefit from such
information by attempting to correct
the impairment as quickly as possible.

Life insurance prolongs life because
the applicant is constantly advised of
his physical fitness. He also is relieved
of the great strain and worry which
in time of sickness permits him to re-
cuperate without worry of what would
happen should he pass out of the pic-
ture. Life insurance is constantly in-
creasing the wealth of our member-
ship, leaving funds for adequate rear-
ing of children, and more favorable
living circumstances. It is a great co-
operative move based upon group aver-
ages of life expectancy, averages of in-
terest earnings, and averages in per-
sistency of business.

Among the younger generation life
insurance is welcomed as a definite sav-
ings contract, a definite way to guaran-
tee an estate, a definite way to pay up
an estate, and a definite way of guar-
anteeing a competence for a future

date. We find the advice of the older
people always ready, and always 100
per cent in favor of the younger people
taking out life insurance at an early
age, thereby establishing a lower rate,
and also precluding the possibility of
rejection at a later time when impair-
ment may creep in making them un-
desirable risks for a life insurance
company. Life insurance is an aid to
greater stability of the American home.
It has become an economic necessity in
creating estates, in guaranteeing the
necessities of life as well as home com-
forts, in providing for the education of
children, and in making possible a
higher plane of living.

large funds. Our aim is rather to
spread the news of what Country Life
is and what it will do. We want every
member and his family to know what
group bargaining and action will do
for each one in protection and savings
accounts insurance, lower rates, poli-
cies without frills, claims without con-
test, highest security, and in general old
line life insurance minus unnecessary
costs and charges. i , . i

Life insurance is the recognized in-
stitution for carrying out family plans
and hopes by means of contract that
protects against the unforseen catas-
trophe to the income earner and engi-
neer of affairs of the family. We hope
all Farm Bureau members will watch
for and study each policy offer as it is
made, and that many will use the op-
^portunity presented that low-price pro-

;tion may be maintained. By so do-
ill^^he superior benefits will constantly
an^mncreasingly return to the policy-
hold^^to whom they rightfully belong.
Economsfcjn managing a life insurance
company's affairs is the eternal watch
word. Economy coupled with the
mutual benefit plan makes for low-
cost protection and high efliciency.

Confidence and co-operation will re-
sult in cash savings; this you make
possible by sending in the business at
a lower cost, saving a large sales ex-
pense, ^nd permitting us to exercise
econonJy at the Home Office in all plans
and overhead. Tell your neighbor about
the Country Life Insurance Company
and the benefits of Farm Bureau mem-
bership.

Our aim is not to pile up insurance
money for the sake of accumulating

Produce Marketing

(Continued from page 10)

During November the Scott County
(Winchester, 111.) Produce Marketing
Association handled 5,743.89 pounds of
butterfat, 15,749 pounds of live poultrj',
and 1,119 dozen eggs. The total
trading income on the three commodi-
ties amounted to $636.05 and the total
expenses amounted to $303.02, leaving
a surplus of $333.03. Operating costs
were as follows for each commodity:
Butterfat $143.96 or 2.49c per pound;
poultry $149 or Ic per pound; and eggs
$10.46 or Ic per dozen.

A Company for I
Insurance Companies

THE Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Company is a
service institution for fire and tornado insurance
eompanies^^Its work begins where that of the county
or township mutual ends. It provides :

DIRECT INSURANCE to cover risks such as large
residences, buildings, community school buildings
and churches which the local company cannot handle
with safety; I i

SPECIFIC REINSURANCE to enable local cbmpanies
to spread their larger risks and so prevent heavy as-
sessments in case of unusually large losses.

BLANKET REINSURANCE to assist local companies
when they have excessive losses for any year. ' =

And all on the mutual, AT COST ba$is.

It Will Pay You to Investigate. I i |/

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THE millionaire and the pauper can get along without automobile insurance.
The wealthy man can afford to carry his own risk — the pauper has nothing to lose.
But most of us are in neither class. Few people can afford to pay a $10,000 or
$15,000 judgment for injuring another. A car destroyed or lost by, fire, theft, or
collision would be felt keenly by the majority of owners. Why carry this risk
yourself when at small cost you can be fully protected? ? \ | f

THE expense is very nominal even for a full coverage policy because as a
Farm Bureau member you pay only actual cost of insurance: in YOUR OWN
COMPANY. i I I ^ I

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Number 2

FEBRUARY, 1929

Volume 7

Smith and Barton
Succeed Selves, A
New Director Named

Many Early Leaders Beturn for Ban-
quet and 10th Anniversary
Celebration

PRESIDENT Earl C. Smith
and Vice-President Frank
D. Barton were unanimously re-
elected at the business session
following the annual banquet
held on Wednesday night, Jan.
30, at the 14th Annual I. A. A.
Convention, at Danville. Mr.
Smith's name was placed in
nomination by E. E. Stevenson,
president of the LaSalle County
Farm Bureau and a charter

member of the orgranization. He paid
a glowing tribute to Pres. Smith for
his energetic devotion to the work of
the Association. Col. George B. Sea-
man of Christian county seconded the
nomination, and E. C. Coulter of San-
gamon county moved that the nomi-
nations be closed. The Secretary was
instructed to cast a unanimous ballot
for the president.

"Uncle Joe"
Fulkerson of Jer-
sey county, in a
brief complimen-
tary speech, nomi-
nated Frank Bar-
ton. J. C. Sailor
of Iroquois county
seconded the nomi-
nation. Charles
Meis of Livingston
county moved that
the nominations be
closed, and a
unanimous ballot
was ordered cast for the vice-presi-
dent.

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President Smith and Vice-President
Barton both responded with appropri-
ate remarks in which they pledged
their best abilities to the cause of or-
ganized agriculture and the future of
the Association.

Only one change was made in the
Executive Committee. C. J. Gross of
Piatt county succeeded J. L. Whisnand
of Coles county in the 19th congres-
sional district. All other directors
from the odd-numbered districts were
re-elected.

RE-ELECTED

C. J. Cross

Eari C. Smith Frank D. Barton

President Sam H. Thompson of the
American Farm Bureau Federation
praised President Smith for his lead-
ership and energy in carrying on the
administrative work of the Associa-
tion. He stated that he had witnessed
the re-election of 20 presidents of
State Farm Bureau Federations dur-
ing the past few months.

Former Officer* Back

Among the "old-timers" who at-
tended the birthday party held in con-
nection with the annual banquet on
Wednesday night were Ex-Presidents
J. W. Kirkton, Howard Leonard, Har-
vey Sconce, Sam H. Thompson, and
former Executive Committeemen C. V.
Gregory, Stanley Castle, N. F. Elder,
D. G. Reder, H. T. Marshall, John C.
Gummersheimer, J. C. Sailor, H. E.
Goembel, A. O. Eckert, Jacob Olbrich,
and Joe Fulkerson. Other ofBcers
present were George A. Fox, former
secretary and treasurer, and Dean H.
W. Mumford, who was the first direc-
tor of livestock marketing for the As-
sociation. All responded with short
talks. Members of the I. A. A. Ex-
ecutive Committee participated by in-
troducing their nearest neighbors
seated at the speakers' table.

Frank L. Mulholland of Toledo, the
speaker of the evening, came on late
in the program and accomplished the
difScult task of holding and interest-
ing his audience though many speak-
ers had preceded him.

Entertainment was provided by the
University of Illinois Glee Club. The
boys from Urbana made the Armory
ring with a variety of college songfs.
After the singing came brief "wise-
cracking" which provided much mer-
riment

"The banquet was an inspiration
from beginning to end," said many a
first-time delegate.

It Was Another Great
I.j A. A. Meeting, Every
One Went Home Happy

DanvUle Was the Ideal Hostess,
Enthusiasm, Harmony Prerall

ANOTHER great annual I. A.
-ix A. meeting is history. Thia
assembly at Danville the last
two 'days of January did not re-
veal any marked departure
from previous conventions. But
harmony, hopefulness, self-con-
fidence, determination, enthu-
siasm, pride was in the air.
There was a general feeling of
satisfaction in the realization
that 14 years after its birth, 10
years after the renaissance of 1919,
the Illinois Agricultural Association
was a potent going concern, the pride
of its founders — the largest trade or^
ganization in the state.

Adviser Otis Kercher, President
Lenhardt, Lieutenant Sandusky, Ver-
milion County Farm Bureau folks, the
Danville Chamber of Commerce, H.
C. Horneman, the amiable, friendly
president of the Sugar Creek Cream-
ery Company had done their work and
done it well. Never has an I. A. A.
convention been better handled. There
was room for every session, assembly
halls conveniently located, splendid
accommodations for all. ,

Tuesday Niglit Dinner

The Farm Bureau presidents', farm
advisers', I. A. A. conunittee, oflScers
and staff members' "closed session"
dinner on Tuesday night was a high
point in the week. The food was ex-
cellent, the service unexcelled, the en-
tertainment unsurpassed. It was all
provided by the Danville Chamber of
Commerce and the Sugar Creek
Creamery Co. Danville was a consid-
erate and kindly host.

The resolutions presented elsewhere
in this issue reveal no particular
change in organization policy. The
old principles are all there. There are
additions, revisions, modifications, but
the problems today are little different
from those of last year, the year be-
fore, five years ago — and there is
recognition of this fact.

Journaluta Get Mention

There were 194 official delegates,
every county represented. For con-

niillionaire and the pauper can get along without automobile insurance.

The wealthy man can afford to carry his own risk — the pauper has nothing to lose.

. But most of us iire in neither class. Few people can afford to pay a $10,000 or

$15,000 judgment for injuring another. A car destroyed or lost by fire, theft, or

I ,» collision would-be felt keenly by the majority of owners. Why carry this risk

' yourself when alt small cost you can be fully protected? i

i /* THE expense is very nominal even for a full coverage policy because as a
'Farm Bureau member you pay only actual cost of insurance in YOUR OWN

COMPANY. I

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FEBRUARY, 1929

Volume 7

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Smith and Barton

Succeed Selves, A
New Director Named

Many Early Leaders Return for Ban-
quet and 10th Anniversary
Celebration

PRESIDENT Earl C. Smith
and Vice-President Frank
D. Barton were unanimously re-
elected at the business session
following the annual banquet
held on Wednesday night, Jan.
30, at the 14th Annual I. A. A.
Convention, at Danville. Mr.
Smith's name was placed in
nomination by E. E. Stevenson,
president of the LaSalle County
Farm Bureau and a charter
member of the organization. He paid
a glowing tribute to Pres. Smith for
his energetic devotion to the work of
the As.sociation. Col. George B. Sea-
man of Christian county seconded the
nomination, and E. C. Coulter of San-
gamon county moved that the nomi-
nations be closed. The Secretary was
instructed to cast a unanimous ballot
for the president.

"Uncle Joe"
P'ulkerson of Jer-
sey county, in a
brief complimen-
tary speech, nomi-
nated Frank Bar-
ton. J. C. Sailor
of Iroquois county
seconded the nomi-
nation. Charles
Jleis of Livingston
county moved that
the nominations be
closed, and a
unanimous ballot
was ordered cast for the vice-presi-
dent.

Gross From Piatt

President Smith and Vice-President
Barton both responded with appropri-
ate remarks in which they pledged
their best abilities to the cause of or-
ganized agriculture and the future of
the Association.

Only one change was made in the
Executive Committee. C. J. Gross of
Piatt county succeeded J. L. Whisnand
of Coles county in the 19th cong^res-
sional district. All other directors
from the odd-numbered districts were
re-elected.

RE-ELECTED

C. J. Cross

Earl C. Smith Frank D. Barton

President Sam H. Thompson of the
American Farm Bureau Federation
praised President Smith for his lead-
ership and energy in carrying on the
administrative work of the Associa-
tion. He stated that he had witnessed
the re-election of 20 presidents of
State Farm Bureau Federations dur-
ing the past few months.

Former Officers Back

Among the "old-timers" who at-
tended the birthday party held in con-
nection with the annual banquet on
Wednesday night were Ex-Presidents
J. W. Kirkton, Howard Leonard, Har-
vey Sconce, Sam H. Thompson, and
former Executive Committeemen C. V.
Gregory, Stanley Castle, N. F. Elder,
D. G. Reder, H. T. Marshall, John C.
Gummersheimer, J. C. Sailor, H. E.
Goembel, A. 0. Eckert, Jacob Olbrich,
and Joe Fulkerson. Other officers
present were George A. Fox, former
secretary and treasurer, and Dean H.
W. Mumford, who was the first direc-
tor of livestock marketing for the As-
sociation. All responded with short
talks. Members of the I. A. A. Ex-
ecutive Committee participated by in-
troducing their nearest neighbors
seated at the speakers' table.

Frank L. Mulholland of Toledo, the
speaker of the evening, came on late
in the program and accomplished the
difficult task of holding and interest-
ing his audience though many speak-
ers had preceded him.

Entertainment was provided by the
University of Illinois Glee Club. The
boys from Urbana made the Armory
ring with a variety of college songs.
After the singing came brief "wise-
cracking" which provided much mer-
riment.

"The banquet was an inspiration
from beginning to end," said many a
first-time delegate.

It Was Another Great I

I. A. A. Meeting, Every
One Went Home Happy

Danville Was the ideal Hostess,
Enthusiasm, Harmony Prevail

AXpTHER great annual I. A.
L. A. meeting is history. This
assejnbly at Danville the la.st
two idays of January did not re-
veal! any marked departure
froni previous conventions. But
harriiony, hopefulness, self-con-
ndeijice. determination, enthu-
.siasm. pride was in the air.
There was a general feeling of
satisfaction in the realization
that 14 yeai-s after its birth, 10

years after the renaissance of 1919,
the niinois Agricultural Association
was a potent going concern, -the pride
of its founders — the largest trade or-
gani^tion in the state.

Adviser Otis Kercher, President
Lenhardt, Lieutenant Sandusky, V'er-
milion County Farm Bureau folks, the
Danville Chamber of Commerce, H.
C. Horneman, the amiable, friendly
president of the Sugar Creek Cream-
eiy Company had done their work and
done it well. Never has an I. A. A.
convention been better handled. There
was <-oom for every session, assembly
halls 1 conveniently located, splendid
accoitimodations for all.

Tuesday Night Dinner

Th^ Farm Bureau presidents', farm
advisfer;5', I. A. A. committee, officers
and ^taff members' "closed session"
dinnetr on Tuesday night was a high
point! in the week. The food was ex-
cellent, the service unexcelled, the en-
tertainment unsurpassed. It was all
provided by the Danville Chamber of
Commerce and the Sugar Creek
Crcaitiery Co. Danville was a consid-
erate and kindly host.

The resolutions presented elsewhere
in this issue reveal no particular
change in organization policy. The
old principles are all there. Thei;e are
additions, revisions, modifications, but
the pji-oblems today are little different
from those of last year, the year be-
fore, five years ago — and there is
recognition of this fact.

Journalists Get Mention

There were 194 official delegates,
every county represented. For con-

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renience the press men called the
crowd 2000. Since the newspaper

tnen and women seldom get mentioned
hey are presented as follows: Allen
R. Dalrymple, Chicago, Associated
Press; Frank Ridgway, Chicago Trib-
une; E. J. Beckman, Chicago Journal
pf Commerce; Gifford Ernest, Chicago
paily News; Frank Bill, Bloomington
Pai;tagraph; Agricultural Editor Ker-
ther of the Decatur Herald; Jack Wil-
liams, Danville Commercial News. The
f&Tza journalists, all from Prairie
Fahner's staff, were Floyd Keepers,
John Lacey, Miss Lois Schenk. Editor

f/. V. Gregory is mentioned among the
'old-timers." He was "in" at the
t)irth of the I. A. A. S. J. Duncan-
Dlark, editor of the Chicago Evening
?ost, was the principal speaker before
^he Organization-Publicity conference.

Zero Weather Arrive*

Lack of space forbids printing in
^his issue all the interesting speeches.

lost of the news you already have
$een in the press dispatches and in
t*rairie Farmer. The reporters handled
<he news of the convention most ably.
The Associated Press stories found
their way into newspapers throughout
fhe United States.

Every official delegate to the meet-

ng "checked in." Every one stayed
to be in on the final session Thursday
^ternoon. Snow and zero weather
blew in the last day of the meeting
but apparently everyon^ went home
iappy. i

AS OTHERS SEE US

Earl C. Smith on Farm Relief

That Earl C. Smith of Pittsfield has
Teen reelected president of the Illinois
J Agricultural association with a mem-
ership of 60,000 is an honor of which
e may well be proud. His has been
delicate and difficult task during the
last year of bitter controversy over
gricultural relief. As a delegate to
e republican national convention at
Kansas City, he championed the
iLowden farm relief plan, based largely
ijpon the principle of the equalization
e, but the agricultural group which
resident Smith represented went
own to defeat. The division of agri-
Itural forces on other issues during
t^e election campaig^n made collective
rm action at the po|^ impossible,
ut all of the various groups, although
icing conflicting opinions, agreed
that great good had been accomplished
through agitation of the question of
ffarm relief which brought from Mr.
Hoover, the successful candidate for
the presidency, a pledge that he would
call a special session of congress and
that farm relief would be made a para-
mount issue in his administration. In
this agitation President Smith took an
active part. He now advises that Presi-
dent-elect Hoover "should have the
o^jportunity to direct the preparation
aiid enactment of legislation embody-

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' THE "PAWNEE FOUR"

Left to ri(ht: D. C. Dragoo, H. B.' Austin, W. L. Dragoo,
Hoagland.

E. V.

ing the necessary principles to carry
out promises made by him during the
campaign." No other position could
be taken logically and with any prom-
ise of desirable and practical results.
As Mr. Smith suggests, farmers must
not be too reliant upon others, but
must develop the "self-help" plan. The
State Reg^ister believes in the power
of organization and sees in the grad-
ual coordination of farm groups the
greatest promise of practical legisla-
tive results. Certainly, the practical
progrram for all concerned at this time
should be one of cooperation regard-
less of conflicting views and prejudices
created during the campaign. They
will thus expedite the passage of farm
relief legislation by the Hoover ad-
ministration and aid in making it ef-
fective.

The State Register favored the
equalization fee farm relief plan and
agreed whole-heartedly with the Low-
den forces in the republican national
convention, but as President Smith of
the I. A. A. said yesterday in Danville,
the Hoover plan must now be tried
and to make it successful there must
be self-help and agricultural coopera-
tion. There can be no denial of the
fact that agriculture has suffered from
economic injustice, and has not en-
joyed a fair share of national pros-
perity. As it is the basic industry
such an injustice is indefensible.
Prosperity for the farmers means a
more general spread of prosperity for
the entire human family. — Springfield,
111., Register.

What Busy Farm Organization Can Do

Newspaper readers who do not or-
dinarily scan the pages devoted to
agricultural interests, would do well
to look over the annual report of Earl
C. Smith, president of the Illinois
Agricultural Association, as published
in The Pantagraph of Friday. With-
out here attempting even to refer to
the many forms of activity for the
benefit of farmers in which that organ-
ization has engaged the past year, it
can be said that the President's an-
nual report served to open the eyes
of the average layman as to the possi-
bilities of organized effort for agri-
culture. One wonders how the busi-
ness of the farm was carried on in the
old days before there were organiza-
tions of farmers and the many forms
of advice and information which they
are now dispensing. — Bloomington
Pantagraph.

The Price of Unequal Representatio*

The Illinois Agricultural Association
has renewed its demand for a state
income tax. The farmers represented
by the Association contend that the
present taxes bear too severely upon
land, and therefore upon agriculture.
They wish an income tax because it
would relieve farmers and transfer a
part of their burden to salary and
wage earners.

As long as the legislature of Illi-
nois deprives the cities of an honest
apportionment, based on the census,
the merits of the farmers' argument
are not likely to be given serious con-
sideration. The city members can
block a state income tax law, and they
must do so at least until the taxpayers
who will bear the burden of the new
tax are given a fair share in the legis-
lature which levies it. — Chicago Trib-
une.

Prejudice Is Bar To
Understanding

"Develop your genius for communi-
cation from among your own young
people. Modern writers are needed to
tell the story of farm success and
achievement," said S. J. Duncan-Clark,
editor of the Chicago Evening Post, ad-
dressing the Organization-Information
Conference during the I. A. A. conven-
tion at Danville. "You have a story,"
said Mr. Duncan-Clark. "Tell it. Call
on the young people who have writ-
ing ability from among your own
ranks."

Mr. Duncan-Clark spoke of the
prejudices which exist between the
city and country.

"The comment and criticism of the
farmer you hear in the city," said
the speaker, "is that he is always
grumbling. Somehow we have gotten
that impression and somehow you have
given it to us. You know more about
us than we know about you. You read
about our scandals in the newspapers
and may judge us accordingly. We
read about you only when you throw
our milk into the ditches and have a
grievance. Thus, both of us have the
wrong impressions of each other."

During the course of the speaker's
address a delegrate in the audience
shouted "Put it in the Chicago
papers," referring to Duncan-Clark's
suggestion that farmers tell their
story of achievement. "That's a good
suggestion," returned the speaker.
"Maybe it will bear fruit."

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Volume 7

FEBRUARY, 1929

Number 2

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Annual Luncheon Is
High Light Among

Convention Events

Guests Represent Many State -Wide
Organizations

NEARLY a thousand delegates and
visitors attended the annual I.

House Agricultural Committee, 56th
General Assembly; Senator A. S. Cuth-
bertson of Bunker Hill; Howard Leon-
ard, Eureka; and Harvey J. Sconce of
Sidell. Spealcers Varied

Each guest responded, on being pre-
sented, with short talks. Chairman
Malone vigorously outlined the de-
A. A. luncheon held in Danville's ar- velopments in the fight for obtaining
mory on Thursday, Janu- ___^^

Annual Report Shows
What I. A. A. Did For
Members During 1928

Indicates Active Service In All De-
partments for Year

ary 31. President Earl
C. Smith presided. About
noon John H. Harrison,
publisher of the Danville
Commercial News, arrived
from Washington bringing
a special message from
Senator Otis Glenn who
was detained in the Capi-
tal. Mr. Harrison took
Senator Glenn's place on
the program and read a
personal message from
him, and g^reeting^s from
Senators Arthur Capper of
Kansas and C. L. McNary
of Oregon. Due to the ill-
ness of Senator Deneen,
Mr. Glenn decided to re-
main in Washington so Illi-
nois would be represented
in the fight for the passage
of the Cruiser bill.
Many Guests
Among the luncheon
guests were Wm. H. Ma-
lone, chairman of the Illi-
nois Tax Commission; C.
G. Ferris, secretary of the
Illinois Chamber of Com-
merce; John H. Walker, president of a fair assessment of property for tax
the Illinois State Federation of Labor; purposes in Cook county. The Tax
Representative Hugh M. Luckey of Commission had declared invalid the
the Illinois Legislature; Dr. R. E. valuations of 1927 after which it was
Hieronymus, University of Illinois; revealed that Chicago bankers had
James L. Donnelly, secretary, Illi- loaned $140,000,000 to the city tak-
nois Manufacturers' Association; State ing tax warrants as security. When
Senator Ray Paddock; H. E. Young, the 1927 assessment was declared in-
secretary of the Illinois Farmers' In- valid they were left holding the sack.

A SURVEY of activities and accom-
plishments of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association for 1928 reveals
that fifty County Farm Bu-
reaus sponsored member-
ship campaigns since the
first of January; that four-
teen of these had increased
their membership over that
of three years ago; and
that twenty other counties
signed up approximately
the same number. Six other
counties were expected to
show a loss in membership.
Thus, the standing in the
fifty counties on the aver-
age will be little different
than that of three years
ago, according to George
Metzger, director of or-
ganization. Ten counties
launched membership
drives late in the year.
Four of these were ex-
pected to hold their own
while the other six were
expected to show an in-
crease. The membership
in the I. A. A. is close to
60,000. McLean and Knox
counties are the two lead-
ers in number of members.
Both are , large counties.

PUBLICITY

THE Department of Information
reported that news of I. A. A.
activities had appeared in the press
in practically every state in the
Union; that 357 written news stories
had been released in addition to other
stitute; Professor John D. Black, Har- The bankers, subsequently, assisted in short news items telephoned to the
vard University; Dean H. W. Mum- raising funds to reassess Cook county three press associations in Chicago;
ford, University of Illinois; Dean- property on an equitable basis and to that the Association had broadcast a
Emeritus Eugene Davenport, who is publish the assessments by street and total of 101 hours ov,er radio Station
back at Urbana assisting President number. WJJD, Mooseheart, and in addition its

Represents Gov. Emmerson representatives broadcast twice on

Silvery-tongued Orator Senator Kes- nation-wide chains of radio stations.

singer came as the personal represent- In addition to staff members, more

(Continued on page 13) than 40 prominent outside radio

Kinley; President Sam H. Thompson;
State Senators Harold C. Kessinger
of Aurora and Simon Lantz of Con-
gerville; C. E. Bruer, Chairman qf the

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speakers appeared on the I. A. A. daily
programs.
lit is estimated that approximately
100,000 people attended the 14 district
picnics sponsored jointly by the Farm
Bureaus and the Illinois Agricultural
Association during the year.

TAXATION

DURING 1928 tests of valuations
by the Department of Taxation
•were completed in 12 counties. Sub-
stantial deductions in valuations were
made particularly in Stephenson,
Crawford, Richland, and Johnson
counties, and a somewhat smaller re-
duction in St. Clair county. Following
the long struggle for equalization in
Champaign county, the 1928 Board of
Review reduced land valuations from
10 to as high as 20 per cent. Earlier
in 1928, the State Tax Commission
reduced valuations of land and im-
provements in 10 counties all in south-
em Illinois, the reductions varying
from 10 to 20 per cent.

The Department estimates that
taxes for all purposes on farm lands,
payable early in 1928, were $4,400,-
000 less than they would have been
if the high valuations current in 1920-
22 had remained, and $1,800,000 less
than they would have been if the 1926
valuations had remained unchanged.

Much of the time of Mr, Watson,
director of taxation, was spent in
studying the entire revenue system of
the state as a member of the Joint
Legislative Revenue Committee ap-
pointed by the Governor of Illinois.
The report of the committee was sched-
uled for completion February 1, 1929.
Mr. Watson was the only member rep-
resenting agriculture on the committee.
The report will point out some of the
fundamental weaknesses of the present
tapting system and will suggest statu-
tory and probably constitutional
changes necessary to remedy such
weaknesses.

GRAIN MARKETING

«ARRISON FAHRNKOPF, former
farm advisor in McLean county,
became grain marketing director on
Oct. 1.

The new grain marketing program
is being developed in close co-opera-
tion with the State Farmers Grain
Dealers' Association. The ultimate
goal is greater service and more satis-
fajctory prices and marketing condi-
tions for the man on the farm.

The Association recognizes the im-
portance of the farmers' elevator as a
b^ic unit in a grain marketing system.
It lis hoped to stimulate greater inter-
est and participation on the part of
farmer stockholders and patrons in
these co-operative agencies.

The memorandum of agreement
adopted by the I. A. A. and I. F. G.
D.I- A. joint committee on relations
states that: 1. The Farm Bureaus of

Illinois recognize the farmers' ele-
vators of Illinois as the medium
through which any constructive grain
marketing program should go forward.

2. The announced purpose of said
farmers' elevators is to operate so as
to return the largest possible ultimate
price to the producers of grain.

3. Both the Farm Bureaus and the
farmers' elevators recognize that to
carry out most effectively paragraph
2, it is essential to control the market-
ing of the maximum volume of grain
produced within a given area.

4. Therefore, the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association is willing and desir-
ous of rendering such constructive
service as may be deemed advisable
and feasible to increase the volume of
business now being handled by farm-
ers' elevators, and stimulating the
moral support of the farmers behind
said elevators. We, the representa-
tives of said Association, submit to
the representatives of the Illinois
Farmers Grain Dealers' Association
our willingness to employ and main-
tain a grain marketing director to
carry out a program which may be
agreed upon by both the Farmers
Grain Dealers' Association of Illinois
and the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion.

LIVESTOCK MARKETING

ON DECEMBER 1, 79 of the 94 or-
ganized Illinois County Farm Bu-
reaus were emphasizing livestock mar-
keting as one of their important proj-
ects. The major activity of the Asso-
ciation was to co-operate with these
Farm Bureaus in carrying out an ag-
gressive educational campaign in co-
operative livestock marketing. County-
wide meetings of directors and man-
agers, trips to central markets, con-
ferences with livestock shippers and
officials, etc., were held. Thousands
of livestock growers in Illinois attended
the 48 tours to the Chicago, Peoria,
Indianapolis, and East St. Louis ter-
minal markets.

Considerable work was done with
shipping associations in matters relat-
ing to better methods of accounting,
use of trucks in assembling livestock,
and annual meetings.

The co-operative Producer livestock
marketing agencies on the four mar-
kets in and adjacent to Illinois reg^is-
tered increases in receipts of Illinois
livestock of approximately 17 per cent
during the first six months of 1928 over
a similar period in 1927.

The Illinois Farm Bureau Serum
Association purchased co-operatively
36,100,000 c. c. of serum and virus
for farmers during the year at an
estimated saving of $80,000 to $100,-
000 compared with going prices to in-
dividuals not receiving the benefit of
the pool buying. The advantages to
hog growers through the promotion of
early vaccination have been of even
greater importance than the savings
on serum and virus.

DAIRY MARKETING

THE farm value of dairy products
in Illinois is $101,000,000 each
year. Of this amount $78,000,000 rep-
resents the sale of fluid milk. Busi-
ness-like co-operation in the sale of fluid
milk will increase the net returns ten
per cent. This makes co-operative
marketing worth $10,000,000 or $50 per
dairy farmer.

It is being done in community after
community through the introduction
and administration of the following
balanced program:

1. Quality improvement.

2. Use of collective bargaining
power in selling.

3. Stabilization of markets through
surplus control with sound local selling
plans.

4. Checking of weights and tests.

5. Watching credit rating of buyers.

6. Getting out truthful market in-
formation.

7. Advertising to increase the use
of dairy products.

The Peoria group has just closed its
second successful year of marketing
through their pool with sales approach-
ing the million dollar mark for the
year. Prices at Peoria now are about
thirty cents per hundred weight more
than in the days of individual selling,
which makes an aggregate return to
the thousand members who sell their
milk co-operatively an extra $120,000
annually. This has come about not in
increasing the price to the consumer,
but in effecting savings in transporta-
tion to the market, delivery and over-
head costs on the market and in
increased sales through better quality.

Programs very similar to the Peoria
plan have been inaugurated and are
functioning at Bloomington, Cham-
paign-Urbana, Rockford, DeEalb,
•Springfield. Waukegan, Mattoon and
Quincy.

While co-operation in Illinois is only
beginning, its results at this stage of
the game are easily worth one and a
half million dollars to the dairymen of
Illinois, annually.

In both the Chicago and St. Louis
districts organization work is going
on which when completed should pro-
duce organizations that, with good
business management, will g^ive a ma-
jority of Illinois farmers effective milk
marketing service.

Active plans now underway point
to the eaily federation of the organ-
ized markets into a state sales associa-
tion which will give added benefits to
the dairy industry in the state.

PRODUCE MARKETING

TWENTY-SIX co-operative produce
marketing units handling cream,
poultry, and eggs are now operating
in Illinois. The oldest one started
business June 1, 1924. Twelve addi-
tional units are now being organized.
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started in Clark, Crawford and Law-
rence counties.

The prevailing station price in these
counties has been 46 cents per pound
for butterfat. Assuming that the
centralized creameries will bid as much
for pool cream at these points as they
are now pajnng for pool cream in or-
ganized localities, dairj^nen will re-
ceive at these new stations five cents
above the present Chicago quotation
for 90 score butter, or 53 cents per
pound butterfat. Out of this, oper-
ating costs must be paid. This will
not exceed three cents per pound,
which will leave a net profit of four
cents. This represents very closely
what takes place from time to time as
new stations are opened.

Illinois produces around 60,000,000
pounds of butterfat, annually. Thus,
the bargaining power gained through
co-operative produce marketing asso-
ciations means a potential gain in in-
come to Illinois cream producers of
from $1,500,000 to $2,500,000 an-
nually.

Producers are selling their butterfat
on their own weights and tests through
their 26 operating units. A plan is
being developed for paying the pro-
ducer on a graded basis, and an effec-
tive plan for cream improvement is
underway.

The estimated volume of 26 co-oper-
ative units for 1928, at this writing, is
1,980,000 pounds of butterfat The
net gain to producers marketing
through these associations is estimated
at $79,200.

FRUIT AND VEGETABLE
MARKETING

THE general level of fruits and
vegetables was lower in 1928 than
for many years. All commodities suf-
fered. The low prices were to a cer-
tain degree anticipated by the Depart-
ment early in the season and steps
were taken to increase local demand
and the consumption of Illinois grown
fruits from the nearby markets. A
campaign of advertising was launched
with the aid of sister organizations in
the state seeking greater use of Illinois
grown products. The demand for
peaches particularly was decidedly in-
creased over that of any previous year.
Credit is due the University of Illinois,
the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, the
Illinois State Horticultural Society, the
Illinois Department of Agriculture,
and Prairie Farmer for their helpful
co-operation.

This local demand resulted in a
higher general level of prices in Illi-
nois than in other producing sections.
Growers who were not connected with
marketing orgranizations and who were
forced to depend upon speculators, or
to consign their products often failed
to receive net returns large enough to
pay the cost of harvesting and packing.

A material reduction in freight
rates on peaches shipped to south-
eastern points was received during the

year. This is the first year Illinois
peaches have moved into southeastern
territory at the same freight rate as
peaches from Georgia, the Carolinas,
etc., move into Illinois.

INSURANCE

APPROXIMATELY 11,000 auto in-
-tV. surance policies have been issued
by the Illinois Agricultural Mutual In-
surance Company to Farm Bureau
members in Illinois. It is estimated
that these members saved more than
$150,000 in the cost of insurance and
initial investment compared with the
cost of similar protection in any other
company.

An accident prevention campaign,
carried on among members during the
year, is tending to reduce the number
of accidents and also the cost of in-
surance.

By the end of the year the assets
of the company will be close to $225,-
000.

THE Farmers Mutual Reinsurance
Company, with headquarters in the
I. A. A. office has $13,000,000 worth
of insurance in force. This is fire and
tornado insurance. In addition, $4,600,-
000 worth of farm crop hail in-
surance was provided during 1928 at a
saving of $9 per thousand, or more
than $36,000 compared with the cost
of similar insurance in a stock com-
pany.

The savings on direct fire insurance
will total at least $6,000 since the com-
pany renders this service at a cost of
approximately 80 per cent of the stock
company rate. The total savings, in-
cluding fire insurance, field crop, and
fruit and vegetable hail insurance will
approximate $49,640 for the year.

In addition to the financial savings,
farmers benefited through the improve-
ment in insurance facilities due to the
co-operation of the state reinsurance
company with the local mutuals. The
local mutuals are enabled to avoid
heavy net losses and to obtain a more
stable assessment. This company is
the only mutual writing hail insurance
in Illinois.

AT THIS writing $125,000 worth of
-^ capital stock has been subscribed

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company and more than $14,000,000
worth of insurance has been pledged
for the first special participating policy.
The company's charter has been ap-
plied for and operations are expected
to begin at an early date. ,

ACCOUNTING AND BUSINESS
SERVICE

I

THE Illinois Agricultural Co-oper-
atives Association audited th«
books and gave financial advisory serv-
ice to its 212 members during the
year. Current membership in the As-
sociation is classified as follows: |

Farmers Elevators .81

Farm Bureaus 54

Home Bureaus 2

Farm Supply Companies (Oil) 23

Mutual Insurance Companies 11

Livestock Terminal Comm. Assns 6

County Livestock Shipping Assns 7

Local Livestock Shippings Ass'ns 7

Dairy & Produce Marketing Assns 9

Mercantile Companies „. 6

Seed Companies _ 4

Miscellaneous _ S

Totel 212

The Association has a staff of six ex-
perienced accountants who have special
training in the co-operative field.

The- Association filed 125 applica-
tions for income tax exemptions with
the Internal Revenue Department.
Thousands of dollars in refunds cover-
ing income taxes previously paid were
secured for clients in addition to se-
curing exemptions during the year.

LIMESTONE PHOSPHATE

TWENTY-TWO limestone companies
and two rock phosphate companies
are handling limestone and phosphate
in Illinois under signed agreement
with the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion. Ninety County Farm Bureaus
made use of this Department's lime-
stone project during the year. Sixty-
four counties co-operated in handling
rock phosphate.

The i. A. A. maintains an office in
the phosphate fields at Columbia,
Tenn., where it superintends the sam-
pling aftd testing of gn"ound rock phos-
phate sold to Illinois Farm Bureau
members.

Approximately 400,000 tons of lime-
stone were sold and used in Illinois in
the nine months ending September 30,
1928. It is estimated that Illinois
farmers secure their limestone as a re-
sult of collective bargaining at a 25
cent per ton discount making a saving
of approximately $100,000.

Up to October 1 the two major phos-
phate companies had sold 29,000 tons
of phosphate in Illinois on which Illi-
nois fanners saved approximately $43,-
500 compared with going prices in
other states.

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Paf/e Six

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1 liliillMOIS

CCLTURAL ASSe€lA

RECORO

To advancm the purpose for which the Farm Bureau waa organized,
twmely to promote, protect and repreeent the butinett, economic,
poUticai, and educational interetta of the farmera of Jiiinois and the
nmtiont and to deeelop agriculture.

Published once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave., Mount Morris,
Illinois, by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Entered as second-
clRsi matter October 20, 1925, at the post office at Mount Morris,
Dlinoii, ondar the Act of March 8, 1879. Accepted for mailing at
•»«oial rate of postage provided for in Section 412, Act of February
2t, 1926, authorized October 27, 1925. The individual membership
felt of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five dollars a y^r. The
f«* ineludes paysaent of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois
AouccLTUSAL AisociATiON Rbcoro. Postmastar: In returninc an an-
called for or missent copy please indicate key number on address as
is required by law.

OFFICERS

Pteaident, Earl C. Smith _ Detroit

Vlo«-President, Frank D. Barton Cornell

Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger .... Chicago

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles „ Bloomington

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE |

(By Congressional Districts)

to 11th H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

..G. F. Tullock, Rockford

..C. £. Bamborough, Polo

..M. G. Lambert, Ferris

..A. N. Skinner, Yates City

..A. R. Wright. Varna

..Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

..R. F. Karr, Iroquois

..C. J. Gross, At^vood

t Charles S. Black, Jacksonville

Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

...Frank Oexner, Waterloo

W. L. Cope, Salem

Ckarlea Marshall, Belknap

Fred Dietz, De Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Bi^iaeaa Service , „ „ Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing _ \ j JC D. Lynch

LI*ie«tone-Phosphat» „ - J. R. Bent

Fiaaace R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing „ A. B. Lcoper

Comptroller _ ....._ , J. H. Kelker

Information ' L i George Thiein

..i _ _ V. Vaniman

..Donald Kirfcpatrick

Ray E. Miller

G. E. Metzger

..F. A. Gougler

Insurance* Sorvice

Legal Counsel

Live Stock Marketing..

Organization

Produce Marketing..

Taxation and Statistics 4 \ _ J. C. Watson

Transportation _ i t L. J. Quasey

Resolutions Adopted at 14th Annual I. A. A.
Meeting, Danville, Jan. 30-31, 1929

I I

APPRECIATION OF DANVILLE

The visitors and delegates to the 14th Annual Meeting
of the Illinois Agricultural Association held in Danville,
January 30 and 31, 1929, hereby express their hearty
appreciation for the cordial welcome and the uniform
courtesy and co-operation shown to them by the Vermilion
Co|inty Farm and Home Bureaus, the Mayor and Chamber
of Commerce of the City of Danville, the industries and
all organizations, and the citizens of the City and County
whjo.have so efficiently contributed to the success of this
Anmual Meeting. | -■ L

ENDORSEMENT OF A. F. B. F. I

L.

7e desire to express anew our pleasure in the manifes-
tation of the spirit of harmony and co-operation shown
at the last Annual Meeting of the American Farm Bureau
Fefleration, and we hereby pledge our hearty support to
any program thereof that has for its purpose the general
be^erment of agriculture.

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TAXATION

llstimates by economists, if applied to the State of
Illihois, indicate that of the net income of the entire popu-
lation of this State, only about ten per cent is derived
frokn the ownership of real estate and tangible personal

property, not including the labor and management of
owner-operators of such property; that about ten per cent
is derived from the ownership of approximately twelve or
fourteen billions of dollars of intangible property; and
that the remaining eighty per cent of the net income of
the entire population is derived from personal industry —
'wages, salaries, fees, commissions, and the labor and man-
agement of persons owning and operating their own prop-
erty. I

The gross unfail-ness of the present taxing system is
shown by the fact that of all general property taxes in
this State, about ninety per cent is levied on real estate
and tangrible personal property, about ten per cent on
intangible property, while no direct tax whatever is levied
on the eighty per cent of net income derived from personal
industry. j

There can be little doubt that the gross unfairness indi-
cated by the figures given above is gradually becoming
worse and will become still worse until the present taxing
system is changed.

1. Income Tax

For the purpose of securing direct contribution to the
support of State and local government by large numbers
of people who, though abundantly able, are now paying
little or no direct taxes for such purposes, we favor enact-
ment of a tax on net income of persons, with moderate
exemptions and itaoderately progressive rates, and with
provision for the 'payment of such a tax by any person
only to the extent that the tax levied on his net income
exceeds all taxes paid ^y him on property in this State,
provided that the proceeds of the tax on net income sh^l
be used to replace or reduce the present tax levied on
property for the State Distributive School Fund, or some
other tax now levied on property for State purposes.

2. Reiittance to Tax Increases

Until the people of the State of Illinois amend the Con-
stitution and set up an- equitable taxing system, we recom-
mend that owners of farm property resist every attempt
to increase taxes on such property, whether such increase
in taxes is sought by increase of statutory tax rates, by
submission of any bond issues, except in the most urgent
emergencies, by measures permitting the inclusion of rural
property in predominantly urban local taxing districts, by
measures adding to the cost of county and local govern-
ment, or by increased appropriations for any present pur-
pose, or appropriations for any new purposes. j

3. Constitutional Amendment

For the purpose of giving the General Assembly the
power to set up an equitable taxing system, we favor the
adoption of a joint resolution by the two houses of the
General Assembly submitting to the people of the State
an amendment of the revenue article of the Constitution
in substantially the same' terms as were contained in the
amendment submitted in 1926.

ROAD IMPROVEMENT I

Since the approval of the Sixty Million Dollar bond
issue in 1918 and the One Hundred Million Dollar bond
issue in 1924, the farmers of Illinois have been paying
their portion of motor license fees for the construction
of the State hard road system. They will continue to pay
their proportion of the costs for this purpose until the last
of the hard road bonds are retired about 1958 or 1960.
It now appears that the two bond issues will be exhausted
during the present year, leaving about 2,500 miles of the
hard road system unconstructed. 'Without additional funds
from some source, it does not seem probable that the
remainder of the system can be paved except at a very
slow rate.

On January 1st, 1925, as disclosed by the Federal
Census of Agriculture, less than six per cent of the farms
in the State were located upon concrete or brick roads.
On the completion of the State system of hard roads, it
does not seem probable that more than twelve per cent
of the farms of the State will be located upon such roads.
The great majority of the farmers will still be located
•from one mile to as much as ten miles from the hard
roads which their motor license fees have helped to con-

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Struct. Unless the secondary roads
are improved so as to give easier
access to the hard road system, it will
continue to be impossible as at present
for large numbers of farmers to use
the hard roads at certain seasons of
the year.

4. Gasoline Tax
For the reasons stated, we favor the
enactment of a tax on gasoline, pro-
vided that such part of the proceeds
as is necessary for the completion,
within a reasonable time, of the State
bond issue system of hard roads shall
be used for this purpose, and provided
that the remainder of the proceeds
shall be used for the improvement of
the secondary or State-Aid road sys-
tem of the counties under the super-
vision of the State Division of High-
ways. Provided, further, that in the
improvement of the State-Aid roads —

a. The distribution of the funds to
be used in the counties shall be
made on the basis of the motor
license fees.

b. The State-Aid roads to be im-
proved shall be selected by the
County Boards on the basis of
traffic needs.

c. The type of improvement shall
be gravel, unless a county board
shall request and the State Di-
vision of Highways shall approve
a more permanent type of con-
struction.

5. Limitation of the County Highway
Tax Rate

When the so-called Chicago Bond-
ing Bills were before the General
Assembly in June 1927, their advo-
cates sought down state support on
the promise that, coincident with the
doubling of the basis of valuations, all
tax rates would be cut to one-half of
the statutory limitations at that time.
After the adjournment of the General
Assembly it was found that the clause
specifically including the county high-
way tax in the reduction of rates had
been stricken out, leaving the consti-
tutional restriction on county taxes as
the only limitation on the county high-
way tax rate. The failure to limit the
county highway tax rate made it pos-
sible for any county board, if it so
desired, to quadruple its levy of taxes
for county highway purposes. Because
of the, increased power thus given
them, many county boards have greatly
increased their levy for this purpose.

For the reasons stated, we ask the
General Assembly, including the sup-
porters of the Chicago Bonding Bills,
to carry out their promise, so amend-
ing the Act providing for a county
highway tax that the maximum tax
rate which can be imposed for this
purpose, without a referendum vote,
will be limited to twelve and one-half
cents (12 %c) on each one hundred
dollars of assessed valuations instead
of fifty cents (50c), as now permitted.

IV

AMENDMENT OF COOPERATIVE

MARKETING ACT OF 1923

It appears from the experience of
many Cooperative Marketing Associa-

tions, which have been organized un-
der the provisions of the Cooperative
Marketing Act of 1923, that certain
amendments can be made to this Act
that would further increase the use-
fulness of such organizations and
make their operations more consistent
with sound business practice and also
clarify the apparent intent of the
Legislature as to certain provisions.

For this purpose we ask the Gen-
eral Assembly to amend the Coopera-
tive Marketing Act of 1923 so that
the phraseology of certain provisions
may be clarified, and sound business
practices may be obtained, thereby in-
creasing the efficiency and service of
cooperative associations organized
thereunder.

V ■

COOPERATIVE ACTIVITIES

(a) — We recognize that if the
Farm Bureau movement of Illinois is
to increase and maintain its rightful
influence on the public and political
conscience, all efforts of the County
Farm Bureaus and the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association in the County and
State should be so mutually under-
stood and co-ordinated as to make our
programs most effective.

We, therefore, recommend that the
State organization in no case interest
itself in any county affairs, ^except by
and with the consent and approval of
the County Farm Bureau of said
County; also, where matters of public
interest are statewide, that the County
Farm Bureaus function only through
and with their State organization.

(b) We approve of the Illinois
Agricultural Association's efforts to
enlarge and extend cooperative mar-
keting activities. Recognizing that the
success of these efforts largely de-
pends upon the volume of interest
taken therein by the producers of the
various commodities, we urge our
membership to cooperate in every par-
ticular in the development of these
efforts that the benefits to be derived
therefrom may be enjoyed to the
fullest extent.

(c) We believe that the various
cooperative service organizations spon-
sored by the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation provide some of the best means
by which the Farm Bureau members
may acquire the benefits of their or-
ganization.

We, therefore, recommend the con-
tinued and increasing use of these
facilities by our members.

(d) We express our appreciation
of the cooperation given this Associ-
ation by many state-wide organiza-
tions, in striving for the solution of
certain civic problems and particularly
the problems of taxation, and urge a
continuation of that policy.

VI
PURE MILK ASSOCIATION

The marketing of whole milk in
the Chicago milk district has for some
years constituted a most important
and serious problem confronting
dairymen of Illinois and adjoining
states.

The Pure Milk Association was or-
ganized in Illinois largely through the
efforts of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation and the County Farm Bu-
reaus, as an agency for the solution
of this problem.

We reafl^rm the position repeatedly
expressed relative to the necessity of
applying the principle of collective
bargaining in the disposal of farm
commodities. In line with that policy,
we congratulate the Pure Milk Asso-
ciation upon their spirit of fairness
in submitting to arbitration the dis-
pute between dealers and producers in
the Chicago milk area and through
such action their progress toward the
attainment of a satisfactory price for
their j product. " j i i

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RURAL ELECTRIFICATION I

Schedules of electric rates charged
rural users over the state are of a
large variety. The terms and condi-
tions under which electric service is
extended in rural districts differ
widely.

Obviously all these rates and prac-
tices cannot be just and equitable and
are not conducive to the encourage-
ment of the use of electricity on
farms.

In view of this we request that the
Illinois Commerce Commission give
special consideration to the subject
of rural electrification, and in cooper»-
tion with all interested parties deter-
mine rates that shall be just and rea-
sonable and a basis for the extension
of rural gervice that is equitable and
fair.

j VIII I

I BOVINE INFECTIONS

We urge the continuation of the
effort to eradicate the menace of
bovine tuberculosis with adequate
appropriation therefor to the end that
the curse be removed from our state
at the earliest possible date.

We recommend a study of con-
tageous abortion and the adoption of
a program to prevent its further
spread.

I GRAIN INSPECTION !

We insist upon such administration
of the grain inspection service, both
state and federal, as will secure to
the producers of grain in Illinois- a
fair grade on their product. |

DESTRUCTION OF TAXABLE
VALUES BY MINING

In behalf of farmers in taxing dis-
tricts in which taxable values in large
amounts are likely to be destroyed by
strip coal mining or other mining, we
ask the General Assembly to authorize
an investigation for the purpose of
recommending such legislation as will
prevent the destruction of taxable
values without adequate adjustment
of existing bonded or other indebted-
ness in any taxing districts so af-
fected.

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I Resolutions |

(Continued from page 7)
XI

DIRECT MARKETING OF
I LIVESTOCK

The 'Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion favors that system of marketing
which will give to the producer the
highest net returns for his labor and
investment consistent with fairness to
the producer, the consumer and the
distributor. Such returns to the pro-
ducer cannot be developed or main-
tained in the absence of centralized
selling control exercised by the pro-
ducer through his own cooperative
marketing facilities. The purchase of
livestock by processors through coun-
try concentration points under their
control or by country packer-buyers
tends to eliminate competition be-
tween buyers, permits division of ter-
ritory, promotes decentralization of
producer selling control and is, there-
fore, in direct opposition to the de-
velopment of such cooperative market-
ing facilities.

The Association recog^nizes the fact
that constant change in marketing
methods necessitates continued re-
search work under producer control
to assist in determining policies and
developing selling methods. In the
meantime the Association advocates
support of the farmers' selling facili-
ties as they are now established,
namely, local shipping associations and
the cooperative commission associa-
tions operating on the terminal mar-
kets in order that these sales agencies
may develop to the point where they
can make effective whatever system or
systems serve the best interests of the
livestock industry, f
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XII

RADIO

We approve of the position taken
by the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion whereby it respectfully requested
and urged that the Federal Radio Com-
mission in its final allotment of air
rights adequately recognize agricul-
ture by setting apart at least one ex-
clusive wave lengrth under the direc-
tion and control of agricultural in-
terests.

XIII

AMENDMENT OF MEMBERSHIP
ACT

In the present era of the develop-
ment of various kinds of cooperative
effort, it appears that membership or-
ganizations are limited to the devel-
opment and organization phases of
such cooperative enterprises, and it
is at least a question as to their right
to use membership funds for the pur-
pose of meeting capital requirements
of cooperative or mutual service or-
ganizations.

We, therefore, favor the amendment
of some present law or the enactment
of a new law making possible this
added practical support and direction
of cooperative and mutual effort.

V XIV

AGRICULTURAL LEGISLATION

In seeking the adoption of a na-
tional policy for agriculture by the
Congress and needed readjustments in
the laws of our State, it has been
clearly disclosed that all matters of
this character are economic in far
greater degree than political.

We, therefore, urge our members to
carefully study all questions initiated
by agriculture before Congress and
the State Legislature; also the atti-
tude and support given such measures
by representatives of the people in
these two bodies, and that with this
information, our members, regardless
of party, put forth every effort to re-
tain in public office all those who con-
sistently support the just requests and
demands of organized agrriculture.

XV
FLOOD CONTROL

We approve the progress being
made in the construction of flood con-
trol works on the main channels of
the Mississippi River under the author-
ity of the Flood Control Act passed
by Congress in 1928. And, we urge
the prompt completion of the surveys
authorized in the Act of 1928, which
will provide the basis for additional
federal legislation for completed flood
prevention and control on the Illinois
and Wabash rivers and throughout the
entire Mississippi Valley.

XVI
WATERWAYS

The improvement of our inland
waterway channels and the establish-
ment of dependable common-carrier
transportation upon them, coordinated
with connecting railway lines by joint
rates and through routes to interior
points, will do much to bring pros-
perity back to the farmer and manu-
facturer of the Middle West.

In order to secure the immediate
constriiction of adequate channels, the
building of proper terminals at prin-
cipal rail and river crossings and the
development of common-carrier trans-
portation services, it is necessary that
all interests in the Mississippi Valley,
Agricultural, Commercial and Indus-
trial coordinate their influence and
work together.

We, therefore, urge upon Congress

(1) The immediate completion of the
Lakes to the Gulf waterway with an
adequate diversion from Lake Michi-
gan to permit open channel naviga-
tion on the Illinois River below Utica.

(2) The standardization of the chan-
nels of the Mississippi river system to
a nine foot depth with sufficient width
to permit the navigation of large tows
such as now use the Ohio and lower
Mississippi. (3) The upbuilding of
the Mississippi-Warrior service and its
coordination with and extension to the
Illinois River and Hennepin Canal.

We urge upon the legislature of the
State of Illinois the passage of such
legislation as is necessary to provide
for the completion of the Illinois wa-

terway between Lockport and Utica
by the opening of the navigation sea-
son in 1931.

We further urge upon the Gover-
nor of Illinois and the legislature the
consideration and adoption of some
plan that will provide adequate ter-
minual facilities for rail and river serv-
ices at the principal ports and rail
river crossings in Illinois. j -

XVII ! :«

TARIFF ' "

We favor the adoption of such
policy in any program of tariff revi-
sion as will assist in the attainment
of agricultural equality. Where tariff
duties on agricultural products are
not sufficient to prevent depression of
the price thereof below a reasonable
cost of production, we urge such re-
vision as will secure a reasonable
price therefor. In instances where the
tariff contributes to the establishing
of an unreasonable price on any of
the products of industry, we urge such
revision as will tend to reduce such
prices, so as to give only reasonable
protection.

XVIII
NATIONAL POLICY FOR AGRI-
CULTURE
The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion has for years urged and supported
a national agricultural policy that
would recognize and offer American
agrriculture equal opportunity with
other industry to enjoy the privileges
and benefits of the American protec-
tive system.

We have assisted in the develop-
ment of a solution to this problem
that recognized co-operative market-
ing organizations as the mediums
through which farmers might exercise
control of surplus production above
domestic requirements and whereby
the cost of such control should be
borne by the conrmiodity benefited.

We still believe the principles as
set forth in such proposal offer the
best solution that has yet been pro-
posed to restore agriculture to its
proper position in our economic life.
Recognizing, however, that the
newly elected administration is defi-
nitely committed to find another solu-
tion that would restore equal rights,
privileges and income to the farmers
with that of other industry, we here-
by pledge our support and cooperation
in the development of any program
that adequately recognizes the agri-
cultural problem and seems to offer
a solution that is workable, sound and
permanent.

Respectfully submitted.
Resolutions Committee,
A. N. Skinner,

Chairman.
M. G. Lambist,
R. F. Karr,
Chas. Black,
Chas. Marshall..

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Save these resolutions for future ref-
erence. They embody the aims of your
organization.

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SOMETHING of a prophet is our
banker-farmer friend John A. Car-
roll, president of several outlying Chi-
cago banks, landowner, and member
of the Cook County Farm Bureau.

Said he more than two months ago
while speaking of the Chicago milk
controversy, "The milk distributors
have refused to deal with the organ-
ization of the farmers up to now. But
they will move toward bargaining with
the farmers whether they want to or
not. When the public has the facts in
the milk producing situation before it,
there will be nothing left for the par-
ties in the dispute to do but agree to
arbitrate such questions as can't be
settled between them in conference."
All this has happened.

Ownership of farm land by city
business men has an ameliorating in-
fluence on their attitude toward the
problems of the farmer. Great good
might result if more influential capital-
ists would invest larger portions of
their funds in the business of agricul-
ture. Self-interest is a powerful fac-
tor in influencing one's point of view.
That the majority of Chicago daily
newspapers have supported farmers'
demands for legislation may be due in
part to the fact that most of their
publishers own farms. These men
have learned first hand about farm
profits, or rather losses. When there
is a clash of interests, however, such
as is embodied in a proposed state in-
come tax, it is natural for the individ-
ual to take the side which profits him
most, or hurts his pocket-book the
least.

The farmer has more friends in the
cities than he may suspect. Many
Chicagoans were born and reared on
farms, countless others have relatives
on farms, or investments in land.
These contacts have their influence.
City people are human and approach-
able for the most part when you come
to know them. Many do go about
with a cloak of reserve and often a
cold exterior — perhaps in self-protec-
tion made necessary by their environ-
ment. But under the crust, people
are pretty much alike whether in city
or country.

The editor of the Chicago Evening
Post tells us that the average city man
looks upon the farmer as a chronic
grrumbler. "Somehow we have got
that impression; somehow you have
given it to us," he says. That comes
from reading the newspapers, rather
than farm papers. The only time the
farmer makes the front page is when
he puts on a milk strike, fights tax
increases, or appears in Washington
to ask for helpful legrislation. Most

CHAMPAIGN COUNTY FARM BUREAU TAX COMMITTEE WINS FIGHT

Seated Left to Right: E. J. Tabaka, £. A. Smith, C. C. Bums, Roy Douglai, Chr.

Standing: A. R. Crindley, John C. Watson, I. A. A. Tax EHrector, James T. Wise.

An additional 10 per cent reduction in farm land valuations ordered by the Illinois

Tax Commission, ends the long drawn out controversy in Champaign county. This

will mean a reduction of three and one-half million dollars in valuations and will

result in a saving estimated at $24,500.

city newspapers play up the spectacu-
lar. It's just as absurd for city people
to base their judgment of farmers on
the news that appears in the head-
lines, as it is for farm folks to judge
Chicago people by the prolific stories
of gang murders, bootleggers, and
grrasping politicians.

One newspaper writer asks, "Why
is a farmer?" Because he is an opti-
mist, loves the life, and believes in his
job. Thousands could say as much
truthfully. Scores of farmers in Illi-
nois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Wis-
consin have told this writer that they
prefer the farm as a place to live and
work in spite of its handicaps.

In similar vein, a Chicago columnist,
Herbert Kaufman, .calls the farmer
"The Chronic Bear . . . habitually
selling his own market short . . . be-
gins with a morning grouch and ends
with an evening growl . . . persist-
ently discounts the future of agricul-
ture, etc." The injustice and inac-
curacy of the accusation is self-evi-
dent. It comes from placing all farm-
ers in the same category. There are
bulls and bears in all professions,
farming is no exception. But the man
who plants in the spring, not knowing
what he will reap surely displays some
degn"ee of optimism. When he con-
tinues to produce food year after year
through periods of distress but hope-
ful for better days that's real forti-
tude, not pessimism. — E. G. T.

Must Signal

IT IS proper to (how a custom
among automobile drivers, of
holding; out an arm as a signal
that he is going to stop, or slow
down, or change his course, and
evidence showing the failure of
the defendant to folloir the cus-
tom, in a case in which it is ma-
terial, is permissible as such evi-
dence tends to show a want of
ordinary care.

Farm Baseball League

Amends By-Laws

THE eligibility qlause defining who
shall be eligible to play in the Illi-
nois Farm Bureau Baseball League was
amended as usual at the annual meet-
ing of the League in Danville, Tuesday
Jan. 29.

Hereafter "any Farm Bureau mem-
ber whose principal interest and invest-
ment is in farming" regardless of resi-
dence will be eligible. So always will
be dependent members of his family.
It is thought that this modification in
the rule will allow many players here-
tofore excluded to participate. It was
designed also to exclude professional
players who have killed interest in
many town and city teams. The sport
will be maintained, it is hoped, as one
primarily for farm boys, although sons
of farmers attending college or residing
in town will not be barred. Further
clarification of the rule will be outlined
by the Executive Committee of the
League prior to the opening of the 1929
season. Players must be members of
the Bureau in the county in which they
play.

It was decided to place responsibility
for making decisions and arbitrating
disputes not settled locally, on a com-
mittee of three composed of the presi-
dent, vice-president, and one other
member to be selected.

Approximately 200 players, farm
advisers, and visitors attended the
meeting held in the Wolford Hotel.
Carl Lundgren, baseball coach at the
University of Illinois, and famed
pitcher for the Chicago Cubs in 1905-
06-07 talked interestingly about his ex-
periences in the Big League, told what's
necessary to build a good baseball team,
answered innumerable questions about
plays, his trip to Japan with the lUini
last summer.

L. R. Welk of Morton was re-elected
president, Paul Meharry of Champaign
county was chosen vice-president. It
was agreed to hold a meeting in the
spring well in advance of the baseball
season to make schedules and oil the
League machinery preparatory to an-
other successful season. Several new
counties expressed their desire to enter
teams.

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iDAIKY
MarMiiig

By ART LYNCH
CPREAD your butter thicker.
^ Thia country produces milk enough

to supply us with all we can consume
363 out of the 365 day* of the year.
We import net only two days' worth
from other countries.

No time now for overproduction. If
we had enougrh for 366 days in the
United States we'd have an exportable
surplus and ruinous prices on the en-
tire production.

Wise dairymen will not add cows to
their herds. They will milk the best
bred young cows and make boloney
out of the old ones. Such efficiency
will help stand a set-back in the indus-
try if it must come.

The smart alecs will buy more cows,
increase their herds, get into debt and,
if trouble should come because of a
national surplus will sure be out of
luck.

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Orderly marketing of fluid milk can
do much to stabilixe the industry.
A dairymen's bargaining association
helps the individual to sell his milk
for what it is worth. Organization is
the way to learn the facts, improve
quality, stabilize the market, check up
on the tests, get paid on time and
advertise to sell more.

Talk it up.

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Officials from the 28 produce asso-
ciations met recently in Bloomington
to compare notes on how to do a bet-
ter job of selling cream, poultry and
eggs.

Heard Frank (Barney) Gougler
■peak a piece. He's good. When he
ran out of breath, Swaim would carry

Lee Quasey of the Transportation
Department was handling a claim con-
cerning a cow hit by a train. The en-
gineer said, "I saw the cow come out
of the alfalfa. A crash! Then I saw
the alfalfa come out of the cow."

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The three "C's" on quality milk —
Clean, Cold and Covered.

l^admis^S

The daily farm proKrun of the I. A. A. from
Ststion WJJD, Mooteheurt (254 meters) is
broadcast l>etween 12:30-12:45 p. m. Monday
to Friday inclusive. Hear tke daily Ckicaxo
livestock marlcet (ram the Producers, and each
Friday the weekly market review. Outlook
reports, reviews, and talks by I. A. A. staff
menbers, officials, and leaders la farm
thea(ht are broadcast 4nily.

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TRANSPORTATION

THE major activities of the Trans-
portation Department during 1928
consisted of putting in evidence and
actively opposing a proposed advance
in livestock rates which would add
1750,000 annually to the freight bills
of livestock gn'O'wers in Illinois. A re-
duction of $70 a carload on peaches
shipped from Illinois to points in the
southeastern part of the United States,
was secured. Twenty-five requests for
information and service concerning
telephone rates and service were
handled. Most of these affected gn^oups
rather than single individuals.

Under light and power service there

were 26 propositions concerning ease-
ments for high tension, communica-
tion and pipe lines over farm lands,
and 28 complaints having to do with
light and power service and rates. In
the majority of these cases the inter-
ests of whole communities were in-
volved.

There were 1,034 railroad claims
collected in the amount of $25,480.73
during the first 11 months of 1928.

More than 86 per cent of the 94
County Farm Bureaus in the state
were given service. Special traffic
service was given the Chicago Pro-
ducers' Commission Association, the
National Livestock Producers' Associa-
tion, the Illinois Fruit Growers' Ex-
change, the Illinois Farm Supply Com-
pany, and the Illinois Milk Producers'
Association.

Insurance

By LAWRENCE A. WILLIAMS

DID you hear the discussion at the
Danville meeting? Wasn't it
great! Everyone boosting 1000% for
Country Life, and all rejoicing in its
accomplishment. Naturally we were
all pleased. Nothing like it in recent
insurance history, and we believe imi-
tators will not approach it in the days
to come. Ninety-five counties put
over that job. Not trained life insur-
ance men — ^just Farm Bureau mem-
bers, who believed that by working to-
gether you could do things and do
mighty big things.

third policies to be announced is still
more attractive in their low gross cost.
Considering these facts and then go-
ing into overhead cost, we find:

1. No stockholder friends are to be
put on pay rolls to eat up profits — no
loafers or hangers-on.

2. Not one dollar is spent for sal-
ary that is not earned.

3. The volume of business done
by an established overhead makes for
a low overhead second to none in the
business under 25 years of age.

4. No selfish interests of stock
control intervene to bleed the com-
pany.

5. Supervision by means of I. A.
A.'s established organization is more
alert and more interested than that of
any mutual life insurance company
where the voice of proxies is seldom
if ever heard.

You did more than you dreamed of
doing, and it means more in low cost
legal reserve protection than you ever
thought it meant.

Here are reasons:

The two chief contributing factors
in the net cost of life insurance are
mortality (death rate), and acquisi-
tion (cost of getting business).

There is no argument, in fact it is
readily admitted that no other com-
pany has ever attempted or succeeded
in putting on its books a volume of
business such as we have paid for at
anything like the low cost involved.

Let's take a look at this cost. Not
one cent is to be paid out in renewal
commissions for business that has been
sold. Most new companies are obli-
gated for a second year renewal cost
of 15% and some as high as 25% for
all their business. All the companies
are obligated by renewal contracts,
none under 10% the second year, and
from 7%% to 10% for eight more
years after that second year. This
alone is a savings that in nine years
runs into hundreds of thousands of
dollars.

You are already aware of the low
first cost which on the second and

Now, let's take a look at possible
mortality.

We are insuring practically one
class of risks, farmers. Farmers are
medium risks. We are at the start
assured of medium death rate — ^but
look again. Competition in life insur-
ance brought on what was known and
is known as double indemnity. Each
company vied with the rest to try to
outdo in catch clauses and selling
talk. They got into deep water and
unsound practices. They added total
disability clauses and what was the re-
sult! Tremendous losses, lawsuits,
contested claims, and companies to-
day are facing higher rate problems
or the abandonment of double indem-
nity and total disability clauses. We
wanted our people to be protected,
and not fooled. Catch clauses of this
kind mean higher death rates and ex-
penses which rob the policyholder of
his rightful dividend and hence his
rightful low net cost.

It is patent that no company with
one man, or stock control, selfish in-
terests and axes to grrind, is going to
be able to compete with Country Life
in its net cost of protection based
upon a profit return plan to policy-

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holder, and its economical manage
ment and acquisition costs.

It is further patent that anything
more than can be offered in life in-
surance than Country Life is offering
smacks of "selling points" more than
protection, and must involve a higher
cost.

And finally, the conservative risk
selection and well-g:rouped class of in-
sured under its policy assures a mor-
tality lower than companies taking
mechanics and tradesmen, electrical
workers, quarrymen, factory workers,
trainmen, and builders, and the like
in large numbers.

We have a spirit in our membership
that money can't buy. There never
was a more open opportunity for pol-
icyholders to directly reduce their in-
. I ^< surance costs than Country Life pol-

icyholders have before them con-
stantly.

Every time you get a new member
to take life insurance you are increas-
ing volume on- a fixed overhead which
means savings and greater dividends.

Every time you talk Country Life
and its poUcies, you help increase the
momentum of the greatest movement
that the farmers of the state ever
started, and the net result of such
boosting means a company and a cost
always so far beyond competition that
the entire world must say, "Well,
the farmers did succeed."

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Utilities

Spring will soon be here. The birds
will be twittering in the tree tops and
the livestock headed for green pas-
tures.

Many of you have farms adjoining
the railroad right of way. The Legis-
lature of the state enacted a law some
years ago requiring railroads to build
suitable fences adjoining farm lands
and to maintain them in good repair.

Like the rest of us they have their
failings and forget or neglect to do
what is required of them. The result
is that fences break down from age,
and livestock gets on the right of way
and is killed.

We need not say how difficult it is
to get the top on the market on live-
stock through a claim department of
the railroad. So the best thing for us
to do is to try to prevent these losses,
and this takes us back to the old say-
ing "An ounce of prevention is worth
a pound of cure."

First of all check over your fences.
See that the crossing grates are in good
repair, and if not, put it down in writ-
ing and send it in to your local agent
or to the division superintendent, but
do not give it to the section foreman.

This is the day of specialists. The
section foreman has other duties than
handling correspondence. About the
only file he has is his hip pocket and
that is where your communication will

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ative Governor Louis L. Emmerson,
who was detained at Springfield. Sen-
ator Kessinger's address was replete
with stories which were widely ap-
plauded.

During the program President
Smith read a congratulatory cable-
gram from the Hon. Frank O. Low-
den of Oregon sent from Cairo, Egypt,
Mr. Lowden expressed his regrets at
being unable to attend the meeting of
his Association.

The Pawnee Four sang many a rous-
ing song written on the spur of the
moment and adapted to the remarks
of the speakers. They were applaud-
ed frequently for their witticisms and
harmony.

President Sam H. Thompson closed
the speaking program with discussion
of the aims and ideals of organized
agriculture. "Our Sam" was given a
rousing cheer before and after his ad-
dress.

A. N. Skinner of Yates City, chair-
man of the Resolutions Committee,
presented the Committee's report. The
resolutions were adopted as read with
little discussion. Minor revisions were
made in the Constitution and By-Laws
following the reading of the resolu-
tions. The meeting adjourned about
5:00 p. m.

go, and the chances are that it will
stay there, at least until it loses its
identity and the contents can no long-
er be ascertained. The best thing of
all is to tell us your story. We are
here to serve you. We can see to it
that your problems are presented to
the proper railroad ofiicials.

Remember that an oral notice to
the railroad to repair fences is not
sufiBcient. For your legal protection,
notice must be in writing, giving legal
description of your farm by township
and section, also the approximate dis-
tance from the nearest station so that
your place can be readily located.

Do not send your notice to the gen-
eral offices of a railroad unless you
know what officer or department your
communication should be sent to. We
know of a case where a letter was

addressed like this: " Railroad

Company, Chicago, Illinois." The man
never received a reply. It is safe to
speculate that the letter got to Chi-
cago all right, but where it went after
that is a strain upon the imagination.
So unless you know the name of the
official to whom you should write, send
your troubles to us and do it just as
soon as you can. Remember, it is the
early bird that catches the worm and
the sooner you make your fence needs
known the quicker you will be taken
care of.

Grain

Marketing'

By Harrison Fahmkopf
Fanner Grain Dealers Meet

DIRECTORS, managers, grain grow-
ers, visitors — 600 strong — gath-
ered for the 26th annual convention of
the Illinois Farmers Grain Dealers As-
sociation at Joliet, Feb. 5-7. Only two
county farm advisers were there. They
were J. H. Checkley, Logan County,
who led the singing at the Annual
Banquet, and Leonard Braham, in
whose county the convention was held.
Why not more? If a larger number
of farm advisers would attend this
annual meeting and more farmer ele-
vator managers went to the I. A. A.
meeting we would make more rapid
progress towards a better understand-
ing of each other's problems. Then,
if a few of the directors of each or-
ganization would attend the annual
meeting of the other, so much the bet-
ter.

Officers elected for the coming year
are: C. H. Bonnell, Rosemond, presi-
dent; T. R. Cain, Jacksonville, first
vice-president; E. E. Stevenson, Strea-
tor, second vice-president; W. H. Hin-
dahl, San Jose, treasurer; Lawrence
Farlow, Bloomington, secretary.

Directors are: Henry Brown, Wood-
hull; Chas. Fairfield, Fisher; J. F. Frei-
tag. Normal; H. J. Greive, Edinburg;
J. A. Henebry, Plainfield; F. W. Mc-
Laughlin, Ashland; V. A. Wertsch,
Delavan.

President D. H. Allen retired after
many years' faithful service.

Secretry Farlow stated that during
1928 farmers' elevators operated un-
der more favorable conditions than in
any year since the war — that 93% of
all elevators showed a net profit for
1928. An excellent record.

E. V. Maltby, Manager of the Rural
Grain Company, pointed out that there
were eight co-operative grain commis-
sion companies on the various ex-
changes and that 525 farmers' ele-
vators hold stock in these eight com-
panies. Six hundred and twenty-
eight elevators which were not share-
holders have patronized the terminal
co-ops.

Paul Thielen, Manager of the Farm-
ers Elevator Co-operative Supply Com-
pany, outlined last year's business ac-
tivities and told of the formation of
a new national purchasing organiza-
tion of which the Illinois unit is a
member.

C. V. Gregory, editor of Prairie
Farmer, read an interesting paper on
the history of agriculture.

Mr. Gregory stated that a new na-
tion invariably exploits its resources —

that agriculture thrives on stability.
The speculator, he>^id, thrives on in-
stability, has rio thought for the fu-
ture. Farmers suffered in the past be-
cause no one knew or cared of their
difficulties. An encouraging develop-
ment is that the public is taking an
interest in farmers and their problems.
Things are looking up in co-operative
marketing, he said.

S. S. Tanner of Minier said that if
the Farm Bureaus and the elevators
would co-operate a fair price could be
set on f^rm products, and that price
secured. "Perpetuating the Farm
Home" was the subject of an address
by Mrs. A. R. Sabin, Delavan.

A. J. Surratt, State Agricultural
Statistician, gave a much needed talk
on government crop reports. Many
have a very hazy idea of the value of
these reports. Mr. Surratt impressed
his audience that crop reports are
helpful, the work is done fairly and
impartially.

Dr. L. J. Norton, College of Agri-
culture, Urbana, ably discussed "Ef-
fects of the Tariff on Prices of Farm
Products." Dr. Norton recently ap-
peared before the House Ways and
Means Committee, Washington. He
gave a report on the hearings relative
to the tariff on agricultural commodi-
ties. Other speakers who made inter-
esting talks were W. W. Martin, Fed-
eral Land Bank, St. Louis; F. S. Betz,
editor of the Farmers Elevator Guide;
President, D. H. Allen.

Farmers Can Do Much
To Help Themselves
Says James C. Stone

Can't Legislate A Poor Business Man
To Prosperity He Declares

THE farmer must put his own house
in order first before asking for
help, James C. Stone of the Burley
Tobacco Growers Cooperative Asso-
ciation, Lexington. Ky., told dele-
gates to the anni^ meeting of the
• American Farm Bureau Federation.

"You can't legislate a poor busi-
ness man to prosperity," said Mr.
Stone, "neither can you paas laws
that will be beneficial to the farmer
until he does certain things himself
in order to be able to take advantage
of the legislation."

"Before we farmers are entitled to
help we should demonstrate to those
we want help from that we have done
everything we could ourselves con-
sistent with good business to put our
house in order."

More Ardent Tlian Ever

Mr. Stone related the story of the
Kentucky tobacco raisers' disastrous
experiment in cooperative marketing
but declared that today he is a more
ardent believer in farmer cooperative
marketing associations that he was
seven years ago.

"The Burley Tobacco Growers has

demonstrated," he said, "that cooper-

~%tive associations properly organized

and properly managed are sound both
economically and financially and will
produce beneficial results both to the
grower and to the community as a
whole.

"They are not miracle workers and
will -not accomplish the impossible.
They are not price fixing organiza-
tions and if operated as such will fail
and should.

"The principal thing farm organ-
izations do for the farmer is to give
him more trading power through
unity of action, thereby putting him
more an on equality with the buyer
and enables him to feed his commod-
ity to the market in an orderly way
without congestion and in quantities
that the market can consume at a
fair price.

Only Seasonal Surpluses

"We have heard much in the past
few years about farm surpluses. To
some extent this is a misnomer. We
have seasonal surpluses, due largely
to the weather, but no surpluses over
a period of years.

"Cooperative marketing would solve
this if the farmer would organize and
stay organized. I am convinced that
if the farmers of this country today
would organize commodity cooperative
marketing associations for all their
crops and live stock, select honest and
competent men to run them and then
stand behind them through thick and
thin, fair weather and foul and boost
their . own organization instead of
knocking it, they wouldn't be asking
for aid, they would be giving it to
the other fellow.

"Should seasonal surpluses develop,
and they will, they can only be
handled through marketing associa-
tions, financed, if needs be, by some
agency of the government, so that the
farmer can get his money promptly.
The necessity of this character of
financing would diminish from year
to year in relation to the better un-
derstanding and cooperative action on
the part of seller and buyer."

Co-ops Must Improve

Service To Succeed

FINANCIAL standing of farmer-
owned cotton cooperative mar-
keting associations is so favorable
that in many instances the coopera-
tives are able to obtain from big
banks lower interest rates on loans
than can be obtained by directors of
these same institutions, says C. O.
Moser, president of the American
Cotton Growers Exchange.

"There is no mysterious virtue or
superiority in cooperative marketing
as such compared with private mar-
keting, that renders it a panacea or
cure-all for farmers' troubles," de-
clared Mr. Moser, "but it does offer
the vehicle by which farmers may
effectively organize the marketing
operations of their business on the
basis of equality with industry. The
£:rowth or decay, success or failure of
cooperative marketing will be deter-

mined by whether the cooperatives
are able to do the task of marketing
in a better way than private hand-
lers."

"In all the essential phases of the
cotton industry there is a complete
utility of genuine interest between
the cotton grower and the spinner,
but this is not always true between
the private handler and the con-
sumer," Mr. Moser claimed. As an
instance he asserted that the specula-
tive system of marketing cotton dis-
courages quality production.

He stated that both according to
the opinion of mills and the studies of
scientists, the quality of American
cotton has been steadily deteriorat-
ing.

"This," he said, "is only the fruit
of our speculative marketing system
which puts the premium on the lowest
quality, by buying on the basis of a
community's average quality."

"The cooperatives, contrary to this
method, employ their own expert
classers, assemble the cotton into
pools according to its commercial
value and return to each member the
full benefit of the consumer price, ob-
tained according to the quality with
each member ships."

He related how the farmers in the
interest of reducing operation costs
have established cotton gins, tackled
the problem of obtaining fair and rea-
sonable freight rates, erected mod-
ernly constructed warehouses, at
strategic points, that save millions of
dollars annually in distribution and
in addition, by reducing the fire haz-
ard, have lowered insurance costs to
a minimum.

"Since we have adopted the policy
of concentrating in modern ware-
houses," he stated, "our fire loss has
been negligible, and insurance rates
reduced until they also are neglible,
as compared with the rates paid dur-
ing the first year of our experience.
The difference is that our rates on
our best warehouses are only about
ten to twenty per cent of the less
desirable structures generally used by
the cotton trade."

Regarding the financial phase of
cotton marketing, he pointed out that
the cotton crop represents huge sums
of money values and that large finan-
cial facilities are required in financ-
ing the crop movement.

"Where cooperation touches fi-
nance," he said, "it has been prop-
erly said that the result is a miracle.
Generally speaking, cotton farmers
are people in relatively poor financial
circumstances, yet collectively they
are able to finance their marketing
operations at lower rates of interest
and the most favorable terms ac-
corded the oldest and best established
business concerns or corporations of
the country.

"It is no uncommon thing for a co-
operative, having thousands of
farmer-members to borrow money
from local banks or banks in the large
financial centers, at a lower rate of
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banks who may be in the cotton busi-
ness. This is simply because the rela-
tive risk and security are such as to
make the cooperative the preferred
customer.

"Cooperative merchandising of cot-
ton is an established institution in
America that will continue to thrive
and grow as long as existing policies
are continued, because the policies
of the cotton cooperatives are sound,
progressive and mutually advanta-
geous to grower and consumer. Un-
der our present set-up we have all
the flexibility of operation enjoyed by
private concerns, and in addition have
all the advantages enjoyed by the co-
operatives, together with virtually
unlimited financial backing, and the
moral and interested cooperation and
support of the government.

With these substantial assets and
advantages, we are confident of the
continued growth and prosperity
of the cooperatives in the future, and
are ready to meet the test of compar-
ative efficiency with the private mer-
chants according to any recognized
standard based on merit and service."

Women's Conference Hears

Speakers Tell of Future

Policies

I. A. A., Farm Bureau, Home Bureau

and Extension Service to Work

Together

PRESIDENT SAM H. THOMPSON
of the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration, President Earl C. Smith, Dean
H. W. Mumford of the State College
of Agriculture, and A. C. Everingham,
Hutsonville, addressed the Women's
Conference held at Danville on Wednes-
day, Jan. 30.

Mr. Thompson spoke briefly of the
program of the Federation and of the
importance of women in the work of
organized agriculture. President Smith
and Dean Mumford each discussed
briefly the relationship which exists in
the state between the I. A. A., the Ex-
tension Service, and the Illinois Home
Bureau Federation.

Mrs. Johnson Presides

Among the women speakers were
Mrs. Homer Johnson, president of the
Illinois Home Bureau Federation, who
■ presided, and Mrs. Kathryn Van Aken
Burns, home extension leader at Ur-
bana. Mrs. Burns told how plans were
to be developed toward bringing run-
ning water and modern improvements
into more farm homes. Landlords will
be interested in the project that tenant
farm homes may become more habit-
able. Other Home Bureau members
talked impromptu about the work of
their organization.

The understanding or agreement ex-
isting between the I. A. A., Farm Bu-
reau, Home Bureau, and State Exten-
sion Service as explained by the
speakers covers the following points:

Here is Agreement

"1. The Illinois Agricultural Association
recoBnizes the Home Bureau movement in this
state as the organization that can best serve
rural women. It is recognized that this organi-
zation is already in the field with an estab-

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District served
ably and conscien-
tiously for the
past five years.
During the past
two years Mr. Whisnand was a mem-
ber of the Public Relations Com-
mittee where he specialized in the
study of tax problems. Whisnand
never missed a meeting, was always
on hand when there was work to be
done. He is active in Farm Bureau
affairs in his home county.

Whisnand

lished program and that its eflforts should not
be duplicated.

"2. The Illinois Agricultural Association
encourages closer co-operation between Home
Bureaus and Farm Bureaus in counties now
so organized. It is believed that closer co-
operation can be realized through a better un-
derstanding of the problems and programs of
the two organizations.

"3. In counties having no Home Bureaus
and where at the present time it does not seem
advisable to attempt the organization of a
Home Bureau, the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation believes in and will support the de-
velopment and recognition of a women's com-
mittee within the County Farm Bureau. Some
aims and purposes of such a committee, it is be-
lieved, should be: (a) To promote, in co-opera-
tion with the Farm Bureau and such other
committees as the Farm Bureau may appoint,
4-H Club work and assist in carrying it out.
(b) Assist in carrying to rural women some
idea of the problems confronting agriculture
in general and problems confronting rural
women, together with the advantages that may
be obtained in the solution of these problems
through organized effort.

"4. To assist in the promotion and main-
tenance of community organizations, always
looking toward the organization and the main-
tenance of a Home Bureau organization in
these counties.

"5. The Illinois Agricultural Association
agrees to provide capable speakers to present
the above program, where interest within a
County Farm Bureau is such as to justify the
same. Speakers will be chosen who not only
are capable but who hold convictions in sup-
port of all phases of the women's program.
It is recommended further that all such speak-
ers should be scheduled through the offices
of the Illinois Agricultural Association, that
the I. A. A. pay their per diem, and that the
county using such speakers pay their trans-
portation and sustenance expenses.

Serum Ass'n Elects

The Illinois Farm Bureau Serum As-
sociation annual meeting in the Wol-
ford Hotel, Jan. 29, was attended by
more than 100 farm advisers and dele-
gates from all sections of the state.
Representatives of many serum com-
panies were present. New develop-
ments in hog cholera control were out-
lined and discussed by various speakers
including among others Dr. Robt.
Graham, University of Illinois, Urbana,
and representatives of the U. S. Dept.
of Agriculture.

O. B. Goble of Charleston was re-
elected president, Sam Sorrells of Ray-
mond vice-president, and Ray E. Miller

secretary-treasurer. The Association
will purchase serum and virus to vac-
cinate hogs in more than 60 Illinois
counties. Farm Bureau members only
will receive the benefit of the organized
buying power.

Macleay Addresses Rela-
tions Conference

Legislative Proposals and Tax Re-
vision are Endorsed

T^HE Public Relations Conference was
J- called to order in the Armory at
Danville, Illinois, January 30, at 1:00
p. m. by Frank D. Barton, chairman.

Lachlan Macleay, Secretary of the
Mississippi Valley Association, gave
many examples of the cost of shipment
over the barge service on the Ohio,
Missouri, and Mississippi rivers, and of
comparative costs of rail and water
shipments from producing centers and
districts in this country and from other
countries to the coast cities. His ad-
dress was very interesting. It was
voted to send copies to the Farm Bu-
reaus over the State.

L. J. Quasey discussed the high
points of Transportation, Electric
Light and Power, Telephone Rates and
Service, and Public Utility easements
over farm lands. The beneficial effect
of the development of waterway trans-
portation on rail rates in Illinois and
the central west was emphasized.

The Conference voted unanimously
that public utility problems be handled
through local committees appointed by
the Farm Bureaus.

Because land owners have no rights
at the present time in the determina-
tion of routes of high tension or signal
lines, which are built by Public Utili-
ties, the conference went on record in
favor of legislation to give the Illinois
Commerce Commission jurisdiction in
determining the routes of public utility
lines over private lands.

President Smith discussed the pres-
ent situation relative to national legris-
lation designed to give equality to agri-
culture. It was voted unanimously to
ask that this address be published.

Mr. Smith also presented briefly the
problem of completing the State bond
issue hard road system and the neces-
sity of improving the secondary or
State Aid Road System of the counties.
After some discussion the conference
went on record in favor of a tax on
gasoline to be equitably divided.

A. C. Everingham and John C. Wat-
son outlined the various tax measures
heretofore advocated by the Associa-
tion. The conference voted unani-
mously to endorse the proposed state
income tax, the revenue amendment,
and limitation of the county highway
tax rate in line with that in effect be-
fore 1927.

F. A. Fisher of Morgan county,
president; F. E. Longmire, Grundy
county, vice-president; C. W. Simpson,
White county, treasurer; and W. P.
Miller, Brown county, secretary, are
the new officers of the Illinois Asso-
ciation of Farm Advisors.

Stranded in Soudi Dakota

To BE WRECKED a thousand
miles from home and no money to
pay the garage bill might be a sorry
predicament It need not be if you insure
your car in the Farm Bureau company.
The Home office is always in reach, ready
to help — ready to serve — prepared for
any emergency. W^herever you go, the
strength and protection of YOUR OWN
COMPANY backed by your COUNTY
FARM BUREAU and the ILLINOIS
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION goes
with you. Insure among friends and you
will get sympathetic treatment when in
trouble.

A full coverage policy includes protec-
tion against Fire, Theft, Collision, Prop-
erty Damage, Public Liability — All at
cost. Claims paid promptly.

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while touring through South Dako-
ta last summer," says Manager A. E. Rich-
ardson, "he was faced with a repair bill of
$150 rendered by a local garage. Our mem-
ber happened to be short of funds, and
appreciating the fact that the loss was cov-
ered by his policy, he called the office over
long distance telephone and asked for advice.
We told him to take affidavits from the
witnesses and forward them to this office.
Within one hour after his message, a check
for $125 was on the way.

"This is a service offered Farm Bureau
members which they cannot obtain else-
where. It is one of the many advantages of
having an insurance policy in the Farm
Biu-eau owned and controlled company,"

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predicament. It need not be if you insure

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The Home office is always in reach, ready

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while touring through South Dako-
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ardson, "he was faced with a repair bill of
$150 rendered by a local garage. Our mem-
ber happened to be short of funds, and
appreciating the fact that the loss was cov-
ered by his policy, he called the office over
long distance telephone and asked for advice.
We told him to take affidavits from the
witnesses and forward them to this office.
Within one hour after his message, a check
for $125 was on the way.

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Changing Habits Hurt
Farmer Says Davenport

Dean Would Have Co-operatives
Quote, Not Fix, Prices Fair to
Producer and Consumer
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■p^EAN-EMERITUS EUGENE DAV-
J-^'eNPORT who retired as head of
the Illinois College of Agriculture in
1922 hearkened back to lessons from
the past in an interesting radio ad-
dress to Illinois farmers on the I. A.
A. Forum from Station WLS Wednes-
day night, March 6. The Dean who
was bom at Woodland, Michigan, in
1856, his present home, explained the
farm surplus problem in part by re-
ferring to changes in eating habits
and dress in late years.

"When we look the facts in the
face," he said, "the real wonder is
that conditions are not worse than
they are. For there are many reasons
for such surpluses as do exist. During
the war we learned to speed up in
everything. We were forced to sub-
stitute machinery for hand labor at
many points. Pastures were plowed
up to increase the acreage of grain
production. We have had a long series
of good seasons, with practically no
crop failures anywhere. It all meant
more production. Only Russia has
gone bad.

Europe Poor

"But on the consumption side there
has been an amazing falling off.
Europe has been poor and it has af-
fected her buying power and cut our
markets. Our farms are cleared, our
timber lands are stripped and lumber-
ing has disappeared. All this means
a vast reduction in hand labor on the
land. It is still further reduced by
machinery for mowing, harvesting and
the pitching done by our fathers. In
factories and warehouses freight is
hauled about by gasoline engines in-
stead of by man power. Iron is han-
dled in the yards by great magnets
working on cranes or carriers, and
not by men with wheel-barrows.

"The result has been a vast reduc-
tion in man labor and that means re-
duction in the amount of food con-
sumed per man. For men eat as we
stoke the boiler, in proportion to the
work they do. The 4,000 calorie
ration therefore, is almost a thing of
the past. In a surprising number of
cases, the noon meal, even of the
laborer, consists mainly of a beef sand-
wich or two. While that of his wife
or working daughter may be a veg-
etable salad, all instead of the meat
and potatoes, or the pork and beans
of our hard-working fathers and moth-
ers. This means less food consump-
tion and it cuts into the farmers' mar-
kets amazingly. As \vi this were not
enough, fashion has decreed the slim
figure for ladies. This, too, has re-
duced food consumption, especially in
the young, and the farmer's pocket-
book has suffered accordingly.

Less l?ooA Eaten

"Besides all this, our houses are bet-

Dean Davenport

ter warmed than they used to be and
a larger proportion of men work in
offices or heated factories. This too,
means less food consumption, for in
the cold we eat for warmth as well as
for body repairs. All these reductions
go far toward offsetting any effect of
increased population.

"Even this is not all. We no longer
put on heavy woolen underclothing at
the first sign of winter, but wear the
lighter garments the year round. Nor
do we wear so many thicknesses, by
half, as did our fathers and mothers.
The ordinary suit in men's clothing
made ten years ago, would out-weigh,
almost two to one, the suits men wear
today. As to the ladies, all we can
say is that skirts are fewer and shorter
than ever before. What the changes
in living conditions and in fashion
have left undone, the invention of
rayon has finished. It has meant lit-
tle difference to the manufacturer, but
it has meant much to the grower of
wool and cotton.

Poverty in Europe

"Put into a few words, it all means
that we have vastly reduced consump-
tion in recent years, both in food and
clothing, and it has affected the farm-
ers markets even less than would have
seemed inevitable. The saving ele-
ment of the situation has been the in-
crease in population. This increase,
except for the change in living habits
and the poverty of Europe would, by
this time, have almost put food and
clothing in the luxury class. For the
speaker has seen the population of the
United States doubled twice within
his own recollection, and men are still
living who have seen it doubled three
times. When it doubles once or twice
more, we shall hear very little about
the surplus in food and textiles. . . .

"The farmer's marketing problem
lies largely in products subject to
great variability in quality or grade.
I cannot see how organization can help
much in the marketing of a perfectly
standard article like wheat, produced
the world around. It may help in
regional production, and the raising of
the general grade of the product, but
it is subject to world competition and

the amount the world will take (that
is the amount of bread the world will
consume) is not subject to a very
great increase. If automobiles were
to be had at $10 apiece, we should all-
own a half dozen or so but we would
not double our consumption of flour,
even if bread were given away.

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"Even so, there remains a vast range
of food products in which quality
bulks large. The principal of high
grade or low grade products applies
to all fruits and vegetables, to meats,
and to dairy and poultry products.
Here then, it seems to me, is the farm-
er's opportunity to enter the field of
high grade marketing; first, by stand-
ardizing the product, second by legiti-
mate advertising that will advise the
world of what it may secure, and third,
by quoting a price which the producer
and consumer alike will consider fair.

"At all three of these points organi-
zation can exert its influence. By ad-
vice and by grading it can either assist
or coerce the producer by high stand-
ards^ By co-operative effort it can
placi^ judicious advertising where it
will count in opening up new markets.
And it can, if it takes the pains suf-
ficiently to inform itself, quote a price
which would be considered fair.

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"This last is the hardest nut of all
to crack. Any farmer can fix a price
upon his own product at any time but
he cannot compel the public to pay it.
Neither can an organization, however
powerful. But if the organization will
sufficiently inform itself as to avail-
able markets, the quality which they
will demand and accept, the available
supply, and the possibility of substi-
tutes, then the organization can, in the
not distant future and for many com-
modities, quote (not fix) a price which
will be attractive both to the purchaser
and the producer.

"This last is an important point. Be-
cause if the price be too low, the
farmer will not produce and the con-
suming public will be compelled to
look about for a substitute, shifting
its patronage to something else and
the force of advertising would be lost.
If, on the other hand, the price quoted
be too high, it will either unduly at-
tract producers or it will drive the
purchaser away and force him to try
a substitute. The final result, there-
fore, of a wrong price, whether too
high or too low, is pretty much the
same. This all means a series of
regional commodity organizations,
each dealing with a particular output
as produced under special conditions
prevailing in that particular region
and seeking to cater to a well-known
and well-developed market."

Tune in on the Illinois Agricultural Associ-
ation Forum from Prairie Fanners* Radio
Station, WLS, on Wednesday eveniac, 6:30
to 7:00 p. m.

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To New Secretary

Ex-Ciovemor Hyde b Well Liked by
Farmers In "Show-Me" State

COMMENTING upon the selection
of the Hon. Arthur M. Hyde of
Missouri as Secretary of Agriculture,
President Earl C. Smith said:

"I have the highest respect and re-
gard for Mr. Hyde. I have had a per-
sonal acquaintance and association
with him for 12 to 14 years before he
entered political life, and served with
him on the Resolutions Committee at
the National Republican Convention
in Kansas City."

The following telegn"am was dis-
patched to the new Secretary of Agri-
culture following his announcement by
President Smith:

"I EXTEND CONGRATULATIONS
ON YOUR APPOINTMENT AS SEC-
RETARY OF AGRICULTURE AND
BEST WISHES FOR YOUR SUC-
CESS IN THE DISCHARGE OF THE
TREMENDOUS RESPONSIBILITIES
AND DUTIES OF THAT OFFICE
STOP TO THAT END THE ILLI-
NOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIA-
TION ASSURES YOU OF ITS FULL
SUPPORT AND CO-OPERATION.
EARL C. SMITH, PRESIDENT."

Dairymen Meet

Secretary Geo. E. Metzger and Dairy
Marketing Director A. D. Lynch met
recently with leaders in the St. Louis
milk district to review and discuss co-
operative marketing experience and
possibilities in that territory. More
than 60 representatives from counties
in the St. Louis milk shed attended the
meeting.

It was decided that the dairymen in
each of the 17 interested counties of
Illinois and Missouri meet at the call
of their respective Farm Bureaus for
the purpose of selecting one official
representative to attend a central meet-
ing in St. Louis on March 8 when a
dairy marketing program will be con-
structed.

Chicago MiSk Price
Announced by Pure
Milk Ass'n, April I

T OOK out for Oregon red clover
-^-^ seed. Experimental results show
that it doesn't stand corn-belt winters,
is the advice Farm Adviser Tom Rob-
erts of DeKalb county is giving Farm
Bureau members. v . .-,

Hon. Arthur M. Hyde. ,

T^HE new Secretary of Agriculture,
-■- Arthur M. Hyde, was born in
Princeton, Mo., July 12, 1877. He re-
ceived his A. B. degree at the Univer-
sity of Michigan in 1899, and gradu-
ated in law the year following at the
University of Iowa. Secretary Hyde
practiced law at Princeton, Mo., from
1900 to 1915 where he served as mayor
from 1908 to 1910. In 1915 he moved
to Trenton, the former home of Mrs.
Hyde. He was governor of Missouri
from 1921 to 1925, is a trustee of Mis-
souri Wesleyan College, a Republican,
Methodist, Mason, and Odd Fellow.

Secretary Hyde is an extensive land-
owner and this fact is said to have in-
fluenced his choice as a member of
President Hoover's cabinet.

Mr. Hyde, as a member of the
Missouri delegation, voted for Frank
O. Lowden for President at the Kansas
City Convention until Mr. Lowden's
withdrawal when he supported Mr.
Hoover.

"Arthur H. Hyde U an intensively active
man inclined a bit to nervousness,*' writes
W. J. Kennedy in the Whiteside County
Farmer. "He has few bobbies. He smokes
/-iiiai« — eonsiderably but is s teetotaler on
hard liqa(»i. Homely expressions always won
his audiences. He has a rare vein of humor
blended with bitine sarcasm. Missouri Re-
publicans regard him as equal to Jim Reed
on the stump and his campaigns with various
Missouri Senior Senators long will be remem-
bered in the future. In Trenton, Missouri,
Mr. Hyde conducted the Men's Bible Class of
the Methodist Church which grew from a
few members to Include a large proportion
of the masculine population of the town. Re-
ports of his personality and the earnestness
of his pleadings stamped him, as an out-
standing moral leader."

Base and Surplus New Plan for
Figuring Price

The Pure Milk Association an-
nounces that begining April 1 a
base and surplus plan of payment
will be initiated on the Chicago
market. The net price to dairy-
men for base milk will be $2.64
per 100 pound; for 3.5 per cent
milk with an allowance of four
cents per point butterfat. (Base
amount for each producer will be
the average of his September, Oc-
tober, and November production.
During April the dairyman can
produce 120 per cent of base.)
All milk in excess of base amount,
or surplus, will be figured at the
rate of 3.5 times the price of 92
score butter at Chicago, plus 20
per cent, plus 25 per cent of the
difference between the above price
and the base price of $2.64.

The new price plan and the
progrram for the future was to be
carefully explained at the annual
meeting of the. Association sched-
uled for March 12 in Chicago.
Dr. Clyde King of Philadelphia
was scheduled to address the
meeting.

\ POWERFUL organization more
-^ than 10,000 strong, amply financed,
and recognized as the voice of the
dairymen in the great Chicago milk
shed, describes the Pure Milk Associa-
tion six weeks after the culmination of
one of the most effective embsu'goes
ever laid down by a producer's organ-
ization.

The Association headed by W. E.
McQueen, president, and Don Geyer,
manager, is proceeding conservatively
in building an efficient organization to
deal and speak for its members. Head-
quarters have been established in a
suite of rooms on the fifth floor of the
Transportation Building, Chicago, and
work is progressing toward getting rec-
ords up to date and preparing for fu-
ture duties.

Chanced Over Night

Almost over night the Association
was changed from a struggling group
of producers bent wri establishing a
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political, and educational intereatm of the farmere of lllinoia and the
nation, and to develop agriculture.

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Illinois, by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Entered as second-
class matter October 20, 1926, at the post office at Mount Morris,
Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Accepted for mailing at
special rate of postage provided for in Section 412, Act of February
28. 1925. authorized October 27, 1925. The individual membership
fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five dollars a year. The
fee includes payment of fifty cents for subscription to the lu-INOIS
Agricultural Association Record. Postmaster: In returning an un-
called for or missent copy please indicate key number on address as
is required by law.

1 OFFICERS ' I,

President, Earl C. SmitK Detroit

Vice-President, Frank D. Barton ; Cornell

Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger Chicaxo

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloominrton

shall be recognized as a credit on computed in-
come tax; amendments to the Membership Act
and the Cooperative Marketing Act of 1923
which remove limitations as now contained
therein and intended to make possible the fur-
ther development of cooperative effort; restora-
tion of former limits to the county highway tax
and such amendments to the present dog tax as
will make possible adequate funds to take care
of losses sustained. if

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
(By Congressional District)

H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

L G. F. TuUock, Rockford

..C. E. Bamborough, Polo

Lambert, Ferris

kinner, Yates City

Wright, Vema

17th Geo. J. StoU, Chestnut

18th i. _ R. F. Karr, Iroquois

I9th „ _ C. J. Gross, Atwood

20th Charles S. Black, Jacksonville

21st i Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd i Frank Oexner, Waterloo

23rd , „ W. L. Cope, Salem

24th : ...Charles Marshall, Belknap

2Sth Fred Dietz, De Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Business Service ; X Geo. R. Wicker

Dairy Marketing .j A. D. Lynch

Limestone-Phosphate J. R. Bent

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing _A. B. Leeper

Comptroller ..._ _ J. H. Kelker

Information ^ ^ George Thlem

Insurance Service „..V. Vaniman

Legal Counsel _ Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller

Organization _ G. E. Metzger

Produce Marketing __ F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson

Transportation _ L. J. Quasey

Before the General Assembly

By Earl C. Smith

THE Illinois Agricultural Association was
, necessarily delayed in introducing its legis-

lative program in the 56th General Assembly
because it was first necessary to have the poli-
cies of those major things in which it was inter-
ested, outlined and directed by the board of
delegates at its recent annual meeting. It then
became necessary to have its executive commit-
tee interpret those policies and its public rela-
tions committee get same into shape for intro-
duction in the legislature. At the time of this
writing, all legislative matters endorsed at that
meeting with the exception of a gasoline tax
measure, have been prepared by the Association,
introduced by friends within the legislature and
are now before various committees of the two
houses for their consideration.

THESE include' a State Income Tax with
reasonable exemptions and low rates and
providing that any general property tax paid

AS REGARDS the gasoline tax, the State ad-
■ ministration introduced a bill early in Feb-
ruary and the Association recognized that it was
neither necessary nor advisable to introduce an-
other measure of this character. This bill pro-
vides for tax of three (3c) cents per gallon on
gasoline and that the revenue derived therefrom
shall be divided, two-thirds going to the Depart-
ment of Public Works and Buildings and one-
third to the various counties of Illinois, the latter
to be divided among the counties on the basis
of automobile license fees paid from within the
counties. It further provides special appropria-
tions of $7,500,000 and $2,000,000 for bond
issue road widening and building of grade in-
tersections respectively from the State fund, and
that the county funds may be used for the im-
provement of secondary state-aid roads, the type
of improvement to be determined by the county
boards subject to the approval of the state high-
way department. ,

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REPRESENTATIVES of the Association ap-
peared before the senate revenue committee
and the house, meeting as a committee of the
whole, and clearly set forth such changes or
amendments to this measure as were necessary
to bring its provisions in line with the best
thought of our institution. \ Ji'

While making known that we were ready and
willing to support a three-cent tax on gasoline,
we suggested and urged necessary amendments
to provide that the total revenue derived from
such a tax be divided equally between the State
and counties and further providing that that por-
tion received by the State should be used exclu-
sively for the completion of the One Hundred
Million Dollar Bond Issue system and the build-
ing of necessary grade intersections; and that
portion distributed among the several counties
be used for either secondary road improvement
or bond issue road widening as determined by
resolution of the county boards. t f

THESE suggested amendments entirely remove
the special appropriations contained in the
administration bill as special inducement to the
larger populated areas, believing that in the

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TUNE in on WLS every Wednesday
night at 6:30 P. M. and hear the
weekly I. A. A. FORUM. C. V. Greg-
ory, editor of Prairie Farmer, will
speak on the night of Wednesday,
March 20, on the subject "What
Farmers Can Learn From Big Busi-
ness."

Our daily 15-minute program from
Station WJJD, Mooseheart, comes
during the noon hour at 12:30 p. m.
Hear the livestock market as seen by
the Chicago Producers, and valuable
talks on Important topics of the day.

Address all communications to De-
partment of Information, Illinois
Agricultural Association, 608 So.
Dearborn St., Chicago.

Editorials

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building of a state-wide system of
highways, only the boundary lines of
Illinois should be considered and sec-
ond, that any division of county funds
among the several counties of the
State should be made only on the basis
of amounts paid in by the motor ve-
hicle owners of the counties.

WTHOUT exception, many mem-
bers of the general assembly
have stated to representatives of the
Association that they believe our posi-
tion was fair and equitable and would
improve the bill under consideration,
but at the same time hesitating to sup-
port these changes, expressing the
fear that opening the bill to any
amendments might endanger its final
passage. Amendments of all sorts and
descriptions have been offered from
various sources which give some color
and support to such expressions as
have been made.

4 T THE time of going to press, the
jHL gasoline tax measure in practi-
cally its original form, has passed the
senate with the prospect of extended
debate and consideration before pas-
sage in the house.

The Association has been repre-
sented continually throughout the ses-
sion thus far by President Smith, Vice-
President Barton, Treasurer Cowles,
General Counsel Kirkpatrick and its
director of taxation and statistics,
John Watson. They shall continue to
be in attendance to the full extent
J necessary to see that the legislature
fully understands the Association's
program and its merit. ...

The Farmer and the Gas Tax

GOVERNOR EMMERSON's gasoline
tax bill, from all indications, will
become a law within the next week. To
date it has withstood the barrage of
attacks upon it, and now it is advanced
to third reading without a material
change being made in its original draft.
The bill provides a tax of three cents
on each g^allon of gasoline sold. Two
cents of this money will go to the state
but it still appears doubtful just when
and how the other one cent will be re-
turned to the county from which it was
collected.

McLean county's share of this tax
will be about $100,000 annually, it is
estimated. This money may be spent
only on state aid roads, and with the
approval of the state highway depart-
ment, if interpretations of the bill are
correct. Viewing this in the light of
present specifications and the demon-
strated policy of the highway depart-
ment, it means that the annual mileage
would be almost negligible. Thus, not
only the side roads that lead past most
of the farms, but many of the principal
county highways as well, would go
begging for improvement for many
years, except for the help of strictly
county or township levies or bond is-
sues. With greater discretion as to
type and location given the county au-
thorities, even though supervised to
some extent by the state, a more prac-
tical and equitable distribution of im-
provements would result.

A secondary road system is wanted
and sadly needed. It has been clearly
demonstrated that such roads are prac-
tical at a cost per mile representing
only a fraction of that which under
present provisions would be required
by the state. Mileage is needed, not
luxurious quality. The large majority
of farmers now mired hub-deep in mud
and thereby prevented from bring:ing
their crops to market under favorable
conditions, cannot afford to wait sev-
eral years for the completion of an ex-
pensive highway system.

The farmer does not need, nor care
to pay heavily for a few miles of con-
crete or gravel roads built to 15-D
specifications, that he cannot use. But
he does need sufficient roads that can be
used in all seasons.

The legislature would do well to con-
sider that in putting a three-cent tax
upon gasoline it should appropriate this
money to help the farmer as well as
the urbanite. — Bloomington Panta-
graph. . -■ . ; ■ ■.

Tlie Gasoline Tax

BEFORE the legislature now as tihe
matter of supreme importance is
the question of a gasoline tax.

Both houses of the assembly have re-
ported the bill favorably — this in the
committee rooms, however. Now comes
the best test of strength — on the floor.

There have been many substitutions
offered for Gov. Louis L. Emmerson's
three-cent gasolthe tax. The larger
cities of the state are strongly protest-
ing the administration's tax.

Gov. Emmerson proposed a three-cent
tax — two cents for the state and one
cent for the county. This is the cause
for all the howl.

Since then, there have been a num-
ber of others proposed. One by Earl C.
Smith, president of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association, would have the
tax evenly divided with the county to
develop the system of secondary roads.

To our minds, this is the best plan
yet proposed. No state can ever hope
for prosperity, especially in the middle
west, unless its rural section is consid-
ered. The even split with the county
would develop this secondary system
and would greatly better marketing con-
ditions.— Paris (111.) Gazette.

Pure Milk Association

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foothold and a voice in the market
which they supply, to a powerfully
welded and representative organization
embracing the great bulk of the whole
milk shippers in northern Indiana,
northern Illinois, and southern Wiscon-
sin. The association now finds its
chief problem is to limit its member-
ship to those producers most strategi-
cally located to supply the Chicago
whole milk market. It is the popular
thing throughout the great milk shed
to join the Pure Milk Association; and
the organization is faced with the diffi-
culty of safeguarding the market for
those whose milk is needed.

Eyes en Market

Widespread publicity growing out of
the strike focused the eyes of dairymen
all over the middle west on the Chicago
market. Membership in Indiana alone
has grown from a few hundred to ap-
proximately 3,000 within a few weeks.
Dairymen from remote sections like
Greene and Rock counties, Wisconsin,
and Stephenson county, Illinois, have
joined the association. For convenience
the milk district has been zoned.
Dairymen within a radius of 70 miles
from Chicago have been placed in zone
one, from 70 to 80 miles, zone two,
from 80 to 90, zone three, and from 90
to 100, zone four.

Applications for membership, accord-
ing to President McQueen, are still
coming in at the rate of 400 and 500
every day. I. W. Heaps, manager of
the milk producers' organization at
Baltimore assisted in the establishment
of an up-to-date record system in the
Association office.

The Accomplishments

While the decision of the arbitrator.
Dr. Clyde King of Philadelphia, disap-
pointed some members of the Associa-
tion, officials point to the accomplish-
ments resulting from the settlement, as
follows :

1. The dealers recognize the Associ-
ation and agree to deal with it as
the recognized agency of the milk
producers.

2. A price of $2.64 per 100 lbs. for

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Girl Wins Essay Contest

John F. Case, editor of the Missouri
Ruralist addressed the St. Louis Opti-
mist's club a short time ago. Among
other things, he comments on his meet-
ing there with Branch Rickey, manager
of the St. Louis Cardinals. His state-
ment which follows should be of inter-
est to our evergrowing army of Farm
Bureau baseball players and fans:

"Among the active members of the
Optimist's Club. I met Branch Rickey,
vice-president and general manager of
the St. Louis National League Baseball
Club. Rickey, a man in his forties, is
a dynamic personality. Born on an
Ohio farm where he lived until 16 years
of age, this remarkable man worked his
way through Ohio Wesleyan University
where he studied law. A star catcher
on the college team, Rickey was signed
by the New York American League
team management and has been in
baseball ever since. Yet true to family
tradition and environment Rickey never
would play ball on Sunday. Even when
manager of the St. Louis team he took
the day off to attend church and teach
a Sunday school class of boys. Burt
Shotton, his 'Sunday manager,' now
directs the Philadelphia team.

"Blanch Rickey still is a 'farmer.'
He it was who originated the idea of
purchase and control of a number of
minor league baseball teams where
promising recruits, many of them farm
lads, are developed into baseball stars.
Rickey is partial to the sinewy, toil-
hardened youth from the farm with a
heritage of faith and courage whose
health has not been undermined by
dissipation. It is said that he keeps
a fatherly eye on these lads on his
'baseball farms' and woe be unto the
man who leads them into temptation.
Never able to develop a winning big
league team as manager because it is
said that he is too idealistic and 'soft-
boiled,' Branch Rickey still is admit-
tedly the directing force behind the
Cardinal team which in three years has
won two championships and one world's
championship. It is generally conceded
that he has done more to place profes-
sional baseball upon a high plane than
any other man."

COMMENTING ON THE FACT
(that some shareholders) blindly in-
jure their own organization in selling
to their competitor, one man at an
elevator meeting Remarked that "when
he saw his grocer or butcher crossing
the street to his competitors place of
business to buy his provisions for din-
ner, then he would try to see some
merit in a stockholder of a farmers'
elevator selling his grain to the other
fellow." — Grain M*rketing.

Wilma I. Birdzell

WILMA I. BIRDZELL of Cumber-
land county won the $50 watch
awarded by the Illinois Agricultural
Association for the best essay on the
subject "Why Club Members Should
Market Their Livestock Co-opera-
tively."

In the contest the state was divided
into three districts. The winners in
the various districts were as follows:

Northern District — Herman B. Rupp, Leiand
(DeKalb Co.) $26 Gold Watch — l8t priie.
Clara Haun, HcNabb (Putnam Co.) $10 —
2nd prize.

Central District — Wilma I. Birdzell, Jewett
(Cumberland Co.) l8t prize and State prize
winner, $50 Gold Watch. Georgia Jones,
CathaKe (Hancock Co.) $10 — 2nd prize.

Southern District — Martain Garbe, (Effincham
Co.) $26 Gold Watch — Ist prize.

The essays were judged by J. D.
Harper, editor of the National Live-
stock Producers; Frank Ridgway, agri-
cultural editor of the Chicago Trib-
une; and E. G. Thiem, director of in-
formation, Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation.

On receiving the news of her vic-
tory, the winner wrote Ray E. Miller,
director of livestock marketing who
conducted the contest, as follows:

"I certainly was glad to learn that
I had won first place in the contest.

"I have no picture at present, but
will send one in a few days. I am 13
years old, in first year high school,
live on a farm, have had one year in
club work — first year sewing project
— and won the county championship.
Sincerely yours,

Wilma L Birdzell."

Twenty counties submitted the win-
ning essays in their county contests
to the state committee for final judg-
ment. The winners in the county con-
tests were as follows:

Kcrmit Kline, Blandinsville (HcDonough Co.)
Central Dist.

Orval Stiegrman, Thawville (Iroquois Co.)
Northern Dist.

Edith Wolf, Canton (Fulton Co.) Central Dist.

Clara Haun, McNabb ( Marshall- I>utnam)
Northern Dist.

Wilma I. Birdzell, Jewett (Cumberland Co.)
Central Dist.

Merle L. Hall, Princeville (Peoria Co.) Nor-
thern Dist.

James W. Wallace, Assumption (Christian
Co.) Central Dist.

John R. Spear, Mason City, Route No. 4, (Ma-
son Co.) Centra] Dist.

Morrill Fraley, Naperville, Route No. 1, (Du-
Page Co.) Northern Dist.

Scott County — Central Dist.

Iva Mitchell, Greenfield, (Macoupin Co.) Cen-
tral Dist.

Herman B. Rupp, Leiand (DeKalb Co.) Nor-
thern Dist.

Mildred V. Crouse, Farmersville (Montgom-
ery Co.) Central Dist.

Martin Garbe (Effingham Co.) Southern Dist.

Clifford Wertsch (Tazewell Co.) Central Dist.

William F. Whiteman, Biggsville (Hender-
son Co.) Northern Dist.

Fay M. Sims, Adams (Adams Co.) Central
Dist.

Hobert Canady (Clark Co.) Central Dist.

Georgia Jones, Carthage (Hancock Co.) Cen-
tral Dist.

Homer Mendenhall (Sangamon Co.) Central
Dist.

Knox County Wins Cup

in Publicity Contest

IT^NOX county won the Farm Bureau
-■^ Publicity Contest and the Sam
Thompson Trophy for the second time
when county publicity exhibits were re-
viewed by a committee of judges on
March 1. The exhibits which consisted
of clippings from newspapers and jour-
nals, copies of releases forwarded to the
press, Farm Bureau oflScial organs, let-
ters, posters, etc., were judged for ef-
fectiveness, originality, volume of pub-
licity secured, completeness, variety,
and results in building a strong Farm
Bureau membership. The Knox county
entry was complete in every detail and
attractively presented.

The Vermilion county entry of farm
adviser Otis Kercher placed second.
Kercher has one of the best official
Farm Bureau publications in the state,
and during the past year the organiza-
tion secured splendid support from the
Danville Commercial-News and other
county newspapers.

Exhibits from Marshall-Putnam,
Sangamon, and Boone counties received
special mention. County Adviser R.
J. Laible in Marshall-Putnam is carry-
ing on very creditably the effective
publicity project initiated by former
adviser F. E. Fuller. A weekly release
is forwarded to all the newspapers in
the county regularly, and letters, cards,
and posters are used to keep the mem-
bers in touch with Farm Bureau ac-
tivities. The Farm Bureau in Sanga-
mon county, Edwin Bay, adviser, has
received splendid support from Spring-
field's two leading dailies and the
strength of the organization there is
due in no small part to the attention
given publicity.

Farm adviser Foley in Boone county
uses the Rockford dailies as well as
local newspapers and a mimeographed
letter to tell about the Farm Bureau
and its work. He is doing effective
work in building a strong organiza-
tion in that county.

Among other excellent exhibits were
those from Shelby, Madison and Wood-
ford counties.

Judges were as follows: C. V.
Gregory, editor, Prairie Farmer, H. B.
Clemmons, Illinois Press Association,
C. H. Keltner, Illinois Farm Advisers
Association, D. C. Waterman, associ-
ate editor, Illinois Farmer, F. J. Keil-
holz, extension editor, Dlinois College
of Agriculture, and E. G. Thiem, Illi-
nois Agricultural Association.

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News in Brief

The Missouri Farmers Association
reports that co-operatives in that state
returned more than $1,000,000 to their
farmer patrons in dividends during
1928. Reports from eighty-three co-
operatives alone show net earnings of
$608,861.52.

The Peoria County Farm Bureau
directors voted recently to organize the
Peoria County Service Co. to handle
petroleum products and supplies. The
company will not be incorporated until
$16,0000 of preferred stock has been
subscribed.

The Illinois Milk Producers Associ-
ation, Peoria, recently consummated a
new agreement with dealers for 1929.
The dealers are to pay $2.77 for Class
I fluid milk, and Chicago 92 score but-
ter price plus 4c per pound butterfat
and 30c per cwt. for skim-milk for all
Class II or manufactured milk. The
Association has 1260 members, and 86
per cent of all milk coming to the five
Peoria dealers. The new agreement
will add $28,000 to the producers' in-
come for 1929.

Clarence Ramshaw was recently
elected president and manager, and
Max Wyman secretary-treasurer of the
Peoria County Farm Bureau Baseball
nine.

Average shrink per head in Febru-
ary 1929 was only 1.5 lbs. on hogs
handled by the Chicago Producers Com-
mission Ass'n — a new low record.

The Chicago Producers are handling
close to 10 per cent of all livestock re-
ceipts excluding shipments direct to
packers.

V. J. Banter, JoDaviess County farm
adviser will succeed W. A. Herrington,
adviser in Stephenson county who will
assist M. L. Mosher in farm manage-
ment work in Livingston and Wood-
ford counties.

Local solicitors in LaSalle County
signed 873 members in the Farm
Bureau on Tuesday, Feb. 26.

7,000 carloads more of fresh vege-
tables from the south moved to north-
ern cities in February 1929 than in the
same month last year. City people are
eating more fresh foods, less canned
goods.

Taxes took on an average more than
28 per cent of the net rent before de-
ducting taxes, of cash-rented farms in
Iowa in 1926 and 1927.

A calf buyer was responsible for
spreading foot and mouth disease in
Los Angeles county, California, says
the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.

The first real ice-cream plant to be
built in France is about to be erected.

Comparatively little ice-cream is con-
sumed there. Experts of the new
company will study ice-cream making
and marketing in the United States.

The Lake County Farm Bureau
"helped put over 90 per cent member-
ship in Lake County for the Pure Milk
Association," says the DIVERSIFIED
FARMER.

Wicker to Leave I. A. A.

Organizes Company

Has Had Lifetime Experience in Co-
operative Woric

GEO. R. WICKER director of busi-,
ness service and manager of the
Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives As-
sociation and the Illinois Farm Supply
Company, who leaves the Association
April 1 to take up new duties, was
born at Neillsville, Wis., in 1877. He
left the farm at age 20 to join the
United States regular army when the
Spanish-American War broke out.
After a little less than a year in the
service. Wicker returned to Minnesota
where he began publishing the Dodge
County Transcript, a weekly news-
paper. Through his editorial work he
became interested in farmers' co-op-
erative enterprises and in 1899 or-
ganized the first of these, a co-opera-
tive rural telephone company. Begin-
ning in 1905 he assisted in organizing
a string of 16 co-operative lumber
companies of which
he was manager of
two over a period
of 15 years.

Elected to the
state legrislature in
1918, he introduced
the general co-oper-
ative law and a
number of other
marketing bills
which laid the
groundwork for the
widespread development of co-oper-
atives in that state. In 1921 he was
appointed chairman of the committee
on tax laws in the House. This com-
mittee prepared the tonnage tax bill
on mineral ore which contributes
heavily toward Minnesota's fine edu- 1
cational system. '

Wicker served as a deputy commis-
sioner of agriculture in Minnesota
from 1922 to 1925 where he devel-
oped a business and accounting serv-
ice for farmers' co-operatives, and was
in charge of co-operative activities in j
that state. \

Came In 1925
He came from that work to the ;
Illinois Agricultural Association in j
1925 to take charge of and develop
the Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives
Association, which today is a going
concern with more than 200 co-op-
erative organizations.

When the Illinois Farm Supply Co.
was organized two years ago, Wicker
was placed in charge as active man-

Geo. R. Wickar

ager. Last year it did a business of
$677,818.07 and ^med a net profit
of $16,299.85.

Wicker recently organized the
Wicker Corporation to deal in farm
supplies throughout Wisconsin, Iowa,
and Minnesota. Th6 company will deal
in petroleum products direct to the
consumer and later will build a chain
of bulk stations in southern Wisconsin.
Headquarters of the new company al-
ready have been established in Chi-
cago.

28 Year* In Work

Mr. Wicker's resignation becomes
effective April 1. In an interview re-
garding the matter he stated, "I have
spent 28 years in the service of farm-
ers' co-operative Organizations in one
capacity or anothei'. My resignation
is prompted entirely by a desire to
promote my own interests. I am leav-
ing the work with considerable regret
as nearly a lifetime of experience has
convinced me that the co-operative
method of conductiqig business enter-
prises among farm glople is at the be-
ginning of its greatest development."

"I have enjoyed my associations
with the officers and staff of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association and also
with Farm Advisers and Farm Bureau
people throughout the State of Illinois.
I shall continue to be interested in the
Farm Bureau movement and in order
to retain a permanent connection I
have become a member of the Lake
County Farm Bureau.

"I wish to take .advantage of this
opportunity to thank my many friends
throughout the state for their fine co-
operation in developing the work in
which I have been engaged."

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Pure Milk Association

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3.5 per cent milk f . o. b. country
points with no surplus, is an ad-
vance of 14 cents for the dairy-
men above the former price of
$2.50. »

Dealers will pay the Association
one cents per cwt. checkoff for
all milk received.
No new patrons whatsoever will
be taken on by any dealer unless
they are members of the Associ-
ation.

The one-cent checkoff for non-
members will be used for adver-
tising milk and dairy products
on the Chicago market.
To stop losses resulting from
dealers going bankrupt a cash
bond of $2500 will be required
from each distributor.
No additional contracts will be
made in violation of the arbi-
trator's decision, and present
agreements will be kept. The
dealers agreed to submit to check-
ing of weights and tests to be
worked out by a joint committee
of dealers and producers.
Dealers are to turn over all rec-
ords to the' arbitrator when called
for.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

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THHE desircj to influence, dominate,
-*• control, often purely for the sake
of satisfying one's ego leads to many
a man's downfall. Free-born Ameri-
cans are lovers of independence. No
less are the p^ple of other nations ex-
cept where they have been ground down
by centuries of tyranny into hopeless
despair and subjection. More battles
both bloody and bloodless have been
fought in the interest of freedom and
self-determination than for all other
reasons combined.

Such a battle is being waged now
in the state legislature of New York.
Organized farmers are at Albany, the
state capitol, determined ': to regain
home rule, the right to say whether or
not their rural school districts shall be
consolidated into larger districts, the
privilege of accepting or rejecting con-
solidation by a majority vote of farmers
in the district. <' ■'

Power to force consolidation now
rests in the State Education Depart-
ment. Farmers have had to take what
was handed them, pay increased tax
burdens, submit to "bossing" and dicta-
tion from an autocratic bureau, and
like it. It was taxation without repre-
sentation that led to the Revolutionary
War. Human nature has not changed
since 1776.

Commenting upon the school fight at
Albany, Dewitt C. Wing says in the
Rural New Yorker, "Farmers now
realize more vividly than they have
realized for several generations that
unabating organized, militant vigilance
is the price that they must pay for such
measures of legal justice, in school,
business, and political affairs as it is
possible to extract from the common
stock controlled by our local, state,
and federal governments."

New York farmers are going over
much the same ground traversed by
farmers in Illinois although in our case
bureaucratic control ever has rested in
a state department. Six years ago the
Community Consolidated School Act
was modified so that a majority vote
outside the corporate limits of towns
and cities is necessary to eflfect con-
solidation. As a result the extrava-
gant in school building has been large-
ly medicated.

The cost of government would prob^
ably be considerably less if the people
who voted the taxes paid them. One
of the outstanding arguments in favor
of a state income tax is that a far
greater proportion of our people
would contribute directly and be con-

Marchant of Knox Co.

To lU. Farm Supply

L. R. Marchant

WiU Take Up New Work in Chicago
AprU 1

LR. MARCHANT, county farm ad-
• viser in Knox county since 1920,
will succeed Geo. R. Wicker, as man-
ager of the Illinois Farm Supply Com-
pany. Mr. Marchant will take up his
new duties April 1. His success in
conducting Farm Bureau activities,
particularly those of a business na-
ture, in Knox county led to his choice
for the new work.

Born and raised on a farm in
Greene county, Iowa, Marchant grad-
uated in animal
husbandry from
Iowa State Col-
lege in 1914. He
spent four years
prior to the World
War in farm man-
agement work,
three years with
the firm of Car-
penter and Ross,
prominent breed-
ers of Shorthorn
cattle, in Richland
county, Ohio,
where he had charge of farm opera-
tions on more than 1000 acres; one
year managing the Mark Morton 500
acre farm in DuPage county.

After being discharged from the
army he returned to a 1100 acre farm
in Portage county, Ohio, and in Octo-
ber, 1920, came to Knox county as
assistant farm adviser. In 1922 he
became farm adviser which position*
he has held since that time.

Over 1300 Members

During Marchant's term as farm
adviser Knox county has maintained
a membership of more than 1300, and
a reserve fund has been added to each
year. A large membership was signed
up for the new three-year period only
last year.

Prior to the organization of the
Knox County Oil Company Marchant
made a study of the Minnesota co-
operatives and spent considerable time
with specialists in that field of work.
He served as secretary of the Knox
county unit for the past two years,
director of the Illinois Farm Supply
Company, and chairman of the Specifi-
cations Committee. Mr. Marchant
was president of the Illinois State As-
sociation of Farm Advisers in 1928.
He is recognized as one of the ablest
men in the state.

A. R. Kemp, assistant, will succeed
Marchant as farm adviser in Knox
county.

scious of burden of government. As
it is, nearly everyone pays some tax
indirectly. Better would it be if they
paid a direct tax and thereby were
brought to a complete realization of
the source of governmental expendi-
ture.

iMail^eting

Scott County Meets

Trucking Problem

"/^UR county livestock shipping as-
^ sociation has done a bigger busi-
ness since we started trucking than
evey before during the same time of
the year," writes Alfred Tate, farm ad-
viser in Scott County, Illinois. "This
increase in business leads us to believe
that the investigational work which we
did and which was followed up by pub-
licity, has taught livestock producers
in our county many facts regarding the
marketing of their animals which they
did not know before. They are now
content to let the shipping association
handle their stock. When we began
trucking, our shipping association was
losing business. Since we have facili-
ties for trucking there has been very
little demand for trucking to the ter-
minal market. Practically all shippers
employ our truck men to haul their
livestock from the farm to the local
shipping point.

Truck* Increasing

"The number of farmers and regular
truck drivers who were trucking live-
stock to the market has been increas-
ing for some time and during the last
year, the increase in livestock trucked
to the market was very pronounced,"
continued Tate. "This trucking of live-
stock to the market by farmers and
truck drivers increased to the point
where it was undermining the shipping
association.

"Most live stock producers do not
take the time to figure out which is
the best way, everything considered,
to get their livestock to the market.
Truckmen led them to believe that there
will be less shrink if they send their
stock by truck, that it will be more
convenient for them and that the re-
turns will be greater. We found also
that in practically every case where
livestock was trucked to the market,
it did not go to the Producers.

"We decided that the shipping as-
sociation would either have to discon-
tinue operation or else meet success-
fully the competition of truckmen.
After getting all the information avail-
able, the shipping association decided
to contract with a reliable truck driver
to do all its trucking business.

Local Trucker Hired

"We felt that one of the main needs
of the association was to have facili-
ties for getting stock from the farm to
the local shipping point. We contracted
with a truck driver to do this local
trucking for 20c per mile, that is, 20c
one way and no charge for return
trip and 35c handling charge up to 600
pounds. Over 600 pounds and up to
1200 pounds, 50c handling charge.
Over 1200 pounds and up to 3,000

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pounds, 75c handling charge. We con-
sider this a very reasonable charge. In
fact, we do not think farmers can af-
ford to haul their own livestock for
this price.

"In such cases as a rapidly falling
price, hog cholera outbreak, or where
people are anxious to get their livestock
on the market and we can't secure
enough for a carload, the truck driver
agrees to haul to the terminal market
for 40c per hundred.

"Our investigation revealed that ship-
ping by rail is much the most economi-
cal means of transportation. We found
also that commission and yardage is
higher on trucked-in stuff than stock
shipped by rail. We found also that
the shrink is just as great, if not
greater, on trucked-in stock compared
with that shipped by rail."

Dairymen Help Milk

Distributors Pay Up

TlirHEN two dealers on the Cham-
» ' paign-Urbana milk market re-
fused to abide by the terms of their
contract with the Champaign County
Milk Producers, the dairymen retali-
ated by withholding their milk with the
result that in 24 hours legal counsel
for the truant distributors approached
the Producers' organization with the
advice that his clients would co-operate.

The break came following a night
session on February 26 when two of
the six dealers under contract refused
to pay the 25 cent per 100 lbs. premium
for milk testing Grade "A." The next
morning the dealers received less than
20 per cent of their usual milk supply.

The contract had been entered into
January 1, 1929, and provided for a
price of f2.70 per 100 lbs. for four per
cent milk with an additional premium
as noted. Under the contract milk was
to be tested five times during the month
by the methylene blue test. Each time
it tested Grade "A," a premium of five
cents per 100 lbs. was to be added to the
net price. Three-fifths of all the milk
sold through the Producers made the
Grade "A" test. Settlement was made
on this basis.

Oppose Rate Increase

Opposition to a proposed increase in
freight rates on fruits and vegetables
in southern Illinois was filed in an an-
swer submitted to the Interstate Com-
merce Commission recently' by the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association. The
railroads are seeking to cancel out the
present rates in effect in southwestern
Indiana and Illinois and to substitute
for them higher rates.

Joined with the I. A. A. in the state-
ment submitted to the rate-making
body were the Illinois Fruit Growers'
Exchange and the Illinois Horticultural
Society.

Insurance,

By L. A. Williams

ANY undertaking is doubly secured
- if it is underwritten. Life insur-
ance means insuring life's financial
program by underwriting it. It guar-
antees a sum of money to take the
place of earning power cut off pre-
maturely. Some have said that life
insurance is a misnomer. They be-
lieve it should be called death insur-
ance. Not so. Life insurance is, in
some degree, the substitute earning
power guaranteed to the beneficiaries.
It is life insurance, again, because no
insured who survives, has lost. Rather
is he far ahead in savings shown in
his cash value; far ahead in prolonged
life which freedom from worry has
given him. Life insurance is again
the correct name, for it affects the
life of the beneficiary. Welfare,
physical, moral and spiritual depends
much upon the estate left to provide
education, church and school training,
and opportunity for a comfortable
plane of living. All this points to the
exact fitness of the name life insur-

Do you remember back in the dark
ages when certain religious groups re-
fused life insurance under the delu-
sion that it was blood money; money
taken on the life of a loved one? Day
by day they came to understand that
an estate was a matter of pyoviding
for old age — for loved ones, and for
posterity. They came gradually to
know that the difference between
farms or other real property, and the
scientific estate of life insurance
really showed in favor of the life in-
surance. The science of guaranteeing
a portion of the unlived earning
power has blossomed, and in full
bloom is embraced by every sane
thinking man provident enough to
care.

The banker's advice is "first get a
life insurance policy." The investor's
advice is, "make no investment until
you have assured through life insur-
ance that your losses will not ruin
family chances, should you pass out
of the picture."

No man would consider a load of
debt until he had provided for the pos-
sibility of death, and the care of that
debt should he depart prematurely
with his job unfinished. Each father's
fondest hopes are reborn, and live
again, in his son. Life is like that;
we plan to carry on and on, and life
is worth the prize only as we do so
plan.

So, the institution of life insurance
fits the needs of our civilization as no
other plan can do.

Soy Bean Growers to

Form Co-operative

Plan to Meet Buyers on Eqnal Foot-
ing in Business-Like Way

DEPRESENTATIVES from Cham-
A*- paign, Moultrie, Piatt, ftnd Doug-
lass counties met in Champaign on
March 7 to consider plans for a bar-
gaining organization of soy-bean
growers in central Illinois.

The meeting grew out of buyers'
activities in entering into contract
with individual growers for the direct
purchase of soy-beans. Contracts
were sent to growers many of whom
were Farm Bureau members. They
appealed to the Farm Bureau for ad-
vice and the question at on<;e came up
of improving farmers' bargaining
power and placing them on an equal
footing with the buyers through the
organization of a growers' association.
At Montlcelld Mar. 14

At the Champaign meeting tempor-
ary officers were appointed and plans
made for a meeting at Monticello on
March 14 when steps were to be taken
to organize a co-operative soy-bean
growers' association. Three repre-
sentatives from ?ach of the four coun-
ties were selected to attend the meet-
ing. Other central Illinois counties
where soy-beans are g^rown were in-
vited to send delegates. John Arm-
strong of Champaign was elected as
chairman and C. V. Swanson of Lud-
low, secretary.

The purpose of the organization
will be to maintain the bargaining
power of the growers, improve quality
of their product, disseminate market
information among members, advertise
soy-beans, and develop new markets.

Illinois grows more soy-beans than
any other two states, and the central
Illinois counties produce a large pro-
portion of the beans grown in the
state.

GRAIN MARKETING

By Harrison Farhnkopf

WE ARE GLAD TO ANNOUNCE
THAT J. F. Booth of the United
States Department of Agriculture will
spend the week of June 1-8 in Illinois.
At that time a series of meetings will
be held in the interest of co-operative
marketing. The Fa^roers Grain Deal-
ers Association of Illinois is co-operat-
ing. One meeting will be held in each
of the seven districts of the state as-
sociation. Definite dates and places
will be announced later.

Two new safes have been added to
the I. A. A. office equipment for pro-
tecting valuable records of the Asso-
ciation and its subsidiaries.

Tune in on the Illinois AfricultunJ Associ-
ation Forum from Prairie Farmers' Radio
Station, WLS, on Wednesday evening, 6:30
to 7:00 p. m.

THE SOFT WHEAT MILLERS
(of Southern Illinois) recently held
a meeting in St. Louis. The principal
topics of discussion at this meeting
were ways and means of increasing
yield per acre, also the quality of soft
wheat grown throughout that section.
The millers indicated their earnest
desire to work closely with the College
of Agriculture and the Farm Bureaus.

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sured driver of an automobile
says who risks his estate every
time he drives off in his car.
Records of YOUR OWN COMr
PANY, the Illinois Agricultural
Mutual Insurance Co., for last year show an assessment of only $5.10 for
protection up to $10,000 liability for death or injury to more than one person,
and $1,000 property damage done by the insured's automobile. Complete
coverage can be had at additional cost. . , ^

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the Risk?

The answer is self-evident: Why take chances when you " can get INSUR-
ANCE AT COST in YOUR OWN COMPANY? Protect your estate and

take advantage of this new Farm Bureau serv-
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Please send me full information about
Farm f Bureau auto insurance in MY
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Assets Over $244,000 , , .

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Number 4

APRIL, 1929

Volume 7

ST. LOUIS DAIRYMEN ADOPT PLAN

Producers from 19 Counties Vote Unanimously to Form a Comprehensive

Co-operative Selling Organization 1 j

T^AIRYMEN representing producers
'-^ for the fluid market from 19
counties in the St. Louis milk shed
voted unanimously to organize a com-
prehensive co-operative milk bargain-
ing association in a meeting at E. St.
Louis April 8. More than 150 men
including the cream of the leadership
in that territory attended the meeting.
The vote to adopt the plan presented
by the special committee was unani-
mous.

The new organization which is ex-
pected to adopt the name, "Sanitary
Milk Producers" will be modeled after
the Pure Milk Association at Chicago
and similar organizations operating on
the Philadelphia and Baltimore mar-
kets.

The gathering at the Broadview Ho-
tel was harmonious. There was little
difference of opinion about the essen-
tial features of the plan. ■ In general
the work of the association will in-
clude: '■ . - :,

1. Standardization and improvement
of milk and dairy products.

2. Collective bargaining in selling.

3. Control of surplus and supplying
milk as the market demands.

4. Checking weights and tests.

5. Watching credit rating of buyers.

6. Issuing truthful market informa-
tion.

7. Advertising milk and dairy prod-
ucts to broaden the outlet.

Macoupin County delegates offered
a friendly amendment to the checkoff
feature which provides for a deduction
not to exceed 5c per cwt. on milk de-
livered by members. This was in-
cluded in article 5 in the proposed
members' agreement which is as fol-
lows:

"The member agrees to pay an en-
trance fee of $5. The member further
agrees that the Association shall
authorize the buyer to remit all money
due the member f6r dairy products
delivered by him, directly to the mem-

ber, less a commission not to exceed
five cents per hundred weight, which
commission the member authorizes the
Association to collect and receive."

The proposed Macoupin amendment
would have a checkoff of 2c per cwt.
with the provision that the board of
directors might increase such checkoff
to 3c by a majority vote, to 4c by a
two-thirds vote, and to 6c by a unani-
mous vote.

There was considerable discussion
of this amendment. Don Geyer, man-
ager of the Pure Milk Association, Chi-
cago, cautioned the dairymen against
providing too little money to carry out
an effective program. He asserted
that the producers' association at Bal-
timore collected a 15c checkoff and
that the source of its strengrth was the
reserve fund of $700,000 to $800,000
invested in high grade securities which
is always available for fighting the
dairyman's battles for him.

(Continued on page 11)

WHEN DAIRYMEN OF ST. LOUIS DISTRICT LAUNCHED NEW COOPERATIVE SELUNC ORGANIZATION

'<I*11 Bet You

$10,000 to $5 I

Don*t Have An
Accident Next
Year"

THIS in effect is what the unin-
sured driver of an automobile
says who risks his estate every
time he drives off in his car.
Records of YOUR OWN COM-
PANY, the Illinois Agricultural
Mutual Insurance Co., for last year show an assessment of only $5.10 for
protection up to $10,000 liability for death or injury to more than one person,
and $1,000 property damage done by the insured's automobile. Complete
coverage can be had at additional cost.

The answer is self-evident. Why take chances when you can get INSUR-
AI^CE A^ COST in YOUR OWN COMPANY? Protect your estate and

take advantage of this new Farm Bureau serv-
ice for members only by taking out a policy
in the

MAIL THE COUPON TODAY

I |CUT HERE

ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL
MUTUAL INSURANCE CO.
608 So. Dearborn St.,
Chicago

iPlease sendlme full inforiii&tion about
Farm ' Bureau auto insurance in MY
OWN COMPANY.

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Illinois Agricultural
Mutual Insurance Co.

608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago

MAIL THE COUPON OR CALL AT YOUR COUNTY
FARM BUREAU OFFICE FOR PARTICULARS

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Illinois Agricultural Associatioti

"^ RECORD

Number 4

APRIL, 1929

Volume 7

ST. LOUIS DAIRYMEN ADOPT PLAN

Producers from 19 Counties Vote Unanimously to Form a Comprehensive

Co-operative Selling Organization

T^AIRYMEN representing producers
-L' for the fluid market from 19
counties in the St. Louis milk shed
voted unanimously to organize a com-
prehensive co-operative milk bargain-
ing association in a meeting at E. St.
Louis April 8. More than 150 men
including the cream of the leadership
in that territory attended the meeting.
The vote to adopt the plan presented
by the special committee was unani-
mous.

The new organization which is ex-
pected to adopt the name, "Sanitary
Milk Producers" will be modeled after
the Pure Milk Association at Chicago
and similar organizations operating on
the Philadelphia and Baltimore mar-
kets.

The gathering at the Broadview Ho-
tel was harmonious. There was little
difference of opinion about the essen-
tial features of the plan. In general
the work of the association will in-
clude:

1. Standardization and improvement
of milk and dairy products.

2. Collective bargaining in selling.

3. Control of surplus and supplying
milk as the market demands.

4. Checking weitrhts and tests.

5. Watching credit rating of buyers.

6. Issuing truthful market informa-
tion.

7. Advertising milk and dairy prod-
ucts to broaden the outlet.

Macoupin County delegates offered
a friendly amendment to the checkoff
feature which provides for a deduction
not to exceed 5c per cwt. on milk de-
livered by members. This was in-
cluded in article 5 in the proposed
members' agreement which is as fol-
lows:

"The member agrees to pay an en-
trance fee of $5. The member further
agi'ees that the Association shall
authorize the buyer to remit all money
due the member for dairy products
delivered bv him, directlv to the mem-

ber, less a commiBsion not to exceed
five cents per hundred weight, which
commission the member authorizes the
Association to collect and receive."

The proposed Macoupin amendment
would have a checkoff of 2c per cwt.
with the provision that the board of
directors might increase such checkoff
to 3c by a majority vote, to 4c by a
two-thirds vote, and to 5c by a unani-
mous vote.

There was considerable discussion
of this amendment. Don Geyer, man-
ager of the Pure Milk Association. Chi-
cago, cautioned the dairymen against
providing too little money to carry out
an effective program. He asserted
that the producers' association at Bal-
timore collected a 15c checkoff and
that the source of its strengrth was the
reserve fund of $700,000 to S800.000
invested in high grade securities which
is always available for fighting the
dairyman's battles for him.

(Continued on page 11)

WHEN DAIRYMEN OF ST. LOUIS DISTRICT LAUNCHED NEW COOPERATIVE SELLING ORGANIZATION

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Ringham Reports On

Progress of I. A. C. A.

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225 Members Now Secure Audits On
Co-operative Basis At Cost

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SIXTY out of 95 County Farm Bu-
reaus are now members of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Co-operatives Asso-
cfation, and total membership in the
Association is now 225," states Man-
ager Fred E. Ringham.

Six new Farm Bu-
reaus subscribed for
the service within
the past few months.
"W e are recom-
mending that each
Farm Bureau adopt
a budget, stick to it,
and provide each
year a reserve,"
stated Ringham.

The Wallace ^^„„. ^
Grain and Supply F'-«« E. Rmgham
Company of Ottawa recently used the
audit service of the Co-operatives As-
sociation. It appointed an auditing
committee to investigate various audit
services. It interviewed Farmers' Ele-
vators at McNabb and Serena, and the
LaSalle County Farm Bureau, and all
recommended the I. A. C. A.

The Company secured a complete
and detailed audit. The preliminary
report indicated that the Company did
more than $629,000 worth of business
in 1928. The gross income amounted
to over $90,000 and the net income
was more than $15,000. It has capital
stock of $27,100 and surplus and un-
divided profits of $150,000. This Com-
pany is one of the strongest in Illinois.
Henry A. Bonges is its able manager.

During the first three months in
1929 the Illinois Agricultural Co-oper-
atives Association audited 104 accounts
as compared with 96 during the first
three months of 1928. There was an
appreciable decrease in the cost of
auditing Farmers' Elevator accounts
this year compared with last. This
was also true of the County Oil and
Supply Companies. The reason for
this increase in efficiency, according to
Ringham, is first, that better records
are being kept, and second, that re-
peat audits are invariably cheaper than
original audits.

Eighty-five out of 88 audits taken in
January and February were as of De-
cember 31 closing. December and
January are the heaviest months for
audits. Many Farmers' Elevators dis-
like to change their present fiscal year
because they like to close their books
a short time before the annual meet-
ing, and annual meetings are usually
held in the late winter months when
it is possible to get out a larger crowds
The natural fiscal year for a grain ele-
vator is from April 30 to June 30. Ac-
cording to Ringham, if the same num-
ber of audits were made each month
throughout the year, the cost per audit
would be less because it would be pos-
sible to carry a smaller staff both in

Pipe Line Proposed

Thru Central 111.

Farm Bureaus and I. \. A. Transp.
Dept. Represent Constituents

TnE Texas Empire Pipe Line Com-
A pany, an Illinois corporation, pro-
poses to build a new pipe line to carry
crude oil from the southwest oil fields
through Illinois. The proposed line
will extend from a point on the Mis-
sissippi river northeast to a point in
Dewitt County. From Dewitt County,
a branch is to extend northeast to
Lockport in Will County. A second
branch is to go from Dewitt County
to Lawrenceville, near the Wabash
river.

The Company already has applied
for a certificate of convenience and
necessity from the Illinois Commerce
Commission for building the line. Land
owners in Piatt County appealed to
the Farm Bureau for advice when they
objected to the route proposed through
that section and also to certain pro-
visions in the Company's contract.
The Company has not been arbitrary
however, but has indicated its willing-
ness to do whatever is reasonable. The
Transportation Department of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association is inves-
tigating the situation and representing
Farm Bureau members along the pro-
posed route.

Farmers in the affected counties are
being requested to submit proposi-
tions for changing and modifying the
route where such action seems ad-
visable. It is understood that the
Company's contract offers farmers
fifty cents a rod for perpetual ease-
ment to the land. The pipe line will
be laid below the frost line. The com-
pany agrees to stand for any and all
damage to tile, etc. resulting from the
construction of the line. Farmers, of
course, are interested in securing
proper protection for their lines -of
tile. Much of the land to be traversed
is tiled land and owners are concerned
about the tile being properly protected
where it is overlaid by a pipe line.
Farmers feel that the price offer for
giving the pipe line right of way
through their land is not just and
have appointed committees to make
an investigation as to the adequacy of
such an offer. The Illinois Agricultural
Association is preparing suggestions
and changes in the contract to protect
the interests and rights of Farm
Bureau member land owners.

the field and in the office. Members
of the Co-operatives Association must
pay extra for the convenience of get-
ting an audit when they want it. An
organization like the I. A. C. A. must
have a permanent staff if its work is to
be efficient and administered by
capable, qualified men.

Chicago Milk Station

WC. McQueen, president, and D.
• N. Geyer, manager of the Pure
Milk Association, are meeting with a
committee of five Chicago milk distrib-
utors each Tuesday to discuss their
problems and cooperate in working out
the plan and program outlined by Arbi-
trator Clyde L. King of Philadelphia
some time ago.

Prices for April and succeeding
months have been negotiated with dis-
tributors and are announced as fol-
lows:

"The base price of $2.64 net to the
farmer will continue until changed in
conference, or by the arbitrator, and
will apply to basic milk under the fol-
lowing base and surplus arrangement:

Bate Plan Used

"Base months will be September, Oc-
tober, and November of 1928 and the
average production of each producer
during those months will be used as a
base during April, May, June and July.
One hundred and twenty per cent of
base will be allowed for April, 110 per
cent for May, 105 per cent for June,
and 120 per cent for July. All milk
delivered during August will be taken
at the base price.

"Surplus milk will be paid for under
the following plan, using the average
monthly quotations in the Chicago mar-
ket for 92 score butter and to be fig-
ured in the following manner: 3%
times the 92 score butter price plus 20
per cent plus hi the difference between
that price and the basic price. Illus-
tration: Presuming butter quotations
to be 50 cents — 3V& times 50 equals
$1.75, plus 20 per cent '35 cents'
equals $2.10, plus Vi, the difference be-
tween $2.10 and $2.65 equals '55 cents
divided by four' which gives you 13%
cents to add to the $2.10 price, which
makes the price of surplus on a 50
cent butter market bring $2.23% per
cwt.

New Patron* "& .

"New patrons taken on since Feb-
ruary 1 to receive payment on a basis
of 50 per cent of their production as
basic and 50 per cent as surplus.

"This price for the next few months
carries the producers through the sur-
plus season and has been worked out
with the hope that the surplus situa-
tion can be greatly corrected by the
dairyman himself working toward the
end of making a more even production
throughout the year and thereby tak-
ing advantage of the more even basic
price which continues through the sur-
plus months. The basic months of
September, October, and November
should be looked forward to by the
dairymen with a view to correcting any
inequalities that may now exist in the
way of monthly production."

The farmers' elevator at Cerro
Gordo, Piatt County, has been in oper-
ation a little more than 25 years. T. J.
Shambaugh has been a director of the
company since it opened for business.

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iDAIRY
MarMiiig

By Art Lynch

QUALITY MILK is the basis of a
good sale. So much can be said
about the appeal of a cold bottle of
sparkling, clean flavored milk that it is
no wonder that folks today
are drinking 27 per cent
more milk than they did
five years ago.

ington get a premium for Grade A, the
amount depending upon how many are
in Grade G who are docked. The
money accruing through these dis-
counts is divided into a premium for
the Grade A producers. The Bloom-
ington producer who grades B is
neither docked nor premiumized.

Farmers sell steers on grade, com
according to grade, wheat according
to grade — now they sell milk accord-

This is due largely to
the fact that dairymen are
appealing to consumers' de-
mands with a standard
high quality article. Chi-
cago dairymen produce a
quality of milk that sets
the pace for large cities
throughout the world.
Bloomington, Illinois, pro-
ducers market more of
their product as Grade A
than anyvrhere in the state.

Why? Well, fir$t of all,
a real dairyman won't sell
any milk he wouldn't want
his own family to consume.
Secondly, he knows the
better the milk the more
they will buy. Thirdly, the
higher the standards he
creates on his own market
the less the danger of com-
peting dairymen from oth-
er sections coming in to
share his market. Fourth,
modern sales plans provide
for cash premiums for the
higher quality milk.

Grain,
Marketing'

By Harrison Fahrnkopf

"■pHE Bureau of Agricultural Econom-
-*- ics, Washington, reports that for
the United States as a whole, there
were 74,411,000 bu. of wheat stocks
in country rtiills and ele-
vators Marq^ 1, 1929,
as compared ,to 75,428,000
bu. March 1, 1928, and 85,-
928,000 bu. the same date
1927.

HE'S LEARNING

Courlmt/ Chicago Daily Neva

The farmers' elevator at
Cerro Gordo, Piatt County,
has been in operation a lit-
tle more than 25 years. T.
J. Shambaugh has been a
director of the company
since it opened for busi-
ness. In commenting on
the support given the ele-
vator, Mr. Shambaugh re-
cently, remarked that —
"One of the things which
makes it hard is that so
many men don't know
what it. means to have the
advantages offered by a
farmers' elevator. When
our elevator opened for
business," he continued,
"corn went up three cents
per bushel within three
days at our station; al-
though the Chicago market
was steady."

Organized producers at Peoria get
25 cents per cwt, extra in hot weather
and 15 cents per cwt. in cold weather
extra over the pool price if they make
Grade A milk. In unorganized days
if these men took pride in their work
and made extra good milk they got no
more than the fellow who didn't care.
Now some are getting premiums that
run $50 to $75 in just one month.

Organized dairymen at Champaign
get a 25 cent per cwt. premium and
none of them turn down any premium
check*. Organized dairymen at Bloom-

ing to grade. Nothing strange about
grading milk with the quick and easily
verified tests now in use in the dairy
industry.

Organized farmers will not think of
selling their dairy products on a "mine
run" basis. They will set up standard
grades that take brains and effort to
attain and collect for this effort the
cash premium to which they are justly
entitled. The employees who check
weights and tests can just as well see
that the grading is done right.

Wm. A. Komnick, man-
ager of the Emden Farmers Grain
Company, assumed the role of a
playwright long enough to prepare a
short play which was presented by
local people at the annual meeting of
the Emden Company.

It depicted scepes that might trans-
pire during an|~hour or two in any
farmers' elevator office — with the usual
loafer present to help make them real-
istic. The play went over big and con-
tributed immeasurably to the success
of the program. i

Illinois will be a g^ade A state be-
fore we know it.

A number of County Grain Market-
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Legislation and

1 Insurance at 19th

Con^essman Adkins Brings Latest
News to I. A. A. DIst. Conference

C. J. Cro«*

T^IFTY representatives from Piatt,
J- Champaign, Douglas, Moultrie,
Shelby and Macon counties attended
the 19th District Meeting of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association, held
March 20 in Decatur.

L. A. Williams,
manager of the
Country Life Insur-
ance Company, g^ave
the principal talk.
He stated that the
company had accom-
plished somet h i n g
that had never been
done before in the
history of any life
insurance company
under 25 years old,
i. e., the securing
of $13,000,000 in
life insurance, with annual premiums
paid in advance, in the short time of
one month. His address was very in-
teresting. -}

Otker Iniurance '

V. Vaniman discussed the various
forms of insurance service offered by
the I. A. A., which include Fire and
Lightning, Windstorm, Cyclone and
Tornado, Farm Crop, Hail, Automobile,
and Employers' Liability insurance for
farmers.

The Illinois Agricultural Mutual,
which provides auto insurance, has
more than 12,000 policy holders and
assets of more than $200,000. Sav-
ings to members in initial investment
and cost of insurance has been over
$175,000; besides, it provides the kind
of automobile protection for its mem-
bers that they should have.

Under Employers' Liability Insur-
ance, it was pointed out that the
farmer employer is exempt from com-
ing under the compensation act; how-
ever, he is not released from the com-
mon law liability in case the employee
can show that the injury was due to
the neglect or careless act of the em-
ployer.

This form of insurance would pro-
tect the employer against any liability
imposed by law for neglect or careless
act on his part. The initial payment,
based on the minimum payroll of
$1000 would be $25. The costs of the
insurance is estimated at about $10 a
year.

If the Farm Bureau members desire
this form of insurance protection, it
will be furnished through the Illinois
Agricultural Mutual, provided at least
1400 farmers are interested in this pro-
tection.

Gross Speaks

C. J. Gross, executive committeeman
from the 19th district, discussed House
Bill 285, which provides for the limit-
ing of county highway taxes to twelve
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Grain Marketing

(Continued from page 3)
ing Committees are having good pro-
grams discussing various topics of in-
terest in the grain marketing field.
Here are a few suggestions for topics:

1. Obstacles to successful co-oper-
ative grain marketing in my commu-
nity and how to overcome them.

2. Why farmers elevator share-
holders and boards of directors should
be members of the Farm Bureau.

3. Facts concerning my elevator.

4. Why the farmers elevator should
be a member of the Farmers Grain
Dealers' Association of Illinois.

5. Does the statement "competition
is the life of trade" apply to the farm-
ers elevator?

6. Is there need for more farmers
elevators in this county? If so, where?

7. How a Farm Bureau organiza-
tion can co-operate with the local farm-
ers elevators.

8. History of the farmers elevator
movement in Illinois.

9. Why the farmers elevator and
its patrons should take an interest in
the Rural Grain Company, the co-
operative commission company operat-
ing at Chicago.

The farmers elevator at Cerro
Gordo, Piatt County, has handled seven
and one-half million bushels of grain
in 22 years. This elevator pays a pa-
tronage dividend to all but credits the
non-shareholder on a share of stock.
The elevator at Bement, in the same
county, has handled ten million bushels
of grain in 26 years. During that pe-
riod of time it has paid 161 per cent
on the capital stock.

Reports to the Department of Agri-
culture from about 1,500 farmers' ele-
vator associations indicate that more
than 97 per cent are farmer-owned and
farmer-controlled. The officers of
about 71 per cent of the organizations
consider the associations co-operative
enterprises. The organization set-up
of 69 per cent of the associations pro-
vide that stockholders shall have but
one vote each. In the case of 77 per
cent there are limitations to the
amount of stock that can be held by an
individual and for 62 per cent there
are limitations as to the per cent of
dividends payable on capital stock.
Nearly 73 per cent of the associations
pay patronage dividends to stockhold-
ers and 22 per cent pay some patron-
age dividends to non-stockholders. But
15 per cent pay full patronage divi-
dends to non-stockholders.

Characteristics of Success

'TpO BE able to carry money without
*■ spending it.

To be able to bear an injustice with-
out retaliating.

To be able to do one's duty even
when one is not watched.

To be able to keep at the job until
it is finished.

To be able to make use of criticism
without letting it whip you.

*RODUCE

TING

By Frank Gougler

EIGHT counties contracted to sell
pooled cream for another year be-
ginning March 1. Ford county re-
newed its contract with Sherman-
White & Company, Fort Wayne, In-
diana. McLean county cream goes to
the Pioneer Company; Logan and Ma-
son Counties sold to Producers' Dairy
Association, Springfield; Schuyler
County renewed its contract with the
local creamery. Prince & Company;
Brown county's highest bidder was
Ernster Brothers, Chicago, and Mc-
Donough county received its best bid
from Swift & Company at Bushnell.

All bids accepted are as good or bet-
ter than the contracts in effect last
year. Some additional progress was
made in that two counties have con-
tracts on a graded basis so that sweet
cream producers will receive a pre-
mium.

Twenty-eight associations are now
marketing while the following coun-,
ties have organizations underway:
White, Edwards, Lawrence, Clark,
Effingham, Shelby, Douglas, McLean,
Mason, Cass, Pike, Hancock, Adams,
Henderson, Stark and Bureau.

Nothing like a feed to make a meet-
ing. The Liberty unit of the Adams
County Produce Association met a
short time ago. The good women served
eats to a packed house. School children
entertained with singing, dancing, etc.
' President Albert Wilkey says that
this marketing project is the best
Farm Bureau project that has yet
been undertaken in his community.
"Not only do we have a better market
for our cream, but through the organ-
ization we can develop a better com-
munity spirit," he declared. „

Guy Husted, Cass county farm ad-
viser writes, "have practically com-
pleted organization at Arenzville. You
may call for bids so we can let con-
tract to highest bidder not later than
March 16." .,.,

Farm Adviser H. N. Myers, Ed-
wards County, also reports, "Market-
ing agrdbments turned in up to date
indicate over 400 cows listed. Should
have the necessary 500 within a few
days. Shall wire or phone when we
are ready for bids."

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Land O'Lakes Creameries,
Minneapolis, Minnesota. '
Gentlemen :

My wife and I consider your Land
O'Lakes butter the best salted butter
we have ever used. We are moving to
Washington, D. C, and should like to
know where we can obtain it there.
Can you give me the name of a dealer?
Very truly yours,

Wm. R. Osgood.

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Page Five

Fairness and Justice Our
Aim— Wm. H. Malone

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Discusses Duties of Tax Commission

and Cooii County Revaluation on

I. A. A.— WLS Forum

THE duties and powers of the Illinois
Tax Commission and the scientific
revaluation now in progn^ess in Cook
county were explained by Wm. H. Ma-
lone, chairman of the Commission, in a
recent radio address on the I. A. A.
Forum from WLS.

"One of the principal powers of the
Tax Commission," said Mr. Malone, "is
granted in the statute which says
'whenever it shall appear to the Tax
Commission that property in any
county has not been assessed in sub-
stantial compliance with the law or has
been unequally or improperly assessed,
the Tax Commission may in its discre-
tion, in any year, order a reassessment
for such year of all or any class of tax-
able property.'

Commission's Authority

"The Commission has no power to
change individual assessments," con-
tinued Chairman Malone. "We cannot
step in and lower the taxes of the man
who is paying more than his just share
of the tax burden. We cannot raise
the assessment of the other man who
is escaping his responsibilities. The
law does not give us that power. We
can only order a reassessment when
the facts reveal that property has been
unequally or improperly assessed. I
want to drive home this point because
there has been much misinformation
broadcast as a result of our past efforts
in carrying out the law which we haye
sworn to uphold."

Mr. Malone gave a graphic account
of the grraft, corruption, and inequali-
ties which had crept into tax valuations
and assessments in Cook county. He
traced the history of the case, which
culminated in the adoption of enabling
legislation in a special session of the
55th General Assembly, and later the
order of reassessment to bring back
honesty and decency into Cook county
tax administration.

Must Obey Law

"Our only interest is to see that jus-
tice is done," he said, "that inequalities
are wiped out, and that taxes are as-
sessed on a uniform basis in compli-
ance with law."

In closing Mr. Malone congratulated
Illinois farmers on their organization,
the County Farm Bureau and the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association, and the
able manner in which they have been
represented in tax hearings before the
Commission by John C. Watson, direc-
tor of taxation, Donald Kirkpatrick,
legal counsel, and others.

Much Work Ahead

Possibilities of a long drawn out in-
quiry into the percentage valuation
factor for tax assessment purposes in
downstate counties looms ahead as a

Wm. H. Malone, Chr.,
Illinois Tax CfMnmission

result of the scientific revaluation now
being made in Cook county. Down-
state counties may be expected to in-
sist that Cook county property be as-
sessed for state purposes on the same
relative value as^ downstate property.
Thus, if Cook county property should
be assessed at only 36 per cent or less
of its actual value, as was true in
1927, those counties in which a factor
of more than 36 per cent is used will
be getting the worst of it. Out of it
all may come scientific valuations in all
the counties and substantial equality
and uniformity in levying assessments
throughout Illinois. The Tax Commis-
sions responsibility is a great one, and
its work promises to be complex and of
long duration.

Tax Hearing at ^ ,

Springfield, Apr. 4

A TAX hearing was held before the
Illinois Tax Commission in Spring-
field on April 4. The hearing was
called at the instance of the Farm Bu-
reaus in Williamson, Franklin, and St.
Clair counties, with which the Illinois
Agricultural Association is cooperating.

Investigations by the Farm Bureaus
of the three counties in 1928 revealed
that there were serious inequalities in
valuations as between different classes
of property.

A. 0. Eckert of Belleville, represent-
ing the St. Clair County Farm Bureau,
and a representative of St. Clair
county tax officials were appointed as a
committee of two to investigate and
agree on the facts relative to valua-
tions between farm and city property
in that county. A somewhat similar
arrangement was made in Franklin
County. Williamson county officials,
who failed to show up at the hearing,
were given 15 days to show cause why
there should not be an order of re-
assessment in that county.

Chairman Malone of the Commission
asked for a further showing of facts
and continued the hearing to a future
date to allow all interested parties to
present their cases.

Agree on Joint Rail Water
Carrier Rates

Tentative joint rate agreements be-
tween the Inland Waterways Corpora-
tion, a government agency, and the rail-
roads of the country, have been ar-
ranged. —

The agreements, described as the
most important event in 100 years of
waterway history in the nation, will co-
ordinate the service of railroad systems
with the water routes of the country.

Davis Makes Announcement

The agreements were announced by
former Secretary Davis in a statement
transmitted to the war department
from Fort Benning, Ga. The state-
ment follows:

"I have been informed by Major
General T. Q. Ashburn, chairman of
the Inland Waterways Corporation,
that a tentative joint rate agreement
subject to approval, has been reached
by oflicials of the railroads and water
ways corporation, as a result of the
conferences on joint rates, recently held
in Washington. I appreciate the spirit
in which both sides carried on the con-
ferences. If the agreement is approved
by the railroad ex^utives and by me,
I regard it as the most important de-
velopment for the whole waterways
movement in co-ordination and co-op-
eration with the railroads that has ever
been accomplished."

The agreement embraces a complete
system of joint tariffs which will affect
every railroad connecting with a water
route in the United States.

"The agreement/' General Ashburn
said, "is the most important one that
has been reached in 100 years of in-
land water ways history. It provides
for private operation of water ways
the same guarantees that were made
for public operation. A complete state-
ment of the division of traflic, routes
and rates is included in it."

Legislation and |

Insurance at 19th

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and one-half cents on each $100 full
assessed valuation. The representa-
tives from the different counties went
on record unanimously approving the
passage of this bill<

Congressman Chas.. Adkins discussed
the farm legislative situation in which
he pointed out the probable action of
congress on the tariff on farm prod-
ucts. Also the situation as to the so-
called farm relief legislation, upon
which the senate committee began
hearings March 25, and the house com-
mittee March 27. It was expected to
have the farm relief bill ready to in-
troduce April 15 when Congress con-
venes for special consideration of the
tariff and farm relief with a fair pros-
pect of having an adequate tariff on
farm products and a farm relief bill
along the lines outlined by President
Hoover.

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I L.L1INOIS

CCLTVIIAL ASSOCl;^

RECORD^

To advanc* th* purpose for which thm Ftarm Burmuu wtu orgmniM d,
nammty to promote, protect and represent the bueOieeSf eci>nomic,
poUHcal, and educational interemte at thm twtmme 0/ tllbioia mnd thm
nation, mnd to demeiop agriculture^

Published once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave., Moant Morris,
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OFFICERS

President. Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vice>Preaident, Frank D. Barton.^ Comall

Secretary, Ceo. E. Metzcar. _ Chieaco

Treasurer, R. A. Cowlea „ Bloomintton

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
(By Consressional District)

1st to nth „ H. C. VlaK Downers Grove

12th_ G. F. Tullock. Rockford

IStb- .r ■=■ C. E. Bamborouch, Polo

14th_ . 1 M. G. Lambert, Ferria

15th_ _......._ A. N. Skinner, Yatea City

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property tax all sorts of specious arguments and reasons
are brought forth to block such a program.

Ii....l...il

..A. R. Wrifht, Varna

Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

R. F. Karr, Iroquois

C. J. Gross, Atwood

..Charles S. Black, Jacksonville

, -i. Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

..Frank Oexner, Waterloo

•r-

23rd W. L. Cope, Salem

24th., _ Charles Marshall, Belknap

28th _ „ Fred Diets. De Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Dairy Marketing..

A. D. Lynch

Limestone-Phosphate J. R. Beat

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vecetable Markatinc . A. B. Leeper

Comptroller ; J. H. Kelker

Information _ _..Georje Thicm

Insurance Service V. Vaniman

Lcfal Counsel _ „ Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock MarkelinK - Ray E. Miller

Organization j . C. E. Metzcer

Produce Marketing .] F. A. Gougler

Taxation and SUtJstics , „._ J. C. Watson

Transportation _ X. J. Quasey

According to Ability to Pay

THE general practice in raising revenue for public pur-
poses has been and is to pluck the goose with the
least amount of squawking. This practice has been fol-
lowed for ages not only in this state but everywhere. It
was easy, therefore natural, for the farmers of the state
constitution of 1870 to tax visible or tangible property,
for it comprised the bulk of our wealth at that time. Thus,
our taxing system is a heritage from the past. We still
have it because reform is difficult. Public inertia and
apathy are hard to overcome. The powerful opposition
of countless numbers who pay no taxes and profit by the
existing order is another factor.

OUT of approximately $375,000,000 of revenue raised
in 1927 for state, county, and municipal purposes in
Illinois, nearly $340,000,000 was derived as taxes from
real and tangible personal property. Approximately
$300,000,000 of this represents taxes levied against real
estate. This in spite of the fact that tangible property
produces only about 10 per cent of~ the total income of
the state.

The modem theory of taxation is to levy according
to ability to pay. No one denies the fairness and justice
of such a system. Yet, when an effort is made to partially
substitute the income basis for the present iniquitous

THE state income tax now pending in the Legislature,
which is sponsored by the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, endorsed by the Illinois Bankers' Association, and
supported by home owners and real estate people, is de-
signed to replace a portion of the heavy tax burden now
resting on the shoulders of property owners. It will secure
some contribution firom those who are now escaping their
just share of the cost of government. The proposed tax will
raise, it is estimated, approximately $8,000,000 of net
revenue. Two million dollars of this will replace a like
amount now levied on farm property in Illinois; $4,000,-
000 will replace a like amount now levied against Cook
County real estate; and $2,000,000 will replace a like
amount now levied against property owners in down-state
cities and villages.

THE state income tax is the only measure now pend-
ing in the Legislature that will lessen the taxes of
property owners. The rates are modest, exemptions rea-
sonable, and the property tax credit is fair and equitable.

Many tax reformers like to deal with our tax problem
in the abstract. They contend that a constitutional amend-
ment is necessary if we are to have a fair taxing system.
We contend that a state income tax is now possible by
virtue of authority granted in ARTICLE 9, Section 2 of
the Illinois Constitution which provides as follows:

"The specification of the objects and subjects of taxa-
tion shall not deprive the General Assembly of the power
to require other subjects or objects to be taxed in such
manner as may be consistent with the principles of taxa-
tion fixed in this Constitution."

I ■ i- .

THE state income tax is a "lieu" or replacement tax.
Here is how it would operate in the case of an owner
of a 160 acre farm:

Let us assume that the farm and personal property
of the operator is assessed a total tax of $180. Many in
Illinois pay more. Let us assume that the operator has a
wife and three dependent children. Under the proposed
state income tax the exemption for him and his wife would
be $2000, and $500 each for the children, making a total
exemption of $3500. The proposed tax levies one per
cent for the first $5000 of income, or $50. The next
$5000 of income is assessed two per cent, or $100. The
income beyond $10,000 is assessed three per cent. Thus,
to pay an income tax of $180 the head of a family with
three children would have to receive a net income of
$14,500 annually to pay as much as a farmer now pays
on a 160 acre farm on which $180 in taxes is levied.

The feature of the bill which allows people who pay
a property tax to deduct such tax from their computed
net income tax, would result in few home or land owners
paying any state income tax. On the other hand, those
obliged to pay an income tax because they pay no prop-
erty tax would be amply able to do so.

ONE might well ask opponents of such a measure to
what extent they are now dodging taxes. Our pres-
, ent property tax system comes near to being a single tax.
The burden increases each year with the rising tide of
public expenditures. Until the burden is more equitably
distributed, therefore, the Illinois Agricultural Association
has declared its opposition to increases in tax rates and
to additional projects, the cost of which now comes out of
the general property tax. We believe this is a sound
policy and the only one which we can follow if we are to
secure a better system of taxation and one based on the
recognized and accepted theory of ability to pay. ,

ECORD

reasons

THE I. A. A. RECORD

I

^1

Pajfe Seven

.

i?adisSi:eW5

The daily farm program of the I. A. A. from
Station WJJD, Mooseheart (265 meters) is
broadcast between 12:30-12:45 p. m. Monday
to Friday inclusive. Hear the daily Chicago
livestock market from the Producers, and each
Friday the weekly market review. Outlook
reports, reviews, and talks by I. A. A. staff
members, officials, and leaders in farm tboufht
are broadcast daily. . .

THE I. A. A. Forum from
Station WLS, Chicago,
will be held at 6:30 to 7:00 p.
m. on Thursday nights instead
of Wednesdays, beginning May
2. The change was made neces-
sary because of the inaugura-
tion of so-called daylight savings
time in Chicago, May 1. The
programs will be broadcast at
6:30 central standard time,
which will be 7:30 Chicago time.

The proposed dairymen's co-opera-
tive bargaining association on the St.
Louis milk market was outlined in a
radio talk by E. G. Thiem, director
of information, from Station KWK,
St. Louis, on Monday, April 8, at 6:00
p. m.

A history of co-operative live-stock
marketing development in Warren
county was scheduled to be broad-
cast on the I. A. A. Forum from WLS
Wednesday 6:30 April 17, by the War-
ren County Farm Bureau.

Knute Espe, secretary of the Iowa
Co-operative Live Stock Shippers of
Des Moines, declined an invitation to
take the negative side of the ques-
tion "Resolved that Direct Shipping
of Live Stock is Against the Farmers'
Interests" in a debate proposed for
the I. A. A. Forum from Station WLS.

Lee Highlen, director of live-stock
marketing in Indiana, stated that he
could not accept the invitation to de-
bate the affirmative side of the ques-
tion. "There is a serious question in
my mind about this whole problem,"
said Espe. "I question whether it
would do much good and I fear it
might do considerable harm. I feel
that I should not debate this question
over the radio."

"Mr. Wm. H. Malone,
Chicago, Illinois.

"I am writing to express our ap-
preciation of your fine talk from WLS
on the I. A. A. program Wednesday
evening, March 27. You have many
friends in Champaign county who re-
member with pleasure the fine address
you gave us down here last spring. We
hope to hear you again in some of the
radio programs and also wish you the

Regulate Strip Mines

Is Plea At Hearing

Fulton County Farm Bureau and
I. A. A. Represent Landowners

Donald Kirkiwtrick

\ HEARING before the Senate Com-

-'*- mittee on Mines and Mining held

at Springfield on April 10 resulted in

a sharp clash be-

ttween land owners,
farmers, and their
represent a-
tives from Fulton
county, and repre-
sentatives of the
United Electric
Coal Company, strip
mine operators.
Senate BiU No.
295, introduced by
Senator Jewell of
Fulton county, was
responsible for the
hearing. This bill
provides that whenever any person
engaged in "open cut" or "strip" min-
ing removes the surface soil over or
covering a vein of coal, then removes
the coal, he shall within 90 days there-
after replace tfie surface soil so re-
moved in the hole or hollow from
which it and the coal were taken, and
"shall spread such soil over the entire
hole or hollow so that the surface
thereof is level."

Around Cuba in Fulton county as
well as in other sections, strip mines
which leave the area in a devastated
and unsightly condition are causing
no end of complaint from people liv-
ing in such communities. Thousands
of acres are being laid waste and after
the soil is piled up in hills and ridges
varying from 10 to 30 feet high, the
coal operators move out and the areas
thus affected are made useless and un-
taxable.

Would Have Claa«e
The proposed bill would compel the
insertion of a clause in all contracts
providing for strip mining whereby
the mining company agrees to replace
or level off surface soil removed in un-
covering veins of coal, into the depres-
sions or hollows left after the mining
operation is completed.

In defending the bill Senator Jewell
stated that habitation in such areas is
made undesirable, the value of adjoin-
ing property is depreciated in value,
and the land forever after is made
non-productive and a total loss>to the
community. Harry Leeper, a director
in the Fulton County Farm Bureau,
Farm Adviser John Watt, and John
Lingenfelter all appeared in defense
of the measure.

Mr. Lingenfelter's testimonial was
especially effective. He described such
mining operations as "wanton waste."
"I have never seen an3rthing so deso-
late in all my travels over the Country
as an area that has been laid waste
by these strip mining operations," said
Lingenfelter. "If we needed this coal
there might be some reason for it.
But we don't need it. There is plenty

greatest success in helping work out
the tax problems.

ROY MITCHELL, Sec'y.,
Champaign County Farm Bureau."

of coal without this strip mined coal.
The strip operators are ruthlessly tear-
ing up the country simply to make
money. They destroy valuable agri-
cultural land and are ruining the coun-
tryside. Community life is disrupted
and destroyed and adjoining property
loses its attractiveness and value be-
cause no one wants to live in a com-
munity where the land has been cut
up by strip mine operations."

Study the Problem '
Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel
for the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, declared that a number of com-
plaints of like nature had come to the
I. A. A. from over the state. "It be-
hooves the legislature to study this
problem," said Mr. Kirkpatrick, "as a
matter of public policy." Mr. Kirk-
patrick stated that a report issued by
the U. S. Bureau of Mines on the
question of strip mining called atten-
tion to the menace created by such op-
erations and of the advisability of
strip operators to work out this prob-
lem in the interest of the public good
or they might expect regulatory meas-
ures to compel them to level off the
ground.

"The constitution grants and holds
inviolate the property rights of its citi-
zens," said Kirkpatrick, "but would it
not be against the public interest if
we allowed our state or great areas of
it to be turned upside down and laid
waste by a process such as that being
carried out in Fulton county?"

10c a Ton Cost

It was brought out in the discussion
that the cost of replacing the over-
burden would add only 10 cents a ton
to the cost of coal so mined. Strip
mining lands in Fulton county have
returned 7000 to 8000 tons of coal to
the acre. One mine operator digs out
around 2000 tons of coal a day.

Representatives of the coal com-
pany and witnesses testified that re-
forestation is the solution to this prob-
lem. The Indiana State Forester testi-
fied that evergreen trees are being
planted on the hills and ridges left
by strip mining (derations in southern
Indiana. President Swallow of the
coal company, asserted that it was
more important to produce wood for
future operations than to retain the
agricultural nature of strip coal mines.
Former Senator Thurlow Essington
acted as counsel for the coal company.

The bill was voted down in com-
mittee although it was apparent that
many senators present favored a study
of the problem with the idea of pass-
ing regulatory measures later if nec-
essary.

In Brief

New Illinois farm advisers are H. R.
Brunnemeyer, former instructor in ag-
riculture at Yorkville, who goes to Jo
Daviess county, and S. F. Turner, vo-
cational agrricultural teacher at El
Paso, who succeeds Mr. Allison in Liv-
ingston county. E. A. Bierbaum, for-
mer assistant adviser, returned re-
cently as adviser in Union county.

R. J. Laible reported, April 3, that
much of the wheat in Marshall and
Putnam countie9 was in a critical con-
dition. A number of fields showed only
a 50 per cent stand.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

\ jm iL.L<i]Mois _jm

^=^^^==R E C O R ©— ^^

To advance the purpoae for which the Farm Bureau mam organic d,
namely to promote, protect and represent the buwineae, economic,
political, and educational intereata of the farmera of iUinoia and the
nation, and to develop agriculture.

■ Published oni-e a month at 404 North Wesley Ave., Mount Morris,
Illinois, by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Entered as second-
clasa matter October 20, 1U2S, at the post office at Mount Morris,
Illinois, under the Act of March S, 1879. Accepted for mailinK at
special rate of postage provided (or in Section 412, Act of February
28. 1925, authorized October 27, 1925. The individual membership
fee of the Illinois Asricultural Association is five dollars a year. The
fee includes payment of fifty cents for subscrfption to the ItxINOIS
AUKICULTUKAL ASSOCIATION Recokd. Postmaster: In returning an un-
called fur or misdent copy please indicate key number on address as
is required by law.

OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith -.J Detroit

Vice-President, Frank D. Barton..j. _ Cornell

Secretary, Ceo. E. Metzger Chicago

Treasurer, R. A. Cowie* , __ Bloomlngton

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
(By Congressional District)

1st tu lllh..

12th .

13th..

14th..

15th..

16th .

17th..

18th..

19th..

..p.

... H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

G. F. Tullock, Rockford

C. E. Bamborougb, Polo

M. G. Lambert, Ferris

A. N. Skinner, Yates City

A. R. Wright. Vema

Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

R. F. Karr, Iroquois

C. J. Gross, Atwood

20th L 1 Charles S. Black, Jacksonville

21st f J Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd ; Frank Oexner, Wa.erloo

23rd , W. L. Cope, Salem

...Charles Marshall, Belknap
Fred Dietz, De Soto

..(..

24th
2Sth

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

Limestone-Phosphate J. R. Bent

Finance \ R. A. Cowles

Fruit and VegetaUe Marketing I -A. B. Leeper

Comptroller L ; J. H. Kelker

Information L George Thiem

Insurance Service... , V. Vaniman

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller

Organization • G. E. Metzger

Produce Marketing. F. A. Cougler

Taxation and Statistics i J. C. Watson

Tranaportation i , L. J. Quasey

According to Ability to Pay

THE general practice in rai.sing revenue for public pur-
ipcses has been and is to pluck the goose with the
least amount of squawking. This practice has been fol-
lowed for ages not only in this state but everywhere. It
was jeasy, therefore natural, for the farmers of the state
constitution of 1870 to tax visible or tangible property,
for it comprised the bulk of our wealth at that time. Thus,
our taxing system is a heritage from the past. We still
have it because reform is difficult. Public inertia and
apathy are hard to overcome. The powerful opposition
of countless numbers who pay no taxes and profit by the
existing order is another factor.

OUT of approximately $375,000,000 of revenue raised
in 1927 for state, county, and municipal purposes in
Illinois, nearly $.340,000,000 was derived as taxes from
real and tangible personal property. Approximately
$300,000,000 of this represents taxes levied against real
estate. This in spite of the fact that tangible property
produces only about 10 per cent of the total income of
the state.

The modern theory of taxation is to levy according
to ability to pay. No one denies the fairness and justice
of -such a system. Yet, when an effort is rpade to partially
substitute the income basis for the present iniquitous

property tax all sorts of specious arguments and reasons
are brought forth to block such a program.

THE state income tax now pending in the Legislature,
which is sponsored by the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, endorsed by the Illinois Bankers' Association, and
supported by home owners and real estate people, is de-
signed to replace a portion of the heavy tax burden now
resting on the shoulders of property owners. It will secure
some contribution from those who are now escaping their
just share of the cost of government. The proposed tax will
raise, it is estimated, approximately $8,000,000 of net
revenue. Two million dollars of this will replace a like
amount now levied on farm property in Illinois; $4,000,-
000 will replace a like amount now levied against Cook
County real estate; and $2,000,000 will replace a like
amount now levied against property owners in down-state
cities and villages.

THE state income tax is the only measure now pend-
ing in the Legislature that will lessen the taxes of
property owners. The rates are modest, exemptions rea-
sonable, and the property tax credit is fair and equitable.

Many tax reformers like to deal with our tax problem
in the abstract. They contend that a constitutional amend-
ment is necessary if we are to have a fair taxing system.
We contend that a state income tax is now possible by
virtue of authority granted in ARTICLE 9, Section 2 of
the Illinois Constitution which provides as follows;

"The specification of the objects and subjects of taxa-
tion shall not deprive the General Assembly of the power
to^ require other subjects or objects to be taxed in such
manner as may be consistent with the principles of taxa-
tion fixed in this Constitution."

THE state income tax is a "lieu" or replacement tax.
Here is how it would operate in the case of an owner
of a 160 acre farm:

Let us assume that the farm and personal property
of the operator is assessed a total tax of $180. Many in
Illinois pay more. Let us assume that the operator has a
wife and three dependent children. Under the proposed
state income tax the exemption for him and his wife would
be $2000, and $500 each for the children, making a total
exemption of $3500. The proposed tax levies one per
cent for the first $5000 of income, or $50. The next
$5000 of income is assessed two per cent, or $100. The
income beyond $10,000 is assessed three per cent. Thus,
to pay an income tax of $180 the head of a family with
three children would have to receive a net income of
$14,500 annually to pay as much as a farmer now pays
on a ICO acre farm on which $180 in taxes is levied.

The feature of the bill which allows people who pay
a property tax to deduct such tax from their computed
net income tax, would result in few home or land owners
paying any .state income tax. On the other hand, those
obliged to pay an income tax because they pay no prop-
erty tax would be amply able to do so.

ONE might well ask opponents of such a measure to
what extent they are now dodging taxes. Our pres-
ent property tax system comes near to being a single tax.
The burden increases each year with the rising tide of
public expenditures. Until the burden is more equitably
distributed, therefore, the Illinois Agricultural Association
has declared its opposition to increases in tax rates and
to additional projects, the cost of which now comes out of
the general property tax. We believe this is a sound
policy and the only one which we can follow if we are to
secure a better system of taxation and one based on the
recognized and accepted theory of ability to pay.

reasons

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Padm^^s

-^^^

The daily farm program of the I. A. A. from
Station WJJD, Mooseheart (265 meters) is
broadcast between 12:30-12:45 p. m. Monday
to Friday inclusive. Hear the daily Chicago
livestock market from the PrcxJucers, and each
Friday the weekly market review. Outlook
reports, reviews, and talks by I. A. A. staff
members, officials, and leaders in farm thought
are broadcast daily.

THE I. A. A. Foiuni from
Station WLS, Chicago,
will be held at 6:30 to 7:00 p.
m. on Thursday nights instead
of Wednesdays, beginning May
2. The change was made neces-
sary because of the inaugura-
tion of so-called daylight savings
time in Chicago, May 1. The
programs will be broadcast at
6:30 central standard time,
which will be 7:30 Chicago time.

The proposed dairymen's co-opera-
tive bargaining association on the St.
Louis milk market was outlined in a
radio talk by E, G. Thiem, director
of information, from Station KWK,
St. Louis, on Monday, April 8, at 6:00
p. m.

A history of co-operative live-stock
marketing development in Warren
county was scheduled to be broad-
cast on the I. A.- A. Forum from WLS
Wednesday 6:30 April 17, by the War-
ren County Farm Bureau.

Knute Espe, secretary of the Iowa
Co-operative Live Stock Shippers of
Des Moines, declined an invitation to
take the negative side of the ques-
tion "Resolved that Direct Shipping
of Live Stock is Against the Farmers'
Interests" in a debate proposed for
the I. A. A. Forum from Station WLS.

Lee Highlen, director of live-stock
marketing in Indiana, stated that he
could not accept the invitation to de-
bate the affirmative side of the ques-
tion. "There is a serious question in
my mind about this whole problem,"
said Espe. "I question whether it
would do much good and I fear it
might do considerable harm. I feel
that I should not debate this question
over the radio."

"Mr. Wm. H. Malone, '

Chicago, Illinois.

"I am writing to express our ap-
preciation of your fine talk from WLS
on the I. A. A. program Wednesday
evening, March 27. You have many
friends in Champaign county who re-
member with pleasure the fine address
you gave us down here last spring. We
hope to hear you again in some of the
radio programs and also wish you the

Regulate Strip Mines

Is Plea At Hearing

Fulton County Farm Bureau and
I. A. A. Represent Landowners

\ HEARING be
'* mittee on M
at Springfield on

Donald Kirkpatrick

fore the Senate Comf
ines and Mining held
April 10 resulted in
a sharp clash be-
tween land owners,
farmers, and their
represent a-
tives from Fulton
county, and repre-
sentatives of the
United Electric
Coal Company, strip
mine operators.

Senate Bill No.
2'J5, introduced by
Senator Jewell of
Fulton county, was
responsible for the
hearing. This bill
provides that whenever any person
engaged in "open cut" or "strip" min-
ing removes the surface soil over or
covering a vein of coal, then removes
the coal, he shall within 90 days there-
after replace the surface soil so re-
moved in the hole or hollow from
which it and the coal were taken, and
"shall spread such soil over the entire
hole or hollow so that the surface
thereof is level."

Around Cuba in Fulton county as
well as in other sections, strip mines
which leave the area in a devastated
and unsightly condition are causing
no end of complaint from people liv-
ing in such communities. Thousands
of acres are being laid waste and after
the soil is piled up in hills and ridges
varying from 10 to 30 feet high, the
coal operators move out and the areas
thus affected are made useless and un-
taxable.

Would Have Clause
The proposed bill would compel the
in.'jertion of a clause in all contracts
providing for strip mining whereby
the mining company agrees to replace
or level off surface soil removed in un-
covering veins of coal, into the depres-
sions or hollows left after the mining
operation is completed.

In defending the bill Senator Jewell
stated that habitation in such areas_ is
made undesirable, the value of adjoin-
ing property is depreciated in value,
and the land forever after is made
non-productive and a total loss to the
community. Harry Leeper, a director
in the Fulton County Farm Bureau,
Farm Adviser John Watt, and John
Lingenfelter all appeared in d^efense
of the measure.

Mr. Lingenfelter's testimonial was
especially effective. He described such
mining operations as "wanton waste."
"I have never seen anything so deso-
late in all my travels over the country
as an area that has been laid wafete
by these strip mining operations," said
Lingenfelter. "If we needed this coal
there might be some reason for it.
But we don't need it. There is plenty

greatest success in helping work out
the tax problems.

ROY MITCHELL, Sec'y.,
Champaign County Farm Bureau."

of coal without this strip mined coal.
The strip operators are ruthlessly tear-
ing up the country simply to make
money. They destroy valuable agri-
cultural land and are ruining the coun-
tryside. Community life is disrupted
and destroyed and adjoining property
loses its attractiveness and value be-
cause no one wants to live in a com-
munity where the land has been cut
up by strip mine operations."

Study the Problem

Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel
for the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, declared that a number of com-
plaints of like nature had come to the
I. A. A. from over the state. "It be-
hooves the legislature to study this
problem," said Mr. Kirkpatrick, "as a
matter of public policy." Mr. Kirk-
patrick stated that a report issued by
the U. S. Bureau of Mines on the
question of strip mining called atten-
tion to the menace created by such op-
erations and of the advisability of
strip operators to work out this prob-
lem in the interest of the public good
or they might expect regulatory meas-
ures to compel them to level off the
ground.

"The constitution grants and holds
inviolate the property rights of its citi-
zens," said Kirkpatrick, "but would it
not be against the public interest if
we allowed our state or great areas of
It to be turned upside down and laid
waste by a process such as that being
carried out in Fulton county?"

10c a Ton Cost

It was brought out in the discussion
that the cost of replacing the over-
burden would adil only 10 cents a ton
to the cost of coal so mined. Strip
mining lands in Fulton county have
returned 7000 to '8000 tons of coal to
the acre. One mine operator digs out
around 2000 tons of coal a day.

Repiesentatives of the coal com-
pany and witnesses testified that re-
forestation is the solution to this prob-
lem. The Indiana State Forester testi-
fied that", evergreen trees are being
planted on the hills and ridges left
by strip mining operations in southern
Indiana. President Swallow of the
coal company, asserted that it was
more important to produce wood for
future operations than to retain the
agricultural nature of strip coal mines.
P'ormer Senator Thurlow Essington
acted as counsel for the coal company.

The bill was voted down in com-
mittee although it was apparent that
many senators present favored a study
of the problem with the idea of pass-
ing regulatory riieasures later if nec-
essarv.

In Brief

New Illinois farm advisers are H. R.
Brunnemeyer, former instructor in ag-
riculture at Yorkville, who goes to Jo
Daviess county, and S. F. Turner, vo-
cational agricultural teacher at El
Paso, who succeeds Mr. Allison in Liv-
ingston county. E. A. Bierbaum, for-
mer assistant adviser, returned re-
cently as advise*- in Union county.

R. J. Laible reported, April 3, that
much of the wheat in Marshall and
Putnam counties was in a critical con-
dition. A number of fields showed only
a 50 per cent stand.

\

Page Eight

THE I. A. A. RECORD

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I i \T OUR recent baseball meetings,"
■i^ says County Adviser C. E. Burns
of Champaign, "it was generally
agreed that a farmer will do more
work in a week if he takes Saturday
afternoon off to play baseball, or watch
a game." 1

Ten men joined the Champaign
County Farm Bureau last year because
they became interested in Farm Bu-
reau baseball. |

George Huff, director of athletics
at the University of Illinois, writes
that a player or athlete does not lose
his amateur standing unless he accepts
pay for participating in games. If he
plays in a game where admission is
charged, or if he accepts expense
money to and from games, his ama-
teur standing is not impaired.

Donald Kirkpatrick, I. A. A. legal
counsel, says that neither the team nor
the Farm Bureau can be held liable for
injury to a player in a Farm Bureau
baseball game unless such player re-
ceives pay and hence may be construed
as an employee.

Approximately 50 directors, officers,
farm advisers, team managers, and
players attended the regular spring
baseball meeting at Peoria, Mar. 29.
Coach Lundgren left for the south
with the mini nine the day before, and
could not attend the meeting. Assist-
ant Coach Jordan acquired a wisdom
tooth the day before and sent his re-
Errets.

Nevftrtheless it was a lively, inter-
esting meeting that lasted from 10
a. m. to 4:00 in the afternoon. Play-
ing rules were tightened up and plans
made for a more business-like admin-
istration in 1929. Nearly all the cen-
tral and northern Illinois Farm Bureau
baseball teams were represented. In
additioj, Hancock, Lee, and Ford
counties — all entering teams for the
first time — were there. ;

Following are the more important
rules adopted, in brief:

1. Saturday, May 11, was sug-
gested for the opening games. Satur-
day, Aug. 17, is the absolute deadline
for all official preliminary games within
districts.

2. Each district or division shall
have a dictator who shall be the district
chairman. It will be his duty to pass
on eligibility of players, settle disputes
and misunderstandings, interpret and
apply rules, appoint umpires when con-
tending teams can't agree. The dis-
trict dictator's decision ; are subject to

review and confirmation or reversal by
the State Arbitration Committee.

3. Each team shall deposit a $25
certified check with the League treas-
urer as a forfeit for failure to report
for a regularly scheduled game when
satisfactory postponement arrange-
ments have not been made. The dis-
trict dictator has authority to declare
when a game and the $25 is forfeited
to the offended team.

4. All teams must file a list of eli-
gible players with the State League
secretary 10 days prior to the opening
game. The secretary shall transmit
copies of such lists to the district dic-
tator and to county directors.

5. The Spaulding Rule Book shall
be official guide.

6. All teams must pay their dues
by May 1, although new teams may en-
ter later, providing each team in the
affected district agrees to such entry.

The State Arbitration Committee,
empowered to render the final decision
in all disputes is: President, L. R. Welk,
Lincoln; vice-president, Paul Meharry,
Tolono, and Geo. L. Clarke, Downs,
McLean county.

Stephenson county expects to enter
a Farm Bureau team in the State
League. Macon, Vermilion, Wabash
and several other counties are showing
an interest in baseball.

Fifty-seven attended the recent
baseball meetings in Champaign coun-
ty. Of these 15 were new men, nine
were on the county team last year, and
33 played on unit or community Farm
Bureau teams.

The State League will handle pool
orders for baseballs. Send cash with
order to the secretary, 608 So. Dear-
born St., Chicago. The League can
buy all kinds of baseball and athletic
equipment at special wholesale prices.

Liability

"Is the Farm Bureau liable for damage in
case an onlooker at the game is injured by a
broken bat or ball beine used in a game
where admission is charsed or where collection
or donation is taken at the game?

"Also in case bleachers are used and some

one is injured from a fall from bleacher seats,

is the Farm Bureau liable if admission has

been charged or a collection has been taken?

"Wayne A. Gilbert,

"Tazewell County, Illinois."

Reply :

I AM of the opinion that there is a
possibility of liability under the
facts stated in the first paragraph
above.

"I am also of the opinion that the
County Farm Bureau would be liable
when it charges admission to a baseball
game, if through any negligence on its
part a person who has paid admission
receives injury through the crushing of
the bleachers.

"Donald Kirkpatrick,
"Legal Counsel, Illinois Agricul-
tural Association."

Why not organize a Farm Bureau
baseball team in your county and have
a little recreation along with work?

New T. B. Bill Before

General Assembly

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Will Bring About Compulsory Testing

r^OMPULSORY testing of all cattle
^ in Illinois for tuberculosis to fin-
ish the job of cleaning up the state
will be brought about with the pass-
age of H. B. No. 157 introduced by
Representative Homer J. Tice of
Menard county.

An interesting hearing on the bill
was held before the Agricultural Com-
mittee in the House on April 9. The
bill is an administration measure and
is designed primarily to institute test-
ing in those counties which have not
employed county veterinarians be-
cause of lack of funds. At the pres-
ent time the state is more than 75 per
cent cleaned up, but unless a measure
of this kind is passed the job may
never be finished. At least a dozen
or more counties have failed to make
local appropriations for tuberculosis
eradication work.

H. B. No. 517 will place the direc-
tion of the work in the State Depart-
ment of Agriculture and thus cen-
tralize authority. In this way it is
thought the work will be expedited.
The state may have a tuberculosis-
free area within a relatively short
time. S. J. Stanard, director of agri-
culture, is of the opinion an appro-
priation similar to those voted hereto-
fore will be sufficient since the per-
centage of reactors has been decidedly
reduced within the past two years.

Earl C. Smith, president of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association, stated
that such legrislation is necessary to
clean up the state, but that if some
of the northern Illinois counties wish
to retain their county veterinarians a
solution for this problem should be
worked out.

Representative Homer Tice, Direc-
tor S. J. Stanard, H. R. Smith, Don
Geyer of the Pure Milk Association,
and others spoke in behalf of the bill.
Mr. Tice contends that the bill is nec-
essary because many counties do noi
have the funds to carry on this work.
Representative McCarty of Kane
county asked for an amendment giv-
ing the counties the privilege of keep-
ing their county veterinarians if they
desired — the state to pay part of
their salaries.

The bill was referred to a sub-com-
mittee of five which is to report back
to the Agricultural Committee at a
later date. The subcommittee will
iron out minor differences of opinion
and recommend certain changes in the
original draft.

All interests were friendly to the
measure and it is thought that no dif-
ficulty will be encountered in voting
it out favorably. If it becomes law
Illinois within the next few years will
be one of the few states classed as a
modified accredited area.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

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tells the story

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COUNTRY LIFE guarantees to pay back the policyholder who at age 35 takes out three different policies
for $1000 each, $40 more than the maximum total annual premiums during this period. Dividends paid
while the insurance is in force would be additional. Here is how it woxild work out: = | I- , i

$1,000 Each

Annual Premium

Cash Value 20th Yr.

ORDINARY LIFE, Age 35

$20.63

$301

20-PAY LIFE, Age 35

29.01

566

20-YEAR ENDOWMENT, Age 35

41.73

1000

Total yearly premiums

$91.37

$1867

Total gross premiums paid in 20 years

$1827.40

$1827.40

Profit guaranteed on three policies at the end of 20 years

$39.60

IT IS difficult to estimate dividends, but if they aggregate only $15 annually on the three policies, net premiums
during the 20-year period would be only $1,517. Thus, the cash value would be $340 more than the net paid
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Pqflle Eight

THE I. A. A. RECORD

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Ol'R ifcfnt basfball nuftiiiK!^."
says County Adviser C. E. Burns
of jChampaisn,! "'t was generally
agreed that a farmer will do more
worW in a week if he takes Saturday
afteijnoon off to play baseball, or watch
a gaiiie."

imen joined the Champaign
y Farm Bureau last year because
they became interested in \\\Ym Bu-
reau baseball. 1

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Ge jrge Hutf, j director of athletics
at tne University of Illinois, writes
that k player or athlete does not lose
his amateur standing unless he accepts
pay for participating in game*. If he
play.sj in a gam$ where admission is
chargSpd. or if he accepts expense
monei' to and from games, his ama-
teur Hjtanding is not impaired.

1 I

Doiiald Kirkpatrick. I. A. A. legal
counsel, says that neither the team nor
the Farm Bureau can be held lialile for
injurj^ to a player in a Farm Bureau
baseball game unless such player re-
ceives; pay and hence may be construed
as an employee. |

Approximately 50 directors, officer.^.
farm ladvisers, team managev--s. and
playerfe attended the regular spring
baseball meeting at Peoria, Mar. 29.
Coach I Lundgren | left for thd south
with tlje mini nine the day before, and
could not attend the meeting. Assist-
ant Coach Jordan acquired a wisdom
tooth the day before and sent his re-
grets. I !

was a livelyj intgr-

Nevirtheless it

esting ; meeting' that lasted fi^om 10
a. m. tio 4:00 in the afternoon. Play-
ing rulJBS were tightened up and plans
made i|or a more jbusiness-like admin-
istration in 192tt. Xearly all the cen-
tral and northern Illinois Farm Bureau
baseball teams wejre represente<l- In
additioiji, Hancock. Lee, and Ford
countie^ — all enteling teams fpr the
first tii*e — were there

Follo|iving are the more imiiortant
rules adopted, in brief:

1. Saturday, May 11, was sug-
gested for the opening games. Satur-
ilay, AUg. 17, is the absolute deadline
for all official preliminary games within
district^

2. Each district or division shall
have a dictator who shall be the district
chairmain. It will be his duty to pass
on eligibility of players, settle disputes
and misunderstandings, interpret and
apply rules, appoint umpires when con-
tending teams can't agree. The dis-
trict dictator's decision are subject to

review and confirmation or reversal by
the State .Arbitration Committee.

."?. Each team shall dejiosit a $25
certified check with the League treas-
urer as a forfeit for failure to report
for a regularly scheduled game when
satisfactory i)ostponement arrange-
ments have not been made. The dis-
tiict dictator has authority to declare
when a game and the $2.5 is forfeited
to the offended team.

4. All teams must file a list of eli-
gible players with the State League
secretary 10 days prior to the opening
game. The secretary shall transmit
coities of such lists to the district dic-
tator and to county directors.

h. The Siiaulding Rule Book shall
be orticial guide.

t). All teams must i)ay their dues
by May 1, although new teams may en-
ter later, providing each team in the
affected district agrees to such entry.

' The State Arbitration Committee,
empowered to render the final decision
in all disputes is: President. L. R. Welk,
liincoln; vice-president, Paul Meharry,
Tolono, and Geo. L. Clarke, Downs,
McLean county.

Stephenson county expects to enter
a Farm Bureau team in the State
League. JIacon. Veiniilion, Wabash
and several other counties are showing
an interest in baseball.

Fifty-seven attended the recent
baseball meetings in Champaign coun-
ty. Of these 1.5 were new men, nine
were on the county team last year, and
X) played on unit or community Farm
Bureau teams.

The State League will handle pool
orders for baseballs. Send cash with
order to the secretary, G08 So. Dear-
born St., Chicago. The League can
buy all kinds of baseball and athletic
equipment at special wholesale prices.

Liability

"!s thp Farm lUiro.iii IiaM<' for <Ianiatre in
(■:»*«> an onlooktT at the )/ai>r.' is iiijvirfi) l>y a
tir'tkt-n l>at (tr ball hoinir \i-^y<\ in a >ranu?
where aiirnissinn is charcred or where collection
or tliitialion is taken a1 the trame?

"Also in case hleachers are used anil some

"He is iii.iur<'d from a f.ill from bleacher seats.

i- th',- Farm Bureau liable if admission has

been eharvred or a collei-Iion has been taken?

"W;ivne A. (Gilbert,

' "Tazewell County, Illinois."

Reply :

I.AM of the oninioii that there is a
possibility of liability under the
facts stated in the first paragraph
above.

"I am also of the opinion that the
County Farm Bureau would be liable
when it charges admission to a baseball
game, if through any negligence on its
part a person who has paid admission
receives injury through the crushing of
the bleachers.

"Donald Kirkpatrick,
"Legal Counsel, Illinois Agricul-
tural Association."

New T. B. Bill Before

General Assembly

Will Bring About Compulsory Testing

Why not organize a Farm Bureau
baseball team in your county and have
a little recreation along with work?

/ M).\IITLSORY testing of all cattle
' * in Illinois for tuberculosis to fin-
ish the job of cleaning up the state
will be brought al)out with the pass-
age of H. B. No. 157 introduced by
Representative Homer J. Tice of
Menard county.

An interesting hearing on the bill
was held before the Agricultural Com-
mittee in the House on April 9. The
bill is an administration measure and
is designed primarily to institute test-
ing in those counties which have not
emi)loyed county veterinarians be-
cause of lack of funds. At the pres-
ent time the state is more than 75 per
cent cleaned up, but unless a measure
of this kind is passed the job may
never be finished. At least a dozen
or more counties have failed to make
local appropriations for tuberculosis
eradication work.

H. B. No. 517 will place the direc-
tion of the work in the State Depart-
ment of Agriculture and thus cen-
tralize authority. In this way it is
thought the work will be expedited.
The state may have a tuberculosis-
free area within a relatively short
time. S. J. Stanard, director of agri-
culture, is of the opinion an appro-
l)riation similar to those voted hereto-
fore will be sufficient since the per-
centage of reactors has been decidedly
reduced within the past two years.

Earl C. Smith, president of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association, stated
that such legislation is necessary to
clean up the state, but that if some
of the northern Illinois counties wish
to retain their county veterinarians a
solution for this i)roblem should be
worked out.

Representative Homer Tice, Direc-
tor S. J. Stanard, H. R. Smith, Don
Geyer of the Pure Milk .Association,
and others spoke in behalf of the bill.
Mr. Tice contends that the bill is nec-
essary because many counties do not
have the funds to carry on this work.
Representative McCarty of Kane
county asked for an amendment giv-
ing the counties the privilege of keep-
ing their county veterinarians if they
desired — the state to pay part of
their salaries.

The bill was referred to a sub-com-
mittee of five which is to report back
to the .Agricultural Committee at a
later date. Tlie subcommittee will
iron out minor differences of opinion
and recommend certain changes in the
original draft.

All interests were friendly to the
measure and it is thought that no dif-
ficulty will be encountered in voting
it out favorably. If it becomes law
Illinois within the next few years will
be one of the few states classed as a
modified accredited area.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Pape Nine

The balance sheet
tells the story

COUNTRY LIFE GUARANTEES THIS PROFIT

F you could insure your life for 20 years and at the end of that time the company would pay back more than
you put in you would call it good business, would you not? If in addition, you received dividends during
the 20-year period the proposition would look still more attractive. I j

OUNTRY LIFE guarantees to pay back the policyholder who at age 35 takes out three different policies
for $1000 each, $40 more than the maximum total annual premiums during this period. Dividends paid
while the insurance is in force would be additional. Here is how it would work out : I i

$1,000 Each

Annual Premium

Cash Value 20th Yr.
$301

ORDINARY LIFE, Age 35

$20.63

20-PAY LIFE, Age 35

29.01

566

20-YEAR ENDOWMENT, Age 35

41.73

1000

Total yearly premiums

$91.37

$1867

Total gross premiums paid in 20 years

$1827.40

$1827.40

Profit guaranteed on three policies at the end of 20 years

$39.60

T IS difficult to estimate dividends, but if they aggregate only $15 annually on the three policies, net premiums
during the 20-year period would be only $1,517. Thus, the cash value would be $340 more than the net paid
premium. This is the profit that COUNTRY LIFE pays back to you because it offers old-line insurance AT
COST. You share in the profits and secure the benefit of savings.

Country Life
Insurance Company

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COUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
608 South Dearborn St., Chicago, III.

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Sex I am interested in a Zj 20 Year

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mately $ Life Insurance. Please let me have detailed

information on your new policy contract.

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FARMERS WIN WABASH VALLEY TELEPHONE CASE

Canadian Co-ops

Do Big Business

Local and Terminal Elevators
I Co-ordinate

CANADIAN farmers have gradually
developed a group of co-opera-
tives which co-ordinate local and ter-
minal elevator fa-
cilities with cen-
tralized selling, ac-
cording to a com-
prehensive bulle-
tin by J. F. Booth,
published recently
-• TEAMwoan 4i by the United
States Department of Agriculture.

The independent local unit has dis-
appeared. Several large-scale co-op-
erative associations market more than
one-half of the grain crop of western
Canada.

This large volume of grain is at
present handled by the Canadian Co-
operative Wheat Producers Ltd.,
known commonly as the Central Sell-
ing Agency, which handles the grain
of the Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and
Alberta wheat pools, also that of the
United Grain Growers Ltd., which
combines the activities formerly car-
ried on by the Grain Growers Grain
Company Ltd. and the Alberta Farm-
ers Co-operative Elevator Company
Ltd.

Handled 41,000,000 BusheU

The United Grain Growers Ltd. has
35,000 farmer shareholders. It oper-
ates more than 400 country elevators
and several large terminal elevators.
In 1926 it handled 41,000,000 bushels.
Through the parent organization and
several subsidiaries the company also
handles livestock, farm supplies, and
insurance. A farm journal with a cir-
culation exceeding 100,000 is pub-
lished. The company follows the gen-
eral principles of operation followed
by the trade. Itbuys from farmers
or handles on consignment. It pays
current prices and does not pool re-
turns. Grain is handled for both mem-
bers and non-members. The company
is strong financially with reserves ag-
gregating nearly $4,000,000.

140,000 In PooU

The western Canadian wheat pools
were organized in 1923 and 1924 and
combined to form their central sell-
ing agency in 1924. Their total mem-
bership is 140,000 and the volume of
grain handled exceeds 200,000,000 bu-
shels annually. The members are all
signed on five-year contracts.

The Province of Ontario recently
organized a grain pool which now has
over 9,000 members. The Ontario
pool, likewise, will sell through the"
central selling agency. ,

Operate 900 Elevator* '

The pools operate more than 900
country elevators and terminal eleva-

tors with capacity exceeding 20,000,-
000 bushels. The grain is sold direct
to domestic and foreign mills and
other users of grain both at home and
abroad. They have branch offices in
Canada and in Europe, with agency
connections in most importing coun-
tries. Returns from grain sales are
pooled among growers on the basis of
grades of grain each member delivers.
Deduct 2 Cents Buihel

The pools are permitted, under their
contracts, to deduct two cents per
bushel for an elevator reserve and up
to one per cent of the gross sales value
for commercial reserves. These de-
ductions run into millions of dollars.

The bulletin cites the differences in
co-operative methods of selling grain
in the United States and Canada and
the reasons for the greater success of
centralized efforts in the Dominion.

Lee County Farmers

In Telephone Case

LEE County farmers who subscribed
to the service of the Farmers Tele-
phone Company of Franklin Grove
were represented by their Farm
Bureau and the Transportation Depart-
ment of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation in a hearing before the Illi-
nois Commerce Commission a short
time ago.

The Company is seeking to eliminate
free toll service. It operates five ex-
changes at Franklin Grove, Amboy,
Sublette, Ashton, and Lee Center. The
Company alleges that neighboring
companies are bringing pressure to
bear on it to charge toll to adjacent
communities now securing free toll
service. Some companies are recipro-
cating with the Farmers Telephone
Company in giving long distance serv-
ice without additional charge while
others are not.

Subscribers take the position that
the inter-relationship of communities
is such that to abolish free toll service
to nearby towns and communities
would seriously diminish the value of
the telephone service.

The Green River Farmers Club
passed a resolution declaring that
such charges as are proposed by the
Company are uncalled for and against
the practice of the last 25 years. It
is contended that the farmers built
their own lines to Amboy with the
understanding that no toll charges
would be added for connections with
other points within the county. This
case is still pending.

>'^

L. J. Quasey

No, No, Maudie — It is not necessary
to use soft water for soft boiled eggs
or hard Water for the hard boiled ones.
A liberty bond is not a divorce decree.

* * «

Hard-Luck Harry Says — "If life was
a bed of roses, I'd be picking thorns
out of myself all day."

Commerce Commission Order Sup-
ports I. A. A. Rates to Edgar
County Subscribers Re-
main at $24

EDGAR County farmers represented
by the Transportation Department
of the Illinois Agricultural Association
and their Farm Bureau, won a signal
victory when the Illinois Commerce
Commission upheld the contention of
over 500 rural subscribers that $24 a
year is a high enough charge for 10-
party line rural telephone service. The

Commission's finding

was recently trans-
mitted to the . Wa-
bash Valley Tele-
phone Co. at Paris.

The Company had
originally petitioned
for an increase from
the present rate of
$24 per year to $33
a year for 10-party
rural service with
p r o p o r tionate or
even larger increases to subscribers in
the city of Paris, seat of Edgar county.

The valuations, depreciation require-
ments, operating revenue and expense
statements submitted to the Commerce
Commission by the Company were
checked by the Commission's engineer-
ing staff. It was found that the Com-
pany had set up an excessive amount
for depreciation reserve ; that the plant
and equipment was in slightly less than
90 per cent condition while the present
reserve on the books of the company is
between 30 per cent and 40 per cent,
showing a substantial margin for up-
keep, repairs, etc.

I. A. A. Filei Brief

In the brief and argument filed with
the Commission by L. J. Quasey, di-
rector of transportation for the I. A.
A., it was pointed out that "the item
of $47,565 for going value is improper
because it is a mere duplication of the
items previously mentioned" . . . :

The brief stated further that "the
company has set aside during the past
year some $29,980 annual depreciation
for the entire company and allocated
to the Paris exchange, on the above
basis, amounts to about $19,000. The
fact that the Company has accrued a
very substantial depreciation reserve
by allowing about $19,000 annually
for the Paris exchange, shows that it
is not now entitled to any more. We
contend that the depreciation could
properly be less and still be sufficient
to enable the company to perpetuate

its property .

Deny the Advance

"Should your honorable Commis-
sion," continued the brief, "consider
that leaving the rural rate as it is
would disturb the relationship of the
rural residence rate to other classes of
service it could reduce the compromise
basis on all classes by $3, which would

(Continued on page 11, column 3)

I

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Eleven

lasey

St. Louis Dairymen Adopt
Plan

(Continued from page 1)

"The interest from this reserve
fund," said Geyer, "nearly pays the
expenses of the organization." Geyer
stated that farmers must revise their
estimates of the requirements in
money and men needed to operate suc-
cessfully a business as large as that
represented by the combined milk
sales in the St. Louis milk shed. "Real-
ize that you're going into big busi-
ness," he said, "when you organize to
sell nearly a million pounds of milk
daily."

The status of producers who deliver
to condenseries was considered. Dis-
position of the problem was left to the
general committee which includes a
representative from each of the 19
milk producing counties. It was gen-
erally agreed that the new association
could not be successfully established
on a condensery price and market
basis.

A. D. Lynch, dairy marketing direc-
tor, and Secretary Geo. E. Metzger of
the I. A. A. explained the plan and
members' agreement. Both Metzger
and Geyer outlined the essentials of a
successful organization campaign.
Geyer suggested that a provision be
made that members pay $5 into the
organization annually until the check-
off system is established. An amend-
ment to this effect was voted down.

A survey of the St. Louis market
made by the special committee re-
vealed that the average production per
dairyman is only 112 pounds of milk
daily or less than half of the average
production at Chicago. A 5c checkoff
will cause such average dairyman to
contribute $20.10 annually to the sup-
port of his organization and principal
means of livelihood.

The high-lights in the proposed by-
laws are as follows:

1. Purpose. To be a non-profit cooperative
association without capital stock instituted
for the mutual help and benefit of its mem-
bers ; to promote the general welfare of its
members and the business of dairying in the
St. Louis fluid milk district; to cooperate
with other associations or individuals en-
gaged in similar purposes ; to have and ex-
ercise all the powers necessary and proper
to carry into effect the purpose for which
such corporation is formed, and to do any
and all things incident to the above purpose.

2. A life membership fee of $5 payable
in advance.

3. Membership a personal and not a prop-
erty right and not transferable.

4. Kqual voting power. .

5. Territory divided into fifteen districts,
the division based on membership and one
director democratically elected by the mem-
bers of each district.

6. Directors to serve for one year.

7. The usual officers with the usual duties.

8. Responsible officers and employees to be
bonded.

9. Association must make monthly finan-
cial reports to the districts.

10. Provides a penalty for non-perform-
ance and breach of contract.

Existing Orgranizations

The commitee found that there has
been in the past and is today a number
of existing organizations of one kind
or another in the field. The most re-
cent organization was established about
two years ago. This organization was
set up as a bargaining institution,

signed a limited membership among
the producers of the district, and is
now operating at a few local milk re-
ceiving stations.

Due to cross currents of thought and
probably some misinformation, which
seems to exist in the district, the com-
mittee after careful consideration de-
cided that for the best interests of all
former organizations should be drop-
ped from consideration insofar as their
corporate setup is concerned and a new
organization -formed, recognizing the
fact, however, that the St. Louis Milk
Producers Cooperative Association has
recently pioneered to a limited extent
as a bargaining association in the field
and that on some of the smaller mar-
kets tributary to St. Louis has rendered
some valuable service to its member-
ship and to the dairymen in general,
and that these men who became mem-
bers of the said organization have paid
their membership fee and submitted to
a checkoff for the financing of the op-
erations of the association, it was felt
by the committee that the new organi-
zation in recognition of this service
and experience would be justified in
admitting the present members of the
St. Louis Milk Producers Cooperative
Association into the new organization
without payment of additional mem-
bership fee, providing the members
will sign the new marketing agree-
ment.

Organization Setup

There are several farmers' service
organizations in existence in the St.
Louis territory. After careful study
and survey of the service organization
situation the committee is of the opin- .
ion that the Farm Bureau could render j
most valuable assistance in launching
the organization. In some sections of
the district the cooperation of other
existing service orgfanizations should
be invited. The committee proposes
that if this meeting today accepts the

Adjustment Satisfactory

Illinois Agr. Mutual Ins. Co.,
608 South Dearborn Street,
Chicago, Illinois.

Your letter and check in full
settlement of my claim for col-
lision in our recent accident on
the Dixie Highway came yester-
day.

I want you to know that I am
very much pleased with your set-
tlement and that it is such serv-
ice as this that makes it worth
while for us to have a company
which we know deserves our full
confidence. Your adjustment is
satisfactory in all respects.
EDWARD KARR,
Ford County, 111.

Mr. Karr is a member of the Ford
County Farm Bureau. The accident
occurred when Karr and his son, Robert,
were driving on the pavement at night
and smashed into a truck and trailer
parked on the pavement. A bus was
coming from the opposite direction and
to avoid a head-on-collision Karr sidt ■
swiped the trailer attached to the truck
causing considerable damage.

report of the commitee and the pro-
posed plan submited by the committee
is to be carried into the field, that an
attempt first be made to get the ap-
proval and the moral support of the
executive committees of the Farm
Bureaus in the district. Also that the
Farm Bureaus of the district be asked
to select from ten to twenty-five dairy-
men in their respective counties who
will ag^ee to meet at some central
point in the county or in the district
for schooling on this plan of organiza-
tion, such as will enable them to carry
the membership agreements into the
field and secure the signatures of a
goodly percentage of the dairymen de-
livering milk in their respective coun-
ties. In addition the County Farm
Bureaus be asked to provide a meeting
place and handle the local publicity.

It is the thought of the commtitee
that a third to half of the member-
ship of the proposed organization can
be signed by voluntary effort. Follow-
ing the voluntary effort other means of
securing members should be provided,
probably working down to individual
solicitation by a paid solicitor.

Condenseries

The condensery situation existing
in the district presents a real problem.
After careful study and consideration
your committee recommends that for
the present time, at least, members be
accepted into the organization who re-
side in such territory furnishing milk
to plants that deliver to the St. Louis
fluid market during all or a substantial
part of the year.

Wabasli Valley Case

(Continued from page 10)
result in a reduction in the revenue
under the proposed rates (making
proper allowance for the Federal
taxes) of about $6581. Even this
would still enable the company to earn
7.01 per cent for 1927, 6.84 per cent
for 1928, or an average of 6.92 per
cent for the two years.

"WHEREFORE, we pray your hon-
orable Commission to deny the advance
on rural residence rates as proposed
in the alleged compromise schedule of
the petitioner.

(Signed) "ILLINOIS AGRICUL-
TURAL ASSOCIATION,

"L. J. Quasey, Transp't. Depart-
ment."

The Commission's Order

The Commission's order recognizes
that the Company should have an in-
crease in revenue to pay a fair return
on the investment and allowed certain
increases in rates "to provide a net an-
nual increase in revenue of approxi-
mately $9,390 and will produce a net
income of $25,237, which is approxi-
mately 6.15 per cent on the fair value
of the property of the petitioner."

O'Hair and McClain of Paris, and
L. C. Durham of Kansas City, lawyers,
represented the Telephone Company.
Wm. Dennis, of the Edgar County
Farm Bureau, was appointed locally
to work with the I. A. A.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

WIN WABASH VALLEY TELEPHONE CASE

Canadian Co-ops

< Do Big Business

lOcal and Terminal Elevators
Co-ordinate

C'AN'ADIAX farmers have gradually
* Idcvt'lopcd a g-roup of co-opcra-
tives which co-ordinate local and ter-
minal elevator fa-
cilities -^vith cen-
tralized fjellinp:, ac-
cording to a coni-
prehensi\ic bulle-
tin by J. F. Booth,
publishedj recently

t TEAMWORK 4i by the United
> Depart nient of Agricolture.
e indepencjent local unit has dis-
appelared. Several large-scjlle co-op-
erative associations market niore than
one-talf of the grain croi) of western
Canajda. i

This large volume of gr^in is at
presijnt handled by the Canadian Co-
operative Wh^at Producejs Ltd..
i<noWn commonly as the Cenjtral Sell-
ing .|\gency. which handles the grain
of tie .Manitoba, Saskatche\j^an, and
.Alberta wheat jxxds. also th^t of the
I'nited Cuain Growers Ltdl.. which
combine.s the activities formjerly car-
ried iin by the Grain Growejrs Grain
Comtany Ltd. and the Alberta Farm-
ers Co-operative Elevator fcompanv

Ltd. \ r ■

-landled 41,000,000 Bushels

Thi' United Grain Growers Ltd. has
."55,001) farmer shareholders. ! It oper-
ates inore than 400 country elevators
and : everal large terminal elevators.
In 19 2(5 it handl^'d ■41.000.000 bushels.
Throigh the parent organization and
sever; il subsidiaries the com|)any also
handles livestock, farm supplies, and
insui;ince. A faym journal with a cir-
culati )n e.xceedi>ig 100,000 is pub-
lished The comj)any follows
eral principles olf operation

the gen-
followed
farmers
It pays
pool re-

by the trade. Itbuy.s from
or haidles on consignment,
currer t prices aijid does not
turns. Grain is handled for both mem-
bers and non-menibers. The dompany
is strcng tinanciailly with reserves ag-
gregating nearly .?4, 000, 000.

140,000 In Pools

The western Canadian wheat jiools
were <4rganized iri 192;> and 10:i4 and
combiiled to forip their cential sell-
ing agt'ncy in I'xZi. Their toUil mem-
bership is 140,000 and the volume of
grain handled exceeds 200,000,p00 bu-
shels E nnually. The members are all
signed on five-yeair contracts.

The Province pf Ontario ilecently
organised a grairv^pool which r|ow has
over l>,000 members. The Ontario
pool, likewise, will soil through the
central selling agency

The

country elevators and terminal

Operate 900 Elevator*

pools operate more thin

900
eleva-

tors with capacity exceeding 20.000,-
000 bushels. The grain is .M)ld direct
to domestic and foreign mills and
I'ther users of grain both at home and
abroad. They have branch otlices in
Canada and in Euiope, with agency
connections in most importing coun-
tries. Returns fiom grain sales are
pooled among growers on the basis of
grades of grain each member delivers".'
Deduct 2 Cents Bushel

The pools are permitte<I, under their
contracts, to deduct two cents per'
bushel for an elevator reserve and up
to one per cent of the gross sales value
for commercial reserves. These de-
ductions run into millions of dollars.

The bulletin cites the ditTi'rences in
co-operative methods of selling grain
in the United States and Canada and
the reasons for the greater success of
ccntrali7.e<l efforts in the Dominion.

Lee County Farmers

In Telephone Case

LEE County farmers who subscribed'
to the service of the Farmers Tele-
phone Company of Franklin Grove
were represented by their Farm
Buieau and the Transportation Depart-
iTient of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation in a hearing l>ef)re the Illi-
nois Commerce Commission a short
time ago.

The Company is seeking to eliminate
free toll service. It opeiates five ex-
changes at Franklin (irove, Amboy,
Sublette, .Ashton, and Lee Center. The
Compan.v alleges that neighboring
companies are bringing |)ressure to
bear on it to charge toll to adjacent
communities now .securing free toll
.i^ervice. Some comjianies are recipro-
cating with the Farmers Telephone
Comi)any in giving long distance serv-
ice without additional charge while
others are not.

Subscribers take the position that
the inter-relationship of communities
is such that to abolish free toll sei'vice
to nearby towns and communities
would .seriously diminish the value of
the telephone service.

The Green River Faimers Club
Itassed a resolution declaring that
such charges as are proposed by the
Company are uncalled for and against
the i)ractice of the last 2.5 years. It
is contended that the farmers built
their own lines to Amboy with the
understanding that no toll charges
would be added for connections with
other points within the county. This
case is still pending.

L. J. Quasey

No, Xo, Maudie — It is not necessary
to use soft water for .soft boiled eggs
or hard water for the hard boiled ones.
X libeity bond is not a divorce decree.

♦ * *

Hard-Luck Harry Says — "If life was
a bed of roses, I'd be picking thorns
out of myself all day."

Commerce Commission Order Sup-
ports I. A. A. Rates to Edgar
County Subscribers Re-
main at $24

I.^"'DG.\R County farmers represented
-^ by the Transportation Department
of the Illinois .Agricultural .Association
and their Farm Bureau, won a signal
victory when the Illinois Commerce
Commission upheld the contention of
over 500 rural subscribers that $24 a
year is a high enough charge for 10-
party line rural telephone service. The
"ommission's finding
was recently trans-
mitted to the Wa-
bash Valley Tele-
phone Co. at Paris.

The Company had
originally i)etitioned
fpr an increa.se from
the present rate of
§24 per year to $.']:3
a year for 10-i)arty
—rural service with
p r o p o r tionate or
even larger increases to subscribers in
I the city of Paris, seat of Edgar county.

The valuations, dejireciation require-
ments, oiieiating revenue and expense
statements submitted to the Commerce
Commission by the Company were
checked by the Commission's engineer-
ing staff. It was found that the Com-
lumy had set up an excessive amount
for depreciation reserve; that the plant
and equipment \Vas in slightly less than
90 |)er cent condition while the present
reserve on the books of the company is
between ,10 per cent and 40 per cent,
showing a substantial margin for up-
keep, repairs, etc.

I. A. A. Files Brief

In the brief and argument filed with
the Commission by L. J. Quasey, di-
rector of transjiorlation for the I. A.
A., it was pointed out that "the item
of .?47.5(!5 for going value is improper
because it is a mere duplication of the
items jjreviously mentioned" . . . :

The brief stated further that "the
company has pet aside during the past
.\ear some §29,980 annual dei)reciation
loi' the entire company and allocated
to the Palis exchange, on the above
basis, amounts to about SI 9.000. The
fact that the Company has accrued a
very substantial depreciation reserve
by allowing about $19,000 annually
for the Paris exchange, shows that it
is not now entitled to any more. We
contend that the depreciation could
properly be less and still be sufficient
to enable the company to perpetuate

its proiierty

Deny the Advance

".Should your honorable Commis-
sion," continued the brief, "consider
that leaving the rural rate as it is
would disturb the relationship of the
rural residence rate to other classes of
service it could reduce the compromise
basis on all classes by $.3, which would

(Continued on page 11, column 3)

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Pnrjr Fir rev

St. Louis Dairymen Adopt
Plan

(Cdntinut'd from pane 1)

"The interest from this reserve
fund," said Geyer, "nearly pays the
expenses of the orpanization." Geyer
stated that farmers must revise their
estimates of the requirements in
money and men needed to oi)erate suc-
cessfully a business as large as that
represented by the combined milk
sales in the St. Louis milk shed. "Real-
ize that you're proing into big busi-
ness," he said, "when you organize to
sell nearly a million pounds of milk
daily."

The status of producers who dojiver
to condenseries was considered. I)is-
po.sition of the problem was left to the
general committee which includes a
representative from each of the !!'
milk producing counties. It was gen-
erally agreed that the new association
could not be successfully established
on a condensery price and market
basis.

A. U. Lynch, dairy marketing direc-
tor, and Secretary Geo. E. Metzger of
the I. A. A. explained the plan and
membeis' agreement. Both Metzger
and (ieyer outlined the essentials of a
t.uccessful oiganization canipaign.
(ieyer suggested that a provision be
made that members j)ay $5 into the
organization annually until the check-
off system is established. An amend-
ment to this etfect was voted down.

.^ survey of the St. Louis market
made by the sjiecial connnittee if-
vealed that the average production per
dairyman is only 112 pounds of milk
daily or less than half of the average
production at Chicago. A ,tc checkoff
will cause such average dairyman to
contribute $20.10 annually to the su))-
port of his organization and jirincipal
means of livelihood.

The high-lights in the jiroposed by-
laws arc as follows:

1. J'tir/tosr. To Itc a nnn-i>rofit cooperativ*'
as^iuiation without capital stocli iiistiiiitiil
for the mutual hf]i> and ht-nofit of its mt-m-
h'Ts : to pronioio iIk- ^'ent■ral \v«'lfari' of ii>
nu'mlitTs and th»' hnsint-ss r)f dairyintr in th«-
St, I,(»uis fhiiil milk rlistrict : to roupuratc
with otht-r as-.(iri::tion-i or intliviiiuals t'li-
trairorl in similar piiriK>si's ; to have and ox-
iTci^o all t lu' powrrs ncco^ary and jiropi-r
to carry into iiri<'t the piiri'ose for which
such corporation is formcii. and to do any
anil all Ihintrs incident to the ahove purpose.

2. A life mcmhershiii fee t>f $5 i>ayal>Ie
in ailvance.

.'i. Menihership a personal and not a prop-
*'rly rii'ht and not Iran-feralde.

1. I-'itual votin--r power.

5. Territory diyided into tifteen districts,
the division t'ased <m memhership anr! one
director den.ocratically elected by the mem-
hers of each flistrict.

<t. I)irecl<)rs to serve for one year.

7. The usual officers with the usual duties.

S. Responsible officers and employees to be
bonded.

!». Association must m:ike monthly finan-
cial reiHirts to the districts.

lo. Provides a penalty for non-perform-
a!.< e and breach of contract.

Existing Organizations

The commitee found that there has
been in the past and is today a number
of existing organizations of one kind
or another in the field. The most re-
cent organization was established about
two years ago. This organization was
set up as a bargaining institution.

signed a limited membership among
the producers of the district, and is'
now operating iat a few local milk re-
ceiving stations.

Due to cross currents of thought and
probably some misinformation, which
seems to exist in the district, the com-
mittee after careful consideration de-
cided that for the best interests of all
former organizations should be dro])-
ped from consideration insofar as their
corporate setup is concerned and a new
oiganization formed, recognizing the
fact, however, that the St. Louis Milk
Producers Cooperative Association has
recently pioneered to a limited extent
as a bargaining association in the field
and that on some of the smaller mar-
kets tributary to St. Louis has rendered
some valuable service to its membei'-
ship and to the dairymen in general,
and that these men who became mem-
bers of the said organization have paid
their membership fee and submitte<l to
a checkoff for the financing of the op-
erations of the association, it was felt
by the committee that the new organi-
zation in recognition of this service
and experience would be justified in i
admitting the present members of the
St. Louis Milk Producers Cooperative
.Association into the new organization
without jiayment of additional mem-
bership fee, providing the members
will sign the new marketing agree-
ment.

Organization Setup

There are several farmers' service
organizations in existence in the .St.
Louis territory. After careful stutiy
and survey of the service organization
situation the committee is of the opin-'
ion that tlie Farm Bureau could render j
most valuable assistance in launching
the organization. In some sections of i
the district the cooperation of other |
existing service organizations .should
be invited. The committee jiroposes
that if this meeting today accepts the

Adjustment Satisfactory

Illinois Agr. Mutual Ins. Co..
608 South Dearborn Street,
Chicago, Illinois.

Your letter and check in full
settlement of my claim for col-
lision in our recent accident on
the Dixie Highway came yester-
day.

I want you to know that I am
very much pleased with your set-
tlement and that it is such serv-
ice as this that makes it worth
while for us to have a company
which we know deserves our full
confidence. Your adjustment is
satisfactorv in all respects.

p:i)Ward karr.

Ford County, III.

Mr. Karr is a meml>er of the Ford
County Farm Bureau. The accident
tM-curred when K:irr and hi- son. Uiihert.
were drivini; xn the pavement at iiitiht
and smashed into a truck and trailer
parkeil on the pavement. A bus was
lominc from the opposite direction and
to avoid a head-on-collision Karr sid*
swiped the trailer attached to the truck
causing considerable damage.

report of the commitee and the pr<%
posed plan submited by the committee
is to be carried into the field, that an
attempt first be made to get the ap-
proval and the moral support of the
executive committees of the Farm
Bureaus in the district. Also that the
P'arm Bureaus of the district be aske<i
to select from ten to twenty-five dairy-
men in their respective counties who
will agi-ee to meet lat some central
point in the county or in the district.
for schooling on this jdan of organiza-
tion, such as will enable them to carry
the membership agreements into the
field and .secure the signatures of a
gcodly percentage of the dairymen de-
livering milk in their respective coun-
ties. In ad<lifion tlu' County Farm
Bureaus be asked to provide a meeting
place and handle the ;local publicity.

It is the thought of the conimtitee
that a third to half of the member-
ship of the proposed organization can
be signed by v(duntar>- effort. Follow-
ing the voluntary effort other means of
securing members should be provided,
probably working dojivn to individual
solicitation by a paid ;solicitor.

Condenseries j

The condensery situation existing
in the district presents a real problem.
-After carefid .study and consideration
your committee recommends that for
the present time, at least, members be
accepted into the organization who re-
side in such territory furnishing milk
to plants that deliver to the St. Louis
fluid market during all or a sub(<tantial
part of the year.

Wabash Valley Case

(Continued from i)age 10)
result in a reduction in the revenue
under the proposed rates (making
proper allowance fhr the Federal
taxes) of about $C58L Even this
would still enable the company to earn
7.01 per cent for 1027. r..84 per cent
for 1028. or an average of G.!»2 per
cent for the two vears,

"WHEREFORE, we p.ay your hon-
orable Commission to deny the advance
(in rural residence rates as proposed
in the alleged compromise st-hedule of
the petitioner.

(Signed) "ILLIXOI.«j AGRICUL-
TCRAL ASSOCIATION".

"L. .1. Quasey. Transp't. Kepart-
menl."

The Commission's Order

The Commission's order reclognizes
that the Company should have an in-
crease in revenue to pay a fair return
on the investment a"hd allowed certain
increases in rates "to provide a net an-
nual incrj'ase in r*\eniie r)f approxi-
mately .?0.:100 and will produce a net
income of $2.").2.'>7, which is approxi-
mately 0.1.5 per cent on the fair value
of the property of the petitioner."

O'Hair and McClain of Paris, and
L. C. Durham of Kan.sas City, lawyers,
represented the Telephone Company.
Wm. Dennis, of the Edgar County
Farm Bureau, was appointed locally
to work with the I. A. A.

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^ ; A An Open Letter To
FARM AND HOME OWNERS OF ILLINOIS:

C EN ATE Bill No. jg, better-known as the State In-
come Tax Bill, is now pending before the Illinois
State Legislature. The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion believes it to be the most constructive tax bill
under consideration by that body. It was introduced
at the request of the I. A. A. and has the support of
the Illinois Bankers Association, the Illinois State Fed-
eration of Labor, Prairie Farmer and most of the down-
state newspapers. It is deserving of the active support
of all thinking citizens who are interested in securing a
more equitable distribution of the tax burden.

j HIS bill is being actively opposed by the Chicago
press, by certain wealthy industrial interests of
the State, and by those who receive large incomes but
pay little or no taxes. These people know that the
real property owners are paying ninety per cent of
the tax burden of Illinois. They also realize that so
long as they can keep this heavy load, which in 1927
amounted to $370,000,000, saddled on you, they will
ride free. They want to enjoy the privileges of citizen-
ship and protection of government and let you pay for
it. They have a selfish interest in putting off the day
when taxes will be based on ability to pay, which
means on net income. - . , .. . ..^ ■ . . , .

\ ^UCH unfair and insidious propaganda is begin,
^^^ ning to flood your representatives at Springfield
and states this is just another tax. They apparently
realize the impossibility of constructively criticizing the
merits of this bill and are resorting, in many cases, to
misrepresentation. They do not mention the fact that
this is a replacement tax; in other words, that the esti-
mated eight million dollars which it will raise will replace
a like amount now derived from the property tax.

THE bill is designed to help lower the taxes on your
farm, on your homes, and on your personal prop-
erty. The bill carries a provision to the effect that

anyone who already pays a propfetty tax can deduct
the full amount of that tax fromTiis computed state
income tax. This provision, of course, will not help
that large per cent of the personal property owners
who now successfully dodge taxation. (The operation
of this bill is explained fully on Page Three.)

C ENATE Bill No. 39 has already passed the Senate.
^ Coming over to the House it was referred to the
Revenue Committee unfairly made up of nineteen
Chicago legislators and eleven representatives from
down state. When this bill came before the Commit-
tee the Chicago representatives refused to give a hear-
ing to those who were present and insisted upon an
immediate vote. No discussion was allowed, because
the opponents of this bill knew they cduld not sustain
their position. The vote showed Chicago representa-
tives standing solidly against the bill and representatives
from downstate for the bill with the exception of Mr.
Crowley of Peoria who voted with the opposition.
The opponents, being in strong majority, sent the bill
out to the House with recommendations that it do not
pass. They apparently felt they had killed the bill.
Your representatives, however, kept right on fighting,
and the second morning thereafter when the Committee
report was considered, a motion to non-concur in the re-
port of the Committee and place the bill on the calendar
prevailed by a vote of seventy-two to fifty-nine. 1

T T WILL be under further consideration in the near
future, and if you are interested in securing a more
fair distribution of the tax burden, if you want some
relief from present unjust taxes you are paying, you
should immediately wire, write or see your representa-
tives in the State Legislature and tell them of your inter-
est in this legislation. You can address them in care of
the House of Representatives, Springfield, Illinois. , j
Sincerely yours, !

ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION

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the entire season's crop. They leave in their wake, sorrow and despair. Iowa farmers
suffered hail losses aggregating over $5,000,000 in 1927, only a part of which was insured.

TVrO section of Illinois is safe from hail storms.

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in your own company — the Farmers Mutual.

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two years with old line rates of from $30 to $35.

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An Open Letter To
FARM AND HOME OWNERS OF ILLINOIS:

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ENATE Bill No. 39, better-known as the State In-
come Tax Bill, is now pending before the Illinois
State Legislature. The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion believes it to be the most constructive tax bill
under consideration by that body. It was introduced
at the request of the I. A. A. and has the support of
the Illinois Bankers Association, the Illinois State Fed-
eration of Labor, Prairie Farmer and most of the down-
state newspapers. It is deserving of the active support
of all thinking citizens who are interested in securing a
more equitable distribution of the tax burden.

HIS bill is being actively opposed by the Chicago
press, by certidn wealthy industrial interests of
the State, and by those who receive large incomes but
pay little or no taxes. These people know that the
real property owners are paying ninety per cent of
the tax burden of Illinois. They also realize that so
long as they can keep this heavy load, which in 1927
amounted to $3,70,000,000, saddled on you, they will
ride free. They want to enjoy the privileges of citizen-
ship and protection of government and let you pay for
it. They have a selfish interest in putting off the day
when taxes will be based on ability to pay, which
means on net income.

\ 4 UCH unfair and insidious propaganda is begin,
' ning to flood your representatives at Springfield
and states this is just another tax. They apparently
realize the impossibility of constructively criticizing the
merits of this bill and are resorting, in many cases, to
misrepresentation. They do not mention the fact that
this is a replacement tax; in other words, that the esti'
mated eight million dollars which it will raise will replace
a like amount now derived from the property fcix.

npHE bill is designed to help lower the taxes on your
' farm, on your homes, and on your personal prop-
erty. The bill carries a provision to the effect that

anyone who already pays .1 property Mx can deduct
the full amount of that tix from his computed st^ite
income tax. This provision, of course, will not help
that large per cent of the personal property owners
who now successfully dodge tixation. (The operation
of this bill is expl.iined fully on Page Three.)

, ENATE Bill No. 39 has already passed the Senate.
Coming over to the House it was referred to the
Revenue Committee unf.iirly made up of nineteen
Chicago legislators and eleven representatives from
down state. When this bill came before the Commit-
tee the Chicigo representitives refused to give a hear-
ing to those who were present and insisted upon an
immediate vote. No discussion w.is allowed, because
the opponents of this bill knew they could not sustain
their position. The vote showed Chicigo representa-
tives standing solidly against the bill and representatives
from downstate for the bill with the exception of Mr.
Crowley of Peoria who voted with the opposition.
The opponents, being in strong majority, sent the bill
out to the House with recommendations that it do not
pass. They apparently felt they had killed the bill.
Your representatives, however, kept right on fightinj;,
and the second morning there.ifter when the Committee
report was considered, a motion to non-concur in the re
port of the Committee and place the bill on the calendar
prevailed by a vote of seventy-two to fifty-nine. I
T WILL be under further consideration in the near
future, and if you are interested in securing a more
fair distribution of the tax burden, if you want some
, relief from present unjust taxes you are paying, you
should immediately wire, write or see your represent.i-
tives in the StSte Legislature and tell them of your inter-
est in this legislation. You can address them in care oi
the House of Representitives, Springfield, Illinois.
Sincerely yours,
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION

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Authority Coming

J. F. Booth of U. S. D. A. WiU Address
Series of Important Meetings

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^ organization will be discussed at
a series of meetings to be held
throughout Illinois beginning Friday,
May 31, in the soft wheat and red top
belt of southeastern Illinois at Carmi.

Dr. J. F. Booth of the United States
Bureau of Agricultural Economics,
who recently completed an intensive
study of the Canadian wheat pool, will
be the speaker. Dr. Booth's studies
were written up in Technical Bulletin
No. 63 entitled "Co-operative Market-
ing of Grain in Western Canada." In
addition to his Canadian studies he has
investigated and studied co-operative
grain marketing organizations
throughout |he United States.

Meetings ^ill be held as follows:
Place Date Time

Carmi May 31 10:00 A. M.

Belleville Jane

Springfield Jane

Peoria June

Bloomington June

Monticello June

Champaign June

Princeton June

Ottawa June

Watseka June 8

Harrison Fahrnkopf, grain market-
ing director who will be in charge of
the meetings, reports that farm ad-
visers and grain marketing commit-
tees throughout the grain belt are co-
operating in this movement and have
promised to bring out strong delega-
tions.

Strictly Educational

Commenting upon the coming meet-
ings, Chris L. Christensen, chief of the
division of co-operative marketing at
Washington who spoke at the annual
I. A. A. meeting last winter in Dan-
ville, said, "These meetings are to be
strictly educational and are not to be
promotional in the sense that any
specific plans are to be recommended.
The objective will be to disseminate
facts concerning economic, conditions
surrounding the handling of grain and
also to afford a discussion of how farm-
ers can improve grain marketing con-
ditions through co-operative organ-
ization.

"It is our understanding that in
these meetings Mr. Booth will discuss
grain marketing and co-operative or-
ganization. Such a discussion will in-
clude a review of'the farmers' elevator
movement, its accomplishments and
limitations, together with an analysis
of the changing mas^et conditions and
problems."

Co-ordination Needed

The co-operative efforts of grain
producers in the terminal markets, as
expressed in both the Rural Grain
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cago market, and in the wheat pools,
will be discussed. Mr. Booth will also
draw upon his knowledge of the co-
operative experience and develop-
ments in western Canada. Such an
analysis of co-operative efforts will
lead up to the problems before farm-
ers in the development of co-operative
gn"ain marketing machinery which will
co-ordinate the country and terminal
facilities, together with co-operative
selling of grain in the terminal mar-
kets.

'aii^eting

By Ray E. MiUer

EIGHTY farmers from Macoupin
County gathered at National Stock
Yards, Illinois, on April 22 and spent
the day with the Producers Commis-
sion Association studying livestock
marketing and the operation of a co-
operative selling agency. The trip
was a part of the marketing program
of the Macoupin County Farm Bureau
and was arranged and conducted by
the County Livestock Marketing Com-
mittee. One man walked six miles to
join the party. He was a shipper of
many years experience who had been
in the market many times but was
anxious to learn more about the
fundamentals of co-operative market-
ing. His attitude reflects the spirit
of the group.

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THE Livestock Marketing Depart-
ment of the Illinois Agricultural
Association co-operating with Producer
Agencies at Peoria, St. Louis, and Chi-
cago has arranged a series of market-
ing conferences to be held at those
markets on May 23, 24 and 27 respec-
tively. The purpose is to present up-
to-date developments in the field of

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B. & O. Must Continue

Local Train Service

I^^^ARMERS and townspeople residing
along the B. & O. railroad between
Flora and Shawneetown in southern
Illinois will not be deprived of daily
local train service as a result of a re-
cent decision of the Illinois Commerce
Commission.

The B. & O. application for author-
ity to discontinue operation of trains
Nos. 46 and 49 between Flora and
Shawneetown was denied on the
grounds of public policy. I IJi ■ •

Said the commission:

"1. Public convenience and neces-
sity required the continued operation
by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company of trains Nos. 46 and 49 be-
tween Flora and Shawneetown, 111.

"2. The financial loss to the said
railroad company caused by the oper-
ation of the trains here^ under con-
sideration is not so large as to seriously
affect the net earnings of its entire
property in Illinois."

The B. & 0. complained that the
present operation of these two trains
is causing a direct out 'of pocket loss
of $281.11 per month,..- and that the
annual loss considering all items of
expense which might properly be
charged to the operation of those
trains is a very much larger amount of
money.

The railroad complairved that a hard
surface road to be constructed par-
alelling the right-of-way when com-
pleted will tend to further decrease
the gross earnings of these trains.
The Transportation Department of the
Illinois Agricultural Association in-
tervened in behalf of farmers and
shippers and showed that the commu-
nities between Flora and Shawneetown
are dependent upon the operation of
these trains for mail, express, pas-
senger, and freight service, and that
the communities along the right-of-
way were built up as a result of the
service offered by this road.

livestock marketing to chairmen of
county marketing committees. Farm
Bureau presidents and farm advisers.
A similar meeting was held at Indian-
apolis on May 9.

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DURING 1928 Illinois farmers sold
22,837 cars of livestock through
Producer agencies at Chicago, St.
Louis, Peoria and Indianapolis. Con-
servatively estimated the value of this
stock would amount to approximately

$40,000,000.

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MCDONOUGH COUNTY farmers
are conducting a study of local
livestock marketing methods. The
purpose of the survey is to find out
which methods are most popular with
livestock farmers and why. Arrange-
ments for the survey were completed
at a meeting on April 19. Seventeen
of eighteen townships in the county
were represented.

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Oct. 20, 1925, under the Act of Mar. S, 1879. AccepUnce for mailing at special rate of postage prorided In Section 411, Act of Feb. S8, l»i5, authorixed Oct. 2T. 1925.

Number 5

MAY, 1929

Volume 7

Truth About the State Income Tax i

A Bill To Relieve Property Owners of a Portion of Their Unjust Tax Burden

SENATE Bill No. 39, intro-
duced by Senator Lantz, and
known as the proposed State In-
come Tax Bill, could properly
be termed "a bill to relieve
property owners of a portion of
their heavy tax burden."

This measure which has
passed the Senate and is now on
first reading in the House, pro-
vides for a tax on personal in-
comes, after exemptions, of 1
per cent on the first $5,000; 2
per cent on the second $5,000;
and 3 per cent on any amounts
greater than $10,000.

Exemptions Liberal

Exemption of $1,000 is al-
lowed single persons; $2,000
for married couples, and $500
for each child or other depend-
ent person. It also provides that
any property tax, real, personal,
or both, shall be subtracted
from the computed income tax.
Anyone properly understanding
this provision can not honestly
take the position that this bill
is just another tax.

Following is an explanation
of how it works: Assume a
married man with two children
has an income of $10,000. He
would be entitled to an exemp-
tion of $3,000, leaving $7,000
subject to tax. Take 1 per cent
of the first $5,000, or $50 ; and
2 per cent on the remaining
$2,000, or $40. The two figures
added give a computed income
tax of $90. Should he pay a
property tax, on real estate and
personal belongings amounting
to $90, or more, this would be
subtracted from the income tax
of $90, resulting in no income
tax to pay. The supporters of
this measure maintain that any
citizen enjoying the benefits and
protection of government to the
extent of $10,000 income should
be willing and happy to contrib-
ute $90 for the maintenance of
local and state government.

If you are intereited in a
more equitable distribution of
the tax burden, write your rep-
resentatives in the legislature
and tell then> to support the pro-
posed state income tax now
pending in the House at Spring-
field.

A Replacement Tax

"A study of the tax situation
in Illinois immediately con-
vinces one that very few citi-
zens of the state paying prop-
erty taxes of any kind will be
called upon also to contribute
under the provisions of this
bill," declared President Earl C.
Smith in a recent radio address
from WLS. "But rather that
great group of our citizens en-
joying equal privileges and pro-
tection with the property tax-
payers, and paying no property
tax of any kind, will come un-
der the provisions of this bill. It
is estimated that this group will
pay approximately eight mil-
lion dollars per year toward the
cost of government in the State
of Illinois.

"Under the provisions of this
bill, such revenue as is derived
will be used in lieu of or re-
placement of the present State
Distributive School Fund up to
such an amount as is appropri-
ated for that purpose by the
legislature. We thus find it will
be used as a replacement of at
least part of the tax now levied
on property and, therefore, to
the full extent of its operation,
will more equitably distribute
present state taxes.

One Out of 1200

"Throughout the recent cam-
paign, citizens of all parties,
classes and creeds, agreed on
two things: One was to resist
further increase in tax on prop-
erty, and the other was to seek
more equitable means of dis-

tributing the present taxes.

"Out of some 1200 bills now
under consideration by the leg-
islature, this bill is the only
one which even tends to put
into practice the consensus of
thought of all groups of our
people on this question. This
bill has been opposed especially
by the metropolitan press. Nev-
ertheless it passed the Senate
April 24, and is now under con-
sideration in the House.

Benefits Distributed

"While it offers some relief to
farm owners, it could in no wise
be called an agricultural relief
measure. It is estimated that
one-half of the relief offered by
this legislation will be enjoyed
by the property taxpayers of
Chicago ; approximately one-
fourth by the property taxpay-
ers of the cities and towns
throughout Illinois, and the bal-
ance or approximately one-
fourth by the farm and home
owners in our rural territory.
Not An Added Tax

"We sincerely regret to see
the attitude taken by some of
the city press, attempting to
stamp this bill as an effort to
further tax the people of our
cities. No one properly under-
standing the provisions of this
bill could honestly maintain such
a position. Our Association
would be very glad to send to
any interested citizen of Illinois
a synopsis of this bill showing
its constructive features and the
manner of its operations.

"All those who believe that a
more equitable distribution of
the present cost of government
should be provided, can render
a great service and assistance
to the proponents of this legis-
lation by getting in touch with
their representatives in the leg-
islature and conveying to them
their request for support of Sen-
ate Bill No. 39."

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To mdoance thm purpo*e for which the Farm Bureau mat organixed,
namely to promote, protect and repreeent the bueineet, economic,
political, and educational intereett of the farmer* of lllinoi* and the
nation, and to develop agriculture.

Published once ■ month at 404 North Wesley Ave., Mount Morris.
Illinois, by the Illinois Asricultural Association. Entered as second-
class matter October 20. 1926, at the post office at Mount Morris.
Illinois, under the Act of March J. 1879. Accepted for mailing at
special rate of postage provided for in Section 412, Act of February
28, 1925, authorized October 27. 1926. The individual membership
fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five dollars a year. The
fee includes payment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois
Agricultural Association Ricoro. Postmaster: In returninB an un-
called for or missent copy please indicate key number on address as
is required by law.

OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith ..„ Detroit

Vice-President, Frank D. Barton _ „ Cornell

Secretary, Ceo. E. Metzser CUcafO

Treasurer, R. A. Cowlea „ Bloomington

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
(By Conxretsional District)

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H. C. Vial, Downers Crove

G. F. Tullock, Rockfonl

C. E. Bamborouch, Polo

M. G. Lambert, Ferris

.Ji. N. Skinner, Yates City

A. R. Wright. Vema

Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

R. F. Kan> Ira<|uois

C. J. Gross. Atwood

nCharlea S. Black, Jacksonville

., Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

., Frank Oexner, Waterloo

+ .^, W. L. Cope^ Salem

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24th _ Charles Marshall, Belknap

2Sth J. Fred Dieti, De Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Dairy Marketing „ , A. D. Lynch

Limestone-Phosphate _ i J. R. Bent

Finance I R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing J. A. B. Leeper

Comptroller...- „. J. H. Kelker

Information j George Thiem

Insurance Service \ V. Vaniman

Legal Counsel „ j Donald Kirkpatrick

Live Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller

Organization I G. E. Metzger

Produce Marketing 1 F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics i. J. C. Watson

TransnprtatioB _ L. J. Quasey

SUBSIDIARY ORGANIZATIONS

Country Life Insurance Co L. A. Williams, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives Ass'n F. E. Ringham, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co A. E. Richardson, Mgr.

Illinois Farm Supply Co. L. R. Marchant, Mgr.

Important That a Start Be Made

'« AFTER the many years of effort put forth to solve
j\_ the agricultural problem, resulting in divergence
of thought and opinion on the question, President Hoov-
er's administration is entitled to and should receive full
co-operation and support of all sincere friends of agricul-
ture," Earl C. Smith, president of the Illinois Agricultural
Association declared in a radio address on the I. A. A.
Forum from Station WLS, Chicago, on May 7. Mr. Smith
returned from Washington only the day before, where he
conferred with other farm representatives, officials, and
members of Congress.

Referring to the administration farm relief measure
now before Congress, Mr. Smith said, "With the passage
of this legislation which centers responsibility for the de-
velopment of a solution of the big problems in agricul-
ture with the Federal Farm Board, the farmers of Ameri-
ca can feel that at least a start has been made. With the
correction of any weaknesses that may develop, or the
removal of limitations that may exist, this initial effort
should finally result in the formulation of a sound perma-
nent policy for American agriculture.

"The position of our organization, both state and na-
tional," continued the speaker, "has been consistent with

the position taken in our recent annual meetings. Our na-
tional president, Mr. Thompson, reflected that position in
his testimony before the senate committee on agriculture,
reported as follows: >'

" 'The American Farm Bureau Federation has
been unable to find a better plan to secure for agri-
culture the stability it needs, than that which includes
the equalization fee. He (Mr. Thompson) made it
definitely clear, however, that under orders from
the Farm Bureau membership of more than a million
and a quarter families in forty-five states, the Farm
Bureau will not insist on this plan, but will co-oper-
ate wholeheartedly in developing any plan which will
insure economic equality to the American farmer and
recognition that the agricultural industry is entitled
to the same preferences which have enabled other
industrial groups to attain stability.' "
Commenting on the Haugen Bill which seems to carry
the administration viewpoint, the speaker expressed the
opinion that this bill "is a permissive piece of legislation,
but in no way mandatory. Its declaration of principles
is about all one could ask. While no specific machinery
has been provided for carrying out the purpose and in-

Fanning the Old Fence Buater U No Joke

tent of the legislation, broad powers and authority are
vested in the proposed Federal Farm Board, which gives
the Board full opportunity to provide and put in opera-
tion such machinery as is necessary to carry out the pro-
visions of the legislation.

"Boiled down — and in a word, one would say that the
Haugen Bill sets forth very meritorious purposes, gives
broad powers and authority to a Federal Farm Board, and
provides same with ample funds to assist co-operative in-
stitutions in stabilizing the markets of this country."

Referring to the debenture plan, an optional provision
in the McNary Bill in the senate. Smith said: "Neither
the Illinois Agricultural Association nor our national or-
ganization, the American Farm Bureau Federation, has
taken any position either for or against the debenture
scheme. Regardless of any merit this proposal may carry,
anyone informed on the situation at Washington at the
present time knows that it has no opportunity of being
included in a farm bill that will pass the present session
of Congress. Even its foremost sponsors and supporters
in previous sessions are at the present time giving no
support to this provision."

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Tune in on the I. A. A. Forum from Station
WLS every Thursday night at 6:30 p. m..
Central Standard Time.

The daily farm program of the I. A. A. from
Station WJJD, Mooseheart (265 meters) is
broadcast between 12:00 and 12:20 p. m., Mon-
day to Friday inclusive. Hear the daily Chicago
livestock market from the Producers, and each
Friday the weekly market review. Outlook
reports, reviews, and talks by I. A. A. staff
members, officials, and leaxlers in farm thought
are broadcast daily.

"JIVE News on Legislation of Inter-
-Lj est to Farmers" will be discussed
on the I. A. A. Forum program from
Station WLS on Thursday night, May
23. The Forum program opens at
6:30 p. m. central standard time and
continues until 7 :00. Address all com-
munications to Radio Director, Illinois
Agricultural Association, 608 So.
Dearborn St., Chicago. Comments,
suggestions, and announcements will
be gratefully received.

C. A. Donnel, weather forecaster at
Chicago, was scheduled to speak on the
subject "How Weather Forecasts Are
Made" on the I. A. A. Forum program
Thursday, May 16, at 6:30 p. m.

"For Sale or Trade" announcements
will be broadcast daily on the I. A. A.
noon hour program between 12 and
12:20 p. m. from station WJJD. Each
announcement will be read once. State
price and quality and other necessary
details when submitting "for sale or
trade" items for announcement.

"Old MoUy*' Must Stay

A STRONG delegation of farmers,
townspeople, and their represent-
atives from territory along the Illi-
nois Central R. R.
turned out at
Springfield on May
9 where a hearing
was held before
the Illinois Com-
merce Commission
on the petition of
the railway to
withdraw local
trains No. 23,
known as "0 1 d
Molly", and No.
34 which operate
daily between Champaign and Cen-
tralia.

W. L. Cope, who lives near Tonti,
and L. J. Quasey of the I. A. A., Chi-
cago, represented farmers who are ob-
jecting to discontinuance of these
trains.

The problem was taken under ad-
visement by the Commission after the
testimony was all in. The Commis-
sion's decision will be announced at a
later date.

W. L. Cope

C. F. Buck, New State

Director Agriculture}

ANNOUNCEMENT of the appoint-'
■^ ment of Senator Clarence F.
Buck, campaign manager for ex-gov-

ernor Frank O.

L o w d e n in the
last presidential
campaign, as the
new state director
of agriculture was
received favorably
at headquarters of
the Illinois Agri-
cultural Associa-
tion.

While Mr. Buck
is better known in

Clarence F. Buck political circles

than to Illinois
farmers, hope and confidence was ex-
pressed that the same spirit of helpful
co-operation developed during Mr.
Stanard's incumbency, would con-
tinue during the administration of
Senator Buck.

Senator Buck's broad interests in
farming, his association with F^ank
O. Lowden — great friend of American
agriculture — and his knowledge and
experience in state and legislative af-
fairs fit him well for the office. Mr.
Buck's new position is an important
one, for in addition to having a large
personnel under his direction, the di-
rector must administer many laws of
far-reaching effect on both producers
and consumers of the state.

Sen. Buck is an extensive landowner
and actively manages his farms in
Warren and Henderson counties where
cattle feeding is the principal source
of income. He also has a ranch in
Montana. Sen. Buck recently came
out of the Wesley Memorial Hospital,
Chicago, after 14 weeks of illness.

Born at Monmouth, Illinois, in
1870, Mr. Buck received his bachelor's
degree at Monmouth College in 1890.
He married Lena Staat of Warren
county in 1898 where he published the
Monmouth Daily Atlas from 1892 to
1910. Mr. Buck occupied minor polit-
ical offices in his home town between
1896 and 1905, and was elected a mem-
ber of the Illinois State Senate in 1916
when Mr. Lowden was elected gover-
nor. He served in the Senate for eight
years. Subsequently he was director
of finance for the United States Ship-
ping Board and collector of customs at
Chicago.

Senator Buck has been prominent in
Illinois Republican politics for many
years. He was president of the War-
ren County Crop Improvement Asso-
ciation, vice-president of the Warren
County Farmers' Institute, 1915 to
1916, served as trustee of Monmouth
College, and president of the Mon-
mouth hospital. Buck successfully
managed Senator Medill McCormick's
campaign for the United States Senate
in 1920. He is a Presbyterian, Odd
Fellow, K. P., Elk, Modern Woodman,
and belongs to the Sangamo Club at
Springfield and the Commercial and
Rotary Clubs at Monmouth.

Farm Bureau Liable

For Picnic Injuries

Must Use Reasonable Care in Pro-
tecting Picnickers

\RE County Farm Bureaus liable
^ *- for injuries to visitors at Farm
Bureau picnics? This question was
propounded by the LaSalle County
Farm Bureau when bankers who con-
trol the county fair grounds requested
the Farm Bureau to indemiylfy them
against possible damages arising out
of an injury to anyone attending a
Farm Bureau picnic.

"There is a possibility of liability
against owners of the fair grounds in
allowing a crowd to use same and also
possible liability on a County Farm
Bureau," is the opinion of Donald
Kirkpatrick, legal counsel for the I.
A. A. "Anyone who holds out to the
public a place of assemblage," de-
clares Kirkpatrick, "must use reason-
able care to see that the property is
in such shape that no injury will occur.
This, of course, does not mean that if
someone is injured there is liability,
but if the injury might have been
anticipated by the exercise of reason-
able care such as proper inspection and
control or policing of the grounds
while the crowd is assembled, then the
liability would arise."

Applies To All

This whole question applies with
equal force to any County Farm Bur-
eau or organization in Illinois spon-
soring a picnic for its members. While
no lawsuits have arisen out of injuries
to visitors at County Farm Bureau
picnics to date, it is apparent that the
Farm Bureau should appoint suitable
committees to inspect the grounds,
police them the day of the picnic, and
use all reasonable care to guard
against possible injuries to picnickers.
If such care is used it is doubtful if
the Farm Bureau can be held liable for
accidents.

Liability insurance to indemnify a
group or organization against such
losses costs approximately |150. This
contemplates a crowd of about 3,000
and limits payment to $5,000 for in-
jury to one person or $10,000 to
two or more. 1

Publicity is one of the most ef-
fective methods used by agricultural
extension agencies in "selling" new
ideas on farming and homemaking, ac-
cording to M. C. Wilson of the U. S.
D. A.

Methods classified as publicity he
found were the cause of adopting 30
per cent of the 27,032 improved prac-
tices introduced on 8,738 farms in 12
states.

An eastern buyer is reported to be
scouting for horses in Marshall and
Putnam counties where he offered as
high as $750 for a team.

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WILL your family have the benefit of
your foresight in providing daily bread
— freedom from want and poverty —
freedom from the burden of your debts — a
chance for education for your children, etc?

Will you be foresighted enough to allow
Life Insurance to carry the burden when you
are gone, or must the double burden fall on
the mother whose time you really want spent
with the character-building duties of home
training for your children?!

Must your wife hunt a job when you pass
out of the picture just because you failed to
provide funds through Life Insurance?

Here are the actual reasons of a policy holder
who answers the question "Why I Bought
Life Insurance." [^ ] |

"I wanted to protect my wife. She was
independent when I found her. I made her
dependent upon me. I became the trustee of

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the babies came, and would have been de-
pendent on relatives or charity in event of my
death. ■I' ' ' '^

"My span of life was, and is, uncertain.
Therefore, my future earnings were just as
uncertain. Our monthly bills were met from
those earnings and as my wife could not earn
in event of my death I insured a part of those
earnings because I could not think of her, my
wife, and our babies being dependent upon
anyone. i" > . •., |. 1:

"My self-respect could not accept the idea
of deserting her and the kiddies and leaving
them in want. Manhood counts above all
else. My duty to my family was plain and
but one possible road was open. It was life
insurance. Life insurance made it possible for
me to build an estate at Oltce that it would
ordinarily take years to build in the hard way."

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TiE same laws govern the operations of
Country Life Insurance Company that
govern any other old line company char-
tered in Illinois. We deposited $100,000 with
the State of Illinois and keep on hand the re-
quired reserve for each policy. In addition to
the carefully invested funds on hand to protect
policy holders, there is the reputation of the
Illinois Agricultural Association which fostered
Country Life Insurance Company, and which
is responsible for its operations.

COUNTRY LIFE
INSURANCE CO.

608 So. Dearborn St.

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Cost

We have set up the machinery for producing
the lowest cost life insurance available on the
old line life insurance plan. It is the one
company that gives voice as well as benefits
to its policy holders. , j |

The Company belongs to the members by
right of its set-up, and the profits go to the
members of this great Life Insurance Company.

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ILL your family have the benefit of
your foresight in providing daily bread
freedom from want and poverty
freedom from the burden of your debts a
chance for education for your children, etc?

Will you be ^foresighted enough to allow
Life Insurance to carry the burden when you
are gone, or must the double burden fall on
the mother whose time yoii really want spent
with the character-building duties of home
training for your children?

Must your wife hunt a job when you pass
out of the picture just because you failed to
provide funds through Life Insurance?

Here are the actual reasons of a policy holder
who answers the question "Why I Bought
Life Insurance." 1

•*I wanted to protect my wife. She was
independent when I found her. I made her
dependent upon me. I became the trustee of

her destiny. She became more helpless when
the babies came, and would have been de-
pendent on relatives or charity in event of my
death.

"My span of life was, and is, uncertain.
Therefore, my future earnings were just as
uncertain. Our monthly bills were met from
those earnings and as my wife could not earn
in event of my death I insured a part of those
earnings because I could not think of her, my
wife, and our babies being dependent upon
anyone. }

"My self-respect could not accept' the idea
of deserting her and the kiddies and leaving
them in want. Manhood counts above all
else. My duty to my family was plain and
but one possible road was open. It was life
insurance. Life insurance made it possible for
me to build an estate i unn- that it would
ordinarily take years to build in the hard way."

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HE same laws govern the operations of
Country Life Insurance Company that
govern any other old line company char-
tered in Illinois. We deposited $100,000 with
the State of Illinois and keep on hand the re-
quired reserve for each policy. In addition to
the carefully invested funds on hand to protect
policy holders, there is the reputation of the
Illinois Agricultural Association which fostered
Country Life Insurance Company, and which
is responsible for its operations.

COUNTRY LIFE
INSURANCE CO.

608 So. Dearborn St.
CHICAGO

We have set up the machinery for producing
the lowest cost life insurance available on the
old line life insurance plan. It is the one
company that gives voice as well as benefits
to its policy holders. . . | |

The Company belongs to the members by
right of its set-up, and the profits go to the
members of this great Life Insurance Company.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

COLD, wet weather and delayed
' farm work are interfering with
the opening of the Illinois Farm Bu-
reau Baseball League. Games sched-
uled for May 11 in most districts will
probably not be played until the lat-
ter part of the month when it is hoped
the corn will be in the ground and
farmers generally will have recovered
some of the lost time.

T w e n t y-t wo to 24
County Farm Bureau
teams are expected to com-
pete for honors in the State
League this season. The
teams which have definitely
signed up to play are
grouped into six districts
as follows: Lee, Henry,
Knox, Stark ; Marshall-
Putnam, Tazewell, Peoria,
Woodford; Henderson,
Hancock, Warren Mc-
Donough; McLean, Logan,
Champaign, Ford ; Cass,
Morgan, Sangramon; Rich-
land, Wayne, Wabash.

baseball has achieved considerable suc-
cess, as in the central Illinois divisions,
the tearits have been largely self-sup-
porting. Enough funds are derived
from free-will offerings at the games
to pay expenses. Such support, of
course, indicates considerable backing
from Farm Bureau members and
others who take an interest in watch-
ing the progress of their favorite team.

Richland and Wabash counties have
organized teams in the southeastern
Illinois section where another three-
cornered district is in prospect.

The first schedule of games is an-
nounced by Peoria county as follows:

May 25 — Peoria vs. Marshall-Putnam, at
Mars hall- Putnam.

June 1 — Peoria vs. Woodford, at Woodford.
June 8 — Peoria vs. Tazewell, at Peoria.

FANNED OUT!

HaU Loss Large l i

In Williamson Co.

May Enter

Stephenson county on
the north is contemplating
entering a tepm and if so
it Mrill schedule games with
such counties as Lee,
Henry, and possibly
Whiteside. The latter has
not officially entered this
year, but may bring out a
team later in the season.

Teams which played a
few games last year, such
as Scott, Mason, and De-
Witt, have shown little ac-
tivity so far this season.
The backward season seems
to have put a damper on baseball en-
thusiasm. A similar situation was noted
in 1927 when there was little farm
baseball interest until the middle of
June. I

Warren In

Warren county finally secured a
pitcher and decided to enter the com-
petition with Henderson, Hancock, and
McDonough counties. Hancock is
playing its first season and is expected
to show up well against its opponents.
Ford county is another beginner and
may be expected to give a good ac-
count of itself.

There has been a marked tendency
in the State League for teams which
fail to win to drop out. In some
cases Farm Bureau executive commit-
tees have discouraged baseball be-
cause of the expense involved in pro-
viding equipment and expenses to and
from games. Where Farm Bureau

4 1 F DO not think that the news-
A papers exaggerated the loss that
our farmers suffered May 1," declared
Dee Small, Williamson county farm
adviser, in response to a request for
information regarding the recent hail-
storm which caused an estimated dam-
age of half a million dollars to farm
crops and property in that county.

"The hail started at Carterville,"
continued Small, "which is three to
four miles west of the west border
of our county. The hailstorm went
completely across the county cover-
ing a strip three to four miles wide.
It seems that the hail varied in differ-
ent spots and the wind was
much stronger in some
parts of the county than
in others. Hailstones were
from the size of an ordi-
nary hen egg on down, the
majority of them being the
size of quail eggs.

"Wheat was completely
ruined, pastures were cut
to pieces, and practically
all orchards in the path of
the storm were stripped of
prospects for fruit. Most
of the roofs of buildings
were damaged consider-
ably and many of them
were absolutely ruined."

Courtesy Chicago Daily A'cu-s

June 15 — Peoria vs. Marshall-Putnam,
a*- Peoria.

June 22 — Peoria vs. Woodford, at Peoria.
June 29 — Peoria vs. Tazewell, at Tazewell.

At a recent meeting in District V
held at Bloomington it was decided
that in case of rain the visiting team
must be called by 10:00 a. m. preced-
ing the game in order to postpone.

\ew Baseball League

The Plymouth County Farm Bureau
Baseball League was organized at Le-
mars, la., early in April. Over 70 en-
thusiasts attended the meeting and
standing room in the supervisors' hall
at the court house was at a premium.

Jwo divisions, the American and
the National, were created, and the
townships allotted to these. The official
opening was set for May 5 while the
final county tournament will be played
August 30 to Sept. 2, probably at the

Want Better Price
For Guernsey Milk

DAIRYMEN about Bel-
videre who supply the
market with Guernsey milk
at $3 per 100 lbs. recently
organized to see what can
be done toward getting a
better price for their prod-
uct. Farm Adviser E. C.
Foley of Boone county was
instrumental in bringing
the producers together.

Guernsey producers sup-
ply the Belvidere market
with approximately 3,450
lbs. of milk daily. Already they have
received an offer of $3.45 per cwt. for
4'/^ per cent milk which is the ap-
proximate average test for the milk
now being sold at $3. This offer
secured through the Farm Bureau rep-
resents a gain of approximately 25
cents per 100 lbs. over what the dairy-
men are now being paid. A. D. Lynch,
dairy marketing director, is assisting
the Boone county Guernsey men with
their marketing problems.

stock yards park in Sioux City, on in-
vitation of the Stock Yards company.
An official admission charge of 25
cents will be made for games, with
women and children under 14 ad-
mitted free. The Lemars Globe-Post
will publish the official scores on Mon-
days, and has arranged to keep its
office open on Sundays until the last
report is in.

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pound. They're all making money now
with copper at 18 cents.

4 4XTOW the failure of a $35,000,000

•n. American business organization
to keep in touch with modem chem-
istry has brought the establishment to
the verge of bankruptcy was related
by Dr. Ira Hilton Jones, international
authority on business chemistry before
the Executives club recently.

"The new German method of mak-
ing industrial wood alcohol so cheaply
that it can be brought into this country
and delivered in New York at 16 cents
a gallon, and the contention that cot-
ton will soon be raised for its seeds
and com for its cobs were other fea-
tures of Dr. Jones's talk."

There's a lesson in this insignificant
looking item, plucked from the
columns of a Chicago newspaper, that
may be applied to farming, or any
other business. Ignorance, lack of
knowledge takes a heavy annual toll.
Progrress is so rapid, new methods and
inventions so varied and numerous
that "keeping up" with the latest of-
fers a constant challenge to anyone
engaged in production or manufac-
turing as is the man on the farm.

Farming is less subject to sudden
changes in methods and practices than
many other businesses, yet see what
progress has been made, what new
ideas and methods have been de-
veloped within the past 10 to 25 years.
During that time the gas engine, the
automobile, the combine, the corn
binder, com picker, silo, ensilage cut-
ter, electricity, limestone, alfalfa,
sweet clover, inoculation, soy beans,
four-year rotations, hog cholera serum
and virus, the T. B. test, corn root rot,
semesan jr., soil acidity tests, market
reports by radio, tractors, paved roads,
agricultural agents, home bureau and
a host of other machines, methods, de-
vices, and things which the Illinois
farmer has to do with everyday and of
which his father knew little or nothing,
have been developed.

The horse has well nigh vanished
from the city, and oats, the old standby
crop, is growing decidedly unpopular
because it is unprofitable. To what
extent are individual farmers losing
money by not keeping up with modem
discoveries and inventions that lower
costs of production? If many more
increased their efficiency, one may ar-
gue, the surplus problem would be
further aggravated. True, but the effi-
cient producers need not worry about
surplus. The high cost producers farm-
ing marginal land, poor soil, or using
high cost methods on good soil would
be the losers. They eventually will be
squeezed out anyway during hard
times just as are operators of high
cost copper mines when the price of
the red metal goes below 10 cents a

A lot of poppycock has been written
lately about the farmers' Moses coming
now in the form of industrial uses of
farm wastes to lead agriculture out of
the wilderness. We may be a doubting
Thomas but our faith in bringing
about the salvation of American agri-
culture through making paper and
wall-board from cornstalks, alcohol
from cobs, buttons from milk solids
and the like, is lacking. Making use
of farm wastes will help, of course,
and in time several dollars an acre
may be added to the farm income
through such development. But let no
one be deceived into believing that
modem alchemy will come along and
presently discover a gold mine for
the farmer in his cornstalks and wheat
straw. These cellulose roughages are
attracting attention now because of
their cheapness. This is their prin-
cipal if not their only virtue.

Before the American Chemical So-
ciety at Columbus on April 30, Maj.
T. P. Walker of the Commercial Solv-
ents Co. told of the use already made
by industry of farm products and by-
products. "Com, cotton, sugar, and
milk are the American farm products
most frequently used in industry," he
said. "Chemistry is not, however," he
continued, "a Messiah come to save the
farmer." More than 50 products are
made already from corn through chem-
ical processes, and yet the papers have
contained no recent accounts of any-
one making a fortune grrowing com. —
E. G. T. i

Grain,
Marketing;'

By Harrison Fahrnkopf

"One thing that is wrong with the

farmer's elevator is that people that
belong to it are trying to 'hook' it."
These were the words of J. G. Adams,
Atlanta, 111., at a recent meeting in
Logan county.

Mr. Adams points out that often-
times the grain of a member is not as
good as the member thinks it is. He
may feel that inasmuch as he is a di-
rector or a shareholder that the man-
ager should extend him some special
privilege in credit, price, or otherwise.
In the long run, any special conces-
sions of this kind can react only to the
detriment of the co-operative.

The present system of marketing
grrain on the terminal markets has
grown up over a period of three-
fourths of a century. The farmer has
had little to do with the grrowth and
development of that marketing ma-
chinery. Although he has made liberal
contributions toward maintaining it,
he has nothing to show that he is a

stockholder in the concern. The farmer
I will not be encouraged to enter the
terminal markets by those who are al-
ready there. He should therefore give
his earnest and wholehearted support
to his own organization.

The Rural Grain Company is such

a concern. It is owned by farmers'
elevators of Illinois and Iowa. For
Illinois territory it has offices at Chi-
cago, Peoria, and St. Louis. If you
are in the St. Louis territory, bill car
to East St. Louis and notify the Rural
Grain Company at St. Louis.

Few farmers understand how grain
is graded on the terminal markets. All
grading in the regular channels is done
by the state department of grain in-
spection. In cases of appeal for rein-
spection the federal government steps
into the picture. The federal depart-
ment is a supervising agency only.

Chris L. Christensen, chief, division
of co-operative marketing, made this
significant statement recently:

"When farmers enter into business
through a co-operative organization
they have to release a part of their
individual right to make a decision
here and there. If you are to carry
out the job efficiently the responsibil-
ity must be delegated to a central
party or board of directors, and they
in turn delegate part of the job to
the general manager.

"One of the big problems in Amer-
ican co-operation today is to find that
proper balance, that proper poise be-
tween the degree of central control
which is essential to efficient manage-
ment and operation, and democratic
government." i

Farmers of Illinois and the mid-
dle west should have some money
to represent them in their grain mar-
keting efforts. They have their or-
ganizations which are performing a
wonderful work, but money is needed.

The Land O'Lakes Co-operative
creamery is a one and one-half million
dollar corporation. The organized
dairymen in the territory surrounding
Baltimore have a cash surplus of
$750,000. The Wisconsin Cheese
federation has money as well as or-
ganization. It has put the props un-
der the summer cheese market. In
the old days, the price dropped. Not
any more.

Organization and money — both are
needed to promote the interests of co-
operative grain marketing. The or-
ganizations are moving right along.
Let us adopt some plan that is fair
to all.

Why not the "check-off?" Other
organizations are using it success-
fully. In Illinois, 200,000,000 bu. of
grain are shipped annually out of the
counties where grown. A check-off
of Ic per bushel on half that amount
or 100,000,000 bushels gives a sum of
one million dollars. Think it over.

Mar]\$tiiig

By Art Lynch

STABILIZED markets are the re-
^ ivard of organized dairy farmers.

STABILIZATION no longer means
something connected with a cow
stable. It means that if a heifer calf
is dropped on your farm tonight
you know whether to give her a drink
of milk or knock her in the head.

It means that you can predict
whether or not you can make a profit
on her milk when she is no longer a
gawky calf — thirty months from to-
night.

STABILIZED markets have sound
sales plans. Sound because the sur-
plus milk is sold as surplus. Sound
because the fluid needs of the market
are sold at the premium price they
should bring. Sound because you don't
sell both the bottled milk and the sur-
plus milk for the price of surplus. Let
the unorganized boys sell theirs that
way. Organized dairymen don't have
to in this day of business-like coopera-
tion.

r\RGANIZED dairymen have stabil-
^^ ized their markets because they are
able to control surplus. Stabilized be-
cause they are now producing milk
when the city folks drink it. Doing
this insures a steady, stable market.

TF YOU produce 2 cans in June and
-'■ only 1 can in November you can't
expect the housewives to take 2 quarts
a day in June and only 1 in November.
They want the 2 quarts all the time.
If you don't produce it that way the
dealer has to scout around for milk to
take care of his shortage. Those
emergency farmers who helped your
market out in the short season will
then want to share yaur market in [the
flush season.

Then the fur begins to fly.

STABILIZED markets absorb all the
milk you produce every day at the
■ best price possible. On stabilized mar-
, kets the dairymen who produce evenli/
get more money.

Because of this, at Philadelphia the
difference in production between the
lowest month and the highest month
has been reduced 80%. Those organ-
ized farmers did this in only five years.

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zation for markets.

H. Paul Bestor, former president
of the St. Louis Federal Land Bank
who spoke at the I. A. A. Meeting in
Rock Island in January, 1928, was re-
cently appointed a member of the Fed-
eral Farm Loan Board.

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"Mr. L. J. Quasey,
Director of Transportation,
Illinois Agricultural Ass'n.,
Chicago, Illinois.

"My wife and myself wish to
thank you and the I. A. A. for
your co-operation and successful
efforts to secure electric service
for us. The line has been com-
pleted and we have had service
about a month. The Public Serv-
ice Company did all work satis-
factorily. We feel that you have
given us a real service as elec-
tricity is a great help in the
home and on the farm.

"Here's hoping that you can
brighten many more farm homes
in the future as you have done
ours. We have plenty of praise
for the I. A. A.

"E. D. TIMKE,
"Downers Grove, 111.

"P. S. Have an electric range
now. Well, ask my wife how
she likes it."

Don't Like Country

Life's Low Rates

Makes Apology for Ten Year Showing
of Participating Companies

By L. A. Williams, Manafer, Country Life
Insorance Company

IN criticizing Country Life Insurance
Company, the May issue of Best's
Insurance News runs under a heading
"More Misleading Advertising," an
apology for the poor showing made by
the better old line life insurance com-
panies, by insisting that when divi-
dends are referred to, only the last
year or two of these companies' net
costs be shown.

We have the figures to prove all
our advertising to be true, but it is
apparent that the very poor show-
ing made by all participating old
line companies in the past 10 years
has need of a champion, and someone
to do "the explaining." How does it
happen, may we ask, that these com-
panies can pay twice the dividend in
1927 that they were able to pay in a
similar second year in 1917? Why
should the participating old line com-
panies fear a comparison with a young
company's gross rate, which is not even
projecting dividends? If a company
can return $6 or $7 in the form of a
dividend at age 35 in 1928 on an
ordinary life policy, how can they ex-
plain to the public the need for taking
away that excess charge?

Public Has Been Fooled

It is time that the public was let in
on the practice of participating life in-
surance companies in charging almost
a third more than is actually necessary
to carry the risk over a period of 20
years, and then making a gesture in
the form of a so-called "dividend" to

try to make the public believe they
are earning money for them.

The fact of the matter is that there
has never been a true dividend paid to
policyholders by a participating old
line life insurance company. Nothing
but arbitrary refunds of overcharges
have ever come back to a policyholder.
It is high time that Best's should apol-
ogize in their class publication for this
sort of misrepresentation. And of
course, it is logical that a class pub-
lication should champion those who
have been fooling the public so long.

Keep 'Em Ignorant ^

"Keep the public ignorant" has been
the slogan of participating companies.
When a "little" company like Country
Life issuing life insurance on a true
cost basis, compelled by agreement to
return all of the profit to its policy-
holders, I say, when a little company
like that, with honesty of purpose, can
make all the big old line companies
squeal through a mouthpiece, it is very
apparent that Sam Jones' old saying,
"Every once in awhile a burnt sinner
will squeal," is overwhelmingly true.

Participating companies cannot
stand the searchlight. What of the
dividend history for the past 20 years
of participating companies? Many of
these companies paying $6 and $7 di-
vidends at age 35 today paid $2 and
$3 dividends 20 years ago. It is ap-
parent that not until competition
forced the issue did these companies
begin to give anywhere near an actual
refund of excess payment to their
policyholders. .,

The "Maater'i Voice"

The alibis made by Best's News are
weak and apologetic. They champion
the overcharge methods of their
clientele as they recognize their
"Master's voice." Fortunately, Coun-
try Life Insurance Company is not de-
pendent upon other old line companies
for its business. And the howl of the
pinched hound doesn't scare Country
Life a bit. We are in business to
manufacture life insurance at cost for
policyholders. We are proud of the
fact that stock companies out to make
fortunes for stockholders, and mutual
companies interested in building up
big agency machines in which policy-
holders have nothing to say and where
distribution profits build general
agency "kingdoms," are objecting to
the dissemination of the true facts
about life insurance costs. We are
proud of the fact that we are forcing
consideration of lower cost life insur-
ance by these companies which for
years have taken away tremendous un-
warranted overcharges. We offer life
insurance that recognizes an increased
span of life, a lowered selling resist-
ance, and a higher appreciation of true
protection value. Security has never
been questioned since 1907. The great
howl goes up when you begin to cut
into the cake formerly enjoyed by
stockholders and jobholders using the
public's money.

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Stsite To Build Docks

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S. t. 339 Grants Authority to State
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lA MOVE to establish docks and ter-
r* minals adjoining cities located on
^he Illinois, Mississippi and Ohio
rivers so as to
make water trans-
portation available
to Illinois farmers
and shippers is
seen in the intro-
duction of S. B.
No. 339 in the
56th Illinois Gen-
eral Assembly.

The deep water-
way will be of no
value to Illinois
unless provision is

R. A. Cowie*

made for docks so goods can be loaded
and unloaded to and from barges that
ply up and down the rivers. Such
docks, in some cases, must also be
equipped with loading and unloading
machinery, with railroad tracks and
spurs so freight can be loaded and un-
loaded from trains to and from the
barges.

Illinois cities are handicapped in this
regard. As a result waterways to
date have been little used. They will
not be used until proper equipment is
made available.

Equip 'Em Also

Senate Bill No. 339 authorizes the
State Department of Purchases and
Construction to build and acquire ter-
minals, and to equip such terminals
with necessary machinery and facil-
ities.

A hearing on the bill was held be-
fore the Senate Committee on April
15. Robt. A. Cowles of the I. A. A.,
a member of the Illinois Waterway
Terminals Committee, represented the
Association and appeared fn behalf of
the measure in accordance with author-
ity granted in the waterway resolution
passed at the last I. A. A. annual
meeting. Theodore Brent, transporta-
tion adviser to the State of Illinois,
and Wm. F. Mulvihill, State Superin-
tendent of Waterway Construction,
testified in behalf of this measure.
State Shall Help

"The legislation embodied in this
act contemplates that the state shall
do what is necessary to make possible
a water revival of transportation on
the rivers of the state," said Mr.
Brent.

"The Mississippi, and the Ohio, and
the Illinois are already navigable. The
state is spending $20,000,000 and is
prepared to add another $5,000,000 to
it in order to give the people of Illi-
nois and the Mississippi Valley at
large access by cheap water transporta-
tion to the Chicago district, the great-
est manufacturing and distributing
center in the whole country. The ex-
penditure will bring but a limited re-
turn in public benefits until there are

terminals at the most important in-
terchange points where goods may be
cheaply transferred between land and
water vehicles." _.-,-..•

Joint Rate*

"Washington, Apr. 21. — The Inter-
state Commerce Commission issued an
order here today directing railroads
connecting with the Inland Waterway
Corporation barge lines ■ on the Mis-
sissippi River to establish joint rail and
water rates effective Aug. 27, over a
large section of the country. Water
transportation boosters considered the
order an important victory for water
transport.

"The water corporation, however,
was denied a petition for through rates
to provide for barge-rail-water rates
between Atlantic seaboard points and
the lower Mississippi Valley.

"The order directed the railroads to
negotiate with the barge line to agree
on a division of the joint rates. It is
taken to indicate a reduction of 10 to
20 per cent from existing costs for
transporting commodities between af-
fected points under joint rail and
water tariffs."

S. J. Stanard

S. J. Stanard Retires

From State Dep'tment

S TILLMAN J. STANARD, retiring
state director of agriculture, made
a splendid record for his efficiency in
administering the
affairs of the de-
partment of agri-
culture. He dis-
played willingness
and co-operation
at all times in
serving the agri-
cultural interests
of the state.

Mr. Stanard's
office was always
open to officials
and staff members
of the Illinois
Agricultural Association, and to rep-
resentatives of other farm groups.

Pushed T. B. Work

During his administration, he gave
personal attention to speeding up the
bovine tuberculosis eradication pro-
gram in Illinois. As a result the cat-
tle of the state are more than three-
fourths tested and the work can be
completed within a comparatively
short time. Hogs shipped out of more
than 40 accredited counties receive a
10c per cwt. premium at the market.

The growth and development of the
State Fair at Springfield during the
past few years was due largely to
Stanard's influence and enthusiasm.
Dairy promotional work was improved,
agricultural laws overhauled and
amended, and the work of the various
divisions co-ordinated. Stanard leaves
office with the good will and gratitude
of farmers over the state for having
done a good job.

Seek Solution for !

High School Tangle

Would AUow Country Districts to

Withdraw From Community

High Territory

AN attempt to straighten out the
•^ community high school tangle is
being made in the 56th General As-
sembly of Illinois
now in session.

Senate Bills
458 and 467 al-
ready introduced
would allow the
withdrawal of con-
tiguous areas from
the high school
districts of which
they are now a
part, when two
A c r< .1.1. ^ thirds of the vot-

A. S. Cuthbertson ... ...

ers residing within

such areas petition the county super-
intendent of schools to this effect.

These measures would allow country
districts to withdraw from the com-
munity or township high school dis-
trict to be placed in non-high school
territory; to become part of another
high school district; or to form a part
or all of a new high school district to
be created. j

Cuthbertson Bill

S. B. 467 introduced by Senator
Cuthbertson of Bunker Hill seems to
have the most support. S. B. 458 by
Senator Finn of luka it is understood
will not be pushed.

The Cuthbertson bill provides that
the county superintendent of schools
shall give 10 days' notice of the pro-
posed change of boundaries before he
enters the order making such change.
The county superintendent, likewise,
shall not add any territory to an ex-
isting district pursuant to a petition
of two-thirds of the legal voters resid-
ing within such territory, if before the
10 days five per cent of the legal
voters residing within such existing
district shall file a petition with the
county superintendent of schools ob-
jecting to such addition of territory.

The Finn bill would prevent the
withdrawal of territory located within
five miles of the high school. The
Cuthbertson bill imposes no such lim-
itation.

The New York State Farm Bureau

Federation has a membership of
33,000, an increase of 6,000 members
in the past year. This is the largest
membership since 1923.

The American Farm Bureau Feder-
ation held a tax conference of state

Will Study Tax Situation

John C. Watson, I. A. A. tax direc-
tor, will study the tax situation in
Marshall and Putnam counties with a
group of local Farm Bureau members
representing each township in the two
counties. The survey is not to be
made until the latter part of May.

Farm Bureau officials in Chicago on
May 15.

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Narrow Margin |

SENATE BILL No. 39, introduced by Senator
Lantz, in the 56th General Assembly, which
was authored and sponsored by the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association, after passage in the Senate,
went down to defeat when under consideration in
the Lower House in the closing week of the Legis-
lature. This was the only bill introduced or under
consideration during this session of the Legrislature
that promised any relief from the ever-increasing
property tax burden in Illinois. The final result
was determined by 21 down-state members who
lined up with the solid delegation from Cook
County, who had from the beginning sought to
emasculate this bill.

It is well to review what has transpired during
the consideratipn of this particular piece of legis-
lation, in order that our members may be fully
informed so as to cast their future ballots in a
manner that will more fully promise corrective
and constructive legislation of this character.

The bill was introduced in the Senate on Janu-
ary 22nd, by Senator Lantz, and had very fair
consideration before the Revenue Committee of
the Senate and later by the full body. It was
passed by the Upper House on April 24th, by a
vote of 28 to 19.

Those voting for the bill were: "^

Meyers

Mills

Paddock

Searcy

Smith

Thompson

Wilson

Wright

28 TOtes.

Abt Felta

Adair Finn

Bailey yy. Flagg

Baker ..'. Hamilton

Barr ■ Hanna

Bohrer 'Jewell

Boyd Lants

Carlson Lee

Cuthbertson McCauley

Dunlap Meents

Those voting against the measure were: Kes-
singer of the 14th District; Michel of the 18th Dis-
trict; and Miles of the 28th District.

Senator Reynolds of the 49th District did not
vote.

It should be stated in connection with this vote
that Senator Kessinger has been a friend of che
Association's program for tax reform, and it was
well understood by the supporters of this bill, that

while Senator Kessinger did not like all provisions
of Senate Bill 39, he would give it his support
should his vote be necessary to secure its final passage.

On coming over to the Lower House, the bill re-
ceived entirely different treatment. It was referred
to the House Committee on Revenue, made up of
19 Chicago representatives and 11 from down-state.
When the Committee convened to consider the
measure. Representative Schnackenberg of Chicago
immediately moved to vote the bill out with recom-
mendations that it DO NOT PASS. Representative
David Hunter, who was sponsoring the bill on the
floor, urged the Committee to give proper consider-
ation to the provisions of the bill and his request
was supported by Representative Green, Chairman
of the Committee. Their pleadings were of no avail,
however. The Chicago members supported by Rep-
resentative Crowley of down-state being in a ma-
jority immediately adopted the motion of Repre-
sentative Schnackenberg. When the Committee re-
port came to the floor of the House, Representative
Hunter moved that the House DO NOT CONCUR
in the Committee report and that the bill be placed
on the calendar. This motion prevailed by a vote
of 72 to 59.

All efforts were then directed toward securing
sufficient support to keep unfriendly amendments
from being written into the bill when it came up
for consideration on second reading. On several
occasions it appeared there was sufficient support
to carry this bill safely through this stage of its
consideration. Three agreements were reached by
the sponsors of the bill and the Speaker of
the House as to the time when it would be con-
sidered. In each case, the supporters of the bill
were disappointed and different reasons offered
for delay. It was finally called by the Speaker
on Tuesday afternoon, June 4th, and a spirited
contest was immediately in evidence. The sup-
porters of the bill were led in their fight by Repre-
sentative David Hunter of Rockford, Floor Leader
Roger Little of Champaign, and Representative
Wood of Keenes. The opposition was led by Repre-
sentatives Schnackenberg and Thon of Chicago, and
Dixon of Dixon. The first roll call shows very
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Number 6

JUNE, 1929

Income Tax Bill Defeated by
Narrow Margin

EXATE BILL No. 39. introduced by Senator
Lantz, in the 56th General Assembly, which
was authored and sponsored by the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association, after passage in the Senate,
went down to defeat when under consideration in
the Lower House in the closing week of the Legis-
lature. This was the only bill introduced or under
consideration during this session of the Legislature
that promised any relief from the ever-increasing
property tax burden in Illinois. The final result
was determined by 21 down-state members who
lined up with the solid delegation from Cook
County, who had from the beginning sought to
emasculate this bill.

It is well to review what has transpired during
the consideration of this particular piece of legis-
lation, in order that our members may be fully
informed so as to cast their future ballots in a
manner that will more fully promise corrective
and constructive legislation of this character.

The bill was introduced in the Senate on Janu-
ary 22nd, by Senator Lantz, and had very fair
consideration before the Revenue Committee of
the Senate and later by the full body. It was
passed by the Upper House on April 24th, by a
vote of 28 to 19.

Those voting for the bill were :
Abt Felts Meyers

Adair Finn Mills

Bailey Flagg Paddock

Baker Hamilton Searcy

Barr Hanna Smith

Bohrer Jewell Thompson

Boyd Lantz Wilson

Carlson Lee Wright

Cuthbertson McCauley 28 votes.

Dunlap Meents

Those voting against the measure were: Kes-
singer of the 14th District; Michel of the 18th Dis-
trict; and Miles of the 28th District.

Senator Reynolds of the 49th District did not
vote.

It should be stated in connection with this vote
that Senator Kessinger has been a friend of che
Association's program for tax reform, and it was
well understood by the supporters of this bill, that

while Senator Kessinger did not like all provisiitns
of Senate Bill .39. he would give it his support
should his vote b<i necessary to secure its final p.assapc.

On coming over to the Lower House, the bill re-
ceived entirely different treatment. It was referred
to the House Coniniittee on Revenue, made up of
19 Chicago representatives an<l 11 from down-state.
When the Committee convened to consider tjhe
measure. Representative Schnackenberg of Chicajro
immediately moved to vote the liill out with recom-
mendations that it DO NOT PASS. Representative
David Hunter, who was sponsoring the bill on the
floor, urged the Committee to give proper consider-
ation to the provisions of the bill ami his request
was supported by Representative (Jroen. ("hairnian
of the Committee. Their pleadings were of no avail,
however. The Chicago members supported by Rep-
resentative Crowley of down-state being in a ma-
jority immediately adopted the motion of Repre-
sentative Schnackenberg. When the Committee Ve-
port came to the floor of the House. Ri])ves(nlative
Hunter moved that the House DO NOT CONCUR
in the Committee report and that the bill be place<i
on the calendar. This motion prevailed by a vote
of 72 to .'i9.

All efforts weie then directed toward securing
sufficient support to keep unfriendly amendments
from being written into the bill when it came up
for consideration on second reading. On several
occasions it appeared there was sufficient >iipport
to carry this bill safely through this stage of it.~
consideration. Three agreements were reached \\\
the sponsors of the bill and the Speaker of
the House as to the time when it would be con-
sidered. In each case, the suppoiters of the bill
were disappointed and different reasons offeivd
for delay. It was finally called by the Speaker
on Tuesday afternoon. June 4th. and a sjjiritied
contest was immediately in evidence. The sup-
porters of the bill were led in their fight by Repre-
sentative David Hunter of Rockford. Floor Lea<lei
Rogei- Little of Champaign. an<l R('i)reseiuative
Wood of Keenes. The opposition was le<l by Repre-
sentatives Schnackenberg and Thon of Chicago, afid
Dixon of Dixon. The first roll call shows velry
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Over 10,000 Attend |

Victory Celebrations

McLean County Banquet Draws
Crowd of 1,253

'T'HE first Victory banquet celebrat-
A ing Country Life's unprecedented
success was held at Mt. Carmel, in
Wabash County. County Adviser Lett
and General Agent Click put on a
most remarkable program, and a de-
lightful dinner. This county, as a re-
sult, will be among the first to make
its quota.

Great enthusiasm has prevailed at
all of our meetings. Following the
Mt. Carmel Victory dinner, similar
banquets were held in the following
counties. The number of people at-
tending each banquet is showfi oppo-
site the counties listed:

Adams 235

Bond 175

Cms 110

Christian 200

Carroll 160

Clinton 426

Crawford 850

Edwards 185

3wn

McLean [ 125S

Marion 235

Marshall-Putnam. ..2 15

Mercer , 190

Morgan 220

Peoria 476

Piatt i 220

Pike ; 115

Effingham 176 Randolph 75

Franklin 70 Richland 225

Gallatin 180 Rock Island 125

Greene 300 Scott j 125

Grundy 226 Saline 240

Hancock 266 Stark , 176

Henderson 200 Union L 250

Jackson 200 Warren 250

Jefferson 250 Wabash 215

Jersey 115 Washington 190

JoDaviess 200 Wayne ^ 76

Johnson 116 White 110

Lawrence 210 Williamson ..- 300

Logan 500

McDonough 110 Total 10,223

The victory celebration at Bloom-
ington where 1253 sat down to a

most delightful dinner was the largest
held up to date. County Adviser
Coultas, General Agent Wm. Hedge-
cock, and their active agency force,
are entitled to great credit for this
remarkable turn-out and great en-
thusiasm over the life insurance pro-
ject.

More of these celebrations are to be
held in the month of June. And it
is noticeable that wherever these cele-
brations are held and the full facts
concerning Country Life's plans and
policies are made known, business in
the form of applications sees an im-
mediate pick-up. The purpose of these
celebrations is to make known the
facts regarding life insurance and its
relation to the Farm Bureau move-
ment. It is our purpose also to make
Farm Bureau membership so desirable
through all of the projects of the Farm
Bureau, that no man can afford not to
belong to this great organization. Our
general agents are out seeing people
every day, as a result of the demand
on the part of the membership for
more information.

Record Month

THE Champaign County Milk Pro-
ducers reports the best month's
volume of business and gross returns
in May since the co-operative opened
for business on Jan. 1. A total of
1,233,300 pounds of milk were sold for
a gross return of $31,548.78. Farmers
received $2.50 per 100 pounds net.
Forty-seven per cent of the milk
graded "A."

Good Peach Crop -

WTH a much smaller peach crop in
prospect in Georgia and a good
crop of high quality fruit indicated
from the peach belt of Illinois, fruit
growers from the southern part of the
state are optimistic over prospects for
a good harvest in 1929.

The peach crop is estimated at
slightly larger than that of last year
and the quality promises to be un-
usually good. Illinois peaches are
recognized in all the open markets as
among the best and the Illini brand
put out by the Illinois Fruit Growers
Exchange has the high regard of buy-
ers and commission men in all the
markets.

Harvesting the crop will probably
begin in the main peach belt around
Centralia, the second week in Augrust.
Prices promise to be reasonable in
spite of the fact that the crop from
Georgia and other southern territory
will be short.

Forty-four cats consume milk
valued at $435.45' annually, or $9.90
worth of milk per cat, according to
Tester Paul Church of the Tazewell
County Dairy Herd Improvement As-
sociation.

Mr. Church observed the average
amount of milk poured out by mem-
bers of his association for the cats and
projected the amount and cost on an
annual basis. There were 44 cats on
the 28 dairy farms whose herds were
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Exactly 1,253 attended the victory celebration and banquet in Consistory Hall, Bloomington. The dinner was sponsored by the McLean
County Farm Bureau and the Country Life Insurance Company. Manager L. A. Williams told many interesting details of the drive which led
to placing $13,000,000 worth of insurance on the books within two months in his talk "Behind the Scenes in Life Insurance." '*'

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Number 6

JUNE, 1929

Volume 7

'<Our Sam" Hits Tariff

Sees Hope In New BiU

Not What We Advocated But a Start
At Least, He Says

SAM H. THOMPSON, president of
the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration, expressed disappointment over
the new tariff
schedule now pend-
ing in congress,
but indicated his
hope and faith that
the pending farm
relief measure will
be the foundation
for a helpful na-
tional policy for
American agricul-
ture, in his recent
address on the I.
A. A. Radio Forum
from Station WLS.

S. H. Thompson

Speaking of the tariff bill President
Thompson said : "While it is true that
it has given consideration and higher
rates to some agricultural commod-
ities, it has at the same time increased
the tariff on things the farmer has to
buy so as to nullify the benefits that
farmers might obtain by a higher tariff
on their staple crops.

Doein't Help Situation

"The attitude of congress on the
tariff will have a tendency to continue
the spread of inequality between agri-
culture and industry rather than to
adjust agriculture upward to a place
of equality," said Mr. Thompson.
"This is unfortunate," he continued,
"in the face of the many declarations
to the effect that industry is now en-
joying the greatest prosperity in the
history of our nation."

Referring to the farm bill which re-
cently passed the House, Mr. Thomp-
son said: "While it is not the type
of legislation that we have advocated,
and I feel it does not go far enough
towards getting the farmer an Amer-
ican price for his products, it does
furnish a base or corner-stone on which
to build a permanent policy for Amer-
ican agriculture."

Frank Recognition of Problem

Quoting rather freely from the
preamble or declaration of principles
in the bill Mr. Thompson saw in this
feature a frank and commendable rec-
ognition on the part of our federal law
makers of the previous weaknesses in
the federal farm policy and of the

Don't Quit

When things go wrong as they

sometimes will,
When the road you're trodding

seems all up hill.
When the funds are low and

the debts are high
And you want to smile, but you

have to sigh;
When care is pressing you down

a bit,
Rest, if you must — but don't

you quit.
Success is failure turned inside

out —
The silver tint of the clouds of

doubt.
And you never can tell how

close you are.
It may be near when it seems

afar;
So stick to the fight when you're

hardest hit —
It's when thing^s seem worst

that you must not quit.

need for the government now doing
something for the farmer since it was
partly responsible for his present pre-
dicament. The speaker condemned the
federal government's previous activity
in opening up new reclamation pro-
jects that have tended to aggravate the
farm surplus problem.

"The gnreatest value that can be
achieved from this new legislation,"
said President Thompson, "will come
from the fact that we are going to
adopt a national policy for agriculture,
and that policy clearly sets forth
economic equality as its chief corner-
stone. A federal farm board is pro-
vided for in the bill; this board is to
be given ample funds and charged
with responsibility for achieving those
things embodied in the declarations.
The limiting details in this measure
can and will be removed or amended
from time to time as occasion requires.

Up To Board

"This will be particularly true if the
members of the board consist of men
who have a clear conception of the
needs of agriculture and a determina-
tion to carry out the intents and pur-
poses of this act."

Mr. Thompson declared that farmers
are a long ways from being over the
hill economically and that there was
never a time when all interests in our
national life should work together as
at present to place agrriculture on a par
with other industries. '.:,'"-■_■:■

Income Tax Bill Defeated

(Continued from page 1)
clearly and definitely the tightness of
the lines drawn on this measure, which
resulted in 70 supporters and 70 op-
ponents. The second roll call was on
Representative Schnackenberg's mo-
tion to strike the Enacting Clause,
which, in effect, would kill the bill. On
this motion there were 72 ayes and 69
nays — Representative Robert Wilson
of Kewanee having switched his posi-
tion from that of supporting the bill
to the opposition and Representative
Bingham of Galena, who had not voted
on the first roll call, also lining up with
the opposition.

Those supporting the bill were as
follows :

Acker

Luckey

Allen ,

McAdams

Bandy >

McCarthy

Bauer

McCaskrin

Baxter

McMackin

Beckman

Mester

Benson ^^ ,
Black -

O'Hair, 1

■{. Z.

O'Hair,

Karl R

Borders

O'Neill

Branson

Parker

'

Bruer

Porter

Bums

Rennick

Bush j

Rew

Childers ;

Rice

Chynoweth

Robbins

Corzine . ■[

Robinson

-

Cutler

Roe

Ewing .1

Rush

Fahy ; "

Ryan, E<

Foster

Scarboro

ugh

Gilmore

Smith

Hanley

Soderstrt

>m

Hennebrj

Sparks

Hoff

SulliTan

Hunter

Teel

Jackson, N. L.

Thompso

n

Jackson, W. H.

Tice

Johnson, G. J.

Turner,

C. M.

Kane

Vaughan

Kimbro

Waller

Kribs

Whiteley

Lewis, F. W.

Wilson,

A.

Lewis, J. W.

Wilson, 1

E. C.

Little

Wood

Lohmann

6J

) votes

The 21 down-state members who
lined up with the solid Chicago delega-
tion in their successful effort to kill
this bill were:

Bingham

Breen

Clark

Connertoa

Crowlejr

Devine

Dixon

Malloy

Martin

McDonongfa

Peffers

Petit I

Petri 1

Searle

^ •..;].:

Piif/i Tun

]

THK

A. RErORH

Over 10,000 Attend

Victory Celebrations

McLean County Banquet Draws
Crowd of 1,253

''pilK (iist Victory banquet fclebrat-
' ing Country Life's unprecedented
■• lu-i-oss was held at Mt. CaJ-mel, in
Wabash "County. County A<lvilser Lett
and General Apent Glit-k put on a
most remarkable program, anid a de-
liphtful dinner. This county, ^s a re-
sult, will be among the first to make
its quota. '

Great enthusiasm has prevailed at
:;l! of our meetings. Following the
.Mt. Carmel Victory dinner, i similar
ban(|uets were held in the following
counties. The number of ])c|>ple at-
tending each banquet is show|n oppo-
site the counties listed:

r.iss

rhristi.in

CarroU

Clinton

("rawfor-l

Kd\v;trfN

KfTinjrham

Franklin

Callatin

Greene

firundy

Haneoek

Henderson ..

.I.'ickson

.leffersoii

.lersey

Jo Daviess

.Johnson

Ijiwreni-e

t-otran

MiDonouirh

1 T.-)
110
200
I.IO
12r.

.s.'in
isr.
iTr,

'P

ISO
3(10
225
2r.r>
200
2nn

2(10
115
210
50fl

no

Mel. run

Marion

Marshall- rut iiam

Mt-recr

Morjran

Peoria

I'iatt

Tike

Kanitolph

Kichlanil

Koek Islan.l

Sc-ott

Saline

Stark

Union

\X'arrrn

Wal.ash

Washintrtoii

Wavne

Whitv

Williamson

Total

The victory celebration at
ington where 125:i sat dow

i2r.3

23.i

2i.->

IflO
220
4 7.->
220

1 ir,

2 2 r»
i-jr.

12:.

2 10
IT.")

2i,n
2. 'SO

21.';
I ;io

1 111

3'i(l

10.22 3

Bloom-
1 to a

most <ielightful dinner was the largest
held up to date. County Adviser
Coultas. General Agent Wm. Hedge-
cock, and their active agency force,
are entitled to great credit for this
remarkable turn-out and great en-
thusiasm over the life insurance pro-
ject.

More of these celebrations are to be
held in the month of .June. And it
is noticeable that wherever these cele-
brations are held and the full facts
concerning Country Life's plans and
liolicies are made known, business in
the form of applications sees an im-
niodiate pick-up. The purpose of these
celebrations is to make known the
fafts regarding life insurance and its
relation to the Farm Bureau move-
ment. It is our purpose also to make
Farm Bureau membership so desirable
tiirough all of the projects of the Farm
Bureau, that no man can afford not to
belong to this great organization. Our
gefieral agents are out seeing people
every day, as a result of the demand
on the part of the membership for
more information.

GoodF

Crop

Record Month

''rilE Champaign County Milk Pro-
^ ducers reports the best month's
volume of business and gross returns
in May since the co-operative opened
for business on Jan. 1. A total of
1.2.'?.'], .300 pounds of milk were sold for
a gross return of $.31,.548.7S. Farmers
received .$2. .50 per 100 pounds net.
Fortv-seven per cent of the milk
graded "A."

\\ 'ITH a inuch smaller peach crop in
' ' prospect in (Jeorgia and a good
crop of high quality fruit indicated
from the peach belt of Illinois, fruit
growers from the southern part of the
state are optimistic over prospects foi-
a good harvest in 11>2!>.

The peach crop is estimated at
slightly larger than that of last year
and the quality promises to bo un-
usually good. Illinois peaches are
recognized in all the open markets as
among the best and the lUini brand
put out by the Illinois Fruit Growers
p]xchange has the high regard of buy-
ers and commission men in all the
markets.

Harvesting the crop will probably
begin in the main peach belt around
Centralia. the second week in August.
Prices promise to be reasonable in
sjiite of the fact that the crop from
(Jeorgia and other southern territory
will be short.

Forty-four cats consume milk
valued at $4.'?5.45 annually, or $0.!t0
worth of milk per cat, according to
Tester Paul Church of the Tazewell
County Dairy Herd Improvement As-
sociation.

Mr. Church observed the average
amount of milk poured out by mem-
bers of his association for the cats and
projected the amount and cost on an
annual basis. There were 44 cats on
the 28 dairy farms whose herds were
entered in the association.

WHEN "COUNTRY LIFE" POLICY HOLDERS MET IN VICTORY CELEBRATION AT BLOOMINGTON
Exactly 1,253 attended the victory celebration and banquet in Consistory Hall, Bloomington. The dinner waft sponsored by the McLean
County Farm Bureau and the Country Life Insurance Company. Manager L. A. Williams told many interesting details of the drive which led
to placing $13,000,000 worth of insurance on the books within two months in his talk "Behind the Scenes in Life Insurance."
Forty-eight similar luncheons and dinners had been held up to and including June 7, and 22 more were scheduled.

(T^j^^j? The c>^:)

Illinois A^cidtural Association

RECORD

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Number 6

JUNE, 1929

Volume 7

"Our Sam" Hits Tariff

Sees Hope In New Bill

Not What We Advocated But a Start
At Least, He Says

S. H. Thompson

SJAM H. THOMPSON, president of
'^ the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration, expressed disappointment over
the new tariff
schedule now pend-
ing in congress,
but indicated his
hope and faith that
the pending farm
relief measure will
be the foundation
for a helpful na-
tional policy for
American agricul-
ture, in his recent
address on the I.
A. A. Radio Forum
from Station WLS.
Speaking of the tariff bill President
Thompson said: '"While it is true that
it has given consideration and higher
rates to some airricultural commod-
ities, it has at the same time increased
the tariff on things the farmer has to
buy so as to nullify the benefits that
farmers might obtain by a higher tariff"
on their staple crops.

Doesn't Help Situation

"The attitude of congress on the
tariff will have a tendency to continue
the spread of inequality between agri-
culture and intlustry rather than to
adjust agriculture upward to a place
of equality." said Mr. Thompson.
"This is unfortunate," he continued,
"in the face of the many declarations
to the effect that industry is now en-
joying the greatest prospeiity in the
history of our nation."

Referring to the farm bill which re-
cently passed the House, Mr. Thomp-
son said: "While it is not the type
of legislation that we have advocated,
and I feel it does not go far enough
towards getting the farmer an Amer-
ican price for his products, it does
furnish a base or corner-stone on which
to build a permanent policy for Amer-
ican agriculture."

Frank Recognition of Problem

Quoting lather freely from the
preamble or declaration of princii)le.-:
in the bill Mr. Thompson saw in this
feature a frank and commendable rec-
ognition on the part of our federal law
makers of the previous weaknesses in
the federal faini policy and of the

Don't Quit

When things go wrong as they

sometimes will.
When the road you're trodding

seems all up hill.
When the funds are low and

the debts are high
.And you want to smile, but you

have to sigh;
When care is pressing you down

a bit.
Rest, if you must — but don't

you quit.
.Success is failure turned inside

out — •
The silver tint of the clouds of

doubt.
.\nd you never can tell how

close you are.
It may be near when it seems

afar;
So stick to the fight when you'ie

hardest hit —
It's when things seem worst

that you must not quit.

need for the government now doing
something for the farmer since it was
partly responsible for his present pre-
dicament. The speaker condemned thv
federal government's previous activity
in ojiening up new reclamation pro-
jects that have tended to aggi'avate the
farm surplus problem.

"The greatest value that can be
achieved from this new legislation."
said President Thompson, "will come
from the fact that we are going to
adopt a national policy for agriculture,
and that policv clearly sets forth
economic equality as its chief corner-
stone. A federal faini board is pro-
vided for in the bill; this board is to
be given ample funds and charged
with responsibility for achieving those
things embodied in the declarations.
The limiting details in this measure
can and will be removed or amended
from time to time as occasion requires.

Up To Board

"This will be particularly true if the
members of the board consist of nu-n
who have a clear conception of the
needs of agriculture and a determina-
tion to carry out the intents and jmr-
poses of this act."

Mr. Thompson declared that farmers
are a long ways from being over the
hill economically and that there was
never a time when all interests in our
national life should work together as
at present to place agriculture on a par
with other industries.

Income Tax Bill Defeated

(Continued fiom i)age 1 )
clearly and definitely the tightness of
the lines drawn on this measure, whicli
resulted in 70 supporters and 70 op-
ponents. The second roll call was on
Representative .Schnackenlierg's mo-
tion to strike the Knacting Clause,
which, in effect, would kill the bill. On
this motion there were 72 ayes and (>'.<
nays — Representative Robert Wilson
of Kewanee having switched his posi-
tion from that of suppoi-tiiig the bill
to the opposition and Representative
Bingham of Calena. who had not voted
on the first roll call, also lining up with
the opposition.

Those supporting the bill were as
follows:

Acker

Luckey

Allen

McAdams

Bandy

McCarthy

Bauer

McCaskrin

Baxter

McMackin

Beckman

Mesler

Benson

OHair, H. Z.

Black

O'Hair. Karl R.

Borders

O'Neill

Branson

Parker

Bruer

Porter

Burns

Rennick

Bush

Row

Childers

Rice

Chynowe

th

Robbins

Corzine

Robinson

Cutler

Roe

Ewing

Rush

Fahy

Ryan, Ed.

Foster ,

Scarborough

Gilmore

Smith

Hanley

Soderstrom

Hennebry

Sparks

Hoff

Sullivan

Hunter

Teel

Jackson,

N. L.

Thompson

Jackson,

W. H.

Tice

Johnson,

G. J.

Turner, C. M.

Kane

Vaughan

Kimbro

Waller

Kribs

Whiteley

Lewis, F

W.

Wilson. A.

Lewis, J.

w.

Wilson. E. C.

Little

Wood

Lohmann

69 vote*.

The 21 down-state members who
lined up with the soli<l Chicago delega-
tion in their successful effort to kill
this bill were:

Bingham

Malloy

Breen

Martin

Clark

McDonough

Connerton

Peffers

Crowley

Petit

Devine

Petri

Dixon

Searle

ir:

V '

Page Four

Franz, C. D.
Green

Holten I

Lyons

Representatives
and M. E. Bray—

Sinnett |
Walker
Wilson, R. J.

Charles Johnson
not preserit.

Thus ended another chapter in the
efforts of the property tax-payers of
Illinois to secure relief from the in-
equitable and unjust portion of taxes
that the property of Illinois is and
has been bearing.

The Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion enjoyed very able and effective co-
operation from The Illinois Bankers
Association, The Illinois State Federa-
tion of Labor, Prairie Farmer and
much of the down-state press; while
the opposition consisted of the Chi-
cago press. The Illinois State Chamber
of Commerce and the Illinois Manu-
facturers Association.

The supporters of the Income Tax
Bill, while disappointed, are not dis-
couraged. They recognize that the
consideration of this bill made possible
and has resulted in a much more in-
telligent understanding of the iniqui-
tous, antique and unjust taxing system
operating in this state.

As we go to press, it is reported that
The State Administration is seriously
considering calling a special session of
the General Assembly for the purpose
of submitting to the voters at the next
general election an amendment to the
Revenue Article of the Constitution,
which would require a two-thirds vote
of the General Assembly, and if that
is found to be impossible, for the pur-
pose of considering and enacting an
equitable income tax measure, which
only requires a majority vote. Friends
of a fair taxing system will stand
ready, willing and anxious to lend their
support to a progfam of this character.

Consumer Co-ops.

Blame Wheat Pool

High Price of Wheat Laid to
Canadian Co-operation

^PHE anomaly of a co-operative or-
^ ganization of consumers in Scot-
land crying out against a co-operative
organization of producers, namely,
the Canadian Wheat Pool, for increas-
ing the price of wheat is disclosed in
a recent issue of "The Scoop Shovel,"
the official organ of the Manitoba
Wheat Pool.

The consumers' organization known
as the United Co-operative Baking
Society of Glasgow, Scotland, blames
the Canadian Wheat Pool for the high
price of wheat in spite of the fact that
"a surplus exceeding all previous
records exists and yet the price of
wheat has not come down." "In-
stead," related Mr. Buchanan, chair-
man of the Baking Society, "it has
gone up. And the cause? The
Canadian Wheat Pool." i

Queer Contradictions

Commenting upon this situation a
British publication called Broomhall's
"Milling" said editorially in a recent

issue: "The Canadian Wheat Pool has
provided the world with a crop of
queer contradictions. In the first
place, it is a system of co-operation
a'mong producers, and because it has
managed to keep prices up, it is criti-
cized adversely by co-operators in this
country. In other words, co-operators
are actually hostile to co-operation.
In the second place, there is an out-
cry for the stabilization of wheat
prices, and an even greater outcry be-
cause the Canadian Pool has succeeded
to some extent in that object! We
have maintained, and still do so, that
the public has no right to expect cheap
bread at the expense of the producer.
The man who has to face the first
risk is entitled to the first, and a fair
profit. He does not always get it, to
wit, the British wheat grower, but in
this particular case it is partly due to
factors against which it is useless for
him to fight. If he could grow wheat
as cheaply as it is grown in North
America or South America, the grain
would still lack characteristics pos-
sessed by imported wheat and requi-
site to what is comprehensively known
as 'bread grain.' We have no brief
for the Canadian Wheat Pool, but we
are bound to say they have done un-
commonly well, and that their mem-
bers have reason to feel satisfied with
the organization. At the same time,
it is queer that another co-operative
movement should look on the Pool's
methods as rough shod.

"We commend these remarks to the
thoughtful consideration of Mr.
Buchanan and the peculiar type of
co-operator he represents, if indeed
there is another like him among the
whole five millions of British co-opera-
tors."

This is a powerful testimony in be-
half of the effectiveness of co-oper-
ative marketing and discounts the
statements of many buyers to the
effect that little or nothing can be
gained through the co-operative mar-
keting of staple and non-perishable
products.

Sanitary Milk Producers

Getting Under Way

REPRESENTATIVES of the 200
whole milk shippers in Jersey
county met at Jerseyville Tuesday,
June 4, to lay plans for organizing a
unit of the Sanitary Milk Producers
in that section. G. R. Pearce, who
represents the county on the board of
directors of the new co-operative, pre-
dicted that at least 90 per cent of the
milk shippers in that section will join
the sanitary milk producers to help
themselves get control of their product
and market it co-operatively.

T^ W. TIEDEMAN of St. Clair coun-
-L^' ty scheduled a meeting at Belle-
ville for June 15 when St. Clair county
whole milk producers will start their
drive for perfecting an organization of
the Sanitary Milk Producers in that
area. Membership in the St. Louis

THE I

A. RECORD

A. D. Lynch

they will get
milk check or

iD.\IKY
MarMing

By Art Lynch

ORGANIZED dairymen get their
money from the buyers when it is
due. Organized dairymen at such
markets as Chi-
cago, Peoria,
Champaign,
Blooming^ton and
others collect
without losses be-
cause they watch
tlie credit rating
of their buyers.
* * *

UNORGANIZED
dairymen sell-
ing as individuals
do not know
within a row of
apple trees whether
their next month's
not. In one northern Illinois county
unorganized dairymen four years ago
lost on the average $62 per man per
year in bad milk accounts.

* * * *

MILK is sold on credit. The dealer
has some of your milk 45 days
before he pays. The practice is to
deliver milk a whole month and get
paid for it the 15th of the next month.

* * *

WATCHING the credit standing of
the buyer is an important func-
tion of a milk-selling organization.

* * *

HOW is it done? At Chicago every
dealer has to put up a $2,500
bond. At Peoria, Bloomington and
Champaign the organized dairymen
have contracts with their dealers under
which the association can demand a
guarantor (certified check or cash) to
make sure of the payment if the deal-
er's finances look "shaky."
« * *

IN the past some irresponsible dealers
got lots of milk they never paid for.
The going is tough for such dealers
these days with a business-like farm-
ers' organization looking after the in-
terests of its members.

* * *

SOME patrons in the old days would
threaten to stop shipping if the
dealer gave them "bum" checks. The
dealer had the nerve to tell his patrons
in such cases that he had to have their
next month's milk or he would be un-
able to pay for the previous month's

milk.

« * *

ORGANIZED dairymen get their
money because they know which
dealers are safe. They let the non-
member take the chances.

territory is growing steadily. Excel-
lent headway is reported among the
milk shippers in Missouri.

\

i

^%

THE I. A. A. RECORD

■i- J.

-k

age Five

Co-op. Marketing of

Cream Has Cash Value

such

■>>»

Farm Bureaus Make Money for

Members Through Produce

Associations

Frank Gougler

By Franit Gougler

PERHAPS the best yardstick for
measuring the cash value of co-
operative cream marketing is by com-
paring country
butterfat prices to
the Chicago 92
score butter mar-
ket. Before the
produce co-opera-
tives entered the
field country but-
terfat prices were
from three to five
cents under the
Chicago butter
market. Now they
will average above
the butter market for the year
wherever co-operative produce associa-
tions are operating.

Another measure is the net saving
above operating costs of a cream
station. This has also been shown to
be over three cents. Still a third yard-
stick is in the nature of bids received.
These are better by at least three cents
per pound than formerly.

Using this conservative figure, what
does it mean to the average producer
or county? Such a producer will sell
at least 600 pounds fat. With a three-
cent gain, he has an additional income
of $18 more than enough to pay his
annual Farm Bureau dues, besides sell-
ing his butterfat on his own weights
and tests.

Richland County'* Case
How much additional income to a
county? Richland county, for example,
sells annually 414,654 pounds of
butterfat. Selling this fat for three
cents more per pound (to be exact,
the co-op's, net gain for the first two
years was 3.2 cents not considering
the increase obtained in local prices)
means a greater income to the county
by $12,440. Richland county would
have to have over 800 Farm Bureau
members to contribute this amount in
dues. Very likely they have not more
than half that number. Thus, the
gain made on selling butterfat co-
operatively nearly doubles that paid
out in membership dues.

McLean county sells annually over
1,000,000 pounds fat and a three-cent
gain on this amount is $30,000, or
about twice the amount raised by Farm
Bureau dues.

. Increase of $1,800,000

Adams county on the west side of
the state sells annually 456,181 pounds
fat. At three cents additional income
this amounts to $13,685.

For the state as a whole which sells
annually 60,000,000 pounds butterfat,
a net gain of three cents amounts to
the tidy sum of $1,800,000, more
money than is contributed to all the

County Farm Bureaus of the state, the
I. A. A., and the American Farm
Bureau Federation.

These are the possibilities when this
work is extended over the entire state.
More than half of the state is already
being influenced by this marketing
project. It doesn't seem possible that
the marketing of a single commodity
could be so far reaching in its effect.
Illinois now has 34 co-operative
produce marketing units actively mar-
keting and a dozen or more are in
the process of organization. The work
is going forward rapidly.

17th. District Conf.
. ; At Lincoln May 27

Pipe Line, Co-op. Marketing and In-
surance Discussed

REPRESENTATIVES from Livings-
ton, Woodford, Logan, McLean,
and Ford counties attended an I. A. A.
conference in the
17th district at
Lincoln on Mon-
day, May 27. The
lateness of the sea-
son and the fact
that farmers were
in the field plant-
ing corn kept
many at home.
Nevertheless a rep-
resentative group
from every part of
Geo. J. stoii the d i s t r i c t at-

tended. Geo. J. Stoll of Chestnut
presided.

The chief topic of interest was the
situation involving the Texas-Empire
Pipe Line Company and landowners
along the proposed right-of-way re-
garding settlements for damages. L,
J. Quasey of the I. A. A. outlined the
proposition, explained the rights of
both parties involved, and recom-
mended that farmers organize by com-
munities and appoint a committee
duly authorized to deal and speak for
them.

Not Satisfied

Several members expressed dissatis-
faction with the terms offered by the
company. A desire to try a test case
before a court of law to establish what
is a fair payment for a perpetual ease-
ment and special damages was mani-
fest.

Several testified that the proposed
pipe line through the central Illinois
counties would depreciate the value
of land traversed and cause dam-
ages to crops, tile, and farm work
far in excess of any compensation
heretofore offered or paid by pipe line
corporations. One man related how a
similar pipe line in northern Illinois
consistently leaked with the result that
the crude oil rendered unfit for pro-
duction the soil so affected.

May Patrol Line

The company contract indicates that
the proposed pipe line will not be

patrolled but the practice of similar
companies heretofore has been that
these lines are patrolled every week.
In such cases the patrolmen tramp
down growing crops and cause a gen-
eral nuisance to landowners.

Frank Gougler, produce marketing
director, and L. A. Williams, manager
of the Country Life Insurance Com-
pany, spoke briefly, Mr. Gougler out-
lining the value of co-operative mar-
keting to farmers who sell cream, poul-
try, and eggs, and Mr. Williams relat-
ing facts and information relative to
Farm Bureau life insurance and the
new Farm Bureau owned and con-
trolled company.

Cream Shippers Profit

The Logan County Dairy Associa-
tion's last year's records reveal that
Logan county farmers obtained over
$25,000 more for their cream and
produce as a result of price increases
following collective selling. "This in-
creased income, from cream, poultry
and eggs alone," said Gougler, "is far
greater than the cost of maintaining
the Logan County Farm Bureau. If
we can do so well in marketing produce
co-operatively how much more can we
do by selling all of our farm products
through the co-operative marketing
system," he said.

Following a discussion of a proposed
district picnic it was decided to place
the question before each County Farm
Bureau executive committee for a de-
cision. Their action will be reported
to Mr. Stoll at a later date. Opinion
was expressed for and against the dis-
trict picnic plan. r

Get Ready for Deep

Waterway at Peoria

'T'HE Caterpillar Tractor Company of
-■- Peoria recently constructed an in-
land harbor covering 25 acres adjoin-
ing its plant to be used in shipping its
products down the river on boats to
the Ocean.

The Keystone Steel & Wire Com-
pany, likewise, has completed plans
for excavating a huge slip and turning
basin for Mississippi river barges and
tow boats. A canal will connect this
slip with the Illinois river, giving di-
rect river facilities to the plant for
the unloading of barges of ores, coal,
aiid other heavy freight and the load-
ing of its finished steel goods upon
barges.

Peoria promises to make great use
of the deep waterway to the Gulf of
Mexico now being completed. The
deep waterway will give ready access
to the growing South American mar-
kets. It is estimated that at least 100
of the largest Caterpillar tractors, two
of which fill an ordinary freight car,
can be loaded upon a single barge and
shipped to New Orleans for direct
loading to cargo steamers bound for
Central America, Brazil, the River
Platte, west coast of South America,
and to almost any other port reached
by steamers from New Orleans.

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I L*1j1NOIS

CCLTURAL ASSOCIA

RECORiy

To advance the purpose for which the Farrrt Bureau I0a« organized,
namely to promote, protect and repreeent the bueineee, economic,
political, and educational intereetm of the tarmere of iliinoia and the
nation, and to develop agriculture.

Published once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave., Mount Horris,
Illinois, by the Illinois Afirricultural Ajsociation. Entered as second-
class matter October 20, 1926, at the post office at Mount Morris,
Illinois, under the Act of March S, 1879. Accepted for mailine at
special rate of postaee provided for in Section 412, Act of February
28, 1925, authorised October 27, 1926. The individual membership
fee of the Illinois AKricultural Association is five dollars a year. The
fee includes payment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois
AORICULTURAL ASSOCIATION Rbcoro. Postmaster: In returning an un-
called for or missent copy please indicate key number on address as
is required by law.

OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith J Detroit

Vice-President, Frank D. Barton...; Cornell

Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger _ Chicago

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles - Bloomlncton

I EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
j (By Concressional District)

1st to nth _ 4 H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

12th „ ^ G. F. TuUock, Rockford

13th „ 4 i _ C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th i i M. G. Lambert, Ferris

ISth ^ i A, N. Skinner, Yates City

16th 1 A. R. Wright, Verna

I7th _; I Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

I8th.„ , i R. F. Karr, Ira<|Uois

19th I I C. J. Cross, Atwood

20th 4 J^ Charles S. Black, Jacksonville

21st _ , Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd Frank Oexner, Waterloo

23nl 4 W. L. Cope, Salem

24th _ L Charles Marshall, Belknap

2Sth „ [ Fred Dietz, De Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Dairy Marketing.. .-t. A. D. Lynch

Limestone-Phosphate « J. R. Bent

Finance 4 R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetahle Marketing _ .A. B. Leeper

Comptroller.. .„ , ^ J. H. Kelker

George Thiem
V. Vaniman

Information ^l ...».

Insurance Service

Legal Counsel

Live Stock Marketing....

Organization

Produce Marketing

Taxation and Statistics
Transportation

..Donald Kirkpatrick

Ray E. Miller

G. E. Metsger

F. A. Cougler

.._ J. C. WaUon

L. J. Quasey

SUBSIDIARY ORGANIZATIONS

Country Life Insurance Co L. A. Williams, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Co-operative* Ass'n F. E. Ringham, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Inaurance Co A. E. Richardson, Mgr.

Illinois Farm Supply Co L. R. Marchant, Mgr.

/. A. A. Policy on Tariff

A CRITICAL analysis of the Hawley tariff bill made by
John C. Watson, statistician for the I. A. A., declares
that protection of American agriculture requires adequate
duties on imported commodities regardless of their source,
use, or lack of identity with our products. It takes issue
with assumptions of the House Ways and Means Commit-
tee that there is no reason or necessity for imposing duties
on imported commodities not produced in this country, and,
secondly, that it is improper to impose adequate duties on
Philippine Island products for the protection of American
agriculture.

The Illinois Agricultural Association believes "that in
revising tariff duties, congress should take fully into ac-
count the present endeavor to establish a stabilized market-
ing system which will ensure to efficient farmers a profit-
able level of prices. In any such marketing system proper
tariff duties must be an indispensable factor. It would
defeat any marketing system if it should be found that
higher domestic prices are not protected by tariff duties
sufficiently high to prevent a flood of imports. It should
not be assumed, therefore, that any duties which may be
imposed on agricultural products, will, as so often has been
true in the past, be ineffective or only partly effective.
The only safe assumption is that a marketing system will
be set up which will make them effective."

Think It Ov«.

THE following editorial reprinted from the Chicago
Tribune is representative of the tactics used to de-
feat the proposed state income tax measure in the Gen-
eral Assembly just closed.

The fact that your organization led the fight to ini-
tiate a fair and equitable taxing system based upon ability
to pay is given due credit by this Chicago daily. We will
not stop to discuss the mis-statements and erroneous con-
clusions in this editorial. You can do that at your leisure.
Suffice it to say that to bring about an equitable taxation
system is not an easy task. Unorganized farmers are do-
ing nothing to help this just cause. You as Farm Bureau
members are helping to bring about much needed re-
forms. Organization and money are needed to get a
square deal for the farmer.

MAKING THE CITY MAN PAY -"

"A bill to impose an income tax in Illinois despite pres-
ent constitutional limitations has been defeated in the
house at Springfield, but proposals to amend the state
constitution with a view particularly to income taxation
are still under consideration. Those resolutions deserve
far more careful study than they have received or are
likely to receive at this session of the legislature.

"The demand for a state income tax comes chiefly from
the Illinois Agricultural Association, made up of farmers,
while the tax itself will be paid almost in its entirety by
city dweller*. City dwellers, however, can defeat any taxa-
tion proposal which comes to a referendum, as the pro-
posed amendment must, for, though Cook county has only
a third of the legislaiyre, it has substantially half the popu-
lar voting strength of the state. It follows that there can
be little, if any, honest expectation of adopting an income
tax amendment in Illinois until a vast majority of urban
dwellers have been convinced that the tax item in their
budgets will not be markedly increased by the new levy.

"It is not easy to see how this end can be achieved. If
the income tax is substituted for the personal property
tax, as farmers' organizations demand, the farmers will
benefit because their personal property taxes constitute
a considerable part of their total tax bills. On the other
hand, the repeal of the personal property tax will give
relatively little relief to the city man, while he will face
the imposition of an income tax which at anything like
the rates now being discussed must come close to doubling
the total tax yield from Cook county.

"The city dwellers have seen their right to representa-
tion at Springfield taken from them. Whatever confidence
the city voter may have had at one time or another in the
fairness of downstate members toward Chicago has van-
ished as the years have rolled by without a reapportion,
ment. Under the circumstances, the mere fact that down-
state organizations are supporting an income tax measure
is enough to damn it in the eyes of countless city voters.
The leaders of the farmers may take pleasure in the no-
toriety which their advocacy of the amendment affords
them, but they must realize that they are wasting their
time if they are seriously interested in amending our tax
laws as long as they proceed on the present basis. Noth-
ing they propose in their present vein has a ghost of a
chance of adoption in a referendum, for the city man is
convinced the only object of the proposals is to rob him.

"We do not for a moment believe that the present tax
laws of Illinois are above improvement. We are certain,
however, that they are not going to be changed as long
as the substitute forms of taxation are predicated on the
theory that Chicago pays vastly too little for the support
of the state, and downstate pays vastly too much. There
is no indication that any other view than this is animating
the downstate bloc in its approach to the proposed amend-
ments."— Chicago Tribune.

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I. A. A. Tariff Study Sent
Illinois Congressmen

Tune in on the I. A. A. Forum from Station
WLS every Thursday night at 6:30 p. m.,
Central Standard Time.

The daily farm program of the I. A. A. from
Station WJJD, Mooseheart (265 meters) is
broadcast between 12:00 and 12:20 p. m., Mon-
day to Friday inclusive. Hear the daily Chicago
livestock market from the Producers^ and each
Friday the weekly market review. Outlock
reports, reviews, and talks by I. A. A. staff
members, officials, and leaders in farm thought
are broadcast daily.

The delegation of 4-H Club cham-
pions accompanied by Club Leaders
J. Ross Baird and Miss Mary McKee
will stop at I. A. A. headquarters on
Monday, June 17, just before leaving
for Washington on the Capitol Lim-
ited.

The club members and their leaders
will broadcast on the noon I. A. A.
farm program from station WJJD,
Mooseheart, at 12 o'clock central
standard time.

The Logan County Farm Bureau
represented by Farm Adviser J. H.
Checkley, and a member of the Logan
county school for Farm Bureau lead-
ers will broadcast on the I. A. A.
Forum program from WLS the night
of June 20. The program that eve-
ning will be broadcast at 7:30 p. m.
central standard time instead of the
usual hour, 6:30.

J, A. Connery, manager of the
Quincy Co-operative Milk Producers
Association, was the Forum speaker
on June 13. Mr. Connery told how
Adams county dairymen have suc-
ceeded in marketing milk direct to the
consumer, gaining for themselves a
better price than they ever have had
before, and delivering milk at perhaps
the lowest price (10 cents a quart)
charged on any market of equal size.

Auto Insurance Co.

Breaks All Records

J^ President Smith Declares Hawley Bill Many Applications Ahead of April by
Gives Cause for Grave Concern Substantial Majority

ti'X'HE present ills of agriculture
A have been brought about by the
disparity in the prices received for
agricultural commodities and the
costs of the many things farmers must
buy," declared President Earl C.
Smith in a recent letter to Illinois
congressmen in which he enclosed
copies of an analysis of the Hawley
tariff bill recently prepared by the
Department of Taxation and Statistics
of the Association. "Agricultural sta-
bility can only be brought about by
a proper relation of these two fac-
tors," he continued. j

Increases Costs

"A study of the Hawley bill gives
cause for grave concern to those whose
interest is in agriculture, in that
many upward revisions of the tariff
are recommended on commodities
that farmers must purchase, and
which if adopted by congress will
greatly increase costs of production
on the farm. If agriculture is to re-
ceive any net benefits through tariff
revision, it must be obvious that such
revision upward as is made on agrri-
cultural commodities must not be off-
set by changes in those commodities
that largely determine the costs of
production."

Study Is Detailed

The tariff study covers in detail the
most important agricultural products
of Illinois and includes corn, black-
strap molasses, wheat, bran, shorts
and milling by-products, lard and lard
substitutes, live stock, butter, fats and
oils, and fruits.

Copies of the I. A. A. tariff study
may be secured by writing the Depart-
ment of Taxation and Statistics, Illi-
nois Agricultural Association, 608 So.
Dearborn St., Chicago, 111.

McLean Co. Farmers

Meet in Pipe Line Case

PARMERS in Piatt county have been
*■ offered damages of $2.50 per rod
by the Texas-Empire Pipe Line Co.,
an Illinois corporation now engaged in
laying a line through central and
southwestern Illinois. It is understood
that $2 per rod was offered as advance
damages and 50 cents a rod for a per-
petual easement to the land traversed.

Farm Bureau members in McLean
county recently appointed a committee
to represent them in conferring with
company officials regarding a proper
settlement for building the line
through that territory.

L. J. Quasey, transportation director
for the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, attended a meeting in Blooming-
ton Tuesday, June 4, when plans for
securing a settlement of the issues in-
volved were adopted.

Ask the Farm Bureau First

THE name "Farm Bureau" is
being used by people who
have no right to use it, for their
own selfish motives. Be on your
guard against these impostors.

"Country Life" is the only
Farm Bureau owned and con-
trolled life insurance company in
the United States. The "Illinois
Agricultural Mutual" is the only
state-wide Farm Bureau owned
and controlled auto insurance
company in Illinois. There are
several privately owned life and
auto insurance companies parad-
ing in Illinois under the Farm
Bureau name attempting to "cash
in" on its influence and standing.
When in doubt call your County
Farm Bureau office and get the
facts. ■ :■ .--

'X'HE Illinois Agricultural Mutual In-
-*- surance Co., the state-wide Farm
Bureau auto insurance service set up
by the I. A. A. two years ago had the
largest month in point of business
during May since it was organized.
Exactly 873 applications for auto in-
surance were received during the
month. The company now has more
than 14,000 policyholders.

DuPage county leads all others with
over 600 policyholders. Winnebago is
next, and LaSalle third. Henry, Cook,
Morgan, Champaign, Bureau, and Will
all have more than 300.

During April, the previous high
month, 817 applications were received
at insurance headquarters in Chicago.
Total applications for the two months
aggregated 1,690.

The following solicitors and Farm
Bureaus wrote five or more applica-
tions during the month of April and
were presented with a silver watch fob
bearing the emblem of the Company:

Name
Bureau Co. Farm Bureau
Howard Jokisch
Roy Mitchell
Clair £. Hay
H. A. Bonser
Clinton Co. Farm Bureau
W. G. Ackman
Coles Co. Farm Bureau
Cook Co. Farm Bureau
Tom Welter, Jr.
George R. Johnson
A. P. York

DeKalb Co. Farm Bureau
F. W. Case

DeWitt Co. Farm Bureau
DuPage Co. Farm Bureau

C. F. Dobbin

S. G. Van Sickle ' I

Delbert Saxe I

Effingham Co. Farm Bureau
Paul T. Brown
L. W. Wiese

D. P. Robinson
George Sheets
S. J. Hoffman
O. M. McPherson
Ira Cottingham
Fred Clement
W. H. NuttaU
A. P. Cooper

C. E. Hopkins
William Opperman
H. B. HcCormick
Macon Co. Farm Bureau
A. E. Rolofson
Macoupin Co. Farm Bureau

D. C. Mieher
Sam Crabtree

McDonough Co. Farm Bureau

W. J. Schuett

C. R. Hays

Mercer Co. Farm Bureau

E. B. Young

H. P. Joy I

L. T. Oxley I

Joe Holmes

Pope Co. Farm Bureau

W. H. Moody

J. H. James

Sangamon Co. Farm Bureau

Scott Co. Farm Bureau

C. E. Coventry

Stephenson Co. Farm Bureau

R. J. Folgate

R. E. Blaylock

Vermilion Co. Farm Bureau

H. H. Click

E. A. Hake

George B. Boardman

T. E. Benton

Homer R. Hitchcock

E. D. Timke

Earl HcCann

Guy Bender

County
Bureau
Cass

Champaign
Christian
Christian
Clinton
Clinton
Coles
Cook
Cook
Cook
Crawford
DeKalb
DeKalb
DeWitt
DuPage
DuPage
Edgar
Edwards
Effingham
Grundy
Henry
Henry
Henry
Iroquois
Jefferson
Jersey
LaSalle
Lawrence
Lawrence
Livingston
Logan
Logan
Macon
Macon
Macoupin
Macoupin
Marshall - Put-
nam
McDonough
McHenry
McLean
Mercer
Montgomery
Morgan
Morgan
Ogle
Pope

Rock Island
Saline
Sangamon
Scott
Shelby
Stephenson
Stephenson
Union
Vermilion
Wabash
Washington
Will

Williamson
Winnebago
DuPage
LaSalle
Morgan

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COUMTmT UFK INSURANCB CO.,
M* So. Dearborn Street,
CUeage, nitaol*.

I would like to have more information about
Country Life's

Straight Life Policy

20-Pay Life Policy

20- Year Endowment Policjy

MY NAME IS

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Your Company
Your Success

THE united action of Illinois Farm Bureau members
insured Country Life's success within a month after
it opened for business. The result is that Country Life
moved up ahead of nearly 100 other old line companies
in total life insurance in force.

The three policies now offered are particularly designed
for you — were approved by your representatives — the
Executive Committee of the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion. You have done well. You can and will do better.

Tivo Millions Of Life Insurance In June

THE Farm Bureau organization that represents Coun-
try Life Insurance Company has established a goal
of two millions of life insurance before the close of this
month. Every Farm Bureau member shares the respon-
sibility of seeing that his county does its share in the
June drive. A Country Life policy in every Farm
Bureau member's home is our goal. 15..

Following are the counties that have officially appointed
general insurance agents to work in close harmony with
the local Farm Bureaus. Where no general agent has
been appointed, get in touch with your County Farm
Bureau office.

County Ganeral Aleut

Adams. J. C. McLean. Quincy
llond, Clias. A. Smith. Oreenyllle
Bronn, H. C. Peterj, Ml. Sterling
Cass. H. Joklsch. Virginia
Christian, Clair E. Hay. Taylonrllle
Clark. Chai. Strohm. West Unljn
Clay. Wm. Chambers. Clay City
Clinton. Farm Bureau. Breete
Cook. Geo. B. Johnson. Arllnston Heights
Cumberland, E. R. White. Neoga
Crawford-Jasper, A. P. York. Boblnson
DeWitt, Farm Bureau, Clinton .
Douglas. Fred K. Steren. TuacoU
E>lgar. J. Edgar Prazler. Paris
Edwards. Delbert Sale, Albion
Elliiigham. H. O. Henry. Beecher City
Kord. W. E. McKeever. Gibson City
Gallatin. H. H. Glasscock. Bldgway
Greene, L. B. Lee. Boodhouse
Grundy. Piu! T. Brown. Morris
Henderson. E. H. Allison. Stronghurst
Henry, Henry Maeltzer. Geneseo

D. P. Robinson. Cambridge
Iroquois. H. Q. Pendergrast, Clssna Park
Jackson. Fred Dletz, De Soto
Jefferson. Paul Gilbert. Mt. Vernon
Jersey. Ira Cottlngham. Jerseyrille
Johnson. H. M. DriskiU. Vienna

L. S. Foote. Tunnel Hill
Kankakee. Kank, Soil & Crop. Impr. Assn., Kui-

kakee
Kendall. Geo. M. Dickson, BllXoI
Knox. W. O. Stuckey, Altona
LaSalle. J. L. Eustls, Ottawa
Lawrence, W. H. Nuttall, Lawrencerllle
LlTlngtton. C. E. Hopklm. Poo:tu

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Login, L. B. Welk, Lincoln
McDonough. £. F. Jennings. Macomb
McUenry. Thos. H. Murray. Woodstock
McLean, W. E. Hedgcock. Bloomlngton
Miicon. A. £. Bolofson. Decatur
Macoupin. D. 0. Mleher. NUwood
Madison. W. H. Oerllng, Edwardsvllle
Marlon. M. D. Brubaker. luka
Marshall-Putnam. Sam Crabtree. Henry
Massac, I. H. Beckman, Metropolis
Menard, John W. Behrens, Petersburg
.Mercer, C. »L Ivobb, Alexis
Montgomery, W. W. Davis, Honeybend
Morgan. L. T. Oxley, Jackson
Moultrie, E. A. McKenzie, Sulllran
Ogle. io9 Holmes, Rockford ;

Pevria, Eihan A. Wllmot, Dunbp
Piatt. C. J. Gross. Atwood ^

Pope, O. N. Willis, Golconda
Randolph, A. Winkelman, Sparta
Richland, H. L. Seller. Olney
Rock Island. W. H. Moody. Pt. Byron
Saline. C. H. James. Harrlsburg
Schuyler, Earl Payne, Littleton
Scott, Fsrry A. Coultai. Winchester
St. Clair. J. A. Baer. BelleTllle
SUrk. O. L. Hatch. Kewanee
Tazewell. Wm. E. Preltag, Minler
Union. R. E. BUylock. Anna
Vermilion, W. J. Sandusky. Georgetown
Wabash. U. H. OUck. Mt. Carmel .
Warren. Fred A. Bowen. Monmouth
Wayne. Chas. A. Bead. Fairfield
Whlt«. Geo. E. Woodham, Orayrllle
Williamson. T. E. Benton. Johniton City
Winnebago. Homer Hitchcock. Pecatonlca
Woodford. Jo Major. Eureka

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THE Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball
League swung into action in two
divisions on Saturday, May 25, when
the first games of the 1929 season
were played. Several upsets resulted.
Woodford beat the state champions
from Tazewell at Morton 5 to 4. On
the same day Peoria defeated the 1927
champions from Marshall-Putnam 5 to
2. In Div. V Logan defeated McLean
at Bloomington 4 to 2 while Cham-
paign beat Ford at Tolono 8 to 4.

Ford county is a new entry in the
League and showed up very well in its
first game. Champaign made 13 hits
and 7 errors, while Ford gathered 5
hits and made only 4 errors.

All games were postponed on ac-
count of rain on Saturday, June 1.
Champaign and Logan played five
innings at Lincoln when the two teams
were tied 4 to 4, each team scoring 4
runs in the 5th inning. Buddemeier
of Champaign allowed 9 bases on
balls, 6 of which came during the rain
in the 5th inning.

All teams in the League have been
notified to refer eligibility questions
to their district dictators. When there
is an appeal from the decision of the
dictator the dispute is referred up to
the State Arbitration Committee for
final settlement. The State Arbitra-
tion Committee so far has held to a
strict interpretation of the rules and
by-laws on all eligibility questions.

The eligibility clause provides that
"Any Farm Bureau member, or de-
pendent member of his family, whose
principal financial interests are in
farming, shall be eligible to play in
this League. Said eligibility must be
certified by the director or farm ad-
viser from each county.

"Eligible players can play only on
the Farm Bureau team of the county
in which their Farm Bureau member-
ship or connection is held."

Up-to-date four full-size divisions
containing four teams each are or-
ganized. Div. VI, including Cass,
Morgan, Sangamon, and possibly
Greene had not played any games up
to June 1, but. the preliminary sched-
ule called for games at Arenzville
and Jacksonville on June 5. Wabash
and Wayne counties in southeastern
Illinois have definitely signed up to
play. An effort is being made to or-
ganize additional teams in that sec-
tion to round out the district.

Twenty-one teams are now organ-
ized and entered officially in the
League. Several more will be added

it is hoped before the season is well
advanced.

The Lee-Stark county game post-
poned because of rain June 1 will be
played either July 6 or July 20 ac-
cording to Farm Adviser E. E. Brown.

The following games in the Illinois
Farm Bureau Baseball League were
scheduled for June 22: Knox vs. Stark
at Stark, Lee vs. Henry at Henry,
Woodford vs. Peoria at Eden, Hender-
son vs. Hancock at Biggsville, War-
ren vs. McDonough at Monmouth Park,
McLean vs. Ford at Bloomington,
Champaign vs. Logan at Tolono, San-
gamon vs. Cass at Springfield, and
Greene vs. Morgan at Greene.

Mid- West Training !

School, June 24-27

I. A. A. Officers and Farm Bureau
Leaders to Attend i

G. E. Metzger

SPRING PARK, Minnesota, on Lake
Minnetonka located about 25 miles
out of St. Paul will
b e headquarters
for the fourth an-
n u a 1 Mid - West
Training School
sponsored by the
middle west Farm
Bureau f e d e r a-
tions. The confer-
ence will be held
June 24-27.

President Earl
C. Smith and Sec-
retary Geo. Metz-
ger will head the
delegation from Illinois. District organ-
ization managers, local leaders, county
advisers and Farm Bureau members
are invited to attend. Mr. Metzger
will preside at the first day's session,
and Sam H. Thompson will deliver the
principal address that evening.

President Smith will speak at the
banquet on Tuesday night. Among
the speakers who will address the
school during the week are Prof. Fred
Russell of the University of Illinois;
Dr. F. M. Rarig, University of Min-
nesota, M. S. Winder, Betty Eckhardt,
University of W. Va., John Brandt,
president, Land 0' Lakes Creameries,
Mrs. C. W. Sewell, and others.

Problems of organization will be the
chief subject for discussion throughout
the week.

200 at Conferences

More than 200 live stock marketing
leaders and producers attended a se-
ries of four conferences held during
May at Indianapolis, Peoria, St. Louis,
and Chicago.

The meetings were arranged by the
Livestock Marketing Department of
the I. A. A., the Producer agencies,
and the Illinois County Farm Bureaus.

New Books

EIGHT years ago I was County
agent of Jackson County, Mis-
souri," says E. A. Ikenberry, in a new
book on roadside marketing entitled
"MAKING YOUR OWN MARKET"
by Russell Lord and Thomas Deloh-
ery. "But I saw more money in rais-
ing apples myself and marketing them
myself," continues Ikenberry, "so I
quit.

"My average crop of apples now
runs from 15,000 to 20,000 bushels a
year. Also, I have 12 acres of pears,
grapes, strawberries, and blackberries.
All small fruit is sold fresh at the
roadside. Apples at 75 cents to |2 a
bushel, and cider at 25 to 40 cents a
gallon net me 15 to 20 per cent more
than I would get by shipping, some
seasons."

Ikenberry operates a large roadside
market adjoining his orchard and dur-
ing the busy season which is from Sep-
tember to December he and his helpers
often handle as many as 1,000 people
a day.

This interesting story, together with
69 similar stories of actual experiences
of farmers in roadside marketing are
related in the book written by two as-
sociate editors of Farm and Fireside.
The stories are all short and to the
point. They present actual experi-
ences of farmers in all parts of the
United States and deal with every con-
ceivable product, including fresh and
canned vegetables, fruits, eggs, cream,
butter, and cheese, meats, cut flowers,
and dogs. The book is divided into
five parts. The first deals with road-
side markets; the second with other
ways of selling near home; the third
with retail routes; the fourth with
sales specialties; and the fifth with
mail order sales.

This little volume contains a wealth
of practical, common-sense information
and suggestions for those who are sit-
uated to sell farm produce at roadside
markets, by mail, or by retail routes in
neighboring towns. The book is pub-
lished by MacMillan and sells for
$1.25. Send your check to the Dept. of
Information, Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chi-
cago, and we will order a copy sent to
you.

Sued for $25,000

E. A. Extrand of Champaign county,
a policyholder in the Illinois Agri-
cultural Mutual Insurance Company,
is defendant in a suit for $25,000 re-
sulting from his automobile striking a
pedestrian a short time ago. The ac-
cident happened in Georgetown, Ver-
million county, 111.

According to Extrand the injured
person negligently left the sidewalk
to cross the street and ran right into
the side of the car. The handle of
the door struck him and caused a frac-
ture of the skull.

The Illinois Agricultural Mutual is
defending its policyholder and is look-
ing after his interests in court.

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The three policies now offered are particularly designed
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Tw^o Millions Of Life Insurance In June

THE Farm Bureau organization that represents Coun-
try Life Insurance Company has established a goal
of two millions of life insurance before the close of this
month. Every Farm Bureau member shares the respon-
sibility of seeing that his county does its share in the
June drive. A Country Life policy in every Farm
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general insurance agents to work in close harmony with
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'"I'^HE Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball
aague swung into action in two

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divisions on Saturday, May 25, when
the first games of the 1929 season
were played. Several upsets resulted.
Woodford beat the state champions
from Tazewell at Morton 5 to 4. On
the same day Peoria defeated the 1927
champions from Marshall-Putnam 5 to
2. In Div. V Logan defeated McLean
at Bloomington 4 to 2 while Cham-
paign beat Ford at Tolono 8 to 4.

Ford county is a new entry in the
League and showed up very well in its
first game. Champaign made l.'J hits
and 7 errors, while Ford gathered 5
hits and made only 4 errors.

All games were postponed on ac-
count of rain on Saturday, June 1.
Champaign and Logan played five
innings at Lincoln when the two teams
were tied 4 to 4, each team scoring 4
runs in the 5th inning. Buddemeier
of Champaign allowed 9 bases on
balls, 6 of which came during the rain
in the 5th inning.

All teams in the League have been
notified to refer eligibility questions
to their district dictators. When there
is an appeal from the decision of the
dictator the dispute is referred up to
the State Arbitration Committee for
final settlement. The State Arbitra-
tion Committee so far has held to a
strict interpretation of the rules and
by-laWs on all eligibility questions.

The eligibility clause provides that
"Any Farm Bureau member, or de-
pendent member of his family, whose
principal financial interests are in
farming, shall be eligible to play in
this League. Said eligibility must be
certified by the director or farm ad-
viser from each county.

"Eligible players can play only on
the Farm Bureau team of the county
in which their Farm Bureau member-
ship or connection is held."

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Up-to-date four full-size divisions
containing four teams each are or-
ganized. Div. VI, including Cass,
Morgan, Sangamon, and possibly
Greene had not played any games up
to June 1, but the preliminary sched-
ule called for games at ArenzviUe
and Jacksonville on June 5. Wabash
and Wayne counties in southeastern
Illinois have definitely signed up to
play. An effort is being made to or-
ganize additional teams in that sec-
tion to round out the district.

Twenty-one teams are now organ-
ized and entered officially in the
League. Several more will be added

it is hoped before the season is well
advanced.

The Lee-Stark county game post-
poned because of rain June 1 will be
played either July 6 or July 20 ac-
cording to Farm Adviser E. E. Brown.

The following games in the Illinois
Farm Bureau Baseball League were
scheduled for June 22: Kno.\ vs. Stark
at Stark, Lee vs. Henry at Henry.
Woodford vs. Peoria at Eden, Hender-
son vs. Hancock at Biggsville, War-
ren vs. McDonough at Monmouth Park,
McLean vs. Ford at Bloomington.
Champaign vs. Logan at Tolono. San-
gamon vs. Cass at Springfield, and
Greene vs. Morgan at Greene.

Mid- West Training

School, June 24-27

A. A. Officers and Farm Bureau
Leaders to Attend

G. E. Metzger

CPRING PARK, ^Minnesota, on Lake
^^ Minnetonka located about 25 miles
out of St. Paul will
b e headquarters
for the fourth an-
n u a 1 Mid - West
Training School
sponsored by the
middle west Farm
Bureau f e d e r a-
tions. The confer-
ence will be held
June 24-27.

President Earl
C. Smith and Sec-
retary Geo. Metz-
ger will head the
delegation from Illinois. District organ-
ization managers, local leaders, county
advisers and Farm Bureau members
are invited to attend. Mr. Metzger
will preside at the first day's session,
and Sam H. Thompson will deliver the
principal address that evening.

President Smith will speak at the
banquet on Tuesday night. .Among
the speakers who will address the
school during the week are Prof. Fred
Russell of the University of Illinois;
Dr. F. M. Rarig, University of Min-
nesota, M. S. Winder, Betty Eckhardt,
University of W. Va., John Brandt,
president. Land O' Lakes Creameries,
Mrs. C. W. Sewell, and others.

Problems of organization will be the
chief subject for discussion throughout
the week.

200 at Conferences

More than 200 live stock marketing
leaders and producers attended a se-
ries of four conferences held during
May at Indianapolis, Peoria, St. Louis,
and Chicago.

The meetings were arranged by the
Livestock Marketing Department of
the I. A. A., the Producer agencies,
and the Illinois County Farm Bureaus.

New Books

I7IGHT years ago I was County
-^ agent of Jackson County, Mis-
souri," says E. A. Ikenberry, in a new
book on roadside marketing entitled
"MAKING YOUR OWN MARKET"
by Russell Lord and Thomas Deloh-
ery. "But I saw more money in rais-
ing aiiples myself and marketing them
myself," continues Ikenberry, "so I
quit.

"Mv average crop of apples now
luns "from 15,000 to 20.000 bushels a
year. Also, I have 12 acres of pears,
grapes, strawberries, and blackberries.
\\\ small fruit is sold fresh at the
roadside. Apples at 75 cents to $2 a
bushel, and cider at 25 to 40 cents a
gallon net me 15 to 20 per cent more
than I would get by shii)ping, some
seasons."

Ikenberry operates a large roadside
market adjoining his orchard and dur-
ing the busy season which is flom Sep-
tember to December he and his helpers
often handle as many as 1,000 people
a day.

This interesting story, together with
09 similar stories of actual experiences
of farmers in roadside marketing are
related in the book written by two as-
sociate editors of Fuiin tnid Fireside.
The stories are all short and to the
point. They i)resent actual experi-
ences (if farmers in all parts of the
United States and deal with every con-
ceivable pr<Hluct, including fresh and
canned vegetables, fruits, eggs, cream,
butter, and cheese, meats, cut flowers,
and dogs. The book is divided into
five parts. The first deals with road-
side markets; the second with other
ways of selling near home; the third
with retail routes; the fourth with
sales si)ocialties; and the fifth with
mail order sales.

This little volume contains a wealtlt
of practical, conmion-sense information
and suggestions for those who are sit-
uated to sell farm jiroduce at roadside
markets, by mail, or by retail routes in
neighboring towns. The book is i)ub-
lished by MacMillan and sells for
.$1.25. Send your check to the Dept. of
Information, Illinois .Agricultural As-
.sociation, COS So, Dearborn St., Chi-
cago, and We will order a copy sent to
vou.

Sued for $25,000

E. A. Extrand of Champaign county,
a policyholder in the Illinois Agri-
cultural Mutual Insurance Company,
is defendant in a suit for .$25,(iOO re-
sulting fri)m his automoliile striking a
|)edestrian a short time ago. The ac-
cident happened in Georgetown, Ver-
million county. 111.

According to E.xtrand the injured
person negligently left the sidewalk
to cross the street and ran right into
the side of the car. The handle of
the door struck him and caused a frai-
ture of the skull.

The Illinois .Agricultural Mutual is
defending its policyholder and is look-
ing after his interests in court.

Page Ten

THE I. A-A-A. RECORD

PRODUCE

TING

By Frank Gougler

RICHLAND, COUNtY producers
were the pioneers in co-operative
produce marketing in Southern Illinois.
June 1, this county renewed its cbn-
tract with Tip-Top Creamery, Vin-
cennes, Indiana, for the fourth con-
secutive year. Three stations are in-
cluded in this contract and their com-
bined output of over 150,000 pounds
of butterfat will be sold.

* * •

Scott County Women

Sponsor F. B. Dinner

Two hundred seventy-five men and
women attended a dinner spon-
sored by the women's committee of the
Scott County Farm Bureau, on Friday,
May 31. The Scott County Farm
Bureau orchestra and the official Farm
Bureau song leader had a prominent
part in the entertainment.

Mrs. W. C. Simmons, chairman of
the women's committee, was toast-
master. Secretary Geo. E. Metzger
represented the Illinois Agricultural
Association and Mrs. Chas. W. Sewell,

the American Farm Bureau Federation.

Every Farm Bureau member and his
wife was invited to attend.

"The principal idea back of the
meeting," said Sec'y. Metzger, "was
to convey to the non-members first-
hand Information concerning the Farm
Bureau, the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation, and the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation. This type of meet-
ing is new to many sections of Illinois
and I believe has a great deal of merit.
Everyone who attended declared the
meeting a great success."

Adjoining counties seeing the value
of this kind of marketing are now or-
ganizing similar associations. During
April two units were started in Craw-
ford County, one at Robinson, and the
other at Oblong. This cream goes to
the Schlosser Brothers Creamery at

, Indianapolis. In a recent letter Farm
Adviser Frazier writes: "May 20 and
21 have been definitely set for cream
improvement meetings at Oblong and
Robinson and Schlosser Bros, will fur-

. nish refreshments. Stations are now
handling a nice volume of cream."
* * *

The organization most recently es-
tablished in Southern Illinois is located
at Albion in Edwards County. Farm
^ Adviser H. N. Myers reports that the
following producers were elected direc-

; tors for the first year: Harry Perkins,
president; Allen Crome, vice-president;
Geo. Works, sec'y-treas. ; Smith Bunt-
ing and Ira Smith. The manager is

1 Albert Michels. During years past
Albion has had the lowest market for

i produce in that part of the state. Even
the nearby towns would pay from one

'. to two cents more for butterfat.

This condition has now changed as

; illustrated by a recent letter received

i from Farm Adviser C. W. Simpson of
White County, located just south of
Edwards. The White County Farm
Bureau is organizing a unit at Norris
City and on May 1, Simpson happened

' to be at both points — Albion and Nor-
t . ris City, and he writes; "Today they

. were paying 41c per pound for butter-
fat at Korris City while at Albion they
are paying 44 cents." This is typical
of what happens when a co-operative

' unit is established.

High Court Upholds

Farmers' Co-operative

Old Line Dle-Hards Found Guilty
of Unfair Practice

''pHE Supreme Court of the United
-*- States in the decision handed
down on May 20 sustained the order
of the Secretary of Agriculture in the
so-called Oklahoma boycott case
against old-line market agencies and
live stock dealers operating on the
Oklahoma National Stock Yards. The
case, which dates back more than three
years, has attracted large public in-
terest by reason of the boycott by
various market agencies of the Pro-
•ducers' Commission Association.

In an order of March 31, 1926, the
Secretary directed the market agencies
and dealers operating at the Oklahoma
National Stockyards to cease from en-
graging in and using any unfair or dis-
criminatory practices in connection
with the purchase and sale of livestock
by failing or refusing to buy livestock
from or sell to the Producers' Com-
mission Association, while at the same
time carrying on business among
themselves. The order also prohibited
the respondents from agreeing among
themselves to refrain from dealing
with the Producers' Commission Asso-
ciation.

Grant Injunction

A District Court of three judges
granted an injunction against the en-
forcement of this order, whereupon
the Government appealed the case to
the Supreme Court of the United
States. The market agencies and deal-
ers urged that there was nothing to
prevent their dealing and refusing to
deal with whom they chose. With re-
spect to this claim the Supreme Court
said, "But we think it does not need
argument to show that a boycott of a
dealer in a stockyard may be an unfair
practice under the act as it is found
t'j have been in this case."

The Producers' Commission Associa-
tion was a cooperative organization
formed under an Oklahoma statute
which forbade the handling by such
associations of the agricultural and
horticultural products of nonmembers,
except for storage. The market agen-
cies and dealers contended that it did
not appear at the hearing before the
Secretary of Agriculture, that the
Commission Association confined its
handling of livestock to the products
of its members and that, for this rea-

son, the enforc , t of the Secre-
tary's order sho ■' '«■ enjoined. The
District Court agreed with this view
and held that it was incumbent upon
the Government to show that the live-
stock handled by the Producers' Com-
mission Association belonged to mem-
bers only.

Boycott Was General
The Government claimed that it
would be absurd to suppose that a
cooperative association organized for
the special purpose of aiding its mem-
bers should confine its business to the
illegal sale of the products of nonmem-
bers. With this contention of the
Government the Supreme Court
agreed. That court said, "If not all,
we must assume that some, at least, of
its business was legitimate and that to
some extent it might sell livestock that
its members produced. But the boy-
cott was general, intended it would
seem to drive the Producers' Commis-
sion Association out of business. The
association was a competitor of the ap-
pellees and the suggestion that it was
acting ultra vires (beyond its power)
sounds like an after-thought and can
not be supposed to have been the mo-
tive for the act. . . . But whatever
the motive, nothing is shown or sug-
gested by the evidence to justify the
general boycott that the Secretary's
order forbade."

Clarifies Act

The order of the Secretary was is-
sued under the packers and stockyards
act and the favorable decision of the
Supreme Court is considered by offi-
cials of the Bureau of Animal Indus-
try, which administers the act, to have
an important bearing on the future
marketing of livestock at public stock-
yards. The policy of the bureau is to
test in the highest tribunal all cases
in which the orders of the department
are questioned, thereby clarifying the
various provisions of the act and de-
fining the scope of Federal authority.

Production Exceeds

Population Growth

FARM production in the United
States has increased a half more
than population since the world war.
This increase in production has been
more rapid than at any time since
1900 and probably more rapid than at
any time since 1890. Moreover, it
has been accomplished despite a de-
crease in the number of farms and
farm population, a decrease in the
number of farm animals, and a slight
decrease in crop acreage. Incomplete
data for the years 1927 and 1928 indi-
cate that agricultural production is
still increasing at a more rapid rate
than the rate of increase in our popu-
lation.

These facts are cited by Dr. O. E.
Baker, economist in the United States
Department of Agriculture, in support
of his belief that the welfare of agri-
culture necessitates careful considera-
tion of any proposals involving an in-
crease in crop acreage.

^. RECORD

f the Secre-
ijoined. The
ith this view
umbent upon
that the live-
ducers' Com-
ged to mem-

neral

med that it
)pose that a
rganized for
ling its mem-
isiness to the
3 of nonmem-
ition of the
•erne Court
, "If not all,
e, at least, of
e and that to
livestock that
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led it would
ers' Commis-
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;or of the ap-
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d its power)
ight and can
been the mo-
But whatever
lown or sug-
0 justify the
; Secretary's

stary was is-
id stockyards
cision of the
ered by offi-
nimal Indus-
act, to have
the future
public stock-
bureau is to
lal all cases
department
larifying the
act and de-
al authority.

1 Growth

the United
half more
world war.
)n has been
time since
apid than at
rloreover, it
ispite a de-
farms and
;ase in the
and a slight
Incomplete
d 1928 indi-
eduction is
rapid rate
n our popu-

y Dr. O. E.
nited States
in support
are of agri-
1 considera-
Iving an in-

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Eleven

HERE'S IVHAT
^OTECTION

AGAINST HAIL
DAMAGE
MEANS

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A July 24th hail storm stripped this Missouri cornfield to

the ground

These Will County, 111., poh'cy-
holders were saved from a heavy
loss, when the above check re-
imbursed them for hail damage to
crops last year

HAIL storms come when you least expect them.
No part of Illinois and the corn belt is safe from
their path. Hail already has destroyed thousands of
dollars worth of field and orchard crops and farm
property this year in Southern Illinois. Last year the
northern and western parts of our state were visited
by destructive hail storms in mid-summer. It is bet*
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THE

A. RECORD

n

enewed its con-
Creamery. Vin-
the fourth con-
stations are in-

By Frank Gougler

ICHLAXL) fULXTY producers
were! the pioneert in co-oiierativt
produce niarketinf; in Southern Illinois
June 1, this county i
tract wilth Tip-Top
cennes, Indiana, for
svcutive year. Three
eluded ini this contract and their com-
bined output of ovcrj 1.50,000 iiounds
of buttei-fat will l>e sjild.
* * t
Adjoining counties seeing; the value
of this iKJid of marketinfr are now or-
ganizing similar associations. During
,\l)ril two units wore started in Craw-
ford County, one at R jbinson. and the
other at Oblong. This cream goes to
the Schlos.ser Brotheis Creamery at
Indianapolis. In a recent letter Farm
Adviser Frazier writes: ".May 20 and
21 have been definite!;- set for cream
impiovemient meetings at Oblong and
Robinson land Schlosscr Bros, will fur-
nish refreshments. Stations are now
handling la nice volume of cream."

The oi-ganization m|i.-t recently es-
tablished in Southern I linois is located
at Albion in Edwards County. Farm
Adviser H. X. Myers jeports that the
following producers were elected direc-
tors for the first year:
president: Allen Cronu"
Geo. WorKS, sec'y-treaf

Harry Perkins,
vice-president ;
Smith Bunt-

ing and Ira Smith. The manager

Albert Michels. Duri

Albion hap had the lov

liroduce itt that part of

the nearliy towns would pay from one

ng years past
est market for
the state. Even

to two cents n)orc for I

utterfat.

This condition has now changed as
illustrated by a recent letter received
from P'arm Adviser C. W. .'^inijison of
White Coiinty, located just south of
Edwards. I The White County Farm
Bureau isj organizing a unit at Xorris
City and on May 1, Simpson hapiiened
to be at bl)th points — Albion and Xor-
ris City, ."ind he writes "Today they
were paying He i>er jtojnd foi- butter

fat at XoiTis City while
are paying 44 cents."
of what hajiiiens when
unit is estlablished.

;it .-Vlbion they
This is typical
a co-operative

Scott County Women

Sponsor F. B. Dinner

''PWO hundred seventy-five men and
*- womeii attended a dinner spon-

red by tlfe women's c^

Scott Coutity Faini Bureau, on Friday

■^p
mniittee <if the

May -.'A. \ The Scott
Bureau orcfhestra and t
Bureau song leader ha^

County Farm
otlicial Farm
a ))romiiieiit

Bureau song leader tiail a ))romiiieiit
part in thci entertainment.

Mrs. Wj C. Simmon>, rhairman of

he women's committee

iiaster. .Secietary tJet .

epresenteil the Illinois

the women's committe

mas

lepri:

.\ssociatioii and Mrs. VY

was toast-
E. Metzger
.Agricultural
, W. Sewell.

the .American Farm Bureau Federation.

Pvvery Farm Bureau member and his
wife was invited to attend.

"The principal idea back of the
meeting," said Sec'y. Metzger, "was
to convey to the non-members first-
hand information concerning the Farm
Bureau, the Illinois Agrici^iral Asso-
ciation, and the AmericiiflFarm Bu-
reau Federation. This t>^' of meet-
ing is new to many sections of Illinois
and I believe has a great deal of merit.
Everyone who attended declared the
meeting a great success."

High Court Upholds

Farmers' Co-operative

Old Line Die-Hards Found Guilty
of Unfair Practice

'"PHE Supreme Court of the United
*- States in the decision handed
down on May 20 sustained the order
of the Secretary of Agriculture in the
so-called Oklahoma boycott case
against old-line market agencies and
live stock dealers operating on the
Oklahoma Xational .Stock Yar<ls. The
case, which dates back more than three
years, has attracted large public in-
terest by reason of the boycott by
vi.rious market agencies of the Pro-
ducers' Commission Association.

In an order of March 31, 192G, the
Secretaiy directed the market agencies
and dealers operating at the Oklahoma
Xational Stockyards to cease from en-
gaging in and using any unfair or dis-
criminator.v practices in connection
with the purchase and sale of livestock
by failing or refusing to bu.v livestock
from or sell to the Producers' Com-
mission Association, while at the same
time carrying on business among
themselves. The order also prohibited
the respondents from agreeing among
themselves to refrain from dealing
v.ith the Producers' Commission Asso-
ciation.

Grant Injunction

A District Court of three judges
granted an injunction against the en-
forcement of this order, whereupon
the Government apjiealed the case to
the Sui)reme Court of the United
States. The market agencies and deal-
ers urged that there was nothing to
prevent their dealing and refusing to
deal with whom they chose. With re-
spect to this claim the Supreme Court
said, "But we think it does not need
argument to show that a boycott of a
dealer in a stockyard may be an unfair
practice under the act as it is found
t'l have been in this case."

The Producers' Commission Associa-
tion was a cooperative organization
fi^rmed under an Oklahoma statute
v%hich forbade the handling by such
associations of the agricultural and
horticultural i)roducts of nonmembers,
excei)t for storage. The market agen-
cies and dealers contended that it did
not appear at the hearing before the
Secretary of Agriculture, that the
Commission Association confined its
handling of livestock to the products
of its members and that, for this rea-

son, the enforc )i the Secre-

tarji-'s order sho enjoined. The

District Court agreed with this view
and held that it was incumbent upon
the Government to show that the live-
stock handled by the Producers' Com-
mission Association belonged to mem-
bers only.

Boycott Was General
The Government claimed that it
would be absurd to suppose that a
cooperative association organized for
the special purpose of aiding its mem-
bers should confine its business to the
illegal sale of the products of nonmem-
bers. With this contention of the
Government the Supreme Court
agreed. That court said, "If not all,
we must assume that some, at least, of
its business was legitimate and that to
.some extent it might sell livestock that
its members pi'oduced. But the boy-
cott was general, intended it would
seem to drive the Producers' Commis-
sion Association out of business. The
association was a competitor of the ap-
pellees and the suggestion that it was
acting ultra vires (beyond its power)
sounds like an after-thought and can
not be supposed to have been the mo-
tive for the act. . . . But whatever
the motive, nothing is shown or sug-
gested by the evidence to justify the
general boycott that the Secretary's
order forbade."

Clarifies Act

The order of the Secretary was is-
sued under the packers and stockyards
act and the favorable decision of the
Supreme Court is considered by ofTi-
cials of the Bureau of Animal Indus-
try, which administers the act, to have
an important bearing on the future
marketing of livestock at public stock-
yards. The policy of the bureau is to
test in the highest tribunal all cases
in which the orders of the department
are (juestioned, thereby clarifying the
various i)rovisions of the act and de-
fining the scope of Federal authority.

Production Exceeds

Population Growth

I^^^ARM ijroduction in the United
States has increased a half more
than population since the world war.
This increase in production has been
more rapid than at any time since
I'.iOO and probably more rapid than at
any time since 1890. Moreover, it
has been accomplished despite a de-
crease in the number of farms and
farm population, a decrease in the
number of farm animals, and a slight
decrease in crop acreage. Incomplete
data for the years 1027 and 1928 indi-
cate that agricultural production is
still increasing at a more rapid rate
than the rate of increase in our popu-
lation.

These facts are cited by Dr. O. E.
Baker, economist in the United Stales
Department of Agriculture, in support
of his belief that the welfare of agri-
culture necessitates careful considera-
tion of any proposals involving an in-
crease in crop acreage.

I

A. RECORD

f the Secre-
ijoinod. The
ith this view
umbent upon
that the live-
iducers' Coni-
iged to mem-

neral

med that it
ppose that a
)rganized for
iing its nieni-
isiness to the
s of nonmem-
ition of the
reme Court
, "If not all,
e, at least, of
e and that to
livestock that
But the boy-
led it would
■ers' Commis-
usiness. The
tor of the ap-
n that it was
d its power)
ight and can
been the mo-
But whatever
lown or sug-
o justify the
? Secretary's

etary was is-
id stockyards
cision of the
ered by offi-
nimal Indus-
act, to have
the future
public stock-
bureau is to
nal all cases
dei)artinent
ari tying the
act and de-
al authority.

I Growth

the United
a half more
world war.
on has been
time since
apid than at
Moreover, it
L'spite a de-
farms and
ease in the
and a slight
Incomplete
d 1928 indi-
•oduction is
rapid rate
n our popu-
lar. O. E.
nited States
in support
aie of agri-
il considera-
Iving an in-

THE I. A. A. RECORD

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the ground

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loss, when the ah:i\e t Ae( k le-
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crops last year

AIL storms come when you least expect them.
No part of Illinois and the corn belt is safe from
their path. Hail already has destroyed thousands of
dollars worth of field and orchard crops and farm
property this year in Southern Illinois. Last year the
northern and western parts of our state were visited
by destructive hail storms in mid -summer.

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an additional cost of only five cents per SI 00 insurance.
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Number 7

JULY, 1929

SO J ^

^'Organization" — ^the Answer

Secretary Hyde Expresses Views In Atlanta Speech

*(/^NE general answer to farm problems is
V^ organization. Organization to control
marketing, to standardize output, to eliminate
waste and duplication of a marketing and dis-
tributing system, which, generally speaking,
absorbs two dollars for every one dollar it
returns to the farmer. Thus the farmer can
approximate the position of industry, or of
other groups,'* declared Hon. Arthur M. Hyde,
secretary of agriculture, before the annual
convention of the National Educational As-
sociation, Atlanta, on July 4.

**By the long arm of his own organization,"
continued Mr. Hyde, **the farmer can make
himself felt beyond his line fences and in the
markets of the world. Through his organiza-
tion, the farmer can get information as to com-
modity supplies, can bring his production with-
in the limits of demand, can control the sur-
plus problem by preventing it. By organiza-
tion the farmer can take control of his own
industry; re-establish the independence of his
calling; win his own place in the sun of
economic equality, and having won it, hold it
against all the changing vicissitudes of the
future.

Purpose of Bill

"To assist in the organization of agriculture;
to take the problems of the various farm com-
modities out of the realm of politics and parti-
san bickering, and to meet them in the realm
of economics; to set up an authoritative tribu-
nal which shall study each separate problem,
and afford leadership for agriculture in all its
phases; and to do this, not by subsidy nor by
governmental dabbling in business, but by help-
ing the farmer to help himself through his own
organizations — this is the aim and purpose of
the farm relief bill.

"In all the history of America, there has
been no program and no legislation in aid of
any industry comparable with it. Never has a
President heretofore called a special session of
congress to deal with the problems of one class
or calling.

What The Board Does

"President Hoover not only called the session
but he charged it in a specific message to deal
primarily and almost exclusively with the needs
of agriculture. In his campaign, he advocated
almost precisely the bill which was passed. He
has favored clothing the farm board with

Arthur M. Hyde

broader powers, defined with less limitation,
than have been possessed by any board ever
created in the government. He has backed his
faith by authorizing the use of $5 00,000,000
to effect the purpose of equalizing the economic
position of agriculture. He has acted prompt-
ly, generously, and wisely.

"The board docs not biiy or sell. It has no
right to engage in business. Its job is to foster
the organization of agriculture, to finance
farmer-owned and farmer-controlled co-opera-
tives, which may buy, sell, process or store
farm commodities.

Like An Architect

"The board serves in exactly the same capa-
city as a supervising architect serves the builder
of a skyscraper or a bridge. The builder must
provide the necessary funds, and a proper plan.
The supervising architect must find the answer
to technical questions and see the job through.
Precisely this plain, simple, practical scheme
has been fostered and set up by the statesman-
ship of President Hoover. The plan is made;
the funds provided; the board is ready to su-
pervise the job.

"Rome was not built in a day, nor will agri-
culture be emancipated over night. Much de-

pends upon the character and ability of the
men who compose the board. But much de-
pends, too, upon the co-operative associations
which are already formed, or will hereafter be
formed. The board cannot function on its own
account. The initiative lies with the farm co-
operative associations.

"It is not an evasion of responsibility, but a
statement of fact to say that the success of the
farm bill depends upon team work between the
board and the farm co-operatives, in whose
aid the legislation was designed and around
whom it is built.

Never Attempted Before

"I know it will be said that it cannot be
done; that agriculture is too far flung; com-
posed of too many millions of units; is too
individualistic; ever to stand organization. But
is it? Has the attempt ever been seriously and
persistently made? Has not the effort bixrn
rather to find a magic cure-all by legislation
which will by some mysterious wizardry whisk
the surplus out of the way, leaving agriculture
the pleasing task of increasing the next surplus?

"Is not the stake great enough to justify the
undertaking? Let us not forget that the sine
qua non of successful agriculture is not merely
farming, but profit. We seek prosperous farms
able to maintain good schools and afford to
present and future Americans an American
standard of living.

"In one of his campaign speeches. President
Hoover uttered this inspiring sentiment:

What Hoover Said

" 'My conception of America,' he said, 'is
a land where men and women may walk in
ordered freedom in the independent conduct of
their occupations; where they may enjoy the
advantages of wealth, not concentrated in the
hands of a few, but spread through the lives
of all; where they may build and safeguard
their homes, and give their children the fullest
advantages and opportunities of American life;
. . . where a contented and happy people, secure
in their liberties, free from poverty and fear,
shall have their leisure and the impulse to seek
a higher life.'

"In this statement is the essence of our na-
(Continued on page II)

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so important as how these
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Number 7

JULY, 1929

"Organization'' — tlie Answer

Secretary Hyde Expresses Views In Atlanta Speech

^*/ \NE general answer to farm problems is
\ 7 organization. Organization to control
marketing, to standardize output, to eliminate
waste and duplication of a marketing and dis-
tributing system, which, generally speaking,
absorbs two dollars for every one dollar it
returns to the farmer. Thus the farmer can
approximate the position of industry, or of
other groups," (U'clare*! H<»n. Arthur M. Hytlf.
s.-»'r«'tary of airricult lire, before t h«* annual
ritnvention v>f t ht- Nationnl Kduratiuiial As-
sociation. Atlanta, on July I.

**By the long arm of his own organization,"
c'oiit iiui«<i Mr. Hy<lt . "the farmer can make
himself felt beyond his line fences and in the
markets of the world. Through his organiza-
tion, the farmer can get information as to com-
modity supplies, can bring his production with-
in the limits of demand, can control the sur-
plus problem by preventing it. By organiza-
tion the farmer can take control of his own
industry; re-establish the independence of his
calling; win his own place in the sun of
economic equality, and having won it, hold it
against all the changing vicissitudes of the
future.

Purpose of Bill

"To assist in the orj;.nii/.uion ol ai;riculiurc;
to take tlic p'roblcms of the \arious farm coin-
niodiiics out of tbo realm of politics and parti-
san biekcriiii:, and to meet tliem in the realm
of ceonomies; to set up an authoritative tribu-
nal which shall study each separate problem,
and atford leadership for a.^riculture in aR its
phases; and tt> do this, not by subsidy nor by
;;overnniental dabblini; in business, but b\ help-
inj; the farmer to help himself throu>;h his own
organizations — this is the aim and purpose ot
the farm relief hill.

"Ill all liie hisiiirv of America, there has
been ni> proi;rani and no te>;islation in aid of
any industry comparable with it. Nevt-r has a
President heretofore called a sptxial sessicm of
con>;ress to deal with the problems <if one class
or callin.i;.

What The Board Does

"President Hoover not only called the session
but be charged it in a specific message to deal
primarily and almost exclusively with the needs
(if agriculture. In bis campaij;n. he advocated
almost precisely the bill which was passed. He
has favored clothmg the farm board with

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broader pow eis, defined with less hmiiationj
t han have been possessed b\ .in\ bo.ird ev tr
created in the government, lie has backed liis
faith by auihori/im; the use *)f S^(Hi,(ni(t.mH»
to effect the purpose ot c-iuali/in^; the economic
position ot aKriculiure. lie has acted prompt-
ly. i;enerousK. and wiscU,

I he board does not bii\ or slU. It has n.t
rii;ht to eni;ai;e in business. Its \\\\ is to tostei*
the ori;ani/.;tion ot a>;riculi ure. to tinaruc
tarmer-iiwned and tarnier-cont r< tiled s o ope ra-
ti \ es. which nia\ buv, sell. priH."ess or stoitj
farm commodiiies.

Like An Architect

"liie boaid serxes in exactU the same tapa-
cit\ as a superxisini; architect serves the builder
ot a skyscraper or a bridge. 1 be builder must
provide the necessar) t unds, x\\i\ a proper plan.
I he supervisinv; architect must find the answer
to technical iiuestiiins and see the i<ib tbrouj^h.
Precisely this plain, simple, practical scheme
has been fostered and set up by tlie statesman-
ship i>t President H(K>ver. 1 be plan is made;
the tunds provided; the board is read% to su-t
per\ise the job.

"Rome was not built in a ^\\ , nor will a>;M-
culturc be emancipated over night. Much dc-i

pends upt»n the (.haracler and abiliii\ ot the

nuti w ho conipose the I
p^nds. t«Mi. upon the c*
w h ic h a re a 1 rea d \ 1 1 trniet
toimed. The board canni
ucount. rhe injtiati\e '
'>peraii\ e asN<K:iations.

"It IS not .111 cv asioTi «
vijieincni ol ta*.l to sa\

tarni bill dcfv-nds upt»n ttam work bi*twee?i l!
hoard and the \\r\w c
aid the legislation w as

w li.iiii' i: IS buih ,

urd. Hut nuu li de
-opi-ratn e jssocutions
. or will b|*reafier he
't function \\x\ its own
With the farm co-

responsibilii v . but a
bat l!ie suctess of the

1 -operatives, m w b«^e
designed and around

Never Attemilted Before

I know u \\\\\ be s.lid thai it lamii't W

dtMie; t hat a^riv ult ure is

posfd ot t<»o Tiianv mill

iiidiv idualislu ; ever to si

IS It •• 1 las the attempt e

persisuiuU made.' I las

ratiier to tiiid a ma^ic ^ ure-all by lei:islatioi

which will b\ s-.nie nust-rious wi/arjdrv w bisk

tile surplus out ol the w,y, leavin;; *>; ri*. ul i u re

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Page Two

THE I. A. A. RECORD

One Advantage of Sleeping on the Floor
Is That You Can*t Be Kicked Out of Bed

This is just another way of saying if you are basically right on price you need never worry
about being undersold.

Being able to buy life insurance in your own company AT COST is like that when costs are as
low and quality as high as it is possible to get them. I ?

What is cost? In some companies cost is one thing and in COUNTRY LIFE it is another.

COUNTRY LIFE'S cost is low because of:

1.
2.
3.

4.
5.

Lower commission expense for selling through direct
contracts with County Farm Bureaus.

Low rates based on modern mortality, which considers
the increased span of life.

The elimination of job holders, who consume a substan-
tial portion of the policyholders' money in many com-
panies.

The advantage of 95 already organized counties or
agencies with no additional expense for organization.
The Good Will of the Farm Bureaus whose members
own the company. This Good Will is worth millions to
Farm Bureau members.

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I:

Your help will place $50,000,000 of life insur-
ance on the books the first year and put COUN-
TRY LIFE ahead of two-thirds of the old line
companies in volume.

Your cO'Operation will demonstrate the ability
of farmers to succeed in a great self-help under-
taking.

Your aid will create a large volume of business
to increase dividends and benefits beyond our
fondest hopes and expectations.

COUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

608 S«. Dearborn St.
CHICAGO

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Chicago, Illinois. ■

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Number 7

JULY, 1929

Volume 7

Many Farm Bureau

Picnics Sclieduled

August WiU Be Big Month for Out-
door Gatherings

4 HEAVY demand for fried chicken, pickles,
-'■ *- potato salad, pie and all the other good
things that come out of picnic baskets is in
prospect for August and early September for the
normal number of post-harvest Farm Bureau pic-
nics that are being scheduled at this early date.

The "Home Rule" plan for district gather-
ings again is being followed. Farm Bureaus in
each congressional district have been asked to
declare whether or not they will help sponsor
a district I. A. A. Farm Bureau picnic.

Arrangements in such cases will be left en-
tirely with the local piCnic committee but the
I. A. A. will provide speakers and a public
address system.

Five district picnics already have been sched-
uled. Arrangements for others are being made.
Dates and places will be announced within the
next two weeks.

ShelbyviUe on 16th

The 19th district picnic at Forest Park,
ShelbyviUe, on Aug. 16 will open the season.
At least this is the first joint event scheduled
and members in the counties of Shelby, Coles,
Moultrie, Piatt, Dewitt, Champaign, Macon,
and Douglas arc counting on having their
alfalfa made, and the wheat and oats in the
bin so nothing will stop a great district-wide
jollification.

The 20th district chose to meet again on
the state hospital grounds at Jacksonville. But
this year the date is Aug. 17, two weeks earlier
than the Labor Day gathering of last year when
overcoats early in the day were comfortable.

Miller Park, Bloomington, where last year
was held one of the largest of the 14 district
picnics will entertain counties in the 17th
again with the McLean County Farm Bureau and
local business organizations acting as host. This
picnic is scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 28.
The date was moved up a day to make room for
the 2Jth district picnic at Sparta on the 29th.

Another at Sparta

The Randolph County Farm Bureau and
Sparta business men will play host to the
southwestern Illinois counties when they gather
on the comfortable and commodious Sparta
Country Club grounds.

The 24th district picnic at OIney last year
was so overwhelmingly successful that the
Farm Bureaus in that section voted to let
Richland County have the honor and responsi-
bility again. The Fair Grounds on Aug. 30,
OIney, are the time and place for southeastern
Illinois members to mark on the calendar.

While no dates have been scheduled for
picnics in ihe 12th, IJth, 14th, and 22nd dis-
tricts committees are at work and announce-
ments may be expected shortly.

Alexander Lene

Morrison in Whiteside county will probably
be the scene of the district gathering for north-
western Illinois farmers. Monmouth has been
named tentatively as the gathering place for
the 14th district picnic, and DeKalb county
seems a likely place for the proposed joint picnic
between the 11th and 12 th district Farm
Bureaus.

The field is being combed for a new roster of
speakers. All interest now centers around the
Federal Farm Board scheduled to hold its first
meeting at Washington July 15 and discussions
of the new Marketing Act and future activities
of the Farm Board may be expected at the dis-
trict gatherings. Thus while recreation will
be the chief drawing card, the picnics will have
greater significance as they bring a greater re-
alization and understanding of the part organ-
ized farmers will play in the movement toward
agricultural stability and prosperity.

Mark ^Em On Your
Calendar

Aug. 16 — 19tli Diit. I. A. A.
Farm Bureau Picnic, Forest
Park, Slielbyvilie.

Aug. 17 — 20tli Di»t. Picnic,
Jacksonville.

Aug. 28 — 17tli Dist. Picnic, Mil-
ler Park, Bloomington.

Aug. 29 — 25tli Dist. Picnic,
Country Club, Sparta.

Aug. 30 — 23rd Dist. Picnic, Fair
Grounds, OIney.

Others To Be Announced Later.

Members of Federal

Farm Board Chosen

President Hoover Selects Able Execu-
tive As Chairnuui i

ALEXANDER LEGGE of Chicago, president
of the International Harvester Company,
who has accepted the chairmanship of the Fed-
eral Farm Board on the invitation of President
Hoover, is an outstanding business man who
expressed friendliness to an effective farm re-
lief program years ago. He is well known to
leaders in the Farm Bureau movement.

Mr. Legge was born on a farm in Dane
County, Wisconsin, in 1866 and lived on a
farm until 1891 when he entered the employ-
ment of the McCormick Reaper Company. Mr.
Legge worked his way up in the harvester
business at Omaha. He became general man-
ager of the International Harvester Company
in 1913 and president in 1922. Legge was a
dollar-a-year man during the war, working with
Bernard Baruch, chairman, George N. Peek,
and others on the War Industries Board.

Stone Vice-chairman

James C. Stone of Lexington, Kentucky, vice-
chairman of the Federal Farm Board, was one
of the founders of the Barley Tobacco Grow-
ers' Association which is reported to have done
an annual business of $$0,000,000. Stone is
recognized in the tobacco growing regions as
an able, capable, business-type farm leader who
has been identified with the cause of co-opera-
tive marketing for many years.

C. B. Denman of Farmington, Mo., president
of the National Live Stock Producers' Asso-
ciation, will represent the live stock industry on
the Board. He is perhaps better known to
Illinois farmers than any other member.

Denman is known as a keen, level-headed,
aggressive leader in the live stock marketing
field. His energy and devotion to the Producer
movement has helped make it a successful co-
operative which last year did a business in ex-
cess of $130,000,000.

All Co-op. Leaders

Carl Williams of Oklahoma City is editor of
the Oklahoma Stockman and Farmer. He had
much to do with the organization of the Ameri-
can Cotton Growers' Exchange which he served
at one time as president. He has been an advo-
cate of co-operative marketing as one of the
tools for helping farmers gain economic equality.

Charles C. Teague of Los Angeles, born on
a farm in Maine, migrated to California ai s
young man where he engaged in fruit farm-
ing. He 'rose through the ranks during the
organization of the California Fruit Growers'
Exchange which he now serves as president.
He is also president of several other co-operative
commodity marketing associations, is a member
of the farm legislative committee of California,
(Continued on ptge t)

THE I. A. A. RECORD

TiyE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS. TUESDAY. JUNE A. 1929.

LIFE INSURANCE
RATES TOO HIGH,
EXPERTS ADMIT

Chicagoans Discuss Effort

Being Made for Read*

justment.

BY OIFFORD ERNEST.

LUe insumnoe rates In force today
'vvre compute^ on mortality tables
now considered antiquated by actu-
aries and aM admittedly too blgh. ac-
oerdlng to insurance experts seeUns

readjustment of premium rates.

The average rate fot a straight life
policy in a participating company Is
about $36.50 annually for a person 3S
vcarsold. This Is approxlma telly 30 per
cent too high, say some actuaries and
eitecutives.

Admission that the rate Is excessive
U made when at the end of one or
two years the epmpany starts an an-
nual refund ortllvidend of about t6.50
In the better companies and approxi-
mately $4 In other ccmpanles, Law-
rence A. Williams, (nsurance expert
and general executive of the Country
LtTs Insurance Compasr ot Illinois,

pointed out today.

Terms It Indefensible.

"Insurance companies admit by this
customary refunding procedure that
they cliarge too much," he said. "In
a scientific business like Instn^nce. a
guess on rate fixing that Is almost
3t) per cent out of the way la Inde-
fensible.

"Llfeinsurance rates required by law
are mostly based on the American ex-
perience mortality tables, now more
than fifty years old. These tables
are antiquated now that the life
span has increased, but rates havent
been lowered.

"If the premium rate is ss high
that 30 per cent of It can be paid
baclc In annual dividends or refunds,
why not take It off the first cost of
msurancc?"

Insurance circles are agog with
the controversy over high premJmn
rates, according to Mr. Williams, who
gave the points of contention that are
set forth In conferences of insurance
eKeoutlves, experts, specialist* and
through their journals.

Paying for Promotion. '

High rates. It Is argued, provide a
surplus over the percentage of prof-
its allowed by law. This surplus
makes available a huge fund for get'
ting new business, and permits com-
panics to pay as high as 75 per cent
of the first annual premium to agents
in commissiotis. If the premium
rates were cut, ctxamlsslona now
paid would have to be reduced. The
present rates enable the companies
to pay high aoqalsltlon costs.

There Is no monopoly in life Insur-
ance business. Approximately 350
companies do a competitive business
in the United States and new ones
are being formed all the time. Ameri-
ca's insurance business has $100,000,-
000,000 In policies in force.

"The banking business, with assets
totaling $10,000,000,000, is made to
look like a kindergarten when com-
pared to the insurance business,"
Donald F. Campbell of Chicago, well
knofcn Insurance actuary, remarked.

"Life insurance Is as near a public
utility as any business can be," con-
tinued Mr. Williams. "The public's
funds are contracted for to be paid
m for life, or a set number of' years,
and the public Is Ignorant that of
the amount taken, practically 30 per
cent is in unwarranted premium
charges."

Has Many Ramifications.

Involved in the administration of
the Insurance business, with Its more
ta*n $100,000,000,000 are pollUcs,
building projects, tariffs, taxes and
international policies, according to
Mr, 'WUlUuns, who mainUins that tbe
oCfloli^am of the life insurance busl-
□Ssi constitutes the hierarchy keep-
ing up the premium rates.

Opponents to reduction of the rates
hold that the ^eUts of Increased
life expectancy obt«i|i mainly In the
younger ages i^ that oorrectlons «f
ptsmlum tables are being made.'Also
tiM, because of .vigorous oompetltlco
there Is no call for a change.

"Contusion also results Imm the
ptipalmc btiiet that premium rates

a«e based on expectancy of life,"
said Mr. Campbell. "On account of
interest and other faetors this Is not
wholly the case. Rates of mortality
in life tables are derlvod by the use
of certain formulse applied to cen-
sus statistics.

"The ease Is quite different In con-
struction of mortality tables based
on Inswed lives where the Individuals
do not come under observation until
accepted as a risk by Insurance com-
■ panics.

Figuring Mortality Tables.

"Tbt mortality tables used as a
basis of figuring life Insurance pre
mlum rates were built on an aggre-
gate of selected persons, and there-
fore the life expectancy figures in In-
surance iAh'.va are approximately
that of the latest finding* in ceU'
sus tables."

Nevertheless, Mr. Williams points
ou^ the refunding of a percentage of
annual premiums goes on. He also
thinks that the dividends are paid
as a result of the tremendous com-
petition In the business, and not be-
cixHt of business ethics.

In other words," he said, 'com-
petition has done for policy holders
what laws regulating luemium rates
have failed to do. But mucU more
could be done If an InTesUgatlon
were made to ascertain scientifically
What rate should be paid, and what
the companies do with the interest
on the excess premium collected be-
fore they return It In the form of
so-called dlTldenda."

Country Life WiUing

to Debate Ins. Rates

Seeks to be Fair at All Times

By L. A. Williams, Manager, Country
Life Insurance Company

'■ j ■'HROUGH the program of Country Life
■^ Insurance Company, we have been con-
vinced beyond a doubt of the great service that
can be rendered to members bf Farm Bureaus
and their families. The lowi yet actuarially
sound, guaranteed rates of Country Life have
been compared with the ratei of other com-
panies. Such comparisons cannot be avoided in
the future.

Alfred M. Best Company, Inc., has taken
exception to certain references in an article by
me in the May issue of the Recokd, which
might be construed by some as reflecting upon
the business integrity of the ^est Company.

The statements in the article objected to
are as follows:

"They champion the overcharge methods of
■their clientele as they recognize their 'Master's
Voice'."

"And cf cpurse it is logiqal that a class
publication shall champion those who have been
fooling the public so long."

"When a little company likie Country Life
Insurance Company, with honpsty of purpose
can make all the big old line (tompanies squeal
through a mouthpiece, it is veijy apparent that
Sam Jones' old saying, 'Every once in awhile
a burnt sinner will squeal' is | overwhelmingly
true."

The article in the May issue followed an
interchange of correspondence between A. Dex-
ter Best of the Best Company arid myself, copies
of which were published by ths Best Company

in the May 1st issue of Best's Insurance News.
The officers of the Best Company appear to
think that these statements are a reflection
upon the business integrity of their company.
Inasmuch as the article was intended to set
forth justification of the position and rates of
Country Life Insurance Company and in no
way as an attack upon the business integrity
of Alfred M. Best Company, Inc., I desire at
this time, and without further reviewing the
controversy and to the end that no misunder-
standing and prejudicial interpretation may arise
from the above quoted statements, to recall
them and suggest, as is done in judicial pro-
ceedings, that same be stricken from the
Record.

There can be no question but that' the Best
Company has rendered a valuable service to
business through its insurance publications. Its
criticisms and approvals have been very help-
ful and constructive in the advancement of
life insurance.

Welcome Rate Discussion

The officers of the Best Company have in-
dicated their readiness to debate with me any
matter of life insurance. I solicit and will wel-
come a discussion on the subject "Rates on
Life Insurance" made by old line companies
which claim to be mutual and operate on the
participating plan.

The progress of the Country Life Insurance
Company to date justifies ever increasing en-
thusiasm and optimism for greater service to
its policyholders than was anticipated at the
time of its organization. We shall continue
to put forth every additional constructive ef-
fort for its advancement in a manner that will
accrue to the benefit of the policyholder and
make every policyholder a booster for Country
Life Insurance Company.

Hcprint from Chipaco Daily Newa

August 1 Last Call For
Liability Insurance

AUGUST 1 is the closing date to get pledge
- cards and checks in the mail to help
initiate Employers' Liability Insurance for
farmers, announces V. Vjniman, director of in-
surance service.

This insurance will protect the farm employer
against liability for injury or death to employes
up to $5,000 and $10,000. The cost of the
insurance will be about $10 per year according
to present estimates.

Vaniman cites several recent accidents on the
farm as follows: Arthur Brossman of Plain-
field had a team of horses run away with his
hired man on July 2. The hired man received
a broken shoulder and left foot broken across
the instep. He was taken to a hospital at
Aurora.

Frederick W. Huston of Gibson City died on
July 4 as a result of injuries received two days
before when he accidentally fell out of the door
ill the hay mow.

With his two sons, Howard and Fred, Mr.
Huston was putting hay in the barn when the
rope broke. He went to the mow to fix it and
fell from the doorway, striking the ground 20
feet below. It was found that his arms were
paralyzed, one leg broken above the knee, and
his back was seriously injured.

Members are asked to call at their Farm
Bureau offices for further information about
this new insurance service at cost.

Two hundred and twenty-five appli-
cations for auto insurance were re-
ceived by tlie Illinois Agricultural
Mutual the first week in July.

^. RECORD

..K|>-.-1

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Five

ctancy of life,"
"On account of
>ton this Is not
«i of mortality
lv«d by thB use
ippUed to uen-

lifferent In eon-
y tablet based

the Individuals
bserratlon until
Insurance com-

ty Tableik
lea used as a
Insurance pre-
en an aggre-
ns, and ther«-
y figures in In-
approxlmately
idlng» In oen-

niliama points
I percentage of
I on. He also
ends are paid
mendous com-
f, and not bt-
1.

le said, 'com-
pollcy holders
premium rates
It much more
Investigation
a acientlflcally
aid, and what
i the interest
1 collected be-
1 the form of i

CBCu Daily N'ew^

ill for
ance

to get pledge
mail to help
nsurance for
director of in-

farm employer
h to employes
e cost of the
year according

cidents on the
lan of Plain-
way with his
man received
broken across
a hospital at

City died on
ved two days
It of the door

nd Fred, Mr.
»rn when the
to fix it and
le ground 20
is arms were
he knee, and

their Farm
nation about

■five appli-

were re-

gricultural

>ly.

Roadside Markets

Getting Under Way

Bert Leeper Tells Progress of Plan
In Radio Talh

A. B. Leeper

"'T^WO districts of markets will be started
J- this year, one with Bloomington as a
center and another west of Chicago," declared
A. B. Leeper, director of fruit and vegetable
marketing, in his recent radio address, June 27,
on the I. A. A. Forum from Station WLS in
discussing the chain of roadside markets.

"Most of the mar-
kets in the Chicago dis-
trict will be located in
DuPage county," he
said. "At present loca-
tions have been defi-
nitely decided upon
and the markets are
now being erected at
the following points:
One in Macon county
just north of Decatur
on Route No. 2; one in
DeWitt county just
north of Clinton at
Wapella on Route No. 2; one in McLean county
north of Bloomington on Route No. 2; one in
McLean county northeast of Bloomington at
Towanda on Route No. 4; one in McLean county
nine miles east of Bloomington on Route No. 9;
one in DuPage county near Naperville on Route
No. 18; and one in DuPage county near Down-
ers Grove on Route No. 18. It is planned to
have these markets open for business early in
July.

Not Competitive

"We do not expect these markets to inter-
fere with the established channels of trade in
the cities where peaches are handled through
jobbers and retail stores. We believe these
standardized roadside markets will render a real
service to both growers and consumers by
furnishing products of standardized grade and
quality at prices fair to both.

"We would like to have every one within
reasonable distance from these markets who
is interested in the farm problem, and who
wants to do something to aid the growers,
to visit these markets. If you find the quality
and prices of the products offered in line with
those sold elsewhere, we would liktf to have
you purchase your supplies through these mar-
kets. The further extension of this type of
marketing service will depend entirely upon the
patronage these markets receive this year. We
have heard a great deal about the farmers
doing something for themselves. Now I am
telling you about a group of farmers who are
trying to do something for themselves. We
feel certain that the consumers will take kindly
toward their efforts and we are really optimistic
as to the future of this type of marketing

To Distribute Peaclies ^*'"

"I also want to tell you about an effort the
Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange is making this
year to extend the distribution of peaches to
Illinois people. It is planned to send a repre-
sentative to make arrangements with Farm
Bureaus and local dealers in small communities
to handle carlots of peaches. There are only
400 bushels of peaches in a carload and nu
community is too small, if the consumers co-
operate, to use at least one car. I am going
to suggest to all of the people in rural com-

munities who are listening in, that you get in
touch with your farm advisers or local dealers,
if you are going to purchase peaches this year.
This will give them some idea as to the demand
and they will have more definite information
as to your requirements. They in turn can get
in touch with the distributors who will be
glad to sell as many Illinois peaches as are
needed. It is hoped by this plan to supply
Illinois peaches at reasonable prices to the con-
sumers in Illinois.

600 Carloads This Year

"The Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange will
handle fruits and vegetables in carlots the same
as heretofore. It is estimated that at least
600 carloads will be handled through that or-
ganization."

Commenting upon recent trends in the mar-
keting of fruits and vegetables, Leeper pointed
out that the completion of the hard-road sys-
tem and the increased use of automobiles and
trucks have developed a type of distribution
that was unheard of only a few years ago.

"It is estimated that in 1928 at least 600
carloads of peaches were sold by the growers
to consumers who hauled them away in auto-
mobiles or to buyers who transported them by
trucks to be sold at points outside the produc-
ing areas. As a result," he continued, "a group
of enterprising Farm Bureau members who are
growers of fruits have formed an association
to establish and operate a number of roadside
markets in Illinois this year. It is the belief
of these growers that a real service can be
rendered through these roadside markets to both
producers and consumers. Buildings, signs, and
equipment of the markets will be standardized
as far as conditions will permit. It is planned
to divide the state into districts and place each
district under the supervision of one manager.
Each market will have its attendant who is
responsible to the manager of his district.

Handle AU Kinds

"The plan contemplates that all kinds of
fruits and vegetables grown in the state will
(Continued on page 8)

OLDEST POLICY-
HOLDER

Clinton C. Caywood
Clinton C. Caywood, 70, of Oblong, 111., is
the oldest Country Life policyholder. He was
born Feb. 2, 18J9.

Board of Trade Deals Held
To Be ''Gambling'*

' I ''HE legality of contracts between customers
-*- and Board of Trade members for the pur-
chase and sale of grain and provision futures
and bids and offers, subsequently resulting in
speculative transactions is being rigidly tested
in Illinois in the McCabe grain futures case
now before the appellate court at Ottawa.

William McCabe, a Bureau county farmer,
was sued nearly six years ago by James K.
Riordon, a member of the Chicago Board of
Trade, to foreclose a mortgage and recover on
two notes at a total of $tj,000, given in set-
tlement of losses for alleged speculating on the
Board of Trade.

In an answer and cross petition, McCabe
held that the notes were gjiven to satisfy gam-
bling debts and he asked for their cancellation.

Before Higher Court

The decision of the lower court, should
it be affirmed by the appellate court, places
upon Board of Trade firms the duty of in-
vestigating the need of each customer for the
grain and provisions he orders, his financial
ability to accept and pay for all contracts, and
his intention to make delivery or to receive
shipment and not to close out before the ex-
piration of the option or the maturing of the
future contract.

J. L. Spaulding, attorney for McCabe, con-
tended that it is just as easy to gamble on the
Board of Trade contracts as it is to do a legiti-
mate business. He held that the volume of
transactions by McCabe in the three years be-
fore he withdrew from the market, involving
a total of more than 27,000,000 bushels of
grain, should have convinced the Chicago Board
of Trade that McCabe was not engaged in
legitimate business.

The whole question comes back to the point
i% to whether or not the higher court will
construe McCabe's operations on the Board as
gambling. Gambling debts are not recognized
before the law.

The case has attracted iwide attention and
the decision of the appellate court due within
60 days will be watched with interest.

' Want Electricity

The LaSalle County Farm Bureau sponsored
a meeting in Otter Creek township recently to
discuss arrangements for rural electrification in
the vicinity of Kernan. L. J. Quasey, I. A. A.
transportation director, and representatives of
the Public Service Company attended the meet-
ing.

Eleven farmers in this neighborhood are seek-
ing electricity for their farms. Efforts are be-
ing made by the Farm Bureau and the I. A. A.
Transportation Department to work out a plan
whereby the wiring can be installed and the
cost divided and added to the monthly electric
blMs over a period of several years.

E. A. Wilmot of Peoria County led all agents
of Country Life Insurance Company in the
month of June. He wrote » 5 7,000 of personal
business and his county produced a total of
$67,000. The counties of Effingham and Peoria
are in race for first place in attaining their
respective quotas. H. O. Henry, the general
agent of Effingham County, now leads in high-
est per cent of quota.

Page Six'

THE I. A. A. RECORD

I liLilNOIS

CCLTDBAL ASSOCIA

RECORO^

To advanea iha purpote for which the Farm Bureau wat organized,
namely to promote, protect and repreeent the butineea, economic,
political, and educational interemta of the farmere of lllinoia and the
nation, and to develop agriculture.

Published once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave., Mount Morris,
Illinois, by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Entered as second-
class matter October 20, 1925, at the post office at Mount Morris,
Illinois, under the Act of March S, 1879. Accepted for mailins at
special rate of postage provided for in Section 412, Act of February
28, 1925, authorized October 27. 1925. The individual membership
fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five dollars a year. The
fee includes payment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois
Agricultural Association Record. Postmaster: In returning an un-
called for or missent copy please indicate key number on address as
is required by law.

OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vice-President, Frank D. Barton Cornell

Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger Chicago

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles _ Bloomlngton

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
J (By Congressional District)
1st to lltli- H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

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G. F. Tullock, Rockford

C. E. Bamborough, Polo

M. G. Lambert, Ferris

A. N. Skinner, Yates City

A. R. Wright, Vema

Geo. J. StoU, Chestnut

R. F. Karr, Iroquois

C. J. Gross, Atwood

..Charles S. Black, Jacksonville

Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

Frank Oexner, Waterloo

W. L. Cope. Salem

Charles Marshall, Belknap

Fred Diets, De Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Dairy Marketing ., A. D. Lynch

Limestone-Phosphate J. R- Bent

Finance i R. A. Cowles

Fruit and VegeUble Marketing A. B. Leeper

Comptroller J- H. Kelker

Information..

Insurance Service

Legal Counsel

Live Stock Marketing

Organization

Produce Marketing

Taxation and Statistics..
Transportation

George Thiem

V. Vaniman

Donald Kirkpatrick

Ray E. MiUer

G. E. Metzger

F. A. Gougler

,..J. C. Watson

L. J. Quasey

SUBSIDIARY ORGANIZATIONS

Country Ufe Insurance Co L. A. XVilliams, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives Ass'n F. E. Ringham. Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co A. E. Richardson, Mgr.

Illinois Farm Supply Co 1- R- Marchant, Mgr.

I. A„ A. Growth

THE growtjh of the Illinois Agricultural Association and its associated
companies during the past ten years is revealed in the tremendous
increase in office floor space occupied now compared with that comprising
the -first little office establisheld in Room 110), Edison Building, Clark
and Adams St., back in 191 9. j Two rooms, one about I4x 14 feet, the
other 12x14 feet, a total of j 364 square feet made up the first home
of the I. A. A. in Chicago. Today the Association and associated com-
panies occupy 78 iO square f^et of floor space or well over half the
entire 12th floor of the Traiisportation Building.

Secretary U. O. ThompsonL Publicity Director Edgar L. Bill, and
Organization Director J. C. Sailor together with office help comprised
the I. A. A. staff when the first office was established in the Edison
Building.

Early in 1920 the Association had blossomed out with a membership
of nearly 50,000. Several ndyf departments were established and the
cramped quarters of the Edisdn Building were deserted for more com-
modious offices in the Peopled Life Insurance Building at 150 North
Wells Street.

The move to the Transportation Building at Harrison and Dear-
born Sts., the present headquirters, was made about two years later.
Nearly every year since then Has seen expansion in service to members,
and office space to contain all the new activities. Tenants whose ofiBces
once adjoined the I. A. A. hjave relinquished their rooms and taken
other space to accommodate us

How the Copper Producers Did It

COMMENTING upon the recent prosperity of copper producers
Glenn Griswold in the Chicago Journal of Commerce says:

"All sorts of reasons are being given for the advance in the price of
copper and for the fact that even now copper is abnormally high and
profitable. Most uf these reasons are fairly sound and yet it would
seem that the most important reason is the one usually neglected; that
is co-operative organization within the industry.

"No other industry is so soundly organized in its inter-company and
competitive relations. After six years of depression and near bankruptcy
the full effect of co-operation began to be felt, and despite its price
intlaciun copper seems to be one of the strongest industries in the coun-
try today."

Organization and co-operation can do as much for agriculture al-
though the farm problem is infinitely more complex. The "Agricultural
Marketing Act" and the Federal Farm Board, it is hoped, will point the
way to stabilization at a (Profitable level. Farmers recognize their re-
sponsibility in the work that lies ahead. We must learn first, however,
that co-operation means the individual support of every farmer to his
live stock shipping association. Producers' Commission Association, co-
operative fruit and vegetable growers' association, seed growers' ex-
change, cream shipping association, co-operative farmers' elevator,
co-operative farm supply company, and last but not least, the Farm
Bureau. I 1 '3

Gratitude and Ingratitude

"T AM writing to inform you that they have built my fence along
I the railroad," writes Arthur Bestold, a member of the Marshall-
Putnam Farm Bureau. "I thank you very much for taking care of
this for me. I have a neighbor who says he has been trying to get a
fence for three years and has not got it yet. Still he is always knock-
ing the Farm Bureau and the I. A. A. I appreciate this service very
much."

This little testimonial reveals one of the minor and less important
services made possible by organization. Yet, because it was direct, tangi-
ble, and individual it was highly appreciated. I

Of far more importance are other services rendered by the Farm
Bureau and the Illinois Agricultural Association. Initiating co-opera-
tive marketing and bargaining associations and protecting farmers' in-
terests before taxing bodies, commissions that fix freight rates, telephone
rates, and light rates are of greater significance.

Yet because these services are less tangible, less evident they often go
unnoticed and unappreciated. Non-members as well as members benefit
from many of these activities. But too often they are taken for granted
and evoke no such letters as the one quoted above.

It is perhaps too much to expect commendation and thanks for work
well done. "Ingratitude is the world's reward," said a German phil-
osopher with some truth. He who works for the sake of securing credit,
recognition, and reward is usually disappointed. The personal joy and
satisfaction that comes from work well done must suffice. If you get
more than this, count yourself fortunate.

State Fair August 19

STATE Fair visitors at Springfield during the week August 19-24
will be greeted by a fifty by eighty Farm Bureau tent reserved as
headquarters for I. A. A. -Farm Bureau members throughout Illinois.
A portion of the space in the tent will be used as a checking booth
where members may leave their wraps and parcels while they seek
recreation and rest.

The State Fair is a great educational institution. Everyone can see
the handiwork of superior live stock breeders, fruit, vegetable, and
grain growers. There is inspiration for farm boys and girls in the 4-H
Club exhibits. The art of home making is not forgotten in the educa-
tional displays and exhibits that interest thousands of Fair visitors.

The Illinois State Fair with its many new buildings, its spacious
grounds and countlr« attractions is one of the best in the country.
But go to the Fair v.. I- I'.e idea of learning the lessons it teaches if
you would make it a j'.rotiiable trip.

\. RECORD

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August 19-24
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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Seven

mme^s

Tune in on the I. A. A. Forum from Station
WLS every Thursday night at 6:30 p. m..
Central Standard Time.

The daily farm program of the I. A. A. from
Station WJJD, Mooseheart (265 meters) is
broadcast between 12:00 and 12:20 p. m., Mon-
day to Friday inclusive. Hear the daily Chicago
livestock market from the Producers, and each
Friday the weekly market review. Outlook
reports, reviews, and talks by I. A. A. staff
members, officials, and leaders in farm thought
are broadcast daily.

Forum Speakers

Pertinent facts regarding the development of
grain marketing will be discussed on the I. A.
A. Radio Forum from Station WLS by Har-
rison Fahrnkopf on Thursday, July 18, time
6:30 p. m.

V. Vaniman, director of insurance service,
will be the Forum speaker on Thursday, July
25, when he will discuss "Accident Prevention"
and what farmers can do to avoid unnecessary
losses.

John C. Watson was the Forum speaker on
July 1 1 when he reviewed the history of tax
equalization of farm lands and property since
1920 and '21 when the Illinois Agricultural
Association for the first time in history repre-
sented Illinois farmers before the State Tax
Commission.

Broadcast From KMOX

"A Limestone, Legume, Livestock Tour
Through Monroe County" was the subject of
a 2 5 -minute broadcast from Station KMOX,
St. Louis on Saturday, June 29, during the
noon-hour. The Monroe County Farm Bureau
sponsored the radio program and a number of
Farm Bureau members in that county, including
"Limestone John" Gummershiemer, took part.

"Limestone John" was one of the early spon-
sors of the Limestone-Phosphate Department of
the Illinois Agricultural Association.

During the program the radio listeners went
for a ride on a limestone truck, saw fields of
alfalfa and sweet clover, corn on sweet clover
land, dairy herds, and hogs grazing on sweet
clover. Farm Adviser C. A. Hughes was in
charge.

Use Your Organization

When the home of a Marshall County farmer
burned recently, the mortgagee of the farm —
the Federal Land Bank — collected the insurance
and remitted the same to the farmer to restore
the home, requesting that he insure the build-
ing at once.

He bought a $2,000 policy of an old line
fire insurance company, paying a premium of
$23 per one year.

"When the Farm Bureau insurance director
explained to him," says the Marshall-Putnam
Farm Bureau News, "that the identical policy
could have been secured from the Farmers
Mutual Reinsurance Company for $7.60 he
said: 'I did not know the Farm Bureau had such
a service to offer.' His ignorance, which is
not peculiar to him alone, cost him $1$ in good
money."

A Close Call

'"^ I TIERE is some humor in this job
-^ of selling insurance," writes Del-
bert Saxe, general Farm Bureau insurance
agent for Edwards county. "It never
pays for a prospect to say that he will
not die for a long time.

"Yesterday I wrote the wife of one of
our charter policyholders and tried to
write the husband for additional insur-
ance," relates Saxe. "The man told me
he thought he would not be apt to need
insurance for 20 or 25 years yet, at least
not until after harvest when he might
have more money.

"I had to leave it that way. Tonight
I heard that he, in less than an hour, was
struck by lightning which burned all the
hair off his legs from the knees down.
We shall surely have to see him again
and see if he is the kind of a man who
can be gotten to change his mind."

As an educational fund, 20 year endowment
policies may be started for the baby, and when
the child is ready for college the cash value of
the policy may be taken in its fifteenth, six-
teenth, seventeenth or eighteenth year, and
used for educational purposes. It has been a
compulsory savings plan that has provided the
ready cash at the time that the child starts to
college.

A nation-wide program in which wheat
growers are being urged to increase their facili-
ties for storing grain on farms so as to distribute
marketings throughout the season to prevent
gluts and to secure the premiums of high pro-
tein content is being launched by the Bureau
of Agricultural Economics, U. S. D. A.

Thanks For Quick
Service

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance
Co., Chicago, III.

"I am this day in receipt of your
check in full for claim of $7 Re: Way-
land Sears auto accident," wrote Charles
H. Francis, Woodstock, Illinois, lawyer,
on June 29.

"I did not write you in regard to this
claim until June 25," continues Mr.
Francis. "I just want to let you know
that I highly appreciate the quick serv-
ice and lack of red tape in the matter.
That is the way to get favorable ad-
vertising and at the same time to give the
best of satisfaction."

Progress Against i

■ -^ T. B. in Whiteside

T^EN thousand eight hundred and sixty-four
A cattle were tested for tuberculosis in
Whiteside county. III., last year. Only 2.3 per
cent reacted. Initial tests were made of 930
cattle with 167 reactors, or a percentage of
17.9. Retests were made of 9,934 cattle with
only 102 reactors, a fraction over one per cent.
The year before the percentage of reactors
on initial tests was 11.5 per cent, showing that
in untested herds the infection is increasing.
With one per cent reactors on retests in the
year just closed against 2,1 per cent reactors
the previous year, a reduction of more than
5 0 per cent of affected c»ttle in tested herds
is revealed.

It is important that the children of this gen-
eration learn the value of life insurance at an
early age, that they may increase their estates
through the medium of insurance as the years
go by, in keeping with their knowledge of
the value of insurance. If the boy or girl is
old enough to earn money, he or she is taught
responsibility by shouldering the premium pay-
ments of the policies started by the parents.
Teaching children to shoulder responsibility is
an education.

Need Both

'T^HE following letter was received recently
^ from W. B. Fitch of Lawrence county:

"I have been carrying a policy on my auto
with the Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance
Company for some time. When I came to the
first meeting of the Company, I had never
thought of auto insurance; but I refused to
return home without a policy.

"Without Public Liability and Property
Damage, any man can lose an entire life's earn-
ings in one wreck, and should be the first in-
surance any man should buy.

"Complete coverage- on any car will save
anyone his Farm Bureau dues and you need
both, as Agriculture is the foundation of all
industry. :

"wi B. FITCH,
"Executive Committeeman,
"Lawrence Co. Bureau."

Farm Bureau Members

FARM BUREAU MEMBERS are interested
in the success and progress of the co-ofwrative
farmer elevator. In Ogle County of 45 men
who are directors of five elevators, 36 are Farm
Bureau members. In McLean County, of 20
farmer elevators with 148 men as directors, 96
are members of the Farm Bureau.

Mr. Gehring, president of the Knox County
Farm Bureau, recently made the following
significant statement:

"The Farm Bureau is not going to try to
tell any farmer's elevator how to run its busi-
ness. But if there are marketing problems that
the Farm Bureau can help solve it stands ready
to serve the community an^ the county."

We are in an age of spending that requires
a lure and a bait to get people to save. The
competitive age is competitive in making money
only. It is not competitive from a savings
standpoint. The ones who really advance in
the long run are the people who are able to
set aside funds in reserve. It is true that an
estate is guaranteed the first minute a life
insurance application is signed, paid-for, and
approved, and that thousands of estates will
be left as a result of COUNTRY LIFE IN-
SURANCE CO.MPANY and its activities in
Illinois, that would not be left had that Com-
pany not come into existence. These estates
will benefit the beneficiaries.

"\

Page Eight

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Cream Improvement "Plan
Profitable To Producers

INDIANA dairymen and creamery men are
co-operating in a cream improvement pro-
gram. Thar plan is known as the "four-day
delivery plan" which mean^ that a producer
who delivers cream not over four days old gets
a premium of three cents per lb. butterfat above
the price paid for regular (^ream.

The plan has been in operation 21 months
and in that time 5,222,205J lbs. of butterfat
were handled. Of this amount more than half,
or 2,872,677 lbs., was premiiim butterfat which
netted the producers $86,180.31 more than they
would have received had thie "four-day plan"
not been in operation.

"There are tremendous p<)ssibilitics for im-
proving the quality of butterfat in Illinois,"
says Frank Gougler, director of produce market-
ing. "We should extend oilr organized effort
as rapidly as possible and develop field service
for the co-operative produce units now
marketing." j

Cream. Stations Grow

Co-operative cream stations in Illinois are
handling more butterfat in J 1929 than they
handled in 1928. Twelve stations in April last
year sold 72,028 lbs. of butterfat, says Frank
Gougler. These same in April this year handled
84,960 lbs. or an increase in [volume of 18 per
cent.

The greatest gain in volume was made by the
Bloomington station. In April, 1928, this sta-
tion handled 4,567 lbs., while this year the
volume was 7,719 lbs. which represents a 69
per cent gain.

This increase is voluntary on the part of
producers and not a result ojf a campaign to
drum up business, declares Gougler. It shows
that producers are pleased to market through
their own association.

1 —

Child Health Conference

The first national conference! since the Roose-
velt administration to consider ithe health of the
children of the nation has beeit called by Presi-
dent Hoover to meet in the White House early
next year.

The subjects to be covered Embrace problems
of dependent children, regular (nedical examina-
tion, school or public clinics fbr children, hos-
pitalization, adequate milk supplies, community
nurses, maternity instruction abd nurses, teach-
ing of health in the schools, facilities for play-
grounds and recreation, voluntary organiza-
tion of children, etc.

Federal Farm Board

(Continued from page })

and an officer in one of the large banks in Los
Angeles.

William F. Schilling of Minnesota, president
of the Twin City Milk Producers' Association,
the latest addition to the Board, will represent
the dairying interests. The selection of Mr.
Schilling came after the place assigned the dairy
interests had been offered W. S. Moscrip of
Lake Elmo, Minnesota. Schilling has been close-
ly identified with the develop: nent of co-op-
erative dairy marketing in his home state.

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Chantpion Ice Cream Eater

WILBUR LAWRENCE of Bloomington is
McLean county's champion ice cream
cater. He devoured a quart brick of frozen
cream in six minutes and 10 seconds in a con-
test conducted by the McLean County }A\\V.
Producers' Association. He claims the cham-
pionship of Illinois and will meet all comers.

Fred Shipley, manager of the Champaign
County Milk Producers is reported to have
challenged Manager Forrest Fairchild of the
McLean County Producers' to an ice cream
eating contest between teams of three men to
be chosen from each county.

Lawrence defeated Charley Baker, McLean
dairyman who consumed a quart brick in six
minutes and 40 seconds.

How To Order Limestone

T^ARM Bureau members are
A entitled to a 10c per ton dis-
count from the regular retail
price of agricultural limestone if
they comply with the conditions
set forth in the contract which
the I. A. A. has with some twenty
different Limestone Producers.
See your Farm Adviser for de-
tails. In general, however, these
conditions are, as follows:

Order must be placed by the
Farm Bureau member through a
Farm Bureau (not direct or with
a dealer) ;

Order must be on regular or-
der form which the I. A. A. has
provided the Bureaus and must
be sent to one of the contract
companies;

Member must pay his bill
within 30 days from date the
shipment was made by the Com-
pany.

If all of these features are
complied with, the member may
deduct 10c per ton (not 10%)
from the face of his bill when he
sends in his remittance.

If your land needs limestone,
it is the best investment you can
make. Consult your Farm Ad-
viser for detailed advice on how,
where, when and how much to
apply. Last year Illinois farm-
ers used 741,000 tons of agri-
cultural limestone. Large as
these figures are, in the future
they will be much larger.

^AIRY
MarMiiig

I By Art Lynch ^

ORGANIZED dairymen do a better job of
selling because they have information and

facts concerning their markets.

» • •

EVERY month they know to a pound how
much the market used. They know the
intake. They know how much the folks drank.
They know how these figures compare with
the previous month and with previous seasons.

* * *

r I ■'HIS information tells them whether to add

-I- a good cow or sell a "star boarder." It

tells them whether to raise that heifer calf or

make her into veal for restaurants to sell for

'chicken sandwiches."

* * *

THE live milk selling cooperatives get out
regular news bulletins to the members.
They give a picture of the market as it is —
not as it ought to be — but the "low down."

The member is in a position to read and heed.
« * *

MARKET facts show when more milk is
needed to supply the consumers. The
dairymen know when to give the cows a little
extra salad of silage with bran and cottonseed

dressing. ^| ..

* * •

IF THERE'S too much milk the market facts
will tell us to fool the cows by putting
shavings in front of them and let them wear
green goggles. They'll think it's silage, will
partake and be merry — but won't milk such a

surplus.

* * »

K ND another thing. Facts will tell us when
-^*-to give these old-fashioned cows some
birth control pamphlets to read.

Speed T. B. Program

In May, 1929 more tuberculin tests were ap-
plied to cattle throughout the United States
than in any previous month, according to the
Bureau of Animal Industry at Washington.

Slightly more than a million tuberculin tests
per month have been applied eight times since
the work began in 1917, but at no time was
the number so great as during May of this year
when 94,517 herds, containing 1,193,660 cattle
were tuberculin tested.

Roadside Markets

(Continued from page f)
be offered for sale through these roadside mar-
kets. Such products as are grown in the vicinity
of the markets will be furnished by the local
growers. Those products which are not grown
locally, such as peaches, apples, pears, and
melons, will be delivered to the markets by
trucks or shipped in by rail.

"Prices charged at the roadside markets will
be wholesale prices growers are receiving at
shipping points plus cost of transportation and
necessary operating expenses."

I '•.-■ ,■ ■

"At the circus there was a girl who rode
beneath the horse, on the horse's neck, and al-
most on his tail."

"That's nothing. I did all that the first
time I rode a horse."

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iformation and

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read and heed.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Nine

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CO-OPERATIVE marketing is a modern
r development of co-operative farming.
Farmers have co-operated for years with
great success in threshing, haying, corn shell-
ing, butchering, etc. Now they are co-operat-
ing in merchandising and selling their produce.
You can measure the value of co-operative
marketing in dollars and cents. Selling butter-
fat and eggs co-operatively in McLean county
added an average of $24 to the patrons' income
in 1928, Butterfat prices gained an average of
three cents per pound throughout the entire
county when produce marketing units were
organized at Bloomington and Belleflower. A
gain of three cents per pound applied to
McLean county's average annual production
of 1,023,091 pounds of fat, means an increase in
income of $30,692.73 per year.

This Is ^Worth Having

This seems like only a drop in the bucket. Yet, if the
price paid to farmers who produce the 60,000,000
pounds of butterfat sold annually in Illinois was in-
creased by three cents per pound, it would total $1,800,-
000. That's worth having, is it not?

The 35 co-operative cream stations now operating in
Illinois handle approximately 2,450,000 pounds of
butterfat annually. These co-operatives have stabil-
ized the butterfat price upward from three to five cents
per pound wherever they operate.

Organization Paid Here

On April 3, 1928, the co-operative cream station at
Albion in Edwards county, sold its year's output of
butterfat under a contract for 8.5 cents per pound more
than was being paid the same day at Ullin in Pulaski
county. A preliminary meeting to organize a co-oper-
ative produce association at Ullin was held on April 5.
The next day private cream stations increased their
prices two cents per pound butterfat. Does organiza-
tion pay?

The business-like way is to sell your farm produce
on your own weights and tests. How much are you
getting for cream and butterfat in your community?
How does this price compare with the 90 score Chicago
butter market?

Fill out the coupon below and get the facts i

Produce Marketing Department

ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL

ASSOCIATION

608 So. Dearborn Sti
I CHICAGO

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nilnoU Acrienltvral AMOclatton,
*•• So. D«arkora St.,
GUeac^t nUaoU

I am receiving cents a lb. for butterfat in L-

(town).

Our cream is usually (check) sweet, slightly tour, vieiy sour when
delivered.

Write and tell me whether or not this is a fair price and send me com -
plete informaticxi about how I can market cream, poultry, and eggs at a
better price.

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Page Ten

THE I. A. A. RECORD

'^UDspe

'T'WENTY-ONE teams playing in five di-
-*- visions pf the Illinois farm Bureau Base-
ball League are coming down the home
stretch in the annual clash for divisional and
state championships.

Henry county's victory over Knox at Cam-
bridge on July 4, score 6 to 5, places this
team in undisputed possession of the lead in
Div. II with four games won and none lost.
Knox and Stark are tied for second place hav-
ing each won one game and Ibst two.

Marshall-Putnam and Taz«well are tied for
first place in Div. III. McD<^nough has a clean
slate with four won and none lost in Div. IV.
McLean has the edge on Logan in Div. V, and
Cass at this writing is on top in Div. VI.

Menard county played its first game against
Sangamon on July 4 at Springfield. It was
Sangamon's second victory, scpre 9 to 4. Hen-
derson county is still in tjhc race in Div.
IV where it has a record of four games won
and one lost. Henderson was nosed out by
McDonough last year for thi divisional cham-
pionship.

The standing of teams according to reports
received at headquarters of the League by July
10 follows:

OFFICIAL STANDING OF TEAMS IN THE
ILLINOIS ^ FARM BUREjAU BASEBALL
LEAGUE FOR WEEK EPfDING JULY 6,
1929

DIVISION n

Henry . |_

Knox

Stark

Lee ;

Won
..A
..A 2

...l 2

-1 3

0

DIVISION m Won lAf

Mar$hall-Putn«m 3 1

Tazewell ^ 3 1

Peoria 2 3

Woodford I 4

DIVISION IV

Won Lot

McDonough ., . 4

Henderson
Hancock ...

4 I

1 3

Warren , .....0 J

Pet.

1000
33)
353
250

Pel.
7J0
750
400
200

Pet.

1000
800
250
000

DIVISION V

McLean

Logan ..._

Champaign __
Ford

Won Loit

.4 1

-4 1

...2 2

-0 6

TieJ
0

McLean-Champaign game of
played over July 14.

DIVISION VI
Cass

Greene

Sangamon ..

Morgan

Menard

Woa Lost

Pet.

800

1 800

1 500

0 000

June 8 ordered

Pet.

1000

1000

500

000

000

Divisional championships muit be decided by
August 17 according to rules adopted at Peoria
last March. Arrangements will be made to
play off some of the semi-final games at district
I. A. A.-Farm Bureau picnics, five of which
already are scheduled beginningi August 16.

The State Arbitration Committee has been
kept busy ironing out controversies and making
decisions. A number of such disputes have
arisen because of faulty umpiring. Most of the
teams are evenly matched and extra inning
games have been frequent.

The fifteen-inning contest between Sangamon
and Greene counties on June 15 was the long-
est game of the season. District Dictator
Charles S. Black ruled that this game, pre-
viously repwrted won by Greene, score 7 to 6,
must be played over because the umpire failed
to call a runner out when hit by a batted ball.
Greene county has asked for a review of the
evidence so the question will probably go on up
to the Arbitration Committee.

The State Arbitration Committee ruled that
a similar game between Champaign and Mc-
Lean must be played over because the umpire
improperly called time when a play was still
in motion during which a runner was tagged
out before crossing the home plate. This run
paved the way for a short-lived McLean County
victory.

T. E. BENTON

' I ^ E. BENTON of Marion, Williamson coun-
■*- • ty, sent in more applications for auto
insurance — 63 in number — than any other
representative of the company during the month
of April. Williamson county led all others in
the state that month.

The agents in southern Illinois awarded a $70
watch to the man sending in the greatest num-
ber of applications during April. Mr. Benton
won the watch. Williamson county now has
more policyholders in the Illinois Agricultural
Mutual — the Farm Bureau auto insurance com-
pany— than any other county in southern
Illinois.

Netv Movie Film

A moving picture illustrating the develop-
ment of harvesting methods from the most
primitive to the modern combine harvester can
be secured by writing the Office of Exhibits,
Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

This film will be of interest to producers of
small grains in all sections of the country.
It contains much valuable information regarding
costs of operation and the precautions which
should be taken to insure keepin|( quality in
grain.

V:\

Largest Policy Holder

Ray P. Hoover, vice-president of the Ruhm
Phosphate and Chemical Company, also an of-
ficer in the Hoover-Mason Chemical Company,
is the largest single policyholder in Country
Life Insurance Company. Mr. Hoover whose
home is in Evanston, III., recently applied for
$25,000 worth of life insurance through the
Cook County Farm Bureau.

Exactly 754 applications for auto insurance
were received by the Illinois Agricultural
Mutual Insurance Company at I. A. A. head-
quarters during June. On June 29, the last
business day of the month, total applications
and policies in force aggregated 14,679.

CALCIUM
CHLORATE

KILLS WEEDS

Recommended by Experiment
Stations and Farm Agencies for
the control and eradication of all
noxious weeds such as

Quack Grass
Wild Morning
Glory

Canadian

Thistle
Poison Ivy

CIDE

CALCIUM CHLOR.ATE
KILLS WEEDS

CONTAINS 45.5% CHLORIC ACID (CLO3)
CALCIUM CHLORATE EQUIVALENT 56.4%

Dissolves Easily. Crops may be grown
on treated soU a few months after appU>
cation. Apply as a spray for large areas.
Apply as a dust for small areas.

Packed in 314 lb. sifter cans for dusting
on small area* and in 200 lb. and 50 lb.
drums for use in standard spray tanks.

Satisfactorily used on 15,000 miles of
railroad track last year.

"Son-poisotunii to animals or people.
Ho fire hazard.

DUSTER

Simply shake powdered

weed killer from perforated

container,

Write for Booklet "2"^^^'

fat fvU information!

Illinois Farm Supply Company

B«om 1200-C08 S. Dearbam St.
CHICAGO. ILL.

RECORD

THE I. A. A. RECORD

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Page Eleven

Ipr

Organization Is Answer

Says Secretary Hyde

(Continued from page 1)
tional aspiration. America believes that its
hopes and its purposes will be soonest achieved
through a guaranty of equal opportunity to
every man, leaving it to each American to climb
as high and achieve as greatly as his merits and
his industry will permit. The sum of the
achievements of our citizens is national ac-
complishment.

Have Been Blessed

"This nation, under God, has been blessed
beyond the dreams of avarice. The smoke
plumes of its factories write upon the sky a
story of busy industry and of prosperity. The
average man enjoys a higher standard of living
than was ever enjoyed by any nation in history.
The good things of life are more broadly and
less unevenly distributed. The creative indus-
try of the nation is more widely owned than
ever before. Buyers and borrowers of other
nations throng our markets and draw upon our
stores of goods and of accumulated capital.

Can't Be Complacent

"In all of this, there is, there must be a
place of economic equality and opportunity for
the American farmer. His is the most creative,
the most vital, and the most serviceable of all
occupations. There are, happily, many thou-
sands of prosperous farmers, but agriculture as
a whole has had too small a share of national
prosperity. This nation cannot afford to view
with complacency any inequality among its own '
people.

"We have poured out our wealth with quick
sympathy for the stricken among the other
nations of the earth. We spent billions of
money and oceans of blood and tears in a strug-
gle across the sea, to defend our conception of
political equality, and it is worth whatever ex-
penditure of effort and national treasure may
be required to guarantee equality of economic
opportunity for all American citizens.

"There was a time in history when the cry,
'I am a Roman citizen', brought to the aid of
the distressed citizen every other Roman within
earshot. I appeal to this association in the
exercise of its great nation-wide influence, to
aid, by precept and example, in soundly and
constructively answering the equally compelling
cry, 'I am an American farmer'."

He Don't Even Listen!

Saddest Story of the Month — ^A man

put an ad. in a matrimonial bureau
paper and received a reply from hii
fiancee. - .■■, s^. ■■■■.. ,.

What's Wrong Here?

'' SH6 (S a V6RV 1. (THATif SrRM^t)
\ OCkiMAJIC PECSONj V "5HE TOLD Mt J

(she HATeo poes)

ri^rpc.:

Hail Storm Hits

Jo Daviess County

A HAIL storm hit the northwestern part of
Jo Daviess county on June 27 and de-
molished field crops, stripped trees, and dam-
aged farm buildings over an area of several
miles in width. In the neighborhood of East
Dubuque and Galena, hailstones one inch in
diameter were reported by local residents.

Growing corn in fields adjoining Route J
was knocked flat, small grain was battered into
the ground, and windows shattered in many
farm houses, barns, and other buildings. The
loss will run into thousands of dollars. Com-
paratively few fields were protected against loss
by hail insurance.

Cora A Total Len On Thb WhIteaMe
Cooatir, ni. Farai

IVIPED OUT BY HAIL

How often have you heard the expression, " Wiped Out By Hail," Few
Illinois farmers have missed seeing the terrible destruction wrought by a
hail storm in mid-summer. The following report from a recent issue of a
daily newspaper tells a story that is all too familiar:

FARMS DAMAGED BT

HAIL AND 'l-WISTER

While a heavy gale swept Columbus
shortly after 7 o'clock last evening, and
swirling greenish yellow clouds threatened
ominously, many farms north of Humphrey
and south of Creston were experiencing a
destructive hail storm and a wind that at-
tained the proportions of a small twister in
several places.

The small grain on the Barney Lohaus farm,
a mile north of Humphrey, was wiped out
tmd the com hurt considerably by the hail,
and Louie Kosch, living a mile north of the
Lohaus place* reports a similar loss to his
crops.

On the Mrs. Minnie Gorman place in the
same neighborhood^ tops of all the trees
along the road were stripped, and the oats
crop was destroyed. George Daniels, also in
the same area, lost all his oats, and a large
cow shed was blown from its foundation.

New House Damaged
Ernest Wurdeman's new large bungalow,
nearing completion, was badly damaged when
hail broke in all the windows, which had just
been placed in position the day before.

The com field at the Wurdeman farm has
the appearance of freshly plowed ground this
morning, and it is difficult to tell what variety
of crops were planted in any of the fields, as
they were all beaten into the ground or
mowed off short by the hail.

You Can't Stop a Hail Storm, But You Can Protect Your yaluahlc
Crop and Buildings With Insurance at Cost in the

FARMERS MUTUAL
REINSURANCE
S COMPANY

608 So. Dearborn St.,
CHICAGO

I CLIP AND MAIL TJODAY

: 1

Z Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co.,
; 608 So. Dearborn St.,
I Chicago, Illinois.

• Send me your latest folder that ez-
J plains all about

• Farm Crop Hail Insurance

3 Fire, Windstorm and Tornado Ins.

• Hail Insurance on Buildinfli

; Name

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Stalled on the railroad track, this truck, despite its great bulk, was hurled 50 feet when struck by a train

IVOULD YOU BE PROTECTED HAD
THIS TRUCK BEEN YOURS?

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■%'■

T-JUNDREDS of accidents like this happen every
day. You don't expect to drive on the railroad
track and stall your engine. Neither did the driver of
the truck shown above. Yet tnat's what happened
and you see the result.

This picture illustrates only oine of the many haz-
ards that continually threaten the owner of an auto-
mobile or truck. Losses to owners of motor driven
vehicles result from hundreds of different causes. If
our much travelled highways could speak, theirs

would be a tale of careless driving and scores of costly
smashups. Fire, tornadoes, and thieves also take a
heavy toll.

A full coverage policy in your own company, the
Illinois Agricultural Mutual, means complete protec-
tion against all these risks. Insure in your own or-
ganization, in the company backed by the Farm
Bureau members of Illinois if you want fair treatment,
prompt settlement of claims, highest security, and
greatest savings. J . ^

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STOLEN

1928 MODEL CHEVROLET Sp-
DAN STOLEN 5-10-29. Plate Nlo.
1166856, Engine No. 4439820. Dai-k
green body, spare tire and bumpeits,
small dent in front of left parking
light on hood. Disc wheels.

REWARD— $100.

Owner — A. J. Wallace, Rudement,

111.

Note: — This theft means a total loss to
the owner unless the car is returne^d.
Had it been insured in the lUinQis
Agricultural Mutual its full value, deter-
mined by a fair appraisal, would have
been paid in cash to the policyholder.

Mail the coupon and get our latest

pamphlet telling about Farm

. Bureau auto insurance

ILLINOIS
AGRICULTURAL

MUTUAL
INSURANCE CO.

608 So. Dearborn St.
Chicago

Illinois Acrlenltoral Matnal Ins. Co., ;

MO So. Dearborn St.,

CUeaco, Illinois. •

Send me your latest booklet and approzi- ;

mate cost of your ■

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Damage Q ;

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Address..

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Illkois A^rictiltural Association

RECORD

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Number 8

AUGUST/1929

Volume 7

Our Legislative Program in tlie 56th General

Assembly , j

By The I. A. A. Committee on Public Relations i

FOLLOWING the precedent established
two years ago, the Committee on Public
Relations presents the following report on
the legislative activities of the Association in
the Fifty-sixth General Assembly. This report
is made to inform our membership about the
attitude of the Association toward various bills
and resolutions of especial interest to farmers.

The legislative policy of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association in the recent session of the
General Assembly was determined, at least in
its major aspects, by the delegates in session
at the annual meeting. The major legislative
projects approved at Danville were the State
Income Tax, the Limitation of the County
Highway Tax Rate, the Amendment of the
Revenue Article of the State Constitution, and
the Gasoline Tax.

In addition the annual meeting took a strong
position recommending resistance to tax in-
creases until the people of the State amend the
Constitution and set up a fair taxing system.
The resolutions adopted at Danville also asked
for the Amendment of the Co-
operative Marketing Act of 1923,
the Amendment of the Member-
ship Act of 1872, and the con-
tinuance of efforts to eradicate
bovine tuberculosis, with ade-
quate appropriations for indem-
nities for reacting cattle.

amendments there to protect fanners' Interests.
All of the bills and resolutions in which the
Illinois Agricultural Association had a particu-
lar interest, either in support or in opposition,
are briefly described below.

Controversial Bills

of the bills sponsored by the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association, serious opposition de-
veloped against two, one of which was de-
feated. These two bills are most suitable for
the purpose of presenting the voting records of
members of the General Assembly. They are
the bill for a State Income Tax and the bill
limiting the County Highway Tax Rate. The
voting record of every down state senator and
representative on each of these bills is given,
by districts, in the table on page 9 of this
issue. Members of the Illinois Agricultural
Association should study this table to see how
their senators and representatives voted on these
two important measures.

STATE INCOME TAX BILL

AU Subjects of Bills

All of the projects named
above were the subjects of bills
and resolutions introduced in the
Fifty-sixth General Assembly. In
some cases the bills were prepared
by the Association. In other
cases, for reasons stated in this
report, no bills were prepared by
us. It was found advisable to
prepare bills on some matters
which were not considered at
Danville, these being the Amend-
ment of the Dog License Act, the
Amendment of the Insurance
Acts, and the Amendment of
the Fertilizer Act. In some cases
it was necessary to oppose bills
or n*olution> or to ask for

Early in the session Senator Lantz introduced
this bill as Senate Bill 39. This was practically
the same bill drawn by representatives of the
Association two years ago and introduced in the
5 5 th General Assembly by Senators Lantz,
Deck and Sneed. In both sessions the bill pro-
vided for a direct deduction of any property
uxes, which a taxpayer might pay in this State,
from any income tax which might be levied
against him, and for the use of the net funds
derived from the income tax in reducing or
replacing the already existing State school tax.

At the time of its introduction the bill was
referred to the Senate Committee on Revenue
and Finance. In a hearing before the Commit-
tee it was given very fair consideration and
was recommended for passage. When it was
called up for second reading, the Senate went
into Committee of the Whole and again gave
it very fair consideration. It was passed by
the Senate on April 24 by a Tote
of 28 to 19.

AN IMPORTANT service rendered Illinois farmers by the I. A.
>- A. is to represent their interests where legislation affecting the
welfare of agriculture is considered. Legislation invariably tends
to move in the direction desired by powerful and active organiza-
tions, especially if those who may be injured thereby make no
resistance. In former days many burdens were thus placed on
farmers solely because they were not organized, and therefore, could
make no effective resistance.

Representatives of the Association examined every bill and reso-
lution offered in the 56th General Assembly. In many cases they
suggested or asked for modifications. In a few cases active op-
position was necessary.

The accomplishments of the Association in the recent legislative
session are in large part due to the effective work of the County
Farm Bureaus and their collective supporting membership. The
continued prestige and influence of the I. A. A. in matters of this
character in a very large measure depend upon the understanding,
determination and activities of the membership throughout the
state.

Farmers should study the records of their representatives and
regardless of party affiliation, return thar proven friends to the
legislative halls. By following such a policy, farmers can render
the most effective service in protecting their rightful future
interests.

Honse Committee
Unfriendly

After its passage by the Senate,
the Bill went to the House. It
was referred to the Committee on
Revenue, which was very unfairly
composed of nineteen Cook coun-
ty and eleven downstate repre-
sentatives. When the bill was
called up for a hearing before
the Committee, Representative
Schnackenberg of Chicago, op-
posed hearing its supporters and
moved that it be reported with the
recommendation that it "do not
pass." Representarives Hunter,
sponsor of the bill in the House,
and Green, chairman of the Com-
mittee, urged proper consideration
and that its supporters be heard.
The Chicago majority, however,
supported by Representative Crow-
ley of Peoria, forced a vote and
adopted Schnackenbcrg's motion.

WImq tiic Committee reported

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Stailed on the railroad track, this truck, despite its great bulk, was hurled 50 feet wheri struck by a train

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IVOULD YOU BE PROTECTED HAD
THIS TRUCK BEEN YOURS?

UNDREDS of accidents like this happen every

day. . You don't expect to drive on the railroad

track and stall your engine. Neither did the driver of

the truck shown above. Yet that's what happened

and you see the result.

This picture illustrates only one
ards that continually threaten the
mobile or truck. Losses to owiliers
vehicles result from hundreds of
our much travelled highways

STOLEN

I92« MODEL CHEVROLET SE;
DAN STOLEN .S-10-29. Plate No.
1166856, Engine No. 4439820. Darin
Krtcn bofly. spare title and bumper >,
small dent in front of left parkirg
light on hood. Dis^ wheels.

REWARD SIOO.

Owner A. J. Wallace, Riidement
III.

Ntire: This theft fiieajns a total /oss
the owner unless thelcar is returneif
Hiid It been insurecr in the ilhnoi
AfiriLult uriil Mutual itl full value, dete
mined by n fair appraisal, would ha^
been paid in cash to th\e policyholder

of the many haz-

owner of an auto-

of motor driven

different causes. If

could speak, theirs

would be a tale of careless driving and scores of costly
smashups. Fire, tornadoes, and thieves also take a
heavy toll.

A full coverage policy in your own company, the
Illinois Agricultural Mutual, means complete protec-
tion against all these risks. Insure in your own or-
ganization, in the company backed by the Farm
Bureau members of Illinois if you want fair treatment,
prompt settlement of claims, highest security, and
greatest savings.

ILLINOIS
AGRICULTURAL

MUTUAL
INSURANCE CO.

608 So. Dearborn St.
Chicago

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Ins. Co.,
608 So. Dearborn St.,
Chicago, Illinois.

St-nd nic ytmr ialest b(j(jkUt and approxi-
mate f<»st of your

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Damage . p

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Adclress

County

Make of Car

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Illinois Agricultural Association

^ . RECORDS

Number 8

a=^

AUGUST/1929

Volume 7

Our Legislative Program in tlie 56th General

Assembly

By The I. A. A. Committee on Public Relations

FOLLOWING the precedent established amendments tliere to protect farmers' interests,
two years ago, the Committee on Public All of the bills and resolutions in which the

Relations presents the following report on Illinois Agricultural Association had a particu-

the legislative activities of the Association in lar interest, either in support or in opposition,

the Fifty-sixth General Assembly. This report arc briefly described below,
is made to inform our membership about the

attitude of the Association toward various bills
and resolutions of especial interest to farmers.

The legislative policy of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association in the recent session of the
General Assembly was determined, at least in
its major aspects, by the delegates in session
at the annual meeting. The major legislative
projects approved at Danville were the State

Controversial Bills

of the bills sponsored by tiie Illiniiis Agri-
cultural Association, serious opposition de-
veloped against t\s*o, one of which was de- ■ i i ■ i
r 1 TU uii ui t taxes, which a taxpayer might pay in this State,
fcated. These two bills are most suitable for . ' • ' ' ..".....

the purpose of presenting the voting records of

STATE INCOME TA|X BUX

l-arly in the session Senator Lant/ intrinjuced
this bill as Senate Bill 39. This was practically
the same bill drawn by representatives of the
Associaticm two years ago and introduced in the
5 5th General Assembly by Senators Lant/.
Deck and Sneed. In both sessions the bill pro-
vided for a direct deduction of any property

from any income tax which might be levied

members of the General Assembly. They are
the bill for a State Income Tax and the bill

Income Tax, the Limitation of the County i- •.■ .\. i- . u- u t d . Ti,

' limiting the County Highway lax Rate. 1 he
Highway lax Rate, the Amendment of the

Revenue Article of the State Constitution, and
the Gasoline Tax.

In addition the annual meeting took a strong
position recommending resistance to tax in-
creases until the people of the State amend the
Constitution and set up a fair taxing system.
The resolutions adopted at Danville also asked
for the Amendment of the Co-
operative Marketing Act of 1925,
the Amendment of the Member-
ship Act of 1872, and the con-
tinuance of efforts to eradicate
bovine tuberculosis, with ade-
quate appropriations for indem-
nities for reacting cattle.

voting record of every down state senator and
representative on each of these bills is given,
by districts, in the table on page 9 of this
issue. Members of the Illinois Agricultural

against him, and for the use of the net funds
derived from the income tax in reducing or
replacing the already existing State school tax.
At the time of its introduction the bill was
referred to the Senate Committee on Revenue
and Finance. In a hearing before the Comaiit-
tee it was given very fair consideration jand
was recommended for passage, j Vi'hen it was

All Subjects of Bills

All of the projects named
above were the subjects of bills
and resolutions introduced in the
Fifty-sixth General Assembly. In
some cases the bills were prepared
by the Association. In other
cases, for reasons stated in this
report, no bills were prepared by
us. It was found advisable to
prepare bills on some matters
which were not considered at
Danville, these being the Amend-
ment of the Dog License Act, the
Amendment of the Insurance
Acts, and the Amendment of
the Fertilizer Act. In some cases
it was necessary to oppose bills
or resolutions or to ask for

Association should study this table to see how called up for second reading, the Senate Went

their senators and representatives voted on these into Committee of the Whole knd again gave

two important measures. it very fair consideration. It was passed by

1 the Senate on April 24 by a vote

.. ,_-..-,., . - ,. - - ■•- I ^f jg j^ 1^ 1

House Committee
. Unfriendly

After its passage by the Scrute,
the Bill went to the House. It
was referred to th^ Committee on
Revenue, which was very unfairly
composed of ninet^n Cook coun-
ty and eleven downstate repre-
sentatives. When the bill was
called up for a hearing before
the Committee, ' Representative
Schnackenberg of Chicago, op-
posed hearing its 'supporters and
moved that it be rcfxirted with the
recommendation that it "do not
pass." Representatives Hunter,
sponsor of the billl in the House,
and Green, chairman of the Com-
mittee, urged proper consideration
and that its supp<ifters be heard.
The Chicago majority, however,
supported by Representative Ciow-
ley of Peoria, forced a vote and
adopted Schnackenberg's motion.

When the Cominittec reported

AM IMPORTANT service rendered Illinois tanners by the I. A.
- A. is to represent their interests where legislation affecting the
sselfare of agriculture is considered. Legislation invariably tends
to move in the direction desired by powerful and active organira-
tions, especially if those who may be injured thereby make no
resistance. In former days many burdens were thus placed on
farmers solely because they were not organized, and therefore, could
make no effective resistance.

Representatives of the Association examined every bill and reso-
lution offered in the 56th General Assembly. In many cases they
suggested or asked for modifications. In a few cases active op-
position was necessary.

The accomplishments of the Association in the recent legislative
session arc in large part due to the effective work of the County
Farm Bureaus and their collective supjsortlng membership. The
continued prestige and influence of the I. A. A. in matters of this
character in a very large measure depend upon the understanding,
determination and activities of the membership throughout the
state.

Farmers should study the records of their representatives and
regardless of party affiliation, return their proven friends to the
legislative halls. By following such a policy, farmers can render
the most effective service in protecting their rightful future
interests.

jl

unfavorably to the House, Representative
Hunter moved that the Committee report be
nut concurred in and that the bill be placed
on the calendar. The motion was adopted by
a vote of 72 to 59.

There was difficulty in getting the biU called
up for second reading in the House. On three
different occasions the sponsors of the bill, be-
lieving that they had sufficient votes to defeat
any unfriendly amendments, secured an agree-
ment by the speaker to call the bill. Each
time they were disappointed in his failure to
call the bill. It was finally called up for sec-
ond reading on the afternoon of June 4, in
the final week of the session, at a time when
two of the friends of the bill were not present.

Friends Fight for BiU

when the first friendly amendment was
offered, Representative Schnackenberg offered
an amendment thereto striking the enactment
clause of the bill, the usual way of killing
bills on second reading.

Representative Hunter moved that Schnack-
enberg's amendment lie on the table. In the
ensuing debate, those speaking against the In-
come Tax Bill were Representatives Schnacken-
berg and Thon of Chicago, Conerton of La
Salle, and Dixon of Dixon. Those speaking in
behalf of the bill were Representatives Hunter
of Rockford, Little of Urbana, and Wood of
Keenes.

Representative Hunter's motion to table
Schnackenberg's amendment failed by a tie vote
of 70 to 70. The vote on Schnackenberg's
amendment carried by a vote of 71 to 69, thus
killing the bill. The difference in the vote on
the two motions is explained by the fact that
Representative Robert J. Wilson, of Kewanee,
first voted for Hunter's motion in defense of
the bill, and later for Schnackenberg's amend-
ment to kill the bill, and by the fact that on
the first motion no vote was cast by Represen-
tative Bingham of Galena, who later voted with
the opponents of the bill for Schnackenberg's
amendment.

In the table on page 9 all down-state repre-
sentatives are recorded as they showed them-
selve jot or against the Income Tax Bill on the
final and deciding vote to strike the enacting
clause.

Down-Staters Responsible

The down-state representatives who Voted
against the Income Tax Bill must carry the
responsibility for the defeat of this, the only
bill out of li66 introduced in the Fifty-sixth
General Assembly, which' aimed to distribute
the burden of taxation ' more equitably and
thereby to give some relief to real estate and
to tangible personal property from the in-
equitable load they are now carrying.

The defeat of the Income Tax Bill is dis-
appointing, but it should not discourage the
members of the Association. Consideration of
the bill has resulted in a much more intelligent
understanding of the antiquated and unjust
taxing system of the State. This must eventu-
ally and probably will soon result in the en-
actment of constructive legislation such as was
proposed in the Income Tax Bill.

In its support of the Bill, the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association had the very able and
effective cooperation of the Illinois Bankers
Association, the Illinois Federation of Labor,

the Prairie Farmer, and a large proportion of
the down state press. Real estate interests in
the City of Chicago indicated, for the first
time, their interest in the bill. It is hoped
that this will lead to effective cooperation in
the future.

Opposition to the bill came chiefly from the
Illinois Chamber of Commerce, the Civic Fed-
eration of Chicago, the press of the City of
Chicago, and to some extent from the Illinois
Manufacturers' Association.

When the so-called Chicago Bonding Bills
were before the General Assembly in June,
1927, their advocates sought down-state support
on the promise that, coincident with the
doubling of the basis of valuations, all tax rates
would be cut to one-half of the statutory
limitations at that time. After the adjourn-
ment of the General Assembly it was found
that the clause specifically including the county
highway tax in the reduction of rates had been
stricken out, leaving the constitutional restric-
tion on county taxes as the only limitation on
the county highway tax rate. The failure to
limit the county highway tax rate made it
possible for any county board, if it so desired,
to quadruple its levy of taxes for county high-
way purposes. Because of the increased power
thus given them, many county boards have
greatly increased their levy for this purpose.

For the reasons stated, the delegates to the
annual convention at Danville, adopted, on
January 31, 1929, a resolution asking the Gen-
eral Assembly, including supporters of the
Chicago Bonding Bills, to carry out their
promise, so amending the Act providing for a
county highway tax that the maximum tax
rate which can be imposed for this purpose,
without a referendum vote, will be limited to
twelve and one-half cents (12^c) on each one
hundred dollars of assessed valuations instead
of fifty cents (50c), as now permitted.

The Association prepared a bill limiting the
county highway tax rate as contemplated in
the resolution. On February 27 it was intro-
duced by Representative Ewing as House Bill
285. On April 4 it passed the House.

When the bill went over to the Senate, it
was sponsored by Senator Carlson, who had
introduced a bill for a similar purpose in the
Senate. It passed the Senate on April 25.

In spite of the very large vote in both houses
of the General Assembly in favor of the bill,
there was a good deal of opposition to it at
various times. The entire down-state vote on
the bill in both houses is given in the table on
page 9.

THE REVENUE AMENDMENT

The Fifty-sixth General Assembly had be-
fore it at various times at least six or seven
joint resolutions of one House or the other
proposing amendments to the Revenue Article
of the Constitution. The first was introduced
in the House on February 21. Being identical
with the resolution adopted in 1925, submitting
a proposed amendment, which was defeated in
1926, it contained the requirement of a two-
thirds vote of the members elected to each

House to enact any legislation under the
amendment. The Association accepted with
reluctance this provision four years ago. Ex-
perience has shown that if an amendment of
this sort were adopted, such a requirement,
which gives the veto power to a comparatively
small minority in either House, would prob-
ably make impossible any revenue legislation of
any value. Representatives -of the Association,
therefore, opposed the same limitation when
proposed this year.

On March 14 another resolution was intro-
duced in the House, identical with the resolu-
tion introduced February 21, except that the
objectionable limitation was omitted. The As-
sociation approved this amendment, as it did
also a draft prepared by the Legislative Refer-
ence Bureau, in which the provisions of the
resolution of March 14 were incorporated into
the sections of Article IX to make a unified
and consistent whole.

Another resolution, submitted to the House
on April 18 by Thon of Chicago, contained
limitations and provisions which the Association
could not accept. The whole subject was
placed in the hands of a sub-committee, which
on May 29 reported a resolution even more
objectionable, since it limited to ten per cent
the proceeds of any income tax which might
be retained by the State, unless this percentage
was increased by a two-thirds vote of the mem-
bers elected to each House. This resolution was
never brought to a vote.

Refuse To Concede All ^

In the meantime the Senate had appointed a
special committee on constitutional amend-
ments. On May 15, it reported, by a divided
vote, the draft prepared for the House Com-
mittee by the Legislative Reference Bureau,
which had been approved by the Association.
On May 23, the same Committee reported an-
other resolution, in most respects identical with
the resolution of May 15, but providing that
the State should not retain more than 25 per
cent of the proceeds of an income tax except
by a two-thirds vote of the members elected
to each House. The representatives of the As-
sociation, approached on this proposal, at first
had insisted that the portion to be retained by
the State should be at least 50 per cent. On
being asked to make further concessions, on
the grounds that otherwise the two-thirds vote
■necessary for the submission of an amendment
could not be secured, they reluctantly receded
to 25 per cent. They were now, on the same
grounds, asked to make further concessions,
but refused to do so.

On June 4 the Senate, having voted to lower
to 17 the maximum percentage to be retained
by the State, except by a two-thirds vote of
the members of each House, adopted the reso-
lution by a narrow margin over the necessary
two-thirds vote. This was after a joint letter,
signed by the presidents of the Illinois Bankers
Association, the Illinois State Federation of
Labor, and the Illinois Agricultural Association,
had been placed on the desk of every member
of the General Assembly, giving notice that any
reduction in the percentage below 25 to be
retained by the State would prevent the signers
of the letter from recommending to their re-
spective organizations support of the amend-
ment.

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Revenue Amendment Committee
Provided

The final ict of the regular session of the
General Assembly on this subject was the
passage of an Act providing for the appoint-
ment of a special committee to consider and
to recommend a revenue amendment for con-
sideration at a future session of the General
Assembly, which is expected by many to be a
special session called for this purpose.

This special committee is to consist of one
member of the Senate appointed by the Lieu-
tenant Governor, two members of the House
appointed by the Speaker, and three citizens of
the State appointed by the Governor.

The Illinois Agricultural Association in its
annual convention has repeatedly declared in
favor of revision of the revenue article of the
State Constitution. It reiterated its position
relative thereto at the annual meeting in Dan-
ville on January 31, 1929, but cannot support
an amendment which by its very terms would
impose new and insurmountable restrictions on
the power of the General Assembly to set up a
fair taxing system. Rather than support an
amendment of this character, the Association
favors using some of the untried and unre-
stricted powers granted the General Assembly
by the present constitution.

THE GASOLINE TAX

Both in his inaugural address and in his
message to the General Assembly, Governor
Emmerson asked for the enactment of a tax
of three cents per gallon on gasoline. For this
reason the Association felt that it should not
introduce any bill of its own, but should wait
to see if it could not support the administra-
tion bill. On February 5, identical bills em-
bodying the provisions desired by the adminis-
tration were introduced into both Houses of
the General Assembly.

The bills provided for certain deductions for
expenses and for refunds of taxes to purchasers
of gasoline not used on the public highways,
and for distribution of the remaining proceeds
in the following proportions: two-thirds to the
State for completion of the State bond issue
system of hard roads, for grade separation and
for the widening of roads in congested areas;
one-third among the counties on the basis of
their proportion of the total motor license fees
in the State, to be used for the benefit of the
secondary or State Aid Roads or for payment
of bonds issued for this purpose.

Except in its distribution of the proceeds of
a gasoline tax in the proportion of two-thirds
to the State instead of an equal division be-
tween the State and the counties, as favored
by the Association, and except in some pro-
visions relating to the type of improvement of
State Aid Roads, the administration bill was
in accord with the resolution adopted at Dan-
ville less than one week before. Representatives
of the Association appeared before Committees
of both Houses and clearly stated the position
of the Association. They did not press for
amendments because they realized that they
could not do so without endangering the pas-
sage of any gasoline tax bill. The administra-
tion bill passed both Houses and was approved
March 2 J.

TUBEBCULOSIS EBADICATION

culosis Act of 1925 and other acts, under
which the so-called county area plan of bovine
tuberculosis eradication has been administered.
In lieu of the county area plan, the new act
establishes the state area plan under which the
state as a whole is to be the unit. It is pro-
vided, however, that any counties desiring to
adopt the county area plan, as defined in the
act, may, by and with the consent of the De-
partment of Agriculture, employ a county
veterinarian and such assistants as are desirable
for the control and eradication of bovine
tuberculosis. The veteriiurian so employed
shall be approved by the Department of Agri-
culture and shall work under the direction of
and in conjunction with the Department.

The provisions of the new Act relating to the
destruction of cattle found to be affected with
tuberculosis, to branding and tagging of such
cattle, to quarantine upon order of the De-
partment, to appraisal of the value of diseased
cattle and compensation for their destruction,
to the establishment of rules by the Depart-
ment for determining and certifying tuber-
culosis free herds, to the shipment of cattle
into or out of the state, and to the 60-day
retest are similar to the provisions of the act
under which the county area plan was admin-
istered.

The new act for the first time provides for
compulsory state-wide testing of cattle upon
request of the Department of Agriculture and
that any common carrier that delivers cattle
from any other state to any resident of this
state shall give the Department notice thereof
within 24 hours.

Representatives of the Association favored
this bill as the only method whereby the bene-
fits of the county area plan could be extended
to the less financially able counties of the
state, and whereby tuberculosis eradication in
the State as a whole could speedily be com-
pleted. Under any other plan centers of in-
fection would remain in many counties, espe-
cially in Southern Illinois, with continued
danger of infection in people, heavy loss to the
owners of infected cattle, and heavy expense
to the state. Under the state area plan, the
expense of maintenance of a tuberculosis free
state should soon be greatly reduced and the
cost of indemnities should almost disappear.

The representatives of the Association se-
cured the modification of the provision in the
bill which required any person desiring to pur-
chase cattle for shipment into the state to have
the consent of the department of agriculture
before such shipment was made. Since this
requirement was only for the purpose of giving
the department notice of the shipment, it was
modified by requiring any railroad or other
common carrier to give the department notice
of its delivery of cattle to any person within
the state. Persons desiring to purchase feeder
cattle from outside the state can now make
such purchases without the annoyance of con-
sent from or even notice to the department.

such consideration as they may determine, and
may establish and accumulate a reserve out of
earnings, including a permanent surplus. The
amendments also provide that any corporation
organized under the laws of this state and
doing business as a cooperative association may
derive the benefits of this act by securing the
written consent of two-thirds of the stock-
holders of such corporation.

This bill was prepared and sponsored by the
Association for the specific purposes, first, of
providing a more suitable Act for incorpora-
tion of the Association, the Farm Bureaus, and
any other agricultural cooperative associations;
second, of making it possible for the directors
of any corporation organized under this act to
set up, out of earnings, a reserve and a per-
manent surplus; and third, of making it pos-
sible for any corporation organized under the
laws of this state and doing business as a co-
operative association to reincoijwrate under this
Act upon written consent thereto by two-thirds
of its stockholders.

AMEND COOPEBATIVE ACT

House Bill 517, sponsored by the State De-
partment of Agriculture, and introduced by
Representative Tice, repeals the Bovine Tuber-

Senate Bill 223, introduced by Senator Cuth-
bertson, amends the title .of the cooperative
marketing act of 1923 and certain sections
therein by providing that any association en-
gaged in any activity connected with the pro-
duction of agricultural products may incorpo-
rate under this act. The amendments provide
that the directors of any corporation under this
act have power to sell no par value stock for

AMEND MEMBEBSHIP ACT

J

House Bill 363, introduced by Represenutive
Robinson, provides that any corporation or-
ganized to promote agriculture under the Act
of 1872 may, when so authorized by its mem-
bership, acquire securities of corporations whose
activities directly or indirectly promote »gn-
cultural interests.

This bill also was prepared and sponsored
by the Illinois Agricultural Association for the
specific purpose of enabling agricultural asso-
ciations organized under this act to acquire
and own the stock of other corporations which
are organized primarily to promote and serve
agricultural interests.

DOG LICENSE ACT

In the last few years some administrative
difficulties have been found in the act provid-
ing for the licensing of dogs by counties and
for the payment, from the dog license fund, of
indemnities for domestic animab killed or in-
jured by dogs. With increase in the kinds of
domestic animals for losses of which indemni-
ties are paid, the dog license fund was found
inadequate in some counties. For this reason
the General Assembly in 1927 increased from
$2000 to $3000 the minimum amount which
must be in the dog license fund before any
excess over the minimum could be distributed
on September 30 to townships or road districts.
Even with this increase In the minimum, the
dog license fund was still inadequate in some
counties.

It was found also that the dog license act
made it Impossible for a person living in one
county and having losses in another county to
recover indemnities therefor.

In recent years there have been many losses
of domestic animals from rabies, which has
been prevalent in the sute. There can be no
doubt that either directly or indirectly the
Infection came from rabid dogs. There was
no specific provision in the dog license act for
the payment of indemnities for such losses.

Most of the difficulties mentioned above were
corrected by the passage of House Bill 453,
introduced by Mr. Luckey of Vermilion
County, and sponsored in the senate by Senator
Paddock. This bill amended the dog license
act in three different sections: First, to prevent
depletion of the dog license fund, by changing

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the date of distributing iny fundi in excess
of $3,000 from SeptembcT 30 to March 31;
second, by making it possible for a resident of
any county of the state who has losses in any
other county to file claims for indemnities; and
third, by specifically making eligible to in-
demnities the death or the killing of any of
the domestic animals named in the act which
might be preyed to have been infected
rabies.

jrith

AMEND INSURANCE ACTS

Senate Bills 375 and 376, introduced by
Senator Flagg, and sponsored in the House by
Representative G. J. Johnson, provide that any
county fire insurance company may reinsure
the whole or any part of its risks with cjther
fire insurance companies, and that it may| re-
insure the whole or any part of the riskj lo-
cated in this state of other fire insurance com-
panies organized under the laws of this state.

The representatives of the Association sup-
ported these amendments in their final form
because they facilitate and regulate the practice
of reinsurance.

FERTILIZER ACT

Vith the concurrence of the University of
Illinois and the National Fertilizer Association,
the Illinois Agricultural Association introduced
a bill modifying the fertilizer law to eliminate
the term "ammonia" and to require, instead,
the term "nitrogen" as a means of reporting
the nitrogen content of commercial fertilizers.
The change, representing an improvement
which the Illinois Agricultural Association has
advocated for some time, was passed wit]iout
opposition.

itho

OTHER RILLS

Other bills favorably regarded by the ! As-
sociation and in some instances given lome
active support were: |

Senate Bill 9, by Senator Lantz, amen^ling
the act of 189$ for the organization of park
districts and providing that in the organiza-
tion of such park districtsi where a portion of
the proposed district is outside of a city, vil-
lage, or incorporated town, such outside terri-
tory cannot be included in the proposed dis-
trict unless a majority in such outside terri-
tory votes in favor of organization.

Senate Bills 126 and 127, companion bills,
relaring to boys* aiid girls' 4-H Qub Work,
by Senator Lantz, the first providing that agri-
cultural extension clubs may participate in the
distribution of the newly named state, county
fair and agricultural extension premium fund;
the second setting forth the requirements for
participation in such premium fund by mem-
bers of agricultural extension clubs.

House Bill 361, sponsored by the Farmers
Grain Dealers Association of Illinois, and in-
troduced by Representarive Hunter, amending
section 50a of the Act of 1874 regarding liens,
and providing that a thresherman's lien shall
not be valid and enforcible against a purchaser
of crops from the owner or lawful possessor
thereof unless the lien holder shall, previous to
or at the time of making final settlement for
such crops by such purchaser, serve upon such
purchaser a notice in writing of the > existence
of such lien.

In determining the provisions of thi* bill

and in its passage in the General Assembly, the
Illinois Agricultural Associauon cooperated
with the Farmers Grain Dealers Association of
Ulinois. This followed a meeting of repre-
sentatives of the two organizations in which
the legislative program of both organizations
was reviewed.

RESIST TAX INCREASES

In every recent session, the General Assembly
has had scores of bills to increase taxes either
by making appropriations for new purposes, by
increasing appropriations for present activiries,
by increasing maximum tax rates, or by re-
moval of limitations on tax rates or on the
power to issue bonds. In this respect the Fifty-
sixth General Assembly was no exception. In
spite of the general recognition of the gross
injustice of the present general property tax,
especially on real estate, many bills were en-
acted into law which cannot fail to increase
the present burden of taxes. Apart from cer-
tain taxes for state purposes, most of the in-
creases in taxes were sought by city representa-
tives and will fall upon owners of urban
property. Some of the increases, however,
especially for state purposes, will fall in part
upon owners of farm property.

The Conerton Bills

Representatives of the Association actively
opposed a series of bills introduced in the House
by Mr. Conerton, of La Salle county, and
sponsored by the state associations of supervis-
ors, county commissioners, county and probate
clerks and county auditors. The purpose of
these bills was to increase from 25 cents to
40 cents the maximum rate that can be used
for county purposes without a referendum.
This proposed increase of 60 per cent in the
county tax rate would have permitted in the
state as a whole, an increase of nearly
$13,000,000 in county uxes. There can be
little doubt that if these bills had been enacted
into law, most of the possible increase would
have been made in taxes to be paid next spring
and that nearly all of the possible increase
would have been made within a few years. In
the state as a whole nearly one-fourth of the
increase would have fallen on farm property.
In many counties most of the increase would
have been paid by farm property.

When the bills were before the Revenue
Committee of the House and again later were
before a sub-committee of the Revenue Com-
mittee, representatives of the Association pointed
out that the proper remedy for a shortage of
funds in many counties is either equalizarion
upwards of low valuations of some classes of
property, or a general increase of valuations
to the level of valuations in the state as a
whole. If either or both of these remedies are
not applicable to some counties, any such
county has the constitutional and statutory
right to submit , to a referendum vote of its
people a temporary increase in its county tax
rate.

Tax Increase Fails

Representatives of the state associations of
supervisors, county commissioners, county and
probate clerks, and county auditors, objecting
to all of these remedies as poliucally inexpedi-
ent, urged a favorable report on the Conerton
bills. However, neither the sub-committee of
the Revenue Committee of the House, nor the
Revenue Committee as a whole, was willing to
assume the responsibility which the county

officials were trying to shift to the General
Assembly.

Until the present revenue system is so re-
vised that taxes can be distributed equitably
among all persons able to pay them, owners of
some kinds of property, especially real estate,
are compelled to resist further increases in
taxes. The present inadequacy of funds for
many purposes is due to such resistance. More
serious inadeqiMcy of funds, however undesir-
able, may prove to be the surest and speediest
means of changing the taxing system.

The defeat of the Conerton bills is a strik-
ing example of one type of service which the
Association can perform by having its repre-
sentatives in Springfield. To prepare and
sponsor constructive measures in the interest
of agriculture is an important type of service.
To be watchful for bills which would injure
agriculture is an equally necessary duty. Legis-
lation invariably tends to move in the direction
desired by powerful and active organizations,
especially if those who may be injured thereby
make no resistance. In former days nuny
burdens were thus placed on farmers solely
because they were not organized, and there-
fore, could make no effective resistance.

Examine All BUIs ^

Representatives of the Association have ex-
amined every bill and resolution offered in
the 56th General Assembly. In many cases
they suggested or asked for modifications. In
a few cases active opposition was necessary.

The accomplishments of the Association in
the recent legislative session are in large part
due to the effective work of the County Farm
Bureaus and their collective supporting mem-
bership. The continued presuge and influence
of the Associauon in matters of this character
in a very large measure depend upon the un-
derstanding, determination and activities of the
membership throughout the state.

Farmers should study the records of their
representatives and regardless of party affilia-
tion, return their proven friends to the legis-
lative halls. By following such a policy, farm-
ers can render the most effective service in
protecting their rightful future interests.

September Drive

A NATION-WIDE drive for Farm Bureau
members is announced for September by
the American Farm Bureau Federation.

"Success of the national farm program for
the improvement of agriculture depends upon
the majority of farm people acting in 'unison',"
said President Sam H. Thompson in a recent
statement. "This principle, which hat been
advocated as Farm Bureau gospel since the
creation of the organization, was recently given
governmental sanction by Secretary of Agri-
culture Hyde.

"Through organized effort agriculture can
add from four to five billion dollars to its
annual income. Translated in termi of in-
dividual farm families, this means $750 a year
for every family now living on a farm in the
United States.

"The national organization has set aside the
month of September and has asked all state,
county and community units to co-operate in
building membership, to the end that we may
more quickly reach the goal of organized effort.
I hope every member during September will
become an energetic volunteer recruiting of-
ficer."

Be rare to read pages 6, 7 and 8, thii iaae.

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HEAR THESE FARM BUREAU PICNIC SPEAKERS

M. S. Winder

SCHEDULE OF DISTRICT I. A. A. FARM
BUREAU PICNICS

L. A. WiUiams

PICNICS

Date

Aug. 14
Aug. 16
Aug. 17
Aug. 27
Aug. 28
Aug. 29
Aug. 30
Sept. 11
Sept. 12

District

22nd
19th
20th
14th
17th
25th
23rd
12th
18th

Place

Highland

Shelbyville

Jacksonville

Monmouth

Bloomington

Sparta

Olney

Sandwich

Kankakee

Sept. 14 13th Morrison

Speaker
Cong. Henry T. Raincy
Sen. A. S. Cuthbertson
Sen. H. C. Kessinger
Sen. H. C. Kessinger
C. V. Gregory
Cong. Henry T. Rainey
S. H. Thompson
M. S. Winder
Earl C. Smith
Earl C. Smith

AUGUST is the popular picnic
-^^- month among Illinois farm-
ers. Every section of Illinois and
nearly every county will either
take part in sponsoring a district
Farm Bureau picnic or will hold
a picnic of its own during this
month or early September.

With the final selection of September 14 for
the joint I. A. A. Farm Bureau picnic in the
13th congressional district and September 12
for the 18th district gathering at Kankakee,
the schedule apparently is completed for the
rest of the season. While the Kankakee County
Farm Bureau will dedicate its new park at a
county gathering on August 28, farmers from
over the district will gather at the same place
two weeks later.

Speakers at the district gatherings will be
aided in getting their messages across through
the use of a public address system provided by
the I. A. A.

Cook-DuPage Picnic

More than a thousand gathered in Riede's
Grove, south of Lisle on July 31 for the joint
Cook-DuPage County Farm Bureau picnic.
Local units of the Pure Milk Association in the
two counties were invited. Speakers were

Date

Aug. 14

Aug. 15

Aug. 15

Aug. 16

Aug. 17

Aug. 17

Aug. 23

Aug. 27

Aug. 27

Aug. 27

Aug. 2S

Aug. 28

Aug. 28

Aug. 29

Aug. 29

Aug. 29

Aug. 31

Sept. 2

Sept. 7

COUNTY PICNICS

County Place

Cass

Scott Winchester

JoDaviess Galena
Washington Oakdale Picnic

Speaker

Geo. E. Metzger
Sam H. Thompson
I^. A. Williams

Grounds
Cumberland Neoga
Monroe
Williamson
Fulton
Schuyler
Marshall-
Putnam
Tazewell

L. A. Williams
F. M. Higgins
Ik a. Williams
S. H. Thompson
Earl C. Smith
Geo. E. Metzger

Pike

McHenry
Sangamon
IroQuois
Knox
La Salle,
Henry
Peoria

Swaney School Wm. H. Halone
Mineral Springs

Park Geo. E. Metzger

New Canton L. A. Williams

L. J. Quascy
Caldwell's Grove

L. A. Williams

W. T. Martindale
Ottawa Wm. H. Malone

Cambridge L. A. Williams

L. A. Williams

C. E. Metz

A. S. Cuthbertson

BASEBALL

President Sam H. Thompson of the A. F. B. F.
and Don Geyer of the Pure Milk Association.
A model T Ford won the auto driving contest.
A Chevrolet placed second.

A baseball game between the two leading
counties in the district and a horseshoe pitching
tournament will feature the sporting events at

OEMI-FINAL games in the Illi-
^ nois Farm Bureau Baseball
League will begin on or before
Saturday, Aug. 24. Several of
these games which attract state-
wide attention every year will be
played at the district L A. A.-
Farm Bureau picnics. Others may
be played at county picnics.

While divisional championships have not yet
been decided in all of the five baseball dis-
tricts embracing 21 Farm Bureau teams, a
tentative schedule of semi-final contests has
been drawn up with the first games booked
for Aug. 24.

Henry county !«■ expected to meet Mc-

the 20th district picnic, Jacksonville, on Au-
gust 17. The picnic committee includes farm Donough for the first intersectional game on
advisers and leaders from each county in the Aug. 24. This will be followed by another
district. game ( or possibly a double header) at the
District picnic speakers this year will all be 14th district picnic, Monmouth, on Aug. 27.
from within the state, although W. H. "Bill" Two out of three games will be the basis for
Settle from Indiana has been engaged to speak elimination unless other arrangements are made

at several county picnics. Few, if any, gather-
ings will be held during State Fair week which
begins on August 18.

Farm Bureau members will gather at Spring-
field for Farm Bureau day on Friday, August

between the two interested teams.

Another inter-sectional match between the
leaders in division Vl aad division V is sched-
uled for the 17th district picnic at Blooming-
ton on Aug. 28. Greene and Logan counties

23, where the I. A. A. and associated com- are the leaders in these two. divisions, respect-
panies will hold forth in the Farm Bureau tent, ively, at this writing.

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RECORD

1

the dite of distributing any funds in eilcess
of $3,000 from September 30 to March 31;
second, by making it possible for a resident of
any county of the state who has losses in any
other county to file claims for indemnities; and
third, by specifically making eligible to in-
demnities the death or tVie killing of anj of
the domestic animals named in the act wli
might be proved to have been infected ifith
rabies.

AMEND INSURANCE ACTS

Senate Bills 375 and 376, introduced by
Senator Hagg, and sponsored in the House by
Representative G. J. Johnson, provide that any
county fire insurance company may reinsure
the whole or any part of its risks with ofcher
fire insurance companies, and that it may
insure the whole or any part of the risk
catcd in this state of othci; fire insurance
panies organized under the jlaws of this st^

The representatives of the Association
ported these amendments in their £nal
because they facilitate and regulate the pradtice
of' reinsurance.

:up-
rm

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FERTILIZER ACT

With the concurrence of the Universit)
Illinois and the National fertilizer Associ
the Illinois Agricultural A^ociation introduced
a bill modifying the fertilizer law to eliminate
the term "ammonia" and to require, i
the term "nitrogen" as a means of report
the nitrogen content of commercial fertil
The change, representing an improve
which the Illinois Agricultural Association
advocated for some time, was passed wit
oppositittn.

ai ion.

d,
ing
ers.
lent
has
out

OTHER RILLS

Other bills favorably regarded by the As-
- sociation and in some iitstances given sjome
active support were:

Senate Bill 9, by Senator Lantz, amcndi
the act of 1895 for the organization of |ia
districts and providing that in the orgaii
tion of such park districts where a portion
the proposed district is outside of a city,
lage, or incorporated town, such outside t
itory cannot be included in the proposed
trict unless a majority in| such outside t
tory votes in favor of organization.

Senate Bills 126 and 127, companion
relating to boys' and girls' 4-H Club
by Senator Lantz, the first providing that
cultural extension clubs may participate in
distribution of the newly named state, coi
fair and agricultural extension premium f i
the second setting forth the requirements
participation in such premium fund by rr
be'rs of agricultural ex'cnsion clubs.

House Bill 361, sponsoBed by the Fan
'Grain Dealers Association of Illinois, and
troduccd by Representative Hunter, amemli
section 50a of the Act of 1874 regarding li
and providing that a' thresherman's lien

■ not be valid and enforcible against a pure

■ of crops from the owner or lawful
thereof unless the lien holder shall, previou
or at the time of making final settlement
such crops by such purchaser, serve upon s
purchaser a notice in writing of the eiisu
of such lien.

In determining the provisions of this bill

ing
rk
za-
of
vil-
rri-
dis-

ills,

Wbrk,
algri-
thc
nty
nd;
for

m-

ing

:ns,

sihall

baser

poss<(ssor

to

for

ich

of

and in its passage in the General Assembly, the
Illinois Agricultural Association cooperated
with the Farmers Grain Dealers Association of
Illinois. This followed a meeting of repre-
sentatives of the two organizations in which
the legislative program of both organizations
was reviewed.

RESIST TAX INCREASES

In every recent session, the General Assembly
has had scores of bills to increase taxes either
by making appropriations for new purposes, by
increasing appropriations for present activities,
by increasing maximum tax rates, or by re-
moval oi limitations on tax rates or on the
power to issue bonds. In this respect the Fifty-
sixth General Assembly was no exception. In
spite of the general recognition of the gross
injustice of the present general property tax,
especially on real estate, many bills were en-
acted into law which cannot fail to increase
the present burden of taxes. Apart from cer-
tain taxes for state purposes, most of the in-
creases in taxes were sought by city representa-
tives and will fall upon owners of urban
property. Some of the increases, however,
especially for state purposes, will fall in part
upon owners of farm property.

The Conerton Bills

Representatives of the Association actively
opposed a series of bills introduced in the House
by .Mr. Conerton, of La Salle county, and
sponsored by the state associations of supervis-
ors, county commissioners, county and probate
clerks and county auditors. The purpose of
these bills was to increase from 2 5 cents to
40 cents the maximum rate that can be used
for county purposes without a referendum.
This proposed increase of 60 per cent in the
county tax rate would have permitted in the
state as a whole, an increase of nearly
$13,000,000 in county taxes. There can be
little doubt that if these bills had been enacted
into law, most of the possible increase would
have been made in taxes to be paid next spring
and that nearly all of the possible increase
would have been made within a few years. In
the state as a whole nearly one-fourth of the
increase would have fallen on farm property.
In many counties most of the increase would
have been paid by farm property.

When the bills were before the Revenue
Committee of the House and again later were
before a sub-committee of the Revenue Com-
mittee, representatives of the Association pointed
out that the proper remedy for a shortage of
funds in many counties is either equalization
upwards of low valuations of some classes of
property, or a general increase of valuations
to the level of valuations in the state as a
whole. If either or both of these remedies are
not applicable to some counties, any such
county has the constitutional and statutory
right to submit to a referendum Vote of its
people a temporary increase in its county tax
rate.

Tax Increase Fails

Representatives of the state associations of
supervisors, county commissioners, county and
probate clerks, and county auditors, objecting
to all of these remedies as politically inexpedi-
ent, urged a favorable report on the Conerton
bills. However, neither the sub-committee of
the Revenue Committee of the House, nor the
Revenue Committee as a whole, was willing to
assume the responsibility which the county

orticials were trying to shift to the General
Assembly.

Until the present revenue system is so re-
vised that taxes can be distributed equitably
among all persons able to pay them, owners of
some kinds of property, especially real estate,
are compelled to resist further increases in
taxes. The present inadequacy of funds for
many purposes is due to such resistance. More
serious inadequacy of funds, however undesir-
able, may prove to be the surest and speediest
means of changing the taxing system.

The defeat of the Conerton bills is a strik-
ing example of one type of service which the
Association can perform by having its repre-
sentatives in Springfield. To prepare and
sponsor constructive measures in the interest
of agriculture is an important type of service.
To be watchful for bills which would injure
agriculture is an equally necessary duty. Legis-
lation invariably tends to move in the direction
desired by powerful and active organizations,
especially if those who may be injured thereby
make no resistance. In former days many
burdens were thus placed on farmers solely
because they were not organized, and there-
fore, could make no effective resistance.

Examine All Bills

Representatives of the Association have ex-
amined every bill and resolution ofFered in
the 56th General Assembly. In many cases
they suggested or asked for modifications. In
a few cases active opposition was necessary.

The accomplishments of the Association in
the recent legislative session are in large part
due to the effective work of the County Farm
Bureaus and their collective supporting mem-
bership. The continued prestige and influence
of the Association in matters of this character
in a very large measure depend upon the un-
derstanding, determination and activities of the
membership throughout the state.

Farmers should study the records of their
representatives and regardless of party affilia-
tion, return their proven friends to the legis-
lative halls. By following such a policy, farm-
ers can render the most effective service in
protecting their rightful future interests.

September Drive

A NATION-WIDE drive for Farm Bureau
members is announced for September by
the American Farm Bureau Federation.

"Success of the national farm program for
the improvement of agriculture depends upon
the majority of farm people acting in 'unison',"
said President Sam H. Thompson in a recent
statement. "This principle, which has been
advocated as Farm Bureau gospel since the
creation of the organization, was recently given
governmental sanction by Secretary of Agri-
culture Hyde.

"Through organized effort agriculture can
add from four to five billion dollars to its
annual income. Trarjslated in terms of in-
dividual farm families, this means $750 a year
for every family now living on a farm in the
United States.

"The national organization has set aside the
month of September and has asked all state,
county and community units to co-operate in
building membership, to the end that we may
more quickly reach the goal of organized effort.
I hope every member during September will
become an energetic volunteer recruiting of-
ficer."

Be sure to read pages 6, 7 and 8, this issue.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

H. C. Kessinger

H. T. Raincy

S. H. Thompson

Earl C. Smith

C. V. Gregory Wm. H. Malont-

•»*-

HEAR THESE FARM RUREAU PICNIC SPEAKERS

M. S. Winder

SCHEDULE OF DISTRICT I. A.
BUREAU PICNICS

A. FARM

L. A. Williams

PICNICS

^L'CiUS r is ilic pitpiibr picnic
^ * niornli .inuip>; Illinois tarni-

Datc

AuL'. 1

Auu:. 1

Ant:. 1

A lit'. -S

Aut-'. T.

Auir. 2\

Aii;.'. Si

S,|.l. 1

S,|.t. I

.•<, I't. 1

District

L'L'11.1
I'.lth

1 Ith

ITth
2.-ith
JSr.l
rjth
IMh
l.ilh

Place

Hirhliinil
Sh.-ll..vvilU.
.I:tck^nn\ illc
Mofinioulh
Hlomniiitrtor
Sparta
f)lniy
.'iaiiilwi.h
K;inkakt'0
Morrison

Speaker

Contr. H«-nry T. kainey

S.n. \. S. <'ii(hl.ert.-ioii

Sen. H. C. K.tisini-'er

Son. H. ('. K<'lisinu.-r

I', v. Cretiory

Cnntr. Henry T. itaines

S. H. 'rh..mpsoii

M. S. Win.ler

Ka

\arl ('. Sinilhj
■:arl C. Smith]

Date

Auv..
Aili;.
Aur.
Auk.

1 1
1.")

16

All!.'. IT

\\>K. 17

Ani;. 23

A 111-. 27

Aiitr. 27

AuH^. 27

COUNTY PICNICS

County Place Speaker

("ass i;..i. K. M.l /.•.-. I

Siott Winchester Sam H. I'hi.mi'

.ToOayiesi* (Jalena i.. A. Williams

Wasiiinvrtnn Oakilale Tii-nic i

tirounils L. A.

Ciimherlanil Neo;;a K. .M.

Monroe I/. .\.

Williamson S. H.

Fulton Karl C. Snlith

Sihuyler <;eo. K. Mt'tzj;
Marshall-

Williams
llijIKins
Williams
Thotnpsor

crs. I\cry section ol Illinois anj
ncirly eyyry county will cither
tjkc p.irt in spoiisorini; .t district
I jrin Bureau picnic or will hold
a picnic of its own durinj; this
Tiiontli or early September.

Willi the rinal selection ot September 14 for
tile joint I, A. .\. I-arni Bureau picnic in tlic
lull conxressiiinal district and September 1-
for the ISih district jfatherini; a« Kankakee,
the schedule apparently is completed tor the
rest of the season. ^X■hile the Kankakee County
larni Bureau will dedicate its new park at a
county gatherinj; im August 2S, farmers from
oyer the district will i;jther at the same place
two \Keeks later.

Speakers at the district j;atherini;s will bo
aided in i;eltin,i; their messai;es across throui;li
the use ot a public address system proyided by
the I. A. A.

Cook-DuPage Picnic

More than a thousand gathered in Riede's
(iroye, south of Lisle on July 3 1 for the joint
C:iM)k-nuI'a);c County I arm Bureau picnic.
Iiical units of the Pure Milk .Vssociation in the
two counties were invited. Speakers were

Au,;. 2S

Auk. 2S
Auir. 28
All!,'. 2fl
Auj;. 29
AuK. 2>J
Aui,'. :u
S.pt. 2
Sept. 7

riitnam
Ta/.cwell

Pike

Mellenry

Sant'ainon

Iroquois

ICnu.\

I,a Salle.

Henry

Peoria

Swaney Sehool
Mineral Sprinirs

Park
New Canton

Calclw.irs Groye

Wri

H. Mial.i

Ceo. K. Mitzt'er
I,. A. Williams
L. J. QuaSry

Ottawa
Camhriiljre

L. A. Williams
W. T. Mariin.lale

Wm. II. Mill '

I.. A. Williams
I,. A. Williams

. CuthbertBon

BASEBALL

:i Ml

S'

ll.e nil

Baseball

r before

President Sam 11. 1 hompson of the .\. 1. B. l.
ind Don Cieyer of the Pure .Milk Association.
A model T Ford won the auto drivinj; content.
A Cheyrolet placed second.

A baseball ijame between the two leading;
counties in the district and a horseshoe pitcliini;
tournament will feature the sporting events at
the 20tli district picnic, Jacksonville, on Au-
gust 17, The picnic committee includes farm
ad\isers m\<.\ leaders from each count)' in the
district.

nistrict picnic speakers this year will all be
from within the state, althou>;h \i'. H. "Bill"
Settle from Indiana has been en>;a>;ed to speak
at several county picnics. lew, if any, SJther-
ini;s will be held durinj; State Pair week which
begins on ;\ui;ust 18.

I'arnl Bureau members will gather at Spring-
field for larm Bureau day on Friday, August
2.', where the I. A. .\. and associated com-
panies will hold forth in the Farm Bureau tent.

lanjpionships hlne not yet
ofl the ti\e liaseball dis,

1 l|.\ A I gaiiusj tn
I arm Bursjui
league will begin m«i ,
Saturd.f\, ,\ug. :-(. I Sessial of
these ganJfS which attract state-
\v uie attention c\ery Kear will be-
played at the disirid I. .\. A-
I arm Burilau picnics. t)(liers may
be pla\ed at Cininty pis^ics.

W htle diMsioial chan|pionsliips h|i
been decided ill all

iricts embr.icing 21 ijarni Bureaji teams,
teniatue schedule of (.cini-tinal sioiitests h,
been dravs n up with die first
for .\ug. 24.

Henry count> is etpected t.i
Don.iugh tor the first intersecti.mfl game on
Aug. 24. Mils vsill W- follosved |bv another
game t or possibly a Rouble heavier I at the
14th district picnic, Mlmniouth. o(i .\ug. 2".
1 wo out of three ganul. will be tlie basis for
elimination unless other (arrangenienls are made
between the two interysied teams. '

Another inter-scciioiiil match l^etueen the
leaders in division \*I and division \' is sched-
uled for the I'th district picnic a^ Blooniing-

gajiie

b.K,ked
■ t Me-

lon on Aug. 2S. Circvfie and loj^n counties
.ire the leaders in these [two disisit*is
isely, at this writing.

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Page Six

THESE STATE SENATORS VOTED RIGHT ON IMPORT

Study Their
Records ^

Look up the voting
records of your repre-
sentatives In the state
legislature, on page 9.
Vote for men and
women who represent
you; who consider leg-
islation on its merits
rather than Its politi-
cal eflect.

W. L. Film ' j I Nannan G. Flags

rf

Louis H. Hanna

Wm. S. JewcU

Simon E. Lantz

THE STATE REPRESENTATIVES SHOWN BELOW SC

MEASURES AFFECTING THE WELFARE

Learn Why

If the faces of
your representa-
tives are not among
the 100 Per Centers
find out why. Vote
for honest, sincere

public olficals.

David Hunter, Jr.

Earl C. Kimbro Ciias. J. Kribs John W.

■Senator Martin B. Ballcjr's picture wu not received

THE I. A. A. RECORD

]^:d:

Page Seven

IMPORTANT ISSUES AFFECTING ILLINOIS FARMERS

Randolph Boyd

Martin R. CaHson Andrew S. Cuthbertson Henry M. Dunlap

James H. Felts

Support Your
Friends

Return your friends
to the legislature.
Support those who
have proved them-
selves worthy of the
authority and power
entrusted to them;
who dare to do the
right, rather than the
expedient thing.

Simon E. Lantz

Wm. R. McCauIey

Epler C. MilU

Ear! B. Searcy

Guy l_ Smith

dims. H. Thompson

LOW SCORED 100 PER CENT ON CONTROVERSIAL
LFARE OF THEIR FARM CONSTITUENTS

tenson

Wm. Z. BUck

R. J. Branscm

Calistus A. Bruer

Harry Baxter

James T. Burns

49 to 85

Eighty-five legis-
lators made the 100
per cent list this
year, 49 two years
ago. Careful voting
by Farm Bureau
members can fur-
ther increase the
number of perfect
records.

rmg

Michael Fahy

James H. Foster

Wm. E. Gilmore Sarah Bond Hanley

M. F. Hennebry

Graver C. Hoff

Kribs John W. Lewis F. W. Lewis

picture was not received in time for reproduction here

Roger F. Little

M. B. I lOhmann

H. M. Lacker

Mary McAdams

Page Six

THE I. A. A. RECORD

THESE STATE SENATORS VOTED RIGHT ON IMPORT

C i

study Their
Records

Look up the voting
records of your repre-
sentatives in the state
legislature, on page 9.
Vote for men and
women who represent
you; who consider leg-
islation on its merits
rather than its politi-
cal effect.

mm

J. Leroy Adair

•Chas. W. Baker

Richard J. Barr Florence F. Bohrer

Ran olph Boyd

W. L. Finn

Norman G. Flagg^

John R. Hamilton

Louis H. Hanna

Wm. S. Jewell

Simon E. Lantz

THE STATE REPRESENTATIVES SHOWN BELOW SC

MEASURES AFFECTING THE WELFARE

Learn Why

If the faces of
your representa-
tives are not among
the 100 Per Centers
find out why. Vote
for honest, sincere

public officals.

Gordon V>. Childers W. C. Chynoweth

Roy A. Corzine

Reed F. Cutler

Wm. H. Jackson

Gus J, Johnson

C. L. Ewing Michael

Earl C. Kimbro Chas. J. Kribs John W.

'Senator Martin B. Bailey's picture was not received

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Srvrn

IMPORTANT ISSUES AFFECTING ILLINOIS FARMERS

Hml^

Ran <olph Boyd Martin R. Carlson Andrew S. Cuthbertson Henry M. DunUp

James H. Felts

Support Your
Friends

Return your friends
to the legislature.
Support those who
have proved them-
selves worthy of the
authority and power
entrusted to them;
who dare to do the
right, rather than the
expedient thing.

Simon E. L.antz

Wm. R. McCauley

Epler C. Mills

Earl B. Searcy

Guy L. Smith

Chas. H. Thompson

LOW SCORED too PER CENT ON CONTROVERSIAL
LFARE OF THEIR FARM CONSTITUENTS

3enson

Wm. Z. Black

R. J. Branson

Calistus A. Bruer

Harry Baxter

James T. Bu

49 to 85

Eighty-five legis-
lators made the 100
per cent list this
year, 49 two years
ago. Careful voting
by Farm Bureau
members can fur-
ther increase the
number of perfect
records.

Michael Fahy

James H. Foster

Wm. E. Gilmore

Sarah Bond Hanley

M. F. Hennebry

Grover C. Hoff

Ki

1

KL

*<> ^H

fri

Kribs John W. Lewis F. W. Lewis

picture was not received in time for reproduction here

Roger F. Little

M. B. Lohmann

H. M. Luckey

Mary Mc Adams

VOTE TO RETURN YOUR PROVEN FRIENDS

TO THE LEGISLATURE t i

.■t ..i

F. A. McCarthy Harry M. McCaskrin Henry H. Mester H. Z. O'Hair

Frank Porter

F. W. Rennick

Claude L. Rew

Arthur Roe

W. V. Rush

Ed. Ryan

H. V. Teel

John R. Thompson Homer J. Tice

J« £. MacMackin

Karl R. O'Hair

Lottie Holman
O'NeUl

M. P. Rice

Rollo Robbins Carl E. Robinson

Henry W. Smith R. G. Soderstrom T. J. Sullivan

S. B. Vaughan

Elbert Waller Robert Whiteley

Alexander Wilson Elmer C. Wilson Chas. L. Wood

'Rep. Scarborough's picture was not received in time for reproduction here

Chas. M. Turner

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

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Page Nine

HOW YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES VOTED'

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8th District (Boone, Lake, McHenry)
Sen. Paddook._

Rep. McDonough.

Rep. Jacluon, N. L_
Rep. Lyona

10th District (Ogle, Winnebago)
Sen. Baker_

Rep. Green_
Rep. Hunter.

Rep. Wilaon, E. F. (deceased)...

12th District (Carroll, JoDaviess, Stephenson)
Sen. Meyeia.

Rep. Bingham .

Rep. Acker

Rep. Frsns, C. D .

14th District (Kane, Kendall)

Sen. Keasinger.

Rep. McCarthy.

Rep. Peffera.

Rep. Petit

16th District (Livingston, Marshall, Putnam,
Woodford)

Sen. Lants

Rep. Bruer.

Rep. Turner, C. M..
Rep. Fahy

18th District (Peoria)

Sen. Michel _ _

Rep. Scholes (absent account sickness)..

Rep. Crowley

Rep. McClugage.

20th District (Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee)
Sen. Meenta..

Rep. Beckman..

Rep. Wilson, E. C_
Rep. Bums

22nd District (Edgar, Vermilion)
Sen. Bailey..

Rep. Luckey

Rep. O'Hair, Karl R._
Rep. Breen

24th District (Champaign, Moultrie, Piatt)
Sen. Dunlap

Rep. Litde..

Rep. Black

Rep. Gilmore-

26th District (Ford, McLean)
Sen. Bohrer..

Rep. Johnson, G. J_
Rep. Childers—
Rep. Kane

28th District (DeWitt, Logan, Macon)
Sen. Lee..

Rep. Chynoweth_

Rep. Clark.

Rep. Hoff

30th District (Brown, Cass, Mason, Menard,
Schuyler, Taxewell)
Sen. MilU

Rep. Tice

Rep. Lohn)ian_
Rep. Teel

32nd District (Hancock, McDonough, Warren)

Sen. Hanna ~ —

Rep. Foster

Rep. Robbin

Rep. Hanley

33rd District(Hender80n, Mercer. Rock Island)
Sen. Cailsoa

Rep. Searle

Rep. McCaskrin

Rep. Sinnett

34th District (C3ark, Coles, Douglas)

Sen. Hamilton.

Rep. Lewis, John W _.

Rep. Baxter

Rep. O'Hair, Harvey Z._

3Sth District (DeKalb, Lee, Whiteside)
Sen. Wright ■

Rep. Allen..

Rep. Devine.

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HOW YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES VOTED

tith District (Boone, Lake, McHenry)

Sen. Paddock a

Rep. McDonough

Rep. Jackion, N. L

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10th District (Ogle, Winnebago)

Sen. Baker

Rep. Green

Rep. Hunter.__

Rep. Wilson, E. F. (deceased) -.

12th District (Carroll, JoDa\ies», Stephenson)

Sen. Meyers

Rep. Bingham

Rep. Acker...

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14tli District (Kane, Kendall)

Sen. Kessinger.^

Rep. McCarthy...

Rep. Peffers

Rep. Petit

16th District (Livingston, Marshall, Putnani
Woodiord)

Sen. Lantz

Rep. Bruer._

Rep. Turner. C. M.

Rep. Fahy

18th District (Peoria)

Sen. Michel

Rep. Scholes (absent account sickness)..

Rep. Crowley.

Rep. McClugage

20th District (Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee)

Sen. Meents

Rep. Beckman..

Rep. Wilson, E. C

Rep. Burns

22nd District (Edgar, Vermilion)

Sen. Bailey.

Rep. Luckey _

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24th District (Champaign, Moultrie, Piatt)

Sen. Dunlap

Rep. Little

Rep. Black..

Rep. Gilmore..

2Cth District (Ford, McLean)

.Sen. Bohrer

Rep. Johnson, G. J

Rep. Childcrs

Rep. Kane

2)>th District (DeWitt, Logan, Macon)

Sen. Lee

Rep. Chvnoweth..

Rep. Clark

Rep. HolT

30th District (Brown, Cass, Mason, Menard.
Schuyler, Tazewell)

Sen. Mills

Rep. Tice _

Rep. Lohman

Rep. Tecl

32Tid District (Hancock, McDonough, Warren)

Sen. Uanna

Rep. Foster

Rep. Robbins

Rep. Hanley

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Sen. Carlson

Rep. Searle

Rep. McCaskrin

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Rep. Martin ;

Rep. Vaughan

Rep. Malloy.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

i?atiieN;eW5

Tune in on the I. A. A. Forum from Station
. WLS wery Tliursdjiy nicht at 6:30 p. m^
Central Standard Time.

The dally farm program of the I. A. A. from
SUtion WJJD, Mooseheart (265 meters) is
brtmdcast between 12:00 and 12:20 p. m., Mon-
day to Friday inclusive. Hear the daily Chieaco
livestock market from the Producers, and each
Friday the weekly market review. Outlook
reports, reviews, and talks by I. A. A. ataCf
members, officials, and leaders in farm thoi^ght
are broadcast daily.

Mrs. Vera M. Biddle, of Knoxville, Tcjin.,
sister of President Earl C. Smith, appeared
the I. A. A. Forum program from WLS
July 2 J. Many favorable comments were
ceived following her singing. Mrs. BiddU
active in musical circles in her home city and
has sung to radio audiences from several soiith-
^ ern stations. She was accompanied by her
daughter, Greta. Mr. and Mrs. Biddle and
their two children were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Smith at Detroit and Chicago before returning
home.

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Donald Kirkpatrick was the Forum speaker
on August 15, and L. A. \(filliams is scheduled
to appear on the I. A. A. Forum program
August 22.

Chas. A. Stewart, secretary of the Natiohal
Livestock Producers Associition, will discuss
the national feeder lamb and calf pool on i;he
I. A. A. Forum program Aug. 29.

Baseball !

• Cass county suffered its first defeat of the
season from Greene county in the ten-inniing
game at Carrollton on August 3. It was c|ne
of the hard-fought games of the year and ijhe
winning run came in the last of the tenth.

The official score sheet credits Greene couqty
with five runs, nine hits, five errors, and Cass
county four runs, five hits, three errors. Ho^e
runs were made by Robinson for Greene and

I -Fanning for Cass.

I The Effingham County Farm Bureau, tde
_.| Illinois Equity Exchange, the Effingham Equity

Exchange, the Dieterich Equity Exchange, and

farm organizations in Effiqgham county are

i to-operating in holding a county picnic jn

I Reichhelms Grove at Effingham, III., on Thu^s-

* ' day, August 22. i

"«' Leroy Melton, Greenville, president of tie

. National Equity Union, has been scheduled as

speaker.

Randolph, Union, and Pulaski counties were
represented at the I. A. A. district conferen:e
held on July 29 at Carbondale.

Roy Chatton of the Egyptian Seed Growers*
Exchange, Flora, discussed their proposed sup-
ply company for handling petroleum products.

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The Mercer County Farm Bureau is stronger

today than at any time in its history. Tlie

membership recently passed the 900 maik

which represented a gain of 127 members over

■ the previous three-year period.

WELCOME TO STATE FAIR

Farm Bureau Day Set for August 23

"ALTHOUGH we set aside Friday, August
-^*- 23, as 'Farm Bureau Day' at the Illinois
State Fair, I like to think of every day of this
agricultural exposition as a day that farmers
and their families can enjoy, and call their
own," writes Director Clarence F. Buck of the
Illinois Department of Agriculture in a message
of welcome to Illinois Farm Bureau members.
"We want your organization to feel per-
fectly free to plan such entertainment features
or demonstrations as you may choose to pre-
sent. However, we heartily agree with you
in that there is abundant entertainment now
provided, without any added features that
would demand considerable time and effort on
the part of your membership— time and effort
that, as you say, would be spent more profitably
in fhe enjoyment of established features of the
fair.

"Your ideas of conducting a restful, home-
like and comfortable headquarters will un-
doubtedly meet with the genuine approval of
the public. Such a haven as your association
will provide will be a boon to visitors who be-
come fatigued from the exertion of viewing

the many enlightening features of the fair.

"Voicing the wishes of the entire branch of
Illinois state service that conducts the exposi-
tion— from Governor Emmerson on down to
the workmen who will assist in making pro-
visions for Farm Bureau headquarters — it is a
pleasant privilege to bid the agricultural public
welcome through the agency that your associa-
tion represents."

The entire executive committee of the I. A.
A. will entrain for Springfield to attend Farm
Bureau Day following its regular monthly
meeting on August 22. Many of the staff
members also will attend.

Exhibits showing the services and activities
of the Association will occupy part of the Farm
Bureau tent. Last year the Association spon-
sored a joint debate between representatives of
the Democratic and Republican national com-
mittees on the agricultural planks in the party
platforms. Senator Caraway from Arkansas
and Congressman Dickinson from Iowa were
the debators, and in spite of cold disagreeable
weather talked to a large number of people in
the grand-stands. .1

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Insurance

By L. A. WUliams

<<pOUNTRY LIFE'S" 20 year en-
^ dowment policy now available,
is very attractive to children. At the
younger ages children do not attach
the protection value to life insurance
that they will in future years when
they take on added responsibilities.

most he could pay in in 20 years is
about $800, that he is guaranteed $1,-
000 at the end of twenty years, and
that on top of this $200 profit is cer-
tain of annual dividends which will in-
crease his profits tremendously, he
takes a great interest in watching his
total cash worth increase from year
to year.

It is, therefore, the lure of saving
money which is the main appeal. Par-
ents appreciate how difficult it is to
maintain a savings account. They ap-
preciate the fact that a bank cannot
come to them and say, "Now, you
should deposit so much regularly."
But the Insurance Company comes
with a bill or a statement, and keeps
after the insured, and sees that
regular deposits are made.

In later years, when he has added
responsibilities, he will increase the
amount of insurance he carries. He
will then take straight life insurance.
You have taught him the value of pro-
tection by starting him on the first
endowment policy, and having the ap-
preciation of that contract teach him
the lesson of old line protection. The
child whom you start on a $1,000 pol-
icy may carry $25,000 or $50,000 of
life insurance in the next twenty
years, where you today consider that
$5,000 or $10,000 of life insurance
was a large amount.

When a child appreciates that the

On Wrong Side of Road

WHERE A HIGHWAY was con-
structed of concrete with gravel
on either side, a driver who continued
to drive with his left wheels on the
gravel on the left side until he collided
with another vehicle, was held negli-
gent as matter of law.

Public liability and property damage
in the Illinois Agricultural Mutual In-
surance Co. protects the policy holder
against even when his own negligence
is responsible for the accident.

Life insurance eliminates chance
from the life program of the farmer
by guaranteeing an estate regardless
of prosperity. Incidentally, should he
arrive at age 65, having carried in-
surance as a gruarantee of an estate,
he does not arrive at 65 penniless, re-
gardless of ill fortune. He sees the
value of his life insurance whether it
be straight life, 20 Payment Life, or
20 year endowment.

if

Uncle Abe says: "The best reformers
are those who are all the time trieing
tew reform themselfs, thus presenting
tew the world one good example,
worth at least a dozen precepts."

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Eleven

ONE MAN KILLBD AND ANOTHBK INJURBD AS A RESULT
or THIS ACCIOBNT

This Collision Cost the Company

$7,771.11 1

'W^ HE mass of wreckage shown above
■* resulted from a terrible accident.
The driver of the wrecked car was
killed, his father riding beside him ser-
iously injured.

The other driver, a policy holder in
the Illinois Agricultural Mutual not
only escaped uninjured but suffered no
financial loss. The company imme-
diately assumed all financial responsi-
bility and finally settled for the sum of
$7,771.11. Thiswouldhavebeenaheavy
loss for one man to bear, but not for a
company having assets of $342,717.52.

THIS service which includes pro-
tection against liability for person-
al injury and damages inflicted by your
car, damage to your car, fire, windstorm
and theft is all provided in a full cover-

age policy available to membersitt tost.
A full coverage policy insures you
against worry and financial responsi-
bility for hospital and doctor bills,
against court costs and attorney's fees,
repair bills, and other attending ex-
penses in case of accident. In addition
your estate is protected.

THE assessments made every six
months after the initial deposit are
surprisingly low, so low that no mem-
ber can afford not to be insured. Loss-
es spread over thousands of preferred
risks, low overhead-.jexpenses, no pri-
vate profits or management expense to
pay, and all savings reflected back to
members in low assessments make
possible this exceptional service to mem-
bers, t I

CUp and MaU Today You Can Get Full Information at You^

"^,im»^^i^;^iin^ii^ii^^i^^'\ County Farm Bureau Office or

MS S«. Daarbora St., . ,,, ,., .«.

cu«ace, nuaoia. Dy Writing the

Send me your latest pamphlet "A" and '.

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The Story

of
Agriculture

and
Miss Equality

/"yrCE upon a tir^e there was
^^ a young country lad named
Agriculture. He was an ambi-
tious, hard-working young man,
trying to succeed in his chosen
profession. He was madly in
love with a beautiful maiden
whose name was Equality. He
realized that other suitors for
the hand of Equality, however,
were favored above him. He
felt their superiority. They ap-
peared to be smarter, looked
more prosperous, and apparent-
ly succeeded in acquiring a
much larger portion of the
i world's goods than he. These
1 suitors were Organized Indus-
try, Great Mergers, Chain
Stores, Big Business, and their
brothers. \

TT OCCURRED to him that If
■■• he were to win the hand of
Equality it must be by overcom-
ing his bashfulness, his lack of
organization, individualism, and

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other handicaps. So he started
to organize and educate himself,
to build commodity marketing
associations, to practice volume
buying to reduce costs of pro-
duction, and to protect himself
against the countless hazards of
his business through mutual in-
surance service.

A ND finally he conceived the
•^^^ possibilities and advantages
of a strong life insurance com-
pany, with great savings made
possible b y eliminating un-
necessary agency and selling
expense, and by doing business
in large volume. He put this
plan into action and accom-
plished his purpose to the ad-
miration and respect of those
who watched his career. He
discovered that his business was
the business of his people and
that by minding it well he could
gain the admiration and respect
of Equality.

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OO ONE day the world mar-
^ veled and admired the prog-
ress made by this young man in
improving himself and his in-
dustry. Equality came to him
and said : "You are doing great
things. You have overcome
your handicaps. I felt confident
you would succeed when you
became fully conscious of your
strength and possibilities. I
prefer you above all the others."
And so they lived happily ever
after.

Country
Ittsuiance
Co.

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CHICAGO

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Number 9

SEPTEMBER, 1929J

Volume 7

The Story

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/^NCE upon a time there was
^^ a young country lad named
Agriculture. He was an ambi-
tious, hard-working young man,
trying to succeed in his chosen
! profession. He was madly in
love with a beautiful maiden
whose name was Equality. I:[e
realized that other suitors for
the hand of Equality, however,
j were favored above him. ¥ e
\ felt their superiority. They a i-
! peared to be smarter, looked
more prosperous, afid apparent-
ly succeeded in [acquiring a
much larger portion of the
world's goods than he. -Xhese
suitors were Organized Indus-
try, Great Mergers, Chain
Stores, Big Business, and thejir
brothers.

TT OCCURRED td him that
he were to win the hand
Equality it must be by overconji
ing his bashfulness; his lack (»f
organization, individualism, and

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other handicaps. So he started
to organize and educate himself,
to build commodity marketing
associations, to practice volume
buying to reduce costs of pro-
duction, and to protect himself
against the countless hazards of
his business through mutual in-
surance service.

A ND finally he conceived the
'^ l)o.ssibilities and advantages
of a strong life insurance com-
])any, with great savings made
po.ssible b y eliminating un-
necessary agency and selling
expense, and by doing business
in large volume. He put this
plan into action and accom-
plished his purpose to the ad-
miration and respect of those
who watched his career. He
discovered that his business was
the business of his people and
that by minding it well he could
gain the admiration and respect
of Equality.

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ress made by this young man in
improving himself and his in-
dustry. Equality came to him
and said: "You are doing great
things. You have overcome
your handicaps. I felt confident
you would succeed when you
became fully conscious of your
strength and possibilities. I
prefer you above all the others."
And so they lived happily ever
after.

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OUR 4-H CLUB DELEGATION AT WASHINGTON
Left to right: Mary McKee, specialist in Junior Club work.
University of Illinois; Casper Mast. Jr.. Adams County;
Mildred Grosboll, Menard County ; Homer Mendenhall. Sang-
amon County; Lucile Gochanour, LaSalle County; and J.
Ross Baird. associate in Junior Club work. University of
Illinois.

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Non^Member

MAINTAINING the organiza-
tion is a never-ending task.
Thousands of loyal members in the
95 organized counties of Illinois have
made possible the success the I. A. A.
and the County Farm Bureaus have
attained in this important work.

NOW a renewed effort is being
made to tell the Farm Bureau
, story to the non-members in papers
of general circulation. The advertise-
ment above is the first of a series
> now appearing in Prairie Farmer.

EACH member can lend his aid to
this great self-help program by —
informing himself thoroughly about the
available services and the accomplish-
ments of his organization. Each addi-
tional member enlisted from the ranks
of the non-members will make possible
greater service and more effectiveness
in advancing; the interests of our great
industry.

The Greatest Self Help Program
Is Successfully Operating

60,000 Illinois Farmer<« Are Organized for Service

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THE IlUnoU Agricnltural AuocUtion
(I. A. A.) and ito 93 Affiliated Farm
Bureaus hare proved that cooperation
la workable. Ten years of development finds
the program of the L A. A. so 6rnilj estmb.
lished as to rate this farmer oi^antzatJon one
of the lai^est trade organisations in the State.

One aAer another thes^ projects have been
made a part of the routine service of the I. A. A.:

DAIRY MARKETING FRtTT AND VECC
TABLE MARKETING CO-OPERATIVE
UMESTONE-PHOSPHATE BUYING • LIVE-
STOCK MARKETING • PRODUCE MAR-
KETING TAXATION SERVICE HOC
CHOLERA CONTROL TRANSPORTA-
TION CLAIMS and ■ complete INSURANCE
SERVICE^iDrludiagXOUNTRYLIEE'tbaoaly
Farm Bureau owned life tiuaraiice compaay.

Organization makes possible these advantages
not available to others or not available else,
where at as low a cost Every additional mem-
bership further improves Farm Bureau
Service and opens wider the doors of oppor-
tunity for effective Self Help.

If you are one of the many who have not
thoroughly investigated the successful oper.
ation of the Illinois Agricultural Association's
enterprises, stop in at the County Farm
Bureau Office at your next opportunity and
ask for full information. If more convenient
fill out the attached coupon and send direct
for information on any form of service in
which you are interested.

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the non-members about the I. A. A. and the

Farm Bureau

ORGANIZATION is the way to a
prosperous and stabilized agricul-
ture. The Farm Bureau in Illinois not
only has accomplished much for its
members, but its influence has been felt
far and wide outside the state.

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Number 9

SEPTEMBER, 1929

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Three Teams fight

For Baseball Honor

' Taiewell Defends Title Against
Rivals For Illinois State
Championship

THE elimination of Henry county by Mc-
Donough at Macomb on August 31 in the
third game of the hard-fought series narrowed
the race for the 1929 championship in the Illi-
nois Farm Bureau Baseball League to three
teams, McDonough, McLean, and Tazewell.

The executive committee of the League in-
sists that Tazewell eliminate at least one of the
championship contenders before it be entitled
to play in the final series for the high honor.
This means that Tazewell
must play the loser of the
McDonough-McLean series.
If it can successfully de-
fend its title against one
of these two teams it may
play the other to decide
the annual contest.

"Walter
horseshoe

and £d Doubet won the doubles
tournament by narrow margins."

Light and foiver

front Corn Stalks

DECOVERY of methane or marsh gas from
* *- cornstalks in sufficient qtuntities to light
and heat farm homes and even small cities, was
announced at the American Chemical Society's
7gth annual convention at Minneapolis by Dr.
A. M. Buswell, professor of sanitary chemistry
at the University of Illinois.

From the waste of sewage and plain corn-

Action Necessary

This action was made
necessary because of the
uneven number of divis-
ional champions eligible
for semi-final competition.
By virtue of winning the
championship last year,
Tazewell was given the
preferred position in the
play-off. As a result it

has scheduled no official games since it defeated
Marshall-Putnam for the divisional champion-
ship. McLean and McDonough were scheduled
to play the first game on September 10 at Mon-
mouth. It is hoped that the state contest will
be over well before the end of the month.

The experiences of the season have been en-
couraging. Better sportsmanship and a spirit of
fair play have been apparent. In this respect
civilization has come a long ways since the
turn of the century. Old-time baseball was
frequently attended by savage and brutal gang
wars and fights between opposing teams and
their backers. There is little of this today,
although the desire to win and the fighting
spirit is none the less evident. High schools
have had a powerful influence in improving
sportsmanship.

"Our Farm Bureau baseball team played Stark
county at our picnic last Saturday," writes J.
W. Whisenand, Peoria county farm adviser.
"The score was 21 to 7 in our favor. Our team
got 17 hits and Stark county 10. Peoria's
pitcher, Patton, struck out eight men and their
three pitchers. Sniff, W. Seger, and Best struck
out nine.

FIGHT TO DEFEND STATE BASEBALL TITLE
Tazewell County's scrappy Farm Bureau nine must defeat the McDonough and
McLean County teams — both dangerous contenders — to retain the state championship.

stalks, large quantities of the gas have been
developed at the university capable of use for
heating, operating automobiles in place of gaso-
line, and driving engines to produce electricity,
as well as to form the principal ingredients of
"dry ice."

The apparatus used In the delivery of the
gas, according to the Professor, is so simple
that it can be installed by any farmer to de-
velop a private heating plant for his own use
from the effect of sewage on waste cornstalks.

"After drying," Buswell states, "the stalks
are shredded with an ordinary shredding ma-
chine, boiled, soaked in water or in lime. The
apparatus is simply a small tank provided with
a cover to collect gasses."

From a large commercial standpoint, he esti-
mated a circle eight miles in diameter of corn
land would produce enough stalks to supply
usual gas needs of a city of 80,000 population.

John C. Watson, director of taxation, has
been appointed on a special investigational com-
mittee by William H. Malone, chairman of the
state tax commission. The committee will
study and report on the administration of the
personal property tax in Illinois.

Policyholders Heed |

Anti- Accident Drive

First Weelf in September Shows
33 Per Cent Drop Compared <.

With August

AUTOMOBILE accidents among policyholders
'- of the Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insur-
ance Company dropped 33 per cent the first
week of September following the state-wide
campaign against auto accidents in which the
County Farm Bureaus and the I. A. A. are
co-operating.

Thousands of policyholders have attached the
tags bearing the slogan "No Auto Accidents in
September" to the steering wheels of their cars.
Pamphlets carrying the
message of accident pre-
vention were mailed to all
the 16,000 odd members
of the company. The in-
fluence of the drive is al-
ready being felt, l

Every 23 Mlnntes

Every 23 minutes some-
one is killed in a motor
vehicle accident in the
United States. Last year
there were more than
27,500 fatalities as a re-
sult of auto accidents in
this country.

Every auto accident, ac-
cording to V. Vaniman,
director of the safety
campaign, is due to ignorance or carelessness.
None is excusable. Many collisions and upsets
are due to inferior intelligence or slow reac-
tion to danger. Defective eyesight, poor mem-
ory and poor reasoning ability are other causes.
An intelligent driver senses danger at once.
He is continually on the alert, particularly at
intersections. He not only watches his own
driving but he thinks for the other driver, al-
ways alive to possible poor judgment and mis-
takes of the other fellow. I

He Is No Dreamer

The careful driver keeps his mind on his
work, especially when driving on the pavement.
He is no dreamer or sky gazer. He minds his
business, watches the road, not the landscape.
Accidents are often criminal and when the
courts take full cognizance of this truth and
punish those who are negligent by imprisonment
and deprivation of a driver's license there will
be some hope for reducing losses and fatalities
from motor collisions.

How Accidents Occur

A study of the losses reported to the Illinois
Agrictdtural Mutual since it began operating
reveals that i66 accidents occurred when mak-

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FarmBureau

to tiie
Non^Member

AINTAINING the organiza-
tion is a never-ending task.
Thousands of loyal members in the
95 organized counties of Illinois have
made possible the success the I. A. A.
and the County Farm Bureaus have
attained in this important work.

OW a i*enewed effort is being
made to tell the Farm Bureau
1 story to the non-menibers in papers
I of general circulation. The advertise-
ment above is the first of a series
now appearing in Prdiirie Farmer.

The Greatest Self Help Program
Is Successfully Operating

00,000 IlliiioU Fariiicr«k Arr tli'naiiixrd for^irrvioe

thf 1 Imufr tit >rftr 1'»h "

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TIIF Illinois .Agricultural Asfiociation
(I. A. A.) and its 95 Affiliated Farm
Bureau*) have proved that cooperation
\n workable. Ten yean^ of development lindt*
the profirani of the I. A. A. ho firml\ estah.
Ii>lied an to rate this farmer organization one
ofthe larpe<>t trade origan izationn in the Slate.

One after another these projects have heen
made a part oft h<' n»iiiines«'rvice4»fthel. A. A.:

|)\IItV M\RKF.TINr, KRIIT \M» VECK-
TAlti.K M VKKKTIX. tO.dl^KK^TIVI-:
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SKMIK MARKETING ■ l*ROI»H E \1 \R.
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<:ll(>I.ER\ * ONTROI. I RANSrORlA.
HON tl.VIM^ utMl animplrle INSlRWE
SERVICE.iiK-linliiif: <.t)l M RV IIKK ihaonly
Eurni Itiin-tiu oMitrd life ini^tiruiK'i' 4*(»iii|ianv.

Orffutii/atian makes possible lhe«>e ad t untaxes
not avjilulde Id (>llitT> <»r not a\ailahl«' fU<*-
when' ul a-* Itiw n i-<>st. Kver\ jddilionut mem-
hership further impro\es Farm Bureau
Service and <»|M'n* wider the doon* of oppor.
Iiiiiit\ for i*ffe<'li*e Self lli'Ip.

If \ou are one of the nian\ mIio liu\e not
ihorou^hK investigated lh<' ••tiecessful 4>p<'r.
ati<»n <»f the Illinois A^^rieuhural \sMM'ialion''H
enterprises, stop in at the <!i>untA Farm
Bureau Olliee at vour next opportunitv and
ask for full in formal ion. If more convenient
fill i>ut the allach<tl coupon an<l m'uiI direet
for infikrmation on an\ ft>rm <if si-rviee in
vhieh vou are interested.

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^ruti iiD<M<t:riabl<- MarkninfE l.itr ■^ut^ VUrLniai:

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ACH member cad lend his aid to
this great self-help program by
informing himself thoroughly about the
available services and the accomplish-
ments of his organization. Each addi-
tional member enlisted from the ranks
of the non-members will make possible
greater service and more effectiveness
in advancing the inte|-ests of our great
industry. ^

This it the first of a series of ads published to inform

the non-members about the I. A. A. and the

Farm Bureau

RGANIZATION is the way to a
prosperous and stabilized agricul-
ture. The Farm Bureau in Illinois not
only has accomplished much for its
members, but its influence has been felt
far and wide outside the state.

Illinois Agricultural Association

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Number 9

SEPTEMBER, 1929

\'()lume 7

Three Teams Fight

For Baseball Honor

Tazewell Defends Title Against

Rivals For Illinois State

Championship

'^I^HK climinjtion of Henry ciiunty by Mr.-
^ Uonougli at Macomb on August SI in the
third i;amc of the hard-fought series narrowed
the race for the 1929 championship in the Illi-
nois Farm Bureau Baseball League to three
teams, McDonough, McLean, and Tazewell.

The executive committee of the League in-
sists that Tazewell eliminate at least one of the
cliampionship contenders before it be entitled
to play in the final series for the high honor.
This means that Tazewell
must play the loser of the
.McDonough-McLean series.
If it can successfully de-
tend its title against one
of these two teams it may
play the other to decide
the annual contest.

Action Necessary

This action was mad-'
necessary because of the
uneven number of divis-
ional champions eligible
for semi-final competition.
By virtue of winning the
championship last year,
'I'azewell was given the
preferred position in the
play-oflf. As a result it

has scheduled nt) oHicial games since it defeated
Marshall-Putnam fiir the divisional champion-
ship. McLean and .McDonough were scheduled
to play the first game on September 10 at Mon-
mouth. It is hoped that the state contest will
be over well before the end of the month.

The experiences of the season have been en-
couraging. Better sportsmanship and a spirit of
fair play have been apparent. In this respect
civilization has come a long ways since the
turn of the century. Old-time baseball was
frequently attended by sava.ge and brutal gang
wars and fights between opposing teams and
their backers. There is little of this today,
although the desire to win and the fighting
spirit is none the less evident. High schools
have had a powerful influence in improving
sportsmanship.

"Ualtcr and Ld Doubet won the doubles
horseshoe- tournament by narrow margins.**

Policyholders Heed I

Anti-Accident Drive

Light and Poiver

From Corn Stalks

jJKCOVKRY of methane or marsh gas from
' ^ cornstalks in sulficicnt quantities to light
and heat farm homes and even small cities, was
announced at the American Chemical Society's
7Sth annual convention at .Minneapolis by Dr.
A. M. Buswell, professor of sanitary chemistry
at the University of Illinois.

I-rom the waste of sewage and plain corn-

"Our Farm Bureau baseball team played Stark
county at our picnic last Saturday," writes J.
W. Whisenand, Peoria county farm adviser.
"The score was 21 to 7 in our favor. Our team
got 17 hits and Stark county 10. Peoria's
pitcher, Patton, struck out eight men and their
three pitchers, Sniff, \if. Seger, and Best struck
out nine.

FIGHT TO DEFEND STATE BASEBALL TITLE
Tazewell County's scrappy Farm Bureau nine must defeat the McDonough and
McLean County teams — both dangerous contenders — to retain the state championship.

stalks, large quantities of the gas have been
dc\ eloped at the university capable of use ft>r
heating, operating automobiles in place of gasti-
line, and driving engines to produce electricity,
as well as to form the principal ingredients ot
"dry ice."

The apparatus used in the delivery of the
i;as, according to the Professor, is so simple
that it can be installed by any farmer to de-
velop a private heating plant for his own use
from the effect of sewage on waste cornstalks.

"After drying,** Buswell states, "the stalks
are shredded with an ordinary shredding n»a-
chine, boiled, soaked in water or in lime. 1 he
apparatus is simply a small tank provided with
a cover to Ci>llect gasses."

Irom a large commercial standpoint, he esti-
mated a circle eight miles in diameter of corn
land would produce enough stalks to supply
usual gas needs of a city of 80.000 population.

John C Watson, director of taxation, has
been appointed on a special investigational com-
mittee by William H. Malone, chairman of the
state tax commission. The committee will
study and report on the administration of the
personal property tax in Illinois.

First Week In September Shows

33 Per Cent Drop Compared

With August

\L' R).\10Bll 1, .iccidents anuuig polic>'lioldcrs
- of thci Illinois .\gricuUural .Mutual Insur-
ance Company dropped 3 5 per cent the first
week of September following the state-wide
campaign against auto accidents in which the
<- ttunty Farm Bureaus and the I. A. .\. are
vo-ofserating.

Thousands of policyholders have attached the
tags bearing the slogan "Xo Auto Accitlents in
September" to the steering wheels of their cars.
Pamphlets carrying; the
message of accident pre-
vention were mailed to all
the 16,000 odd members
of the company. The in-
fluence of the drive is al-
ready being felt.

Every 23 Minutes

1 \cry 2> minutes some-
ttne is killed in a mott>r
s chicle accident in the
United States. I ait year
there were more than
2~,(00 fatalities as a re-
sult ot auto accidents in
this country.

I very auto accident, ac-
cording to V. Vjniman,
i director of the safety

campaign, is due to ignorance or carelessness.
\orte is excusable. Many collisions and upsets
are due to interior intelligence or slow reac-
tion to dan.ger. Defective eyesight, foot mem-
orv dnd poi>r reasoning ability are otheri causc-s.
.'\n intelligent driver senses danger ;iit once.
Me is continually on the alert, particularly at
intersections. He not only watches His own
driving but he thinks for the other driKer, al
w.i\s alive !to ptissible piior judgment a^d mis-
t.ikes ot tlw other fellow.

He Is No Dreamer

The careful driver keeps !us mind on his
w.irk. especially when driving on the pavement,
lie Is no dreamer or sky gazer. He minds his
business, wutchcs the ruad, not the landscape
.\ccidents are often criminal and when the
courts take full cognizance of this triith and
punish those who arc negligent by imprisonment
and deprivation of a driver's license there will
be some hope for reducing losses and fatalities
from motor collisions.

How Accidents Occur

.■\ study of the losses reported to tlie Illinois
.\gricultural Mutual- since it began operating
reseats that .'66 accidents occurred when mak-

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

ing left-hand turns. Ignorance I and careless-
ness were responsible for these. Three hundred
and sixteen collisions occurred aC intersections,
209 were cases of sideswiping, 151 reported
"unable to stop," 80 said that !(hey failed to
stop when approaching the concrete highway,
41 came to grief while driving on the left
side of the road. These were recorded from a
total of 3,330 claims.

Throughout September accidelit prevention
will be the dominant topic for discussion at
meetings of Farm Bureau insurance agents,
policyholders, and Farm Bureau members in
Illinois. Policyholders realize that the way to
reduce further their low cost insurance is to
cut the number of accidents.

Here Are Rules

In an insurance meeting at Ottawa, LaSallc
county, on September 3 the "No Auto Acci-
dent Campaign" featured the prqgram. A set
of rules for the guidance of alt i Farm Bureau
members in the county were adopted as fol-
lows:

1. Always stop on approaching i\ paved high-
way and look in both directions.

2. When you run off the pavement slow up
before going back on.

3. Always signal and look in b^th directions
before making a left-hand tuk-n.

4. In going around cars blow your horn and
be certain the right-of-way is clear.

J. Never try to beat a train at i\ crossing.

6. Don't try to pass going around curves.

7. Never pass another car going \ip a hill when
oncoming cars can't be seen. |

Every county is being asked to keep a record
indicating the days on which no accidents oc-
cur among Farm Bureau member policyholders.
"Every county having no auto accidents among
its members during September will automatic-
ally become a member of the 'No Auto Ac-
cidents in September Club,' " anjqounces Vani-

Campaign Slogans

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"Highway
Courtesy

The unwritten
law of the high'
way. Play fair
with the other feU
low. You'll both
feel better for it.
Qualities of true
gentlemen are re'
fleeted in highway
courteay, [

of the cam-
paign slo gans broad-
cast thmughout the
state are:

1. A njoment's neg-
lect n»ay cause re-
gret for a lifetime.

2. You a^e not thrifty
if you are not a
safe man.

3. Prevertion of ac-
cident: is preven-
tion of suffering.

Accidents don't just happen- —there is a
cause.

A minute foi| safety beats a month for
repairs.

A man at work is worth two in a hospital.
Forethought is cheap; afterthought is ex-
pensive.

You may be dead Hght but
time.

The effectiveness of accident
campaigns is seen in records com }iled at San
Diego, California. Actuated by dist essing tratBc
accidents in that jcity of 140,000 people, the
chief of police on July 1, 1927 orjered all ac-
cidents carefully investigated, witnesses secured,
and the guilty parties brought t<> court and
punished.

Curve Was Upward

During the firsd half of the ye^r the curve
of accidents in tUat city was continually up-

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prevention

ward as it had been during preceding years. In
six months there had been 404 accidents, 594
personal injuries. In the six months follow-
ing the order despite an increased volume of
traffic, there were only 3 51 accidents recorded,
a drop of 25.9 per cent. Injuries dropped to
42 5, a decrease of 28.4 per cent.

There were 800,000 automobile accidents in
the United States during 1928, according to
estimates of the National Safety Council.
Twenty-seven thousand lives were taken and
an economic loss of $850,000,000 was involved.

Drastic Treatment

"Mental
Equipment"

It is even more
important than
mechanical equip'
ment. Don't count
too Tnuch on the
common sense of
the other fellow.
No one is 100 per
cent alert at all
times.

Accident prevention
is much less a question
of speed than of skill
and clear-headedness.
Competency and re-
sponsibility should be
determined before a
license is issued or be-
fore a person is allowed
to drive a car without
the supervision of an
experienced driver. Evi-
dence of incompetent or irresponsible driving —
regardless of speed — should result in forfeiture
of the license, and does in a number of states.

License Granted For

LiabUity Insurance

1100 Farmer Employers Now Protected

Against Liability For Iniuries

To Hired Help

TT'MPLOYERS' liability insurance is now in
-*^-^ operation for more than 1,100 Illinois
Farm Bureau members whose applications are
on file in the office of the Illinois Agricultural
Mutual Insurance Company.

The new service became effective at noon
on Saturday, August 31, a telegram from the
State Insurance Department announced. The
amended license reproduced herewith authorizes
the Illinois Agricultural Mutual to engage both
in automobile and employers' liability insur-
ance.

Deposits Required

A special reserve deposit of $25,000 was re-
quired before the new service could become
operative. Each applicant was required to
make a deposit of $2 5 based on a yearly pay-

roll up to $1,250. This includes the $5 policy
fee, a $10 premium deposit, and $10 for reserve.
The policyholder retains his ownership in the
$20 for premium and reserve which will be
refunded if he withdraws from the Company.
Assessments will be made annually, although the
company may make semi-annual assessments if
it so desires.

The basis for estimating premium deposits
hereafter will be slightly different. An addi-
tional $5 must be deposited on application for
each additional six months of hired labor or
fraction thereof.

What Protection is

This insurance protects the policyholder
against the common law liability of an em-
ployer's negligence leading to the injury of his
employee. The law imposes certain responsi-
bilities upon the employer in relation to the
employee. He must provide safe tools and use
reasonable care in removing hazards. He must
not only use care in selecting employees but
should caution such employees regarding the
dangers of their employment.

On the other hand before the employee can
collect damages he must prove to the court
or jury that his employer was negligent and
did not use reasonable care in preventing the
accident.

A Typical Case

An Illinois farmer was sued by a hired hand
for an injury sustained when the team of mules
he was driving ran away. It was shown in
court that the team of mules had run off
before, therefore the jury decided they were
dangerous and the farm employer was guilty
of negligence and carelessness because he did not
warn the employee that the team of mules was
dangerous. Judgment was rendered against the
employer for $5,000.

Limit of Protection

The new employers' liability insurance in the
Illinois Agricultural Mutual protects the policy-
holder up to $5,000 per personal injury or
(Continued on page 7)

License Allows Employers' Liability Insurance

THE I. A. A. RECORD

■^'

Page Five

B Thousands Attend Farm Bureau Picnics

14th District Gathering at Monmouth Leads All in Size

Monmouth, 111., Aug. 27: .....■■ -., ^j^^ lighted grandstand on the fair grounds.

4 CROWD estimated at 15,000 gathered here Congressman Henry T. Rainey, the speaker

-^ today in the picturesque city park at the of the afternoon, ulked to a full grandstand

edge of town for the 14th district I. A. A
Farm Bureau picnic. An ideal day and a
morning baseball game between Warren and
Henderson counties induced a large early at-
tendance. The crowd came from Warren,
Mercer, Hancock, Henderson, and Rock Island
counties. All were well represented.

Henderson defeated Warren in the morning
baseball game, while McDonough won a close
decision from Henry, championship contenders,
in the afternoon contest. The score was 3 to
1. Heavy hitting by "Boots" Runkle, star
shortstop for McDonough turned the tide of
victory. The game was hard fought and well
played by both teams.

Harold Kessinger, state senator from Aurora,
was introduced by his colleague. Senator Han-
nah of Monmouth. Kes-
singer spoke optimistically
about the future of agri-
culture, emphasizing the
need for thorough organ-
ization. M. G. Lambert
of Ferris presided. All
Farm Bureau presidents in
the district were there.

Games, contests, races,
and good music provided
in both morning and after-
noon kept the crowd en-
tertained. Observers de-
clared this the largest
farmers' picnic held dur-
ing the year in Illinois.

on farm relief and the marketing act. Mr.
Rainey, a Democrat, was for the equalization
fee and the debenture plan, and said so. His
talk was well received.

Farm adviser C. J. Thomas of Jackson
county broke his leg while sliding into home
during the baseball game between local pickup
teams. A crowd estimated at 4000 attended.

Others who spoke briefly were Sec. Geo.
E. Metzger and Pres. E. W. Tiedeman of the
Sanitary Milk Producers. Fred Dietz of DeSoto
presided.

OIney, 111., Aug. 30:

A crowd that overflowed the grandstand and
the Richland county fair grounds heard gray-
haired Sam Thompson, president of the Ameri-

These siffns
near the main
entrance
greeted State
Fair visitors,
Auc 19-24.

Bloomington, 111., Aug. 28:

Threatening clouds in
the morning and a light
shower early in the after-
noon cut the attendance
at the 17th district Farm
Bureau picnic held at Mil-
ler Park here today. The
crowd was somewhat small-
er than that of last year
when 8,000 to 10,000 peo-
ple attended a similar
gathering.

McLean bested Wood-
ford county in the morn-
ing baseball game played
on the Teachers' College
grounds at Normal. C. V.
Gregory, editor of Prairie
Farmer and speaker of the
afternoon, gave a scholarly

address tracing the history of agriculture and
farm relief from biblical times to the present
day. He spoke optimistically of the future,
the agricultural marketing act, and the federal
farm board. The Middle West has lagged be-
hind in organizing grain marketing coopera-
tives, he said. Farmers must federate to secure
the benefit of the new legislation.

Salem presided, getting the program under-
way and finishing on schedule time. - . i-'-.

Ottawa, III., Aug. 31:

The story of the Cook county reassessment
and the long struggle for a fair and equitable
valuation of real estate was told here today
in a short vigorous address at the annual
LaSalle County Farm Bureau picnic by William
H. Malone, chairman of the Illinois Tax Com-
mission. Mr. Malone accompanied by Mrs.
Malone arrived in a great tri-motored metal
monoplane which after circling about over the
picnic crowd landed at the Ottawa airport
two miles from the city.

Mr. Malone commended the Farm Bureau
and Illinois Agricultural Association for their
fairness in tax matters before the Commission.
"I have never heard Farm Bureau representa-
tives ask the commission for tax reduction," he
^ said. "They invariably

appealed for tax equaliza-
tion and when the facts
showed that ineqiulities
existed we have not hesi-
tated to grant relief."

A 4-H club style show,
a baby beef club demon-
stration, baseball, horse-
shoe pitching and other
events featured the pro-
gram.

The largest county pic-
nic in the history of the
Marshall-Putnam Farm
Bureau was held on the
Swaney school grounds
near McNabb on Aug. 27,
according to R. J. Laible,
county adviser. The crowd
was estimated at 8,000 by
experienced gatekeepers.

The speaker, Wm. H.
Malone, chairman of the
state tax commission, ar-
rived in a Curtiss -Robin
airplane from Chicago.

The I. A. A.
pavilion was
a popular
meeting place
for farmers
through-
out Fair week
at Springfield.

Sparta, Aug. 29: ';.-■■

The 4-H Club pageant in which nearly a
hundred boys and girls from every part of
Randolph county participated, featured the
2Sth district picnic held here today. The 4-H
program provided the evening entertainment in

MEMBERS FIND QUIET AND REST AT STATE FAIR

can Farm Bureau Federation tell about the
struggle for farm relief here today. The crowd
of 8,000 to 10,000 was similar to that of last
year. Mr. Thompson said he started his speak-
ing career as president of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association at Olney about six years ago.
"Our Sam" spoke interestingly and optimistic-
ally about the future of agriculture.

Baseball between Clay and Wabash County
Farm Bureau teams featured the morning pro-
gram along with barnyard golf. Boy scout
demonstrations, and a style show by 4-H club
girls preceded the speaker in the afternoon. A
variety of games and races entertained the
picnickers until evening. W. L. Cope of

Four hundred twenty-
five members already have
been signed in the renewal
campaign of the Hender-
son County Farm Bureau,
and the membership shows
prospects of approaching
^ 500 within the next week
I or two, according to R.
J. Hamilton, district or-
ganization manager. The old membership in
Henderson county was 434. Practically all the
new members are signed by voluntary solicitors.

Loyd V. Steere, American Agricultural Com-
missioner at Berlin, Germany, and Dr. Erich
Kraemer from the same country were visitors
at the I. A. A. office recently. Represenutives
of the Soviet Government from Moscow,
Russia, spent a day at L A. A. headquarters
several weeks ago studying the Farm Bureau
setup and program of service in Illinois. .

Don't fail to read page 11 of this issu«.

I'ii(/f Four

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in botli direeiioiis

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Campaign Slogani»

'^Highway ,
Courtesy'**

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lead a loryi;

pre\ent ion
lied at San
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people, the
ered all ac -
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eiHirt and

ward as it had been during; pretediiii; vears. In
M\ months there had been 4U4 accidents, ^V4
* personal infui ies. In I lie si\ nu>n i lis tolhiw
iiii; the order despite an increased viflume «>t
iratiic, there were only "^ M accidents recorded,
a drop, ot 2'i.^) per ceiii. Injuries dri»pped t<f
4J^. a decrease ot 2S.4 per cent.

There were SUU.OIMi automobile aseidents in
I lie l.'nited Stales dunni; I 'OS, accordnii; to
estnnates o| the National Satet\ (ouikiI.
I w ent \ -se\ en t Imusand li\ es w ere taken and
III esoiK.nitc loss ol SiS W>,0(H1,U()U was in\o|\ed.

Drastic Treatment

^'Mental
Equipment'*

If /.s t .-. „ ma,,
itn i'ttftttiif t h II u
tmrhitiitrtO t i/uiii-
Hfiif. I 'o n't rifu ttl
fiMt niurfi (tn thi
rimi imm stust ttf
th. t,thtr ftUinr.
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It nt nli_ rt ilf all

deus
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Accident prevention
IS much less a (luesiion
ot speed than ot skill
and s lear-heatleiiness,
( oinpeieiK y and re-
sponsibility should be
determined betore a
license is issued or be-
tore a person is allowed
to drive a tar w iihoul
the sviperv isi.m oj an
experienced driver. I vi-
e of iiKorr.peteiit or irresponsible driving —
rdless of ^Ix.■ed — should result in torleiture
he license, and iit>es in a number of Mates.

r the curve
inually up-

License Granted For

Liability Insurance

] 100 FarmerEmployers Now Protected

Against Liability For Injuries

To Hired Help

I ^^ Ml'l ( >\ I RS' liabilitv msuranee is now m
' -^ operation U>r more than I.HHt Illinois
I arm IWireau members whose applications are
O.I tile in the olhce of the Illinois Agricultural
\I Ml ual Insur.mce < <<mpanv .

I he new service became etlective at noon
i-n Saturdav, August »I, a telegram troni the
State Insuraiue Deparimenl announced. The
.iniendetl license repr(»duced lierevv ilh authorizes
the lllintus Aiincullural .Mutual to cn>;a>;e both
in .uuomobile and employers' liability insur-
aiK e.

Deposits Required

A special reserve deposit of $2^,000 was re-
t|uired betore the new service Cituld become
operative. I acli applicant was required to
make a deposit ot SJ^ based *in a yearly pay-

roll up to sl.jsii. I his ineludes the > S policy
tee. a > Ht premium dep<isii. and SIO for reserve.
I lie policyhitliler retains his ownership in the
>J() lor premium and reserve which will be
retunded it he withdraws from the ( onipanv.
A\sessments will be made annually. aI[hou>;li the
companv may make semi-annu.d assessments it
It so desires.

I he basis l,.r estimating; premium dep<»sn-s
liereatter will be slii;hilv ditlereiit. An addi-
tional >^ mu*t be deposited on applKation t.ir
each additional si\ monihs ot lured labor or
t ractitiii t hercot.

What Protection Is

I his msurjOLe pioieels the polu v holdei
.ii;ainst the ciumiion law liability of an em-
plover's ne;;lij^ence leading; to the injury of his
emplov ee. I lie law imposes certain responsi -
bilities upon the emplover in relation t*» the
einplovee. lit must provide safe t«M)ls and use
reasonable ^. WH- in removini; hazards. II-- must
mil Old V use >.M'i.' m selei. tini.; emplov ees but
should cautHH) such emplovees rei^ardiiiL; (he
din>;ers ot thiir employ mem.

On the »)ll»er hand beti»re the emphivee can
collect daina.i;es he must prove to the court
or iurv that hi;* employer was ne>;li>;eiit ami
did not use reasonable care in prevcntinj; the
aci ideni.

A Typical Case

.\n Illinois tanner \eas sued by a hired hand
tor M\ mjurv sustained when the team ol mules
he was dnvini; rati away. It was >huwii in
(.ouri thai the team of mules had run otl
betore, theref«>rc the jury decided they were
ilam;eroiis and the tarm employer was ^uiliv
ot ne>;li,i;ence and carelessness because be did not
warn the employee that the team of mules was
dangerous. Jud>;ment was rendered a.i;ainst the
employer for $5,(H)(».

Limit of Protection

I he new ernphfyers' li.ibilitv iiisi,i.itice m tlu'
Illinois Ai;ricultural Mutual pr()iects the poliey-
hi'lder up til SS.oiH) p^r personal injur\ or

((Continued on pa_i;e 7)

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License Alluwb Employers' Liability Insurance

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page f /»•»

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Thousands Attend Farm Bureau Picnics

14th District Gathering, at Monmouth Leads AH in Size

Muiinioutli,

Auk.

4 C:RC)Vil) cMinmcd at 15,(tOU (jatlicrcd luri;

' * tuiijy in the picturcquo city park at the
i.df;e ot town for the I4th district I. A. A-

l-arm Bureau picnic. An ideal day and a
niornini; baseball game between "Warren and
Henderson counties induced i large early at-
tendance. The crowd ciiiie tr»nii Warren,
Mercer, Hancock, Henderson, and Rock Island
counties. All were well represented.

Henderson defeated ^'arren in the morning
baseball >;.*"ic', wliile McDonough won a close
decision from Henry, championship contenders,
in the afternoon contest. 1 lie score was 3 to
I. Heavy hilling by "BiK)ts" Kunkle, star
shortstop for McL)onouj;h turned the tide of
victory. The game was hard fought and well
played by both teams.

Harold Kcssinger, slate senator from .\urora,
was introduced b>- his colleague. Senator Han-
nah ot Monmouth. Kcs-
singer spoke optimistically
about the future of agri-
culture, emphasizing the
need tor thorough organ-
ization. M. Cj. I.amberl
ot Ferris presided. All
larni Bureau presidents in
the district were there.

Ciamcs, contests, races,
and good music provided
in both morning and alter- ■
noon kept the crowd en-
tertained. Observers de-
clared this the largest
farmers' picnic held dur-
ing the year in Illinois.

the lighted grandsiand on the fair grounds.

C-ongressman Henry T. Rainey, the speaker
of the afternoon, talked to a full grandstand
on farm relief ariil the marketing act. .\lr.
Kainey, a Democrat, was for the equalization
fee and the debenture plan, and said so. His
talk was well received.

farm adviser C. J. 1 homas of Jackson
county broke his leg while sliding into home
during the baseball game between local pickup
teams. A crowd estimated at 4000 attended.

t)thers who spoke briefly were Sec. Cieo.
\. Met/ger and Pres. li. W. Tiedeman of the
Sanitary .Milk Producers. Ired Dietz of Ue.Solo
presided.

Olius, III., Aug. iO:

.\ crowd that ovcrllowed the grandstand and
ihc Richland county fair grounds heard gra>
li.ured Sam 'I lioinpson. president of the .-Xnieri

Salem presided, gelling ihe program under
was iiid timshing on schedule lin»e.

t)lljwa. III., Aug. II :

I lie story of the Cl<Mik county reassessment
and the long struggle for a fair and equitable
valuation of real estate was told here today
in a short vigorous address at the annual
1 aSalle Ciiunty I-arm Bureau picnic by Vi'illiam
H. Malone, chairman of the Illinois lax C oin-
missiun. Mr. Malone accompanied by Mrs.
Malone arrived in a great tri-inoiored nietul
monoplane which after circling about over the
picnic crowd l,(nded at ilu Dttawa airport
two miles troni ihc city.

Mr. .Malone commended the larm Bureau
jiid Illinois Agricultural Associatiim for their
lairiKss 111 ta\ matters before the Commission.
"I have never Kcard larm Bureau rcprcsent*-
ii\es ask the commission lor lax reduction," he
said. " 1 hey invariably
appealed for tax equali/^-
tion and when the facis
showed that iiiequaliti^

These sii^ns
near the main
entrance
Greeted State
Fair ' visitors,
Aug. 19-24.

The I. A. A.
pavilion was
a popular
meeting place
for farmers
through-
out Fair week
at Springfield.

tiloominglon, 111., Aug. 28:

Threatening clouds in
the morning and a light
shower early in the after-
noon cut the attendance
at the 17th district harm
Bureau picnic held at .Mil-
ler Park here today. The
crowd was somewhat small-
er than that of last year
when 8,000 to 10,000 peo-
ple attended a similar
gathering.

-McLean bested ^X'<M]d-
tord county in the morn-
ing baseball game played
on the Teachers' College
grounds at Normal. C. V.
(iregory, editor of Prairie
farmer and speaker of the
afternoon, gave a scholarly

address tracing the history of agriculture and can larm Bureau federation tell about the
farm relief from biblical limes to the present struggle for farm relief here today. The crowd
day. He spoke optimistically of the future, of 8,000 to 10,000 was similar to that of last
the agricultural marketing act, and the federal year. .Mr. Thompson said he started his speak-
farm board. The Middle West has lagged be- ing career as president of the Illinois Agricul-
hind in organizing grain marketing coopera- lural Association at Olney about six years ago.
lives, he said. Farmers must federate to secure "Our Sam" spoke interestingly and optimistic-
ilie benetit of the new legislation. ally about the future of agriculture.

Baseball between Clay and Wabash County

Sparta, Aug. 29: Farm Bureau teams featured the morning pro-

The 4-H Club pageant in which nearly a gram along with barnyard golf. Boy scout
hundred boys and girls from every part of demonstrations, and a style show by 4-H club
Randolph county participated, featured the girls preceded the speaker in the afternoon. A
2Uh district picnic held here today. The 4-H variety of games and races entertained the
program provided the evening entertainment in picnickers until evening. W. I.. Cope of

existed we have not hei>l-
laicd lo grant relief."

.\ 4-H club style shinf,
J baby beef club dcmun-
straiion, baseball, horsi-
slioo pitching and oth<tr
events featured the pnj-
gram

The largest county pic-
nic in the history of ilk-
.Marshall-Putnam I a r ni
Bureau was held on tine
Swancy school grounds
near .McXabb.on Aug. 17,
according to R. J. I.aiblf,
county advisee. The crowd
was estimated at 8,000 b^'
experienced gatekeepers.

The speaker, VC'm. ] I.
Malone, chairtnan ai tJiit-
slate tax conimission, ar^
ri\ed in a <!-urtiss-Robifi
airplane from <J)icago.

MEMBERS FIND QUIET AND REST AT STATE FAIR

■K ^^^ . Four hundred tweniyi-

\Jm ^^^B 1 I've members already have

flA^^^^^J iK-en signed in; the rcnewajl

^^^^^^^r campaign of the Hcnderl

^ttfKK ""'" (^unty larm Bureai*,

•^ ^^ ^1 and the membership showt,

prospects of approaching

SOU within the next wee^

or two, according to R,.

J. Hamilton, district or-

gaiii/atioii manager. 'Ihe old nieinlKTship io

IKiidersiin cooniy was 454. Practically all tht

ii.w members are signed by voluntarv sulicitorv.

loyd \. Sieere, .\merican -Xgricultural Com-
missioner at Berlin, Germany, anil Dr. Erich
Kraciiicr from tlie same country were visitors
ai the I. .'\. A. ollicc recently. Representatives
111 ilie Soviet <iovernmcnt from Moscowi,
Russia, spent a day at I. A. A. headquarters
several weeks ago studying the Farm Bureau
setup and program of service in Illinois.

Don't fail to read page 1 1 of this issuii

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

I LtlilNOlS

CCLTURAL ASSOCIA

RECORO

To advance thm purpoae for which the Farm Bureau Wa9 organized,
nmmeiy to promote, protect and repreaent the buaineea, economic,
poiitical, and educational intereeta of the farmera of illinoia and the
nation, and to develop agriculture.

Published once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave.. Mount Morris,
Illinois, by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Entered as second-
class matter October 20, 1926, at the poat office at Mount MorrU,
Illinois, under the Act of March S, 1879. Accepted for mailins at
special rate of postage provided for in Section 412, Act of February
28, 1925, authorized October 27, 1925. The individual membership
fee of the Illinois AKricoltural Association is five dollars a year. The
fee includes payment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois
Aqkicultural Association Rkcoro. Postmaster: In returnins an un-
called for or missent copy please indicate key number on address as
is required by law.

OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith

Vice-President, Frank D. Barton..

Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles

Detroit

Cornell

Chicago

..Bloomincton

EXECUTIVE COMMltTTEE
(By Concresaional Di*trict)

1st to nth..

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18th _

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.;H. C. Vial, Downers Grove
...G. F. Tullock, Rockford
....C. E. Bamborough, Polo

M. G. Lambert, Ferris

..A. N. Skinner, Yates City

A. R. Wright, Verna

..Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

R. F. Karr, Iroquois

C. J. Gross, Atwood

..Chak-Ies S. Black, Jacksonville
..Samuel Sorrells, Raymond
..Frank Oexner, Waterloo

W. L. Cope, Salem

..Charles Marshall, Belknap
Fred Dietz, De Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Dairy Marketing ^ „

Limestone-Phosphate 1

Finance L

Fruit and VegeUble Mark^tinc

Comptroller ^

Information

Insurance Service

Legal Counsel

Live Stock Marketing

Organization ,

Produce Marketing

Taxation and Statistics..
Transportation

A. D. Lynch

J. R. Bent

R. A. Cowles

A. B. Leeper

J. H. Kelker

George Thiem

V. Vaniman

..Donald Kirkpatrick

Ray E. Miller

G. E. Metzger

F. A. Gougler

.._ J. C. Watson

L. J. Quasey

SUBSIDIARY ORGANIZATIONS

'Country Life Insurance Co ^ L. A. Williams, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives Ass'n f F. E. Ringham, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Cc A. E. Richardson, Mgr.

Illinois Farm Supply Co L. R. Marchant, Mgr.

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Executive Committee States

Views oil Marketing Act

RECOGNIZING the differing views beihg expressed by many of
.of our members relative to the Agriciiltural Marketing Act and
efforts to put same into effect, the executiv^ committee of the Illinois
Agricultural Association at its meeting oil August 22, 1929, gave
careful consideration to tiie matter and |inanimousIy expressed the
I belief that the following attitude should b^ assumed by all members
of the Association and those with whom they might have proper
I influence:

I "That the Agricultural Marketing Act passed by the special

I session of congress was the result of the continuing efforts of
organized agHculture overirecent years to secure recognition of the
agricultural industry by qur national government;

"That while full credit and' responsibility rests entirely with
the Administration for the passage of thif act, it is the duty of
all farmers and friends of agriculture to give their full support
and co-operation that agriculture may secure the utmost benefits
to be derived under the present law.

"Regardless of any differing views that may be held by farmers
relative to fundamental principles necessary to restore agriculture
to a fair basis in our ecenomic life, such differences should not
be allowed to detract in any way from the support and co-opera-
tion extended by thinking farmers to effcrts being made to help
agriculture."
The committee expressed the belief that only by following such

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a policy and keeping our forces welded together in one common unit

through such co-operation, could we expect to be prepared to seek

the immediate correction of any weaknesses or limitations that may
develop in placing this law into effect.

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Dairy Show Oct. 12-19

ILLINOIS farmers will have a fine opportunity to attend the National
Dairy Show next month at St. Louis. The dates arc October 12-19.
The trend of eating habits of the American public toward dairy prod-
ucts in recent years attaches unusual significance to this great exposi-
tion. ! ;

V/hile production of milk and dairy products is adequate to supply
the demand at present, the natural increase in population and per capita
consumption of milk, butter, ice cream, cheese, and the like offers a
promising future for dairy husbandry. In no branch of farming is
skill and good, management at a higher premium than in the dairy
business.

The National Dairy Show is a great teacher of methods and practices
that make for success. Farmers now engaged in dairying and those
looking in that direction for a future livelihood will do well to attend
the exposition at St. Louis the third week in October.

Labor and Recreation

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THE Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball League is winding up its sixth
successful year. Three of the top-notch teams, McDonough,
McLean, and Tazewell, are still in the running for the state champion-
ship. While the spirit of friendly rivalry and competition between the
21 Farm Bureau county teams that played this year provides the life
and inspiration for the game, systematic recreation and diversion from
the routine labor of the farm was the real motive that led to the
formation of the League six years ago.

Farmers are as much benefited by recreatioo and diversion as are
office workers and laborers in the city. There are those on the farm
as well as in the city who carry recreation to excess. Then it becomes
plain loafing. We hold no brief for the idler.

But there is ample proof supporting the belief that a half holiday a
week is an aid to farm efficiency rather than a detriment. '_r

The State Baseball League stands for more than its name implies. It
sets up a principle, a policy that would have a tremendous influence for
good in rural life if more generally practiced. All work and no play
makes Johnny a dull boy. In the same way continual labor, unbroken
by recreation, takes the joy and enthusiasm out of life. i ^'

There should be system and plan in recreation as there is in labor!
Hard application to the job, followed by brief intervals of rest and
recreation, will get one the farthest whether the occupation be farm-
ing, selling, sawing wood, or what-not.

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The Deep Watertvay

ONE of our major problems is to provide an outlet for middle west
farm products at a minimum of cost," President Earl C. Smith
declared at the recent waterway meeting in Peoria sponsored by the
Illinois Manufacturers' Association.

"A study of present rate schedules discloses that on corn alone shipped
from this county there would be a saving in transportation cost, if all
were exported, of an amount approximating one-half of the total annual
taxes assessed on farm lands in Peoria county. In arriving at this con-
clusion I am assuming only one thing, that is, that the cost of trans-
portation by waterway from Peoria to New Orleans would not be
more than the present rate from New Orleans to Liverpool.

"This example is used merely for comparison, realizing that only
a limited amount of corn is shipped for export. Not only will the deep
waterway accomplish this, but it will' attract to this territory many
industries using raw materials p^duced on our farms, thus reducing
first cost and reflecting the savings to the producers of this section."

Turning to Secretary of War Good and Governor Emmerson wha
led the tour down the Illinois, Smith stated that "the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association is ready, willing and anxious to assist in every possible
way to secure the realization of this great improvement at the earliest
possible date." i

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mme'^s

Tuna in on the 1. A. A. Forum from Station
WLS every Tbuwday nicht at 6:30 p. m..
Central Standard Time.

The daily farm program of the I. A. A. from
Station WJJD, Mooseheart (265 meters) is
broadcast between 12:00 and 12:20 p. m., Mon-
day to Friday inclusive. Hear the daily Chicaco
livestock market from the Producers, and each
Friday the weekly market review. Outlook
reports, reviews, and talks by I. A. A. staff
members, officials, and leaders in farm thought
are broadcast daily.

Charles W. Hadley, chairman of the Illinois
Commerce Commission, is tentatively scheduled
to appear on the I. A. A. Radio Forum from
station WLS on Thursday night, Sept. 26.

James L. Donnelly, executive vice-president
of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association, gave
an interesting talk on the Illinois waterway on
the I. A. A. Forum, Sept. 5.

Mr. Donnelly recognizes the need for friendly
co-operation between the farmer and the man-
ufacturer. He will be with us' again at a later
date to discuss the possibilities for increased
farm income in the utilization of farm wastes
and by-products.

Reports are coming in that reception of Chi-
cago stations in the St. Louis territory is not
so good. We will appreciate letters from our
members in that territory advising whether or
not stations WLS and WJJD can be clearly
heard.

I. A. A. Radio Forum— WLS

"Dear Mr. Williams:

"I have just listened over the radio to your
most excellent talk, "The Passing of the Hick,'
and am very much impressed with it. Please
send me a copy. If there is no objection on
your part, I would like to embody your
thought in a circular letter I am addressing to
all 'nons' on this railroad. I will have to
modify the text to fit our class and will be
glad to give you full credit in same for the
thought and be pleased to send you a copy.

"As general chairman of the Order of Rail-
road Telegraphers on the Nickel Plate Road, I
have recently, through government arbitration,
secured 5.5 cents per hour per position to each
employee coming under the provisions of the
Telegraphers' Agreement, but in our midst as
with the farmers, there lurks and thrives the
blood sucking non-member, precisely as pic-
tured by you.

"We are starting a drive for new members
and are endeavoring to make the railroad 100
per cent strong and we need just the thought
you have given me to put in my introductory
circular."

C. I. Turner, General Chairman,

Order of Railroad Telegraphers,

System Division No. 18,

Ambia, Indiana.

l.ji. A. Forum— WLS

"Would you please send several copies of
Larry William's talk? I just came in in time
to hear the last fesv words of his talk.

"Thos» talks would come in handy for our

(Courtesy Marshtll-Putnam Farm Bureau^

MARSHALL-PUTNAM SPEAKER ARRIVES IN AIRPLANE

President F. S. Clift of the Marshall-Putnam Farm Bureau welcomes Wm. H. Malone,

Chairman of the Illinois Tax Commission, who arrived in a Curtiss-Robin airplane from

Chicago to address the annual Marshall-Putnam Farm Bureau picnic on the Swaney

School Grounds, Aug. 27. At the right is W. M. Dewey, manager of the Edgewater

Beach Hotel, Chicago, who accompanied Malone. More than 8,000 people — a record crowd

attended, according to Farm Adviser R. J. Laible. Malone travelled by airplane to Sanga-
mon and LaSalle Counties where he likewise addressed Farm Bureau picnics.

Smith Asks Support

For Marketing Act

Reiterates Sentiment Expressed By
Executive Committee

AN APPEAL for full support and co-opera-
'- tion to give the Agricultural Marketing
Act every chance to accomplish the purpose set
forth in its declaration of principles was made
by the president of the Illinois Agricultural
Association, Earl C.
Smith, in a series of
talks before Farm Bu-
reau picnics at Can-
ton, Kankakee, Morri-
son, and at the Fair-
bury Fair recently.

At the same time
President Smith reiter-
ated the sentiment ex-
pressed by the I. A.
A. Executive Commit-
tee at its August meet-
ing to the effect that
full credit and respon-
sibility for the passage of the Marketing Act
rests entirely with the present administration
at Washington.

Differences of View

"It is well known that there are funda-
mental differences of view among farm organ-
izations, politicians and business men, as to
the essential fundamentals to restore the in-
dustry," said Smith. "Those differences have
been discussed from the platform, in the press
and even from the pulpit; and it seems to me,
at least, the time has arrived when all should
throw their forces together — welded in one
common tmit — to get the utmost benefits that
can be derived under the limitations of this
Act, thereby proving in practical trial the

Farm Bureau membership drive.

"Thanking you and assuring you we enjoy
the WLS programs."

Otto Berlage, Jo Daviess county.

Earl C. Smith

economic and practical soundness of our dif-
fering views. Only by such co-ordination of
thought and action can we be brought together
so that in a short period of time any weaknesses
or limitations that may develop in attempting
to place this act into practical administration
can be most readily corrected.

"If there ever was any justification for the
organization of farmers, it is doubly necessary
since the passage of this legislation. We all
must recognize the impossibility of each farmer
speaking for himself in matters of this charac-
ter, and the only hope of having proper repre-
sentation and voice in matters of state and
national character is through organizations such
as the Farm Bureau provides."

License Granted

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death to one person, and with that limit per
person $10,000 for any single accident. The
service is limited to Farm Bureau members.
The cost of the insurance is expected to be
low. It is reasonably certain that the cost
will not be more than the premium deposit
required with application.

The policyh61der will be protected against
attorneys' fees, court costs, hospital bills, and
a possible judgment against him (within the
limits mentioned) if his negligence as estab-
lished in court led to the injury.

Unable to Get Out of the Rut
•IT^ERE A MOTORIST saw that an

W automobile he was meeting could
not be driven out of a rut when six
rods away, and he did nothing to
avoid a collision therewith, be could
not recover for resulting damages.

But if he were insured in the I. A.
A. Farm Bureau Company his policy
would protect him against loss.

Page Eight

THE T.'A. a. record

FROM Roosevelt to Hoover represents omy
a short span of years, yet great changes
have come about in the attitude of the public
n>ward corporations and trusts during t|iis
period.

"Busting" the trusts, one of Roosevelt's
spectacular projects was applauded by the gen-
eral public. Today the Sherman Anti-Triist
Act is forgotten. The rank and file largely
own the trusts and are cashing in on at least
part of their prosperity. The trend of the
great American public toward part ownership
through stock purchases is having, and w{ll
continue to have a far-reaching influence on
the attitude of the federal government towaid
monopolies.

The American Telephone and Telegraph
Company boasts more thalk 475,000 stock
holders, no one of which has as much as one
^r cent of this great corporation's commoK
ftock. Widespread ownership of public utili-
ties is suppressing fear of their socialization.

1 Common stocks in successful corporations atje
how selling on the exchanges to yield a very
low return at present market prices. Specula^
tion in stocks has captured the public interesi

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"WORK YOUR
LITTLE BEAN"

By C. C. SWARTZ

\\7HEN you want to accom-
'^' plish something

That you're after good and
keen, ^

My boy, there's just one
method.
And that's to work your bean.

Just faithfully keep trying
To get your work across.

And then 'tis almost certain
You'll be solid with the boss.

For a boss is no whit different
From the ordinary man.

You may find him just a brother
Who has worked his little
plan.

But the way he gained advance-
ment
Can readily be seen —
The same as you, if you'll but
try
To work your little bean.

— Longi Courier. { i

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Bucket shops and wire houses throughout the
country are crowded from day to day. In the
meantime good farm land, once the premier
investment, goes begging. What can be done
about it? Real estate and land agents are work-
ing on the problem.

Already has come the suggestion that stock-
companies be created to buy town and city lots
and tracts of farm lands. To make land own-
ership more readily available to the small in-
vestor is the object. Well why not get more
consumers financially interested in farming?
Why not turn the public interest in speculation
and stock ownership to the benefit of agri-
culture as the utilities have done with profit
to their stockholders?

If this is accomplished the stock exchanges
of the future may list Daisy Farms A common,
Broadacres convertible 7 per cent preferred, etc.
What a difference it might make. How much
more willing would be the consumer stockholder
to patronize his "company" and pay the price
asked for its products — food. The farm oper-
ator or manager would be situated to cash in
on the public's flare for speculation as "in-
siders" in the big corporations are doing today.

Just before announcing some bad news he
might sell his stock short, and buy in again
after the drop. After a few bullish statements
were released and the market on Blackacres
skyrockets, he might sell, take his profit, and
go to Europe leaving the luckless small fry
speculators holding the sack. That's what is
happening in the stock market today. Why
shouldn't farmers get in on the racket?

Any kind of farm relief we wanted would
be as easy under such a system as it is now
to get a higher tariff on steel or aluminum.
Farming would then be a business as well as
a way of living. Perhaps this Utopian dream
may come to pass. Who knows? E. G. T.

Watch farm Seeds

TLLINOIS farmers are advised to purchase
■*- their seed from Illinois dealers who must
comply with the State Seed Law, which does
not control dealers in other states, announces
Phil S. Haner, superintendent of the State Di-
vision of Plant Industry.

"Complaints ^ave reached me that seed
bought by some individuals was found to be
of lower quality than the Seed Law requires,"
said Mr. Haner. "An investigation of the
source of this seed revealed the origin to be
outside of Illinois.

"Considerable seed is sold from farmer to
fanner without the analysis tag. This is a
violation of the law and I will appreciate your
help in getting your members to understand
this."

Albert C. Wilson was reappointed as chief
seed analyst.

Decatur Herald Has

Farm Bureau Edition

An eight-page Farm Bureau supplement ap-
-'*- peared with the Sunday edition of the
Decatur Herald on September 1.

The Macon County Farm Bureau, with the

' able co-operation of this progressive daily,

' gathered and wrote the material for the

special edition. The supplement announced the

new drive for members to be carried on dur-
ing September, contained itatemenu from the
presidents of the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration and the I. A. A., feature articles by
County Adviser Walworth, W. H. Kercher of
the Decatur Herald, and ofScers and members
of the Macon County Farm Bureau. Staff
members of the I. A. A., likewise, contributed
to the issue. Local bunness groups also were
represented.

This is one of the best Farm Bureau editions
ever published in Illinois and is a splendid ex-
imple of excellent co-operation between the
Farm Bureau, the local press, and other or-
ganized groups.

Di/STsway
YOUR

WEEDS

CALCIUM CHLORATE

as used in Atlacide is recom*
mended by Experiment Sta-
tions and Farm Agencies for
the control and eradication of
all noxious weeds such as

Bindweed Canada Thistle
Quack Grass Russian Thistle
Wild Morning White Top
Glory

ITMCIDE

CALCIUM CHLOR.ATE
KILLS WEEDS

CONTAINS 45.5<Jfc CHLORIC ACID (CLOa)
Calcium Chlorate Equivalent 56.49(>

Dissolves Easily. Crops may be grotvn
on treated soil a few months after ap>
plication. Apply as a spray for large
areas. Apply as a dtist for small areas.

Packed in 3Vi lb. sifter cans for dusting
on small areas and in 200 lb. and 50 lb.
drums for use in standard spray tanks.,1;

Satisfactorily used on 1 5,000 miles of
railroad track last year.

Non-poisonous to animals or people.
No fire hazard.

Use Atlacide dissolved

In water for horse

drawn or motor

sprayers

Write for Booklet "2"
for full Information

ILLINOIS FARM SLTPLY COMP.\NY,
Room 1300-608 S. Dearbom'St., Chlcafto, 111.

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STATE CHAMPION LIVESTOCK JUDGING TEAM, LASALLE COUNTY
Left to right: L. C. Cunningham, county club leader; Ralph Swift, Russell Stockley,
Herman Rupp.

Illinois 4-H Club Winners

Many Will Compete In National Contest at Coming International, Chicago

XPIFTY-FOUR teams from 31 counties com-
-*- peted in the state judging contest held last
month at Urbana. Twenty counties had 22
teams entered in the dairy judging contest,
and 26 counties had 32 teams in the livestock
judging contest.

The LaSalle county team, coached by L. C.
Cunningham, won the livestock contest. Two
of its members, Russell Stockley, and Ralph
Swift, placed third and fourth respectively.
The LaSalle team will represent Illinois in the
junior judging contest at the International
Livestock Show which opens on November 30.

The winning team in the dairy contest came
from Bureau county. All members were from
the Walnut 4-H Club, coached by C. M. Hat-
land, vocational teacher. Lloyd Espel, a mem-
ber of the team, was high man scoring 545 out
of a possible 600. The Bureau county dairy
judging team will train for the national dairy
judging contest to be held at St. Louis, October
12 to 19 during the National Dairy Show.

Each team receives $50 for expenses to the
national contest.

The first five teams in both divisions with
their scores are as follows:

Dairy

Bureau county

Vermilion county..

DeKalb county

Lake county

...Score 1,481

...Score 1,468

...Score 1,388

...Score 1,382

JoDaviess county Score 1,363

Chicago Producers

Report Good Year

Increased Percentage of Livestock

Handled in Face of Decreased

Receipts

LaSalle county

DeKalb county..
Douglas county..
Iroquois county_
Knox county

Livestock

..Score 1,759

Score 1,755

..Score 1,637

-Score 1,610

Score 1,554

Car Stopped at Roadside

WHERE AN AUTOMOBILE was
standing at the right margin of
a road and one who was approaching
it in another car saw, or by the ex-
ercise of ordinary care and caution
could have seen it in time to have
turned aside and did not do so but col-
lided with it, he was held guilty of
negligence.

THE Chicago Producers' Commission Asso-
ciation finished its seventh fiscal year on
June 29, 1929, with an increase in the percent-
age of all kinds of livestock handled, although
there was a 14 per cent decrease in the total
number of cars sold at the Chicago market.
Part of this decrease was due to an increase of
approximately 75 per cent in the number of
rail cars shipped direct to the packers. 3"he
decrease in the Chicago Producers' total volume
was only II per cent as compared with 14
per cent for the Chicago market as a whole,
while the increases in percentage handled en-
abled the Producers' to earn a small profit on
the commission business amounting to
$10,945.86.

About 11 per cent of the hogs received at
Chicago were shipped direct to the packers
during the first six months of 1928. During
the first six months of 1929 more than 25
per cent were received direct.

The average day's busines during the past
year was more than $200,000, a number of
days more than $200,000, and one day over
a quarter of a million dollars. Unevenness in
daily and seasonal receipts necessitates main-
taining a more extensive working force than if
most of the days were about average in volume.
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')".■■■:'_ ]■: By Art Lynch n-'r-'.:^

ORGANIZED markets sell more dairy

products per capita than is sold where,

dairymen are selling as individuals. ...

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'TWIN City Milk Producers, the dairymen's
A organization on the St. Paul and Minne-
apolis markets, has advertised milk all through
its 12 years of existence. Result — the consump-
tion of fluid milk has doubled and substantial
increases have been achieved in the sale of
butter, cheese and ice creaiq. ,

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THE organized dairymen at Philadelphia
have made it a part of their business to
tell consumers about dairy products. Their
fluid sales went up 29 per cent over a four
year period. Philadelphians eat 23 pounds of
butter on the average, according to recent sur-
veys. This is about 6 pounds more than the
average for the United States. i

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i SK Jack Connery of Quincy Milk Producers
J->- if advertising pays and he will Bell you,
"increased our sales 25%."

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ASK Ryland Capron of the dairymen's or-
- ganization at Peoria if advertising is a
good thing and he will say, "you betcha."
Peoria fluid sales increased 6% through adver-
tising. « « «

JULIUS RE,INHARDT of Highland Produc-
ers organization says, "our business would
be only half as big if we had not told folks
about our product." ■ ,

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IT PAYS to advertise. MBk, for which there
is no substitute, offers a great field.

M'l

[ILK is the health giver, the builder and

beautifier. Laborers drink a quart

at a meal — it used to be beer. Women drink

milk because it keeps them healthy. And

health is beauty.

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FOLKS used to talk about milk by showing
the advantages it possesses over other farm
products. This was wrong. It isn't done that
way now. More milk is constantly being sold

on its own merits.

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HOW is it done? The dairymen's organ-
ization puts in one cent per cwt. into a
fund. The dealers match it with one cent.
They employ the National Dairy Council to
dj the educational work creating a lasting in-
terest in milk products in the schools, clubs,
organizations and to others thru news material
and paid advertising.

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WHY not slogans like these: "Milady uses
Milk," "Kream Kist Butter," "Reach for
an Ice Cream cone," "Drink Buttermilk — not
a belch in a boat load."

Sure Thing — A chip on the shoulder often
advertises the existence of more wood higher

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PRODUCE

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[AST

By Frank Gougler

YEAR Albion, in Edw»rds

county

*-^ furnished the poorest cream market in
the surrounding territory, j

This condition prompted the organization

of

a produce marketing association which started
operating April 16, 1929. From that date to
the end of July (3 % mos.) the association
handled 29,5 82.7 lbs. of butterfat at a total
handling cost of 2c per lb. The margin ab>ve
operating cost was sufficient for the associa-
tion to make a refund at this time of ojver
$700. One member received a $3 5 refijnd
check. Everyone is enthusiastic over the ifew
method of marketing butterfat. The mem-
bers are well pleased with their "boy" mana-
ger, Albert Michels, who is but eighteen y^ars
of age.

Farm Adviser Myers siys that the ^ro
Creamery of St. Louis where the cream is
shipped reports that it is well pleased with iche
quality of cream coming |rom Albion. The
board of directors has found the management
of Aro Creamery satisfactory in every way.
The creamery keeps them well supplied wjith
cans, makes payments promptly, and is copr-
teous.

The Edwards County Farm Bureau has two
new units in the process of organization, one
at Browns and the other at West Salem. The
success of the Albion unit has prompted these
communities to become active.

At Norris City (Vhite 00.) a produce asio-
ciation was started about the middle of June.
This unit is the farthest jouth in the st|»te
of all our cooperatives. Aiiother unit is be ng
organized in the same county at Carmi.

Interest is now developing as far south as
Brownfield (Pope County) in cooperative pro-
duce marketing. This is very gratifying 'or
throughout Southern Illinois producers tre
not getting as much for their produce by s«v-
eral cents as northern and central Illinois
receiving.

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On July 19 while on my iiiy to Golconda
attend a district conference, I stopped at
Norris City station. That day the local bjit
terfat price was 36c. Tfie Chicago butler
market the same day was 41 %c. The crean
ery purchasing the co-operative association
cream pays a premium of 3c above the Chicajgo
market. Thus, the association that day boufjht
its butterfat at 36c and sold it at 44 ^c
leaving a gross margin of »%c. If operating
costs do not exceed 2c then the association
would have left a net margin of 6*4 cents ler
pound butterfat handled to return to its me]n
bers in a patronage refund.

Any town in southern Illinoii that is being

L.ARRY WILLIAMS SPEAKS AT JO DAVIESS PICNIC
Farm Adviser '*Hank'* Brunnemeyer of Jo Daviess County snapped this one at the
Farm Bureau picnic near Galena on Aug. IS. Williams addressed similar (atherings in
several other counties.

Insurant

By Lawrence A. Williams

''r'HE man who carries ample life insurance
-'- has a chance to relax from the daily strain
and worry of life. He is relieved of the anxiety
of calamity or of income ceasing at his death.
The reward of satisfaction and freedom from
worry is indeed worth the effort of prompt
annual deposits.

institution. Some folks want to be sure. But
the Company was as sound the first month as
it possibly could be the 70th year, so far as
the death claim of the policyholder is con-
cerned.

I

Country Life has been receiving comment
liberally in the various publications of the
country, but what is more important, it is
being patronized by the farmer members in
every county in the state, with one exception.

Remember way back when they used to say,
"It never will be a success." "Farmers can't
run a life insurance company." They don't
say that anymore. They say, "No wonder you
can do so well, you have the whole Fann
Bureau behind you."

How much insurance should a man carry?
Enough to pay his debts, and permit his fam-
ily to live on the income from the principal
invested. At 4.8% the interest on $10,000
amounts to $40.00 per month.

Do you think there will be a Farm Bureau
family in all of Illinois which cannot boast at
least one policy in Country Life by the end
of December this year?

Our speech, "The Passing of the Hick," will
be sent on request to any one who writes to
Life at 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago.

A definite increase in the size of policies now
being taken in Country Life shows the growing
confidence of our folks in that remarkable

patronized by enough producers to bring
7 5,000 to 100,000 lbs. of butterfat to town
annually is a promising center for
tive produce marketing association.

Chicago Producers f

(Continued from page 9)

Last year the Chicago Producers' handled
50 per cent more business than any other sell-
ing agency on the Chicago market. With bet-
ter support from Farm Bureau members who
made possible the organization of the Produ-
cers' movement, this business can be increased
materially.

The National Live Stock Producers' Associ-
ation, the largest and most representative farm
organization in the livestock field, is in a posi-
tion to co-operate with the Federal Farm Board
toward stabilizing this branch of the farming
industry. The benefits already derived from
the Producers' movement can be greatly en-
hanced if more farmers will ship their livestock
to their own co-operative commission agency.

coopera-

April 16-30
May
June
July

Total & Average

ALBION CREAM STATION BUSrNF.SS^1929

3826.2
9160.1
8990.3
7606il

2958Z7

Total

Operating

Operating

cost

Net

Cost

per lb.

Margin

Profit

$ 87.29

2.i

4.0

1.7

157.77

1.7

4.0

2.3

207.98

2.3

S.3

3.0

149.93

1.9

4.6

2.7

"Well, old dear, I suppose we'll meet again?"
"Well, accidents will happen."

$602.97

2.01

4.5

2.4

"Ouch! I bumped my crazy bone!"
"Oh, well, comb your hair right and the
bump won't show."

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WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN

WHEN the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's ia the shock.
And you hear the kyouck and gobble of the struttin' turkey-cock.
And the clacldn' of the guineys, and the cluckin' of the hens.
And the rooster's hallyooyer as he tiptoes on the fence;
O, it's then's the times a feller is a-feelin' at his best.
With the risin' sun to greet him from a night of peaceful rest.
As he leaves the house, bareheaded, and goes out to feed the stock.
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

They's something kind o' harty-Hke about the atmusfere

When the heat of summer's over and the coolin' fall is here —

Of course we miss the flowers, and the blossums on the trees.

And the mumble of the hummin'-birds and buzzin' of the bees;

But the air's so appetisin'; and the landscape through the haze

Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days

Is a pictuf' that no painter has the colorin' to mock —

When the froat is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

The husky, rusty nissel of the tossels of the corn.
And the raspin' of the tangled leaves, as golden as the mom;
The stubble in the furries — kind o' lonesome-Iikc, but still
A-preachin' sermuns to us of the barns they growed to fill;
The strawstack in the medder, and the reaper in the shed;
The bosses in theyr stalls below — the clover overhead: —
O, it sets my hart a-dickin' like the tickin' of a clock.
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock!

Then your apples all is gathered, and the ones a feller keeps

Is poured around the celler-floor in red and yeller heaps.

And your cider-makin' 's over, and your wimmcn-folks is through

With their mince and api^e butter, and theyr souse and sausage too! .

I don't kn4fw how to tell it — but ef sich a thing could be

As the Angels wantin' boardin', and they'd call around on me —

I'd want to 'commodate 'em — all the wholc-indurin' flock —

When the frost is on the punkin and the_fodder's in the shock!

— James Whitcomb Riley.

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THE I. A. A RECORD

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' i By Frank Gougler

L\Sr Yl AR Albion, ui Edwards cou
■^ turni>.hcd tlic ptKiroM > ream market in

I he surrt-iundini; territory.

This eondiltttn priinipted

a pri>duce marketing a^iiiteijtion wliieh sta
i.peiaiMii; April I (., 1929. From that date
the end ot July (5'i> nn>s.) the assoeia
handled 2*>,5S2.7 lbs. oi ijutterfat at a t

The niarjjin abi
tiperatini; eost was suHieieiit lor | the asso;

time 111

erfat. The
their "bov"

tion to make a refund at
$'00. C'ne member received a 1.M ret
cheek. l-.vecyone is enthusrasiie over ilie
method ol 'marketing but
bers are well pleased with
ger, Albert Miehels, who is but eighteen y
I v>t age.

iarm .Adviser .\l)ers si>s that the .
Oeanierv ol St. Louis wlliere the eream
shipped reports that it is wL'll pleased with

the organi/ation

this

I
ted
lo
ion
0ial
ive
ia-
ver
\n^
ew

qualits' ot eream coming F
board of dif'ectors hai toujid the manage
ol .-Xro Oeaniery satistactjry in every w|ay.
' I he creamery keeps them well supplied »(ith
Lans. makes jpasments promptly, and is ci
leous

The I Jnards County Fa m Bureau has I
new units in the process qt

at Browns artd the other at
success of the Albion unit
communities to become ac

.\t Norris C ity i White
elation was started about t
This unit is the farthest
of all our ciKiperatives. At
organized in the same coun

Interest is imw developii
Browiilield (Pope County)
duce marketing. This is ■
throughout Southern Illir
not getting as much for th
eral cents as northern anc
leseising.

Co,

i.) a i>rodu
'le middle of Jt
>outh in the s
other unit is bi
y at Carmi.
g as far south
in cooperative
rery gratifying

>is producers
ir produce by
central lllinoi

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On July 19 while on my
attend a district conferenct
-Norris City station. That
tertat price was >hc. T
market the same day was 4
er> purchasing the co-o|
cream pays a premium of 3i
• market. Thus, the associati
Its butterfat at Jhc and
leaving a gross margin of I
costs do not exceed 2c t
would have left a net margi
pound butterfat handled to
bers in a patron.ige refund.

Anv town in southern II
Al.lll

.Vpril I.. M '^

May

.hme

July

Tot,iI & Average

tile
rom Albion. The

organization,
Vi'est Salem,
has prompted t

wo

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le

cse

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.'ay to (jolconda
, I stupped at
day the local b
le Chicago but
1 Vi c. The crej
lerative assoeia

above the Ch
>n that day bi
.sold it at 44 \
*/4c. If operat
len the associat
i n of 6 '4 cents
return to its mc^m

nots tliat is be
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LARRY WILLIAMS SPEAKS AT JO DAVIESS PICNIC
Farm Adviser "Hank** Brunnemeyer of Jo Daviess County snapped this one at the
Farm Bureau picnic near Galena on Aug. 15. Williams addressed similar gatherings in
several other counties.

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Insurance,

By Lawrence A. Williams

''I^ME man who carries ample lite insurance
*■ has a chance to relax from the daily strain
and worry of life. He is relieved of the anxiety
of calamity or of income ceasing at his death.
The reward of satisfaction and freedom from
wiirry is indeed worth the etTort of prompt
annu.ll deposits.

institution. Some folkf want to be stire. Bui
the Company was as sound the first month as
it possibly could be the 70th year, so far as
the death claim of the policyholder is con-
cerned.

Country Life has been receiving comment
liberally in the various publications of the
country, but what is more important, it is
being patronized by the farmer members in
every county in the state, with one exception.

Remember way back when they used to say,
"It never will be a success.*' "I'armers can't
run a life insurance company." They don't
say that anymore. They say, "Xo wonder you
can do so well, you have the. whole Farm
Bureau behind \ou."

Flow much insurance should a man carry?
Enough to pay his debts, and permit his fam-
ily to live on the income from the principal
invested. At 4. 8^0 the interest on $10,000
amounts to $40.00 per month.

Uo you think there will be a Farm Bureau
family in all t»f Illinois which cannot boast at
least one policy in Country Fife by the end
ot December this vcar?

Our speech, "The Passing of the Hick," will
be sent on request to any one who writes to
life at 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago.

A definite increase in the size of policies now-
being taken in Country Life shows the growing
confidence of our folks in that remarkable

p.itroni/cd b>' enough producers t<» bring
rs.iiuo to 1UO,000 lbs. of butterfat to town
annually is a promising center for a ctiopera-
live produce marketing association.

Chicago Producers

(Continued from page 9)

I ast year the Chicago Producers' handled
^ u per cent more business than any other sell-
ini; agency on the Chicago market. With bet-
ter support from Farm Bureau members who
nude possible the organization of the Produ-
cers' movement, this business can be increased
niateriallv'.

The National Live Stock Producers' Associ-
ation, the largest and most representative farm
organization in the livestock field, is in a posi-
tion to co-operate with the Federal Farm Board
toward stabilizing this branch of the farming
industry. The benefits already derived from
the Producers' movement can be greatly en-
hanced if more farmers .will ship their livestock
to their own co-operative commission agency.

\'ll<i\ HI'.sINKS.'^

Total
Of-rratiim
Cost
$ S7.29

2'K.9X
149.9.!

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Operating

r //>.

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2..!

1.9

$602.97

2,01

Mitroin
4.0
4.(1

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4.6

4,5

S'cl
Profit
1.7
2.,!
^ 0
2.7

"^"ell, old dear, I suppose we'll meet again?"
"^'ell, accidents will happen."

"Ouch! I bumped ray crazy bone!"
"Oh, well, comb yoar ha^r right and the
bump won't show."

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Number 10

OCTOBER, 1929

Volume 7

WHEN THE FROST IS OX THE PUN KIN

WHEN the frost is on the punkin and the fodck-r's in the <ihock.
And you hear the kyouck and gobble of the struttin' turkey-cock.
And the clackin' of the guineys, and the cluckin' of the hen*..
And the rooster's hallyooyer as he tiptoes on the fence;
O. it's then's the times a feller is a-feelin' at his best.
With the risin' sun to greet him from a night of peaceful rest,
A** he leaves the house, bareheaded, and goes out to feed the stock.
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

They's something kind o' harty-Iike about the atmusfere

When the heat of summer's over and the cooUn' fall is here —

Of course wt miss the flowers, and the blossums on the trees.

And the mumble of the hummin'-birds and buzrin' of the bees;

But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze

(Jf a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days

Is a pictur' that no painter hat the colorin' to mock —

When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

The husky, rusty russel .»f the li'>*seU of the corn.
And the raspin* of the tan::lctl K.-tvcv. as s.-Idrn as the morti;
The stuiible in the fuirlt-. kind *>' li»ncMtmc-like, but still
A-preachin* sermuns to u-* ot the l>arn'< !lie> gro\vc<) tt> fill; '
The sirawstack in the iiivildcr, <ind ihf reaper in the shed, ;
The ho-^vc*. in thevr stalK l.el.-u thv vlu\cr .iverhead:— I
(-), it sets my hart a-clickin' like tlu tivkin' of a \I(»ck, I

\\ hen the lri>st is on the punkin and tlu- tmltU-r's in the shoc|i!

Ttien your apples all is tLathcrcd, an<l the ones a feller kecpj.

Is pouretl arounvl the celler-lloi.r in red an«l yeller heaps.

.And your cider-niakin' 's n\er, and your u inimen-folks is through

\\ ith their mince and apple butter, anA theyr souse and sausjAge too' .

I don't kna^v h()^^ ti» tell it- but ej sich a thiny tnuld be

\% the Anpels wantin' boanlin'. and they'd call around onjmc--

I'd want to 'commodate *eni — all the whole-in<lurin' flt>ck— t

When the trost is on the punkin anil the_fodder's in the shotk'

J.imc*. Whifcoh-.ti Rilfv.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Golden Egg Goose '

Should Squawk More

Real Estate in Danger of Being Taxed
Out of Existence Says Chicago Man

13 EAL estate in Illinois is in danger of being
-* *• taxed out of existence as a result of I ever
increasing governmental expenditures. The only
relief is through a division of the tax bijrden
with owners of other forms of wealth. By
creating a greater number of persons daxed
there will be a tendency to improved govern-
ment, because this great ^ body of taxpayers
, will have an immediate interest in the pub-
lic's servants.

These are the high spots in a recent ad-
dress by Francis E. Manitrre, prominent Chi-
cago real estate man, before the Chicago Fire-
proof Building Association^ as reported in| the
Chicago Tribune. Mr. Manierre's talk wajs in
line with the policy of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association in its fight for a square ideal
in taxation for agriculture. His talk in part
follows:

"What is the cause of high real estate
taxes? First, the state of Illinois is operating
under what is practically the equivalent of
a single tax levy; 80 peif cent of the Dotal
tax collected being produced by the ad valor-
em tax on real estate and the balance of 20
per cent by personal property tax which |s a
farce, impractical of application and confisca-
tory if collected to the letter of the law.

Tax More Than Doubles

"This real estate tax in Chicago has nore
than doubled in the last seven years and has
gone up at a rate of progression much faster
than the proportionate rate of increase in rei^tal
. returns. In other words, should the presjent
rate of increase in taxation be carried to the
nth degree, the tax item alone would take all
of the revenue of any building.

"This ever increasing burden is due to the
ever increasing demands of the spending bodies
for widening functions of government. Otn-
crete roads, bathing beaches, parks, convention
halls, libraries, museums, zoos and other pub-
lic improvements, whether justified or not,
have to be paid for and maintained and ire
being paid for mostly by the tax on real »-
tate. Paternalistic legislation, such as the
granting of pensions and )|pnuses, also has to
I be paid for. The demands on the tax dol ar
i have increased tenfold for governmental cx-
I penses which a previous generation would have
I denied.

Cause of Situation

i "Again, we have been so prosperous in the
{ last five or ten years that the average citizen
I has been too busy to take any interest in n>s
i government and as a consequence municiDal
j governments (and this I believe holds true all
over the country) have fallen into the control
I of low grade political factions which have de-
' bauched themselves in one of the worst erjis
I of money spending and thievery the country
I has even known. Graft is registering now
, on the public mind and the tax dollar lis
I beginning to pinch the pay^r. I doubt veity

I much if today we are receiving more than 50
cents on that dollar in the way of real seri -
lice from our public bodies.

"How about the cure? It is perfectly ev -
ident that we will have to clean up our citjy
'government, put it on a businesslike basis by
consolidating the assessing and spending bodies,
establish store-keeping principles, eliminate dupl-

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KEPT TRYING AND WON
Left to right are Joe Boyle and Joe
Bumgamer, the 1929 championship 4-H
demonstration team. The two Joes are
members of the Clear Creek Booster Club
of McNabb sponsored by the Marshall
Putnam County Farm Bureau.

"In 1928 these boys prepared a demonstra-
tion that won third at the Aurora Fair," writes
R. J. Laible, farm adviser, "but they were de-
feated for the state championship at Springfield
where they won first in their district.

"Determined to make their demonstration
the best that could be produced, they revamped
it and in 1929 drew first at Aurora and were
awarded the state championship at Springfield.

"J. C. Spitler, judge at Springfield, stated
that their demonstration on the control of corn
diseases through selection was one of the most
completely worked out he had ever seen."

Joe Boyle broadcast over KYW, Chicago, re-
cently on a national chain 4-H club program.

licity of jobs and demand a day's work from
the city employe.

Income Tax as Remedy

"The city of Baltimore, through its citizens'
committee, did this very thing and since the
installation of its business principles the tax-
payers have enjoyed a progressive decrease in
the rate of taxation. In back of the whole
picture we must have the support and inter-
est of the people, and in so far as only 10 per
cent of the people in the city of Chicago pay
direct taxes, we must have more direct tax-
payers in order to get this interest. We need
more squawks from the goose tnat lays the
golden egg. Indirect taxation does not regis-
ter at election time.

"This leads us to the question of an income
tax. This, of course, is a highly controver-
sial subject and has its proponents mostly in
the real estate owners who feel that they are
paying more than their fair share of the cost
of the government. An income tax hill which
provided for a full deduclion for any ad va-
lorem fax "^from the income tax failed of pas-
sage in the last session of the legislature. It
was estimated that this tax would have brought
about half a million additional taxpayers into
the field. We need these additional taxpayers
to make for good government, to say nothing

of equalizing the tax burden, for as m4tttn
stand at present real estate stands in jeopardy
of being taxed out of existence.

Must Reach Other Sources

"The reassessment as ordered by the state tax
commission has been fairly and efficiently con-
cluded, equalizing the real estate tax in Cook
County, but the tax question does not end
there. Other sources of revenue must be
reached, for it is perfectly apparent that one
form of wealth, owned by 8 to 10 per cent
of the population, cannot and shoul4 not con-
tinue indefinitely to pay the bills for the
other 90 per cent, who pay practically no
tax under our present state constitution."

Marshall-Putnam

Oil Co. To Cut Melon

IVfORE than $12,000 will be distributed
-^'-*- among members of the Marshall-Putnam
Oil Company when that organization cuts a
melon in the near future. The board of di-
rectors already has authorized an eight per cent
patronage dividend. The dividend is paid out
of accumulations left after paying eight per
cent on preferred stock in the company.

"This sum is considerably in excess of the
entire cost of maintaining the Marshall-Putnam
Farm Bureau for the entire year," says R. J.
Laible, farm adviser. "Undoubtedly a large
part of the success of this co-operative is trace-
able to the fact that a state-wide purchasing
agency has been provided which takes care of
the purchasing of petroleum products for the
21 farmer-owned supply companies now op-
erating in Illinois."

The State Company will distribute in excess
of $20,000 to its 21 member units in the near

future. 1 ji

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Ladies Beat Men

In the ladies auto driving contest held at
the district picnic. Sandwich, Miss Delores
Wheeler, Belvidere, Boone county, was first,
and Mrs. Alma Seville, of Leland, LaSalle
county, was second. The ladies had a higher
score than the men. Miss Wheeler scoring 288
out of a possible 300, and Mrs. Seville a score
of 275.

Out of a possible score of 300 points the
high score of 268 was made by Alvin Anderson
of Newark, Kendall county in the men's driving
contest. The results are as follows:

1st. Alvin Anderson, Newark, Kendall

county . _ _ 268

2nd. R. A. Baker, Ottawa, LaSalle county 267
3rd. Fay Anderson, Newark, Kendall

county 266

4th. Harold Luhman, Belvidere, Boone

county 260

5 th. Clarence Hughes, Newark, Kendall

county 247

6th. Dan Piatt, Morris, Grundy county... 240
7th. Victor Piffer, Newark, Kendall county 227
8th. Mr. Barshdorf, Morris, Grundy county 221

"The contestants entered with the idea of
getting the most out of it from a practical
standpoint," writes M. E. Robert who was in \
charge. "One contestant remarked at the ,
close of the event, that if he did not get a l
cent in prize money, the questions alone were '
well worth the effort."

Rapidity of gain in a pig a an important
factor contributing to the firmness of the pork,
experiments have shown,

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Number 10

OCTOBER, 1929

Volume 7

September Picnics

Wind Up '29 Season

District Gatherings Held at Sand-
wich, Kanitaicee, and Morrison

THE list three district Farm Bureau picnics
held at Sandwich, Kankakee, and Morrison
demonstrated that mid-September is not the
ideal time for holding outdoor gatherings of this
kind. In each case the weather was cool and
the crowds comparatively small. The Kankakee
picnic was all but rained out although a crowd
estimated at nearly 1,000 assembled after the
rain to hear the president of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association, Earl C. Smith, Don Geyer
of the Pure Milk Ass'n, Mrs. Homer John-
son, president of the Home Bureau Federation,
and others. Ex-govcrnor Len Small, president
of the Kankakee County Farm Bureau, or
rather the soil and crop improvement associa-
tion as it is known locally, was generalissimo
of the day. After a short appropriate speech
in which he welcomed the visitors to the new
park and Kankakee county he introduced the
speakers.

Farmers* Park

The picnic was held in a beautiful grove on
the wooded banks of the picturesque Kankakee
River only a mile and a half from the heart
of the city. The 20-acre plot has been taken
over by the versatile farm adviser John Collier
and the Kankakee county soil and crop associa-
tion as a farmers* park. It was leased from
the governor. The plot is being smoothed off
and already a creditable baseball diamond, a
new band-stand and speaking platform, and
other necessary conveniences have been estab-
lished. Several concerts have been played by
the soil and crop band in the natural amphi-
theatre beside the rippling waters of the Kan-
kakee.

All the usual appendages of a district picnic
were on the program. The quality and clarity
of the hog, chicken, and husband callers' fa-
vorite intonations were not damaged by the
weather or the lack of a great surging audience.
The lusty call of A. J. Pallissard who summons
the pigs regularly from the back acres on his
farm near St. Anne put him down as the mas-
ter hog caller of the day which adds to his
previously won laurels of master farmer.

The Kankakee County Farm Bureau nine
had little difficulty in beating the Lasalle
county boys by the one-sided score of 14 to 0.
Henry Hulse of Cissna Park was the champion
horseshoe thrower.

A Little Soft Food

J. F. Porter, president of the Tennessee Farm
Bureau Federation, made a good speech at the
12th district picnic held on the Sandwich Fair.
Grounds in DeKalb county. The day was,
nearly ideal for an outdoor program. The

I. A. A. MEETING
The 15th annual meetiof of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association will be
held on January 29-30-31, 1930.

Mark these dates on your calendar.
An unusually attractive program is
being arranged. It will probably be held
at Springfield.

Watch for further announcements.

crowd which numbered several thousand filled
the grandstand comfortably. The national
champion high school band from Belvidere en-
tertained throughout the day.

Mr. Porter was conservative in his remarks
with reference to the new legislation culminat-
ing in the federal farm board. Being a demo-
crat from Tennessee might explain part of his
skepticism but many a spectator winked know-
ingly when he summed it all up by saying, "we
asked for a seat at the table but we got a high
chair and a little soft food." ,.

Attentive Audience

The most attentive audience that ever at-
tended a farmers' picnic heard Earl Smith make
perhaps the best speech of his career out on
the Morrison fair grounds in W^hiteside county
on Sept. 14. Most picnic audiences are any-
thing but attentive. All this was accomplished
in spite of the fact that a hotly contested base-
ball game was in progress between Whiteside
and Stephenson counties during the speaking
program. A couple of thousand people came
out. The day was bright, sunshiny, and cool.
Lee county's Farm Bureau nine defeated Carroll
county in the morning baseball game while
Stephenson nosed out Whiteside 7 to J in the
10-inning afternoon contest.

The district picnics this year were not as
well attended as those held in the previous
season. The nearest approach to the state I.
A. A. picnics held in previous years was the
gathering at Monmouth in Warren county. All
the counties in the 14th district supported that
picnic by calling off their county picnics and
urging their members to make the drive to
Monmouth.

In a number of other districts, 90 to 95 per
cent of the picnic Towds apparently came from
the county playing host while the adjoining
counties sent their farm advisers and a few
Farm Bureau directors to lend atmosphere and
dignity to the occasion.

The district picnics have not succeeded in
displacing the county gatherings, at least in the
majority of cases, and unless all the Farm
Bureaus work together wholeheartedly as was
done in the 14th at Monmouth, the so-called
district picnic will be little if any more than
a county picnic with a sprinkling of outside
"guests."

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Income Only Measure t '
]; of AbiUty to Pay

Farmers Not Pleased With Delay in
Getting Fair Tax System

'ARMERS and urban business men real-
today as never before that an indi-
vidual's prosperity and tax-paying ability ii
measured by his profits, not by his inventory
or physical holdings," Sunley M. Powell, Mich-
igan farmer, told the conference of the Na-
tional Tax Association at Saranac Lake, New
York, recently.

"It cannot be denied that a carefully pre-
pared income tax is the most equitable tax yet
devised. It accurately measures the individ-
ual's ability to pay. It is extremely flexible
from year to year, reflecting precisely the
financial fortunes of each taxpayer. An in-
come tax never confiscates any man's property.
In lean years it does not howl like a devour-
ing wolf at the door as does the property tax.

Progress Too Slow

"The record of the Natioiul Tax Associa-
tion in supporting the principle of income
taxation is long and well known. Yet I "want
to give warning that the farm sentiment in
favor of income taxation is by no means satis-
fied with the progress that has been made up
to the present.

"Our farmers will not be content with an
income tax which represents but an insignifi-
cant proportion of the total state and local
revenues. Instead, they look forward to the
day when income taxes will supplant the prop-
erty tax as the chief source of revenue. They
are aware that it required the intervention of
the Federal government to bring the inheritance
tax to its present highly productive state and
they are going to demand that means be de-
vised for increasing the revenue possibilities
of state income taxes without creating a situa-
tion wherein a few backward states can offer
an asylum to wealth which seeks to evade
the levy. i

Many Pay Nothing '

"It often appears that farmers and other
sober-minded, law-abiding citizens pay taxes
way beyond the benefits received or their finan-
cial ability as measured in net income. Mean-
while, thousands of reckless, law-breaking in-
dividuals pay no taxes, although they directly
and indirectly cause the various units of gov-
ernment a large amount of expense. This is
a situation which is admittedly difficult to
remedy, but which should be ever kept in
mind in outlining our fiscal policies. Per-
haps some form of a poll tax might to a slight
degree meet this perplexing problem.

"The experience of a number of states \ lui
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THE I. A. A. RECORD

I L Ij I N OI S

CCLTVIAL ASSOCIA

RECORO

To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau warn organized^
namely to promote^ protect and repretent the buMinete, economic^
political, and educational interemte of the farmere of IllinoiM and the
' nation, €uid to develop agricalture. i

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Published once a month >t 404 North wlesley Ave., Mount Morris,
Illinois, by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Entered as second-
class matter October 20, 1925, at the poJt office at Mount Morris.
Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Accepted for mailing at
special rate of postage provided for in Section 412, Act of February
28, 1925, authorized October 27, 1925. Tjhe individual membership
fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five dollars a year. The
fee includes payment of fifty cents for subbcription to the Illinois
Agricultural Association Record. Postmaster: In returning an un-
called for or missent copy please indicate Key number on address as
U required by law.

OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Snflth

Vice-President, Frank D. Barton

Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles ;.

Detroit

Cornell

Chicago

..Bloomington

EXECtmVE COMMITTTEE
(By Cqngressional District)

lat to II th..

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13th

Mth.

IStk

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I9th

2IMh

2Ist

2Znd.

23rd..

C. Vial, Downers Grove

..G. F. Tullock, Rockford

..C. E. Bamborough, Polo

.M, G. Lambert, Ferris

N. Skinner, Yates City

A. R. Wright, Vema

..Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

R. F. Karr, Iroquois

C. J. Gross, Atwood

..Charles S Black, Jacksonville

Samuel Sorre!ls, Raymond

, X.Frank Oexner, Waterloo

.W. L. Cope, Salem

Mth. _ \ Charles Marshall, Belknap

2Sth [. Fred Dietz, De Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Comptroller „ 1

Dairy Marketing L....

Limestone-Phosphate

Fimuice

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing

Grain Marketing

Information

, Insurance Service

I Legal Counsel

' Live Stock Marketing

Office

Organization

Produce Marketing.

' Taxation and Statistics..

j Transportation

J. H. Kelker

A. D. Lynch

J. R. Bent

R. A. Cowle*

A, B. Leeper

Harrison Fahrnkopf

George Thiem

V. Vaniman

Donald Kirkpatrick

Ray E. Miller

C. tl. Johnston

C. E. Metzger

F. A. Gougler

J. C. Watson

L. J. Quasey

I SUBSIDIARY ORGANIZATIONS

CmiBtry Life Insurance Co a. L. A. Williams, Mgr.

niinois Agricultural Co-operatives Ass'n ] F. E. Ringham, Mgr.

i Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co ..A. E. Richardson, Mgr.

[Illinois Farm Supply Co [ L. R. Marchant, Mgr.

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What Agriculture Wants

! A SUMMARY of the things for which organized agriculture is
i earnestly striving was clearly outlined in a short vigorous radio

jadditss by Secretary George E. Metzger recently.

I "First, agriculture wants a fair price for the product produced," he
jsaid. "By a fair price we mean one that will cover the cost of pro-
jduction plus a reasonable profit.

I "Secondly, agriculture wants a marketing system — farmer owned and
Ifarmer controlled that will enable the growei through his own repre-
^ntative to sell his product in the terminal Tiarkets as manufacturers
bf other commodities already are doing. Agriculture wants a marketing
' System chat will assist in the orderly distribt tion of agricultural pro-
iducts throughout the markets of the world, the withholding of surplus
products until such time as the demand will cake them at a fair price.
, "Thirdly, agriculture wants equality with industry and labor. It
demands some assistance at the hands of government that will enable
Jthe farmer to benefit from tbe protective system just as industry and
" labor profit by it today. Agriculture can not Icontinue to market crops
of which we produce a surplus at world price"
highly protected markets.

: "Fourth, agriculture wants to cease buying
telling at wholesale. No busifiess can long piosper under that system.

; "Fifth, agriculture wants a fair and equita
^11 not levy an unjust shar? of the cost of
inan who tills the soil.

and buy her supplies in
everything at retail and

"Sixth, agriculture wants an adequate standard of living on the farm
and an income from the farm that will pay the bill.

"Is agriculture willing to pay the price? Those wants and desires
cost something. First, if agriculture is to obtain them it must market
its products in a big way. Federal legislation recently obtained, en-
courages the farmer in this movement. That means that a lot of local
pride now held by farmers in their small assembling units must be put
down and those units merged into large, effective, well financed dis-
tributing agencies.

"Secondly, the rank and file of farmen mu»t become organization
minded. They must realize that individually they can not solve their
big problems. General farm organizations must be maintained to con-
tinue to do research and promotional work.

"Thirdly, farmers and their wives must begin to support candidates
in the state and national legislatures who stand four square for an
agricultural program, regardless of party affiliation. These three prin-
ciples, I believe, are the principal factors in the price that farmers must
pay before agriculture will get what it desires." J

ble taxing system which
government against the

THIS MACHINE AGE

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Courtesy Farm Journal.

The day of hand labor is drawing to a close; better wheel coal and
let the big boy do the digging.

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Dividing The National Income

TT^VERY time a law is passed, says George Bernard Shaw, the national
^-^ income is redivided.

The Interstate Commerce Commission is one of our law-making
bodies. Its laws have to do mostly with transportation rates. Its
decisions either take away some of the income of the utility and give
it to the shipper, or else take it away from the shipper and give a
greater portion to the carrier.

This important body held a hearing down in \8^ashington recently.
It will decide soon whether or not the corn belt livestock farmer must
pay more to the railroad for moving his stock to market.

Special counsel for the I. A. A. — the Farm Bureau — appeared before
the commissioners and argued against an increase in rates. The rail-
roads' lawyers were there to argue in favor of a substantial increase.

It was an argument over the distribution of the national income. It
illustrates why farmers need a strong organization to represent them.
Millions of dollars were involved. Every livestock farmer who ships to
market has considerably more money at stake in thij case than his annual
Farm Bureau dues.

Your organization for years has been at Springfield and Washington
fighting for you. Next time your neighbor who dropped out says, "It
never done me any good," review some of the cases such as this one in
which the organization saved him more than he would have paid into
it had he been a member. ,

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Tune in on the 1. A. A. Forum from Station
WLS every Tuesday ni(ht at 6:30 p. m..
Central Standard Time.

The daily farm program of the I. A. A. from
Station WJJD, Mooseheart (264 meters) is
broadcast between 12:00 and 12:20 p. m., Mon-
day to Friday inclusive. Hear the dally Chicafo
livestock market from the Producers, and each
Friday the weekly market review. Outlook
reports, reviews, and talks by 1. A. A. staff
members, officials, and leaders in farm thought
are broadcast daily.

Change Time

The I. A. A. Half-Hour Forum from station
WLS will be broadcast hereafter between 6:30
and 7:00 p. m., on Tuesday nights instead of
Thursdays as heretofore. The change was made
effective on Tuesday, Oct. 8.

The struggle of organized labor for equality,
fair wages, and better working conditions and
the common interests of agriculture and labor
will be the subject of a radio address by John
H. Walker, president of the Illinois State Fed-
eration of Labor on the I. A. A. Forum from
Station WLS, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 6:30 to 7:00
P. M.

Mr. Walker is recognized as an outstanding
leader in the labor movement and is well known
to farmers who have attended recent annual
meetings of the Illinois Agricultural Association.
Mark the date on your calendar and hear
Walker.

The Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball League had
charge of the I. A. A. Forum program on Tues-
day night, Oct. 15.

A brief history of the League and other in-
teresting news about this unique organization
was given by representatives.

Lyon Karr of Wenona, president of the Illi-
nois Bankers Association, will be the I. A. A.
Forum speaker from station WLS, on Tuesday,
Nov. J, 6:30 to 7:00 P. M.

Mr. Karr will tell what bankers have ac-
complished through organized effort. Don't
miss this program.

• At St. Louis

Wednesday, October 16, was a red letter day
for members of the Sanitary Milk Producers,
the new St. Louis co-operative. Before going
out to see the National Dairy Show they as-
sembled in the Marquette Hotel to hear W. S.
Moscrip, president of the Twin City Milk Pro-
ducers who was Pres. Hoover's original choice
for the dairy member of the federal farm board.

John H. Walker

John H. Walker, president of the Illinois
State Federation of Labor, will be the I. A. A.
Forum speaker from station WLS, Tuesday,
October 29, 6:30 to 7:00 p. m. I

Mr. Walker will discuss some of the common
interests of labor and agriculture, and will pre-
sent some of the things labor has accomplished
through organization.

September High Month

QEPTEMBER was the greatest month in the
history of the Illinois Agricultural Mutual
Insurance Company; 1023 applications were re-
ceived at the office. Champaign County led the
state by sending in 82 applications; Logan
County was second with 5 1 applications. Roy
Mitchell, of Champaign County, wrote 76 ap-
plications in September. Total applications to
date 17,775.

Fanners are appreciating the value of auto-
mobile insurance. A party in Freeport who is
making $25 per week has to pay $40 per
month for 20 years on account of an auto
accident. "Your own company with insurance
at cost" appeals to every thinking farmer.

Insurance

The double indemnity feature recently
adopted by the Country Life Insurance Com-
pany pays twice the face of the policy in the
event of accidental death. This additional
benefit is sold at a rate of $1.50 per thousand
additional premium. ■,,.."■■ v \

Great Convenience

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Ins. Co.,
Chicago, Illinois.

"I wish to thank you for the very
courteous and fair treatment you accord-
ed me in having my car repaired after
it was wrecked this summer.

"It was indeed a great convenience to
have you advance me money by tele-
graph while I was in Pennsylvania, and
furthermore it was very gratifying to
make an insurance adjustment without a
single bit of quibbling about any of the
items or charges on the bill.

"You may rest assured that I shall
continue to be a booster for the Illinois
Agricultural Mutual Insurance Com-
pany."

Irvin Funk,
■"■"" .'■■' • ' LaSalle County, III.

4 WELL known minister of a great city
'^^- church asserted recently that a moral life
must be its own reward. i

People there are who are good, practice the
golden rule, and obey the ten commandments
hoping to be blessed with material things for
their efforts. • l j

There is meagre evidence to support the be-
lief that prosperity and exemplary living go
hand in hand. Ill fortune befalls nuny a
devout person as it did Job. Others attain
wealth and position whilst breaking the lawi
of both God and man.

The good a man does lives after him. But
his only pay may be the self-satisfaction that
comes from helping posterity. The world
uses his invention or contribution, forgets about
him who gave it.

Observers are scanning the agricultural
horizon, wondering about the future of the
general farm organizations. The Farm Bureau
in Illinois, in other states, has spread the gospel
of better farming, given birth to new organ-
izations— co-operatives — nursed them along
through the fledgling stage, seen many fly off
never to return, never again to recognize their
parents. Life is that way. j

We soon tire of the old no matter how
useful. It's the spirit of the age in which we
are living. A new organization full of promise
looks better than the old one, tried and true
though it may be. ,

The next decade promises to witness a great
awakening in co-operative marketing. Big co-
operatives are being organized. The Farm
Bureau (also other farm groups) is furnishing
and will continue to furnish much of the
leadership, the initiative, the energy to get
them under way.

"Will the Farm Bureau by so doing dig its
own grave?" asks one editor. The answer
rests with the man on the farm, his vision and
understanding, with the service rendered by
the organization and its staff too. Will the
goose that lays the golden eggs be deserted
for her dazzling fruit? Thinking farmers
will not allow it. i i

Granted that the parent organization must
continue its productiveness, changing with the
times, adapting itself to the new order of
things. Co-operatives will not solve all the
farm problems. They can not provide for all
the needs of farmers. Some of them inevitably
will fail. New ones must replace these. The
parent organization will stand ready to help.
It must and will be preserved. ,

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A Policy in Every Farm

I Bureau Home

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Every Agent of
Country Life In-
surance Company
received a Red
Letter.

If every agent
does as the Red
Letter instructs,
there 'will be a
Country Life pol-
. icy in every Farm
Bureau member's
home by the end
of 1929.

Five hundred
trained represent-
atives working to-
gether can make
any kind of en-
deavor successful.

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EVERY representative of Country Life
Insurance Company who received the
Red Letter illustrated below is obligated to
call on all the Farm Bureau members in his
territory before the holidays. It is his duty
to give all the facts and information about
this low cost protection with guaranteed rates.
When a representative receives the Red
Letter, there are specific orders within the
envelope, the carrying out of which will make
possible greater success for your company.
We are expecting every representative to
turn in no less than four applications during
the month of October. i .

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At Your Home

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Help him. Your assistance in putting over this great undertaking to
protect \the farm families of Illinois will advance the cause of sound

business practice amon

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FOR years the business world has scoffed at the farmer as a
business man, called him "unfit," "incompetent to market
his own produce," "inferior in business intelligence." I

The farmer no longer admits inferiority.
He has discovered his ability to help himself.

Country Life Insurance Company aided
in this discovery by teaching farmers to pull
together in this great business enterprise. In
the first month of its existence this Company,
owned by organized farmers, stepped ahead
of one-third of all old line companies in
existence for total volume in force.

$17,600,000 in Force

Today Country Life has seventeen millions of life insurance
in force. It is nine months old and successful. It represents an
outstanding victory — a tribute to farmers' ability to do big things
collectively. r--':ry-r''''^:::^-'^\^^^-y::--:^:''-.':-':r- \-r- ^:\ \: [

Country Life offers old line legal reserve life insurance at
rates that cannot be increased. It offers a clear cut policy with
cash and loan values, and all standard provisions. Its rates are
participating, and are much lower than most other participating
companies. .1

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grandmother and grandfather. Write for rates. j

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agent, notify the Farm Bureau, or mail the coupon.

COUNTRY LIFE
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608 So. Dearborn St.

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608 S«. Dearborn Street,
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does as the Red
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there will be a
Country Life pol-
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Bureau member's
home by the end
of 1929.

Five hundred
trained represent-
atives working to-
gether can make
any kind of en-
deavor successful.

EVERY representative of Country Life
Insurance Company who received the
Red Letter illustrated below is obligated to
call on all the Farm Bureau members in his
territory before the holidays. It is his duty
to give all the facts and information about
this low cost protection with guaranteed rates.
When a representative receives the Red
Letter, there are specific orders within the
envelope, the carrying out of which will make
possible greater success for your company.
We are expecting every representative to
turn in no less than four applications during 5
the month of October. ,

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Fanners Can Do Big Things

Collectively

FOR years the business world has scoffed at the farmer as a
business man, called him "unfit," "incompetent to market
his own produce," "inferior in business intelligence." I

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The farmer no longer admits inferiority.
He has discovered his ability to help himself.

Country Life Insurance Company aided
in this discovery by teaching farmers to plull
together in this great business enterprise. In
the first month of its e.xistence this Compaihy,
owned by organized farmers, stepped ahead
of one-third of all old line companies in
existence for total volume in force.

Today Country Life has seventeen millions of life insurarice
in force. It is nine months old and successful. It represents an
outstanding victory — a tribute to farmers' ability to do big things
collectively.

Country Life offers old line legal reserve life insurance at
rates that cannot be increased. It offers a clear cut policy with
cash and loan values, and all standard provisions. Its rates are
participating, and are much lower than most other participating
companies. i

You can insure the baby, father, mother, and even
grandmother and grandfather. Write for rates. . i

If you have a prospect, notify your own COUNTY FARM
BUREAU.

COUNTRY LIFE

INSURANCE

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608 So. Dearborn St.
CHICAGO

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COUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE CO.,
608 So. Dearborn Street,
Chicago, III.

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By Frank Gougler

NEVt' produce marketing units have recent-
ly been completed at Taylorville, (Chris-
tian County), Carlinville (Macoupin County),
Sheffield and Buda (Bureau County) and
Stronghurst (Henderson County). This brings
the total number of units now marketing up
to 47, with more than 1 S units in the process

of

organization.

Two units in Champaign County at Sadorus
and Fisher, finished their first year's business
recently. Fisher handled over 80,000 pounds
of butterfat and made a net profit of more
than $I,<00. Sadorus handled about one-third
test cream which cut profits proportionately.

Just a year ago Adams County Farm Bu-
reau organized three units at Golden, Liberty
and Plainville. These associations are showing
a aet gain of at least 4c per pound for their
butterfat over former prices. Half of their
net profit will be placed in a reserve and the
remainder will be refunded on the patronage
basis.

At Golden the handling of poultry and eggs
has contributed in a large way to the suc-
cess of the association. In addition to handling
poultry and eggs delivered to the association,
a trucking system is provided whereby these
products are brought direct from the farm to
the association. Sales of these commodities are
made similar to that of cream. The association
payi cash according to the local prevailing mar-
ket ;ind sells on a guaranteed price above the
purchase price, which is more than enough to
take care of overhead expenses. The purchaser
furaishes coops and cases and takes care of
transportation from the association to the com-
pany plant.

Of the 47 produce marketing units now
marketing, twelve are handling poultry and
eggs in addition to cream. Eventually poultry
and egg marketing will become as important
a part of this project as cream marketing. Last
• year, the Schuyler County Association handled
•78,000 lbs. butterfat; 41,566 dozens eggs and
36,418 lbs. poultry. Total sales amounted to
$f7,)39.89, while purchases were $51,675.77,
leavitig a gross profit of ;5,664.12. Total
expenses were $),}14.3S, leaving a net profit
of $2,349.77. A similar association at Win-
chester handled from Aug. 1, 1928, to Aug.
1, 1929, 84,930.5 lbs. butterfat, eggs 62,185
7-12 doz. and poultry 79,127^2. On this
business after paying all expenses and paying
for permanent equipment the net profit
amounted' to $4,019.66 of which $1,200 placed
in permanent reserve and $2,819.66 was re-
funtitd as patronage dividends.

The middle of July, 1929, the third pro-
duce marketing association was started at
Chenoa (McLean County). Profits were suffi-
cient by Saturday, Oct. 12, that the board of
directors called a meeting on that date of
the patrons to declare a patronage dividend.
At Bellflower in the same county last year
this unit handled only 42,000. This year up
to August 1, the association handled over 5 5,-

000 lbs. Most units are handling an increased
volume of butterfat this year over last. At
Mason City last year, the first year for the
association, around 77,000 lbs. of fat were
handled compared to over 100,000 lbs. this
year. A similar gain will be shown at Bloom-
ington. Farm Adviser McKinzie of Schuyler
County reports that the association there will
handle 25% more cream this year than last.

Farmers Perplexed

Over New Insurance

Vanlman Explains How to Withdraw
From Provisions of Act

l^yTANY farmers who are carrying work-
^^^ man's compensation insurance don't know
what to do. They have filed a written elec-
tion (a statement accepting provisions of Com-
pensation Act) with the Industrial Commission
to come under the provisions of the Compen-
sation Act. The only way they can get out
from under the provisions of the act is to file
a notice of withdrawal with the Industrial
Commission. Notice of withdrawal must be
filed 60 days prior to the end of the calendar
year in order to terminate liability under the
act by January 1st.

How to Find Out

Most farmers do not know that they filed
a written election to come under the provi-
sions of the Compensation Act when they
took out the compensation insurance. Write
to the Industrial Commission, 300 W. Adams
St., Chicago. They will furnish you the in-
formation as to whether you have made a
Written election to come under the act, if you
do not know.

Does Not Terminate Liability

Just because your workman's compensation
insurance has expired does not terminate your
iability, if you have filed a written election
o come under the act. Such farmers cannot
et out from under the provisions of the act
iintil January 1, and in order to do this must
file notice of withdrawal prior to November
1, or 60 days prior to the end of the calendar
tear.

Employers Liability Insurance

Farm employers are interested in employers
liability insurance that will protect them
aigainst the common law liability for injury
qr death to employees engaged in farming op-
erations. Protection provided by the Illinois
Agricultural Mutual is up to $5 000 for per-
sonal injury or death to employee, and $10,-
obo for any single accident. Pays court costs,
l4wyers' fees, hospital bills, and doctor bills.

The premium deposit is based on the esti-
mated months of hired labor and is $5 for each
siix months of hired labor. The surplus share
is $10, and the policy fee $5, making the
rninimum initial payment $2 5.

In case of cancellation the premium deposit
and surplus share is returned, by the insured
plying the cost of the insurance. It is esti-
mated that the cost of the insurance will be
about $10 for each 12 months of hired labor.
F(^r further information see your County Farm
Biireau, or write the Illinois Agricultural Mu-
tual Insurance Company, 608 So. Dearborn St.,
Chicago. — ^V. Vaniman.

Illinois produced more than 3,000,000 bushels
ol\ soybeans last year. This production exceeds
one-third of the bushelagc grown in the United
St ites.

V. Vaniman

23 Per Cent Lower

Accident Record

4 DECREASE of 23 per cent in auto acci-
■'-^ dents during September compared with the
previous month was noted among policyholders
in the Illinois Agricul-
tural Mutual Insurance
Company. This marked
reduction in mishaps is
seen by Vernon Vani-
man, director of insur-
ance service, as a direct
result of the "No Auto
.\ccidents in Scptcni-
ber" campaign.

*'Smce we have had
no reports of accidents
to date from the fol-
lowing counties: Cum-
berland, Douglas, Ef-
fingham, Franklin, I
Greene, Jo Daviess, Kankakee, Massac, Menard,
Monroe, Pope, Richland, Scott, and Wayne,"
states Vaniman, "they are considered members
of the 'No Auto Accidents in September Club.' "

Vaniman attended the 18th annual meeting
of the National Safety Council held in Chicago
the week of October 1. He states that the
dominant thought of the meeting was to create
in the minds of the public not only an accident
prevention consciousness by continually calling
to drivers' attention ways and means of pre-
venting accidents, but also to emphasize the
tremendous savings made possible by reducing
loss of property through accident prevention.

According to the National Safety Council,
September, October and November are the high
months in the number of auto accident deaths.
The following figures indicate the number of
deaths due to auto accidents during each day
for the following months:

J925

January ...

July

September
October ...
November

42
50
67
74
60

J926
49
60
70
84
77

1927
47
56
76
81
72

The following slogans are used with good
effect in accident prevention campaigns:

1. "Most accidents can be explained in a
sentence — 'He met a fool'."

2. "Success is a habit, so it safety."

3. "Why take unnecessary chances? Acci-
dents profit no one."

4. "Prevention of accidents is prevention of
suffering. Why not be carefuJ?"

5. "Always Be Careful," it the A B C of
accident prevention.

Record Ads Pay

The Illinois Agricultural Association REC-
ORD has proved to be the best advertising
medium used by subsidiaries and associated
companies of the I. A. A. as indicated by
coupon returns.

Consistent advertising in the RECORD has
assisted in more than doubling the number of
policyholders in the Illinois Agricultural Mu-
tual Insurance Company during the past year.

September was a record month with 1,023
applications for auto insurance received.

The steady influx of applications in Country
Life Insurance Company is seen as a result of
more activity by the general agents assisted by
coiuistent advertising to tell the member about
his own company.

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Page Nine

Measure of Ability to Pay

(Continued from page 3)
shown convincingly that a considerable amount
of revenue may be derived through taxes on
such non-essentials as tobacco, soft drinks, cos-
metics, amusements, etc.

Charge Beneficiaries

"Our various units of government are today
rendering without charge or at a nominal fee,
a great variety of special services of a pro-
tective and development nature. The full ex-
pense of these inspections and certifications and
other forms of special service might very
properly be charged to those directly bene-
fited. This would mean a material saving to
the taxpayer.

"The various wards of the state should be
employed to the limit of their proper pro-
ductive ability and the articles so manufactured
should be used to supply the needs of the
state institutions and activities.

"Farmers are not the sole victims of the
present system which places too great de-
pendence upon the general property tax. City
home owners are also hard hit. This natur-
ally tends towards an increase in rents, so that
urban home owners and renters as well should
make common cause with farmers in an effort
to secure tax readjustment and relief.

Farmer Can't Dodge

"One of the most grievous features of the
heavy taxes borne by agriculture is that the
farmer has no power to pass any portion of
them on or shift them in any way, as he
has so little to say concerning the price which
he receives for the product of his labors.

"It should ever be remembered that the
power to tax carries with it the power to de-
stroy. It is certainly not good statesmanship
to discourage the ownership of farms and
homes through confiscatory property taxes.
The ownership of reaL estate is one of the most
stabilizing forces in society and should by all
proper means be encouraged, not discouraged."

Add 105 New Members

CEVENTY-SIX new members were added to
^-^ the Iroquois County Farm Bureau on
September 26 in a county- wide one-day neigh-
bor-sign-neighbor drive, according to C. E.
Johnson, farm adviser. These together with
the 29 new members signed up in the summer
by volunteers makes a total of 10 J new Farm
Bureau members.

"Joe Pruitt of Wellington now claims the
honor of being the oldest new Farm Bureau
member," says Johnson. "Mr. Pruitt is 87
years old. Three of the Pruitt generation are
now members of the Farm Bureau, which in-
cludes Joe, his son Frank, and his grandson
Harold."

The Iroquois County Farm Bureau now has
a membership in excess of 1,000 members.

Farm Indebtedness

Farm mortgage indebtedness in the United
States on January 1, 1929, was about one per
cent or $108,000,000 greater than that on
January 1, 1925, according to the Bureau of
Agricultural Economics. Estimates on January
1, 1928, show a total indebtedness on farms of
$9,468,000 as compared with $9,360,000 on
January 1, 1925.

WIN IN DAIRY JUDGING

Left to rifht ar« C. M. Hatland, coach; Lloyd Espel, Loren Hoge, and Clyde Conley, all
from around Walnut in Bureau county. The team won the state contest in judging dairy
cattle staged at the Illinois State Fair, Springfield. Hatland teaches vocational ag. in the
Walnut Community High School. The Bureau County Farm Bureau has long held a lead-
ing position in sponsoring 4-H Club and high school judging teams. i i

Scott Going Strong

"Scott county now has the distinction of
being the only county in the state with 75
per cent of its farmers belonging to the Farm
Bureau," says John C. Moore, district organiza-
tion manager. "We held our school of in-
struction during the second week of September
and the indications are that the boys over there
are determined to hold the record of having
the highest percentage of farmers in the Bureau
of any county in the state.

"The membership drive is going nicely and
they have already written 57 new members or
farmers who have not been members during the
last three years.

"The memberships expire on December 1 and
indications now point to a substantial increase
in membership in the Farm Bureau."

Ceo. A. Fox

I. A. A. Transportation

Department,
Chicago, Illinois.

"Have been delaying writing,
although I felt confident your
work was— the thing that prompt-
ed or compelled the Northwest-
ern Casualty Company to offer
and then send me $300 in settle-
ment for my damage claim
against the company. I accepted
the $300 offer and the insurance
company already has sent me the
money. I consider this a fair
settlement.

"By way of information, the
lamed horse is still lame, but
hope she ultimately will recover.

"For your kind and skilled as-
sistance in this matter I am
deeply grateful, and hope and
believe you do the same for
many others."

Harry L. Reed,
Pe<n-ia county.

Pageant Depicts

Story of Com

A PAGEANT depicting the history and de-
velopment of corn, together with an edu-
cational exhibit showing all the commercial uses
' being made of the corn
plant will be held in
the Stevens memorial
community building at
Sycamore, D e K a I b
county, during the lat-
ter part of November.
George A. Fox, treas-
urer of Country Life
Insurance Co., is chair-
man of the committee
sponsoring the event.
The story of corn, in-
cluded in the series
"Farming Thiough the Ages" written by Clif-
ford Gregory in Prairie Farmer, will be the
basis for the pageant. The Playground and
Recreation Association of America is lending
assistance in dramatizing the story.

Community groups in DeKalb and adjoining
counties are responding enthusiastically in put-
ting on different parts of the pageant which
will have a cast of around 150 to 200 people.

It is expected that thousands of people from
northeastern Illinois will see the pageant at
Sycamore during the two nights when it will
be staged. Local organizations in Sycamore and
DeKalb county are busily engaged in preparing
for the event. School children will be offered
prizes for the best posters advertising the
pageant. An elaborate pageant illustraring the
history of agriculture may be prepared for the
coming Century of Progress Exposition, Chi-
cago in 1933. I

Both the total and per capita consumption
of ice cream in the United States was greater
last year than in any preceding year. Total
consumption in 1928 is estimated at 348,048,000
gallons, as compared with 335,628,000 gallons
in 1927. The estimate is based on reports from
2,25 8 ice cream factories.

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Produce

By Frank Gougler

" L I W pi . iJit*.(.- iijjrkw'l iiii; unil'' li.i vt tinrit
* 1> been ».i'inplcu*d at Tav lurviIlL-. tChris-
ti n Cuiinty;, C jrlinvtilc i\l.K»nipin ( oumy).
cHiiiM anj HuJa (, UufLUu C.ounty ) and

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Si 'Kn^Ijurst ( HcndcfNon Coumy). Tlii> brini;s
total »unii>vT t»t units now nurkclinj; up
4". with more ilun M iiniiN in ilic prt>ccsN
ttri^ani/jiion.

Two uniis in C li.»mpai};n County at Sadi,»rus
an J li\lK-r, t)ni'>IicJ tlicir tirsi ycar\ buMncvs
r*. cnily. I ishcr li.mdled over SO.tJUO pounds
i>t butierfji jnj made J act protil ol more
ill in >l.^n(i. Sadorus liandlcd ab*»ut oni'-third
cs ^.rv.im which cut protits proportion.itdy.

lust a vc.ir a.i;«j Adams County Farm Bu-

rcj u -tir^cani/ed three umt^ at Coldcn, liberty

iMainville. llie^e associations are sln>win>;

let >;ain oi .it le.isi 4t per pound lor their

teftai o\er loriner prices. Half ot their

proht \\ ill he placed in a reserve and the

I

rci' uiiultr will W ictunticJ I'll llic pjtr»>n.l>;c
b,v

Li C>vliicn iIk' lijiullinK <il p<iultr> JiiJ c^g^
lus citntribitu-tl in a large way lo the suc-
ccv tit llic ,is\tH.i.ition. Ill addition to handling
liilUr) and cku'" dclivtrid tn the assiiciation,
rucking xysteni is prtivided whereby these
'Juets are brmiglit direct troni the tarni to
llie assiie'ialnin. Sales ol these ctimmodilies are
mai e similar to that ot creani. The assdciatinn
pay cash accurding to the local prevailing inar-
ket aiul sells on a guaranteed price above the
piirl.Jsi price, whiih is more than enough to
tak,t care til tueriicid e\penses. The purchaser
furnishes ciM»ps and cases and takes care <it
trai s^sortaiior\ trmn the asst»ciatit>n to the ct>in-
pan plant.

V t the 47 prtidiue marketing units mm
niaricting. twelve are handling poultry and
eggs iii addititin tti creaii». Kventually ptjultry
and ei;g marketing will iK-citnie as imptirtant
a pin tit this proiect as creani niarketing. last
\eai the Scliu>ler C~tiunty Association handled
"s.o Hi lbs. biiitertai; -tl.W.d do/ens eggs and
»i.,4is lbs. poultry. Total sales anitiunted to
> i". i Vi.s**. u Inl..- purchases were ')n,^'7^.r7,
kasi ig a gross protii ol :(.6(i4.1J. Total

e\pc ises were

ut

:,.>4''.:

•.'I4.M. leaving a net proht
.\ similar assticiatitin at >X'in-

chesiir handled troni .Nug. 1, 192S, to Aug.
1. !':'>, S4,'r.ii.5 lbs, buttertat, eggs 6:,I8?
71- dov. and poultry 7'*.127|.-. On this
busii ess alter paying all e.vpenses and paying
permanent ctiuipment the net profit
aiiitii nted to s4.li ly. I. f- ot which SI, 200 placed
in p -rinanent reserve and s2,SI**.6'i tA ,is re-
iund^d as pairiinaye dividends.

Tit middle ot July. l"):'). the third pro-
duce niarketine assticiation was started at
( hen la I Mclean County). Profits were sulfi-
cieiit bv Saturdiv. Oct. 12. that the board of
tliriiors called a nieeiing on that date ot
the; I atrons to declare a patronage dividend.
Ai lelltlower in the same county last year
this nit handled only 42. ml". This year up
tti A igust I, the .issocialion haiulletl o\er Ss.-

OUO lbs. .Most units are handling m\ increased
volume ot buttertat this year over last, .^t
Mason ( iiv last \e.ir. tiie first year lor the
assticiation. '.irounti ".otio lbs. ol' far were
handled compared to over l(Ui,(IO(i lbs. tins
vear. A similar gain will be shown at Bloom-
ington. larin .Adviser McKin/ic ot Schuyler
("ouniv reports that the assticiatitin there will
hatulie 1^^'t more c reain this vear I ban List.

Farmers Perplexed

Over New Insurance

Vaniman Explains How to Withdraw
From Provisions of Act

\ 1 ANY tarniers who are carryini; work-
-^ * "^ man's compensation insurance don't know
wliat to do. I hey ha\e hied a written elec-
tion (J statement acceptnij; provisions ot C om-
pensatitm Act) with the Industrial C^ommission
to ct)me under the provisions ot the C'ompen-
sation Act. The only way they can >;et «)ui
trtmi under the provisions oi the act is to file
a notice ot withdrawal with the Industrial
Commission. Notice of withdrawal must be
filed 60 days prior to the end of the calendar
year in order to terminate liability under the
act b> Januarv Isi.

How to Find Out

Most iarniers do nt>t know that they filed
written election to come under the provi-
sions ot the Compensation Act when they
tiMkk out the compensation insurance. ^'ritc
to the Industrial Commission, 3()0 \il'. Adams
St., Chicago. They will furnish you the in-
lormation as to whether you have made a
written election to come tinder the act, if you
do not know.

Does Not Terminate Liability

Just because your workman's compensation
nsurance has expired dt>es not terminate your
ability, if y*)u have filed a written election
(> come under the act. Such farmers cannot
et out from under the provisions oft the act
ntil January 1, and in order to do this must
le notice; of withdrawal prior to November
. or ^<t d.i\ N prior to the end of the calendar

Employers Liability Insurance

I arm employers are interested in employers
lability insurance that will protect them
.1 i;ainst t fu* common law liability for iniur\
r death to employees enf;a>;ed in tarming op-
rations. Protection provided by the Illinois
A.»;ricu!tural Mutual iv up to $U>Un for per-
s »nal iniury or death to employee, and $10,-
(Kiu for any single accident. Pays court costs,
Itiwycrs' fees, hospital bills, and dt^tor bills.

The prcfninni deposit is based on the esti-
mated months of hired labor and is $5 for each
si,\ months of hired labor. The surplus share
is $10, and the p<»licy fee $^, making; the
n inimum initial payment %2^ .

In case ot cancellation the premium deposit
and surplus share is returned, by the insured
piyini; the cost ot the insurance. It is esti-
ir ated that the cost of the insurance will be
about MO for each I J months of hired labor.
F>r further information see your County larm
Bjareau, or write the Illinois .\>;rlcultural Mu-
al Insurance Ct)mpan\. 608 So. Dearbiirn St.,
( licaeo. — v. \'animan.

Illuniis produced more than i.()(IO.imm) busheK
soybeans last year. This productitui exceeds
c-lhird of the biishela>;c grown in the I'niied
»tos.

V. Vaniman

\

23 Per Cent Lower

Accident Record

i 1>1( HI ASl ot :^ per ceiii in auto acci-

^ dents durini; September Ciimpared with (he
previous month was noted ainom; poIicvh4»hlet'.
in the Illinois Agricul
lural Mutual Insurance
< ompany. This marked
reductitm in mishaps is
seen by \'erntni \'ani-
man, director of insur-
ance scrxice, as a direct
result of the "No Auto
Accidents in Seplem
her" campaign.

"Since we ha\e hat!
no reports ot acculents
to date from ilu- lol-
lowini; counties; ( inn
herland, Douglas. I.f-
fingham. b r a n k 1 i n.
Greene, Jo Daviess, Kankakee, Massac, .\tenard,
Monroe, Pope, Richland, Scoti, and Wayne,"
states Vaniman. "they are Considered members
\^i the 'No Auio Accidents in September Club.'

Vaniman attended the 1 Sth annual meeting
ot ihc National Satety Council held in Chicago
the week of October 1. He states that the
dominant tliought i>f the meeting was to create
in tlie nnnds of the public not only in accident
prevention consciousness by continually calling
to drivers' attention ways and means of pre-
venting accidents, but also to emphasize the
tremendous savings made po*silile by reducing
loss of property through accident prevention.

Acc«)rdmg to the National Safety Council,
September, October and .November are the high
months in the number of autt> accident deaths.
I he tollowing figures indicate the number ot
deaths due to auto accidents during each day
for the following months:

January 42

July SI)

September 67

October 74

No\ ember 60

I he following slogans are used with good
etiect in accident prevention campaigns;

1. ".Most accidents can be explained in a
sentence — 'He met a fool'."

-. "Success is a haliit. so is *.atet\."

'^. "Why lake unnecessary ch.uKes-' Acci-
dents profit no one."

4. "Prevention of accidents iv prevenii<»n
siittering. Why not be careful?"

i. "Always Be Careful." is the A H C
accident prevention.

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Record Ads Pay

I he Illinois Agricultural AssiK:iation RtC-
t)l<I) has proved tt> be the . best advertising
medium used b\ subsidiaries and assix^iated
companies of the I. A. A. as indicated by
coupon returns.

Consistent advertising in the Rl CORD has
assisted in more than doublin.t; the number of
policyholders in the Illinois Agricultural Mu-
tual Insurance Company durinp the past year.

September w as a rectird month with 1 ,02 5
applications for auto insurance received.

Tlie steady inllu\ of applications in Country
1 lie Insurance C'onipany is seen as a result of
more activity by the general agents assisted by
consistent advertising to ifll il^e meniber about
his (»w n comp.my. ■*

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Page Nine

Measure of Ability to Pay

i.Continucd Ironi page 3)
nIliwii coininciMHly tliat a considerable amount
lit revenue may be derived through taxes on
-ucli niin-e>sentials as tobacco, soft drinks, cos-
metics, amusements, etc.

Charge Beneficiaries

"i>ur \,irM>u- vinits ot government are today
rendering wiiliout cliargc or at a nominal lee,
a great variety of special services of a pro-
tective and deselopment nature. The full ex-
pense of these inspections and certifications and
other tornis il special service might very
proper!) be charged to those directly bene-
fited. This svt>uld mean a material savmg to
;he taxpayer.

"the VJrloll^ wards of the state should be
employed to the Imnt of their proper pro-
du\.tl\e ability M\d the articles so manufactured
should be used to supply the needs of the
>ljte institutions and activities.

"I.irmcrs are not the sole victims of the
present s\stem which places too great de-
pendence upon the general property tax. City
home owners are also hard hit. This natur-
ally tends towards an increase in rents, so that
urban home owners and renters as well should
make common cause with farmers in an effort
to secure tax readjustment and relief.

Farmer Can't Dodge

"l>ne of tlie most grievous features of the
heavy taxes borne by agriculture is that the
farmer lias no power to pass any portion of
them on or shift them in any way, as he
has so little to say concerning the price which
he receives f,ir the product of his labors.

"It sli.uijd e\er be remembered that the
power to tax carries with it the power to de-
stroy. It Is eertalnly not giKid statesmanship
to discourage the ownership of farms and
homes through confiscatory property taxes.
1 he ownership of real estate is one of the most
stabilising forces in society and should by all
proper means be encouraged, not discouraged."

Add 105 Netv Members

dded to

^^1 '^ f -\ r^ -SIX new members were adde
-^ the Ifoqiiols County Farm Bureau
September 2r. in a county-wide one-day neigh-
bor-sign-neighbor drive, according to C. E.
(ohnson, farm adviser. These together with
the -'' new members signed up in the summer
bv Volunteers makes a total of 105 new Farm
bureau members.

"Joe Pruitt .if Wellington now claims the
honor of being the oldest new Farm Bureau
member," says Johnson. "Mr. Pruitt is 87
vears old. Three of the Pruitt generation are
now members of the Farm Bureau, which in-
cludes Joe, his son Frank, and his grandson
Harold."

The Iroquois (.ouiuy Farm Bureau now has
a membership in excess of 1,000 members.

Farm Indebtedness

Farm mortgage indebtedness in the L'nited
States on January 1, 1929, was about one per
cent or $ IOS,000,(IOO greater than that on
January I, 192(, according to the Bureau of
Agricultural Fconomics. Fstimates on January
I, I92S, show a total indebtedness on farms of
s9,4(,s.liiiii as compared with <9.U.0.n00 on
January 1. 19:s.

Left to right are C. M. Hatland. coach; Lloyd Espel, Luren Ho^f. and iCIydc Conli-y. all
from around Walnut in Bureau county. The team won the state contest|in jiidf:ing d^to
cattle staged at the Illinois State Fair. Springfield. Hatland teaches vocational ag. lin the

Walnut Community High School. The Bureau County Farm Bureau has
ing position in sponsoring 4-H Club and high school judging teams.

long held a lead-

Scott Going Strong

"Scott county now has the distinction o:
being the only county in the state with 7>
per cent of its farmers belonging to the Farm
Bureau," says John C Mi>ore, district orgam/a-
tion manager. "We held our scho^U ot in
struction during the second week of September
and the indications are that the boys over tlure
are determined to hold the record of having
the highest percentage of farmers in the Bureau
of any county in the state.

"The membership drive is going nicely and
they have already written 57 new members or
farmers who have not been members during the
last three years.

"The memberships expire on December I and
indications now point to a substantial increase
In membership in the Farm Bureau '

Pageant Depicts

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I. A. A. Transportation

Department,
Chicago, Illinois.

"Have been delaying writing,
although I felt confident your
work was the thing that prompt-
ed or compelled the Northwest-
ern Casualty Cotnpany to offer
and then send me $300 in settle-
ment for my damage claim
against the company. I accepted
the $300 offer and the insurance
company already has sent me the
money. I consider this a . fair
settlement.

"By way of information, the
lamed horse is still lame, but
hope she ultimately will recover.

"For your kind and skilled as-
sistance in this matter I am
deeply grateful, and hope and
believe you do the same for
many others."

Harry L. Reed,
Peoria county.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Do MiUion DoUar

Business In 3rd Yr.

Farm Supply Co. A Successful
Cooperative

4 MILLION dollar business in less than three
-^*- years is the record of the Illinois fami
Supply Company as revealed in the report of
Manager L. R. Marchant, presented at the or-
ganization's annual meeting in Bloomingto^ on
Oct. 16.

During the first six months' operation of the
company purchases of petroleum products and
supplies totaled $145,196.62. A year late^ the
business handled amounted to $672,872.59. The
third year, ending August 31, 1929, closed with
a business of $1,171,186.18. The petroleum
products handled were in excess of twelve mil-
lion gallons, consisting of 1102 carloadt of
gasoline, 438 carloads of kerosene, approximately
125 carloads of lubricating oils, and 90 tons
of grease.

51 Stations

Distribution of these products has been piade
from fifty-one bulk stations with a combined
storage capacity of 1,989,000 gallons, with
forty-four of these stations operating thej full
twelve months. 135 trucks are operated i^ the
territory surrounding these stations, serving
30,000 or more customers. The stations are all
operated by the 21 county supply companies
holding membership in the state agency.

Steady expansion of the business of the
established companies and increased volume
brought about by new companies has been re-
sponsible for the remarkable growth in business.
Applications for membership were received and
accepted during the year from the DeWitt
County Service Company, Henry County Sup-
ply Company, Jersey County Farm Supply
Company, Peoria County Service Company!, '"d
Lake County Farm Supply Company.

Capital Set-up

The capital stock of the company includes
324 54 shares of Preferred "A" stock having a
par value of $100 per shfre, which is held
by the twenty-one
county companies, The
Series "B" Preferred
stock consists of 2500
shares having ai par
value of $1.00 per
share, held by the Illi-
nois Agricultural As-
sociation. These shares
of stock are subject to
7% cumulative I divi-
dends. The common
stock outstanding! con-
sists of 21 shales of
the nominal value of
$1 per share, which is
held by the member companies and entitles
them to participate in the patronage refund.

The gross trading income of $6,008.32 re-
sulting from profits on purchases and sales, and
the brokerage income of $39,553.12, niake a
gross income of $45,641.44 for the fiscal year.

Profit 93 Per Cent

The operating expense for the period was
$15,834.58, or 34.69% of the operating in-
come, as compared to 45.47% for the year end-
ing August 31, 1928. The net operating in-
come of $29,806.86 with the additional ibcome
from interest and discounts of $2,504.64, and
deductions of $1^77.45 for federal income tax,
trade mark expense, and discounts allowid, re-

L. R. Marchant

suits in a net income in the amount of $30,-
534.05, or 66.9% of the gross operating, as
compared to $16,299.85, or 56.93% for the
preceding fiscal year. On the basis of the paid
in capital stock the earnings for the year repre-
sent a profit of 93.45%.

In accordance with Article 8 of the By-Laws
a reserve has been established for the payment
of 7% dividends on Preferred stock in the
amount of $2,019.75, and also a reserve in the
amount of $20,772.74 for the payment of
patronage refunds. These amounts, with the
$817.31 returned to the member companies in
the form of a special refund, represent 51.08%
of the gross income, and reserve added to capital
stock 14.96%>, or the sum of $6,924.25.

Total Assets

Total current assets of the company, accord-
ing to the auditor's balance sheet, are shown as
$58,379.02, of which $18,521.62 represents
cash funds on deposit in the Transportation
Bank of Chicago, and $27,537.50 in government
securities, which are carried in a safety deposit
box in the Continental National Bank & Trust
Company. A total of $11,721.96 represents
unpaid stock subscriptions of the member com-
panies. This amount is offset in part by the
reserve for patronage refunds in the amount
of $20,772.74 shown in current liabilities.
Other assets consist of deferred charges cover-
ing laboratory and office supplies in the amount
of $237.92.

Current liabilities are shown of $24,991.00
which includes reserves for dividends on "A"
and "B" Preferred stock and patronage refunds.

Worth $45,000 Plus

The net worth of the company is represented
by a capital stock investment of $34,971.00 and
a surplus of $10,376.89, making a total net
worth of $45,347.89.

Distribution of the reserve for patronage re-
funds has been authorized on the percentage
basis of brokerage and trading income. Remit-
tance will be made in full for the following
amounts, after deductions are made to cover
any stock subscription notes and interest
charges: ,

Coles County Supply Company $ 870.61

DeKalb County Agricultural Assn. 1,069.5 5

DeWitt County Service Company 345.40

Edgar County Farm Bureau Supply

Co. - 334.98

Ford County Service Company . 986.68

Henry County Supply Company 637.2 5

Jersey County Farm Supply Com-
pany 431.30

Kendall Farmers Oil Company 981.54

Knox County Oil Company 1,761.75

Lake County Farm Supply Company 187.57
LaSalle County Farm Supply Com-
pany 1,725.74

Logan Farm Supply Company 1,094.01

McLean County Service Company 2,929.90

Macon County Supply Company 1,301.69

Marshall-Putnam Oil Company 1,430.22

Menard County Farmers Supply

Company 329.30

Montgomery County Farmers Supply

Co. _ 388.85

Peoria County Service Company 5 62.49

Shelby Farm Supply Company . 634.24

Warren-Henderson Oil Company 1,599.45

Will County Farm Supply Company.. 1,170.22

$20772.74

These figures indicate that the finances of
the organization are on a sound basis and that

there is considerable merit to centralized pur-
chasing of petroleum products.

Opinions Differ j f;

"There is some difference of opinion among
those in active charge of the member com-
panies concerning the methods of purchasing
our necessary requirements, particularly gaso-
line and kerosene," said Marchant in his annual
report. "There are those who favor a regular
source of supply in order that they can assure
their trade of a uniform product at all times
thereby avoiding the criticisms which may come
if shipments are made from various sources. On
the other hand, there are others who are in-
clined to favor buying from a number of rep-
utable concerns on the spot market basis.
Both methods have some merit.

"Insofar as contracts are concerned, their
value depends upon the trend of the market.
The pendulum swings both ways; sometimes in
favor of the seller and other times in favor of
the buyer. The past summer has been a
buyer's market on gasoline and kerosene and
a seller's market on lubricating oils. Conse-
quently, our lubricating oils contracts have
been exceedingly valuable; more so than those
covering our gasoline and kerosene require-
ments. If the market of petroleum products
could always be predicted several months in
advance there would be little need for negotiat-
ing contracts, but this is something that very
few, if any, can do. «,

Contracts Advisable

"In view of our ever increasing volume, it
would seem advisable to contract for at least
a portion of our requirements in the future,
preferably with more than one source of sup-
ply. To what extent this will be done will
depend somewhat upon the recommendations of
the county companies. The Illinois Farm Sup-
ply Company is administered by a board of nine
directors who are seriously concerned with the
movement and who are open-minded to sug-
gestions for improving the service, and there
should be no hesitancy on the part of any local
company to offer suggestions and constructive
criticisms at any time.

"There is no question in the minds of those
who are most familiar with common trade
practices of large concerns about buying-
' power increasing with volume, which is the
most outstanding reason for close affiliation of
these farmer service organizations. We cannot
accomplish the most for our people unless this
is done. Reports show the local companies to
be in a healthy and prosperous condition, which
is very commendable from the standpoint of
securing favorable price consideration from the
companies interested in our business. This can-
not be overlooked and encouragement of sub-
stantial reserves should be made. u .

Must Strengthen All

"Our organization will never be any stronger
than its weakest link and we must keep our
house in order if we are to thrive and grow
as we should. The future of the organization
will depend largely upon our ability to co-
operate. Competition can furnish plenty of
opposition to our plans without any internal
friction and it is our duty to organized agri-
culture to keep harmony within our ranks.
Furthermore, it is our duty to avoid any seri-
ous mistakes, if possible, and frequent gather-
ings of those most interested should help to
guide us in the right direction.

"There may be difference of opinion among
us, which may call for open and frank diicus-

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sion. Yet, in the end, any decision made by a
group of thinking farmers will probably not
be far wrong. The results obtained thus far
are beyond our earliest estimates. The suc-
cess of the local companies associated with the
Illinois Farm Supply Company has stimulated
interest in the movement. The territory in the
state already covered with service truck; is far
more than the number of organizations would
indicate. A number of counties are actively
engaged in selling stock at the present time and
several of these should be ready to organize
within the next few months.

May Spread

"It is reasonable to believe that this service
will continue to spread throughout the state
until the number of customers equal the Farm
Bureau membership of the state. With increased
facilities for distribution, more territory to
cover, and more customers to serve we have
every reason to expect that our business eventu-
ally will far exceed the present volume. The
future holds great promise, and our slogan
should be 'A Three Million Dollar Business
by 193}!"'

Grain,

Marketing'

By Harrison Fahrnkopf

ORGANIZED to sell soybeans collectively as
well as to represent the producer in the
various problems connected with the growing
and marketing of the crop, the Soybean Market-
ing Association, a corporation organized under
the Illinois Cooperative Marketing Act of 1923,
was launched on October 9 at a meeting of
central Illinois soybean growers in Decatur.

One hundred and thirty-five growers from
twenty-five counties attended the meeting
where by-laws were adopted, the membership
agreement ratified and officers elected. In ad-
dition to growers there were present farm ad-
visers, representatives of the University of Illi-
nois and of the Illinois Agricultural Association.

Growing soybeans in. lUiiiois each year is
becoming of greater importance. Due largely
to teachings of the University of Illinois and the
Farm Bureaus, the acreaje of this legume has
trebled in Illinois during the last three or four
years. It is usually looked upon by farmers
as the crop which can be very profitably used
in supplementing or replacing the oat acreage.

Fully Cooperative

A soybean cooperative at this time is quite
significant inasmuch as the Federal Farm Board
is urging that farmers endeavor to improve their
marketing conditions through cooperative or-
ganizations controlled by the grower. While
the new organization does not intend to re-'
quest assistance from the Federal Farm Board
at this time, it qualifies as a one hundred per
cent cooperative.

The growers want an organization not merely
for the purpose of representing them in their
marketing problems but also to give them as-
sistance in many related problems.

Aims and Purposes

A perusal of the aims and purposes of the
Soybean Marketing Association, as set forth at
the meeting, emphasize the fact that the grow-

Lyon Karr

Lyon Karr, president of the Illinoii Bankers
Association who hails from Wenona, will ad-
dress the I. A. A. Forum audience on Tuesday
night, November J. What banks have done
through organized effort will be discussed.

Mr. Karr succeeded to the presidency at the
last annual meeting of the State Bankers Asso-
ciation.

ers want a real service organization. These
aims and purposes are as follows:

1. To represent soybean growers in
the commercial problems of the indus-
try.

2. To negotiate with buyers of
beans on prices and terms of sale for
beans growrn by its members except
those for seed.

3. To make local arrangements
for shipping out beans so that they
may be moyed as economically as pos-
sible from farmers to buyers.

4. To encourage research wrork in,
and commercial development of pro-
cesses for extending the uses of prod-
ucts from beans.

5. To encourage the research work
necessary for the development of
standards which fully recognize the
commercial differences in value be-
tween different lots of beans and to
establish buying practices which put
these into operation.

6. To educate growers as to the
relationship between production prac-
tice and quality in order to encourage
production of high quality product.

7. To educate soybean growers in
the commercial problems of the indus-
try.

8. To keep soybean growers in-
formed on the commercial possibilities
and limitations of soybean production
so that they may plan their program
of production with a full knowledge of
the facts.

15 Directors :' ;

The officers and directors of the new organ-
ization are as follows:

John W. Armstrong, President, Champaign
County.

Dwight Hart, Vice-president, Christian
County.

W. G. McCormick, Secretary, Douglas
County.

T. H. Lloyd, Treasurer, Macoupin County.
Wm. Kircher, Shelby County.
Wm. Bone, Jr., Moultrie County.
M. F. Walsh, Piatt County.
J. F. Probst, Macon County.
W. R. McGee, Logan County.
C. C. Walker, DeWitt County.
Parke Kerbaugh, McLean County.
Harry E. Pickrell, Sangamon County.
Samuel Sorrells, Montgomery County.
W. J. Sandusky, Vermilion County.
L. A. Reed, Morgan County.
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' I ■'AZEWELL county took the lead in the race
-*- for the state Farm Bureau championship
when it nosed out McLean by a score oif 5 to 4
in their game at Morton on October J. The
second game of the series was scheduled for
Bloomington on October 12.

Plans are under way as we go to press to
give a play by play broadcast of this game from
station WLS on Tuesday night, October IS,
during the I. A. A. Forum program.

The game at Morton was attended by a large
audience of boosters from Tazewell, McLean,
and other central Illinois counties. There was
plenty of hitting and effective pitching on both
sides. Each team fought hard for the opening
advantage in the series. When Weinzierl, Mc-
Lean county pitcher who was substituting on
first base, made a wild throw to third he let in
the first Tazewell county run. Tazewell scored
again in the following inning on a McLean
county error. A third inning rally by McLean
netted three runs and darkened Tazewell's
hopes for the time being. Tazewell recovered
on bunched hits later and from then until the
end of the game it was nip and tack with
Tazewell holding the advanuge.

Tazewell went into the game at Bloomington
on October 12 a slight favorite to win. The
Tazewell players are an Experienced aggrega-
tion.

McLean has had a rapid rise since its entry in
the League only three years ago. Defeated by
Logan county for the dirisional championship
last year the team came out last spring im-
proved by several new players and went into
the lead early in the season.

A banquet will be given to the rtite cham-
pionship team where the silver trophy awarded
annually by the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, will be presented.

The Knox County Farm Bureau
team bought new suits, and paid all
out of receipts from free-will offering^
during the current season.

Receipts at its various games were as

June 22 — Stark county game ..

August 19 — Henry county game .;_

August 29 — ^Picnic game

Sept. 1 — Henry county game

Sept. 11-12 — Henry county fair v-

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Total — _...

baseball
expenses
at games

follows:
$ 5.40

- 3<.o;

- 7J.O0

- 40.00

- 90.00

. $24<.4J

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AUTO ACODENT MADE HIM A BANKRUPT

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A WAYNE county farmer injured two people with
his car in a recent automobile accident. The
injured parties sued. Evidence presented in court
revealed that the (defendant had not used reasonable
care in driving his car. Judgment was rendered against
him for $4,000 damages. As a result this man was
compelled to give up his farm and file a petition in
bankruptcy.

CAREFUL men are insured against such mishaps.
No owner of an automobile can afford to be with-
out protection against personal liability and property
damage

X NSURANCE at cost in your own Farm Bureau
* company at a farm risk r^te is available to every

niindis Agricultural

Mutual Insurance

Company

608 $o. Dearborn St.

Chicago

member. Rates are kept down to the minuimm. They
are so low compared with those of old line companies
as to make protection easily within the reach of all. A
full coverage policy includes also fire and theft (pays
actual value of car in case of loss in either case) and
collision insurance. The policy even pays collision
damage to tires.

The rapid growth of your company in the past two
years indicates that members appreciate this service.

Satisfied policyholders now number in excess of
17,500.

:,lm''> the coupon today and get fall information about
auto inturance in your own company at cost.

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" This emblem ahouldbe
on every member'n car"

niln*b AsrlMdtoral MMftial IMS. Co. i

•M ■•. 0«ark«ra St., A

CUeaco, miaola

Send me complete information including approximate cost on
your

Full Coverage Policy ...... | |

Fire and Theft | |

Public Liability and Property Damage • | |

Name

Address

County.

Make of Car..

AmcCii Over $400,000 Insure Highest Security

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Number 11

NOVEMBER, 1929

Volume 7

WIN STATE CHAMPIONSHIP (Story Page 10)
Left to right, front row: R. Weber; Clarke; P. Weber; Downs; Weinzierl; Mosier. Back row: Fincham; Coaltaa; Flint; Van Dyke; Fitx-
gerald; Corpe; Caton; Jayne.

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l-ad

WAYNE county farmer
his car in a recent aut|on
injured parties sued. Evide
revealed that the defendant
care in driving his car. Judgment
hini for $4,000 damages As

compelled to give up his fariji and file a petition in
bankruptcy.

injured two people with
lobile accident. The
ice presented in court
not used reasonable
was rendered against
result this man was

AREFUL men are insured
No owner of an automobi
out protection against persoiifi
damage

NSURANCE at cost in y
company at a farm risk r;

against such mishaps.

le can afford to be with-

liability and property

Our own Farm Bureau
e is available to every

at

Illinois Agricultural

Mutual Insurance

Company

608 $o. Dearborn St.

Chicago

■ I'his embjenj shnuld he
*n ei'err niftnhf^r's rur"

member. Rates are kept down to the minuimm. They
are so low compared with those of old line companies
as to make protection easily within the reach of all. A
full coverage policy includes also fire and theft (pays
actual value of car in case of loss in either case) and
collision insurance. The policy even pays collision
damage to tires.

The rapid growth of your company in the past two
years indicates that members appreciate this service.

Satisfied policyholders now number in excess of
17,500.

Illinois Agrleultural MnCnal Ins. Co.
b9» So. Dearborn St.|
Ctalcaco. Illinois

Send mc complete information including approximate rest on
your

Full Coverage Policy ' i

Fire and Theft

Piiblii- Liability and Property DomaKc

Namt-
Address
County
Make of Car

p

Illinois Agricultural Association

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Loft to right, front row: R. Weber; Clarke; P. Weber; Downs; Weinzierl; Mosier. Back row: Fincham; Coultas; Flint; Van Dyke; Fitz-
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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Ceo. E. Metzger

Indi£Eereiice Is Bar to

Better Farm Life

Sec. Metzger Speaks Before American
Country Life Conference

i i' I ■'HE greatest problem which confronts a
-^ farm organization in the maintenance of
membership is indifference. Too many do not
appreciate the value of organization. Individual-
istic habits of living and the failure of many
individuals to recognize
their relations and duty
toward otljer people
contribute largely to
this attitude of mind
which I characterize as
indifference" Secretary
George E. Metzger told
the recent conference of
the America^ Country
Life Association at
Ames, Iowa. Metzger
spoke on the subject
"Jobs that Confront
a State Farm Organiza-
tion."
"Some of our farm folks have little or no
confidence in their fellow farmers," he said.
"Jealousy and prejudice are too common. There
still exists some prejudice against salaried men
and so one of our big problems is to maintain,
trained men whom agricultural organizations
seriously need. [

Members Read, Think

"Generally speaking the Farm Bureau has the
more intelligent, progressive farm people who
read and think. They are the ones responsible
lor any progress made in the industry and so
one of our great difficulties is to deal with the
farm family that is not informed.

"I asked one of my field men who v»s work-
ing in one of the best agricultural counties in
Illinois to select and travel down some high-
way and call on 10 non-Farm Bureau members
just as he came to them, and make inquiry con-
cerning a certain publication of a d^ily paper
that had been issued in that county and sent
to every farmer. This paper carried an eight-
page insert on agricultural matters, featuring,
of course, the Farm ,Bureau movement. It was
one of the best pieces of publicity of its kind
that I ha~ve ever seen.

"The first question the solicitor asked was
whether or not the paper was received. All
had received it. The feature article in this paper
had to do with the new Federal Marketing Act
and the Federal Farm Board. i

Lacit of Information

"The second question the solicitor asked was
what they thought of the new marketing act.
Eight out of the 10 men did not know that
such an act had been passed by congress. After
some explanation he asked the third question,
'What do you think of the new Federal Farm
Board and the pos'ibilities of some relief to the
farmer?' Six out of the 10 of them stated they
had no confidence in the Farm Board whatever,
that it would eat up all of the five hundred
million dollars appropriation in salaries and that
no relief would come to the farmer. What can
wt expect of people having such meager knowl-
edge of current events, affecting their own inter-
ests.

"The only way such people can be reached is
through word-of-mouth publicity. If mem-
bership organizations are to grow in size and
prestige, we must begin at once to prepare the
non-member for membership. This prepara-

tion must largely take place through the men
and women who already are affiliated with mem-
bership organizations. Our members must
accept the responsibility of cultivating the non-
member.

Friendliness Helpful

"In marketing activities the farmers' business
is largely held through friendliness. Support
til a membership organization can be gained in
the same way. The member must sympathize
with the non-member. He must recognize his
problems intimately, and above all, he must be
able to show Mr. Non-member that the organi-
zation has a helpful program. Any other
method of cultivating and preparing the non-
member is decidedly costly.

"The next question is, how can we prepare
this non-member. Our experience is that mem-
bership is difficult to maintain on educational
projects alone. Farmers, like most groups of
businessmen, want to see a money return. There-
fore, it seems to be essential that state farm
membership organizations list in their programs
certain projects which will lend themselves to
a money return large enough, so that it will
completely offset the membership fee. Whatever
can be added over and above the membership
fee adds considerably to the sales material which
a solicitor may have to offer.

"The non-member must be fully informed on
the importance of legislation to the agricultural
industry. He must know to what length in-
dustry and labor go in securing favorable legis-
lation. He must be shown how a legislative
project will benefit him individually — for after
all, sales are usually made when the prospect
is convinced that the commodity is going to
contribute to his own personal comfort.

Teach Marketing

"In preparing the prosepect for membership,
we must teach marketing. It must be taught
in its broader sense. The non-member must
see the relation of co-operative marketing to
personal income. Most farmers at the present
time are inclined to look at the local assembling
unit as their market. In other words, the local
livestock shipping association, the farmers' eleva-
tor or the local creamery is looked upon as the
ultimate end in their marketing operations.

"Such is not the case. The market for live-
stock is the individual or the concern that finally
processes that stock and prepares it for the con-
sumer. The same is true with most other farm
commodities. A commission agency is not the
market. It is farther removed from the pro-
ducer than that.

Not Co-operative Marketing

"The state of Iowa boasts that a large per
cent of its livestock last year moved through
co-operative channels, yet the fact remains
that less than five per cent of this livestock
was sold in the terminal markets through any
one marketing agency. This represents co-
operative assembling but not concentrated selling
in large volume by a single agency, which
promises to bring to the producer his proper
share of bargaining power.

"Thirdly, in preparing the non-member, we
must point out to him that our program in-
volves reduction in the cost of production. Such
accomplishments as tax reduction, which has
been a big item in our state, automobile in-
surance on a mutual basis, now a project of most
state Farm Bureau organizations, transportation
activities and practically the entire production
program of the county units which come under
this general head, should be brought to his at-
tention. There are other matters of common

interest and knowledge among organized groups
of farmers that can be advantageously taught.
"These items have a money-saving angle to
them. Helpful economic legislation, and co-
operative marketing increase the farmers' income.
Cutting expenses reduces the outgo. Combined,
the result is more money for the farmer. But,
what is he to do with this increased money at
his command. He must spend it wisely. The
farmer's standard of living must be placed on a
higher level. To do so costs money. The farm
is his chief source of income. It must be made
profitable. Now let's see for what he should
spend it. Should it be for a larger and more
costly automobile? I should not oppose that
movement, but I have something more deep-
seated in mind. I am thinking particularly of
the modern conveniences which have become
necessities in most of the homes of the cities.

Only 42 Per Cent |

"I doubt seriously if you could rent a resi-
dence property in this town not equipped with
electric lights, running water and a modern
heating plant. Yet, a survey made in our state
discloses that only 42 per cent of the farm
homes in Illinois have so much as a cistern
pump and a sink toward a running water system.
The percentage having electric lights and heating
systems is much lower than this figure.

"I looked further into the school system. I
find that in most cities of 5,000 population and
up, the school term ranges from 180 to 200 days
per year; while in many of our one-room coun-
try schools, the session does not represent more
than 120 to 140 days per year. I find that, as
a general rule, the more highly paid teachers,
the better trained teachers and the better equip-
ment are to be found in the city schools. The
thing that I wonder about is whether or not
these boys and girls comiilg out of these one-
room country schools, with all the handicaps
which they undergo in their training, can com-
pete favorably at the age of 2 5 to 30 years
with those youngsters coming out of the better
schools in the cities. . _

I . ■* ■■

May Lead to Peasantry

"I am just wondering if there may not fcc
some tendency on the part of these country boys
and girls to consider themselves inferior to the
better trained youngsters from the cities, and
eventually be satisfied to content themselves with
a lower standard of living than is going to pe
demanded by their city cousin. If so, I aim
forced to believe agriculture will go into peas-
antry.

"Thirdly, in this matter of a standard of
living, I look to the church institutions. As I
sec it, one of the biggest problems confronting
the churches today is the economic problem.
Yet, the church is a part of an adequate stand-
ard of living. Very few individuals, whether
they go to church or not, will be satisfied to live
in a community without the influence of the
church. Here is another place that I would
recommend that some of this increased income
be expended.

More Play Needed I S

"Fourthly, in this standard of living, I would
recommend that more time of the American
farmer be used for play. I note in most of our
larger cities that people enjoy a Saturday half
holiday. In fact, in most of our county seat
towns, the weekly half-day holiday is becoming
prevalent. I maintain that if it is right for
those groups of people and their income is such
that they can afford it, that it should be right
for the American farmer."

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niinois A^cdtural Associatioii

RECORD ^^^^^^^^^H^

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Oct. n, IMS. under the Act oT Mar. S. Igtt. Aecwtaoe* for ■aiUnc at ipedal rat« of poiUkc prorlded In Section 411. Act oT Firti. li. 1*15. >aUuna«l Oct. ft, MM.

Number 11

NOVEMBER, 1929

Volume 7

Prominent Men On

A. F. B. F. Program

Convention at Hotel Sherman,
Chicago, Dec. 9-10-11

ACTIVITIES of the Federal Farm Loan Board,
-^*- the Federal Farm Board, governmental
road building policies,' farm taxation, child wel-
fare and waterways will feature the discussions
before the coming annual convention of the
American Farm Bureau Federation at the Hotel
Sherman, Chicago, Dec. 9-10-11.

Sam H. Thompson and Alexander Legge will
be the chief speakers on the opening day. \(^ith
the great farm relief battle now history, the
organization is expecting Mr. Thompson to look
to the future and outline his ideas on how
further advances can be made in bringing about
equality for agriculture.

Legge On Monday

Alexander Legge, the man entrusted by Presi-
dent Hoover with responsibility for administer-
ing the agricultural marketing act will be the
headline speaker Monday afternoon. Mr. Legge
will tell the Farm Bureau how farmers can ob-
tain the maximum benefits from the new legis-
lation.

H. Paul Bestor of St. Louis, appointed by
President Hoover to make the farm loan act
work for farmers' interests, will speak on the
subject "Farm Finances." He is scheduled for
the Wednesday morning session.

"Waterway Development" is the subject Sec-
retary of War James
W. Good will discuss.
It is taken for granted
that he will voice the
policies of Mr. Hoover
since the secretary of
war is charged with the
responsibility of feder-
al waterway develop-
ment.

Farm Taxation

Frank O. Lowden of
Oregon has been chosen
to outline his views on S. H. Thompson

the important subject

of farm taxation. He is to speak on Tuesday
morning, December 10.

Dr. H. E. Barnard, director of the Presi-
dent's White House Conference on Child Health
and Protection is to be the speaker on Monday
evening, Dec. 9. A "community meeting" with
a forum discussion will follow this address.

A speaker to be announced later will present
the subject of highway development. The
Illinois Agricultural Association has taken the
lead in calling to the attention of governmental
officials the need for a better farm to market

r

\

\M

Alexander Legge

road system. Now this movement is being
carried forward on a national scale by the
A. F. B. F. It is estimated that 5,000,000
farmers find it impossible to get from their
farms to markets in automobiles several months
each year. It is the Farm Bureau's belief that
public funds should be used generously in build-
ing rural roads because of their vast importance
to agricultural welfare. .-, , ■-■

Illinois Delegates

Representing Illinois at the convention as
official voting delegates will be President Earl
C. Smith, Frank D. Barton, Geo. F. Tullock,
and Samuel Sorrells.

Alternates are H. C. Vial, A. R. Wright,
C. £. Bamborough, and Charles Black.

The entire executive committee of the Illinois
Agricultural Association is expected to attend
the convention.

Custom Grinding

A farmer or individual who does custom
grinding of feed for his neighbors is not re-
quired to secure a license according to the feeds
division of the State Department of Agricul-
ture.

If, however, a customer should purchase grain
from the mill operator and ask the latter to
mix it according to his, the purchaser's direc-
tion, and then grind it, the mill operator would
be required to obtain a license. ■.■.*"■.• -;

State Produce Co-op

Is Set Up at Decatur

Bloomington Chosen As Headquar-
ters, Organized Under Illinois
Act of 1923

T)APERS of incorporation for the Illinois Pro-
*- ' duce Marketing Association, organized under
the Illinois co-operative act of 1923, Were ap-
plied for on Nov. 9 following a meeting three
days earlier at Decatur where 100 representa-
tives from M counties gave unanimous ;|pproval
to the plan. |

UiKler the by-laws adoptM at Decatur, the
Association is authorized to buy, sell, handle,
ship, process, or in any way make farm produce
more sala&le so farmers may receive the max-
imum net return for theif products. Non-
members' produce may be handled as well as that
for members "provided that the products
handled for non-members in any fiscal year
shall not exceed the total of similar products
handled for members during the same ^riod." .

Farm Board O. K.

Frank Gougler, director of produce marketing
for the I. A. A. explained the state marketing
plan, discussing the advantagies of big scale co-
operation, and the policy of the Federal Farm
Board in encouraging co-operation between the
smaller co-operatives. Donald Kirkpatrick,
legal counsel, explained the capital stock set-up.
A. D. Lynch, director of dairy marketing, who
assisted in organizing the first co-operatite pro-
duce associations in the state, told how fluid
milk co-operatives and
produce co-ops could
work together to their
mutual advantage.

The Association is to
be organized under
Farm Bureau control as
a co-operative with
capital stock, although
no immediate sale of
stock to raise funds is
contemplated. Capital
stock shall be divided
into preferred and com-
mon. The preferred stock shall consist of
30,000 shares to be designated as Class A pre-
ferred stock of $2$ per share par value, and
15 0,000 shares to be designated as Class B pre-
ferred stock of no par value, and 75,000 shares
of common stock of no par value. I

Stock Setup

Class A preferred stock when and if issued,
shall be entitled to draw cumulative dividends

(Continued on />«{? i)

Frank Gougler

Page Tuo

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Indifference Is Bar to

Better Farm Life

Sec. Metzger Speaks Before American
Country Life Conference

h k^\^\ II >;rcatot pr<tbkin which iontmnts .1
' tjrni orp.ini/.uii>n 111 liic inaiiitcn.uicc t»t
membership is inditfcrcncc. It^ti many do noi
apprcciau" the value <>t or>;.ini/Jtu)n. InJividu.iI-
isiic habits oj living and the tailur; <*i manv
individuaU ( » rceogni/c
their relatione and duiv
tow.ird otluT people
eontribiue larj;clv ro
iW\s aititudJ t»t niMU!
uhivh I ehaiaeieri/e as
inditVererKe" Sccrct-ary
deorvie I . M:t/i;t.'r told
the recent contcrencc oj
ihc American C (nintrv
I ifc Assoc^.
Anns. Iowa
spoke on tl
"jobs that
a Slate larni

Geo. E. Metzger

ation at

Met/i;er

I sublet, t

C ontr»tni

Or>;ani/a-

tion.
"Some ot our farm folks have In tie or no
^.tnhdcnce in their fellow farmers,' he said,
"jealousy and prejudice are too comnuMi. I here
still L-xisis some pre|iidice ai;ainst s.)||iried. men
and so ope of *»ur bij; pri>blems is td maintain
trained men whom a>;ricultural or>lani/ations
seriously need.

Members Read, ThinI

"Cienerally spcakini: the Farm Burc. u has thu
more intelligent, progressive farm piople who
read and think. They are the ones 1 esponsible
tor any progress made in the industry and so
one of our sreat ditticulties is to deal with the
farm family that is not informed.

"I asked i»ne of my Held men who was work-
ing in one of the best agricultural counties in
Illinois to select and travel down s(jnie hi.i;h-
ft ay and call on 10 non-Farm Bureau niembers
just as he came to them, and make in^imry con-
cerninj; a certain publication of a d.nly paper
that had been issued in that county and sent
to every farmer. This paper carried an ei>;ht-
p.»^c insert on agricultural matters, "eaturinjis
ot course, the Farm .Bureau movement Tt was
one of the best pieces of publicity of its kind
that I have ever seen.

"The first questitm the solicitor a.ked w.is
whether »»r not the paper was received. All
had received it. The feature article in this paper
had to do with the new Federal Marktting .\ct
and the Federal Farm Bojrd.

Lack of Information

"The second question t lie solicitor a'tked w ,1
what they thou>:ht of the new markc
Fight out of the 10 men did not know that

such an act had been passed by con>;res
some explanation he asked the third
'\C'hat do vou think of the new I ed(

Board and the pos^^ibilities »»t sonic reli< f to the

. Atter
L]uesiion,
a I Farm

farmer?' Six out ot the 10 ot them st

had no confidence in the Farm Board \.hatever.
that it would eat up all oi the tive hundred
million dollars appropriatii»n in s.ilaries ind that
no relief would come to the farmer. V'hat can
wl expect of people havini; such mea>;cr knowl-
cd>;c iti current events, at^eclin;; their ov n inter-
ests.

"The only way such people can he r..iched is
through word-f>f-mouth publicit > . It mem-
bership or>;ani7aiions are to >;ri>w in .i/c and
prestige, we must begin at once to prepare the
non- member for membership. This prepa ra-

ted the\

lion 111 us t l.iti;e!\ take place throu>;h the men
and women who .dready are athliated with mem-
bership orcani/ations. Our members must
.ic^ept the responsibility of cultivating the non-
nieniher.

Friendliness Helpful

"In marketing activities tlie tarmers' business
I' largely held thntugh friendliness. Support
lo a niemhership organization can be gained in
the s.inie way. The member must sympalhi/e
with the non-member. He must recogni/e his
problems intimalelv, and above all, he must be
able lit show \!r. \on-nieniber that the organi-
zation has a helpful program. Any other
method '>f cultivating and preparing the non-
member is decidedl\' costl>.

"I he next question is, how can we prepare
this lion member, C^ur experience is that mem-
bership IS dithcuh to maintain on educational
proiccts ahine. I arniers, hke most groups of
businessmen, want to see a m4»ne> return. I here-
ft re. it seems to be essential that state farm
membership t)rganizati<ms list in their programs
certain projects which will lend themselves to
a nuMiey return large enough. st> that it will
s» mpletely otTset tlie membership tee. >\'hatever
can be added over and abiive i!ie membership
fee adds considerably to the sales material which
a s4)|icitor may have to otTer.

" I he t>on-member must he lul!> informed on
the importance of legislatiiui to the agricultural
industry. He must know to what length in-
dustry and labor go in securing favorable Icgis-
l.'.tion. He must be shown how a legislative
project will benefit him individually — for after
.'II, sales are usually made w hen the prospect
is convinced that the commodity is going to
ci)niribute to his own personal comfort.

Teach Marketing

"In preparing the prosepecl tor membership,
we must teach marketing. It must be taught
111 Its broader sense. The non-member must
see the relation of co-operative marketing to
personal income. Most farmers at the present
time are inclined to look at the local assembling
unit as their market. In other words, the liKal
livestock shipping association, the farmers* eleva-
tor or the local creamery is looked upon as the
ultimate end in their marketing operations.

"Such is not the case. The market for live-
stock is the individual or the concern that finally
pr<tcesses that snurk and prepares it for the con-
sumer. The same is true with most other fariri
commodities. ,\ commission agency is not the
market. It is farther removed from the pro-
ducer than that.

Not Co-operative Marketing

"The stale of Iowa boasts that a large per
ct.nt ot Us livestock last year moved through
co-operatne channels, vet the fact remains
that less than five per cent of this livesttKk
was sold in the terminal markets through any
one marketing agency. This represents co-
i)perati\e assemblim: but not concentrated selling
if. large \ olunic b\' a single agency, which
pnmiises to bring to the producer his proper
share of bargaining power.

"1 hirdly. in preparing the non-nieiiiber. we
must point out to him that our program in-
\)>l\es reducrioii m tiie ci>st ot productiim. Such
accomplishments as tax reduction, which has
been a big item in t>ur state. auti>m<)bile in-
'-urance on a mutual basis, ni>w a pr<»jccl of most
v:atc Farm Bureau organizations, transportation
acti\ iiies and practically the entire production
program 01 the county units which come under
this general head, should be brought to his at-
tention. There arc other matters of common

interest and knowledge among organized groups
ot farmers that can be advantageously taught.
"These items have a money-saving angle to
them. Helpful economic legislation, and co-
operative marketing increase the farmers' income.
Cutting expenses reduces the outgo. Combined,
the result is more money for the farmer. But,
what is he to do with this increased money at
his command. Fie must spend it wisely. Fhe
farmer's standard of living must be placed on a
higher level. To do so costs numey. The farm
is his chief source of income. It must be made
profitable. Now let's see for what he should
spend it. Should it be for a larger and more
costly automobile? I should not oppose that
movement, but 1 have something more deep-
seated in mind. I am thinking particularly of
the modern conveniences which have become
necessities in most of the homes of the cities.

Only 42 Per Cent

"I doubt seruHisly it you could rent a resi-
dence property in this town not equipped with
electric lights, running water and a modern
heating plant. Yet. a survey made in our state
discloses that only 42 per cent of the farm
homes in Illinois have so much as a cistern
pump and a sink toward a running water system.
The percentage having electric lights and heating
systems is much l<)wer than this figure.

"I l(H)ked further into the school system. I
find that in m()st cities^ of ^,000 population 3ini\
up. the schiKil term ranges from 180 to 200 days
per year; while in many of our one-room coun-
try schools, the scssiim does not represent more
than 120 to 140 days per >'ear. I find that, as
a general rule, the more highly paid teachers.
the better trained teachers and the better equip-
ment are to be found in the city sch(K>ls. The
thing that I wonder about is whether or not
these boys and rfrls coming out o( these one-
rtK>m country schools, with all the handicaps
which they undergo in their training, can com-
pete favorably at the age of 2^ to 50 years
with those youngsters coming out of the better
schools in the cities.

May Lead to Peasantry

"I am just wondering if there nia\" not be
seme tendency on the part of these country boys
and girls to consider themselves inferior to the
better trained youngsters from the cities, and
exentually be satisfied to content themselves with
a lower standard of living than is going to be
demanded by their city cousin. If so. I am
forced to believe agriculture will go into peas-
antry.

"Thirdly, in this matter of a standard of
Fvrng, I look to the church institutions. As I
see it, one of the biggest problems confronting
the churclies today is the economic problem.
Yet, the church is a part of an adequate stand-
ard of living. Very tcv,' individuals, whether
they go to church or not, will be satisfied to live
in a community without the influence of the
church. Here is another place that I would
recommend that some ot this increased income
be expended.

More Play Needed

"lourtiily, in this standard of living, I would
recommend that more time of the American
farmer be used for play. I note in most oi our
larger cities that people enjoy a Saturday half
holiday. In fact, in most of our county scat
tcwns, the weekly half-day holidav is becoming
prevalent. I maintain that if it is right for
those groups of people and their income is such
that they can afford it, that it should be right
for the American farmer."

c^^^^^^ The o^^

Illinois A^ctdtural Associatiori

RECORD

PubliBhed monthly by Ui« Illlnoli Agricultural AMOcUtlon at 404 North Wesley At«. , Mount Morris. Ill Entered a5 «M-<>nd-elas) maitAr if prMt-offlMi at Moun* M*lTla, 111.,
on. JO. igas. under the Art of Mar 3. 1879. Arceptanw for mailinR at special rate uf postap*- proTid-d in StTtl'T *]J, Art of Feb 28 '.92r.. aiilliartiMd (Vt tf . H15.

Number 11

NOVEMHKR, 192^

\ oiume 7

Prominent Men On

A. F. B. F. Program

Convention at Hotel Sherman,
Chicago, Dec. 9-10-11

^CTIVITI^:S of the Fcdcril Farm Loan Board.
' tlic Icdcral Farm Board, j^ovcrnmcnta!
road building policies, farm taxation, child wel-
fare and waterways will feature the discussions
before the coming annual convention of the
American Farm Bureau Federation at the H<ncl
Sherman, Chicago, Dec. 9-10-1 I.

Sam H. Tiionipson and Alexander Legge will
be the chief speakers on the opening day. ^'itli
the great farm relief battle now history, the
organization is expecting Mr. Thompson to look
to the future and outline his ideas on how
further advances can be made in bringing about
equality for agriculture.

Legge On Monday

Alexander Legge, the man entrusted by Presi-
dent Hoover with responsibility for administer-
ing the agricultural marketing act will be the
headline speaker Monday atternoon. Mr. Legge
will tell the Farm Bureau lu>w farmers can ob-
tain the maximum benehts from the new legis-
lation.

H. Paul Bestor of St. Louis, appointed by
Tresideni Hoover to make the farm li>an act
work for farmers' interests, will speak on the
subject "Farm Finances." He is scheduled for
the \C'ednesday morning session.

">X''aterway Development" is the subject Sec-
retary of ^'ar lames
Vt', G(K>d will discuss.
It is taken for granted
that he will voice the
policies of Mr. Hoover
since the secretary of
war is charged with the
responsibility of feder-
al waterway develop-
ment.

Farm Taxation

Frank O. Lowden of
C)regon has been chosen
to outline his views on
the important subject
of farm taxation. He
morning, December I U.

Dr. H. F. Barnard, director ui the Presi-
dent's NX'hite Flouse Conference on C hild Health
and Protection is lo be the speaker on Mitndav
evening, Dec. 9. A "community meeting" witli
a forum discussion will follow this address.

A speaker to be announced later will present
the subject of highway development. The
Illinois Agricultural Association has taken the
lead in calling to the attention of governmental

S. H. Thompson

II speak on 1 uesda\

Lifficials the need for a better farm to

ark el

Alexander Legge

road system. Now this movement is being
carried forward on a national scale by the
A, F. B. F. It is estimated tiiat S.OOO.OOO
tarmers hnd it impossible to get f r*)m their
farms to markets in automobiles several m*>nths
each year. It is the Farm Bureau's belief that
public funds should be used genenmsly in build-
ing rural roads because of their vast importance
to agricultural welfare.

Illinois Delegates

Representing Illinois at the convention as
otiicial voting delegate^ will be President F!arl
( . Smith, Frank D. Barton, (ieo. F". Tullock.
.:iid Samuel SorrelK.

Alternates are H. < . Vial, A. R. >X'right,
( i\ Bamborough. and ( iiarles Black.

The entire executive ccnnmiitee ot the Illinnis
-Vgricultural Ass4>ciation is expected to attend
the convention.

Custom Grinding

A farmer i»r individual w ho does custom
grinding of feed for his neighbors is not re-
quired to secure a license according to the feeds
division of the State Department i*i Agricul-
ture.

If, however, a customer shi^uIJ purchase grain
from the mill operator and ask the latter to
mix it accordini; to his, the purchaser's direc-
tion, and then grind it, the mill ojvrator would
be req u i red to obt .li n a 1 k eitsc.

State Produce Co-op

Is Set Up at Decatur

Bloomington Chosen As Headquar-
ters, Organized Under Illinois
Act of 1923

|)\PFRS of incorporation ;
■ ducc Marketing AsstKiat
lilt Illinois co-o[serativc act

plud for on Nov. 9 following a meeting three
(Jays earlier at Decatur wh
tives from M counties gave
to the plan.

Under the by-laws adopt
Assttciation is authori/od t<
ship, pr«K.es%. or in any way

more salable so tarmers ma receive the max-
imum net return lor iheii pnKJucts.- Non-
members* produce may ht hai died as well as that

lor members "provided
handled lor ntm-memlxTs
shall not eXCtxd the total

tiie Illiiiois Pru-
>n, t>rgani/od under
of 192*. Mere ap-

.■re I IM) representa-
jnanimous approval

■d at Decajur. the
buy, sell, j handle,
make farm produc

I ut the products

in an\ hscjil year

f sinnlar piroducts

handled lor members durini;! the same ieruHi."

1

Farm Board D. K

1 rank C^uugler, director «»f produce malrketing
for the I. A. \. explained tlie state mVifketing
plan, discu-<sing the ad\aniag;s *»f big scjale co-
operation, and the policv ot the Federal Farm
Board in encouraging co-i>|h- atum between the
laid Kirki^atrtck.
. ipital sI«K.li ^set-up.
y marketing, who
iiperatije pro-

smaller t.o-operati\es. D<
legal counsel, explained the c
.\. D. 1 ynch, direct«)r lA dai
a^'istod in organizing the^ tirs

uiKe a^^o.. lations ,in the stjtL-, told h«>H' Huid

co-t>perati\'l's and
Ce co-ops i could
together t4> their
n^utual advantage.

h f Ass<Kiatii»ii is to
itrgani/ed \ under
Bureau vonfer»»l as
»-4>peraiive i with
, 1 slock, although
immediate site of
to raise f ijt^ds is
' nplated. <j apital
shall be Jivided
\ referred antj c*mi-
shall consist of
pre-
t erred situ, k »>1 \1'< per slui e par \ alui. and
M(t,()ui) slurcs to be designaiid as (lass $ prt-
Krred stock of hij par value, ind 7i .imo isharcs
. t eomnion ^toek' .»! n.. par > aUie. |

Stock Setu^ I

(lass .\ preterred sti^k when and if issued,
shall be entitled to draw curiulative dividends

'( nu/nttuJ nfi Jul [* i /

m<»n.

Mt.lHHI

1 he preferred sd^k
shares to be designatei I as ( lass .^

Page Four

,:-\ ' ,-•--1-1,
THE I. A. A. RECORD

N

I LIjINOIS

CCLTlIBAt. ASSOCIA

RECORiy

T9 mJaanca th* purpoma for tmhich thm Farm Buraau wa» organifd,
natnmty to promott, protmet and raproMont th* fcu«uicn, economic,
poiitlcml, mnd mducational inimrmtia of thm farmmrm of tilinoia and the
nation^ and to dm0*lop agrieulturm,

Pablished one* > month at 404 North Wesley Ave., Mount Morris,
Illinois, by the Illinois AKricaltural Association. Entered as second-
class matter October 20, 1B2S, at the post office at Mount Morris,
Illinois, under the Act of March S, 187t. Accepted for mailinK at
special rate of postace provided for in Section 412, Act of February
28, 1925, authorized October 27, 1926. The individual membership
fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five dollars a year. The
fee includes payment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois
Aqricultubal Association Eioobo. Postmaster: In retnmins an un-
called for or missent copy pleas* indicate key number on address as
is required by law.

OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith

Vice-President, Frank D. Barton

Secretary, Geo. E. Matzcer

Treasurer, R. A. Cowl** _

Detroit

Cornell

Chlcac*

..BlaMBlastoB

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
(Bjr Collar— atonal District)

1st to llth..

12th

13th

14th

ISth

18th

17th

Uth

19th

20th _

21st

22ad

23rd

24th

25th

H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

.„ a F. TuUock, Rockford

...C. E. Bamborouth, Polo

-M. G. Lambert, Ferris

JL N. Skinner, Yatos City
A. R. Wrif ht, Vema

..Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

R. F. Karr, Iroquob

C. J. Gross, Atwood

..Charles S. Black, Jacksonville

^..Jamuel Sorrall*, Raymond

,. Frank Oezner, Waterloo

..W. L. Cope, Salem

..Charles Marshall, Belknap

..Fred Dietz, D* Soto

E

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

ComplroUer „..^ J. H. Kelker

Dairy Marketing ^ .^A. D. Lynch

Floance.

Fruit and VefetabU Mark*tia«.

Grain Marketing

Information _._

Insurance Service «..

Legal Counsel

Limestone-Phosphate

Live Stock Markatiag

Office

Organization „.««.«.,.

Produce Marketing „™„...„

Taxation and Statistics.^.

Transportation

..Jt. A. Cmrlas

A. B. Leeper

■Harrison Fahrnkopf

George Thieoi

V. Vanlman

..Donald Kirkpatrick

J. R. Bent

Ray E. MlUar

C. E. Johnston

. G. E. Metzg*r

F. A. Gougler

J. C. Watson

X. J. Quaa*y

SUBSIDLUIY ORGANIZATIONS

Country Life Insurance Co J. I_ A. Williams, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Co-operatiT*s Aas'n..: F. E. Ringham, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Inaurmnca CaL. .A. E. Richardson, Mgr.

Illinois Farm Supply Co L L. R. Marchant, Mgr.

Ci!r.7'.'.'.X E

Taxation And The Law

' I ''HE old time-worn complaint of financial hardship, great expense.
-^ closing the schools, cutting off of widow and blind pensions, and
delay in collecting taxes is brought up by local officials in Franklin
and Williamson counties in answer to the recent order of reassessment
issued by the Illinois Tax Commission.

Plenty of excuses are offered for lettini; the old inequalities remain,
but not one sound argument is advanced as to why the law which
states that "all persons shall pay a tax according to the value of his
or her property," should not be obeyed.

The Tax Commission during the incunibency of its able chairman,
William H. Malone, has endeavored to see that this law is carried out
impartially on real estate. It has consistently ordered reassessments to
destroy favoritism anu tax racketeering when facts brought before it
justified such action.

Local officials in Franklin and Williamion counties have had every
opportunity to challenge successfully the evidence df gross inequalities
in assessments uncovered by the Farm Bureau and Illinois Agricultural
Association. Farmers in these counties have been patient, the Tax Com-
mission has been patient. But up to date there has been no refutation
of the data gathered from representative iales of farm lands and city
property in the official county records.

As a result the Tax Commission did the only thing it could do under
the circumstances. It ordered a reassessment that equality may prevail
as required by law.

Local assessors and the board of review have chosen to disregard the

only accepted measure of values, namely selling price at a fair sale of
the property taxed. Perhaps for political purposes or some more sinis-
ter reason, property in certain cities is favored.

The facts reveal that there are glaring inequalities in assessments
in these counties. Property in a number of small cities and villages as
well as farm lands are assessed decidedly higher, as measured by the
only legal yardstick, than property in the protected and favored cities
such as West Frankfort, Benton, Christopher, Carterville, Herrin, Hurst,
Johnson City, and Marion. Property owners in Buckner, Sesser, and
Ziegler in Franklin county, and Creal Spring*. Pittsburg, and White Ash
in Williamson county, have even more cause to complain than land-
owners, so this is not a fight between country and city. It is a demand
for the elimination of inequalities, and the restoration of honesty and
fairness in assessments.

The boards of review in these counties can still wipe out the illegal
discrepancies in valuations without going to the trouble of reassessing
each piece of property. The Tax Commission will probably be glad to
order the boards of review to reconvene, as it has power to do, for the
purpose of equalizing valuations. Had the local officials shown any
disposition to act on the information provided more than two years
ago the matter never would have been presented to the State Tax Com-
mission. If there is any inconvenience, delay, or extra expense involved
in the collection of taxes the blame rests solely on the shoulders of the
county officials who refused to do their duty. The honest, law-abiding
citizens of Illinois can be thankful that they have a court of last resort
in the Tax Commission to protect their rights.

International Time

LJUNDREDS of Illinois Farm Bureau members will be in Chicago
'- -*~ the week beginning Dec. 2 for the fat stock and hay and grain
show. That will be a good time to visit the I. A. A. offices. Country
Life, the Illinois Agricultural Mutual, and the Farmers Mutual Re-
insurance companies, all at 608 So. Dearborn St. The Pure Milk As-
sociation has offices in the same building.

The Soybean Marketing Association directors will meet in the I. A. A.
offices on Wednesday, Dec. 4. Growers who happen to be in the city
that day are invited to attend. .,.

Direct Marketing 1,000 Years Ago

TTOW little times change — in some ways. A practice comparable
-*■-'- to direct marketing of the present day was forbidden as long ago
as 980 A. D. An editorial in a recent issue of Wallaces' Farmer quoted
from the old Roman code of regulations governing the activities of
mechanics and tradespeople in the city of Constantinople, at that time
under the rule of the Roman Empire. The regulation provided that
"The butchers shall not go out to meet the drovers who bring in their
flocks for sale either in Nicomedia or in other cities beyond the San-
garious ... in order that they may buy the meat more cheaply and the
due profit may fall to those who slaughter the sheep and not to the
drovers."

It is apparent that even at that early day the evils of a marketing
system wherein the buyers controlled the system and the sellers ex-
ercised little, if any, control were recognized. In those ancient times the
"drovers" were at the mercy of the "butchers" when they sold as indi-
viduals out in the country before reaching the market places in the
cities. They did not know current prices in the cities, they were not as
familiar with grades and the values of those grades as were the "butch-
ers." Large numbers of the "drovers" found themselves competing with
each other in the sale of their herds. They came from widely scattered
sections of the country and had no opportunity to get together in
order that they might bargain as a group with the butchers in the
sale of their stock. The butchers, on the other hand, were ac-
quainted with each other and both because of their smaller number and
because of this acquaintanceship were able to develop and maintain prac-
tices which increased their bargaining ability.

The drovers suffered because they were compelled to use the facilities
provided by the buyers and follow the grading and other practices
dictated by the buyers. The drover was on foreign soil, many days
travel from his native pastures. He was under the pressing necessity of
disposing of his herds even though the terms and conditions were not
tu his liking.

(Conlinutd on ptigr i)

I

^^'i

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Five

I

(Continued from page 4)

It is true that certain economies might have
been effected by direct sales from the drover to
the butchers — but the drover was not in a posi-
tion to claim his share of the saving. The
butcher got it. It is self-evident that it was to
the tatter's advantage to go out from the city
and meet the drover, otherwise why shouldn't
he have waited at the market place and pur-
chased his needs there?

In its fundamentals direct marketing appar-
ently hasn't changed much. The livestock
farmer attempting to sell as an individual is still
sacrificing his bargaining ability under the mis-
taken idea that he is preserving his individual
rights and privileges. \Chen he hauls his stock
to the local concentration point he is still trad-
ing with the buyer in the buyer's territory and
on the buyer's grades, weights and terms. Of
course, he can return home with his stock but
that is generally difficult and always expensive.

It might be argued that the livestock farmer
is a long way from home when he is on a ter-
minal market. That is true but the seller at
least has the advantage of competition between
buyers and the protection of government super-
vision in weights, trade practices, etc.

Most important of all he is still transferring
his ownership long before his stock reaches the
consuming market, and giving over control of
his volume into the hands of the purchasers and
processors who are at liberty to use his stock in
effecting general price levels to their liking.

Doubtless the "butchers" of old argued that
they wanted to save money in the marketing
process and doubtless they did — for the
"butchers." The livestock farmer was not then
and is not now in a position to claim his part
of the saving. He may be misled into believing
that he is getting his share but when he counts
the full cost in weights, grades and effect on
price levels the net result is about the same as it
was a thousand years ago.

There is some merit in "direct marketing,"
doubtless there are possibilities of effecting a
saving in market expense, but if the livestock
farmer benefits by the system he will have to
control it himself. Until he does have marketing
machinery through which he can move his live-
stock to the packer under his own control, he
had bettter support the present facilities at his
disposal, i.e. the local shipping association and
the cooperative selling agencies on the terminal
livestock markets.

Livestock buying is being again inaugurated
at Bloomington. It is the same old proposition
in different clothes. From the standpoint of
livestock farmers of McLean county it has the
same disadvantages as did the system which was
forbidden by the Roman Empire back in 980
A. D.— Ray E. Miller. fT^ v : i

- State Produce Co-op

(Continued from page i)
at the rate of seven per cent per annum to
be paid only out of the net earnings of the
Association when and as such dividends shall be
declared by the board of directors.

Class B stock shall be entitled to draw no
dividends, either capital or patronage, and shall
be entitled to no distribution of the assets of
the Association in the event of liquidation.
The policyholders of such stock shall be en-
titled to one vote for each and every share of
such stock held by them.

Under the Co-operative Marketing Act of
Illinois control of the co-operative must rest

in a board of directors chosen from among the
member producers of the commodity marketed.
Thus, under this Act there is no possibility of
directors being chosen from among those not
directly interested and producing the commodity
marketed.

Patronage Dividends

The common stock of the State Marketing
Association shall only be issued to, and owned
by, county or district co-operative associations
of producers of dairy and poultry products.
Shares of common stock may be transferred only
with the consent of the Association.

Holders of common stock shall not be en-
titled to any dividend on the common stock as
stock dividends, but the holder of a share of
common stock (to be held only by producers)
shall be entitled to his share of the net savings,
the distribution of such savings to be pro-rated
on a patronage basis.

The board of directors shall consist of IS
members to be elected at the annual meeting of
shareholders and serve for a term of one year
or until their successors are duly ^elected and
qualified. At the close of each annual meeting
the directors shall hold a meeting and shall
elect the officers consisting of a president, vice-
president, secretary, and treasurer. All officers
shall be members of the board of directors ex-
cept the secretary and treasurer who may or
may not be directors. . -

Here Are Officers

Officers and directors elected at the Decatur
meeting who will apply for incorporation papers
arenas follows: S. M. Elkins, president, McLean
county; William Krause, vice-president, Logan
county; Claude J. Martin, secretary-treasurer
Mason county; Burton Leamon, Richland coun-
ty; Clarence Shurtleff, Edwards county; Guy
Pomeroy, White county; Benjamin Folck, Craw-
ford county; Perry Journey, Adams county; T.
G. Jackson, Brown county; H. B. Smith, Mc-
Donough county; R. J. Ash, Hancock county;
Elery Leefers of Macoupin county; and Walter
Scott of Scott county. Bloomington was chosen
as headquarters of the new organization.

Organization of the local co-operative market-
ing associations into state-wide and district or-
ganizations has the approval of the Federal Farm
Board which has advised that local co-operatives
must federate into large units if they would
obtain the full benefits of the Agricultural
Marketing Act.

The local co-operatives now loperating handle
approximately 4,000,000 pounds of butcerfat
annually in addition to consi<^rable quantities
ot eggs and poultry. |

Big Turnout Expected

From Illinois Bureaus

C^XCEPT for the voting delegates, the bulk
■*— ^ of the crowd at the coming A. F. B. F. con-
vention is expected from the middle west states,
including Illinois, Iowa, and Inidiana.

All the sessions are open t» Farm Bureau
members and it is hoped that representatives
from every Illinois county will be there.

For those driving to Chicago for the meeting,
it is suggested that automobile$ be left in the
outlying sections. Transportation by elevated
lines, interurban, buses, street (:ars, and subur-
ban trains is available from every part of the
city and from neighboring suburbs. For those
who drive in, parking space may be found a
few blocks from the Sherman Hotel in Grant
Park just east of Michigan Boulevard.

Special Rates j

Railroads have reduced their rates for the
convention so visitors may go from any point
in the United States for a fire and a half.
Certificates for the special rate may be obtained
from county advisors and Farm Bureau officials.

Directors of extension from 45 states will be
entertained at a banquet on Friday night, Dec.
6, and the following night, Dec. 7, another
dinner will be given to representatives of the
farm and city press.

Further requests for information should be
made at A. F. B. F. headquarters, 5 8 E. Wash-
ington St., Chicago.

DIRECTORS OF NEW ILLINOIS PRODUCE MARKETING ASSOCIATION
Left to right sitting: R. J. Ash, Hancock county; T. G. Jackson, Brown county; Wm.
Krause, Logan county, vice president; and Claude J. Martin, Mason county, secretary-treas-
urer.

Left to right standing: Burton Leamon, Richlan4 county; S. M. Elkins, McLesm county,
president; Elery A. Leefers, Macoupin county; Clarence Shurtleff, Edwards county; and
Perry Journey, Adams county.

Page Four

THE I. A. A. RECORD

ILLilNOIS jm

jgjCCLTLBAL ASSOCIATION

^ R E c o R ly —

To advance the purpote tor which the Farm Bureau wae or^aniied,
namely to promote, protect and repreeent the bueineae, economic^
politfcal, and educational intereete of the farmera of Illinoia and the
nation, and to develop agriculture.

Published onee a month at 401 North Wesley Ave., Mount Morris,
Illinois, by the Illinois Agricultural Assolciation. Entered as second-
class matter October 20. 1825, at the jpost office at Mount Morris,
Illinois, under the Act of March 8. 1879. Accepted for mailing at
special rate of postage provided for in Section 412. Act of February
28, 1925. authoriied October 27, 1925. The individual membership
fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five dollars a year. The
fee includes payment of fifty e«nta for Subscription to the Illinois
AOKICULTUBAL ASSOCIATION RicORO. PostMiut«r : In returning an un-
called for or missent copy pleas* indicat^ key number on address as
IS reaiiired by law.

OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith

Vice-President. Frank D. Barton

Secretary, Ceo. E. Melifar

Treasurer, R. A. CowUs

Detroit

Cornell

Chicaxo

..Blaamingtoa

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
(By Concroaalonal

1st to llth

I2th

13th

14th

13lb

16th

17lh

Ulb

igih

20tb

21st

22nd

23rd

241b

25tb

..CI a

DIRECTORS OF DEPAttTMENTS

Comptroller

Dairy Marketing

Finance '.

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing

Grain Marketing

Information

Insurance Service

Legal Counsel

Limes tone- Phosphate

Live Stock Marketing..

Office

Organization

Produce Marketing

Taxation and Statistics

Transportation

piilrict)

H. C. Vial. Downers Grove

G. F. Tullock, Rockford

.. .C. E. Bamborough, Polo

M. G. Lambert, Ferris

..A. N. Skinner, Yatas City

A. R. Wright. Verna

Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

R. F. Karr, Iroquola

... C. J. Gross, Atwood

ries S. Black, Jacksonville

Samuel Sorrels, Raymond

...Frank Oezner, Waterloo

..W. L. Cope. Salem

.Charles Marshall. Belknap
Fred Dietz, De Soto

J. H. Kelker

A. D. Lynch

R. A. Cowlaa

A. B. Leeper

Harrison Fahrnkopf

George Thiem

V. Vanlman

Donald Kirkpatrick
J. R. B-nt

Ray E. MUIer

C. E. Johnston

„.G. E. Metzgar

F. A. Gougler

J. C. Watson

L. J. Quasey

SUBSIDIARY ORGANIZAT<ONS

Country Life Insurance Co
Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives Ass*n...
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insuraoc* Co
Illinois Farm Supply Co

Taxation And 7 he Lau

11 b(

I MI III J lii:u--wiirn ciitupl.iint t»l tinai
^iosin^ tlu- >cIitM>lN, i.'uiiin.i: oil of w
delay in cullcctini; taxes ii brouijlu up
and Vk'illi.iniM>n ciiuiitics in jnswcr to th<
issued, bv iilu- Illinois Ta\ Commission.

I'lviiiy ot excuses jre offered tor letting
but not ijne sound ar>;unu-nt is advanced
states that "all persons shall pay a lax ac
or her property," should not be obeyed.

I he 1 a\ 1 tiniimssion during; the incui
^X'llliain M. Matone, has endeavored to see
onpartially on real estate. It has consistei
' destroy favoritism am! tax racketeeriiij; w
iiistified sudi action.

local oihcials 111 Iiaiiklin and Williams
.pporttiiiitv to ilij|len);e successfully the i
III assessments uncovered by the rarni Bur
.Assiiciation. Farmers in these counties have
mission has been patient. But up to date
-■'I the data >;athered from representative '
piopert\ in the official county records.

.\s a result the Tax Commission did the
the circumstances. It ordered a reassessme
as required by lass.

I OS al asse^ors and the board of review

L. A. Williams. Mgr.

F. E. Ringham, Mgr.

A. E. Richardson, Mgr.

. L. R. Marchant, Mgr.

cial hardship, >;reat expense,
lo\\ and blind pensions, and
y hical othcials in Franklin
recent order ol reassessment

the old inequalities remain.

as to .why the law which

cording to the value of his

lency of its able chairn^an,
that this law is carried out
tly ordered reassessments to
hen facts brought before it

-»n counties have had everv
videncc of gross inequalities
.■au dnyi Illinois .-Xgricuiturat

been patient, the \i\ Com
there has been no refutation

les i>f farm lands jinj cii\

only thini; it could do under
t that equality may prevail

have chosen to disrc>;ard the

only accepted measure of values, namely selling price at a fair sale of
the property taxed. Perhaps lor political purposes or some more sinis-
ler reason, property in certain cities is favored.

The facts reveal that there are glaring; inequalities in assessments
in these counties. Property in a number of small cities and villages as
well as farm lands are assessed decidedly higher, as measured by the
only legal yardstick, than property in the protected and favored cities
such as U'est Frankfort, Benton, Christopher, Cartcrvillc, Hcrrin, Hurst.
Johnson City, and Marion. Property owners in Buckncr, Sesscr, and
/leijler i»i Franklin county, and Creal Springs. Pittsburg, and Vl'hitc Ash
111 ^X'ilhamson county, have even more cause to complain than land-
osv ners, so this is not a fight between country and city. It is a demand
for the elimination of inequalities, and the restoration of honesty and
fairness in assessments.

The boards of review in these counties can still wipe out the illegal
discrepancies in valuations without going to the trouble of reasscs&ini;
each piece of property. The Tax Commission will probably be glad to
order the boards of review to reconvene, as it has power to do. for the
purpose of equalizing valuations. Fiad the local officials shown ans
disposition to act on the information provided more than two years
ago the matter never wnuld base been presented to the State Tax Com-
mission. If ttiere is aa> incoiivenience, delay, *jr extra expense involved
III the collection of taxes the blame rests soleU on the shoulders of the
county officials who refused to do their dut\. I he honest, law-abidm.i:
citi/ens of Illinois can be thankful that they bave a court of last resort
in the Tax Commission to protect their rights.

International Time

I IL.NDRlD's of Illinois Farm Bureau membeis will be in Chicago
' ' the week beginning Dec. 2 for the fat stock and hay and grain
show. Fhat will be a giKid time to visit the I. .\. .X. otfices, Countrs
life, the Illinois Agricultural .Mutual, and the Farmers Mutual Re-
insurance companies, all at 608 So. Dearborn St. The Pure Milk As
sociation has offices in the same building. -

The Soybean Marketing Association directors will meet in the I. .A. A.
otHces on Vi'ednesday, Dec. 4. Crowers who happen to be In the cm
that dj\ are insited to atieml.

Direct Marketing 1,000 Years Ago

I 1 ^.)>X' little limes change — in Siime vsass. .\ practice comparable
• *- to direct marketing of the present day was forbidden as long ago
as 980 A. D. An editorial In a recent issue of Wallaces' Farmer quoted
from the old Roman code of regulations governing the activities of
mechanics and tradespeople in the city of C^onstantinople. at thai time
under the rule of the Roman Imp! re. The regulation provided that
"Tile butchers shall not go out to meet the drosers who bring in their
flocks for sale either in Niconiedia or In other cities bes'ond the San-
garious ... in order that they may buy the nu'at more cheaply and the
due profit mas' fall to those who slaughter the sheep .\nt\ noi to the
ilrosers."

It is apparent that even at that early da\ the eVfIs' of a marketin.g
system wherein the buyers controlled the system and the sellers ex-
ercised little. If any. control were recognl/ed. In those ancient times the
"drovers'" were at the mercy of the "butchers'* when they sold as indi-
viduals out in the country before reaching the market places in the
cities. They did not know current prices In the cities, they were not as
familiar with grades and the values of those grades as were the "butch*'
ers. ' 1 arge numbers of the "drovers" found themselses completing with
each other In the sale of their herds, 1 he\ came from w-idel\ scattered
sections of the country and had no opportunity to get together in
order tlial the>' might bargain as a group with the butchers In the
sale of their stock. I he butchers, on the other hand, were ac-
quainted with each oilier M\\i both because of tlieir smaller number inxi
fiecause of th|s acquainiaiKeslilp were able to dc-\"elop and maintain prac-
tices which increased their bargaining ability.

The drovers suffered because they were conipilUd to use the facilities
provided by the buyers and follow the grading and other practices
dictated by the buyers. The drover was on foreign soil, many days
travel from his native pastures. He was under the pressim; necessity of
disposing of his herds even though the terms and conditions were luit
fo his liking. I

ti.imtiHtii'J im t'*^^f 5 1 ' \

that
It

THE I. A. A. RECORD

I'uye fivt

i^

iConfiittffJ from I'Ufit' 4}

It is true tliat ccruin economics nii>;lu have
been etfeetcd by direct sales from the drover to
the butchers — but the drover was not in a posi-
tion to claim his share ot the savin j;. The
butcher got it. It is self-evident that it Was lo
tlie latler's advantage to go out from the city
and meet the drover, otherwise why shouldn't
he have waited at the market place and pur-
chased his needs there.'

In Its fundamentals direct marketini; appar-
ently hasn't changed much. The livestock
farmer attempting to sell as an individual is still
sacrificing his bargaining ability under the mis-
taken idea that he is preserving his individual
rights and privileges. ^X'hen he hauls his stock
til the local ciincent ration point he is still trad-
ing with the buyer in the buyer's territory and
on the buyer's grades, weights and terms. Ot
course, he can return home with his stock but
that is generally ditlicult and always expensive.

It might be argued that the livestock tarmei
IS a long way from home when he is on a ter-
minal market. That is true but the seller at
least has the advantage o! competition between
buyers and the protection of government super-
vision in weights, trade practices, etc.

Most important of all he is still transferring
his 4)wnership long before his st^ick reaches the
c»)nsuming market, and giving over cimtrol of
his volume into the hands of the purchasers and
processors who are at liberty to use his stock in
eltecting general price levels to their liking.

Doubtless the "butchers'* of old argued thai
they wanted to save money in the marketing
priKCSs and doubtless they did — for the
"butchers." The livesttK'k farmer was not then
.ind is not now in a position to claim his pari
of the saving. He may be misled into believing
that he is getting his share but when he counts
ihe full cost in weights, grades and elVect on
price levels the net result is about the same as it
was a thousand years ago.

There is some merit in "direct marketing."
dtmbtless there are possibilities of effecting a
saving in market expense, but if the livest^K-'k
farmer benefits by the system he will have to
control it himself. Until he dtvs have marketing
machinery through which he can move his live-
stiK'k to the packer under his own control, he
had bettter support the present facilities at his
disposal, i.e. the Kn-'al shipping association and
the co«)perative selling agencies on the terminal
li\ esiock markets.

Livestock buying is being again inaugurated
31 hltKJmington. It is the same old proposition
ill different clothes. From the standpoint ot
livesHK.k farmers of McLean county it has the
same disadvantages as did the system which was
forbidden by the Roman F.mpire back in 9St)
A. I).— Ray L. Miller.

State Produce Co-op

(C.oftiifiuid from pui^c *)
at the rate of seven per cent per annum to
be paid only out of the net earnings oi the
Association when and as such dividends shall be
declared by the board of directors.

Class B stt>ck shall be entitled to draw no
dividends, either capital or patronage, and shall
be entitled to no distribution of the assets of
the Association in the event of liquidation.
1 he policyholders of such stock shall be en-
titled to one vote for each and every share of
such stock held by them.

Under the Co-operative Marketing Act of
Illinois control of the co-operative must rest

in a board of directors cho\en t root anumg ilu
member producers of the commodity marketed.
I hus, under this Act there is no possibility of
directors being chosen from ani<ing those not
directly interested and producing the toinmodiiy
marketed.

Patronage Dividends

The ct)mnion stttck ot i!ie Sine Marketing
.Association shall only be issued to, and owned
by, count \ ar district co-operative associations
of producers ot dairy and poultry products.
Shares of common stock may be transferred only
with the cinisenl ot the Association.

Holders of common slock shall m»t be en-
titled to ans dividend on the common stoc'k a^
stock dividends, but the holder of a share of
common stock (to be held only b\ producers)
shall be entitled to his share of the net savings,
the distribution ot such savings to be pro-rated
on a patronage ba\i\.

The board ot directors shall consist ot I ^
members to be elected at the annual meeting of
shareholders and serve for a term of one year
or until their successors are duly elected and
qualified. ;\t the close ot each annual meeting
ihe directors shall hold a meeting and shall
elect the otficers consisting of a president, vice-
president, secretary, and treasurer. All otficers
shall be members of the board of directors ex-
cept the secretary and treasurer who ma\ or
may not be directors.

Here Are Officers

Officers and directors ele*.ied at the Decatur
meeting wlu) will apply for iiKorp<iraiion papers
are as follows: S. .M. Ilkins. president, McLean
count) ; ^X'lUiam Krause. k ice-president, Logan
c<»unty; Claude J. Martin, secretary-treasurer
Niason county; Burton Leamon, Richland coun-
IV ; Clarence Shurtleff. Ld wards ct>unty; duy
I*omert)y, ^'hite county; heniamin Loick, Craw-
tord county; Perry journey. .Xdams county; T.
(.. Jackson. Brown county; M. B. Smith. Mc-
Donough county; R, j. Ash, Hancock county:
l-lery Leefers of NLicoupin Ciiunty ; and ^X'alter
Scott ()f Scott county. Bloomington was chtisen
as headquarters of the new organization.

i. >r ^ani/alion ttt the liK,al eo-i
ini; associations into state-wide
gjni/.itions has the apprtival tit
Hoard which has advised that I
must federate into large umts
obtain the full benefits of l
Marketing Act.

I he hn-al ct»-t)|Hrati\es iu»w
ai>pro\iinaiel\ 4,O(HI.(iU0 jxtun
annualU in addition to t.onNiJ
o! eggs .ind poultry.

|Strjiive niarkel-
and distncl or-
he Federal farm
cal co-o[HTJi<'^'*.**
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le Agricut^urai

operating hindle
s. of butti-rfat
rahle quantities

Big Turnout Expected

From Illinois Bureaus

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' -^ of the crowd at tlie ctmiing
\eniion is e\|H,'Ctcd t rom the mi
including Illinois, lof^j, jiid liii
All the sessuins arc open i
.members and it is. hope'd thai
from e\ery Illinois c<iuntv wil

lor those dri\ing to <,hieago
ii is suggested thai automt>bile'
outK uii; sections I raiisporiat
lines, inlerurban. buses, street *
lun trains is available troni ev
eu> xwtl t roiTi iieighb*iring subi
\s ho drne in. parking space n
tew bloc ks t roll! the Sherman
I', irk just e.isi ot Michiuin B^

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A. I. B. F. k.m
i^dlc west states,
iana.
Farm Biireau

representalives

be there,
tor the mtvtinx.

be left in' the
on by elesbtcJ
ars. and subur-
:r\ part of- the
irbs. For tjhitse
ay be fourid a
HiPtel in (irani
ilevard.

Special Rates

Railrtiads liasc reduced thei
i-nvention so visitors may go

in the L^iited Slates for a tjre and a half.
Cirtihcates for the special rate inay be obtaiincd
i rom county advisors and Farm Bureau otfiiiials.

I>irect(»rs ot extension frcmi A^ states wilj be
entertained at a banquet on FriJay mght, pec.
6. and the following night, Itec". 7, amrfthe
dinner will be given to representatives ot the
farm and cit\ press.

Further requests lor intorm^tioii should be
made at A. F. B. F. iieadquartei v Ss I. VC'^sh
i:igttin St.. Chicago.

rates for ; the
rom any ^tiiw

DIRECTORS OF NEW ILLINOIS PRODUCE MARKETING ASSOCIATION
Left to right sitting: R. J. Ash. Hancock county; T. G. Jackson, Brown ^county ; Wni.
Krause, Logan county, vice president; and Claude J. Martin. Mason county, secretary-treas-
urer.

Left to right standing: Burton Leamon, Richland county; S. M. Elkins. MfLean county,
president; Elery A. Leefers, Macoupin county ; Clarence Shurtleff, Edwards county; and
Perry Journey, Adams county.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Listen to Country Life's radio
program from Station WLS, Chi-
cago, on December 3rd, between
8:30 and 9:00 p. m. Results of
the first three days' drive will be
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IKE the stockade of old, COUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY is a modem
fortress set up to guard and protect the homes, estates, and farm families of Illinois
against want, bankruptcy, and dissolution.

COUNTRY LIFE not only protects loved ones against financial disaster when the husband
and father parses on, but it offers a sure way to an education for little John and Mary, old age
happiness, payment of the mortgage, highest security for savings, and a start on the road to
financial independence through thrift.

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WHEN the COUNTRY LIFE man calls on you in December
welcome him. Hear his story. He is your friend coming to tell
you about YOUR OWN company and low cost insurance. Treat him
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program from Station WLS, Chi-
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8:30 and 9:00 p. m. Results of
the first three days' drive will be
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Coal $50,000,000 In *29

FOUR thousand agents will take part in the 30
day drive with $50,000,000 of life insurance
in 1929 as the goal. With the slogan "A COUNTRY LIFE
policy in every Farm Bureau home in 1929," the great drive will
begin on Dec. 1 . You can help make this wonderful achievement possible.

COUNTRY LIFE already is the outstanding success in the insurance world of 1929. No
new company ever obtained as much paid for business in its first year as COUNTRY
LIFE did in its first 30 days of existence.

I. A. A. Farm Bureau Backing

No new company ever stepped so far ahead of old competitors in advanced "old line, legal reserve" ideas
as COUNTRY LIFE.

NO new company ever had the backing of such complete organization
as COUNTRY LIFE.
Its rates are low and participating.
Its set-up is entirely for the policy holder's benefit.
Its control rests in the Farm Bureau members of Illinois.

Its principles and ideals are of the very highest, unbiased by selfish interest.
Do your bit to put YOUR OWN company in the $50,000,000 class before the New Year.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

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program from Station WLS, Chi-
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8:30 and 9:00 p. m. Results of
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forefathers sought the friendly protection
of the stockade and blockhouse when danger threatened.
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skin, they remained until the attack was over and the enemy routed.

IKE ^he stockade of old. COUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY is a modern
fortress set up to guard and protect the homes, estates, and farm families of Illinois
against want, bankruptcy, and dissolution.

not only protects loved ones against financial disaster when the husband
and father parses on, but it offers a sure way to an education for little John and Mary, old age
happiness, payment of the mortgage, highest security for savings, and a start on the road to
financial] independence through thrift.

HEN the COUNTRY LIFE man calls on you in December
welcome him. Hear his story. He is your friend coming to tell
you about YOUR OWN company and low cost insurance. Treat him
as a benefactor, not an agent. «

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8:30 and 9.00 p. m. Results of
the first three day$' drive will be
reported.

OUR thousand agents will take part in the 30
day drive with $50,000,000 of life insurance
in 1929 as the goal. With the slogan 'A COUNTRY LIFE
policy in every Farm Bureau home in 1929." the great drive will
begin on Dec. 1. You can help make this wonderful achievement possible.

OUNTRY LIFE already is the outstanding success in the insurance world of 1929. No
new company ever obtained as much paid for business in its first year as COUNTRY
LIFE did in its first 30 days of existence.

O new company ever stepped so far aluad of oKi coiiipctitcjrs in aiivanccJ "oM line. Ictjal
as COUNTRY LIFE.

O new company ever had the backing of such complete organization

as COUNTRY LIFE,
rates are low and participating,
set-up is entirely for the policy holder's benefit,
control rests in the Farm Bureau members of Illinois.

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PaaiMeWS

Tune in on the 1. A. A. Forum from Station
WLS every TuesiUy night at 6:30 p. m..
Central Standard Time.

The daily farm program of the I. A. A. from
Station WJJD, Mooseheart (264 meters) is
broadcast between 12:00 and 12:20 p. m., Mon-
day to Friday inclusive. Hear the daily Chicago
livestock market from t^e Producers, and each
Friday the we^ly market review. Outlook
reports, reviews, and talks by I. A. A, staff
members, officials, and leaders in farm thought
ara broadcast daily.

"P) EATING the Sheriff To Farmer Brown"
-L* is the title of a play broadcast by agricul-
tural students from the Greorgetown High
Sihool on the I. A. A. half hour from WLS On
Nov. 12. The Vermilion County Farm Bureau
arranged the program. Oris Kercher, farm ad-
viser, and J. C. Murphy, agricultural teacher,
accompanied the boys.

This play which spreads the gospel of dairy
herd improvement through cow testing associa-
tion records and influence, won first prize in
national competition at the recent Dairy Show,
St. Louis. '<

J. C. Murphy, agricultural teacher at George-
town who coached the boys, also had a part
in the program.

C. E. Gates, county adviser, and members of
the LaSalle County Farm Bureau, will feature
their county-wide soil testing program with a
demonstration before the microphone on Tues^
Jay night (Nov. 19) at the same hour.

Those who fail to attend the A. F. B. F
neeting in Chicago Dec. 9-10-11 will hea
cveral of the speakers from station \CLS.
*ortion$ of the program wilt be broadcast on
ihe NBC chain.

Insurance^

By L. A. WiUiams

T'VERYONE else seems to feel glum about
— ^ the stock market. Not a life insurance man

cpuld sanely regret the return to normalcy of

investment funds.

AH! No, it has not returned to normal as
yet. But it will. What goes up must come
d >wn. The sound, safe dollar in life insurance
policies is a great consolation in panicky days,
a4d in days of investment slumps.

(LAYING life's game safely instead of on a
get-rich-quick scheme means a definite pro-
gram of constructive work, and enough life in-
surance to guarantee the estate if your time is
ciit short before the work is completed.

GAMBLERS are not heavy insurers. They
want long chances with big stakes.

THE sure estate is life insurance. The sure
and systematic savings plan is life insur-

QlT domin with your wife and talk over the
'^future.''' What will happen? You will dis-
ciMi life insurance, of course. The future can

HIGH MAN IN OCTOBER
Homer Hitchcock, of Pecatonica, Winnebago
county general agent, led all other agents in
personal production for the month of October.
He wrote $78,500 of life insurance in the
Country Life Insurance Co. for that month.

only be guaranteed by life insurance. Future
retirement, future comfort, future for the fam-
ily if you die, education of children if you
should die.

WOULD you risk the whole future happi-
ness of your wife and children on one
spin of the wheel? That is what the under-
insured man does. What if he dies tonight?
The paltry little he is insured for is all that is
available. Income ceases.

TNFLATED land values should have taught
-^ some lessons. Inflated stock values should
teach more lessons. Florida booms should have
taught lessons. One outstanding lesson all
should learn is that a scientific base on which
all should build is a satisfactory life insurance
program protecting and guaranteeing a certain
estate before any chance-taking can cause ruin.

Order Uniform Tax,

Officials Squirm

Gross Inequalities in Franklin and
Williamson Counties

AS WE go to press, local officials in Franklin
^ and Williamson counties are squirming
under orders of reassessment signed by Wm.
H. Malone, chairman of the Illinois Tax Com-

Their continued delay
in equalizing valuations
of farm lands, and city
real estate culminated
in this action of the
commission.

The local boards of
review, and county
treasurers had ample
warning of what would
happen if they insisted
on disobeying the law.
The Tax Commission
under Chairman Malone

Wm. H. Malone

has followed con-

sistently a policy of uniformity in assessing
real estate for tax purposes. The reassessment
in Cook county was ordered in spite of the fact
that it was a tremendous undertaking, when
tax fixing and favoritism were revealed.

A similar situation now exists in Franklin
and Williamson counties whether intentional or
unintentional.

Had Opportunity

The local boards of review were given every
opportunity to produce evidence showing why
a reassessment should not be ordered and to
act voluntarily on the facts presented by the
Farm Bureaus which never were successfully
refuted. The Farm Bureaus exercised great
patience but finally were compelled to appeal
to the Tax Commission.

Chairman Malone called a number of hear-
ings where the county officials again had an
opportunity to present their case. This they
failed to do chiefly because they had no case to
present.

The Tax Commission exercised great
patience because of the sorry financial condi-
tions in these two counties, but finally was com-
pelled to act.

Some Cities Suffer

The evidence shows gross inequalities not only
between farm lands and city property, but also
between city real estate in the various towns and
cities in the two counties.

In Franklin county, for example, it was found
that land was valued for tax purposes at an
average of 41.4 per cent of its fair sale price.
All forced sales and irregular sales were thrown
out of the computations. Only regular sales
were included. On the other hand, in the city
of West Frankfort assessed valuations averaged
only )) per cent of sales value; in Christopher
the ratio was 34.1 per cent; in Benton 3 8.88; in
Buckner 56.43; in Royalton 35.77; in Sesser
44.27; in Zeigler 49.25. In the smaller towns
of the county assessments were entirely too
high as measured by the ratio above.

These records reveal gross inequalities with
property in several small towns and farm lands
grossly overassessed. In a number of the larger
cities there is marked underassessment. The
inequalities in tax valuations it is thought de-
veloped largely as a result of the present sys-
tem of assessing property by local assessors who
invariably compete with each other in under-
assessment. I

Williamson Too

In Williamson county a similar condition ob-
t,iins. Farm lands there were valued for tax
purposes on the basis of 48.94 per cent of their
selling values as obtained from records of sales
in the county building. Town and city lots in
Cartersville were assessed at only 36.35 per
cent of their sales value; in Herrin the valua-
tion ratio was 28.47 per cent; in Hurst 33.71 per
cent; in Johnson City 3 3.32 per cent; in Marion
33.92 per cent; and in the smaller cities and
villages of the county 5 5.07 per cent. Here
again there was marked inequality with certain
towns and villages, and farm lands being dis-
criminated against.

W. F. Purnell of Muncie, Vermilion county,
has been employed as farm adviser in Ford
county to succeed Geo. T. Swaim. Purnell is a
graduate of the University of Illinois (1918)
and has been farming during the past
10 years.

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Northwestern Illinois Dairy-
men Want Co-op.

Producers Who Supply Condenseries
Cast Eyes at Chicago Market

D EPRESENTATIVES of Farm Bureaus in
*- *- the northwestern Illinois counties gathered
at Dixon on Oct. 29 to consider the advisability
of organizing a co-operative association of dairy-
men in that area. Practically all of the milk
produced in the Rock
river valley, which in-
cludes such counties as
Lee, Ogle, and White-
side, is sold to local
condenseries.
A. D. Lynch, dairy

a marketing director for
the L A. A., discussed
the dairy industry, the
program being carried
out by bargaining as-
sociations on the princi-
A. D. Lynch P"' "•'"' markets in

Illinois, and outlined
the need for a complete survey of the territory
and milk marketing conditions there.

Committee Appointed

A committee was appointed as follows to
report at a future meeting: Carl Sartorious,
Amboy; Harve Rhoads, Compton; LeRoy
Lehman, Franklin Grove; L. M. Gentry, Ore-
gon; H. W. Allyn, Oregon; W. A. HeintzeU
man, Oregon; O. C. Beatty, Sterling; B. F.
Hoover, Morrison; and Geo. P. Fisk, Prophets-
town.

Between 40 and 50 dairymen, local leaders,
and farm advisers attended the meeting. They
represented approximately 1,080 producers who
sell to condenseries at Dixon, Sterling, Morrison,
Oregon, Amboy, and other points. Lynch em-
phasized the national aspect of dairy market-
ing and the need for co-ordinating local co-
operative effort with mid-west and national
oiganizations.

H. W. Allyn, manager of Rock River farms
and an able leader in state dairy activities, told

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the annual Baby Beef Club show at
the Iroquois County Fair. The
Jersey heifers and their owners are
all entered in the 4-H Dairy Heifer
Club in Marshall-Putnam county.
The Farm Bureaus in each of these
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the dairymen of the need for more favorable
freight rates on milk to Chicago.

"We ought to have the Chicago markets for
Illinois dairymen," said Allyn. "Wisconsin has
stolen our market because it has more favorable
freight rates than do we. Why should milk
be shipped into Chicago from Janesville, Green
Bay, Madison, and even more distant Wisconsin
points when we have milk in this territory
that should be bringing the Chicago price.
Illinois markets for Illinois producers should be
our watchword."

The transportation department of the I. A.
A. has been asked to check the freight rates
with the idea of eliminating discrimination
against milk shippers in the northwestern Illi-
nois territory.

Farmer Employers'

Liability Insurance

By V. VaiUman

TLLINOIS farmers appreciate the fact that
-■- they are living in a progressive age and are
protecting themselves by Employers Liability In-
surance for injury or deatih to employees just
the same as they arc protecting themselves
against liability for autompbile public liability
and property damage. I

Lmployers' Liability Insorance furnished by
the Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Com-
pany provides protection for the farmer employer
up to $5,000 and $10,000; i. e. $5,000 for per-
sonal injury or death to one employee, and with
that limit per employee, $10,000 for any single
accident.

In taking out the insurance the employer
makes a premium deposit of not less than $tO.
Five dollars premium deposit is required for
each additional six months of labor, or fraction
thereof, in excess of 12 months. For example,
if the employer estimates he will have one man
for 12 months and 3 men for two months each,
this would be a total of 1 8 months of estimated
hired labor which would re<luire a $ 1 5 premium
deposit.

The surplus share is $10 i* every case and the
policy fee $5.

DEFENDS TITLE IN NATIONAL MEET
Walter Olson, member of the Knox County Farm Bureau, and national champion com
husker, was scheduled to defend his title in the national meet near Kansas City on Nov. 15.
Walter placed second in the recent state contest near Rio being bested by Harold Holmes of
Henry county. Holmes turned in 34.95 bu. net, Olson 34.31 bu. Orville Welch of Piatt
county placed third, Carl Seiler of Knox fourth, and Elmer Williams of Stark, former national
champion, fifth. Eleven contestants husked more than 31 bu. net.

Dairymen Meet at Decatur

Preliminary steps toward the organization at a
milk producers' co-operative organization were
taken at Decatur on Oct. 24 in a meeting at
the Macon County Farm Bureau office.

Representatives from every township in the
county met witlhFarm Bureau officers and A. D.
Lynch, dairy marketing director of the Illinois
Agricultural Association, who told what organ-
ized dairymen were doing at other markets.
A collective bargaining organization is contem-
plated similar to those now in existence at
Champaign, Peoria, Bliwmintton. Chicago, and
St: Louis.

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Tune in on the I. A. A. Forum from Station
WLS every Tuesday night at 6:30 p. l^..
~ Central Standard Time. '.

The daily farm program of the I. A. A. frpm

\ Station WJJD, Mooseheart <264 meters) is

'broadcast between 12:00 and 12:20 p. tn.. McJn-

''^•day to Friday inclusive. Hear the daily Chicago

livestock market from the Producers, and each

Friday the weekly market review. Outlook

reports, reviews, and talks by I. A. A. stAff

members, officials, and leaders in farm thought

are broadcast daily.

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ntr.»l stuJtms I rtnii the drcorKfiDwn Mi);li
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\<»\. 1-. I Ik- Vermilion County Farm liurv.iu
.irran,i;cd I he proj;ram. t^riv Ki-rtlicr, farm aJ-
viscr. ami j. C. \lurplu. .ii;riciiUur.il icaclitr,
.iccompanicJ the l"»4>ys. -

This play winch spreads the >;<v.pcl ot Jan \
herd improvement through cow tevtinu associi-
tii»n recordN and intluence. won hrst pri/e in
national comjH'tiiion at the recent Dairy Sliov .

Si. I OU1S.

j. < . Murphy. ai;ricuUura] teacher at deorm-
town who coached the biiv.. aK»i had a parft
in the program.

< . I . (ijlc-. county adviser, and niemberN vt
the I aSalle C.*»iiiu\ Farm Hureau. will teat u re
ihcir county-wide soil testing program with j
Jem»»nstratiun bttore the microphone on Tue
dav night ( \o\ . I "^ ) at the same hour.

Those who tail lo attend the .\. 1 . li. I

fleeting in C hicago Dec. '>-Ili-l 1 uil) hea •
,\eral ot the speakers from statitm Vi"( S
triions ot the program will be broadcast oi
he MK chain.

Insurance.

By L. A. Williams

^\\ R^ DNI else seems to teel glum about

■^ the sttKk nurkei. Not a lite insurance man

ii'iuld sanely regret the return to normaU v of

I ?v*'"**"''-''*^ tund

kill No, It has not returned to t^ormat as
* yet. liui It will. U'hat goes up must come
u n. 1 he sound, sate diiUar in lite insurance
licies is a tgreat consolatittn in panickv days.

id in da> s ot investment slumps.

jJI.WINd life's game sateU instead ot on a
'l gel-rich-quick scheme means a dehnite pro-
am ot consiructi\e work, and entiugh lite m-
rance to guarantee the estate it vtiur time i";
vii short before the work is completed.

^ AMIil I KS are not heavy insurers. Tluv
* want long chances with big stakes.

"^ HI sure estate is lite insurance. The ^ure
and systemalie savmgs plan is life insur-

.^^

IT d»twn with \our wife and talk over the

future. U'hat will happen? You w-ill dis-

s lite insurance, ot ctuirse. The future can

HIGH MAN IN OCTOBER
Homer Hitchcock, of Pecatonica, Winnebago
county general agent, led all other :igents in
personal prf>duction for the month of October.
He wrote $78,500 of life insurance in the
Country Life Insurance Co. for that month.

onK be guaranteed bv lite insurance. I uture
retirement, future comU)rt, future tor the fam-
ily it you die. education of children if you
sht>uld die.

11 OL'ID vou risk the wsiole future h.ippi-
T * ; ness ot yi)ur wife and children on one
spin ot the wheel!' That is what the und.r-
tiisured man diK's. ^lial it. he dies tonight?
I he paltry little he is insured tor is ill that is
available. Income ceases.

INMAIID land \alues should have taught
' some lessons. Inflated stock \alues should
leach more lessons. Ilnrida booms should have
i.u.ght lessons. t.)ne * ait standing lesson all
should learn is that a scientific base on which
a'i should build is a satisfactory life insurance
program protecting and guaranteeing a certain
estate before any chance-taking can cause rum.

Order Uniform Tax,

Officials Squirm

Gross Inequalities in Franklin and
Williamson Counties

VS V^ 1 go li) press. io«.al olh*. lals m Iranklin
and Williamson counties arc squirming
under orders of reassessment signed by U'm.
IF Maltme. chairman of the Illinois Tax Com-
niisston.

Their continued delav
in equalizing valuations
ot tanti lands, and cit\
real estate culminated
m this jetion ot the
commission.

'I he liKal boards of
review', and eounty
treasurers had ample
warning of what would
happen if they insisted
on disobeying the law.
The Ta\ C*)mmission
under C hairman Malone

Wm. H. Malone

has followed coi

sistently a policy i>f uniformity in a»%e!>^ing
real estate for tax purposes. Fhe reassessment
in (^<H)k county was ordered in spite of the fact
that it was a tremendous undertaking, when
tax fixing and favoritism were revealed.

A similar situation now exists in IVanklin
. and ^X'illiam^on counties whether intentional or
imintentional.

Had Opportunity

I he btcal boards of review were given every
onpiiriunity to produce evidence showing why
a reassessment should rH>t be ordered and to
.ict voluntarily itn the facts presented by the
Farm Bureaus which never were successfully
refuted. The Farm Bureaus exercised great
patience but finally were compelled to appeal
to the Tax Commission.

Chairman Malone called a number of hear-
ings where the county officials again had an
opportunity to present their case. This they
failed It) do chietly because they had no case to
present. •

I he lax ( ommissUm exercised great
patience because *)f the sorry financial cimdi-
tions in these two Ciiunties, but finally was com-
pelled to act.

Some Cities Suffer

The evidence shows gr<«$ inei|ualities not only
between farm lands and city property, but also
between city real estate in the various towns and
cities in the twt> counties.

In Franklin county, for example, it was found
that land was valued fi>r tax purposes at an
average of 41.4 per cent of its fair sale price.
All forced sales and irregular sales were thrown
out t>f the ct)mpulations. Only regular sales
were included. On the other hand, in the city
of >X'esi Frankfort assessed valuations averaged
only 5.1 per cent of sales value; in Christitpher
the ratio was M.I per cent; in Benton 38. SH; in
Huckner 5 6.4 5; in Royalton }^.77; in Sesser
44-27; in Zeigler 49.25. In the smaller towns
of the county assessments were entirely too
high as measured by the ratio ab<tve.

I hese records reveal gross inequalities with
property in several small towns and farm lands
grossly overassessed. In a number of the larger
cities there is marked underassessment. The
inequalities in tax valuations it is thought de-
veloped largely as a result of the present sys-
tem of assessing property by local assessors who
inv.iriabU compete with each other in under-
assessnient.

Williamson Too

In U'illiamson county a similar conditiim ob-
tains. Farm lands there were valued for tax
jHirposes on the basis of 48.94 per cent of their
idling values as t>btained from reci>rds of sales
in the county building. Town and cityi lots in
C artersville were assessed at only 36.55 per
cent of their sales value; in Herrin the valua-
t.on ratio was 28.47 per cent; in Hurst 35.71 per
cent; in Johnson City 53.52 per cent; in Marion
3 vV2 per cent; and in tlw smaller cities and
v.llages of the county 5 5.07 per cent. Here
again there was marked inequality with certain
towns and villages, and farm lands being dis-
criminated against.

^X'. I. Purnell of Muncic. Vermilion County,
has been employed as farm adviser in Ford
county to succeed Geo. T. Swaim. Purnell is a
graduate of the University of Illinois (1918)
and has been farmip:, during the past
H' vears.

» ^ ^

. \

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Pnge Sine

Northwestern Illinois Dairy-
men Want Co-op.

Producers Who Supply Condenseries
Cast Eyes at Chicago Market

IJ LPRtStNTATIVI.S ut I arm Bureaus m
*■ ^ the northwestern illinois counties gathered
j[ Uixon on Occ. 29 to consider the advisability
.;f organizing a co-operative association of dairy-
men in that area. Practically all of the milli
produced in the Rock
nvcr valley, which in
eludes such counties .i^
I «.e. Ogle, and >X*h!te-
sidc. IS sold to ItKal
vondcnscries.

A. D. Lynch, dairv
marketing director for
the I. A. A., discussed
the dairy industry, the
prdgram being carried
out b> bargaining a^-
sticiatiuns on the princi-
pal tnilk markets in
llhnois, and outlined
the need f<it a tomplete survey of the tcrritor\
ind milk marketing ctHidiiuniv tlicrc

Committee Appointed

A comniutte was app«Mnicd a". tnlK.ws to
rcpttrt at a tuture meeting: Carl !>ari*trious.
Anibov; Harve Rhoads. Conipion; I.eRoy
I chman, I ranklin Gruve; L. M. Cieniry, Ore-
gon; H. W. Allyn, Oregon; ^■. A. Heint/el-
nun. Oregon; O. ( . Beany, Sterling; K. I .
Hiiover. Morrisdn; and deo. IV I isk. Pn.phets-
iiiwn.

lieiween 4<» and ^'0 dairxmen, local leader^.
.md farm ad\ iser-. attended the meeting. I he\'
represented appr4)ximalel\ l,OK(t producers who
sell lo condenseries at Dixon. Sterling, Morrison,
t,)regon. Anibtiy, and other points. I.ynch em-
phasized the national aspect of dairy market-
ing and the need for co-ordinating local co-
operative effort with mid-west and national
oigani/atitms.

II. ^^^ Allyn. manager ut Rock Ki\et t.irmv
and an able leader in st.iie dair\ a*, in iiies. told

A. D. Lynch

ihe dairvnien ot the need tor more favoralik'
i reight rates on milk to < hicago.

"NX'e ought to have the Chicago niarkelv tor
Illinois dairymen."* said Allyn. "^^'IsConsin has
stolen our market because it has m»»rc favorabh
freight rates than d<i we. W hy should milk
be shipped into C hicai;o trom lanesville. Green
Bay, Madison^ and even m irt- distant V^ istoiiMii
points whrn wc have milk in this tcrritorv
that should be bnngini; the (hicago prue
Illinois markets tor IllniiH'- proJiuers should b*
our watchword."

The transport at itiii depart mcnt ol tfic 1. A
A. has been asked to check the freight rate*
with the idea ot eliminating Jiscrinnn^tion
against milk shippers in the northwestern llli-
v»\ territorv.

Abovt-: Showing the Hetrfoids in
the annual Baby B^-if Club show at
the Iroquois County Fair. The
Jcrsvy heift^rs and thtir ownt-is are
all entered in tl|e 4-H Dairy Hcifei
Club in Msrshfill-Piitnam county.
The Farm Bur^^us in «ach of these
counties ate doir? splendid 4-H dub
work.

Farmer Employers'

Liability Insurance

By V. Vaniman

lllNOI>> Iiiimr. .ippiAialt tlu t.ut llal

I

piote^tin- lliemsclves In I iiplit\ets I ijbilil\ In

MUMiK e for iri|ur\

:iie s.inii. a> ilie\ are | riJitctni*; tluniNeUe*
.i:;i-iist lubiliT'. I.'r .uitoMiiibik- public ltabi)it\
Hid properly damage,

I mjiloyers' liabiliM l-iis franct iLirmshed b
the Illinois Agricultural Mitual Insurance Com
pmy provides protection lor
i:p to S^OOO and $IU,t»On
stnal injurv or death ttt on
that limit per emphrtee. S

.UCldilU.

In taking *Kit the in^ui
i^.akes a prennum deposit ol

h T*» cmplo\ ei's fusi

the tarmer emplovi.

i. e. > i.uno tor per-
il employee, and with
l|(l,()Oo for any suigk

the (.mplovii
not less than >h>.

Ine dollars prt^niiuni deposit is required lot

if labor, or traction
nlhs. I or evainple.

t. .ch .idditit-mal six nu>nth

tl k.rtof,' in c^ce^s «»t IZ m

it the employer estinuies In u ill li.i\e one n»an

loi 12 nittnths and 5 men t

this W4.uld be a total of IS

hired labor whicli vould re*

deposit.

I he surplus share is >lo i
i>..iu\ Kv Si.

T iu>> months eJelt,
months ot estimated
uire J ^ I ^ premium

e\er\

j^^d the-

Dairymen Meet at Decatur

DEFENDS TITLE IN NATIONAL MEET
Walter Olson, member of the Knox County Farm Bureau, and national champion cot n
busker, was scheduled to defend his title in the national meet near Kansas City on Nov. IS.
Walter placed second in the recent state , contest near Rio being bested by Harold Holmes of
Henry county. Holmes turned in 34.95 bu. net. Olson 34.31 bu. Orville Welch of PiatI
county placed third. Carl Seiler of Knox fourth, and Elmer Williams of StarU. former national
champion. 6fth. Eleven contestants husked more than 31 bu. net.

I're!nninarv steps ii»ward i
II ilk producers' Co-.-perat i\ i
i.'keii at l->ecjtur on t. K t
ilu Mac<^n C ouniy I arm Bi

!<. ep I ese 11 [ a 1 1 \ es f ron i e v e i
county nut with farm Bure.i
Ivn*.!), dairy marketing din
Agricultural Assoc i at ton. w h
i/ed dairymen were dtnng
A collective bargaining orgafi
plated similar l«> ifiose i
( hampjign, iVona, Ul>i.'niin
St. I ouis.

le or:;ani/at lo'i .it i
oi'i;ani/aii,oii ^\iu
4 in a meit in>; i'
leju oljue.

I l«>\^nship irt tilt.
,1 ollivers Awd .\. I>
Ltor ot the lUinoK
1 told what organ-
at wilu-r market"^
i/Jtion is conleiii

<. MsliIKe Jt

( hiii.-... ...1.1

Page Ten

'^I^HE most enthusiastic baseball gatherinig in
-*- the history of the Farm Bureau League
,* describes the get-together banquet of baseball
leaders, managers, players, and fans in division
VJ held at Jacksonville, Thursday night, Nov.
7. Nearly 100 representatives from Morgan,
Cass, Menard, and Sangamon counties includ-
ing Farm Bureau presidents, and farm advisers
gathered for the post-season good-will dinner.
Conflicting dates prevented Greene county from
participating.

Credit for arranging the banquet and promot-
ing sportsmanship and good will between the
baseball officials and players goes to Charles
Black, baseball director and dictator for this
division.

Speakers included the president and secretary
of the State League, L. R. Welk and George
Thiem, respectively, T. H. Brockman of Jack-
sonville, former University of Illinois athlete
who later) played professional ball with , the
Denver team of the Western League, also With
the Cleveland Indians, farm advisers and team
managers. Umpires Kenneth Beerup and Roy
Nichols, Farm Bureau presidents and others.
Guy Husted, Cass county farm adviser, led (Com-
munity singing.

All-star Team

The following all-
star team for the dis-
trict was chosen by the
team managers and re-
ported by Farm Ad-
viser Forest Fisher:
Catcher R. Heatoii of
Morgan; Pitcher E.
Keithley of Cass; 1st
bajf R. Stilz of
Menard; 2nd base Frank
Fisher of Sangamon;
3rd base E. Webster of
Morgan; short stop E.
Roegge of Cass; right
field R. Fanning of Cass; left field A. Beard of
Menard; center field C. Jacobs of Sangamon;
all-star manager Bill Witte of Cass; Umpire
(in the box) Kenneth Beerup; base umpire Roy
Nichols.

The selection was enthusiastically received and
endorsed by the audience. I

Umpire Beerup commented on the fine sports-
manship displayed by the Farm Bureau teams.
"I have umpired for and against many teams,"
he said, "but the Farm Bureau teams have been
exceptionally mannerly and courteous."

"Beerup is the first umpire I ever heard admit
that he umpired 'for and against'," commented
I. A. Madden of Springfield, amidst the cheers
of the fans and players.

Chas. Black

McLEAN county's state championship Farm
Bureau baseball players and their wives
and sweethearts were banqueted by the McLean
County Farm Bureau on the night of Nov. 6
at Bloomington. W. H. Coultas who served as
toastmaster was praised by members of the
team for his help in bringing them through a

successful season. Approximately SO people
attended the dinner.

Harrison Fahrnkopf, who organized the team
three years ago, spoke briefly complimenting
the team on its good work and sportsmanship
displayed during the past three seasons. Sec-
retary George Thiem of the State League pre-
sented the silver trophy awarded annually by
the I. A. A.

The trophy is a beautiful silver design of a
baseball player in action just after he has hit
the ball.

A male quartet from Illinois Wesleyan fur-
nished entertainment. Manager Fitzgerald, Mc-
Lean's heavy-hitting first baseman, received the
trophy and expressed thanks on behalf of his
team-mates. McLean is the third county to win
a state championship. Marshall-Putnam won the
title three times, and Tazewell twice. Geo. L.
Clarke, member of the state arbitration com-
mittee, and Mrs. Clarke were other guests.

^ I ^HE change in the attitude of influential
-■- newspapers toward agriculture and its
problems in recent years is worthy of comment.
Today many of the country's most powerful
dailies are consistent and aggressive supporters
of organized agriculture. That farmers ob-
tained such recognition from the federal govern-
ment as they now have is due in no small part
to their help in moulding public opinion.

The best newspapers are independent and fair.
1 hey will give their aid to a worthy cause
when those behind it are sincere and construc-
tive. And so when organized farmers pleaded
their case, many fine newspapers sensing the
importance of farm prosperity, came to the
front as champions of "equality for agriculture."

Naturally, our middle western newspapers
have shown most interest in the farm relief
movement. By hammering away they have
assisted niaterially in influencing public opinion
in the east toward a more reasonable and friend-
ly feeling for agriculture. More important,
by giving support to farmers' efforts in reestab-
lishing themselves economically, they smoothed
the way for political parties to pledge agricul-
tural aid, and politicians to vote for helpful
legislation.

A politically-minded person is most sensitive
to publicity. Many politicians are controlled
entirely by their fears. They fear to take a
bold step, to embrace a reform no matter how
right or necessary, because it is human to oppose
the new. Few politicians are courageous enough
to fight for an issue or principle against odds.
The few who do become famous and often win
the- highest honors in political life. Since news-
papers mould public opinion they smooth the
path for the office holder who invariably votes
with the majority.

The Minneapolis Tribune has come around to
see agriculture in its true light. In a recent
editorial it made these significant statements:

"A literal fufillment of the Republican par-
ty's pledges would mean a substantial increase

in the buying power of the agricultural area
of the United States.

"The present income enjoyed by agricultural
America is approximately 12 billion dollars.

"Were agriculture enjoying the same propor-
tionate income that tht rest of the United
States is enjoying that income would be 18
billion dollars.

" 'Parity' for agriculture means just that: an
added annual income of roughly 6 billion dol-
lars.

"Were this ideal realized, who would get the
additional 6 billion dollars — agriculture or in-
dustry? . .,, .

"Obviously, both. . \ ■ ■' ;

"Agriculture would promptly turn over tlie
bulk of the sum to industry, m exchange for
the products which industry has to sell.

"Industry would profit by the increased buy-
ing power of American agriculture just a» it
has already profited by the increased buying
power of American labor.

" 'Parity' for agriculture means nothing more
and nothing less than enormously increased
sales for industry.

"Why, then, shouldn't industry exert all the
vast influence it has at its command to hold the
t:'riff revision to the purposes outlined by Presi-
dent Hoover?"

11

Here is a newspaper exerting its great in-
fluence to gain a square deal for the farmer.
When the power of the press is brought to bear
on a wrong to correct it, something usually
happens. Had farmers not organized and pre-
sented their case through chosen leaders such
might never have been forthcoming. Organized
farmers fought against peasantry and by so
doing developed an army of loyal supporters.
— E. G. T.

Farmers* Institute Hires
Chas, Durst

i^HARLES E. DURST of Wheaton was recently
^-^ employed to succeed H. E. Young as sec-
retary of the Illinois Farmers' Institute. Durst
will move to Springfield where he can be close
to his new headquarters in the state capitol.
Mr. Durst has un-
usual qualifications for
his new work. He is
well acquainted with
farm leaders through-
out Illinois, having
served as the first farm
adviser both in Union
and Cook counties, and
later as director of fruit
and vegetable market-
ing for the Illinois
Agricultural Associa-
tion.

Subsequently Durst
became editor of the American Fruit Grower
during which he built up a national acquaint-
ance among horticultural leaders and growers.
At present he is serving as secretary of the
National Horticultural Council.

Durst was chosen from among some 30 ap-
plicants for secretary of the Farmers' Institute.
Wm. Webb of Lockport, president of the state
organization, formerly served on the executive
committee of the I. A. A. •, j ' • '

Harold Allison, vocational agricultural teacher

at the Oblong high school, has been employed

as county adviser ^^y the Crawford County
Farm Bureau.

C. E. Durst

t

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Illjnois Agricultural Association

n^-

'D

RECORD

Number 12

DECEMBER, 1929

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Vohune 7

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Page Ten

THE I. A. A. RECORD

'^UDope

I^HE most enthusiastic baseball gathering in
*^ the history of the Farm Bureau Ltjague
describes the get-together banquet of baseball
Headers, managers, players, and fans in divtsion
VI held at Jacksonville, Thursday night, Nov.
S 7. Nearly 100 representatives from Morgan,
Cass, Menard, and Sangamon counties includ-
ing Farm Bureau presidents, and farm advisers
gathered for the post-season good-will dinner.
Conflicting dates prevented Greene county 1 rom
participating.

Credit for arranging the banquet and promot-
ing sportsmanship and good will between the
baseball officials and players goes to Charles
Black, baseball director and dictator for this
division.

Speakers included the president and secr<tary
of the State League, L. R. Welk and George
Thiem, respectively, T. H. Brockman of Ja
sonville, former University of Illinois at ilete
who later played professional ball with the
Denver team of the Western League, also ivith
the Cleveland Indians, farm advisers and team
managers. Umpires Kenneth Becrup and Roy
Nichols, Farm Bureau presidents and ot lers.
Guy Husted, Cass county farm adviser, led com-
munity singing.

All-Star Team

all-
dis-
the
re-
Ad-
her:

The following

star team for the

trict was chosen by

team managers and

ported by Farm

viser Forest Fisi

Catcher R. Heater of

Morgan; Pitcher E.

Keithley of Cass; 1st

bajy R. Stilz of

Menard; 2nd base F ank

Fisher of Sanganton;

3rd base E. Wcbstef of

Chas. Black Morgan; short sto* E.

Roegge of Cass; night

' field R. Fanning of Cass; left field A. Beard of

Menard; center field C. Jacobs of Sangarjion;

all-star manager Bill Wittc of Cass; Umpire

(in the box) Kenneth Bcerup; base umpire Roy

Nichols. i

The selection was enthusiastically received and
endorsed by the audience.

Umpire Beerup commented on the fine sports-
manship displayed by the Farm Bureau teams.
"I have umpired for and against many teaflis,"
he said, "but the Farm Bureau teams have peen
exceptionally mannerly and courteous."
"Beerup is the first umpire I ever hear
that he umpired 'for and against'," commented
I. A. Madden of Springfield, amidst the cheers
•if the fans and players.

ard admit

McLEAN county's state championship Parm
Bureau baseball players and their wives
and sweethearts were banqueted by the Mclean
County Farm Bureau on the night of Nov. 6
at Bloomington. W. H. Coultas who served as
toastmaster was praised by members of the
team for his help in bringing them through a

successful season. Approximately JO people
attended the dinner.

Harrison Fahrnkopf, who organized the team
three years ago, spoke briefly complimenting
the team on its good work and sportsmanship
displayed during the past three seasons. Sec-
retary George Thiem of the State League pre-
sented the silver trophy awarded annually by
the L A. A.

The trophy is a beautiful silver design of a
baseball player in action just after he has hit
the ball.

A male quartet from Illinois Wesleyan fur-
nished entertainment. Manager Fitzgerald, Mc-
Lean's heavy-hitting first baseman, received the
trophy and expressed thanks on behalf of his
team-mates. McLean is the third county to win
a state championship. Marshall-Putnam won the
title three times, and Tazewell twice. Geo. L.
Clarke, member of the state arbitration com-
mittee, and .Mrs. Clarke were other guests.

'^P^HE change in the attitude of influential
-*- newspapers toward agriculture and its
problems in recent years is worthy of comment.
Today many of the country's most powerful
dailies are consistent and aggressive supporters
ot organized agriculture. That farmers ob-
tained such recognition from the federal govern-
ment as they now have is due in no small part
to their help in moulding public opinion.

The best newspapers are independent ^nd fair.
They will give their aid to a worthy cause
when those behind it are sincere and construc-
tive. And so when organized farmers pleaded
their case, many fine newspapers sensing the
im|>ortance of farm prosperity, came to the
front as champions of "equality for agriculture."

Naturally, our middle western newspapers
have shown most interest in the farm relief
movement. By hammering away they have
assisted materially in influencing public opinion
in the east toward a more reasonable and friend-
ly feeling for agriculture. More important,
by giving support to farmers' efforts in reestab-
lishing themselves economically, they smoothed
the way for political parties to pledge agricul-
tural aid, and politicians to vote for helpful
legislation.

A politically-minded person is most sensitive
to publicity. Many politicians are controlled
entirely by their fears. They fear to take a
bold step, to embrace a reform no matter how
right or necessary, because it is human to oppose
the new. Few politicians are courageous enough
to fight for an issue or principle against odds.
The few who do become famous and often win
the highest honors in political life. Since news-
papers mould public opinion they smooth the
path for the oflice holder who invariably votes
with the majority.

The Minneapolis Tribune has come around to
see agriculture in its true light. In a recent
editorial it made these significant statements:

"A literal fufiUment of the Republican par-
ty's pledges would mean a substantial increase

in the buying power of the agricultural area
of the United States.

"The present income enjoyed by agricultural
America is approximately 12 billion dollars.

"Were agriculture enjoying the same propor-
tionate income that th« rest of the United
States is enjoying that income would be 18
billion dollars.

" 'Parity' for agriculture means just that: an
added annual income of roughly 6 billion dol-
lars.

"Were this ideal realized, who would get the
additional 6 billion dollars — agriculture or in-
dustry?

"Obviously, both.

"Agriculture would promptly turn over tlie
bulk of the sum to industry, m exchange for
the products which industry has to sell.

"Industry would profit by the increased buy-
ing power of American agriculture just as it
lias already profited by the increased buying
power of American labor.

" 'Parity' for agriculture means nothing more
and nothing less thin enormously increased
sales for industry.

"Why, then, shouldn't industry exert all the
vast influence it has at its command to hold the
tariff revision to the purposes outlined by Presi-
dent Hoover?"

Here is a newspaper exerting its great in-
fluence to gain a square deal for the farmer.
When the power of the press is brought to bear
on a wrong to correct it, something usually
happens. Had farmers not organized and pre-
sented their case through chosen leaders such
might never have been forthcoming. Organized
farmers fought against peasantry and by so
doing developed an army of loyal supporters.
— E. G. T.

Farmers' Institute Hires
Chas. Durst

/^HARLES E. DURST of Wheaton was recently
^^ employed to succeed H. E. Young as sec-
retary of the Illinois Farmers' Institute. Durst
will move to Springfield where he can be close
to his new headquarters in the state capicol.
Mr. Durst has un-
usual qualifications for
his new work. He is
well acquainted with
farm leaders through-
out Illinois, having
served as the first farm
adviser both in Union
and Cook counties, and
later as director of fruit
and vegetable market-
ing for the Illinois
Agricultural Associa-
tion.

Subsequently Durst
became editor of the American Fruit Grower
during which he built up a national acquaint-
ance among horticultural leaders and growers.
At present he is serving as secretary of the
National Horticultural Council.

Durst was chosen from among some 50 ap-
plicants for secretary of the Farmers' Institute.
Wm. >X'ebb of Lockport, president of the state
oiganization, formerly served on the executive
committee of the I. A. A.

C. E. Durst

Harold Allison, vocational agricultural teacher
at the Oblong high school, has been employed
as county adviser by the Crawford County
Farm Bureau.

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Counties Show Increases in Membership

15th District Meets

ADAMS county livestock growers shipped 6*2
■■ carloads through their county association
from January 1 to October 1, 1929 as corp-
pared to 619 cars for the same period last yedr,
Manager Mast of the Association reported at tfie
I. A. A. conference in
the 15 th district held
recently at Quincy.
When it was suggested
that Adams county
farmers are more loyal
to their association
than in some other
places, D. H. Meyers,
president of the Adams
County Farm Bureau
said they were not do-
ing it for the sake of
loyalty alone but be-
cause their net returns ■*• f*' Skinner
were greater. Farm Adviser S. F. Russell «x-
plained how the educational livestock meetings
held over the county had assisted in keeping
the growers informed and so, loyal to their
organization.

Busy in Fulton

It was reported that farm organizers fr^nn
another state were attempting to form co-
operative creameries in Fulton county. The pto-
posed contracts of the organization call for the
delivery of all cream for 10 years. Leading
farnters see in this effort needless waste in the
duplication of facilities for processing cream.
The small creamery in a community whiere
milking cows is only a sideline is not justified,
they said. Small creameries in such communities
are giving way to centralized plants where the
cost of making butter is much less.

Sentiment was expressed in favor of legis-
lation to compel producers of agricultural lime-
stone and rock phosphate to submit a guaran-
teed analysis before offering this material for
sale. Reports are coming in from Knox and
other western Illinois counties that certain com-
panies are offering low-grade limestone and
phosphate cheaper than it can be purchased ifor
through the I. A. A.

Adviser Kemp reported that the Knox County
Supply Company handled $180,000 of business
with a net profit of $11,000 up to Octobe* 1,
1929.

Should Work Together

A. N. Skinner who presided, discussed the pew
Agricultural Marketing Act tracing the history
of the struggle for farm relief up to the present
I time. It was the consensus of opinion anwng
■the delegates that farmers must be better or-
ganized and that antagonism and competition
between farm organizations should be eliminaited.
John Moore referred to Dr. C. L. Stewlrt's
talk at Jacksonville in which the professor ex-
pressed the opinion that it would be quite a
while before the Farm Board would force fairm-
ers to co-operate. D. H. Meyers urged farmers
to support the Marketing Act and to mak« an
effort to give this form of farm relief a
trial.

"The Producers was organized for
the benefit of the farmer." Robert
Bohnenstiehl, Troy.

Cietting Members Is

Year Round Job Here

I3UILDING up membership is a full-time,
-*--' year 'round project in Champaign County
according to county adviser Burns. Forgetting
all about membership until the three-year period
is up and then campaigning for another signup
after which the process is repeated, is foreign to
the plan followed for several years in this
county.

Project leaders charged with responsibility
for bringing in new members are appointed in
every township or community. Non-members
are prepared for membership before being asked
to join. The member assigned to this task cul-
tivates the prospect during his spare time when
he is in town evenings or Saturday afternoons.
Only men who show likelihood of being a
credit to the Farm Bureau are asked to join.
;Som^ are considered unfit for membership and
■may do the organization more harm than good.
That this plan has produced wonderful re-
sults is seen in the increase of more than 400
members secured in Champaign county during
the past three years. If membership work were
{given as much attention as other full time
[projects there would be a tremendous increase
in the number of Farm Bureau members over
the state in Burns' opinion.

Com Pageant a Success

C^ARM advisers, leaders and representatives
•*- from a number of northern Illinois coun-
ties and from the I. A. A. office attended the
corn pageant at the Sycamore community build-
ing in DeKalb county on November 21-22.

The pageant depicted the early history and
development of the corn plant by the Indians,
including the old Indian legend as to the origin
of corn.

More than 150 people, most of them from
Farm Bureau community units in DeKalb and
adjoining counties were in the cast. An 80-
piece symphony band selected from 18 towns
and cities around Sycamore and DeKalb, pro-
vided the music.

Pioneer life with costumes historically accur-
ate provided plenty of action and color to make
the pageant of particular attraction to farmers.
The old-fashioned corn shucking bee and barn
dance proved most entertaining.

George A. Fox, former secretary of the I. A.
A., was one of the moving spirits behind the
project. The peageant was dramatized by the
Playground and Recreation Association of
America from C. V. Gregory's history of agri-
culture.

. Membership Gains

Recent drives held in more than a score
of Illinois counties resulted in substantial gains
in Farm Bureau membership. A preliminary
report received by the organization department
revealed increases as follows: Iroquois 75, Cham-
paign 82, Vermilion 62, Micon 52, Sangamon
100, McLean 50, Logan 46, Ogle 57, Winnebago
68, Boone 17, Coles 22, Douglas 46, DuPage
24, Macoupin 38, Henry 34, Montgomery 26,
Peoria 25, St. Clair 51, and Scott 65 new mem-
bers. Other counties which held special mem-
bership drives are yet to be heard from.

Many Counties Go Over
The Top In 1929 Drives

Experience of Other States Cite ink
Membership Word

T^HE year's survey of organization activities
-*- since January 1 reveals that 37 counties
started their regular triennial campaigns for
membership during the year. A number of other
counties finished drives that had been started .
in 1928. In addition there were a great many
counties that held supplementary campaigns,
most of which came in September when a na-
tion-wide effort was made to bring in new
members. ,

All Over the Top '

The counties that went over the top or sur-
passed their membership totals of three years ago
follow: (The increase in membership is repre-
sented by the figure to the right) Boone 112;
Champaign 499; Clark 10; Crawford 155; De-
Witt 3; Douglas 46; DuPage 66; Edgar 94;
Grundy 31; Henderson 98; Jcrse, 24; Kane 93;
Lake 27; Woodford 76; LaSalle 136; Lawrence
96; McLean 207; Macon 95; Mercer 144; Mor-
gan 88; Peoria 172; Pope 48; Saline 62; Sanga-
mon 177; St. Clair 125; Stephenson 122; Ver-
milion 315; McDonough 104; Williamson 140;
Moultrie even; Clinton 58; Hancock 66; Wa-
bash even; Effingham 12; Kankakee 39; Cook
66; and Scott 4.

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Twelve other countries came within 50 mem-
bers of equaling the signup of three years ago.
A number of these counties, however, are still
working on membership. The 12 are as fol-
lows: Carroll, DeKalb, Edwards, Jackson, Ken-
dall, Knox, Logan, McHenry, Marion, Rock
Island, Warren, and Will.

In certain other states where commercial ac-
tivities of the Farm Bureau have been dominant,
everything else except membership has been em-
phasized. The result has been a gradual dwin-
dling in total membership simply because the
financial incentive was not there to go out and
sign new members. They secured considerable
income from buying and selling. ^

Lack Vision '

In such states there has been a lack of vision
of the great importance of a large membership
if farmers are to be properly represented where
numbers have influence. In matters of legislation,
taxation, transportation, the influence of the or-
ganization to some extent is directly proportional
to the size of the membership. A small organ-
ization which controls few votes has little
influence in legislative halls when the interests
of the group it represents are at stake, unless
it is a political campaign contributor.

Where the Farm Bureau membership is al-
lowed to slip to a point where only enough are
signed to insure the perpetuation of the local or-
ganization, it is plain that not enough emphasis
is given to these far-reaching opportunities of
organization. 1 ^

"It takes co-operative selling 6n the
large central markets to complete our
marketing system. The bigger the Pro-
ducers Livestock Commission Associa-
tion grows the better it will be for the
shipper." Benj. F. Oetken, Fosterburg.

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Number 12

DECEMBER, 1929

Volume 7

Plan Three Busy Days
For I. A. A. Annual Meet

Program Follows General Outline of
Previous Years

PRELIMINARY plans for the I. A. A. annual
meeting at Springfield, January 29, 50, 31,
are completed. Further details to be arranged
will be announced in the January issue.

The opening day, January 29,
will be devoted to the annual
meetings of allied organizations,
including the Illinois Farm Bu-
reau Baseball League, the Serum
Association, the Illinois Agricul-
tural Mutual Insurance Company,
Country Life Insurance Company,
and the Illinois Agricultural Co-
operatives Association.

In addition to the Secretary of
Agriculture, there will be out-
standing speakers on the question
of farm taxation and transporta-
tion. Important pronouncements
from Secretary Hyde regarding
future agricultural policies of the
Hoover administration, are ex-
pected. While no definite ar-
rangements have yet been made,
several members of the Federal
Farm Board will probably attend
the convention in the state capitol.

Annual Banquet

Tbe annual banquet will come
on Thursday night, January 30, as
in past years, and the annual
luncheon where Secretary Hyde
will speak, on January 3 1 , the
last day of the meeting. The
luncheon will be held in the
Springfield Armory to provide ac-
commodations for 1200 to HOO
people. Headquarters will be established at the
Abraham Lincoln Hotel.

There will be a series of five conferences on
Thursday afternoon where delegates and mem-
bers will have the floor. Free and open discussion
of policy matters is the object of these meet-
ings. Organization and marketing problems will
be given prominence since both loom large in
probable activities in 1930. ■■-

Lowden Coming

As we go to press, the announcement comes
that Frank O. Lowden of Oregon has accepted
an invitation to speak at the annual banquet on
Thursday night. Complete details will be an-
nounced in the January issue of the Record.

Plan Early. ..;-..;. ... .

Plan now to attend the comins lii«et-
ing at Springfield, Jan. 29-30-31. Make
reservations at once with your County
Farm Bureau. Accommodations can be
provided for all at the banquet and
luncheon if the local committee is noti-
6ed in advance.

Annual Meeting Speaker

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Sec'y Hyde Accepts Invitation from Pres. Earl Smith in I. A. A. Offices

More than J,000 Illinois livestock growers
have visited the terminal livestock markets as
guests of the various Producer commission as-
sociations during the past two years.

Apply for Reduced Rates

APPLICATION for reduced rates to Spring-
field for the annual I. A. A. convention
has been made by the transportation depart-
ment on all lines. If a reduction is granted as
in former years, don't neglect to take advantage
of it. Details of how this may be done will be
explained in the January issue of the Rec-
ord.

Springfield is ideally located and is accessible
by train or hard road to all points in Illinois.
Train service is available on the Chicago and
Alton, the Illinois Central, the Wabash, the
Burlington and the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
ways. Hard roads lead out in all directions
and most of these have bus service. Excellent
hotel and eating facilities are auured.

Sec'y Hyde Chief Speaker
At Coming I. A. A. Meeting

Secretary Demonstrates Sincerity As
Real Friend of Agriculture

HON. ARTHUR M. HYDE, former gov-
ernor of Missouri, Secretary of Agricul-
ture, the orator of the Hoover cabinet who al-
ready has demonstrated his sincerity as a real
friend of agriculture, will deliver
the principal address at the com-
ing I. A. A. convention at
Springfield. The Secretary accepted
the invitatioti tendered by Presi-
dent Smith several m o n t h >
ago.

Secretary Hyde, a lawyer by
profession, already has done much
to win his way into the hearts of
farmers. Born and reared in the
cum belt, he made a splendid
record as governor of his state.
Good roads and better country
schools were chief interests of his
administration. He is an exten-
sive land owner in Missouri and
so has a direct monetary interest
in agriculture.

Talks Surplus Control

In his public statements since
becoming a member of the Hoover
cabinet, Mr. Hyde has stressed the
importance of organization and of
taking marginal lands out of
production and so controlling the
farm surplus. What he says in
his address at the I. A. A. meet-
ing will be of nation-wide inter-
est, coming as it will after six
months' experience in carrying out
the purposes of the Agricultural
Marketing Act through the Federal Farm Board.
On his recent visit to the I. A. A. offices,
the Secretary expressed surprise to find so large
and complete a staff serving Illinois farmers. He
spoke approvingly of the organization setup with
insurance and other service rendered through
associated companies.

Secretary Hyde will probably speak at the
luncheon in the Springfield armory on Friday,
Jan. 31. A crowd of 1200 to 1500 can be
accommodated and barring unfavorable weather
a record attendance is probable.

"A careful syitem of selling IiTe-
stock in the National Stock Yards is
practiced by the Producers. The or-
ganization has handed out about
$800,000 in refunds to its members."
J. King Eaton, HamttL

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Counties Sho^ Increases in Membersliip

15th District Meets

VDAMS cdunty Ii\cMtH.k growers shipped <»42
'- cirhuds tlirou,i;li ilicir coimiv .issticiatitm
lr«>tn l.inu.try 1 tn Ociubcr I» \'tt*) .is coiii
pared til ^l'> c.irs tor ilic '..imc pciititi \.\st vc-ir,
\l.in.i>;t.T M.iNi nt ilic As-^K-i-uion rcpitdtcd .11 t(ic
I. A. A. ciHitcrcntc in
the I Uh district held
recently .U Qiiinc\.
Vllun it w.is su>;>;evled
ih.it Ad.ims county
Jarmer-v are more lo\.il
to their .iss.n.i.»tu'n
thjn 111 M>nie ttiher
pUces. I). I i. Meyers,
prcNideni nt the Ad.iins
County 1 .irni Hure.ui
sjid I hey were not do-
in); it f*>r the sake ol
lt>valtv ahtnc but be-
cause 'their net returns A. N. Skinner
wiTf >;rc.ucr. I .inn Adviser Sj^ I . Russell tx-
pijincJ Iiow thf educational livcsttick iiicctiii>;s
held over tile siiunty had assisted in keepihi;
the xrnwers inlnriiied and so, loyal to th.ir
or>;an)/ation. I

Busy in Fulton

It tt'.is reported ili.ii tariii or^ani/crs from
another state were attcmpiini; to form 1 1»-
operative creameries in I ulton citunty. The pro-
posed contracts (>t the or>;ani/ation call tor the
delivery ot all cream lor Id years. leading
larniers see in this effort needless w.iste in l he
duplication of facilities for processini; creajni.
The small creamery in a community wh.re
milking cows is only a sideline is not justified,
they said. Small creameries in such communii ies
are giving way to centralized plants where the
tost of making butter is much less.

Sentiment was expressed in favor of leiis
lation to compel producers of agricultural liri<
stone and rock phosphate to submit a guarjin
teed analysis before otfering this material for
sale. Reports arc coming in from Knox ; nd
other western Illinois counties that certain ccm
panics are offering low-grade limestone : nd
phosphate cheaper than it can be purchased [for
through the I. :\. A.

Adviser Kemp reported that the Knox Cou
Supply Company handled SlSn.lloO of busines
with a net profit of sll.Oni) up tt> Octobel 1,

Should Work Together

Getting Members Is

Year Round Job Here

I ^UILI )INCj up membership i". ,i I ill I -time.
■■-^ ye.tr 'nmiul pruject iii C.li.imp.iii;n Count \
KCnrdini; tt> county .idviser Burns. 1 i>ri;etlin.;;
ill .ibuui- iiieinbership until the threc-ye.ir period
is up .irid then c.impai>;ninj; Jor .mother signup
itlter which the process is repcited, is toreii;n to
the pl.iii toUuwed tor several ycirs in this
jLouriiy,

I rrojeci le.ulers eh.ir>;ed with resp<nisibility
:Jor brin>;in,i; in new members are .ippointed in
,e\ er\ low nshi|> cr com mum t \ . Nun -members
.ire prepared ti.r membership before beini; asked
to join. I he nieinber assii;ned to tjiis task cul-
tivates the prospect durinj; Ins spare time when
he IS in town e\enin>;s or Saturday at tern»H»ns.
[Only men wlu» show likelihood of beini; a
icredrt it) the 1 arm Bureau are asked to loin.
jSonic are considered unfit f*»r membership and
iniay do tlie or>;ani/aiion nu)re harm than );ood.
^ That this plan has pn)duced wonderful re-
sults is seen in the increase ot more than 400
members secured in CJiampaii;n county durin>;
the past three years. It membership work were
>;iven as much attenti»»n as other full time
iprojects there would be a tremendous increase
in the number of larm Bureau members over
the state in Burns' opinion.

A. X. Skinner who presided, discussed the
A«ricuhural Markelin>: Act tracing the his
of the struKyle for farm relief up tl** the pre
lime. It was ihe consensus tif of^inion am
-the delej;aies that farmers must be belter
i;ani/ed And that an I a>;»»n ism andi com pet i
between farm «lr^ani/.llions sliould be elimin.

|i»hn Moore referred to Or. C.j L. Stew
i.ilk at Jacksonville in which the 'protess<ir
pressed the »)pinion thai It would be qui
while Ixfore the larm Board would torce i.\
ITS to cii-operate. D. II. Meyers liirned far
lo supi>ort the Marketini; Act .mj to mak
effort to >;i\e ttiis form of tarm, relief a
trial.

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Corn Pageant a Success

I 1^ ARNt advisers, leaders and representatives
i^ trom a number ol northern Illinois coun-
ties and trom tiie I. A. A. otiice attended the
[corn paj;eani at the Sycamore community build-
I inv; in DeKalb county on November 2\-22.
I The pa.i;eant depicted the early history and
t development ot the corn plant by the Indians,
} including; the old Indian legend as lo the origin
of corn.

More than I s i) people, most of them from
I" a rm Bu rea u c i mi m u n i l y units in DeKa lb and
adjoining; counties were in the cast. An 80-
piece symphony band selected from 1 S towns
and cities- around Sycamore 'and DeKalb, pro-
vided ihe music.

Pioneer life witli costumes historic ally accur-
ate provided plenty of action and color to make
ihc pai;eant of particular aiiraciion to farmers.
The old-tashioned corn shucking bee and barn
dance proved most enlertaininx.

George A. Inx, former secretary of the I. A.
A., w as one of t he nio\ ini; spirits behind the
project. Ihe peageani was dramaii/ed by the
Playground and Recreation Association of
America trom C \'. Ciregory's history of agri-
culture.

"The Producers was organized for

the benefit of the farmer/* Robert

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Membership Gains

Recent drives held in more than a score
ot Illinois counties resulted in substantial gains
in l:arni Bureau nieiiibersliip. ;\ preliminary
report received by the organization department
resealed increases as t»»llo\vs: Iroi^uois 7<, Cham-
paign S2. X'ermilion ^2, M...-'in ^2. Sangamon
mu. Mclean ( (I, l.,.gan 4(., Ogle W, Winnebago
(.S. Jioone 1^, Coles ;:, Douglas 4(., Dul'age
24, M.icoupin >S, I leiiry "'4. Montgomery 2(.,
I'eoria 2^, St. Clair H, and Scott hS new mem-
bers. Other counties which held special mem-
bership drives are yet to be heard from.

Many Counties Go Over
The Top In 1929 Drives

Experience of Other States Cite Ink
Membership Word

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[ir year's sur\e\- ipI ctrgani/alion acmitus
since Jamiari 1 reseals that >7 countis-s
started their regul.ir triennial campaigns ;tor
membcrsl ip during the year. .\ number ot other
counties tinishcd drives that had been started
in l''2S. In addition there « ere a great niany
Ctuinties that held supplenieiuar\- campaigns,
most of which came in September when a na-
tion-wide effort was made to bring in new
members.

All Over the Top

The counties that went o\er the top or sur-
passeel llieir nienibership totals oi three years ago
folltm : (The increase in membership is repre-
sentee! by the figure to the right) liiMine 112;
C:lianipaign 4'>9; Clark 10; Crawford H(; l)e-
Uitt 3; Douglas 46; Uul'age (>(>; Ldgar 94;
drundy .» I ; Henderson *>S; Jerse 24; Kane 9.^;
lake 27; Vii'oodford 7h; l.aSalle I.Wi; Lawrence
V(.; .McLean 2U7; Macon 9i ; Mercer 144; .Mor-
gan 8S; Peoria 172; Pope 4S; Saline (.2; Sanga-
mon 177; St. Clair I2i; Stephenson 122; Ver-
milion M(: McDon.iugh 104; Vl'illiamson 140;
.Moultrie even; Clinton 5 8; Hancock 66; U'a-
bash even; l^thnghani 12; Kankakee 39; Cook
66; and Scott 4.

Within 50 in 12

Twelve other countries came within 50 mem-
bers of ei]u.ilin>; the si>;nup ot three years a>;o.
A number of these counties, however, are still
working on membership. 1 he 1 2 are as ftil-
htws: Carroll, DeKalb, tdwards. Jackson, Ken-
dall, Knox, I oj;an. Md lenry, Mari«in. Rock
Island, ^X'arren, and ^'ill. .^

In certain other states where C4)mmercial ac-
tivities of the I*arm Bureau have been dominant,
e\erythiny else except membership has been em-
phasized. The result has been a >;radual dwin-
dlinj; in i(»tal membership simply because the
financial incentive was not there to i;o out and
sii;n new members. They secured considerable
income from buyini; and sellin>;.

Lack Vision

In such states there has been a lack ot \ ision
of the Kreat importance of a lar.i;e membership
if farmers are to be properly represented where
numbers have intluence. In nutters of legislation,
taxation, transportation, the intluvnce ot the or-
>;am/ation to some extent is directly pntporiional
to the si/e of the membership. A small ori^an-
i/ at ion which contr<ils few votes has little
intluence in le>;islative halls when the interests
of the Kroup it represents are at stake, unless
it IS a political campaign contributor.

\\ here the larm Hureau membership Is al-
lowed to slip (o a point where only enou>;h are
signed to insure the perpetuation ot the local or-
j;ani/aiion, it is plain that not enough emphasii
is i:iven to these lar-reachim; opportuniiin u{
or;;ani/ation.

*'It takes co-operative selling 6n the
large central markets to complete our
marketing system. The bigger the Pro-
ducers Livestock Commission Associa-
tion grows the better it will be for the
shipper." BenJ. F. Oetken, Fosterburg.

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Number 12

DECEMBER, 1929

Volume 7

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Plan Three Busy Days
For I. A. A. Annual Meet

Program Follows General Outline of
Previous Years

PRrilMIXARY plins for the I. A. A. annual
nii'ctin.i; ai Sprini;tK'ld. January 2V, 30, 51,
arc completed. I urilicr dttails to be arranncd
will be announced in tlic January- issue.

The openlni; day, January 29,
will be devoted tti the annual
nieetin>;s oi allied organizations,
including the Illinois Farm Bu-
reau Baseball League, tlie Serum
Association, the Illinois Agricul-
tural Mutual Insurance Company,
Country Lite Insurance Company,
and the Illinois Agricultural Co-
operatives Association.

In addition to the Secretary ol
Agriculture, there will be out-
standing speakers on the ijuestion
of farm taxation and transporta-
tion. Important pronouncements
from Secretary Hyde regarding
future agricultural policies of the
Hoover administration, are ex-
pected. VC'liile no definite ar-
rangements have yet been made,
several members of the Federal
Farm Board will probably attend
the convention in the state capitol.

Annual Banquet

The annual banquet will come

on Thursday night, January 50, as

in past years, and the annual

luncheon where Secretary Hyde

will speak, on January 51, the

last day of the meeting. The

luncheon will be held in the

Springfield Armory to provide ac-
commodations for 1200 to I SOD
people. Headquarters will be established at the
Abraham Lincoln Hotel.

There will be a series of five conferences on
Thursday afternoon where delegates and mem-
bers will have the tliH)r. Free and open discussion
of policy matters is the object of these meet-
ings. Organization and marketing problems will
be given prominence since both loom large in
probable activities in 1950.

Lowden Coming

As we go to press, the announcement comes
that Frank O. Lowden of Oregon has accepted
an invitation to speak at the annual banquet on
Thursday night. Complete details will be an-

Plan Early

Plan now to attend the coming meet-
ini: at Springfield, Jan. 29-30-31. Make
reservations .it once with your County
Farm Bureau. Accommodations can be
provided for all ,it the banquet and
luncheon if the local committee is noti-
fied in advance.

Annual Meeting Speaker

Sec'y Hyde Chief Speaker
At Coming I. A. A. Meeting

Secretary Demonstrates Sincerity As
Real Friend of Agriculture

I ION. AKTHL'R \I.
■ ^ ernor ot Missouri,
:ure. the orator of the H
reads' has demonstrated I

friend oi ai:

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Secretary
prt.tc*.Nion. a

Hvdc, a ljw\cr by
ready lia-* done niucli
to win his way int*» the hearti o£
farmers, lit rn and reared in the
beh. ic in.ide a splendid
retord as sitvcrimr *»f Iiis state.
0<Hxi roads and bcuer Louniry
sehotils were chief intcrcNts of his
adininistrati* n. Me i-. an exten-
sive land ov ner in Missouri and
so hav a dir.'Ct monetary interest
in ai*riculturfc.

Talks Surplus Control

Sec*y Hyde Accepts Invitation (rem Pres. Earl Smith in I. A. A. Offices

nounced in the January issue of the Record.

More than 5,000 Illinois livestock growers
have visited the terminal livestock markets as
guests of the various Producer commission as-
sociations during the past two years.

Apply for Reduced Rates

iPPI ICATION for reduced rates to Spnn^-
•^ ^ field for the annual I. A, A. convention
has been made by the transportation depart-
ment on all lines. If a reduction is granted as
in former years, don't neglect to take advantage
of it. Details of how this may be done will be
explained in the January issue of the Ri«.-
ORD. ",

Springfield Is ideally located M\i} Is accessible
by train or hard road to all points In Illinois.
Train service is available on the Chicago and
Alton, the Illinois Central, the VC'abash. the
Burlington and the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
ways. Hard roads lead out in all directions
and most of these have bus service. Excellent
hotel and eating facilities are assured.

In Ills p
becoming a
cabinet, Mr
imp«.>riance
taking mar
prinJuction
farm surpli
his address
ing will be
est. coming
months' exp<
the purpose*

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Marketing Act through il
Ot\ his recent \isii tu
the Secretary expressed su
and complete a statf servi
spoke apprt»vingly of tlic o
insurance and other serv
associated companies.

Secretary Hyde will
luncheon in the Sprlngfie
Jan. }l. A crowd *>f I
accommodated and barrini
a record attendance Is pr

lie siatemenis since
r lember of the Htxncr
Hyde has stressed tlie
f organization and tif
inal lands out t>f
id so controlling the
VC'hat he says in
the I. A. A. ineet-
of nation-wide inter-
as it will alter six
rlence in carrying t»ut
of the Ak;ricukural
I edcral larm Uoard.
the I. A. A. offices,
rprisc to find so large
inois tarnwrs. He
gani/ation setup with
cc rendered through

p obably speak at the

arm«»ry on I riday,

200 to ISOO can be

unfavorable weather

(ibable.

"A careful system of selling live-
stock in the National Stock Yards is
practiced by the Producers. The or-
ganization has handed out about
$800,000 in refunds to its members.'*
J. King Eaton, Hamel.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

A. B. Leeper
Fruits and
Vegetables

FIVE SPECIALISTS DIRECT THE CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING ACTIVITIES OF THE ILLINOIS AGRICUL-
TURAL ASSOCIATION. IN ADDITION TO ASSISTING THE COUNTY FARM BUREAUS IN ORGANIZING . "5
PRODUCERS INTO NEW COMMODITY GROUPS, THESE MEN STUDY SUCCESSFUL CO-OPS. IN OTHER *
STATES, GATHER PRACTICAL INFORMATION AND MAKE IT AVAILABLE TO THOSE ALREADY ESTAB- T
LISHED HERE. EDUCATIONAL WORK AMONG PRODUCERS, AND MANAGEMENT SERVICE ARE IMPOR- I
TANT FEATURES OF I. A. A. MARKETING ACTIVITIES.

A Year of Progress In Co-operative Marketing

Substantial Gains Are

Made In Co-op. Selling

Survey Shows Illinois Farmers Are
Worifing Together

THE year 1929 saw more real co-ojwrative
marketing progress in Illinois than in! any
similar period in years.

Early in the year the Pure Milk Association,
organized and sponsored by the northern | Illi-
nois County Farm Bureaus and the I. A., A.,
won its fight for recognition on the market.
Today it is one of the largest collective bar-
gaining associations in the country and controls
substantially all of the whole milk going to
the Chicago market from points in Illinois,
northern Indiana, and southern Wisconsin.

With fluid milk co-operatives operating at
Chicago, Peoria, Rockford, Springfield, Bloom-
ington. Champaign, and Quincy, and with new
collective bargaining associations now being
formed at St. Louis, Decatur, and Rock Island,
Illinois soon will be the best organized state
in this respect in the middle west.

Producer To C<)iisumer

At Quincy, Springfield, St. Louis, and Wau-
kegan, farmer-owned companies are not only
processing but also distributing milk and dairy
products. The Highland Dairy Farms Company
is an important factor in the distribution of
milk on the St. Louis market and handles prac-
tically all the production of dairymen aroUnd
Highland and adjoining communities in Madison
county.

A move to organize northwestern Illinois
dairymen who sell to the condenseries was
launched at Dixon several weeks ago. Future
activities of the dairy marketing department will
be directed toward co-ordinating the various
Illinois milk co-operatives.

Educational Program

Livestock marketing activities have centered
in a broad program of education among live-
stock growers and shippers this year. Teaching
the principles of co-operative marketing, the
need for collective action in the sale of live-
stock has been the watchword of the livestock
marketing department. Scores of tours to the
terminal markets at Chicago, Peoria, East St.
Louis, and Indianapolis have been held. There
the growers have received first-hand information
: ■ about the work of their own Producer co-opera-
tive selling agencies.

A thorough study and analysis of grain mter-
keting both in the United States and Canada

has been made by the grain marketing depart-
mept, and now plans for further marketing ac-
tivities in Illinois are rapidly materializing. The
I. A. A. is working hand in hand with the
Illinois Farmers' Grain Dealers Association and
its leaders to this end. As these plans are
definitely formulated they will be presented to
the membership.

Soybean Men Organized

The first co-operative association of soybean
growers in the United States was organized dur-
ing the year by Farm Bureau and I. A. A. lead-
ers. The Soybean Marketing Association, open
to all growers, has established headquarters at
Champaign. The membership signup is well
underway. The association expects to have con-
trol of the bulk of the 3,000,000 bushel soybean
crop grown annually in Illinois by the time the
19)0 crop is harvested.

The grain marketing department assisted the
Egyptian Seed Growers' Exchange in obtaining
Federal Farm Board aid and the promise of
ample funds to advance growers on red top seed.
Further assistance to red top growers will be
given in 1930.

During 1929 the number of co-operative pro-
duce marketing associations was nearly doubled
until now more than 40 are operating through-
out the state. These produce associations or
cream clubs average about 150 producers each
who deliver approximately 100,000 lbs. of but-
terfat in a year. Produce is sold a year in
advance to the highest bidder. The cream clubs
have been successful in reducing the cost of
assembling cream. They have had a strong in-
fluence in improving quality and increasing the
net price to the farmer from three to five cents
per lb. Approximately 4,000,000 lbs. of fat
are sold annually through these co-operatives.

Form State Co-op

More recently steps were taken to federate
these marketing activities through the organiza-
tion of the Illinois Produce Marketing Associa-
tion. The centralized creameries in the state
have shown a disposition to co-operate with the
produce co-operatives of late and several con-
ferences between creamery and producer repre-
sentatives have been held. These augur well
for a satisfactory arrangement between buyer
and seller.

A start toward developing a chain of pro-
ducer-owned roadside markets for selling fruit
and vegetables was launched in July in north-
ern, central, and southern Illinois. To market
(Continued on page S)

Livestock Growers Talk
Co-operative Marketing

Get First Hand Information On
Marliet Towns

TTOW Illinois livestock growers are spread-
-*- -■- ing the gospel of co-operative marketing
is revealed in the reports of community meet-
ings held throughout the state received by the
I. A. A., livestock marketing department. Mar-
keting problems are discussed and information
is presented by farmers who have studied co-
operative marketing first-hand at the terminal
livestock markets.

"During the month of November we held a
series of 14 community meetings in different
parts of the county," writes T. W. May, farm
adviser in Madison county. "A number of men
have given some excellent talks on livestock
marketing and the Producers Commission Asso-
ciation. The men 'asked to speak were selected
from those who attended the tour to the Na-
tional Stock Yards. These men have proved
themselves able to discuss very intelligently some
of our marketing problems and to urge live-
stock growers to cooperate in selling their stock.
These talks are stimulating increased interest
in a better marketing system."

Best Ever Held

"The livestock marketing meetings have just
been completed and without question have been
the best series ever held," writes S. F. Russell
of Adams county. "Local leaders had meet-
ings well arranged and discussions were ex-
cellent. Reports were made on the tour to the
National Stock Yards also on the county-wide
marketing conference conducted here several
weeks ago. Exactly 970 men and women at-
tended the 12 meetings."

Approximately 400 attended a series of live-
stock marketing meetings held in Knox county,
according to A. R. Kemp, farm adviser. These
meetings were conducted at Altoona, Appleton,
Victoria, Knoxville, Williamsfield, Oneida, and
Hermon.

"Organized agriculture has been responsible
for most of the progress in the farming busi-
ness," said Harry C. Gehring, president of the
Knox County Farm Bureau at the Altoona meet-
ing. "That is why the Farm Bureau appointed a
livestock marketing committee. A marketing
system without producer control will never
favor the farmer, but the system of co-opera-
tive selling now being followed on the big
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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Five

When directors of the Illinois Farmers' Grain Dealers Association, and the Mutual Re-
lations Committee of the Illinois Agricultural Association met in I. A. A. offices with Samuel
R. McKelvie (in light-colored suit) grain member of the Federal Farm Board. The part Illi-
nois will play in centralizing co-operative grain marketing was discussed.

Grain Marketing Is Big Project for 1930

Joint Committee Seeks

Centralized Sales Plan

Illinois Important Grain State,

Ranks First in Commercial

Shipments

' I ^HAT grain mirkcting development with the
-■- centralization of grain selling in a farmer-
owned and farmer-controlled co-operative
agency is the big task ahead of grain producers
in 1930 is conceded by all who know the situa-
tion in Illinois.

Illinois ranks higher than any other state in
the volume of grain sold into commercial chan-
nels, yet comparatively little of this corn, oats,
wheat and other grains is sold on the terminal
markets through farmer-owned co-operative
agencies.

Grain growers realize that they must get
control of their product if they are to market
orderly, control surplus, establish proper
terminal facilities for holding, and obtain cost
of production plus a reasonable profit.

Plans to this end were discussed at a re-
cent meeting of I. A. A. and farmers' elevator
representatives in the presence of Samuel R. Mc-
Kelvie, grain member of the Farm Board. A»
soon as policies are definitely formulated they
will be presented to the membership. It is hoped
that a definite recommendation from the joint
committee may be ready by the time of the
I. A. A. annual meeting ft Springfield the latter
part of January. j

As we go to press, a second meeting between
Farm Bureau and State Farmer Grain Dealers*
officials is being held to discuss principles of a
centralized grain marketing system for the
state.

Whatever plan is adapted presumably will
provide for co-operation iwith the Farmers' Na-
tional Grain corporation, a national selling
agency for all grain co-operatives in the coun-
try.

Co-operative Marketing

(Continued from page 4)

terminal markets is the way to better marketing
conditions and a fair price for our products."

Best Service

"The Producer salesmen are always working
for the livestock grower and may be depended
upon to get the best possible service," said
A. T. McKJe, director of the Victoria Shipping
Association.

"The best meeting we ever held. Everyone
favored the Producers," wrote Zina S. Crane
in speaking of the livestock meeting at Oneida.

During the past two years more than 5000
livestock growers have toured to the terminal
markets under the auspices of the Farm Bu-
reaus and the I. A. A. First-hand information
is obtained about the co-operative Producer
selling agencies, the principles of efficient mar-
keting, and the need for volume control.

Farmers are discussing their marketing prob-
lems as never before in open public meetings,
in school houses, and town halls. They are
acquiring a vision of what they must do col-
lectively if they would meet the buyer on an
equal footing.

Year '29 One of Progress

(Continued from page 4)

perishables direct from producer to consumer
is the object of this movement. The Illinois
Fruit Growers' Exchange continued its whole-
sale marketing activities and handled a greater
volume of fruits this year than last. A renewed
effort was made to market more of Illinois'
perishables, particularly peaches, within the
state.

Farm Boys Can Raise
Bob-White

Make Farms Attractive to Birds and
They Will Increase — Interest-
ing and Profitable

Most people think growing game means
putting it in a pen and taking care of it like
chickens.

Game can be grown in this way, but it costs
money, it requires lots of care, and the birds
may die of disease.

There is another way to grow game which is
more interesting, much cheaper, takes less care.

and involves less risk of loss, says Aldo Leopold
in the Wisconsin Arbor and Bird Day Annual
and reported in the American Game Protective
association news service. This other way is to
fix up the farm so the game will grow itself.

It will work on any farm where there is a
little "seed stock" to start with, and where the
farm boy or girl has enough judgment to know
what to do.

Farm boys and girls can grow quail by fixing
up the farm so they will grow themselves.

One may not have much confidence in this
method until it is realized that a dozen pairs of
quail will increase to over 5000 in three years
if given ideal protection, coier, and food. It
is impossible and unneccessary to give ideal
protection, cover, and food, but these figures
show why even a slight improvement in protec-
tion, cover, and food will greatly increase the
number of quail on the farm.

Do away with all hunting cats, kill the sharp-
shinned hawks, reduce the skunks and nesting
crows if abundant, and if possible keep down the
foxes.

Cover and food is what is most often lacking
on northern farms.

Any farm has plenty of cover and food in
summer and fall. It is the winter and spring
cover which counts. The time to prepare for
winter is in the previous summer.

First of all, don't burn the grassy swamps, or
the weedy bushy fence rows and thickets, un-
less the crops or cattle require it. Usually they
do not. If they do, save an unburned corner
here and there for the birds. Don't mow every
fence corner.

Secondly, select a few definite places, prefer||
ably on land that is too steep or rocky to
plough, on which to grow grapevines and other
plants for winter cover. We will call these
places refuge covers. There should be at least
one refuge cover on every 40 acres. Each cover
should be at least as much ground as an ordinary
house. The shape doesn't matter. Creek banks,
old gravel pits, gully banks, rocky knolls, and
potholes offer good locations without using up
good land. Refuge covers located on the edge
of woods or in the open are better for quail
than in the deep woods.

If the places you select are grazed by cattle,
see if you can get permission to enclose them
with a gateless fence. Cattle thin out the cover
and destroy its value.

' In each refuge cover plant a few wild grape-
vines. Let them run over the bushes and form
tangles. Each tangle is a house for quail when

deep snow comes, and the dried grapes are
food. [

Also plant in each refiige cover several groups-
of Norway spruce or white pine of half a
dozen trees each. If you can plant these under
locust trees they will grow twice as fast
as elsewhere because the locust puts nitrogen
into the soil just like alfalfa. These groups
of evergreens are for winter cover.

If there are no locusts, plant some. The
locust beans are a dependable winter food for
quail. Next to grapes, tfcey are the best stand-
by in storms.

In severe weather, hai^ ears of corn under
the grape tangles in each refuge cover, tying
them up by their own shucks out of reach
of rabbits. The quail will get them.

If possible leave weedy, bushy fence rows
connecting the refuge cover with the grainfields
and with the barnyard. These fence-lines are
"streets" for the quail to travel on.

If you can build one refuge cover each year
you will soon have lots of quail. They will
benefit the farm crops and furnish you enough
muiic to amply repay your trouble.

"Of course the Producers sold mj
hogs." John F. Renken, Worden, who
recently produced a ton litter and sold
them on the St. Louis market.

Pdiji Foitf

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Harrison Fahrnkopf
Grain

Ray E. Miller
Livestock

A. B. Leeper Frank Gougler

Fruits and 'Produce

Vegetables '

FIVE SPECIALISTS DIRECT THE CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING ACTIVITIES OF THE ILLINOIS AGRICUL-
TURAL ASSOCIATION. IN ADDITION TO ASSISTING THE COUNTY FARM BUREAUS IN ORGANIZING
PRODUCERS INTO NEW COMMODITY GROUPS, THESE MEN STUDY SUCCESSFUL CO-OPS. IN OTHER
STATES, GATHER PRACTICAL INFORMATION AND MAKE IT AVAILABLE TO THOSE ALREADY ESTAB-
LISHED HERE. EDUCATIONAL WORK AMONG PRODUCERS, AND MANAGEMENT SERVICE ARE IMPOR-
TANT FEATURES OF I. A. A. MARKETING ACTIVITIES,

A Year of Progress In Co-operative Marketing

Substantial Gains Are

Made In Co-op. Selling

Survey Shows Illinois Farmers Are
Working Together

''I'^HK year 192'* saw more real co-opcriiivc

I

Uli-
A.,

marketing proj;rc*'S Jn Illinois tli.in
similar pcrind in year..

i.arly in the year the Pure Mi!k AsstK:ia|inn
ori;ani/eii and iptJnMircd by the northern
nois County larm Burtkius and the 1. A
won its fii;ht ior recognititin on| the niairket
Today it is one of tlw larne^^t cjollective bar-
};aininjL; associatitms in the country and controls
subManiially ail ot the whole milk i;*''">| *^
the Chicago market tron> points in Illinois,
ntirthern Indiana, and southern VC'iscon-.in

Vi'ith tluid milk co-oper.ui\es o[xratin>; at
Chicago, Po>ria, Rocklord, Springtield. Uloimi-
ington. Champaign, and Quincy. and with new
collective bargaining associations now b.'ing
formed at St. l.ouis, Decatur, and. Rock Islind,
Illinois b<K»n will be the best or*.gani/.ed state
in this respect in the middle west.

Producer To Consumer

At Quincy, Springfield, St. Louis, and ^ au-
kegan, tarnier-owned con»pantes are not i^nly
processing but alsii distributing; milk and d liry
products. The Highland Dairy Farms Company
fs .in inip4irtant factor in the dijstribution
milk on the St. L^mis market and handles p
tically all the production of dairymen aro.i
Highland and adjoining communities in Mad
county.

A move to organize northwestern lUi i
dairymen who sell to the condenserics a a
launelied ac Dixon several w eeks am>. I
activities of the dairy marketing department vill
be directed toward co-ordinating i the varii
Illinois milk co-operativcs.

Educational Program

Livestock marketing activities l^ave centered
in a broad pri>gram of education | among li
stock growers and shippers this year. Teacl
the principles of co-operative marketing,
need for collective action in the kale i>f I
stock has been the watchword of the livesi
marketing department. Scores of ilours to
terminal markets at Chicago, Peofij, L-ist
' Louis, and Indianapolis have been held
the gr(»wers have received first-hand informat
about the work of their own Producer co-i
tivf selling agencies.

\ th4ir<iugh study and analysis of grain mar-
keting both in the L'-niied States and Canada

The

nd

mg
the
ike-
k
:hc
St.
re
<)n
opcjra-

has been made by the grain markeitng depart-
ment, and n«>w plans for turther marketing ac-
ii\ities ih Illinois are rapidly materializing. The
I. A. ,\. is working hand in hand with the
lUinois I armers' Grain Dealers Association and
its leaders to this end. As these plans are
definitely formuhiied they will be presented to
the membership.

Soybean Men Organized

The lirst co-operaiive association of soybean
growers in the United States was organized dur-
ing the year by I arm Bureau and I. A. A. lead-
ers. The Soybean .Marketing Association, open
to all growers, has established headquarters at
Champaign. The membership signup is well
underway. T!ie association expects to have con-
trol of the bulk of the 5.000.000 bushel soybean
crop grown annually in Illinois by the tini. the
1950 crop is harvested.

The grain marketing department assisted the
i gypiian Seed Growers* Lxchange in obtaining
federal Kami Board aid and the promise of
ample funds t<» advance growers on red top seed.
J urther assistance to red top growers will ^c
given in 19*0.

During 1929 the number of co-operative pro-
duce marketing associations was nearly dt>ubled
until now more than 4(i Art: operating through-
out the stale. Tiiese produce associations or
cream clubs average about MO producers each
whi) delixer apprtiximately 100,000 lbs. of but-
terfjt in a year. Produce is sold a year in
.id\ance to the highest bidder. The cream clubs
have been successful in reducing the cost t)f
assembling cream. They have had a strong in-
fiuehce in improving quality and increasing tjie
net price to the farmer from three to fixe cenfs
per lb. Approximately 4,0110.0(10 lbs. of fat
are soKl .innu.ilU through these co-operatives.

Form State Co-op

More recenth steps were taken in federate
these "jnarketing activities through the organiza-
tion V)f the Illinois Produce Marketing Associa-
tion. The centralized creameries in the state
have shown a disposition to Ci»-operate with the
produce co-op^ra lives of late and several con-
ferences between creamery and producer repre-
sentatives have been held. These augur well
ftir a s.Tiisfactory arrangement between buyer
and seller.

A start toward developing a chain of pro-
ducer-owned roadside markets for selling fruit
and vegetables was launched in Jiily in north-
ern, central, and southern Illinois. To market
(Ctni/iimtJ on pdy.^' "> )

Livestock Growers Talk
Co-operative Marketing

Get First Hand Information On
Market Towns

11 OU* liiinois livestock >;rt)wcrs arc sprt-jd-
' *- inj; the j;ospcl «>{ co-operative marketiiii;
is revealed in tlie reports i)t community meet-
ings held thr<iiif;hiiut the state received by the
I. A. A. livestock marketing; department. Mar-
keting; problems are discussed and intt>rmaticin
is presented by farmers who have studied co-
operative marketinj; first-hand at the terminal
livestock markets.

"During the month of November we held a
series of 14 community meetings in diiferent
parts of the county," writes T. W. May, farm
adviser in Madison county. "A number of men
have j;iven s<ime excellent talks on livestock
marketinj; and the Pri»ducers Ojmmission Asso-
ciation. The men asked to speak were selected
from those who attended the tour to the Na-
tional Stock Yards. These men have proved
themselves able to discuss very intelli>;ently some
ot our marketing problems and to urge live-
stock growers to cooperate in selling their stock.
I hese talks are stimulating increased interest
in a better markelnit; systetii."

Best Ever Held

"1 he livestock marketing meetings have just
been completed and without question have been
the best series ever held." writes S. F. Russell
of Adams county. "Local leaders had meet-
ings well arranged and discussions were ex-
cellent. Reports were made <5n the tour to the
-National Stock Yards also on the county-wide
marketing conference conducted here several
weeks ago. Ivactly 970 men and women at-
tended the 12 meetings,'*

Approximately 4(i() attended a scries of live-
stock marketing meetings held in Knox county,
according to A. R. Kemp, farm adviser. These
meetings were conducted at Altoona, Appleton,
\ictorij, Knoxville, Vl'illiamsfield, Oneida, and
Hermon.

"Organized agriculture has been responsible
for most of the progress in the farming busi-
ness," said Harry C. Gchring, president of the
Knox County Farm Bureau at the Altoona meet-
ing. "That is why the Farm Bureau appointed a
livestock marketing committee. A marketing
system without producer control will never
favor the farmer, but the system of co-opera-
tive selling now being followed on the big
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I'agr Fire

I Grain Marketing Is Big Project for 1930

-V

Joint Committee Seeks

Centralized Sales Plan

Illinois Important Grain State,

Ranks First in Commercial

Shipniients

''I'^iiAT i^rjiii iiurkotin; dovflopmcni witii the

■- ccnir.ili/jlton ul '.^r iin \clitnj; m a tarniiT-

'w tK-d and Ijrmcr-c »ntr«illcd c<»-o|vrali\c

,ii;ciKy !■> tlic hi?; tJ^k jlrciJ ot t;r.iin pruducirs

who know the Mtu.i-

When directors of the Illinois Farmers' Grain Dealers Association, and the Mutual Re-
lations Committee of the Illinois Agricultural Association met in I. A. A. offices with Samuel
R. McKelvie (in light-colored suit) grain member of the Federal Farm Board. The part Illi-
nois will play in centralizing co-operative grain marketing was discussed.

Co-operative Marketing

(Cou/hnnil from puge 4)

tormina! markets is the way to better marketing;

ct>n<Jiti«»ns and a fair price tor our pruducis."

Best Service

"The Producer salesmen are always worklni;
for the livestock grower and may be depended
upon to K*-'! t'l^' t**-"»t possible service." said
A. 1*. McKie. director of the Victoria Shipping;
Association.

"The best meeting; we ever held. I.veryone
favt>rcd the Producers," wrote Zma S. Oane
in speakinj; of the livestock nieelini; at Oneida.

Durint; the past two years more than ^000
livesitick .ijrowers have toured to the terminal
markets under the auspices of tlie Farm Bu-
reaus and the I. A. A. 1 ir\t-hand informatittn
is obtained about the ci>-operative Producer
selling; agencies, the principles of etiicient mar-
keting, and the need for volume control.

Farmers are discussing their marketing prob-
lems as never before in open public meetings,
in school houses, and town halls. They are
acquiring a vision of wiul they must do col-
lectively if -they would meet the buyer un an
equal footing.

Year '29 One of Progress

(Cout'niHcJ from Ihii^c 4)

perishables direct from producer to consumer
is the object of this movement. The Illinois
Fruit Growers' Exchange continued its whole-
sale marketing activities and handled a greater
volume of fruits this year than last. A renewed
effort was made ti> market more of Illinois'
perishables, particularly peaches, within the
state.

Farm Boys Can Raise
Bob-White

Make Farms Attractive to Birds and
They Will Increase — Interest-
ing and Profitable

Most pcf>plc think growing game means
putting it in a pen and taking care of it like
chickens.

Game can be grown in this way, but it costs
money, it requires lots of care, and the birds
may die of disease.

There is another way to grow game which is
more interesting, mucli cheaper, takes less care.

and invttlves less rrk of loss, says Aldo Leop*)ld
in the U'isc*»nsin Arbor and liird Day Annual
and reported in the American Game Protective
association news service. This either way is to
tix up the farm so the game will grow itself.

It will work on any farm where there is a
little "seed stock" to start with, and where the
farm boy or girl has enough judgment to know
wliat to do.

Farm boys and girls can grow quail by fixing
up the farm so they will grow themselves.

One may not have much confidence in this
method until it is realized that a do/en pairs ot
quail will increase to over .^000 in three years

/' X/ZiH iJijI jfUt/Ct /ifili, C(Htl\ and hniJ. It

is impossible and unnecce^sa^y to gi\e ideal
protection, cover, and ltK>d, but these figures
show why even a slight improvement in protec-
tion, cover, and food will greatly increase the
number of quail on the farm.

Do. away with all hunting cats, kill the sharp-
shinned hawks, reduce the skunks .md neslini:
ciows it abundant, and if possible keep dtuvn the
foxes.

Cover and food is what is most often lackim;
<.n northern farms.

Any farm has plenty of cover and t"od in
summer and fall.. It is the winter and spring
cover which counts. The time to prepare for
winter is in the previous summer.

First of all, don't burn the grassy swamps, <ir
the weedy bushy fence rows and thickets, un-
less the crops or cattle require it. Usually they
do not. It they do, save an unburned corner
here and there for the birds. Oim't mow every
fence corner.

Secondty. select a ii.-'A- definite places, prefer-
ably on land that is tiH) steep or rocky lo
plough, on which to grow grapevines and other
plants for winter co\er. ^'e will call liicse
places refuge covers. There should be at least
one refuge ctiver tin every 40 acres: Fach cover
siiould be at least as much ground as an ordinarv
house. The shape doesn't matter. Creek banks,
old gravel pits, gully banks, rocky knolls, and
potholes offer good locations without using up
good land. Refuge covers htcated on the edge
of woods or in the open are better for quail
ilian in the deep w<K>ds,

If the places you select are grazed by cattle,
see if yt)U can get permission to enclose them
with a gateless fence. Cattle thin out the cover
and destroy its value.

In each refuge cover plant a few wild grape-
vines, let them run over the bushes and form
tangles. Fach tangle is a h»)use for quail when

in i'J>i) is cotKeded by :
I ion in llliiliois,

Illinois ranks higher than an
the vtilunie o't L;rain sold

nels, yet ci>mp.irau\ elv little ot ihis corn, oats,
w he.it and iitlier grains s sold i»i
markets through f ac" cr-»)wncd
agencies.

Grain growers realiz<
contr»>! of their prttduct
"irderly, cimtriil
terminal tacilities

ther state in
iniii ctunmercial el«n-

>3tS,

the terntinal
ct»-operativo

that ihev must gel

if they are to market

urp us, establislv pntpvr

or htUdiUk;. and obtain cmt

it productiitn plus a reas

Plans to this end w -re discussed at a re-
cent meeting of I. A. A . and t armers' elevitor
representatives in the preencc ot Samuel R. Mc-

Kelvie, grain •member of

that a definite reconmie
committee may l>e read

oon as p*ilicies arc deti liiely formulated they
will be prcie^iied to the nembership. It is hopt^'J
dation from the joint
by the time ot the
I. A. .\. annual meeting ,it Spnngtield the latter
part ot January.

As we go to press, a s:Cond meeting between
I arm liureau and Slate
ortlsials is being held to

nable profit.

the J arm Hoard. A-i

I arnuT (jrain Dealers*
discuss principles ot a

g system t.

<I,C

vi-ntrjli/cd i^rain nurLqtin
-t.itc.

\\ li.Ui.Air pl.in is adcptcd pri-umablv « ill
priAJdv tor CD-opcrjtion
iion.l1 drjin c'orporjiioli,
.i^^'iK-y lor all i;rain ci»-t
irv.

deep

I.H.d.

snow comes.

jnd

*icli till' I jriiurs' N4-
njlional selling
pcrativcs 111 ihc coun-

dricd .i;r.ipcs ire

.Also pl.fiii in citli r>.fui;c cover several ijr.iups
hite pine ot lialt a
<in plant these under
j;row twiee as last
losust puts nitrogen
It'alta. Tlu-se k:roups

of \orwa\ spruce

do7en trees each. Il you

locust trees tliey will

as elsewlierc because the

into the soil just like

of evergreens are tor winter cover.

It there are no locusts, plant some. The
Iticust hcins are a depen
quail. Next to grapes, t
Isv in storms.

In sesere weatlier, hanji; oars ot corn under
the ,i;rapc tangles in cac
them up by their own
o* rabbits. The quail wi

If possible lease w eej '

Jable winter food for
ev are ttie best stand-

connectinj; the refuse cov^r with the i;rainlielJs
and with the barnvard. These fence-lines are
"streets" for the quail to travel on.

If you can build one nlui;e cover each vear
you will soon have lots of quail. Thev will
benefit the farm crops anld furnish vou enough
music to ampK' repas- Sitiir trouble.

1 refute cover. tnn<

bucks out of reach
uet them.

, bushv fence rou s

"Of course the Producer* sold my
hogs." John F. Renken, Worden, who
recently produced a ton litter and sold
them on the St. Louis market.

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THE L A. A. RECORD

N

_ I LiIjINOIS

CCLTVBAL ASSOCIA

RECORiy

T« mJoanea (A« imrpoma for mhieh the Farm Bureau warn organlMml,
^ nofne/y to promote, protect and repreaent the huainese, economic,
politicai, and educational intereatm of the farmare of liiinoim and tfia
nation, and to develop agriculture.

Published once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave., Mount Horria,
, Illinoia, by the Ulinoia AKricaltaral Association. Entered as eecond-
elass matter October 20, 1925, at the post office at Mount Morris,
Illinois, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Accepted for mailinK at
special rate of postage provided for in Section 412, Act of February
28, 1926, authorized October 27, 1925. The individual membership
fee of the Illinois Aericultural Association is five dollars a year. The
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OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith

Vice-President, Frank D. Barton

• Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger

Traaaurer, R. A. Cowles

.J>«tTalt

.Cornell

„ Chlrago

-Bleomlnctoa

. 1st to 11th..

12th

• 13th

14th

ISth..

16th..

17th..

ISth..

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

(By Congressional District)

.H. C. VIml, Downers Gro»o

a F. TuUock, Rockford

. C. E. Bamboroush, Polo

..M. G. Lambert, Ferris

19th

20th

i.JL N. Skinner, Yates City

A. R. Wrif ht, Vema

..Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut
..R. F. Karr, Iroquois

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21st..
22nd..
23rd..
24th..

2Sth

C. J. Gross, AtYvood

..Charles S. Black, Jacksonville
..^.Samuel Sorrolls, Raymond
..Frank Oexner, Waterloo

W. L. Cope, Salem

..Charles Marshall, Belknap
Fred Dietz, Da Soto

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS

Comptroller

Dairy Marketing

Finance

Fruit and Vegetable Klarketicc,

Grain Marketing

Information

Insurance Service __..

Legal Counsel.

Limestone*Phosphate

Live Stock Marketing....

Office

Organization

Produce Marketing

Taxation and Statistics-
Transportation

.J. H. Kelker
..A. D. Lynch

JL A. Cowlu

A. B. Leeper

Harrison Fabrnkopf

George Thiem

.„V. Vaniman

Donald Kirkpatrick

J. R. Bent

Ray E. Miller

C. E. Johnston

.G. E. Metzger

F. A. Gougler

J. C. Watson

.„ L. J. Quasey

SUBSIDIARY ORGANIZATIONS

Country Life Insurance Co _ L. A. Williams, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives Ass'n F. E. Ringham, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co,.. A. E. Richardson, Mgr.

Illinois Farm Supply Co L L. R. Marchant, Mgr.

Making Master Farmers

THE influence the Farm Bureau, the University of Illinois, and the
farm press are exercising in making better farmers was vividly ex-
pressed at the recent banquet for the 1?2!^ Master Farmers given by
Prairie Farmer in Chicago.

Each of the 19 Illinois men so honored this year is a Farm Bureau
member. Several are presidents and officers m their County Farm
Bureaus. All are active supporters of their organization, and unstinted
praise was given the county farm advisers responsible in many cases for
the adoption of projects and farm practices which helped bring success.

The University of Illinois and such men a» Cyril G. Hopkins came in
for considerable honorable mention. Ample tribute was paid the power
of the press for its influence, particularly the! publication which initiated
this worthy project. Deserved recognition to farm women, the help-
mate in the home, concluded the remarks of nearly every man who re-
ceived a medal. They modestly gave credit to others.

While all these forces are helpful, the fact. remains that the individual
intelligence, initiative, industry, character Jnd progressiveness of the
farmer and his wife determine their success as farm operators, good
neighbors, and citizens. That the Farm Bureau membership roll includes
nearly all farmers of this type, at least in Illinois, is the reason for its
high standing and record of accomplishment. If the I. A. A. is a strong
state farm organization, it is because Farm Bureau members made it so.

The organization can develop leadership, demonstrate and teach suc-
cessful practices. It cannot change innate qualities that determine

success. The high average of intelligence on Illinois farms is reflected
not alone in the efficiency with which these farms are operated. It is
revealed also in the successful organizations and co-operatives they have
created here. It is an axiom that democratic government reflects the
ability and intelligence of the voting citizens who make it. The same
is true of organizations be they agricultural or otherwise. The organiza-
tion doesn't nuke the man. The man makes the organization.

This Issue and Next

THE insurance services offered the Farm Bureau members of Illinois
are presented in a little greater detail in this issue than usual. Each
company has attempted to tell itr story. Each has a story to tell and
we are proud to say it is a story of achievement. The accomplishments
of Country Life, the Illinois Agricultural Mutual, and the Farmers'
Mutual Reinsurance Company in making available insurance at cost in
farmer owned and controlled companies have been phenomenal. These
enterprises are true co-operatives no less than co-operative marketing
projects. They differ only in that they relate to buying rather than
selling.

Farm Bureau leadership recognizes that the greatest opportunity for
farmer self-help lies in the marketing field. It also realizes that success
in co-operative marketing is achieved with greater difficulty and depends
largely on farmers' experience and capacity to work together. For this
reason progress in marketing, particularly centralized marketing, has
been less rapid. VCith renewed federal interest in helping agriculture
attack the most difficult phase of the marketing question, namely, sur-
plus control, the outlook appears brighter. The best efforts of the I. A.
A. next year as in 1929 will be directed toward developing marketing
activities. And so we will start the new year with an issue of the
Recoro devoted largely to marketing and organization.

Coming Up

MEMBERSHIP in the Farm Bureau and Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation is on the upturn as is evidenced by the fact that more
than 3 5 counties showed increases this year compared with the previous
three-year period. Reports are coming in consuntly that Farm Bureau
morale and sentiment the state over was never stronger since the post-
war deflation period. Under such conditions, the job of building a
larger state organization becomes merely a mechanical one. The sub-
stantial increases obtained in some counties like Champaign, ^('illiamson,
Vermilion, McLean, and others bears out this point. When membership
is given prominence as a year 'round project a steady increase invariably
results. Farm Bureau leaders are coming to appreciate this fact, judging
from the gains made this year.

Cause for Optimism.

THE most inspiring sight we saw during International week was noc
the splendid exhibits of blooded livestock out on the tan bark, but
an army of Four-H club boys and girls more than 1000 strong gathered
from almost every state in the Union.

A great sea of green and white caps bearing the clover leaf insignia,
rosy cheeks and happy faces greeted us as we came upon the annual
banquet given the winners from all the states in one of Chicago's loop
hotels.

There was a spectacle that can't be duplicated anywhere in the world
except at the annual boys and girls club congress. To hear these young-
sters tell their experiences, their accomplishments unafraid1y« enthusias-
tically, with well chosen words while facing large audiences is impres-
sive. What a fine training for future responsibilities. The hope of agri-
culture of the country is that the best of them can be kept on the farm.

Boys and girls club work is doing more to develop a self-confident,
•self-respecting, clear-thinking and right-living farm leadership for the
future than any other single force in rural life. The livestock and
crops they grow, the prizes they win — these are all secondary. The im-
portant things are the lesson taught, the character developed, the life
inspired by achievement. The fact that there were 16,000 such boys
and girls in Illinois this year is cause for being optimistic over the future
of agriculture in the state.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

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WiMeW5

Tune in on the I. A. A. Forum from Station
WLS every Tuesday nicht at etSO p. m..
Central Standard Time.

Tlie daily farm program of the I. A. A. from
Station WJJD, Mooseheart (284 meters) is
broadcast between 12:00 and 12:20 p. m., Mon-
day to Friday inclusive. Hear the daily Chicago
livestock market from the Producers, and each
Friday the weekly market review. Outlook
reports, reviews, and talks by I. A. A. staff
members, officials, and leaders In farm thought
eie broadcast daily.

AN address by R. W. Blackburn, president of
^ the California Farm Bureau Federation, is
scheduled for the I. A. A. Forum program from
WLS on Tuesday night, Dec. 10. Mr. Black-
burn has been invited to discuss some of the
activities of his State Farm Bureau together
with farm problems facing organized agricul-
ture on the Pacific Coast.

"When Dairymen Work Together" was the
subject of an interesting one-act playlet broad-
cast by Wilfred Show, Herman Keil, and John
Hagenstoz of the Illinois Milk Producers' Asso-
ciation at Peoria, and A. D. Lynch of the L
A. A. on Tuesday night, November 26. The
play dramatized marketing conditions at Peoria
before and after this collective bargaining as-
sociation was organized.

"Insurance Needs of the Farmer" was the
subject discussed on the I. A. A. Forum pro-
gram Tuesday night, Dec. 3. A special Country
Life program during which news of the Decem-
ber campaign was broadcast, came on the air
from WLS at 8:30 p. m. the same night.

Master Fanners All

Farm Bureau Members

EVERY one of the 1929 Master Farmers
honored by Prairie Farmer this year is a
Farm Bureau member. Most of them are
prominent in Farm Bureau work in their re-
spective counties. Frederick W. Boebel of
Naperville, one of the 19, is president of the
DuPage County Farm Bureau.

The men who were honbred at the annual
Master Farmer banquet on the night of Decem-
ber 2 at the Stevens Hotel, Chicago, are as
follows: Frank R. Hubert, Saybrook, McLean
County; Clint Corrington, New Berlin, Sanga-
mon; Frank L. Stout, Chatham, Sangamon; W.
D. Mobley, Mt. Sterling, Brown; L. D. Arm-
strong, Monmouth, Warren; H. D. Lantz, Bush-
nell, McDonough; W. C. Harris, Aledo, Mercer;
John P. Hanna, Geneseo, Henry; W. H. Lowe,
Aroma Park, Kankakee; Carl F. Frey, Gilman,
Iroquois; Dale Willard, Rossville, Vermilion;
Chester Jackson, Joy, Mercer; F. I. Smucker,
Tiskilwa, Bureau; B. W. Rocke, Tiskilwa, Bu-
reau; Frank V. Wilson, Edgewod, ££ngham;
Otto Berlage, Galena, JoDaviess; Richard T.
Hall, Bradford, Stark; Frederick W. Boebel,
Naperville, DuPage; and J. W. Hemingway,
Oregon, Ogle County.

These men were chosen not only because they
are proficient in their profession, but also be-
cause they were active in community service.

"The Proilucers is the farmer's own
company for the marketing of live-
stock and it is his duty to support it."
John F. Chambers, Godfrey.

TO CHAMPION JUDGE
This beautiful plaque in the form of a
shield contributed by the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association will hang in the agricul-
tural college at the University of Illinois in
honor of the high man from Illinois in the
annual college livestock judging contest held
during the International Livestock Exposition
at Chicago. Ample space is provided for
engraving each year the name of the winner.

Tax Work Important

In I. A. A. '29 Program

Reform in Revenue Legislation
Sought Early In Year

T"^HE year now closing saw further progress
-•- in efforts by the I. A. A. to bring about
needed changes in the revenue system of Illi-
nois.

The department of taxation spent a great
deal of time early in 1929 on tax legislation
introduced in the 56th general assembly at
Springfield. The state income tax bill was the
chief revenue measure sponsored. The bill
passed in the senate and lacked only a few votes
of passing in the House. A complete story of
that effort was presented in the special legisla-
tive issue last August. It is apparent from news-
paper comments that the public is coming to
recognize the fact that the general property tax
must be revised and supplemented with a tax
on incomes.

Test Valuations

The department continued its work during
the year in checking assessed valuations in a
number of downstate counties. Tests of valua-
tions were made in such counties as Franklin,
Williamson, St. Clair, Effingham, Henry, War-
ren, Hardin, Pope, and Scott. An interesting
study of land tax valuations was made in La-
Salle county comparing the assessed valuations
on different types of soil with the soil map of
the county. This study showed considerable
variation in the assessed valuations on farms
having the same type of soil.

Director John Watson was called to Iowa and
Utah to testify in hearings before state legis-
lative and revenue commissions on tax reform
legislation in those states. Orders of reassess-
ment were made in Williamson and Franklin
counties by the State Tax Commission follow-
ing information presented by the local Farm
Bureaus and the I. A. A. showing gross inequali-
ties in assessments.

Banquet 4-H Champions

T)OYS' and girls' club work is laying the
J-' foundation for greater progress in the com-
ing generation by the development of an able,
clear thinking and right living farm citizenship.

This was the keynote voiced by speakers at
the annual banquet given to the champions of
the Ilhnois 4-H clubs by the I. A. A. in the
Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, December 4.

"To know that there are 16,000 Illinois boys
and girls engaged in this great enterprise is
inspiring," President Earl C. Smith said in con-
gratulating the champions. "Developing a
leadership capable of solving the problems of
the future is more important than anything
else. If we do that well we need not fear that
agriculture will not achieve equality and its
rightful place in the economic life of the
nation.'*

In a few well-chosen remarks Prof. W. H.
Smith of the University of Illinois emphasized
the fact that the 4-H club champions have only
begun their work, that their achievements are
not the end but only the beginning of future
efforts toward greater things. Prof. Smith is
hopeful that club work may be so developed
in the state that there will be as many boys
and girls in 4-H Clubs as there are Farm Bureau
members.

Nancy Grossboll and Homer Mendenhall
spoke most ably for the 4-H club members ex-
pressing their appreciation for the honors be-
stowed upon them. Ray E. Miller, director of
livestock marketing for the I. A. A., E. I. Pil-
chard and Miss Mary McKee, state club leaders,
presented the medals.

The full list of Illinois members follows:
Nancy Grossboll, Menard, clothing demonstra-
tion; Mary Jeanette Irwin, Menard, clothing
demonstration; Irene Paust, Madison, clothing
judging; Edna Ebcrhart, Madison, clothing judg-
ing; Enid Beal, Henderson, foods demonstra-
tion; Mary Louise Duke, Henderson, foods
demonstration; Evelyn Matteson, Grundy, style
show; Jean Pyatt, Grundy, outfit; Lucille Pifer,
Edwards, health; Mona Bedford, Sangamon, first
year clothing; Helen Sipp, Peoria, second year
clothing; Belinda Hafenrichter, Will, third year
clothing; Bessie Courtright, Wayne, meal plan-
ning; Joy Hardy, Hancock, room improvement;
Freda Stockhecke, Adams, baking; Verna Mur-
ray, Richland, canning; Lester Eaves, Pulaski,
strawberry; Paul Archer, Sangamon, corn; Lewis
Butzow, Iroquois, ewe; Homer Edwards, Lake,
flock management; Kenneth Bcaird, Fulton,
wether; Lester Biehler, Shelby, dairy heifer;
Thomas Chamberlain, Coles, dairy cow; Carl
Mast, Adams, gilt; Keith Brown, Knox, baby
beef; Bert McKee, Marshall-Putnam, litter;
Ward Harris, Randolph, alfalfa; Frank Bower,
Richland, first year poultry; Ralph Parlier,
Macon, dairy calf; Lloyd Inslee, Sangamon, bar-
row; Chelsea Marx, McLean, garden; Ferdinand
Basting, McLean, health; Albert Kamm, Doug-
las, Alfred Kamm, Douglas, Robert Howey,
Douglas, livestock judging team; Virgil Laible,
Marshall-Putnam, livestock judging; Lloyd
Espel, Bureau, Clyde Conley, Bureau, Loren
Hoge, Bureau, dairy judgitxg team; Tyron Ro«-
brook, Lee, Lloyd Breisch, Lee, Arthur Schick,
Lee, meat judging team; Joseph Boyle, Marshall-
Putnam, demonstration team; and Joseph Bum-
garner, Marshall-Putnam, demonstration team.

The Illinois delegation to the National Club
Camp, Washington, D. C, are as follows: Cas-
per Mast, Jr., Adams; Homer Mendenhall, San-
gamon; Mildred Grossboll, Menard; and Lucile
Gochanour, LaSalle.

THP: I. A. A. RECORD

/'»//( Filter)!

i?atimjeW5

Tune in on the I. A. A. Forum from Station
WLS every Tuesday night at 6:30 p. m..
Central Standard Time.

The daily farm program of the I. A. A. from
Station WJJD, Mooseheart (264 meters) is
broadcast between 12:00 and 12:20 p. m., Mon-
day to Friday inclusive. Hear the daily Chicago
livestock market from the Producers, and each
Friday the weekly market review. Outlook
reports, reviews, and talks by 1. A. A. staff
members, officials, and leaders in farm thought
ai e broadcast daily.

A^

N address by R. W. Blackburn, president of

tlic California Farm Bureau Federation, is
sclicduled for the I. A. A. Forum proijr.im fron>
WLS (in Tuesday night, Dec. 10. Mr. Black-
burn has been invited to discuss some of the
activities of his State Farm Bureau together
with farm problems facing organized agricul-
ture on the Pacific Coast.

"When Dairymen Work Together" was the
subject of an interesting one-act playlet broad-
cast by Wilfred Show, Herman Keil, and John
Hagcnstoz of the Illinois Milk Producers' Asso-
ciation "at Peoria, and A. D. Lynch ot the L
A. A. on Tuesday night, November 26. The
play dramati7ed marketing conditions at Peoria
before and after this collective bargaining as-
sociation was organized.

"Insurance Needs of the Farmer" was the
subject discussed on the I. A. A. Forum pro-
gram Tuesday night, Dec. 3. A special Country
Life program during which news of the Decem-
ber campaign was broadcast, came on the air
from Wl.S at 8:>0 p. ni. the same night.

Master Farmers All

Farm Bureau Members

E\T;IIY one of th« 1929 M.iMer Farmers
honored by Prairie Farmer this ye.ir is a
Farm Bureau member. Most of them are
prominent in Farm Bureau work in their re-
spective counties. Frederick ^X'. Boebel of
Naperville, one of the 19, is president of the
DuPage C<iunty Farm Bureau.

The men who were honored at the annual
Master Farmer banquet on the night of Decem-
ber 2 at the Stevens Hotel, Chicago, are as
follows: Frank R. Hubert, Saybrook, McLean
County: Clint Corrington, New Berlin. Sanga-
mon; Frank L. Stout, Chatham, Sangamon; ^X'.
D. .Mobley, Mt. Sterling, Brown; L. D. Arm-
strong, Monmouth, Warren; H. D. Lantz, Bush-
nell, McDonough; W. C. Harris, Aledo, Mercer;
John P. Hanna, Genestoo, Henry; W. H. Lowe,
Aroma Park, Kankakee; Carl F. Frey, Oilman,
Iroquois; Dale Vt'illard, Rossville, Vermilion;
Chester Jackson, Joy, Mercer; F. I. Smucker,
Tiskilwa, Bureau; B. W. Rocke, Tiskilwa, Bu-
reau; Frank V. >X'ilson, Edgewod, Effingham;
Otto Berlage, Galena, JoDaviess; Richard T.
Hall, Bradford, Stark; Frederick ■«'. Boebel,
Naperville, DuPage; and J. W. Hemingway,
Oregon, Ogle County.

These men were chosen not only because they
arc proficient in their profession, but also be-
cause they were active in community service.

"The Producers is the farmer's own
company for the marketing of live-
stock and it is his duty to support it."
John F. Chambers, Godfrey.

TO CHAMPION JUDGE

This beautiful plaque in the form of a
shield contributed by the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association will hang in the agricul-
tural college at the University of Illinois in
honor of the high man from Illinois in tho
annual college liv^tock judging contest held
during the International Livestock Exposition
at Chicago. Ample space is provided for
engraving each year the name of the winner.

Tax Work Important

In I. A. A. '29 Program

Reform in Revenue Legislation
Sought Early In Year

T^FIF, year now closing saw further progress
-*- in ctForis by the I. A. A. to bring about
needed changes in the revenue system ot Illi-
nois.

1 he department of taxation spent a great
deal of time early iri 1929 on tax legislaiitm
introduced in the 56th general assembly at
Springfield. The state income tax bill w.is the
chief revenue measure spi)nsored. 1 he bill
passed in the senate and lacked only a few votes
of passing, in the Ihmse. A complete story of
that effort was presented in the special legisla-
tive issue last August. It is apparent from news-
paper comments that the public is coming to
recognize the fact that the general property tax
must be revised and supplemented with a tax
on incomes.

Test Valuations

The department continued its work during
the year in checking assessed valuations in a
number of downstate counties. Tests of valua-
tions were made in such counties as Franklin,
Vi'illiamson, St. Clair, Effingham, Flenry, \i ar-
rcn, Hardin, Pope, and Scott. An interesting
study of land tax valuations was made in La-
Sallc county comparing the assessed valuati<)ns
on different types of soil with the soil map of
the county. This study showed considerable
'variation in the assessed valuations on farn^s
having the same type of soi_^

Director John Watson was called to Iowa and
Utah to testify in hearings before state legis-
lative and revenue cAnmissions on tax reform
legislation in those states. Orders of reassess-
ment were made in Mi'illiamson and Franklin
counties by the State Tax Commission follow-
ing information presented by the local Farm
Bureaus and the I. A. A. showing gross inequali-
ties in assessments.

to the champions *»t
the 1, A. A. in iHc

Banquet 4-H Champions

BO"! S' and girls" club vvork i> laying the
' foundation for greater progress in the com-
ing generation by the development of an able,
clear thinking and right lining farm ciii/enship.

This was the keynote yoiced by speakers at
the annual banquet given
the Illinois 4-H clubs by
Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, December 4

"To know that there aie I6,0n0 Illinois boys
and girls engaged in th s great enterprise is
inspiring," President F.arl t. Smith said in «.<«
grjtulating the champims
leadership capable of sols
I he future is more imp*
else. If we do that well
.igriculture will not achi

the

"Deseloping 2
ing tile problems of
riant than ansthing
ee need not le.iT that
JVC equality .and its

C'onomic

lite

ot the

rightful place
nation."

In a few well-chosen Remarks Prof. W. H.
Smith of the University (if Illinois eiiiphasi/td
the fact that the 4-II club champions have only
begun .their work, that t|icir achievements arc
not the end but only thii beginning of future
efforts t<iward greater things. Prof. Smith is
hopeful that club work may be so deveUiped
in the state that there \s|ill be as mans boys
and girls in 4-H C^lubs as there are Farm Bureau
members.

Nancy Grossboll and Homer Mendenhall
spoke most ably for the 4-H club members ex-
pressing their appreciation for the honors be-
stowed upon them. Ray f-'.. Miller, director of
livestock marketing for tl»e I. A. .\.. I. 1. Pil-
ihard and Miss Mary Mcl> ee, state club leaders,
presented the inedals.

The full list of Illini
Nancy Grossboll, Menard
lion; Mar>* Jeanelte Irw
demonstration; Irene Pau't, Madison, clothing
judging; Fdna I'berhart, Madison, clothing judg-
ill;.:; Inid Beal, 1 lenders*
tion; Mary Louise Duk
demonstration: I velyn Maitestin, Cirundy, style
show; Jean Pyatt, Grundy outfit; Lucille Pifer,
Edwards, health; Mona Beillord, Sangamon, first
year clothing; Helen Sipp, Peoria, second year
eloihing: Belinda I lafenric it
clothing; Bessie Courtright, Wayne, meal plan-
ning; Joy Hardy. ILuHock, riMim iniprosement ;
Freda Stockheeke, Adams, baking; X'eriia Mur-
ray, Richland, canning; Lester Eavijs, Pulaski,
strawberry; Paul Arefier, Syngjiiifiil. sorii; lew s
But/ow, Iroquois, ewe; Homer Ivdwards, Lake,
flock management; Kenneth Beaird, I ulton,
wether; Lester Biehler, Shelby, dairy heif
Thomas Chamberlain, Coji
Mast, Adams, gilt; Keitl

is members follows:

clothing demonstra-

n, Menard, chuhing

foods denionstra-
Henderson. f(H»ds

rs, dairy diw; Car!
Hross-n, Knox, baby
beef; Bert McKec, Mar. hall-Putnam, littc-r;
Ifalfa; Frank Bower,
try; Ralph Parlier,

U'ard Flarris, Randolph,
Riciiland, first year pou
Macon, dairy calf; Lloyd Inslec, Sangamon, bar
row; Chelsea Marx, McLeJn, garden; Ferdinand
Basting, McLean, health: .Klbert Kamm. Doug-
las, .\lfred Kamm. Dou.Jlas, Robert Ilowey,
Do'jglas, livestock judging, team; Virgil Laible,
Marshall-Putnam, livestook judging; 1 I»i\d
Espel, Bureau, Clvde C'onley. Bureau. I.oren
Hoge, Bureau, dairy judgiiig team; Tyron Ros-
brook, Lcc, Lloyd Breiseh, Lee, Arthur Schick,
Lee, meat judging team; Juiseph Boyle. Marshall-
Putnam, demonstration tcatn: and Joseph Bum-
garner, Marshall-Putnam, demonstration team.
The Jllinots delegation to the National Club
Camp. '^X■ashingtl)n. D. C, are as follows: Cas-
per Mast. Jr., .\dams: Horticr Mendenhall, San-
gamon; Mildred Grossboll, Menard: and I ucilc
GiK'hanour, LaSallc.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD THE

Transportation Service
Covers Wide Field in '29

Representation In Freight Rate and

UtiUty Questions Of Prime

Importance

A CONTINUATION of the many services to
members in transportation and utility rates,
claims, and power line route problems marked
the work of the I. A. A. Transportation De-
partment in 1929. ;

The records show that groups of farmers
were helped in more than a score of rural elec-
trification cases. Many
of these had to do with
rates, others to service
and arrangements with
utility companies to
, take over farmer-
owned transmission
lines. Substantial re-
funds were obtained in
several instances where
rate adjustments were
made.

Telephone Cases

V A number of counties were represented
before the Illinois Commerce Commission in
telephone cases. An annual increase of $4,212 to
farm telephone users in Logan county was pre-
vented when facts were brought before the com-
mission showing that the proposed rtise de-
manded by the company was unwarranted. An
annual increase of $1,000 to farm telephone
users in Boone county likewise was averted.

Loss and damage claims collected fr0m Jan.
1 to Nov. 1 by the Department aggregated
slightly more than $28,000. I

Arguments were prepared for presentation
before the Interstate Commerce Commission in
the western livestock freight rate case iti which
the carriers asked for increases of from 1 5 to

L. J. Quasey
Transportation

20 percent in rates.
ing.

This case is still

pend-

Pipe Line Case

Assistance was given members in a iumber
of central Illinois counties toward protecting
their rights and interests in connection with
the Texas Empire pipe line which enters Illinois
from the southwest oil fields, crossing farm
lands in a northeasterly direction.

Two power line cases in which the Depart-
ment has been active namely, the Superpower
company high line f^om Kewanee to D'xon,
and the Dixon-Freeport line are now up before
the Commission. Farm Bureau members iji four
counties are interested in the outcome. In some
instances the utility companies have charted
their routes across the best farm lands without
due regard to the interests of owners of such
valuable lands. The I. A. A. has intervened in
several cases to establish routes more acceptable
to the landowners, and secure adequate com-
pensation for damages to farm lands.

Service Problems

Proposed abandonment of railroad freighit and
passenger service in several parts of the state
were postponed or prevented when it was shown
that farmers and others residing in such locali-
ties would be greatly damaged thereby. The
Illinois Central has deferred discontinuation of
adequate passenger and express service between
Centralia and Champaign pending the wofking
out of a satisfactory solution to the problem.
A similar case involving the Rock Island South-
ern Railway landowners and shippers in Mercer

county is now under consideration by the State
Commerce Commission. Maintaining the neces-
sary contacts with carriers, public utilities, and
those having to do with public utility and
transportation matters is an important and valu-
able service to the farmers of Illinois.

Farm Bureau in

Livestock Hearing

IT^INAL oral argument before the Interstate
-*■ Commerce Commission as a whole was made
at Washington recently in the western livestock
[rate case. *

L. J. Quasey, director of transportation,
represented the I. A. A. at the hearing. O. W.
Sandburg of the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration, and Fred S. Jackson, special attorney,
were other Farm Bureau representatives who
took a leading part in opposing substantial in-
creases in freight rates asked by the railroads.

The written argument prepared by the I. A.
A. and Farm Bureau representatives proved con-
clusively that livestock production in the corn
belt was not enjoying the great prosperity
claimed for it by the railroads, and at the same
time clearly revealed that the western carriers
are making more money than they have made
for many years.

Eight representative western carriers, for ex-
ample, show an increase of 22 per cent in net
income for the first seven months of 1929 com-
pared with a similar period in 1928.

It was shown that the rate of progression in
.livestock freight rates suggested by the ex-
aminer was too high. The examiner recom-
mended substantial increases in short haul rates
and decreases in long haul rates. Ninety per
cent of the livestock traffic in the western terri-
tory comes from short hauls.

Several producer representatives stated that
the examiner ignored the Hoch-Smith resolution
and granted relief to the carriers rather than
to the farmers.

The recent hearing at Washington con-
cluded a series of 12 similar meetings held dur.<
ing the past two years in different parts of the
United States. It is likely that a decision will
be forthcoming from the Commission within the
next three to four months.

If the proposed increases are granted, Illinois
livestock growers will pay substantially higher
freight rates.

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL MU-
TUAL INSURANCE COMPANY

TAKE notice that the annual meetinc
of the members of the Illinois
Agricultural Mutual Insurance Com-
pany will be held on Wednesday, the
29th day of January, 1930, at the
hour of 1 :00 o'clock P. M., at the
Abraham Lincoln Hotel, Springfield,
Illinois, to elect directors, receive, and,
if approved, confirm the report of the
board of directors of the company for
the fiscal year ending December 31,
1929; and to consider, and, if ap-
proved, ratify and confirm all the acts
and proceedings of the board of di-
rectors done and taken since the last
annual meeting of the members of th-
company; and for the transaction of
such further and other business as may
properly come before the meeting.
Dated at Chicago, Illinois,
December 2, 1929.

GEORGE F. TULLOCK,

Secretary,

Power Line Routes Are
Reviewed By Conunission

Farmers Demand High Lines Be

Routed To Protect Best Lands

Against Damage

\ FURTHER hearing over the proposed route
-^ *- of the Superpower company high line from
Dixon to Kawanee was held before the State
Commerce Commission at Springfield on Dec. 4,
While the outcome of the controversy be-
tween the utility company and land owners
along the proposed route is not yet learned, an
adjustment of differences undoubtedly will be
made.

Landowners complain that utility representa-
tives entered their farms without permission,
tramped down corn and other crops, and dam-
aged fences while surveying for the proposed
route. In attempting a second survey over a
little different route, surveyors complain that
they were driven off several farms.

Want Original Route

The utility company insists on standing by its
original proposal which the Farm Bureau com-
mittees of landowners will not accept because
valuable farm lands will be damaged by a high-
voltage line supported by great steel towers
planted out in the middle of cultivated fields.

Farmers hold that the route should follow
roads and permanent fence lines wherever pos-
sible so as to minimize damages to the best lands.
They feel that compensation offered heretofore
has not been adequate to reimburse them for the
permanent damage and inconvenience suffered.

A pole line is contemplated between Dixon
and Freeport and committees have been ap-
pointed by the interested Farm Bureaus to see
that the interests of their constitutents are pro-
tected.

Rock Island Southern Ry.
Asked to Resume Service

\ HEARING to bring about resumption of
-'^*- freight service on the Rock Island South-
ern Railroad south of Gilchrist to Norwood and
Burgess in western Illinois was held before the
Illinois Commerce Commission in Chicago on
December 6. The transportation department of
the Illinois Agricultural Association, the Mercer
County Farm Bureau, the Warren-Henderson
Oil Company, and others joined in the plea.

Bridges Need Repair

Service through Burgess and Norwood south
to Monmouth was abandoned following the
burning of, a bridge north of Burgess in May,
1928. Since that time these communities have
been without rail transportation necessitating
long hauls of farm products :Over dirt roads.
More than 50 sections of land are damaged by
removal of train service, while grain elevators
and livestock shipping associations in this com-
munity are subjected to heavy transportation
costs.

Engineers for the railroad assert that the ex-
penditure of at least $25,000 will be required
to repair the Pope Creek bridge, in addition to
expenses on other bridges along the right-of-
way.

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"The more livestock the Producer*
are shipped the better service they can
give the farmer." Christ Bunte,
Prairietown.

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Here is an inside view of the offices of the Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Company

Manager J. H. Kelker is seen at the rear I

At Your Servic^

/-p HE Farmers Mutual Reinsurance
1 Company, organized in 1924, under
the insurance laws of Illinois, is at your
service in providing safe protection
against fire, lightning, windstorm, cy-
clone and tornado at the lowest possible
cost. Through a co-operative arrange-
ment with the Illinois Agricultural
Association, overhead is kept at a min-
imum. Efficiency in operation is the
w^atchword.

ALL rates in the Farmers Mutual are
based on classification of property.
The policyholder is given the benefit of
fire prevention measures such as light-
ning rods, fire proof roofs, fire extin-
guishers, fire proof walls, fire hose at-
tached, and ladder permanently at-
tached to provide easy access to the
roof of the building.

"'■■ HE Farmers Mutual makes it pos-
sible to secure all your fire, lightning,
windstorm, cyclone and tornado, and
farm crop hail insurance on a mutual
at cost basis. No risk is too large. ;

WE are organized for service, not for
profit. Our object is to co-operate
with and supplement the fine service
now being given by local township and
county mutuals. |

^T^ HE company has more than $24,
1 000,000 of insurance in force. Its
larger risks are in turn reinsured in a
company with more than $1,000,000
of assets.

, , ARM crop hail insurance was pro-
• vided this year at a cost of only $20
per $1000 of insurance. This repre-
sents a saving of $10 to $15 per $1000
compared with the cost of similar pro-
tection in other companies.

Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Company

608 So. Dearborn St

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Transportation Service
Covers Wide Fieldin '29

Representation In Freight Rate and

Utility Questions Of Prinze

Importance

rvitL's to
itv r.itis.

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VCONI IMA I ION ,.| tiK many si
tiuTiibcis in t r.inspdrl.itittn .nul uul
tI.linl^. .uul pt'W t. r Iuk- route proliK-iii
I Ik- w .trk o| I Ik- I. A. A. TraiiNport.i
p,ii[iiKnt in I ''J'>.

I Ik- rvv onls simw i lut i; roups ol f.irrtUTs ~
WiTc lulpcd 111 ni"tc tli.in .1 scoic ot ri^r.il ckc-
iritu.ition cim."*. M.iny
<.t ilu-i- li.ui to Jo \\ nil
r.itt.-s. 1. 1 \wT\ lo scr\ no
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line*. Siihvi.intul r*.-

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r.iio .uljustniefUs were

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Telephone Cases

A number ttr counties were repio*-cnteil
helore llie lllniois ( oinnuree ( onunisMon iii
teleplione e.i">*.'>. An .iniui.il iiiere.ise ol > i .- I -' to
farm telei^lnme nseis in 1 oi^.ni t.ounlv w as pre-
\entcd ttlieii tacts were hroui;lu before ilic voiu-
itiisNJon sliowini; that tlie proposeil raise Je-
maiuleJ h\ i!ie company was iinwarrant il. An
annual nu rea>.e ot s, i ,nun dt (aim te ephone
users m lioone cinnit\ likewise was axen tl.

I o^s inJ tlamai;e claims collecieJ I ro n Jan.

1 (•• \o\. I b\ the l>eparirneiu ai;i;re.i;ated
slii;litly more ilian SJS.onn.

tt)r presentation
ion in

/.'\rL;iunents were prepa
beYore ilie Interstaie < oninuri.e < oitirnis
tlu\western Iivevtovk 1reti;lit rate case in
I he c jt rurv a^ket,! tor increases ot t rom
^H^-yTr^enl In rates. I his case is still

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peiul-

Pipe Line Case

Assistance \^ as ,L;i\en meiiiljers in a iiiuml>er
of central Illmois eounties io\\,iril proiecmi.i;
tiieir rii^lits an^l inieresis in eon nee t ion with
the leNas I mpire pipe line which enters lllittois
ftoin iIk- s.niihwest »ni tieMs. v rossiuj; tatin
iarujs in a northeasterh direction.

I \\M^ \^'\\ er line cases in wlucli the Hipart
rnent has Ihiii acti\e nameK. the Superpower
Coniparjx huh line I rtini Kew iiiee to
and the I )i \on-| reeport line are now iij'

>i\un,
ef.
the ( ommissitm. I arm Bureau members ii four

unties aie interested in liie (uucorne. In
nstances the utility companies have cl

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some
arted

lluir rtnites across the best farm lands without
tine regard to the interests ot owners ot such
\aluable laiuls. The I. A. A. lias interxeiied in
several ca^-es to establish routes more .icceptable
(o the iandowiiers. and se«.i?re adet|uaie com-
pensat ion lor ^iama^es to t it m lands.

Service Problems

Pro[>«»sed abandonment of railroad frei.i;Iii and
passenger s^i \ ice m several parts ol t lie state
were posip.. ned or pre\ented when it was sliow ii
tliat 1 irmers and ot Iters resulmi; in wwh Int. ali-
ties v\..u!d be .i:reaily damai;ed thereby. The
Illinois ( (.nirat has deterred diseontinuatioi ol
ade>|uate passen:;er and express ser\ive bel veen
tentralia .\uk\ ( hampai>;n pendini; the workini;
t>ut ot a s.iiisl.iv i.irv solution to tlie prolleni.
A slimlar ease involving; the Ki»ck Island Sttalh-
crn Kailujy laiuiowner'k and sliippcrs in .Mi rccr

1. ouiu > is nt>w uiuler eonsuleration b\ t he State
Commerce C t»mmission. Mainlaimni; tlie neces-
s.iry I oiuacis with c.irriei s, public iiiitiiies, and
I ht>\e ha\ nii; to do with public utiliiv aiul
irfiiisporiation matters is an important and valu-
. able service to the tarmers ot Illinois.

Farm Bureau in

Livestock Hearing

I^^IXAI. oral ari;umeiit belore the Interstate
' < innmene t oinmission .is a whole wa*. made
at \\'ashmi;toii resentlv in the western li\estock

■ rale i. ase.

I. J. l,>uase\ . director ot transportation,
ripreseiiievj liie I. A. A. at the hearm.i;. t>. W.
Sanilbuii; <»t ilie .Xmene.m larm Uure.iii \ ed-

• era I ion, ami I reii S. Jackson, vpecial at torriey,

, w ere other I .irm Itureau representatives who
took a leadiiij; pari in opposin>; substantial in-
creases in trei>;hl rales asked by the railroads.
I he w rit ten .ir>;umeiU prepa reil by the I. A.
A. aiui I aim liureau represent.!! i\ es proxeil con-
clusi\el\ that lixestok. k produ«.tion in the corn
belt was tiot enioyin.i; ihe k^'*-'-*' prosperity
plumed tt>r it In the railroads, and al the same
lime clearlv revealed thai the western carriers
are makim; mure money than ihey have made

"tor man> \ears.

I i>;ht representative western carriers, for ex-
ample, show .xn inerease of Zl per cent in nei
iiKtMiie (or the ftfsi si\i.n nionlhs nt I*'.?*' eoni-
j^ared with a sinular period in l''JS.

II was shown thai the rate of progression in
li\estovk lreii;Iil rates sui;i;ested I'v the e\-
.iininer was tt«» h^^h. Ihe examiner re<.oni-
meiuled substantial mereases in simrt li.uil rates
til id ilei. leasis in lom; h.iul r.ites. N'lnet v per
cent 4«t the li\estot.k t rathe in ihe western terri-

|ot V Comes t lorn short h.iuls.
r
Several producer representatives stated that
(he exaininer ii;iioreil the I loeh-Smith resolmitm
and granted reliel to the tamers ratlur than
to the farmers.

Ilie recent liear^ni; at \\ ashin.cton con-
cluded a series ol I J' similar meetings held diir-
iiii: the past two \iais m ditiereni parts of tlie
United St.ites. It is likely that a decision will
Ik- torlhctinnn,:; t rotii rlie Commission within ihe
ne\l three to lour montlis.

. It the proposed inereases are >;raTUed, lllini'is
Ii.vestoik i; rowers will pay substantially liii;her
trei.uht rates.

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL MU-
TUAL INSURANCE COMPANY

TAKE notico that the nnnual mtTtinE;
of the monibers of thf Illinois
A^ritultiir;il Mutual Insurance Com-
p.iiiy will be held on Wednesday^ the
29th day of January, 1930. .it* the
hour of 1 :00 o\lock P. M., at the
Abraham Lincoln Hotel, Sprini;field,
Illinois, to elect directors, receive, and.
if approved, t ontirni the report of the
board of directors of the company for
t\\v fiscal year endini; Deceniher 31 ,
1929; and lo consider, and, if ap-
;>roved, ratify and confirm all the acts
and proceedings of the IxKird of di-
rectors done and talcen since th«' List
annii.il meeting of the members of th ■
company: and for the transaction of
such further .tnd other husiness as may
properly come In'fore the meeting.
Oated at Chicago, Illinois.
December 2, 1929.

GEORGE F. TULLOCK.

Secretary.

Power Line Routes Are
Reviewed By Commission

Farmers Demand High Lines Be

Routed To Protect Best Lands

Against Damage

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^ ■ 4"l I lie Superpower *.-omp.iiiy lii^ii line from
l)i\oii lo K.IW.IIICO w.is lielil betore llie Stjlc
I oiiHiierie t oinniissioii .it Sprliii;!ield on Dee. ^.
\\ liile llie oiitcoiiie nt tfle loiilnner'.y lie-
i"eeii llie iiiilitv eoiiip.iny ' .uul l.iiul owners
.iliiiii; llie propo\eJ route is not yet le.irneil, .in
.iJluslniein ot ililfereiKcs iiiuloubteiliy will be
iii.ule. .

1 .iiulowners coin|i|.ijii tli.it utility lepresem.i-
tives entered llieir l.iniis witlioiil perinissioii.
ir.iniped down eorii .iiul otiier erops, .iiid d.ini-
.l,i;eil tetues while siirxexiiii; inr the proposed
route. In .itteiii(>«ini; ,i seeoiul sursev over a
little dillerent route, siirve\ors eonipl.iin tliat
tlu-\ were dri\eii oil se\er.il l.irnis.

Want Original Route

llie uiiliu loiup.iiiv lllMsl^ oil si.uulini; by its
oriijiii.il propos.il wliieli tlie I jrni llure.iu eoni-
niittees o( l.iiulowners will not aceepi because
v.ilu.ible l.inu l.irids will be d.iin.i.i;ed by J liisli-
\.i|l.ii;e line supporled by f;re.it steel towers
pl.inled out in llie middle of eiiltiv.iled liclds.

1 .irmers hold tll.it tlie route slioulj lollow-
ro.uls .ind periiKinenl ienee lines wlierever pos-
Mble so .IS to iiiininii/e d.im.li;es to the best lands.
I liey teel lli.it eoinpens.iiion ollered heretofore
li.is not l»een .ide(|ujle to reimburse iheni for the
ivnii.ineni d.ini.i,i;e .ind ineonvenienee sutfered.

A pole line is Conteinpl.iied betsveen l)i\on
.iiul I reeport .uul eoinniiltees Ii.ive been .ip-
poinied bv tlie interested l.uin liure.ius to sec
tli.it the interests of their eoiittitutents jrc pro-
letted, "l

Rock Island Southern Ry.
Asked to Resume Service

\ lir.\RI\G to brini; .ibotit resumption of
' * treii;ht service tin the Koek Isl.uid .South-
ern K.iiliii.id'Nouili of (liUhrist to N'oruivid and
biiri;ess in western Illinois w .is lieKlf before the
Illinois C omnieree C'omniission in ( liie.i,i;o »ni
Deeeniber 6. Ihe transportation ilepartmcnl of
the Illinois A;;ricultaral Association, the .Mercer
( ouniv larm Bureau, the \X'arreii-l leiulerson
l>il ( ompaiiy, and others j. lined in the plea.

Bridges Need Repair

Servue lludiuli lSiiri;e'.s and Norwuod south
lo Moiimoutli was abandoned followiiu; the
inirnini; ol a bridi;e north of IJunjevs in .\lav.
I''JS. Since thai time these cominuniiies have
been without rail transportation necessitating
loiii; hauls ot fjrni products over dirt roads.
\bire than Wi sections of land are daiiia,i;ed by
removal of train service, while >;raiii elevators
uul livcsiock shippii^ associations in ihis eoiii-
iiuinity are subjected to heavy t raiispurtation

tosls.

I iu;ineers lor the railroad assert that ihe ex-
iviuliliire of at least sJi,(Ml0 will be reipiired
1.1 repair the I'opc ( reek brid,i;e, in addilion lo
expenses on other bridjjes along the rinht-of-
u .1 \ .

"The more livestock the Producers
are shipped the better service they can
give the farmer." Christ Bunte,
Prairietown.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

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Here is an inside view of the offices of the Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Company
Manager J. H. Kelker is seen at the rear

HE Farmers Mutual Reinsurance
Company, organized in 1924, under
the insurance laws of Illinois, is at your
service in providing safe protection
against fire, lightning, windstorm, cy-
clone and tornado at the lowest possible
cost. Through a co-operative arrange-
ment with the Illinois Agricultural
Association, overhead is kept at a min-
imum. Efficiency in operation is the
watchword.

LL rates in the Farmers Mutual are
based on classification of property.
The policyholder is given the benefit of
fire prevention measures such as light-
ning rods, fire proof roofs, fire extin-
guishers, fire proof walls, fire hose at-
tached, and ladder permanently at-
tached to provide easy access to the
roof of the building.

HE Farmers Mutual makes it pos-
sible to secure all your fire, lightning,
windstorm, cyclone and tornado, and
farm crop hail insurance on a mutual
at cost basis. No risk is too large.

E are organized for service, not for

profit. Our object is to co-operate

with and supplement the fine service

now being given by local township and

county mutuals.

HE company has more than $24,

000,000 of insurance in force. Its

larger risks are in turn reinsured in a

company with more than $1,000,000

of assets.

ARM crop hail insurance was pro-
vided this year at a cost of only $20
per $1000 of insurance. This repre-
sents a saving of $10 to $15 per $1000
compared with the cost of similar pro-
tection in other companies. i

Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Company

608 So. Dearborn St.
CHICAGO

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

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Auto Insurance — A Farm Bureau Service

PROTECTING Farm Bureau members i^iimi
loss in their travels by auto and truck over
the highways and by-ways of Illinois is thif serv-
ice rendered by the Illinois Agricultural Mutual
Insurance Co.

Inaugurated only two and one-half yeaW ago
to provide auto insurance at cost for members,
this Farm Bureau owned and controlled com-
pany has grown consistently until today it has
nearly 20,000 mem-
bers. This growth
means satisfied policy
holders and demon-
strates the confidence
members have in their
organization.

The Company today
has assets of almost
$5 00,000 invested
mostly in federal land
bank notes, U. S. treas-
ury notes, treasury
certificates, and Lib-
erty Loan bonds. These
represent the premium

deposit and surplus held in trust for the policy
holders.

The Illinois Agricultural Service Co. it the
corporate manager, A. E. Richardson the active
manager. Acquisition and field service is linder
the supervision of V. Vaniman, director ot in-
surance service for the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation. M. E. Roberts of Edinburg assists
in field work in central Illinois, and G. R. Wil-
liams of Salem in Southern Illinois.

The fact that the company has nearly
doubled in assets and policy holders during the
past year has necessitated an increase in bffice

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workers charged with the details of maintain-
ing prompt, efficient service. A short sketch
supplemented with a few pictures will help
acquaint each member with the personnel in

M. E. Roberts
Field Service

A. E. Richardson
Manager

charge of the various divisions of work.

Without the Farm Bureau organization the
company could not have grown to its present
size in only two and one half years. The suc-
cess it has achieved is due to farmers' ability
to work together, to do things for themselves.
Every accomplishment inspires confidence and
prepares the way for the more difficult tasks
ahead.

The responsibility for insurance acquisition
for the Illinois Agricultural Mutual now rests
largely with the general insurance agents in the
counties. That they have been active in the
past year is revealed in the steady increase in
number of policies since January 1.

More than one-third of the Farm Bureau
members in Illinois have their automobiles and
trucks insured in their own company. This
record made in about
two and one-half years
is a tribute to the serv-
ice given and ample
proof of the demand
for a Farm Bureau
company.

"I certainly appre-
ciate my policy in the
Farm Bureau company.
Every member, it seems
to me, ought to use his
organization and its
many kinds of serv-
ice," wrote one satis-
fied policy holder. "I
am telling my neighbors how much I appre-
ciate insurance at cost in my own company,
the Illinois Agricultural Mutual."

Letters of this kind have been numerous.
They indicate that members are learning to use
their organization, are appreciative of the serv-
ice available.

The experience farmen gain through collec-
tive effort in making such services available to
themselves at minimum cost, is cumulative
and will fit them for the more difficult task of
co-operative selling of farm products.

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Writes Most Policies

TTIGH man for the year in the number of
-*--*- auto policies written in the Illinois Agri-
cultural Mutual is the record established by C.
E. Hopkins, general agent in Livingston county.
Mr. Hopkins served for a number of years as
associate agricultural adviser before getting into
the insurance field.
While Livingston
county is not yet in
the upper cru^* in the
percentage of members
holding auto policies, it
is coming to the front
rapidly.

Following are the 10
highest counties in the
percentage of Esrm
Bureau members hold-
ing policies in the com-
pany. The fact that
several are over the
100 per cent mark
means that nearly every member has a policy
and that many have two or more cars or trucks
insured in their own company.

DuPage ._ 15l7o Clinton 6*%

Cook ...102% Williamson 63%

Winnebago 78% Boone _.. 59%

Will 73% LaSalle 58%

Wabash 71% Montgomery 5<%

Accident Prevention

By V. Vanlman

ACCIDENT prevention is a chief concern of
'- the Illinois Agricultural Mutual because
that is :he surest way to low cost.

All auto accidents are regrettable — most of
them preventable. Invariably the other fellow
is at fault. "Why didn't the fool, etc., etc.,"
is often heard after an accident. Drive care-
fully you might meet a fool. Drive carelessly
and two fools might meet with sad results.

"If I had known," said the man, about the
gun that he thought wasn't loaded. "Bright
lights were coming toward me and I couldn't
see." is an excuse som-itimes given for an acci-
dent. Isn't it good advice, when driving a car,
to slow down if you can't see what is ahead?
Stepping on the gas when you can't see what ^
is ahead is one way to keep from growing old. .^

Good drivers don't take any more chances
than necessary. They know it may be possible

Frank Billinffs
Claims

Evelyn J. Ernst
Secretary

Helen Ekberg:
Employers' Liability

Margaret Lauritzen
Assessments

Here are the four assistants in the Illinois Agricultural Mutual office who are charged
with carrying out necessary details in serving the policyholder.

Frank Billings handles the claims in the office in co-operation with the local adjusters
who are located in all the counties where policies are written. Evelyn J. Ernst is secretary
to Manager A. £. Richardson, in the automobile division. Helen Ekberg is in charge of the
Employers' Liability records ani accounts, and Margaret Lauritzen supervises preparation
of assessment notices.

to be "dead right" and also be dead a long time.
Because people think, they become more in-
telligent. The thinking auto driver knows that
there is the possibility of an accident, even
while driving with care; consequently he avoids
taking any unnecessary chances, and gives due
consideration to the thought — ^"How can I avoid
accidents?"

of this Company carry a full coverage policy
on their cars.

Over 4,600 claims have been filed with the
company and prompt settlement has been the
• policy of this co-operative insurance project of
the Illinois Agricultural Association. Checks
ranging from 40c to $7,700 have been issued.
No claim is too large or too small to receive
careful attention.

Forms of Auto Insurance

ALL forms of coverage to protect the farmer
^ against loss by reason of the ownership or
operation of his car are written.

Public liability which protects him against
claims made by one who might be or claim to
be injured by his car can be had in amounts
ranging from $5,000 to $100,000.

Property damage which protects the farmer
against claims made by other people for dam-
aged property is a very popular form of cover-
age.

Collision insurance which protects the owner
against loss by reason of the damage to his own
car is also very popular for the reason that the
cost of this insurance is so very reasonable. For
example, in the last two and one-half years this
form of coverage has cost the farmer $1.40 on
a Ford.

Fire, theft, windstorm and theft of spare tires
when locked to the car insurance is also avail-
able. In fact, most all of the policy holders

Employers* Liability
Insurance

ON September 1, 1929 the company made
available employers' liability insurance for
Farm Bureau members. The policy protects
farm employers against claims for damages
rnade against them by their hired help. Illinois
farmers realize that while they do not come
under the State Compensation Act, yet they are
subject to the common law liability of negli-
gence. For this reason there has been an appreci-
able demand for this type of insurance.

^^hile insurance experience in this field is
limited and no effort is being made to "sell"'
this service, that it is appreciated is seen by the
fact that more than 1000 Farm Bureau mem-
bers have taken out employers' liability policies.
This branch of the company is expected to
have a steady growth as farmers become aware
of the need for this pro^tion.

An interior view of the home office showing employees of the Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Company,
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I )K(^ri < I INC. I.inn Ilurc.ui incniUrs
■ losN in ilu-ir travels by .iuit> ami tnn
tiiL- liii;li\v.i>N and hy-wavN tit l!!imii% is il
ivc rtiuKriJ In ihi; lilituiis A>;riciiltiir.il \|I
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Iii.uiuui .itv\l only tw i> .nu) (inc-ii.il 1 v ^.i
lo prt)\ kIc auto insiiriruc .u fusi tor rue
tIms I arm lUtrcau iiwrnd aiul O'TunillcJ
parn Iun >;riiwn consistcnity until lojjy it has
luarU 2n.in»ii nicm-
luTs. I Ills >;r'»« il'

lIK■all^ S-ltlst'Cll pUlK y

ImlJcrs ami dcjuoti
M rall■^ tlu- vditidciKc
nunihc -* Ii.i^ f »n ihcir
oruain/ation.

Tlu- C oinpany iiida\
has assets ot almost
SUtUJMHI i II \ I- s t I. J
tnusil y in tciKral larul
hank n»»iis. I'. S. irc.i^-
iir\ imics, trvasiir\
t.».Ttili*.atcs, and l.ib-
criv I tiati bonds. "Ilu-sc
represent tlie premium

deposit Awd surplus lield Ifi trust for t!ie \
l.olders.

The lllmois Ai;rieuhural Service Co. i. the
i.irporate nianai;er, A. V.. Ricliardson the ;ietive
manager. Aciiuisit ion and tield ser\iee is iinde
the supervision of \. Vaniman, director of in-
surance service for tite Illinois A^riculiura
sociation. M. r.. Rt»l>eris of lldinburi; . ssisis
in tield w*)rk in central IIlin»>is. and Ci. R. NX il-
lianis ol Salem in S»»uiliern Illinois.

The lact iliat the company lias UL-arly
doubled in assets .md p<»licy holders durin. the
past vear has necessitated .\\\ iuv rease in »tti\.

>;ainst workers char,i;cd with the details of maintain-
over in>; prompt, ethcient ser\ice. A short sketch
\er\ - supplemented witli a lew pictures w ill help
utual ai.juaini each member with the personnel in

A. E. Richardson
Manager

char>;e of the various divisions 4>t work.

'Without the I arm Bureau ori;ani/aiion tlie
company could not have >:rown ut its present
si/c in *)nly two and i>ne half years. riie suc-
cess it has achieved is due to farmers* ability
tij work together, to di» things fi>r tliemselves.
I \ery a*.eomplisliment inspires contidetue .\u>\
prepares the way U>r the more dithcuh tasks
ahead.

The responsibility for Insurance .icquisiiitm
tor the llhnois A>;ricullural Mutual now rests
largely with the general insurance ai;ents in the
counties. "I hat tliejf have been active in the
past year is revealed in the steady increase in
number of policies since January I.

More than one-third of the larm Bureau
memliers in Illinois have their automobiles and
trucks insured in their own company. Thi-*
record made in about
two and one-half ye«rs
is a tribute to the serv-
ice j;iven and ample
proof of the demand
for a Farm Bureau
compan\'-

"I certainly appre-
ciate my policy in the
larm Bureau company,
(very ntember, it seems
(o me, i>u,i;lit i<i use his
t»rj;ani/.ation and its
many kinds of serv-
ice," wrote one satis-
fled policy holder. "I
am lellin.i; my nei>;hbors how much I appre-
ci.iie insurance at cost in my own company,
tiie Illinois A>;ricultural Mutual."

Letters of this kind have been numerous,
i !iey indicate that members are learning; io use
their organization, arc appreciative of the serv-
ice available.

The experience farmers j;ain through collec-
tive edort in makin>* such services available to
tliemselves at minimum cost, ts cumulative
and will fit them lor the more ditficult task of
co-operative selling ot farm products.

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1 lIGIl man ior tlic yc.ir in the number at
■ * auiii ptilicioN written in llic Illinois A>;ri-
tiiltur.il Muiu.ll is the record established by C\
I., llopkins. general a,i;ent in Livingston count \.
M 1 . 1 iopkins ser\ed tor a number ol years .i ,
associate a.m'iL uliura! adviser before .i^etiitii; inii

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While I I \ i n l; s I M II
vMunty is n..t \ei in
the upper cri> * in ili
pereeniaut-" ol nienihei
iiojdini; auto policies, ii
IS comin,i; to the tront
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lolhiuini; are the 10

111 i; lust coil lilies in tiie

percentage ot liirm

bureau members ho^d-

ini4 ptdicies in thecom-

j>.inv. The taet that

several are over the

I no per cent mark

means that nearly every member has a polie>

and thai many have two or more ^ars or trucks

insured in their own company.

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Accident Pretention

By V. Vaniman

4(XJI)1 \r prevention is a chiet concern of
' *- the lllin<Hs A>;ricultural Mutual because
that is ;he surest way to low cost.

All auto accidents are rci^rettable — most of
them preventable. Invariably the other felhtw
i\ at fault. ">X'liy didn't the tool. etc.. etc.,"
is often heard after m\ accident. I)ri\ e care-
fully you mii;ht meet a fool. Drive carelessly
and two t<K)ls nii);ht meet with ^ad results.

"If I had known," said the man, about the
>;un that he thought wasn't biaded. "bright
li>;hts were coming toward nie and I couldn't
see." is an excuse som 'limci given for an acci-
dent. Isn't it >;ood advice, when driving a car,
to slow down it you can't see what is ahead?
Sieppinj; i)n the gas when you can't see what
is ahead is one way to keep from growing old.

(.i«K>d drivers don't take any more chances
than necessary. They know it may be possible

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Frank Billings
Claims

Evelyn J. Ernst
Sccrelai'y

Helen Ekber?
Employers' Liability

Margaret Lauritrrn
Asst'sstm-nts

Here are the four assistants in the Illinois Agricultural Mutual ofifice who ar*' chartjt-d
with carrying out necessary details in serving the policyholder.

Frank Billings handles the claims in the office in co-operation with the loc.it adjusters
who are located in .ill the counties where policit-s are written. Evelyn J. Ernst is secretary
to Manager A. E. Richardson, in the automobile division. Helen Ekberg is in charge of the
Employers' Liability records and accounts, and Margaret Laurit^en &i«pervi&es preparation
of assessment -notices. J

l») be "dead right" and also be dead a lon^ time,
liecause (H'ople think, they become more in-
telligent. The iliinkinj; auto driver knows that
tliere is the pi>ssilMlit\ »»( an accident, even
while driving with care; consequently be avoids
taking any unnecessary chances, and gives due
consideration to liie thoui;iit — "li«)W can 1 avoid
accidents.-"'

Forms of Auto Insurance

41 L forms of coverage to protect the tarmer
■L » .n;,iinst loss by reason 4it the ownership or
operation of his car are written.

Public liability which protects him against
elaims made by one wht> might be <ir claim to
be injured by his car can be had in amounts
ranging friHii S^,00(J to SlOU.OOO.

IVoperty damage which protects the farmer
against claims made by other people for dam-
aged pro[Hrty is a very popular tt»rm of cover-
age.

C ollision insurance vv hi. h proie^ ts the ow n:r
against loss by reason of the damage to his own
car is alsii very popular for the reason that tiie
cosi ot this insurance is so very reasonal>le. lot
example, in the last twtt and t>ne-half years this
form of coverage has Ci>st the tarmer 'sl.4u on
a lord.

lire, theft, windstorm ^l^d theft ot spare tires
when locked to the car insurance is also avail-
able. In tact, mitst all ot the policv holders

of this < (tmpany carry d full coverage policv
on their cars.

(.>ver 4.600 claims hax^- been tiled wiih the
company and prompt settlement has been the
policy ot this co-o[HTativ| insurance pr4i(ect ol
the Illinois A>;ricultural ' AssiK-iation. C'luvkA
ranging trtnn 4Uc to S7.^0»l have been issued.
No claim is tint lari:e or; i«m) small ti) re*.eive
caret ul at tention.

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Employers' Liability
Insurance

N September t, 142* the companv made

av ailal>le emplo\ ers"
1 arm Bureau members.
tarni employers against

aab !n\ tnsur.ince for
I he polu V prote-. Is
claims tor damai;es

made a;;ainsi theni b\ tluir hired help. Mbnoi

t armers reali/c that win

e thev do not come

under the State C on)pensa[ion .\ct, \et thev ar.-
sul>|et. t to the common
gence. I »»r this reason the
able demand for this tyjse

>\ lule insurance exper eiKc in this field i

limited and no eff»»rt i^ b^ini; made to "sell "
this service, that it is 2ppreviaieJ is seen by the
fact thai more than looit I arm liureau mem-
bers lKi\e taken out empi ■

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have a steady >;rowih a

of the need tor this pro

1 aw liability ot nei:b-
-e has been an appre*.i
*»t insurance.

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iiy piHicies.
bra IK h ot the company is expected to
farmers become aware
ectitin.

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TENTATTVK PROGRAM

15th Annual Convention Illinois Agricultural Association and Meetings of Associated Companies
and Organizations, Springfield. III., January 29, 30 and 31, 1930

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 29, 1930

9:30A.M. — Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball League
Palm Room — Abraham Lincoln Hotel —
4th Floor

10:00 A.M. — Annual Meeting pf Illinois Farm Bureau
Serum Assn., Banquet Hall, Leland
Hotel— 2nd Floor

Meeting of Country Life Insurance Com-
pany, Ballroom, Abraham Lincoln Hotel
— 4th Floor

Mutual Ins. Co. Ballroom, Abraham
Lincoln Hotel — 4th Floor
Annual Meeting of Illinois Agricultural
Co-operatives Assn — Palm Room,
Abraham Lincoln Hotel — 4th Floor

,11:00 A.M. — Annual Meeting of Illinois Agricultural
Holding Co., Room "I" — Abraham Lin-
coln Hotel

1 :15 P.M. — Annual Meeting of Illinois Agricultural

THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1930
9:00 A.M. — Group Singing
9:15 A.M. — Invocation
9:30 A.M. — Address of Welcome, Mayor
Music
iO;00 A.M. —President's Address— Earl C. Smith

Appointment of Committees
10:45 A.M. — Report of Secretary — G. E. Metzger
11:30A.M. — Treasurer's Report— R. A. Cowles
Credentials Committee Report

Atternoon
(Sectional Conference Programs)
Organization and Information:

1:15 — Banquet Room — Leland Hotel — 2nd Floor
Public Relations:

1:15— Y. W. C. A. Bldg.
Marketing:

1:15 — Ballroom, Abraham Linjcoln Hotel
'Financial Business Service:

Credentials Committee desk — East end
of the lobby, Abraham Lincoln Hotel
Information and Registration Desk —
East end of the lobby
Resolutions Committee — Room 501,
Abraham Lincoln Hotel
I. A. A. temporary office — Room "C"
4th Floor, Abraham Lincoln Hotel
6:30 P.M. — Farm Advisers' and County Presidents'
Banquet — 2nd Floor, Leland Hotel

I ANNUAL MRETINfi

Illinois \iiticulnital As.uHiaiinti I i

Majestic Theatre !

1:15 — Ballroom, St. Nicholas Hotel '

Home and Community:

1 : 15— Palm Room, Abraham Lincoln Hotel

4:00 P. M. (District Conferences) I

11th District — Palm Room, Abraham Lincoln
12th District — Palm Room, Abraham Lincoln
13th District — Room D, Abraham Lincoln
14th District — Room I, Abraham Lincoln i

15th District — Room K, Abraham Lincoln !
16th District — Ballroom, Abraham Lincoln
1 7th District — Ballroom, Abraham Lincoln
18th District — Banquet Room, Leland Hotel
19th District — Banquet Room, Leland Hotel
20th District — Sun Room, Leland Hotel
21st District— No. Ordinary, St. Nicholas Hotel
22nd District— Parlor, St. Nicholas
23rd District — Ballroom, St. Nicholas i

24th District^Ballroom, St. Nicholas
25th District — Japanese Room, St. Nicholas

PROGRAM

Election of Ofificers and Executive Committee-
men

Music by band during banquet and by Pawnee
Quartette throughout evening

Annual Banquet — 6 :30 P.M. — January 30, 1930— State
Armory, President Earl C. Smith, presiding

1. Introduction of Guests |

2. Address — Hon. Frank O. LOwden

3. Business Session

- , Friday, Jan. 31, 1930

9:00 A.M. — Business Session — l^tajestic Theatre 1:30 P.M. — Address — Hon. Arthur M. Hyde, Sec'y

Music ,*!' of Agriculture

Report of Conferraces Adoption of Resolutions

Address: '"ErtUYsport^tion Problems Con- Consideration of By-Laws

fronting Agriculttne*'^ Speaker to be an- New Business

nounced Adjournment

Reading of Resolutions Music by orchestra and by Pawnee Quar-

12:00 Noon — Luncheon at State Armory i tette throughout luncheon

Introduction of Guests I ■

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Number 1

January, 1930

Volume 8

Sectional Conferences

Are Always Interesting

Five Thursday Afternoon Meetings
Planned

FIVE sectional conferences will be held
between 1:00 and 4:00 P. M. on
Thursday afternoon, Jan, 30. These will
be devoted to Marketing, Public Relations,
Organization and Information, Financial
Business Service, and Home and Com-
munity.

The marketing conference promises to be
of unusual interest in view of the rapid
development in that field during recent
months. Members of the Federal Farm
Board hav& been invited to attend the con-
vention and any who come will be given
an opportunity to speak either during the
marketing conference or at some other ses-
sion of the convention.

Problems of organization will be given
a prominent place at the Organization-In-
formation conference. There will be a
short discussion on publicity.

Program For Women

Mrs. Homer Johnson, president of the
Ilhnois Home Bureau Federation, has framed
an elaborate program for the women at the
Home and Community conference. This
program is presented more fully elsewhere.

The business and commercial activities of
the I. A. A. and associated companies
naturally will be considered at the Financial
Business Service meeting.

Legislation, taxation, and transportation
problems will be the drawing card for those
who attend the Public Relations confer-
ence.

In past years many counties have fol-
lowed the practice of organizing their dele-
gations so that at least one from each
county attended the various conferences.
This practice is resulting in keeping every
county in close touch with problems before
the state organization and with experiences
and developments in other counties.

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Ins. Co.

"Received your check today and I am
well satisfied. I appreciate the promptness
in the way you handled this matter."

C. J. Talbott,
Kirkwood, Warren County, 111.

LAST CALL
This is the last call for reservations
for rooms, banquet and luncheon
tickets for the 1. A. A. annual meeting.
If you have not already done so, write
the Sangamon County Farm Bureau,
Springfield, at once. Send check with
your order for dinner and luncheon
reservations. Tickets are $1.50 each.

/. A. C. A. Meeting

The annual meeting of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Co-operatives Association on Jan-
uary 29 will convene at 1:00 P. M., as in-
dicated in the program on page 2.

Talks will be made by George Jewett,
president of the Transportation Bank of
Chicago, and Harrison Fahrnkopf, director
of Grain Marketing for the I. A. A. Presi-
dent George L. Potter of Graymont will
preside. Following the talks there will be
an open discussion on three questions, as
follows:

1. Natural fiscal years.

2. Preliminary checking to utilize spare
time of the staflf.

3. Organization work by member com-
panies.

Following the reports of the various com-
mittees, directors will be elected for the en-
suing year.

Delegates!

Soon after their arrival voting delegates
should go to the east end of the lobby in
the Abraham Lincoln hotel and obtain their
credentials. All accredited delegates will
be provided with free tickets for the ban-
quet on Thursday night and for the lunch-
eon the following day.

^^^'COMif

Lively Baseball Meet

Expected At Capitol

A LIVELY time is expected at the an-
nual meeting of the Illinois Farm
Bureau Baseball League, Wednesday morn-
ing, Jan. 29.

While the League operated more smooth-
ly with its 21 member teams last season
than ever before, a nimiber of problems
were taken before the state arbitration com-
mittee for final settlement. More definite
legislation undoubtedly will be asked for at
the coming meeting to clear up misunder-
standings and moot questions.

For the first time in its history the
League voted to compel deposits of $25
each from the various teams to insure ful-
filment of scheduled games. Failure to re-
port for a regularly scheduled game, or
to make satisfactory postponement arrange-
ments, would have resulted in a forfeiture
of the $25 deposit. This provision had a
salutary afFect in making all teams ad-
here closely to their schedules.

As in past years eligibility, the method
of playing off the semi-final and final games,
umpiring, and interpretation of rules and
by-laws are questions expected to come
before the business session. The entire
meeting will be devoted to League business.
No speaker has been scheduled.

Election Directors

The nomination of I. A. A. executive com-
mitteemen from the even-numbered dis-
tricts will be held on Thursday afternoon at
4:00 P. M. The place for holding each
district conference will be found on page
2. Delegates from the odd-nimibered dis-
tricts will hold short business sessions.

Following are the executive committee-
men from the even numbered districts:
12th, G. F. Tullock; 14th. M. G. Lambert;
16th, A. R. Wright; 18th, R. F. Karr;
20th, Charles S. Black; 22nd, Frank
Oexner; and 24th, Charles Marshall. The
executive committeemen are elected for
two-year terms. The election will take place
after the dinner Thursday night.

Harry C. Butcher recently left the Na-
tional Fertilizer Association to accept a job
as Washington representative of the Colum-
bia Broadcasting Cqmpany.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

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CCLTVRAL ASSOCIA

RECORD

To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized,
namely to promote, protect and represent the business, economic,
political, and educational interests oj the farmers of Illinois and the
nation, and to develop agriculture.

Publuhed once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave., Mount Morris,
Illinois, by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Entered as second-
class matter October 20, 1925, at the post office at Mount Morris,
Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 187B. Accented for mailins at
special rate of postage provided for in Section 412, Act of February
28, 1926, authorized October 27, 1925. , The individual membership
fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five dollars a year. The
fee includes payment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois
Agricultural Association Record. Postmaster : In returning an un-
called for or missent copy please indicate key number on address as
is required by law.

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OFFICERS I

President. Earl C. Smith J>etralt

Vice-President, Frank D. Barton 1 _ Cornell

Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger — J. -..Chicago

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles i Bloomington

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

(By Congressional District)

1st to nth _ — H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

I2th .1 G. F. Tullock, Rockford

13th 1 C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th I M. G. Lambert, Ferris

ISth _ \..Ji. N. Skinner, Yates City

leth „ I A. R. Wright, Vema

17th _ 1 Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

18th — .- i R. F. Karr, Iroquois

l»th

20th

21st

22nd

23rd

24th

25th

..C. J. Gross, Atwood
..Chkrles S. Black. Jacksonville

..~. .4.. .Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

..Frank Oexner, Waterloo

W. L. Cope, Salem

. .Charles Marshall, Belknap
..Fred Dietz, De Soto

Comptroller

^,pairly Marketing.

DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENT

Finance

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing

Grain Marketing _

Information

Insurance Service

Legal Counsel

Limestone-Phosphate _

Live Stock Marketing

Office

Organization

Produce Marketing „

Taxation and Statistics

Transportation

SUBSIDIARY ORGANIZATIONS

County Life Insurance Co L. A. Williams, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives Ass'n..! F. E. Ringham, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Col A, E. Richardson, Mgr;

Illinois Farm Supply Co \ L. R. Marchant, Mgr.

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J. H. KeUcer

....-_ A. D. Lynch

— r R. A. Cowles

A. B. Leeper

.Harrison Fahrnkopf

George Thiem

V. Vaniman

.Donald Kirkpatrick

J. R. Bent

Ray E. Miller

— . .C. E. Johnston

G. E. Metzger

F. A. Cougler

.....i J. C. Watson

L. J. Quasey

The Cover

"' T^HE age of collective action and co-operation in mer-
X chandising the products of the farm is here. Farmers
are sitting around the table today, as other groups long have
done, bargaining collectively for a fair price; learning why
there is so wide a spread between prices received by the
producer and those paid by the consumer.

Organization and control of farm commodities by the
producer is sending the buyer to the seller asking "how
much will you take?" Under the ;old system it was the
producer asking "how much will you give?" The organized
farmer of today has a voice in the sale of his product. He
is learning about markets, about surplus, what he must do
to stabilize prices at a profitable lev^l. He is placing him-
self in a position to profit by that knowledge.

The group of organized McDonough county cream pro-
ducers opening bids for their annual output, shown on the
cover page, illustrates the new order of things. With local
co-operatives such as this one as ^ foundation will rise
eventually the super-structure of state and national sales
organizations with keen-minded representatives sitting in the
] markets of the world merchandising the commodities of the
farm in a business-like way. The fat'mer is a manufacturer.
He has developed a marvellously efficient production de-
partment. Now he is determined toi build a sales organiza-
tion capable of answering his needs.

Safeguarding Co-operation

MORE thought and effort toward developing co-opera-
tive marketing have been givei by the Illinois Agri-

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cultural Association in the past 10 years than to any other
single activity. The fact that there are now five distinct
departments in the I. A. A. devoted to marketing reveals
the emphasis placed upon this important work. Therefore
it is entirely proper that this issue of the Record present
more or less prominently the Farm Bureaus' marketing ac-
tivities.

The Farm Bureaus' experiences of the past decade have
revealed weaknesses and obstacles to be avoided by every
new co-operative venture. If the new co-operative is to have
the best chance for success it would be folly if farmers did
not capitalize on their greater knowledge and experience
using it most effectively in future effort. Perhaps the great-
est need of the new co-operative is wise supervision and man-
agement by trained men experienced in the peculiar prob-
lems of this type of organization. The Illinois Agricultural
Association has brought to its staff this kind of talent. It
is well equipped to foster and protect the young co-0{)erative
against the pitfalls which confront every new organization.

The Farm Bureau and Illinois Agricultural Association
have sponsored a large percentage of the co-operatives organ-
ized in Illinois since 1919. We cannot sidestep our responsi-
bility for the welfare of these co-operatives; for their fulfill-
ing the claims and promises made for them. The Farm Bureau
has no wish to renounce that responsibility. It recognizes
the intimate relationship existing between the two. There-
fore the I. A. A. has established a policy whereby it retains
the privilege of providing the young co-operative with the
best it has in the way of service, experience, skill, and judg-
ment.

There is nothing inimical in this policy to the development
of full responsibility and leadership among the growers or
producers directly interested in the commodity marketed.
In fact the training of new leadership in the co-operative
marketing field is one of the primary objectives of the I.
A. A. -Farm Bureau marketing program. The confidence
Illinois farmers have shown repeatedly in their organization
must be preserved and protected. Therefore we must work
and work hard to make all new ventures sponsored by the
Farm Bureau, including co-operatives, succeed.

Champaign County's Challenge

"/Champaign county is the best county in the state.
V_>4 Therefore we ought to have the biggest Farm Bureau
membership," G. C. Williams, one of the county's "go-get-
ters" said at a meeting of 60 local organization leaders at
Champaign on Saturday, January 4.

The hearty applause which greeted Williams' statement
culminated in a statement authorizing George E. Metzger
to announce that Champaign county challenges all comers
to a race for the largest county membership in Illinois by
Jan. 1, 1931.

The present membership in Champaign county is approxi-
mately 1200. McLean county, considerably larger in area
has a long lead on Champaign with upwards of 1800 mem-
bers, but enthusiastic leaders in Champaign county say that
the records show approximately 3,460 farmers in the county
and that at least 80 to 90 per cent of them should be mem-
bers of the Farm Bureau. Therefore they are going out to
overtake McLean county, to estabhsh themselves as the
largest and greatest county Farm Bureau organization in
America.

The county has been organized into 22 units, each of
which has an assistant director whose job it is to work on
organization. The organization directors from 21 of the
22 units attended the meeting on January 4, each accom-
panied by two additional men who will be charged with
the 1930 membership campaign. Champaign county mem-
bers have adopted a unique plan for building a larger organ-
ization and the results obtained in striving for their an-
nounced goal will be watched with interest.

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Lowden And Hyde Are

Outstanding Speakers

Unusual Opportunity To Hear
Both At Single Convention

AS WE go to press, plans are near-
i. ing completion for the com-
ing convention of the Illinois
Agricultural Association and asso-
ciated companies at Springfield,
January 29, 30, 31.

While the speaker for the Fri-
day morning session has not yet
been definitely secured an an-
nouncement will be made through
the newspapers before the opening
session.

Ex-Governor Frank O. Lowden
is putting the finishing touches on
his address to be delivered at the
annual banquet on Tliursday night.
Mr. Lowden is always interesting
and thought-provoking. His mas-
terly speech before the recent Farm
Bureau convention in Chicago was
considered by many the most thorough
analysis of the present day agricultural sit-
uation, with constructive suggestions for
solving its most vexing problems, ever de-
livered before an American audience. The
former governor will have a message that
none can a£Ford to miss.

Thinks Independently
Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde
will make his first appearance before an im-
portant gathering of Illinois farmers. He
will speak at the luncheon in the Arsenal
Friday noon. Secretary Hyde is doing a
great deal of independent thinking on agri-
cultural questions. The speeches he has de-
livered since becoming a member of the
Hoover cabinet have been courageous,
pointed, and filled with sound thought.
More thorough organization of farmers, and
control of crop surpluses have been the key-
notes of his previous statements. He is
using his influence to curb government
reclamation projects that only aggravate the
surplus question. Visitors and delegates to
the I. A. A. meeting may expect to hear an
important message from Mr. Hyde, coming
as it will after six months' experience with
the Agricultural Marketing Act and the
Federal Farm Board. Never before have
Illinois farmers had opportunity to hear two
such outstanding speakers in a single I. A.
A. convention.

A number of state officials including Gov-
ernor Emmerson, and leaders of contempo-
rary organizations have been invited to the
convention as guests of the Association.
Efforts are being made to secure radio hook-
ups for both Mr. Lowden and Mr. Hyde.

Fourteen out of 19 Master Farmers from
the 1929 group in Illinois carry auto in-
surance policies in the Illinois Agricultural
Mutual Insurance Company. The entire 19
are Farm Bureau members.

Armory at SpriacfieM Where Banquet and Luncheon Will Be Held Jan. 30-31

Program For

Women's Meeting

Palm Room, Abraham Lincoln Hotel,
Springfield, 1:00 P. M., Jan. 30, 1930

Singing

Roll Call by Counties
Welcome — Earl C. Smith, Pres. I. A. A.
"Running Water in Every Farm and Small
Town Home"
By Mrs. Homer R. Johnson, president,
Illinois Home Bureau Federation
"Running Water From a Home Manage-
ment Specialist's Standpoint"
By Miss M. Attie Souder, home manage-
ment specialist, extension department,
University of Illinois
"Simple Installations by Tenants"

By Mrs. LaFayette Funk, Jr., McLean
County
"Simple Installations by Owner"

Mrs. Arthur Sabin, Tazewell county
"Full Installation by Owner"

By Mrs. Harry Riefsteck, Champaign
county
"Country Life Insurance"
By Mr. L. A. Williams

Serum Association

To Meet On Jan. 29

PROBLEMS involved in protection of the
Illinois hog crop against cholera and
other swine diseases, together with the
centralized purchasing of immunization
materials will be considered at the annual
meeting of the State Farm Bureau Serum
Association, January 29, at Springfield.
Plans will be formulated for carrying on
hog control work in some 70 Illinois coun-
ties.

Since the Farm Bureau took an active in-
terest in teaching farmers to vaccinate their
pigs and practice swine sanitation, there has
been no important outbreak of hog cholera
in Illinois. The influence of this project
has meant millions of dollars saved to swine
growers during the past decade.

At one time hog cholera losses were a
serious menace to the swine industry. To-
day the farmer who vaccinates his pigs with
the best serum obtained at minimum prices
through the Farm Bureau is not only elimi-
nating one of the hazards in pork produc-
tion, but also he is securing the needed
senrice at minimum cost. This self-help
program is being fostered by the State Farm
Bureau Serum Association. It provides an-
other illustration of how farmers can profit
through organization.

Country Life

A conference of agents of the Country
Life Insurance Company is scheduled for
Wednesday morning at 10:00 A. Mi, Janu-
ary 29, in the Ball Room of the Abraham
Lincoln hotel. The general agents will have
a banquet that night while all agents in-
cluding special and general agents will meet
at breakfast Thursday morning.

C. J. Gross, I. A. A,, executive commit-
teeman from the 19th district, recently re-
tired as president of the Piatt County
Farm Bureau.

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"IT /E HAVE seen marketing in the middle west
develop from the trading post era to the
present with its gigantic modern termiinals, almost
JBvithin a lifetime. Under the old system buyer and
seller were more nearly on ajn equal footing.
Enterprise was largely individualistic. One man
matched his wits against another's. Since then
great corporations, mergers, a^id consolidations
have been effected in the field of business. The
small enterprise is fast disappearing. Buying and
selling have become highly ofganized but the
farmer has lagged behind in organization and now
is suffering the consequences.

\ RECENT issue of a prominent financial journal
listed 393 leading industrial concerns of the
United States having net profits for the first nine
months in 1929 of $1,397,088,000, an increase of
28.3 per cent over the net inconjie of the first nine
months of 1928. Agriculture did not appear in
the hst. Contrasted with this very impressive
record of net earnings the U. p. Department of
Agriculture reports that the average farmer in'
creased his net earnings practically nothing for the
corresponding period. The satQe issue of this fi'
nancial journal which is a review of financial and
industrial development during 1929 features the

tendency toward mergers and consolidations of
industrial concerns everywhere. J

T^HERE is a striking significance in these two
facts. When two banks merge or a group of
railroads consolidate these actions are termed
mergers or consolidations. This tendency on the
part of big business has unquestionably been one
of the reasons why its earnings record has been
so satisfactory.

There are two factors that largely determine
profit in any business, including agriculture. One
is production cost, the other is net selling price.
Production cost in agriculture is to a large extent
an individual problem. Selling price is not an
individual problem. It depends upon organization.
Business has helped to solve its selling price problem
through organized distribution. Agriculture is
just entering this phase of development.

Co'operative marketing is the appUcation of the
merger principle to the selUng end of the farm
business. Industry, labor, and finance have helped
to solve the problem of profits by consolidation.
Both good business and necessity compel the farm'
er to do likewise. / |

F^ URING recent years the farmer has had reason
to congratulate himself upon the great strides

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that have been made toward applying collective
action to his business. The U. S. Department of
Agriculture reports that approximately 2,000,000
farmers are members of more than 12,000 co-opera'
tives. From the orange groves of California to the
vast whole milk markets of the eastern seaboard
farmers are merging their interests into local cO'
operatives and these in turn are being merged into
great bargaining organizations. From the cotton
fields of the south to the sweeping wheat fields of
the north and northwest producers have recognized
the necessity of better marketing methods and have
developed efficient distribution machinery. In
the corn belt the live stock producers are annually
selling through their own organization more than
$300,000,000 worth of livestock. For every dis'
couragement or failure there are hundreds of signs
of progress and success. The complaints and criti'
cisms of the non'CO'operative distribution agencies
are being met by the justice of the farmer's ambi'
tion to protect his interest and secure for himself
and family a fair share of the nation's net income.

]V/IORE efficient distribution of the farmer's

products means as much to the consumer as

it does to the producer. The consumer has been

penalized by the high cost of the prevailing cum-

bersome and inefficient marketing system. He is

joining the farmer in the latter's effort to transport
essential food products to him at more reasonable
cost. I

"TURING 1930 and succeeding years the Illinois
Agricultural Association will carry on. The
different marketing departments of the Association
will develop more aggressively than ever their
programs. More information about the aims and
accomplishments in co-operative marketing will
be disseminated. But information, however im'
portant, is not sufficient. Members of co-opera'
tives must have understanding. They must be
tolerant. Mistakes are made by all new enter'
prises. Time and experience will perfect co'
operative organization and strengthen weaknesses.
The member who thinks only of temporary profit,
who lacks the vision of the great purposes in co-
operative marketing will always be hard to satisfy.
There are those who hold the penny so close to the
eye that they cannot see the dollar beyond it.
We must be patient with them.

Information, understanding, tolerance, personal
contact are all essentials but in order to obtain
results they must be crystalUzed into action.
Let's have action in 1930.

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E HAVE seen marketing in the middle west
develop from the tradini; post era to the
^resent with its gigantic modern terminals, almost
writhin a lifetime. Undeorhe old system buyer and
seller were more nearly on an equal footing.
Enterprise was largely individualistic. One man
cnatched his vits against another's. Since then
^reat corporations, mergers, and consolidations
nave been effected in the field of business. The
small enterprise is fast disappearing. Buying and
selling have become highly organized but the
farmer has lagged behind in organization and now
is suffering the consequences. j

RECENT issue of a prominent financial journal
listed 393 leading industri?il concerns of the
tJnited States having net profits for the first nine
months in 1929 of $1,397,088,030, an increase of
28.3 per cent over the net income of the first nine
months of 1928. Agriculture
the list. Contrasted with thi^
record of net earnings the U

did not appear in
very impressive
S. Department of

Agriculture reports that the average farmer in
creased his net earnings practica ly nothing for the
corresponding period. The same issue of this fi-
nancial journal which is a revie^v of financial and
industrial development during 1929 features the

tendency toward mergers and consolidations of
industrial concerns everywhere.

HERE is a striking significance in these two
facts. When two banks merge or a group of
railroads consolidate these actions are termed
mergers or consolidations. This tendency on the
part of big business has unquestionably been one
of the reasons why its earnings record has been
so satisfactory.

There are two factors that largely determine
profit in any business, including agriculture. One
is production cost, the other is net selling price.
Production cost in agriculture is to a large extent
an individual problem. Selling price is not an
individual problem. It depends upon organization.
Business has helped tosolve its selling price problem
through organized distribution. Agriculture is
just entering this phase of development.

Co-operative marketing is the application of the
merger principle to the selling end of the farm
business. Industry, labor, and finance have helped
to solve the problem of profits by consolidation.
Both good business and necessity compel the farm-
er to do hkewise. .

URING recent years the farmer has had reason
to congratulate himself upon the great strides

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that have been made toward applying collective
action to his business. The U. S. Department of
Agriculture reports that approximately 2,000,000
farmers are members of more than 12,000 co-opera'
tives. From the orange groves of California to the
vast whole milk markets of the eastern seaboard
farmers are merging their interests into local co-
operatives and these in turn are being merged into
great bargaining organizations. From the cotton
fields of the south to the sweeping wheat fields of
the north and northwest producers have recognized
the necessity of better marketing methods and have
developed efficient distribution machinery. In
the corn belt the live stock producers are annually
selling through their own organization more than
$300,000,000 worth of livestock. For every dis-
couragement or failure there are hundreds of signs
of progress and success. The complaints and criti-
cisms of the non-co-operative distribution agencies
are being met by the justice of the farmer's ambi-
tion to protect his interest and secure for himself
and family a fair share of the nation's net income.

ORE efficient distribution of the farmer's
products means as much to the consumer as
It does to the producer. The consumer has been
penalized by the high cost of the prevailing cum-
bersome and inefficient marketing system. He is

joining the farmer in the latter's effort to transport
essential food products to him at more reasonable
cost.

URING 1930 and succeedirig years the Illinois
Agricultural Association will carry on. The
different marketing department^ of the Association
will develop more aggressively than ever their
programs. More information about the aims and
accomplishments in co-operative marketing will
be disseminated. But information, however im-
portant, is not sufficient. Members of co-opera-
tives must have understanding. They must be
tolerant. Mistakes are made 'by all new enter-
prises. Time and experience will perfect co-
operative org.inization and strengthen weaknesses.
The member who thinks only cjf temporary profit,
who lacks the vision of the great purposes in co-
operative marketing will always be hard to satisfy.
There are those who hold the penny so close to the
eye that they cannot see the dollar beyond it.
We must be patient with them.

Information, understanding, tolerance, personal
contact are all essentials but jin order to obtain
results they must be crystallized into action.
Let's have action in 1930.

Prcsideyit

/•'*T*?

'^I»iii»wr*-V- ••■''■•

ClHTRALIZED GRAIM
MARKETIMG

By Harrison Fahrnkopf

ILLINOIS is vitally interested in grain marketing. Our producers ship out
of the counties where grown more corli and more oats than any other state.
Approximately 215,000,000 bu. of corn, pats, and wheat are shipped annually
out of Illinois counties. This is 15 per cent of the commercial supply of these
crops sold annually in the United States. Illinois furnishes one-fourth of all the
corn that enters the channels of trade in the United States. It lies closest to Chica-
go, one of the greatest primary grain markets in the world.

Corn is the largest of all agricultural crops in the United States in acreage,
quantity and value, and in quantity it is tihe largest grain crop in the world. In
terms of dollars from a world's standpoint it is seoond only to the wheat crop.
Although the United States produces approximately 3,000,000,000
bu. of com annually, only two per cent is exported, six-tenths of
onq per cent is required for seed, and bet^A<een 1 5 and 20 per cent
is milled and manufactured. The balance is fed to livestock.
Approximately 500,000,000 bu. of corn moVe annually in the trade
channels of the United States. 1

j Three States Sell Half Com

OUT of the 300,000,000 bu. of corn produced annually in
Illinois, 120,000,000 bu. go into the market channels. Iowa
ships 102,000,000 bu. to market and Nebraska 61,000,000 bu.
These three states together produce more than 50 per cent of all
the corn shipped into the market channels of the United States.
In Illinois we have 500 farmers' elevators many of which have
been in operation for more than a quarter of a century. Of the
500 farmer-owned elevators only about loc? are fully co-operative.
There are approximately 2,000 country elevators in Illinois.

Thos, only about 25 per cent are farmer-owned, and approximately five per
cent are wholly cooperative. It should be understood, however, that the
farmers' elevators are usually larger and handle a little more than half of all
grain marketed in Illinois. Farmers' elevators ha^e been instrumental in de-
veloping leaders. The Farm Bureau has developed leaders. These men come
from the same ranks — the ranks of the producer. ^Fe have a common problem.
All must work together to solve that problem.

I The Time To Advance ^

T^HE time is at hand for the farmer in Illinois to give the very best he
A. has in the way of leadership and support toward perfecting local and
terminal grain marketing machinery that will operate effectively in his behalf.
There appears to be no question but that marketing of grain will go for-
ward in the name of cooperation. The big job for the organized farmer is
to see that the movement renders him service in fact as well as in name.

In circle above: Harrison Fahrnkopf, grain
marketing director for the I. A. A. Below:
Federal Farm Board launches movement to
help grain growers. The Farmers' National
Grain Corporation was the result.

Must

Make

System

Effective

THE Agri-
cultural
Marketing Act
has given ui
the Farm Board
and this board
has given us tht
Farmers' National
Grain Corpora-
tion. Ample cred-
it for marketing
on a large icaU
is available. In
Illinois we must
apply ourselva
assiduously to the
task of seeing
that both facili-
ties and credit
serve the pro- -
ducer to the'
maximum. It ii
entirely possible
for opposing in-
terests such M
the organized
grain trade to
dominate the sit-
uation to such an
extent that the
entire movement
may be rendered
ineffective. All
farm interesu

Representatives of farmers' elevators and I. A. A. -Farm Bureau meet to

discuss a centralized grain marketing organisation for Illinois. S. R.

. \4cKelvie of the Federal Farm Board is the man in the light suit.

must pull together. We should build a cooperative marketing system that
will enable us to get "an American price for an American product." Our
marketing machinery should be producer-owned and producer-controlled — not
producer-owned and "somebody else" controlled.

Need Control of Commodity

THE problem is to secure control of the large percentage of the commo|lity
in order that it may be marketed through single hands. This c/tntrt^
should lie within the farmer's own organizations. By all groups working to-
gether we can realize the long hoped for marketing system whetehy
the farmer can merchandise his crop to his own advantage and get a
price for that product equivalent to the world price plus the American
tariff.

The farmers' elevators, the Farm Bureau, and the Illinois Agricultural
Association working hand in hand and giving support to the new national
program should go far in setting up an effective organization in
Illinois.

Still Back in the Country

SAMUEL R. McKELVIE, grain member of the Federal Farm Board,
told members of the State Bar Association at Lincoln, Nebr., re-
cently that mastery of the terminal markets was the next point for
agricultural cooperatives to gain. "There are more than 12,000 farmers'
cooperative societies in this country today having a membership of 2,-
000,000 and handling annually products of the value of over $2, $00,000,"
he said. "For the most part these cooperatives are back in the country
and have not reached the terminal markets where the greatest influence
is exercised in orderly distribution and price control. It is the job of the
Federal Farm Board to see that these cooperatives take the next step in
organization which will give them mastery of the terminals."

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Through the Local Livestock Ship-
ping Asiocialion.

From the Feed Lot.

To the "Producers" is 100% Cooperation.

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LIVESTOCK MARK€TIMG

» lay E. Miller,

Director
, , tLivestock
Marketing

iv«.L*.^%>'y;*''''"^-V"'"-'r."-'. V

By Ray E. Millet

ORDERLY marketing is probably the most used and the least
understood term extant today. The producer wonders what
it means, the middleman resents it, and the consumer thinks it has
nothing to do with him.

Probably no two persons would agree as to exact definition but
merely for the purpose of understanding, orderly marketing might be
defined as that movement of any product from the producer to the
consumer in the most practical and economical manner for everyone
concerned.

In 1928 a total of 49,795,000 hogs went to market, 21,496,000 head, or 43%, or almost
half were marketed during the months of January, February, November and December.
The consumption of fresh meat increased during these months only 9.6% over the average
monthly consumption for the rest of the year. Fortunately this is the normal packing
season so the surplus of fresh meat could be converted into cured products. Even so when
nearly half of a yearly crop is marketed over a short period of time the fresh meat channels
are clogged, the capacity of the packing plants is strained and the producer of the product
takes the brunt of the situation in the form of reduced prices. The processors are pbced at
a disadvantage, the distributors have to operate on a narrower margin, and as a result the

consumer pays just about as much for his product as he does when supplies are scarce.

» »

4t

This Is Not Orderly Marketing

IN the old days before artificial refrigeration and modem machin-
ery came into vogue the winter months were necessarily the
packing months. As a result it is probably true that the producers
have fallen into the habit to a certain extent of raising hogs for
the fall and winter market. There are admittedly some advantages
and very important ones in producing hogs for the fall market
but it is very doubtful if the privilege of marketing in these months
is worth what it costs. In 1928 the statement is made by Mr. C. B.
Denman, member of the Federal Farm Board, that 80% of the hog
crop was marketed below the average price for the year. This is
certainly not orderly marketing. The success of sound coopera-
tives everywhere satisfactorily refutes the claims of the opposition.

ORDERLY marketing cannot be achieved without orderly
production. The situation referred to above is aggravated
in any industry wherein the production is not closely related to
and regulated by the distribution machinery. In 192J the 53,000,'
000 hogs slaughtered under federal inspection had a farm value
of $855,000,000. In 1926 only about 40,000,000 hogs were
slaughtered but they returned to the farmer $1,078,000,000.
In the former year the consumer paid $73,000,000 more for the
crop but the farmers got $223,000,000 less than they did in 1926.
When the production of 13,000,000 hogs results in the loss of
$223,000,000 in the total return on the crop it certainly is not
orderly production. In this instance neither the producer nor the
consumer benefited. The farmer could have made more money by
working less.

DURING the period from i9iO'i4 the hog raiser received an
average of $7.25 per cwt. for live hogs. The consumer paid
$14.16 for the products, distribution costs were $6.91. In 1928
the farmer received $8.75, the consumer paid $24.07 and the dis'
tribution cost was $15.32. The farmer's price increased $1.50
per cwt., the average retail price increased $9.91 and the distribu-
tion cost increased $8.41. In the 1910-14 period the farmer was
getting about 50c out of the consumer's dollar; in 1928 he received
about 36.3 cents. On a carload of hogs this decline in the pro-
ducer's share of the consumer dollar amounts to approximately
$520. On the hog crop for 1928 it amounted to approximately
$350,000,000.

Increases Distribution Costs

THE old marketing system by means of which meat products
were moved from the farm to the consumer's table does not
meet the definition of orderly marketing. It has permitted wide
cyclical swings; far too much one year, too little a few years later
It has permitted radical fluctuations in seasonal movements. It
has resulted in increasing distribution costs with higher prices to
the consumer and lower prices to the producer. The coop>erative
marketing program has as its major objective the substitution of
orderly marketing for the disorderly, expensive and uneconomic
system which has obtained in the past. Critics of cooperative
marketing say that it is idealistic and theoretical. Every step
of progress throughout all the ages has been branded in the same
manner by those whose interests were jeopardised by that very
progress.

4 »

CENTRALIZED GRAIN
MARKETING

. •.

By Harrison Fahrnkopf

ILLINOIS IS vitally interested in gram marketing. Our producers ship out
pf the counties where grown more corn and more oats than any other state.
Approximately 2 !<> ,000,000 hu. of corn, oats, and wheat are shipped annually
out! of Illinois counties. This is i"? per cent of the commercial supply of these
crops sold annually in the United States. Illinois furnishes one-fourth of all the
corn that enters the channels of trade in the United States. It lies closest to Chica-
go, bne ot the greatest primary grain markets in the world.

(torn is the I.irgest of all agricultural crops in the United States in acreage,
quajntity and value, and in qu.intity it is tie largest grain crop in the world. In
terijis of dollars from a worlds standpoint it is second only to the wheat crop.
Altiiough the United States produces approximately 3,000,000,000
bu. of corn annually, only two per cent is exported, six-tenths of
one per cent is required for seed, and between is and 20 per cent
IS milled and manufactured. The balance is fed to livestock.
Approximately 500,000,000 bu. of corn move annually m the trade
nels of the United States. 1

Must

Make

System

Effective

'T'HE Agri-

Three States Sell Half Com

^UT of the 3,00,000,000 bu. of corn produced annually in
Illinois, 120,000,000 bu. go into the market channels. Iowa
shij^f 102,000,000 bu. to market and Nebraska 61,000,000 bu.
These three states together produce more than to per cent of all
th^ corn shipped into the market channel^ of the United States.
In Illinois we have 500 farmers" elevators many of which have

beeai in operation for more than a quarter

of a century. Of the

<)Oq farmer-owned elevators only about loci are fully co-operative.
There are approximately 2,000 country elevators in Illinois.

Thus, only about 2 5 per cent are farmer-owned, and approximately five per
cenfl are wholly cooperative. It should be understood, however, that the
faritiers' elevators are usually larger and handle a little more than half of all
grain marketed in Illinois. Farmers' elevators hav|e been instrumental in de-
vel<x>ing leaders. The Farm Bureau has developedl leaders. These men come
from the same ranks — the ranks of the producer. We have a common problem.
All I must work together to solve that problem. I

The Time To Advance [

THE time is at hand for the farmer in Illinois to give the very best he
. has in the way of leadership and support toward perfecting local and
teminal grain marketing machinery that will oper;,ie etfectiycly in his behalf.

There appears to be no question but that marks
warid in the name of cooperation. The big job for the organized farmer is
to sfee that the movement renders him service in fa^t as well as in name.

Re
Jmc

fxcntaliies c! farmers' levators and I. .A
,si a centralized ^ram marketing or^ani

A -Farm Bureau meet to
ation for Illinois. S. R.

jilcKeliie oj the Federal ['arm Hoard is iht man m the light suit

1*1 I IN' I I I

U^

In circle above: Harrison Fahrnkopf, grain
marketing director for the I. A. A. Below:
Federal Farm Board launches movement to
help grain growers. The Farmers' .\ational
Grain Corporation was the result.

c u 1 1 u ral
Marketing Act
has given u<
the Farm Board
and this board
has given us the
Farmers' National
Grain Corpora-
tion. Ample cred-
it for marketing
on a large scale
is available. In
Illinois we must
apply ourselTca
assiduously to the
task of seeing
that both facili-
ties and credit
serve the pro-
ducer to the
maximum. It ii
entirely possible
for opposing in-
terests such u
the organized
grain trade to
dominate the sit-
uation to such an
extent that the
entire movement
may be rendered
ineffective. A I 1
farm interests
must pull together. >X'e should build a cooperative marketing system that
will enable us to get "an American price for an American product." Our
marketing machinery should be producer-owned and producer-controlled — not
producer-owned and "somebody else" controlled.

Need Control of Commodity

THE problem is to secure control of the large percentage of the commodity
in order that it may be marketed through single hands. This control
should lie within the farmer's own organizations. By all groups working to-
gether wc can realize the long hoped lor marketing system whereby
the tarmer can merchandise his crop to his own advantage and get a
price for that product equivalent to the world price plus the American
tariff.

The farmers' elevators, the Farm Bureau, and the Illinois Agricultural
Asst)ciation working hand in hand and giving support to the new national
program should go far in scttmg up an elfective organization in
Illinttis. I

Still Back in the Country

SWll'II, R. \lcKl LVIF, grain member of the Federal Farm Board,
told members of the State Bar Association at Lincoln, Nebr., re-
cently that mastery of the terminal markets was the next point for
agricultural C(H)pcrativcs to gain. "There are more than 12,000 farmers'
cooperative societies in this country today having a membership of 2,-
iKHi.onu and handling annually products of the value of over J2, 5 00,000,"
he said. "For the most part these cooperatives are back in the country
and have not reached the terminal markets where the greatest influence
" is exercised in orderly distribution and price control. It is the job of the
I'ederal I'arm Board to see that these ciwperatives take the next step in
organization which will give them mastery of the terminals."

4 >

Through the Local Livestock Shi/j-
ibing Association.

From the Feed I^ot.

:^n''''f?^

To the "Producers" is IW, Cooperation,

lay E. MilUr,

Director
, 'Livestock
Marketing

LIVESTOCK MARKCTIMG

consumer pays just

By Ray E, Millet

ORDERLY marketing is probably the most used and the least
understood term extant today. The producer wonders what
it means, the middleman resents it, and the consumer thinks it has
nothing to do with him.

Probably no two persons would agree as to exact definition but
merely for the purpose of understanding, orderly marketing might be
defined as that movement of any product from the producer to the
consumer in the most practical and economical manner for everyone
concerned.

In 1928 a total of 49,795,000 hogs went to market, 21,496,000 head, or 43%, or almost
half were marketed during the months of January, February, November and December.
The consumption of fresh meat increased during these months only 9.6% over the average
monthly consumption for the rest of the year. Fortunately this is the normal packing
season so the surplus of fresh meat could be converted into cured products. Even so when
nearly half of a yearly crop is marketed over a short period of time the fresh meat channels
are clogged, the capacity of the packing plants is strained and the producer of the product
takes the brunt of the situation in the form of reduced prices. The processors are placed at
a disadvantage, the distributors have to operate on a narrower margin, and as a result the
about as much for his product as he does when supplies are scarce.

This Is Not Orderly Marketing

IN the old days before artificial refrigeration and modern machin-
ery came into vogue the winter months were necessarily the
packing months. As a result it is probably true that the producers
have fallen into the habit to a certain extent of raising hogs for
the fall and winter market. There are admittedly some advantages
and very important ones in producing hogs for the fall market
but it is very doubtful if the privilege of marketing in these months
is worth what it costs. In 1928 the statement is made by Mr. C. B.
Denman, member of the Federal Farm Board, that 80% of the hog
crop was marketed below the average price for the year. This is
certainly not orderly marketing. The success of sound coopera-
tives everywhere satisfactorily refutes the claims of the opposition.

ORDERLY marketing cannot be achieved without orderly
production. The situation referred to above is aggravated
in any industry wherein the production is not closely related to
and regulated by the distribution machinery. In 1923 the 53,000,-
000 hogs slaughtered under federal inspection had a farm value
of $855,000,000. In 1926 only about 40,000,000 hogs were
slaughtered but they returned to the farmer $1,078,000,000.
In the former year the consumer paid $73,000,000 more tor the
crop but the farmers got $223,000,000 less than they did in 1926.
When the production of 13,000,000 hogs results in the loss of
$223,000,000 in the total return on the crop it certainly is not
orderly production. In this instance neither the producer nor the
consumer benefited. The farmer could have made more money by
working less.

DURING the period from 1910-14 the hog raiser received an
average of $7.25 per cwt. for live hogs. The consumer paid
$14.16 for the products, distribution costs were $6.91. In 1928
the farmer received $8.7';, the consumer p.iid $24.07 and the dis-
tribution cost was $15.32. The farmer's price increased $1.50
per cwt., the average retail price incre^iised $9.91 and the distribu-
tion cost increased $8.41. In the 1910-14 period the farmer was
getting about 50c out of the consumer's dollar; in 1928 he received
about 36.3 cents. On a carload of hogs this decline in the pro-
ducer's share of the consumer dollar jimounts to approximately
$'i2o. On the hog crop for 1928 it a<nounted to approximately
$350,000,000.

Increases Distribution Costs

THE old marketing system by means of which meat products
were moved from the farm to the consumer's table does not
meet the definition of orderly marketiilg. It has permitted wide
cyclical swings; far too much one year, too little a few years later
It has permitted radical fluctuations 11^ se.isonal movements. It
has resulted in increasing distribution 4osts with higher prices to
the consumer and lower prices to the producer. The cooperative
m.irketing program has a.s it-< maior objective the substitution of
orderly marketing for the disorderly, expensive and uneainomic
system which has obtiined in the past. Critics of cooperative
marketing say that it is idealistic and theoretic.iU Every step
ot progress throughout all the ages has been br.mded in the !i,ime
manner by those whose interests werei leop.irdized by that very
progress.

•""rV-i .tnirliajt^v';!?^

^j-cr'.^'.-^-^r'vi ■,

ARKETIMC

Above: A. D.
Lynch, Dairy
Marketing Di-
rector, Illinois
Agricultural
Association,
Right: Organ-
ized Producers
and Dealers iron
out their prob-
lems at Bloom-
inglon.

By A. D. Lynch

MORE than 55% of the fluid milk produced in
Illinois is now sold cooperatively. Through
collective action organized dairymen are selling their
product for what it is worth. They are improving
quality, checking up on weights and tjests. They are
controlling their surplus through sound sales plans,
studying their markets intensively, anjd are advertising
their product to their city customers.

^ Peoria Controls Surplus

T'N the Peoria district dairymen have just completed their
A. third successful year under a straight pooling plan. They
found they had not made the desired progress in creating a more
even production. After careful study with the cooperation
of Peoria milk buyers and the Illinois; Agricultural Associa-
tion a plan has been agreed to which adds the "base and sur-
plus" idea to the pooling plan. This firogram will give the
dairymen who produce milk most in line with the require-
ments of the Peoria market more money than those dairy-
men who elect to produce a heavy surplus part of the year
and very little in the early fall months.

The Peoria plan will be watched with interest by other
Illinois markets because it is the most comprdiensive surplus
■ control plan in operation in the middle west. 1

Chicago Producers Active

THE Pure Milk Association, representing dairymen in the
Chicago dairy district, while less than one year old, is making
^wonderful progress in cleaning up bad conditions on that market.
It has a laboratory field service that checks fat tests and helps
members who are having diflSculty in making a high quality

Eroduct. The Chicago milk supply is still setting the pace for
irge cities as to quality.
The organization just sold the 1930 basic milk at a slight reduc-
tion from 1929 because in the basic period of September, October
and November (1929) its membership produced 10% in excess of
the needs of the market. Prices are about 20c per cwt. better at
Chicago now than in years and the association will no doubt
develop, as it grows, a permanent surplus control program.

State Organization Coming

FOR several years it has been the program of this department
and of organized dairymen in the state to perfect a state
organization through which the collective effort of all organized
dairymen could be effectively centralized.

Officers and Directors
of the Sanitary Milk
Producers, new Coop-
erative representing the
St. Louis Milk District,
are shown in the group
below. Check testing is
an important service
rendered members of the
Pure Milk Association
at the Chicago market.

The many inter-market problems
coming up daily make the necessity
of setting up a state fluid milk or'
ganization imperative. Such an
organization is at the moment gen'
uinely needed to help develop means
to sell more effectively some of the
present surplus of milk products.
These surpluses are clogging mar'
kets and depressing prices of fluid
milk and butterfat. A long swing

educational campaign to in-
crease the use of milk and
milk products both as human
and animal foods has now a
real opportunity. A lUte or-
ganization can handle and ad-
minister such a program to the
benefit of all the member dairy-
men on the organized markeu.

Uniform Practices

MORE uniformity in sales plans
could be achieved through
centralized selling in one state or-
ganization. In fact, actual competi-
tion between organized markets has
been noted, not through viciousness
on the part of anyone, but because the
the organized dairymen have not yet
perfected a state organization to get all
team work" possible into the game.

Selling On Grade

THE three markets at
Champaign, Blooming-
ton and Peoria are setting
the pace when it comes to
paying the members cash
quality premiums. At
Champaign the Grade A
dairy men receive a
bonus of 2Jc per cwt.
while the Grade C fel-
lows are "docked" 2Jc
per cwt., the Grade B
men receiving the regular
pool price set each month
by the association. These are
the best premiums paid in III-
nois.
At Peoria the "A" premium is 2Jc
in summer and 15c in winter. At
Blomington the "A" premiums are about 15c in summer and only 2 or 3c in
the winter time.

Markets Organizing

DECATUR, Rock Island, Davenport, Moline and St. Louis are each form-
ing organizations and will be having something to say at the market
place in the near future. They have grown weary of taking what the buy-
ers choose to give them and realize a business-like, equitable and positive sales
organization will benefit them as individuals and the entire market as well.

A National Surplus

PRODUCTION points to the possibility of a national surpliu of butter and
other dairy products. Such a condition can be best met by a strong
national organization well enough organized to segregate surplus from domestic
needs, sell the surplus and spread the loss over all organized dairymen.

Many enthusiasts in businesses getting their revenue mostly from farmers
have advised folks "to go into the dairy business." Thinking dairymen who
are studying present day facts know better than to listen to such "bunk."

The smart dairyman today is selling his poorer cows to the butcher, raiting
only the best heifers and vealing the rest, and joining the cooperative in his
community to sell his milk collectively. Why? Because it pays.

t^

^f

:t problems
e necessity
id milk or'
Such an
Dment gen-
'clop means
ome of the
: products. '
gging mar-
:es of fluid
long swing '

npaign to in-
of milk and
sth as human
Is has now a
A lUte or-
ndle and ad-
ogram to the
lember dairy-
id markets.

•actices

in sales plans *
;ved through
me state or-
tual competi-

markets has
h viciousness
t because the
ave not yet
on to get all
CO the game.

1 Grade ♦

markeu at
Blooming-
la are setting
n it comes to
nembers cash
:miums. At

the Grade A

receive a < ,
;5c per cwt.
3rade C fel-
docked" 2Jc

e Grade B
the regular

each month
n. These are
! paid in 111-

:mium is 2Jc
winter. At

iy 2 or 3c in

f

•e each form-
t the market
hat the buy- ♦?
positive sales
rket as well.

of butter and
by a strong
rom domestic
men.

from farmers
airymen who
:h "bunk."
tcher, raising
erative in his
s.

<l»

PRODUCE MARKETING

By Frank Gougler

ILLINOIS .'producers sell annually more than 80 million dollars
worth of produce — poultry, eggs and cream. As these com-
modifies are being sold today enormous wastes are entailed. One
of the purposes of cooperative effort is to eliminate wherever
possible the wastes unavoidable under the present system. What
are some of these wastes?

In the marketing of cream, for example, keen competition between cream-
eries for butterfat has resulted in the establishment of cream stations through-
out the state far in excess of the actual needs for efficient service to farmers.
There are somewhere near 4,000 such stations in Illinois where one-fourth
this number could render the same service more efficiently. A given town
may have from two to six such stations each handling on the average 25,000
lbs. butterfat annually. If the cream furnished these stations were handled
through one large cooperative the assembly cost would be reduced from one-
third to one-half. Before cooperatives entered the field this assembly cost
amounted to from 3 to £ cents per pound fat. Our large cooperatives are
now performing this service at a cost as low as 1 ^ cents per pound.

Higher Prices — Fair Tests

TEN per cent of the 40,000,000 pounds of butterfat produced in Illinois
is now being sold cooperatively. Members of these organizations are
receiving from 3 to S cents more per pound butterfat than they would have
received selling the old way. In addition to the higher price they are assured
of correct weights and tests. The net gain to the member averages from $30
to $50 per 1,000 pounds of butterfat. On the total volume sold cooper-
atively it amounts to at least $120,000.00 anniuUy.

Waste in Assembling Cream

Another needless waste results in the over-lapping of territory of the
*^*- different creameries. The efficient method of moving cream from pro-
ducer to creamery is to move it to the nearest creamery. This would not
only lower transportation costs, but also would contribute to a better quality
cream. Under the present competitive station method a large percentage of
cream actually moves away from the very door of a nearby creamery to some
distant creamery. The resulting waste in quality and transportation costs is
inexcusable. Creameries cannot be criticized for this condition. It is a result
of the natural development of the creamery industry, but it is a condition
which private creameries cannot remedy. The solution to this problem is one
that must be solved by farmers alone or jointly between representatives of
organized producers and the butter manufacturers.

An attempt to solve this problem by the latter method is now being made
in Illinois. The plan involves thorough organization of the producers in a
given territory around a town where one or more creameries may be located.
All the cream in this territory will be moved to the nearby creameries, pro-

vided a satisfactory price can
be secured. If thoroughly or-
ganized much waste can be elim-
inated, not only by the shorter
distance to the nearby cream-
ery, but also through larger
loads of cream that can be
trucked to the nearby butter
manufacturer.

Frank
unler, Direct-
" J, vr of Produce
Marketing for the I . A. A.

Need Premium
For Quality

PRODUCE ASS0CIA1

• IN OPERATION

Oaew OMfrANiziHC

More efficient assembling » - . _ ■ ,-"' y li

and more efficient deliv-
ery of cream is now being given
serious consideration by Illinois
producers. The next phase of
work to be taken up in con-
nection with marketing which
will eliminate still more waste is
that of selling cream on a qual-
ity basis. This is very essential
if we are to meet the standards
that have been established by
other states. A marketing sys-
tem that will pay a producer
just as much for a product of
poor quality as another pro-
ducer receives for a high qual-
ity product should be consigned to the scrap heap and replaced by a better
system. Creamerymen admit that they alone cannot bring about this very
necessary market improvement. In a limited way this has already been done
ac some points where pooled cream is being marketed and it is proving very
satisfactory to both producers and creamerymen.

State Marketing Association

DURING 1930 cooperative produce marketing should move forward at
a much more rapid rate than it has in the past. The purpose of this
undertaking is being better understood throughout Illinois. Then too, very
recently there has been organized the Illinois Produce Marketing Association
with which all the county produce marketing associations will affiliate.
The Association will be well financed so that field service can be rendered
to local units now marketing. With this additional help it will be po«siblc
to strengthen the weaker associations, increase the volume of all of them and
develop a worth while quality improvement program.

1

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1 iff P ' •II ,.9

ilKl ^^

%i ^' '',.'. —' ^

When the Illinois Produce Marketing Association was organized at Decatur. Representatives from more than 35 local Cooperatives
gathered and unanimously eruiorsed the plan for the state-wide marketing agency.

ARKETIMG

Above: A. D
Lynch, Dairy
Marketing Di-
rector, Illinois
Agricultural
Asxoc iat I on .
Right: Organ-
ized Producers
and Dealers iron
out their prob-
lems at Bloom-
inclon.

Officers and Directors
of the Sanitary Milk
Producers, neio Coop-
erative representing the
St. Louis Milk District,
are shown in the group
below. Check testing is
an important service ''
rendered members of the
Pure .Milk Association
at the Chicago market.

J*

M'

By A. D. Lynch

ORE th.in 55% of the fluid milk producled in

Illinois is now sold cooperatively. Throui;li
:olIective action organized dairymen arc selling their
iroduct for what it is worth. They are improvin;^
quality, checking up on weights and tests. They are
:ontrolling their surplus through sound sales plans,
studying their markets intensively, and are advertising
;heir product to their city customers

Peoria Controls Surplus

IN the Peoria district dairymen have just completed their
third successful year under a straight pooling plan. They
ound they had not made the desired progress in- creating a more
;ven production. After careful study with the cooperation
:){ Peoria milk buyers and the Illinois Agricultural Associa
:ion a plan has been agreed to which adds the "'base and sur
tlus" idea to the pooling plan. This progr.im will give the
dairymen who produce milk, most in line with the require
ncnts ot the Peoria market more money than those dairy
Tien who elect to produce a heavy surplus part of the year
ind very little in the early fall months.

The Peoria plan will be w.itchcd with interest by other

fjlinois markets because it is the most comprehensive surplus
ontrol plan in operation in the middle west. [

Chicago Producers Active

THE Pure Milk Associ.ition, representing dairymen in tli.-
Chicago dairy district, while less than one ye.ir old, is making
^•ondertul progress in cleaning up bad-conditions on that market.
It has a labor.itory field service that checks fat tests and helps
Tiembers who are having dirficulty in making a high quality
"Toduct. The Chicago milk supply is still setting the p.ice for
arge cities as to quality.

The organization just sold the n)3,o b.isic milk at ,i slight reduc
:ion trom lo^g bec.iuse in the basic period ot September, October
ind November f 1929) its membership produced 10% in excess of
:he needs ot the market. Prices are about 20c per cwt. better at
[I^hicago now than in years and the association will no doubt
Jevelop, as it grows, a permanent surplus control program.

State Organization Coming

FOR several years it has been the program of this department
and of organized dairymen in the state to perfect a state
organization through which the collective effort of all organized
dairymen could he effectively centralized.

in I lie

I tllllC

'A" prcntiunis jrc .»h<iui

The m.iny inter market problems
coming up daily make the necessity
of setting up a state fluid milk or-
ganization imperative. Such an
organization is at the moment gen-
uinely needed to help develop means
to sell more effectively some of the
present surplus of milk products.
These surpluses are clogging mar-
kets and depressing prices of fluid
milk and butterfat. A long swing

educational campaign to in-
crease the use of milk and
milk products both as human
.ind animal foods has now a
real opportunity. A Jtate or-
);anization can handle and ad-
minister such a program to the
benefit of all the member dairy-
men on the organized markets.

Uniform Practices

MORI: uniformity in sales plans
could be achieved through
tcntrali/cd selling in one stale or-
gani/.ition. In fact, actual competi-
ticin between organized markets has
been noted, not through viciousness
on the part of anyone, but because the
the organized dairymen have not yet
perfected a state organization to get all
"team work" possible into the game.

Selling On Grade

three markets at
Champaign, Blooming-
ton and Peoria arc setting
the pace when it comes to
paying the members cash
quality premiums. At
<~hampaign the Grade A
dairy men receive a
bonus of 2Sc per cwt.
while the Cirade C fel-
lows are "docked" 2Sc
per cwt., the Grade B
men receiving the regular
pool price set eacli month
by the association. These arc
the bot premiums paid in 111-

nnis.

.\t Peoria the "A" premium is 25c
■ ummer and ■ ISc in winter. Ai
Mc in summer and onlv 2 or .U in

THE
Ch;

Markets Organizing

Dl ( .\ IL'R, Rock Island, Davenport, Moliiie and St. Louis arc each form-
mi; organi/aiitms and will be having something to say at the market
pLice in the near future. They have grown weary of taking what the buy-
ers tliouse to ijive tlitm and realize a business-like, ct-iuitable and positive sales
organi/atinn will beneht them as individuals and the entire market as well.

A National Surplus

PRt)I)L'CriO\ points to the possibility of a national surplus of butter and
other dairy products. Such a condition can be best met by a strong
national organization welt enough organized to segregate surplus from domestic
needs, sell the surplus and spread the loss over all organized dairymen.

.Many enthusiasts in businesses getting their revenue mostly from farmers
have advised folks "to go into the dairy business." Thinking dairymen who
are studying present day facts know better than to listen to such "bunk."

The smart dairyman today is selling hi.s poorer cows to the butcher, raising
only the best heifers and vealing the rest, and joining the cooperative in his
communitv to sell his milk collectively. Why? Because it pays.

PRODUCE MARK€TIHG

t prcihlems
e necessity
id milk or-
Such an
jment gen-
elop means
ome of the
products,
gging mar-
:es of fluid
long swing

upaign to in-
of milk and
3th as human
s has now a
A (tate or-
ad\e and ad-
Dgram to the
lember dairy-
:J markets.

■actices

in sales plans
ved through
)nc st.ite or-
tual competi-

markets has
h viciousness
t because the
ave not yet
on to get all
[o the game.

I Grade

markets at

Blooming*

a arc setting

n it comes to

nembers cash

miums. At

the Grade A

receive a

5c per cwt.

idc C fcl-

docked" 25c

c Grade B

the regular

each month

n. These are

paid in III-

:nilum is 25c
winter. Ai
■ 2 or H' in

By Frank Goiigler

Frank

C^i'ucU'r. Direct-

.,, .ir .'/ Produce

\/<irfc,/(»u- ',r the I A A.

ILLINOIS 'producers sell annually more than 80 million dollars
worth of produce — poultry, eggs and cream. As these com-
modities are being sold today enormous wastes are entailed. One
of the purposes of cooperative effort is to eliminate wherever
possible the wastes unavoidable under the present system. What
are some of these wastes?

In the marketing of cream, for example, keen competition between cream-
eries for buttcrfat has resulted in the establishment of cream stations through-
out the state far in excess of the actual needs for ctiicicnt service to farmers.
There are somewhere near 4,000 such stations in Illinois where onc-fourtli
this number could render the same service more efficiently. A given town
may have from two to six such stations each handling on the average 2 5,000
lbs. buttcrfat annually. If the cream furnished these stations were handled
through one large cooperative the assembly cost would be reduced from one-
third to one-half. Before cooperatives entered the field this assembly cost
amounted to from 3 to 6 cents per pound fat. Our large cooperatives are
now performing this service at a cost as low as 1 i i tents per pound.

Higher Prices — Fair Tests

TEN per cent of the 40,000,000 pounds of buttcrfat produced in Illinois
is now being sold cooperatively. Members of these organizations are
receiving from 3 to 5 cents more per pound buttcrfat than they would have
received selling the old way. In addition to the higher price they arc assured
of correct weights and tests. The net gain to the member averages from $30
to $50 per 1,000 pounds of buttcrfat. On the total volume sold cooper-
atively it amounts to at least $120,000.00 annually.

Waste in Assembling Cream

ANOTHLR needless waste results in the over-lapping of territory of the
•*»• different creameries. The etficient method of moving cream from pro-
ducer to creamery is to move it to the nearest creamery. This would not
only lower transportation costs, but also would contribute to a better quality
cream. Under the present competitive station method a large percentage of
cream actually moves away from the very door of a nearby creamery to some
distant creamery. The resulting waste in quality and transportation costs is
inexcusable. Creameries cannot be criticized for this condition. It is a result
of the natural development of the creamery industry, but it is a condition
which private creameries cannot remedy. The solution to this problem is one
that must be solved by farmers alone or jointly between representatives of
organized producers and the butter manufacturers.

An attempt to solve this problem by the latter method is now being made
in Illinois. The plan involves thorough organization of the producers in a
given territory around a town where one or more creameries may be located.
All the cream in this territory will be moved to the nearby creameries, pro-

vided a satisfactory price can
be secured. If thoroughly or-
ganized much waste can be elim-
inated, not only by the shorter
distance to the nearby cream
cry, but also through larger
loads of cream that can bi
trucked to the nearby buuci
manufacturer.

Need Premium
For Quality

MORE elficient assembling
and more ctiicicnt deliv-
ery of cream is nviw being given
serious consideration by Illinois
pri«jucers. The next phase ot
work to be taken up in con-
nection with marketing which
v^'ill eliminate still more waste is
that of selling cream on a qual-
ity basis. This is very essential
if »c are to meet the standards
that have been established bv
other states. A marketing sys-
tem that will pay a producer
just as much for a product ot
poor quality as another pro-
ducer receives for a high qual-
ity product should be consigned to the s:rap heap and replaced by a better
svstem. Creamerymen admit that they ; lone cannot bring about this very
necessary market improvement. In a limited way tins has already been done
at some points where pooled cream is bcitig marketed and it is proving Tcry
satisfactory ti> b-tth producers md creamerymen.

PRODUCE association;

# IN OPERATION
CHOW ORbANIZINC

State Marketing Association

DIRI\(
a muc
undertaking
recently the
with whicl
The Associa
to local un
to strcngthe
develop a wi

r 1950 cooperative prodiue tliarkeiing slmuld move forward at
it more rapid rate than it hak in the past. The purpose of thit

is being better understood t|iroughout Illinois. l"hen too, very
re has been organized the llljnois Produce .Marketing Association
.11 the county produce marketing asstviations will afiliatc.
titm will be well financed su that field service *.an be rendered
ts now marketing. Vi'ith thit additional help it will be possible

I the weaker associations, increase the volume ol all of them and

rth while quality impiovemcot program.

c each form-
[ the market
hat the buy-
positivc sales
rket as well.

oi butter and
by a strong
rom domestic
men.

from farmers
airymen who
:h "bunk."
tcher, raising
crative in his

When the Illinois Produce Marketing Association was organized at Decatur. Representatives from more than 35 local Ccperatives
gathered and unanimously endorsed the plan for the state-wide marketing agency.

FRUIT AMD VEGETABLE

RKETIN

By A. B, Leeper

THE methods of selling and
distributing fruits and vegC'
tables have changed rapidly in
recent years. Some of the causes
of these changes are :

I. Improvements in means of
' transportation,
a. Increased use of fruits and
vegetables in the daily diet
: of most people.

for sale and distribution have been organised.
The Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange,
which is a central sales agency, was organ'
ized in 1921. This organization has con-
fined its eflForts principally toward the
development of standardized products and
to the estabhshment of brands, together
with the sale and distribution of carlots
of fruits and vegetables for its members.

EHiring the past year, the Illinois Fruit
Growers Exchange and its member associa'

ILLINOIS Brand Prnxhu Crown by Mtmbtrto/th* lUirxoit
Fruit CrowttM Exchangt art ih* Btu m tht World. r

Her* is one of the Many Cooperative Road-
Side Markets where Illinois Grown Fruit and
Vegetables were sold last year.

Apples at State
Meeting.

Horticultural

3. Changed living conditions in the
modem city home.

4. Availability of fresh fruits and vegetables sup'
plied from every section of the country at all
times of the year.

5. The development of chain stores.

j Two General Groups

rl actual practice the marketing of fruits and vegetables is
divided into two general groups. One of these groups consists
of growers who sell these products locally. The other group of
growers depend upon selling their crops in distant markets. The
group that produces crops to sell locally has three principal meth'
ods of selling, namely:

I . Selling on the farm where the crop is produced.

a. Selling in nearby markets.

3. Selling near the place of production in roadside markets.

Very little has been done in cooperative selling by these grow-
ers who produce only for local trade. Several of the Farm Bureaus
have estabUshcd central markets where the members cooperate
in paying the overhead expenses. The growers bring their prod'
ucts to these markets on certain days and generally sell directly
to the consumers.

Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange

IT is with the group of growers who produce fruit and vegetable
crops to sell in distant markets that cooperative organizations

A. B. Leeper, Director Fruit and
Vegetable Marketing for the I.
A. A.

f

tions sold approximately 1000 can of fruits and Tcgc-
tables. Of this number 675 straight carload lots were
sold through the central office at Centralia. The others

were sold to trucks which came to the packing sheds or were shipped in len-

than-carlou by freight and express.

Roadside Market Chain

THE increased use of trucks and the completion of the Illinois hard road
system have developed a factor in marketing of fruits and vegetables
that was unforeseen a few years ago. In 1928 a group of growers, desirini
to take advantage of this new method of transportation, organized the Illinois
Growers' Marketing Association, to sell cooperatively through a system of
roadside markeu. The plan is for growers of fruits and vegetables in one
section of the state to cooperate with growers in other sections who grow
commodities that are not produced locally, and sell their producu by way of
the roadside markets.

Given Trial Last Year 1

THIS plan was given a trial last year. A number of markets were estab-
lished in the central and northern parts of the state to aid the growers
of tree fruits in other sections to dispose of their products. The sales of
some of these markets were satisfactory. On others they were not. The
experience indicates that if this type of marketing is to succeed, local growers
where the markets are established must cooperate and support them. It is
contemplated that this system of marketing will be continued and extended
during the coming year. Care will be taken in selecting sites and markets
will be established only where local growers are willing to cooperate in fur-
nishing a supply of home-grown products for sale. The extent of expansion
will depend upon the demand of growers for this form of marketing.

It is also part of the I. A. A. program for the coming year to further
increase the membership of the Exchange in sections where fruits and vege-
tables are grown for carlot shipment. This will be done with a yiew of
developing a stronger central organization so that if the Federal Farm Board
desires to recommend the organization of a national association for the dis-
tribution of fruits and vegetables, Illinois will be in a position to cooperate
in the larger movement.

\

A-':-*.*. ^

A^ARKfiTLHi^ R^ TOP SEED

CuTl Anderson,
Secretary-
Treasurer
Egyptian Seed
Growers Ex-
change. The
group presents
officers, direc-
tors and dele-
gates at the re-
cent Exchange
meeting at Flora
where the co-
operative was re-
organized and a
campaign for
new members
planned.

By Harrison Fahrnkopf

EIGHTY-FIVE per cent of the world supply of red top
grass seed is produced in eight or nine counties of
southern Illinois. The red top territory embraces all of the
counties of Clay, Marion, Richland, Wayne, Jefferson, and
parts of the counties of Effingham, Fayette, Jasper, Lawrence,
Edwards, Hamilton, White, Washington, and Clinton. This
area comprises two and one-half million acres or 4,000 square miles,
and has 19,700 farms. Seven thousand of these farms produce all
of the red top seed. The average tenancy is 23 per
cent. The average production of 9,000,000 lbs. of
seed for the territory has a value of $1,350,000. The
average production per farm is 1,500 lbs. of red top
seed annually, having a value of $200. The average
production for this territory in the seven years ending
with 1928 was 11,000,000 lbs. annually. The year
1927 was a record year with 18,000,000 lbs.; the year
1925 the lowest with only 6,000,000 lbs.

Red top seed is used for one purpose only, that is
for sowing. It is used extensively in lawn grass and
golf grass mixtures.

Seed Growers Meet at Flora.
In the group to the left are: left to
right, front row: — Donald Kirkbatrick,
legal counsel, Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion: C. L. Palmer, Noble: C. F. Sanders,
Dix: John Rogier, Patoka, President: J. M.
Luse, Flora, vice-president: T. F. Farmer,

Cisne: P. W. Warner, Salem.
Left to right, second row: — Miss Large, office
secretary: Geo. McElyea, Louisville: J. 0.
Coen, Olney: Curt Anderson, Xenia, secretary-
treasurer: Clarence Barnard, JohnsonviUe:

W. L. Outhouse, Patoka.
Left to right, third row — G. A. Spcnilding,
Fairfield: Roy Charlton, warehouse supt.:
Mr. Fleming, NoWe; L. L.
Carrie, farm adviser,
Wayne county: W. T.
Wooden, Mt. Ver-
non: C. T. Kibler,
farm adviser.
Clay county: S.
M. Ruckman,
Xenia; Har-
rison Fahrn-
kopf, grain
marketing
director, I.
A. A.: R. R.
Wo o m t r ,
Xenia.

•«55SiSg5r

How Exchange Is Organized

MANY of the farmers in the red top territory were
members of the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion several years ago when the I. A. A. assisted in
organizing the Egyptian Seed Growers' Exchange and
the Red Top Growers' Warehouse Association. The
Legal Department of the I. A. A. assisted in negotiat'
ing the corporate set'up, and the Organization Depart'
ment helped to secure the present membership.

The Egyptian Seed Growers' Exchange is organized
under the Illinois Agricultural Co-operative Act of
1923. It has an authorized capital of $250,000 com-
posed of 10,000 shares of preferred stock of a par value
of $25 per share. There is also authorized 10,000 shares
of common stock of no par value. One share of this

stock will be issued to each grower signing the new
marketing agreement and will entitle the holder
to patronage dividends from the Growers' Exchange.
The Red Top Growers' Warehouse Association is
also a co-operative association incorporated under the
Agricultural Co-operative Act of 1923. It is a sub-
sidiary of the Exchange. The Warehouse Corpora-
tion is necessary so that a warehouse receipt can>be
issued by it to the Exchange, the receipt being used as
collateral for loans obtained from local banks, from the
Intermediate Credit Bank at St. Louis, and from the
Federal Farm Board.

Increases Price To Grower

WHILE the Egyptian Seed Growers' Exchange at
present handles less than 10 per cent of the
seed produced in the territory, it has had a very ma-
terial effect on the price paid growers throughout the
southern Illinois counties. According to the U. S.
Department of Agriculture, the average price of red
top for the five years, 1917 to 1921 inclusive, was
12 3-5 cents per lb. According to the same authority
the average price paid red top growers by all buyers
during the five-year period, 1922 to 1926 inclusive,
was 16 cents per lb. During this five-year period (the
first five years of the pool) the Egyptian Seed Growers'
(Continued on page 14)

-■.-.L^.i'.^. _;

FRUIT AMD VEGETABLE

ARKETIN

ag^^if^-^'

'By A. B. Leeper

THE methods of selling and
distributing fruits and vege-
tables have changed rapidly in
recent years. Some of the causes
of these changes are :

I. Improvements in means of

transportation.
1. Increased use of fruits and
vegetables in the daily diet
of most people.

for sale and distribution have been organized.
The Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange,
which IS a central sales agency, was organ-
ised in 1921. This organization has con-
tined Its efforts principally toward the
development of standardized products and
to the establishment of brands, together
with the sale and distribution of carlots
of fruits and vegetables for its members.

During the past year, the Illinois Fruit
Growers Exchange and its member associa-

ILLINOIS Brand Ptachts Crown hy Memt*ri 0/ iht Illinois
Fruit Crou9i» Exchangt art Ou Best tn iht World.

Here is one of the Many Cooperative Road-
Siit Markets where Illinois Crown Fruit and
' I Vegetables were sold last year.

r

3. Changed living conditions in the

;( modern city home.
4^Availability of fresh fruits and vegetables sup-

« plied from every section of the country at all
times of the year. !

5^ The development of chain stores.

j Two General Groups

IN' actual practice the marketing of fruits and vegetables is
divided into two general groups. One of these groups consists
of gnowers who sell these products locally. The other group of
growers depend upon selling their crops in distant markets. The-
group that produces crops to sell locally has three principal meth-
ods of selling, namely.

1. jSclling on the farm where the crop is produced:

2. Selling in nearby markets.

3. [Selling near the place of production in roadside markets.

Viry little has been done in cooperative selling by these grow-
ers wiho produce only for local trade. Several of the Farm Bureaus
have established central markets where the members cooperate
in pajymg the overhead expenses. The growers bring their prod-
ucts ito these markets on certain days and generally sell directly
to thje consumers.

Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange

IT is with the group of growers who produce fruit and vegetable
ccops to sell in distant markets that cooperative organizations

Exhibit Illinois Apples at State Horticultural
Meeting.

A. D. Leeper. Director Fruit and

Vegetable Marketing for the I.

A. A.

tions sold approximately 1000 cars of fruits and vege-
tables. Of this number 67 5 straight carload lots were
sold through the central office at Centralia. The others

were sold to trucks which came to the packing sheds or were shipped in len-

than-carlots by freight and express.

Roadside Market Chain

THE increased use of trucks and the completion of the Illinois hard road
system have developed a factor in marketing of fruits and vegetable
that was unforeseen a few years ago. In 1928 a group of growers, desirin{
to tjke advantage of this new method of transportation, organized the Illinois
Growers' Marketing Association, to sell cooperatively through a system of
roadside markets. The plan is for growers of fruits and vegetables in one
section of the state to cooperate with growers in other sections who groit
commodities that are not produced locally, and sell their products by way of
the roadside markets.

Given Trial Last Year

THIS plan was given a trial last year. A number of markets were estab-
lished in the central and northern parts of the state to aid the groweri
of tree fruits in Vther sections to dispose of their products. The sales of
some of these markets were satisfactory. On others they were not. The
experience indicates that if this type of marketing is to succeed, local growers
where the markets are established must cooperate and support them. It it
contemplated that this system of marketing will be continued and extended
during the coming year. Care will be taken in selecting sites and markets
will be established only where local growers are willing to cooperate in fur-
nishing a supply of home-grown products for sale. The extent of expansion
will depend upon the demand of growers for this form of marketing.

It is also part of the I. A. A. program for the coming year to further
increase the membership of the Exchange in sections where fruits and vege-
tables are grown for carlot shipment. This will be done with a view of
developing a stronger central organization so chat if the Federal Farm Board
desires to recommend the organization of a national association for the dis-
tribution of fruits and vegetables, lllinnis will be in a position to cooperate
in the larger movement.

A\ARKETIMG RlD TOP SEED

:.r.*':i.r.-: .

Curt Anderson,
Secretary-
Treasurer
Egyptian Seed
Growers Ex-
change. The
group presents
officers, direc-
tors and dele-
gates at the re-
cent Exchange
meeting at Flora
where the co-
operative was re-
organized and a
campaign /or
new members
planned.

By Harrison Fahrnkopf

EIGHTY-FIVE per cent of the world supply of red top
grass seed is produced in eight or nine counties of
southern Illinois. The red top territory embraces all of the
counties of Clay, Marion, Richland, Wayne, Jefferson, and
parts of the counties of Effingham, Fayette, Jasper, Lawrence,
Edwards, Hamilton, White, Washington, and Chnton. This
area comprises two and one-half million acres or 4,000 square miles,
and has 19,700 farms. Seven thousand of these farms produce all
of the red top seed. The average tenancy is 23 per
cent. The average production of 9,000,000 lbs. of
seed for the territory has a value of $1,350,000. The
average production per farm is 1,500 lbs. of red top
seed annually, having a value of $200. The average
production for this territory in the seven years ending
with 1928 was 11,000,000 lbs. annually. The year
1927 was a record year with 18,000,000 lbs.; the year
1925 the lowest with only 6,000,000 lbs.

Red top seed is used for one purpose only, that is
for sowing. It is used extensively in lawn grass and
golf grass mixtures.

SecdCrow,:rs Meet at Flora.
In the group to the left are: left to
right, front row: — Donald Kirkpatrick,
legal counsel. Illinois .'\gricultural Associa-
tion: C. L. Palmer. Xoble: C. F. Sanders.
Dix:John Rogier, Patoka, President: J. M
Lusey Flora, vice-president: T. F. Farmer,

Cisne: P. W. Earner. Salem.
Left to right, second row: — Miss Large, office
secretary: Geo. McElyea. Louisville: J. 0.
Coen, Olney: Curt Anderson. Xenia. secretary^
treasurer: Clarence Barnard, Johnsonville:

W. L. Outhouse, Patoka.
Left to right, third row — G. A. Spaulding,
Fairfield: Roy Charlton, warehouse supt.:
Mr. Fleming. f\'oble: L. L.
Corrie. farm adviser.
i Wayne county: W. T.

Wooden. Mt. Ver-
non: C. T. Kibler.
farm adviser.
Clay county: S.
M. Ruckman.
Xenia; Har-
rison Fahrn-
kopf, grain
marketing
director, f.
A. A.; R. R.
Wo 0 m t r ,
Xenia

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How Exchange Is Organized

MANY of the farmers in the red top territory were
members of the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion several years ago when the I. A. A. assisted in
organizing the Egyptian Seed Growers' Exchange and
the Red Top Growers' Warehouse Association. The
Legal Department of the I. A. A. assisted in negotiat-
ing the corporate set-up, and the Organization Depart-
ment helped to secure the present membership.

The Egyptian Seed Growers' Exchange is organized
under the Illinois Agricultural Co-operative Act ot
1923. It has an authorized capital of $250,000 com-
posed of 10,000 shares of preferred stock of a par value
of $25 per share. There is also authorized 10,000 shares
of common stock of no par va'ue. One share of this

stock will be issued to each grower signing the new
marketing agreement and will entitle the holder
to patronage dividends from the Growers' Exchange.
The Red Top Growers' Warehouse Association is
also a co-operative association incorporated under the
Agricultural Co-operative Act of 1923. It is a sub-
sidiary of the Exchange. The Warehouse Corpora-
tion is necessary so that a warehouse receipt can be
issued by it to the Exchange, the receipt being used as
collateral for loans obtained from local banks, from the
Intermediate Credit Bank at St. Louis, and from the
Federal Farm Board.

Increases Price To Grower

WHILE the Egyptian Seed Growers' Exchange at
present handles less than 10 per cent of the
seed produced in the territory, it has had a very ma-
terial effect on the price paid growers throughout the
southern Illinois counties. According to the U. S.
Department of Agriculture, the average price of red
top for the five years, 1917 to 1921 inclusive, was
12 3-5 cents per lb. According to the same authority
the average price paid red top growers by all buyers
during the five-year period, 1922 to 1926 inclusive,
was 16 cents per lb. During this five-year period (the
first five years of the pool) the Egyptian Seed Growers'
(Continued on page 14)

MISS LARGE
Offict Secretary

(Continued from page 13)

a.

Exchange received an average of i8 2'5 cents |)er lb.
for seed handled and was enabled to pay a net return '
to the member growers of i6 i'5 cents per lb. These
figures indicate clearly what a tre'
mendous influence the red top pool
has had in raising the average price
level for seed.

Membership Campaign
Begins Feb. 3

SPECIAL membership cam'
paign has been authorized by
the board of directors of the Ex'
change beginning February 3 and
will be intensely carried on for two
weeks. A. B. Gulp of the Organization Department
d the Illinois Agricultural Association will manage
the campaign with headquarters at Flora. Manager
Culp will have a trained assistant in every county in
the red top territory to assist in organizing and carry
ing on the campaign. The County Farm Bureaus will
co'operate. Bankers and business men in the terri'
tory have promised their co-operation because an
organization controlling 65 per cent of the crop will
in normal years bring at least $500,000 more money
^to these counties. The objective of the campaign
is 5,000 members with a sign-up of 75 per cent of the
crop.

!/The new marketing agreement that has been adopt-
ed by the board of directors requires no membership
fee. No subscriptions of stock will be solicited. Each
grower signing a membership agreement will be issued
one share of common stock.

Active Growers On Board

THE new board of directors is composed of active
growers representing every important section of
tne red top seed territory. The directors shown in the
group picture presented herewith are: John Rogier,
Patoka, president; J. M. Luse, Flora, vice-president;
C. L. Palmer, Noble; C. F. Sanders, Dix; T. F. Farmer,
Cisne; P. W. Warner, Salem; Geo. McElyea, Louis-
ville; J. O. Goen, Olney; Clarence Barnard, Johnson-
Ville; and W. L. Outhouse, Patoka.

\ Curt Anderson of Xenia has been the secretary and
manager of the Exchange since its organization and has
done splendid work for the co-operative. The elec-
tion of a new board of directors at the first annual
meeting under the reorganization will be held at
Flora soon after the membership campaign.

j The Illinois Agricultural Association has a keen
interest in the success of the Exchange. It is ready to
assist in the special membership campaign and help it
in every possible way. Curt Anderson has tendered
his resignation as manager but the selection of a new
manager will probably be postponed until after the
annual meeting.

Warehouse at Flora where pooled Red Top Seed is cleaned and
stored pending sale and shipment.

Can Raise Price Level

THOSE \vho have studied the possibilities of the
red top seed organization believe that the price
level for seed can be raised several cents per lb. to the
grower over the price level of the last five years if a 75
per cent sign-up of the crop is maintained.

The red top association will be prepared to have
available cleaning and warehousing facilities through-
out the territory for handling the 1930 crop. AH
growers will be asked to sign the new marketing
agreement. Any grower who signs the new agree-
ment will be relieved from his obligations under the
old contract. The new agreement will not free the
Exchange from closing out the pool of 1929. This
pool will be closed out as soon as possible and an
accounting made to all members.

Under the new agreement the board of directors of
the Exchange can adopt a crop or seasonal pool at the
option of the grower. The plan of marketing will be
as flexible as possible to accommodate itself to the
choice of each producer.

Farm Board Aids

THE Egyptian Seed Growers' Exchange is the first co-operative
in Illinois to be recognized by the Federal Farm Board with
financial aid. A loan was authorized whereby an additional ad-
vance of two cents per lb. is made possible to the grower. This
means that a total of nine cents per lb. will be advanced since seven
cents had already been authorized by the intermediate credit bank.
The fact that the producer can now secure a loan of appiroxi-
mately 80 per cent of the value of his red top and still retain an
equity in it until the end of the pool year leaves little argument for
any producer to remain outside the pool. In other words, it is
now possible for him to have the use of the greater share of the
money due him on his red top and still gives him the added advan-
tage of merchandising his crop effectively for the highest possible
return.

An Opportunity

THE campaign to organize a powerful co-operative handling a substantial
majority of all the red top seed produced in the territory is an oppor-
tunity for all growers in this area to stabilize prices, control surplus, market
orderly, and insure a fair return.

The first annual meeting after the reorganization will probably be held
early in March. New officers and directors and management will be chosen.
Every grower signing an agreement is entitled to attend the meeting to be
called, and vote.

The fact that approximately 90 per cent of the world's supply of red top
seed is produced in this limited and contiguous territory of Southern Illinois
means that conditions never were better for the success of a co-operative
having a majority of the crop under contract.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Pa<je Fifteen

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Otis Kercher, Farm

Adviser, Vermilion

County

Livestock Men Form

Co-op. In Vermilion

THE Vermilion County Farm Bureau
recently organized a county-wide co-
operative livestock marketing association.
A constitution and
by-laws were adopted
and a committee was
appointed to incor-
porate with capital
stock of $25,000.
More than 30 mem-
bers signed the mar-
keting agreement at
the first meeting.
They agreed to ship
their livestock
through the associa-
tion for at least one
year. Construction of a stock yards at Dan-
ville at a cost of approximately $10,000 is
contemplated.

L. T. SkefiBngton of the I. A. A. livestock
marketing department who covers the south
half of Illinois is assisting Farm Adviser
Otis Kercher in getting the new organiza-
tion under way. The capital stock set-up
is similar to that being used by other co-
operatives organized in co-operation with
the Farm Bureau and Illinois Agricultural
Association.

The association will market livestock of
non-members as well as members. Farm
Bureau members will be favored with a dif-
ferential under the plan of organization.

The incorporating committee was re-
ported as follows: Mont Fox, Oakwood;
Ray Cunningham, Bismarck; W. J. Sandus-
ky, Indianola; A. J. Gunder, Fairmount;
Charles Juvinall, Collison; H. H. Klayer,
Fairmount; G. H. Broadman, Rossville;
John T. Leemon, Hoopeston; J. L. White,
Georgetown; C. B. Crawford, Potomac, and
Earl Bass, Armstrong.

"Record Limestone Year

THE year 1929 was a record year for
the sale of agricultural limestone in
Illinois. Approximately 9 J 0,000 tons were
used according to estimates by J. R. Bent,
director of the Limestone-Phosphate depart-
ment. The previous high year was 1925
when around 750,000 tons were spread. All
but three or four counties in Illinois pur-
chased limestone from the 22 I. A. A. con-
tract companies last year. Farm Bureau
members buy limestone 10 cents a ton
cheaper than non-members. The heavy sale
of agricultural limestone in Illinois is due
largely to the work of the county Farm
Bureaus co-operating with the University
of Illinois in advocating its Juse.

The Pawnee Four will be on hand to pro-
vide entertainment throughout the coming
convention at Springfield. The Pawnee
boys are perhaps the best known entertain-
ers among Farm Bureau folks in Illinois.
Not only have they sung at previous annual

I. A. A. Trophy Awards Champs from Mr! f ■
County.

meetings of the I. A. A. but during the
past three years they have appeared at many
annual county Farm Bureau meetings, also
at county and district picnics. Additional
entertainment will be provided by the
Springfield Chamber of Commerce and the
Sangamon County Farm Bureau. • ■

Resolutions

The resolutions committee will meet at
the I. A. A. office to consider resolutions
on Thursday, Jan. 23. Members are re-
quested to send their resolutions in at once.
The resolutions committee will be in ses-
sion at Springfield in Room 5 01 in the
Abraham Lincoln hotel.

Members of the committee are as fol-
lows: A. R. Wright, R. F. Karr, Charles
Black, M. G. Lambert, George J. Stoll, Chas.
Marshall, and W. L. Cope.

Farm Bureau members in Scott county
averaged a net yield of 174 per cent on
their $ 1 5 per member investment in the or-
ganization in 1929 according to Farm Ad-
viser Alfred Tate. Mr. Tate computed this
figure from actual cash gains and savings
from marketing, insurance, centralized pur-
chasing, and personal service. Savings were
computed at $15,060.48. Farm Bureau dues
aggregated $4760.87. The net profit was
$8299.61 or 174 per cent.

Insurant

By L. A. WilUanu

COUNTRY Life had no death claims in
September, October or November and
then in ten days in December had five
death claims. - , . ■■. ■

Country Life's largest day since t)ic fint
special was nearly half a million paid-for
business in the office on December 31. Sec-
ond largest was December 30 with $260,000
paid business.

Homer Hitchcock is the first agent of
the Company to write a million of business
in one year. He is general agent in Winne-
bago County.

Marshall-Putnam County had more agents
writing life insurance than any other coun-
ty in the state. Sam Crabtree is the gen-
eral agent.

The campaign and all quotas have been
extended through January — 30 days more.
Let's go over the top.

Figures from L. A. Glover, our actuary,
show Country Life saved an acquisition cost
over the average acquisition cost of compa-
nies with less than $50,000,000, of $10 per
thousand on the first year alone.

This acquisition cost plus the savings ef-
fected in rates to policy-holders is sufficient
to prove Country Life's right to ascendancy.

Think this over!

The marvel of the year is not the total
of business sold, but the spread of informa-
tion and insurance education. Hundreds
of agents who, schooled in one year, are
able to do the efficient work that is shown
on the balance sheets. More schools will
be held every two months in 1930.

Credentials

Members of the credentials committee
who pass on the eligibility of delegates from
the various counties are as follows: A. N.
Skinner, Fred Dietz, F. G. Oexner, C. J.
Gross, and Harold C. Vial.

The committee on constitution and by-
laws includes F. D. Barton, Samuel Sorrells,
G. F. Tullock, C. E. B^mborough, and A.
R. Wright.

Annual Report

The Annual Report of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association and Associated Com-
panies for 1929 will be bound in a single
volume. It will appear with an attractive
two-color cover. Copies will be available
for distribution at the Kfctjestic Theatre on
Thursday, Jan. 30, at noon. The reports
will not be given general circulation but
copies will be placed in every Farm Bureau
office for the use of tho^ who do not come
to the convention.

MISS LARGE

Office Secretary

(Continued from page 13)

qxchange received an average of i8 a'5 cents per lb.
for seed handled and was enabled to pay a net return
t|3 the member growers of i6 15 cents per lb. These
figures indicate clearly what a tre-
mendous influence the red top pool
has had in raising the average price
level tor seed. 1

Membership Campaign
Begins Feb. 3

A SPECIAL membership cam'
-^"^ paign has been authorized by
the board of directors of the Ex-
change beginning February 3 and
will be intensely carried on for two
v|?eeks. A. B. Gulp of the Organization Department
of the Illinois Agricultural Association will manage
the campaign with headquarters at Flora. Manager
Gulp will have a trained assistant in every county in
t le red top territory to assist in organizing and carry-
ing on the campaign. The Gounty Farm Bureaus will
CD-operate. Bankers and business men in the terri-
tory have promised their co-operation because an
organization controlling 65 per cent of the crop will
in 'normal years bring at least $500,000 more money
into these counties. The objective of the campaign
iii 5,000 members w^ith a sign-up of 75 per cent of the
crop.

The new marketing agreement that has been adopt-
ed by the board of directors requires no membership
f(;e. No subscriptions of stock will be solicited. Each
gtx)wer signing a membership agreement will be issued
one share of common stock.

Active Growers On Board

THE new board of directors is composed of active
growers representing every important section of
the red top seed territory. The directors shown in the
group picture presented herewith are: .John Rogier,
Fatoka, president; J. M. Luse, Flora, vice-president:
G. L. Palmer, Noble; G. F. Sanders, Dix; T. F. Farmer,
Gisne; P. W. Warner, Salem; (leo. McElyea, Louis-
ville; J. O. Goen, Olney; Glarence Barnard, Johnson-
ville; and W. L. Outhouse, Patoka.

Gurt Anderson of Xenia has been the. secretary and
manager of the Exchange since its organization and has
done splendid work for the co-operative. The elec-
tion of a new board of directors at the first annual
njieeting under the reorganization will be held at
fjlora soon after the membership campaign.

The Illinois Agricultural Association has a keen
interest in the success of the Exchange. It is ready to
assist in the special membership campaign and help it
i^ every possible way. Gurt Anderson has tendered
has resignation as manager but the selection of a new
manager will probably be postponed until after the
annual tneeting.

Warehouse at Flora where pooled Red Top Seed is cleaned and
stored pending sale and shipment.

Can Raise Price Level

THOSE who have studied the possibilities of the
red top seed organization believe that the price
level for seed can be raised several cents per lb. to the
grower over the price level of the last five years if a 75
per cent sign-up of the crop is maintained.

The red top association will be prepared to have
available cleaning and warehousing facilities through-
out the territory for handling the 1930 crop. All
growers will be asked to sign the new marketing
agreement. Any grower who signs the new agree-
ment will be relieved from his obligations under the
old contract. The new agreement will not free the
Exchange from closing out the pool of 1929. This
pool will be closed out as soon as possible and an
accounting made to all members.

Under the new agreement the board of directors of
the Exchange can adopt a crop or seasonal pool at the
option of the grower. The plan of marketing will be
as flexible as possible to accommodate itself to the
choice of each producer.

Farm Board Aids

THE Egyptian Seed Growers" Exchange is the first co-operative
in Illinois to be recognized by the Federal F.irm Board with
financial aid. A loan was authorised whereby an additional ad-
vance of two cents per lb. is made possible to the grower. This
means that a total of nine cents per lb. will be advanced since seven
cents had already been authorised by the intermediate credit bank.
The fact that the producer can now secure a loan of approxi-
mately 80 per cent of the value ot his red top and still retain an
equity in it until the end of the pool year leaves little argument for
any producer to remain outside the pool. In other words, it is
now possible for him to have the use of the greater share of the
money due him on his red top and still gives him the added advan-
tage of merchandising his crop effectively for the highest possible
return.

An Opportunity

^1^ HE canip.iign to organi/c a powerful co-oper.itive handling a substantial
A majority of all the red top seed produced in the territory is an oppor-
tunity for all growers in this area to stabilize prices, control surplus, market
orderly, and insure a fair return.

The first annual meeting after the reorg.iniz.ition will probably be held
early in March. New oiTiccrs and directors and management will be chosen,
livery grower signing an agreement is entitled to attend the meeting to be
called, and vote.

The fact that approximately 90 per cent of the world's supply of red top
seed is produced in this limited and contiguous territory of Southern Illinois
means that conditions never were better for the success of a co-operative
having a majority of the crop under contiact

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Pntjf Fifteen

Otis Kercher, Farm

Adviser, Vermilion

County

Livestock Men Form

Co-op. In Vermilion

THE Vermilion County Farm Bureau
recently organized a county-wide co-
operative livestock marketing association.
A constitution and
by-laws were adopted
and a committee was
appointed to incor-
porate with capital
stock of $25,000.
More than 30 mem-
bers signed the mar-
keting agreement at
the first meeting.
They agreed to ship
their I i v e s t o c k
through the associa-
tion for at least one
year. C onstruction of a stock yards at Dan-
ville at a cost of .ipproximatcly $10,000 is
contemplated.

L. 1". Skertington of the I. A. A. livestock
marketing department who covers the south
half of Illinois is assisting Farm Adviser
Otis Kercher in getting the new organiza-
tion under way. The capital stock set-up
is similar to that being used by other co-
operatives organized in co-operation with
the Farm Bureau and Illinois Agricultural
Association.

The association will market livestock of
non-members as well as members. larm
Bureau members will be favored with a dif-
ferential under the plan of organization.

The incorporating committee was re-
ported as follows: .Mont Fo.\, Oakwood;
Ray Cunningham, Bismarck; ^'. J. Sandus-
ky, Indianola; A. J. Gundcr, Fairmount;
Charles Juvinall, Collison; H. H. Klayer,
l-airmount; G. H. Broadman, Rossville;
John T. Leemon, Hoopesron; J. L. ^^"hitc,
Georgetown; C. B. Crawford, Potomac, and
Karl Bass, Armstrong.

Record Limestone Year

THF year 19^9 was a record year for
the sale of agricultural limestone in
Illinois. Approximately 9 5 0,000 tons were
used according to estimates by J. R. Bent,
director of the Limestone-Phosphate depart-
ment. The previous high year was 192 5
when around 750,000 tons were spread. All
but three or four counties in Illinois pur-
chased limestone from the 22 I. A. A. con-
tract companies last year. Farm Bureau
members buy limestone 10 cents a ton
cheaper than non-members. The heavy sale
of agricultural limestone in Illinois is due
largely to the work of the county Farm
Bureaus co-operating 'with the University
of Illinois in advocating its use.

The Pawnee Four will be on hand to pro-
vide entertainment throughout the coming
convention at Springfield. The Pawnee
bovs are perhaps the best known entertain-
ers among Farm Bureau folks in Illinois.
Not only have they sung at previous annual

i. A. A. Trophy Awards Champs from McL.«*B
County.

meetings of the I. A. A. but during the

past three years they have .ippeared at many
annual county larfii Bureau meetings, also
at county and district picnics. Additional
cntertjinment will be provided by the
Springfield Chamber of Commerce and the
Sangamon County Farm Bureau.

Resolutions

The resolutions committee will meet ,u
the I. A. A. office to consider resolutions
on Thursday, Jan. 2}. Members are re-
quested to send their resolutions in .u >mcc.
The resolutions committee will be in ses-
sion at Springfield in Kooni 5iU in tiic
.Xbraham Lincoln hotel.

Members of the committee are as tol
lows: A. R. Wright, R. F. Karr, Ciiarles
Black, M. G. Lambert, George J. Stoll, Chas.
Marshall, and >X'. L. Cope.

Insurance

Bf L. A. Williams

COUNTRY Life had lio death claims in
September, October t>r November and
then in ten days m December had five
death claims.

Country Life's largest #ay since the first
special was nearly half a million paid-for
business in the office on December .^1. Sec-
ond largest was December 30 with $260,000
paid business.

Homer Hitchcock is «lhe first agent of
the Company to write a million of business
in one year. He is gcnerajl agent in Ni'inne-
bago County. '

.Marshall -Putnam County had more agents
writing life insurance thah any other coun-
ty in the state. Sam Crjabtree is the gen-
eral agent. j

The campaign and all quotas have been
extended througli Januark' — 30 days more.
1 ct"s go over the top.

Figures from L. A. Gkiver, our actuary,
show Country Life saved an acquisition cost
over tl>c average acquisitil)n cost of compa-
nies with less than $5 0,000,000, of $10 per
thousand on the first ye. ir alone.

This acquisition cost plus the savings ef-
fected in rates to ptilicy-nolders is sufficient
to prove Country Life's right to ascendancy.

Ihink this over!

Farm Bureau members in Scott county
averaged a net yield of 174 per cent on
their $15 per member investment in the or-
ganization in 1929 according to Farm .Xd-
viser Alfred Tate. .Mr. Tate computed this
figure from actual cash gains and savings
from m.irketing, insurance, centralized pur-
ciiasiiig. and personal service. Savings were
computed at SI 3, 060. 4S. Farm Bureau dues
aggregated $4760.87. The net profit was
$8299.61 or 174 per cent.

The marvel of the ye
of business sold, but the
tion and insurance edi
of agents who, schiKilei
iblc to do the efficient
on the balance sheets,
be held everv two mont

ir IS not the total
spread of informa-
:ation. Hundreds
in one year, are
•>rk that is shown
More schools will
s in 1930.

Credentials

Mcmlurs of the credentials committee
^ 111) p.iss an the eligibilitji' of delegates from
tile v.irious counties arel as follows: .\. N.

(.,. iVxner, C;. J.

SkiniKT. I red Diet/, I.
Cirnss, .ind Harold tl V

riie committee on ccnstitution and bv
laws uKiudes I . I). Hart m, Samuel Sorrells
(i. I . l'ullo..k. ( . 1 . Biniborough, and .\
R. W rmlit

Annual Report

The .Annual Report <*t the Illinois .\gri-
cultural .\sstK.iation and .\ssociated Com-
panies for 1929 will lui bound in a single
volume. It will apixar, with an attractive
two-color cover. C opu's will be available
for distribution at the Iklajc-stic Theatre on
Fhursday, Jan. 30, at
will not be given gem r
copies will be placed in

oriice tor the use of thojic who do not come
to the convention.

noon. The reports
ral circuiaiion but
everv Farm Bureau

WHAT KIND OF
MEMORIES

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Will You Leave m

?

""LJERE is a life insurance policy I just took out,

•*■ ■■■ dear.

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"T BOUGHT it from Bill, the Country Life agent.
* When he explained how easily we could arrange to
pay off the mortgage in case I should die before my
time, I was interested. That isn't all. I got to thinking
about you, Mary, and how hard it would be for you if
anything happened. So I bought a policy that will
bring you a check as long as you live for $50 a month,
and provide education for the children till they're
through college. How's that, Honey? And if I live, I
will have safely invested $350 a year for old age."

Tlie Day of Sorrow

I

npHEN a day of sorrow dawns and the stalwart provider is no
-*" more. His familiar voice is stilled. The widow mourns the
loss of her life partner. The children miss their father. The home
is silent. But his memory is a happy one. Somehow at every turn
his unselfish devotion and thoughtfulness are seen. Money is
available for expenses. The terrible worry that accompanies fear
of poverty and privation is not present. His friends and all who
knew him have the highest regard for
him as a thoughtful provide?.

4

The Mortgage

TT'INDLY aid is ready at the bank
"^^ as she carries out her husband's
wishes and pays off the mortgage.
Respect is a heritage he left with his
thoughtfulness. Her path has been
smoothed because of his foresight.

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Intarance for the Mortgage

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IVILL YOUR LIFE
INSURANCE

Carry On ?

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tnaurmncc to Educate thm Children

Education for the Children

THE children grow up and go to college. Ample
funds are ready to pay the bills and make better
mental equipment possible for them. "Dad" comes as
a sweet memory into the lives of the dear ones he so
proudly planned for. How he would like to see these
fine young people as they develop, fit and ready for
life and work.

Mother *s Memories

'T^HE mail man comes each month with that check he so proud.
■*■ ly and lovingly told her about years ago. Yes, many monthly
checks have come since that day he placed the Country Life poli-
cy in her hands. She recalled his impulsive way as he told her of
his plans for taking his responsibility off her shoulders. A kindly
thought comes with these sweet memories. It is one of love that
lasts through the ages. A love that was great enough to care for
and provide for the dear ones. A love that makes memories live
forever. ''•

Country Life paid five deatli claims in December. Any one
could have been yours. Mail the Coupon for rates. I

COUNTRY LIFE
INSURANCE CO.

*08 So. Dearborn St.

Chicago

COUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

*eS SO. DEARBORN ST., CHICAOO, ILLINOIS

Please send me, without oblisation on my part, full information
about your policies and rates.

Name Address..

A^.— County

Insurance for Monthly Income for Life

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

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Tuna in on the I. A. A. Forum from Statien
WLS every Tuesday nicht at 6:30 p. m^
Central Standard Time.

The daily (arm program of the I. A. A. from
SUtioo WJJD, Mooseheart (264 metera is
broadcast between 12:00 and 12:20 p. m.,
Monday to Friday inclusive. Hear the daily
Cliicago livestoclc market from the Producers,
and each Friday the weekly market review.
Outlook reports, reviews, and talks by I. A- A.
staff members, officials, and leaders in farm
thouckt ara broadcast daily.

"Resolved that every farm youth should
marry a farm girl" was the subject of a
debate on the I. A. A. radio Forum Tues-
day night, January 21, at 6:30 P. M. De-
baters came from Logan county and are
active members of the Farm Bureau Forum
organized by Farm Adviser J. H. Check-
ley and A. B. Culp. Clem Garton and
Oscar Mountjoy comprised the affirmative
team while Jack Lauer and O. D. Brisenden '
spoke for the negative. The radio audi-
ence was asked to be the judge. The de-
cision will be announced the following
Tuesday night, January 28, during the
Forum period.

Annual Meeting of Illinois Agricultural Association

'^^OTICE is hereby given that the annual meeting of the members of Illinois

'^^ Agricultural Association will be held at the Majestic Theatre, in Springfield,

Illinois, on the 30th day of January, 1930, at 9 o'clock a. m., for the following
purposes:

For the consideration and vote upon approval and ratification of the reports of
the president, secretary, and treasurer of the association, and the acts of the executive
committee and officers in furtherance of the matters therein set forth, since the last
annual meeting of the members of the association.

To approve, ratify and confirm the several purchases heretofore made by this
association of stocks and evidences of indebtedness of corporations, whose activities
will directly or indirectly promote agriculture, or the interests of those engaged therein.

To secure consent and authorization to acquire on behalf of this association,
by purchase, certain stocks and evidences of indebtedness of corporations, whose
activities will directly or indirectly promote agriculture, or the interests of those
engaged therein.

To elect seven members to the executive committee for two-year terms.

To elect a president and vice-president.

To consider the amendment of the Articles of Association of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association.

To consider the amendment of the by-laws of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation.

For the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the
meeting.

Jan. 2, 19)0. GEO. E. METZGER,

Chicago, III. Secretary.

Quad-City Dairymen

Join New Co-operative

Quality Milk Association Making
Headway

PROGRESS in organizing the 2,000
whole milk shippers in the Rock Island,
Davenport, Moline territory is reported by
A. D. Lynch, dairy marketing director who
recently returned from a conference with
dairy leaders in the quad-city milk shed, at
Rock Island.

Approximately 200 members from Rock
Island county alone have already joined the
new collective bargaining organization
known as the Quality Milk Association.
The counties interested in the new co-
operative are Rock Island, 'Whiteside,
Henry, and Mercer in Illinois and Musca-
tine, Scott, Cedar, and Clinton in Iowa.
Dairymen of these eight counties supply ap-
proximately 175,000 consumers in the cities
of Rock Island, Davenport, Moline, East
Moline, and others in the industrial sec-
tions stretched out along the river.

The average consiunption per capita on
the quad-city market b only .72 pints. Ac-
cording to Mr. Lynch this average can be
greatly increased by a joint advertising
campaign between the dairymen and the
dealers.

The organization will be set up on the
same plan used by the fluid milk co-opera-
tives in Chicago, Peoria, Bloomington, and
Champaign. The Farm Bureaus in each
county are taking charge of the solicitation
work among their whole milk producers.
This is 2 growing market because of the ex-
tensive industrial development on bokh sides
of the river. With the opening up of the

District Meeting at Galesburg

SEVENTY-SIX attended the I. A. A. dis-
trict conference at Galesburg on De-
cember 17.

Taxation, direct buying of livestock, hog
cholera control, the co-operative marketing
of soybeans, the Federal Farm Board, and
Attorney General Oscar Carlstrom's un-
popular decision that farm tractors driving
on the public highways to do custom work
must have a state license were among the
questions considered. Attention was di-
rected to the recent court decision that a
farmer is liable for damages if he shoots
a neighbor's dog in his sheep pasture. It
was suggested that the I. A. A. legislative
committee look into both questions.

A. N. Skinner of the I. A. A. executive
committee and D. H. Myers, president of
the Adams County Farm Bureau discussed
the Federal Farm Board and its work. Mri
Skinner expressed confidence in the leader-
ship of Chairman Legge and in the sin-
cerity of all members of the board.

John C. Watson discussed tax history
and the need for a modern revenue system
in Illinois. R. J. Hamilton, district organ-
ization manager, also attended.

The discussion opposed direct buying of
livestock as antagonistic to farmer's efforts
in co-operative marketing. Knox, Schuy-
ler, Adams, Henry, and Fulton counties
were represented.

Don't forget to ask for fare and one-half
rates when you go to the I. A. A. meeting
at Springfield, Jan. 29-30-31. All steam
and electric roads are offering reduced fares.
Come early and be settled before the crowd
arrives. It's going to be a great convention.

Mississippi for deep water navigation a
further boom in population is expected.

Champaign County

Loses Farm Leader

FARMERS throughout central Illinois
mourn the sudden death of Louis S.
Burwash, prominent in agricultural activi-
ties in Champaign county and president of
the Champaign County Milk Producers.
The official organ of the Champaign County
Farm Bureau says of him:

"Louis Burwash was unusually well liked
in his community and throughout the
county. He was a good neighbor, always
companionable, and was interested in all
the problems of his local community, as
well as having an intelligent interest in the
larger problems confronting agriculture.

"Louis Burwash was himself a good
farmer, which gave others confidence in
him. He led in the development of Farm
Bureau units, the first meeting of the
Savoy unit being held at his home. He
served as director of this unit during its
formational period. He had not only the
vision for organized agriculture, but cour-
age, faith, intelligence, and a driving force
which made him a man who accomplished
things. He saw the value of the work be-
fore it was widely recognized as it is to-
day."

Mr. Burwash was a comparatively young
man, a graduate of the University of Illi-
nois, and was in excellent health until his
sudden illness from indigestion. A subse-
quent operation proved fatal.

Two hundred and twenty Farm Bureau
members in Peoria, Stark, Henry and Knox
counties have employed Forest A. Fisher,
farm adviser in Morgan county, to super-
vise their new farm management service.
Mr. Fisher is the retiring president of the
farm advisers' association.

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Tune in on the I. A. A. Forum from Station
WLS every Tuesday night at 6:30 p. m..
Central Standard Time.

The daily farm program of the 1. A. A. from
Station WJJD, Mooseheart (264 meters is
hroadcasi between 12:00 and 12:20 ' p. m.,
Monday to Friday inclusive. Hear the daily
Chicago livestock market from the Producers,
and each Friday the weekly market review.
Outlook reports, reviews, and talks by I. A. A.
staff members, officials, and leaders in farm
thought are broadcast daily.

"Resolved that every f.irni youth should
m.irry a farm girl" was the subject of a
debate on the I. .\. A. radio Forum Tues-
day night, January 21, at 6:30 P. M. De-
baters came from Logan county and are,
active members of the Farm Bureau Forum
organized by Farm .Adviser J. H. Check-
ley and A. B. Gulp. Clem Garton and
Oscar Mountjoy comprised the affirmative
team while Jack Lauer and O. D. Brisenden
spoke for the negative. The radio audi-
ence was asked to be the judge. The de-
cision will be announced the following
Tuesday night. January 2S, during the
Forum period.

Annual Meeting of Illinois Agricultural Association

T^TOTICE is hereby given that the annual meeting of the members of Illinois

■* ' Agricultural Association will be held at the M.ijestic Theatre, in Springfield,

Illinois, on the 30th day uf January, 1930, at 9 o'clock a. m., for the following
purposes;

For the consideration and vote upon approval and ratification of the reports of
the president, secretary, and treasurer of the association, and the acts of the executive
commitiec and oHicers in furtherance of the matters therein set forth, since the last
annual meeting of the members of the association.

To approve, ratify and confirm the several purchases heretofore made by this
association of stocks and evidences of indebtedness of corporations, whose activities
will directly or indirectly promote agriculture, or the interests of those engaged therein.

To secure consent and authorization to acquire on behalf of this association,
by purchase, certam stocks and evidences of indebtedness of corporations, whose
activities will directly or indirectly promote asriculturc, or the interests of those
engaged therein.

To elect seven members to the executive committee for two-year terms.
To elect a president and vice-president.

To consider the amendment of the Articles of Association of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association.

To consider the amendment of the by-laws of the Illinois A};ricultural Asso-
ciation.

For the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the
meeting.

Jan. :, 1910. GEO. E. MF.TZGER,

Chicago, 111. .Serrc/jrv

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Quad-City Dairymen

Join Ne^v Co-operative

Quality Milk Association Making
Headway

PROGRESS in organizing the 2,000
whole milk shippers in the Rock Island,
Davenport, Molinc territory is reported by
A. D. Lynch, dairy marketing director who
recently returned from a conference with
dairy leaders in the quad-city milk shed, at
Rock Island.

Approximately 200 members froth Rock
Island county alone have already joined the
new collective bargaining organization
known as the Quality Milk Association.
The counties interested in the new co-
operative are Rock Island, Whiteside,
Henry, and Mercer in Illinois and Musca-
tirt.e, Scott, Cedar, and Clinton in Iowa.
Dairymen of these eight counties supply ap-
proximately 175,000 consumers in the cities
of Rock Island, Davenport, Moline, East
.Moline, and others in the industrial sec-
tions stretched out along the river.

The average consumption per capita on
the quad-city market is only .72 pints. Ac-
cording to Mr. Lynch this average can be
greatly increased by a joint advertising
campaign between the dairymen and the
dealers.

The organization will he set up on the
same plan used by the fluid milk co-opera-
tives in Chicago, Peoria, Bioomington, and
Champaign. The Farm Bureaus in each
county are taking charge of the solicitation
work among their whole milk producers.'
This is a growing market because of the ex-
tensive industrial development on bo»h sides
of the river. XX'ith the opening up of the

District Meeting at Galesburg

SEVENTY-SIX attended the I. A. A. dis-
trict conference at Galesburg on De-

Icember 17.

] Taxation, direct buying of livestock, hog
cholera control, the co-operative marketing
of soybeans, the Federal Farm Board, and
.Attorney General Oscar Carlscrom's un-
popular decision that farm tractors driving
on the public highways to do custom work
must have a state license were among the
questions considered. Attention was di-
rected to the rece^it court decision that a
farmer is liable for damages if he shoots

'a neighbor's dog in his sheep pasture. It
was suggested that the I. A. A. legislative
committee look into both questions.

.•\. X. Skinner of the I. A. A. executive
committee and D. H. Myers, president of
the Adams County Farm Bureau discussed
the Federal Farm Board and its work. Mr.
Skinner expressed confidence in the leader-
ship of Chairman I.cgge and in the sin-
cerity of all members of the board.

John C. >X'atson discussed tax history
and the need for a modern revenue system
in Illinois. R. J. 1 ianiilton, district organ-
ization manager, also attended.

The discussion opposed direct buying of
(livestock as antagonistic to farmer's efforts
'in co-operative marketing. Knox, Schuy-
ler, .Adams, Ilciirv, and Fulton counties
were represented.

Don't forget to ask for fare and one-half
:rates when you go to the I. A. A. meeting
iat SpringtR-ld, Jan. 29-50-31. All steam
and electric roails arc offering reduced fares.
Come early and be settled before the crowd
arrives. It's going to be a great convention.

Champaign County

Loses Farm Leader

F.'XR.MERS throughout central Illinois
mourn the sudden death of Louis S.
Burwash, prominent in agricultural activi-
ties in Champaign county and president of
the Champaign County Milk Producers.
The official organ of the Champaign County
Farm Bureau says of him:

"Louis Burwash was unusually well liked
in his community and throughout the
county. He was a good neighbor, always
companionafcle, and was interested in all
the problems of his local community, as
well as having an intelligent interest in the
larger problems confronting agriculture.

"Louis Burwash was himself a good
farmer, which gave others confidence in
him. He led in the development of Farm
■Bureau units, the first meeting of the
Savoy unit being held at his home. He
served as director of this unit during its
tnrmational period. He had not only the
vision for organized agriculture, but cour-
age, faith, intelligence, and a driving force
which made him a man who accomplished
things. He saw the value of the work be-
fore it was widely recognized as it is to-

.\lr. Burwash was a comparatively young
man, a graduate of the University of Illi-
nois, and was in excellent health until his
sudden illness from indigestion. A subse-
quent operation proved fatal.

'Mississippi for deep water navigation a
further boom in population is expected.

I'wo hundred and twenty Farm Bureau
members in Peoria, Stark, Henry and Knox
counties have employed Forest A. Fisher,
farm adviser in Morgan county, to super-
vise their new farm management service.
Mr. Fisher is the retiring president of the
farm advisers' association.

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ELECTIVE OFFICERS FOR 1930

EARL C. SMITH,
elected president for
the fifth consecutive year,
operates a 1,140 acre grain
and livestock farm near
the village of Detroit in
Pike county.

He was born at Pitts-
field, Illinois, in 1886 and
began farming in Pike
county at the age of 19.

Mr. Smith came up
through the Farm Bureau
ranks serving first on the
county executive commit-
tee and later was elected,
successively, vice-presi-
dent and president of the
Pike County Farm Bureau.

He is a director in the
First National Bank of
Pittsfield, served on his
local school board many years, has served as
chairman of the board of the Christian
Church for more than 10 years, and prior
to his election as president of the I. A. A.
was a member of its executive committee
for three years. Mr. Smith was the Illinois
member of the resolutions coxnmittee at the
Republican national convention in June,
1928, where he presented the minority re-

EARL C. SMITH
President

A. R. WRIGHT
Vice-President

port on the agricultural plank in the party
platform.

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WRIGHT of Varna, Marshall
county, newly elected vice-president,
is one of the oldest men in point of service
on the board of directors.

He helped organize the Marshall-Putnam
Farm Bureau serving first as president, then

secretary, and later as a
member of the executive
committee. He assisted in
organizing the Marshall-
Putnam Oil Co., was its
secretary three years and
now is a director. Wright
is treasurer of the Varna
Co-operative Farmers Ele-
vator which he previously
served as president and
secretary.

In 1912 Mr. Wright
became vice-president and
cashier of the Marshall
County State Bank and
in 1921 was elected as
active president. He is
chairman of the agricul-
tural committee of the,
Marshall County Bankers
Federation. Wright is out nearly every day
actively managing the operation of his 700
acre grain and livestock farm.

In addition to his long service on the im-
portant finance committee of the Associa-
tion the newly elected vice-president acts
as secretary and a member of the board of
the Illinois Farm Supply Co.

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NEW DIRECTORS NAMED

"r I TriE election of myself as a director
I of the I. A. A. came as a complete
surprise to me," writes William A. Dennis
of Edgar county, the new director from the
18th congressional district. "I was at the
meeting Wednesday and part of Thursday
when I felt obliged to return home.

"I have helped in a small way in Farm
Bureau work ever since it was started as I
have long been convinced of the necessity
of farmen organizing. The demands of my
own business of general farming have pre-
vented me from spending as much time
in the work as the importance of it requires.

"The I. A. A. is without question the
most courageous, active, and successful state
association, and I have the utmost respect
for the ability of the officers and directors
who have developed it. It can be only very
inspiring to be associated in the manifold
r activities of the present officers, directors,
and department executives.

"I have been farming 37J acres in a gen-
eral system since graduating from college
20 years ago. The farm has been in the
family ever since my maternal great grand-
father bought it from the government in
1817.

"I am building up a pure bred Jersey
herd with the assistance of a cow testing
association. Last year I had the high herd

Chas. L. Scott

Ceo. B. Mailer

and the two high cows in the association.

"Regarding your inquiry for a picture,
I have had no pictures taken these many
years, but'will attend to it soon."

The father of Mr. Dennis is Charles H.
Dennis, editor-in-chief of the Chicago
Daily News.

CHARLES L. SCOTT of Grayville, the
new member of the Board of Direc-
tors from the 24th district was reared on a
farm in Edwards county, Illinois, was a
charter member of the Edwards County
Farm Bureau and for years was on its exec-
utive committee. He is a grain farmer
and for the past five years has represented
Illinois wheat growers on the board of di-
rectors of the Central States Soft Wheat

Growers Association with headquarters at
Indianapolis. He served as president of the
association one year and now is vice-presi-
dent of the Central States Grain Elevator
Corporation.

GEO. B. MULLER, the new member
of the board of directors from the
l-6th district, operates a 170 acre grain and
dairy farm near Washington in Tazewell
county. He raises Holstein cattle.

Mr. Miiller has been an active member
of the Tazewell County Farm Bureau since
it was organized about 16 years ago. He
is an active member of the Hopewell Grange
which placed second in the state-wide com-
munity club contest conducted last year. In
addition to being a township director for
the Farm Bureau, he is treasurer of the
Farmers' Mutual Automobile Association at
Pekin, also treasurer of the County Fire
Insurance Company. Mr. Muller is a mem-
ber of the board of directors of the Wash-
ington Co-operative Grain Company.

He has been enrolled in the farm ac-
counting project conducted by M. L.
Mosher since 1925. The new director from
the 16th district is 60 years old and for 5 5
years he has been a resident of Tazewell
county. Mr. Muller is not a talkative
man, but he inspires confidence.

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Number 2

February, 1930

Volume 8

Economic Justice THrougli Organization

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Agriculture's Strength Must Be
Gathered and Co-ordinated

By HON. ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture, Springfield, HI., Jan. 31, 1930

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Note: There has been such a large call for
copies of Mr. Hyde's recent address that we are
printing it in full herewith. Mr. Lowden's speech
will be found in the February Illinois Bureau
Farmer. — Editor.

THERE is no shortage of plans for
farm relief. I have read bales of
them. They run the whole gamut of
economic theories, and of human emo-
tions. They plumb the depths of per-
petual despair. They scale the heights
of ecstatic prophecy. They advise the
farmers to go to work and all will be
well. They urge the farmers to rely
on law makers as
a sure path to
glory. They ring
the changes on
truths as old as the
centuries, and on
fallacies which
were exploded
when Pharaoh was
a boy. They pro-
pose the comfort-
able policy of leav-

Hon. Arthur M. Hyde ^ t^ ^1_ t"

ing to Father Time
the task of restoring economic balance
to agriculture. They advocate enacting
prices into law. From laissez faire to
price fixing — such are the heterodox re-
sults when the problem is everybody's,
and when everybody is thinking

about it.

Comes Too Late

From the farmer's standpoint, the
weakness of the laissez faire theory is
that an economic balance which is re-
stored in bankruptcy is a wee bit too
late, — and the defect of price fixing is
that it will not work. Farmers should
use their undoubted power more wisely
than King Canute. The attempt to or-
der economic tides to stand still will
result exactly as did the order to stem
the tides of the sea, — in wet feet. It is
safer, surer and more effective to work
in harmony with economic laws.

It is a happy and helpful thing that
everybody is thinking on farm prob-
lems. Diverse results are to be expected.
Nevertheless, you may start your rea-

" AGRICULTURE must be or-
-^T- ganized. We mix plenty
of brains with the soil in our
production of crops, but we do
not consider the market before
we plant, nor can we follow our
production through in the mar-
ket after it is produced. We
use scientific methods to plow,
seed and reap; we use no
method at all in regulating the
size of the output or the move-
ment to market. Unorganized,
we have little voice in the sale

of our own products

"Shall we continue an-
nually to pile up mountains of
foods and fibers, the very size
of which reduces the world
price, breaks the price at home,
and leaves us poorerT Shall we
perpetually attempt to pile the
mountain higherT There is
nothing economically sound or
socially desirable about pro-
ducing crops to sell at less than
the cost of producing them." —
Hon. Arthur M. Hyde before
ISth annual convention I. A. A.,
January 31, 1930, Springfield.

soning at any given point on farm
questions and your logic will, in the
end, bring you inevitably at grips with
the problem of the surplus. By sur-
plus I do not mean merely the carry-
over. Some carry-over is necessary.
Nor does surplus always mean the mar-
gin over domestic consumption. Of
some products, such as cotton, we shall
always be exporters. The surplus with
which farm thinking must busy itself,
is that part of the crop which the mar-
ket, domestic or foreign, cannot absorb
without disastrously breaking the price,
American agriculture is over-ex-
panded. We produce a price breaking
surplus of many staple crops. Other
factors contribute to complicate the
farm problem. Over-expansion is
fundamental.

Too Much Expansion j

The land policy of the United States
has for over a century been a policy of ■
expansion. Early in our histotry we
ceded more than 100,000,000 acres to
stimulate internal improvements. We ■
have given our lands as bonuses to sol- '
diers. We have offered them freely to
homesteaders. We have held it to be
economically wrong to permit land to
be undeveloped.

Other forces have stimulated pro-
duction. The war brought under plow
many millions of acres which were
needed for emergency food supply. In-
terest, taxes, and other fixed charges
are operating to hold ^many of those
acres in production. Scientific farm-
ing, purebred seeds, purebred sires, new
varieties of plants have spread the acre-
age and increased its productivity. The
use of improved machinery, and the in-
creased efSciency of power driven ap-
pliances have expanded the productive
power of farm labor. The automobile
and the tractor have since 1920 dis-
placed 5,819,000 horses, and released
for other purposes 18,000,000 acres
formerly required to feed them.

Consider the combine. This ma-
chine eliminates the grain binder, the
shocking, the stacking and the thresh-
ing by combining them all in one ma-
chine. It reduces the cost of producing
wheat to a small fraction of the former
expense. It has revolutionized wheat
growing, made possible the cultivation
of a vast acreage, and precipitated the
wheat crop of America into the market
in an ungovernable torrent, which has
choked elevators, embargoed ports, filled
ships and thousands of railway cars, —
in short has well nigh broken down
the marketing and distribution ma-
chinery of America.

Constant Change ' (i

In 1926, Kansas had 8,000 combines.
In 1928, she had 20,000. North Da-
kota in 192 5, had its first combine:

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three years later it had 1000. In 1929
more than half your hard winter wheat
was harvested and threshed with com-
bines.

Nor is this all. Changes in styles
of women's clothes has reduced the mar-
ket for cotton and wool which Ameri-
can farmers produce, and increased the
market for silk and haircuts which they
do not produce. The development of
rayon has decreased the farm mar-
ket.

Even changes in diet, due partly to
the fact that the whole nation travels on
wheels, have caused shifts in the mar-
kets for farm products. The develop-
ment of substitutes for lard and butter
has ilarrowed the market for the prod-
ucts of the dairymen and the hog
farmers.

Instances might be multiplied in-
definitely. Larger acreage, scientific
methods and mechanized farming have
vastly increased the production of the
.farmer, decrease in consumption and
the development of substitutes have
narrowed the markets.

Instinctively, we have turned to the
foreign market as an outlet for this
surplus.

But foreign agriculture has also ex-
panded. The total area under culti-
vated crops in Canada, Argentine, and
Australia, has increased 200 per cent
since 1900. These three countries had
over 40 million more acres sown to
wheat in 1929 than in 1900, a gain of
over 300 per cent. Their combined
wheat acreage is now greater than that
of the United States, while in 1900 it
was only bne-third as much. The area
under corn in Argentine is four times
what it was in 1900. That country is
^ow the world's largest exporter of
dorn. The flaxseed acreage in Argen-
tine increased from 1,500,000 acres in
1900 to 7,000,000 acres in 1929, and
the United States is the principal mar-
ket sought for this Argentine prod-
uct.

World Production

^ Dairy products exports from the
Southern Hemisphere have increased by
leaps and bounds. The exports of but-
ter from New, Zealand, Australia and
Argentine ' were, in 1900, 50 million
pounds. They are now seven times as
great. New Zealand exported 12 mil-
lion pounds of cheese in 1900, — 175
million pounds in 1928. The exports of
casein from Australia have jumped from
few thousand pounds in 1900 to
40,000,000 pounds in 1928. In Europe,
the most rapid agriculture recovery has
been In livestock and dairy products.
Production of milk, cheese, butter and
^rk now exceed the prewar level,
pven more spectacular has been the ex-
pansion in the beef industry in the
Southern Hemisphere. Australia, Uru-

guay and Argentine combined now ex-
port more than 2000 million pounds of
beef as against 300 million pounds in
1900. Argentine alone has increased
its exports from 50 million pounds in
1900 to 1800 million pounds in 1929.
American beef has relaxed its hold on
the European market. Our beef ex-
ports have declined to 132 million
pounds in 1927, or about 7% of Argen-
tine's exports for 1929.

The expansion in wool production has
also been great. In Australia, the
world's largest wool producer, the clip

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now amounts to 900 million pounds, or

double its production of three decades

ago. _ _

Exports Increase

Development of refrigeration meth-
ods and facilities has enabled Australia,
the South African States, New Zea-
land, Brazil and Chile, to become im-
portant factors in the world's fruit
trade. There has been a large increase
in exports from those countries of
oranges, grapefruit, raisins, currants,
plums and apples.

Even Manchuria, in 1900, devoted to
hunting, fishing and herding, now has
30,000,000 acres in cultivation, and ex-
ports nearly 5 million tons of soya beans
and bean products.

Before the war, Asiatiac Russia had
1,500,000 acres in cotton. During
1929, she had 2,500,000 acres.

Tropical and sub-tropical agricul-
ture have had a remarkable expansion
in recent years. Among the products
which compete with the United States
are sugar and vegetable oils. The pro-
duction of sugar in Cuba alone in-
creased from a prewar average of less
than 2,500,000 tons to over 5,000,000
tons in recent years. Java has increased
her sugar production from a prewar
average of 1,500,000 tons to a present
average of 2,500,000 tons.

One of the most significant develop-
ments in world agriculture since 1900
has been the expansion in tropical vege-
table oil production. These oils com-
pete in use with such temperate zone
vegetable oils as cottonseed, linseed, and
soya bean, as well as with animal fats
such as butter and lard. The main items
in the tropical vegetable oil crop are
palm oil, copra and cocoanut oil. The
exports of copra from the Philippine
Islands grew from around 100,000 tons
in 1900 to about 450,000 tons in 1927.
Cocoanut oil exports grew from nothing
in 1900 to over 300 million pounds in
1927. Exports of palm and palm kernel
oil from French West Africa are 50
per cent larger than before the war.

In short, farm production has in-
creased since the war, not only in the
United States but quite generally
throughout the world.

Output Runs Ahead

The reason is plain. During the war
production increased outside Europe to
compensate for reduced production in
Europe. When Europe largely restored
its agriculture, the other countries did
not correspondingly decrease theirs. De-
mand has increased somewhat, through
the growth of population, but not pro-
portionately. As a result, the world's
output ran ahead of market require-
ments. Prices inevitably fell. Prac-
tically all agricultural countries today
have an agricultural problem on their
hands.

Some European countries are strongly
urging a policy of agricultural expan-
sion in their colonies in Asia and Africa.
There is abimdant new acreage avail-
able there, as well as In Argentine and
the South American countries generally.

Soviet Russia has an ambitious pro-
gram for expanding agriculture. It in-
volves three activities. 1. To encour-
age the smaller peasants to expand acre-
age and increase yield. 2. To promote
the so-called collective peasant farnu,
and, 3. To establish neW enlarged
government farms.

England has set up "The Empire
Marketing Board" to encourage agricul-
ture. Its work includes biological re-
search, economic investigations, includ-
ing the organization of producers
associations, and a "Buy Within the
Empire" campaign to promote the
sale of products of the British domin-
ions.

Other nations are striving also to
emulate the eflSciency of the American
farmers. We hold no corner on scien-
tific farming. Significant also is the
increasing use by other countries of
agricultural machinery. In five years,
exports of American farm machinery
have nearly doubUd, — have risen from "
$60,000,000 in 1924 to $116,650,000 in

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the production of American owned fac-
tories located in Canada, Sweden, Ger-
many and France. The manufacture of
agricultural implements in these coun-
tries has greatly expanded since the war.
Notable among them is Germany, who
has almost literally beaten her swords
into plowshares by turning her great
Krupp Gun Works over to the manu-
facture of farm machinery.

Facts Well Known
There is nothing new in all this.
Agriculture has been greatly expanded,
both at home and abroad. The facts
are well known. The question is not
as to conditions, but as to the method
of dealing with them.

There are those who maintain that it
is the duty of the farmer to express
himself in the largest possible produc-
tion, that he who makes two blades of
grass grow where one grew before is a
public benefactor; that the farmer has
not only the right but the duty to pro-
duce as much of the crops which he
raises as the greatest possible acreage,
the most scientific methods and his own
best efforts will permit.

A False Argument
If this theory is to prevail, then logi-
cally we should encourage a larger acre-
age per man; an increasingly scientific,
mechanized and intensive cultivation;
and the most efficient system of market-
ing. But before we embark on this pro-
gram we are bound to recognize that
enormous surpluses will be produced
which must compete for the markets of
the world. Inexorably they must be
sold on the basis of a competitive price.
This in turn means that American
farmers must produce at so low a cost
as to return a profit on the world price.
If this is our program, then we must
compete with a foreign agriculture,
which is also expanded, which has the
benefit of cheap lands, uses cheap labor;
and, in increasing degree, modern ma-
chinery. Such expansion would mean
ever increasing surpluses from America
meeting foreign competition in the
world market. No debenture, or other
scheme of subsidy, could equalize such
conditions. The American farmer can-
not, and ought not, be compelled to
meet the fierce competition of cheap
lands and low standards of living of
other countries.

Under the circumstances, shall we
continue annually to pile up mountains
of foods and fibers, the very size of
which reduces the world price, breaks
the price at home, and leaves us poorer?
Shall we perpetually attempt to pile the
mountain higher? There is nothing
economically sound or socially desirable
about producing crops to sell at less
than the cost of producing them.

We mix plenty of brains with the
soil in our production of crops, but we
do not consider the market before we
plant, nor can we follow our produc-
tion through in the market after it is
produced. We use scientific methods to
plow, seed and reap; we use no method
at all in regulating the size of the out-
put or the movement to market. We
have little voice in the sale of our own
products.

Profit Determines Prosperity
But you say, shall we abandon sci-
entific methods, scrap our machinery
and let our lands lie idle while interest

"We seek equality with indus-
try. But we have observed that
an ungovernable surplus pro-
duction has wrecked many an
industry

"We work 365 days a year,
every fellow for himself, refuse
to co-operate with anybody,
produce a surplus, — and reap a
declining standard of living.

and taxes eat them up? Certainly not.
Let us not forget that scientific prin-
ciples and mechanical farming should
apply to the method and cost of produc-
tion and not to the size of the crop.
Profit, not surplus products, will de-
termine prosperity. Interest and ex-
penses are met out of surplus profit,
and not out of surplus production.
Profit, not quantity of crop, determines
the standard of living, and supports
civic enterprises. What the nation
needs is not more crops or less crops,
but prosperous and contented farmers.

Steel Men Organized
We seek equality with industry. But
we have observed that an ungovernable
surplus production has wrecked many
an industry. With the opening of
enormous deposits of iron ore north of
Lake Superior and the development of
the Bessemer converter, the steel in-
dustry expanded by leaps and bounds.
The production of steel was divided
among many independent plants which
could and did make steel cheaply and
rapidly. Production outran demand,
prices sagged and fluctuated under the
weight of the surplus. The solvency
of every steel plant in the country was
threatened. The answer was found in
the organization of a merger of steel
plants which controlled 65 per cent of
the production. Production was regu-
lated to demand, and the prices were
stabilized. The several independent
plants had used scientific and economi-
cal methods. They had been efficient,
but they over-produced and broke the
price. They merged. The resulting

corporation has paid dividends for
thirty years, and has doubled, the value
of its properties out of earnings.

For industry, regulated production
means profit, and the standards of hv-
ing of industry rise. For agriculture,
an immense volume of production means
lower prices, and our standards of liv-
ing decline.

We look on admiringly while indus-
try regulates production, and labor cuts
its hours to eight per day. We are
urged to dispose of speedometers and buy
alarm clocks. It

Work Too Hard

Industry organizes, — assembles its
gigantic systems, welds them into great
producing units through the coopera-
tion of thousands of individuals, regu-
lates production, and pays high wages
and good profits. We work 365 days
a year, every fellow for himself, ref»ue
to cooperate with anybody, produce a
surplus, — and reap a declining standard
of living.

Such being the problem, what is to
be done about it? First: there is the
tariff. Tariff lies at the very founda-
tion of all plans for organizing agricul-
tural marketing, planning crop produc-
tion, and surplus prevention. Ameri-
can agriculture is entitled to the
American Market. National policy de-
mands it.

Our agricultural imports amount
annually to about $2,200,000,000. Of
these, silk, coffee, rubber, and sugar ac-
count for $1,200,000,000 or 56.2 per
cent. Chocolate, spices, and tea ac-
coxmt for $106,000,000 or about 5 per
cent. About 61 per cent of our agri-
cultural imports consists therefore of
products which we cannot produce at
all or of which we cannot produce suf-
ficiently. Except sugar, this 61% of
all agricultural imports may be dis-
missed from tariff discussion. Since
sugar accounts for one-fourth billion
dollars of these imports, the beet sugar
industry becomes important. The man
who can develop or propagate a rubber
producing plant which can profitably
be grown on the farms of America and
thus supplant the $312,000,000 of rub-
ber imports will be entitled to the
blessings of the American farmer.

These Compete
The remainder of the imports, 39%
of the total, or $848,000,000 are com-
petitive with American Agriculture.

Dairy Products — ^Total . $ 37,754,000

Eggs 3,700,000

Hides and Skins, exclusive

of furs 146,423,000

Wool and Mohair . 79,451,000

Animals and Animal

Products 86,159,000

Grain and Grain Products 34,616,000

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Cotton 44,860,000

Fruits and Nuts 85,343,000

Oilseeds and Oilseeds Prod-
ucts — 144,000,000

Other seeds 8,5 16,000

Tobacco - 58,800,000

Vegetables and Vegetable

Products : 118,500,000

In many, if not all of these products,
a part of the imports are of qualities or
varieties which we do not produce and
which are needed for blending in man-
ufacture. This is notably the case in
cotton and tobacco. Nevertheless,
these products present proper cases for
tariff protection, and opportunity for
the development of our own production.
This is particularly true of oilseeds and
their products, wool, dairy products and
animal products.

Second, something can be done to en-
large the outlet, and the market for
farm products. The development of
new uses for products, the discovery of
uses for by-products, and the cultiva-
tion of crops we do not now produce,
are all pwssibilities. For those products
which must go into export, quality pro-
duction is important because superior
quality offers the sole escape from
comjjetition on price only.

Proper Use of Land

Third, the proper use of land. The
total acreage of the United States is
about 1,900,000,000. Of this, 95 0
million acres are classed as lands in
farms. Of the lands in farms, 505 mil-
lion are classed as tillable. Of it all,
'3 50 million acres are actually in cultiva-
tion. In my opinion, the cultivation of
all the 505 million acres with intensive
methods could easily double the present
crop.

An economic use of land must be de-
veloped. There are millions of acres in
cultivation in America which are sub-
marginal in character. Such lands
ought not to be farmed. They will not
return to the farmer an American
standard of living. Agriculture on
submarginal lands is more mining than
farming.

Plant to Trees

The withdrawal from use of such
lands and their reforestation would be
a profitable public enterprise. Much
more is. involved than our timber and
pulp supply. The production of such
lands, while small per farm, goes far in
its contribution to the depressing sur-
pluses. Reforestation would prove a
substantial aid to flood control, and
would go far to stopping the enormous
erosion which results, in many cases, in
complete destruction of the producing
value of the farm. They should be
taken out of cultivation and held for
succeeding generations, which, as popu-
lation grows, may probably need them.

I should like to see this association
and others of its kind give serious
thought to a program of State acquisi-
tion of submarginal land, with Federal
aid. Private enterprise could also be
stimulated to acquire and reforest such
lands by exemption from taxation until
such time as the forest crop is ready for
harvest.

Fourth: A readjustment of farm tax-
ation is needed. This subject has al-
ready been exhaustively treated in this
hearing. I desire merely to point out
that equality in the field of taxation is
as desirable as equality in other fields.
Taxes, should, so far as is possible, come
dut of income, not out of capital in-
vested. Further, the farmer has an
equity in the community which he him-
self has helped to create, but in ■which
he shares little. Community life cre-
ates new values, social, cultural, eco-
nomic. Opportunities are larger in com-
munity centers. Land values increase
with concentration of population.
Through his trade with the community.

"DEAD Secretary Hyde's speech
to the end and write your
comments, if any, to Editor
Illinois Agricultural Association
RECORD, 608 So. Dearborn St.,
Chicago. We will publish the best
letters in the March issue.

both as buyer and seller, through his
contribution to the raw materials of
trade and manufacture, the farmer helps
to create these values.

Better Tax System

On the other hand, the urban centers,
in which wealth is concentrated, have a
vital interest in the prosperity of the
agriculture surrounding them. The
whole nation has a deep and direct in-
terest in the maintenance of equal edu-
cational opportunity for the boys and
girls of the farm as well as of the city.
It is no more than simple justice that
the base of taxation be spread so that
the burden of maintaining a vigorous
and informed national life shall fall
equally upon all classes of our citizens.

Fifth: Agriculture must be organ-
ized. Given a multitude of producing
plants, a production too large for the
demands of the market, and an annual
surplus so great as to seriously depress
the price, industry would meet the prob-
lem by mergers. But you cannot merge
6 million farms. We have no desire to
do so. The farm family is a social unit
of value so great as to demand its pres-
ervation. Its independence, its com-
pactness, its ideals, must be maintained,
but in maintaining them we must re-
member that we are preserving a small
producing unit in a society in which all
other forms of production are organ-

ized into large units. The farmer must
have help, not only to reduce the com-
petition within his own industry, but
to see that the social, economic and in-
dustrial adjustments and combinations
which are going on all about him do not
bear too heavily upon him.

Organization the Answer

One general answer to farm problems,
is organization. Organization to con-
trol marketing, to standardize output,
to eliminate the waste and duplication
in marketing and distribution, and to
mobilize the economic power of agricul-
ture. Thus the farmer can approximate
the position of industry, or of other
groups. By the long arm of his own
organization, the farmer can make him-
self felt beyond his own line fences and
in the markets of the world. Through
his organization, the farmer can get in-
formation as to commodity supplies,
can bring his production within the
limits of demand, can control the sur-
plus problem by preventing it. By or-
ganization, the farmer can take control
of his own industry; reestablish the in-
dependence of his calling, win his own
place in the sun of economic equality,
and, having won it, hold it against all
the changing vicissitudes of the future.

The modern organization of business
and industry has compUcated and en-
larged the problems of agriculture. Or-
ganization has taken over every industry
except agriculture. Competition in in-
dustry is no longer between individuals,
but between organizations. Labor is
organized. Agriculture alone inter-
poses against the competitions of power-
ful organizations the bared breasts of
its individual producers.

To assist in the organization of agri-
culture, to take the problems of the
various farm commodities out of the
realm of politics and partisan bickering,
and to meet them in the realm of eco-
nomics, to set up an authoritative, tri-
bunal which shall study each separate
problem, and afford leadership for agri-
culture in all its phases; and to do this,
not by subsidy nor by governmental
dabbling in business, but by helping the
farmer to help himself through his own
organizations, this is the purpose of the
Agricultural Marketing Act. |

Industry Should Help

Industry, which owes much to busi-
ness organization, should welcome the
opportunity to lend a helping hand in
the organization of agriculture. With
all due credit to the personal factor of
initiative and ability, the fact remains
that organization has played the pre-
dominant part in the rapid growth and
prosperity in industrial and commercial
fields. From the standpoint of self-
interest, industry can well afford to

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assume a helpful attitude toward secur-
ing economic equality for agriculture.
Here are 27,000,000 consumers who
know the value of American made
products. No changes in packages, in
credit facilities, or in sales departments
of industry is needed. The increase in
purchasing power of the farmer will
mean enlarging markets and continued
industrial expansion. Economic equal-
ity for the farmer means an increase in
the net annual farm income. The larger
part of this would soon find itself in the
channels of trade.

We talk much of economic equality.
We have set it as the goal of our quest.

We know what pohtical equaUty is.
It means equality of opportunity for
every man, — a free field and a fair
chance in the race of hfe. It means
equality before the law, — the exemption
of any citizen from any restraint or
limitations not imposed upon every
other citizen. It means that the doori
of opportunity shall be kept open to
all comers to achieve as great a suc-
cess as their respective abilities merit.

Political equality does not mean that
the stragglers in the race shall be picked
up by the long arm of a benevolent
government and set by the side of the
leaders. It does mean that all take the
same hurdles, cover the same course,
and finish in order of their abilities and
energies. The fact that this does mean
equaUty is abundantly proven by the
thousands of instances in American life
of men who started with nothing, re-
ceived no outside aid, and finished the
race among the leaders. But no man
has ever won who refused to put forth
the effort to run.

Race Among Industries
Economic equality for agriculture
means exactly the same thing. It means
the same opportunities and the same
hurdles as other industries. It means a
free field and a fair chance to compete
in the economic race on the same terms
as other industries. It means no ad-
vantages and no hindrances over others.
This is a race, run not by individuals,
but by industries. In this race, agricul-
ture must compete as an industry.

You recall the fabled race of the hare
and the tortoise. Conscious of its speed,
the hare slept, while slowly and pain-
fully the tortoise covered the distance
and won. Conscious of its titanic
strength, agriculture has slept, failed or
refused to gather its strength, dallied
with economic forces while other indus-
tries have found their place in the sun,
and in so doing have displaced and de-
pressed agriculture.

Agriculture has the speed, — of what
use if it drowses away the hours? It
has the strength, — of what avail if it
be not gathered and coordinated?

Frank D. Barton

R. F. Karr

Chas. Mar>hall

They Served Faithfully

THE outgoing vice-president, Frank D.
Barton of Cornell, and Committeemen
Robert F. Karr of Iroquois, and Charles
Marshall of Belknap served the Farm Bureau
members of Illinois faithfully during their
years of association on the I. A. A. execu-
tive committee.

Mr. Barton was a committeeman and of-
ficer for eight years during most of which
time he served as chairman of the legisla-
tive and public relations advisory commit-
tee. He seldom missed a meeting, and
worked conscientiously at every task to

which he was called by the organization.
R. F. Karr, president of the Iroquois
County Farm Bureau was a member of the
executive committee for six years. His
ability and good judgment were a real asset
to the organization. Karr served successively
on the information, organization, and fi-
nance committees. Charles Marshall of
Belknap was elected from the 24th district
in 1926 to succeed Curt Anderson. He
served on the marketing and public rela-
tions advisory committees during the past
four years, performing his duties faithfully.

All Others Organized
Every industrial interest except agri-
culture is organized. In the race of
the industrial giants, which have the
combined organized strength of their
separate parts, agriculture enters the
strength and the fleetness of the indi-
vidual farmer. Agriculture must or-
ganize.

In this city, the spirit of the Great
Emancipator is all pervading. Though
sixty-five years at rest, yet he Hves. His
cry was political equaUty for a people,
— through emancipation. Our cry is
economic justice for an industry, —
through cooperation. His goal was
achieved through four bitter bloody
years of war. Not on fields, swept by
shot and shell, Hes our struggle; but in
fields where clash the slower, less dra-
matic, but equally dynamic forces of
the industrial and economic realm. Then
the issue was Liberty through the per-
petual and indissoluble Union of the
States. Let vis now organize an asso-
ciation of all branches of agriculture,
to work together, think together, and
achieve together the economic equality
of the industry.

Edwin Basr

Greatest Convention.

Is Popular Belief

Springfield Proves An Excellent
Host To Delegates

THE greatest annual convention in the
history of the Illinois Agricultural
Association!

This was the expression heard from many
sources during and following the recent

meeting in Springfield. The fact that nearly
1500 attended the
banquet on Thurs-
day night while a
similar number as-
sembled the next day
for the luncheon in
the great Springfield
armory is evidence
enough that all pre-
vious records were
broken. That all vis-
itors and delegates
were well provided
for and accommoda-
tions available for all meetings is due in no
small part to the untiring efforts of Farm
Adviser Edwin Bay of Sangamon county
and the many committees of Farm Bureau
members and Chamber of Commerce of-
ficials who smoothed the way.

Nation-Wide Hook-Up

The armory decorated with flags and
bunting looked little different than the
great arena at the Republican National
Convention at Kansas City more than a
year ago. Through the courtesy of Station
WLS and the co-operation of the National
Broadcasting Company the speeches of both
Secretary Hyde and former Governor
Lowden were broadcast far and wide. The
NBC reports a nation-wide hook-up of
greater proportions than that ever employed
for a similar meeting. Broadcasting sta-
tions from Jacksonville, Florida, to New
York and as far west as Tulsa and Okla-
homa City picked up the convention pro-
gram. Hundreds of letters came in from
all parts of the country asking for copies
of addresses.

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CCLTVRAL ASSOCIA

RECORO

To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organbied,
namely to promote, protect and represent the business, economic,
political, and educational interests of th€ Jartnert of Illinois and the
nation, and to develop agriculture.

Editor, Georgre Thiem

Published once a month by the Illinois Agrricultural Association,
608 So. Dearborn St., Chicaso, IlL Entered as second-class matter
October 20, 1925, at the post office at Mount Morris, Illinois, under
the Act of March 3, 1879. Accepted for mailing at special rate of
postasre provided for in Section 412, Act of February 28, 1925, au-
thorized October 27, 1925. The individual membership fee of the
Illinois Afirricultural Association is five da*llars a year. The fee
incladea payment of fifty cents for subscriptfen to the ILUNOIS Agri-
CULTURAI. Association Record. Postmaster: In returning an uncalled
for or missent copy please indicate key number on address as is
required by law.

OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith „ J>*treit

Vice-President, A. R. Wright Varna

S«cretmry, Ceo. E. Metzger. , Chicags

Traasurar, R. A. Cowles _ „...., Bloomingtan

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
(By Congressional District)

l«t ta lltli _.H. C. Vtal, Downers Grove

lath. _ __ C. F. Tullock, Rockford

13tfc C. E. Bamborough, Polo

MIk „ _ „_ M. G. Lambert. FottIs

IStk JC N. Sliinner, Yatea City

16A Geo. B. Muller, Washington

ITtt — „ — .„_ Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

1*»« W. A. Dennis, Paris

IMh C. J. Cross, Atwood

XHk - - Charles S. Black, JaclcaonTiUe

JJ**; - Samuel SorrelU, Raymond

MMnm. i Frank Oexner, Waterloo

«*■< - ~ - _ W. L. Cope, Salem

ajtk- Charles L. Scott, GrayvHle

"t" Fred Dietz, De Soto

DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS

Comptroller „ — ^ J. H. Kelker

Dairy Marketing _ A. D. Lynch

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

Grain Marketing Harrison Fahmkopf

Information _ George Thlem

Insurance Service _ V. Vanlman

Legal Counsel _ Donald Kirkpatrick

Limestone-Phosphate ..J. R. Bent

Live Stock Marketing _ Ray E. Miller

Office „ .C. E. Johnston

Organization „ „....G. E. Metzger

Produce Marketing „ F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson

Transportation L. J. Quasey

ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS

Country Life Insurance Co. L. A. Williams, Mgr.

Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co. J. H. Kelker, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives Ass'n F. E. Ringham, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co A. E. Richardson, Mgr.

niinois Farm Supply Co L. R. Marchant, Mgr.

/. A. A. Knotun Afar\

^ I "'HAT the Illinois Agricultural Association is one of the
-'- best known farm organizations in the world is revealed
in inquiries, magazine and newspaper stories published in
this and other countries, and in letters received from many
sources.

During the past few years letters of inquiry have come in
from Jerusalem in Palestine, from Australia, New Zealand,
South America, England, Germany, and from Russia. Presi-
dent Earl C. Smith recently received a letter of congratula-
tions from Charles J. Riley, Ofl5ce District Attorney, Exe-
cutive Department, the Panama Canal, Ancon, Canal Zone.
"I want to congratulate you upon your re-election as
president of the Illinois Agricultural Association," the letter
stated, "which I note from the report I received at my office
today. I have farm land in Pike county with which I have
tried to keep in touch during my vacation period. If I have
the opportunity I want to meet you personally, as I have
lonej admired your efforts in behalf of agriculture, and
espdbially, the firm stand you took last year that brought
about the declaration from both major parties that agricul-
ture was in need of special consideration."

On Controlling Production '

CONTROL surplus production. Keep the supply some-
where near the demand and the farm problem will be
solved. This was the recent advice that came from both
Alexander Legge and Arthur M. Hyde.

No great progress will be made in controlling crop sur-
pluses in our judgment until farmers have control of the
system of distribution. Why is this true? Simply because
so many distributors and private commission houses thrive
on the large crop marketed at low prices while their profits
diminish when the supply is scarce and prices are high. The
same is true of processors.

The following item from the pages of a prominent finan-
cial journal illustrates this point. |

"Attempts are being made to capitaUze on the grain situa-
tion in connection with Corn Products (Corn Products Re-
fining Company), which has been firm during the recent
weakness in corn prices. The fact that corn has been selling
about ten cents a bushel below the price of a year ago is
construed as a favorable factor in the operations of the com-
pany and has strengthened the belief that another record
year is in store for the company. Share earnings for 1929
are estimated at around $5.50 as compared with $4.52 a
share in 1928."

This statement clearly reveals the interest of at least one
processor in buying the raw product — corn — cheap. Our
meat processors have a similar interest. They invariably
make more money from a large hog crop than from a small
one. They are interested in volume. Most of them secure
their percentage or toll regardless of whether the farmer
makes or loses. This is true of the railroads. The butter
manufacturer is no exception. The greater the volume of
butter processed in his creamery, ordinarily, the more money
he makes. The private commission man naturally favors
large receipts of livestock and produce. He collects toll
from every carload. I:

Only the farmers' interests will be served through a lim-
ited supply that will make the tariff effective on his crops.
Organization to control production may have even greater
possibilities than organization to control distribution, al-
though there is no reason why both should not go hand in
hand.

On The Sidelines

ANYONE reviewing this issue of the Record can get a
^ fairly good idea of the broad interests and activities of
the organized farmers of Illinois. The reviews of the many
conferences and sessions held during the recent Springfield
convention give one a clearer picture of the problems which
Farm Bureau members are making an earnest effort to solve.
How any able, self-respecting farmer can stand on the side-
lines withholding his support while his organized neighbors
grapple with tasks that concern all farmers is beyond our
comprehension. The address of President Earl Smith well
pointed out that the unorganized farmer constituted the
greatest single obstacle to progress in working out agricul-
tural relief.

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Program Smith Shows

Unorganized Farmers Hinder Ad-
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Message to Members

T^ HE program of the Illinois Agricultural
Association and County Farm Bureaus,
while covering a vast field, may properly
be classified in four major divisions. Presi-
dent Earl C. Smith said in his address open-
ing the recent IJth annual meeting at
Springfield on Jan. 30. These are as fol-
lows:

(1) To encourage the organization of
farmers into cohesive community, county,
state and national bodies in which the prob-
lems of each may be studied and acted upon
in a united and constructive manner;

(2) To assist farmers in putting into
operation the most efficient and economical
production methods;

(3) Through collective efFort, to reduce
costs of commodities necessary in farm
operations; and

(4) To regain for farmers their rightful
bargaining power in the sale of their prod-
ucts; or stating it in another way, to secure
and maintain price levels for American
farm products equal to the level of costs en-
tering into their production.

Hinder Progress

In carrying out the first phase of this
program, the Association provided a larger
budget in 1929 than in any of recent years.
Illinois farmers are leading the way in the
percentage of active farmers who have
joined forces to further their rightful in-
terests. Yet entirely too many farmers re-
main for one reason or another outside of
organized ranks. It is my opinion that the
unorganized farmers constitute the greatest
present obstacle hindering the advancement
of the farming industry. There could be
no more helpful or constructive effort made
in 1930 than to stimulate a revival of their
interest.

Defending the efficiency of the American
farmer Smith showed that while in num-
bers, he is only one-twentieth of the world's
farmers, he produces two-thirds of the
world's corn, three-fifths of its cotton, one-
half of its tobacco, one-third of its hogs,
one-third of its poultry, one-fourth of its
oats, one-fifth of its wheat, one-seventh of
its cattle, and one-tenth of its sheep. His
other products, while comparatively small
in percentage of the world's totals, yet bulk
large in the feeding of the nation.

Policy on Buying
"There is a wide difference of opinion
as to how far farmers should go in putting
forth collective effort to reduce the cost of
the many things they have to purchase.
The Illinois Agricultural Association, in
fact, a majority of the State Farm Bureaus,
believe that in the field of collective pur-
chasing, efforts should be confined to such

commodities as enter directly into farm
production costs.

Alluding to the I. A. A.'s policies on co-
operative marketing development Smith
said, "the Association has no desire to in-
crease its power or add to its responsibili-
ties in such matters. It has no other pleas-
ure, however, than to put itself in a posi-
tion where it can discharge its full respon-
sibility to the farmers who alone make
possible all such services. I predict that
1930 will witness the Association putting
forth greater effort in marketing activities
than at any time in its history."

The I. A. C. A.

Reviewing the service rendered by the
Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives Associa-
tion he said "only limited study is neces-
sary to convince one that a vast majority
of past failures of farm co-operative organ-
izations were directly due to improper or
delayed information as to business trends
reaching their boards of directors.

■DEAD carefully the state-
ments and accomplish-
ments of the I. A. A. and its
associated companies set forth
on this page. They reveal the
broad program of service de-
veloped within a short period of
time by the organized farmers
of Illinois. Interest your neigh-
bor in the Farm Bureau if he is
not a member by telling him
what organized farmers accom-
plished by working together last
year.

"It is interesting to note that since the
organization of this co-operative, only three
of its members have failed, and in each of
these cases, failure could have been avoided
had the advice of the audit service been
followed.

"The only complaint of this service
reaching the management has been relative
to some excessive cost over that of some
available individual audit service. The
management has exerted and will continue
to put forth every effort to reduce charges
to a minimum, commensurate with ade-
quate and dependable service.

"It should be recognized that the super-
vision given all audits by this company, the
institutional responsibility made possible
thereby, and the exhaustive character of
their uniform reports much more than off-
set any small additional cost for such serv-
ice."

Large Growth Here

The Farmers Mutual Insurance, it was
shown, had in force on Jan. 1, 1930,
$15,154,593 of fire insurance, $5,909,266
windstorm insurance, and $4,086,276 grow-
ing crop hail insurance, an increase of
$10,950,000 of insurance over the previous
year's record.

(Continued on page 12)

Accomplishments

Of I. A. A. In Brief

Secretary's Report to Members at
Springfield Convention Reveals

1929 Results
(1) Saved approximately $227,500 on

volume purchasing of agricultural limestone.

(2) Saved approx-
imately $78,000 on
centralized buying of
rock phosphate.
Total savings on rock
phosphate and lime-
stone $305,500.

( 3 ) Resisted in-
creases in western
livestock freight
rates which, if al-
lowed, will mean

Geo. E. Metzrer $500,000 p e r y e a r
additional freight on Illinois livestock.

(4) Represented farmers' interests in
many other freight rate questions. Secured
new classification of peaches from third to
fourth class resulting in saving of approxi-
mately $29 a car from typical southern
Illinois points to Chicago.

(5) Collected 981 loss and damage
claims, 230 overcharge claims, and 56 gen-
eral loss and damage claims, making a grand
total of 1 ,267 claims with a total recovery
of $35,758.80.

(6) Assisted many county Farm Bureaus
in rural electrification and power line route
cases. Assisted in a number of telephone
rate and service cases. Represented farm-
ers in 21 hearings before Illinois Commerce
and Interstate Commerce Commissions.

(7) Department of Taxation tested land
valuations in seven counties, and analyzed
data in others. Result of previous reduc-
tions meant a saving of $4,700,000 in 1929
taxes if previous high valuations had re-
mained unchanged.

(8) Carried on state-wide campaign to
change present unfair and unjust taxing sys-
tem so as to place taxation on ability to pay.

(9) Represented Illinois farmers before
state legislature to protect their interests in
government.

(10) Helped secure an increase of 925
carloads of livestock shipped to co-operative
Producer agencies at Chicago, St. Louis,
Indianapolis, and Chicago over 1928. During
1929 Illinois farmers contributed 49.27 per
cent of the livestock handled by the four
Producer agencies serving Illinois. Around
23 per cent of total livestock sold from
Illinois farms was marketed through these
farmer-owned co-operatives.

(11) Through Illinois Farm Bureau
Serum Association saved 20 to 25 ceiits per
100 c. c. on centralized purchasing of 30,-
910,000 c. c. of anti-hog cholera serum and
virus for members in 67 counties.

(12) Marketed 675 straight carloads of
fruits and vegetables through the Illinois
Fruit Growers Exchange. Marketed addi-
tional 90 cars in less tban carlot shipments

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EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY INSURED

TWENTY-FOUR MILLION dollars of life insurance written and
paid for from February 1, 1929, to February 1, 1930! A world's
record for first year production of any company. This is the ac-
complishment of the Country Life Insurance Company; the answer of
the organized farmers of Illinois to the doubters who said, "It can't be
done."

Farm Bureau families in the organized counties of the state made
this world's record possible. Moreover, Farm Bureau co-operation put
this business on the books at $10 per thousand less for the first year's
acquisition cost than the closest class of competitors. Low overhead
made it possible. This is the secret of Country Life's low premiums.
This record reveals how dividend returns will be made possible in the
future. The opportunity lies ahead for Farm Bureau members through
co-operation to establish an unheard-of low net cost record. Working
together for a larger volume, Farm Bureau members can establish most
attractive dividends. | j

Country Life is your company. You control the cost of insurance
by determining how largie the dividends shall be. These dividends will
be directly proportional to the help Farm Bureau members give in rolling
up a large volume in future years.

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what it would mean to
you if you had a policy with a
low established rate like your
child can get today. Dividends
constantly reduce the estab-
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ward hanging up future low
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own company.

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Pictures
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on this page
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which each member has a policy. The father is adviser and breadwirmer and must see that
the needs of the family are protected. The wife is partner and knows the cost of sick-
ness and death; the great need for ready money particularly when the husband and
father is suddenly taken away. The children, too.^have a part to play in the family
welfare. It's one for all and all for one.

One Big Family

Country Life policyholders are a great family co-operating with and helping each
other, carrying one another's burdens in the hour of greatest need. Working together
we can go forward to new heights in 1930! Let's spread the benefits to every Farm
Bureau family.

Country Life Insurance Co.

608 So. Dearborn St.,
CHICAGO

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COUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

608 SO. DEARBORN ST., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

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paid for from February 1, 1929, to February 1, 1930! A world's
record for first year production of any company. This is the ac-
complishment of the Country Life Insurance Company; the answer of
the organized farmers of Illinois to the doubters who said, "It can't be
done/'

Farm Bureau families in the organized counties of the state made
this world's record possible. Moreover, Farm Bureau co-operation put
this business on the books at $10 per thousand less for the first year's
acquisition cost than the closest class of competitors. Low overhead
made it possible. This is the secret of Country Life's low premiums.
This record reveals how dividend returns will be made possible in the
future. The opportunity lies ahead for Farm Bureau members through
co-operation to establish an unheard-of low net cost record. Working
together for a larger volume. Farm Bureau members can establish most
attractive dividends. | i \

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by determining how large the dividends shall be. These dividends will
be directly proportional to the help Farm Bureau members give in rolling
up a large volume in futi^re years.

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Family

Pictures
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which each member has a policy. The father is adviser and breadwinner and mu^t see that
the needs of the family are protected. The wife is partner and knows the cofet of sick-
ness and death; the great need for ready money particularly when the husband and
father is suddenly taken away. The children, too/ have a part to play in tlie family
welfare. It's one for all and all for one.

Country Life policyholders are a great family co-operating with and helping each
other, carrying one another's burdens in the hour of greatest need. Working together
we can go forward to new heights trrHl930' Let's spread the benefits to every Farm
Bureau family. '

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608 So. Dearborn St.,
CHICAGO

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COUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

608 SO. DEARBORN ST., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

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/. A. A. tour Way Program

(Continued from page 9)
Facts and figures regarding the Illinois
Farm Supply Co., Country Life Insurance
Co., and the Illinois Agricultural Service
Co., were presented in like manner. These
are given elsewhere in this issue and in the
90-page Annual Report for 1929.

"While we all should and do feel proud
of the successes and attainments of these
so-called commercial services," said Smith,
"we must ^ot be unmindful that they are
all incidental to, and not the main justifica-
tion for the organization of farmers."

Doubles in Size 1
Referring to the year's progress of the
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance
Company Mr. Smith pointed out that a
year ago this company reported having
11,121 policyholders. On January 1, 19 JO,
19,072 policies had been issued. The com-
pany closed the year 1929 with assets to-
talling $427,185 and a net worth of
$54,370.

That the company has been, developed
and operated along safe and conservative
lines is best disclosed by the fact, that
should it be dissolved as of January 1, not
only would the policyholders receive a re-
turn of all investments in surplus shares
and premium deposits, but would share
equitably in the distribution of the net
worth of the company.

National and State Problems
The various steps in the development of
a national policy for agriculture, and the
, state tax problem next were dealt with in
detail by President Smith. The history,
views, and policies set forth are well known
to most members.

"Should trial and practical experience
develop the necessity of amending the Mar-
keting Act, or supplementing it with addi-
tional legislation so as to make effective
the full aims and purposes of the policy
declared by Congress," he said, "farmers
will be fully prepared and justified in seek-
ing such changes."

BASEBALL OFFICERS

27 Over The Top

TWENTY-SEVEN counties made their
quotas in the December- January cam-
paign to make life insurance available to
every farm family according to a late
checkup by the Country Life Insurance Co.
The nine counties that went over the top

by Jan. 1, 1930, are as follows: ,
Effinffham. Pres. Carroll

Wabash, Vice-Pres. Henry 1

Lawrence Grundy

Winnebaffo Marshall-Putnam

Peoria

Following are the counties that made

their quotas by Feb. 1, 1930:

White Macoupin

Mortran Richland

McLean McDonough

Tazewell Stevenson

Cass Fulton

Boon , Adams

LoKan Kendall

Shelby Henderson

Greene Piatt

President Geo. L. Clarke, left, and Vice-
Pres. Chas. S. Black

The Election

EARL C. SMITH was reelected presi-
dent of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation for the fifth consecutive year fol-
lowing the mammoth banquet in the arm-
ory on Thursday night. A. R. Wright of
Varna was elected vice-president to succeed
Frank D. Barton who retired.

At the close of Mr. Lowden's address
President Sam Thompson, the gray-haired
leader of the A. F. B. F., was introduced.
After expressing his congratulations to dele-
gates and members for their great meeting,
he picked up the gavel and presided while
Mr. Smith retired from the platform.

E. C. Coulter of Sangamon county was
duly recognized and mounting the platform
nominated Earl Smith for reelection in a
few well-chosen words. The nomination
was seconded by L. E. Lingenfelter of Pu-
laski county. There were no other noixii-
nations. The secretary was instructed to
cast a unanimous ballot for Mr. Smith.

J. E. Mummert of Fulton county next
placed the name of A. R. Wright of Varna
in nomination for vice-president which W.
H. Moody of Rock Island county seconded.
There were no other nominations. The sec-
retary was instructed to cast a unanimous
ballot for Mr. Wright.

In like manner elections were held for
directors from the 12th, 14th, 16th, 18th,
20th, 22nd, and 24th districts. Only three
changes were made. Geo. D. Muller of
Washington, Tazewell county, was elected
to fill the vacancy left by Mr. Wright in
the 16th district; W. A. Dennis of Paris,
Edgar county, was elected to succeed R. F.
Karr in the 18th district; and Chas. L.
Scott of Grayville, Edwards county, was
elected to succeed Charles Marshall in the
24th district.

Selling is a game. Its success de-
pends largely upon one's mental
attitude.— Fred Russell.

Baseball League Report

Shows 71 Games in '29

New Officers Elected, Rules Dis-
cussed at Annual Meeting,
Springfield

A TOTAL of 71 official games were played
. by the 21 active Farm Bureau teams
in five divisions last year, George Thiem,
secretary of the Illinois Farm Bureau Base-
ball League, reported at the annual meeting
in Springfield on Jan. 29. Approximately
100 delegates, officials, players and farm
advisers attended.

The League operated more smoothly and
effectively than at any time in its brief
history, said Secretary Thiem. The few
controversies that arose were settled with
dispatch by the district dictators in most
cases and in a few instances by the state
arbitration committee composed of the
president, vice president, and George L.
Clark, director from McLean county.

"The fact that each team deposited a
$25 certified check as a forfeit paid for
failure to play scheduled games had a salu-
tary effect in promoting regularity and ad-
herence to schedules," the report declared.
"The rules adopted at the spring meeting in
Peoria were rigidly enforced."

The League opened on May 25. All pre-
liminary games were played by August 18
when Henry, Taze-
well, McDonough,
McLean, and Cass
were left as the di-
visional winners to
play in the semi-
finals. The race fi-
nally narrowed down
to Tazewell and Mc-
Lean. These two
teams played the
championship game
on October 26. Mc-
Lean county won.

Professionalism Barred
"The fact that the League is being kept
free from professionalism and subsidized
players is fortunate," stated the secretary's
report. "It is to be hoped that this condition
will be fostered in the future for if the
teams allow their desire to win overcome
their honesty and devotion to the purposes
for which the League was organized, the
downfall of organized Farm Bureau base-
ball will ultimately result.

"We can prevent situations like that
which developed recently in the Big Ten
football conference if the county baseball
directors and farm advisers will co-operate
in heading off all efforts to subsidize play-
ers and twist the rules to their own ad-
vantage. The League managers must realize
that to win is of secondary interest. To
play the game fair, abide by the rules, keep
the sport clean that it may teach honesty
and sportsmanship while providing whole-
some recreation is far more important.
"Unless the county directors, team man-
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Grain Marketing Plan

Unanimously Adopted

Regional Grain Corporation for Illi-
nois to Be Set Up

THE grain marketing plan of the I. A.
A. which was carefully worked out
after months of study was unanimously
adopted at the business session of the
fifteenth annual convention on Friday
morning, January 31,
at Springfield.

The plan as ex-
plained by Harrison
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marketing director,
provides for the or-
ganization of an Illi-
nois grain corpora-
tion based upon the
principles used in
setting up the Farm-
ers National Grain
Corporation. It will
be organized under the co-operative laws
of Illinois as a regional marketing agency
co-operating with the National Grain Cor-
poration.

The main purpose of the plan is to ac-
quire through one of three different ways
the largest possible centralized control of
grain produced within the state so as to
insure at all times its sale through cen-
tralized channels in the various nearby
grain markets.

Three Methods
The three ways embody:
1. Entering into contractual relations
with local elevators whereby all grain they
handle will be sold through the Illinois
grain corporation and the Farmers National
Grain Corporation.

2 and }. Where local elevators do not
I desire to contract for the sale of grain
•' through these co-operative channeb, efforts
might be made by the State Corporation to
acquire local elevator facilities through out-
right purchase, or lease.

Local Advisory Council

Where the present country elevators de-
sire to sell their physical properties, it is
proposed that the state agency purchase
such facilities on an equitable basis; that
when such properties be so purchased or
leased, a local advisory council be set up
and maintained, and at least one share of
common stock in the state corporation be
sold and issued to each grain producer
patron, thus guaranteeing to each grower
his right of participation in all earnings or
savings brought about through the co-op-
erative marketing of his grain. In such
case, the patronage dividends would run di-
rect from the state grain corporation to
the common stock shareholder patron.
Where the local country elevator desires
i to lease its physical facilities to the state
j grain corporation it will be given oppor-
tunity to do so. When such properties are

so leased, the state grain corporation will
manage and operate them.

Must Be Co-operative

All local farmer-owned country elevators
are to be given an opportunity to become
members of the state grain corporation, pro-
vided that such country elevators which are
not strictly co-operative under the Capper-
Volstead Act and the Federal Farm Act,
agree to reorganize on a co-operative basis.

Every elevator holding membership in
the state grain corporation is to be solicited
to purchase or underwrite for sale among its
patrons a sufficient and equitable amount of
stock in the state corporation for the pur-
pose of furnishing needed operating capital
and buying capital stock in the National
Farmers Grain Corporation.

Stabilized Control

The state grain corporation in its au-
thorized capital is to provide for a class of
stock that will effect a stabilizing and con-
tinuing control. Such stock to be held by
some agreed organization or organizations
that might with the consent of the share-
holders of the state grain corporation trans-
fer such stabilizing stock control to the
National Grain Corporation, when its man-
agement and operations will have proven
their efficiency and place in a national grain
marketing program.

Business Service Is

Topic at Conference

Commercial Projects Help Farmer's
Dollar Buy More

THE Financial Business Service confer-
ence on the afternoon of January 30
was held in the ball room of the St. Nich-
olas hotel in Springfield. One hundred
sixty-nine delegates and visitors attended.
J. R. Bent discussed the limestone and
phosphate agreements
with the producing
companies and told
of the supervisory
work carried on by
the Limestone-Phos-
phate Department of
the I. A. A.

F. E. Ringham,
manager of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Co-
operative Association,
reported briefly on the audit service
available to Farm Bureaus and co-operatives.
This service includes income tax help, cred-
its and collections, accounting systems, fi-
nancial reorganization, etc. Since the com-
pany was organized in 1924 approximately
1300 audits have been made. At present
there are 233 member companies in the
service which includes 62 Farm Bureaus, 3
Home Bureaus, 71 farmers elevators, 21
live stock co-operatives, 16 dairy and prod-
uce associations, 30 farm supply compa-
nies, 13 mutual insurance companies, 4 seed
associations, 9 mercantile companies and 4
miscellaneous.

Geo. F. TuIIock

Advantages of Single Control '
V. Vaniman discussed insurance service.
He explained the advantages in the present
plan of single control in setting up the last
two mutual insurance companies. Manager
Richardson of the Auto Insurance Company
stated that working policies were formu-
lated with the idea of fostering and pro-
moting the Farm Bureau movement. j'
Manager Lawrence A. Williams of Coun-
try Life pointed out th^t the present at-
tainment which culminated in $24,000,000
of life insurance signed in one year's time
would have been impossible without the co-
operation of the county Farm Bureaus. He
stated that the Director of Insurance Serv-
ice for the I. A. A. acted as the connecting
link between the Country Life Insurance
Company and the I. A. A. in carrying out
a harmonious program.

$2,000,000 Business in '29

E. D. Lawrence, president, and L. R.
Marchant, manager, of the Illinois Farm
Supply Company, discussed the centralized
purchasing of petroleum products for 31
Farm Bureau supply companies during the
past year. These companies distributed
more than $2,000,000 worth of products
.during 1929. Net income amounted to
approximately $280,000 available for pat-
ronage dividends and reserve funds. Divi-
dends ranging from four to 12 per cent
were paid to Farm Bureau member custom-
ers after setting aside funds for reserves.

Five new companies became members of
the organization during 1929. The state
supply company like the county service
companies pays dividends on the patronage
basis. Although the sum of $21,518.8$ was
returned to the 21 member companies at
the end of the fiscal year, the success of the
state company cannot be measured by this
dividend since its chief iservice was to pur-
chase high quality merdhandise at quantity
prices.

Kirkpatrick Summarizes

Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel summed
up the conference, stating that only a
beginning had been made in rendering
needed commercial service. The Board of
Directors of the I. A. A., he stated, favor
handling only those commodities used di-
rectly in farming operations. The Farm-
ers Mutual Reinsurance 'Company, he said,
is anxious to co-operate with the local mu-
tual companies to the end that all fire,
lightning, windstorm, cyclone and tornado,
and farm crop hail insurance may be se-
cured on a mutual basis. He stated that
other forms of insurance undoubtedly
would follow; that accident and health in-
surance as well as theft Insurance had been
requested by a number of members. He
asked consideration of the suggestion to
change the name of the Illinois Agricultural
Mutual Insurance Company to "Country
Casualty Company" from the standpoint of
having a short name similar to Country
Life Insurance Company.

George F. Tullock presided as chairman
of the meeting.

Piit/c Tirrli

THE I. A. A. RECORD

/. A. A. four Way Program

(CiintinueJ from page 91
l.ict'i ind linurci rcu.irdinj; tlie Illini)i%
Farm Supply C"o., Country 1 itc lln^urAiice
Co.. ,inJ tlio Illinois A:;ni.ultur,li Service
Co., were presented in like manndr. These
jre i;iven elsewhere in this issue aid in tin-
"•O p.Kc Annual Report for 1929.

"While we all should and do ftcl proud
of the successes and attainments of these
so-called commercial services," said Smith,
"we must not be unmindful that! they are
all incidental to, and not the main justifica-
tion for the ori;ani/ation of farmers."

Doubles in Size |

Rcfcrrins to the year's progrcts of the
Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance
Company Mr. Smith pointed out that a
vear a.i^o this company reporter havin>;
11.121 policyholders. On January! 1, 19.^0.
19,072 policies had been issued. The com-
pany closed the year 1929 with (issets to-
tallini; $427,185 and a net \vor'th of
S'4,370.

That tlie company has been levcloped
and operated alons safe and conservative
lines IS best disclosed by the fhct, that
should i( be dissolved as of January 1. not
only would the policyholders receive a re-
turn of all investments in surplus shares
and premium deposits, but would share
equitably in the distribution of the net
worth of the company.

National and State Problfems

The various steps in the development of
a national |so|icy lor a^riculture, and the
state ta.\ firoblen) ne\t were dealt with in
detail by President Smith. The history,
views, and policies set forth are well known
to most mc-mbers.

Should trill aiui practical c iperience
develop the necessity of amending he Mar-
keting; Aot, or supplementinj; it w th addi-
tional legislation so as to make effective
the full aims and purposes of tie policv
declared by Congress," he said, ['farmers
will be fully prepared and lustilioilj in seek
1 ;:■..: such chanijcs."

BASEBALL OFFICERS

27 Oier The Top

TWENTY-SliM.X counties m'de their
quotas in the December-Janu: ry cam-
pai);n to make life insurance available to
cverv farm family according tr a late;
checkup by the Country Life Insurance Co.
riie nine counties that went over the top,
in Jan. 1, l''iO. are as follows:

r.flinK^iam. IVfs

(■Mrr..ll

W;.l.:ish. Vic.-rr.-.

H.rirv

Lawrence

r.riin.lv

WiniK'baifo

Miir^linll-P.

!',-•. ri;i

1 ollowiiiL; .ire t

le counties th

their quotas In lei

. 1, I9,i0:

White

.Ma.oi^.in

Mt»ri.'an

Kichl.tnd

McLonn

.McDollougli

T.ize«ell

Slevetipnli

CmSS

Kulton

Hot.n

Atlam^

l.ojTan

Ktnilnll

Shpll.y

Hcniiorson

(irfefie

I'ialt

President Geo. L. Clarke, left, and Vice-
Pres. Chas. S. Black

The Election

EARl. C. S.MITll was reelected presi-
dent of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation for the fifth consecutive year fol-
lowing the mammoth banquet in the arm-
ory on Thursday night. A. R. Wright of
\'arna was elected vice-president to succeed
I rank O. Barton who retired.

.\t the close of Mr. Lowden's address
President Sam Thompson, the gray-haired
leader of the .\. F. B. F., was introduced.
.\fter expressing his congratulations to dcle-
s-ates and members for their gre.it meeting,
he picked up the gavel and presided while
Mr. Smith retired from the platform.

I",. C. Coulter of .Sangamon county was
duly recogni/ed and mounting the platform
nominated I arl .Smith for reelection in a
few well-chosen words. The nomination
was seconded by L. U. Lingcnfeltcr of Pu-
laski county. There were no other nomi-
nations. The secretary was instructed to
cast a unanimous ballot for Mr. Smith.

J. F,. .\Iuniniert of Fulton county next
placed the name of \. R. Wright of Varna
in nomination for vice-president which W.
I \. .\I(«idy of Rock Island county seconded.
Ilierc were no other nominations. The sec-
retary was instructed to cast a unanimous
ballot for Mr. Wright.

In like ni.inner elections were held for
directors from the 12th, 14th, 1 6th, ISth,
20ih, 22nd, and 24th districts. Only three
changes were made. Geo. 1). Muller nf
W.ishin'.;ion. I.i/ewell county, was elected
to till the vacancy left by Mr. Wright in
the l(^th district: W. A. Dennis of Paris,
Fdgar county, was elected to succeed R. F.
Karr in the I'Sth district; and Chas. L.
Scott of Grayville. I.dvvards county, was
elected to succeed Charles Marshall in the
24th district.

Selling is a game. Its success de-
pends largely upon one's mental
attitude. — Fred Russell.

Baseball League Report

Shows 71 Games in '29

New Officers Elected, Rules Dis-
cussed at Annual Meeting,
Springfield

4 IQTAL of 71 oflicial games were played
/"\. by the 21 active Farm Bureau teams
in five divisions last year, George Thiem,
secretary of the Illinois Farm Burijau Base-
ball I eague, reported at the annual meeting
in Springfield on Jan. 29. .Approximately
100 delegates, ofHcials, players and farm
advisers attended. '

rhc League operated more smoothly and
effectively than at any time in its brief
history, said Secretary Thiem. The few
controversies that arose were settled with
dispatch by the district dictators in most
cases and in a few instances by the state
arbitr.ition committee composed of the
president, vice president, and George L.
Clark, director from McLean county.

"The fact that each team deposited a
i2? certified check as a forfeit paid for
failure to play scheduled games had a salu-
tary effect in promoting regularity and ad-
herence to schedules," the report declared.
"The rules adopted at tlie spring meeting in
Peoria were rigidly enforced."

The League opened on May 2^. All pre-
liminary games were played bv .Xugust 18
when Henry, Taze-
well, .McDonough,
McLean, and Cass
were left as the di-
vision.il winners to
play in the semi-
finals. The race fi-
nally narrowed down
to Tazewell and Mc-
Lean. These two
teams played the
championship game
on October 26. .Mc-
Lean county won.

Professionalism Barred

"The fact that the League is being kept
free from professionalism and subsidized
players is fortunate," stated the secretary's
report. "It is to be hoped that this condition
will be fostered in the future for if the
teams bllow their desire to win overcome
their honesty and devotion to the purposes
for which the League was organized, the
downfall of organized Farm Bureau base-
ball will ultimately result.

"We can prevent situations like that
which developed recently in the Big Ten
football conference if the county baseball
directors and farm advisers will co-operate
in heading off all efforts to subsidize play-
ers and twist the rules to their own ad-
vantage. The League managers must realize
that to win is of secondary interest. To
play tlie game fair, abide by the rules, keep
the sport clean that it may teach honesty
and sportsmanship while providing whole-
some recreation is far more important.

"Unless the county directors, team man-
{ (Continued on p.if'e 17)

George Thiem

K. RECORD

;port

mes in '29

Rules Dis-
/leeting,

lies were played
1 Bureau teams
Gcori;c Tliiem,
n Burijau Base-
annual meeting
Approximately
vers and farm

; smoothly and
ne in its brief
cm. The few
re settled with
:tators in most
;s by the state
iposcd of the
ind George L.
I county,
im deposited a
orfcit paid for
mes had a salu-
uiarity and ad-
rcport declared,
rin;.; meeting in

ly 2«. All pre-
bv .Xugust 18

THE I. A. A. RECORD

eorite Thiem

arred

c IV bcHii; kept
.Tnd subsidized

the secretary's
t this condition
arc for if the

win overcome
to the purposes

organized, the
Bureau base-
ions like that
the Bij; Ten

ouiity baseball

will co-operate

subsidize play-

thcir own ad-

crs must realize

interest. To

the rules, keep
teich honesty

ivldint; whole-
important.

irs, team man-

Grain Marketing Plan

Unanimously Adopted

Regional Grain Corporation for Illi-
nois to Be Set Up

THE srain marketing plan of the I. A.
A. which was carefully worked out
after months of study was unanimously
adopted at the business session of the
fifteenth annual convention on Friday
morning, January 31,
at Springfield.

The plan as ex-
plained by Harrison
F a h rn k opf , grain
marketing director,
provides for the or-
ganization of an Illi-
nois grain corpora-
tion based upon the
principles used in
setting up the Farm-

... _ . , , crs National Grain

Harrison Fabrnkopf

Corporation. It will
be organized under the co-operativf laws
of Illinois as a regional marketing agency
co-operating with the National Grain Cor-
poration.

The main purpose of the plan is to ac-
quire through one of three different ways
the largest possible centralized control of
gram produced within the state so as to
insure at all times its sale through cen-
tralized channels in the various nearby
grain markets.

Three Methods

The three ways embody:

I. 1 ntering into contractual relations
with local elevators whereby all grain they
handle will be sold through the Illinois
grain corporation and the Farmers National
Grain Corporation.

2 and 3. Where local elevators do not
desire to contract for the sale of grain
through these co-operative channels, efforts
might be made by the State Corporation to
acquire local elevator facilities through out-
right purchase, or lease.

Local Advisory Council

Where the present country elevators de-
sire to sell their physical properties, it is
proposed that the state agency purchase
such facilities on an equitable basis; that
when such properties be so purchased or
leased, a local advisory council be set up
and maintained, and at least one share of
common stock in the state corporation be
sold and issued to each grain producer
patron, thus guaranteeing to each grower
his right of participation in all earnings or
savings brought about through the co-op-
erative marketing of his grain. In such
case, the patronage dividends would run di-
rect from the state grain corporation to
the common stock shareholder patron.

Where the local country elevator desires
to lease its physical facilities to the state
grain corporation it will be given oppor-
tunity to do so. When such properties are

so leased, the state grain corporation will
manage and operate them.

Must Be Co-operative

.Ml local farmer-owned country elevators
are to be given an opportunity to become
members of the state grain corporation, pro-
vided that such country elevators which are
not strictly co-operative under the Capper-
N'olstead Act and the Federal Farm Act,
agree to reorganize on a co-operative basis.

Every elevator holding membership in
the state grain corporation is to be solicited
to purchase or underwrite for sale among its
patrons a sufficient and equitable amount of
stock in the state corporation for the pur-
pose of furnishing needed operating capital
and buying capital stock in the National
Farmers Grain Corporation.

Stabilized Control

The state grain corporation in its au-
thorized capital is to provide for a class of
stock that will effect a stabilizing and con-
tinuing control. Such stock to be held by
some agreed organization or organizations
that might with the consent of the share-
holders of the state grain corporation trans-
fer such stabilizing stock control to the
National Grain Corporation, when its man-
agement and operations will have proven
their efficiency and place in a national i;rain
marketing program.

Advantages of

Single Control

Business Service Is

Topic at Conference

Commercial Projects Help Farmer's
Dollar Buy More

THE Financial Business Service confer
ence on the afternoon of January 30
was held in the ball room of the St. Nich-
olas hotel in Springfield. One hundred
siNty-nine delegates and visitors attended.
|. R. Bent discussed the limestone and
phosphate agreements
with the producing
companies and told
of the supervisory
work carried on by
tiie Limestone-Phos-
phate Department of
the I. A. A.

F. E. Ringham,
manager of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Co-
operative Association;
on ' the audit service
available to Farm Bureaus and co operatives,
riiis service includes income tax help, cred-
its and collections, accounting systems, fi-
nancial reorganization, etc. Since the com-
pany was organized in 1924 approximately
1300 audits have been made. *'-'Vt present
there arc 233 member companies in the
service which includes 62 Farm Bureaus. 3
Home Bureaus, 71 farmers elevators, 21
live stock co-operatives, 16 dairy and prod-
uce associations, 30 farm supply compa-
nies, 13 mutual insurance companies. 4 seed
associations, 9 mercantile companies and 4
miscellaneous.

Geo. F. Tullock

reported briefly

V. Vaniman discus* i-d insurance service.
He explained the advantages in the present

plan of single control
two mutual insurance

n setting up the last
orj^anics. Manager
Richardson of the Aut^ Insurance Company
stated that working
lafcd with the idea o

;>olicies were formu-
• fostering and pro-
moting the Farm Bure.iu movement.

Manager Lawrence n. Williams of Coun-

try Life pointed out
tainmcnt which culmi
of life insurance signe

Page Tliirfrtn

that the present st-
ated in $24,000,000
i in one vcar's time

svould have been impossible without the co-
operation of the county Farm Bureaus. He
stated that the Dircctdr of Insurance Serv-
ice for the I. .\. A. acllcd as the connecting
link between the Country Life Insurance
Company and the I. AJ. A. in carrying out
a harmonious programj

$2,000,000 Business in '29
E. D. Lawrence, pj'esident, and L. R.
.Marchant, manager, ojf the Illinois Farm
Supply Company, discussed the centralized
purchasing of petrolcqm products for 31
Farm Bureau supply companies during the
past year. Tlicse companies distributed
more than $2,000,000 worth of products
during 192''. Net ircome amounted to
approximately $280,000 available for pat-
ronage dividends and r;serve funds.. Divi
dends ranging from f< ur to 1 2 per cent
were paid to Farm Bureau mcmi>er custom-
ers after setting aside funds for Reserves.
Five new companies secame mcmlvrs of
the organization durini; 1929. The state
supply company like he county service
companies pays dividends on the patron.v.;e
Is.isis. .Mthouijh the sun of $2I,<1S.8< was
returned to the 21 mcml>er companies at
the enil of the fiscal yea", the success of the
state company cannot I c measured by this
dividend since its chief 5crvi»re was to pur
chase liiuh quilifv mercliaridise at quantity

prices.

Kirkpatrick Sikmmarizes
Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel summed
up the conference, st: ting that only a
beginning had been riade in rendering
needed commercial service. The Board of
Directors of the I. .\. .'v.. he stated, favor
handling only those co nmoditics used di-
rectly in farming opcr; tions. The Farm-
ers Mutual Reinsurance C<iimpany, he said,
IS anxious to co-operate with the local mu-
tual companies to the end that all fire,
lightning, windstorm, c) clone and tornado,
and farm crop hail ins ir-tnce mav be se-
cured on a mutual basis, tile stated "that
other forms of insurance undoubtedly
would follow; that accii ent and health in-

insurancc had bee-n
of members I Ic
the sui;gesti''ii t.>

surance as well as theft
requested by a number
.isked consideration of
ciianije the name of the Illinois .\gricuitural
Mutual Insurance Company to "Countrv
Casualty Company" from the standpoint <if
having a short name s milar to Countrv
I ife Insurance Company

George F. Tullock presided as ciiairniin
of the meeting.

A

Pafie Fourteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

SEEK 75,000 MEMBERS BY JAN. 31, 1931

.1

C. E. Bamborough

Publicity Important

In Farm Bureau Work

75,000 Members in 1930 Is Goal of
I. A. A. Organization Department

A GOOD publicity program for the
county Farm Bureau; relationship be-
tween publicity and size of membership,
and the importance of co-operation with
local newspapers were the opening subjects
for , discussion at the Organization-Infor-

mation conference

attended by some
400 delegates, farm
advisers, and visitors
on January 30 in the
Leland hotel, Spring-
field. C. E. Bambor-
ough presided.

George Thiem, di-
rector of informa-
tion, opened the dis-
cussion by showing
that without excep-
tion the county
Farm Bureaus having large memberships
give careful attention to publicity and have
the support of the local newspapers.

Give It Time
"Make publicity a definite project," he
advised, "give the local reporters the right
of way, cultivate the newspaper editors, ex-
plain the Farm Bureau and its work to -
them. Send out a release every week con-
taining well-written stories with local inter-
est. Influence the editor not to print live
news under heads such as 'Farm Bureau
Notes.' Print a large number of short
items in the official organ. Publish as little
canned stuff as possible. Fill the Farm
Bureau news bulletin with items about Farm
Bureau activities and membership. Take
time to write original stuff. Remember
you are reaching all the members with the
county bulletin. Therefore time spent in
making it readable and informative is well
spent."

Danforth Cites Experiences

Farm Adviser H. K. Danforth of Henry
county stated that he considered their pub-
licity work most effective in maintaining
a strong organization. Mr. Danforth sends
out a release every week to all the news-
papers. The local editor at Cambridge said
that the reason he gave the Farm Bureau
so much publicity is that the news was sent
to him regularly — he wasn't expected to
come after it. "We find short, colorful
news stories most acceptable," said Dan-
forth. Attractive headlines are written
above each story to save the time of the
busy editor. Thus the news is not hidden
under stereotyped heads.

Plan Carefully
The publicity program should be care-
fully planned, suggested C. E. Gates of La-

jSalle county. "The fact that LaSalle county
signed approximately 900 members in one
day during its last drive was seen as the re-
sult of effective publicity following a con-
structive and helpful program of service."
R. V. Watson of McLean county told
how the Farm Bureau cooperated with the
Bloomington Pantagraph, the chief news-
paper of the county. "We give the editors
a break," he said, "take them into our
confidence and try to keep them informed
on what's going on. We frequently invite
Mr. Bill to accompany us to meetings and
demonstrations over the county."

SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND
members by the end of 1930 is
the goal toward Vnich the organiza-
tion department will strive this year.
Fifteen counties accepted Champaign
county's challenge to have »he high-
est percentage of farmers of any
county in the Farm Bureau. An ef-
fective publicity program in every
county will help snrpass the 75,000
mark.

Collection Help

■Robert Cowles, treasurer, outlined the
new collection plan, explaining how the
I. A. A. would co-operate in mailing out
letters to delinquent members. All coun-
ties are requested to get in touch with the
treasurer's office for further information re-
garding this plan.

"Let's establish as our goal 75,000 mem-
bers by the end of 1930," Secretary George
Metzger said in opening the discussion on
organization. He told why a larger mem-
bership would be beneficial in the need for
rendering greater service to Illinois agri-
culture. He discussed Champaign county's
challenge to build a larger membership by
1931 than that of any county in the state.
Fifteen other counties accepted the chal-
lenge on a percentage basis, that is they will
sign up a higher percentage of farmers in
the county by next January than Cham-
paign. These counties are as follows: La-
Salle, Stark, Scott, McLean, Marshall-Put-
nam, DuPage, Kane, Jersey, Knox, Logan,
DeWitt, Tazewell, DeKalb, McDonough,
Woodford. There was much enthusiasm
expressed by the delegates regarding 1930
membership plans.

Who a Member?
The question of who should be a Farm
Bureau member was brought up. One man
offered the following as his suggestion:

1. Land owner operating a farm.

2. Tenant fanner with farm owner —
joint membership.

3. A tenant alone where the owner will
not co-operate.

(Continued on page IS)

Ceo. C. Jewett

Annual Audit Most

Necessary — Jew^ett

Organize to Control Production as
Well as to Sell Crop, He Says

"T'TtT'E HEAR much about co-operative
f V marketing but very little about one
element or one requirement which I look
upon as extremely important. I refer to the
requirement that an adequate set of records
be maintained at all
times and that the
affairs of each co-
operative's Association
be properly audited
at least once each
year," George C.
Jewett, president of
the Transportation
Bank of Chicago
told delegates and
visitors at the Illi-
nois Agricultural Co-
operatives' Association

annual meeting in Springfield on Jan. 29.
"I do not know of any line of business
that possesses a greater necessity for a
proper auditing and an adequate auditor's
report than co-operative institutions," said
Jewett. "In addition to the records of or-
dinary industry you must maintain figures
to use as a basis for the payment of patron-
age dividends. While the books of co-
operatives are more complicated than those
of a bank, yet I have found many a co-'
operative attempting to get along with
inadequate records and I dare say the ma-
jority still do not avail themselves of an
annual audit. Many failures can be blamed
to inadequate and improper bookkeeping.

A Forward Step

"It was an important forward step when
co-operative groups, working through their
state Farm Bureau organization, arranged
for an auditing service of their own. I
happen to know that the I. A. C. A. audit-
ing service is most excellent and compares
favorably with that offered by the best
auditors in the city of Chicago. They not
only audit your books but they give you
with the audit sound advice bearing on
your operations.

"If you have ever tried to borrow money,
you know and appreciate the importance
of good books and adequate audits. Speak-
ing from the banker's viewpoint, I would
not care to loan money to anyone who is
not in a position to make a proper financial
statement and whose books cannot be
checked at any time or all times. We are
always pleased when an auditor's statement
is furnished and many times find it neces-
sary to require that one be furnished."

In his closing remarks, Mr. Jewett re-
ferred to a Chicago Tribune editorial on
the surplus crop situation urging farmers
(Continued on page 16)

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Fifteen

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L. A. Williams

First Year Record of

Country Life Cited

Manager L. A. Williams Talks to

First Agents* Conference
"rpiHE record established by the Coun-
X try Life Insurance Company in 1929
so far as I know is unprecedented in the
field of life insurance," Manager L. A. Wil-
liams told some 400 agents and visitors at
their first conference held in Springfield on
Jan. 29. "When Illi-
nois farmers placed
on the books of their
company a total of
$22,372,000 of paid-
for life insurance in
one year at $10 per
thousand less for the
first year than the
average competitor
in the closest field,"
he said, "they accom-
plished what old ex-
perienced life insur-
ance men said could not be done. The out-
standing life insurance actuary of the mid-
dle west, L. A. Glover of Chicago, has ad-
vised us that our first year cost and over-
head was $10 per thousand less than the
average of 16 companies in our class, that
is, having $10,000,000 to $40,000,000 of
insurance in force. Country Life did this
with practically all new and inexperienced
agents, wrote not a single dollar's worth of
term insurance, nor touched one dollar of
its original surplus.

It Can Be Done

"You will remember a year ago that
much criticism was directed against the
Farm Bureau for entering the life insur-
ance field. Many ventured prophecies to
the effect that dire consequences would re-
sult from this action. They predicted that
farmers would be sadder but wiser within a
short time. The fact that this great co-
operative insurance program has succeeded
beyond the dreams of its founders and to
the amazement of the life insurance fra-
ternity, is the answer of Illinois farmers to
the doubting Thomases. The results speak
for themselves. Nearly $23,000,000 of in-
surance taken by Illinois farmers in their
own company in the first year of its exist-
ence is their reply to the time-worn
prophecy, "it can't be done." The project
succeeded because there was a place for
this company. No first-year record of any
company ever organized in America, nor
anywhere else, approaches that of the Coun-
try Life Insurance Company.

80 Counties Organized
"Today we have an agency force organ-
ized in more than 80 counties. It is true
that many of our agents are comparatively
inexperienced in the selling field, but we
have one tremendous advantage. The heart
of Country Life differs from that of other
insurance companies because of the enlisted
sympathy and sentiment of nearly 60,000

Illinois Farm Bureau members for making
available sound production at low cost.
Every life insurance estate created for
farmers means greater guaranteed farm
wealth. There is no more certain way of
guaranteeing the safety of the farm home
and estate for the children and grandchil-
dren of those who are now tilling the soil.

"Country Life Insurance Company is a
great humanitarian enterprise unselfishly
devoted to the future welfare of Illinois
agriculture. It seeks to perpetuate the
ownership of farms by men who till the
soil. Its broad program includes education
for farm children as good as that enjoyed
by the children in our towns and cities.
It provides a definite plan for guaranteeing
the payment of the farm mortgage, for
heading off bankruptcy, and the passing
of farm ownership to non-resident land-
lords.

Uses Established Machinery

"The Country Life Insurance Company
is owned and controlled by those who hold
membership in the county Farm Bureaus of
Illinois and the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation. The company is using the ma-
chinery already established by this great
state-wide organization to serve its mem-
bers as well as other farmers who are not
fortunate enough to be members.

"The heart of Country Life is strong
because of its human and unselfish motives.
It surpasses all other companies in its ideals
of economy in production. It is insepara-
bly bound to the ideals of the Farm
Bureau — to gain for farmers equal privilege
and protection in the world's markets with
that of industrial and other groups."

Women Want Running

Water in Farm Home

Many Speakers Address Conference
at Springfield

A DISCUSSION of running water in
every farm home, the chief interest
for the moment of the Illinois Home
Bureau Federation, featured the recent
women's conference held Jan. 30 during
the I. A. A. convention at Springfield.

"Our program is built upon the theory
that running water is possible and within
the reach of every farm and small town
home," said Mrs. Henry Mies, newly elected
president of the state Home Bureau. Mrs.
Homer R. Johnson, retiring president who
made the chief presentation of this topic
related some of her personal experiences
in getting conveniences installed in an old-
fashioned farm house.

Women Must Demand
"Running water in every farm home in
McLean county has been the aim of our
Home Bureau since its organization," she
said. Running water brings satisfaction
to the family. Every home should have at
least a sink, drain, force pump and pitcher.
Women themselves, are often to blame for
lack of conveniences in the farm home,

said the speaker. They are not aggressive
enough in demanding conveniences in the
home equal to those installed about the
farmstead. \

The running water' project will be con-
tinued over a five year period. The women
want every county Farm Bureau to cooper-
ate. It was pointed out that a woman
carrying water an average distance for a
family of five in one year walks 30 miles,
and does enough work to plow 10 acres of
land and lift 27 to 3 D tons besides. |

Home Should Train

Miss Attie Souder, extension specialist
from Urbana, said that the aim of the home
is to train its members to play the game of
life. She asserted that the home must be
democratic. She presented statistics reveal-
ing that city women spend much more
time on children's care and in purchasing
and planning than farm women. Miss
Souder said that among 733 -farm homes
visited in McHenry county, only 86 had a
complete water system, 5J2 had a pump
and sink, and in 289 it was necessary to
carry water from the Well outside. "Own-
ers do not appreciate that running water
will bring better tenarjts," she said.

Other speakers who addressed the women
briefly were Earl C. Smith, who extended
greetings and a welcome from the I. A. A.,
Samuel R. McKelvie, member of the Fed-
eral Farm Board, who stated that sympa-
thetic understanding of the farm problem
by women was important, and Dean H. W.
Mumford of the University of Illinois who
among other things said that we often lose
sight of the finer things in life because we
are compelled to put so much attention on
economic affairs.

Radio Talk Helps

Mrs. LaFayette Funk, Jr., of McLean
county gave a detailed explanation of a
simple installation of running water. Mrs.
Funk stated that five sink and force pump
installations were made in her vicinity as a
result of a talk by Mrs. Johnson over WLS
on this subject. The force pumps and sinks
cost from $6.50 up.

Mrs. Arthur Sabin of Tazewell county
talked about personal experiences in mod-
ernizing the farm home. Mrs. Harry Rief-
steck of Champaign county discussed the
electrically operated water system.

Following an interesting talk by Law-
rence A. Williams, manager of Country
Life Insurance Company, in which he urged
life insurance as a safe and sound invest-
ment as well as a protection to farm women
and the farm home, Mrs. W. F. Coolidge,
Macoupin county, moved that the Illinois
Agricultural Association be solicited to co-
operate during the coming year in the
"running water in every farm home"
project. The motion was seconded and
carried unanimously.

Approximately 200 attended the confer-
ence held TTiursday afternoon in the Palm
Room, Abraham Linco n Hotel.

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Pxnii Foil Hi I II

THE I.

A. Rp;CORD

SEEK 7S,000 MEMBERS BY JAN. 31, 1931

Publicity Important

In Farm Bureau Work

75,000 Members in 1930 Is Goal of
I. A. A. Organization Department

AGO()[) publicity program ioT tlie
county I .inn Burc.iu; rcl.ition<.liip be-
tween publicity and size of nienibcrship,
and the importance of co-operation with
local newspapers were the opening subjects
for discussion at the Organization-Infor-
mation conference

C. E. Bamborough

a at tended by some
400 delegates, farm
advisers, and visitors
on January 30 in the
1 eland hotel. Spring-
held. C. E. Bambor-
ough presided.
George Thiem, di-
rector of informa-
tion, opened the dis-
cussion by showing
that without excep-
tion the county
Farm Bureaus having large memberships
give careful attention to publicity and Ijave
the support -of the local newspapers.

Give It Time
' ".Make publicity a definite project," he
advised, "give the local reporters the right
of way, cultivate the newspaper editors, ex-
plain the Farm Bureau and its work to
them. Send out a release every week con-
taining well-written stories with local inter-
est. Influence the editor "not to print live
news under heads such as 'Farm Bureau
Notes." Print a large number of short
items in the otficial organ. Publish as little
canned stuff as possible. Fill the Farm
Bureau news bulletin with items about Farm
Bureau activities and membership. Take
timer to write original stuff. Remember
>ou are reaching all the members with the
louiity bulletin. Tlicrefore time spent in
making it readable and informative is well
spent."

Danforth Cites Experiences

1 arm .Vdviser 11. K. Danforth of Henry
county stated that he considered their pub-
licity work most effective in maintaining
a strong organization. Mr. Danforth sends
out a release every week to all the news-
p.ipers. The local editor at Cambridge said
that the reason he gave the Farm Bureau
VI much publicity is that the news was sent
to him regularly — he wasn't e.xpected to
come after it. "%'e find short, colorful,
news stories mos^ acceptable," said Dan-
forth. Attractiuc headlines are written
above each story to save the time of the
busv editor. I'hus the news is not hidden
under stereotyped heads.

Plan Carefully
Tiie publicity program should be care-'
fully planned, suggested C E. Gates of La

"jSalle county. "The fact that LaSalle county
signed approximately 900 members in one
day during its last drive was seen as the re
suit of effective publicity following a con-
strifctivc and helpful program of service."
R. V. ^X'atson of McLean county told
how the Farm Bureau cooperated with the
Bloomington Pantagraph, the chief news-
paper of the county. "We give the editors
a break," he said, "take them into our
confidence and try to keep them informed
on what's going on. We frequently invite
Mr. Bill to accompany us to meetings and
demonstrations over the countv."

Sl-.\ FNTY-FIVE THOUSAND
members by the end of 1930 is
the goal toward which the organiza-
tion department will strive this year.
Fifteen counties accepted Ciiampaign
county's challenge to have the high-
est percentage of farmers of any
county in the Farm Bureau. An ef-
fective publicity program in every
county will help surpass the 75,000
mark.

Collection Help

Robert Cowles, treasurer, outlined the
new collection plan, explaining how the
I. A. A. would co-operate in mailing out
letters to delinquent members. All coun-
ties are requested to get in touch with the
treasurer's office for further information re-
garding this plan.

"Let's establish as our goal 7S,000 mem-
bers by the end of 1930," Secretary George
Metzger said in opening the discussion on
organization. He told why a larger mem-
bership would be beneficial in the need for
rendering greater service to Illinois agri-
culture. He discussed Champaign county's
challenge to build a larger membership by
1931 than that of -ny county in the state.
I ifteeii other counties accepted the chal-
lenge on a percentage basis, that is they will
sign up a higher percentage of farmers in
the county by next January than Cham-
paign. These counties are as follows: La-
Salle, Stark, Scott, Mclean, .\Lirshall -Put-
nam, DuPage, Kani', Jersey, Knox, Logan,
DeWitt, Tazewell, DeKalb, .McDonough,
Woodfbrd. There was much enthusiasm
expressed by the delegates regarding I'MO
membership plans.

Who a Member?

File question of who should be a Farm
Bureau member was brought up. One man
offered the following as his suggestion:

1. Land owner operating a farm.

2. Tenant farmer with farm owner —
joint membership.

3. A tenant alone where the owner will
not co-operate.

(Coutiniitil on page I IS i

Geo. C. Jewctt

Annual Audit Most

Necessary — Jewett

Organize to Control Production as
Well as to Sell Crop, He Says

WL HI.AR much about co-operative
marketing but very little about one
element or one requirement which 1 look
upon as extremely important. I refer to the
requirement that an adequate set of records
be maintained at all
times and that the
affairs of each co-
operative's Association
be properly audited
at least once each
year," George C
Jewett, president of
t h e Transportation
Bank of Chicago
told delegates and
visitors at the Illi-
nois Agricultural Co-
operatives'Association

annual meeting in Springfield on Jan. 29.
"I do not know of any line of business
that possesses a greater necessity for a
proper auditing and an adequate auditor's
report than co-operative institutions," said
Jewett. "In addition to the records of or-
dinary industry you must maintain figures
to use as a basis for the payment of patron-
age dividends. While the books of co-
operatives are more complicated than those
of a bank, yet I have found many a co-
operative attempting to get along with
inadequate records and I dare say the ma-
jority still do not avail themselves of an
annual audit. .Many failures can be blamed
to inadequate and improper bookkeeping.

"^ A Forward Step

"It was an important forward step when
co-operative groups, working through their
state Farm Bureau organization, arranged
for an auditinij service of their own. I
happen to know that the !. A. C. .\. audit-
ing service is most excellent and compares
favorably with that offered by the best
auditors in the city of Chicago. They not
only audit your books but they (five you
with the audit sound advice bearing on
yciur (>(X'rations.

"If you have ever tried to borrow money,
you know and appreciate the importance
of good books and adequate audits. Speak-
ing from the banker's viewpoint, I would
not care to loan money to anyone who is
not in a position to make a proper financial
statement and whose books cannot be
checked at any time or all times. We are
alwavs pleased when an auditor's statement
is furnished and many times find it neces-
sary to require that one be furnished."

In his closing temarks, Mr. Jewett re-
ferred to a Chicago Tribune editorial on
the surplus crop situation urging farmers,
(Continued on page 16)

t *

THP: I. A. A. RECORD

2').

t*

First Year Record of

Country Life Cited

Manager L. A. Williams Talks to

First Agents' Conference
'•ri'llll riiorJ cM.ibli'-lu'd by the Coun-
I trv life Insur.incc Company in 1929
so f.ir .IS 1 know is unprcLCttcntoii in the
held ot hte insurance," M.in.ii;er L. A. W'll-
h.ims told some 41)0 ,ii;ents nnd visitors at
their tirst eonferenee held in Sprinijtield on
Jan. 29. ■'Wlicn Illi-
nois farmers placed
on the b(H)ks ot their
company a total of
$22,.*72,000 of paid-
for life insurance in
one year at SIO per
. ^^^ ^^^ thousand less for the
^■f } ^^^H| than the
'^^K «.^^^^H| competitor
I^^H '^JI^^^^^^H tl^<^ held,"
.^^^ ^^^^^^^Bi |,j, s.jiJ,"they accom-

L. A. Williams P'-'^'^-'d ^ll't o'^ <=^-

perlenced life insur-
ance men said could not be done. The out-
standini; life insurance actuary of the mid-
dle west, I,. A. Glover of Chicaj;o, has ad-
vised us that our lirst year cost and over-
head was $10 per thousand less than the
average of Ih companies in our class, that
is, havin.i; $10,000,000 to $40,000,000 of
insurance in force. Country Life did this
with practically all new and inexperienced
ai;ents, wrote not a single dollar's worth of
term insurance, nor touched one dollar _,of
its orij;inal surplus.

It Can Be Done

"You will remember a \e,ir ai;o that
much criticism was directed a,i;ainst the
Tarm Bureau for entefing the life insur-
ance field. Many ventured prophecies to
the effect that dire consequences would re-
sult from this action. They predicted that
farmers would be sadder but wiser within a
short time. The fact that this great co-
operative insurance proj;ram has succeeded
bevond the dreams of its founders and to
the amazement of the life insurance fra-
ternity, is the answer of Illinois farmers to
the doubting Thomases. The results speak
for themselves. Nearly $23,000,000 of in-
surance taken by Illinois farmers in their
own company in the first year of its exist-
ence is their reply to the time-worn
prophecy, "it can't be done." The project
succeeded because there was a place for
this company. No tirst-year record of any
company ever organized in America, nor
anywhere else, approaches that of the Coun-
try Life Insurance Company.

80 Counties Organized

"Today we have an agency force organ-
ized in more than 80 counties. It is true
that many of our agents are comparatively
inexperienced in the selling held, but we
have one tremendous advantage. The heart
of Country Life differs from that of other
insurance companies because of the enlisted
sympathy and sentiment of nearly 60,000

Illinois I arm Hureau members for making;
available sound production at low cost.
Hvery life insurance - estate createJ for
farmers means grcatiV guaranteed farm
wealth. There is no more certain way ot
guaranteeing the safetv of the farm home
.\nd estate for the ciuldren and grandchil-
dren of those n'ho are now tilling the soil.
"Country Life Insurance Company is a
ureat humanitarian enterprise unselfishly
devoted to the future welfare ot Illinois
agriculture. It seeks to perpetuate the
ownership of farms by men wlio till the
soil. Its broad program includes education
tor farm children as g(H>d as that enjoyed
by the children in our towns and cities.
It provides a definite plan for guaranteeing
the payment of the farm mortgage, tor
heading otf bankruptcy, and the p.issin«
of farm ownership to non-resident land-
lords.

Uses Established Machinery
"I he Country Life Insurance Companv
is owned and controlled by those who hold
membership in the count^-Iarm Bureaus of
Illinois and the Illinois Agricultural .\ssa-
ciation. The company is using the ma-
chinery already cstal^lished by this great
state-wide organization to serve its mem-
bers as well as other farmers who are n>n
fortunate enough to be members.

"The heart of Country Life is strong
because of its human and unselfish motives.
It surpasses all other companies in its ideals
of economy in production. It is insepara-
bly bound to the ideals of the Farm
Bureau — to gain for farmers equal privilege
and protection in the world's markets with
that of industrial .\nd t)thcr groups."

Women Want Running

Water in Farm Home

Many Speakers Address Conference
at Springfield
A DISCUSSION of running water in
,'\ every farm home, the chief interest
for the moment of the Illinois Home
Bureau Federativni, features! the recent
women's conference held Jan. .30 during
the I. A. A. convention at Springfield.

"Our program is built upon the theory
that running water is possible arul within
tl)e reach of every farm and small town
home." said .Mrs. Henry Mies, newly elected
president of the state Home Bureau. Mrs.
Homer R. Johnson, retiring president who
made the chief presentation of this topic
related some of her personal experiences
in getting conveniences installed in an old-
fashioned tarm house.

Woinen Must Demand

"Running water in every farm home in
.McLean county has been the aim of our
I lome Bureau since its organization," she
said. Running water brings satisfaction
to the family. Lvery home should have at
least a sink, drain, force pump and pitcher.
Women themselves, are often 'to blame for
lack of "conveniences in the farm home.

said the sjstfaker. Tl
enough in demandmg
lionK" equal to those
farmstead.

The running water
linucd over a five yeai period. The women
want every county I
ate. It was pointesl
carrying water jn as
fanulv of five in one

Fill,.},

ipy are not aggressive
conveniences iii the
mstalled ibout tlie

pro|ect will be con-

■m Bureau, to ciK>per-
oUt that a woman
erage distance lor a
year walks 30 miles,
ind diK's enough work to plow 10 acres of
l.ind and lift 27 to 3) tons licsides.

Home Sholuld Train '

Miss .\ttie Siiudcr, extension s|H'cialist
from L'rbana, said thai the aim of the home
IS to train its members to play the uanie of
lite. She asserted that the home must he
democratic. She preseited statistics reveal-
iiii; that city womer spend much more
time on children's caic and in purchasing
and planning than 1 arm women. Miss
Vuidcr said that amoig 733 farm liomes
\isited-in .McHenry ccunty, only 86 had a
complete water system, J$2 li:jd a pump
and sink, and in 289 it was necessary to
carry water from the M'ell outside. "».>wn-
ers do not appreciate that running water
will bring better tenants," she said.

Other speakers who

brieflv were I arl C^. Smith, who extended
.;reetini;s and a welcoire from the I. A. .\.,
Samuel R. McKelvie, member of the Fed-

-■ral Farm Board, who

tlietic understanding of the farm proble:
by women was importait, aiul Dean H Vi".
Mumtord of the Univtrsitv of Illi

among otlier things sai
•-i.;lit of tiie finer thin;
are compelled to put S(
economic affairs.

Radio Tal

.Mrs. LaFayettc I urjk
ountv qave a detail

imple installation of running water. Mrs

ddresscd the women

stated that sympa-

who

I that we often lose

s in life because we

much attention on

Helps

Jr., of McLean
f explanation of a

nk and force pump
in her vicinity as a
Johnson over VC I S

I unk stated that five s

installations were made

result of a talk bv Mr

on this subject. The f^rce pu/nps and sinks

sost from $6.^0 up

.Mrs. Arthur Sabin if Tazewell county
talked about personal < xperienccs in mod-
ernizing the farm home .Mrs. Harrv Rief-
stcck of Champaign county discussed the
electrically operated witer system.

Following an interes ing talk bv Law-
rence .\. ^X'llliams, m; nager of Country
Life Insurance Compan>, in which he urged
life insurance as a safe and sound invest-
ment as well as a protcci ion to tarm women
and the farm home. M -s. 3X'. F, Co«)lidi;e.
Macoupin county, mov'd that the Illinois
.\gricultural Association he solicited to co-
operate during the coining year in the
"running water in e -erv farm home"

proiect. The motion
carried unanimouslv.

Approximately 200 attended the confer-

ence held Thursday aft<
Room, .\braham Linco

was ses.)ndod and

rnoon in the Palm
n Hotel

ti

Page Sixteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Kirkpatrick Revie^vrs

Co-operative Legislation

Discusses Future Problems in Illi-
nois Before Farm and Home
Week Conference

A REVIEW of co-operative marketing
legislation and the adjustment co-op-
eratives in Illinois must make to meet the
legal requirements of the Federal Farm
Board were covered in an address by
Donald Kirkpatrick,
legal counsel for the
Illinois Agricultural
Association, before
the Farm and Home
Week conference at
the University of
Illinois, Urbana, on
January 13.

20 Per Cent
Co-ops

Donald Kirkpatrick ,« . l.

An mquiry by

the Department of Agriculture has disclosed
that only 20 per cent of the farmer-owned
and farmer-controlled country grain eleva-
tors in Illinois are organized on a purely
co-operative basis and are operating as
such," said Mr. Kirkpatrick. "The other
400 elevators can, therefore, only be classi-
fied as farmer-owned and farmer-controlled.
Thesj elevator associations, in my opinion,
can reorganize without great difficulty by
amending their articles of incorporation in
some instances, and amending their by-laws
in all instances, making it mandatory on
the part of the board of directors that no
capital dividend be paid in excess of eight
per cent per annum, and additional earnings
or savings be paid to stockholders and pa-
trons on a patronage basis.

Can Reorganize

"The flexibility of the Marketing Act of
1923 would justify many country grain
elevator associations that desire to be purely
co-operative to reorganize under this Act.
This can be done without difficulty or much
expense."

The speaker stated that the great cash
coarse grain belt of Illinois, Iowa and Ne-
braska is serviced with approximately l,fOO
farmer-owned and farmer-controlled coun-
try grain elevator associations. Twenty per
cent of those in Illinois come within the
Capper- Volstead Act requirements, a lesser
percentage of those in Iowa are co-operative,
and about an equal percentage of those in
Nebraska are strictly co-operative.

Chain 'Em Together
"The cash grain producers in this terri-
tory should at an early date look to the
reorganization of their country elevator
units so that such units will become Cappcr-
Volstead associations and be permanently
entitled to the favor and consideration of
the Agricultural Marketing Act and the
Federal Farm Board, and with this reorgani-
zation should develop a plan for chaining. all
these units together not only by contract,-

but also in a corporate way^" said Kirk-
patrick. "Big business has abused this meth-
od, not stopping with proper and effective
control which can be obtained in this man-
ner, but has used it for the sinister purpose
of covering up profits and keeping from
public, commissions and others entitled to
know, the inner workings of corporate
transactions.

Will Help Agriculture

"The advantages which have inured to
big business through corporate control and
organic interrelationship should and are
being mobilized for agriculture. One of
the problems of the federal and state
agencies, constituted to assist this basic in-
dustry, along with the educational farm or-
ganizations, is as I see it, to guide this de-
velopment in the proper channel so that the
Virtues of organized co-operation may be
realized with the minimum of abuse.

Co-ops. Must Co-operate
"The rank and file of middle-west pro-
ducers of farm commodities believe in co-
operative marketing and its possibilities.
There are some, however, within the ranks
and also some in positions of management
of local co-operatives, who believe that co-
operation stops with a community. When
such leaders sense the larger problem, when
they will practice more fully what they
have pronounced to the men on the farms,
in other words, when the co-operative asso-
ciations themselves will co-operate, a tre-
mendous impetus and inspiration will be
given the movement. When the local co-
ipperative is ready to assume a similar obliga-
tion to that which it expects the individual
producer to assume, and will so rearrange
its structure as to fit into a nation-wide
co-operative commodity selling organization,
then and in that event the full advantage
of co-operation can be expected and re-
alized."

Thanks for Promptness

"Illinois Agricultural Mutual Ins. Co.,
608 So. Dearborn St.,
Chicago, Illinois.

"I need not tell you that I received the
check in payment of the damage to my car
while on my way here as you have that evi-
dence, but I do wish to show my appreciation
of your promptness. You could not have re-
ceived my bill and report before the 20th of
January, your letter was written the 21st, check
signed the 22nd and came through promptly.
Appreciated more on account of my distance
from the home office.

"Received check for $195.44 in full for
damages to car. Nash, Coupe No. 9 J 595, 80
per cent of damage. Should I not have another
blank with me? If so please mail one. I hope
I never need it."

Accontplishtnents of I. A. A.

(Continued from page 9)
making a grand total of 765 carloads which
netted growers $411, 398. JJ. Exchange pur-
chased co-operatively $12,600 worth of
fertilizers and $42,896.22 worth of packing
supplies and equipment. Assisted in organ-
izing Illinois Growers Marteting Association
to sell Illinois fruits and vegetables co-op-
eratively at roadside markets.

(13) Helped organize 17 new co-opera-
tive produce marketing associations. Twen-
ty-eight counties now have 4 J marketing
units handling approximately 4,000,000
pounds of butterfat annually or about 10
per cent of the state production. Increased
returns to producers estimated at $120,000
per year.

(14) Assisted in organizing milk pro-
ducers' co-operatives on several new mar-
kets. Pure Milk Association members in
Illinois received approximately $1,600,000
more money for their milk in 1929 than if
they had no organization to represent them.
Approximately 60 per cent of the Illinois
fluid milk production is now sold co-op-
eratively. Milk co-operatives now operating
at Chicago, Peoria, Bloomington, Cham-
paign, Quincy, Springfield, DeKalb, Wauke-
gan, and other markets. Now assisting in
organizing producers around St. Louis, De-
catur, Rock Island and Moline.

( 1 J ) Co-operated with farmers' elevators
and planned a regional co-operative grain
marketing agency for Illinois to co-operate
with the Farmers National Grain Corpora-
tion.

(16) Assisted red top seed growers in
southern Illinois in reorganization plans to
get control of bulk of commodity.

(17) Assisted, in organizing co-operative
for soybean growers to sell crop through one
agency.

(18) Helped bring about material im-
provement in sampling and grading grain at
Chicago market.

(19). Through the Organization and In-
formation Departments the Association
maintained a strong membership and
brought about support and interest in the
self-help efforts of Illinois farmers.

J. C. Everett,
Streator, 111.

Present mail address
501 W. Broadway
Glendale, Cal.

Annual Audit Necessary

(Continued from page 14)
to make effective use of the Agricultural
Marketing Act by organizing to control
production as well as to sell and distribute
the crop after it is produced.

In the election following President
George L. Potter refused to ruh again. B.
W. DeBord of Princeville, Peoria county,
was elected to the Board of Directors for
the first time. Other directors for the com-
ing year are Henry Shafer, Illiopolis, Henry
H. Parke, Genoa, Albert Heckle, Quincy,
A. J. GilfiUan, Watseka. The Board will
choose its president and vice president at its
next meeting. Geo. Metzger and Robt.
Cowles are secretary and treasurer re-
spectively.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Seventfen

Samuel Sorrells

Gov. McKelvie Okays

Grain Marketing Plan

Conference Hears Farm Board Mem-
ber Talk Tariff
THE marketing conference in the Abra-
ham Lincoln Hotel, Jan. 30, was at-
tended by J 5 J delegates and members of the
Association and practically every Illinois
county was represented. Samuel Sorrells
presided.

Secretary G. E. Metzger opened the meet-
ing with a talk emphasizing the importance
of centralized control if marketing or-
ganizations are to be
an effective factor in
controlling surpluses
and influencing
prices.

A. D. Lynch, di-
rector of dairy mar-
keting, told the con-
ference that 60 per
cent of the fluid
milk shippers are now
selling in co-operative
organizations. He emphasized the need for
further centralized control in this field by
federating present milk-selling associations
into a state marketing agency. The present
butter storage situation, which is depress-
ing all dairy products' prices, was discussed
and the meeting went on record favoring
the emergency program to stimulate the
consumption of these temporary surpluses
among all consumers, particularly rural con-
sumers.

Following the discussion on dairy market-
ing F. A. Gougler, director pf produce mar-
keting, reported the progress of his work.
Mr. Gougler called attention to the annual
report which outlines the development of
produce marketing in Illinois during 1929.
He called attention to the diagram in the
report which illustrates the principle of cen-
tralized control and pointed out the desire
to develop produce marketing in Illinois ac-
cording to this plan.

No New Markets

A. B. Leeper, director of fruit and vege-
table marketing, reported on the new project
undertaken during 1929, that of roadside
marketing. He stated that no new markets
would be established during 1930 unless
there was urgent demand on the part of
producers for such markets.

The director further suggested that the
fruit and vegetable industry be so organized
that in case a national sales agency be set
up, Illinois would be in a position to affiliate
with it.

Ray E. Miller reported progress in live
stock marketing. For the year ending No-
vember 30, 1929, Illinois farmers marketed
co-operatively 23,682 carloads of live stock
with a sale value of about $40,000,000, for
which the consumer paid about $100,000,-
000. Had the farmer received the same
proportion of the consumer dollar that he
did in 1910, his return would have been
about $10,000,000 instead of $40,000,000.

The farmer's share of the consumer's meat
dollar shrunk from fifty cents to less than
forty cents. On a carload this shrinkage
amounts to approximately $300. It is to
help correct this condition and other short-
comings of the present inadequate market-
ing system that the live stock marketing
department is working. The principle of
centralized control is essential.

Same Program in '30

During 1929 the department carried out
a program of information as to the aims,
accomplishments and operating methods of
live stock co-operatives. During 1930 this
same program will be carried out with es-
pecial emphasis on the new problems which
are a natural outgrowth of the constantly
changing marketing methods and with the
further thought of working in the closest
possible harmony with the plans and policies
of the Federal Farm Board.

Harrison Fahrnkopf, director of grain
marketing, outlined a plan of grain market-
ing which had been approved by the execu-
tive committee of the Illinois Agricultural
Association. This plan is presented else-
where in this issue.

Favor Grain Plan

Following some discussion it was moved,
seconded and carried that the marketing
conference go on record favoring the plan
of grain marketing as presented and that it
be referred to the delegates of the con-
vention.

It was moved, seconded and carried that
the marketing conference go on record as
favoring an adequate tariff on soybeans, soy-
bean oil, soybean meal and all other by-
products of the soybean; and furthermore,
that the executive board and officers of the
Illinois Agricultural Association be requested
to put forth every effort to secure for this
important farm product an adequate tariff;
and furthermore, that it be the sense of the
marketing conference that a resolution to
this effect be presented to the regular busi-
ness session of the convention, January 3 1 ,
1930.

Gov. McKelvie Speaks
Following the discussion on grain market-
ing. President Earl C. Smith emphasized the
fundamental importance and necessity for
effective marketing, of the organization of
a true co-operative having centralized con-
trol of the highest possible volume of the
commodity. He pointed out that the ex-
ecutive committee, cfficiab and members of
the staff of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation had given much time and thought
to the grain marketing program and that
the plan as presented was the outgrowth of
the best judgment of all those concerned.

Mr. Smith stated that the proposed plan
of grain marketing had been presented to
members of the Federal Farm Board, and
that he was happy to report a surprise for
the conference in the person of Governor
McKelvie, member of the Federal Farm
Board, who would personally address the
group. Governor McKelvie gave a splen-

did address in which he expressed his ap-^
proval of the principles of the plan out-
lined to the conference for a grain market-
ing regional organization for Illinois. Mr.
McKelvie discussed the tariff at length
showing the importance pf protection in
working out the farm problem.

Baseball League Report

(Continued from page 12)
agers, and farm advisers set a good example
by being above petty bickering and ill feel-
ing one can expect nothing more from the
players. All who have watched the de-
velopment of the League in recent years will
agree that there was more evidence of real
sportsmanship last season than in any previ-"^
ous year. The decisions of the district dic-
tators and the state arbitration committee
wej-e generally respected." ,

The treasurer's report showed a balance
in the treasury on January 25, 1930, of
$315.17.

More Members in 1930 '

New counties which expressed their in-
terest in becoming members of the League
in 1930 are Kankakee, Montgomery, Ma-
coupin, Iroquois, Livingstori, Grundy, Jo
Daviess, Stephenson, Kendall and LaSalle.
Playing rules for 1930 and divisions to ac-
commodate new members will be adopted at
the annual spring meeting in March. i

W. Brockman of Jacksonville, formerly
i professional Big League player, gave ^n
mspiring address on the subject of "Sports-
manship." After considerable discussion on
the eligibility clause in the by-laws, the :
members voted to exclude hired hands be- j
cause of the opportunity offered for secur-
ing professional players. . The eligibility [
clause was left unchanged. I

New officers elected for the 'ensuing year '
are George L. Clarke of McLean county,
president, and Charles S. Black of Jackson-
ville, Morgan county, vice president. All
except two or three county members were
officially represented.

Many Inquiries

"We have been swampe^ with inquiries
and requests for appointments to explain
the Illinois Farm Supply Col service follow-
ing the back page ad in the January issue
of the Illinois Agricultural Association
RECORD," says L. R. Ma^chant, manager
of the company.

"Adams, Lee, and Tazewell counties have
raised enough capital to start operating
within the next few weeks. Woodford,
McDonough, Fulton, Carroll, Macoupin and
other counties are at various stages in set-
ting up local service companies to handle
petroleum products."

The Adams Service C04, the Tazewell
Service Co., and the Lee County Service
Co., all county companies organized to
handle petroleum products will begin oper-
ating very soon. All have applied for mem-
bership in the Illinois Farm Supply Com-
pany.

Page Eighteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Many Problems Before

Public Relations Conf.

Transportation, Legislation, Taxation
Discussed

THE Public Relations Conference was
called to. order in the Y. W. C. A.
Building, Springfield, January 30, 1930, at
1:00 P. M. Frank D. Barton acted as
chairman.

Under the subject of freight rates there
was active discussion. A request from a
southern Illinois man for assistance in a
complaint which a local fruit and vegetable
shipping association had taken before the
Illinois Commerce Commission concerning
refrigeration charges was made.

In the discussion of freight loss and
damage and overcharge claims, comments
from the floor disclosed that shippers who
filed claims through the department were
far more successful than those endeavoring
to handle them through their own efforts.

Considerable discussion followed on the
subjecu of farm crossings over railroads,
-drainage, and fences along right of ways.

Much Response

There was overwhelming response from
the floor on the subject of easements over
farm lands for high tension lines and pipe
lines. A number of individuals recounted
their success through group action in their
localities. It was brought out that where
land owners acted in groups on propositions
of this character they could get the ad-
vantage of combined bargaining power in
the matter of price for easements.

The discussion concerning rural electri-
-fication followed a similar trend; that by
acting through groups the farmers were
enabled to study the problems and uses of
electricity and are not entirely dependent
upon information from representatives of
the public utilities.

Rates and Service

Discussion concerning telephone rates and
service had to be curtailed for lack of
time, but in response to a number of ques-
tions it was brought out that the Associa-
tion was in position to render a service to
Coimty Farm Bureaus or organized com-
munities in instances where telephone com-
panies seek to increase rates or where com-
plaints are made by subscribers regarding
telephone service.

The degree of interest displayed by those
in attendance showed clearly that the mem-
bership is far more actively interested in
the services available thi-ough the depart-
ment than ever before, and the consensus of
the meeting was an unqualified endorsement
of the program offered by the transporta-
tion department.

State Legislation

After the chairman, Frank D. Barton,
had presented an account of some of the
difficulties in securing support for the in-
come tax bill In the General Assembly last
year, the conference discussed at some
length the question of how better legisla-

tive support could be secured for our pro-
gram. In connection therewith a motion
was adopted that the I. A. A. Executive
Committee be asked to direct that the
legislative voting records of down-state
members of the 56th General Assembly
which was published in the August, 1929,
Illinois Agricultural Association Record, be
published again in the March Record for
the Information of members.

John C. Watson briefly discussed the
present Illinois Revenue Investigation Com-
mission and its endeavors to secure an agree-
ment by the major organizations in the state
on the draft of a revenue amendment to
the Constitution. In connection therewith
^X'atson also briefly discussed the present
outlook for Income tax legislation In this
state.

Gas Tax Fund

On the subject of Improvement of state
aid roads with gasoline tax funds, there
was a general discussion. It was stated by
the county superintendent of highways of
Ogle county, who was present In the con-
ference, that the state division of highways
recognized the rights of the county boards
under the motor fuel tax act to designate
the roads which are to be improved and to
designate the type of improvement. Speci-
fications for the Improvement, however,
must be approved by the state division of
highways.

After general discussion of a recent opin-
ion of the attorney general of the state to
the effect that farm tractors drawing agri-
cultural implements of any kind upon the
public highway for the purpose of doing
custom work upon the premises of other
farmers are subject to the requirements of
motor licenses, and also a more recent
opinion that Implements drawn by tractors
on roads are subject to the requirements
of licenses for trailers, the motion was
adopted that the Executive Committee be
requested to seek, as soon as possible, amend-
ment of the motor vehicle license act to re-
lieve farm tractors and agricultural imple-
ments drawn by farm tractors on the public
highway from the requirements of motor
vehicle licenses when such tractors and
agricultural implements are moved over the
public highway only for the purpose of
doing custom work on the farms of other
persons.

Certain discriminations in the cost of
motor licenses on trucks of different weights
were brought to the attention of the con-
ference. After general discussion a motion
was adopted requesting the Executive Com-
mittee to seek the amendment of the motor
vehicle license act to establish a fairer scale
of license fees for trucks of different
weights. About 200 attended the confer-
ence.

"Democracy in Taxation" will be the
subject of an address by President Earl C.
Smith before the Illinois Farmers* Institute
at Galesburg on February 20.

Must Organize to Get

Fair Return — Legge

ALEXANDER LEGGE. chairman of the
u Federal Farm Board, recently made
the following statement:

"In the past, much effort and large sums
of money have been spent trying to improve
local conditions, but much of this effort
has been directed toward improvement in
methods of production; that Is, to encourage
the raising of more and better crops.

"However, all this effort meets only a
part of the agricultural problem. Obviously,
nothing Is gained by raising a larger crop
of better quality if, after having done so,
you are unable to dispose of it on a basis
that will yield a reasonable return for the
effort expended.

"It is when we approach this part of the
agricultural problem that the need for or-
ganization becomes imperative. There it is
that the problem of the farmer most closely
parallels that of every other industry, and
it seems to us that the treatment to be ap-
plied can be described in one word, 'organ-
ization'.

"To illustrate, if a thousand farmers at-
tempt to sell the same kind of product at
the same time in the same market, and in
most cases to a very limited number of
buyers, the mere competition among them-
selves puts them at a disadvantage. But if
these same thousand farmers place the same
product in the hands of a single selling
agency, that agency at once becomes an im-
portant factor in the market."

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Publicity Important

(Continued from page 14)

4. That a man owning two or more
farms should be required to buy a mem-
bership for each farm.

J. Any member without fanning inter-
ests should not be allowed to hold office or
vote on questions of farm interest although
he may become a member.

Professor Fred Russell of the University
of Illinois followed with an excellent talk
on the subject of "Salesmanship."
Three Recommendations

The delegates and visitors present voted
unanimously :

1. That County Farm Bureaus be urged
to carry on an instructive and educational
publicity program to pave the way for I.
A. A. and Farm Bureau activities and par-
ticularly for aggressive and effective mem-
bership work.

2. That particular attention be given to
the collection of membership dues and that
the collection plan offered through the fi-
nance department of the I. A. A. be gen-
erally adopted in County, Farm Bureau col-
lection programs throughout the State.

3. That organization work be pushed
aggressively throughout the State during
1930 with a goal of 75,000 members and
that the organization work be closely linked
with the publicity and collection progranu
already recommended. - ■ ;

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Conference a Success

300 Attend Meeting to Discuss Life
Insurance

THE Country Life Insurance conference
opened at 10:00 A. M. Jan. 29 in
the Abraham Lincoln Hotel with about
300 present.

Manager L. A. Williams talked to the
agents on the importance of getting ad-
ditional information
about life insurance
to equip them for
selling in the new
year. The corre-
spondence course was
introduced and 175
agents enrolled. An
excellent spirit was
shown throughout
. the entire morning
session, and the meet-
V. Vaniman .j^g adjourned at

11:00 o'clock, giving way to the Holding
Company Annual meeting.

Smith Opens

At 3:00 o'clock in the afternoon the
Country Life conference reopened, with a
short address by President Earl C. Smith.
He congratulated the men of the County
Farm Bureaus on the success of Country
Life Insurance Company in its first year.

Manager Williams followed with a talk
on the subject "The Heart of the Com-
pany."

Boland and Ramler

Dr. John Boland was introduced, and
gave a very interesting address on "Risks
and Ratings," illustrating his talk with
mortality charts.

Mr. Ramler of the service department
talked on ways of mutually beneficial serv-
ice and understanding between the agents
and home office. He presented methods of
keeping records, and showed the unneces-
sary loss in incompleted cases, where ap-
proximately $J,000 in possible commissions
were lost to the agents, and about a half
million dollars in business was lost to the
company, largely because of this indiffer-
ence on the part of the agent. A surpris-
ing number of men participated in the
general discussion which followed.

Banquet Held

The General Agency Club consisting of
50 qualifying special and general agents
attended a banquet given by Manager L. A.
Williams at the Sangamo Club, Wednesday
night. Each general agent who had made
his quota was eligible and any special agent
who had written 15 applications in one
month got in on the party.

H. O. Henry of Effingham county, first
to make his quota, was made president, and
H. H. Click of Wabash coun»^ became
vice-president. Mr. Henry acted as toast-
master calling upon members having to their
credit various outstanding accomplishments
in the past year.

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Left to right: D. C. Dragoo, H. B. Austin, W. L. Dragoo, E. V. Hoagland.
These entertainers were the life of the convention. They did a great job on every occasion
and were ready to sing out the high points of each speech in rhyme when thf speaker finished.

At 7:00 A. M., January 30, 140 life
insurance men breakfasted at the Leland
Hotel to plan for greater accomplishments
in 1930. L. A. Williams acted as toast-
master. Donald Kirkpatrick delivered an
interesting talk on possibilities for accom-
plishment in the coming year. George F.
Tullock, secretary of the company, reviewed
some of the handicaps which had to be
overcome, and the misgivings which con-
fronted the directors while making the de-
cision to build a life insurance company.
He complimented the agents in the County
Farm Bureaus on their great success, and
prophesied continued progress in the coming
year.

V. Vaniman made an enthusiastic appeal
for a greater volume of business through
intelligent effort. The meeting adjourned
at 8:45 to make way for the morning Ses-
sion of the I. A. A. convention.

"All in all, the first conference of Coun-
try Life Insurance Company was as com-
plete in its spirit of confidence apd enthusi-
asm as that of any well seasoned organiza-
tion," commented Williams. "On every
hand confidence was expressed in possibili-
ties for continued growth. Our agents sin-
cerely believe in the unselfish goal of the
company to produce sound life insurance at
the lowest possible net cost. The desire
on the part of new men to learn more
about insurance was the most optimistic side
of the entire conference.

"The manager wishes to express his grati-
tude for the consideration, time, and co-
operation given by the officers and other
members of the staff in making the first
conference a success."

L. E. Webb, secretary of the
Farmers National Grain Corporation,
commenting on the yearly audit of
the Graymont Farmers Elevator Co.
of Livingston County, said : "It's the
best farmers' elevator audit I ever
saw." The Illinois Agricultural Co-
operatives Association did the job.

Facts are not enough. They are
only ammunition. The good sales-
man must know how to use the in-
formation about the thing he is sell-
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Insurance,

By L. A. Williams

A YEAR of confidence building with
outstanding cooperation has ripened
Country Life like the summer sim. The
Company has grown in one year to the size
attained by many companies only after IJ
to 20 years' growth. i

What will it mean in diridends to policy-
holders? Last year's economy shown by the
actuary's statement proved all that Country
Life has ever contended, namely, that we
could manufacture our own life insurance
on an old line basis cheaper than it could
be manufactured elesewhete. The business
of the year broke all records for first year
production. It broke all records for low
cost acquisition and overhead. This will all
be reflected in dividends to policyholders in
years to follow.

Service? Well, never before has one
group of people learned so much about life
insurance as Farm Bureau members on the
whole learned last year. Intelligent policy-
holders mean few lapsed policies. It means,
also, increased business. Thas year will see a
host of experienced agents, who after one
year of effort and schooling, will be able
to render greater service than ever before.
They have learned the value of working for
the best interests of the Farm Bureau. They
are more certain of the insurance program,
policies, and entire set-up and can speak
with greater conviction th»n they did last
year.

We have discovered leaders who not only
learn, but teach. We have the whole-
hearted support of the Farm Bureaus. They
know the value of a group of life insurance
men preaching the gospel of cooperation in
their counties.

We also pay death claims to Farm Bureau
folks, and taken all in all, that is the big
thing this company does. It provides estates
for people who face the day of appreciation
of cash and insurance income.

When the volume that the Farm Bureaus
make possible will warrant the dividends,
they will come in just that proportion
which volume and economy of manage-
ment permit. Let's make tbe dividends an-
other history-making, record-breaking
event.

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Growing Transportation by Motor Truck Greatly Increases the Hazards of Travel on the Public Highways. Public Liability and Property Damage, and

Collision Insurance will Protect You Against Loss.

They Happen Every Day

SMASHUPS like this occur every day somewhere.
Thousands of drivers who use the public high-
ways have less serious but unpleasant mishaps each
week. Many of these are purely accidental. Others
are due to carelessness. In either case someone loses.

AUTOMOBILE insurance was made available by
L. the Farm Bureau and Illinois Agricultural
Association to protect their members at the lowest
possible cost against such losses.

YOU insure your house and barn against fire and
tornado damage. But if your auto or truck hits
a child or person, damages awarded by a jury sym-
pathetic to the injured, may sweep away your entire
savings and estate. Even if you win such a suit,
your court costs and attorneys fees will hit you much
harder than the low semi-yearly assessment for
insurance in YOUR OWN COMPANY AT COST.

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Agricultural Mutual
Insurance Company

608 So. Dearborn St.
CHICAGO

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To free your mind from worry lest your car or

truck hit someone.
To shift responsibility to the broad shoulders of

your company which represents you in all

damage controversies.
To avoid paying hospital bills, court; costs, and

attorneys fees. !

To secure actual cash value of your car in case

of fire or theft.
To protect you up to $1,000 for damage your car

does to other property.

Mail The Coupon For Latest Folder

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608 South Dearborn St., Chicago.

Please send me without obligation on my i>art your latest circtilar i
containing rates and full information on automobile insurance in my
company.

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Collision Insurance will Protect You Against Loss.

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They Happen Every Day

SMASHUPS like this occur every day somewhere.
Thousands of drivers who use the public high-
ways have less serious but unpleasant mishaps each
week. Many of these are purely accidental. Others
are due to carelessness. In either case someone loses.

AUTOMOBILE insurance was made available by
I. the Farm Bureau and Illinois Agricultural
Association to protect their members at the lowest
possible cost against such losses.

YOU insure your house and barn against fire and
tornado damage. But if your auto or truck hits
a child or person, damages awarded by a jury sym-
pathetic to the injured, may sweep away your entire
savings and estate. Even if you win such a suit,
your court costs and attorneys fees will hit you much
harder than the low semi-yearly assessment for
insurance in YOUR OWN COMPANY AT COST.

Illinois
Agricultural Mutual
Insurance Company

608 So. Dearborn St.
CHICAGO

Why Auto Insurance?

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To protect your estate.

To free your mind from worry lest your car or

truck hit someone.
To shift responsibility to the broad shoulders of

your company which represents you in all

damage controversies.
To avoid paying hospital bills, court costs, and

attorneys fees.
To secure actual cash value of your car in case

of fire or theft.
To protect you up to $1,000 for damage your car

does to other property.

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Illinois Agricultural Mutual Int. Co. |

608 South Dearborn St., Chicago. '

Please send me without obligation on my part your latest circular i

containing rates and full information on automobile insurance in my i

ccHnpany. !

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IN THE average dividend paying company a $400 first yearly premium at age
.35 will buy approximately $15,000 of ordinary life insurance.

A $400 first premium in Country Life will buy approximately $20,000 of life
insurance, and Country Life is also a dividend paying company whose earnings
will be passed on to the policyholder to reduce the net cost . |

The fact that Country Life placed $24,172,000 of insurance on its books in its
first twelve months of existence, an unheard of record for a new company, is
an expression of the appreciation thousands of Illinois farm folks have for this
new service.

Only One Farm Bureau Company

THERE is only one real Farm Bureau life insurance company — that is
Country Life, organized and controlled by nearly 60,000 Farm Bureau
members in Illinois. It is democratically operated without selfish motives or
interests, to make available low cost protection.

Greater Volume Loivers Net Cost

YOUR further co-operation will mean greater dividends to the policyholder.
Net cost will depend on volume and economy of operation. You can help
by seeing that your county provides its quota.

Help make 1930 a greater year for Country Life. If you haven't had an op-
portunity to hear about the different policies offered by your own company to
fit the needs of farm folks, mail the coupon on the back cover and get rates at
your age. I

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Number 3

March, 1930

Volume A

Soybean Marketing •

Ass'n. Is Gro'wing

Membership Exceeds 1700 Latest
Reports Show

MORE than 1700 members who pro-
duce annually an estimated 1,200,-
000 bushels of soybeans now hold member-
ship in the Soybean Marketing Association
according to latest information received
from John W. Armstrong, president of the
recently organized co-operative.

The Association numbers among its
members nearly all of the larger growers
of beans in the central Illinois counties. It
has not entered into any contract to sell
the 19}0 crop but will do so at the proper
time. .

Unsettled Market

Unsettled market conditions and the
uncertainty of what action congress will
take in protecting growers with a higher
tariff on scfybean oil imports have left many
growers in a quandary over probable plant-
ings this spring. Agricultural extension
officials at Urbana are advocating a reduc-
tion in soybean acreage for 1930, Similar
advice is being handed out by government
experts for wheat, corn, poultry, dairy
products, livestock, and what not,

"What would they have us do, sow the
farm to grass and go fishing," commented
one man. "We might enjoy loafing for a
while but I'm afraid we could not pay our
rent, taxes, and interest and make a living,"

If a substantial tariff is voted on soy-
bean oil, the market situation may look en-
tirely different, particularly if the flaxseed
crop from which linseed oil is obtained,
happens to be light again. In such case,
the grower with the granary full of beans
may realize a handsome profit.

The total production of oleomargarine for
1929 was as follows: colored, 14,3)1,877 lbs.;
uncolored, 3)8,14),072 lbs., making a total of
a little more than 3 52,000,000. This is an in-
crease of U per cent over last year's figures,
and is 110,000,000 pounds more than was
manufactured in 1926.

These figures are from the Internal Revenue
Department at Washington from which we
learn the exact volume manufactured. What-
ever volume is manufactured in a given year
is alto consumed, as the product does not keep
for any length of time.

More than 90 per cent of the fats in one
popular brand was an imported vegetable oil.

Working At It

To build a modem sales orcanization
of our own for our extensive manufac-
taring business, farm production, is
the Job that lies before orsanized
fanners everywhere. We are wiH-king
at it in Illinois and with the support
of thinking producers we will succeed.

Advisory Committees

Announced For 1930

The following sub-committees were se-
lected to work in conjunction with the I,
A. A. Board of Directors in 1930,

Finance Committee
A, R, Wright, Varna

A, N, Skinner, Yates City
M. G. Lambert, Ferris

Organization Committee

C, E, Bamborough, Polo ' '■.
Frank G. Oexner, Waterloo '

W. A. Dennis, Paris - " ■

B, W. Tillman (Farm Adviser), Belleville

Marketing Committee
Sam Sorrells, Raymond
Geo. J, StoU, Chestnut
W, L, Cope, Salem ■ • ! .,

H. C, Vial, Downers Grove ■.■•.■

C, E. Gates (Farm Adviser), Ottawa

Public Relations Committee

Charles Black, Jacksonville

C. J. Gross, Atwood

Geo. B, Miiller, Washington

G. H. Iftner (Farm Adviser), Effingham

Financial Business Service
Committee

Geo. F, Tullock, Rockford ';• ~
Fred Dietz, DeSoto
Chas, L, Scott, Grayville
W. H. Coultas (Farm Adviser), Bloom-
ington .-.._ :_ ■

Uphold Secretary

The U. S. Supreme Court recently upheld
the right of the Secretary of Agriculture to pre-
scribe rates for buying and selling livestock at
public stockyards. The lirigation arose from
an order by the Secretary of Agriculture in
November, 1926, announcing the maximum
commission charges for handling livestock at
the Omaha stockyards. The Supreme Court
decided that the rates prescribed were reason-
able as well as legal.

111. Grain Corporation

Begins Signing Elevators

New Regional Now Receiving Appli-
cations For Membership

Bulletin: Following the approval
of application forms on Mar, 3, di-
rectors of the Shirley Farmers Grain
and Coal Co., and the Towanda Grain
Co., on Mar. 4, voted unanimously to
apply for membership in the Illinois
Grain Corporation. The Stanford
Grain Co., one of the largest and
strongest farmers' elevators in Illi-
nois, took similar action on Mar. 5.
As we go to press inquiries from
many counties indicate that this list
will be substantially augmented by
the time this issue is delivered

Applications for membership in the
±\. Illinois Grain Corporation, new re-
gional co-operative to represent Illinois
grain producers in the national marketing
system are now being received at the new
co-operative's tem-
porary headquarters,
608 So, Dearborn
St., Chicago. G. C.
"Lyle" Johnstone of
Bloomington is presi-
dent of the corpora-
tion, and J. C. Sailor
of Cissna Park, vice-
president. These men
and John Stout of
Chatham, E. E, Ste-
venson of Streator,
and Geo, J. Stoll of Chestnut comprise the
executive committee.

Under the new grain tnarketing plan
endorsed by the Farm Bureaus and the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association, local farmers,
elevators are expected to purchase a nom-
inal amount of stock in the Illinois Grain
Corporation known as the "regional" which
in turn will buy stock in the Farmers Na-
tional Grain Corporation.

The Farmers National requires that the
Regional subscribe for $100 par stock equal
to the average amount of grain handled
annually by the state or regional organiza-
tion on a basis of one cent per bushel. The
Ic per bu, investment is made only once,
that is, if the Illinois Grain Corporation de-
livers 25,000,000 bu. of crtin In a year to

C C, Johnstone

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N THE average dividend paying company a $400 first yearly premium at age
! 35 will buy approximately $15,000 of ordinary life insurance.

A $400 first premium in Country Life v^ill buy approximately $20,000 of life
insurance, and Country Life is also a dividend paying company whose earnings
will be passed on to the policyholder to reduce the net cost. j

The fact' that Country Life placed $24,172,000 of insurance on its books, in its
first twelve months of existence, an unheard of record for a new company, is
an expression of the appreciation thousands of Illinois farm folks have for this
new service.

' HERE is only one real Farm Bureau life insurance company — that is
Country Life, organized and controlled by nearly 60,000 Farm Bureau
members in Illinois. It is democratically operated without selfish motives or
interests, to make available low cost protection.

OUR further co-operation will mean greater dividends to the policyholder.
Net cost will depend on volume and economy of operation. You can help
by seeing that your county provides its quota.

Help make 1930 a greater year for Country Life. If you haven't had an op-
portunity to hear about the different policies offered by your own company to
fit the needs of farm folks, mail the coupon on the back cover and get rates at
your age.

COUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

608 So. Dearborn St., CHICAGO

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Illinois A^ctrltural Association

RECORD

Published monthlj by the Illlnott Acrlrultural Association at 404 North Wesl«r Afr. Mount Morris, III. Entered at second-class m.-itter at post-ofllre at Kfount Morris. 111..
Oct. 20. 1925. under the Act of Mar. 3. 1879 Acceptance (or mailing at special rate of pusuge providtd In Section 412. Act of Feb 28. ItU. «u:har^ed Oct 27. 1»M.

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Soybean Marketing

Ass'n. Is Growing

Membership Exceeds 1700 Latest
Reports Show

MORE than 1700 members who pro-
duce annu.illy an estimated 1,200,-
000 bushels of soybeans now hoW member-
ship in the Soybean Marketing Association
.iccording to latest information received
from John W. Armstrong, president of the
recently organized co-opcr.itive.

The Association numbers among its
members nearly all of the larger growers
of beans in the central Illinois counties. It
has not entered into any contract to sell
the 19.^0 crop but will do so at the proper
time.

Unsettled Market

Unsettled market conditions and the
uncertainty of what action congress will
take in protecting growers with a higher
tariff on soybean oil imports have left many
growers in a quandary over probible plant-
ings this spring. Agricultural extension
officials at Urbana are advocating a reduc-
tion in soybean acreage for 1930. Similar
advice is being handed out by government
experts for wheat, corn, poultry, dairy
products, livestock, and what not.

"What would they have us do, sow the
farm to grass and go fishing," commented
one man. "We might enjoy loafing for a
while but I'm afraid we could not pay our
rent, taxes, and interest and make a living."

If a substantial tariff is voted on soy-
bean oil, the market situation may look en-
tirely different, particularly if the flaxseed
crop from which linseed oil is obtained,
happens to be light again. In such case,
the grower with the granary full of beans
may realize a handsome profit.

The total production of olconurxarinc tor
1929 was as follows: colored, t4,Ul,877 lbs.;
uncolored, V<8,14.',072 lbs., makin.s .i total of
a litlie more than 3 52,000,000. This is an in-
crease of 1 1 per cent over last year's figures,
and is 110,000,000 pounds more than was
manufactured in 1926.

The>.e figures are from the Internal Revenue
IJcpartment at Washinjjton from which we
learn the exact \olunie manufactured. What-
ever volume is manufactured in a given year
n also consumed, as the product does not keep
lor any length of time.

More than 90 per cent of the fats in one
pttpubr brand was an imported vc>;clable oil.

Working At It

To build a modern sales organization
of our own for our extensive manufac-
turing business, farm production, is
the job that lies before organized
farmers everywhere. We are working
at it in Illinois and with the support
of thinking producers we will succeed.

Advisory Committees

Announced For 1930

The following sub-committees were se-
lected to work in conjunction with the I.
.\. A. Board of Directors in 19.30.

Finance Committee
.\. R. Wright, Varna
.\. N. Skinner, Yates City
.\1. G. Lambert, Ferris

Organization Committee
C. E. Bamborough, Polo ,
Frank G. Oexncr, Waterloo'
W. A. Dennis, Paris

B. W. Tillman (Farm Adviser), Belleville

Marketing Committee

Sam Sorrclls, Raymond
Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut
W. L. Cope, Salem
H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

C. E. Gates (Farm Adviser), Ottawa

Public Relations Committee
Charles Black, Jacksonville
C. J. Gross, Atwood
Geo. B. Miiller, Washington
G. H. Iftner (Farm Adviser), Effingham

Financial Business Service
Committee
Geo. F. Tullock, Rockford
Fred Dietz, DeSoto

Chas. I.. Scott, Grayville j

W. H. Coultas (Fai-m Adviser), Bloom-
ington

Uphold Secretary

The U. S. Supreme Court recently upheld
the right of the Secretary of Agriculture to pre-
scribe rates for buying and selling livestock at
public stockyards. The litigation arose from
an order by the Secretary of Agriculture in
November, 192^, announcing the maximum
commission charges for handling livestock at
the Omaha stockyards. The Supreme Court
decided that the rates prescribed were reason-
able as well as legal.

111. Grain Corporation

Begins Signing Elevators

New Regional Now Receiving Appli-
cations For Membership

Bulletin: Following jthe approval
of application forms on Mar. 3, di-
rectors of the Shirley Farmers Grain
and Coal Co., and the Tbwanda Grain
Co., on Mar. 4, voted unjanimously to
apply for membership in the Illinois
Grain Corporation. The Stanford
Grain Co., one of the largest and
strongest farmers' elevitors in Illi-
nois, took similar actioi|i on Mar. 5.
As we go to press injquiries from
many counties indicate that this list
will be substantially augmented by
the time this issue is delivered

APPLICATIONS for membership in the
Xm_ Illinois Grain C^irpor. tion, new re-
gional co-operative to re|)rescnt Illinois
grain producers in the national marketing
system are now being received at the new
co-op< rative's tem-
porary headquarters,"
608 So. - Dearlwrn
St., Chicago. G. C.
"Lyie" Johnstone of
Bloomington is presi-
dent of the corpora-
tion. ; ncf J. C. Sailor
of Ci'sna Park, vicc-
presid ;nt. These men
, and lohn Stout of
ChatF am, I". E. Ste-
venson of Streator,
and Gpo. J. Stoll of Chestnut comprise the
executive committee.

Under the new grain marketing plan
endorsed by the Farm Burcaijs and the Illi-
nois Agricultural Associatior , IcKal farmers,
elevators are expected to pirchase a nom-
inal amount of stock in the Illinois Grain
Corporation known as the "regional" which
in turn will buy stock in t!ic Farmers Na-
tional Grain Corporation.

The Farmers National requires that the
Regional subscribe for SI 00
to the avera.ge amount of
annually by the state or re ;ional organiza-
tion on a basis of one cent fer bushel. The
Ic per bu. investment is made only once,
that is, if the Illinois Grain Corporation de-
livers 25,000.000 bu. of gr; in in a vear to

G. C. Johnstone

par stock equal
grain handled

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

the national co-operative, it must purchase
$250,000 worth of stock.

lYz Per Bushel

In the same way, the local farmers eleva-
tor must subscribe for $100 par preferred
"A" stock in the regional co-operative, the
Illinois Grain Corporation, at the rate of
1 Yi per bushel on all the grain it markets
commercially in a year. Thus, if the local
elevator ships 200,000 bu. of grain it will
be required to take $3000 worth of stock
in the regional. Two thousand dollars of
this is used to buy stock in the national,
and $1000 is retained for working capital.

Ten per cent of this stock must be paid
in cash; the remainder must be paid in five
equal notes, one note due each year for a
period of five years. The fact that the
stock subscription requirement is very mod-
est removes any serious obstacle toward the
development of a sound, secure, and definite
co-operative grain marketing system in Illi-
nois.

The state-wide grain marketing associa-
tion or regional is formed under the Agri-
cultural Cooperative Act of 1923 on a capi-
tal stock basis with the following classes
of stock:

Preferred "A" stock for capital require-
ments 30,000 shares — par value $100.00.

Preferred "B" stock for stabilizing pur-
poses 100,000 shares — no par value.

Common stock for producer membership
70,000 shares — no par value.

The Preferred "B" stock cannot par-
ticipate in the earnings of the cooperative,
has no par value and cannot be trans-
ferred without authorization from the
board of directors of the regional.

Common Stock No Par
The shares of common stock will be of
no par 'value and used as the producer-
patron stock. It will be issued either di-
rect to the producer or to the local co-
operative elevator on a basis of approxi-
mately the number of producer 'patrons of
such local cooperative elevator.

Plans for establishing the proper rela-
tionship with local cooperative elevator
companies may include: —

(a) Contract — The opportunity for
contractual relations between the local ele-
vator and the Illinois Grain Corporation
whereby all grain handled by such local
elevators would (low in the channels of
trade to the Farmers National Grain Cor-
poration.

(b) Lease — This plan provides for a
direct lease of the elevator by the Illinois
Grain Corporation. The elevator retains its
identity and regular set-up, and has its own
board of directors, wlio represent the share-
holders in their contacts with the state
cooperative.

Local Advisory Council

(c) purchase or Build — That the pro-
posed state grain cooperative, where the
local producers desire it, make an effort to
acquire local elevator facilities by buying

or building same. That when such proper-
ties be so acquired, that a local advisory
council be maintained. Producers in the
community would be required to purchase
stock, not in the local elevator but rather
in the state-wide cooperative and the latter
organization would own the elevator.
Patronage dividends would run direct from
the state cooperative to the producer.

In the "Lease" or "Purchase-Build" plan,
in all matters such as the employment of
the manager, formulation of policies for the
local elevator, etc., the wishes of the local
advisory council would be complied with as
far as practicable. Advantages which all
elevators would have in common would be
those of group insurance, bonding, auditing
and general supervision.

Must Be Co-ops.

All local farmer-owned country elevators
are to be given an opportunity to become
members of the State Grain Corporation,
provided that such country elevators which
are not cooperative associations under the
Capper- Volstead Act and under definition
of the Federal Farm Board Act, agree to
reorganize on a cooperative basis within a
reasonable length of time.

Every member country elevator of the
State Grain Corporation will be required to
purchase or underwrite for sale among its
patrons a sufficient and equitable amount of
stock in the State Grain Corporation for
the purpose of furnishing needed operating
capital and also capital to buy such an
amount of capital stock in the Farmers
National Grain Corporation as will fairly
represent the regional's share of capital
contribution.

Note that the contract method is men-
tioned first. By this method cooperative
elevators will be enabled to retain their
identity. They will employ their own
manager and have their own board of di-
rectors, to look after their own business
affairs, the same as before the Farm Board
program was launched; in other words, this
plan, by allowing the elevator to retain its
identity, should meet the^ approval of that
group of believers in the idea that the
local elevator, should, just as far as possible
in the program, retain its individuality.

Red Top Gro'wers Sign

Advance reports show a 90 per cent sign-
up of red top seed growers who have at-
tended meetings, and have been interviewed
in the membership sign-up of the Egyptian
Seed Growers' Exchange, reports C. T.
Kibler, farm adviser in Clay county. Nearly
J 00 members were signed up during the
first 10 days of the drive in February,
which was in charge of A. B. Culp and
the district organization managers of the
Illinois Agricultural Association.

In spite of mud roads and slow travel
the campaign has gone forward in nine
counties of southern Illinois, and new mem-
bers are being added every week.

B'

Butter Campaign Is

Unnecessary In Texas

A Few Co-operatives Would
Remedy This

lUTTERFAT is selling here at 28
cents a lb.," writes County Agent
Parker D. Hanna of Canadian, Texas,
"whereas creamery butter on Feb. 19, 1930,
was priced at 50 cents per lb.

"Our farmers are not going to buy 25
cent oleomargarine when they can churn
their own butterfat," his letter continues.
"So the butter campaign is unnecessary as
far as the farmer in this section is con-
cerned.

"If the consumer is told to eat more
butter as there is a large surplus, he will
ask why, if that is the case, he has to pay
the same price for his creamery butter with
butterfat at 28 cents per lb. as he paid
when it was 44 cents.

Buy Cream Cheap
"It strikes me that if the manufacturers
would get the retail price of their butter
down in line with the price the farmer
gets for his butterfat, consumption would
take care of the surplus.

"The manufacturer may say that the
butter he is selling today was churned from
40 cent butterfat. That may be true, but
when production and consumption again
become balanced he will probably be selling
50 cent butter churned from 25 cent but-
terfat, so the account will be evened.

"It would be foolish for me to push an
'Eat More Butter Campaign' locally when
there is a spread of 22 cents between a
pound of butterfat and a pound of butter."

Free 4-H Club Trip

A free educational trip to the Ninth National
4-H Club Congress during the week of the In-
ternational Live Stock Exposition, which in-
cludes a week's visit to places of interest in and
about Chicago, will be awarded to 58 county
project champions in seven states, according to
an announcement from the National Committee
on Boys' and Girls' Club Work.

All 4-H Club members living in counties
traversed by the Santa Fe Railway system may
compete for these trips. The awards will be
made to county champions doing the most out-
standing club work In the crop, livestock or
poultry projects. Previous winners of trips to
the National Boys' and Girls* 4-H Club Con-
gress are not eligible to compete in this contest.

States in which county club champions will
be selected are: Arizona, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas,
Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.

The government of Uruguay recently or-
dered 136 educational films from the U. S.
Department of Agriculture.

Members of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation staff will meet In conference on the
Saturday following the second Monday of each
month during 1930.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

PcLge Fiv*

Resolutions Reveal

I. A. A. Policies in '30

POLICIES adopted by the board of dele-
gates as embodied in the resolutions
at the recent Springfield convention re-
affirmed the Association's pledge to co-op-
erate with and support the Federal Farm
Board in all its efforts to control crop sur-
pluses and make the tariflf effective on all
farm crops. If necessary, the Association
will later support supplemental ^legislation
to accomplish the purposes outlined in the
declaration of principles found in the Agri-
cultural Marketing Act.

A new taxing system for ..he state based
upon ability to pay was requested in an-
other resolution. Non-partisanship in elec-
tions, but urging members and friends to
study the records of all public officials and,
regardless of party, support those who prove
themselves worthy was the basis of a third.
The interest of the organization in the de-
velopment and early completion of the in-
land waterway system was again set forth.

Co-op Marketing

The policy of exercising an influence in
the building and development of co-opera-
tive marketing organizations commensurate
with the responsibility the Farm Bureau
assumes in promoting such organizations,
was reaffirmed.

A resolution on reforestation places the
Association on record in support of state
and national legislation providing for plant-
ing marginal lands to trees.

An investigation of motor vehicles license
fees will be made by officers and directors
with the idea of bringing about such statu-
tory changes as will make them fair to
farmers.

Other Resolutions

Other resolutions called for adeqiute pro-
tection on soybeans and their products
against foreign competition, licensing of
handlers of fruits and vegetables, the es-
tablishment of uniform standards for mar-
ket classes and grades of hogs, and for pe-
titioning the state department of agricul-
ture to investigate the introduction of
bovine tuberculosis into the state through
beef and dairy breeding animals.

Thanks were extended to Mr. Hyde, Mr.
Lowden, and Mr. Brent for their inspiring
addresses, and appreciation expressed for
courtesies extended by the Chamber of
Commerce, the Sangamon Co. Farm Bureau
and other Springfield organizations.

The Meanest

SINCE the old problem of who is, or
was, the meanest man on earth has
never been settled it is still in order to
enter nominations. So let the entries re-
cord those fraudulent stock salesmen who
watch the obituary columns, keep an up-to-
date list of new widows and subject them
to their high-pressure salesmanship at about
the time they receive their insurance money.
A warning has been issued to employees

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LOGAN COUNTY

DEBATING TEAM

Left to right: — O. D. Brissenden, Lincoln, mgr. State Farm; Oscar Mountjoy. Atlanta^
seed corn specialist; Jake Lauer. Jr., Broadwell, the bachelor; and Clem Carton, Lincoln, the
orator. These men recently debated on the L A. A. Forum program from stat'on WLS on
the question "Resolved that Every Farm Youth Should Marry a Farm Girl." Farm Adviser
J. H. Checkley, seen standing in the picture above, introduced the debate and the debaters.

THIS radio feature stirred up more interest
than any similar broadcast from station
WLS, according to Charley Stookey, farm pro-
gram announcer. More than 150 letters came
in from interested listeners all over the middle
west giving their votes for the affirmative and
negative. The honors were almost evenly di-
vided although the affirmative debaters were

credited with four votes to the good. Jake
Lauer, the bachelor, was the principal object
of attention. He received many requests for
his photograph. These men have been active
in the Logan County Farm Bureau monthly
forum for the past two years. They acquired
their ability in local debates at the regular
meetings in Lincoln.

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Wra. A. Dennis

Represents 18 th

ILLIAM A. DENNIS of Paris, Edgar
(founty, whose picture was omitted from
last issue of the RECORD, is the new
representative on the
I. A. A. board of di-
rectors from the 18th
district. He succeeded
R. F. Karr of Iroquois.
Mr. Dennis has been a
member of the Illinois
Farm Supply Company
board for some time
and has been active in
organization activities
in his home county.

Dennis is a graduate
of Harvard University,
is a son of Charles H.
Dennis, editor-in-chief of the Chicago Daily
News, and is farming the old homestead which
has been in the family since 1817. He special-
izes in dairying. His Jersey herd had the high-
est butterfat record and the two high cows in
the local cow testing association last year.

in various industries by the Better Business
Bureau telling them to carefully scrutinize
all solicitations from unknown firms follow-
ing the death of a member of the family.
Insurance companies issue cautions also, but
in spite of all, states the Bureau, "these
solicitations succeed too often in luring an
inexperienced person to disaster through the
hope of large profits."

If there is any lower form of thievery
than thb it must be low indeed. — Pathfinder.

Pierson Succeeds Buck
As Director of Agriculture

Hon. Clarence F. Buck, who was ap-
pointed Director of Agriculture by Gov-
ernor Emmerson last May tendered his
resignation and retired from that office on
Mar. 1st, so that he might actively promote
his candidacy for State Treasurer of Illinois.

During his incumbency of office, the
cordial relations, previously existing with
the Department, were continued.

Immediately upon the retirement of Mr.
Buck, Hon. Stuart E. Piersoh of Carrollton,
Illinois, was appointed as his successor. Mr.
Pierson is both a banker and farmer and
for many years has been an active member
of the Greene County Farm Bureau. He
was one of the delegates from the 20th
Congressional District to the last National
Republican Convention at Kansas City. He
not only supported Governor Lowden's
candidacy for President, but gave his un-
divided support in behalf of the farm or-
>;anization's farm plank.

The Association has every reason to be-
lieve that the same friendly relations with
the State Department of Agriculture that
have existed for the past several years will
continue during Mr. Pierson's administra-
tion of the Department.

T. W. Reed of Urbana has been em-
ployed by the Iroquois County Farm
Bureau as general insurance agent.

Mr. Reed is a graduate of the Col-
lege of Commerce, UniTeraity of Illi-
nois where he specialized in insurance.

A recent step taken by the Pepsodent
Company now places Amos 'n' Andy, the
world's highest salaried radio stars, in a
class with the world's most valuable indi-
viduals. Because of the tremendous adver-
tising value of this famous pair, life insur-
ance, to the amount of one million dollars
was taken to cover any losses which might
come as a result of the death of either one.

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I LLilNOIS

CCLTUBTAL ASSOCIA

RECORD

N

To adpmnce Ih* purpot* for which thr rorm Burtau was organited.
namely to promote, protect and repretent the butitiest, ecottomic,
political, and educational interetti oj the jarmert oj Illinois and the
ttation, atut to develop agrUulture.

Editor. George Thiem

Published once a month by the Illinois Affricultural Association,
(08 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, tlL Entered as second-class matter
October 20, I92&, at the post office at Mount Morris, Illinois, under
the Act of March S, 1879. Accepted for mailing at special rate of
poatas* provided for in Section 412, Act of February 28, 192S, an-
thoriied October 27, 1926. The individual membership fee of the
Illinois Agricultural Association is five dollars a year. The fee
include* payment of flfty eenta tor lobscription to the ItXJNOlB Aau-
CULTURAL Association Rbcoro. Po«tmaater: In returning an uncalled
for or missent copy please indicate key number on address as is
required by law.

President, Earl C. Smith..
Vice-President, A. R. Wright..
Sacretary, Ceo. E. Metzger...
Traaaurer, R. A. Cowlaa

OFFICERS

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
(Br Congrvasienal District)

1st to 11th „.H. C. Vial, Downers Crova

lath. a F. Tullock. Rockford

13th „ C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th M. G. Lambert. Farria

ISth — .A. N. Skinner. Yatoo aty

I«th Geo. B. Muller, Washington

17th — Ceo. J. Stoll. ChostBut

18th — „ W. A. Dennis, Paris

l»th. C. J. Gross, AtwoodI

Mth , Charloo S. Black, JacksonTlIl*

21st__ ...■■Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nJ - Frank Oexner, Waterloo

2»rd._^, — W. L. Cope. Salem

Mth. ■. Charles L. Scott, Gra)rvina

aSth „ „ Frod Dietx. Do Soto

DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS

Comptroller _ J. H. Kalker

Dairy Marketing : „ ^ D. Lynch

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketiac ™ A. B. Leeper

Grain Marketing Harrison Fahrakopf

Information , ,, . .Gaorga Thiam

lasunuice Service ..._.,. , V,

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Limestona-Phospluite ., _ J. R. Bant

Live Stock Marketing _ _ Ray E. Miller

Office C. E. Johnston

Organization _.G. E. Metzger

Produce Marketing ,, F, A. Couglar

Taxation and Statistics . J. C. Watson

Transportation L, J. Quaaay

ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS

Country Life Insurance Co L. A. Williams, Mgr.

Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co „ J. H. Kelker, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives Ass'n F. E. Rlngham, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insui^nce Co. A. E. Richardson, Mgr.

UlinoU Farm Supply Co _ L. R. Marchant. Mgr.

! Stand By Your Friends

/^N the opposite page will be found a reprint of the voting
^^ record of the members of the General Assembly outside
of Cook County which appeared in the official legislative
number of the I. A. A. Record last August. At that time,
detailed information was given relative to legislation sup-
ported and opposed by the I. A. A. during the last session
of the Illinois legislature. The voting record appearing on
the following page was compiled so that our members might
know the attitude of their representatives on controversial
measures supported and opposed by the Association.

So many requests for a copy of the last August issue have
come to the office, that our supply is now exhausted. The
Board of Directors, therefore, authorized a reprint of the
voting record in this issue. All members and friends of the
Association should study this record carefully and make
every constructive effort to return their proven friends to
the Illinois General Assembly. In many of the districts
in Illinois, the results of the primary in April are equivalent
to election. This being true, it is very important that farm-
ers and their friends take greater interest in the Illinois
primaries.

Prolonging The Day

DURING the past six months Illinois shipping associa-
tions marketed 8,417 cars of livestock at Chicago of
which 33 per cent was consigned to the Producers Commis-
sion Association. From Iowa the Producers received 1,344
carloads from shipping associations representing 11.8 per
cent of all the shipping association business from that state.

Illinois livestock growers are outstripping those from
neighboring states, it is apparent, both in their thinking and
action on the question of real co-operative marketing.

While our record is encouraging yet there is still plenty
of room for improvement. We can never understand the
line of reasoning of growers who ship their livestock co-
operatively, yet when they reach the terminal markets forget
all they learned and pratice at home, and support the pri-
vately controlled commission system with its myriad of
sellers. Rather than patronize their own co-operative
agency which seeks to establish the producers bargaining
power by eliminating wasteful seller competition they pro-
long the day when the farmer will really have control of his
product.

/* The Speculators Squeal

THE squealing of the speculators in farmers' products
following the action of the Grain Stabilization Corpora-
tion in buying wheat to prevent a price collapse would be
pitiful were those gentlemen worthy of any sympathy.

As Mr. McKelvie of the Federal Farm Board pointed out
a few weeks ago, the speculators dealing in imaginary grain,
buy and sell annually more than 20 times the actual bushel-
age grown. Every bushel bought and sold must pay toll to
some grain exchange member. The millions of dollars thus
collected every year are charged back against the farmer in
lower prices, for he ultimately pays the cost of distribution.

The stabilization corporation has disturbed the activities
of the gamblers. It has tended to reduce their operations,
hence the commissions charged against farmers' grain. Prof-
its of brokers handling such transactions thus are jeopardized.

Every time a racket or an injustice of any kind is broken
up or curbed there is wailing and complaining by those
affected. It is too much to expect that modernization of the
farmers' marketing system will be accomplished without
treading on someone's toes. Few improvements or reforms
are brought about without causing someone discomfort. Yet
no thinking person would discard our modern labor-saving,
time-saving, and money-saving machinery methods, and
practices because people are temporarily thrown out of
work, and obsolete equipment junked.

The federal government is at last making an effort to assist
farmers who comprise one-fourth of the country's popula-
tion secure the advantages of the tariff and man-made laws
which other groups have been enjoying for decades. It is
doing this as a matter of public policy. It realizes that the
country's continued prosperity depends to a large extent on
the welfare of its people who till the soil. Is it not more
important to help lift the economic status of so large a por-
tion of our people than to allow those who have been prey-
ing upon them go unmolested?

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HOW YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES VOTED IN THE

56th GENERAL ASSEMBLY*

8th District (Boone, Lake, McHenry)

Sen. Paddock_

Rep. McDonough

Rep. Jackson, N. L._.
Rep. Lyons

10th District (Ogle, Winnebago)
Sen. Baker

Rep. Greei
Rep. Hunter.

Rep. Wilson, E. F. (deceased)..

12th District (Carroll, Jo Daviess, Stephenson)

Sen. Meyers

Rep. Bingham.

Rep. Acker

Rep. Frani, C. D..

14th District (Kane, Kendall)

Sen. Kessinger „

Rep. McCarthy _

Rep. Peffers

Rep. Petit

16th District (Livingston, Marshall, Putnam

Woodford)
Sen. Lants

Rep. Bruer _ ~

Rep. Turner, C. M _

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18th District (Peoria)

Sen. Michel

R:ep. Scholes (absent account sickness)

Rep. Crowley

Rep. McClugage.-

20th District (Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee)
Sen. MecntSu.

Rep. Beckman..

Rep. Wilson, E. C_
Rep. Burns.

22nd District (Edgar, Vermilion)
Sen. Bailey-

Rep. Luokey

Rep. O'Hair, Karl R_
Rep. Breen

24th District (Champaign, Moultrie, Piatt)
Sen. Dunlap —

R«p. Little

Rep. Black

Rep. Gilmore

26th District (Ford, McLean)

Sen. Bohrer -

R«p. Johnson, G. J

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Rep. Kane -

28th District (DeWitt, Logan, Macon)

Sen. Lee—..

R«p. Chynoweth_
Rep. Clark

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Rep. Hoff_

30th District (Brown, Cass, Mason, Menard,
Schuyler, Taiewell)
Sen. Mills.

Rep. Tice.

Rep. Lohman
Rep. Teel

32nd District (Hancock, McDonough, Warren)

Sen. Hanna

Rep. Foster.

Rep. Robbina-
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33rd District (Henderson, Mercer, Rock Island)

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Rep. Searle — —

Rep. McCaskrin

Rep. Sinnett ~ —

34th District (Clark, Coles, Douglas)

Sen. Hamilton.- —

Rep. Lewis, John W.

Rep. Baxter-

Rep. O'Hair, Harvey Z_

35th District (DeKalb, Lee, Whiteside)

Sen. Wright -

Rep. Dixon

Rep. AUen

Rep. Devine-

36th District (Adams, Calhoun, Pike, Scott)

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50| Sen. Boyd.

Rep. Rennick

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Rep. Wilson, Robert J _.

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Montgomery)
Sen. Cuthbertson...

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100J43rd District (Fulton, Knox)
Sen. JeweU...
Rep. Ewing..

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dolph, Washington)

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Sen. Smith

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Rep. Corsine

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41st District (DuPage, Will)

Sen. Barr _ _

Rep. O'Neia

Rep. Walker i

Rep. Hennebry

45th District (Morgan, Sangamon)

Sen. Searcy

Rep. Robinson

Rep. Mester..

Rep. Sullivan _

46th District (Jasper, JeCFerson, Richland,
Wayne)

501 Sen. McCauley _

100 Rep. Phillips (deceased)

50 Rep. Wood _

100| Rep. Parker_ _

47th District (Bond, Madison)

Sen. Flagg

Rep. Martin.-

Rep. Vaughan

Rep. Malloy

48th District (Crawford, Edwards, Gallatin,
Hardin, Lawrence, Wabash, White)
Sen. Miles—

Rep. Ryan, Ed

Rep. Thompson

Rep. Lewis, F. W_..

49th District (St. Clair)

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

OUR READER'S FORUM

Editor. I. A. A. Record.

'TTIHE State farmers' elevator

J. meeting at Peoria last
week was one of the most in-
teresting demonstrations of how
farmers run their business, or
rather don't run it, that 1 have
ever seen. It seems that the
conference was dominated by
more elevator managers than
farmers. 1 presume a great many
elevators have sent their man-
agers instead of going themselves, as they
should have done.

"The board of trade was represented. I
noticed that a good many managers went
to their rooms with commission men. They
went to meals with them, they went to
shows with them, and when it came time
to vote, they voted with them. It seems
rather peculiar that the directors of a good
many farmers' elevators are going to let
their managers vote for them and represent
fliem in this great business of the state
4irhich means hundreds of thousands of
dollars. On election day we don't send
our hired men to vote for us at the polls,
but in our business dealings, especially as
far as our elevators are concerned, we seem
content to let our hired men determine
policies for us.

We Are To Blame
"I think this situation is partly due to
the fact that in some of our co-ops the
members meet, elect, and vote on directors
and then go home and forget all about it.
The board of directors have a meeting, elect
a manager and then they go home and for-
get all about it. Under this sort of system
the manager soon feels, with some justifica-
tion, that he runs the whole show. If we
let him do it, we have nobody to blame but
ourselves.

"But to get back to the Peoria meeting.
They had a good program the first and
second days, with some very interesting and
instructive speakers. The business session
and election of officers have always been
left until the third day. The farmers are
all supposed to go home on the evening
of the second day. This time they didn't.
We had a hot election on the third day, but
the board of trade with the aid of our
managers beat us. At previous meetings
everybody has voted. There hasn't been
very much question as to any delegate's
right to vote. This time, however, a cre-
dentials committee was arranged and every
voting delegate was supposed to have his
credentials properly approved.

Votes Six Times
"\rhen it came time to vote it seemed
that we farmers couldn't manufacture cre-
dentials fast enough. I saw one manager
vote six times representing, I suppose, six

/F YOU read anything in the RECORD or
elsewhere that stimulates your thought
write your comments or observations for this
page. Members of the I, A. A. we believe
comprise the bulk of the thinking farmers
of the state.

The officers, directors, and fellow members
of your organization will appreciate having
your ideas. Send your letters to the "Reader's
Forum" Illinois Agricultural Association REC-
ORD, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago.

different elevators. In other iMfw^-l our
managers had been, apparently,'<,pietiously
informed that there was to be a.^ght on,
and had seen to it that they had collected
proxies enough to swing the election. The
vote was 75 to 70 in favor of the grain
trade and their managers. The farmers
held the little end of the score. Well, it
was a little tough to get licked, but perhaps
it was a good thing in the long run because
it was an Interesting demonstration of how
we farmers have been running a pretty big
part of our business. After this little show,
perhaps we will be more interested In seeing
that things are done properly."

Earl Ericson,
Knox County, 111.

A Masterpiece

THE writer read the recent address of
Hon. Arthur M. Hyde at Springfield.
It Is a most comprehensive yet analytical
exposition of present agricultural condi-
tions.

Comprehensive, because world competi-
tion is broi'ght face to face with the
, American farmer in a clear and conclusive
manner.

Analytical, because the whole problem is
treated in a practical way without savour-
ing of an unworkable and theoretical Utopia.
It is the finest production thus far "from
one who knows" to those who are needy
and eager to learn, and should be pro-
claimed a masterpiece and read by every
pupil as well as every farmer, Am pleased
to voice this little expression of apprecia-
tion.

Omar P. Wagner,
Livingston Coimty, 111.

Liked Hyde's Speech

I WAS present at the annual luncheon of
the Illinois Agricultural Association in
Springfield, and heard the address of the
Hon. Arthur M. Hyde. The same speech
has been read again and again in the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association Record.
I shall read the treatise many times.

It is so comprehensive in its treatment
of the causes, present status and necessary
remedial measures of the agricultural situa-
tion.

The positive, courageous statements in
the address of the secretary of agriculture
make me to believe that surely Hon. Arthur

M. Hyde will prove t< be the
great emancipator of American
agriculture.

G. H. Iftner,
Effiingham Coimty, 111.

A Few Observations

YOU invite commenu on Sec-
retary Hyde's address at
Springfield, and I should like to
respond with a few observations on
what I regard as the two ^ost
significant points he brought out
in his discussion of the agricultural situation.
"One of these has to do with crop acreage
reduction. Secretary Hyde went no farther
than to advocate the withdrawal from produc-
tion of all marginal farming lands, and to re-
forest these under state and federal auspices.
Certainly there can be no objection to such a
program. However, when the Farm Board ad-
vocates acreage reduction it has in mind some-
thing much more direct than that. It is now
urging reduction in the cotton and spring wheat
acreages, pointing out that if this is not done it
will not be responsible for the course of the
markets in these two commodities. While acre-
age reduction offers the most effective remedy
ever proposed for reducing surpluses, it is doubt-
less the most complex and difficult of all to
administer positively and fairly.

Acreage Reduction

"Those of us who for years have kept a fair
proportion of our farms in legumes would wel-
come a program of acreage reduction in grain
crops, the acres going to legumes or forest.
But this method requires time. It cannot be
given effect over night, or in a single season,
as the Farm Board wants done. The sort of
reduction insisted upon just now will result
either in acres lying idle, or in being planted
to some other cash crop. To leave good farm
land entirely out of production while still sub-
ject to taxation and other cosu, seems scarcely
worthy of discussion. To put it to some other
crop coming under the paternalism of the Farm
Board would merely be "robbing Peter to pay
Paul.'

"A short time ago in discussing the condition
in the South with a friend who is familiar
with conditions there, he made the statement
that he believed the South would reduce its
cotton acreage materially in 1930. I immedi-
ately asked if the released acres would not go
into corn, and he said, 'Yes.'

"Now, there we have the whole situation.
If the spring wheat belt could grow cotton and
thereby replace a part of the wheat acreage, I
suppose we would then have reductions in both
cotton and wheat! Next summer we will hear
a lot about reducing the acreage of fall wheat,
and doubtless with some result. Except in the
drier parts of the wheat country, corn will be
substituted. But in the meantime, we of the
corn belt will be hearing of how stupid we are
for producing so much corn. ...

"And because of just this condition, I venture
to predict that if the Farm Board continues
to stress acreage reduction along the present
lines, the farmer will be in for a lot of abuse
from those who are unable or unwilling to
comprehend the situation; and in the mean-
time the Farm Board will have safely 'passed
the buck.'

Save Home Market
"Another point of importance which the
Secretary brought out is that of the tariff. If
agriculture the world over is in trouble, as
seems true; if there is over-production in the
foreign markets as well as in the home market.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Sine

then we had better be looking to that home
market, while there is yet time. ^Then home
consumption does catch up with home supply
it will require every ounce of effort agriculture
can miuter to preserve protective tariff rates.
If anyone is inclined to doubt this, he thould
read in the Congressioiul Record the tariff
debates going on at the present time. Eastern
members of Congress generally. Demo-
crats and Republicans alike, are bit-
ter against the farmer. They will
defend any sort of an increase on a
product of industry on the ground
that industry must be kept employed
so the country generally will be pros-
perous. Then there will be a demand
for farm products. On the other
hand, if it is proposed to place real
protection on an agricultural product,
these same gentlemen orate with
passsionate indignation against raising

the cost of living

"Let us not belittle too much the idea of
tariff rates on those products of which we now
produce a surplus. W^hile these rates may not
be effective now, they will be some day, and
on that day agriculture will be fighting for
its life in an effort to maintain them. To
have them a part of the law at that time
will be of tremendous advantage. The farmer's
fight for tariff rates has not yet begun. I
wonder if he is alive to the situation."

E. D, Lawrence,
McLean County, 111.

Kefoiestation Important

I HAVE read the article in the February
Recoro, by Secretary Arthur M. Hyde.
It has stimulated my "thinking machine" — no
doubt having done the same for others. The
facts the secretary presented concerning the
reforestation of marginal lands has interested
me considerably.

It would seem to be economic folly to keep
on using, and increasing the use of our poorer
lands. In fact, considering the justice to fu-
ture generations, it might even be declared to
be criminal folly to use up our reserve food
and lumber supplies in the depletion of our
marginal lands, as we now use the term. We
shall need those acres some day, far more than
we do now. Incidentally by using such lands
we have helped create a vicious circle, the cen-
ter of which is the bug-a-bear, price-breaking
surfdui.

Shortsighted Policy

You only have to glance at some of the large
river systems of the world to understand what
is meant by deforestation. Wherever the trees
have been removed and the grassy lands plowed
up — specially on inclines — the rivers have car-
ried the future food and wood supplies out
into the oceans, in form of fertile, (ilty soil.
Some of the abandoned lands of Chiiu are an
example — and we have plenty here in our own
country. Famine in the arricles used by man
has been the result and will continue to be
the result of such national and individual short-
sighted policy.

With the ever increasing shortage of lumber,
for building purposes, industrial uses and farm-
ing needs, I believe the time is here now to do
something about placing our poorer acres into
growing future lumber supplies and soil con-
serving. To be sure we have our national
parks with their giowing timber; and some of
the states own forest lands, many of which
are only stump lands, reverting to the state
for lack of uz paymenu. But as to actually
doing something about the marginal lands,
scattered all over the country, we practically
have only growled about the production of
surplus cropt, of which they are capable.

Grow More Trees
It has occurred to me that a system might
be developed, wherein the marginal acres on
our farms, is well as large tracts, might be

placed back to growing timber and conserving
our soil resources. The county adviser, or
some other county official, is in a position to
know about the fertile, marginal and poor
lands of every county in the United States.
With the help of soil surveys developed by
the state agricultural colleges, a record of
such lands could be made. Adaptable trees

HOW many of our readers will follow
the advice of Secretary Hyde and
Chairman Alex Legge of the Farm Board
and plant S to 10 acres to treesT Who
has a plan for acreage reduction to
eliminate crop surpluses and how could
it be enforcedt Write your comments
to the Reader's Forum, I. A. A. RECORD.
608 So. Dearborn St.. Chicago.

could be secured and planted. And such
land kept free from taxes, until production of

lumber begins

Emet N. Hopson,
Macoupin County, 111.

SECRETARY HYDE'S address is an able ex-
position of the farmer's problem. Agricul-
ture is fortuiute in having such a strong
defender. While Secretary Hyde does not dis-
cuss some of the vital issues, yet his discussion
of surplus production, marketing, the tariff,
sub-margiiul land, taxation and organization
will appeal in the main to farmers everywhere.
Such themes as forced money deflation, price-
fixing, speculation, market manipulation, credit,
banking and legislation are themes that lie at
the very heart of the farmer's plight but they
are often overlooked in discussions of this sort.
Please bear with a few suggestions:
On nearly every farm there is a certain
amount of submarginal land. If this is
neglected or abandoned will not the interest and
taxes thereon eat up the profit from the pro-
ductive land? As a rule farmers aim to make
every acre contribute something toward the
total income.

Tariff On Imports

Why dismiss from tariff consideration the
61% of agricultural commodities which we
do not produce? A tariff on these would of
course increase the price to the consumer and
therefore divert his food demands to the com-
modities which we do produce. If the 61%
comes in duty free, then the consumer would be
attracted to the cheaper imported foods and raw
material and diverted from our own farm com-
modities. Why not go the full length with
agriculture as with industry?

Why eliminate the surplus? There seldom is
a world surplus. Taking one year with another
the world consumes all the food produced and,
at that, millions suffer the pangs of hunger.
It is a question whether the elimination of the
surpluses is wise, ecomomic or humanitarian.
The consimiing public should be protected
against^ a shortage of food. A surplus adds to
our national income and fortifies the nation
against disasters such as war, crop failures, and
physical losses due to fire, flood, tornado and
enemies. The aim of surplus control legisla-
tion should be not to eliminate the surplus but
to prevent it from destroying the domestic price
.... William Osburn, Grundy County, 111.

From Union County

Editor I. A. A. Record:

AGRICULTURE must be organized, this is
- easily said; but cleaning an Augean (table
is child's play in comparison with this job.

uniting those six million farmers in a work-
able unit. Of this I am very doubtful. Now
supposing it would come tc this — the unifica- ?
tion of us hayseeds — then the trouble would
begin.

Suppose we would want tb reduce the acre-
age. Will the big landowner who lives in city
and town submit to a mandate to reduce his
acreage in proportion to his holdings?
And suppose we fartners were success-
ful in controlling the acreage thereby
getting more money in our hands, ''
would that better oor condition? For
a year or so, and af(er that we would
find ourselves in the same plight.

It is not that we raise too large ;
crops. It is taxation. Take the in-
come tax schedule. Sixty-five per cent
of all the wealth is an the possession of
two per cent, 2 J pet cent is owned by
eight per cent, and 10 per cent by 90
per cent of the people. Thus 90 per
cent of the people are the genuine taxpayers —
and not all of them. The majority of the
farmers are included in the 190 per cent. Mr.
Lowden and Mr. Schwab form a class by them-
selves. Ten per cent of the people unload their
taxes on our shoulders, and the result, fore-
closures, until we have a few rich families and
the rest their slaves — what next? ..

History Repeats

It might be that I see the future with the
eyes of a pessimist; but history repeau itself.
The drifting of our nation's wealth in lesser and
lesser hands will bring more and more hard-
ships and suffering to the common people be-
cause the Shylocks want their pound of flesh.
How many farmers did lose their land since the
world war? Do we know the exact number?
From 1920-'2J, 22 per cent ©f all who farmed
lost their holdings — 14 per Cent renters, eight
per cent landowners. Nineteen hundred and
twenty-eight foreclosures of farm mortgages
were still six times greater than 1917. Surely
wars will and do enslave the wealth-producing
farmers and laborers, and to whom?

Farmers and laborers in all the last warring
countries, except Russia, suffer on account of
taxation, paying interest un war debts, pen-
sions, standing armies and navies. To whom are
the nations in debt? Not to the masses. I
am, for one, to cancel all the war debts. I am
willing to grant a person his bonds, if they
don't call for millions, were they the last straw
to support him. I know a good many per-
sons who bought liberty bonds paid in full and
sold them for less money because they needed
money. That is one way to get rich. That last
crash on the stock market swallowed up a good
many sharks. The income ;tax should show
this plainly. \

Goes On I

This digesting goes on undisturbed 'till the
end comes. To prevent this end coming — it
might not be so blessed — the best cure would be
canceling all war debts, reducing the interest,
and reducing the salaries of all our officers, and
an inheritance tax high enough so no person
will try to become a millionaire. That means
to be more honest. No really honest person —
to my thinking — can become a millionaire.
Profit is the soul of all business. Look at our
millionaires. They surely took profit by hook
or irrook. The last oil scandajl should convince
any person who thinks. |

G. Rudert, the writer of this, is one of the
charter members of our Farm Bureau in Union
county. Polirically a red blooded socialist,
born in Germany, raised on a farm there. My
relarives over there and forefathers were farm-
ers and landowners say for centuries our fam-
ily records show. When 16 yean old wander-
lust got hold of me, and I left for America—
the point, to get rich.

Well, I never will get rich, and don't care.
I always read a lot. ■ I have in my possoaaB
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SICKNESS and death are the common
levelers of all humanity. Wealth and
position can not stave off disease nor stem
the hand of the Grim Reaper. Neither re-
spect persons. To the man flat on his back
worldly possessions fade into oblivion.

Men of power who have surmounted dif-
ficulties throughout their lives finally fall
prey to the common enemy of all, diseases
and ailments of the flesh. Baffled and de-
feated, they leave their fortunes to endow
hospitals, sanitariums, and clinics to fight
that which conquered them. This is one of
the reasons why untold millions have been
poured into hospitals and medical research
by rich men.

People of means go south during the
winter for their health and perhaps die.
Most of us can find health abundantly in
the bracing wintry climate of the north if
we will. Old Doc Evans tells us that,
"Sunlight over ice and snow is very rich in
chose ingredients which increase resistance
to infections among adults and promote
growth among children. The effects of
cold air, snow, and rain on the complexion
are superior to those of remedies sold over
the counter. The fine complexions are
found among people who expose themselves
to winter cold." That is heartening in-
formation to us who from economic neces-
sity must stay where we are the year 'round.

Nine out of ten are careless of their
health. Doctors tell us that more than
90 per cent of all human ailments are pre-
ventable. Lack of a proper diet and ir-
regular eating habits account perhaps for
more than half of our troubles. Too little
sleep and rest, foul air, lack of the right
kind of exercise, improper clothing, and
failure to observe the ordinary rules of
health account for the rest.

The indoor worker weakens his vitality
by too many hours in a warm, stuffy and
often foul atmosphere. The outdoor
worker, more fortunate in his environment
from the standpoint of fresh air, may abuse
himself in other ways. All must pay the
price sooner or- later for breaking the laws
of nature. I knew a young man afflicted
with diabetes who was too weak willed
or stubborn to diet. He gormandized on
starches and sweets against doctor's orders
and dug an early grave with his teeth.
What fools we are.^-E. G. T.

More than 600 red top growers
signed up to sell their red top seed
through the Egyptian Seed Growers'
Exchange during the first two weeks'
drive early in February.

Farm Truck Licenses

"Just a few remarks in regard to farm
truck licenses.

"I own a one and one-half ton truck. I
drive about 2,?00 miles in a season and pay
$22.50 for my license, and the regular
trucking man is on the road every day,
pays $22.50 for licenses and drives about
25,000 a year.

"I think this is very unfair to the
farmer. Any man who applies for a chauf-
feur's license can afford to pay the price,
for he uses the road."

Jess S. Bachman,
Woodford County, 111.

What Is A Farm?

Three acres is a farm, say officials in
charge of the Census Bureau. A farm is
.ill the land farmed by one person whether
it is three acres or 3,000 acres. No tract
of land of less than three acres will be
registered as a farm unless it produced last
year at least $2 JO worth of far.n products
either consumed on the farm or sold.

A large country place of 10, 15, or 20
acres may not necessarily qualify as a farm.
Actual farming or agricultural operations
must be carried out to qualify. Farm land
is considered "operated" not only when
cultivated, but also when it is used for
pasture or for production of hay.

In 1925 when the last census was taken
there were 15,151 farms of less than three
acres. The total number of farms in the
nation at that time was 6,371,640.

Livestock Sales Plan

A million dollar national livestock mar-
keting association to co-ordinate and con-
trol sales and standardize rates is provided
for in a plan recently presented by the Fed-
eral Farm Board to livestock growers in
Chicago.

The program and proposal of the Farm
Board was outlined by James C. Stone, the
Board's vice-chairman, to representatives of
2 5 co-operatives. Mr. Stone stated that
the organization could be launched just as
soon as the plan is ratified by the board of
directors of the co-operative livestock sales
commission associations.

Grain Grading Film

A two-reel motion picture film showing
methods of grain sampling and grading was
recently completed by the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture.

Copies of this film can be obtained by
county advisers and other extension agents
free of charge by writing Fred G. Smith,
Federal Grain Supervision, Room 1138, 327
So. LaSalle St., Chicago. The Chicago office
also has a copy of an excellent one-reel
film on the "Combine Harvester."

Other government films on a variety of
subjects can be obtained by writing the
Motion Picture Divbion, U. S. Department
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

Obstruct T. B. Testing

Vets Face Fines and Prison

Four cattle owners of Butler County,
Ohio, were found guilty and convicted re-
cently in the Federal Court at Dayton,
Ohio, for conspiracy to assault and forcibly
oppose employees of the Bureau of Animal
Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture,
who attempted to test herds of cattle for
tuberculosis in accordance with the State
law. The defendants, among others, had
endeavored to hold up the area plan of
tuberculin-testing of cattle in the county
by force and violence, after an injunction
issued by the local court had expired. The
men carried a shotgun, a blacksnake whip,
pitchforks, clubs, and stones.

After most of the herds in the county
had been tested, cattle owners and breeders
appealed to the local Federal and State
authorities to send veterinarians to test the
remaining 52 herds in order that the county
might become classed as a modified-
accredited area. The violence Occurred on
July 23. 1929. when Drs. Solon Gillen and
Chas. S. Elliott endeavored to complete the
test on one of the herds.

The case was tried before Judge Robert
R. Nevin and the trial lasted three weeks.
The four persons convicted were James N.
Griffin, Wert A. Whipp, John A. Donson,
and Valeria Donson. They face imprisonment
in a Federal penitentiary and fines up to
$10,000, but have appealed to a higher court.

Soybean Oil

NO ONE knows much about soybean
oil. It is difficult to sell for this
reason. Tlie edible field is as yet unopened
and the tendency of soybean oil to become
rancid is a bar to its ready sale, according
to Otto Eisenschimel, expert oil chemist.

"Soybean oil is a semi-drying oil and it
not considered as desirable as linseed oil for
use in paints," he said. "It is being com-
bined, however, with linseed and other oils
with considerable success by paint manufac-
turers. More experience is needed. The oil
situation today is deplorable. The outlook
for next year is better, however. The soy-
bean oil processors must cultivate the high
priced markets, that is, they must try to
sell larger quantides of the oil into those
channels that pay the most money for it.
The oil at present is being used largely as a
fat. The market is at yet only scratched."

Employers* liability insurance is limited to
Farm Bureau members. A minimum premium
deposit of $10 based on a minimum payroll of
$1,000 is required. A one per cent additional
deposit is required for each $500 of payroll or
major fraction thereof in excess of $1000 an-
nual payroll. The policy fee in all cases ii $5.

It u planned to make only one asicssmeat a
year, although asseismenu can be made Mmi-
annually if necessary.

Earl C. Smith has been appointed a
member of the state board of agricultural
advisers by Governor Emmeraon.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

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e Eleven

The Agricultural Situation

By ALEXANDER LEGGE, Chairman, Federal Farm Board

ONE should not face an audience
like this without adequate
preparation, but my clients have
beet, rather insistent since I agreed
to come here that their problems
in meat, wheat, cotton, and one
thing and another were more im-
portant than anybody's speech — so,
should my talk be rambling and dis-
connected, I ask your indulgence
to that extent.

Going back — one of the questions
i«: When did the agricultural prob-
lem begin? How far have we any
record? I can't answer that very
clearly; it was before my time.

A New York paper recently put
out in a Sunday supplement what
purported to be a tablet dug up in
the Valley of the Kings on which was an
inscription by Argan, I think it is, the king
of kings, who passed away in 3 500 B. C.
On the tablet the king admonished his peo-
ple that, to protect the nation, they should
try to correct the frivolous habiu of the
young women of the day and also the dis-
parity between the earnings of agriculture
and the villages. In other words, they had
flapper and farm relief questions even in
those days.

/ ■ Drifting To City - ;

I don't vouch for the story nor can I
vouch for the story of some of the latest
economists who think they see in our pres-
ent situation a parallel with the history of
Rome in its balmiest days. The drift of the
people from the country to the city is cer-
tainly going on here at the present time
and their experiences portray what it means
— they had transferred people from the soil
to the centers of population and you all
know the result. I have seen a little in
recent years of the reverse movement where
the overcrowded city is being relieved. The
people are being moved back to the farms
under the escort of a government gentle-
man in a black shirt. I hope we won't
have to do it that way.

Now we still hear the question, what is
the problem; is there an agricultural prob-
lem, is it real? The National Industrial
Conference Board, not made up of farmers
or supported by farmers but supported by
you people here, passed on that question,
and answered it very fully and completely.
I have never had any doubt about it myself.
I was raised on the farm. I have always
owned a farm and I know about how the
thing runs, but I will not use my personal
illustration. If any of you gentlemen have
any question about it aik your esteemed
fellow citizen, Mr. Samuel Insull. He has
a record of being a wizard. He can take a
gas company and a light plant and a rail-
road and what not and make it purr and
make it move and make it pay dividends
and profits, reduce the prices and make

MR. LEGGE made the speech printed
herewith before a group consisting
largely of Chicago business men, several
months ago. It came to our attention
only recently. He talked extemporaneously
at the dinner closing the Sixth Conference
of Major Industries sponsored by the Uni-
versity of Chicago, the Institute of Ameri.
can Meat Packers, and nineteen other
organizations.

Alex Legge's characteristic shrewdness,
directness, and grasp of the essentials in
the job before him are clearly revealed in
this speech. It gives you an estimate of
the kind of man we have at' the head of the
Farm Board. The common sense and
ability to drive at the heart of a question
that made Mr. Legge a SIOO.OOO a year man
can be read between the lines. Don't miss
reading this article. — Editor.

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everybody happy, but he can't run a farm
except in red ink. He admits it. He has as
good a manager as I ever met trying to run
it, but he can't make it pay expenses. I am
sorry Mr. Insull is not here this evening,
but I am sure he would verify that state-
ment if he were.

Now there is a better understanding than
there was a few years ago of this subject,
but it is not well understood by the people
of the country at large today. Some of
the questions that come in to us are
astounding in the lack of knowledge of the
facts that exist all around you. The farmer
has been lost in the shufiSe, to a measur-
able extent, in the rapid progress of in-
dustry. To illustrate: One of these sta-
tistical "sharks" down at Washington has
been compiUng figures on gifts and dona-
tions made by philanthropic people during
the last eight years. During that time the
front pages of the papers have been filled
with this farm problem most of the time,
but out of gifts totalling nearly $17,000,-
000,000 — $2,800,000,000 of which was
given in 1928 — $1,000,000, donated by
Gianini to the University of California, is
the only donation that you can trace to the
agricultural interests of the nation. For
the farmer to participate in any other do-
nations he has to come to town.

Is Not Favoritism

I just quote that to show how completely
the farmer has been lost out of the public
consciousness of this great nation.

Then we have the question of this meas-
ure, the Agricultural Marketing Act, this
law which we are trying to administer as
being socialistic, paternalistic — favoritism of
one kind or another. Is there the need of
government action, and if so, why? What is
it? Is it any greater measure of relief that
is contemplated in this law than has been
afforded to labor, to industry, to transpor-
tation or to finance? I think not. It does
go, it seeks to go, many good ways.

In recent weeks, members of the Farm
Board have received literally thousands of

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communications — editorials, news-
paper clippings, telegrams, letters,
telephone calls, personal commisera-
tion— over the panning we got up
on the "riiH" in the Senate
quiry. There is nothing to thai
from our standpoint, but out ot all
that not one single friend who tried
to condole with us has, seen through
the picture of what is beyond.

Why is there a radical bloc? Why
are there Progressives? In each and
every instance, gentlemen, they
represent distress at home. They are
trying to find an expression for the
distress in some part of this great
nation. Remove the distress and you
won't have any trouble with radical
blocs in the government of this
country. If you do not remove the dis-
tress, if some one does not find a way to
do it, you will find conditions much worse
in the future than you have seen them in
the past.

I Can't Agree
Some people say that these cannot be ant
parity between industry and agriculture.
I can't hold to that at all. They quote the
repeal of the British corn law as a marking
of the ways, or, to become a commercial
nation and pass the farmer over to peasan-
try. I don't think that is literally true,
but, if it were, I am not certain that it was
a good move. You have the picture today
of Great Britain, sturdy old Great Britain,
which has the farm problem quite as acute
as it is here, and, with it all, you have a
Prime Minister, elected for the second time,
representing the Socialists and rather radical
Socialists of the British Commonwealth. The
repeal of the corn law may not have worked
out altogether happily.

Individualism The Reason
Why has agriculture lagged behind, par-
ticularly in this country? I think the an-
swer is individualism, isolation. Collective
action as compared to Individual action is
represented in every industry here except in
agriculture. I don't mean by that any
great combination of units. That is not the
story at all. It Is a combination of minds.
Industries are run by a group of minds
working together. It isn't any one man's
guess that decides the best thing to do. It u
the concerted action of many men, studied
action, carefully reviewed, and reviewed
again. You have to do all that to avoid
making any mistakes, while the farmer act-
ing Individually gauges his program by the
horizon, seeing but little beyond what there
is in sight in making his plans.

Agab In this day of high standards of
living — now get that right (the high stand-
ard of living we boast about, you have all
becoine accustomed to it) -"-many people,
who years ago felt that every dollar they
gave to the wage earner b«yond what he

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could possibly live on was a dollar wasted,
today advocate a high rate of wages and
make him a better buyer. If that is true
of the wage earner, why not of the farmer?
If a manufacturer gives his men a raise
in pay he quotes it in the price of the goods
he sells. Naturally. Why shouldn't he.'
He passes it along. Ari*d in many cases this
accumulative high standard of living cost
is passed along again and again. A man
gets a little higher price for making the
brick or making the steel, the contractor
has to pay a little more wages to build the
building. In the end your rent goes up.
Then you pass the rent along to somebody
else, but eventually away "off, clear out in
the prairie, you pass part of this burden to
somebody who hasn't any place to pass it,
simply because he has no voice in the price
put on his goods. His is a buyer's market.
He takes what he can get and has abso-
lutely no voice in saying what that price
shall be. That is the trouble with agri-
culture, not only in America, but in many
other places.

What Is Cure

Now, what is the cure? You hear a
great many arguments now about mass
production on the farm, production in great
units and operating more economically.
That is possible. It is being done success-
fully in a few instances, but it is very
repugnant to the nation's ideals, to the
homestead, to the man who tries to make
a home for himself and his family on the
land.

In my judgment it can be accomplished
without the merging of farms. The farm-
er's handicap is not so much in the things
that he buys. >5rhen my friend Rosenwald
(Julius Rosenwald) here gets out his mail
order book, somebody else gets the chain
store right up to the door of the farmer, in
addition to what service he has had in the
past. His buying is fairly comparable with
you people in town; he is not paying any
great premium on the stuff he buys. What
is wrong with him is in what he sells. He
needs to get something for that.

That, I believe, can be done by collective
action in the selling line only without dis-
turbing what is established otherwise. In
other words, by massing together in large
units the product of any commodity, agri-
cultural or otherwise, you have a better bar-
gaining power than when you have a thou-
sand people each competing with the other,
while one should do the job.

Producer Has Control
Now you say, "Why do I assume that a
co-operative run by a bunch of untrained
farmers can do better in marketing their
crops than the old time machinery that has
been set up, the old system, the old agency
now at work?" Don't lose sight of this
fundamental, gentlemen, and that is, the
private agency has no control aver the flow
of the commodity to the market. The pro-
ducer has. The Producer can so regulate the

marketings of his crop collectively that he
never will have a glut, and if there is any
surplus he will keep it at home and not
pay freight on it.

To illustrate, I refer to my friend, Charlie
Teague, member of the Federal Farm Board,
with 25 years experience in the citrus busi-
ness. Today we have the picture of possibly
two or three concerns, shipping and han-
dling practically all the citrus fruit that is
krown on the Pacific Coast, while down in
little Florida, which grows a very small per-
centage of the whole amount, there are
some 132 different shippers. Florida grow-
ers bunch their products. It goes to Balti-
more today, to New York tomorrow, Btet
it goes in a bunch. It gluts the market
and it is sacrificed. You don't find the
gentlemen on the Pacific Coast doing that.
Their market is studied and watched every
day, and the flow of the goods to the mar-
ket is based on what that market has been
consuming in corresponding weeks of pre-

// you haven't read this
speech of Alex Legge's you have
missed one of the most interest-
ing and important documents
and contributions to the vol-
uminous literature on the sub-
ject, ever published. This arti-
cle can not help but stimulate
you to thought. Write your
comments for the "Reader's
Forum", c-o I. A. A. Record,
608 So. Dearborn St.. Chicago.

vious years, and, if there comes a little too
much, by-product plants have biren pro-
vided in which the surplus is sal^^ed, at
home without paying any freight on it. The
central market does not get a chance^"to
handle that at all.

That is the difference between organized
marketing and the present disorganized
system in general use. The ability to reg-
ulate supply to demand is the life of - any
business, of all our businesses. If you manu-
facture too much stuff and the market
can't absorb it, what do you do? In the
last analysis this organized marketing of
agricultural products will do that same
thing for farmers.

A Little Arithmetic
It isn't a happy thought to the average
farmer to think he might have to reduce
production, but some day he will get it
through his head that four bushels of wheat
at tl.iO a bushel is $6.00, but that five
bushels at $1.00 a bushel is only i5.00.
That percentage of reduced production,
twenty per cent less, would easily result in
a return of 20 per cent more, could it be
applied this minute. A 20 per cent reduc-
tion in what he produces would bring his
supply within the tariff barriers which today
are practically of no use to grain growers.
He wouldn't have any trouble iii getting 20
per cent mor.; for 20 per cent lesi gain.

No Need To Worry
This question comes in right there:
Suppose this works out successfully? What
is it going to do to the other fellow? The
miller and the canner and every other fel-
low who processes farm products w-^nts to
know, "What is it going to do to me? Why
don't you consult me before you do this or
do that?"

The answer, gentlemen, is simple. If that
processer, whoever he may be, is doing a
useful service at a reasonable cost, he has
nothing to worry about. Service has to
be performed. If he can do it as cheaply,
as well, and as efficiently as anybody else,
why should he worry? He won't have to
change. If he is not doing it effectively
and economically, and furnishing good serv-
ice for the revenue he gets out of it, he
is going to pass out of the picture, anyway.
It may be competition, it may be co-op-
eration, but in any event he is going, be'
cause the inefficient has to go.

Now I am not going to take much more
time, gentlemen. It is getting a bit late
for us farmers. "^- -^^ "\

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The Consumer

Then we get. the next question: How is it
going to affect the consumer? To some
extent it may increase the cost • to the
consumer on some farm products, but not
on everything. We start with the wage
earner who gets a raise of pay and he passes
it along to the manufacturer and the whole-
saler and the retailer and it finally gets back
to the farmer. If he has to pay out a little
bit of that wage for an increased cost of
living, why, you have only made the circle
complete. He hasn't any kick coming;
only he will just try to get a little more
when he gets the next advance.

You people living here in Chicago (I
lived here for thirty years until quite
recently) have been paying fourteen cents a
quart for your milk in recent years. People
in St. Paul or Minneapolis buy the same
grade and the same quality of milk, all-
pasteurized and sterilized and whatever they
do' to it (it is a lot these days, to comply
with the health regulations), and they get
it for twelve cents. Yet, the . farmer in
Minnesota gets thirty cents a htmdred more
for the milk than the farmer in Illinois.
All that difference was taken out of obsolete
methods of distribution — every cent of it.

The Modern Way
Instead of there being eight or ten or a
dozen different milk wagons goiiig down
the alley, one goes "down the alley. The'
distributors, the same men who grew up mv, '
the trade, are still doing the worb^ They
have so many blocks allotted to them and
nobody else goies on their* territory. You
don't have a case where yftu have five or
six or ten apaftment buildiAgs together,
and as many different men coming up, put-
ting down a package of butter and a bot-
tle of milk, and in a few minutes another
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Dr. John E. Boland

KEEPING WELL

By Dr. John E. Boland, Medical Direc-
tor, Country Life Insurance Co.
THE purpose of the medical department
of insurance companies is to pass on
risks. In the past we have been satisfied to
limit our activities to this. However, the
Country Life Insurance Company, in keep-
ing with its first
principle of always
to be of utmost
service to its pol-
icyholders, has de-
cided to go a step
farther. We are
planning a series of
educational articles
to be published
periodically.

Our stories will
have to do with
the promotion of health and the prevention
of disease with an occasional one on life
insurance. We hope to present these to
our readers in a form that will be readily
understood, keeping away from technical
medical terms.

Our aim is to aid our policyholders ja
attaining the highest degree of health i>«-
sible. This can only be brought about by
periodic medical examinations made by de-
pendable physicians. . . V^sO^>r' "^
Often Careless

A tendency of the family physician, who
has known his patient for years, is to make
light of these periodic examinations. He is
very apt to say, "Why, you are in perfect
health. I have known you from the date
of your birth. Why bother me, my bmi-
ness is to care for the sick, not for healthy
individuals like you."

Unless examinations are complete and
thorough, they are of no value. Medical
experience of the benefits derived from
regular examinations of presumably healthy
individuals is suflSciently widespread that we
have all recognized its great value.

We know of the material reduction in
infant deaths accomplished by the super-
vbion of the feeding and hygiene of babies
from birth to the age of two years. Dur-
ing the years prior to the entry of school
life, some form of medical supervision of
apparently healthy children is justified by
the number of important defects discovered.
Therefore, periodic examinations should be-
gin at the age of two years. One can not
estimate the number of cases of rheuma-
tism, heart impairments, etc., that can be
avoided by examination of teeth and the
removal of diseased tonsils in early life.

Prevention The Thing

In the past a person consulted a physician
only because of symptoms of disease that
demanded diagnosis and treatment. Now
we find people coming to physicians in in-
creasing numbers for an estimate of their
state of health and for guidance in main-
taining or improving it. The latter point
we are desirous of strongly emphasizing.

Do not wait for specific illnesses to con-
sult your physician. The average adult
accepts certain tendencies of departure
from normal such as overweight, constipa-
tion, shortness of breath, loss of weight,
etc., as predetermined and beyond his con-
trol and has resigned himself to these con-
ditions. The attitude of resignation and
acceptance of limitations is entirely out of
accord with the present day demand for
mechanical efficiencies. ,;; ; ...v*' '.

Auto Gets More Care
The comparison of the human machine
to an automobile is an illustration of the
importance of periodic examination. To
get the highest degree of efficiency out of
our automobile it must be in the best me-
chanical condition possible. Automobile
companies recognizing this fact advise auto-
mobile owners to have their cars serviced
at regular intervals. Practically all auto-
mobile owners co-operate in this respect.
Surely if we do this with our automobiles,
it seems only plausible that we should do
likewise with our bodies.

One naturally believes that prevention
of illness should begin with children, there-
fore, in our larger cities this work has been
widely developed. While results with adults
will not at first be startling, any one who
has had his defects pointed out and recom-
^mendations made for mending his ways,
readily sees the great value in periodic ex-
aminations. See your family physician at
least once a year for a complete physical
examination. Visit your dentist at least
twice a year. ''/ \

Our aim is not only to add life to your
years, but to add years to your life.

Endorse Co-op

The Iroquois County Farm Bureau board
of directors in joint session with the Farm
Bureau grain marketing committee on Feb.
22 unanimously endorsed the Illinois Grain
Corporation.

THE annual spring meeting of the board
of directors of the Illinois Farm Bureau
Baseball LeaguKwill be held Friday, March
21, 1930 at l.-OX^p. m. in the Jefferson
hotel, Peoria. \ 1

The directors abd rep<ysentatives of
counties interested in baseball were polled
regarding the choice for a {meeting place.
Ten voted in favor of Pebria, seven for
Bloomington, and six for Springfield.

A third member of the state arbitration
committee will be chosen, baseball divisions ,
will be rearranged for the [convenience of "-v
the member teams, rules *nd regulations ■
governing the playing of games in 1950 \\^
will be adopted, games scheduled, and other
business transacted. j

An effort is being made to organize a
new division in northern Illinois. Lee
county, which played in the League last
year with Henry, Knox, and Stark, has in-
dicated its unwillingness to icontinue unless I
a new division can be foritied to include ',
neighboring counties. Jo Daviess and
Stephenson counties may have teams, while i
farm advisers in Carroll, Whiteside, Winne- '
bago, and DeKalb are being asked to sound |
the sentiment for farm baseball in those i
counties. {

LaSalle county has announced its inten-
tions of bringing out a team. Farm Adviser •. . '
S. G. Turner of Livingston county had 25 .
players and fans at a recent meeting in
Pontiac where it was decided to proceed in
organizing a Farm Bureau team.

Iroquois county has joined the League j
and work has started toward organizing ]
teams in Kankakee, Montgomery, and i
Macoupin counties.

The Agricultural Situation

(Continued from page 12)
fellow puts another one over there. That
waste has been taken out of the Twin
Cities; it has been going on for eight or
nine years. It is not an experiment; it
has been done long enough so that we know
it can be done.

What are we doing about it? I don't
know whether this Farm Board is going to
solve this problem, gentlemen. I hope some-
body solves che problem because, as I in-
timated a moment ago, if this board or
some other agency doesn't make real prog-
ress towards its solution you are going to
face it again and in a more drastic form.

We are trying to bring together these
commodity groups for centralized action;
trying to get for farmers a better regula-
tion, a more orderly marketing of their
product, and cut out this fifty and sixty
per cent fluctuation up and down in the

price, from day to day, fn>m month to
month, if we can. We hope that we are
going to make some progress along that
line. It looks encouraging at the moment.
Something is being done.

There is one thing you can rest assured
of — the American farmer is never going to
become a peasant or a serf. Don't complain
because he has a farm bloc. Don't criticize
because he tries to obtain through the ballot
that which a few centuries ago people ob-
tained with a bullet. Balloting is the bet-
ter method. Give him credit for going at
it in the right way. Give him your en-
couragement, give him your support, your
help. You are all interested' — you are in-
terested from the standpoint of citizens,
you are interested from the standpoint of
the future, of the government itself, as to-
whether he ii going to survive and continue
along sound, economic, sane likes or whether
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14)

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Page Fourteen

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

m'

Why Club Members Should Market Their
^^^^^^^•^^^^^^ ; U Co-operatively

: By GMLLOKD WAGNER, Pontiac, Livingston County, III., V

Sweepstakes Prize Essay In State-wide Contest

THE co-operative marketing of livestock
by 4-H Club members is necessary for
many reasons.

Before our local producers' association
was organized we had several stock buyers
in our locality who bought our stock in a
good many cases at prices below what they
were actually worth to the producer. We
sold this way simply because there
was no other means of selling. The
buyer \ would purchase the good
along with the poor at lump prices.
The prices paid were so low in
maay cases, it worked hardship on
the producer. Hog growers were
not acquainted with the kind and
quality of livestock the market de-
manded.

which creates a competitive selling rather
than a competitive buying market.

Too Many Sellers

In other words the bargaining power is

in the hands of the buyer instead of the

seller. If all livestock would be handled

through the co-operative selling agency, the

THE essay by Gaillord Wagner published
herewith was awarded first prize in the
northern. Illinois division, and grand sweep-
stakes prize in the state-wide essay contest
conducted by the livestock marketing depart-
ment of the Illinois Agricultural Association.

. i The First Step

After our local association was
organized, a manager was selected,
with whom we listed the stock we
wished to sell. As soon as a car-
load was ready for shipment, the
manager notified the owners and
they brought the stock to the local yards
where it is loaded and shipped to the
terminal market. After the stock is sold
at the terminal market, the proceeds, with
expenses deducted, are sent to the man-
ager who remits the correct amounts to
each of the owners.

We have not only done away with the
local buyer, who was making large returns
at our expense, but we also learned the kind
of stock the market demands. If we have
good stock to market that is the proper
weight and quality or if we have a poor
grade, each is sold in a class according to
weight and quality and a fair market value
less actual marketing expense is realized.

At the Terminal

The next important step in our co-
operative marketing is a co-operative sell-
ing agency at the terminal market. This
organization handles selling at cost and full
profits are realized by the producer.

At the different terminal markets over the
country there are numerous commission or
old line selling agencies that handle live-
stock on a commission basis and their
profits go to the owners of the firms. These
commission firms greatly outnumber the
.actual buyers>of our livestock which creates
a situation that is not to the best interests
of the producer. Instead of the buyer go-
ing out and bidding for his stock, he makes
the rounds and finds out what the numer-
ous agencies have to offer and of course
buys from those who will sell the cheapest.

The county Farm Bureaus supervised the
contest locally and submitted their first prize
essays in the state contest. Gaillord will be
presented with a ISO gold watch. First prize
winners in the central and southern Illinois
districts will be awarded gold watches valued
at S2S. Second prizes of S 10 each will be award-
ed in each district.

This method would also bring a closer
relationship between the producer and the
consumer in that the producer would know
just what the consumer demanded and raise
stock accordingly.

It is the duty of every 4-H Club mem-
ber to marliet his livestock through the
co-operative system. We clubbers of to-
day are the stock producers of to-
morrow. This system has been
brought about by the efforts of
our fathers and we should fall in
line with them and help protect
the co-operate system which is now
well on its way to success.

We learn co-operation through
our activities in 4-H Club work.
Thus we can carry our training
over into co-operative marketing
and yet at the same time derive a
further profit thereby.

As we go to press the judges are at work
deciding the other prize winners among the
many essays submitted.

buyers would greatly outnumber the sell-
ing agencies and would naturally create a
competitive buying system that would
mean higher bidding on our livestock.

Every buyer knows, when he goes to the
yards, what the firm he represents wants
for that day and if there is only one agency
selling that particular kind of stock, he is
going to buy instead of bargaining with
other commission firms. He knows also
that if there is but one selling agency, he
will have competition for that stock and
will have to bid up to get it.

Reader's Forum

(Continued from page 9)
probably the best library, as an indi-
vidual, of any other man or person in
this county.

That I bought the first carload of limestone
in this county, is true. Then everybody made
fun of me (I9I1). I am known as a man
who does his own thinking in political and
religious matters. During the world war my
oldest son served over there in France moitly
single-handed at a liKening post.

Gustav Rudert, Union County, III.

I.

Gaillord Wasner

The Agricultural Situation

(Continued from page t})
we are looking forward to more drastic
efforts being made purely of distress. The
distress is real.

The preceding speaker spoke about this
$2,000 income of the workers. There are
6,000,000 people raising cotton in this coun-
try whose average family income in cash is
less than $300 per year. That can easily
be proven. That income of $2,000 a year
would be an immense fortune to any one of
them. It doesn't sound very high or very
large in these days, but compare it with
the poor tillers who are raising the cotton
that makes the cloth you wear; family after
family working for a combined cash in-
come of less than $300 a year.

That sort of thing must pass. If you
can be more broad-gauged in dealing with
the labor question, see merit in the laboring
man in having money so he can buy more,
why not apply it to agriculture? Somehow
it will be done. I don't know how much
of a part we may have in bringing it about.
Some one is going to do it in the not dis-
tant future. Gentlemen. I thank you.

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THE 1. A. A. RECORD

Why Club Members Should Market Their'
Livestock Co-operatively

By GAILLORD WAGNER, Pontiac, Livingston County, III..
Sweepstakes Prize Essay In State-wide Contest

THE co-operative marketing of livestock
by 4-H Club members is necessary for
many reasons.

Before our local producers' association
was organized we had several stock buyers
in our locality who bought our stock in a
good many caso at prices below what they
were actually worth to the producer. We
s«>ld this way simply because there
wais no other means of selling. The
buyer i would purchase the good
along with the poor at lump prices.
The prices paid were so low in
many {cases, it worked hardship on
the producer. Hog growers were
not acquainted with the kind and
quality (if livestock the market de-
manded.

which creates a competitive selling rather
than a competitive buying market.

Too Many Sellers

In other words the bargaining power is
in the hands of the buyer instead of the
seller. If all livestock would be handled
through the co-operative selling agency, the

The First Step

THE essay by Gaillord Wagner published
herewith was awarded first prize in the
northern Illinois division, and grand sweep-
stakes prize in the state-wide essay contest
conducted by the livestock marketing depart-
ment of the Illinois Agricultural Association.

Aft^r our local association was
organized, a manager was selected,
with whom we listed the stock we
wished to sell. As soon as a car-
load Was ready for shipment, the
manager notified the owners and
they brought the stock to the local yards
where it is loaded and shipped to the
terminal market. After the stock is sold
at the terminal market, the proceeds, with
expenses deducted, are sent to the man-
ager who remits the correct amounts to
each of the owners.

We have not only done away with the
local buyer, who was making large returns
at our expense, but we also Icirned the kind
of stock the ni.irket demands. If we have
good stock to market that is the proper
weight land quality or if we have a poor
gradft, each is sold in a class according to
weight and quality and a fair market value
less actual marketing expense is realized.

At the Terminal

The next important step in our co-
operative marketing is a co-operative sell-
ing agency at the terminal market. This
organization handles selling at cost and full
profits are realized by the producer.

At the different terminal markets over tiu-
coun|try there are numerous commission or
old line selling agencies that handle live-
stock on a commission basis and their
profits go to the owners of the firms. These
commission firms greatly outnumber the
actual btiyers of our livestock which creates
a situation that is not to the best interests
of the producer. Instead of the buyer go-
ing out and bidding for his stock, he makes
the rounds and finds out what the numer-
ous agei^cies have to offer and of course
buys from those who will sell the cheapest.

The county Farm Bureaus supervised the
contest locally and submitted their first prize
essays in the state contest. Gaillord will be
presented with a SSO gold watch. First prize
winners in the central and southern Illinois
districts will be awarded gold watches valued
atS25. Second prizes of SIO each will be award-
ed in each district.

This method would afio bring a closer
relationship between the producer and the
consumer in that the producer would know
just what the consumer demanded and raise
stock accordingly.

, It is the duty of every 4-H Club mem-
ber to market his livestock through the
co-operative system. We clubbers of to-
day are the stock producers of to-
morrow. This system has been
brought about by the efforts of
our fathers and we should fall in
line with them and help protect
the co-operate system which is now
well on its way to success.

We learn co-operation through
our activities in 4-H Club work.
Thus we can carry our training
over into co-operative marketing
and yet at the same time derive a
further profit thereby. ^

As we go to press the Judges are at work
deciding the other prize winners among the
many essays submitted.

buyers would greatly outnumber the sell-
ing agencies and would naturally create a
competitive buying system that would
mean higher bidding on our livestock.

Every buyer knows, when he goes to the
yards, what the firm he represents wants
for that day and if there is only one agency
selling that particular kind of stock, he is
going to buy instead of bargaining with
other commission firms. He knows also
that if there 'is but one selling agency, he
will have competition for that stock and
will have to bid up to get it.

Reader's Forum

(Continue J from page 9)
probably the best library, as an indi-
vidual, of any other man or person in
tills county.

That I bought the first carload of limestone
in this county, Is true. Then everybody made"
fun of me (1911). I am known as a man
who does his own thinking in political and
religious matters. During the world war my-
oldest son served over there in France mostly
single-handed at a listening post.

Guscav Rudert, Union County, III.

Gaillord Wattner

The Agricultural Situation

(Continued from page U)
we are looking forward to more drastic
efforts being made purely of distress. The
distress is real. _

The preceding speaker spoke about this
$2,000 income of the workers. There are
6,000,000 people raising cotton in this coun-
try whose average family income in cash is
less than $300 per year. That can easily
be proven. That income of $2,000 a year
would be an immense fortune to any one of
them. It doesn't sound very high or very
large in these days, but compare it with
the poor tillers who are raising the cotton
that makes the cloth you wear; family after
family working for a combined cash in-
come of less than $J00 a year.

That sort of thing must pass. If you
can be more broad-gauged in dealing with
the labor question, see merit in the laboring
man in having money so he can buy more,
why not apply it to agriculture? Somehow
it will be done. I don't know how much
o£a part we may have in bringing it about,
one is going to do it in the not dis-
ure. Gentlemen, I thank you.

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HELP WAGNER FIND

npO the right appear the details of a $100 reward
* offered for the arrest and conviction of the thief
and the return of the car stolen from Charles Wagner
of Ogden, Champaign county, Illinois, a policyholder
in the ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL MUTUAL IN-
SURANCE COMPANY. V. .. : V .;

JLJR. WAGNER'S policy covers public liability and
*^* property damage. He did not have fire and theft
insurance. This is Mr. Wagner's misfortune. While wo
hold that public liability and property damage insur-
ance are perhaps more essential than any other kinds,
yet this case reveals the advisability of having full
coverage protection on your automobile.

I i Six Month's Insurance $1.05

"JHE last six months' assessment for fire, theft, and
windstorm insurance was only $1.05. Can you
aiford not to have your car insured in your Own Com-
pany lAt Cost?

TPHE ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL MUTUAL set-
tles its claims promptly and offers highest security.
Many of our members more than save their Farm
Bureau dues annually on this one service alone. In-
vestigate. '■^^■•-■/■:V.;-v;-.V-.v ■•■'•■;■■ -'^^r'. ■■■;■ ■ ^ '•/'■^..^ ■ -'!. ^•
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Illinois Agricultural Mutual Ins. Co.,
608 South Dearborn St., Chicago.

Please send me information about your policies, also
costs of higher limits on public liability insurance.

Name

Adc(ress

County

Make of Car

$100 Re^rard

$75 will be paid for arrest and convic-
tion of thief.

$25 will be paid for return of car to
owner (or authentic information.)

Description of C^ar

Pour-door, Model A, Ford — town sedan,
1929 model.

Engine Number — 2386873. ' ■ :

Illinois 1930 License (number unknown). /;.:

Equipped with full length bumper at rear,
no rack, trunk, tire or tire carrier on rear.
Body by Murray, spare tire in left front
fender well. ^ .■ i. •

Color of body is a Kewanee green (gray-
green), black wire wheels.

Right front fender had been dented and
straightened.

Upholstering was plush, had a grease spot
on front cushion.

Car, when stolen, had 2200 miles on speed-
ometer.

Ekiuipped with Goodyear tires.

CHARLES WAGNER
Ogden, IllinoiB R. F. D. S

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Number 3

April, 1930

Volume 8

ILLINOIS GRAIN CORPORATION FILES APPLICATION

Commission Gets Facts
On St. Louis Milk

Case

Consiuners Organize To Find Out
Who Gets Milk Profits

A FACT-FINDING commission of con-
sumers to investigate and make pub-
lic the facts on the milk situation in the
St. Louis territory is now at work. The
commission grew out of a recent meeting
attended by Sanitary Milk Producers' As-
sociation representatives at St. Louis.

Approximately 25 producers, farm ad-
visers, and representatives of women's civic
organizations were present. Dean Isidor
Loeb of the School of Business and Public
Administration of 'Washington University
presided. Representatives of the milk dis-
tributing companies were invited, but ap-
parently ignored the invitation.

Mrs. Cotnstock Chairman

The consumers' commission consists of
authorized representatives of both women
and men's civic organizations. Mrs. James
B. Comstock, chairman of the Living Costs
Committee of the League of Women Vot-
ers, assisted in organizing the commission.
Mrs. F. H. Littlefield, president of the
Eighth District of the Federation of
Women's Clubs of Missouri, and Mrs. Virgil
Loeb, chairman of the Efficiency in Gov-
ernment Committee of the League of
Women Voters, also were active.

The Sanitary Milk Producers' Associa-
tion, with a membership of 4,000 milk
producers in 13 Illinois counties and four
coimties in Missouri, has pledged its support
in making facts and information about
milk production and prices available to the
investigators.

In proposing the creation of a commis-
sion, E. W. Tiedeman of Belleville, 111.,
secretary of the association, explained that
the dairy industry is suffering from over-
production and tmderconsumption to such
an extent that many producers are forced
to sell their products at less than cost at
the present time. The average price re-
ceived by the producer for milk is 3. J cents
a quart, he declared.

NOTICE

Election of Delegates

Illinois Agricultural
Association

NOTICE is hereby given that
in connection with the an-
nual meetings of all County Farm
Bureaus to be held during the
months of May and June, 1930,
at the hour and place to be deter-
mined by the Board of Directors
of each respective County Farm
Bureau, the members in good
standing of such County Farm
Bureaus and who are also quali-
fied voting members of Illinois
Agricultural Association shall
elect a delegate or delegates to
represent such members of Illi-
nois Agricultural Association and
vote on all matters before the next
annual meeting or any special
meeting of Association, including
the election of officers and direc-
tors as provided for in the by-
laws of the Association.

During the month of May such
meetings will be conducted in the
following counties : Massac.

During the month of June, such
meetings will be conducted in the
following counties : Ogle.

Signed
G. E. METZGER, Secretary.
April 4, 1930.

These conditions, Tiedeman said, make it
impossible for the better class of producers
to stay in business and maintain the proper
sanitary standards, and has forced many
farmers to put their wives and small chil-
dren to work in order to cut down operat-
ing costs.

"We believe the consumer is interested in
obtaining milk produced under the proper
(Continued on page 4)

Seeks Clarification

Of Marketing Plan

Await Reply to Questions Submitted

to Farmers National Grain

Corporation

MOVING conservatively toward it*
goal of erecting a safe but effective
co-operative grain marketing structure
within the state, the Illinois Grain Cor-
poration recently submitted a list of nine-
teen qtiestions to the Farmers National
Grain Corporation for reply.

Pending an answer to the questionnaire
designed to clarify misunderstandings ex-
isting among grain producers out in the
field, the Illinois Grain Corporation filed
its application for membership in the
Farmers National.

In the meantime organization work
among the grain producers has been held
up. The officers and directors of the I.
G. C. feel keenly their responsibility,
realizing that in the Illinois Grain Cor-
poration rests the hope and confidence of
thousands of growers for a permanent
state-wide marketing agency.

Need More Information

When representatives of the I. G. C. go
before local co-operative elevator directors
to explain the state and national plan of
marketing, it is felt that they must be
armed with more information regarding
the detailed plans and policies of the Farm-
ers National than have yet been divulged.

It became apparent in the soUcitation
work which began several weeks ago and
which resulted in a number of elevators fil-
ing application for membership in the
state-wide regional, that those anxious to
affiliate with the Illinois Grain Corporation
did not know the thought of the National
Grain Corporation directors on many
points of mutual interest.

The nineteen questions submitted to
the Farmers National on Mar. 24 in which
general interest has been expressed by
prominent grain producers throughout
Illinois are as follows:

1. What will be the administrative and
(Continued »n page 4)

Page Four

THE I. A. A. RECORD

VI; • Comtnission Gets Facts

'-': \ I (Continued from page 3)
conditions, and is fair minded enough to
want the producer to obtain a fair price
for his product," Tiedeman continued.
"The inevitable result of the present situa-
tion will be to force the farmer who at-
tempts to maintain proper standards out of
business, which will, in the long run, mean
poorer milk for the consumer." .;

Would Avoid Milk War

"The producers feel that an impartial in-
vestigation will benefit all three sides of the
triangle; the producer, the distributor and
the consimier," he declared. "We are not
proposing any radical movement, we do not
want a milk war any more than anyone
else does, and we are taking this step in the
hope of avoiding a milk war."

The plan was indoned by B. W. Till-
man, farm adviser for St. Clair county. 111.;
O. W. Meyer, county agent for St. Louis
county. Mo. S. H. Anderson, executive
secretary of the National Dairy Show, and
A. D. Lynch, director of dairy marketing
for the Illinois Agricultural Association, in
brief talks.

The Farm Bureaus and Illinois Agricul-
tural Association organized and are back of
, the Sanitary Milk Producers determined to
see that dairymen in the St. Louis district
get a square deal.

The second meeting of the Fact Finding
Commission investigating the milk situation
at St. Louis was held at the Statler Hotel
in that city on April 8.

Mrs. Wilbur Fribley of Chicago, who
was the active representative of the Illi-
nois Federation of Women's Clubs and a
,member of the Fact Finding Commission
that made a report on the Chicago milk
situation, was the guest speaker.

3.

5.

Illinois Grain

Files Application

■ ' ■ ' \(Continued from page 3)

2. What will be the possible sources of in-
come of a regional association?
What will be the obligation to deliver
grain on the part of a regional associa-
tion of its members to the national as-
sociation?

Will it be necessary or advisable for a
regional to maintain a sales organiza-
tion?

Will the regional be obligated to guar-
antee all loans made by the Federal
Farm Board through the national cor-
poration to local country elevators
which are members of such regional
association?
; (.If loans are handled and guaranteed by
a regional for its member what interest
rate spread will be allowed the re-
gional?
7. When will the Farmers National Grain
Corporation be prepared to handle cash
operative functions of a regional asso-
ciation?

grain on the markets to which Illinois
territory is tributary?

8. Should the member of a regional be
obligated to deliver all grain for mar-
ket to the regional?

9. Does the 50 per cent limitation of non-
member grain obtain as to the aggre-
gate of grain handled by local members
or does the regional, if all its members
are Capper-Volstead associations, have
the right to handle a 50 per cent addi-
tional amount of grain from non-mem-
ber elevators?

10. Can the capital stock of a local co-
operative elevator, otherwise a Capper-
Volstead association, be held by the
regional grain corporation, other than
such capital stock as runs to producer
members?

11. Can the capital stock of a regional
grain corporation, otherwise a Capper-
Volstead association, be held by another
Capper-Volstead association, except
such stock as runs to the Capper-Vol-
stead country elevator member of the
regional?

12. What percentage of the voting stock
shares of a member local elevator, if
any, can be held by non-produfers
other than Capper-Volstead associa-
tions?

13. What percentage of the voting shares
of stock of a regional can be held by
non-producers other than Capper-
Volstead associations?

14. What is a producer as specified in the
Capper-Volstead Act and in the Agri-
cultural Marketing Act?

15. If a country elevator is organized un-
der a co-operative act that fixes the
proprietary interest of its reserve or
surplus in the stockholders as stock-
holders on a per capita basis, must such

.',- reserve or surplus be converted into a
stock holding if a dividend return is
to be allowed on such reserve and sur-
plus?

16. Is it proposed to have a written con-
tract between the national and regional,
and if so, what will be the substance
of such agreement?

17. Should there be a written contract be-
tween the regional and its members,
and if so, wliat should be the substance
of such contract?

18. Will the obligations for stock subscrip-
tion by a member in the National be
uniform with all other members and
will there be any adjustments of re-
quired holdings as volume of grain
handled changes, and if not, what plan
is in hand to give those patronizing the
national equitable representation?

19. Will it be sufficient for the purposes of
the Farmers National Grain Corpora-
tion and with safety to the local ele-
vator company, for a local elevator
company to amend its by-laws limiting
dividends to eight per centum per an-
num without amending the charter?

(Continued on page li)

I. A. A. Qualifies as a

Capper-Volstead Co-op.

^al Co-operative Marketing Means

Close Tieup Between Local and

Terminal Organizations

THE prodigious efforts being made to
propagandize the state with destruct-
ively critical literature on the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association and the lULnois Grain
Corporation only retard real co-operative
marketing development. Back of the pic-
ture, of course, we see the subtle hand of
the grain trade making a stand against an
effective co-operative marketing program.
Involved in the issue are two plans of co-
operative marketing, namely, the voluntary
and contract plans. It is to the interest of
the enemies of co-operative marketing to
fight a close tieup between local and ter-
minal co-operative marketing organizations.
The Illinois Agricultural Association sees
the best opportunity for enhancement of
grain prices through the formation of a
strong cooperative grain marketing develop-
ment made effective through definite con-
tractural relationships. As a result the
agents of the old line interests, whose in-
fluence has been dominant in too many
farmers' elevators, fight any plan that will
weaken their grip on the local elevators.

What Is I. A. A.? i

The Illinois Agricultural Association is
still considered a "foreigner" by some folks
whose interests are purely selfish. There
are those who l^k the ability to under-
stand that 55,000 to 60,000 Illinois farm-
ers can speak through a single organization.

They forget that the Illinois Agricultural
Association itself can qwalify as a Capper-
Volstead association and in that respect is
the largest single co-operative organization
of its kind in the State of Illinois. So why
all this criticism about the I. A. A. — 60,000
farmers — taking an interest in grain mar-
keting?

Here Are Reasons

The I. A. A. qualifies as a Capper-
Volstead association because:

1. A Capper-Volstead association is com-
posed of persons engaged in the produc-
tion of agricultural products as farmers.
A person to be qualified to become a
member of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation must be engaged in the pro-
duction of agricultural products.

2. A Capper-Volstead association may be
organized with or without capital stock.
The Illinois Agricultural Association is
organized without capital stock, being
organized under the membership act of
Illinois for the purpose of promoting
agriculture.

3. A Capper-Volstead association must be
set up to market agricultural products,
either directly or through agencies. The
I. A. A. is authorized under its charter
to engage either directly or indirectly in

(Continued on page i)

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Page Five

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V

Knox County Wins

Publicity Trophy

LaSalle, Marshall-Putnam Close Sec-
ond and Third. Iroquois and
Monroe Get Honorable Mention

KNOX county was awarded first place
for the third consecutive year in the
county Farm Bureau publicity contest con-
ducted by the publicity department of the
I. A. A. LaSalle county placed second, and
Marshall-Putnam third. Knox county will
retain the cup permanently as a result of
its third victory. The trophy was donated
by Sam Thompson, former president of the
Illinois Agricultural Association, over fdur
years ago. Marshall-Putnam won it the
first year, and Knox county the three years
following.

Foll6w Score Card

Following the 'Score card which gave 40
points for the official organ, 40 for news in
papers of county, 10 for state news, and
10 for special pubUcity features, the com-
mittee of judges gave Knox a score of 88,
LaSalle 84, and Marshall-Pntnam 83.

Each farm adviser was asked to designate
the five best issues of the Farm Bureau
paper, the five best stories published by a
newspaper or farm paper, and the five best
pictures illustrating Farm Bureau projects.

The Farm Bureaus in Iroquois and Monroe
counties received honorable mention for
their good publicity work and co-operation
with the local newspapers. C. A. Hughes
of Monroe county was complimented for his
success in making his mimeographed official
publication interesting and readable. Hughes
has been co-operating with radio station
KMOX in broadcasting a farm program.
C. E. Johnson, Iroquois county farm ad-
viser, has made fine progress during the
past year in developing Farm Bureau pub-
licity.

The farm advisers in the three counties
standing highest are A. R. Kemp, Knox
county; C. E. Gates, LaSalle county; and
R. J. Laible, Marshall-Putnam county.

The contest revealed that the counties
having the most effective publicity projects
and where the farm advisers co-operate
with the local newspapers, have the largest
memberships.

"We feel it is a real honor to win a
trophy of this kind," writes A. R. Kemp,
Knox county farm adviser. "I feel that we
are indeed fortunate in view of the fact
that there are so many fine Farm Bureau
publications in the state, while many of our
farm advisers have had special training in
newspaper work.

Use Every Means
"The publicity service of the Knox
County Farm Bureau has been developed
with the idea of using every available means
of reaching the farmer and the public at
large, in telling the Farm Bureau story
News releases have been given to the daily
and weekly newspapers, and to farm papers
(Continued on page S)

point, it being the most fundamental thing
in baseball," says C. C. Bums, farm adviser.

/. A. A. Trophies

THE three watches shown above were
presented by the Illinois Agricultural
Association in the boys' and girls' essay con-
test on the subject, . "Why Club Members
Should Market Their Livestock Co-opera-
tively." The $J0 watch shown at the top
was awarded Gaillard Wagner of Livingston
county in the northern Illinois district, who
won the state sweepstakes prize.

The lower watch was awarded Alice
Mast of Adams county, winner in the cen-
tral section, and the middle watch to Louis
Bierman of Effingham county, winner in the
southern district.

Second prizes of $10 each were awarded
to Robert Bear of Macon county, Arthur
Noe of Woodford county, and Ruth Fitz-
gerrel of Pulaski county. Winning essays
were submitted from twenty counties.
Much interest in this contest was evidenced
by 4-H club members throughout the state.

The judges of the contest were J. D.
Harper, editor of the National Livestock
Producer and George Thiem, Director of
Information for the Illinois Agricultural
Association.

9^~

^/IDope

"Watch Ball," Says G. Huff

A BASEBALL meeting was held in the
Champaign County Farm Bureau of-
fice on Friday, March 28, at which G. Huff,
Director of Athletics at the University of
Illinois, told the boys to "watch the ball."
"He made his whole talk upon this one

Meet At Freeport

FARM advisers and Farm Bureau repre-
sentatives from counties in the l}th
congressional district met at Freeport on
Apr. J and organized a baseball division of
four teams to compete in the Illinois Farm
Bureau Baseball League.

Secretary George Thiem of the State
League attended the meeting. to explain the
rules and regulations governing membership
and play.

Farm Bureau nines from Stephenson,
Lee, Carroll and Jo Daviess counties will
enter the competition. Whiteside and Ogle
counties it is hoped will come in later.

Games Scheduled
A tentative schedule of games was drawn
up to begin an Saturday, May 24th. A
trophy will be awarded the division cham-
pions at the close of the season. Additional
games will be arranged at the completion
of the tentative schedule.

Among the farm advisers who attended
the meeting were, V. J. Banter of Free-
port, H. R. Brunnemeyer of Elizabeth, and
M. P. Roske of Mt. Carroll. Kelsye Baylor
of Amboy represented Lee county. Among
the team managers present were, Frank
Bonjour of Jo Daviess and Martin Kramer
and Ray Folgate of Stephenson county.

The tentative schedule is as follow*:

Saturday, May 24
Lee at Carroll — (Lanark).
Jo Daviess at Stephenson — (Freeport).

Friday, May 30 — ^Decoration Day
Stephenson at Lee — (Amboy).
Carroll at Jo Daviess (Woodbine) .

Saturday, June 7
Lee at Jo Daviess — (Woodbine).
Carroll at Stephenson — (Freeport).

Saturday, June 14
Carroll at Lee — (Amboy).
Stephenson at Jo Daviess — (Woodbine).

Saturday, Jiuie 28
Lee at Stephenson — (Freeport).
Jo Daviess at' Carroll — (Shannon).

Friday, July 4
;• Jo Daviess at Lee — (Amboy).
Stephenson at CarroU — (Lanark).

The Fulton County Farm Bureau applied
for membership in the State Farm Bureau
League on April 7 and was accepted.

Fulton will probably be placed in di-
vision II with Henry, Stark, and Knox
counties. This will make necessary further
changes in other divisions.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Commission Gets Facts

(Continued from page i)
conditions, and is fair minded enough to
wane thje producer to obtain a fair price
for his I product," Ticdcman continued.
"The inevitable result of the present situa-
tion will be to force the farmer who at-
tempts tb maintain proper standards out of
business, which will, in the long run, mean
poorer milk for the consumer."

\|VouId Avoid Milk War

"The Producers ftel that an impartial in-
vestigatiim will benefit all three sides of the
triangle; the producer, the distributor and
the consumer," he declared. "We arc not
proposin;; any radical movement, we do not
want a milk war any more than anyone
else does and we are taking this step in the
hope of (voiding a milk war."

The flan was indorsed by B. VC'. Till-
man, farm adviser for St. Clair county. 111.;
O. W. Irleyer, county agent for St. Louis
county. Mo. S. H. Anderson, executive
secretary of the National Dairy Show, and
A. D. Lynch, director of dairy marketing
for the illinois Agricultural Association, in
brief tal cs.

The Farm Bureaus and Illinois Agricul-
tural Asiociation organized and are back of
the Sanitary Milk Producers determined to
see that dairymen in the St. Louis district
get a sqi^are deal.

The second meeting of the Fact. Finding
Commission investigating the milk situation
at St. Liuis was held at the Statler Hotel
in that city on April 8.

Mrs. fK'ilbur Frlbley of Chicago, who

the

active representative of the Illi-

nois Fedpration of Women's Clubs and a
member of the Fact Finding Commission
that made a report on the Chicago milk
situationj was the guest speaker.

Illinois Grain

Files Application

(Continued from page })
2. What will be the possible sources of in-
come of a regional association?
3.'Whajt will be the obligation to deliver
grain on the part of a regional associa-
tion of its members to the national as-
sociarion?
4. Will it be necessary or advisable for a
regional to maintain a sales organiza-
tion?

the regional be obligated to guar-

all loans made by the Federal

Board through the national cor-

lon to local country elevators

b are members of such regional

assoc ation?

If loms are handled and guaranteed by
a regional for its member what interest
spread will be allowed the rc-
1?
Whe 1 will the Farmers National Grain
Corporation be prepared to handle cash
oper: tive functions of a regional asso-
ciatii n?

5.

Will
ante(
Farn

porai
whic

rate
gion:

grain on the markets to which Illinois
territory is tributary?

8. Should the member of a regional be
obligated to deliver all grain for mar-
ket to the regional?

9. Does the $0 per cent limitation of non-
mejTiber grain obtain as to the aggre-
gate of grain handled by local members
or does the regional, if all its members
are Capper- Volstead associations, have
the right to handle a 50 per cent addi-
tional amount of grain from non-mem-
ber elevators?

10. Can the capital stock of a local co-
operative elevator, otherwise a Capper-
Volstead association, be held by the
regional grain corporation, other than
such capital stock as runs to producer
members?

11. Can the capital stock of a regional
grain corporation, otherwise a Capper-
Volstead association, be held by another
Capper- Volstead association, except
such stock as 'runs to the Capper- Vol-
stead country elevator member of the
regional?

1 2. What percentage of the voting stock
shares of a member local elevator, if
any, can be held by non-producers
other than Capper- Volstead associa-
tions?

What percentage of the voting shares
of stock of a regional can be held by
non-producers other than Capper-
Volstead associations?
What is a producer as specified in the
Capper- Volstead Act and in the Agri-
cultural Marketing Act?

15. If a country elevator is organized un-
der 3 co-operative act that fixes the
proprietary interest of its reserve or
surplus in the stockholders as stock-
holders on a per capita basis, must such
reserve or surplus be converted into a
stock holding if a dividend return is
to be allowed on such reserve and sur-
plus?

16. Is it proposed to have a written con-
tract between the national and regional,
and if so, what will be the substance
of such agreement?

17. Should there be a written contract be-
tween the regional and its members,
and if so, what should be the substance
of such contract?

18. Will the obligations for stock subscrip-
tion by a member in the National be
uniform with all other members and
will there be any adjustments of re-
quired holdings as volume of grain
handled changes, and if not, what plan
is in hand to give those patronizing the
national equitable representation?

19. Will it be sufficient for the purposes of
the Farmers National Grain Corpora-
tion and with safety to the local ele-
vator company, for a local elevator
company to amend its by-laws limiting
dividends to eight per centum per an-
num without amending the charter?

(Continued on page 13)

\i.

14.

I. A. A. Qualifies as a

Capper- Volstead Co-op.

Real Co-operative Marketing Means

Close Tieup Between Local and

Terminal. Organizations

THE prodigioi^i efforts being made to
propagandize' the state with destruct-
ively critical literature on the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association and the Illinois Grain
Corpoi-ation only retard real co-operative
marketing development. Back of the pic-
ture, of course, we see the subtle hand of
the grain trade making a stand against an
effective co-operative marketing program.
Involved in the issue are two plans of co-
operative marketing, namely, the voluntary
and contract plans. It is to the interest of
the enemies of co-operative marketing to
fight a close tieup between local and ter-
minal co-operative marketing organizations.
The Illinois Agricultural Association sees
the best opportunity for enhancement of
grain prices through the formation of a
strong cooperative grain marketing develop-
ment made^' effective through definite con-
tractural relationships. As a result the
agents of the old line interests, whose in-
fluence has been dominant in too many
farmers' elevators, fight any plan that will
weaken their grip on the local elevators.

What Is I. A. A.?

The Illinois Agricultural Association is
still considered a "foreigner" by some folks
whose interests are purely selfish. There
are those who lack the ability to under-
stand that 5 5,000 to 60,000 Illinois farm-
ers can speak through a single organization.

They forget that the Illinois Agricultural
Association itself can qaalify as a Capper-
Volstead association and in that respect is
the largest single co-operative organization
of its Tiind in the State of Illinois. So why
all this criticism about the I. A. A. — 60,000
farmers — taking an interest in grain mar-
keting?

Here Are Reasons

The I. A. A. qualifies as a Capper-
Volstead association because:

1. A Capper- Volstead association is com-
posed of persons engaged in the produc-
tion of agricultural products as farmers.
A person to be qualified to become a
member of the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation must be engaged in the pro-
duction of agricultural products.

2. A Capper- Volstead association may be
organized with or without capital stock.
The Illinois Agricultural Association is
organized without capital stock, being
organized under the membership act of
Illinois for the purpose of promoting
agriculture.

3. A Capper- Volstead association must be
set up to market agricultural products,
either directly or through agencies. The
I. A. A. is authorized under its charter
to engage either directly or indirectly in

(Continued on page 8)

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Page Five

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Knox County Wins

Publicity Trophy

LaSalle, Marshall-Putnam Close Sec-
ond and Third. Iroquois and
Monroe Get Honorable Mention

KNOX county was awarded first place
for the third consecutive year in the
county Farm Bureau publicity contest con-
ducted by the publicity department of the
I. A. A. LaSalle county placed second, and
Marshall-Putnam third. Knox county will
retain the cup permanently as a result of
its third victory. The trophy was donated
by Sam Thompson, former president of the
Illinois Agricultural Association, over four
years ago. Marshall-Putnam won it the
first year, and Knox county the three years
following.

Follow Score Card
Following the score card which gave 40
points for the official organ, 40 for news in
papers of county, 10 for state news, and
10 for special publicity features, the com-
mittee of judges gave Knox a score of 88,
LaSalle 84, and Marshall-Putnam 83.

Each farm adviser was asked to designate
the five best issues of the Farm Bureau
paper, the five beft stories published by a
newspaper or farm paper, and the five best
pictures illustrating Farm Bureau projects.
The Farm Bureaus in Iroquois and Monroe
counties received honorable mention for
their good publicity work and co-operation
with the local newspapers. C. A. Hughes
of Monroe county was complimented for his
success in making his mimeographed o£5cial
publication interesting and readable. Hughes
has been co-operating with radio station
KMOX in broadcasting a farm program.
C. E. Johnson, Iroquois county farm ad-
viser, has made fine progress during the
past year in developing Farm Bureau pub-
licity.

The farm advisers in the three counties
standing highest are A. R. Kemp, Knox
county; C. E. Gates, LaSalle county; and
R. J. Laible, Marshall-Putnam county.

The contest revealed that the counties
having the most effective publicity projects
and where the farm advisers co-operate
with the local newspapers, have the largest
memberships.

"We feel it is a real honor to win a
trophy of this kind," writes A. R. Kemp,
Knox county farm adviser. "I feel that we
are indeed fortunate in view of the fact
that there are so many fine Farm Bureau
publications in the state, while many of our
farm advisers have had special training in
newspaper work.

Use Every Means
"The publicity service of the Knox
County Farm Bureau has been developed
with the idea of using every available means
of reaching the farmer and the public at
large, in telling the Farm Bureau story
News releases have been given to the daily
and weekly newspapers, and to farm papers
(Continued on page 8)

point, it being the most fundamental thing
in baseball," says C. C. Burns, farm adviser.

/. A. A, Trophies

THE three watches shown above were
presented by the Illinois Agricultural
Association in the boys* and girls' essay con-
test on the subject,. "Why Club Members
Should Market Their Livestock Co-opera-
tively." The $J0 watch shown at the top
was awarded Gaillard Wagner of Livingston
county in the northern Illinois district, who
won the state sweepstakes prize.

The lower watch was awarded Alice
Mast of Adams county, winner in the cen-
tral section, and the middle watch to Louis
Bierman of Effingham county, winner in the
southern district.

Second prizes of $10 each were awarded
to Robert Bear of Macon county, Arthur
Noe of Woodford county, and Ruth Fitz-
gerrel of Pulaski county. Winning essays
were submitted from twenty counties.
Much interest in this contest was evidenced
by 4-H club members throughout the state.

The judges of the contest were J. D.
Harper, editor of the National Livestock
Producer and George Thiem, Director of
Information for the Illinois Agricultural
Association.

"Watch Ball," Says G. Huff

A BASEBALL meeting was held in the
Champaign County Farm Bureau of-
fice on Friday, March 28, at which G. Huff,
Director of Athletics at the University of
Illinois, told the boys to "watch the ball."
"He made his whole talk upon this one

Meet At Freeport

FARM advisers and Farm Bureau repre-
sentatives from counties in the 13 th
congressional district met at Freeport on
Apr. J and organized a baseball division of
four teams to compete in the Illinois Farm
Bureau Baseball League.

Secretary George Thiem of the State
League attended the meeting to explain the
rules and regulations governing membership
and play.

Farm Bureau nines from Stephenson,
Lee, Carroll and Jo Daviess counties will
enter the competition. Whiteside and Ogle
counties it is hoped will come in later.

Games Scheduled

A tentative schedule of games was drawn
up to begin an Saturday, May 24th. A
trophy will be awarded the division cham-
pions at the close of the season. Additional
games will be arranged at the completion
of the tentative schedule.

.•\mong the farm advisers who attended
the meeting were, V. J. Banter of Free-
port, H. R. Brunnemeyer of Elizabeth, and
M. P. Roske of Mt. Carroll. Kelsye Baylor
of .^mboy represented Lee county. Among
the team managers present were, Frank
Bonjour of Jo Daviess and Martin Kramer
and Ray Folgate of Stephenson county.

The tentative schedule is as follows:

Saturday, May 24
Lee at Carroll — (Lanark).
Jo Daviess at Stephenson — (Freeport).

Friday, May 30 — Decoration Day
Stephenson at Lee — (Amboy).
Carroll at Jo Daviess (Woodbine).

Saturday, June 7
Lee at Jo Daviess — (Woodbine).
Carroll at Stephenson — (Freeport).

Saturday, June 14
Carroll at Lee — (Amboy).
Stephenson at Jo Daviess — (Woodbine).

Saturday, June 28
Lee at Stephenson — (Freeport).
Jo Daviess at Carroll — (Shannon).

Friday, July 4
Jo Daviess at Lee — (.\mboy).
Stephenson at Carroll — (Lanark).

The Fulton County Farm Bureau applied
for membership in the State Farm Bureau
League on April 7 and was accepted.

Fulton will probably be placed in di-
vision II with Henry, Stark, and Knox
counties. This will make necessary further
changes in other divisions.

Pape Six

THE I. A. A. RECORD

N

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CCLTURAL ASSOCIA

RECORD

To advance the purpose /or which the Farm Bureau was organixed.

namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic,
a * political, and educational interests oj the farmers of Illinois and the

' tuition, and to develop agriculture^

Editor, George Thiem

PubliBhed once a month by the Illinois Agricultural Association, 608
So. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. Entered as second-class matter October
20, 1926, at the post office at Monnt Morris, Illinois, under the Act of
March 8, IS79. Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage pro-
vided for in Section 412, Act of February 28, 1925, authorized October
27, 1925. The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural
Association is Ave dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty
cents for subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Association Record.
Postmaster: In returning an unca'Jed for or missent copy please indi-
cate liey number on address as is required by law. , . •.

OFFICERS •". ;

President, Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vice-President, A. R. Wright Varna

Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger „ _..Xhicago

Treaaurer, R. A. Cowlea Bloomington

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
(By Congressional District)

Ith _ H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

G. F. Tullock, Rockford

,. - C. E, Bamborough, Polo

..M. G. Lambert, Ferris

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12th.^
13tli.l

I4th.i_

ISth.j A. N. Skinner, Yates City

16th.] Geo. B. Muller, Washington

17th..; _ Geo. J. StoII, Chestnut

IStb.j...J. _ W. A. Dennis, Paris

I9th.4.„ .C. J. Gross, Atwood

20th.. ^ _ Charles S. Black, Jacksonville

21 St ,. .Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd.r _ Frank Oexner, Waterloo

23rd.i ,, W. 1— Cope, Salem

24th.] _ .Charles L. Scott, Grayville

2Sth..^ „ Fred Dietz, De Solo

j DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS

Comptroller J. H. Kelker

Dairy Marketing _ A. D. Lynch

Finance ■. R. A, Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing J^ B. Leeper

Grain Marketing Harrison Fahmkopf

Information _ _ ...George Thiem

Insurance Service V. Vaniman

Legal Counsel Donald Kirlcpatrick

Limestone-Phosphate _ - J. R. Bent

Live Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller

Offica. „ C. E. Johnston

Organization „ .._ G. E. Metzger

Produce Marketing „ _ F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson

Transportation _ X. J. Quasey

ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS

Country Life Insurance Co _ X. A. Williams, Mgr.

Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co J. H. Kelker, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Co-operative Asa'n „...F. E. Ringham, Mgr.

lUinela Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co.. -A. E. Richardson, Mgr.

Illinois Farm Supply Co _ L. R. Marchant, Mgr.

The farm Vote

RiTURNS from the primaries on Apr. 8 reveal that
Illinois farmers again voted to return to the state legis-
latuce those candidates whose past records showed them
worthy of farm supf)ort.

\^e are pleased to note that a large majority of the can-
didates who voted for farmers' interests in the $6th general
assembly were nominated by their ru^al constituents.

In several senatorial districts the issue was clearly drawn
bef«feen candidates who voted for and against constructive
revenue legislation designed to relieve farms and homes of
part I of their heavy tax burden. The votes cast in the state
legislature on several important measures figured promi-
nently in local campaigns. The fact that the candidate for
the senate in one agricultural district who supported such
legislation received the republican nomination over his op-
ponent who worked against it, indicates that farmers are
givifflg more and more attention to legislative records.

It! is only by intelligent voting that we will secure ade-
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- Legge Stays On

1\ /TR. LEGGE'S consent to continue as chairman of the
-l- »-^ Federal Farm Board for another year assures it leader-
ship by a man of marked ability in whom farmers have
confidence. '

Chairman Legge's sincerity of purpose and desire to do
everything possible within the limitations of the Marketing
Act for the stabilization of agriculture at satisfactory price
levels, is without question. He made a sacrifice in taking
his present job which is by far the most difficult he ever
tackled. It will yield him small thanks and much criticism
if history runs true to form. He can depend on being
damned if he does, and cussed if he doesn't. The Board's
first year's experience offers proof enough for this- state-
ment. The future may accentuate it.

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'' I "'HE Farm Board's campaign of reduced production in
■*- America is in contrast to the crusade being waged by
Mussolini in Italy, the Soviets in Russia, the Germans, and
in fact most European countries for increased production.
Our trans-Atlantic neighbors are heavily in debt. They
propiose to get out by consuming home-grown rations; by
buying httle and selling much. Thus, food that once was
supplied to European consumers by American farmers, is
now produced at home. '

Mussohni is enforcing a 20 year old law which proclaims
that property implies duties and that if owners do not make
use of their landed possessions "so that these possessions
shall contribute in promoting national prosperity the state
will intervene." Run down farms are being involuntarily
turned over to administrators. Read about it on page 14.

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Likes The Record
Editor, I. A. A. Record:

"Permit me to congratulate you on the
March 'I. A. A. Record.' The issue was
interesting from beginning to end.

"My humble opinion is that you had a
number of articles remarkably well writ-
ten. The colors on the cover are very at-
tractive.

"I think the present publication is indeed
a credit to our state organization and many
are the comments in Logan county on the
recent issues. Keep up the good work."
L. R. Welk, Lincoln, Logan County, 111.

A Word for the Managers .. . , ,
Editor, III. Agric. Assn. Record:

I READ the letter of Earl Ericson of
Knox County, published in the March
issue of the I. A. A. Record with much in-
terest. As far as the general trend of
things is concerned, I can vouch for every-
thing he said about the annual meeting of
our state Farmers' Grain Dealers' Associa-
tion at Peoria.

I hope no one will get the impression
from this account of the meeting that all
our farmers' elevator managers are like the
ones he talked about who try to run the
whole show and play into the hands of the
grain commission men opposing the best
interests of their farmer employers.
' I have become acquainted with a great
many managers while attending these meet-
ings, and I believe you will find the ma-
jority of them fully in sympathy with real
co-operative marketing and ready to sec
the program carried through to the termi-
nal markets. I know that our elevator
manager here at Beason is one hundred per
cent loyal, and is always ready to do his
best for the interests of the farmer patrons
and stockholders.

Majority O. E.

There is considerable talk going about
the state to the effect that the plan of mar-
keting as laid down by the 111. Grain Corp.
is tp go forward to the excliuion of the
elevator manager. In fact, there are those
who would try to prejudice the elevator
managers against the Farm Bureau and Illi-
nois Agricultural Association. I believe
that farmer elevator managers in this state
whose interests lie more closely to the grain
trade than they do to 'the farmers of their
own community are in the minority. And
because a few elevator managers have sold
out to the grain commission men, the ma-
jority may suffer for the shortcomings of
the minority.

In any system of marketing an able and
loyal manager is needed who has the inter-
ests of the producer at heart. Even though
the grain trade interests would have all the
managers believe to the contrary, the di-
rectors and members of the Illinois Grain

Corporation have a high regard for man-
agers as a whole and know that a great
many of them are outstanding men and
have the best interests of their communi-
ties at heart.

Our Own Fault

Mr. Ericson made a good point when he
urged farmers who are patrons and stock-
holders of farmers' elevators to take more
interest in their business and see that a real
grain marketing program is developed. The
grain trade has stolen a march on us and
a lot of commission men are closer to the
manager and the business than the elevator
owners are themselves. We'll never get
anywhere until we do take a more active
interest in the marketing end. That has
been the trouble with tis. We've kept our
noses to the grindstone producing food at
prices set by the other fellow while he
carries off the profit. If we can't succeed
now in getting organized and having
something to say about the price of our
product, may the Almighty help us.
(Signed) Chas. Schmitt,
Beason, Logan County, 111.

(Mr. Schmitt is president of the Beason-
Skelton Elevator Co.)

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Editor, I. A. A. Record:

SEVENTY-FIVE to seventy was the re-
' result of a hot contest at the annual
meeting of the Farmers' Grain Dealers As-
sociation at Peoria the 11th, 12th and 13th
of February and the vote that placed a slate
of officers in charge of the Association that
is friendly to the grain trade.

For many years, we understand, it
has been customary for the election of of-
ficers to be held over to the morning of
the third day after most of the real farm-
ers have gone home, leaving the control in
the hands of a few elevator managers and
grain commission men. At no time before
had credentials been recognized.

All Real Producers

But at the last session real farmers, di-
rectors and presidents of farmers' elevators
thought it was high time that the board
of directors who control the organization
be men whose interests Ue with true co-
operative methods. In the district caucuses
on the afternoon of the first day a nomi-
nating committee was elected representing
the farmers' best interests. They submit-
ted a slate of men for directors and of-
ficers, every one of whom was a president
or director of his local elevator.

A minority ticket was submitted by an
elevator manager and seconded by a man-
ager. Through clever political work in-
volving questionable tactics the enemies of
co-operative marketing managed to get
enough so-called credentials in their hands
to swing the vote 75-70 in favor of the

grain trade ticket. We know of no other
organization that allows its paid employees
to dictate the policies of the organization.

Votes Four Times

One hostile manager voted four time*.
They reelected a manager by this method
who is said to hold a seat on the Chicago
Board of Trade and seldom has a bushel
from his elevators gone through the chan-
nels of the Rural Grain Company, the
farmers' own commission firm.

Though real fanners lost their slate they
forced a show-down on the condition of
management of the Illinois Farmers' Grain
Dealers Association. We are told that it
has been customary in past years for com-
mission men to pay expenses of many of
the voting delegates. i

The Real Issue

Since seventy real farmers' elevators
voiced the fact that they were ready to
help the farmer get control of his grain
marketing facilities, there will be some ef-
fective work done in 1930. The I. A. A.
plan, (Illinois Grain Corporation) which
has been endorsed by the Federal Farm
Board, is going ahead rapidly. A board of
directors has been elected and policies
adopted. . y 'J

Even though there seemed to be quite a
disturbance at the Peoria meeting on
"slates," the real issue simmered down to
the question as to whether or not eleva-
tors should contract their grain to the
Farmers' National Grain Corporation, or
whether they would have the option to
sell to them or other commission firms, j ..
G. L. Potter, Pres., 1"

Livingston County (111.) Farm Bureau. '■' ■

(Mr. Potter is a director in the Kurd
Grain Co. and was formerly on the board
of directors of the Farmers Grain DeaUn
Association of lUinois.)

For Collective Farming
Editor, I. A. A. Record:

" Mr. Legge compares the

'buying by means of the Sears Roebuck
catalog and the chain store' and says that
the farmer is not at a greater disadvantage
than the city man. Agriculture can be di-
vided into the farmer's home and the farm-
er's business, just as manufacturing can be
divided up into the manufacturer's home
and his business. Mr. Legge has confused
the buying for the home and that for the
business. I do not think that the super-
intendent of the shipping department of
the International Harvester Company buys
the supplies needed for his department
either thru chain stores or the mail order
catalog, even though he may buy a suit of
clothes or his groceries from one of these
organizations. I think the L A. A. with

their Farm Supply Ckimpany, by coopera-
tive buying of serum, oil, etc., has demon-
strated that the farmer has been handi-
capped in his buying. We heed to buy
more of our supplies thru some such organ-
ization.

"Another angle about our buying. I
read the other day that there are 561 farm
magazines published in the United States,
a tremendous industry involving millions of
dollars. Tliese magazines have repeatedly
admitted that the farmer's subscription
barely pays the postage; that their money
is made from the advertising. Any reason-
able person will agree that the seller puts
his expenses, including advertising, onto
the price that the consumer pays. The
only conclusion that we can come to then,
is that agriculture is carrying this millions
of dollars spent annually in the advertising
of fantn commodities. Cooperative produc-
tioii, which includes cooperative buying
would eliminate much of this overhead.

"Mr. Legge says that cooperative produc-
tion is very repugnant to the nation's ideals,
to the homestead and to the farmer. I ask
why? Just what is the difference between
the psychology of the farmers and the city
men; between agriculture and other indus-
tries, between marketing and production,
that cooperation in the one branch is 're-
pugnant,' when not in the other? My work
is natarally with farmers and it is very
seldom that I hear the farmer himself use
the Word 'independence.' Tell a healthy
man often enough that he looks sick and he
will eventually feel sick. The phrase 'in-
dependence of the farmer' is continually
used by the farm press, and I am going to
believe it is clever propaganda designed to
make the fanner want to remain indepen-
dent, for it is to the advantage of the farm
press that the farmer remain independent.

"The same logic that Mr. Legge uses in
showing why a marketing cooperative run
by a bunch of untrained farmers can do
better in marketing their crops than the
old time machinery, that has been set up,
will apply to the cooperative production of
our crops. We can just as easily say that
the individual farmer has no control over
the production of his crop whereas in col-
lective production we would have collec-
tive sipervision. . . . . ."

Carl L. Anderson,
Putnam County, 111.

J. A. A. Qualifies

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ibi marketing of agricultural products.
(See amended articles of association. Par.
2, Sub-section (f). See also By-laws,
Article V, Sec. 1).

A Capper- Volstead association must be
operated for the mutual benefit of its
members. The I. A. A. is organized for
the mutual benefit of its members. (See
Par. 2 of purpose and power clause of
articles of association.)

5. A Capper- Volstead association must
limit the voting power to one member
one-vote, or the capital used in market-
ing shall not be entitled to over eight
per cent per annum return. The by-
laws of the I. A. A. provide that each
member shall have one vote and no
more. The by-laws also provide that
any co-operative marketing activity,
either in the name of the association or
through the agency, shall not allow a
dividend in excess of eight per cent per
annum to be paid on stock or member-
ship capital. (See Article V, by-laws.)

After pondering this information is there
any doubt that those who oppose so
strongly the co-operative grain marketing
activities of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation secretly feel that if given half a
chance it will advance co-operative market-
ing for the best interests of the producer.

Po'wer of Eminent

Domain Explained

Quasey Tells WLS Audience Facts
About Public Utilities

DEVELOPMENT in the transmission
of electricity has brought new
problems to land owners," L. J. Quasey,
director of transportation for the I. A.
A., told the WLS radio audience dur-
ing the noon hour on April 8. "This de-
velopment has given rise to many questions,
the foremost of which is: by what right
can the power companies build steel tower
transmission lines over private lands with-
out the consent of the land owner?

"The answer to this is, the power of
eminent domain. What is this power? It
is the power to take private property for
public use. This power is nearly as old as
organized government. It was originally
exercised only by the government for gov-
ernment purposes, but later the authority
was granted railroads and now power and
utility companies because of their public
interest. — •

Must Compensate

"We find there is a restriction on this
power, however. This restriction is found
in both the fifth and 14th amendments
of the United States Constitution, and in
Section 13, Article 2 of our State Constitu-
tion which provides that private property
shall not be taken or damaged for public
use without just compensation. Such com-
pensation when not made by the State shall
be ascertained by jury that shall be pre-
scribed by law.

"Power companies are classed as public
utilities and are subject to the jurisdiction
of the Illinois Commerce Commission. The
Illinois Commerce Commission has the
power to determine whether or not ex-
tensions or improvements proposed by pub-
lic utilities are a public convenience or
necessity. If they are, then the Commis-
sion may confer upon a public utility the

right to exercise the power of eminent
domain where the land owners and the
public utility have failed to reach an agree-
ment. This power is exercised through
condemnation proceedings and the question
of damages is determined by jury.

Organize Committees
"Land owners who are confronted with
problems of this kind should endeavor to
inform themselves not only of their own
rights but the rights of the power com-
panies as well, so they may be in position
to act intelligently. This can best be ac-
complished through representative commit-
tees.

"Power companies have in recent years
been willing to negotiate with land owners
rather than arbitrarily institute condemna-
tion proceedings. Negotiations of land
owners' committees and public utilities
representatives have been generally success-
ful. There is no other course of action that
land owners can undertake that will meet
with this problem more successfully than
group action.

"The Illinois Agricultural Association has
in the past been giving assistance to local
Farm Bureau committees on matters of this
kind and is working with a number of such
committees at the present time."

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such as the Daily Drovers Journal, Prairie
Farmer, Illinois Farmer, I. A. A. Record,
and Bureau Farmer.

"We have found our daily newspaper
requires different types of stories than the
weeklies. The daily prefers news items per-
taining to events that demand immediate
telling, and subject matter that has a bear-
ing upon commercial and industrial activi-
ties. The excellent support given us we
can at least attribute partially to having
our stories carefully prepared, and ready
for the reporter when he stops at the office
early in the morning. We frequently have
requests for special news from the editor
and other reporters.

Write Some Heads .: -I.' "
"In glancing through our releases you
will note the absence of heads on all stories
to the daily papers, as we have foimd from
experience that the daily will properly edit
all agricultural news releases.

"The weekly newspapers have also given
us splendid co-operation, but we find that
they prefer the shorter articles In which
somp local interest b used in connection
with the release. We usually prepare heads
for all releases that go to these papers, as
we find quite frequently that they will just
put a head on "Farm Bureau News," if a
head has not already been prepared. Mrs.
Ruth Carlson, our former office secretary
deserves credit for making up an attractive
exhibit."

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Tax Commission Would

Improve Revenue Law^s

Offers 27 Recommendations In
Tenth Annual Report

rFlWENTY-SEVEN specific recommen-
J. dations for changes in the tax laws of
Illinois, as well as proposals for the com-
plete revision of the revenue article of the
state constitution, are contained in the
tenth annual report of the Illinois State
Tax Commission, re-
cently transmitted to
the Governor and
General Assembly by
Chairman William
H. Malone.

The report is a
departure from the
earlier reports of the
Commission in that
it contains an ex-
tended discussion of
Illinois tax problems
and recommenda-
tions for revenue
legislation. The statistical part of the re-
port covers the assessment year 1928.

Among the outstanding recommendations
emphasized in the report are the following:

Want County Assessors

1. That property assessments be placed
on an actual basis of full-value by 1931.

2. That the township assessor system be
replaced by a coimty assessment system,
with a full-time supervisor in charge in
each county, working with the advice of
five district supervisors appointed by the
Tax Commission.

3. That the Commission be given
broader powers of equalization, which
would enable it to raise or lower the as-
sessed valuations in any taxing district of
any class of property or of any taxpayer.
; 4. That state tax administration in Illi-
nois be consolidated in a single department.

$. That the Commission be empowered
to substitute its own appointees for local
assessors in making reassessments, where it
judges necessary; and that it have the
further power to compel local governments
to adjust their tax rates to changes in val-
uations resulting from reassessments, in or-
der that the revaluations will not a£Fect the
amount of revenue collected.

6. That the general property tax in its
present form "has outlived its usefulness in
Illinois" and "must be abolished," and that,
to this end, a complete revision of the
revenue provisions of the constitution must
be effected at once. Broad discretion as to
tax policies should be lodged in the General
Assembly, the Commission recommends.

Malone Comments
Commenting upon the recommendations
embodied in the report. Chairman Malone
said: "Our purpose is to overhaul and
modernize the antique taxing machinery
of Illinois, place the assessment of property
on a scientific and equitable basb, and wipe

out tax fixing, favoritism, dishonesty, and
inequalities wherever they may exist in
the state.

"The Commission has done much during
recent years to give relief to those who car-
ried more than their just share of the tax
burden. It has ordered several reassess-
ments where the facts justified such action.

"Now we propose to get at the bottom
of the assessment evil and root out the
causes for inequalities. I am convinced we
can do this only by strengthening the tax-
ing system all along the line.

Need Uniformity
"By the assessment of property at full
value we will eliminate confusion, and at-
tending opportunities for tax evasion. Tax
rates will be reduced so the levies will re-
main at their present amounts. This will
safeguard the property owner against higher
taxes.

"Few people complain about paying a
fair tax. They do bitterly oppose paying
more than their share of the burden. Real
estate is paying more than its quota. It
must have relief. Uniformity in assess-
ments is the first step in the right direction.
"Our present methods of obtaining
assessments are too haphazard. Large
property owners invariably profit under
such a system because they know how to
obtain and can pay for privileges and low
assessments. But the little taxpayer gets
the worst of it. He must pay to the hilt
and in addition stand part of his tax dodg-
ing neighbor's load. The recommendations
outlined in the Commission's report will go
far toward the correction of evils which
have existed too long."

Statistical Data

The Conunission would set up a statisti-
cal department to investigate assessed valu-
ations, check up on complaints, and find
out all pertinent facts necessary for the in-
telligent action of the Tax Commission in
its various duties.

The preparation of tax maps for each
taxing district setting forth the values of
lands in each section so all may see them,
together with a manual for each local as-
sessor are part of the proposed system.

The commission would make all its equal-
izations on the basis of "sales data" and for
this purpose would reqiure all recorders of
deeds to file information with the tax com-
mission concerning every real estate trans-
fer in their jurisdiction.

Gives Credit

The letter of transmittal to the Governor
gives credit to John C. Watson of the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association and to farm
advisers, V. J. Banter of Stephenson county,
E. E. Glick, Franklin county, H. P. Kelley,
Kane county, C. T. Kibler, Jersey county,
and J. W. Whisenand, Peoria coimty for
assistance in the preparation of the report.
The latter contains many tables on valua-
tions prepared by John C. Watson.

Rock Island Dairymen

Tour To Peoria Market

Milk Dealers Recommend Co-oper-
ative Plan To Tri-City Market
A COMMITTEE of 25 men representing
the Quality Milk Association, the new
collective bargaining association at the
Moline-Rock Island-Davenport market
drove in five cars to Peoria recently to get
first-hand information about the operation
of the Illinois Milk Producers Association.
Farm Adviser John Spencer of R($tk Is-
land county. County Agent Robert Combs
of Scott county, Iowa, and A. D. Lynch
of the I. A. A. accompanied the delegation.

Roszell Likes Plan
Lyle Roszell, president of the J. D.
Roszell Company, one of the prominent
Peoria milk distributors, talked briefly to
the visiting dairymen.

"We wouldn't go back to the old uncer-
tain and haphazard basis of doing business
that existed here before the dealers and
dairymen entered into a co-operative agree-
ment to improve quality, stabilize the mar-
ket, and boost sales through advertising,"
he said.

Mr. Roszell gave the Peoria plan a 100
per cent endorsement. "I recommend our
plan for your market," he told the Rock
Island delegation. i

Decatur Busy
Milk dealers on the Decatur market, and
the organized dairymen from Macon county
have been holding conferences during re-
cent weeks to work out a co-operative mar-
keting program similar to that in operation
on other Illinois markets. Approximately
450 dairymen and five dealers are co-
operating. More than 80 per cent of all
the producers now supplying the market
belong to the Decatur Milk Association.

Farmers Mutual "-■ i

Directors Meet

HAIL insurance on growing crops was
one of the principal subjects con-
sidered by the directors of the Farmers Mu-
tual Reinsurance Company at their meeting
on April 3 in Chicago.

It was decided to charge $25 per $1,000
of insurance on growing soybeans, while
small grains and corn will cost $20 per
$1,000. Last year the company had four
million dollars of hail insurance in force.
Seventy-one damage claims were paid in
western, central, and southern Illinois last
year.

Geo. F. Tullock of Rockford was elected
president, L. E. Lingenfelter of Ullin, first
vice-president; J. J. Homimg of Ottawa,
second vice-president; Howard Jokisch of
Virginia, secretary; J. H. Kelker of Chi-
cago, assistant secretary; and R. A. Cowles
of Bloomington, treasurer for the ensuing
year.

Applications for hail insurance are al-
ready being received at the office of the
company.

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A THOROUGH, systematic audit is as important
/\ to a business as a steering-wheel to an auto-
mobile. As the steering-wheel makes it possible for
the driver to guide the car, so does an analytical
audit assist the manager and board of directors in
guiding the business.

The most successful business enterprises are built
upon a thorough knowledge of that business. The
directors should use the audit hke the engineer uses
signals to guide the train safely on its way.

A careful audit reveals the rocks and shoals block-
ing the way to success. It is a light house warning
of dangers, pointing the way to a successful voyage.
Ignorance is one of the chief obstacles to successful
operation. The periodic audit turns on the search-
light revealing the weak spots as well as the strong
points in the business.

DETEaS ERRORS

TIE value of an audit can only be appreciated if
its purposes are understood. An audit is a
verification of accounting records. Errors and omis-
sions are detected and corrected. The financial
history of your organization is therefore made depend-
able.

A thorough audit will disclose defalcations and
put a stop to dishonesty. It will throw the lime-
light on the unprofitable branches of the business
and weaknesses that need strengthening.

An audit discloses the financial condition and
summarizes the operations of a business enterprise.
Groping in the dark is dangerous — the management

TRAINED AND COMPETENT

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PEORIA MILK PRODUCERS BOARD IN SESSION

The auditing service of the I. A. C. A. assists the directors of the Illinois Milk

Producers Association, Peoria, in keeping a careful check on the finances of this

successful co-operative

and directors of an organization
must have full information if they
are to discharge properly their duties
and obligations.

SHOULD BE IMPARTIAL

ACOMPREHENSIVE audit
^1. report prepared by a com-
petent, disinterested and reliable
auditing service furnishes the guide
needed by those charged with the
administration of a business. It is
important that the service em-
ployed shall be impartial and free
from undue influence.

Another function of the periodical
audit is to provide comparisons with
sufficient analytical detail to indicate
the results of policies adopted.
Comparisons with standards and
with the operating data of other
similar enterprises are also valuable.

SEVEN POINT SERVICE

I HE Illinois Agricultural Cb-
■*• operatives Association offers a
seven point business service for
farmers' elevators, shipping associa-
tions, and other co-operatives as
follows :

I. Periodic audits and accounting
service.

FUNDAMKf AL TO

sy :ess

"From the begfi n^ of our
ice we started ui iiiJJ. Eac}
shown increase?; ipioveme
volume of business nd net pi
year we made ov > ]<00 pe
provement over tl precedin

"We feel sur* jtt the "
audit system and ts adviso
have been most f jT^imental
cess. Of course «^have tri
no stones untuijye i^ buildi
business. We jit rfAde it
use the service at ivery ang
and allow the *es ts Teceive
t ulate us on towai < constan
We also feel tha^ dKossibil
service to be exte ed by th«

tives Associatioii

of development.

"Here are sMt
audit did for u^:
vised method f(
Stimulated moi*.
tor manager and
making furthef
Established more
stockholders, an^ ^
we were borrow?
us a definite as,'
our annual meetii
Pres. Mt. Sterlinij
tive Ass'n.

•etill in

qf the
l! Gav(
bookke(
e^st in
okkeepini
^^proven
ith in th<
^banks 1
capital.
>%iurate
'^ -W.
JMTners'

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Eleven

Regular Audit is Li ke

^^ „ „ /^THE AUDIT SHOWS^

r

Vtihout flands

U7 IT DO£SNT T^ILW?
OUioUGflT TO I^HOW

FENT

kJUDITORS AT YOUR SERVICE

JNDAMMAL TO OUR

syzEss

m the hegU ^ of our audit serv-

started ui lij^. Each year has

increase"? i|/»ovement of our

of business nd net profits. Last

'e made o\ ' j/on per cent im-

lent over th preceding one.

feel sur* att; the I. A. C. A.
iystem and ts advisory service
»en most f jr^imental to our suc-
Of course < have tried to leave
les untuye i^^ building up our
IS. We .ji\ mkde it a point to
i service at very angle possible
ow the .es ts received to stim-
is on towai , constant progress.
0 feel thai* <B)ossibilities of the
to be exte ed by the Co-operi-
Lssociation- «till in its infancy
elopment.

•e are sop qf the things the
lid for u^: i; Gave us a re-
method ^ f( bookkeeping. 2.
ited moro te^st in our eleva-
nager and okkeeping clerk for
furthei* improvements. 3.
shed more ith in the directors,
ilders, andA^banks from whom
re borrowiij capital. 4. Gave
lefinite as
nual meeti:
Ht. Sterlini
is'n.

laeurate report for

"■r—W. D. Mobley,

?'^rmers' Co-opera-

2. Accounting systems designed
and installed.

Income tax service.

a. Preparation of income tax

returns.

b. Applications for exemption.

c. Claims for refund.

4. Credits and collections.

a. Advice on credit policies.

b. Collection of past due ac'

counts.

5. Financial reorganization. "?■,

a. Plans for refinancing.

b. Aid in securing loans.

6. Inventories and appraisals.

a. Perpetual inventory sys-

tems.

b. Accurate valuation of stock

on hand.

c. Cost and replacement values

of plant assets.

7. Budgets, operating analyses and

general business advice.

A NON-PROFIT CO-OP.

T^E I. A. C. A. is incorporated
under the laws of the State of
Illinois as a "non-profit co-opera-
tive agricultural association with-
out capital stock, the members of
which shall be composed of co-
operative associations, farmers' ele'

^-^//^

vators. Farm Bureaus, and other agricultural as-
sociations."

Its purposes as stated in the by-laws are "to pro-
mote the general welfare of its members, to furnish
an auditing and accounting service, together with a
general business advisory service and to co-operate
with other organizations for the furtherance of mutual
interest."

Service is rendered under a membership and service
contract and charges are made upon a cost basis.
No investment is required, but a small capital reserve
is assessed on the basis of service charge.

HAS 233 MEMBERS '

THE Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives Associa-
tion inaugurated its service June i, 1924. It
completed over 1,200 assignments during the past
five and one-half years. Last year 265 audits were
made for the 233 member organizations involving the
verification of more than $15,000,000 of assets, and
covering a volume of gross business in excess of
$100,000,000.

Let the I. A. C. A. help safeguard your invest-
ments in the local farmers' elevator, co-operative
association, and supply company. See that your
Farm Bureau avails itself of this valuable service?
The Illinois Agricultural Association pays one-third
the cost of all Farm Bureau audits...

For further information write

i

ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATIVES

ASSOCIATION
608 So. Dearborn St. Chicago

WILL COUNTY FARM SUPPLY BOARD MEETS
Manager Fred E. Ringham reads and explain! yearly audit to board
director* at Joliet meeting.

of I

I

Page

7 €71

THE I. A. A. RECORD

A Business Without a

R

a

Clock Wiih

It MAY RUN BUT IT
YOU WHAT YOUioi

THOROUGH, systematic nuJit is as important
/\ to a business as a steerinij-wheel to an auto-
mobile. As the steering-wheel makes it possible for
the driver to guide the car, so does an analytical
audit assist the manager and board of directors in
guiding the business.

The most successful business enterprises are built
upon a thorough knowledge ot that business. The
directors should use the audit like the engineer uses
signals to guide the train safely on its way.

A careful audit reveals the rocks and shoals block-
ing the way to success. It is a light house warning
of dangers, pointing the way to a successful voyage.
Ignor.ince is one of the chief obstacles to successful
operation. The periodic audit turns on the search-
light revealing the weak spots as well as the strong
points in the business.

DETECTS ERRORS

TIE value of an audit can only be appreciated if
its purposes are understood. An audit is a
verification of accounting records. Errors and omis-
sions are detected and corrected. The financial
history of your organization is therefore made depend-
able.

A thorough audit will disclose defalcations and
put a stop to dishonesty. It will throw the lime-
light on the unprofitable branches of the business
and we.iknesses that need strengthening.

An audit discloses the financial condition and
summarizes the operations of a business enterprise.
Groping in the dark is dangerous the management

PEORIA MILK PRODUCERS BOARD IN SESSION

The auditiiig service of the I. A. C. A. assists the directors of the Illinois Milk

Producers Asso;:iation, Peoria, in keeping a careful check on the finances of this

successful co-operative

f

TRAINED AND COMPETENT

W. O. HERING
Chicago

iind directors of
must have full information if they
iire to discharge properly their duties
and obligations.

SHOULD BE IMPARTIAL

A COMPREHENSIVE audit
L. report prepared by a com-
petent, disinterested and reliable
auditing service furnishes the guide
needed by those charged with the
administration of a business. It is
important that the service em-
ployed shall be impartial ;ind free
from undue influence. '

Another function of the periodical
audit IS to provide comparisons with
sufficient analytical detail to indicate
the results of policies adopted.
Comparisons with stand.irds and
with the operating data of other
similar enterprises are also valuable.

SEVEN POINT SERVICE

I HE Illinois Agricultural Co-
■*• opemtives Association offers ;i
seven point business service for
f irmers' elevators, shipping associa-
tions, and other co-operatives as
follows:

1. Periodic audits and accounting
service. '

F. E. RINGHAM, .Ag'
Chicago fc '

FUNDAMB^AL TO

sybss

"From the begi.iing of our
iqe we started tiahiU. Each
shown increase*' lip.oveme
volume of businesalnd net pi
year we mad(* o\P ]#>>0 pei
provement over thj precedint

"We feel surO' lat the I.
audit system an! Its advisci
have been most fjj '.'mental

Of course ■>

have trie
i'-^ buildi
ntfcde it
■very anp
s toceivi
constar

■etill in

cess.

no stones untui^e

business. We av

use the sefi'vice at

and allow 'the .es

ulate us on towaJ

We also feel tha>|o|^ossibil

service to be extcfed by tht

tives Association -

of development.

"Here ire sc^'i* of the
audit did ^for u.-: i. Gavi
vised method I'll bookkei
Stimulated moi'., fteAst in
tor manager and Uokkeepin>
making furthei*li5,proveni
Established more lith in thi
stockholders, and»?" banks 1
we were bonowirj capital,
us a definite aj; Ife^-.urate
our annual meetirt/' — w.
Pres. Mt. SterlinjFarmers'
tive Ass'n. "' '^'

a

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Eleven

Regular Audit is Like

^^ __ „ /the AUDIT 5HOWS^

Vtlhout tiands

UtIiT DOESN'T T€LL
OUCMT TO KNOW

OU'

f

PENT kUDITORS AT YOUR SERVICE

INGHAM, .,Jg
Chicago ft

m^\.

JNDAM&^>,L TO OUR

sy(:Ess

T'-f ng: of our audit serv-
iiI\iiiU. Each year has
ipiovement of our
nd net profits. Last
^ ]«>0 per cent im-
preceding one.
at the I. A. C. A.
ts advisory service
Omental to our suc-
have tried to leave
i''^ building up our
nrnde it a point to
very angle possible
^s f oceived to stim-
constant progress.
3 feel tha>jo^ossibilities of the
to be extcjed b> the Co-operi-
^t\\\ in its infancy

m the beg!

stai'ted

increased;

of business
e made o%
ent over th

feel sure*-
system an!
;en most fy
3f course
les untui;^e
s. We a\
' sefi'vice at
ow'the .es
s on towat

ssociation
slopment.
■e ire sqt

lid 'for u-

o/ the things the
1. Gave us a re-
method l<il bookkeeping. 2.
ited mor^ *ei*t.st in our eleva-
nager and Uokkeeping clerk for
furthei*li3,provements. 3.
shed more lith in the directors,
Iders, and*! -^ banks from whom
re bonowin capital. 4. Gave
efinite ai} Ifc^-.urate report for
nual meetiifc.^' — w. D. Moblev,
At. SterlinjFarmers' Co-opera-

L. N. THOMPSON
Chicago

1. Accounting systems designed
and installed.

3. Income tax service.

a. Preparation of income tax

returns.

b. Applications for exemption.

c. Claims for refund.

4. Credits and collections.

a. Advice on credit piolicies.

b. Collection of past due ac-

counts.

5. Financial reorganisation.

a. Plans for refinancing.

b. Aid in securing loans.

6. Inventories and appraisals.

a. Perpetual inventory sys'

terns.

b. Accurate valuation of stock

on hand.

c. Cost and replacement value?

of plant assets.

7. Budgets, operating analyses and

general business advice.

A NON-PROFIT CO-OP.

' I He I. A. C. A. is incorporated
under the laws of the State of
Illinois as a "non-profit co-opera-
tive agricultural association with-
out capital stock, the members of
which shall be composed of co-
operative associations, farmers" ek'

Bureaus,

vators,
sociations."

Its purposes as stated in the by-laws are "to pro-
mote the general welfare of its members, to furnish
an auditing and accounting service, together with a
general business advisory service and to co-operate
with other organizations for the furtherance o( mutud
interest."

Service is rendered under a membership and service
contract and charges are made upon a cost basis.
No investment is required, but a small cipital reserve
IS assessed on the basis of service charge.

HAS 233 MEMBERS

THE Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives Associa-
tion inaugurated its service June i, 1024. It
completed over 1,200 assignments during the past
five and one-half years. Last year 265 audits were
made for the 233 member organiziitions involving the
verification of more than $15,000,000 of .issets, and
covering a volume ot gross business in excess of
$100,000,000.

Let the I. A. C. A. help safeguard your invest-
ments in the local farmers' elevator, co-operative
association, and supply company. See that your
Farm Bureau avails itselt of this valuable service?
The Illinois Agricultural Association pays one-third
the cost ot all Farm Burc.iu audits.

ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATIVES

ASSOCIATION
608 So. Dearborn St. Chicago

WILL COUNTY FARM SUPPLY BOARD MEETS

Manager Fred E. Ringham reads and explains yearly audit to board of

directors at Joliet meeting.

Page Twelve

THE I. A. A. RECORD

CONTACT with the forces of nature
seems to draw humanity together.
People drop their customary reserve and
indifference toward each other when con-
fronted with an unusual happening. The
recent blizzard in Chicago demoralized
transportation, disrupted business, and made
hordes of daily commuters conscious of the
brotherhood of man. The big snow was
secretly enjoyed by all.

The storm broke the monotony of the
daily trip to the office and shop. Trains
normally filled with strangers coldly oblivi-
ous of each other, buzzed with conversa-
tion. Everyone had an experience to tell
and told it. The majority accepted their
plight with good humor. They got a kick
out of it.

One man forcing his way through a
packed coach yelled "Ouch" and was
greeted with an uproar of hilarity. "Tick-
ets please" yelled by the conductor as he
sought in vain to penetrate an impenetrable
wall of flesh and blood, was the signal for
more laughter. The ticket-puncher good-
naturedly made the best of the situation.

Paradoxically as it may seem the big
city normally is the lonesomest place on
earth. You get lost in a crowd. City peo-
ple invariably let you severely alone. "Mind
your own business and I'll mind mine" is
the prevailing attitude. New York and
Boston are even more that way than Chi-
cago. Some people like this kind of soli-
tude. They are temperamentally suited to
city life. Affability is more characteristic
of the small town and country; more
noticeable in the South and West than in
the North and East.

The United States is too rich to be loved,
says Owen D. Young, president of General
Electric. A wise observation. We may
envy rich people but we seldom love them.
And here in America we are more tolerant
of wealth than in other countries. In Rus-
sia, Carroll Binder tells us in the Chicago
News, poverty is considered a virtue. The
poorest family in one village he visited re-
ceived the most favors from the local Soviet
officials, in spite of the fact that the man
of the house squandered his earnings on
vodka.

r E. G. T.

ff

Too Many Farmers**

TTITHEELER McMILLEN'S new book,
T ▼ "Too Many Farmers," discusses
everything agricultural from farm insects
to fertilizers to farm relief. It b more or
less a rehash of his many years experience

and observations as a feature story writer
for Farm and Fireside. While parts of the
book are a bit draggy and elementary to
those who are familiar with the problems
of farm production, marketing, organiza-
tion, and economics, yet it reveals much
keen observation and a good sense of hu-
mor. The reading is enlivened with clever
digs and quips.

The title of the book is catchy but not
particularly relevent to the subject matter
contained. Written in popular style and
very readable, the book runs the whole
gamut of farm subjects discussed in agri-
cultural literature and from the legislative
floor and platform during the last decade
or more.

It is a scrambled eggs sort of a book, but
interesting and worth reading. While
you may not agree with all of McMillen's
conclusions, you must admit he has been
a close observer and offers many construc-
tive suggestions to improve the lot of the
man on the farm.

One Man in Washington

He suggests one legislative representative
in Washington to speak for aU the farm
organizations. He believes that chemistry
and the utilization of farm crops and crop
wastes commercially offers the surest path
to a more prosperous agriculture.

The author's point that politicians and
politically-minded farm leaders have
wrought fearful damage to agriculture by
"exaggeration of every evidence of depres-
sion" so as to cause loss of confidence to
farmers and discouragement in young peo-
ple contemplating farm careers is not con-
sistent with the point emphasized in the
title, "Too Many Farmers."

One can argue that many should be dis-
couraged from continuing with or going
into farming. How would the government
have been brought to a recognition of the
need for a national policy for agriculture if
farm spokesmen had not continued talking
until something was done.

McMillen's sympathies in spite of his
criticisms, most of which are fair, are with
organized agriculture and co-operative mar-
keting. He believes that agriculture needs
a highly organized, intelligent, and ever
functioning class consciousness willing to
demand more than it needs and expects to
get. He shows that farmers are a dwin-
dling minority and must unite to get at-
tention.

Must Reduce Costs -

"I am not very hopeful of the results
to be expected from the adjustment of pro-
duction to demand; I am exceedingly hope-
ful of the results that can be obtained from
the cost of production," he writes.

In conclusion he emphasizes the fact that
there are too many farmers. "The shift
from farm to city must go on. Had I the
power I would hurry it up for the good
of those who will be farmers in the years
to come and for the good of the whole
people. The change does not inevitably

mean that the countryside must become de-
serted and the cities more congested. Some
of it means that the country side will be-
come richer, a better place to live." In
like manner it is suggested that decentra-
lization of industry into smaller towns and
cities will make possible better living con-
ditions for the thousands of workers so af-
fected. The book is published by William
Morrow & Co., New York, price $2.00.

Grain

Marketing'

By Harrison Fahrnkopf

JUST AS SURELY AS THE sun rises and
sets the producer of Illinois is gradually
waking up to the fact that he is "THE
FARM BUREAU and the ILLINOIS
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION."

WHO RUNS the Illinois Agricultural
Association? "Persons only engaged in the
production of agricultural products, etc.,"
and furthermore, "The members of the
Board of Directors must be members of
this Association, in good standing, and
whose principal occupation and interest is
farming."

THE MANAGER OF AN elevator or
the elevator itself, in ftmctionlng properly,
is not and should not be buying grain from
the community. The elevator should be a
unit in an efficient machine that is selling
grain. We have had our grain "bought"
for a long time; let us become sellers of
the grain we produce.

WE SHOULD NOT WASTE our time
thinking of a grain marketing program
that will increase prices a quarter cent or
one cent per bushel. In joining forces we
should aim for results that will raise the
general level of prices fifteen or twenty
cents per bushel. We can do this with
corn.

THE SLOGAN— "Keep the Stockholder
and Producer Ignorant" has prevailed alto-
gether too long and can be applied in the
field of farmer elevators as dominated by
the grain trade.

IN GRAIN MARKETING we have not
kept step with the trend of the times. We
must go forward on a plan, the structure
of which is soimd. We are not building
for a day but for a hundred years.

THEN THERE IS THAT term, "con-
tract" everybody is talking about. We
should remember that the term "Contract"
or "Agreement" in and with one's own
(Continued on page D)

RECORD

become de-
ested. Some
lide will be-
5 Uve." In
at decentra-
r towns and

living con-
)rkers so af-

by William
:e $2.00.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

lopf

sun rises and

is gradually

he is "THE

ILLINOIS

ION."

Agricultural
gaged in the
iducts, etc.,"
bers of the
members of
anding, and
d interest is

elevator or
bg properly,
g grain from

should be a
bat is selling
lin "bought"
ne sellers of

TE our time
ing program
irter cent or
ng forces we
rill raise the
1 or twenty
io this with

! Stockholder
revailed alto-
pplied in the
'ominated by

we have not
e times. We
the stnicture
not building
years.

term- con-
about. We
n "Contract"
h one's own

Seek Homes for Boys and Girls

9 How Illinois Society Brings Homeless Chil-

dren and Childrenless Homes Together

Page Thirteen

•'H:

F)R 47 years the Illinois Children's
Home and Aid Society has been em-
ployed in the most serious business in which
human beings can engage. It has been un-
dertaking to find fathers and mothers for
boys and girls who for various reasons have
been deprived of their own
parents through death or
tragedy of any nature.
During these years it has
become the legal guardian
of 11,000 children. These
boys and girls have come
from every county in the
state, and the service of the
Society is rendered to them
regardless of their age or
race.

The beginning of this
work is more than a mat-
ter of history. Martin Van
Arsdale, a young clergy-
man, spent a portion of
Sunday afternoons in teach-
ing a Sunday School Class
in a county poor farm — it
was then the custom to
send needy children to the
poor farm. He saw attrac-
tive little homeless children
with an unspeakable long-
ing for the love of parents
subjected to the miserable
environment of the alms-
house and their inadequate
care through persons who by age, morals
or infirmities were in no position to care
for them properly. , ;Hr, .- ,y ■

One day as he left the institution fol-
lowing his customary Sunday afternoon
service, a little girl took his hand and ac-
companied him to the top of the hill. Be-
fore she left Mr. Van Arsdale, she plead
with him to find her a home with a father
and with a mother so she could be like
other children. Mr. Van Arsdale with a
sinking heart, saw the little girl go back
to the wretched conditions that she was
daily obliged to face. He then went into
the woods and on his knees in prayer to the
"Father of the fatherless" dedicated his life
to such little children and prayed that he
might discover the way to help them.

Bring Them Together
One day while at work in his garden, he
found the answer to his prayer. He rushed
into the house and exclaimed to Mrs. Van
Arsdale "I have found it! I have discovered
the remedy. 'God setteth the solitary in
families.' Why should not these little
children who are starved for lack of pa-
rental care, be received into homes where
there are no children?" Mr. Van Arsdale

saw two needy conditions and he sought to
bring them together.

When he gave up his pastorate in Illinois
and devoted his entire time to the spread-
ing of this gospel that children deprived of
their own homes should have fathers and
^ mothers, he pioneered a
movement which is today
recognized in every part of
the civilized world as eco-
nomic and practicable, for
the Illinois Children's Home
and Aid Society (of which
he was the first superin-
tendent) is the mother of
the movement and the
work rapidly spread from
Illinois to other states.

Cover Entire State
The Illinois Children's
Home and Aid Society now
maintains a staff of trained
field workers who cover
the entire state. With the
general office in Chicago
and branch ofiSces in Pe-
oria, Springfield, Duquoin,
E. St. Louis, Edwardsville,
Salem and Lawrenceville,
the members of the staff
maintain their headquarters
at Morris, Savanna, Rock-
ford, Paxton, Champaign,
Galesburg and Metropolis.
These trained workers undertake to solve
the problems of children in trouble without
removing them from their own homes, but
when that cannot be done, they serve the
Society in seeking to secure for these chil-
dren permanently bereft of their own par-
ents, homes in carefully selected private
families. ';^

The Society maintains three small insti- '
tutions. Receiving Homes at Evanston and '
Duquoin for the temporary care of waiting
children, and a Training School for girls
in Vermilion County near Potomac where
older girls receive intensive training in
household arts. These institutions are in-
cidental to the primary purpose of the or-
ganization which is to restore the children
to their own homes if possible, and if that
is not possible, to find for them, suitable
foster homes.

Eight To Fourteen Years
The Society is making at this time, a
special appeal for homes for boys from
eight to fourteen years, and girls from
twelve to sixteen years of age. A careful
study has been made of their family back-
groimd, and they are physically and men-
tally normal, and have no homes to which

JOHN WANTS A HOME
John is eleven years old.
He is from central Illinois. He
was desertecl by his father,
and has mother died. He is a
fine boy, . a|>preciative and
eaffer to please and to learn.
He loves country life and will
be a credit to the family that
will open their home to him.

For information, communi-
cate with the Illinois Chil-
dren's Home and Aid Society.
203 N. Wabash Avenue, Chi-
cago.

they can be returned. They need more
than anything else in the world, a place in
the hearts and affections of men and women
who will give to them, a place in their own
families.

Because of its experience of 47 yean in
the placing of 11,000 children in family
homes, the Society is able to bring about
these adjustments of children in families
with scientific precision. There is nothing
haphazard about it. Before the placement
of the child, a member of the staff will
visit the family who is interested, in order
to secure a proper adaptation of child to
the family. The child is placed with the
family only on trial. He may be returned
at any time. The greatest of care is exer-
cised by the Society in the selection of fam-
ilies who will have regard for the proper
training of the child from the standpoint
of his spiritual, social, vocational and edu-
cational needs.

Illinois Grain

Files Application

(Continued from page 4) x'

As we go to press the new board of di-
rectors of the Farmers National is in session
in Chicago. New policies will probably be
adopted which will clarify not only many
of the issues raised above, but also other
points not mentioned.

The fact that the I. G. C. plan involves
individual contracts with each elevator
member means that it is out to fulfill one
of the chief objects of a sound co-operative
grain marketing program, namely, to as-
semble and sell a large volume through co-
-operative channels. Other plans have
been tried out not only in Illinois but else-
where with indifferent success.

Grain Marketing '_'-i]':^\:

(Continued from page 12) ,- V.'f
organization for the purpose of concentrate
ing a large volume of grain into single
hands, should not be confused with a con-
tract that delegates to a few selfish and un-
scrupulous officials power that might be
abused. ■ i

THE CONTRACT or agreement system
is sound and has been very effective. It is
recognized today in all life's activities. By
"little business" by "Big Business" and by
Babe Ruth — the papers are signed.

IN THE CORN BELT we have never
tried the agreement system from the local
co-operative elevator to the terminal mar-
ket. Let's give it a chance. We ought to
write "Let's give ourselves a chance."

(Continued on page 14) . i-

Page Twelve

THE I. A. A. RECORD

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CONTACT with the forces of nature
seems to draw humanity together.
People drop their customary reserve and
indifference toward each other when con-
fronted with an unusual happening. The
recent blizzard in Chicago demoralized
transportation, disrupted business, and made
hordes of daily commuters conscious of the
brotherhood of man. The big snow was
secretly enjoyed by all.

The storm broke the monotony of the
daily trip to the office and shop. Trains
normally filled with strangers coldly oblivi-
ous of each other, buzzed with conversa-
tion. Everyone had an experience to tell
and told it. The majority accepted their
plight with good humor. They got a kick
out of it.

One man forcing his way through a
packed coach yelled "Ouch" and was
greeted with an uproar of hilarity. "Tick-
ets please" yelled by the conductor as he
sought in vain to penetrate an impenetrable
wall of flesh and blood, was the signal for
more laughter. The ticket-puncher good-
naturedly made the best of the situation.

Paradoxically as it may seem the big
city normally is the lonesomest place on
earth. You get lost in a crowd. City peo-
ple invariably let you severely alone. "Mind
your own business and I'll mind mine" is
the prevailing attitude. New York and
Boston are even more that way than Chi-
cago. Some people like this kind of soli-
tude. They are temperamentally suited to
city life. Affability is more characteristic
of the small town and country; more
noticeable in the South and ^'esc than in
the North and East.

The United States is too rich to be loved,
says O.wen D. Young, president of General
Electric. A wise observation. \\"e may
envy rich people but we seldom love them.
And here in America we are more tolerant
of wealth than in other countries. In Rus-
sia, Carroll Binder tells us in the Chicago
News, poverty is considered a virtue. The
p«x)rest family in one village he visited re-
ceived the most favors from the local Soviet
officials, in spite of the fact that the man
of the house squandered his earnings on
vodka.

E. G. T.

'Too Many Farmers^'

WHEELER McMILLEN'S new book,
"Too Many Farmers," discusses
everything agricultural from farm insects
to fertilizers to farm relief. It is more or
less a rehash of his many years experience

and observations as a feature story writer
for Farm and Fireside. While parts of the
book are a bit draggy and elementary to
those who are familiar with the problems
of farm production, marketing, organiza-
tion, and economics, yet it reveals much
keen observation and a good sense of hu-
mor. The reading is enlivened with clever
digs and quips.

The title of the book is catchy but not
particularly relevent to the subject matter
contained. Written in popular style and
very readable, the book runs the whole
gamut of farm subjects discussed in agri-
cultural literature and from the legislative
floor and platform during the last decade
or more.

It is a scrambled eggs sort of a book, but
interesting and worth reading. While
you may not agree with all of McMillen's
conclusions, you must admit he has been
a close observer and offers many construc-
tive suggestions to improve the lot of the
man on the farm.

One Man in Washington

He suggests one legislative representative
in Washington to speak for all the farm
organizations. He believes that chemistry
and the utilization of farm crops and crop
wastes commercially offers the surest path
to a more prosperous agriculture.

The author's point that politicians and
politically-minded farm leaders have
wrought fearful damage to agriculture by
"exaggeration of every evidence of depres-
sion" so as to cause loss of confidence to
farmers and discouragement in young peo-
ple contemplating farm careers is not con-
sistent with the point emphasized in the
title, "Too Many Farmers."

One can argue that many should be dis-
couraged from continuing with or going
into farming. How would the government
have been brought to a recognition of the
need for a national policy for agriculture if
farm spokesmen had not continued talking
until something was done.

McMillen's sympathies in spite of his
criticisms, most of which are fair, are with
organized agriculture and co-operative mar-
keting. He believes that agriculture needs
a highly organized, intelligent, and ever
functioning class consciousness willing to
demand more than it needs and expects to
get. He shows that farmers are a dwin-
dling minority and must unite to get at-
tention.

Must Reduce Costs

"I am not very hopeful of the results
to be expected from the adjustment of pro-
duction to demand; I am exceedingly hope-
ful of the results that can be obtained from
the cost of production," he writes.

In conclusion he emphasizes the fact that
there are too many farmers. "The shift
from farm to city must go on. Had I the
power I would hurry it up for the good
of those who will bt farmers in the years
to come and for the good of the whole
people. The change does not inevitably

mean that the countryside must become de-
serted and the cities more congested. Some
of it means that the country side will be-
come richer, a better place to live." In
like manner it is suggested that decentra-
lization of industry into smaller towns and
cities will make possible better living con-
ditions for the thousands of workers so af-
fected. The book is published by Wilj^am
Morrow & Co., New York, price $2.00.

i

Grain,

Marketing'

By Harrison Fahrnkopf

JUST AS SURELY AS THE sun rises and
sets the producer of Illinois is gradually
waking up to the fact that he is "THE
FARM BUREAU and the ILLINOIS
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION."

WHO RUNS the Illinois Agricultural
Association? "Persons only engaged in the
production of agricultural products, etc.,"
and furthermore, "The members of the
Board of Directors must be members of
this Association, in good standing, and
whose principal occupation and interest is
farming."

THE MANAGER OF AN elevator or
the elevator itself, in functioning properly,
is not and should not be buying grain from
the community. The elevator should be a
unit in an efficient machine that is selling
grain. We have had our grain "bought"
for a long time; let us become sellers of
the grain we produce.

WE SHOULD NOT WASTE our time
thinking of a grain marketing program
that will increase prices a quarter cent or
one cent per bushel. In joining forces we
should aim for results that will raise the
general level of prices fifteen or twenty
cents per bushel. We can do this with
corn.

THE SLOGAN— "Keep the Stockholder
and Producer Ignorant" has prevailed alto-
gether too long and can be applied in the
ficU of fanner elevators as dominated by
the grain trade.

IN GRAIN MARKETING we have not
kept step with the trend of the times. We
must go forward on a plan, the structure
of which is sound. We are not building
for a Jay but for a hundred years.

THEN THERE IS THAT term "con-
tract" everybody is talking about. We
should remember that the term "Contract"
or "Agreement" in and with one's own
(Continued on page I})

RECORD

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Thirteen

become de-
ested. Some
iide will be-
) live." In
It decentra-
r towns and

living con-
)rkers so af-

by Wil^am
:e S2.00.

lopf

sun rises and

is gradually

he is "THE

ILLINOIS

ION."

Agricultural
gaged in the
ducts, etc.,"
bers of the
members of
anding, and
d interest is

elevator or
ing properly,
5 grain from

should be a
nat is selling
in "bought"
ne sellers of

TE our time
ing program
irter cent or
ig forces we
fill raise the
1 or twenty
io this with

: Stockholder
revailed alto-
pplied in the
'ominated by

we have not
e times. We
the structure
not huilding
\ears.

term con-
about. We
n "Contract"
h one's own

/3J

Seek Homes for Boys and Girls

How Illinois Society Brings Homeless Chil-
dren and Childrenless Homes Together

FOR 47 years the Illinois Children's saw two needy conditions and he sought to

Home and Aid Society has been em- bring them together,

ployed in the most serious business in which When he gave up his pastorate in Illinois

human beings can engage. It has been un- and devoted his entire time to the spread-

dertaking to find fathers and mothers for ing of this gospel that children deprived of

boys and girls who for various reasons have their own homes should have fathers and

been deprived of their own
parents through death or
tragedy of any nature.
During these years it has
become the legal guardian
of 11,000 children. These
boys and girls have come
from every county in the
state, and the service of the
Society is rendered to them
regardless of their age or
race. '

The beginning of this
work is more than a mat-
ter of history. Martin Van
Arsdale, a young clergy-
man, spent a portion of
Sunday afternoons in teach-
ing a Sunday School Class
in a county poor farm — it
was then the custom to
send needy children to the
poor farm. He saw attrac-
tive little homeless children
with an unspeakable long-
ing for the love of parents

JOHN WANTS A HOME
John is eleven years old.
He is from central Illinois. He
was deserted by his father,
and his mother died. He is a
fine boy, appreciative and
eager to please and to learn.
He loves country life and will
be a credit to the family that
will open their home to him.
For information, communi-

mothers, he pioneered a
movement which is today
recognized in every part of
the civilized world as eco-
nomic and practicable, for
the Illinois Children's Home
and Aid Society (of which
he was the first superin-
tendent) is the mother of
the movement and the
work rapidly spread from
Illinois to other states.

Cover Entire State

The Illinois Children's
Home and Aid Society now
maintains a staff of trained
field workers who cover
the entire state. With the
general office in Chicago
and branch offices in Pe-
oria, Springfield, Duquoin,
E. St. Louis, Edwardsville,
Salem and Lawrcnceville,
the members of the staff
maintain their headquarters

they can be returned. They need more
than anything else in the world, a place in
the hearts and affections of men and women
who will give to them, a place in their own
families.

Because of its experience of 47 years in
the placing of 11,000 children in family
homes, the Society is able to bring about
these adjustments of children in families
with scientific precision. There is nothing
haphazard about it. Before the placement
of the child, a member of the staff will
visit the family who is interested, in order
to secure a proper adaptation of child to
the family. The child is placed with the
family only on trial. He may be returned
at any time. The greatest of care is exer-
cised by the Society in the selection of fam-
ilies who will have regard for the proper
training of the child from the standpoint
of his spiritual, social, vocational and edu-
cational needs.

. I - ^ I ^^ .1 ^ • II Gate with the Illinois Chil- ^ \i ' c -a ^

subjected to the miserable j^en's Home and Aid Society, ^^ Morns, Savanna, Rock-
environment of the alms- 203 N. Wabash Avenue, Chi- ford, Paxton, Champaign,
house and their inadequate Galesburg and Metropolis,

care through persons who by age, morals These trained workers undertake to solve
or infirmities were in no position to care the problems of children in trouble without

for them properly.

One day as he left the institution fol-
lowing his customary Sunday afternoon
service, a little girl took his hand and ac-
companied him to the top of the hill. Be-
fore she left Mr. Van Arsdale, she plead
with him to find her a home with a father

removing them from their own homes, but
when that cannot be done, they serve the
Society in seeking to secure for these chil-
dren permanently bereft of their own par-
ents, homes in carefully selected private
families.

The Societv maintains three small insti-

and with a mother so she could be like tutions, Receiving Homes at Evanston and

other children. Mr. Van Arsdale with a Duquoin for the temporary care of waiting

sinking heart, saw the little girl go back children, and a Training School for girls

to the wretched conditions that she was in Vermilion County near Potomac where

daily obliged to face. He then went into older girls receive intensive training in

the woods and on his knees in prayer to the household arts. These institutions are in-

"Father of the fatherless" dedicated his life cidental to the primary purpose of the or-

to such little children and prayed that he ganization which is to restore the children

might discover the way to help them. to their own homes if possible, and if that

is not possible, to find for them, suitable
foster homes.

Eight To Fourteen Years
The Society is making at this time, a

Bring Them Together
One day while at work in his garden, he
found the answer to his prayer. He rushed
into the house and exclaimed to Mrs. Van
Arsdale "I have found it! I have discovered special appeal for homes for boys from
the remedy. 'God setteth the solitary in eight to fourteen years, and girls from
families.' Why should not these little twelve to sixteen years of age. A careful
children who are starved for lack of pa- study has been made of their family back-
rental care, be received into homes where ground, and they are physically and men-
there are no children?" Mr. Van Arsdale tally normal, and have no homes to which

Illinois Grain

Files Application

(ConlinucJ from page 4)
As we go to press the new board of di-
rectors of the Farmers National is in session
in Chicago. New policies will probably be
adopted which will clarify not only many
of the issues raised above, but also other
points not mentioned.

The fact that the I. G. C. plan involves
individual contracts with each elevator
member means that it is out to fulfill one
of the chief objects of a sound co-operative
grain marketing program, namely, to as-
semble and sell a large volume through co-
-operative channels. Other plans have
been tried out not only in Illinois but else-
where with indifferent success.

Grain Marketing

(Continued from page 12)
organization for the purpose of concentrat-
ing a large volume of grain into single
hands, should not be confused with a con-
tract that delegates to a few selfish and un-
scrupulous officials power that might be
abused.

THE CONTRACT or agreement system
is sound and has been very effective. It is
recognized today in all life's activities. By
"little business" by "Big Business" and by
Babe Ruth — the papers are signed.

IN THE CORN BELT we have never
tried the agreement system from the local
co-operative elevator to the terminal mar-
ket. Let's give it a chance. We ought to
write "Let's give ourselves a chance."
(Continued on page 14)

Tag^

e Fourteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Mussolini After

! Absentee Landlords

Turns Estates Over To Administra-
j I tors To Increase Farm
I I Production

HOW Mtissolini, Italy's dictator, is in-
creasing the productive efficiency of
Italian farm lands is revealed in the current
issue of "The Countryman" in an article
entitled "Mussojini's Short Way with Erring
Landlords."

The decree issued by the Prefect of Rome
which resulted in turning over the Menotti
property, an extensive farm tract valued
at more than a million dollars, to an ad-
minbtrator, is presented herewith:

"Whereas Dr. Mario Menotti is owner of
an estate situated in the territory of the
Commune of Fiano Romano, covering an
area of approximately 2,467 hectares
(roughly 6,000 acres), consisting of 52 lots
of 14r>d, eight woods, and three large farms,
with three farm houses, of which one is in
ruins;

"Whereas, for the past six years the
owner. Dr. Menotti, has gone abroad, con-
stantly travelling in different distant coun-
tries, so that for long periods it his not
been possible to get in touch with him;

"Whereas, it has been definitely ascer-
tained by enquiries on the spot that it is
solely due to the neglect and indifference
of the owner, consequent on his continued
absence and lack of interest, that the estate
has fallen into a most shocking state of
neglect, left to the tender mercies of a
muddlesome administration, and yielding no
appreciable returns from the agricultural
standpoint, while the agricultural workers
of the district are driven, by lack of ade-
quate lands available for cultivation, to a
permanent state of agitation, constantly en-
dangering the social peace of that small
locality;

"Whereas, this normal state of affairs,
evidently injurious to the private interests
of the owner, and still more so to the pub-
lic interest, is anti-economic, anti-social,
anachronistic, in entire contradiction with
the vast, renewing and vivifying activities
which the Fascist Government firmly de-
sires and pursues in the interests of the in-
dividual and still more in those of the pub-
lic and of the nation, with a view to ensur-
ing more profitable return and larger yields
from agriculture, and is moreover, in strik-
ing contrast with the duties implied by the
wise legislation on agricultural land re-
clamation, which make it a civic duty to
reclaim inch by inch the national soil so
as to secure more scientific and profitable
farming;

"Whereas, faced by such a deplorable
state of affairs, the political authorities can-
not look on passively at the impoverish-
ment of a large and important estate, which
could, under wise management, earn a very
big income for its owner, and which cannot
therefore be a matter of indifference to the

economic life of the community with
which it is connected;

"Whereas, the right of property cannot
consist in the jus abutendi which would
make it lawful for an owner to exercise his
rights to the length of destroying the
property owned, for on the contrary the
essence of property rights is essentially so-
cial in its nature, as its purpose is to harmo-
nize and conciliate the rights of the in-
dividual with those of the collectivity;

"Whereas, it is also in the interests of
public order that the anomolous situation
resulting from the state of affairs as above
set forth should not and must not be
further tolerated;

"Whereas it therefore becomes urgently
necessary to take steps to save the estate
belonging to Dr. Menotti from the state
of complete neglect in which it is now left
and to restore it to a condition of adequate
productivity;

"Therefore in accordance with article 7
of the Act of 186 J, on administrative liti-
gation, and of article 3 of the Communal
and Provincial Act sanctioned by Royal
Decree of 19H, we hereby decree that the
Hon. Orsolini Cencelli shall act as adminis-
trator of the estate in lieu and place of the
delinquent owner." ''•'.■■ ..'•■..''.■.■.

An Old Law

The law authorizing this action was more
than 20 years old, but no government be-
fore Mussolini's was strong enough nor suf-
ficiently independent to enforce it. Es-
tates in Sicily and Rovigo have been simi-
larly treated.

The present government has proclaimed
in the Labour Charter that property im-
plies duties, and that if owners do not make
good use of their landed possessions, so that
these possessions shall play their part in
promoting national prosperity, the State
will intervene.

Mussolini is anxious to increase domestic
production of farm products, whereas in
the United States our problem for the mo-
ment is to decrease production.

lo .

$250 Song Prizes

A WORLD-WIDE contest to obtain the
three best songs, including words and
music, suitable for use in Farm Bureau
meetings is announced by the American
Farm Bureau Federation. -; '■■,'

The first prize-winning song will be
awarded $150 in cash, the second $75, and
the third $25.

Songs must be appropriate, words and
music must be entirely original, and it is
suggested that songs be tuneful, simple,
catchy, easily followed in community sing-
ing, and readily adaptable for orchestration.

Two or more persons may collaborate in
writing a song.

The contest closes on July 15, 1930.
Songs must be typewritten or in ink, writ-
ten on one side of the paper. Send them

to Mrs. Charles W. Sewell, American Farm
Bureau Federation, 58 E. Washington St.,
Chicago. Only manuscripts accompanied
by sufficient postage will be returned.

Talk At University

Sec'y. Geo. E. Metzger, A. D. Lynch,
and Frank Gougler, dairy and produce mar-
keting directors recently addressed classes in
agricultural economics and marketing at
the University of Illinois, Urbana. .'• '

President Earl C. Smith was scheduled to
talk to faculty members of the College of
Agriculture on Apr. 11. -"I;..-' •

More Oil Companies

Twenty-nine county and district co-
operative oil companies now hold member-
ship or have applied for membership in the
Illinois Farm Supply Company. All of the
new applicants expect to be operating
within the next 60 days.

In view of present developments a total
of at least 37 county and district com-
panies affiliated with the state company is
likely by the end of the year.

Grain Marketing ■ . ■•

(Continued from page 13JI ' .'.•r.
THE "AGREEMENT" plan operating
from the local elevator to the Illinois Grain
Corporation will give all producers an op-
portunity as one man to meet the purchaser
of his grain. Concentrate! Concentrate!

AFTER ALL, in this grain marketing,
no elevator can be made to sign an agree-
ment against its will. When it does enter
an agreement, however, it wants to be sure
that the elevator "down the track" or over
in the next county is going to live up to
the rules. That is good business.

A MAN MAY NOT be required to join
the army against his will. After he has
become a part of the army, however, lie
cannot voluntarily withdraw. He must
give his best for the. good of all. He has
confidence in his pals but he has greater
confidence in Uncle Sam, for whom he
signed the agreement.

WHEN THE FARMERS National Grain
Corporation sets up with equipment and
personnel to handle a large volume of grain,
it wants to know that that volume is com-
ing in, otherwise you have a high overhead
and limited volume. '

HO! HUM! This voluntary system has
been in operation a long time, and under it
there are thousands of corn-belt farmers
who, during the last few months, have been
marketing corn "at sixty cents per bushel"
against their will.

-4.

V'«> ■ 1^«

4 k

THE I. A. A. RECORD

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Page Fifteem

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MORE THAN A HATFUL

Worth L. Chubb U shown with hailstonaa larcar than ban's ans h«
board of his car af t«r passing throuch a storm

found on tfaa runninc

GET READY FOR THE HAIL STORMS

HAILSTONES like these fall somewhere in Illinois every year.
They invariably destroy all growing crops in their path, kill
poultry, break windows, and damage buildings and property.

The prudent farmer protects his crops and property against loss
with insurance. He will not take a chance when he can get protec-
tion at small cost in his own company — ^the Farmers Mutual.

Last year the Farmers Mutual paid 71 hail insurance claims in
Champaign, Knox, Mercer, Bond, Williamson, Monroe, Mason, Sanga-
mon, Henry, DeKalb, Kane, Rock Island, McDonough, Mercer, and
other counties. Hailstones like those shown above fell in Williamson
county. Jo Daviess county was visited by a smashing hailstorm in
the growing season. And 1929 was a light hail year.

Look Out For 1930

THE old-time weather prophets are saying, "Look Out For Hail In
1930." You can depend on severe hail storms about every third
year, they say. It's 1930's turn.

Hail Dangerous To Soybeans

GROWING corn, soybeans, small grains are all subject to hail dam-
age. Soybeans are subject to a double hazard. Hail is fatal to
beans when the young plants are coming through the ground. The
crop may be destroyed also in the fall when the pods are on.

$960 for $20

G«o. Wiese of Greenville, Bond
county. III., bet the Farmers Untoal
$20 to «1,000 last year that he
would have a hailstorm. He won
the bet.

Wiese took out a $1,000 policy on
his grrowinK crops early in the sea-
son at a cost of $20. four dollars at
time of application, and $16 at the
close of the sesson.

On Aug. 13 a terrific hailstorm
hit his farm. The small Krain had
been harvested but the bis hail-
stones battered the standing com to
ribbons. The appraiser judged the
field a 96 per cent loss. Mr. Wiese
received a check from the company
for $960 to reimburse him for the
damage.

i:

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Pa^

'e Fourteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

i\ *

Mussolini After

Absentee Landlords

Turns Estates Over To Administra-
I tors To Increase Farm

j Production

IT Toy Mussolini, Italy's dictator, is in-
J.JL creasing the productive efficiency of
Italian farm lands is revealed in the current
issue of "The Countryman" in an article
entitled "Mussolini's Short Way with Erring
Landlords."

The decree issued by the Prefect of Rome
which resulted in turning over the Mcnotti
property, an extensive farm tract valued
at inore than a million dollars, to an ad-
nlinlstrator, is presented herewith:

",fX'hcrcas Dr. Mario Menotti is owner of
an tstatc situated in the territory of the
Conkmune of Fiano Romano, covering an
area} of approximately 2,467 hectares
(roiighly 6,000 acres), consisting of 52 lots
of land, eight woods, and three large farms,
with three farm houses, of which one is in
ruinE;

"IX'hcreas, for the past six years the
ownjcr, Dr. Mcnotti, has gone abroad, con-
stantly travelling in different distant coun-
tric^ so that for long periods it has not
bcer^ possible to get in touch with him;

"Whereas, it has been definitely ascer-
tained by enquiries on the spot that it is
solely due to the neglect and indifference
of the owner, consequent on his continued
absence and lack of interest, that the estate
has fallen into a most shocking state of
neglect, left to the tender mercies of a
muddlcsomc administration, and yielding no
appreciable returns from the agricultural
standpoint, while the agricultural workers
of the district are driven, by lack of ade-
quate lands available for cultivation, to a
permanent state of agination, constantly en-
danjjering the social peace of that small
locality;

"^hcrcas, this normal state of affairs,
evidently injurious to the private interests
of tfce owner, and still more so to the pub-
lic interest, is anti-economic, anti-social,
anachronistic, in entire contradiction with
the Vast, renewing and vivifying activities
whidli the Fascist Government firmly de-
sires and pursues in the interests of the in-
dividual and still more in those of the pub-
lic aiid of the nation, with a view to ensur-
ing i^ore profitable return and larger yields
from agriculture, and is moreover, in strik-
ing (jontrast with the duties implied by the
wise I legislation on agricultural land rc-
clamlition, which make it a civic duty to
reclaim inch by inch the national soil so
as to secure more scientific and profitable
farming;

"Whereas, faced by such a deplorable
state 'of affairs, the political authorities can-
not jook on passively at the impoverish-
ment! of 3 large and important estate, which
could, under wise management, earn a very
big iiicome for its owner, and which cannot
therefore be a matter of indifference to the

economic life of the community with
which it is connected;

"Vi'hcreas, the right of property cannot
consist in the jus abutendi which would
make it lawful for an owner to exercise his
rights to the length of destroying the
property owned, for on the contrary the
essence of property rights is essentially so-
cial in its nature, as its purpose is to harmo-
nize and conciliate the rights of the in-
dividual with those of the collectivity;

"Whereas, it is also in the interests of
public order that the anomolous situation
resulting from the state of affairs as above
set forth should not and must not be
further tolerated;

"^'hereas it therefore becomes urgently
necessary to take steps to save the estate
belonging to Dr. Mcnotti from the state
of complete neglect in which it is now left
and to restore it to a condition of adequate
productivity;

"Therefore in accordance with article 7
of the Act of 1865, on administrative liti-
gation, and of article 3 of the Communal
and Provincial Act sanctioned by Royal
Decree of 1915, we hereby decree that the
Hon. Orsolini Cencelli shall act as adminis-
trator of the estate in lieu and place of the
delinquent owner."

An Old Law

The law authorizing this action was more
than 20 years old, but no government be-
fore Mussolini's was strong enough nor suf-
ficiently independent to enforce it. Es-
tates in Sicily and Rovigo have been simi-
larly treated.

The present government has proclaimed
in the Labour Charter that property im-
plies duties, and that if owners do not make
good use of their landed possessions, so that
these possessions shall play their part in
promoting national prosperity, the State
will intervene.

Mussolini is anxious to increase domestic
production of farm products, whereas in
the United States our problem for the mo-
ment is to decrease production.

$250 Song Prizes

AVi'ORLD-'W'IDE contest to obtain the
three best songs, including words and
music, suitable for use in Farm Bureau
meetings is announced by the American
Farm Bureau Federation.

The first prize-winning song will be
awarded SI 50 in cash, the second $75, and
the third il^.

Songs must be appropriate, words and
music must be entirely original, and it is
suggested that songs be tuneful, simple,
catchy, easily followed in community sing-
ing, and readily adaptable for orchestration.

Two or more persons may collaborate in
writing a song.

The contest closes on July 15, 1930.
Songs must be typewritten or in ink, writ-
ten on one side of the paper. Send them

to Mrs. Charles W. Sewell, Amcricah Farm
Bureau Federation, 58 E. Washington St.,
Chicago. Only manuscripts accompanied
by sufficient postage will be returned.

Talk At University

Sec'y. Geo. E. Metzger, A. D. Lynch,
and Frank Gougler, dairy and produce mar-
keting directors recently addressed classes i^i
agricultural economics and marketing at
the University of Illinois, Urbana.

President Earl C. Smith was scheduled to
talk to faculty members of the College of
Agriculture on Apr. 11.

More Oil Companies

Twenty-nine county and district co-
operative oil companies now hold member-
ship or have applied for membership in the
Illinois Farm Supply Company. All of the
new applicants expect to be operating
within the next 60 days.

In view of present developments a total
of at least 37 county and district com-
panies affiliated with the state company i«
likely by the end of the year.

Grain Marketing

(Continued from page 1 } )
THE "AGREEMENT" plan operating
from the local elevator to the Illinois Grain
Corporation will give all producers an op-
portunity as one man to meet the purchaser
of his grain. Concentrate! Concentrate!

AFTER ALL, in this grain marketing,
no elevator can be made to sign an agree-
ment against its will. When it does enter
an agreement, however, it wants to be sure
that the elevator "down the track" or over
in the next county is going to live up to
the rules. That is good business.

A MAN MAY NOT be required to join
the army against his will. After he has
become a part of the army, however, he
cannot voluntarily withdraw. He must
give his best for the. good of all. He has
confidence in his pals but he has greater
confidence in Uncle Sam, for whom he
signed the agreement.

\iHEN THE FARMERS National Grain
Corporation sets up with equipment and
personnel to handle a large volume of grain,
it wants to know that that volume is com-
ing in, otherwise you have a high overhead
and limited volume.

HO! HUM! This voluntary system has
been in operation a long time, and under it
there are thousands of corn-belt farmers
who, during the last few months, have been
marketing corn "at sixty cents per bushel"
against their will.

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MORE THAN A HATFUL

Worth L. Chubb is shown with hailstones larger than hen's eggs he found on the running
board of his car after passing through a storm

GET READY FOR THE HAIL STORMS

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HAILSTONES like these fall somewhere in Illinois every year.
They invariably destroy all growing crops in their path, kill
poultry, break windows, and damage buildings and property.

The prudent farmer protects his crops and property against loss
with insurance. He will not take a chance when he can get protec-
tion at small cost in his own company — the Farmers Mutual.

Last year the Farmers Mutual paid 71 hail insurance claims in
Champaign, Knox, Mercer, Bond. Williamson, Monroe, Mason, Sanga-
mon, Henry, DeKalb, Kane, Rock Island, McDonough, Mercer, and
other counties. Hailstones like those shown above fell in William.son
county. Jo Daviess county was visited by a smashing hailstorm in
the growing season. And 1929 was a light hail year.

Look Out For 1930

THE old-time weather prophets are saying, "Look Out For Hail In
1930." You can depend on severe hail storms about every third
year, they say. It's 1930's turn.

Hail Dangerous To Soybeans

GROWING corn, soybeans, small grains are all subject to hail dam-
age. Soybeans are subject to a double hazard. Hail is fatal to
beans when the young plants are coming through the ground. The
crop may be destroyed also in the fall when the pods are on.

$960 for $20

Geo. Wiese of Greenville, Bond
county. III., bet the Farmers Mutual
$20 Xo $1,000 last year that he
would have a hailstorm. He won
the bet.

Wiese took out a $1,000 policy on
his growinff crops early in the sea-
son at a cost of $20, four dollars at
time of application, and $16 at the
close of the season.

On Aup. 13 a terrific hailstorm
hit his farm. The small grain had
been harvested but the big hail-
stones battered the standing corn to
ribbons. The appraiser judged the
field a 1*6 per cent loss. Mr. Wiese
received a check from the company
for $ltfi0 to reimburse him for the
damage.

Mail This Coopon tor Farther Information

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FARMERS MUTUAL REINSURANCE CO. I

60S South Dearborn St., Chicago. |

Send me full information about hail insurance l

on growing com. oats, barley, wheat, soybeans, .

and of farm buildings without obligation on my ■

part. I

Name

Address

County

Mail the coupon and get full particulars about low cost
hail insurance on your growing crops, and on farm build-
ings.

Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Company

608 Sooth Dearborn Street, ChicafO

••Endorsed by local tounship and county mutual
fire insurance companies, by County Farm
Bureaus and the Illinois Agricultural Association."

YOUR OWN COMPANY ^ AT COST ^ ALL HAIL RISKS REINSURED

Page Sixteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

KEEPING IVELL

I By Dr. John E. Bolartd,

Country Life Inturanee Co.
I Colds

TTmlLE there has been much research
VV to discover the cause of colds there
is no general agreement regarding the na-
ture of the infectious agent. Until more is
known it is unlikely that any general pre-
veotivfe will be developed.

I

The nasal secretions from the patient
with a cold are highly contagious. Those
V I I closely associated

with an infected
person frequently
acquire colds unless
scrupulous prevent-
ive measures are
used. The face and
hands are contamin-
ated from the hand-
kerchief, and these
touching the table,
desk, towel, or other
objects spread the
disease. '. " ■

John E. Boland

The hands are the most common agents
for spreading the cold germ. They become
contaminated every time the patient blows
his nose. The patient usually infects every-
thing he touches. Coughing and sneezing
spread the disease. The spread of this ail-
ment might be checked if every patient
would wash his hands frequently, and guard
against unprotected coughing and sneezing.

-' Colds may be followed by more serious
complications including middle ear, mastoid,
brain complications, sinus infections, bron-
chitis, pneumonia, influenzi^ etc. Anything
that minimizes the amount of secretion,
therefore, is important in prevention and
treatment.

Douching the nose with a simple anti-
septic or disinfectant at frequent intervals
using a medicine dropper, nasal spray or
douche is most effective. Acute colds are
usually accompanied by a condition known
as "Acidosis." This is a generally accepted
belief. Citrous fruit juices such as lemon,
orange, or grapefruit taken in sufficient
quantities, or ordinary bicarbonate of soda
— a teaspoonful about four times a day —
aid materially in neutralizing the acid con-
dition and will help break up a most stub-
bom cold. Citrous fruit juices, strange as
it may seem, have an alkaline effect intern-
ally. Thus hot lemonade, a simple home
remedy, is useful in getting rid of colds.

minois' Agricultural Mutual Ins. Co.

"I am writing you expressing my appre-
ciation for the prompt settlement and the
100 per cent claim paid on my car which
was stolen March 5.

Mrs. Robert Sample,
acksonville, Morgan County, 111."

Fa-mily Living Expenses

FAMILY living expenses averaged $772
for 195 farm families in Tompkins
County in 1928, according to a survey con-
ducted by the New York state college of
home economics. The family living expenses
ranged from $462 for the lowest income
group to $1147 for the highest income
group. The income for these groups ranged
from $505 to $5394. The number depen-
dent on the income increased from 3.2 in
the lowest group to 4.4 in the highest, the
average being 3.6 persons.

Cash receipts from all sources averaged
about $2300 for these 195 families, but it
was pointed out that this income is not
comparable with a wage or salary because
part of the farmer's income goes back into
the farm business. Moreover, about $400
worth of farm produce was used by the
family instead of being sold to add to the
cash income. ."■-;.'• '-ri

Food Big Item

The largest household expenditure was
for food, $225 being the average for the
year. The value of food purchased was 47
per cent of the value of ail food consumed
by these farm families. Next came cloth-
ing, with an average yearly expenditure of
$163 a family, ranging from $74 in the
lowest income groups to $250 in the high-
est group. The average inventory value of
the farm family wardrobe was $242.

Savings and investments by these farm
families averaged $404. This took the form
of reducing mortgages, making deposits in
savings banks, buying land, making loans,
paying on life insurance, and the like.
Forty-one per cent of these farm families
carry life insurance, the average amoimt
being $1952; over half of the families with
insurance had less than $2000, and only 11
per cent were carrying between $5000 and
$9500. ■ ' ' ' '^:

Admitted To Bar

Tee J. QUASEY, our studious director
Lj of transportation, recently passed the
state bar examinauon
as a result of which
he is entitled to
practice law any-
where in Illinois.

Q u a s e y studied
law at night during
the past three years
at the John Marshall
Law School, Chi-
cago. His knowledge

. . ^ of law will be of

L. J. Qiusey

great assistance to

him in working with Farm Bureau
members on claim and utility problems.

Insurari^

By L. A. WllUams

The Certain Estate

A DEATH claim is not charity. Tlie
insured purchased the estate just as
he would purchase real estate or bonds.
A $10,000 policy is
as certain a piece of
property as a farmer
can own. It is more
certain in value than
land.

L. A. WUIiams

Years ago your
grandfather bought
land at $1 an acre
in Illinois that grew
in value during the
war to $300 and
$400 an acre. Per-
haps you became ambitious and bought
more land. With what result? You lost
everything. Thus land purchased at $1 per
acre lost money for heirs who valued it at
$400 per acre.

Life insurance represents a guaranteed
estate for an average premium deposit of
two per cent per year. There is no worry
about the estate. There is no fluctuation.

In 1920 when the Federal Reserve Board
inaugurated its deflation policy the coun-
try was drained of its watered values and
bled dry of its collateral. This action was
presumed to have avoided a panic. We
know it precipitated the country into a
prolonged decade of farm losses and bank-
ruptcy.

Turning America's investment funds into
more unstable securities than that of agri-
culture has thrice proved even more in-
jurious to the nation than inflated farm
land values. The Florida fizzle, the over-
building program in every city, and the
stock market crash are all monumental to
the error that brought about rapid agri-
cultural deflation.

Any policy of finance that can create
such turmoil, and influence values up or
down is as unsafe as permitting one group
or board to change the constitution at will.
So long as money interests can maneuver
to cancel foreign debts through establish-
ing an international bank for an ostensibly
different purpose, and so long as federal re-
serve fimds can be loaned to bolster stock
market enterprises, just so long will our
estates be in constant jeopardy, and the
value of any one class of property be un-
certain.

Life insurance will be the one certain
protection and estate of the American citi-
zen under any form or policy of govern-
ment finance or control.

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to discover tlic cause of colds there
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it is unlikely that any general pre-
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spread the disease. The spread of this ail-
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would wash his hands frequently, and j;uard
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nasal secretions from the patient
cold are hiuhly conta.nious. Those
closely as.sociated
with an infected
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acquire colds unless
scrupulous prevent-
ive measures are
used. 1 he face and
hands are contamin-
ated from the hand-
kerchief, and these
touchinu the table,
desk, towfl, or other
obiects Vjircid the
E. Boland disease.

hands are the most common agents

Ipou .hing the nose with a simple anti
septic jr disinfectant at frequent intervals
usini: 1 medicine dropper, nasal spray or
doitchi is most effective. Acute colds arc
usujally accompanied by a condition known
as 1'Acidosis." This is a generally accepted
belief. C~itrous fruit luices such as lemon,
orapge or grapefruit taken in suthcient
qu.^nti ics, or ordinary bicarbonate of soda
-j| tc ispoonful about four times a day —
aid I materially in neutralizing the acid con
dit^n ind will help break up a most stub
born c^ld. Citrous fruit iuices, strange a^
it itiay seem, have an alkaline effect intern-
ally. Thus hot lemonade, a simple home
renied\|, is useful in getting rid of colds.

.Agricultural Mutual Ins. Co.

n writing you e\pressing my appre-

for the prompt settlement and the
cent i.laini paid on niy car which
en March '.

.Mrs. Robert Sample,
acksonviile, Mi>ri;an County, III."

Family Living Expenses

F.X.MII V living expenses averaged $772
for 1''5 farm families in Tompkins
Count V in 1^28, according to a survey con-
ducted by the Xew York state college ot
home economics. I he family living expenses
ranged from $462 for the lowest income
group tci $1147 for the highest income
group. The income for these groups ranged
from $<0< to S5.194. The number depen-
dent on the income increased from .1.2 in
the lowest group to 4.4 in the highest, the
average being 5.6 persons.

C'ash receipts from all sources averaged
about $2.^00 for these 195 families, but it
was pviinted out that this income is not
comparable with a wage or salary because
part of the farmer's income goes back into
the farm business. Moreover, about $400
worth of farm produce was used by the
family instead of being sold to add to the
cash income.

Food Big Item

I he largest household expenditure was
for food, S22 5 being the average for the
year. I he value of food purchased was 47
per cent of the value of all food consumed
bv these farm families. Next came cloth-
ing, with an average yearlv expenditure of
$I6.< a family, ranging from $74 in the
lowest income groups to $2 5 0 in the high-
est group. The average inventory value of
the farm family wardrobe was $242.

Savings and investments by these farm
families averaged $404. This took the form
of reducing mortgages, making deposits in
savings banks, buying land, making loans,
paying on life insurance, and the like,
lorty-onc per cent of these farm families
carry life insurance, the average amount
being $1952; over half of the families with
insurance had less than $2000, and only 11
per cent were carrving between $5 000 and
$9 5 00.

Insurance,

By L. A. Williams

The Certain Estate

A DEATH claim is not charity. The
insured purchased the estate just as
he would purchase real estate or borids.
.'\ $10,000 policy is
as certain a piece of
property as a farmer
>:m\ own. It is more
certain in value than
land. ,

Y'ears ago your
grandfather bought
land at $1 an acre
in Illinois that grew
in value during the
war to $300 and
$400 an acre, Per-

L. A. Williams

haps you became ambitious and bought
more bnd. ^X'itll what result? You lost
everything. Thus land purchased at SI per
acre lost money for heirs who valued it at
$400 per acre.

Life insurance represents a guaranteed
estate for an average premium deposit of
two per cent per year. There is no worry
about the estate. There is no fluctuation.

Admitted To Bar

[\:\: J. QL'ASr.Y, our studious director
LJ of transportation, recently passed the
state bar examination
as a result of which
he is entitled to
practice law any-
where in Illinois.

Q u a s e y studied
law at night during
the past three years
at the John Marshall
I aw Schtxil, Chi-
cago. His knowledge

of law will be of
L. J. Quasey

great assistance to

him in working with Tarm Bureau

members on claim and utility problems.

In 1920 when the federal Reserve Board
inaugurated its deflation policy the coun-
try was drained of its watered values and
bled dry of its collateral. This action was
presumed to have avoided a panic. We
know it precipitated the country into a
prolonged decade of farm losses and bank-
ruptcy.

Turning America's investment funds into
more unstable securities than that of agri-
culture has thrice proved even more in-
jurious to the nation than inflated farm
land values. The Florida fizzle, the over-
building program in every city, and the
stock market crash are all monumental to
the error that brought about rapid agri-
cultural deflation.

I

.■\ny policy of finance that can create
such turmoil, and influence values up or
down is as unsafe as permitting one group
or board to change the constitution at will.
So long as money interests can maneuver
to cancel foreign debts through establish-
ing an international bank for an ostensibly
different purpose, and so long^as federal re-
serve funds can be loaned to bolster stock
market enterprises, just so long will our
estates be in constant jeopardy, and the
value of any one class of property be un-
certain.

life insurance will be the one certain
protection and estate of the American citi-
zen under any form or policy of govern-
ment finance or control.

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MEASURE YOURSELF FOR LIFE INSURANCE'

Most Farmers Are Under-Insured

EIGHT thousand replies to a life insurance questionnaire circulated among
Farm Bureau members prior to the organization of COUNTRY LIFE re-
vealed that 40 per cent carried no life insurance while 90 per cent were under-
insured, j

You may have a life insurance policy but have you enough life insurance?

Is your mind closed on this important subject or are you willing to secure
an estimate of your insurance requirements based on years of insurance experience?

I WILL BE glad to review, personally, the case of every Farm Bureau member
who fills out and returns the questionnaire printed below. We will give you a
close approximation of the amount of life insurance that should be carried by a
man in your position. If

You will be under no obligation to buy. All information given will be held
in confidence at your wish.

Signed,

L. A. WILLIAMS, Mgr.,

COUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE CO.

FILL OUT AND MAIL TODAY

COUNTRY LIFK INSURANCE CO., *e8 So. Dearborn St., Chicago

Please send me your best advice regarding my insurance needs. I understand that I will be under no obligation to buy,
but I am interested in having your opinion.

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1. Amount of legal reserve life insurance now carried

Kind of policy or policies: (Ordinary life Q pay life [^

3. Do you carry fraternal or assessment life insurance? How much?

How much of your insurance is participating or dividend-paying?

Married Single _ Number of dependents in family

5. Owner or renter Indebtedness, if any

6. Size of farm. Average annual net income last 5 years.

Remarks

Name Address

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RECORD

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Address all communications for publication to Editorial offices, Illinois Acricultural Association Record. 608 So. Dearborn St.. Chicago, 111.

Number 5

May, 1930

Volume 8

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Tax Legislation Now^

Before General Assembly

I. A. A. Presents Plea For a Fair
Revenue Amendment

THE Illinois Agricultural Association
was represented at Springfield, May
12, when the special session of the legisla-
ture called by Governor Emmerson con-
vened.

In addition to emergency legislation
validating tax anticipation warrants in
Cook county, and the consideration of bills
prepared by the Strawn committee of Chi-
cago, the legislature is expected
to consider an amendment to
the revenue clatise of the state
constitution.

The I. A. A. made known
its views on the question of a
revenue amendment in a letter
to the Legislative Revenue
Investigation Committee, of
which Senator Huebsch is
chairman, several weeks ago.

Power To Assembly

The amendment proposed by
the I. A. A. would give the
General Assembly full author-
ity and power to revise the
state taxing system. If an in-
come tax is imposed it is
recommended that as far as
practicable the General Assem-
bly provide for deductions or
credits to compensate for taxes
on property from which any part of the
taxed income is derived. The Association's
proposal provides further "that the net pro-
ceeds of any funds which may be collected
from any new sources of revenue after the
adoption of this amendment shall be paid
into the state treasury. The General As-
sembly may appropriate any portion of such
funds for any state purposes, including a
state fund for the support of the public
schools."

Distribution of Fund

The suggested amendment sets forth also
that "the General Assembly may also pro-
vide for the distribution of any portion of
such funds among the several counties in
the ratio which the total amount of such
funds collected in each county shall bear to
the total amount thereof collected in the
(Continued on page 9)

DETAILS of the attack on the Agri-
^^ cultural Marketing Act by business
groups at Washington together with
the defence offered by Chairman Alex-
ander Legge of the Federal Farm
Board and Secretary of Agriculture Ar-
thur M. Hyde, are presented on this
and following pages.

Chairman Legge Speaks

Before U. S. Chamber

WORKING A GOOD HORSE TO DEATH

THE cartoon below was drawn by Ding
for the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
in its campaign for an equitable state tax-
ing system.

Iowa's tax problem is similar to that in
Illinois. Certain low-rent lands in that

state are paying at least 40 per cent of
their net income in taxes. Less than one-
third of the net income from the state is
paying the entire tax burden. The other
two-thirds escapes.

John C. Watson of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association presented an analysis of
the Iowa tax situation some time ago before
the Iowa Farm Bureau. According to this
investigation moneys and credits in the
three years, 1919-'20-'21 produced 7.21
per cent of the net income in the state,
tangible property 26.7} per cent, wages
and salaries 47.79 per cent, labor and man-
agement of all owner-operators of property,
including fees paid professional workers,
brokers, agents, and salesmen, 18.27 per
cent. Yet the income (26.73 per cent of
total) from real estate paid the bvilk of the
taxes.

Derides Business Group for Antag-
onistic Attitude Toward Farmer
IN A speech ringing with sarcasm and de-
nunciation of the National Chamber of
Commerce's attitude toward the Agricul-
tural Marketing Act and the Farm Board,
Chairman Alexander Legge defended the
Act and the policies of the Board before
the Chamber of Commerce convention in
Washington on April 30.

Declaring that the Farm
Board hopes to help farmers
organize so that in the future
they will be able to protect
themselves in the marketing of
crops, Mr. Legge recounted the
events leading up to the or-
ganization of this federal
agency. "It asks the support
of you business men, not as a
generous act of charity to
someone else, but because it is
to your own best interests," he
asserted.

Good For Farmer Too
:: "With the Farm Board's as-
sistance farmers by acting to-
gether are trying to apply the
same methods and business
principles to their industry
that were adopted in other
lines long since," Mr. Legge
continued. "If they were good for you
fellows, they are likewise good for the
fanner."

Mr. Legge outlined the history of farm-
ers' efforts to help
themselves, and re-
called for the Cham-
ber its action passed
on the referendum
taken in 1928 to de-
termine that organ-
ization's position on
the farm question.

"T hat referen-
dum," he continued,
"committed the
Chamber to the cre-
ation of a federal

farm board with authority to investigate
(Continued on page 4)

Alexander Legge

Pa re Four

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you
we i

J-egge Issues Comment

Follotving Resolution

FOLLOWING the resolution adopted by
the U. S. Chamber of Commerce in
its convention on April 30 at Washington
Chairman Alexander Legge issued the fol-
lowing statement:

j j "The Chamber of Commerce

I proposes to make the Farm
Board impotent and would spon-
sor another national conference
ijo adopt some more resolutions

j it s}mipathy for agriculture.

I I "That action simply confirms
what we told the membership of
that organization Wednesday —
They are for something to help
the farmer only imtil they find
out it works.

"Naturally, we had hoped they
would support our efforts to aid
agriculture, but if they are go-
ing to oppose us we are glad
they have come out in the open.
It's much easier to deal with an
^nemy whb is squarely against
you than one who pretends to
be friendly but fights you behind
our back.
Our client is the farmer and
are going to continue to serve
him just as the Agricultural
Marketing** Act intended we
should — for his benefit, not the
benefit of someone else."

Following is the resolution in full passed
by; the convention attended by some 1,800
representatives of business organizations
throughout the country: —

'!We reaffirm the earlier declarations of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
made through referendum vote of its member-
ship upon a carefully matured report of a
representative committee, in supporting the
principle that the producers of agricultural
con6modities should have the benefits which co-
operative marketing of their products along
(ou|id economic lines can confer; in pointing
out that all agricultural credit requirements
coufd be met by full development and adapta-
tion of existing credit facilities to local and
con^modity needs, rather than by the creation
of inew credit facilities; and in advocating a
federal farm board to assist agricultural pro-
duoers and their organizations in solving the
problems peculiar to agriculture.

Recognize Emergency -

' The legislation which was enacted in June,
1929, was in contravention of the Chamber's
proposals in its provision of new credit facili-
ties! in the form of large sums of money from
the! public treasury to be used under the Act
as the farm board might decide. During the
business crisis of some magnitude which has
occurred during the last six months these funds
have been brought into use in various ways.

"We recognize the emergency considerations
which may have impelled this resort to the
federal treasury, but the experience which has
been gained now permits an appraisal both as
immediate effect and long-range results.

Continue Opposition

The anticipated benefits to the farming
intrrest as a whole have not been realized. On
the contrary there has been impairment of the

marketing structure and prevention of support
which otherwise would have been given tot the
marketing of agricultural products which were
affected by the use of public monies. Without
benefit to agriculture there has been imposed
unbearable hardship upon business enterprises
unable to maintain their position against dis-
criminatory competition from the government.

"We accordingly express our continued op-
position to the use of government funds in pro-
viding capital for the operation of agricultural
cooperatives, and for the buying and selling of
commodities for the purpose of attempted sta-
bilization. We condemn as a permanent policy
of government the employment of public funds
for the purpose of participation in business in
competition with established agencies and sup-
port the proposal for an amendment of the
agricultural marketing act to repeal the author-
ity of the Federal Farm Board to use federal
funds for such a purpose.

"We advocate the continuance of the Federal
Farm Board as a proper agency, conducted at
federal expense, for the gathering and circula-
tion of authoritative information, for ascer-
taining conditions of overproduction, for advice
as to its prevention, and for assistance toward
the solution of the numerous and important
business problems affecting agriculture both in
production and in marketing.

"We believe it is desirable to apply sober
and devoted study to methods by which coop-
erative organizations on their own resources may
find their warranted place, without the pres-
ent danger of undermining marketing facilities
and thus unfavorably affecting farm product
prices. We, therefore, recommend that the
Chamber with adequate preparation call a con-
ference of wide representation, including farm
cooperative leaders, to study and define meas-
ures of sound and effective aid to agriculture."

Will Crystallize Farm

Sentiment, Says Smith

"^TlHE courageous and defensible posi-
I tion taken by Chairman Legge of
the Federal Farm Board and Secretary of
Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde, before the
annual meeting of the United States Cham-
ber of Commerce, will serve to stimulate
and crystallize farm sentiment in support
of the Farm Board and its policies as has
nothing else since the passage of the Agri-
cultural Marketing Act," President Earl C.
Smith stated following press reports of the
recent chamber of commerce convention.

"The resolution reported by the press as
having been adopted by the United States
Chamber of Commerce, criticizing the Farm
Board and asking for repeal or modification
of the Agricultural Marketing Act, merely
discloses the selfish interests that have been
prospering at the expense of the farm pro-
ducers.

"I feel sure this resolution does not re-
flect the true sentiment of a large percent-
age of the business men of Illinois and the
mid-west."

Short Story — A girl from a telephone
exchange fell asleep while at church. The
preacher announcing the hymn, said
"Number 426." At that moment the girl
awoke and murmured: "I'll ring them
again."

Alex. Legge Speaks

Before U. S. Chamber

(Continued from page J)
and make recommendations to congress,
but none to go ahead with the solution of
the agricultural problem which was char-
acterized as such a serious one by both the
industrial conference board report and re-
port of the Nagel commission.

"In addition to that, however, it did go
on record very definitely in favor of the
principles of co-operative marketing based
upon the established right of the producers
of agricultural commodities to act together
in associations corporate or otherwise, with
or without capital stock, in collectively
processing and manufacturing, preparing
for market, handling and marketing in in-
terstate and foreign commerce such prod-
ucts of persons so engaged.

"Results of the referendum were Tin-
nounced on November 14, 1928. The vote
in favor of the co-operative principle was
overwhelming, 2,816 to 117, and as you all
know, these were member associations and
not individuals doing the voting.

Sarcastic in Comments
"I am sure that most of you will agree
that you know more about the agricultural
situation and how to meet it than I do. A
considerable percentage of your membership
have made that quite clear, and perhaps
the best answer I can make is the statement
that if this be true, and you really do know
so much about it, that the situation presents
a very severe indictment of the organization
which, having full information of the
facts, has made so little effort to remedy
the situation. Certainly none of you have
seen any evidence of constructive action on
the part of the chamber of commerce or
the part of any of its affiliated organizations
with the doubtful e^eption of taking a
referendum two years ago, looking to a
remedy for and permanent improvement in
the situation, which your own investigators
had warned, required substantial assistance
if not from you, then from the govern-
ment.

"Perhaps I should mention the fact, that
while your national organization did adopt
a policy of silencfe when congress was fram-
ing the agricultural marketing act, spokes-
men of some of your member organizations
appeared before the house committee on
agriculture and indorsed the principles of
that legislation. ■•..'''■.., I

Attitude of Indiflerence
"One might find much justification in
the statement that your attitude generally
has been one of indifference if indeed not
of antagonism; that you regarded the farm
problem like the poor as 'something we
have with us always' and that you who are
more fortunately situated, disctissed it
much along the same lines as the ladies are
apt to refer to the household question —
something that had to be endured if one
was to avoid having to do the work one-

•

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I

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Page Five

"After many years of discussion and de-
liberation congress finally passed the agri-
cultural marketing act which many of you
people are now branding as socialistic, or
anarchistic, and complaining of interference
with, or necessitating some readjustment in
the present system of handling certain com-
modities.

"Nearly 10 years of discussion, contro-
versy and compromise led congress, in its
wisdom, to declare that permanent solution
of the agricultural problems lies in collec-
tive action on the part of the farmers. It
created the farm board to help producers
organize for such action, both as to pro-
duction and marketing of their crops, the
purpose being to enable them to put their
industry on economic parity with other in-
dustries. In that legislation congress defi-
nitely committed this country to the prin-
ciple of co-operative marketing of farm
products.

"The farm board believes that principle
is sound and the only one that really will
give the farmer a chance to get his fair
share of the national income. The country
generally and business men for the most
part gave their approval of the agricultural
marketing act before it became a law. I
am sorry to say that there has been consid-
erable evidence the past several months that
entirely too many of your members were
for the principle of co-operation only so
long as it didn't work. When it became
apparent that a means had been provided
that really would help the farmer get or-
ganized co-operatively so that he, like other
producers, would have some voice in deter-
mining the sale price of his commodity, the
effort was branded as government price fix-
ing, putting the government in business,
etc. And all of this notwithstanding the
fact they had declared unmistakably for
the principle of co-operative marketing
only a year previously.

Farmers Third of Nation
"I do not recall in years gone by of hear-
ing your business men making any such
complaint against government aid that was
extended to the manufacturing industry, to
transportation and to finance. And these
all played their part in adding to the dis-
advantages of the farmer as did also the
preferential treatment to labor through im-
migration restriction and other measures.

"We are not complaining about what the
government has done for others but it does
seem to us that these beneficiaries ought to
be willing that the farmer also be given a
helping hand from the same source so that
he, too, will be in position to take care of
himself in the economic system that has
been built up in this country so largely by
special favors.

"Farmers constitute nearly one-third of
our population. For the most part they have
been producing and selling blindly as in-
dividuals with the result they have little
or nothing to say about what their product
brings. Costs of production can be passed

THE HEN'S HELPERS

Millett Asks For Repeal

V

Courte fy. Chicago Dally Newt

along to the buyer by nearly every one but
the farmer. Unorganized, he has to take
for his product what the other fellow is
willing to give him.

"All the farmers are trying to do, with
farm board assistance, is, by acting together,
to apply the same methods and business
principles to their industry that were
adopted in other lines long since. If they
were good for you fellows they are like-
wise good for the farmer.

"The farm Ixftrd hopes to help farmers
organize so that in the future they will be
able to protect themselves in the market-
ing of their crops. It asks the support of
you business men, not as a generous act of
charity to someone else, but because it is to
your own best interests.

"We hear much to the effect that these
operations are putting the government per-
manently into business. We wish to assure
you that on this point every commodity
organization is set upon a basis where, as it
gains financial strength and experience, it
can and will become entirely independent
of government aid or supervision. In all
these organizations provision is made for
the farm board having a voice in their pol-
icies only so long as they are indebted to it.

"The natural opposition which so many
of you have felt in the past against inter-
ference or dictation on the part of your
banker or financial backer is quite as pro-
nounced on the part of the farmer as in
the case of those engaged in other lines of
industry, thus affording constant incentive
to work away from it as rapidly as pos-
sible."

At the close of his formal address, Mr.
Legge threw out a challenge to the con-
vention to match a contribution which he
offered to make for the establishment of a
national agricultural foundation in accord-
ance with the recommendation of the Busi-
ness Men's Commission. He got no im-
mediate response but later in the meeting,
Julius Barnes told the convention that he
would undertake to match this contribution
dollar for dollar by raising the money from
business interests.

A proposal that the agricultural marketing
act be repealed was made by Daniel A. Millett,
investment banker and stockman, of Denver,
Colo., before the recent Chamber of Commerce
convention.

"The agricultural marketing act," said Mr.
Millett, "in its intent and language violates
the sound and proven rule of business, that
penalty of loss must rest on the loser, as an
ever-present controlling factor, in order to in-
sure efficiency.

"The men in the great marketing and dis-
tributing businesses of this country, with their
enormous investments of capital in plant and
organization, properly fear the working of this
act. It is evident that in the long run they
cannot compete with the Government, which
they support and supply with funds through
taxes — which taxes are used to their undoing."

Mr. Millett concluded his prepared address
as follows:

"The farm marketing act is part and par-
cel of what is to me the fantastic dream, world-
wide, of stabilization, with or without govern-
mental agency, so that every producer in every
line will be assured a profit through control of
production, and without the discipline of the
economic law of supply and demand working
through price, which eliminates the marginal
producer.

"I have tried to show that interference with
the economic law, by private combinations,
direct governmental control, and indirect action
by Government through tariff, tends to failure,
but that such interference, in its attempt,
brings not stability but unsettlement and dis-
tress in business, with disaster indicated, if
continued.

Tariff Kevision Downward

"For myself, the conclusion has been reached,
that as practical public policies, in the interest
of the farmer and business alike we should:

"I. Repeal the agricultural marketing act
and cease any such governmental attempts, and,

"2. Revise our tariff downward, not up-
ward, with its elimination save in the few re-
spects theretofore mentioned as speedily as
possible, as our ideal.

"I believe the time has come, if it is not
already overdue, for the people of America to
take down that priceless heritage of the English-
speaking peoples of the world, the King James
version of the Book of Books, and turning to
the 12th chapter of the Gospel according to
St. Luke, commence to read at the 16th verse:

" 'And He spake a parable unto them, say-
ing. The ground of a certain rich man (the
United States) brought forth plentifully: (that
is the surplus.)

" 'And He thought within himself, saying.
What shall I do, because I have no room where
to bestow my fruits?

■"And He said. This will 1 do: I will pull
down My barns and build greater; and there
will I bestow all My fruits and My goods.
(That is the withholding program.)

" 'And I will say to my soul. Soul, thou hast
much goods laid up for many years; take thine
ease, eat, drink and be merry. (That is the
high price that will be realized.)

"'But God (the economic law) said unto
him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be
required of thee.' "

Opposition to the agricultural marketing act
was expressed by the following:

H. W. Jones, representing the National
Poultry and Egg Dealers Association; L. W.
Smith, Michigan canning industry; C. E.
Webb, Philadelphia Wool and Textile Associi-"
tion; F. C. Adams, Boston Wool Trade As-
sociation; W. F. Jensen, American Association
of Creamery Butter Manufacturers; S. Stephens,
National Retail Coal Merchants Association; H.
C. Netterau, New York Mercantile Exchange;
W. J. McCabe, of Duluth, Minn., grain ex-
changes and grain trade.

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Page Six

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namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, ecottomic,
political, and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the
tuition, and to develop agriculture.

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OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vice-President, A. R. Wright Varna

Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger Chicago

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Blooinington

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
(By Congressional District)

1st to Ilth H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

12th , G. F. Tullock, Rockford

13th C. E. Bimborough, Polo

Kth M. G. Lambert, Ferris

15th A. N. Skinner, Yates City

16«1> - Geo. B. Muller, Washington

17th Geo. J. StoII, Chestnut

1«»1> W. A. Dennis, Paris

19th C. J. Gross, Atwood

20th Charles S. BUck, Jacksonville

21st Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22n«i - , Frank Oexner, Waterloo

23rd W. L. Cope, Salem

2** Charles L. Scott, Grayville

2St« Fred Dietz. De Soto

DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS

Comptroller J. H. Kelker

Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marh3ting A. B. Leeper

Grain Marketing.... Harrison Fahrnkopf

Information George Thiem

Insurance Service V. Vaniman

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Limestone-Phosphate J. R. Bent

Live Stock Marketing '. Ray E. Miller

2*"" - C. E. Johnston

Organization „ G. E. Metzger

Produce Marketing _ F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson

Transportaion L. J. Quasey

ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS

Country Life Insurance Co L. A. Williams, Mgr.

Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co J. H. Kelker, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Co-operative Ass'n , F. E. Ringham, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co. A. E. Richardson, Mgr.

Illinois Farm Supply Co L. R. Marchant, Mgr.

Organization and Bargaining Power

A MOST convincing testimonial of the value of organ-
ized farm bargaining power is contained in a sum-
mary of weighted average prices paid producers for 3.5 per
cent fluid milk per 100 lbs. (including surplus) during
1929. This list, prepared by our dairy marketing director,
A. D. Lynch, shows that producers who supply St. Louis
with milk are the lowest paid, by far, of any dairymen sup-
plying a large city market, in the United States.

Contrast the $2.18 average price per 100 lbs. for the year
paid at country points around St. Louis with Chicago's
$2.64, Boston's $2.64 and New York's $2.70. All these
prices are F. O. B. country points. Compare the St. Louis
price with the F. O. B. city prices paid producers on other
large markets as follows: Detroit $2.84; Hartford, Conn.,
$3.94; Philadelphia $3.4J; Pittsburgh $3.14; Washington
$3.45, etc.

Perhaps the fact that St. Louis dairymen lacked a strong
collective bargaining association to sell their milk for some-
where near its value last year while at the other cities the
producers were well organized, had nothing to do with the
unequal milk prices. Perhaps.

That Price Question

THE Illinois Grain Corporation is a Capper- Volstead co-
operative and a member of the Farmers National Grain
Corporation, the national grain sales agency set up under the
direction of the Federal Farm Board.

The Illinois Grain Corporation will be prepared to help
the individual farmer and his local farmers' elevator receive
any benefits available under the provisions of the Agricul-
tural Marketing Act. These benefits include among others,
loans to co-operative elevators and money advances to farm-
ers on grain in storage.

Lending the farmer and his co-operative money, however,
will not by itself improve the- farmer's position in the mar-
ket. The concentration of a large volume of grain in a
single selling agency will give the producer bargaining
power and influence in getting a price in line with market
demands. This he does not always get under the present
system.

No thinking farmer believes that any co-operative or
government agency can fix prices arbitrarily regardless of
supply and demand. No legislation ever proposed by the
Farm Bureau, Mr. CooHdge notwithstanding, advocated price
fixing. We do believe a well organized co-operative can
exercise some influence on prices. By collective action in
marketing farmers can reduce violent price fluctuations,
learn more about quality and market demands, own their
own terminal elevators and marketing machinery, develop
better control over production, cut distribution and seUing
costs, reduce wastes in handling, shake off the surplus of
sellers under the present system who greatly outnumber the
buyers, and thereby divert some of the money which now
stays in the city, back to the country.

On Contracts

THE -specious arguments used by the grain trade in at-
tacking the Federal Farm Board policy in favor of
definite contracts between the producer and his co-operative
have been answered with characteristic vigor and firmness by
Chairman Legge.

"Some of the private commission companies for years
have required co-operatives borrowing money from them
to sign a binding marketing agreement," said Mr. Legge.
"In one state where some opp>osition has been voiced to
signing a marketing agreement with the Farmers' National
Grain Corporation a private commission company is boast-
ing that it has 50 co-operative elevators tied up under a
five-year binding contract to deliver grain to it in return
for financing.

"The marketing agreements between the Farmers' National and the
co-operatives and the co-operative's members can be complied with
easily," Mr. Legge continued. "The agreements give the farmer the ad-
vantage of the competitive market at all times."

Commission merchants would have farmers believe that many mys-
terious evils beset the man who enters into an agreement with his own
organization to sell his grain. Who can live and carry on any kind
of work or occupation without many agreements, written or otherwise?
You can't rent a farm or house, buy or sell anything, ride on the train,
go to the movies, or in fact do anything of a business nature without
entering a contract spoken or written, or performing your part of an
agreement. The world's business is done by contract. It is possible that
contracts are only bad when they divert grain into co-operative channels
and away from private commission companies. Presumably the contract
method of doing business is only virtuous when employed by the trade.
It is also possible that pure selfishness and no other reason prompts the
antagonism to farmers signing agreements to co-operate with each other.

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Page Seven

Hyde Defends Act

Secretary Hyde was called upon by Vice
President Broussard, of the chamber, who was
presiding. Mr. Hyde's remarks follow in part:

In the beginning I want you to know that
in all I shall say I have the most profound re-
spect for the judgment, the patriotism and the
ability of the members of this very great insti-
tution, but I think many important elements
of this problem have been overlooked and, even
at the expense of butting into a program upon
which I was not invited to appear, I wish you
would forbear for me for a few minutes.

It is dangerous for a grass-growing farmer
to horn in between two cowboys. I realize
my difficulties on that score.

Let me, first of all, take exception to the
religious portion of this program. I noted with
great interest the parable, the location of which
I can not now cite, with reference to the stor-
age of the surplus.

From my youth up I have listened to dis-
sertations upon that parable but never before
have I heard it applied in any such manner
as it was applied here.

Most of the clergy, and I think a large
proportion of the populace believe that parable
was properly applicable to the sin of covetous-
ness and to that kind of fat-headed satisfaction
with things as they are; and to that I shall also
refer to the egotism of the' well-to-do and to
the story of the glass-eyed sympathy with the
underdog.

I am persuaded, however, to think that the
trouble is not the abuses in this hearing. All
I ask you to do is to take a look at the wild
men over in the Senate and view the rising
tide of discontent and then look at your whole
market and see whether you want to store up
your surplus and whether it is safe for you to
store it.

"Thou fool, this day shall thy soul be. re-
quired of thee." So much for religion.

Denies Price Pegging

More misapprehension with reference to the
meaning and purpose of the agricultural mar-
keting act have been produced here in this
highly respectable and influential audience than
I have read in all the farm journals in America.
The Farm Board does not expect to peg prices;
the Farm Board has made no attempt to peg
prices; price pegging is not in the act, and
price pegging is not found in our program.

You have heard from Mr. Legge the reasons
which impelled the Board to project itself into
the wheat situation through loans rather than
through a stabilization corporation. Maybe it
was a mistake; if so, I glory in it. We have
made others. 'VS'e shall make more.

We do not intend to do and we are not
willing to do anything that is unsound eco-
nomically, but I thank God, and the sentiments
I utter are my own. I am serving a Chief who
sees through the mistakes to the ultimate wel-
fare of 27,500,000 American citizens.

This loan upon farm products — upon wheat
for example — the Farm Board made the same
mistake that a banker makes when he loans
too much. If it is unsound in the Farm Board
it is also unsound in finance.

As to that there can be no debate, but look
at the surrounding circumstances: Everybody
believed last Fall that wheat should go any-
where from $1.40 up to $1.60; the grain trade
believed it, the economist believed it, we be-
lieved it — not on any fictitious price but on the
unrestrained utteration of the proposition of the
law of supply and demand.

I know the grain trade believed it because
they bought two-thirds of the crop at that
price. Then came the deflation upon the stock
market in New York. The price sagged unduly
under the weight of that octupus and they paid
a considerable penalty for it.

Slide Continued
The slide continued just as it may have cion-

tinued if a banker had loaned too much per
bushel on the wheat. Was there anything un-
sound in it? Was there any attempt to make
undue prices? We operated on the basis of the
prices fixed.

I am afraid I have already exceeded my five
minutes. You can not discuss this thing in five
hours. Before me are, no doubt, many, many,
men whose origin is not more than one gen-
eration removed from the farm; but the farm
has a£Forded the leadership in times gone by
for industrial parties, and, consider, my friends,
for a minute the fact that it was the farms
of America which, for the first 100 years of
our history, furnished the exports and the bal-
ance of trade behind which the lands of our
magnificent industrial organization has been
formed.

I claim that agriculture has a bit which
it is entitled to have liquidated at the hands
of industry, based solely upon the contribu-
tion of men and money which agriculture has
made to American industry.

Ah, my friends, not many of you are far
removed from agriculture. In the name of all
that is holy; in the name of all that is sacred,
do not be satisfied with the United States of
America — that country founded upon the
proposition that all men are going to have a
fair chance — do not be satisfied with your
country until all men do have a fair chance.

Nobody is going to be displaced. If some-
body has to move over at the dinner table to
let others sit down, it is merely an evidence of
a growing and enlarging country.

Jewett Scores Action

Of U. S. Chamber Meet

McLean County Elevator Men
Assemble at Bloomington

ELEVATOR directors, managers and
patrons representing 18 farmers' ele-
vators in McLean county met in Blooming-
ton recently to discuss cooperative grain
marketing.

Before adjournment the meeting voted
unanimously to send a telegram to Alexan-
der Legge, chairman
of the Federal Farm
Board, commending
him for his firm
stand in favor of co-
operative marketing
against attacks of
middlemen before
the national conven-
tion of the chamber
of commerce.

George C. Jewett,
president of the
Transportation Bank
of Chicago, who was the principal speaker,
defended the stand taken by Chairman
Legge and Secretary Hyde, and condemned
the resolution of the U. S. Chamber of
Commerce as unfriendly to the farmer.
True to Form
"The U. S. Chamber of Commerce in
condemning the operation of the Agricul-
tural Marketing Act has in my opinion run
true to form," said Jewett. "I have ob-
served its attitude for a number of years,
and I have found that its desire to aid agri-
culture stops short of any plan that would
in any degree interfere with the profits of
the middlemen dealing in agricultural
products.

"In 1920 when we tried to develop wheat

Geo. Jewett

poob in this country we found business in-
terests almost unanimously opposed. This
was particiJarly true on the Pacific Coast
and at the large grain markets of the mid-
dle west.

"The U. S. Chamber of Commerce favors
the development of a farm board to tell
the farmers how to run their farms, or as
It stated, to give the farmers authoritative
information. The chamber knows and
farmers know that all this has been favor-
able for years and is still favorable through
the Department of Agriculture, but it does
not provide an answer nor a solution to the
farmer's marketing problem.

Is Offer Sincere?

"The chamber of commerce now indi-
cates that it would like to take the initia-
tive In gathering in private funds to take
the place of government funds authorized
by congress for service to farmers. If this
desire is an honest one I think it is well
for farmers to inquire why It has not mani-
fested itself over these many years of farm
distress.

"As citizens of our nation farmers have
a degree of control over a government fund
which they would not possess over any fund
that might be raised by such an organiza-
tion as the U. S. Chamber of Commerce.

"I trust the farmers of America will not
be deceived by any such program. J

Always Opposed
"The business Interests of this country as
a whole appreciate the effect on their busi-
ness, but there is a powerful group with
far-reaching, interlocking strength, whose
members make their livelihood from deal-
ing in the farmers' product, and that group
has always been and always will be opposed
to any plan whereby the farmer follows his
commodity through from his local market
to the processor or exporter," the banker
said. "In my judgment it would be a far
wiser course if they would try to revamp
their own business to the needs of agricul-
ture and fit themselves into a sounder and
more economic program of distribution.
Until they do this they should discontinue
passing resolutions professing a desire to aid
the farmer."

■.-:]:.

Four hundred and fifty club members,
representing 28 girls' clubs and 23 boys'
clubs, gathered at Quincy on April 26 for
the annual spring rally In Adams county.

Following a cafeteria luncheon the group
paraded to the Armory for games. Club
members formed a procession nearly two
blocks long.

A REPORT from Alaska indicates that
reindeer meat can be produced in
abundance there at low cost. It is predicted
that large quantities of this meat will be
shipped into the United States duty free
since Alaska Is a part of the United States.
There are said to be three million head of
reindeer in Alaska. The deer subsist largely
upon abundant natural feeds, and as a
result their up-keep is negligible.

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THE I. A. A. RECOKl)

I L.L«IISIOIS

CJCLTURAL ASSOCIA

— RECORJD

To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was orsanixed,
narnely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic,
political, unit educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the
nation, and to develop asriculture.

K.liN

'H-.irjjo Thiftii

l'ul)lishi>.l nniT :i iiK.nth liv tin- lllinoU A^'rii-uhural Assdriatinn.
r>HS Su. D«':irln>rii St.. ('hicaj::<i. ill. Kiitcrt')! as .socnn(l-clari.>i matter
Oitiitior 2ft. liii.'i. at tho piist nfliic at Mmiiit Morris. Illinoi.s. under
!ht- Alt of Manh .3. l-i?!'. Aiiiptiil for niailint' at .special rate of
pi>sta:;e 'proviili'.l for in ."Miction 4rj. A.-t of February 2.S. 1!I25. author-
izeil Orlob.r 27. I'.i2."i. The in<livi<liuil membership fee of the Illinois
Arrieul'nral Assmiatioii is five ilollar- a year. The fee includes paj-
nunt of fifty cents for subscription to the ILMNOIR AOBICUI.TURAL Recorp.

I'ostn^aster : It. rerurnin-.: an uueall
die:il<' key n.iml>tr on address «., is r

for
«-. IS rt'ouiri-d by

OFFICERS

President. Earl C. Smith
Vice-President, A. R. Wright
Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles

niissent copy please in-
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Detroit

Varna

Chicago

Bloomington

1st to 1

12th

13th

)4th

ISth

16th

17th

18th

19th

ZOth

21st

22nd

23rd

24th

25th

1th

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
iBy Congressional District)

H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

G. F. Tullock, Roclcford

C. E. Bnmborough, Polo

..... M. G. Lambert, Ferris

A. N. Skinner, Yates Cfly

Geo. B. Muller, Washington

Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

W. A. Dennis, Paris

C. J. Gross, Atwood

Charles S. Black, Jacksonville

Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

Frank Oexner. Waterloo

W. L. Cope. Salem

Charles L. Scott, Grayville

. Fred Diet?. De Soto

DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS
Comptroller
Dairy Matketiag

Finance

Fruit and Vegetable MarU:'ting

Grain Marketing

Information

Insurance Service

Legal Counsel

Limes tone- Phosphate
Live Stock Marketing.

Office

Organization . .

Produce Marketing

Taxation and Statistics

Transportaion

J. H. Kelker

A. D. Lynch

. R. A. Cowles

. ..A. B. Leeper

Harrison Fahrnkopf

George Thiem

V. Vaniman

Donald Kirkpatrick

J. R. Bent

Ray E. Miller

C. E. Johnston

G. E. Metzger

F. A. Gougler

J. C. Watson

L. J. Quasey

ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS
Country Life Insurance Co. , L. A. Williams, Mgr.

Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co. J. H. Kelker, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Co-operative Ass'n . F. E. Ringham, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co. A. E. Richardson, Mgr.

Illinois Farm Supply Co. .. L. R. Marchant, Mgr.

Organization and Bargaining Poiier

A .MOST convincinj; testimonial of the value of organ-
ized farm bargaining power is contained in a sum-
mary of weighted average prices paid producers for 3.5 per
cent fluid milk per 100 lbs. (including surplus) during
1929. This list, prepared by our dairy marketing director,
A. D. Lynch, shows that producers who supply St. Louis
with milk are the lowest paid, by far, of any dairymen sup-
plying a large city market, in the United States.

Contrast the $2.18 average price per 100 lbs. for the year
paid at country points around St. Louis with Chicago's
1.2.64, Boston's $2.64 and New York's S2.70. All these
prices are F. O. B. country points. Compare the St. Louis
price with the V. O. B. city prices paid producers on other
large markets as follows: Detroit $2.84; Hartford, Conn.,
$3.94; Philadelphia $3.45; Pittsburgh $3.14; Washington
$3.45, etc.

Perhaps the fact that St. Louis dairymen lacked a strong
collective bargaining association to sell their milk for some-
where near its value last year while at the other cities the
producers were well organized, had nothing to do with the
unequal milk prices. Perhaps.

That Price Question

THE Illinois Grain Corporation is a Capper- Volstead co-
operative and a member of the Farmers National Grain
C~orporation, the national grain sales agency set up under the
direction of the Federal Farm Board.

The Illinois Grain Corporation will be prepared to help
the individual farmer and his local farmers' elevator receive
any benehts available under the provisions of the Agricul-
tural Marketing Act. These benefits include among others,
loans to co-operative elevators and money advances to farm-
ers on grain in storage.

Lending the farmer and his co-operative money, however,
will not by itself improve the farmer's position in the mar-
ket. The concentration of a large volume of grain in a
single selling agency will give the producer bargaining
power and influence in getting a price in line with market
demands. This he does not always get under the present
system.

No thinking farmer believes that any co-operative or
government agency can fix prices arbitrarily regardless of
supply and demand. No legislation ever proposed by the
larm Bureau, Mr. Coolidge notwithstanding, advocated price
fixing. We do believe a well organized co-operative can
exercise some influence on prices. By collective action in
marketing farmers can reduce violent price fluctuations,
learn more about quality and market demands, own their
own terminal elevators and marketing machinery, develop
better control over production, cut distribution and selling
costs, reduce wastes in handling, shake off the surplus of
sellers under the present system who greatly outnumber the
buyers, and thereby divert some of the money which now
st.ivs in the citv, back to the countr\'. i

On Contracts

THE specious arguments used by the grain trade in at-
tacking the Federal Farm Board policy in favor of
definite contracts between the producer and his co-operativt
have been answered with characteristic vigor and firmness by
C2hairman Lcgge.

"Some of the private commission companies for years
have required co-operatives borrowing money from them
to sign a binding marketing agreement," said Mr. Legge.
"In one state where some opposition has been voiced to
signing a marketing agreement with the Farmers' National
Grain Corporation a private commission company^ is boast-
ing that it has 50 co-operative elevators tied up under a
five-year binding contract to deliver grain to it in return
for financing.

"The marketing agreements between the Farmers' National and the
co-operatives and the co-operative's members can be complied witii
easily," Mr. Legge continued. "The agreements give the farmer the ad-
vantage of the competitive market at all times."

Commission merchants would have farmers believe that many mys-
terious evils beset the man who enters into an agreement with his own
organization to sell his grain. \i'ho can live and carry on any kind
of work or occupation without many agreements, written or otherwise?
You can't rent a farm or house, buy or sell anything, ride on the train,
go to the movies, or in fact do anything of a business nature without
entering a contract sptjken or written, or performing your part of an
agreement. The world's business is done by contract. It is possible that
contracts are only bad when they divert grain into co-operative channels
and away from private commission companies. Presumably the contract
method of doing business is only virtuous when employed by the trade.
It is also possible that pure selfishness and no other reason prompts the
antagonism to farmers signing agreements to co-operate with each other.

THE I.

A. RECORD

Pagr Seven

Hyde Defends Act

Secretary Hyde was called upon by Vice
President Broussard, of the chamber, who was
presiding. Mr. Hyde's remarks follow in part:

In the beginning I want you to know that
in all I shall say I have the most profound re-
spect for the judgment, the patriotism and the
ability of the members of this very great insti-
tution, but I think many important elements
of this problem have been overlooked and, even
at the expense of butting into a program upon
which I was not invited to appear, I wish you
would forbear for me for a few minutes.

It is dangerous for a grass-growing farmer
to horn in between two cowboys. I realize
my difliculties on that score.

Let me, first of all, take exception to the
religious portion of this program. I noted with
great interest the parable, the location of which
I can not now cite, with reference to the stor-
age of the surplus.

From my youth up I have listened to dis-
sertations upon that parable but never before
have I heard it applied in any such manner
as it was applied here.

Most of the clergy, and I think a large
proportion of the populace believe that parable
was properly applicable to the sin of covetous-
ness and to that kind of fat-headed satisfaction
with things as they are; and to that I shall also
refer to the egotism of the well-to-do and to
the story of the glass-eyed sympathy with the
underdog.

I am persuaded, however, to think that the
trouble is not the abuses in this hearing. All
I ask you to do is to take a look at the wild
men over in the Senate and view the rising
tide of discontent and then loi>k at your whole
market and see whether you want to store up
your surplus and whether it is safe for you to
store it.

"Thou fool, this day shall tliy soul be re-
quired of thee." So much for religion.

Denies Price Pegging

More misapprehension with reference to the
meaning and purpose of the a:;ricultural mar-
keting act have been produced here in this
highly respectable and intluenti.il audience than
I have read in all the farm journals in America.
The Farm Board docs not expect lo peg prices;
the Farm Board has made no attempt to peg
prices; price pegging is not in the act, and
price pegging is not found in our program.

You have heard from Mr. Legge the reasons
which impelled tiic Board to project itself into
the wheat situation through loans rather than
through a stabili/.ation corporation. Maybe it
was a mistake; if so, I glory in it. We have
made others. We shall make more.

We do not intend to do and we are not
willing to do anything that is unsound eco-
nomically, but I thank God, and the sentiments
I utter are my own. I am serving a Chief who
sees through the mistakes to the ultimate wel-
fare of 27,500,000 American citizens.

This loan upon farm products — upon wheat
for example — the Farm Board made the same
mistake that a banker makes when he loans
too much. If it is unsound in the Farm Board
it is also unsound in finance.

As to that there can be no debate, but look
at the surrounding circumstances: Everybody
believed last Fall that wheat should go any-
where from $1.40 up to $1.60; the grain trade
believed it, the economist believed it, we be-
lieved it — not on any fictitious price but on the
unrestrained utteration of the proposition of the
law of supply and demand.

I know the grain trade believed it because
they bought two-thirds of the crop at that
price. Then came the deflation upon the stock
market in New York. The price sagged unduly
under the weight of that octupus and they paid
a considerable penalty for it.

Slide Continued
The slide continued just as it may have con-

tinued if a banker had loaned too much per
bushel on the wheat. Was there anything un-
sound in it? Was there any attempt to make
undue prices? We operated on the basis of the
prices fixed.

I am afraid I have already exceeded my five
minutes. You can not discuss this thing in five
hours. Before me are, no doubt, many, many,
men whose origin is not more than one gen-
eration removed from the farm; but the farm
has afforded the leadership in times gone by
for industrial parties, and, consider, my friends,
for a minute the fact that it was the farms
of America which, for the first 100 years of
our history, furnished the exports and the bal-
ance of trade behind which the lands of our
magnificent industrial organization has been
formed.

I claim that agriculture has a bit which
it is entitled to have liquidated at the hands
of industry, based solely upon the contribu-
tion of men and money which agriculture has
made to American industry.

Ah, my friends, not many of you are far
removed from agriculture. In the name of all
that is holy; in the name of all that is sacred,
do not be satisfied with the United States of
America — that country founded upon the
proposition that all men are going to have a
fair chance — do not be satisfied with your
country until all men do have a fair chance.

Nobody is going to be displaced. If some-
body has to move over at the dinner table to
Lt others sit down, it is merely an evidence ol
a growing and enlarging country.

Jewett Scores Action

Of U. S. Chamber Meet

McLean County Elevator Men
Assemble at Bloomington

E ^LEVATOR directors, managers and
'j patrons representing 1 8 farmers' ele-
vators in McLean county met in Blooming-
ton recently to discuss cooperative grain
marketing.

Before adjournment the meeting voted
unanimously to send a telegram to Alexan-
der Legge, chairman
of the Federal Farm
Board, commending
him for his firm
stand in favor of co-
operative marketing
against attacks of
middlemen before
the national conven-
tion of the chamber
of commerce.

George C. Jewett,
president of the
Transportation Bank
of Chicago, who was the principal speaker,
defended the stand taken by Chairman
Legge and Secretary Hyde, and condemned
the resolution of the U. S. Chamber of
Commerce as unfriendly to the farmer.
True to Form
"The U. S. Chamber of Commerce in
condemning the operation of the Agricul-
tural Marketing Act has in my opinion run
true to form," said Jewett. "I have ob-
served its attitude for a number of years,
and I have found that its desire to aid agri-
culture stops short of any plan that would
in any degree interfere with the profits of
the middlemen dealing in agricultural
products.

"In 1920 when we tried to develop wheat

Geo. Jewett

pools in this country we found biuincss in-
terests almost unanimously opposed. Thiv
was particularly true on the Pacific Coast
and at the large grain markets of the mid-
dle west.

"The U. S. Chamber of Commerce favors
the development of a farm board to tell
the farmers how to run their farms, or as
it stated, to give the farmers authoritative
information. The chamber knows and
farmers know that all this has been favor-
able for years and is still favorable through
the Department of Agriculture, but it docs
not provide an answer nor a solution to the
farmer's marketing problem.

Is Offer Sincere?

"The chamber itf commerce now indi-
cates that it would like to take the initia-
tive in gathering in private funds to take
the place of government funds authorized
by congress for service to farmers. If this
desire is an honest one I think it is well
for farmers to inquire why it has not mani-
fested itself over these many years of farm
distress.

"As citizens of our nation farmers have
a degree of control over a government fund
which they would not possess over any fund
that might be r.ilsed by such an organiza-
tion as the U. S. Chamber of Commerce.

"I trust the farmers of America will not
be deceived by any such program.

Always Opposed
"The business interests of this country as
a whole appreciate the effect on their busi-
ness, but there is a powerful group with
far-reaching, interlocking strength, whose
members make their livelihood from deal-
ing in the farmers' product, and that group
has always been and always will be opposed
to any plan whereby the farmer follows his
commodity through from his local market
to the processor or exporter," the banker
said. "In my judgment it would be a far
wiser course if they would try to revamp
their own business to the needs of agricul-
ture and fit themselves into a sounder and
more economic program of distribution.'
Until they do this they should discontinue
passing resolutions professing a desire to aid
the farmer."

Four hundred and fifty club members,
representing 28 girls' clubs and 23 boys'
clubs, gathered at Quincy on .\pril 26 for
the annual spring rally in Adams county.

Following a cafeteria luncheon the group
paraded to the Armory for games. Club
members formed a procession nearly two
blocks long.

A REPORT from Alaska indicates that
reindeer meat can be produced in
abundance there at low cost. It is predicted
that large quantities of this meat will be
shipped into the United States duty free
since Alaska is a part of the United States.
There are said to be three million head of
reindeer in Alaska. Tiie deer subsist largely
upon abundant natural feeds, and as a
result their up-keep is negligible.

page Eight

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Some Facts About the

I Illinois Grain Corporation

THE ILLINOIS GRAIN CORPORA-
TION is a Capper- Volstead co-opera-
tive formed for the purpose of serving as a
regional marketing association for Illinois
functioning between the Farmers' National
C$rain Corporation, set up under the super-
vtision of the Federal Farm Board, and the
Iccal cooperative or farmers' elevator.

Membership

Any local co-operative grain marketing
a;ency (in Illinois, usually means a farmers
i evator) may become a member of the Illi-
nois Grain Corporation. The farmers' ele-
vator must make formal application for
ntembership. This action can be taken by
tke board of directors of the elevator. If
tbe application discloses that the elevator
does not qualify as a Capper- Volstead co-
operative it is given a reasonable time in
;. which to do so. ■

Cost of Membership

For a farmers' elevator to become a mem-
. b4r of the ILLINOIS GRAIN CORPORA-
TION it is required that the elevator sub-
scribe for capital stock in the regional in
an amount equal to one cent per bushel
based on the last three-year average annual
handlings of grain. For example, if a
farmers' elevator during the last three years
handled an average of two hundred thou-
sand bushels of grain each year, its stock
subscription would be one cent times
200,000, which is equivalent to two thou-
sand dollars. Ten per cent of this amount,
w&ich is $200, is payable in cash and for
the remainder, five equal notes of three
hundred and sixty ($3£0.00) dollars draw-
ing five per cent interest, are to be given.
One of these notes is due each year during
th« next five years. Thus the stock sub-
scription really amounts to one-fifth of one
cent per bushel each year for the next five
years.

Stock Subscription Not Excessive

The capital stock requirement payable in
the amount of one-fifth of one cent per
buihel over a five year period is small. The
iwo ider is that it can be done for so small

I Why Subscription is Necessary

The ILLINOIS GRAIN CORPORA-
TION is just as much a state-wide grain
marketing agency as the farmers elevator is
a l^cal grain marketing unit. Too many
cooperatives have either failed or been in-
effertive because of lack of sufficient capi-
tal.

Not a Donation
The stock purchased in the ILLINOIS
GRAIN CORPORATION has a par value
of one hundred dollars per share and pays
seven per cent cumulative dividends. It is
a sound investment In an organization
whi:h will handle the farmers' own
pro< uct.

Who May Purchase Stock
The "A" Preferred Stock to which we
refer above may be purchased by producers
or Capper- Volstead cooperatives.

The Illinois Agricultural Association
meets the requirements of the Capper- Vol-
stead Act. It is purchasing a substantial
amount of this stock.

Highest Grade Service
A successful cooperative must render
service. The ILLINOIS GRAIN COR-
PORATION will give its member elevators
unexcelled service in all departments. It
will employ men who have a broad back-
ground of training in the fundamentals of
grain marketing and who in addition are
"cooperative-minded."

The Farmer Elevator Manager
The directors of the ILLINOIS GRAIN
CORPORATION are directors of farmer
elevators. They recognize that there is no
substitute for a good farmers' elevator man-
ager— one who at all times works for the
best interests of grain producers.

Advantages of State-wide Co-op.

1. — Farmers' elevators banding together
to form a single state-wide selling agency
for using the Farmers' National Grain Cor-
poration, set up by the Farm Board, are
following sound principles as practiced in
all successful lines of business and industry
today.

2.— The ILLINOIS GRAIN CORPO-
RATION will serve to concentrate a large
volume of business through single selling
agency hands. It will eliminate duplication
of service. It will reduce competition in
selling and in its place develop cooperation
in selling.

3. — The foregoing system will enable the
producer to place his products upon both
the domestic terminal and export markets
and merchandise his grain to the best pos-
sible advantage under a strictly coopera-
tive plan.

4. — When they become members of the
ILLINOIS GRAIN CORPORATION
farmer elevators are becoming a part of an
Illinois grain cooperative, owned and con-
trolled by Illinois producers working for
the best interests of Illinois farmers and
one which will safeguard the investments
of the Illinois farmer.

5. — Affiliation of the local elevator asso-
ciation with the ILLINOIS GRAIN COR-
PORATION will render the local elevator
and Its farmer members eligible to partici-
pate in the general activities and benefits
of the Agricultural Marketing Act. These
benefits include the protection of the
grower in the matter of price under the
Farm Board stabilization program and also
the advantages of any surplus control ac-
tion taken by the Federal Farm Board in
the future.

6. — Illinois farmers are vitally interested
in the marketing of corn. One-fourth of
all the com that goes to market In the

United States is produced in Illinois. It is
believed that the ILLINOIS GRAIN COR-
PORATION, if properly supported by the
producer through his local elevator, can be
very effective in raising the general price
level for corn.

7. — The entire marketing structure is
upon a cooperative basis and the farmer
stockholder will participate in the earnings
of his local elevator association, of the
ILLINOIS GRAIN CORPORATION and
of the Farmers' National Grain Corpora-
tion. It is believed that substantial earn-
ings, particularly from the terminal process-
ing and storing activities, will be returnable
to farmer members.

There Must be Leaders

The strong elevators must blaze the way
in this program and assume the task of
leadership. The directors and leaders of
the ILLINOIS GRAIN CORPORATION
realize that the financial assets of our eleva-
tors were not easily accumulated. They
should be safely guarded — but It is false
economy to "hold the penny so close that
we lose sight of the dollar beyond."

Price of Belief '

From the "Price of Belief" by Bruce
Barton are taken these few significant
words as follows: "And there are more hon-
est business men than crooks," I said. "More
good businesses than bad businesses. More
years of prosperity than of panic; more re-
ward for faith than for doubt.

"J. P. Morgan said that he often loaned
money without collateral, relying on his
faith in the borrowers. When he died there
were several million dollars of worthless
stocks in his box, testifying that he had
sometimes believed too much. But there
were many times several millions of good
stocks to prove that his faith had been
much more often justified than not.

"It costs something to belong to the be-
lievers. But the rewards are the big suc-
cesses; the big fortunes and the big fun."

'^nOope

THE majority of the eight baseball di-
visions will open the season on Sat-
urday, May 24. Schedules of games have
been largely adopted, and more than 30
teams have been practicing in readiness for
the 1930 season. McLean and Logan coun-;
ties scheduled practice games for May ID
and May 17, although the first official game
between these two teams will not open un-
til May. 24 at Normal. Champaign will meet
Ford at Champaign the same day after
which the following schedule will be car-
ried out:

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May 31

McLean vs. Ford at Elliot.
Lo^an vs. Champaign at Lincoln.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Nine

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June 7
Logan vs. Ford at Lincoln.
McLean vs. Champaign at Champaign

June 1 4
Ixigan vs. McLean at Lincohi. , ',-* . *■ ■ ^

Champaign vs. Ford at Elliot. * ■.•:■."-*'. '-l'^-'"-

June 21 ' .;

McLean vs. Ford at Normal. " ;.■..••

Logan vs. Champaign at Champaign, .v- ..';«•

June 28 .. - -■■,■■'" .- ;
Logan vs. Ford at Elliot.
McLean vs. Champaign at Komia).

Over in division II Knox will play Peoria

on May 24 in Peoria county, while Stark

meets Henry at Cambridge.

May 31 • ■'. V.;':.

Peoria vs. Stark in Stark County. .'..■'" '■

Henry vs. Knox in Knox County. ,

June 7 .■'.''.:'■

Knox vs. Stark in Stark County. ' ,i '

Peoria vs. Henry in Henry County. - : .

June 14 -;; '.

Stark vs. Peoria in Peoria County.
Knox vs. Henry in Henry County. ■ '' " ■

June 21 '.;

Henry vs. Stark in Stark County.
Peoria vs. Knox in Knox County.

June 28 ,• .' .

Henry vs. Peoria in Peoria County. ! :.:■'" ",
Stark vs. Knox in Knox County.

Other divisions have adopted similar

schedules and it is anticipated that all of

the 52 teams will be in action the fourth

Saturday in May.

Open at Peoria

KNOX and Peoria counties will open
. the baseball season in that division
with a game at Peoria on Saturday, May 24.
The following Saturday Knox will play
Henry county on its home grounds. On
June 7 Knox and Stark meet in Stark
county, and on June 14 Knox and Henry
counties will meet at Cambridge. It will
be Knox vs. Peoria in Knox county, June
2t, and Knox vs. Stark in Knox county,
June 28.

D. P. Robinson of Cambridge was elected
divisional chairman and dictator at a recent
meeting in the Farm Bureau office at Gales-
burg.

It was decided that the home teams
should furnish one umpire for each game.
The visiting team will have the privilege
of providing a second umpire if it so desires.
Games will be called at two o'clock.

The following men attend the meeting:
E. E. Brown, Stark county; D. P. Robinson
and J. R. Johnson, Henry county; J. W.
Whisenand and Max J. Wyman, Peoria
county; T. J. Sullivan and F. G. Campbell,
Knox county.

Champaign County League

CECIL HUDSON of the Urbana unit
was elected manager of the Champaign
County Farm Bureau baseball team at a
meeting on April 29.

On May 24 Champaign will play Ford
county at Champaign, and on May 31
Champaign will play Logan at Lincoln.

Seven community Farm Bureau teams are
expected to compete in the county league.
Unit teams are required to play at least
six players who are Farm Bureau members
or who are from families of members.

Tax Legislation Now

Before Gen. Assembly

(Continued from page 3)
state. Any such funds which may be
allocated to any county of more than
100,000 population, according to the last
preceding federal census, may be further
distributed among the several taxing dis-
tricts situated wholly or partly therein as
the General Assembly shall from time to
time direct."

A highly desirable provision of a revenue
amendment suggested by the I. A. A. will
give the General Assembly power to classify
or sub-classify any object or subject of
taxation and may exempt any class or sub-
class thereof from taxation by one method
if it is taxed directly by any other method
or methods. The proposal provides that all
real estate shall be in one class, except that
mineral lands and lands devoted to reforest-
ation shall be in different classes.

Representatives of the Association will be
on hand throughout the special session care-
fully watching all developments, that farm
and home owners may be relieved of at least
part of the unequal and unjust tax burden
they are now carrying.

Co-op Marketing

From Station WENR

"New styles in Co-operative Live Stock
Shipping Associations" was the subject of a
radio talk by Ray E. Miller, director of
livestock marketing, from Station WENR,
Chicago, on Tuesday, May 13.

Several more talks to be delivered by
marketing officials are as follows:

Tuesday, May 20th: "A Practical Cream
Marketing Program," F. A. Gougler, di-
rector produce marketing.

Tuesday, May 27th: "Problems Con-
fronting the Illinois Dairyman in the Co-
operative Marketing of His Product," A. D.
Lynch, director of dairy marketing.

Tuesday, June 3d: "From Producer to
Consumer," Jack Connery, manager,
Quincy Cooperative Marketing Association.

The talks will be broadcast at 7:30-8:00
p. m. central standard time.

Seek Clarification

Motor License Law

IEGISLATION providing for the ex-
J emption of farm tractors which vise
the public highways only when going from
one field to another, from paying the state
motor license tax will be sought by the
Illinois Agricultural Association in the next
regular session of the General Assembly.

The I. A. A. has had many inquiries
from its members regarding the licensing of
farm tractors using the public highways in
going from field to field. The Association
has interested itself in this question and has
received information from responsible
authorities to the effect that no effort will
be made to compel farmers to buy motor
licenses for tractors pending the passage of
legislation clarifying the law on this point.

The Agreement

System is Sound

THE enemies of co-operative grain mar-
keting are not nearly so concerned
over the chances of its failure as over the
likelihood of its success according to Har-
rison Fahrnhopf, director of grain market-
ing.

If the five-hundred farmer elevators in
Illinois would agree or contract to handle
all of their grain through single selling
agency hands as is contemplated by the
Illinois Grain Corporation, they would not
only be adopting sound business principles
but they would cease selling in competition
with each other.

To substantiate this view Fahrnhopf
points to a recent statement by Alexander
Legge which appeared in Chicago newspa-
per:

"Replying to critics who have protested
that the farm board is forcing farmers' co-
operatives into distasteful contracts for the
marketing of their grain. Chairman Alex-
ander Legge declared today that the terms
of the farm board compare favorably with
those always required by commission com-
panies.

" 'Some of the private commission com-
panies for years have required cooperatives
borrowing money from them to sign a
binding marketing agreement,' said Mr.
Legge. 'In one state where some opposition
has been voiced to signing a marketing
agreement with the Fanners' National
Grain Corporation a private commission
company is boasting that it has fifty co-
operative elevators tied up under a five year
binding contract to deliver gr^in to it in
return for financing.*:/-. ..■. ' -; ' |- ,

"The marketing agreements between the
Farmers' National and the cooperatives and
the cooperative's members 'can be complied
with easily,' Mr. Legge asserted, adding
that the agreements give them the ad-
vantage of the competitive market at all
times.

"Under the provisions of the agreements,
he explained, the farmer or his coof»erative
may market the grain for cash in the
competitive market on the day of delivery
at the highest price bid; they may store
grain in public warehouse and borrow money
on that grain pending ultimate sale, which
can be made only at the option of the
owner; and the farmer may enter his grain
in a common pool and borrow on it in pub-
lic warehouses, the final settlement to be
based upon an average for the period of the
pool."

New Definition — An optimist is a man
who buys a car on time to go looking for

a job.

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Business Note — A real executive is one
who can return a letter three times to
a red-headed stenographer. ... •;.,-. ..-.vj,.;!-.

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THE 1. A. A. RECORD

Adopt Definite Plan of

Bureau Organization

[.Year 'Round Project Seen as Way
' ' To Build Membership

A DEFINITE plan for carrying on or-
ganization work through the state
I was adopted on April 21 and 22 at a con-
' ference of district organization managers

and the I. A. A. organization department
; ini Chicago. C. E. Bamborough, chairman
; of the organization-information advisory

coknmittee, and all the district managers
: attended the conference.
Under the new

plan organization

w31 become a major

county project of

every Farm Bureau

in the state. The plan

inyolves the selection

of i a county organ-
ization commivtee of

three members and

an: organization proj-
ect leader in every

township or unit if Geo. E. Metzger

thi county is organ-
ized that way. It is recommended that the
organization committee of three be ap-
pointed by the Farm Bureau president with
thi approval of the executive committee.

Details of Plan

Each township organization leader is to
hale a list of the Farm Bureau members
anj non-members in his township; illustra-
tions setting forth the accomplishments of
thei Farm Bureau and the Illinois Agricul-
tuijal Association; and a supply of member-
ship) agreement blanks and other necessary
sufjplies. It is contemplated that each
to^rnship will be placed on a quota basis
anj that the township leader will assume
responsibility for securing a quota. The
prqject leader within the township will ap-
point his helpers and form his own organ-
ization.

llJnder the new plan organization will be
a 12 months a year project. Periodic meet-
ing! of the organization leaders will be held
and the I. A. A. district managers are to
votk directly with this group checking up
on work and results as frequently as pos-
sible.
; I 75,000 Is Goal

The organization-information conference
at the last annual meeting of the Illinois
Agricultural Association went on record
unanimously to strive for 75,000 members
by the end of 1930. It is realized that if
this| goal is to be reached there must be
well-oiled organization machinery operating
in eivery county. The district managers will
be expected to have that organization ma-
chinery set up in every county by fall.

Secretary and. Director of organization,
George E. Metzger, believes that this plan
whan put into operation will get results.
Mr. Metzger points to the fact that Farm
Bureau membership in Illinois is on the in-
crease and thafca gain has been made every

month since September, 1929. This gain
has averaged 49 J members per month. The
largest increase of 1933 members was se-
cured last October.

Preparation is now under way for mem-
bership drives in Cumberland, Clay, Taze-
well, and Gallatin counties. The Tazewell
County Farm Bureau will concentrate its
force on May 28 when it proposes to sign
1,200 members which means a substantial
increase over the present membership.

Mercer County Folks

Visit I. A. A. Office

A DELEGATION of approximately 2 JO
men and women from Mercer
county who toured through the Union
Stock Yards as guests of the Chicago Pro-
ducers Commission Association, visited the
I. A. A. o£Bces on Wednesday, April 30.

Many of the delegates expressed surprise
at the extensive offices now occupied by the
I. A. A. and associated companies in the
Transportation Building.

The group came by special train over the
Burlington railroad, arriving early in the
morning and departing late the same eve-
ning.

The tour was conducted by the Mercer
County Farm Bureau. Farm Adviser J. E.
Harris, P. B. Scott, Miss Zentmire, Farm
Bureau office secretary, and local officials
accompanied the delegation. They were
entertained at luncheon by Swift & Com-
pany and Armour & Company. It was one
of the largest groups that ever toured
through the Union Stock Yards.

Illinois Woman Writes "Play

THE Farm Bureau play "Running
Water" will feature the May 24
broadcast of the American Farm Bureau
over a chain of 44 stations. The Farm
Bureau program will go on the air at 11:45
a. m. central standard time from the Chi-
cago studios of the National Broadcasting
Company.

The play "Running Water" was written
by Miss Dorothea Barton of Elizabeth, Jo
Daviess county, Illinois, and was one of 12
prize-winning plays selected among the
large number in the American Farm Bureau
Federation contest.

The Farm Bureau has published and is
now circulating the prize-winning plays.

Milk $1.60 at St. Louis

Milk producers in the St. Louis territory
will receive $1.60 per cwt. for 3.5 per cent
milk delivered in May according to a recent
announcement of the dealers.

This price includes the premium paid
for T. B. tested milk. It is 10 cents more
than the current price of $1.50 per cwt.
paid for Surplus Milk at Chicago where
dairymen are represented by the Pure Milk
Association.

Will Incorporate Live

Stock Marketing Assn.

Name Directors Subject to Approval
of Incorporators

STEPS toward incorporating the new mil-
lion dollar national livestock market-
ing association were taken at a meeting of
livestock producers and members of the
Federal Farm Board in Chicago on May 6.
Incorporation papers were to be filed in
Delaware without delay. It is estimated
that the marketing association will control
approximately 52 per cent of the co-opera-
tive livestock marketing of the country,
E. A. Beamer of Blissfield, Michigan, presi-
dent of the National Livestock Producers
Association, and one of the three incorpora-
tors, stated.

J. R. Fulkerson of Jerseyville, III., and
O. O. Wolf of Kansas City were named as
the other two incorporating officers who
will also become directors.

Here Are Directors

The following livestock producers were
nominated to the board subject to the ap-
proval of the incorporators: Murray Barker,
Indianapolis; Henry H. Parke, Genoa, III.;
George Wilson, Peoria, 111.; Oscar Swank,
Evansville, Ind.; E. C. Rector, Pittsburgh,
Pa.; Joe L. Snook, Sioux City, Iowa; Lee
Highlen, Cincinnati, Ohio; and Ben B.
Brumley, Cleveland, Ohio, each represent-
ing a branch of the National Livestock
Producers Association. In addition there
were named: H. L. Kokernot, Fort Worth,
Tex.; L. O. Greaser, Chicago, National Or-
der Buying Association; John O'Mealy,
Michigan Livestock Exchange, Detroit, and
Walter Hagen, Western Cattle Marketing
Association of California.

President Earl C. Smith of the I. A. A.
presided at the afternoon session of the
livestock growers who represented most of
the co-operative livestock marketing organ-
izations of the country.

Two subsidiaries of the association will
also be incorporated with identical direc-
torates, the National Feeder and Finance
Corporation, and the National Live Stock
Publishing Association.

Alexander Legge, chairman of the Farm
Board, who attended the meeting along
with Vice-Chairman James C. Stone and
C. B. Denman, livestock member predicted
that the new setup will give stock farmers
ample opportunity to develop a unified or-
ganization.

The Champaign County Farm Bureau is
organizing a co-operative oil company.
Three hundred and thirteen shares of stock
amounting to $7,825 had been subscribed
the first week in May.

I ■•■■.SlV/'..

Secretary Geo. E. Metzger will address
the annual meeting of the Ogle County
Farm Bureau on June 3.

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Page Eleven

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Grain,
Marketing'

COWAN A. GRAY, secretary of the
Southwest Co-operative Wheat Grow-
ers Association, and Arthur T. Riley, man-
ager of the Salina, Kansas, branch of the
Farmers Union Jobbing Association of Kan-
sas City have accepted positions with the
Farmers National Grain Stabilization Cor-
poration.

GEORGE S. MILNOR, formerly presi-
dent of the Sparks Milling Company
of Alton, 111., was recently elected presi-
dent of the Grain Stabilization Corporation,
and general manager of the Farmers Na-
tional Grain Corporation, according to n
announcement by President C. E. Huff.

Joshua M. Chilton, formerly manager of
the grain merchandising department of the
Checkerboard Elevator Company of St.
Louis, was named as assistant to the gen-
eral manager.

Mr. Chilton has had 20 years' experience
in the grain business at St. Louis, Kansas
City, and Denver.

R. T. Paradis of Minneapolis will con-
tinue as a representative of the Farmers
National Grain Corporation on that market.

WALTER L BEAM is the new treas-
urer of the Farmers National Grain
Corporation. He served as controller of
the $500,000,000 U. S. Grain Corporation
during the war. . - ; . > • ,• ■ ••- '

Deposits of potash salts of such thickness
and purity that they may be mined cheaply
have been discovered by the Bureau of
Mines in Texas and New Mexico.

The principal potash mineral disclosed by
the government drilling is polyhalite, a sul-
phate of lime, magnesia, and potash, which
contains an average of 12 to 1 J per cent
of potash (KiO).

, : - Milk Bond Latv

JUSTICE Pound of the New York State
Court of Appeals recently upheld the
law requiring milk dealers to take out a li-
cense to deal in milk and to file a bond to
insure payment for milk to producers in
that state.

The law was attacked as unconstitutional
and so held by the Appellate Division at
Rochester. The State Court of Appeals re-
versed the decbion of the lower court and
so now the law is sustained by the court of
last resort in New York state. The com-
missioner of agriculture had $2,000,000 of
bonds on file.

Speak tor Limestone-Phosphate Service

The following letter received by R. J. Laible, farm adviser in Marshall -Putnam
county came in response to an inquiry regarding results from the use of rock phosphate.
""]\ TY LANDLORD, Mr. James Foster
J.VJL of Varna, has purchased in the
last two years, more than 75 tons of raw
rock phosphate for use on the farm which I
operate in Roberts Township, Marshall
County.

"The use of this phosphate has enabled
us to greatly increase our yield of grain,
and it has also helped us in securing stands
of red clover. I am writing to let you
know that I appreciate the work the Farm
Bureau has done in helping me sell the rock
phosphate idea to my landlord, as it is now
working out to both his advantage and my
own.

"Inasmuch as both Mr. Foster and my- Carl O. Johnson. Mar.h.11 County |-.

self are Farm Bureau members, we of course appreciate the 50c per ton discount re-
ceived on these shipments. In addition, we know that we are getting what we pay for
because of the analysis of each carload by the Illinois Agricultural Association when the
phosphate is loaded at the mines in Tennessee. I want you to put me down as one
himdred per cent in favor of the work the Farm Bureau is doing in this direction."

CARL O. JOHNSON.

Stanard Heads New

Dairy Products Co.

S TILLMAN J. STANARD, of Edgar
county, former state director of agri-
culture and well known to farmers through-
out Illinois, is president of the newly incor-
porated Egyptian Dairy Products Company
which operates butter, ice cream, and milk
plants at McLeansboro,
^^^HH^^^^I Fairfield, and Eldorado
^^^^^^^^^^^H southern

^■^ 4^^^| ^^^ "^^ organization
^B^^^fl^^^H was incorporated early
^V^^^ B^^^^H ^'^'^ year. The supply
^^^j^-^Hj^^^H of milk and cream for
^^^£«^|^^H the first plants is be-
^^^Bii^^^^l ing bought in Hamil-
^^^^t^ ^^^^M Saline, Wayne,

^^H J^^^ White, Gallatin,

adjoining counties.

S. J. Stanard The McLeansboro

Creamery Company,
one of the three plants operated by John
Stelle, secretary of the new organization,
bought the first co-operative pool cream in
the state according to Mr. Stanard. Farmers
about Dahlgren in Hamilton county organ-
ized a co-operative cream pool in the winter
of 1922-'23 with the help of Burt Abney
then farm adviser in Jefferson county. This
cream pool not only obtained a better price
for local producers but it influenced the or-
ganization of similar co-operative pools in
southern Illinois.

Competition For Cream

The Dahlgren pool later disintegrated,
but now assistance is being given by the
Jefferson County Farm Bureau in reorgan-
izing it. Swift & Company has been buying
cream about Dahlgren, paying three cents
above the station price. Local competition
for cream has influenced buyers to offer a
higher price during recent weeks.

The Egyptian Dairy Products Company is
now getting the total output of the co-
operative produce marketing association at
Enfield in White county, which controls
about 75,000 lbs. of butterfat a year.

The company which Stanard heads is co-
operating with the Illinois Produce Market-
ing Association under the new marketing
agreement announced a short time ago.

Appel Disappears

r

THE advisability of bonding treasurers
of local mutual insurance companies
as a matter of good business judgment is
revealed in a recent press report. Edward
O. Appel, secretary of three mutual insur-
ance companies in Madison county. 111., ac-
cording to press reports, disappeared on
April 29 when officials told him they
planned an examination of his books.

Charles Rozier told authorities that there
is an apparent shortage of $15,000 to
$^0,000 in Appel's accounts. Policyholders
in insurance companies endorsed by the
Illinois Agricultural Association have their
investments in these organizations protected
since the officers charged with responsibility
for moneys are bonded.

Iroquois' Schedule i

THE Iroquois County Farm Bureau
baseball team has adopted a schedule
of games as follows:

May 3 1 Iroquois vs. Grundy at Morris
June 14 Iroquois vs. LaSalle at Watseka
June 28 Iroquois vs. Kankakee at Kankakee
July 12 Iroquois vs. Grundy at Watseka
July 26 Iroquois vs. LaSalle at Ottawa
Aug. 9 Iroquois vs. Kankakee at Watseka
H. G. Pendergrast has been appointed as
manager. Baseball suits and equipment have
been purchased in readiness for the first
game. ... .. . . ; . .., .

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THE I. A.

RECORD

Geo. E. Metzffer

/.dopt Definite Plan of

Bureau Organization

Y|ear 'Round Project Seen as Way
To Build Membership

A DEFINITE pLin for carrying on or-
Sanizjtion work through tlic state
WIS adopted on April 21 and 22 at a con-
ference of district organization managers
ard the I. A. A. organization department
in Chicago. C. E. Baniborough, chairman
of the organiz.ition-information advisory
coinmittce, and all the district managers
at ended the conference.

Under the new
plan organization
will become a major
cointy project of
ev iry Farm Bureau
in the state. The plan
in'olvcs the selection
of a county organ-
ization committee of
th ee members and
an organization proj-

; eel leader in every

:to'>-nship or unit if
th( county is organ-
ize] that way. It is reconinundcd that the
organization committee of three be ap-
poir.tcd by the Farm Bureau president with
th( approval of the e.xecutlvc committee.

Details of Plan

Ljch township organization leader is to
ha' e a list of the Farm Bureau members
an( non-members in his township; illustra-
tio IS setting forth the accomplishments of
the Farm Bureau and the Illinois Agricul-
^turil Association; and a supply of membcr-
shi > agreement blanks and other necessary
suf plies. It is contemplated that each
tov nship will be placed on a quota basis
anc that the township leader will assume
Tes| lonsibility for securing a quota. The
project leader within the township will ap-
poi It his helpers and form his own organ-
izai ion.

Under the rutw plan organization will be
a 1 ! months a year project. Periodic meet-
ing of the organization leaders will be held
and the I. A. A. district managers are to
iwoi k directly with this group checking up
on work and results as frequently as pos-
sibl '.

75,000 Is Goal

1 he organization-inlormation conference
at he last annual meeting of the Illinois
Agi icultural Association went on record
Unaiimously to strive for 7 5,000 members
by :he end of 19.?0. It is realized that if
this goal is to be reached tliere must be
wel -oiled organization machinery ojKrating
in ciery county. The district managers will
be ( xpected to have that organization ma-
chir cry set up in every county by fall.

Secretary and Director of organization,
Geo-gc E. Mctzger, believes that this plan
whe n put into operation will get results.
Mr. Metzger points to the fact that Farm
Bur lau membership in Illinois is on the in-
crea ;e and that a gain has been made every

month since September, 1929. This gain
has averaged 49 5 members per month. The
largest increase of 1933 members was se-
cured last October.

Preparation is now under way for mem-
bership drives in Cumberland, Clay, Taze-
well, and Gallatin counties. The Tazewell
County Farm Bureau will concentrate its
force on May 28 when it proposes to sign
1,200 members which means a substantial
increase over the present membership.

Mercer County Folks

Visit I. A. A. Office

ADFLFGATIOX of approximately 250
men and women from Mercer
county who toured through the Union
Stock Yards as guests of the Chicago Pro-
ducers Commission Association, visited the
I. A. A. offices on Wednesday, April 30.

Many of the delegates expressed surprise
at the extensive offices now occupied by the
I. A. A. and associated companies in the
Transportation Building.

Tlie group came by special train over the
Burlington railroad, arriving early in the
morning and departing late the same eve-
ning.

The tour was conducted by the Mercer
County Farm Bureau. Farm Adviser J. E.
Harris, P. B. Scott, Miss Zentmire, Farm
Bureau office secretary, and local officials
accompanied the delegation. They were
entertained at luncheon by Swift & Com-
pany and Armour & Company. It was one
of the largest groups that ever toured
through the Union Stock Yards.

Illinois Woman Writes Play

THE Farm Bureau play "Running
Water" will feature the May 24
broadcast of the .\merican Farm Bureau
over a chain of 44 stations. The Farm
Bureau program will go on the air at 11:45
a. m. central standard time from the Chi-
cago studios of the National Broadcasting
Company.

The play "Running Water" was written
by Miss Dorothea Barton of Elizabeth, Jo
Daviess county, Illinois, and was one of 1 2
prize-winning plays selected among the
large number in the American Farm Bureau
Federation contest.

The Farm Bureau has published and is
now circulating the prize-winning plays.

Milk $1.60 at St. Louis

Milk producers in the St. Louis territory
will receive $1.60 per cwt. for 3.5 per cent
milk delivered in May according to a recent
announcement of the dealers.

This price includes the premium paid
for T. B. tested milk. It is 10 cents more
than the current price of $1.50 per cwt.
paid for Surplus Milk .it Chicago where
dairymen are represented by the Pure Milk
Association.

Will Incorporate Live

Stock Marketing Assn.

Name Directors Subject to Approval
of Incorporators

STEPS toward incorporating the new mil-
lion dollar national livestock market-
ing association were taken at a meeting of
livestock producers and members of the
Federal Farm Board in Chicago on May 6.
Incorporation papers were to be filed in
Delaware without delay. It is estimated
that the marketing association will control
approximately 52 per cent of the co-opera-
tive livestock marketing of the country,
1:. A. Beamer of Blissfield, Michigan, presi-
dent of the National Livestock Producers
Association, and one of the three incorpora-
tors, stated.

J. R. Fulkerson of Jerseyville, III., and
O. O. Wolf of Kansas City were named as
the other two incorporating officers who
will also become directors.

Here Are Directors
The following livestock producers were
nominated to the board subject to the ap-
proval of the incorporators: Murray Barker,
Indianapolis; Henry H. Parke, Genoa, 111.;
George Wilson, Peoria, III.; Oscar Swank,
Evansville, Ind.; E. C. Rector, Pittsburgh,
Pa.; Joe L. Snook, Sioux City, Iowa; Lee
Highlen, Cincinnati, Ohio; and Ben B.
Brumley, Cleveland, Ohio, eacij represent-
ing a branch of the National Livestock
Producers Association. In addition there
were named: H. L. Kokernot, Fort Worth,
Tex.; L. O. Greaser, Chicago, National Or-
der Buying Association; John O'Mealy,
Michigan Livestock Exchange, Detroit, and
Walter Hagen, Western Cattle Marketing
Association of California.

President Earl C. Smith of the I. A. A.
presided at the afternoon session of the
livestock growers who represented most of
the co-operative livestock marketing organ-
izations of the country.

Two subsidiaries of the association will
also be incorporated with identical direc-
torates, the National Feeder and Finance
Corporation, and the National Live Stock
Publishing Association.

Alexander Legge, chairman of the Farm
Board, who attended the meeting along
with Vice-Chairman James C. Stone and
C. B. Denman, livestock member predicted
that the new setup will give stock farmers
ample opportunity to develop a unified or-
ganization.

The Champaign County Farm Bureau Is

organizing a co-operative oil company.
Three hundred and thirteen shares of stock
amounting to $7,825 had been subscribed
the first week in May.

Secretary Geo. E. Metzger will address
the annual meeting of the Ogle County
Farm Bureau on June 3.

TliE I. A. A. RECORD

I'liyc Hh'Cfu

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Grain,

Marketing"

C^vAVAN A. GRAY, socrctjry of ihc
A Southwest Co-operative Wheat Grow-
ers Association, and Arthur T. Riley, man-
ai^er of the Salin.i, Kansas, brant h of the
I armers Union Jobbini; Association of Kan-
sas City have accepted positions with the
Farmers Xatlon.il Grain Stabilization Cor
poration.

Gl-ORGE S. MILNOR, formerly prcsi
dent of the Sparks Milling Company
of Alton, III., was recently elected presi-
dent of the Grain Stabilization Corporation,
and general manager of the Farmers Na-
tional Grain Corporation, according to n
announcement by President C. E. Huff.

Joshua M. Chilton, formerly manager of
the grain merchandising department of the
Checkerboard Elevator Company of St.
Louis, was named as assistant to the gen-
eral manager.

Mr. Chilton has had 20 years' experience
in the grain business at St. Louis, Kansas
City, and Denver.

R. T. Paradis of Minneapolis will con-
tinue as a representative of the Farmers
National Grain Corporation on that market.

WALTER L BEAM is the new treas-
urer of the Farmers National Grain
Corporation. Fie served as controller of
the $500,000,000 U. S. Grain Corporation
during the war.

Deposits of potash salts of such thicknes^
and purity that they may be mined cheaply
have been discovered by the Bureau ot
Mines in Texas and New Mexico.

1 he principal potash mineral disclosed by
the government drilling is polyhalite, a sul-
phate of lime, magnesia, and potash, which
contains an average of 12 to 15 per cent
of potash (KjO).

Milk Bond Lata

JUSTICE Pound of the New York State
Court of Appeals recently upheld the
law requiring milk dealers to take out a li-
cense to deal in milk and to file a bond to
insure payment for milk to producers in
that state.

The law was attacked as unconstitutional
and so held by the Appellate Division at
Rochester. The State Court of Appeals re-
versed the decision of the lower court and
so now the law is sustained by the court of
last resort in New York state. The com-
missioner of agriculture had $2,000,000 of
bonds on file.

Speak For Limestone-Phosphate Service

The following letter received by R. j. l.jibic, farm adviser in Marshall -Putnam
county came in response to an inquiry regarding results from the use of rock phosphate.

MY LANDLORD, .Mr. James Foster
of Varna, has purchased in the
last two years, more than 7 5 tons of r.iw
rock phosphate for use on the farm which I
operate Im Roberts ri>wnship, .Marshall
County.

" The use of this phosphate has enabhd
us to greatly increase our yield of grain,
and it has also helped us in securing stands
of red clover. I .\m writing to let you
know that 1 appreciate the work the 1 arm
liure.iu has done in helping me sell the rock
pho'-phate idea to my landlord, as it is now
Working out to both his advantage and m\
own.

"Inasmuch as both ,Mr. Foster and my- '^"' "• Johnson. Marshall County

self are Farm Bureau members, we of course appreciate the 5()c per ton siiscount re-
ceived on these shipments. In addition, we know that we are getting what we pay for
because of the analysis of each carload by the Illinois Agricultural .Association when the
phosphate is loaded at the mines in Tennessee. I want you to put me down as one
hundred per cent in favor of the work the Farm Bureau is doing in this direction."

CARL O. JOHNSC^N.

Stanard Heads New

Dairy Products Co.

STILL.MAN J. STANARD, of Edg.ir
county, former state director of agri-
culture and well known to farmers through
out Illinois, is president of the newly incor
porated F'gyptian Dairy Products Ci)mpan\
which operates butter, ice cream, and milk
plants at Mcl.eansboro.
Fairfield, and Eldorado
in southern Illinois.
[ he new organization
was incorporated earl>
this year. The supply
(■i milk and cream for
the first plants is be
^H -w ^^^m ing bought in Hamil-
^^r ^^^^ Vl'ayne.

^^H ^S^H ^'hite, Gallatin,
id joining counties.
S. J. Stanard The McLeansboro

Creamery Company,
line of the three plants operated by John
Stelle, secretary of the new organization,
bought the first co-operative pool cream in
the state according to Mr. Stanard. Farmers
about Dahlgren in Hamilton county organ-
ized a co-operative cream ptM)l in the winter
of 1922-'23 with the help of Burt Abney
then farm adviser in Jefferson county. This
cream piKil not only obtained a better price
for local producers but it influenced the or-
ganization of similar co-operative pools >i\
southern Illinois.

Competition For Cream
The Dahlgren pool later disintegrated,
but now assistance is being given by the
Jefferson County Farm Bureau in reorgan-
izing it. Swift & Company has been buying
cream about Dahlgren, paying three cents
above the st.uion price. Local competition
for cream has influenced buyers to offer a
higher price during recent weeks.

I l-.e Egyptian Dairy I'roducts Company is
now getting the total output of the co-
o(vrative produce marketing association at
I nlield in V.'hite county, which coniroK
about 75,000 lbs. of butterfal a \ear.

rlie company which Stanard heads is co
■ iperating with the Illinois Produce .Marktt-
ing .•\ssi>ciation under the new marketing
a'.;reenient .innounccd a short time ago.

Appel Disappears

^I'^lil. advisability of bonding treasurers
_L of local mutual insurance companies
as a matter of good business judgment is
reve.ilcd in a recent press report. Edward
C). .\ppel, secretary of three mutual insur
.Mice companies in .Madison counts. III., at.
cordin.; to press reports, disappeared on
.\pril l'> tt lien otficials told him thev
planned an examination of his Isooks.

C:har!es Rozier told authorities that there
is m apparent shortage of S 15, 000 to
S20,000 in Appel's accounts. Policyholders
in insur.tncc companies endorsed by tiic
Illinois ,\gricultural Association have their
investments in these organizations protected
since the officers charged with responsibility
lor monevs are bonded.

Iroquois^ Schedule

Till. Iroquois C^ountv Farm Bureau
baseball team has adopted a schedule
of games as follows:

May 3 1 Iroquois vs. Grunds at .Morris
June 14 Iroquois vs. LaSalle at Vi'atscka
June 28 Iroquois vs. Kankakee at Kankakee
July 12 Iroquois vs. Grundy at >)i"atseka
July 26 Iroquois vs. LaSalle at Ottawa
.\ug. 9 Iroquois vs. Kankakee at Vi'atscka
H. G. Pendcrgrast has been appointed as
manager. B.iseball suits and equipment have
been purchased in readiness for the first
game.

II

THE I. A. A. RECORD

'' I "IHE ideas of the national chamber of
■JL commerce about the farm problem as
evidenced by action taken in the recent
convention at Washington appear to have
undergone decided changes since the Agri-
cultural Marketing Act became operative.
Not more than a year ago, the chamber was
shouting for co-operative marketing with
federal assistance as the way to farm relief.
Todiy it is for a Farm Board with clipped
win^, without money, and inactive except
to piovide information and give the farmer
adviie.

In] other words the chamber now stands
for i "do-nothing" policy. Secretary Hyde
aptly named it "fat-headed self-complacen-
cy," content with things as they are, the
laissefe-faire policy. The loud wailing of
comtiiission men who fear the competition
of eiffective co-operative terminal marketing
associations created all the disturbance. The
chamber of commerce resolution thus places
the Organization on record as against any-
thinj that promises to help the farm in-
dustiy if it interferes with the present tolls
exacted by any of its members.

There's nothing illegitimate nor criminal
abouf my group fighting for economic ad-
Tantige. Just so it is honest in doing so
and does not misrepresent its intentions. The
national chamber of commerce a short time
ago cjimpaigned for members among farmers
clam:ikng that it was doing much for agri-
cultujre, apparently to justify the request
for ct)ntributions. When it came to a show
downt the organization went on record
against co-operative marketing, and against
the iiterests of the farmer.

Alixander Legge, the scrappy chairman
of tht Federal Farm Board bluntly told the
disap^inted business men, "There has been
consi jerable evidence the last several months
that lentirely too many of your members
were for the principle of co-operation only
so lorg as it didn't work." Mr. Legge and
Mr. P lyde made a host of fast friends among
American farmers when they stood their
ground against the selfish attacks of insin-
cere nen.

Our friend and contemporary, Bill Stahl,
of th( Farmer's National Grain Corporation
descrijes the pilgrimage to Washington in
pictu^sque terms as follows: "Several car-
loads jof grain traders invaded Washington
a fewi days ago for the purpose of asking
the Farm Board, the Congress or somebody
to keep the farmers from shaking them off.
Wheii Coxey's army invaded the capital,
you'll (remember, it hoofed it. The more
modeen army, of grain traders, travels io

parlor cars. Paid for by whom, please?
Why, by the grain producers, of course.
The grain trade's wailing that the govern-
ment has gone into the grain business is, of
course, mere camouflage. The real fear is
that the profits of grain marketing may get
into the fanners' hands.

"The co-operative marketing movement
seeks to tear down no business structure.
If, in its development, older marketing sys-
tems become obsolete and pass out of the
picture, it is merely history repeating itself.
There is no sound reason why the profits
that come from the marketing of a product
should not belong to the producers of the
product.

"Vast elevator and warehousing systems
have been built from the profits of grain
handling and processing. Farmer co-opera-
tive marketing contemplates ownership and
control of these systems by those who made
them possible.

"Enemies of co-operative grain marketing
are not nearly so concerned over the chances
of its failure as over the likelihood of its
success." E. G. T.

Franklin County Reassesses

A REASSESSMENT of all property is
now under way in Franklin coimty.
The assessment was begun following a meet-
ing of the local o£Bcials with Chairman
William H. Malone of the State Tax Com-
mission who pledged the aid of that body
in bringing about a fair and equitable valu-
ation of all property.

According to press reports the system
used for assessing property will be patterned
after that used in Cook county. Each as-
sessor, according to thb plan, will be given
written instructions so that uniformity will
prevail in the valuation of property.

No reassessment will be ordered in Wil-
liamson county at the present time because
of the depressing state of finances in that
county following the closing of a number
of banks it was reported. The Franklin and
Williamson County Farm Bureaus together
with the I. A. A. appeared before the Tax
Commission last year asking that inequali-
ties in the valuation of farm lands and city
property be eliminated. Orders of re-
assessment were issued, but were later
rescinded when local officials agreed to re-
assess property in 1930.

Soybean Marketing

JOHN W. ARMSTRONG, of Cham-
paign, president of the Soybean Market-
ing Association, reports a membership of
2,187.

A plan of merchandising the 1930 crop
will be announced in the near future.

The members of the Soybean Market-
ing Association it is estimated will produce
1,600,000 bushels of beans this year to be
sold through the association.

Readers' Forum

Editor I. A. A. Record:

I HAVE just read the new I. A. A.
Record. It is very attractively put up
and full of good information."

J. W. Whisenand, Adviser,
Peoria County Farm Bureau,

Peoria, Illinois.

From a Railroad Man

HAVING seen several statements and
arguments in the daily press by dif-
ferent organizations which seemed to me to
be detrimental to the interests of the Amer-
ican farmer, and being interested in the
farmers' welfare through the ownership of
some Joint Stock Land Bank stocks, the
thought occurred to me that it was my
duty to look after my own interests which
I could best express by joining the Farm
Bureau. Surely farming, our largest Ameri-
can industry, is entitled to some considera-
tion by our government. In view of the
taxes that the farmers pay, they are, I feel,
entitled to all the help our President and
Congress are giving them through the pres-
ent Farm Board.

I paid $150.00 per share for stock in
the Joint Stock Land Bank, which shares
have dwindled to about $10.00 per share
through the inability of the farmer to pay
even the interest on the loans our bank
made on farm land. My viewpoint is that
if the farmer gets in a fairly prosperous
condition, my land bank stock will again
rise in value, and if the small investment
of $15.00 per year in the Farm Bureau will
give them my moral and financial assistance,
it is money well spent. The rise of $15.00
in one share will pay a whole year's dues in
the Farm Bureau.

I am not a farm owner, nor interested
in any farm lands except through the
ownership of stock in the Joint Stock Land
Bank. I will write to our president that he
might suggest to other owners of Joint
Land Bank Stock that they can further
their best interests by joining their local
Farm Bureau.

Jacob Buss, Boone county, 111.

Mr. Buss is a railroad traiimian at Belvi-
dere and now a member of the I. A. A. and
Boone County Farm Bureau.

A State Play Tournament sponsored by
the Farm Bureaus of Champaign, Kankakee,
LaSalie, and DeKalb counties will be held
at the Little Theatre of the University of
Illinois in Urbana at 8:00 P. M. on Friday
evening. May 23.

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co.,
608 South Dearborn Street,
Chicago, III.

This will acknowledge receipt of your letter
of April 21st, and your check for $48.50 cover-
ing the loss which I sustained as a result of my
car catching on fire.

Please accept my thanks for thi9 check and
the prompt manner in which you adjuited this
claim. It is a pleasure to insure with companies
like yours. N. E. Dressor, Bond County, III.

.:-.^;f:.;.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Thirteen

Cream Producers and

Butter Mfgrs. Cooperate

4.

First Contracts with 111. Produce
Marketing Assn. Arrive

AS we go to press the first signed agree-
^ ments between the Illinois Produce
Marketing Association and butter manufac-
turers who buy Illinois cream are being re-
ceived.

Signed contracts have come in from the
Pioneer Creamery Co. of Galesburg, Emster
Bros, of Chicago, which are now buying the
total output of five local produce marketing
associations, the Murphy Butter and Egg
Company, Chicago, and the Egyptian Dairy
Products Company of McLeansboro, Illinois.

The new plan of producer-manufacturer
co-operation recently announced in the
press represents a departure from the usual
method of marketing farm products. The
marketing agreement is to run between the
Illinois Produce Marketing Association, a
co-operative representing some 10,000 or-
ganized producers of butterfat from 36
counties of the state, and butter manufac-
turers who buy Illinois cream. ;y ,...

The plan provides that the farmers are
to share equally with processors in all profits
left after expenses of operation are paid
and three-fourths of a cent per lb. is allowed
the manufacturer as interest on invested
and operating capital and good will.

The price schedule varies with the 90
score Chicago butter market as follows:
frice Range Premium

2J— 293^ . ■ j^jjj^j y^^

30— 34J^ ^ Plus '74^

35— 39% ^

40 — 44J4

45—49% V-i .

JO— 54%

55—593/4

The premiums above are added to the
Chicago 90 score butter prices on a sliding
scale basis.

Three Grades Cream

Three grades of cream are to be recog-
nized, namely, sweet cream. No. 1 sour
cream, and No. 2 sour cream. The prices
quoted above apply on No. 1 sour cream
which ranges in acidity from .3 to .6 per
cent at point of delivery. When 25 per
cent of the total current receipts at any lo-
cal marketing unit consist of sweet cream,
the processor agrees to pay for the sweet
cream on the basis of the foregoing schedule
based on the 93 score butter price. The
No. 2 sour price is based on the 88 score
butter market and onion cream is to be
■ docked five cents per lb. below the No. 2
price.

The Marketing Association is to have ex-
clusive control of the weighing, grading,
and testing of all butterfat, and to assume
all obligations for the cost of such weigh-
ing, grading, and testing. The processor
has the privilege of rechecking on grades,
weights, and tests.

1%*

Eliminate Waste

"One of the chief advantages of this co-
operative agreement," states Frank Gougler,
director of produce marketing for the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association, "is that much
waste and expense in assembling the prod-
uct will be eliminated. An effort will be
made to allocate cream to the nearest but-
ter manufacturer and save criss-cross haul-
ing," continued Gougler. "Wasteful com-
petition between processors fighting to se-
cure a larger volume of the raw product
will eventually be eliminated when the pro-
ducers of every county are organized.

"At present some towns have as many as
five or six local cream buying stations repre-
senting as many manufacturers. By co-
operative organization farmers hope to re-
place these private cream stations in a given
town, with one co-operative marketing unit
where all the cream in the adjacent terri-
tory will be assembled and sold through one
channel."

Committee of Three

The administration of the plan is left to
a committee composed of three producer
and three processor representatives. The
following have been designated to serve un-
til their successors are chosen: Earl C.
Smith, president, and Geo. E. Metzger, sec-
retary of the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion; and S. M. Elkins, president of the
Illinois Produce Marketing Association for
the producers. For the processors; T. F.
Canfield of Swift & Co., Chicago; T. A.
Borman of the Beatrice Creamery Co., Chi-
cago; and N. W. Hepburn of the Peoria
Creamery Co., Peoria.

The processors on the Administration
Committee are elected for one year. Each
processor signing the agreement is entitled
to one vote, and in addition to one vote,
each is entitled to another vote for every
500,000 lbs. or major fraction thereof, of
butter churned in plants receiving sour and
sweet cream from the Association during
its last fiscal year.

This Committee is charged with the arbi-
tration of all controversies, allocation and
reallocation of cream to the processors, ad-
justment of grades, weights, and tests when
differences arise, and encouragement of co-
operative produce marketing. ■.. .,

May Select Referees

In case of disagreement the members of
the Administration Committee are to select
two referees; one representing the pro-
ducers, the other the processors. If they
cannot agree the two referees shall select
an umpire. The unanimous decision of a
matter by the referees, or a majority vote
of the referees acting with the iimpire will
be binding upon all parties.

If the producers are not satisfied with
the report and accounting of the processors
on net profits, the Administration Commit-
tee shall appoint an independent auditor to
check all records. The finding of such re-
port and audit shall be binding upon both
parties, and the cost thereof shall be borne
equally by processors and producers.

Supply Cans, Etc.
The manufacturer agrees to furnish all
cans, tags, seals, and other equipment used
in the transportation of cream. If fanners
can deliver cream cheaper to the manufac-
turing plant than the present cost, they will
have the right to do so, the processor allow-
ing the producer the true per lb. cost of
transportation from the country assembling
point to the plant.

The right of contract is extended to all
processors who buy cream in Illinois. The
contract is to remain in force until Decem-
ber 31, 1931, and continues thereafter un-
less either party gives notice during Sep-
tember or October of its desire to terminate
the agreement, at the end of that year.

The Illinois Produce Marketing Associa-
tion already has a membership of 22 coun-
ties. The rest of the county co-operatives
are expected to afEliate with the State As-
sociation shortly.

Several Conferences !

The agreement was drawn up following
frequent conferences between producers and
processors during the past six months.

"The producers recognize that the build-
ing of co-operative butter manufacturing
plants would more or less duplicate those
already in existence," according to Mr.
Gougler. "The purpose of th^ plan is to
promote efficiency in the assembling and
manufacturing of butterfat so as to give
the manufacturer a chance to make a fair
profit and at the same time to assure the
producer a fair price."

Gougler predicts that the plan will have
a far-reaching influence in improving the
quality of Illinois butter because of the
grading system estabUshed, shortening of
the haul to the creamery, and payment
based on quality of cream delivered.

NOTICE

ELECTION OF DELEGATES

ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL

ASSOCIATION

Notice is hereby given that in connec-
tion with the annual meetings of all County
Farm Bureaus to be held during the
months of May and June, 1930, at the
hour and place to be determined by the
Board of Directors of each respective
County Farm Bureau, the members in
good standing of such County Farm
Bureaus and who are also qualified voting
members of Illinois Agricultural Associa*
tion shall elect a dele^te or delegates to
represent such members of Illinois Agri-
cultural Association and vote on all mat-
ters before the next annual meeting or any
special meeting of Association, including
the election of oflicers and directors as
provided for in the by-lawt of the As-
sociation.

During the month of June, such meet-
ings will be conducted in the following
counties: Ogle, June 3.

During the month of July no such meet-
ings will be conducted.

Signed - t ">;."

G. E. METZGER, Secretary.
April 4, 1930.

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Page Fourteen

THE I. A.

RECORD

KEEPING ^VELL

Bv Dr. John E. Boland,
Country Life Insurance Co.

Stomach Ache and Appendicitis

PROBABLY no other minor ailment car-
ries with it the seriousness and takes
the toll in human lives as the old fashioned
"sttmach ache." This no doubt is due to
the I attitude of the lay people and the
physician regarding this condition. From
time memorial we have all had stomach
aches and by virtue of this we attach very
litt e importance to it. Unfortunately cer-
tain percentages of
out so-called stomach
aches are the first
syn iptoms of an
Ac ite Appendicitis.

t r
a n

Dr. John E. Boland

IIS not an easy
matter to dif-
fer ;ntiate between a
u e Appendicitis
d an ordinary
stoinach ache. The
fir^ symptom of
Acute Appendicitis is

a jiain or a severe cramp in the pit of the
stohiach. As a rule for the first twelve
hoars of the disease the pain is generalized
thitoughout the abdomen. After that the

. condition is prone to localize and the pain
is more pronounced in the lower right side.
The abdominal pain is followed within a

■ very short time by a nausea. This is fol-
lowed by vomiting. In this we have the
thiee cardinal symptoms of Appendicitis,
via., pain in the abdomen, nausea and

: vomiting. Always think of Acute Appen-
diaitis in all cases of stomach ache that do
not yield immediately to the ordinary treat-
ment. Do not continue to give cathartics
as Ithis is positively contra-indicated in Ap-

\ pepdicitis.

ris rather unfortunate that the causes
of stomach ache and Appendicitis are
ap jroximateiy the same, viz., over-eating,
CO istipation, diarrhea, eating of certain
fo>ds such as green apples, cucumbers, fresh
pork, etc. For this reason individuals,
esjiecially children, are treated for stomach
cramps and the possibility of an Acute Ap-
peidicitis is lost, due to the fact that they
at :ribute the condition to the eating of

ce 'tain foods.

aPPENDICITIES in children is much
Jam. more serious than in adults, due to the
fact that the appendix rapidly goes on to
suppuration and is apt to rupture witl^in
twenty-four hours. The diagnosis in chil-
dijen should be made early and the opera-
tion should take place within the first
ei, ;hteen hours.

Appendicitis is a very simple condition
w len operated early. The mortality rate
affer an appendix has ruptured is approxi-
mjately 46%. In all stomach aches that do
nat yield immediately to treatment consult
y^ur doctor at once, insist on an early
diagnosis and do not hestltate if your
piysician advises an operation.

First Agency Convention

THE first convention of all the general
agents of Country Life was held at
the Farm Bureau hall in Bloomington, 111.,
on May 14. The meeting was called to
order by H. O. Henry, president of the
General Agency Club. The general agents
were introduced by H. H. Click, vice-presi-
dent.

Greetings from President Earl C. Smith
were read by Manager L. A. Williams, and
the program was under way by 10:15 a. m.
Seventy-two general agents attended and
the total attendance including candidates
for general agencies and insurance commit-
tees was 122.

Addresses were made by H. O. Henry,
V. Vaniman, W. E. Hedgcock, Claude
Hicks, A. P. Cooper, Otis Kercher, Homer
Hitchcock, G. O. Chenoweth, M. E. Rob-
erts, G. R. Williams. Manager Larry Wil-
liams talked on the subject of "The Easiest
Way is Usualy Hard." Ways and means
of acquiring county quotas were discussed
by V. Vaniman of the I. A. A. Insurance
Department. ...

Open Forum Held

The open forum in the afternoon brought
forth a barrage of questions and comment.
"Without any question this enthusiastic
meeting was helpful to all the participants
and will result in more intelligent solicita-
tion and organization in all of the counties,"
said Mr. Williams.

A demonstration of team work was put
on by Messrs. Chenoweth and Oxley, who
solicited Larry Williams as the prospect.
They kept the entire audience interested,
and resulted in breaking down the idea
which many amateurs had, that they should
never use the general agent, or that the
general agent should never use a special
agent in soliciting unless he is sure he can't
sell the case himself.

Advantage Team Work

"The fact that two men enlist greater
confidence and bring out more information
of an assuring nature to the prospect than
is possible for the individual to command, is
the greatest advantage of team work," said
Williams. "Without any question the busi-
ness written by two men working together
will be more than three times what either
individual can do working alone. This has
been proved time and again by expert
solicitors working country business, where
one man is the local man, the other man the
general agent. The prospect would much
prefer to have two men call, if one man
is a local man. The prospect wants to place
the responsibility on someone who lives in
his community, someone who has to answer
for any mistakes."

Interesting discussions of new develop-
ments of the company, and the experience
of other agents, gave the convention a tone
of information and enthusiasm which was
keenly appreciated throughout.

Country Life has approximately $28,-
500,000 of insurance in force at the present

time. . ..i- :,, .--..■,-.^'.n •

III. Wool Grow^ers Have

Chance To Co-operate

Plan To Work With National Wool
Marketing Corporation

A PLAN for making available to Illi-
. nois farmers the Federal Farm Board's
co-operative wool marketing program is be-
ing developed by the I. A. A.'s livestock
marketing department.

County wool marketing conferences to
be called by Farm Bureaus interested in this
project are proposed for Friday, May 2}.
Each county, of course, will have the priv-
ilege of naming another date if such action
seems more advisable.

Since Illinois does not have a regional
wool marketing association the privilege of
using the facilities of the Central Wool
Marketing Corporation of Concord, New
Hampshire, which in turn is affiliated with
the National Wool Marketing Corporation,
the Farm Board organization with head-
quarters at Boston, Mass.

Ship to Boston

The plan provides for assembling wool
from a given county at a centrally-located
place, and shipping direct to Boston. Each
grower's wool will be properly identified
with tags and on arrival at Boston will be
weighed and graded. The wool will be
sold by the National Wool Marketing
Corporation.

The Corporation is prepared to advance
to wool growers 90 per cent of the value
of clip based on the Boston price less mar-
keting costs. Thus, if wool is actually
worth JO cents in the grease at Boston and
assuming a total expense of five cents per
pound, the amount of the advance would
be 90 per cent of 25 or 22.5 cents per
pound, which in many localities exceeds
the price now being offered. This advance
will be made direct to growers as soon as
the wool is appraised at Boston.

Members interested in pooling their wool
can secure additional information at the
County Farm Bureau office.

Meat And Hard Times

The hard times of the past winter and
early spring have had only a slight effect
on the demand for meats, says the Bureau
of Agricultural Economics.

Meat sales during the four months
November, 1929 to February, 1930, com-
pare favorably with the corresponding
months of the previous winter. Prices have
been influenced, says the report, chiefly by
changes in supply.

Worth a Lot
The livestock sanitation and disease pre-
vention teachings of the Farm Bureau are
worth a lot to me. Through our organized
Farm Bureau buying power we have been
able to reduce ^erum costs nearly one-half
which alone means an annual saving of
$75.00 on our farm.

F. R. Hubert,
Saybrook, McLean County.

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Ptn ir Fourteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

KEEPING IVELL

By Dr. John K. Bnlatid.
Country Lije tnmtrance Co.

^tomach Ache and Appendicitis

ROBABLY no other minor nilmcnt car-
ries witli it the seriousness and take'
the toll in human lives as the old fashioned
'stcmach ache." This no doubt is due to
the attitude of the lay people and the
physician regarding this condition. From
memorial we have all had stomach
;i ^s and by virtue of this we attach very
importance to it. L'nfortun.itely ccr-
pcrccntagcs of

t r
.a n

Ac

tim •

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tair

our so-called stomach

.ich ;s arc the first

syn ptoms of an

...'Vci itc Appendicitis.

II IS not an easy
matter to dif-
ferentiate between a
je Appendicitis
d an ordinary
sto nach .iche. The
firs: symptom of
Jte Appendicitis is

Dr. John E. Boland

a fain or a severe cramp in the pit of the
'sto nach. As a rule for the first twelve
hoi rs of the disease the pain is generalized
ithijughout the abdomen. After that the
cor dition is prone to localize and the pain
is more pronounced in the lower right side.
Th; abdominal pain is followed within a
.veiy short time by a nausea. This is fol-
: loved by vomiting. In this we have the
thiee cardinal symptoms of Appendicitis,
viz., pain in the abdomen, nausea and
vomiting. Always think of Acute Appen-
dicitis in all cases of stomach ache that do
no yield immediately to the ordinary treat-

■ mt nt. Do not continue to give cathartics
as this is positively contra-indicated in Ap-
pei idicitis.

Ir is rather unfortunate that the causes
of stomach ache and Appendicitis are
ap )ro.\imately the same, viz., over-eating,
CO istipation, diarrhea, eating of certain
' fo. ids such as green apples, cucumbers, fresh
' po 'k, etc. For this reason individuals,

■ es|ccially children, are treated for stomach
cr mps and the possibility of an Acute .Xp-
pc idicitis is lost, due to the fact that they
at ribute the condition to the eating of

. ce tain foods.

APPFXDICITIES in children is much
^ more serious than in adults, due to the
fi :t that the appendix rapidly goes on to
suppuration and is apt to rupture within
fn enty-four hours. The diagnosis in chil-
dr :n should be made early and the opera-
tion should take place within the first
eii hteen hours.

Appendicitis is a very simple condition
w len operated early. The mortality rate
af :er an appendix has ruptured is approxi-
m itely 46^^- In all stomach aches that do
n(t yield immediately to treatment consult
yc ur doctor at once, insist on an early
di ignosis and do not hestitate if your
pi ysician advises an operation.

First Agency Convention

THl" first convention of all the general
agents of Country Life was held at
the Farm Bureau hall in Bloomington, 111.,
on May 14. The meeting was called to
order by H. O. Henry, president of the
General Agency Club. The general agents
were introduced by H. H. Glick, vice-presi-
dent.

Greetings from President Earl C. Smith
were read by Manager L. A. Williams, and
the program was under way by 10:15 a. m.
Seventy-two general agents attended and
the total attendance including candidates
for general agencies and insurance commit-
tees was 122.

Addresses were made by H. O. Henry,
\'. Vaniman, W. E. Hedgcock, Claude
Hicks, A. P. Cooper, Otis Kercher, Homer
Hitchcock, G. O. Chenoweth, M. E. Rob-
erts, G. R. Vi'illiams. Manager Larry Wil-
liams talked on the subject of "The Easiest
Vi'ay is Usualy Hard." Ways and means
of acquiring county quotas were discussed
by V. Vaniman of the I. A. A. Insurance
Dcp.irtnient.

Open Forum Held

The open forum in the afternoon brought
forth a barrage of questions and comment.
"Without any question this enthusiastic
meeting was helpful to all the participants
.ind will result in more intelligent solicita-
tion and organization in all of the counties,"
said Mr. Williams.

.•\ demonstration of team work was put
on by Messrs. Chenoweth and Oxley, ^ho
solicited Larry ^'illiams as the prospect.
They kept the entire audience interested,
and resulted in breaking down the idea
which many amateurs had, that they should
never use the general agent, or that the
general agent should never use a special
agent in soliciting unless he is sure he can't
sell the case himself.

Advantage Team Work

"The fact that two men enlist greater
confidence and bring out more information
of an assuring nature to the prospect than
is possible for the individual to command, is
the greatest advantage of team work," said
Williams. "Without any question the busi-
ness written by two men working together
will be more than three times what either
individual can do working alone. This has
been proved time and again by expert
solicitors working country business, where
one man is the local man, the other man the
general agent. The prospect would much
prefer to have two men call, if one man
is a local man. The prospect wants to place
the responsibility on someone who lives in
his community, someone who has to answer
for any mistakes."

Interesting discussions of new develop
ments of the company, and the experience
of other agents, gave the convention a tone
of information and enthusiasm which was
keenly appreciated throughout.

Country Life has approximately $28,-
5 00,000 of insurance in force at the present
time.

111. Wool Growers Have

Chance To Co-operate

Plan To Work With National Wool
Marketing Corporation

A PLAN for making available to Illi-
nois farmers the Federal Farm Board's
co-operative wool marketing program is be-
ing developed by the I. A. A.'s livestock
marketing department.

County wool marketing conferences to
be called by Farm Bureaus interested in this
project are proposed for Friday, May 23.
Each county, of course, will have the priv-
ilege of naming another date if such action
seems more advisable.

Since Illinois does not have a regional
wool marketing association the privilege of
using the facilities of the Central Wool
Marketing Corporation of Concord, New
Flampshire, which in turn is affiliated with
the National Wool Marketing Corporation,
the Farm Board organization with head-
quarters at Boston, Mass.

Ship to Boston

The plan provides for assembling wool
from a given county at a centrally-located
place, and shipping direct to Boston. Each
grower's wool will be properly identified
with tags and on arrival at Boston will be
weighed and graded. The wool will be
sold by the National Vi'ool Marketing
Corporation.

The Corporation is prepared to advance
to wool growers 90 per cent of the value
of clip based on the Boston price less mar-
keting costs. Thus, if wool is actually
worth 30 cents in the grease at Boston and
assuming a total expense of five cents per
pound, the amount of the advance would
be 90 per cent of 25 or 22.5 cents per
pound, which in many localities exceeds
the price now being offered. This advance
will be made direct to growers as soon as
the wool is appraised at Boston.

Members interested in pooling their wool
can secure additional information at the
County Farm Bureau office.

Meat And Hard Times

The hard times of the past winter and
early spring have had only a slight effect
on the demand for meats, says the Bureau
of Agricultural Economics.

Meat sales during the four months
November, 1929 to February, 1930, com-
pare favorably with the corresponding
months of the previous winter. Prices have
been influenced, says the report, chiefly by
changes in supply.

Worth a Lot
The livestock sanitation and disease pre-
vention teachings of the Farm Bureau are
worth a lot to me. Through our organized
Farm Bureau buying power we have been
able to reduce serum costs nearly one-half
which alone means an annual saving of
$75.00 on our farm.

F. R. Hubert,

Saybrook, McLean County.

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The cnniernnian hnppened niont; Just in time In see firemen save nn nuto- {

mobile front burning at Forty-fifth and Grand Ave. Id Chlenso. ,

FIRE DESTROYS MANY A CAR

TRAINED firemen ready for action are not always near when danger threatens.
A car afire in the open country far from help usually means a total loss. In-
surance in your own company costs little and protects you against such hazards.

A car valued around $1,500 can be insured against fire in the Illinois Agricul-
tural Mutual, experience shows, for approximately $2.80 a year; insurance on lower
priced cars costs proportionately less. In case of loss by fire you will be reimbursed
for the full value of your auto or truck, at the time of the accident.

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Farm Bureau Co -Operation Benefits Policy Holder

The ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL MUTUAL is a non-proiit company. Like
all services of the Farm Bureau and I. A. A., automobile insurance is offered at the
lowest possible cost. Savings effected by state-wide Farm Bureau co-operation are
reflected in low assessments. You can insure your car in your own company for less
than half the premiums charged by most privately-controlled, old line companies.

Mail Coupon for Particulars

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Ins. Co.,
61)8 South Dearborn Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
I want to know more about insurance at cost
my own company. Please send me your
fielder and latest information on:

n Automobile Insurance

D Employers Liability Insurance

Name
/ ddress
C ounty

' J[ake of Car

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Complete coverage includes public liability and prop-
erty damage, fire and theft, and collision insurance. Sta-
"1 tionary object collision is available at a slight additional
amount. | .

Employers liability insurance for the Farm Bureau
member employer is available on an equally attractive
basis. You as a Farm Bureau member have helped make
this service possible. Why not use it? I

Illinois Agricultural Mutual
Insurance Company

608 South Dearborn Street

CHICAGO I

A Company for Farm Bureau Members Only

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communications for publication to Editorial offices, Illinois Agricultural Asso<'ialion Rerard, 608 S. Dearborn St., rhicaco. 111.

Number 6

June, 1930

Volume 8

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Earl C. Smith Discusses

Grain Market Program

Growers Assemble at Blootnington

June 6 to Review Recent

Developments

(cHr HROUGHOUT the development
-I- of the commercial services which
h.ive been initiated and organized by
the Ilhnois Agricultural Association, it
has moved forward only after securing
the approval of representa-
tive le.iders and members of
the organization. In line
with that policy, this meet-
ing has been called for the
purpose of discussing vari-
ous elements that have de-
veloped affecting the future
welfare of the Illinois Grain
Corporation," Earl C. Smith,
president of the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association, said
before a state-wide gather-
ing of grain producers at
Bloomington on June 6.
Reviews Efforts
"In order that we may
get a proper understanding
of all that is involved, I
think it may be well to take
just a few moments in re-
viewing the efforts made by
the I. A. A. and County
Farm Bureaus covering
many years to develop a
sound grain marketing pro-
gram," he continued.

"Since my first election
to the Executive Committee of the I.
A. A. in 1923, there has been no sub-
ject matter that has received as much
consideration and with apparently so
little result as that of grain mar-
keting. Throughout the years urgent
and continuing requests for a stimula-
tion of grain marketing activity have
come to the administration. Commit-
tees have been appointed and given
much time and study to all phases of
the question and the various possibili-
ties. In each case it was recognized
that any successful grain marketing

plan must be founded upon the local
co-operative elevator. Recognizing that
the Farmers Grain Dealers' Association
of Illinois, while not a marketing or-
ganization, was constituted from many
of the farmers' elevators in Illinois, the
Illinois Agricultural Association early in
1927 invited the Farmers Grain Dealers'
Association of Illinois to select a small
committee, which would be available to
meet with a similar committee repre-
senting the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation. This invitation was premised

More Than 800 Attend i

Bloomington Meeting

40 Counties Represented at Grain
Marketing Conference

THE OLD WAY

FARMERS fARnCRS FAft/nEflS FARmCfts FARnCKS
ELEVATOR ELtVATOA ELEVATOR ELEVATDA EUVATOII

iviriT

LACK OF

CO-OPERATION

EXPORTER

THE MODERN WAY

,<c.

FARmeRS

ELEVATOR

flTll '^■fW%

FAKrnens farmers

£ LEVATOR ELEVATOR

(co-operation)

upon the desire to work out, if possible,
a grain marketing program that would
justify and carry the full support of all
who were anxious to serve the best in-
terests of the grain producers. This
committee, which was known as the
(Mutual Relations Committee,) held
many meetings throughout 1927, 1928
and most of 1929, but were unable to
agree upon the main essentials for a
grain marketing program.

"Those representing the Farmers
Grain Dealers' Association have insisted

(Continued on page 4, column I)

MORE than 800 grain producers,
most of them farmers' elevator
directors and stockholders, assembled at
Bloomington on June 6 in a state-wide
gathering to hear about recent develop-
ments in the efforts of Illinois farmers
to organize an effective co-
operative grain marketing
program.

By 1:45 p. m. the lower
floor and balcony of the
Illini Theatre were filled. It
was a serious-minded audi-
ence assembled to get facts,
and defend, if necessary, the
efforts of their organization
in serving the interests of
grain producer members.

The meeting was digni-
fied throughout. Considera-
tion of the problem before
the producer was kept on a
high plane without the in-
jection of personalities into
the discussion. The bulk of
the three-hour program was
confined to statements per-
taining to co-operative grain
marketing, the Illinois Grain
Corporation, and plans for
the future.

Johnstone Presides
G. C. Johnstone of Bloom-
ington, president of the Illi-
nois Grain Corporation, presided. After
short opening remarks by Harrison
Fahrnkopf, secretary of the I. G. C.,
President Earl C. Smith told of efforts
put forth in years past on grain mar-
keting and answered charges given most
prominence in propaganda disseminated
among elevator directors and stock-
holders.

Secretary Geo. E. Metzger gave an
interesting talk illustrating the present
system of grain marketing and dis-
closing the need for volume control of
grain to give the producer bargaining

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i:ii>l<il<- trim. Iiiiiiiiii); u( i'urt v-liltli ami (jraud Avr. Id <°hi4'ni:n.

FIRE DESTROYS MANY A CAR

TRAINED firemen ready for action are not always near when danger threatens.
A car afire in the open country far from help usually means a total loss. In-
surance in your own company costs little and protects you against such hazards.

A car valued around $1,500 can be insured against fire in the Illinois Agricul-
tural Mutual, experience shows, for approximately $2.80 a year; insurance on lower
priced cars costs proportionately less. In case of loss by fire you will be reimbursed
for the full value of your auto or truck, at the time of the accident.

Farm Bureau Co-Operation Benefits Policy Holder

The ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL MUTUAL is a non-profit company. Like
all services of the Farm Bureau and I. A. A., automobile insurance is offered at the
lowest possible cost Savings effected by state-wide Farm Bureau co-operation are
reflected in low assessments. You can insure your car in your own company for less
than half the premiums charged by most privately-controlled, old line companies.

\fai'i Cc-upon far Pot t i'. u(ar s

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Ins. Co.,
6)3 South Dearborn Street,
C hicago. Illinois.

I want to know more about insurance at cost
my own company. Please send me your
folder and latest information on:

~ Automobile Insurance

[~ Employers Liability Insurance

Name ...

J iddres3

< bounty

1 lake of Car

Complete coverage includes public liability and prop-
erty damat^e, fire and theft, and collision insurance. Sta-
tionary object collision is available at a slight additional
amount. i .

Employers liability insurance for the Farm Bureau
member employer is available on an equally attractive
basis. You as a Farm Bureau member have helped make
this service possible. Why not use it?

Illinois Agricultural Mutual
Insurance Company

608 South Dearborn Street
CHICAGO

A Company fur Farm Bureau Members Only

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RECORD

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Number 6

June, 1930

N'olunic ^8

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Earl C. Smith Discusses

Grain Market Program

Growers Assemble at Bloomington

June 6 to Review Recent

Developments

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ii'T' ^ IROUGHOUT tlic development
JL ot the comniereM.ll services \\ liicli
li.ne been initi.UeJ .uid ois;.ini/ed h\
the Ilhnois Aj;rieith ur.il Assoei.ition. it
h.ts nui\ed forw.ud onl\ atter seeiiriiii;
tlie .ipprov.il of represent.i-
ti\e le.ulers .ind members of
tlie ()rj;.im/.ition. In Ime
willi th.u p()hc\', this meet-
ini: h.is been c.illed for tlie
purpose of disciissins; v.ui-
ous elements tli,\t h.tve de-
\ eloped .irtectinj; tile future
welt.ue of the Illinois Cjr.iin
C'orpor.ition," E.irl C. Smith,
president of the Illinois Aj;-
lieiiltur.d Assoei.ition, s.iid
before .t st.lte-wide j;.ither-
inj; of ;,;r.iin producers at
liloomington on June 6.
Reviews Efforts
111 order th.it we m.iy
i;et .1 proper underst.inding
of .ill th.it is involved, I
think it m.i\ be well to t.ike
just .1 few moments in re-
viewing; the efforts ni.ide by
the I. A. A. .md County
Farm B u r e .i u s coverini;
m.inx ye.irs to develop .i
sound i;'-i''i m.irketinj; pro-
gr.im," he continued.

"Since my first election
to the Executive CA)mmittee of the I.
A. A. in 192 3, there h.is been no sub-
ject m.ittcr th.it h.is received .is much
consider.ition and with .ipparenth so
little result as that of grain mar-
keting. Throughout the years urgent
and continuing requests for a stimula-
tion of grain marketing activity have
come to the administration. Commit-
tees have been appointed and given
niucli time and study to all phases of
the question and the various possibili-
ties. In each case it was recognized
that anv successful grain marketing

plan must be founded upon the local
co-operative elevator. Recognizing that
'the I armers Grain Dealers' Asst)ciation
of Illinois, while not a marketing or-
ganization, was constituted from many
of tlie farmers' elevators in Illinois, tlie
Illinois Agricultural Association earlv in
1927 invited the I armers Grain Dealers'
Association of Illinois to select a small
committee, vv liicli would be available to
meet with a similar committee repre-
senting the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation. This invitation was premised

More Than 800 Attend

Bloomington Meeting

40 Counties Represented at Grain
Marketing Conference

THE OLD WAY

FARMIRt f*P'^fRS FAHntHS »AK-M«S ffcKm)*-,
ELEVATOR iLtVATOH ELCWATOH IUVaTOM itlVAlo"

TiJLjn

( LACK or

' CO-OPE RATION .

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/^COMPETITIVE \
\ SELLING /

IXPORTER EXPORTER

THE MODERN WAY

FAKW\f«S ^AHMfcHb (AKc-.tt«',
fcLtVAtOP fcLtvAIoR, ELfvArOR

CO-OPERATIONj

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ILLINOIS
GRAIN
CORPORATION ^ 4rr=\

FAR

"^Mbarcaimiwc'

MERS NATIONAL
VI N CORPORATION

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MILLER r«MLLCR FOREIGN PROCCftoH

•uytR

upon the desire to work out, if possible,
a grain marketing program that would
justifv and carrv the full support of all
who were anxious to serve tlie best in-
terests of the grain producers. This
committee, which was known as the
(Mutual Relations Committee,) held
many meetings throughout 1927, 1928
and most of 1929. but were unable to
agree upon the main essentials for a
grain marketing program.

"Those representing the Farmers
Grain Dealers' Association have insisted
(ContinticJ on fJXi' •'• oiliiimi li

MORI' than S(»() grain producers,
most ot tium farmers' elevator
directors and stockhoklers, assembled at
Bloomington on \|une 6 in a state-wide
;«atliLLing to hear about recent develop-
ments in the efforts of Illinois farmers
to tirganize an eflective co-
operative grain marketing
pi'ogram.

By 1:45 p. m. the lower
floor and balcony of tlie
lllini Theatre were filled. It
was a serious-minded audi-
ence assembled to get facts,
and defend, it necessary, the
efforts of their organization
in serving the interests of
grain producer members.

The meeting was digni-
fied tiirougiiout. Considera-
tion of the problem before
the producer was kept on a
high plane without the in-
jection of personalities into
the discussion. The bulk of
the three-hour program was
confined to statements jx'r-
taining to co-operative grain
marketing, the Illinois Grain
C^orporation, and plans for
the future.

Johnstone Presides
G. C. Johnstone of Bloom-
ington, president of the Illi-
nois Grain Corporation, presided. .After
short opening remarks bv Harrison
I'ahrnkopf, secretary of the I. G. C,
President Far! C. Smith told of efforts
put forth in \ears past on grain mar-
keting and answered charges given most
prominence in propaganda disseminated
among elevator directors and Stock-
holders.

Secretary Geo. E. Metzgcr gave ,in
interesting talk illustrating the present
system of grain marketing and dis-
closing the need for volume control of
grain to give the proiiucer bargaining

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Four

THE I. A. A. RECORD

jX)wrr. Donald Kirkpairick, legal coun-
sel ior the I. A. A., outlined the legal
set-ip of the Illinois Grain Corporation
and closed with a stirring and vigor-
ous review of the accomplishments of
orga lized Illinois farmers through the
Farm Bureaus and I. A. A. that drew
muc 1 applause. Howard Leonard of
Eurdka, former president of the Asso-
ciati)n, spoke briefly at the close of the
sessi(^n giving his whole-hearted endorse-
mem; to the Illinois Grain Corporation.
The meeting adjourned about 4:00
p. n .

Nearly every major grain producing
county in Illinois was represented.
Man ^ drove more than 200 miles from
as far as Jackson and Henderson coun-
ties on the south and west, to the Wis-
cons n line on the north to attend the
conference.

confferenc(
Earl C.

Smith Discusses

Grain Marketing

(Continued from page })
thro' ighout all negotiations that any-
thinj; tending to disturb the present
set-up and operation of the elevators,
including the curtailment of the right
of a| local elevator to go, when and
wheiie it might please, with its grain,
would not succeed.

■ "Those representing the Illinois Agri-
culti ral Association were convinced
that to be effective it would be neces-
sary to merge a large volume of any
given commodity, if bargaining power
and resultant price increase was to be
refle< ted back to the grain producer.
Last Meeting December, 1929
"The last meeting of the Mutual
Rela ions Committee was held in De-
ceml er of 1929 and those representing
the j^armers Grain Dealers' Association
state! they were convinced there was
no njcessity for futher meetings, as ap-
parently the fundamental difference
abov ; outlined could not be reconciled.
Later learning that the Board of Direc-
tors of the Farmers Grain Dealers' As-
socia :ion had approved the report of
thos< representing the Grain Dealers'
Asso :iation and the principles for which
they stood, the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation had no other pleasure, if it
were to respond to the demands of the
grair producers of Illinois, than to re-
port its best thought and recommenda-
tions to the annual meeting of last Jan-
uary This was done only after advising
with and securing the approval of repre-
sentatives of the Federal Farm Board as
to w iiat would be embodied in the plan
and ])rinciples of the Illinois Grain Cor-
poral ion. The marketing conference at
the annual meeting went on record
unanimously in favor of setting in mo-
tion the recommendations placed before

the conference, and the charter for the
Illinois Grain Corporation was secured
in February of this year.

Directors Chosen

"The director of the Grain Market-
ing Department of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association called a meeting of
the representative Farm Bureau mem-
bers and grain producers of the state,
at which time, the first board of di-
rectors of Illinois Grain Corporation
was elected. They have been giving
much time and effort looking to the
development of this new organization.
The officers and directors of the I. A. A.
are not unmindful of the tremendous
responsibility assumed in this attempt
to build a strong and effective grain
marketing organization. We are not
forgetful of the disastrous results of
efforts made in earlier years in the life
of the I. A. A.

"We are not surprised at efforts being
made to thwart the development of this
newest project of the Farm Bureau
movement of Illinois. We are some-
what surprised, however, at the lengths
to which some seem willing to go in
displaying and spreading most malicious
and untruthful attacks and propaganda.
Although, in each case, it would be
very easy to conclusively answer the
charges that have been made, the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association, as yet,
has been unwilling to dignify the un-
worthy and unjust tactics used by even
making an attempt to reply.

"While the American public seems uni-
versally sold to the slogan of "Equality
for Agriculture"; yet grain marketing
is like all other efforts made to restore
equality. It brings to light the selfish
interests that seem willing to go to any
length rather than have removed the
advantages they have been enjoying for
so many years at the expense of the
producer.

Years of Study

"The Illinois Grain Corporation may
not be perfect in its set-up. It is, how-
ever, the result of years of study and
earnest effort made by the men elected
by the farmers of Illinois to guide the
policies and destiny of their organiza-
tion. Complete control of the corpora-
tion and its policies is vested in the
Board of Directors. No one is eligible
for the directorate, except a member
grain producer. Its set-up is such that
no one officially connected with the
Illinois Agricultural Association can
participate in or receive any benefits
from the corporation. This places the
policies and administration of the Illi-
nois Grain Corporation in as direct con-
trol of the grain producers themselves
as is legally possible ro provide. This,
within itself, is sufficient answer to the
unjust propaganda that is being circu-

Vicious Attacks On

Co-operative Marketing

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VICIOUS attacks on the Federal
Farm Board, the Agricultural Mar-
keting Act, the Illinois Agricultural
Association, and all efforts of grain
farmers in developing an effective co-
operative marketing program in Illinois
featured recent meetings held at Gil-
man and Ottawa which were widely
advertised by hand bills as being called
by the Illinois Farmers Grain Dealers
Association.

Lawrence Farlow, secretary of the
Grain Dealers Association, has attempt-
ed to deny responsibility of his asso-
ciation for these meetings. We cannot
reconcile these attempts to be relieved
of responsibility with the well known
fact that not only did Farlow sit on
the platform but appeared on the pro-
gram at each meeting without voicing
a word of protest against the vicious
and baseless charges that emanated from
the different speakers who had been ad-
vertised to appear.

The Illinois Agricultural Association
will not dignify such charges and un-
worthy attacks by making reply. Its
position is made clear in tRe editorial
on page 6.

lated by self-styled friends of the farm-
er. The most optimistic friends of the
Agricultural Marketing Act and those
now charged with its administration do
not hesitate to say that its chief — if not
only virtue, may be stated in one
phrase, namely. Provides the opportuni-
ty for the farmer producers to merge
a large volume of any given commodity
in central hands and with such control
being enabled to feed the commodity
into the market, according to demand.
If there can be any stabilization of price
or appreciable advance in price brought
about by the enactment of this legis-
lation, it will come only in and through
a program of this kind. So in offering
the Illinois Grain Corporation first to
the annual meeting of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association and now to the
farmer grain producers of Illinois, the
Illinois Agricultural Association has dis-
charged its first duty. The Illinois
Grain Corporation will prosper just to
the extent that the farmers themselves
take an interest and see that their grain
is handled by those who are willing and
anxious to do their full part in building
this volume control program.

"While we regret the extent and char-
acter of efforts that are being made to
slow up, if not stifle, this newest farm-
er corporation; yet, we have every con-
fidence in the fairness and the deter-
mination of the farmers themselves
(Continued on page 9)

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Facts For The Grain Producer

By HARRISON FAHRNKOPF .j .

Director Grain Marketing, Illinois Agricultural Association .;: ..^ , ' •

Harrison Fahrnkopf

LETTERS have come to our office
calling attention to a comparison
sheet sent out from the office of the
Illinois Farmers Grain Dealers' Associa-
tion. There are set forth various points
for comparison between the ILLINOIS
GRAIN CORPORATION and the
National Farmers' Elevator Grain Com-
pany Co-Operative (Rural Grain Com-
pany).

The ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL
ASSOCIATION and the ILLINOIS
GRAIN CORPORATION believe that
the producer is best
served by his or-
ganization when
that organization
uses its time, funds
and personnel in
promoting its own
program rather
than talking
against the other
fellows. The pro-
ducer gets little if
any service from
an organization whose officers and em-
ployees spend their time endeavoring to
halt the progress of a sound program.
This opposition pierhaps is inspired by
other than producer interests.

The ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL
ASSOCIATION is not opposing the
existence and operation of the Rural
Grain Company. The real issue is con-
tract or agreement marketing versus
the "voluntary" plan of marketing.
The ILLINOIS GRAIN CORPORA-
TION is going forward basing its ac-
tivities on the need for concentrating
the largest possible volume of grain
through single selling agency hands. It
believes that this can most effectively
be done through the medium of the
contract or agreement plan. ■. .

Let's Go Down The Line

The following "headings" were used
in the above mentioned comparison:

No. I — form of Organization. The
ILLINOIS GRAIN CORPORATION
was organized under the 1923 Illinois
law, known as the "Agricultural Co-
Operative Act." This law has many
advantages over some of the other acts
under which our co-operatives are op-
erating.

A country elevator association organ-
ized or reorganized under the "Agri-
cultural Co-Operative Act of Illinois"
is a corporation organized for the mu-

tual benefit of its members and is not
organized for profit.

A co-operative country elevator asso-
ciation organized under the "Corpora-
tion Act of 1872," or "The Co-Opera-
tive Association for Pecuniary Profit
Act of 1915," or the "General Corpora-
tion Act of 1919," is a corporation or-
ganized for pecuniary profit.

1. From a legal angle, the distinction
is important and the Supreme Court of
the United States during the year 1929,
in what is known as "The Oklahoma
Cotton Gin Case," made a very un-
favorable ruling against a co-operative,
because it was not organized under an
act "not for profit." ..-■"....•-.-

2. A country elevator association or-
ganized under the Agricultural Co-
Operative Act (1923) of Illinois, is
not required to obtain a license from
the Secretary of State to sell its stock.
This is not true of country elevator
associations or other co-operative asso-
ciations organized under the other acts.

3. The annual franchise fees of cor-
porations organized under the acts other
than the 1923 act are based upon the
amount of capital stock outstanding,
whereas, the franchise fees for a co-
operative association organized under
the 1923 act are only ten dollars ($10)
per year, regardless of the amount of
stock issued and outstanding.

4. A country elevator association or-
ganized under the act of 1923 can have
different classes of stock and of differ-
ent par values, or of no par value. A
country elevator association organized
under the 1915 act cannot have classes
of stock. The 1923 act permits greater
flexibility in providing for classes of
stock to meet the local condition.

5. The limit of stockholding in a co-
operative association organized under
the 1923 act is five {'i'^'c) per cent of
the authorized common stock, and no
limitation on the preferred, whereas, the
limit of the other acts is five ( 5 ) shares.

6. The liability of directors of a co-
operative association organized either
under the act of 1915 or of 1919 is
possible in certain instances. This is
not true under the 1923 act. If direc-
tors borrow money or create obliga-
tions in excess of the paid-in capital
stock and surplus, there is a personal
liability on the directors under the other
corporation acts. This is not true un-
der the act of 1923.

What Is The I. A. A.>

No. 2 — Sponsored by. Sponsored by
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSO-
CIATION, which has 58,000 farmer
members in Illinois. It is not only the
outstanding farm organization in Illi-
nois but one of the strongest state or-
ganizations in the entire country. It
is absurd for anyone to infer that this
organization does not represent the best
interests of the farmer. ' _ : , : 1-

No. 3 — Authorized Capital Stock.
It is true that the ILLINOIS AGRI-
CULTURAL ASSOCIATION holds
100,000 shares of preferred "B" stock
of no par value. This stock cannot
participate in the earnings nor in divi-
dends in case of dissolution, further-
more, neither can it be voted in excess
of the number of shares of common
stock outstanding; in other words,
where member elevators hold both com-
mon and preferred stock, it is never
possible for the preferred "B" stock to
out-vote. For example, if the average
elevator buys $2,000 of stock, which
would be 20 shares, it would own 20
shares of preferred and if it had 200
farmer patrons it would have issued to
it 200 shares of common, and altogether
have 240 votes as against 200 votes
from the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion.

Then remember, that the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association admits any farm-
er who desires to be a member. Many
of these votes cast by the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association are represented by
the same farmers who enable the ele-
vator to qualify for common stock; in
other words, the preferred "B" stock
should be looked up>on as a double con-
trol stock in the hands of the producer.
It is merely a plan instituted for the
purpose of restraining private or inde-
pendent or old line business concerns
from getting control of our co-ojjera-
tives. Today too many of our local
co-oj>eratives are dominated by other
interests than those of the producer; in
fact, the grain trade now has a con-
trolling interest in many of our farmer

elevators. ■_. ■:■?.:■».;:. ].

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Another Falsehood Nailed [-

No. 4 — Voting Control. The com-
parison says, giving the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association "absolute control
without any investment." This is ab-
solutely untrue. The Illinois Agricul-
tural Association has placed at the dis-
(Continucd on page 7)

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

I IjLiINOIS

CVLTVBAL ASSOCIA

RECORJD

To tiiance the purpose Jor u hich the Farm Bureau was organized,
namel ^, to promote, protect aitJ represent the business, economic, political,
and iJucalional interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation,
and to Jetelop agriculture.

Editor, George Thiem

Put lished once a month by the Illinois Agricultural Association,
608 ; o. Dearborn St., Chicago, III. Entered as •second-class matter
June 16, 1930, at the post office at Marshall, 111., under the Act of
Marcl 3, 1879. Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided
for ii Section 412, Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized Oct. 27, 1925.
TKe i idividual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is
five d >IIars a year. The tec includes payment of fifty cents for subscrip-
tion tJ the Illinois Agricultural Association Record. Postmaster; In re-
turnir g an uncalled for missent copy please indicate key number on
addre: s as is required by law.

. T OFFICERS

President. Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vice-President, A. R Wright Varna

Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger _ Chicago

Treailirer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

(By Congifessional District)

H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

_. G. F. TuIIock, Rockford

C. E. Bamborough, Polo

_..M. G. Lambert, Ferris

..A. N. Skinner, Yates City

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22nd-

23rd..

24th..

25th..

Geo. B. MuUer. Washington

Geo. J. StoU, Chestnut

W. A. Dennis, Paris

C. J. Gross, Atwood

..Charles S. Black, Jacksonville

Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

Frank Oexner, Waterloo

W. L. Cope, Salem

Charles L. Scott, Grayville

Fred Dietz, De Soto

DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS

Com]|troller..._ J. H. Kelker

Dairy Marketing _ — A. D. Lynch

Final ce - R. A. Cowles

and Vegetable Marketing. —
Marketmg..

Fruit
Grair

I nf or nation..
Insurance Service-
Counsel..

Legal

Limestone- Phosphate..

Live Stock Marketing..

Offic*. _

Organization

Produce Marketing..

-A. B. Leeper
...Harrison Fahrnkopf

George Thiem

V. Vaniman

....Donald Kirkpatrick

._ J. R Bent

Ray E. Miller

C. E. Johnston

_ G. E. Metzger

F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson

Transportation L. J. Quasey

I ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS

Couijtry Life Insurance Co. L. A. Williams, Mgr.

Faririers Mutual Reinsurance Co J. H. Kelker. Mgr.

Illinqis Agricultural Co-operatives Ass'n F. E. Ringham. Mgr.

Illindis Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co A. E. Richardson, Mgr.

Illin^s Farm Supply Co L. R. Marchant, Mgr.

On Grain Marketing

*HE Illinois Agricultural Association is at-
tempting to render service to Illinois grain
lucers by helping them build an effective co-
rative selling agency for grain. It has no inten-
tioil nor is any effort being made to force on the
producers or their elevators a grain marketing
program that is not wanted. The Association has
beeh vey deliberate, as everyone knows, in making
recommendations because of the peculiar prob-
lemjs and relationships existing within the state.
Th({)se charged with responsibility have received
much criticism for alleged inactivity in grain
maiketing.

iifter years of patient study and effort to co-
ordinate all producer interests in support of an
effective plan, the Illinois Grain Corporation was
orginized. Its chief virtue and bid for producer
support is that it provides a definite plan for
coricentrating a large volume of grain in a real
farmer-owned and controlled agency.

President Smith on pages 3 and 4 of this issue
presents a background of information revealing
to what ends the organization has gone to com-
promise differences of opinion and work with the
state farmers' elevator association.

The I. A. A. has always recognized that the
farmers' elevator is a necessary institution render-
ing important services to its patrons. It realizes
that the farmers' elevator is the bulwark and
foundation for an effective grain marketing pro-
gram. The I. A. A. has used its kindly offices to
help and strengthen the farmers' elevator move-
ment in Illinois for by so doing it renders a service
to the man on the farm who supports all farm
institutions.

Producers who have studied the marketing
question know that co-operative selling is inffec-
tive unless the farmer-owned agency controls a
large enough volume of the commodity to have
some influence in the market. Certainly there is
nothing new in this plan. Consolidation and mer-
gers to reduce waste and needless expense are the
order of the day in the business world. In seek-
ing volume control grain producers seek to apply
to their business what has proved successful in
other industries.

The Illinois Grain Corporation was established by pro-
gressive grain growers using their organization, the I. A. A.,
to help bring it about. The advice and counsel of both the
chairman and grain member of the Federal Farm Board was
had during its formation. The Illinois Grain Corporation
was not forced on the producers but was accepted and
endorsed after due deliberation by a great convention of
growers nearly all of whom produce grain. We refer to the
annual meeting of the I. A. A. at Springfield last January.

The Illinois Grain Corporation is merely a medium
through which producer-owned elevators can co-operate
with each other in the sale of their grain. Througl^ it is
made possible co-operation among the co-operatives. Con-
trol of the organization rests absolutely with the grain pro-
ducers of the state. No organization could be more demo-
cratically controlled. Therefore, it is inconceivable that any
group or individual having the interests of the producer at
heart should oppose this unselfish co-operative enterprise.

We believe the campaign of malicious propaganda now
being circulated about the state will have little influence,
if any, with thinking farmers. The I. A. A. will not stoop
nor take time to answer the deliberate misstatement of facts
concocted in the minds of those who by their acts have
shown their unfriendliness to effective co-operative market-
ing.

Whenever farmers have sought to help themselves through
co-operation they have met with the same kind of opposi-
tion from those who thought their business would suffer
from the competition. Farmers represented by the I. A. A.
have not hesitated, however, to advance in the face of such
opposition. They do not and will not hesitate in this case.

We believe the Illinois Grain Corporation offers the sound-
est plan for real grain marketing progress in the state. The
opposition of selfish interests may retard and delay self-help
by farmers but it will never stop it. The only thing that
will ever prevent the achievement of real co-operative grain
marketing is the loss of faith of farmers in themselves, in
their organization, and in their ability to solve this problem.

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Facts for the Grain Producer

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posal of the ILLINOIS GRAIN COR-
PORATION the personnel of the Grain
Marketing Department, the Publicity
Department and Legal Department dur-
ing the early stages of organization;
furthermore, the Illinois Agricultural
Association has purchased a large block
of the preferred "A" stock. In addi-
tion, as stated above, class "B" stock is
not in control inasmuch as it can only
be voted in shares equal to the number
of shares of common stock.

No. 5 — Directors. The fifteen di-
rectors enable the co-operative to have
representation fairly well distributed
over the entire grain territory. The
detailed executive work is in the hands
of an executive committee of five
men selected from this board of direc-
tors. This executive committee has
practically the same power as the board
of directors, but its action is subject
to the approval of the board. The by-
laws provide that all directors must
be grain producers.

No. 6 — Grain Handling Facilities.
The ILLINOIS GRAIN CORPORA-
TION is a member of the FARMERS'
NATIONAL GRAIN CORPORA-
TION. Grain handling facilities, both
as to grain sales service and terminal
storage, will be provided directly by the
ILLINOIS GRAIN CORPORATION
or by and with the co-operation of the
FARMERS' NATIONAL GRAIN
CORPORATION. If the grain trade,
which spends so much time resolving
against the farmer, can make money in
mixing, processing and otherwise en-
hancing the value of the grain after it
leaves the producers' hands, the pro-
ducer himself can make money in the
same way, through his own organiza-
tions.

Moving Conservatively

Had the ILLINOIS GRAIN COR-
PORATION employed men with grain
sales training obligating itself to heavy
financial outlay before securing a suit-
able membership it would of course
have been criticised for providing a big
overhead and no grain to market. Now
that it has adopted the more conserva-
tive course of first building up a sub-
stantial membership and then provid-
ing the sales service, there are those who
point out that it has no facilities. Have
no fear but that the grain can be han-
dled effectively and efficiently when
once it is flowing through single sell-
ing agency hands.

7. — Experience. The experience of a
co-operative is determined by the ex-
perience of its employees. When the

producers, through their co-operatives,
support the ILLINOIS GRAIN COR-
PORATION with memberships, those
same producers can rest assured that
that same support will enable their offi-
cers and directors to employ outstand-
ing grain men with ability and experi-
ence.

No. 8 — Financial Standing. The IL-
LINOIS GRAIN CORPORATION is
set up with capital stock background
to provide ample capital for a good
strong organization. A state-wide co-
operative is being built to serve the pro-
ducer through his local co-operative.
The ILLINOIS GRAIN CORPORA-
TION is more than a commission com-
pany. When the member elevators
send all of their grain, instead of ten
or fifteen per cent of it, through their
own terminal agency, these members
will be agreeably surprised at the finan-
cial rating of their organization. Fur-
thermore, we are going forward on the
contract or agreement basis. Govern-
ment funds will not be available to ad-
vance the interests of "voluntary mar-
keting" for when funds are used the
contract must be signed.

Need Volume Concentration

No. 9 — Territory. Fifteen per cent
(approximately one-seventh) of all the
grain which goes into market channels
in the United States originates in Illi-
nois. Ve believe that our farm or-
ganizations can best serve their mem-
bers by sparing no efforts to mobilize
this large volume of grain through
single selling agency hands. The IL-
LINOIS GRAIN CORPORATION is
confining its activities to Illinois.

No. 10 — Membership. The first
twelve days after the membership ap-
plication was approved by the executive
committee, the boards of directors of
twelve farmer elevators representing
three million one hundred thousand
(3,100,000) bushels of grain, voted to
apply for membership in the ILLINOIS
GRAIN CORPORATION. The first
elevator to come in that was operating
on a basis that would enable it to qual-
ify under the Capper- Volstead Act was
the Farmers' Elevator Company of Ran-
som, in LaSalle County. This elevator
was then used with which to apply for
membership in the Farmers' National
Grain Corporation. After filing this
membership, a period of one month
elapsed before it was approved.

For several weeks we have attempted
to work out a suitable agreement (con-
tract) to be used by our member ele-
vators. We felt that certain details of
this agreement depended upon require-
ments of the Farmers' National Grain
Corporation of the regional and these
were not forthcoming. Our own agree-

ment will be ready in a few days and
we shall then lake up in earnest the
task of interviewing elevators in re-
gard to membership.

A Sound Program T

No. 11 — Contract Requirements.
The ILLINOIS GRAIN CORPORA-
TION is going forward on the con-
tract or agreement basis, as an improve-
ment over the voluntary system. The
voluntary system of marketing is ad-
vocated by those p>eople who apparently
object to improvement. The "satisfied-
with-things-as-they-are" spirit never
discovered America or electricity or
won our national independence. Today,
the contract is recognized in all lines
of business — both large and small. You
don't mind signing an agreement as an
evidence of good faith when you really
mean to keep your word. Furthermore,
the agreement method is an asset to
those elevators which contribute money
to the capital stock of the ILLINOIS
GRAIN CORPORATION. They have
the assurance that the organization in
which they are investing will have
grain to handle. They know that by
agreement all members will stand
hitched. It increases the soundness of
the investment to know that there is
an assured volume of grain.

No. 12 — Amount Required to Join.
The "A" preferred stock purchase re-
quired is two shares for each twenty
thousand (20,000) bushels of grain
handled based on the average of the last
three years, which is approximately an
equivalent of one cent (Ic) per bushel.
Ten per cent of this amount is payable
in cash and the remainder is secured by
five equal notes, one due each year for
the next five years. This amounts to
approximately one-fifth (1 J ) of one
cent per bushel the next five years. Re-
member that this stock subscription is
for a seven per cent preferred stock.
In some cases this stock can be pur-
chased by the board of directors (dz-
p>ends upon the law under which the
elevator is organized) and in others a
majority vote approval of the members
is required.

No. 13 — Connection uith Federal
Farm Board. The ILLINOIS GRAIN
CORPORATION is a member of the
Farmers' National Grain Corporation
holding fifty (50) shares of stock.

Editor,

I. A. A. RECORD

"I think a lot of your set-up and infor-
mation in the last several issues of the
I. A. A. RECORD. They have been
attractive in every way and full of good
readable information.

IROQUOIS COUNTY
FARM BUREAU,
C. E. Johnson, Farm Adviser.'

Paxc Eixht

THE I. A. A. RECORD

"Chamber of Commerce

Action a Big Mistake"

C. C. Teague, Member of Farm

Board, Discusses Marketing Act

in Recent N. B. C. Radio Talk

from Washington

' (By C. C. Teague)

THERE has been a great deal of dis-
cussion lately about the need of a
closer understanding and relationship
between business and agriculture which
has been welcomed by agriculture gen-
erally. This has taken the form of
invitation and solicitation by the United
States Chamber of Commerce to agri-
cultural organizations to join the
Chamber, which has been generally ac-
cepted where these organizations had
any money to join with, but which I
will have to admit was not in a large
number of cases.

There was witnessed hers in Wash-
ington recently a spectacle which
seemed to demonstrate how far com-
mercial business interests will go in the
support of agriculture whenever the
aid extended in any way interferes with
established business. It has been the
purjxjse of the Federal Farm Board in
making effective the Agricultural Mar-
keting Act to interfere just as little as
possible with established business, but
it has been impossible to carry out the
primary, purpose of the act, which is
to establish a system of grower-owncd-
and-controlled co-operative marketing
for the agriculture of the country,
without in some cases disturbing com-
mercial operators particularly at the
point of production.

Cotton and Wheat

The operations of the Board that
have brought about the most criticism
from certain quarters are those in
wheat and cotton. During October
and November there was a stock panic
when probably 50 per cent of the sup-
posed values of industrial stocks was
squeezed out. The country h.is been
suffering from the effect of this ever
since; wheat and cotton were headed
in the ^ame downward direction.

In an effort to prevent any further
serious decline in these commodity
prices the Farm Board offered to loan
to co-operatives $1.25 a bushel en
wheat and 16 cents a pound on cotton
with the customary grade, variety and
freight differentials to the various ter-
minal markets. This proved effective
for several months, but later when
there was a sharp decline in the price of
wheat the Board, under the terms of
the Agricultural Marketing Act, au-
thorized an emergency stabilization op-
eration in wheat. The purpose of this

stabilization operation was to take off
the market whatever quantity of wheat
was necessary to prevent any consider-
able decline in the price.

In accordance with its announce-
ment last October the Board continued
making these loans to the wheat and
cotton co-operatives over a period of
more than six months, regardless of the
fact that the market part of this time
was below the loan values. The policy
of fixed loan values on cotton and
wheat, together with the subsequent
stabilization operation in wheat, un-
doubtedly saved a panic in these com-
modities which would have cost the
farmers of the country many millions
of dollars and if this depression had
been added to the business depression
caused by industrial stock losses it per-
haps might have cost the country bil-
lions of dollars. This action was taken
in a national emergency and in the
opinion of the Board was entirely justi-
fied and in the interest of all of the
people even if later this action cost the
taxpayers some money.

Helped Prevent Panic

If these efforts to prevent a serious
decline in wheat and cotton prices have
made any important contribution to-
ward the prevention of a general crisis
or panic in this country, it may be that
this alone justifies the Agricultural
Marketing Act.

Stabilization operations as contem-
plated by the act probably are only
warranted in cases of emergency when
the laws of supply and demand do not
normally operate and should be ap-
proached with great care. These oper-
ations in wheat and cotton have
brought on a most vociferous howl,
which has reverberated throughout the
country until it reached the halls of the
United States Chamber of Commerce
in annual session Wednesday, April 30.
This was the day set by the Chamber
when the Farm Board was placed on
trial and was called upon to defend
itself. Chairman Legge made a splen-
did statement of the purposes and ac-
tivities of the Board and the reasons for
its actions, as did also Secretary Hyde.
Congressman Fort, who was a member
o^ the Agricultural Committee, which
after extended hearings drafted and
sponsored the act, made a strong state-
ment in support of it as wise legisla-
tion in the interest of the general pub-
lic and to assist the agriculture of the
country, which generally was recog-
nized to be in great distress and which
formed an important part of the social
and economic structure of the country.
Millett's Philosophy

Mr. Dan A. Millett, investment
banker and stockman of Denver, Colo-
rado, was selected by the Chamber to

lead the attack, the essence of which
was that it would be better to go back
to first principles, with no artificial in-
terference with economic laws; to abol-
ish tariffs and all artificial aids to busi-
ness, labor and industry. Mr. Millett's
philosophy seems to be expressed in the
following quotation' from his address:
"Let no man think that living stand-
ards of America can be permanently
maintained at a measurably higher level
than these of other civilized countries."

We have been measurably successful
for over a hundred years in keeping the
living standards of American labor and
American farmers above the peasantry
of Europe and the earning power of
American capital above that of Europe
and I do not believe that our people
are yet ready to abandon that policy.

Speculators Howl Most

Following the statements of the
prosecution and defense, discussion was
limited to five minutes per person. It
was interesting to note that all of the
speakers who demanded the repeal of
the Agricultural Marketing Act repre-
sented national organizations of com-
mercial and speculative operators,
bonded together for mutual protection,
who were attacking the attempt of the
Government to assist the farmers in
organizing so as to be in position to in
some measure protect themselves. The
Resolutions Committee reported a reso-
lution, which was passed by the Cham-
ber, pledging it to work for the amend-
ment of the act so as to make it in-
effective. In my opinion the United
States Chamber of Commerce has made
the greatest mistake in its history.

It is quite probable that the same in-
terests responsible for this resolution are
also responsible for publicity directed
toward discrediting the Agricultural
Marketing Act and the activities of the
Farm Board, in suggesting that this
legislation will raise price levels to
consumers cf agricultural products.

The main purpose of the act is not
to raise prices to the consumers but to
give the producer a larger share of the
consumer's dollar. In fact, the act di-
rectly charges the Board not to support
co-operative organization or stabiliza-
tion operations to a point that brings
on any distress to the consumers. An-
other reason that consumers need have
no fear is that it is not possible to get
a monopoly in food products because
of the ease and quickness with which
producers can get into agricultural pro-
duction, the small amount of capital re-
quired and because of the always avail-
able land inviting the producer when-
ever there is an opportunity for profit.
Therefore, any attempt to arbitrarily
raise prices to a level where unreason-
able profits are given the producer is

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sure to bring a flood of production that
w.ill defeat the attempt and bring dis-
aster to the producer.

Old System Wasteful

The old speculative system of distri-
bution has been proved often times
wasteful and inefficient. It has often
failed to pay the producer a living price
for his products and at the same time
the consumer has often had to pay high
prices. On the other hand, it has been
demonstrated that in many cases where
producers are organized into effective
co-operative sales organizations they
have been able to prosper and at the
same time not to put a burden on the
consumers of the country. That which
makes this seeming inconsistency pos-
sible is that through co-operative or-
_ ganization producers are able to effect

^ many savings in wastes and improper

charges between the producer and the
consumer which are reflected in a larger
percentage of the consumer's dollar be-
ing returned to the producer.

Let us consider for a moment some
of the things that may be accomplished
through effective co-operative organiza-
tion of producers. First is the elim-
ination of the element of speculation in
the product of the farmer at the point
of production. Until the farmer is or-
ganized and is in position to collectively
bargain for the sale of his product he
has to take the best price he can ob-
tain from commercial buyers, who, of
course, are in business to buy as cheap-
ly and sell as dearly as they can. The
result is that the farmer on account of
lack of knowledge of quickly changing
markets and inability to protect himself
against manipulation of markets does
• not get the full value of his product.

Too Many Middlemen

Most farm products are bought and
sold by commercial operators at the
point of production. The number of
these operators in most commodities is
very large. Each buys, packs and dis-
tributes without much knowledge of
the other's operation and the result is a
disorderly unscientific distribution,
which often results in demoralization
of markets, gluts and famines, and
losses to the wholesale distributing trade
as well as to farmers. It is not un-
common to have a demoralized wholesale
market which is quickly reflected back
to the producer and still not affect ap-
preciably the retail prices to the con-
sumer. In other words rapidly chang-
ing markets due to poor distribution
often make losses to producer, shipper
and wholesale dealers that are not re-
flected back to the consumer in lower,
prices. On the contrary, particularly
with annual crops such as fruits and
vegetables, the producer following years

of disastrous prices often becomes dis-
couraged and does not plant sufficiently
to take care of the demand the succeed-
ing year and the result is high consumer
prices. To put it in another way, it is
better for both the producer and con-
sumer to iron out the peaks and valleys
in prices by a more uniform supply
brought about by orderly marketing
and production.

Co-Operation Cuts Cost

If the producer is organized so that
he can control, through co-operative
marketing organizations, a large per-
centage of the product of his industry
he can properly distribute so as to
place on the market the maximum
quantity that the m.irket will take and
maintain a reasonable price. Through
control of a large volume his cost is
low. He can largely eliminate the losses
and sometimes unreasonably large profits
of commercial operators at point of
production. He can adopt and enforce
standards of grade and quality, which
are impossible under other conditions
and which benefit the consumer. He
can spread the cost of national adver-
tising over a large volume at a low per
package or unit cost, thus keeping the
consumption of his product in pace
with increasing production. He can
collectively handle railroad claims and
rate questions and even make proper
representation on tariff matters. In
short, through co-operative action he
can eliminate speculation, distribute
efficiently at low cost and eliminate
many of the wastes and unnecessary
costs between the producer and the con-
sumer.

The Loaf of Bread Legend

ONE of the ardent detractors of the
federal farm aid program recently
laid eloquent stress on the fact that back
in 1921 the grain dealer and flour miller
combined got only 3.4 cents oat of
every dollar the housewife paid for
bread; whereas the farmer got 28.1
cents out of the same dollar.

Figures such as these are rather use-
ful in helping to perpetuate the myth
concerning the efficiency of the grain
trade. They are enough to convince
an unthinking person that the grain
trade operates on a very narrow mar-
gin indeed. Three and four-tenths per
cent is little enough to pay for such
services as they render.

The fallacy in this line of figuring,
of course, is that neither the farmer nor
the grain dealer deal in bread. Their
commodity happens to be wheat, and
the bread figures, adapted to a bushel
of wheat, tell an entirely different story.

Thus from $6.50 worth of bread
(which is the amount secured from a

bushel of wheat) the dealer and miller
in 1921 got 22 cents plus about 22
cents for bran. In other words, the
dealer and miller got 44 cents on the
bushel of wheat the farmer sold for
$1.82. Instead of three and one-half
per cent, the dealer's and miller's gross
profit on handling the wheat was about
2 5 per cent.

Today, on 90 cent wheat, the dealer
and miller still make about 44 cents,
according to the "bread figures." Their
combined profits are almost ,50 per cent.

In refuting these figures the grain
trade advocate might state that the
miller gets a large share of this 50 per
cent; and that we are using a wrong
basis for figuring. Ver\' well, then —
who started using these "bread figures"
in the first place? — Allen Sandy.

Discusses Grain Marketing

(Continued from page 4)

once they come to understand the mo-
tives and purposes of those responsible
for such propaganda.

"Those selected by the farmers to ad-
minister the affairs of the Illinois Grain
Corporation will find their full time
needed in constructive activities. I
hope they will not be led astray by
attempts to answer malicious propa-
gandists, but will rest content in steer-
ing a straight course to the end that
the grain producers of Illinois will re-
ceive the fullest possible benefits from
the Illinois Grain Corporation.

"The I. A. A. has been similarly at-
tacked by selfish interests in and dur-
ing the development of other commer-
cial services by the organization. In
every case it has been found that by
following a straight course and confin-
ing our full time and attention to the
welfare of those participating in the
program, has been much more success-
ful and certainly more meritorious than
by dividing our time in attempts to an-
swer baseless charges. The success of
the I. A. A. in developing these services
has in large part been due to the in-
terest manifested and the support given
by the farmers of the state. So it will
be with the Illinois Grain Corp>oration.
It will move forward just to the extent
that the farmers, whom it is intended
to serve, respond with that zeal and de-
termination that has been so character-
istic of them in the past.

"The Illinois Agricultural Association
believes in its soundness, accepts full
responsibility for the principles upon
which it is founded; and to its last man
will give every possible suppKjrt to those
charged with the direct responsibility
of handling the affairs of the Illinois
Grain Corporation."

pane Ten

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Bloomington C. pf C.

Condemns U. S. Chamber

Recommends Marketing Act
Strengthened at Next Ses-
I sion of Congress

Be

A RESOLUTION condemning the
action of the U. S. Chamber of
Commerce at Washington against the
Federal Farm Board and the Marketing
Act was adopted at a meeting of the
Bloomington (III.) Chamber of Com-
merce directors on May 22. Carl Vroo-
man, former assistant secretary of agri-
culture, was active in drawing it up.
, The resolution follows:
' WHEREAS, We realize that a pros-
perous agriculture is the only sound
foundation for a permanently prosper-
ous super-structure of finance, business
and industry, and

WHEREAS, During the past year
the Hoover Administration has been
making a sincere, if not yet wholly
successful, effort to "help the farmer to
help himself," and

WHEREAS, The leadership and
backing of the Federal Government is
a necessary factor in the long talked
of rehabilitation of agriculture, there-
fore be it

RESOLVED, By the Association of
Commerce of Bloomington, Illinois,
that we completely dissociate ourselves
from the action of the United States
Chamber of Commerce at its recent an-
nual meeting in condemning the Presi-
dent's agriculc-urai policy without pro-
jjosing anything better to take its place,
and be it further

RESOLVED, That the disagreement
between the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States and the Federal Farm
Board is not not only undesirable but
wholly unnecessary, inasmuch as a
policy of farm relief unquestionably can
be put into operation that will give the
farmer quicker and more real relief
than the present policy has been able
to do, while at the same time arousing
little or no opposition among intelli-
gent, fair-minded business men, and be
it further

RESOLVED, That relying on Presi-
dent Hoover's well-known sincerity,
open-mindedness, courage and ability,
we desire to express our confidence in
the Federal Farm Board, but should the
Federal Farm Board and President Hoo-
ver later realize the inadequacy of the
present agricultural policy, we feel sure
thai he will be more than willing to co-
operate with agricultural economists
and Congressional leaders on the cru-
cially important task of so amending
the present law as to insure a square
deal for the farmers of America, and be
it further

RESOLVED, That as the eflSciency
of the present law seems to have been
seriously impaired by the provision that
the Federal Farm Board can only func-
tion through co-operative associations
of farmers (of which very few have yet
been organized) that are competent to
economically and effectively carry out
the provisions of the law, it begins to
look as though the law instead of ac-
complishing its primary purpose, that
of securing "equality for agriculture,"
has thus unwittingly deferred attain-
ment of actual results until such time
as the Federal Farm Board shall have
succeeded in the gigantic and neces-
sarily long drawn out task of changing
our national marketing system from a
competitive to a co-operative basis,
therefore be it further

RESOLVED, That at the next ses-
sion of Congress the law should be so
amended as to empower the Federal
Farm Board to proceed promptly
through such efficient farmers' co-oper-
ative associations as are available, also
through regular business channels, and,
when efficiency cannot be achieved
through either of these agencies, by di-
rect action on its part.

First, to put into operation a Crop
Storage policy that will tend to stabilize
fairly and equitably the price of farm
products in time of excess supply and
to lower prices for consumers in times
of scarcity.

Second, to finance the merchandising
of our surplus crops in the markets of
the world on properly secured credit,
or on any other sound and business-
like basis, and

Third, to make more effective the
Farm Board's present Crop Acreage
Limitation plan by organizing a Na-
tional Crop Acreage Limitation Drive
to carry out the long established recom-
mendation of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, as taught by
its extension workers, the county ad-
visors, that a certain percentage of each
farm be planted each year in Legumes
in order to curtail production and
maintain soil fertility. Such a drive
with the highest official leadership in
Washington supported by the highest
official backing in each state, and with
local public opinion harnessed and made
to function by means of Township
Acreage Limitation Committees in
every township in the United States
similar to the local Draft Boards and
Liberty Loan Committee that func-
tioned during the world war, unques-
tionably could be made very effective.

Approved by the Agricultural Com-
mittee Association of Commerce,
Bloomington, Illinois.
Sam Elkins, farmer and ex-president McLean

County Farm Bureau, Chairman.

E. J. Carmody, farmer and vice-president State
Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co.

G. C. Johnstone, farmer and president Illinois
Grain Corporation.

P. N. Jones, farmer, retired.

Carl Vrooman, farm owner and former assistant
Secretary of Agriculture, U. S. A.

E. D. Funk, Sr., president Funk Brothers Seed
Co.

W. G. Cole, farmer, retired.

W. L. Rust, president McLean County B^nk.

P. F. Thielen, secretary Farmers' Elevator Co-
operative Supply Co.

Endorsed by the Bloomington Asso-
ciation of Commerce.

H. K. Hoblit, President.

F. D.. E. Babcock, Secretary.

Farm Board Plans

To Aid Apple Men

THE Federal Farm Board will assist
apple growers in the development of
local and regional co-operative market-
ing associations looking toward the
handling of the commodity on a na-
tional basis according to a recent state-
ment.

Immediate activities in connection
with the project to assist apple growers
are as follows:

1. The Federal Farm Board will en-
courage and assist in the organization
and development of local and regional
associations in the apple-growing dis-
tricts of the Cumberland-Potomac-
Shenandoah area. Western New York
area, the New England states, the Mid-
Western states, and the Mountain states.
The Board will aid in strengthening
existing co-operatives and will help in
the organization of new ones.

2. Local co-operatives will be encour-
aged to unify their marketing activities
and establish regional sales agencies
with the hope that eventually there
will be sufficient co-operative organiza-
tion of apple growers to warrant the
development of a national sales pro-
gram.

A. B. Leeper, of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association, is co-operating in the
development of the Farm Board plan.
The Western Illinois Apple Growers'
Association and the Illinois Fruit Grow-
ers' Exchange will probably be the re-
gional through which Illinois apple
growers will participate in the national
program.

Farm Bureau committees are at
work gathering facts and information
with reference to the proposed high
tension power line between Pekin and
Blackstone, Illinois. Approximately 40
attended the meeting in Eureka on May
20, where L. J. Quasey of the Illinois
Agricultural Association discussed gen-
eral transportation and utility prob-
lems and answered many questions re-
garding the rights of land owners in
power line and other right-of-way cases.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Elft fit

I. A. A. Advertises

In 111. Farm Papers

Prairie Farmer and Illinois Farmer
Carry Appeals for United Front

4(T ET'S PRESENT A SOLID

-L' FRONT" is the first of a series
of advertisements published in the in-
terest of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation and the Farm Bureau, in the
Prairie Fa-mer and Illinois Farmer. The
purpose of the ads is to appeal to non-
members to add the support of their
memberships to the organization in its
many services to agriculture, and to ac-
quaint him with the benefits of Farm
Bureau membership.

The first ad signed by President Earl
C. Smith appeared almost simultane-
ously in the two state-wide publica-
tions mentioned above. The substance
of the ad is as follows:

"All authorities agree that organiza-
tion is essential to future agricultural
welfare and progress.

"The greatest obstacle confronting
agriculture in its steady march toward
equality of opportunity with industry,
is the large number of farmers who fail
or refuse to recognize the need and pos-
sibilities of organization.

"They are unconsciously furnishing
the opposition with the basis of state-
ments that 'Farmers are divided,' 'Won't
co-operate' and 'Don't know what they
need or want.'

"It was organized, representative
farmer-inspired and farmer-directed ef-
fort that brought about the awakening
of public consciousness to the fact that
there is a farm problem.

"The first victory of agriculture has
been won. Government has accepted
the responsibility for correcting the se-
rious inequalities existing between agri-
culture and industry. Only the con-
tinuance and the strengthening of
organized farm effort will assure the
final establishment of policies that will
benefit agriculture and make national
prosperity permanent.

"The greatest immediate problem
confronting Illinois farmers is to secure
a proper correction of our revenue sys-
tem.

"Do not be misled by any soft-
spoken phrases as to what will consti-
tute a solution to this great question.
The I. A. A. is demanding justice for
the farm and home owners of Illinois.

"Opportunities of organization are
limited only by the extent of interest
manifested through membership.
Whether in county, state or nation, the
effectiveness of organization can and
will be greatly increased by an enlarged
membership.

"Do you believe agriculture has
had a square deal?

"Do you believe farmers can se-
cure equality of opportunity except
by and through organization?

"Have you and are you doing
your utmost to bring agriculture
out of the throes of economic dis-
tress?

"Every additional member in your
County Farm Bureau increases the ef-
fectiveness of the organization in the
state.

"Give agriculture a chance to win
NOW by joining with your neighbors.
"LET'S PRESENT A SOLID
FRONT."

Signed: Earl C. Smith,
President,
Illinois Agricultural Association.

A second general ad on the subject
of organization will appear in Illinois
Farmer June 1 5 under the caption
"KEEP THE BIG PICTURE IN
MIND." Quarter-page ads telling of the
many services offered by the Farm Bu-
reau, the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, and associated companies have ap-
peared nearly every week during the
past month in Prairie Farmer.

The series of ads will appear in these
two publications of general circulation
in Illinois throughout 1930. Watch for
them and refer them to your neighbor
if he is not a Farm Bureau member.

Tazewell Goes Over

Top in Membership

BY rolling up a membership of 1,188
in one day the Tazewell County
Farm Bureau broke all records and ex-
ceeded by a substantial margin the
one-day record of some 973 members
signed by the LaSalle County Farm Bu-
reau a year ago.

The drive for membership on May
28 in Tazewell County came after
weeks of preparation by local Farm.
Bureau officials, volunteer solicitors, and
R. J. Hamilton, district organization
manager for the I. A. A.

A staff of volunteers was organized in
every township and these men were
schooled in the services offered by the
Farm Bureau and the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association. A goal of 1,200
members the first day was established
prior to the drive. The solicitors failed
only by 12 members in reaching the
mark. All except two townships had
gained in membership at the close of
the first day. The last report from
Tazewell indicated a membership of
well over 1,200 with some clean-up
work still in progress.

Income Tax Issue j

. . , Triumphs in Iowa

Dan W. Turner Nominated for
Governor by Heavy Plurality

THE recent nomination of Dan W.
Turner of Corning, Republican
nominee for governor of Iowa, b>' a
large plurality, is being heralded as a
victory for farm and home owners of
that state in their battle for an equit-
able taxing system based on ability to
pay.

Mr. Turner won the nomination in a
field of three candidates. The princi-
pal issue in the campaign was the state
income tax which Turner vigorously
supported. The other candidates, Ed
M. Smith and Otto Lange, opjxjsed it.
"SHALL FARMERS GO ON PAY-
ING 33 PER CENT OF THEIR IN-
COME IN TAXES?" was the battle
cry of Candidate Turner. ,

Privileged Interests

"Do not be deceived," said Turner,
in his appeal for the vote of the Iowa
farmer. "A terrific fight is being made
by special privilege interests to defeat
me and my farm tax relief program.
Certain moneyed groups, private inter-
ests, and people of large wealth — who
want to see land go on carrying 97 per
cent of the tax load in this state — are
using every possible force at their com-
mand.

"Some are trying to prove that the
old method is good enough. Others say
"another tax.' All kinds of arguments
have been conjured up to try to mislead
and side-track the voter. Such false
issues as these, together with high-
sounding statements and every other
.available method are being employed to
throw dust in the voter's eyes.

Favor Replacement Tax

"But if the farmers of Iowa will get
out and vote on June 2 all the money
and all the machine politics in the state
cannot defeat us in this campaign.

"I am in favor of a replacement in-
come tax, to replace and relieve, dollar
for dollar, a part of the heavy burden
now being borne by our farms and
homes. |

"Both of the other candidates have
come out against an income tax. Otto
Lange says: 'I will veto an income
tax." Ed M. Smith says: "I am op-
posed to an income tax.'

"For eight years our farm organiza-
tions have been fighting for this Re-
placement Income Tax. And Dan
Turner is the only candidate in the
present campaign who has taken his
stand shoulder to shoulder with them,
and who will honestly and fearlessly
work with them to bring about this

(ConlinueJ on page 1}, col. I)

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Pa^gf Thirteen

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THE week ending May 3 1 saw all of
the eight divisions in the Illinois
Farm Bureau Baseball League active,
and all teams playing ball with the ex-
ception of LaSalle, Kankakee and Ful-
ton.

With 29 teams already in the field
the league this year is at the heighth
of seven years of growth. Every year
has shown a steady increase in the num-
ber of active teams and games played.

Following are baseball scores for
May 24, May 30 and May 31:
MAY 24

McLean, 9; Logan, 8.

Morgan, 10; Menard, 1.

Lee, 10; Carroll, 6.

McDonough, 6; Henderson, 1.

Woodford, 20; Tazewell, 5.

Livingston, 4; Marshall-Putnam, 1.

Knox, 11; Peoria, 8.

Henry, 17; Stark, 0.

Sangamon, 7; Macoupin, 1.

Ford, 9; Champaign, 8.

JoDaviess, 12; Stephenson, 4.
MAY 30

Carroll, 12; JoDaviess, 7.
'■. Lee, 14; Stephenson, 4.
MAY 31

McDonough, 24; Warren, 1.

McLean, 9; Ford, 7.

Woodford, 9; Livingston, 6.

Grundy, 20; Iroquois, 4.

Logan, 18; Champaign, 6.

Sangamon, 14; Montgomery, 2.

Henry, 6; Knox, 2.

Greene, 8; Morgan, 7.

Cass, 10; Menard, 1.

Peoria, 10; Stark, 6.

Marshall-Putnam, 6; Tazewell, 3.

Macoupin, 8; Macon, 3.

Income Tax Wins

[Continued from page 11)
long needed relief." Turner received
the endorsement of Ex-Gov. Frank O.
Lowden of Illinois and former Gov. N.
E. Kendall of Iowa.

Mr. Turner used facts and statistics
compiled by the Illinois Agricultural
Association and presented at a hearing
in Des Moines last year by John C.
Watson, showing the unfairness of the
present taxing system in Iowa toward
property. The Iowa Farm Bureau has
waged a vigorous fight for tax relief.

Congressman L. J. Dickinson de-
feated Gov. John Hammill for the Re-
publican nomination for United States
senator.

OFFICIAL STANDING OF TEAMS IN THE

ILLINOIS FARM BUREAU BASEBALL LEAGUE FOR

WEEK ENDING MAY 31, 1930

DIVISION I Won Lost Pet.

Lee 2 0 1.000

JoDaviess 1 1 .500

Stephenson 1 2 .333

Carroll 0 1 .000

DIVISION III

Woodford 2 0 1.000

Marshall-Putnam 1 1 .500

Livingston .1 1 .500

Tazewell 0 2 .000

DIVISION V

McLean 2 0 1.000

Ford 1 1 .500

Logan 1 1 .5 00

Champaign 0 2 .000

DIVISION VII ' ^ '

Gus. . ..:.....■. . 2 0 1.000

Morgan . 1 1 .500

Greene 1 1 .500

Menard 0 2 .000

DIVISION II
Henry . . . ,■; . .

Knox

Peoria

Stark

Won

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0
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2

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1.000
.500
.500
.000

DIVISION IV

McDonough
Henderson ...

Warren

Fulton

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DIVISION VI

Grundy

Iroquois . . . .'. .;

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1.000
.000

LaSalle
Kankakee

DIVISION VIII

Sangamon ^

Macoupin 2

Macon 0

Montgomery ... 0

1.000
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High School Boy Wins

Cup as Best Speaker

Federal Farm Board and Duty of

Farmers to Co-Operate Is

Subject

VERNON THOMAS, Heyworth,
111., high school boy and son of
Floyd Thomas, McLean County Farm
Bureau member and chairman of the
county grain marketing committee,
won the silver loving cup donated by
the Bloomington Chamber of Com-
merce in the local Future Farmers'
public speaking contest, announces the
Bloomington Pantagraph.

Vernon talked about the federal farm
board and its program emphasizing the
fact that farmers themselves will deter-
mine how much benefit they will secure
from co-operative marketing develop-
ment.

Farmer Responsible

"The farmer is responsible for the
success of the act, not the President or
the Farm Board," Vernon asserted.

"The first thing a farmer can do is
to join the local organization if there
is one. If there is not one, start one
and encourage your neighbors to join.
Then if at all times it doesn't work the
way you think it should, don't throw
mud at it, but get into the organization
and stop the trouble.

"It is often hard to get some farmers
to join but that is the only way to get
complete control."

Vernon quoted Secretary of Agricul-
ture Arthur M. Hyde as saying that the
trouble with the farmer is that he is
waiting for someone to hand him farm
relief in a neat little package with a
blue ribbon tied around it, but that he
will have to wait a long time before
such an event comes to pass.

The farmer needs help which he will
get only through the Federal Farm
Board, the speaker contended. Congress
passed the law. President Hoover signed
it and named the board, the board pro-
vides assistance for farmers to get con-
trol of the marketing of their products,
but the farmer himself must make the
program work.

Seek Larger Returns i

"We all know that it takes a large
sum of money to market the farm
products," Vernon explained. "Senator
Smoot of Montana says ihar the wheat
producers of the United States get ten
billion dollars for the wheat crop and
the consumer pays twenty billion for
the same wheat. In that case the other
men or companies get a large sum of
money for handling the grain. We
could not expect the farmer to get all
of the other ten billion, but he should
get 80 per cent of it."

The combination of co-operation and
education will bring success to agricul-
ture, the speaker concluded: i

"When the farmer learns that four
bushels of wneat at S1.50 a bushel is
S6, and that five bushels at $1 is only
S5, he. will surely produce the four
bushels because it is easier and better."

PiJ^r Fourteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Mark^tiiig

By Art Lynch

ORGANIZED selling pays. If it
didn't pay so well there wouldn't
be so much opposition to it.

Harrison Fahrnkopf, over in the
grain marketing department, has a real
job. Best part of it is, the Illinois
Grain Corporation must be right be-
cause some grain traders are against it.

Don't worry, Harrison, every one of
that kind of knocks is a boost. That
was true on many of our milk markets.
What the dealers did to head off or-
ganized selling in the end made the or-
ganization that much stronger and
more effective.

Organized agriculture has not yet
forgotten the dramatic stand taken by
the Pure Milk Association in the Chi-
cago area in January, 1929, to win rec-
ognition. The dealer opposition was
overplayed. The public began to root
for the producers.

Selfish folks will pick on the Illinois
Grain Corporation. But these "pecks"
will help to put pecks and pecks of
Illinois raised grain through a central
marketing system that will bring the
last few pennies per bushel.

Those opposed to co-operative sell-
ing advise us to use prayer, almanac
signs and "passive resistance" to solve
our sales problems. Why? Because
they can then buy our products under
more favorable conditions.

The time's coming, folks, when a
membership in a co-operative sales or-
ganization will be as necessary as the
farm itself. This membership will be
your seat on your own marketing ex-
change entitling you to sell what you
produce with a better chance for a
profit.

So, let's not get excited by the words
of wisdom from those who trade in
our products — unless those words of
wisdom are — Join your co-operative,
stabilize your market — we will do busi-
ness with you.

Many buyers in Illinois and else-
where are talking like that — saying the
co-operative can do things to improve
conditions that they, as private business
men, could j never accomplish. That's
real co-operation. And it means a

happy, prosperous community — where
everyone is a good enough sport to rec-
ognize the best interests of the other
fellow.

There's a lot of good old-fashioned
Golden Rule and quite a bit of honest
religion in building co-operatives to hit
the ball and return the "equality" to
agriculture to which it is entitled.

Less T. B. In Hogs

A DECLINE of tuberculosis in mar-
ket swine at the large meat-pack-
ing centers is shown by Federal meat-
inspection records. In the past fiscal
year the number of hog carcasses con-
demned as unsuitable for food because
of tuberculosis was 9,170 less than in
the previous year, and the number of
parts of carcasses condemned for the
same cause was 115,995 less. These
figures represent declines of about 20
per cent. The eradication of tubercu-
losis among cattle on farms where the
hogs are raised is the chief reason for
the improved condition of the hogs.

Traded Your Car?

BE sure to notify your auto insur-
ance company when you trade or
sell your car and want your insurance
policy transferred to the new car. You
are protected only against an accident
with the car mentioned in the policy.
The policy does not protect the new
car even though your assessments are
all paid up on the policy covering the
old one.

Notification of transfer is a require-
ment of all automobile insurance com-
panies. It is wise to send a telegram
or letter to your auto insurance com-,
pany giving notification of transfer be-
fore you drive the new car out of the
garage.

In one case a policyholder was driv-
ing his new car to town for the pur-
pose of transferring his insurance.
While in town he had an accident. The
new car suffered $200 damage. The
owner was compelled to stand the loss
iiimself because the new automobile
was uninsured.

Auto insurance companies are com-
pelled to abide by this hard and fast
rule for their own protection. Other-
wise in many instances they would be
carrying insurance on two cars, both
the old and the new, for the price of
one. Furthermore, if this rule were not
strictly adhered to many policyholders
would be lax in transferring their in-
surance. In many cases, too, it would
be difficult to prove when the title to
the old car passed from seller to buyer.

Keeping WeU

(By Dr. John E. BolanJ)
VITAMINS I

UP to a few years ago food sub-
stances were thought to consist
only of carbohydrate, fat, protein and
certain inorganic salts. Investigators
have discovered other substances, which
occur in minute quantities in natural
foods, that are necessary for normal
nutrition and responsible for the pre-
vention of various diseases of early life.
These substances are known as vitamins.
At present there are six known vita-
mins. I

Vitamin A is essential for growth and
successful reproduction. Milk and
dairy products, eggs, liver, cod liver
oil and leafy green vegetables are
among the richest sources of vitamin A.

Vitamin B contains two independent
vitamins — vitamins F and G. Vitamin
F prevents neuritis and vitamin G pre-
vents pellagra. The vitamin B com-
plex is necessary for the maintenance
of appetite, growth, proper functioning
of digestive tract, reproduction, lacta-
tion and resistance to disease. It is
found in both plant and animal life.
The proper balance of cereals, cow's
milk and leafy green vegetables will
assure the necessary amount of vitamin
B complex.

Vitamin C is the anti-scorbutic vita-
min. Its absence from the diet leads to
scurvy and it is thought to be an im-
portant factor in the prevention of
tooth decay and the so-called rheuma-
tism in children. The sources of this
vitamin are oranges, lemons, grapefruit,
tomatoes (raw, cooked or canned) and
cereal grains.

Vitamin D, or the anti-rachitic vita-
min, is known thusly because in its
absence there is developed a disease
known as rickets. This is a disease of
infancy in which the bones become
soft and flexible, due to the fact that
the body has not furnished them with
the proper amount of calcium and phos-
phorus. Other evidences of this disease
are the bending of the long bones under
muscular exertion, the formation of
nodular enlargement on the ends and
sides of bones, delayed closing of the
soft spots on the baby's head, lack of
development and occasional fever and
chills. Cod liver oil and sunlight are
the chief sources of vitamin D.

Vitamin E is known as the anti-
sterility vitamin. It resembles vitamins
A and D in certain respects, but dif-
fers in its source. It is not found in
cod liver oil, but is present in vegetable
oils and the oil of the wheat germ.

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Marl^fting

By Alt Lynch

R(,A\IZM) scllinj; pus. It it
JkIii'i p,i\ so well lluic wouldn't
^(> imicli vippoMtion to It.

1 l.inison 1 .ilirnkopt. <i\cr • in the
mMin nijikctini; dcp.irtnii.nt, h.is .1 rc.il
]<>h. liiM p.irt ot it IS. tlic lllniDi'-
(ir.iln C^dipor.ttion must be ri_i;lit bc-
e.iu'-c- vonic j;r.iin tiwdcrs mc .ij;.iin\t it.

I^on t worrx, f I.tirison, i.-\ci\ one of
tli.it kinil ol knocks is .1 boost. Tint
was trill' on ni.in\ ot our milk ni.iikcts.
W li.it tlie de.ilcrs did to Ik'.kI otf oi-
•.;.ini/(.<.l seliini; in tlio end ni.idc tiie <ii-
gAiii/.ition lli.U iiun.li sironm.!' ,uid
more e(lecii\e.

(.^ri;.ini/eil .n;rieiiltuie li.is not yet
torjjotten tlie dr.im.itic st.md t.iken by
tile Pure .Milk Associ.ition in the C'lii-
e.i:;o .ire.i in j.iiiu.irv, 1929, to win rec-
oi^nition. Tlie de.iler opposition w .is
<)\ erpl.n ed. The public bej;.ui to root
tor the protlueers.

^cltlsll tolks will pick on the Illinois
Cii'.im Corpor.uion. liut these "pecks"
will help to put pecks ,uid pecks ot
Illinois r.iised i;r.iiii thiou,iL;li .1 centr.il
m.irketinj; s\ stem tli.it will brin;; the
List tew pennies per bushel.

Those opposed to co-oper.itive sell-
ing; .idvise us to use pr.iver, .ilm.in.ic
sis;ns .iiul "p.issive resist.ince"' to soKe
our s.iles problems. W li\ ? liec.uise
tliev c.in then bu\' our products under
more t.ivor.ible conditions.

The time's cominj;, folks, when .i
membership in .i co-oper.uive s.iles or-
i;.ini/.uion will be .is necess.irx' .is the
f.irni itselt. This membership will be
your se.it on \our own m.irketinj; e\-
ch.inj^e entitlmj; you to sell wli.it you
produce with .i better ch.ince tor .i
profit.

So, let's not };et excited by the words
ot wisdom trom those who tr.ide in
our products — unless those words of
wisdom .ire — Join your co-oper.uive,
st.ibili/e \()ur m.irket — we w ill do busi-
ness with \ ou.

M.iny bu\ers in Illinois .ind else-
where .ire t.ilkinj; like th.it — s.iyins; the
ct)-oper.itive cm do thins^s to improve
conditions th.it they, .is priv.ite business
men, could never .iccomplish. Th.it's
re.il co-oper.ition. And it me.ins .i

li.ippy, prosperous community — where
e\ erxoiie is .i ijood enoui;h sport to rec-
oi;iii/e the best interests of the other
tellow.

There's .i lot of ijood old-t.ishioned
(joiden Rule .ind quite ,i bit of honest
reli!;ion in buildinj; co-oper.ltivcs to liit
the b.ill .iiid return the "ei]u.ilit\ " to
.I'jnculture to which it is entitled.

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Less T. B. In H

ogs

Al)l ( I IN'l. ot tuberculosis in m.ir-
ket sw iiie .It the l.irj;e me.it-p.ick-
inj; centers is shown b\ 1 eder.il me.it-
inspectioii records. In the p.ist tisc.il
xe.ir the number of hos; c.irc.isses con-
tleiiineil .is unsuit.ible for tood bec.uise
ct tuberculosis w.is 9,170 less th.in in
the pre\ ious \e.ir, .ind the number ot
p.irts ol c.irc.isses coinlemiied for the
s.iiiie c.uise W.IS 11S,99S less. These
hi;ures represent declines ot .ibout 2(1
per cent. The er.idic.ition of tubercu-
losis .inioiit; c.ittle on t.irms where the
hoj;s .ire r.iised is the chief re.isoii tor
the improxeil comlitioii of the hoi;s.

Traded Your Car?

Bl sure to notitx \our .uito insur-
.iiice comp.inv when ><)u ir.ide or
sell \()ur c.ir .iiid w .int xour insur.ince
policx tr.uisferred to the new c.ir. ^ Du
.ire protected onl\ .ij;.iinst .in .iccident
with the c.ir mentioned in the policv.
The policy does not protect the new
c.ir e\en though your .issessments .ire
.ill p.iid up on the policx coverinj; the
old tine.

Xoiitic.ition of tr.insfer is .i require-
ment of .ill .uitomobile insur.ince com-
p.inies. It is wise to send ,i telei;r.ini
or letter to \our ,iuto insur.ince com-
p.in\ j;i\iiii; notific.ition of tr.insfer be-
fore \(>u drive the new c.ir out ot the
j;.ir.ij;e.

In one c.ise .i policyholder w.is dri\-
ini; his new c.ir to town tor the pur-
pose of tr.iiisferrinj; his insur.ince.
\\ hile in town he li.id .in .iccident. The
new c.ir suflered s2(>() d.im.ijje. The
owner w .is compelled to st.ind the loss
himself bec.uise the new .uitomobile
w.is uninsured.

Auto insur.ince comp.inies .ire com-
pelled to .ibide b\- this h.ird .ind f.ist
rule for their own protection. Other-
wise in m.iny inst.inces they would be
c.irrxinj; insur.ince on two c.irs, both
the old .ind the new, for the price of
one. I urthermorc, if this rule were not
strictK .idhered to m.iny policvholders
would be l.ix in tr.insferring their in-
sur.ince. In m.iny c.ises, too, it would
be difficult to prove when the title to
the old c.ir p.issed from seller to bu\er.

Keeping Well

(By Dr. /„/..; ;:. noLiiiJ)
VITAMIN'S

I' to .1 few \e.irs .ii;o food sub-
st.inces were thouijht to consist
only ot c.irbohvdr.ite, f.it, protein .ind
cert.iin inorj;.iiiic s.ilts. lnvestii;,itors
h.ive discovered other subst.mces, whicii
occur in minute qu.intities in n.itur.il
foods, th.u .ire necess.iry for norm.il
nutrition .ind responsible for the pre-
vention of \.irious dise.ises of e.irlv life.
These subst.mces .ire know n .is vit.imins.
At present there .ire six known \it,i-
iiiins.

\ it.imiii .'\ is cssenti.il for i^iow th ,i;id
successful reproduction. .Milk .uul
d.iiry products, eggs, liver, cod li\er
oil .ind le.ifx yreeii vet;et ibles .ire
.inioiij; the richest sources of \ ii.imin ;\.

N'it.imin B cont.iins two independent
vit.imins — vit.imins I- .ind Cj. X'lt.imiii
1 prevents neuritis .ind vit.imin G pre-
vents pell.iyr.i. The \ it.imin B com-
plex is necess.irv tor the iii.iinten.iiice
of .ippetite, j;rowtli. proper t unctioniiii;
of dij;estive tr.ict, reproikiclioii, l.ict.i-
tioii .uid resist.ince to dise.ise. It is
found in both pl.int .md .inim.il lite.
The proper b.ilance of cere.ils, cow's
milk .ind le.ify j;reen veijet.ibles will
.issure the necess.ir\ .imoiint of \ii.imin
B ccmplex.

N'lt.imin C^ is the .inti-scorbutic vit.i-
min. Its .ibsencc from the diet le.ids to
scurvy .ind it is thoujjht to be .in ini-
port.int f.ictor in the prevention of
tooth dec.n .ind the so-c.illed rheum.i-
tism in children. The sources of this
vit.imin .ire or.injjes, lemons, gr.ipefruit,
tom.itoes (r.iw, cooked or c.inned) .md
cere.il gr.iins.

X'it.imin 1), or the .inti-r.ichitic vit.i-
min. is known tluislv bec.iuse in its
.ibsence there is developed .1 dise.ise
known .is rickets. This is a dise.ise of
inf.incy in which the bones become
soft .ind flexible, due to the fact th.it
the bod> h.is not furnished them with
the proper .imount of c.ilcium .ind phos-
phorus. Other evidences of this dise.ise
.ire the bendini; of the long bones under
muscul.ir exertion, the form.ition of
noduLir enl.irgement on the ends .md
sides of bones, del.ived closing of the
soft spots on the b.ibv's he.id. Lick of
development .ind occ.ision.il fever and
chills. Cod liver oil and sunlight are
the chief sources of vitamin 1).

N'itamin E is known as the anti-
sterility vitamin. It resembles vitamins
A and I) in certain respects, but dif-
fers in its source. It is not found in
cod liver oil, but is present in vegetable
oils and the oil of the wheat germ.

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Number 7

July, 1930

Volume 8

Watson Reviews Histoiy
Of Revenue Amendment

Calls Most of Amendments to Meas-
ure Tacked on in House
a Mistake

J. C. VTataon

By John C. Watson

IN the general election to be held on
November 4, 1930, the voters of
Illinois will be called upon either to
approve or to reject an amendment to
the revenue article of the State Con-
stitution recently submitted by a q)e-
cial session of the General Assembly.

Under authority of an act of the
regular session of the General Assen»bly,
approved June 21,
1929, a revenue in-
vestigation commis-
sion was appointed
consisting of one
senator appointed by
the president of the
Senate, two men*-
bers of the House
of Representatives
appointed by the
Speaker of the
House, and three
citizens appointed by the Governor.
The act authorizing the creation of the
commission directed it to report at the
next regular or special session of the
General Assembly with such recom-
mendations for the revision of the reve-
nue laws of the state as would, in the
opinion of the commission, bring about
a fairer method of assessing property,
raising revenue and equalizing the tax
burdens within the state, including
such recommendations as to legislatimi
and constitutional revision as the com-
mission might deem advisable.

Began Last December

The commission began its delibera-
tions in December, 1929. After numer-
ous conferences with an advisory com-
mittee consisting of representatives of
twenty-one state-wide organizations,
one of which was the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association, with tax officials and
(Continued on page 2, col. 1)

ProKrMH Is made hy people nho are
not aatislled with things an they are,
henee try to improve them. Progrrexa
naeana ohaafire and there are alivaya
thoae w^ho oppoiie change it it affeota |
their peraonal Intereata adversely.

Farmers Can Succeed

In Terminal Markets

Elevator Manager Believes Present
System Creates Buyers' Market

{( I .' ARMERS have proved their abil-
■*- ity to handle their grain efficient-
ly until it reaches the terminals, and
are today demanding the right to
handle their business still further,- even
to the ultimate consumer," said C. W.
VTeUman, manager of the Ransom, Illi-
nois Farmers' Elevator, in a talk from
station WENR, Chicago, the night of
June 30.

"The action of farmers in setting up
a co-operative terminal sales agency is
a foirward step in the industry whereby
the farmer will have control of his
business from start to finish," said
Wellman. "Farmers insist on having
something to say in determining the
price they receive for their grain.

Buyers of Grain

"Years ago fanners rebelled against
the system then in force in the market-
ing of their grain at the country point,"
continued Mr. Wellman. "As a result
farmers' elevators sprang up all over
the middle west until today from 60
to 70 per cent of the grain going to
market is handled by farmers' elevators.
These elevators have saved the farmer
many thousands of dollars, but they
are still to a large degree buyers of
grain and not cogs in an effective grain
marketing program. The commission
men exceed by far the number of mil-
lers, processors and exporters. The re-
sult is that we have a buyers' market,
not a sellers' market.

"Manufacturers of automobiles and

farm machinery have developed a sales

organization whereby their products are

sold direct to the consumer over the

{Continue J next ptge, cot. 1)

Veterinarians Hold

Meeting, Bloomington

Illinois Live Stock Sanitary Ciim*
mittee Forms Permanent

Organization

ti

AGO-OPERATIVE plan of live
stock sanitary service by which
farmers can secure the counsel and ser-
vices of veterinarians at a lower cost
per unit, was suggested by W. S. Corsa,
prominent live stock and horse breeder
from Greene county, before the annual
meeting of the Illinois Veterinary Medi-
cal Association at Bloomington oo
July 8.

"The services of the veterinarian
costs too much per unit," said Mr.
Corsa. "A plan should be worked
out as in big business, to lower
the cost for each call. The farmer
ought to have better protection for his
live stock than he now has. And the
veterinarians ought to have a better in-
come for the year than most of them
now secure. I believe veterinarians caa
do much to make their services more
attractive and more economical. I
don't know just exactly what's wrong,
but I believe that a plan can be work^
out that will be satisfactory to both
the veterinarians and the live stock
growers."

Mr. Corsa 's suggestion made in a
brief 10 -minute talk aroused much fa-
vorable comment from both farmers
and veterinarians.

Discusses Farm Bureau

Dean H. W. Mumford of the Illinois
College of Agriculture opened the
morning conference with a discussion
of extension service. He explained that
the county advisers in Illinois secured
their salaries jointly from money pro-
vided by Farm Bureau members, and
the state and federal governments. He
said that it must be kept in mind that
the County Farm Bureau, supported
by membership dues, pays all the ex-
penses of the county adviser, pays for
office rent and clerical help, and pays

(Continued on ptge 7)

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July, 1930

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Watson Reviews History
Of Revenue Amendment

Calls Most of Amendments to Meas-
ure Tacked on in House
a Mistake

J. C. Watson

Rl ]i>bn C. Watson

IN tlic i^cncr.il ekxtion to be held on
November 4, 1930, the voters of
Illinois will be called upon either to
approve or to reject an amendment to
the revenue article of the State Con-
stitution recently submitted by a spe-
cial session of the General Assembly.

Under authority of an act of the
regular session of the General Assembly,
approved June 21,
1929, a revenue in-
vestigation commis-
sion was appointed
consisting of one
senator appointed by
the president of the
Senate, two mem-
bers of the House
ot Representatives
appointed by the
Speaker of the
House, ind three
citizens appointed by the Governor.
The act authorizing the creation of the
commission directed it to report at the
next regular or special session of the
General Assembly with such recom-
mendations for the revision of the reve-
nue laws of the state as would, in the
opinion of the commission, bring about
a fairer method of assessing property,
raising revenue and equalizing the tax
burdens within the state, including
such recommendations as to legislation
and constitutional revision as the com-
mission might deem advisable.

Began Last December

The commission began its delibera-
tions in December, 1929. After numer-
ous conferences with an advisory com-
mittee consisting of representatives of
twenty-one state-wide organizations,
one of which was the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association, with tax officials and
(C'jntiitiirJ on page 2, col. 1)

Pr4»Ki*eKN In iiiatif Uy |l(*«»|»lv M Il4» nrr
not NntiHfied nitli thiiiK'* tt^ flic> :ir«>,
hence try ti> ini|irci%e Iheiii. I'm^ire^s
■iieanK ohnnK^ anii there :ire !il\\:i><«
(boKe nho opi>OMe chanKe it il alVeels
their perMOnaE Interests inl*ersel>.

Farmers Can Succeed

In Terminal Markets

Elevator Manager Believcj Present
System Creates Buyers' Market

Ct"CARMERS have proved rhoir abii-
J- ity to handle their i;rain etficient-
ly until it reaches the terminals, and
are today demanding the right to
handle their business still further, even
to the ultimate consumer," said C. ^'.
Wellman, manager of the Ransom, Illi-
nois Farmers' Elevator, in a talk from
station WENR, Chicago, the night of
June 30.

"The action of farmers in setting up
a co-operative terminal sales agcnc\ is
a forward step in the industry whereb\'
the farmer will have control of his
business from start to finish," said
Wellman. "Farmers insist on having
something to say in determining the
price they receive for their grain.

Buyers of Grain

"Years ago farmers rebelled against
the system then in force in the market-
ing of their grain at the country point,"
continued Mr. Wellman. "As a result
farmers' elevators sprang up all over
the middle west until toda\- from 60
to 70 per cent of the grain going to
market is handled by farmers' elevators.
Tliese elevators have saved the farmer
many thousands of dollars, but they
are still to a large degree buyers of
grain and not cogs in an effective grain
marketing program. The commission
men exceed by far the number of mil-
lers, processors and exporters. The re-
sult is that we have a buvers' market,
not a sellers' market.

"Manufacturers of automobiles and
farm machinery have developed a sales
organization whereby their products are
sold direct to the consumer over the

(Continurd next page, col. I)

Veterinarians Hold

Meeting, Bloomington

Illinois Live Stock Sanitary Com>

mittee Forms Permanent

Organization

A CO-OPERATIVE plan of live
■i- ^ stock sanitary service by which
tarmers can secure the counsel and ser-
vices of veterinarians at a lower cost
per unit, was suggested bv W. S. Corsa,
prominent live stock and horse breeder
from Greene county, before the annual
meeting of the Illinois Veterinary Medi-
cal Association at Bloomington on
July 8.

"The services of the veterinarian
costs too much per unit," said Mr.
Corsa. "A plan should be worked
out as in big business, to lower
the cost for each call. The farmer
ought to have better protection for his
live stock than he now has. And the
veterinarians ought to have a better in-
come for the year than most of them
now secure. I believe veterinarians can
do much to make their services more
attractive and more economical. i
don't know just exactly what's wrong,
but 1 believe that a plan can be worked
out that will be satisfactory to both
the veterinarians and the live stock
growers."

Mr. Corsa's suggestion made in a
brief 10-minute talk aroused much fa-
vorable comment from both farmers
and veterinarians.

Discusses Farm Bureau

Dean H. W. Mumford of the Illinois
College of Agriculture opened the
morning conference with a discussion
of extension service. He explained that
the county advisers in Illinois secured
their salaries jointly from money pro-
vided by Farm Bureau members, and
the state and federal governments. He
said that it must be kept in mind that
the County Farm Bureau, supported
by membership dues, pa\s all the ex-
penses of the county adviser, pays for
office rent and clerical help, and pays
(Continutd on pave 7 )

Paf(e Four

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Watson Reviews History

{Continued from page 1 )

oflficers of local governments, with
representatives of business and civic or-
ganizations, taxpayers and others, the
commission submitted a preliminary re-
port on May 10, 1950, just before the
special session of the General Assembly
. convened.

The preliminary report of the com-
mission dealt chiefly with the necessity
of a revenue amendment, and offered
a draft of an amendment with the fol-
lowing recommendation:

The Recommendation

"The commission believes that no
one can now forecast what particular
methods of taxation will be best suited
to conditions in Illinois in the future
and that, therefore, the General Assem-

• bly and the voters of Illinois, can best
demonstrate their wisdom by leaving
the determination of these specific de-
tails to the taxpayers who will pay the
taxes in future years and to the legis-
lators whom they will then elect. In
view thereof and of the guaranties in
both the Federal and the State Con-
stitution, it is the judgment of this
0Qmmission that the resolution herewith
submitted be enacted, and that Illinois
place in the hands of its General As-
sembly powers as broad as have been
given to the legislators of New York,

, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and many
other states of the Union."

Purpose of Amendment
The report was signed by all of the
^ members of the commission. The chair-
man, a senator from Cook County,
added a statement indicating his con-
• currence in the findings of fact in the
i report, but urging that the vesting of
unlimited power in the General Assem-
bly required a reapportionment of the
^ state.

The amendment proposed by the

Farmers Can Succeed

( Continued from page 1 )

shortest possible route. This is exactly
' what the farmer is trying to do. He
desires to get into the terminal mar-
. kets, own his own handling facilities,
and organize his bargaining jwwer.
Farmers must turn a deaf ear to self-
styled friends of agriculture and sup-
port the Federal Farm Board which is
trying to help them solve their prob-
lems."

Mr. Wellman has been in the grain
business for the p.ist 10 years, serving
during most of this time as manager of
elevator companies. For the past seven
years he has managed the farmers' ele-
vator at Ransom which handles an av-
' crage of nearly 500,000 bu. of grain
annually. The Ransom elevator is a
members of the Illinois Grain Corp.

commission was designed to remove the
restrictions upon the power of the Gen-
eral Assembly under the present revenue
article without imposing any other re-
strictions. It was unfortunate in using
some language of uncertain meaning,
which, if approved, almost certainly
would have caused much litigation, and
also in disturbing the present section of
the revenue article dealing with exemp-
tions of property. However, the
amendment proposed by the commission
was admirable for its recognition of the
necessity of vesting the General As-
sembly with broad powers in dealing
with questions of taxation.

Passed in Senate

The resolution submitting the amend-
ment was promptly passed without
change by the Senate and with little
objection, except from a few Cook
County senators. In the House it en-
countered stiffer opposition. Many
amendments were offered mostly by
members representing Chicago districts.
Two changes had been urged by many
persons and organizations, the insertion
of a clause requiring that all real estate
except mineral lands and lands devoted
to reforestation be in one class, and the
elimination of the substitute proposed
for the present exemption section. These
changes were made almost without op-
position. Most of the other amend-
ments to the Senate resolution urged by
Chicago representatives proposed re-
strictions rendering an income tax in-
operative until a reapportionment was
made in legislative districts or limiting
the state to not more than 10 per cent
of the net proceeds of a tax on incomes
except by the affirmative votes of two-
thirds of the members elected to each
House of the General Assembly.

Separate Conferences

Separate conferences were called both
by the Cook County representatives
and by the downstate representatives.
The downstate conference unanimously
agreed to resist any amendment limit-
ing the state to less than 25 per cent of
the net proceeds of a tax on incomes.
However, when the amendment pro-
posing a limitation of 10 per cent was
under discussion, a downstate member
offered an amendment thereto fixing the
percentage at 15. Other downstate
members urged limitation of the state
to a lower percentage than 25. With
only a few downstate votes against it,
the limitation was fixed at 15 per cent
of a tax on incomes. There was no
objection to the clause giving a ma-
jority of the members elected to each
House the power by general law to dis-
tribute part or all of any other taxes
collected by the state among the coun-
ties and other taxing districts. The

Chicago amendment as modified was
approved.

A Significant Change

The present section giving the cor-
porate authorities of cities, towns and
villages the power to make local im-
provements by special assessment, or by
special taxation of contiguous property
or otherwise, was broadened to include
"sanitary districts, park districts, and
other municipalities."

When the resolution as amended was
called for final action by the House,
it narrowly escaped defeat. On the
first vote it failed by one vote to re-
ceive the two-thirds majority required
by the Constitution. Many Chicago
members voted against it. The two
members who had most actively urged
limitation voted against it on the
ground that further limitations should
have been adopted. The resolution was
saved from defeat only by a motion to
postjjone further consideration. After
vain attempts had been made to take •
up the Chicago relief bills, the amend-
ment resolution was called up again and
was approved by a vote barely exceed-
ing the constitutional two-thirds ma-
jority. Many senators were opposed to
the House substitute for Section 2, but
finally accepted it on the ground that
no other draft could pass the House.
But in doing so they reserved the right
to Qppose the resolution before the peo-
ple should a careful analysis of it seem
not to justify their support.

Amendments a Mistake

Representatives of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association, though urging
minor changes chiefly for the purpose
of clarifying the amendment proposed
by the investigation commission, sup-
ported the position of the commission
and opposed the restrictions urged by
many Chicago and Cook County legis-
lators. Representatives of the associa-
tion still believe that most of the
changes made in the House in compli-
ance with the demand of Chicago were
a mistake. All authorities on taxation
heard by the General Assembly had op-
posed such restrictions. Howe\'er, care-
ful analysis is being made of the amend-
ment as submitted, both of its good
features and of its bad features. After
full consideration of this report and ac-
tion thereon by the board of directors,
the position of the association on the
amendment and the reasons therefor
will be announced. - t^--

"Congratulations upon the June issue
of the I. A. A. RECORD. It is most
attractive."

ILLINOIS MILK PRO-
DUCERS' ASSOCIATION,

Wilfred Shaw, Resident Manager.

.1

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Five

"We Want Effective STONE TELLS 4-H CLUB MEMBERS

Grain Marketing" . NEED OF EFFICIENT MARKETING

(^nPHE 4-H clubs teach you boys and the Hmit and let someone else do the
J- and girls how to become better marketing," said Mr. Stones. "They
farmers and home makers, encourage have continued to grow and sell blind-
you to take part in neighborhood af- ly, without regard to what their neigh-
fairs and to be of service to others, bors are doing, with the resvdt that
develop a spirit of teamwork among agriculture has not kept pace financial-

Have Opportunity to Build Real

Co-Operative Sales System,

Says Sailor.

J. C. Sailor

(("\T7'HAT kind of a grain market-
VV ing organization do you want
to serve you in Illinois to take advan-
tage of the Agricultural Marketing Act
and the aid offered
by the Federal Farm
Board.'" J. C. Sailor,
a director in the Illi-
nois Grain Corpora-
tion and one of the
founders of the
farmers' elevator at
Cissna Park in Iro-
quois county asked in
a recent address over
radio station WLS.
"As a farmer and speaking to farm-
ers, I am going to take the liberty to
say that we want an organization that
is strictly producer-owned and pro-
ducer-controlled, one whose set-up is
fundamentally sound, and one which
has the support and backing of the
leading farmers and farm organizations
in our state. I believe that the Illinois
Grain Corporation is such a grain mar-
keting co-operative.

Agreement Necessary

"The Illinois Grain Corporation is an
advocate of contract marketing," ex-
plained the speaker. "In other words,
it believes that the members should
agree to market their grain through
the organization once they have in-
vested their money to provide the nec-
essary capital. Producers who believe
in this system of marketing do not feel
that they can build a strong agency
without determination on the part of
the members to support it. They doubt
that the voluntary marketing idea will
really be effective.

"Past experience has proved that when
member elevators ship to the hundreds
of old-line commission firms the co-
operative selling agency becomes mere-
ly just another commission company.
And anyone who has studied terminal
marketing knows that there are too
many such firms already. As a farmer
I feel, and I know that many others
share that feeling with me, that the
few advocates of the voluntary hit-or-
miss plan should be supporting a more
effective program of grain marketing.

Local Control Continues

"There has been much said regarding
the usurpation of the local elevators by
the Illinois Grain Corporation and the
Illinois Agricultural Association, and
that our local co-operatives will lose

you and train
you in lead-
ership, one of
the great
needs of agri-
culture to-
day. All of
this is most
excellent and
serves to'
make life on
the farm
more attrac-
tive.

"But while
you have
been learning
to produce
well and ef-
ficiently, you
have given
little thought
to efficient
marketing.
Fancy premi-
ums received

ILLINOIS DELEGATION AT 4-H CLUB
CAMP

Left to right: Dorothy E. Lynch, Extension specialist:
George A. Doole, Adams County; Joy M. Hardy, Hancock
County; Lewis Butzow, Iroquois County: Mildred Mies,
Livingston County; E. I. Pilchard, Slate Club leader. This
picture was taken during the National 4-H Club Camp, last
month, in the shadow of the Washington monument. The
I. A. A. Board of Directors authorized a contribution of (100 to
the expenses of the 4-H Club members to the national capital.

ly with other
industries,
which have
become high-
ly organized.
"The Farm
Board was
created to
help correct
this disparity.
Congress said
the way for*
agriculture to
gain e c o -
nomic equal-
ity is through
CO - operation
on the part
of farmers.
Our Board is
trying to
help the
farmers get
organized so
that they,
acting to-

for prize animals or products exhibited gether, may control the production and

at county or state fairs, you will quick-
ly learn as practical farmers, are not
the prices paid in the markets for simi-
lar commodities. If you wish to get a
fair return for your effort you will find
that just as much or more attention
must be given to marketing your crop
as to producing it." So spoke James
C. Stone, vice-chairman of the Federal
Farm Board to club members assembled
at the national 4-H club camp held
last month at Washington.

"For the most part farmers in the
past have been content to produce to

marketing of their crops and thereby
get a fair price for them. It is our
opinion that co-operation is the only
thing that offers real hope for agricul-
tural prosperity.

"Co-operation among farmers that is
being promoted by the Farm Board is
nothing more than a broadening of the
teamwork you young people are doing
in your 4-H clubs. "We feel that sub-
stantial progress is being made. The
job is not one to be done overnight.
In the long run success depends on the
willingness of farmers to co-operate."

their identity. This I wish to denounce
as untrue. Our elevators will be oper-
ated as formerly as far as management
and control are concerned. The ele-
vator board of directors and manager
will have a job just as big as ever. We
do expect to be able to furnish market
and sales service by working in close
co-operation with the national agency.
In this manner our elevators will have
as good and we hope eventually better
service than they are now receiving.
We expect to market the grain of the
farmer through his own machine, and
do it efficiently so that the profits will
accrue to him on a patronage basis.
Loyalty and Intelligence
"All we need at this critical time is

the combined intelligence and courage
of sincere and honest grain farmers
working loyally for the benefit of all
people. I believe we are going to suc-
ceed because our plan is sound and the
time is ripe to put it in operation. To
you elevator directors who are sincere
and loyal to your producer patrons I
ask that you call for a representative
of the Illinois Grain Corporation to
meet your board df directors and ex-
plain fully the plan and what is neces-
sary to qualify as a member. This is
our opportunity to place in operation
and use a farmer-owned and farmer-
controlled marketing machine capable
of giving us bargaining power in the
markets where prices are made."

Page Four

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Waiisoii Reiieti's Hi .tor y

\iStiitlinitt d Irttni /»j\'i' I 1

otficcrs of Ioc.ll governments, with
representatives of business and civic or-
ganizations, taxpayers and others, tlic
commission submitted a preliminar\ re-
port on May 10, 1930, just before tlie
special session of the General Asseniblx
convened.

The preliminary report of the com-
mission dealt chiefly with tlie necessitv
of a revenue amendment, and offered
-'a dratt ot an amendment with the fol-
lowing recommendation:

The Rccommend.ition

"I 111. ciimniission believes tliat no
on.' on now forecast what p.'.rticul.ir
ni'.'thods ot taxation will be best suitcil
to conditions in llhnois m the future
and th.n, theiefore, the General Asseni-
^bly and the voters of Illinois, can best
'liemonstrate their wisdom bv leaving
the determination of these specific tie-
tails to the taxpayers who will pa\- the
taxes in future years and to the legis-
Litors whom they will then elect. In
view thereof and of the guaranties in
both the federal and the State Con-
stitution, it is the judgment of this
commission that the resolution herewith
submitted be enacted, and that Illinois
place in the hands of its General As-
sembly powers as broad as have been
given to the legislators of New York,
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and manv
other states of the Union.""

Purpose of Amendment

,, Tiic report was signed by all of tiie
members uf the commission. The chair-
man, .1 senator from Cook Count\,
addeil a statement ■ indicating his con-
_ currence in the findings of fact in the
; report, but urging that the vesting of
unlimited power in tlie General Assem-
blv re»iuireii a reapptirtionment of the
state.

The amendmept proposed b\ the

Fiirmers Can Succeed

( .■•.'/mil, .1 M:.;ij /.,;-, I

sliortest possible route. This is e\actl\
what the farmer is tr\ing to do. lie
desires to get into the terminal mar-
kets, own his own iiandling facilities,
and orgam/e his bargaining power.
1 ariners must turn a de.if ear to self-
stxleii friends ot agriculriuc and sup-
port she i: ederai I arm Board which is
tr\ing to iieip iheni ^uK e then' prob-
lems."

Mr. \\ ^■llman lias been m the grain
Inisiiuss ior the pa.st lo \eirv serving
during iTiost ot this time ,i^ m.inager of
elevator cimipanies. lor tlie past seven
vens lie has nianageil the farmers' eie-
iiior at Ransom which hiiulles ,iii av-
erai:e ot neaiiv ?ni).[i()i) bu. of i;iMm
.uiiuialh. The Ransom elev.uoi- i^ i
nlembel^ ot the Illinois Cir.-.m C orp.

commission was designed to remove the
restrictions upon the power of the Gen-
eral .Xssemblv under the present revenue
article without imposing an)' other re-
strictions. It was unfortunate in using
some language of uncertain meaning,
winch, if approved, almost certainlv
would iiave caused much litigation, and
also in disturbing tiie present section of
tiie revenue article dealing with exemp-
tions of property. However, tlie
amendment proposed bv the commission
was admirable for its recognition ot ihj
necessitv ot vesting tlie General .\s-
seniblv with broad powers in dealing
witii i^iiestions uf taxation.

Passed in Senate

The resolution submitting liic anieiul-
nKiu w a-- promptlv passed without
tiiange b\ the Seii.ue and vvitli litiie
objection, except I rom a few Cook
Countv senators. In tile I louse it en-
countered stitfer opposition. Many
amendments were otfered mostly bv
members representing C^hicago districts.
Two changes had been urged by many
persons and organizations, the insertion
of a clause requiring that all real estate
except mineral lands and lands devoted
to reforestation be in one class, and the
elimination ot the substitute proposed
for the present exemption section. These
changes were made almost without op-

, position. Most of the other amend-
ments to the Senate resolution urged bv'
Chicago representatives proposed re-
strictions rendering an income tax in-
operative until a reapportionment was
made in legislative districts or limiting
the st.ite to not more than 10 per cent
(.)t the net proceeds of a tax on incomes

■except bv the atfirmaiive votes of two-
thirds ot the members elected ti) i-acii
I louse of the General .\ssembl\.

Separate Conferences

Separate conferences were called both
bv the Cook Countv representatives
and bv the downstate representatives.
The dow nsi.ite conference unan.mously
agreed to resist any ain.-ndm.'nt l.nvt-
ing the state to less than 2^ per cent ot
the net proceeds of a tax on incomes,
llowever. when tlie amendment pro-
posing a limitation ot 10 per cent was
inider discussion, a downstate number
ottered M\ anieiulmeiit thereto fixing the
percentage at IV Other downst.ue
members ur;,;e(.l iiir.ita'.ion ot tiie state
to a lower peivemage than 2^. \\ itii
I'l.K a tew downstate votes against it,
the liniitali'in wis tixed at H" per ecu',
of a tax on i icomes. There was no
(ilijection to the clause giving a ma-
loritv of I'le members elected to each
House tile power b\ general law to dis-
tribute p.irt or all ot anv other taxes
col!ecte<.l b\ the state among the coun-
ties iiid other taxin- slistricts. The

Chicago amendment as modified was
approved.

A Significant Change

The present section giving the cor-
porate authorities of cities, towns and
villages the power to make local im-
provements bv special asses-ment, or by
spec-ial taxation of contiguous propertv
or otherwise, was broadened to include
"sanitarv districts, park dist'icts. ^nd
other municipalities.":

When tlie resalutioti as amended vva^
called for final action bv the Mouse,
it narrovvlv escaped defeat. On the
first vote it failed bv one vote to re-
ceive the tvvo-tiiirds majoritv required
bv the Constitutioiv Manv Ciiicago
members voted against it. The two
members wiio had iTi>st aetiv\,l' urged
limitation voted against it on tiie
ground that further hmitations should
have been adopted. T he resolution was
saved from defeat onlv by a motion to
postpone furtlier consideration, .\tter
vain attempts had been made to take
up the Chicago relief bills, the amend-
ment resolution Was called up again and
was approved by a vote barely exceed-
ing the constitutional two-thirds ma-
jority. .Many senators were opposed to
the House substitute for Section 2, but
finally accepted it on the ground that
no other draft could pass the House.
But in doing so they reserved the right
to oppose the resolution before the peo-
ple should a careful analysis of it seem
not to justify their support.

Amendments a Mistake

Representatives of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association, though urging
minor changes ciiieflv tor the purpose
of clarifying the amendment proposed
by the investigation commission, sup-
ported the position of the commission
and opposed the restrictions urged by
manv Ciiicago and CaK)k Countv legis-
lators. Representatives of the associa-
tion still believe that most ot tiie
ciianges made in tlie House in compli-
ance with the dem.uid of Ciiicago were
a mistake. .Ml authorities on taxation
heard bv the General .Asstmblv iiad iip-
posed such restrictions. 1 low ev er. care-
ful analy sis is being made ot the aniend-
ment as submitted, both of its good
features and of its bad features. .After
full consideration of tiiis report and ac-
tion thereon by tiie board of directors,
the position of the association on liie
amendment and i^lie reasons tiieretor
will lie announced.

f

"Congratulations upon the June issiie
of the I. A. A. RECORD. It is most
attractive."

ILLIMOIS MILK PRO-
DUCERS' ASSOCIATION.

Wilfred Shaw, Resident Manager.

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li-.e

the

Illii

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that

1-:

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Paze Five

'We Want Effective

Grain Marketing"

Have Opportunity to Build Real

Co-Operative Sales System,

Says Sailor.

4( ATT" HAT kind of a grain niarkct-
VV ini; organization do you want
to serve you in Illinois to take advan-
tage of the Agricultural Marketing Act
and the aid offered
by the I'ederal Farm
15oard?" j. C. Sailor,
a director in the Illi-
nois Grain Corpora-
tion and line of the

A^Ufc. founders ot t!ie

^^^k ^^ >^, tarnier--' eKvator .it
WPI'^V^X ^ C issna Park in Iro-
quois count \ asked m
J. C. Sa:lor -i recent address over

radio station W'LS.

"As a tarnier and speakuig to farm-
ers, I am going to take the lihert\' to
say tliat we want an organization that
is strictly producer-owned and pro-
ducer-controlled, one whose set-up is
fundamentally sound, and one which
has tiie support and backing of the
leading farmers and farm organizations
in our state. I believe that the Illinois
Grain Corporation is such a grain mar-
keting co-operative.

Agreement Necessary

"The Illinois (}rain Corporation is xn
advocate of contract marketing," ex-
plained the speaker. "In other words,
it believes that the members should
agree to market their grain through
the organization once the\ ha\e in-
vested their money to provide the nec-
essarv capital. Producers who believe
in this system of marketing do not feel
that tliey can build a strong agency
\\ithout determination on the part of
the members to support it. They doubt
that the voluntary marketing idea will
really be eflective.

"Past experience has proved that when
member elevators ship to the hundreds
of old-line commission firms the co-
operati\e selling agenc\' becomes mere-
ly just another commission compan\ .
And ainone who lias studied teiniin.il
marketing knows that there are too
many sueh funis ahead). As a farmer
I leel, and I know that man\ others
share that feeling with me, that the
tew aiKocates of the v()luntar\ liit-or-
miss plan should be '■uppoit'.ng a more
ertective program of grain marketing.

Local Control Continues

' I here has b.eii much said regarding
tlie Usurpation of the local elevators h\
the Illinois (iram Corporation and the
Illinois Agricultural Association, and
that our local co-op^'iatives will lose

STONE TELLS 4-H CLUB MEMBERS

NEED OF EFFICIENT MARKETING

Cc' I *^"'" ■*"'' clubs teach \ou boys and

J- and girls how to become better

farmers and home makers, encourage

you to take part in neighborhood af-

of service to others,

ot teamwork among

>*„ p-^^»^j

fairs and to be
develop a spirit
\()u and train
\ou in lead-
ership, one of
t h e g r e a t
needs ot agri-
culture to-
dav. All of
this is most
excellent ^l^t.{
serves to
make life on
the far m
more attrac-
tive.

"But while
V o u h a \" e
been learning
to produce
well and ef-
ficiently, you
h a V e given
little thought
to efficient
m a r k e t i n g .
Fancy premi-
ums received

for prize animals or products exhibited
at county or state fairs, you will quick-
Iv learn as practical farmers, are not
the prices paid in the markets for simi-
lar commodities. If vou wish to get a
f.iir return for your effort you will find
that just as much or more .ittentioii
must be given to marketing xour crop
as to producing it." So spoilt- JaiiKs
C^. Stone, vice-chairman of the Federal
I arm Board to club members assembled
at the national 4-H club camp iield
last month at Washington.

tlie limit and let someone else do the
marketing." said Mr. Stones. "They
Have continued to grow and sell blind-
ly, without regard to what their neigii-
bors are doing, with the result that
agriculture has not kept pace financial-
ly with other
industries,
which have
become higli-
Iv organized.
"The 1 ami
H o a r J w as
I. r e a t e d l o
help cone., t
liiis dispantv.
C ongress said
t!ie wa\' tor
agriculture to
gain e c o -

ILLINOIS DELEGATION AT 4-H CLUB
CAMP

Left to right: Dorothy E. Lynch. Kxtension specialist;
George A. Doole. Adams County; Joy M. Hardy. Hancock
County; Lewis Butzow. Iroquois County; Mildred Mies,
Livingston County; E. I. Pilchard. S:ate Club leader. This
picture was taken during the National 4-H Club Camp, last
month, in the shadow of the Washington monument. The
I. A. A, Board of Directors authorized a contribution of $100 to
the expenses of the 4-H Club members to the national capital.

nomic equJl-
itv is througli
CO - operation
on the p.irt
of 4armers.
Our ^oard is
trying to
help t it e
farmers get
organized so
t !i a t thev ,
acting to-
gether, ma\ control the production and
marketing of their crops and thtTcby
get a fair price for tliem. It is our
opinion that co-operation is the only
thing that oilers real hope for agricul-
tural prosperitx'.

'C^o-operation ,inn)ng farmers that is
being priiinoted by ihe Farm Board is
nothing more than a broadening of the
teamwork \ou young people arc doing
Hi ytiur 4-H clubs. >X'e feel that sub-
stantial progress is being made. The
|ob is not one to be dtine overnight.

"For the most part farnurs in the In the long run success depends on the
past have been content to produce to Willingness of farmers to co-operate."

their identity. This I wish to denounce
as untrue. Our elevators will be oper-
ated as formerly as far as management
and control are concerni-d. The ele-
vator board of directors and manager
will have a job just as big as ever. \\"e
do expect to be able to furnish market
and sales service by working in close
co-tiperation with the national agencv.
In tins manner our elevators will have
as good and we hope eventually better
service than they are now receiving.
We expect to market the grain of the
f.'.rmcr through his own macliine, and
do it efficiently so that tlie profits will
accrue to him on a patronage basis.
Loyalty and Intelligence
All we need at this critical tim. is

the combined intelligence and courage
of sincere and honest grain f.irniers
working lovally for the benefit of all
people. I believe we are going to suc-
ceed because our plan is sound and the
time is ripe to put it in operation. T<)
you elevator directors who are sincere
add loyal to your producer patrons I
ask that vou call for a representative
ol the Illinois Gram C<)r(X)ration to
meet vour bviard ot directors and ex-
plain tullv the plan and what is neces-
sarv to quality as a member. This is
iiur opportunitv to place in operition
and use a farmer-owned and firmci-
car.roiled marketing machine capable
o: giving us bargaining power in the
ni.;rkets where jirices are made."

Page Six

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Country Life Brings

Out Wholesale Policy

Manager L. A. Williams Describes
New Term Insurance

THE intent and purpose of Country
Life Insurance Company is to sup-
ply to every Farm Bureau family life
insurance at the low>.'st possible cost.
It has long been well understood that
the basic policy in life insurance is or-
dinary life. There is no better policy
than the ordinary life policy, inasmuch
as this policy calls for the lowest pre-
mium, with standard cash values, of
any sold.

However, we have been aware all
along of the depression in agriculture
which has kept many of our people
from protecting their estates with ade-
quate life insurance. Realizing that a
temporary protection at a lower pre-
mium than even the ordinary life policy
would be advantageous to many in
tiding them over a tight place. Coun-
try Life decided to make wholesale
term insurance available to members
in good standing.

Need 100 Per County

The wholesale term policy is made
available providing a class of at least
100 can be signed up in a county. The
rate at the average age of 3 J years is
$9.58 a thousand, and this rate is per-
manent for 12 years. It is contem-
plated that dividends will still further
reduce this cost. And at any time in
that 12 year period the insured may
convert the policy to an ordinary or a
20 payment, or a 20 year endowment
policy, getting full credit for the pre-
mium money which he has paid in, if
he so desires. The member is fully
protected at this rate, and should he
die, the full death claim is paid.

He may take $2,000 of life insurance
if he is a Farm Bureau member and
also carries a regular policy in Country
Life. Otherwise the limit is $1,000,
unless he is willing to pay a $2 short
form medical fee, which will entitle
him to $2,000 of this life insurance
if he passes.

Limit $1,000

We have had numerous calls for
policies as small as $500, and have
constantly maintained a limit of
$1,000. We now feel that this low
rate will enable every Farm Bureau
member to carry an additional thou-
sand if he seee$ fit, and at least a $1,000
policy if he carries no insurance, to
tide him over to the time when he can
convert this policy to a regular form
policy with cash surrender values, loan
values, etc.

It is well understood that the 12 year

i

ADAMS COUNTY SERVICE CO. BOARD
Seated from left to right: Fred Schnellbecker, Jr., president; C. H. Chilson, auditor from the
I. A. C.A.; Miss Lillian Keil, bookkeeper; Wilmer Cornwell, manager. Standing from' left to
right: Walter Frey, director; John M. Longlet, director; S. F. Russell, farm adviser; J. J.
Wellman, treasurer, and D. H. Myers, director. J. E. Meatheringham, secretary, and Milton
Dean, director, were absent. The Adams Service Company was organized early this year and
began operations about April 1. Bulk stations were erected at Fall Creek, Golden, and Paloma.
Wilmer Cornwell is manager. The headquarters of the company is at the Adams County Farm
Bureau office in Quincy. Seven truck salesmen are employed at the present time. The company
has handled 35 carloads of petroleum products within the past three months and the number of

customers is steadily increasing.

term policy carries with it no cash
values, but really is an option on life
insurance, giving full credit to the in-
sured for the option money to apply
on a regular policy. At the time the
insured converts, he goes in at the
original age when the wholesale policy
was first taken out. He converts with-
out medical examination, just as he is
insured without medical examination,
unless he desires to carry $2,000, and
does not already carry a Country Life
policy, when he is requested to take a
short form medical.

Must Have Class of 100

The master contract has been mailed
out to every county. The county de-
siring this low form of protection
signs the master contract and agrees
to get 100 people to apply. They also
agree to collect the premiums, cutting
down the cost of handling and operat-
ing to the very minimum. Each in-
dividual must, of course, be a Farm
Bureau member, but it. is very simple
for a county with as low as 200 mem-
bers to find one-third of them willing
to take out at least a $1,000 policy.

The 12 year renewable and converti-
ble term policy sold in wholesale
quantities gives the benefit of a lower
rate for 12 years' insurance on the par-
ticipating basis than the better old line
insurance companies have charged for
a seven year convertible policy. In or-
der to put over any great price reduc-
ing plan in life insurance, co-operation
and patronage are necessary. It is
highly important that every county
work with the I. A. A. and Country
Life Insurance Company in making this
great plan effective and successful.

The wholesale policy will be avail-
able from July 10 to August 10. This
concentration of effort makes possible
an economy in the handling of the busi-
ness which is reflected in the low pre-
mium, and will still further be reflected
in dividends. One premium notice
will be sent out to each county, it in
turn will notify the policyholders. The
group of 100 does not have to be main-
tained, it is only necessary to have 100
to put the policy in effect. After that,
the insured may cancel or may be can-
celled because he dropped his Farm
Bureau membership, or may convert
and still not affect the protection on
the remaining members.

Once each year from July 10 to Au-
gust 10 new applications may be of-
fered to the company in classes, pro-
viding a sufficient number is offered
each year to bring the total up to 100.
Otherwise, just the old applicants are
taken care of. Applicants from ages 1 8
to 60 inclusive may apply without
medical examination, for a minimum of
$1,000 of life insurance. An addi-
tional $1,000 is issued under the condi-
tions described above.

, $ 1 7,000,000 Possible ; c

If 80 counties will furnish a mini-
mum of 100 lives, and co-Of>erate to-
ward the success of this wholesale in-;;
surance project, we anticipate not less
than seventeen millions of business will
be sold on this plan by August 10.

New general insurance agents recent-"
ly appointed are as follows: Vermilion
county, Edward L. Dillon; Lee county,
F. W. Peckham; Scott county, W. E.
Overton. i ,

iS^^aaitt.-l

Tw^ I. A. A. RECORD

Pag<

e Seven

I

"r

By Art Lynch

WON'T
be long now.

Requests are coming in from south-
ern Illinois asking for help in getting
milk bargaining organizations estab-
lished around the consuming centers in
that part of the state.

* ••:- *

These leaders believe that one good
strong organization would be advisable
to cover about sixteen cities, including
Centralia, Mt. Carmel, Mt. Vernon,
Christopher, Benton, West Frankfort,
Eldorado, Harrisburg, Herrin, Johnston
City, Marion, Murphysboro, Carbon-
dale, DuQuoin, Metropolis and Cairo.

s- » t

Such a large organization could ren-
der the best of service to the 130,000
city cousins living in these cities. It
could be operated in the most economi-
cal manner through one central board
of directors and one management.

* » »

In many of these cities the buyers of
milk have merged into one and the
same concern. They have, therefore,
■united buying power. Through co-
operation the dairymen can have united
selling power.

* * *''•".; -■ '.
When the southern Illinois boys get

their association under way it will prac-
tically complete the fluid milk bargain-
ing organizations in Illinois. The only
spots left will be Danville and Gales-

bure.

o ; » «• »

All the other fluid markets are
either actually selling or have their
sign-up about over and will soon be
ready to have something to say about
prices, quality, tests and advertising.

* * si-
Then the next step is to complete the

state regional or federation of all the

organized areas which will insure a

business-like and continuous p ogram

for selling our milk intelligently.
>(• » *

■ So, it won't be long now. -'

TRY CONDEMNATION SUITS

THE first cases covering condemna-
tion suits brought against land
owners by the Illinois Northern Utility
Co. in the Freeport-Dixon power line
case came up for trial in Dixon on July
10. The action of the company fol-
lowed a proposal submitted by a Farm
Bureau committee of land owners cov-
ering a basis for compensation for land

CHEMICAL USED IN WAR ON THISTLES j

Calcium chlorate is being used on this Knox county farm to destroy a large field of

Canada thistles. j

SMALL patches of thistles are more This field is located on the Galesburg-

or less common in Knox county Knox township line, northeast of the

and considerable progress is being made city of Galesburg, and has the reputa-

in checking these noxious weeds tion of being the worst thistle patch

through the use of calcium chlorate or in the county. The field was a solid

Atlacide. mass of thistles prior to the eradication

Thistles were introduced in the field program started by Supervisor Norton

shown in the photograph furnished by and the results obtained through the

Mr. Keeler with Canadian seed oats use of chemicals will be watched with

which were not recleaned before sow- intense interest by farmers and citizens

ing. The tenants on the farm made of Galesburg.

no attempt to control these weeds in Over 2 50,000 pounds of this weed

the beginning and finally gave up all killer has been distributed by the Illinois

attempts to raise a crop on the land as Farm Supply Company and associated

the returns were unprofitable. companies prior to July 1.

damaged in whole or in part by the
power line being erected between Free-
port and Dixon.

Negotiations between the joint Farm
Bureau committee representing land
owners in Lee, Ogle and Stephenson
counties, and utility representatives
have been underway for several months.

Farmers are insisting that their con-
stitutional rights as land owners be
fully respected and that the principle
of equal rights under the laws be given
full sway.

The land owners have engaged local
counsel with whom the Transportation
Department of the Illinois Agricultural
Association is co-operating. Any at-
tempt on the part of thj company to
obtain a settlement for less than a fair
compensation will be resisted by the
land owners. They contend that the
power line will be a permanent encum-
brance upon the land; that the sale
value of the farms affected will be low-
ered.

Veterinarians Meet

(Continued from page })
the salaries of assistant county advisers.

"The Farm Bureau in Illinois is con-
sidered in other states," said Dean
Mumford, "the best example of what a
state farm organization should be. It is
conceivable," he said, "that an organi-
zation cannot always be right. It may
make mistakes, but the Farm Bureau is
doing the best it knows how.

"Keep in mind that the Farm Bureau
is not subject to the dictation of the
University," said Dean Mumford. "If

the Farm Bureau wants to start a bar-
ber shop it can do it. We can advise
but we cannot dominate or control."

Contagious Abortion Discussed

H. W. Allyn, manager of Rock
River Farms, Byron, Illinois, and presi-
dent of the State Holstein-Friesian As-
sociation, expressed the opinion that the
average farmer has no definite view-
point on live stock sanitation. "Often-
times contagious abortion," he said, "is
excused by the live stock owner as an
act of God, or is due to a bump or some
other external cause." He cited a case
in which a neighbor consulted a veter-
inarian for one of his cows that lost a
calf. The veterinarian in this case rec-
ommended vaccination, although he had
made no blood tests and so had no
knowledge of the cause of the trouble.
"This is a sad commentary on the pro-
fession," said Mr. Allyn.

Remove from Politics

Harry Wood of Delavan, a promi-
nent Holstein breeder and the first in
the state to have an accredited herd,
advocated the removal of the state di-
vision of animal industry from politics.
This recommendation was also endorsed
by Mr. Allyn. ■

D. W. Robinson, state superintendent
of animal industry, stated that there
was too much conflicting opinion
among the veterinarians about disease
control and treatment. He gave this
as the cause of farmers' hesitancy in
following the Teterinarians' recom-
mendations. ■'■ - .1 ■ ' ■ / .■ -) ■

Pagg Eight

THE I. A. A. RECORD

I liLilNOlS

CCL.T1JRAL ASSOCIA

RECORiy

To adiance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized,
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political,
and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation,
and to develop agriculture.

Editor, George Thiem

Published once a month by the Illinois Agricultural Association,
at 124 So. Fifth St., Marshall, 111. Address all letters to Editorial Office,
608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. Entered as second-class matter
June 16, 1930, at the post office at Marshall, 111., under the Act of
March 3, 1879. Accepted for mailing at spe<;ial rate of postage provided
for in Section 412. Act of Feb. 2», 1925, authorized Oct. 27, 1925.
The individual membership fee ot the Illinois Agricultural Association is
five dollars a* year. The fee includes payment of fifty cents for subscrip-
tion to the Illinois Agricultural Association Record. Postmaster : In re-
turning an uncalled for missent copy please indicate key number on
address as is required by law.

OFFICERS
Detroit

President. Earl C. Smith _

Vice-President, A. R. Wright-
Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger..

...Varna

^Chicago

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles^ Bloomington

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
(By Congressional District)

1st to 11th _ H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

12th _ G. F. TuUock, Rockford

13th _ - C. E. Bamborough, Polo

14th „ M. G. Lambert, Ferris

15th. - - A. N. Skinner, Yates City

16th - - Geo. B. MuUer, Washington

1 7tli. _ - - —Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

1 8th _ W. A. Dennis, Paris

19th _ C. J. Gross, Atwood

20th Charles S. Black, Jacksonville

21st Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd Frank Oexner, Waterloo

23rd _ _ _ W. L. Cope, Salem

24th _ _ „ Charles L. S cott, Grayville

25th Fred Dietz, De Soto

DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS

Comptroller J. H. Kelker

Dairy Marketing - - A. D. Lynch

Finance - —- R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

Grain Marketing _Harrison Fahrnkopf

Information - George Thiem

Insurance Service V. Vaniman

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Limestone- Phosphate J. R- Bent

Live Stock Marketing _. -'. Ray E. Miller

Office - - - C. E. Johnston

Organization - G. E. Metzger

Produce Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson

Transportation L. J. Quasey

ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS

Country Life Insurance Co _ L. A. Williams, Mgr.

Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co _ J. H. Kelker, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives Ass'n — F. E. Ringham, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co A. E. Richardson, Mgr.

Illinois Farm Supply Co - - L. R. Marchant, Mgr.

Agriculture and the Business
Depression

CC'T'HE difficulty is that as business
J- speeds =up and develops into a
boom inequa^lities creep in and upset
the balance. Production concentrates
too much, prices of some commodities
rise ifiore than others, and retail prices
and wages, salaries and other forms
of income lag in varying degree be-
hind wholesale prices. Gradually the
intricate machinery of production and
distribution becomes clogged and has
to slow down until the obstructive
factors are corrected."

George Roberts, economist, of the National
City Bank comments thus in explaining the busi-
ness depression now running its course through-
out the United States, and, in fact, throughout
the world.

Since 1920 when deflation hit agriculture, crip-
pling the income and buying power of nearly
one-third the country's population, farm spokes-

men warned repeatedly that this condition unless
righted would undermine industrial pro3perity.
The farm depression alone perhaps was not re-
sponsible for the current hard times and unem-
ployment, but certainly it has had its influence.

A general leveling of commodity prices is un-
derway in this as well as in foreign countries.
There is still too much spread, however, between
retail and wholesale prices and the reluctance of
the processors and retailers to come down to a
price level comparable to that affecting whole-
sale goods is holding up buying and aggravating
the accumulation of surpluses.

There has been tco much interference with the
laws of supply and demand, too much living on
artificial levels to the disadvantage of tlie unor-
ganized farmer selling at world prices. Even
now organized labcr and industry are offering
stubborn resistance to declining wages and prices
all of which is reflected in the unemplcyment
situation and the wide disparity between what
the farmer gets for cattle, wheat and lambs, for
example, and what the consumer pays for beef,
bread and mutton. This condition will never be
righted until economic forces are given freer
play all along the line, or until the farmer acquires
control of the merchandising end of his business
and influences prices thereby as others are doing.

T\

The Rise of Fruits and Vegetables

'O what extent corn belt agriculture produc-
ing the heavy staples for the human diet has
suffered from the competition of vegetable and
fruit producers is revealed in figures recently re-
ported by the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
Since the World War shipments of vegetables
have increased about 140 per cent whereas popu-
lation has increased only 1 5 per cent. Thi^ does
not include local marketing from roadside stands
or by trucks, which has grown to tremendous
proportions with the coming of hard roads.

Fresh fruits and vegetables in the late fall and
winter were once considered a luxury even by
those with very comfortable incomes, but today
thousands of stores handling perishables exclu-
sively do a thriving year-round business. Where
only 4,700 cars of lettuce were moved on the
railways in 1916, no less than 51,504 cars were
reported in 1928.

Fruit and vegetable growing lands like those in southern
Texas, Arizona, California and Florida have been reclaimed
from swamp and desert into valuable and high-priced tracts,
and it is conceivable that they have taken their toll in in-
come from the staple-producing lands of Illinois and Iowa.
Consumption of potatoes, wheat and meats has remained
relatively stationary because millions of people are eating
more spinach, peas, beans, carrots, beets, sweet corn, oranges,
grape fruit, melons, tomatoes, etc. The hope of greater corn
belt prosperity perhaps lies in the development of new com-
mercial uses for farm products to make us more independent
of the dwindling demand for heavy foods.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Nin^

An Editor's^Observation

DURING the past six months the Hancock
County Farm Bureau has invited editors,
ministers, superintendents of schools and other
honorary members in the county to attend at
least one of the monthly board meetings of the
Farm Bureau directors.

"This project fostered by the Farm^ Bureau
Public Relations Committee has been instru-
mental in informing these leaders about the Farm
Bureau program," writes J. H. Lloyd, farm
adviser. v .<r:

Following his attendance at one of the board
meetings, the editor of the Hamilton (111.) Press
wrote as follows:

THE HANCOCK COUNTY FARM BUREAU

"On Friday evening of last week the editor had the pleas-
ure and privilege, through the courtesy of R. M. Cochran,
to attend the monthly meeting of the Hancock County
Farm Bureau Board at Carthage.

"It was one of the most interesting meetings attended
in a long time, and one which proved both edifying and
highly revealing. The volume of business and varied phases
of farm topics touched upon was nothing short of amazing,
and the dispatch and sureness with which every business
detail was coped with and disposed of bespoke of high effi-
ciency.

"The meeting was conducted by President C. P. Griffiths
in a prompt, courteous and businesslike manner. Every
committee chairman made his report in a clear and concise
manner which bespoke not only of his thorough understand-
ing of the workings of his committee but also his whole
hearted interest in the work and progress of the farm bureau.

"We town businessmen, through our own ignorance, have
come more or less to the belief that th; farmer is ineffi-
cient and awkward in his business dealing. Those who en-
tertain such a belief should have the privilege of attending
a board meeting of the Hancock County Farm Bureau.

"Another thing prevalent throughout the meeting last
Friday night was the way the members of the farm bureau
board backed up each other and the principles of their or-
ganization. It left us with the impression that these farmers
have come to the realization of ths importance of co-opera-
tion and of organization. In their attempt to set a higher
standard of efficiency in farming they hive adopted the best
principles of good business methods, and they are succeeding.

"We do not know how farm bureaus of other counties
are conducted, but of this we are certain: The Hancock
County Farm Bureau is an efficient organization meriting
the co-operation of every farmer in Hancock county, large
and small, rich and poor, good, bad and indifferent. The
men on the board of this organization are giving their time
and energy to do something for agriculture in the section
in which they are living and for the betterment of condi-
tions of the farmer. Does not the farmer owe some loyalty
to such a group of men? Does it not become the duty of
every businessman and citizen in this county to give these
men their co-operation?"

Live stock growers have demonstrated their ability to
immunize their pigs against hog cholera with safety. Real
friends of the farmer glory in his ability to help himself,
in his growing knowledge and use of disease control methods
to reduce losses and costs of production. .■.■_., ..,._

IN EUROPE ON FREE TRIP

Mary Jeanette Irwin, left, and Nancy GrossboU, 4-H club

girls from Menard county, left in June for a free trip to

Europe awarded as a prize by the Chicago Mail Order

House. These two girls were Illinois champions last year.

. "Hank" Lloyd Hired I i

JH. "Hank" Lloyd, farm adviser for the past 14 years
• in Hancock county, has been employed as the active
manager of the So\bean Marketing Association. Mr. Lloyd
expects to assume his new duties around August 1 . The
Soybean Marketing Association will
probably establish headquarters at 608
So. Dearborn St., Chicago.

Mr. Lloyd brings to a close his long
and successful career as farm adviser in
V. IR.. > Hancock county, the second oldest ad-

^^KBSm viser in point of service in the state.

^H^H|^^^^^ Lloyd went to Hancock in 1916 from
^^^^^^»^^^^^ Purdue University, where he had served
^^^^k^^^^^H for two years as instructor in crops
^^^^BH^^^H after graduating from the University of
^^^^^^^^^^^ Illinois. At that time the Hancock
I H LI d county organization was called a soil

improvement association. In 1919 it
was reorganized as the Hancock County Farm Bureau. )
Sponsored New Projects
During Mr. Lloyd's 14 years of service in Hancock coun-
ty, the Farm Bureau pioneered in many projects which have
been adopted by county organizations throughout the state.
These include the organization of the first Farm Bureau
oil company in Illinois, the creation of honorary Farm Bu-
reau memberships for ministers and editors, hog cholera
control work, and others. In 192 5 he was honored by be-
ing elected as president of the Illinois State Association of
Farm Advisers. More recently he has represented the farm
advisers on the board of directors of the Illinois Farm
Bureau Serum Association, and lately was chosen to repre-
sent the Farm Advisers' Association on the State Live Stock
Sanitary Committee. - ;. , - ,

Farm Bureau Grcwing
More than a year ago Mr. Lloyd was re-elected farm
adviser for a period of three years beginning May 1, 1929,
and has nearly two years to serve under that contract.
The Hancock county Farm Bureau has the largest financial
reserve and membership since the peak period in 1923. The
membership of 8 50 is steadily increasing.

The Soybean Marketing Association is one of the latest
co-operatives to be formed in Illinois. It has more than
2,200 members who will grow this year, it is estimated,
in excess of 1,700,000 bu. of beans. , i • ..

Page Ten

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Country Life Announces New Policy

ANEW wholesale term life insurance policy for Farm Bureau members will be sold dur-
ing the 30-day period between July 10 and August 10, 1930. The new policy is known
as term insurance and carries a low level rate for 12 years, when it runs out unless converted
in the meantime into one of the regular forms of insurance. At the end of 12 years, how-
ever, a new term policy may be taken out, the rate to be based on the age of the applicant at
that time. . ". j| t

The term policy is to be made available to Farm Bureau members only in groups of
100 in each county. In other words, there must be at least 100 Farm Bureau members in
a county subscribe for this policy before it can be made available to any Farm Bureau
member. ,

Rate at Age 35'"$9.58 With Dividend Rights

J

T^HE low cost of the new wholesale policy is illustrated by the annual rate of ^9.58 at
* age 35, which can be further reduced by dividends. The policy is non-medical in that
anyone can buy ^1,000 of insurance without a medical examination. If already a Country
Life policyholder the applicant may secure $2,000 of insurance. A non-policy holder in
Country Life may take $2,000 of the new term insurance providing he pays for a short
form medical examination. .

Pohcy Convertible Within 12 Years

A N important feature of the new term insurance is that it can be changed or converted
*^ into standard life insurance at any time within 12 years of the date when taken out.
Moreover, when you convert short term insurance you will get the benefit of all premiums
paid, and also the benefit of the rate for your age when the short term policy was taken out.
The new policy, therefore, is an option on standard life insurance good for 12 years with full
protection during this period.

Why the New Policy?

nPHE new term policy is oflFered to Farm Bureau members who" may need more protection
* but do not have the available funds at present to pay the higher premiums on the regu-
lar kinds of insurance. The rate on the term policy is so low as to make it easily within the
reach of every member. Then later when the policyholder feels that he is in a better posi-
tion to take out one of the regular policies he can convert and get the full benefit of all
payments made on a short term policy.

1*
4

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Eleven

Wholesale Insurance July lO-Aug. 10

ONE hundred or more Farm Bureau members in good standing in any county can take
advantage of this new term policy by buying in a group. The board of directors of your
County Farm Bureau may apply for the new term insurance only when 100 members have
asked for it and the County Farm Bureau insurance department agrees to handle the work.
Following are annual rates which cost, it is contemplated, will be reduced from year to

ir alter

the third,

by

dividends: ;

:V.i' ''■ ..''■.-••

• :"■' ! ■ ■ : -■ .

■-■■'■•'f"; >-:"■ ].'-'' .'■^' ■

■'■.-■■■■■■'■'

'-.'■' - ^ -■-. ;

R

ates on Wholesale

12 Year

Term Policy

^;■■:^'■'■;^"^^■'-' ■■■■•■•':

Annual Prem

Annual Prem

Annual Prem.

, . Annual Prem.

Vge

Per. $1,000

Age ■ Per $1,000

Age , '/:

Per $1,000

Age ' ^ . Per $1,000

1 8

$7.71

29 $8.59

40 ..........

_. $11.06

51 ; ...... .....$20.51

19

7.76

30 :........_.... 8.72

41 :..

11.48

52 .,. „.:„............. 22.08

20

7.82

31 8.86

42

11.99

53 1.. „:.....-......... 23.82

21 _..

7.88

7.95

32 9.01

33 _ 9.18

43

44 .:::..;...

12.56

...:; - 13.22

54 ....:...... 25.73

22

55 ......; ..;..... 27.85 ,

23

8.02

34 9.37

45 :

13.94

56 . . 30.10

24

8.10

35 9.58

46

14.76

57 ;.. 32.76

25

8.18

36 9.81

47

15.68

58 ..„_.. 35.59

26

8.27

37 _„ 10.07

48

16.69

59 38.70 !

27

- 8.37

38 10.36

49 :.:

17.83

60 -. _.:. 42.10 :

28

8.47

39 ..._ 10.69

50 ..-

.- 19.10

'.

IF YOU already carry a Country Life policy you may apply for $2,000 of term insurance
at the rate above designated for your age. If you do not carry Country Life insurance at the
time of application your limit of wholesale term insurance will be $1,000 unless you con-
sent to pay for a short form medical examination which, if approved, entitles you to a maxi-
mum of $2,000 of insurance. r^^.^ <^ ; ,, . j

Points to Remember About the New Term Policy

1. For Farm Bureau members only whose dues are paid. | -. •■ j j

2. Non-medical for $1,000; $2,000 if Country Life policyholder.

3. Convertible within 12 years into standard insurance at age rate when this policy is taken
out — every cent paid in to be applied on the standard policy. i I

4. Must be at least 100 member subscribers from your county.

5. Offered only between July 10 and August 10 this year.

If you are interested in the new wholesale term policy get in touch with your Count}^
Farm Bureau office at once or fill out and mail the coupon below.

Mail This Coupon Today

COUNTRY LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY

608 South Dearborn Street
Chicago

COUNTRY LIFE INS. CO.,
608 So. Dearborn St.,
Chicago, Illinois. /

You can count me as one of a group of 100 from
my county for the new wholesale term insurance.
I want a •. -I " ■-

D $1,000 Policy I

V V: n $2,000 Policy^ I

Address- — .. _ _ _ __

Age Nearest Birthday-. _ __ _ _..„.._;

Are you a Farm Bureau member in good

standing? _ _ _

%A--l

Page Twelve

THE I. A. A. RECORD

TARIFF BILL OF 1930

Comparison o{ House and Senate Reports and Rates as Finally Enacted, with the Act of 1922 on
a Number o{ Commodities of Interest to Farmers,

Following is a comparison or the rates on certain commodities as originally reported and passed
by the House and Senate together with the final revision of the Conference Committee as enacted
into law. In the first column to the left is shown the rates contained in the Act of 1P22. In the
extreme right-hand column are found tlie rates contained in the Tariff Act of 1930. Further infor-
mation regarding tariffs on agricultural and non-agricultural commodities may be obtained by
writing the Department of Information, Illinois .Agricultural Association, 608 South Dearborn St.,
Chicago, III.

Commodity

Linseed or flaxseed oil
and combinations and
mixtures in chief value
of such oil

Soybean oil

.\luminum, a 1 11 m i •
num scrap, and alloys,
crude ..

Act of 1922

.( S/lOc per lb.
2^jC per lb.

.ic per lb.

Houw

Senate

As Enacted

I !

4 16/ 100c per lb. A'Ac per lb. " 4K,e per lb.

5c per lb. 2 8/lOc per lb. 3'/.c per lb., not

but not less than less than 45%
\ 45% ad valorem. ad valorem.

.Aluminum in coils,

plates, sheets, rods,

bars, etc 9c per lb.

Steel ingots, sheets, bar

•iron, val. below lclb._ 2/lOc
r>*iler or plate iron or

■steel, val. below .Ic lb. 7/20c
Cedar (except Spanish

cedar) in boards,

planks, etc. _~ — Free.

Timber, hewn, sidevi or

squared, etc. ; round

timber; sawed lum-
ber and timber, n.s.

p.f. ; of fir, spruce,

pine, hemlock, or

larch ; ties and poles..

:ic per

lb.

2c per lb.

4c per lb.

9c per lb. 3^jC per lb. 7c per lb.

2/ 10c
-/20c

25%

I'rce, with provi- Free, with provi-
sional duty. sional duty.

Shingles of wood...__—
Sugar testing by polari-
se o p e , 96 degrees,
under general tariff-
Cattle weighing less
than ,700 lbs. each —
Cattle weighing 700 lbs.
or more each

Free.

2.206c per lb, 3c per lb.

3/IOc •5/lOc

S/lOc 5/lOc

Free, except for Free.

provisional duty.
$1.50 per M ft. $1.00 per M ft.

b.m., exempting board measure.

sawed lumber,

of species named.

in the rough or

planed on not

more than one

side, from coun-
tries contiguous

to U. S., which

countries admit

free lumber.
Free. Free.

;.5c per lb. 2.5c per lb.

Z'Ac per lb.

Whole 'milk,
sour

fresh or

Cream, fresh or sour —

Skimmed milk, fresh or

sour, and buttermilk..

Condensed milk, etc.,
unsweetened

Condensed milk, sweet-
ened

Cheese and substitutes
therefor _ _

Birds, live: Chickens,
ducks, geese, turkeys
and guineas

Birds, dead: Dressed
or undressed, fresh,
chilled or frozen

F.ggs of poultry

Oats, hulled or u n -
hulled

Soybeans

Corn or maize including

cracked corn

Barlev, hulled or un-

hulied

Rve

Wheat _

-Apples — .

Soybean oil cake and
soybean oil cake meal-
All other vegetable oil
cake and oil cake

meal, n.s. p.f

Fruits, candied, crystal-
lized, or glace, apri-
cots, figs, dates,
peaches, pears, plums, ;
prunes, prunellas, ber-
ries, and other fruits,

n.s. p.f.

Flaxseed

Alsike clover seed

Red Clover seed

Sweet clover seed

Beans and black-eye
cowpeas, dried

Straw _.

3c per lb.
fresh milk, 254c

per gal. ; sour

milk, Ic per gal. 5c per gal. 6Vic per gal.

20c per gal. 48c per gal. 56.6c per gal.

Buttermilk, Ic pff Skimmed milk and 2 l/20c per gal.

gal. ; skimmed buttermilk, If^c

milk, 2!^c gal. per gal.

Zyic per lb.
3c per lb.

6Vit: per gal.
56.6c per gal.
2 l/20c per gal.

Ic per lb.
■ c per lb.

1 4/lOc per lb. 1 8/lOc per lb. 1 8/IOc per lb.

l^.c per lb. 2'4c per lb. 2Mc per lb. 2Jic per lb.

5c per lb., n o 1 7c per lb., n o t 8c per lb., n o t 7c per lb., not

less than 25%. less than 35%. less than 42%. less than 35%.
Live poultry, 3c 6c per lb. 8c per lb. 8c per lb.

per lb.

Poultry, 6c per 8c per lb. lOc per lb. 10c per lb.

lb. ; all other, 8c

per lb.

()C per lb. 8c per lb. He per lb. jig per lb

15c per bushel of 15c per bushel of I6c per bushel of i6c — '

32 lbs. • 32 lbs. ' ^' "-

i2 lb

J per bushel of
32 lbs.

I'rce.

Free.

Free.

■ 2c per lb.

• 25c per bu. of 56 lbs.

■ 20perbu.

■ - 15c per bu. of 56 lbs.

42c per bu. of 60 lbs.

25c per bu. of 50 lbs.

3/IU of Ic p<-r lb. 3/10 of le per lb.

($6 ton).

.!/IO of Ic per lb. 3/10 of Ic per lb.

35% ad valorem. 35%
40c per bushel. 63c per bu.
40c per bushel. 63c per bu.
40c per bushel. 6c per lb.
2c per lb. 3c per lb.

Broomcom

Wools, scoured

Hides and skins of
cattle _

Leather, bovine species :
Sole, belting, welting,
harness and saddlery..

\Hc per lb.
$4 per ton

2,240 lbs.
$1 per ton

2,240 lbs.

Free.
24c per lb.

Free.
Free.

2'/^c per lb.
of $4 per ton

2,000 lbs.
of$l per ton
2,000, lbs.
$10 per ton

2,000 lbs.
24c per lb.

10%

I2J4%

40%

65c per bu.
65c per bu.
65c per bu.
4c per lb.

3c per lb.
of $5 per ton

2,000 lbs.
of $1.50 per ton

2,000 lbs.
of $20 per ton
2,000 lbs.
27c per lb.

Free.

i ree.

35%

65c per bu.
8c per lb.
8c per lb.
4c per lb.

3c per lb.
of $5 per ton of

2,000 lbs.
of $1.50 per ton jf

I 2,000 lbs.
of $20 per ton of
2,000 lbs.
32c per lb. of clean

content.
10%

ni^%

Illinois Cheese Survey

ET. HOBART of the Federal Farm
• Board called at the office of the
Illinois Agricultural Association re-
cently preparatory to starting a survey
in the cheese-making district of north-
western Illinois.

Mr. Hobart will assist producers in
developing a better selling arrangement
for more than 5,000,000 pounds of
Illinois cheese produced annually. It is
possible that some tie-up with the Wis-
consin Cheese Federation may be
worked out for the benefit of co-opera-
tive cheese factories lacking sales fa-
cilities which a larger centralized sell-
ing agency can give them. A. D.
Lynch, dairy marketing director, is co-
operating with Mr. Hobart in the new
work.

Low Prices Are World Wide

MARKETS for American farm
products are reflecting the gen-
eral world decline in commodity prices,
according to the Bureau of Agricul-
tural Economics.

"The low price of wheat," says the
bureau, "reflects a world-wide condi-
tion of declining commodity prices,
large stocks, business recession, unem-
ployment, and reduced purchasing pow-
er, all of which has operated to the dis-
advantage of many producers of com-
modities entering into international
trade, including American wheat, cot-
ton and pork.

"Moreover, there seems to be a some-
what curtailed consumption within this
country, and apparently this is affect-
ing markets for cattle, butter, eggs,
lambs, wool, and certain vegetables."

The bureau finds "the continued
weak market for wheat, as harvest time
approaches, is naturally depressing to
the West. Growers are hopeful but not
cheerful. The hopes are largely
■ grounded in the possibility that small
supplies in Argentina and shrinking
stocks in Europe and the Orient may
lead to increased exports from this
country during the summer."

In the face of these reduced market
prospects for farm commodities, the
bureau reports that the mid-season
crops are coming along now with pros-
pects of abundant supplies of {>otatoes,
cantaloupes, watermelons and tomatoes,
but probably with limited shipments of
peaches, onions and cabbage. Cotton,
corn, potatoes, and other principal
crops have been planted under generally
favorable growing conditions and the
grass crop has made rapid growth fol-
lowing the late May rains. Some effects
of the hard winter, however, are re-
ported to be evident in spotted wheat
fields and reduced drops of peaches.

%

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Thirteejf^

A. N. Skinner

Ask for "Administration"

On I. A. A. Program

A RESOLUTION requesting the
board of directors of the I. A. A.
to include a discussion of Farm Bureau
business administration in the program
at the next annual meeting of the state
organization was passed at the Hth
district I. A. A. meeting held on June
17 at Canton in Fulton county.

A. N. Skinner of Yates City opened
the meeting outlining the topics for

discussion which in-
cluded organization,
Farm Bureau ad-
ministration, and
grain marketing.

Every county
Farm Bureau should
have a finance com-
mittee of three or
four members in-
cluding the treasur-
er, an organization
committee, a legisla-
tive committee, and
any others deemed advisable suggested
Secretary Geo. E. Metzger in his talk
on Farm Bureau administration.

"When the board meets have each
committee meet individually and make
a report and recommendations to the
whole board," he said. "The board
votes the recommendation up or down."
He emphasized the fact that in some
co-operatives minority instead of ma-
jority control is practiced when definite
action is avoided on controversial ques-
tions because members of the board
disagree. Our government and all
democratically-controlled business en-
terprises are organized on the theory
of majority control and farmers must
abide by this rule if they are to make
any progress. Metzger recommended
that each county should have a budget.

B. L. Baird, a director of the Illinois
Grain Corporation, discussed this or-
ganization and the history of the gfain
marketing program in Illinois. Harry
Gehring of Knox county followed Mr.
Baird and told of grain marketing prog-
ress in Knox county. Other speakers
were R. J. Hamilton and John C.
Moore, district organization manager's.

Hermann Raster of Fulton county
served as secretary of the meeting.

District Picnics

Dates for the sectional picnics in the
Hth and 20th districts have been defi-
nitely fixed. The Hth district picnic
will be held on August 29 at Mon-
mouth, and the one in the 20th dis-
trict at Jacksonville on August 30.

Sectional picnics are to be held in
the 19th and 25 th districts, but the
dates and places have not yet been ar-
ranged. , ' ■•

Winnebago Service Co.

"Farm Bureau membel-s in our coun-
ty raised $20,000 to finance the Winne-
bago Service Company without solicita-
tion," says Geo. F. TuUock of Rock-
ford.

A site has been purchased, a switch
track put in, and storage tanks already
bought are to be installed at once. The
stock was purchased by several hundred
Farm Bureau members.

The Winnebago Service Company is
affiliated with the Illinois Farm Supply
Company and will handle SERVICE
petroleum products.

"Organize for Service,"

Dean Advises Farmers

ORGANIZATION of farmers to
enable them to give better service
to customers was stressed by W. C.
Coflfey, dear?, of the College of Agri-
culture, Univfefsity of Minnesota, in an
address at the aruiual {picnic of the
Eastern Polk County Farm Bureau at
Maple Bay, Minn. Dean Coffey is well
known in Illinois, where he formerly
headed the sheep division and animal
husbandry department at the'College of
Agriculture, Urbana.

"At one time," Dean Coffey asserted,
"we looked upon organization among
farmers as a need for protection
against the forces that are unfriendly
to the farmers' interests. But there is
another reason why farmers should be
organized, and that is for the purpose
of giving better service to their cus-
tomers, whether thes6 customers be
middlemen, chain stores, ultimate con-
sumers or forces engaged in foreign and
domestic trade.

Serve the Customer

"Like the successful merchant and
manufacturer, the modern successful
farmer must give his customers what
they want when they want it. It is
not possible for the farmer either to
protect himself against the forces that
are unfriendly to his interests or to
render better service to his customers
without effective organization.

"The Farm Bureau exists for these
primary purposes and the need of or-
ganization will not grow less but rather
more urgent in the future. Proof of
this lies in the fact that all other lines
of endeavor are gravitating toward
combinations and mergers. They would
not so gravitate were it not to their
advantage. In the face of such situa-
tions the farmers cannot stand aloof
and alone. He must join hands with
his fellows in effective and constructive
organization." ,"'''":-

Chas. L. Scott

24th District Meets

REPRESENTATIVES from WabashT"
Edwards, White, Wayne, Gallatin,
Saline, Johnson, Pope and Massac coun-
ties attended the I. A. A. meeting in
the 24th district at Harrisburg on June
18. Charles. L. Scott, I. A. A. direc^gi;
of Grayville, presided. Harold Kad-
shaw acted as secretary.

Mr. Scott outlined the purpose of th£_
meeting and emphasized the necessity
for organization.
"We must present a
united front on leg-
islative matters by
working through the
I. A. A.," said
Charles Marshall of
Belknap, former I.
A. A. director, who
followed Mr. Scott.

District Organi-
zation Manager L. F.
Brissenden explained
the new county plan of organization
by townships, after which the group
voted unanimously to hold a get-
together picnic of farm advisers. Farm
Bureau presidents and organization meii|
in the 24th and 2Sth districts at Big
Lake in Gallatin county.

Farm Adviser Murphy of Edwards
county related the progress that was
being made in organizing the Wabash
Valley Service Company, which will
provide SERVICE petrol uem products
for farmers in Wabash, Edwards and
White counties.

Secretary Geo. Metzger opened the
afternoon session with a discussion on
business administration of Farm Bureaus
and co-operatives. He suggested that
Farm Bureau projects be varied so as to
reach and serve the largest number of
people. I

Following adjournment representa-
tives from Gallatin, Saline, Massac>|
Pope and Johnson counties held a con-
ference to discuss the possibilities of an
oil service company for this group of j
counties.

ONE of the "pet" arguments of
those who oppose co-operative
marketing is that it represents an effort
to nullify the law of supply and de-
mand. Whatever parts of the law of
supply and demand remain after the
tariff gets through with it are not in
danger from co-operative marketing,
which contemplates no further ref)eal
of the ancient and much abused doc- |
trine. What co-operative marketing
does contemplate is the regulation of
supply to demand at the points of both
production and consumption, thus
avoiding the depression of market vaU ]
ues that inevitably follows supply in
excess of normal consumptive require-
ments.— Farmers' National Grain Corp,

\

Page Fourteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Like Country Life's

Correspondence Course

Mr. L. A. Williams^
Country Life Insurance Co.,
Chicago, Illinois.

I am glad of this opportunity to express my
appreciation for the fine correspondence course.
I am sure that to me these lessons have been
both educational and inspirational. They have
been instrumental in increasing my ability as
an insurance salesman.

After a careful study of these lessons, we
lose the idea of just going out to sell a $10,000
policy. We learn to explain what this policy
will do for the insured and his faiiily. We sell
the needs and the benefits of the policy instead
of the policy itself.

G. O. CHENOWETH.
General Agent, McDonough Coimiy.

In regards to the correspondence course, I can
iincerely say that it is indispensable to any per-
son going out to sell insurance.

Also, I believe that any agent goin^ out to
sell Country Life Insurance should be compelled
to take the course.

In soliciting farm peop!e I believe they are
the smallest insured, poorest informed people on
Life Insurance in the world. In some cases they
have a policy — but do not know what kind.

Therefore, the agent, through your corres-
pondence course, has a knowledge of different
types of policies and insurance and i'i able to
explain to his prospect the advantai^es and dis-
advantages of different types of insurance.

With best regards and hoping for the 5 0,000,000
at an early date, I am

JOHN W. KOHL,
Christian County,

I consider the correspondence course, which
you have given each agent the opportunity to
take, very valuable. Most of us selling Country
Life Ins'urance are new in the life insurance
game, and for that reason I consider your plan
of making this course a combination of sales
hints and general information of life insurance,
with emphasis placed on Country Life Insurance,
just what the agent needs to prepare him to
talk Country Life intelligently.

After completing the course I feel more
capable of talking and selling Country Life
Insurance, and I believe that I can work much
more effectively as a result of the information
furnished by this course.

D. C. MIEHER,
Macoupin County.

I certainly a,ipreciated thi'^ correspondence
course because I think it is the best way in
teaching the agents to sell insurance. It teaches
them confidence, helps bring out the fine points
of this insurance, and it showed me the better
way in making arrangements for settlement.
WALTER FRICKE,
Montgomery County.

Your correspondence course was very valu-
able. My knowledge approaching a prospect is
much wider and have learned much valuable
information regarding life insurance and its
value. Anyone that has taken this course and
studied it carefully, I feel, could consider them-
selves competent to sell life insurance.
Yours trulv,

AUGUST KUNKEL,
Marshall-Putnam County.

The correspondence course has given me a
much more thorough understanding of the
.Country Life Insurance biuiness. I am able to
meet my prospects and answer more intelligently
questions concerning life insurance.
I thank you for the course.

CHARLOTTE CUNNINGHAM,

Lawrence County.

E. J. Oelze

E. J. Oelze of Decatur began his
duties as manager of the Egyptian
Seed Growers'
Exchange at
Flora on July 1.

Mr. Oelze was
born on a Rich-
land county, Illi-
nois farm. H<; his
had wide experi-
ence in farming,
served four years
:is a live stock,
shipping associa-
tion manager, and
prior to his ap-
pointment w.is employed for several
\cars by Funk Bros. Seed Company
of Bloomington. He has bjcn ac-
tive in Farm Bu'cau work and as-
sisted in the organization of several
county farm supph' companies in
Illinois.

i\lr. Oelze is well qualified for his
new position with the Red Top
Growers.

E. J. Oelze

19th District at Decatur

GRAIN marketing was the princi-
pal topic for discussion at an I.
A. A. meeting in the 19tli*congressional
district held at Decatur on June 27.
C. J. Gross, director
for the district on
the I. A. A. board.
presided. Between 45
and 5 0 delegates
from Moultrie, Coles,
Douglas, thampaign,
Piatt, De^X^itt, hU-
con .;nd Shelby coun-
ties attended.

Harrison Fahrn-
kopf, director of

C. J. Gross 1 _■

grain marketing, ex-
plained the plan of the Illinois Grain
Corporation and efforts being made to
develop an effective co-operative grain
marketing service for the state. Mr.
Fahrnkopf stated that 30 farmers' ele-
vators already have made application
for membership in the Illinois Grain
Corporation. These elevators control
between 6,000,000 and 7,000,000 bu.
of grain annually.

Live stock marketing and a discus-
sion of I. A. A. policies occupied most
of the afternoon program.

The correspondence course was very interest-
ing and instructive. It brought out some real
facts in regard to salesmanship, gave us more
information about Country Life, what a life
insurance policy really is and its value to both
policyholder and beneficiary.

E. D. TIMKE,
Dupage County.

-Of' ^

Insurance

WITH the largest year's quota of
life insurance of any county in
the state, McLean county had twenty-
four agents actively in the field on
Insurance Day, and brought in a most
s.uisfactory total for the day. McLean
county will easily make the year's quota
now by August 1. General Agent
Hcdgcock proved himself a real general
in the co-operative spirit he was able
to generate, and the county as well as
the general agent and sub-agents are
to be congratulated on their success.

Country Life was received with en-
thusiasm on June 26 when 16 Macon
county solicitors wrote nearly half a
year's quota on Insurance Day. The
pageant at night showed outstanding
talent, and was the result of remark-
able effort on the part of Mrs. Glenn
Ash, wife of the general agent. The
pageant told the story of agriculture's
progress in the United States, and im-
pressed the audience with the power of
organized action by modern farmers.
The manager of Country Life talked
to a most responsive audience, and a
fine spirit was shown toward all Farm
Bureau enterprises by the members
present.

Glenn Ash, general agent of Macon
county for Country Life, is a real suc-
cess and a fine leader in the county.
Four hundred p)eople attended the night
meeting.

Country Life News ;•

CO-OPERATIVE action, particular-
ly in marketing farm products,
was strongly urged as a way to improve
the farm income by L. A. Williams,
manager of Country Life Insurance
Company before 300 Farm Bureau
members at a banquet in Decatur on
June 26. i .^ ^ :

Mr. Williams discussed the co-opera-
tive grain marketing program in Illinois
and urged his listeners to get control of
the merchandising end of their busi-
ness as other successful industries have
done. He pointed out the ineffective-
ness of a voluntary plan of grain mar-
keting which left the way open for
scattering farmers' products among a
host of commission firms so as to de-
feat the goal of organized centralized
selling.

George T. Swaim of Watseka, former
farm adviser in Ford county, has been
engaged to take charge of seed corn
storage and testing work in Marshall
and Putnam counties by the Marshall-
Putnam Farm Bureau.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Fifteen

KEEPING WELL

:,By Dr. John A. Boland

COD LIVER OIL AND
. VIOSTEROL

VIOSTEROL, a trade name for ir-
radiated ergosterol, is a substance-
very rich in Vitamin D. It has come
into prominence during the past year
as a substitute for Cod Liver Oil. How-
ever, you will note it contains only
Vitamin D and is useful only as a pre-
ventative and as a treatment for rickets.

Viosterol is biologically tested so as
to have curative or preventive potency
in rickets one hundred times that of
Cod Liver Oil. The only danger in
using the product is in over-dosage.

Viosterol is marketed as a single
product and also marketed combined
with Cod Liver Oil. All infants from
time of birth should receive, prefer-
ably, Cod Liver Oil combined with
Viosterol. Occasionally mothers have
diflSculty in administering Cod Liver
Oil. It is then advisable to give Vio-
sterol as it has none of the disagreeable
qualities attendant on taking Cod
Liver Oil.

My intention in writing this article
is to advise mothers not to discontinue
the use of Cod Liver Oil as many
mothers have done due to the wide
publicity this new product has attained,
but to use Cod Liver Oil and Viosterol
combined, thereby deriving the benefits
of other vitamins in Cod Liver Oil and
the high Vitamin D content of Vio-
sterol.

When Viosterol is used not in con-
junction with Cod Liver Oil, it is well
to observe the following dosages:

New-born infants, 12 to 18 drops
daily.

Twins and premature infants, 20 to
30 drops daily.

Active rickets, 20 to 30 drops daily.

farms Earn }.7%

LEAN as it was, 1929 was the second best
year for farm earnings in 1929 since the
depression began in 1920, according to tum-
maries of accounts of 1,950 farmers in 90 coun-
ties of Illinois made by the State College of
Agriculture.

It was calculated that the average farmer of
the state made 3.7 per cent on his capital dur-
ing 1929. Even the progressive and business-
like farmers who kept accounts in the college's
farm accounting service earned only enough
in 1929 to pay themselves a wage of $75 a
month for their labor and management, after
they had been allowed 5 per cent on their capi-
tal. It has been shown repeatedly that the
earnings of the rank and file are lower than
those of the account keepers.

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jhssTr-?yi*»*!f»rs-

FORD COUNTY SERVICE CO. TRUCKS READY FOR ACTION

The Ford County Service Company, one of the first co-operative oil companies to organize
in the state, has rapidly expanded its business the past two years under new management.
Manager Russell G. Stewart is a hustler who leaves no stone unturned to develop new business.
He spends three to four days each week assisting his nine truck salesmen in the territory, and
as a result there has been a steady expansion of the business.

Sales of gasoline and kerosene during May were the largest in the history of the company
in any one calendar month.

A comparison of gasoline and kerosene sales for the spring months shows an average
gallonagc increase of 38 per cent over the corresponding period a year ago and 51 per cent
over the sales in the same months in 1928. The sales of lubricating oil show even greater
increases with a S3 per cent average gain for the period compared to 1929 and 84 per cent
over the sales for the same months in 1928. An advertising program carried on through local
newspapers has helped increase sales.

The officers and directors of the company are: A. B. Schofield, president; VT. C. Read,
vice-president; W. E. McKeever, secretary-treasurer.

Directors: Albert Adell, Alfred Arends, R. P. Cothcrn, Geo. V. Dowse, Chas. E. Harper,
P. S. Jensen, Edw. Karr, Louis Rucnberg, Louis Ruse, Harry Scott, Fred Sturm, W. C.
Walgenbach.

Gather at The River ^ ^^ '
In Week-End Conference

Farm Bureau Officials Enjoy Out-
ing and Profitable Get-Together

FARM Bureau presidents, secretaries,
farm advisers, organization leaders
and their families of Henderson, War-
ren, Knox, Peoria, Tazewell, Rock
Island, Stark, Henry, Mercer and Bu-
reau counties gathered for an annual
summer conference at Oquawka Beach
in Hendercon county June 27-28-29.
Business sessions were held Friday after-
noon, Saturday mo-ning and Saturday
afternoon, with entertainment pro-
grams each ev:ning. A religious ser-
vice held Sunday morning was followed
by a picnic dinner.

Farm Bureau administration, co-
operative marketing, and organization
problems featured the business discus-
sion. The women of the party were
active in arranging the entertainment.
R. J. Hamilton, district organization
manager of the I. A. A., provided
moving pictures as part of the enter-
tainment Saturday night showing the
various presidents, secretaries, and Farm
Bureau families as they appeared at
their homes. ■;.".■•.■.'

Church on Sunday

Ira Moats, secretary of the Knox
County Farm Bureau, delivered the ser-
mon Sunday morning following the
song service. A fish fry was enjoyed
during the noon hour.

"Much good has come from these
conferences," stated Harry Gehring,
president of the District III Associa-
tion. "The close acquaintance of the
Farm Bureau officers within these neigh-
boring counties has resulted in an open,
frank, and helpful discussion of prob-
lems confronting each county organi-
zation." .f. ,..• .; ^;,.;.w !/,_ • •

Among the delegates were seven from
Peoria county, four from Tazewell, two
from Bureau, eight from Rock Island,
seven from Henderson, 14 from Mercer,
seven from Warren, IJ from Knox, 10
from Henry, and 16 from Stark, a
total of 90. The camp paper, the
"Oquawker Squawker," was read during
the evening entertainment.

Sell Apples Co-Operatively

THE growers associated in the West-
ern Illinois Apple Growers' Asso-
ciation representing some 1,400 acres of
orchards expect to sell co-operatively
between 150 and 200 carloads of apples
this year.

As we go to press a survey is being
made by A. B. Leeper of the I. A. A.
to get more accurate information about
the 1930 production of popular varie-
ties including Willow Twig, Jonathan
and Grimes Golden. The Willow Twig
apple is produced almost exclusively in
western Illinois. It is an old varietv
and keeps longer perhaps than any
other when properly packed. The
Willow Twig is especially desirable for
both eating and cooking, and is in
much demand.

f .-

Pa^e Fourteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Like Country Life's

Correspondence Course

Mr. I. A. \Ciliiims^^
C.ouniry Life Insurjncc Co.,
' liPc.i>;o, Illinois.

I .im glaJ of this opportunity \o c\piis, ny
fprv-ialitm for ilio fine corrv.-spt>iukn*,c itiurw.

i Mt\ '.lire iliat to tnc tlicsc Ics^onN h.»vf bcvn
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•i.uhin:: [Ke a,i;enis to ^.cl! insuian..c. It tc.ichcs
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f tiiis insurance, and ii -bowed r,K the bLitt.r
•. .:v in maktni: arraniiemcnts tor si-ttlenunt.
WALTI K ! Kl< Kl .
Montgomery Cquniy.

\*nii .orrc'.pi.ndens.e course w.is very valu-
.t'it. My know,lcd>;e approaching; .i prospect is
Mu*.h wider and have learned much valuable
.!.r»(rniaiit»n re>;ardini; life insurance and its
iluc. Anyone that has taken this course and
• tudied it carefully. I feel, could consider them-
J'Ls competent to sell life insurani.e.
Yi>urs [ruK ,

AUGUST KUNKi h.
Marshall-Putnam County.

I he correspondence course has given me a
:r,uth more thoroui;h understanding of the
Country Life Insurance business. I ajn able to
meet my prospects and answer more intelligently
uiestions concerning life insurance,
i thank you for the course.

CHARLOTTF. CUNNINGHAM,

Lawrence County.

E. J. Oelze

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vators .ilready have in.icle .ipplic.uion
for membership in the Illinois Gr.im
Corporation. These elevators control
between 6,000,01)0 and .".ood.oiki bu.
of grain annually.

live stock marketinj; and a discus-
sion of I. A. A. policies occupied most
of the atternoon program.

Insurance.

Will 1 the largest year's quota of
lite in-.urance ot am c<ni:U\' in
the sine. M.I.eui count \ ii.'d twenty-
li'iir I'.MUs j.iivelv in the ticld on
iiisur.ince Pav, ,nid hiiHiv;ht in ,i ni.i^t
..nIsi ,!ct.ir\ '.otal tortheiiav. .\lcl ear.
.. iintv '.\i!i e.!-41v ;-!i.,Iv.' the ye.ir's quota
iv.iw in .Au-U' '. i. ficiieral .\;.:eiu
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Counirv 1 ilv w.is recei\i.d with en-
liuisiasm on lane -t> w lun 1 '. .Macon
coum\ so!iclt<«;s wrote ne.uK lialt a
\ca;s iHiot 1 on Insur.oice Day. The
p.'v;cant it iiii-lu siiowcil oiitstanJiiv.;
l.ilent. and \\ .l^ the result oi n.mark-
ahle ertort on the part of Mrs. Glenn
Ash, wife of the general agent. The
pageant told the story of agriculture's
progress in the United States, and im-
pressed the audience with the power of
organized action by modern tarmers.
The manager of Country Life talked
to a most responsive audience, and a
tme spirit w.is shown toward all I arm
lUire.ui enterprises b\ the members
]''resi.in.

Cilenii .\sh, general agent ot .Macon
couiitv tor C^<iiuitr\' Lite, is .• red suc-
uss ar.ti 1 tine Ic.ider in th," couiitv.
I our hiindr.d people atteiv.ied t!iv ii.^lit
ine. tine.

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Coiintiy Life News

Cl' tM'I K.\n\I, asiion, pariiculii-
!\ in ni.irketing tarm products,
w a- s;rong!\ urjed as a wa\ to iiiipro\e
the farm income b\ I.. A. ^X'illlanls.
manager of C.ouiitrx I ife Insurance
Compain helore .ioo Farm 15ureau
members at a banquet in Decuur on
,|une 26.

.Mr. Williams discussed the co-opera-
tive grain marketing program in Illinois
and urged his listeners to get control of
the merchandising end of their busi-
ness as other successful industries have
done. He pointed out the ineffective-
ness of a voluntary plan of grain mar-
keting which left the wa\- open tor
scattering farmers' products among a
host of commission firms so as to de-
feat the goal of organized centralized
selHng.

George T. Swaim of W'atscka, former

1 Ik' eorrcsponJcncc course was very intercst-
inj; jnd instniciive. It brought out some real

facts in regard to salesmanship, gave us more f-irm adviser ill Ford County, Has been
information about Country Life, what a life engjgcd tO take cHargC of SCed COm

insurance policy really is and its value to both storage and testing work in Marshall

policyholder and beneficiary.

E. D. TIMKE,
Dupage County.

and Putnam counties bv the Marshall-
Putnam Farm Bureau.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Pane Fifteen

n-d

KEEPING WELL

B\ Dr. John A. Bolaiid

COD LIVER OIL AND
VIOSTEROL

VK>ST1:R(M . ,1 triJc n.inu- to,- -
r.iJi.itoil c'r;4(>sti'rol. i^ ,i ^ub'-tiic
\ i.r\ rich ill \'it,iniin i). ll iiis ^:i'ii
liUo promincnci' iliiriii;; tlu p.i-t \^.:
as a substitute for Co.! I i\.-: C^il. 1 lev.
^ver, \ou will iiotu i' i.oiit.iiii
\'it.iniiil D .liul i^ iiM.fu! onlv .'s
vt'iu.uivc anil .i^ a I'.cunK'nt (or :

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ire

Xio'iterol is l).')!os;i . ill\ ti'i'.J ^o .'s
to have curati\i.' or pre cncs.. poi'.i-n.\
in. riikcts one iunKin.i.1 linu'- that o'
Cod I ivcr Oil. Thj <'nl\ dan:;ci ni
usinj; the protlii.t is in ov er-do'-age.

\ ioNterol i". niarkel-.d a^ a Min;le
product and also marketed combined
with Cod Liver Oil. All inlants trom
time of birth should receive, pieter-
ablv. Cod Liver Oil combined with
X'iosterol. OccasionalK mothers have
difficulty in administering Cod 1 iver
t)il. It is then advisable to give \'io-
stcrol as it has none of the disagreeable
qualities attendant on taking C!od
Liver Oil.

My intention in writing this article
is to advise mothers not to discontinue
the use of Cod Liver Oil as many
mothers have done due to the wide
publicity this new product has attained,
but to use Cod Liver Oil and Viostcrol
combined, thereby deriving the benefits
of other vitamins in Cod Liver Oil and
the high Vitamin D content of \'io-
sterol.

Vi'hen \'iosterol is used not in con-
junction with Cod Liver Oil, it is well
to observe the following dosages:

New-born infants, 12 to 18 drops
daily.

Twins and premature infants, 20 to
30 drops daily.

Active rickets, 20 to 30 drops daily.

Farms Earn 3.7',

Ll .\N a» it was, 1929 was ilic >i.'sonJ best
year tor farm earnings in 1929 since the
depression began in 1920, according to sum-
maries of accounts of 1,9 5 0 farmers in 90 coun-
ties of Illinois made by the State College of
-Agriculture.

It was calculated that the average farmer of
the state made J. 7 per cent on his capital dur-
ing 1929. Lven the progressive and business-
like farmers who kept accounts in the college's
farm accounting service earned only enough
in 1929 to pay themselves a wage of $75 a
month for their labor and management, after
they had been allowed J per cent on their capi-
tal. It has been shown repeatedly that the
earnings of tie rank and file are lower than
those of the account keepers.

FORD COUNTY SERVICE CO. TRUCKS READY FOP ACTION

I lic 1 wi J C.i.n;; ^..-.i.L < .i.;iip.ir.\ . «»ne el '.i..
iH liie vt.llc. !i,(. '.ipuiU cspiluied its bu,incsi l!ii

: tv i» \e.ir.
N;,ina-;er Ku-.scil ti. Suw.ii-t is .i hustler who lta\.'s ;m -.I'l'ic unturiK,

lie s[>tn(.is three tti tour d.i>s each week assistin^.; his iiiii, :'ut.!s saU-sineii iii \i\^ urrit.iM. .i ■'.
ts .1 tLsult the;i Itjs Uen a steaJ\ expansion of the bitsiness,

S.iles ,tt L;.ls.iltii. Mui kerosene during .\la\ were tiie 1 ir.;esl in lii; I'isIima oT t'.ie ^oinpM.v
in .in\ file clleiui.ir mniiLh.

A eiiiiiparisiin i.i gasoline and kerosene sales for the sprin;; nionihs sliow- an ni j,-.
g.illonjge increase of .^8 per cent over the corresponding period a sear ago and 5 1 pet sent
over the sales in the same months in 1928. The sales ,>t lubricating oil sht'W even gieiu-
increases with a ^5 per cent average gain for the period lompared to 1929 and S4 per ,.en;
o\er the sales for the same months in 1928. .\n jd'.i-tisin.; program earned or. thniugli i i, li
newspapers has helptxl increase sales.

The orticers and directors of the company are; A. li. Schotield. prcsui*.;!*, . \X'. C\ RejJ.
\iee-president; W. I.. McKecvcr, secretary-treasurer.

Directors: Albert .Xdell. .Mfred .Arcnds, R. P. C.nhern. Geo. \'. !),.« se. Chas. 1'. Hjr(vr,
P. S. Jensen. I vlw . K.nr. I oiiis RiKnlx-rg, Louis Ruse. Harrv Scutt, I red Sturm. V;'. <...
Walgcnbach.

Gather at The River

In Week-End Conference

Farm Bureau Officials Enjoy Out-
ing and Profitable Get-Together

FARM Bureau presidents, secretaries,
farm advisers, organization leaders
and their families of Henderson. War-
ren, Knox, Peoria, Tazewell, Rock
Island, Stark. Henry, Mercer and Bu-
reau counties gathered for an annual
summer conference at Oquawka Beach
in Hcnderon ccunty .[une 27-28-29.
Business sessions were h;.'ld Friday after-
noon, Saturday moning and Saturday
afternoon, with entertainment pro-
grams each ev.ntng. A religious ser-
vice held Sunda' morning was followed
bv a picnic dmner.

farm Bureau administration, co-
operative marketing, and organization
problems teatured the business diseus-
sion. The women of the party were
active in arranging the entertainment.
R. J. Hamilton, district organization
manager of the I. A. .\.. provided
moving pictures as part of the enter-
tainment Saturda>- night showing the
various presidents, secretaries, and F arm
Bureau families as they appeared at
their homes.

Church on Sunday

Ira Moats, secretary of the Knox
County Farm Bureau, delivered the ser-
mon Sunday morning following the
song service. A fish fr\ was enjoyed
during the noon hour.

"Much good has come from these
conferences," stated H a r r v Gehrmg.
president of the District III Associa-
tion. "The close acquaintance of the
larm Bureau officers xv ithin these neigh-
boring counties has resulted in an open.
frank, and helpful discussion of pn)b-
lems confronting each county organi-
zation."

Among the delegates were seven from
Peoria count), four from Tazewell, two
from Bureau, eight from Rock Island,
seven from Henderson. 14 from Mercer,
seven from Warren, H from Knox, lo
from Henry, and 16 from Stark, a
total of 90. The camp paper, the
"Ot^uawker Squawker." was read during
the evening entertainment.

Sell Apples Co-Operatively

THF growers associated in the VC'est-
ern Illinois Apple Growers' Asso-
ciation representing some 1.400 acres of
orchards expect to sell co-operativelv
between 150 and 200 carloads of apples
this \ear.

As we go to press a survey is being
nude by A. B. Lccper of the I. A. .\.
to get more accurate information about
the 1930 production of popular varie-
ties including Vi'illow Twig. Jonathan
and Grimes Golden. The Willow Tw ig
apple is produced almost exclusively in
western Illinois. It is an old varieiv
and keeps longer perhaps than an\
other when properly packed. The
Willow Twig is cspecialK desirable for
both eating and cooking, and is in
n^.uch demand.

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Pajie Sixteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Canadian Wheat Pool Answers

Opponents' Attacks with Facts
•Growing Majority of Wheat Farmers in Provinces Now Benefit by
Volume Control and Centralized Selling

THE continuing success of the Canadian Wheat Pool in serving an ever-
growing majority of wheat growers in Western Canada is a thorn in the
ilesh of the opposing "die-hards" who resent and oppose progress in grain
marketing through the co-operation of producers.

"Under separate cover, I am today forwarding a supply of statistical data
and Hterature of the Canadian Wheat Pool which may help spike the guns of
such gentlemen as M. R. Myers," writes W. B. Herbert of the Canadian co-
operative.

Can't Retaliate
"I would call your attention particularly to the leaflet, "WHEAT PRICES —
1927-1928," wherein we discuss the matter of price comparisons. Every year
"we have issued similar statements and never once has the grain trade attempted
to retaliate to these arguments. > They can't.

"Unfortunately it has not yet' been practicable for us to make the final ad-
justment on the 1928 deliveries, so we have not been able to publish a state-
ment covering the 1928 crop. Incidentally our three payments on that crop
total $1.18 per bushel and we still have the final payment to make. The un-
■weighted open-market price was only $1.21.

"I can assure you that our organization is in first class shape, and has never
"been in difficulties at any time despite the many annoyances we have had to put
«p with as a result of adverse propaganda. The morale of our membership is
wonderful and the harder the times the closer they stick to their Pool."

While the organization of the Illinois Grain Corporation is different than
that of the wheat pool in that it is based on the farmers' elevators as a founda-
tion, the elevator in each case retaining its identity, directors, officers, and em-
f)loyees, and carrying on business as usual, the I. G. C. has for its purpose the
•same goal as the the Canadian co-operative, that is, centralized selling in the
terminal markets and bargaining power for the producer.

That the Canadian co-operative has succeeded in its goal may be seen by

the following price comparisons which have not been successfully challenged:

Pool and Grain Trade Street Wheat Prices

TABLE I— CROP YEAR 1927-28.

ALBERTA — Basis 26c Ft. William, or 22c Vancouver, freight point.

Column I Column II Column III

Pool Margin
■. - _ Weighted Aver- Pool Above

age Grain Trade Price Grain Trade

Grade — Price (Including 4c Pool Elevator Div.)

"No. 1 Northern $1.18 3/4 $1.28 3/10 9 l/2c

No. 2 Northern 1.13 1/2 1.214/5 8 3/lOc

No. 3 Northern 1.03 1/2 1.113/10 7 4/5c

No. 4 92 3/5 .99 4/5 7 l/5c

No. 5 80 7/10 ■ .86 3/10 5 3/5c

No. 6 70 2/5 .77 4/5 7 2/5c

Peed .63 1/5 .70 3/10 7 l/10c<

SASKATCHEWAN— Basis 22c Ft. William freight point.

t (Excluding Elev. Patronage Div.')

No. 1 Northern $1,20 1/5 $1,23 3/10 3 1/lOc

No. 2 Northern 1.14 2/5 1.16 2/5 2 2/5c

No. 3 Northern 1.03 9/10 1.06 3/10 2 2/5c

No. 4 93 .95 4/5 2 4/5c

No. 5 81* .82 3/10 1 3/lOc

No. 6 .70 4/5 .73 4/5 3c

Feed • 62 1/2 .66 3/10 3 4/5c

MANITOBA— Basis 17c Ft. William freight point.

No. 1 Northern $1.23 3/10 $1.28 3/4 5 9/20c

No. 2 Northern. . . : 1.18 1/10 1.22 6/25 4 1/lOc

No. 3 Northern 1.08 9/10 1.113/4 2 6/lOc

No. 4 97 3/5 1.016/25 3 6/lOc

No. 5 849/10 .8779/100 25'lOc

No. 6 74 1/4 .79 19/100 4 9/lOc

Feed 65 3/5 .71 3/4 6 1/lOc

The figures in Column I are true averages of prices paid by the Grain Trade
for street wheat. The prices are arrived at in identically the same manner as
explained heretofore in connection with the Western and North- West Grain
Dealers' average prices for No. 3 Northern.

{Continued on page 17)

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NOTICE

ELECTION OF DELEGATES

ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL

ASSOCIATION

NOTICE is hereby given that in connec-
tion with the annual meetings of all
County Farm Bureaus to be held during the
months of August and September, 1930, at
the hour and place to be determined by the
Board of Directors of each respective County
Farm Bureau, the members in good standing
of such County Farm Bureaus and who are
also qualified voting members of Illinois
Agricultural Association shall elect a delegate
or delegates to represent such members of
Illinois Agricultural Association and vote on
all matters before the next annual meeting
or any special meeting of Association, in-
cluding the election of officers and directors
as provided for in the by-laws of the Asso-
ciation.

There will be no County Farm Bureau
annual meetings held during the months of
July and August.

During September annual meetings will be

held in Christian, Jefferson, and Wayne

counties.

Signed:

G. E. METZGER, Secretary.
July 15, 1930.

The Farmer's Income Tax

■■•■ii:..-

AN editorial in The Southern Plant-
er for June 15 says: "In the May
1 5 th issue of The Southern Planter, Dr.
Carl C. Taylor, one of our associate
editors, had an article under the title of
'North Carolina Tax Upheaval.' He
shows that taxes on land are unbearably
high and the farmers can no longer
stand under the burden. What is true
in North Carolina holds for most of the
other states. A recent study of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture shows that farmers are paying ap-
proximately $900,000,000 a year in di-
rect taxes, 84% of which is taxes on
land. Farmers are 'paying from IS to
3 1 % o/ their total income each year in
direct taxes and even 30% of the rental
value of farms is being absorbed in
taxes. It is too much to expect for
such conditions to continue to exist.
Farmers must see that they are changed.
Doctor Taylor suggests that farmers be
allowed to pay taxes according to what
they earn, such as is done in the case
of doctors and lawyers. In this way
the taxes will not be a burden in years
of low incomes as they are so often
under the present system of taxation.
The income tax is a logical one and it
is just and fair. The direct property
tax should be removed. Incomes should
be taxed. It would be real farm relief
and would materially help to increase
the net income of farmers, which is
now, on the average, about $700 per
year — a paltry sum for his labor and
managerial ability and the labor of his
family."

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Seventeen

Lynch Gives Reasons

For Low Butter Price

Dairyman's Meeting at Otta-wa Ap-
plauds Storekeepers for Co-Op-
eration in Selling LaSalle
County Butter

A RESOLUTION urging the LaSalle
County Farm Bureau to continue
its program of assisting local dairymen
in merchandising their products to bet-
ter advantage and in encouraging the
home consumption of LaSalle county
butter, was passed at a meeting of 40
dairymen held in Ottawa on June 2 5.

The resolution expressed the appre-
ciation of the dairymen present for the
co-operation of the many store owners
of the county in increasing the sale of
LaSalle county butter. A. D. Lynch,
director of dairy marketing for the
Illinois Agricultural Association, who
addressed the meeting, asserted that
butter consumption for the past five
years has decreased 2 per cent, whereas
the consumption of butter substitutes
has increased nearly 66 per cent. Mr.
Lynch gave this fact as one of the
causes for the low cost of butter.

The speaker advised the dairymen to
keep careful records on each cow in
the herd and to sell all cows producing
less than 2 50 pounds of butterfat in a
year. He stated that more than 50 per
cent of the milk produced is sold as a
fluid product, 33 per cent is used for
butter, 5 per cent goes into cheese, 3
per cent is condensed, 3 per cent is
made into ice cream, and the remaining
3 per cent is wasted. Mr. Lynch
pointed out that there were nearly 50
million pounds of butter in storage on
the first of June, almost twice as much
as the average amount in storage on
that date for the past five years.

Farm Board News

A STATEMENT advocating that
wheat farmers do not market the
1930 crop direct from the combine or
thresher, but that they hold it on fhe
farm wherever possible, was issu:d on
July 1 by the Federal Farm Board.

"The rushing of such a large per-
centage of the crop to market frequent-
ly results in congestion of storage at
the terminals to the extent that owners
of private elevator space are enabled to
fill their bins at prices substantially be-
low the current market value at the
time the wheat is shipped," said the
statement.

"This process also has the further
disadvantage of putting much of the
available supply of grain in the show
windows where the buyers, realizing

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The figures in Column II are the actual values received by Pool members
for street wheat delivered to Pool elevators, and are made up in identically the
same manner as explained heretofore.

The Western Grain Dealers' average discounts under straight No. 1 Northern
for tough, rejected and smutty No. 1 Northern wheat were 8 3 5c, 15'/2C and
17 3, 5c per bushel respectively. The corresponding Pool discounts were: 3/4c
on tough and S'/zC on rejected. The Pool average discounts for "tough," "re-
jected" and "smutty" under straight grade, for grades No. 1 Northern to feed
were 4.5c, 6.8c and 8c respectively.

The North- West Grain Dealers' discount for No. 1 Amber Durum under
No. 1 Northern was 1 1 '/4C, while the corresponding Pool discount was 7c. The
North-West Grain Dealers' average discount for tough No. 1, 2 and 3 Northern
under straight grade was 7c, while the corresponding Pool discount was 5 l/6c.
The North-West Grain Dealers' average discount for tough on grades lower
than No. 3 Northern was 6 l/5c, while the corresponding Pool discount was
4 1/lOc.

The high margins in the Pool's favor shown here are typical of the margins
between Pool and Grain Trade street prices for many other grades. On tough
wheat alone, non-Pool farmers lost a sum running into millions of dollars, as
approximately 180,000,000 bushels of the 1927-28 wheat crop was classified
"No Grade," due to excessive moisture; and as shown above the Pool's discount
for all tough wheat was from two to four cents per bushel less than the Grain
Trade's discount for tough street wheat.

TABLE II— CROP YEARS 1923-24 TO 1927-28.

1923-24 1924-25 1925-26 1926-27 1927-28

No. 1 Nor. No. 1 Nor. No. 3 Nor. No. 1 Nor. No. 3 .Vor.

Alberta Pool price $0.79 j/j $1.46 $1,25 1/8 $1.23 l/S $1,12 1/8 $1,28 3/10 $1,113/10

Grain Trade price .74 1/2 1.43 3/4 1.19 5/4 1.17 3/4 1.07 4/5 1.18 3/4 1.05 1/2

The figures in Table II, showing comparative Pool and Grain Trade street
wheat prices over a period of five years, were arrived at in the manner already
described. They account for the remarkable increase in membership of the
Canadian Wheat Pools during the past year, and indicate the ever-increasing
cash toll paid to the private grain trade by the non-Pool farmers of Western
Canada.

Pool and Non-Pool Consigned Wheat Prices

The only way to find out exactly how much non-Pool farmers received for
consigned, or carload wheat would be for the grain dealers to publish the actual
prices they paid for it. To date the Trade has not seen fit to publish this in-
formation, although farmers would like these figures to compare them with the
prices paid by the Pool. The Trade has this information, of course, and while
we cannot be sure of their reasons for withholding it, we can form our own
conclusions. We respectfully suggest to the Grain Trade that such informa-
tion would be more enlightening than anonymous misleading advertisements.

Until the Trade publishes the prices paid for non-Pool consigned wheat, we
have to be satisfied with a close estimate. We do not know when all con-
signed wheat is spld, as some of it is sold at the country elevator, some on
track and on its way to the terminal, and seme after it reaches the terminal.
It is generally agreed, however, that most farmers have sold their consigned
grain by the time it reaches the terminal. Consequently, the fairest estimate
of the average price paid for non-Pool consigned wheat is obtained by weight-
ing the Winnipeg weekly average cash prices by weekly receipts at the Head of
the Lakes. By use of this method, the following estimated Grain Trade average
prices were obtained. The Pool prices, basis Fort William, are given as a com-
parison. 1923-24 1924-25
No. 1 Nor.

Non-Pool consigned •

wheat av. price $1.00 $1,65 4/5 $1.43 $1,43 1/2 $1,43 3/5 $1,22 1'$

Gross Pool price 1.02 1.68 3/4 1.47 3 4 1.44 3 '4 1.45 1.28

Grain producers who want more information about the success of real co-
operative grain marketing in Canada may secure it by addressing the Canadian
Wheat Pool. Winnipeg. Canada.

1925-26 1926-27 1927-28

No. 1 Nor. No. 1 Nor. No. 3 Nor.

that somebody is paying money to
carry this wheat every day it is there,
have the advantage of knowing they
can get it quickly and too frequently
buy at their own price. Therefore,
we feel that the present tendency on
the part of farmers to keep more of the
wheat at home is a movement in the
right direction."

DURING the month of May 12,825
herds of cattle containing 130,167
animals were tested in Illinois. Only
3,038 reacted to the tuberculin test.

Forty-seven Illinois counties are now
recognized as modified, accredited areas.
More than a million and a half cattle
are under state and federal supervision
in Illinois.

Page Eighteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Farm Real Estate Values Average

Slightly Lower Than Last Year

FARM real estate values as of March war average in 1920, but that by the

1, 1930, show a decline of about 1 year 192 5 values were only 27 per cent

per cent below the preceding year, as a above pre-war, and that since then the

nation-wide average, the Bureau of downward trend has continu-'d, but

,, Agricultural Economics announced re- values have not declined so rapidK'.

cently. The index for March 1, 1930, is

Maine, Connecticut, Wyoming, Colo- placed at 115 per cent of the pre-war
rado. New Mexico and Oregon each averaged, compared with 116 per cent
showed a small increase in values for of pre-war in 1929, 117 per cent in
the year. Declines are reported for all 1928, 119 per cent in 1927, and 124
other states, notably in the Middle At- per cent in 1926. The estimates for
iantic. East North Central, West North 1930 are based upon preliminary sum-
Central and South Atlantic groups. maries of reports made by the bureau's

The bureau's index of real estate val- correspondents in an annual survey of

ues is based upon the average of the conditions in the farm lands market,

pre-war years, 1912-14. It shows that The following figures include all farm

values reached 170 per cent of the pre- lands with improvements:

Farm Real Estate: Estimated Value per Acre, in Terms of Pre-war Aver-
age Value, by States, March 1, 1930, with Camparisons (State

Average Value in 1912-1914—100%

Geographic Division and State 1920 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930

Ohio 159 110 105 99 96 94 90

Indiana ... , 161 102 95 87 84 83 80

Illinois 160 115 109 99 96 95 91

Michigan 154 133 129 127 125 124 121

Wisconsin . ..'...' 171 130 125 122 120 119 117

East North Central 161 116 111 104 101 100 96

Minnesota 213 159 155 145 140 138 133

Iowa 213 136 130 121 117 116 113

Missouri ' 167 112 104 99 96 95 92

North Dakota 145 109 105 100 99 98 95

South Dakota 181 115 107 97 96 95 93

Nebraska 179 123 123 119 117 116 113

Kansas 151 115 113 113 113 113 113

West North Central 184 126 121 115 113 112 109

Main Street Holds village is the result both of a decreasing

._ _. _ r^ t • farm population and of the higher

Its IJwn, oayS Vjalpin standard of farm living in recent years.

" He said that although the farm popu-

Farmer Demands Better Living To- lation has decreased by 4,000,000 per-

day Than Formerly sons since 1920, the gross cash income

from agriculture of the 27,000,000 of

f A MERICAN hamlets and small vii- farm population today is the same —

Xi. lages may be destined for the dis- $10,000,000,000 a year — as that of the

card, but towns of from 1,000 to 31,000,000 of farm people ten years

10,000 population are doing more busi- ago.

ness than ever, in the opinion of Dr. "The American farmer," Doctor

C. J. Galpin, agricultural sociologist of Galpin said, "is no longer satisfied with

the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Eco- family cons^imption in the nature of a

nomics. minimum of subsistence goods. He de-

"Although the general trend," he mands for himself and children parity

said, "has been for farmers to shift their in standard of living. His shift to a

buying from stores at country cross- larger trade center means that he is

roads, in hamlets, and in small villages, seeking a higher grade, and a wider va-

to larger retail trading centers, the shift riety and a better choice of .ill kinds

in farmer buying to towns ranging of goods.

from 1,000 to 10,000 in population is _,„ ^ „ ,

,1.1 / L Where Farmer Spends

increasmg the trade area or th?sc towns, *^

increasing the trade, and increasing "This does not mean that farmers

their purchasing fulcrum." are spending the bulk of their money

Why the Decline in cities over 10,000 in population.

Doctor Galpin gave it as his opinion The bulk of farmers' income is now

that the decline of the hamlet and smill spent, and will be for a generation, in

farmers' towns with a population
range from 1,000 to 10,000. The
well-to-do farmer, like the well-to-do
townsman, has always made certain
purchases in large cities, and this prac-
tice will continue; but the bulk of the
buying by both the farmer and the
townsman will be at home, where they
have personal relations and many so-
cial and economic ties."

Dr. Galpin labeled as unwarranted
the assumption "that the 1930 census
will show decreased enumerations in in-
corporated villages and towns smaller
than 10,000 population. It is expected,
however," he added, "that the 1930
census will show a decline in many
hamlets and unincorporated villages,
and in very small incorporated villages.

Forecasts Future

"There will be individual cases of
decrease, as usual, in incorporated
towns up to 10,000," he said, "and
some whole counties will undoubtedly
reflect in an unusual degree the unusual
agrarian disturbance of the last 10
years, but the unusual movement of
farm f>opulation, during the last ten
years, to these same towns and villages
will compensate for movements from
farmers* towns to larger centers.

"The farm population will turn out
to be thinner; the hamlet and small vil-
lage population will also be thinner;
but the large village and town popula-
tion will hold its own, and probably
will increase enough to make up the
loss ih the other two elements."

Cheap Money for Fanners?

(C

WE don't object," say industrial
leaders, "so much to farmer
organization as to financing of such or-
ganizations by the government at lower
interest rates than we can obtain for
industry." Let's look at that a minute.
On June 19, the New York Federal
Reserve Bank reduced its rediscount
rate, which is the charge at which its
member banks may borrow, from 3 per
cent to 2'/2 per cent. News writers
interpreted the reduction as "another
move in the policy of reserve authori-
ties to stimulate trade and industrial
recovery by easy money rates." Easy
money for industry, it seems, is per-
fectly satisfactory in industrial circles.
Easy money rates for farmers, however,
is "unfair and discriminatory" — in the
same circles. The answer is, of course,
that even if farmer-owned and farmer-
controlled co-operatives are receiving
money at low rates of interest, they are
the beneficiaries of no policy that is not
being applied, at the same time, for the
restoration of industry. — Farmers' Na-
tional Grain Corp.

Logan Banker Lauds

Farm Bureau's Service

■ral

se,
er-
ing
are
ot
the
vla-

Entitled to Community's Support

on Basis of Accomplishments,

He Says

"' I 'HE spread of the Farm Bureau

-i- movement reflects a trend in agri-
culture which parallels that in indus-
try and trade," J. A. Tabke, chairman
of the American National Bank of Lin-
coln, Illinois, said in a recent state-
ment congratulating the Logan County
Farm Bureau on its 12 years' accom-
plishments.

"Logan county's Farm Bureau, estab-
lished a dozen years ago with perhaps
300 charter members, now has almost
a thousand in good standing and ranks
as one of the strongest in the state.
Through its affiliation with the Illinois
Agricultural Association and the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation, it brings
Logan county farmers into alliance
with more than 1,125,000 farm fami-
lies throughout the country.

"These local, state and national or-
ganizations are giving their members
expert technical assistance in all
branches of the business. They are
working for better f«rau and farmers,
better homes and citizens, to make agri-
culture truly profitable and to keep
farming a satisfactory manner of liv-
ing rather than just an occupation.

"The character of the service ren-
dered, the contribution made to the
prosperity of the whole section has
given the Logan County Farm Bureau
rank as one of the most important and
valuable business agencies in this part
of Illinois. It has deserved well of the
community, and it is entitled to the
community's support on the basis of
proved efficiency. Its most enthusiastic
supporters are those who have used
most regularly the various facilities
which it provides."

The Logan County Farm Bureau re-
cently moved into new headquarters in
the Arcade building in Lincoln, and
Mr. Tabke's statement was in the na-
ture of congratulations on the success
of the local organization.

Oil Companies Organize

AMONG the county oil companies to
■ incorporate recently are McDon-
ough Service Company, Richland Ser-
vice Company for Richland and Law-
rence counties; Wabash Valley Service
Company for Wabash, Edward and
White counties; and Schuyler Service
Company. Champaign and Iroquois
counties will probably be ready to op-
erate oil companies by fall. Stephenson
and Macoupin counties are engaged in
selling stock for local supply companies.

Picture from Bloomington Pantagraph.
RESULTS OF THE JULY STH HAILSTORM IN TAZEWELL COUNTY
Chas. Imig of Minier examines what's left o{ bis corn Beld.

HAIL STORM SWEEPS
MACKINAW VALLEY

CORN, WHEAT
LOSSES HEAVY

Lincoln Is Hardest Hit By
Worst Midsummer Phe-
nomenon in Years.

BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT

One of the most destructive mid-
summ'er hailstorms i« the history
of Central Illinois swept a course
several miles wide from Mackinaw
through Lincoln to Illiopolis rid-
dling standing wheat and oats and
cutting corn stalks to shreds short-
ly before sundown Sunday after-

noon. Hail only fell from 10 to 20
minutes as the storm passed along-
its southward route, but the storm
took more than an hour to run its
way through four counties.

It started about 4:05 p. m. north
of Mackinaw and followed the
Mackinaw river southwest a few
miles and turned south. The main
portion of it went between Hope-
dale and Minier gathering force as
it traveled. It went through parts
of Tazewell, McLean, Logan and
Sangamon counties.

By the time it got to Lincoln the
wind had reached tornadic propor-
tions. The greatest damage was
felt there where it tore up trees,
telephone poles, blew off roofs and
broke windows. After the storm
passed Lincoln it seemed to dwin-
dle and nothing but a high wind
accompanied by light hail and rain
was felt at Illiopolis. . . .

— Bloomington Pantagraph.

Few Farmers Protected

Frank Bill, the Pantagragh's agricultural reporter who wrote the story above,
advises us that a later checkup reveals that very few farmers whose crops were
hailed out on July Sth were protected against loss by hail insurance. One man
estimates that his 160 acres of corn will be nearly a total loss. Not only were
the leaves stripped from the plants, but the stalks were cut and shredded down
to the pulp. You May Be Next

Why put off insuring your growing crops against hail? It will hail again.
Your farm may be next. Records show that destructive hail storms are likely
to occur in Illinois at any time during the summer months.

Costs Little for Protection

The initial cost of taking out a hail insurance policy in your own company,
the Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Company, is only $4 per $1,000. The balance
of $16 per $1,000 is payable October 1 after the crop is matured. Can you
afford to take this risk when for only $20 per $1,000 you can get protection?

Mail the coupon today for our latest folder.

FARMERS MUTUAL REINSURANCE CO.,

<H)8 So. Oearbom Street, ChlcaKo.

My name Is

AddrenH County —

Paf>e Eighteen

\

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Farm Real Estate Values Average

Slightly Lower Than Last Year

FARM real estate values as ot Match
I. 1^30, show a cit'clinc ot about 1
per cent below the preceding year, as a
nation-wide averai;c, the lUueaii ot
Agricultural 1 ciinoniics annouiK'ed re-
cent!\'.

\I.iMK. Conn/^iii. 111. W \uiiiiii;;. C.cio-
laJo. i\e\v Mexico antl (.)reuo!i each
showed .'. sniai! increase in values tor
'.l;e \e.i:'. IKchnes are reported t.ir al!
■ ■liier stales. notabK in the Nhddle Ai
I imic, I .1st Xorih t entral. West North
( eniral and Soutli Atlantic j;roups.

The bureau's index of real estate val-
ues is based upon the average ol the
prewar \e.irs, 1912-H. It shows that
values readied !/(• per cent of the pre-

Farm Real Estate: Estimated Value
age Value, by States, March 1,
Average Value in

war average m I'^Jii, but ili.ii b\ the
\ear I'^'J^i values were onl\ -~ per cent
.ibove pre-war, and that mikc then the
ilow nward trend has c<iiit;p.u <.'. hui
values have not ilechneil so i\-.;JI>.
Tiie indcN tor Mar^h i. ;''>.'
[il.iced at I I 'i per cenl fi i!-. pr.-v\.:.-
.neraged, conipirev.1 with i 1 (. p. r cm
• if pre-war m \')2'). ]\~ per cent m
I'lJS. ]]'> per eeiu in l'':". nid 124
per cent in 1^)2 f^. The estini.nes tor
]';;n ire based upon preliniinirv ^uni-
ni.iries of reports made bv the bureau's
..orrespondents in an annual smvev ol
couiiitions in tlie farm lan<.is market.
The following figures inckide ill tarm
lands with improvements:

per Acre, in Terms of Pre-war Aver-
, 1930, with Camparisons (State
1912-19 14 lOO'I

Ijcogr.iphi^ Divismn and State

i-i:o

1V2S

1426

192-

I92S

1929

1931)

Ohio

1 f ')

1 1(1

10^

99

'>f>

•>4

''II

Indiana

l6l

1(12

9 5

87

S4

^'.'

80

Illinois

160

in

109

99

96

9 5

91

Michigan

I w

1 3 <

129

12"

125

124

121

Vl'isconsin

161

130
116

125
111

122
104

120

101

119

11"

East North Central

KM)

96

Minnesot.1

2\}

n9

155

145

140

138

133

Iowa

213

136

130

121

11-

116

113

Missouri

167

112

104

99

96

9 5

92

North Dakota

14<

109

105

100

99

98

9 5

South Dakota

. 181

115

107

97

96

9 5

9 3

Nebraska

. . 179

123

123

119

ir

116

113

Kansas

151

115

113

113

113

113

113

West North Central

184

126

121

115

113

112

109

Main Street Holds

Its Own, Says Galpin

Farmer Demands Better Living To-
day Than Formerly

AMKRK.AN hamlets and small vil-
lages may be destined for the dis-
card, but tovrns of from 1,000 to
10,000 population are doing more busi-
ness than ever, in the opinion ot Dr.
C. J. Galpin, agricultural sociologist of
the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural I^co-
nomics.

"Although the general trend," he
said, "has been for farmers to shift their
buying from stores at country cross-
roads, in hamlets, and in small villages,
to larger retail trading centers, the shift
in farmer buying to towns ranging
from 1,000 to 10,000 in popii!it;on is
increasing the trade area ot th 's.- tow ns,
increasing tiie trade, and in-rea-ing
their purchasing fulcrum."

Why the Decline

Doctor Galpin gave it as his opinion
that the decline of the hamlet and smdi

village is the result both of a decreasing
farm population and of the higher
standard of farm living in recent years.
He said that although the farm popu-
lation has decreased by 4,000.(iiMi per-
sons since 1920, the gross cash income
from agriculture of the 27,OOu,(I(mi of
farm population today is the same —
si 0.000,000,000 a year — as that of the
31,000,000 of farm people ten years
ago.

"The American farmer." Doctor
Galpin said, "is no longer satisfied with
family consumption in the nature of a
minimum of subsistence goods. He de-
mands tor himself and children parity
in standard of living. His slutt to a
larger trade center means th.u he is
seeking a higher grade, and a w ider va-
rietv and a better choice ot ,dl kinds
of goods.

Where Farmer Spends

"This does not mean that farmers
are spending the bulk of their money
in cities over 10,000 in population.
The bulk of farmers' income is now
spent, and will be for a generation, in

farmers' towns with a population
range from 1,000 to 10,000. The
well-to-do farmer, like the well-to-do
townsman, has alwavs made certain
purchases in large cities, and this prac-
tice will continuiJ; but the bulk of the
buying by both the farmer and the
townsman will be at home, where thcv
liave personal relations and many so-
cial and economic ties."

Dr. C?alpin libeled as unwarranted
the assumption "thai the 1930 census
w ill show decreast'd eiuinierations in in-
corporated villagfs anil towns s.Ti.iUcr
th.in ! 11,0(10 popuialion. It is expe>.teef,
however," he .ulvled. "that the 1930
census will show .i decline in many
hamlets and uninorpoiated villages,
ami in \ erv Mii.iil ineorporated villiges.

Forecasts Future

"There vvill be indiv iilual case- ot
tlecrease, .is iisii.i.l. in incorporated
towns up to 10,00(1," he said, "and
some whole counties will undoubteilly
reflect in an unusual ilegree the unusual
agrarian disturbance of the last 10
years, but the unusual movement of
farm population, during the last ten
years, to these same towns and villages
will compensate for movements trom
farmers' towns to larger centers.

"The farm population will turn out
to be thinner; the hamlet and small v ii-
lage population will also be thinner;
but the large village and town popula-
tion will hold its own. and probably
will increase enough to make up the
loss in the other two elements."

Cheap Money for Farmers?

tt\T 7 F don't object," say industrial
VV leaders, "so much to farmer
organization as to financing of such or-
ganizations by the government at lower
interest rates than we can obtain for
industry." Let's look at that a minute.
On June 19, the New York Feder.il
Reserve hank reduced its rediscount
rate, vxhich is the charge at which its
member banks may borrow, from 3 per
cent to 2'/2 jJcr cent. News writers
interpreted the reduction as "another
move in the policy of reserve authori-
ties to stimulate trade and industrial
recovery by easy money rates." Easy
money for industry, it seems, is per-
fectly satisfactory in industrial circles.
Easy money rates for farmers, however,
is "unfair and discriminatory" — in the
same circles. The answer is, of course,
that even if farmer-owned and farmer-
controlled co-opcrativcs arc receiving
money at low rates of interest, thcv are
the beneficiaries of no policy that is not
being applied, at the same time, for the
restoration of industry. — Farmers' Na-
tional Grain Corp.

f Logan Banker Lauds

> Farm Bureau's Service

■h\

Entitled to Community's Support

on Basis of Accomplishments,

He Says

"T^HE spread of the Farm Bureau
J- movement reflects a trend in ai;ri-
culture which parallels that in indus-
try and trade," J. A. Tabke, chairman
of the American National Bank of Lin-
coln, Illinois, said in a recent state-
ment congratulating the Logan County
Farm Bureau on its 12 years' accom-
plishments.

"Logan count)' 's larm Bureau, estab-
lished a dozen years ago with perhaps
300 charter members, now has almost
a thousand in good standing and ranks
as one of the strongest in the state.
Through its affiliation with the Illinois
Agricultural Association and the Amer-
ican larm Bureau Federation, it brings
Logan county farmers into alliance
with more than 1,125,000 farm fami-
lies throughout the country.

"These local, state and national or-
ganizations are giving their members
expert technical assistance in all
branches of the bu-^iness. Thev are
working for better farms and farmers,
better homes and citizens, to make agri-
culture truly profitable and to keep
farming a satisfactory manner of liv-
ing rather than just An occupation.

"The character of the service ren-
dered, the contribution made to the
prosperity of the whole section has
given the Logan County Farm Bureau
rank as one of the most important and
valuable business agencies in this part
of Illinois. It has deserved well of the
community, and it is entitled to the
community's support on the basis of
proved efficiency. Its most enthusiastic
supporters are those who have used
most regularly the various facilities
which it provides."

The Logan County Farm Bureau re-
cently moved into new headquarters in
the Arcade building in Lincoln, and
Mr. Tabke's statement was in the na-
ture of congratulations on the success
of the local organization.

Oil Companies Organize

AMONG the county oil companies to
. incorporate recently are McDon-
ough Service Company, Richland Ser-
vice Company for Richland and Law-
rence counties; Wabash Valley Service
Company for ^X'^abash, Edward and
White counties; and Schuyler Service
Company. Champaign and Iroquois
counties will probably be ready to op-
erate oil companies by fall. Stephenson
and Macoupin counties are engaged in
selling stock for local supply companies.

I*irtiire I'rom ItloominKton l^anta^xi .'tpli.
RESULTS OF THE JtTLY 5TH HAILSTORM IN TAZEWELL COUNTY
Chas. Imig of Minier examines what's left of his corn field.

HAIL STORM SWEEPS
MACKINAW VALLEY

CORN, WHEAT
LOSSES HEAVY

Lincoln Is Hardest Hit By
Worst Midsummer Phe-
nomenon in Years.

BY STAFF <-«»IIUI-;SPO\I»E>'T

One of the most de.'itiuiiive niid-
.siinimfr liHilstnrnis in the histoi'y
of Ctnti-iil Illinois swept ;i course
Sfvi'i'al miles \\-i<lf from Mackinaw
ihi'oiiKh l.ini oln to lUiopolis rirl-
illiny slaixliiin wheat ami oats ami
cutting coi'ii stalks to shieds short-
ly hefore siin(l»^wn Sniuiay after-

noon. Hail only fell from 10 to J"
minutes as the storm passed aloiiK
its souihward loiite, but the stoi in
took moi-,. than an hour to run its
way lhi'on^;h four ootinties.

It started about 4 :(>.■> p. in. north
of Ma( kinaw and followed the
Mackinaw ri\-er .southwest ;i f«'W
miles and turned south. The main
poition of it Went between Hop.--
ilale and .Minier tratherinK force as
it traveled. It went through parts
of Tazt Will. ilcLean, Lotsan and
.Sangamon counties.

I>y the time it K:ot to Lincoln the
wind had reached tornadic propor-
tions. The Kfatest d;unane was
felt th>re where it tore up trees,
t4l. phone poles, blew off roofs and
broke wimlows. .\fter the storm
passed Lincoln it seemed to dwin-
dle and noihinti but a hijrh wind
accompanied !.;> liuht hail and rain
was felt at lllioliolis. . . .

— UloomillKton I'alitatrraph.

Few Farmers Protected

Frank Bill, the Pantagraph's agricultural reporter who wrote the storv above,

advises us that a later checkup reveals that very few farmers whose crops were

'hailed out on July 5th were protected against loss by hail insurance. One man

estimates that his 160 acres of corn will be nearly a total loss. Not only were

the leaves stripped from the plants, but the stalks were cut and shredded down

'<* '^'^ P»'P- You May Be Next

V."h\- put off insuring your growing crops against hail? It will hail again.
Your farm may be ne.\t. Records show that destructive hail storms are likelv
to occur in Illinois at any time during the summer months.

Costs Little for Protection

The initial cost of taking out a hail insurance policy in \our own company,
the Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Company, is only S4 per $1,000. The balance
of S16 per $1,000 is payable October 1 after the crop is matured. Can you
afford to take this risk when for only $20 per S 1,000 you can get protection?

Mail the coupon today for our latest folder.

FARMERS MUTUAL REINSURANCE CO.,

tid.s So. Dearliorn SIri-rt, ChiciiK<>>

M>- nsinie in „ „ ^

.\ildrexs. C«unljr

i

Watch for the
Ofricial Trade Mark

THE official trade mark of the Illinois Farm Supply Company will scon make its appearance
on truck tanks, gasoline pumps, filling station and curb pump signs of 3 5 affiliated county Farm
Bureau coppanies.

This trade mark advertising SERVICE brand petroleum products stands for high quality, pow-
erful, economical motor oils and lubricants. The SERVICE family includes "Aladdin" gasoline,
"Radiant" kerosene, and "Penn Bond" and "Blue Seal" motor oils and greases distributed by the
following farmer-owned and controlled companies: 1 •

Logan Farm Supply Co Lincoln, HI.

Macon County Supply Co. Decatur, III.

Marshall-Putnam Oil Co Decatur, 111.

Adams Service Co Quincy, 111.

Carroll Service Co. Mount Carroll, 111.

Coles County Supply Co. Charleston, 111.

Christian County Farmers Supply Co. ...

Taylorville, 111.

DeKalb Co;unty Agricultural Assn DeKalb, 111.
DeWitt County Service Co. Clinton, 111.

Edgar County Farm Bureau Sup. Co. Paris, 111.

Ford County Service Co. Gibson City, 111.

Fulton Service Co. Canton, 111.

Henry County Supply Co. Cambridge, 111.
Jersey County Farm Supply Co. Jerseyville, 111.

Kane County Service Co Elburn, 111.

Kendall Farmers Oil Co. Yorkville, 111.

Knox County Oil Co Galesburg, 111.

Lake County Farm Supply Co. Grayslake, 111.

LaSalle County Farm Supply Co. Ottawa, 111.

Lee County Service Co Amboy, 111.

Livingston Service Co » Pontiac, lU.

ILLINOIS FARM SUPPLY
I ; < COMPANY

I

608 South Dearborn Street
Chicago

McDonough Service Co. Macomb, 111.

McLean County Service Co. Bloomington, 111.

Menard County Fanners Supply Co.

Petersburg, 111.

Montgomery County Farmers Oil Co.

Raymond, 111.

Peoria County Service Co Peoria, 111.

Rich-Law Service Co Olney, III.

Schuyler Service Co. Rushville, 111.

Shelby-Effingham Service Co. Shelbyville, 111.

Tazewell Service Co. Pekin, 111.

Tri-County Oil Co. Monm uth, 111.

Wabash Valley Service Co. Grayville, 111.

Will County Farm Supply Co. Joliet, 111.

Winnebago Service Co. Rockford, 111.

Woodford County Service Co. Eureka, 111.

Illinois Farm Supply Company,
608 So. Dearborn Street,
Chicago, Illinois.

I am interested in knowing hoW I can buy SER-
VICE brand petroleum products «nd share in the
savings made possible through this co-operative
Farm Bureau enterprise.

Name _ _ _ _

Address..
County...

• - ^

(HBCVLTVIUIM
"'* LttRABY

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Illinois Ajfricultuml Association

RECORD

i;^::

The "Indian Head" nature carved in the Mississippi bluffs north
of Savawia in Car) oil county gave the famous trail its name.

AUGUST, 1930

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Watch for the
Official Trade Mark

J"^HE official trade mark of the Illinois Farm Supply Company will scon make its appearance
JL on truck tanks, gasoline pumps, filling station and curb pump signs of 3 5 affiliated county Farm
Bureau companies.

This trade mark advertising SERVICE brand petroleum products stands for high quality, pow-
erful, economical motor oils and lubricants. The SERVICE family includes "Aladdin" gasoline,
"Radiant" kerosene, and "Pcnn Bond" and "Blue Seal" motor oils and greases distributed by the
following farmer-owned and controlled companies:
Adams Service Co Quincy, III

Carroll Service Co. Mount Carroll, III.

Coles County Supply Co. Charleston, 111.

Christian County 1 anners Supply Co.

Taylorville, III.
DeKalb County Agricultural Assn UeKalb, III.
DeWitt County Service Co. Clinton, III.

Edgar County Farm Bureau Sup. Co. Paris, III.
Ford County Service Co. Gibson Cit), 111.

Fulton Service Co. Canton, III.

Henry County Supply Co. Cambridge, III.

Jersey County Farm Supply Co. Jerseyville, III.

Kane County Servige Co Elburn, 111.

Kendall Farmers Oil Co Yorkvillc, 111.

Knox County Oil Co. Galesburg, III.

Lake County Farm Supply Co Grayslake, 111.

LaSalle County Farm Supply Co. Ottawa, III.

Lee County Service Co. Amboy, III.

Livingston Service Co. Pontiac, 111.

ILLINOIS FARM SUPPLY
COMPANY

608 South Dearborn Street
Chicago

Logan Farm Supply Co. Lincoln, I

Macon County Supply Co Decatur, I

Marshall-Putnam Oil Co. .s . . . . Decatur, I
McDonough Service Co. . . Macomb, I

McLean County Service Co. Bloomington, I
Menard County Farmers Supply Co.

Petersburg, I
Montgomery County Iv'rmers Oil Co.

Raymond, I

Peoria County Service Co Peoria, I

Rich-Law Service Co. Olney, I

Schuyler Service Co Rushvillc, I

Shelby-Effingham Service Co. . .; Shelby ville, I

Tazewell Service Co Pekin, I

Tri-County Oil Co Monm uth, I

Wabash Valley Service Co. Grayville, I

Will County Farm Su iply Co Joliet, I

Winnebago Service Co. Rockford, I

Woodford County Service Co Eureka, 1

Illinois Farm Supply Company,
608 So. Dearborn Street, j
Chicago, Illinois.

I am interested in knowing how I can buy SER-
VICE brand petroleum products «nd share in the
savings made possible through this co-operative
Farm Bureau enterprise.

Name

Address .:.

County

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i

I

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'0

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!

TK<

Illinois Agricultural Association

RECORD

^

The "hidiaii Head" nature carved in the Missinxiiipi Itlnffx vortk
of Suvannii in Cnrrnll eoinitii ga re the fiinitiiis trail ittt niimr.

AUGUST, 1930

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The cirirrr of tliiK cnr \v:in iibuut to Ktrike a noinnn peileMtrinn, ko he
- Mwerved down thix rnibnnknient. The pielure Mho»K the ear afternnrd.
' The driver niid n noninn eonipanion eNciiped NeriouH injury.

Nine Reasons For Auto Insurance

1 : To protect your estate against liability in
case your car kills or injures someone.

2: To safeguard your investment in your car
or truck in case of collision.

3: To spare yourself the w^orry of financial re-
sponsibility for injuries inflicted by your car.

4: To secure necessary legal defense without
cost if a suit for damages is brought against
you.

5 : To secure financial aid in .case you are far
from home and have an accident.

6 : To pay court costs, hospital, doctor's, and
medical bills resulting from an accident in
which you are liable.
7 : To protect you against loss from fire or

theft.
8 : To protect you agaii^t liability for accidents

w^hen someone else drives your car.
9 : To insure your car against damages inflicted
by windstorms, hail, and tornadoes.
You can pay more for similar protection else-
where, but you will never buy it in a safer,
more secure, and stronger company. Automobile
•^insurance in YOUR OWN COMPANY at cost.

" .'»-;; Mail Coupon for Purticuliirs

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Ins. Co.,

608 So. Dearborn Street, ■ ■ i 1

Chicago, Illinois. * • '

Please send me particulars about automobile and

truck insurance in my own company. ■

ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL
MUTUAL INSURANCE
I! COMPANY

608 South Dearborn Street
I j i Chicago

More Than 24,000 Policyholders — Assets Over a Half Million Dollars

Name „

Address....-

County „ _

Make of Car or Truck....

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Ulinois A^ctiltural Assodatioii

RECORD

Publl>h«d monthly by the Illlnolt Airrlrultural Asiorlatlon >t 124 So. Fifth St., Marshall, III.: Editorial Offlres. 608 So. I>«arbom St. Chtrago, III Efitcred as iccaod-
class matter at post-offlre at Slarshall, III., June 16, 1930, under the Act of March 3. 1879. Acceptance for mailing at si>ecial rate of postage provided in ^^ection 412,
Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized Oct. 27, 1925. Addrna dll iMiaualntlMa ttr fukllaatiM U Edlttrldl Otiltet, illlnaU Atrjenltural AttwUtiM RcMrd, ••• S*. DMf*«n tL. Mini*.

Number 7

July, 1930

Volume 8

Farm Bureau Day at

State Fair Aug. 22nd

Prize Offered to County Register-
ing Most Visitors at Farm
Bureau Headquarters

Help Win the Cup

BY the time this issue arrives State
Fair Week at Springfield will be
underway with its countless attractions,
excitements and diversions from the
routine work of the farm.

Many a farm family takes in the big
show nearly every year, but for those
who haven't attended a state fair, we
urge you to pack up and go this year.
The dates are Aug. 16-2} inclusive.
And make one of your early stops at
the big Farm Bureau Headquarters
Tent to be established near the former
site on the walk leading from the Ex-
position Building to the race track.

Big Top Tent

A larger tent than that used last year
has been engaged. It will be equipped
with plenty of chairs, ice water, free
facilities for checking your wraps and
packages, and other conveniences.
Mothers and their children will be es-
pecially welcome.

The story of the Illinois Agricultural
Association and the many services of-
fered members through the various de-
partments and associated companies will
be told on a series of 16 or 17 posters
to be erected under the supervision of
A. E. Richardson, manager of the I.
A. A. auto insurance company.

While Friday, August 22, has been
designated as FARM BUREAU DAY
by the management of the State Fair,
every day of Fair Week will be open
house in the Farm Bureau tent. Some-
one from the I. A. A. o£5ce will be in
charge daily. Drop around for a visit
and rest, and register at the desk.

Help Win Cup

A silver cup trophy will be awarded
to the Farm Bureau in the county
showing the largest number of jjeople
who register their names and addresses
at the Farm Bureau tent during the
week from that county. Farm Bureau

THE silver loving cup shown above
will be awarded the Farm Bureau
in that county from which the largest
number of members, their families and
friends register at Farm Bureau head-
quarters during the Illinois State Fair,
Springfield, August 16-23.

Visitors may register any time dur-
ing the week up until 4:30 Friday,
August 22. At that time the attend-
ant in charge will count the number
of people registered and will announce
the winner.

This beautiful trophy will be in-
scribed with the words "I. A. A. Tro-
phy, Farm Bureau Day, Illinois State
Fair, 1930." It will make an attractive
adornment for any Farm Bureau office.

members, their families and friends are
all eligible to register. Help bring the
cup back to your coimty by registering.
The exhibits in the tent will not only
be interesting but they will be educa-
tional as well. They will answer ques-
tions that arise daily about this or that
department and its work.

Mid- West Grain Corp.

New Co-Op. Sales Agency

Service Now Offered Member Ele-
vators from Peoria Office

THE organization of the Mid-West
Grain Corporation, subsidiary grain
sales agency for the Illinois Grain Cor-
poration, marked an im{K>rtant step in
the building of producer-owned and
producer-controlled grain marketing in
Illinois.

The formation of the Mid-West
Grain Corporation followed close on
the heels of the employment of John
Benson, who for several years has been
engaged in the grain business on the
Peoria market, to represent the Illinois
Grain Corporation and send out Farm-
ers' National Grain Corporation bids
from Peoria for the Chicago, Peoria
and St. Louis markets.

Began July 21

Mr. Benson began work on July 21
rendering service to the member ele-
vators, and elevators which have ap-
plied for membership but have not as
yet fully qualified, in the Illinois Grain
Corporation. Since then grain has been
moving steadily to the Farmers' Na-
tional from members and prospective
members of the new Illinois co-oper-
ative.

The Mid-West Grain Corporation is
formed xmder the provisions of the
Co-Operative Act of Illinois with an
authorized capital stock of $525,000
consisting of 5,000 shares of preferred
stock of $100 par value and 5,000
shares of common stock of $ 5 par value
per share.

Sales Subsidiary

The Mid-West Grain Corporation for
the present is a complete subsidiary of
the Illinois Grain Corporation in that
all of the stock both preferred and
common will be issued to the Illinois
Grain Corporation.

It is contemplated that the newly-
formed co-operative will have repre-
sentation at Chicago, Peoria, St. Louis
{Continued on next ptge, col. 2)

Page Four

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Grain Producers Move

Forward in Marketing

y

Propagandist Discredited by Farm-
ers' Grain Dealers' Association

THE work of completing the per-
sonnel and sales service of the Illi-
nois Grain Corporation and its subsid-
iary, the Mid-West Grain Corporation,
is proceeding simultaneously with the
job of explaining the new co-operative
grain marketing program to farmers'
elevator directors desirous of having a
part in the new producer self-help
movement.

Pending the completion of arrange-
ments necessary to bring the advantages
of the Farm Board program to Illinois
grain producers there has been some
delay in answering requests of scores
of elevators and boards of directors to
have the Illinois Grain Corporation's
plans and agreement explained.

Time Will Tell

Misleading and even malicious propa-
ganda spread in several communities in
central Illinois has resulted in tempo-
rary misunderstandings and delay which
it is expected will be cleared up when
all the producers become fully informed
regarding the source of the opposition
and the direction in which their true
interests lie.

One worker who has been particu-
larly active in spreading falsehoods in
McLean county while posing as an offi-
cial of the Illinois Farmers' Grain Deal-
ers' Association has been repudiated by
that organization in an official letter
from one of its officers who declares
that the individual is not working with
the consent or under the direction of
its board of directors.

Who Pays Bill?

Officials of the Illinois Grain Cor-
poration have learned to their own sat-
isfaction where the money is coming
from to pay expenses of this person
whose chief interest seems to be to
thwart the development of an effective
co-operative grain marketing system in
Illinois. The report that he has now
been transferred to carry on similar ac-
tivities against the interestis of otgan-
ized grain producers in Wisconsin lends
further credence to the belief that he
is being paid to work against co-oper-
ative marketing by those selfishly op-
posed to farmers getting control of
their own products.

The spreading of false information
and malicious propaganda is slowing up
the participation of several elevators in
the federal grain marketing plan, but
in no wise has it delayed the work of
the Illinois Grain Corporation in ar-
ranging to serve the producers of Illi-

nois. It is confidently expected that
when the elevator stockholders learn the
true situation, and that interests op-
posed to real co-operative marketing
have been misleading them, the adop-
tion of the Illinois Grain- Corp. plan
of co-operative selling by these ele-
vators will become a reahty. . ',

Not Unexpected

Opposition to the effort of Illinois
grain farmers to help themselves was
not unexpected. Invariably when farm-
ers try to work together for their
mutual interests, particularly in the co-
operative marketing field, they are met
with resistance from selfish and un-
friendly people who apparently think
they have, a divine right to collect toll
from him in one form or another. The
same kind of opposition is being felt
toward co-operative grain marketing in
Minnesota,' . Wisconsin, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Nebraska, and in fact
throughout the grain producing states.

In the meantime the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association and the Illinois Grain
Corporation are pursuing their policy of
confining their activities to construc-
tive effort. TTie attacks of discredited
propagandists representing private and
selfish interesfs will not be dignified by
public answer. The Illinois Grain Cor-
poration believes that the producers
eventually will learn that it's plan is
sound and rest content with the
thought that right eventually will pre-
vail.

Mid- West Grain Corp.

Hires General Manager

Has More Than 20 Years' Success-
ful Experience in Grain Business

Mid -West Grain Corp. Hires

{Continued from page 1 )
and Indianapolis. If found necessary
later it may also be represented at other
points.

It is proposed that the paid-in capital
of the company be sufficient not only
~~^o show adequate financial respyonsibili-
ty, but have adequate operating capital
to handle the grain of members. If
coarse grain territory other than Illi-
nois shall desire to use the facilities of
Mid-West Corporation opportunity will
be afforded such other organizations.
Seven on Board
The new company has a board of
directors of seven members chosen from
the board of directors of the Illinois
Grain Corporation. These directors are
as follows: Lyle Johnstone, Blooming-
ton; J. C. Sailor, Cissna Park; John P.
Stout, Chatham; E. E. Stevenson, Ran-
som; Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut; Charles
Schmidt, Beason; B. L. Baird, Williams-
field.

"Developments in the Soybean Mar-
keting Association" will be the subject
of a radio address by Manager J. H.
Lloyd from station WENR, Chicago,
at 7:30 P. M. on Sept. 2.

CHARLES P. CUMMINGS of Pitts-
field, Illinois, chief grain buyer for
the M. D. King Milling Company, soft
wheat millers at that city, was em-
ployed recently as general manager of
the Mid-West Grain Corporation, sub-
sidiary sales agency of the Illinois Grain
Corporation. Action toward the em-
ployment of Mr. Cummings, who has
had more than 20 years of successful
experience in the grain business, was
taken at the meeting of the board of
directors in Bloomington on August 6.

Knows Elevator Problems

Mr. Cummings has had country mill
and elevator experience, brokerage ex-
perience, as well as terminal market ex-
perience both at Kansas City and St.
Louis. Letters received from responsi-
ble parties both in his home town and
at the St. Louis and Chicago markets,
highly recommend Cummings and
testify to his reputation for good judg-
ment and business integrity.

One prominent St. Louis grain firm
states: "Mr. Cummings is a very close
student of all conditions entering the
grain business, and I consider him one
of the outstanding grain men in this
section of the country. He is very
capable, trustworthy and efficient."

Chief Grain Buyer

During recent years Cummings has
held the responsible position of chief
grain buyer for the King Co., which
owns and controls a substantial num-
ber of country elevators in southwest-
ern Illinois. Cummings has had the
supervision of the latter so he knows
the problems of the country elevator.

He has had experience in buying
grain on the floor of the St. Louis Ex-
change. For more than a year he served
the U. S. Government after passing the
Civil Service examination, as federal
grain supervisor, and during the war
he was associated in government ser-
vice with J. M. Chilton, now employed
by the Farmers' National Grain Cor-
poration.

Mr. Cummings has a wife and three
children. Headquarters of the Mid-
West Grain Corporation will be estab-
lished in Chicago. Mr. Cummings will
assume his new duties as soon as he can
make the necessary arrangements to
leave his work and interests at Pitts-
field. Service to member elevators and
those applying for membership will be
developed rapidly following his coming.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Five

Farm Board News

RETURNING to Washington re-
cently from a trip through the
grain states, Chairman Alexander Legge
of the Farm Board summoned news-
paper men as reported by the Time
magazine, and declared that "The farm
board was created to assist the farmer
and not for politics. From now until
November politicians will be so busy
saving the farmer, it might be just as
well to take a vacation. . . .

"I notice the Democratic National
Committee has adopted as a slogan 'the
failure of the Farm Board.' This seems
to be copied almost word for word
from the grain dealers and the Cham-
ber of Commerce of the United States.

"Certain interests [he meant the
grain brokers] which seem to feel they
have a God-given right to handle the
products of the farmers, and who have
accumulated immense fortunes in doing
so . . . doubtless will be easy picking
for any politician of any party who is
willing to play their game.

"However, farmers as a class . . .
seem to be aware that their present un-
happy condition is a result of long years
of unregulated production, while they
listened to gigantic schemes that high-
powered statesmen have had to offer.

"Present and future orations . . to
broadcast the alleged failures of the
Farm Board are only more of the same
kind of political bunk. ..."

"Pulmotor"

Asked if the Farm Board would buy
more wheat now as senators from Kan-
sas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Okla-
homa were asking, Chairman Legge
replied "No, stabilization will work
admirably on seasonal surpluses but it
can't be made to work on permanent
cumulative surpluses. To buy 100,-
000,000 bu. of wheat would only en-
courage Kansas farmers to plant more
and make a bad situation worse. We
can apply a pulmotor and give tem-
porary aid, but we're looking for a more
permanent remedy."

No Skirts for Legge

Someone suggested that he ought to
report his findings to President Hoover.
Mr. Legge's eyes narrowed sharply as he
replied: "The Farm Board isn't going to
hide behind the President's skirts. If
he wants to see me he knows where to
find me. Business is going on as usual."

Italy has a tall new tariff to keep
out wheat. Likewise France, where
wheat last week was seUing at $1.71
per bu. Advanced by idealists has been
the idea that the Farm Board donate
its heavy wheat holdings to famine-
stricken China, but practical-minded

C. p. Cammingra

Mr. Legge declares: "We've no au-
thority to give anything away, to China
or any other country. . . I've dis-
cussed these proposals with President
Hoover, but no solution has been
found."

Whether Chairman Legge thought it
was "bunk" or not, the wheat surplus
last week continued to brew strong
politics. Republican senators criticized
the board for its "do-nothing" policy.
There was talk that Senator Borah of
Idaho who last week was ordered to
northern Maine for a month's rest by
his physician would take the stump this
autumn in the northwest against the
Farm Board and the administration's
farm relief program.

The Board's Year

In its first year (ended June 30) the
Farm Board advanced $195,000,000 of
the $2 50,000,000 appropriated by Con-
gress to co-operatives and stabilization
corporations. Of this sum $40,000,-
000 had been repaid up to last week.

Six national co-operative selling
agencies, borrowing from the board,
have been established:

1) Farmers National Grain Corp., of
Chicago; Clarence Elmer Huff, presi-
dent. F. N. G. C. sells wheat for
members or loans them 85% of the
spot price. Last week it said it was
handling one-third of all wheat through
Kansas City, predicted it would handle
half the U. S. crop next year, claimed
that in the foreign field it was already
the world's biggest factor.

2) American Cotton Co-Operative
Association of New Orleans; Allen
Northington, president. Estimated
membership, 200,000 planters.

3) National Wool Marketing Corp.
of Boston. This agency handled about
10% of the clipped wool last year,
plans to handle 30% this year. .

4) National Bean Marketing Associa-
tion of Oxnard, Calif.; Ralph Logan
Churchill, president.

5) National Live Stock Marketing
Association of Chicago; C. A. Ewing,
president.

6) National Pecan Marketing Asso-
ciation of Brownwood, Tex.; Henry
Gaillard Lucas, president.

Next week a seventh national co-
operative is exjjected to be formed when
beet sugar producers from 17 states
meet at Greeley, Col.

Two stabilization corporations to buy
and sell commodities in the open mar-
ket now exist:

1) Grain Stabilization Corp.; George
S. Milnor, general manager. This agen-
cy bought and now holds for the Farm
Board 69,000,000 bu. of wheat.

2) Cotton Stabilization Corp.; E.
Fitzgerald Creekmore, general manager.
This agency at a heavy loss took over
1,000,000 bales of 1929 cotton from
the national co-operative.

The live stock co-operative does its
own buying and selling. The wool as-
sociation trades through Draper & Co.
of Boston. The bean and pecan or-
ganizations are still developing their
marketing system.

Though no national co-operatives
have yet been formed, for handling
dairy products, tobacco, potatoes, ap-
ples, rice, fruits and vegetables, honey,
pwultry and eggs, grapes and raisins,
sour cherries, the Farm Board has done
business with local marketing associa-
tions.

Authorize Investment

The purchase by the I. A. A. of
$10,000 worth of class A preferred
stock in the Illinois Grain Corporation
was authorized at the last meeting of
the board of directors on July 22 in
Chicago. Further action was taken au-
thorizing the officers to loan $15,000
of the organization's funds when se-
cured by collateral now held by or to
be acquired by the Illinois Grain Cor-
poration. Money so obtained will be
used by the new grain co-operative for
capital purposes. .«_

Marketing Tomatoes

The surplus tomato crop about Ster-
ling in Whiteside county produced by
members of the Sterling Vegetable
Growers' Association, will be handled
by the Illinois Fruit Growers' Ex-
change during the current season, ac-
cording to a recent announcement by
Manager A. B. Leeper.

This association recently affiliated
with the Fruit Growers' Exchange in
handling carlot shipments.

Page Four

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Grain Producers Move

Forward in Marketing

Propagandist Discredited by Farm-
ers' Grain Dealers' Association

THE work of completing the pcr-
;onncl and sales service of the Illi-
nois Grain Corporation and its subsid-
iary, the Mid-West Grain Corporation,
is proceeding simultaneously with the
job of explaining the new co-op>erative
grain marketing program to farmers'
elevator directors, desirous of having a
part in the new producer self-help
movement.

Pending the completion of arrange-
ments necessary to bring the advantages
of the Farm Board program to Illinois
grain producers there has been some
delay in answering requests of scores
of elevators and boards of directors to
have the Illinois Grain Corporation's
plans and agreement explained.

Time Will Tell

Misleading and even malicious propa-
ganda spread in several communities in
central Illinois has resulted in tempo-
rary misunderstandings and delay which
it is expected will be cleared up when
all the producers become fully informed
regarding the source of the opposition
and the direction in which their true
interests lie.

One worker who has been particu-
larly active in spreading falsehoods in
McLean county while posing as an offi-
cial of the Illinois Farmers' Grain Deal-
ers' Association has been repudiated by
that organization in an official letter
from one of its officers who declares
that the individual is not working with
the consent or under the direction of
its board of directors.

Who Pays Bill?

Officials of the Illinois Grain Cor-
poration have learned to their own sat-
isfaction where the money is coming
from to pay expenses of this person
whose chief interest seems to be to
thwart the development of an effective
co-operative grain marketing system in
Illinois. The report that he has now
been transferred to carrj' on similar ac-
tivities against the interests of organ-
ized grain producers in Wisconsin lends
further credence to the belief that he
is being paid to work against co-oper-
ative marketing by those selfishly op-
posed to farmers getting control of
their own products.

The spreading of false information
and malicious propaganda is slowing up
the participwtion of several elevators in
the federal grain marketing plan, but
in no wise has it delayed the work of
the Illinois Grain Corporation in ar-
ranging to serve the producers of Illi-

nois. It is confidently \xpected that
when the elevator stockholders learn the
true situation, and that interests op-
posed to real co-operative marketing
have been misleading them, the adop-
tion of the Illinois Grain Corp. plan
of co-operative selling by these ele-
vators will become a reality.
Not Unexpected

Opposition to the effort of Illinois
grain farmers to help themselves was
not unexpected. Invariably when farm-
ers try to work together for their
mutual interests, particularly in the co-
operative marketing field, they are met
with resistance from selfish and un-
friendly people who apparently think
they have a divine right to collect toll
from him in one form or another. The
same kind of opposition is being felt
towa'rd co-operative grain marketing in
Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Nebraska, and in fact
throughout the grain producing states.

In the meantime the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association and the Illinois Grain
Corporation are pursuing their policy of
confining their activities to construc-
tive effort. The attacks of discredited
propagandists representing private and
selfish interests will not be dignified by
public answer. The Illinois Grain Cor-
poration believes that the producers
eventually will learn that its plan is
sound and rest content with the
thought that right eventually will pre-
vail.

Mid-West Grain Corp. Hires

{ContittUfil frn/ii /ij.t;!' I)

and Indianapolis. If found necessary
later it may also be represented at otiici-
points.

It is proposed that the paid-in capital
of the company be sufficient not only
to show adequate financial responsibili-
ty, but have adequate operating capital
to handle the grain of members. If
coarse grain territory other than Illi-
nois shall desire to use the facilities of
Mid-West Corporation opportunity will
be afforded such other organizations.
Seven on Board

The new company has a board of
directors of seven members chosen from
the board of directors of the Illinois
Grain Corporation. These directors arc
as follows: Lyle Johnstone, Blooming-
ton; J. C. Sailor, Cissna Park; John P.
Stout, Chatham; E. E. Stevenson, Ran-
som; Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut; Charles
Schmidt, Beason; B. L. Baird, Williams-
field.

"Developments in the Soybean Mar-
keting Association" will be the subject
of a radio address by Manager J. H.
Lloyd from station WENR, Chicago,
at 7:30 P. M. on Sept. 2.

Mid- West Grain Corp.

Hires General Manager

Has More Than 20 Years' Success-
ful Experience in Grain Business

CHARLES P. CUMMINGS of Pitts-
ficld, Illinois, chief grain buyer for
the M. D. King Milling Company, soft
wheat millers at that city, was em-
ployed recent!)' as general manager of
the Mid-^X'est Grain Corporation, sub-
sidiary sales agency of the Illinois Grain
Corporation. Action toward the em-
ployment of Mr. Cummings, who has
had more than 20 years of successful
experience in the grain business, was
taken at the meeting of the board of
directors in Bloomington on August 6.

Knows Elevator Problems

Mr. Cummings has had country mill
and elevator experience, brokerage ex-
perience, as well as terminal market ex-
perience both at Kansas City and St.
Louis. Letters received from responsi-
ble parties both in his home town and
at the St. Louis and Chicago markets,
highly recommend Cummings and
testify to his reputation for good judg-
ment and business integrity

One prominent St. Louis grain firm
states: "Mr. Cummings is a very close
student of all conditions entering the
grain business, and I consider him one
of the outstanding grain men in this
section of the country. He is very
capable, trustworthy and efficient."

Chief Grain Buyer

During recent \ears Cummings has
iield tiie re>.ponsible position of chief
grain buyer for the King Co., wl«ch
owns and controls a substantial num-
ber of country elevators in southwest-
ern Illinois. (Cummings has had the
supcrvi'.ion of the latter so he knows
the problems ot the country elevator.

He has had experience in buving
grain on the floor of the St. Louis Ex-
change, lor more than a year he served
the U. S. Go\crnment after passing the
Civil Service examination,, as federal
grain supervisor, and during the war
he was associated in government ser-
vice with J. M. Chilton, now employed
b\ the Farmers' National Cjrain Cor-
poration.

Mr. Cummings has a wife and three
children. Headquarters of the Mid-
West Grain Corporation will be estab-
lished in Chicago. Mr. Cummings will
assume his new duties as soon as he can
make the necessary arrangements to
leave his work and interests at Pitts-
field. Service to member elevators and
those applying for membership will be
developed rapidly following his coming.

THE I, A. A. RECORD

Page Five

Farm Board News

"I

I
f

!

RETURNING to >X'asliinston re-
cently from a trip through the
grain states. Chairman Alexander Legge
of the Farm Board summoned news-
paper men as reported by tlie Time
maga/inc, and declared that "The farm
board was created to assist the farmer
and not for politics. From now until
November politicians will be so busy
saving the farmer, it might be just as
well to take a vacation.

"I notice the Democratic National
Committee has adopted as a slogan 'the
failure of the Farm Board.' This seems
to be copied almost word for word
from the grain dealers and the Cham-
ber of Commerce of the United States.

"Certain interests [he meant the
grain brokers] which seem to feel they
have a God-given right to handle the
products of the farmers, and who have
accumulated immense fortunes in doing
so doubtless will be easy picking

for any politician of any party who is
willing to play their game.

"However, farmers as a class
seem to be aware that their present un-
happy condition is a result of long years
of unregulated production, while they
listened to gigantic schemes that high-
powered statesmen have had to offer.

"Present and future orations to

broadcast the alleged failures of the
Farm Board are only more of the same
kind of political bunk. . "

"Pulmotor"

Asked if the Farm Board would buy
more wheat now as senators from Kan-
sas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Okla-
homa were asking. Chairman Legge
replied "No, stabilization will work
admirably on seasonal surpluses but it
can't be made to work on permanent
cumulative surpluses. To buy 100,-
000,000 bu. of wheat would only en-
courage Kansas farmers to plant more
.tnd make a bad situation worse. We
can apply a pulmotor and give tem-
porary aid, but we're looking for a more
permanent remedy."

No Skirts for Legge

Someone suggested that he ought to
report his findings to President Hoover.
Mr. Lcgge's eyes narrowed sharply as he
replied: "The Farm Board isn't going to
hide behind the President's skirts. If
he wants to sec me he knows where to
lind me. Business is going on as usual."

Italy has a tall new tariff to keep
out wheat. Likewise France, where
wheat last week was selling at $1.71
per bu. Advanced by idealists has been
the idea that the Farm Board donate
its heavy wheat holdings to famine-
stricken China, but practical-minded

C. p. Ciininiini;*

Mr. Legge declares: "We've no au-
thority to give an}T:hing away, to China
or any other country. I've dis-

cussed these proposals with President
Hoover, but no solution has been
found. "

^X'hether Chairman Legge thought it
was "bunk" or not, the wheat surplus
last week continued to brew strong
politics. Republican senators criticized
the board for its "do-nothing" policy.
There was talk that Senator Borah of
Idaho who last week was ordered to
northern Maine for a month's rest by
his physician would take the stump this
autumn in the northwest against the
Farm Board and the administration's
farm, relief program.

The Board's Year

In its first year (ended June 30) the
Farm Board advanced S 195,000,000 of
the S2 5 0,000,000 appropriated by Con-
gress to co-operatives and stabilization
corporations. Of this sum $40,000,-
000 had been repaid up to last week.

Six national co-operative selling
agencies, borrowing from the board,
have been established:

1 ) Farmers National Grain Corp., of
Chicago; Clarence Elmer Huff, presi-
dent. F. N. G. C. sells wheat for
members or loans them 8 5'^( of the
spot price. Last week it said it was
handling one-third of all wheat through
Kansas City, predicted it would handle
half the U. S. crop next year, claimed
that in the foreign field it was alrcad\'
the world's biggest factor.

2) American Cotton Co-Operative
Association of New Orleans; Allen
Northington, president. Estimated
membership, 200,000 planters.

3) National Wool Marketing Corp.
of Boston. This agency handled about
UV f of the clipped wool last year,
plans to handle 30^t this year.

4) National Bean Marketing .Associa-
tion of Oxnard, Calif.; Ralph Logan
Churchill, president.

5) National Live Stock .\Lirkcting
Association of Chicago; C. A. Ewing,
president.

6) National Pecan Marketing Asso-
ciation of Brownwood, Tex.; Henry
Gaillard Lucas, president.

Next week a seventh national co-
operative is expected to be formed when
beet sugar producers from 17 states
meet at Greeley, Col.

Two stabilization corporations to buy
and sell commodities in the open mar-
ket now exist:

1) Grain Stabilization Corp.; George
S. Milnor, general manager. This agen-
cy bought and now holds for the Farm
Board 69,000,000 bu. of wheat.

2) Cotton Stabilization Corp.; I..
! itzgerald Creekmore, general manager.
This agency at a heavy loss took over
1,000,000 bales of 1929 cotton from
the national co-operative.

The live stock co-operative does its
own bu\ing and selling. The wool as-
sociation trades through DrajKr & Co.
of Boston. The bean and pecan or-
ganizations are still developing their
marketing system.

Though no national co-opcrativcs
have yet been formed, for handling
dairy products, tobacco, potatoes, ap-
ples, rice, fruits and vegetables, honcv,
poultry and eggs, grapes and raisins,
sour cherries, the Farm Board has done
business with local marketing associa-
tions.

Authorize Investment

Tiic purchase by the 1. A. A. of
SI 0,000 worth of class A preferred
stock in the Illinois Grain Corporation
was authorized at the last meeting of
the board of directors on July 22 in
Chicago. Further action was taken au-
thorizing the officers to loan $15,000
of the organization's funds when se-
cured by collateral now held by or to
be acquired by the Illinois Grain (Cor-
poration. Money so obtained will be
used by the new grain co-operative for
capital purposes.

Marketing Tomatoes

The surplus tomato crop about .Ster-
ling in ^X'hitcside county produced b\'
members of the Sterling \'egetablc
Growers' Association, will be handled
by the Illinois Fruit Growers' Ex-
change during the current season, ac-
cording to a recent announcement bv
Manager A. B. Leepcr.

This association recently affiliated
with the Fruit Growers' Exchange in
handling carlot ^.hipmenis.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Roadside Marketing

Needs Organization

Tom Delohery Urges Farmer to
Consumer Direct Selling

i-

!■■ '

cCTpHE time has come when organi-
■*- zatton is necessary not only to
future growth but to the future protection
of the business of roadside marketing
by real farmers," according to Tom
Delohery, editor and publisher of "The
Farmer- Salesman," a new periodical
published at the Exchange Bldg., U. S.
Yards, Chicago, in the interest of
farmer-to-consumer-direct marketing.
"Roadside marketing is a farmer's proj-
ect," he says, "so is selling farm eggs,
but there are, I believe, more non-
farmers than farmers selling at roadside
markets, and the hucksters, being good
salesmen, are harvesting many dollars,
but at the same time are wrecking the
chances of the honest individual farmer.
"In Cook county, for instance, I be-
lieve there are as many hucksters as
there are farmer-owned roadside stands.
They are here today and gone tomor-
row. The customer gets stung and
leaves off buying in the country. He
knows his corner storeman is honest
even though his stuff may not be of as
good quality and prices higher.

More Competition

"Moreover, the surplus producing
areas of fruits and vegetables, for in-
stance, are shipping to all big and small
cities. Knowing it doesn't pay to ship
poor quality, they grade and ship the
best. The nearby farmer hauls in
everything and takes what he can get.
At the same time the good roads he
asked for years ago, and got recently,
have been stretched out into the coun-
try so that other districts which didn't
produce these crops now can do so and
shoot them in by fast trucks. More
and more competition; but as one man
expressed it, 'while the trucks are go-
ing in to provide competition, private
families are riding out in the country
where they will buy if the farmer had
enough sense to sell them.'

Need High Standards

"The co-operation I can see is in
buying supplies. Small item, but a big
one in the end. Most of all, however,
is the association sign, which with
proper publicity, will tell the customer
that members of the organization put
up only the best, and that they stand
back of the guarantee as to quality as
impHed by the insignia.

"This thing has been done in other
sections with good results. County
agents, for the most part, have been
sponsors of the idea, although business
men, recognizing the plight of the

State Dairymen

Hope to Ban Oleo

State Institutions Urged to Use

Butter and Help Farmer

Taxpayers

W. S. O'HnIr

farmer, have taken a hand.

"Other county agents believe their
job marketing, but when figures show
that roadside markets, for instance,
add from 2 5 to 200 and 300 per cent
above wholesale to the growers' income,
it seems to me that the job of produc-
tion ought to be shared with the job of
teaching and boosting marketing.
Every town of 5,000 and over has room
for such markets; every town which
buys any of its farm products outside
afford local farmers the opportunity of
a sideline that will pay him well with
no extra labor. This has been proven;
it is not my personal contention.

"The idea of the Farmer-Salesman is
to pass along to other farmers the ideas
and practices which have worked suc-
cessfully for others. Like many other
things, it takes a life-time to learn this
or that; whereas, one man may have
found it out years before.

"The big income is from local trade
driving out to the stands or farms.
They do it around Chicago; will do it
other places and there seems no limit
to the variety of things people will
buy."

Minutes More Prompdy

As a result of action taken by the
I. A. A. board of directors in its July
meeting. County Farm Bureaus will be
supplied hereafter with a preliminary
report of the proceedings of each board
meeting at the same time members of
the board are furnished this informa-
tion.

Heretofore the sending out of the
minutes of board meetings has been
delayed until after their approval at the
following meeting of the board. It is
understood that such preliminary re-
ports will be subject to later approval.

WS. O'HAIR, president of the
• lUinois State Dairymen's As-
sociation, reports progress in that or-
ganization's efforts to influence the
state institutions of Illinois to use but-
ter rather than oleomargarine in their
dining rooms. According to a recent
statement by Rodney Brandon, director
of the Department of Public Welfare,
state institutions are using approxi-
mately 1,000,000 lbs. of oleomargarine
annually. The Soldiers' Home at Dan-
ville, Illinois, which until recently used
about 25,000 lbs. of margarine a year,
is now using butter instead.

"We are putting on an educational
campaign in several counties with the
farmers, grocers and business men,"
writes Mr. O'Hair. "And in several
towns the grocers are putting butter
up as a leader, leaving off oleomargarine.
This is being tried out for a period of
four months.

Oleo Worst Enemy

"Oleomargarine is the worst enemy
American agriculture has today," con-
tinued Mr. O'Hair. "It is being sold
from 9 to 22 cents a pound to cus-
tomers over our entire country. Chain
stores are selling it and forcing the
home merchants to sell it from 1 to 3
cents profit, while in many places, the
most popular chain stores are not sell-
ing butter at all.

"Investigations we have made since
January 1 reveal that farmers are using
better than JO per cent of the oleomar-
garine sold in Illinois. Our whole milk
producers are the chief users of oleo.
In one whole milk district alone I was
told that 90 per cent of the families
are using oleomargarine and cooking
oils, in spite of the fact that their milk
had gone down over $1 a hundred.

"The Soldiers' Home in Danville is
using 60,000 lbs. of oleomargarine, and
the state of Illinois is buying a million
pounds of the cheap 9 cents a pound
margarine to feed the unfortunates in
the state institutions. i

Dairy Cattle Slaughtered

"Oleomargarine, forcing down the
price of butterfat, has caused millions
of dollars worth of dairy cattle to be
slaughtered, and this meat, providing
cheap beef, coming in competition with
the cattle feeders, has assisted in under-
mining their business. The foreign
vegetable oils manufactured into cook-
ing oils have damaged the hog market
Continutd on page 10, col. 3)

I

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Seven

Farmers National

Grain Corporation

Now Doing Business on All
Domestic Markets

better than ever before and we don't
think the time is very far in the future
when all farmers will co-operate, not
only in marketing but in production."

FARMERS' National Grain Corpora-
tion's nation-wide merchandising
organization practically was completed
with the purchase of the Quinn-Shep-
herdson grain firm at Minneapolis and
the establishment of regional head-
quarters for the spring wheat territory
at St. Paul, Minn., declares a recent
statement from the national organiza-
tion. Branch offices also will be main-
tained at Minneapolis and Duluth,
Minn., and Great Falls, Mont. The
district manager is H. F. Shepherdson,
formerly president of the Quinn-Shep-
herdson Company, which henceforth
will be operated under the name of
Farmers' National Grain Corporation.

Closing of the Quinn-Shepherdson
transaction was anounced on July 26.
Thus one year to a day from its birth
Farmers' National Grain Corporation
not only was established and doing
business on all domestic markets but
was in contact with buyers of grain in
a score of foreign countries — or more.
For the first time in history the Amer-
ican grain producer was in actual con-
trol, through his own organization of a
world-wide co-operative grain market-
ing system.

Co-Operative Benefits

Under the date of July 21, the Union
Equity Co-Op. Exchange, of Enid,
Okla., a Farmers' National stockholder,
writes:

"We have today checked our records
and find that one year ago today we
sold wheat at 8^ cents per bushel un-
der Chicago September options, basis
No. 1 hard Galveston. Today we are
selling wheat at 4 cents over Chicago
September basis No. 1 hard Galveston,
making a total difference of 12/4 cents
per bushel. We are getting more to-
day compared to Chicago September
options than we were a year ago.

"We say the farmer's attitude toward
holding his wheat back on the farm has
had a lot to do with this. He has
helped himself in another way, by and
through his organization. The state
sales agencies and pools have done their
part, and Farmers' National Grain Cor-
poration has done its part, and last but
not least, the Federal Farm Board has
done its part, by assisting the co-oper-
atives in a financial way as well as by
taking sixty to seventy million bushels
of last year's crop out of the way."

"We believe if it were not for the
co-operative effort the farmers would
be selling their wheat today at 50 cents
a bushel. The farmers are co-operating

Soybean Marketing Assn.

AT the last meeting of the execu-
tive committee of the Soybean
Marketing Association, the Illinois Ag.-
ricultural Association was requested to
provide management service for the
soybean co-operative. The provisions
of the agreement provide for compen-
sation of $480 for the first year, pay-
able in 12 equal instalments of $40
each. The contract embodies also the
following principles:

"(A) That the management, at all
times, act only within the policies
adopted by the board of directors of
Soybean Marketing Association;

"(B) That the personnel provided
for actively administering the affairs of
the association, be subject to the ap-
proval of the board of directors of Soy-
bean Marketing Association; and

" (C) That all expenditures made or
authorized by the management be with-
in a budget authorized and approved
by the board of directors of the Soy-
bean Marketing Association."

Inasmuch as the Soybean Marketing
Association will have no income to de-
fray expenses and pay its new manager,
J. H. Lloyd, until the crop is sold, the
directors authorized that $2,500 be ad-
vanced to the Soybean Marketing As-
sociation pending such time as the
organization has funds.

Kewanee Business Men

Repudiate U. S. Chamber

Express Confidence in Farm Board
and Hoover

Wool Marketing

Approximately 221,000 lbs. of wool
have been consigned from Illinois to
the National Wool Marketing Corpora-
tion, according to figures compiled by
Ray Miller, director of live stock mar-
keting, the latter part of July. This
represents 13 carloads from 18 counties.
Checks representing advance payment
of 18 cents per lb. were mailed from
Boston on July 18.

A plan to set up an Illinois Wool
Marketing Corporation next year is
now under consideration by the mar-
keting committee. It is contemplated
that such an organization will serve as
a regional for Illinois. Five hundred
thousand pounds of wool must be con-
tracted for in order to qualify as a
regional. • i

Action was taken at the July meet-
ing of the I. A. A. Board to refer to
the committee on program the proposal
made by delegates to the recent 15 th
congressional district Farm \ Bureau
meeting that a discussion of

A RESOLUTION passed by the Ke-
wanee Chamber of Commerce at
Kewanee, Illinois, relative to the action
of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce in
its last annual convention at Washing-
ton declares that:

"WHEREAS, at the last annual
meeting of the Chamber of Com-
merce of the United States, its ac-
tion with respect to the f>olicies of
the Federal Farm Board and mar-
keting act created a situation of dis-
agreement that we believe was both
undesirable and unnecessary; and
"WHEREAS, we feel that we can
place confidence in the Federal Farm
Board and may rely upon it and
upon President Hoover's sincerity
and open-mindedness to the end
that they will not continue any pol-
icy that proves itself inadequate for
agriculture or injurious to the best
interests of the people of our coun-
try as a whole;
"THEREFORE, we feel that the
Federal Farm Board should receive
through the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States the co-opera-
tion of finance, business and indus-
try as well as agriculture to the
end that its iK>licies may be given
a fair trial.
"BE IT RESOLVED, THEREFORE,
that we dissociate ourselves from
the action taken by the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States and
that we express to the Federal Farm
Board our desire to be helpful to
them and to agriculture, state-wide
and locally;
"BE IT RESOLVED FURTHER,
that the copy of these resolutions
be mailed to the Chamber of Com-
merce of the United States, to the
Federal Farm Board and to state
and local agricultural agencies."
Following the reading of the resolu-
tion at its meeting on July 22 the I.
A. A. Board passed a motion that the
resolution be received and spread upon
the minutes of this meeting and that
the secretary be authorized to address a
communication to the Kewanee Cham-
ber of Commerce, expressing apprecia-
tion for the action taken.

ismess

As a result of a recent act passed by
congress, patents will be granted breed-
ers who develop a new plant, agricul-
tural or otherwise.

Administration" be included on the
program of the next annual I. A. A.
convention.

Pdlje Eight

THE I. A. A. RECORD

I LiLilNOIS

CCLTVBAL ASSOCIA

RECORiy

To advance the purpote for which the Farm Bureau was organized,
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political,
and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation,
and to develop agriculture.

Editor, George Thiem

Published once a month by the Illinois Agricultural Association,
at 124 So. Fifth St., Marshall, 111. Adress all communications for publi-
cation to Editorial Office, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. Entered as
second-class matter June 16, 1930, at the post office at Marshall, 111.,
under the Act of March 3, 1879. Accepted for mailing at special rate of
postage provided for in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized
Oct. 27, 1925. The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural
Association is five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty cents
for subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Association Record. Post-
master: In returning an uncalled for missent copy please indicate key
number on address as is required by law.

OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vice-President, A. R Wright Varna

Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger..

-Chicago

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles _ Bloomington

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

(By Congressional District)

H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

„_ G. F. Tullock, Rockford

: C. E. Bamborough, Polo

-M. G. Lambert, Ferris

1st to nth..
12th..

13th

14th..._

ISth..--

16th..

A. N. Skinner, Yates City

Geo. B. MuUer, Washington

1 7th. Geo. J. StoU, Chestnut

1 8th _^ W. A. Dennis, Paris

19th _ - C. J. Gross, Atwood

20th. _ Charles S. Black, Jacksonville

21st _ - Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

22nd _ _ Frank Oexner, Waterloo

23rd. _ W. L. Cope, Salem

24th..
25th..

Comptroller

Dairy Marketing..
Finance.-

DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS

-Fred Dietz, De Soto

-J. H. Kelker

A. D. Lynch

R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper

Grain Marketing '. _ _.Harrison Fahrnkopf

Information -...George Thiem

Insurance Service - V. Vaniman

Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick

Limestone- Phosphate. — J. R Bent

Live Stock MarkettHi Ray E. Miller

Office C. E. Johnston

Organization G. E. Metzger

Produce Marketing — F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics. - — — , J. C. Watson

Transportatipn - _ L. J. Quasey

ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS

Country Life Insurance Co L. A. Williams, Mgr.

Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co._ J. H. Kelker, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives Ass'n F. E. Ringham, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co A. E. Richardson, Mgr.

Illinois Farm Supply Co L. R. Marchant, Mgr.

The Milk Commission Report

A MORE intelligent, fair, and enlightening re-
port of the milk situation at the St, Louis
market, than that of the Consumers' Milk Ccm-
mission, could scarcely have been written.

Three prominent, public-spirited St. Louis club
woinen representing the consumers of that city
carried on a careful investigation of market con-
ditions lasting for several months. They heard
testimony of both producers and distributors,
drove out into the country to examine dairies,
saw how women and children frequently con-
tributed their labor in milking and tending the
COWS, learned how unfairly the 13c per quart
they paid was distributed between the farmers
and the dealers, reported what they saw and
heard.

A few large distributors handling 85 per cent
of the milk consumed in St. Louis on which they
set the price both to the producer and consumer.

Nearly twelve thousand farmers supplying this
milk, each disposing of it separately with little or
no voice in its sale, and accepting the weights and
tests handed down by the buyers. These are some
of the interesting disclosures in the report.

What they saw so impressed these women, im-
bued with a sense of fair play and justice, that
they wrote: "It is hardly to be wondered at that
a feeling of dissatisfaction has pervaded the pro-
ducers, and that in spite of the diflSculties in the
way of co-operation, efforts have been made to
unite and improve their conditions, with the
result that the Sanitary Milk Producers Associa-
tion, Inc., includes as members more than half
the milk producers in the district."

The St. Louis milk situation finally culminated
in the recognition by the dealers of the producers
organization. The influence of the consumer
representatives in bringing about an amicable
settlement is not underestimated. Producers can
usually count on fair play from the consuming
public once it knows the facts.

Wealth and Cities

npHE old Fine Arts Building of Chicago World's
Fair fame situated near Lake Michigan in
Jackson Park is being restored as an industrial
museum. We have watched with interest for
several months the dismantling of the temporary
parts of the structure, and more recently its
beautification as the smooth white limestone
blocks rise one by one to cover the old but still
substantial brick walls. ' •. i ■- - . . '

Two million dollars, we are told, has been
donated by a Chicago millionaire to remodel the
building. The donor is a well known philan-
thropist who made his money selling goods to
farmers through mail-order catalogues.

Whether or not that money could be spent
more wisely in relieving human suffering, re-
ducing poverty and ignorance is not for us to
say. We point to this worthy gift as an illus-
tration of how money is being drained out of
the farming communities and concentrated in
the centers of population. - :, . . ;• j - •

In this case the mail order patrons undoubtedly
received full value for their money. The com-
pany and its builders prospered not by profiteer-
ing but through large sales volume, quick turn-
over, and small margins of profit. Nevertheless,
much of the wealth created in the country by
the farmer's toil is going to build fortunes, monu-
ments, skyscrapers in cities which many seldom
or perhaps never see.

We would not use this fact as an argument
against the chain store retailers for in many in-

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Nine

stances they are enabling the farmer to buy more
necessities for less cash and so leave something
for comforts or perhaps luxuries on the farm.
We do call attention, however, to the justice of
giving the country its rightful share of philan-
thropies in the form of schools, libraries, hospitals,
roads, monuments, museums and the like.

There is no reason why we as farmers should
not request that a portion of such distributions
be invested in projects for our edification and
welfare. Very little has been done in this direc-
tion. The fault may be largely our own for not
going after the money.

tt

Muster Day** Program

^^BSER VANCE of a Muster Day program by
the Farm Bureaus in every rural community
in America is advocated by the American Farm
Bureau Federation in a special "Muster Day Proc-
lamation" issued recently by President Sam H.
Thompson. -V - i> : /:^: •/ . ^

The proclamation signed by Mr. Thompson and
Secretary Winder sets forth that:

WHEREAS, the farm people of the United
States have formed a mighty organization —
the Farm Bureau — designed to improve the
economic position of agriculture and to ad-
vance the social conditions of rural America,
and
'' WHEREAS, agriculture is the basic indus-
try of this country upon which, to a large
extent, rests national prosperity, and

WHEREAS, the far-flung units of this
mighty army of organized agriculture are to-
day engaged in dealing with the specific phases
of the farm problems that are locally empha-
sized. However, the strength and power of
the organization lies in its breadth and scope,
in the fact that dairymen in New England,
cattle feeders in Iowa, cotton planters in Ala-
bama, join with orange growers in California
in the common cause of defending the welfare
of agriculture, ^ -: /;

IT IS. THEREFORE, proper that there be'
opportunity to take stock of the strength of
the entire organization; it is well that occasion
be found for mustering the entire force of
the Farm Bureau — for each member to the
man "to toe the mark" so that from coast to
coast organized agriculture may present its
unbroken phalanx of men and women pledged
to secure and to maintain through orderly or-
ganized effort the well being of the farm and
the farm home.

THEREFORE, it is urgently recommended

that State Farm Bureau Federations and
County Farm Bureaus join in organizing and
holding during the month of . September a
Muster Day program in each rural community
within each county. .i*- ;- .\... . Ct-. . -

FURTHER, it is urgently recommended
that the community Muster Day program. Us
outlined by the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration, he followed as closely as local condi-
tions will permit.

In conducting a Muster Day program the
organized farmers of 1930 will be following a
practice common to Colonial days in America.
In those early times, each year one day was set
aside for Muster Day. On that day all men —
farmers — of military age gathered at an assem-
bly point to discuss problems of common de-
fense and to receive military instructions that
would enable them to defend from Indians
and enemy their farms and their farm homes.

One phase of Colonial Muster Day was the
enrolling of the young men who had reached
the military age during the twelve months
just passed. ; ^ ::p . %. ..!..

Following this same idea it is proposed that
the farm men and women of the Farm Bureau
shall set aside one day in September of this year
and on that day they shall assemble in com-
munity groups to carry out the Muster Day
program, to take stock of the organization's
strength, and to reaffirm faith and loyalty in
Farm Bureau, and

IT IS FURTHER purposed, that each Mus-
ter Day exercise shall present opportunity to
permit non-members to enroll in this great
effort and promote the well-being of the
farm people.

All officers, state and county, community
leaders and members are urged to support and
sponsor to the limit of their ability the Muster
Day program to the end that this September
Farm Bureau demonstration may build mem-
bership, increase loyalty and impress the
nation.

The Cover ''

Our artist, Fred Good, presents on the front cover a
sketch of the Indian Head which nature has carved in the
limestone bluffs about three miles north of Savanna along
the Mississippi in Carroll county, Illinois.

The Indian Head trail up the Mississippi to St. Paul and
Minneapolis got its name from this natural curiosity. The
trail is being paved and before long tourists may travel the
entire length of the state on smooth roads bordering the
father of waters. The editor will welcome pictures or
letters telling about other imusual points of interest in Illi-
nois, historical or otherwise, that might be suitable for
similar sketches. -. , .,i ..,., ,

Page Ten

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Public Relations

I Committee Reports

John Watson Studies Proposed
Revenue Amendment

THE official report of the public re-
lations committee of the I. A. A.
Board, which met on July 22, was pre-
sented to the directors on the follow-
ing day by Chairman Black. The re-
port is as follows:

"Your committee met on July 21,
1930. Those present included all mem-
bers of the committee, the officers of
the association, the director of the De-
partment of Taxation, and by invita-
tion, Mrs. Homer Johnson, chairman of
the legislative committee of the Illinois
Home Bureau Federation.

"Mr. Watson reported the results to
date of his study and analysis of the
proposed revenue amendment to the
state constitution recently submitted to
the electors of the state by the special
session of the General Assembly. His
report shows that the proposed amend-
ment embodies some provisions which
have been advocated for years by the
association, but also contains other pro-
visions that might easily prevent farm
and tangible property from obtaining
any substantial relief from the present
grossly unfair burden of taxation, and
that seem to offer the possibility of seri-
ously jeopardizing some of the protec-
tion property taxpayers have under the
present constitution.

"Your committee has requested the
officers of the association ' and the di-
rector of the Department of Taxation
to give intensive study to these provi-
sions and report to the committee their
analysis and findings as a result of this
study, supported by legal opinion. Un-
til your committee can receive and
carefully consider this further report,
it recommends that the association
withhold any declaration of its attitude
toward the proposed amendment.

"By the Committee,
, "Charles Black, Chairman,
"C. J. Gross, »

"Geo. B. Muller,
"G. H. Iftner, Farm Adviser."

John C. Watson, director of taxa-
tion, appeared before the board and re-
ported, orally, the results to date of his
study and analysis of the proposed
amendment to the state constitution.
The president and treasurer supple-
mented his report by advising the board
relative to the developments in Spring-
field, leading up to the submission of
the proposed amendment to the electors
of the state by the special session of
the General Assembly.
\ After considerable discussion it was

moved by Chairman Black, seconded
and unanimously carried:

"That the board of directors concur
in the report of the public relations
committee, in that, pending further
study and consideration of the analysis
of the proposed amendment to the
state constitution, the association with-
hold any declaration of its attitude to-
ward the proposed amendment."

Further Progress in

National Grain Corp.

Co-Operative Helps Relieve Wheat
Congestion in Southwest

"Station Agents Must

Stay on Job" — I. C. C.

FARMERS and townspeople in and
about Richardson, Virgil and Egan
in northern Illinois will not be deprived
of station agent service as a result of
action taken by the Illinois Commerce
Commission, July 9, denying petitions
of the Chicago Great Western Railway
Company.

The company had petitioned to dis-
continue station agents at these points.
The Kane County Farm Bureau secured
the co-operation of the I. A. A. trans-
portation department in presenting
testimony through local witnesses show-
ing why the agents should not be re-
moved. These stations are of consider-
able importance to the community.

It was revealed that the railroad's
revenues at these points far exceed their
expenditures in maintaining local agents.
Shipments are made throughout the
year, and great inconvenience and
financial loss to local residents and ship-
pers would result if they were made
non-agent stations.

The Big Four Railroad will be com-
pelled to maintain its agency at Ver-
milion Grove, according to a decision
of the Illinois Commerce Commission
on July 17.

The I. A. A. helped the Vermilion
County Farm Bureau oppose the pro-
posal of the Big Four Railroad to dis-
continue the agency at the Vermilion
Grove station. Farm Bureau members
testified before the commission tending
to show that the removal of the agency
would work a hardship on local shippers.

Home Bureau

Mrs. Homer Johnson, chairman of
the legislative committee of the Illinois
Home Bureau Federation, met with the
I. A. A. board of directors at its regu-
lar meeting on July 22 in Chicago.

Near the close of the meeting Mrs.
Johnson briefly explained the orgaifiza-
tion of the Home Bureau and its pro-
gram of work, expressing the hope that
some arrangement might be effected
whereby the Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation can more actively assist the
women of Illinois in their work.

GRAIN purchases by the Farmers'
National Grain Corporation dur-
ing July, the first month of the new
crop year, totaled 17,121,718 bushels.
Activities have not been confined to
wheat, the corporation handling corn,
oats and barley. Figures on the total
grain purchases do not include large
quantities of wheat stored by members
to be sold through Farmers' National at
such times as the member-owners of the
grain wish to place it on the market.

Thirty-two per cent, or nearly one-
third, of the total wheat receipts at
Kansas City during July, was handled
by members of the Farmers' National.
Branch offices at Omaha, Neb., Enid,
Okla., and Wichita, Kan., also d'd a

(Continued on page 15)

Dairymen Ban Oleo

(Continued from page 6)

more than any other single factor.

"A one-cent drop in butterfat means
a $100 loss to the producers in an aver-
age county in Illinois. The drop in
butterfat prices, the first of this year,
resulted in a loss of $1,000 to $1,J00
a day, or $30,000 to $45,000 a month
to the average county in Illinois.

"The average county in Illinois is
spending $15,000 a month or more
for oleo. This would run from $50,000
to $75,000 loss that should be in the
bank deposits each month, in the aver-
age Illinois county.

"After my investigations, we called
together 15 farm advisers from coun-
ties in eastern Illinois and organized the
Illinois State Dairy Boosters' Associa-
tion with Melvin Thomas of Coles
county, president; Herschel VanMatre
of Edgar county, secretary, and R. E.
Apple of Clark county, treasurer.

"Throughout this area we are work-
ing to promote the use of butter in-
stead of oleo both on the farm and in
town and city. We are asking the
people to buy home products, patronize
home industry, and quit eating the
vegetable oils imported from foreign
countries, in most cases free of duty,
to undermine the farmer's business.
We hope to extend our campaign to 15
to 20 other counties this fall."

The Illinois Agricultural Association
has been using its influence since the
first of the year over the radio and
through other publicity channels, first
to get farmers to ban oleo from their
tables, and secondly to promote greater
consumption of butter in towns and
cities. <v:". -"'y-^' r i ■

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Eleven

ILLINOIS farmers who have not trav-
eled westward over the extensive
prairies and plains between here and the
Rockies have no conception of the tre-
mendous competition they are receiving
in the production of staple crops from
their western neighbors.

The writer recently completed a
4,200-mile drive through the states of
Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyo-
ming, Montana, North Dakota and
Minnesota. One of the most impres-
sive revelations to us was the apparent
monumental error of our federal gov-
ernment during past decades in under-
mining corn belt agriculture first by
its extensive reclamation projects like
that of the great Shoshone Dam near
Cody, Wyoming, which waters more
than a quarter of a million acres of
arid lands to the east; secondly, by its
free-land and homesteading policy as a
result of which literally millions of
acres of splendid semi-arid grazing
lands where buffalo, cattle and sheep
once ranged, have been brought under
the plow by settlers who barely eke
out an existence producing wheat, bar-
ley, flax, oats and corn.

Many of these western dry-landers
live in one-room shacks, log cabins or
sod houses. Their land cost them little
or nothing, frequently it produces little
or nothing, but enough grain, flax and
other produce are sold one year with
another to finance a low standard of
living and continue the precarious ex-
istence common to the area.

It is true that hundreds of these
homesteaders in western South Dakota,
Wyoming and Montana have abandoned
their dry, rocky, poor-yielding quarter
sections, but thousands of others en-
dowed with greater tenacity and re-
sourcefulness, or perhaps able to take
more punishment, have held on. Most
of these dry landers we learned from
careful inquiry accumulate little to pay
them for their unremitting toil, but
they do produce enough to create a sur-
plus and spoil the business of farming
for Illinois, Iowa and other cornbelt
farmers. : — .. >

The opening of the Assiniboine In-
dian Reservation in north central Mon-
tana to homesteaders back in 1909 is
a typical example of the western de-
velopment sponsored by our govern-
ment, which now is attempting to solve
the problem it was instrumental in cre-
ating. Settlers from the east and

middle west flocked in, built shacks on
nearly every quarter section, plowed up
the native grasses, and started "farm-
ing." Many learned that they coiJdn't
succeed in making a living with only
10 to 12 inches of rainfall annually, let
alone accumulate a competence for the
future. And so the plains are dotted
with abandoned huts, although others
more fortunately situated, or hardier,
continue to carry on waiting for the
unusual year, which seldom comes,
when nature will yield abundantly.

This description of agriculture on the
great western plains does not reflect
conditions in all sections. There are
localities like the Judith Basin around
I.ewistown, and the sweeping areas
south and east of Great Falls, Montana,
where excellent low cost wheat is pro-
duced in great quantities on dry land
farms. Here one crop every two years
is the rule. Yields run as high as 50
to 60 bushels of wheat per acre in fa-
vorable years and even this year, a dry
one throughout the west, 20 to 30
bushel yields are being reported.

Crop acreage reduction for Middle
West wheat growers advocated by the
government might strike a more sym-
pathetic chord if accompanied by a
statement from Washington that all
land reclamation, irrigation and new
development projects had been discon-
tinued indefinitely, and that some con-
structive effort was being made to re-
move part of our great areas of mar-
ginal lands from production.

— E. G. T.

Earl C. Smith at Home

EARL C. SMITH, president of the
Illinois Agricultural Association,
who had a serious operation for the re-
moval of his tonsils and other sources
of infection the latter part of July in
Chicago, is recuperating and gaining
strength at his home in Pike county.

During the operation an unexpected
source of infection was discovered deep
down in the throat close to a large
blood vessel. The operation was fol-
lowed by severe hemorrhages which ne-
cessitated a prompt blood transfusion to
mitigate the danger from heavy losses
of blood. For several weeks he re-
mained at the Beaumont Nursing Home
on North Michigan Blvd., Chicago, in
care of a trained nurse. Mrs. Smith was
with him before the operation and
during the period of convalescence.

A. R. Wright of Varna, vice-presi-
dent of the association, in the mean-
time kept an eye on the many develop-
ments in the varioxis projects of the
organization at the I. A. A. offices.

Scores of letters, telegrams, telephone

KEEPING WELL

By Dr. John A. Boland

AS children we recall, with rather
painful memories, the ever recur-
ring toothache. No home was complete
without the "toothache drops." With
the first indication of toothache, we
were dosed with the ever-present drops.
Finally, after several toothaches and the
toothache medicine failed to relieve the
symptoms, we were taken to the dentist
and as a rule extraction of the offend-
ing member was necessary.

Contrast the foregoing procedure
with the ideal program. The child
should visit the dentist as soon as his
baby teeth are erupted. That is a short
time after his second birthday. Only
in exceptional cases will he require ac-
tual dental work.

The first visit is to allow the child
to become acquainted with the dentist
and dental surroundings. Do not wait
until the child has a toothache to take
him to the dentist. His first visit
should never be associated with pain.
Our early impressions are usually life-
long. An analysis of fears of adults
shows in many cases that fears have
their origin in painful experiences in
early life. Thus in later life teeth have
been neglected and lost through fear
of the dentist, acquired in early child-
hood.

The first visit gives the dentist an
opportunity to gain the confidence and
educate the parent regarding tooth
problems. He can point out certain
things that are happening in the child's
mouth and suggest their correction.
The child should visit the office at regu-
lar intervals as suggested by the den-
tist. At these visits the dentist may
polish the teeth and detect and fill
early cavities.

Cavities, when detected early, can be
filled with little or no pain. Thus the
child's mouth is kept in a healthy and
comfortable condition during the years
when more than at any other time good
teeth are essential to growth and proper
development.

Prevention of serious dental and con-
stitutional disease, as well as prevention
of dental fears, is entirely dependent on
early and regular visits to the dentist.

inquiries and. callers soliciting informa-
tion about Mr. Smith's welfare from
distant points were received.

"I can't adequately express my grate-
ful appreciation for the many kind-
nesses, flowers and good wishes I have
received from so many during the past
two weeks," he said before departing
for home.

Page Ttvelve

THE I. A. A. RECORD

THE race for the championship of
the Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball
League is rapidly narrowing down to a
few teams as the end of the preliminary
schedules approaches.

Cass and Sangamon counties, cham-
pions in their respective divisions,
played the first intersectional game of
the season at Beardstown on July 30
when Sangamon won a hard-fought
game 10 to 6. These two teams are
evenly matched as seen by the fact that
the winner made 12 hits while Cass
made 1 1 . Seven errors turned in by the
Cass county players were largely re-
sponsible for the difference in the score.

As we go to press, Sangamon county
reports that it defeated Cass. in a close
game at lUiopolis on Aug. 6. Score 1 1
to 10. Cass made 6 errors, Sangamon
3. Sangamon now goes on in the semi-
finals, Cass is eliminated.

Carroll county won the champion-
ship in Division I, Knox in Division II,
Woodford in Division III, and Logan
in Division V. McDonough county had
several games yet to play before the
closing date for preliminary schedules
on August 16, but it has a fast hold on
the division championship. LaSalle and
Kankakee are fighting for the honors in
Division VI.

Woodford and Logan counties are
expected to hook up in their first semi-
final series. Knox and Logan counties
will go to bat for the western Illinois
championship, and Carroll will play
either LaSalle or Kankakee county when
these two teams decide which shall rep-
resent the division in the semi-final
play-off.

Knox county upset the dope in its
division when it came from behind and
defeated Henry county twice in suc-
cession in the last two games of the
schedule. Henry county looked like a
winner but Knox was gaining strength
steadily following the first few games
and developed a punch that changed the
situation and placed the team at the
top.

Henderson county whitewashed War-
ren in the game at Monmouth on Au-
gust 2 by the one-sided score of 20 to
0. The Henderson county pitchers al-
lowed only two hits, while the boys
from the county bordering the Missis-
sippi hit the Warren county hurlers
freely throughout the game.
DIVISION I (Final)

Won Lost Pet.
Carroll 5 1 .833

Lee 4 2 .667

JoDaviess 3 3 .500

Stephenson 0 6 .000

DIVISION III (Final)

Woodford 5 1 .833

Livingston 4 2 .667

Marshall-Putnam .3 3 .500

Tazewell 0 6 .000

DIVISION V (Final)

Logan 5 1 .833

McLean 4 2 .667

Champaign 2 4 .333

Ford 1 5 .167

DIVISION VII (Final)

Cass 5 0 1.000

Greene 4 2 .667

Morgan 2 4 .333

Menard 0 5 .000

DIVISION II (Final)

Won Lost Pet.

Knox 6 1 .8 57

Henry 5 2 .714

Peoria 2 4 .333

Stark 0 6 .000

DIVISION IV (Incomplete)

McDonough 6 0 1.000

Henderson 1 3 .250

Warren 1 5 .167

DIVISION VI (Incomplete)

LaSalle 4 1 .800

Kankakee 3 1 .750

Grundy 1 3 .250

Iroquois 1 4 .200

DIVISION VIII (Final)

Sangamon 9 0 1.000

Macoupin 5 3 .62 5

Montgomery 5 4 .555

Macon 2 6 .2 50

Live Stock Marketing

CHARLES A. EWING, Decatur.
Illinois, is the new president and
P. O. Wilson, formerly manager of the
Cincinnati Producers' Commission As-
sociation, is the new manager of the re-
organized National Live Stock Market-
ing Association.

Mr. Ewing, a member of the Macon
County Farm Bureau, is well known in
that county where for many years he
has operated several thousand acres of
land devoted to grain production and
the feeding of cattle and hogs.

His past affiliation with agriculture
dates back to the appointment to the
Committee of '15 which brought forth
the Producer co-operative program in
1920. Mr. Ewing served as a member
of that committee. Although trained
as a lawyer, he has devoted V'.s life to
farming interests, and he is firmly con-
vinced that farm relief, so called, will
be obtained through the farmer's own
effort to organize and handle his own
business.

As secretary-manager, Mr. Wilson

W^

Insurance,

By L. A. Williams
Right Time to Die, When?
When Is Ready Money Most Needed?

WHEN is the best time for a man
to die? The answer is of course
difficult. I would say no time is best.
There are, however, times that are worse
than others for a final walkout.

Today is the wrong time for a farm-
er to drop out of the picture. ^The
estate he leaves is only worth about
3 5 cents on the dollar. Indeed, he
would leave such a mixup in estate
matters that the heirs would be lucky,
after forced sales and probate, if any-
thing was left to count on.

A farmer needs life insurance at this
low ebb of valuation worse than he -may
ever need it again. A cash estate guar-
anteed to his family means ready money
to live on, to pay bills with and to en-
able them to hold on till property val-
ues are better. It means leaving some-
thing for the children in many cases
where without life insurance nothing
would be left.

It most certainly is the wrong time
to die in the agricultural world, but it
is also the wrong time to go unpro-
tected. Life insurance is needed now
like fire insurance in a dry time with
your buildings next to a powder fac-
tory.

The whole picture is this: Your chief
interest in life is to create an estate for
yourself and family. Your business with
which you hope to create that estate is
bad. Therefore, underwriting that es-
tate by taking life insurance makes cer-
tain that estate on a systematic basis
of premium deposits which though not
easy to make are far easier than leaving
undone one of the important jobs of
life, namely, creating an estate. .. *.

The fruits of your effort come to you
if you live, for at the age of retirement
you may have an old age income from
your insurance should you live. You
will not have to die to get the money.
Country Life rates make protection eas-
ily withip the range of your pocket-
book. WRITE FOR RATES.

comes to his new position with a record
of nearly six years of successful opera-
tion of a Cincinnati Producers' com-
mission association. He was born and
reared on a Vigo county, Indiana,
farm, graduated from Purdue Univer-
sity, and served in his home state as a
county adviser.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

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A DEFENSE OF FARM - ^ - - s
1 ACREAGE REDUCTION

Address by Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde Before the Midwest Retail Mer-
chants' Council, Kansas City, Mo., August 5, 1930

JUST now the price of
wheat is disastrously
low. Few farmers can pro-
duce wheat to sell at pres-
ent prices without losing
money. The cause of pres-
ent low prices is plain. Year
after year farmers have
gone on expanding their
acreage, with consequent
cumulative increases both
of domestic and world
stocks of wheat. There are
other elements in the farm
problems. Taxation, order-
ly marketing, diversifica-
tion, and land use are some
of them. I shall not dis-
cuss them here. When pro-
duction is so clearly out of
balance with the market, and a surplus
is continually piling up, there is no
need to hunt for or to discuss other
factors of the price depression.

The world wheat acreage is today
42,000,000 acres larger than it was be-
fore the war. The American share of
that increase is 14,000,000 acres or
one-third of the total. These figures do
not include Russia, which, before the
war, was the world's largest exporter
of wheat.

43,000,000 Bu. Too Much
Production has for the last seven
years outrun demand by an average of
45,000,000 bushels annually.

The American carry-over of wheat
on July first of each of the years speci-
fied below was as follows:

1926 99,000,000 bushels

1927 123,000,000

1928 128,000,000 " ' i-

1929 245,000,000

1930 265,000,000 "

The world carry-over has likewise
been accumulating in volume as shown
by the following tabulation:

1926 272,000,000 bushels

1927 332,000,000

1928 418,000,000

-" ; 1929 589,000,000

-,; 1930 489,000,000

The world carry-over for July first
of this year indicates a decrease of 100,-
000,000 bushels. On its face, this fact
seems encouraging. But world produc-
tion in 1929-30 was 514,000,000
bushels less than in the previous year.
If world consumption had held its pre-

MR. HYDE presents here an able and logical
defense of the Farm Board's recommenda-
tion to wheat growers that they decrease their
acreage planted to this crop and thereby relieve
the surplus situation responsible for present low^
prices.

Some will not agree w^ith his criticisms of the
equalization fee and the debenture plan, the for-
mer advocated by the Farm Bureau, th« latter
by the Grange. Yet because the entire speech is
addressed directly to the problem we are all in-
terested in, it is presented herew^ith in full with
the hope that it w^ill provoke thought and so
lead to a better understanding of everything in-
volved in the solution of the farm problem.

— Editor,

vious high level, the carry-over should
have been materially reduced. The
past year has proven, however, that
consuming countries not only can, but
have, reduced their consumption of
wheat. By high tariffs against out
wheat, by forcing the consumption of
substitute cereals and starches, and by
encouraging the expansion of their own
acreage they reduced their importations
by 237,000,000 bushels below the level
of 1928-29. The smaller 1929-30
world production was due to short
crops in Canada and Argentina. This
shortage cannot be expected to con-
tinue. Both countries have large acre-
ages and are expanding their acreage.
The persistence of this large world
carry-over in the face of a lower world
production is a stubborn fact, the im-
portance of which must not be ignored.
The Inevitable Result
Thus we have increased acreage, in-
creased production and made cumula-
tive additions to both the American
and the world carry-over. As a natural
and inevitable result, prices have fallen
to ruinous levels.

Many of us do not like the law of
supply and demand. To some it ap-
pears to be a monstrous fiction ruth-
lessly created by buyers and dealers to
beat down the prices of farm commodi-
ties. But, like it or not, there it is.
Nobody invented it. It is merely a
statement of the way in which buyers
and sellers the world over, and ever
since the world began have acted and
will act under given conditions. It is
bedded deep in human nature. It ap-

plies to every product of
human toil, from wheat to
automobiles. If the seller
has too much of a given
commodity, he gets panic
stricken and throws some
or all of it on the market
for what it will bring. If
the buyers know that the
supply is too large, they
hold off until they think
the bottom has been reached.
The normal interplay of
these human, selfish motives
and reactions of buyers and
sellers is called the law of
supply and demand.

It is claimed that, since
all farm products are ulti-
mately consumed, there is
never any surplus of farm products.
It is true that all foods and fibers
produced on the farm are consumed —
somewhere, sometime and at some price.
Under the weight of a burdensome sur-
plus, the price falls. At each succes-
sive lower price level, new outlets and
uses for the product can be found.
Thus ultimately the price drops until
the surplus disappears. But the farmer
cannot live unless the price equals his
cost of production plus a profit.
Cost Dossn't Govern
When an unwieldy surplus burdens
the market the crop must sell for what-
ever the cheapest user will pay. Under
such conditions the cost of production
has nothing to do with the price.

In a nutshell, then, the situation is
this. There are 40 million more acres
in wheat than there were before the
war. For seven years the world has
produced an annual average of 43 mil-
lion bushels of wheat more than it con-
sumed. Our American carry-over has
piled up to the record height of 265
million bushels. The world carry-over
has accumulated to nearly 500 million
bushels. The new crop threatens to
be larger than the last. The world price
burdened by that huge surplus will be
governed by the amount the cheaper
users will pay. Our American price,
so long as we produce for export, will
be governed by the world price. Prices
are disastrously low.

The case is plain enough. The vital
question is, what shall be done about it?

Several programs are, or have been,
proposed. Some of them are based upon

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

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the theory that all that part of the
crop which is consumed at home should
be sold at the world price, plus the
tariff, and that the domestic surplus
should be dumped on the foreign mar-
ket for what it will bring. One means
proposed for doing this is the so-called
equalization fee, by which the loss on
the dumped surplus would be borne by
the farmers. Another is the debenture
plan by which the loss would be borne
by the United States Treasury. Other
plans for doing the same thing are pro-
posed. They seek the same objective of
tariff benefit, and involve the same
program of dumping the surplus.

Another suggestion is that the Fed-
eral Farm Board should purchase on
the market a large volume of wheat,
say 100,000,000 bushels, and thus in-
crease the price.

Not Temporary

If it were a situation, suddenly cre-
ated, and temporary in character, the
powers of the board in recognizing a
stabilization corporation, to deal with a
surplus might legitimately be brought
to bear. But it is not a sudden emer-
gency. It has resulted from continuous
overproduction -and consequent cumu-
lative increases in the iupply of wheat.

The cure for this condition is not
to be found in the purchase of large
amounts of wheat by the stabilization
corporation. Such a course would not
reduce the visible supply of wheat by
a single bushel. It would not reduce
world or domestic stocks of this wheat
by a single pound. It would, on the
other hand, gather into one mass, a
vast amount of wheat, which, always
present, and all the more threatening
because massed under one control,
would hang as a dead weight over the
market and prevent the free rise in
' prices which we fully expect will nor-
mally occur.

To test the effect of such a purchase,
let it merely be asked — what would the
stabilization corporation do with it?
That question is present with us now
as to wheat already owned by the cor-
poration— but unanswered. The cor-
poration cannot dump it upon the do-
mestic market without entirely dislo-
cating the existing marketing and
distributing machinery of the country,
and it will not do so. Destroying it is
unthinkable.

How Dump It?

Nor can it be dumped on the foreign
market. Even if the prohibitive tariffs
(such as Germany's 97c per bushel,
France's 85 c, Italy's 86c) could be met
and overcome, it would destroy for
present purposes the foreign outlet for
the crop now coming to market. It
would inevitably reduce the world
price. But more final and forceful

than either of these considerations is
the fact that every foreign nation has
a farm problem of its own. Every
wheat importing nation is trying to
stimulate its own production and to in-
crease its own independence of imports.
Consequently many of them already
have an anti-dumping law.

By these laws, whenever any nation
attempts to sell, in the market of an-
other, any commodity at a price less
than it is sold for at home, a tariff
equal to the difference in selling prices
becomes immediately effective. Thus
would a debenture or equalization fee
be immediately checkmated. In some
cases the penalty is even more drastic.
This is the final and insuperable obstacle
to any scheme of subsidy which con-
templates dumping the surplus at a
price lower than the crop sells for in
the home market.

We Protect Ours

We in the United States properly
protect our own markets and our own
producers from the demoralization of
foreign dumping by just such a law.
What would our American wheat farm-
ers say if Argentina or Canada at-
tempted to dump on our markets at
prices lower than they accepted at
home? Even if there were no anti-
dumping laws, all schemes which are
based on dumping the surplus at a loss,
and making the loss back on domestic
sales are fatally defective. The equal-
ization fee plan and the debenture plan
are, at bottom, subsidies. The only
legitimate object of a subsidy is to in-
crease production, and greater produc-
tion is the inevitable result. But we
are already overproducing. That is the
cause of our distress. To stimulate
more production by subsidies of any
kind, or under any name means a larger
surplus, a further depression of the
price and increased distress at home.

Cure Not Overproduction

I can understand how a man might
be such a glutton as to be happy in
"digging his own grave with his teeth."
I can see how an occasional honey bee
might become so intrigued by the
sweetness or the stickiness of its own
product as to fall bodily into the mass
and be "embalmed in its own honey."
The spectacle of farmers working from
daylight till dark and increasing their
expenses in order to create a vast sur-
plus in which to inter themselves and
their families would be easy to under-
stand if it occurred only occasionally.
But it is a matter of annual recurrence.
Each year the mountainous surplus is
piled higher. Each year the depression
goes lower. It is time we understand
that the cure for overproduction is not
more production.

Proponents of the equalization fee

and of the debenture argue that these
are devices for equalizing tariff bene-
fits. The underlying objective of the
tariff is to protect the home market for
home producers, to keep our own people
employed and to avoid measuring
American standards of living against
those of other nations.

Agriculture has the opportunity to
obtain tariff benefits. The government
cannot and does not attempt' to force
tariff benefits upon any industry. All
it can do is to provide the rate of duty.
It is then the province of each industry
to accept or to decline the protection.
If its production is less than the do-
mestic market, it can get the benefit
of the tariff. If it elects to produce
for and to sell on the world market, it
loses the protection of the tariff. Wit-
ness the automobile industry. The tariff
merely offers the protection — take it or
leave it.

Agriculture No Exception ;

In all this agriculture is no exception.
For wheat, we have a large measure of
tariff protection offered us — 42c per
bushel. We are already over-expanded.
We have over-produced, and we are
over-producing. If we want the bene-
fit of that 42c per bushel, all we have
to do is to bring our production down
to domestic needs. It is there for us —
take it or leave it.

The answer to farm distress caused
by over-production is not more produc-
tion. More production means merely
more problems, lower prices and greater
disaster. Anything which stimulates
production, call it equalization fee, de-
benture or what not means larger and
larger surpluses coming more and more
into competition with foreign surpluses,
produced on cheap land by cheap labor.
This is not tariff equalization. This is
a cheap chimera of political promise
which defeats iis own ends. The only
answer to over-production is less pro-
duction, balancing our crops against
market demands, producing only such
an amount as we can sell at a price
which covers cost of production plus a
profit. j

Another Objection

I hold another objection to both the
equalization fee and the debenture.
They are attempts to write political
answers to economic questions. The
problems of American agriculture are
not political problems. The problems
of the farm are economic, and if solved,
will be solved in the realm of eco-
nomics. After ten years of blind fol-
lowing political will-o-the-wisps, only
to find ourselves bogged down at the
end, it is high time that we forget
political schemes and political remedies
and meet plain economic problems on
an economic basis. .-• •• -i • ' ■

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Fifteen

True, the Federal Farm Board was
created by political means — but it is
designed to take farm problems out of
the realm of politics and find solutions
in the realm of practical economics.
The board is designed to help American
agriculture to help itself. True also,
the tariff was enacted by political agen-
cies, and it is the best tariff agriculture
ever had. But agriculture does not
have the full benefit of the tariff, and
never will have unless agriculture brings
itself within the protection which the
tariff wall ' sets up. To get that pro-
tection agriculture must bring its pro-
duction within the domestic require-
ment.

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh
away. So runs THE BOOK. The same
power which can grant subsidies can
take them away and leave the industry
stranded. In controlling production
agriculture has an economic remedy
which is not only effective and certain,
but one which cannot be repealed by
any act of the legislature.

How? By regulating production of
farm products to the limits of market
demands. By balancing production and,
therefore, supply against and within
probable demand. By limiting acreage
planted to such as will under normal
conditions produce all the foods and
fibers as are needed, plus a reasonable
carry-over.

Averages Tell Story

But, someone objects, you cannot
control production by controlling the
acreage. The seasons, weather condi-
tions, storms, insect pests, plant dis-
eases, not the acreage, they say, control
farm production. It is perfectly true
that the production of any piece of
land varies with the season. A forty
acres of wheat may produce 1,000
bushels of wheat one year and 100
bushels the next. But that is local.
Take down the statistics on crop pro-
duction for the whole country and
average the production per acre over
25 years. You will find the yielcT per
acre for the whole country to be sur-
prisingly uniform.

On wheat, for example, during the
last 25 years, the average yield per acre
has been l-'.5 bushels. The highest
yield was iu 1915 at 17 bushels; the
lowest in 1916 was 12.2 bushels — a
variation above average of only 17 per
cent and below average of only 13
per cent. .■ ,v '•.,':•':;'• ^; ■. ■

Have Accurate Knowledge

We now have a fairly accurate
knowledge of market demands. We
have also an average yield per acre
which is substantially accurate. If the
acreage be limited to such an area, as
under normal conditions will bring pro-
duction within the market demand, we

shall be on a sound actuarial basis. A
surplus due to favorable seasons would
not be of ungovernable proportions. It
could be carried over. In such a case
the Federal Farm Board could render a
real service.

Acreage is therefore the basis of any
program for bringing agricultural pro-
duction within the operation of the law
of supply and demand.

Not ordy would the reduction of
wheat acreage have a favorable effect
upon next year's prices, but it would
majterially increase the price of this
year's crop. When the country under-
stands that the farmer is going through
with a definite program of reduction,
the market will be relieved of the con-
tinuing threat and there will come an
immediate increase in the price of the
present crop. Vigorous, co-operative
action among farmers to decrease acre-
age for the coming year should increase
the gross value of the present wheat
crop by a sum much larger than the
loss on the reduced acreage.

But you say, shall we abandon sci-
entific methods, scrap our machinery
and let our lands lie idle while interest
and taxes eat them up? Certainly not.
Let us not forget that scientific prin-
ciples and mechanical fanning should
apply to the method and the per acre
cost of production. By limiting acre-
age it is {)Ossible to use the best methods
and also to regulate the size of the crop.
Let us produce what is necessary as
cheaply as possible, but let us limit the
amount of that production to the mar-
ket needs. Profit, not surplus products,
will determine prosperity. Interest and
expenses are met out of surplus profit,
not out of surplus production. Profit,
not quantity of crop, determines the
standard of living, and supports civic
enterprises.

If One Man Owned

If all the wheat land in America were
owned by one man, the problem would
be absurdly easy. That man would
plan his production. He would limit
his crop to the amount which the mar-
ket needs. He would reduce his acre-
age. He would by no means abandon
scientific methods or the use of ma-
chinery. He would produce wheat as
cheaply as possible but he would hold
the volume of production down imtil
the market catches up; until his wheat
could be sold at a price which would
pay him a profit.

Of course, the American wheat acre-
age will never be owned by any one
man. But the problem is the same as
if it were. And the solution is the
same. The millions of American farm-
ers who do own the wheat lands have
the same reason fot applying that solu-
tion. That is, they have the same rea-

son as the one man would have, except
that their reason is multiplied by the
needs of the millions of farm families.
Those millions of families are now
engaged in destructive competition with
each other. Each is engaged, by his
surplus production, in beating down
the price of the commodity for all.
Each family strikes something off of
the living standards, the educational
opportunities and the welfare of every
other. Yet they are not enemies. They
are neighbors and friends, having the
same interests, the same ambitions, the
same rights to an American opportunity
and an American standard of living.

National Grain Corp.

(Continued from ptgt 10)

very large business. Large quantities of
soft red winter wheat were handled by
the St. Louis and Indianapolis branch
offices.

"On the early crop movement in the
Pacific Northwest and in the Inter-
mountain territory we are handling a
very fair share of the wheat marketed,"
says a late report from the National
Co-Operative. "Movement in the
spring wheat territory, just starting,
finds the corporation's St. Paul office,
with branches at Minneapolis and Du-
luth, and Great Falls, Mont., well or-
ganized to handle all grain members
offer for sale in those markets.

Exports Good

"Export business continues good, the
corporation handling wheat direct from
member co-operatives to millers and
other buyers in foreign countries.

"Memberships are maintained in
boards of trade and exchanges on the
principal markets, and unsold stocks
are being fully protected by hedges.
Our main hedging office in Chicago, in
charge of William C. Engel, is glad to
co-operate with members at all times.

"The Grain Stabilization Corporation
is co-operating with the Farmers' Na-
tional Grain Corf)oration in every way.
The large stocks of wheat owned by
the Stabilization Corporation, withheld
from the market under the corpora-
tion's previously announced policy,
have been so handled and stored as to
keep them out of the way of the new
crop movement. TTie result has been
than in the southwest, where the wheat
movement now has passed its peak,
there has been less congestion than
usual and members have experienced no
serious difficulty in having their grain
promptly handled, whether they wished
it stored or sold.

"There has been practically no con-
gestion at seaboard or gulf ports, quite
in contrast to conditions prevailing a
year ago, when neither of the corpora-
tions was in operation.

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Page Sixteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

St. Louis Consumers'

Commission Reports

Presents Interesting Analysis of
Milk Situation at That Market

A STRIKING picture of the St.
Louis milk market, and condi-
tions surrounding the production and
marketing of milk, is presented in the
report of the Consumers' Milk Com-
mission of St. Louis released on August
6. The repHjrt signed by Mrs. George
Gellhorn, Mrs. W. W. Burke and Mrs.
Virgil Loeb, chairman, all prominent in
local club circles, is an intelligent
analysis arrived at after careful investi-
gation.

A few large firms distributing 8 5
per cent of the milk consumed in St.
Louis, with nearly 40 smaller dairies
distributing the other 15 per cent; and
out in the country some 12,000 farm-
ers, each with a few cows, each dis-
posing separately of his milk at the
price offered him, is the picture drawn
by the commission. "These farmers,"
states the report, "usually operate farms
on which dairying is a side line. They
are scattered through nearly 20 coun-
ties of Missouri 'and Illinois, some of
them nearly 150 miles from, the city.

Unregulated Production

"Time-honored methods still in use
by many farmers result in an over-
supply of milk at certain periods which
in turn has a tendency to reduce the
price paid for the product. The amount
of time and labor necessary to produce
this milk is enormous and the laborers
include the farmer, his wife and his
children. Cleanliness, according to
modern standards for milk, takes time
and also demands improvements which
many of the farmers have not had the
money to obtain.

"The individual farmer feels him-
self at a disadvantage, not only in the
matter of price, but also in lack of
knowledge of market information, of
credit ratings of distributors, and in
checking the weights and testing of the
farmer's product which heretofore have
been entirely in the hands of the dealers.

Dealers Satisfied

"The distributors, on the other hand,
have appeared generally satisfied with
conditions as they are, with only an oc-
casional doubt in regard to the situa-
tion. Prices paid to the producer have
been the same throughout the market,
set apparently by common consent of
the large dealers and accepted by the
smaller. Though their past experience
of dealing with producers in groups
has not been satisfactory they seem to
have no qualms as to the wisdom of

Jas. C. Stone

S. H. TlioiiiiiNuii

JAMES C. STONE, vice-chairman of
the Federal Farm Board and former-
ly manager of the Burley Tobacco
Growers' Association of Kentucky, has
been engaged for two speaking dates at
Farm Bureau district picnics to be held
at Monmouth on August 29 and at
Jacksonville on August 30.

Sam Thompson, president of the
American Farm Bureau Federation, will
be the speaker at the 19th district pic-
nic to be held in Crystal Lake Park,
Urbana, Champaign county, August
27. Secretary M. S. Winder of the A.
F. B. F. spoke at the 2 5 th district pic-
nic, Sparta, on August 14.

President Earl C. Smith, who is con-
valescing in a private hospital in Chi-
cago following an operation, has been
forced to cancel all his picnic speaking
dat$s. These have been assigned to
Secretary Metzger and other members
of the I. A. A. staff.

extending the milk shed when it was
to their advantage to obtain milk from
more distant sources.

"The commission felt not only that
the consumer was entitled to good milk
of high quality at a fair price but also
that consumers desired this situation
under conditions that brought no hard-
ship to any one concerned. It felt that
the interest of the public in an article
so important to the health of the con-
sumer is most essential, therefore, the
public should be represented in confer-
ences dealing with milk."

Can Increase Use

The commission draws attention to
the fact that the per capita consump-
tion of milk in St. Louis is lower than
in other cities and that with quality
improvement and judicious advertising
people would consume more healthful
dairy products. The commission gives
its unqualified endorsement to the plan
of collective bargaining as a fair meth-
od of establishing a price acceptable to
producer, dealer and consumer.' It rec-
ommends a plan to secure more even
production of milk throughout the
year and suggests that responsibility for
this goal rests with the farmer.

The commission's report cites testi-
mony of individual farmers revealing

that many are receiving no profit from
their milk while others are losing
money. "The commission is con-
vinced that the producer should re-
ceive more money for his product,"
states the report, "but is not con-
vinced that the increase should be
made through higher prices to the
consumer."

Four Conferences

During the course of the investiga-
tion, four conferences lasting from six
to eight hours each were held. Pro-
ducers, dealers and consumers were rep-
resented. The plan as outlined else-
where in this issue was finally adopted.
. Commenting on the agreement be-
tween the producers and distributors
which is similar to the base and surplus
plan followed at Chicago, Pittsburgh
and other large markets, the Consumers'
Commission said the agreement has
been accepted by the larger dealers with
the sole exception of the Pevely Dairy
Company, and its acceptance by the
smaller dairies is confidently expected.
"If the Pevely Dairy Company does not
co-operate with the other dealers, pro-
ducers and consumers in establishing the
National Dairy Council, its non-partici-
pation in this quality dairy program
will put it in a rather indefensible posi-
tion. It has been the experience in
other cities that sometimes one larger
dealer has taken longer than the others
to see the value of such a plan as is
here imposed, but this fact has not
impaired the plan in other cities nor
will it delay its successful working out
in St. Louis. I

A New Era

"The commission believes that the
agreement means the beginning of a
new era of good will between the dis-
tributors and producers in the St. Louis
milk shed and that it will be a benefit
to all parties concerned. To the pro-
ducers it represents an opportunity to
realize their aims; to the distributor it
represents an opportunity for a stabil-
ized market and reduction of surplus;
and the consumer, who pays the 13c
for a quart of milk is given a voice in
its just distribution. To the communi-
ty as a whole it means an improved
milk supply with St. Louis taking its
place among other cities of the coun-
try in the establishment of an equitable
and orderly marketing plan. The Con- ■
sumers' Mlik Commission has a continu-
ing responsibility in seeing that this
plan is carried out which it accepts as
a duty and privilege."

Thos. H. Roberts, for more than
seven years adviser in DeKalb county,
resigned some time ago to manage a
canning factory at Sycamore.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Seventeen

St. Louis Milk Plan r •
;-,:;. Is Finally Adopted

Agreement Between Dealers and

Producers Calls for Base and

Surplus Rating, Get

V , . -' Fairer Price ,;•.:.■,-:..:■

RECOGNITION by the dealers on
the St. Louis milk market of the
producers' right to bargain for a fair
price and better market conditions was
obtained following a recent conference
in which producers, distributors and
consumers were represented in St. Louis.

The victory culminated successful
efforts by the producers during the last
eleven and one-half months to organize
the bargaining association, Sanitary
Milk Producers, and so gain representa-
tion on the market.

As a result of the recent conference
the dealers agreed to a gradual increase
in price, endorsed the base rating plan
by which each farmer carries his own
burden of surplus, and agreed to check
testing by representatives of the dairy-

men.

Milk $2.43 Per Cwt.

Under the new arrangement all milk
delivered during August will be paid
for at the rate of $1.90 per cwt. But
beginning September 1 the price will be
$2.10 per cwt., then for the next three
months, namely, October, November,
December, the base price to be paid for
all fluid sales will be $2.43 gross from
which a slight deduction will be made
to pay the 3 cent check-off to the co-
operative association and for the quality
improvement fund.

Each producer's base amount for
1931 will be the average production of
his herd in the six months ending De-
cember 31, 1930. The Sanitary Milk
Producers wjll receive a 3 cent per cwt.
check-off on all members' milk. Under
the terms of the agreement a non-
member may not get more for his milk
net than the member receives after the
latter has paid his check-off. It was
agreed to promote a joint quality im-
provement campaign throughout the
area in co-operation with the National
Dairy Council. A unit of the council
will be formed at St. Louis in the near
future.

' •': Ic for Quality Improvement

The important work designed to give
the city of St. Louis the highest quality
milk of any city in the country will be
financed by a contribution of 1 cent
per cwt. by the producers which is to
be matched by a similar contribution
from the dealers. Non-members will
have deducted 2 cents per cwt. for the
quality improvement campaign.

"This money will be spent by the
dairy industry at St. Louis," said A. D.
Lynch, I. A. A. Dairy Marketing direc-
tor, in explaining the project. "St.
Louis has a good milk supply at the
present time, but it can be greatly im-
proved. We want to give the consumer
as good or better milk than any re-
ceived on any market in America. After
we have raised the standard of our
product to the highest possible level we
intend to carry on a joint campaign to
increase sales. The people of St. Louis
are not consuming enough dairy prod-
ucts per capita. An increase of 10 per
cent in consumption within two years
is probable and a 20 per cent increase
in the next few years is not impossible.
The first job is to see that our product
is the purest and the best that can be
produced, our next job is to merchan-
dise it and advertise its superiority as a
food."

' ■ Advisory Committee

A joint advisory committee composed
of three producers, three dealers and
three consumers has been appointed to
hear grievances brought by any repre-
sentative in the name of the three
groups.

The Sanitary Milk Producers with a
present membership of 6,600 obtained
during the past eleven and one-half
months set a new pace in co-o{>erative
milk marketing development. Never
before has an organization been so well
developed and recognition obtained in
so short a time. While the Pevely Dairy
Company, one of the largest dealers on
the market, has not yet approved all
the provisions of the marketing plan, it'
is confidently believed that it will co-
operate for the welfare of all when it
fully understands everything involved.

Open New Offices

The Sanitary Milk Producers wijl. oc-
cupy offices in the Railway Exchange
Building in St. Louis. President E. W.
Tiedemann who, in co-operation with
the Farm Bureau directors, has been
directing organization work during the
past year, has been named organization
manager. Other officers of the collec-
tive bargaining association are Martin
Ehmler, Orchard Farm, Missouri, vice-
president; E. H. Isenberg, Edwardsville,
Illinois, secretary, and G. R. Pearce,
Jerseyville, treasurer.

At Insurance Convention

"Are Multiple Lines Desirable in
Mutual Insurance Companies" is the
subject of an address delivered before
the National Association of Mutual
Insurance Companies in the annual
meeting at Los Angeles, Cal., on Aug.

A. D. LTBck

Lynch Takes Job with

Sanitary Producers

To Manage Milk Co-Operative Rep-
resenting St. Louis Dairymen

AD. LYNCH, director of dairy
• marketing for the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association since 1922, re-
signed last week to become general
manager of the Sanitary Milk Produc-
ers, co-operative producers' organization
at St. Louis. Mr. Lynch contemplates
assuming his new duties with the dairy-
men's organization around Oct. 1.

Mr. Lynch, a graduate of the South
Dakota State Agricultural College, left
the management of
a successful cream-
ery in the State of
Vermont to become
assistant to Prof.
Chris Larsen, dairy
marketing director
for the I. A. A.
from 1920-1922.
When Prof. Larsen
accepted the post as
dean of the Agricul-
tural College in
South Dakota, Lynch was promoted to
his place.

Helped Producers

During the past seven years Mr.
Lynch has made a notable record co-
operating with the Farm Bureaus in or-
ganizing the jnilk and butterfat pro-
ducers of Illinois into co-operative as-
sociations to give them a measure of
bargaining power and a voice in the
sale of their products.

In addition to the early produce mar-
keting associations, Director Lynch laid
the ground work and assisted through-
out the development in most cases of
milk and dairy co-operatives at Quincy,
Peoria, Chicago, St. Louis, Blooming-
ton, Decatur, DeKalb, Rock Island,
Freeport, Springfield, and other points.
Several successful co-operative cream-
eries in northwestern Illinois were as-
sisted in their early stages of develop-
ment and during recent years Mr.
Lynch has given considerable time in
an advisory capacity to the producers'
organization at Peoria, Bloomington,
Champaign and Decatur.

Action regarding Mr. Lynch's resig-
nation awaits the next meeting of the
I. A. A. board of directors.

19 by J. H. Kelker, active manager of
the Farmers' Mutual Reinsurance Co.
V. Vaniman, director of service for
the I. A. A., is attending the meeting,
while on vacation, in an unofficial ca-
pacity, .^'v-:^ :.,.;, .:v/y-/v:'-' ^v

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Page Eighteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

I. A. A. Board to Elect

Director for 24th Dist.

Method of Filling Vacancies Ex-
plained in Statement by
1 Kirkpatrick

THE vacancy in the board of direc-
tors of the I. A. A. caused by the
death of Chas. L. Scott of Grayville
has aroused much interest over the state
in the method provided by the consti-
tution and by-laws filling such a/va-
cancy.

An opinion submitted to the direc-
tors by Donald Kirkpatrick, legal coun-
sel, at their last meeting advises as fol-
lows:
i "Section 6 of Article II of the
by-laws of Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation provides that the board of
directors shall elect a successor quali-
fied to hold office for the unexpired
term of office of the director. This
section further provides that in the
selection of a director by the board
to fill a vacancy, the selection shall
be made from members residing in
the district, and that the board of
directors in making such selection
shall give preference to the informal
nominations solicited from the dele-
gates representing the members in
the congressional district.

"I am of the opinion that the
board of directors should take action
at its next meeting authorizing and
directing the secretary of the asso-
ciation to solicit nominations of per-
sons qualified from the several dele-
gates in the district. After selec-
tion has been made from the dele-
gates within the district for informal
nominations, and after reasonable op-
portunity has been given to such
delegates to respond to such informal
nominations, the board of directors
should proceed to the election of a
member to fill the vacancy.

"The board can select a member
from the informal nominations made
by the delegates or elect from among
other persons qualified to act as a
member of your board. Tjje selec-
tion of a member from the informal
nominations is not mandatory but
should, in my opinion, be carefully
considered and selection made there-
from as a matter of good adminis-
trative policy."

On motion duly made by Mr.
Wright, seconded by Mr. Black, it was
unanimously moved at the July 22
meeting of the board "That the secre-
tary of the Association be authorized
and directed to carry out the provi-
sions of Section 6 of Article II of the
By-Laws^of the Association in filling the
vacancy in the board of directors, ere-

IN MEMORIAM

I

NEWS of the untimely death
of Charles L. Scott, director
on the I. A. A. board from the
24th district, who passed away at
his home in Edwards county the
morning of July 15, was received
with great sorrow at the I. A. A.
offices in Chicago, and by Farm
Bureau members throughout sec-
tions where Mr. Scott was well
known.

For years Charles L. Scott has
been identified prominently with
the Farm Bu-
r e a u move-
ment in south-
eastern Illinois.
He was an
outstanding
lea ier in his
CO nmunity, a
former mem-
ber of the state
legislature, was
a charter
member of the
Edwards County Farm Bureau,
and for years was on its executive
committee.

Mr. Scott was a grain farmer
and for the past five years repre-
sented Illinois wheat growers on
the board of directors of the Cen-
tral States Soft Wheat Growers'
Association with headquarters at
Indianapolis. He served as presi-
dent of the association for one
year, and more recently was vice-
president the Central States Grain
Elevator Corporation.

The heat accompanied by over-
exertion during the harvest season

Chna. li. Scott

and a chronic, internal disorder
are thought to have been the cause
of Mr. Scott's sudden passing on.
W. L. Cope of Salem and Fred
Dietz of De Soto represented the
I. A. A. at the funeral on July 17.
At its regular meeting in Chi-
cago on July 22, the Board of
Directors passed the following
resolution:

"WHEREAS, In the death of
Charles L. Scott, a member of
the board of directors of the
Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, there has been lost to the
state and to his community
one of its foremost citizens, a
man of keen intellect, of gen-
ial personality, a builder of
constructive force, and a
counsellor of wisdom, now,
therefore, be it
"RESOLVED, That the board
of directors of the Illinois
Agricultural Association, be-
ing deeply sensible of the loss
thus sustained, shall and it
hereby does note in its records
its tribute to the life and
worth of Mr. Charles L. Scott,
and its appreciation of his
noble character and the emi-
nent services he has rendered
to his country and to hu-
manity; and be it further
"RESOLVED, That a copy of
this resolution be tendered to
his bereaved family and that
a copy be spread on the min-
utes of this meeting of the
board of directors."

ated by the death of Mr. Charles L.
Scott."

In the meantime representatives of
the counties in the 24th congressional
district had held a meeting at Carmi
and selected W. A. Grant of Harris-
burg to represent the district at I. A. A.
board meetings in an informal capacity
until a successor to the late Mr. Scott
is legally elected. Mr. Grant attended
the board meeting on July 22, and was
invited to be present at the August
meeting pending the election of a suc-
cessor.

Advisers Move

MALCOLM H. WATSON, county
adviser in Kendall county, re-
cently resigned to go into the oil busi-
ness in the state of Colorado. His suc-

cessor is W. P. Miller, formerly farm
adviser in Brown county. Miller began
work in Kendall county August 1.

E. A. Carncross, farm adviser for the
past eight years in DuPage county,
where he made an excellent record of
accomplishment, recently resigned to
become general agent to handle the va-
rious Farm Bureau insurance services in
Cook county.

O. L. Welch of Sciota, McDonough
County Farm Bureau, has been em-
ployed to succeed J. H. Lloyd as farm
adviser in Hancock county.

Mr. Welch graduated from the Uni-
versity of Illinois in 1922, /and since
that time has ojjerated a 320-acre grain
and live stock farm about a mile north
of Sciota. He has been a leader in
many community enterprises. He will
begin work about Sept. 1. . i

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

I. A. A. Board to Elect

Director for 24th Dist.

Method of Filling Vacancies Ex-
plained in Statement by
Kirkpatrick

THE vac.incv in the board of direc-
tors of the I. A. A. caused by the
death of Chas. L. Scott of Grayville
has aroused much interest over the state
. in the mctliod provided by the consti-
tution and by-laws fiHing such a va-
cancy.

An opinion submitted to the direc-
tors by Donald Kirkpatrick, legal coun-
sel, at their last meeting advises as fol-
lows:

"Section 6 of Article II of the
by-laws of Illinois Agricultural As-
sociation provides that the board of
directors shall elect a successor quali-
fied to hold office for the unexpired
term of office of the director. This
section further provides that in the
selection of a director by the board
to fill a vacanc)', the selection shall
be made from members residing in
the district, and that the board of
directors in making such selection
shall give preference to the informal
nominations solicited from the dele-
gates representing the members in
the congressional district.

"I am of the opinion that the
board of directors should take action
at its next meeting authorizing and
directing the secretary of the asso-
ciation to solicit nominations of per-
sons qualified from the several dele-
gates in the district. After selec-
tion has been made from the dele-
gates within the district for informal
nominations, and after reasonable op-
portunity has been given to such
delegates to respond to such informal
nominations, the board of directors
should proceed to the election of a
member to fill the vacancy.

"The board can select a member
from the informal nominations made
by the delegates or elect from among
other persons qualified to act as a
member of your board. The selec-
tion of a member from the informal
nominations is not mandatory but
should, in my opinion, be carefully
considered and selection made there-
from as a matter of good adminis-
trative policy."

On motion duly made by Mr.
Wright, seconded by Mr. Black, it was
unanimously moved at the July 22
meeting of the board "That the secre-
tar\' of the Association be authorized
and directed to carry out the provi-
sions of Section 6 of Article II of the
By-Laws of the Association in filling the
vacancv in the board of directors, ere-

IN MEMORIAM

NEWS of the untimely death
of Charles L. Scott, director
on the I. A. A. board from the
24th district, who passed away at
his home in Edwards county the
morning of July 15, was received
witii great sorrow at the I. A. A.
offices in Chicago, and by Farm
Bureau members throughout sec-
tions where Mr. Scott was well
known.

For \ears C^harles I.. Scott has
been identified prominently with
the Farm Bu-
r e a u move-
ment in south-
eastern Illinois.
He was an
outstanding
ea ler in his
cc .imunity, a
former mem-
ber of the state
egislature, was
a charter
member of the
Edwards County Farm Bureau,
and for years was on its executive
committee.

Mr. Scott was a grain farmer
and for the past five years repre-
sented Illinois wheat growers on
the board of directors of the Cen-
tral States Soft Wheat Growers'
Association with headquarters at
Indianapolis. He served as presi-
dent of the association for one
vear. and more recently was vice-
president the Central States Grain
Elevator Corporation.

The heat accompanied by over-
exertion during the harvest season

C'hnx. I.. Scott

and a chronic, internal disorder
are thought to have been the cause
of Mr. Scott's sudden passing on.

W. L. Cope of Salem and Fred
Dietz of De Soto represented the
I. A. A. at the funeral on July 17.

At its regular meeting in Chi-
cago on July 22, the Board of
Directors passed the following
resolution:

"WHEREAS, In the death of
Charles L. Scott, a member of
the board of directors of the
Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, there has been lost to the
state and to his community
one of its foremost citizens, a
man of keen intellect, of gen-
ial personality, a builder of
constructive force, and a
counsellor of wisdom, now,
therefore, be it

"RESOLVED, That the board
of directors of the Illinois
Agricultural Association, be-
ing deeply sensible of the loss
thus sustained, shall and it
hereby does note in its records
its tribute to the life and
worth of Mr. Charles L. Scott,
and its appreciation of his
noble character and the emi-
nent services he has rendered
to his country and to hu-
manity; and be it further

"RESOLVED, That a copy of
this resolution be tendered to
his bereaved family and that
a copy be spread on the min-
utes of this meeting of the
board of directors."

ated by the death of Mr. Charles -L.
Scott."

In the meantime representatives of
the counties in the 24th congressional
district had held a meeting .U Carmi
and selected W. A. Grant of ILirii^-
burg to represent the district at I. .\. .•\.
board meetings in an intorm.il c.ip.icity
until a successor to the late .\Ir. Scott
is legally elected. Mr. Grant attended
the board meeting on July 22. and wa"^
invited to be present at the August
meeting pending the election of a suc-
cessor.

Advisers Move

MALCOLM H. WATSOX, county
adviser in Kendall county, re-
cently resigned to go into the oil busi-
ness in the state of Colorado. His suc-

cessor is W. P. Miller, formerly faim
adviser in Brown county. Miller begpn
work in Kend.dl county August 1.

E. A. C'.irncross. f.irm adviser fo/ the
past eiuiit years in DuP.tj^e county,
wlure lie made an excellent record of
.iccompii^hment, recently resigned to
become uencr.il ai:ent to handle the va-
rious Farm Bureau insurance services in
Cook county.

O. L. V."elch of Sciota, McDonough
Count\' Farm Bureau, has been em-
ployed to succeed J. H. Lloyd as farm
adviser in Hancock county.

.Mr. Welch graduated from the Uni-
versity of Illinois in 1922, and since
that time has of>crated a 320-acre grain
and live stock farm about a mile north
of Sciota. He has been a leader in
many community enterprises. He will
begin work about Sept. 1.

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L^' IRE destroys thousands of motor cars every year. Why take a chance

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in your own company, the Illinois Agricultural Mutual.

T^ IRE and theft protection on cars and trucks is offered Farm Bureau
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destroyed by fire or stolen. Your car is protected regardless of where it is
at the time of the accident. It may be burned up inside your garage, in
a barn, on a country road, or in town. Wherever you go you are protected.

A FULL coverage policy in the Illinois Agricultural Mutual includes pro-

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and property damage, collision, ■windstorm, and hail. Stationery object
collision insurance can be obtained at a slight additional cost.

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Number 9

September, 1930

Volume 8

I. A. A. Stf tes Stand on

Revenue Amendment

K

A Statement of Position Relative to

the Proposed Amendment to the

Revenue Article of the State

Constitution, Adopted K-y

the Board of Directors,

,' .: Illinois Agricultural ., ■

Association Sept.

12,1930.

AFTER carefully considering all
available information about the
revenue amendment and its probable
effect, if adopted, the board of direc-
tors of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
ciation herewith presents a statement
setting forth its position and recom-
mendation to the membership.

The amendment is greatly changed
from the carefully considered provi-
sions recommended by the Revenue In-
vestigation Commission which were en-
dorsed, in spirit and purpose, by sev-
eral state-wide organizations, including
the I. A. A. Most of the changes were
brought about by amendments intro-
duced and urged by Chicago legislators.
With no time adequately to consider
the probable effect of such changes,
they were accepted by most of the leg-
islators from down-state districts in the
belief that otherwise no amendment
could secure the two-thirds vote nec-
essary for submission.

The proposed amendment would not,
of itself, set up any new system of reve-
nue. It would remove certain restric-
tions now imposed on the General As-
sembly, and would impose some new
restrictions. The most important pro-
posed changes are analyzed below to
show not only what they would per-
mit or would not permit, but also their
probable effect on the revenue system
of the state.

Classification of Property

Adoption of the amendment would
give the General Assembly full power
to classify property except that all real
estate other than mineral lands and
land devoted to reforestation would be

READ carefolly the analyisiH of
the Proposed Revenne Amend-
ment in the colnmn to the left.
It will help yon to vote Intelli-
gently in the comins November
lection.

Needs of Agriculture

Cited by Sam Thompson

kept in one class. Such power to
classify property could be used in
either or both of two ways. First, any
class or all classes of property could be
exempted from taxation on the basis of
value in order to impose taxes on some
other basis such as inconic, The Illi-
nois Agricultural Association has long
been in favor of using classification in
this way. Or, second, property could
be divided into different classes, with
different standards of value or different
tax rates, or both.

If the amendment is adopted, there
can be lo doubt that the General As-
sembly will be strongly urged to classi-
fy intangible property separately in or-
der to tax -t or 'tj: value at low rates.
In other states, the taxar.on of intangi-
bles, such as stocks, bonds, notes, mort-
gages and money, at low rates, us'oally
between one-fourth and one-tenth of
the rate applied to real estate, has never
prevented extensive evasion or produced
more than a very small percentage of
the total revenues. There is no reason
to believe that it would be administered
with any greater success in this state,
where at least one-half of the house-
holds, most of them in Cook County,
completely evade taxation not only of
intangible but even of tangible per-
sonal property. The Illinois Agricul-
tural Association has long opp>o$ed this
use of classification. Low-rate taxation
of intangibles would not save real estate
from increasingly confiscatory taxes.

Distribution of State Taxes

Adoption of the amendment would
remove the present restriction which
prevents the General Assembly from
imposing any taxes upon municipal cor-
porations (by which is meant any tax-
ing districts except the state), or the
inhabitants or property thereof, for the

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Speaks at 19th District Picnic,
Urbana, Aug. 27

BARGAINiN .♦ power in the sale of
farm cqunT.odities, credit at low-
er rates, tax equalization, and lower
cost production were cited as outstand-
ing needs of the American fanner by
Sam H. Thompson, president of the
American Farm Bureau Federation, in
addressing the 19th district Farm Bu-
reau picnic at Urbana on August 27.
A large audience estimated at 5,000 to
5,000 gathered in Crystal Lake Park
to hear the speaker.

"Other groups have succeeJed much
better than the farmer in passing on
their increased expenses of doing busi-
ness to the consumer," said Mr. Thomp-
son. "The cost of doing business has
increased tremendously in the last 2$
years, and all this has been reflected in
the prices farmers must pay for the
things they need. The farmer's costs
of production also have increased dur-
ing this period. But we have not been
successful in adding that increased cost
to the price of our products. Our only
hope for doing so, in obtaining a rea-
sonable profit on our production lies in
organization."

Home Ownership Costly

Mr. Thompson referred to the presi-
dent's recent conference on home own-
ership. "Home ownership," he said, "is
constantly decreasing. We are becom-
ing a nation of renters both on the
farm and in the city. Obviously this
is a bad thing for our civilization, and
the cause is largely due to our anti-
quated taxing system. One of our
great national needs is a better plan for
distributing the tax burden among all
the jjeople." It was revealed at the
president's conference on home owner-
ship that people who buy homes today
are paying an average of more than 8
per cent for the money borrowed to
acquire them.

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loss. The salvage value of a car ravaged by fire is very low.

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on losing your investment when at low cost you can secure protection
in your own company, the Illinois Agricultural Mutual.

. IRE and theft protection on cars and trucks is offered Farm Bureau

members at cost. The company pays the actual value of the car when

destroyed by fire or stolen. Your car is protected regardless of where it is

at the time of the accident. It may be burned up inside your garage, in

a barn, on a country road, or in town. Wherever you go you are protected.

A FULL coverage policy in the Illinois Agricultural Mutual includes pro-
■* ^ tection not only against fire and theft, but also against public liability
and property damage, collision, windstorm, and hail. Stationery object
collision insurance can be obtained at a slight additional cost.

See your local agent, county Farm Bureau, or write to us for particulars.

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Number 9

September, 1930

Volume 8

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J. A. A. Stf tes Stand on

Revenue a\mendment

A Statement of Position Relatrve to

the Proposed Amendment i.o the

Revenue Article of the State

Constitution, Adopted ' v

the Board of Directois,

Illinois Agricultural

Association Sept.

12, 1930.

AFTER careful!) considcrinj; .ill
.ivail.iblc inform.ition .ibout the
revenue .imendnient and its probable
effect, if adopted, the board of direc-
tors of the Illinois Agricultural Asso-
cl.-.tion herewith presents ,i statement
setting forth its positioi, and recom-
mendation to the membership.

The amendment is greath' changed
from the carefully coiisiaered provi-
sions recommended by the Revenue In-
vestigation Commission which were en-
dorsed, in spirit and purpose, by sev-
eral state-wide orgaiii/ations, including
the I. A. A. Most of the changes were
brought aboi;i h\ amendments intro-
iluced and urged b\' Chicago legislators.
NX'ith no time adequately to coiisider
the probable effect of sucli changes,
they were accepted by most of the leg-
islators from down-state districts in the
belief that otherwise no amendment
could secure the two-thirds vote nec-
essary for submission.

The proposed amendment woulo not,
of itself, set up any new system of reve-
nue. It would remove certain restric-
tions now imposed on the General As-
sembly, and would impose some new
restrictions. The most important pro-
posed changes are analyzed below to
show not onlv' what they would per-
mit or would not permit, but also their
probable effect on the revenue system
of the state.

Classification of Property

Adoption of the amenciment would
give the General Assembly full power
to classify property except that all real
estate other than mineral lands and
land devoted to reforestation would be

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kept in one class. Such power lo
classify property could be used in
either or both of two ways. First, any
class or all classes of property could be
exempted from taxation on the basis of
value in order to impose ta.xes on some
otiier basis such as incon.^ The Illi-
nois Agricultural Association has long
been in favor of using classihc.ition in
this way. Or, second, property could
be divided into different classes, w .i;
different standards of value or different
tax rates, or both.

If the amendment is .idoprctJ, there
can be -o doubt that the Ceneral As-
sembly will be stroiT'^ly urged to classi-
fy intangible property separately in or-
der to tax ■'■" or -r: value at low rates.
In othei states, the raxar.,ir of intangi-
bles, such as stocks, bonds, notes, mort^
gavoi and money, at low rates, usually
between one-fourth and one-tenth of
the rate applied to real estate, has never
prevented extensive e^ asion or produced
more than a ver)' small percentage of
the total revenues. There is no reason
to believe that it would be administered
with any greater success in this state,
where at least cne-half of the house-
holds, most of them in Cook County,
completely evade ta.xation not onl\' of
intangible but even of tangible per-
sonal property. The Illinois Agricul-
tural Association has long opposed this
use of classification. Low-rate taxation
of intangibles would not save real estate
from increasingly confiscatory taxes.

Distribution of State Taxes

.Adoption of the amendment would
remove the present restriction which
prevents the General Assembly from
imposing an\' taxes upon municipal cor-
porations (by which is meant an\- tax-
ing districts except the state), or the
inhabitants or property thereof, foi- the

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Needs of Agriculture

Cited by Sam Thompson

Speaks at 19th District Picnic,
Urbana, Aug. 27

B.\KGA1.\;.N .• power in the s.ile of
farm cqirinn.,)elities, credit at low-
er rates, tax equalization, and lower
cost production were cited as outstand-
ing needs of the .\niericjii farmer by
S.:ni FI. Thompson, president of tlie
American Farm liureau redcratiori, in
.uldressing the IVth district Firm Bu-
reau picnic at Urb.ina on .August 27.
A large audience estimated at >,(IIM1 to
S.OOd gathered in Crystal like Park
to hear the speaker.

"Oilier groups have succe, .led much
better ihan the f.irmer in passing on
their incie.ised expenses of doing busi-
ness In the consumer," said Mr. Thomp-
son. "The cost of doing bu'i.iess has
increased tremendously in the last 2 J
\ears, and .ill this has been reflected in
the prices farmers must pa\ for the
things ihe\- need. The farmci's costs
of production also have iiicre.iscd dur-
ing this period. But we have not been
successful in adding that incre.ised cost
to the price of our products. Our onlv
hope for doing so, in obtaining a rea-
sonable profit on our proiluction lies in
tMgani/ation."

Home Ownership Costly

.\lr. Thompsiin referred to ihe presi-
dent's recent conference on horn.- own-
ership. "I iome ownership," he saiil, "is
constantK decreasing. We are becom-
ing a nation of renters both on thi
farm and in the cit\. Obviouslv this
IS a bad thing for our civilization, anii
: he cause is largel)' due to our anli-
I'.uated taxing s\stem. One of our
great national needs is a Ix'tter plan foi
distributing the tax burden among al!
the people." It was revealed at the
president's conference on home owner-
ship that people who buy homes todav
are paving an average of more than 8
per cent for the monev borrowed to
acijuire them.

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THE i. A. A. RECORD

POSTER EXHIBIT IN FARM BUREAU TENT, SPRINGFIELD

THE I. A. A. poster oxhihit in the Fjiriii Burenii heniliiiinrt ers tvnt ut <he llliiioiN Stnte Fi|ir, S|>rlNf?fiel(], ^vnn commented
upon fnvorsihly by thouNnnds -whtt miiw it during the ^veek.
The iiiiMterM Nhittvii above «vere i>re|Kireil by an artixt In four ami five e4»i«»rK. They explain briefly the work of each
dep;irtnient in the I. A. A. and of the nKNoeiatetl eonipanieN. A<H*onipliMhnientM were Met forth briefly mo that the viMit4>rK
4'ould y::raMp i|ui4-kly the variouM ac'tivitieN earried on by the orKanixation.

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The speaker pointed out that the
State of New York has gone farther
to help farmers with their road and
school problems than any other. "Our
rural educational system is not ade-
quate," said Mr. Thompson. "The
country is constantly giving up a large
number of young men and women to
the cities. These boys and girls are
educated at the expense of the farmer,
although after leaving the rural com-
munities they do nothing to contribute
toward the maintenance of the schools
that educated them. Millions of farm
boys and girls are being trained in rural
communities where values and taxable
income are constantly decreasing. It
is not possible to levy a high enough
tax in many rural communities to give
farm boys and girls an adequate educa-
tion. Public education is not a local
problem, it is a national one." He de-
clared that there is a growing need for
a national fund to help struggling rural
schools.

Too Much "Service"

How we have been building up a
complicated system of costly service
between the consumer and producer
was another subject discussed. "When
I was a boy," said Thompson, "we
went to the local shoemaker and paid
him $3. SO to make a pair of shoes.
The cobbler was paid oftentimes in
chickens and eggs. Now the system
has been entirely changed. Shoes are
made in factories, handled first by the
wholesaler or jobber, and then by the
retailer, each of whom adds his cost to
every pair handled." Mr. Thompson
then asserted that he had paid close to
$2 5 in tips during the last 10 months
for checking a hat which cost original-
ly about $3.

To illustrate the declining taxable
values in rural communities, the cases
of two rural counties in Kentucky
were cited. In 1920 the assessed valua-

4-H Club Calves Sell

Well at Chicago

RECENT s.nles of 4-H club calves
sponsored by the International
Live Stock Exposition reached a top of
Si 3.2 5 on September 3.

The top price was paid by Armour &
Company for two steers from Bureau
county, Illinois — a 1,010 pound Here-
ford fed b\' Loviila Herlcan of Prince-
ton, and a 950 pound Shorthorn fed by
Clarence Betting of Buda.

A consignment of 12 calves from
DeKalb county brought the highest
average price of any lot at $12.55 per
cwt. Thirty-nine calves from Knox
county averaged 923 pounds in weight
and $12.39 per cwt. in price. Bureau
county had 51 calves averaging 883
pounds and SI 2.30 per cwt., while Iro-
quois county had 52 averaging 8 54
pounds at $12.15 per cwt.
Bring $13

The top price of '•.13 at the August
27 auction was paid by Swift & Com-
pany and Wilson & Company on two
calves from Sangamon county, 111.
Fred Paflfenberger of Rochester sold a
1,031 pound Angus to Swift & Com-
pany, and Glen Cofer of Williamsville
sold a 910 pound Shorthorn to Wilson
& Company at that figure.

The 43 calves from Sangamon aver-
aged 914 pounds in weight; and $12.18

tion of one Kentucky county was
$6,101,980. In 1930, ten years later,
tax valuations in the same county had
declined to $3,671,503. In another
rural county in the same state, valua-
tions for tax purposes declined from
$5,338,280 in 1920 to $4,384,281 in
1930. Mr. Thompson expressed the be-
lief that farmers have kept up their
standard of living largely by eating
into capital investments during the
last 10 years.

per cwt. in price. Macon county. 111.,
had four head averaging 1,000 pounds
at $12.51 per cwt., while McLean
county sold four head averaging . 793
pounds in weight and $12.5 5 per cwt.
Col. Carey M. Jones auctioned off
the calves on each occasion. These auc-
tions offer an unusual opportunity to
study the relative values of different
grades of cattle, and the International
invites visitors to be present any Tues-
day afternoon at 2 o'clock at the U. S.
Yards, Chicago, until the middle of
October.

Reduced Rates Apply

In So. Illinois Area

EMERGENCY freight rates on live
stock and feed, hay and straw
when used for feeding purposes, have
been published for the southern Illinois
drouth area.

The new freight tariffs are effective
in the following Illinois counties:
Alexander, Clay, Crawford, Edwards,
Fayette, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton,
Hardin, Jackson, Jefferson, Jersey,
Johnson, Lawrence, Madison, Marion,
Massac, Monroe, Perry, Pope, Pulaski,
Randolph, Richland, St. Clair, Saline,
Union, Wabash, Washington, Wayne,
White and Williamson.

The rates apply on live stock, feed,
hay, straw and water from various
points when shipped to the drouth areas
and are on the basis of one-half of the
regular tariff rates. The half rate will
also apply on live stock shipped from
the drouth areas to feeding points but
not to markets or to public feed lots.
See your county adviser to get the ad-
vantage of the lower rates.

Uncle Ab says that to keep from
crying over spilled ink, don't spill it
from the point of a pen.

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Page Five

The Proposed Revenue Amendment

The proposed revenue amendment adopted by the last General Assembly includes revi-
sions of Sections 1, 2, 9 and 10 of Article IX of the State Constitution. The present
sections and the amended sections are published side by side below. The proposed amend- . V ■, '
ments will be submitted to the voters at the general election November 4, 19}0. — Editor, ■

Present Section I '^;

Sec. 1. The General Assembly shall provide such reve-
nue as may be needful by levyitig a fax, by valuation, so
that every person and corporation shall pay a tax in pro-
portion to the value of his, her or its property — such value
to be ascertained by some person or persons to be elected
or appointed in such manner as the General Assembly shall
direct, and not otherwise: but the General Assembly shall
have power to tax peddlers, auctioneers, brokers, hawkers,
vterchants, commission merchants, sliowmen, jugglers, inn-
keepers, grocery-keepers, liquor dealers, toll-bridges, ferries,
insurance, telegraph and express interests or business, vend-
ers of patents and persons or corporations owning or using
franchises and privileges, in such manner as it shall from
time to time direct by general law, uniform as to the class
upon which it operates.

Present Section 2

Sec. 2. The specification of the objects and subjects of
taxation shall not deprive the General Assembly of the
power to require otixr subjects or objects to be taxed, in
such manner as may be consistent with the principles of
taxation fixed in this constitution.

Present Section 9

Sec. 9. The General Assembly may vest the corporate
authorities of cities, towns, and villages with power to
make local improvements by special assessment or by special
taxation of contiguous property or otherwise. For all other
corporate purposes, all municipal corporations may be
tested with authority to assess and collect taxes, but such
faxes shall be uniform in respect to persons and property
within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same.

:;• ■ ' . V Present Section 20 ' j^. A ;.' '; i ;

Sec. 10. The General Assembly shall not impose taxes
upon municipal corporations, or the inhabitants cr property
thereof, for corportite purposes, but shall require that all
the taxable property within the limits of municipal cor-
porations shall be taxed for the payment of debts contracted
under authority of law, such taxes to be uniform in respect
to persons and property within the jurisdiction of the body
imposing the same. Private property shall not be liable to
be taken or sold for the payment of the corporate debts of
a municipal corporation.

Amended Section 1

Sec. 1. The General Assembly shall have power to
enact laws to provide revenue. All real estate for the
purpose of imposition of taxes shall be in one class, except
that mineral lands and land devoted to reforestation may
be in different classes.

Amended Section 2

Sec. 2. If a tax is imposed on incomes the state shall
not receive more than 1 5 per centum of the proceeds there-
of after deducting the cost of collection except by the
affirmative votes of two-thirds of the members elected to
each house of the General Assembly. And unless other-
wise provided by a similar two-thirds vote the remrainder
shall be distributed among the several counties in the ratio
which the total collected from taxpayers of each county
bears to the total collected from taxpayers of the whole
state, and the amount allocated to each county may be
further divided among the county and other municipal
corporations within or partly within such county as the
General Assembly may from time to time by general law
direct. Other taxes collected by the state may be distrib-
uted in whole or in part among the counties and other
municipal corporations in such manner as the General As-
sembly shall direct by general law.

Amended Section 9

Sec. 9. The General Assembly may vest the corporate
authorities of cities, towns, villages, sanitary districts, park
districts and other municipalities with power to make local
improvements by special assessments or by special taxation
of contiguous property, or otherwise. For all other cor-
porate purposes, all municipal corporations may be vested
with authority to assess and collect taxes.

Amended Section 10

Sec. 10. Except as permitted in Section 2 the General
Assembly shall not impose taxes upon municipal corpora-
tions or the inhabitants or property thereof for corporate
purposes, but shall require that taxes be levied by munici-
pal corporations for the payment of debts contracted under
authority of law. Private property shall not be liable to
be taken or sold for the payment of the corporate debts of
a municipal corporation.

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POSTER EXHIBIT IN FARM BUREAU TENT, SPRINGFIELD

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iilMiii l':i 1 lira 111. 1 li> I liiiii*^:! ihK \\ Iiii Na\« if iliii'iiiu llii' i\rrl«.
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i-iiiilil ui*aN|i i|tiii*kl> till* ^:iriiillH ai-fi%ilii*% i*ari*ii>il iin l*> llii* iiru:! ni/.a I inn.

The >pt.ik<.i' pttintcj out tli.il iIk
St.itc «)t .W'U ^ oris li.is i;onc' Lirtlur
to liilp t.iinici-- v\itli ilicu io.kI .iiul
M.I100I probknis tli.in .iii\ otln.i'. "Our
rur.il ockKMtioii.ll s\ stiiii is not .uk-
lUi.tlc. ' s.iitl .Mr. Tkoinpson. "Tlic
>.()iintr\ is coiist.iiuK i;i\inj; up .1 l.irj;i.
nunilx'r ot \ounj; men .iiul woiiK-n to
the cities. TIksc bo\ s .ind ,u>'k .ire
educatcj .It tlie expense ot tlie t.umer.
altlioufih .itter k.ivins; tlie rur.il eoni-
niunities the) do nothuii; to contribute
low.trd tlie ni.iinten.mce ot the scliook
lh.it etluc.uej them. Millions of' f.irm
bo\ s .ir.d .iLjirls .ire being tr.iined in rur.il
eoiii .mini ties where v.ilues .ind t.ix.ible
income .uv const.mtly decre.isinj;. It
is not possible to le\ \ .i his;li enoujjh
t.iN in m.in\ rur.il communities to ;.;i\e
l.irm bo\ s .ind i;irls .111 .idequ.ue educ.i-
cion. I'ublic educ.uion is not .1 loc.il
problem, it is .i n.ition.il one." He de-
cl.ired th.it there is .1 i;ro\\inj; need for
.1 n.ition.il tuiul to help struj;j;linj; rur.il
schoivls.

Too Much "Service"

How we h.ne been buildinj; up .1
eomplic.ited s\ stem ot costlx service
between the consumer .ind producer
w MS .mother subject discussed. "Wiien
I w MS M box," sMiil Thompson, "we
went to the local shoemaker and paid
him S3.S(» to mMke a pair ot shoes.
The cobbler was paid oftentimes m
chickens and e.i;};s. Now the s\ stem
has been entirely chanjjed. Shoes are
made in factories, handled first by the
w hok'saier or jobber, and then b\ the
retailer, each of whom adds his cost to
every pair handled." .Mr. Thompson
then asserted that he had paid close to
s2^ in tips during the last Id months
for checking a hat which cost original-
ly about s.V

To illustrate the declining taxable
\ alues in rural communities, the cases
of two rural counties in Kentucky
were cited. In 1920 the assessed valua-

4-H Club Calves Sell

Well at Chicago

Rl ( 1 AT siles ot 4-1 I club calves
sponsoied In the lnternation.il
1 ive Stock 1 xposiiion rciched .i top ot
s!i.2> on September .>.

The lop price w is p.iuj b\ .Xrmour &
( onipanv tor two steers from IJureau
eounlx. Illinois — a 1. II 1(1 pound 1 lere-
tord ii:t.\ h\ I o\ ill.i I lerkan of Prince-
ton, .\n<.\ .\ ''M) pounel shorthorn fed b\
( l.ireiice Iktting ot Buda.

A consignment ot 12 caK es troiii
DeKalb count \ brought the highest
.ixerage price ot am lot at si 2.5 5 per
cwt. Thirty-nine calves from Knox
CDUiitv a\eraged ^2 > pounds m weight
and sl2.>'J per cw t. in price. HureaLi
countx had ^1 calves averaging SS.i
pounds and s I 2. ill per cwt., while Iro-
ijuois coiinu had 52 averaging 8S4
pounds at sl2,M' per cwi.

Bring $1.^

The top price of sli ,u the .\ugust
2" auction was paid by Swift & Com-
pan\ .\ni.\ Wilson & C^ompany on two
calves from Sangamon count). III.
Ired Paffenberger ot Rochester sold a
1,0.' 1 pound Angus to Swift & Com-
panv, and (jlen Cofer ot Williamsville
sold a 9111 pound Shorthorn to Wilson
is: CAinipan) at that figure.

The 4.< calves from Sangamon aver-
aged 914 pounds in weight, and si 2. IS

tion of one Kentuck) count) was
s6, 101. 9X0. In I9.M), ten years later,
tax valuations in the same count)' had
declined to s.i,67 1 ,503. In another
rural count) in the same state, valua-
tions for tax purposes declined from
s5,3.iS,28() in 1920 to s4, 384, 281 in
1930. Mr. Thompson expressed the be- .
lief that farmers have kept up their
standard of living largely by eating
into capital investments during the
last 10 vears.

per cwt. in price. Macon countv. III.,
had tour head axeraging I.IIOII pounds
.u si 2.5 I per cwt., while Mclean
lountx sold tour head averaging 793
pounds in weight and sl2.55 per cxvt.
C ol. Clue) .M. Jones auctioned ot]
the calves on each occasion. These auc-
tions offer an unusual opportunit) to
siudx the relative values of different
grades ot cattle, and the International
invites visitors lo be present any Tues-
dav afternoon at 2 o'clock at the U. S.
Yards, (hic.igo, until the middle ot
(.October.

Reduced Rates Apply

In So. Illinois Area

E.Ml-RGEXCV freight rates on live
stock and feed, ha) and straw
when used for feeding purposes, have
been published for the southern Illinois
ilrouth area.

The new freight tariffs are effective
in the following Illinois counties:
Alexander, Clax, Craxvford, Hdwards,
layette, I'ranklin, Gallatin, Hamilton.
Hardin. Jackson, Jefferson. Jersev .
Johnson, Laxvrence, .Madison, .Marion,
■Massac, .\U)nroe, Perr)', Pope, Pulaski.
Randolph, Richland, St. Clair, Saline,
Union, Wabash, Washington, Wayne,
White and Williamson.

The rates apply on live stock, feed,
hay, straxv and xvater from various
points xvhen shipped to the drouth areas
.ind are on the basis of one-half of the
legular tariff rates. The half rate xx-ill
also apply on live stock shipped from
the drouth areas to feeding points but
not to markets or to public feed lots.
Sec your county .adviser to get the ad-
xantage of the lower rates.

Uncle Ab says that to keep from
cr)ing over spilled ink, don't spill it
from the point of a pen.

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Page Fill'

I The Proposed Revenue Amendment

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■f The proposed rcieuiie avtemlmeitt adopted b\ the last General Assembly includes ret'i-

I sions of Sections I, 2, 9 and 10 of Article IX of the State Constitution. The present

•'^ sections and the amended sections are published side by side below. The proposed ameud-

' / vients will be submitted to the voters ut the general election \oi ember •/, 19 U). — Editor.

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Present Section 1

1. The Geinral As

ihh

.ill jiroi iili \iiil> rci <

line lis nun be needful by /<( v;/,; ii /i/\, /m i iiliui/inn,
llhit !■((■; 1 jhr^Dii iiiiil e(irlnn\itinii \lhill pti) a tox in l>ri>-
poiliiiii III fhe itiliie of /'/>, In r or its proper/) — ^luh mine
to I'e list erliiined />) \oine jnv\iiii or I'ersoits /<> be eleeled
or ajipoiiilej in sncli iininner as the Geiier,il Assembly shall
(lireif, and not otheruise: but llie General As^enibl) shall
/hue jioiier l<i lax (nddiers, anelioiieers. brokers, hankers,
merchants, eoiiiinissioii inerchaii/s, shounien, jn;^;j,lers, inn-
keepers, ;^roeer) -keepers, liquor dealers, loll-briJ t^es, ferries,
insurance, /ele;^raph and express inleres/s or business, tend-
ers of patents and persons or corporation^ on nin'^ or usin^^
franchises and pr/i //(•,;;<■>, /// siieh manner as if shall from
lime to time direct In :-i,cneral Ian , uniform as to the class
upon n hich it operates.

Present Section 2

Set . 2. The specipcation of ihe i)h]ecls and suh]eel\ of
laxalion shall not depriie ihe General Assembly oj the
pouer to reijuire other subjects or id'jects to be taxed, in
such manner as ma) be consistent iiith the principles of
laxalinii fixed in this constilulion.

Present Section 9

Sec. 9. The General Asseiii/'l) iinn i esl the corporate
authorities of cities, touns, and iilla;^es with power to
make local improvements b) special assessment or /'i special
taxation of conti\^nons preipcrt} or otherwise. iOr all other
corporate purposes, all municipal corporations nun be
tested with author//) to assess and cidlect taxes, but such
taxes shall be uniform in respect to persons and property
uilhin ihe jnrisdiclion sif the bod) imposiir^ the same.

Present Section 10

Sec. 10. The General Assembl) shall not impose /axes
upon municipal corporations, or the inhabitants i.r property
thereof, for corporate purposes, bu/ shall require /ha/ all
tin- taxable propert) uilhin fhe limits of municipal cor-
porations shall be taxed for the pa)inent of debts contracted
under authority of law, such taxes to be uniform in respect
to persons and property within fhe jurisdiction of the hod)
imposing the same. Private propert) shall not be liable to
be taken or sold for fhe pay meiit of the corporate debts of
a municipal corporation.

Amended Section I

Sec. I. Tho Gi.-iuT.ll .\ssonil>l\ \ii.ill Ii.iw- power to
i.n.Kl l.wvs to provide revenue. All re,il ef.l.ite tor the
purpo'.e of imposition ot i,i\es sli.ii! be in ono elis>, c\cepi
th.it mincr.il l.tniK .mii l.iiij devoted to reioiest.ttion ni.n
be in diticrent el.isses.

Amended Section 2

Sec. 2. If a t.i\ is imposed on incomes die st.ite sli.ill
not receive more than 15 per centum of tlie proceeds there-
of after deducting; tiie cost of collection except b\ the
affirmative votes of two-thirds of the members elected to
each house of the General AssembK. And unless other-
wise provided b\ a similar two-thirds vote the remainder
shall be distributed amonj; the several counties in the ratio
which the total collected from ta.\pa\ers of each count \-
bears to the total collected from ta\pa\ers of the whole
state, and the amount allocated to each count\ ma\ be
further divided amoni; the county and other municipal
corporations within or partK within such counl\ as the
General AssembK- max from time to time b\ general law-
direct. Other ta.\es collected by the state m;iv be distrib-
uted in whole or in part amoni; the counties and other
municipal corporations in such manner as the General As-
sembly shall direct b\ j^eneral law.

Amended Section 9

Sec. 9. The General AssembK may vest the corporate
authorities of cities, towns, villaj;es, sanitary districts, park
districts and other municipalities with power to make local
improvements b\ speci il assessments or b\ special taxation
of contiguous property, or otherwise. lor all other cor-
porate purposes, all municipal corporations ma) be vested
with authorit) to assess and collect taxes.

Amended Section 10

Sec. 10. Except as permitted in Section 2 the General
AssembK shall not impose taxes upon municipal corpora-
tions or the inhabitants or propert) thereof for corporate
purposes, but shall require that taxes be levied b\ munici-
pal corporations for the pa\ ment of debts contracted under
authority of law. Private property shall not be liable to
be taken or sold for the pavment of the corporate debts of
a municipal corporation.

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CVL.TVBAL, ASSOCIA

RECORiy

To advance the purpoit for which the Farm Bureau u/ts organized,
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political,
and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation,
and to detelop agriculture.

Editor, George Thiein

Published once a month by the Illinois Agricultural Association,
at 124 So. Fifth St.,- Marshall, III. Adress all communications for publi-
cation to Editorial Office, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. Entered as
second-class matter June 16, 1930, at the post office at Marshall, 111.,
under the Act of March 3, 1879. Accepted for mailing at special rate of
postage provided for in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized
Oct. 27, 1925. The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural
Association is five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty cents
for subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Association Record. Post-
master: In returning an uncalled for missent copy please indicate key
number on address as is required by law.

OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith— Detroit

Vice-President, A. R Wright Varna

Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles

Chicago

..Bloomington

lit to 11th.

12th.

I3th

I4th_
ISth-
leth-
17th-.
18th_
19th-.
20th-.
21st...
22nd-

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

(By Congressional District)

_ H. C. Vial, Downen Grove

G. F. Tullock, Rockford

C. E. Bamborough, Polo

. M. G. Lambert, Ferris

A. N. Skinner, Yates City

Geo. B. HuUer, Washington

Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

...W. A. Dennis. Paris

23rd-

24th..
2Sth-

C. J. Gross, Atwood

..Charles S. Black. Jacksonville

Samuel Sorrclls, Raymond

Frank Oexner, Waterloo

W. L. Cope. Salem

Charles Marshall

Fred Dietz, De Soto

Comptroller

Dairy Marketing-
Finance..

DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing...

Grain Marketing

Information

Insurance Service-

Legal Counsel

Limestone- Phosphate

Live Stock Marketing

Office. - —

Organization ___

Produce Marketing

..J. H. Kelker

A. D. Lynch

R. A. Cowles

A. B. Leeper

—Harrison Fabrnkopf

_ George Thiem

_V. Vaniman

Donald Kirkpatrick

..J. R Bent

Ray E. Miller

C. E. Johnston

G. E. Metzger

F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics.. - - - J. C. Watson

Transportation - L. J. Quasey

ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS

Country Life Insurance Co - - L. A. Williams, Mgr.

Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co - _ J. H. Kelker, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives Ass'n F. E. Ringham, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co A. E. Richardson, Mgr.

Illinois Farm Supply Co - L. R. Marchant, Mgr.

The Revenue Amendment

THE position of the Illinois Agricultural Association on
the proposed revenue amendment is set forth at length
in the article beginning on page 3. We commend it for
your careful study and consideration. The attitude ex-
pressed in this statement was adopted only after careful
and deliberate thought of all the possibilities for tax reform
should the projx)sed amendment be enacted into law. For
the benefit of those who wish to study and compare the
exact wording of the present revenue article, and the
wording in the proposed amendment, both are published
side by side on page 5.

/. A, A. States Stand on Revenue
I Amendment

(Continued from page 3)

corporate purposes of such taxing districts. Um'er this pro-
vision, no taxes collected by the stiae can now be distrib-
uted to any taxing district for unrestricted use. Neither
the State School Fund nor the Gasoline Tax Fund are excep-
tions to this rule, because the state directs the manner of
using both.

The amendment, if adopted, would modify the above

restrictions, first, not only by permitting but by directing
that 8 5 per cent of the net proceeds of any tax im{>o$ed
upon income be returned to the counties In proportion to
the amount collected in each, unless the percentage named
were decreased by the aflSrmative votes of two-thirds of
tjie membeii elected to each House of the General Assembly;
second, by permitting the General Assembly, by general
law, to provide for the further distribution of the amount
allocated to each county among the county and other taxing
districts wholly or partly therein; third, by permitting the
General Assembly, in such manner as it may direct by gen-
eral law, to provide for the distribution of any part of other
taxes collected by the state among the counties and other
taxing districts.

Limitation Bad Feature ^1. ■

The state should not be limited to 15 per cent of the net
proceeds of any tax upon income. The legislative experi-
ence of the association shows the extreme improbability of
the- two-thirds vote necessary to increase the percentage to
more than 15. Much more probable would be a decrease
in the percentage to be retained by the state, a change re-
quiring only a majority vote of the members elected to each
House. So severe a limitation upon the state would surely
prevent it from receiving the revenue from income taxes
necessary to enable it to assume certain indispensable func-
tions, the most important of which is the assuring of equal
educational opjjortunities to every child in the state.

It should not be made possible for the General Asxmbly,
by majority vote, to provide for the distributior. of any
part of other taxes collected by the state. There iK-ing no
provision to the contrary, the granting of such power would
include not only all new forms of taxation adopted here-
after, except only a tax on incomes, but also all taxes now
collected and wholly retained by the state. Except in the
general property tax and in the simplest forms of personal
income taxes, it is difficult if not impossible to determine
the place of origin of income out of which taxes are paid.

How Determine Sources of Income?

For example, it is impossible to locate the various geo-
graphical sources of income out of which the state now
rightfully collects and retains an average total of $17,000,-
000 in taxes per year on inheritances, corporations and in-
surance privileges. It is impossible also to distinguish be-
tween local communities and others in the benefits conferred
by some kinds of improvements, especially good roads. It
is right, therefore, that the state should retain control of the
motor license fees, now over $17,000,000 per year, and the
gasoline taxes, now about $25,000,000 per year, for the
improvement and maintenance of the pubUc highways.

The legislative experience of the association indicates
that the adoption of the amendment would be followed by
the most insistent demand by various taxing districts that
inheritance taxes, corporation taxes, insurance privilege taxes,
and even gasoline taxes be distributed for unrestricted uses.
The state would probably soon be stripped of most of the
revenues now collected from sources other than the property
tax, causing a heavy increase in taxes on property even to
maintain present state functions, doing irreparable injury
to the improvement and maintenance of the state and
county highway systems, and making it impossible for the
state to assume highly desirable or even necessary additional
functions without further heavy increase in property taxes.

Making Local Improvements by Special Taxation
of Contiguous Property

Adoption of the amendement would enable the General
Assembly to vest the corporate authorities not only of
cities, towns and villages, which alone are named in the
present revenue article, but also of sanitary districts, park

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districts, and other municipalities, with power to make
local improvements by special assessment or by special taxa-
tion of contiguous property, or otherwise. The words
"other municipalities" include ail taxing districts not spe-
cifically named.

Without any mention of taxing districts other than cities,
towns and villages, it is usually believed that the General
Assembly cannot now vest the authorities of such other
taxing districts with power to make local improvements by
special taxation of contiguous property. This implied pres-
ent restriction has doubtless prevented many attempts to
secure the enactment of laws granting such poWer. Experi-
ence in other states, notably Iowa and Ohio, demonstrates
the danger of confiscatory special taxes on contiguous prop-
erty for road purposes. The proposed amendment would
open wide the door for confiscatory special taxes, especially
on contiguous property, for many purposes.

Summary and Conclusions

The Illinois Agricultural Association has long been and
is now heartily in favor of properly amending the revenue
.irticle of the state constitution. The pending amendment
contains some good features which the association would
.ipprove, if they could be voted on separately. Along with
the good features of the amendment, however, are several
provisions which would be wholly improper in our consti-
tution, since they would make our taxing system still more
burdensome to most property, especially real estate.

Such improper provisions are:

; 1. A grant to the General Assembly of /. /

;/.■.■:. such broad power to classify property

as to permit the use of different stand-
. ' . ards of value and different tax rates,

AS in the low- rate taxation of intangi*

■■;■.; bles. :■■:-. .V

' . . 2. The restriction of the state to a per- . ■ -
'^■■-^'^.-...tion of any tax on incomes which ' v-i

■-would be w^holly inadequate to its
.;,-■■',■ needs.

.:;■.. , 3. A provision permitting the state to be
;.,:■- :!^ stripped of the greater portion or all

v.; -V /^of its present revenue from inheri-
~tance, corporation and insurance privi-
■{.•\ ^*8* taxes and even gasoline taxes,

; "•^•' which would further hamper the state ,:..:.

and make it more dependent on prop-
erty taxes.

4. A provision permitting these various
taxes, after being taken away from
the state (w^here alone they would be
large enough to be replacement taxes
and decrease the levies on property) to
be distributed among so many taxing
districts and usually in such small
amounts that they could no longer be
lieu taxes, but would be additional
taxes.

5. A provision permitted ANY taxing dis-
trict to levy confiscatory taxes by spe-
cial assessment on contiguous rural
property for local improvements.

The Illinois Agricultural Association is convinced that
the improper provisions proposed in the pending amend-
ment, if adopted, not only could but would have very bad
results on tangible property, and most of all on real estate.
The good provisions of the amendment are far outweighed
by its bad provisions. The Illinois Agricultural Associa-

tion, therefore, has no choice but to refuse any support for
the amendment. It regrets the delay of four years before a
proper amendment can be submitted, but believes that delay
is far safer than the incorporation of dangerous and im-
proper provisions in a constitution so notoriously difficult
to amend. In the meantime, much can be done not only
in better enforcing the present revenue laws, but also in
using the great power given the General Assembly by the
present constitution, under which an income tax free from
the restrictions proposed in the amendment can be enacted.
TTius would be made possible the use of revenue derived
from such a tax to reduce or replace pro{>erty taxes.

Clay County Enforces the Law

ONE of the iniquities of the general property tax is that
it is not enforced impartially. The state constitution
provides that all property shall pay a tax according to its
value. Following the lines of least resistance, the assessor
invariably lists real estate first because it is eaily accessible.
You can't hide land, buildings, live stock, and farm machin-
ery. Nor can you easily obscure their value. But with
personal property, including household goods, clothing,
jewels, motor cars, etc., it is different, particularly in our
towns and cities. These either escape taxation altogether
or else they are assessed notoriously low. Thus the burden
of taxation falls unfairly on real estate.

In Clay county, Illinois, the local board of review, we
are informed, is attempting to improve its enforcement of
the property tax. Overassessment of farm lands and im-
provements disclosed by the Farm Bureau is being met with
a flat 20 per cent reduction. The loss in revenue will be
made up by assessing personal property on the same basis
as real estate is taxed. "In my town," said a Clay county
citizen, "fifty dollars is the highest value placed on any
taxpayer's personal property." Not even the price of a
good radio. In Chicago, 8 5 per cent of the people pay no
personal property taxes. The Clay County Board of Re-
view is to be commended for its effort at law enforcement.

Dr. Warren Forecasts

'TPHE overwhelmingly important cause of the agricultural
-L depression is falling prices and consequently maladjust-
pient between farm and retail prices, all of which is due
to an increasing value of gold. Dr. G. F. Warren explained
to the international conference of agricultural economists'
meeting at Cornell University recently.

The depression will last as long as material deflation con-
tinues, and for a number of years after. If deflation should
discontinue now, the increased efficiency in farming, in-
creasing efficiency in handling products, and the infinite
number of adjustments in other prices might be expected
to end the agricultural depression in ten years or less, he
predicted. "I believe, however," said Dr. Warren, "that
prices will continue to decline to the pre-war level and prob-
ably they will go below that level. When the decline stops,
several years will be necessary to overcome the agricultural
depression."

The individual farmer should anticipate still lower prices,
and be careful about long-time debts, except for things
that are below pre-war prices. He must reduce his costs
of production. He should not buy land nor work land that
does not produce a high output for each hour of labor. He
should make labor-saving plans of operation. His business
should be large enough to fully employ all of his time and
that of his labor. He should obtain high crop yields by
using fertilizers which are cheap, and by discontinuing to
work land that does not give high yields. Dr. Warren ad-
vised.

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Prepare to Handle

1930 Soybean Crop

Contemplate Substantial Advance
to Grower on Delivery of Beans

CHlC.\«iO CEXTIHY OF PROGKESS Bl IMJINGS IXSILATE HOOFS
WITH CORNSTALK BOARIJ
' AhoT« in a Tienr of the eaxt fnrnile of thr AdniiniKtration baildloK at Chl-
<^aKO*N coniinic Century of ProKreHN Exiioxltion. >vith Uk terrnreH NteppinK donn
tf> the edK of the n-ater in the north liiicoon.

The roof of the Travel and Transport bnildlnK. xiMler to the AdniiniKtration
bullilinK alone 4>overK approximately Ave aerex in areii. The rof»fN of both bnild-
incH nili be inMulnled nith Mnizevvood nianuf.irtnred from rornstailvH by the poni-
pany with nhioh GeorRre .\'. Peek, ex-<>OT. Frank O. Lovvden, Chester C. UaviH
and otherx are axNoeiated.

Cornstalk Finds Place In New
t Chicago World's Fair Buildings

THE lowly cornstalk, long considered
a nuisance on many farms, will
come into its own at the 193 3 Century
of Progress Exposition, otherwise known
as the Chicago World's Fair. Insula-
tion board manufactured from corn-
stalks has been selected to insulate the
roofs of the Administration building
and the Travel and Transport building,
both of which are now being erected
on the Chicago lake shore, southeast of
the Field Museum.

A trainload of cornstalks purchased
from Iowa and northwestern Illinois
farms was used in manufacturing the
roof insulation which has ben ordered
for these two buildings. The roof of
the Travel and Transport building
alone has a spread of about five acres,
which will be covered with an inch-
thick blanket of Maizewood, the .corn-
stalk insulation board.

The total roofing order calls for
460,000 square feet of one-half inch
insulation, which is being shipped to
Chicago from the cornstalk insulation
board factory at Dubuque, Iowa.

Factory at Dubuque

The pioneer work in the development
of insulation from cornstalks was done
at the Iowa State College, by Dr. O. R.
Sweeney, chief of the chemical engi-
neering department. The Maizewood
Products Corporation established its
factory at Dubuque, Iowa, for the
practical application of Dr. Sweeney's
discoveries. Last year a controlling in-
terest in the Maizewood Products Cor-
poration was acquired by a strong

group of middle west business men,
primarily for the purpose of assisting
to bring about the widespread use of
cornstalks for building and industrial
purposes, and to develop this as a source
of new income for cornbelt farmers.

The group includes former Governor
Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, George
N. Peek, William V. Kelley, Joseph E.
Otis, E. V. R. Thayer, Frank H.
Woods, Chester C. Davis, and many
others, including executives of Inter-
national Harvester Company, Deere &
Company, and business and agricultural
leaders of Iowa. This company was
incorporated as National Cornstalk
Processes, Inc., with the intention of
developing the manufacture, not only
of insulation material, but other prod-
ucts and by-products.

Stalks Are Baled

The cornstalks which go into Maize-
wood are purchased widely over Iowa
and Northern Illinois, baled and trans-
ported to Dubuque for manufacture.
About 20,000 tons of cornstalks a year
are required for the capacity of the
Dubuque plant. A careful preliminary
study in advance of the formation of
National Cornstalk Processes, Inc., re-
sulted in the conclusion that the field
for insulating material, synthetic lum-
ber, and related products, would prove
broad enough to lead to the establish-
ment of a number of siu;h factories
throughout the cornbelt, whose aggre-
gate expenditure for raw material
would constitute an important addition
to agriculture's income.

PLANS for handling the 1930 soy-
bean crop are rapidly being formu-
lated by officers and directors of the
Soybean Marketing Association.

Arrangements are being made to se-
cure storage for the soybeans owned
by the 2,200 members, pending their
sale. The association also has taken
steps to secure finances to advance the
growers when their beans are delivered
to the elevators.

It is contemplated that beans will be
delivered to the local elevator in each
community where there are members of
the association. The elevator will re-
ceive, weigh and grade beans, and pay
the advance to the grower. It is ex-
pected that not more than four or five
cents per bushel will be paid the ele-
vator for the service. The soybean pro-
ducers in each community will make
all arrangements with their own ele-
vators for the service and establish a
charge fair to both.

Processors Not Ready

Processors are not yet in a position to
handle beans and the association will be
ready to take over the crop and handle
it when the members deliver. The
scarcity of feed and the fact that both
the soybean and flax crops have been
injured by the drouth has placed the
new co-operative in a favorable posi-
tion for marketing its first crop.

The amount of the first payment has
been discussed informally with Vice-
Chairman James C. Stone of the Fed-
eral Farm Board, but has not been
definitely decided. Mr. Stone spent
several hours in the I. A. A. office in
Chicago before leaving for Monmouth
and Jacksonville where he addressed
district Farm Bureau picnics.

The soybean advisory counsels in the
various counties are being asked to fur-
nish information regarding the number
of acres each county will have to mar-
ket as commercial beans, the probable
yield per acre, and the elevator to
which the beans will be delivered.

"The August number of the I.
A. A. RECORD struck me as be-
ing one of the best numbers you
have ever published. It is good
from front cover to the back
cover. It presents a large amount
of information about a wide va-
riety of subjects, and in an effective
w^ay.

"I w^ish to congratulate you."
C. C. BURNS, Adviser,
Champaign County Farm Bureau.

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Pag

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Fire Prevention Week

Coming Oct. 5-llth

SAIVGAMON WINS CI P AT STATE FAIR
MnnnKer A. E. RIchnrdNon of the IlliiiofK AsTrirulturnl Mutual i>i-eKentK Farm
Aflvixer KdtTin Bay with a nilvir trophy awarded the Farm Bureau in the eounty
haviuK the larjcest number of meiiiiiers and viNilors rejcixtered at the Farm Bureau
tent, SpriUKflpId. duriuK the State Fair. The IMS vixitorN from Sani^amon had a
total of 10,440 poiutK, MeI.ean waN llnd with 4,<t20, and ChrlMtian :tnl with 8,.S40.

Rain Breaks Up 14th

Dist. Picnic, Monmouth

Good Crowd Hears Vice-Chairman
Stone at Jacksonville

RAIN broke up the first of the many
Farm Bureau district picnics to
be held during the last <hree years when
a steady downpour sent thousands scur-
rying for their cars at the 14th district
picnic, Monmouth, on August 29. This
fact is particularly striking because of
the prolonged drouth this summer.

While the morning was cloudy, long
before noon thousands of Farm Bureau
members and visitors from Rock Island,
Mercer, Warren, Henderson, Hancock
and McDonough counties had gathered
at Monmouth Park for the occasion.
The crowd promised to equal the record
one estimated at more than 10,000 the
year before. The light rain persisted
through the noon hour, and by 1:15
p. m., the time for beginning the pro-
gram, it was coming down steadily
with no sign of letting up.

After a hasty consultation. Chairman
M. G. Lambert and the local committee
announced that the picnic would ad-
journ to the Armory uptown for the
speeches and presentation of prizes.

Mrs. Sewell Speaks

Close to a thousand of the picnic
crowd, estimated before the rain at
more than 5,000, went to the Armory
and heard Vice-Chairman James C.
Stone of the Federal Farm Board, and
Mrs. Chas. W. Sewell, home and com-
munity director of the American Farm
Bureau. .../,... . .

Mrs. Sewell spoke on the subject,
"The Wom.-'n in the Case." She quoted
a statement by Alexander Legge, chair-
man of the Farm Board, to the effect
that the old idea was that farmers' co-
operatives should be of, by and for men
only. Now we are discovering that
they must be a family affair, and must
be human. The mothers and children
must make a definite contribution and
get a real value in turn. Co-operatives
are as strong and no stronger than farm
women help them to be. We need them
and call upon them to enlist.

Among the feature events of the pic-
nic was a horseshoe pitching tourna-
ment in which Fred Burrus of Hender-
son county won the singles contest,
while M. Roberts and G. Mabry of
Hancock county won the doubles event.
Hancock, Henderson, Rock Island, Mc-
Donough, Warren and Mercer coun-
ties competed in the tournament.

The baseball game between the War-
ren and Henderson county teams was
called off on account of rain.

Good Crowd at Jacksonville

A crowd estimated at 4,000 to
5,000 assembled at Nichols Park, Jack-
sonville, on August 30 for the 20th
district Farm Bureau picnic. The day
was sunshiny but sultry.

The afternoon speaking program was
held in a large Chatauqua tent seating
approximately 2,500 to 3,000 people.

Charles S. Black presided. Congress-
man Henry T. Rainey and Sam Sorrells
from the 21st district sat on the speak-
ers' platform with James C. Stone, vice-
chairman of the Farm Board, and Presi-
dent Earl C. Smith.

At the close of Mr. Stone's address,
reported elsewhere in this issue, Chair-

By V. Vaniman, Director Insurance Service

GOV. LOUIS L. EMMERSON has
issued a proclamation setting aside
October 5-11 as Fire Prevention Week.
In announcing the week set aside for
this purpose the Governor said: "To
prevent fire is the personal rcsp>onsibility
of everyone. It should be taken seri-
ously. I appeal for the co-operation of
all citizens in the interest of avoiding
fires, not only during this week, but
at all times. I urge that mayors, fire
chiefs, chambers of commerce, civic or-
ganizations and schools lend their ef-
forts to a practical program of educa-
tion in their respective communities in
the interest of reducing the causes of
fire."

A Few Facts

There were 417 deaths by fire in Illi-
nois in 1929; projjerty losses reached
the huge total of an average of S2,000,-
OCO a month. In his seventh annual
report, the state fire marshall says,
"study of the cause of fire for many
years has shown clearly that 75 to 90
per cent of all fires are preventable."

Following are some of the causes of
farm fires: Lightning, defective chim-
neys and flues, sparks on roof, matches
and smoking, spontaneous combustion,
gasoline and kerosene, electricity, stoves
and furnaces, hot ashes and coals, open
fires, rubbish and litter, and incinera-
tion. I

Defective flues and sparks on the roof
are responsible for 19 per cent of the
farm fire losses. Due to the financial
situation many flues have not been re-
paired and also many roofs should have
been replaced five or ten years ago.

Fall Fires

There will be a heavy toll of roof
fires when the stoves and furnaces are
started this fall unless chimneys are
cleaned or burned out while the sh.n-
gles are damp.

Thoughtful consideration of fatalities
and the great financial loss caused by
fires should cause every thinking jjcrson,
owning property, to make a careful
inspection looking forward to prevent-
ing fires.

man Black called the members of the
Cass and Greene county Farm Bureau
baseball teams to the platform and
spoke briefly of the progress that had
been made in recent years in developing
Farm Bureau baseball in Illinois. He
stated that the league had grown from
22 county teams in 1929 to 31 com-
peting teams in 1930.

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Cornstalk Finds Place In New

Chicago World's Fair Buildings

TI ir lowK" coiiT-t.ilk, long cuiisidciL'cl
.1 mii'-.incc on m.my t.irms, will
ciimc iiUo it^ own at llic iy3.> CAimiiv
iif Piogivvs .Hxposition, oiIktw I'm- known
.IS ihf C~hic.ij;o Vi'orkrs I .nr. Insiil.i-
lion bo.irJ mnnuf.icturi.i.i Jroni coin-
■•lalks li.!s hi'cn sclccttil to nisul.iti.- tlu
i(K)ls ot tlic AJministr.ition buildini;
.'.nJ tlu' TiMVi.1 .vnd Transport building,
boili ot which an.' now btins; erected
on I he C^liic.ii^o lake shore, soiuiieasl ot
the 1 ielil Museiini.

A trainloatl ot cornstalks purciiased
Ironi Iowa mii.\ northwestern Illinois
I arms was used in maiuitacturini; the
root insulation which has ben ordered
tor tiiesi- two buiidinj;s. The root of
the Travel and Transport buildiiii;
done has a spread ot alxuit five acres,
which will be covered « ith .\n inch-
thick blanket of Mai/ewooil. the corn-
stalk insvilation board.

The total roolin;; order sails for
4fii».ooi) s,)uare feet of one-half inch
insulation, which is beinj; shipped to
( hicai;o trom the cornstalk insulation
boaril taetor\ .it DubiK^ue, Iowa.

F.ictory at Dubuque

11k pioneer work m tlu dcxelopment
ol ii^il.ition from ct)rnstalks was done
at the b)wa State Collei;e, b\ Dr. O. R.
Sxycenex , chief of the clumical eni;i-
neerini; department. Tin. .\lai/ew ood
Proikicis C'orporation established its
tactorv at Dubuque. Iowa, tor the
practical .ipplication of Dr. Sweenev's
discoveries. 1 ast year a controlling; in-
terest in the .\!ai/ewood Products Cor-
poration was aci]uired b\ a strons;

uroup ot middle west business men,
primariK for the purpose of assistinj;
to brinj; about the widespread use of
cornstalks for buildinj; and industrial
purposes, and to de\ elop this as a source
of new income tor cornbelt farmers.

The i.;roup includes former Cjovernor
I rank O. low den ot Illinois. Georj;e
X. Peek. William V. Kellev, Joseph F.
Otis, 1.. \'. R. Thaxer,' Frank H.
Woods, Chester C. Davis, and main'
others, includins; executives of Inter-
national I larvester Company, Deere &
Company, and business and aj;ricultur,il
leaders ot Iowa. This conipam was
incorporated as National C^ornstalk
Processes, Inc., with the intention of
developmj; the manufacture, not onl\'
of insulation material, but other prod-
ucts anil by-products.

Stalks Are B.iled

The cornstalks which i;o into Mai/e-
w ood are purchased widely over Iowa
and Xorthern Illinois, baled and trans-
ported to Dubuque for manufacture.
About 2().<M)(l tons of cornstalks a year
are required for the capacity of the
I^ubuqiie plant. A careful preliminary
stud\ in advance of the formation of
National Cornstalk Processes, Inc., re-
sulted in the conclusion that the tield
for insulatins; material, s\nthetic lum-
ber, and related products, would prove
broad enou!;h to lead to the establish-
ment of a number of sush factories
throujjhout the cornbelt, whose ai;<;re-
j;ate expenditure for raw material
would constitute an important addition
to agriculture's income.

Prepare to Handle

1950 Soybean Crop"

Contemplate Subst.nntial Advance
to Grower on Delivery of Beans

4

PI AXS for handling the 1930 soy-
bean crop are rapidly being formu-
lated b\ officers and directors of the
So\ bean Marketing Association.

Arrangements are being made to se-
cure storage for the soybeans owned
by the 2,200 members, pending theii
sale. The association also has taken
steps to secure finances to ad\ance the
growers when their beans are delixered
to the elevators.

It is contemplated that beans w ill be
tlelivered to rlie local ele\ ator in each
connnunitv where there are members of
the association. The elevator will re-
ceive, weigh and grade beans, and pa\
the adxance to the grower. It is ex-
pectetl that ndt more than four or hvi.
cents per bushel will be paid the ele-
vator for the ser\ ice. The soybean pro-
ducers in each communitv will make
all arrangements with their own ele-
vators for the service and establish a
charge fair to both.

Processors Not Ready

Processors are not vet in a position lo
handle beans and the association will bi.
readv- to take over the crop and handle
it when the members deliver. The
scarcity of teoil and the fact that both
the soybean and tlax crops have been
injured bv the drouth has placed the
new co-operative in a favorable posi-
tion for marketing its first crop.

The amounrof the first payment has
been discussed informally with \'ice-
Chairm.in James C. Stone of the Fed-
eral I arm Board, but has not been
dehnitelv' decided. Mr. Stone spent
several hours in the I. A. A. ottice in
Chicago before leaving for .Monmouth
and Jacksonville where he addressed
district I arm ]5ureau picnics.

The soybean advisory counsels in the
various counties are being asked to fur-
nish information regarding the number
of acres each county will have to ni.ir
ket as commercial beans, the probable
V ield per acre, anil the elevator to
w hich the beans will be delivered.

"The August number of the I.
A. A. RECORD struck me as be-
ing one of the best numbers you
have ever published. It is good
from front cover to the back
cover. It presents a large amount
of information about a wide va-
riety of subjects, and in an effective
■way.

"I wish to congratulate you."
C. C. BURNS, Adviser,
Champaign County Farm Bureau.

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Rain Breaks Up 14th

Dist. Picnic. Monmouth

Good Crowd Hears Vice-Chairman
Stone at Jacksonville

RAIN brol^c up tile fir^t ot llii.- ni.in\
I ,11111 Biiic.ui district picnics to
he Ik'IJ during tlic List tlircv.' yens wlicn
,1 stc.id\ dow npuiu' sent llioiismds sciir-
i\iiig for tlicir cars .n the 14tli district
picnic, Monniduili. on Auj;ust 2'J. Tliis
l.ict is particularly strikini; Kcausc ot
the prolonged drouth this summer.

While the morning \\ as cKnuh , long
het\)rc noon thousands ot I arm liureau
members and visitors from Rock Island,
Mercer. Warren. Henderson, Hancock
and McDonough counties iiad gathered
at Monmouth Park for the occasion.
I he crowd promised to cijual the record
iMie estimated at more than lo,(M)() the
\ear before. The light rain persisted
through the noon hour, and by 1:15
p. m., the time for beginning the pro-
gram, it was coining down steadily
with no sign of letting up.

After a hasty consultation. Chairman
M. (j. Lambert and the local committee
announced that the picnic would ad-
lourn to the Armor\ uptown tor the
^p.eches and presentation of prizes.

Mrs. Sewell Speaks

Close to a thousand of the picnic
ciiiwcl, estimated before the rain at
more than 5,000, went to the Armorx
anil heard \'ice-Chairnian fames C.
Stone of the I ederal I arm Board, and
Mrs. Clias. \\". Sewell, home and com-
nninitX' director of the American I arm
I*, urea II.

Mrs. Sewell spoke on tlie subiect,
"The W'om.'n in the C^ase." She quoted
a statement b\ Alesaiukr I.egge, chair
man of the harm Board, to the etKcl
that the old idea w as that farmers' co-
operatives should be of, b\ and for men
onlv. Xow we are discovering that
thev must be a familv atlair, and must
be human. The mothers and children
must make a detinite contribution and
get a real value in turn. Co-operatives
are as strong and no stronger than farm
women lielp them to be. We need them
and call upon thcni to enlist.

Among the feature events of the pic-
nic was a horsesht)e pitching tourna-
ment in which I red Hurrus of Hender-
son counlv won the singles contest,
while M. Roberts and C. Mabry of
Hancock count\ won the doubles e\^nt.
Hancock. 1 lenderson. Rock jslanil, Mc-
Donough. W arrcii aiul Mercer coun-
ties competed m the tournament.

The baseball game between the War-
ren and Henderson count) teams was
called ort on account ot rain.

Good Crowd at Jacksonville

A crowd estimated at 4.n()() to
^,000 assembled at Nichols l»ark, jack-
soin ille, on .August .'0 for the 20th
district larm Bureau picnic. The i.\.\\
was sunshinv but sultry.

The afternoon speaking program was
held in a large Chatauqua tent seating
approximatelv 2,500 to .>,000 people.

C;harles S. lilack presided. Congress-
man Henr\ T. Raine\ and Sam Sorrells
from the 21st district sat on the speak-
ers' platform w ith James C. Stone, vice-
chairman of the I arm Board, and Presi-
dent I arl C. Smith.

.At the close of Mr. Stone's address,
reported eKew here in this issue, Chair-

Fire Prevention Week

Coming Oct. 5-1 1th

By V. V.iiliiUJti. Dn,,/'i': Iiimiijih-,- S.'i ,• ;i (

GOV. lOLTS I.. EMMIRSOX has
issued a proclamation setting aside
October 5-11 as lire Prevention Week.
in announcing the week set aside tor
this purpose the Cjovernor said: "To
prevent tire is the person.il ivsponsibiliiv
ot e\er\i)ne. It should be taken seri-
lusly. I appeal for the co-operation ot
all citizens in the interest ot avoiding
tires, not onl\ during lh:s week, but
at all times. I urge thai mavors, hre
chiefs, cliambe:s ot cornmcrce, civic or-
ganizations anii schooK lend their et-
foris to a practical program ot educa-
tion in their respective- communities in
the interest of reducing the causes of
lire."

A Few Facts

There w er^e 41" deaths by fire in Illi-
nuis in 1929; property losses leaclusl
tile huge total of an average of s2.ooii.-
ii( 0 ,1 month. In his seventh annual
report, the st.ite lire mai shall s.ivs.
"studv ot the cause ot lire Ic r main
vears has shown clearly that ~5 t<i 9<i
I'ler cent ot all tires .ue preventable."

1 ollowing are some ot the causes ol
faiiii tires: lightning, deteciiv.- .him-
nevs and llues, sparks on rtMit, matches
M'nS smoking, spontaneous combustion,
gasoline aiu) kerosene, electricitv. stoves
aiul turnaces, hot ashes .\ni.\ coals, open
lires. rubbish and litter, Myi\ incinera-
tion.

Defective llues and sparks on the roof
■ire resp<.)nsible for 19 per cent ot the
tarm tire losses. Due to the financial
Situation manv llues have not been re-
paired and also mam roots slnuild have
been replaced live or ten vears ago.

Fall Fires

There will be a heavv tiill ot roof
fires when the stoves .und turnaces a:e
started this fall unles|s chimnev s are
cleaned or burned out while the sj..n-
gles are damp.

Thoiighttul coiiMder.ition ot tatalities
and the great financial loss caused in
lires shouki cause everv thinking person,
owning propertv, to nnake a careful
inspection looking forward to prevent-
ing tires.

man Black called the members ol the
Cass and Greene county I arm Bureau
baseball teams to the platform and
spoke brielly of the progress that had
been made in recent yeajrs in developing
larm Bureau baseball In Illinois. He
stated that tiie league had grown from
22 countv teams in 1929 to >1 com-
peting teams in 19.iO.

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The first month of activity brought in $12,580,000 of
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20-Pay, and 20-Year Endowment policies. Since then the
results of our offering of wholesale term insurance indicate
that the total of written business since the beginning of
the Company is now approximately $45,000,000.

The Company has an agency force of 1,300 agents in-
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IN a previous issue of the RECORD
we attempted to give our impres-
sions gained on an automobile trip to
Yellowstone and Glacier National
Parks, of the federal government's
western land policy, and its effect on
corn belt agriculture.

During the journey over the great
plains and through the mountains we
saw several of the more important land
reclamation projects including North
Platte and Shoshone in Nebraska and
Wyoming, Sun River, Milk River, and
Lower Yellowstone in Montana. In
addition, we observed that millions of
acres of grazing lands had been brought
under cultivation by dry land farmers,
largely as a result of governmental in-
fluence. Ambitious western railroads,
anxious to build up their income haul-
ing farm products, strongly supported
and helped initiate the acreage-exten-
sion, surplus-producing program.

1 On further investigation of federal
reclamation w.ork we find that the Re-
clamation Act was approved June 17,
1902. "Congress passed this act," de-
clares the Bureau of Reclamation, "in
order that large areas of lands suitable
for irrigation farming in arid states
might provide homes for citizens, in-
crease the agricultural area of the coun-
try, and make beneficial use of two of
its national assets, land and water."
There you have the government's pol-
icy during the last 30 years set forth
in bold relief. Agriculture has been
regarded as a way of living, not as a
business or an industry subject to the
same economic laws as any other busi-
ness or industry.

It was inevitable that sooner or later
agriculture would develop an acute pain
in the stomach from too much food.
"Farming in the United States was not
on a satisfactory basis before the r/ar,"
said President Hoover in one of his
campaign speeches. How could it be
with farm production being, stepped up
blindly without regard to what the
market would take at a profitable price?

' There are 25 gigantic federal irriga-
tion projects located in whole or in
part in 15 of our arid western states.
On June 30, 1924, 22 years after the
passage of the Reclamation Act, a vol-
ume of water had been impounded in
reservoirs or diverted from regular
stream channels sufficiently large to ir-
rigate 1,718,400 acres of project lands
and to furnish supplemental irrigation

SAN<iA>IO.\ AXD MOXTGOMKRY F. H. TKAMS I»I,AY XIOUT nASKBAI-L
Fiiriii llurrnn tpnniN from SnnKnnion iinti MontKoiiirry <-«iintieM initintrd
niKht bnNebnII in the SInte Fnrni Riirrnii l.nKiir Mc«pr:il wrekK nKO nhen they
lilayeil iin "nfter ilnrk" Kiinie on the Three-I l^eiiKiie ilinnionil at Springfield.
lOnrI ('. Smith. 1. A. A. iirpKiilent. thretv the lirNt hall to xlnrt the Kame. The
•liamond tvnx made liKht an day hy ponerfiil eleetrie lamiiN.

under the Warren Act of 1911, to
1,213,700 acres of land having an in-
sufficient water right for full crop pro-
duction. Since that time there has
been considerable additional develop-
ment.

All this competition to the cornbelt
farmer was financed by the government
without interest. The Act of 1902
provided that funds obtained from the
sale of public lands in 16 of the arid
western states should be used for the
examination and construction of federal
reclamation projects. Soon after the
act was passed construction work be-
gan. Within a few years all the funds
made available were gone and an ad-
ditional sum of $20,000,000 was ap-
propriated. Further appropriations
were made from time to time to water
more acres, grow more crops and pro-
duce more cheap food.

The Reclamation Act and amend-
ments thereto provide that those who
settle upon reclaimed lands need not
pay any interest on the money invested
in construction work necessary to make
water available to the farmer. The
original practice was to divide each
farmer's assessment into ten yearly in-
stallments. More recently the pay-
ments have been divided into 20 yearly
instalments without interest, and the
government has had difficulty in col-
lecting because of low prices for"
wheat, barley, sugar beats, oats, corn,
alfalfa aad beans grown on these irri-
gated lands.

In effect, the federal government has
been in the farming business, assisting
in creating farm crop surpluses, since
'he dawn of the 20th century. It ap-
parently felt that population would
grow faster than the food supply;
that agricultural expansion was a good
thing fcr the country. The middle-
men, speculators and the railroads
never uttered a word of protest at the
government's efforts in stimulating
agricultural production. It was alright

with them to see the business of estab-
lished farmers in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana,
Missouri and other mid-west states un-
dermined by government subsidy to a
new group of competitors on land that
had better remained idle. But it's all
wrong now for the government to help
solve the problem it assisted in creat-
ing; to aid the farmer in regulating and
controlling the production and market-
ing of his products. It is, to hear them
tell it. E .G. T.

Elect Directors

Directors elected at the annual meet-
ing of the stockholders of the Illinois
Grain Corporation on September 2 in
Chicago were as follows: J. C. Sailor,
John Stout, Claude Thorpe, E. E.
Stevenson, G. C. Johnstone, Warren
Watson, O. G. Anderson, Chas.
Schmidt, B. L. Baird, Bert Loudenbach,
Carl P. Griffiths, Ralph Mills, J. Fred
Romine, and Geo. J. StoU.

Routine business and recent develop-
ments toward becoming established as
a regional grain marketing agency for
the State of Illinois were discussed.

Representatives from a majority of
the stockholder members attended the
meeting.

Opens St. Louis Office

THE Mid- West Grain Corporation,
sales agency for the Illinois Grain
CorfKjration, representing the Federal
Farm Board plan of grain marketing in
Illinois, opened a branch office in room
5 14, Merchants Exchange building, St.
Louis, Mo., on September 4.

Geo. C. Martin, an experienced grain
man and formerly president of the St.
Louis Merchants' Exchange, has been
employed to manage the St. Louis of-
fice.

Mr. Martin will handle all grain
shipped to the Illinois co-operative at
St. Louis serving all members and farm-
ers' elevators in that territory, and fur-
nishing St. Louis cash market bids. ;

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Concentration of Selling Power

Farmers Need

"Jim" Stone Tells How Agriculture Can Meet Organization of Industry, at Monmouth

' and Jacksonville Picnics ' I

HOW farmers can meet
industrial organization
by which stockholders of a
corporation concentrate
their money and buying
power under the control of
a few intelligent managers,
was told by James C. Stone,
vice-chairman of the Fed-
eral Farm Board, who spoke
at Farm Bureau district pic-
nics in Monmouth and Jack-
sonville, August 29 and 30
respectively.

"Farmers, likewise, can
concentrate their products
and their individual selling
power under the control of
co-operative marketing as-
sociations," said Mr. Stone.
"The methods of operation
of these two organizations,
the corporation and the co-
operative marketing associa-
tion, are similar and the ob-
jects to be accomplished are
the same in both.

A Modern Plant

"The successful manu-
facturer has a well-con-
structed, conveniently ar-
ranged plant with modern
machinery and employs ca-
pable and efficient manage-
ment. If he did not do this
he could not meet the com-
petition of the plant which
is competently and efficient-
ly managed. In fact, the
main object of any success-
ful industrial plant is to
manufacture the best possi-
ble produce at the lowest possible cost,
and industry has been able to accom-
plish this by employing the best expert
ability.

Talk Down Own Business

"Another fundamental in connection
with industrial success," said Mr. Stone,
"is that production is regulated in large
measure to potential consumer demand
and is sold to the public through a
highly organized and efficient sales de-
partment."

Here the speaker paused to reveal
one apparent difference between stock-
holders of a corporation and members

tC^T'OU can't legislate the farmer rich. It is
■L possible to give equal opportunity to agri-
culture, and the Marketing Act opens the way.
It is our job to use the law in helping the farm-
er. If it hurts someone else it is just too bad."
The speaker suggested that it might be neces-
sary sooner or later to adopt a plan of grading
land according to its fertility,
in the interest of adjusting
production to demand. "We
can't possibly gro'w wheat on
$200 land in Kentucky," he
said, "and compete 'with the
Kansas farmer who grow^s
w^heat as successfully on land
valued at $12 to $15 an acre.
We must learn to produce the
best product possible at the
lease cost."

Referring to the produc-
tion of tobacco in his home state, he pointed out
that the four or five buyers of that product w^ho
purchase nearly 90 per cent of the Burley tobacco
grow^n there have all the advantage in buying
from 130,000 unorganized producers, where the
weakest groover, financially, sets the price of
the crop.

Mr. Stone was introduced by President Earl
C. Smith, who made his first public appearance
since his recent illness.

In a short preliminary talk Mr. Smith out-
lined the setup of the Illinois Grain Corporation,
stating that the opposition to co-operative grain
marketing program apparently 'was being
financed by enemies of farmer co-operation. He
stated that an announcement regarding the I. A.
A.'s policy on the proposed revenue amendment
'would be made follo'wing the next meeting of the
board of directors.

.Ins. C. Stone

of a co-operative association. "Too
many farmers talk down their own
business," he said. "Moreover, they
listen to attacks against their own or-
ganization without defending it. Most
stockholders of a corporation boost it
and defend it against attacks. But not
so with many farmers. They not only
listen passively to malicious propaganda
spread by their enemies, but they even
go so far as to attack their own busi-
ness, their own organization, when it
should have their full support and co-
operation. Farmers too often listen
gullibly to falsehoods about their lead-

ers and their co-operatives,
expressed by those who have
a selfish interest in retain-
ing control of the selling
end of the farmer's business,
without a word of protest.
You don't hear stockholders
of a corporation talk it
down like some farmers do
their co-operative."

Continuing the analogy
between industry and agri-
culture, Mr. Stone pointed
out that there are some six
and one-half million farm-
ers operating that number
of individual farm factories,
largely without regard to
what their neighbors are
doing or what the market
will take at a profitable
price.

Each a Manufacturer

"Each individual farmer
is a manufacturer," he said.
"His farm is his plant. If
his soil is fertile and his
farm machinery modern, his
plant is then well equipp>ed
to produce a good quality
product at a reasonable cost.
If his land is [>oor and his
machinery inadequate, he
has a hard time to compete
with the farmer whose land
is fertile and who uses up-
to-date machinery' to culti-
vate it."

The speaker cautioned
farmers to keep in touch
with the latest develop-
ments in research carried on
by the state experiment station and
advocated by the county advisers. He
suggested that farmers get all the avail-
able information regarding probable
market requirements and then adjust
their production in line with this in-
formation.

Heed U. S. Reports

"For several years the Department of
Agriculture at planting and breeding
time has been supplying farmers val-
uable information about the prospective
supply and demand of agricultural com-
modities. ■ Where the situation seemed

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

to warrant, the Department has sound-
ed warnings against increased produc-

. tion that would result in larger crops
than the potential market could absorb.

- Not enough attention has been paid by
farmers in the past to these outlook re-
^x)rts. I am not going to suggest the
reason, but merely call that fact to
your attention. The time has come
when farmers must not only do some
thinking on this subject but some act-
ing as well if they wish to improve
their financial position.

Sheep Industry Cited

"An instance of how producers have
ignored warnings against overproduc-
tion and are now suffering from that
lack of action is furnished in the sheep
industry. As early as 1927 sheep pro-
ducers were warned against an impend-
ing surplus unless greater caution was
used in increasing their herds. There
was no response and the warning was
repeated in 1928. The same thing hap-
pened that year and another warning
was issued in 1929. A short crop last
year helped to defer the adverse effect
of the surplus until last fall when lamb
prices in Chicago, which had been from
$13 to $16, were carried down to prices
of $10 and lower. The lamb crop this
year was two million head greater than
that of 1929 and this increased produc-
tion still remains to be' disposed of be-
fore improvement to a more profitable
level can be hoped for.

Big Crops Vs. Small

"I am going to give you a few fig-
ures now on some other commodities
that show how big crops returned to
the farmer less than he got for small
crops. In 1928 farmers produced 49
. million head of hogs, which was 9 mil-
lion head more than the crop of 1926,
and the farm value was 140 million
dollars less than it was for the smaller
crop of 1926. The biggest hog crop of
the past six years was that of 1929
when 11,3 53 mil'ion pounds were
slaughtered under Fedcr?! inspection.
The smallest in that period was in 1926
when the slaughter was 9,633 million
pounds. For the crop of 1,720 million
pounds more in 1929 the producer re-
ceived 68 million dollars less.

"Beef cattle production' in 1929 was
the smallest in the past six years and
brought the grower the most money.
Slaughter under Federal inspection was
7,940 million pounds, for which the
producer received 968 million dollars.
In 192^, it was 9,814 million pounds
and th« ■^'roducer got only 943 million
dollars, or 25 million dollars less for
a 25 per cent greater production.

"The corn crop of 2,300 million
bushels in 1924 had a farm value of
300 million dollars more than one of
600 million bushels larger in 1925.

Potatoes and Cotton

"The record of returns for potato
crops over a period of years shows that
the growers get more for a crop under
400 million bushels than they do for a
crop in excess of 400 million bushels.
The smallest potato crop in the past six
years was 321 million bushels and the
bumper crop of that period was 463
million bushels in 1928. The 1928
crop of 142 million bushels more
showed a return to the farmer of 242
million dollars less.

"The smallest cotton crop of the
past ten years was that of 1923, being
only 10,140,000 bales. The biggest was
in 1926, amounting to 17,977,000
bales. The cotton farmers got 589
million dollars more for their crop in
1923 than they did in 1926, when they
had 7,837,000 more bales of cotton.

Duties of Board

"Among the duties imposed upon the
Farm Board by the Agricutural Mar-
keting Act are these:

1. To ket^^ advised from any
available sources and make report
as to crop prices, experiences, pros-
pects, supply and demand at home
and abroad;

2. To investigate conditions of
overproduction of agricultural
commodities and to advise as to
the prevention of such overpro-
duction.

"Thus it will be seen that in urging
farmers to adjust their production as
nearly as possible to the potential con-
sumer demand we are simply doing a
part of the job entrusted to us by Con-
gress. In addition to helping supply
farmers with all available information
on supply and demand conditions at
planting time together with suggestions
in regard to adjustments that may ap-
pear desirable, the Board will do what
it can to assist cooperatives in expand-
ing and extending the markets for for-
eign products at home and abroad.

Reduce Wheat Acreage

"We have recommended to farmers
that wheat acreage be reduced gradual-
ly until production is on a domestic
basis, the purpose being to give the
grower the benefit of the tariff pro-
tection voted him by Congress. We
have done this because the facts be-
fore us indicate that there will be no
substantial improvement in the world
wheat market the next few years com-
pared to the past few years. In our
opinion the prospective world price
does not offer a profitable return to the
American grower, but so long as he pro-
duces more than the domestic market
will consume he must be content to ac-
cept for his entire crop the price his

surplus commands in foreign markets.

"There are some who think a way
should be found to dispose of the sur-
plus abroad so that that surplus will
not afT3ct the price on that part of the
crop sold at home. Among the sug-
gestions put forward are the equaliza-
tion fee and debenture plan, both of
which contemplate subsidizing the ex-
portation of the surplus; that is, dump-
ing it on th£ world market. Anything
that savors of dumping, as we see it,
will not be effective for the very good
reason that most of the importing
countries have very strict defensive
measures against such a procedure. Like
the United States, these countries have
their own firm problems, and are de-
termined to protect their growers
against dumping of farm products.
That is in harmony with our attitude
since Congress has given the farmers
of this country special protection
against subsidized imports. Various
other proposals have been made for
dealing with the wheat surplus prob-
lem, but after giving them all careful
study and serious consideration we
have come to the infinite conclusion
that adjustment of production offers
the only real hope for the wheat
grower to get his business on a profit-
able basis. - , ^ • -
Must Be Willing

"It the farmer is willing to help him-
self, the AgriciJtural Marketing Act
will go a long way towards solving the
farm problem. It provides government
assistance that will enable farmers
through their co-operative organiza-
tions to control the production and
marketing of their crops. The Farm
Board was created to administer the
law and is ready to extend every as-
sistance that is authorized. The Board,
however, can proceed no faster than
farmers are willing to go collectively
for it must deal with them through
their associations and not as individuals.

"Believing when it undertook its
task, a year ago in July, that organi-
zation was a first essential, the Farm
Board has concentrated its efforts large-
ly on helping existing co-operatives to
centralize and expand their activities.
Co-operatives handling a particular
commodity were assisted in setting up
central co-operative marketing agencies
for that commodity. To date, the co-
operatives with the assistance of the
Board have established seven national
commodity co-operative sales agencies.
These include grain, live stock, wod
and mohair, cotton, pecans, beans and
sugar beets.

Not Price Fixing

"The function of these agencies is
to merchandise the products handled by
their member associations and not to fix

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or raise prices artificially. They are
owned and controlled by the farmer as-
sociations that set them up. They are
in no sense agencies of the Government
or agencies of the Farm Board. They
are simply a machinery of the people
who produce a crop to market that
crop. Great care has been taken in
their organization to see that they are
set up on a sound financial basis so
that they will be in position, with ex-
perience and growth, to operate with-
out governmental advice or assistance.
So long as these agencies borrow Fed-
eral funds, the requirement is made
that their management shall be satis-
factory to the Farm Board.

Farm Board Helps

"In addition to helping co-operatives
establish the seven national co-opera-
tives sales agenc'is, the Farm Board is
assisting other co-operative groups in
the development of regional or central
marketing programs for the commodi-
ties they handle, such as dairy products,
rice, potatoes, apples, sour cherries and
various other fruits and vegetables.
Special mention perhaps should be made
of the co-operative program that has
been worked out by the California rai-
sin-grape industry with the assistance
of the Board. More than 85 per cent
of the growers have joined in the pro-
gram which provides for voluntary
contributions by them to remove the
surplus and convert as much as possi-
ble of that surplus into by-products for
which there is a market and thereby
prevent the surplus from unduly de-
pressing fresh grape and raisin prices.

Time Not Arrived
;'.": "From our experience of the past few
"months the Farm Board confidently be-
lieves that the principles of the Agri-
cultural Marketing Act not only are
sound but offer the best approach to
dealing with the farm problem. Vari-
ous suggestions have been made of
changing the law. Such action, in our
opinion, would be a serious mistake.
It may be that greater experience will
demonstrate the need for amendment,
but that time has not arrived. It is
our judgment that substantial progress
is being made in developing co-opera-
tive marketing and that much more
can be expected in the next year.

"Tinkering with the law at this time
very likely would check the progress
that is being made by growers in or-
ganizing for collective action with the
result that those who are opposing co-
operative marketing, and not the farm-
er, would be benefited. Agriculture
cannot be made prosperous by legisla-
tion. That will come only when the
producers operate their industry on a
sound financial basis. The Agricultural
Marketing Act offers them a means of

organizing to do this collectively. Suc-
cess of the program that is being de-
veloped under that law will dejjend
largely on the willingness of farmers to
take advantage of the opportunity be-
fore them.

"In conclusion, I wish to emphasize
the fact that we do not want farmers
to think that the Farm Board believes
that co-operative marketing alone will
solve the agricultural problem. The
method of distribution and marketing
is vital, but, as we have shown, there
is a great deal more to be done by the
individual farmer himself than simply
joining a co-operative marketing or-
ganization, and in improving the distri-
bution and marketing of his products."

Farmers' National

Grain Corooration

County Oil Company

Managers Meet

Two district meetings of county
supply company managers were held
at Chicago and Springfield on August
26 and August 29 respectively.

A large number of managers, offi-
cers and directors of the oil companies
affiliated with the Illinois Farm Supply
Company attended the conference. The
discussion was devoted largely to busi-
ness routine including the establish-
ment of uniform prices on lubricating
oils and greases sold throughout the
state. Attention was called to the need
for more co-operation rather than com-
petition between the county companies.

The following managers attended one
or the other of the two conferences:

Wilmer Cornwell, Adams Service Company;
Lester A. Rahn, Carroll Service Company; J.
M. Winklcblack, Coles County Supply Com-
pany; W. E. Jones, Christian County Farmers'
Supply Company; Walker Thorp, DcWitt
County Service Company; H. W. Cotterman,
Edgar County Farm Bureau Supply Company;
Russell G. Stewart, Ford County Service Com-
pany; Ray A. Garber, Fulton Service Com-
pany; Roy T. Ferguson, Henry County Supply
Company; W. O. Wilson, Jersey County Farm
Supply Company; G. C. Warne, Kane County
Service ompany; F. A. Leach, Kendall Farm-
ers' Oil Company; R. H. Keeler, Knox County
Oil Company; M. H. Comisky, LaSalle County
Farm Supply; Fred R. Bybee, Lee County Ser-
vice Company; T. M. Livingston, Livingston
Service Company; F. J. Lanterman, Logan Farm
Supply Company; C. E. Jones, Macon County
Supply Company; D. R. Smith, Marshall-Put-
nam Oil Company; J. R. Taylor, McDonough
Service Company; George Curtiss, McLean
County Service Company; M. H. Colson, Men-
ard County Farmers' Supply Company; George
Henry, Montgomery County Farmers' Oil;
Lloyd Woolsey, Peoria County Service Com-
pany; Leslie Miles, Rich-Law Service Company;
L. B. Jones, Schuyler Service Company; Clyde
Woolsey, Tazewell Service Company; J. L.
Stormont, Tri-County Oil Company; J. D.
Bunting, Wabash Valley Service Company; Al-
fred Sutton, Will County Farm Supply Com-
pany; D. G. Bonar, Winnebago Service Com-
pany; G. G. Ludwig, Woodford County Ser-
vice Company; and C. L. Jewsbury, Morgan
Farmers' Oil Company.

Owned by 26 Co-Opera tive Grain
Marketing Organizations, Han-
dles One- Third Wheat at
Kansas City

FARMERS* National Grain Corpora-
tion is owned by twenty-six large-
scale co-operative grain marketing as-
sociations, their location in all grain
areas of the country making the ser-
vices and benefits of the national sales
agency available to every grain pro-
ducer. District and local offices for
the expeditious handling of the cor-
poration's business are maintained in St.
Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth, Minn.;
Great Falls, Mont.; Kansas City, Mo.;
Omaha, Neb.; Wichita, Kan.; Enid,
Okla.; St. Louis, Mo.; Indianafmlis,
Ind.; Denver, Colo.; Ogden, Utah;
Pendleton and Portland, Ore., and S(>o-
kane and Seattle, Wash. These offices
give Farmers' National representation
in practically every important grain
growing area.

July Business

During July, the first month of the
new crop season. Farmers' National
bought a total of 17,121,718 bushels
of grain, including wheat, corn, oats
and barley. Of the total receipts of
wheat at Kansas City during the month
32 per cent, or nearly one-third, was
handled by stockholders of the Farmers*
National. Branch offices at Omaha,
Neb.; Enid, Okla., and Wichita, Kan.,
also handled a very large volume of
business, as did branch oflSces at St.
Louis and Indianapolis, in the soft
wheat territory. Purchases did not in-
clude large volumes of wheat stored by
members to be sold through the Fa,cm-
ers' National at such times as the)« de-
sire to place it on the market. On the
early crop movement in the Pacific
Northwest and the Intermountain ter-
ritory the corporation has handled a
very fair share of the wheat marketed,
while in the spring wheat area the dis-
trict office at St. Paul, with branches
at Minneapolis and Duluth, Minn., and
Great Falls, Mont., is taking care of
all the wheat members have for sale in
those markets. Export business has
been good, the corporation handling
wheat direct from member co-opera-
tives to millers and other buyers in
foreign countries. ^ ::.:,

. , Booklets Available

A booklet entitled "A Message and
a Challenge to the American Grain
Producer," describes the organization
plan of Farmers* National Grain Cor-

Page Sixteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

poratjon and the relationship of co-
operative marketing organizations and
individual farmers to the corporation.
Copies of these booklets are available
to all. Another booklet deals with the
loan program of the corporation. These
are available for limited distribution to
co-operative organizations, officials, farm
organization leaders and field men.
Copies of either booklet may be ob-
tained by writing direct to Farmers'
National Grain Corporation, division of
organization and pyblicity, Fisher
Building, Chicago, III. When writing
for loan booklets please state farm
organization connections.

Marketing Machinery

More farmers will market their grain
co-operatively in the United States dur-
ing the 1930-1931 crop season than
ever before, and the co-operatives*
equipment for handling the grain is not
only in better shape than ever before
but is steadily improving. Farmers'
National now has under its control,
which means farmer control, approxi-
mately 20,000,000 bushels of storage
space on important grain terminals,
with additional marketing machinery at
sub-terminals. Co-operative stockhold-
ers are steadily increasing their own
holdings of country, sub-terminal and
terminal storage space and adding new
elevator units to their organizations.
All this means that the grain co-opera-
tives are advancing toward the point
where they will be able to hold their
grain near the point of production un-
til demand requires its movement to
the buyer. The grain thus will be kept
out of the world's "show windows,"
where its presence, in quantities greater
than are called for by immediate con-
sumptive demand, becomes a depressing
influence on market values.

Export Department

Export business of Farmers* National
Grain Corporation has developed in a
highly satisfactory manner. Through
this department the corporation has es-
tablished contacts with millers and
other buyers in all the principal grain
importing countries of the world. In
one day during July wheat was shipped
to eight different ports, in bottoms
chartered by the corporation. Thus
the American grain producer was able
for the first time to ship grain all the
way from the farm to the last buyer
through farmer-owned and farmer-
controlled channels, without the inter-
vention of a single outside agency.

Mrs. Belle Holmes of Mereer connty reeeiveM dr«m of Penn Bond motor oil
won in drnwinK "t the lllinoiM Stnte Fiiir. Fridny, Anicust 22,

The drum wiim delivered to her home hy one of Trl-County Oil Co. snleMnien.

Paul M. I.nuer of I.ee eoiinty won the drum <if oil nt the Central States Ex-
position ait Aurora. The iirixe was delivered liy I.ee Connty Service Co. of Amboy.

KEEPING WELL

By Dr. John A. Boland
Prevention of Diptheria

BEFORE the discovery of antitoxin
the mortality rate in diphtheria
was about 40 per cent. Since its use
this figure has dropped to about 10
per cent. If antitoxin is used in the
first twenty-four hours, nearly every
case can be saved. Rarely is a diagnosis
made before the third or fourth day.
This delay causes irreparable damage
to vital organs that cannot be neutral-
ized by the subsequent administration
of antitoxin. With the positive fact
staring us in the face that one out of
every ten dies that contracts diphtheria,
not counting the large number that are
invalided as the result of complications,
we cannot laud too highly any treat-
ment that will actually prevent diph-
theria in 8 5 per cent to 95 per cent of
all persons properly treated.

Diphtheria annually kills more chil-
dren than any other disease of child-
hood. The time is not far off when
every death from diphtheria will be
looked upon as one of criminal negli-
gence upon the part of someone. This
must fall either on the family physi-
cian or the parents.

Over 80 per cent of all cases of diph-
theria occur in children under the age
of 10.

Over 64 per cent of all cases and
over 80 per cent of all deaths from
diphtheria occur in children under the
age of 5.

' Farm taxes, on the average, take 30
per cent of the farmers' net income,
according to Dr. Hibbard, economist
at the University of Wisconsin.

From 85 per cent to 95 per cent of
all persons receiving proper preventative
treatment with toxin-antitoxin become
immune. There is no need for any
child to suffer from diphtheria. Medi-
cal science has made this one of the
most easily preventable of all diseases.

The procedure is simple, produces no
ill effects and is in no way dangerous
to the child. Immunization or protec-
tion against diphtheria consists of three
small injections of toxin-antitoxin at
intervals of five to seven days.

The duty lies with the parents to
have their children, between the ages
of 6 month and 6 years, immunized
against diphtheria by having them re-
ceive the toxin-antitoxin at once. This
is advisable insomuch as about 95 per
cent of children between these ages are
susceptible to diphtheria.

A test known as the "Schick Test"
is advised in children past 6 years of
age. This is a simple skin test to de-
termine if a child is susceptible to the
disease. If the child has a negative
Schick Test it will not be necessary that
he receive the toxin-antitoxin.

The susceptibility to diphtheria de-
creases with age. However, this is not
altogether true in rural districts as
Schick Tests have shown that between
20 per cent and 30 per cent of adults
in those districts are susceptible to
diphtheria.

With a 10 per cent mortality rate in
diphtheria at the present time, it seems
to me the duty of parents is plain.
Consult your family physician today
and make arrangements to have your
children receive the toxin-antitoxin at
once and wipe out this dreaded disease.

Supplies of fed cattle during the first
half of 1931 are expected to be smaller
than in 1930, reports the Bureau of
Agricultural Economics. Demand for
stocks and feeders this fall will not
equal that of last year, and for that
reason slaughter is likely to be some-
what greater.

The Bureau believes that prospects
favor a material advance in cattle prices
in the next 12 months.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Seventeen

Up to Farmer, Legge

Tells New York Folks

Ought to Heed Advice About
Production from Washing-
ton, He Says

Alexander Legge

icT^ ERHAPS the soundest advice we
-t^ can give to agriculture is con-
tained in the one word, 'Organize',"
declared Alexander Legge, chairman of
the Federal Farm Board, before the
New York State Farm Bureau Federa-
tion meeting at the New York State
Fair, Syracuse, on September 2.

"Properly organized, I cannot see
any reason why agriculture might not
go even farther
than industry,"
said Mr. Legge,
"inasmuch as most
of your products
are consumed every
day and several
times a day and
t h e _ consumption
must be fairly con-
tinuous if we are
to live.

"The greatest
difficulty we have to contend with," he
continued, "is that in some mysterious
way, through legislative action or oth-
erwise, the handicap under which agri-
culture is suffering, will be removed,
and the position of the farmer made
secure without any action on his part.
My friends, this is not even a good
dream. It is currently believed that
dreams sometimes come true, but this
one never will."

Farmer Doesn't Get It

He called attention to the informa-
tion being collected continuously by
the government regarding agricultural
production and markets. "One trou-
ble has been in the past," he said, "that
the information apparently has not got-
ten through to the man interested and
that is the farmer producing the com-
modity. Earnest efiforts are being made
to revise and condense this vast fund
of information and put it in such shape
that the producer can readily under-
stand just how it applies to his par-
ticular problem."

Mr. Legge stated that the Federal
Farm Board has extended aid to 17
different classes of agricultural prod-
ucts already. He pointed out that
the more strongly organized groups
naturally secure the first benefits. "We
cannot loan to an individual farmer, or
to a merchant or a banker," he said.
"Loans are restricted to co-operative
organizations, producer-owned and pro-
ducer-controlled." He asked New York
farmers if they were not neglecting

to organize and advertise their apple
crop. "As a boy back on the farm in
a far western state," he said, "when we
were able to get a barrel of New York
apples for Christmas it was a real oc-
casion. Everybody regarded them as
the finest quality produced anywhere.
Aren't you people in the Empire State
rather neglecting this commodity, and
if so, why?

Need Better Organization

"Your land values are not high as
compared to other sections of the coun-
try where this crop is raised extensive-
ly. Large consuming markets are close
at hand and certainly no one can pro-
duce a better quality of product. With
a good strong marketing organization
to insure the producer getting his full
percentage of the consumer's dollar, it
is my notion that this industry might
be safely developed to considerably lar-
ger proportions than at present."

He called attention to the fact that
during the past 30 years the medium-
sized, or smaller than average crop in-
variably made the greatest financial re-
turn.

Principles Sound

"From our experience of the past
few months the Farm Board confident-
ly believes that the principles of the
Agricultural Marketing Act not only
are sound but offer the best approach
to dealing with the farm problem,"
Legge continued. "Various suggestions
have been made of changing the law.
Such action, in our opinion, would be
a serious mistake. It may be that great-
er experience will demonstrate the need
for amendment, but that time has not
arrived.

"Agriculture cannot be made pros-
perous by legislation. That will come
only when the producers operate their
industry on a sound basis. Success of
the program that is being developed
under that law will depend largely on
the willingness of farmers to take ad-
vantage of the opportunity before
them."

Speaks to Grange

■1

On the following day, September 3,
Mr. Legge gave a similar talk before
the New York State Grange meeting
at the New York State Fair. He stated
that the Farm Board had advised re-
duction in acreage only in wheat and
cotton, calling to the attention of cer-
tain other growers the danger of ex-
panding production in other crops.

Referring to the Agricultural Mar-
keting Act, he said: "The success of
the program is not going to depend so
much on what the Board does, but on
the willingness of farmers to act col-
lectively."

W^Dope

FOUR County Farm Bureau teams
are on the last lap of the race for
the Illinois Farm Bureau baseball cham-
pionship. As we go to press word
comes that Sangamon county, one of
the leading contenders for the state
championship, was defeated in a 11-
inning game at Springfidd on Septem-
ber 6. Logan county was the victor.
Details of the game are lacking. A
brief report states that Sangamon
slammed out 19 hits while Logan was
getting 15, but the latter came out at
the long end of the 10 to 9 score.
Three-I league umpires officiated.

Carroll county turned the tables on
LaSalle at the Carroll county picnic
near Lanark the same day. The score
was 9 to 5. LaSalle won the first game
played at Ottawa the week before. The
next game will decide which team shall
go on in the race. McDonough county
will play either LaSalle or Carroll in
the semi-final play-oflf, and the winner
of that series will play Logan in the
final battle of the year.

Hard Fought Series

The Sangamon-Logan series was one
of the hardest-fought matches of the
season. After being defeated for the
first time this year by Logan, Sangamon
came back in the second game at Chat-
ham, August 26, and won 6 to 5.
Logan county had the best of the argu-
ment in this game and led by two runs
until the ninth when Sangamon
bunched enough hits to drive three
markers across the home plate. In the
last game Langley, Sangamon county
pitcher, struck out eight men and
walked five. The Logan county hurl-
ers, Quisenberry and Hanahan, struck
out six men and walked two.

One of the surprises in the semi-final
play-off was LaSalle county's victory
over the strong Carroll county nine at
Ottawa on August 28.

LaSalle county won 7 to S, although
Carroll got nine hits to LaSalle's eight.
A feature of the game was the triple
play in the ninth which ended Carroll
county's threat to win. Carroll had
men on first and third when E. Sturte-
vant hit to Kirkhus, the LaSalle county
second baseman. Kirkhus threw the
ball to first to retire the batter, the
first baseman shot the ball to the catch-
er to get Ganger, who was stealing
home, and the catcher hurled the ball
to the third baseman to catch the base
runner there to end the game.

Page Sixteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

por.itioii .iiid the rcl.uionship of co-
opcr.itivc m.irkctirii; orj^.ini/.itions uu)
iiuliviilu.il farmers to the corporation.
Copies ot these booklets .ire .iv.iil.ihle
to .ill. Another booklet de.iU with the
lo.in pro.ur.im of the eorpor.ition. These
■ire .iv.iil.ible for limitej distribution to
eo-oper.itivc ori;.ini/.itions. othci.ils, f.n in
ori;.ini/.uion le.ii.lers .md held men.
( opies of either booklet m.n be ob-
I. lined by writing; direct to l.irmeis'
X.uion.il Gr.iin Corpor.ition, division ot
or;.;.iiii/.itior. .ind publicity, i isher
r.iiildinj;, Chicis^o, III. When writinj;
tor lo.in booklets ple.ise st.ite l.irm
o'i;.iniz.uion connections.

Marketing Machinery

.More t.umers will ni.irket their ;.;riin
co-oper.itiveh' in the United St.ues dlir-
iiii; the 19.>()-1 i>.i 1 crop se.ison ih.in
■\er before, .ind the co-oper,ui\ es'
equipment for h.indimi; the yr.iin is not
(iiiK in better sh.ipc tli.m ever before
but is ste.idiK improxiui;. I .irmers'
X.uion.il now h.is umler its control,
w Inch nie.ins f.irmer control, .ipproxi-
ni.uely 2(),()nO.(l(lO bushels of stor.n;e
spice on import.mt jjr.iMi terniin.ils,
w ith .uldition.ll m.irketing m.ichiner\ .it
sub-termin.ils. Co-oper.itive stockhold-
ers .ire ste.ulily incre.isins; their own
holdings of country, sub-termin.il iiul
terniin.ll stor.i;,;e sp.ice .ind .uldins; new
(.lev.itor units to their org.mi/.itions.
.Ml this me.ins th.it the j;r.iin co-oper.i-
tives are .idv.incint; tow.ird the point
where they will be .ible to hold their
strain near the point of production un-
til demand requires its movement to
the bu\er. The j;rain thus will be kept
out of the world's "show windows,"
where its presence, in quantities greater
than are called for b\ immediate con-
sumptive demand, beconu's a depressing
intluence on market values.

Export Department

Export business of I armers' National
Grain Corporation has developed in a
h.ighly satisfactorv manner. Thnnitjh
this department the corporation has es-
tablished contacts with millers and
i>ther buxers in all the principal i;rain
importint; countries of the world. In
one day diirins; July wiieat was shipped
to ei_!;ht different ports, in bottoms
chartered by th'c corporation. Thus
the Americin grain producer was able
for the first time to ship grain all the
wax- from the farm to the last buxer"
through farmer-oxvned and farmer-
controlled channels, without the inter-
vention of a single outside agency.

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KEEPING WELL

By Dr. John A. Bolaud

Prevention of Diptheria

BM C^lK the discox ery of antitoxin
till, mortality rate in diphtheri.i
w .IS .ibout 40 pi.r cent. Since its use
this tigure has dropped to about 10
per cent. If aiuiloxni is used in the
first twenty-four hours, nearix every
ease can be s.ixed. Rarelx is a diagnosis
made before the third or fourth d.w .
This delay causes irreparable damage
to vital organs that cannot be neutral-
ized by the subsequent atlministration
of antitoxin. With the positive fact
staring us in the face that one out of
ex ery, ten dies that contracts diphtiieria,
not counting the Kirge number that are
invalided as the result of complications,
we cannot laud too highly anx treat-
ment that xvill actually prevent diph-
theria in S5 per cent to 95 per cent of
all persons properly treated.

Diphtheria annually kills more chil-
dren than any other disease of child-
hood. The time is not far off xvhen
every death from diphtheria will be
looked upon as one of criminal negli-
gence upon the part of someone. This
must fall either on the family phxsi-
cian or the parents.

Over 80 per cent of all cases of diph-
theria occur in children under the age
of 10.

Over 64 per cent of all cases and
over 8(1 per cent of all deaths from
diphtheria occur in children under the
age of 5.

Farm taxes, on the average, take 30
per cent of the farmers' net income,
according to Dr. Hibbard, economist
at the Universitv of Wisconsin.

From 8 5 per cent to 9 5 per cent of
all persons receiving proper preventative
treatment with toxin-antitoxin become
immune. There is no need for any
child to suffer from diphtheria. .Medi-
cal science has macle this one of the
most easily preventable of all diseases.

The procedure is simple, produces no
ill ertects and is m no xxay dangerous
to the child. Immuni/ation or protec-
tion against diphtheria consists of three
small injections of toxin-antitoxin at
interx als of fixe to seven daxs.

The duty lies with the parents to
liaxe their chikhen, between the ages
of 6 month and 6 xears, immuni/ed
against iliphiheria b\ hax ing them re-
ceive the toxin-antitoxin at once. This
is advisable insonuich as about 9 5 per
cent of children betxxeen these ages are
susceptible to diphtheria.

A test known as the "Schick Test"
is advised in children past 6 vears of
age. This is a simple skin test to de-
termine if a child is susceptible to the
disease. If the child has a negative
Schick Test it xvill not be necessary that
he receixe the toxin-antitoxin.

The susceptibility to diphtheria de-
creases xvith age. Hoxvever, this is not
altogether true in rural districts as
Schick Tests have shoxvn that betxvecn
20 per cent, and .^0 per cent of adults
in' those districts are susceptible to
diphtheria.

With a 10 per cent mortality rate in
diphtheria at the present time, it seems
to me the duty of parents is plain.
Consult your family physician today
and make arrangements to have your
children receive the toxin-antitoxin at
once and xvipe out this dreaded disease.

Supplies of fed cattle during the first
half of 1931 are expected to be smaller
than in 1930, reports the Bureau of
Agricultural Economics. Demand for
stocks and feeders this fall will not
equal that of last year, and for that
reason slaughter is likely to be some-
what greater.

The Bureau believes that prospects
favor a material advance in cattle prices
in the next 12 months.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Ptigf Set i-iitccii

I

Up to Farmer, Legge

Tells New York Folks

Ought to Heed Advice About
Production from Washing-
ton, He Says

((T) F.RMAPS tlic soiiiulcst .ui\ ice w c
■L c.'.n give to agricultiiic is con-
tained in the one word, 'Oig.ini/e',"
decl.iied Alexander Lej;i;e, eli.iirnian of
tlie I eiler.il I ,irm Board, before tlic
New 'i'ork State larm Bureau ledera-
tion meeting at the \e\v ')'ori< State
I air, S\ racuse, on September 2.

"rr()perl\- orj;ani/ed«. I cannot sec
nn\- reason \\li>' ai;riculture miglu not
;'() even farther
t h a n intlustrw"
said Mr. 1 egj^e,
"inasmueli as most
ot \our products
ue consumed every
day a n d several
times a d.\y and
t h e consumption
must be fairly con-
tinuous if \ve are
to live.

Alexander Legse "T^i

•^ I he greatest

difncult\' we have to contend with," he
continued, "is that in some mysterious
wav, through legislative action or oth-
erwise, the handicap under which agri-
culture is surtering, will be removed,
and the position of the farmer made
secure without any action on his part.
M\' friends, this is not even a good
dream. It is currently believed that
dreams sometimes come true, but liiis
one never will."

Farmer Doesn't Get It

He called attention to the intorma-
tion being collected continuously b\
the government regarding agricultural
production and markets. "One trou-
ble has been in the past," he said, "that
the information apparently has not got-
ten through to the man interested and
that is the farmer producing the com-
modity. Earnest efforts are being made
to revise and condense this vast fund
of information and put it in such shape
that the producer can readily under-
stand just how it applies to his par-
ticular problem."

.Mr. Legge stated that the Federal
Farm Board has extended aid to 17
different classes of agricultural prod-
ucts already. He pointed out that
the more strongly organized groups
naturally secure the first benefits. "Wc
cannot loan to an individual farmer, or
to a merchant or a banker," he said.
"Loans are restricted to co-operative
organizations, producer-owned and pro-
ducer-controlled." He asked New York
farmers if they were not neglecting

to organize and advertise tlieir apple
crop. "As a boy back on the farm in
a far western state," he said, ' w lien we
were able lo get a barrel of New ^'ork
apples for Ciiristmas it was a real oc-
c.ision. F.verybody regarded them a^
the finest quality produced am where.
Aren't \ ou people in the F'mpire Stat,
rather nej;lecting this commodil\, aiiil
il M), wh\ ?

Need Better Organization

"^'our land values arc not high as
compared to other sections of the couii-
tr>' where this crop is raised e\tensi\e-
1\'. Large consumiiig markets are clo^e
at iiand mu\ certainly no one can pro-
duce a better quality of product. With
a good strong marketing organization
to insure the producer getting his full
percentage of the consumer's dollar, it
is m\ notion that this industry migiit
be safelv developed to considerabK lar-
ger proportions tlian at present."

He called attention to the fact that
during the past 30 years the medium-
sized, or smaller than average crop in-
variabh' made the greatest financial re-
turn.

Principles Sound

"I rom our experience of the pa^t
few months the Farm Board confident -
1\ believes that the principles of the
Agricultural NLirketing Act not onl\
are sound but offer the best approach
to dealing with the farm problem."
Fejjge continued. "Various suggestions
have been made of changing the law.
Such action, in our opinion, would be
a serious mistake. It may be that great-
er experience will demonstrate the need
tor amendment, but that time ha>. nt)t
arrived.

"Agriculture cannot be made pro>.-
perous b\' legislation. That will come
(.nly when the producers operate tlieir
industry on a sound basis. Success of
the program that is being developed
iMider that law will depend largely on
the willingness of farmers to take ad-
vantage of the opportunity before
them."

Speaks to Grange

On the following da\, September .V
Mr. Legge gave a similar talk before
the New York State Grange meeting
at the New York State Fair. He stated
that the Farm Board had advised re-
duction in acreage only in wheat and
cotton, calling to the attention of cer-
tain other growers the danger of ex-
panding production in other crops.

Referring to the Agricultural Mar-
keting Act, he said: "The success of
the program is not going to depend so
much on what the Board does, but on
the willingness of farmers to act col-
lectivelv."

^OUK C^ouiiiy Farm Bureau leam^
are on the last lap of the race for
the Illinois I .irm Btueau baseball cham
pioiiship. As we go l») press word
comes that Sangamon county, one o1
the leading conienilers 9or the slate
championship, was def cited in a 11-
inning game at Springfield on Septem-
ber (^. I o.; in cuuiU) wlas the victor.
Details of the game arc' lacking. A
brief report states that Sangamon
slammed out \9 hits while Logan was
getting IS. but the latter came out at
the long eml of the 111 to 9 score.
Three-I league umpires rtfficiated.

C .'.iroll county tinned! the tables on
I aSalle at the Carroll count\ picnic
iie.ir Lanark the same dj\ . The score
was 9 to S. I aSalle won the first game
pla\ed at Ottaw a the week before. The
next game w ill decide which te.im shall
go on in the r.ice. .McDonough county
will plav either I.aSalle or Carroll in
the semi-final pla\-ofT, and the winner
of that series will plav Logan in the
final battle of the year.

Hard Fought Series

Tile Sangamon-Logan series was one
of the hardest-fought matches of the
•season. After being deJeated for the
first time this year by Logan, Sangamon
came back in the second game at Chat-
ham, August 26, and won 6 to 5.
Logan county had the bifst of the argu-
ment in this game and led b\ two runs
until the ninth when Sangamon
bunched enough hits to drive three
markers across the home plate. In the
last game Langley, Sangamon county
pitcher, struck out eight men and
walked five. The Logan county hurl-
ers, Quiscnberry and Hanahan, struck
out six men and walked two.

One of the 'surprises in the semi-final
play-off was LaSalle county's victory-
over the strong Carroll county nine at
Ottawa on August 2S.

LaSalle count)' won 7 to 5, althougli
Carroll got nine hits to LaSalle's eight.
A feature of the game was the triple
play in the ninth which ended Carroll
county's threat to win, Carroll had
men on first and third when I{. Sturte-
vant hit to Kirkhus, the LaSalle county
second baseman. Kirkhus threw the
ball to first to retire the batter, the
first baseman shot the ball to the catch-
er to get Ganger, who was stealing
home, and the catcher hurled the ball
to the third baseman to catch the basi.-
runner there to end the v:ame.

Page Eighteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

33,000 Killed, Over
I 750,000 Injured, 1929

Auto Accidents Take Heavy Toll,
I Cause and Prevention ShoTvn

I " By V. Vaniman

WITH 33,000 people killed and
over 750,000 injured in auto
accidents in the United States during
the year 1929, every thinking {jerson
will agree that something should be
done about it. Something is being done
and more will be done.

A careful study of accidents by safe-
ty engineers indicates that at least 75
per cent of automobile mishaps, with
reasonable care, are preventable.

j Causey of Accidents

Following are some of the common
causes of accidents:

1. Making left hand turns

2. Passing car on grade

3. Failing to stop when going on to
main highway

4. Passing car on curve.

5. Driving blind (going ahead full
speed when driver cannot see what is
ahead on account of bright lights, dust
or fog)

6. Poor mechanical equipment and
lack of judgment on part of driver.

In a safety drive put on in Evanston
recently by the Accident Prevention
Bureau it was discovered that among
600 cars there were no less than 538
defective in brakes, lights or steering
gears; in other words, drivers are no-
toriously careless about the driving
mechanism of the car.

Drivers' License Law-
Nine states since 1916 have adopted
.1 drivers' license law — Masschusetts,
Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Maryland, California, Ver-
mont, Arizona.

The National Safety Council is re-
sponsible for the statement that "Since
the enactment of these laws requiring
a drivers' license there has been 29
per cent fewer automobile fatalities
than there would have been if they had
experienced the ^ame per cent increase
which occurred in the non-licensed
states reporting to the U. S. Bureau."
This difference amounts to 22,000 lives
up to December 31, 1929.

In the seven largest states — Connecti-
cut, Massachusetts, New York, Califor-
nia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Maryland the accident curve shows a
downward trend and in each one the
average of the index figures, for the
year following the adoption of the law,
is below the similar average before the
passage of the law — the deduction rang-
ing from 10 to 36 per cent.

A total of $8 50,000,000 per year

is the figure estimated by the Statistical
Bureau of the National Safety Council
as the cost of automobile accidents. In
this estimate the mortuary value of a
human life was estimated at $5,000.
September, October and November are
the high months in auto fatalities.

All drivers of automobiles would like
to be classed as good drivers. A good
driver always has his car under control;
appreciates the problems of a fellow
motorist; indicates his intention by sig-
naling; Slops on entering main high-
way; does not try to pass car on curve;
always makes sure in passing a vehicle
that he will not be struck by another
vehicle, and actually uses more care
and caution than is called for by law.
He does not try to beat a train across
a railway crossing, and also makes sure
of the mechanical condition, and espe-
cially that the brakes are in good
working order.

A careful study of the relation of
the mental condition at the time of an
accident indicates that anger, surprise,
fatigue, fear, anxiety and fascination,
have a direct bearing on increasing the
number of accidents; while self-respect,
happiness and good morals are positive
factors in accident prevention.

Prof.

Smith Passes

After Brief Illness

THE sudden passing of Professor W.
H. Smith, state leader of farm ad-
visers and for the past 20 years con-
nected with the University of Illinois
extension staff, shocked his many
friends throughout the state. Prof.
Smith failed to rally following an in-
testinal operation. He had been active
at the State Fair, Springfield, only the
week before his death, looking after the
4-H club exhibits and demonstration?.
Prof. Smith for many years served
as live stock extension specialist suc-
ceeding Dr. Geo. Coffey as state leader
whe-i he resigned more than seven
years ago. Prof. Smith, a graduate of
the University of Nebraska, was a keen
student of farm production problems
and extension work. His judgment was
respected by all who knew him.

Smith befriended and took a ereat
deal of interest in the younger farm
advisers and extension men. He advo-
cated the group method of carrying
on farm advisory work rather than per-
sonal calls^ from farm to farm. His
passing will be a distinct loss to the ex-
tension staff at the state university.

Farmers in the United States own
more than 2,500,000 radio sets, or more
than the number operating in any
other foreign country, according to a
late report.

Expect Large Volume

Limestone to Be Used

Urge That Limestone, Rock Phos-
phate, Legume Plan of Soil
Building Be Continued

A LARGE tonnage of agricultural
limestone will be spread on Illi-
nois farms to neutralize acid soils in
1930 in spite of the financial depres-
sion and drought conditions, according
to quarry operators who met recently
with representatives of the Illinois
Agricultural Association.

While there will be some recession
from the record years of 1929 when
approximately 92 5,000 tons of lime-
stone were spread on Illinois farms, the
producers state that the volume of sales
this year has held up well. The quarry
operators reported a heavy falling off
in orders for concrete stone and sizas
other than agricultural, however. As
a- result the supply of farm limestone
which is a by-product in the manufac-
ture of other stone, is lower than usunl
and the quarry men are not disposed to
cut prices.

The extension of credit to farmers
for purchasing limestone was considered
at the recent meeting. It was general-
ly agreed that this matter should be
left largely to the local banker with
the recommendation that he go as far
and safely as he possible can in lending
money to buy limestone.

Established crop rotation systems
with the use of limestone, rock phos-
phate, and legumes should be continued
even if it means extraordinary effort
and sacrifice, states J. R. Bent, director
of the I. A. A. limestone-phosphate de-
partment. With the stimulation of
agricultural production throughout the
world, the necessity for higher yields
per acre with consequent lower cost
production becomes more apparent each
day. Recent advice from the Federal
Farm Board is that wheat acreage be
cut so as to supply only domestic needs
since other countries are able to pro-
duce wheat cheaper than most wheat
growers in the United States.

"L A. A. Transpoprtation Dept.

"Just wanted to tell you that
the yards at Paloma have been put
in excellent condition. When the
foreman came to start the job he
found our local shipper, Mr. Mc-
Neal, and asked him just what he
wanted, and he fixed them up as
our man told him.

"This is the kind of service the
L A. A. is noted for, and we cer-
tainly appreciate it."

C. C. MAST, Manager,
Adams County, Illinois,
Shippers' Assn. 'U .

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inois

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RECORD

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OCTOBER, 1930

Page Eighteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

33,000 Killed, Over

750,000 Injured, 1929

Auto Accidents Take Heavy Toll,
Cause and Prevention Shown

Ih \' . Witlint.rn

WITH 3 3,000 people killiil and
over 750,000 injured in .luto
accidents in the United States during
ihe year 1929, every thinkinj; person
will agree that somethinj; siiould be
done about it. Something is being done
and more will be done.

A careful studv ot accidents by safe-
ty engineers indicates that at least 75
per cent of automobile mishaps, with
reasonable care, are preventable.

Causes of Accidents

i oiK)wing .rre .some of tlie commoi.
(.auses of accidents:

1. Making left hand turns

2. Passing car on grade

3. Failing to stop when going- on to
main highwa\(

4. Passing ^.\r on curve. **

5. Driving I blind (going ahead full
speed when driver cannot see what is
.ihcad on accolmt of bright light--, dust
or fog) I

6. Poor mechanical equipment aiiil
lack of judgiTient on part ot driver.

In a safetv drive put on in ICvanston
recenth by the Accident Prevention
Bureau it was discovered that ainong
600 cars theie were no less than 5 3s
defective in brakes, lights or steering
gears; in other words, drivers .nc no-
toriously car.less about the driving
nu'chanism of the car.

Drivers' License Law

\ine states since 1916 have adopted
a drivers license law — .Masschusetts.
C^onnecticut, New York, Pennsylvania.
.\ew jersev , .\lar\ land, California. \'er-
mont, Arizona.

The National Safet\ Council is re-
sponsible for the statement that "Since
the enactment of these laws requiring
a drivers' license there has been 29
per cent fewer automobile fatalities
than there would h.w^: been if the) had
experienced the ame per cent increase
which occurred in the non-licensed
states reporting to the U. S. Bureau."
This difference amounts to 22,000 lives
up to December 31, 1929.

In the seven largest states — Connecti-
cut. M.issachusetts, New York, Califor-
nia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Marvland the accident curve shows a
downward trend and in each one the
average of the inde.x figures, for the
\ear following the adoption of the law,
is below the similar average before the
passage of the law — the deduction rang-
ing from 10 to 36 per cent.

A total of sS 50.000,000 per year

is the figure estimated b\ the Statistical
Bureau of the National Safetx Council
.IS the cost of automobile accidents. In
this estimate the mortuary value of a
human life was estimated at S5,000.
September, October and November are
the high months in auto fatalities.

All drivers of automobiles would like
to be classed as good drivers. A good
driver always has his car under control;
appreciates the problems of a fellow
motorist; indicates his intention by sig-
naling; stops on entering main high-
way; does not try to pass car on curve;
always makes sure in passing a vehicle
that he will not be struck by another
vehicle, and actually uses more care
and caution than is called for by law.
I le does not try to beat a train across
a railwav crossing, and also inakes sure
of the mechanical condition, and espe-
cially that the brakes are in good
working order.

A careful studx of the relation ot
the mental condition at the time of an
accident indicates that anger, surprise,
fatigue, fear, an.xiety and fascination,
have a direct bearing on increasing the
number of accidents; while self-respect,
happiness and good morals are positive
factors in accident prexention.

Expect Large Volume

Limestone to Be Used

Prof. Smith Passes

After Brief Illness

Till sudilen passing ot Professor Vi'.
1 1. Smith, state leader of farm ad-
\ isers and for the past 20 years con-
nected with the University of Illinois
iNtension staff, shocked his many
friends throughout the state. Prof.
Smith failed to ralK following an in-
testinal operation. He had been active
at the State Fair, Springfield, onlv the
week before his death, looking after the
4-H club exhibits and demonstrations.
Prof. Smith for many years served
as live stock extension specialist suc-
ceeding Dr. Geo. Coffev as state leader
whe-. he resigned more than seven
xe.^rs ago. Prof. Smith, a graduate of
the Universit)' of Nebraska, was a keen
student of farm production problems
.ind extension work. His judgment was
respected by all who knew him.

Smith befriended and took a ereat
ileal of interest in the ;',jiinger farm
advisers and extension men. He advo-
cated the group method of carrying
on fariTi advisory work rather than per-
sonal calls from farm to farm. His
passing will be a distinct loss to the ex-
tension staff at the state universitv.

Farmers in the United States own
more than 2,500,000 radio sets, or more
than the number operating in an\'
other foreign country, according to a
late report.

Urge Th.it Limestone, Rock Phos-
phate, Legume Plan of Soil
Building Be Continued

A LARGE tonnage of agricultural
limestone will be spread on Illi-
nois farms to neutralize acid soils in
1930 in spite of the financial depres-
sion and drought conditions, according
to quarry operators who met receiulv
with representatives of the Illinois
Agricultural Association.

While there will be some recession
from the record -years of 1929 when
approximatelv 92 5,000 tons of lime-
stone were spread on Illinois farms, the
producers state that the volume of sales
this year has held up well. The quarrx
operators reported a heav\ falling off
in orders for concrete stone and s-/.es
other than agricultural, however. As
a result the supply of farm limestone
wiiich is a by-product in the manufac-
ture of other stone, is lower than usual
and the quarry men are not disposed to
cut prices.

The extension of credit to farmers
tor purchasing limestone was considereil
at the recent meeting. It was general-
ly agreed that this matter should be
left largely to the local banker with
the recommendation that he go as far
and safely as he possible can in lending
money to buy limestone.

F.stablished crop rotation s\ stems
w itii the use of limestone, rock phos-
phate, and legumes should be continued
even if it means exiraordinarx effort
and sacrifice, states j. R. Bent, directt)r
of the I. A. A. limestone-piiosphate de-
partment. VC'ith the stimulation of
agricultural production throughout the
world, the necessity for higher yields
per acre with consequent lower cost
production becomes more apparent each
day. Recent advice from the Federal
farm Board is that wheat acreage be
cut so as to supply only domestic needs
since other countries are able to pro-
duce wheat cheaper than most wheat
growers in the United States.

"I. A. A. Transpoprtation Dept.

"Just wanted to tell you that
the yards at Paloma have been put
in excellent condition. When the
foreman came to start the job he
found our local shipper, Mr. Mc-
Neal, and asked him just what he
wanted, and he fixed them up as
our man told him.

"This is the kind of service the
I. A. A. is noted for, and we cer-
tainly appreciate it."

C. C. MAST, Manager,
Adams County, Illinois,
Shippers' Assn.

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the ear Hkiilileil in the Niiotv iind oriiNhetl into the rnil of the sea nail ill Wiii-
throp Shore Drive, BoNton. >laxs. "

ON THE RAGGED EDGE

T^HE automobile or truck owner who drives on the pubhc high-
ways without adequate insurance protection is running on the
ragged edge. An accident resulting in personal injury places his
estate in jeopardy. A judgment may relieve him of all his prop-
erty. He never knows how soon he may be hailed into court, and

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compelled to hire a lawyer to defend himself. Uncertainty and Chance are his constant companions.

DRIVE WITH CONFIDENCE

I

In contrast is the Farm Bureau member motorist carrying adequate insurance in his own com-
pany. He drives with confidence the broad, smooth highway of protection. Come what may. his
pohcy, backed by more than a half million in assets and an organization 60,000 strong, stands ready
to defend him, guard his property, and protect his family and estate against the unforseen.

The Illinois Agricultural Mutual auto insurance policy offers protection against public liability
and property damage, collision, fire, theft and windstorm dam-
ages. It has desirable features found in no other. Ask your local
agent to explain, call at your County Farm Bureau office, or
mail the coupon and let us tell how you can save money by in-
suring in YOUR OWN COMPANY at cost.

Puhlic Liahility

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RECOI^D

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Number 10

October, 1930

Volume 8

WLS to Become Real

Co-Operative Station

Farm Organizations, Farm Press,
and Farm Co-Operatives Incor-
porate Agricultural Radio
. Association

ORGANIZATION of the Agricul-
tural Radio Association by repre-
sentative general farm organizations,
farm co-operatives, and farm publica-
tions in the cornbelt states to control
and have the option of purchase of Sta-
tion WLS, Chicago, was announced at
a hearing before the Federal Radio
Commission in Washington recently.

This move which has great signifi-
cance and import in the field of radio
broadcasting was taken to insure that
Middle West agriculture will have at
least one prominent wave length over
which the viewpoint of American
farmers can be presented without re-
striction.

Private Control

All the other prominent wave lengths
at Chicago, and most other cities, in
fact, have been turned over to private
interests which include newspapers,
public utility companies, and the like.
In some instances farmers have been
prevented from broadcasting their side
of controversial issues, and Illinois
farmers still recall that the I. A. A.
was summarily dismissed from Station
WGN presumably because it advocated
a state income tax.

Plans to be announced later contem-
plate making Station WLS a real voice
of agriculture, owned and controlled
co-operatively by the people who make
up the rural population of the Middle
West.

Official Statement

The official statement announcing
the new project prepared for the Radio
Commission by officials of the A. R. A.
and presented at Washington by W. C.
McQueen, president of the Pure Milk
Association, follows:

"Recognizing the many changing conditions
in radio development and particularly the grad-
ual, but very definite, control of wave lengths

^THO PAYS THE BILL?
pONSTRIJCTIVE action of (arm-
em In or(ranir.tnK to market
their on'n products is belns met
n-itii bitter oppoKition by thone
nho have a nelllsh IntereHt in
impeding co-operative HaoresK.
FamierH are JuHtifled in asking;
"^Vbo Pays the Bills"? for the
flood of propaf^anda against the
Farm Board and co-operative
grain marketing now being spread
throaghoat Illinois.

being acquired by other than agricultural in-
terests; and further recognizing that the farm-
ers of the central west are surely entitled to
the ownership and control of one prominent
wave length, certain agricultural leaders of the
mid-west states held a conference early in Feb-
ruary of this year to consider ways and means
where the proper interests of agriculture might
be served in this respect. Negotiations have
continued throughout the past several months,
resulting in the recent incorporation of the
Agricultural Radio Association. The primary
purpose of the Agricultural Radio Association
will be directed toward preserving the rightful
interests of agriculture, especially insuring the
future privilege and opportunity for freedom
of expression by farmers on all matters affect-
ing the economic welfare of their industry,

"Incorporators and the original Board of
Directors of the Agricultural Radio Association
are as follows:

Earl C. Smith, President, Illinois Agricultural

Association.
W, C. McQueen, President, Pure Milk Assn,
C. V. Gregory, Editor-in-Chief, Prairie

Farmer.
M. S. Winder, Executive Secretary, American

Farm Bureau Federation,
Chas. E. Hearst, President, Iowa Farm Bu-
reau Federation,
'Wm. H. Settle, President, Indiana Farm Bu-
reau Federation,
M. L, Noon, President, Michigan Farm Bu-
reau Federation.
H. C. Hemingway, President, Wisconsin Farm

Bureau Federation,
Henry H, Parke, President, Chicago Produc-
ers' Commission Ass<x:iation.
J. R, Fulkerson, President, Producers' Live
Stock Commission Assn,, East St. Louis, 111,
S. R. McKelvie, Publisher, Nebraska Farmer.

Entered Contract

"The Agrictslturil Radio Commission has en-
tered into a contract with the Agricultural
Broadcasting Company, owner of Radio Station
WLS, wherein the policies of this station will
in the future be determined, controlled and di-
rected by the said Agricultural Radio Associa-
tion. Along with this contract, the Agricul-
tural Broadcasting Company has executed an
option for purchase of Station WLS covering
a period of several months, thereby offering the
opportunity for the farmers of the mid-west
(Continued on page 4, column 3)

C. H. Bonnell's Letter

Repudiates Propaganda

Show^s How Attitude of Farmers

Grain Dealers Association Is

Being Misrepresented

A REPUDIATION of an announce-
ment widely circulated among
Illinois elevators and newspapers to the
effect that the Illinois Farmers Grain
Dealers' Association had attacked the
Federal Farm Board and the Farmers
National Grain Corporation was con-
tained in a letter received by an official
of the Farmers National from C. H.
Bonnell, president of the Farmers Grain
Dealers Association of Illinois on Oct. 7.

"Our association (Farmers Grain
Dealers Association of Illinois) has
never authorized nor endorsed any let-
ter or statement criticizing the mem-
bers or the policies of the Federal Farm
Board, and we earnestly desire that its
aims may be realized," stated Mr. Bon-
nell's letter.

The propaganda referred to above
was circulated by one R. B. Orndorff
who without any authority to do so
has acted as chief spokesman for the
farmers' elevator association using his
recently acquired connection as vice-
president of the organization to give an
air of authenticity to the misstatements.

Farm Board Fights

Orndorff has not only embarrassed
the farmers' elevator association, but he
has imposed upon newspapers by mis-
representing facts. Only one Chicago
newspaper, the Journal of Commerce,
which champions the anti-co-operative
school of thought, published the state-
ment. All the others after learning the
true situation threw it in the waste
basket.

The malicious propaganda being cir-
culated in Illinois against the Federal
Farm Board and co-operative marketing
is apparently part of a nationwide pro-
gram to hinder farmers from giving co-
operative marketing of grain under
their own control a fair trial in the
terminal markets.

Page Four

THE I. A. A. RECORD

n •

A news report from Washington as
of October 7 states that "The Federal
Tariu Board has decided to fight back
against its enemies which it charges
have instituted an 'insidious' propa-
ganda campaign through rural news-
papers in the middle west to discredit
it in the eyes of the farmers.

"Samuel R. McKelvie, wheat mem-
ber of the board, today announced that
the board has laid its charges before the
federal trade' commission for investiga-
tion with a view to forcing into the
open the alleged instigators of the cam-
paign who, he said, are allied with rep-
resentatives of private grain dealers'
organizations.

Tells of Campaign

" 'The campaign has been carried on
most insidiously,' Mr. McKelvie said.
'Recently they have secured both the
open and active suppiort of organiza-
tions pretending to support the farmers'
movement and many people are being
misled by their statements as to co-
operative associations.'

"The usual practice, Mr. McKelvie
said, has been to run a full-page adver-
tisement in a rural paper and supply
reading matter of the same nature to
be printed with the advertisement. He
had specimen sheets of this nature from
Minnesota and Nebraska farm papers.

Calls Statement False

'"They are telling elevator managers
that the Farmers' National Grain Cor-
poration will step in and run their ele-
vators, that. they will have no control
over their property, and that farmers
will lose control over their own produce
if they sell through co-operatives,' said
Mr. McKelvie. 'Such false statements
arc clipped from the small papers and
distributed all over the country.'

"Mr. McKelvic's announcement was
liie first word about any direct action
taken by the board to combat attacks
against it, no announcement having
been made by the trade commission." '

Wrest Control Away

The Farmers National Grain Corp.
states that efforts arc being made by
old line grain interests in all the states
to wrest control of the farmers' ele-
vator associations away from the real
producers so that they can be used for
propaganda against the Farm Board and
the Agricultural Marketing Act. In
one or two states operators, apparently
subsidized by private interests, have
been successful in their insidious work.
Obviously all efforts at stirring up
strife among producers of farm com-
modities that prove successful will re-
tard the development of co-operative
marketing. In Illinois the propaganda
has caused some confusion among farm-
er elevator stockholders who have been

falsely led to believe that under the
new co-operative marketing program
they would be forced to relinquish con-
trol of their local elevators.

A meeting of state delegates of the
National Farmers Grain Dealers Asso-
ciation with a committee of the Farm-
ers National Grain Corporation it is re-
ported will be held in Chicago early
in December. ,

Who KiUed Cock

Robin, Is Question

clay County Farmers Grateful to
Board of Review for Lowering
Tax Valuations . ■ y •

THE Clay County, 111., Board of
Review recently took exception to
a statement published in the Clay
County Republican announcing that
"Over-assessment of farm lands and
improvements disclosed by the Farm
Bureau are being met by a flat 20 per
cent reduction by the Clay County
Board of Review."

The letter received by the Editor of
the RECORD from Ralph Hastings,
chairman of the Board of Review, to
which the names of the other two
members were signed, states that the
Farm Bureau should not have any credit
for bringing the justice of a reduction
in valuations to the attention of the
Board. Mr. Hastings, demanding that
his letter be given publicity, states that
the Board of Review made a tour of
investigation in adjacent counties and
that this trip and nothing else disclosed
the fact that the land in Clay county
was assessed higher than that in other
counties with similar soil types.

Hastings' letter was brought to the
attention of the Clay County Farm Bu-
reau to which Mr. C. S. Love, of that
organization, replied as follows:

"I truly believe that the pressure
brought to bear by the Farm Bureau
tax committee was responsible for the
tax reduction. You were correct in
your belief that the Clay County Farm
Bureau tax committee appeared before
the Board of Review previous to this
year.

"When the Board of Review first
went into session I personally appeared
before them and asked if something
could not be done to lower the as-
sessed value on farm lands. At that
time I stated that the assessment on
household goods, compared to their real
worth was not in kecpmg with the as-
sessment on farm lands. The highest
assessed value on any household goods
in the township in which I am living is
$50. I told them for one that I was
not paying enough tares. At this time
I was told that there was nothing that

could be done as a definite budget had
to be met and that lowering of the tax
rate would not supply the necessary
funds to meet this budget.

"Later a tax committee composed of
Farm Bureau members appeared before
the Board of Review. They were not
given much encouragement. Later this
conimittee met with County Judge
Reaugh, at which time he promised to
use his influence and recommend to
the Board of Review that the assessed
valuation on farm land be reduced.

"The next step taken by our tax
committee was to draw up a resolution
requesting the Board of Review to
lower values on farm lands. These
petitions were circulated in the various
townships and were signed by several
hundred farm owners. Before these
petitions were presented, the Board of
Review made a tour of surrounding
counties and finding that comparative
lands in Clay county were being as-
sessed higher than the same kind of
land in joining counties, a 20 per cent
reduction was allowed.

"The petitions were never presented

to the Board of Review because they

took action before this material was

necessary." ,j . ; ■ ^ . :..

C. S. Love,

Clay County Farm Bureau,
Louisville, 111.

Regardless of what prompted the
board of review to equalize land valua-
tions in line with other property. Clay
county farmers, particularly Farm Bu-
reau members, are grateful to Mr. Has-
tings and his colleagues, A. H. Kellums
and L. H. Smith, for their conscien-
tious work in getting the facts and act-
ing on the information secured.

Station WLS

(Continue J from page J)
sections of the United States to individuiliy and
collectively acquire the absolute ownership and
control of this station.

"It is a well known and accepted fact that
Station WLS has for some time been the out-
standing station serving the interests of agri-
culture and recognized generally by farmers as
outstanding in its service to their interests.

"Should the option of purcltjsc above re-
ferred to be executed. Radio Stjiiun Wl S will
not only become the property of the farmers
of the central west, but one of its underlying
principles will be the vesting of control of its
policies on a basis wherein the general farm
organizations of the territory served will con-
trol one-third of the voting power; the co-
operative organizations and associations one-
third and the so-called standard farm press
one-third.

"It is believed that the above interests taken
together would constitute as near as it is pos-
sible a true voice of agriculture.

"In view of the facts as stated above and
the developments that are fast taking shape, the
Agricultural Radio Association respectfully urges
your Honorable Body to leave undisturbed and
intait all rights and privileges now belonging
to ai J enjoyed by the owners of Radio Station
WI :. ••

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Five

Carthage Shipping

Ass'n a Co-Operator

We Co-Operate in Shipping; Why

Not in Marketing? Say Live

Stock Producers

AT a recent meeting of the board
of directors the Carthage Live
Stock Shipping Association of Hancock
county unanimously adopted the fol-
lowing resolution and ordered a copy
sent to all members of the organization:
"We, the Board of Direc-
tors of the Carthage Live
Stock Shipping Association,
desire insofar as possible to
support the co-operative idea
in assembling, shipping, mar-
keting and consigning all live
stock belonging to our mem-
bers. We seek to encourage
the patronage of our own
Producer agencies located at
our terminal markets. Fur-
thermore, all our shipments
shall go to such agencies un-
less parties having majority
of weight in any single ship-
ment designate otherwise."

10 Years Old

The Carthage Association has been
in operation for the past 10 years. In
a letter addressed to all the members
the directors said:

"The only way by which the live
stock farmer will ultimately gain a
voice in the actual selling of his live
stock and some influence in determin-
ing a price will be for shipping associa-
tions to co-operate together in the same
way that you as members have co-
operated in building a successful ship-
ping association here. Recognizing the
fact that the Producer Live Stock Com-
mission agencies on the terminal mar-
kets are striving toward the same ends
on these markets that we are striving
toward here, we feel that the co-opera-
tive shipping associations throughout
the country should co-operate with the
co-operative selling agencies on the ter-
minal markets.

"We do not seek to force you as a
member to send your live stock to the
Producers nor to any other particular
selling agency. We do wish, however,
to urge you to give these co-operative
selling concerns your most careful con-
sideration and support. We do not
.ittempt to guarantee the service of the
Producers. We know that there will
be times when you will not be satisfied.
We recognize further that no matter
where you ship live stock there will
be times when the returns are not up to
your full expectations. We do feel,
however, that these Producer agencies
are giving service equal to any available

on the term-.nal markets. By concen-
trating our live stock in the hands of
our own selling agency we are helping
ourselves in our efforts to exercise more
influence on both the prices which wc
receive for our live stock and the con-
ditions under which it is sold."

Boulder Now "Hoover"
Dam, Being Built

Eating Habits of People
Change

A DISTINCT change in the type of
food people eat, during the last
20 years, was reported recently by O. E.
Baker of the Federal Division of Land
Economics.

The sedentary habits of the popula-
tion, apartment house life, the use of
machinery instead of human labor, pos-
sibly even the feminine fad of slender-
ness, as well as the development of new
varieties of vegetables and of new
methods of transporting them, arc
among the factors which have affected
diet, Mr. Baker said. V-'- • ..• -5. ;■••

The modern diet contains more pro-
tein and less carbohydrates than was
formerly the case. The outstanding
change in diet is a decline of about 100
pounds per capita in consumption of
cereals, shown in a comparison of con-
sumption for the last five years with
the average for the five years, 1909 to
1913.

Counterbalancing this in part arc in-
creases in consumption of sugar, pork,
milk and vegetable oils. Pork consump-
tion has increased about 10 pounds per
capita per year in the last 20 years,
sugar consumption has gaiaed about 27
pounds, and milk consumption possibly
150 pounds, it was pointed out.

In the total amount of food, in cal-
ories, consumed per capita, there prob-
ably has been a small decline.

FREE RENT OFFERED

"Am writing to inquire, if in your
work you come across a good, depend-
able family who would go up on a 78-
acre place, right near Chicago, with
hollow tile house, chicken houses, etc.,
rent free, and make their own living.
I do not want to pay out any money,
but would like to get hold of a good
reliable family, and it does seem as
though there must be someone who
could make a living on a place like this.
Might add that this is on a private lake,
and one part has seven cottages on it.
If you know of anyone, and will put
me in touch with them, would surely
appreciate it, as I know I could make
it interesting."

H. C. Williamson,

319 No. Crawford Ave.,

Chicago, Illinois.

BOULDER DAM, which has been
rechristened the "Hoover Dam,"
with its promise of water for irrigation,
cheap power, and flood control, was a
step nearer actuality Sept. 17 when
Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the
Interior, officially started construction
of the $165,000,000 project.

Dr. Wilbur drove the first spike into
the first tie for a branch railway from
a point on the Union Pacific near Las
Vegas, Nevada, to the rim of Black
Canyon at the dam site. This is the
first unit of the developm:nt. The
spike, of Nevada silver, was presented
by Governor Fred B. Balzar of Nevada
to the president of the Union Pacific,
who in turn gave it to Secretary Wil-
bur.

"We feel at this time we have noth-
ing to celebrate," declared John C.
Phillips, governor of Arizona, in de-
clining the invitation of Secretary Wil-
bur to participate in the ceremonies.

; Arizona Kicks ' ;*

Governor Phillips claims that the
Boulder Dam program does not recog-
nize the interests of Arizona. "It is a
sad and unfortunate thing, as time will
fully prove," he said, "that a problem
of such imp)ortance was not met and
disposed of by a higher statesmanship,
but it has seemed expedient to our sister
basin states and to the federal govern-
ment to ignore the rights, interests and
wishes of Arizona in this matter. They
have attempted to force the Colorado
river compact upon us without our con-
sent while enacting the Boulder Dam
legislation as the price of California's
ratification thereof; to undertake the
construction of this project within
Arizona's borders over her protest and
defiance of her laws, for the sole bene-
fit of southern California — in other
words, to take from Arizona her great-
est natural resource upon which her
future development and growth so
largely depends."

"I want to compliment you on
the June issue of the I. A. A. REC-
ORD. I think it is one of the best
you have ever put out. Majoring
on a certain program of w^ork as
you have on grain marketing in
this issue w^ill no doubt bring
results.

"Keep up the good work." .'•'•■
A. B. LEEPER, Manager

Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange

Uncle Ab says that some folks place
new ideas and dynamite in the same
class, and are afraid of both.

Page Six

THE I. A. A. RECORD

^ I L«1jINOIS

CVLTUSAL ASSOCIA

RECORO

To advance the purpose for uhich Ihe farm Bureau was organized,
namely, to promote, protect and reprcunt the hiisjncis, economic, political,
and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation,
and to develop agriculture.

Editor, George Thiem

Published once a month by the Illinois Agricultural Association,
at 124 So. Fifth St., Marshall, 111. Adress all communications for publi-
cation to Editorial Office, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, III. Entered as
second-class matter June 16, 1930, at the post office at Marshall, 111.,
under the Act of March 3, 1879. Accepted for mailing at special rate of
postage provided for in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized
Oct. 27, 1925. The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural
Association is five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty cents
for subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Association Record. Post-
master: In returning an uncalled for missent copy please indicate key
number on address as is required by law.

OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vice-President, A. R Wright Varna

Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger Chicago

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

(By Congressional District)

-H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

G. F. TuUock, Rockford

C. E. Bamborough, Polo

M. G. Lambert, Ferris

..A. N. Skinner, Yates City

1st to nth...

12th

13th

14th

ISth.
16th.

Geo. B. Muller, Washington

17th. Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

ISth _ _ _ W. A. Dennis. Paris

19th _ _ C. J. Gross, Atnrood

20th _ _ _ Charles S. Black, Jacksonville

21st...
22nd_
23rd..
24th..

-Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

Frank Oexner, Waterloo

W. L. Cope. Salem

Charles Marshall

25th - Fred Diet*, De Soto

Comptroller..
Finance-

DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing..

Grain Marketing

Information..

Insurance Service

Legal CounscL _

Limestone- Phosphate

Live Stock Marketing..
Office..

Organization..

Produce Marketing

Taxation and Statistics..
Transportation..

...J. H. Kelker

R. A. Cowles

A. B. Leeper

-Harrison Fahrnkopf

George Thiem

V. Vaniman

—Donald Kirkpatrick

_ _..J. R Bent

Ray E. Miller

C. E. Johniton

G. E. Metzger

F. A. Gougler

J. C. Watson

L. J. Quasey

ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS

Country Life Insurance Co L. A. Williams, Mgr.

Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co _ J. H. Kelker, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives Ass'n F. E. Ringham, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co A. E. Richardson, Mgr.

Illinois Farm Supply Co L. R. Marchant, Mgr.

Illinois Grain Corp Harrison Fahrnkopf, Mgr.

Midwest Grain Corp Chas. P. Cummin^s, Gen'l. Mgr.

Soybean Marketing Assn _ J. H. Lloyd, Mgr.

I sit Worth the Price?

CORPORATION farming as a solution to the economic
problem of agriculture was advocated by Hickman
Price, 30,000-acre wheat farmer from Amarillo, Texas,
who spoke before the farm equipment manufacturers in
Chicago recently. Mr. Price has become more or less re-
nowned for his work in producing low-cost wheat.

Where the average lUiiiois farmer spends from $15 to
$20 in labor, materials, and overhead to produce an acre
of wheat. Price grows just as large or larger a crop for
$6 to $7 an acre.

"If I awakened one morning on a typical 200-acre corn-
belt farm, the first thing I would do," said the Texan,
"would be to seek the co-operation of my neighbors in pool-
ing our land, and working it in partnership until we had
at least 2,000 acres in one farm.

By so doing we could cut our overhead expenses tremen-
dously, buy for less, sell for more ,and produce larger crops
per acre.

Price would have one large tractor to do the heavy work
on each 2,000 acres. Fences would be taken down and
fields of several hundred acres in size laid out to facilitate
the use of combines and large power-driven machinery.

If the serious obstacles involved in such procedure could
be overcome, the inevitable result would be a decline in
farm population infinitely greater than we have seen to date.
Farm organization and co-operative action in buying com-
modities and selling crops would be simplified. But the
nation would see the destruction of its free, independent,
home-owning, rural citizenry as we know it today.

Comparatively speaking, agriculture would gravitate into
the hands of a few large operators employing an army of
help having the same status as factory workers in our pres-
ent industrial centers. Thus we would have something akin
to the old feudal system of Europe with its lords and ladies,
and laboring subjects — a system which progressive European
countries have largely abolished.

Statesmen who are concerned about safeguarding one of
the country's most valuable resources, its independent rural
life and people, will not tolerate a system which ruthlessly
sacrifices everything to the god of efficiency and economy.

Irish Philosopher Visits I. A, A, Office

IF the rural population of America continues to decline
as it has in the last 10 years this country will be headed
for trouble, according to George Russell, famous Irish poet,
writer, organizer and leader of co-operative thought, who
visited the I. A. A. offices during a brief stopover in Chi-
cago on October 7.

Russell, famed under his pen name "AE," believes that
the United States is making the same mistake that England
made in developing an industrial civilization at the ex-
pense of its rural life.

"If America is wise," said Russell, "it will bend every
effort toward keeping from 20 to 25 per cent of its popu-
lation rural. It is my observation that after the fourth
generation, the vitality of city-born people, particularly in
the highly developed industrial sections, slackens off and
dies."

The tremendous vigor and progress shown by the United
States, according to Russell, is due to the fact that the
cities have been constantly fed by a strong, stalwart rural
population possessing the energy and vitality to carry on
great enterprises and overcome all obstacles. "Germany and
France," he said, "established policies of government friend-
ly and favorable to agriculture so as to maintain a large
and strong rural population for military reasons. Great
Britain, to its own sorrow, has not done so." ,, ■'

The Irish philosopher's account of the widespread develop-
ment of co-operative societies for marketing, purchasing
and carrying on business among Irish farmers was note-
worthy. Speaking before the Agricultural Committee of
the Chicago Association of Commerce, he revealed how or-
ganization of Irish farmers had changed their social char-
acter from selfishness, clannishness and hopelessness to a
progressive people with a more hopeful attitude toward
life. The 1,100 farm co-operative societies organized in
Ireland not only increased the net income of their mem-
bers but also improved the standard of living and culture of
the Irish farmer.

"Our farmers were so poor and uneducated in the be-
ginning that it was difficult to teach them the advantages
of organization," said Russell. "The education of 90 per
cent of our men stopped at the age of 12. A few moneyed
men interested in the welfare of Irish agriculture donated
sums of money at first to get the organization started.
Now, after 2 5 years of successful co-operation the funds for
carrying on the work are supplied by farmers themselves.

"Some of our very successful co-operative societies donate
as much as 500 pounds ($2,500) annually to help the im-

organized farmers to become organized. Some of our more
public-spirited, wealthy farmers, likewise have helped the
smaller farmers in financing their co-operative projects.

: i . Refused Government Aid

"At one tim; the government offered financial aid to our
farm people if they would promise not to do certain things.
Our farmers refused the offer because in their co-operative
efforts they did not wish to be bound or held down by any
restrictions or agreements.

"American farmers will do well not to become allied to
any political party," cautioned Russell. "We have success-
fully avoided doing so in Ireland. Our co-operative agri-
cultural societies and federations do not take part in party
politics. Fortunately all of our three major parties accept
the co-operative plan among farmers as a national policy.

"Far greater than the economic advantage we have
gained through co-operation is the fact that cur 1,100 co-
operative societies have created a new social order in Ireland.
These organizations have taught democracy, have inspired
our rural people to take an active interest in government
and as a result Ireland today has the cleanest and most
honest government in all Europe."

utmost to bring about such tax relief as is obtainable from

that source.

Chairman M alone on Taxation

CC'T^HE State Tax Commission stands ready and willing
X. to see that the farmers' tax bill reflects the tremen-
dous dechne in the value of his land and property," William
H. Malone, chairman of the State Tax Commission, de-
clared in addressing the annual picnic of the Rock Island
County Farm Bureau in Black Hawk Park, Rock Island,
S^t. 26.

"I consider it the first duty of the State Tax Commis-
sion, also of every county board of review," he said, "to
find the fair and cash value of every piece of property to
be assessed and then, as is our custom, take a percentage of
that amount, which in this state averages approximately
37 per cent, using that as the assessed valuation.

Real Estate Carries Burden

"No fair-minded person will deny," he continued, "that
real estate in Illinois is carrying more than its just share
of the tax burden. I make no defense of our present taxing
system. It is antiquated and unfit for conditions obtaining
today. Ownership of real estate and tangible property is
no longer a measure of wealth or ability to pay taxes as it
was when our revenue laws were written back in 1870.
But until the legislature is given authority to revise our
present system we must make the best of what we have.
And as I see it, relief can be given, particularly to farmers,
by lowering valuations on farm lands and property and
other over-assessed real estate in line with its depreciated
cash value.

Land Banks Hold Farms

"I know some of the problems you farmers are up
against. I realize that your land has gone down in value
since 1920, until today good farms in many instances are
bringing less than half of what they brought 10 years ago.
I am told that the federal land banks, which never loaned
more than 50 per cent of the conservatively appraised value
of any farm, today hold thousands of farms which they
were forced to take over because of the inability of farmers
to keep up the interest. I also know that in many instances
the farmer pays one-third or more of his net income to the
tax collector. I want to say here and now that the state
tax commission stands ready and willing to see that the
farmer's tax bill reflects the tremendous decline in the
value of his land and property. And I pledge to do my

Equalization Obtained

"I have Watched with sympathetic interest for iiiariy
years the efforts of Illinois farmers toward securing first,
equalization of assessments, and, secondly, revision of the
state taxing system. The records of your state association
show that farmers are paying approximately $4,800,000
less annually today than they would be paying had the val-
uations of 1922 not been lowered. I am happy to say that
it was my privilege as chairman of the State Tax Commis-
sion throughout this period to do what I could toward
equalizing valuations of farm lands and buildings with other
real estate in the various counties.

Altogether, orders of reassessment were issued for more
than a score of counties during the last four years. These
orders were issued largely as a result of investigations car-
ried on by local Farm Bureau tax committees and the
Illinois Agricultural Association. It is a weakness in our
taxing system that makes this procedure necessary. In my
annual report for 1928 to the governor of the state, I made
a number of recommendations which if carried out and
enacted into law at the coming session of the general
assembly will go a long way toward bringing equitable
assessments in every county of the state.

••;■.■":.,.>: Opposes New Taxes

'I am in sympathy with the efforts of organized farmers
Farm Bureau — in opposing any new taxes that do

— the

not replace present taxes. As a taxpayer and an owner of
large real estate holdings, I have a personal interest, as you
farmers have, in reducing the tax burden, in keeping down
the cost of government. As a taxpayer, I, too, am against
any taxing system which imposes new taxes on top of those
we already have. I think it essential that whatever new
laws are passed, that the burden of government not be in-
creased but that it be more evenly distributed amone the
citizens of the state." . . ^ i

The Cover

T TPON the cHff, known as Starved Rock, LaSalle and
W Tonti, French explorers, erected a fort in 1682, which
they named Fort St. Louis. For 20 years the fort was used
as a military post, then as a trading post, until it was
burned by the Indians in 1718. In 1769 a band of Illinois
Indians who had sought refuge on the cliff from the attacks
of hostile tribes were besieged for 12 days. Destitute of
food and drink, they made a gallant but hopeless and un-
successful sortie in which they were massacred. From the
catastrophe the cliff takes its name. Starved Rock. The
tract of land along the Illinois River in LaSalle county
where Starved Rock is located was in 1911 purchased by
the State of Illinois to be used as a state park.

The September cover page illustrated the old powder
magazine at Fort Chartres, situated in the northwest corner
of Randolph county, Illinois. This fort is a relic of the
early settlement of the Mississippi Valley. It was built un-
der a charter from the crown of France, in 1718. The early
fort was built of wood. In 1765 it was rebuilt, and this
time limestone was employed in its construction. The river
encroached upon its early site, and the second fort was
built further back into the interior. A sand bar formed
in the river opposite the fortification, and slowly an island
was formed, known as Fort Chartres Island. Much of the
early history of Illinois centers about old Fort Chartres. The
site of Fort Chartres is now a state park.

Page Eight

THE I. A. A. RECORD

i.'i

Unity of Action Is

Needed, Says Legge

AS we enter the second year's opera-
tion of the Federal Farm Board wc
find one factor becoming more and
more apparent, and that is that the
fundamental step in the solution of the
agricultural problem is organization,
declared Alexander Legge, chairman of
the Federal Farm Board, in a recent
statement.

"With farmers organized, the adjust-
ment of production and effective mar-
keting of agricul-
g^=^^^g[^=1 tural products would
^^^^^^^^^1 be comparatively
^^^ _^^B easy. Unity of ac-

I ^J^^H tion needed

■ ^^ K^^^H t^''<)ugh every stage
B| ,^K ^^^H from planning and
^K <-'3j||B^| planting to market-

^^ '^^^1 ^ difficulty

^^H4 ^^^H comes getting

^^^^^ ^^^^^ producers to co-op-
Alexander LesKF erate, chiefly because
there is still a great
difference of opinion as to just how to
organize fanners so that they may
properly deal with their problems in
handling particular crops in this and
that community. ...

In Our Hands

There is really no reason why
farmers should not go further than or-
ganizations of any privately operated
industry. That privilege is in the farm-
ers' own hands. Laws have been writ-
ten within recent years to free farmers
from the restrictions of anti-trust regu-
lations. In fact, under existing laws
the organization of farmers is permitted
to an extent that probably never could
be accorded to private agencies. There
is no limit to the quantity of farm
products that may be handled by
groups of farmers who grow the crops
and hold the full right to sell them.

Better Bargaining Power

"Great advantage comes to farmers
who use their privilege to mass to-
gether large units of products because
they have a better bargaining power
than when they come to >market by
the thousands, each selling his own crop
and competing with the other individ-
uals. The privilege of selling in large
quantities makes it possible for even an
untrained group of farmers to market
collectively to a better advantage than
is possible under the old system where
the private agency, with no control
over the flow of the commodity, takes
the product as it comes. . . .

"In connection with the work of
aiding farmers under the provisions of
the Agricultural Marketing Act, I wish
it were possible to bring about the

amalgamation, consolidation, or merger
of all the great national farm organiza-
tions. As you know, there ara several
of the so-called general farm organiza-
tions in this country which might some
day be brought under the same roof.
Imagine what power these organizations
could generate if their forces were all
mobilized into one unit and put to work
organizing farmers to improve condi-
tions for agriculture. ..."

Review Income Tax

' Legislation Elsewhere

lo'wa Farm Bureau Compiles Infor-
mation for Members on New
Forms of Taxation

Farmers Cut Oil Costs

By Co-Operative Action

THIRTY-FIVE associated farm sup-
ply companies, with a paid up capi-
tal stock of $606,305, are now in
operation, serving farm trade in some
sixty different counties, states L. R.
Marchant, manager of the Illinois Farm
Supply Co.

The number of bulk storage stations
from which Service petroleum products
are distributed has been increased from
56 to 90 within the past six months,
and the truck salesmen from 140 to
200 or more. ■ ■ ' ;

1250 Cars Gas

One thousand two hundred and fifty
cars of gasoline and kerosene, 1 1 5 cars
of lubricating oil, and 100 tons of
grease (or 10,375,000 gallons of petro-
leum products) have been purchased
for the member companies during the
same period. This represents an in-
crease of 41/2% for gasoline, 57; 2%
for kerosene, 53% for lubricating oil,
and 122% for grease in comparison
with purchases made in the correspond-
ing months in 1929.

The supplies and equipment other
than petroleum products purchased up
to date for the current fiscal year
total $118,186.48. This exceeds the
.imount of the total purchases for the
fiscal year of the company ending Au-
gust 31, 1929, by $56,735.94, or 92%.

All merchandise and equipment han-
dled to date in this fiscal year, com-
puted on the basis of cost to the mem-
ber companies, totals $1,237,001.30.
The amount for the entire fiscal year
ending August 31, 1929, was only
$1,172,935.69. The actual value of
the products has not increased in the
same proportion as the volume because
of lower prices.

Too Much Coffee

The JciCruction of 4,5 00,000 bags of coffee
out ot supplies in the terminal warehouses in
Brazil are being agitated in Sao Paulo to relieve
the depression existing in the world coffee mar-
ket.

The plan suggested involves the destruction
of only the lower grades of coffee. No infor-
mation is given as to wiether or not the own-
ers of the surplus stocks will be reimbursed
fur their stocks.

ALTHOUGH the income tax has
been for many years one of the
chief sources of revenue in many Eu-
ropean countries, it was used only to a
limited extent in the United States
prior to 1911, says a report on income
tax legislation prepared by Senator
Clark of Iowa for the Iowa Farm Bu-
reau Federation.

In that year Wisconsin adopted a
well-considered law imposing a tax on
incomes of individuals and corporations.
This law exempted from local taxation
intangible property, farm machinery,
and hoi'sehold goods, and centralized
administrative authority in th^ state
tax commission. The success of the
Wisconsin law immediately caused
other states to give serious consideration
to the income tax.

In 1912 Massachusetts and Virginia
amended their laws embodying some of
the features of the Wisconsin law.
Oklahoma and Mississippi enacted laws
in 1913 and 1914; Delaware and Mis-
souri in 1917. . I '..;<...

1 9 States Have Tax

By January, 1929, 14 states had in
operation income tax laws. During the
last few months California, Oregon,
Arkansas, Tennessee and Georgia have
enacted income tax laws, raising the
total number of states to 19.

In Connecticut, California and Mon-
tana the state income tax applies only
to cor[x>rations.

The income tax in Delaware, New
Hampshire and Oklahoma is collected
only from individuals. The other 13
states impose income taxes on both in-
dividuals and corporations.

Delaware, Massachusetts and New
Hampshire keep no income taxes for
the state treasury. New York and
Wisconsin divide theirs with the locali-
ties.

Arkansas Law

The income tax law that was enacted
in 1929 by the Arkansas legislature fol-
lows very generally the form of the
"model law" drafted and approved by
the National Tax Association. Per-
sonal exemptions are $1,500 for a sin-
gle individual and $2,500 for the head
of a family plus $400 for each depend-
ent. The exemption in case of a cor-
poration is $1,500. The law provides
graduated rates starting in with 1 per
cent for the first $3,000 of net tax-
able incomes, and providing for 5 per
(CoHtinutd on page 9, col. ))

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Siiu

Farmers National

Issues Statement

"• t

irginia

•me of

law.

laws

Mis-

Asks "Who Pays Bills"? for Propa-
ganda Attacking Co-Operative
Marketing

ing those activities becomes a pertinent
one for grain producers, stockholders
and directors of farmers' elevators
everywhere."

4cTlJ' ARMERS' elevator companies of
-L middle-western states are being
flooded with reprints, paid advertising
and letters containing vicious attacks
on the Federal Farm Board and Farmers
National Grain Corporation grain mar-
keting program. Many of these letters
are on letterheads of the "Illinois Farm-
ers Grain Dealers Association" and are
signed by Robert B. Orndorff, as vice-
president. Advertisements appearing in
journals opposing the Farm Board pro-
gram also carry his signature, as do re-
prints from unfriendly papers that are
being scattered everywhere among farm-
ers' elevators.

"Mr. Orndorff is sailing under false
colors and his use of the name of the
Illinois elevator association is an eva-
sion. The correct name of the Illinois
elevator group is Farmers Grain Dealers
Association of Illinois, and its presi-
dent, Mr. C. H. Bonnell, of Owaneco,
III., in a letter addressed to an official
of Farmers National Grain Corporation,
under date of October 6, 1930, makes
clear the actual relationship between
Mr. Orndorff and the Farmers Grain
Dealers Association of Illinois. His
statement is reproduced herewith:

FARMERS • '--^

GRAIN DEALERS ASSOCIATION
OF ILLINOIS

:'.'■' Office of President ' '
.'* ■. October 6, 1930.

Mr. W. L. Stahl, Vice-Pres.,
Farmers National Grain Corp., .; si
Fisher Bldg., Chicago, III. • ■ >; .
Dear Mr. Stahl: '

Our association (the Farmers Grain
Dealers Association of Illinois) has
never authorized nor indorsed any
letter or statement criticizing the
members or the policies of the Fed-
eral Farm Board and we earnestly de-
sire that its aims may be realized.
(Signed)

C. H. Bonnell, Pres.,
Farmers Grain Dealers As-
sociation of Illinois.

"Mr. Orndorff maintains an office in
Bloomington, 111., apart from the of-
fices of the Farmers Grain Dealers As-
sociation of Illinois. His mailing and
office expenses, obviously, are heavy.
Paid advertising in journals of wide
circulation costs money. Mr. Orndorff's
activities being neither authorized nor
indorsed, as Mr. Bonnell states, by the
Farmers Grain Dealers Association of
Illinois, the question of who is financ-

Keviews Income Tax

{CotilitiueJ from page 8)
cent on all net income in excess of
$25,000. The tax on corporations is a
flat tax of 2 per cent on the entire net
taxable income.

Massachusetts raised its collections
from income taxes from $15,000,000
in 1918 to $20,240,000 in 1927. The
Massachusetts income tax has never been
a general income tax. It is levied
upon incomes from certain intangibles,
upon incomes from annuities, profes-
sions, employments and trade and busi-
ness, upon excess of gains over losses
received from purchase or sales of in-
tangible personal property, and upon
domestic and foreign business corpora-
tions excepting such corporations as
commercial banks, savings banks and
insurance companies which are taxed
separately. This leaves out incomes
from real estate, bank deposits, and
many corporations.

Collect $100,000,000 in N. Y*.
The total income tax collections in
New York now exceed $100,000,000.
Of this $57,000,000 was kept for the
state's own use, $43,000,000 distrib-
uted to the localities. In 1919 the rate
for corporations was raised from 3 per
cent to 4 per cent and a personal in-
come tax law was enacted applying to
the net income of residents and non-
residents earned within the state rang-
ing from 1 per cent on the first $10,000
to 3 per cent on all in excess of
$50,000.

Stone Predicts More Direct
Purchasing

ORGANIZATION of consumers for
direct purchasing from farmers'
co-operative marketing organizations
was predicted by James C. Stone, vice-
chairman of the Federal Farm Board in
a recent address.

Mr. Stone declared that there is no
reason why growers of farm commodi-
ties and the consuming public should
not develop direct relationships. "The
time is coming," he said, "when the
consumer will organize and develop
these relationships between buyers and
producers as to quality and grade as
well as discuss prices. There is some
development along this line now."

He cited as an illustration the co-
operative purchasing organization of
eastern farmers known as the Grange-
League-Federation Exchange with ap-
proximately 90,000 members in the

British Co-op>crators

Buy Grain Corp. Wheat

The recent meeting of the board of
directors of Farmers National Grain
Corporation was marked by a visit of
three directors of the Co-Operative
Wholesale Society of England and
Wales. Of even more interest was the
fact that through these directors the
largest co-operative concern in the
world made direct contact with Amer-
ican grain producers through their own
organization and made its first purchase
of wheat from Farmers National Grain
Corporation.

The Co-Operative Wholesale Society
is the federal trading organization of
the retail co-operative societies of Eng-
land and Wales. It is said to be the
largest purchaser of wheat in the
United Kingdom and has been a big
customer of the Canadian Wheat Pool.
It has in its employ more than 40,000
persons, owns thousands of acres of ag-
ricultural lands in many parts of the
world, operates factories, mills and
banks, and is composed of more than
1,100 affiliated societies, with a total
membership of consumers exceeding
four and one-half million.

The visit of the directors of the C.
W. S. was in line with the program of
the organization to go as closely as jX)s-
sible for its supplies to the sources of
production and to establish direct rela-
tions between the organized consumers
of the United Kingdom and the co-
operative grain producers of the United
States.

states of New York, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey.

The Federation will purchase Ix;-
tween $30,000,000 and $3 5,000,000
worth of feed this year. During the
past year it purchased a trainload of
feed a day from soybean processors and
feed mixers out of Peoria, Illinois.
In addition to its feed purchases it
maintains three fertilizer plants. ■>• . •

Grain Marketing

The United States is not in a posi-
tion to eliminate legitimate markets for
the hedging of wheat, and present legis-
lation is adequate to care for any situa-
tion which might be caused by the al-
leged selling of wheat on the Chicago
Exchange by Russia to depress prices.
Chairman Legge of the Federal Farm
Board stated orally on September 22.

Russell G. Stewart, manager of the
Ford County Service Company, has ac-
cepted a similar position with the new-
ly organized Champ.iign C^ounty Ser-
vice Company.

■

Page Ten

THE I. A. A. RECORD

INABILITY of Logan County Farm
Bureau batters to solve the slants
and benders of Ralph Meade, McDon-
ough County Farm Bureau pitcher, cost
Logan county the first game of the
championship series played at Lincoln
on October 4. McDonough county
won the game 2 to 0. The second game
was scheduled for Saturday afternoon,
October 11, at Macomb.

Pitchers' Battle

The game was a great pitchers' battle
between Meade, and Weldon Quisen-
berry, who hurled for Logan county.
Meade allowed only 3 hits and struck
out 13 men, while Quisenberry allowed
only four hits and whiffed nine bats-
men. Meade won by a shade when
Quisenberry's support crumbled in the
fourth permitting two runs to score.
For four innings Meade set down the
Logan batters in succession. Quisen-
berry did his best work in the third in-
ning when he struck out three succes-
sive hitters.

How It Happened

In the fourth inning R. Harmon,
center fielder for McDonough, smashed
a hot grounder to Israel at short. The
ball got away from the shortstop and
Harmon reached first. C. Harmon ad-
vanced his brother and was safe himself
on a fielder's choice. Carnahan, Logan's
second baseman, was charged with an
error. Both runners advanced on a wild
pitch and when Boots Runkle doubled
to center field the two runners scored.

Prior to the fourth inning not a sin-
gle McDonough county man had
reached first base. It was a hard-fought
game and revealed that the two teams
are evenly matched. The fact that
Meade did not allow a single pass while
striking out 1 3 men game him the edge
on the pitcher's duel.

Perfect Record

Runkle, McDonough shortstop, ac-
cepted seven chances without an error.

McDonough AB. R. H. P. A. E.

P. Harmon, cf 3 1 0 0 0 0

C. Harmon, rf . . 3 1 0 1 0 0

Runkle, cc 3 0 1 3 4 0

Arntzen, 3b 4 0 0 1 0 0

L. Mings, lb 4 0 0 9 1 1

R. Graham, If 3 0 0 1 0 0

L. Graham, 2b. 3 0 0 0 2 1
C. Mings, c. .... 3 0 2 12 0 0
Meade, p 3 0 0 0 1 0

Totals 30 2 3 27 8 2

MATTI.E FOR STATE BASEBALL, CHAMPIONSHIP

Loenn connty'M Farni nnrenn bnsebnll team won the rigrht to enter the chnm-
pionxhip series ofcnlnst MeDonouKh county when it defeated Sangnnion in their
semi-flnal series. Tills In the second time the LoKan team played for the state title.

The Kpntleman lying; down in front, above, is Hugh Hunter, the wily mana-
ger of the team.

Second row, left to right, are: Carnahan, Israel, Short, G, Shirley, W. Quisen-
berry, A. Schahl, LeininKer; back rowt J. H. Checliley. farm adviser; S. Quisen-
berry, B. Meyers, Cherry, L.. Shirley. R. Quisenberry, H. Meyers, T. Hanahai^ and
Thomas Checkley, nuiscot.

Logan AB. R. H. P. A. E.

G. Shirley, cf. .4 0 1 1 0 0

L. Shirley, 3b 4 0 0 1 1 0

Israel, ss 4 0 0 0 3 2

Schahl, lb 4 0 0 12 0 0

Carnahan, 2b 4 0 1 2 J 1

W. Quisenberry, cf.3 0 0 0 0 0

Leininger, rf 4 0 1 0 0 0

Myers, c 3 0 0 9 1 0

S. Quisenberry, p . . 3 0 1 2 4 0

Totals 33 0 4 27 14 3

Score by innings:

McDonough 000 200 000 — 2

Logan 000 000 000 — 0

Summary: Two base hits — S. Quisen-
berry, Runkle. Struck out — By Meade,
13; by S. Quisenberry, 9. Bases on
balls — Off Quisenberry, 2. Double
plays — Russell to L. Graham to L.
Mings, Israel to Carnahan to Schahl,
Quisenberry to Schahl. Wild pitch —
Quisenberry. Umpires — Mattoon and
Kane. Scorer — Quisenberry.

Do You Know That —

The year 1930 has been an excep-
tionally healthy one for the people in
the United States according to the
Public Health Service.

Federal income tax receipts to Sep-
tember 17 are considerably less than
for the same period a year ago. Re-
ceipts this year were $279,410,511.20
compared with income tax payments
amounting to $361,396,067.80 to Sep-
tember 17 last year.

Many medical fakers are "crying
their spurious wares" through the
smaller radio broadcasting stations, ac-
cording to Commissioner of Health of

the City of New York. Particular
warning was given against purveyors of
the so-called "shotgun pills," alleged to
contain "an herb for each symptom."

There will be from 25,000 to 40,000
licenses to handlers of fruits and vege-
tables in effect by the time the Federal
Perishable Agricultural Commodities
Act of 1930 takes full effect Decem-
ber 10, 1930. If persons continue to
operate without licenses after that time
they will be subject to a fine,.

The creation of a tobacco exchangs
has been proposed by Governor Gard-
ner of North Carolina. This action
would involve standardization of the
tobacco leaf in accordance with the
United States grades for tobacco before
it leaves the farmer's ownership. -, .

The excess supply of school teachers
now constitutes a serious educational
problem which the National Teacher
Training Survey Committee is attempt-
ing to solve.

The expectation of life at birth has
increased from about 48 to 58 years
during the last 20 years.

The per capita consumption of milk
in the United States in 1917 was 836
pounds and in 1927 it was 1,032 pounds.

Farmers who employ help and who
have elected to coriie under the Work-
men's CompensatioH Act of Illinois
must file notice with the Industrial
Commission, Springfield, Illinois, by
November 1 if they wish to withdraw
and terminate their liability under the
Act, January 1, according to V. Vani-
man, director of insurance service.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page EJeven

Scott Meiks Tells Success
of Co-op's

Indianapolis Producers Writes

Checks Exceeding $130,-

000,000 to Live Stock

Shippers

i^T"" HE fact that the Indianapohs
J- Producers' Commission Associa-
tion has accumulated net profits of
more than a half million dollars during
the eight and one-third years of its
existence is abundant proof that its
sponsors, the Indiana Farm Bureau Fed-
eration and the Illinois Agricultural
Association, were right in believing that
live stock could be marketed more eco-
nomically," Scott Meiks, manager of
the Indianapolis Producers, declared in
a recent radio address from station
WLS. "The efficiency of the organi-
zation has been proven by its steadily
increasing volume of business and in-
fluence in the Indianapolis market," he
continued.

Checks Never Questioned
"In the little more than eight years
since the organization started we have
written checks exceeding $130,000,000
to our live stock shippers with never a
check being questioned. The same can
be said for all of the 12 Producer com-
mission associations operating on the
principal live stock markets of the
middle west. I believe this is a record
considering the volume of business, the
12 Producer agencies totaling $149,-
000,000 in sales in 1930. This record
can be excelled by few, if any, business
organizations.

"The Producers at Indianapolis at the
very beginning adopted the policy of
setting aside a part of its earnings each
year and now has a very substantial
sum in its treasury as a guarantee to
its consigning members. In addition to
its reserves our members are protected
by a bond held by the United States
Packer and Stock Yard Administration
for the protection of its consignors.

50,000 Members
"The Indianapolis Producers is com-
posed of nearly 50,000 live stock pro-
ducer members mostly within the two
states of Indiana and Illinois, with a
few in Kentucky and Ohio. It was
organized early in 1922 and began op-
erating on the Indianapolis market May
15 of that year. As a marketing or-
ganization it immediately made a place
for itself on that market becoming the
largest selling organization there. It
has grown steadily in volume, in pres-
tige, and in influence in the live stock
marketing field, and now ranks as one
of the largest co-operative marketing
organizations in the United Sutes.

Operates at Low Cost

"It has been the ambition of the
management and the board of directors
to make the Indianapolis Producers'
Commission Association the most eco-
nomical, the most efficient, and the
safest live sto;k selling organization in
the state. During 1929 it operated at
the lowest cost per car of any of the
Producer units. The Association is now
averaging a little more than one-third
of the live stock consigned to the In-
dianapolis market for sale. Its sales-
men are experienced, competent and are
zealously active in their service to our
member patrons. The entire personnel
are picked employees."

Reasons for Low Prices

Mr. Meiks gave the following reasons
for the drastic decline in live stock
prices during recent months:

1. Underconsumption due to un-
employment in industrial circles.

2. Underconsumption due to ex-
treme hot weather. ^;, , -.•

3. Disorderly marketing with
bunched delivery to market due
to short pastures and shortage of
feed.

4. A practically closed outlet to the
farms and feedlots due to the
widespread drouth which forced
many cattle and lambs to go to
the killers that ordinarily go to
the country.

A normal supply of cattle was
in the country to be sold on the
market that demanded lower than
ordinary receipts. ...•;'.;:■.-.;.,

The largest supply of sheep and
lambs that the United States ever
produced was delivered to mar-
ket when the demand was the
lowest in years.

Only one factor favored the
farmer and that was a short crop
of hogs and the prospect of a
lower than average fall pig crop.

5.

7.

The honor list of Illinois counties
showing gains in carloads of live stock
shipped to co-operative Producer Com-
mission Agencies during the first six
months of 1930 as compared with the
first six months of 1929 is as follows:

Macoupin -.55

Sangamon . . . ..... . . f f.

Whiteside ......... 47

Mercer 44

Ogle 40

Vermilion 39

Crawford- Jas. •. . . , V - > . . .27; :; ■

Greene ;....... .2<

Peoria 25

Scott 24

Henderson 24

Livestock Marketing News

On September 16, Ed Kinsinger of
McLean county marketed 77 steers
through the Chicago Producers. Fifty,
averaging 958 pounds, topped the mar-
ket that day at $13.10, while the other
27 averaging 1,090 pounds brought
$12.85 per cwt. Mr. Kinsinger, pleased
with his returns, wrote as follows: ' ,.

"The sale of my cattle last Tuesday
was highly satisfactory. This v/as not
an accidental good service but the kind
I have been getting every time I have
shipped to you. Thanks for the good
work."

The Research Department of the
National Live Stock Marketing Associa-
tion states that while feed supplies and
prices appear discouraging to live stock
feeders, under such conditions feeding
commonly proves quite profitable. "In
sizing up the outlook as a whole for the
finishing of live stock," the Depart-
ment reports, "it appears quite favor-
able for feeding all Sfjecies, particularly
for finishing good cattle for both this
winter and next summer markets; hogs
for next spring and summer; and lambs
for this coming late winter or early
spring. The slack feeding demand has
resulted in relatively low prices for
feeder stock. With the improvement
of the consumer demand, and with re-
duced supplies of fed animals in pros-
pect next year, selling prices are ex-
pected to be sufficiently high to give
favorable margins. 1 ,

A new top for the season — $14.75 —
was established at the eighth weekly
auction of 4-H club calves at Chicago,
September 23. Wilson & Company paid
that price for a 1,090 pound Hereford
fed by George Lund of Granville, Put-
nam county, Illinois. Carey M. Jones
sold 2 51 during the day that averaged
936 pounds in weight and brought an
average price of $12.75 per cwt.

Marshall-Putnam county had one of
the largest consignments with 65 head
that sold for an average price of $12.60.
Forty head from Warren county aver-
aged 937 pounds, average price $12.84;
18 from DuPage county averaged
$12.80; Champaign county 44 head,
average price $12.73; McDonough
county 30 head, average price $12.53;
and LaSalle county 17 head, average
price $12.35.

— . i ■-■■■ '•

During the week ending September
20 the National Feeder and Finance
Corporation purchased 700 steer and
heifer calves to be shipped direct from
the Texas range to cornbelt feedlots.
The steer calves cost $8.25 f. o. b.
Texas, and the heifer calves $7.25.

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Paf-e Ten

THE I. A. A. RECORD

INABILITY of I o>;.in Couiuy I .irm
Burc.ui li.mt-'is to solve tlu' sl.uiib
and benders of R.ilpli Mc.ido, McDon-
Gugli County larni Ikirc.iu piiclii.'r, cost
I,oj;.ui county the first j;.inie ot tlie
tlumpionship scries pi.iycd .it Lincoln
on October 4. McI)onoui;h county
won tlie g.inie 2 to 0. The second j;.inie
was scheduled for Saturdax' afternoon,
t")ctober II, at Macomb.

Pitchers' Battle

The s;anie was a ,i;reat pitcliers' battle
between Meade, and W'eldon Quisen-
berry, who hurled for Loi;an county.
Meade allowed only .^ hits and struek
out 1 5 men, while Quisenberrv allowed
only four hits and whilTcd nine bats-
men. .\Ieade won by a shade when
Quisenberry's -.upport crumbled in the
fourth permitlint; two runs to score.
For four inninj;s Meade set down the
Lo^gan batters in succession. Quisen-
berry did his best work in the third in-
ning when he struck out three succes-
sive hitters.

How It Happened

In the fourth inning R. Ll.union,
center fielder for .MeDonough, sm.;shed
a hot grounder to Israel at short. The
ball got away from the shortstop and
Harmon reached first. (J. Harmon ad-
vanced his brotlier and was s.ife himself
on a fielder's choice. Carnahan, Logan's
second baseman, was charged with an
error. Both runners advanced on a wild
pitch and wlien Boots Runkle doubled
to center field the two runners scored.

Prior to the fourth inning not a sin-
gle McDonough count\' man h.id
reached first base. It was a hard-fought
game and revealed that the two teams
are evenly matched. The fact that
Meade did not allow a single pass while
striking out 13 men game him the edge
on the pitcher's duel.

Perfect Record

Runkle, McDonough shortstop, ac-
cepted seven chances without an error.

McDonough

AB.

R.

H.

P.

A.

E.

P. Harmon, cf.

3

1

0

0

0

0

C. Harmon, rf.

3

1

0

1

0

0

Runkle, cc.

3

0

1

3

4

0

Arntzen, 3b.

4

0

0

1

0

0

L. Mings, lb

4

0

0

9

1

1

R. Graham, If.

3

0

1)

1

0

0

L. Graham, 2b.

3

0

0

0

2

1

C. Mings, c. . .

3

0

2

12

0

0

Meade, p

3

0

0

0

1

0

Totals

II \'i"i'i.i': i''(»i{ sTA'ri-: ii \si':ii ai.i, 411 \Mi>iu\siiii>

l.ou::in <'oiiiil>'„ l-'m-m lliimtii li:i^el»:ill triiiii «\oti tli«> ri^ht tn t'lid^r llie I'linili-
l>i<>iiNlii|> Kcrii'N iiB:iiii»t >lcl)i>ii»iiu:l> foiiiity i\ hen it iK-frnla-il Siiiikiiiiiiiii in tlit-ir
>,fiiii-lili:il Ni'riCM. 'riiiw i„ llic mcimiiiiI fiiiie llir l.iiufin t«>;iiii |il;i><'il f€»r the K4:it4> title.

The Kcnlleiii:iii l>illK ihiMli in front, :ilM>\e, In IIiikIi ilnntt-r. the »il> ■n:ina-
Ker ol tli«' tt'liiii.

SD'onii roM. Irft t<i ria^tt, iirp: t':irn:ili.in. Isr:i<-I, Short, (i. Sliirloj, \V. Qiiisen-
lii-rr>, A. Sfliiilil. l,rininK<-r: li:ick row: ,1. II. 4'lir<-klfy. fsirin iiiUlKt'r: S. ItiiiKt-n-
lii-rry, II. Mryt-rN, Chrrry, I.. Sliirle}. It. <(uiKeiil>rrry, II. .McytT.s, T. Ilannhiin nud
'riionisiN I'lifckivy , iiijiKcot.

the City of New York. Particular

warning was given against purveyors of

I 0 the so-called "shotgun pills," alleged to

contain "an herb for each symptom."

Logan

AB.

R.

H.

p.

A.

E.

G. Shirlev, cf.

4

0

1

1

0

0

I.. Shirlev. 3b.

4

0

0

1

1

0

Is.ael, ss.

4

0

0

0

3

2

Schahl, lb.

4

0

0

12

0

0

Carnahan, 2b.

4

0

1

2

5

1

W. Quisenberry

, cf.3

0

0

0

0

0

Leininger, rf.

4

0

1

0

0

0

Mvers, c.

3

0

0

9

1

0

S. Quisenberry,

P 3

0

1

2

4

0

Totals 3 3 0 4 27 14 3

Score b\' innings:
McDonough . 000 200 000 — 2

Logan \ . 000 000 000 — 0

There will be from 2 5,000 to 40,000
licenses to handlers of fruits and vege-
tables in effect by the time the Federal
Perishable Agricultural Commodities
Act of 1930 takes full effect Decem-
ber 10, 1930. If persons continue to
operate without licenses after that time
they will be subject to a fine.

The creation of a tobacco exchanes

Summary: Two base hits— S. Quisen- \^^^ b^cn proposed bv Governor Gard-
berry, Runkle. Struck out— By Meade, ^er of North Carolina. This action
13; by S. Quisenberry, 9. Bases on ^^quIJ involve standardization of the

balls — OlF Quisenberry, 2. Double
plays — Russell to L. Graham to L.
Mings, Israel to Carnahan to Schahl,
Quisenberry to Schahl. Wild pitch —
Quisenberry. Umpires — Mattoon and
Kane. Scorer — Quisenberry.

tobacco leaf in accordance with the
United States grades for tobacco before
it leaves the farmer's ownership.

Do You Know That —

The excess supply of sciiool teaehers
now constitutes a serious educational
problem which the National Teacher
Training Survey Committee is attempt-
ing to solve.

The year 1930 has been an excep-
tionally healthy one for the people in
the United States according to the
Public Health Service.

The expectation of life at birth has
increased from about 48 to 5 8 years
during the last 20 years.

Federal income tax receipts to Sep-
tember 17 are considerably less than
for the same period a year ago. Re-
ceipts this year were $279,410,511.20
compared with income tax payments
amounting to $361,396,067.80 to Sep-
tember 17 last vcar.

The per capita consumption of milk
in the United States in 19 17 was 836
pounds and in 1927 it was 1,032 pounds.

30 2 3 27 8 2

Many medical fakers are "crying
their spurious wares" through the
smaller radio broadcasting stations, ac-
cording to Commissioner of Health of

Farmers who employ help and who
have elected to come under the Work-
men's Compensation Act of Illinois
must file notice with the Industrial
Commission, Springfield, Illinois, by
November 1 if they wish to withdraw
and terminate their liability under the
Act, January 1, according to V. Vani-
man, director of insurance service.

n<
th

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Eleven

1

Scott Meiks Tells Success
of Co-op's

Indianapolis Producers Writes

Checks Exceeding $130,-

000,000 to Live Stock

Shippers

tiT"" 1 11" f.Kt that ilic Indianapolis
J- Producers' Commission Associa-
tion has accumulated net profits of
more than a half million Sollars during
the eight and one-third \ears of its
existence is abundant proof that its
sponsors, the Indiana l"arm Bureau Fed-
eration and the Illinois Agricultural
Association, were right in believmg that
live stock could be marketed more eco-
ncmically," Scott Meiks, manager of
the Indianapolis Producers, declared in
a recent radio address from station
WLS. "The efficiency of the organi-
zation has been proven by its steadily
increasing volume of business and in-
fluence in the Indianapolis market," he
continued.

Checks Never Questioned

"In the little more than eight >ears
since the organization started we have
written checks exceeding $130,000,000
to our live stock shippers with never a
check being questioned. The same can
be said for all of the 12 Produ.:er com-
mission associations operating on the
principal live stock markets of the
middle west. I believe this is a record
considering the volume of business, the
12 Producer agencies totaling $149,-
000,000 in sales in 1930. This record
can be excelled by few, if any, business
organizations.

"The Producers at Indianapolis at the
very beginning adopted the policy of
setting aside a part of its earnings each
year and now has a very substantial
sum in its treasury as a guarantee to
its consigning m.mbers. In addition to
its reserves our m.;mbers .^rc protected
by a bond held by the United States
Packer and Stock Yard Administration
ior the protection of its consignors.

50,000 Members
"The Indianapolis Producers is com-
posed of nearly 50,000 live stock pro-
ducer members mostly within the two
states of Indiana and Illinois, with a
few in Kentucky and Ohio. It was
organized early in 1922 and began op-
crating on the Indianapolis market May
1 5 of that )ear. As a marketing or-
ganization it immediately made a place
for itself on that market becoming the
largest selling organization there. It
has grown steadily in volume, in pres-
tige, and in influence in the live stock
marketing field, and now ranks as one
of the largest co-operative marketing
organizations in the United States.

Operates at Lo\v Cost

"It lias been th." ambition of the
man.'.gumcnt and the bo.ird of directors
to mike the Indianapolis Producers'
Commission Association the most eco-
nomical, the most efficient, and the
s.-fest live stock selling organization in
the state. During 1929 it operated at
the lowest cost per car of any of the
Produ-cr units. The Association is now
.averaging a little more than one-third
of tlie li\e stock consigned to the In-
dianapolis market for sale. Its sales-
men are experienced, competent and are
zealously active in their service to our
member patrons. The entire personnel
are picked employees."

Reasons for Low Prices

Mr. Meiks gave the following reasons
for the drastic decline in live stock
prices during recent months:

1. Underconsumption due to un-
employment in industrial circles.

2. Underconsumption due to ex-
treme hot weatiier.

3. Disorderly m a r k e t i n g with
bunched delivery to market due
to short pastures and shortage of
feed.

4. A practically closed cutlet to the
farms and feedlots due to the
widespread drcuth which forced
many cattle and lambs to go to
the killers that ordinarily go to
the country.

5. A normal supply of cattle was
in tlie country to be sold on the
market that demanded lower than
ordinary receipts.

6. Tlie largest suppK' of sheep and
lambs that the United States ever
produced was delivered to mar-
ket when the demand was tlie
lowest in years.

7. Only one factor favored th:
farmer and that was a short crop
of hogs and the prospect of a
lower than average fall pig crop.

Livestock Marketing News

On September 16, I'd Kiiisinger of
Mclean countx marketed 77 steers
through the Chicago Producers. I'ifty,
averaging 95 8 pounds, topped the mir-
ket that day at sLvlO, while the other
27 averaging l,(i,'.'<t pounds brought
$12.S5 per cwt. Mr. Kinsinger, pleased
with his returns, wrote as fallows:

"The sale ot my cattle last Tuesday
was highly satisfactory. This \. as not
.in accidental good service but the kind
I ha\e been getting every time I have
shipped to you. Thanks for the good
work. "

The Research Department of the
National Live Stock Marketing -Associa-
tion states that while feed supplies and
prices appear discouraging to live stock
feeders, under sueh cosiditions feeding
commonly proves quite profitable. "In
sizing up the outlook as a wlwle for the
finishir.g of li\e stock," tlie Depart-
ment reports, "it appears quite favor-
able for feeding all species, pctrticulariy
for finishing good cattle for both this
winter and next summer markets; hogs
tor next spring and summer; and lambs
tor this coming late winter or early
spring. The slack feeding demand has
resulted in relatively low prices for
feeder stock. With the improvement
of the consumer demand, xnd with re-
duced supplies of fed animals in pros-
pect next year, selling prices arc ex-
pected to be sufficiently high to give
favorable maririns. ,

The honor list of Illinois counties
showing gains in carloads of live stock
shipped to co-operative Producer Com-
mission Agencies during the first six
months of 1930 as compared with the
first six months of 1929 is as follows:

Macoupin 5 5

Sangamon 55

Whiteside 47

Mercer 44

Ogle 40

Vermilion 39

Crawford-Jas 27

Greene 26

Peoria 25

Scott 24

Henderson 24

A new top tor the season — ■il4.75 —
was establisljtd at the eigiith weekh
auction of 4-1 1 club calves at C'hicago,
September 23. W'ihon & Companv paid
that price for a 1,090 pound Hereford
fed b\ George I.und of Granville, Put-
nam county, Illinois. Clirey .M. Jones
sold 25 1 during the day that averaged
936 pounds in weight and brought an
average price of S 12.75 per cwt.

Marshall-Putnam county had one of
the largest consignments with 6 5 head
that sold for an average price of $12.60.
I'orty head from Wfarren county aver-
aged 9:7 pounds, average price $12.84;
18 from DuPage county averaged
S 12.80; Champaign county 44 head,
average price $12.73; McDonough
county 30 head, avierage price $12.5 3;
and LaSalle county 17 head, average
price $12.3 5.

During the week ending September
20 the Xat$>nal I'eeder and linance
Corporation purchased 700 steer and
heifer calves to be shipped direct from
the Texas range to cornbelt feedlots.
The steer calves cost $8.25 f. o. b.
Texas, and the heifer calves $7.25.

Page Twelve

THE I, A. A. RECORD

COUNTRY LIFE MEN ARE ♦

DEPENDABLE AND SINCERE

THE men who sell Country Life policies are not only enthusiastic
over the Connpany's unrivaled progress, but they are also de-
pendable and sincere. They reflect the ideals of a connpany created
with a spirit of co-operation and self help, to provide reliable legal re-
serve life insurance to farnners at low cost. ,:■■.:-■ y^- :,■-,:. -■\.

Country Life agents are not high pressure sales wizards. Ninety
per cent of them never had previous selling experience. They are the
men you Farm Bureau members selected to represent your com-
pany in your communities. I

They Live Among You

They live among you and know your problems. They are not fly-
by-nighters who have no scruples about misrepresenting the com-
pany's policies or of loading you down with too much insurance. ^ ^ ^^

Country Life men are under orders to give you the facts.

Country Life has the confidence of Illinois farmers and seeks to
hold that confidence inviolate. It insists that every one of its agents
and representatives conduct himself with honesty, fairness, dignity,
and integrity. ^^-■'^'■■:\-::'-^'r.ir\^-

:k Greater Volume Lowers Cost

.*■■■■

By Tielping Country Life salesmen you help yourself for this is
your company. :rr-'^:^i^\:-\r:''---.^^,:,^-^r

Greater volume means lower cost life insurance. Your confi-
dence in the company will result in ever-increasing volume. Tell others
about the advantages of a policy in Country Life. I ^^ :^ h

COUNTRY LIFE INSURANCE CO.

608 South Dearborn Street
Chicago

$45,000,000 Of Written Business Already, Old Line Legal Reserve Life Insurance

THE I. A. A, RECORD

Page Thirteen

Farm Supply Company

Has a Successful Year

Declare Patronage Dividends to 36
Member Companies of $38,307.89

L. R. Marchant

A PAID-IN capital stock totaling
$254,000 in the 15 new county
service companies organized during
1930 with an aggregate sum of $620,-
500 to represent the farmers' invest-
rrvent in the 36 companies affiliated
with the Illinois Farm Supply Company
as of August 31, 1930, was reported
by Manager L. R.
Marchant at the an-
nuni meeting of the
company in Bloom-
ington on Oct. 14.
A comparison of
the gasoline sales for
the 'first six months
of the calendar year,
made a V ai I a b 1 e
through the state
gas tax, discloses that
the total gallonage
of all member com-
panies places the Illinois Farm Supply
Company and its associates in the fifth
or sixth rank among the distributors in
Illinois. Only four or five of tlie 752
hcensed distributors show a larger busi-
ness. :v ■■':. t' '■" ••■ ■'■
20,000,000 Gallons

Petroleum products purchased dur-
ing the fiscal year of the company ap-
proximate 20,000,000 gallons. This is
equivalent to 1,623 tank cars of gaso-
line, 68 5 cars of kerosene, and 57 cars
of distillate and fuel oil, 572,644 gal-
lons of lubricating oils, and 405,3 51
pounds of grease. In comparison to
the volume handled the preceding year
this is a gain of 47 per cent in gasoline,
69 per cent in kerosene and distillate,
52 per cent in lubricating oils, and 123
per cent in grease. ;;•''..,■.;..■■.

Of the 16 companies in operation for
a full 12 months' period prior to the
close of the 1929 fiscal year, only five
failed to make an increase in their busi-
ness the past year, and the remaining
11 made gains ranging from 7 to 80
per cent.

Purchases Increase

In addition to distributing petroleum
products, the company during the past
fiscal year supplied member companies
and farm bureaus with 344,900 pounds
of Atlacide calcium chlorate, a weed-
killer. Fly spray to the amount of
6,080 gallons also was purchased by the
31 companies featuring tiiis product for
the first season.

In spite of lower prices, the com-
pany's purchases totaled $1,570,469.16,

which is an increase of $400,000 over
last year's purchases.

The capital stock of the state com-
pany includes 620 J4 shares of preferred
A 7 per cent cumulative stock having
a par value of $100 per share and
held by the 36 member companies.
Common stock outstanding consists of
36 shares at $1 per share which is held
by the member companies and entitles
them to participate in patronage re-
funds.

Total operating income for the year
was $79,387.08, an increase of 73.9 per
cent over last year. The brokerage in-
come of $58,916.95 was an advance of
49 per cent, and the trading income
trebled with $20,470.13 resulting from
profits on purchases and sales.

Operating expenses were $25,862.3 5,
or 32.6 per cent, of the gross income
compared to $15,834.58, or 34.69 per
cent, for the year ending August 31,
1929.

Good Net Income :.../:.;

The net operating income of $5 3,-
5 24.73 with the additional income from
interest and discounts earned of $6,-
401.76, less deductions of discounts al-
lowed, trade mark expanse, and federal
income tax, resulted in a net income of
$54,277.96, which is 68.37 per cent
of the gross operating income as com-
pared to $30,534.05, or 66.9 per cent,
for tiie preceding year. On the basis
of the paid-in capital stock of all com-
panies which were in Of>eration prior
to August 31, the earnings represent a
profit of 93.51 per cent in comparison
to 85 per cent on the paid-in capital
the year before.

A reserve in the amount of $3,200.77
has been established for the payment of
Capital stock dividends and also a re-
serve in the amount of $38,307.89 for
the payment of patronage refunds. The
latter amount represents 48.2 5 per cent
of the gross income and the net addi-
tion of $15,970.07 to surplus, 20 per
cent of gross income.

Net Worth $87,777.55

The net worth of the company is
represented by a capital stock invest-
ment of $64,586 and a surplus of $23,-
191.5 5. '•^•■v^r^,.!;:--

Records show close to 50,000 cus-
tomers who are patronizing the 36 com-
panies affiliated with the Illinois Farm
Supply Company. In the territory
served there are an estimated 3 5,350
Farm Bureau members.

Manager Marchant called attention in
his report to an article published re-
cently in one of the leading petroleum
magazines under the heading "The
Weakness of Co-Operative Oil Com-
panies Is Their Lack of Selling Experi-
ence." "This is a challenge to our or-

Federal Farm Board

C CONSOLIDATION of unprofit.iblo
> wheat farms into larger units was
advocated in a recent address by Chair-
man Legge of the Farm Board before
the Mortgage Bankers' Association of
America, meeting at Detroit.

"Studies made by the agricultural
colleges indicate that the time has
passed when wheat can be grown prof-
itably on small acreages," said Mr.
Legge. "This, in our estimation, means
a readjustment in the side of the farm
unit where wheat is depended upon as
a cash crop.

"Each individual company represented
here," said Mr. Legge, "probably has
cases where they have an unsatisfactory
loan on an 80 or 160 acre tract, where
an analysis of the subject would indi-
cate the loan on the present basis of
operation is likely to continue unpaid,
but by consolidating two or more of
these tracts in one unit, which would
in most cases probably involve refinanc-
ing of the larger unit, you could, in
our judgment bring about a situation
where the borrower was in ptosition to
ofierate successfully.

"In other words, make one, borrower
a good credit risk where you now have
two or three bad ones." legge stales
that a similar situation exists in the pro- .
duct ion of cotton.

ganization," he said. "We have the
choice of standing innocently by and
watching our competitors take a cer-
tain percentage of the business because
of superior salesmanship, or that of
constantly striving to build up the eHi-
ciency of our own organization vhich
will do much to strengthen tiie move-
ment throughout the state and place
co-operatives in general on a iiigher
plane."

The sale of plant and equipment and
all the physical assets of Cornstalk
Products Company at Danville, Illinois,
was ordered recently by the U. S. Dis-
trict Court by Judge Walter C. Lind-
ley. The sale of assets was asked for
in a petition filed by attorneys for the
Federal Court.

Plant and equipment inventories at
around $750,000, according to the at-
torneys for receivers, and approximate-
ly $2,500,000 has been expended at the
plant. The general indebtedness is
around $700,000, not including the in-
vestment of stockholders.

The Cornstalk plant at Danville,
erected several years ago, specialized
in producing pulp from cornstalks for
manufacturing paper.

¥

Page Fourteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

r

NATIONAL
FEEDER AND

FINANCE
CORPORATION

(subsidiary)

NATIONAL LIVESTOCK
MARKETING ASSOCIATION

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS

Transportation Research

Public Relations Publicity

Live Stock tt Meats Accounting

Advertising Legal

SALES BOARD

President Kational L.S.M.Assn
General Mgr . Nat'l L.S.M.Assn
Manager National Feeder and
Finance Corporation

NATIONAL
LIVESTOCK
PUBLISHING
ASSOCIATION

(svijsidiary)

DIVIDUAL

INDIVIDUAL

INDIVIDUAL

DCIVIDUAL

Live Stock Marketing Set-Up Explained

EIGHTEEN stockholder member
corporations now constitute the
farmer owned and controlled National
Live Sto;k Marketing Association spon-
sored by the Federal Farm Board. All
but three of these corporations are go-
ing business institutions with from five
to nine years of successful operation in
their respective fields to their credit.
The three new associations set up since
the incorporation of the National As-
sociation, May 10, 1930, are largely in
the hands of experienced marketing
men who will have all the benefits and
assistance to be obtained through the
National Association so that assurance
of the best possible selling and market-
ing service is available to live stock
producer members from the start.

Builded on Individual

As illustrated in the accompanying
chart, the entire organization structure
is builded on the individual live stock
producer who is legally an associate

By J. D. HARPER

member of the National organization.
The members of the National organiza-
tion include the co-operative market-
ing associations as listed. These may
be either terminal marketing associa-
tions or state or regional associations
which qualify as marketing agencies.
Each of these marketing associations
has as members either county or dis-
trict marketing associations and local
shipping associations or individual pro-
ducers.

Buys Feeders

Both subsidiary corporations func-
tion through the National association
and direct to member live stock sales
agencies and through them to the in-
dividual members who may be affiliated
in county or district organizations or as
individual members.

The Feeder and Finance Corporation
reaches the individual through terminal
or state associations, and then through
regional credit corporations, or, in cer-

tain instances, emergency loans are ne-
gotiated direct with the individual. In
addition to furnishing live stock pro-
ducers with a dependable source of
credit this corporation also renders a
feeder service whereby range growers
may sell cattle and lambs direct to
cornbelt feeders. i

Dependable Information ".

The Publishing Association, in carry-
ing information to members, co-oper-
ates with all agencies, including ter-
minal and state associations, as well as
local or county organization units.
Subscriptions are direct with the indi-
vidual live stock producer who patron-
izes a co-operative agency member of
the National association. Dependable
production and marketing information
is furnished the membership through
this subsidiary so that intelligent co-
operation will characterize the policies
and marketing methods of the National.

Services rendered by terminal co-.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Fifteen

d

operative selling agencies are generally
well understood. These associations re-
ceive and sell live stock on a commission
basis at terminal markets. They also
assist live stock feeders in purchasing
feeding stock frequently on the market,
but now in co-operation with the Feed-
er and Finance Corporation, as noted.

The terminal associations are the key-
stone of the arch through which a
strong centrally controlled volume of
live stock — nation-wide — is moving in
an orderly manner from the producers
to the packers. v";! . - ■ ; ■ ' ^^

The state live stock marketing or-
ganization is new and has for its pur-
pose the co-ordination of the marketing
of live stock produced in the state.
Iowa is one of the states now qualified
under this plan with a state manager
and with regional organizations co-
operating. Such a large percentage of
Iowa live stock moves direct to pack-
ers that at present the problem there
has appeared somewhat differently from
that presented in other mid-western
states. Discussion in other states shows
some sentiment for similar state mar-
keting organizations elsewhere.

Texas Was First

Texas also has a state-wide organiza-
tion which was the first to aflSliate with
the National Live Stock Marketing As-
sociation. Its sales are not direct
to packers, but many are direct to
feeders and, too, provision has been
made for two terminal outlets under
control of the Texas organization — one
at Ft. Worth, Texas, and one at St.
Joseph, Missouri.

The Western Cattle Marketing Asso-
ciation, which has been organized for
six years, operates on a contract plan
with its membership in which the cattle
are sold direct to packers. Their terri-
tory includes several states, cattle only
being marketed through the organiza-
tion.

Sells Direct

Among the member agencies is found
the National Order Buying Company
which has for nearly seven years been
marketing live stock direct to packers.
This company fills orders from packers
either on terminal markets where agents
are operating, or direct from concentra-
tion points outside of the terminal mar-
kets. In states like Minnesota, South
Dakota and Iowa, where from 40 to 60
per cent of the hogs move direct to
packers, the possibilities of this co-
operative service are apparent. The first
large terminal market in the central
west to be included among the points
served by this company is the St. Louis
market where 65 to 70 per cent of the
hogs are shipped East on orders. A

BLLK PLANT, TAZEWELL SERVICE CO.. PEKIX, ILL.
Similar Balk Stations nre located at Delavaii and Richmond in Tazrwrll ronnty

number of rzcently organized concen-
tration points are using the services of
this company which is endeavoring
careful grading and direct movement to
eliminate some of the handling costs
on the road to market.

Most cornbelt live stock producers
are acquainted with the set-up and
operation of the local shipping associa-
tion and also with the recent develop-
ment toward a larger county or regional
marketing association. This change has
come about largely through the im-
proved highway system which enables
concentration of live stock from larger

Tazewell Service Co.

areas.

Loans to Feeders

The' regional credit corporation is a
corporation which co-operates with the
Feeder and Finance Corporation in the
handling of loans to live stock feeders.
Similar corporations have been in ex-
istence in many places for several years,
discounting their loans through the In-
termediate Credit Banks just as they do
at present.

This marketing plan has been de-
signed to handle all of the co-operative
live stock business of the country. The
success of the program depends upon
the endorsement of the idea of collec-
tive bargaining by a sufficient number
of live stock producers in this country
to stabilize prices through volume con-
trol and thereby improve marketing
conditions and give the live stock pro-
ducer a greater net profit.

All of the live stock handled co-
operatively in 1929 represents about 18
per cent of the total volume produced
in the country. This volume, when
handled through one selling agency,
will greatly enhance the value of vol-
ume control and collective bargaining
beyond that which has been success-
fully demonstrated by individual sales
agencies on terminal markets where the
volume has approached 5 0 per cent con-
trol. : V ■

nri

'HE Tazewell Service Company or-
■L ganized a short time ago refKjrts ex-
cellent supfKsrt from the 1,274 Farm
Bureau members in that county.

The company began operating late in
March with seven trucks serving the
farm trade from bulk storage stations
at Pekin and Delavan. Early in Au-
gust the third bulk station was opened
at Richmond Crossing, and another
truck added to the fleet.

In addition to the 1,250 individual
customer accounts in the county, the
company supplies regularly six private-
ly owned and operated filling stations
with Aladdin gasoline and Penn Bond
motor oils and greases.

With the assistance of a very com-
petent board of directors Manager
Clyde Woolsey, a former truck sales-
man for the Knox County Oil Com-
pany, has succeeded in placing the Taze-
well Service Company at the top of the
list among the new companies in the
state, on the basis of sales. In the
course of a few months the Tazewell
Service Company has handled 75 cars
of motor fuel, approximately 22,386
gallons of lubricating oil, and about
17,960 [>ounds of grease. With the
continued expansion of business this
company gives great promise to be one
of the leading organizations in the state.

Tazewell county farmers make a
practice of clipping coupons from their
Farm Bureau memberships and they
will have no reason to be disappointed
with their service company in view of
the fine showing made up to date.

Forty Knox county Farm Bureau
members, including President Harry
Gehring, and County Advisers Kemp
and Campbell, visited the I. A. A. of-
fices on Oct. 3 following an educa-
tional tour through Chicago's Union
Stock Yards. Henry county live stock
growers were in on Wednesday, Oct. 1.

Page Fourteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

NATIONAL
FEEDER AND

FINANCE
CORPORATION

(MATIOWAL LIV/ESTOCK
MARKETING ASSOCIATION

EXECUTIVE DEPAHTMENTS

Trarjipor tatijn Research
Public Relations Publicity
Live Stock & Meats Accounting
Advertising Legal

SALES BOARD

President national LS.M.Assn
General Mgr . Nat'l L.S.M.Assn
Manager Natioual Feeder and
Finance Corpora tloti

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LIVESTOCK
PUBLISHING
ASSOCIATION

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INDIVIDUAL

Live Stock Marketing Set-Up Explained

By J. D. HARPER

El ( J H T t r. X MOLkhiildcr member
corporations now constitute the
t.irnier own^cl .mil controlled National
Live Sto.i; M.'.rk.tin;.; A.sojiation spon-
sor^.i by the Inderal I arm Board. All
but three ot tliese corporations are i;o-
in:; busines. institutions wrth from five
to nine years oi' •.uecessful operation in
tluir respective fields to their credit.
1 he tliree luw as'ojiations set up smcc
the incorporation of the Xational As-
sociation, May 10, 19.>0, arc largel) in
the iiands of experienced marketing
men who will have all the bjnefits and
assistance to be obtained through the
National Association so t!i.tt assurance
of the best possible selling and market-
ing service is available to live stock
producer members from the start.

Builded on Individu.-il

As illustrated in the accompanying
chart, the entire organization structure
is builded on the individual live stock
producer who is legally an associate

member of the National organization.
The m.mbers of the National organiza-
tion include the co-operative market-
ing aso-iations as listed. These may
he either terminal marketing associa-
tions or state or regional as.ociations
which ciualify as marketing agencies.
l!acli of these marketing associations
has as numbers either county or dis-
trict marketing associations and local
shipping associations or individu.'.l pro-
ducers.

Buys Feeders

Both 'ub'.idiary corporations func-
tion through the National association
and direct to member live stock sales
agencies and through them to the in-
dividual m.mbers who may be affiliated
in county or district organizations or as
individual members.

The leeder and Finance Corporation
reaches the individual through terminal
or state associations, and then through
regional credit corporations, or, in cer-

tain instances, emergency loans are ne-
gotiated direct with the individual. In
addition to furnishing live sto.k pro-
ducers with a dependable source of
credit this corporation also renders a
feeder service whereby range growers
may sell cattle and lambs direct to
corn belt feeders.

Dependable Information

The Publishing Association, in carry-
ing information to members, co-oper-
ates with all agencies, including ter-
minal and state associations, as well as
local or county organization units.
Subscriptions are direct with the indi-
vidual live stock producer who patron-
izes a co-operative agency member of
the National association. Dependable
production and marketing information
is furnished the membership through
this subsidiary so that intelligent co-
operation will characterize the policies
and marketing methods of the National.

Services rendered by terminal co-

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Fifteen

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operative selling agencies arc generally
well understood. Tliese associations re-
ceive and sell live stock on a commission
basis at terminal markets. Tliey also
assist live stock feeders in purchising
feeding stock frequently on the market,
but now in co-operation with the Feed-
er and linaivje Corporation, as noted.

The terminal associations are the key-
stone of tlvj arch through which a
strong centrally controlled volume of
live stock — nation-wide — is moving in
an orderly manner from the producers
to the packers.

The state live stock marketing or-
ganization is new and has for its pur-
pose the co-ordination of the marketing
of live stock produced in the state.
Iowa is one of the states now qualified
under this plan with a statj manager
and witii regional organizations co-
operating. Such a large percentage of
Iowa live stock moves direct to pack-
ers that at present the problem there
has appeared somewhat differently from
that presented in other mid-western
states. Discussion in other states shows
some sentiment for similar state mar-
keting organizations elsewhere.

Texas Was First

Texas also has a state-wide organiza-
tion which was the first to affiliate with
the National Live Stock Marketing As-
sociation. Its sales are not direct
to packers;, but many are direct to
feeders and, too, provision has been
made for two tern-.inal outlets under
control of the Texas organization — one
at Ft. Worth, Texas, and one at St.
Joseph, Missouri.

The Western Cattle Marketing Asso-
ciation, which has been organized for
six years, operates on a contract plan
with its membership in wiiich the cattle
are sold direct to packers. Their terri-
tory includes several states, cattle only
being marketed through the organiza-
tion.

Sells Direct

Among tiie member agencies is found
the National Order Bu\ing Company
which has for nearly seven years been
marketing live stock direct to packers.
This company fills orders from packers
either on terminal markets where agents
are operating, or direct from concentra-
tion points outside of the terminal mar-
kets. In states like Minnesota, South
Dakota and Iowa, where from 40 to 60
per cent of the hogs move direct to
packers, the possibilities of this co-
operative service are apparent. The first
large terminal market in the central
west to be included among the points
served by this company is the St. Louis
market where 6 5 to 70 per cent of the
hogs are shipped East on orders. A

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Similnr Itiilk St:itH>iis nrr lofiittMl :it l>rl:i\:iii mid It i«*liitii*iiil in 'l':i/.r^\ fit «-<iiitil«

numb.;r of r.-cently organized concen-
tration points are using the services ol
this company which is endeavoring
c.ireful grading and dire:t movcm.nt to
eliminate som;? of the handling costs
on t!ie road to market.

.Mo'.t cornbTlt live sto.k producers
are acquainted witii the set-up and
operation of the lo.al shipping associa-
tion and also with the recent develop-
ment toward a larger county or regional
marketing association. This change has
come about largely through the im-
proved highway system which enables
concentration of live stock from larger
areas.

Loans to Feeders

The regional credit corporation is a
corporation which co-operates with the
Feeder and Finance Corporation in the
handlingof loans to live stock feeders.
Similar corporations have been in ex-
istence in many places for several years,
discounting their loans through tlve In-
termediate Credit Banks just as they do
at present.

This marketing plan has been de-
sii'ned to handle all of the co-operative
live stock business of the country. The
success of the program depends upon
l!ie endorsement of the idea of collec-
tive bargaining by a sufficient number
of live stock produ.ers in this country
to stabilize prices through volume con-
trol and thereby improve marketing
conditions and give the live stock pro-
ducer a greater net profit.

All of the live stock handled co-
operatively in 1929 represents about 18
per cent of the total volume produced
in the country. This volume, when
handled through one selling agency,
will greatl\- enhance the value of vol-
ume control and coile-tive bargaining
b.-\ond that which has be.-n su:ccss-
fuih' demonstrated by individual sales
agencies on terminal markets where the
volume has approached 5 0 per cent con-
trol.

T

Tazewell Service Co.

ML Ta/'.weil Ser\ ice CJ<-m;>any or-
;;,:nized a short time ago reports cx-
ceiknt support from the il,274 Farm
Lureau members m that county.

Tile company began operluing late in
Much with seven trucks 'serving the
farm trade from bulk storlage stations
at I'ekin and Delav.m. Fivrly in Au-
gust the third bulk station was opened
at Richmond C^rossi.ng, and another
truck added to the fleet.

lii addition to the 1.2 5(» indi\ Idual
customer accounts in the county, the
company supplies regularly six private-
ly owned and operated filling stations
with Aladdin gasoline and Venn Bond
motor oils ,tnd greases.

^X'ith the assistance of a very com-
petent board of directors Manager
Clyde Woolsey, a former truck sales-
man for the Knox County Oil C-.;m-
pan\ , his succeeded in plaeifig the Taze-
well Service Company at tlie top of the
list among the new companies in the
state, on the basis of sales. In the
course of a few m.Miths the Tazewell
Service Company has handled 7S cars
of motor fuel, approximately 22,.^ S6
ga!l(;ns of lubnc.it in;; o.l, and abi^ut
17,960 pounds of grease. Vii'iih the
conimuxi expansion of Ini mess this
company gives great promite to be one
of the le.uling organizations in the state.

Tazewell county farmers make a
practice of clipping coupons from their
Farm Bureau memberships and they
Will have no reason to be disappointed
with their service company in view of
the fine showing made up to date.

Forty Knox county Farm Bureau
members, including President I 1 r,r>
Gehring, and Countv .Advisers Kemp
and C'ampbell, visited the I. A. A. of-
fices on (.)ct. 3 following an educa-
tional tour through Cihicago's Union
Stock Yards. Henry county live stock
growers were in on Wednesjav, Oct. 1.

Page Sixteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

'U-

Insurande

By L. A. Williams

"The Farmer Applies for
Insurance"

Agent: "M.»vc you ever cdrricd any
lilc insurance?"

Farmer: "No."

Agent: "Have you over been ex-
amined thoroughly?"

Farmer: "No."

Agent: "Arc you in good health?"

Farmer: "C)h! I'm able to be about
and work a bit. (.)f course, I can't say
I'm perfect — 1 get heart pains once in
a while, and I had a little rheumatism
last fall, but I'm well enough, I guess."

Agent: "Well, Country Life docs a
non-medical business up to $3,000 at
certain ages, but you better have a
medical , examination, because if there
is anything wrong, you will want to
know it, and so will the Company."

Farmer: "Don't you think I can
pass?"

Agent: "Well, as to that I couldn't
say, but heart pains and rh.'umatism
are not things to be taken lightly, par-
ticularly by an Insurance Company.
Why haven't you been to a doctor to
sec how you line up physically?"

Farmer: "Well, doctors' bills are
costly, and I wasn't ever so sick but
what I got around again in a few days,
so I didn't ever bother with it, and if
I have to be examined, I don't think
I'll bother with the life insurance."

Agent: "Bother, is it, brother? I
wonder if you will ever be bothered
enough to have a funeral for yourself?
Bother? It isn't you that will be both
ered; it's your family. It will cost
them $5,000 if you don't go through
with this examination. It will bother
your wife $5,000. Why, what if you
were not just exactly standard, the
Company might issue you a sub-stand-
ard policy, and the examination permits
the Company to place you in tlie cor-
rect class. Listen just a minute — totlay
you arc increasing the value of your
farm by $5,000 simply because its own-
er insures his estate $5,000 more if hz
should die. Can't you bo bothered with
that?"

Farmer: "Yes, I guess it is worth
talking a try at, but why didn't 1 know
enough to start when I was younger
and in better health, then I wouldn't
need to worry about sub-standard rat-
ings, or whether I could pass or not. I
guess I'll insure the boy now while he
cao get it, and get it cheaper."

ALL POLICYIIOLDBRS IIV COUKTKV MFR
Mr. and Mrs. Chaa. A. Martin and family of Moatg;onierT county, Illinois.
The children are Glenn, Kenneth, LeRoy and Martha Marie. Each la a policy-
holder in the Country Lite InMurance Company.

Agent: "All right, sign here and here,
and give me the boy's place and date of
birth. It's a great thing to start young
folks out on a life policy, because it
teaches them early the value of that
kind of an estate, and the chances are
that your boy will have $25,000 or
$30,000 of life insurance when he is
your age, simply following the trend
of the times which is to create estates
the easiest and most certain way, and
enjoy life to the full without worry
about what will happen if you fail or
die."

Farmer: "Do you know what I pay
out in taxes every year would carry a
$10,000 policy, even at my age? You
may have a better prospect than you
think. Let me know what my sub-
standard rate is going to be."

Agent: "Well, you lake the exam-
ination, it may be those heart pains
were only gas pains. So long, see you
again soon."

Why?

Why should there be any criticism of
the farmers when thry decide to cirry
their own products at least as far as the
miller? In such a process there is only
one class of people that can be injured
— the merchants and brokers. I'Vom
their individual standpoint th; process
is regrettable. Viewing it in the light
of modern business development it is
unavoidable. Why should a miller care
whether he buys his supplies of wheat
direct from the producer or from a
broker or merchant? It really makes
little or no difference to him. He is
mainly concerned with buying his re-
quirements on a price basis that will en-
able him to compete with other millers.
—A. J. McPhail.

Illinois Woman Second

I

Because an Illinois woman used but-
ter in her Thanksgiving Day Dinner
Menu, she was awarded second prize in
a nation-wide contest sponsored by
Bureau Farmer, oifieial publication of
the American Farm Bureau Federation. ,
The competition which ended Septem-
ber 20 drew more than 500 entries.
Bernice Rinktr of Grand Ridge, LaSalle
county, Illinois, the second prize win-
ner, proved her ability as farm woman
cook, when she suggested butter instead
of a butter substitute as recommended
by her nearest rival.

"Culinary Champion of All Farm
Women Cooks" is the title conferred
upon Mrs. M. L. IVcise, Redwood Falls,
Minnesota, by Sam H. Thompson, presi-
dent of the American Farm Bureau
Federation when he learned that she had
won the contest and will receive a cash
prize of $50. The second prize win-
ner receives $25. Twenty-five other
prizes of $1 each were awarded to 2 5
other women including the following
from Illinois: Miss Bernice Harris, R.
1, Petersburg; Mrs. Peter Sullivan, Eu-
reka; Mrs. Joseph Helm, R. 1, Spring
Valley, and Mrs. Clarence Peters, Gales-
burg.

"I am %\ai\ to get Rev. Mori's copy of the
I. A. A. RECORD in my mail, since taking
his place September 1). Keep sending it. First
thing out I saw Sam Thompson's name in your
September number. He's the man whose every
word in writing or reported speech I have been
swaUowing eagerly for years — -since they recog-
nized Thompson's value to the cause, consisting
mainly of his practical knowledge and his un-
common common horse sense.

"1 am coming here from five and one-half
years in our capitol city and I can appreciate
Thompson's joke or rather the joke on Thomp-
son and his three dollar hat."

Rtv. Anton M. Taschkb,

Adams County, III.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Pflgg Seventeen

New "Vacuum Cleaner"

Removes Cattle Pest

A "VACUUM Cl.liANER" to ex-
tract ox warbles from the cow's
back has been devised by Doctors Imes,
Boyd, and other associates of the United
States Department of Agriculture, who
are stationed at Galesburg, Illinois, to
study the problem of ox-warblc in-
festation of cattle. ■•

The "vacuum cleaner" has been
mounted on an automobile trailer with
four to six lines of suction hose and
nozzles.

When in operation, a nozzle is placed
over an ox-warble grub on the animal's
back and the grub is drawn out through
the opening in the skin.

The machine will remove all ox-war-
blcs, but because of the tenacity of the
older grubs two or three attempts are
frequently necessary to dislodge them.
Doctor Imes and his coworkers hope to
perfect the nozzles sufficient to get a
grub with every suction.

It is hoped that this machine will b;
practical for county-wide campaigns
against the ox-warble in regions where
it is easy to corral all cattle in large
herds and send them through chutes to
be "degrubbed."

Heretofore the most satisfactory
method of removing the grubs was to
extract them through the openings in
the animal's back one at a time with
forceps, preferably of the alligator type.
This is a slow and expensive method.
Experimenters in Europe found that
about all of the grubs could be de-
stroyed by inserting a small medicated
stick in the grub opening.

The department's ox-warble studies
revealed that young cattle arc more
heavily infested by this parasite than
arc older animals, and also that females
are more often parasitized than bulls.
The heifer is most attractive to this
pest, while the old bull is the least at-
tractive subject. ^Vv/

• ■ •■; Argentine Corn

The price of corn in Argentina, plus
the shipping cost and the United States
tariff is five cents less than the price
of corn at Chicago. If the price dif-
ferential continues an increase in im-
ports of corn may be expected, accord-
ing to the Department of Commerce.

Corn in Argentina is now worth
about 52 cents, while the price at Chi-
cago, September 16, was about 92 cents
a bushel. There have been small im-
ports of corn from Argentina already,
but they have not been in large quan-
tities. The lower priced Argentina
grain is supplying various markets now.

Capper Award

The 1930 Capper Award for Dis-
tinguished Service to American Agri-
culture, which consists of a gold medal
and $J,000 in cash will be conferred
on Dr. S. M. Babcock of the University
of Wisconsin for his invention of the
Babcock Milk Tester. The prize is an
annual one offered by Senator Capper
of Kansas.

F. B. Nichols, secretary of the Com-
mittee of Awards, in the Capper build-
ing, Topeka, Kansas, is now receiving
suggestions for the 1931 award. Living
Americans who have made a contribu-
tion of national importance to agricul-
ture are eligible.

Old Nick, Aged Horse,

Retired on Pension

Increase Farm Income

Pay more attention to increasing the
farm income rather than to decreasing
expenses, advised M. L. Mosher, director
of the Farm Bureau farm management
service in Henry, Stark, Peoria and
Knox counties in addressing farmers
during the first annual tour and picnic
of the co-operators in that territory.

Mr. Mosher quoted Henry Ford in a
recent magazine article in which he
stated that systems of management
were essential for profitable business,
but what is needed more at present is
good managers to carry out these sys-
tems.

Africans Grow Com

While traveling through South and
East Africa last year Dr. A. S. Hitch-
cock, botanist of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, was impressed
with the vast fields of corn grown in
Africa.

This Indian corn, called "mealies" by
the Africans, was introduced from the
United States and is now grown on a
large scale by white planters. Doctor
Hitchcock said he felt as if he were
traveling through the cornbclt while in
South Africa.

Can't Burn Cotton

The burning of cotton or other per-
sonal property in Arkansas for the pur-
pose of improving the market price of
a cofnmodity is a violation of the law,
and persons who engage in such prac-
tices will be vigorously prosecuted, ac-
cording to a statement issued by the
Assistant State Fire Marshall.

A citizen of Beebe, White county,
Arkansas, burned a bale of cotton on
Main street in that town on September
20 in an effort to stimulate others to-
ward doing likewise.

Uncle Sam dcnrs not provide a "re-
tirement fund" for his four-footed em-
ployees, as a rule, but h; has made an
exception in the case of Old Nick, 34-
year-old horse, recently retired on a
pension of two measures of bran, oats
and alfalfa meal daily.

Nick went to work for tin- United
States Department of Agriculture in
1899, when a gelding four years of age,
and has been in Government harness
ever since. For more than 30 years
he has plodded faithfully for "his
uncle." Now at the stage of life com-
parable to about 90 years of age for
man, with faltering gait and teeth
worn but otherwise well preserved, he
is being given a rest.

First he went to work at the Federal
quarantine station, Athenia, N. J. Since
1906 he has worked at the Government
Experiment Station at Bethesda, Md.,
where, until 1915, he pulled a w^gon
daily from the station to the Depart-
ment of Agriculture headquarters in
Washington and back, a round trip of
about 20 miles.

Born in the days when the horse was
the master of the inland transportation
problem, Nick has lived to sec his kind
gradually disappear from the highways.
Although he shied at the first "gas bug-
gies" and later learned to pass hundreds
of them on the road without notice, he,
too, finally fell victim to the relentless
competition. Now a motor truek does
his job while he grazes leisurely in his
pasture.

Another Irrigation Project ■
Considered ,

With abundant water near the exten-
sive desert lands of the Columbia River
Basin, the Bureau of Reclamation has
begun work to determine the most
feasible way of getting the water on to
the land, it was stated recently by the
Department of the Interior.

H. W. Bashorc of the Bure.iu of
Reclamation, regarded as being especial-
ly skillful as a location engineer, Ijas
been assigned to a study of a means for
reclaiming a sagebrush plain in the State
of Washington as big as the nation's
two smallest states combined and con-
verting it into an irrigated garden spot.

The Columbia, Snake and the Spo-
kane rivers flow past these parched des-
ert lands, but they have cut deep into
the silt and their beds are now hundreds
of feet lower than the level of the
plain. ,'.'..

All setbacks are merely temporary to
the man who is going somewhere.

Pt(}^c Sixteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Insurance,

i\\ I.. A. Willumi'.

"The Farmer Applies for
Insurance"

Aj;t-iit: IliM viui r\ir (..iiiud ,in\
lili msiii.iiKC'

I'armcr: "ND."

Agent: "li.iw.- xou i\i'i been cx-
.iinmcil tl)oioiii;lil\ ?""

Farmer: "Xo."

Agent: "Ai- vun m ^doj IkmIiIi?"

Farmer: "(ili! I'm .ihK lo W .ihom
nul UMil, .1 liii. I )( Knii'-i-. I i.int "-.n
I 111 (HI till -I :;>i IhmiI |i.iins (iiKC in
.1 w liilc, .nul ,1 li.ui ,1 litllf rlicumatism
i.iNi I, ill, hut Ini well oii()u,i;li, I guess."

Agent: "Well, t t)untr\ Lite does .\
non-nieilie.ll Inisiiiess up lo s^, ()()() ,ii
eeil.iin .ii;es, Init \ on lietter h.ive .1
ineilie.il es.mi:ii.it :on, he. Muse It tlieic-
IS .iinlliinj; \\ lonj;. \<ii "ill unit lo
kno« It, .111(1 so will til.- (rni|->,iiv. . "

Farmer: "Don't vdu ilmik I e.in
p.iss.i-

Agent: 'W ell, .is lo iliir I eouMn't
•-.i\. Inn lull! |Mins .nul rii .iini.n ism
in- not tlini-s to he likiii liijluh, pii-
luul.iilv h\ .111 insur.inee '- omp.nn .
Win li.nenl •.on h.en to i clo.loi lo
Me how \oii line up plrsK.ili\?'

Farmer: ">Xcli, iloeiois' hills .ne
».o>il\, .uul I j\, isn't ever so siek hul
w ii.it I yot .iroiind .ig.iin in .i few d.n s,
^o I ilidn't ever botlicr with it, .ind il
I h.ne lo he I's.iniined, I don't think
I'll holhei with the lite insuiMiiee. "

Agent: 'liolltei, is il, hroih.i;-' |
wiindei il \tn\ will e\,i h: hnllieied
eiii>iu;h lo h.nv .i tutur.il tor \ouiseh?
I*>i>ther? It isty't Mui ill. II will he hoili
ered; it's noiIF l.imiK. It will eost
lliem sS.iMM) it' M)ii don't ,i;o tliioin;li
Willi I his es.imin.ition. it will hollier
\oin wile sS.txm. \\h\, wliit it \ou
weie nol pist .ev.utU sinullid. lli;
< iMiipiin mi^lii issiK Villi I Mih I Old
lid polii \ , irid'^ h. is.niini II iiiii p imils
ill' < iimpim j^i pi. lie \ oil in I he i or

"il I I iss. I isfeii )iisl .1 iiiinuK — -lod i\'
\on ill- meie.isini; l he \.i!ue ol \<uir
1. 11111 In s S.IHIO' simpl\ hee.uise Its own-
er insures his est.ue sS,i»()i) ninre it lij
shoiilil the. { .in't \ou h: Ivilh.red w:th
ill II ?"

l-.irnjer: ^ e^. I un.ss n is worth
i.ikini; .1 ti\ .it.ihul wh\ diiln't I know
iiioin;li lo st.irt when I w .is Noun^er
.uul 111 heller he.illh, then I wouldn't
need lo worrv .ibout sub-st.ind.ird r.it-
ings, or whether I eould p.iss or nol. I
Uiiess I'll insure the bo\ now while he
cm i;el II, .iiid get il ehe.ipei. "

\l,l, l>OM('VIIOI,ltl':ilS l\ (-III VTKV MI'I'.
Mr. :iiiil ^IrN. riiiiw. \. ^Iiirtiii :iii(l fniiiil> i^f M<MilK«>iii«*r,v «*oiiiil>, llliiiiiiN.
'I'lif <-liililri-ii iii'f Clciiii, Kciiiirtli, l.rKiiy :inil M:irtli:i Slarie. Knrli is :i polU'.^-
hol<l4T ill till' riilllltr.% l.ifi' liiHiir:iiici> r<iiii|i:iii.ii .

Agent: "All rii;iit, sign here .uul here,
.uul gi\e me the bo\ 's pl.ite .iiid il.ite ot
birth. It's .1 gre.il tiling lo st.irt \ouni;
folks nul on .1 lite polie\ , hee.uise il
u.iehes tlieiii e.irly the v.ilue ol iliii
kind ot ,111 est.itc, ,ind the ch.mees ,ue
•'-■■ vour b<)\ will h.ive s2S,(IO() or

when he is
trend

Illinois Woman Second

ih.U

s 30. 00(1 1)1 life insur.inee

\our .ige, simplx follow nii,

ol the tunes w hieli is to ere.ite est.ites
. 1 ■ I -- . .. ■ I

III,-

the easiest .md most eeit.iin w.i\, .i

•iboul w
die."

lid

eii)o\ life to the full williout wori\

li.it will h.ippen it \ou t.iil or

Farmer: "Do you know wh.ii I p.i\
out 111 t.txes every ye.ir would eirrv .i
s 10,000 polie\, e\en ,it m\ .n;e? ^lui
m,i\ h.ive .1 better (irospeei ih.in \ou
ihink. lei nie know w h.il m\ suh
sl iiul.nd I. He IS going lo be. "

Agent: "Well, \oii i.ike the e\iiii
m.ltion, II m.i\ he those hoi puns
were oiiK g.is p.ims. So long, sn.- \ nu
.ig.lin soon."

Why?

\\ hx shmilil ihi'ie he iii\ iiiin isni mI
I he f.irmers when lliv Act ide lo i iit'
I heir own prodiuls it leisl is lit is ilu
miller? In siu h i process ihere is onK
(lie el.iss of people ili.it e.iii b- iniured
— the inerch.inls .ind brokers. I rom
their indi^ldu,Il st.mdpoint tli.- proeess
is rcgrett.ible. X'lewing it m ih? light
ot in; dern business developni.nt it is
iin.n oiil.ible. \\ h\ should i miller e ue
whelliei Ik- bu\s his supplies ol v.li.it
diretl lioni the produeei or trom i
h'.oker or mereh.int? It re.ilK mikes
litlL- or no ditlerenee lo lum. lie is
m,iml\ concerned with bu\ ing his re-
quirements on .1 price b.tsis th.u will en-
.\ble lum to compete with otiur m Hers.
—A, I. .VlcFh.ul.

Ilei. lose 111 jllmois w<imin \\-\\ hul
lei 111 her lliinksgixmg \').\\ Dinner
.\teiui, she w is ,iw .inlcd se-ond pri/e in
.1 n.ition-wide eonlest sponsored bv
lUire.iu I inner, otii.i.d puhlit.uion of
the Americ.ui l.iim lliiie.ui I etlei .ilion.
I he competilion which eiuletl Septem-
ber .!!o iliiw mure ih.in Soo entries.
I'l-rnue Kinkir of driiid Ridge. I .iS.llle
couiitx. lilmois, ih- secoiul pii/e win-
ner, proveil h,-r .ibihtv .is t.iim wuiiLiii
cook, when she suggesteil huuer iiiste.id
ot .1 butter sub tilu'.e .is recoinmeiuied
by her ne.iresl riv.il.

"CUilin.try Ch.impion ol .Ml I irm
Women Cooks" is ihe lilli lontevreil
upon Mrs. M.I.I reise. Redwood 1 ills,
.Miiine 1)1.1, b\ S.nii II Ihoinpson, presi-
ilenl ol I lie Ameiic.ln ! iiin liuieui
ledeiilion when he le.irned ihil sit- hul
won the coiiusi .mil will receive .i c.ish
pri/e ot sSo. the sec()nd pri/e win-
ner receives s^S. 'rweiit\-tne other
prizes of sj e.ich were .iw.irded to 2<
oilier women ineliKling the followiin;

I rom Illinois- \i,.. KeriiKe I l.iiris, \< .
1. IVieisbiii ;: Ml.. I'etei Sulliv.in, I'u-
lek.i. Mis |on.-|-1| I Irhii. K 1. Spring
\ ille\ . nul .Mrs. <l lueiue Peters, (iiles-

biiig. ____'

"I .liii i;l.ul 1.. ^i-i 1U\. I!. HIS vi|n ..( ilii
I. A. A. HI C (.)R^) in Mi\ null, mikc ttkiiiu
Itis pl.itf Sfp!i.':iiln.r I ^. Kivp MMiduf^ It. I iisi

II 111;; mn I v,iv\ S.ini I hunipsiins ii.mn in \i»ui
Si putnl'ci luinilv^ r. Hl\ tin in .tit w lur.i- L\cr\
U'mJ in v«iilin>; or ri.|v.;uil vihvi. Ii I li.ni- Jkcm
stt, .tllowini; cmirlx - loi \^■,^l^ >.iin.i. ilic\ Ti».it>;
lu/tHJ MiMni)>M'n\ » iliu* tit t !i- v iiisi-. consist I in;
MMiiiU I'l III-, pt .u I K ll kiii.w li.J;;c .inJ Ills nil
ciininmn numnitn hnrsc m.iim.-.

"I am ct'inini; here t roiii tr- c and (inc-lull
\c.irs in tiur (.jpitt^l city and I L,in appreciate
1 liiinipson's )"!i,c of ratluT llic joke <»i\ llionip-
Min and Ms three cltillar hat."

Ri y. Al roN W. Iasc hk) .

Adams <.'niiu\ . 111.

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Ptif^c Set ctilccn

New "Vacuum Cleaner"

Removes Cattle INj>t

A\M t'l'M (I I.ANI K" u. .A-
ir.Kt ',)\ w.irlik's tiom I lie cow's
h.Kk li.is hjcu d-viscd by Doctors lines,
HomI, .iiul olh.-r .issoci.itcs of tlie United
States Dcp.irinv.-nt of Agriculture, wlio
.ire st.itioiieil at d ilesliiiri;, Illinois, to
snnl\ the prohiini of ox-warble in-
tislalioii ot cattle.

The "vacuum clcuicr" lias been
moiMitecl on .m automobile trailer with
lour to six lines of su.tion hose .uu\
no//ies.

>X'lien ill operation, a nozzle is placeil
ever an o\-warble i;rub on tile .inimal's
b.ick .iiul the .i;rub is dr.iwn out through
llu- opennis; ui the skm.

The machine w ill remove all ox-war-
bles, but because ot the tenacity of the
older grubs two or three attempts arc
frequently necessar\' to dislodge them.
Doctor Imes and his coworkers hope to
perfect the noz/les sulheient to get a
giub with every .suction.

It is hoped that this machine will bj
pr.iciical for county-wide campaigns
.igainst tiie ox-warble in regions where
It is e.is\' to corral all cattle in large
herds and send them through chutes to
be "degrubbed. "

1 leretotoie the most satisfactory
method ol removing the grubs was to
extract them through the openings in
I he animars back one at a tim.' with
lorceps, preferably of the alligator t\pe.
I his is a slow and expensive method.
Lxperimenters in Hurope found that
about all of the grubs could be de-
stroyed by inserting a small medicated
slick in the grub opening.

I he tiepariment's ox-w.irble studies
ie\e.iled liiit \ouiig c.ittle .}Vi: more
lie.ivilv inlesteil by this parasite than
.ire older animals, and also that females
are more often parasitized titan bulls.
The heifer is most attractive to this
pest, while the old bull is the least at-
tractive subject.

Arisen tine Corn

The pine ol lorii in Argiiitm.i, plus
the sliippiiij^ cost .iiid the United Slates
laiitl is five cents less tlian the price
of corn at Chicago. If the price dif-
ferential continues an increase in im-
ports of corn may be expected, accord-
ing to tile Department of Commerce.

C^orn in Argentina is now worth
about 5 2 cents, wiiilc tiic price at Chi-
cago, September 16, was about 92 cents
a bushel. Tiicre have been small im-
ports of corn from Argentina already,
but they have not been in large quan-
tities. The lower priced Argentina
grain is supplying various markets now.

Capper Award

The l">ill Capper Award tm Di-.
tinguished Serxice to Americ.in Agii
culture, which consists of a gold medil
and S 5, ()()() in cash will be conferred
on Dr. S. M. Babcock of the Universitx
of Wisconsin for his invention of the
Babcoek Milk Tester. The prize is .\n
annual one offered by Senator C^app^r
ot Kansas.

I'. B. Nichols, secrel.ir\ of the C^iiiii-
mittee of Awards, in the Clipper build-
ing, Topeka, Kansas, is now receiving
suggestions for the 1931 award, living
Americans who ha\e made a contribu-
tion of national importance to .igricul-
ture are eligible.

Increase Farm Income

Pay more attention to increasing the
farm income rather than to decreasing
expenses, advised M. L. Moshcr, director
of the Farm Bureau farm management
service in Henry, Stark. Peoria and
Knox counties in addressing farmers
during the first annual tour and picnic
of the co-operators in that territory.

.Mr. Mositer quoted Henrx lord in a
recent magazine article in whicii he
stated that s\stenis of management
were essential for prohtable business,
but what is needed more at present is
good managers to carry out these sys-
tems.

Africans Grow Corn

While traveling through South and
I!ast Africa last year Dr. A. S. Hitch-
cock, botanist of the United States De-
p.utment ot Agriculture, was impressed
with the vast helds ot corn grown m
Africa.

This Indian corn, calleif "mealies" by
the Africans, was introduced from the
United States and is now grown on a
large scale by white planters. Doctor
Hitchcock said he felt as if he were
tr.ivehng througli the coiiibelt while in
South Africa.

Can't Burn C\)tton

1 he burning of cotton or other per-
sonal property in Arkansas for the pur-
pose of improving the market price of
a commodity is a violation of the law,
ancl persons who engage in such prac-
tices will be vigorously prosecuted, ac-
cording to a statement issued by the
Assistant State lire Marshall.

A citizen of Bcebe, White county,
Arkansas, burned a bale of cotton on
Main street in that town on September
20 in ag effort to stimulate others to-
ward doing likewise.

Old Ni« k. Aiied Horse,

Retired on FViision

I'mle S.im iloes nut pi.ivi-,l.e i i.
liiemenl lund" tor h:s tour looUv) iin
plovees, a^ a rule, but h.- Iijis mule ,>"
exception in the case of Old Nick, 34-
\ ear-old horse, lecentK reiired on i
pension ot two measures of br.in. oil,
,'iid alfalt.i meil ilaily. -

\ick ueiit lo work loi lli t'nii'd
Si.iles Dep.inmenl ol Ag: i. iih ii' e in
!;-;99, when a geld;ng Itur uais iil age,
Mtd has been in Cjovernmiint hirness
e\ er since. I or more tiiait 30 years
he has plodded faithfulb tor "his
uncle. Now .it ilie stage ol lite com
parable to about ''0 \ears iil ige loi
man. with lalieriiig ^lit ..md te.ili
worn bin (.itliei w is., well pii Hived, h-,
i^ being given a rest.

first he went to work il ilie I edei.il
quarantine station, .'\thenia. X. J. Since
1906 he has worked at the (iovernm.nt
Kxperiment Station at Helhesd.i. Md.,
where, until 1'' I ^ . he pulled a u -g"!!
daih from the •.talion in the Dep.iii
ment of Agriculture luadqu irt- i^ in
Washington and back, ,i round iiip ol
about 20 miles.

Born 111 the days when the horse wis
the master of llie inl.iiid tiMiispnil itinn
problem. Nick lias livcvl to see hiv kiiul
gr.idualK disappear fiom the higliwns.
Allliougli he shietl .H the lii'-t "gas bii;.;
gies " .mil later learned to pa>ts huiulred^
ot them on the road without notice, he,
too, tinaliv fell victim to iIk- relentless
competition. Now a motor iru.k iloes
his job while he grazes leisureU iii Ir.s
pasture.

Another Irrigation l*ro|rct
CJonsidered

With .ibunil.inl water luir the exlen
sive desert laiuis of the Colufnbia River
Basin, the Bureau of Reclatnation has
begun work to determine the ' most
feasible w\i\ ol getting the water on to
the land, it was sl.iteil reeei«ll\ b\ the
Depailmeiit iit the Inlerior

II. W. Bisliore ol ih..- |l'iiiriii i>*
lUx l.iiii ilioii, leg.udcil as beiiig ispeiiil
l\ skilllul .IS .1 lo(..iiioti enijiiieer, h i--
been assigneil to a stuily ot a meins toi
reclaiming a sagebrush plain iji ilie St.iu
of Washington as big as the .nation's
two smallest states combined and con
verting it into an irrigated garden spot

The Columbia, Snake and llie Spo
kane rivers flow past these pirchetl iles-
ert lands, but thev have cut deep into
the silt and their beds are no\l- iumdreils
of feet lower than the level of the
plain.

All setbacks are merely temporarv to
the man who is going someivhere.

fage Eighteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

INSURANCE NEWS

EA. CARNCROSS, general agent
• in Cook county, won first prize
consisting of a $70 watch in the agents'
Farm Bureau auto insurance contest for
September. Roy Mitchell of Cham-
paign county won second prize, a $40
watch. C. E. Hopkins of Livingston
county, L. R. Welk of Logan county,
and K. W. Cleland of Boone county
won third, fourth and fifth prizes re-
spectively. Each got a $15 fountain
pen and pencil set.

Champaign county was high for the
month with 100 applications, Cook
county was second with 81. During
the month Carncross signed 73 appli-
cations, Mitchell 5 J, and Hopkins 53.

The Illinois Agricultural Mutual on
October 1 had 24,504 auto insurance
applications and policies in force. The
total for September was 876.

The National Safety Council rcp)orts
that automobile accidents have been re-
duced 29 per cent in the nine states
which have passed drivers* license laws.

The Illinois Agricultural Mutual In-
surance Company operating only three
and one-half years has assets of $5 80,-
000, and has saved its members $300,-
000 on automobile insurance alone com-
pared with the initial cost in any other
state-wide company.

Country Life agents, divided into
two teams known as the Army and
Navy, began a "football" contest on
October 15 to see which side could
write the most life insurance by De-
cember 1 5 .

Most of the northern and western
Illinois counties are on the Navy team,
while central and southern Illinois
counties comprise the Army. Only
paid for business will count.

One thousand dollars of life insur-
ance moves the ball a yard in the ene-
my's territory. If Army sends in $15,-
000 of insurance on October 1 5 the
ball will be carried into Navy's terri-
tory 15 yards. If Navy sends in $10,-
000 the same day the ball yj\\\ be car-
ried back 10 yards and be placed on the
Navy's 4 5 -yard line. The player
(county) making the greatest yardage
each day (sending in the largest amount
of business) will have the honor of
carrying the ball for yardage gain.

Sam Crabtree, Marshall - Putnam
county, is captain of the Navy; Wil-
liam Hedgcock, McLean county, of the
Army.

At the annual Country Life meeting
in January the winners will be served a
steak dinner by the losers. The losers
will have wieners and sauerkraut, and
assess themselves 50 cents each to pay

, ...

t.-.- . ""

il^iiC^

\ t i

h^4

l^'^'X'i

"Four rrnRonR why I believe in life In-
Murnnfe,** nnyn Ijnrry 'Willinnis, ninnaser
Country Life InNiirnnee Co. Left to
ritrht: Ilonnie Jean. XKe 8t Bernice 14,
I.nrine IS, I,.iwrence Williams Jr. 17.

for the winners' dinner.

Counties playing in the game (send-
ing in policies) every day from October
1 5 to December 1 5 will be on the All-
American team. Time out will be al-
lowed for rainy days, bad roads, and
nobody home.

Country Life Records

Manager L. A. Williams reports
that: —

1. Country Life holds the world's
record for the largest amount of life
insurance paid for in a company's first
year.

2. For the largest second year's busi-
ness of any company.

3. For the lowest lapse rate in any
second-year period.

4. For the largest percentage of in-
crease of any company in the United
States in 1930. All but 5 per cent of
companies show a loss for 1930 and
that 5 per cent barely hold their own.
Country Life easily has a 100 per cent
gain.

5. Country Life has built an agency
made up of nearly all "green" material.
Ninety-one general agents never sold
life insurance before.

6. Country Life is the only company
on record to add to its surplus in the
first year of operation.

7. Country Life has the lowest annual
participating premiums of any com-
pany selling to the general public.
Government insurance to ex-soldiers is
lower.

The five leading counties In term life
insurance written during September
were:

1. LaSalle Co. .125 applications — $172,000

2. Marshall-Put. .123 applications — 165,000

3. Christian Co. 116 applications — 153,000

4. Winnebago Co. 116 applications — 148,000

5. McLean Co 114 applications — 146,000

Leaders in regular business for Sep-
tember:

COUNTIES

1.

Cook

6.

Logan

2.

DuPa^e

7.

Fultcn

3.

Henry

8.

Mercer

4.

Edwards

9.

Knox

5.

McDcnou

•;h

10.

Woodford

Opposes Compulsory Auto
, Insurance

A PLAN of compulsory compensa-
tion insurance to idcmnify vic-
tims of automobile accidents advocated
by the chairman of the Wisconsin In-
dustrial Commission, was declared to be
impracticable by the general counsel
of the Maryland Casualty Company in
a debate at the recent meeting of the
American Bar Association.

The attorney gave the following rea-
sons for opposing such a law:

1. Such a law will materially increase
legal controversy.

2. There cannot be prompt relief
where there is controversy.

3. The compulsory plan is in many
of its aspects most inequitable.
No proposal can be equitable un-
der which one of the parties re-
ceives compensation at his own
fault, at the expense of the inno-
cent party, unless there is, as in
workmen's compensation, an off- ,
setting advantage accruing to the
innocent.

4. The cost of accident insurance will
increase tremendously because pay-
ments will be made upon claims
not now reported. The number
of claims will inevitably and le-
gitimately increase. The cost of
insurance under workmen's com-
pensation laws has constantly in-
creased over the cost of liability
insurance in all states.

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Ins. Co.

"We thank you very kindly for the check
Mr. C. F. Dobbins turned over to us tliis morn-
ing covering E. L. Rieser*s account on repairs
to his Buick coupe.

"It is indeed a pleasure to be able to serve
persons insured in your company becaure if any
difficulties arise your agent, Mr. Dobbins, is
always ready to adjust matters catisfactory to
all.

"Enclosed please find receipted bill covering
repairs to cushions."

Clyde C. Netzlev & Co..

Per E, G. Tannery

Niperville, Dupage county, 111.

Between 1899 and 1927 general taxes charged
against property in Rock Island county, Illinois,
for state purposes increased 7.34 times as fast
as population, and 6.60 times as fast as total
full valuations of property.

For county and local purposes taxes increased
6.20 times as fast* as population, and 6.30
times as fast as total full valuations of prop-
erty.

The bigger and more highly colored apples
are, the longer they will keep, it has been dis-
covered by horticulturists.

y^-Ji"^ : w

Tk.

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Illinois A^ricultuim Associotion

RECORD

M

•P "> C iP

.Vi(//i/ rpVir. (/ir MrrrliniKlixf Mtnl. larutut hitiUliiifi in r/if irorld, looking
(Kfoss the dark uatcrs of the Chkaijo River.

NOVEMBER, 1930

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Paf^e Eighteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

INSURANCE NEWS

EA. CARXCROSS. general .igcnt
• in Cook county, won first pri/c
consisting of a 's7() watch in the agents'
Jarm Bureau auto insurance contest tar
September. Roy Mitcliell ot Cliani-
paign county won sj^.ond prize, a s4()
watch. C". 1 . Mopkins of Livingston
county, I.. R. >X'elk of I.ogan county,
anj K. \\'. Cleland of Boone county
won tliirj, fourth and hfth prizes re-
spectivelx. 1 ach got a iH fountain
pen and (X'ncil set.

C^lianipaign countv was higli tor the
niontli with 1 IM) applications. Cook
couiu\' was second with SI. During
the montli Carncross signed 73 apph-
cations, Mitchell 5^, and Hopkins 53.

The Illinois /Xgricuiturai Mutual on
October 1 h ul 24,504 auto insurance
applications .md policies in force. Tlie
total for September was 9.76.

The National Safety C;<;uncil reports
that automobile accidents have been re-
duced 29 per cent in thj nUie states
which have pa'sal dri\crs' license laws.

The llhnois Agricultural .\Uitinl In-
surance C!ompan\ operating only three
and one-half \ears has assets of s5S0,-
000. and has saved its members S300,-
Ot)0"on automobile, insurance .lione com-
pared with the initial cost in any other
state-wide compan\.

Country Life agents, divided into
twt) teams known as the Army and
Xavy, began a "football" contest on
October 1 5 to sec which side could
write the most life insurance by De-
eember 1 5.

.\h)st of the northern and western
Illinois counties are on the Na\\ team,
while central and southern Illinois
c«)unties comprise the Army. Only
paid for business will count.

One thousand dollars of life insur-
ance moves the ball a yard in the cne-
m\ 's territory. If Army sends in sH,-
fM)0 of insurance on October 15 the
ball will be carried inio Navy's terri-
tory 15 \ards. If N'avy semis in $10,-
(10(1 the same day the ball will be car-
ried back 10 yards and be placed on the
Navy's 4 5 -yard line. The player
(county) making the greatest yardage
each day (sending in the largest amount
of business) will have the honor of
carrying the ball for yardage gain.

Sam Crabtrce, ^Llrshall - Putnam
county, is captain of the N'avy; Wil-
liam Hedgcock, .McLean count'., oi the
Army.

At the annual Country Life meeting
in Januu'v the winners wjII be served a
steak dinner by the losers. The losers
will ha\e wieners and sauerkraut, and
assess themselves 5 0 cents each to pa\'

**l-'«Mir r<*iis4MiN \y\\y I lirlipvr in lifp iii-
Hur:iii<-4',** s:i>*i l.:ii-r.\ \\ illiiiiiiH, iiiniinifcr
rdiitlfrv i.iiv liisiiriiiii'i- <'o. Left to
rimrlil: [Eftiiiiit* .l«*;iii. :i«£(' ^: llcrni^'c II,
l.oriiM' IS. I.:i^\ I'l'iiiT \\illi:itiis .Ir. 17.

tor the w mners" ili.iner.

Ciounties pla\ing in the gun.' (send-
ing in policies) every day from October
15 to December 15 will be on the All-
Am.rican te.mi. Time out will be al-
lowed tor rain\ da\s, bad ro.'.ds, anil
nobod\' home.

Country Life Records

Manager L. A. Williams reports
that: —

1. Coimtry Life holds the world's
record for the largest amount of life
insurance paid for in a company's first
\ ear.

2. I or the largest second year's busi-
ness ot any company.

3. lor the lowest lapse rate in any
sect)nd-\ear period.

4. For the largest percentage of in-
crease ot anv comp.my in the United
States in 1930. All but 5 per cent of
companies show a loss for 1930 and
that 5 per cent barel\' hold their own.
C^ountry Life easily has a 100 per cent
gain.

5. Ciountry Life has built an agency
made up ot nearly all "green" material.
.Ninet\-one general agents n.'vcr sold
lite insurance before.

6. Country Life is the onl\ company
on record to add to its surplus in the
tirst year of operation.

7. Countr) Life has the lowest annual
participating premiums of any com-
pany selling to the general public.
Government insurance to ex-soldiers is
lower.

The five leading counties in term life
insurance written during September
were:

1. I aSjIk- Co. i;s aprlicjtion'. — $I72,(I((0

;. Mjfsh.iU-Pui. i:» applications — K.^.OOO

'.. Cliristi.in d. 116 applications— Ml.OUll

4. VCinncbajjo Co. 116 applications — 148,000

<■. Mcl.can Co 114 applications — 146.000

Leaders in regular business for Sep-
tember:

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3. Mcnrv

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Mcccr

4. lilwanK

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KnoN

5. .McD.nmi

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W,.oJi-,

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Opposes Compulsory Auto
Insurance

A PLAN of compulsory compensa-
t on in'urance to idcmnify vic-
tims of automobile accidents advocated
h\ the chairman of the Wisconsin In-
dustrial Commission, was declared to be
impracticable by the general counsel
of the Maryland Casualty Company in
a debate at the recent meeting of the
American Bar Association.

The attorney gave the following rea-
sons for opposing such a law:

1

Such a law will materi.iUy incre.ise
legal controversv.
There cannot be prompt relief
where there is controversy.
The ccmpulsory plan is in m.my
of its aspects most inequitable.
No proposal can be etjuitible un-
der which one of the parties re-
ceives compensation at his own
fault, at the expense of the inno-
cent party, unless there is, as in
workmen's compensation, .■'.n off-
setting advantage accruing to the
innocent.

The cost of accident insurance will
increase tremendously because pay-
ments will be m.'.de upon claims
not now reported. The numlvcr
of claims will inevitably and le-
gitimately increase. The cost of
insurance under workmen's com-
pensation laws has constantly in-
creased over the cost of liability
insurance in all states.

Illinois .'\;;riculturjl Mmii.il Ins ( o.

"W"c tl-.ink you scry kimils tor tlic . 'icck
Mr. <'. IC DobSins tiirn.-d over to iis l!iis iMorn-
iai; covcrin;; 1. I.. Ricsc."s ,ic.o:n: on rcp..irs
to liis Buick coupe.

"It is iiul^'cJ a p'easurc to hj .I'.sic to tcrvc
persons in iiircd in your conip.iin' lv^.:a c it any
Jiiiicultics arise \1iur a:.;cnt, .Mr. l.)o'.s'.iins, is
al\'.a\s rcaJv tit jjjust ni.iticrs ■ uisJactorv to
..11.

"I nc lose J please liiul receip'.eJ hill covering;
repairs to ciisliions."

ClVDC C. Nl T/1 I V & Co.

Per E. Ci. Tannery

Naperville, Uupaijc county, III.

Between 1899 and 1927 };eneral taxes charged
against property in Rock Island county, Illinois,
for state purposes increased 7.54 times as fast
as population, and 6.60 times as f.ist as total
full valuations of property.

For county and local purpt)ses ta\es increased
6.20 times as fast as population, .ind 6.M)
times as f a .1 as total full valuatiiu. <4 prop-
erty.

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The bii;gcr jnd nutrf In Ji'x
arc, tbc lonj^cr ihcy will ki..'p,
covered by horticulturists.

TKe

Illinois Agricultural Association

RECORD

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THE SAMK CAR AFTKIi lll-:i>(i IIKPAlltl^U

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ColliMion

Pnblio IJnbllitT anil
Property DaninKt'

YOUR CAR RESTORED LIKE NEW

HE picture to the left above shows the automobile of L. F. Oertwig, McLean county, Illinois, after
a bad accident that happened four miles west of Bloomington. At the direction of the com-
pany the wreck was repaired by a high grade garage in central
Illinois. The insured's automobile was placed in first class con-
dition at an expense of $513.12 to the company. The restored
car after the repair job is seen to the right.

The Illinois Agricultural Mutual — the state-wide Farm Bu-
reau, auto insurance company — patronizes only the best garages
for repair work on the damaged cars of its policyholders. Restor-
ing damaged cars to their original condition is a service your
company performs for policy holders insured aga inst movable or stationary object collision, or both.

THE POLICY HOLDER COMES FIRST

A CTUAL value of the car is paid in case of fire or theft. Public liability and property damage
insurance protects you against court costs, hospital bills, damage your car does to other prop-
erty. Claims are settled fairly and promptly . . the interest
of the policyholder comes first. Premiums are held at a mini-
mum consistent with safety. Ample reserves insure the payment
of losses without unnecessary delay. PoHcyholders are limited to
Farm Bureau members . . . responsible people . . . preferred risks.
Insurance AT COST in your OWN COMPANY is the best
you can buy It's a privilege to be a member of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Mutiial family.
For full information about the cost of insuring your automobile or truck see your local agent
or mail the coupon. \

Fire

Theft

n.I.INOrs AGRICULTURAL MlfrUAL TNS. CO.,

608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, IlL -

Please send me full information about the cost of insuring
my automobile. I am interested in a policy offering the follow-
ing coverage:

Full Coverage D Fire and Theft D

Public Liability and Collision D

• Property Damage □

Name

Address

Make of Car or Truck_
County

ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL

MUTUAL INSURANCE CO.

608 SO. DEARBORN ST.

CHICAGO

More than 26,000 Policyholders, Assets over a Half Million Dollars

Illinois A^cultural Association

RECORD

PuMlibed monthl; by th« lUtnoli Am-lcultural Association at 124 So. Firth St., Marshall, 111.; Editorial Offices, 608 So. Durbom St., Cblcaco, III. Entered «s

class matter at post-office at Marshall, 111., June 16, 1930, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for malllnE at special rate of postage provided in Section 411,

Act of Feb 28, 1^23, authorized Oct. 27, 1925. Address all communications for publication to Editorial Offices, Illinois Aericultural Association Record. 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago.

Number 11

November, 1930

Volume 8

Tax Amendment Goes

Down in Nov. 4 Vote

Farmers Stand Well Together in

Defeating Measure, Compare

with 1926 Amendment Vote

AS we go to press, election officials
and newspapers are still tabulating
the results of the proposed revenue
amendment which appeared on the main
ballot under the misleading label "Tax
Relief Amendment."

The measure was badly defeated.
That much is certain, although the
count is still far from completed.

One newspaper computing the vote
on the basis of the first day's returns
stated that around 800,000 voted on
the measure out of more than 2,000,000
who went to the polls. This same pub-
lication reports, "Of the 790,000 who
voted on the amendment, 440,000 were
against it."

If this statement is roughly accu-
rate, 3 50,000 voted yes.

Early Returns

Another report shows that 4,762 pre-
cincts out of 7,109 in Illinois voted as
follows: Yes, 219,196; No, 312,889.
The Associated Press statement of Nov.
6 showed that 4,948 precincts out of
7,109 in Illinois voted as follows: No,
330,622; Yes, 236,376.

What was in the minds of the vast
number of people who failed to vote
on the measure is something for conjec-
ture. , It is likely that the majority of
these were confused over the proposal
and so did nothing. It is also likely
that many who had not studied the
measure were attracted by the catchy
title with the "bait" underneath it and
voted Yes. Many contend that the
measure was submitted in an illegal
manner and there is good evidence to
justify this belief. It is doubtful if
the amendment would have become law
had it received the required constitu-
tional majority.

Behind 1926 Proposal

In spite of the advantages for ap-

proval the 1930 amendment had in the
way it was handled on the ballot, it ran
considerably behind the better amend-
ment of 1926 which was submitted
on a separate small ballot, and which
was vigorously supported by the Illinois
Agricultural Association.

A check-up of the Nov, 4 vote in
McLean county supplied by the Bloom-
ington Pantagraph shows that 86 pre-
cincts in the county voted Yes, 4,426;
No, 4,439. Four years ago the McLean
county vote was 5,174 YES and 4,119
AGAINST.

Mercer county, which is strictly
rural, offers even a more striking illus-
tration. Returns supplied by the Mer-
cer County Farm Bureau, which op-
posed the amendment this year, show
1,896 votes Against and only 630 For.

In 1926 when the Farm Bureau sup-
ported the amendment the vote was
3,362 Yes and only 983 Against. ■.. . ?

Whiteside County Figures

In Whiteside county, the Whiteside
Sentinel reports that 2,692 voted No on
the amendment this year, while 1,970
voted Yes. That the farmers of White-
side county heeded the advice of the
Farm Bureau, the I. A. A., Prairie
Farmer and Illinois Farmer in opposing
the measure is revealed in a check-up of
the vote in the strictly rural townships.

In Genesee and Hopkins townships,
which contain no towns of any conse-
quence, the vote was 2 to 1 Against
the tax measure. In Hume township —
all rural — it was 4 to 1 Against; in
Hahnaman 3 to 1 ; in Montgomery and
Jordan nearly 3 to 1. In most of the
cities of this county the measure got a
majority or about an even break.

All this indicates that Illinois farm-
ers are presenting a reasonably solid
front in legislative matters affecting
their welfare.

The Illinois Agricultural Association,
in line with its policy of being con-
structive in needed reforms is already
at work on helpful and constructive
suggestions for tax msasures, designed
to lift some of the burden from prop-
erty, for introduction in the approach-
ing 57 th general assembly.

Boycott Hearing in

Live Stock Case Held

Government Citation Charges Boy-
cott and Discrimination Against
Co-Op. by Commission Men .. ,.

PROCEEDINGS against more than
two score firms or individuals ojjcr-
ating as market agents or dealers at the
St. Louis National Stock Yards for dis-
crimination against live stock co-oper-
ative organizations, began in the Federal
building, East St. Louis, on Nov. 6.

Immediately on the opening of the
hearing motions to dismiss the inquiry
by Secretary Hyde, a demurrer to the
allegations of the citation, and a mo-
tion for continuance, were offered by
the attorney for the commission men.
These were overruled by Examiner J.
B. Horigan, the Federal attorney con-
ducting the hearing.

Ketner Is Witness ^ .

F. G. Ketner, manager of the Na-
tional Order Buying Company, was the
first witness called. He stated that be-
cause of discrimination against the Or-
der Buying Company their volume of
business had dropped from 20 per cent
to 10 per cent of the orders filled on
the market in a period of about three
weeks.

His statement, which was admitted
to the record, included a discussion of
the trading conditions on the market
with Frank Young, manager of the
Farmers* Live Stock Commission Com-
pany, and W. A. Moody, president of
the St. Louis Live Stock Exchange.
During this discussion the alleged boy-
cott was openly referred to and both
gentlemen were asked to assist in keep-
ing the market open. Neither Mr.
Young nor Mr. Moody were agreeable
to the proposal nor were trading rela-
tions improved following this confer-
ence.

The attorneys for the respondents
were scheduled to cross examine Mr.
Ketner on Friday, November 7.

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YOUR CAR RESTORED LIKE NEW

HE picture to the left above sliows the .uitoinohile of I.. I\ Ocrtwij;. McLean count) ,Illin()is,after
a h.ul .iceiilent tli.u happened tour miles west of liloomington. At the direction of the com-
pany the wreck was repaired by a hit^h i;rade i;arai;e in central
. """: •••',■ Illinois. The insured's automobile was placed in first class con-
-, ._,'' dition at an expense of $513.12 to the company. The restored
jr i;^, ^t-^^^P '-"'^•' after the repan- job is seen to the rit^ht.

"^ ^^Sif^ I he Illinois Agricultural Mutual— the state-wide Farm Bu-

reau auto insurance company — patroni/es t)nly the best garas^es
< ..iii»i..i. for repair work on the damaged cars of its pohcyholders. Restor-

ing damaged cars to then- original condition is a service your
company performs for policy holders insured against movable or stationary object collision, or both.

"... ■ ■ (

CTUAI, value of the car is paid in case of fire or theft. Public liability and property damage
insurance protects you against court costs, hospital bills, damage \our car docs to other prop-
erty. ( laims are settled fairh' and promptly the interest
of the policyholder comes first. Premiums are held at a mini-
mum consistent with safety. Ample reserves insure the payment
ot losses without unnecessary delay. Policyholders are limited to
I arm Bureau members . . . responsible people . . . preferred risks.
Insurance AT COST in >our OWN COMPANY is the best
lilt- \()u can bu\' It's a privilege to be a member of the Illinois Agri- . Th.-rt
cultural Mutual family.
Tor tLill intormaiion about the cost of insuring your automobile or truck see your local agent
or mail the coupon. i

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MUTUAL INSURANCE CO.

608 SO. DEARBORN ST.

CHICAGO

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Illinois A^ctdtural Association

RECORD

Published mdnthly by the Illinois Apricultural Assorlatinn at 121 So. Flftli St., Mar-i;all. li!.; Editorial OfHres, fi08 So. Dearborn St.. fliiraco. III. Entered as ■jerond-
class matter at l)n.^t-ofnce at Marsliall, 111., June 16, 1930. under the Art of March 3. Is7:t. Acceptanre for mailing; at siiecial rate of itu^^iaire i»n>vided in Seetlon 412,

Art of i-'rt' ;i^, 1 '■.i,-),autii'>riz<'d O't.27. l'Jl!5. Address all roininiitiications for put)lifatiiin to Kditorial Offlie>. lllino s At:' i' ultuial .\>-su< lali'-n Ufnid. litis So. I»!-.trti"rn $: , (lii'-ano.

Number 1 1

November, 1930

Volume 8

Tax Amendment Goes

Down in Nov. 4 Vote

I
»

i

Farmers Stand Well Together in

Defeating Measure, Compare

with 1926 Amendment Vote

AS wc go to press, election officials
and newspapers are still tabulating
the results of the proposed revenue
amendment which appeared on the niiin
ballot under thj misleading label "Tax
Relief Amendment."

The m^Msure was badly defeated.
That much is certain, although the
count is still far from completed.

One newspaper computing the vote
on the basis of the first da\"s returns
stated that around 800,000 voted on
the measure out of more than 2,000,000
who went to the polls. This same pub-
lication reports, "Of the 790,000 who
voted on the amendment, 440,000 were
against it."

If this statement is roughly accu-
rate, 3 50,000 voted yes.

Early Returns

Another report shows that 4,762 pre-
cincts out of 7,109 in Illinois voted as
follows: Yes, 219,196; No, 312,889.
The Associated Press statement of Nov.
6 showed that 4,948 precincts out of
7,109 in Illinois voted as follows: No,
330,622; Yes, 236,376.

What was in the minds of the vast
number of people who failed to vote
on the measure is something for conjec-
ture. It is likely that the majority of
these were confused over the proposal
and so did nothing. It is also likely
that many who had not studied the
measure were attracted by the catchy
title with the "bait" underneath it and
voted Yes. Many contend that the
measure was submitted in an illegal
manner and there is good evidence to
justify this belief. It is doubtful if
the amendment would have become law
had it received the required constitu-
tional majority.

Behind 1926 Propos.il

In spite of the advantages for ap-

proval the 1930 amendment had in the
way it was handled on the ballot, it ran
considerably behind the better amend-
ment of 1926 which was submitted
on a separate small ballot, and which
was vigorously supported by the Illinois
Agricultural Association.

A check-up of the Nov. 4 vote in
McLean county supplied by the Bloom-
ington Pantagraph shows that 86 pre-
cincts in the county voted Yes, 4,426;
No, 4,439. Four years ago the McLean
countv vote was 5,174 YES and 4,119
AGAINST.

Mercer county, which is strictly
rural, offers even a more striking illus-
tration. Returns supplied by the Mer-
cer County Farm Bureau, which op-
posed the amendment this year, show
1,896 votes Against and only 630 For.

In 1926 when the Farm Bureau sup-
ported the amendment the vote was
3,362 Yes and only 98 3 Against.

Whiteside County Figures

In Vi'hiteside county, the Whiteside
Sentinel reports that 2,692 voted No on
the amendment this year, while 1,970
voted Yes. That the farmers of White-
side county heeded the advice of the
Farm Bureau, the I. A. A., Prairie
Farmer and Illinois Farmer in opposing
the measure is revealed in a check-up of
the vote in the strictly rural townships.

In Genesee and Hopkins townships,
which cont.iin no towns of any conse-
quence, the vote was 2 to 1 Against
the tax measure. In Hume town-ship —
all rural — it was 4 to 1 Against; in
Hahnaman 3 to I ; in Montgomery and
Jordan nearly 3 to 1. In most of the
cities of this county the measure got a
majority or about an even break.

All this indicates that Illinois farm-
ers are presenting a reasonably solid
front in legislative matters affecting
their welfare.

The Illinois Agricultural Association,
in line with its policy of being con-
structive in needed reforms is already
at work on helpful and constructive
suggestions for tax m.'asurcs, designed
to lift seme of the burden from prop-
erty, for introduction in the approach-
ing 5 7th general assembly.

Boycott Hearing in

Live Stock Case Held

Government Citation Charges Boy-
cott and Discrimination Against
Co-Op. by Commission Men

PROCEEDINGS agiinst more than
two score firms or individuals oper-
ating as market agents or dealers ai the
St. Louis National Stock Yards for dis-
crimination against live stock co-oper-
ative organizations, began in iIk" Federal
building. East St. Louis, on Nov. 6.

Immediately on the opening of the
hearing motions to dismiss the inquiry
bv Secret.!r\' Hyde, a demurrer to the
allegations of the citation, and a mo-
tion for continuance, were offered by
the attorney for the commission men.
These were overruled bv Examiner J.
B. Horigan, the Federal attorney con-
ducting the hearing.

Ketner Is Witness

I-. G. Ketner, manager of the Na-
tional Order Buying C^ompany, was the
first witness called. He slated that he-
cause of discrimination against the Or-
der Buying Company their \x)!ume of
business had dropped from 2;) per cent
to 10 per cent of the orders filled on
the market in a period of about three
v.'ccks.

His statement, which was admitted
to the record, included a discussion of
the trading conditions on the market
with Frank Young, manager of the
Farmers* Live Stock Commission C^om-
pany, and W. A. Moody, president of
the St. Louis Live Stock Exchange.
During this discussion the alleged boy-
cott was openly referred to and both
gentlemen were asked to assist in keep-
ing the market open. Neither Mr.
"^'oung nor .Mr. Moody were agreeable
to the proposal nor were trading rela-
tions improved following this confer-
ence.

The attorneys for the rispondents
were scheduled to cross examine Mr.
Ketner on I'ridav, November 7.

fage tour

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Here Are Charges

Charges filed by the Secretary of
Agriculture for violation of the Packers
and Stockyards Act of 1921 state that:
"The said respondents have combined,
conspired and agreed to have no busi-
ness relations at the said stock yards
with the National Order Buying Com-
pany, and Kennett, Sparks & Company,
Inc., market agencies duly registered as
such and engaged in business at the St.
Louis National Stock Yards, and with
other divers market agencies registered
and doing business as such at said stock
yards whose names are unknown to the
Secretary of Agriculture, and have
combined, conpired and agreed to refuse
and refrain, and to cause other registered
market agencies and dealers to refuse
and refrain from having any business
relations with the said National Order
Buying Company and Kennett, Sparks
& Company, Incorporated."

Unfair and Unjust

The charges further state that the
respondents acting by themselves and
through their lawful agents "have
engaged in and used certain unfair and
unjustly discriminatory practices and
devices in connection with the receiv-
ing, marketing, buying, selling, feeding,
watering, holding, delivery, shipment,
weighing and handling of live stock in
commerce, and that the said respondents
while acting as the agent for their prin-
cipals, to wit, the shippers of live stock,
and while having custody, possession
and control of live stock so shipped to
the said respondents for sale on com-
mission at said stock yards, without just
cause have refused and refrained from
showing or offering to show to buyers,
to wit, the National Order Buying
Company, Kennett, Spark & Company,
Incorporated, and other buyers, live
stock so held by them for sale on con-
signment on behalf of their shippers
and have failed, refused and declined to
permit said buyers to look at the live
stock consigned to respondents as afore-
said, and have thereby rendered buyers
to bid on or buy such live stock which
said buyers were at all times ready, able
and willing to purchase, and to pay the
prices agreed upon therefoc"

The boycott represents a concerted
effort on the part of private dealers
and commission men to fight co-opera-
tive marketing in general, and the new
national live stock co-operative plan
sponsored by the Farm Board in par-
ticular.

Spider and Longmire
! Promoted " ' ;

changing styles in the beef trade will see
the heavier types of grain-fed steers losing even
more of their waning popularity during the
next few years, according to Sleeter Bull, meat
ipecialist at the University of Illinois.

The present trend toward marketing grain-
fed cattle at younger ages will continue dur-
ing the next few years, he believes.

J. C. Spitler is the new state leader
of farm advisers recently appointed to
succeed the late Prof. W. H. Smith.

Mr. Spitler has been with the State
Extension Service for many years as as-
sistant state leader.
He is well liked by
farmers and exten-
sion workers
throughout Illinois.
Mr. Spitler is a grad-
uate of the Univer-
sity of Illinois.

F. E. Longmire,
able farm adviser in
Grundy county for
the past 1} years,
J. c. Spitler will fill the position
occupied by Mr. Spitler before the lat-
ter's promotion. Mr. Longmire made
an enviable record in seed corn im-
provement work and in helping to de-
velop and popularize Grundy county
sweet clover.

Scott Produce Assn.

Has Successful Year

NEARLY 500 attended the annual
meeting of the Scott County Pro-
duce Assn. on Oct. 30. The program
for the day consisted of reports on the
activities of the Farm Bureau and sub-
sidiary companies, addresses, a splendid
dinner at noon and local entertain-
ment, states Frank Gougler, who ad-
dressed the meeting.

The audit report of the association
showed that it handled during the past
fourteen months 109,348.6 pounds of
butterfat, 109,369% dozens of eggs,
and 139,352 pounds of poultry. Gross
income on this business amounted to
$12,112.52. Expenses amounted to
$6,182, leaving a net income of $5,-
930.50.

Patronage refunds were made in the
amount of $4,465.73 on the basis of
3 cents per pound on butterfat han-
dled and 1 cent per dozen eggs and
per pound poultry handled. In addi-
tion to this, $1,464.29 was set aside in
the surplus fund.

During the meeting the members
voted to change their charter so it will
conform to the State Produce Market-
ing plan, which provides for capital
stock. From its organization to No-
vember 1, 1930, the Scott County Pro-
duce Association has sold its butterfat
to the Aro Creamery of St. Lcuis.
Pleasant relations have prevailed
throughout that tim3. Now the cream
is going to Swift's branch plant at
Jacksonville under the terms of the new
contract with the creamery companies.

THE National Association Against
Government Competition in Busi-
ness is the imposing title given the
latest anti-co-operative organization
formed at St. Louis following a ha-
rangue by F. Dumont Smith, Kansas
attorney, against the Agricultural Mar-
keting Act, on the night of Oct. 31.

"F. Dumont Smith will be remem-
bered, if at all," writes Bill Stahl of
the Farmers' National Grain Co-Op,
"as the gentleman who declared the
Marketing Act unconstitutional with-
out resort to any court of justice." F.
Dumont's efforts at getting the Ameri-
can Bar Association to go on record
against the Act failed, although his
advance publicity heralded the asso-
ciation's opposition as a foregone con-
clusion. :| ... ■••'.- 't ;-

Word received by Charles Cummings,
general manager of the Midwest Grain
Corp., from a friend in St. Louis, in-
dicates that around 200 people signed
membership cards in the National Asso-
ciation Against Government organiza-
tion which already has been dubbed the
"Naag's." Mr. Legge, the Farm Board,
and farm co-operatives apparently are
in for more "nagging" on a grander
scale.

F. Dumont must have electrified his
audience by picturing the Farm Board
as threatening to enter the meat pack-
ing, canning, flour milling and chain
store field. Hallowe'en was an appro-
priate time, it must be said, to let loose
the hobgoblins, witches and bogey men
to terrify gullible listeners. However,
the careless distortion of facts and
truth is not a new game to those who
on the surface decry the Farm Board
and Marketing Act, but who at heart
bitterly resent any advancement by ag-
ricultural producers in marketing their
own products co-operatively.

Charlie Cummings, who has acquired
a reputation around the state as a hu-
morist as well as an astute grain man,
says that all these propagandists remind
him of the bedtime story about the
polecats and the bear. Mamma Skunk
and hir three little ones were going
down the path through the dark woods
when they met a great big bear. "Mam-
ma," cried the little ones in terror as
they ran to their mother, "What are
we going to do?" Thoughtfully, the
mother replied, "Children, let-us-pray."

THE I. A. A. R£CX)RD

Paf^e Five

Grocers Succeed by

Contract Co-Operation

President of Independent Group
Tells How Merchants Are Meet-
ing Competition by Working
Together

HOW more than 9,000 independent
grocers throughout the United
States are succeeding by compulsory
co-operation under the contract plan of
membership was disclosed by J. Frank
Grimes of Chicago, president of the In-
dependent Grocers' Alliance of Amer-
ica, who spoke recently before the In-
dependent Oil Men of America at St.
Louis.

So successful have the 9,000 or more
merchants in Grimes* organization been
that their profits this year, despite busi-
ness depression, are 45 per cent larger
than last year, continues the newspaper
report of his address.

Compulsory, Not Voluntary

The touchstone of their success was
co-operative buying and uniform mer-
chandising and display methods, but it
was a different type of co-operation
than that ordinarily envisioned.

It w^as compulsory rather than
voluntary.

When members entered the alliance
they signed contracts to follow the
policies outlined by the directing heads
so that in effect the alliance is a chain
store organization composed of inde-
pendent merchants.

The fatal weakness of most co-oper-
ative business attempts, according to
Grimes, is that they lack competitive
leadership and the power to enforce
policies that will bring success.

"It is of the greatest importance to
this country to see that individual own-
ership of business and the continuance
of opportunity for individual owner-
ship be safeguarded as a national heri-
tage," said Grimes.

Individualism Is Obstacle

"The power that lies in the hands of
the independents so far exceeds that of
the organized corjwrations that it is ap-
palling to see it going to waste for lack
of use. Probably the greatest diflSculty
that confronts independent business
men is the peculiarly individualistic
ideas and ideals that have developed
around the individual business. They
seem somehow to resent taking sugges-
tions' and following the example of
others.

"It is only within the last four or
five years that definite steps have been
taken to harnessing the power of the
independents and combining great num-
bers of individuals so that things may

be done which no single individual
could do alone, but which all can do
together."

Grimes related how the early at-
tempt to organize the independent gro-
cers failed because they lacked "the
directing organization powerful enough
to draw to itself keen minds, the finest
talent and to evolve a program com-
plete in every detail that would match
or excel that of the strongest competi-
tion."

$500,000,000 Business

Members of Grimes' alliance are
found in 37 states. Last year its sales
exceeded $500,000,000. It advertises
both nationally and locally. The mem-
bers pay $3.50 a week as alliance dues
and this pays for the entire services of
the alliance, including advertising and
purchasing through a centralized agen-
cy. All alliance stores are uniform in
appearance and unless the member is
willing to follow the alliance's policies
he forfeits his membership.

In all respects, however. Grimes said,
the individual member is the owner of
his own store. He runs the business
and pockets the profits, and is a fixture
in his community.

Its members have enjoyed such pros-
perity in the last two years that Grimes
said applications for membership are
pouring in faster than they can be
passed upon.

v/ tv Brought Results

Editor, I. A. A. Record:

"Your I. A. A. RECORD surely
brings results. We have been simply
deluged with mail from people anxious
to go up on our 78 acre tract. Also a
number of them called on us personally
as well as telephoned.

"Mr. Stolz of Lyle, 111., is going to
move up there tomorrow and I think
everything will be all fine and dandy.

"This has reference to my letter
which you printed about wanting some-
one to go up on our 78 acre place, rent
free, in exchange for a little work for
me around our cottages in the summer
season. I surely struck the right me-
dium when I picked your name out of
the telephone book.

"Thanks for your part in this mat*'
ten"

H. C. Williamson,
319 N. Crawford Ave.,
Chicago, 111.

Illinois Butter Campaign
Begins

A JOINT campaign financed by Illi-
nois processors and producers to
advertise and boost the consumption of
creamery butter was begun under the
direction of the National Dairy Coun-
cil on November 1. The campaign
which will be first tried out in Illinois,
was inspired by the success of recent
efforts by county Farm Bureaus, dairy
associations and other groups in adver-
tising the superiority of butter over oleo
and other substitutes among consumers.

A deduction of one cent per delivery
from each cream producer will be
matched by a similar contribution from
the processors in underwriting advertis-
ing costs. The Illinois Produce Mar-
keting Association, meeting on October
10, endorsed the plan and recommended
that all affiliated local and county as-
sociations co-operate. Creameries which
buy from individual farmers, likewise,
will make the deduction.

The Illinois Agricultural Association
approved the program, and the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation has been
asked to help administer the funds to
guarantee equity to the farmers who
are helping finance the campaign.

Soybean Harvest Now
Completed

The unprecedented movement of
soybeans from farm to market during
the harvest season of 1930 is now al-
most finished, reports the Soybean Mar-
keting association. Favorable weather
was largely responsible for expediting
the rapid delivery of the crop.

Reliable information indicates that
soybeans in the hands of farmers and
seed companies will be inadequate to
meet the demands for feed and for next
year's seed requirements. Information
coming from other states indicates a
shortage of seed beans elsewhere. The
association officials believe that mem-
bers of the organization who have good
seed beans will materially profit by
holding them in storage.

The autoist is 13 times more likely
to be killed than the railway passenger,
according to the Governor's Committee
on Street and Highway Safety of Massa-
chusetts. The street car is the safest
of the three methods of travel.

Wants a Job

A. Eilert, 2608 Vega Ave. W., Cleve-
land, Ohio, 39-year-old German immi-
grant, single, six feet tall, strong,
healthy, farm experienced, two and
one-half years in this country, wants a
job on a farm.

His letter indicates he is well edu-
cated, honest, and not afraid of work.
He was raised on a farm in the Province
of Hanover, Germany. Write him.
He offers references. ;- .

Page Six

THE I. A. A. RECORD

I L<lilNOIS

CCLTUBAL ASSOCIA

RECORiy

To advance the purpoie for which the Farm Bureau wai organized,
namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political,
and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation,
and to develop agriculture.

Editor, George Thicm

Published once a month by the Illinois Agricultural Association,
at 124 So. Fifth St., Marshall, III. Adress all communications for publi-
cation to Editorial OfBce, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, III. Entered as
second-class matter June 16, 1930, at the post oflice at Marshall, III.,
under the Act of March 3, 1879. Accepted for mailing at special rate of
postage provided for in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28, 192S, authorized
Oct. 27, 1923. The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural
Association is five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty centi
for subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Association Record. Post-
master: In returning an uncalled for missent copy please indicate key
number on address as is required by law.

OFFICERS

President, Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vice-President, A. R Wright Vtrna

Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger-
Treasurer, R. A. Cowles..

Chicago

-Bloomington

1st to nth.

12th

13th

14th

15th.

16th..
17th...

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

(By Congressional District)

H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

G. F. Tullock, Rockford

C. E. Bamborough, Polo

M. G. Lambert, Ferris

..A. N. Skinner, Yates City

18th._
19th...
20th...
21st..-
22nd_
23rd...
24th..
25th...

Comptroller-
Finance..

..Geo. B. MuUcT, Washington

Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

W. A. Dennis. Paris

■.C. J. Gross, Atwood

..Charles S. Black, Jacksonville

Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

Frank Oexner, Waterloo

W. L. Cope. Salem

Charles Marshall

Fred Dietz, De Soto

DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS

Fruit and Vegetable Ua{keting..

Grain M arkcting

Information !_

Insurance Service

Legal CounseL.

Limestone- Phosphate

Live Stock Marketing..
Office..

-.J. H. Kelker

R. A. Cowles

A. B. Leeper

-Harrison Fahrnkopf

George Thiem

V. Vaniman

...Donald Kirkpatrick

J. R. Bent

Ray E. Miller

C. E. Johnston

..G. E. Metzger
_F. A. Gougler
..J. C. Watson
..L. J. Quasey

Organization

Produce Marketing

Taxation and Statistics

Transportation ,

ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS

Country Life Insurance Co L, A, Williams, Mgr.

Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co J. H. Kelker, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives Ass'n F. E. Ringham, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co. A. E. Richardson, Mgr.

Illinois Farm Supply Co L. R. Marchant, Mgr.

Illinois Grain Corp Harrison Fahrnkopf, Mgr.

Midwest Grain Corp

Soybean Marketing Assn..

..Chas. P. Cimunings, Cen'l. Mgr.
._ _ J. H. Lloyd, Mgr.

The Farmer and the Utilities

"pXTENSIVE construction of pipe lines, high
power, and telephone hnes across country by
public utihty companies brings to the fore a
number of questions concerning the rights and
interests of landowners whose property is used
for this purpose.

In Illinois, Farm Bureau members confronted
with such problems have rightfully appealed to
their organization representatives for advice and
assistance. Landowners' committees have been
organized, competent counsel brought in to place
the individual farmer on an equal footing with
the utilities in protecting his property rights; in
obtaining a fair and equitable compensation for
damages to his land.

In most cases negotiations between the land-
owners' committees and utilities have proceeded
amicably. Differences of opinion have been com-
promised without resort to the courts. Utility

representatives pubUcly have expressed their ap-
preciation for the orderly and business-like meth-
ods used by landowners in thus expediting the
settlement of troublesome problems.

That this attitude has not been shown in every
case is expressive of the prejudice which still exists
in some quarters against farmers organizing for
their mutual welfare whether the purpose is to
prevent oppression, or to sell their products co-
operatively.

In one instance utility representatives, failing to
secure the acquiescence of the organized land-
owners to their proposals, broke off negotiations
and filed condemnation suits while the farmers
were still ready and willing to arbitrate. Cha-
grined at the unfavorable verdicts of the local
juries in several cases which have come to trial,
the utihty 's lawyers have resorted to hurHng false
charges of unfairness by counsel for the land-
owners in conducting the trials. The propriety
of the Illinois Agricultural Association in assist-
ing its members in their negotiations even has been
questioned. This attitude amounts to a denial of
the right of farmers to employ counsel and the
services of trained men in representing them.

As evidence that this condition exists we cite
a recent instance in which the chairman of a
landowners' committee was approached by a util-
ity company attorney who asked for a confer-
ence. The committee chairman readily assented
but asked that the committee's local attorney and
the I. A. A. representative sit in the meeting.
"What! can't you farmers think for yourselves?"
was the attorney's angry retort.

If the individual through intelligent organiza-
tion ceases to remain easy prey for designing peo-
ple it is natural for such folks who find the going
tougher to attack the organization. They might
as well become educated to the fact that this is
a changing world, that what was true yesterday
may not be true today. The law guarantees the
farmer the right to organize. The realization
that he has taken advantage of the right and is
using it intelligently may be disconcerting to a
few. They will presently become adjusted to the
new order whether they like it or not.

Keeping Faith with Agriculture ^

'T'HE irrigation development of the Columbia
River Basin in the Northwest has resulted in
the reclamation of approximately 4,000,000 acres
of desert land, according to the U. S. Department
of Agriculture. We are told that the available
water supply is sufficient for the reclamation of
11,000,000 acres when conditions warrant the
expenditure for development.

This announcement has an ominous tone. It
implies that at the earliest opportunity more

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Seven

Federal money will be poured into reclamation projects to
provide further competition for present producers of farm
crops. One can readily understand the zeal of the dry land
states in lobbying and log rolling for Federal reclamation
money. These projects develop local communities, bring in
more settlers, build up local income and create more taxable
values for the state. And while the desert blooms under the
watchful eye of the government water dispensary, agricul-
ture elsewhere languishes for want of a profitable market.

Some of the middlemen have set up a great howl against
the government loaning money to farm co-operatives for
marketing agricultural products. So far as we know, the
Farm Board in no wise is authorized nor has it sought to
subsidize co-operative marketing or enter into competition
with private distributors of farm produce. Yet during
the past 30 years the government not only has fostered new
competition in farming but it has directly subsidized such
competition through reclamation and land settlement work
throughout the west. Agricultural expansion has been our
national policy for generations.

Only during recent years with the growth of effective
organization have farmers come to look upon their business
as an industry as well as a way of living. There has been
a sad lack of vision, or at least interest, in protecting the
investments of agricultural producers against destructive
competition from both within and without the borders of
the United States. The present administration is the first in
recent years to give serious attention to the economic wel-
fare of agriculture. But the continuance of federal land
reclamation work in the west will not be considered by
farmers as keeping faith in promoting their welfare. Cer-
tainly such projects are inconsistent with the ideals of the
Marketing Act. It is absurd for the Farm Board to advise
acreage reduction in the middle west and south while the
Reclamation Bureau practices acreage extension in the far
west. ■■._'■'■

Mussolini Goes After the Swindlers

DICTATOR Mussolini of Italy recently called his cab-
inet together, submitted a decree for drastic action
against speculators and dishonest financiers. The report
was readily approved. Penalties are as follows:

One to 10 years' imprisonment at hard labor and fines
of from $500 to $5,000 for "promoters, officers and liqixida-
tors of joint stock companies" who "fraudulently damage
the interests of stockholders."

Frauds include: (1) distributing dividends unwarranted
by the condition of the company; (2) false statements in
balance sheets or to the public at stockholders' meetings;
(3) concealment of facts relating to economic conditions
of a company.

One to five years' imprisonment at hard labor and fines
of $400 to $1,000 for "persons who, for their own or
others* profit, circulate false news or by other fraudulent
means create fictitious increases in the value of stocks of
companies they represent."

One to three years' imprisonment at hard labor and fines
of $400 to $1,000 for company officials who contract loans
with their own companies.

The operations of fraudulent promoters, salesmen and tip-
sters, which mulct the American people out of millions of
dollars annually, are a national disgrace. Yet, the majority
of jhese reprobates are never punished; first, because of
failure to prosecute, and secondly, because our existing laws
are not drastic enough to fit the offense.

Men who would be base criminals under the new Italian
code are among our highly respected citizens. An army of
real estate promoters and stock and bond salesmen operating
iit the balmy days before the stock market crash of Novem-

ber, 1929, defrauded thousands of people out of their sav-
ings. The going is not so easy now. Will Rogers said with
some truth after visiting a Federal prison, "They got the
wrong crowd in there." Certain kinds of criminals are
punished, others are not molested.

We may not like Mussolini's methods, but they get results.
Until our government initiates plans for more direct action
against frauds whose offense frequently lies in not telling
the whole truth, the investing public will continue at the
mercy of the rule of caveat emptor — let the buyer beware.

The Cover

THE largest building in the world is the mammoth struc-
ture covering two city blocks in length, and 23 stories
in height, known as the Merchandise Mart, li is located on
the north bank of the Chicago River at Wells street, erected
at a cost of $30,000,000.

In this giant structure, having 4,000,000 square feet of
floor space, buyers, retail merchants, etc., of the United
States, Canada and foreign countries can view under one
roof hundreds of lines of the best merchandise. The build-
ing houses a city in itself and includes club rooms, restau-
rants, barber shops, a branch postoffice, the National Broad-
casting Co. Chicago studios and countless other activities.

The site of the building is that formerly occupied by the
old C. & N. W. R. R. station. Part of the building stands
over the C. & N. W. tracks. The railroad sold merely the
"air rights." Some 200 acres of air right property over
railroad yards and tracks are still available for buildings in
and about Chicago's loop. i

Editorial of the Month ^

PREPARE FOR REAL REVENUE REFORM

NO tears are being shed over the grave of the rejected
amendment which was proposed to the antiquated
and unjust revenue article of the Illinois constitution. Yet
every intelligent citizen in the state recognizes keenly the
existing public need of a well-devised, modern, enforceable
revenue article. Unhappily the amendment that was offered
to the voters was inadequate, ambiguous and pitiably lame.
If ratified, it might have aggravated the injustices in taxa-
tion now so generally and so justly complained of by farm-
ers, home owners and other holders of real estate.

The more carefully the amendment was studied the clearer
it became that in operation it would not meet the require-
ments of the state in matters of revenue and taxation. The
proposal was rejected not because it involved changes but
bcause it failed to provide for changes favored by authori-
ties on taxation and by citizens who realize the essential
elements forming the basis of reasonable equality in any
application of the tax burden.

There is nothing partisan about the question. It should
be taken up for full consideration and constructive action
by a joint committee of capable legislators, impartial eco-
nomists, men of affairs and representatives of farmers' or-
ganizations. Amendments to the revenue article of the con-
stitution should be drafted with knowledge and in a spirit
of justice.

The Daily News .which for years has been a persistent
and consistent advocate of sound tax reform, reiterates its
conviction that the tax on personality, tangible and intan-
gible, should be abolished and a fair, simple, reasonable tax
on all incomes over a certain proper minimum should be
substituted for that unenforceable tax. Any mother at-
tempted solution would be practically certain to prove
illusory and futile. — Chicago Daily News.

Page Eight

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Stark County Meeting another farm for someone

A. J. Olson, president of the Minne-
sota Farm Bureau Federation, was the
principal speaker at the recent annual
meeting of the Stark County Farm
Bureau.

David Turnbull of Elmira township
was elected president; Richard Hail of
Osceola, vice-president; Fred D. Smith
of West Jersey, secretary; and George
Wilson of Toulon, treasurer.

E. E. Brown, retiring farm adviser,
sketched the year's activities.

The Pawnee Four and Dick Bradley,
the talkative tailor furnished most of
the entertainment. A successor to
County Adviser Brown has not yet been
announced.

Peoria in 1,000 Class

Farm Bureau membership committees
of Peoria county recently added 66 new
members to put the Peoria County
Farm Bureau in the 1,000 class with
1,009 members. Radnor township led
with 17. "I think it likely that we will
have 2 5 or 30 more when the work is
finished and all reports are in," writes
Farm Adviser J. W. Whisenand.

The membership committee in the
leading township was composed of Wy-
att Ashbaugh, Clair Harlan, Leo Heinz
and Wilbur Challacomb.

Serum Directors Meet

The directors of the Illinois Farm
Bureau Serum Association met in Chi-
cago on October 29.

The association e.\pects to purchase
large quantities of anti-hog cholera
serum and virus for Farm Bureau mem-
bers in the coming year.

The Serum Association has been in-
strumental first in insuring an adequate
supply of high quality serum for Illi-
nois farmers, and secondly, in lowering
the cost of anti-cholera vaccination by
organizing the buying power of live
stock growers in the purchase of im-
munizing materials.

Packers Have No Plans

F. E. White, president of Armour
& Company, states that his organiza-
tion "has no definite plans as to en-
gaging in the retailing of meats and
groceries," should its plea and that of
Swift & Company be granted for re-
moval of the restrictions in the pack-
ers' consent decree.

"The trend of the times is such that
we may be forced to go into the re-
tailing business," continued Mr. White.
"We want to be unfettered and have
freedom of action to meet any condi-
tions arising."

Editor, I. A. A. RECORD:

"Wonder if any of your readers
would be interested in using 268 acres
in South Dakota, 90 acres of this land
in level tract on the banks of the Mis-
souri River, balance in cultivatable up-
land, and timber. Excellent for pota-
toes, small grain, good timber pasture
on river banks for wintering cattle, lo-
cated eight miles from Mobridge in
Walworth county, no buildings on land
but plenty timber available. Willing
to make an agreement with right party
to use property, rent free, for a number
of years. Taxes are not high, plenty
water available, and a pump could irri-
gate if necessary at small expense."
H. C. Williamson,
321 No. Crawford Ave.,
Chicago.

WiMe^^

A ^24,000 Melon

A $24,000 melon for Farm Bureau
member patrons of the Marshall-Put-
nam Oil Company was announced re-
cently at the annual meeting of the
company at Henry.

The patronage refund, it is under-
stood, will be paid as follows: an 8 f>er
cent regular cash dividend on sales, im-
mediately; two special 6 per cent divi-
dends to be paid later. The S24,000
patronage dividend represents surplus
after dividends on capital stock, re-
serves, depreciation, and general oper-
ating expenses.

The Marshall-Putnam Company han-
dled 696,36(2 gallons of gasoline, 2 59,-
292 gallons of kerosene, 29,68 5 gallons
of lubricating oil, 15,012 pounds of"
grease, with a total volume of business
for the yeart-amounting to $163,981.

Judges for International

Three of the live stock judges at the
coming International Live Stock Expo-
sition will be imported from Scotland;
two from Canada. The Scotch judges
will place the steers, Aberdeen-Angus
cattle, and Clydesdale horses.

Manager Heide reports that entries
are being received in large numbers by
all departments from the United States,
Canada, and even from foreign coun-
tries.

The exposition opens on the first
Saturday following Thanksgiving, No-
vember 29, and closes December 6.

Reduced railroad fares will be in
force throughout this period.

The Whiteside County Farm Bureau
announces that 105 new members
joined in a one-day drive staged Sep-
tember 30.

The daily farm program of the I. A.
A. from Station WJJD, Mooseheart, is
broadcast between 12:15 and 12:30
P. M., Monday to Friday, inclusive.
Hear the daily Chicago live stock mar-
ket from the Producers, and each Fri-
day the weekly market review. Out-
look reports, reviews, farm news and
economic information are broadcast
daily.

C. L. Mast, club deader in LaSalle
county, Illinois, broadcast over the
NBC chain on November 8 from KYW,
Chicago. Mast is a former club mem-
ber of Adams county. i .

The winners of the Illinois State Play
Tournament from Savoy in Champaign
county presented their play, "The
Mayor and the Manicure," before the
annual convention of the American
Country Life Association at Madison on
October 8.

On their return to Chicago the play
waj broadcast from WLS. - i

President Earl C. Smith spoke on the
proposed revenue amendment from Sta-
tion WLS, Chicago, Wednesday night,
Oct. 29. John C. Watson followed with
a similar talk over the same station the
night of Nov. 1, pointing out why the
I. A. A. could not support the measure.

An Argentine radio station was
closed recently because it broadcast
too much advertising.

■ There are about half as many radio
sets in use in the United States as there
are families in the country, according
to an estimate made by the Department
of Commerce. ,

Advertising Helps Producer

Production and consumption of
dairy products at present are so nearly
balanced, states the National Dairy
Council, that any increase in produc-
tion without a corresponding increase
in demand will surely depress prices still
further. A fund estimated at around
$200,000 will be raised jointly by Illi-
nois cream producers and processors to
advertise butter among consumers with-
in the state.

As a result of a short publicity cam-
paign last winter, the consumption of
butter was so increased that storage
holdings were reduced more than 30,-
000,000 lbs. Prices arose accordingly.

THE I. A, A. RECORD

Page Nine

Farm Board News

V The Coarse Grain Advisory Com-
modity Committee of the Federal Farm
Board was scheduled to meet in Wash-
ington on November 17.

The members of the committee were
selected by the grain co-operatives on
invitation of the Farm Board. The
members are as follows: S. J. Cotting-
ton, president of the National Farmers'
Co-Operative Elevator Assn., Stanhope,
Iowa; Sam H. Thompson, president of
the American Farm Bureau Federation,
Quincy, III.; L. J. Taber, master of the
National Grange, Columbus, Ohio; C.
E. Huff, president of the National
Farmers' Educational and Co-Operative
Union, Chicago, 111.; Wayland Magee,
president of the Crop Improvers' As-
sociation of Nebraska, Bennington,
Neb.; George S. Milnor, vice-president
and general manager of the Farmers'
National Grain Corporation, Chicago,
111.; and James Murray, vice-president
of the Quaker Oats Company, Chicago,
111.

THE Federal Farm Board does not
intend to loan its funds in support
of a lot of different organizations with-
in an industry to fight each other over
differences of opinion about what the
national co-operative set-up should be.
Chairman Alexander Legge stated in a
letter to Secretary J. H. Mercer of the
Kansas Live Stock Association on Oc-
tober 25.

Old line commission men and their
supporters at Kansas City are fighting
the board because some government
money has been loaned the National
Live Stock Marketing Association to
develop a comprehensive co-operative
sales plan for live stock producers.

The Federal Farm Board is taking
steps to extend to Porto Rico the bene-
fits of the Agricultural Marketing Act.

"It seems to me that the average live
stock man in Kansas would sooner see
the cows die hungr}' than co-operate
with anybody," Chairman Alexander
Legge said in a recent letter to the
Chairman of the Kansas Emergency
Relief Committee.

"As I explained at considerable length
to Governor Reed when he was here,"
said Mr. Legge, "the machinery is all
set up whereby these people can get
assistance through the national live
stock organization, and get it promptly,
by merely affiliating with that organi-
zation. My judgment is that if they
ever do affiliate with the organization
they will never want to leave it, but
the membership contracts of these co-
operatives all provide for a member to

drop out at stated periods if the ser-
vice is not satisfactory.

"You state you would be glad to
pass on loans for us, but what we are
most interested in is some responsible
organization that would see to it they
are collected."

The Federal Farm Board in its 14
months of experience has found four
fundamentals clear in its task of solv-
ing farm problems, C. C. Teague said
recently speaking to farmers at Cornell
University.

"These fundamentals," he said, "are:

1. That all problems of agriculture
will never be solved by legislation;

2. That stabilization corjjorations to
deal in surpluses are only warran-
ted in cases of emergency and
must be approached with the ut-
most care or more harm than good
may be done;

3. That the law of supply and de-
mand cannot be lightly set aside;

4. That the greatest assistance to
agriculture that can come from
federal and state aid is the grad-
ual development of a system of
grower-owned and controlled co-
operative marketing."

He said the development of co-opera-
tion cannot be accomplished without
some interference with existing agen-
cies, but he expressed the hope that the
necessary readjustment "may be brought
about with as much consideration for
existing agencies and investments as
possible."

The question now confronting the
Federal Farm Board is how far the
farmers will support the board in at-
tempts to control production, said Dr.
F. B. Bomberger, assistant chief of the
board's division of co-operative mar-
keting, recently.

"A grudging, qualified acceptance by
slightly over half of the growers, with
a positive argumentative refusal by the
remainder, indicates a degree of unwill-
ingness on the part of the growers of
that region to listen to counsels of
safety and conservation," he said in
commenting upon the advice of Mr.
Hyde and Mr. Legge to the wheat
growers to cut acreage.

State legislation to penalize "business
bribery" was recently advocated by the
chairman of the Federal Trade Com-
mission, Garland S. Ferguson, Jr.

"Commercial bribery" in order to in-
fluence sales, he said, is fraudulent and
immoral. The practice comes within
the definition of unfair methods of
competition, is characterized by deceit
and fraud, and is against public policy.

Do You Knoip^ That—

It's a good time to economize by
wise spending. i

The per capita consumption of milk
in the United States in 1917 was 8 36
pounds and in 1927 it was 1,0)2 pounds.

A noticeable decrease in the buying
of shoes is depressing leather produc-
tion and prices. People are wearing
their shoes longer this year, y \ •' '

Hard times don't affect tobacco con-.-
sumption. The total revenue coUec- ■
tions on tobacco for the first nine:
months of 1930 were higher than for
the same period in 1929. i

A shortage of water has cut the
hatch of ducks and geese and other wild
fowls 50 per cent this year, compared
with last, according to the U. S. bio-
logical survey.

During the past 10 years the num-
ber of farms in the United States de-
creased 150,466. Consolidation and
abandonment were the principal, reasons
for the decrease. •■/'(.'

The rapid increase in the popularity
of miniature golf has resulted in the
use of 1,500,000 yards of cotton tex-
tile fabrics on the various midget links
throughout the country.

A "chain store" tax of $50 a year
on all stores under the same ownership,*
operation and management, excluding
one, was declared constitutional in an
opinion handed down recently by the
North Carolina Supreme Court.

Vigorous campaigns for the adoption
of the Drivers' License Law will be
conducted in 28 states, including Illi-
nois, during the fall and early spring
months. Twelve states already have
such laws and in nine of these where
official records are available there have
been 29 per cent fewer fatalities.

Farmers' troubles cannot be blamed
on prohibition, according to Col. Amos
Woodcock, prohibition enforcement :
chief.

Less than 1 per cent of the wheat and
oats crop and only slightly more than
1 per cent of the corn crop was used .;.
by brewers and distillers prior to the ■.■-.
passage of the 18 th Amendment. About .,;
7/4 per cent of the rye crop went into ~
the production of liquors. Barley and ■■ .
malt showed the greatest average. In
the years 1915 and 1916 distillers and
brewers used 32 per cent of the annual '-.

malt crop.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Co-Op. Grain Marketing

Grows Rapidly in '30

Farm Bureau Gains

Half of 4,000 Local Farmers' Ele-
vators Affiliated with Farmers'
National Grain Corp.

DEVELOPMENT of farmer co-op-
erative agencies for terminal and
national grain marketing has gone for-
ward more rapidly during the last year
than in any previous similar period, offi-
cials of Farmers' National Grain Cor-
poration pointed out recently in re-
viewing the progress of the corporation
since its incorporation on October 29,
1929.

"The result," it was said, "has been
that all types of grain co-operatives af-
filiated with the national organization
have had tremendous growth in both
membership and volume of grain de-
livered. Organizations with years of
experience find that development of co-
operative grain marketing on a national
scale has given powerful impetus to the
movement. Newer organizations made
progress in many cases entirely beyond
their expectations. Elevator groups,
grain associations and sales agencies
alike, report the last twelve months as
being the most successful, from the
standpoint of growth, in co-operative
grain marketing history.

Gain 60 Per Cent

"In the southwest, growers' organi-
zations report membership gains rang-
ing from 60 to 66 per cent, and farmer
elevator affiliations more than double
the number a year ago. Elevator groups
in the same territory report heavy in-
creases in numbers of stockholders and
volume of business. In the spring
wheat territory all stockholders, both
new organizations and old, state that
the development during the last year
has set new records. Similar gains are
reported throughout the soft wheat
areas. In some communities as high as
85 per cent of all grain growers have
taken steps to market grain the co-
operative way.

"Fully 50 per cent of the 4,000 or
more local farmers' elevaoors now are
affiliated with state or regional co-oper-
ative grain marketing organizations
that hold stock in the national corpora-
tion and market an increasingly large
share of their grain through them. New
sales agencies, supported by farmer ele-
vator associations and composed of
farmers' elevators have been organized
in several states, and in turn have be-
come parts of the national co-operative
grain movement by purchase of stock
of Farmers' National Grain Corpora-
tion.

County Farm Bureaus in New York
State gained 4,124 members in 1930
and now have a combined membership
of 39,05 5 in the 5 5 New York State
agricultural counties.

Seventeen New York counties now
have more than 900 members. Monroe
county has the largest with 1,568
members. Wayne has 1,496, Delaware
1,242, Otsego 1,143, Albany 1,123,
ONeida 1,113, Erie 1,072, and Onon-
daga 1,028.

Each of 24 other counties gained
more than 100 members over the pre-
vious year.

Railroads Claim They're
Hard Up

The present income of the western
district railroads has become insufficient
to insure the maintenance of adequate
transportation for the future and car-
riers in the western district as a whole
cannot expect to continue constructive
programs of capital expenditures, ac-
cording to a statement made recently
by the Association of Western Railway
Executives before the Interstate Com-
merce Commission.

"Not since 1920 have carriers in the
western district as a whole been in re-
ceipt of earnings equivalent to a fair
return upon the value of their prop-
erty," said the statement.

Land Values Now Half

From 1920 to 1930 land alone in
Ogle county, Illinois declined in valua-
tion from $76,545,285 to $35,619,954,
according to the Bureau of Census. In
other words. Ogle county land depre-
ciated more than half in the past decade.

There are now 2,686 farms in this
county, 1,292 of which are operated
by owners, 44 by managers, and 1,350
by tenants.

There are 1,045 farms of from 100
to 174 acres, 669 from 175 to 259
acres, 329 farms from 260 to 499 acres
in size, 29 farms from 500 to 999 acres,
and one farm of more than 1 ,000 acres,
This county had more than twice as
much land idle (9,570 acres) in 1930
as it had in J925.

The sale of advertising space on pos-
tal stamps to private enterprise has been
suggested by Representative Celler of
Brooklyn, New York, in a letter to
Postmaster Brown as a means by which
the postal deficit may be reduced. He
said he merely offered the plan for dis-
cussion, but does not advocate it.

New Milk Sales Plan

Adopted at Bloomington

Mrs. Virgil Loeb of St. Louis Re-
ports as Arbitrator in Market

Controversy •■■'.:. •■*

TME new base and surplus plan for
organized milk producers and dis-
tributors on the Bloomington market
went into effect November 1 following
a favorable report by Mrs. Virgil Loeb
of St. Louis, arbitrator selected jointly
by the McLean County Milk Produc-
ers' Association and the Snow & Pal-
mer Company, H. H. Bevan Dairy and
Ice Cream Company, and Normal
Sanitary Dair>' to decide on the new
proposal.

Mrs. Loeb's report ordered that the
following changes in the present buy-
ing plan in effect between, the Pro-
ducers and co-operating dealers be ac-
cepted as an amendment to the rules
and regulations of the present contract:

SUPPLEMENTAL RULES AND
REGULATIONS TO BUY-
ER'S CONTRACT

"1. Changes embodied in this amend-
ment do not affect any parts of the
present contract with which they do
not conflict.

"2. A complete dealers' pool of the
proceeds of the sale of milk by classes
shall be arranged so that each producer
selling to any contracting dealer re-
ceives a proportionate amount of the
total sales in the various classes of all
the contracting dealers.

"3. The sales classes of milk shall be
as follows: j ■'■'

Class I — All milk or cream, the
butterfat from which is contained in
sales of fluid milk and cream at
wholesale and retail, bottled and bulk
to direct consumers, grocery stores,
restaurants, hotels, confectioners,
lodges, churches, etc.

Class II Special — All milk, the
butterfat from which is contained
in bulk milk sold to other dealers for
shortage requirements.

Class III — All milk or cream, the
butterfat from which is used or sold
for making butter or storing for later
use. All milk that is reported in
Class III is call milk.
"4. A basic allotment and excess pro-
duction plan of payment to individual
producer members shall be instituted.
Each member producer will receive a
basic allotment approximating his pro-
portion of the sales of butterfat in Class
I in the month of least sales, propor-
tioned to him on a basis of the average
amount per month of butterfat sold by
him during the months of August.
September, October and November of

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Eleven

I

1929. for the remainder of the year

1930. The basic allotment for 1931
shall be similarly computed from the
average pounds of butterfat sold by
each respective producer member in
August, September, October and No-
vember of 1930.

May Change Bases

"The basic allotments for calendar
years after 1931 shall be re-determined
if deemed advisable by the association
and dealers jointly in the month of De-
cember preceding, after the general
method and manner used for 1930 and

1931. Individual bases, however, shall
not be reduced unless the member fails
to produce his basic allotment during
the base period, or unless the total basic
allotments exceed the Class I sales in
liionth of lease sales. Individual in-
creases of basic allotments shall be
limited to a certain uniform percentage
of the preceding base, which percentage
shall be determined and announced in
advance by the association. In no case
shall the total allotted base exceed the
Class I sales in the month of least sales.

"New producer members will be ad-
mitted to the market if buyers have
demand for the milk. Basic allotments
will be established by giving a percent-
age of the total per cent established for
the current year for the first month's
shipment. The allotment will be given
on a scaled percentage depending on the
month new members start and in no
case shall the allotment exceed 75 per
cent of the market percentage, until the
new producer has established a base for
himself in the regular manner.

Surplus Price Plan

"5. All of the production each
month of each producer member in
excess of his basic allotment will con-
stitute his excess production and will be
paid for at an 'excess' price as follows:
The excess price shall be determined by
adding together the butterfat value of
sales in the remaining three classes. The
total of the values of these sales di-
vided by the total of butterfat sold
will be the price of excess milk. : , ;

"Section 13 of the present contract
and rules 1 and 2 of the Rules and
Regulations, having been complied
with, this amendment is hereby de-
clared final and binding upon the Mr-
Lean County Producers' Association and
all contracting buyers — viz. the Snow
Si. Palmer Co., H. H. Bevan Dairy and
Ice Cream Co. and Normal Sanitary
Dairy, and is hereby ordered to go into
effect on November 1, 1930."

— Mrs. Virgil Loeb.
October 27, 1930.

Bevan Advertises

Following the arbitrator's report, the
H. H. Bevan Company announced in
paid advertising in the Bloomington
Pantagraph that the change in the pool-
ing plan would place this firm in a less
favorable position than its competitors
not having contracts with the associa-
tion; that it would rather not abide by
the decision of the arbitration, although
its present contract contains an arbi-
tration clause; that the arbitration was
unwarranted; and that the present
agreement, without the supplementary
rules and regulations be kept in force
until March 1, 1931. •■:■;•;/

The new plan differs from the old in
that heretofore the average price paid
for milk by all contracting dealers was
based on the price paid by Snow &
Palmer Company which handles about
50 to 60 per cent of all the milk dis-
tributed on that market. It so hap-
pened that Snow & Palmer used large
quantities of milk for making butter
and other dairy products, whereas the
smaller dairies, including the Bevan
Company, sold a much larger propor-
tion of their milk in bottles and to the
wholesale fluid trade. As a result the
smaller companies had a decided ad-
vantage, and price cutting with conse-
quent destructive competition resulted.

How It Operates ' '

Under the new dealer pool plan each
dealer will pay the Class I price for all
milk or cream going to the wholesale
and retail, bottled and bulk trade. Thus,
if $2.75 per cwt. is the Class I price,
the dealer who sells 80 per cent of his
milk receipts in the Class I division will
pay such a price for 80 per cent of his
receipts; whereas the dealer who sells
60 per cent of his milk receipts to Class
I trade will pay the $2.75 price for
only 60 per cent of his receipts.

Obviously this plan is fair to all the
contract dealers and places each one on
the same level. The McLean County
Milk Producers takes the position that
the Bevan Company will abide by its
contract, although the contract has been
amended, as was legally provided for in
the arbitration clause. Each dealer
signing the contract accepted the arbi-
tration feature and now legally is bound
by the decision of the arbitrator.

Cheap farm land may prove dear,
says the New York College of Agricul-
ture in warning prospective buyers.
Poor land is almost always over-valued
in relation to what it will produce as
compared to good land. It is cheaper
to buy fertility in the form of rich
soil than to buy fertility through fer-
tilizer.

laiKetii^

O. C. Fisher recently succeeded Z. T.
Storm as manager of the Windsor
(Shelby Co.) Shipping Association.

The Indianapolis Producers handled
299 carloads of live stock the week
ending October 30, or 21 loads more
than the previous week. The percent-
age of receipts was 3 1 .94 per cent com-
pared with 29.76 per cent the previous
week. Approximately 93.47 per cent
of producers' receipts came from ship-
pings associations. i I •' '

Iowa produces approximately one-
fourth of the commercial crop of hogs
in the U. S. More than one-half of the
Iowa hogs are now sold direct to pack-
ers who operate plants or patronize or
maintain concentration yards in Iowa
and southern Minnesota. \ ,

On its opening day the newly or-
ganized Vermilion County Live Stock
Marketing Association, Danville, han-
dled approximately 400 hogs, 3 5 cattle
and calves, and 52 sheep. Two double
decks of hogs were bought by the Na-
tional Order Buying Company, while
the balance of the stock was shipped
to the Indianapolis Producers.

Any improvement in industrial con-
ditions, which seems likely within the
next six months, will be reflected in
higher prices for meats and live stock,
in the opinion of Mr. Conway, director
for the National Live Stock Marketing
Association.

Live stock growers from Ogle county
visited the Union Stock Yards, Chi-
cago, as guests of the Chicago Pro-
ducers' Commission Association on No-
vember 14.

Stock men in Illinois and Missouri
had more than a haff million dollars in
loans outstanding for the purchase of
feed and feeder stock early in October,
according to the St. Louis Producers.
These loans were obtained through the
Producers from the Intermediate Credit
Bank.

• Forty years ago cotton seed was prac-
tically worthless. Today it is a highly
valuable product yielding cottonseed
meal, cottonseed oil and cottonseed hiJls
used for turf in miniature golf courses.
"Linters," the fiber left on the seed
after ginning is removed by a special
process and used in making mattresses
and other feltings. During the war
linters were used largely by the govern-
ment in the manufacture of explosives.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Chan. S. Black

AMATEUR baseball is suffering to-
day from the competition of
countless sports, activities and amuse-
ments which were unknown or little
developed 2 5 years
ago, Carl Lundgren,
baseball coach at the
University of Illi-
nois and member of
the famous Chicago
Cubs world's cham-
pionship team from
1902-09, told nearly
1 00 farm Bureau
baseball officials,
players, managers
and fans at a ban-
quet in Jacksonville
November 8.

Lack of sportsmanship, gambling on
games and the employment of profes-
sional players, he gave as other reasons
for the discontinuance of many town
baseball teams which in the beginning
were made up purely of local talent.
Amateur baseball has been harmed be-
cause of too many sports and not
enough sportsmen, he said.

"But I still believe baseball is our
greatest national sport and should re-
ceive more encouragement from organi-
zations such as the Farm Bureau,
Chambers of Commerce, luncheon
clubs, etc.," continued Mr. Lundgren.
"There is evidence that the tide is
swinging back to baseball again. Sport-
ing goods houses last year reported an
, increase of 40 per cent in sales of base-
ball equipment. This is a good sign
and I hope it continues, for the game
is a clean, wholesome sport when prop-
erly conducted."

Practical Baseball Talk

Coach Lundgren gave an interesting
and practical talk on the fine points of
the game. He explained the much mis-
understood "forced play" ^nd the "balk
rule." "The purpose of the balk rule is
to increase base running," said the
speaker. "If there is doubt about the
pitcher making a balk the base runner
should be favored."

Mr. Lundgren pleaded for observance
of the Golden Rule in all sports. "A
proper interpretation of this rule," he
said, "is for each team to allow the
other to play the game the best way it
knows how, and for each team to play
that way itself. No man in the world
of sports has fought harder and longer
for sportsmanship than George A. Huff,

director of athletics at the University
of Illinois," said Lundgren. "He has
been a pioneer in placing college sports
on a high plane.

Uphold the Umpire

"Abide by the decision of the um-
pire," said Lundgren. "Remember, you
employed him to officiate, so back him
up. The wise coach seldom protests,
but when he does he will secure the
respectful attention of the umpire. An
umpire soon learns if a coach or player
is honest or if he protests merely for
the effect on the audience. When mak-
ing a protest be gentlemanly."

Spectatos are more often guilty of
unsportsmanlike conduct that the play-
ers, according to Lundgren, but not in-
frequently the action of the players out
on the field gives the audience its que
for heaping insult and injury on the
umpire.

Earl Smith Speaks

President Earl C. Smith of the I. A.
A. gave a very interesting account of
his early experiences in baseball as a
player and later as an umpire. He told
of a memorable experience in umpiring
a game, witnessed by 17,000 people,
between rival teams from Pittsfield and
New Canton in which he reversed the
decision of the base umpire that decided
the game against the home team at
New Canton. "Rivalry and enmity was
so intense between the two teams that
but for the action of two men on the
New Canton team I probably would
not be here tonight," he said. Later he
received a statement containing the sig-
nature of each player on the losing
team, upholding his decision.

Mr. Smith pledged the support of the
Illinois Agricultural Association to or-
ganized Farm Bureau baseball. "I hope
to see the day when at least three-
fourths of our counties will have
teams," he said. "The older heads must
take an interest in the sport and help
develop it. We must learn to forget
the dollar long enough to help build
character and sportsmanship in our
youth.

"I have never been in favor of Sun-
day baseball," he said, "and I firmly
believe that as much real farm work
can be done in five and one-half days
with a half holiday for sport and recre-
ation on Saturday afternoon, as in six
days of labor."

Teaches Baseball Lesson

George Thiem, secretary-treasurer of
the state league, discussed its develop-
ment fncm the beginning through the
current season when 31 county teams
participated in organized play. "Base-
ball teaches team play, a valuable les-
son in organization, and in playing the
game of life," he said, "llie success-

800 Attend Farmers'

; C i , ^: Frolic at Polo

THE annual Farmers' Frolic, for
farmers, business men and their
families in and about Polo in Ogle
county was held the night of Oct. 3 1
at the Community High School, Polo.
Approximately 800 attended.

As in past years, the gathering was
managed by C. E. Bamborough, I. A. A.
director from the
thirteenth district. A
splendid dinner,
speeches and enter-
tainment, including
dancing, have given
the Annual Frolic a
reputation as the
most popular com-
munity affair of the
year in western Ogle
county.

The speaker of the c. e. Bamborongh
evening was Earl C.
Smith, president of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association, who discussed the
revenue amendment, subsequently de-
feated at the November 4th election.

Every Farm Bureau family in the
townships adjoining Polo is asked to in-
vite at least one non-member family.
The social is an open affair to which all
are invited.

Mr. Bamborough is a firm believer in
building good will between town and
country Farm Bureau member and
non-member, through such meetings in
which the major part of the evening
is devoted to having a good time. The
fact that these gatherings are increas-
ing in size and popularity year by year
indicates the possibilities for holding
similar events throughout the state.

ful team invariably is the one in which
each player does his best without
thought of personal credit. We need
leaders, followers, pitchers, catchers and
shortstops to succeed in solving farm
problems through organization. And
those who sit on the bench waiting
their turn are important cogs in the
machine — just as essential as those in
the limelight out on the field."
Charlie Black Precides
Charles S. Black, vice-president of
the state league, performed as master
of ceremonies. He told how he and
his boys would unhitch Saturday noon
to go to the baseball game. "Organ-
ized Farm Bureau baseball is having a
fine influence in rural communities
where the game is played," said Mr.
Black. "We need more dads who will
spend some time with their boys, inter-
esting them in wholesome recreation
like baseball."

{Conlinuei on page 13, col. i)

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THE i; A. A. RECORD

Page Thirteen

We've Had a Lot of

Class Legislation — Legge

Tells Boston Business Men to Help,
Not Complain

Alex. Leggre

(CnpHE Board is prepared to assist
J~ farmers in organizing along sound
lines the co-operative associations nec-
essary to secure for them the best re-
sults that market conditions will justi-
fy," Alexander Legge, chairman of the
Federal Farm Board, told members of
the Boston Chamber of Commerce at
a luncheon on October 30.

"In collaboration with the Depart-
ment of Agriculture," continued Mr.
Legge, "we can sup-
ply the best infor-
mation available as
to market outlook
and prospects, and
assist co-operatives
in providing proper
facilities for the
warehousing and
handling of any ag-
ricultural commodi-
ty. You will notice
I say we can assist.
The start must be made by the farmers
themselves. We haven't any power to
compel them to do anything. We don't
want any such authority and we
wouldn't use it if we had it.

"Certainly there cannot be any logi-
cal reason why the farmer should not
be encouraged and helped to engage in
merchandising his own product, but
some of you say this is using taxpayers'
money in competition with private cap-
ital which has heretofore been engaged
in the business — class legislation. Well,
what about it?

Lots of Class Legislation

"We have had a lot of this class legis-
lation, even since the time back in 1816
when the manufacturers of New Eng-
land secured the first protective duty
of 20 per cent to aid the infant indus-
tries which, according to the discus-
sion at the time the protection was
granted, would in time develop to a
point where they would not need it.
Whether or not that has been the his-
tory, every farmer in purchasing his
manufactured products has contributed
all these years to this group in higher
prices that he paid for manufactured
products than would have been paid on
a free trade basis. The milk used to
feed thos; infants at thnt timz has since
Been fed generally in increasing quanti-
ties. In the language of the cattlemen,
a long time has elapsed v/ithout any of
the calves having been weaned.

"Why should you deny to the under

dog, who for over a century has been
contributing to the welfare of manu-
facturers, some measure of aid in im-
proving his unhappy position?

Why All the Fuss?

"Nor has this aid been limited to
manufacturing industries — rail and wa-
ter transportation have benefited
through various laws, banking and
finance by the Federal Reserve System,
labor through protective measures in-
cluding restricted immigration. In the
past, aid has been extended to many
groups and we haven't heard any howl
about class legislation; therefore, why
all this fuss because the government is
now trying to do something for the
agricultural group?

"Instead of complaining, get busy
and help us make the Agricultural Mar-
keting Act a success, and each and
every one of you will benefit by an im-
provement in the financial position of
this large group who then will be better
customers for the things you m.nke."

Mid- West Grain Corp. -

Board of Trade Member

WORD was received on Nov. 5
that Chas. P. Cummings, vice-
president and general manager of the
Mid-West Grain Corporation was
elected to membership on the Chicago
Board of Trade. The corporation, a
sales agency for Illinois grain producers,
was registered and admitted to do busi-
ness.

This action completes arrangements
by the Mid-West Grain Corp. for han-
dling grain at Chi-
cago, St. Louis and
Peoria. The cor-
poration was admit-
ted to membership
on th: St. Louis ex-
change some time
ago.

The Illinois Grain
Corporation, region-
al co-operative for
Illinois, of which the
c. P. CnmminK. Mid-West Organiza-
tion is a subsidiary, reports that five
more farmers' elevators applied for
membership last week. The Illinois
regional, a member of the Farmers' Na-
tional Grain Corp., is quietly sawing
wood explaining the advantages of pro-
c'ucer co-operation nt the terminals as
well as at the country receiving points.
The Mid-West Grain Corp., co-
operating with the Farmers' National,
handle a substantial number of cars
of grain at Peoria, Chicago and St.
Louis during October.

Future Trading Is Gambling

TRADING in futures on the Chicago
Board of Trade when the intent and
purpose is merely to make a profit on
price fluctuations, not to deliver or ac-
cept delivery of grain, is gambling;
hence debts so contracted are not col-
lectable, according to a recent ruling of
the Illinois Supreme Court.

TTie ruling was given in the case of
James K. Riordan of Riordan, Martin
& Co. against William McCabe, Bureau
county farmer.

McCabe, the evidence shows says a
news report, had run up a large loss
he was asked to make good and turned
over mortgages on Illinois farm lands
to cover the debts. The mortgages
were held by James K. Riordon for
eight years and on default of interest,
a foreclosure suit was started, which
was opposed by McCabe. The case has
been through the lower courts and a
decision rendered against the brokers,
who carried it to the Illinois Supreme
Court.

In aflRrming the lower courts the
bench held the intention of the pur-
chaser of grain is the only thing that
can distinguish a gambling transaction
from a legitimate deal. The court said
McCabe had never intended to buy or
sell grain, but simply had planned to
profit by the fluctuation of prices and
thus had been gambling on the proba-
bilities of market action.

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{ContinHeJ from page 12)
Brief remarks by C. E. Brocknian of
Jacksonville, a former University of
Illinois baseball and football player; by
Farm Advisers Clanahan, Parett, Chal-
craft, Husted; by I. A. Madden, for-
mer adviser of Sangamon county, and
by the team managers wound up the
evening. An excellent dinner was
served by the ladies of the Presbyterian
church. Farm Bureau baseball teams
from Morgan, Greene, Cass, Menard
and Sangamon counties participated in
the gathering. This was the second
annual banquet for the teams in Dis-
trict Seven. They voted unanimously
to hold another one next year.

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The following delegates who will
represent Illinois at the coming A. F.
B. F. meeting in Boston, Dec. 8, 9 and
10, were chosen at the October meet-
ing of the I. A. A. directors in Decatur:
Earl C. Smith,' T [
A. R. Wright, ! j. , . j .
i' Geo. F. Tullock, I ' -- V

Harold C. Vial.
Alternates are A. N. Skinner, Sam-
uel Sorrells, Frank Oexner, W. L. Cope.

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AMATEUR baseball is suflfcring to-
day from the competition of
countless sports, activities and amuse-
ments wliicli were unknown or little
developed 2 5 years
ago, Carl Lundgren,
baseball coach at the
University of Illi-
nois .\\m\ member of
the famous Chicago
Cubs world's cham-
pionship team from
19(12-1)9, told nearly
11)0 farm Bureau
baseball otiicials,
-players, managers
and fans at a ban-
quet in Jacksonville
November 8.

Lack of -sportsmanship, gambling on
games and the employment of profes-
sienal pkners, he gave as other reasons
for the discontinuance of man\' town
baseball teams which in the beginning
were made up purely of local talent.
Amateur baseball has been harmed be-
cause of too many sports and not
enough sportsmen, he said.

"But I still believe baseball is our
greatest national sport and should re-
ceive more encouragement from organi-
zations such as the Farm Bureau,
Chambers of Commerce, luncheon
clubs, etc.," continued Mr. Lundgren.
"There is evidence that the tide is
swinging back to baseball again. Sport-
ing goods houses last year reported an
increase of 40 per cent in sales of base-
ball equipment. This is a good sign
and I hope it continues, for the game
is a clean, wholesome sport when prop-
erly conducted."

Practical Baseball Talk

Coach Lundgren gave an interesting
and practical talk on the fine points of
the game. He explained the much mis-
understood "forced play" and the "balk
rule." "The purpose of the balk rule is
to increase base running," said the
speaker. "If there is doubt about the
pitcher making a balk the base runner
should be favored."

Mr. Lundgren pleaded for observance
of the Golden Rule in all sports. "A
proper interpretation of this rule," he
said, "is for each team to allow the
other to play the game the best way it
knows how, and for each team to. play
that way itself. No man in the world
of sports has fought harder and longer
for sportsmanship than George A. Huff,

director of athletics at thj University
of Illinois," said Lundgren. "He has
been a pioneer in placing college sports
on a high plane.

Uphold the Umpire

"Abide by the decision of the um-
pire," said Lundgren. "Remember, you
emploved him to officiate, so back him
up. The wise coach seldom protests,
but when he docs he will secure the
respectful attention of the umpire. An
umpire soon learns if a coach or player
is honest or if he protests merely for
the effect on the audience. When mak-
ing a protest be gentlemanly."

Spectatos are more often guilty of
unsportsmanlike conduct that tlu- play-
ers, according to Lundgren, but not in-
frequenth' the action of the players out
on th^ field gives the audience its que
for heaping insult and injury on the
umpire.

Earl Smith Speaks

President Earl C. Smith of thj I. .'\.
A. gave a very interesting account of
his early experiences in baseball as a
player and later as an umpire. He told
of a memorable experience in umpiring
a game, witnessed by 17,000 people,
between rival teams from Pittsfield and
New Canton in which he reversed the
decision of the base umpire that decided
the game against the home team at
New Canton. "Rivalry and enmity was
so intense between the two teams that
but for the action of two men on the
New Canton team I probably would
not be here tonight," he said. Later he
received a statement containing the sig-
nature of each player on the losing
team, upholding his decision.

Mr. Smith pledged the support of the
Illinois Agricultural Association to or-
ganized Farm Bureau baseball. "I hope
to see the day when at least three-
fourths of our counties will have
teams," he said. "The older heads must
take an interest in the sport and help
develop it. We must learn to forget
the dollar long enough to help build
character and sportsmanship in our
youth.

"I have never been in favor of Sun-
day baseball," he said, "and I firmly
believe that as much real farm work
can be done in five and one-half days
with a half holiday for sport and recre-
ation on Saturday afternoon, as in six
days of labor."

Teaches Baseball Lesson

George Thiem, secretary-treasurer of
the state league, discussed its develop-
ment frcm the beginning through the
current season when 31 county teams
participated in organized play. "Base-
ball teaches team play, a valuable les-
son in organization, and in playing the
game of life," he said. "The success-

800 Attend Farmers'

J Frolic at Polo

THE annual I-armers' Frolic, for
farmers, business men and their
families in and about Polo in Ogle
county was held the night of Oct. 3 1
.n the Community High School, Polo.
Approximately 800 attended.

As in past years, the gathering was
managed by C. E. Bamborough, I. A. A.
director from the
thirteenth district. A
splendid dinner,
speeches and enter-
tainment, including
dancing, have given
the Annual Frolic a
reputation as the
most popular com-
munity affair of the
vear in western Ogle
county.

The speaker of the <•. i;. iiamborouKii
evening was Earl C.
Smith, president of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association, who discussed the
revenue amendment, subsequently de-
feated at the November 4th election.

Every Farm Bureau family in the
townships adjoining Polo is asked to in-
vite at least one non-member family.
The social is an open affair to which all
are invited.

Mr. Bamborough is a firm believer in
building good will between town and
country Farm Bureau niLmber and
non-member, through such meetings in
which the major part of the evening
is devoted to having a good time. The
fact that these gatherings are increas-
ing in size and popularity year by year
indicates the possibilities for holding
similar events throughout the state.

ful team invariably is the one in which
each player does his best without
thought of personal credit. We need
leaders, followers, pitchers, catchers and
shortstops to succeed in solving farm
problems through organization. And
those who sit on the bench waiting
their turn are important cogs in the
machine — just as essential as those in
the limelight out on the field."
Charlie Black Precides
Charles S. Black, vice-president of
the state league, performed as master
of ceremonies. He told how he and
his boys would unhitch Saturday noon
to go to the baseball game. "Organ-
ized Farm Bureau baseball is having a
fine influence in rural communities
where the game is played," said Mr.
Black. "We need more dads who will
spend some time with their boys, inter-
esting them in wholesome recreation
like baseball."

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V/e've Had a Lot of

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Tells Boston Business Men to Help,
Not Complain

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(C^ I * HE Board is prepared to assist
J- farmers in organizing along sound
lines the co-operative associations nec-
essary to secure for them the best re-
sults that market conditions will justi-
fy," Alexander Leggc, chairman of the
Federal Farm Board, told members of
the Boston Chamber of Commerce at
a luncheon on October 30.

"In collaboration with the Depart-
ment of Agriculture," continued Mr.
Legge, "we can sup-
ply the best infor-
mation available as
to market outlook
and prospects, and
assist co-operatives
in providing proper
facilities for the
warehousing and
handling of any ag-
ricultural commudi-
tv. You will notice
I say we can assist.
The start must be made by the farmers
themselves. We haven't any power to
compel them to do anything. We don't
want any such authority and we
wouldn't use it if we had it.

"Certainly there cannot be anv logi-
cal reason why tlie farmer should not
be encouraged and helped to engage in
merchandising his own product, but
some of you say this is using taxpayers'
monev in competition with private cap-
iral which has heretofore been engaged
in the business — class legislation. Well,
what about it?

Lots of Class Legislation

"We have had a lot of this class legis-
lation, even since the time back in IS 15
when the manufacturers cf New Eng-
land secured the first protective duty
of 20 per cent to aid the infant indus-
tries which, according to the discus-
sion at the time the protection was
granted, would in time develop to a
point where they would not need it.
Whether or not that has been the his-
tory, every farmer in purchasing his
manufactured products has contributed
all these years to this group in higher
prices that he paid for manufactured
products than would have been paid on
a free trade ba'"is. The milk used to
feed thos: infants at thu tim: has sin.e
Been fed generally in increasing quanti-
ties. In the language of th.' cattlemen,
a long time has elapsed v.'ithcut any of
the calves having been wcanjd.

"Why should you deny to the under

dog, who for over a century has been
contributing to the welfare of manu-
facturers, some measure of aid in im-
proving his unhappy position?

Why All the Fuss?

"Nor has this aid been limited to
manufacturing industries — rail and wa-
ter transportation have benefited
through various laws, banking and
finance by the Federal Reserve System,
labor through protective measures in-
cluding restricted immigration. In the
past, aid has been extended to many
groups and we haven't heard any howl
about class legislation; therefore, why
all this fuss because the government is
now trying to do something for the
agricultural group?

"Instead of complaining, get busy
and help us make the Agricultural Mar-
keting Act a success, and each and
cverv one of you will benefit by an im-
provement in the financial position of
this large group who then will be better
customers for the things you make."

Mid- West Grain Corp.

Board of Trade Member

WORD was received on Nov. S
that Chas. P. Cummings, vice-
president and general man.iger of the
Mid-VJ'est Grain Corporation was
elected to membership on the Chicago
Board of Trade. The corporation, a
sales agency for Illinois grain producers,
was registered and admitted to do busi-
ness.

This action completes arrangements
by the Mid-West Grain Corp. for han-
dling grain at Chi-
cago, St. Louis and
Peoria. The cor-
poration was admit-
ted to m.'mbership
on th: St. Leu's ex-
change rem.' time
ago.

The Illinois Grain
Corporation, region-
al co-operative for
Illinois, of which the
r. P. cummine. Mid-West organiza-
tion is a subsidiary, reports that five
more farmers' elevators applied for
membership last week. The Illinois
regional, a member of the Farmers' Na-
tional Grain Corp., is quietly sawing
wood explaining the advant.'gcs of pro-
t'u:cr co-operation .-t th? t?''minals as
well as at the countrv receiving points.
Thj Mid-West Grain Cori., co-
operating with the Farmers' National,
handled a substantial numb:r of cars
of grain a^ Peoria, Chicago and St.
Louis during October.

Future Trading Is Gambling

TRADING in futures on the C;hicago
Board of Trade when the intent and
purpose is merely to make a profit on
price fluctuations, not to deliver or ac-
cept delivery of grain, is i^anihlinti;
hence debts so contracted arc not col-
lectable, according to a recent ruling of
tiie Illinois Supreme Court.

The ruling was given in the case of
James K. Riordan of Riordan, Martin
& Co. against Vi''illiam McCabc, Bureau
county farmer.

McCabc, the evidence shows says a
news report, had run up a large loss
he was asked to make good and turned
over mortgages on Illinois farm lands
to cover the debts. The mortgages
were held bv James K. Riordon for
eight years and on default of interest,
a foreclosure suit was started, which
w as opposed by McCabe. The case has
been through the lower courts and 'a
decision rendered against the brokers,
who carried it to the Illinois Supreme
Court.

In aflirming the lower courts the
bench held the intention of the pur-
chaser of grain is the only thing that
can distinguish a gambling transaction
from a legitimate deal. The court said
McCabe had never intended to buy or
sell grain, but simply had plann.-d to
profit b\' the fluctuation of prices and
thus had been gambling on the proba-
bilities of market action.

Baseball Dope

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Brief remarks by C. E. Brockman of
Jacksonville, a former University of
Illinois baseball and football player; by
Farm Advisers Clanahan, Parett, Chal-
craft, Hustcd; by I. A. M.idden, for-
mer adviser of Sangamon county, and
by the team managers wound up the
evening. An excellent dinner was
served hx the ladies of tlu' Presbyterian
church. Farm Bure.Tu ba'^cball te.'.ms
from Morgan, Greene. Cass. Menard
and Sang.unon counties participated in
the gathering. This was the second
annual banquet for the teams in Dis-
trict Seven. They voted unanimously
to hold another one next year.

To Boston

The following delegates who will
represent Illinois at the coming A. F.
B. F. meeting in Boston, Dec. 8. 9 and
10, were chosen at the October meet-
ing of the I. A. A. directors in Decatur:

Earl C. Smith,

A. R. Wright.

Geo. F. Tullock,

Harold C. Vial.
Alternates are A. N. Skinner, Sam-
uel Sorrells, Frank Ocxncr, W. L. Cope.

Tage Fourteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

KEEPING WELL

By Dr. John E. Boland
Scarlet fever is an acute infectious
disease more common during the first
ten years of life than during "any other
period, the seasonal incidence being
greatest in the school period of Septem-
ber to June.

The typical case is characterized by
the sudden onset with nausea and vom-
iting, high fever,
sore throat and the
appearance within
twenty-four hours
of a generalized rash
on the body. The
"strawberry" appear-
ance of the tongue
is very characteris-
tic.

Dr. J. E. Boland

The temperature
and other symptoms
usually begin to subside gradually
within five to seven days and a few days
after the disappearance of the rash the
period of "f)eeling" begins. It is dur-
ing this period, which lasts for several
weeks, that the much feared complica-
tions of scarlet fever arise.

The most severe are throat abscesses,
infection of glands of neck, middle ear
infection with resulting deafness, mas-
toiditis, kidney trouble and rheumatism.
Rigid quarantine of patient and attend-
ant must be kept throughout the entire
period of peeling and must not be lifted
until peeling is entirely complete and
then only if there is no discharge from
the nose or ears.

Unlike diphtheria, the serum used at
the present time for the prevention of
scarlet fever is not entirely satisfactory.
A great deal of work is being done
along those lines at present and I feel
sure it will only be a question of time
when we will have a serum that will be
as effective in preventing scarlet fever
as the toxin antitoxin is in preventing
diphtheria.

Probably one of the greatest discov-
eries of recent years in the medical field
was the discovery of a specific anti-
toxin for treating scarlet fever. This
serum when given early invariably
causes a reduction in temperature in
twenty-four hours and also a yery dis-
tinct lessening in the severity of the
sore throat and other toxic swnptoms.
The period of peeling is much shorter
so that uncomplicated cases may be re-
leased from quarantine much sooner
than was formerly the case. When
given early the incidence of complica-
tions is probably reduced.

Scarlet fever is still a dreaded disease,
due to the serious complications that
very often accompany it. It is well
when children are suddenly taken ill
with nausea and vomiting, high fever
and sore throat, to think of scarlet
fever and immediately call your physi-
cian. The specific scarlet fever anti-
toxin, if given early, might be the
means of saving your child's life.

Soybean Growers to

Meet Decatur Nov. 21

Endorse I. A. A. Tax Stand

A motion commending the I. A. A.
directors on their action to withhold
the support of the organization from
the proposed revenue amendment was
passed at the 21st district Farm Bureau
meeting held Sept. 23 at Taylorville.
The Farm Bureaus in the district
sent out cards a few days before the
November election calling attention to
the I. A. A.'s position on the amend-
ment as set forth in the September
I. A. A. RECORD.

Representatives from Sangamon,
Christian, Macoupin and Montgomery
counties attended the meeting. Taxa-
tion was one of the principal topics of
discussion. Sam Sorrells, district I. A.
A. direct6r, outlined the reasons for the
board's action. President Dwight Hart
presided. ^

Gets ^365 Verdict '

A verdict of $365 was given on Oc-
tober 4 by a jury in the Lee County
Court, Dixon, Illinois, in the Guthrie
case. This was one of a list of con-
demnation suits initiated by the Illinois
Northern Utilities Company in the dis-
pute over compensation for damages re-
sulting from their high power line be-
tween Freeport and Dixon.

Mr. Guthrie had been offered sub-
stantially less than the $365 damages
awarded by the jury.

L. J. Quasey and Donald Kirkpatrick,
representing the Illinois Agricultural
Association, assisted Harry C. Warner,
local attorney retained by the interested
land owners of Lee county. ' " ' ■'-

Theodore Tuftie of LaSalle county
successfully defended his local corn-
husking laurels in the annual county
contest on October 31. His record
was 33.004 bushels.

Vernon Ryg placed second with
30.54 bushels, and Harold Fosse third
with 29.95 bushels.

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Correction

L. A. Williams, manager of Country Life
Insurance . Company, states that on page 18 of
the October RECORD, paragraph 4, under
"Country Life Records," is more or less ambigu-
ous; that the item meant to convey the infor-
mation that few life insurance companies are
showing a gain in 1930 over their 1929 pro-
duction.

ILLINOIS' leading soybean growers,
members of the Soybean Marketing
Association, will meet at the Orlando
Hotel, Decatur, Friday morning, Nov.
21, to consider important matters af-
fecting the future activities of the or-
ganization. Representative delegations
of grower members from each of the
counties in the soybean belt across cen-
tral Illinois are ex{>ected at the confer-
ence.

The growers* meeting, called for
10:30 a. m., will be preceded by a brief
conference of the directors at 9 o'clock.
The decision to call the Decatur meet-
ing was made by the executive com-
mittee of the Marketing Association in
Chicago on Nov. 5.

The new co-operative, operating in its
first year, handled more than a million
bushels of beans shipped by elevators
at country receiving points to the
down-state terminal markets. A large
portion of the crop already has been
sold.

Market Suffers

The market for the chief products of
the soybean, namely oil and meal, is
suffering from the business depression
along with other commodities. New
uses for soybean oil have not yet beert
fully developed, and the meal left after
pressing the oil from the bean, is com-
pelled to face keen competition as a
feed concentrate for live stock. Low
prices for bran, cottonseed meal, lin-
seed meal, and similar concentrates have
driven down the price of the soybean
product and soybeans compared with
last year's prices.

In spite of these adverse factors, the
Marketing Association advanced its
members $1 per bushel for No. 2 or
standard grade beans on delivery.

Farm Prices Fall

The general agricultural situation
this fall continues to be influenced by
the business depression and by the
world-wide commodity price level.

The market for apples has gone hay-
wire and even potato prices, in spite of
a lower supply, have fallen below the
average of last year. Meat prices, like-
wise, are suffering because of the slug-
gish demand from industrial centers.

From August, 1929, to August,
1930, the average prices at the farm
fell 2 5 per cent, while the wholesale
prices of all commodities of the United
States fell 14 per cent. Retail prices of
things which farmers have to buy de-
clined only 4 per cent during this pe-
riod. Prices of raw materials have de-
clined more than the prices of manu-
factured products.

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Page Fourteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

KEEPING WELL

By Dr. John E. Boland
Scarlet fever is an ncute infectious
disease more common diirinj; the first
ten years of life tlian during any other
period, the seasonal incidence being
greatest in the school period of Septem-
ber to June.

The typical case is characterized by
the sudden onset with nausea and vom-
iting, high fever,
sore throat and the
appearance within
twenty-four hours
of a generalized rash
on the body. The
"strawberry" appear-
ance of the tongue
is very characteris-
tic.

Tlie temperature

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and other symptoms

usually begin to subside gradually
within five to seven days and a few days
after the disappearance of the rash the
period of "peeling" begins. It is dur-
ing this period, which lasts for several
weeks, that the much feared complica-
tions of scarlet fever arise.

The most severe are throat abscesses,
infection of glands of neck, middle car
infection with resulting dc'afncss, mas-
toiditis, kidney trouble and rheumatism.
Rigid quarantine of patient and attend-
ant must be kept throughout the entire
period of peeling and must not be lifted
until peeling is entirely complete and
then only if there is no discharge from
the nose or cars.

Unlike diphtheria, the serum used at
the present time for the prevention of
scarlet fever is not entirely satisfactory.
A great deal of work is being done
along those lines at present and I feel
sure it will only be a question of time
when we will have a scrum that will be
as effective in preventing scarlet fever
as the toxin antitoxin is in preventing
diphtheria.

Probably one of the greatest discov-
eries of recent years in the medical field
was the discovery of a specific anti-
toxin for treating scarlet fever. This
serum when given early invariably
causes a reduction in temperature in
twenty-four hours and also a very dis-
tinct lessening in the severity of the
sore throat and other toxic symptoms.
The period of peeling is much shorter
so that uncomplicated cases may be re-
leased from quarantine nnicii sooner
than was formerly the case. When
given early the incidence of complica-
tions is probably reduced.

Scarlet fever is still a dreaded disease,
due to the serious complications that
very often accompany it. It is well
when children are suddenly taken ill
with nausea and vomiting, high fever
and sore throat, to think of scarlet
fever and immediately call your physi-
cian. The specific scarlet fever anti-
toxin, if given early, might be the
means of saving your child's life.

Endorse I. A. A. Tax Stand

A motion commending the I. A. A.
directors on their action to withhold
the support of the organization from
the proposed revenue amendment was
passed at the 21st district Farm Bureau
meeting held Sept. 23 at Taylorville.
The Harm Bureaus in thj district
sent out cards a few days before the
November election calling attention to
the I. A. A.'s position on the amend-
ment as set forth in the September
1. A. A. RECORD.

Representatives from Sangamon,
Christian, Macoupin and Montgomery
counties attended the meeting. Taxa-
tion was one of the principal topics of
discussion. Sam Sorrells, district I. A.
A. director, outlined the reasons for the
board's action. President Dwight Hart
presided.

Gets ^365 Verdict

A verdict of $36 5 was given on Oc-
tober 4 by a jury in the Lee County
Court, Dixon, Illinois, in the Guthrie
case. This was one of a list of con-
demnation suits initiated by the Illinois
Northern Utilities Company in the dis-
pute over compensation for damages re-
sulting from their high power line be-
tween Freeport and Dixon.

Mr. Guthrie had been offered sub-
stantially less than the $365 damages
awarded by the jury.

L. J. Quascy and Donald Kirkpatrick,
representing the Illinois Agricultural
Association, assisted Harry C. Warner,
local attorney retained by the interested
land owners of Lee county.

Theodore Tuftie of LaSalle county
successfully defended his local corn-
husking laurels in the annual county
contest on October 31. His record
was 33.004 bushels.

Vernon Ryg placed second with
30.54 bushels, and Harold Fosse third
with 29.95 bushels.

Correction

I.. A. Williams, manager of Country Life
Insurance Company, states that on page 18 of
tlic October RFCORD, paragraph 4, under
"Country Life Records," is more or less ambigu-
ous; that the item meant to convey the infor-
mation that few lite insur,;nce companies are
showing a gain in \')\Q over their 1929 pro-
duction.

Soybean Growers to

Meet Decatur Nov. 21

ILLINOIS' leading soybean growers,
members of the Soybean Marketing
Association, will meet at the Orlando
Hotel, Decatur, Friday morning, Nov.
21, to consider important matters af-
fecting the future activities of the or-
ganization. Representative delegations
of grower members from each of the
counties in the so\bjan belt across cen-
tral Illinois are expected at the confer-
ence.

The growers' meeting, called for
10:30 a. m., will be preceded by a brief
conference of the directors at 9 o'clock.
The decision to c.dl the Decatur meet-
ing was made by the executive com-
mittee of the Marketing Association in
Chicago on Nov. 5.

The new co-operative, operating in its
first \ear, handled more th.m a million
bushels of beans shipped by elevators
at country receiving points to the
down-state terminal markets. A large
portion of the crop alreadv has been
sold.

Market Suffers

The market for the chief products of
the soybean, n.-imely oil and m;al, is
suffering from the business depression
along with other commodities. New
uses for sovbean oil have not )et been
fully developed, and the meal left after
pressing the oil from the bean, is com-
pelled to face keen competition as a
feed concentrate for live stock. Low
prices for bran, cottonseed meal, lin-
seed meal, and similar concentrates have
driven down the price of the soybean
product and soybeans compared with
last year's prices.

In spite of these adverse factors, the
Marketing Association advanced its
members S 1 per bushel for No. 2 or
standard grade beans on delivery.

Farm Prices Fall

The general agricultural situation
this fall continues to be influenced by
the business depression and by the
world-wide commodity price level.

The market for apples has gone hay-
wire and even potato prices, in spite of
a lower supply, have fallen below the
average of last year. Meat prices, like-
wise, are suffering because of the slug-
gish demand from industrial centers.

From August, 1929, to August,
1930, the average prices at the farm
fell 2 5 per cent, while the wholesale
prices of all commodities of the United
States fell 14 per cent. Retail prices of
things which farmers have to buy de-
clined only 4 per cent during this pe-
riod. Prices of raw materials have de-
clined more than the prices of manu-
factured products.

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Number 12

December, 1930

Full Day of Annual

Meetings on Jan. 28

Ray Schalk of Chicago Cubs, John

Brandt of Minnesota and Others

Scheduled to Address Various

Groups.

ANNUAL meetings of an ever-
growing number of organizations
associated with the County Farm Bu-
reaus and Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion will be held on Wednesday, Jan.
28 as in past years.

Among these will be the Illinois Farm
Bureau Baseball League where Ray
Schalk, former Chicago White Sox
catcher and manager, and now one of
the coaches of the Chicago Cubs, will
discuss practical problems of players
and managers in developing better base-
ball teams. Mr. Schalk who got his
••.tart that landed him in the big leagues,
with the Taylorville, III., team of the
old I and M League, was reared at
Litchfield in Montgomery county,
whence came many a big league player.
The Illinois Farm Bureau Serum As-
sociation will have a program of inter-
est pertaining to the protection of the
Illinois hog crop against cholera and
other diseases.

The Illinois Produce Marketing As-
sociation will hold its first annual
meeting. John Brandt of Minnesota,
president of the Land O' Lakes Cream-
eries, one of the largest co-operatives in
the country, has been tentatively en-
gaged as a speaker.

The lUinois Agricultural Mutual In-
surance Co., the Illinois Agricultural
Holding Co., which holds the stock of
Country Life Insurance Co., and the
Illinois Agricultural Co-Operatives As-
sociation will all hold official meetings
to elect officers and transact other busi-
ness.

Country Life Insurance Co. agents
and workers are preparing for a larger
conference than that held last year.
General and special agents from more
than 90 counties will thresh out prob-
lems with the officers and Manager L.
A. Williams having to do with the op-
eration of the company.

Annual Meeting Speaker

ALEXANDER LEGGE
Chnirman Le^Ke of the Farm
Board irlll be one of tbr headline
speakers at the cominf? annual eon-
ventlon of the I. A. A., Springfleld,
Jan. 29-30.

Reduced Rates, Annual

Meeting, Springfield

Ask ^forthe special fare and one-half
rate to the I. A. *.. annual meeting,
Springfield, if you go by train. Appli-
cations for lower fares are being filed
by the I. A. A. Transportation Depart-
ment with all roads leading to the capi-
tal city.

Plan to come Tuesday night or early
Wednesday morning for the full three
days' sessions. Nearly everyone you
want to see among your friends and
associates in the ranks of organized agri-
culture in Illinois will be there.

J. H. Brock of the Dairy Depart-
ment, University of Illinois, has been
employed as farm adviser in Bond
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I. A. A. Annual Meeting
Looms Ahead, Jan. 29-30

Chairman Legge and Co-Op. Mar-
keting Officials Booked as Speak-
ers at Springfield Convention.

MAKE RESERVATIONS EARLY
Reservations for rooms and areom-
modations should be made by all
delegrates and members nho plan to
attend, with their County Farm Bu-
reaus. These in turn should be for-
warded to the Committee on Ar-
raneementK, care Sangramun Connty
F.irm Bureau, Sprlnicfleld, III., at
once. Ample acconimodatlona at
nominal rates are promised for all.

ANOTHER great annual meeting,
the sixteenth since the Illinois
Agricultural Association was organized,
will be held at the state capital, Spring-
field, Jan. 29-30, 1931. Plans are being
developed to maintain the reputation
past I. A. A. conventions have won as
the Mid-West Forum of Agriculture.

Last year both Secretary Hyde and
Frank O. Lowden, two outstanding
speakers and students of farm problems
delivered stirring addresses. This year
Alexander Legge, the frank, outspwken
chairman of the Farm Board who has
shown remarkable courage and inde-
pendence in carrying out the mandates
of the Agricultural Marketing Act will
ap[>ear as one of the leading speakers.

Geo. S. Milner, general manager of
the Farmers National Grain Corpora-
tion, Chicago, long experienced in the
grain trade, will bring the last word
about the activities and experiences of
that organization in developing a na-
tion-wide marketing service for the
grain farmer. - b " j. -'

A representative oif the Natk>na1
Live Stock Marketing Association,
which is engaged in unifying and mod-
ernizing the co-operative marketing of
Il"e stock throughout the United States,
T.ill discuss the problems live stock
farmers are facing in building a mar-
keting system suited to their best in-
terests and needs. Full details will ap-
pear in the January RECORD.

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Number 12

December, 1930

Volume 8

Full Day of Annual

Meetings on Jan. 28

Ray Schnik of Chicago Cubs, John

Brandt of Minnesota and Others

Scheduled to Address Various

Groups.

ANNUAL mcctins;s ot ,iii ivcr-
tjrowins; number of org.inization--
associ.Ucd with the County I'arm Bu-
reaus .ind Illinois Ajjricultural Associa-
tion will be held on \V'ednesda\'. Jan.
2X as in past years.

Among these will bt the Illinois barm
Bureau Baseball League where Ra)
S-jhalk, former Chicago White Sox
catcher and manager, and now one of
the coaches of the Chicago Cubs, will
discuss practical problems of players
and manaj^ers in developing better base-
ball teams. Mr. Schalk who got his
■ tart that landed him in the big leagues,
with the Ta\lorviIle, 111., team of the
old I and M League, was reared at
Litchfield in Montgomery county,
whence came many a big league player.
The Illinois Farm Bureau Serum As-
sociation will have a program of inter-
est pertaining to the protection of the
Illinois hog crop against cholera and
other diseases.

The Illinois Produce Marketing As-
sociation will hold its first annual
meeting. John Brandt of Minnesota,
president of the Land O' Lakes Cream-
eries, one of the largest co-operatives in
the country, has been tentativeb' en-
gaged as a speaker.

The Illinois Agricultural Mutual In-
surance Co., the Illinois Agricultural
Holding Co., which holds the stock of
Country Life Insurance Co., and the
Illinois Agricultural Co-Operatives As-
sociation will all hold official meetings
to elect officers and transact other busi-
ness.

Country Life Insurance Co. agents
and workers are preparing for a larger
conference than that held last year.
General and special agents from more
than 90 counties will thresh out prob-
lems with the officers and Manager L.
A. Williams having to do with the op-
eration of the companv.

Annual Meeting Speaker

.\LEXANDKR LEOfJE
rlinirmnn I.eKrBc of tli<- I'liriii
lloiiril will be (Mtc i»l' (hi* Iie;i4llill«>
H|>e:ikerN :it th(> tMiiiiinK; iiiiiiiihI <>«in-
venti<»li i>f the I. A. A.. ^liriiiKlielil.
J:in. 'J»-:tU.

Reduced Rates, Annual

Meeting, Springfield

.•\sk for the special fare and one-half
rate to thj I. A. \. annual meeting.
Springfield, if you go by train. Appli-
cations for lower fares arc being filed
bv the I. A. A. Transportation Depart-
ment with a!l roatb leading to the capi-
tal city.

Plan to come Tuesday night or earlv
Wednesday morning for the full three
days' sessions. Xcarl\ everyone \ou
want to see among your friends and
associates in the ranks of organized agri-
culture in Illinois will be there.

j. H. Brock of the Dairy Depart-
ment, Univcrsitv' of Illinois, has been
emploxcd as farm adviser in Bond
count\ .

A. A. Annual Meeting
Loom.s Ahead. Jan. 2^-i(»

Chairman Legge and Co Op. Mar-
keting Orticials Booked .is Speak-
ers at Springfield Convention.

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noiiiiiiiil rsifi's jir** iii-iiiniHi'il l<ir all.

ANOTliER great annual meeting.
the sixteenth since the Illinois
Agricultural Association was organized,
will be held at the state capital. Spring
field, Jan 29-50. 19.il. Plans are King
developed to maintain the reputation
past I. A. A. conventions have won as
the Mid-Vi"est Forum of Agriculture.

Last year both Secretary Hyde and
Frank O. Lowden, two outstanding
speakers and students of farm problems
delivered stirring addresses. This year
Alexander Legge, the frank, outspoken
chairmpn of the Farm Board who has
shown remarkable courage and inde-
pendence in carrying out the mandate^
of the .Agricultural Marketing Act will
appear as one of the leathng "speakers.

Geo. S. Milner,' general manager of
the Farmers National Grain Corpora-
tion, Chicago, long experienced in the
grain trade, will bring the last word
about the activities and experiences of
that organization in developing a na-
tion-wide marketing service for the
grain farmer.

A representative of the N'ational
Live Stock Marketing .\ssociation,
which is engaged in unifying and mod-
ernizing the co-operative "marketing ot
L'e stock throughout the United Staiev.
.vill discuss the problems live stock
farmers are facing in building a mar
keting system suited to their best in-
terests and needs. Full details will .ip-
pear in the |anuar\ RECORD.

Page Four

THE I. A. A. RECORD

December, 1930

Red Top Growers Get

Third Advance on Seed

Total Payment Now 15c Per Lb.
One More to Come.

A THIRD advance of four cents per
pound on red top seed went out
to members of the Egyptian Seed Grow-
ers' Exchange recently, according to
Manager E. J. Oelze of Flora. This
payment is in addition to an initial ad-
vance of 9 cents per pound, and a later
payment of 2 cents per pound, which
brings the total advance to members on
seed pooled through the Exchange to
1 5 cents.

The Exchange promises to make an
additional advance as soon as the rest
of its supplies are cleaned up and sold.

Made Good Sales

Manager Oelze reports that the Ex-
change consummated some unusually
good sales earlier in the season as a re-
sult of the impending light crop. He
reports that only about two carloads of
seed still remain to be sold, and that
the organization is in excellent condi-
tion and hopes to make the final pay-
ment early in 1931.

All storage charges for seed held io
outlying warehouses earlier in the sea-
son have been paid. Loans from the
Intermediate Credit Bank at St. Louis
and from the Federal Farm Board have
been largely liquidated. The Exchange
had over $60,000 in loans from the In-
termediate Credit Bank of St. Louis and
the Farm Board at one time. All ex-
cept around $4,000 of this had been
paid back.

Many Sold at 9c

"When you stop to consider that
many growers who sold early in the
season received only 7 to 11 cents per
pound for their seed, we think our
showing a remarkable one for the fi.st
year's operations under the reorganized
plan," said Mr. Oelze. "No fair-minded
person will question the fact that the
Exchange has had a helpful influence in
getting other red top growers through-
out southern Illinois, whether members
of the pool or not, a maximum price
for their seed.

Cut Overhead

"Through the development of other
services to the farmers of southern Illi-
nois we hope to cut to a minimum all
overhead expenses having to do with
handlLng, cleaning and selling the seed
of our grower members. It will be ouv
purpose to get our members the maxi-
mum price for their seed in line with
market demands."

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF

ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL

ASSOCIATION

Notice is hereby given that the annual
meeting of the members of the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association will be held at the
Majestic Theatre, in Springfield, Illinois, on
the 29th day of January. 1931, at 9 o'clock
n. m., for the following purposes:

For the consideration and vote upon ap-
proval and ratification of the reports of the
president, secretary and treasurer of the as-
sociation, and the acts of the board of di-
rectors and officers in furtherance of the
matters therein set forth, since the last an-
nual meeting of the members of the asso-
ciation.

To approve, ratify and confirm the sev-
eral purchases heretofore made by this as-
sociation of stocks and evidences of indebt-
edness of corporations whose activities will
directly or indirectly promote agriculture
or the interests of those engaged therein.

To secure consent and authorization to
acquire on behalf of this association, by
purchase, certain stocks and evidences of
indebtedness of corporations whose activi-
ties will directly or indirectly promote agri-
culture or the interesu of those engaged
therein.

To elect eight members to the board of
directors for two-year terms.

To elect a president and vice-president.

To consider any proposed amendment of
the articles of association or of the by-laws
of the Illinois Agricultural Association as
may be properly submitted.

For the transaction of such other business
ax may properly come before the meeting.
Geo. E. Metzcer, Secretary.

Chicago, Illinois, Dec. 15, 1930.

They Read the "RECORD"

Editor, RECORD:

In a meeting held in Peoria county
yesterday with members of boards of
directors of farmers' elevators in which
a part of these boards were also Farm
Bureau members, some of the members
spoke very complimentary of the last
i«' ue of the I. A. A. RECORD. One of
these men in particular said that it was
the most interesting, condensed report
of the doings of our Assooiation that he
had ever read.

I also want to add my commenda-
tion, too, as I read every issue from
cover to cover and believe every issue
gets bei:er. After spending so many
years with the Association, it is just
like getting a letter from home and I
keep looking forward for each issue
about the same as I would for such a
letter.

Keep up the good work and be as-
sured that the rank and file of the mem-
bership is back of you.

F. D. Barton,
Livingston County, 111.

Geo. F. Talloek

As of Oct. 1, 1930, the member>
ship in the I. A. A. reports the Or«
ganization Department, is 2,151
over the high peak during the pre-
vious three-year period.

Tullock Presides at

12th District Meeting

FARM Bureau representatives of the
12th congressional district met with
Congressman John T. Buckbee at Rock-
ford recently to inform him of the or-
ganization's attitude toward questions
and controversial issues which might
arise in the present session of congress.
George F. Tullock of Rockford, presi-
dent of the Winnebago County Farm
Bureau, presided.

Resolutions unanimously adopted by
the group from Winnebago, Kendall,
LaSalle, Boone, De-
Kalb and Grundy
counties were as fol-
lows:

"Whereas, we as
representatives of the
several County Farm
Bureaus in the 12th
congressional district
are assembled in a
meeting on Nov. 26,
1930, and having at
heart the welfare of
the other members of our organizations,
therefore, be it resolved: -• ' %

"That we express our appreciation to
the members of the Federal Farm Board
for its faithful support and administra-
tion of the agricultural marketing act,
and we want to assure the board of the
continued support of the Farm Bureau
in the 12th Illinois district.

"That we oppose any changes in the
agricultural marketing act that will in
any measure curtail its effectiveness. '
"That wc commend to Congressman
Buckbee, the counsel and guidance of
the Illinois Agricultural Association
and American Farm Bureau Federation
in regard to pending legislation.

"That we favor restriction of immi-
gration of undesirable aliens and the de-
portation of those who have proven un-
desirable.

"That the tariff on soybean meal and
soybean oil be increased so as to afford
adequate protection for the American
soybean industry.

"That we protect American dairy
interests by a higher tariff on cocoanut
oU.

"That we favor the construction of
more farm-to-market roads rather than
the construction of wider roads adja-
cent to cities.

"That we express appreciation to
Congressman Buckbee for giving us an
opportunity to discuss with him pros-
pective legislation affecting the agricul-
tural people of this district.

"Be it further resolved, that a copy
of these resolutions be sent to Mr. Sam-
uel McKelvie, a member of the Federal
Farm Board."

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

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Hold *^onvention, Chicago

"Rump" Meeting Also Held, Passes
Meaningless Resolution.

THE National Farmers Grain Deal-
ers' Association meeting in Chicago,

. December 1, 2 and 3, adopted a reso-
lution to support the efforts of the

, Federal Farm Board and the Farmers

. National Grain Corporation so long as
local ownership and control of farm-

' ers' elevators is safeguarded. The whole
spirit of the meeting was friendly to
co-operative grain marketing as repre-

• sented by the Farmers Mutual and the

' regionals in the various states.

While the national meeting was going
on in the Sherman Hotel, a "rump"
meeting, composed of a half dozen anti-
co-operative propagandists who run
around the coimtry specializing in mis-
representation, held a meeting in the
Great Northern Hotel. A small group
of followers and curiosity seekers at-
tended the sessions.

The main object of this group is to
stay close enough to the legitimate
farmer's elevator leaders to exercise in-
fluence in stopping the rising tide of

. co-operative grain marketing in the ter-
minals. It is believed by many that
these propagandists are using whatever
influence they may have gained by past
or present connections with farm or-
ganizations in the interest of certain
grain commission men who have a sel-
fish interest in heading off successful
co-operative marketing.

The Farmers Grain Dealers' Associa-
tion is not paying one cent, according
to statements by its officers, toward
subsidizing this group. At a recent
directors' meeting it called a halt on
the use of its name by a second vice-
president who set himself up at an office
in Bloomington and used the name "Illi-
nois Farmers Grain Dealers* Associa-
tion" presumably to give an official air
to propaganda sent to farmers' elevators
in an effort to discourage the establish-
ment of effective terminal co-operative
marketing for Illinois farmers.

This group which has no standing
with the National Farmers Grain Deal-
ers^ Association passed a meaningless
resolution demanding that an amend-
ment to the Agricultural Marketing
Act be passed making it mandatory
that the Federal Farm Board recognize
loans on grain without the requirement
that grain be pooled when sold. It is
difficult for anyone familiar with the
Marketing Act to understand the basis
for such a resolution when there is
notlung in the Act or in the present
setup of the Farmers National Grain

Corporation requiring that grain be
pooled when sold.

The National Farmers Grain Dealers'
Association elected the following offi-
cers: President, W. C. Horn, Castalia,
Ohio; vice-president, L. E. Webb,
Dodge City, Kansas, a director in the
Farmers National Grain Corporation;
secretary, W. H. Thompson, Ft. Dodge,
Iowa; and assistant secretary, J. A.
Shorthill, son of the former secretary,
J. W. Shorthill, Omaha, Nebraska.

A Champion for Dobbin

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Editor, I. A. A. RECORD:

"Your headline on the back page of
one of your issues was "Know Your
Oil as Well as Your Soil." Then you
propose to be trying to help the farm
depression.

"The principal thing that causes the
farm depression of today is the horse
industry being lost to the farmers and
replaced by machinery. Power farming
may be a saving on large farms where
machinery can be used advantageously.
But how much less per bu. are farmers
required to take for their grain, etc., by
buying gas and oils and throwing all
they raise on a depressed market? They
cannot feed hay, corn and oats to the
tractors and trucks. . . .

"Every horse off the farm is a bean
in the pot of overproduction. How
many millions annually did the farmers
receive for horses from 1910 to 1920
which were sold to cities and towns be-
sides their feed? I received applications
to buy shares in a co-operative oil com-
pany in Illinois. The thing that would
boost farm prices most would be $1
gasoline. And that is inevitable. Then
some want gas for 5 c if they can get
it. Give them 5 c gas and wheat will
be under 50c in no time.

"When it is all summed up as I see
the future there will be more machin-
ery and a decline in prices until the
population increases enough to consume
what has been and is being lost through
the consumption of the horse industry.
This condition is a saving to the cities
but a loss to the farmers. If you pro-
pose to help the farmers I think there
are some thoughts in this letter that
would be of advantage to them if they
would co-operate."

Dr. W. E. Poole, Kirkwood, Mo.

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Better Plan to Attend the

I. A. A. and Other Annual

Meetings, Springfield, 111.,

January 28, 29, 30

^nOope

THE Sangamon County Farm Bu-
reau baseball team entertained at a
rousing banquet in Springfield (Laurel
M. E. Church) Wednesday night, Dec.
10. Delegates from Cass, Logan, Mor-
gan, Montgomery came, swelling the
crowd to more than 100. Manager
Harry Sweet presided. Speakers were
Ray Schalk, famous old White Sox
catcher, now Chicago Cubs coach, who
gave an interesting, rapid-fire talk on
big league experience; George Thiem,
State League secretary; John Stout, dis-
trict chairman; Rep. Michael Bray,
Litchfield; Chas. S. Black, state vice-
president; Farm Advisers Ed Bay, Guy
Husted, J. H. Checkley, Alden Snyder;
also Bob Drysdale, sports editor, Illinois
State Journal; L. R. Welk, team man-
agers and others.

A new feature of the coming Farm
and Home Week, January 12 to 1^,
at the University of Illinois, will be
a daily coaching class taught by Coach
Lundgren in the finer points of base-
ball. One hour each afternoon will
be devoted to the science of playing
this well known game.

Players on the teams in the Illinois
Farm Bureau Baseball League are in-
vited to attend. They should take
along a fielder's glove, old clothes, or
a baseball uniform, and tennis or base-
ball shoes. Balls and bats and other
necessary equipment will be furnished
by the University of Illinois. . ...

Coach Lundgren is well known to
Illinois baseball fans. He assisted in
organizing the State League, and has
appeared at a number of meetings and
baseball banquets.

Lundgren played on the famous Chi-
cago Cubs team from 1902 to 1909.
In 1905 he was third pitcher in the
league, in 1907 the fifth.

After leaving professional baseball he
coached at Princeton and Michigan be-
fore going to Illinois in 1920.

Approximately 7S attended a banquet given
the McDonough county state championship
Farai Bureau team at Macomb on November 29
by the McDonough County Farm Bureau.

Charles S. Black of Jacksonville, vice-presi-
dent of the State Farm Bureau League and L
A. A. director, presented the silver trophy given
by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Mana-
ger E. W. Runkle accepted the trophy on be-
half of the McDonough county team.

Both Mr. Black and T. H. Brockman of
Jacksonville, former professional baseball player
with the Cleveland Indians, were among the
speakers.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

December, 19 }0

45 Counties Build

Organization Forces

i.

Report Reconunends Retention of
District Organization Plan, Im-
provement in Its Adminis-
tration.

PERMANENT Farm Bureau organi-
zation machinery, with volunteer
committees and solicitors appointed by
townships, have been established in 45
Illinois counties.

In its recent report to the I. A. A.
Board of Directors the Organization-
Information Advisory Committee com-
posed of C. E. Bamborough, F. G. Oex.
ner and W. A. Dennis said:

"The committee found there had
been a steady increase in membership
each consecutive month since Septem-
ber, 1929, to October 1, 1930. Writ-
ten reports indicate that the men in the
districts had been of considerable as-
sistance in the organization and the pro-
motion of various service projects of-
fered by the Association which does not
bear directly on Farm Bureau member-
ship acquisition and that unquestion-
ably a considerable amount of promo-
tional expense had been saved the Illi-
nois Agricultural Association by hav-
ing trained men available in its Organi-
zation Department who could assume
some of that responsibility.

Close Contact Needed
"It is the belief of the committee
that to maintain a strong, loyal mem-
bership a close contact is necessary bt
tween the Illinois Agricultural Associa-
tion, the County Farm Bureaus, their
officers and executive committeemen
and the organization project leaders in
the counties. The committee recog-
nizes that in the face of all of these
favorable facts of the operation and
possibilities of the district plan of or-
ganization that there is considerable
criticism from a number of counties
of the state, which indicates the value
of the plan has not been fully recog-
nized.

"Upon careful analysis of the facts
it is the opinion of the committee that
the fundamental principles of the dis-
trict plan of organization are sound and
that it has great possibilities and ' the
criticism of the plan arises more from
its administration than on the merits
or demerits of the plan itself."

Uncle Ab says he can't see how
spending money he hasn't got for things
he really doesn't need is going to help
much; because that's what started his
present money troubles.

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF

ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL MUTUAL

INSURANCE COMPANY

Take notice that the annual meeting of
the members of Illinois Agricultural Mu-
tual Insurance Company will be held on
Wednesday, the 28th day of January, 1931,
at the hour of 1 o'clock p. m., at the
Abraham Lincoln Hotel, Springfield, Illinois,
to elect directors, receive, and, if approved,
confirm the report of the board of directors
of the company for the fiscal year ending
December 31, 1930; and to consider and, if
approved, ratify and confirm all the acts
and proceedings of the board of directors
done and taken since the last annual meet-
ing of the members of the company; and
for the transaction of such further and
other business as may properly come before
the meeting.

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, Dec. 15, 1930.
George F. Tullock, Secretary.

I. A. A. Directors Take

Action in Nov. Meet

A Good Idea

Editor, I. A. A. RECORD:

Our Mossville community pulled a
stunt 3 short time ago that might be
of interest to you. A committee of
Farm Bureau members arranged a Farm
Bureau day at the local Methodist
church, the only one in the community.

Ira Moats of Maquon, secretary of
the Knox County Farm Bureau, and
formerly a minister, was obtained for
the sermon. A Farm Bureau quartet
consisting of B. W. DeBord, Albert
Hayes, C. W. McMiUen and S. H.
Kruntz furnished special music.

Farm Bureau executive committee-
men and directors from other parts of
the county were invited to the services
and nearly all of them were present.
Church is held in the afternoon.

Very pleasant and much worthwhile
is the report of those attending.
J. W. Whisenand, Farm Adviser,

Peoria County.

Whiteside Coming Up

More than 3 50 members and non-
members attended an organization meet-
ing Nov. 18, in Morrison, sponsored
by the Whiteside County Farm Bu-
reau. Secretary Geo. E. Metzger was
the principal speaker. Farm Adviser
H. E. Brunnemeyer of Jo Daviess coun-
ty sang. Rev. Becker of the local
Presbyterian church led in community
singing. Farm Bureau membership in
Whiteside is steadily growing.

Continuous Membership

Sixty Illinois County Farm Bureau^
had their members signed up on the
continuous membership contract, on
Oct. 1, 1930. At this date the mem-
bership in the 1. A. A. was 2,151 above
the high peak during the former three-
year period.

The board of directors of the Illinois
Agricultural Association meeting in
Chicago on Nov. 14 voted to:

1. Continue the present district or-
ganization plan with district managers,
but to authorize and direct the Organi-
zation Department to make its admin-
istration and operation more satisfac-
tory and effective;

2. Adopt a uniform rate of ic per
mile for the operation of cars used in
the service of the organization and as-
sociated companies managed by the Illi-
nois Agricultural Service Co.;

3. Authorize the delegates from Illi-
nois to present the following resoluuon
before the Resolutions Committee of
the American Farm Bureau Federation
at its annual convention in Boston;

"We believe the present policy of the
American Farm Bureau Federation
which allows other institutions or agen-
cies to finance or assist in financing
projects promoted and carried on by the
American Farm Bureau Federation to
be very detrimental to the growing
prestige of the organization; and there-
fore,

"BE IT RESOLVED, that the future
policy be to restrict the program of the,
American Farm Bureau to projects that
can be financed by membership in-
come";

4. Authorize W. R. Boys, secretary
of the Shelby County Farm Bureau to
vote the I. A. A. stock at the annual
meeting of the Shelby County Live
Stock Marketing Association;

5. Concur in the recommendation
of the Organization-Information Com-
mittee that the American Farm Bureau
proposal to form a new publishing com-
pany to take over the Bureau Fanner,
with the State Farm Bureau organiza-
tions assisting financially by taking
stock, be taken under advisement and
a report made at a later meeting;

6. Appropriate $150 toward the next
American Institute of Co-Operation at
Manhattan, Kansas;

7. Employ Swanson-Ogilvie Co. to
audit the Association accounts;

8. Pay expenses of a dinner to 4-H
Club Illinois champions in Chicago the
night of Dec. 3. i -

The University of Illinois, it is re-
ported, is building a $110,000 home
for its president.

Ray Watson, assistant adviser in
McLean county, has been employed as
farm adviser to succed F. E. Longmire
in Grundy county.

December, 1930

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Seven

Egyptian Service Co.

■ ' Launches Mixed Feeds

Southern Illinois Members to Have
New Co-Operative Money-
Saving Service.

THE Egyptian Service Company of
Flora, Illinois, will launch its new
mixed feed department on December
15, according to Manager E. J. Oelze,
who was in Chicago recently.

The company has adopted the trade
name "Blue Seal" and will put out. two
grades of feed under this brand name,
adding others as the demand requires.

"Blue Seal" Dairy Feed, following a
formula recommended by both the Illi-
nois and Iowa State Agricultural Col-
leges, will contain a minimum of 24
per cent digestible protein, 4 per cent
digestible fats and a maximum of 5 per
cent fiber. It will contain ground
com, gluten feed, ground oats, ground
barley, soybean meal, cottonseed meal,
bran, and salt. The Illinois Farm Sup-
ply Company will own the formula and
is taking out the necessary state licenses.

"Blue Seal" Laying Mash will be a
mixture of ground alfalfa, ground corn,
cracked wheat, ground oats, ground
barley, soybean oil meal, bran, bone
meal, meat scraps, dry bone meal, and
salt with a minimum of 18 per cent
digestible protein, 4 per cent digestible
fats, and a maximum of 6^2 per cent
fiber.

Modem Plant Ready

A modern hammer mill and mixing
plant, capable of handling 60 tons of
mixed feed a day, has been installed in
the warehouse of the Egyptian Seed
Growers' Exchange at Flora. George
Smith, county adviser in Washington
county will have charge of the mixing
plant which will pay rental on a per ton
basis to the Seed Growers' Exchange for
space and facilities.

Two men are already out seeing deal-
ers and making arrangements through-
out the southern Illinois territory to
handle the new high-quality feeds. The
feed mixtures will conform to the high-
est standards using only the best grains
and concentrates, without adulteration.

Manager Oelze has been busy during
recent weeks making necessary pur-
chases of grain and concentrates for the
mixing plant. In addition concentrates
and unmixed feeds will be handled for
dairymen, poultrymen and live stock
feeders throughout the southern Illinois
territory.

Sliip in Feeds

Following the wide-spread drouth in
southern Illinois during the past sea-
son. Manager Oelze jumped into the

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF
ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL HOLD-
ING COMPANY

Take notice that the annual meeting of
the stockholders of Illinois Agricultural
Holding Company will I>c held on Wednes-
day, the 28th day of January, 1931, at the
hour of 1 1 o'clock a. m., at the Abraham
Lincoln Hotel, Springfield, Illinois, to elect
directors, receive, and, if approved, confirm
the report of the board of directors of the
company for the fiscal year ending Decem-
ber 31, 1930; and to consider and, if ap-
proved, ratify and confirm all the acts and
proceedings of the board of directors done
and taken since the last annual meeting of
the members of the company; and for the
transaction of such further and other busi-
ness as may properly come before the meet-
ing.

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, Dec. IS, 1930.
Geokce F. Tin,LOCK, Secretary.

breach and assisted in shipping in large
supplies of corn and other feeds. He
bought and distributed 10 carloads of
ear and shell corn, and more recently
has purchased several carloads of oats,
barley and wheat. In addition he has
contracted to buy 30 carloads of soy-
bean oil meal, three of which have been
sold already.

As soon as the necessary capital can
be obtained through the sale of pre-
ferred A 7 per cent cumulative stock,
the Egyptian Service Company will
erect several bulk stations for handling
SERVICE BRAND petroleum prod-
ucts. Territory within a radius of 50
miles or more will be served with the
"SERVICE" products as soon as facili-
ties are provided.

Making Progress

Since coming to Flora, July 1, 1930,
Manager Oelze and the new board of
directors have made rapid strides, first,
in putting the Egyptian Seed Growers*
Exchange back on its feet, and second-
ly, in getting the much needed feed ser-
vice underway. Southern Illinois farm-
ers, particularly dairymen and poultry-
men, are compelled to buy part of their
live stock feeds. This new department
of the Egyptian Seed Service promises
to be of outstanding importance and
service throughout the territory.

The Service Company is strictly a
co-operative like the Egyptian Seed
Growers' Exchange, and all profits from
handling jjetroleum products and mix-
ing feeds will be paid back to Farm
Bureau member patrons after setting
aside necessary reserves, in the form of
patronage refunds. The County Farm
Bureaus in the southern Illinois area are
backing the new project because of the
great service promised to their members.

Consider Farm Supply

Co. in Monroe County

"If we were setting out to organize
cur local supply company again, it
would not be a question of where we
could sell the stock but of how much
are we going to allow each investor,"
L. A. Landon, secretary of the Jersey
County Farm Supply Co., told mem-
bers of the Monroe County Farm Bu-
reau at their recent annual meeting.

"The first year we cleared something
over $8,000," said Landon. "Our net
profit to date will run considerably over
$20,000. This is either added to our
working capital and reserves or paid
back to Farm Bureau members in pa-
tronage dividends.

"Our company was organized for
three reasons as follows:

1. "We wanted through the Illinois
Farm Supply Co. to secure high quality
oils, grease and fuel oils.

2. "We felt our farmers were entitled
to the savings and profits from co-
operative purchasing and distribution.

3. "The Farm Bureau wanted to
bring further service to its members in
cutting costs of production. This
project has brought up our Farm Bu-
reau membership and interested many
others in the organization."

The meeting went on record in favor
of organizing a county company.

The Cook County Farm Bureau holds
its regular monthly directors' meetings
in the I. A. A. offices.

Peoria and Tazewell

Co-Ops. Pay Dividends

THE Peoria County Service Com-
pany recently declared its regular 8
per cent patronage dividend payable at
once, also a special 8 i>er cent dividend
payable later. Lloyd L. Woolsey is the
able manager of the Peoria County co-
operative.

The Tazewell Service Company, ac-
cording to Manager Clyde Woolsey,
handled more than $87,000 worth of
petroleum products during its first six
months' of operation from which it
made a profit of $17,000 on the capi-
tal stock of $20,000. \i (

An 8 f)er cent patronage dividend
was declared, and an equal amount was
set aside for reserves and future patron-
age refunds.

Mr. Woolsey stated that gasoline
shrinkage amounted to only about 1
per cent since the company started.
This is considered an excellent record
because many companies report shrink-
ages of 2 per cent or more.

Lloyd and Clyde Woolsey visited the
Illinois Farm Supply headquarters and
the I. A. A. offices on Monday, De-
cember It -jj

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Page Eight

THE I. A. A. RECORD

December, 1930

^^ I IjIjINOIS
CCLTVRAL ASSOCIA

RECOrliy

To tdvoHce the 'nrpose for vbich the f'rm Bureau was organized,
nr.ilf.ty, to promote, protect and represent be business, economic, political,
Im* edyational interests of the farmers O] Illinois and the nation,
Intd to develop agriculture.

Editor, George Thiem

Publishea ?nce a month by the Illinois Agricultural Association,
at !?'• So. Fil'h St^ Marshall, III. Adress all communications for pubti-
cat'on tc Editorial Office, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. Entered as
seco'd-class matter June 16, 1930, at the post office at Marshall, 111.,
anr'" the Act of March 3, 1879. Accepted for mailing at special rate of
oo«tage ,<>ovided for in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized
Oc:. 27, 1925. The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural
Association is five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty cents
I'X subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Association Record. Post-
t''^ster: In returning an uncalled for missent copy please indicate key
dUiiiber on address as is required by Isw. i .

OFFICERS !

President. Earl C. Smith..

Vice-President, A. R Wright-
Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger

Tteasurer, R. A. Cowles

-Detroit
-Varna

Chicago

-Bloomington

in to iith_

12th

13th

14th

ISth J

1 6th

17th

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

(By Congressional District)

H. C Vial, Downers Grove

G. F. Tullock. Rockford

C. E. Bamborough, Polo

M. G. Lambert. Ferris

-A. N. Skinner. Yates City

18th_
19th_

20th_

-Geo. B. Huller, Washington

Geo. J. Stoll. Chestnut

W. A. Dennis. Paris

.-C. J. Cross, Atwood

2Ut_

»?i,o

!3rd

24th..._

-Charles S. Black, Jacksonville

Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

Frank Oexner, Waterloo

W. L. Cope, Salem

Charles Marshall

Fred Dietz, De Soto

Comptroller-
Finance..

DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing-
Grain Marketing

Information-

Insurance Service-
Legal Counsel..

.-J. H. Kelker

R. A. Cowles

A. B. Leeper

-Harrison Fahrnkopf

George Thiem

-V. Vaniman

Limestone- Phosphate

Live Stock Marketing-
Office

Organization-

Produce Marketing

Taxation and Statistics-
Transportation....

■Donald Kirkpatrick

J. R Bent

Ray E. Miller

C. E. Johnston

G. E. Metzger

-F. A. GouRler

i. C. Watson
. J.

ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS

Quasey

Country Life Insurance Co.

Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co.

Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives Ass'n

Illinois Agricultural Mutual Instwance Co.-

Illinois Farm Supply C-

Illinois Grain Corp,

_L. A. Williams, Mgr.

-...J. H. Kelker, Mgr.

F. E. Ringham, Mgr.

..A. E. Richardson, Mgr.

-L. R. Marchant, Mgr.

Midwest Grain Corp

Soybean Marketing Assn

Harrison Fahrnkopf, Mgr.

Chas. P. Cummings, Genl. Mgr.
;. H. Lloyd, Mgr.

The Farmer and His Job

'T*HE farmer must help himself. The government can't
JL do much for him.

This is the doctrine preached by many a man wherever
and whenever the farm problem comes up for discussion.
Nearly everyone takes a kindly interest in the farmer and his
troubles, although for the moment attention has been di-
verted to the centers of population where the armies of un-
employed are rightfully receiving most of the sympathy.

The farmer has come to believe that he must help himself,
although he insists that so long as the government extends
privileges to various groups by means of the protective
tariff, immigration law, federal reserve act, etc., that agri-
culture be given a seat at the table of privilege.

There are a host of people who have sympathized with
farmers over their difficulties and who even admit the justice
of and need for "equality for agriculture." Yet when the
farmer starts to follow the advice of his well wishers by
helping himself in his own way these same people change
their attitude. When farmers seek to eliminate some of the
waste in distribution, for example, by developing co-opera-
tive marketing, certain middlemen and their allies leave no

' ."to.. :s -".turned to head ofif any progress in that direction.
This conditioii ':»'as clearly pointed out by President Smith
in his address before the recent annual Farm Hureau conven-
tion at Boiiton.

When the farmer through organizati . ;i so-.'oh: to lower
his costs by providing certain services for hims^ such as
insurance and co-operative buying, he was n(>:-i i":e less
criticized for his activity. Those who had already s:abl.!.-Sed
these services immediately felt and claimed, directly oi in-
directly, that they had an exclusive and God-giveii right to
render the given service at their own prices and on their
own terms.

ITie farmer has no business doing this nor d-^ir.g chit, they
said. "Let him stick to marketing," says the insurance man;
"that's where he can make the best showing."

"The present system of marketing is perfect and cannot
be improved upon," says the commission man. "Let the
farmer develop his insurance and oil business where the op-
portunities are greater." And so it goes. . \ 1 : " , . ■

When the Farm Bureau was young and weak, and con-
fined its activities to preaching the "two-blades-of-grass"
doctrine, it was lauded to the skies and patronized by many
a commissioi. man, merchant and trader. But when it put
on long pants and directed its attention to larger problems
influencing the farm income and outgo, it lost favor with
some of its old allies.

Everyone loves the farmer as a customer, but when he
stops being a customer, he loses some of his friend.^, ""lio
can blame him, then, for believing that many ot his busi-
ness friendships have the dollar sign tied to them; for in-
coming painfully aware of the selfishness of humanity; tor
judging many of his critics with these things in mind.

The farmer has come to assume a philosophic attitude to-
ward life and his fellow man, determined to do the best he
knows how to help himself and his industry, recognizing the
necessity for hewing away at the job letting the chips fall
where they may.

Lessons from the Official Vote

THE official vote on the proposed revenue amendment in
the last election reveals that less than half the voters
expressed themselves on this important question.

The total number of votes cast in the election was 2,352,-
696. Of this number 513,661 voted against the amendujent,
371,812 voted for it. To have passed the amendment would
have required a majority of all votes cast or 1,166,349.
Thus it was overwhelmingly defeated.

Four years ago when the Illinois Agricultural Association
supported the tax amendment proposed then, the vote was
651,768 for it, and 476,45 5 against. It is reasonably «fe
to assume that the position of organized farmers against
the measure submitted in the last election was largely re-
sponsible for an overturn of nearly 280,000 votes.

The fact that the proposal appeared on the main ballot
this year instead of on a separate ballot did not seem to help
it any. _ While 1,128,223 voted on the measure in \926,
only 885,473 voted on the proposal this year.

Both the recent vote and that of four years ago indicate
the extreme difficulty of passing any kind of an amendment,
because of the large number who invariably fail to express
themselves on important questions of public policy. This
fact is all the more reason why strenuous efforts must be
made in the coming General Assembly to establish a more
equitable taxing system under our present constitution.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Nine

BELIEVE half you read, one-tenth
yoii hear, says the sage with some
truth.

This is no plea for more Doubting
Thomases. There is more to be said for
the "believer" than the "doubter."
Nothing is accomplished without faith.
Futile and useless is the man or woman
who doubts everything, believes noth-
ing.

But there is need in these days of
propaganda for placing an estimate on
the accuracy of the spoken and written
word. Many a weak thought or un-
truth is covered up by the oratory of
the spell-binder. Many a careless sjjeak-
j er tries to "crawl out" of his mistakes
by charging the reporter with "mis-
quoting" him. And the prominent
speaker frequently succeeds in making
the conscientious .-eporter the goat.

, ■; Not so ivith the writer. His words
■■.^'.ji are preserved for all time. There they
";; r are < read to be thrown back at him,
; waiting to rise up and damn him before
all the people. A suit for slander (oral
• defamation) is rare, a successful one
rarer because slander is usually hard to
prove. Cases of libel (written defama-
tion) are tried every day. Scores of
newspaper have been put out of busi-
. ness because of them.

The doctor's mistakes arc buried, the
speaker's denied, the lawyer's charged
against his luckless client. But the
writer's go down in history, saved for
generations.

Arthur Brisbane, the $100,000 a
year columnist, was accused of being
inconsistent s.t times. He readily ad-
mitted the charge, saying that no man
who writes a column every day can al-
ways be right. The ninety-nine times
the writer is correct are forgotten. His
one mistake is remembered.

We^ had the privilege once of ex-
posing a humbug in a paper of wide
circulation. We and the publisher were
promptly sued for libel, hailed into
court, compelled to prove the accuracy
of every statement. Which we did at
considerable expense.

A fearless, independent and intellec-
tually honest press (of which there are
too few) remains our most useful in-
strument to protect the people against
shysters, frauds and false doctrines.
That kind of service by our best pubr
lications should be encouraged and re-
warded. — E. G. T.

ILLINOIS GIRL WIKS JUNIOR GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP

AT INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK SHO\*'

Snmli Ann Tolan, 14-yenr-ald hii^h sphool treKhman and Farm Boreaa ni«nibrr>

flaoKl't'i' o' Sanj^amon ronnty, captured the Krand champtoaHhip in the Jnalor

Livestock FecKlinK Content at the International Liveiitoek ExpoMition. ChicaKO.

She Is shown with her price-winning Aberdeen-Angus ^earlins, *K;UOCOLATE."

Sarah Tolan 's Calf

Brings 56c a Pound

A SMALLER crowd than usual at-
tended the International Live
Stock Exposition in Chicago, which
closed on December 6. Reduced gate
receipts, however, were not unexpected.
Exhibits were up to standard in most
departments. ''■ '-^ .'•?;'■■

Of interest to Illinois live stock men
and 4-H club members was the junior
feeding contest won by Sarah Tolan,
Farm Bureau member's daughter of
Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois,
on her black Angus steer. The calves
were sold on Friday afternoon, the
grand champion calf bringing J 6 cents
per pound. It was purchased for $574
by the Wabash railroad dining service.

Half of the receipts of the grand
champion calf were donated by the 14-
year-old girl to the Volunteers of
America for their Chicago soup kitchen
where the unemployed are fed.

A special class for utility type seed
corn was one of the features of the
Hay and Grain Show. Herbert Wat-
son, young Indiana farmer, was crowned
corn king on his 10 ears of medium
smooth yellow dent corn. i .. .

"Doctoring" of live stock sucli as
removing or remedying physical defects
by cutting ties or lifting and filling un-
der the skin was barred from the show
ring this year for the first time. While

the champions did not show the smooth-
ness of the "doctored" champions of
past years, the fact that "honesty" has
been adopted as the policy in the "In-
ternational" show ring promises to have
a wholesome influence for the future.

The erand champion steer, a black
Angus 'r>m Missouri, was a thick,
short, plump individual worthy of the
high honor. The reserve grand cham-
pion was a Shorthorn.

Farm Bureau Basketball

A State Farm Bureau Basketball
League with inter-county games lead-
ing to a state championship tourna-
ment has been suggested as a means of
providing sport and recreation for farm
boys and men, entertainment for young
and old, during the winter.

High school and community gym-
nasiums can be obtained for regular
practice and play. The cost of running
County Farm Bureau teams will be
light. Expenses can be met by charg-
ing small admission fees to games.

Iroquois county is ready to go, pro-
viding other counties will bring out
teams to furnish competition.

Eligibility rules similar to those used
in the Farm Bureau Baseball League are
contemplated.

Get in touch with your County Farm
Bureau office if you want a team, or
write Department of Information, I.
A. A., 608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.

Page Eight

THE I. A. A. RECORD

December, 19)0

^ ^ I L« Li I IM O I S _^

CCLTURAL ASSOCIAlflL

RE COm^O— ^'

To advance the 'lurpose for which the F-rm Bureau was organized,
ti'tn.ty, to promote, protect and represent ,je business, economic, political,
cni- ed-'-ational interests of the farmers Oj Illinois and the nation,
end to develop agriculture,

Editur, George Thiem

PuMishec -nee 3 month by tne Illinois Ajrricnltural Association,
at I '■ So. Fii'h St., Marshall, III. Ailrcss all commuMcations (or publi-
cafi'H tc Editoria. Ofi'ice, 60S So. Dearborn St., Chicago, 1!!. Entered as
secc- d-dass matter June 16. 1930, at the post office at Marshall, 111.,
JU''"- the Alt of Marcii 3, 1879. Accepted ior mailinij at special rate of
ooMage jiovijed for in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized
^C . 27, 1925. The individual membership fee of the Illinois .Agricultural
Association is five dcdlars a year. The fee includes payment of tifty cents
."»! subscrriition to t-ie Illinois Agricultural Association Record. Post*
:-'ister: In reluming an uncilled for missent copy please indicate key
nttuiber on address as is required bv l.-.w.

OFFICERS

President. Earl C. Smith Detroit

Vice-President, A. R. Wright.— Varna

Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger Chicago

Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
(By Congressional District)

Ist to ll'h H. C. Vial, Downers Grove

12th......... _ G. F. Tullock. Rockford

13th , „ C. E. .Bamborough. Polo

14th _ _ M. G. Lambert. Ferris

15th „ A N. Skinner. Yates City

»6th _ Geo. B. Muller, Washington

17th. - _ .Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut

18th.._ „ „ W. A. Dennis. Paris

I9th C. J. Gross. Atwood

2Qth.._ _ _ Charles S. Black. Jacksonville

Zlst... _ _ Samuel Sorrells, Raymond

'""..o.....^ _ -Frank Oexner, Waterloo

13t'\ _ _ _ W. L. Cope. Salem

J4th _ „. Charles Marshall

,stn. Fred Dietz, De Soto

DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS

Comptroller J. H. Kelker

Finance R. A. Cowles

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing _ A. B. Leeper

Grain Marketing ;„ _ Harrison Fahrnkopf

Information _ _ _ George Thiem

Insurance Service _ V. Vaniman

Legal Counsel _ Donald Kirkpatrick

Limestone-Phosphate J. R. Bent

Live Stock Marketing... _ Ray E. Miller

Office _ C. E. Johnston

Organization _ _ G. E. Metzger

■produce Marketing F. A. Gougler

Taxation and Statistics „ J. C. Watson

Transportation L. J. Quasey

ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS

Country Life Insurance Co _ L. A. Williams, Mgr,

Farmers Mu'ii.-' Reinsurance Co J. H. Kelker, Mgr.

Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives Ass'n F. E. Ringham, Mgr.

.Illinois Agricultural »!uti:al Insurance Co A. E. Richardson. Mgr.

Illinois Farm Supply C • L. R Marchant, Mgr.

Illinois Grain Corp Harrison Fahrnkopf, Mgr.

Midwest Grain Corp Chas. P. Cumming.?, Gcn'l. Mgr

Soybean Marketing A«sn... '. H. Lloyd, Mgr.

The Furmer and His Job

'"'"HE f.irmcr must help himself. The government can't
J- do much for him.

This h the doctrine pre.iched by many a man wherever
.ind whenever the farm problem comes up for discussion.
Nearly everyone takes a kindly interest in the farmer and his
troubles, althou.i^h for the momr.u attention has been di-
verted to the centers of population \\here the armies of un-
employed are rightfully receiving most of the sympathy.

The farmer has come to believe that he must help himself,
although he insists that so long as the government extends
privileges to various groups by means of the protective
tariff, immigration law, federal reserve act, etc., that agri-
culture be given a seat at the table of privilege.

There arc a host of people who have sympathized with
farmers over their difficulties and who even admit the justice
of and need for "equality for agriculture." Yet when the
farmer starts to follow the advice of his well wishers by
helping himself in his own way these same people change
their attitude. When farmers seek to eliminate some of the
waste in distribution, for example, by developing co-opera-
tive marketing, certain middlemen and their allies leave no

.:to. ." •"turned to head off any progress in that direction.
This corditio.i >as clearly pointed out by President Smith
in I. is adiress before the recent annual Farm I'^ireau conven-
tion at Boston,

to lower
such as
I e less

■.abl.ihed

When the farmer through organizat' :i so-"'-,
his costs by providing certain services for hirn;.
insurance and co-operative buying, he was n--
criticized for his activity. Those who had alread)
these services immediately felt and claimed, directly oi in-
directly, that they had an exclusive and God-givei' right to
n;nder the given service at their own prices and on theii
own terms.

The farmer has no business doing this nor d i;..< hat, they
said, "i.et him stick to marketing," says the insurance man;
"that's where he can make the best showing."

"The present system of marketing is perfect and cannot
be improved upon," says the commission man. "Let the
farmer develop his insurance and oil business where the op-
portunities are greater." And so it goes.

W'hen the Farm Bureau was young and weak, and con-
fined its activities to preaching the "two-blades-of-grass'"
doctrine, it was lauded to the skies and patronized by many
a commissioi man, merchant and tr.ider. But when it put
on lofig pants and directed its attention to larger problems
influencing the farm income and outgo, it lost favor with
some of its old allies.

Everyone loves the farmer as a customer, but when he
stops being a customer, he loses some of his friends. ' '.)«
can blame him, then, for believing that many ot his busi-
ness friendships have the dollar sign tied to them; for oc
coming painfully aware of the selfishness of humanity; tor
judging many of his critics with these things in mind.

The farmer has come to assume a philosophic attitude to
ward life and his fellow man, determined to do the best he
knows how to help himself and his industry, recognizing the
necessity for hewing away at the job letting the chips fall
where they may.

Lessons from the Official Vote

THE official vote on the proposed revenue amendment in
the last election reveals that less than half the voters
expressed themselves on this important question.

The total number of votes cast in the election was 2,332,-
696. Of this number 513,661 voted against the amendn ent.
371,812 voted for it. To have passed the amendment would
have required a majority of all votes cast or 1,166,349.
Thus it was overwhelmingl)- defeated.

Four years ago when the Illinois Agricultural Association
supported the ta.K amendment proposed then, the vote was
651,768 for it, and 476,455 against. It is reasonably safe
to assume that the position of organized farmers against
the measure submitted in the last election was largely re-
sponsible for an overturn of nearly 280,000 votes.

The fact that the proposal appeared on the main ballot
this year instead of on a separate ballot did not seem to help
it any. V^'hile 1,128.223 voted on the measure in 1926,
only 885,473 voted on the proposal this year.

Both the recent vote and that of four years ago indicate
the extreme difficulty of passing any kind of an amendment,
because of the large number who invariably fail to express
themselves on important questions of public policy. This
fact is all the more reason why strenuous efforts must be
made in the coming General Assembly to establish a more
equitable taxing system under our present constitution.

December, 19}0

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Nitie

a

^setTi

BELIEVE half you ic.id, one-tenth
you hear, says the sage with some
truth.

This is no plea for more Doubting
Thomases. There is more to be said for
the "believer" than the "doubter."
Nothing is accomplished without faith.
Futile and useless is the man or woman
who doubts everything, believes noth-
^ Jng.

But there is need in these days of
propaganda^ for placing an estimate on
the accuracy of the spoken and written
word. Many a weak thought or un-
truth is covered up by the oratory of
the spell-binder. Many n careless speak-
er tries to "crawl out" of his mistakes
by charging the reporter with "mis-
quoting" him. And the prominent
speaker frequently su;xceds in making
the conscientious 'cporter the goat.

Not so .vitli the writer. His wor.ls
are preserved for all time. There they
are read to be thrown back at him.
waiting to rise up and damn him before
all tlie people. A suit for slander- (oral
defamatiiiii) is rare, a successful one
rarer because slander is usual!;, hard to
prove. Cases of libel (written defama-
tion) are tried every day. Scores of
newspaper have been put iiit of busi-
ness because of them.

The doctor's mistakes ar.. buried, the
speaker's denied, the lawyers charged
against his luckless client. But the
writer's go down in history, saved tor
generations.

Arthur Brisbane, the S 100,000 a
year columnist, was accused of being
inconsistent .-t times. He readily ad-
mitted the charge, saying that no man
who writes a column every day can al-
ways be right. The ninety-nine times
the writer is correct are forgotten. His
one mistake is remembered.

We had the privilege once of ex-
posing a humbug in a paper of wide
circulation. We and the publisiicr were
promptly sued for libel, hailed into
court, compelled to prove the accuracy
of every statement. Which we did at
considerable expense.

A fearless, independent and intellec-
tually honest press (of which there are
too few) remains our most useful in-
strument to protect the people against
shysters, frauds and false doctrines.
That kind of service by our best pub-
lications should be encouraged and re-
warded. — E. C. T.

ILI^IXOIS (;ll<l. WINS .11 MUll <.I(\M) < II \ MI>I<»\SIIIP
AT IVrr,IC\ \TIO\ Ai. l.l\l>TO<'l< sikiw

Snrnti Afiii Tt>l;iii, 1 t->e;ir-olil liiuli Nflidoi l>rKliiii;iii niMl F':iriii R*r«*:iii iii4*iiil»i-t-'«
f.'.'inKlltT tif S;iiiix;iiiioii f*4>iiiit>', <>:i|itlliM-ii tile I2ri-:init «>h;tiii|iiofivlij|» in <ll4. .Iiiniiir
l.i\cstf><*k i-'rcililiU' C'olit4*st :i1 tll<* 1 llf CMi.'il :«»ii;il ;i.i\4's1«i<*k l-'\ tMi<,ili«iii, ('hi«*rK*>
.sfn' Ik nIiowii Milli licr |iri/.<--\viiiiiiiii: \ liciilrt'ii- \ii>in«i > i-.-irlitie. "<IIO«'<»l. \TI'".."

Sarah Tolan's Calf

Brings 56c a Pound

A SMALLER cri)wd than usual at-
tended rhe International Live
Stock Expo-iiiion in Ciiicago. which
closed on December 6. Reduced gate
receipts, how ever, were not unexpected.
Exhibits were up to standard in most
departments.

Of interest to Illinois live siocl; nu:i-
and -J-H club members v,as the junior
feeding contest won by Sarah Toian.
Farm Bureau member's daugliter of
Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois,
on her black Angus steer. The calves
were sold on Friday afternoon, the
grand champion calf bringing S6 cents
per pound. It was purchased for S574
by the Wabash railroad dining ser\ ice.

Half of the receipts of the grand
champion calf were donated b\- the 14-
year-old girl to the Volunteers of
America for their Chicago soup kitchen
where the unemployed are fed.

A special class for utility type seed
corn was one of the features of the
Hay and Grain Show. Herbert Wat-
son, young Indiana farmer, was crowned
corn king on his 10 ears of medium
smcK)th yellow dent corn.

"Doctoring" of live stock such as
removing or remedying physical defects
by cutting ties or lifting and filling un-
der the skin was barred from the show
ring this year for the first time. While

ih cliuiipions did not show the smooth-
tiLss of t!ie "doctored" champions of
past yca(s, the fact that "honesty" ha*
F,en adopted as the policy in the "In-
urn.itional" show ring promise; to havi
.1 whole Ome influence for the future.

The '.{rand champion steer, a Mick
Angus r -m Missouri, was a thick,
short, pliuinp individual worthy of the
high hortor. The reserve grand cham-
pion was .1 Shorthorn.

Fnrm Bureau Basketball

,\ Stall. 1 arm inireau Basketball
league with inter-County games lead-
inu to a state championship tourna-
ment has been -uguesied as a means of
providing sport and recreation for farm
boys and nun. mtertainment for young
and old, iluring the w inter.

High sc!ui«>l and community gym-
nasiums ean be obtained for regular
practice .xuil pla\ . 1 he cost of running
County Farm l'ur(.-au teims will be-
light. I-Jxpenses can be met b\ charg-
ing small admission fees CO games.

Iroquois count) is ready to go, pro-
viiling other counties will bring out
teams to furnish competition.

Fligibilitv rules similar to those used
in the I^irm Bureau Baseball League are
con tern plated.

Get ill touch with your County Farm
Bureau olfice if you want a team, or
write Department of Information, I.
A. A.. 6<iS S. Dearborn St., Chicago.

Ah t-nJouniiitl polUy
means education and a
start in life for your
hoy.

THE rapid rise of Country Life Insurance Company with
more than 25,000 policyholders in less than two years is
expressive of the confidence Illinois farm people have in their
own company. Thousands are flocking to "Country Life" because:

1. Its purpose is to benefit policyholders through low ,
cost, legal reserve protection.

2. There is no selfish interest because of its co-operative «
setup.

3. The return of profits to policyholders in dividends
makes net cost still lower than the already low par-
ticipating premiums. . i j ; V •'

Like a rising tide, confidence in Country Life has expressed
itself daily in a steady influx of business. |

Thousands are flocking to Country Life because its policy-
holders are never disappointed. They do not wake up after the
policy is sold to learn that they might have done better elsewhere.
A Country Life policy stands for the best in life insurance. The-
company has kept, faith with its policyholders. It has done every-
thing and more than it agreed to do.

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sincerity of purpose ... its declaration of a dividend pay-
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the contract provides. This is just another evidence of the com-
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Thousands are flocking to Country Life because of its intelli-
gent service that pyramids good will and keeps policies in force,
that strengthens the bond between the insured and the company.

Thousands of farm folks have come to Country Life for pro-
tection because they recognize in it a company built to serve them,
founded on the spirit of co-operation. Its goal is to return to the
patron all the profits except that retained to guarantee payment
of premiums and safety.

Illinois agriculture has responded in full measure to its oppor-
Iy> tunity to build a financial structure of its own in the field of life
insurance ... a structure owned and controlled by farm folks,
>il operated unselfishly for service to policyholders. ' ;■'

The habit of thrift »nd
«vinf, for lafcr educa-
\ion can he laught yow

tlaughter Ihraugb life

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MaH ttni loupon for our ifw tou rates at your age.

A|CE COMPANY

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608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111.

Send me without obligation full information on the cost of the
fcJlowing policies in Country Life Insurance Co., S>v>Bg the pre-
mium and dividend rau at my rate.

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Ptige Ten

THE I. A. A. RECORD

December, 1950

HE rapid rise of Country Life Insurance Company with

more than 25,000 policyholders in less than two years is

expressive of the confidence Illinois farm people have in their

own company. Thousands are flocking to "Country Life" because:

1. Its purpose is to benefit policyholders through low
cost, legal reserve protection.

2. There is no selfish interest because of its co-operative
setup.

3- The return of profits to policyholders in dividends
makes net cost still lower than the already low par-
ticipating premiums. j

Like a rising tide, confidence in Country Life has expressed
itself daily in a steady influx of business. |

Thousands arc flocking to Country Life because its policy-
holders are never disappointed. They do not wake up after the
policy is sold to learn that they might have done better elsewhere.
A Country Life policy stands for the best in life insurance. The
company has kept. faith with its policyholders. It has done every-
thing and more than it agreed to do. i

COUNTRY LIFE INSURAKI

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IHL 1. A. A. RECORD

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Ipany's desire to give its present policyholders the benefit of savings.
Thousands are flocking to Country Life because of its intelli-
I gent service that pyramids good will and keeps policies in force,
that strengthens the bond between the insured and the company.

Thousands of farm folks have come to Country Life for pro-
tection because they recognize in it a company built to serve them,
founded on the spirit of co-operation. Its goal is to return to the
patron all the profits except that retained to guarantee payment
)f premiums and safety.

Illinois agriculture has responded in full measure to its oppor-
tunity to build a financial structure of its own in the field of life
insurance ... a structure owned and controlled by farm folks,
operated unselfishly for service to policyholders.

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COUNTRY lltj; INSURANCF CO..

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Send mc witliout obli^Jtion fijll information on the tost of the
followins policies In Country 1 ifi- InMirincc Co., irivini; the pre-
mium and dividend rate at my rate.

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Page Twelve

THE I. A. A. RECORD

December, 19}0

Farm Board News

THE Coarse Grains Advisory Com-
mittee meeting in Washington on
November 17 and 18 reported to the
Federal Farm Board as follows:

"The outstanding facts in the feed
gr?in situation are, first, the great short-
aje of corn and of feed grains as a
gi 3up; and second, the low prices pre-
va ling in the face of this shortage.

"The corn crop is the smallest since
1901; it is S20 million bushels smaller
than last year, and only 88 per cent of
the 1924-28 average. While crops of
oats and barley are somewhat larger
than last year, the supply of the three
principal coarse grains is only about 89
million tons as compared with the
moderate supply of 100 million tons
last year. The less important crop of
grain sorghums is only 84 per cent of
last year's small crop and 66 per cent
of the 1924-28 average. The position
is further accentuated by short crops
of hay.

"A partial offset to this reduction in
feed grains and hay is the existence of
unusually liberal wheat supplies, in-
cluding carry-over and new crop. Rye
supplies also are larger than usual,
though very small as compared with
other gr.ins. Even if -supplies of
wheat and rye are added to the coarse
grain supplies, the total is appreciably
Selow whrt the country has been using
up in eat'^ of several recent years."

Reasons 5. .en for the low price of
corn were:

1. The low price of wheat brought
^ about by liberal carryovers.

2. Import restrictions in European
countries.

3. Russian shipments.

4. The world business depression.

5. A severe decline in world price
levels.

Prices of com and barley in other
exporting countries are very low for
similar reasons in spite of the fact that
world crops of both grains outside the
United States are smaller than the
large production in 1929.

The Advisory Board reported that
coarse grains as low as they are, are
considerably higher here than in most
foreign countries. The spread between
Chicago and Buenos Aires prices of
corn is around 3 J cents. The spread
between Minneapolis and Winnipeg
prices of barley is around 20 to 2 5
cents. The tariff on corn, recently
raised to 25 cents per bushel is effec-
tive in restricting impwrts to small pro-
portions and to an unusual degree in
keeping domestic prices above v.-orlJ
levels.

Commenting upon the action of the
Grain Stabilization Corporation in buy-

ing wheat at Chicago to hold the price
at 73c, Chairman Legge said:

"Demoralization in world grain mar-
kets has made it necessary for The
Grain Stabilization Corporation to again
enter the wheat market in order to stop
, panicky selling and to prevent further
unwarranted declines in domestic prices.
Comparatively wheat is lower in price
than other agricultural commodities.
The price of flour fully reflects the
price of wheat, which, no doubt, is
increasing the per capita consumption.
While the visible supply of wheat is
large, there is no congestion in any of
the terminal markets. Receipts at pri-
mary markets are unusually light,
which suggests the extent to which
farm stocks are being used for feeding
purposes. Further price declines would
be in sympathy with foreign markets
and not justified by domestic condi-
tions."

Monroe Leads in

Use of Limestone

Monroe county, Illinois, holds the
record for the most limestone spread
by any Illinois county, according to
C. M. Linsley of the University of Illi-
nois. He states that 43,000 tons of
limestone have been hauled and spread
by farmers of this county.

"Every $2 invested in a ton of lime-
Stone for acid soil will return $15 or
more in higher crop yields," said Lins-
ley. "Farmers who can't spend $1 in
order to make $7.50 are the only ones
entitled to say that they can't afford
to buy limestone to sweeten their acid
soils.

"If ioi.ie oil stock salesman would
approach these farmers who say that
they cannot afford to buy limestone and
offer them stock in an oil well which
was guaranteed to return $15 for every
$2 invested, most of them would man-
age to get together at least $100."

Serum Directors Meet

Buy Supplies for *31

DIRECTORS of the Illinois Farm
Bureau Serum Association met in
Chicago recently to consider bids on
more than 30,000,000 c.c. of serum
and virus for immunizing hogs against
cholera.

Farmers in 72 counties have pooled
their buying power in purchasing the
largest quantity of serum ever ordered
nt one time. Radio advertising it is
thought has been helpful in reminding
hog growers of the need for protecting
their herds. A larger sale of serum
and virus than heretofore is expected
in 1931.

^AIRY
MarMJng

THE McLean County Milk Pro-
ducers' Association announces that
the new base-rating plan effective for
November, December, January and
February provides for a price of $2.45
per 100 pounds of 4 per cent milk for
all supplies delivered under the base
amounts, f. o. b. Bloomington. With
associ.-ition dues and trucking costs de-
ducted, this means a net of $2.10 to the
producers. This price covers all milk
sold to the wholesale or retail trade.

Surplus milk used for ice cream and
other dairy products, except butter,
will be valued according to its butter-
fat content, according to the following
formula: 92 score Chicago butter mar-
ket price plus 5 cents for each pound
of butterfat, plus 30 cents per 100
pounds of whole milk delivered.

For surplus milk used in butter mak-
ing, the price is computed on the base
of Chicago 92 score butter market for
butterfat content plus 30 cents per 100
pounds for the whole milk.

Thusj the net price paid each pro-
ducer dejjends upon the base amount
delivered and the percentage of his
total used in making butter or manu-
factured products.

Each member's base amounts to iO
per cent of the average amount deliv-
ered during August, September, Octo-
ber and November of 1929. That base
rating is to apply throughout the bal-
ance of 1930. A new base will go into
effect January 1, applying the average
figures for the same months this year.

This plan operates very much like the
equalization fee plan advocated in the
McNary-Haugen bill in that the pro-
ducer is penalized for surplus produc-
tion.

Only two of the 72 co-operating
counties specified blood serum. Nearly
all have adopted the clear concentrated
serum.

The prices obtained from the various
companies were the lowest on record.
The Anchor Serum Co. of St. Joe, Mo.,
and the Globe Laboratories, Ft. Worth,
Tex., both high grade companies pro-
ducing their immunizing materials- ih.
sanitary laboratories under government
supervision, shared the bulk of the
business.

The advantages gained by purchas-
ing serum and virus co-operatively are
first the substantial savings in cost, and
secondly the assurance of having on
hand at all times an ample supply o£
materials.

December, 1930

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Thirteen

^Upestoch

IMul^eting

The Chicago Producers handle one
out of every five loads of live stock
shipped to Chicago by co-operative
shipping associations.

For the first 10 months of 1930 the
Chicago Producers received 7,11 J co-
operative shipments, which represented
20.1% of the total co-operative loads
coming to the market. Illinois associa-
tions were the largest contributors;
Iowa second.

The annual meeting of the Indian-
apolis Producers' Commission Ass'n.
, will be held Dec. 30, 10:30 A. M.,
' -'r'Severin Hotel, Indianapolis. The In-
''-~ dianapolis Producers continues to han-
. <Ue around one-third of all live stock
. • received at that market, 90 per cent
■: of which comes from co-operative ship-
"' ping associations.

Fred Gumm, manager of the Paris
(Edgar Co.) Shipping Association,
against keen competition, shows a gain
in shipments to the Indianapolis Pro-
,.' -v ducers over November a year ago. Dur-
ing the month of November he shipped
IS cars, compared with 14 a year ago.
Mgr. Frank Kettering, Vermilion
County Live S'ock Marketing Associa-
tion, Danville, ».onsigned 18 decks to
the Indianapolis Pi^duccrs during No-
vember.

DURING the first nine months of
1930 Adams county led all other
Illinois counties in co-0(>erative ship-
ments of live stock to Producer agen-
cies. Adams shipped 634 carloads,
Fulton 5 50, Henry 5 55, DeKalb 477,
Macoupin 428, Knox 413, LaSalle 410,
McLean 384, and Peoria 396.

The bulk of the Illinois co-operative
shipments went to the Producers at
Chicago, St. Louis, Peoria and Indian-
apolis. A larger number than ever be-
fore— 144 carloads — went to the Buf-
falo Producers.

Total shipments to Producer agencies
for the nine months' period were 16,177
carloads. Chicago led with 6,732 car-
loads, St. Louis was next with 4,993,
Peoria third with 2,128, and Indian-
apolis 2,104.

Live stock receipts at all the princi-
pal markets were lower this year than
last, hence shipments to the Producers
fell off to some extent compared with
the same period in 1929.

liOADING IN — VEUIMILION COUNTY LIVESTOCK MARKETING ASSOCIATION
Liveatock farmers in and about Vermilion connty, Illinoix, are now icerved by
thin ap-to-dnte co-operati-ve with modern facilitiea for grradins. bandlinK. and
selling their cattle, hoKK. and Kheep.

THE Vermilion County Live Stock
Marketing Association with head-
quarters at Danville is one of the new
county live stock co-operatives created
to organize the bargaining {jower of
Illinois live stock producers. The As-
sociation ships live stock on Tuesdays
and Thursdays, handling around seven
decks a week.

Excellent facilities have been pro-
vided in a 210x63 foot shed capable of
housing 23 carloads of live stock at one
time. Two loading chutes are avail-
able and the unloading platform will
take care of four trucks at one time.
An up-to-date office, scales, paved
sorting-pens, and large live stock pens,
some of them holding as many as two

carloads of stock, are part of the equip-
ment.

Approximately 400 Vermilion coun-
ty live stock growers have signed agree-
ments to ship their live stock through
the co-operative association except
when they have carloads and wish to
consign direct to the large terminal
markets.

The organization is capitalized at
$25,000, $4,000 of which has been
sold. A board of directors of seven
men and the manager, Frank B. Ketter-
ing, direct the a£Fairs of the association.

The Big Four railroad co-operated in
providing trackage and facilities for
exoediting the handling of live stock.

Stock Marketing Association shipped
10 decks to the Producers at Indian-
apolis.

The following Illinois managers show
a gain over November last year: C. M.
Weller, Tuscola, with 10 cars; W. J.
Richey, Palestine; W. F. Kurtz, Tabor;
Hans Heit, Garrett; Harry Gosnell,
Rose Hill; Henry Voile, Mt. Pulaski;
Fred M. StoU, Season; Carl Shasteen,
Sullivan; W. E. Leischner, DeLand; H.
H. Richards, Parkersburg; O. C. Fisher,
Windsor; D. E. Elliott, Shelbyville.

Illinois cattle feeders consigning to
the Producers at Indianapolis recently
were Frank Goodwin, Palestine; W. L.
Dunston, Marion, and John Conlin,
Arthur.

cott here, Fulkerson said: "In the last
analysis, it is not for the United States
Department of Agriculture nor the
courts to decide, but for the American
live stock producer to say whether he
prefers to select one from the many
competent, self-appointed commission
firms doing business on this market to
sell his live stock for him, or whether
he prefers to market his product
through his own marketing agency.
Let all selling agencies agree to abide
by this decision and permit him to sell
any way he chooses on an open and
unrestricted market."

Wants to Buy Land

During the month of November Carl
Smith of the Champaign County Live

CCT^HE abihty of the live stock pro-
J- ducer to market his own product
economically is shown by the fact that
the members of the St. Louis Producers'
Commission Association made a saving
in reduced commissions and cash re-
funds of approximately $129,000 last
year alone," said President J. R. Fulker-
son in a recent statement.

Commenting upon the recent boy-

"I have a client very much interested
in the purchase of large tracts of land,
either timbered, or cutover, or barren.
Write location and price per acre.

"Most of this land will be used for
farming, and hunting, and fishing pur-
poses."

X :' Charles H. Coles,
.:";f ; 180 East Park Ave.,
•:'"'!■ Elmhurst, Illinois.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

Urcembey, I9.UI

Farm Board News

THE Co.irse Grains Advisory Com-
mittee meeting in Vi'asliinjjton on
November 17 and 18 reported to tlic
Federal Farm Board as follows:

"The outstanding facts in the feed
?,r.-'in situation are, first, the great sliort-
3! c of corn .md of feed grains as a
gi )up; and second, the low prices pre-
va ling in the face of tliis shortage.

"Thi; corn crop is the smallest since
1901; ii is 520 million bushels smaller
than last year, and only S8 per cent of
the 1924-28 average. While crops of
oats and barley are somewhat larger
than last year, the supply of the three
principal coarse grains is only about 89
million tons as compared with the
moderate supply of 100 million tons
last \ear. The less important crop of
grain sorghums is onK 84 per cent of
last year's small crop and 66 per cent
of the 1V24-2S average. The position
is further accentuated bv short crops
of hay.

"A partial offset to thi^ reduction in
feed grains and hay is the existence of
unusualK liberal ■ wheat supplies, in-
cluding carry-over and new crop. Rye
supplies also are larger than usual,
though very small as compared with
other gr.ins. Evcri^ if supplies of
wheat and rye are added to the coarse
grain vu[ plies, the tot.il is appreciably
below w !i. r the countrv has been using
up in '.Ml (if several recent years."

Reasons j,. m for the low price of
corn were:

1. The h)>.\ price of wheat brought
about b> liberal carryovers.

2. Import restrictions in Eui-opein
countries.

V Russian shipments.

4. The world business depression.

'. A severe decline in world price
levels.

Prices of corn and bar!e\ in other
exporting countries are ver\ low lor
similar reasons in spite of the fact that
world crops of both grains outside the
United States are vmaller than the
large production in 1929,

The Adx isiMV Board reported that
coarse grains as low as they are, are
considerable higher here than in most
foreign countries. The spread between
Chicago and Buenos Aires prices ol
corn is around ^'> cents. The spreail
between .Minneapolis and Winnipeg
prices of barley is around 20 to 2<
cents. The tariff on corn, recentl\
raised to 2 5 cents per bushel is eiK'C-
tive in restricting imports to sm.tll pro-
portions and to an unusual degree i ■
keeping domestic prices above v .'ri.I
levels. "

C'ommenting upon the action of the
(irain St.ibili/ation Corporation in bu\ -

Pig wheat at Chicago to hold the price
at 73c, Chairman Lcggc said:

"Demoralization in world grain tnar-
kets has made it iiecessarv for The
Grain Stabili/aiion (orporation to again
enter the wheat ma;l»et in order to stop
panicky selling and to prevent further
unwarranted declines in domestic prices.
Comparatl\ ely wheat is lower in price
than other agricultural loninioditics.
The price of tlour fulK rellects the
price of wheat, which, no doubt, is
increasing the per capit.i consumption.
While the visible suppU of wheat is
large, there is no congestion in an\' of
the terminal markets. Receipts at pri-
mary markets are unusually light,
which suggests the extent to which
farm stocks are beim; used for feeding
purposes. Further price declines would
be in sympathy with foreign markets
and not justified b\ domestic condi-
tions."

Monroe Leads in

Use of Limestone

Monroe county, Illinois, holds the
record for the most limestone spread
by any Illinois count), according to
C. M. Linslcy of the University of Illi-
nois. He states that 43,000 tons of
limestone have been hauled and spread
by farmers of this county.

"Every S2 invested in a ton of lime-
stone for acid soil will return !>15 or
more in higher crop \ields," said Lins-
lcy. "Farmers who can't spend SI in
order to make S7.50 are the onl\' ones
entitled to say that they can't afford
to buy limestone to sweeten their acid
soils.

"If '01. le oil stock salesman would
approach these farmers who say that
they cannot afford to buy limestone and
offer them stock in an oil well which
was guaranteed to return si 5 for every
S2 invesled, most of them would inan-
a-e to get together at least Si 00."

Serum Directors Meet

Buy Supplies for '31

DIRECTORS of the Illinois Farm
Bureau Serum Association met in
C hicago recently to consider bids on
more than 3o.O()o, ()()() c.c. of serum
and virus tar ir.iniiini/ing hogs against
cholera.

Farmers in 72 counties hive pioled
their buying power in purchasing the
I.'.rgest quantity of serum ever ordered
;'t one time. Radio advertising it is
t!iou"Iu has been helpful in reminding
hog growers of the need for protecting
their herds. A larger sale of serum
and viru- than heretofore is expected
in 1931.

5DAIRy
g^^^iMarKptiiig

THE McLean C.iunty Milk Pro-
ducers' Association announces that
the new base-rating plan ctTective for
November, December, January and
February provides for a price of S2.45
per 10(1 pounds of 4 per cent milk for
all supplies delivered under the base
amounts, f. o. b. Bloomington. With
associ.-.iion dues and trucking costs de-
ducted, this means a net of S2.10 to the
producers. This price covers all niJik
sold to the wholesale or retail trade.

Surplus milk used for ice cream and
other dairy products, except butter,
will be valued according to its butter-
fat content, according to the following
formula: ')! score Chicago butter mar-
ket price plus 5 cents for each pound
of butterfat, plus 30 cents per 100
pc<unds of whole milk delivered.

For surplus milk used in butter mak-
ing, the price is computed on* the base
of Chicago 92 score butter market for
butterfat content plus 3 0 cents per 100
pounds for the whole milk.

Thus, 'the net price paid each pro-
ducer depends upon the base amount
delivered and the percentage of his
total used in making butter or manu-
factured products.

Each member's base amounts to }(>
per cent of the average amount deliv-
ered during August, September, Octo-
ber and November of 1929. That base
rating is to apph' throughout the bal-
ance of 1930. A new base will go into
effect January. 1, apphing the average
figures for the same months this year.

This plan operates very much like the
equalization fee plan advocated in the
McNary-Haugen bill in that the pro-
ducer is penalized for surplus produc-
tion.

Only two of the 72 co-operating
counties specified blood serum. Nearlv
all have adopted the clear concentrated
serum.

The prices obtained from the various
companies were the lowest on record.
The Anchor Serum Co. of St. Joe. Mo.,
anil the Globe Labor.^tories, Ft. Worth,
Te\., both high grade companies pro-
liucing their immunizing materials in
sanitary laboratories under government
supervision, shared the hulk of the
business.

The advantages gained by purchas-
ing serum and virus co-operatively arc
first the substantial savings in cost, and
secondly tlie assurance of having on
hand at all times an ample supply of
materials.

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TKL 1. A. A. RECORD

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wMarKeting

Tlic Cliicago Producers handle one
out of every five loads of live stock
shipped to Chicago by co-operative
shipping associations.

For the first 10 months of 1930 the
Chicago Producers received 7,115 co-
operative shipments, which represented
20.1% of the total co-operative loads
coming to the market. Illinois associa-
tions were the largest contributors;
Iowa second.

The annual meeting of the Indian-
apolis Producers' Commission Ass'n.
will be held Dec. 30, 10:30 A. M.,
Severin Hotel, Indianapolis. The In-
dianapolis Producers continues to han-
dle around one-third of all live stock
received at that market, 90 per cent
of which comes from co-operative ship-
ping associations.

LOAItI\<; l\ — \ KItMII.ION rOl XTY I.M KSTOCK MAUKKTINJi ASSCK'I ATIO%

l.ivrKfofk f:iriii<*rs in riiifl nl>(»iit \'«'riiiilitiii c*i»iiiit>-, llliiioK. iir«> nf»» M«'r\'t*4l I17

IliK ii|i-(c*-4l;it(' fo-(»|i«'r;iti\4> with iiiotN'rii f:ti*ilUi4'H iiir uriiiliiiK. hnncllinic* nnd

Fred Gumm, manager of the Paris
(Edgar Co.) Shipping Association,
against keen competition, shows a gain
in shipments to the Indianapolis Pro-
ducers over November a year ago. Dur-
ing the month of November lie shipped
15 cars, compared with 14 a }'ear ago.

Mgr. Frank Kettering, Vermilion
County Live S'ock Marketing Associa-
tion, Danville, ».')nsigned 18 decks to
the Indianapolis P» ^H.icers during No-
vember.

THE \'crmilion County Live Stock
Marketing Association with head-
quarters at Danville is one of the new
county live stock co-operatives created
to organize the bargaining power of
Illinois live stock producers. The As-
sociation ships live stock on Tuesdays
and Thursdays, handling around seven
decks a week.

Excellent facilities have been pro-
vided in a 210x63 foot shed capable of
housing 25 carloads of live stock at one
time. Two loading chutes arc avail-
able and the unloading platform will
take care of four trucks at one time.
An up-to-date office, scales, paved
sorting-pens, and large live stock pens,
some of them holding as many as two

carloads of stock, are part of the equip-
ment.

Approximately 400 Vermilion coun-
t> live stock growers have signed agree-
ments to ship their live stock through
the co-operative association except
when they have carloads and wish to
consign direct to the large terminal
markets.

The organization is capitalized at
S2 5,000, $4,000 of which has been
sold. A board of directorv of seven
men and the manager, Frank B. Ketter-
ing, direct the affairs of the association.

The Big Four railroad co-operated in
providing trackage and facilities for
exncditing the handling of live stock.

DURING the first nine months of
1930 Adams county led all other
Illinois counties in co-operative ship-
ments of live stock to Producer agen-
cies. Adams shipped 654 carloads,
Fulton 5 50, Henry 5 5 5, DeKalb 477,
Macoupin 428, Knox 413, LaSalle 410,
McLean 384, and Peoria 396.

The bulk of ilie Illinois co-operative
shipments went to the Producers at
Chicago, St. Louis, Peoria and Indian-
apolis. A larger number than ever be-
fore— 144 carlrads — went to the Buf-
falo Producers.

Total shipments to Producer agencies
for the nine months' period were 16,177
carloads. Chicago led with 6,732 car-
loads, St. Louis was next with 4,993,
Peoria third with 2,128, and Indian-
apolis 2,104.

Live stock receipts at all the princi-
pal markets were lower this year than
last, hence shipments to the Producers
fell off to some extent compared with
the same period in 1929.

Stock Marketing Association shipped
10 decks to the Producers at Indian-
apolis.

The following Illinois managers show
a gain over November last year: C. M.
Weller, Tuscola, with 10 cars; W. J.
Richey, Palestine; W. F. Kurtz, Tabor;
Hans Heit, Garrett; Harrv Gosnell,
Rose Hill; Henry Voile, Mt. Pulaski;
Fred M. Stoll, Beason; Carl Shasteen.
Sullivan; \V. E. Leischner. DeLand; H.
H. Richards, Parkersburg; O. C. Fisher.
Windsor; D. E. Elliott', Shelby ville.

Illinois cattle feeders consigning to
the Producers at Indianapolis recently
were Frank Goodwin, Palestine; W. L.
Dunston. Marion, and John Conlin.
Arthur.

cott here, Fulkerson said: "In the last
analysis, it is not for the United States
Department of Agriculture nor the
courts to decide, but for the American
live stock producer to say wliLther he
prefers to select one from the many
competent, self-appointed commission
firms doing business on this market to
sell his live stock for him. or whether
he prefers to market his product
through his own marketing agency.
Let all selling agencies agree to abide
by this decision and jiermit him to sell
any way he chooses on an open and
unrestricted market."

Wants to Buy Land

During the month of November Carl
Smith of the Champaign County Live

CC'T^HE ability of the live stock pro-
Ji- ducer to market his own product
economically is shown by the fact that
the members of the St. Louis Producers'
Commission Association made a saving
in reduced commissions and cash re-
funds of approximately 'si 29,000 last
year alone," said President J. R. Fulker-
son in a recent statement.

Commenting upon the recent bo\-

"I have a client ver\ much interested
in the purchase of large tracts of land.
either timbered, or cutover, or barren.
Write location and price per acre.

"Most of this land will be used for
farming, and hunting, and fishing pur-
poses."

Charlhs H. Coles,
180 East Park Ave.,
Elmhurst, Illinois.

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THE I. A. A. RECORD

December, 1930

Feeding Trials Show

Value Soybean Oil Meal

A Superior Feed for Cows, Pigs,
Sheep and Poultry.

THE superior feeding qualities of
soybean oil meal are discussed in a
series of experiments brought to light
recently by J. H. Lloyd of the Soybean
Marketing Association.

Henry and Morrison, authorities on
the feeding of farm animals, state that
the total digestible nutrients in 100
f>ounds of soybean oil meal is 84.2
pounds compared to 78.2 pounds in
cotton seed meal and 77.9 pounds in
linseed oil meal. Soybean oil meal is
very palatable and can be safely fed in
quantities to all classes of live stock.

With guaranteed 40 per cent protein
soybean oil meal at $45 a ton, a pound
of protein costs the feeder 5.62 5 cents,
while at the same price per ton a
pound of protein in 34 per cent protein
linseed oil meal costs 6.617 cents. On
this basis linseed oil meal protein is
17.6 per cent higher in price than pro-
tein in soybean oil meal.

For Dairy Co^^s

Soybean oil meal is especially valu-
able in feeding dairy cows. One hun-
dred pounds of soybean oil meal mixed
with 500 pounds of corn and cob meal,
and 300 pounds of ground oats makes
a very good grain ration when fed with
legume hay. Another good ration is:

Soybean oil meal 100 pounds

Wheat bran 100

Corn-and-cob meal 600

Ground oats 300

When both silage and legume hay are
ted the following mixtures are recom-
mended:

J. Soybean oil meal 200 pounds

Wheat bran 100

Ground corn or barley.600
Ground oats 300 "

2. Soybean oil 100

Cottonseed meal 100 "

Ground corn or barley.600
Ground oats 300

Wheat may be substituted for corn
or barley in the above rations.

The Ohio Experiment Station reports
a 2 per cent advantage over linseed
oil meal for milk production. The
Tennessee Station secured an increase
of 5 per cent in milk production and
butterfat content when cows were fed
joybean oil meal as compared with cot-
tonseed meal.

For Beef Calves

Beef calves fed at the Illinois Station
with soybean oil meal made somewhat
faster and slightly more economical
gains than those receiving cottonseed

meal. The cost per 100 cwt. of beef
was $7.69 for the soybean oil meal lot
as compared with $8.32 for the calves
fed cottonseed meal.

Soybean oil meal has a high value for
feeding hogs. The soybean oil meal
has approximately 80 per cent of the
value of tankage, according to the Uni-
versity of Illinois. In other words, a
mixture of 90 pounds of corn and 10
pounds of tankage would contain ap-
proximately the same amount' of pro-
tein as a mixture of 88 pounds of corn
and 12 pounds of soybean oil meal.

The Illinois Experiment Station rec-
ommends half a pound of soybean meal
daily for pigs. Brood sows should be
fed about the same amount during the
gestation period. These figures must
be cut in half for full-fed pigs running
on pasture.

For Poultry

At the North Carolina Station it was
found that a mixture of equal parts of
soybean oil meal, wheat shorts and
cracked corn, moistened with sweet
milk was a good ration for little chicks.

Pacific Coast poultrymen have used
soybean oil meal for several years and
consider it a most excellent feed for
poultry and egg production.

Kennard and White found that soy-
bean oil meal, with suitable minerals
added, gave results in egg production
comparable with a standard meat scrap
ration.

Similarly soybean meal and soybean
hay are recommended for feeding sheep.
The Illinois Experiment Station found
that soybean oil meal as a supplement
to shelled corn and soybean straw re-
sulted in somewhat more rapid gains,
and in the use of slightly less feed for
100 pounds of gain than did linseed oil
meal.

Lambs getting soybean oil meal had
good appetites at all times and were
never off feed. Soybeans in this form
seemed to be more palatable than either
the whole or ground soybeans. Lambs
fed soybean oil meal were more desir-
ably finished than those fed the whole
or ground beans.

Complete instructions for feeding
soybean oil meal, together with rations
for all classes of live stock can be had
by writing the Soybean Marketing As-
sociation, 608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.

Many Dealers

Following are a few of the many Illi-
nois dealers handling soybean oil meal.
Call your County Farm Bureau office
for the names of dealers in your lo-
cality. .

E. E. Johnson, Lanark.
Graham Bros., Freeport.
Arthur Deets, Chadwick.

Milledgeville Farmers Elev. Co., Milledgeville.

F. H. Colehouer, Mt. Carroll.

Soybean Marketing

Ass'n. Financial Plan

Authorizes Issue of $100,000 of 6
Per Cent Preferred Stock

THE Soybean Marketing Association
recently launched a campaign to sell
capital stock for financing future op-
erations of the co-operative in effective-
ly merchandising the soybean crop pro-
duced by more than 2,900 members.

The new financing plan calls for
capitalization of $100,000. There has
been authorized the sale of 2,000 shares
of" 6 per cent preferred "A" cumula-
tive stock of $50 par value. As we go
to press reports show- that 87 shares al-
ready have been purchased by soybean
growers. In addition 20 shares have
been bought by Farm Bureaus and the
Illinois Agricultural Association.

A series of county meetings is being
arrjinged by the various local advisory
councils where soybean growers will
learn the details of the financing plan.

At a meeting in Decatur on Novem-
ber 26 the need for enlarging the out-
let for soybean products and for funds
to market the crop orderly was dis-
cussed at length. Up to date the asso-
ciation has been operating on funds
borrowed from the Intermediate Credit
Bank and the Federal Farm Board.

County meetings in the soybean
growing area are to be arranged as soon
after December 17 as possible. The soy-
bean advisory counsels are to have
charge of local solicitation. J. H. Lloyd,
manager of the association, will attend
most of these meetings and outline plans
for the development of the Soybean
Marketing Association on a broader
basis, looking toward joining with
growers in other states.

Shannon Grain Co., Shannon.

Farmers Co-Op. Elev. Co., Belvidere,

Poplar GroTe Farmers Co-Op. Co., Poplar

Grove. . , • . .

A. A. Mulligan, Capron. ,''.■ '|-
Ralston Bros., Caledonia.
Champaign Live Stock Marketing Assn.,

Champaign.
C. C. Turner, Arthur.
The Farmers Grain Co., Gibson City.
Spellman & Co., Lincoln.
Chenoa Milling Co., Chenoa.
Kemp Grain Co., Lexington.
Funk's Grove Grain Co., McLean.
Ben Stubblefield, McLean.
Towanda Grain Co., Towanda.
Morgan Farmers Oil Co., Jacksonville.
Moultrie County Farm Bureau, Sullivan.
Kelley Seed Co., San Jose.
Stoecker Seed Co., Peoria.
Washington Co-Op. Grain Co., VTashington.
Farmers Elev. & Supoly Co., Morrison.
Woodford Co. Agr. Association, Eureka.
Joe Schaffer, Springfield.
John Knobel & Son, Freeport.
Egyptian Service Co., Flora.
Funk Bros. Seed Co., Bloomington and Tay-

lorville.

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December, 1930

THE I. A. A. RECORD

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Page Fifteen

0evator Co-Operation
- ■ Could Aid Corn Prices

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Donald Kirkpatrick Speaks
"Marketing" at Logan Co.
Annual Meeting.

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THE possibilities for stabilizing corn
prices at a profitable level through
the co-operation of farmers' elevators
. in Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska were
outlined by Donald Kirkpatrick, legal
counsel for the Illinois Agricultural
Association at the Logan County Farm
Bureau annual meeting on Nov. 25.

The surplus problem handicapping
wheat producers does not apply to
coarse grains, ac-
cording to Kirk-
patrick. It would
not even require the
full co-operation of
all the elevators in
-the 80 corn belt
counties to obtain a
successful degree of
control over corn
prices, he said. Farm-
ers' elevators have
Mr. Kirkpatrick raised the price of
corn locally from 2
to 4 cents a bushel, but they have not
yet co-operated fully to establish a cen-
tral selling agency necessary to exert
an influence in the terminal markets.
Not until the Farmers' National Grain
Corporation was formed was an oppor-
tunity offered to influence prices in the
terminals.

Corn Belt Co-Operation

Kirkpatrick asserted that even 250
elevators in Illinois, 250 more in Iowa,
and 100 in the corn belt counties of
Nebraska could, if they would, organize
their sales power in the terminals and
influence the price situation. He urged
corn growers to obtain that control
through co-operation, whether or not
wheat producers are able to cope with
their greater surplus problem.

The speaker saw little hope for
American farmers in the wheat situa-
tion so long as the market is on an
export basis. He stated that the gov-
ernment might hold American prices
higher than world prices temporarily,
but it could not do so permanently un-
less production was lowered to fit do-
mestic demands. Some control over corn
production, likewise, would be needed,
intimated the speaker, if the price is to
be stabilized at a profitable level.

Live Stock Marketing

The speaker touched on the progress
being made on live stock and produce
marketing. The formation of county
live stock marketing associations, he
said, is growing because farmers see the

need for gaining control of their prod-
uct locally to compete with the modern
trend in direct shipments of stock from
country points to packers. He saw no
objection to direct marketing, provid-
ing the farmer's bargaining power in
the sale of his live stock is safeguarded.

The old oflScers of the Farm Bureau
were re-elected.

The Logan County Farm Supply
Company and the Logan Produce As-
sociation declared patronage dividends,
the oil company in addition placing
$12,000 in its surplus fund.

President Floyd Wendell, John Crane
and Louis N. Baker were the delegates
chosen to represent Logan county at the
annual meeting of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association.

Grain.
Marketing'

THE Grain Stabilization Corp. made
history during recent weeks when
it held the price of wheat on the Chi-
cago market at 73 cents while wheat
of the same grade at Winnipeg sold for
18 cents less per bushel. ' Newspapers
reporting this unusual situation said
under date of November 19:

"The federal government, yesterday,
rode through one of the worst debacles
in the history of declining grain prices
on world markets, holding the whip
hand in maintaining wheat prices on
the Chicago Board of Trade.

"Winnipeg and Liverpool wheat
prices went into tailspin and other grain
values crashed in foreign markets, while
Chicago traders watched the ticker tape
in wonder as December wheat held its
stabilized level of 73 cents. This re-
sult was credited to persistent but not
heavy buying by the Federal Farm
Board's stabilization corporation.

"In contrast, wheat in Winnipeg
dropped 8 cents a bushel, 18 cents less
than the* same grade in Chicago. A»d
Liverpool's prices were the lowest in 36
years."

One newspaper which had been hos-
tile to the Farmers' National Grain
Corporation said: "Veteran traders who
for over a year have been bitter toward
an intruding Cedcral body, suddenly
changed front yesterday to declare they
believed the federal support of Chi-
cago's markets had averted a panic."

Success of the Farm Board plan "will
be a tremendous factor in lifting the
United States and the world out of its
present economic slough of depression,"
B. W. Marx of Clement Curtis & Co.,
well-known Chicago brokers, \v.is

quoted as saying. Commenting on pur-
chases of wheat by the Grain Stabiliza-
tion Corporation, Mr. Marx said: "It
is astounding that the Farm Board ac-
tion should be so bitterly criticized
when it ought to be apparent to ever>'
thinking person that a terrific emer-
gency exists. The Farm Board should
be greeted as a saving force by ever)'
business man in the country and in the
entire world, or at least that part of
the world that is in sympathy with
our present methods of doing business
and forms of government outside of
Soviet Russia The Farm Board is

waging war, perhaps far more serious
than the one 12 years back, when we
in our country subscribed about eight
billions of dollars to 'make the world
safe for democracy.' "

The Chicago Daily News said in
part:

"The (Farm) Board has had to
grope its way along uncharted courses.
It has had to solve baffling problems,
deal with extraordinary situations and
apply business principles in novel and
untried ways. It has been attacked by
farmers for sins of omission, actual or
alleged, and by grain men and cham-
bers of commerce for sins of commis-
sion. But clearly in all its measures,
wise and unwise, // has sought to pro-
mote the welfare of the basic national
industry, agriculture.

"The board has just re-entered the
wheat market, after resisting, for
months, demands of spokesmen for the
farmers that it do so. For it feels
that at this time its direct aid in sup-
porting the price of wheat is impera-
tive and not unsafe. Circumstances,
in short, alter cases. What was in-
advisable in August may be expedient
in November.

"It has bought wheat in order to
prevent what it considers further whol-
ly unwarranted declines in price and
the spread of alarmist views which the
future, it feels, will refute."

Evidence that our wheat surplus is
being reduced at a rapid rate, is grow-
ing. Under date of December 2 the
Mid-West Grain Corporation said in its
market letter: "We have exported more
wheat to date than the same period last
year. And last but not least, the final
figures on feeding consumption of
wheat will undoubtedly show a tremen-
dous amount which cannot but help
have its effect.

"Corn and oats occupy a strong po-
sition assisted by stabilized wheat prices.
Receipts of corn at terminals are very
light. There is a considerable amount
of corn that usually goes to terminals
being shipped between country points
direct. This will go into consumption
on the farm since live stock pays good
dividends on corn fed at these prices."

Page Sixteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

December, 1930

Local Co-Ops. Fail in

Co-Operation — Jewett

Chicago 3anker Discusses Two-
Price System Similar to Base and
Surplus Milk Plan, at Bloom-
ington Forum.

WE have thousands of small co-
operative marketing units scat-
tered over the country, the majority of
which have been successful in the com-
munities they serve. They have done
a good local job. They have improved
the local situation and have made their
members some money. But as yet the
majority of these co-operative units
have not fully learned the principle of
co-operation. At least their manage-
ment has not applied that principle.
They have failed in one prime essential.
They have failed to co-operate with
each other, George C. Jewett, Chicago
banker, said recently in an address be-
fore the Illinois Of>en forum at Bloom-
ington.

"The same principle of co-operation
which they taught
the individual farm-
er in organizing lo-
cal units should now
be offered in organ-
izing district and
national units," he
said. "We fall short
of the goal when we
stop with local or-
ganizations and turn
them loose to broad-
cast our farm com-
modities in competi-
tion with each other.

An Insidious Practice

"Local units possess but little in the
way of bargaining power. Many of
them have become more or less finan-
cially involved and the insidious prac-
tice of borrowing from those who buy
their products is quite generally in use.
It does not take an economist nor a
marketing specialist to readily appre-
ciate that such a practice weakens the
ability of the local co-operative to
make a good deal for its products.

"Then again there are too many co-
operative men talking in terms of com-
missions and in terms of quarter or half
cents per bushel. They are dickering
in penny units instead of more sub-
stantial units. They fuss around among
commission men to see which one will
pay one-quarter or one-half cent more
on a dollar in value. They think they
are accomplishing big things if they
handle grain at a fraction less than some
dealer has handled it. They think they
are gaining material things if they have
a few dollars left at the end of the
year to pay a patronage dividend.

Geo. C. Jew«tt

"I do not say that all of these things
are unimportant. They are important
and should be accomplished for the
benefits they bring to farmers. But
nevertheless the co-operative leader wfto
has his eyes cast on such gains and fails
to look higher is not living up to the
possibilities of his leadership. The thing
the co-operatives must do is to bind
themselves together in commodity
groups for the purpose of eliminating
competition among themselves and for
the purpose of stabilizing the price of
their commodity at a proper level. To
do this, in my judgment, is wholly
possible."

Need Bargaining Power

Using wheat as an illustration, Jew-
ett outlined a plan whereby the crop
would move to the local elevator, to
the district regional, and to the na-
tional co-operative under the contract
plan. "I consider it tommyrot for
farmers' elevators to talk about their
independent way. If their thought in
this respect is sound then it is just as
logical for the farmers to throw aside
all co-operatives and depend on their
own independent ability to deal with
private concerns. It is contrary to the
co-operative principle and it is contrary
to sound co-operative procedure; it
eliminates orderly distribution; it elim-
inates and takes away the bargaining
power which must be maintained. It
makes the market a buyers' market in-
stead of a sellers' market; it makes the
farmer and his commodity subject to
all kinds of speculation; it creates gam-
blers in the commodity, and gambling
pools for the purpose of manipulating
the price of the commodity. It works
in the ultimate end to the disadvantage
of the producer and without any cor-
responding advantage to the consumer.

Should Be Federated

"The elevators of Illinois and of all
other states should be federated to-
gether as co-operative units operating
in a co-operative way as outlined above.
It is up to the farmers to see that this
is done. Many who have talked inde-
pendence do not possess it. It is re-
grettable that many elevator managers
have never cast their eyes above their
local situation. Most of these men are
honest in their convictions, but they
have been schooled under the wrong
teachers. Others are selfish in their
attitude because they think any change
to their system would wock to their
personal detriment. The men now en-
gaged as managers of co-operatives are
esiential to any program but they must
be converted to higher co-operation, to
look beyond their local territory for the
greater success so sadly needed."

Commenting upon the surplus situa-

tion, the speaker said in his opinion it
would never be entirely eliminated.
He favors creating a two-price situa-
tion: one price for the grain sold at
home, another price for that surplus
portion sent abroad. He advocated the
formation of a surplus pool and deliv-
ering that surplus to the Farmers* Na-
tional Grain Corporation through the
local and regional channels. The sur-
plus can be set aside, he said, to be
stored, ground into feed, or exported.
It would not be difficult to secure the
world price plus our tariff for at least
80 per cent of our present wheat pro-
duction.

Jewett admitted that this would be
a gigantic task involving the co-opera-
tion of the majority of the producers
of the commodity, but that leaders in
the movement should approach the plan
with the determination to bring about
the necessary accomplishments.

10 "Master Farmers"

Farm Bureau Memibers

OF the ten "Master Farmers" of
Illinois honored by Prairie Farm-
er on the night of December 1 all are
Farm Bureau members, most of them
prominently identified with the activi-
ties of their county organizations.

The 1 0 men to receive the gold med^il
this year follow:

A. G. Beckman, Adams County.

W. F. Black, Bureau County.

E. G. Britton, Pulaski County.

Talmadge Defrees, Bond County.

John B. Hunt, Greene County.

Fred J. Johnson, Whiteside County.

L. L. Lehman, Sangamon County.

Herbert Malsbury, Macoupin County.

Herman Moews, Putnam County.

C. C. Stier, Menard County.

The 1930 class was the sixth since
the Master Farmer plan was initiated.
During the six years this recognition
has been bestowed upon 91 representa-
tive farmers of Illinois, all of whom,
with two or three exceptions, are or
were Farm Bureau members. Several
have died since receiving the award.

As in past years the men receiving
the medal from Publisher Burridge D.
Butler, gave their wives and families
credit for much of their success, re-
vealing that farming is an enterprise
that promotes family solidarity.

Editor C. V. Gregory presided as
toastmaster, Mr. Butler presented the
medals, and Albert Hayes, an officer in
the Peoria County Farm Bureau and
president of the State Master Farmer
Club, welcomed the new class. S. H.
Thompson, president of the American
Farm Bureau Federation; and Dr. W. L.
Burlison of the University of Illinois
served as judges.

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December, 1930

THE I. A. A. RECORD

Page Seventeen

Insuratide^

By L. A. Williams

NO outstanding accomplishment
has ever been made without imi-
tators attempting to hitch on and be
dragged to success with the ascendancy
of the original. Mediocre accomplish-
ment attracts no atention and is the
object of no attack. It is always the
outstanding success that sets a thousand
jealous tongues wagging. Every great
man in art, in politics, or in any other
field, knows the sound of the heckler's
voice who calls him "fake" and decries
his accomplishment. It is the penalty
of great success and outstanding ac-
complishment. It has come to be an
identification mark of superior work
and so every great institution attaining
"impossible" heights in its field, expects
to be condemned and criticized by the
petty and weak.

The maligning accusations, deroga-
tory insinuations, and deliberate plant-
ing of suspicion
by those who are
petty and jealous,
make a dark back-
ground against
which supremacy
of an institution
shines in its sil-
very success more
brilliantly, empha-
sizing value to the
discerning mind.
Time and sane
consideration tests
true worth and finds Abe Lincoln great,
and the once belittled accomplishments
cf a Morse and Fulton acclaimed.

L. A. -Wllllamfi

The outstanding accomplishment of
our company in the legal reserve field
of protection for the human family has
a sincerity of purpose which gives it
character to withstand the onsilaught of
the jealous and prejudiced, and sanity
to contemplate and appreciate this nat-
ural reception of great accomplishment
which is as old as the world itself.

May we who compose the Country
Life Insurance Company act with the
dignity which becomes an institution
elected by accomplishment to a superior
position of service. We can be tolerant
if we are certain of our position. We
need not defend if we are right. Care
is imperative because faults in our work
are plainly visible and even magnified
\mder this penetrating X-ray of critical
minds which are focused upon us the
more easily because of our supremacy.
"Uneasy is the head that wears the

EFFINGHAM COUNTY OFFICIALS BAT 100 PER CENT

The EffinKlinm Cnnnt-y Fnrin Bnrean ExecntiTe Conunlttee. fnrm ndrliter,
general agent, and ofllce secretary are all polloykoldf^m in Country Life InKnrnnee
Co. *^Iie lirat (execntiTe committee) In tke state to have 100% of its members
carrying a policy in Country Life," vrrites Adviser Geo. Iftnrr.

LEFT TO RIGHT, SEATED i H. MT. Homan. Henry Replying. H. O. Henry,
Keneral aKenti Bliss E. Loy, president; Eldrcd Kichars, clialmian insurance com-
mittee; G. H. Iftner.

STANDING; Gertrude Bromi, office secretary; B. J. Schnmacher, Jos. Bier-
man, Harry Ebbert, secretary-treasurer; Geo. L. Falte, Geo. I. Danlui, vlce-prea.

crown" — means that the footsteps of Utility Problems -

the elect are more readily objects and

targets of the critic. Coming to Head

Our still greater future depends upon
still greater service and still greater care
in our methods, for great as have been
our deeds, we have before us a long road
of service to millions who are still to
hear our story and measure our worth.

Groundless attacks and criticism will
only help us forward. Our progress is
doubly assured by the never-failing
criticism of the unfair competitor
which has come to be a part of the
measure of greatness. Let there be no
discreditable. act of ours to add difficul-
ties to the path.

Iroquois County Has

Opening Day

The Iroquois County Live Stock
Marketing Association got under way
Dec. 15 when its "grand opening" was
held at the Sheldon stock yards. R. C.
Boatman, who for several years has
served successfully as manager of the
Sheldon Shipping Association, has been
employed to manage the new county-
wide co-operative.

In a letter announcing the opening
of the new organization. President R. F.
Karr states that all live stock received
will be graded, part sent to nearby ter-
minals, and part dii^t to eastern mar-
kets. The Big Four R. R. has agreed to
provide facilities for handling a large
volume of stock.

A decision as to whether or not a
pipe line used for transporting oil, gas,
gasoline or other products is a public
utility is expected to be forthcoming
in the near future from the Illinois
Commerce Commission. Briefs have been
filed by the I. A. A. with the Com-
mission relating to proper jurisdiction
in the case of the Panhandle Illinois
Pipe Line Co. which proposes to build
a line through central Illinois from the
Mississippi east to the Indiana line.
Farm Bureaus in some 16 counties are
interested in the case and have joined
the Illinois Agricultural Association in
representing the interests of their land-
owner members.

Landowners in Woodford, Tazewell
and adjoining counties represented by
local committees set up under the di-
rection of the County Farm Bureaus
are still negotiating with officials of the
Superpower Company over compensa-
tion for easements wanted by the utihty
company in building a high f)ower line
from Powerton to Chicago. L. J.
Quasey attended a landowners' meet-
ing in Eureka recently where questions
pertinent to this case were discussed.

The I. A. A. and Farm Bureaus are
hopeful that a satisfactory settlement
can be negotiated without resort to the
courts, but if necessary the landowners
will be ready to defend their rights.

Page Sixteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

December, 1930

Local Co-Ops. Fail in

Co-Operation — Jewett

Chicago Banker Discusses Two-
Price System Similar to Base and
Surplus Milk Plan, at Bloom-
■ngton Forum.

WE have thousands of small co-
operative marketing units scat-
tered over the country, the majority of
which have been successful in the com-
munities they serve. Tliey have done
1 good local job. They have improved
the local situation and have made their
members some money. But as yet the'
majority of these co-operative units
have not fully learned the principle of
co-operation. At least their manage-
ment lias not applied that principle.
They have failed in one prime essential.
They have failed to co-operate with
each other, George C. Jewett, Chicago
banker, said recently in an address be-
fore the Illinois open forum at Bloom-
ington.

"The same principle of co-operation
which they taught
rl the individual farm-
1 in organizing lo-
^,ii units should now
be offered in organ-
izing district and
national units," he
said. "We fall short
of the goal; when we
stop with local or-
ganizations .ind turn
them loose to broad-
cast our farm com-
modities in competi-
tion with each other.

An Insidious Practice

''Local units possess but little in the
way of bargaining power. Many of
them have become more or less finan-
cially involved and the insidious prac-
tice of borrowing from those who buy
their products is quite generally in use.
It docs not take an economist nor a
marketing specialist to readily appre-
ciate that such a practice weakens the
ability of the local co-operative to
make a good deal for its products.

"Then again there are too many co-
.ipcrative men talking in terms of com-
missions and in terms of quarter or half
cents per bushel. They are dickering
m penny units instead of more sub-
stantial units. They fuss around among
commission men to see which one will
pay one-quarter or one-half cent more
on a dollar in value. They think they
ire accomplishing big things if they
handle grain at a fraction less than some
dealer has handled it. They think they
ire gaining material things if they have
i few dollars left at the end of the
vear to pay a patronage dividend.

♦;eo. C. Jpnott

"I do not say that all of these things
arc unimportant. They are important
and should be accomplished for the
benefits they bring to farmers. But
nevertheless the co-operative leader w'ho
has his eyes cast on such gains and fails
to look higher is not living up to the
possibilities of his leadership. The thing
the co-operatives must do is to bind
themselves together in commodity
groups for the purpose of eliminating
competition among themselves and for
the purpose of stabilizing the price of
their commodity at a proper iev:l. To
do this, in my judgment, is wholly
possible."

Need Bargaining Power

Using wheat as an illustration, Jew-
ett outlined a plan whereby the crop
would move to the local elevator, to
the district regional, and to the na-
tional co-operative under the contract
plan. "I consider it tommyrot for
farmers' elevators to talk about their
independent way. If their thought in
this respect is sound then it is just as
logical for the farmers to throw aside
all co-operatives and depend on their
own independent ability to deal with
private concerns. It is contrary to the
co-operative principle and it is contrary
to sound co-operative procedure; it
eliminates orderh' distribution; it elitn-
inates and takes away the bargaining
power which must be maintained. It
makes the market a bu\ers' market in-
stead of a Ncllers' market; it makes the
farmer and his commodity subject to
all kinds of speculation; it creates gam-
blers in the commodity, and gambling
pools for the purpose of manipulating
the price of the commodity. It works
in the ultimate end to the disadvantage
of the producer and without any cor-
responding advantage to the consumer.

Should Be Federated

''The elevators of Illinois and of all
other states should be federated to-
gether as co-operative units operating
in a co-operative way as outlined above.
It is up to the farmers to see that this
is done. Many who have talked inde-
pendence do not possess it. It is re-
grettable that many elevator managers
have never cast their eyes above their
local situation. Most of these men are
honest in their convictions, but they
have been schooled under tb.e wrong
teachers. Others are selfish in their
attitude because they think any change
to their system would work to their
personal detriment. The men now en-
gaged as managers of co-operatives are
essential to any program but they must
be converted to higher co-operation, to
look beyond their local territory for the
greater success so sadly needed."

Commenting upon the surplus situa-

tion, the speaker said in his opinion it
would never be entirely eliminated.
He favors creating a two-price situa-
tion: one price for the grain sold at
home, another price for that surplus
portion sent abroad. He advocated the
formation of a surplus pool and deliv-
ering that surplus to the Farmers' Na-
tional Grain Corporation through the
local and regional channels. The sur-
plus can be set aside, he said, to be
stored, ground into feed, or exported.
It would not be difficult to secure the
ivorld price plus our tariff for at least
80 per cent of our present wheat pro-
duction.

Jewett admitted that this would be
a gigantic task involving the co-opera-
tion of the majority of the producers
of the commodity, but that leaders in
the movement should approach the plan
with the determination to bring about
the necessary accomplishments.

10

'Master Farmers"

Farm Bureau Members-

Of the ten "Master Farmers" of
Illinois honored by Prairie Farm-
er on the night of December 1 all are
Farm Bureau members, most of them
prominently identified with the activi-
ties of their county organizations.

The 1 0 men to receive the gold medal
this yi^ir follow:

A. G. Beckman, Adams County.

Vr. F. Black, Bureau County.

E. G. Britton, Pulaski County.

Talmadge Defrees. Bond County.

John B. Hunt, Greene County.

Fred J. Johnson, Whiteside County.

L. L. Lehman, Sangamon County.

Herbert Malsbury, Macoupin County.

Herman Moews. Putnam County.

C. C. Stier, Menard County.

The 1930 class was the sixth since
the -Master Farmer plan was initiated.
During the six years this recognition
has been bestowed upon 91 representa-
tive farmers of Illinois, all of whom,
with two or three exceptions, are or
were Farm Bureau members. Several
have died since receiving the award.

As in past years the men receiving
the medal from Publisher Burridge D.
Butler, gave their wives and families
credit for much of their success, re-
vealing that farming is an enterprise
that I'lumotes family solidarity.

Editor C. V. Gregory presided as
toastmaster, Mr. Butler presented the '
medals, and Albert Hayes, an officer in
the Peoria County Farm Bureau and
president of 'the State Master Farmer
Club, welcomed the new class. S. H.
Thompson, president of the American
Farm Bureau Federation; and Dr. W. L.
Burlison of the University of Illinois
served as judges.

December, 19 fO

THE I. A. A. REC OivD

Page Seventeen

Insurance

By L. A. Williams

NO outstanding .iccomplishment
has ever been made without imi-
tators attempting to hitch on and be
dragged to success with the ascendancy
of the original. Mediocre accomphsh-
ment attracts no atention and is the
object of no attack. It is always the
outstanding success that sets a thousand
jealous tongues wagging. Every great
man in art, in politics, or in any other
field, knows the sound of the heckler's
■ voice who calls him "fake" and decries
his accomplishment. It is the penalty
of great success and outstanding ac-
complishment. It has come to be an
identification mark of superior work
and so every great institution attaining
'"impossible" heights in its field, expects
to be condemned and criticized by the
petty and weak.

The maligning accusations, deroga-
tory insinuations, and deliberate plant-
ing of suspicion
by those who are
petty and jealous,
make a dark back-
ground against
which supremacy
of an institution
shines in its sil-
very success more
brilliantly, empha-
sizing value to the
discerning m i n d .
I,. \. \Villi:>ms Time and sane
consideration tests
true worth and finds Abe Lincoln great.
and the once belittled accomplishments
r: a Morse and Fulton acclaimed.

The outstanding accomplishment of
our company in the legal reserve field
of protection for the human family has
a sincerity of purpose which gives it
character to withstand the onslaught of
the jealous and prejudiced, and sanity
to contemplate and appreciate this nat-
ural reception of great accomplishment
v/hich is as old as the world itself.

May we who compose the Country
Life Insurance Company act with the
dignity which becomes an institution
elected by accomplishment to a superior
position of service. We can be tolerant
if we are certain of our position. We
need not defend if we are right. Care
is imperative because faults in our work
are plainly visible and even magnified
under this penetrating X-ray of critical
minds which are focused upon us the
more easily because of our supremacy.
"Uneasv is the head that wears the

EFFINGHAM COUNTY OFFICIALS BAT 100 PER CENT

The Kffliisrli.-ini County F.nrm Hnr<-.nu nvociitivo roimiiittPO, farm :iiIvi>«T,
eeiKTiil ii^eiit, :iih] <»ffi4*e .sofi:el:ir> :irr :ill |>oli«>yh<il<l**rN in f'i>tiiitr> I.H'a' lii'.'iirriiior
C'«. "The lirst <ox«»<'Utivo <-oiiiiniltfi'> in tin- Kliir.'.i., Ii;i«,> HHt^f iif iln iiit'tiil»<-ri»
e:irr> iiie n iioliry in Country Life.** «\rit4*N .\il\iser t.eo. ItiiM-i*.

I.KFT TO nifJIIT. sr;ATi;i): II. AV. Ilom:in. Henry lltpkinc. II. O. lienrj'.
uenernl :ifirent; lliiss K. Lo>. pre^ifleiit ; KIdred K i«*li:irs._i:fi:ii riiuiii inviir:iiie«. eitiii-
iiiittee; (;. II. Ittner.

STWDIXtJ: tiertrinle Brown, olliee se^'retriry ; II. .1. Selmninelier. .fos. Ilier-
in.-in. iljirrj ICIihert, secret. .ry-treasiirer; (ieo. I.. I'lilte. tieii. I. It:iiik«. » ice-pren.

crown" — means that the footsteps of
the elect are more readily objects anti
targets of the critic.

Our still greater future depends upon
still greater service and still greater care
in our methods, for great as have been
our decd'^, we have before us a long road
of service to millions who are still to
hear our story and measure our worth.

Groundless attacks and criticism will
onlv help us forward. Our progress is
doubly assured by the never-failing
criticism of the unfair competitor
which has come to be a part of the
measure of greatness. Let there be no
discreditable act of ours to add ditficul-
ties to the path.

Iroquois County Has

Opening Day

The Iroquois County Live Stock
Marketing Association got under way
Dec. 15 when its ''grand opening" was
held at the Sheldon stock yards. R. C.
Boatman, who for several years has
served successfully as manager of the
Sheldon Shipping Association, has been
employed to manage the new county-
wide co-operative.

In a letter announcing the opening
of the new organization. President R. F.
Karr states that all live stock received
will be graded, part sent to nearby ter-
minals, and part direct to eastern mar-
kets. The Big Four R. R. has agreed to
provide facilities for handling a large
volume of stock.

Utility Problems

Coming to Head

A decision IS to whether or not a
pipe line used for transporting oil, gas,
gasoline or other pr<Klucts is a public
utility is expected to be forthcoming
in the near future from the Illinois
Commerce Commission. Briefs have been
tiled by the I. A. A. with the Com-
mission relating to proper jurisdiction
in the case of the Panhandle Illinois
Pipe Line Co. which proposes to build
a line through central Illinois from the
Mississippi east to the Indiana line.
Farm Bureaus in some 16 counties are
interested in the case and have joined
the Illinois Agricultural Association in
representing the interests of their land-
owner members.

Landowners in Woodford, Tazewell
and adjoining counties represented by
local committees set up under the di-
rection of the County Farm Bureaus
are still negotiating with otficials of the
Superpower Company over compensa-
tion for easements wanted by the utility
company in building a high f>ower line
from Powerton to Chicago. L. J.
Quasey attended a landowners' meet-
ing in Eureka recently where questions
pertinent to this case were discussed.

The I. A. A. and Farm Bureaus are
hopeful that a satisfactory settlement
can be negotiated without resort to the
courts, but if necessary the landowners
will be ready to defend their rights.

Page Eighteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

December, 19)0

KEEPING WELL

By Dr. John E. Boland

ONLY those who have lost health or
witnessed the calamity of lost
health have any appreciation of its
worth. We never miss the water 'till
the well runs dry. You, in your bloom
of health, are not conscious of the
value of pulsating, vibrating, vigorous
health. You think it is just you, and
perhaps you are a bit vain, even. But
to be grateful for it, or
careful and conservative in
maintaining it, has never
occurred to you. "Me? I'm
strong as a horse," you say.
As though you always
would be strong.

appendix could have been avoided if
earlier and proper diagnosis of the
"belly-ache" had been made.

cities. I speak from observation and
experience, for I was born and raised
on the farm.

Perhaps none in yotir
family has ever contracted
the dangerous contagious
disease, tuberculosis. You
may never have seen great
powerful men wither away
and fade out into shadows,
all from the reception given
an insidious germ.

Maybe you have never
seen great strong men like
yourself pull out a rusty
nail from the flesh, shake
ofif the dripping blood, and
go on with their work, only
to pay for it with blood
poisoning within 48 hours.

Maybe you have never
seen whole families snuffed
out with pneumonia be-
cause of broken resistance —
living in houses with win-
dows shut tight all winter.

It is very possible you
have not suf ^-red the agon-
izing pains that accompany
ulcers of the stomach, which
follow the careless diet,
and indeed the heartiest
eaters.

The growing and ever
increasing death rate from
cancer of the stomach
points to improper eating of
a careless and indifferent
people. The amazing thing
of it all is that no information is be-
ing taken seriously, and the cancer
"dagger" hangs over us with its ever
thinning thread, more ominous today
than ever. You may not be bothered
about little sores, ulcers or bruises, but
remember, a cancer cannot grow in
the absence of chronic irritation.

You may treat stomach-ache with
indifference, and say it will teach the
children not to eat too much. But one
night you may rush to a hospital with
your little ones, too late. A ruptured

Numerous diseases follow congestion.
Proper elimination and eating would
avoid the majority of diseases of the
kidneys, liver, intestines, stomach and
gall bladder. And yet, more attention
is given to balanced rations for cattle
than is given to the diet of the Amer-
ican family today. The loving mother

Does anyone in the country ever
have a yearly physical examination at
his own expense, just to see if every-
thing is all right? No. He has his
car overhauled, but the numerous physi-
cal faults in his body that might be
taken in time and corrected are scarce-
ly ever attended to.

"Your little girl is very
thin, isn't she?" says a
neighbor. "Yes," says moth-
er, "she doesn't seem to do
well, but I guess she'll come
out all right." Underweight
has a reason behind it.
Malnutrition, improper as-
similation, diseased colon,
tuberculosis, diabetes, a hun-
dred things can cause un-
derweight. Why not take
the child to a good doctor
and have a thorough ex-
amination made. It may be
an infected lung, which,
taken in time, could be
corrected or arrested. Hun-
dreds never have urine
tested until diabetes has be-
come chronic. Annual or
shorter period urine tests
would avoid serious trouble.

years, with
barn yards
it. Surely

NATIONAL HEALTH CHAMPIONS

Marlon E. Synder^nnrd. 15-yenr-oId Kirl of Rrnndy County,
Iowa, nnd Wllliniii It. Ilndpnhnnier, 20, of JnlinMon Cou>ity, Mo.,
were rliOKen an tbr 1030 nntlonal nenltli rhnnipiona nt the 9th
nnnaal boyH' nnd t;IrlM< 4-H dub ConKreiM in Chirntco, llec. 2.

MInm Syndi-rK:ii>i°<l .s<-»red nfl.7. the hlarheMt ever mndp in Miiiillnr
runteNf-s, nnd ll4Ml«-iihiiiiier ^rortMl 1IN.7. titler rxirfful exiiiiiinn-
(li>n liy II tMirfiN <»f iiiirMfM,' ili>iitiMtM nnd d*><*lorK. There wrere
Itvrnty KiriM und ]■' ItoyK. nil Nlnti- chnin|ili>nH, entered in ronteMt.

Iloth ehiiiiiploiiM ii(M*lnrt*it tli<*>' ilranl% ii qunrt <»f nilllc or nii»re
eticb liny nnd nte |ileiiE>' tti u:iii*i] \vh<,li*M4iiiif fotiiN,

ignorantly feeds her darlings to death.
I have visited in families where some
form of meat and potatoes are eaten
three times a day. It takes the con-
stitution of more than man to stand up
under that diet. Liver and" kidneys are
going to balk. Stomachs are going to
revolt.

I know of no place where good health
should be more easily available than on
the farm. And yet, I believe there is
greater abuse of the rules of health on
our farms tinn there is in the largest

There is no excuse for
filth on farms, and yet it is
a common sight to see farm
yards improperly drained,
and drinking water used
untested for
seepage from
contaminating
there are thousands of care-
ful farmers, and sanitary
farm houses, but apprecia-
tion of health is often lack-
ing. I am concerned about
the easily corrected wrongs
of health that every farm
iiorae could take part in
overcoming. To be ever
watchful of clean bodies, of
fresh air and good food is
commendable, but this is
not sufficient. Check up on
physical condition, and let's study the
great science of keeping healthy, of rais-
ing families, and of living together.

Thousands of people have never had
their blood pressure taken. A blood
pressure reading is as simple as taking
a thermometer reading. It is a barome-
ter of your physical condition. The first
inkling of numerous dangerous ills are
discovered by blood pressure readings.
Learn more about yourself through
such tests. (To be continued)

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All Your Insurance at Mutual Rates

/T^'HE demons of fire, lightning, wind-
JL storm, tornado and hail that destroy
farm property have no fear for the thou'
sands who are protected against loss with
Insurance At Cost in the FARMERS MU-
TUAL REINSURANCE COMPANY.

^The FARMERS MUTUAL is your com-
pany. It was organized by the state associa-
tion of farmers' mutual fire and windstorm
companies and the I. A. A. ^It co-operate^
with local mutuals in Illinois, takes over all
or any part of large risks which local com-
panies cannot safely handle, offers a reinsur-
ance service to protect them against unusual
losses, begins where the local leaves off. ^The
Farmers Mutual makes it possible for you to
secure all. your needed protection in a farm-
ers' mutual company at low mutual rates.

^Your company's low rates are subject to
further reductions for —

Lightning Rods
Fire Proof Roof
Fire Proof Walla
Fire Hose Attached

Ladder permanently attached so affords
easy access to roof above the eaves.

For rates see your local agent, call the
County Farm Bureau offices or mail coupon.

Mail ToJj) for Rj/ii

FARMERS MUTUAL REINSURANCE CO.,
608 So. Dearborn Street.
Chicago, Illinois.

Please send me full information about your rates on
"Zl Fire and Lightning Insurance
Q Windstorm Insurance

N ame

Addr

Countv_

vft^

FARMERS MUTUAL REINSURANCE COMPANY
608 SO. DEARBORN ST., CHICAGO

More Than $36,000,000 of Business in Force i,i.:V Your Own Company

Insurance at Cost

Ptifif Eighteen

THE I. A. A. RECORD

December, I9.U>

KEEPING WELL

By Dr. John E. Boland

ONI '^' cIlDSC wllO IHVC lost IumIiI) 111
wiincsscd tlio c,ilnmit\' of lost
health h.ivc' any appreciation of its
worth. W'c never miss the water 'till
the well runs dr\ . You. in \our bloom
of .health, are not conscious of the
value of pulsating, vibrating, vigorous
health. You think it is just you. and
perhaps you are a bit vain, even"; But
to be grateful for it. or
careful and conservative in
maintaining it, has never
occurred to \ou. "Me? I'm
btrong as a horse," you say.
As though you dways
would be strong.

.(/)/»c«(//\ could lia\e been avoided it
earlier and proper diagnosis of the

'bellv-ache" hail been m.ulc

iities. I !>peak from observation and
experience, for I w.-ts born and raised
on the farm.

Numerous diseases follow congestion.
Proper elimination and eating would
avoid the majority of diseases of the
kidneys, liver, intestines, stomach and
gall bladder. And \ei, more .ittention
is given to balanced rations tor cattle
than is given to the diet of the Amer-
ican family todav. The lovin" motiier

Perhaps none m your
family has ever contracted
the dangerous contagious
disease, tnhiriiilosis. You
may never have seen great
powerful men wither away
ind fade out intt) shadows,
all from the reception given
an insidious germ.

Maybe you have never
seen great «trong men like
\ourself pull out a rusty
nail from the flesh, shake
off the dripping blood, and
go on with their work, only
to pay for it with blood
poiumiiii^ within 4S hours.

Maybe you have never
seen whole families snuffed
out with pill iimiiiiiii Oi-
cause of broken resistance —
living "in houses with win-
dows shut tight all winter.

It is very possible you
have not sur..red the agon-
izing pains that accompany
niters of the stomach, which
follow the careless diet,
and indeed the heartiest
eaters.

The growing and ever
increasing death rate from
cancer of the stomach
points to-improper eating of
a careless and indifferent
people. The ama/ing thing
of it all is that no information is be-
ing taken seriously, and the cancer
"dagger" hangs over us with its ever
thinning thread, more ominous today
than ever. You may not be bothered
about little sores, ulcers or bruises, but
remember, a cancer cannot grow in
the absence of chronic irritation.

You may treat stomach-ache with
indifference, and say it will teach the
children not to eat too much. But one
night you may rush to a hospital with
vour little ones. tix> late. A ruptured

Does anyone in the countr/ ever
have a yearl)- physical examination at
his own expense, just to see if every-
thing is ail right? No. He has his
car overhauled, but the numerous physi-
cal faults in his body that might be
taken in time and corrected are scarce-
ly ever attended to.

"Y'our little cirl is verv
thin, isn't she.'" says a
neighbor. "Yes," says moth-
er, "she doesn't seem to do
well, but 1 guess she'll come
out .ill right." Underweight
has a reason behind it.
Malnutrition, improper as-
similation, diseased colon,
tuberculosis, iliabetes, a hun-
dred thingv can cause un-.
derweight. Why not take
the child to a good doctor
and have a thorough ex-
amination made. If may be
an infected lung, which,
taken in time, could be
corrected or arrested. Hun-
dreds never have urine
rested until diabetes has be-
come chronic. y\nnual or
shorter period urine tests
would avoid serious trouble.

\\IIO\AI, IIF\I.TII <IIAMPIO\S

^fsirioii v., S>'n*lori7iinr<l. l.'-yenr-olil icirl nt f^riiiiily f'ltiiiit?'.
I<»\%ii, mill Williiiiii It. lliMl4*iili:inici*. .0, i»f .Ifiliii^fMi i'liiiiil.i. ^lo..
ttrri' <-li<iscii :i« ||i|. Ijt.'lll ii:iri<in:il lir:iltli ■■h:iiii|ii<>li.« :il llii- Dili
•'iiiiiusil l»fi>s* jiiiil jxit'N* l-ll t'iiili < '4iiiKr«'*.s ill Cliifiiifo. itei*. ^.

^li«^^ S> ■i«lt*rK.*i:irj| ..«*«iriMl !l!l.7. fli4> hlu:lM>Hf t*\fr iii:i4l4> in Niiiiiliir
i*iiiil«*>.t>. :iii<l Itoili'i: li:i itiiT %«*<*i-«mI !In.T, ;ifl('i «*:iri>l'iil «*\:iiiiili:i-
liftii h> :i i>or|i^ «»i iii)i-..r>. ili'iiti..!-. .'iiid il<M*(t*rs. 'rli«*rf ivt>r«*
i%\«>iil> uii'l^ siihI I.'* Ii<»> s. :ill ..f.-iic 4*li:i[ii|i!<»ii.,. fiitcml in fdiilfsf.

ll«illl «*llfliii|iiiiii..
:m*Ii ilii.'k mill mt>

il«-«-l;i rt-il (!it>> iJrjiiik :i i|ii:irt tit' milk iir iii«>r«'
I»l4*ii;% «.t u4mm] %« litili*ik4»iii(. I'immN.

ignorantly teed^ her ilarlings td death.
I have visited in families where some
form of meat .ind potatoes are eaten
three times a day. It takes the con-
stitution of more than man to stand up
under that diet. Liver and kidne\s are
going til balk. Stomachs are going to
revolt.

I know of no place where good health
should be more easily available than on
the farm. And yet, ! believe there is
greater abuse of the rules of health on

There is no excuse for
filth on farms, and yet it is
a common sight to see farm
\ards improperly drained,
and drinking water used
untested for years, with
seepage from barn yards
contaminating it. Surely
there are thousands of care-
ful farmers, and sanitarv'
farm houses, but apprecia-
tion of health is often lack-
ing. I am concerned about
the easily corrected wrongs
of health that every farm
home could take part in
ovcTcoming. To be ever
watchful of clean bodies, of
fresh air and good food is
commendable, but this is
not sufficient. Check up on
physical condition, and let's study the
great science of keeping healthy, of rais-
ing families, and of living together.

i!.i

tlu

irms i!iir. tin re is in the larv;est

he la,

Thousands of people have never had
their blood pressure taken. A blood
pressure reading is as simple as taking
a thermtimeter reading. It is a barome-
ter of your physical condition. The first
inkling of numerous dangerous ills are
discovered by blood pressure readings,
learn more about yourself through
sue!-, tests. (To be continued)

i

Jt'^

All Your Insurance at Mutual Rates

~T' HE demuii:> ot tire, lightning, wiiid-
■i storm, tornado and hail that destroy
farm property have no fear for the thou-
sands, who are protected against loss with
Insurance At Cost in the FARMERS MU-
TUAL REINSURANCE COMPANY.

The FARMERS MUTUAL is your com
pany. It was organized by the state associa-
tion ot farmers" mutual fire and windstorm
companies and the I A. A It co-operate-
with local mutuals in Illinois, takes over all
or any part of large risks which local com-
panies cannot safely handle, otfers a reinsur-
ance service to protect them <igainst unusual
losses, begins where the local leaves otf The
Farmers Vlutual makes it possible for you tc
secure all your needed protectujn m a farm
ers' mutual company at low mutual rates.

Your ct)mpany s low rates .irc subject in
further reductions tor-

Lightning Rods
Fire Proof Roof
Fire Proof Walls
Fire Hose Attached

Ladder permanently attached so affords
easy access to roof above the eaves.

For rates .-^ee your local agent, call the
( ounty Farm Bure.iu offices or mail coupon.

I \K\II Kn \IL I L \l Kl l\M K \\( I t I'
""S So. IK'.irliiirn Siuai.
( hicj.L;)!, illiiuus.

IMoa^L- scikJ it!L luil nit\'rinj*.ii*ii ibt*ut \<>ur rjtc^ on
I 11^ iiiJ 1 i.;luiiinc Inxursnct
^i'lnjviot !ii liisur.in^.t

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FARMERS MUTUAL REINSURANCE COMPANY
608 SO. DEARBORN ST, CHICAGO

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SAVE THOSE EXTRA DOLLARS

by ordering now for spring delivery your next
season's supply of motor and tractor oils at spe-
cial pool car prices. Never before have you
been able to get so much for your money.

BLUE SEAL and PENN BOND oils are care-
fully refined and cheniically tested for your pro-
tection. Thousands of farmers have
learned by experience that these oils are
the best they have ever used. Carload
shipments are being made up by all as-
sociated companies. You can buy one
drum or more, in as many grades as
you need, at a special pool car price.
Support your local service company In
this great co-operative effort.

Quick action — right now — is necessary if you
are to profit by this great money-saving offer.
Special winter grade oils and transmission lubri-
cants furnished upon request. Get In touch with
your local truck driver or mail this coupon and
we will send you complete information.

ILLINOIS FARM SUPPLY CO.

608 S. Dearborn St. Chicago

.\|j;/ today for p^rlii nlarr

II.UNOIS FARM SrPPLY CO..

608 So. Dearborn St., ChiraKo.

Send me full information about yout sperlat money-Bgrlngs offer
on Penn Bond and Blue Seal Motor OUb and Greases.

Name

Address

County Make of Car.

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MiJNl^Lcr

SAVE THOSE EXTRA DOLLARS

by ordering now for spring delivery your next
season's supply of motor and tractor oils at spe-
cial pool car prices. Never before have you
been able to get so much for your money.

BLUE SEAL and PENN BOND oils are care-
fully refined and chemically tested for your pro-
tection. Thousands of farmers have
learned by experience that these oils are
the best they have ever used. Carload
shipments are being made up by all as-
sociated companies. You can buy one
drum or more, in as many grades as
you need, at a special pool car price.
Support your local service company in
this great co-operative effort.

Quick action — right now — is necessary if you
are to profit by this great money-saving offer.
Special winter grade oils and transmission lubri-
cants furnished upon request. Get in touch with
your local truck driver or mail this coupon and
we will send you complete information.

ILLINOIS FARM SUPPLY CO.
608 S. Dearborn St. Chicago

ILLINOIS FAKM SlI'l'LY r<»,. ,

iiniS So. Dearlwin SI., rhlraRu. ;•

Semi me full inffiriiiatlnn aJmut juut -.ifi Ul uiiinc.v-^aWncs
I'll i*eiui Bond and Itlue Seal M<^t^t^ Oils ami Greases.

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